Wr orerraen This Weekend . | PRIVINCTAL | 1BRaRy ; a | PARLTIAVENT phos | VICTORIA Bo CITIZENS BAND | VOLUME 72 NO. 46 + ~ Douctias | \ CHANN fears SY | # : REALTY Terrace: Trades Yet yo LTD. KITIMAT RADIO & TV Lower City Centre Mall 632-2024 ‘th Sérving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1977 4 TERRACE, B.C. 369 City Centre “DEAL WITH 32-4721 KITIMAT Kitimat: THE FRIENDLY FOLK Ses Rosner EN on soar otras e Nctesach By JoAnne Ames Herald Staff Writer to Richard “Supervisor of Special “Services at the Terrace ‘School Board Office, the program is mot a srevolutionary idea. Most districts in. the _ north, excluding Terrace’s . District 88, have been sTunning such programs as a part of their curriculum %for quite some time. In. :fact, a similar. kind of Zalternative to the Workk “Experience program has Sheen offered to a few i students from both = Caledonia and Thornhill it Secondary schools. = “It's being done right now in a very quiet, suc- 2s Parker. e seven or eight students, oq Pa s : out each year working in the community. = That is what the Work % Experience program is “designed to do: get students out into “real” # jobs in the community as a part of their educational © process. It broadens their = understanding of both the labour market and their = own talents and interests. & There are two major differences. between the other programs in other = districts and the quietly = schools here. The first is es Audy Barr, an enthusiastic i teacher from Skeena Jr. = high school who is coor- dinating the trial run of the * program. He has spent a = lot of time and energy on & the program, and is hoping % to see it work so that the school board will consider ng it with a full-time students who may well e drop out of school or who &may not finish grade % twelve,” said Parker. If the rogram can provide ea and interesting .work = for the students involved, : they may stay in school... . = Let's face it, school can be are being taught doesn’t = seem to be leading you to SSany goal. Shown are three of the students on the Work Ex- perience program being run by Audy Barr as a pilot project for School District §8. Barr hopes that the School Board will consider running the program full dme next year for students 16 years old. All the New job op This year's work Ex- _ prience programs a pilot... . - S cessful way,” said Richard - x Caledonia has- Thornhill has two or three — running one in some of the - S pretty boring if what you - ‘Front page feature: Bare ; a . ay ee The program is not a job - replacement service, nor is it career training for everyone. Barr, the teacher in charge of the pilot project says the program, even if it is accepted for next year b the school board, ‘'...will not become a part of every student’s right as a secondary student,” The focus of the program is not, and probably will not be students who are (having: no difficulty pulling down high marks in school,’’ says Richard Parker. - " “The focus is on students ‘who are having difficulty with the academics.” If the program is approved, it will not be a part of everyone’s education. — Parker voices his major concern with the “high risk” students again. “We hope the program will be the prelude to something bigger for students, and for the schools.” This year is a test run to get the reaction of the public, the employers, and the unions to the program. If it goes well, a -request will be made for the program to continue next year on a larger scale, with a full-time coordinator. It will include Skeena Jr., Caledonia Sr. and Thor- nhill high schools, What would the job of . coordinator entail? Barr told me what he has done and is doing, and it sounds ’ like a handful. He initially found positions for students with local em- loyers. There were very Few problems finding j areas for students in the eben . the program enjoys suc- cess,”’ says Barr, ‘‘is because of the response we've had from the business community. The - program was very well received. Businesses have been pleased with the concept. I only have 9 or 10 students out, but 1 could have placed 150.” —. After finding positions, Barr selected students. A certain level of maturity . and responsibility is required for the , job program. No only must students be able to fulfull their responsibilities to . employers, but they ‘are also expected to keep up _ with the work that has gone on in their morning classes while they were at their job site. They must attend their afternoon classes, and keep up with all their school work - Students spend half the _ day at the job. Some of. them have to be at their. jobs by eight in the mor- ning. Barr drives them to the job sites and picks them up again at noon. Each Monday, students change jobs so that by the end of the program, they have done 4 or 5 different jobs. On Monday mor- nings, Audy takes the time to introduce students to the work they will be doing and the people they will be working with during the following week. - While the students are in their afternoon classes, and at various other times during the day, Barr visits the job areas to “...ensure that the students are fulfilling their obligations, and that their work site-is providing a_ learning. SSS ASEH ee eee aig -see the job evaluations TeparerazeretacececatetaTets’s wate a PTR PataleTetatetetetnTatetstan alates . &e tote £m s ‘] we ss ae Sha RY Er alba nen be Ge : . . : he . a Oe we - & “= oe . Students are considered employees of the Crown for the purpose of the program and so are protected by the Worker’s Compensation Board on the job, Shown are students at work for Finning Tractor, and the Ministry of Transport at the Terrace-Kitimat. Airport,. portunities TIER ES RRS Se situation for them.” Es “This allows % -rather than waiting until % the end of the program.” -& At the end of each week, each student evaluates i himself. ' Theses evaluations are compared with those of the employer, 3 so that the student can¢: become aware of his or her ¢: potential in that job area. & When I asked if stuents given of them by thes employers, barr said, "Yes, but only at the end of the program." 