Page 4, The tent Friday, January 3, 1981 f TEHI AWE. daliy ue ‘General Office. 635-6357 Published dy Circulation - 635-6157 Sterling Publishers Publisher — Garry Husak =~ ' Editor — Pete Nadeau CLASS ADS. TERRACE - 435 «000 CIRCULATION TERRACE 635 6357 Published every weekday at 3010° Kalum Street. Terrace, B.C. 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 advertisement produced andor any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald Reproduction i$ not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher : y LETTERS TO |THE EDITOR I found your January 2 editorial very interesting. Your concern about our tax dollars being doled out by ame branch of government to oppose another branch of government is a valid one. You erred, of course, in your assumption that the provincial government had * issued the permit in question. It was in fact issued’ by the Federal Fisheries Department and is to cover a period of 5 The tusiness of giving Indian, Eskimo and even Metis groups money to set up a legal defence against Federal projects © is pot new. I recall a huge gum of money being given to'such : groups in the. Northwest - Territories, afew--years back. That ald ‘Waffier’, Mel Watkins was iri charge of the whole exercise, if I remember correctly. We also had. to finance, . through our tax dollars, opposition to the proposed MacKenzie Valley Pipeline, during Berger's studies of that project. - Again, ] agree that there ig, something rotten In a syste @herelya the Gente eto a lega) isaue. This situation has come about, I submit because Candaians are too -passive and politically nalve to force a change. We should have thrown the rascals out. Thomas Atril 1 enjoyed the recent Truck Loggger Convention in Vancouver especially the Panel on the eroding Forest Base which should be of great concern to all of us as it generates over 50 percent of our total income. Uniess sound management is practiced on every acre of our forest land in the future, our affluent life will be no more as the economy of B.C, will not support our present standard of living. As the North West Loggers pointed out to the Piere Royal Commission, wehad to aim at a constan! Forest Base to support sustained yleld nearly all groups In society agree unl] they develop a pel project such as a Park, Ecological Reserve, Flooding for Power, Farming and many others | so ablely explained by Bill _ Young, Chief Forester, at the Convention There is no question we have to present the Agricultural Base to feed our people until the year 2000 even if we double our population according to the research done by Dr, Richter from the University of Alberta for the Agricultural Com. mittee two years ago. That {s all commodities we can grow in B.C. except beef. As I have said on many occasions over the inst 30 - planting and thinning has vent must . years, trees are only a crop like wheat and carrots except the growing cycle is longer so it is very easy for me to accept the arguement for constant Forest Base the same as in agriculture. The Forest Industry generally would] have more sympathy from the general public if they had done even a half good job of management on both private and public land, it is only recently that tree been accepted as good management. I remember when the Forest Committee, of which I was Chairman, was talking about the need in the early 1960's for such an approach to sound management and 1 said Hlanting and thinning trees was just as important as Planting and thinning carrots, I was jaughed at even by many Foresters who claimed nature would take care of all that. [e will over a long period, however, we can not afford to leave our forest land Idle for years oo more than we can affordto leave our::- tiandtochancethata . wheatland new crop would come up by ~ itself next year. You can still see many areas logged 10 to 15 years ago with only a few trees growing. Having said this I must however support the need for a constant Forest Base to maintain our in- dustry and a healthy economy which go together whether we like or not. This will require far mor tolernace from the various pressure groups than we see today and a change in our thinking as to Recreational areas which I agree we need more than ever before with more leisure time. However, we do not have'to have the game Recreational areas forever, I have seen in mmanay coumtries where 2 new forest [rom 15 yeara to amturity which were lovely Recreational areas with proper Fish and. Game management: which we have neither of in B.C. today. I have seen such areas with Trout streams, artificial lakes more gross for both cattle and wildlife something you do not see in permanent Recreational areas, There is no other country in the world except the Soviet Union that . can afford to waste land as we do in Canada. Until firm "policies are developed for constant Forest Base, it is difficult to get either the Forest Service or private companiss to spend big money which is required today. ( Lon eaee oe Lancet | ‘size 8%-B, LETTERS WELCOME The Herald welcomes its readers comments. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the righ! to refuse la print letters on grounds of possible iibet or bad taste. We may also edil letters for style and length, All letters to be considered for publication must be sipnert y, tan dapa tohen! PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Some old bouts never die, their soles are just laid to rest in the Shoe Museum. The 500 pairs of shoes at the museum, run by the - Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine, range from sneakers worn by — modern athletes to sandals worn by ancient Egyptians. In the collection are the shoes of many celebrities, ‘including the pumps of three first ladies. Betty Ford's silver kid sandal is Lady Bird Johnson wore a 7-AAAA, and Mamie Eisenhower's — shoe — a 6%2-B — bears the inscription: '‘Made ex- presaly for Mrs; Dwight D. Eisenhower.” - One pair of Egyptian ‘sandals from about 200 BC ~ has a human face on each sole. “The Egyptians believed that Lf you put pictures of an enemy on the soles of your sandals, you could stomp all over that eneny _ when you got to the next world,”" says curator James Bates. DENVER, Colo. (AP) — The remains of the stegosauris, @ large ar- mored dinosaur wilh a brain about the size of a golf bail, may become Colorado's state fossil. A bill to that effect was introduced in the state Democratic Senator Polly Baca Barragan, whose daughter is studying the stegosaurus and other dinosaurs in grade school. The stegosaurus inhabited parts of Colorado and Wyoming during the . Jurassic period, about 160 million years agu. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Students at Louisiana State University have long been concerned that Mike the Tiger, their live mascot, has been leading too rough a Hfe. So the school ia building him a pew cage, complete with swimming pool. The new quarters will also include a cage, cave, scratching post, new fencing, columns and canopy. The tab is $185,000. The university has raised about $100,000 — half of which came from a student fee assessment that students approved a year ago. The athletic department put in $20,000, and the rest is coming from con- tributions, PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Fred, a 3.5- Kilogram grey-striped cat, is in the workreiease program at Clallam County jail. But unlike other participants, he goes to jail during the day and leaves at night. senate’. this “week by “ta ‘ff r a 8 When Fred First started strolling inthe open door ‘leading to the work-release program's jailhouse workers gave him the boot. But Fred kept’ coming back, eventually winning over both staff and prisoners. ; Fred is kicked out each night to avoid potential conflicts with regulations . against keeping animals at correctional facilities.” “He's great to have around,’ one prisoner said, “He/s a real mellow cat," AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A hollowed-out encyclopedia with delivered to the home of an unsuspecting Springfield Township couple after a drug dealer put their re- tum address on a parcel, authorities say. . The scheme came unravelled Jan. 19 when a mail carrier went to the home of Dave-and Olga Kinsey and told them they ‘owed $4.64 in postal han- dling fees for a package that was returned from Miami. . The package had been sent io Someone ata Miami bole], but the person was mot there and the parcel was returned to the post office. “We said we didn't send a package to Florida, but the mailman said It had our return address on It and as headquarters, $50,000 worth of° , cocaine stuffed inside was . ba far as be was concerned, it was ours,” Kinsey said Wednesday. She said she found a 15- volume encyclopedia in the package, with a big sur- prise in Volume 15 — five . bags containing white powder, Township patralman John Loggins said he tested the powder, determined it was cocaine and estimated its value al $50,000, Police said the Kinseys were | cleared of involvement in the drug scheme. __ MILWAUKEE (AP) — The rest of the state may stay indoors in bitter-cold weather, but Dick Bacon grabs his swimming trunks . to partake of his favorite winterlime sunbathing. * Bacan, makeshift, collapsible -acreen — made of aluminum foil attached to cardboard — to both block activity: . the wind and reflect the