PAGE 4 B.c. A member GORDON HAMILTON PRODUCTION P. Beware When a community builds a large building which is to be used for all peaples of all ages, care should be taken that co-operation and liaison is established at all levels. As a case in point, the newly- opened Civic Centre in Prince Rupert might be taken asa prime example. for it is technically owned by the people of the city, who helped erect it through their donations, efforts and taxes, yet it is controlled by the City Council and supervised by a Recreation Com- mission of several unpaid members who tell the paid, qualified personnel hired at the Centre what to do and how to do it. If one of those supervisors has a legitimate complaint or a suggestion about the building, his request is ignored or hooted down by those who hired him because he had the ‘“‘know- how’ in the first place to hold down that job. Take as a typical example, the story this week about a “sticky Situation” created in Prince Rupert when a furniture man appeared before City Council to protest their decision to refuse to let him hold a furniture sale in the Civic Centre when he had received a go-ahead on the project sometime earlier, So then a great hassle began at Council, with aldermen voting every which way and making rules and regulations and setting down laws which should have been made before the Centre opened. So, alright, if they had appointed a Recreation” Commission. to” act as liaison between the Council and the Centre, why was it not known and settled by them, instead of taking up the herald PUBLISHED BY NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED Published five days a week at 3112 Kalum Street; Terrace, Publisher‘s Association and Varied circulation. Authorized as second class mail Regisiration number 1201. Postage paid -in cash, return postage quaranteed, . BOX 399, 3212 KALUM STREET TERRACE, B.C. of the Canadian Osily Newspaper MARY OLSEN. ABVERTISING - take care! the Council’s time and of putting the: centre personnel in an unfavorable ight Technically, the Commission should be a body of group of people elected by the taxpayers, and not a selected few appointed by the city fathers. Granted, acting on the Com- mission is a thankless and unpaid position, but still it is one which carries — heavy responsibilities and members should be chosen by the community-at- large. The city could be divided up into sections (as is usually done in other cities) and several persons chosen from each of them and voted on. They could be people affiliated with the drama and recreation business and so would have a fair idea what is needed and what is entailed in running a huge complex. So if, (and when) Terrace’s grand new arena and their community centres are completed, let them learn a lesson from their sister city on the coast, and take very great care how they select people to run their centres. Are they going to let their Council do it? Are they going to let their paid personnel, who have held similar positions elsewhere and so are well qualified to hold down their jobs, do their jobs without interference and with co-operation? Or are they going to let their Council select a few to run-the buildings and so get into all the awk- ward Situations Prince Rupert has been in in its few short weeks the Centre has been opened? a Give it a lot of thought, Terrace = "it ean very well make or break your centre and its personnel’s efforts. “Installing this catapult on the bridge oer a ~ has sure speeded up traffic.” - (Alcan ingot News) : "Strangers Entertained" ‘LJ. Wallace, General Chairman of the British Columbia Centennial '71 Committee, has announced the publication of a History of the ethnic groups of British Columbia, The limited edition hard cover book, “Strangers En- tertained”, was available on November 24th from the British Columbia Centennial ‘71 Committee, Parliament Buildings, at $6.95 plus Provincial Sales Tax. “Strangers Entertained”’ is about a part of British Columbia’s past that is left out of the history books — the vivid and tumultuous history - Of the ethnic groups who built the Province, These people came as strangers. Yet each helped to change the face of British Columbia; and each was changed by the encounter.. Immigrant British Colum- bians have been buffetted by the strains of migration, delighted or disillusioned by their: first experiences in the Province, comforted or : hampered by the immigrant . communilies, weleomed with Generosity or spurned with prejudice iby the established society. The book is the story of how _46 ethnic groups experienced these’ varieties of fortune and made ‘the present vigorous, expanding society. This British Clumbia Cen- tennial '71 Committee project, produced with the assistance of the Ethnic Organizations Sub-Committee under the . Chairmanship of W.C. Koerner, is based on accounts prepared by the groups themselves, These have been combined in a narrative by Dr. John Norris of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. . An extended introduction to “Strangers Entertained” provides, for the first time, a com prehensive analysis of the pressures on immigrants to British Columbia, and an insight into the life of the various elements of our population, « “Strangers Entertained”’ is a pioneer study with a pur- pose. Its account of the past triumphs and disasters of the peoples of the Province should give all British Columbians a. deeper understanding of themselves, their neighbours and their community.. “This important Centennial "71 book will quickly become a collectors item”, said Mr. Wallace, “and a valued ad- dition to’ any library, public or private.” - CHINESE AIR POLLUTION | -IN CANADA “Dr, David Bates,’ chairman physiology department, McGill University, in- terviewed in the current issue of Canadian Doctor magazine . gays, “If the. Chinese, with their population, had as many automobiles of present design - per capita-as there are in ‘America, we could probably ' detect ° their air’ Pollution, in’ Canada”. * ° He ‘calls’ air’ pollution: an 7 international problem that © exists in all countries.. Sulphur . research;, dioxide from Germany's ine a plants is often: .