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To the Mayor,

With reference to Mr; Ron Gillis’ letter, which appeared
in the Terrace Herald of Feb. 10 in connection with the
littering of the streets in Terrace-and the surrounding
residential areas; I heartlly agree with everything Mr.
Gillis has said,

Terrace has a setting of great natural beauty which could
be enhanced if the town itself were neat and tidy. Un-
fortunately it is not and the problem appears to be getting
worse. 1 have heard strangers comment on how untidy the
streets are. Itmakes me boil but] can’t deny the fact.

Now that we have a council, which appears to he
cooperative and genuinely interested in Terrace, perhaps
one of its aims could be not only to beautify the town but

_ also to keep it litter free.

T realize that to expect the council to do- everything is
unfair; butif more litter containers were placed around the
town perhaps some people could be encouraged to place
their garbage there, rather than on the etreet, even if they
are.forced to do 80 as a community service for come
misdemeanor. fot a Pathe ou eat

Perhaps students could be: enc rageaby thelr teachers, :”
to keep the school yards litter free and by their parents to.
keep their own rooms and the yards around their homes
tidy. .

Perhaps we should all make an effort, starting im-
mediately, to keep our own premises neat and attractive. -
if everyone cooperated I feel sure the whole area would

benefit in more ways than one, -
Sincerely

B. Hobbs

Masse

Fire drawn.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. State Secretary George’
Shultz is drawing Democratic fire for administration policy
in Lebanon and Central America as he begins selling
Congress a $17.2-billion package of foreign aid and other
international spending.

Ina floor speech Tuesday, Representative Bill Alexander
of Arkansas, the chief deputy Democratic whip of the House
of Representatives, called on Shultz to resign because of
what he called “the debacle" of U.S. policy in Lebanon, .
where marines sent as peacekeepers are being withdrawn
to ships offshore.

Later at a Senate budget commiltee hearing, Democrats
told Shultz they saw danger of Lebanon-like U.S. in-
volvement in Central America. The Reagan administration
is helping E] Salvador fight teftist rebels and is holding
training exercises with Honduran troops near the border of
leftist-ruled Nicaragua,

Shultz will testifying before the Senate foreign relations
committee teday on the aid request, which includes sub-
stantial increases in military and economic assistance for
Central America as recommended by a commission headed
by former state secretary Henry Kissinger. .

Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), chairman of the budget.
committee, said it is unusual for the committee that con-
cerns itself with government spending to hold a separate
hearing on any portion of the budget other than military
spending.

SPENDING UP

He said the committee wanta to take a close look at the
international spending proposal because it is up 30 per cent,
while other ‘non-military spending has been frozen,

Democrats on the. panel focused much of their
questioning on Honduras, charging that the administration
ig engaging in a military buildup there that could lead to
fighting by U.S. troops in the region. ;

“It appears to me we are preparing for a very significant
U.S. Involvement, at least internally, in that country
(Honduras)," said Senator James Sasser (D-Tenn.). “We
may find ourselves in the same situation as in Lébandn.”

Since marines were sent to Beirut In September 1982 to
keep the peace between rival Lebanese factions, 265 U.S.
military personnel have died there, Most were killed in an
Oct. 23 terrorist bombing at the Beirut International Air-
port where the marines were deployed.

Shuitz told the committee: “There isn't ‘any plan for..the
use of American military force in Nicaragua.”

But he defended the Honduran exercises, saying: ‘We
seek to support our friends down there.”

_ “We should be prepared as a country to make a long-term
commitment to the health of our neighborhood, and Central
America and the Caribbean are part of our neighborhood,” "
Shultz said.

Senator J. James Exon (D-Neb,) said Shultz’s ex-
planations of U.S. policy are “very similar to what we were
told when we first sent troops into Lebanon.”

a New, Brunswick, Prince Edward Islan

The transportation ‘and houstng sectors generated ni ich
of ‘Tueaday’s business news, .as ‘hearings ‘continued into
’ deregulation. of the airline industry and the ‘Housing |and
Urban Development Association of Canada annual meeting
hended into its final day.

The Canadian Air Line Pilots’ Association told’ the

* Canadian Transport Commission that the skies. wouldn't, be,
_agaafe and that unemployment in the alrline industry’ could
‘increase if widespread detegulation comes to Canada:

The association, agreeing with most airlines that now ‘ip
not the time for dramatic change; said deregulation: has
Seriously damaged the air industry in the United States,
where passenger safely is diminishing because - airlines
haven't got the money to invest in new: equipment.”

