| i “page 4 The Herald, Tuesday, June 10, 1980 (EDITORIAL ' game price I paid in Prince George. (TERRACE/KITIMAT). — daily herald — General Office - 635-6357 ( Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER _ - Calvin McCarthy EDITOR - Greg Middleton _ CIRCULATION TERRACE & KITIMAT. ‘ 635.4357 . . Published every weekaay at 3212 Kalum Street, | Terrace, B.C. A member of Verlfled Circulation. _ Authorized as second class mall. Reglstratlon. number |, 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. [| NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT ._.. ‘The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in - any advertisament produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald, |. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. af -, ae Published by, In an effort to keep one man, a former mayor and possible candidate in the November civic elections, from keeping. a record of thelr words, Terrace district council members are getting themselves thoroughly mired In the sand they’re trying to keep thelr heads in. — Council, with Aldermen Jack Talstra and Helmut Giesbrecht dissenting, voted to. ban tape recorders from council meetings. Council is, however, going to ‘continue to allow the members of the news media to tape the proceedings. The problem comes when council. has to decide who is an accredited reporter. "Do freelancers count? Will council allow focal radio, television and newspaper staffers in with their electronic devices but toss out the part timers who flog stories to the Prince Rupert CBC station or an enterprising writer who might be doing pieces for magazines? What about someone writing a book? Will council demand an affidavit that a manuscript is to be written? Is the possibility that a treatise might be written on local politics what they are afraid of? . - ‘Such a book is apparently underway. Could this be the cause of all the .con- sternation? EDITOR'S ~ JOURNAL by GREG MIDDLETON With only a limited amount of time to make it to Prince George and back to take advantage of a sale price on a cance there it was up early to hit the road Saturday. “While I was gassing up at Chub Down's Westend Chevron I regretted I didn’t bring my tire gauge. You pretty well have to carry your own tire gauge now because so many of the service stations don’t have gauges and won't check the tire pressure for you anyway. The youngster at Chub’s all-night gas station . would have checked the tire pressure for me but didn't have a gauge. He had a job though. Chub is well known for giving a young boy or girl a job. He staffs both the gas station and his small store with local youngsters. ~ But I wasn't there to do a story on the employment problems of the younger generation. I was trying to | - make it to Prince George and back in one day. I wanted that canoe but had to be back in time to take photos of the presentations at the music festival here. "As [ headed out toward the East, the sun slowly lit fire to the sky and the mountains. I was really high- balling it down the road, In the very early hours. the highway is pretty well empty of vehicles, The moose you can usually see easily enough. They are big enough, even If they don't always want to get right off the road for you. . A fawn watched me speed through ‘the Smithers area, A doe dodged out of my way further down the road. Near Houston I spooked something that I would have sworn was a cougar. All I saw of it was a tawny shape disappearing into the bush. I would not swear. it was a big cat but it moved with more grace than anything I’ve ever seen. Flying past the all night gas station about 20 miles, this side of Burns Lake I checked the gas and decided I could make it to the town ahead. A lesson this Southern boy never seems to learn is that you don’t pass by gas stations here. Nothing is open in Burns Lake at 6a.m.. Ihitchhiked back to that gas station after my truck sputtered to a stop a few miles on the way back from making my discovery in Burns Lake that there are no - all-nighters there. The garage owner at the only 24-hour gas station between Terrace and Prince George ran his hands through his hair and looked under the counters but couldn’t find a gas can for me. It seems that not many people return gas cans after they too have run out of fuel on that run. I was lucky. The fellow who picked me up as I thumbed my way back to my truck and Burns Lake. had a gas can. | made it, thanks to this fellow, to George in time to pick up the canoe and make the now miich slower run back horte. . Red eyed and gritty ] made my date here, only to find that the organizers of the festival wouldn't allow any photos during the presentations, I also found out I gould have bought a similar canoe here for about the Some days you should just sleep in. DE a ee egg ast me fe tree Nie The 2 By ERIC HAMOVITCH MONTREAL (CP). — Hybrid microcircuits — boxes just a few cubic * centimer in size — are stiffed with more electronic circuitry than the average - television set. | The boxes are filled with sillcon chips and’ intricate wiring and’ coated with gold foil for conductivity. They have been around for 20 years or more, but now their use is growing quickly. Canadian Marconi Ltd. of Montreal sold $2.5-million worth last year. This year it expect sales to top $4 million. Marconi specializes in custom-made hybrids for navigation and: guidance systems, especially for military missiles: and air- craft. _ Hybrids take up only a fraction of the space of electronic circuit boards but perform the same functions, taking computer-coded er tr eee Be Te