vu ete . Will be easier to: ‘achieve a. quorum) ; stat Writer-Photoprapher' Dotified ‘of any meetings n ° published’ every. weekday at i610 Kalum: ‘Street,-. “yl. “Terrace,. 8.C; by - Sterling Publishers : “Ltd. "Registration © _ Authorized: BS: Postage pi class ' mall.” i ca Terrace: ,f85-6997 ‘Nick Walton. . . Sports:- . Don, Schaffer ‘Keith Alford . Recopion-Casiied: ; - Carolyn Gibson Circulation: a _ Marla Taylor . NOTICE oF COPYRIGHT . 4 . The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic confent. published In the Herald. - Reproduction Is not permitted without the: weltten : permission of the Publisher. - \ COON ey tA _ laudette Sandecki’s: School Ss Slant | a In late Novernber the district 88 board, along ‘with: the- ptees-elect, met to dicuss ways of: improving committees. Trustees from the outlying areas were having ‘difficulty attending committee meetings, This meant their - input. waa Jacking and committee meetings did not always _ \ave'a proper querum. - 2 One® “Suggestion was that some of the committees be combine to’ reduce the number of committees and thus the humber ' ry; education and policy; building and rentals, This” awauld have! reduced the number of committees from nine to - fix, \ % All the same, year the district a school board will’ ve 10 camipites, A management. committee has been .. a 1 Cad vereaauaLiowen PTTreeey dded, com ‘of the chainmay., ecboard,: the, uperintenden of. schools, and the’ a bo : ‘gj The commit wotkload of trustees is. uneven. "One . jrustee has committee assignments; another has six ‘Assignments, Other ees range from four to five pssignments. 7 And the choice o trust to sit on committees is difficult . Jo comprehend, 1h the case of the education committee, ichnowledged to be the most influential committee as it = icational procéss_in: the district; ‘all. .~__ irat-year trustees, _ Buides. the entire three of its members ‘two of them real , " pxperienced trustee She rentals committee} ‘which deals ‘with renting housing jccommodation to teathers. in ‘Hazelton, Kitwanga and Stewart, is made up en whom has any obvious ipertise in housing management Patten y Thave been given the - fommittee, This vital ear (or at least not ‘that \ a pearson nship ‘if the transportation mittee didn’t meet ‘at all Last. m aware of as I was. never d I ever see any minutes of any meetings it might hava \peld. The awkward: part of — chairing the bus committee ik'that I travel by taxi (since I: Gon't drive my own’ car). ° erefore ‘if I should have to ‘ _ dnvestigate a busjroute to re ard must be prepared to eit! r pay my taxi expenses or vide me with a car and driver. ‘And I informed the ¢hairman of the. board Dec. 7\that while I did not’ mind ehairing the committee, I would ‘not have a car at my Pisposal, 80 she was well:aware of|the need for the board to provide transportation for me, i dit be necessary. So far this board has never relmbursedme for a single out-of- ery expense [ve applied for, ould hon his request: either, § Another change — each committe fnembers rather than four. Presuma il. have only three this isin the hope it ‘Although there is already proof the new board has no \interest in quorums. . ¢ Dec, 15 at 10 a.m. a buildings: , eld with only one of its three mem ie chairman and vice-chairman of board did attend, . low one committee member cannot bell of a three- © thember committee. Neither can thé c n be counted ih a committee quorum as the chairman(of the board is an & officio. member of all committees, \ And this vice-. ghairman, since she is not a ‘member of the buildings mmittee, cannot be counted iia q gin-the new year of the new board, the parliamentary | es have already been broken. \ And broken by the same tee who accused me at the Dec. 7 board meeting of ing more interested in running : the board meeting my fe than in proper parliamentary procedure. Bourinot's Rules of Order (which the board claims to thilow, policy 9.26) clearly states that all trustees have a Hight to atiend any and all committee meetings, though they y- not vote on motions and may not be cbunted in a orum unless they are members of the. committee. Fherefore it is ynderstood: that. all trustees! should be : tified of all committee meetings, or how else could they fe if they chose? - Nonetheless I received no riotice of the Dec, 15 building dommittee meeting. Ard according to the minutes of that _ meeting, “The