Page 4, The Herald, Monday, Octaber 1, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-4357 Clreulation - 635-6357 GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION - TERRACE - 635-8957 KITIMAT OF FICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varifled Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any adverilsemant produced and-or any editorial or Photographie content published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Published by Sterting Publishers LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: Re: Year of the Child Dance On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Terrace Cerebral Palsy Centre, we would like to express our appreciation to the donors and participants in the recently held Year of the Child Dance. The Terrace = Child Development Centge operated by the Terrace Cerebral Palsy Association were able to raise ap- proximately $2,500 from the project. Donations are gratefully To the Premier of B.C, Victoria Mr. W. Bennett, We here in the northern towns of Terrace and Kitimat would like to know what is being done to the resort hotel at the Lakelse Hotsprings and what plans you and your government have for this wonderful resort. I would like to propose that this place should be developed for the purpose of promoting sport in this part of our province. It is well known that the resort has over 300 aebres*tf Mindat the property. Why dogs-not: the government build a stadium there which would benefit bath our towns. This could include all sports, i.e. football, soccer, baseball, track and field. In the wintertime the same stadium could be used for winter sport such as speedskating and outdoor skating for the public as this ia one area where we are far behind any European countries, T am sure that this is something you should do very soon and it would also create more employment to wir forgotten north. Van- couver already has the PNE and you are willing to let them spend some $100 million on a new stadium. Why net spend some of this money in the north to create More employment in this and a special thanks to Jim Ryan and his band, whose great music made it a most enjoyable everyone. acknowledged from the following: Manuel's Restaurant Grace Fell Florist J.D. & Mra. Zucchiatti Lions Club Totem Press Mountview Bakery and Deli CFTK; evening for Yours truly, Terrace Cerebral Palsy Association J.G, MeMynn, C.A. SSNS jis “Tl say one thing for it — it'll never be stolen.” Chairman part of the province and to promote sports for young boys and girls up here in Terrace and Kitimat? I hope you will take a long hard look at the south and then look to the north and compare the vast differences there is in the two parts of our province, one have and one have not. If by any means that you can see the possibility of this northern beauty spot if you invest some of the excess money this province has saved up over the years we have been paying taxes, and WG do pay: taxes here in the north as well as the south oes, Theresort you had given to you for $1.00 is still there unused and in a very bad shape. Let's get together, all of us, and get this project on the road before it is too late to save this resort for our youngsters who enjoy swimming, football, soccer, golf, tennis, skating and sport in general. - ~- : Maybe you can do this for our two northern towna in- stead af wasting any more of our tax dollars on the per- fectly good PNE which is still in excellent condition, - We are not asking for $100 million for only one project, All we want is our fair share of development and em- ployment. Yours sincerely, E. Bergh BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP) — The electric car of the future may use a page from the past to keep charged up and run- ning, says Edward Stephansen, president of Stegg Electrie Ltd. Electric cars, he says, are inevitable and one WINDY ANSWER or heat water for home wee. The unit also would be able to store power generated on windy days for future use. “It's an experimental plan and there's lots of work to be done." Laat fall, Stephanson erected a 26-metre tower Who has to adjust most? When a person goes blind, it is often the sighted persons closest to them who must make the ad- justment. Fred Koalenz, the District Administrator of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, says and adds, family members often have great difficulty adjusting to the reality of a blind personin their midst. “When a blind person is going through the initial rehabilitation period, the problem is often with the family,’ he explained. “They tend to pamper and overprotect him or her.” Koalenz and Charles Bailey, who will be taking over as District Administrator for the Pacific Northwest district of the CNIB, are in Terrace this week promoting their upcoming fund raising drive. The Downtown Terrace Lions will be holding a two hour fund blitz on the evening of Monday, Oct. 1. The Kitimat Lions Club will be raising funds for them throughout next week. The rehabilitation program is an intregral part of the CNIB’s function. There are 28 blind people in the ’ Terrace-Kitimat area. When a person goes blind, either through an ac- cident or medical] reasons, the CNIB flies the person to Vancouver for rehabilitation. “They come to Vancouver for two or three days. They're given a quick rundown on the kind of ac- tivities and programs available to them. They are tald what to expect, if they want to make the adjustment,” Koalenz said. The blind person is given a choice as to what part of the program they want to participate in — learning to read Braille, using a seeing eye dog. Recreational acitivites available include dancing or bowling. - The emotional adjustment is often the most difficult barrier to circumvent. Kealenz, who lost his sight 20 years ago, can attest to that. “This is why the CNIB trles to employ people like myself and Charlie who have had to personally cope with blindness. We can show these people that a sightless person can lead a productive life.’ “I know the anger and bitterness they feel,” he said. “But we tell them they have to shape up and learn to cope.’ Sightless people generally don’t want to drastically change their life and move to another community, he said. “We do not want blind people to be herded off into some corner of a sheltered workshop. Blind people want to stay in their community, they don't want to go live in Vancouver, because other people think they can’t cope,'’ he stressed. “We fight tooth and nails for that right.” The CNIB provides library service to blind people. Surprisingly, relatively little of this invalyes Braille. Instead, ‘books’ on cassettes are mailed from larger centres, ; “‘Most of the people who become blind are 50 years old or older, and so they never really become good enough to read for pleasure,” he = said. ‘The CNIB also pays for the transportation of blind persons seeking cornea transplants. transplant, they are flown fo Vancouver and put up at our expense until such time as a cornea becomes available,” he noted. Due to the expense involved, and the fact that all these services are provided free of charge, the CNIB is always seeking additional funding. In the past governments only came through with about 18 to 2 per cent of the money .In the last few years, the figure has risen to 33 per cent. As Koalenz puts it, “constant negotiations are golng on.” Since the CNIB has to raise two-thirds of its money, the fund drive takes on added significance. Last year $65,000 to $6,000 was raised during the Terrace ‘blitz’. This year they hope to raise close to the same amount, if not more. If you are interested in working on the fund drive next week, you can contact Al Purschke at 635-5222 in Terrace or George Gilmour at 632-2669 in Kitimat. | CANADA'S VIEW Cambodia’s new: gov't Co Adie eres “Tf his‘ or her sight'can be restored by7d" cornea’ way of charging their batteries is by harnessing to hold his experimental the wind. unit, which consists of a ree-blade propellor wid oe the nee ee with a 2.5-metre eran and ' -yarious components us there is a problem to convert the wind power desiguing a unit that will stand up to changing tem- peratures and different wind velocities while to electrical power. He says the unit would be particularly valuable in northern Canada where gaining maximum benefit electrical pawer may not from the wind. be readily available “In my younger days in through conventional Saskatchewan, everyone methods. Until the unit is com- pleted, Stephanson says he prefers to keep the particulars to himself. . “When we finalize the design I'd like to talk about it.” was using wind power to charge their batteries,” Stephangon says, His goal ia to perfect a wind power generator that can be used to charge batteries for electric cars Letters welcome The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All letters to the editor of generat public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for publication must be signed. Fj By JOHN WARD UNITED NATIONS (CP) — Western countries, in- cluding Canada, may have voted to seat the Pol Pot government as the Cam- bodian delegation at the UN, but the vote does not imply approval, Over the loud protests of the Soviet Union and Viet- nam — which was promoting its client, the Heng Samrin government the credentials committee and then the General Assembly voted to accept the Pol Pot delegation. But many delegates have severely criticized the Pol Pot regime, which was driven from Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese-baced people's revolutionary Council last winter. The ruthless brutality of the PolhPot government left thousands, if not millions of Cambodians dead or destitute. The country, tuined by 10 years of war— that included a savage American bombing eam- paign, is prostrate. Diplomats here voted for Pal Pot out of the conviction that peurner onvernmentr installed by foreign armies should not be legitimized by the UN. Canada has repeatedly condemned the regime for its cruelties. as have other Western countries, but when the matter came to a vote, there was little choice but to support Pel Pot, despite the terrible record on human rights. . The more pressing problem for the UN is how to get enough ald into the stricken country to stave off starvation that could kill off _a3 much as half the pop- ulation. The United Nations Children's fund and the International Red Cross have reached agreement with the two warring fac- tions, Pot Pot and Heng Samrin, to set up an office in the capital and begin planning the enormous operation that will be needed if the population is to be saved. External Affairs Minister Flora MacDonald and U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance have called for an in- ternallonal effort to help Cambodia. “We've got somehow to find a way to get the United Nations to be able to carry out the. work of trying te Alleviate that situation,” Miss MacDonald said in an Interview earlier this week. “We're up agalnst a pretty tough customer in the government of Hanol in trylng to bring this mission of relief." There have been suggestions that Vietnam is trying to use starvation ag a weapon to subdue those parts of the country still resisting the new govern- ment. The UN wiil need to work quickly and with both sides if ald is to arrive in tlme. One major problem with the International aid program is that litle is known of the transport