Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, November, 15, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald — General Office - 435-4357 Circulation - 635-6157 . The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published Reproduction is not parmitied without the written permission of the Publisher. . GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middieton ‘ CIRCULATION - TERRACE - 635-6357 : KITIMATOFFICE -632-2747, Published every weekday at 1212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized an second classy mail. Registration number 1201, Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTICEOFCOPYRIGHT . Published by’ Sterling Publishers In the Herald, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | Dear Mr. Coupland, Tne Terrace Parks and Recreation Depariment would like to thank the Herald for donating 2 rolJs of newaprint to be used for {making costumes at the 2nd ;Annual Pumpkin |Costume Party. The event . {WSS a great success with 160- 3175 children coming out to {carve their pumpkin and ‘make a costume, , We really appreciate your ‘help in providing material ‘for the costumes. - Thanks again. Sincerely, TerriCerolini, Assistant Program Co-. ordinator. ‘ Dear Sir: The Northwest Regional Arts Council would ap- preciate your giving us the opportunity | through your Letters to the Editor section to publicly express our gratitude to the organizations that helped us with the recent Artists-In- Residence program. We would especially like to thank Alcan in Kitimat, Cancel in Terrace and Kitwanga, and Fishermen's Co-operative Association in Prince Rupert for their financial support; also we received a grant from the B.C. Cultural Services Branch, Without — this dreds . of financial support it would have been impossible to conduct the program. The program was highiy successful. It involved two weeks of concerts and workshops given by the York Winds instrumental en- semble, an internationally recognized group of five very accomplished musicians trom Toronto, With the help of the Kitimat, Terrace and Prince Rupert School Districts, workshops were arranged for several hun- aur young musicians; ‘concerts’ were ‘given for school groups in Prince Rupert, Port Simp- -son, Terrace, Kitimat and Hazelton, and evening performances for the general public were presented in Kitimat, Terrace, and Prince Rupert. We would like to thank the Kitimat and Prince Rupert Concert Associations for their support in arranging the concerts, The success of the program, which was a first for the Northwest region of .the province, will certain! ‘encourage the-Regional Arts Counci] to seriously consider other ‘artists-in-residence programs in the future, Yours sincerely Val Gearge Secretary Northwest Regional Arts Council CONSUMER. _ Read any good contracts lately? More to the did you understand what you read? - COMMENT. | Bist vn BY ee point... If you've ever bought a house or a car, borrowed money, applied for a credit card or purchased on the installment plan, you've signed a contract. How many times did you completely underdtand what you were Of course you knew that signing your name would result in your obtaining the goods. You almost cer- tainly knew how much the monthly payments were going to be. ; 7 , It doesn’t take all those paragraphs of closely- spaced type, however, just to state the cost of the goods and the amount of each payment. The reat of that forest of legal jargon, with its clumps of “heretofores", ‘wherenses’’ and ‘‘party-of-the first- parts”, ls not there merely to fill-up the rest of the page. Your obligations to the vendor gre belng spelled out, and you'd better know exactly, what they are or you could receive an unpleasant shock later on. Practically everyone would ares, ‘gf, one should not signa contract without reading it, yet it’s amazing how many people do just that. Or they skip over the parts they don’t understand, accepting the salesman’s assurance that everything Is fine. Some consumers sign‘ contracts they don't fully comprehend without concern, believing they have a certain perlod of time in which to cancel if closer in- spection reveals a problem, In fact, the cancellation period provided under the provincial Consumer Protection Act applies only to contracts which are signed or negotiated in the con- sumer's home, or away from the vendor's usual place of business, and to future services contracts (for example, contracts with dance studios or health spas). Most other contracts are binding from the moment you put your signature on them. , So what do you do when someone sticks a pen in your hand and thrusts a flve-pound contract under your nose? First of all, read it. Really read it. Plow through every paragraph, sub-paragraph, clause and phrase. If you haven’t time to do it then, ask for a copy to take. home and read at your leisure, If you read it and atill don’t understand It, ask for explanations. If they don't sound right, get a legal expert to look at it. Remember, too, that you have the right to