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EDITORIAL:
Nothing to
| Report

Terrace has-oh, what? 29 RCMP members in
its detachment? How many police cars? 10 or 12
maybe? At that number, (of personnel) a
conservative estimate for salaries would be-say-
$500,000 per year and with equipment costs,
maintenance, building heating and lighting.
telephone, training, use of aircraft, travel
depreciation,-say another $225,000- a very rough
guess-estimate would bring the cost of police
services for Terrace to $750,000. Say $14,500 per
week. :

It’sinteresting then to speculate why it is when

honing the RCMP-usually in the morning, to
fearn what reportable crime has occured over
the weekend, or on a weekly, apart from the
brick through a window, air let out of tire,-once
ina whilea truck or car stolen-there is nothing on
the police ‘blotter’ to put in the paper.

A few weeks ago, a young male resident
reported an incident that had occured the
previous night, at the house where he was ren-
ting arocom. According to his account, no less
.than six RCMP suddenly entered the dwelling,
armed with a Warrant, searched the premises
and made off with four small potted plants of
marijuanha.
custody, and later released on his own
cognizance.

Well, at least we know how six of the 30 or so
members of the Force were occupied that
evening. But (if there actually was that number
involved) would it really require six men to
capture 4 plants and one youth.

Let’s look at to-it be fair-from another angle.
At least two of our staff have lived in the United
Sates;one in New York and the other in
California. Both have travelled across the 48
mainland States from coast to coast. Both agree,

emphatically, the quality of law enfocement in .

Canada, by the RCMP, to be vastly superior to
that of the United States, and nelther wishes to

RCMP themselves would agree). there is:room
for improvement, and not all the changes in the
last few years (with the possible exception of the
‘Salary scale) have been for the best. It would be
hard to say how many Terrace residents were
critical of the fact that the Canadian flag
remained stuck half vay down the flagstaff for
perhaps a week , early in January, on the ground
in ot ot be REM offices, Canada's flag-the
; OOF DOU: LDF  phyoyal.....|
tGrnadi | ow dn: the position of mourning or
distress, “day “after* day while? -inside. the
computer.’ and two,-way radio-equipped
headquarters all the queens horses and all the
Queens horsemen-and horsewomen?-were
unable to take one Canadian flag, down, fold it
reverently, and place it in safekeeping for the
next day.

We can see another side to that story. Doub-
tless there were good reasons why the flag was
left to flutter for so long. Could it have been
because the entire detachment were busy, round
the clock, fighting the insidious weed of crime to
prevent it from bearing its bitter fruit?

If so, we hope the Herald will be the first to

' PAGE 2, The Herald, Wednesday; February 208.05.

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Patricia

Young ‘Says

Why ‘is there so much

cunicism and disesntent ir,

the world? Off hand, 1 would

venture to suggest that we |
have lost our way because = -

we have losi uur sense of

wonderment and with it our.

sense of appreciation.

As North American drive

and know-how gave us the
highest standard of living in
the world, so we pegan to
develop a sense of

- superiority that our af-

One young man was taken into

fluence was a “divine right”

instead of something pur- —

chased with the blood, sweal
and tears of our ancestors,

Generations of young
people are indifferent’ to the
freedoms we enjoy — largely
because they have known
nothing else. Few of us can
understand starvation for
the simple reason thal we
have never known anything
more than mild hunger.
Instead we enjoy our color
TV sei, telephone and instant
food: forgetting that our
ancestors of one hundred and
fifty years ago did not enjoy
the —scanvenience of
automobile, eléctric stove,
washer, toaster, kettle and
electric blanket: Yet
somewhere along the line,
we lost our sense of wonder.
We no longer rely. upon the
sheep for our wool or worm
for our silk, but take the
marvel of synthetic fabrics

_for granted. Many of our

“live there because of it. But (and possibly the

he: words... -Royal’. and “wheels, --We> concern: our-
‘selves: with fetiny rom .
eas Ul

grandparenis experienced
the transition from candle to
gasiamp to electricity. We no
longer wonder at the sewing
machine which brought
women out of ine bondage ot
sewing garments § y
atiteh. In effect, there is
hardly an item in our homes
and businesses that was .
around a few hundred years
‘ago.— the typewriter, ball
point pen, safety razor,

‘plastic bottles, camera and

electric stove. .
Along the way, we ito
wondering at the marvel ofa
seed, sunset, rainbow or
cloud formation. The wonder
of birth was replaced by
newer techniques of erasing
the miracie,
wondering about the
a that, puc..us, on

int Ato B in e.and

Instead of.

