This will therefore be a very rush Moe TENE dae Page 2, The Herald, Friday, Fersry “241978 . bd ‘ oe . Editorial © 20 Jobs for 2,500 4 It is rather dismal to realize the Terrace District Manpower (Canada Employment Service) office has a total listing of less than 20 vancancies! At the same time the agency has 2,500 persons registered as unemployed. This works out to an average of only one wacancy for every 125 persons sup ly seeking work. Whereas /t is known that “Figures don’t lie-but liars do figure”. The facts would appear inescapable that ‘somewhere in Terrace” and District” are an awful-lot of frustrated people. Disheartened, disillusioned, restless, unhappy scanning the advertisements each day and listening to the radio-button holding their friends for leads-some of them ,at least. Many will have exhausted all known leads will have visit. the most likel sources of employment. wading of course, participating in “upgrading” a job retraining programsuite a few will be back to school, or at the N.W. Community College, qualifying for a trade for which there will be a . A number will be resigned to to the belief that they are “too old” to be attractive to an employer, yet too young to receive the old age Pyne n for ew more years, and will be slowly: g”’ from worsening morale, There are bound to be quite a number of whose health prevents them from getting work-cither for a short term or...as in the case of those with heart conditions, incurables, terminal cases; cancer, MS., muscular dystrophy-just to name a . few; the diabetics with heart and blindness eomplications..one could goon and on.. These are people “out there’ or rather are “in bere’’- and must not be left out of the total unem- ployment picture-though they all to frequently are,” ca , . There are those just out of school-Grade school and High School dropouts-many of them-they haunt our streets, pool halls, bars, restaurant- s, who have never held a regular job of any sort. There. are high school praduies stil to land their very —“permanen' ”; they have grown used to refusals that start when they are unable to answer the inevitable ee stions: “What- rience do you have? What jobs have you. There is a brighter side to this dismal picture. We shall attempt to deal with it in a future editorials, Weust didn’t want to end this one on a istic not as we enter the weekend. ' We should add that things may not be as bad as the figures might indicate. We have not had any and brush Soars cee eenar 0 our olfer to provide them. with free . advertising of their ee aid “vellgbhty through M - the -medium: of: the HERALD, More -- « about his with a follow up article, next week. . _ SPECIAL NOTE As we are going to press (Thrusday afternoon) the news stories have been breaking all day-- ialmoat too many and too fast to keep pace with... editorial . page even more so than usual. By and large, the - Hews has been good. We hope our faithful, though small body of steady readers will continue to “Hang in there” for a few more days-and stay with us for a better looking, better all-round newspaper with better news coverage of local scene a Do HERMAN a thought for a minute {'d lest you there but | guess the old stetho’s on the blink.” — TERRACE | daily herald | General Otilce - 635-6357 | Circulation - 635-6357 Published by Sterling Publishers. PUBLISHER... Don tromack: 5. | MANAGING EDFTOR... Erndst Senior Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. Amember of Varified Circulation. Authorized as _ second class mall, - Registration number 120), 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 editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. ... Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher, My 2° Worth BY JUDY VANDERGUCHT I.am writing this while still in the throes of agony — to enable me to get everyi grim detail down while it is fresh in my memory. What is the woman. ‘talking about you ask reluctantly. Curling says I. No, not my hair, stupid .—- curling avec le ice, Before this, if someone mentioned ice to me, it conjured up memories of creme de menthe a frappe, and scotch a la rocks. Never, I repeat, never something ¢o play. & game on, Oh yes, [fell victim toa Curling Bonspilet. I believed all my well meaning friends who told me it was fun. Like -being out:to sea in a paper boat Is “Fun!” The apprehension I felt about going into a ‘Spiel’ was something akin to giving birth for the first time. The only difference was I wasn’t expected to do it ‘back to back’ and go on producing. . They handed me a broom. Now my experience with a broom takes me into the dark recesses .of my kitchen floor which painflully did not prepare me for the terrible things I was going to do with this broom. I was going to pound the broom up and down the ice with energy I never could conjure up sweeping my floor. . I was out on the ice frantically clinging to whatever I could find. My you're handsome — do you mind if I hang around your neck for a few minutes. They give a rock — good heavens I can’t lift it and I am supposed to throw it? Whee! this is fun. You were supposed to let go of the rock stupid. I throw as hard as I can, m ulder separates in three places. The roc slides ten feet and stops. You are holding the ‘rock wrong I am told, don’t swimg it back, don’t use your hand, use your fingers, sit back, sit up lean torwara, iean backward, HicLe. 