Page 4, The Herald, Monday. October 16, 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Offies - 635-4357 Circulation - 635-6357 KITIMATOFFICE Published every weekday Terrace, B.C, A member PUBLISHER - Laurie Mailett GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Grég Middletan CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 635-6357 KITIMAT - Pat Zelinsk] Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201, Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald rejains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Repreduction is not permitied without the writien permission of the Publisher. Published by Sterling Publishers 632-2747 ~ 632-2747 at 3212 Kalum Street, of Varified Circutatlion. LETTE THE EDITOR RS TO Wednesday night I al- tended a meeting at the Thornhill Cummunity Hall and I am disgusted with the peuple of Thornhill and same Terrace groups. This meeting was held to see how many individuals were interested in keeping the hall as a hall. If it (as it still might be) is turned back to the Regional District to hande there is the possibility that it could be turned into a body shop warehouse or sume stich thing. Well let me tell you, ne one cared except for a few. Out of a good size population in this area a total of 16 people were present, four from the Community Club, four from Totem Saddle Club, two from Fall Fair & three from the Kermode Friendship, one from the Thornhill Fire Dept., one from Karate Club & one other party. BIG DEAL! Where were you others that use the Hall either or partys, dances or those who have free use of -the hall for meetings. This is probably one of the best halls in the Northwest. Yes we admit that the kit- chen could be better but that takes money. id-raise money for something from’ the ‘public this is im- possible They huld excellant and reasoneble priced dances and are lucky if they get 200 peuple, Normally for Dear Sir: . I have known Mayor George Thom on a casual basis for the last four years and 1 cannot personally believe that he would act, at least to my way of thinking, eo irrationally in regards to the proposed Skeena health and human resources centre. If one was to look at a regional map it would be easily noticed that Terrace is the “hub” of the disirict. If the centre was in Kitimat the majority of the regional district’s population would have to travel through the Terrace area to get to Kitimat. This to me seems very impractical, especially from a consumer's point of view. If anyone wanted to leave Kitimat they have to go to Terrace first and vise versa. Lf you don't think I am partways right ask B.C. Hydro why their 500 mv line comes into the Terrace area. Ask B.C. Hydro, also, why their regional offices are in Terrace, You could ask the Dept. of Highways the same thing if you're so inclined, or Dear Editor, On behalf of President Bob Laraon and all of the Terrace Downtown Lions I would like to evtend a very sincere “THANKS” to the people and businesses of Terrace and surrounding area for their tremendous response to the Canadian National In- stitute for the Blind annual canvas, The canvas netted $8,253.53 to date. This is certainly evidence that the people of Terrace do have compassion for a worthwhile charity. These contributions are certainiy well placed when you consider thal there aeaig Tne Community Club has warn wep hie ito wry whe te ‘ a ee , REME , t.. 7 ite" zbut without help. 18 $15 a cuuple you can dance all night and get a beautiful buffel type supper with everything imaginable. When they do start to get ahead a little, sume stupid vandals (that's a nice word for them) think its great sport torip the urnials uff the walls, pull toilets off the floor or wait Lill four or five people have spent hours painting and while the paint is still iresh write all uver the walls with lipstick, Don’t think Pm just talking about teenagers duing damage sume adults (ur su called) are worse, This is just a little of the damage that has been done over the past three years there has been much more, lov much lo mention. Su, cume von everyone, if you want lo wee the Thor- nhill Cummunity Hall stay as a hali cume vut and attend the meetings. They are held thefirst Wed. of every month al § p.m, Don’t sit home watching T.V, and drinking beer get out and do sumething useful. Thornhill should be proud they have such a god hall. Fur more info phune Jim Piper at his hume on Mt. View or at the Thornhill Fire Dept. ** EVERY MONTH, 3 P.M. We are trying M. Barber ' ‘Poterm Saddle Club even B.C. Tel. Ask CFTK why they’re in Terrace, or the community Currections Centre, or Northwest Community College, or the Dept. of Indian & Nurthern Affairs. While you're at it, ask Iona Campagnolo, Cyril