agg PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, Seplember 7, 1977 {the herald) Published by General Office - 635-6357 Sterling Pubilshers Circulation (Terrace) - 635-4357 (Kitimat) - 622-6209 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published every weskday at 3212 Kalum Si. Terrace B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized 7s second class mall. Registration number 1201, Postage pai. . cash. return postage guaranteed. . NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any: editorlat or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction bot bermaltted without the written permission of the r. By INA WARREN MONTREAL (CP)- “It’s me that controls my house and not Levesque,” said Portuguese immigrant Joao Rosa after registering his little girl in an English elementary school Tuesday. Like many Portuguese parents who tive in the city’s northeast section, Rosa has chosen to send his child to an elementary school, in defiance of the new Quebec government language legislation. . ; Although the legislation restricts English schooling mainly to children with at least one parent educated in English in Quebec or children whose brothers or sisters school boards are pursuing an open-door registration of ineligible. children despite warnings that government grants will be cut off for illegally-registered children. Another father chatting with Rosa in the schoolyard of Our Lady of Mount Royal Roman Catholic schoo! said he is fed up with. Camille Laurin, the Quebec cultural development minister, whom he regarded as a despotic ng. The Portuguese fathers calli the language law “racist” and “discriminatory” and insist they want their children to attend English schools because “English is the language of North America and the nine other provin- ces Although the Portuguese community is traditionally Roman Catholic, the men say that, if necessary, they will put their children in Protestant schools to be educated in English or even send their children to private schools. “It doesn’t cost much, maybe $1,000 a year,” says.one father of two illegally-registered children, who works as a waiter. The othermen in the circle nodded their agreement. Lronically, these parents talk to each other in French, the second language of most Portuguese-speaking im- migrants and the one they use most in their low-paying service jobs. But they say their children speak English. However, Desmond Ryan, the school’s heavy-set, pipe- smoking principal, said in an interview that most of the Portuguese children speak almost no English when they start kindergarten. Some 70 percent of the.400 children attending the school come from Portuguese families,.while the remainder come mainly from Spanish, Greek, and Chinese homes. “We'll try and give them everything they should be gotting and that means the three R’s,”’ says the principal about his illewally-registered students. Laat year the.school set up special classes for some 70 immigrant children. who had failed English tests required under previous legislation, but whose parents insisted they attend English schools. Although both English Catholic teachers and prin- clpals are pursuing a well-advertised policy of accepting any child whose parents insist on an English education, they do not have the backing of the Montreal Catholic School Commission which oversees both English and French schools. In contrast, the Protestant school system Js presenting a.united front on the language issue and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal PSBGM has vowed to challenge Bill 101, the language law, in the Supreme Nevertheless, parents. showing up at. Barclay Protestant School in the city’s north-end Greek area are told. that the school will take their children but cannot make any promises of what will happen in the future. At least 90 percent of the approximately 1,100 children attending Barclay are from Green families. The uneventful registration day at Barclay was covered by three television camera crews including one from the American network CBS. ~ Quebec patriot believes in MONTREAL CP- "J have two loves,” she says. “My country and Quebec. But ma, Quehbecer above all. I belong to this and. . . ‘ : _ So speaks Solange Chaput-Rolland, wathor, journalist, television personality eigth members of the new National Unity Commission. She says she joined the federal com- mission on Canadain unity because ‘‘the federal system best suits us in Canada. “But, if the present system sufficed for Canadians, there wouldn’t be the tensions that now exist between Canada and Quebec. ‘ “So, as with the other members of the commission and so many other Canadians, I have been looking for years for a third way - that is, a renewed frederalism capable of absorbing the tnesions of 1978 and the year 2000, -“T believe federalism is the only system capable of containing the aspirations of all of the provinces,” she said. “But the SEEKS THIRD OPTION present system doesn't respond to all their aspirations." . Mrs. Chaput-Rolland describes herself as an actlvist who has been on the public squares of Canada for the jast 15 years. “I am typically a French-speaking Canadian who is not a pequiste a member of the Parti Quebecois, who is not satisfied with the present state of federalism In Canada. I'm no more difficult to understand than any other Canadian who believes as I do.” The daughter of an industrialist, she studied at the Sorbonne and started her career as a journalist on the Journal du Nord at St. Jerome, north of Montreal. Mrs. Chaput-Rolland, who is 58, first became known to English Canada in 1963 