committee rose recommending...” when in fact because there was no quorum present the so-called Committee could not legally recommend a . : The management committes stimulates peculation’ : _ Will it keep minutes? ; Will the minutes be available to all : _tfustees? Will propér written notices of its. meetings be _ Riven to all trustees in case anyone wishes to attend the rheetings? =” \ 1 Given the actions of the new board daring ‘their. first Month in office, 1 wouldn’t bet on tt ve i a! . gad up i last place. a | on oor oot 7 “ ane fae ia | meetings. For example, combining finance and ~ yc and took ‘hint under his swig ve a busing problem, the - \7 do nat expect they elther:. So to. * elle en ACRE Ee ‘Id It too late for just ‘one more Christiana dale ven _And every week or 80, ‘rlend triumphs , B MAb. gays Friend. ‘he -Inyariably. nd you . 1 only ‘or spades, ar: whatever) you would. have: prevailed,” Be oe *Let'me explain. something at this: juncture, Bridge’ is’ a. . gare for the devious. A player Will bid —for instance — ‘one: club, nat to ‘indleate that he wishes to play the hand in clubs . (he may not have & single club’ in his hand) ‘but ‘to, indicate’ "that he fies a reasonable selection of cards and would like to. know. what You, hia partner, “is holding. — Pie _ You; his ‘partner, is (are?) expected to: ‘come » back with ~ . Itis'at this point, that Friend B messes up. He never + Gail : rednember | the various passwords. Boy. discovered” oe : LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mute boy’ wo hes lived: for at. least two years at Los Angeles International. Airport: was-> the award ofa chaplain in.San. Diego for six’ months last: > spring: before the youth disappeared, the chaplain. said. ' ' Monday. - "It is the same boy,” sald Wally Tiéelo, a chaplain: with” ‘Christian Jail Workers. “He “Was awarded. to me “by. the. ‘Juvenile Court here in San ‘Diego."”” a a : He said relatives in Los Angeles saw the boy beeh nicknamed Juan — on a television show in a‘story about his life at the airport. me And a psychologist who had worked ' with the boy in San ‘Diego recognized him from a news. photograph." ite last week day. Officials with the Los: ‘Angeles county welfare agency were trying to predict where he-could go neat. : Recio, who wants to have Juan brotight back to his care, . said lie was unsure about the teenager's origins, although. z " he knows the boy can understand Spanish and speak a very small amount. He also said Suan is about. 16 and i may’ be . from Colombia.» -: ; Juan is.a short, dark-haired youth who appears to: be at . _ ’ east part Indian and ig helleved hard of & g- For at _ personalized computer, Monster of the Year. Given enough - ‘least the last two years he has lived at the airport, earning money by returning baggage carts for a 25-cent deposit. He —_ even sleeps at the alrport, although no one ‘is. sure where. . His closest friend has been’ an airport custodian, Mellie Thompson,.who has given him clothes and food and taken , him to her home for. visits. - ; Several: agencies have placed Juan- in“ homes, but: he. always ran away and returned to the airport. : He disappeared from the airport for about six months in 1982, sald Virginia McKinney, director of the Centre for —" Communicative Development, which works with deaf- mutes. McKinney and Thompson have been: trying to help, Juan.in Los Angeles. During those aix month Juan was in Sai Dies, Baio 7 «hid, He said he s ne Lettersto _e ar — “Merry Christmas and. Happy New Year. I’m writing to - _ you after reading your Dec, 24th ‘'Stargate”. fremember - feeling as you in past Christmases as 1 was an- avowed ’ atheist.- “Christmas I remember was spent walking down. the tracks to my swimming hole of my youth pondering why. the filth polution “ it in my later years. Bah! to damn with ‘ Christmas. 