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‘You probably haven’t noticed it - but for one.

week now this newspaper has had a “new” | °

Managing Editor. (You'll find his name above
this editorial). Over a period of time, HERALD
‘readers will undoubtedly notice differences in
the selection of news, inthe ‘slant’ of news, and
other indications of personal choice, as no two

editors are alike.

Any “emphasis” will b

e on the publication of

as much LOCAL news that space and time will
permit. We are hopeful that the amount or
percentage of local news will increase until it is

at least half the totak.news content.

remaining half we would like to have divided
equally between news andWorld news.

. The “new” editor is extremely interested in -
Issues that effect the person out of

‘issues’.

work who finds his unemployment benefits
running out with little hope of a job-coming up.
‘He (“we’’) will be interested in the issues.
facing the local businesses, struggling to survive
government red tape, higher taxation and un-
certain markets; the issues of the high school
and college graduates with no jobs to go. to; the
rpetual frustrationof the elderly, the hard of
hearing (of all ages) the blind, the chronically ill
-not “sick’’ enough for hospital yet almost too
handicapped by illness to find work. These are.
the kidney cases, the diabetics, the heart cases;
those with MS and muscular dystrophy - the list

is endless.

We shall be interested in the issues of those
ho.do nat fit into. society - the genius living in a
ociety:af-“‘average’’ minds; the budding poet
veryone looks at as being ‘queer’ bat who has
beauty in words to offer a beauty-starved world -
yet for whom the majority has little time for.
. Otherissues? There are so many. the list could

sound boring:

The ‘‘single parent”’ tied to her maleless home
by her children and ready to crack up at the next
sound of a screaming infant: — at

’ The new immigrant from Pakistan or Fiji, the
Philipines or Portugal. Or the immigrant from
Britain who expects to find a warmer welcome
in a cold climate but arrives to discover quite a
different attitude toward all Britons.

- The issue of the second generation Chinese
and Japanese who, though more Canadian than

Thost

“Canadians’’ still find themselves

regarded as “foreigners” and expected to work
in restaurants or fishing and launderies,

- We haven't touched on the issues of juveniles -
whose parents find the generation gap im-:
possible te overcome and their children

“strangers”’.

Or the schoolteachers whom -

society expects to perform the parents duties for
them, yet for whom the parents have no respect |
and wil 1 not respond to invitations to attend
Home & School meetings or special Parents

Days."*

And lastly - though there are still so many
issues we have not touched on- there is the on-
going issue of the “Original Canadians” the
Canadian “First Citizens’’ - be they called
‘‘Indians’’, “Natives” - or whatever you prefer.
We hope to hear from all the above groups, in the
ensuing months,, We shall welcome their letter,
their phone calls and their dropping in ANY time
to bring us up to date on their problems; To let us
know of their triumphs, their prizes, their ac-
complishments in all fields of endeavour - and to

share their joys with us,

_ Oddities

TULSA, Okla. (AP) —
Slipping 4 quick kiss on a
lady police officer cost
Jimmy Fortner $51,

Fortner, 24, pleaded no
contest Tuesday in
District Court to a
misdemeanor charge of
assault and batlery.

Officer Perri Burnett
said Fortmer kissed her
as she sat in her police
cruiser after stopping his
car in October. Charges
of running a red light and
driving under the in-
fluence of alcohol are
pending in city court.

OKLAHOMA CITY
(AP) — Neither rain nor
cold nor dark of night can
stay the faithful postman
from his appointed
rounds but a snorting
Brahma bull brought the
U.S. mail to a temporary
halt Wednesday. ~~

A horned, black Brah-

ma rampaged inlo a
fenced mailloading area
as a refugee from a
nearby packing plant.

“T got pretty close to
him, with something
between me and him,”
said Joe Carrel, dock su-
pervisor. “But he didn’t

ave any poslage on him
50 ] wanted somebody to
come and gel him and
take him back,

“Some guys from the
packing plant were trying
to catch him and that bull
jumped right up onto the
dock,” Carrel said, not-
ing the loading dock was
more than four feet high.

For some: 20 minutes,
the bull challenged all
comers and refused to
budge from the dock,
Carrel said, successfully
halting operations during
one of the post office's
busiest'-periods of “the
dy,

‘Editorial

The -

COM creonron Tovadar.