1 deciaed the only ay to get out of this was to fall and break my leg. No, I: decided that was the coward’s way out. I kindled what Scotch spirit I had in me (No, not Johnny Walker's, my grand- father’s) and gritted my teeth and — I couldn't believe it, the:rock sailed in over the blue line sted ES od aK “Looks like a Canadian Anik satellite. , . with this bill in it for cleaning up after our Cosmos satellite!” . . an into fie, mage coos Sweet sone Ar, Beagrie new UBC Dean of Dentistry — yelled and I jumped to it, bristles a flying, and prompt -tripped over the. rock, I must have tra up and down that ice two dozen times. leaving behind mea trail of blisters and worn out briatles. We lost you. say. (I tried to hide my ecstasy.) Ah! that’s too bad. See you around as I hobbled off the ice. Another game you say — “B” league — then C league if we lose — my god what state will I be in at ‘2’ league. I am going to ich the nearest Scotsman in the nose. I won't ieve that the Scotsman didn’t know exactly what he was doing when he started this game, Who else would dream up a game using a rock — Och! Nay Mon! That's a Stone a’ Brooom, ya ignoramous!! (All kidding aside I think I could get to like this: "A Scot by birth, Tir, Beagrie has been with the curling game;). DA ae Dy Pata a PGE Sa “ sana University of Trorontg since 1962:and became a -. — “UB remely fortunate to get someone o: Dr. Beagrie’s international reputation ‘ir Ottawa Offbeat genet ret ate es A , vice- ent for faculty and studen by Richard Jackson affairs. - P : 9 - _ . _. “fm convinced that Dr, Beagrie will.be an - Ottawa — Next-to-impossible though it may be outstanding dean who will continue the work of to credit, the irrefutable fact’remains that not - once in the years since they stripped him of the party leadership has the ruling Conservative clique allowed former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to lead them in the Commons. Naturally, you might say, because he isn't leader anymore, and hasn’t been for going on 10 years now. e. ‘ Except that when the leader — first Robert Stanfield and now Joe Clark — has been absent from the Commons, and ‘‘acting leader" stands in for him. ‘But never Dief. And he has been their only winner in the nearly ‘$0 years since the previous Conservative leader, Richard Bedford Bennett won it in 1980.. So they ve never done Dief the honor of let him lead them in the House when either Stanfield or Clark has been away for vacations or on party business... | a This denies the Old Warrior the right to get in that first shot when every member of the Trudeau cabinet, including the Prime Minister, is fair political game. : And what game! Tn two orderly rows, like sitting ducks, except of course for the Prime Minister, and a- few others who usually can take care of themselves like Treasury Board President Robert Andras, . Finance Minister Jean Chretien, and Federal- Provincial Affairs Minister Marc Lalonde. — - . Sure, Dief, being the stout-hearted foeman of nearly 40 years of federal political battles on:the - hustings and in the Commons, has sometimes taken. the initiative, ae But infrequently, and only when the impulse is’ too compe to resist. And for the Conservatives to deny him a place. front and centre on the firing line when the daily batile in the Commons.opens is madness, . «’ For no Conservative, not Robert Stanfield, not Joe Clark, not Ontario Premier Davis nor even Alberta Premier Lougheed, and definitely not New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield, has the mass national appeal of the Old Chief.. — Nor gets the mail. The visitors. The tributes, Has the fanatical following. Brings out the crowds, Anywhere and a here in Canada. * But things show signs: of ¢ haing, ee Biggeat change was the dropping trom power. of old Toronto clique which assassinated - They ran their straw-man, Robert Stanfield, a three-time loser, and then not long ago talked him ‘into issuing that incredible statement at- tacking Dief. - Sa But their manipulative finesse and talent for ; destructive conspiracy deserted them — along with their clout. — when they lost:the battle to deny the party presidency’ to Robert Coates, veteran Nova Scotia MP. UBC's Board of Governors has appointed Dr. George S. Beagrie of Toronto as "Dr.