delete, add, or alter clauses, subject to the agreement of the other party. Be sure to have any such changes initlalled by both parties to the contract. Whenever you're pressed to sign something you don’t understand, you'll often experience a feeling of unease. Don’t fight that feeling. It's your instinct for self preservation talking, and it's giving you good advice. struggling to break even, says the secretary of the Canadian Cattlemen's As- sociation. Feedlot operators survive on hape and optimism at the moment, says Chris Mills. Beef normaily passes through four sets of hands before it reaches the con- sumer — the rancher, the feedlot operator, the packer and finally the retailer. Moat of the §2,30 is going to the two ends of the chain — $2.90a pound is 27 per cent — or about 72 cents. Mills has some complaints about the profit demanded by stores in the western — provinces. Waters, public f director for way Canada Ltd., said By Augustin Fuentes | MANAGUA (Reuter) — Nicaragua's Sandinista government, which took over after left-wing guerrillas ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza in 2 civil war four months ago, is having problems rebuilding the country, The main problem is money. Although the government estimates it needs about §2.9 billion to put the economy on its feet, it has received litde inter- national aid, A more ‘subile problem arises from the fact that old habits die hard, Including living under a dictatorship. Power in this Central American country, which was wielded by the Somoza family for more than four decades, now is spread over a nine-member directorate and the resulting bu- reaucracy seems to he slowing things down, “Qur people are not accus- tomed to dealing with an or- dinary, honeat bureaucracy,” commented one Nicaraguan businessman. Despite the red tape in- flicted by numerous new checks and balances, diplomatic observera say the Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a future de- mocracy. The government has said that presidential elections will be held, although it has not specified a date, The national directorate appears to be setving policy guldelines while the five- member ruling junta struggles to feed four million Nicaraguans and reactiyate the country's economy; which is based on coffee and sugar. In the first. days that the profit is a fairy retura, considering the amount of work the retailer puts in and the high coat of labor, Although Milis agrees that the retailer must do a lot of work on the meat, he has two major complaints. In Western Canada relailers take a larger profit than they do in Ontario and Quebec because there generally is less competition in the West, says Milis. It is possible to buy Alberta beef at the same price in Ontario and Quebec as in the West. - He also complains that when beef is scarce and the price is high, retailers try to Increase their profit margin to compensate for the lower turnover. Retailers should instead ‘of moment, says Mills. Waters says the 27-per- cent share that Alberta retailera get is slightly below _ the national average and is ‘equal t9 Montreal ratios, In Toronto, the figure is 22 per cent, but that city is in a particularly competitive situation, which makes it unique, Waters maintains. Meanwhile, at each step'in - the chain from farmer to Bt eonsumer, the price of beef increases. Calves, born in the spring, usually are kept on the ranch for six to 12 months. . Calves sold in the fall now bring about $1.10 a pound, Mills says. At this stage they - weigh about 400 to 500 pounds . and bring in between $440 - and $550. Butif the farmer keeps the calf through the winter and feeds it on his own hay and grass, it should weigh 700 to 800 pounds by the following spring. Yearlings sell for about 90 cents to $1 a pqund, The purchaser at this stage: usually is a feedlot operator, who now is caught in a serious situation. He needs feeder cattle to keep his business running, but . must pay a higher price for ‘i them because they now are hysearce, says Mills. Feedlot operators now are forced to sell the animals for jess than they paid for them. “Feedlots work on fairly tight margins ‘anyway, and with the present price of feeder cattle, there have been periods of loss for operators —-. particularly in July and August this year. “Returns fave ban rth on fed" cattle, - wads (ie _ operator has had to pay td. HIGH IN NICARAGUA Sandinista sees problems follawed Somoza's removal last July 19, Commander Tomas Borge seemed to he emerging as a kind of strong man, He was named to the' post of interior minister. Borge, 49, the sole sur- viving founder of the Bad spelling By SHERRI BARRON,: LONDON (CP) — ‘His neighbors suspect he ha gone barnarners greengrocer Kevin White is B. but* National Liberation San- dinista Front, snatched the attention of the world press with his flamboyant per- sonality and persuasive ratory, However, Daniel Ortéga Saavedra, the only member o. es noticed more customers Btarting coming In, Tiny thistakes; ended up buying a load of laughing all the