"TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

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+ brought him in ‘yesterday to
F replace the news staff of our
Terrace Herald. MERG:
anew computer. And nes
bre over as editor of the

q Pie 5 an exacting boss, too,
But he's a little too inhuman

he simply looks at me and

F goes “‘oog, oog” and a little

i red light flashes.

and diseminate the news. I
am reduced to a slave in a
machine-age. a,
NOSWEARING :

No more wild, adjective
flying council meetings to
attend; no more cursing and
swearing when J]. am in-'
terupted from my typewriter

Me: while writing deathless prose,

When folks come in and
complain, it doesn’t fizz at all

on MERGLE. They can kick |

Sm, him, punch him, swear at him
d

and all he does is to “Oog’’,

Sa =MERGLE doesn’t make any

programmed as a child.

Something wron
a newspaper doesn

when
make

ia, any mistakes or.typos. Every

paper that calls itself a paper

has typos! And to err is

ty human; to forgive , divine,

4 nor does he forgive.

Now MERGLE doesn't err,

Hasn’t
got a mind of his. own.
NO MISTAKES

In the mad crush to meet the

ra obsolete, afer leeder
reduced to.a com feeder,
He’s MERGLE?*. They

| forme. I cari cuss at him and |

He's programmed to collect’

mistakes, either. He was well-.

Se ometime es - |
Column ,

by “Ron Thody ;

8 si schoneseesessseseateastes| :
day's ‘deadiinés, any mews’ office coffee fund. He doesn't
‘ staff is bound to misquote now make passes -at our female
and-then, ' Makes for lively employees. ‘He doesn’t swear
lettera-to-the-editor,

Now if you write an angry

blast. MERGLE, simply gays’
“Oog’’ and gobbles’ up the
letter.

He's also programmed for
middle-of-the-line, or fen-
cesitting, -editoriai Policies.
.MERGLE © is - nev
prototype computer c on rollers,
He. just rolls along to
meetings and court. and.to -

is.

“906°

‘He. listens carefully to sage

everybody, says 'Oog”, roils
away back to the office and
spews forth a tape which is
placed on another machine
which prints, what MERGLE
has disseminated, Trouble is,
there just isn’t that human *
touch. Innuendos are not part
of MERGLE's programmed

OERGLE: for all- of his
altributes for programming
the news, is, frankly, a: ‘fuddle

There's no human: ‘warmth
in his by-the-book stories. ‘No
catchy twists of phrases, No
bright adjectives. No life.

He's just a. dull, prodding
machine. -

What can angry callers say,
to a machine that will only say
“Oog?”’ -

H's frustrating.

DOESN'T DRINK
He won't even chip into lie

wherever the source of news |

like an old editor and-he can’t

, Write-a Sometimes Column.
’ MERGLE -has- no ‘per-
sonality. He doesn’t go and
gossip at the Lakelse cafe with
the gitls in the back shop. He
’ did once, but all be could do
‘was grunt: “Oog,” Gail and
. Shirley ‘tried pouring their

coffee-on ‘him and all he did

was go “Oog", his red light

flashed on andhe spewed | it all -

_‘ back ‘at ‘them, *

. Hes really quite anti-social a
to a

. What. cami you say
computer who. goes “Qog” all
‘the time?”

* But MERGLE's day will.’

‘come, * Communications

prophet — ‘Marshall - McLuhan - |

. Says the age of print is dying.

What _ will MERGLE ‘do

~ then? Heh, heh. He'll be sold

_ for: scrap, - that's what will.

. happen. He'll go to that big
computer room in the sky ©
~- Bye, bye, MERGLE!- .

‘Then jve'll start up an old-

fashioned newspaper with all -

the human foibles, that make
life and we'll... ;

“T AM SORRY. “MR,
THODY HAS JUST BEEN.
ROLLED OVER HE WAS°

.. NOT SAYING NICE THINGS
' ABOUT ME. I AM SORRY:

THE NUMBER YOU HAVE
REACHED IS NOT IN

SERVICE. THE NUMBER |

YOU HAVE
REACHED...00G...”

| Frank, Howard’ s

In the first place I tind it
regretful that we should = be’ *|

special
Canada, because even -that’:
sort of -. consideration.
generates‘an attitude. partial’.
fo separtatism or. special
status.

to one province without that °
status being available also. to :
‘each of the provinces. 1 am not*’|"

out special, constitutional
jurisdiction and legislative .
authority for ‘any’ single
‘geographie political unit
within Canada,

Question:
sumers are there in Canada: :?.:

how many. co

Answer: __ precisely
equivalent of the Canadian“
population | at any given
moment. - ‘ ue

consumer from birth to death.
And that is the whole point of .
Consumer Week in Canada*
which is from March 1to6 this |
year. .

Consumers’ Association of
Canada (CA.C). sponsors this
week to highlight the fact that
consumers are the economy.
itseif. Without them there
would be no economy.

