Page 4, The Herald, Friday, September 21, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald Gavierai Office - 613-4357 Circulation - 435-4357 ~ Published by Sterling Publishers GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE - 695-6357 “KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Pubilahed every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, &.C. A member of Varifled Circulation, Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In ony advertisement produced and-or any editorfal or Photographic content published In the Herald. § Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. EDITORIAL The first salvos are being fired in what will likely be a full scale war before long. Terrace Mayor Dave Maroney and some of the others who see the potential tax dollars available in Thornhill are putting a shot or two into the bushes to see whatkind of a reaction they get from the residents of those wooded outskirts. Regional District director Les Wat- moughis returning the fire, but a single shot at a time so far. aire “ re CARTERS Sea se SISA, “Oh, oh — I don’t like the looks of this.” The battle between those who want to increase the tax base of the city and control development in the outlying areas and those who wish to avoid the regulation and higher taxation of an urban area Is as old as man and taxes. For Terrace to convince Thornhill that amalgamation Is to their advantage it must reveal an overall plan for the area that Includes benefits to Thornhill. If Thornhill wishes to avoid amalgamation it must organize and take moves ina positive direction. it could be FDITOR'S JOURNAL > BY . GREG MIDDLETON a good fight. It all started with crab apples. About 10 years ago I was asked to come up to Kelowna to help some people ona small farm. I was in university then and had learned that classrooms were only a small part of an education so I took the week off ,. thinking f would read a little more and make up for the ~ lost time at school.. T didn't do the additional studying because the In- terior in the fall of the year is such an intriguing place for a lad who grew up expecting only days of drizzle NO LONGER NEW DC 9’s have seen service TORONTO (CP) — Air Canada was known as Trans Canada Airlines in November, 1949, when it proudly announced the purchase of six gleaming DC-9 planes to form the backbone of a §200-milllon all-jet fleet. Today, the Air Canada DC- ® fleet hag grown to 43 but they're no longer gleaming and no longer new. Many are series-32 jets built by McDonnell Douglas Corp. In 1968. Many, in- cluding the troubled DC-9 that lost its tall cone Monday ona Boston-to-Hallfax flight, have almost 30,000 alr houra on them. Monday's jet came in safely but cracks were found in its rear pressure bulkhead. That accident and Wednesday’s grounding of five Air Canada DC-ts was followed Thursday by the discovery of four additional pidnes with faults. : The alrline said cracks on seven of the planes were in noncritical areas of the bulkhead and did not pose a ° hazard to the aircraft's operation, . But the planes, which will be repaired befare being put back Into service, have added to the spotlight on the age and safety of the jets, Air Canada has ordered the rest of the fleet to fly at 25,000 instead of 35,000 feet to reljeve pressure on the rear bulkhead, but says there ia no plan to ground the entire fleet at present. And the airline also has de- elded to strengthen the rear bulkhead of its DC-98 with metal supports and inspect the planes daily, In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration also directed American airlines to inspect the 30 DC-95 flying in the States, especially those with 15,-000 air hours on them. Out at the Malton, Ont., plant of McDonnell Douglas (which had its giant DC-10 liners grounded for. six weeks this summer follawing ‘a crash at Chicago}, chief engineer Doug Moore said Wednesday that Air Canada was warned three years age about possible weakness in the bulkhead. “We've known about the cracking problem and warned Air Canada and all airlines flying DC-9s, but Air Canada chose not to do the recommended provements and reinforce the buikheads,"* said Moore, who oversees the plant whereall DC-9 wings and tail cones are made, “A plane is like any other transportation vehicle,’’ Moore said, “If it gets older, you've got to fix it or trade it in for a new model. “Air Canada decided to » rely on inspection of its DC- 8s instead of strengthening the bulkheads. We warned them and even offered them kits to fix it.” But ‘Air Canada spokesman John Cavill said the airline did not ignore McDonnell. Douglas's 1076 service bulletin. : “McDonnell's service bulletin recommended, and I underline the word im-- recommended, that airlines either strengthen the bulkheads or instltute xray inspections every 4,000 hours of flying. AirCanada decided to do the x-ray inspection.” Cavill said the airline's DC-9 fleet eventually will be phased out because of age. “The DC-8, our firat jet, is our oldest plane and we're still flying them. Eventually, they'll be replaced too with the Boeing 767." Air Canada now has 14 of the new $9-million Boelngs in service and another 16 on