Page 4, The Herald, Monday, September 24, 1979

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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Editor's note: The following letter Is being sent to
those who did contribute to the recent fall fair here.
We reprint it here became we feel that just sending it
out to thoge who were involved in even a small way is
preaching to the converted. If you would Like to see the
fall fair here continue it needs your suppert,

Dear Exhibitor:

On behalf of the Skeena
Valley Fairs Association, 1
would like to thank you for
participating in the Fall
Fair, Your involvement in
the fair helped to display the
crafts, produce and animals
of the area and helped to
educate the public in this
fleld.

Unfortunately, the number
of exhibits in the Hor-
ticultural building were
lower this year than
previous year. The
vegetable entries were down
by almost %, the canning
and baking entries were
down by 1-3 and the
photography entries were
down by 44. Also the poultry
entries were down by 2-3.

The fair association
members feel that this lack
of interest and the low
membership in the
association combine to
discourage vs from holding a
fair next year. We feel the
fair is a fun family occasion
and will be sorry to see it

opel a

end, :
To be able to continue it, .

we need more mem-
bers(many hands make light
work") to help and to offer
ideas to encurage more
exhibit entries, We need
regular members to help
organize and plan the time to
help assemble the books,
write tags, ete and to assist
the judges, set up the Hor-
ticulture building, collect
gate money, etc. on the fair
weekend. Young teenagers

are also invited to join to
help with the organization
and planning of the
children’s section, pet show
ete.

We realize many people
are involved in other ac-
tivities, however if the fair ls
important to you, please give
us some of your time and
help to continue the fair and
to make it a success. The
declaion whether or not to
have a falr next year will be

in’ made within the next couple

of meetings because the
planning for it must start in
the next few months.

The next regular meeting
(the first Monday of every
month) will be Monday,
October 1 at 4:00 P.M., at the
Thornhill Junior Secondary
Schoo! in the Ubrary.

If you and your family
enjoyed the fair and want it
to continue, (as we 40),
please show your support, If
substantial support in not
shown, the falr will
definately be cancelled next
year. The small number of
pédple © Who are now
members will not undertake
to hold the fair again unless
this support can be found.

For more Information
‘;phone:Lena Chapplow-635-
$740, Sharon Ansems-635-
4870, Thora Arnold-Smith-
635-4082

Yours truly,

Ed Capplow,
President

Skeena -Vailey,

Association: fe

Falra

COMMENT

BY DON SCHAFFER

When will we learn? When will we ever learn?

Itseems that asa group, the human race is hell-bent
on destroying itself, piece by piece if not at a single
crack,

The second bombing attack in a month occured
Wednesday in Jerusalem. At least one innocent
shopper was killed and several others were critically
injwed in a terrorist attack which proved and ac-
complished nothing, except the hardening of the
Israeli will to never negotiate with the PLO

Such attacks are counter-productive. They gain no
sympathy for the cause of the guerrillas, but rather
only horrify and appall uninvolved parties. They do
not weaken the attacked, wspecially when the at-
tacked party is Israel, or, in the case of the Mount-
batten assassination, the British. —

Insuch “activities,” an abhorrent euphemism, the
ends are supposed to justify the means, but they do
not. By carrying out terrorist murders and so-called
“political executions, the PLO and the IRA forfiet the
justness of their causes, and their causes were just.

But reasonable people do not kill each other.
Human beings who really care about each other do not
randomly massacre each other in marketplaces. Nor
do they atomize harmless old men on pleasure cruises.

Nor do they hire outsiders to spray other outsiders
with machine-gun bullets in airports, or slaughter
athletes at sporting events, or hold children hostages
on airplanes.

Are we doomed to make the same mistakes we have
always made, over and over again, until we finally
annihilate each other in an atomic Armageddon? We
fancy ourselves reasonable people. Why can't we act
like we are?

REMEMBER WHEN

Marlene Stewart of defeated Joanne Gunderson
Fonthill, Ont., made a great two and one, ad the US.
comeback to win the US. title to the Canadian

women’s open amateur golf women's open and closed
tite 23 years ago «3° = —I1n crowns. She won the British
1956 — at Indianapolis. Four women’s amateur the
down after 25 holes, Marlene previous season.

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Japan go

creasing number of people

By MUNEAKI MORTIA

TOKYO (Reuter) — After
centuries of .. eating
traditional food such as raw
fish and rice, the Japanese
are developing an insatiable
appetite for Western dishes.

The development ts in line
with changes in clothing
habits and sports. Denima
and French haute-couture
designs are increasingly
replacing the kimono, and
baseball} and rugby football
are gaining devotees.

