Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, September 24, 1978
TERRACE/KITIMAT

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Sloppy |
business

The report to Terrace city council on the
questioned purchase of a tractor-mower for the —
parks and recreation department from Terrace
Equipment Sales is a whitewash.

The report, submitted toa council by . Robert
Hallsor, the clerk-administrator for the city,
attempts to write off the issue as “‘a regrettable
error’’ by someone who is no longer here to
answer and goes on to suggest that there should
be a written purchasing policy. The Hallser
report attempts to mitigate the wrong by laying
the blame at the feet of over eager staff.

Of course there should be a written policy for
purchases and that policy should involve calling
of public tenders. This has been the practice in
the past. It is only’ geod business.

What is bad business is the fact that Dave
Pease signed that cheque, a cheque for $5,028
without question. The fact that the cheque was to
a company in which the mayor has a business
interest may or m ay not be cause for alarm, but
it should be reason for. extra vigilance.

While there may be no wrong daing here, in the
sense of conflict of -interests. there is an in-
dication that our elected officials are not doing
their job,

Part of the job of running the city is to keep an
eye on the taxpayer’s money. If there was extra
money in the parks and recreation budget. it
doesn‘t mean it’s park and recreation money. It
is still taxpayers money. If the parks and
recreation wants
to council. :

Pre er ee eT |

This whole issue seems to boil down to com-
placency. Parks and rec fiqured the money was
theirs to spend. It may be that they needed, and
should have, a tractor-mower. Perhaps Terrace
Equipment Sales offered the best deal. Council
might have approved the purchase. None of |
these things change the fact that there are
certain procedures that should be followed
before our money is spent. Our elected officials
Should see to that.

EDITOR'S JOURNAL

BY GREG MIDDLETON

When | announced to friends and relations that
|! was headed north to take up residence in
Terrace, most were. appalled.

“But It’s cold and horrid and nasty up there,”
they said.

| was undaunted, mostly because | ‘believed
Terrace was only a little north of Squamish.
Then they started talking about grizzly bears,
wolves and even man-eating sled dogs. At that
paint I'll concede to being a little taken aback at
the prospect of being eaten alive as | got off the
plane.

Tales of 28 feet of snow and months of fsolation
weakened my resolve to venture out into the big
country. My mother wept cpenly on my shoulder.
convinced she would never see me again.

| was, however, committed to come. 1 sym-
bolically girded up my loins and while 1 may
never vote Conservative, | bought some Stan-
fields.

When | arrived in Terrace, what | found was
not fhe vast wasteland but quite a progressive,
booming town. There’s almost all the amenities
here, without the traffic and smog you associate
with most of the centres around the lower
mainland and Vancouver istand.

Upon reflection, | realized that most of those
who warned me about the perils of the north had
never been more than a hundred miles north
fromm Georgia and Granville.

The conclusion | came to was that very few
people knew much about this country. There still
seems to be a stockade attitude among western
Canadians, What | mean by that is that people
tend fo sit inside their concrete fortress looking
inwards, commenting on how nice It is on the
inside and how horrible it mus¢ be out there.

For example, no one told me about the
magnificent scenery up the Nass Valley.
Although | heard that there was good fishing, |
was left with the impression that it Was all
through the ice. | had heard only that Kitimat
was a company town. No one said it had a
spectacular view and looked like it was laid out
by a magazine editor.

What it boils down to Js that those southern
neighbors of ours are pretty Ignorant of what we
have here. It is a national pastime to criticize the
Americans for their lack of knowledge about the
rest of the continent, but how many urban
Canadians know anyihing at all about the very
land on their doorstep?

9-28

DOTA Itnbernnt Pret Syndicrse

"A car or boat, maybe; but I'm not lending you
. money for food.”

to spend it they should go back...

Seta, Sacto

We ar

LONDON (CP) — A
documented study by the
Massachusetis Institute
of Technulogy calculates
that the world has only 16
years’ supply of extra-
ctable copper, 15 uf tin
and nine of mercury and
thal supplies of several
other metals will run out
not much later.

