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Will we fail? -

In this rushing nuclear age, when the
skies and seas are being polluted by the
works of mankind, many scientists are
beginning to ask whether technological
progress 1s not out-pacing man’s basic
aims. Most men hope to lead useful,
healthy, happy lives. They wish to
fulfil their own aspirations and when
possible, help others,

But in grasping for more wealth,
North Americans in particular are
endangering their environment, and
clearly their own happiness. The

‘United States, for instance, with a
mere 6 percent of the world's
population, used 40 percent of the
globe’s wood pulp and 36 percent of its
fossil fuels.

So much oil is spilled taking
petroleum products to North America
across the Atlantic, that
oceanographers are appalled. One
recent study suggested that there is
enough oil pollution in the Atlantic

alone to produce an irridescent slick
over the entire surface of the world’s
oceans. '

The frightening effects of pollution
have affected wild life, fisheries and
human beings in the most remote parts
of the earth, In our cities, too many
people symbolize the growing pollution
problem. It is becoming abundantly
clear that even today, the world’s
resources are being strained by less
than four billion people, yet the global
population is expected to double by
early next century,

In the coming decades, men must
learn to master technology, and not to
become slaves to the kind of
technological advances that destroy
the environment. And the first, most
urgent need is to reduce population
growtharound their world. For unless
this vital task is tackled realistically,
all other efforts to control pollution and
urban overcrowding will fail.

Bear
The failure of the Toronto zoo to
obtain a giant panda bear from China
is causing consternation among

veteran panda-watchers, and little
wonder.

Britain has its Chi-Chi. Russia has
its An-An, But although panda
negotiations between.,.Ottawa..and...
Peking have been goitig‘on for almost-a=
year, all Canada has got so far is a no-
no.

In the lack of satisfactory
explanation from either China or
Canada, it is natural that speculation
should be rife,

Does the delay have political or
economic significance?

If the price of receiving a panda bear
is, for example, our withdrawal of
recognition from the teddy bear - on
the assumption that a two-bear policy
on the part of Canada would not be
acceptable to China - delicate

market

statesmanship will lie ahead.

On the other hand, there could be a
power struggle among the giant
pandas; who last saw one in a picture
of a Peking parade? Or perhaps at the
eleventh, election-eve hour, Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau is to fly into
the bamboo forests and bag a panda
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peat Rete

More liket
overtones of the attempted matings of
Chi-Chi and An-An Thave shocked
China, a moralistic society, to the point
where it is loath to permit further giant
panda bears to become international
sexual playthings.

If this is so, it is up to External
Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp to
make it crystal clear that Canada’s.
panda will not become part of a
triange.

An honest broker, just like its new
homeland, that’s what our panda will

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THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C.

“Oh yeah? Well MY congregation can lick YOUR congregation”?

_ announced today..

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OTTAWA

‘unsealed’ Christmas cards .th
year will -have‘one rate -fo
destinations in’ Canada ‘and:
United States, anda choice of
two rates for overseas. points}
the Post Office Departmengiay

The rate for destinations in

Canada and the United States is

4 cents. The cards must he

unsealed, -and they travel byf

surfa surface mail :
~ For overseas destinations, thej™

’ ‘choice is. between the Non-{am

Priority (Surface-Airliit)’ rate

: of 8 cents and the Priority (Air =

Mail) rate of 12 cents. a
. Non-Priority (Surface-Airlift) Fag

means that the mail may travel aa

by surface, but will be airlifted #

" . part way or all the wa through fi

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Boatbullding, a trade handed down from father”

| fo son for untold generations, is still practised in

a. Scotia's South shore. Men
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the people who inhabit this picturesque, quiet tru

down, will be telecast Wednesday, October 20 at: : ‘the’ Educational Research

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To become more involved

B.C. school trustees called on
school boards around the
province to encourage parents,
students, teachers and other
interested citizens to become
more involved in major
educational decisions at the
conclusion of their four-day
convention last Wednesday.

