Page 2, The-Herald, Monday. February 27, 1978.

- EDITORIAL:

The Crime of

Itis my understanding that each of the cities in the
Northwest BC. ‘Triangle-Terrace, Kitimat and
Prince Rupert-have reason to concern themselves
with ecrime-including vandalism; each has called

B meetings, at the prompting of their Chambers
Commerce, School Boards and council.

Last Tuesday, the subject of vandalism, according
to The Daily New,"Became the main issue at the
weekly city council meeting..even though it Was not on
the agenda." At that time, Sgt. Don Woods of the
Prince Ripert detachment presented a report on
the...situation concerning alarms in public bulldings
in the city of Prince Rupert, and the issue of van-
dalism and delinquency acrose in which Woods
was asked for his views as to what extend the curfew
was being enforced,

in Terrace, the problems of crimes including
vandelism and delinquency last year, became ao acute
that special meetings were called to deal with the
matter and the inevitable committee was tormed.

Undoubtedly the third community in the N.W.
Triangle-Kitimat, has its share of 6
s.Nor would itba smart tosuggest the scourge of .
crime is more-or less- in our town that it is in com-.
munities of similar size and character elsewhere in

nada.

Hut nelther is there any cause for complacency,
When one's automobile is stolen, wrecked and
abandones it is of amall comfort to be informed the
same crime is occurring all across Canada, and the
owner lucky it was not something more serjous.
Crime must be a serious matter in Terrace,
however, otherwise it would hardly seni necessary the}
ataulon approximately -time ee eq
with the sophisticated mechanical, secretarial
electronic and communications equipment requiring a
considerable amount of dollars to support.

One can only assume that the prevention and the |

apprehension and the trial, sentencing detenetion and

rehabilitation of criminals (in Terrace as well as

elsewhere in Canada) is not just the Brera tive of the
‘ RCMP detachment alone-but is-or ahould, be, if it is

not-the concern and the responsibility of single person

in the community. ;

How well Informed ar you-Mr., Mrs., Ma.and
family on the state of crime in Terrace?

How many murders were there in Terrace last year?
The year before? Ten years ago?Do you know
you éven come close to an estimate? How many rapes
were there last year? The year before? Etc. jal
have an idea? How many. mugginge? How m
assaults? How many reports of child abuse? Batte
housewives? Crimes against the person? How
break and’enterings and thefts-of domiciles? stores
public buildings? efts from rallway.cars?

w many schools in Terrace were vandalized last

ar? windows broken and contents stolen? _ -

low many persons were arrested last year? How
many were sentenced? Could you even come close toa
figure? What is the success rate of your police force’

for every 100 thefts reported in Terrace, by public,
how many hieves are caught? How many of are
convited’ What is the average sentence they receive’?
Do you ever learn their’ names or anything about

em . .

Were you to hire an exterminator to rid your home
or rats, and pay him $100 a week, week after week,
month after month, year after yearwould not expect
the number of rates and the damage from rats would
decline? Would you not expect some report from the
tat catcher-would you not DEMAND, a report-(to say
how many rats he had caught and e: ated-from
him, at least oncea year?) Would you not also t
him to tell you how to take precautions to prevent the
rats from felting into your home, and b and
thriving? Would you just leave everything up to him
and not be expected to cooperate: i with him.,or him
to cooperate with you? : -.

If you were to ask him for a “rat report” on tne
number of rats in your home, the number caught and
esterminated during the past year-would you t
him to tell you that was “privileged information” that
you had no right to know? Of course not. And-alnce.
rats can spread disease and even death, as well as
damage and distruction would you not instruct your
children-with his cooperation-in the care of their
homes go they would be relatively rat free?

These are but a few of the questions you-and I
should-be asking ourselves-and ohtaining the answers
to-if we are ever to make any headway in the war
against crime, aa a

Unless we do, and unless we take determined stand
in the matter of crime in the community, more and
More of us will be entitled to wear aaign, seen recently
on an automobile bumper:“I. am neither for-nor
against, apathy.” -

lar problem- | .

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. famil
Placement for’ qutistic,

‘community
. Woodlands
institutions.

