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ADVERTISING - Bill Groenen

Our Opinion

EDITORIAL - Rudy Haugeneder, George English

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Terrace omneca Herald

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Weather to complain

What did we do to deserve this
weather? For nearly a month now, we
have been showered with sunshine and
often record-breaking temperatures.
It’s the first time in about five or six
years that such a thing has happened,
and yet people are still complaining
about it.

Who’s doing all the complaining?
Probably the people who complain
most about the amount of rain this area
experiences in the course of an
average year.

But people being what they are, they
will probably always complain about
these things. “The weather” has been
“man’s favorite topic of discussion since
he learned to pronounce the word, and
.to discuss something, the possibility
that there has to be both a positive and
‘a negative side is always there,

_ But of course, everybody suffers
‘because of the heat, The wife of one
, Herald Staffer has been sick in bed for
‘a week with sunstroke. Others are
‘running around looking like lobsters
‘because of too much sun, and feeling
‘miserable because of it.

The forest industry has practically
’ ground to a complete halt in an effort to
preserve these invaluable resources.
Thousands of dollars are being lost to

the comrnunity of Terrace in general
because the populace is out of work.
But there is the good side to look at,

too,

With all this free time on our

hands, a million and one things can be
done that would otherwise be left until
a more opportune time.

Some Terrace residents who look
enemic at best are possibly, for the
first time in their lives, getting a tan.

And Lakelse Lake is warm! That is
possibly the most unbelievable point of
all, That lake is reputed to be cold in
the summer and frozen in the winter,
but lately the water there has been the
temperature of a cool bath. (Of course,
your bathwater in the winter would not

be so cool...)

This is the time to go out and
fish,..and there are many thousands of
places to do that. If painting is your
bag, the scenery in this particular part
of the globe is magnificent, and with
the sun co-operating, the scenery in
this area is visible for a change.

But there are many other places to
go, like along the highway between
here and Prince Rupert. The scenery
is the best in the world, and instead of
complaining about the overpowering
heat, go out and take an objective look
at the place you call home or ‘have
come to visit.

Bringing it home

Perhaps one big reason the

government has such..a hard. -time...... Ore.
balancing the national: budget is: that:-. than 300,000.new cars at.$3,000, each..-..

most citizens find it difficult to think in
terms of billions of dollars.

Some interesting statistics which
show how much $1 billion. actually is
should be kept in mind the next time a
money-gobbling federal program is
proposed.

One billion dollar bills placed end
to end would extend a distance of 96,670
miles, or about four times around the

world.

One billion dollars we

uid buy.more...

‘Placed bumniper to bumper they would’ °
stretch half way across the U.S.

If a man were to spend money at
the rate of one doliar a minute, it would
take him 2,000 years to spend $1 billion.

Perhaps there is only one thing to
add. Every single one of those
dollars the government spends comes
from one source: the Canadian tax-

payers’ pocketbook. |

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C,

Olag you take this line ‘and ‘I will'take the other.
This way at least one of us will be right. _

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| OBE; is a former chairman

BILL SMILEY:

Well, here we are half-way
through the summer, and I’ve
been having a whale of a time
on my holidays.

The farthest I’ve been away
from home, ‘with friends
scooting to Europe, the west
coast, the east coast, is out to
the hotel to deliver or pick up
my daughter the waitress, ten
miles. I've played five holes of
golf, been in swimming once,
and haven't even got my fishin

rod out of the trunk of the car, |

where it’s been since last
summer.

If that makes you think I must
be a pretty useless tool, you're
dead on.

Somehow, the days fly by.
They remind me of tracer
bullets, which come screaming -
straight at you and for some
reason, miss and disappear.
Good old tracer bullets; may I
never See one again. :

But that reminds me there is
one bright spot ahead. The
Canadian Fighter Pilots
rennial geth eae ia
biennial galheriiig Af: thé end, o
the summer’ and: ie to -
go and poison myself for three

Black tie fuss

days in the company of other
sprightly, sagging,. balding,
paunching chaps, 99 percent af
whom [ have never met,

It might be fun, but I think I'll
pass itup, These re-unions are
more saddening than joyful. [°d
get more fun out of taking out
the old album and looking at
what I was in those days: sloppy
hat, top button undone,
handlebar moustache and 4
devilish twinkle in my eye.