The resolution, aimed to
ensuring greater public control
of education, was one of 46
resolutions which were passed
by the B.C. School Trustees
Assocation’s 67th annual con-
vention at the Hotel Vancouver.

The convention was attended ©

by 826 delegates and guests,
including 353 trustees, 67 school

district Secretary-Treasurers,
: and -54-district ‘superintendents,
“4 Hesolutions “deialtwith’ ab the ee

rom

convention ranged
financing of educational
yesearch to matters of tenure of
teachers, financing of special
education, dental services in
schools, kindergartens, free
education, reduced taxes for
pensioners on fixed incomes,
textbooks, Canadian content in

‘the curriculum, support for

French-language instruction in
British Columbia, and other
matters. _

Trustees re-affirmed an
earlier convention resolution
asking the provincial govern-
ment to amend the Public
Schools Act to allow school
boards to terminate or renew
teachers’ contracts every five
years. Under current
legislation teachers have
lifetime tenure after a’one-year
probationary period.

The convention also repeated .

a request to the government to
disqualify teachers who are
working for school boards in
B.C. from serving as trustees in
any schoel district.

Delegates aiso approved by a
vote of 189 to 131 a- resolution
calling for the employment of
school district superintendents
by the local school board.
Under current legislation
superintendents are employees
of the provincial government.

The convention alko agreed to
ask the government to loosen
the regulations on thé use of
school buses so that community
groups could rent the buses for
transportation to and from
community recreational or
educational activities, and pay

school boards for the actual -

costs involved. At present
school buses ‘can only be used to
transport school students.
Kindergartens. received
support. from delegates ‘ when
they ‘voted to ask the ‘govern-
ment to amend legislation to
provide more financing for
kindergartens in’ their first

| year, to help them become:
established. 7 a

A motion calling for changes

f which would allow each citizen
§ twelve: years of free’ education

regardless of his age-was ap-
proved by the delegates, At
present, students over the age
of 19 years must pay tuition fees

study into alternative methods
of financing educational
research. -

Trustees also dealt with
several reports presented to the
convention, and prepared a
budget for the BCSTA for the
coming year totalling $483,000;
down from last year’s budget of
$558,000. °

Speakers at the four-day
convention held at the Hotel
Vancouver included the
Minister of Education, Dponald
Brothers, newspaper columnist
James K. Nesbitt, B.C.
Teachers Federation President.
Adam Robertson, Vancouver
Alderman Art Phillips
representing the Union of B.C.

Mrs.: Catherine Schoen, and
‘Rev. D.R. McLennan, President.

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‘Municipalities, B.C. Parent- .
Teachers'-Federation President —

of the Canadian School Trustees
Association, .

Keynote speaker, Dr. W.N.
Toombs, Associate Dean,
College of Education,
University of Saskatchewan,
addressed the opening session
of the convention Sunday night,
speaking on the curren

changes facing school boards.

Elected Association president
for the coming year was Jack
Smedley, 51, a’ Delta school
trustee who was the vice-
president of BCSTA last year.
Mr. Smedley has had a long
association with schoo] boards
and during ‘the convention
proceedings he was presented
witha 10-year long service
certificate -iby ‘the.:Hon.,..JiR,;..
Nicholson,:: -Lieutenants,.-
Governor ‘of British Columbia... .
He was on the founding com-

mittee of Douglas. College,
which he then served as its first
board chairman. oO
Pat. Walsh, a lawyer and
school trustee in Fort St. John,

- was elected Vice-President, and

Mrs. Eijeen Madson, a school
trustee from Windermere was
re-elected to. the post of
director. Bill Mercer, chair-
man .of the Kamloops School
Board, also. won election.as a
director for the coming year.

Winner of the Newsman of the

‘Year Award was Gordon Rye,
radio reporter for Radio Station

CFIC in Kamloops. The award

is presented annually to a

newsman in B.C.who has shown
consistent support for the goals
coverage. This is, the firs} time
the award was présente oh
radio reporter. ;

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Victoria, B.C. - (Oct. a) ©
Specially designed styro-foam
blocks are playing a major role
‘in the
- reforestation program.
The project is still in its ex-:

perimental ‘stages,’and will be |

. for some time ‘yet. But there’s

every indication of gratifying © — *

“success, * The! new. method
Yequires about half: the space,
_ time and cost as compared with:
the more conventional ‘method

to. attend .elementary, or |

secondary classes.

