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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C. THURSDAY; AUGUST 14, 194

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of BY: .The
‘]. Williston
Minister of Lands, Forests, 2
Water Resources . -

. * Good . legisitaion, a
ministration . and — co
munication are the keynotes &

- British Columbia's future, mo¥

especially ‘in the province

environmental futire, =
. The 1960's saw the beginni
of the present widely express
concern over environment
abuses which has, in the 1970'4
become an established publi
attitude, 9 7. -

One has only to read the dail¥
or weekly newspapers, or seq
and ‘listen to television and
radio to become fully aware of
the general public concern over
the future of our environment

- Unfortunately, while there ig
legitimate concern, it is nof
always recognized that this
concern is comman.to both the
government and — .thegij

- public...and, in a growing
number of cases, to industry asi
well. The result: has been

- criticism not. always based on
knowledge of-the facts. -

. Tne fact of the matter is that
the provincial government has ie

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Our Opinion
The Red Cross needs YOU!

During the course of the year, we
are asked to give to many worthy
causes — causes which involve our
time, our attention, and our pocket-
book.

And next week, we are asked to
Bive toa worthy cause again. But this
time, it is something different we are
asked for.

It is not our time or our money we
,are asked to contribute — it is a little
bit of ourselves; our blood — the life-
giving fluid which has saved man
ives,

‘Red Cross. officials have said in
Vancouver that there is a dire shortage
for the type “O”’.

Whether you have this type or not,
and you are in good physical condition,
the loss of a pint of blood will not affect
your system in any way at all.

Allit takes is a few minutes of your
time, — no effort nor money involved
—and you have free refrashments both
before and after the event which .
causes you.no pain whatsoever — so in
reality, there is no reason why the total
of 860 pints from last year should not be

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If you are in need of blood during
an operation or after an accident, it
does not matter how little or how much
money you have, or if you have all the
lime in the world, or none at all.

Hit is blood you need, then there is
only one way you can get it. And that is
from the Red Cross Blood Bank. And it
will not cost you a penny,

Ina way, when you donate blood, it
is a sort of insurance, for you may need
that blood sometime in the future much
more than you need it right now. And if
you, or others, do not give it voluntarily
when the Donor Clinic is in the area,
then there will be none there on tap
when you need it.

It is a comforting thought if you
have to undergo a sericus operation
that there is a supply of blood on hand
available if you are in need of it.

Tomorrow, the weather... ..

One of these fine days,. the
weather-makers are going to make up
their minds. In the meantime, though,
we'll have to put up with the fiuc-
tuating pace. If we are really lucky, we
may be able to have our sunshine and
our forest industry, too.

greatly added on to.

But best of all, you will feel, deep-
down, a pleasant glow of satisfaction
that you have “done your bit” for your
fellow man, and have given something
of-yourself which may, sometime in the
future, save a life, or help someone on
theroad to recovery. It could be a close

friend or reiative, or it could even be

yourself. Who knows? . . . Life plays
funny tricks on us sometimes. ;

So give your pint of blood on
Friday or Saturday and wear your
bandaid with pride, just as if it was a
medal presented by a high official for a
job well done.

For that's exactly what it is — a
job of saving or helping someone else
in need, and there is no more worthy
cause than this in the whole wide world
of mankind.

have been few, if any major fires in his
area lately, and those that have hap-
pened, have happened due to natural
causes.

No, it's no reason to unlax the
caution all you people have been ex-
cercising, in fact it ic a good idea to
keep up the good work!

It is gratifying to realize that there

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Now the walls must match. color TV.

By Bill Smiley

Just a- collection of notes
this week. Don’t try to find
any coherence in them.

I noticed in one of my
favourite weeklies that an
old friend of mine had been
arrested for being drunk,
When he turned up in court
the following Tuesday, he
was so drunk he had to be
taken away for another
week. This takes some inge-
nuity. But I’m not surpris-
ed, Same chap some years
ago, when his house was
burning, threw his six chil-
dren out the upstairs win-
dow into the snow, Saved
them all

Why don't people ever
listen to me?At least ten
years ago, in this space, I
said firmly that Red China
should be recopnized, ad-
mitted to the U.N., and that
silly old dictator, Chiang
Kai Shek, turfed into the
Indian Ocean or somewhere,
The column was received
with, real. anger in ‘some

“Places, Now, everybody and
his brother is. buttering up
the real Chinese and pouring
cold water on the phoney
Chinese on Formosa, Oh
well, even my wife won’t lis-
ten to me, so why should
the politicians?.

