PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, June 29, 1978

EDITORIAL

Roughly halfway between Kitimat and Mr. Buchanan was responding toa letter from

Terrace lies the very southern end of the Stikine
voleanic belt. Evidence of this occurs in the
occasional rise to the surface of bubbling water
heated almost to the boiling point. At several
other locations in the tri-cities area - extending
almost as far as Port Edward - hot mud and hot
springs are tell-tale signs of fiery volcanic
furnaces just beneath the surface. ;

A short fifty miles north of Terrace and Kit-
wanga, the toqlittle known “Lava Beds’’, where
deceptively spongy-looking clumps of voleanic
rock are strewn about the landscape, as though
giants had had a playful fight with mattress-
stuffing - remind travellers volcanic eruptions
have occurred in our area within the last two
hundred years - and the furnaces that fire them
still burn hotly below ground biding their time
for another eruption.

Despite these intense sources of heat virtually
under our feet, the Minister of State, Science and
Technology, the Hon. Judd Buchanan insists, in a
letter to Iona Campagnolo, the Skeena MP and
cabinet minister that “These hot springs
themselves, do not constitute a sufficient heat
resource to justify widespread exploitation;
rather they indicate the presence of hot rock
which might have a potential for development.

LETTERS TO THE

Mrs. Campagnolo asking about the possibility of
the hot springs source being used to: generate
thermal energy for the Kitimat - Terrace area.

To be fair to the Hon. Judd, he was
(presumably) merely going on the information
given to him from the reports of,another branch
of government - the Geothermal Studies Section
of the Earth Physics Branch, EMR.

Even though our area is the site of the most
recent volcanic activity in Canada - (and
volcanoes, as everyone knows, produce the
hottest natural-caused temperatures on the
Earth, beside which forest fires appear a cool

summer breeze) - it is quite likely that if any

is done toward tapping subterranean
heat for producing electricity, or heating our
homes - it will not be carried out around here.
For, Mr. Buchanan (presumably on the advice of
the same experts) says this:

“There would appear to be much better con-
ditions for geothermal energy development
farther north”. (That’s a great help to our
Terrace-Kitimat-Prince Rupert area, ain’t it!)
“The best area in B.C. from both a technical and
location point of view is in the Garibaldi volcanic
belt which lies much closer to a large potential
user, the city of Vancouver. Thus, the Terrace-

EDITOR.

Family violence can be tough on kids

Dear Editor:

-gwer to your question.”

All this talk of ‘Family
Violence’, ‘Wife Battering’
and ‘Child Beating’, Let's
add another; ‘Alcoholism
and Child Neglect’.

Children who are left with
friends, or babysitters,
(sometimes .you find these
children alone) while their
mothers go out and “forget”
to return for anywhere from

Dear Tona:
In answer to your letter of
12 May, 1978 regarding the
feasibility of using the ‘‘hot
* in the Terrace-
Kitimat area as a source of
thermal energy, there does
not yet appear to be sui-
ficient information available
upon which to base a firm
evaluation of its possibilities
for exploitation, .We un-
derstand

of the Earth Physica Branch,
EMR., that they have con-
ducted limited tests of the
chemistry, temperature and
flow rates of the ‘hot
springs”. These hot springs
themselves do not, however,
constitute a sufficient heat
resource to —° justify
widespread exploitation;
rather they indicate the
presence of hot rock which
might have a potential for
development. , Further
measurement sand some
drilling would have to
precede any detailed
evaluation.

'* Tn a regional context, the
Terrace-Kitimat area lies at
the very southern end of the
Stikine volcanic belt. There
would appear to be much
better conditions
geothermal ener,
development farther north,
The beat area in B.C. from
both a technical and location
point of view is in the
Garibaldi volcanic belt
which lies much closer to a
large potential user, the elty
of Vancouver. Thus, the
Terrace-Kitimat area is

for

three days to a week,
sometimes Jonger.