1 gloated to read. of. family fights’ int the © newspaper and\to hear of viotence’on-T.V. “‘Serves-them right." I'dsay. "Can't be nice all year~ why get together at Christmas. Bah, be damned. “Yet, in my heart | felt a leas. [always remember the little Porky porcupine with the sad_ face in Pogo cartoons in the newspaper. Hoy I loved him. ! came to really know Christ in my 40th year through the death of my father. . . ‘I’m.the person who talked to you on the oil picket, line attacking Capt. Glenn Patey, I'm sorry I did, however, 1. feel i must. 1’m on the nemamittes of the i soup kitchen - -my name is William Buck. . My Christmas this year was: spent ‘delivering small amounts of oil to homies of the poor. One house I went six | times to deliver only $60 worth through mix up. Twas angry - believed the world is going lo end, either by God or man, Christmas day wag spent with a wonderful wife, six ~ - sure... Put off - sure. But, it was. delivered finally. children and a good kind.woman who hai helped us before. We Invited four people from the soup kitchen - one lonely ‘single man and tivo teenagers who are street running. re ' | spent Christmas noon fot 2% to 3 hours -going.th the hospital delivering presenis to the children ward, visiting the elderly sick and giving out candy bags and presents, In the psychiatric ward was hugged and kissed by a 14-year- old boy ina 7-year-old mind. I was dressed as Santa Claus. Iwas loved and gavelove. Sure is more fun than walking and : crying about my lost swimming hole. . However, I will again fight back at the people who destroyed my swimming hole. I'm of the left by choice ina free society as they are of the right through greed and profit. ” Again Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! ~ See you on the front lines: God Bless You. , Kalldoccope war, neat. Co '', William Buck 4 For Better or For Worse | i - Every week, for years now, the two old friends ha met. ve —with theit wives — for. san evening of bridge ‘Bach they change partners. a : ‘responded with a call of two hearts (or. clubs, or. ‘diamonds, / _ the. relevant. password in this regard sad you are, off, to. “ald. Juan, meanwhile,was seen back at the afrport on Mon- r " entered the computer age. identity card government computers and data banks posea - “threat to personal liberty. . we will not have time enough aie hes cael sorb (even though Friend B still doean't, generally, win) Friend Wa lek ‘seems to have taken. an inexplicable: alide, “For one. thing, Friend Bs corifidence. ha "oloomed, aa x “E ain-at & loss,” Friend A muses as he xathers in: the cards; “asto why you would bid three hearts 0 that band — :' especially. afier-I-had opened with one-no-trumip.: .:.:.” ~ “Aha : Friend B smiles. “I have'only. you-to thank, ‘old, - "friend, It is stated in that: most: excellent book § you gaye me “for Christmas that, when the opener calls one-no-trump, the © "> responder, MUST. reply with three- hearts in order to in-" ‘dicate that he ia extremely: short in-dlamonds.” . - "Of course, I must-have. forgotten.” : . 0 "Say no more. We all lapse, now and then.’ a ‘Friend B pulls another of ‘his patented boners, he is-ready ‘ with a page and chapter relerteics when Friend A cocks: him a a brow. - Friend A no longer cogks the brow with the frequetcy ot To give another instance: » Feiend'A:“That was an audncibiis call, Imus Bay. From, ‘the book, was (7 a Friend B: “Of course! I inew: you ‘would iekoggnize it snstantly as the Capablanca: convention.” “Now, Friend B knows full: well. that - the Capablanca “convention is a chess term. He also ‘knows that Friend A -would not recognize it.as such even should it rise up like the . “Baboon viper and fang-:him smartly. about the gaboon.)" — who has. No, Friend B doesn’t win any more hands than he ever did but ~ on the other hand — he suffers far less from. well : " meant condescension. There are 6 hears ~ — and t then again, there are, losers, rm Stargate by Brian Gregg I would like to take this opportunity’ to name the - Time it will even become Dictator of the Year. | ' ‘It’s nice to know others are aware of the economic” _- changes sweeping our land, even though Canadians want to *” be lulled to sleep, (“Fell us nice things.”) Back in the days of Cornerstoae when I was getting flack for ‘expressing some thoughts on the computer. hand-scan: 668 machine system a lot of people were. just scoffing. : Well, syndicated U.S, columnist ‘WUHam Safire is. also 7 writing about a national ¥dentity card under the headline | “Here comes the computer tatoo.” Cartoons. appear regularly in Americain dailies showing people with bar codes stamped on their foreheads, = . ‘The idea of stamping hands and foreheads with the new 664 international omen code 50 that no one may be able baetre game away. to rereellly. a -U.S. legislation is now being worked on to force aliens ” “(not ‘the kind you find in Star Wars) to carry identity. cards ' go that there is a secure