when she and co-author Gwethalyn Graham wrote Dear Enemies, and ex- change of letters expressing the views of two Canadians from different sides of the linguistic fence. She has written volumes.on the subject of Quebec and Canada, and teday she asks: “What is It to be a good Canadian? - “Tg it to wave the flag on every corner of Canada and then do nothing about changing things that have to be changed in order that Canada stays together. Well, I’m not a. flag waver. “{ think that most people who declare themselves good and dedicated and committed Canadians haven't got a clue of what is going on in Quebec and never cared. much to find out.” “While Quebecers have come more and more to know who they are,” she said recently. ‘Canadians from other provinces are still searching for their identity,” Turning to Canada's. role in a wider world, Mrs. Chaput-Rolland commented: “We have come out of our collective navel. “We must get out of our internal battles, our myopic view of ourselves.” ; A Canadian. representative at the United Nations in the late 1960s, she had to grapple with some of the grave problems facing mankind, especially the life-and- deatie struggles of the Third World. “In years to come - not in many years because I’m net getting any younger, but still - I would like to go very humbly back to the United Nations... because I want to work for what I believe in. Probably the ~ greatest problem in the world in the years to came is hunger. “That’s why I said we have toget out of our little internal strife and look ahead and say, ‘Will my grandsons be better in an independent Quebec if they have to eat?’ “J can’t change the will of the people,” she said. “I can only bring them more information - about Canada, about federalism, about the possibility of making this country at long last generous.” . Flim-flam from Vander Zalm These ducks look perfectly content with thelr lot,.but betleve it or not, they’re ina cage. They were part of an exhibit in last weekend's fall falr. Just goes to shaw you The new ‘Operation ' Vandal Stop” program of the Department of Human ’ Resources is ‘‘Flim-flam from Vander Zalm’’, Emery Barnes, New Demoractic MLA for Vancouvér Centre said today. * “Such blatant chicanery is typical of Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm, whois blinked by his self-hbestowed biessing of omnipotence,” # Mr. Barnes said. “First, it is unlikely he ' explored the feasabllity of #2 his scheme with responsible that people can really be considerate towards their pets, or if they’re slated for the dinner table, that you can't trust anybody no matter how they might treat you. By RICHARD JACKSON OTTAWA, - It isn’t enough that he has slaughtered ‘therm in elections, Prime Minister Trudeauseems to be frying to kill the Conservatives with kindness. Acabinet appointment for 20 year former staunch Tory stalwart Jack Horner, so recently the key Con- servative from Alberta. A Liberal commission chair- manship for. career - provincial and “Brunswick Conservative Gordon Fairweather. . A warm welcome and a safe seat on the Liberal side of the Commons for Jacques. Lavoie, who, in a stunning political robbery, stole the Montreal seat of Hochelaga for the Conservatives and then turned it over to the Trudeauites. And now the ultimate gift: Senatorships. One coming up for veteran Con- servative MP George Hoes, former party president who, friends lament, ust might be in the mood to:‘accept it. ‘ Ottawa Offbeat Hand it to Employment and Im- migration Minister Bud Cullen for picking an experienced and knowing hand when going shopping for a public relations man. . As his “Media Relations Adviser,” the new handle. for political . publicists in Fat City where fancy Another for 20 year Tory MP | Heath Macquarrie.. And with..the kindly Prime Minister looking over others in the Conservative ranks deemed worthy of his blessing and nomination to Canada’s finest club .and golden years of ease in that elite bank of tread-worn politicians, a posy preserve traditionally reserved for Liberal bagmen. ’ new upgraded titles are bureaucratic status symbols, he has recruited old Press Gallery pro and Southam News Service veteran George Brimmell. George has addressed his first Communications Bulletin to the Press Gallery. It reads easily - and that’s something for.a government han- dout - and strikes a nice light note: “Now that he has a new portfolio, (Employment. and Immigration), the minister figures ‘this would be a good.time to streamline his.name for publication purposes. “Therefore, would you be kind enough in future to refer to him simply as plain Bud Cullen? “No more Jack Syndey George (Bud) Cullen, or JSG. (Bud) en. “Just Bud.” Or better still - and George - Brimmell might-have missed a het here - “just Plain Bud.” Ever occur to you how terribly busy John Diefenbaker keeps himself these days. Kcology-conscious firm makes gas, fertilizer from from manure HIGH LEVEL, ALTA. CP-A company in northern Alberta is ° testing a plant designed to produce methane gas and fertilizer from manure, The plant, operated by Rand L Bio Gas Lid. of High Level, is belleved the largest and most northernly in Canada. Sheep amaure and water mixed in -@ 15,000-gallon tank produce methane by anaerobic or. oxygen- free action. The residual liquid is a fertilizer, suitable for farm use. Don Rhoades, a High Level far- mer, began working on the plant ago after reading about similar ones _ in India. He formed R and L Bio Gas in 1975 and built the plant on his farm, . In addition to using .the anaerobic . process, the plant utilizes solar heat. The company recently received