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‘EDITOR
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How basic is the

.. The Conference Board in recent studies on education asks
+’ why we take a young child and place him in school for a set
* number of years to study a certain fixed variety of subjects.
There is a suspicion that education is primarily a baby-
’. sitting service, designed to look after youne humans during
* the years they pass from helplessness until they reach the
-; point of contributing to the well-being of our society. This
‘2 idea is dismissed as unworthy. The role of education is
«+ twofold. First, it is a process of imparting basic skills as
*: preparation for later life, Second, it is a means of helping
the individual to reach his or her fullest potential.
“: Education should give children a chance to understand
+ themselves, to relate to others and to know something about
the world in which they live. It should, presumably, hel
+ students to choose and find work that seems to them wort
“ doing; so that they can be happy and productive members
;. of the community. ;

:* The current controversy and discussions on education in
‘this province touch us all. Whether we are parents,
students, educators, employers or employees, we are in-
2: volved and should be concerned.

:» Money has never been able to buy happiness, credit cards
*} are not doing much better. Credit is an area of considerable
“: misunderstanding and abuse. The Credit Bureau has stated
i: that excessive debt is responsible for a high proportion of
+ marriage breakdowns. It is not unreasonable to suggest
* that students should be taught the role, function and risks of
" eredit. Credit is a way of life, running a close second to the
«: birds and bees. Ignorance of either has never proved to be
an advantage!

‘: Money is said to go around and around. How? This is the
= question that students should be able to answer before they
“enter the workforce and become consumers. They should
-. know and appreciate that industry and governments pay
< wages which are used to purchase goods and services or are
3 put aside as savings. Know that savings, through many
x: fypes of investment, finance industry and government in
+: the same way that monies received from the sale of goods,
“services and taxes do. It is a circle, money does go around

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» To many people the word integration has to do with
7: busing in Boston or perhaps the Report by the Royal
«: Commission on Bilingual and Biculturalism.

:; To an aware public integration is to do with minorities, .

+7 not just language, culture or creed, but disability. Changing
* values in our society that now place the accent on brain, not
>» brawn are finally altowing the voice of the handicapped to
+ be heard throughout the land.

*. What the handicapped are telling us is, they want in. They
+ want integration into the mainstream of life. They want to
+ be accepted into all concepts of society and all strata of
: endeavour without being “fingered” by the public as dif-
3: ferent.

3 This process of integration, labelled normalization,
*% should begin early in life. And that is where the Easter Seal
% People come in, the British Columbia Lions Society for
»* Crippled Children.

s e Lions believe in normalization. They believe that
given the right availabilities, handicapped children can
5 prepare for a future based on a happy, meaningful life that
“ may include marriage, earning a good living, participation
in community affairs and establishing social acceptance
‘= with so-called normal people.

iy. To impliment normalization the Lions began a bus ser-
‘« vice more than 20 pears ago. There are now 100 Easter Seal
«buses in more than 40 communities transporting han-
dicapped children to schools, treatment centres and
“recreation. In large cities like Vancouver and Victoria, the
»systems interlocking routes and schedules allow even

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= Somewhere on one of the world’s oceans rides the
* mystery ship — the supertanker that will be the first to
> spew ils cargo of crude oil into the sea. Because safely
i. standards are still not good enough, because ships sti
*. cannot avoid damage by the huge seas they sometimes
«face, nothing is more certain than another early oil
x: disaster.

x: — Last year, the havoc was colossal. Tankers spilled more
i: than 200,000 tons of oil into the sea. In December alone, four
. tankers were wrecked, ran aground or suffered damage in
EUS, p rts or off the U.S. coastline. A fifth tanker, the Gran
‘: Zenith, vanished completely south of Nova Scotia. In all, 19
2: tankers sank, went aground or blew up in 1976 — almost
# double the 1975 toll.

One major problem is_that tankers are becoming ever
larger. The so-called VLCCS(Very Large Crude Carriers)
displace 400,000 tons or more. They carry often 10 times as
much oil as smaller tankers and according ta oi] men

resent fewer risks. Fewer voyages, it is claimed, mean
ewer chances for the human errors that cause most oil
spills.
But the critics insist that the supertankers are
overautomated and undermanned. They operate on a
disturbingly thin margin of safety, And as the VLCC

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Of the things we
think, say or do.