Shelford and the regional district why their offices are in Terrace. if you don’t want to talk to any of these peuple try asking Finning Tractor, Inland Kenworth, CAE Morse or Terrace In- ternalional why they are in Terrace instead of Kitimat. Tll bel a dollar’s worth of donuts that they all will say that it's due to area ser- vicability and-vur their own economic securily. [could go un to the point of being uverly redundant and maybe even ridiculous with my list of.names but it does serve to drive home a point, Personally, I don’t know why he is making such a big fuss!! Waiter Lefebvre are between 25 and 30 legally blind citizens in our im- mediate area who receive services of one kind or another fram the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. A very special “Thanks” to the Centennial Lions, the Royal Bank and staff, CFTK radio and TV, The Herald, The News Advertiser, all of the area captains and the many canvassers (who helped them) with the canvas, Yours sincerely, Lion Al Purschke Chairman, C.N.L.B. Letters welcome The Herald welcomes Its readers comments. “eee, 7 = ee AE a ee Peter Crowder’s dish, a sign of the times OTTAWA - OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON fairly gun. All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right fo refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste, We may also edit letters for style and length. Ali letters to be consi¢ ° - + for publleation must be signed. Vu usa thai setters be‘gpas) and double spaced. ' DEMOCRATIC HOPES DOWN Carter’s popularity up WASHINGTON (CP) — Republican hupes fer a big comeback in the Nov, 7 U.S. elections are fading as the Democrats, led by an again- popular President Carter, appear likely to make a strong shuwing. Analysts and pollsters say thal at this point the must likely result would bea near stand-off inthe congressional races and fewer Republican gains in key state races than had been been forecast earlier. While this forecast may change as campaigns get into full swing after Congress ends its session this weekend, most analysts agree that prospects for a Republican comeback are Traditionally, the part that holds the presidency loses sume congressional seats during offyear elections— hose held in the middle of the president’s term, A study by Congressional Quarterly says that in this century, the average loss in the House of Representatives has been 34 seats, A poll by the Washington , Pust, hoever, identifies only 2B prime targets for a Republican takeover and 17 House seats thal might be ripe fur a switch to the Demucrats. The Demucrals now have a 287-to-146 ma- jority in the'Huuse, with two seals vacant. In the 1@-seat Senate, where 36 seals will be cun- lested, the Democrais now have 68 members to the Republicans’ 32, It appears likely that the margin alter Nov. 7 may be aboul the - same, One third of the ~ _ Senate is up for re-election. In the governorship races the Republicans are ex- pected to fare better, perhaps coming close to doubling the 12 gover- norships they now control. However, several key states that seemed ripe for a Republican takeover a few ‘months agu, including Florida, California and Pennsylvania, appear likely to remain under control uf the Demucrats. republicans have raised record sums of money for an uff-year election and have developed a level of urganizalion envied by many Democrats. And with inflation seen by voters as lhe major problem, . and with tax-culting measures Springing up from state to state following California’s propusilion 13 vole, the issues would ap- pear to favor the, more con- servative Rephblicans. The parly is experiencing major difficulty, however, in its attempt lo regain ground lost in Congess and in the A LETTER FROM HOSKIN states in the first post- Watergate election uf 1974, followed by the loss uf the presidency in 1976. Bickering among Republican leaders, which evukes memories of the bitter 1976 leadership contest between Gerald Ford and Ronald Regan, and contin- uing parly weakness at the state and local level are viewed as major problems fur the Republicans, analysis say. One of the major Republican strong points— and an important election issue—has been the in- effectiveness uf Carter. But _ this issue fell flat with the “optimistic outcome of the Middle East peace negotiations at Camp David and the sudden upswing in popular support for the president that followed. : Aleohol Awareness Week The Alevhol and Drug Cummission has found that many British Columbians du not know abuut the effects uf alevbol abuse. If you had a friend with a serious health problem like cancer, heart disease, emphysema or arthritis you would knuw who to contact and where to gu for