Terrace’s Peter Crowder shows off what may be

‘the dream of television
isolated northern areas.

lovers throughout

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‘'V watchers heaven

It was Horace Greeley
who said, “‘go West,
young man go West”,
while he himself stayed
East and made a fortune.
Perhaps the slogan today
should be, “go Nort
yng man and watch

The day may not be
long in coming when
villages such as
Telegraph Creek, which
currently is truly a TV
wasteland as they receive
no TV whatever, will be
able to pick up 17 or more
channels from the big
bird in the sky. .

“Bird” is what the

-communications experts -

call the orbiting satellites
which are used to receive
and transmit television
signals to all parts of

North America.
Thanks to Crowder
Communications of

Terrace, remote com-
munities as well as large
centres are able to
urchase a Television
Receive-Only (TVRO)
earth station, and tap into
the signals being emitted

by the satellites. After the
signals have heen
received it is a relatively
simply technical problem
to transmit them either
by cable or a small
transmitter,

Cast of the TVRO unit is
approximately $30,000 or
less than one month’s
rental fee - for a
microwave connection
between Vancouver and
Terrace to carry one
station.

At a demonstration
held Wednesday in the
parking lot adjacent to
CFTK television, Peter

Crowder, .president of, |

Crowder Com-
munications hooked up a
portable TVRO and
displayed the unit's
versatility by showing the
assembled group some 36
different channels all of
which use the services of
one of the three satellites
currently in place above
the earth.

The audience watched
segments of everything
from Gilligan's Island on

a station in Atlanta,
Georgia to the French
CBC network
rogramming originating
in Montreal,

The satellites, one of
whichis Canadian owned,
are placed in orbit nearly
24,000 miles out into
Space. This means that
they are synchronized
with the earth’s motion
and so for practical
purposes are stationary
and can be used 24 hours
a day.

The signal received by
the TVRO is crystal clear
when gathered in by the
unit.

Crowder explained that
there is no technical
reason why cable com-
panies could not use his
equipment right now,
however since they are
licensed by the CRTC
there could be some risk
of losing a cable license if
they went ahead without
approval.

Crowder Com-
munications currently
have bids out for projects

totalling more than nine
million dollars, however,
much may depend on the
results of a demon-
stration which they will
make before the CRTC in
October

“It is also highly
possible that we will be
fiving a demonstration to
members of parliament
in Victoria and perhaps in
Ottawa,”’ Crowder said.

The first TVRO has
already been sold and is
currently being installed.
Although Crowder would
not say who the customer
was, “‘since it is their
business, if, and when,
they choose to an-
nounce,”’ but he did in-
dicate that the sale was to
an industrial town in
northern B.C.

The
company has on hand
thirty applications for
installation of a TVRO
and the natives in
Telegraph Creek have
bepun a fund drive to
buy their very own 30
channels. ©

Mixed reaction to surplus

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Politicians, Jabor and
buginess' leaders have

varying opinions on the
$140.5 million surplus for the
last fiscal year revealed by
Finance Minisler Evan
Wolfe and some expect it’s a
prelude to an election call.
In Victoria, the politicians
said Wednesday that the
figures show British
Columbians are overtaxed or
the Social Credit govern-
ment is incompetent at
budgeting.
Dave

Stupich, NDP

finance critic, accused the
government of building up
its bankroll ‘‘on the backs of
the local laxpayer.””

If the surplus “had not
been stashed away for
propaganda purposes by the
government, some 10,000
jobs could have been created
by thal money moving in the
economy,” he said,

Suipich said the surplus
occurred parlly because the
government shifted a large
portion of education. costs
from provincial respun-

Most responsible
sex study states

OTTAWA (CP) — A recent
student study about sexual
and contraceptive attitudes
shows many do not engage in
premarital sex in-
discriminately.