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it fair to all
concerned?

Will it build GOOD
WILL and BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be
, BENEFICIAL
to all concerned? _

‘core’ of education

and price cycle; or spiral, as ithas regrettably become. Is it
possible that lack of basic economic knowledge has en-
couraged some people to make excessive demands upon the
economy?

We live in an independent enterprise system. A system
which absorbs students when they eventually enter the
labour force — or become entrepreneurs. Is it too much to
think that school education should give them some un-
derstanding of the economic system under which they will
be living and to which they wil contribute?

Taxation has been described as the government's taking
with one hand what it appears to have given with the other.
Itis, of course, a method of financing the essential services
which we all demand, It is also a means of income levelling ;
although it is hard to consider taxation a competent means
of achieving social equality. Tax measures are often a
major plank in election plattorms. The voting age has been
lowered and young people are voting for candidates whose

Jatform is often basically economic. The right to vote is
inherentin our democracy but are we not shortchanging our
students if we do not ensure that, as far.as is possible, their
votes are informed and intelligent? .

The teaching of economics in high schools varies across
Canada, both in course content and student enrollment.
This may reflect reluctance on the part of teachers to in-
clude it in the course of studies or it may reflect lack of
encouragement to include it from economists and the
business community. We cannot say. The provincial
department of education in British Columbia stated that in
1974-75 there were 38,000 students offered an economics
course with only a five percent participation. The figures
from other provinces are equally dismal.

Those aspects of the economy which may affect students
as consumers, voters, employers and employees,
borrowers and lenders should be included in the basic tools
of learning — which is, after ali, one of the objectives of
education. .

It seems logical, therefore, that there should be support
for the teaching of basic economics to high school students
and thatit should be included in the core curriculum.

PUBLISHER

: A fact of life

children from outlying districts to get to treatment centres
and specia! scheols for up-to-date care and to various
programs sponsored by government and health care
agencies.

Proper treatment for disabilities and suitable high
standards of education are available; Easter Seal buses
make them accessible.

The Easter Seal camping program is designed to open the .
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floodgates on the socia avioural aspects of living.
Three Easter Seal camps — Winfield, Cowichan and
Squamish — provide more than a holiday for handicapped
children. They challenge the mental and physical
capabilities to show the youngsters that quite often what
they imagined to be impossible, was simply only un-
familiar, Easter Seal camps help the handicapped deal with
the unfamiliar in an atmosphere of friendship and
responsible care.

The Lions accept the physically disabled as human beings
with aspirations, needs and ambitions, but with physical
manoeuverability problems. Other people have problems,
maybe not so obvious, but they are often more debilitating
than physical or mental handicaps.

The Easter Seal people believe that disabled children can
enter the mainstream of life and be asorbed as full-fledged
adults, earning a living and participating fully in life. But
they need your help,

The money you give to easter Seals supports British
Columbia’s crippled children working themselves into
shape for a beckoning future. Donations can be mailed to
Terrace, P.O. Box 553. ;

Wanted: tankers with double bottoms

ghiet that margin will grow even thinner in the coming
lecade.

While few doubt that serious oil calamities this year will
continue to ruin fishing grounds, blacken beaches, kill birds
and generally harm the environment, legislators around the
world are trying to find answers. For instance, an unusual
number of mishaps occur on tankers flying the Liberian
flag. Maritime authorities have criticized lax Liberian
standards for licensing ship captains.

In the United States — with 30,000 tanker arrivals per
year — Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy has
warned of the absolutely devastating threat to the en-
vironment. Kennedy has sponsored a proposal for a variety
of safety measures, including double bottoms for tankers to
minimize the risk of oil spills and a satellite monitoring
system that would keep track of tankers and other ships up
to 200 miles offshore. Avoiding all oil spills in the near
future is a virtual impossibility.

