“AGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesuay, July 6, 1977 —(the herald ) Published by Sterling Publishers Ltd. Terrace - 635-6357 Kitimat - 632-5706 Clreulation - 635-2877 ' PUBLISHER... GORDON W. HAMILTON MANAGING EDITOR... ALLAN KRASNICK KITIMAT MANAGER... W.5, ‘KIM KIMBLE CIRCULATION MANAGER... JACK JEANNEAU postege guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT Publisher. \. Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A ‘member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class ‘mall, Registration number 1201. Postage paid In cash, return The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorlal or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction ls net permitted without the written permission of the y, : Detonator caps no blast of joy : It is so easy to editorialize about crime that the : exercise can seem trite or obvious and the message : obscured. Why bother attacking a crime wave, a : Tun of break and entries, or a series of robberies : when, of course, everybody’s against them? All * youcan say just reinforces the common perception. : But recently, this area was hit by a crime that is : gt once so bafflingly stupid and potentially : dangerous that it demands comment. : Last week, a large cache of explosives was taken : from a Twinriver Timber’s powder shack. The : booty included 675 delays, two boxes of number six : Caps, and 200 electric caps ... enough to do plenty of : harm to a lot of people. : _ The thieves apparently saw some joy tobe gained ‘ from their indiscretion. Before leaving the scene, they set off 200 caps. But police have still ‘not ascertained the location of the remainder of the stolen goods. Because a crime was involved, it’s _ unlikely the caps will be put in a safe place. More ~ than likely, they’ve been abandoned somewhere so that the thieves need not worry about evidence on their persons. But there lies the problem. Anyone can stumble onto the devices. Detonators, though often just small aluminum tubes less than 14 inches long, are extrémely harmful. ‘They have to be to fulfill their purpose: exploding dynamite or other blasting explosive, A terrific shock is necessary and the cap produces this. For example, one blasting cap is capable of blowing a hole clear through a one-sixteenth inch steel plate or one-half inch of plywood; a cap placed under a shoe will blow the toe off; a cap set off in a pail of water will shatter the pail. A blasting cap explodes with such force that bits of me i scatter in all directions and imbed themselves in iron a foot away. Imagine what happens when a blasting cap explodes in the hand or near the face. Although they come from a factory in clearly: marked packages each containing 100 caps, individual caps are too small for identification marking. Children, attracted by the shiny tubes and not knowing what they are, may attempt to dig out the explosive with a nail or pin. The resulting blast can blirid or mutilate. Older children may realize that a blasting cap is an explosive, but they do not understand how dangerous it is. They think it will give a harmless bang like a firecracker. Too late they learn that the “firecracker’’ can be lethal, On page two of today’s newspaper; we have provided a photograph of some explosive devices. Acquaint your children with their appearance. And give them this message in case they find an explosive or cap: Don’t touch it and report its location at once to the police. HERMAN * necessary 01077 Uananal Pres Syndicate fe Slow hirin By SHEILA PETERS Smithers Interior News Once again the tortoise- like hiring methods of the civil service have made themselves evident fi this region. Now only do we have to wait 10 months for replacement conservation officers (CO), but the invidious sloth has ambled into the forestry service as we An agrologist, needed to collect the information for - range management, is on the books, but won’t be here unti] the fall at the earliest. ‘Meanwhile a man from Williams Lake 5 one- third of his time doing what be can for the region. a CEM crmonren TUuRNAL Smithers has been without a CO to enforced fish and - wildlife regulations for 10 months now. Regional staff with other responsibilities has had to fill the gap. In. this case, it's not even acquisition of new staff hol things up - this is replacement for an existing position. The CO in Prince Rupert resigned and it will take some time to fill his position. In the meantime CO's from Terrace (100 miles) and Hazelton (180 miles) will be . used to fill the breach. The hiring methods used are laborious to say the least; each position must be advertised throughout the province. Applicants are . THE ESITQRAL fretl a = then screened, oneis chosen and after a 30-day~appeal period starts work. That's close to three months tied up, aven when things .are operating at the peak of efficiency. But that doesn't explain why it takes two months to get. around to sending out the job advertisement, and another few months before interviews start. Such delays obviously happened