The problem is related
to the growing scarcity of
vil and gas. As the price of
energy rises, su dues the
cust of extracting metals

_ from their ores. The real
cost uf lin, for example,

will rise inexorably and -

lower-grade ures will
,haye,to,be worked as sich
“ddpushts ‘disappear.
Wha is regarded as
mining waste today will
have to be louked at again
and an ingenious
technulogy developed by
an independent mining
engineering consultant is
likely to attract wide
attention,

Richard Muzley, based

in Cornwall , specializes

METAL LIMITED

12 centimetres or so from
side lo side. The result is
that the separation is

in separation technology
and some of his earlier
inventions are already in _

use. effeclive to substantially
His latest idea is a sand lower densities and

separator to extract more smaller density  dif-

tin ecunumically, either ferences.

from ores or from mining Ores or wasles cun-

wastes. lt can alsu be taining as litile as 0.2-per-

cent tin will yield half of
the tin at low energy cost,

used for ather metals, in-
cluding tungsten, gold

and platinum. ‘to be fed back intu the
Separators shake 4 = cynyentivtial extraction

mixture of pulverized machinery.

low-grade ore or mining In another invention

waste and sand with wa- Mozleyuses

ter un a big tray so that
the heavy fraction cun-
taining Un sinks to the
buttum and the light
fraction, free. uf metal,
Tises lu the tup and flows
away.” ok Bay,
But whereas” other
makers of separators
concentrate on mure and
more rapid vibration uver
smaller and smaller
amplitudes, Muzley goes
lu the other extreme.
His separator vibrates.
only unce every second
and over a large aim-
plilude, shaking the uay

hydrocyclunes to
. separate componenis of
different densilies frum a
mixiurein slurry form. A |
hydrocyclone works like a
gelitrifuge, but. whereas «.”

“in edehtrifuge the con- °,

~ ““tairer” spins, “"in’ “a
hydrucyclune the cun-
 tainer remains stalionary
and the slurry is.shot into
it through a jet to impart
the retary motion needed
for separation.

The hydrocyclone is a
well-established loul in
‘the mining trade but

again jMuzley’s equip:

e running short |

ment has special
features. Principal
among these is a device
whichimmediately

senses any blockage in
the exit of the hy-

drocyclone through which — |.
,., Sion, Graham clung to the
. |. premise of equal ireatment,

the metal-rich. fraction
leaves and activatés rod’ |
to clear it. rn
This means batteries of
hydrocyclones can be run
as part of a continuous
ure treatment process

- with no danger of their .

becoming blocked and
bringing the whole cycle
to an expensive halt.

The hydrocyclones can
also remove grit from

‘paper pujp, clean up the
~ expensive
‘Hiaterialg used in drilling

lubricating

for vil and be employed in
water treatment and a

‘variety of industrial

applications.

A battery of Mozley's
hydrucyclones is now
working in a Cornish tin -
mine and his sand
Separator has been under
test al anolher.

’ TORONTO (CP) — When
the first ‘women joined the
Onlario provincial police
force fuur years ago, the
OPP policy was that the
women recruits would’ be
“mainstream’—treated the
same as men. In uniform,
the sexes would perform as
equals, . ;

Today, some of the police-
women themselves are ques-
tioning that. premise.

Night cruising :an lonely
highways, picking up pieces
of bodies from fatal ac-
cidents, arresting drunks—
OPP pelicewomen'have been
trying to do everything the

Ten do, ;

After testing the waters,
some have buwed out
gracefully.

Linda Kruger, 90-year-old
former high-school teacher
who was one of 13 women in
the same class of recruits

_ from 1974, said there are
only three of them left on the:
. force. ;

The rest have either quit or
“been tet go,” she sald. “The
ones 1 talked to found other
interests, found out they
weren’t thal interested in the
job ur became invulved with
a man who didn’t want them

lu be pulicewomen.”

still feeling my way around.
They say it 1akes at least 1¢
years before you know if it’s
right for you or not.”

It wasn't right for about 30
per cent of the women
recruits. Of 3,000 afficers on
ihe force, 70 are women.
There used to be 99, said
OPP Commissioner Harold
Graham. a

In an interview, ac-
cumpanied by William

_ Lidstone, assistant com-
missioner of the field divi-

bul, Said: “I'-think most
“women abhor violence and

violent, gruesume scenes. I
-think [hat’s why there are
fewer applicants.

, “We had une of two cases
-where women found they
-were frighlened in the night
“hours. So we located civilian
work for them on the force.
Some of ‘them are radio
dispatchers at a very much

reduced:salary.” 7. +

Graham and Lidstone ,
said female ufficers are a
valuable asset in sexual
assaull cases and domestic
disputes.

The picket-line dispute at
the Fleck Manufacturing
plant in Centralia, Ont., lasi
spring, involving women
sirikers, brought the first
use of wumen officers in
cruwd-cuntral situations.