Legislation on a worldwide basis that will force the oil
men to build better, safer ships and to man them with better
captains and crews may be the only answer, All that should
be needed is an’s concern for his brother and stewardship

SE MEME MOORS ES SS DS Spree Bi te A he nat eas

The Editor:

Western Canada cannot
stand another 4 or 5 years of
Pierre Elliott Trudeau and
his gang:

This smooth-talking
politician who saw fit to not
serve his country when it
was in danger of conquest 35
years ago, swept the nation
n 1968 with the claim that he
was the Messiah who had all
the answers concerning
Canadian solidarity.

Since 1968, he and his
Cabinet have spent billions
of our tax dollars on poorly
conceived programs of
which bilingualism is only
one.

He has poured countless
billions into public works In
Quebee -- billions which
were taken from the pockets
of taxpayers from all the
other regions of Canada.

The acknowledged “white
elephant’? known as the
Mirabel Airport is a typical
example. The proliferation
of federal buildings in Hull

ranks high as a drain on the”

citizens of all the other parts
of Canada.

. An authoritative article in
McLeans of March 7, 1977,
states that during 1975-76
alone, the Trudeau gang
spent $3 billion more in
Quebec than the revenue
which Ottawa received from
that province. Obviously

Cyril Shelford, MLA
Dear Mr. Shelford:

Your recent column in the
Terrace Herald of March 9
contains several statements
that demand comment,

First, no one that we are
aware of has consistently
opposed ‘‘development” in
the north. Certainly there
has been quite vocal op-
position to particular
development projects up
here but these have
categorically been projects
whose size and rate of
development have carried
substantial costs as well as
benefits, and just which
outweighed ‘the other was
never clear. We seem to
have a propensity for at-
tracting large projects, as if
bigger is better!

Planners call large
developmental projects
such as the NKK steel mi
proposal ‘‘high-impact”
development. There are
alternatives.

It would be an excellent
idea for all politicians, in-
cluding yourself, to define
“development” in terms of
human betterment, Is
“development” just sitting
around waiting for some
outside corporate interest to
come in and build a factory,
smelter or pipeline hecause
conditions here suit them?
Are we passive observers in

the process welcoming any © ¥

and all _hare-brained
schemes that come along or
should we be actively and
responsibly involved in

developing our own
potential?
Environmental
organizations such as
SPEC, V.0.1.C.E. and

ople like Mr. Stokes have
ong been advocating “high
quality, low impact”

evelopment — a process
wherein residents have a
strong degree of control and
the rate of growth is not
disruptive to the com-
munity. “Development”, it
seems to us, has to clearly
lead to an improvement in
the quality of life for us In
the northwest and until such
benefits are obvious we
should look carefully at
“development” proposals in
our region.

We're glad to see that you
have some reservations
about the pipeline project
and are not swallowing the

_ bait like some other local

politicians. However, we
should like to comment on
the three points you raised
in your column,

(1) There will be no op-
portunity for taxing the flow
of crude oil through the
Kitimat line. The Transit
Pipelines Agreement,
already ratified by Canada
and now .before the U.S.
Congress, specifically states
that no level of government
in either territory will be
able to levy any tariff on the
flow of hydrocarbons
through - international
pinelines, such as the

timat pipeline.

(2) Under the Canada

Trudeau and gang

much of these expenditures
were made to prop up the
images of both the federal
and provincial Liberal
governments there. __

The net result of these
policies is a country which is
more divided than it was in
1968. Now there is a

rovincial government in
Buebec dedicated {to the
principle of separation and
there is more than just a
ground swell of antagonism
in the west — the very things
which this Messiah claimed
he could prevent.

So this smooth talker
travelled south — ‘'Mr.
Good Deeds Goes to
Washington” — and made
what was undeniably a
masterful speech (just like
the ones he made to us back
in 1963) and was accorded
loud huzzahs for the spiel
which he and his writer fed
 rorgolt tl

orgotten, apparently,
was his buddy -buddy
relationship with the Castro
regime which, at that very
time, had Cuban soldiers in
Africa cooperating with the
Russians. And the Trudeau
gang was still extending
foreign aid to that country.

