PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, November 23, 1977 TERRACE daily herald Published by Sterling Publishers General Office - 635-6357 Circulation » 635-6357 PUBLISHER... W.R, (BILL) LOISELLE EDITOR... JULIETTE PROOM Published avery weekday at 3212 Kaium St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circutation. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201, Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complaia and sole copyright In any advertisement praduced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. rs a id Cautious after Sadat’s visit BY CATHY McKERCHER WASHINGTON (CP) — U.S. officials are carefully avoiding detailed comment on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s weekend visit to Israel, but they are clearly hoping it will go a long way toward establishing a lasting peace in the Middle East. The history-making visit put the U.S, on the sidelines of Mideast diplomacy for the first time in years, opening an independent diplomatic track in the effort to end three decades of Arab-Israeli conflict. But Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin and U.S. officials agree that President Carter's in- sistance on an early peace conference did much to iene an atmosphere in which the visit could take lace. As Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, puts it: “We got the folks together. Let’s see what happens.” U.S. officials admit they were surprised at the announcement that Sadat would meet his ancient adversaries face-to-face on hostile territory, but they streas that the move supports rather than undercuts US. efforts toward Geneva. PRAISE MOVE Carter, whose hopes for a peace conference were dimmed by State Secretary Cyrus Vance’s apparent failure to move the Israeli toward the bargaining table during an August Mideast visit, was quick to praise Sadat’s move as “a significant contribution to peace.” While administration officials say it is-too early to determine how the visit will affect the U.S. role in the Mideast, they are keeping an anxious eye on what may develop into a new negotiating track outside U.S. con- ol. . The main impetus for the US. in the next few months likely will be to keep that track aimed at Geneva with the administration here doing what it can to encourage and facilitate comprehensive talks. Administration officials believe Sadat took the high risk of travelling to Jerusalem both to create a psychological advantage over Israel and out of con- cern that any progress achieved in recent months might be undone by stagnation. Officials also hope that the desire for peace ex- pressed by both leaders would go a long way toward overcoming the negative reaction to Sadat’s visit expressed y other Arab countries and the Soviet Union. Administration officials told the Soviet Union that Carter ia displeased with Soviet support of radical Arab attacks on Sadat, saying the Soviet position contradicts a joint pledge the two issued in October to encourage peace talks. But the fact remains that Sadat and Begin have temporarily managed to sideline both superpowers through the weekend talks. And while Washington may have been outflanked by the move, the Soviet Union has been deeply embarrassed. The big question that emerges is what will happen next, Although the peace offered Israel by Sadat goes farther than anything any other Arab leader has been willing to concede, the price he asks for it—return of Arab lands captured in the 1967 and 1973 wars and the creation of a Palestinian homeland—is one the Israelis will find hard to accept. In turn, Begin promised to continue the dialogue with Sadat, but stuck to Israeli claims to the land and rejection of the idea of a Palestinian state, The decisive test of the new diplomatic channe) will be whether the two can build on their declaration seeking peace. The U.S. is concerned that if nothing comes of the talks, Sadat, whom they regard as 2 friend among Arab leaders, will be placed in an ex- tremely difficult position. The next move, however, will have to come from the Israelis. HCRAAN 81977 Univeiial Pra Vradeo'a “tl give you something for gas!” Americans tapping Canadian market _ Arabs defend GRAND FORKS, N.D, (CP) This North Dakota city is going ahead with plans to tap the flow of Canadian tourist money, despite the Canadian dollar’s current weakness and resulting drop in traffic. Canadian dollars still flow out of Manitoba to the south, where goods and services can he had at prices far lower than the domestic market can offer. The current of money sweeps past Grand Forks and further south to the larger Fargo-Moorhead area, where on holiday weekends yellow Manitoba licence plates sprout like wheat in s opping centre parking te) To tap the river a little closer to its source, Dayton Hudson Properties has started construction of a 45-acre, $20-million shopping centre in Grand Forks, about 80 miles south of the border. Dayton Hudson Properties is the real estate arm of the Dayton Hudson Corp., parent of Dayton’s department stores. Dayton Hudson hopes the Columbia Mall will take 100 per cent of the Canadian business away from Fargo's large West Acres shopping centre, an hour's additonal drive for Manitobans. However, projects director Tom Bonneville admits there is little chance of that happening, because the