WAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, July 18, 1977

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Now, ne
We're surprised and more than a bit amused :by .
Transport Minister Jack Davis’ reasoning in hiring
his son-in-law, a third-year law student at Ontario's ,
Queen’s University, to be his executive assistant at a
salary of $1,625 for each of the four summer months.
Davis said his son-inlaw was the only person
available to handle the job on such short notice. Not
true, There are thousands of students available for.
‘summer work, especially at $1,625 per month, much
more than either Young Canada Works or the
Provincial Student Summer Employment program
ers.
Oh, if only he'd have asked us first...

Guest editorial

Air safety
: talk false.

By JEAN GUY DUBUC
Montreal La Press

Reason has finally prevailed over passion, A —

three-judge federal commission unequivocally.
asserted last week that bilingual air
communications are as safe as unilingualism, at
least for aircraft governed by visual flight rules.

- . -It was time for English-speaking pilots and air

traffic controllers to stop repeating false arguments
about air safety. It was also time to prove...that
‘arguments against bilingualism in the air were

‘completely unscientific and based on nothing but

fanatical racism... .
-. This debate...shows that the Canadian Air Traffic
Controllers Association and the Canadian Air Line -

won members into believing that they opposed
m for professional reasons. :
_ A level-headed inquiry and judgment, based on -
objective data, was needed. The commission has
met this need by providing...some figures... For
example, in the realm of world air communications
there are currently two quadrilingual countries, six
1 countries, and:75 bilingual countries as
oppesed tojust 45 thatuse English only. And during
e last 20 years, a single air accident out of a total
17,635 was, perhaps, related to the use:of two
Ages.

Let us hope that Air Canada and CP Air will
remember which pilots made a public show of their
incompetence.

From now on, it is the competence of the pilots,
not the principle of bilingualism, that should be
open to question.

But the commission’s report is just the first step.
It lays down a general principle but applies it only to
the concrete question of visual flight.

The recommendation on Mirabel International is

ising.
The use of French would be permitted for visual

flights going through Mirabel’s airspace and
theoretically for flights landing there. But the
runways would be closed to airplanes governed by
visual flight rules.

The reason: Mirabel is a major international
-airport and it is advisable to refuse landing rights to
small aircraft, as at New York or London. ©
: This would be. understandable if Mirabel really
were a big international airport. But Mirabel is
currently operating at 25 percent capacity.

Les Gens de L’Air du Quebec, who represent: . -

many French-speaking pilots and air controllers, :

and Liberal MP Serge Joyal ‘aré understandably’ '.

upset.
HERMAN es

) grocery’ shoppir
tates border cities south of

N97? Unnerol Prea Syndicate “7/H

_ "Yev've got six wives waiting for you on the
optelde. Are you sure you want @ parole?”

| history,
' eriminal courts in -four

record temperatures
hovered around 38 degrees’
New York's prison and court
systems were in chaos
Saturday and officials
feared the problems caused

by coping with blackout--

related arrests might spark
yet another crisis.
Following the largest
mass arrests in New York’s
the jails and

boroughs remained jammed
as a volunteer army of

1ow Jack’

ee Corr terri ee ae

‘Pilots Association fooled:the: population-and-their--

r

Ray Bergstrom, who gr

_ THE BLACKOUT’S AFTERMATH —

judges, prosecutors and
egal aid lawyers struggled
with the aftermath the
billion-dollar blackout.

At the Bronx County court
house, 360 prisoners were
jammed into a- single
detention pen for a third
sweltering day, awaiting
court appearances.

The oniy place to sleep
was the floor, There were
diabetics deprived of
insulin, officials said,
persons undergoing
mathadone treatment going

they are waking up over coffee each morning, is the man

| Anniversary DeeJay .
eets Terrace residents while

into withdrawal, persons
suffering from epileptic
seizures and others from
heat prostration.
Many of the 3,521 persons
arrested in the mass looting
which came while the city
was dark were taken to city
jails following initial court
earings. There
overcrowding and heal
created a tense situation

which officials feared might

lode.
"Aiticials estimate it will
be Tuesday at the earliest

street July 30 at 8 p.m. If its

: New York hit by waves: heat, |

NEW YORK AP - As”

before all those arrested will

see a judge.

“It’s a nightmare; it’s
inhumane; we admit it, but
we can't do anything about
it,” sald Philip Leshin, a
spokesman for the
correction department.

While the courts struggled
to deal with the persons
arrested Wednesday and
Thursday for looting, arson’
and related crimes, city and
state officials mounted a
massivé effort to get the
stricken city back to life.

® is now apparently

raining the dance will be in

the arena but if the sun is setting over a dry sky the dance

- to set your feet o-dancing during the 50th Anniversary _will be hed in the arena parking lot, See youthere!

STOCKHOLM
Sweden, after years of
lecturing the white world on
how ba y it treats people
with dark skins, is faced
with its own serious racial
problems.

Last month, a year-long
‘series of skirmishes in
Sodertalje between youn
Swedish toughs and Turkis
immigrants .they call
“blackheads” turned into a

| No food bargains 7
~ across the border _

- VANCOUVER (CP) —
Canadian shoppers who last
year spent $1 million a week

pping at United

here are finding few
bargains there now, a new
price survey shows.

