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—— 72 NO. 49

‘FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1976

peers carnival ic ““The Time Machine,"

Shrimpton and Lorraine Phillips axe Moonchildren in the Terrace Figure Skating
[Club's ice carnival on Saturday, March 11 at 8 p.m.

U.S.- Ganada Deal Differently
With Drastic Dollar Decline

OTTAWA (CP) — Both the-
Canadian and United States
dollars plunged to their
loweat level in 30 yeara on

_ ‘world currency markets this

week, but the governments
appear -to be reacting In
vastly different ways.

The differences were
likely to become. evident
when «CWS.

secretary Michael Blu-
menthal.. and Finance

Minister Jean Chretien meet .
today for informal talks on —

the two economies, :
Chretien already has
moved ‘to. support the

fara

- ghornhill Elementary
Sehddl hosted parenis and
‘visitors at an open howe
Wednesday afternoon. -

watt focal point’ a the visit

a mini. of ar-
ticles made. by the children

which was laid out ‘in the _

gym.

7 Later this week the same
display was moved ‘to ‘the -
Caledonia gym where

‘from 0 other- schools,

display

a -Adpen-House HEAL
_ Thornhill Elementary

Canadian dollar abroad and
says he will continue to in-
tervene in world currency
markets,

Peppered daily in the
Commons with demands to
Tescue’ the sagging dollar,

Chretien has arranged tO onomist at he OL, Howe

borrow almost $1 billion

“(U.8S,)—$200 millon from
banks

Canada’s
and $70 million innNew

ieauviite, ihe. Us. ad-
ministration has done little
to support. its declining
, dollar,

oA number of economists in

meeting to parth ta
discussions - ‘Pralvilg bol “both
the schoo! and the parents.

ca regard. to the we
of calculators in school, .
Souie parents said that me
24-hour time now used by the

-Bchool was confusing, It was ©
. Ig much less severe,

Also, the United States is sha

noted that people eventually

Bot wed to using Celelua and >:
other metric’. ,

* measurements.

: Hopefully a Thora
Elementary will: get some
recognition in the form of
prizes and certificates,
da, the open house
an , parents wi
invited fo the monthly mt

After discussing “ther

" ttems * pertaining to the

education of the children, the

' parenta and teachers got:

together over coffee for
further deliberations, but on
an infromal ba

. third

the United States and
abroad, are convinced that
U.S. treasury officials are
quietly ice celebrating their

‘COST NOT. HIGH

Judith © Maxwell,

Research Institute sald in an
interview this week: “As far
as they (the Americans) are
concerned, the cost of
devaluation isnot that high.”
primarily the Japanese aud
lapanese an
Weat Germans” who have

Canaiis harder than the U.S.
Canadians spend about: 25.

+ cents- of every dollar on

imports and when the
in Canadian dollar is worth less
than 89 cents U.S., the cost of -

large jump In: the cost of

living.
Americans end only

seven cents of each

imports: The jntlationaey

effect of a dollar devaluation

ol nomlcelly Ben shape
@ moment,

Ualike c Cansda, t's into the
of what "Ms.
Maxwell calls a strong re-
boyleat with ionsumers
freely and businesses
beginning to invest in’ ex-

pansion.

Minor
Baseball.
May Fold

’ py Rose wack
The General Meeting of
the Terrace Minor Baseball
association which was to be
beld on Tuesday March 7, at
8:00 p.m. in the Senior

- Citizens Room of the Arena

had to be cancelled due to

lack of response — 5 people:

were at this meeting, 3 of
them last years executive,
who after many: years of
service are

One more. attempt will be
made on MONDAY MARCH
13, at 8:00 p.m, in the
. BOARD ROOM OF THE
POOL to hold a meeting, If
the results are the same
there will be NO MINOR
BASEBALL in Terrace.

Vast year about 250

and Sunday at 2 p.m. Theme of this] yok part in Minor Eaecbed

yet only 3 of the 5 who at-
tended Tuesday nights
meeting bad boys who
played baseball last year
and who will be playing this
year, if there is Minor
Baseball in Terrace. Is this
the best. we can do?
REMEMBER MONDAY
MARCH 13 at 8:00 p.m.,
BOARD ROOM OF THE
POOL IF YOU WANT TO
SEE MINOR BASEBALL
CONTINUE IN TERRACE.

Three is Not
Many for 300

Cassie Hall Elementary
School, located in Reith
Estate, has a

organization up-and:
in it’s support — andconing

original iitention of the.

organization: was to -learn
more about the _ Sducatlon

‘ar asa dent Geni

three only concerned parenta

“who wish to know how and
what, their children are
being taught. Enroliment in
the school is around 900. ‘The
- members

Of the first three meatings,
ong in December, January,
February toples ranged
from repurt cards to staff

meetings. The ‘group is..

chaired “by ‘Diane’ McKay,

‘Caasie School principal ‘Mr.

