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Page ¢, The Herald, Wednesday, June 6, 1979

TERRACE/KITIMAT

daily herald

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Canadian vets
remember batile

‘By BRUCE LEVETT

DEAUVILLE, France (CP) — On June 6, 1944, about
400 Canadians were killed inaction as part of the Allied
forces storming the Normandy beaches. oO ,

- On June, 1979, Canadian veterans -~ roughly equal
in number to the D-Day dead — will return for 35th .
anniversary ceremonies. .

There won't be much to remind them of the day they
are coming here to commemorate.

At Courseulles-eur-Mer, there's a towering cross in
the form of a commando fighting knife and a,plaque to
thé Royal Winnipeg Rifles. © ;

At Berniere-sur-Mer there Is a blockhouse-shaped
cenotaph inscribed “here on June 6,1944, Europe was
Liberated by the herolam of the Allied forces.”

Other memorials are studded along the invasion
beaches. One is guarded by an old-fashioned armored
car bearing the badge of the Queen’s Own Rifles of
Canada. .

Behind the car is a row of white bathing huts heading.
east foward the remains of a solitary German bunker.

Beyond that is a atreet sign — Place du Canada —
and another plaque:

“Here on 6th June, 1044, landed the Queen’s Own
Rifles of Canada.”

Nearby, on an old German gun position and turning
green with age and spray from the sea is another
Plaque with the inscription:

“Le regiment de La Chaudiere du Canada, com-
mande par le Lt-Col, Paul Mathieu, DSO, Ed.
Debarque sur cette plage a 0700 hres, Je 6 Juin, 1944.”

_ Across the road, rows of beach houses are under con-
struction and holiday apartments are on sale. ;

InSt. Aubln-sw-Mer, on the Avenue of Liberation, in
a tiny square sand with the sign “Square des
Canadiens'’ Also there is a small wishing well.

Not far away is another gun position with a rusted,
motionless anti-tank gun pointing up the road the

_ Canadians took on D-Day 35 years ago. A plaque says:

"| “Sur cetteplage de Saint Aubin, a Yaube du 6 Juin

© 1944’ 4 7h 90 tut etablle une tet# de posit par Ie-regiment
de infantrie Canadienne des North Shore cuvrant la
vote au 48eme Commando des Royal Marines.” .
’ Women come here each morning to sit in the sun and

On June 6, 1944, more than 14,000 Canadians — about

. onefifth ‘of the total D-day invasion force — came

ashore across the area designated as Juno. The British

camein over Sword on the eastern flank and over Gold
to the west. ‘

Oif Gold, well out from shore, forming up like a
convoy in the mist, is a line of concrete hulls sunk there
as part of the artificial harbor.

- ” As the tide ebbs, a huge sunkenpier rises from the
sea close to shore. ’

Only in one area has the devastation of 35 years ago
been allowed to remain untouched.

Polnte du Hoc is. a wind-swpet hilltop with a battered
German cross set on a stone pillar with the sign:

"Tol dea combattants demeurent la bataille dans son
chaos les a unis pour |’eternite.” ; oo,

Thebomb craters and shell holes now are overgrown ,
with grass, Here and there paths wind through scat-
tered gun positions and bunkers.

These were the towering cliffs assaulted by the U.S.

Rangers.

During this week, government officials will deliver .
speeches and Canadian Forces bands will play.
Wreaths will be placed and ambassadors will speak.

Representatives from all parts of Canada will attend
@ roll call honoring more than 40 groups — fighting
men, war correspondents, nursing sister, chaplains
and others, .

War graves of Canadians will be visited — 2,872 at
Brettevillesur-Lzize, 2,044 at Beny-surMer, 161 at
‘Bayeux and 76 at Ranville.

Also, at Beyeux, there will be a memorial service for
the 270 Canadians listed as ‘missing in Normandy.”

“I'm not worried. If I'm not smart enough to get

a good job, I can always teach.”

S1979 Universal Preu Syndicate

SH. NG

Dear Sir:

In leaving the post of Agriculture Minister,
following defeat at the Election on May 22nd, 1979, I
would greatly appreclate some information for the
future guidance of government as to why the Indian
people nearly in total turned agalnst me at the elec-
tion. . .

I was often used as an example on how a member
should help the Native people, going as far back to the

” 1950's when I successfully stopped mass interdiction
. from the licensed premises in Burns Lake and Van-

derhoof area, as well as stopping discrimination by
restaurants banning Native people in the north,

In the 1960's I started the K'san project at Hazelton
while minister. During the’*New Democratic Party
term in office, they promised. to pave the road in
Kitamaat Village and help with the recreation centre.
I didn't promise anything but we paved the road and
made a grant of $275,000 to the recreation centre,
which the Village can be justly proud of for their ef-
forts also. .

