PRODUCTION -- Gordon Hamilton ADVERTISING - Bill Groenen Our Opinion Terrace omnca Herald The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. The 8.C. Weekly Newspapers Association, and Varitied Circulation. Published every Monday and Thursday at 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. Second Class mall registration number 120). ASSISTANT MANAGER - George T. English EDITORIAL - Rudy Haugeneder, George English P.O. Box 399 Phone 635-6357 Business address - 3212 Kaium Avenue, Terrace, B.C. Air-tare competition The International Air Transport Association, the organization that sets international route air fares, is.clearly suffering from charter syndrome. Competition from the charter airlines is cutting into the business that IATA members would normally be doing and, up to now atany rate, IATA seems unable to meet that competition. Unless- it pulls itself out of the strait-jacket its marketing practices have created, it will be in danger of falling apart. Already four of the world’s largest airlines-- Air Canada, BOAC, Pan American and Trans World-- are threatening to set new trans-Atlantic rates on their own if IATA doesn't go along with proposals to slash fares. Claude Taylor, Air Canada’s vice- president for governmental affairs, obviously speaking with Ottawa support, says, ‘If we can’t negotiate within the structure of IATA, we're prepared to take an open rate.’ He says the scheduled carriers have - lost control of the market and his airline wants ‘to put the market back in the hands of the carrier and the travel agent,’ Air Canada president J. R. Baldwin puts his finger on the weakness in the IATA system.of doingbusiness when. he — says that although airlines are innovative technically, they ‘quite often turn out to be incredibley conservative in some of their thinking about marketing and _ pricing techniques.’ While there may be an advantage in having an organization that maintains minimum service and maintenance ‘ standards, it’s now showing one of the glaring disadvantages of any cartel, which is the killing of mitiative and innovation in marketing. This in turn keeps prices higher than they would be under normally competitive conditions. This means that the customer suffers. Except that in the case of air travel the charterers, who don’t operate within IATA, are free to ' compete as vigorously as they wish. And it’s no longer true that the charter companies provide inferior service. But by creating for themselves relatively assured loads they can cut prices. Mr. Taylor says Air Canada has no intention of pulling out of IATA although his president was reported as Saying such a course would be ‘considered if the airline’s ability to compete with the charters ° was hindered. it’s hard to see how Air Canada could maintain useful membership of its prepared to break with its fare structures. The value of the IATA cartel is being seriously; questioned by the air, fare standards ‘of. the airlines can be maintained by internationally approved. regulations they should be encouraged to compete against each other like any other business. That way the traveller would be the winner. TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C. ‘MONDAY, JULY 28, 1975 " Egbert I Buess | this is what the chief meant. by travel. opportunities for voit ‘ Terrace, B, c Attention: (Mr. Ev Clift ] Herald perhaps 1 am wrong. “Your > ~ Opinion Cily Council, Dear Mr. Clift. In- response to the report j the July 19 issue of the Terra assuming - we are part of th Kitimat-Stikine Region District. Should we in faq belong to this: District pleas note thal there are thre disposal stations in the Terrac vicinity: West nd Chevron. 493 Highway 16 West 2 Timberland Trailer Park, 1819 Queensway -. q Pioneer Campsite, 0 miles eas of Terrace on Highway - 16 BILL SMILEY: Everyone is ; happy — Ah, this isa grand time of the year, entirely.. Once the heal - wave is over, you couldn’t find a more wonderful place in the world to live. | The sun is like a bronze hammer. But at night you need a blanket, The swimmers are swimming, the sailors are sailing, and golfers are golfing, and the drinkers are drinking. True, the workers are working, but they're just back from their two-weeks-with-pay, peeling gloriously and bragging about the sensational place they found, with hot and cold running rats, or they're looking forward to their two weeks at Camp Missevathing. So everyone is happy. The children are © delightful, graceful, brown little things with ice cream smeared around their mouths. . The mothers are strutting around in garments for which they'd have been thrown in the _ penitentiary. twenly years ago, - war, -Provi : a py idedthat the.. -performance ‘ think some of them should still And loving “it, --(1) personally be incarcerated, but