ALC

gets boot

by cuyana boss

By The Canadian Press
Accusing Canadian—owned

. Demerara Buaxit Co, of “a

> announced

basic contempt for the
Guyanese people, ‘“ Prime
Minister Forbes Burnham
Tuesday: '- his
goyEfnment's 1 detision’ a ‘o'

q w ationslize the multi—milliga-

dollar subsidiary. of “the
Aluminum Co. ‘of Canada Ltd:.

The prime minister made his
widely— —expected an-
houncement in a speech to
thousands of people gathered in
the national park here for
celebrations marking the ‘first.
annnanniversary of the
Guyanese co-operative
republic.

Burnham a socialist, accused
Demerara Bauxite (Dembay
and Alcan of being callous, with’
a tradition in Guyana, formerly
British Guiana — of prejudice,
discrimination, segregation,
intolerance “and a recognition
of workers’ rights only as a Ist
resort after strikes and stop-

es’?

8 ‘BASIC CONTEMPT' °

“Tt bespeaks to my mind,” he
said, “a basic conternpt for the
Guyanese people.''

The decision was a climax to
negotiations .which had ‘been
going on since.last Dec. 7 with
Alcan of Burnham's proposals
for majority state ownership of -
the bauxite. company.

Bauxite is a major mineral
resource of this republic on the
northern coast of South
America, Alcan depends upon
Guyana bauxite for 30 per cent
of its supply: for alumina
production.

In Montreal, - ‘Alean said
Tuesday the company does not
expect that the proposed -
nationalization of. Its bauxite
operation will affect "its
aluminum smelting in Canada,

‘WON'T AFFECTUS.
Alcan will make “every effort.
toensure” that the turning over

of the operation will be carried:
, out “in-an orderly” way.!’

In Ottawa, -a Spokesman for

4 E the external affairs. department °

. j Said it is Up.
H determine. ‘its.
—

to Guyana ° to
own internal -
“but the ca:

& 4
: 1:

BALANCING

BRAKE. SERVI
MUFFLERS
FF

government is interested in
Seeing that Canadian firms
receive fair and equitable
treatment. an

Burnham said his : govern-
meat: intends to, pay, reasonable.
compensation ,to,Alcan,, And. te;
added ‘that. Demba workers ‘of
any. nationality can remain on-
their. - Jobs. . . .

He restated hig government's
determination. to control ex-
ploitation of the country's

-natural resources and its

preparedness to enter consotria

with foreign investors on the -

condition: that; the. government,.;

orithe:govgmament. and, public.
-cooperatives, hold in eavh ‘cage:
‘no less than 51 ber cent of: the:

equity.

[Prospeetors cor

By The Northern. B.C. °
Chamber of Mines’.

FOSSILS _

When we speak of fossils we
mean organic bodies (plants or
animals) which have become
buried in silt, mud, sand, or clay
which has in turn been - turned
into rack through millions of
years of burial under pressure,

It is through the “study: of
fossils that we are able ‘ta
determine the age of any layer
of sedimentary rock, in which
fossils are found.

In ‘this region there are
several excellent exposures
containing beds of fossils, both
of plants and animals. ,

Some of the:more accessable
fossil sites are:

- Approx: inile 31, Coppér River.
Road.

-- Approx. mile 6, Dardenelle

Mine raad (North Copper Road).

, ELECTRONIC | WHEEL

"SPECULATORS |

e
Pr
- Sand Lake - Cedar River
area, Mile 36, Nass Road, North
of Terrace: -
- Driftwood Creek, North af
Smithers
-. Elevation 9200 feet, Seven
Sisters peaks, (this is somewhat
inaccessable but if you can
climb and have the time, this is
a beautiful country.) -.
«~ Northern B.C, Chamber" of
Mines,

CAC is -the only organized |
body of consumers which
represents everyone in contacts -
with governments and industry.

MANY CHANGES

Since it was formed in 1947 it’
has brought about changes in.
labelling of drugs, household.
‘chemicais,. children’s clothing,”
fabrics and foods, as well as.
being instrumental in the in- °
troduction of consumer
protective legislation.

This year the 65,000-member_
organization is offering’
leadership in rejection of non-.
returnable beverage containers
which CAC consider a major
land, pollutant, in,.the nation,

This. view is being empha: teed,
during. St cgummes “Wee
addition to the slogan, “Clone:
sumers Count! ""“

from New Westminster to

_| monthly basis.

 THROUGHRAIN, ETC,
_- OnFebruary 12, 1866, the B.C.
Postmaster General advertised
for somone to carry the mail

Williams Creek on a twice-

’ VICTORIA CHILLED
It was cold enough in Victoria
on February 15, 1466, to permit
skating on all local ponds, which
still occurs occasionally, but it
was also so cold that James Bay.
was frozen. :

. OBVIOUS ©

heavy stand of ‘alder in early
days... .