' It noted: that 10 airlines have gone bankrupt . since

. deregulation in 1978 and several others are carrying huge

debts, despite generous government tax credits. Five small

carriers have either voluntarily withdrawn aircraft or been

forced to do so because of safety problems, - he
The association said unemployment in the U 3. “industry

is 17 per cent — 54,000 are laid off — despite $2 billion in a

labor concessions aver the last. two: yeara
SEES PROBLEMS ~ :

2 sama
president, ‘told the second week, of. tears

peliey, .

pilots in Canada may increase, airline: lane to: ‘upgrade.

equipment would be shelved and i bankruplctes sould ensue

i dotheatic alr

from the battle of the fittest, he said;
“The margin of safety, for at least’ the short term, woul
have.-to diminish, particularly AB the Squiprien an
technology {s out of date.” °°
Meanwhile in’ Quebec’ ‘City, “the ° “economic : reseatch
committee of ‘the © Housing. ‘and «: Urban -Devélopment™
Associationof Canada sald housing starts in Canada in 1984: .
aré expected, to rise, three per cent this, year, ito reach:
~ 168,000." uf
The biggest increase in rousing. starts wil be’

association forecast on the second day of a three-day. annual °
meeting.’ Construction will be down Blightly “in Quebec,
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba-and ‘Nova Scotia. . ;
Committee president John: Rae said ‘the - -projectéd in
crease In housing starts from: 162,645 last year is due, to.
lower mortgage rates, incréases in employment: and con: |
sumer confidence in the economy. , in ;

PREDICTS DECREASE"

‘the housing starts in 1984, while rental itil

construction bigral
be down to 33,000 from ‘55,000 tect yes :

without government assistance.’ ;
Aseparate study prepared for the

ion dy. Toron a

Canadian fishermen: ‘serious.

Early in the morning, with lunch- -pails: and oilskins, .
they'd go down to the land-wash and out to sea, stopping

_ their engines ¢ over the “bosom of the Atlantic”. and fishing
until. sunsets. -.:

With ‘the exception ‘of the. general “merébani,: the
clergyman and a few others, everyone in the Newfoundland
outport fished at sea, worked wilh fish on land, or was Ina a
family where someone did. Sa ASE pate

“It is serious: business,” Joey: Smalling wro €
business of fishing."

His description in the | 1937 volumie of ‘the “Book: ot,

Newfoundland was of life along the Great. ‘Northern
Peninsula 50) years gO. Toa Jarge extent, it remains: life
there-today. ;

Canada's fishery is a ‘billion-dollar mix of enduring
tradition and modern industry, with problems aS old as the
hills and new crises pressing.

Now the forecast by experts is for tradition to diminish,
for the industry to become a leaner breed'in the years : ahead
with little room for the old ways.) 0) +290,
APPLY. LESSON ees

Lessons learned long ago by Praitie farmers — ‘thal there

must be fewer people working the resource and: that they.
_ must run -larger, more efficient operations — ‘are: ‘being:
applied today to the Nova Scotia lobsterman and the BE.

salmon fisherman alike.
Off British Columbia, state-of- the -art vessels are cal-

ching and chilling salmon once taken exclusively’ by Pacific

Coast Indians, who made the drying and smoking of salmon
fillets their own art. *

* Dozens of communities along, the cadets of Nova Scottie
ne nd Newfoundlan

depend almost totally ‘on’ ‘theMfishery,
centuries.
- But from-Allantic Canada’ 8 fishing villages, there: is a

'. different view on the horizon, beyond the waters worked by -

fishermen in small boats or vessels as long'as the trailers of
transport trucks,
Instead of the thousands of sehooner’s thal brought i in.the

‘deep-sea catches until. the 1930s, there are giarit trawlers

taking cod, flounder and other. groundfish to some of the
biggest fish plants in the world.
EMPLOYS 100,000

~ Altogether, more than 100 000 Canadians look to the sea

for 4 living through fishing or processing and thousands
more are builders and suppliers for the industry.

About 70,000 of those direct jobs are in the Allanlic
provinces. The West Coast fishery; geared to the delicate,
pink-fleshed salmon, earns more money for ils size.