My daughter says the twinkle
is stilt there, though my wife
lifts her eyebrows, I just snort.
That's the best answer when
you’re not sure of your ground,

Perhaps the real reason 1

' won’t go is that for one of the

dinners, there'is a note saying
“Black tie optional’. Actually,
I lock pretty danged
distinguished in a black tie, but
I detest everything the phrase
stands for: pseudo-
sophisticated’ middle-class
snobbery.

I'm not knocking the old
fighter pilots. Most of them
came fram pretty humble
surypduniings, as I did, and have

dorié=yveil in life. After all, we
were the pick of the crop (and

no snerting, please, from the
army and ndvy, who gave us a
hand occasionally and got in our
way frequently).

But “black tie optional” is a
hit rich for my blood. And I can
hear all the dead ones hooting
with laughter at this innocent
bit of pornposity. And f wonder
how many of the aleoholics and
the failures will be there, black
tie or none. -

And there’s another reunion.
It's a prisoners-of-way (air
force) deal. This, tao, I’d enjoy
Af 1 knew anybody. But I tried
one or two of these and wound
up as lonely as a lobster at a
clam-bake.

All these fat, red-faced
Canadians pounding each other
on the back and retelling

~“anclent lies, while I looked for
one familiar face. All. my
friends in prison campe were
Czechs and Poles and
Norwegians and Rhodesians
and South Africans and Irish
and Welsh and Scots, Must
have been in the wrong camp.
. And or course there's the
‘annual’ convention of | the
Cahadiaii Weekly Nekenapecs
Association coming up. TI still

have a special relationship with
the weeklies, and many good old
friends among their editors. At
least I don't feel like an outside
at their conventions, -

But I probably won't go. Who
would drive Kim to work? Who
would settle the Fights between
her and her mother? Who
would continue lo fail to put up
the new clothes-line and repair
the handie on the bathroom
door? No, [I’m essential right
here, at home.

It’s not that I'm anti-social.
I'd thoroughly enjoy mixing it
up with old fighter pilots, old
p.o.w.’s and old editors, And I

could probably arrange a ride:

for Kim. And the clathes-line
can lie there and rot, for all I
care, And the bathroom door-
knob can wait, as it has done for
six months.

It’s just that my wife takes
two hours to get ready for a
swim, three days to get ready to
go away for a weekend, three
weeks to get ready for a

convention. It ain't worth it.
Maybe [ll take a day.off:and:

go down. lo the dock and catch
some perch,

: buy & comics:
_« Seven...The. beaches.

RUDY'S
--AS |

QOne,..Thank god there is a
reporter named Rick Munro to
cover up far me when I feet lazy
and don't contribute much to an
issue of the paper.

Two...The opinions expressed
in this column are my own and
do not represent those of the
newspaper.

Three...Listenining to a
radio news broadcast Friday
night the Herald received a
blast from the local chapter of
the NDP for an editorial which
stated that the trouble with
some large unions is that they
are fighting more among
themselves than fighting for the
working man,,.a fact that many
union members themselves will
admit to, Evidently the local
club thought it was a slur
against them. It wasn’t, but if
you have to grip about
something as petty and evident
as was in the column...gocd,
Wish more peaple would stand
up and say the things they
mean, Incidentally we failed to
credit the Vancouver Sun for
the column. : ;

Four...Terrace needs a multi
purpose recreational complex.