"A newspaper survey of
‘food prices in Vancouver
‘and Bellingham, Wash., 35
‘miles south, shows some
prices identical, When
Washington’s 5.4 per cent
food sales tax, the Canadian
dollar's six per cent

devaluation and duties paid.

to Canada Customs. are
included, savings are all but
eliminated.

“We're puessing our
Canadian volume's down by
twothirds,’’ a Lynden,
Wash. supermarket
manager sald.

A Canada Customs officer

said the trend south is
inning

“attracted
by our better quality and
cheaper food

“ "IE is now definitely

. to reverse, and a.

daily stream of U.S.
shoppers are spending their.
’ money in B.C,,

ra

— FANDREW YOUNG IS RIGHT”
Sweden confronts racist tend

(AP) —

Police in Goteborg, the
country’s second-largest
city, began an investigation
last week into five
restaurants and dis-
cotheques that were shown
to have refused to admit
blacks from Africa and the
United States while opening
their doors for white

trons.

“Andrew Young is right,”
‘said Ylva Brune, a reporter

cheaper to shop in Canada,
with the exception of a few
items such as poultry, eEgs
and paper products,” he

said.
- While U.S. customs .

officials denied Americans
are starting to food shop in
B.C., the manager of a
discount food chain said the

amount of U.S. money spent . Pape

in his B.C. stores has tripled
in the last slx months.

VALUE DOWN

The federal Anti-Inflation
Board reports Vancouver
food prices were up 8.4 per
cent in the past yen In the
same period, Seattle food
prices rose 3.7 per cent. But

e value of the Canadian
dollar has declined, a factor
said to be keeping Canadian
shoppers at home.

Comparisons between the
B.C,-owned Mark-It
discount food chain and the
unconnected Bellingham
store of the same name
show produce and beef
rices are virtually
dentical.
’ Washington skim milk

“We're as bad racists as the
worst countries.”
Although he later softened
his remarks, Young, U.S.
ambassador to the United -
Nations, called the Swedes —
“terrible racists” and said
“they have an ideology
which makes them very
humanitarian and liberal,
but when the crunch comes
the blacks in Sweden are

treated like the blacks in‘
Queens,” one of New York; nothing. Now that the:

’

battle that newspapers refer ‘for Arbetet, a newspaper

to as Sweden’s first race whose disclosures led fo the City’s five boroughs. *./, Fe

riot.. . ‘ Goteborg investigation Many Swedes expressed —
SAVINGS ARE LOST.

powder prices exceed,
Yancouver’s but substantial
savings still are possible on
turkeys and eggs. Import
restrictions on eggs and.

poultry, however,
considerably reduce . the
savings per trip.

_ ‘The savings on American
per products disappear

when taxes, duty and the
-exchange rate are
considered. The same

factors make 13-ounce tins
of evaporated milk, selling
in U.S. stores for 35 cents,
cost more per ounce when
brought across the border
than 45-cent 16 ounce tins of
evaporated milk sold in
Canada. ‘

Some U.S, _ stores,
adverisely affected by the
closing gap in prices, have
tried to lure, Canadian

customers back by accept- -

ing money.-at..par. But’ a-
Cae eg or iu ermarket
par! ots in
and Lynden, once crowded
with Canadian cars, shows
few vehicles with B.C. li-
cence plates. .

ellingham —

irritation at Young’s
remarks, but others said
they may have had a
salutory effect.

“The fact is, we missed
the boat from 1945 to 1965
when immigration was

building up here,” said Kjell’
. Oberg,

irector of the

Swedish Immigration

Service.. “We should have”

.done something to defeat
-préjudice then, but we did

economy is in less good
shape and the numbers of
people who don't look Iike us
(white. Swedes) has

~ increased, we're paying for
our negligence, :
Sw

len-was s0.sure of its

~“Ipck of discrimination that:
in a country of countless’

commissions there is no

_ agency to hear civil rights

complaints..Oberg says the

- immigration service is

looking into how minorities
are portrayed in Swedish

Woodie Williams, New
York ditector of the Smail
Business Administration,
pledged that the SBA, which
s declared New York and
Westchester County
disaster areas, would 5
loans of up to $500,000 to help
owners of. destroyed, looted
businesses get on their feet
again, It normally takes u
to a year to arrange suc!

.

aid

However, some of the
estimated 2,000 businesses

said they not reopen. ,

Elinor -Guggenheimer,
commissioner of consumer.
affairs, estimated that the
loss in food alone totalled
millions of dollars and there
was growing evidence the
95-hour blackout would
bring immediate economic
damage of at least $1 billion
and spread. permanent

damage to the already

erly-stricken sections: of,
e city hardest hit by the

~ looting,

Voice of the readers

Dear Sir:

In the July 13 issue of the
Herald you carried a story
about Cyril Shelford and the
results of the poll he did
concerning the oil question.

