PAGE 4 THE HERALD, Friday, April 21, 1978 Alf Potvin is a man with a sign. Alf and his wife are also hougeparents-at the Terrace Community Correctional C males of various ages under their care. Alf is a devout Catholic — but he is also an ecumenical Catholic Christian. This means he does not limit his friendship and his worship to the confines of that deno tion. Nor does he try to push his Church’s views down anyone and everyone's throats, One time Alf was travelling throug Revelstoke, when he noticed a large sign with a scriptural text, welcoming people to that city from the churches of Revelstoke. The sign, he says, gave him a warm feeling, ‘It made me feel welcome. It made me feel there were caring le in Revelstoke — and I never forgot it. ter Alf returned to Terrace he kept about that sign at the entrance to Revelstoke. Then, suddenly, it seemed to him, the Spirit moved him to do something about it. With a welding torch, sheet metal and angle iron he went to work, in the evenings, after his regular work was done, keeping at it until he had the uprights and crosspieces for two metal signs - fashioned and assembled in his basement. Next Man with a sign fi ntre; at present they have 12 _ yoy / Papo MUBT SE WORM LEW { 1 ats JESUS Wii ¥. Alf Potvin, man with a sign ghts for his beliefs high and four feet across. On the one he in-. scribed, “Yes! Jeaus will set you freel’? Above, as a ‘ribbon,’ ha had the words painted, “Ye Must Be Born Again” and at the bottom. “The Churehes of Terrace.” a So far, so good. Alf approached the president of the Terrace Ministerial Association, Rev; Rolf Nosterud — gave him a photo of the sign, and the pastor agreed to take the matter of support for erecting the signs at the entrances to Terrace up with the Churches, Apparently the Ministerial went along with the - idea, and informed Potvin they were with him. Next, according to Alf Potvin, the Lutheran pastor agreed to approach the Department of Highways for permission to have the signs put up. “Nope!” said the Department of Highways.’ “The signs do not come within our terms of reference, These are, that only traffic signs and ° signs related to tourism may be erected along the highways.”’ Since then, Alf has been hard at work trying to drum up public and political backing for his project. - ehas written to City Council. asking for their displayed." rt. So far they have not answered him. He hen written to Skevna MLA Cyril Shelford. No answer yet. But he is not downhearted. ‘I feel if it is the Lord’s work, He will open up a way” is how he looks at it. hing ‘ his Meantime, Alf is “ta up” pro every .chance he_ gets. (The Dri ‘doesn’t like quitters.”') he visited the Daily Herald he brought one of the signs with him, to show U1: . , . Asked by a reporter whether he did not think persons of. other non-Christian faiths — Jews, Sikhs, Moslems, Jains, Hindus, Shinto, Bud- ‘dhists, Athiests, etc. would find the signs of- fensive, Alf hada ready answer. “Look at a lot of the advertising on Television, Radio and Billboards and-magazines that are offensive to ‘many people. Yet no one prevents them from having space and time. surely, a verse from Scripture, upholding that which is universally accepted as good, should be permitted to be Few will quarrel with that outlook. A man could spend his life on tar less worthy projects than Alf’s. Who would not wish him “good Luck and God’s Blessing?” he had an open Bible painted — about three feet Passover According to an Associated Press news release, more than 65 million persons in the United States watched the first part of NBC's “Holocaust” Sunday evening. The first in- stalment rated a 27.1 Nielsen rating which means that of all homes in the U.S. with a TV set, 27.1 per cent watched at least part of the three- hour telecast, .. 2he second episode, on Monday, fared even. better than the first in three big cities checked out overnight by Nielsen. The rating service said. 41 per cent of the homes with TV watched the program, compared to 32.6 per cent Sunday night, It was 39.1 per cent in Chicago compared with 29,3 the first night, and 33.3 per cent in Los Angeles compared to 28.7. The strong showing for Holocaust helped pull NBC from last place in the networks weekl ratings for the first time since February. Though there will probably never ever be exact figures on the tragedy, at least seven million Jews are recogni as having been horribly exterminated under Hitler’s orders within the five year period that ‘ended with Hitler’s