* The Minister of highways and myself came in the
first day of the flood last fall and compensated
everyone for damage, even dropped supplies in by
hellicopter the first night -of the flood.

assisted in the plans for the co-op at Kitwanga and
the proposed tree farm licence. | ..

We assisted the Skeena Crossing Trucking Co. with
$485,000 to give them a start along with the gas station
at Kitwanga. These are. just,.a..few of, my ac-

,somplishments,...,.., SoHmabs ial foe umber es, Fn :
Cost more than monetary _

. SUDBURY, Ont. (CP) — their strike on Sunday by ac-
More than money was lost
during the $-month strike

at Inco Metals Co.

tract. They got an increase
of $4.07 an hour in wages and

cepting a three-year con- .

ELEORD ASKING

Why lack of native support?

I tried for 3 years to get Glen Vowell to apply fora

tree farm licence and develop agriculture. I an-
nounced the hiring this summer of 2 Indian 4H
workers to encourage the: Indian people In home
gardening and community development as all of the
villages in the area, with the exception of Kitamaat
and Hartley’ Bay, have four times the land base
needed to become 100 percent self-sufficient for
‘vegetables and fruit which would not only greatly
increase the standard of living but would greatly
improve the health standards with more nutritional
diets, I was trying to interest all Indian people in the
province on the potential of Fish Farming where in
Norway and Denmark it has topped the 200 million
mark and we are ideally suited for this type of
development.

I am sure no other member can top this record of
interest and action over the years. You will now find
yourselves with no voice in either the. Federal or
Provincial Governments. You havé a voice in
Parliament but not in Government,

_E would very. much appreciate your comments on
where I and the government went wrong in our at-
tempt to help our native people. Now that I am out of
the political field, permanently, I wouldn’t want
others in government to throw up their hands and say
“well whatis the use, nothing we can do will help”,

Best wishes for the future.

os . . Sincerely,
oe ae, ata SOynll ML Shelford

AE Speier pyaitosy WpeatHeh FN es cieseas [he

he didn’t know how many
businesses went bankrupt
during the strike. More

later they are still: here. As
as result, their roots are not
as stable as they should be.”

TAX TALK

There are incentives to save what little money you
have left after you've pald all the bills.

If, that is, you're lucky enough to have any left,

For example:

You may deduct up to $1,000 of certain Canadian
source interest and or taxable dividends and taxable
capital gains from Canadian securities.

e interest, dividends and capital gains deduction
may be the leaser of:

(A) The total of eligible interest income, eligible
taxable dividends from taxable Canadian cor-
porations and taxable capital Gains (before deducting
allowable capital loases on diaposition of Canadian
securities; and

(B) $1,000.

But remember, the eligible interest and dividend
income in (A) must be reduced by the amount of any
intereat paid to earn that of income regardless of
whether any income was actually received in the year
from the asset purchased with the borrowed funds,

And also remember that interest and dividend in-
come received from a person with whom you weren't
dealing at “arms'iength’, og. related persons,
doesn't qualify for the deduction.

Incidentally, the deduction, if not full-used by the
taxpayer may be transferred to the spouse but this

be discussed in another article

Marriages‘ ended,
businesses went bankrupt,
people left the city and many
of those who stayed are
bitter. :

“T wouldn’t want to be a
front line supervisor (at
Inco),”’ said Harvey Wyers,
a steward in Local 6500,
United Steelworkers of

. America.

And John Higginson, a
Local 6500 official, said
workers should throw away
the coffee and doughnuts the
‘company is offering during
programs to reacquaint
workers with their jobs.

“Tm bitter'’ Higgitson
sald. ‘Would you eat their
doughnuts after an 8%-
month strike?”

The 11,700 workers ended

benefits, $300 for returning to
work, an unemployment
benefit of $40 a week and a
provision allowing them to

“retire after 30° years with

Inco. Hourly wages are
between $7.78 and $10.48,

But there have been losses
as well as gains. .

“There have been a lot of
marriage breakups,” said
Rey. Brian McKee of Copper
Cliff, part of the Sudbury
Region, :

The strike is not the only
reason the marriages have
ended, he said. .