. w has a. fall support.
iy

kt Rte

meeting between the group

and provincial ‘education:

resentatives, — -

‘This month the group holds |
another meeting. but exact
dates and‘ times’ are Tat.
available yet, ae

Highway

Thissad looking wreckis al that rane food delivery| d

trailer that left the road. early last Satu
16, approximately 30 miles West of Terrace and

ended up Jn the ditch, If all the vehicles similarly wrecked onj he had pe
| Highway i6 were laid end to end, they would reach the office] at the
”. 4 OF tha B.C, Highway 's Minister In Victoria who might jus

morning, on

decide to do something about removing the four worat death

Helerring that have killed so many people on this 9) mile stretch.

to this accident, one Terrace man remarked that}
personally picked up 4 bodies over the last few years
spot where this truck was wrecked.

LEGISLATIVE LTBRAS
PARLIAMENT EUTLDINGS,

VICTORIA, B.C.,
VSY—1X4

meee DE al,

comp. 7e¢7Ta"

#61 cos

: funded by. the:

ee ‘this spring th
. t ere
will be about 230,000 young. .

sponse to pione calls from come of our “readers, the
Herald sent a photographer around to the new B,C. Hydrolthe cost of the project. When our photographer asked if the
building on Keith Avenue. The callers said the building|plastic could be removed for the picture, one of them said,
contained $30,000 worth of “just plain rock”. When our man|'‘Gosh, no, It took us three days just to cover it!” Perhaps
arrived, sure encugh — there were two rocks,but he was|now we'll be able to better appreciate why Hydro is
unable to find anyone around who could explain them. They]inncreased power rates. Someone has to pay for su
appear to be the central objects for a garden or pool motif, as [necessities as this rock group!

[they are apparently being installed in a sunken cement] :

seit —

p $30,000 ? workmen e€8

ated that could

Youth Employment Head
Here For Student Jobs

Director of the provincial
Employment Opportunities
program, Mr.’ Vern
Burkhardt, will be arriving
in “Terrace Sunday to
promo the Youth Em-
ployment. Opportunities

branch of his department. ©

‘Timing of the visit falls
two weeks before the March
%4 deadline for government
assistance in thé Youn
Emplo: oyment Program.

Small
‘Prince Rupert, Kitimat,
Terrace, Stewart, and
throughout the Stlking
region, must have their
application for assistance in

to the office, on Lakelse
Ave, by that Hime. -

After the 24th area
Tecomendatiuu .com-
mittees wui decide trum.
applications the direction of.
the provinciy! funding.

The . maximnuin amount
yermment:
. Mill be60 per ees) ofthe total.
cnat.o£ creating
Canada:

Sha

people come out of high
schools and universities.
any .will be looking for
tamper positions to
ide thent: with funds for

Reach for
Top Finals
Nears

- The final . “games of the
Terrace Elementary
School's Reach for The Top
Contest will be held this.
Saturday, :Mareh {ith at
12:30:1n the lecture theatre at
Culedonia high School..

“Grade 6 and 7 students in
Eiementary §choels

| throughout the district have,

‘the past’ number of

| weeks, participated in. n

numerous preliminary
contests to determine school
and--zone . championship

. teams, At. Clarence Michiel
Elementary over 30 students

from seven classes par-

_ ticipated in the school finale,
‘Other school teams were

Setermined in zone finals
hald in Terrace, Thornhili
and Hazelton.
As a result.of the Zone
finals, . Cassie Hall will
t- Terrace, Thornhill
Elementary will represent
Thornhill. and. either ’ Kit-

~wanga or John Field. will

represent Hazelton’ (their
Zone finals will be held this
week); a'team from ae
Elementary will also be

competing.
The final competitions will
follow the rules and format
of the TV Reach ice The Top,

Program.

Spectators are encouraged .

-to. come: to the. Terrace

Education Exhibition and

Selence Fair this: weekend,

to view the exhibits, and to

“watch the Reach for The Top

_ games, The contests should
prove to be both informative
and entertainii

i¢he‘ host “of he series 1)
Erle’ Olthof of © Clarence

. - Michiel 4 Blementary.

0b eo Ae Willa

te next term in school but
most (83 per cent of all high
school graduates) will be
entering the job market on a

permanent basis.

Labour Minister . Allan‘

Willlamns announcing details
of the Government’s 1978
Youth Employment
Program, urged employers
to make an extraordinary
effort to provide worthwhile
summer jobs for youth under

businesses from 25.

The Minister sald “this
‘year's program will place
special emphasis on the
creation of jobe offering

‘opportunities for training

through work experience
which will better equip
young persons for entry into
the work force."