° detected. as far away. as - dustrial. Sweden, Dr. Bates said. His interest in pollution ru developed ‘during the: 1952, ‘Great Smog’ of London, that - claimed 4000 lives in one week, «-,.°.. Since then he has participated .* in international problem- ‘ solying bodies and has lec...” tured world-wide on pollution .°; dangers. He will spend, the next ‘five years on, ‘Pollution The Editor, “The Montreal Gazette”, Montreal, Que. An article by Derek Hill, reprinted in the November 19 publication of the Vanouver ‘‘Province'’, further enlightened west coast Canadians on the “French” trend in the Province of Quebec. It would seem that the Bourassa government is intent on establishing, through legislation, that the working language of Quebec be of: ficially French. To bypass the well-argued disadvantages to that province itself, being situated as itis on an English-speaking continent, the final official implementation of a French- speaking Quebec would release other provinces from the present Federal Govern- ment’s artificial conception of Canada’s overall bilingualism; they also would be free to declare one official working language throughout their individual provinces, This could prove to be a financial blessing to the Canadian taxpayer. However, it appears clear from Mr. Hill’s article, sup- ported by other quotations emanating from a number of Quebec officials, that they Sener, ‘any “fraritophone’ “to “pe “French” and" any anglophone to be “English”, This is an obviously serious misconception on their part. There emerges also, taint of francophonic. Catholics against anglophonic Protestants. — witness, for instance, the words of Mrs, Therese Roux, chairman of the Montreal Catholic School Commission: ‘We must take the necessary steps to change the trend or else accept the gradual assimilation of OUR VANCOUVER ( CP): - - Trans: “ve Minister. .Don: Jamieson . ‘gays Air Canada: will soon be “offering package ski tours in| Canada to compete ' with: avers seas lours. ° beto ski areas in the Banff-Jas- - Mr. Jamieson told about 320. “Jf people attending the annual din- “~ nerof the Quadra Liberal Asso- | ‘TL: -cialion Monday night that ‘he. ‘found it““‘inconceivable that a -nationally-owned transport sys- « tem: would offer package ski ie » fours in Switzesland and none In “Canada.” “The decision to develop. the ‘ charler and package travel . . business within the country ulti- mately rested with the carriers, but he had encouraged them along these lines. He said a special’ youth rate on trains was being considered and that it would work much oto he tai people by the ENGLISH”’; and ’ Mr. Hill’s report; ‘'Then there is the question of unified (francophone and ' anglophone) school boards which WOULD BRING TO AN END the autonomy held by PROTESTANT school boards running THEIR © OWN schools”. (And may the Lord saye Canada ‘from such “Christian wars" founded in | His name! } We also arrive at the fact that only .those groups of French background insist on distinguishing Canadians as “Freneh’'; . ''French- Canadian”; or ‘‘English’’, When these groups are proud and content to, join the. mainstream of our great nation, and drop their self- discriminating hyphen, they will have found an already ~ reai and existing identity worth seeking—onewhichthe . -- remainder of their diverse countrymen have already - discovered: that of being “CANADIAN", June M. Needham, 1472 Atlin Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C, ce: The Editor ‘The Daily News.”* ' Note: Derek Hill is a reporter for the ‘Montreal Gazette’. Perhaps you would ‘Hike. to! Bring thle eter tdo; toy ive paiinrieses 1 The Editor: We are now -slarting to. 2. The headquarter city that they will meet in, 3. The name of the organization, 4, The convention organizer and his address, 5, The estimated at- tendance, When the Convention Section of the Department of . Travel Industry has received this information we will compile our convention list for 1972 and send a copy along to | you, This information is, of eourse, confidential and for. the use of our “various: Chambers of Commerce and. Convention Bureau Executives’ in British Columbia, to assist them ‘in promoting group .and con-. vention business to their area. It will be necessary for. this information to be in our office by December 15. - Please consider this request URGENT. Many thanks for your co-operation, Piease send all information to the Prince Rupert Tourist Bureau, Box 669, Prince. The initial tours will, probably * pér-area and ‘promotion’ is eR. ~ pected to start soon, he said. ‘like the present you tore airlines. - "We ‘are. in the. proces “studying rail facilit “out how. they might ‘be bet! ‘ulilized.: Kids ‘want to ‘see th} country, they're willing io hit hike, and [ think this would : \ ideal—they don’t need to tra luxury, class. Woe justbeforeGode” ‘Here Job touches the hea of. the matter, This ig thi ie question at the bottom olf every other questlén. In eve no rest until they rested God, who justified the "ungodly. The right answer ‘ ‘Rupert, ‘and. they will compil _ it and gend it ‘on to us. The Bureau at the museum _ds open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. [aa Tuesday to Saturday (closed _ Sunday and Monday) _ Sincerely, P.D. Crofton, Director, Conventions. Lighter Side Inflation has become so bad ‘ : “THURSDAY, NOVEMBER is, am aS Ski tours. offered Bible today | oh - .. "But how can a man bh Fob: "age earnest believers haved _ asked. themselves; But howe caha Man get right with God? ae this question. js is albimporiants@ that it has hit the price of jam feathers. Even dawn is up. Heats ozo , compile our list of British Columbia Conventions that will take place .in 1972,.We | would be gratefulif you would ~ forward us a.-list of con- yentions that will take Place in your city, or ‘area’, in the coming year. The information — that we require is as. follows: ‘1. The date the organization will meet. have a happy new dishwasher Ah automatic dishwasher can save your wila from the hand-wrecking, time-consuming job of washing thousands of dishes a year. And itcan wash them hygienically clean in water too hot for her hands, The holidays are coming. Sea your. Sppliancs cealer for a wilesaver. esaver's B.C. 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