x PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, September 11, . 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald | General Office - 635-6357 Cireutation - 635-6357 CIRCULATION CIRCULATION PUBLISHER - Knox Coupland Pat KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, &.C, A member of Varlfled Circulation. Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash. return postage guaranteed, NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any ediforial or photographic content. published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the wriiten permission of the Publisher. . ~ Published by Sterling Publishers . Zelinski = =- 692-2747 - 635-6357 Ottawa Offbeat by Richard Jackson Oltawa - Not that it matters much personally to anyone outside the bureaucracies, but the federal government again is sticking It to the provinces. On lotteries. They had a deal on Loto Canada, the Federal Lottery . conceived to help pay off Montreal's staggering Olympic debt. ' Montreal - and indirectly, Quebec - was to get the heavy end of the take, and then at the end of the year leave the lucrative lottery eedy, Once they've got their hand in your pocket, you're not getting [t out unleaa you cut it off at the wriat. But, a8 it says at the outset of today’s dispatch, not to - worry, because personally: it makes no never mind whose hand is in your et, the feds or the provincials, you can't win. Sure, lightning could strike, and you could hit for one of those million dollar lottery prizes - but what do you really WIN. Not happiness, not. peace, .. econtentihent, security and all those things you've always dreamed of; just money. For according to one of the most exhaustive studies ever conducted, by Jerry and Ron Leblanc who interviewed scores of winners and wrote the book “Suddenly Rich”, clicking for the big money in a lottery, in not just a few cases, was only a mite more joyous. than breaking your The trouble is, report the Lahlancs, that mont at us are y unprepared [or problems of instant wealth. What happens to winners is a bitterly painful “economic jet lag", of, a6 the sociologists term it, “rapid status modification." And according to the Leblanca, that modification’ can cause just about every disaster from a major family break- down, the utter ruination of old friendships, to deep feellngs of personal. guilt over unearned and un- deserved riches, and @ destructive sense of wor- thlessress. In virtually every case, recounted in ‘Suddenly Rich," instant wealth sorely tests and “usually breaks people’s life-images of themselves - catapulting them into a totally different existence and often hostile environment after yaara of steady and usually satisfying routine. So what happens if you get Jucky in the lottery? : 4 The Mon! Famous Basket ws the Wari” Veto Wigan It's time to call your Welcome Wagon hoatess, tynn wckmin - 63-0427. Lola Mofninger - 625-4109 Well, for starters, recount the Leblancs, you will be continually pursued by the “remorseless” media and the public will deluge you with begging phone calls, letters and even kidnap threats. Even if you move to another address or another city, you can’t shake them, Strangers will loiter around your house. Break-ins will be common. ° Insullg and threats will harass and perhaps in- timidate you, driving you into seclusion and loneliness, Old friendships will perish. Relatives will feel cheated and estranged, becoming hostile. Report the Leblancs: '‘Big winners often find them- selves na state a siege, ving ly guar ves haunted by mistrust, fear and a terrible aloneness." Funny thing, too, the Leblancs found that moet big winners actually continued working, for a time, at their old jobs until they simply could not stand the resent- ment, jealousy and greed they saw in others’ eyes. Repeatedly, winners from secretaries to truck drivers to professionals gave the same explanation: ‘What else would 1 do with myself?" One telephone worker who clicked for a million ex- plained: “Every morning I~ get up and think, ‘Will [ quit today?’ 4 “nnd then I think: ‘If I didn't work what would Ido? Travel? Forever? Move? Where? and to what?’ ” Then there was the truck driver who gave up his job. and confessed: ‘The biggest logs in my life is not having on telling me what to Still and all, you'd like to give it a whirl? Me toa, =~ Sie a no . As September rolls around again, the College is geared up to offer a full compliment of programs. Full time day programs are being offered in an Increased number of locations, Evening programs have been expanded in most communities to give most - residents an opportunity to receive general interest and vocational, academic and upgrading courses on a part time _hasis. ; This year the Vocational division is offering a new course, General Mechanics. This full time day program of 10 months is an in- troductory program for those who wish to enter a variety of mechanical flelda, The BTSD. (Vocational Upgrading) program hag been expanded to several new communities this fall. This year will be offering the course in Houston, Smithers, Moricetown, Hazelton, Kitseguecla, Kitimat, Port Simpson, Prince Rupert and Masset. - Community Education Services booklets outlining all the programs available in the communities will be distributed soon. These booklets outline all full and part-time credit courses available as well as a. number of general interest courses, ’ Northwest Community College is the only college in B.C. to have a Health Ad- visory Committee. This committee was formed not long after Northwest Community College came into existence when a group of health professionals ap- proached the college to see what could be done to im- prove health education in this region. Paul Romanycia of Smithers is currently chairman, Joel Hill of Prince Rupert is secretary and any health agency, hospital, professional or health in- terest group can be represented on the com: mittee.’ General meetings are held three or four times a year and the Needs & Resources sub-committee. meets more frequently. At the request of the committee a part-time coordinator was appointed in. the spring of 1976 and this position is held by Mrs. Grants Cut Back VICTORIA (CP) — A threeday conference of the Professional Associatica of Canadian Theatres ended Saturday after considerable ° discussion of a course of action in the event of Canada Counci] grant cutbacks. Association president Greg Poggi of the Manitoba Theatre Centre said a strike by Canada’s English- speaking theatre companies had been discussed but he would not elaborate. YOUR KITCHEN DESIGN AND REMODELING IDEAS TAKING A POSITION You don't have to be a politician to benefit from a ‘position statement." You ean be a homemaker right in your own kitchen con: aldering the beat positions for your various appliances. For, according to experts at the Whirlpool Corpora- tion, planning can affect kitchen appliances’ efficien- ey and help conserve energy, Generally, you should ja- cate refrigerators away from ranges and direct sunlight, ranges away fram frequently opened windows and doors, and dishwashers and sinks as near as possibla to the hot walter heater. Apply your self to these three sugges- tions for appliances and you , wan't be in hot water: 1, Install the refrigerator- freezer and separate freezer away from windows, radia- tora and heat producing , appliances. Locate refrigera- tion appliances in a level, dry, cool, well-ventilated area. Make certain there is enough apace behind and above the units to allow enough air circulation to the condenser. 2. In the food prepara- " tion and clean-up area, lo- cate the dishwasher as close to the water source as pos sible. You may even con- sider inatalling a separate water heater in the kitchen near the sink and dishwasher area and adding insulation to water pipes, 8. Locate the range in an area away from refrigeration equipment where a vent fan can be installed to draw excess heat directly to the outside in the summer. To minimite room heat loss in the winter and heat gains In the summer, check your kitchen for air leaks, Bs conscious of energy fonservation jn your choice of appliances. Select the - y-. str size capacity refriger- ator-freezer for your present and future family needs. Consider the amount of us- able capacity the refrigera- tor provides, Choose a unit not only according to the cubic feet rating of the re: frigerator or freezer com- partment but aleo by how convenient it ie to see, reach, and store food, Energy is wasted when utilized to cool wasted space. Consider the advantages of a range with infinite heat control surface units that cycle on and off te maintain selected temperatures, doing more of the cooking on stored heat, . A dishwasher which fea- tures a rinse-hold cycle will allow you to rinse and store dishes in the unit after each meal, The dishwasher may be run through a complete wash—rinse—dry cycle after a full load has accumulated, perhaps only once a day. Aaa rule of thumb, re- member to pick quality ap- pliances with good Insula- tlon, tight seals, and usable capacity that are designed to get maximum efficiency for the power consumed. And remember, if pos- able, three separate areas should be established for food storage, preparation and clean-up, and cooking, Barry Blix of Kitimat. Barry says that she finds her job challenging and rewarding. She works closely with the Health Advisory Committee coordinating the ‘health programs . offered throughout the college reglon. ' This spring the first issue of date appeared wealth ', appeare was circulated to ali health care agencies In the region. It is expected that this newsletter will appear at regular in- tervals to give news of forth- coming programs, etc, Last fall about 80 people attended a very successful workshop, in Terrace, on Care of the Elderly arranged with the assistance of Following by Thomas Atrill- We are following false gods. Don't be alarmed, thinking that I am about to attack your religion; I am no, I refer to our increasing rellance upon governments, to do our thinking, planning and, in many cases, to provide us with an income. _Every day: we see more evidence of the. public's demand that government take over and provide. solutions to today's problems.: We have even reached the point where our ‘media' suggests that goverament will make jobs, increase production and reduce inflation. At the present time, our greatest newsmaker is government. Iam a free-enterpriser. 