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PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday, January 30, 1978

EDITORIAL
The Barrens

--To me it is not difficult to understand some of
the confusion that is being experienced by the air
party searching from the skies for traces of the
radioactive remanats of the Russian sur
veillance satellite that is sald to have
fragmented a week ago in the general area
between Baker Lake and Yellowknife-a distance
of more than 500 miles, .
.- About 28 years ago-the Summer of 1950 I think
it was, 1 dropped into the Churchill Hotel to chat
with a young doctor employed by the federal
health service at a amall arctic hospital at
Chesterfield Inlet-about 350 miles north of
Churchill, Maniteba, in the Northwest
Territories. .
--During the visit I noticed a shiny metal in-
strument on the bureau in the doctor's
potelroom. iiticing me looking at it curiously,
r. Vv siad “Wo ou
money this summer? T gi yike to carn a just
walk around with it at a spot I can drop you off,
by plane. The place is loaded with uranium,”
+E never did take Moody up on his offer, my
wife was expecting another baby at the time, and
I had to stick around, However, Moody did
find what he was looking for and made a “hot”
uranium strike about 300 miles East of Baker
Lake, up the coast. How he made it, and all
about it, is written up in a book later published as
“Artic Doctor”, by J.P. Moody, M.D.
--Now that was about 28 years ago.
However,only three or four years ago, again at
Churchill, I met an old crony of mine just out of
Baker Lake, N.W.T. and he told me the place had
been swarming with prospecting and drilling
surrounding and west of
“Ol? LT asked. ‘Hell, No!
Uranium-and lots of it.” he insisted. .
.. The more than 500 miles between Baker Lake
and Yellowknife are among the most desolate in
the world, That is the area where the 110 men of
the Sir John Franklin Expedition are believed to
have finally perished, well over a hundred years
ago. It is in the Back’s River area where a huge
caribou herd roam likes Shosts; one year the
land is covered with the reindeer like animals
thicker than ants on an anthill,. Then the herd
vanishes and is sometimes not seen again for
years,
-.[t was in such a setting, near Back's River,
where the eccentric aristocratic ‘Englishmen,
John Hornby and his friends starved to death,
after counting on caribou migration that never
came. Itis in this same area that is now being
scanned by sophisticated instrument laden
aircraft that at least.on:Roman Catholic priest
was killed by Eskimo who,some say, devoured at
least parts of him, It was ‘there. that. another
, Roman priest: (whoce:name escapes. om
moment) dlsappeated for a number of irs and
| reported tiead- nly to reappear-the i er vanish
a oge er. we a : :
--Around 1928 a young bachelor Anglican

_ - Musslonary went to Baker Lake to minister tothe

Eskimo who traded out of that bleak Hudson's
Bay post. At that time scarcely a dozen Eskimo
would remain at the post during the Winter
trapping season. Now the population is given as.

1,000, The Rev. W.J. James stayed on for some

30 years, until his hands were

with arthritis he could not open role ae
fingers. On one occasion he nearly died when,
out on the Tundra, his dogs saw a group caribou
and broke loose to hcase them, taking the
_komatik (sled) and hall his supplies,” sapre

Shek .
SAG Eagane wuing Coma ARAL
grimly beautiful land (provided it is not t

radioactive, after the satelite’s fall) a good guide
{s a booklet by world canoeist Eric Morse, who
has crossed it mainly by canoe and portage. |
--You too can strike it rich. There’s lot of
uranium there! But is a harsh land and no place.

for a- novice.

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Ottawa Offbeat

by Richard Jackson .

Ottawa - Little wonder that most of the rest of the
- country dislikes Toronto. ;

Its antipathy to Big T.O. is exceeded only bit its
distaste for the city's Liberal establishment.

The risy of both Torontoand its ruling Liberal
establishment - ruling, that is, on the federal side of
things - seldom has come into sharper focus thanin the
Sun Life affair.