And speaking of that
woman, who has made my
life a roller-coaster of ups
and downs, she pulled an-
other one recently. 'd been
muttering for months about
a colour TV set. Each time,
she stated unequivocally,
which is the only way she
ever states, that we couldn’t
afford it with two children
at university, the mortgage,
the insurance coming due,
and the yak, yak, yak, Each
time I subsided, as is my
wont, and also because |
didn’t really care. Hardly
ever watch the stupid thing
any way. .

So. I came home late one
afternoon, a couple of
weeks ago, and there she
was, playing with the but-
tons on a huge, expensive
colour TV, It's been here
since, “on trial”, and Pve

hours of discussion about
colours, It’s been warse
than those unspeakably bor-

‘ing sessions we've had over

the years on decorating. Do
I like the mushroom with
the lime green? Do I not
think that the teal in the
drapes will clash with the,
off-blue in the rug’That sort
of thing.

At no time could [ have
cared less if she had painted
everything midnight black,
but I had to pretend I cared,
or there'd have been an out:
burst of tears and recrimina-
tions, "You just don’t care,
do you?0ther men are inter-
ested in their homes, I'm
doing my best to make our
home beautiful and you just
sit there with that look on
your face!” And so on,

It was like that with the
TV set. Didn't | think there
was too much.orange?Why
wasn’t the green coming up
more vividly] finally called
‘the dealer and said we'd
keep it. That's the way 1.

buy a car. [I don’t shop.a- |

round, trying all the models.
I just walk around the beast,
kick the tires, and make a
deal,

The other woman in my
life is about as much trou-
ble. She is more convinced
than ever that capitalism is
beastly, and that she is an
exploited slave of the sys-
tem, As I was driving her
home from work the other
day, she exploded bitterly,
“I only made eight lousy
dollars in tips today!”

I had to bite my lips so
hard it drew blood, Those
tips, plus her wages, made it
$20 for an eight-hour day,
My first job paid one dollar
a day, for a twelve-hour
day, seven days a week.
(Kim’s opinion of the capi-
talist system is seasonal, It
bothers her not in the least
to milk the old man for a
cool $2,000 when she’s not
working, but going ta
school.) -

Finally, another woman
. has entered my life, out of

the shadows before 1 was
born. Back in June, when I -

readers to guess my age,
Some. charming people sug-
gested 48, 49. One miser-
able old editor, Jim Nesbitt
of Brooks, Alta., had the in-
decency to suggest 54. —

But Mable McRoberts of
New Liskeard, Ont., was
dead on. She named my par-
ents, my older brother and
sister, the street on which
we lived, and described the

house we lived in, She knew-

the exact year in which I
was born, She had been a
high-school -girt boarding in
town, The people with
whom she was boarding
came down with the terrible
‘flu of that era. My mother
took her in for a month.
‘Women. Nothing is sa-
cred, even a man’s age.
The Argyle Syndicate

Loffmark ; |

meetings

a . - e
podium again
BARRINGTON,
Mass. (AP) — At age 72 and
after major hip and shoulder
operations, conductor Eugene
Ormandy of the Philadeiphia
Orchestra is ‘training for a

GREAT

return to the podium.

When he again takes up the
baton, Ormandy is hoping his
limp will have

well-known
vanished.

. He is proud: of his swift.
recovery and, in an interview,
talked: more ‘of his medical

~ history than of his music.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
British Columbia Medical
Association and the College of

Physicians and Surgeons ar-

nounced Sunday they have
accepted invitations from the

provincial government

to

discuss controversial powers
recently granted to Health
Minister Ralph. Loffmark by

order-in-council, -

However,.. -both groups’

stressed in a statement that ;

‘You want to see my x-
_Tays?” he. asked, -,

He posed for photographs —
over the protest of -his wife,
Gret(el— while walking up @ few
Stone steps in his garden, while
mounted.on an exercise bicycle; * 4
and while walking‘up and dowii:'''
a makeshift podium in the:

driveway of his home.

The fact that he agreed to the
pictures and an interview was.
surprising, for Ormandy is

_ Brudf perfectionist who guards
the privacy of his summer home
in the Berkshire Bills near here,

TAKES LONG WALKS

Twice a day, Ormandy takes
a large yellow rabber ball into
the heated swimming pool in his
front lawn, rests on it and
pumps his legs as on a bicycle,
and takes long walks and and up

and down on-the podium. :

done a good .deal already to

protect the environment and is BR
_ committed to do. much’ more. ie
. , British Columbia introduced
some of the earliest legislation §
in Canada for protection of the Bam
-- environment -and control .
pollution. And yet the govern- Hm
ment seems to have had great Hz

difficulty in making the public

really aware of what it has been 7 =

, Tamnot asking that everyone
should agree with what the
government is trying to do in
environmental contro] in this
province, but I am asking that
there be .an honest . un-
derstanding of our efforts.

