3 sRape,i, The Herald, Thursday, May 17, 1979 . . . as TERRACE/KITIMAT ~ daily herald uf . ; General Office - 435.4357 Publlehed by o Fe elreulation 65457 Starling Publishers of fils: at GEN. MANAGER - Knax Coupland: 4 EDITOR. Greg Middiaten OU O'CIRCULATION -ITERRACE- BIRO} KIT FRICE 5692-2747 ‘Published avery weekday at 3272 Kalum Street, ‘ace, 8.C, A member of Verified Circulation. thorizedas second class mall. Registration number My 1 . Pestage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. 635-4357 | .—{0...deat with 207 13fhe Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In pi adverilsement produced and-or any editorial or lographle content published -in the : 4 Rprodvetion ts not permitted, " a" NOTE OF COPYRIGHT Herald, “ EDITORIAL With the provincial election out of the way, and after a brief rest, interest is returning to the federal election. Youremember that we are having a federal election don't you? It was the one the Prime Minister of Canada ealled before. . British Columbia's: Premier Bill Bennett threw things into the baie, ‘ ck of an. impending } ai race ‘was: spirited before the provincial don- nybrook took place. So much energy was expe on that, however, questions are being~asked ‘about :whether enough people in thie province watit' to continue with the current federal chalienge. : The native peoples of this province are -still quite concerned about the re Faentation they get ;, but they then have © federal government in a more direct way than the reat of us. They seem to favor the New Democratic Pary. The federal Progressive Conservatives may, hawaver, , find themselves with an unenforceable agresment with the Social Credit Party In the province, In exchange for not sup- porting provincial Con- servatives, or co the story goes, the federal Tories were to get Socred support and financing here, If that is true, the Torlea could find a distinct lack of interest by the Socreds, now seeing how strong Pierre Trudeau is across and noting that another provincial election is a long way awey. bother. If the federal Tories can draw on that Socred money and ma er, and with a lot of Liberal votes going NDP, especially here in the const where there was a strong NDP = showing provinelally, the Liberals could be out of luck in the ea! with Greg ~ QUID RIDES? Middleton comes the first spring you mer job instead of epending mer jo’ tead of 5; the hot months in and out of the nearest lake or river. Some youngsters have parents who arrange gainful employment for them but for me, as for many, that first spring I looked for work was a series of wer oe job application after ap pati. I Jaining eday I was com to a fellow who had picked me up hitchhiking, I told him it was impossible to find a ' fob if you'd never had ex- perience. He said he'd give me that, T was to taken aback I almost forgot to find out where I was to go ta work. ° That first summer of tting in eight hours a day r someone else, I was the janitor in a nightclub, gave me my experience and a promise of a summer job the next year. The en- tertainment business, though, is an uncertaln thing and the fellow had gone Broke before next: spring arrived, 1 thought it was pretty inconsiderage of him to go bankrupt after only losing about a $100,000, alnce 1 got hardly any of it at all. That put me back out on the job market, I didn't really have ao worry though, - because I had the gaurantee of a really great summer job, that of a garbage collector, but {t didn't start ““TAtil afew weeks after I was out of school and, wun- fortunately, a few weeks after my girlfriend started work, The young lady was well endowed, at least with the protestant work ethic, and e idea that she would be working and I would have a days tolleaboutonthebeach . with the girls who had bikinis but didn't have jobs caused her, and ultimately me, a great deal of anguish. I had to look for a job. The * obvious place to go was the patie vection of the local newspaper. found the ad, ‘Chicken catcher wanted, no ex- PvellT theca [ ‘igh be ’ t [might be a little overqualified, having had some experience altho not in same field, but I though I would orply, ow to be completely what [wan applyiigior ta whatl was a or, now 4 chokermien didn't acutally choke anyone. [ alone walked around in swamps. It never occured to me that a chicken catcher would...well, it just never occurred to me. ’ I phoned the number and asked what a chicken cat- cher was. The voice on the telephone asked if I had my own car, ] said yes and asked what a chicken catcher was, The voice asked if I would work night. I said yes and asked what a chicken cat- cher was, I was asked if I could start that night at midnight, I aaid yes and the volce gave me an address. Now I should have been a little susplclous when I gat out to that address and was told to climb into a pickup truck which smelled a little strange. Three of us were driven out into the country and introduced to about 6,000 sleeping chickens and pointed in the direction of a large truck with a lot of small cages on it. You catch chickens in the middle of the night because the chickens can't see you, or at least can barely aee you, by the one bulb left on in the barn. Chickens are not par- ticularly loyal or politically active sorts. You can grab a handful of a chickens friends and he'll go back to sleep after watching them go. We hauled them off by the legs, alx in one hand, five in the other. If we worked hard, we got the opportunity to work a few more hours and shovel out the barn. Some of the chickens expired before the rest and were entombed under the crust of sawdust and chicken manure on the floor. When shovelling out the barn a choking cry of “dead chicken” meant a five-minute break