Mr, Shelford is to:
commended for the
institution of sucha poll, and
one would - presume the
purpose of it would be to
determine the feelings of the
majority of his constituents
and act accordingly.

However, with the results:
of the poll showing: 61
percent against the

roposed port and pipeline,
he next question Mr.
Shelford asks is: “What is
in it for the people of the
area if we do. take the
risks?”!

If, as the gentleman
states, the replies were not
from a small vocal group
but were rather a fair cross-
section of society, then he
must surely feel obliged: to
follow the direction that has
been indicated. Instead, he
eparing
a brief for the Thompson
Inquiry outlining the
possible Provincial benefijs.
» Immediately following
‘this story another article

‘States’ that Mayor George —

school books, but
acknowledges this is just d
scratch on the surface.:

The riot in Sodertalie, a.
town of 77,000 about 20 miles
from Stockholm, involved a
group of Turkish Christians.
ealling . themselves
Assyrians, although their
connection with the ancient

ple is vague. The riot fol-
lowed .a smaller clash.
earlier this year in Falun,
an industrial city.

There are about 8,000
Assyrians in Sweden and
3,000 live in Sodertalje. They.
began to arrive in the
country in the late 1960s,
contending that the Turkish

government was not doing
enough to protect them from

the Moslem maiority. .
. The clash of cultures has
been abrupt, the Assyrians
enjoying street life and
Jounging in cafes, and the
Swedes being put off by too
much exoticism too close ta

Shelford should
— listen to polls

Thom, in reply to Derek
Wilson, salt oy cuncll’s
support for the e
‘was on of Kitimat
(not Kitamaat) residents.
Mr. Shelford states that
about half of the
respondents were from
Kitimat, Is it not logical to
assume that 61 percent of
those people were also
against the pipeline?

Where was Mayor Thom
during the Princess Pat
blockade ‘and where is he,
now? People. are trying to
talk to him.

It can’t be said that people
are desirous of stagnation.
Indeed, with almost 80
percent opting in favour of
development it seems to be
clear that we are asking for
‘growth, but progressive

growth. :

But we must have elected
representatives able to find
and intelligently understand

the alternatives and, if
guidance is either sought or
‘shown from the electorate,
then that person must be

willing to act for his people 7
L an

in an open, hones
thence courageous manner,

Move . over, ‘George
Kerster?
Tom Knox,

Terrace

encies

home. |

Tensions have
heightened by a contractin
job market, Althoug
unemployment runs below
two per cent in the country
of eight million, it is double
among the 419,000 immi-
granis, 187,000 of whom are
Finns, the largest group.
Other large ‘immigrant
groups are Yugoslavs,
40,000;. Danes, 36,000;
Norwegians, 27,000; Greeks
18,000; Germans 16,000, an
Americans, 7,000. About 15
or 20 per cent of the
Americans are black.

‘The immigrants do the
kind of menial, unskilled
labor that. §
themselves don’t want to do.
But the sight of Assyrians on
the streets and in cafes has
made commonplace a

remark that Swedes are.’

ying high taxes to permit
loaf.

been -

Swedes

eir darkskinned guests to.

geophysicist says.
Dr. Carl.

salmon fishery.

| Pacific . Rim of,
village of
River with a
trans-Alaska oil pi

~The peak, in the Wrangell Mountains
about 200 miles southeast of here, is the
northernmost active volcano in the:

@ runs nearby.
Benson said that although the surface:
temperature at the North Crater ‘has a Cop;

~ DORMANT ALASKAN VOLCANO _
WORRIES PIPELINE WATCHERS

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A crater on
‘volcanic Mt. Wrangell is heating up and it
“could be the prelude to further eruptive
activity,” a University of Alaska

yarl S, Benson said scientists
“gannot say from what we are seeing now
that there is going to be an eruption, but
there is no way.to say that it isn’t going to

erupt,

Benson said the most serious threat in.
the event of a major eruption of the 14,163
foot peal would be the possibility ofa vast
mud flow blecking the Copper River. ‘

The river, which enters the Guif of .
Alaska near Cordova, supports a rich

b
8,200 square

to 132 million

The nearest

per Cente

mean average of about five degrees below
‘zero Fahrenheit, heat resding
eight inches deep in ex
mperatures of up to 187 degrees, the
boiling point of water at that cititade.
He said that since “heat flow
‘measurements started in 1965, the snow
and ice in the North Crater has subsided
some 545 feet over an area of about

‘The logs of ice and snow in the entire
caldera from heat flow is probably close

“The danger is:an eruption which clears
out-the summit of Mt.
said. ‘We are talking about maybe 7
cubic kilometers 4.2 cubic mites of water
still perched up there in the.form of ice.”
ive ar said that could br
_ i A. OF, Wire. How - water, ice ’ a
Sg ls tote wa tod. ter, ice, mud, the whole works
r.on, the

ppulation of about 200. Othe

3 four to
posed rock show

feet,

cubic feet, Benson said.
rangell,”’ Benson

on a huge mud!

¢

ote autem md |
ere 1s now evidence of a prehiste
flow. prODeby cree. ae ghistorig mud
r.

per River. He said

Wrangell, at
en

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