Friends who are left in the
fm off their job calling
20 or
the authorities, That's a
tough decision. You wonder

If you should watch these -

children — because children
are important -- or js it better
to phone the suthorities?

These appear to be the
general views on the
Situation. As you know my
Ministry does not have
operational responsibilities
and, therefore, is not in a

position to supply a detailed |
technical

answer to your
question. Should you require
more information, I would
suggest you contact, Dr.

‘Allen Jesgup, of EMR. I am
from: the told that B.C.
Geothermal Studies section - tat B.C

Hydro have

‘also’ .conducted-“extensive

tests in the Meager Creek
area and may have ad-
ditional data of interest.
Yours sincerely,
Judd Buchenan

Bos tain a US

Dear Iona:

Re: Wharf Replacement -
Masset, B.C.

Thank you for your letter
of May 12, 1978, concerning
the above noted subject.

As pointed out in my letter
of April 7, 1978, an item for
this project is included in our
1976-79 program, The tender
call for a suitable facility for
landing fuel barges is

scheduled for the early part -

of June and completion
approximately the end of
November.

Inso far as the roll-on roll-
off facility is concerned, this
would be primarily for the
use of the B.C. Ferry Cor-
poration. However, this
Department is prepared to
participate in the study you
mention and I will be writing
to my Provincial coun-

Because these mothers will

do it over and over again.
And what does it do to the

children? They love their

missing mother, They know their

mom loves them because
when the family is together it
is generally happy.

But how do they feel when
thelr mom is gone and the
children are left behind? So
often it happens. And what

Three for lona Campagnolo

Dear Mrs. Campagnolo:

I have your letter of May
16 and must acknowledge
that we do indeed continue to
have problems in supplying
cars to mest the deman’ of
lumber loading throughout.
British Columbia, including
the area between Houston
and Prince Rupert.

Since I wrote to you on
‘March 14, we have reduced -
ithe backlog. of lumber’:
waiting shipment on the B.C. -
North Line from 1880 cars to
aa estimated 1256 cars at the
end of last month. While I
suppose this can be con-
sidered ag progress, it was
{ that the problem
would be under better
control by this time and Iam
far from being satisfied with
the present situation.

The difficulties stem
mainly from the large
number of our cars that
remain in the United States,
which is where most of the

lumber is going. To add Beer

perspective, however, you
should know that at the end
of the first four months of
1978 we had loaded on the

Dear Sir:

As one who lives across the
road from Caledonia Senior
Secondary School, the ‘Grad.
‘7’ ceremonies last week
had us very concerned, this
belng our first such ex-
perience,

Jbeen ‘able’ to. keep (2 .

about their feelings as the
person(s) they are left with
can’t help but get mad and
speak outloud? What kind of
feelings are these children
going to be left to grow up

Is there any help for these
mothers? And, especially,

for the children?

Yours truly,
Pam Chase

Mountain Region eight
percent (6) more carloads of
lumber than were loaded In
the same period in 1977. We
are dealing, therefore, with a
strong lumber market which
has encouraged increased
production and, despite
impro times on
CN lines and repair priority
for cars needed for lumber
service, we have simply not

Apart from a strong and

continuing effort to improve {

car returns from the U.S., we
have increased our major
repair program for cars for
the balance of the year to try
to bring more cars into
service. This, plus doing the
best we can with the cars
available, ig a8 much as I

C.F. Armstrong

WASHINGTON (AP) —
drinkers In ancient
Mes: sipped their
beverage through reeds or
tubes, says the U.S. Brewers
Association.

Grads were good

were hot in- any way.
disturbed by the student's
behaviour, following the
ceremonies at the R.E.M.
Lee Theatre,

It is to be hoped that future
graduates follow this trend,
set by. the present ad-

Kitimat area is probably not the choicest
location for a demonstration project.” (Now,
how about that?)

