a TERRACE STANDAR ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, (968 . lustratios repro services and advertising agencies. - Registration No. 7820 4647 Lazella Ave., Terrace, B. C.; VG 188 , (604) 38-7283 Serving tha Terrace wens. Published on Wednesday of eact woth ty Cariboo Presa (1969) Lid. al 4647 Lazelia Ave, Vervace, Bitiah Columbia © Stones, photograpts, iiuttratons, dasigns and typestytes in the Terrace Standard ara tha property of the comin ravers ietuding Corben Press 968) Lid, vita he Reproduction in wheie or in part, without written permission, ts speciticalty ‘ronda. Authorined 33 second class mail pending tha Post Office Department, lor payment of pastage in cash. | . GC Goa. ~ “aan Manager: Edouard ‘Credgeu “EDITORIAL — Progress is sometimes measured in the small things that happen. Some also call it advancing civilization. Witness two separate events in Ter- race, One is the presence of what was once an all-male enterprise. The other is ‘yet another incursion into the pockets of the taxpayer. Earlier this year the men’s soccer league here voted to accept women on its teams. Chalk one up for the idea of choosing the best person who can do a job. You can also call it putting your best foot forward. The player, Alison Thomson, put it best by saying, ‘‘The idea is the sport and enjoy doing it. If that means having some breaks with tradition — well, so what?” Yet things haven’t been pleasant for her. At a recent tournament in Kit- wanga, she was barred from playing. ‘Take it like a man,”’ said the person who did the barririg. Must be something a female in parking will find ways to possible. Yet there is an element,of par- simony in this exercise. Governments are loath to raise taxes because they are politically unpopular. - But they have no problem in increasing to promote $25,000 a year. It’s not a lot of money and it'll in no way cut the airport’s annual deficit. The official explanation is the airport must Progress, sort of - in the water in Kitwanga. The other sign of progress, this time a more doubtful kind, is the introduction of paid parking at the airport. ‘It costs something like $1.2 million a year to run the airport. The airport generates ap- proximately $500,000 in revenues. Paid bring in approximately make as much money as or introducing user fees. As anyone knows, a government user fee is. just another definition of a tax. Soccer and parking. Progress on one ‘front and a decline on another. It’s a break even day for civilization. - All aboard | “arciving on Track Five, the tax- : payers’ gravy train with Socred leader- * ship candidate Mel Couvelier as your “aad” a a Pare t conduetc®”’. A, Jot. of people wanted to cancel Mr. ' Coivelier’ s- -ticket: last. week’-when he brought up up the subject of some : natives taking advantage of what he call- -ed “the gravy train’? of taxpayers’ benefits. Well of course some do. A person can tightly say the same of government sub- . sidies to businesses, of groups which de- pend on government grants, of some sec- tors of the public service. The point behind Mr. statement is the massive welfare state created to govern and support natives. It’s something natives don’t want and var circumstance vat a, a something for which they can’t be blam- ed. White governments began that awful in the last century when aspects of this piece of legislation. In money. fact, governments have made the situa- tion worse by assuming they can help natives simply by adding more and more The sooner the Indian Act and its Couvelier’s companion legislation and regulations are trashed the better it will be for all of s. This is one train governments should correctly derail. Healing yourself 4 : My doctor heeds the Bible : when it says, ‘Physician, heal : thyself’. Only he takes it one i step further, He expects patients to treat themselves, too. If more ' doctors followed his lead, we'd : have money to re-open: hospital ‘ wings and to staff. surgical t units. , ‘ He capitalizes on my gocd ‘health. If I were a physical : wreck, we'd both be in big trou- ‘ ble. As it is, no matter what I : > complain to him, about, he ‘ : always says, ‘'Give it time. It ' * will get better.'? Mercifully, it : ' always does cure spontaneous. * ty. . I first. saw. him. years. ago ‘ when I -was convinced F had : : lung cancer. Nothing else could i hurt so much, After weeks of : agonizing over whether it was t better to fumble along in the. dark or face the truth before it was too late to treat, I finally made an appointment. - Doc took a history, examined me. He concluded I was suffer- ing from an acute muscle spasm. ‘Did: he prescribe pain killers? Iniject: the. muscle with novocaine?.. Nope. He sent me home with the-advice, “Give it, time. It ‘will get better.’’ Six . weeks later it did feel better. - Another time I flicked my hand at the nose of a pup impa tient 10 gobble the food I car- Aled ‘for her.. The bop on het _nose merely made her duck, But my hand swelled thicker than’ I politician's expense account. 6 rf a a wee nw ~~ Through Bifocals by Claudette Sandeck! A i ", Yeassured me I had-done no : lasting damage. ‘‘Give it time. ‘me. Once more he was fight, as “found out.weeks later, | °., The miserable results of working left-handed with shop tools forced me to ga see Dac. X-rays showed a healing frac- ture of the bone between pinky and wrist. But did it rate a plaster cast? a splint? and Ace bandage? No sir. “Give it time,’’ Doc said, “It will get . better.”