sitting around on the grass stalking those chickens which had previously escaped, if you got out of the bull quickly enough. If ve retching. As a six-week-old dead chicken isn't something to linger over. . But inspite of the many acratches I got from the chickens that didn't want to fe nothing hurt as deeply as te ane t alter a long for my love, ahe wouldn't even let me In the door In the mior- ning, She sald I didn't smell very nice, Tory “Tt must be spring.” By DIANE WAYDA TORONTO (CP) — With the whirlwind courtship almost at an end, 800,000 eligible voters in Metropolitan Toronto make a choice woolng by Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark and Ed Broadbent, the latest polls show the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives running neck and neck in Metro with the New Democrats in third trated'the pursuit of votes-{n southern Ontario — par- Hcularly in Metro where many of the 23 seats are wide open, With the Liberals strong and the Conservatives weak - in Quebec and the reverse true in the West, Ontario's 95 ridings are the key to a majority government in Otter tult, particularly in ¢ res r Toronto, may provide the turn of the key to the prime minister's residence. Trudeau's campaign has taken him through Metro six times, cresting in mid-May with a rally at Maple Leaf Gardens that drew an eatimated 16,000 with 3,000 In the streets. Clark kept six datea In Metro, speaking to the Empire Club, pumping hands on the streets and bolatering the campaigns of y contenders, ; Broadbent's come and gone nine times, with his search for votes taking him . on an old-fashioned streetcar stump May 12 through six ridings to culminate a four- day Metro drive. Plans for the last leg of the campaign remain flexible for the leaders, altho spokesmen for all three parties sald the crucial areaa Those Toronto voters: | would provide the focus. A CBC-commissloned poll released Monday shows that Liberals have caught the Tories in Metro— each party holding 41.5 per cent of the decided vote and the NDP with.16 per cent. Less than a month ago, an- other CBC poll showed the Conservatives had a 1.8-per- cent lead with 40.2 per cent. However, the poll was taken before the leaders’ telavised debate Sunday and that debate left Metro Liberals and New Democrats saying ce, a .. the geales were tipped in _+ The.leaders have concaii-:. their favor. 4 “: Redistribution: has in-: creased Metro ri to 23 from 21 since 1974 when the Liberals won 17 and the PCs and New Democrats two each. But things changed last October following five Metro byelectionn that saw the Liberals lose four seats to the Conservatives with the other retained by the NDP. The New Democrats remain the intangibles, capable of making the outcome close if score heavily here, Also un- readable are the loyalties of Metro voters, known for changing alleglances bet- ween elections. . “Senator Royce Frith, Liberal Ontario campaign chairman, says the picture In Metro has improved for the Grits because Clark hasn't caught on with voters,: Trudeau's showing in the debate gave Metro Liberals a boost, he sald. Six weeks ago he ex- pressed fears that at least two cabinet ministers — John Roberts, secretary state, and Martin 0’Connell, labor minister — were in trouble in their Metro ridin Now he’s redicting at least 50 Ontario seata and a majority Liberal govern- of ballots on le ment with Roberts, O'Connell and Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie in its ranks, Other Liberals said early in the campaign . that Gillespie's seat was in danger. he Roberts saya having a tough fight in his St. Paul's riding until the debate Upped the scales. It still is a tough fight, says Walter Was Gray, on the PC's Ontario campaign committee, He said the Tories will.. bump off not Roberts, Geant ane Gilles je, but .,also., Defence, Minister Barney. .Danson, and . ony Abbott, natlonal revenue minister, In their ridings on the outskirts of Metro. Gray says the debate had noeffect in metro. Before the - debate was held he sald it would have considerable effect on undecided voters. Mary Ellen McQuay, assistant secretary to the NDP, i¢ ma no predictions although she gays the Metro picture locke increasingly better for the they can Party. Broadbent was given strong points on leadership by Toronto Star when the newspaper, the couniry's largest, endorsed his party. . Metro NDP organizer Penny Dickens says the: debate made people trust Broadbent more: The Tory campalgn is stalling and When i comes own to eaderal eknow can ra Ped Browdbent expecially after that debate."* Frith voters usually cast their ership rather than party and Trudeau has scored well on leadership polls. He also says that hostility toward Trudeau has diminished tober: ‘It’s going much since last Oc-. says undecided . better and’ that’s based ‘mostly on ' ent pin the aring from our people: ; prime minister has started tocomeon.” |... He points to: the, Gardens rally aa an example, "saying the twohour concert that preceded Trudeau's appearance wasn't the reason for the over-flow crowd. ; “The le have got to want to be there. They were there to see the prime minister,” he . CONSUMER > COMMENT Ever been watching the late movie on, T.V and had the picture suddenly shrink to a pinpoint of light and then vanish all together with a faint pop? _ Your first reaction was probably to wonder If Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman ever made It out of Casablanca. Your next was likely “how much.will it cost to fix?