system in the country, which has been virtually sealed off from the outalde world since 1975. ie lplomats and officials esay reports are sketchy. but most seem to indicate that the transportation network, roads, trucks, as well af adminiatretinn ora "ae ‘ e almost non-existent in Cambodia. Getting food and medical supplies to Cambodia is no problem, but getting them datributed to the people is anather matter, The Cam- bodia transport system simply Is not there any more. “It's almost a matter f having to take It (the food), and hand-feed it to them, one at a time,’’ a Western diplomat said. The magnitude of the problem is almost beyond lief, One report reachlng here said that Phnom Penh, which had a population of about 400,000 in 1971, now has only one doctor for those remaining. Pol Pot must bear most of the blame for the disaster that ‘has befalien the once- prosperous country, but otherhcountries, such as Vietnam and the U.S., certainly aggravated the suffering. And as the monsoom cémes to an end in Cam- bodia, Vietnam is reported to be staging another dry season offensive, adding to the woes of the Cambodian tennin OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON _ Ottawa, - The Conservatives are having to try picking up more pieces than they ever figured. And they had figured they would be busy since they had spent the last 16 years, 11 of them with Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister, watching the Liberals make the mistakes that did the damage the Con- servatives now must repair. But this busy? With energy, taxes, inflation, _unemployment, Petrocan, shrinking revenues, increasing ex- penditures, lower worker production, falling national production ... just about everything that could go wrong has. Plus labor. Collective bargaining troubles. In both sectors of the economy, public, which ‘is the _ government's - all governments -- and private. The government's own labor problems are urgently pressing, with the total federal payroll, at last count, not the usually accepted 500,000, but close to 600,000. With both sides at war, ; Canadian politicians have been glib in referring to the “British disease,” as it’s called, in an effort to show that while things here in Canada may not be good, they’re worse elsewhere. True only as far as comparison with Italy of the. national labor record. Untrue of Britain, . Over there they can talk realistically - and back it up with statistics — a strong British pound, lower unemployment and higher production per worker, about the “Cafiadian disease," , For one thing, when it comes to strikes in the British public service, the government has discovered a new ally, The wives. ; When some of the clerks af Whitehall went on strike, they were picketed by their wives. Their hus bands called them “strike-breakers" and “seabs” in an embarrassing public confrontation. The wives said the public service white collar union was a dictatorship,” by denying them with their vital stake in the issue ~ salaries and home style -- any voice, much less a vote. The fury of what was called the “petticoat picketline” drove the government clerks back to their desks after only one day. Here in Canada there’s no sign of any “petticoat protest” when a score of different airport unions take thelr turn in striking, or the Postal Workers walk off the job, o the translators,” ena jeets, hospital workers, and a dozen’ other unidtis: thiréaten the Treasury --and you ~ with a give or else ultimatum, Public service abuse - overstaffing, underworking, empire-building, plain job “invention,” and ex- travagant fringe benefits like the indexed pension that ultimately could bring bankruptcy ~ was one issue that helped elect the Conservatives. They promised to do something about it. And a reduction of a modest 60,000 jobs- the easy way, by attrition over three years -- is one of the Conservatives’ moves, i» ~ ; It's being countered -- or the unions hope it Is ~ by a national advertising campaign costing a quarter of a million dollars.designed to convince the taxpayers. what a great public service they have. The paid puffery is wasted money, except perhaps in Ottawa-Hull where the public service lives and goes through the motions of work and the propaganda goes over well, Elsewhere, to read the mail and hear the MPs talk, the taxpayers are fed up with snarly public servants who bite the hands that pay them, Taxpayers have built an image of the Ottawa Establishment -- and the politicians could get caught up initif they turn soft now,on the public service ~ as a red tape machine slowly strangling the country. So the “what a great gang of public servants we are” national advertising campaign can only rein force this ugly image. For the taxpayers will be asking, and justifiably: why should public servants spend a quarter of a million dollars telling us how useful and productive they are? And don’t they have better things to do with their time -- is it their time or the government's ~— and money? TODAY IN HISTORY Oct. 1. 1979 162 — Galileo, Italian physicist and astronomer, Colonel] T.E. Lawrence, was summoned to Rome by better known as Lawrence of the Inquisition on charges of Arabia, occupied Damascus _ heresy. 61 yeara ago today — In 1916 1674 — Francols de — leading Insurgent Arab Montmorency-Laval was forces during the fighting named first Roman Catholic against Turkey in the First bishop of Quebec. World War. Using Arab 198 — Henry Ford in- recruits, Lawrence scored troduced his first Model-T remarkable successes inthe Ford. 41938 — The German partition of Czechoslovakia took effect. desert fighting, including disruption of Turkish rail communications in Sinai, HCRAAN “A guy tipped me 20 bucks oncel”