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HOW TO KEEP THE LIFE
OF THE PARTY ALIVE
| "Tis the season to be jolly. And as the cocktail glasses
: begin to clink, the B.C. Automobile Association suggests
* becoming ‘First a Friend ... Then a Host’.
- The idea is to place the safety of your guests ahead of
. proving your Javishness as a host.
. 8o, while you're making mental notes for that upcoming
. holiday pany, place consideration of your driving guests
« highon the list. Ifalcotiel is part of the menu, play down the
; liquor and play up the spirit. Insure that the “life of the
party" stays alive.
. ‘The following suggestions will bring your party toa happy
> conclusion: .
+Have guests mix their own drinks at a self-service bar so
they can pace themselves. Here's a chance to use your
, decorative talents to create an unusual and attractive
" display in one area of the room. If you plan to play bar-
- tender yourself, always measure out moderate amounts. of
. liquor. Never push drinks on, driving guests.
. Include a variety of low and non-alcoholic beverages in
" the menu. Guests not choosing to drink will appreciate it.

- Serve rich and starchy snacks and main dishes |

. throughout the evening. Not only will such foods slow down
|. Government spending has been the principal cause of
* inflation in Canada, E.A. Christenson, FCA, President of
: the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants )cica) told
; Kiwanis Club members in Vancouver recently. “Big
, povernment has ‘won’ in the inflationary race and it, not big
_ business and not big labour, has distorted the market
. System in Canada.”
* CICA President Christenson suggested improved
: financial management, control of revenues, and more open
‘public disclosure of financial planning as ‘strategies for
_ restraint in the public sector.
Improved financial control is a most pressing issue.
According to Christenson, the civil service is subject to all
‘ the inefficiencies of any large bureaucracy. but lacks the
‘discipline inherent in the profit motive. Over the past
‘decade, the federal public service has reorganized ex-
_tensively, the number of employees has doubled, and
spending has increased four times.
The efficiency and effectiveness of government spendin;
. will improve-if Partiament passes the recently introduc
* Bill incorporating the recommendations of the Independent
Review Cammittee of the Office of the Auditor General. A
- major innovation is the proposal that the Auditor General
:yeport whether departments have checked into the ef-
+ fectiveness of their spending programs. ‘‘As it stands now I
. seriously question whether new and expensive social
_ programs are properly evaluated before they are adopted,’
} Christenson said, elting the revisions to family allowances
- as an example, —
“An often-voiced justification for recent dramatic in-
. creases in government share of GNP is thaf rising public

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the rate of alcohol absorption into the bloodstream, but they
give you a chance to exercise your culinary creativity.

_” Plan games and activities that will keep your company
circulating, direct attention away from the bar and give
your ingenuity a chance to surface.

These suggestions shouldn't endanger your reputation as
a great partygiver. Food, fun and activities are more im-
portant to a successful party than liquor.

But there’s more you can do to insure that guests are in a
condition te drive home safely.

An hour er so before you expect the party to end, tactfully
store the liquor away and serve plenty of hot coffee and
perhaps a rich dessert. Since only time overcomes alcohol's
effects, these are good time-gainers. .

Should your efforts fail and you have a tipsy friend on
your hands, suggest a drive home with someone else or cali
a taxi. Friends don't let friends drive drunk.

Remember, aicohol is involved in over half of all auto-
related fatalities, injuries and property damage occurring
on the nation’s roads teday. Driving dangers also increase
as roads become icy and slick during the winter.

Planning and consideration can help make this holiday
season a Safe one. A real toast to the partygiver who’s,
“first a Friend ... Then a Host!" ’

Government spending

expectations have forced government to expand its role —
fo protect our environment, to protect our health, to
regulate industries, to provide jabs and unemployment
insurance when these are lacking,”' Christenson said. Over
the past 10 years new social programs have accounted for
over 58 percent of the growth in government spending and
this is more than the country can afford.
_ Government willingness to expand the money supply,
inflation and the progressive income tax system created a
revenue windfall in recent years and encouraged govern-
ment spending, Christenson noted. He warned that
government revenues shouid not grow at a faster rate than
NP, and government's share of GNP should be reduced.