“ ‘Most of us have had the experlence of seeing one of our relied-on gadgets develop ailments an Ce credits Clark. with» that require professional attention, whether It's Etunaing the tide towsirds the , Gray calls the Tory's mortgage it payment and ee ore tax deduc- bility program “the sexiest thing we've got going next to the antiTrudeau feeling.” “It's still there. National. unity is not and will not be an issue in Toronto, The major issues are inflation and unemployment.” He says the PCs will be disappointed if they don't take 15 Metro seats and that the party's Ontario goal is 50 seats. Voters, he says, are con- centrating more on Clark's message than on his physical demeanor. “He himself is io the Job with this being his first national campaign. Maureen McTeer drew enthusiastic audiences in Metro. We seem to have a winning combination ... (and) we haven't been or- ganizing extravaganzas like the. Maple Leaf Gardens.” Ms. McQuay credits Broadbent's campaign performance and the way 8 atuck to the issues as reasons for Increased NDP support in Metro, “And the Toronto Star . didn’t hurt,” he saya of the newspaper's endorsement of ‘the party. By GERARD MecNEIL OTTAWA (CP) — Joe Clark’s plan to have a cabinet minister praking is corp lag. comparal to Richard Nixon's contention that as preal- dent he was above the law of the United States, says New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent, Broadbent, after listening to Clark’s ex: lanatlon during the leaders’ debate Sunday, speculated that Clark seemed to be saying a Conservative government would introduce new laws to enable the RCMP ’ Security Service to tect national security emergency situations. The Security Service would tell a cabinet minister what had to be dona. The cabinet minis- acion that went beyond ter would authorize any . CLA the law, then report to a Com non reed with a interpretation — but it remains secrecy reapoasible to the Partiament that created Both Clark and Prime Minister Trudeau have indicated they would make It legal for police to open first-class mail, something the police have been doing anyway for yeare and for a variety of reasons. A royal commission recommended In 1960 that the RCMP Security Service be given the power to open mall in national security cases. The fact that the RCMP didn't have this power, the commission said, invited foreign agents to ute the mails, ) It sounds so familiar Now the RCMP says it needs the power to mail not only in security but in drug cases because heroln is being mailed into Canada. drug squad, they were. told one advantage of mallopening would be to vent em- rrassment that arises when police follow suspect mail to its destination, then found in uent raid that the 't contain drugs ty Service also told the royal commission It engages in. intelligence probes - breaking into homes and le, personality of in- ayiduels ed aren't necessarily suspected of criminal on subversive behavior. In fact, the Security Service said, breaking be the only a heme may ie only way to prove that person's Tanocance. Doing this kind of thing - without a warrant is illegal, but police said they couldn't get war ranta because they couldn't hope to convince a judge they had suspect thetr target had aus) committed erime. t poise that pe pl at one people aren't going to be upset opening a few envelopes, a few eny . Broadbent haa tad operate police should within the like law everyone else, ~ a T.V. set with a blown picture tube, .a -blender ‘that Won't blend, or a washer that gives up In-the ‘middle of a load. Sometimes it’s not an appilance that has us leaping for the yellow pages, but a disaster Iike ruptured waterpipes In the basement, or a wall outlet that erupts In a shower of flreworks when a lamp Is plugged In. Getting a professional! In to deal with these problems can be expensive, but you can take some steps to keep the cost within bounds. Even the most basic knowledge of appliances, and the plumbing or electrical systems to which they are connected, can reduce the number of service calls required. Reading the service manuals or operating Instructions that normally come with an appliance can help even more. Before you ae# for assistance, look for obvious problems yourself, It's not only embarrassing to. have the repairman discover the T.V. set Isn‘t plugged in. It's expensive as well, If you decide you do need help, get out the warranty on the product and see If it covers repairs. For plumbing and wiring problems, check’ your home insurance policy, or the bullder’s warranty, if one exists, There are no set rates which repairmen, plumbers, electricians ete, must charge. Their. fees can and likely will, vary cansiderably, so get at least three written estimates before you hire anyone. The estimates should include a breakdown of costs for parts and labour, a date by which the work will be completed, and an agreement that if the cost Is golng to exceed the estimate, your approval must be obtained. The length of time: for which work Is guaranteed should also be specifled. - Remember that an estimate Is just that - an estimate, not a guarantee that the final cost will hot be higher. The valve of an estimate lies in’ the fact that owner and repairman have agree ion an approximate charge that is acceptable to tham both. The key word here Is “ap. proximate”, Once you've got the estimates, check the repairman’s name with the Better Business. Bureau or your local consumer group before you go ahead. How long will all this take? Anywhere from one fo several days. Obviously, you won't have - that much time lf the water level Is rising & foot a minute In the basement, but fortunately these kinds of emergencies are few and far between, In most cases, getting the bes? Job possible for your money Is usually worth the inconvenience of being without the appilance for a short time. (You can always phone a friend to find aut how Humphrey and Ingrid resolved thair problems.)