- Page 2, The Harald, Tuesday, February 21, 1984 RRACE- allul ald. Published every weekday at 3010 Kalum Street, _ Terrace, B.C.. by Sterling Publishers Ltd. " , Authorized. as second class mail. Registration Number 1201, Postage paid In cash, return postage é~ guaranteed Iverrace: : 1638-6357" Circulation: | 635-4000 Publisher - David Hamilton Editor: | Brian Gregg » Nick Walton i i statt Writer-Photogra pher: . —— Sports: Ralph Reschke . ‘Holly Olson : Reception-Classified: Circulation: Claire Wadley Sue Nelson ; NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT | ‘The Herald retains futl, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in ihe Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission af the Publisher. The Terrace- Kitimat Daily Herald Newspaper Is politically Independent and a member of the British - Columbia Prass Council. — warned : While one Canadian business organization took a shot at last week’s federal budget for failing to tackle the swollen deficit, another. was told by its leader Monday not to depend on Ottawa to keep it healthy, : The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the country’s iargest business lobby, sald ina statement itagrees with the thrust of Finance Minister Marc Lalonde's budget but is worried about term politieat objectives at the expense of long-term interests," John Sandusky told a national conference. "Grants and subsidies will not help our industry. - The temporary surge of comfort is always followed by the hangover of an inevitable slump. In the end we are no better off “ Sandusky later told reporters he believes most ‘dangerously high" of the association's 5,000 government deficits. members support his : The chamber said’ it position even If it could gupports Ottawa's con- mean the disappearance .of tinued’ reliance on the private sector as the main éngine of economic growth, And it is-pleased by budget foeasuires to ‘improve pensions, restrain public- - sector wages and prices and ‘ some marginal builders. ’ “The industry has a way of cleansing itself,” San- dusky said. “Hf a company -is on the edge, that’s what terms of; ;Spatige. That's; : price: "you: ‘pay for bein, ri r “the: Private: aeclor:! Mi-rtea.2 Said Lalonde put little in the Hidget to ‘encourage .. During the’ 1981-82 Husiness investment and ~ recession, the. industry filed to tackle the deficit. averborrowed, — overbuilt. - {The 1983-84 deficit was and became “fat and-: revised. slightly upward to . $31.5 billion’in the budget . Bapers. while the 1984-85 shortfall is expected to be $29.6 billion, ; GALLS IT HURDLE complacent" with govern- ment help, Sandusky said, “When the end came, we had lost our independence. was in the hands of our As far as business is bankers.” concerned, the deficit remains the biggest hurdle a . i a lasting” recovery __ 4S partof ils aim to limit because to finance it the government intervention in government . must print’ ‘he industry, one of the more money or bid association’s top priorities “aggressively in’ credit will te ° eet rid or markets for scarce capital, Provincial rent con ons P Sandusky said. Both actions tend ta keep interest rates and inflation high. ‘Lalonde has argued he’ couldn't cut government spending —__. significantly without plunging the economy into another recession and making wsemployment worse. The chamber, which ropresents more ‘than 145,000 Canadian com- panies, doesn’t buy that argument. ; A serious - effort to réduce the deficit over the medium term would have sent a positive signal to the business community and to - cOhsumers - that — the gavernment intended to keep up its fight against inflation and’ high interest rates,” it says, 2Such a signal could have given consumer. and business confidence an iraportant shot in the arm needed to sustain the currént economic recovery and. to encourage in-. vestment in productivity improvements and long- term job creation.” DOESN'T WANT AID Meanwhile in Quebec City, the new president of thé Housing and Urban Dévelopment Association of Canada said the industry shtuld stop expecting the government to bail it out duting economic hard times, , Builders should «be ! prepared to ‘1g government grants Cig subsidies if they are band | used to promote “ghort-. VEE |b " Advertising Sates: — the system metes ‘out - in oh in Afgtianiatan‘drappéd sharply lagtyear and the use of. Soviet-supplied chemical weapons in Cambodia: a id Laos? Control of our companies © - Tethe Baia, te ih, “Aa candidate for. leaded of the BA D "Patty, Yd lke to ane yous readers, to aeite ‘Ours is an ‘ope: n » juirty: ‘We have always welcomed new ‘ideas, new people, ‘and new perspectives, ‘Today, through the leadership process, we have a chance to welcome again original thinking ard original. strategies: for: ‘Bre rity and fair play in’ British Columbla. od ‘would welcome. your ideas | on: regional, 3 ategles for “jobs and development; on the principle of Jocal'c ‘control and decentralization in government and education; on:the fair _ Share of costs. allocated and. costs recovered in. resource ‘development; on a better future