“The over-all problem is
that lots of young people
come here figuring they are
going to make big money and
get out. Twentyfive years

Although the strike isover, important, he said, is how
many say the woratia still t¢ =many go bankrupt later.
come, Ss

“You know, some people ,
never had it.go good aa.
during a strike,” a rétired «

‘Inco employee said.

“They just buy on credit
and some of them live better
than when were’
working. But when the strike
is over, the creditis.gone and
they have to start: paying it .
back, And then they are
worse off,”

- The strikers lost about $100

million In wages, an average
of $11,000 each. Businesses
that relied on credit from
their suppliers now have to
begin paying, =

‘Mitch Speigel, vice-

‘president ‘of the * local

chamber of commerce, said

It will take between six
months and a year for retail
businesses in the city to
recover from the strike, said
a district economist with
Canada Manpower.

Mel Soucie said the loss to
Sudbury’s economy is at
least $80 million. .

Workers who deferred
mortgage and car payments
will find the payments
dramatically higher because
of interest, he said. And
many have spent the savings
they. were keeping for
retirement. ;

"T-know some people who
used up $8,000 to $9,000 in
savings.”

“OFFBEAT. ~

BY RICHARD JACKSON °°

. Ottawa,-You'll never believe after being the centre
of attention in these recent weeks of campaigning

when the candidates were trying to make you think ©

they regarded you o8 Just-The-Biggest-Deal-In-All-
The-Land, that apart from being a voter and taxpayer

you're really a nothing’ =. Lot

Zero you. . , a
Never mind that you pay all the government bills,
foot the election costs and carry the campaign charges
for the candidates and their parties, after casting your
ballot you revert from being a Somebody to a Nobody
in a very elite company of special Somebodies.
* There are few awitches as swift as yours in status
before and after an election. © =i. --
In the weeks before, you and everyone like yourare

‘ everything.

Now that you've cast your ballot, unless you're one

‘of just’ 25 select groups numbering some 2,000

privileged Canadians, you're Mr. or Ms, Zero, ©
“That's the way it is every election. So
There are the winners-freshmen winning for the
first time, veteran winnera who have won before, and
the ancient and honorable order of permanent wintiéts
whose winning ways come built-in with their high-
appointed place in the order ‘of things.
Until 13 years age you were not only a losing Nobody
after an election, but you were officially deemed to be
‘an. “assuming and unworthy upstart."
To sea is to believe, so turn to the back pages of the
Parliamentary Guide-what better authority Is there
in such matters-and discover a Canadian caste
system that few of you ever dreamed existed.. =
It’s proclaimed, too, as an official publication by the
Secretary of State. . 0 ae
_ Known as “Official Precedence,” it’s a national
ranking, 80 says the Guide, of “special privileges
granted to certain of the more responsible officials
within the spheres appointed for them.”
All men may be created equal, according to the Bill

of Rights, but “precedence” proclaims the few more

equal than the many. ; a

The Governor General is No. One. _-

The Prime Minister comes in second, foreign envoys
third, the Opposition Leader eleventh, and so on down
the pecking order to Senators at 18 and MPs 19. 7

How did all this sneak by when perhaps you weren't
looking, or innocently assuming that this is a classless
society? — ;

It goes back to the coronation in 1399 of King Henry .

Fourth of England, when by Royal Proclamation
there was prepared '‘a table of Order of all the estates
and nobles and gentry.” .
And as an English inheritance of tradition it has
been with us from the outset. a

"In the beginning “precedence” set out that “an .

ordinary sense of decency, not to speak of dignity
demands that the monopoly of the place of honor be
put beyond the accomplishment of the assuming
upstart and unworthy elements” ug

__ Then-only 13 years ago it was-redefined .by:Order fn
Couticil as “the priority of place, or'superiority'of rark
in the conventional system of arrangement under
which the more eminent and dignified orders of the

, community are classified.” ;

So, since 1966 there has been no word of upstartism
or unworthiness barring the ambitious from
“precedence, title and proper address,” i

Instead, the Guide declares that ‘an ordinary sense
of decency and dignity demands that. places of honor
be given those entrusted by the nation with the ad-
ministration of its affairs and the guardianship of its
interests and honor.” oS

“It’s all a quietly discreet imposition of what is ter-
med “usage and established custom.”

And it’s the separation of the “dignitaries” from
well, ‘‘undignitaries” perhaps.

