i -t he Page 4, The Herald, Friday, June 22, 1079 wee TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald Genoral Office - 635.6357 Circulation - 635-4357 Photographic content GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland -EDITOR - Greg Middletan CIRCULATION - TERRACE. KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3272 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C, A member of Verified Circulation. Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 7201, Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed, NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complate and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or published In Reproduction Is not permitted. Published by Sterilng Publishers 635-6357 the Herald. LETTERS TO. THE EDITOR ; Dear Sir: - Wehave arrived in Inuvik, filled with the memories of an exciting 6 days in the -Terrace area. Our class ‘enjoyed the trip immensely ‘and would like to take this “opportunity to thank ‘everyone in Terrace who :made our stay so pleasant. Special thanka go to the staff at the Kermode Friendship : Centre and toall the familles ‘and Individuals who opened their doors to billet our ‘group. We would also like to ‘thank the staff at Northwest . College, -Mr. Howard Jackson, Arnie from Arnie’s Meat Market, Bill Kennedy, Coastal Bus Lines, Alcan Mines, Sameon's Poultry Farm and the people at Ksan ‘Village who cantributed the fine and hospitality to ; ‘our trip a0 enjoyable, We will long remember Dear Sir: - After reading the article on the front page of yesterday's .paper about the School Board Meeting, I decided that it was time to say something on the matter. If Mr, and Mrs. Sandecki had not gone to the paper about their problems at Cope, mintain School we w all atill be sitting around our neighbours kitehen table complaining to each other, ‘'getting no where and dolng nothing about tt.’ As the situation stands, instead af being ‘“‘boaed’’ they should be thanked for getting the reat of us off our chairs and into the schools to try and remedy the altuation. Ttalways takes one person to “gtir the pot” but that person always seems to turn up the “bad guy”, I for one would like to thank them for paving the way for me so that my Ua ee id our trip to your area becawse of the friendliness and. hospitality show to us all, children and yours can profit from their school years. We all can pave the way to a better future in the schools for cur children and all the Sincerely, children to follow them. Sharon Rubeling and : The Adult Education Class Yourstruly, Inuvik, N.W.T, . Mra. G. Kilgren " . mii Eup e yy Da he He you're worried that Canada will face the same gasoline shortages as the United States, there Is a key word to keep in mind — demand, There is no problem with refinery capacity. Refineries ean produce all the fuel needed to keep cara on the Toad and homes heated next winter. But as one analyst put it, Canadians are “pressing the upper limits of the nation's ability to ‘produce enough erude all to meat everyone's dime heads. So, if demand stays as it ia, Letters welcome The Herald welcomes Its readers com- ments. Alt letters to the editor of general ‘public Interest will be printed. We do, . however, retain the right fo refuse to print _leters on grounds of possible iibel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for publication =. must. be . signed. ‘ COMMENT by Greg Midalbton’ vent el Ina series of columns, admittedly opinion pleces not statistical surveys, I outlined my impressions of the quality of education in this province, the type of person who went into education and the lack of academic and practical training they received. The statements I made were broad generalizations ‘to be sure, but were the result of a number of years at a university of which there was an education faculty, A collective how] has gone up from the teachers In this district. There are, to be fair, teachers here who have excellent qualifications. There are‘also many who are a product of a system that 16 going from bad to . worse. The head of a university faculty of education once admitted to me that many of the teachers who were going into the schoola could themselves barely read and write. of A local teacher more recently corhplained to me that I was off base because academic training doesn't necessarily make someone a good teacher. I agree. Since I feel that the training most teachers who come into the school system are getting is Inadequate; those good teachers, and mary teachers are dedicated professionals who are doing a good job, must be gaining their skills through