But nowhere is this
newest-isbest syndrome
more pronounced than in
food, especially fast food
provided by chicken, french
fries and hamburger chains.

Most rain streets af Tokyo
and other big cities have

liberal sprinklings of these”

chains along with
restaurants serving
anything from British roast
beef and Spanish Paella to
French Bouillabaisse and
Turkish kebabs.

There are two main
reasons for the trend.
Western-style cooking is
more acceptable to those
bern after the war — more
than half of the country's 115
million people — and the in-

WHITLASH, Mont. (CP)
— Perched near the
Canadian border = in
Montana, the Sweetgrass
Hills are a mystery to many

people. .

Located about 150
kilometres southeast of
Lethbridge, Alta., the hills
do not le along any major
highways. Nor are there any
patks or public campsites
there. As a result, they
generally are bypassed by
casual travellers.

Tt wasn't always so. The
Sweetgrass Hills, rising
nearly 1,000 metres out of the
awrounding plain, were once
a popular gathering place for
Indlans.

Hugh A. Dempsey,
director of history for the
Glenbow-Alberta Institute in
Calgary, saya the hills were
almost neutral ground as
Blackfoot, Blood, Peitan,
Kootenai, Pend d'Oreille,
Assiniboine, Crow and Sioux
Indians frequented the area
without major skirmlahes.

The area's history is not
without bloodshed, however.
In the early 1960s, a group of
Pend ‘Oreilles was
attacked by Crees and
Assinibolnes, reaulting in 45
Pend d'Oreille casualties
and the logs of 200 horses,

In 1872, a white wolf hunter
and whisky trader named

_ Thomas Hardwick came

upon a group of Assinibolnes
camped near the hills. He
and his cohorts opened fire
without warning, killing four
Indians and wounding 10.

“For decades this was the
land of the Blackfoot,"* Dem-
peey writes in Montana: The
Magazine of Western
History, “The hills were a
refuge for war parties and
medicine men seeking holy
dreams.”

Dempsey says the Indiana’

.pecount, ‘

‘adventurous,

‘reflects

who travel overseas.
Another factor is that
families, following a mass
migration to big citles in the
1950s and early 19603 at the
start of Japan’s economic
boom, have become smaller.
Families with two or three
children find it financially
possible to eat aut, especially
when the time and cost of
preparing an elaborate meal
at home is taken Into

. These families, which are

becoming more and more
also are
fascinated by the wun-
Japanese and often
elaborate decor in Western
reataurants and chain
groups.

Last year, restaurants and
other eating places in Japan
did business totalling the
equivalent of $45lbillion,
which outstripped total
sales, Including exports, of
va sanese cars by about $20

On,

The high sales figure
not only the
popularity of eating out, but
also the high cost of visiting
restaurants in Japan. | -»

‘traditional Yakiteri (grilled -

NEW FOOD
es Western now .

A meal for four at a
French restaurant with only
one bottle of wine usually
costs upwards of $200. One
plate of beef starts at about

Mushrooming growth of
what the Japanese call the
eating-out industry began
nearly a decade-ago when
America’s Kentucky Fried
Chicken and MeDonald’s
hamburger chains set up
their first shops among

chicken and vegetables on
sticks) and Sashimi (raw
fish) parlors,

McDonald's now has 162
shops with annual sales of
$146 million. Kentucky Fried |
Chicken has 203 outlets and
yearly sales of about $81 mil-

on,

But the two American
chains are not at the top of
the takeout league. The
largest fast food group in

’ Japan is Nippon Shokudd,

which last year recorded
sales of $184 million.
Nippon Shokudo has 126
restaurants, mostly at major
railway stations, The second
largest ‘Japanese chain’ in

PLACE OF PEACE
The Sweetgrass mystery

association of the
supernatural with the hills
also was reflected in their
use of nearby Writingon-
Stone Provincial Park in Al-
berta.

White men firat became

- aware of the hills around

1800. The explorer La
Verendrye named te hills
‘Les Trois Butes although he
never saw them and only
learned of them from
Indlans,

Peter Fiddler, a Hudson's
Bay Co. trader who visited

the Oldman River near the
end of the 18th century, saw
the hills in the distance and
named them Three Paps.

More attention waa paid to
the hills in the 18703 when
members of the boundary
survey party explored the
area.

It was gold that brought
white men to the area in
numbers, Four men

. discogered gold in the fall of

1884 and began further
prospecting the next spring.
As word got out, more gold

The real oldies

TORONTO (CP) — If the
current trends in music
aren't toyour liking, then the
news of a new shop's opening

here may be music to your |

ears.