There were the holier-than-thou Torontonians led by
State Secretary John Robers, former Trudeau cabinet
minister Martin O'Connell, David Collenette and other
Liberal MPs from Metro trying to organize a cam-
palgn to prevent The Sun moving from Montreal.

t is particularly galling about these sainted
crusaders, snugly safe and comfortable in their
English-speaking redoubt, is that they have no idea
what the French influence and pressure is on other
parts of Canada, even as far removed as Vancouver.

Special privileges demanded - in schools, television
services, language requirements, federal job
preference and favors - special privileges granted,

The same privileges which now are denied by Rene
Levesque’s separatists to the embattled English of
Montreal] and the Eastern Townships.

But what is even more enranging is that Toronto,
looking down its aristocratic nose at
Canada as obviously unenlightened redneck country,

‘ has swallowed that pernicious piece of separatist
‘ propaganda, that Quebec's restrictive language
egislation - its infamous French-only Bill 101 -. is
justified punishment for the sins over the past ‘200
years or so of Montreal's besieged English com-

munity. a
“Je me souviens” . - meaning, I remember - read
Quebee’s new license plates.

And what they remember are imagined wrongs,
dating down’ the long years from French Genral
Montcalm’s humiliation by British Genral Wolfe on
the Plains of Abraham.

So now with a separatist government in power the
put muscle into thelt memory with Bill 101 whic
reeks of racism and revenge, driving out the English.

The Sun Life is not the first. :

There has been a long, steady exodus of English
families and firms.

But holier-than-everybody Toronto and the Liberals
have decreed that they should remain in Montreal and
suffer in penitence for the real or imagined racial
injustices of history. .

Stay and take their medicine, all in the name of
national unity. ;

Cynies will sneer that Liberal MP Martin O’Connell
led the sainted Toronto pack in hope of crawling back
into the good grades of Prime Minister Trudeau and
into the cabinet. ;

Cynical perhaps, but why has it been that Martin

O’Connell and Company has said nothing about the
vroaking ee isinterest a Suerte Bill 101
wr such vengeance on the . ;
_ For beyond a few vague mutterings, the Prime
Minister and his cabinet - and his rubber-stamping
Liberal backbenchers - have done nothing to show the
English in Quebec that their language and other rights
as Canadians will be protected. .

Finance Minister Jean Chretien, applauded by the
Toronto Liberals, has gone as far as to say that Sun
Life in terms of political and economic problems has
been far more damaging to Quebec than Bill 101, the
cause of: it all, cae et Pes

“ Forestry*Film’”
_ Student Awards.

Student winners of the first Annual Forestry Film
Festival were announced today by contest sponsor,
The Candian Forestry Association of B,C, .

The Festival, gave school audio visual departments
a real-life assignment: "A Developmen of T.V,
tation on the theme, Trees, Part Of Our Lives.”

While contestants could elect either a 60 second or 10

minute time frame, alt entrants chose the latter.
Prize for the Intermediate Division was awarded to

the Sooke Elementary School Video Club, working

with teacher-sponsor, Ms, Linda Silverton, Sooke

Senior Division winner was Mark Tulloch, aged 16,
1949 Dogwood Drive, Courtenay, guided by teacher-
sponsor Ms. Dorothy Salter of

ondary School, Courtenay.
Purpose of the contest was to inspire thought on the

importance of trees both to the environment and the
' economy of the . :
The Canadian

rovince.

organization which works to promote the wise
management and use of our forest lands.
quneme for next year's festival is The Giving
osing
school students throughout B.C.
Rules for the Forestry Film Festival are as follows;
1, Competition is open to any full time public school
student of British Columbia, Entries may be produced
by individuals of groups. .
2. Entries must have been produced by the students
during the 77-78 school year.
3. The three classes of entries shall be;

(a)
Super 8 mm movie (with or without sound)
(b) Video tapes (14" elag’ or 34" u-mettic)
&, Bom movies eit without pound).
. on é divide 0 four levels -
(a) Primary ara es (1-3 inclusive) 2
(b) Intermediate (4-7 inclusive)
(c) Senior (8-12 inclusive) iG
(d) Colleges

Forest.

