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Se _ Letters to the Editor The Administrator District of Terrace * Dear Sir: : : - At our Inst Merchant's Meeting on Aug. 9, bus service ° Jeaving the Skeena Mall at closing was.discussed, Many Merchants felt that service leaying our Mall soon: - after 6 p.m. closing would be a benefit; not ‘only -ta our; « location, but to that of the Terrace shopping community a6” . * a whole. ‘Ab present, our workers ‘as well as customers, find: it - difficult to get home, te some points, when the last «scheduling has left-at:5:40 p.m. mo, We would like you to consider this as a passible change to . enhance community, services: in-Terrace. | Thank you.’ ee ; Te _., Yours truly, ° wee _ |. A. Fabbi Pos ’”. President: Skeena Mall Merchant’ 8 . Aasoclation’ 2 = Stargate . by Brian Gregg more on the brink of another downturn. Should the interest ; Yate go up any more public confidence in the recovery . ; would ‘be lost and people would turn to their savings i accounts. instead of spending. People who fear they are _¢ golrig.to lose their jobs do not spend money and that. isnot ; good for the business community. - However, another fear has been added to this whole : concept af economic collapse—the Socred government ‘. restraint program, In this province people are losing their i; jobs or have their jobs threatened and so will return to the afr savings accounts. rather than spending the money. : Furthermore if Bennett pulls the restraint program off here - E other provinces could follow, which does not bode well for rt me nation a8.a Whole, © t penayshole cally what the restraint program is doing to reflected in these statements by Nora Paton, B.C." seo “Union ‘chief executive officer: “The provincial ' ‘, government sent this message to public sector workers: # ‘Youareslaves. You will work when we say, where we say, © for as little as we say—and only as long as your eyes are the * * right color’ ” "4 “Another message went to private sector workers: ‘You i are next, The rights you fought for are only being trimmed + now, But we'll take a really good run at them, after.we've i taken care of your public séctor brothers and alsters’ “Finally, a message went ‘to ali British Columbians: ” "You are nothing. You have no civil rights, and no rights ‘to decent health care, or social services, or education for your. chikiren. And you'll be grateful for what little we give you—because soon the only right in B.C. will be divine right, and that will belong to the Social Credit government;' ~ We must remember that the province is up to.our necks in debt. Around the time of the election the government was borrowing money to the tune of $60 million aday and I've heard that our credit rating with the big lenders has been . dropping. ‘So not only are we in debt like Mexico and Poland, and all these Third World countries that now have the West in their hip pockets because of ‘fears they will default on their payments and cause an economic collapse, but we need extra cash to make up the difference. The quickest and simplist way to get that money is to fire what the public views as an over inflated service. This of course may be an oversimplification of what is really happeriing out there. But it ia a view that is held by pany people who have been observing the megatrends ely. Many people connected with programming of the - economy don’t like to talk in the negative because of a_ “superstitious belief that only by being positive can we solve . our problems, In this case it doesn’t seem to beworking, probably because of the law of synergy: which means the’ whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In this case the whole is the restraint legislation and it will take a miracle _ for the people of of B.C. toget positive vibes from that. : ‘The Herald welcomes Its readers comments. All letters to the editor of general public Interest will be printed. They should be eubmitted 48 houra’ in | advance of desired publication date. ‘We do, - however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit tetters for style and lengtt, All letters to be considered for publication must be signed!” It is Impossible to print a letter submitted within 24. hours of desired publication date. i Don Schaffer | ' Bank of Montreal, OTTAWA (CP). as Controversy over the G a \selvilin vigllante group, may grab the hea t morn . Police have been advisitig citizens for five years to install security locks and burglar alarme, engrave thelr _- féridehtification after a theft. and set up programs while neighbors watch each other’ 8 homes during : a _ Promotion of such: comm sto ti a crime can Jéad to'a reduction'of up cent in*such’ crimes as breaking and’ entering. more than half are attributed to trouble-seeking youths. 