sunlight, producing summery conditions in the protected area even on the coldest days, On a recent weekend, the temperature was near rero and strong winds sent the wind-chill factor to3z, but Bacon was out soaking up the sunshine, clad only in his trunks. He estimated . temperatures inside the screen were in the % degree range. : ee 48, uses a 4 " committee also rejected provincial arguments that’ - UK. Parliament, when requested to exact can, appears we're being asked to do,” Kershaw said: . Com mittee: rejects -patriation ‘ LONDON (CP) -— A British Parliament select “committee recommended today thal Parliament - ‘here reject a request from Canada for patriation of the constitition on the grounds it lacks suifielent support ‘in Canada, In its report, the committee said “it wool te! proper for the U.K. Parliament to decide ttiat tie’ request did not convey the clearly-expressed wishes: of Canada as a federally-structured whole becaluse it did not enjoy a sufficient level and distribution ot * (provincial concurrence.” But the Hritish Commons select foreign relations | Ananimous consent of all 11 Canadian governments ‘ is required. “There is no rule, principle or convention that tbe stitutional amendments directly affecting f provincial relations, should accede to that request. only ifit is concurred in by all the provinces directly” affected.” : The committee suggested that a formula close to. 2 ones worked out in Victoria in 1971 or Vancouver. last year could be sufficient, ; “We think that it would not be inappropriate for ‘. the U.K. Parliament to expect that a request for patriation by an enactment significantly affecting x the federal structure of Canada should be conveyed af ten el . to it with at least that degree of provincial. con, currence (expressed by governments, legislatures ot referendum majorities) which would be required: for a’ post-patriation amendment ‘affecting the federal structure in a similar way. : - “For example a federal request that had the. support of the two largest provinces and of . provinces containing 50 per cent of the Westernand 50 per cent of the Atlantic populations would be ape that could be said to correspond to the wishes of the Canadian peoples on a whole.’ et Reports that the British committee recommencda 4 Britain reject Prime Minister Trudeau's, con; . Stitutional package surfaced Thursday with, com, °-“ mittee chairman Anthony Kershaw being quoted ss . saying Britain is obliged to reject the package un- . less the Canadian government can demonstra : :- clear support from most provinces and from - the . people. : In a move challenged in the courts by’ six: provinces, Trudeau has asked the British . Parliament to amend the British North America - Act by adding such things asa human rights charter ; before sending ittoCamada. - . : “We're saying there's no precedent for what it ej Mr. Trudeau’ ‘ibe a o ammons: “1 dAew sens? m gov : fa ee rec are ty eaid he bes the wor British Prime Mizister Margaret Thatcher that-the con” troversial package will pass swiftly through Par: ment. Me Kershaw appeared to agree with Trudeau's’ conviction that the British eventually will pass the *- Proposals. However, after a telephone interview’: from London, the Edmonton Journal quoted: Ker" Shaw as saying the major effect of the recommen: - ae will be to prolong debate probably until the” Tais would disrupt federal plans to proclalm the new constitution on ‘July 1. dee In Montreal, Gorbee rele ee Leng eid he was “very satisfied’ with: the" rejection’: recommendation because “il makes a lot of sense: In Toronto, a spokesman, for the © iss. tergovernmental affairs ministry, said Ontario was: - not concerned about it because the province belleves Ottawa is proceeding correctly. ce External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan and Justice Minister Jean Chretien played down the: significance of the reporl. ; SYSTEMS DIFFERENT : ae ‘ MacGuiganh said ‘there are differences in Canadian and British parliamentary committee: - Canadian committees only study matters © referred to them by Parliament and supported by >> the government, In Britain, committees can stady anything. This was the case with Kershaw’ r] com-\: miltiee. ae Chretien said the report is not “avetbackbecswse! - . we're dealing from government to Bovernnieat and’ the situation is the same.” sae “We have not received any word from .. -Eagland about a change of policy,” he sald. ’ Chretien also said the package isin the same forma — a joint CommonsSenate resolution-=- as alk ‘ previous amendments to the constitution sinte iae7.!"": : . Britain has never refused to pass an amendment.’ Progressive Conservatives were elated