Canada is the No, 1 exporter of fish in the world in terms
of value, but a nation poorly endowed with fish eaters, The
government says 16 per cent of us hate fish, 36 per cent love
it and 48 per cent sit on the fence and could be encouraged to
buy more.

But the real money is to be made’ overseas or in the
United States and it has been that-way for @ long time.

“Down, down, down fell the prices of fish in the foreign.
markets, swiftly, _precipitately, ‘ without. warning,”

Smallwood said of the period after the First World War, the’

years before he became Newfoundland’s first prernier in

- Confederation. What followed was a blow to the fishery thal
‘many said was worse than any. before.

SAME AGAIN

That refrain is being heard again today.

Foreign competition is stiff, high Interest rates were
crippling and poverty always threatening, .

Those problems are common to both coasts, but British
Columbia faces. an added.threat — the’ depletion of vital
salmon stocks thraugh years of strain on their habitat,

Simply put, there’s no longer enough room for.everyone
in the fishery, many experts say.

So the government's answer is to thin out the ranks --
drastically in British Columbia and gradually in Atlantic
Canada if the industry. ilself doesn't collapse first.

A federally appointed study by economist. Peter Pearse
recommended the size of the B.C. fleet be cut by half over 10
years through programs td wean people from the fishery.
Ottawa favors that proposal, a controversial one among
fishermen who think the industry needs a lot of help, but not
that radical 4 step,

, DROPPING OUT

’ About 17,000 B.C. fishermen work off the coast but the
most recent figures, from 1979 to 1981 when interest rates
and bankruptcies were high, showed the industry losing

1,000 people a year.
British Columbia’ 's problems are more easily understood

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1 RTE a Gabe a er

‘as’ ‘they have for °° Whi
, Linear, s., Caraquet, N.B., and all those other: ports

by anyone whe has watched tattered salmon: fighting theit 7

way upstream over. ‘ragged rocks and ‘vapids so they can
spawn in river beds where. they themselves. were ‘spawned
' ‘This pecullarity ia behind. one of-the major threats to the:

survival of salmon’ as ‘a commercial species in British
Columbia. Spawning areas are gradually being destroyed © --
by logging, dam building. somimercial’ development and .

pollution. °°.
On. the East: ‘Coast, biologists’ ‘say ‘stocks: ‘are: sbelitg

restored by conservation, coupled with introduction of the :

2htmile fishing zone in 1977,

Supplies run hot and cold. Atlantic iobster ‘peenied to ba
disappeared from some: tories‘ in; the 1982: season, but lds
year they: ‘practically’ clamored to ‘get Into the traps: Lab-
ster fishermen had their best season in 7 years: So

. MUST. REORGANIZE a
, However, the labor-intensive prociossing industry, whict
employs ‘almost one worker for every. two, registered.
fishermen on the East-Coast, ran into so much trouble that:
it had to be fundamentally reorganized.

The big fishing and processing companies, operators ofa
network of plants in small coastal comminities in the four
Atlantic provinces, had become saddled with crushing debt.
because of over-expansion after Canada declared the exe
Clusive fishing zone,-

'- Now, they are being drawn into two super ‘companies; one

_ based in Newfoundland and one in: Nova Scotia.
In Newfoundland, union reaction to the restructuring was’

unfayorable, ‘Saying fishermen: had been ignored’ in: the

aa :

shar Te: ‘fishermen of

“Faalepenten

clinging tenaciously to storm-tossed coasts?
IN THE FAMILY"

- Fishing asa family business lives on, as it has for Mark |

Small of Wild Cove in. northern Newfoundland. His father

: and grandfather fished, as do all five of his brothers and his

‘only son out of high school.

* That aspect hasn't changed, he says. } But now he must be

- eaky as Smallwood made it fook in his Book of Newfoun-

‘moreofa businessman than ever before, For one thing, he's

. "giving his longliner a $48,000 repair job this winter to get it
» through the crunching walers off the cove for another nine

or 10 years.
He manages to provide the necessities of lite, he says,
although his wife disagrees with his definition of what's
. necessary. oe, .

t Senator Michael Kirby, whose study of the East Coast
-fishery gave Ottawa the guidelines it.is following today,

‘used to spend. part of his summer holjdays sailing with

‘inshore fishermen,

Newfoundland, - .,
, PFRUTH HURTS - :

He says the nainful truth, if the queation were ever jooked

including his ‘grandfather’ from

‘atsolely in the light of free-enterprise economics, is that the ©

2 independent fisherman may no longer bé needed. .
“Tn an absolute straight economic efficiency sense, he
isn’t. Youcould do everything with trawlers and it would be
‘much more efficient,”

But the result, Kirby adds, would lead to the destruction —

of. communities anil a loss of employment.