2 The idea of the program = | is to familiarize thes students with the kinds of 3 jobs available to them: later in life. ‘many: . students-choose a vocation;: not on the basis of their: interests, but their ex-# posure to jobs. And theirs exposure is mainly to their®: own families and, their occupations. We're: providing some different’ exposure.” e ‘The students are aware: of opportunities and jobs: that they didn’t even t! ink# existed before.”’ The students are at a level ing the school system---grades 10---when they have tot: make a decision about iff they want to be ons technical, academic, ore vocational programs. Andi of course, they are allowed: to quit school after grade ten. the program might: change their directions. = “The response of thes: students has been very keen,” says Barr, “They've shown a lot of: enthusism for the , jobs} they've Keen placed in."& ® Ps fs felaletaratersretanvntatete’gtgterstetetatete atatatatetatetatatetetatatate ats it “the . _ it. was..an apparent show. - of determination by Begin to © to make the Wes 5 eee | WEST BANK — - Begin pledges to retain land. Right-winger — now in control .KKADDUM, West Bank (AP) — Right-wing leader Menahem Begin, fresh from. victory in Israel’s national: = elections, journeyed to the West Bank of the Jordan. River on Thursday and proclaimed the occupied territory ‘‘the land of liberated Israel.” : Meanwhile, Shimon Peres, head of the defeated Labor party, told a meeting of party leaders in Tel Aviv he was rejecting Begin's invitation for Labor to join with Begin’s fourparty - Likud bloc to form a coa- lition government. The largest contingent in the Israeli Parliament, the Likud, is a. minority and must find coalition partners to forma majority govern- ment headed by Begin. The Likud leader visited an unauthorized Jewish settlement at Kaddum, midway between Tel Aviv and the Jordan, and promised there would be many such settlements in future. fulfill his campaign promise Bank, captured from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, part of Israel. . The defeated Labor government had viewed the possible return of much of the West. Bank as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a per- manent Middle East peace, and the Arabs have demanded return of all of the West Bank as part of a new Palestinidn state. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, three Arab leaders— presidents Hafez Assad of Syria and Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia— met Thursday to discuss their next moves in light of the rightwing triumph in Israel. Arab commentators said. Likud's victory meant war preparations must take . recedence .over peace initiatives. Begin received an emotional welcome from the 200 Jews living in huts and house trailers at Kaddum. “We stand on the land of liberated Israel, settled and made flowering by the wonderful pioneers and workers of the soil,’’ he declared. Begin told the crowd he wanted ‘‘at this time to tell our neighbors (West Bank Arabs) that we want to live with them in peace, mutual respect and prosperity ... We donot want to dispossess a single one of them.’ Former Lt.-Gen. Ariel: Sharon, a hero of the 1973 Middle East war, ac- companied Begin here and said Tuesday’s Israeli national election showed that “the West Bank is a part of Israel and we will stay here forever.’”’ Sharon is expected to be in. the Likud cabinet. The settlers came here in December 1975 in defiance of the now-defeated Labor government's polic prohibiting new. Jewis communities ‘in the Arab- populated hinterland of the West Bank. . sources sai Weather Sdany with cloudy periods in the afternoon; Saturday, cloudy with occasional showers in the afternoon, and possible clearing for Sunday and Monday, At the Labor party meeting in Tel Aviv, Peres, who has been acting prime minister, won prolonged _ applause wheg he listed his reasons for rebuffing Be- gin’s bid for a Likud-Labor coalition, including Likud’s uncompromising position on the West Bank. Official results of Tuesday’s voting were not expected for several days but it appeared that Liku had won between 41 and 43 seats, and Labor 33 or 34, That left Likud at least 18 seats short of a majority in the 120-seat Israeli Parliament, the Knesset. Earlier Thursday, Begin opened preliminary con- tacts. with such potential coalition Faligioe “as the lation: ous party, which won about a dozen seats, and two small ultra- orthodox Jewish factions. But hard bargaining was not expected until next week, after the Jewish festival of Pat the Riyadh ting : e adh mee di Assad ant Sadat were expected to push Prince Fahd to use his oil- rich kingdom's economic clout to persuade the United States to apply pressure on the new Israeli government. _ “The emergence of an arrogant hard-line govern- ment in Israel leaves the Arabs no alternative but to ‘prepare for war,” the conservative Kuwait newspaper Al Qabas said in a commentary that seemed to echo much of-the Arab world’s reaction to the Likud victory. . Jordan's prime minister, Mudar Badran, issued