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—EDITORIAL: —
Tempted to lie?

The time to renew one’s automobile insurance
is running out, Soon it will be the end of the
month, and the RCMP will be checking drivers to
see whether their licence plates have the black
and | white 1978 renewal stickers correctly af-

I was driving through a nearby town over the
weekend when I noticed an Insurance office with
the same name as the com adve: on
my auto radio how pleased it would be to attend
to such matters- with or without government
forms that are being received in the mail, sent ot
every automobile owner registered in B.C. (The
logis es of mass mi must be Her--
ean! )

parked my and went tp to the desk. A
pleasant girl walted on me. I stated my e-
to renew my auto insuranceand licence, Did you
get your form in the mail the P.G. asked me. (I
repressed an impish impulse to tell her no, un-
fortunaltey I was born with it). Yes, I did, I said
but I forgot to bring it with me, ‘I'm sorry,” she
replied, breaking the news a8 gently as she
could, ...“but you'll have to go home and get it,
and bring it in.” “It said on the radio all you need
is your old registration...” I stammered...

“If you hadn't received yours in the mail, it
would be alright,” she answered and assumed a
patient expression; the sort of; mother wears
when she’s talking to a little boy; the look women
the world over assume when they try to explain
something very simple to the normal, dense,
male-especially when it's a topic that is usually
the preserve of females.

“Oh, I see,” I mumbled striking my most
crestfallen attitude. Then I brightened. I'll fix
her, I though to myself. If I had lied and said I
hadn't received my renewal form in the mail,

‘ou’d have taken care of it, but because I was

onest, you can’t doit. Is that right?”’ “I guess
so,’ she said, looking startled... “But when I
have to make it ° from scratch, it takes a lot
more writing,” she countered,

Gathering up my diginity, the best I could, I
left that Insurance office, and noticed, just down
the street, a competitor company. Walking over
I entered their office, and plunked down my ol
ICBC registration. Without a word, the girl
picked it up, started to make a new out for me. -
No question about whether I had received a
renewal form in the mail. Did I still have the
same address ? Yes. One of. two. similar
questions. Then’ “Do you drive to work now?”’
eat oe sail She ‘made a ote rat will be

(4,\".She said....Noticing my surprise, she. ex-
H hed,” tip, about $50- more because’ you're.
vole Gar
sep if I wanted to change my mind about the
driving-to-work bit. I dug up the extra fifty, and
let it co at that, I couldn’t help thinking. on the
way home, how often society pressures us to lie.
Here haa been two instances lying could have
been “profitable” to me. Une 1s saving saving
time and the other in saying fifty dollars. Life

was simpler’ “.,,in the Old Days,” I figured.

_ abroad,

| budget

‘drive € work:” Shé paused, to |

Letters to
_the Editor

tom
Federal NDP Candidate

February 15, 1978
Dear E tor!
We will, no doubt shortly

be faced with a Federal
election and a massive

propoganda outburst from
te ring Literal party. Ta
same al party which

bas been the government for
4 of the last 62 years. It
could reasonably be con-
cluded that they are largely
reaponsible for the two
major problems facing
Canadian today, national
unity, and that state of the
economy.
’ ‘That they continue to be
re-nlected in the face of this
constitutes one of the major
mysteries of this century.
I would like to remind your
readers of a few of the
contradictions that are
immeédiatley apparent
between the word and the
deed of the Liberal govern-'
ment,
In 1974, Trudeau cam-
against the Con-
servative programme of
ice controls, One

The effect on the Canadian
economy has been
disasterous.

Just last year the Liberal
government alarmed at the
amount of money spent by
Canadians holidaying
urged Canadians to
may at home and spend thelr
money here. Almost every
member of the. Liberal
cabinet took a winter holiday
“under a foreign aun, even cur
own MP took refuge from the
harsh Ottawa winter, to toll
mightily on our behalf under
the bot Cuban sun..

Tt is worth knowing* that
this gang of political wizards
have, on the largest defence
in history ordered
$800 million worth of ‘ar-

ased abroad, - a 7
recent ed

examples of the doub

' and ineptitude of the Liberal

government. I will be ate
tempting to expose more o
these facts in the ensuing
months, Canada needs a
change in government if we
are to survive economically,
and, as a united nation. A
close examination of the

’ my mind, most mislea

‘Mot distribed. I think you

track record of the Liberal
party will show they are not
capable of governing.