’ Five..Its come to my

attention that anyone who
speaks with a non-English
dialect or has a skin pigment
that does not indicate "pure
white” is discriminated against
in Terrace. 7

I have met perhaps three
people in Terrace who welcome

foreigners to this uninhabited

section of the glabe, Don’t say
you're not one of the
discriminators because if: it
came right down to it,.jyou
wouldn’t want one to mar
your son or daughter,,.belong to
your elite clud,..invite them to _
your home,..rent to them unless
they are prepared to pay your
price,..work for you unless you
can pay them less wages than a
Canadian born white. -
Six...Nobody likes a busibody
‘who likes to bring the issues to
the public Of course ‘“‘nobody”’ »
is limited to the few who stand -

‘to lose the most’, This time:

you're getting a- pretty, tame

‘you. want/a.-publication that |
doesn't bring forth public issues

lot of well built ;pretly girls on |

them and if you should ‘ever’'* were not-deslgied’ for: years

walk into the Herald offlee-and

*

“The . first tw
“houses will be* constructed. ::
= within a few weeks on the
Gibson Indian reserve pear

please.

see a reporter with a black eye
it probably means that my wife
caught me pecking.

Bight...Although I probably
will never get a black eye I beta
lot of husbands would. For a fee
I will gladly organize a ‘Men's
Liberation Movement’ in
Terrace,

Nine,,,Did you notice that the
Calgary Stampeders are well on

their way to winning a Grey Cup °

this year,
Saskatchewan 0. a
Ten...The comniunity was
sure in a flurry from Thursday
through Friday over certain
issues. Come Saturday not a
soul could you find...to get news

Calgary 21,

from...that was angry... that -

wasn’t wearing cut-offs and
NAPPY: eo “tae! watt

Eleven...If you ‘feel uptight
you should jump into your car,
grab a picnic lunch and a bottle

of wine, your family if you have -

one, and drive into the country

and get to know yourself again. ~

The public beach is one way to

relieve frustration but a juant :

into the woods or just’ away
from the highway will reunite
you-with humanity, ‘Isn't life in

an organized community a drag

compared with the bosom of
mother nature.

Plastic houses. _

TORONTO (CP) — Bubble-
type foam plastic houses as

Jarge as the average apart.”
-ment and: costing $9,200 may. -
‘ soon be a reality if a project

approved by the Ontario goy- --

-emmentsucceeds,
two - prototype

- Bala, Ont., 25 miles southeast

: of Parry. Sound.

.. Prof. Morton Katz-.of -the -

University of Toronto, who de-
’ signed the:housea for the In--

dian community branch of the *
. provincial secretary's depart. :

» ment, said. Thursday: if: the

houge sare mass-produced .
“paper without any journalistic -- they may eventually be sold.
“type follow ups on the issues. If ae

» For $8,000.50:
_ "He -said, three.

unlike the Bala houses, these |

three'simibkar .
; houses. -have--already’s‘been ="
» > «: built—one In® Montreal” and... -
have a; two-in the United States—but

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From the So uth Mouth

.

There’s a terrific new
restaurant in Gastown,
Vancouver called the Medieval
Inn, It’s caught on to such an
extent that you have to make
weekend reservations two
months in advance! The “Lord
of the Manor’’ greets patrons at
the door, and the food is served
without utensils - Tear the meat
off the carcass and belch a-la
Henry VIII.

- Wine is served with every

course, and patrons sit at long .

lables served by ‘maids’.
Every man is supposed. to

introduce his Jady to the crowd, -

- 8oit's best to go in groups.
There’s a good Wax Museum
down here, toc, but a word of
- caution.,.some of the forms are
live, and will move if touches.
The New. Georgia Viaduct
from Gore Street to
CambieStreet is being.
constructed with two lanes

Viaduct will be completely
obsolete when it's finished.

There’s new construction
going on all over. downtown

Vancouver, and the Courthouse -

Grounds. are surrounded by
wire ‘mesh to keep ‘out the
hippies anddogs. i,

' . The 747'jumbo jets are now a

going ‘east and one west. The -

BY NADINE ASANTE

common sight in Vancouver,
They have a special waiting
room and bay at Vancouver
International Airport to
accomodate them. .
The Séa Wall promenade
around Stanley Park needs only
one short step to completion. -

The trailer park at the north
end of Lions Gate Bridge is,
overflowing, and owners have
requested permission to expand
it.