7 a "experts say the straightforward, do-it-yourself pproach'ts, ; crime. prevention’ is. the Most effective. |. controversial Gu _ say such measures are ‘protection offered -by. their volunteer ‘patrala: . Canada today. is‘like the United’ ‘States i0 to. 18: years ago, 5 when: “people Wee: Feluctant,to admit: there even: was a. ; £PiiThe fist step toward dealing with ita tq, admit that difficult for the ‘authorities. to even Feoognlze, , “PATROL STREETS’ nn : ;. The Angels, wearlig ‘their Astipetive red. berets, patrol’ streets and: subway . stations . In @roups watching - for - suspicious’ behavior or, the commission. of. a crime. - They then either alert police or make a citizen's arrest and they offer: themselves as witnesses in trials. In. the Une States, we" te like radical surgery @ on a. ~ Economic recovery’ threatened. “one of the country’ ‘8 largest chartered banka 1sgtied- a . word'of warning but also a note of hope Tuesday regarding ; the future of the Canadian economy. The Bank of Montreal said in its August business review. that although ‘the economy. has recovered more: ‘strongly’ - than initially forecast, it could start dropping. again in late. 1884 or. i996 if the recent Increase in real Interest rates persists, . : But. on. the more optimistle side, the bank sald: it now predict a three-per-cent Browth rate thi year for’ the ; . Canadian economy. last year’s 4.5-per-cent decline., Consumer spending and-‘more housing starts ‘are behind the stronger-than expected recovery this year, the bank ‘pald. . - “While housing may. have’ peaked, there appears, con- “siderable scope for the consumer to lead the | recovery through into 1984," the bank report continued. However, the upturn. will not ‘be sustained unless. ‘in- . - vestment plcks.up in the next two years to maintain. the - -momentum’ as consumer . -Apendirig eases,. The level: of government defielts will help . determine ‘whether, that happens. . Meanwhile, _ Association of Canada reported that the country’s overall auto trade surplus in the first six monthsof the year jumped - to almost $1.5 billion, 48 per cent: higher’ than the stinilar : 1982 period. The parts group reported ‘thevalue of exports to the . booming Americsn market jumped) more than 20 per cent to $10 billion — made up of $6.9 billion in assembled cars, $712 millionin engines and parts and $2.4 billion in smaller parts and accessories. ' Meanwhile, imports increased 7 per < cent to $3.5 billion as Canada’s car market also rebounded strongly from dismal 1942 sales, The six-month import figures were made up of $3 - billion in cars, $970‘ million in engines and parts and: 4, 5 billion in smaller. parts and accessories. - Dennis PDesRosiers, the association's research, director, d said that at the current rate, the full-year’: Ss trade. ‘figures - Soviet myths. Soviet housewives having to line up for food while: foreign diplomats-and the Communist party. upper crust zip in ‘ahead of them for all the goodies. . Never mind the tales about saving 10 years. for. ‘a car. -- Ignore the stories about the lack of such basle mecessities as. “soap and toilet paper. - Pay-no heed to those reports of five-year waits for one- room apartments.’ Alina Einelianoya says it just isn’t so. The etichanting - ; . @reen-eyed research fellow at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow brushes off such accounts as western propaganda, ; Emelianova,. who’s tending a Soviet, space, ‘exhibit in ’ Montreal, offered her own version of life behind. the Iron “Curtain to reporters curious about the realities.- She disagrees with suggestions there is a lack-of freedom in the Soviet Union. “I don’t feel that we have no freedom. . ‘The Canadians come and say that, but I Say ND), absolutely * Rot. ” . ’ How about. those reports of housing shortages? “There is the problem that the young generation wants to - - live apart trom the parents. This is the problem. ” SQVIETS HAVE. MONEY. ~ * * Speaking in unaccented nglish, she gays the Soviets 7 have lots of money and ca help. their offspring obtain apartments, | “Theonly problem is that there are so many volunteers to buy the flats, there is not enough flats to go around. But '- ‘reconstruction is very great in our quntry.”” _. Emelianova works in the North American "section of the academy, reading Western‘ publications and preparing — briefing materia). She says one of her favorite publications © is New. Republic, a liberal U.S. magazine. | we There's no call for women’ 8 lib in _ Soviet Union, she along: with — other - forecaiting. 