PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, December 7, 1977

TERRACE

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PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE
EDITOR ... ERNEST SENIOR

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Pictures

Wanted

Covering the news beat of any community is
always easier the more cooperation one has from
the local citizens. The same is also true when it

comes to photo coverage.

No newspaper can

adequately ‘‘cover’’ the news adequately by
word and by picture on its own.

A community newspaper is supposed to reflect
- like a mirror - the local scene.

The greater the number of individuals in the
community with their eyes and ears ‘‘out there’
the better reportage that community will

receive,

. The Terrace DAILY HERALD is looking out
for all the news photos it can get. While the

“financial reward” for black and white news °

‘photos turned in will not be substantial (it will
seem small indeed, to most) we will do all in our
power to help the photographer to find other
markets for the same pictures as well so that, in
the long run, both parties will profit.

As well as the small payment, the use of a

photo credit line

can assist amateu

photographers in becoming better known.
Public appraisal of the photos appearing in a
daily newspaper can also help improve the
photographer’s skill and artistry. Ina number of
small ways then if the phototaking public enters
into the spirit of mutual contribution the com-
munity, the newspaper AND the photographers

could all grow together.

“News” shots of children, pets, interesting
scenes (icicles in the sunlight on the main
streets of town), an attractive woman in high
heels fixing a flat tire while onlookers drive by;
oddities, accidents, the first flight of geese going
South or North; novel signs; a beautiful baby - or

a beautiful anything.

Unusual signs (a raven perched on a “stop”
sign) a children’s party, a school outing, a Senior”

Citizen's activity project - these are some of the
areas - and there are thousands more - of sub-
jects we are looking for.

Hundreds of cameras are sold in Terrace each
year and tens of thousands of dollars of ex-
pensive equipment and rolls of film. We offer the
space in our daily pages in which to share some
of the results of all this investment and effort,
plus a slight financial “reward”.

Ul

Tougher, but more

responsive to local

job picture

As of December 4,
everyone must work
longer before they col-
lecL unemployment in-
surance. But this new en-
trance requirement is
variable. It changes ac-
cording to the rate of un-
employment in the region
where a claimant. or-

dinarily lives when filing

iw claim.

Before, claimants
could get benefits when
they had worked eight
weeks in insurable
employment. Now they
must work from 10 ta 14
weeks,

How it works

The exact number of
weeks required is bused
on the local rates of un-
employment. The table
helow shows how the
requirement varies:

Regional rate of Required
unemployment peeks
6 and under ° a
over 6 to 7- 13
over 7 to § ‘12
over 8 to 9 lt
over 9 10

The variable entrance
requirement (VER) is
designed Lo better reflect
locul ecanomic con-
ditions. People need

fewer weeks of work if

they live in a high un-
employment area. more
if they are in a region
where unemployment is
lower,

Claimants who do not
meet the entrance
requirement one month
may become cligible later
on. if the unemployment
rate in their area goes up.
However, they need not
reapply each month. If
the entrance drops in
response to a higher un-
employment fate. they
will be told hy mail that
they now meet thesnew
condition,

Fairer

UI officials believe that |

the higher entrance
requirement

work, They also stress ils

fuirness. Since it changes k

according to regional un-
employment rales, the

new requirement reflects’

the difficulties claimants
have in finding and keep-
ing work. As one UI
official put it: “ft's more
just because it makes
the UI program more
responsive lo local eco-
nomic conditions,”

Church Council
Sends India Aid

TORONTO -- Ten
thousand dollars was
cabled Friday to the
World Council of Chur-
ches, Geneva, by The
United-Church of Canada
for aid to victims of three
recent cyclones in
southern India.

This was the second
grant made in November
by the United Church
World Development
Service and Relief
Committee. A similar

amount -was:sent, earliet

‘to aid: the people of ‘the
“Mathare Valle i

who had been made
homeless by a fire which
devastated the large
squatter town outside
Nairobi.

The grant to India is in
anticipation of an appeal
by the World Council of
Churches for additional

Coopération Better
Than Opposition

The time lost in Canada
through strikes and
lockouts has dropped
consideralby from last

ear. The working days
ost per Canadian worker
in 1976 was 2.27 which, we
are not proud to report,
was the world’s highest
figure. Despite the
current B.C. Telephone
strike in Vancouver, we
have enjoyed a much
better year in 1977.

The latest federal
figures show strikes and
lockouts to be down 38 per
enet from 1976 to 1977,
The number of workers
involved in — labour
disruptions is only a fifth
of those whose work
stopped in 1976. As ex-
pected from these facts,
the man-days lost are
also very much improved
and are running about a
quarter of last year's
total.

While an improvement
in labour work stoppages
may be cause for
congratulation we should
be looking to find how this
came about so that the
trend may be continued.