Control of tax revenues or the commitment of any excess

over GNP growth to reducing government debt would
promote spending restraint. ‘

_ Christenson called for more public disclosure of long
range financial planning. ‘‘] particularly recommend that
e

ederal government publish rough forecasts covering a
five year period which estimate revenues under existing tax
rates and the cost of current commitments. That way the
public would gain an idea of how much present programs
are going to cost in tax dollars, and estimate what new
programs, if any, the country can afford. At present there is
too much secrecy involved in public financial reporting and
estimates.”

Such forecasts would temper ‘public demand for govern-
ment services Christenson said, ‘‘because you don’t have to
be an economist or a chartered accountant to recognize the
basic econgmic principle that there is no suck thing as a
ree lunch.”

Economic stagnation

' ‘A leading chartered accountant recently urged
businessmen to write the Prime Minister and Members of
_ Parliament, expressing ‘concern about the economic
_ Stagnation which has gripped Canada in recent years,
Mr. W.B. “Bill Laurie, president of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, said in a
‘luncheon address to the Courtenay Rotary Club that the
federal government could do three things to help get the
‘ economy back on its feet: reduce interest rates, alow home
owners to deduct mortgage interest from their income tax,
‘and stop interfering with the free enterprise system.
‘The federal government, according to the polls, isn’t
very popular with the people,” Laurie said, “and so they
will be especially sensitive to any feedback from the
voters,’’
He said that is why this is the best time to write and let
thenr know how businessmen feel.
“The economic climate in this country is, to say the least,
very gloomy at the moment.
“AS businessmen, you are worried about falling in-
vestment and the prospect of growing unemployment.
“T think it's high time the federal government came to
grips with the primary reason for our economic dif-
iculties.” . ;
_ Currently, he said, the best rate of interest one can obtain
in Canada is 1044 percent, while the prime rate in the United
States is only 634 percent. ‘
“Under these circumstances,” he added, ‘it is no wonder

that Canadian borrowers, including the B.C. government,
are going outside the country to gel money”. He said the
B.C. government gave approval borrow $262 million in
New York primarily to finance B.C. Hydro projects.

Laurie said Ottawa should allow homeowners to subtract
mortgage interest payments from their tax forms, as
residents of both the United States and Great Britain are
allowed to do. “By allowing deductions on mortgages up to
$50,000,” he said, “the majority of potential homeowners
would benefit from such a scheme.

Laurie said the increasing amount of federal government
regulation today found.in the private sector must be
reduced. . a

“It is estimated that $1.5 billion in Canadian investment
has poured out of the country this year as companies are
losing confidence in their own country.”

He also said that offshore investors aren't putting money
into Canadian projects for the same reason.

Laurie said the premium placed on the Canadian dollar at
this time does nothing positive for the country.

The B.C. forest products industry.-— traditionally
dependent on exports to the United States — finds this
market shrinking because of the high cost attached to wood
products ‘made in Canada”.

He said the Anti-Inflation Board doesn't like to talk about
the premium placed on the Canadian dollar, yet it is a
problem with which Canadians must come to gripa.

This land is not only “our land"

The controversy around the loss of arable farmiand
in Canada rages as municipal planners and
developers pressure all levels of government for
greater access fo agricultural land. The statistics
make strange reading — 26 acres an hour disappear,
7,000 acres of Niagara Peninsula farmland zoned for
construction and on the other side of the ledger
thousands die daily of starvailon In ihe Third and
Fourth Wortd.

Confronted with these contradictory statements,
politicians argue that It Is simplistic to compare
world food shortages with the loss of prime land In
Southern Canada. For, the reasoning goes, even with
the steady encroachment of farmland there is more:
than enough acreage left to feed .Ontario and still
export food products.

Somewhere, like so many of the arguments in our
technological age, people miss the point. Food and Its
distribution are among the most cruclal questions
facing planet Earth as Its abifity to feed Itself declines

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dally. As cities grow around the world there Is greater
need for food producers everywhere to be encouraged

to stay on the land and help meet this worldwide |

crisis. Yet here In Canada, truly one of the bread-
baskets of the world -— even If we use only the 13
percent of our fand mass considered to be potentlal
agricultural land (only 2 percent Is prime
agricultural land) more and more farmers leave the
land every year, less and tess of thelr farms are
viable, the acreage is paved over or bullt up and
agriculture seen as a second-class business.