_—establishment of 15

Vander Zalm unveils Comprehensive —

New Porgram Of Fami

attempting to minimize —

Family breakdown
shila abuse, uvenile
ancy and serv’
for the retarded are the
targets of a com-
ve new family
support program an-
nonnced this smonta by
Human Resources ;
Minister Bul. Vander

Zalm. . .
. The program, which
willinvo.

ve a corps of
family support workers
and

other try services,
is aimed at providing
6,000 to 10,000 families
and individuals with a
variety of community or

‘| in-home support sevices.
Com ae

budget for
the -integrated plan.

about $9 million abnually. :

“Bach year we take
about 4,000 children into
care because of family
breakdown, aban- ‘i
donment, abuse
delinquency,’’ said
Vander Zalm. “In ad-
dition, there are hun-
dreds of other: families
with children who have
paysical or mental

andicaps requiring
specialized services.

“Over the yeara the
trend has been to place
them: in some form of
institutional resource
thathas treated the child
in- isolation,” he said.
“This new approach will
concentrate on keeping
people in their com-

munity, in theix home,
with their families,”

or

‘Key features onthe new -

program are:- .
—a $3 million Ministry of
Human Resources staff
expansion that will
provide 16 - aot
support workers who

er direct su in
the home and obtain
the specific needs of the

ie 3 cn 0
family. ;
—a $2.5 million expansion
of the speical services to
children budget that will
provide funds to purchase
contract services for
individual families.
—~—an additional : $1.5
million that will. be
available to subsidize
families needing
homemaker, day care
and other specializes
servi

Ces. .
—& $1.1 million expansion
of services and programs
that will offer in-home
y support as well as

mental] handica
and rewarded chigeen
now .esident in the

or in
and similar
regional coordinators to

orgainze local child abuse
‘ammes and other.

ht *s services,

.-"It 's an integrated
service app
directed towards giving
the family the toold to
help . themselves,” said
the Minster. “Too often
we create a dependency
by over the family

responsibility. We will be

b deal with the problems

t of

intervention and
maximize
capabilities of the parent
and

child abuse

delinquency and the

al n of autism

and retardation.
“Tf we can offer the
support services, I myp

-most rents can
establish competent
independence for.

themselves and their
chil

dren,’ said Vander

The Minster. explained
that the new program .

marks the culmination of
etterts to reduce the
stitutional care: for both.

‘emotional and mental

disorders. 7

In recent years ‘the -

has depem-
, phased out, or
closed down such major
institutional resources at
Island Youth Centre, New
Denver Youth .Centre,

VENOAKS, — Victoria
Reception, and.
Diagnostic cENTRE,

ee
Rosemary Heights and
2. .

“While in many in-
stances, these facilites
pro’ very .valuabla
service, the $8 million
annually that it would
cost to run them frankly
would not be fe

i] i : y

residence

a. '
education,

recreation

transportation, and other’ .

ces,

Splestag what aca
cating w
etsy in be community’

for these |

“The emphasis of the

family support concept it

to directour first

toward helping ‘families
cope. If we can solve the
problem with direct

support, the family- and
child will be better off for
it. If we haye to use

short-term foster. care,
that will be the next step.
But the last ‘resort will
apprenhensionand ==
idential placement.”

emphasis on in-

ne ander Zalm said met
e famil 8
worker will be the key to
the new am,
addition to the 169 new
staff another 90 Ministry
positions are being
retreaded for in-home

ald,
‘Not only will they be
directly involved with
each family to offer
counselling and sup-
portive services, but they
coordinate with other
encies «such = as
cation, health, palice,

probation, and —

ented, but

o unavailable to most
fara ney “or. erlale”
emergenc. : 4
a he said, ‘The

arose,
change raises the
Petes celing andwill
make .more familles'.
ble for such au
sidized services as
homemaker, day care
the infant lopment
program and special
ces to children.
“Now with the higher
income ceilings, more
families can 6 -ad-
- of homemaker

contribute heavily to

thelr: ability to stay

tomebter and work out
robiems.””. -

As antexaraple, Vander
Zalm cited the case of a
family of four which
-presiously contribute -100
‘percent. of their income |
above $345 for the pur-
chase of homemakers

Now, t only have we
’ “Now, no ve We
raised the ceilin ig to $690
before requiring a con-

‘tribution, we ‘have - also

said that they will only.
-have to pay 5 ent of
‘the cost above that level.

“For the family ear-
’ $650 a month. and -
$160 of service

their Cob tiextion from
$100 to $15,"" be said. .