Data obtained from 106
girls in two southern Ontario
high schools and 447 women
from two Ontario univer-
sities and three communily
colleges, was made public by
unversity researchers in the
July-August issue of the
Canadian Journal of Public
Health.

The schools were nut
named.

Three quarters of lhe
sludents sampled said they
“approved of premarital sex

they felt a slrong affection
for their partners; only five
per cent approved of sex in a
casual relationship in which
they did not feel a strong
affection, the study said.

However, it was em-
phasized Ihat since the
samples were chosen in a
random manner, they are
nol necessarily repre-

sentative of Canadian youth.
But, the study said, ‘‘a

feneration gap in sexual
values is shown since almost
all the young - women
believed their parents would
disapprove uf premarital
intercourse.”

Thuse sampled who had
nol experienced premarital -
sex said they were not op-
posed tu having sex but that
they were not ready to
engage in it, the study said.

“The reason given must
often by lhe high school
females (32 per cenl) was
they had not mel a person
with whom they wanted to
have inlercourse.”

The second most common
reason given by the high
schoul girls and the most
common given by the ulder
women was they did not feel
ready to have premarital
sex, the study said.

Musi wumen sampled gave
strung suppurt for birth
control, but many did nol use
a contraceptive device at
first sexual experience, the
study showed.

‘Thirly-five per cent of higti
schoo! students did not use a
contraceptive,

sibility to local schuol
buards,

Conservative leader Vic
Stephens said the stirplus
shows the peuple have been
evertaxed, Wolfe's
statement that it resulted
from good money man-
agement wasnonsense.

Creating a — surplus
“doesn'l take a genius, just a
heavy hand with taxes.”

Liberal ‘leader Gordon
Gibsun said the surplus is
either a deliberate tactic
prior to an election calm by
the Social Credit party or
incompetence in estimating
reyenue and expenditure.

“Qbviowsly they are
building up a bankroll for an
election next spring.”

Stevens said he thuught the
election call would cume this
fall and the Sucial Credil
party “will have all the
public relations behing them
and be able to spend $1
million on $j8nb)campaign”
tu push the surplus.

George Juhnsun, president
of the B.C, Federalion of
Labor, vaid the surplus was

shameful and the guvern-
ment “shouldn't be taking
money oul of the ecunumy,
they should be putling it
back in." Loe

“think it's disgraceful at
this period when the
ecunumy is in pour shape
that we have this lype of
surplus.””

Bill Hamilton, president of
the Employers’ Council of
B.C., said the government
controlled expendilures well

He said no major Lax culs
are needed at this. time anda
$140 million surplus in a $4
billion budget is very close to
a balanced budget. .

_ Don Lanskail, president of
the Cuuncil of Forest In-
dustries, said he hoped sume
of the surplus would be
channelled into forest
management programs.

“T really hope some of that
money is used for
management and tree
planling programs but we've
always favored a balanced
budget su I suppuse a surplus
is even belter."’

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VANCOUVER (CP) — The
Sun says AirWest Airlines
Lid, has been sold to a group
of British Columbia and
Alberla businessmen for
between $4 million and $8
million.

The agreement is subject
to the new group of owners
getling a commercial licence
from the air transport
committee of the Canadian
lranspert cummission, The

_ commission is expected to

rule on the application next
month. .

To operate an airline in
Canada, a company must gel
two licences.

Fhe one issued by the cum-
mission involves such issues
as how vitalis the service the
company is providing, the
necessity of its service and
the economic viability of the
company providing the
service.

Transport Canada
provides the operational
licence dealirg with such
matlers as whether an
airline is meeting safety and
operalional requirements.

Daryl Smith, regiunal
complreller of civil avialion

of Transport Canada in Van-
cuuver, said AlrWest "last
week, as a mater of course,

was subjected to an audit

The Herald, Friday, Seplember 22, 1978, Page

Troubled airline bought

which is part of ow normal
routine and which all air
carriers in (his cauntry are
subjected to."

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