_ However, whoever wrote the letter for the
Minister’s signature was obviously every inch of
the way a good politician, - though Mr. Buchanan
doubtless must be pretty good at fielding
questions himself, having served as Minister of
Indian Affairs, not too long ago, until the
volcanie heat and “geophysical” eruptions and
earthquakes drew him to a less controversial
portfolio, For, the letter adds, covering all bets:

“As you know, my. Ministry does not have
operational responsibilities, and therefore is not
in a position to supply a detailed technical an-
(Translated, . into
irreverent English, this reads out — ‘That ain’t
my department, vummy! °

J.B., himself, however, a gentleman to the end,
would never resort to such crudities. Instead,
veddy veddy politely the letter over his signature
concludes: ;

“Should you require more information ...”
(Why do you think you were asked, Judd?) “.., I
would suggest you contact Dr. Allen Jessup, of
EMR. I am told that B. C. Hydro have also
conducted extensive tests in the Meager Creek
area and may have additional data of interest.”

Passing up this tempting opportunity to pun
about going after more ‘‘Meager’’ information,
perhaps we should give “J.B.” at least a B or a
B-Plus for (1) Replying to a letter - and within a

Geothermal energy from our own hotsprings

t
month, at that. (2) For saying whom to turn to,

for the proper information.

Meanwhile, unless we are all content to go on
paying higher and higher hydro and heating
rates, hopefully the matter will be further pursued
by our tireless Skeena MP - and maybe a few of
us will be making additional enquiries and doing
a bit of letter-writing and investigating, our-
selves, rather than sitting back, griping and
doing nothing to help. Now, let's hear it from
B.C. Hydro...

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“Goodness — is that your husband? I didn’t recognize him sober.”

. They’re smoking their way to health

what is called the aversion
booth—a cubicle filled with
lag iat aah
« one m
important thing they can
change,” she said, adding
that factors like diabetes,
hypertension or heredity
cannot be readily controlled.
Patients spend about 15
minutes in the booth at the

DETROIT (AP) — Some
heart: patients who smoke
are up to their elbows in
butts at the University of
Michigan Hospital in Ann
Arbor, and researchers hope
it will help them kick the
habit. .

’ “People who smoke are
twice as likely to have heart
attacks,’ said Janis

probably not the choicest
Jocation for a demonstration

project.

Both students andstaffare ministration.
to be congratulated on the Yours truly,
example set by this year’s Peter L. Chettle

graduation, a6 our family Manager, Sales & Service

Family violence and the abused

Thave this dream - a beautiful dream, in which
people live in harmony with each other. Neigh-
bours.are congenial and helpful and care when
something is wrong. People of all races also live
in harmony on the same street each enjoying the
different cultures,

Oh yes, that IS some dream and I am realistic
to know that it won’t come true, However, Iam
optimistic enough that I can hope people will
come to realize that the way of life we are ex-
periencing now is causing horrendous problems -
two in particular, wife battering and child abuse*
and neglect.

The increase in the past year of these con-
ditions is indicative of how decadent is society.
This fact was rammed home to me at the Family
Violence Workshop held at Northwest College
recently. I could not believe the dreadful
atrocities that some people have and are in-
ficdng on others, especially defenceless

en.

The sad fact is that no-one knows how many
children are being abused. In many cases, it is
only after a child is horribly beaten that the story
ot his or her abuse ss revealed.

Abuse falls into several categories - physical
and mental abuse, sexual abuse and neglect
which can be physical and mental. The
emotional abuse is the hardest to pinpoint unless
a teacher notices a child who is withdrawn or
wouldn't fail to notice a child who is desperately

seeking attention py pemg a behavioural
oblem. Even the physically abused child can’t
pinpointed because the child will not admit

to the abuse. As an abused child myself, I
remember that I used to say that I fell off my
bicycle and I din’t even have a bicycle.) Of
course, even if you do suspect the injuries were
inflicted by a parent, what to do? Report the

matter tothe police? Unfortunately child abuse

laws, although they exist, are not easy to enforce.
Anyway, that isn’t where itis at, Itis the parents
that have to be helped - the need for the
abuse has to be removed.