Let's get this country, and
this riding of Skeena working

+ candidateor
Skeena

2029 Churchill Drive
Terrace, B.C.

February 15, 1978

Kate Hudson
eo Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Ma, Hudson .
i do not know where you
were sitting {In the R.E.M.
Lee Theatre on Saturday
“night, to base your remarks
regarding the audience, but
from where I was sitting,
which was in the centre
block about aix or seven rows
from the stage, I found the
audience to be very attentive
and gril. In fact | T renember
inking how guiet everyone
was, seelng what a difficult
program it must have been
for many people to a
preciate. Your remarks
the February 14th edition of
the Terrace Herald were, to

and even erroneous, Hf we in
the front section of the
theatre were quite unaware
of any disturbance, I am
sure you can be quite certain
that the members of the
Quartet Tarrago, who are
seasoned performers, were

were projecting your own
irritations regarding any
disturbance near you on on
to the performers. .

I must admit that I did
hear ababy at one point, but
whether the mother took it
out or what I don't know, but
it only lasteda few seconds.
and was not crying. In-
cidently, I cannot imagine
why some parents bring
young children to ‘these
performances. It must
very long and boring for
most of them. In a few years
time when they are older
they; would be able-to ap- |
preciate the music and will.
not have been put off by

going too soon.
Ear for Music

Rare latters to the
editor follow below.

Whole “cities” of prairle gophers used to inhabit the

otherwise unbroken flat and seemingly Hmitless
grassland that later became known as the Western
Prairies, when the first settlers came by. Concealed
“gopher holes” would play havoc with the lone rider,
breaking many a horse’s leg, forcing the rider to

Grasslands

Grasslands National Park
In the southwestern area of
Saskatchewan seems
destined to become Cania’s
29th national park within the

year.

But it could have been the
first national park in the
world even before
Yellowstone Park in the
U.S.A or the first national
park in Canada, before
Banff in Alberta, had the’
early settlers in the area
listened to George Catlin. An
artist and writer, Catlin in

1642 advocted that the entire

ns region be set aside as a
plans re park to preserve
both the buffalo and the
Plains Indians who depended
upon them for their
livelihood,

However It was not until
June 29th, 1977: that
Saskatchewan Minster of.
Tourism and. Renewable
Resources, Adolph Matsalla

announced =": :. rat: ~-+the:-
Provincial Government had :

given: its ‘conditional © ap-
proval to the Government of

esta
Grasslands National Park.
“In establishing this park,
we will engure that a part of
out prairie heritage will be
set aside and preserved in
our Province for future
generations" Mr. Matsalls

- Survival of the Fittest

the international marketsare
reserved for the head office
rather than the small branch
plants like those which oper:
atein Canada. - :
But the truth is that, like

Society is built on miscon-
ceptions, But surely none of
those false beliefs is more
costly than the assumption
that there’ is essential equa-
lity in society, All animals

are equal, as George Orwell
put it, except that some are
more equal than others,
People aren't equal, which
explains why some make
excellent carpenters while
others excel at romance lan-
guages, And industries most
sasuredly are not equal. —

' Lately, of course, it's
reached the point where it
appears that all Canadian in-
dustry is equal — equally bad.
Certainly there’s no dis-
puting the evidence that, in
many, many industries, Asian
producers are beating the
pants off ourCanadian indus
try. Our economy isdomina-
ted by subsidiaries of foreign
owned multi-nationals and

Orwell’s animals, some of
our industries are more equal
than others, There are even
industries which, ifthey were
nurtured carefully and lov-
ingly, could become profit-
able and highly valuable to
Canada as a whole.

Surely the fish that are
caught in Canadian waters
could be processed as effi-
ciently here as in Scandina-
via, for example, And the

heavy equipment that Arctic -

oil producers need would
seem to bea natural area for
Canadian expertise; after all,
what other parts of the Free
World can lay claim to a piece
of the Arctic?