An amazing assortment of
rare records, Victrolas,
sheet music and other
memorabilia — dating from
the turn of the century to the
Elvis era — is available at
One More Time.

The shop is John Black's
solution for a 10-year-old

record collection that got out _

of hand. Along the way, he
established a music mail
order catalogue business,
and finally reailzed that the
value of his records had
increased to $30,060) from

000,

The store stocks several
variations on the basic black
vinyL disc. There also are
cylinder recordings, sur-
vivors of the '2ts, which are
played on ecrankup Edison
machines.

Little Wonders, shellac-
coated five-inch discs which
reel out ragtime at 7ar.p.m.,
also are up for grabs.

And. if vou want something

.even smaller, the Talking
Book Collection offers three-
inch storybook records
‘which originally were used
by blind ‘children.

The record assortment
ranges from offbeat tunes to
golden oldies,
~The Stuttering Klansman.
is a real callector’s item — a
rare recording in 4 series’
about those infamous men in:
white. ;

Pore and simple nostalgia,
like Bing Crosby's ite
Christmas and Al Jolson's
Mammy, also are within
earshot. ‘

The Victrola selection is
expanding rapidly and Black
expects the store will have to
grow to accommodate these
“talking machines.”

Music buffs will be in-
terested in the extensive
book department which
carries both new music
publications and those out of
print.

Trivia collectors will be
shle te choose from hin-
dreds of pieces of original
sheet music, including The
Good Ship Lollipop and The
Wizard of- Oz.

“an American

terms of revenue is Keto
Zushi, which sells take-away
Sushi — a ball of rice with a
slice of raw fish — at about
1,500 sheps. -

Fast food was not entirely
Invention,
according to Japanese
calerera.

Take-out Sushi was estab-

lished before the advent in.

Japan of the McDonalds-
Kentucky Fried Chicken era.
There also were chaina of
shops selling a so-called beef
bowl — a bow! of tice topped
with beef cooked with sliced
onion in soyabean sauce,
gake (rice wine) and sugar.

Immediately after the two
American chains came to
Japan, the Yoshinoya chain
expanded its beef bowl

business froin11 shopé to234 *~
$82 million. .
Yoshinoya also has

expanded into the United
States and now has 1 shops
In Loa Angeles, Denver and
other cities,

The Japanese chain, which
last year sold §1.5 million
worth of food in the United
States, plans to open about
1960 more shope in cltles,

including San: Frangisco, .
Folate ‘i

New York and

OTTAWA
OFFBEAT

BY RICHARD JACKSON:

Ottawa,- Art Phillips, the smoothie’ 4s-year-old
former mayor of Vancouver and the new Liberal MP
for Vancouver Centre, is a difficult man to discourage.

He didn't expect to come out of the election, he
shrugs, as the only Liberal west of Manitoba~and then
only by a fingernail margin of less than 100 votes.

“But the Trudeau wipeout in the West has done little
more to him personally than delay his plans which
include becoming finance minister when the party
makes it back into power ‘‘where it historically
belongs,"he says.

While he's modest enough to confess he has no firm
feel on the timing of the Liberal comeback beyond a
mushy guess-wish that “it could take us a couple of
elctions, maybe five years,” he lacks no confidence in
his credentials to handle Finance, Treasury Board,
Industry Trade and Commerce or any other economic
portfolio.

You can’t be mayor of Vancouver without an in-
stinct for financial management, and Art Phillips can
odd to his qualifications for Finance Minister his
founding of two sizeable investment and counselling
firms.

Elections are mostly a matter of timing, he says,
and the Liberals went into this last loser like punch-
drunk finghters thelr co-ordination shot.

Had they gone a year earlier, in the Spring or even
ag late as the Fall of 1978 when “Trudeau was still bot
and Joe Clark yet just a kid,” things would have been
different. .

“But we let the clock run out. We had spent too
much, pushed too hard on hilingualism,m ade a lot of
‘ponehead decisions and after 16 years the public was
tired suddenly of Liberal rule. It was the wrong time
and the public was in a hostile mood, ready, even to
take a chance on Joe Clark.”

So now what?

And how does Art Phillips figure to become Finance
Minister.

By rebuilding the party, with what he feels is a
strong personal following in Vancouver, all across

Time and Joe Clark are on hisside, eroding what he
admits is “public animosity"to the Liberals.

Nobody yet, says Art Phillips, has repealed the old
political law that the governing party starts losing the
day it wins power. . Poon,

It todk the Liberals 18 years to do it.

But he figures the still disorganized Conservatives
can accomplish it a lot faster; comuli 1.

