Shame of Terrace How much longer the people of Terrace will tolerate the disgusting and dangerous conditions of their home town's streets is anyone’s guess. Not he leastof ttunhygienic hazards is the mess of razor sharp glass fragmen broken bottles that pierce the feet of humans and pets alike, and which lay unheeded on sidewalks and in the gutters where they turn into costly tire shredders. Most editors deplore the necessity of having to debase the use of editozial columns for “keep your city clean” and “clean up” campaigns. There are so many other dragons that need slaying and causes to chamipi and news to editorialize, that gutter problems appear picayune by comparison, Nonetheless, our city streets remain, year in and year out in a deplorable stte, while our Employment Service lists 2,500 jobless in- dividuals living upon the wages of those who are employed. Hiring a few dainty damsels to saunter through the sidewalks disdainfully picking up papers with nail-painted pinkies is not the answer. Nor, in the long term analysis, are clean up drives - which are just that. What is needed - and surely to goodness it should not be too radical an idea for our civic representatives to provide: is a systematic and adequate cleaning of Terrace’s sidewalks, streets, parking and vacant lots. That is all. oo One local woman phoned us the other day. She had suffered a cut foot for the fourth time in three years. She would have been justified in our opinion, in her intention of bringing suit against the city. We suggested, instead, that she give the city one more chance and were able to convince her to hold off following the publication of this editorial. Another two have phoned regarding cut tires to ten-speed bicycles from broken glass. We know of parents whose children have suffered cuts and subsequent infection from street ‘garbage. — Action taken immediately by the City could well save its taxpayers from a Class Action mounted on behalf of the many who have suffered similar experiences from the dirty streets of our otherwise beautiful errace. ; OTTAWA OFFBEAT | By Richard Jackson “Insanity City” OTTAWA, - Call it Insanity City. Here's the Prime Minister promising (again) tospend and tax less. nen here’s the bureaucracy not even listening as it laughs all the way to e bank. Just in one section cf one department — done in multi-duplicate all through the public service - a typical bit of empire-building tells the story. , The Airport Design Section. It’s only one branch of the Airport Construction Services, which along with 24 other.divisions make up that-part.of Transport Canada that gave you Montreal’s white elephant. Mira 1. Toronto’s. Terminal Two, anda few other airporthorrors that help make air travel such anordeal. Two years ago when one of the chief executives of the Airport Design Section retired, it had one director and a staff of 60. Now it has four directors and a staff of 300. What's the explanation? Transport Canada is building new airports that rapidly? Scarcely. It is, the former senior executive says, that more staff doing less work for more pay has become a real sickness in the public service. : Has become? Not really. ; It’s been that way for years. Take gnother horror story. A consultant for the contractors putting up the block-square glass- enclosed C.D. Howe building recounts that when he boarded one of the double-decker elevators the other day, a couple of Industry, Trade and Commerce boffins were bitching about havirg to wait while the passengers in the deck above stepped off onto another floor, Having seen them playing cards, reading novels, working puzzles, just plain yacking and yes, sometimes even snoozing during “working” hours, especially after those two-hour lunch breaks, he couldn’t help. ugning. ; What was so funny, they asked him, always defensively suspicious of “outsiders” who sometimes don’t appreciate the “‘great work” the public service thinks it does? “Ef you never got on the elevators at all,” he told them straight, ‘‘the taxpayers would be a whole lot better off.” They didn’t think it was funny. _ Huffing off in a snit, they quite obviously put him down as one of those insultingly ignorant peasants who pay taxes. So when Prime Minister Trudeau promises to cut spending by $2 billion, you have a clue as to what he’s bucking. . And maybe that’s why when between 1975 and ’77 he promised to cut by a total of $3 billion, spending soared from $35 billion to $52 billion. i me public service, feather-bedding its own super-soft nest, wasn’t stening. Nor was it listening in his honeymoon year, when breaking in as Prime Minister for his first term, he promised to cut the public service by 10 percent. He even came up with a hard and fast figure, 25,$$$. Two years later there were 3,000 more on the payroll, not 25,000 less, and the bureaucracy since then has put on the fat of nearly another 100,000. Again he’s promising to cut the public service, “zero growth,” he calls this time. ‘ Oh sure. And he says he’s going to be ‘‘very tough’’ with public servide pay. Like the last time he took a ‘‘tough line,” as he called it in 1974 and °75, the public service took off so fast it led the infaltion parade and brought on wage and price controls. , What's it all mean? Simply that the bureaucracy, wildly out of control and knowing it, knows the Prime Minister is powerless to keep a. promise. LETTER Dear Sir: We would like to thank the Jaycees, Jaycettes, the RCMP and the Fire Department for their great co-operation on our August clean-up day on Sunday, August 13, 1978. We would also