The right to criticize is one of

the essential democratic
-principles but it must be in-
formed criticism because, as
one authority has said,
thoughtless criticsm is one of
the most serious occupational
hazards faced by those who
-Serve the public. What is more it

_ could ‘be a hazard to the im-

partial judgement necessary to
roper. legislative and ad-
inistrative. decisions. :

and I am most concerned at this
time that there should be an
informed public because I
would like to see & greater

public participation in the |

process of making decisions on
‘environmental control and
resource use than we have had
in he past, : a

Ihave in mind, for example,
our British Columbia. Natural

Resources Conferences. Wehad iim

had 19° of these. conferences /

. theiy decision to discuss the |
cabinet order giving Mr. Loff- :
mark the power to grant,
restrict or. deny ‘hospital
privileges to any doctor, does

not mean the

profession has- altered: its op-

positon,

Mr, Loffmark says the new

powers, previously held: ex-
clusively by jocal hospital

medical ;

Since 1948. ..°--

“ Thoughitless criticism usually ee
- comes from lack of information
about the true nature of affairs .

boards, were needed to “ensure
a fairer distribution of doctors
throughout the province,”

“This does not change the

' position .of the medical
profession...and their opinion
that it. (the order-in-council)
should be withdrawn," said the
association and the college. _

been subjected to endless. had a birthday, ] challenged.

THE REAL CULPRIT
IS YOU!

- contributed to

OTTAWA (CP) — Do you

wish all those pollutere would
quit soiling the alr?
. Forget It. The real culprit
Is you, ta the extent of more
than. 15 tons of alr pollution
Per person a year.

As proof, ©, R, Mitchell,

head of the federal energy |

department combustion re-
search laboratory, recorded

how his family of four adults.

pollution,
At 16.2 tons each of fuel

combustion wastes, the

Mitchells were 3.32 per cent
higher than the national aver-
age of air pollution of 15.68
tons a year. “ .

' Their fuel combustlon ac-

tivitied. consumed ‘more than .
16 tons of oxygeii or 68 tons of

air. In addition each breathed

413° pounds ‘a@ year and -
exhaled 1,514 pounds of -

carbon dioxide.
Their air pollution record

came from ‘all forms of fuel
«combustion employed to. sup-

port the family in a normal ;

urban. community, ‘.:

smelting, thermally-produced

electricity and 1.68 tons fo

their motor boat. oo
Another byprodiot was 46

tons of. water produced ‘per

person per year.’

* Mitchell says in a study

entitled Only People Pollute, : |

sublished by the department, ©

that many do. not consider

carbon dioxide a pollutant, It ©

forms 90 per: cent of fuel
combustion byproducts. '
Nevertheless, he included it

- In’ hig count. Carbon dioxide Is

. For’: example, the . family =

car prodiced a total of 10.16,

tons of pollution in.a year and

home | hehting another. 8.54.

tons. Other factors. were. |
diesel fuel combustion for. .
trangportation and : farming,

aircraft fuel, industrial fuel,

. the alr. : ar ee

Mitchell concludes’ that alr:

" pollution -is a ‘problem of. .
people, their’ rate of inctease, ©

- eoncentration -in:-elties ‘and

accumulating in the’: atmo-
aphere, where it absorba the
infra-red rays of -the sun

which are needed by plants in ©
the process: of photosynthesis

to convert carbon dioxide into

thelr insatiable’ demand” for
moré power and luxuries. | -”

. }He suggests ‘setting -a top

limit may “be the answer,

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YOUR
OPINION

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food and release oxygen into: ©
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possibly: 200 tone of pollutants” -°
‘per. square mile, This woyld :-''

concentration... - °°

on. industrial

~Mean @ population density, of:
4,000. to’ 10,000 ‘per,’ square
vmilé, depending

“Montreal's: denaity i9°13,500

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and ‘Toronto's 7,830, he notes. =

T Would like to: voice_my
opinion regarding the attitude

and behaviour .of-our local

Council members towards, their
Mayor: since ‘his election to
office. It would be to ‘their

bickering. .,
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