- Or to put it in its bluntest terms it's the preservation
of an ‘‘aristocracy’'--overseen by the Big
Bureaucrats, the federal, deputies who rank No, 20 In
the order--a clear discrimination between the tax-

KITCHENER, Ont,
(CP) — Ken Silvester can
empathize with young,
married mothers who tell
their husbands: ''Not
tonight dear, I have a
headache,"

“] Know they really
mean it,” said Silvester,
34, former policeman and
civil servant and now a
househusband with two

children, ;

He and his wife, Lynda,
a spectal-education
teacher, switched roles
almost two years ago
when Mrs. Glilvester re-

- Were done at

HOUSEHUSBAND

Silvester made beds,
washed floors and
prepared some meals

fore he switched roles
but he was not pre pred
for the constant In
terruptions and drudgery.
When he started, it took -
him half an hour to make
three beds; now it takes
alx minutes,

Co-ordinating meals ap -
meat and vegetables
8 same
time was something else
he had to learn, Early |
efforts were ‘‘three-
course affairs,’” in which

He knows the problems

important jobs in the
world but also the ‘most -
taken-forgranted jobs

going. .
When he first switched .
roles, he wae afraid of
attending public functions
because of what people
might think when they
learned his occupation.

Now he feels comfortable
about It,
Wives usually show

surprise and interest In
the role switch, Silveater
said, but husbands seem
perplexed and usually
don't pursue the con:

sumed teaching. Silvester the ment arrived at the — versation,
took over the housework table long after the He has a@ part-time husband mer . whe n he
and the children, Karen, potatoes and vegetables ue UA 8 PALES © was the principal wage
3, and Kevin, 5. Pad been eaten. Now he ‘a disc jockey { earner.
makes ples or cakes from Dut a8.a clac jockey [oF == The only person who
“For the first six seratch banquets and cances and didn't accept the switch
months, [ went to bed ‘ also tapes historical pro- = was a Toronto man: who
every night with a Silvester sald he sees © gramefor a Barrie, Ont, had been a close friend of
headache,’ Silvester whywomenareturnedoff radio station. — - Silvester for eight years.
sald. ‘'Youdon’thave one by housework and prefer | But, = hes sald: = When Silvester became a
minute to yourself when to get outside jobs. © ‘Homemaking ts my  househusband, the
you have young children © Homemaking and nurture principal job. friendship ‘‘sort of
at home,” ing children are the moat Gllvester ‘and.his wife dwindled away.”

awapped roles became
Mrs, Silvester liked her
lob and wanted to resume
(. Her husband was
unhappy with his suc-
cession of jobs and they —
felt that one of them
should be home during
thelr children’s early

years,

Although they worrled
about the reaction of
family and friends and
whether the children
would be teased, they
didn’t worry about

money, .
Mra, Silvester earns as
much money as her

Will get all

payers, the Nobodies, and the tax-spenders, the

Somebodies. ,

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR |

Dear Sir:

I would like to thank my
many supporters for their
hard work on my behalf
during the election cam-
paign. One of the nice things
about election campaigns is
the many nice people you
meet. I must say, I have
enjoyed my 26 yeara in
politics as [ have always
found it challenging though
frustrating at times when it
is always those you try to

- “félp most who turn againat

you first,

T am sure everyone
leaving polltics has certain
exciting projects they would
like to be able to complete

before retirement, [ know 1°

have and for that reason, I
was persuaded to try for one
more term of office, The
projects I would like to have
completed before retirement

project Is the Smithers ski
iil which could. turn
Smithers Into the Swit-
zerland of Western Canada.

Thope and trust the federal:

and provinclal governments
will go ahead with these
projects even though the
North West does not have a
vaice in either government,
only a voice in parliament
and the legislature, which Is
a great difference.

For those who are not
clear on this, I will explais it.
Elected members, both
government and opposition,
are the ones who take the
laws only, The cabinet
members are the onea who
carry out the administration
of government and actually
run the country. Opposition
members have absolutely 20
say in thi. I trast this last bit
of advice will be helpful to
my many friends in the

or

were the hot springs, which? North

waa able to have gifted to the
Province and had many,
many exciting possibilities,
another was agriculture
where the advanced plan-
ning was only weeks away
for completiion, and another
was the Kitimat port
development which {sa must
if B.C. is to become the
supply centre for the North
Weatern development. If this
is not done quickly, Alberta

8 benefits and
B.C, will lose mililons tn
revenue, The third major,

7 wish ‘to take this ap-
portunity to thank those who
supported me over the many
years and to wish you well in
the future, 1 alsa want to
compliment the many young
people I ment in the various
schools for thelr interest in
public affairs and hope some
of you will take a place in
elther the Provincial
Legislature or the Natlonal
Parliament In the nat too
distant future.

Cyril Shelford

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