when looking for a replacement © for the Smithers CO. AS soon a5 an employee gives _notive, the advertisements should go out and interim people should be brought in during the three-month processing. From other papers g hurts wildlife. Of course a great deal of money is saved by not paying salaries-- but it is a. method of saving money that not only leaves the resource, be it wildlife or grazing land, without the otection the government itself has agreed they need by-establishing the position _ in the first place. But it is also unfair.to the civil servants who must try to do more than one job, with the result that none of them are done as well as they should be. Any CO already swamped with work in his own area would undoubtedly become demoralized as well as annoyed when called out of ib THERE THe Maud VICLERLE ort “They’re fighting over whose fault it is that I watch so many violent TV shows,” Future drugs By RICHARD SALTUS Better thinking through chemistry is an old idea but ’ gdientists may be on the edge of a new era with the prospect of using drugs to prove learning, memory, attention and perhaps ever creativity. Experiments using the drugs on animals have improve t in learni provement in learning a certain task and retaining it. The chemical road to that elusive state, creativity, is being followed more 41 etly th their and less formally. Wi goals so hard to describe in scientific terms and their drugs so controversial, the seekers of imagination are leery of talking too much. One of them is physical © chemist, Dr. Alexander T. Shulgin. Shulgin works as a significant. . part-time drug designer for he government and ‘ He has tinkered with hallucinogens, removing their minddistorting effects. ‘What's left is a series of compounds .said to have various interesting ‘effects. Govern ‘* gy DAVE BARRETT Leader of the Official Opposition ’ VICTORIA - A small group of people has been singled out by the provincial povernment and stripped of , sic civil rights oye b a other ritds: Columbians. an In some cases they may ’ enrich the flow of ideas. pharmaceutica] companies. - Dr. Arnold Mandell, a leading psychotropic drugs, escribed a test of a Shulgin drug done some years ago. The experiment involved college students who wrote When a "government circumvents its own laws, and willfully tramples on the rights of one group, one can only wonder which other group will be next. An act currently before the Legislature bluntly “terminates” the Faculty Association of Notre Dame . investigator of NEUROPEPTIDES = | may improve memory compositions after taking a placebo (inactive pill), an _ amphetamine or a creativity drug. “On the placebo they wrote two or three pages,” said. Mandell. ‘‘On the amphetamine they wrote eight or 10 pages, but it was Opposition Comment _ ts an ugly precedent keg ¥ University, an association freely established through a democratic decision of its 24 members. The association had been certified, in accordance with the laws of British Columbia, ds the bargaining agent for faculty members, To join together to bargeln with an employer is Mirabel airport food. responsible bed to drive 180 miles to handle a bear complaint. An agrologist attempting to keep track of the grazing capacity of the vast ranges around Williams Lake could only be frustrated at having to spend one-third of his time in District B. So litle is known about the grazing capacity of this region, it would be a challenge for a full-time agrologist. But to put the same demands on an area supposed to be served by 10 CO’s when left with only six, or to decide a full-time agrologist and technician are needed and yet continue to let one man spend one- branch 4 third of his time gathering information piecemeal, is ridiculous. a And itis a problem which : seems to confront field staff only; there's no shortgage of staff in Victoria. No shortages of new jobs either. The latest is the establishment of a special -office which issues numbers to field pergonnel before e anywhere: without the number no bilis will be racessed. Permission rom one’s own department is no longer en - ye another level of bureaucracy has been established, undoubtedly to save money. ‘ Voice of the readers Gun control act Dear Sir: ‘Lhave noted with interest your Editoral dated June Sth, in which you argue the need for effective gun contro] legislation in our country. The case of such legislation is, I will agree with you, very clear. What I fail to understand, however, is why in your editoral you did not point out that at thi very time there is overnment legislation efore the House of Commons which addresses itself to this important issue. The gun control provisions of Bill C-51 have three main objectives. These are to reduce the access that tentially dangerous users av: to firearms; to discourage the use of guns in criminal activities; and to promoie responsible gun ownership. Bill C-51 has incorporated many of the suggestions and amendments which were t forward to Bill C-83 (the irearms control legislation j i uced in the oa Wi i ™ Jast éssion Of the House of Commons), and I feel is a iece of egislation which takes into account the needs and concerfis of Canadians in all parts of our country. boring and repetitive. On the Shulgin compound they wrote ei tich in content,” Mandell is testing similar com ds on animals at the University of California, San Diego, where he is ca- chairman of the department a basic right guaranteed to all British Columbians by the B.C. Labour Gode. But the bill now before the ‘Legislature summarily extinguishes that right. ‘that the members of this government were criss- -God bless you. t or 10 pages very _ that freedom. explained by MP | You state jn your editorial’ “ y must we wait for yet another tragedy to be convinced?'’