order, attracted In part by their fuel efficiency and a larger payload (132 seats as opposed to the DC-9’s 115). Cavill said the DC-9, even with the present inspection of the bulkhead, ‘is a per: fectly safe alrplane,”’ “If one can feel sorry, I feel sorry for McDonnell. Their record with DC-8s and DC-f8 has been exemplary and Air Canada has benefitted. Our airline has been flying Douglas planes since 1937 and we started with the DC-3."" from the autumn months. It is cold and crisp and yet gull so bright and inviting out. That the trees were so colorfy! aud the air so fresh and clean made the work of helping winterize the small homestead invigorating. The fact that the in- vitiation to come up came from a young lady I had met in summer at school and the autumn moons in the Okanagan are so large and stay out so long may have been the reagon I didn't study. But it was crab apples, or more precisely the crab apples J didn’t have, that determined how I would feel about horses for years to come. I was in the corral. You had togo into the corral to repair it. The horses were down at the other end of the corral. At least they were down at the end of the corral when I started to work on replacing some of the rs. The farmer's daughter, a pert litde seven-year-old sat on the top rail of the corral and watched me. I kept turning around to watch the horses. Everytime I turned around they were a little closer. It was unnerving. [ asked the little girl why the horses were coming closer like that. “Crab apples, ” she said. “Crab apples?” I asked. ‘“‘But I don’t have any crab apples,” I said. “Teo bad,” the little girl said. [let out a loud and piercing bellow as the horse took a good nip at the back of my pants where a balled up Kleanex made a small bulge in my jeans. There I formed an oplnion of horses. TODAY IN HISTORY | Sept. 21, 1978 192 — The F The loss of the Canadian assembly voted to abel destroyer Ottawa was the monarchy. announced after a German submarine attack on an Atlantic convoy 37 years ago today —- in 1042, The tall was 113 officera and men dead ar 1393 — The firat gasoline automobile in the United States waa driven by J, Frank Duryea in Springfield, missing. Later In the same week, the corvette Char- lottetown and the patrol boat Raccoon also were lost. The Otlawa was one of only six modern destroyers with which Canada entered the Second World War and had served as an escort during King George VI's 1039 vialt to Canada. Mass. 1938 — Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain met at Gudeaberg. 1039 Rusala and Germany agreed on the demarcation of Poland, 1849 -- Mao Tae-tung pro- claimed the Peaple's Republle of China. 7 7 NE aie Las Fa 4. ft “4 i Chicaga Tributleh ¥_ Katies Synd. (4d. e aR chin Heneered OTTAWA (CP) — Paul McCroasan, the Toronto MP heading a government drive to eut unemployment in- surance benefita, saya he campaigned for months before finally meeting someone who had not per- sonally witnessed abuse of the program. “{ found that at public meetings and coffee partles that I only needed to mention unemployment insurance and it would provoke two or three people in the audience just railing agalnst It on the asis of personal ex- rience,” McCroasan said an Interview, aw “In fact, I remember the gentleman who broke the string, who was the first to say ‘na, 1 don’t know anyone,’ when 1 visited him at his house. He destroyed my whole approach because I'd been able to go for months and months without finding anyone.” Elected in the York- Scarborough byelection last fall, MeCrossan im- mediately plunged into the debate over the former Liberal government's WANTS BENEFITS CUT MP found many UIC abuses _ By JULIET O'NEILL benefit-cutting bill. Nearly a year later he has been ap- pointed by Employment Minister Ron Atkey to oversee development of new unemployment = insurance legislation with deeper cuta, During hia professional career as a Canada Life - Insurance actuary, Mc- Crossan developed the bellef that the unempoyment in- surance program ia 80 generous it drives persons to quit work or to stay unem- ployed if they're laid off. Explaining his ideas about the program, he draws comparisons with insurance plans for houses, cars and death, although he describes unemployment insurance as a little trickier. "Kt's an Important in- aurance principle that coverage never be so high that you actually start in- fluencing the occurrence of the event," MeCrossan said, “If you have an $80,000 house and I insure it for $60,000, I'm reasonably sure you're not going to burn down your house. If I insure that .$80,000 house for $100,000) T know from ex- perience there's going to be an increase in fires.’’ He is proposing that insur- ance claimants without dependents get lower benefits than claimants with dependents, With depen- dents they would get 66 2-3 per cent of their insured earnings. Without depen- dents they would get 54 per cent. The rate now is 60 per cent for everyone. And he favors cutting _benelita totally from anyone who voluntarily quits a job without a good reason, saying: ‘'l guess that's the hard-line approach but it's one that ¥ think is consistent with society's view.” The decision is not Me- Crossan's alone, however. The provinces have been asked to respond to the roposals, Business and bor groups are also to be consulted. The Conservative caucus, the cabinet and Parliament would have to give thelr nod. Target for a So FAR WE'VE GOT 29 MINUTES OF TORNADOES, TERRORIST BOMBINGS, STARVATION IN AFRICA, AND TWO GORY MURDERS. GIVE IS 60 SECONDS OF LIGHT AND FUNNY SIUFF FOR BALANCE. . new bill is March 1. Labor and feminist organ- izations are campaigning agalnst the proposals. They say low-income earners, youth and women will be the chief victims of cuts, But McCrossan says the young and the single don't need as much money as heads of families. And families with twe working parents have created what he calls self-insurance. _ MeCrossan studied social insurance plans for more than four years before his election when he was chairman of the education committee of the London, U.K.-based Soclety of Ac- tuaries. Age 37, regards himself as financlal engineer, In a decade employed by Canada Life he sold and deslgned inaurance plans. “Tes not all that different from politica in a way,” ge said. ‘‘Marketing an in- surance product is selling an idea and a person is voluntarily willing to pay money for the protection of that idea,”’ . McCrossan a OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON . Quebec Liberation ttawa,- Terrorism in Canada? t happened before— in Montreal in 1970 when the Front separatists kidnapped British diplomat James Jasper Cross, and when they murdered Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporle- scary enough that Prime Minister Trudeau flew in thousands of troops with tanks to crush what he said he feared could be an insurrection. Can it happen again, and not just in Quebec? Who can be sure? Not the police, certainly and perhaps not the federal government. ’ They don’t and can’t know. . But it's one of the reasons-terrorism- that legislation to restore capital punishment is appearing on the Commons Order Paper for Parliament's first session under a new government, ; . One of the reasons- the others being the increase in senseless killing by gunfire, bomb and incendiarism. Remember the mass killing by fire-some 20 or more victims--at the Montreal nightclub, The Gargantua? That's terrorism of a kind. . And the way things are, terrorists, like other criminals, are secure in the sure knowledge that punishment will be no more severe than a few years in prison, some of the newer jails offering as many of the comforts, conveniences and amusement facilities as the new “liberal generation of penitentiary ad- ministrators dare provide. The thinking behind the bills for resoration of capital punishment is that the death penalty does provide the ultimate deterrent. Urgency has been given the need for anti-terrorist measures~a dead terrorist kills only once~by the Irish Republican Army's bomb murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten, war hero extraordinary and a relation of the royal family. Oddly, a week before the Mountbatten assassination, the ultimate in terrorism— the kid- napping of the Queen--was presented the British in a new thriller written by Walter Nelson, former British diplomat, subsequently recruited by the American.as 'a counter-espionage agent and currently engaged in assignments in the Middle East. His story, scheduled for publication in Canada and the U.S, , and under negotiation with Hollywood: “The Queen, blue eyes afire with anger and outrage, stands in her own drawing room refusing to utter a word, , “Her Woman of the Bedchamber, Lady Penelo Beaumont, is on the verge of hysteria. ‘In gloating command of Her Majesty’s private apartment in the north wing of Buckingham Palace and of HM herself are two IRA thugs, two merciless West German killers from the Baader Meinhoff school of terrorism and a Japanese specialist in the martial arts who possesses the same blinding sense of destiny as his late kamikage pilot father.”’ ~ How did it happen?- The corpses of watchmen, police and members of the royal household soldiery who got into the path of this ruthless revolutionary commando band stretch all the way back through the ornate corridors to the south portal of Buckingham Gate, The Trojan Horse that gained them entry into the Palace compound was a Fertnum and Mason's van delivering the Queen's groceries. The terrorists are now in a position to make their demands: release of comrades held in prisons of the West-- and’a Concorde to fly the Queen with a gun at her head, to South Yemen. Very nasty scene, what? The last English monarch to be kidnapped and held for ransom, legend has it, was Richard 1, the Lionheart, in 1192. A minstrel named Blondel set out to rescue him, which explains author Walter Nelson's title for his new terrorist blockbuster: “The Minstrel Code.” If you happen in weeks to come to read it, think about capital punishment and the debate which by that time may be roaring in the Commons on its restoration. Letters welcome ’ The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right . fo refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to ba considered for publication must be signed. 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