Trustees also supported a call. *!

on the provincial government to
provide’ some ‘tax ‘relief to:

B pensioners on-fixed incomes by:
S reducing: property taxes.’ ‘The

convention : also’ urged: the
canadian instructional
materials; wherever. ‘possible,
, Dealing: with -the., budget

section. of the resolutions, ¥

inthe annual BCSTA grant to
Inatituteo! B.C: from $100,000 ta’

J -

are

stees ‘approved a reduction .: mm

$50,000." They also called fora *.

’ " In an open field nurseries the
B.C. Forest Service's .

_ been started at these i
since Jast’-April...just-over. a: *
‘million at Duncan, the balance. -

‘procedure enables us to plant
each acre in half the time,”

seedlings require at least two

. years growth. The new method

produces ' seedlings . ready ~-or
Planting out in a year or less. ~

forestry ©

Ye

- plained, -will provide the
required ‘variety: of ‘seasonal:
‘ weather differences. a

(Peat Moss and Mica) |

“2 “(9 Million Sowa)
[At present. the «styro-block « -
’ operations are being conducted |:

at the Forest. ‘service nur- -:

‘series at Duncan and. Surrey.
Nine “million. Seedlings have .:
ocations |:

at Surrey..

‘Commercial species ‘being’ :
grown are interior and. coastal
varieties of. Douglas. Fir, ~,

eas Wi

worthwhile values

. local. Postmaster).

to - destination wherever IR®
possible (on a space available
basis). 7
Priority (Air Mail) means §
that the main travels by air %
right through to destination.
In-both cases, the cards must Aig
‘be unsealed. a .
For persons wishing to seal §
their cards, the rates are as Bm
follows:. To destinations in
-Canada,-7 cents (First Class
rate; automatically travels by
air); to the United States, either
7 cents (surface) or 10 cents (air
mail); to.overseas points, 15
cents (automatically travels by

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air under the new International a4

All-up Service). a -

All rates quoted above are for
.cards weighing up to one or two Tm
ounces; “ depending on

theacategory. (Check with your | :

In 1970, Canadians mailed |

approximately 155,000,000 7m

Christmas cards. The Post
Office staff of 48,000 more than #
doubles in December to handle
the extra load. So if
Jn 1971, the deadline dates for
cards send by surface are as g
fallows: ;
_ = Distant points in Canada and

the United States - December. i
6th

- Other out-of-town points in
Canada - December 13th
- Delivery within your own town
- December 17th.

of Education. through: hig news: fr

iin spite’ of the’ ne

of Eskimo sculpute that has
filtered (or flowed) te us since
World War Two, Eskimo |

-sculpute did not begin in 1948. In (zm

fact, 2800 years of Eskimo art
will be telescoped into. the

exhibition: “Sculpture of the 4am

Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic”, which opens
November 10, at the Var ouver |
Art Gallery. Ss
Prehistoric. pieces, the
exquisitely eloquent diminutive ¢&
sculptures of the Doreset people
call out across the centuries
telling the tale of a people who
dreamed and desired, worked
and wept even as their modern
day counterparts. a
Bone, antler, ivory, even
driftwood “were ‘the materials
used by these early nomads to.
record their religious beliefs, .
The. sculpture of the sub-
sequent Canadian Thule culture
‘is more utilitarian. Harpoon
“heads, needle cases, combs,
- toys for the cildren; these were
the concern of carvers in this

. era, More casual polishing, less

- neartly Hefind shapes, replace
- the painstaking finish which
: dominated earlier, Doreset
pieces. re
The 19th century’ and eariy

: 20th century have been ternred

hey no longer are,;:

~ In addition ‘to the, swan