': Kirby, speaking with an added perspective now that he is.
with Canadian National Railways as a senior - vice-
president, sees the fishery developing along the lines of the
Western grain industry. ~~‘

Slowly, moré fishermen would turn. from the sea and the.
operations of the rest would grow to a level where. they
could be efficient and vital, Like a Saskatchewan. farmer
buying the field next door, the oulport fisherman would buy
the fish licence of his neighbor — one Of. the key recom-
mendations of Kirby's report. . ;

“What we're trying to do is recognize thal you can't
preserve forever, with absolutely no. change, the small
fishing community.” :

UNDER CONTROLS

mands from nature and the market, bul now there are rules ©
upon rules governing the industry. It frustrates fishermen .
tobe told what kind of hoks and nets to use, how long to fish
and above all, the size.and type of fish to catch: .:

. “But the government says that without regulation, it would
be like sending farmers on to a communal fidld and letting

; them sort out who gets whal, Because there is not ‘enough to

go around any more, il takes" strict: rules’ cto ensure

everybody gets a share.
. Provinces and diiferent sectors of the fishery usually

complain that the federally mandated shares are not large

enough, and the situation becomes even more ‘complicated,

when national boundaries are involved. | :
.Georges Bank, the rich scallop grounds midway between

Cape Cod and the southwest tip of Nova Scatia, and West _
Coast salmon waters fished by British’ ‘Columbian and ©

‘Alaskan. boats have both been’ sources. of protracted .
bilateral tension.

Ailer years of talks achleved an initialed West’ Coast —

agreement last year, the newly elected governor of Alaska ‘
effectively scuttled it, saying it gave Canada too much,
After all, conferring nationality on fish has never been as

dland, with a photograph of two children and an enormous
fish. «

nidrio. coll
where the number will jump ‘to: 69,000 from: 4/939, the: ”

He said single-family units will maki: up the’ iiadotity of; :

"-upgtader, near Lloydrainster.. -Royalties,:’ laxati

fas . {ROMP, 1-215 Eby:

those who need: ialp paying th the ir rents.
. Rent controls “dre a major impedime

« construction that are keeping ’ 500/000" pauseholds. from: '
e finding adequate housing they can afford, ‘the. study says, ‘

. adding that 55,000 new ‘ynits would be needed every year ‘tn *
‘the 1980s to meet ‘the need, ar

‘The association is a ‘wgorous apponent of ‘rent eputrols
"and: ils: new, president, John Sandusky, said one: ofthe |
“group's top irlecie f for 1004 will be. lobbying to get ld at a

cept Alberta and Bh .

» Columbia currently. have. re l
*In‘other busiziess news’ ‘Tuesday:

| <='The government plans to sperid $50, 2biltion in the fiscal

year beginning: April, 10,5'per cent-more than, the $88.9".
- billion estimated for. thi fiscal year, according to estimates .
* tabled in the Commons, ‘The cost of $20.4 billion to carry. the :
“massive “SISI-billion’ ‘public debt accounts. for. the largest .
“inerease in spending: for the 1984-85 fiscal year. \’-:
— Husky Oi] Léd, officials gay they Will meet Friday; with -
‘federal and Alberta-officials in Saskatoori to decide:thé. :
‘future ‘of the. company’s proposed. $3.6-billion. hea\

financing: are the keys for’ Husky's decision on ‘the’

- ‘The Canadian dollar edged back above. 80. cents US}
“foreign exchange markets after, alipping in opening | tr a
under pressure from.tliing U.S. interest tates. The dollar °

- - eontinued its week-long: slide {o open at 70.94 cents U.9.;;
based Clayton Research, ‘Associates Ltd, says’ ‘rent. controls“:
should he abolished and Ottawa should Brovide si subsidies to.

it
“regained strength to close at 80,14 cents. Economist warned a
the downwatd trend many eoatinue. a

| Police ‘Beat:

UESTION: ‘CanI make é a right turn ona redlight? !
ANSWER: Yes, yoir can providing that you do:80 In ac- :
cordiince ‘with Section 194(2) of the Motor, Vehicle Act... In. -°
essence this section states’ that when approaching any in"
‘tersection facing a red ‘light and wishing to make’a right

“turn on the red light, the driver must come to a full stop:
“The driver ‘mist ‘also yleld the right of way. to all

pedestrians and vehicles thet are proceeding lawfully. ag :

’ ‘directed by’the signal at the intersectlon,

~ ‘Phis only applies locally and may vary from area to.area:

or district to district, Generally if right turns on red lights

legal or illegal that fact will be well posted at most inajor

_ intersections controlled by traffic lights, -

“QUESTION; Isit necessary to signal each time y you mae

‘a lane change?