. I would submit to you that the federal government is not waiting -- it Is presenting legislation along the very lines that you have proposed. - : Trusting that you may pay recognition ‘to this fact in future editorials on the subject, I remain, — Iona Campagnolo Thank you Dear Mr. Hamilton: The tremendous res to this date to our National Red Shield A assures us of the continued interes' and appreciation of a mos generous supporting public, Your personal support on behalf of the local Appeal is deeply appreciated and wa know it has brought you a measure of personal satisfaction. y Our sincere thanks. May Yours sincerely, S.A. Mundy Lieut. Colone] NATIONAL . CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: : of psychiatry. ‘| still, don’t know; frankly, if they all ought to be used just for research and then lcgked up,” he says. “There are dangers in the chemical ‘world no less than in the atomic world,” crossing elof anyones ' grasping the lgpel of anyone oan reach and shouting “freedom!” - iF Not one member of the government: is shouting how. Not one member of, the . government has the couragé It wasn't very long ago- to stand up-to McGeer or Premier Bennett and defend OTTAWA OFFBEAT just a sick joke “Everyone in the building got together. Here's 200 bucks for your violin.” by Richard Jackaon Ottawa - They sald it couldn't be done, and man, were they right! Not even for the $600 million-plus that it so.far has cost could the federal government and its accident-prone ansport Department bulld an airport 36 miles and an hour's bus tide north of Montreal. And not to laugh that it’s a joke on Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Eastern Ontario or other sections of the East whose citizens are unfortunate enough to have to use it. . It’s a sick joke on all Candians who helped pay for it and now carry its heavy . and so far $50 million annual deficit. The supposed new super wonderport was plunked down there in the marsh and rock wilderness of the Laurentian foothills, an $80 cab ride from Ottawa, $30 Minister, now Senator, Jean Marchand and: other Quebec members of Prime Minister Trudeau's cabinet. They made no secret of wanting, indeed even demanding it for Quebec, although two alternate locations made much more transport sense, One was south of Monteal and easier of access from Eastern Ontario, was ruled out because jets using it would fly not only through Quebec, but Ontario and New York State air space. Was the ghost of coming separation . even haunting the feds then? 7 The other, and by far most acceptable ‘location, was at Kingston, equidistant from Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. - Putting it there would have made unnecessary both Mirabel and the now- suspended Pickering. But that’s the local or regional angle to the folly of it all. The national involvement of taxpayers . everywhere is the scandalous cost - like © the Olympics another Quebec extravaganza - and Its astouding accelerated deterioration, Built. on terrain that is a geological freak mix of Canadian Shield hard rock ‘and mushy marsh and muskeg, sections of the 12,000 foot runways are cracking up under the varying stresses. So there it is with its 215 foot tower, a 24- hour automated cargo operation and a quarter mile long terminal capable of handling an annual 12 million passengers - at a current $31.84 a head cost with the loss running $15 for each one of them. Eleven trans-Allantic carriers can't see it, and those which do are crying the losing blues. ; ; So are the passengers who come in from Europe on late flights and find the last - buses already departed for Ottawa and _ the cabbies asking $80 for the trip. Unetuous Otto Lang, the far-travelled ‘Transport Minister, is upset because Boston's Logan Airport is advertising that Jome-bound Canadians can reach Montreal faster and with less hassle . through Boston than Mirabel. And happy news for the West (perha later for the Maritimes). ne Lang is talking of routing more domestic flights through Mirabel! You'll all just love that. Meanwhile, Conservative MP Ken Hurlburt of Lethbridge, suggests that Otto Lang in simple justice should be the first - to try it in that “Air Otto” jet aboard which he racked up more than $700,000 ‘from Montéal, to please former Transport worth of personal travel. -“- Eni roy