“I directed them there, I
wanted :them there and [

LIQUOR SALES UP

_ This industry is spirited

The rate of growth within the
distilling industry is expected lo be
higher than the experience of reeent
years, says Richardson Securities of
Canada Ltd. in a recent invesiment.

publications.

But the Winnipeg-based investment
firm warns thal “the prospects for a
return lo the five-per-cent annual rate
of growth of the 1960's are not en-

couraging.”

"The volume of distilled spirits
consumed in the United States’ during
1977 was a disappointing 1.5 per cent
higher than the previous year.”’
ihe publication

However,

“cunditions are improving and a higher
rate of -gruwlh could be vperalive
before. 1980."

“The conditions which we believe
have the major influence on distilled
spirits consumption are improving and
we. are uplimistie for betier times
ahead,” particularly for Seagram Cv.
Lid. and Hiram Walker-Gooderham
and Woris Ltd, Richardson says.
The publication predicis a cun-
sumption increase ‘as the percentage
of the population in Whe under-30 age
gruup starts to level off and. the
population ii thé 30 to 44 age group in-

says creases,”

“The number of users will also in-
crease although we do nol expect any
major increase In the percentage of
users to the lutal adult pupulation."

Richardson's estimates that average
user consumptionin the U.S. will rise to
abuut 3.9 gallons annually, ‘mainly be-
cause of the increasingly higher ratio of
users in the prime distilled spirits
consuming age group.”

“Weestimate that thé combination of
the higher user consumption and in-
creased number of users will produce
tutal 1930 distilled spirits consumption
uf about 480 million gallons.

kept themn there," Lidsione

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)
— Ia -brash, swaggering,
macho Waylon Jennings
getting mellow?

There are signs that
Jennings has softened his
anii-Nashville establishment
stance. And he has become
slightly more accessible to
ihe media, relaxing a barrier
that' has guarded his
peivacy.

Inthe last month, Jennings
made two rare public ap-
pearances in Nashville.

IN BRITAIN

Work force revolting?

LONDON (CP) — The
Ford Molor strike in
Brilain—a revolt by more
than 57,000 employees
against a cumpany pay
offer of five per cent—is
taking on dramatic
political overtones.

Five per cent is the
guideline ceiling imposed
by the minvrity Labor
government in ils centin-
uing fight against in-
flation. Any company
seliling for more Is liable
to guvernment sanctions.

Prime Minister James
Callaghan has warned
that inflation is the
greatest evil facing the
country. A successful
drive against inflation, he
reasuns, is his best hope
of keeping his party in
power.

The Ford _ strike,
however, is being in-
terpreied as the first firm
indication that the wurk
force, after submitting
almost meekly (u three
years of pay restraint,
feels the time has come tu
return to free bargaining.

that if he slicks tu the
fiveper-cent limit, his
election chances could be
al stake,

per cent plus possible
productivity bonuses,
says thare is litile it car
do to bring about accom-
medalion belween It's a threat the prime
government and the minister can'l afford to
unions, , ignore.

The unlons al Ford His one proud boast has
don’t see it that way, always been thal his

The day afler the party is the only one
cumpany chairman, Sir which can work with the
Terence Beckett, said the big unions.
strike had becume a Hf the Ford workers
political situation it was position catches on and
disclused that his ‘own. © -workers ‘generally
salary had been raised ‘revolts, the Labor party is
last year tu &54,843 in trouble. In some con-
($120,000) frum &30,457— stiluencies mass uniun
an 80-per-cent increase. abstention—if nol

The Ford workers outright switehing of
settled for 12.3 per cent yvotes—cuuld kill Labor
Jas year, slightly above reelection chances.
that year's 10-per-cent The Times, in an
guvernment limit. editorial: entitled “the

This year, they are impossibility of five per
asking for a straight &20 cent" gays: “The govern-
($44) un basic wages, Wilh ment has chusen tu adupl
a 35-hour week, longer == an inflexible form of
holidays and better pen- = incumes policy ... based
siuns, which Uhey claim on a norm significantly

will add 27 per cent to the below the going and likely
company’s ware bill. rate of inflation ...

Shop stewards have = "q__- algo looks = ins
handed a ielier to creasingly as if the five

Callaghan, warning him

per cent norm ... Waa

over-hastily adopted as
an effective election
slogan rather than as a
thought-out policy for the
whole of a wage round.”