‘We: Pm sorry.

é

Dear Sir:

Some friends brought me
some papers picked up at the
Northwest Communit:
College, In ‘Aboriginal
Times” a paper published by
the students of the
“Aboriginal (Indian) Studies,

’ Program'’ at the College,
Val Napoleon writes, ‘It is
media reporting in this way
that has = hampered
Liberation Movements
around tha globe." Well, by
now we all know what these
Liberation Movements : are

more comfort. Instead of ©

wondering at the marvel of
communication and
language, we endeavour to
bet by with the grunt of four
letter words. _

Qur appreciation of the
miracle of the seasons ts
restricted to complaints
about the cold, heat,
humidity and lack of sun-
shine on weekends. We have
forgotten the wonder of

. autumn leaves, reflection’ in

4 rain puddle, newly turned

- earth and. the mystery of a

carry the report when that great “Bust” even-.

tually occurs; when the red coated forces of Right
triumph over the dark sinister forces of Evil, and
the last mugger, forger, dope trafficker, rapist
molester, traffic violator, theif, murder,
burglar, shoplifter, and income tax evader and
every citizen over the .08 count is safely behind

Ts. 2 -

‘Meanwhile, should the word leak out that
Terrace HERALD editor, has been suddenly

_ whisked away in the middle of the night,

escorted by a dozen burly ‘Mounties... we
hope you'll understand. Please come and visit
m! ”

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spiders web. Do we ever stop
-lo.wonder at the invention of
the printers press as we read
our newspaper? We should
-~ but we don't. Indeed, in
taking our .exisiance for
granted, we have become *
like over-ripe fruit on a tree,
ready to fall and rot.
Patricia Young

Sdenssgssasesasnssnmendeeansaen

TODAY IN HISTORY
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
March 1, 1978 ©

Roman Catholic troops of
Duc de Guise disputed with
Protestants at  Vassy,
France, 416 years ago
today—in 1562—and the
Incident ended in massacre.

~ This precipitated the Wars of

Religion which swept over

’ France almost unchecked

for 40 years. They took the
shape of smail, armed bands
marauding, looting and
killing without | decisive
battles. The disorder ended
when Henry IV of Navarre
seized the French throne and
granted the Huguenots
partis

. of Nantes. n

- The Spectator appeared in:

14 BC—Until this date,
this was New Year's Day to
the Romans.

1638—-The first Swedish
Aettlera, inventors of the log
cabin, arrived in America.
1711—The first edition of

London,

1953—The U.S. removed an
embargo on Canadiannmeat
Imposed following an out-
break of hoof-and-mouth
disease in western Canada,

1954—Five members of the
U.S. Howse of Represen-

_latives ‘were shot: by’ three

Puerto Rican ‘ nationalists
ing ‘trom

the “House

Dear Sir: .

The Labour Advisory
Committee, on behalf of its
affiliates ‘would like. lo ex-
press our concern and views
regarding the. Skeena
Manpower
Committee,

We feel that this com-
mittee does not reflect any
substantial participation of
the labour force’ in “the
Skeena District, a fact that
becomes abundantly clear

when cone scrutinizes the.

participation of the Unions in
the Committee's seminars.
Moreover, the overwhelming
majority of Unions in the
area have informed. the

Committee that they. do-not
wish to participate in. any:

. endeavours of the Com-
mittee. ._

What is disturbing’ to us-is
that the Committee Is
glossing-over this fact, and
mesleading the public with

press releases elc.,. giving *

the impression that~ they

have the full support: of.