[ byfimSmich |

of Independent Business has
been studying the problem

of creating natural industries ©

in Canada. The appropriate
industries — which would be
innovative and create the
high quality. jobs that our
workers need — would con-
tain a healthy mix of small,
medium and large firms.
These new firms would ulti-
mately replace the numerous
branch plants which exist in
Canada only to overcame the
tariff barriers that protect
Canadian industry.

The CFIB has recommen-
ded asystem of sectoral com-
mittees which would investi-
gate Canadian industries for
the government, identifying
those industries which ap-
pear to have the best long-
term potential.and recom-
mending: specific develop-
-ment proposals to strengthen
the industries, The most fea-
sibte industrica will normally

be those which have a large
domestic demand or future
need and can be at the fore:
front of new technology, |

Virtually every meaning-
ful industrial nation has ase-
lective development strategy;
it usually means developing
selective non-tariff barriers
such as preferential govern-
ment purchasing policies for
domestic firms rather than
relying solely on high across-
the-board tariffs, By follow-
ing this common-sense indus-
trial approach,Canada would
end up with healthy. indus-
tries that could stand up to
foreign competition.
Charles Darwin (no be-
liever in the concept of equa-
lity) summed it up best: sur-
vival of the fittest...

“Think mail" is an editerlal,
message from the Canadian’.
Faderalion of Indapendent:
Business@

. the ‘propo:

The bulk of ‘original
grasslands throughout the
continent and, indeed, mest
of the world have been
modified by cultivation and
other resource consumptive
use. Nowhere has a sub-
stantial representative
portion of the prairie plains

Set aside in its original
and undistrubed state, The
establishment of a
Grasslands National Park
will ensure preservation of
this outstanding represen-
tatloy of the original
Canadian environment. If
it it decided to proceed with
.the proposed national park,

Killdeer,areas will
designated. These will
contain a combined total
area of approzimately 72
square miles and would be
expanded eventually so that
sed park, when
fully established would
contain approximately 960
square miles, an area whlch
is sufficiently large to
support the flora and fauna
native to the Canadian
grasslands. A. parkway
would enhance the two park

The Canadian Federation

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PUBLISHER... Don Cromack :
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_Dear Sirs, . .

- education documentary

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components. "

1

The Editor,
The Terrace Herald,

Tam writing you with the
hope that you will publish a
request for me,

I am in the process of
making a film for the
Natlonal Film Board, It isan
on,
the history of logging in B.C.
I am concerned with the
period 1650-1950 and am
trying to find old photos,
drawings, newspaper
illustrations and archival
film footage, While much is

~ abailable from various’

archives and collections,
moat material seems to be
concerned with machinery

| and many of the photos are

posed and statle, ;
Thefocus of this film is the

oem who worked in the

woods, thelr customs and

_ lifestyles on the job and off, .

What I need are pictures
that te rdaxed and. casual,
candid, Pletures that show
the men in tte et

Aying Cards, » an

ving fun. Pictures of the
men in town.

I would like to appeal to
your readers to get in con-
tact with-me if they have any
material that could bed be
‘kuseful. While only a token
payment can be mada, we
will acknowledge thelr help
in the credits of the film and
will resetre deteriorating
photos as best we can, Any.

material uses, will of course,

be handled very ;
and prictected by dup-
plication and the original
picture will be returned
promptly. Y

If you will publish this
request, I would ba most

grateful. 1 can be contact
at: .

Mr, Svend-Erlk Eriksen,

- The Natlonal Film Board of
Cana ;

1

- 601-786 Granville Street,

Vancouver, B.C. VaZ - 1G3.

Telephone: 666-3898 (collect) -

_ Thank-you: very much; °
Svend-Erik Eriksen,
Director. ~

‘ TODAY IN HISTORY
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

1802—Victor Hugo, French
‘author and playwright, was
born.. 4 ms , . ‘
1815--Napoleon . escaped

-from the island of Elba to
which he had been exiled in

1014..

i9ie—Jackie Gleason,

American comedian, was .

mM
1919-The Grand Canyon
becamea U.S, national park,

Canada to proceed with the .
blishment - — of a

two core areas, one in each -
of the Val Marie md ‘
ie .