We belleve that provincial and federal governments
must get thelr pricritles straight and encourage by
whatever means avallable people to keep thelr land in
production, to foster farming as a proud means of
earning a livelihood and to return more land to
agriculture, rather than diminishing it daily.

_We do have a responsibility te people outside this
country who are starving and it fs right to question
how best we use our existing farm fand.

children.

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_ letters to the editor

The FourWay School Board misleading

our youth

Dear Editor: ;

This is an open letter of
protest. rane religious
training of our young people
is a tack of the home — not
of the State. Sexual and
moral training is‘a duty of.
the parents too. Making use
of parental controlled
private and_ separate
schools is a different story.
But public schools have no

’ business to touch the moral

and spiritual life of our
Many young
people graduating fram hig!
schools cannot read or write
properly. Schdols should
mind their own business and
get to work. I will give you
an example of what I am
protesting. :
Friday, November 18, Mr.
Ray Jetferd, who ran for the
School Board election last
year, was sitting on top of a
table, legs crossed, in front
of upils of grade 11 at the
Cale lonia Senior High. The
lights were turned off and
your children were told to
‘empty”’ their minds and let
them go “blank”. Ray was
teaching Transceidental
Meditation. Some kids were
seared stiff and wanted to
leave the classroom. But the
“lesson’’ was compulsory
and they had to stay. Many
had religious objections. Is
this what we are paying
taxes for? Yoga is also being
taught at our schools.
However, yoga originated in
India and is rooted in
Hinduism. It is not a single
unifarm concept. It includes
all -sorts of methods,
exercises and disciplines
and psycho-religious ob-
jectives. .
One specialized technique
among the yoga schools is
transcendental - meditation,
also known as the science of
creative intelligence.
Originally an offshoot of the .
magic . mantra yoga,
transcendental meditation
received its particular
features as it was’ spread
ainong western people by
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It
is remarkable, however,
that it plays only a subor-
dinate role in India today. In
many cases the people there
have realized that yoga
cannot give them what they
desire in their plight. Many
are turning with their
problems to Jesus Christ.
Consequently, India
Christians emphatically
reject a combination of yoga

_and Christianity.

The fact, however, that
the teaching of yoga and
transcendental: meditation
is gaining such a foothold
here in the ‘‘Christian’”
west, clearly shows how
anti-Christian the teaching

is. Yoga teaches the
deification of man. Ac-
c toyoga, manisnot a

fallen being, a distortion of
the image of God, but rather
God Himself.

The various schools of
yoge differ from each other
mainly in their chelce of

‘gymnastic courses

practices. Hatha yoga is
erroneously considered. to
be a sort of sport of gym-
nastics, This lures many to
become more involved with
yoga and to delve into this
teaching at greater depth.
Many are being enticed in
this way and are falling into
the trap. Self-realization
and control are acquired
through a type of asceticism
and ethical discipline, which
ultimately ends in the
heathen religion of Hin-
duism. ;
Together with its physical
exercises taught during
e
seemingly harmless and
non-religious hatha yoga,
which concentrates purely

on heightening the
awareness of physical
powers, is actually

preparation for the “roal
road”, raja yoga. All yogis
believe in themselves as 4
god or as a part of the deity.
Yoga pampers the sinful ego
and thus fosters egoism. The
yoga student is constant!
preoceu ied with himself.

le revolves round his ego
and becomes increasingly
unsociable. Also, the
background of yoga is oc-
cult. Through the inflow of
cosmic forces a: person
exposes himself to the
danger of coming under the
influence of powers from

low.

This is evident from the
mantra practice. It is
especially the widespread
transcendental meditation
that works mainly with such
mantras. Joining this
movement entails a
religious act, an acceptance
of Hindu tradition. Mircea
Eliade, a well-known
authority on yoga, writes,
“In India a yogi was always
regarded as a mahasiddha,
one who possessed occult
powers, a sorcerer”.