Fargo- Moorhead area has more to offer than the smaller city of Grand Forks OFFERS COM- PETITION Still, with its three large stores—Dayton's, Penney’s and Target, and as many as 100 smaller stores—Columbia Mall will offer stiff com- petition. The new mall, under construction, is located about one mile from the I- 29 freeway, the route most Manitobans take on their way south. Although the site is not near existing ac- comodation, plans are to sell nearby land to a de- veloper who will build a motel. Bonneville said such a motel would he a “guaranteed goldmine.” The projected opening date for the shopping centre is Aug. 2, 1978, when the three main stores and the tenant stores will have been completed. A second phase is planned which will in- clude a fourth major store and additional space. The slump in the Canadian dollar has come as a shock to the developers, but Bon- neville said it seems to have had only a smali effect on the number of people trekking south. That feeling is echoed by border officials, Columbia Mall is ex- pected to generate $40 million to $50 million in yearly sales, and to em- ploy 1,500 people—a sizable chunk in a city with a population of less than 50,000. CALGARY (CP) Youth is the target of Theatre Calgary's ex- tension services, which are being expanded as part of the theatre’s audience development and awareness cam- paign, Rick McNair, a burly redhead, has been named as the first-ever director of extensions and there has been a name change. What once was Caravan now is Stage-Coach. McNair hopes to inundate the public with good theatre experiences through courses and rformances. The idea is informal audience development. Artistic director Harold Beldridge said a similar program has been going on for 14 years in Halifax and now the children who were there when it started are grown-ups going to the theatre. McNair has hired six performers for 2 com- pany that will tour and train with him for a six- month season that will encompass three plays, as well as educational and youth-theatre programs. First on the agenda is a production called Dr. Barnardo's Pioneers, Aimed at junior high school students, it will be a art-improvisational play built on the story of the 60,000 orphans sent to Canada in the early 1900s by a_ charitable or- ganization. HELPED ~~ BY STUDENTS McNair has been Theatre directs toward youth researching the story with the help of Uni- versity of Calgary students and has found tape-recorded and written case histories of the youthful immigrants, The script will evolve from the research, using some verbatim accounts and some hypothetical situations. . The second Stage- Coach project is an adaptation of Beowulf for elementary-level students. For senior high and adults, McNair is planning a production called Dollars and Dreams that will use a medicine-show format to ask the question: What would you do with $1 mil- lion? Baldridge said Theatre Calgary's catch phrase West Coast ports need expansion VANCOUVER (CP) — A’ consultant’s report prepared for the National arbors Board forecasts three new, major bulk- loading terminals at Rob- erts Bank, about 40 kilometres south of here, The report, by Beak Hinton Consultants .Ltd., of Vancouver, is an en- vironmental-impact as- sessment of future development at Roberts Bank. A coal-loading terminal operated by Wesishore Terminals Ltd., which transships metallurgical coal on behalf of its parent company—Kaiser Resources Ltd.—ani Fording Coal Ltd., is the only terminal there now, Westshorebegan operating in 1970 on a man-made Island at the end of a. five-kilometre causeway out into deep water. The location was labelled Roberts Bank Superport, in anticipation of further development, but nothing happened. Westshore has the first option on infilling along the length of the causeway to create a u2c- ond coa-loading facility. The existing terminal can handle eight million tons a year on a site of nearly 50 acres, Beak Hinton says a second similar-size facility will be needed by 1980. This conclusion is based on an estimate of commodity traffic prepared hy Swan Wooster Engineering Ltd. under a_ sub- contract, ‘create is a vita this season, it’s 10th, will 2! “You may not like every play we do but we guarantee that you'll never be bored.” Baldridge said Theatre Calgary's function since its formation has not been tosupply a demand but to almost foist theatre on the community, “The money came before the art,’’ he said, referring to the Canada Council’s program to develop the arts in Canada. SEES POTENTIAL He said Theatre Calgary is fortunate to be operating in a province like Alberta. “We can afford to be ositive in Alberta cause we've got potential, youth, money.” He said the nature of the Calgary audience allows a theatreas- adventure approach, “It's not pretentious. I don't have people coming to Theatre Calgary wit their diamonds and their Diors, which [ find yery posilive.” Baldbridge, who has an $800,-000 budget this year, said the stage is set for a massive theatre- awareness campaign. “You get into quality of life and all those motherhood things. But what will Calgary be remembered for 1,000 years from now? Quality, that’s the thing that gets remembered, “What I'm trying to ity, an exciting vitallty that will make Calgarians aware that the arts exist.” Sadat’s ‘Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories and the resto- ration of the Palestinians’ right to return to their land and establish a state of their own. The im- portant question now is: what will the Arab rejectionists say after this smashing blow to their lies? What will be their position in the eyes of their own people and the Palestinian people?" Al Gomhouria says: " ... The reception given to Sadat by the Egyptian masses Is the best answer to the outbidders who are launching foolish attacks against Egypt and its constructive stands. None of them can impose anything on us because Egypt, which achieved the greatest victory in history during the Oc- tober war (of 1973}, is able to impose the principles of peace.” e 4 t CAIRO (AP) Editorials in Egypt's three Arah dailies are unanimous ‘n defending President Anwar Sadat’s visit to Israel against opposition from Arab radicals. «|. Sadat could have - found immediate response (in Israel) if he only spoke from an Egyp- tian point of view, but he insisted on tackling the problem from a wider Arab angle and the world listened to him ... Sadat did not fear peace as he had not feared war ... He behaved as a man in peace as he did during the war. When the hero of ace and war returned ome, his people lined behind him,’ Al Ahram says. Al Akhbar says: “ ... Sadat told the Israelis, 1 did not come for a separate peace agree- ment. Egypt insists on Timber contract goes to Vancouver VICTORIA, B.C. — A Vancouver firm, Q.C. Timber Ltd., is the successful bidder in the sale of Crown timber known as the Queen Charlotte Proposal, forests Minister Tom Waterland announced today. The company, which operates two sawmills on the lower coast designed to saw lumber for the Japanese housing market, bid $2,534,400 to purchase 60,000 cunits of Crown timber per year for 12 years form the Queen Charlotte Public Sustained Yeld Unit. The figure includes a direct payment to the Crown as a bonus bid. Of the six bids received for the Queen Charlotte Proposal, the bid by Q,C, Timber Ltd. is more than twice as high as the next highest bid. The sale will create 66 new jouvs in the Queen Charlottes, and a possible 68 new jobs in the company’s sawmills in Nanaimo and Pitt Meadows for a possible total of 154 new jobs, Mr. Waterland said. The successful bidder also stated it intends to hire local personnel and contractors to provide maximum employment benefits to the Queen Charlotte Islands labor force, “This Japanese company has been a good corporate citizen in the Queen Charlotte Island- s,” said Mr. Waterland. “A.C, Timber has an excellent performance record in its present logging and sawnill operations and has proven _ transportation, marketing and financial backing to assure a successful operation.”’ Although not a con- sideration on awarding the bid, the company stated in its proposal that if its tender were suc- cessful, it will make cash grants, in addition to any regional taxes payable, of $75,000 each to the communities of Masset and Queen Charlotte City. QC. Timber — Ltd. (Renell Sound Logging and Pitt Meadows Sawmill) is 100 per cent owned by C. Itoh and Co. Ltd, C. Itoh and Co, Ltd. is a Japanese in- ternationa trading company which markets 90 per cent of the output of its two mills through its own dock faicilites in Tokyo and Osaka to 23 Japanese lumber wholesale firms which in turn. supply to ap- pruximately 6,000 Japanese retail oullets. en per cent of the mills’ output is sold to British Columbia markets. Transportation of lumber to Japan is accomplished through eight charter deep sea vessels, The head office of Q.C. Timber Ltd. is located in Vancouver, The Minister also announced that in ad- dition to the award of the bid proposal to Q.C. Timber Ltd., the District Forester in Prince Rupert will begin a small timber sale program for local operators on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Up to 20,000 cunits per year will be put up for competition, depending on demand. (Note: a cunit is 100 cubic feet of wand.) | Shape up or ship out The B.C. and Canadian teaching system will have to improve or it will simply fold up and he replaced by a distator- ship in this free land. The people of Canada (B.C. included) are paying too much today ‘or education and getting too little for it. Even young people today, who try to sabotage the system, cannot build or restore a better one. Nowadays School Boards appear to be losing their power and the District School Superintendent has almost total power over them. Trustees are in fact only putty in the educationists hands. Education costs continue to rise steeply and the gullible public accepts educational demands even at their own logs. Teacher's constant pay rises can only be put up with, if our present day educational system produces hardworking and capable students, but sadly enough many students lack the desire to learn. Today's schools do not encourage initiative, and in teh high schools the classroom is becoming a place where one puts in me As regards discipline in the schools, parents and teachers lack courage, and should again begin to realize that ‘'corporal punishment” is the most effective discipline. Teachers should demand the return of corporal punishment in this province, so as to come into line with the rest of Canada, and should get down to the business of educating. “Public Minded”