help. Yet, uver 113,000 peuple in British Culumbia are currenily sick with alcuholism and many are not aware of where lo go for treatment, ur huw tu gel help. The real tragedy is that alevholie peuple can be treated effectively and successfully. Effective help is available ty ihe peuple of this province who need It. Tu create a new un- UNITED NATIONS (CP) — The flood of refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Viet- nam, now averaging more than 9,000 a month; is in- creasing pressure on the international community, now faced with a growing and costly reseltlement problem. Refugee camps in Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong are bursting at the seams, However, only abuul one-third, roughly 3,000, are being reseltled each monlb in France, Uniled States, Canada, Aus- tralia and uther countries willing to accep! them. During the first nine months of 1978, about 40,000 have fled Vietnam by boat, reaching safe haven in sume Southeast Asian country. Thousands of others have fled by land. Part of the reason is the severe tropical slorms of September, lhe worst in 75 years, which damaged the rice crup to such an exlent thal unly generous foreign help can reduce hunger among the Vietnamese. derstanding «of a gruwing problem the Minister uf Health, Bub McClelland, has let it be known thal the week of Qetober 16-20 will be proclaimed ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK in British Columbia. Although British Columbia has less than 11 per cent uf the Canadian pupulation, we - have almust 15 per cent of | the estimated 773,000 alcohulics in Canada. This province has Canada’s highest provincial per capita consumplion of alcuhol. Eight out of 10 adult British Culumbians now regularly use alcuhvlic beverages. Although many people are able to drink without harm- ful side effects, we are concerned abuut the thousands of peuple whu get in trouble with alcohul. And while they are the heaviest lusers from their problem drinking, thuse closest to~ them, their families, friends are co-workers also suffer. Alcoholism has created a serious drain un the Canadian ecunumy. Ti has been estimated that 5 to & per cent of the total work- force within any company has a serivus alcohul prublem. The resulting (utal ecuonumie cust to the province and to the country is sLaggering. Fur the past two years the Alcvhul and Drug Cum: mission through its hard. working divisions and net- work uf funded agencies has steadily increased its ser- vices to the communily, Treatment facilities for FROM CAMBODIA Refugees posing problem Bul probably a much larger reason is the reported repression in Cambodia and Vielnam. The Paris newspaper Le Munde says the Hancl-run regime has created another Gulag Archipelago — in Vielnam, A correspondent for the French newspaper wrote that three years after the downfall of the South Vietnamese Thieu regime, the so-called re-education camps for thousands of former supporters still are full. So are uther types of political prisuns. The Vietnamese campaign agains! ethnic Chinese also has added to the refugee exodus as well as the con- tinued killings in Demucratic Kamuuchea, formerly Cambudia, where a new revulullonary —agriculture- based sociely ia evolving. And the agevld rivalries between Cambodians and Vietnamese have resurfaced in anvther border war. Canada fuund evidence to support repurts of Cam- bodian atrucilies anu urged the United Nations to launch an immediate investigation of the human rights situation in Democratic Kampuchea, The Kampucheans told Canada to mind its own business, saying it was a lackey of the United States anyway, guing back (to the days uf Ihe Vietnam war. In abitter condemnation of Canadian interference in the domestic alfairs of anvther country, the Kampuchean delegale to the United Nations recalled that his country was Irying to rebuild after being almost destroyed by the secrel U.S, B-52 bombings uf 1969-70 and the ensuing invasion uf his country. He placed the war- related death toll at more than une million Cam- bodians. External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson said that until Canada and other countries undertovk Independent in- vestigalions, there was lack of hard evidence about the atrocity charges. “Therefore, itwas possible for peuple lu argue—if It suited their purpuse—that alevhulism have been established throughout British Columbia, and new treatment facilities are constantly under review. . Although people ihruughuul the province should be encouraged !o develop a new awareness uf alechul and the effects of atcohul abuse during each week of the year, we believe that ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK, Octuber 16-20, will give us a