-Moreover, said Vander

- through

‘s retarded, au

ly Support Services

"of
~) parently had their source

HALIFAX (CP) — In India

they're called Barisal guns,
“| glter Ahe
trading centre where they

19th-century

are most frequently heard;
in pe they're. known as
mistpoeffers and to residents
of southern Nova Scotia
they're “alr quakes” - and
8 tery ba aD

. Barisal guns were

noted a century ago as loud
: imusual olsen ‘ike the oun

They ap

of Bengal, off
the . heavily * indented
coastline of the Sundarbans.
‘But there still. is no 6x:
-planation for. their oc

ak ‘people’ whose daily

ves ara tied to study of
‘natural ‘phenomena and
they'll tell you recall no

' explanation for the noises

~~ which have lately intrigu
_ 7. \pegidents of the southern
.. ‘Nova Scotia coast, the U.S.

“eastern seaboard and the

"— foutheastern tip of England,

“T can tell you what they
aren't,” said Dr. Chris Beau-
mont, a geophyalcist and

-gatthquake specialist at

Dalhousie University. “They
‘aren't earthquakes.”
BEISMOGRAPHS . QUIET
Sensitive seismic equip
ment’ that Beaumont
oversees at the university
has recorded no unusual

earth movements to coincide

with tha spectfle thmes of the

sonic nolses heard by Nova

. . Seotlans ‘during the last few

bor aa een es -“T can’t add much more,"

services to children hesald, noting few sclentists

et will be to are engaged in active study

supplement government “the phenomenon

and agency service aaliste’ a at m Ph
available to the family. *peclé

“Whatwe can’t provide
the various
government agencies,we
will e 6 from
organizations and non:
fit societies who offer
oth professional and
yolunteer hel
“The idea
available a complete

Petp tbe “t
t of in-home

concep y
and community-bas
services. will a a

(
delay

he sald, ©
to make

‘deviepomentally

children, i
noted that 200 residents at
Woodlands School in New
Westminster are being
assessed for placmentin
the community en-

vironment. ;
last. June I announced
the establishment of
Project LIFE: Living
Independently for
e have now

ality,
established The Com-
munity Living Board
which hired ataff to
arrange for these plac-.
ments: and we are
provi $1.5 million to
ensure that appropriaic-

services are provided ©

‘“The concept is daily
continued. “Ba
resident will be assessed
to determine what ser-
vices will be reauired-
recreation, tran-
sporation, advocacy. The
{ will them . assure
that. these are available
and arrange for ‘on-going
help When all this is
completed, the resident
will > . the

services
a to make
more - efficient use of
available funds and is not

a costgaving measure.

OFFICE MANAGER, 1
vacancy, $800-month.
Terra

ce, ;

Duties include supervision

of Staff booking, payroll,
purchasing, billing, ete.

INSTRUCTORS, Open, $9.00-
hr. (D.0.E.), Terrace.
Required for instructing
courses such as Crafts,
Business, Vocational
Academic and General,

MANAGER BOOKSTORE, 1
vacancy, $5-97~ (D.0.E.),

ace. ,
Must be experienced, Min.
2 years. Should have some

buying budgeting, planning
and experience.

COOKS, Various vacancy,

MSpetiality cooking.
peciality cooking.
Speciality cooking.

BAWFITTER, 1 vacancy, Nu

Licket, $9.60 Ye hr. to $9.80 %
for Cert., Terrace. .
- Must have minimum of
one years. experience: car-
bideandland

INDUSTRIALELEC-
TRICIAN, 1 vacancy, [.W.A.
rate, ce, :

- Must be certified.

MAJORAPPLIANCE | ;
REPAIR PERSON, 1
vacancy, $8.8t-hr. (D.0.E.),
Terrace,

4-5 years experience. Mint
be.exp. in staves, fridges,
ec, ° ; sO
HEAVYDUTY =
MECHANICS, © Various
openings, $8.25:hr. to $10.50-
mame bof Terrace, .

Ls ‘fourne: mon,
op. various: diese ot and
mining.

1
*

Job Opportunities in Terrace

various opelngs, #0.0060.60
DOn) tenace
Must be Journey - person.

| WAITER+ WAITRESSES,

Various. openings, ‘wages

SPEECH THERAPIST,. 1
vacancy, $1450-$1721 month,
mpletton of Grad work

oF

‘in
essential, Experience |
Educational Environment as

anset.. 7

PUBLISHER'S ASSISTANT, -
vacancy,.. $4.00-hr. [>
- (DOE) -

> an
Terrace.