Thus believing Christians
have but.one choice —. to

‘pattie with Jesus against the

occult ‘and thé: demonic,

’ which also threaten us in the

teaching of youe and T.M. in
schools and night. classes.
This Christmas we
celebrate again that Jesus
Christ has come to destroy
the works of the devil and
the powers of darkness.
Light up your Christmas
tree and remember this and
act accordingly. A true
Christian revolves round
Jesus and finds his deepest
fulfilment in Him. Jesus is
everything to him or her.
That person has a personal
tionship with Him and
cannot take part in exer-
cises behind which are
mystic teachings and magic
formulae. He doesn't have
to “empty” his mind. Bis
mind is already set on Jesus
Christ.. Jesus bids us,
“Come to Me. I am the Way
and the Truth and the Life.

Whoever trust in Me has

eternal. divine life.”
Bill Homburg.

The Alderman is right

Editor,
Dear Sir;

I wish to correct an error
in the item “Council Rejects
Final Plea From Hospital
in your
December 1 issue. Your
comment that “all alder-
men present voted not to
grant the. hospital a tax
exemption on Jand”’ is
simply. not true. The vote
taken at the meeting of
November 29 was to pass the
Tax Exemption By-law in
order to meet a Municipal
Actdeadline, not toe deny the
hospital a tax exemption on
property. *

The denial of the
hospital's tax exemption, —
along with the Curling
Association and the Calvin
Christlan School, came on
November 8 when council
voted to adopt a Committée
Report which contained
recommendations that all
three be denied. You may
recall that at that time 1
spoke and voted in favour of
including hospital lands. To
further refresh your
memory Alderman
Maroney voted in favour of .
including the Curling. Rink
and Alderman Talstra left
his position when the Calvin
Christian School recom-
mendation was dealt with,

Lhave spoken in favour of
including all hospital lands
in the 1977 Tax Exemption
By-law at two different
meetings. J did not feel it
necessary to
replay. of the same
agruments on November 29.
In addition council had
discussed the problem of
what would happen if a
majority of members voted
against the Tax Exemption
By-law because it left out
something they wanted to
see included. The deadline
would pass and there could
be no tax exemptions
whatsoever. This was .ex-
plained by both the mayor
and myself at the November
22 meeting. Both Alderman
Maroney and 1 had agreed
to support the by-law.even
though it did not include the
properties‘ we wanted

exempt. coos
It has been my contention
that: taxing hospital

property ia as ridiculous as
hg school property. I
notice that according to

today’s CFTK news the |

Minister of Health. and
Municipal Affairs agree. -
yey. truly yours ~
H. Giesbrecht coos
ED'S NOTE: You dre ab-
solutely right, Mr. Alder-
man, ve

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A.1.B. roll-back -

Anti-Inflation Board
Dear Sir:

Re: Teachers - School
District No. 88 (Terrace)

In accordance with your
letter of November 26, 1976,
‘teachers’ salaries in this
District have been amended
for the month of December
1976 to a 10 percent increase
-over the 1975 rates. ;

The teachers have ‘in-
dicated their unwillingness
to comply with any recovery
program for over-payment
of salary between 1 January
1976 and 30 November 1976,
and have threatened prompt
legal action against the

School Board to recover‘any
such monies deducted —
copy of their letter is at-
tached. : .
The Board proposes,
subject to your official
approval, to deduct all over-
ayments from ‘the
feachers, in equal monthly
instalments over the period
1 January 1977 lo 30 June
1977, in compliance with the
Anti-Inflation Board in-
structions.
A revised copy of Form
AIB-2 is attached herewith.
Yours very truly '
E. Wells
Secretary-Treasurer

- ALB. roll-back —

The Board of School
Trustees,
School District 48,

Atin: Mr. E, Wells
Secretary-Treasurer

In respect to the recent
decision handed down by the
Anti-Inflation Board to the
School Board and the
teachers of this district, our
Association wishes to advise
you that they feel unable to
comply with the request of
the vip. to renegotiate our
agreement with the School
Board for 1976 to ac-
commodate an increase
limited to 10 percent. It is
our opinion that it would be
illegal to reopen a
negotiated agreement which
was arrived at by an ar-
bitrated setilement having
regard for the due process of
law as required by the
Public Schools Act of British
Columbia, The findings of
the Arbitration Committee
in 1975 clearly indicate that
due consideration was given
to the Anti-Inflation
Regulations when the award
for 1976 was handed down.
The economic — data
presented by the teachers to
the Arbitration Board
clearly indicated that a fair
settlement wo ve.been..
in excess of 1B herbage
whereas the Arbitration
Board, with due regard for
the Anti-Inflation
Regulations, granted an
increase of 12.4 percent. We
feel that to comply with the
‘suggestion from the A.LB.
would prejudice any appeal
that might be made by this
Association to the Anti-
‘Inflation Board.