like to thank the HERALD, The Ad- vertiser and TK for helping us publicize our event, Operation Pitch-In THIS AND ~~ THAT By Molly Nattress Having survived the first with.a few Bouquets and ‘no Brjck-bats (unless I countah indirect low blow by one "of | our = aspiring politicians) 1 will try again. If we had someone in Terrace with the talent of Bobby Orrin Hockey, Pele in Soccer, Jimmy Connors in Tennis, chances are we wotld have heard of them, and the likelihood of them remaining in Terrace for eight years to add to and enjoy our Community is very remote, However, in the world of Music we have a Pianist famed Stuart McCallum. Attending the concert given by him on Tuesday night at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre were one hundred adults and fifty children and they were treated to an evening of superb music. The programme was beautifully balanced travelling al] the way from Bach to Bartok with the charm of Schubert and Chopin along the way. : “Sounds very high-brow!"’ I can hear some of you aay. Well! for initiates like myself, the descriptions of certain pieces given by Stuart before he played them, made the enjoyment even greater, like the “Night Music” by Bartok with its “Birds, Insects and Slippery Slithery things’. Stuart McCallum has been an excellent member of our community for ap- proximately eight years teaching piano, introducing (along with good griend and fellow piano teacher Marilyn Davies) the Suzuki method to this area with great SUCCESS. He has algo given his time and talent voluntarily to many groups, we Salute him and hope he remains in our midst for many years to come. Leaving Terrace this week, Mr. and Mrs. Sain- sbury parents of Mrs. Liz Fleet. This was their: third visit to Terrace and they are - returning to their home in England ready to make plans for their fourth. I'm sure the many friends of Liz and Terry who had the pleasure of meeting them, wish them “Bon ‘Voyage"’ and come back soon. Also returning to England this week are Phillip and Jocolyn Swain, daughter Karen and son Ian. Jocolyn -is the sister of Mrs. Margaret Dodd and along with family was making her first visit to Canada, we are sure it will not be their last. Phillip, whose hobby is photography, made the most of their trips to Stewart, Banff and Oregon as well as all the local scenic beauty. Margaret and husband John are driving them south with a planned stop at Barker- ville, before saying ‘‘So Long" not “Goodbye” at Vancouver airport on Sunday. . Another interesting visitor {o town this week was a guest of Jim and Sharon Lynch. Remi Arsenault is -an exchange student’ from Quebec and is here as the result of a week spent in Quebec by Guy Lynch. Both exchanges were arranged through the Canadian Council o Christians and Jews. In this _ country where distance is a problem this can only heip te teach us how much we have in common. Don't forget to pass on any news, for episode three, Letters to the Dear Sir: [am writing to protest the blatant discrimination against all women that is apparent in the municipality of Terrace. At the street intersections controlled by traffic lights, the illuminated sign for pedestrian crossings is that of a walking man. Surely this is not suggesting that only males should be’ allowed to cross at the crosswalks? How about children? And pets? Secondly, the licence fee for a male dog is much, much lower than that for female dogs. Surely, this is sexual discrimination of the most fiscal kind. And, while on the subject of dogs I would like to protest the use of the word “bitch” when a female canine is referred to. This word has deprecatory connotations of the vilest sort, Did you bring the B.S. Smile buttons dear? | Politics and People To understand the plight of the U.S. dollar, one has to understand a bit of United Sates history. This includes the U.S. concept of colonialism and the cult of “Americanism”, Out of the fires of the War of Independence, a nation steeped in violence. intrigue and abuse of From Terrace Library - Prehistoric Life There is a continuing debate about man’s origins. - magnificent ilustra tions and +7 flowing text: ey-speaks :- about the subject reflect this. . i Laskey sree and a number of new At the centre of ‘the discussion are the new fossils which are being unearthed in Africa. The imporlance of them is that once we know our past better we may be able to deal with our future more effectively. The Terrace Public Library — has a number of books about early life on our planet. Here are.some of them. “The Neanderthals" by George Constable and the editors of Time-Life Books. Most people are unaware that the famous Neanderthal man was a fully human creature with a brain capacity that apparently equalled or even exceded that of modern man. Their remains are common in Europe but for some reason this race became extinct. This volume is onein a series . that covers the various prehistoric ancestors of modern man. \ “Guide to Fossil Man’’ by Michael H. Day. This astonishing book documents virtually every pre-human fossil ever found. Included are a generous selection of photographs, maps, and ,abundent references, Although no book on this subject can ever hope to be completely up to date, as many new finds are discovered each year, this work is essential to an un- derstanding of the current evidence for prehistoric man, ; “Origins'’ by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. This beautiful book should May I, -in closing, add words of praise for your editorials in defense of women. My only criticism is that they are not strong