BALLARD CARPET CLEANING

for Rugs, Wail to Wall Carpet
- and Chesterfield Cleaning

_ CARPET LAYING

Phone 635. 6560 .
vee eat address}: Copper city, ‘Box a4, Terrace

a

As late as 1914, 144 syndicates
held ; land: for ‘Speculative. pur-
poses | oe the: lines -of - the.
Grand Tru
CNR)
Eastern » Railways’:

: B.C, LEFT. our:

Until - 1922, . motorlets” “in
‘British Columbia were required:
to-drive on’ the- left side of.the
road. *" B.C.” : was the “Hast
province to sing the’ rights side
‘syste em. ;

Pacific (later. the | J
and Pacific: Great |

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FOR ‘courteous SERVICE CALL

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4601 LAKELSE AVE.

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INSURANCE

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province: « within?

favourably disposed to, setting .,] 1

In other words, evéryone.is a

Aldergrove obtained its name |
‘from the fact the area boasted a

“is peculiar only: to that
Province is..a- matter: of

would bring
¥ discrimination . in. its -wake,
‘Special Jurisdiction or status
ft deen bea get both

discriminat m for and
‘discrimination against the

“4

I feel that separate political : 3} special geographic unit,
status should not be availabley Ai it~ What must be available,

though, is special’ con-
“upon, the need to develop
Canada’s bilingual nature and
this cannot be done by setting
one province apart from the
others but can’ be’ ae-
complished: by treating the
.. French language in all parts

s To establish any legislative - “P of Canada with respect.

In announcing the campaign,
“CAC president Jean M. Jones

the jrsaid that for the past few years

the organization's emphasis
during Consumer Week in

operation with industry ‘and
‘governments. «

This year, she continued, “‘We
hope to demonstrate the real
power of orgamzed consumers
across Canada by exerting
purchasing pressure agains

non-returnable. beverage

The CAC president, in calling
attention to the Association's
long-standing requests for
legislation to ban- non-
returnable beverage con-
tainers, said. .

* authority 4 for one siovinee bi | an

ce discrimination in, itself and -

linguistic
" further -

a whole nation must meet.: -
, | Apart from the ethics of the

sideration for, and emphasis -

own nation economically if we

Canada has concentrated upon .

+ Canida mudt be gop
meet, its moral and, financial
obligations in’ the. area of.
“equality. and .

development. . Special
recognition: for ‘the develop-
ment of language and culture
is a must’ which I want to’
meet, ~ am prepared
to meet and which canada as

question of bi-lingualism we
must also recognize that we
will never be masters in our

are not masters culturaliy.

The overriding bulk: of the
cultural pressure within the
‘English speaking parts of
Canada comes from the
United States, and we cannot
resist . this” so long as. we
remain comfortable with the
unilingualism- ‘of. the. English
language. ;

“pIMS SEPARATISM

There will- likely be a
resolution presented to. the
federal convention of the NDP
that will ask for a declaration
that Quebec have the right to
separate from Canada and
_form a separate state if it so
“desires,

Such 4 declaration is not
necessary for two reasons.

consumer education and co-

$1,400 damages in a collision
purchasing pressure against . Saturday.

and David Douglas collided at
the intersection of McConnell
and Kalum Lake Drive,

having a blood alcohol above .08

‘Crash costly
to drivers

Two cars received a total of

Cars driven by Henry Wieler

Douglas was charged with

ared to:]. Wee

. revogalze the : “right; ina.
democracy, of people.to make:
such decisions ina democratic ;

Tespect
“language and culture, I do not
‘want’ to see'us develop as a

Neither driver was injured.

ways:

The senond reason 1 Is ‘more
peychological. T feet that by::

passing such a resolution we
will give tacit sustenance to
those 'in Quebec who want to
Separate and those hard-nosed

bigots outside of Quebee who -
* would enjoy seeing that

separation take place.

I want to. see Canada
develop ag a spevial country
with unity of purpose and
for..a person's

fragmented quarrelling group

to become even further an
. appendage of the melting pot

to the south.

ry

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| They tore :

the dump. :

Directors of the Kitimat- |
Stikine Regional Board took an
unusual tour Monday — through.
the Thornbill dump, ;

The board tour the dump to
get a first-hand picture of
conditions there.

The Thornhill Ratepayers
Asscciation has asked the board -
to take over. operation of the
dump to improve conditons

Pa

and after touring the dump,
the directors turned the
problem over to their technical
planning committee.

” Members of that committee -
including health and Jand_of-
ficials -- are also expected -to
tour the dump before making a
recommendation. -

A GENERAL MEETING

has been called for the
members of the

THORNHILL GOLF &
COUNTRY CLUB

For

Sunday,, March 7 )
at 7:30 p.m.

_ All members are urged to attend

ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN GOLF
OR THE ASPECTS OF A COUNTRY CLUB ARE

ALSO WELCOME,

SEE YOU ALL AT THE

CLUBHOUSE. SUNDAY. MARCH? AT 7:30 P:M.

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