EDMONTON (CP) —
CBC. news in Edmonton
says it has learned that
an investigation byo the
‘department of Indian
affairs has not been able
to account fully for nearly
$50 million of federal
“money funnelled into Al-
berta last year.

The CBC says financial
summaries indicate that
last year, almost $49
million went to reserves,
but only a littie more than

$6 million was accounted
for. properly.
0 Alberta’s 42

reserves; only three tad;
books maintained to the:
satisfaction ‘of, auditors, :
the report said.

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-development

HaroldCardinal,
former Alberta regional
director of Indian affairs,
said he was investigating
mismanagement of funds
before he was fired two
weeks ago by Hugh
Faulkner, federal
minister of northern re-
sources and Indian af-
fairs.

Cardinal also said he

was. investigating the

department’s ‘economic-
program.

The CBC says it has
jearned that Indian af-_
fd its Tes do’ not conta ii?
current finanej 1 state-*
ments of development

_ projects and that projects ©

have been badly
documented.

WITHHELD DISBUR-
SEMENT

Cardinal had issued an
order to withhold
disbursement of fourth-
quarter money to re-
serves until he received
proper accounting of
funds. The order was
rescinded after he was
fired, the CBC says.

The Sawridge band
near Slave Lake was one
of the bands to whom
Cardinal refused money.
The reserve is orié of the.
smallest in the’province,:
but ‘oiland' gas royalties
this year are expected to
bring in $114 million.

: It Seems $50 Million Really Is Missing

Losses ‘in Slave Lake
ventures, including
various businesses which
went bankrupt or into
receivership, have been
estimated at as much as
$17 million. The CBC
saiys much of the money
in these projects was
provided
ment of

evel.
. The CBC says Cardinal

was trying to find out why :

received as much ero--
development
’ funding as it did.

nomic

Premiers Approve P.M.’ Plan In Principle

For Getting Canada’s Jobless Back To Work

By DOSG SMALL
REGINA (CP) —
Prime Minister Trudeau

has’ sold provincial |

premiers on a. federal-

p

blueprint that could mean
massive. spending on
projects .Tanging ‘from
ish plants to heavy oil
refineries in hopes of
getting jobless Canadians
back to work.

‘“T sense resolve in all
and «I
repeat all of them, to act
* down, significantly, in the.

the premiers,

together to take these
initiatives,’’ Trudeau
said Wednesday at the
end of a fiveweek quest
for economic and con-

stitutional insights that
has taken him to the 10
provincial capitals. —

What emerged from the
tour was the germ of a
major economic
development program
that will. likely mean

eater provincial say in
ederal spending in
return for increased help
in managing the
economy.

Specifics would be
worked out in a series of
meetings between the two
levels of government that
would culminate in a first
m inisters” ¢
meeting in Febru ry: or
March, Trudeau told a
news conference here.

But even while New
Democratic Premier
Allan Blakeney was
adding his stamp of ap-
:proval to the Trudeau

lan Wednesday, it was

ing attacked by NDP
MPs in Ottawa.

The spring economic
conference would .. .
~probably come too late to
‘do any good, predicted
federal NDP Leader Ed
Broadbent. Canadians
-had “seen through the

cynicism” of the Liberal
‘government, which had
ept only a small portion
of its. 1974 election

. promises.

PICTURE BRIGHT?

Trudeau, however, said
the country’s economic
picture is brightening.
inflation is being brought
under control and the
economy is growing at an
agreeable rate.

“What does not look
good is the wunem-
ployment situation,” he
said following a two-hour
meeting with Blakeney,
the last in 2 series that
began Oct. 30. .

“Yhe unemployment
rate is not going to come

short. run,’’” Trudeau
added, a day after Sta-
tistics Canada reported.a
jobless rate of 3.4 per
cent, the highest since
1940.

He made clear that it
would take some time
before any new  job-
creating egpnomic .
developr rogram
takes effect. Federal] and

'p rQuyyincial m
would ay have to

specify what industries
needed help.

And, «even if all
governments bought the
plan at their economic
conference, it would take
up to two years for
regional job-m
projects to have any real
effect on unemployment.