enough. Let's not hide behind editorial jargon. Come right out and call a spade a spade. Women have been kept down too long! We have known the, stink of the kitchen sink, the drudgery of the diaper, the burden of childbearing while men have hlived in the leisure lap of luxury through dint of our travail and heavy labour, All we ask {s for fairness and equality of opportunity. Just wait til we get our chance to be on top. We'll show them! Sign me Reddy I Dear Editor: As I understand, the building and the property of delight everyone with its with the authority of years of field work that he and his parents have conducted in East Africa and he offers an intelligent . and hopeful rebutal to those who see man as basically an aggressive warlike being. “The Dragons of Eden” by CarlSagan. This popular and highly speculative book looks at some possible ex- planations for the evolution of human intelligence. Sagan even probes into the reason for such psychological traits such as thecommen human fear.of insects: and reptiles. This makes fascinating reading. Take it all with a small grain of salt, though. If you want to probe even further into the past we have lots of books about that too. I'll just mention one: “A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada" by Dale A. Russel. This is one of the most beautiful and illuminating books about prehistoric life ever produced. You will be amazed at the wealth of detail that has been discovered about life in the remote past. This book also contains a few new dinosaurs you may not have learned about in school - active, large brained creatures, There are also some interesting speculations on how they became extinct. This book is a tribute to Canada’s significant contribution to the study of prehistoric life. Remember - All this and more at the Terrace Public Library. editor the Tourist information Bureau is classified as Crown Property, as is the case of the vocational school, resulting in the fact that taxpayers money maintains these premises. The debate to this would be that the community benefits from students’ dollars. Does it? The merchants and retailers make the profit but ° the Terrace’ treasury does not get a cent of the tourist's and student's dollars, to upgrade the drainage and road system to the residential areas, Yours truly Lily Nielsen Ed. Note: Perhaps someone from the city of Terrace would be willing to clarify the regulations regarding maintenance of public property in the above in- stances. the tourist’s and © - By doe Public . human rights (including slavery) was born. The tragedy of this new nation is that it spawned a new politic of isolationist imperialism - two words that are just as contradictory as the nation they describe. The Catvinism of the Scottish emigre is evident . in the language‘and the ethic of the U.S. con-. ’ stitution, so proudly cherished, tothis day, as the U.S. Bible. When one sees the renewed drive towards human rights under President Carter, one further sees the United States frenzy to forever purge its national conscience of its history of - violation of human rights. For example, its’ record of the inhumane treatment of its North American Indians, blacks, share croppers, poor. Southern Whites, and its own'U.S,'ttoops during * basic training. Ber ee ee SUG I Sak TOY Have you visited a Detroit ghetto lately? It is this brutal historical reality of power and poverty that has developed the U.S. complex to become one of absolutes. . In World War II, when stirred by Winston Churchill to forsake its isolationist stance, there was violent opposition from the Irish emigre family of Kennedys and the opportunistic Henry . Fords who - along with many others in the U.S. were reaping vast profits from supplying the German war effort with strategic materials. | Next time you find relief from a headache. by: . taking a Bayer aspirin, remember it is a product’ developed by I.G. Farben, the same company that gave the world Cyclon B - the gas that snuffed out the lives of millions of men, women and children in the Nazi gas chambers of Ausch- witz and Dachau and Belsen. “ Many of the wealthy giants of today’s com- - mercial world owe the clout they possess to fortunes generated by crime and the profits of war, How many Canadians realize our standard of living is made possible - much of it - because of advanced technology developed in the laboratories of Europe that was given to the Americans for fear it would fall into the hands of the European enemies - Germany and the U.S.S.R.? oe True, the U.K. was ‘‘saved”’ by the U.S. - but at what a price! Part of that price tag was 4 leasehold to the patents of inventions, compari owned by Britain in the U.S., and lands held te the British Crown around the globe. vo Out of it all the U.S. emerged the saviour of the Free World. Meanwhile, the printing esses ol the U.S.: treasury flooded the world with its. almighty Dollar. the ascending bard Eagle. representing the United Staes - as its cousin has represented Roman legions thousands ef yeart before - soared higher and | :bipker. Part One of Two Parts. TERRACE/KITIMAT: daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6357 ‘Published by Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER - Laurie Mailett ea EDITOR - Ernie Senior REPORTER - Donna Vallieres REPORTER - CIRCULATION Pat Zelinsk} 632-2747 CIRCULATION -+ Jayce Fish 635.6357 KITIMAT OFFICE . 432-2747 . . Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C, A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. 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