experience. What kind of exporience do the teachers in this area and particularly Copper Mountain Schoo] have to draw on’ It in difficult to say, The principal of the school will not say how many years of experience each of the teachers at that achool has, School Superin- tendent Frank Hamilton refuses to give out that ins formation. To get It we ara having to go to the school board members and to the depariment of education, What we can say, however, js that none of the teachera at Copper Mountain School has been there for more than four years. The majority of the staff, 13 out of 17, are only In their first or second year at that school, about a quarter of the staff are leaving at the end of year, Is this unusual? Are these figures high? Is the staff of Copper Mountain School by and large inexperienced compared to the staff of othera schoola In the province? These questions and possibility that the problems at Copper Mountain School are the result of factors other than those at the school are the subjects of further columns, “ Yo or” ; “there: won't: be shortages. But If demand keeps rising, as it has in the years since the 1974 oll crisis, - expect rationing or long lineups at gasoline pumps. Statistics Canada reported Thursday that Canadians burned 71.6 milllon barrels of gasoline between January and May this year, That's up four per cent over the same period a year ago. _ Shortages could also be connected with the problem of getting gasoline to market. Pipelines are strained now. If demand keeps rising, they won't be able to handle the extra gasoline needed and shor- tages will occur. Even the new pipeline that opened about a year ago to deliver fuel to tha heavy: ‘will be‘ se! . The prospects of the - Maintaining SHORTAGES HERE key is the demand By J. R, DUPUIS- “Montreal market is flowing at 315,000 barrels a day. It can’t carry much more. This gasoline’ supply has helped offset the demand for expensive foreign crude oll and increases our security of supply if Middle East oil is disrupted. pted, Efforts are under way by both industry and govern- ments to extend this pipeline to the reat of Quebec and the Maritimes so that weatern natural gas could supplant imported oil in those regions. If that happens, Canadians “Sufficient in“oll and gag. But, at best, that's not likely to occur for a decade. For now, the Maritimes has to rely on imported oll, area adequate supplies are tenuows. Last winter when heating oll shortages developed in Montreal, the shortfali in the Maritimes was filled by oil from Ontario, _— - Crude ofl production is so tight that a slowdown for maintenance or some other reason, such as a breakdown or a leak, could cut output and cause shortages. Imported oil comes to the eastern provinces from the Middle East and Venezuela. The delicate balance Canadians face here was weer CP Business. Editor seen recently when the U.S, glant, Exxon Corp., diverted oi] to the US. that had been destined for Canadian consumption through Its subsidiary, Imperial Oll Ltd. of Taranto, This diversion Maritime refineries, many of which are operating at 20 per cent below capacity. And it also was a forewarning of what could happen if there was a serlous crunch in world oll supplies. . Exxon diverted the oll be-:. cause of shortages caused by the halt in prodictidi in’ Iran, The Iran upheaval also resulted in higher prices, particularly on the warld spot market where ‘oll companies barter for “whatever they can get and, usually, at whatever price, An exaitiple of this oc- curred Thursday when Gulf Canada Ltd. announced it may be forced to close its refinery at Polnt Tupper, _ Gulf ves faced veltn the prospec paying a hig price — probably a $10 mium on the already: high spot market — for a tanker of oll being loaded in the Middle East. “The oil ls available if you want to pay enough for it,” said J.D, Degrandis, a Gulf official, , hurt Degrandis said Canada ‘should adjust the subsidy it pays companies for forelgn oil shipped to Eastern Canada. He ‘wants Ottawa to pay the $4 million that Gulf considers [t could'loge on its noxt shipment af ol] because of the high spot market prices. if the government refuses, Gulf has the option of buying the ofl and passing the differ- ence to consumers, or cancel it, thereby creating shor- tages. Why is Canada not having the same severe shortages os the ULS.7. ; 18 million barrels of oil a day, 10 times our con- sumption, Also, they import more than half of their oil, compared with 40 per cent in Canada. But more significant is the fact that they have a serious lack of refinery capacity. The U.S. has not built