7 organizations, had projected that Canada's Gross Natlonal Product would grow a mere-1.5 per cent this year, following - the - Automotive. Paris “Manufacturers? “ elosing five processing plants. in the Atlantic: provinces, “slowing operations atia ‘sixth and tying up 23 deepsea “~ should surpass the record i2. tninton’ surplui set last year. - However, he cautioned that the flurry of firet-half ship- ments to the U,S., will probably slow down the rest of the - "year because. “of Chryéler- ‘Canada’s long ‘shutdown in Windsor to retool for productign of its new front-wheel-drive stationwagon Van... 2 In another development, ‘Canada’s: biggest theatre chain was put up for sale by. its U.S. owner, the glant Galt and © * Western Industries. conglomerate... Famous Players Lid. of Toronto is on the auetion block as part of the New York-based multinational’s massive plan to ‘divest itself of a fifth of its business, accounting for sales of about $i.billion a.year.. =. = AGulf and Western spokesman sald ihe Cariadian theatre chaln is makirig ‘money, but not. enough to satisfy the parent company, which ‘is‘trying to get rid of money-losing or -, marginally» Profitable “holdings with lirnited ” growth potential... . -In-other. business news Tuesday: — Torontc Dominion Bank announced increases in Its’ . two-year, three-year and: five-year mortgage rates. Three- 18.25 and. 14 per cent respectively: while the two-year rate | was raised-a quarter of @-point-to ‘12,25 per cent. The one: year rate remained. ynchanged at 11° per cent. __j = Natlonal Sed. Products Ltd. said it is temporarily trawlers, In addition, North Atlantic Fisheries Ltd., a St. - seasonal | plants in Newfoundland: and Labrador that employ — nearly 900 at peak’ times.- ©. — - Standard Trust Co, Lid. of Toronto — which took over Toronto-based Greymac’ Trust Co. in June- — was appointed manager and receiver of the affiliated Greymac Mortgage Corp.on behalf of fanada Deposit ‘Insurance Corp. All the”. ‘voting stock outstanding of ‘Greymac Mortgage is. indirectly owned by William ‘Player'of Elmvale, Ont. The company ~ was seized atong with Seaway Mortgage Corp. of Toranto ' Jast January by the federal government after the province selzed Greymac-Trust, Crown Trust Co, and Seaway Trust Cp. -because, of. their, involvement in. the. contrayersial.flip . sale’ of almost, 12,000 Toronto apartment; nits... eae are debunked Saturday’ @ Vancouver sun notes that the economy is ance , MONTREAL (ch) — Forget what you've heard about says. Soviet 1 men are quite happy to take up the dish towel. “It's no problem: The man doesn’t fee] like a king — that you (women): are their alaves..- ‘They. wash windows, they clean carpets, they do all the rough work, they do shop- ping. mo, She dismisses criticism of Soviet treatment. of dissidents, - ¥ou know each country has its own laws, things that are ° ‘forbidden to do," she said. “1 think each country has the -- same problem that if.a person does something that is against the law, certainly. they must have the punishment. » DISSIDENTS ‘BROKE LAW’ | rr She says dissident Soviet scientist. Andrei Sakharov and _ imprisoned Soviet Jew Anatoly Shcharansky broke the law and must bear the consequences. : Sakharov, a top nuclear scientist until he joined the fight ; “or human rights in. the Soviet Union, was banished to Gorky, Siberia, in Januaty, 1980, to-restrict his access to. foreign reporters. Sheharansky was sentenced to 13 years . “of hard labor in 1976 for allegedly spying for the U.S... Emelianova confesses the issue of dissidents doesn’t -—orcupy : too many of her thoughts. crs ‘Tam not interested in} Shcharansky. There are very few Kinds of such people.” ”- . “ Does Emellanova, who has A husband and eight-year-old ° “daughter at home, have any desiré to extend her three- :Mhonth - stay” in- Canada? She, tooks ‘horrified at the . buggeation. . _ "People are very nice here, but I can't imagine how rt can live without my, motherland, "she said. . . “Tean’t understand the psychology of those defectors who ‘lett the Soviet Union: How can they-leave the motherland, ‘leave ‘their relatives, leave their friends? ‘For me, it's awful, Tam here nearly three months and I _ eel 80: Homeless.’ " . - Ontario industry. in danger — OTTAWA (CP) — Ontario industries. are next In line to be ' threatened by. imports from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South - Korea but they‘are better prepared to meet the competition than Quebec industries were, @ recently published study concludes. | The economies of these “new Japans” are shifting away - from the traditional textile, clothing and footwear ‘in- ~ dustries, predominantly located in Quebec, to production of complex electronics and machinery, automobiles: and to some extent heavy. industry, situated in Ontario, saya author Roy Matthews. But workers in those Ontario Industries : are more able to ‘meet the competition than were Quebeo's clothing, textile‘ * and footwear industry workers, says the” economist and . Asian trade specialist. “That is to say, these Canadian workers are ain most in- . stances younger, less exclusively female and better educated than thelr counterparts in the ‘traditional’ ‘sec tora,” he Says. - Further, so-called low-wage competition from the Aslan nations cannot be blamed for the difficulties faciig — Quebec's textile, clothing and footwear industries which | Matthews says already were in trouble- for one reason or anothers. The challenges presented by the evolving échnomies of " these nations should not be ignored but protectioniam {s not. ‘the solution, warha Matthews, who Prepared the e study for y t the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Boliéy. _ “In some instances the new competition ‘may | be fatal to. certaln Canadian product