—(the herald } x PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, November 10, 1977 Published by General Office - 635-6157 Sterling Publishers Circulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized rs second class tnall, Registration number 1201. Postage pal. « cash, return postage guaranteed, NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any adveritsement produced and-or any’ editorial or Photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction 1s not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Interpreting the news Carter-Congress tensions relieved WASHINGTON (CP) — Future generations will probably take little note of the fact that on Saturday, Nov. 5, 1977, Jimmy Carter performed the 2,359th presidential veto in U.S. history. The act, however, was another symbolic landmark in the Carter presidency and confirms a return to normal political tension between Congress and the White House. The occasion for the Nov. 5 veto—Carter’s first since taking office last January—was a bill directing that work proceed on the controversial Clinch River nuclear breeder reactor, a demonstration plant using nuclear technology that Carter wants other countries to refrain from developing. White House officials said that Carter hoped to get through-1977 without casting any veto, both to maintain god relations with Congress and to create a contrast with e vetoprone presidency of Gerald Ford. Ford was heavily criticized in last year’s presidential election campaign for pecforming 66 vetoes in his two-year term. While unusually high in relation to such a short term, * Ford's veto total is still far from the record 635 of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. CHOOSES WELL Though still running the risk that his prestige may suffer if Congress over-rides his veto, Carter seems to have chosen his first subject well. By trying to kill the controversial reactor project, he automatically gains support from those concerned over nu- clear proliferation and those who object to the reactor's $2.2 billion cost. The White House contends that in addition to the problems the project would create in non-proliferation efforts, it is unnecessarily expensive and would be tech- nologically an when complete. ‘Put there is still strong support in Congress for the project aiid’ the Washingtin Post editorialized: ‘Because being over-ridden or otherwise stared down on a first veto has ‘Fipple effects of damage to a president that go beyond the subject at hand, Mr. Carter was taking a pretty hefty risk in deciding to cast his first veto on this bill.’ The Post, however, applauded Carter’s decision, saying the political risk is justified and Carter’s position demon- strates both sound values and political courage. Now that Carter has broken the ice with his first veto, the president may well have less hesitation in subsequent veto decisions. In his nationally-televised speech on the energy crisis, Carter warned that he might turn down Congress’s much- altered version of his energy program. And press secretary Jody Powell recently retracted a White House pledge that there would be no veto on a proposed bill to allow everyone full social security benefits regardless of outside income. White House officials say removing the ceiling on outside income—now $3,000 for persons 65 te 71—could cost $3.5 billion a year. The danger for Carter may lie not so much in the vetoes as in the way he presents them. | An overbearing assertion of an exclusive claim to morality could greatly damage his already-strained relations with Congress. Yet in his televised energy speech, he referred to the possibility of vetoing congressional energy bills and then depicted the coming clash of principles in uncompromising terms: “This is not a contest of strength between the- president and the Congress, nor between the House and the Senate. What is being measured is the strength and will of our na- on,”’ Picturing White House-Congress disputes in such apocalyptic rhetoric may make good television, but does little for the president's day-to-day relationship with Congress. RCRA AN O10)? Universal Fress Serdecote “What exactly is ‘new, improved lettuce?” Business spotlight Cotton instead of wood pulp? VANCOUVER (CP) — The di- rector of the American Newspaper Publishers Association researc! institute says the United States agricultural department is ex perimenting with kenaf, a fibre plant related to cotton, for use in newsprint. Irwin Jaffe said in a recent in- terview from Easton, Pa., that a newsprint shortage caused bj striking pulp workers in British Columbia and Canadian railway workers in 1975 spurred the US. _ government to look for alternatives to wood pulp for newsprint production. The Peoria Journal Star in Peoria, lll, already has completed a press run using experimental, kenaf based newsprint. The new type of newsprint, however, is not seen as a major threat to Canadian wood-basec newsprint. Daye Fricker, senior vice- president for law and corporate affairs at MacMillan Bloede! Ltd., said kenaf-based newsprint does not compare in quality with traditional newsprint, Jaffe said indications so far are that kenaf newsprint could be produced at a cost competitive with conventional newsprint, but i probably would take two years af Study before the full economic and quality implications were known. He said it was impossible to be sure that production casts would. continue to be competitive’ on -a commercial basis and there was no guarantee that kenaf would be used. Jaffe said government testing should not be considered a scare situation for Canadian newsprint producers and the motive is to. provide an alternate source to alleviate expected shortages due to greater demand on wood pulp for purposes other than newsprint. He said U.S. publishers have not been happy about the sharp in- creases in newsprint prices “from $140 a ton to more than $300 in just a few years,’ combined with a drop in quality. - Jaffe said that during the Ca- nadian strikes in 1975 some U.S. publishers exhausted all their in- ventories and were forced to scour the black market for individual supplies. EADY vars Toso. Canada sells about $1.9 billion of newsprint to