4 Terrace Review = Wesnestay, F os ~ ‘There’s a word fe for this — indecisive — ‘Although not quite six years old, the Terrace” Regional Museum Society has recorded decades: of. it their own. © Heritage Park for example, has become. a tourist But at the same time, their goal of preserving - pushed aside in favor of other priorities. | - ‘Now, during Heritage Week, a request for. greater © community support may have to wait for the weight - of our local political machinery to grind to a start. 7 Society president Mamie Kerby asked Terrace city _ council earlier this month to consider supplying “this ®: needed support’’ in the form of a paid Park Director for six months of each year. And, if possible, funding for this same heritage employee on a “part time - basis’’ for the balance of each year. ‘‘This would allow us to cater to the tourist season. in the summer months,’”: explains Kerby, “and in the with changing displays depicting the lifestyles of our ~ early settlers.’’:~ | Kerby’s request. concluded by saying that the | museum society would be ‘‘very interested’’ in anes. | ing this proposal with the ‘‘appropriate committee’’ a but this isn’t going to happen — at least not yet. Ona — motion by alderman Ruth Hallock, Council did send od - the request to the Recreation Committee, but with the. condition that administration investigate the possibility. og of. cost-sharing. the project. with, the regional district... _ ‘‘This is a regional. thing and I would like their input . before we commit ourselves,” said Hallock. A The problem is, it will probably be at least mid- 4 March before the regional district can respond, if they” don’t send the matter to committee themselves, and by. that time the desire to do anything at all may have. diminished to nil. Instead of looking for local ways” and. means while seeking for outside support, the mat- ter has been left in limbo. And maintaining our . heritage trust may be lost in the committee shuffle as _ was the case in the year-long non-debate on saving our Provincial Police building. Hallock worked hard to. save that site — but it was just another ¢ case of waiting for a commitment that never arrived. . . 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Opinions . expressed are not necessarily those of the : Terrace Review. oe by se « Perspecti ves . childhood fear, a chicken heart pulsating ominously in the _ _.- background. I am an erratic ill-payer at my chequewriting hand. My bank account has been known to surge. to dramatic heights, ‘untouched by the evil debits of - Mastercard, Visa, and the local clothing store. By mid-October,. . . the malady having passed, I sit - -- down to a stack of overdue notices, sort them by date and apparent urgency, and begin to write. Writing only one cheque for the equivalent of three months credit.card payments saves me about 84 cents, an’ amount not to be sniffed at. Eight-four cents is normally the balance remaining in my © account after. having written | cheques totalling $5,999.16, at which point the credit. card’, company computers change their tune, removing the nicely- crafted ‘‘our lawyers are com- ing to get you”’ note and in- creasing my available line of credit due to “‘the exemplary manner in which you have handled your account’”’. Ap- parently, I am a better risk flat broke (the 84 cents is commit- ted to one-third of my next pack of smokes) than I am with assets of $6,000 and an offsetting liability. I enjoy writing off-the-wall remarks on my remittance stubs, arid occasionally will dash off.a full page:to people. ., like Reverie Canada, who go _. No, you’re not paranoid. -- They are out to get youl - — A little Vincent Price theme - “music.if you please, maestro. .. Perhaps a fog machinea la. - Stephen King. And Bill Cosby’s . Tsay, “Thank you — does this mean I don't have to pay itn” and she gets a. little testy. absolutely cr crazy when they ron up against someone they can- . not intimidate. I'm like, the per- son I just read about who. _ never admits that they are a. “wrong number”? — you ask for Jack, ‘he says: “‘just a -minute,. rll get him’’, and. returns a couple of. minutes. | later saying, ‘Sorry, but Jack : says he knows all about what, you've been up to and he’s | ticked right off!’? Fun guy! - - So, I’ve hada little mis- . - understanding with the people ‘at Mastercard, They would ap-: preciate my money more than my flippant remarks. I send, . them some, once in a while. More often than not, they: fer- ret out my phone number, and some hulking guy who sounds like he got his education in-a ‘ street gang threatens my credit - . rating (which got me into all. ... this trouble in the first place). ‘*Go ahead,” I say. “‘Tell them all, Without credit I can live a reasonably sane existence, with _ money to spare for the. movies and the occasional dinner out. Write me off as a bad debt {they do that if you don’t pay your bill, you know!) and .Go' | Away!” This usually. leads to a’ ‘call the next day from his supervisor, but by this time I - have craftily sneaked into. the local bank and slipped the out- standing balance into the -Quick-Pay box. I am naturally ‘irate — is it my fault theit Peo “ple here don’t talk to-their : 7 people there? well, of course “fog bomb.or two... -- oe So anyway, today I get this. cb -call. A Mrs. M---- at “The... V a ve ’ ai ‘not! ge ae wat Cue ‘Vincent Price, Lay. on al Bank” in Vancouver. Actually, a - T got the call yesterday but I>. _ was out, and today when I call- ed (there goes the 84 cents) she . was out. We get discussing my . wayward lifestyle. I tell her the - . last payment brought me up-to- a date on January 28..She tells ome they didn’t record it until. _ February 2nd, and cancelled — _ Iny account on January. 31. 1 say, “‘Thank you. _ does this. " mean I don’t have to pay. it?” and she gets a little testy. ‘Thump, thump. (The chicken a heart sound, remember?) | ~ “Look,” she says, ‘‘last time - we talked you said ‘.... Aon said, ‘‘No, I wouldn’ t say “that”? (and I wouldn't, I don't think). She says, “BUT YOU ' DID, WE HAVE IT RECORD- ED.”” THUMP! THUMP! This is no longer even slight- . ‘ly humorous. Is the Bank of. - Montreal’s Mastercard. Division a recording their telephone calls? Is this a normal practice among. a credit-granting: agencies? Is this an invasion of privacy? What ethics are involved here? Do they record only responses, or - _ are both sides of the conversa- “tion on tape? Are the em- ployees evaluated on. their . ‘telephone tactics, based on the | ‘, _ tapes? . _ «An answer, please, macstrol ci - THUMPt :