“It is not going to be an
easy job,” Trudeau said. °

It would be up to
various federal and
provincial departments
and ministers to know “at
what rate and in what
order ese various
projecté should be en-
visaged, so that the
capital demands in one
particular sector or one
particular region of the
country won't create bot-
tlenecks.”

MUST BE SPREAD

It was important that
benefits be spread across
the country.

Trudeau gained’ sup-
port for these and other
proposed economic

Sern

alate!

changes from premiers
representing one Parti
Quebecois, one Social

Credit, one NDP; two -

Liberal and five Pro-
gressive Conservative
provincial governments.

But while he ‘came
away from the round
saying he is optimistic
about economic reform,
the prime minister drew
a blank on constitutional

hange. . 1 on A

“He told 8.3 hated
feared to -befbe.{case;”
Blakeney “‘3a ata
separate news - con-

ference Wednesday.
“Quebec is not ready to
agree to any  con-
stitutional change at the
present time.” oo
Blakeney had pressed
Trudeau for specific
changes in the country’s
constitutional makeup in
order to gain guarantees
for increased. provincial
power over resource.
taxation.
But while Trudeau
acknowledged that he felt
there is no point in at-
tempting to alter the.
country’s underlying law
while the separatist Parti
Quebecois opposes any
piecemeal change, he
added that governments |
“don't have to wait fora

Stren

constitutional
arrangement to solve
particular problems.”

To underscore his
point, the prime minister
said he has no plans to
exploit recent Supreme
Court of anada
decisions that - have
ened federal au-
thority over resource
taxation and
television.

” ‘PALK FIRST :
‘Instead, the federal .

government would take
no advantage of its power

in those and: other fields -

until he .and provincial
leaders -talked over

"power-sharing
‘arrangements in the

hopes of finding ad-
ministrative solutions to
constitutional dilemmas.

The round of talks
rovided Trudeau with
is: first chance to meet
rivately with premiers

me Levesque in Quebec
and Sterling Lyon in
Manitoba. : co

Both have been bitterly
critical of the Trudeau
administration, yet both
agreed to go along with
the prime minister’s
economic plan. co

GOVERNMENT FALLS -

LISBON (Reuter) —
Portugal’s 16-month-old
Socialist government fell
today when it : was
defeated in Parliament
on a confidence vote,
officials said. :

An assembly
spokesman said . the
result of the vote—the
first of its kind in Por-
tugal since the right-wing
dictatorship was over-
thrown in the 1974 revolu-
tion—was 159 against and
100 in favor of the
government. There were
no abstentions.

Prime Minister Mario
Soares had staked the life

py ty Maal ae

te tit in

of his cabinet of Socialists
and a handful of in-
dependents and soldiers
on continued minority
rule and the completion

of key negotiations with -

the International

‘Monetary Fund (IMF).
"’ But his fate was sealed

when the Communist
party deputies, who held
the balance, joined the
other two major op
positionnparties, the

c . -ent
Democrats (PSD) and
the conservative Centre
Democrats (CDS) in

voting against the
government.
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ndian affairs.
and much of it was ap-. |-
roved at the Alberta: ['

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by Jim Culp

. schulbuckhand Creek

Less than a mile south of Lakelse Hot Springs,
Schulbuckhand Creek: (or Skully as it is locally
known» crosses Highway 25. At the hiway crossing
there is nothing special about the creek, — but as
you follow it downstream: via an.old Fisheries
Research Bacard access toad, a change seems to

‘fake place, — you notice the extreme clarity of the

water — every pebble and stick can be seen as
though they were in an aquarium. What
exaggertes the clearness are the many white
rocks and sand on its bottom.

One day last summer my family and] had been
swimming where Skully Creek empties into

_Lakelese Lake. On the way back we took a closer

look at the screek and realized then what a gem it
is. On tht particular day we also saw numerous
spawning crimson red sockeye salmon con-
trasting aginst its bottom. As well as the at-
traction of the creek, we couldn't help but notice
and marvel over the very beautiful, almost

‘pristine seeting that surroundedus. In harmony

with the creek and its salmon were huge first
owth cedars, spruce and hemlock. My wiffe and
agreed that no where in the terraace area was

there such a unique combination of fish, water and

trees.