a new refinery in several years, so they can’t refine all the oil they get, . This means that, in many cases, they have to go out- side the U.S, to vi ia product — that is, gas _ which costs much more than the.cruda. In addition, thelr con- sumption growth has been five per cent a year, although In California the growth ls even higher, OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON — * Tewas very clyllized, as it should have been. Ottawa,It’s incredible, absolutely beyond com-' peehension, the nalvete of the Conservatives, if that’s. all it Is. It could be simple-minded atupidity, or worse. But impossibleto understand as you hear the newly- powered Conservatives talking about what absolutely wonderful people “totally professional’ is the ap- proved burz-word-are the departmental deputies, the crown corporation presidents, the commission chairman and assorted bureaucratic boffins they inherited from the just-departed Liberals. os Perhaps the Conservatives have been overcome by the wonder of it all...the new offices...the big staff- ] a...the special privileges...the genuflection that goes with the "Yes sirs!”, the “Of course siral’ and “At ~ once sira!'* " ‘The worship of power by Tories newly possessing it and by those who are serving them and glorying in ite warm. reflection seems -to have brought on an in- toxication of euphoria. me Everything is wonderful. Everyone is magnificent. In the beginning, when power was but a dream, ‘ures pete bag cumulated over’ 16 The ucratic baggage acc G years of Liberal rule-some of it dating back through the last stages of the St, Laurent era-was to be packed and shipped. . The corridors of power were to be awept clean, ors they said. ; No, it wasn’t to be a massacre. No purge. Just a nice quiet exodus of the mandarins who had manned the Big Red Machine so long and faithfully for Trudeau and the Liberals. ad But nothing much happened. Oh sure, Michael Pitfleld, Clerk of the Privy Council, Intimate of Trudeau and boss of all the bureaucratic strawboases, was dismissed. : Prime. Minister Clark, praising his “ultimate professionalism,” asked PitHeld for his resignation and of course, it-was submitted. ‘s But there was something ‘way “back when-in the. early days of then freshman Conservative Prime. Minister John Diefenbaker~that happened which overnight now, years later, has seemed to change the whole atmosphere. Robert Bryce, then Clerk of the Privy Council who had worked for Mackenzie King and served Louis St. “The Americans’ consume” NEW YORK (CP) — The United States and the Organization of American States are trying to work out a negotiated end to the civil war in Nicaragua, but the rebels who are bent on overthrowing Anastasio Somoza, may not be in the mood for any kind of compromise, U.S, State Secretary Cyrus Vance has called on Somoza to step down in favor of a representative government of national reconciliation. He wants an OAS peacekeepin force to move in an establish a stable climate for a new government elements in the country, tt But the Sandinista rebels have said they do not want @ new govern: ment that smacks of Somoza and they may want total victory. Reports on the fightlng seem to Indicate the Sandinista rebels are gaining the upper hand {n thelr battle to oust the rightwing president whose family hae ruled the country since 1983, They are in control of Léon, the country's second-largest clty and plan to install thelr own municipal administration there, hay also hald a number other com: .eeceptable to the major’, IN NICARAGUA Rebels out for Victory By JOHN WARD munities in the northwest portion of Nicaragua are conducting a vicious street fight in the capital, Managua. . Last year, after the rebels’ firat campaign against Somoza, the U.S. and the Organization of American States managed to start a mediation effort between the two sides. However, it broke down after three montha when the dictator and the mediators failed to reach agreement on a plebiacite to determine future That last mediation effort probably owed more to the fact that Somoza's national guard acored a clear victory over the rebels than to any desires for ac- commodation on either ade, The American: trained guard was. ob- vlowly superior in that initdal confilet and drave ‘the rebels Into exile, This tlme, however, tha guard is having hard e of it, Despite the use of some alreraft and some sandinintas fom thelr van ons. The wed too, ly showing s of uneasiness and jitters, That may have led to the senseless murder of Bill Stewart, an American journalist killed by a gQuardsman Wednesday. The ABC-TV reporter was abot out of