Must. be fast, ‘accurate

a “typist (60 “W.P.M.)- nome
oe booking, .reception..work, |
AUTO MECHANICS, 9 phoma

aDACORS
to i thought to be

) ed
‘Vander zalm:

peech Pathology - og
D

Washington, ‘D.C,, naval
research laboratery has
an investigation
the loud, high-altitude
a, alions,"’ ‘i ity teh
nolay activity matches
the..description of bron:
tides sounds like distant
thunder heard in certain
‘selsmic. regions, especially
ta and over

caused by feeble earth

While. brontides have a

name, they have no scientific

explanation as-to cavse and
to .cxplangtion a6 tp cause, ang

Beaumont sald he can

Are no novelty

Mystery Bangs |.

‘9
z
q

Under clear: sides, ‘the
sounds can be
even to Mra’ Parry,.-the
Barrington, N.S., woman
who ls project director of the
newly-formed. Energy
Awareness.Cenirs,

me at Gt cet
more than separate
reports of the sky distur-

Mrs. Perry discounts
suggestions ft may be
cal by sonic booms
jeaircraft, =" 7

“Any sonic boom I've ever
heard had started witha clap .

These sounds just the
opposite—the rambling
comes first,”
The Canadian military
eatablishment profeases to
have no knowledge of the
sonic occurrences, .
Commodore Glen de Rose-
nroll, chief of staff, plans and

operations at Maritime
Command, 421 has no -
idea where ises have

come from “unledsthey are

coming from high-speed -
‘aircraft,’ :

sn But: the Canadias og

think of“‘no real reason” the _

mysterious nolses appear to
have been Ignored by science
except perhaps a lack - of
money for such work and
intereat in more pressing

matters,
BEGAN -LAST FALL |
-Hattle Perry first noticed
‘the sounds last fall while
working around her home at
Barrington, In Shelburne
County on the southern coast
of Nova Scotla. a

“They start cut asa slight.

rumbling and build up to a
point,. causing the windows
and floor. ofthe house to
shake, Tha sound usua
te louder and louder
climaxes with what sounds
like a loud clap of thunder.”

“T think .we're talking
about atmospherics, and
that’s’ not. my field,”
ihquake. that. could. hake
t

houses would he notable
farther afield than Halifax.”

However, he sald he would
“caution about one thing on
the recent days in question—
those have been very noisy in
terms of seismic activity.”
_ It was possible, though not

, occur-

rences could have been

‘hidden in the wide array of
earth movements, .

Beaumont said the noises

t also be among “thing

usual definitions and lists of
universal happenings.
MANY REPORTS. .
JRECEIVED = 2) -

that don't’ fit in” with the geet onda body of water.

“We have nothing in the
area which could cause these -
sounds," he said.

AIR ROUTE NEAR

De Rosenroll noted the =
noises in Nova Scotia have...
occurred near the route used. -
by the Anglo-French Con-..
corde alrcraft.. oe

But Mrs. Perry checked ..
that angle and “some of the.
flight patterns match up and .
some don’t.” ok

One scientist, who wanted
anonymilty, said he had
heard a recording of one of

A the blasts and was left with “.

the impression the sound
was caused: by “something -':
explosive, more than:
any i] weet
-The national defence’
department has a firing ©.
range in the area of Nova :
Scotla where the sounds: ~
have been heard, and -
mariners are often warned |:
to stay out of the area
because of “eurfacefiring -
ex :t :

acount Chat-as.a source
devon ncaa ear
the area has. not been used-!
recently,. and there is no
known: connection between
the times it has been used
and the: mysterious noises.
S0UNDS NOT . NEW
Admiral Robert Falls,
chief of the defence staff,
sald he was sure the noises -
were mot militarily |
ted and “‘our- sct-
entista say It’s a natural phe- .
nomenon," mo
He said the ‘defence .
department is not st
the oceurrences ‘but-. “we
would. co-operate with
anyone who does,”
Whatever they are, the
sounds are not new to man,
sald Phyllis Fraser of the, -
New Earth | Institute

century that one scientist
contributed several hutdred
pages about them' to a
French science journal; -
George Darwin, sone of the -
famed naturalist, urged in
an {895 article that the
ma seriously studied.
‘Ma, Fraser said\ the.
phemonenon appeared to
researchers in the’ last
century to be related to fair

© WAS 8 that, in
view of recent interest shown

- in_the ‘phemonenon,:few —
:, peopleseem aware of.earlier
"Work done in the field. b, we

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