The Times is not the
only newspaper to puint
out thal Ford is a
profitable and efficient
ecumpany well able tu pay
more than the five per
cent. ;

The Pinanclat Times
Suggests that “a great
deal of damage” will be
caused nol only by what it
sees as (hé “anarchic
behavior of British
unions’’ for striking
withuut attempting to.
hegoliate the company
offer upward, but by *‘the
unnecessary rigidity of
the government."

The result, ‘should
government, company
and Unions stand fast,
might bea swileh in in
dustrial operations to the
continen(—a mave which
in ilself would have grave
political consequences for
the government.

On Sept. 9, he and close
friend Johnny Cash gave a
surprise performance al the
Grand Ole Opry. Jennings,
bes! knuwn for progressive
colniry ‘hits like Lucken-
bach, Texas, Good Hearted
Woman and.Mammas, Don’t
Lei Your Babies Grow Up To
Be Cowbuys, had not ap-
peared on the Opry for about
10 years.

He had shunned the Opry
because he was nat per-
mitted to use a full set of

* druma—an Opry regulation
(hat wae dropped a few years

ago.

In late August, he taped a
concert at the Grand Ole
Opry Huuse, bul not on the
regular Opry show.

Besides disagreements
wilh the revered Grand Ole

Mrs. Kruger said: “I’m

“thing

| Is women’s
place here?

said, ‘Certain media lie to
make headlines saying,
‘Brutal pulicemen beat puor
women’, I was determined
nol tohave that lagged on us,

“We pul women in there,
women dealing with women.
1 think it worked well."

Constable Gary Cooper,
community service officer in
the OPP ¢-tachment at
Thunder Bay, ).wt., said that
when Mrs. Kruger, the
detachment's first ferule
constable reported for duty
“the reaction wus mixed.’’

“The (edaws weren't tao
sure how this would work
gui.”

Although policewomen
“seem to be holding up their
end of it," he said, it is a
tough life.

"Not only dues she have to
prove something to herself,
that she can do the job, but
she has to prove to every

man on the job she cando it, ~

and nol only that, the public
has (o be convinced.’

He is still worried about
the hazards—for everyone
involyed—of policewomen
getting into fights,

“Linda has been involved
in a couple but there has

always been backup
available,” he. said. ‘The
biggest concern of

everybody on the force was,
and still is, the physical end
of it.

“When you're dispatched
to a holel bar-roum brawl
and it's yeu and a
policewoman, it has to run
through the mind. Is she
guing to back me up? Can
she keep them off my back in
a fight? Is she strong
enough?”

The last time the five-foot-
six, 110-puund constable got
invelved in a fight un the job
she used her flashlight to
subdue a rowdy drunk on an
Indian reserve who was
clearly uverwhelming her
partner.

While the male officer
wrestled with the drunk, she
called for more cruisers
when about 20 men seemed
to be closing in on them.

**It didn’t look guod for my
partner,” Constable Kruger
said, “I had to hit him (the
drunk). So [hil him with my

Ahad that.
would ul any’ B00

Married and. the mother of
two children, she said that
when she works a seven-day
stretch on the midnight shift

she gets turned upside-down .

and ‘I go crazy.”
The jub, she says, has been
a lesson in human nature.
“It goes back lo my

~ naivete at first," she said, ‘1

didn't really think there
were so many rotten people
around.”

Even the brashest
‘must get mellower

Opry, Jennings also has
shunned the Country Music
Association awards show the
last few years because he
objects to musicians com-
peling against each ather.
And he was the subject of
considerable publicity a year
ago when he was arrested on
acucaine charge, though the
charge was dropped.

Bui friends and
acquaintances say he’s not
the brash type. An

acquaintance described Jen-
nings as shy and modest and
another said he is ‘‘a won-
derful person." .

In July, Jennings granled
a rare interview to a Min-
neapulis Star reporter before
a concert in St. Paul.
'“T'm not ‘the ‘Big Bad
John’ they think 1 am," he
tuld reporter Jon Bream.
“I'm just a good ole boy.

‘]'m an intreverted person
in an extroverted business, It
(success) gets hard to
handle every once in a while,
lactually can't put a handle
on it. Sometimes | feel
trapped by success.”’

It is still hard to gel a per-
sonal interview with Jen-
nings. Efforts to reach him

‘through his record company,

associates and friends have
proved [ruitless during the
last two years.

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Ford, in offering five

flashlight: 2 waa:the only”
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