‘Ym not sneering at your qualifications, | just wasn't

5. Competitors may enter either or ‘both of the two
following categories; a :
(a) 60 second spot :

‘aware you could get a B.A..for ‘Hower arrange:nenti” (b) Presentation up to 10 minutes;

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7. All movies must have a white leader with film titles
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entry, .
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poses. :

11, Theme of the production shall pe “Trees-Part of
our Lives” and may be either in adtion or animation,
all submissions must be accompanied by a completed
entry form. . oc .
form, ;

Certificates (and prizes) will be presented for winners
in each level and category.

The Canadians Forestry Association will return all
films and tapes after completion of judging but
reserves the right to use winning films for an
promotion and to make copiesom the original for his

purpose. .
‘ACdress entries to; Canadian Foreatry Association
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the rest of

“The government will try to talk me out of it, but ’'m determined to move”

my business out of Quebec.”

Caledonia High School's Computer

ED NOTE: .

The following article on Caledonia’s general
Purpose computer, by student Dianne Fiury is
printed with appreciation. We have asked,
repeatedly, for contributions of new items; and
black and white photographs from all the schools
in the Terrace School District. To date we have
received four essay-type contributions, and we
are using all four. However, what we are mainly
after - and we are being as explicit as we can be -

is NEWS rather than literary masterpieces.

News is fomething that has just happened, or is
abou! ippen. Wha appening in the many
Schools in Terrace? We still don’t know. With

_», the thousands $f pairs of earscandeyessand the’
2. thousands of hoses - and all st*no
_ "equipment to'wirte it, type it, Xerox it" ahd even

the most#moedern

Pines

now, we understand - print it by photo-offset ...

ake Trail Junior.

date is May,26.1978 and contest is open to.

surely there is yet hope we shail find out.
' We are grateful to Dianne Flury for her well
composed article on the acquisition and

When was it

_ capability and use of the PDP 6-E computer,
purchased? How much-did it cost?

How about a photo of it - being used by students?
This additional information will give this story
greater impact,: For that matter - how about a

photo of Dianne?

by Dianne Flury

’ Captivated .'by a
sense .of. the - future,
minds absorb the in-
telligence of": © the
creation before them.

- ‘The -. continual -' hum-

ming emitted from the

orestry Association is a non-profit . cane disturbs - the

“and: = ac:
companies: the...

whirling of brains, .

racing to keep. pace

With the PDP 6-5. |
Bodies rest easily,

giving no indication of

- the internal turmoil

and struggle;
desire to obtain ab-
solute supremacy.
Striving to master
the new is an essential
factor in . society's
future and students of
Caledonia conform to

7 that role by projecting

their minds into the

future, through work
. with the computer.

Caledonia has a
general purpose
computer which isn’t
programmed to deal
with specifically one
type of operation, but
rather can be made to
do a variety of dif-
ferent functions which
are all kept in order by
an operating system
called Edusystem 30.
Among its operations,
the - programs for
mathematical |
calculations are most
used. Based on data,
Simulations can be

Y done easily to solve

problems such as, “Is
it worthwhile for a gas
station to put in a new
pump?” or “How

stimulated by man's.

many particles can get.
through a certain type
of shielding?” Com-
plicated statistics can
analyzed’ by
Statistical analogies
and open blems
which cannot be solved
by equations can be
solved by the .com-
As well as

ter,
handling business, and’

scientific knowledge,

the computer also
substitutes for a
partner in a large
variety of games, such
as Gold, Crazy 8’s,
Goalie, Guess, Lunar,
and many more. These
intellectual games can
be very interesting and
can captivate students
when regular
statistical work palls.
Caledonia is lucky to
have obtained such a
“well-rounded” =~
computer! ~

Originally, with. the
help of Mr. Inglis,
Caledonia became the
second high-school in
B.C. to obtain a
computer. Since then,
computers have come
to more and more.
schools and in our
area, Kitimat Prince
Rupert, and Hazelton
also have one now.