One cause the Van-
couver Board of Trade
acknowledges and
accepts ‘with reluctance
— is the high rate of

unemployment. En-
thusiasm for strikes is
significantly reduced

when the economy is in a
depressed state and
unemployment is already
high. We can understand
the effect this has had on
the labour picture even
though we regret the
cause,

A major cause of
strikes is the failure to
reach a wage contract
acceptable to both union,

ov

and management. This
has been affected by the
Wage and Price Controls
set out by the Anti-
Inflation Board, Now that
the date has been set for
controls to be lifted, the
$64,000 question is, how
easily will contracts be
negotiated then?

What lies ahead in this
province? Before the
controls are lifted, 133,000
union members will be
looking for new con-
tracts. These include two
major unions, the B.C.
Teachers Federation and
the Canadian Union of
Public Employees, both
of whose actions have an
immediate effect on the
genera] public. In other
words, settlement or non-
settlement of their
negotiations could have
an immediate impact on
the rest of us.

The recent call for
Right-to-Work legislation
by the Socred party was
narrowly defeated. The
Minister of Labour is to
be applauded for his
stand and his comment
that such legislation
would not improve
p ci
rights to either join a
union or to change
unions.

But if the Labour
Minister is being
realistic, is this being
matched by Labour? We
hear that it took a
directive-from the B.C.
Federation of Labour to
stop ‘a strike-breaking
tactic being used by one
union on another.

.In a more co-operative
move, the Canadian
Labour Congress is

helping the Bank em-
ployees who wish to
organise unions.

The story and plot of
the B.C. Telephone
Company has respon-
sibilities to its employees,

yes, but also to its
customers and its
sharehodlers.

The Vancouver Board
of Trade commends the
Telephone Company’s
stand in promising job
security — so long as
economic reasons can
support it. A bankrupt
company certainly
wouldn’t be paying any
wages -- or pensions.
Technological im-
provements should be
made, aS necessary.
Assurances have been
given that any job thus
eliminated would be
rpovided for by attrition.
It is completely
unrealistic to demand
from an employer ab-
solute job security and
then tell him also how to

run his business. If
contracting out is
necessary, it is
necessary.

Outsiders are said to
see more of the game
than the participants. We
suggest that the lack or
rniue ahimp» c
between labour and
management is at fault.
We do not mean just
talking to each other, we
mean making a genuine
effort to understnad what
makes the other tick — to
walk in his moccasins for
a mile. The barriers
which have grown bet-
ween labour and
management will not be
easily discarded,

Vancouver Board
Trade Editorial. ©

of

ey in Kenya, ~

funds to the $208,000 being
held: by the National
Council of Churches in
India for such
emergencies. This fund
was contributed by
member churches of the
Wcc,

United Church grants
for emergency relief in
the eleven months of this
year now exceed $100,000.

should |
reduce disinventives to

“I always su

Man Kills Self Steal

VANCOUVER (CP) —
An inquest jury con-
cluded Monday that
Richard Kenneth
McHugh, 31, died ac-
cidentally last week when
shot by his own gun while
trying to steal $665 in
church collections.

Joseph Durhak, 65, of
Vancouver told the jury
that he threw a man who
had attempted to rob him
te the ground and was
lying on top of him when
he heard a shot,

Durhak, a retired
painter, told the court he
did not know the robber
had a gun until he heard
the shot.

Durhak said he was
walking toa bank on Nov.
28 to deposit church

eo) : .
AN een By Be rm i

spected Sadat of being a dove in Hawk’s clothing!”

collection funds when a
man grabbed the paper
bag containing the $665
and rafsxf with it.

Durhak said he chased
the man about 70 feet and
caught up with him ina
shopping centre parking
ot

“I mage a grab for
him,” he said. “A bundie
of ones and twos fell out
of that bag. He
momentarily went for the
bag. That’s when I
jumped him.”

THREW ROBBER

Durhak, a stocky 210-
pound man with a barrel
chest and short, heavy

arms, said he grabbed

the man and threw him
face down to the ground,
pinning his arm behind

A

him.

“In the struggle I guess
he must have been fishing
for his gun,” he said. “I
heard a shot. His arm
came out and I saw. the
gun then.”

Durhak said he picked
up the gun, stood up,

ing Church

Funds

pointed the weapon at
McHugh and told him not
to move. Me said he did
not know McHugh was
dead.

City pathologis: Dr.
Thomas Harmon said
that McHugh died of a
single bullet wound to the
chest,

Big Dam Cover Goof

DAWSON CREEK,
B.C, (CP) — Residents
who oppose B.C. Hydro’s
plans for another dam on
the Peace River chuckle
when they look at their
telephone books. ;

Spread over the back
and front covers is a
scenic color photo of the
area which will go un-

va Se ae

Streetworkers Robin
Brown and recreation

There's not much for
teenagers to do in
Terrace - except walking
around the streets and

hanging around = on
corners.
“Giving kids‘place to

go besides the streets" is
the main purpose of-
Youth Outreach, ac-
gording to Jessica
S yde r, r

director for the program.