He feels that the Conservatives have misread the
election signals.

Like the Liberals and New Democrats they knew the
voters were swinging right-but not as far right as the
Tories seem to be taking them.

This Tory swing to the right has"opened some room
inthe middle," he says,” and that’s where we come in.

“Right down the middle of the road between the
Conservatives and the New Democrats, as the party of
the people.

“The party that has always led the way in social
jistice-leaders because we so regulatly have held the

-Oullets with annual sales. of-.. sawer—but still the party of private enterprise, of the

small businessman, the majority party with room to
spare for minorities.”

Unlike a number of Liberals, Art Phillips is strong
for Pierre Trudeau as leader.

“We are not Conservatives, we don't repudiate our
leaders on the first setback.”

So now~or even next spring-is ‘the wrong time for
a leadership convention.”’

Fair play and the Liberal tradition dictate that

- Bitideau be given ‘a decent chance, time to settle in
06 leaderbf the Opposition." 5 es: ex, 7

When the time comes for that convention, you get
the feeling even now that a man with the drive of Art
Phillips, having any kind of a western power base,
imay want to be more than a member of the cabinet.

Ancient answers

By BARRY RENFREW _ Baird remembers growing
ONA, W.Va. (AP) — Fer up with herbal medicine and

yeara, Frank Baird's sharp
gaze has studied the rolling
hills and twisting valleys of
When the area was deter- Appalachia, searching for
mined to be part of the rare plants and herbs whose
Blackfoot reservation, the secrets and comforts have
commissioner of Endlan been sought across the
affairs ordered miners off, centuries and around half
but “troops sent in to carry the world.
out the eviction apparently Baird ia a herb and root
sided with the miners.” buyer., He gathers a crop
Finally, around 1890, most that is harvested by people
of the gold had disappeared. whose skill and knowledge of
So did gold fever. Mining the land was acquired from
was tried again in the 19%s3 Indians and passed down
but stopped after a coupleof through families that have
frultless seasons, -lived in- the hills for
Thé hills also offered generations.
refuge to, Northwest ‘We're back to the
Mounted Pollce deserters medicinedoctor up here," he
and four ‘‘skedaddlers’' says. .
from the area, says Leth: Baird buya Kansas snake
bridge historian Jim root, blue vervain herb, wild
Cousins. A skedaddler was plum bark, queen of the
one who ran up debts and meadow root, slippery elm
skipped out without paying. bark, May apple root and a
A few foundations, piles of hundred other plants.
rotting lumber and rusting Often, just one or two
debris still mark the former people know the secluded
seltlement of Gold Butte. Old spots where the plants can be
mining machinery can still found.
be seen. The towndied inthe | The secret of his business
19400 when the general store has been finding where a
there closed. sertain plant {8 prized and
Elsie Demerest of then finding someone who
Whitlash, a small hamlet can gather it. Black cohosh
between Gold Butte and East root is shipped to West
Butte, say’ she remembers Germany where It is used as
the store in Gold Butte as a 4 cough syrup, Scullcap root
well-stocked place. is used to relieve stomach
“The atore in Whitlash aches in the Caribbean; and
only had groceries,’ she ginseng is taken by many in
recalls. “The Gold Butte the Orient to revive flagging,
store had everything from passions.

seekers arrived and began
mining the middle butte, still
known as Gold Butte.

the remedies that many
rural families, who often
could afford nothing else,
used to cure their ailments —
stomach aches, headaches
and fevers. Sometimes the
medicines were taken
simply to ease weary
muscles after a long day,
Many people still practise
this traditional form of
healing that predates the
rise of modern medicine, he
notes,
His customers are not
cranks, however. Indeed, his
biggest clients are phar-
maceutical companies who
combine the wild flowers and
herba with drugs to cure
countless ailments,

The farmers and hunters -
who bring: Baird plants and
Toots spend years learning
the skills of the herb-
gatherer. Sdbme of his
gatherers are descendants of
families who have roamed
southern West Virginla for
decades,

And many of them gather

lants to supplement the
lvings they wrest from their
hilly farms,

“It’s as hard as anything
anyone's ever done,” he
saya.

A number of people who
dropped out of society's’
mainstream and settled in
Appalachia during the 1980s
have brought fresh blood in!
the business.

groceries to dry goods to
clothing. There was a nice
town there. Besides the
store, thera was & Bever-oT
eight-room hotel and three or
four saloons.”
Darrel Krum,county agent .

in Shelby, says the hills

toda favorlte spot for I
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and“we get a lot of | Style andlength. All letters to be considered for
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