ANSWER: Yes, according to Section 155(¢) of the Moter
Vehicle Act: "A driver who is driving a vehicle on a laniéd”
roadway shali not drive it from one lane to another without
first signalling his intention to do #9 by hand and arm or

‘approved mechanical device..." - Vo
“process, ‘he Newfoundland: Fishermen,: Food ‘and, Allied. -

If you have any queationa you would like to. asic of the -
fhow, RCMP, please contact the: Crime Prevention Unit,’ ‘
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~ Stargate :
by Brian oie99

” Who benefits from Kemano I.

In the story of the construction of the Tower of Babel we
" are told that they had brick for atone and slime for mortar,
“In our day we'd say they built their pyramid construction
-with inferior and cheap building materials, But the Tower °
- really represented the society of the times, which brings us,
to Kemano Hl.

Stable industry provides asolid foundation from which to. °
build from. My parents moved to the Terrace area in 1951
because they heard” about Kitimat. The’ north Was
“developing and would be a place they could bring up the
‘kids, Isn’t that what everybody wants? Some place stable.
in which to bring'up thelr kids?

_ Terrace grew slightly because.of that decision, Infact |
when you think aboutit Kitimat was the only real industrial -
‘development that took place during the 1950s and 19608,"
Kitimat found new stability in the early 1960s with. Alcan
and that’s when Terrace’s population doubled, One could _.
say-that Alcan generated the kind of atmosphere in the —
northwest that madeit possible for people to move here. ;

- What's happened in the area in the lest 90 years, “In- -
" dustriaily, not much. En the last five years we've seen some .
action [n the northwest but Terrace still plods along with it's

. mills. Take Alean away and we might be lucky if we have

8,000 people left. It's a fact.

’ Now they want to add Kemano II. We've heard about
some environmental damage. But let’s look at reality here.
We are talking about a wildlife habitat Involving 15 square.
-miles.to make up the reservoir. It seems to me thata lot of
“people who are crying wolf now over Kemano:Il have.
probably taken over more than 15 square miles of wildlife
habitat just building their homes.

When a bear comes around seme of the homes in the :
wilderness some of ‘these environmental expeits: think.
- nothing of getting their guns out.: They certainly don't in-
_:¥ite them in for a Big Mac and berry pie. Now who is. en- .

as " eroaching on whom?’
” ‘The grandfathers of loday's fishermen took their com- |”

“I was just looking for a good log full of ants when this:
hippy shot me,” quoth the bear. “Never more. Never
more,” quoth the raven, —.

“When the peraon wants to settle on the land that’s’ all
right. When industry wants to take over a: few miles of
wilderness it is made to eound like the crime of the century.
~ But stick arotind and oneor two people add up. Pretty soon
_ whole bxinches of peoples are out there kicking over the

- j bear's lunch counter to build thelr” dreamhome log cabin in

2 the woods,
a!"It's not the same thing.””.

“Ah, but it is, As the good Dector would say, “wel ve. been
led up the garden path so we can't see the forest-for the ,
, frees.” I expect that, except for some of the folks down at
" the Happy Gang Center, people like you,and 1 wouldn't be
bere if it wasn't for Alcan”, *--. .

‘A kind of slime has crépt into our ‘thinking, And how do
"you build a society with a rock foundation if you don't: use

> mortar, Unless you really want the syétem built on bricks,

That way. their tongues become confused with so many -
different views the people just-end up babbling at: each
other, accomplish nothing, provide nothing for their
_ children and. generally become suspicious of each other,
Soon the whole éystem falls apart because there is nothing
there to hold ‘it together.

We can take the lessons of history and build something
worthwhile, or we can, as they sald at the Tower: "Babble

“Three Newfoundlanders,” declared the e capllons~~- ae OD | brother. "