way to the’ ' gtuty,” bank hte He may never win a medal for spelling but as a business tycoon, he’s brimming with potential, Three years ago 4)-year-. old Kevin innocently posted asign outside his small shop in Kendal, Cumbria, ad- vertising hia unions. Astonished customers thronged Inside to correct his error —- and most of them bought hie unions. Kevin was akilled enough at arithmetic to realize onion salea were booming, The time was ripe for a few more mistakes. “You don’t spell ternips like that,” laughed a female customer, carting out half a dozen, Karreta and pertatores vanished like thera was no termoerrer and eager customers queued up for kue kumba at 15 pence (35 cents) for a hart, “Ym only ai amall shopkeeper and I'm not the béat speller,” said Kevin ina telephone interview. “The first mistakes were original but after a while I _ White says sales have in- creased about 12 per cent since the whole idea started about three years ago. _. “Sales have really i meaeome a year. So many people atop laugh at the aligns and then end up coming in. The slgns attract a lot of tourists too." Giggling housewives cracked up over Kevin's heggs and bought them all while the busy shopkeeper simply could not keep enough orlnjis and inellerns in stock, Since the shop is near an elementary school, saya White, teachers occasionally stop in. Some say they're eved children don't go there for their English Jeasona. “But now I'm doing it on such a big scale, even the children know ‘it's a joke." of ne has no intention pu e plug on . novatlve business gimmick, Why, last week everyone went barnarnera over the eatln apela at seven pence (18 cents) eech. to ° comment on my signa and always. Who profits on steak? pound, but feedlot operators and packing plants are much replacement cattle.” ; From the feedlot, the eattle go to the packing company, which does the slaughtering. Packers also operate on a tight margin, Milis says. The packing plant buys the ahimal for 75 cents a pound for . and gells the beef at $1.26 a ‘pound. However, only about “o7-per cent of the carcass is -saleable as meat, This means that a packer will pay $750 for a 1,000- ‘ pound animal and make no more than $735 on the meat from it. The packer’s profit come - fror sale of the hide, whic: is a valuable item, and sate of the waste or offals which bring $12 tk hundred pounds, When the retailer receives the carcass, he trims it down same more, cuts out the bone . and chops it into the variour uts cuts, Another 25 per cent of the animal is lost during this process, leaving abou 430 pounds: of beef for every 1,000-pound cattle beast. Mills says the retailer buys at $1.26 a pound and sells for $2.30, However, when wastage is considered, he | has to buy $1.68 worth of | carcass to get one pound of finished product. of the national directorate who also belongs to the five. member junta, now has emerged. as a_ leading spokesman, . There have been no known clashes within the govern- ment. Two other members of the junta, Sergio Ramirez Mercado and Moises Hassan Morales, have long been closely linked with the Sandinista Front while .y Alfonso Rabelo Callejas, a making money former Social Democrat businessman, represents the private sector, ‘The Sandinista guerrillas were the first left-wing rebels to gain power in Latin America since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959. Observers note that although the civil war left at least 50,000 dead, the San- dinistas have not publicly . executed former members of the Somoza National Guard, Right-wing military regimes in Central America anil the rest of the continent had feared Nicaragua would turn Communist after the Sandinista takeover. Commander Bayardo Arce, a leading member of the national directory, scoffs at such suggestions, ‘That is absurd,” he said, “We are light years from Com- munism. ; “We fought a8 several groups but we are a n- dinistas. We realized that only together can we defeat the counter-revolutiona attempts and consolidate the revolution.” . bee foandinistas, who gan their struggie against Someza in three ‘ale s © separ groups, settled ‘their dif- ferences about seven months ago and then went on to defeat the dictator's 15,000 National Guardsmen, ' heated crawl by FRANK HOWARD Skeena MP a laints from time to time about things not moving speedy enough in Northwestern B.C. This ery, and I think that is an appropriate identification, seems to have some reference point in May of this — May 10 to be exact. Tet me pick one item, the Lakelse hotsprings, and try to bring some recent history into one package 80 we can geta clearer understanding of the whole, : In the fall of 1978 Jim Fulton and I were driving back to Terrace late one evening after attending some meetings in the Hazelton area. We were discussing the potential in this area and the extent to which that potential had been neglected. ; One of the subjects discussed was the Lakelse hotsprings. As a result I contacted the provincial Ministry of Agriculture; the federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Ontario Department of Agriculture, to determine what information they had regarding the potential of the hotsprings for agriculture and horticulture use. ; In December of 1978 at the Skeena provincial nominating convention held in Thornhill community. centre ] outlined my concepts about the use to which the Lakelse hotsprings couid be put. While my ideas may not have been original at least they were developed well in advance of the May 10 provincial election, To those who are. still smarting because of the results of that election I would suggest you put your accusations about ‘band wagon climbing’ to one. side. At the very Jeast they are accidental untruths. When Mr. Shelford was able to announce that he had been instrumental in getting the Lakelse hotspringe. donated to the provincial government I applauded him and still do. That was a commendable action. Mr. Shelford has some laudable ideas about the potential of the hotsprings. So do others. So do I. But, there are some in this area who have ridiculed. such ideas on the basis of partisan pelitics. In other’ words because one person belongs to a particular political party his ideas are worthless, That sort of argument, and I have been the subject of it, only detracts from the intelligence of those who make such a point. ‘ Ever since becoming your M.L.A. — and remember this wasn’t official until nearly the end of May partly because of the whimperings of some people in Social Credit — I uve kept on top of the progress being made int! cabinet with respect to the Lekelse hotsprings. I have made a number of positive suggestions about Lakelse because I believe that, by being positive one’s chances of success increase, Jim Chabot, the minister in charge of the hotsprings, was scheduled to be in Tergage,; a, while ago to make an announcement. Resets didn’t make it. He is.supposed to:come . again Bit atthe moment of writing-this, I don't-know when that again is. But, when he does arri. e and when he does make his annour“ement I am sure it will be a positive an- nounc. went and will teke us on that first positive step towards realizing the potential of the hotsprings. In the interim, 1 would ask those who are saying that the government is going to put the hotsprings on the back burner, and thus punish us for exercising our democratic right on May 10, to cool it. Good heavens, dir level of intelligence is high¢f than that. Of course, if those who are the carpers ‘féel-it is more important to vent their frustrations than to work toward the development of the hotsprings, they will have to live with that decision. ' For my own part I will want to see something positive take place. . ENERGY SAVERS __ You figure warm air rises and good attic and wall insulation vill keep the heat in. The home will be snug for the winter. That is half right. Heat escapes in any direction it can to find: something cooler, From the dawn of time, that. phenomenon has been the cause of a lot of cold feet. ° When insulating the house, remember to floor too. An uninsulated floor laid aver a crawl Space, open fosndation or concrete slab wastes energy. 7 A crawl space may be heated or unheated. This . défermines how it is insulated. In a heated crawl . ce, the proper insulating material is extruded _ pal yetyrene, a blue material known in the trade as styrofoam”. It is a good insulator and resists moisture, an important consider=tion under the house. Apply polystyrene insulation to the outside of the ° wall of the heated crawl space. I should be at least two inches thick. From the base of the crawl space out . ward, polystyrene insulation should be laid to a width of at least two feel all around, The polystyrene insulation should have a gypsum covering a8 a protection against fire. ~ Heating ducts and pipes in an insulated crawt space * do not have to be insulated. mo 4 crawl space that must be ventilated and cannot be heated, the area under the house floor must” be insulated with batt or blanket material, preferably | with a vapor barrier attached. t The insulation is chicken wire or building paper, The crawl space floor - customarily held in place with — should be covered with a vapor barrier and two inches. - of sand, *n an unheated craw] space, heating ducts and pipes --- should be insulated separately with batt or blanket - material wrapped around them or laid lengthwise. Use tape to hold the insulation in place. With open foundations, the floor must be Insulatedin * asimilar manner to an unheated craw] space, and also Pot St wth protected against wind, animals and other threats. If the spaces between the floor joists are covered in, a” a contractor can blow loose insulation into these a ‘ A foundation consisting of concrete slabs should be insulated on the outside in a Similar manner to a More informatlor " basement. | ation on insulating f crawl spaces is contained in a potklet cmwed Keeping the Heat In, available from Pp “C”, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y “Gi Box 8500, Sta mae ete?