To illustrate: ar

Jenny and Johnny had two children when
Jenny became pregnant again. They had two
girls and Johnny desperately wanted a boy.
Jenny didn’t want any children- period. She had
avery unhappy childhood, Her uncle, unknown
to her’ parents, had sexually molested her at six
years old. Her parents had made ur-realistic
demands on her, as an only child. Nothing she
did was good enough. Her parents were in their
forties when she was born and she was a mistake
ag they hadn’t wanted any children, She had
interrupted a beautiful relationship. Her parents
started to quarrel after she was born and this
graduated to fighting. Sometimes she was in-
cluded in those fights, Her whole childhood was
deprived of Jove. When she met Johnny she had
jumped from one un-happy relationship . to

Boudreau, who is directing

startof therapy. The walls of

the booth are covered with
cigarette advertising and

research that includes
potting the patients into

child
another. J ohnny was good to her but she couldn't

get rid of the feeling of total inadequacy. When
Jenny gave birth to another girl, Johnny made it

by Judy Vanderguoht

known that he was very disappointed. He .

wouldn’t look or touch the baby. The baby was
good - hardly ever cried and Jenny doesn’t really”
remember actually doing it, all she knows is that
the baby was crying and was lying on the floor by
the wall. She told Johnny that the baby had
fallen off the bed, . Jenny wanted desperately to
‘tell someone what had happened, But whom?
Certainly no-one she knew would want to hear
what she had done. There were no neighbours.
Jenny's family were dead and Johnny's family .
.liyed in Ontario. ;

The above fictional (or is it?) story sets a
typical pattern for an abused child. - unhappy
childhood with physical and emotional
abusement, no friends and family for support
and a child neither wanted.

Hopefully in Jenny's case, a call would be
made to Crisis Line and a counsellor or social
worker dispatched to the home to give Jenny the
much needed emotional support.

Of course this is shutting the barnyard gate
after the horse has gone. ‘ What is needed,

desperately, is public education through schools

and various media, as to the magnitude of the
problem, Neighbours and friends are going to
have become more aware of what is going on in
their block and if they know of a child being

relationship oetween
smoking and heart disease.

“Frankly, it smells atro-
clous,” patient Roger
Valentine said after a
session in the booth.

The hospital sessions are
followed by a year of hospital
visits, counselling and
telephone calls of en-

Cviek pnotograpns ot a
damaged heart,

A tape ‘recorded voice
pays: “Staring at hundreds
of cigarette butts, How
disgusting, how ugly, how
filthy. They all cause death,
disease and disability, They
leave a smell on fingers and
teeth. It tadiates from your

body. . couragement,
The voice tells the patient The patients volunteer for
to run his hand through the

the program, Ms, Boudreau
pile of buttaand explains the said, *:

abused, report it or better still, offer a friendly

- hand and give the much needed emotional

support the family needs.

I believe many people have the potential to
become abusive parents but are able to get out, of
the situation. For those who have not the
stability to get them through the crises of
everyday living, their frustration turns to
physical and mental abuse.

Neglect unlike abuse is usually the omission of
an act. It means that the child has been aban-
doned or deserted or is not being fed clothed or
getting medical help. Many cases of abandoned
children have heen noted by the Public Health
officials, and the situation is not improving.
These children are put into a receiving home and
thence to a foster home until their parents
return, One family of five children who have

‘only one parent (the mother) are abandoned

frequently. The oldest, an eight yr. old girl tends
after the needs of her four younger brothers and
sisters, until the mother returns. The mother
hasa drinking problem and quite frequently will

- bring an unknown man home with her.

If you are feeling real sick to your stomach
about now then I-have helped you achieve an
awareness of the situation. I would like you to
keep that awareness alive and when faced with a
situation when you suspect a child is being
abused, try to intercede by either contacting the
Human Resources or by personal contact, ;

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