1 believe that government was concelved and set up by the people for a specific and limited purpose; te make and uphold the rules by whith we all live, I belleve that government should not interfere in the free-market system, except to prevent ° actual abuses and distortions of that system. Governments should administer thase social benefits that we, collectively, authorize. Also, B.C.1,T, Another successful workshop called Management of Pain with lecturer Margot McCaifaray was also held in Terrace, She will be returning on October t6 to Prince Rupert to repeat the workshop. j Two management wort. hops were also held. The’ Suman Skills of Management workshop was led by well-known lecturer Earl Pope, The Personnel Evaluation workshop was given by a team from U.B.C. in Prince Rupert in August. There have been several workshops for registered nurses with lecturers coming from the University of Victoria. A workshop dealing with Nursing Assessment False Gods government has respon- sibility in international agreements and a system of defence. [ do not believe that the state should set itself up in business or form marketing boards and other restrictive bodies, .all of which distort the free- market system. Fur- thermore, I do not believe - that Keynes, Galbraith and thelr kind, could manage the affairs of a corporation, let alone a government, Our economy is like a garden plant. It grows, Read that again. It Grows, We do not grow it; we water, weed, fertiliz e, prune and care for it. And it grows. Try pulling on it. Try making a potato into acarrot, Push it into the ground (taxes, controls), See - what happens. It Is about time that we haul the government off and let our economy grow, No, | am not an anarchist; 1 simply want to see government perform its proper function, leaving everything else to the people who do things best, the public. . We may find that we have agreen thumb. was held in Smithers in the spring and this fall there will be two Cardio-Vascular workshops, one in Kitimat and one in Smithers. The Douglas Education Centre are providing resource people for a. workshop dealing with Drugs. in Psychiatry - in Terrace in November. Community health workshops have been held too, There was a one day workshop in Kitimat this spring called Coping ‘with Stress and was developed by “Steve Lustig of the Skeena Mental Health Unit and Andre Klingner of the North- ‘west Community. College. This workshop has travelled to other parts of the region and more workshops will be held in the fall. Ir October, Dr. Ron Puhky, director of the Wholistic Health Centre in Victoria will be visiting _ Investing in safety grows in importance By Frank Kaplan When it comes to handling money, our society can be contradictory and puzzling. On the one gide there is the obvious growth and success of lotteries, Governments have tasted the fruita that can be grown on the public gambling instinct and they want mora, as-witneas the latest federal plan to introduce a veraion of what was considered an illegal and criminally-inspired numbers racket. _ Lotteries and their ilk are the most unattractive and illogical use of money yet invented. The odds againat winning are ridiculously high. Yet we lay down hard- earned dollars without complaint -- indeed with eagerness. ‘ But there is another side to how we handle money, a facet of the Canadian character that emphasizes prudence . and care, Maximum safety consistent with reasonable return” is how the investment experts might describe our actions. Tho conservative and cautious face pops up in the growth of investment funds which concentrate in mortgages, high-grade honde and other money market securities carrying minimum risk yet providing regular and secure income. Judging by some broad statistics I’ve been looking at, there is little doubt these conservative forma of investment have grown rapidly in the past year or so. [t appears that the some dozen Members of The Investment Funds Institute of Canada concentratin on such income and mortgage securities now account for almoat a third of the total assets of the 77 Member funds. That adds up to $600 million, which is about 50% more than 4 year ago. The major growth most recently appeara to be in funda emphasizing investment in mortgages. Investment funds are pools of savings managed by professionals in finance. inveatment Fund organizations tend to be very reaponsive to the financial desires of individual Canadians. They ueually have available a wide specirum and varied mixture of: investment policies ranging from moderately speculative to the most congervative. I suspect that the amount of money being channeled into various types of funds at any given time ia a good indicator of the public mood towards investing. - Northwest College Offers Full Program both the Charlottes and Terrace to give workshops in preventative medicine. If these prove popwar mote such workshops will be arranged in other parts of the region next spring. A back education workshop is being considered. It is possible now to take & certificate program in health and fitness from Simon Fraser University. This is eliciting interest, For further information and application forms phone Mrs, BHx at 692- 4766 or write her at 9 Drake Street, KitImat. Deadline for registration for the spring session is Dacember 1. The Health Advisory Committee is always in-‘ lerested to know of any particular health education needs in the region. Should you wish to ‘contact the committee, please write to Mr. Paul Romapycia, Chairman, Health Advisory Committee, Box 2006, Smithers, B.C. VOJ 2ND. ABORIGINAL STUDIES SPONSORS JAPANESE . NATIVE