for our fundamental in-- -dustries in forestry, mining, fishing, And. tourism; on the _. new future of high technology and Pacific Rim trade; and, ‘on the human questions inivolved-in health and human _ resources, in rights and opportunities for women, in human — rights and ‘social. responsibility, Ba! As a New Democrat, I would welcome § your dindasats. and criticisms. Asa citizen in this great province, I- ‘would thank you for your contribution to gobd debate, and to good - - government, Contact Box 764, Revelatoke,1 B.C: VOB 250. , Thanks for your time. a 4 periodically causes immense comet. showers,. ipliinging’ Earth into cold and darkness that kills up to v1) per. ‘cent ‘of all life, says a new scientific theory. The theory holds that the star, as yet undiscovered but belfeved to be orbiting in space as a companion: ‘to: Earth's . ‘sun, sweeps past the solar system once every 28° “million _ . years, prompting catastrophic showers of comets’ ‘frdin ay ct f: dark star known as’a red dwarf ‘wiih, amass: probably’ only vaat cold region at, the edge of the system known a8 the Oo cloud.. : : The comets would have raised huge clouds of: dit and rubble on;Earth, darkened the skies and. ‘brought on freezing temperatures for months at a ‘time, the. theory: holds. ; - Scientists at the University of California i in ‘Berkel y and from Princeton University surmise that would have been long enough to start the death of food plants and. other organisms on a massive scale and to launch the process of swift extinction for many species. ~ Two papers outlining the theory and evidence ‘for the periodic comiet showers have been submitted : -to .the- in- ternational: science “journal Nature by astrophyéicist Richard Muller, geologist Walter Alvarez and’ astronomers Mare Davis and Piet Hut, Hut is a member of Princeton’ 8 Institute for Advanced ‘ - Study, and the other scientists are at UC Berkeley, -where Hut joined them for the research. The next comet shower is not due for. another: 15 ralilion years or so, because the unseen star that: launches the comet showers is believed to be about 23 trillion kilometres ; away, NEW SPECIES EMERGE . . Bach time the burst of comets reaches Barth, the planet , 5. Chemic ay WASHINGTON (AB). Sov pons»! also killed fewer People, the. Reagan administrat lon sai today, “4 The, State Departitient report t6. the United, Nations ~ contrasted with previous years, when the Administration * charged that more than 10,000- people : were “killed. by“ chemical weapons in the three Asian counties, where ed vy are fighting pro-Moscow governments. © The report. said the United ‘States ‘has been unable AP % ‘Blizabet} High ‘Shoot auditorium: ‘with overflaw facilities . confirm a single Soviet chemical- -weapons attack last year; although several were reported. In 1982, there was “strong evidence of several dozen chemical attacks i in Afghanistan’ , that killed more than 300 ‘people. - ’ The report gave no reasons for the slowdown -in Soviet ' attacks and a State Department official ‘said the United: . States doesn’t kndw whether the change was a Soviet ‘response to criticism from the West or was due to tactical ; military reasons. . In Laos, only one-third as many people were reported _ - killed ‘as ‘in 1982, when at least 85 died from “yellow rain)’ > : displays... fa | . * Dent Volunteots ‘ “To the Editor, a I suppose for some nisguited souls the se thought of taking - up the cudgel in defence of animals ia more ‘appealing. than . doing the same-for the-world's. poor, -beleagured, down: * trodden and, nedr-famighed | children,” After ‘all these poor...” darling haby seals With their wide Tinndcent eyes and those. - magnificent wolves with thelr fascinating faces .are more appealing to the do-gooders, the: idealists and ‘the. reac: - fonaries. than ‘the world’s starving children ‘with: thelr _. grossly distended. bellies, their ugly, blank; ‘bulging | eyes, : their pus-cozing open wounds; thelr. vacant look’ as - they. bold no hope for survival. No, the Beals and the wolves are 7 - nuch more appealing. . the goings-on of ‘anti’ people. Yet, we close our. eyes, ‘turn our backs and don't ¢ our waileta; urses to, ‘the cries of : 1 open P would be that if any help from the-truly. deserving. twisted logic and Joyal the human’ rac 20 per cent to 70 per cefit ofall the families of: ‘plants ; and = ‘animals ‘existing. at, the timé, - the. scientists ‘say, 'New families - an? species would. then emerge once. the: ‘catastrophe Is ended. ad The scientists who posed the theory . have suggested calling the unseen star Nemesis, after. the Greek goddess “who relentlessly persecules, the, ne excesalvely rich, Proud _ and powerful. :. “The scientists:belleve. the sun’ 8: companion is a ‘mall, one-tenth of the aun's and an cliptical orbit carrying it Into the Cort cloud, ; - Within the cloud, more than 100 billion comets are flying moe in remote. orbits, scientists say. As it passes. through, the - dwart star's gravity disrupts the orbits.of about a billion comets 50 they shower ‘down toward the inner solar system. As many as‘25 comets may