An average of. 15-20
Caledoriia students per
year take computer
courses because they
are interested. Most
Math and Physics 11
students: are familiar
with ‘the computer
through a two-week
course they undergo
during the duration of

their course. Some
teachers are beginning
to utilize the computer

to. aid in solving
problems and in
completing large

amounts of work in 4
fraction of the normal
time,

Although good use is
made of the computer,
it has the capacity to

perform to an even:

POP 8-E :Galedonia's Answer to CP103 and R2D2_

computer is merely a
machine, or. an .ex-
tension of a calculator,
which relies totally on
man and which is her
for our benefit alone.
Science fiction, with its
vivid images of super-
human computers may
be the culprit in im-
planting a fear of
computers in man, but
‘we must remember

Foe tats oo Ar suthat science’ tition is

teacher “at ‘Caledonia,
wants to see its’ use
increase because
computerization is
filtering into our lives
in many areas; a solid
understanding of
computers will be a
great asset to everyone
in the near future, It is
quite easy to see how
Caledonia’s computer

_ could benefit the maths

and sciences but we
shouldn’t forget that its
horizon encompasses
even more. It can give
accurate accounts of
complicated Sociology
surveys and can help a
geographer in °
determining the

amount of change in
the earth’s water
resources due ta
pollution. There ig
really no limit to what
a computer can per-

form as long as it is

programmed ac-
curately.
Our computer is only

another of man’s tools
yet, as Mr. Toews says,
“People are afraid of
it.” This fear seems to
stem from a lack of
understanding of what
a computer really is. A

- WORLD

HIBERNATION
STUDIED

ROCHESTER, Minn. h
CP) — Researchers Say.

_bears can't be fooled into
hibernating in - the
summer, which makes
them think hibernation is
controlled by a hormone,
Such a hormone miglit
help patients with kidney
disease and obesily-
hear-study data have
already’ led to special
diets for kidney patients
allowing 10 days instead
of three between dialysis,

EIGHT —HouRS
STANDARD

WASHINGTON (AP) —

The usual five-day, 40-..

hour work week still is
the standard in- most
“companies in the U.S.,,
despite recent scheduling

omputersronly fiction, "“A’aptcific

type “of! feat “ReRt -by
teachers is that

using the -computer,
students won't really
learn how to do thing
themselves. The ideg

_ Seems logical, but if we

handle computers just
as we’ve handled other
machines in the past,
there should be. no
problem. Once we've
learned how to do
certain processes, the
computer could help us
do them quickly. and
relive the monotony,
Division is an exam-
ple; we all learn to do
long division but once
we've : learned the
operation, it is a lot
more efficient to use a
calculator. The same
thing can apply to the
computer.

' Computers seem to
signify man's’ ad-
vancementsand
changing lifestyles.
Our PDP 8-E involves
us. with these factors
and we should be proud
to participate in-what |
may be one of the first
Significant building
blocks of a future era -
education in — the
computer field,

BRIEFS

innovations such as‘ Job
sharing and Flextime. A
survey shows the eight-”
our day prevails for
plant or service em-_
ployees in 83.per cent of
the _ companies. __re-.
sponding and for office,
workers in 74 per cént.

MAIL ORDER IN,
TROUBLE

WASHINGTON (APS.
Complaints. about mail
orders top-the list put oul
by the Better Business
Bureau for the first kin)
months of 77 -and they,
have topped the list sinve
the buremis — begun
compiling one: five years’
ago. Most mailorder -
complainis—almost © 68

r’ cent of them—:

pe
ed delivery.
_ Involved delayed deliy rily

and were satisfactorily:
resolved. as

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