DELEGATION A group of 27 native people from Japan, called Alny, will be visiling northwest B.C, the week of September 11 am - part of a cross Canada tour. They are being sponsored in this segment of their visit by the Aboriginal Studies Program. The Alnu community of Hokkaido, Japan, is but a remnant of a culture and a way of life which flourished in the b northeast Pacific region witil recent tlmes, The group will be per- forming traditional dances, will be preparing traditional foods and will be showing films. Due to the shortness of thelr stay, they will be arriving In Hazelton on Friday, September 15 where they will participate in a longhouse ceremony with the Gitksan-Carrier people and with the Four Arrows tour which will also be visiting at that time. For further information, contact the Aboriginal Studies Program at Nor- thwest Community College, 635-8511. Retail sugar prices in Canada have dropped by almost five per cent since the beginning of January. This latest decline is yet another episode in the inlterna- tional sugar price saga which has seen international sugar prices decline by about 20 per cent over, the same period, The new International Sugar Agreement (ISA) which went into effect in January. 1978. was designed to stabilize the price of international sugar in an E] to 21 cents-per-pound range + a funge hich would puarmniee praduc- ers sufficient incame te cover costs, This price is in contrast with the 64 ¢U.5.} vents per pound reached in £974, and the nine (U.S.) cents per pound prevailing ut the beginning af this yeur, : Canada imports 85 per cent of its sugur und the decline in value of the Canadian dollar. on the international market, and ine Quotable Comments “Employers wandering why their labor budgets have thinned out in recent yeats should take 4 new look at what they spend on so-called Fringe benefits. Major bargaining uniis in Canada have won pay increases of just less than 19 per cent since 1975, But a study to be released this fall by Thome Riddell Associates Lid., of Toronto, says employee be- nefits rose over the same period by 30 per cent. or at a rate more than half as fast again as wages... This is a trend that has persisted almost without a break in recent years and is expected to continue into the foreseenble fulure.”* Clayton Sinclair. the Finuncial Times, Augusi 8, 1978, | crease in refining and distribution costs appeared to ensure price rises. But the price of sugar hus declined, The reason is the world supply of sugar is well in excess at the current needs of consumers. As usually happens when a product om ‘ is in plentiful supply. this has bape ae bring the price down. Although the ISA limits produc- ing nations’ expons of sugar to keep prices higher, these provi- sions have not as vet had effect. The Cunadian consumer also benefits from Canada not having a substantial dumestie sugar in- Sugar over-supply sweetens prices © dustry to support. Unlike prices in the United States and the European communities. Cana- dian sugar prices are not kept at anificially high levels to sustain acceptable income for domestic producers. When international sugar prices fall, so do the prices on the Canadian retail shelf. Canada. imports 85 per cent of its sugar, most of it from the United States, Puerto Rico, Trinidad/Tobago, Cuba, Guyana, Belize, and Australia. Because of the devaluation of the Canadian dollar and the increased costs of processing sugar, ihe natural trend for sugar prices would be to rise. Actually, because of the international sugar situation, Canadians are. paying less for sugar than they did last January. Convenience can be costly Salaries How Canadians feel Twenty-five percent of Cana- diana feet their incomes are group, about 46 per cent. felt thelr Incomes were "about aver- Any food that has already undergone some of the prepura- tion ordinarily done at home can he called a convenience food. - The term includes such diverse items af frozen individual meals, cookies, instant coffee, soup mixes, pustry mixes, dehydrated . Potatues, cutined slew und cut-up chicken, The desire ta save time and effort in the kitchen, and ever-changing tastes in food. have ereuted a denund for more and more convenience foods. Generally the innre u fod %& Provessed’ putside the home, the greater the costs, However, same pralucts such as ready-ituds cookles and cake mixes nay be leas expensive. It ia up te the Individual consumer to decide If the udded coat and differences in flavour and uppeanince ate worth the convenience, A free booklet Food - Your Best Buy. by Agriculture Canady provides some of the background information on wise food shup-- ping. erent information concerning food shopping is av- uilable by writing: Information Services, Canada Departinent of Aqticallure, Ottawa, KIA OCT, Optimistic Prediction A semi-annual report on the Canadian economy by the U.S, embassy in Ottawa predic a substantial increase in economle geowth this year. The report. nude public in Washington, forecasts: a growth rute of faur wo 4.45 percent in GNP, “below average™’, according (a age’*, The results: tecen! Gallup Poll. The largest 8 Below ‘ About Above Can't Average Average = Average’ Suy National 25% 46% 25% 4% Education Elementary 32 54 y 6 Secondary 23 50. 23 4 University 19 27 42 i Mother Tongue ; English 26 42 28 4 French 22 54 22 2 Other a4 0 20 § . . '