personal opinions have no place in an objective column.) The dads, the lucky ones who are able to be on holidays with their familes, are bubbling with joy. You can tell by the way they affectionately cuff their kids, roll their, eyes until the. whites shaw (sheer ecstasy), when their wives hand them a one-foot shopping list, and strall trance-like through Supermarket, knocking down little old ladies, The other dads, the unlucky ones who have to stay in the city and work while the family is at the cottage, are pretty sad, You can tell by the way they act after work. Some of them, just theadd one or two, haven't even the heart to go home to that silent, lonely house. They know they'd burst into tear. So they just head, with a miserable, bereft gleam in their eye to the nearest air-conditioned bar. Poor devils. No one to talk to except £0-goe girls. Some. of. the better-adjusted unlucky’ dads, of course, don’t” the. do that, They go steaight home from work and straight to the refrigerator. Then they tear off their shirts and shoes. Then they leok at the kitchen sink, almost throw up, shrug manfully, and turn on the television, Waking: with a start at 10 p.m., they phone and order some Chinese food. Then they turn on the lawn sprinkler, This is the only known positive method of to make sure it rains all night. Then there are the happy, irrespressible teenagers. You can spot them, regardless of sex; by their hump. They have al] been told, all {hrough their’ lives, to keep their shoulders back and heads up. As a result, they walk ‘with their heads on their chests and shoulders humped. That, not clothes or hair, is the main reason. you can't differentiate between the sexes, How can you tell it’s a girl if she isn’t sticking ‘her chest aut? And of course; in surhmer in Canada, and. everywhere I fuess, we have the summer animals, Raccoon are cute but a pain in the arm to campers, ‘Bears are sweet, too, but a menace in the provincial parks. Tip tocamper: if you want to stroke a bear, make sure you do’ it with your artificial arm. But we can cope with these, animals, What concerns me is thal ones that walk upright. They come in all sizes and intensities, There is a mild little man who power-mows his lawn every night, whether it needs it or not. He's probably just trying to get away fram his wife's incessant babble. Then there's the power-boat baby, He can be any age from eight to eighty But with fifty horses behind him, he’s Kirk Douglas, or Burt Lancaster or John Wayne or somebody, - He's trying to prove something. And, naturally, summer spawns and the motor-cycle gang. ' This is the wolverine of the, twolegged animal, - It leaves its stink everywhere. “units in {he area (he Herald ha ' dditrays for: everywhere tracing. by. the TB Vets of " A copy of the currerit J aycee J, Anzizal Guidebook listing thesd £ y| disposal stations on the backs | cover is enclosed, : _ Sincerely vours ” Mrs, Cc. Sandecki, Manage EDITORS /_..There are fou ‘mabile camper sewage disposal Sim learned. The olher is at th Remo Bar Motel. We stand r corrected. - d Miniture tags out Whew! The enormous task of mailing Sie out miniature auto licence tags & to British Columbia motorists % has been completed by the @ Tuberculous and Chest Disabled Veterans Association. For the satistically-minded, that's 1,360,994 tags (at two per motorist) according to TB Vet & Beneral manager, John § Griffiths. | = “We may have missed afew | thousand because of vehicle and peaple moving,” he said. “Bul § we'll accommodate anyone who 2 wants to drop us a note at 530 West Broadway, Vancouver, or telephone 874-5626."’. Purpose of the tags is the owners af ]est keys,’ oar wv ‘My great and honored people’ BY RENA POINT | - Why have your people tos! their culture? Why are they passive? These are some of the questions that I am confronted with by many people. Of course there are many reasons why. I will try to answer them as best I can. There was very little need for agression in the olden days ‘because there was little competilion. The -people lived a ‘communal life ruled by hereditary chiefs and counsellors. There was no need for GREED, for food was plentiful and - everyone SHARED alike, It was a very great man indeed who - could give much and do so much for his village. He was admired and boasted about by his fellow men. He was recognized-far and wide-for his feasts, As a matter of fact the rings on a huge totem pole represent how many feasts were given by the carver of the pole. ' Today wealth and greatness.are measured by the money you . have hoarded in the bank account. One of the teachings of my people was never use words: in vain. For once spoken you could not take them back.” Without the use of radio, televisien or the press. the words spoken became law, Thus the phrase, “IT have