the U.S. annually and B.C, newsprint accounts for about $274 million of those sales. About 65 per cent of current U.S, consumption is from Canadiai sources. The kenaf-based newsprint used in ‘the Peoria Journal Star experiment was made last summer at the U.S, department of agriculture’s nor- thern regional research centre in Peoria. Research iindings show that kenaf newsprint has nearly the same bursiing pressure as commercial newsprint, with only five per cent less strength, and is similar ia brightness and opacity. Kenaf, which originated in the Far East, can be grown in Minnesota and other northern states, but is best suited to the soil and growing season of the southeastern U.S, Jafie said the fibre could be grown as far north as Canada, as long as there were 120 frostfree days. He said a particular advantage of kenaf is that it is an annual crop and production could be increased or decreased from year to year as con- sumption demands. 1p. ar “Osgood’s getting in training for the Grey Cup game.” Investment statistics show Quebec able to stand alone QUEBEC (CP) ~— A Parti progress” compared with government publication, 1976, says an article in the citing numerous projects and investments in Quebec, says the pro-separatist -polieies of the current edition of the in- tergovernmental department Quebec en Bref (Quebec in Magazine, article said. beginning of the year, other more vigorous sectors have announced in the same affairs period investments of more than $875 milblion,’’ the the Quebec government, at St. Felicien, 240 kilometres north of Quebec City. Other investments cited as evidence of a healthy economy include $200 in In fact, investment plans 1977, show ‘“‘clear or have suffered the loss of at least 5,000 jobs since the ohue Quebecois government are brief). It gives a list of in- not .causing as much un- vestments, all previously certainty as some fed- “Although weak sectors of announced, which includes eralists claim. the economy are threatened $380 million in a pulp and kraft-paper project by Don- t. Felicien Inc. and Federal transport - department worthless OTTAWA (CP) — The Montreal-based Automobile Protection Association (APA) says the federal transport. department is practically worthless in handlin motorists’ complaints about safet; related defects in their vehicles. — Ina toughly-worded letter to Transport Minister Otto Lang, APA President Phil Edmonston says the problem is the result of inadequate legislation and ‘'th lethargy and lack of initiative” of officials of the department's road and motor ve- hicle traific safety branch. . Edmonston lists a range of complaints received in the APA offices that have been ‘forwarded to the branch, includin blowouts on radial tires, fires in pollution control devices, steering problems and brake failures in different makes and models of cars. But the letter says the department never informs the APA of vehicle problems it is investigating and often the consumer group learns of recalls from regular bulletins put out by the branch’s U.S. counterpart, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “We get up to 100,000 complaints a ear,’ Edmonston said. ‘‘We want to know what investigations the department ' is starting so that we can channel com- plaints to them.” WHEELS FELL OFF . He said in a telephone interview from Montreal that last summer the association forwarded complaints to the department that it had received about wheels falling off some 1977 General Motors cars and had asked for an in- vestigalion. : Nothing further was heard about the matter until the APA received a bulletin fron the U.S. traffic safety administration saying that some 1977 Camaros and Novas had been recalled. A spokesman for General Motors of Canada said the recall had also been made in Canada and applied to 785 Cameros and Novas equipped with special rally wheels. Owners were notified of the problem in September. “We're getting the impression they (federal officials} don’t want to handle complainis,’’ Edmonston said. “They just don't €eem to be equipped to handle complaints from motorists.” Edmonston's criticisms coincided with releag#of a letter to Lang from Herb Gray (L— Windsor West) raising doubts how the department gathers information on motor vehicle accidents, CHALLENGED STATEMENT Gray challenged a statement by Lang that his department had found no evidence that the Ford Pinto is any more likely to catch fire in a rear-end collision than any other car. There were charges in a U.S. magazine last summer that a defect in the Pinto fuel tank made it likely to rupture and catch fire in such a collision and Gray has been pressing for a Canadian investigation. Gray said the transport department gets accident information from. police reports but these reports contain informa- tion, about the occurrance of fires only in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. “There is a very serious gap in the basic federal government system for gathering data on traffic accidents,” Gray said in the letter to Lang. ‘+... You have no information about the existence of fires on a systematic and comprehensive basis for most of the motor vehicle accidents in Canada,” he said. million by Alean Aluminium Ltd. for a new smelter at La Baie, 200 kilometres north of Quebec City, and a $100 ‘million investment -by Canadian Industries Lid. for expansion of a plant at Becancour, 130 kilometres northeast of Montreal. GM INVESTS The article also men- tioned a $36-million in- - vestmentby General Motors for expansion of its plant at Ste. Therese, 20 kilometres north of Montreal; a $23- million investment by Bendix Corp. and Healy In- dustries for a foundry at Farnham, 55 kilometres east of Montreal; and a $22.5-million expansion by O’ Keefe Brewing Co. Lid. of its Montreal plant. © — Other examples included an investment by La Prudentialle group in the construction of a $40-million commercial centre at St. Bruno near Montreal and a $9-million investment by the Same group in the West- mount 1 building being built _ by Premiere Quebec Corp. Quebec en Bref noted that Hyatt International Corp, has opened an 80)-reom hotel in Montreal at a cost of $40 million, “despite ‘the difficulties of