? Which it did, within eight weeks. . My most recent visit resulted from testing a new cure for “restless legs’, that feeling of ants scurrying under the skin. The cure consisted of stretching ‘calf muscles by standing off the edge of a step on the toes, like a surfer hanging ten,. we Rather than cure, I worsened | .my problem. Both insteps puff- ed up until no shoe in the house would slip on, Multiple fractures, without a doubt. - Mercifully, Doc didn’t com- ment on my restless leg cure. He will get better,’ he assured | 30. now whenever ‘I: catch a. d, I lake something to: dry: let alone tie. . Nose and. go-to bed d early. if =, my dog football-style while we're play- ing catch, day one, Thus far my diagnoses and course of treatment have been as effective as Doc's. Best of all, 1 haven't lost any time from’ work, wasted any trips to town, or created a rafi of expenses for medical services to pay. . That: makes..me - feel ‘good, SS knowing I’m- -unclogging the system for those who truly re- quire medical care.’ happens ‘if I What: misdiagnose my ills? I won "tsue for malpractice. on 3 a tackles my knee. I hobble to the :. nearest calendar to check off penenserf : THEN VELL WERE ARE THE RULES cc Be, “ge i ae — AFTER AWHILE 1 Yet BOM oe Using hydro gold for good purpose VICTORIA — Fate and the unpredictablility of politics may have cheated Grace Mc- Carthy out of her chance to become premier of British Cal- umbia, but if and when she finally departs from the political stage, she will have left behind some powerful messages, Ata time when other cabinet ‘ministers, chose ta ae “comings, . ‘McCarthy resigned _ her ‘cabinet post. The. ' ' message,not understood by all - at the time or even now, was that ethics and scruples are not yet completely out of fashion. When she decided not to . enter the current leadership . tace, she sent a clear message that she wouldn’t seek per- : sonal power at the risk of fur- ther dividing an already badly split party. . ‘But McCarthy. saved her most important message for — last: redemption for the Social . Credit Party lies in’ getting back to its roots, Last week, McCarthy in- troduced a private member’s bill which, if adopted, ‘would -build on one af the legacies left ‘by the party's first leader — William Andrew Cecil: Bent nett. In 1961; the Coluribia River Treaty was signed, giving the ~ US access to cheap hydro- ” - electric power, Under the terms of- the agreement, all ; proprietary rights, title and in- -. trests arising under the treaty, * including all rights to. _downstream benefits, belong to . British Columbia.— _ after 1998, ee! “In the ‘early years, , the treaty received its share of criticism. Weé.sold out too cheaply, the critics said; but the treaty ¢x- pires in 1998. After that, British Columbia stands to get an annual income of at least - $250 million, perhaps as much - as $1 billion a year, from the - downstream benefits of sale of " pydro-electric power generated by-the Columbia River system. What to do with sucha -windfall?: The temptation for - ' whatever government. will be in O power, seven years from now is | THE a who ALWAYS ABOUT: BEING SO TALL AND STRAIGAT : ? From the Capital by Hubert Beyer © to just add the money. to they‘undertook the responsibility-to treatewit bre Bill Vahaer, Zalni's shorts"; sehetal revenue and Use i for. natives as children, as a group that needs.” “be B bi is. sh fis eRetal cevenue and Us . constant care and attention. The philosophical underpinning of . that lies in the Indian Act. That which we see today stems from the paternalistic CERRY ES ab + ‘whatever governments use money for, McCarthy, hasa . _ better idea. Her vision is to use part.of the money for our children’s education, . Under the terms of the Col- umbia River Treaty Legacy Fund, proposed in her private - member’s bill, at least $50 ' million of the additional’ revenue flowing into provincial coffers after the treaty’s ex- piry, would serve one single purpose: give. our young children an opportunity to be © “among the brightest and best | in the competitive world of in- - ternational trade, commerce, service, and the sciences.’ Based on the projected- minimum of $250 million in “new revenue beginning in 1998, _ McCarthy proposes to lock $200 million into a fund that will provide for the construc- tion of schools, hospitals and | senior citizens’ housing. The remaining $50 million . ~ would be used exclusively for a ‘21st Century Educational Fund, Under the terms of that _ fund, each child entering - ~ kindergarten after 1998-would © have deposited $1,000 into a special account, Upon graduation, the ac- count will have at least $4,000 in it. That money is then to be ' used for the'student’s post-’ secondary education. “The monies paid to each child will prepare. students for careers in export trade and ser-". vices, science and technology, in accredited institutions of. _ higher: learning,"” says ‘McCar- thy.. ‘McCarthy believes strongly. that education is the key.to - solving most problems that”. © Plague. us, be the bigotry, — racism or overly. re mary BRAGGED / “On! yeaa !: SO” WHAT: AGouT HIM 2 2 Tues ~ do worse than: listen’ to‘her ade , “Name one problem that.” sbi at least be partially ved by education,” McCai ive thy asked me when I discussed her proposal with her. 1 was: hard-pressed for an answer: then, and I'm hard-pressed for. an answer now. ‘At a lime when govern: ments across the country aré 4 spending our children’s futui leaving massive deficits and ‘ex: panding the obligations of af - next generation, we have a‘ unii- que opportunity to preseve’ ‘the’ : benefits of the Columbia River Treaty for the childzen of British Columbia and their future,’’ she said. ; When McCarthy introduced her bill, she described W.A.C.”* Bennett as ‘ta master builder, — a creative genius and true vi- sionary,”’ aspects that have been sadly lacking in British Columbia politics in the past - _ few years. ° Trying to understand what on earth possessed Vander Zalm to mix private wilh public business the way he did, 1 often think back to the time when W.A.C, Bennett refused to let one of his hardware stores sell a piece of equipment to B. C, Ferries, leaving a “vessel stranded. And he didn't _ even have any conflict-of- - interest guidelines to-tive by.: Lf Grace had won the. 1986 , leadership race, I have no — doubt she would have brought _to the office of premier some. of the valuesthat W.A.C, |, Bennelt embraced, and the <° - Social Credit Party would not today be on the verge of eh _ “tinction: - 82 " _ Since that v was not to be, the: pretenders to the throne. could parting message. And that’ : cludes NDP. leader, Mike. Hare court. : es ae ee a Le ae aaa ee