unique and exciting op- portunity to focus interest and altention on a subject of growing concern to all uf ua. We ask fur your support in bringing this information to the public, You can make a worthwhile cuntribution to a cause that needs all the supporl il can gel. these sort of things were propaganda and were exaggerations.” Bult Jamiesun explained during his visit tothe UN last month that several countries indicaled to him they had similar information, They felt sume furm of in- ternational action ought to be taken. “I think where the dil- ficully rests is in trying to determine what form that action ought to take. I think the Nu. 1 step is the one thal’s already under way, namely to bring to bear the indignation and concern of the United Nations and democratic countries with the kind uf activities. which we know is going on.” Rather than condemning Canada, the Kampuchean government would have been better advised to allow some sort of independent investigation to gel all the facts, Jamieson added. “The heat way for them to prove thal we're wrong ig lo allow that kind of in- vestigation.” OTTAWA - lt has been a tong time coming, but at last the Liberals have bearded their lion In his en, At their annual “think-in’ the other weekend in the chateau of a former wealthy Ottawa Valley lumber baron, atop a peak in the Gatineaus, Prime Minister Trudeau’s cabinet individually spoke their pleces. Two of thern —~ swear insiders — ane of them Public Works Minister Judd Buchanan of Lon- don, Libera! patronage boss of Southern Ontario, came right out with it. Trouble with the Libera! party, said Buchanan, was ° Pierre Trudeau. Not so dead certain was the Identity of the other cabinet member who put the finger of Liberal blame on the Prime Minister. But word Is that it was Health and Welfare Minister Monique Begin. ‘ For Buchanan and Begin — for any member of the cabinet — that had to take nerve, Plerre Trudeau’s iron grip on the party and his unequalled power as Prime Minister being what they are: total. . But Trudeau Is not a man to be easily insulted, much less pressured or intimidated. More temperamental Prime Ministers given such a rebuke might sulk or rage, and in secret * heart have self-confidence shaken. But not Trudeau. He heard it with a shrug. And his last wards on the matter still stand: he will stick around for the nextelection. Which would seem to wipe any suggestion of his stepping aside, voluntarily or under party pressure, this winter to make way for the haped- for “bright new leader’ who might take the power-hooked Liberals to another 11 years of glory. , There is such a man — and many a Liberal is waiting and hoping for him to make his move — but so far, no positive action. John Turner continues to wait. Meanwhile, In the wings there are contenders — in cabinet — for the place of supreme power. But the best of them lacks the ambition, or says he does. He’s Treasury Board President Robert An. dras, the odd man out in this cabinet of big spenders — this Ministry of Extravagance that has run down the inflated dollar, run up unem- ployment, and all but run the country into economic collapse — who could, and often did, say no. Andras said it but couldn’t make it stick — until recently, — and now it is perilously late in the game. ~ oe Robert Andras is one of a tiny minority of businessmen in Cabinet. He knows a profit from a loss and that dollars don’t grow on ‘‘tax trees’'. He's made no mistakes, been responsible for no government disasters, caused no public outcries except perhaps for the welfare establishment. But Andras says he’s not the type to be PM. Which leaves Allan MacEachen, perennial government house leader, who under ordinary circumstances might have made if through service and seniority. But then came the Liberal disaster In Nova Scotia, MacEachen’s own turf, and he has to bear much of the responsibility that blights any loser’s career. ; Justice Minister Otto Lang? He aches for it. But he’s just too “brainy” in the intellectual intolerant sense, a man without sensitivity, political instinct, understanding of lesser men, and a leader without followers. . Aha you say, what about: External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson? From Newfoundland? Well, if could happen. Except that Don Jamieson really doesn't care for the hard work of running the government shop, although he lusts for the power. Finance Minister Chretien has been doomed by the dollar. : So you're left with Pierre Trudeau, and the Liberal dream candidate, John Turner, with the election now only months away for the uncertain, unhappy Liberals. HCRMAT “Meadows, the doctor says | need more exercise, 10 | want you fo start jogging for me.” i ¢ i : f :