The Val Marie-Killdeer
area of southern Saskat
chewan is a truly interesting
région. . In addiditon to the
fixed prairie vegetation
exists a nearly complete
sample of prairie fauna.
Species ranging from the
Pronghorn antelope and
squire or "gophee” to the

or “gopher” to the
rare and endangered prairie
falcon, ferruginous hawk
and sage grousecan be found
there. The black-tailed
prairie dog also resides
withih the boundaries of
proposed Grasslands park.
Their colonies can en
along the Frenchman River
Valley, . the only place in
da where this. prairie
resident can be observed In
its natural habitat.

The rolling grasslands
landscape is broken by the
bizarre shaped landforms of
the ‘Kildeer badlands.. It
was there: tliat’ Sir “George
Mercier Daweon made the
recorded discovery’ of
dinosaur remains in 1674
while serving as gedlogist
and naturlisis to the’
North American Boundary
Commission, There is also a.
“sinking hill”, a fault-like
formatioir 200 feet wide and
95 feet which is said to
‘be aainking at a rate of one
foot per year.

The re-establishment of
the plaing, bison, the black-
footed ferret which depends
on the prairie dog colonies

for both shelter and food and =P.

the kit fox is a:llkellhood a
these park is located ‘
within the historial range’
distribution of these
anim

- The area's history l|s’
similarly interesting and
colourful. tie points or:
rings, tile oY:
Caniw" heads” and othe
articats indicate that the
Plains Indians roamed there
is search of bison. It was

dismount and walk to the nearest destination. The
cheerful rodent would be a meaningful symbol of
Canada’s new Grassland National Park; a mintature,
dry — land “beaver’’; an unlucky. target of countless

young boys .22 cal riftes, ‘gopher ple”

s even saved

some settlers, from starvation.

also a favourite bison hun-

area for. the nomadic
Metis during the early days
of the Red River settlement.
Siting Bull and his Sioux
followers took refuge in this
general area from U.S,
Army retaliations after the
Battle of the Little Big Horn

in 1876, Also associated with

the area's history and
Mountain North West
Mounted Police Post, the
Jean-Louis Legare trading
post and the Fort Walsh-
Wood Mountain Trail which
are located north of the
proposed Killdeer park
component. As. the area
developed, cattle ranching
and hamesteading followed.
From the _ beginning,
homesteaders found it ex-
tremely difficult, if not
impossible to survive,
consequently the .
homesteading gradually
faded out, -whereas ranching.
operations have continued-to.
flourish -.; have . added,
much to-the local history of
the area. This cultural
history contributes to the
Interpretive potential of the
Proposed park.
Parks Canada hae stated
that acquisition of land for
the park will only take place
through voluntary sales,
even though this may take
many years. Provision has
been made to allow present
rancher'a to pass ranchers on
to thelr sons and daughters,
The proposed Grasslands
rk represents a new and
different kind of recreational
opportunity. The main
emphasis would be to give
visitors to this unique and
inspiring environment a

-feeling of the vastness,

variety and awesome
of the prairies. oy

portunities for a more
in eth apprectation of the
area could be provided
through the use of trail rides,
hiking trails. Viewing and

beauty

A New National Park

flora and fauna of the area is
another exciting and
rewarding activity.

$0,000 square miles of
Canada's Natural Heritage
is now protected in 26
National Parks. The
Grassland National Park
will be an outstanding ad-
dition to the system.

Keith Penner, Member of
Parliament for Thunder
Bay, who spoke for the
Minister responsible for
Parks Canada, said. in
Regina on June 29th, 1977:

“In the area designated for
anational park, it is possible
to twin pack the clock 2
century experience the
original grandeur, beaut
and solitude of this land:'
scape as it was seen by the
first white men.

T congratrulate the. ran-
chers of the. Val

eKilldeer, area, and. .,.

Ciba tothe pein
this unique ecosystem
through the years.” ;

Today in.
History

Sgt. Aubrey Cosens of the
Queen's Own Rifles of
da took command of his
‘platoon when his officer was
wounded $3 years ago

today—in 1945— and led his -

foot-soldiers and six tanks In

a successful attack on

German paratroopers at
Keppeln, Holland,
sonally directed
firing at the enemy and in

ramming three houses while
he killed or captured the’

occupants single-handedly.
A few minutes after the
actlon he was killed by a sni-

per. Cozens, of Latchford,

He per-.
tanks in

- studying the wide variety of

Victoria Cross,

Ont., was later awarded the —

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