suicide in 1945, Never in history, perhaps — (at least within recorded history,) has any bloodbath and organized, coldly calculated cruel slaughter of arace of people been carried out, that The frightening reality is that though the story may be fictionalized, the facts they portray are true, This Saturday, tomorrow- April 22nd. is the Jewish feast day of Passover. On that day, and for eight days following, Jews the world over recall with feasting and thanksgiving the time in Egypt, under an almost equally dreadful tyranny, the angel of death’s passing over the -houses of the Jews during the night. Having been forewarned of the angel’s coming, the Jews had sprinkled lamb’s blood over their door posts. Those who did not —- the non Jew persecutors — awoke the next morning to find all their male children had died during the night. The Egyptian king, or pharaoh, who had been warned by Moses of the outcome if he did not set the Jews free and let them leave the land, after this fulfilment of prophesy gladly released the Jews from their bondage and under the guidance of Moses, they then left in a massive procession, with all their possessions, This passing over and sparing of the Jews firstborn sons and the con- sequent release from bondage is what the Jews throughout Canada and the world — and especially in their homeland of Israel — will be ebrating, beginning this Saturday. We wish our Jewish readers a happy and blessed can compare with that depicted in ‘Holocaust.’ Passover. . Ottawa Offbeat By Richard Jackson Ottawa — Mackenzie King used to do it. is, having quadrupled — of out-of-control Ohfuscate. His stock in trade “‘Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription,” serving him well almost to the termination of World War Two and keeping Quebec safe for the Liberals. Unless Louis St. Laurent did it. Stonewaliea. “Six dollars more is all the economy can afford for the old age pension, and not another cent more if we are to keep a balanced budget.” So off to victory in the 1957 election rode the Diefen- baker Tories decrying the Liberals as ‘‘the six . buck boys,” - 1 John Diefenbaker could do it. The old red herring ploys “You ask me about freight rates,” he'd thunder from the platform, finger pointing to some offending heckler, ‘‘I’ll tell. you about freight rates.” Lester Pearson could never do it. Knew he couldn't carry it off. So he just lispea along on the defensive. struggling to isolate himself from one scandal after another but failing almost pitiously, and never won a majority, Of them all, Pierre Trudeau can do it best, Master of the fine art of the con. Sophisticated exponent or the technique of the verbal twist, turning the question around to embrarass the outraged and enraged heckler. -Basic tactic for them all: never answer a question directly. ° Spin it a little, and when asked about “A” switch to “BB,” - , 4 Next time you hear Pierre Elliott T. on the tube or on the election platform, watch and listen carefully, He's asked about the scandal. — and scandal it TERRACE/KITIMAT | daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Circutatlon - 635.4357 PUBLISHER.,..Don Cromack MANAGING EDITOR...Ernest Senior REPORTERS...Donna Vallleres (Terrace-Thornhill) REPORTERS...Scott Browes (Kitimat-Kitamaat) - Published by Sterling Publishers Published avery weekday at $212 Kalum St., Terrace, ff f 8.C. A momber of Varitied Circulation, Authorized as second class mali. Registration number 1201, Postage paid 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. ; -— he'll lead them down - girls government spending. an And he’ll answer with a counter-question as to whether saving should be made by cutting foreign aid to starving children or shaving old age pensions, Hecklers or even legitimate, seriou questioners seldom get a second run at it so he sticks them with this nastily deliberate misin- terpretation. What about those. fat indexed MPs, senators and your ayerage middle-income $30,000-a-year civil servant, he'll be asked. d he'll counter with a defence of the anarguable justice of indexing as a protection for fixed-income old age pensioners and war veterans, _ If he can’t turn it around or back on the questioners — and as smoothly slick old pro he seldom has difficulty with unpractised amateurs @ garden path in another direction altogether, What about capital taking over control of.the prisons — or abortion: and homosexuality which he decriminalizéd 9} among his first moves as Prime Minister. . And likely as not -you'll get