We recognise the pressure
put on the School Board to
recover overpayments to be
made by them, now that an
official guideline figure has
been established, but we
would like to advise you that
teachers in this Association
will. countenance only
recovery of payments made
after the date of the A.1.B,'s
official decision. If monies
are recovered from

members of this Association
to cover the full period of
retroactivity, back to
January 1, 1976, prompt
legal action will be taken by
this Association to recover
such amounts of money. The
British Columbia Teachers’
Federation is currently
initiating action in the
courts of Canada againal the

rovincial government of
Bc. to test the legality of
retroactive recovery of
salaries paid to teachers in
this province. The School
Board would be well advised
tohold off on the recovery of
monies until the decision of
the courts are handed down.
We further suggest that
monies taken from teachers
in this district, for “the
Temainder of 1976, be put
into escrow or a trust fund
pending a decision of the
courts..

It is the intention of this
Association to inform the
AB, in Ottawa of our

reasons for non-compliance

and to request a review of
the suggested roll-back on
the grounds that legislation
does not exist to recover
payments of salaries
retroactively; that the

:B. are seeking to

bverse the decision of an
arbitration board, legally
constituted under the Public
Schools Act of B.C., and that
the roll-back ignores
historical relationships with
other employee groups. If
such an appeal to the A.LB.
fails this Association is
prepared to refer the matter
to the Administrator of the
A.LB. program, under
Section 12(1)(d.1) of ‘the
Anti-Inflation regulations
and if necessary to ap
his decision to the Anti-
Inflation Board Appeal
Tribunal, under Section 30 of
the same Act.

Yours truly

Ingrid Olthof

Secretary

Terrace District ;

Teachers’ Association.

Teachers

The Editor: :

As we all know how the
school reports are handed
out to parents on receiving
an invitation to visit the
school in which my daughter
was attending, only to find
out it was a disaster.

So much time can pass in .
aschool year to find sucha
change in your child without
any phone calls - letters (but
no change of attitude at
home in which she is no.
problem child but an
average happy youngster.)

However while going over
the report card I noticed her
marks as follows: Reading -
below average, Language
Arts - below average,
Grammer - below average,
Creative Writing - below
average, Spelling - - poor.
General Remarks: Attitude
- average, Participation -
average, Assignments. -
average, Behaviour -—
average. His Remarks also
stating my daughter began
the school year with a poor
attitude and a quick tongue.

My complaint is any
teacher. that could not.
handle the situation trying
togetextra help for all these
apeling stould in umn got in

shou rm gotin'
thuch with me as a rent.
It’s just as important to me

’ that she would get. through

school as her teacher. I feel
there was no reason to let
three. months of this go on.
And when I approached him
in these terms, he said, "Oh,

she possibly would have
one on to Grade 8,” Why?
o she could struggle
through Grade 8, 9, 10,.11
and 12 not knowing «her
work. Leon
--Fhave lived in Terrace for
18 years. This is the first
trouble I have ever had with
a teacher. ; a
Her teacher the previous
year said she talked a lot
and had to be pushed-a bit.
However, he had no trouble
because he treated her as'an
individual, we all are you
know, Her marks by the way
In reading was above
average. Remarks; *'Is self-
reliant, helpful ‘and well
liked by her classmates. It
was: pleasure to have her
In my classroom". What: a
change in three months: .
‘During our conversation
this year he told me my

hild was not an above

student, At no time did I try
to impress him that she was
however I did tell him there
are average and ; below
average and poor but the
need help in which we ‘aid
not have to waste three.
months, You don't have: to
get above average to Hold a
food job someday. But°a
ttle help from your teacher

‘ wauld hel

With this unfortunate
experience I only hope- that
it doesn’t effect my- child's
attitude towards teachers as
there are teachers, -then
there are ~------, a

Darlene Blower .-.°3)