the tourist industry.” The article also men- tioned Hydro-Quebec in- vestments of $2.17 billion in 1977, an increase of 70 per cent compared with 1976, and an investment of $5 million by Genera) Electric of Canada in the Quebec City region. The federal governmént and its agencies are par- licipating as well in the increase in investment in Quebec, the article said, including a $3-to-$4 million investment by Canadian National Railways. More classes - than teachers — KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — There is a shortage of French teachers in British Columbia and, because French programs are ex- panding, the situation will get worse unless something is done, Floyd Celli, elementary school French co-ordinator for School District 24, said Monday. Celli, of the Kamloops area, told a public hearing on teacher training that more elementary teachers should receive French training. Fifty-nine of the province’s 72 school districts now teach French, Celli said, which is a tremendous increase over the last 10 years. Jim Carter, a member of the six-man public hearing panel, said it would be better to have specialists trained in French rather than teach the language to a large number of teachers. Celli said elementary school teachers are not encouraged to specialize and that all-round educators have a beiter rapport with their students. Some elementary school teachers have not had French training since Grade 9, he said, IMPROVEMENT NEEDED Celli said teachers could improve their ability to teach French through in- formal minicourses or monthly meetings. Teachers should be given in- centives to take summer programs in French, he said, adding that since universities are the major source for recruiling new teachers, the number of French programs in those institutions should be in- creased, The panel was also told that there are a number of gaps in the teacher training ‘ program. One speaker said'the three” major training centres for teachers in B.C,—the University of B.C., University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University— lack information on early childhood education, how to fill out a report card and how to deal effectively with colleagues and students’ parents. Cecil Ash, of the Kamloops District Teachers Association, said learning disabilities are not covered in the teaching programs, so teachers can not recognize or treat them. The hearing also was told | that teachers should. complete a year of interning before receiving their teaching certificates. Speakers said a teacher | ‘should not be given full responsibility for a class in his first year of teaching and therefore should not receive afallsalary. =. -. Robert Taylor, superintendent of School. District 26, said the first year of teaching should be looked at as a teacher's last year of training. _ CONCEPT ENDORSED Ash said the ap prenticeship concept was endorsed by the teachers’ association, . ; Cam Murray, a Kamloop: teacher, said teachers stumble through their first year on the job and, although they are keen and imaginative, they are really not effective teachers. A teaching student ' said she liked the idea of ap- prenticing for a year, even. though it would mean lower pay. Margaret Brown, a Kamloops teacher, said practice teaching should come early in the trajning program to give students a chance to find out if they have the proper skills to become a teacher. Several speakers said applicants to the teaching program are being accepted largely on their academic records and this is not enough to judge a poten- tially good teacher. “Only those who can ef- fectively deal with children should be allowed to com- plete the course,” Taylor said. . MORE SCREENING NEEDED Hearing chairman Malcolm McGregor said there is not enough. screening done of teaching ;.. students and thdt It is not enough “just to*look over their records. The hearing was told teachers still have to be models for the community in their personal behavior when they work in small , towns and rural areas. = “You're really a fish in a goldfish bowl,” Taylor said. “IE you want to kick up your heels for a weekend you should go to Vancouver.” Taylor said no hiring is done in his district until the prospective teacher has visited the community he is to work in, to see if he would fit in a rural setting. Voice of readers Labour supports instructors stand — The Delegates to the Kitimat-Terrace Labour Council, at their recent regular meeting, unanimously supported the industrial firs aid in- structors and their courses provided through the North- west Community College. In the experience of the membership, these College- based coruses provided Industrial first aid training meeting Workers’ Com- pensation Board standards, Biving the workers first class equipment and training as compared to the previous haphazard and unsatisfactory system. To us, the record shows that St. John’s performance in Industrial First Aid is inadequate, offering sub- standard instruction and equipment.To them the cost . factor appears to be of more concern than the quality of instruction. When industrial first aid was offered under the College’s auspices, any Suprlus revenues from. rogramme was ploughed cK into the expansion and Upgrading of the programme, Hf it is offered under St. John’s, any sur- plus monies will be used for non-related purposes ~- and this is unacceptable to our affiliated unions, who, in . many cases, pay the tuition + While we appreciate Stu. John’s efforts in fields outside of Industrial First Aid, nevertheless because -our members’ lives and welfare depend upon havin high quality trained first ai attendants, we strongly object to the retrograde step as proposed your Ministry. yom > Yours truly, N. Smith, Kitimat-Terrace Labour Council. . Correction. The Daily Herald erred in printing a letter to the editor which contained an in- correct statement con- cerning a pending court case. The letter stated that Ald, Vic Jolliffe was involved in a court case against a member of the RCMP, but upon investigation we learned that Ald. Jolliffe is instead disputing a traffic violation report. . We apologize for any inconvenience. this misin- fromation may have caused Ald. Jolliffe.