spoken". Even today we do nol indulge in idle chatter and say only what’s on our minds, When a chief or leader addressed his people he always , started, “My great and honored people.” And ended with “your humble servant. * You ask why my people are passive? Indeed... THEY ARE NOT. For this was a way of. life our people lived for many centuries. Patience, kindess, consideration, love, charity and humility was a daily practice that made my people what they are today. “What about their repressed backward” attitude,” you. ask? Most Indiatisfirst encounter with white’ people are with whites in those “superior’’ positions such as the POLICE, PRIESTS, INDIAN AGENTS. a A seed of fear is planted by these people in the minds at ihe Indians and thereafter associates with all: whites, In Indian’ residential schools, children are not allowed to. speak their: own language. erty t Wf caught. doing 80 they are severly punished. S woe as ay They are told that ‘Wey are pavages and must ctiange thett a a RYE. . id = I could ‘go ‘on: and on listing ‘the: many punishments thal were’. imposed on may. people but the point I am trying 4 to make is this: _ ‘IF MY PEOPLE ARE REPRESSED: AND BACKWARD ol _ REASON TO BE...but they aren't, ; as mr How long will it take them. to senile: the: ‘siperiors they m met, : a : ’ are NOT 80 /superidr aller all. byt People.; ‘ Just: like you. " i Sol would like! to: ay to my | people: Hold: your head up nen ve ‘and look your white brother straight: in the eye. : We cannol go" on Jiving in FEAR, m 'For‘in: fear “we becomé: ost | and: are ‘misled. . STRONG: ‘Stand tall and M take yeur plaee in tees, sotialy RU RUDY'S 4S. The town is starting lo swing. Casually window shopping downtown I stopped infront of a ladies clothing slore., : Tw - High and behold what did I see...the London [.cak. So whal you ask? Well see for yourself. Large -posters of delightful young Rritish ladies with their bare rear ends or (heir. nippled delightfully exposed. T's hetter ‘n TV... Talking about sex. Have you noticed that last Fall Women's Lib fasion of bra burning has particularly caughl on locally, With. the advent of warm weather the bras have disappenred on a greal many of fhe Terrace’s NATURAL beauties. No wonder there are sin worshippers, *‘Just a see. [NM have to look upstairs and check...1'll call vou back.” says the policeman. - ’ Nid you know Terrace had a curfew law. 1 didn'l, Some of the police didn’t. None of the kids . cared to ndmit they knew: The municipal slalues ‘state that a child aged. 16-and under his {o.be off (he streets by 10 pm... during July and August’ ind by 9 p.m. the rest af the youn,” byt The date of thie bylaws origin in bossoms | is lost | in-anliquity. Come to think of it the federal gov'l has a tobacco restraint law. which prohibils the sale of tobacco to anyone under 16, The : please. “end of Terrace’s main Lakelse ‘kiddies can't: ar aren't suppose * In smake either. . > And. in same provinces Iti years.old are old enough to he prosectured-in adult: criminal court...dn B.C. vor can drink, gel charge cards. be sued and just about anything at 19, A 36 month = difference heiween mommy and ‘the bill collector? ~: Aren't yoit glad you can't buy dope in Terrace Hotels...often we're the envy of Vancouver's metherheed, Bul) don't iupproich anyone you don't know on the street,..unless vou want ta become a branded dope . addict, Hot weather seems lo be the thing -(o talk about and it has heen. noliced thal the beer trucks from the interior are making more frequent trips inta ‘ the area now, Judging from: a stary thal appears in -this issue of the . Herald the poor will remain poor “while: the- wealthy get richer ...happily planning their, departure (o another area where they can spend all the ensh they swealed for. difficulties pee on .Fuly.20 but Later this ‘have it thrown back’ in, our. & things That. ure happening in and: A Int of the Lrees. on (he west Aenue.:.from lack of water ar - somethin, It’s ton bad ~ The Kinsmen.are a pretty fair. : Service group bul it would be nice they they had better taste ” in streei Mower planiers. . If you shop in T errice...where ¢lse. is there...vou've probaly ised the “pliniers™ as parimige cans, Due tn some unforseen ihey won't he rattling ‘off their super dune Evidently getting special parts for the vehicle is teugh, They. want-me to offer ian apology, Consider it done. We recently charged the. fx community with apathy only ta faces, ; A: + We're. nol ‘ipathetic in this dllice...we care. That's: why we. invite you {a wrile ts about the around (own,.or worse yet, not happening. : If you're afraid to. write-- phone. The number is 635 6357. Our sports page his dwindled to, nix. Don't Sports organizers have phones: or pens? Wedust ne wopcery -T HATER - pane ard Pee BANS :