system to determine employment . . eligibility in the States, Butif you don’t have a card you can _ always claim to be an American,:says Safire. Phoney Papers are: often.used by wetbacks, etc. “The very tasis of:the proposed law is the notion that individuals must carry verifiable papers - more likely, a - card keyed to’ a new government data bank - to prove - eligibility for work, says Safire,..But the next step in this down staircase. to ‘Big-Brotherdom is a “national identity card proving one's citizenship. Really good citizens would - probably geta gold card, Ex-cons would have another célor a coded card, ete. Thus every. business would -want to ask- customers to ‘insert thelr identity cards inito the whizbang credit checker. Banks, phone. companies, schools, hotels would all take ‘advantage of the obvious utility of this document, Law enforcement: and tax ‘collection ‘would surely he. easier; . »because ‘the federal’ government would know at all times — _ exactly. where:everybody. was. and ° what. they were spending. ‘But such ‘crimes against humanity as the recent - cyanide poisoning fad - which tried to return to the old world . of privacy'and the individual hidden from the world, might - _become even more bizarre and common.. ; ; And it is those kinds of cries that show us we have now . Combined with a national, Though alined against © undocumented workers (aliens) at first the computer, tatoo | will eventually be pressed on youand me, SaysSafire, _ When asked recently at a Harvard forum whether, he. U.S; Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger said: “I - believe the world ig going to end - by an act of God, I haope; but, everyday‘l think that ime ig out. L-worry that . 0 get atrong enough. to. prevent nuclear war..." One ‘should .remember . that Weinberger along’ ‘with Secretary. of State George Shultz and Middle Exst Envoy Phillip Habib are all directors of ‘the: world’s largest '— corporation, Bechtel, which. does its business with the . Arabs, Something to remeinber next time one ot them flies off to Jerusalem. a And just to help save the world by ‘adding to the nuclear. armé build up they are now- selling - decals: of nuclear’ ~ missiles to kids, One Terrace resident bought a set before he realized they were not Star Wars rockets. There Is even la crulge misaile among the set. . “Mutants of thé world arise!; You may have nothing to), ‘tose but your toyat”-— A useless ery in this age of video games, . — a _ nn Lynn Johnston | =|". Well, that’s the way it has'been-going lately. Whenever, ; .. considered a ‘major-gource of in-depth analysis or honest). th a ~ at it. "year-olds leave the] play thinking.it’s nothing but blood and |. Tek, 13k. - potas ” Td like to find the people who made the editorial decision | naughty, and smack thein right across thelr bhie. notes with - ’ ideas if they're allowéd to think, and may upset the schools, 0 those that can afford the aKernative will hecome ; classroom. . breasts and things-terrible:)-.' schools in the deep South, that gets Cole’s Notés introduced.’ : anything else be? ‘mar: ‘influence. on sue re Take Macheth, far: a i ae " SE BCTV'R: news ‘department |s | ~“\exthook in B.C, schoola 4 is the: -Cole’s Notes. versiod: a | Macbeth, tCole’ a Notes. “Come:om: ++ + ina a far sitidents, it all aN jure’ Inierested .. a leet ag e' basic outline ‘of the play. and. the | “named of the major ‘Gharacters. * Cole's Notea can hardly be: intelligent thought about Macbeth, or anything else for t that mee t oro basic outlines, supplements. * Not only that, but, again according to the BCTV report in “ “Monday's news, the version of Macbath ‘in the: Cole's. “textbook!” is considerably watered ‘down. ‘ Adulterated. “Cleaned up, perhaps, or censored, depentiing how you look Can the scene between Maciulf and the Porter really be ae ar } ‘Adolescent Shakespearean schalari will remember. that. scene long after they've forgotteti: Banquo’s ghost or Lady Macbeth’s mad scene, unless,they saw the movie veralon (the good Lady appeared oude ina couple om screen - . treatments }. That's the scené. where the two characters discus, ihe - yarious effects of alcohol on male sexual performance: _.