crash into Earth to, create’ : impact craters, iridium layers and, conditions for ex- tinction, the” scientists said. ; : .The scientists say they've found: ‘about a dozen ‘craters: deemed large enough possibly to have launched a cycle of darkness and death. . " In addition, ‘they’ ve found the” ‘Tare metallic. element iridium lying in Inyers within ‘the Earth’ a crust: They have. . dated the deposits at ‘about-65 millioi, years ago, about the same time: the dinosaurs ‘ ‘isappebred, “and. the. other: ‘at _about 230 million yearsago. “S ae Muller used a computer to tackle the coiniglex statistical - problems - involved ‘in. connecting ‘the- time. scales of ex tinction tg-the dates of the impact craters, ‘The fit was ex- traordinary, he said. v “After playing with the math for a vile, i convinced myself that it was real.” = oe ons. drop sharply. cattacks;in Cimbodla, chemical-caused deaths "decreased significantly” from -the previous year, when at Jeast 65 people died, the report said. oo ‘Witnesses meet. “KITIMAT—’ - Jehovah's Witnesses | will | be -in Kitimat . during the weekend of February 8. ‘for. their. sémi-anrival * pwo-day convention, =~ the, Close #@ 700 delegdtes are expected ta mn the Mount being provided. ¢. The Witnesses are de known: for. their evangelital zeal - . and this has-not gone unnoticed in the Kitimat-Terrace ' ‘area, John Kobyluk, one of: -thelr travelling overseers, pointed out that the Pacific northwest region hag been very : responsive to the door to door preaching activity of the local Witnesses, He noted that in addition to efforts to reach the. English speaking population a Portugese speaking group ‘has been formed also due to the interest shown by the. Portugese communities.in both Kitimat and Terrace... tremendous expansion work. ‘‘We- now have a program . whereby we can actually build a complete Kingdom Hall in two days froin start:to finish. People find. this hard. to - believe but we have Kingdom Halls all over: Canada and North America built:this way," he says.” . © - “Wenow have over two and a half million active minister ° , " proclaiming thé good news of God's Kingdom and hélping — people of all nationalities to a belter understanding of the. . Bible. Our Watchtower mages has an average. printing copies “We strongly feel that our incteased preaching activity in part of the sign’ telling'us thit we are living in the last days. . ae Christ Jesus himself gave this sigh in Matthew chapter 24. : After mentioning that tremendous warfare, food: shortages. . anda turning away of love for one’s fellow man would mark - the last days he then said as recorded in verse 14:' ‘and this good ‘news.of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.’ “We believe that Jehdvah’s Witnesses are‘a ‘living “teatimony that this sign is being fulfilled, It is for this reason also that we have conventions like: this since it enables ua to encourage each other: to k¢ep busy ‘in the - preathing work and to-receive additional instructions. Some of the points which will be discussed . during our: convention will focus on the fact that we should be motivated to do God's will and not be self-willed. This calls, for love of God‘and algo self-discipline. “Qur public address on Sunday afternoon will bring out -the point that we should submit ourselves to God's. a ‘he ship. This is especially timely since today we see ed trend to do' things our own way. > “People are disappointed’ in thelr . governijerita and’ spiritual leaders and are not listening to them like they ised" fin to. ‘Everywhere in the world there isa crisis; either’ political or economical. ‘Moral values are declining and- . people are wondering where to turn for a lasting solution. The Bible at 2 Timothy 3:1 mentions that In the ‘last days - critical times hard to deal with would be here,’ Can there be. anything more critical that today’s world conditlons? Jehovah's Witnesses strongly feel that by returning to basic - Bible principles ‘people can solve these problems. The, future for mankind as indicated by the Bible isnot one of destruction but one of harmony and peace if one submits to rulership by God, It is for this reason that we would like to. “invite. the people of the Kitimat-Terrace area to jolnus ‘during our convention so that they too can share in this Is hope. of the ie Bible," says Kobyluk. _: wolunteer’ Jaboiir "possible, Civic endeavours such a8: sou greatly enhattee =" the. quality of life in Thornhill. “offenders to work for ihe cdmmunity, >: Dimagine that historians will reflect on this day and'age- i "and shake their heads in wonderment. atthe. “apparent, ” . ‘Anunity, He explained. that worldwide the. Witnesses are ex- _ periencing a: phenomenal increase and are erigaged ina. ’. About 7 per cent of our work foree is employed in these 207 _ called “primary ‘industries”.. : , “now employed. That wealth is, necessary aa iB : »Sipport the oiher sectors, re Pte Thornhill Fire Hall, ‘Without: your dona ‘this ‘exteislon’: would not: have,“ been “Thatik you once again, . ‘Members af the nora Advisory Planning a th ditor, noe . ® ie fing in