hand as he approached a national guard checkpoint in Managua. In a brutal film clip broadcast by all three major networks, Stewart was shown walking up to the roadblock, arme, inte lag a jrolding a white an press card, He was ordered te lle down and one of the goldiers, for no apparent reason, walked over, idcked him in the side and then shot him through the head. Stewart's in- terpreter was also murdered In the same ident, Somoza's forces an: nounced Monday that they would clear the rebels from Managua by mid-week, but that of- fensive obviously failed, The Sandinistas hava announced the formation of a provistonal govern- ment. Thelr cause was bolstered last week when the flve-country Andean pact extended limited recognition. to the San- dinista movement. * in the politics of their The U.S. state depart- ment sald last Monday the rebels deserve a role country. With the military situation appearing to go their way, for the moment at least, and with political developments in their fa- vor, the rebels are Ilkely to take a hard line on the that radical elements among the rebels ma fheilg ‘0, the forefront 8 Ing goes on, There la concern that a Marxist, antlAmerican regime could replace Somoza unless mediators canset up a broad-based, representative govern ment, . The antl-American tentiment among the rebels has an obvious root — Somoca's family was Installed In power by U.S, « Marines when they ended thelr’ oecupation of Nicaragua in the 1030s. Wf the Sandinistas can keep on top of the . situation, they likely will reject any settlement that includes the dictator, They might aluo rule out any solution that doos not five them the upper hand nh the post-Bomosa -pe- iy Ly Laurent up to the day of his defeat and resignation, “stood up,” as they now tell it, They say Bryce “resisted” Dief when the then Young Warrior housecleaning, of sweeping talked of a bureaucratic out all traces of the Liberal High Command, with the Tories bringing in their own replacements. Unbelievable as it now sounds, they claim that Bryce talked Dief out of it. oo And the only deputy to go was Mitchell Sharp-to a . better .job in the executive sulte.of-what was then Brazilian, still a mighty corporation if slightly tran- sformed, Bryce stayed, Pitfleld has gone. But Bryce survived. Askedatthe time why © he would retain such an: obvious Liberal partisan in such a senaltive position as ° Clerk of Privy Council-Dief proclaimed that ‘there was no senior public servant who posaibly could ever be more trustworthy than Bryce. Speaking personally, it can be recalled vividly how indignant Dief became at the ‘very suggestion” Bryce should be bounced. So he lived to perpetuate a legent In office, to be canonized as a deputy with guts enough to stand off a new Prime Minister Now the deputies are laughing at the very idea any of them should resign. Quit voluntarily because they were Liberals? Don't be ridiculous! So little has changed, except that the new Tory ministers are praising the Liberal-deputies who may or may not even have bothered to become “‘con- venience Conservatives.” OUR CANADA The historians may look at the masaive development projects in Canada during the 1970's and 1980's and compare them to the excite. ment of the railroad building of the past century. ' The James Bay power project in Northern Quebec ia one of the most gigantic energy undertakings in history. Powerful rivers will be reversed or rerouted, An area bigger than a host of European countries will be flooded. The scale and intensity of this develop: ment in the muskeg of the north {e staggering, Another energy project of Herculean dimensions ie the Athabaaka Tar Sands at Fort McMurray, Alberta, In the history of petroleum there has never been any: thing on this acale, Soon other titanic con: struction project will start in the Northwest Territ- ories and Yukon, bringing natural gas to southern markets from Alaske and the MacKenzie Delta and Beaufort Sea, And the biggest manu- facturing project in our history is nearing com. letion at Nanitcoke on ke Erie » Steloo's steel plant in a 6000 acre in- dustrial park, In 10 years a hew city » Townsend + will rise where marginal farme existed, It will have a population of 90,000. k around! Canada is moving! John Fisher, Executive Vice President of . the Counell for Canadian Unit wat Canada's Cen Commissloner, TODAY IN HISTORY: 1611 — Engilsh explorer lenry Hudson, his son and loyal uallors were set adrift in a small boat in Hudson Bay by a mutinous crew, 1718 = Dominican flare established the dement in California al imp — SI Judy Garland died ‘a's ron overdosa in London,