Labour with only three of
four participating unior
Members, out of a possible
seventy Unions or Union
jocals in this area. One

Development
Despite his — resignation,

Letters to th

all about: hijacking,

terrorism etc, Also ac-
cording to ‘Aboriginal
Times,” the Women

Liberation Fronts are part
and parcel of it. They all
have to help to overthrow the
“Capitalist System,"as they
call it. When I read in the
“Daily Herald” how the
Palestin Liberation

Organization or the Arab
Revolutionary Army

’ (whatever it may be) keeps

itself busy with poisoning
Israeli-grown oranges with
mercury, then we know whal

otsy Cattaerit so 8 ann 8

t

_ Community Not Ropréseiitative ~

oe eo i

example of this ‘‘glossing
over”’ is that the Committee
report, gives the impreasion
that Brother B.J, MacKay is
still participating | on. the

“Master Committee”, when
in fact, he haa resigned,

' Brother © MacKay’s name
is still carried on the’ Jet-
terhead of the. Committee.
Also with respect to this
“Master Committee", we
Gave serious doubts that
Brothers Hutchison and
Swanson indeed ‘represent
any consiituency on this
Committees. As far as we
have been able to determine,
they have. never been
delegated to attend medtings
of: the Committee by their
members, and have never
reported back the resulta of
the Committee meetings,

~ Tt is our opinion. that this

Committee is‘ at best,
. “spinning wheels", *1£* not
oulrightly wasting tax-
‘payer's money on redundant
studies. To date, it seems to
be nothing but a’ perpetual
motion committee,

recommending nothing but
farther studies. We feel thal
-the Skeena Manpower
Development Committee

e Editor

we are to expect in case
these "'Liberators” start
governing out country, The
polson might be ofa different
kind, but in my opinion our
Northwest is sure being
College, This is not less than
a conspiracy against out
Nation. Political Sclence, in
my opinion for instance, is
not being taught ina neairul
and objective way. Itis used
as atool for Ted propaganda,

If this continues much
longer, you could see Cuban

troops and Russlan Arms
enter Canada's north to help

Sop iveraar

should be abandoned im:

mediately, 58 it has not met,

and cna not meet Its ob-.
jectives as specifically

Feferred to in the phase one .

report. Since the Committee,
does not represent Labour, it
cannot, as mentioned in be a
Labour-Management
“pulse, or. co-ordinate any
exchanges ‘between the
various Unions and Com-

panies. ; ;

Critique of Phase One

Reports .

Labowr Instability

This report reiterates what
everyone else has ‘been
stating for years...that there
‘is need for diversification
and small scale business,
and that. the workplace
should be improved. Hardly

- earthshaking findings,

Transportation

A well written report that
unfortunately resulted in the
following conclusion...“It_is
the considered opinion of the
Project ‘Managers that the

. original objective was one

that could not be met with

‘the information available"
Cost of Living Survey -

A useless study that has

already been undertaken by

- humerous committees, such

Ottawa Offbeat,» Reta Jan

Ottawa-There has to be a

reason for Liberal ‘winning

ways.’ ee
Their long reign, from the
dawn for Mackenzie King's
takeover in 1921 through
Pierre Trudeau’s con-
tinuation into 1978 has been
broken but three times.
First by Conservative
Arthur Melghen for three
months, richard Bennett for
Five years and John
Diefenbaker for six,.

So between them, Prime
Minsters King, Louis St.
Laurent, Lester Pearson and
Trudeau have been in charge
nationally through 46 of the
Jast 57 years. ;

What's .their secret?

Paul. Martin, long Liberal
cabinet-minister-by-habit,
senator and now dilpomat,
ap Canadian. High ‘Com-
missioner to London, knew.

“We're —_ political

‘chameleons,'’*he once
unabashedly confessed. “We
change our posture and:

policies with the changing
moods of the . changing
times.” .

What he meant, in more
down to earth terms, is that
when it comes to negotiating ©
‘their way throug the party
traffic down the political
road, the Liberals can swing
and sway like drunken
drivers. ae

From the middle--the
favorite lane--they can
swerveeasily . sharply right

or left, as the circumstances —

_ indicate.