‘ [said to my wife, such a valuabie park setting

“must have some special Park status protecting it

from human encroachment. Being very cynical of
our system and its priorities, she disagreed,

saying that with a logging road so close by
(log hy road crosses hiway arppros. 14 mile
south of creek), it would inveitably be logged.

Thave just recently learned it |s indeed going to
. What a loss. Surely my wife and I are
not the only ones who see the value of the area as a
Park??

Even with the Provincial camp and picnic sites
along Lakelse Lake, the addition of a relatively
lineal Park along Skully Creek would not

ut an excessive number of acres of crown land

to park status, compared to that which is
allocated to timber extraction. Once the first
growth treeses are gone the opportunity to
preserve an almost pristine salmon spawning
stream with an undisturbed land base will have
disappeared forever in the Terrace area.

t a natural site for the development of a
walking trail so that local people and tourists can
view spawning sockeye salmon and admire one of
the last readily acecesible ssts can view spawning
sockeeye salmon and admore one of the last
readily accesible stands of virgin first growth
timer in thé‘areav” yin gicgie bow ron

What are view? :.: ' ato gle woe ee Lteeee T
park for the KELSE River?

On a similar vein — the Northwest Chapter of
the Steelhead Society of B.C. is researching the
feasibility of establishing a class ‘A' Provincial
Park along the Lakelse river. The Society believes
and justifiably so, that the unique values of this
river must be preserved. The Lakelse river is
home to the largest populationsof pink and coho
salmon in the entire Skeena river system. Pink
salmon runs haave exceeded 1,000,000 fish and
coho runs, at times, number more than 30,000. As
well thre are excelleant runs of summer and
winter steelhead, cuthroat tout, chinook salmon,
sockeye salmon, dolly varden , char and
whitefish. The river valley boasts a bountiful
supply of water fowl and birdlife, mergansers,
mallard duck, loons, blue herons, turmpeter
swans, eagigles, to bname a few — black bear,
grizzly, wolves, coyotes, foxes, moose, mink, otter
and beavers are some of the animals thag
freauent the valley.
with the fish and wildliffe gnarled spruce
and cedar that dot the banks of the river. During
the: summer the river valley is a jungle of
greenery almost too dense to walk through in
many places.

] should mention that the river is alive with

insect life, which in turn accounts to a large extent

for the abundance of the higer life forms. ~

It is the opinion of the Steelhead Society that the ©

Lakelse river is one of the most productive rivers

.in B,C, This productivety and the integrity of the

river can only be protected if a lineal park is

established along both banks of the river from

Lakelse Lake to its confluence with theSkeena
ver,

“Reduction in the Fish and Wildlife Branch Bget

It was announced on Dec.6th that the Fish and
Wildlife Branch must return $500,000 of the1977
bu;dget back to the Provincial treasury. It’s in-
credible that the Fish and Wildlife Branch, whic

-chronically short of staff and money is getting this

sort’ of treatment. Isn't it ironical that there is
enough money to build a suuper four lane hiway
through the Coquihala Pass from Hope to Merritt,
yet there isn’t $500,000 in the treasury for the Fish

-and Wildlife and the protection and managemnt of

our fish and wildlife in British Columbia!

The list of priorities are somewhat out of
balance, but it is not surprising — the Social
Credit’ Government was. never noted for its
respect and consideration for fish and wilflife.

e cut in't;he budget is testimony of the li-

‘service paid to this resource by our Privnicial

Gov't, since they were elected.

. My understanding is that the Branch has been
‘haveing a very

ifficult time performing its
functions prior to thebudget cut. I would guess

| with this budget cut, conseration Officers will be

doing very little if any field work until the end of
the fiscal year which is March 3ist. .

The Mair Report, which has: recently been
received by the Minister of Recreation and
Conservation, recommended that thBranch
budget be raised to $20,000,000 over, I believe, the
next 4 years. It js now $9,500,000 down from
$10,000,000.

Our present Pronvicial Government was elected
on the promise of a blanced budget and they are
indicating they will live up this promise regar-
dless’ of the consequences upon the people and
resources of B.C. a

Surely a medest deficit by our Provincial
Government in order that it may meet its.
responsibilities is more important than a surplus .
at the end of the year for political gain come
election time. .

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