a scholarly dissertation on native rights settlements in relation to oil and. gas pipelines and northein resource development. . Hit him with a question he’s incapable of an- swering beacuse he’s never been interested enough to look into it, like what about western industrial development or national investment strategy. ; And ne’ll shrug and give you that sweet — and marvellously at his age of 58 — innocent (honest) little boy smiles. : You'll melt. Terrace starts a! WW right to life This well meeting healthy concern on the part of Terrace residents against abortion on demand. It was decided to meet the needs of Terrace’s regnant women .in distress. A second: organizational meeting will be held in the nea future. Thoubh there is no formal structure at this ‘time, anyone who is. seeking advice and-or support is invited to call Eila at 635-4751 or Janna at 635-4509, Anyone in- ‘terested in finding out more or for volunteering support, please call as well, . There are positive . attender alternatives to abortion. This is the bellef of a group of concerned citizens in Terrace, They have decided to organize a service to assist pregnant women and who may be istressed over their pregnancy. The growing use of abortion as a birth contro] method adds to the spreading disrespect we have for life in our society, Last month, Betty Green, chairman of Pro Life Society, was guest speaker at a public meeting held in Terrace, ngions for da nishment and convicts . showed 4 | in popular impressign ‘of | Letters to the editor For kids who want to do their own thing Editor, Terrace Daily Herald; Here isa poem dedicated to P. King The Do-Your-Owrt-Thing School press “i uP rec lation Lorrie’s in the corner chucking chalk at the teach, the editor column to the Jolleen is a singin’ and laughin’-ain't that sweet? alien Canadian club for John is carving the words he Jikes to speak aff oe eon Onto the desk fo preserve his foul language for posterity; a. o our centre. ‘Those words aren't taught Pin see ese ee 4 eee Ritchie's chasing Bill around the room, over the desks, raised the ¢ lub a . Out the door and down the hail — they're sure havina hall! Pierre is just sitting there — stoned. -Teri is gabbing to a friend who phoned; Why go to class? Who wants to learn? Susan does -~ she's the one that’s crying. Next door teacher Jones is singing to the kids: “Entertain them, get their Interest,” is what U.B.C, said, “You gotta put on a big show and relate to their level,’ He remembered the prof said, and passed out the booze, This sure is fun,, butsomething’s missing he felt. easly. Over in the office the phone rings en “Why don’t you answer, Mrs. Smith?” “Tm doing my own thing can't you see!” their own thing’ in school (as stated in and other teenagers who want te ‘do _—the April 17th paper). Terrace child dev. centre Editor, Terrace Daily Herald; We would like to ex- We would also like to thank Mr. Peter Konkin of the Royal Bank for the door prizes, Mr, Gianninog - Pretto of Terrace Shell and Car Welding and raising an additional $140.00) and Mr. Joe Durando and Dr. Joe Zucchiatti for their The principal went fishing — a good run of salmon today. The vice-principal was frantie: “We can't runa school this way! efforts in pellin so many I quit!” said he. “‘There’s no education here!” of the raffle tickets, - to The school i a mess: broken windows, crushed sandwiches = _ the gain many thanks to oy th ly, farhoge OYaES 84 SMT, uw at, eal ohpol oe Sadly, the ds who wanted to learn left thinking aoe Tesieetwct 27 gemerosity, a Whatever happened to our rights: peers ts “yours truly The right to be educated, an 8 | Terrace Child The right to learn undisturbed by other students? ; Development Centre Pat Dimsdale John G. MeMynn, Substitute Teacher. Chairman, Fund Raising a . Defends trustee's wife Do it yoursolf Editor, Terrace Daily majority vote: containsa back seat to School . oan cost $ Herald: fair amount of misin-. Board. . Ihave sat by for three formation. The second js * My wife will continue to How many Canadians and read some from a different address 4. ¥% job" on School sre aware of the Income viclous unsigned attacks but quite likely the “Board and ‘answer a Tax deductions they are on the School Board and same typewriter, questions she can ony entitled to? Not many my wife. In particularthe © The next day a letter ae letters are signed Ong says David Ingram of io she 1s doing on the on the School Board not . Cen-ta Services. hool Board. hiring local teachers, AsI. - ‘The