Forgotten, apparently,
was the fact that his
government prevented
Taiwan from participation
in the Olympic Games. _

Shipping Act (Sec. 734 and
735) both the owners of the
ship and the owners of the
pollutant are llable for the
costs incurred through
accidental discharge of oil.
This exempts the carrier,
Kitimat Pipeline, from any
responsibility in marine oil
spills

The problem remains in
establishing who owns the
ship and who owns the oil.
For instance, the ownership
of tankers is generally
extremely difficult to
ascertain. We stil] don’t
know who owned the Arrow
which” grounded —_ in

Chedabucto. Bay: several ©:

years ago and polluted miles
of Nova Scotia's coastline.
We paid for that cleanup. In
addition, it is common for
ship owners to incorporate
each tanker as a separate
company so that if the
vessel goes down, so does
the company — and you
can’t claim against a
bankrupt company. ;

The ownership of the oil is
apparently just as difficult
toestablish. There are about
20 refineries in the Northern
Tier States who will be using
the oil in this case. Some
belong to the KPL con-
sortium, while most do not.
Given 20 different users, all
whose daily requirements
will vary throughout the
ear, how is one going to
determine who owns the oil
on a particular vessel when
itis stilla week or two away
on the high seas?

The fact remains that
while we do have seemingly
good legislation to cover
marine spills, there are no
major cases in Canada that
we know of where the
company responsible has
assumed the casts of
cleanup. There are three
major polluting incidents
that have occurred on the
west coast. When the
Vanlene grounded off Port
Alberni in 1972 we paid for
the cleanup ($370,000)!
When the Irish Stardust
grounded off Alert Bay in
1973 we paid for the cleanup
($400,000)! When the
Erawan collided with the
Sun Arrow off Point Grey in
1973 we paid for that one too
($600,000)! And these were
relatively small spills — in
the order of 50,000 to 75,000

allons. Who is going to pay
ior the cleanup when &
920,000 DWT supertanker
with 110 million gallons on
board breaks up in Hecate
Strait?

(3) There is a reasonably
sophisticated traffic control
system called Vessel Traffic
Management System
(VTMS) proposed for the
west coast of Canada.
However, it could not be
installed and operational
until at least two years after

tankers start arriving at.

Kitimat. In addition, it is
strictly a voluntary system
in Canada (mandatory in
the U.S.) which means it is
up to the individual
shipowners whether or not

least the first'10 years.’ ° ~

Forgotten were all ot the
other deliberate snubs
which had been directed at
those same southern neigh-
hors who were so generous
with thelr applause.

Maybe the Americans can
afford to shout huzzahs on
his behalf — they do not
have to live with facts such
as the denial of reasonably
priced service to remote
communities on the British
Columbia coast while, at the
same time, millions of
taxpayers’ dollars are

oured into a French
anguage TV station which
cannot claim to have more
than 3600 viewers at any
given time,

Or the fact that the
Trudeau henchman who cut
off the coastal subsidy is the
same one who thinks
nothing of using government
aircraft to fly himself and
his party to a football game.
Or to ferry, his ‘‘nannies”’
across the Atlantic — at
public expense!

Maybe Ontario can afford
to continue to support
Trudeau and his gang as
they did in 1974. After ail,
their manufacturers have
the best of two worlds — raw
materials from western
Canada at lower-than-
world-prices and a
protected market for the
Sale of their higher-than-

they equip their vessels with
this expensive gear!
Besides, no matter how good
the navigational system is,
it is a matter of fact that
aver 70 percent of all lanker
casualties occur through
personnel error, something
that will not be eliminated
with improvements in aids
and equipment.

In conclusion, your
statement that we will need
a west coast oil port in order
to drive our cars and heat
our homes is patently untrue
and misleading, ar-
ticularly since the oi
committed to the U.S. for at

We've cut off our exports
to the U.S. precisely to avoid
increasing dependency on
imported oil sup lies. We're
not energy self-sufficient
yet, but national energy

is .

letters to the editor

world-priced manufactured

goods.

Because of this double
rake-off maybe Ontario can
see fit to help to return
Trudeau and his gang to
office once more. ns

But western Canada can
no longer afford to tolerate
them and to fo on remaining
in the shadows as being
hewers of wood, miners of
ores and drawers of oil.