Youth Outreach, with
its focus on street-
workers, recently
received a Canada Works
grant to re-establish the
program which has been
operating on and off for
the past two years,

“It’s phenomenal the
number of kids out on the

street with nojping ta do”
Snyder said.
Teenagers hanging

around the streets are a
problem in every com-
munity, but the situation
is particularly bad in
Terrace, ‘she said,
because of three factors:
employment, transiency,
an out-of-town

A ak undid

director Jessica Snyder
of the Youth Outreach

youngsters boarding in
Terrace.

The unemployment
scene in Terrace is hard
on everybody, but one
effect is that kids are
dropping out of school
because they don’t think
it’s going to do them
much good, Snyder said,
and this makes it almost
impossible for them to
get jobs,

Because there are so
many transient families
coming into Terrace and
leaving soon after, the
children from these
families are often
disoriented and not able
to get along in school -
and so end up on the
streets,

Out-of-town boarders
have the same problem,
particularly the large
number of native youths
who come to Terrace to
attend high school. These
youngsters often have
trouble adapting to life in
a big town.

The first thing for the
Youth Outreach workers
is to gel the kids into the

program in Terrace -
getting the kids off the

Kermode centre where
the program operates
Snyder said, and then
offer them alternatives to
the street.

Two streetworkers get
to know the youths and
get the youths to know
them, and once they are
involved in the programs,
hopefully the youngsters
will ‘identify with the
centre as their own.

Snyder said the
specifics of the program
would be determined by
the teens participaling,
but some general ideas
would be sports, outdoor
activities and aris and
crafts,

Resides the street-
workers and the
recreation director, the
Staff will consist of a
youth and family coun-
seller, a program
manager and an arts and
crafts instructor, making
the program more than
just a drop-in centre,

Snyder stressed the
cultural aspect of the
centre nof only for the

4

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al
streets,

native youths but for an
other group which
frequents the cenire.
Teh teens will decorate
the centre with their own
ideas, painting murals on
the bare walls and using
other arts and crafts
work to brighten up the

- rooms, The workers are

also looking for carpet
and furniture donations
to make the centre more
comfortable.

The program is
focusing on teens aged 13
to 17, but the Youth
Outreach program will
have many other indoor
activities for pre-
schoolers, school-age
children and adults.

The workers employed
by Canada Works will be
assisted by the. regular
workers at the Kermode
centre, .
_ The government grant
is good for one year, but
Snyder is optimistic that
the funds will be renewed
at that time so Youth
Outreach can continue to
help the kids on the
street. .

‘pret
drupe

derwazr if a hydro dam is
built. Both Hydro and
phone company are
provincial government
agencies.
groups

Already, 41

from the Peace region of |

B.C.—ineluding ~ most
town councils and cham-
bers of commerce—have
come out against the
dam, at Site C near
Jaylor,
The? Hosheastern
would flood 42,000 acres
of some of the best farm-
land in the province.
The Dawson Creek
newspaper, The News, is
publishing sc thing
editorials and_ printing
postcards calling on
electricity customers t
withhol ayment of
hydro bills if 80 per cent
of all south Peace hydro
users agree to do the
same.

RESPONSE GOOD

Editor Pat Michiel said
this week that 750 of 5,400
customers have sent back
their protest cards since
‘ate October.

“Realistically, I don't
expect to get over 80 per
cent of the people sending
eards in, but this cam-
paign is focusing atten-
tion on the opposition to
this dam, the third on the
Peace,” he said.

The W.At‘sKennett
Dam opened 10 years
go and a smaller dam at
Site t near Hudson Hope
is under construction. _

The newspaper's cards
ask readers to ‘say no to
adam that will destroy 19
per cent of all Class 1 and
2 land (best farming) in
B.C., and say no to ex-
ploitation of the north for
the benefit of the south."

Michiel said ‘“Nor-
therners are fed-up
supplying the south wit
energy and then having to
fight for every dollar of

government tax money.
their com-.

Spent . in
munities.”

They fear that in an
area now largely self-
sufficient in ood, they
would have higher
grocery bills if the lands

aj flooded.
LETTER
I would like to

ia
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olin bia’ dani”

a DUB
- wali

congratulate you on the . -

excellent coverage The:

Terrace Herald gave to
the recent Regional
District Area election.

I would also like to take
this opportunity to ex-
press, through . ier
newspaper, my thanks to
the electors of area C,
Kitimat Stikine Regional
_ district. I will work to be
worthy of their support,

Sincerely, .
Alice Chen'Wing