_ “It must be understood
that unskilled new entrants
‘into the ‘working world are
‘the ones ‘which have the
greatest. diftie difficulties . getting

ee well said : thes:

ung Pereone during the
erica from May through
September. In total, the.1978
program {s is expected to

13,000 jobs for auth,
Under the provinclal

governments “ana: post
secondary educational in-
stitutions, are eligible to
receive funding for the
creation of summer job

opporiunities for young

nS.
at Williams said he
poeewes growing von-
dence among employers in
the British Columbia
economy. The job-creation

performance under this .
{program is proving to be one -

“of the best in Canada. The
intention this year ia to

maintain its. momentum so

that all of:us will realise its
benefite? anys Williams,

~Texrace-
vage thay the Goveehmnenite You offies, ‘gécond ‘floor, “480
“costs for the employment of Employment ‘Program is Lakelse Avenue.

available both to students
and to non-students, Thirty
Ministry of Labour field‘ co-
‘ordingtors will be located
throughout the province to

funding
during the period May. 2 to
August 31.

In addition to a jolnt ad-
vertising program the B.C.
Youth Employment Offices
and the Canada Em-
ployment Centres for
Students will co-operate in 14
offices across the aan

A special pilot pro
Greater Victoria will make
the computer referral ser-
vice ‘of the B.C. Youth
Employment Office
available to the Canada

ents as well.

_ Specific details Hegarding
the applications | for “both
‘employers and young per-
eons ae. cavallable at. the

Greenpeace Ad Counters |

Newfoundland’s Sampson

VAN COUVEK (CP) - _ The
. Greenpeace Fi tion on

‘Wednesday released con-

tents of an advertisement
scheduled to appear inn-
today’s St. John’s Evening.
Telegram to ‘tell’ New-
foundlanders the Green-
peace side of the sealing
controversy. -

Patrick: Moore said the
environmental group in-
vested $704.64 in. the full-
page ad to balance the -
$160,000 spent by the New-

foundiand government. in

publicizing the other side of
the issue

“Beginning with a call for «

understanding, Moore says

‘Newfoundianders “a a proud

and honorable people with a
natural: need to earn a decent

“But we also recogniza
that a livelihood gained at

the expense of the possible

extinction of another species
(the harp seal) is a.short-
term expedient that in the
long run will make the eco-
nomic situation worse, not
better."

Greenpeace, using federal .
government statistics from
1976 :-(the ‘most. recent

available), says two-tenths

of 8: per.‘cent of the provin-

ce's gross annual income is a

derived from the hunt, ‘and
that of the stated $5.5 million
gained through sealing, only
12 per cent went to the 9,-045
jandemen involved in the

. MAKE LITTLE MONEY |
Greenpeace says that 63.3"

per cent of the landsmen .
make $100 or lesa a year

from the hunt and: 75.9. per
cent—according to federal
statistics—make $200 or leas.

“The real profits from

sealing never reaches the |
“Pockets, of; the people who |

«books to h

risk tn ves in the hunt”
says eenpeace ad. “It.
* goes to.the large ship owners
and the European, mainly
Norwegian, comvanies who
“turn the pelts into finished
‘kr products." n
The foundation says the
real culprit in declining fesh
Stocks is not the harp seal
but “the decades of over-
‘fishing, with large fleets ot

draggers’ 1
Union, Poland,..

East Germany etc.,
ing the oceans of fish’
from the surface to
bottom.”

o

Terrace Library Latest

_ by Michael Collins
are = making
beadiines these days. Last
; wae saw the ‘publieaties
‘forthcoming cation of
& book called "In His Image,
the Cloning of a Man”, by
David Rorvik. While the full
details are not known at this
writing and the whole thing
vee baby 8 hoax, some
jpartan’ es are
raised nonetheless, No-one
‘living in today’s world can

- afford to ignore what is

currently happening with
to. the .creation of

art ficial life, 6 genetig

tling ~ biological — in-
. vestigations, Ultimately
everyone will be affected by.
what is going on. in

laboratories today.
The library has some

Pp you

abreast of. this fasé changing
field. Among them are:

Thomas Aylesworth, “Tho
Search for Life” — explores
‘the realm of techniques and

“freezing'' tech ques for
preservation of life.

George Beadle, “The
Language of Life:. an In-
troduction to the Science of
Geneti

eg.” ” as
Richard Onwatin, “rhe

explains. genes,
what they do and how they
work,

Nigel ‘Galder, “The Life
Game” — new biology sheds
additional light on the theory
of evolution.

S.E. Luria, ‘‘Life:: the
Unfinished Experiment!? —
with this National Book
Award winner a- Nobel
laureate interprets modern |
biclogy for the layman.

Studonis a5 Centre for

the soviet :
_ Norway, :

OVE eSr reser any Vaveere, ‘wena

ry

Aaron Klein, “Threads of
Life, Genetics from Aristotle —

to DNA” — the of.
genetics from crlet tans
to the ‘present, a

And just ‘@ rerilnden. that

we have magazines that can ~

keep you informed’ about
developments too recent to
be included in even the latest

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