a “statement Thursday saying Israel “should either with- draw from occupied territories or take the con- sequences of slamming the peace decor shut.” Fair ‘Delta King _ Days . TSpRacReRreRERe Column ONG sisiesesss Sas Change of stance. saunas By ANDREW PETTER Herald staff writer MLA Cyril Shelford’s ‘Kitimat Pipeline Questionnaire” is more a Sign of a politician running scared than it is of someone concerned ‘about public input. Surely Shelford is not - so naive as to suspect that the results of his questionnaire will be at all representative or carry any credibility. What for example is to stop one side or the other picking up a few hundred of the questionnaires and filling them out on behalf of its members. Nothing. And given the degree of sentiment about the oil port-pipeline issue, this is probably just what will -happen. If the results come out in favour of a pipeline, environmental groups will claim that the questionnaires . Stacked by pipeline “advocates. If, on the other band, they show an_anti- pipeline sentiment, local business groups will allege that pipeline op- ponents rigged the responses. Just who is Mr. Shelford trying to kid? The public already knows how Mr. Shelford feels about the oil port- pipeline issue — he favours it, Presumably, Mr. Shelford based this - opinion on strongly-held, well-reasoned con- victions; otherwise he would have reserved his ‘judgement until after were .- environmental studies and public hearings. . But he did not do so. Why then is he all of a sudden so concerned about community input? Either :Mr. Shelford should have reserved personal judgement from the beginning or he should stick with his own convictions — he cannot have it both ways. His present position is reminiscent of ‘a politician who once said: “If you don’t like my principles, don't worry, I can change them.” All of which leaves one with the distinct taste that Mr. Shelford’s primary concern is promoting a question- naire is not to get responsible public input - hopefully the Thompson hearings will do that - but rather to give the sem- blance of being open- minded and concerned. Perhaps Mr, Shelford is finally realizing that his gung-ho, ‘develop everything’ position is not as popular as he had expected. Perhaps he is beginning to understand that the environment is a precious resource to be preserved - not a com- munity to be sold to the highest bidder. If so, he should admit the error of his earlier position and inform the public of what he now believes. Not hide behind a-gimicky questionnaire. But, then again, perhaps he is just trying to win back votes. Let’s hope not. ee RTO OCU SS AMID BITT ERNESS tit SnD eevee fate ahs ACN ec ecuetecae recetatetaaete aatatatatatatolatatatstatatstitetat alataleteleetetete Postal talks end OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said Thursday it has broken off contract talks with the post office because the gov- ernment is bypassing union executives and going directly to the members. “Today, the spokesman for the employer informed us that the employer would continue to distribute in- formation concerning negotiations directly te our membership but would not allow the union’s bulletin to be distributed during lunch breaks and rest periods,” said JeanClaude Parrot. Nothing secretive about work study VANCOUVER (CP) —. Harold Wilson, the man named Wednesday at the royal commission into British Columbia Rallway as the labor consultant who wanted to. “demolish the hierarchy of B.C, Rail,” sald Wednesday that he is “no wild revolutionary.” Wilson, speaking in a tele- phone intervieq from his Ot- fawa home, said he is a chartered accountant and now is director of ad- ministration at the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, the inuit Arctic land claims organization. Mac Norris, _ chief executive officer of BCR, told the royal commission ednesday that Wilson was introduced to him in 1974 by former labor minister Bill: King as an expert in indus- Oe ee a ya a ee trial democracy. He said that three months later Wilson left because of the kind of shakeup he was trying to engineer in the BCR heirarchy. Wilson, who said he was an Ottawa-based labor consultant, chose BCR from a number of Crown cor- rations, King said needed Pelp with industrial re- lations. Wilson said demolish was “too emotion’ a word for what he tried te accomplish at BCR. “There had been oblems on B.C. Railway or years and the problem seemed tobe that they had a very rigid hierarchy,” Wilson said. ‘My job was to try to break ‘down that hierarchy.” a ee ar, ee, ae ee Negotiations adjourned only an hour after they started Thursday. Parrot said at a later news con- ference the union will not return to the bargaining table until the public service staff relations board has ruled on the question of whether the union has the right to distribute literature in the post office. Technological change is a major issue in dispute, with CUPW demanding iron-clad guarantees that its mem- bers will not be adversely affected by changes in the pest office. Parrot said that post | office negotiators told the union Thursday “that many of our demands are no negotiable.” Parrot said itis obvious to the union officials that the t office was not prepared negotiate seriously with the union. The union, which represents 23,000 mail sorters and postal clerks, Says it is not opposed to changes which will improve the efficiency of the post office but its members must be protected. CUPW wants the right to veto any technological | changes unless agreement is reached between the two parties, .