They call it ‘flexibility.”’

The Conservatives ‘an
Democrats call it “ack o
commitment,” or varlously
“rejection of principle,” or
‘wallpaper policy.”

The Liberals can
reslructure their . basic
platform and design their
‘polities to the prevailing
‘public taste. Lo

“You're in the ‘mood for
free-spending welfara
‘programs, more socialist

' Putting people

han doetrinaire Liberal,
) before

ro) or profit and damn
t ode tui speed
ahead? ; a

Then bring in men to the
Cabinet like big-hearted, to-
hell-with-cost | Bryce
Mackasey and give him a.
free hand, So,

And watch the money flow
out and the vates roll in until

the public realizes the cost in”

LAXES. .
Things are tough?’ In-

flation’s soaring agaln. .

‘Unemployment’s getting

away out of the norm?
‘Now we're worri

frightened?” “OTIS, even
‘You want a tough take-

charge Buy ‘running the
a

Somebody who knows the
true Value of a buck, and-how!
hard it la to come by and is” -
hard-headed enough to say. -

no and make It stick?’

What you want is acon: fo

servative,

N tne
‘ :

“liberate the Dene Nation
and, who knows?, the
Province of Quebec. In ‘The
Northwest Worker” a paper
that was delivered to every.
house In Terrace, and [”

-believe was paid for partly

with tax-payers money,
someone openly writes, “The
Marxist-Leninist

Movement,led by the
Canada Communist

League is working to
overthrow the capitalist
system and establish
socialism in Canada.” The
Editor of that paper, John

i evelop

£1 MICVT Te Re”
Doogie ot ne

to

a

‘as Economics (101-102)

Intercity Consumer Dif-
ferentials, Agnes Kennedy's

_B.. Government
Employees Union,
V.0.LC.E., Labour Canada,
etc., ete., ete,

Labour-Managtment

Seminar .

The absence of the Unions

at this . seminar contradicts
the statement in the report:
“The general reaction was
positive and good.and it was
pointed out that we at-
tempted to do too much too
quickly. It did however
prove the ability of the sub-
committee to attract top
people and get the attention
of all levels of Labour-
Managment-Government.”

Professional Services
Research ‘

This survey unveiled the
profound . observation that
“in smaller communilies
there is a lack of services,
while in larger communities
there is the need for more’’.
Again, the committee has no
recommendations, A survey
based on an ‘average of
seven (7) respondents from

each town. is obviously

totally inadequate. .
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We can’t help: you find a proofreader..but we could let you
_’ borrow our Breathalyzer.

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Jense, co-ordinator of
Labour Studies al the North-
west Community College
adds: ‘Readers wanting a
more complete un-
derstanding of the Canada
Communist League's views
can get their bi-weekiy
newspaper so-and-so by
writing to so-and-su,”
Herewith Mr. John Jensen
shows hin true citizen to
protest communist in:
doctrination at our Nor-
thweat Community College,
since I too pay my laxes for

it,
Bill Hokilladurg

ae tN GRAD
BItadoft aD
iivie®’ Gra stet pH

Alcohol Problems

By and large a good
report...iffact, the only good
repkrt. :

Unemployment and
Manpower Report

Nat available,
_ In summary, The Labour
A dv isor
_Teiterates that the Skeena
Manpower

purposes-is a Government
Managment Committee and
must, if it is to. continue,

make that clear, Jt must not -

give the impression that it is
a Tripartite committee. The
proposal of the Skeena
Manpower Development
Committee to become -the
Advisory Committee to the
Occupational

Council will be strongly
opposed by our affiliates.
The. Labour Advisory
Committee feels thal it has
been given a mandate by all
its affiliates to act on behalf

of Labour, and we feel that -
Manpower -

the Skeena
Development Committee is
allempting to destroy this
mandate. F
Sincerely
Barry English
_ Secretary ..
» Labour Advisory
Committee

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Development:
Committee, for all practical