Hippies have erected a. tent-

town on the razed area to be °

used by Four Seasons
Development at Stanley Park
Entrance. Authorities are
worried about lack of water and
lavatory facilities, but they are
more worried at the look of
permanence evident by tree-
planting and landscaping going
on.in the area,

CENTENNIAL MEMO -- The |

Royal Columbian Hospital in
New Westininster in 1864 was a
one-story, wooden building.
equipped with bedding and
furniture acquired -from the
‘Royal Engineers and a “large

and. Valuable’’ bath ‘inherited °

from Colonel Moody.

VEX DON'T

T DON'T DESERVE

RHEUMATICS EITHER,

BUT I'VE LEARNED
T! LIVE WITH'EM /.

* snow. os

nation’s prosperity — and t
jobs of millions of Canadians

“Markets of the world, wri

August Reader’s Digest. A
Col.. J: M. Mcavity, DS

the House'of Seagram Ltd. ay
president of the Canadid¥
Touriat Association, He hal
been president of the Canattid {
Export Association, a ninprof
organization financed hs
contributions from some 4°
member firnis, since 1983, -. F

“Today,” writes ‘Col
McAvity, ‘foreign trade :}am
more vital to the nation's wa) ae
being than. .ever. before, 2 |
Growth. of domestic demant i
alone in Canada’s rélativel
small home market cannd &
provide the jobs and the sta
dard of living Canadians wan
for the 1970s and 1980s,

‘In’ this ‘informative articl
Col. McAvity outlines suggested
initiatives which can be taker
_ by the nation’s leaders in th .
key sectors of* government ;
‘industry and labor. ‘“Thefl
government's. main respont+™
sibility,” says McAvity, “is toy§
create a climate that will en)¥%
courage rapid and sustain
growth of new investment in}#

export industries. Without: -in/%
creased: production capacity! ¥
there ean be no export growth.’ §
Government direction of th
economy in such things as tax,
monetary and foreign owner-
ship policies must enable>]
Canadian exporters to maintain| J
a profitable and competitive
position. The increase in the
exchange rate for.the Canadian
dollar since it was permitted to
“float” has been cited by many
exporters as the chief factor
inhibiting their sales,
The initiative in industry ;
must come from industry itself.
Companies like Bombardier
(snowmobiles) and Atco:
(mobile housing) whose 5
managements are aggressively ;
alert to export opportunities, |
Labor — white and blue collar ;
— must also regard the success »
of Canada's export drive as ;
vital to the national interest. !
Improvements in productivity ‘
can provide the competitive
cutting edge for export sales
just as effectively as cost ;
reduction, cuts in corporate |
taxes, a successful. marketing :
$ campaign: or a_ technological /
* breakthrough. eee
The Economic Council’ of. ;
Canada has se€ a goal of $25
billion in export trade by 1975
To reach that goal, we shall
~ need everyone's help. .

DID YOU —
KNOW. |

“Canada’s lowest lerriperattire
ever, 81 degrees below zera,
was Officially recorded al Sng,
Yukon on February 3, 1947,
7 RXX :
Canada's highest temperature,
113 degrees F.. was officially
' recarded al. Midule and Yellow
Grass, Saskatchewan, on July 5.
1937 oe
nn} > re
-Less snow falls in the Arétic
than. practically anywhere else
~ inCanaday = 7-7

no eet

. PONNKT 0 UR,
Canada has added two words to iJ
the. weatherman's ‘ dictionary-
chinook and blizzard. !
"-A'desert is a place gelling less
~ than 10 inches of rain a, year.
Parls of British Columbia are
desert hy: this definition’ |
nee | > ae
-Davlight’ saving time was’ 4
invented in Cariada‘ |
RS OREN , 4
-The windiest place in Canade-is ff
nat'the corner of Portage and
“Main ‘in: Winnipeg, but Cape
“Hopes “Advance * in’ Northern
(Nichec. . .

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is that. is never {oa cold ta

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