- Beagrie, chairman of the graduate department of dentistry at the University of Toronto, succeeds Dr. S. Wah Leung. - Dr. Leung resigned as dean effective June 30, | 1977'and continues as professor in the faculty. Dr. D.J. Yeo has been acting dean since July 1, 1977. Dr. Yeo is head of ‘Department of Public and Communi bullding the Faculty of Dentistry which was begun by Dean Leung in 1962 when the Faculty "ir. Beagrie, §2; studied at the Kdinburgh . fie, 52, studied at the Dental Hospital and School and at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1943 to 1947, winning & number of awards: ©. He was a house surgeon at the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School from 1947 to 1948, and was a dental officer with the Royal Air Force from 1948 to 1950, ° Co (The following article was written with a desire to inform the public of the work of the Terrace Community Services.) = Her eyes sparkled as she talked about when she was a camp cook. “‘A good cook I was! Just _ likemy mother.’ I agreed that being mistake. I cooked up a batch bread. The boys had had to eat store-bought bread up Thad a feeling that Nora Firth didn't mind at all! This agpecial feeling a.person gets from a job Ww ne. ““Can’t cook an thritis really pains me and I have cataracts in my eyes. Sure, miss. that home-cooked taste and so Harry my husband. Oh well, thank goodness for ‘. Meals on Wheels: I order eriough for all week!!” I was in the home of Nora and Harry (Rocky to ‘his friends) Firth in the. Terrace Trailer Court. - Both are-pensioners who are confined to their home due to infirmity. Harry is able to get. around in a wheelchair or on canes. Nora is able to walk but is crippled with arthritis. Both the Firths benefit from two of. the -ser- vices offered by the Terrace. Community Ser- vices, Meals on Wheels and Homemaker’s rvice, a Ann Lang is the homemaker who comes to the Firth home every day to help out, Ann was away: the Firths:but Nora’ spoke ‘very . when I visited | highly of the. service.given by Ann. Before coming-to the trailer, Ann calls to see if there is _. anything Nora needs in the way of groceries etc. She.spends a couple of hours vacuuming, and of the . University’s Faculty. of Dentistry effective July Dental Health and is - _ director of the School of Dental Hygiene at UBC. ‘commission on dental education ing a good cook was like being an artist — it was 4 natural talent _ not given to everyone. “Very fussy about what they ate; I remember the day I made a big a batch of home. made until then and after eating my bread. * that was it -- no more store bought'bread for ore though. My. arthritis ugh ay . Skeenaview, . of Dental Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and the South-East Regional Hospital‘Board of Scotland. vos By 1968 when he left Scotland for Canada, Dr.‘ Beagrie had become professor and chairman of the division of restorative dentistry in the Beagrie has published about 45 scientific papers; - ed a.number of research fellowships and grants from the U.K., U.S. and Canada; is a member. of about. a dozen professiona organizations; has been an examiner for ad-- vanced degrees in dentistry in both Scotland and. Canada; has been invited to give about 15 special: - lectures in Europe, Asia and North America;” and has served and is serving on a number of professional and international organizations. . .. Heis president of the Royal College of Dentists: of Canada and of the-international Association’. for Dental Research. He is also a consultant in! dental education to the World Healt! Organization and is vice-chairman of: the. set also cooks the occasional evening meal. -° 25" ved due. to the-fact: visits from our friends, is ‘all we need." ~.:. I came away from the Firth home gratified: that the Firths were as comfortable as possible. under difficult’ circumstances. I could also see: the only alternative to the Firth’s lifestyle would” - be a Long Term Care'‘Home, oP" ' Ava director of Terrace Community Services,: I was awaie of Meals on -Wheels.-and.- the’ Homemaker Service. I. had delivered'meals— ‘Myself to those persons, unable to cook for: themselves. I' knew: that over: 400 meals aré~ ‘delivered in one month and for,some of the — recipients, ‘the thrice weekly: visit. from the. volunteer, -is their only contact with the.outside: « world during the long winter months..The meals:' are ‘built’ in the excellent kitchen facilities of the» Skeenaview ‘Lodge’ put into styrofoam con:,; tainers and delivered by volunteers, I can attest © - to the tastability- of ‘the. meals. having ‘sampled ., many up at the lodge. The food is fresh and well. The Homemaker Service was created to‘help .; the convalescents and infirm and it was nice to. ; see this service in operation, doing such.an-ex-.: cellent fob. ee Cs See eee (I will be cbvering other: services offered by © the Terrace Conimunity Services. Society ‘in..: future articles.) ©, 0 pk cident on: the Trans-Canada highway about 40:kilometres weat of Kamloops. Police said the car hit black ice, went aut of control and plunged over an embankment. moe "WOMAN IDENTIFIED NEL 7 KAMLOOPS (CP) — RCMP have identified Jean Bidwell, . 47, of Kamloops as the woman killed Tuesday in aone car ac- - REVIEW. REQUESTED | 02 or eo oo . PRINCE; GEORGE (CP) '— The: United Transportallon - Union has asked for a review ofaB:C, Labor Relations Bdard: © deciaion ‘giving’ B.C, 'Hailway employees demerits. and - docking thelr pay for booking off sick, union spokesman Glen Bowles said‘Tuesday. _.