-Remember? “Lechery, air, it pravo unprovokes;:. _ It sets him on and takes him off; it, perauades:him and ‘disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to.. . ~ If anything, that scene should be left in just to show the student Shakespeare had a sense of humor, however bawdy ot dated. Hf not for that, and scenes like it, most 15 or 16- : Molence and politics, ‘all mixed together in not-too-terribly- ‘interes sober hana could have been deleted by. the editor in - _ order tosavespace. Samehow, though, Idoubt it. . It. was.-taken out because it's dirty, sexy, © filthy: |! pornography. Right? Should never have been put in Into the nt curriculum in the first place. Smut.- ae - to lose thé Porter, and take that great, big, wooden pointer ° my Grade 3, teacher wed to rap us with when we were” it. Those people have been naughty. If not naughiy, then “incredibly. cloeed-minded and ignorant. That's the kind of back-woods reactionary “thought th eit 5 excises all the “hells” and “damns” from Ray Bradbury's © Martian Chronicles, that bans booka like Kurt Pheer irehg takes certain dictionaries ot af shea at beta nasty words.- (What's thé®old. joke about rierics out 150,000 perfectly good words because ofa a couple of naughty ones?) . That’s the same anti- intellectual process that takes the ; i Bible out of schools in the’ southern USA because parteofit =; are violent and unaéceptable, but we ‘get back to the Bible later. What's really staggering, what's really frightening, i8 ; that the people in charge. of our children’s education would ~ choose such an edition of a Work of literature as a textbook. ‘It’s almost unbelievable... . At least, it would ‘be if. It wasn't for the allmate that prevails in B.C.'s school system today, Regardless of the need for’ restraint. what's the. point of deliberately creating an. atmosphere Gf hostility between the government and -itsemployees, as the ministry of / education has done since the appointment of the present minister? Why must we balt each other with threats? “Why : act like petulant children and threaten to change the rules of the game when the rules, all of a sudden, don't favor the point of view ofthe man in charge?’ Why not’ act like reasonable adult human’ beings and try to work through. - things together, ‘like in other’ provinces, rather. than , smacking ‘together like offensive and defensive Hines ina football game? It's because some among us don’t really like, to ‘aitribiste ; intelligence to the students of the schools, Aren't children,. young adults, of high school age capable of dealing with material that some may not agree with, orlike? = - It's. because sonie of us may fear that stidents may Bet Fee NE ane Se nie eee ee applecart if they start fo think. Keep "em in their places, don’t-let them ‘see anything that might generate’ a little honest thought or intellectual growth. Turn our universities inte technical schools, Abolish academic subjects’ in- schools and keep the public school system a ghetto where - poor people’ schildren go tolearn how to work likedrones in - factories.- Pump more and more ‘money into; private. the educated elite again. . Censor Shakespeare, use bloody, Cole's | ‘Notes for. .” literature texts initead of supplements, eliminate ‘challenging material from the school Jbraries and gut the. system, flawed as it may be; ‘until the students that go { there learn nothing but how to make'a li instend think and contribute and progress. vine “ how t Which leaves us a long 3 way from the Bible, I suppose, but ’ getting’ back there., a . If we're cutting Shakespeare’ 8 bawdy es, what next to.’ cut? Politics that may-not agree with the: “prevailing. _ Ministry views? Violence, even when it's necessary rather ~ than gratuitous? ‘Hamfet's soliloquy on suicide (To be ‘or tot. to be...) because suleide isn't a healthy concept to introduce to young people?. What comes.next?.. 0 7 ‘what's ,why Christians should give thanks that the’ Bible fant, in. the hands of these: playpen Intellectuals, First; of "course, we'd lose most of: Genesis, betause thie pecple are “naked after all, 1! mean my goodness, we can't have that in a + Next logo would be Sodoni afd Gomorrah, becauss weall ' now what went.on there, and if we don't well then wé're ' better off, aren’t we? And, obviously, the Song of Solomon, ° ~ well, it would: have to go’ ‘Call ‘those Virgins and, lips’ anid ; It’s chop-logic like that that gets the Bibtg, banned toa ag textbooks in B.C. and that: would have the Bi censored if it’ was on-the curriciifum, - ible Mteelt. After all, if Shakespeare ian't sacred wy stot