Bll is Bed 2 Se A Re eee (Gecxenoune) signals and helping to translate them into elec- tronic commands, The slim silicon chips they contain are filled with tiny transistors . and other components. . Each of the Cruise missiles built for the United States. armed forces by Litton In- dustries in California ‘will contain 52 hybrids made by ‘Marconi in Montreal. ‘Marconi has also-recéived orders from military con- tractors in Britain and Sweden, and soon Norway and Italy. - ; “The price of our hybrids ranges from $20 to $700, and they're used where the greatest precision is required, especially in, other conditions.: “ eritic Dennis Cocke to apply some soothing ‘balm to their wounded egos. Cocke, the former ‘health minister, could hardly. be blamed for practically “breaking a leg to get there. a Nonetheless, what Mair was saying: (irom a 1° distance) seemed to make a certain amount of sense: The medical profession in B.C. have the highest fee schedule in Canada.” He dismissed the BCMA demands as “the preening of feathers and usual - mating dance” that precedes medicare contract talks. . "Frankly, I just don’t care to dance at this time,” said © the health minister. ... Just as 1 was about to let out one of my infrequent cheers for Mair, he, of course; had to go.and spoil it all by announcing whopping 15 per cent medical plan ’ inereases effective July 1, and further annual and infinite increases tied to the rate of inflation. Every once in a while, when I forget my cheerful bedside manner, I find myself wondering if the insensitive so- and-so’s- who make these decisions actually believe there are elderly and poor people out there in the real world who will be seriously affected by their actions. So far, there has not been a groundswell of public - opinion in favor of the dectors’ demands, or: their threats to start billing patients an extra 40 per cent if they don’t get their way. Even the moderate Van- couver Province coughed discreetly and pointed out that an increase of the same size as the 7.2 per cent ‘|. doctors got in 1978 would boost theif salaries well past $60,000, which “‘is a long way above the average net pay of those who foot the bills,” __ Although the doctors claim, they areonly trying to ‘recoup recent losses in economie status; UBC health economist Robert Evans says, ‘The kind of figures they are getting are just nonsense. Doctors’ salaries in 1957 were ahead of the average wage earner by a ratio of about 4:1, Evans reports, Although the ratio surged to 5.521 in 1971, in the last few years it returned to “normal,” and by 1977 was back to 4:1. This is wha - the doctors are complaining about. . . _ What's happened; says Evans, is that there’s been ‘ah increase in the number of skilled and educated people in.the work force, and they've been able to - eommand higher wages. So it's a matter of the lower half of the work force catching up rather than the doctors “falling behind.” — oe From 1965 to 1977, the consumer price index went up _ roughly 100 per cent. In the same period doctors’ in- comes jumped 160 per cent, while lawyers’ wages. increased 154 per cent, accountants’.207 per cent, provincial employees’ 222 per cent, and engineers’ and architects’ 120 per cent. So why all this erying in their iodine? ° Did you read and-or hear all those tear-jerker stories last week about the “gentleman” rapist? - Everyone from jurists to journalists reported themselves deeply moved by the sad tale of. the repentent rapist, otherwise happily married, who had adrinking problem, you see, which apparently caused him to prowl the streets and courteously assault five Somebody's got to be kidding. Do you suppose there'd be a similar spate of sym- pathetic stories about a well-mannered drunk who drove around and politely ran people down? LETTERS TO — |} | THE EDITOR | Dear Sir: . What can you learn from this statement quoted from _the minutes of a general meeting of the Board of School Trustees of School District 86 (Terrace) held in the board room on Tuesday, May 13. “The Secretary-Treasurer and the Superintendent of Schools reported that action,. as directed, had been taken on the varlous matters under discussion at the. last Meeting." Sincerely yours Mrs. C. Sandecki Dear Sir: This is a letter of request for financial support. The Terrace Women's Growth Centre was funded in the 1979 calendar year by Canada Works under the sponsorship of the Terrace and District Community Services, We are presently aligned with the "Ksan House Society (former Family Violence Committee) for sponsorship under Ganada Works until June, 1980. Incorporation as a soclety for the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre is _ pending final approval of our donatltution. ' Applications for ‘core funding and special funding - of our various programs are currently being submitted by our advisory board. No monies, however, are even anticipated from the various government levels until fall at the earliest. Financial support from local groups is presently being sought to enable us to keep our doors open and our programs operational aver the summer months. co We are seeking financial assistance for the three month period from June tat . to August 3ist, 1980 budget. Any donations that you would be willing to offer would be greatly ap. . preciated ($5.00 up), We trust you will give this submiasion your serious consideration, The Women's Centre staff can be reached at the above address or by’ calling 635-5145, . Thank you. We look for- ward to hearing from you itt the near future. Sincerely, . for the Women’s Centre - Patti Wright