open linenolonger Ingram operates 55 I don't . give much know . several. local exists, but if it did she Cen-ta tax offices in credence to unsigned teachers whowere hired, would use it when she Canada, including one in lettera but feel I must Icanonly assumeshe has could. Anyone can hide Kitimat. _— answer as they are so an axe to grind. benind anonymity and — According to Ingram, worded that she must The last letter states tear another person the eomplexi the fight a bantom. Nan has done nothing apart, but if they elieve income tax act prevents é first letter was since her election is an what they say let's see Canadians from _ un- written by a former out and out lie, No one s0me names. derstanding all the School Trustee, who quit could devote more time Yourstruly, deductions they are shortly after being and energy to the com- = C.E. Doe’ Harrison «entitled to claim such as | becauge she could mittment than my wife! - renter’s assistance. not get her own way ona Family often takes a Says Yorkshire cities grimy no more |’ ' Editor, Terrace Daily which you may know as a . steel town has over the last 25 yeara spent rita 0 inlare ion ution contre] and has reported in the Heraldon fow the cleanest air in Tuesday i8th. The item an major ¢k in Europe. which I wish to draw to ‘0 bring this matter to your attention is the acloseI would like to say reference to, quote, the ' that the north of England grimy industrial towns of ig not the grimy dirty northern England. It place that you think it is, seems quite obvious to Yourssincerely me that you, the reporter . who wrote the article plus most “of the media in North America have never, visiten these 80 called fimy areas of England. It has become somewhat annoying -to me that since I have been ’ Canada’ the most Herald; : I ‘am. writing = in reference to the article Yorkshire Ripper JG. Marfitt - Editor’s reply: Serry :. . disappoint you. The editm {of the Daily Herald) has, inaeed been in the area you refer to... in- clud Heeley Bottom, Eccallsall d., Millhouses and Ilkley Moor. He also agrees with you that’ Shetfield has done an enviable job of pollution control and smoke abatement over the last 25 years, However, one does not and in general that is . held by the average Canadian is one of foggy cities buried under tonsof grime. : I would like to try to put the record straight somewhat by telling you that Iwas born and raised: in the City. of Leech and although your theory may have held some truth 30 years ago it ds far from the truth now. In proof of my paint I would like to remind you that the City of Sheffield effects of 150° years of smouldering coal mine tps and, glowering pitheads, overnight, The grime of Sheffleld- as well aa Rotherham of the: north country and other industrial cities of the. Mingham — Ig deeply | . whose books efface the grime nor the | midlands ‘-- like ‘Bir- living on wale od ‘pent they shouldn't be filing a return, but they are allowed to file for renter's assistance, | so Ingram, € long-time critle Revenue enn faye Gepartmenhtraraly advises tax payers of the deductions fre nudtitgae a unly upon € biildings but into the hearts and lives of mary who laboured long hours from dawn to dusk; ‘thousands of whom began at the age of six and seyen as Blate pickers on the conveyor belts; girls, aap pen brown he ‘says, -individuala Ppnfera’” and the rest, Many of; these are parenta and — grand- parents and some siill survive who are great- grandparents, today. It is well, however, that you wrote to remind us at the winds of change have been — and still are blowing, in Yorkshire, the county that gave the world an Eric t ~ and the contemporary Yorkshire Vet. writer programs are ‘heleing ‘ams are helpin mailiions to laugh through their tears. “One last word. “‘We" got the ar-. ticle you refer to from the BRITISH press. We did not -write it ourselves. Perhaps, if you have the . time, you-.might_ drop letter to lest ‘eat-anid penetrating. deep - and London’ y roa in, _ “If they are not,” he ae saya, “'you should get up wae = and leave"! . information offices are they are wrong and the decision is not questioned, but should be, “If you look at these companies,” he says, Pha see they open a for oye wy consultants, SRYS ain ew -cah plan an’ idual's finances. Moat - companies are ; ‘am. says you can judo a tax divisor’s competence _ b eations he or she asks. which they: areentitled. All too often, - inquiries gt tax. tax or. tax preparers, not con: tants,’ : ial ~ the - the questions. | | | '