a Business Spotlight six-month contract from the Alberta riculture department to test the plant during the winter. The federal government also has expressed nterest in the process. Rhoades says he intends to manufacture aimilar plants for farm use as well as larger plants for feed lots, slaughter-houses and municipal disposal systems. “The size of the plant needed depends on the amount of decom- posable material you have, and the amount of gas and. fertilizer uou - to produce,” he said in an interview. A plant similar to the one at High Level would be able to handle the manure of 75 cattle, It is capable of producing more than 3,000 cubic feet of methane a day under normal conditions, enough for needs around the home and to provide extra gas Killing with kindness. is outside his authority to arbitrarily dictate the place of work, amount to be paid, and who. of the citizens of this province are to be hired. His job is to ensure that welfare services provided by regulations are available to those’ persons who qualify. “There are 90,000 persons unemployed in this province, what right has the minister of human resources to designate a category of jobs to one special group.” Mr. Barnes said. “It ig pathetic that the minister should suggest his scheme of hiring welfare people to work in the schools would not take away union jobs. Such jobs should, in fact, become new union jobs with full benefits and full job security. To otherwise enforce his program would be usury and an act of heavy handed dictatorship.” “No doubt of surprise to ‘Mr. Vander Zalm, persons dependent upon welfare assistance are not parasites, nor second class citizens. They are citizens, period, and civil rights apply to everyone equally in our democratic society,” in Sate el a i etn , be .. Mh Speeches everywhere to anyone . Loud approval epee who will listen, And happy to make them. . Ribbon-cuttings, fair-openings, appearances here, there, anywhere there is a Golden Age Olympics, a _community picnic, a neighborhood corn-roast, a handicraft exhibit, a service club barbecue, And if he isn't racing around the National Capital or Eastern Ontario or Western Quebec keeping himself busy, he is down in Atlantic Canada, out on the Prairies, or further west over the Great Divide where the mountains sweep down to the sea, doing the same thing. Why all this activity with his 62nd birthday now.only days away? “Have to keep going,” he says, “can’tsit around, musin’t have tim on my hands.” But why? “Olive,” he murmured, and his eyes misted. “I.can’t get over it. She meant so much. I'm desolate.” It. was a moment to shake anyone watching. _ ‘The Old Veteran, head buried in. his hands, his lips trembling when he slowly looked. up, and in an emotional panic, busied himself tidying up his letter-littered desk. The Old Man is lonely. Just plain lonely. a Drop him a note, even if you don’t personally know him. ‘You'll be doing your decent deed for the day. for use in powerlng farm machinery. Rhoades sald the plant will Produce enough gasin winter to heat taelf and home. He said he hopes commercial ‘production of the plants can begin next year. “The winter tests will be useful. But we. belleve that even f the production slows down in extremely cold weather, this gas plant would re recover its cost in fuel and fertilizer within three years. ; Cost of an automatic plant similar to that in High Level is estimated at ~ he said. _ “The potential for farm gas plants is enormous. I believe our company is further ahead in this fleld than anyone in Canda, and weintend to be in commercial production before anyone : the British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association has commended the Social Credit Government ofr ing thier request for a more equitable means of taxing and grazing lands. Joe Post, Chairman of the Cattlemen’s Taxation Committee has written Fiance . Minister Evan him for introducing Bill 31, Assessment Amendent Act, 1977 which contains a number of. amend. ments.Post said ‘‘We are particulary pleased with Article 20 which amends Section 26, whereby a farm or ranch will be assessed . without regard ‘to it’s value for other purposes’. In a submission to the Commission of Inquiry on Property Assesment and Taxation which met in Kamloops in 1975, the Cattlemen pointed out that cattle production in the province is utilizing lands, which in most cases will nat support production of crops suitable for direct con- sumption... Post says, ‘These same lands might a higher market value for uses other than food production, and far- mets and ranchers had been HEDMAN paying taxes based on market value. The farmer was paying property tax on his source of income while a wage earner was paying property tax only on his home". The brief also pointed out that cattle ranching relies on large land areas as a production resource, and any changes in the taxation system that would result in increasing taxation levies to the food producer may. have @ very dramatic effect on local food dupplies. Higher Tower the standard of living for many ranchers,” said Post, “even now, the samater and less established members must augment their income from outside sources.” Post says the Cattlemen are pleased that the Assessment Amendments classify a farm in that catrgory intil it no longer meets the standards inti some other repect. Post concluded “This Association has maintained that the only fair basis of. taxing agricultural land is. ont the basis of productivity, and we are grateful that farmers and ranchers are being listened by the Govern- ment.” _ OU977 Univariat Prete Syndkolt a/3 “Say when.”