Trudeau and his gang
have lost the last two
elections in western Canada
— eight members in 1972
and 13 in 1974. If Ontario
sees fit to continue its
support based upon its own
self-interest and a con-
tinuation of the Trudeau
policies, there can be only
one answer for western
Canada, which is —

To withdraw from such an
unequal and unfair
relationship. And to work
out our own destiny based
upon adequate represen-
tation in a government
which will be dedicated to
the advancement rather
than the detriment of its
people.

R.A. Power

A concerned Western
Canadian with no party
affiliation

607-707 Esquimalt Road

Victoria, B.C.

Development in the north

policy is trying to move us in
that direction. If we spent as
much effort and money in
exploring alternatives for
energy self-sufficiency as

we do in feeding our |

prodigious appetities. for

troleum products we'd be
in a lot healthier position to
face the future.

The world oil supplies will
be exhausted in about 20 to
30 years, Mr. Shelford, and
what will we do then? Will
our blackened shores ‘and
obliterated fisheries have
been worth it? Do we
sacrifice our environment

. for. generations ‘simply to
 foréstall.a_ transition. that

we're going to have to make
in 20 years anyway?

Sincerely

Telkwa Foundation |

T.D. Pearse, Dir.

Pee Wee Reps

The Editor:

The Terrace ‘Pee Wee
Reps” would like to give a
big thank you to all the
people of our town who have
shown ‘such tremendous
support in our numerous
drives; and to all the
following businesses who
have made cash donations,
which has made it possible
for us to compete in Vernon
for the Provincial Pee Wee
Hockey Playdowns.

Aqua Plumbing & Heating
Ltd., Al & Mac “4
All Seasons Sports Ltd.,
Bear Creek Lid., B&G
Grocery, Buds Truck &
Equipment Ltd., Co-op,
Central Flowers & Gifts
Ltd., Cedarland Tire Ltd.,
CFTK, Don Hull & Sons
Construction Ltd., Flaherty
Trucking Ltd., Fred's
Furniture Lid., Finning
Tractor Ltd., Inland Ken

T.P.
Dear Editor:

I-understand a few days
ago, the Terrace Council
officially backed the ap-
plication of a group wanting
to obtain a commercial
licence to operate aircraft at

‘the Terrace base, calling

themselves Terrace Air-
ways. As I understand it;
they said Trans Provincial
Airlines did not exist in
Terrace anymore.
Therefore they could not see
to the needs of the Terrace
base and had in fact moved
to Prince Rupert. .

The truth is, the Terrace
base was never closed, is not
closed and it is not intended
to close. People would do
well to look into the truth of
statements before putting
them on the air, especially
since one of the Terrace
Council members owns an
aircraft and stores it in
Trans Provincial Airlines
hanger and has to pay
monthly rent on it, This
certainly makes one wonder
about a few things.

Thereare 10 of us working

here. We have been working

worth Lid., L.H.&K. Ltd.,
Lehman Jewelers Ltd.,
McGillis & Gibbs Ltd.,
Overwaitea Ltd., Price-
Skeena ‘Forest Products
Ltd, Pohle Lumber Ltd.,
Peerless Pipe Ltd, Rouw
Brothers Carpentry Ltd.,
Terrace Herald.
Skeena Valley
Distributors Ltd., SpeeDee
Printers Ltd., Skeena Hotel
Ltd., Sanders Welding Ltd.,
Sharples Equipment Ltd.,
Trigo’s Shoes Ltd., Totem
Beverages, Terrace
Equipment sales Ltd.,
Terrace Totem Ford Ltd.,
Tennant Logging Ltd., Twin
River Timber Lid., Western
Home Furniture Ltd., West
Kalum Logging Ltd., West
End Store, Woolworths Ltd.,
Yellowhead Construction

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Terrace Pee Wee Reps.

Air |
here all winter at the air-

rt, earning wages for 10
amilies paying taxes in
Terrace. We are very much
alive and contributing to the
economy of Terrace. We
have flown to many points
north and _ elsewhere
throughout the winter
weather permitting. We
have several aircraft
available in Terrace the
year round. Yes, T.P.A, is
very much alive here in
Terrace; thank God.

T.P.A. employee,

Alfred Potyin

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