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_ TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 19

_ EDITOR: RON THODY
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OUR OPINION |

Love bug bites

We must congratulate our Pierre
Elliot Trudeau, late Playboy of the
Western World, on his marriage to
Margaret Sinclair, a pretty, 22-year-
old North Vancouver girl.

We might also suggest it was the
biggest secret since the Manhattan
project which developed the A-Bomb.
She's quite a bombshell, herself.

We're pleased, too, that he picked a
B.C. girl. For blessed be the ties that
bind and wicked old Premier Bennett
has been slicing away at the Ottawa-
Victoria link for some time now.
Despite Mr. Bennett, we are, indeed, a
part of Canada and proud of it, too.

But what will marriage do to our
Pierre? Will his charisma as Canada’s
most popular and eligible bachelor see
him through the next federal election
which some political wags suggest
could come as early as next Fall?
What about the thousand women
voters, married and unmarried, who
dream of @ kiss from Pierre and
automatically vote for him.

Will the gallic charm remain? Ah,
mesdammes et messieurs, but of
course!

Pierre actually tipped his hand the
night before in Toronto when he tald an
audience of $50-a-plate liberals that he
favored equal rights for’ women. He
devoted his whole speech to it. Then he
flew off to Vancouver to get hitched.

He may live, however, to rue his
words.

After all, he’s been a bachelor for 51
years. He probably stili throws his
galloshes in the hallway on Sussex St.

That might upset Margaret.

And, can she cook?, asked the
redoubtable Ma Murray.

No more TV dinners for Trudeau!

You can’t run the ship of state on an
empty stomach.

We think Pierre will settle down,
somewhat. But we'll miss his ad-
ventures as the international playboy.

Still, it came as quite a surprise. It
would have been more surprising if
he’d married singer actress Barbra
Streisand who he had seen a lot of, and
not, we suspect, for her chicken soup.
But what would a nice Jewish girl be
doing to marry a Roman Catholic?

Butiet that beasit may. Now Pierre
will want to go out with the boys more
often and discuss politics. Maybe he'll
even spend more time with his cabinet.

Or in the House.

Marriage may be blissful but once
the honeymoon is over, our Pierre has
a few problems to face:

High unemployment; recession;
inflation; keeping Nixon’s dandruff
from flaking over Canada’s swing to
the left and a father-in-law who was a
former cabinet minister.

However, we wish the Trudeau’s all
the happiness in the world. .

Welcome to the rocky road of
matrimony, Pierre. You're now one of
us.

CIVIC

Steps to form a civic action, or
ratepayers group in Terrace came
none to soon,

It is hoped this group will be what it
proposes to be: an unbiased pipeline to
the people.

Its function would be twofold: to
provide its members and, through the

newspaper, citizens of Terrace with |

activities of elected officials and to
‘generate interest in elections and
referendums.

At the present time, the media ap-
pears to be the only pipeline to the
people. You read about council or
schoo] board activities and actions
through your newspaper or hear it on
radio or TV

This newly-formed civic action
group would send an unbiased member
to sit in on council, school board,
library board, hospital board and other
activities. He or she would be, in effect,
a “watchdog” for the people.

Such a move can only result in ac-
curacy by the media of local affairs.
For the group’s “watchdog” would
also keep an eye on the press to see that
the people of Terrace are getting the
‘news fairly and squarely.

Speaking for The Herald, we
welcome such an ‘‘ombudsman’’ to
watch over council, school board etc.
and us as well. .

The press also, would attend the
ratepayer's group meetings and report
back to the people.

It would increase interest of the
public in political affairs of the town
and it would, we hope, encourage more

_. public participation not only in a civic

action

action group but on.council and during.
elections. cette a

We don't know whether it-was apathy
or a lack of public awareness, but less
than 40 per cent of our tenant-electors--
that is, those who rent homes and
suites--found their way on the voting
list before the last civic election in
December.

-Many of these people were not aware
that they had a vote.

But they did. And this newly-forming
watchdog group intends to launch,
partly through the press, a drive to get
all tenant-electors on the voting list
and then tackle the tough job of
getting them out to the polls.

In the meantime, education is the
key.

Just what is municipal council doing
with the taxpayer’s funds? Or school
board?

Are these groups open and above-
board? Is the press treating council,
for example, fairly and objectively?

What, also, are the backgrounds and
aims of council or school board can-
didates?

What do they have to offer? © _

Ail this, aratepayer’s group wants to
tell Terrace voters, both property
owners and tenant-electors.

Above all, it wants to spark interes
in the community for the betterment of
the community.

We sincerely wish this embryo civic
action group success for they have a

hard road to travel. Lo

And, we will help them whenever,
however: we can. as long as we are
certain that they remain objective and
pro-Terrace,

_ Whose centennial? _.

Have you noticed all those cute
little centennial flags that are gracing
the desks of many an alderman these

“ days?. says the, New Westminster’
Columbian. The small, desk-size flags
‘are being sold both commercially and
.Uprough local centennial committees.

“¥Next time you see one, turn it over

‘and read the bottom side of the plastic

__ pedestal. No, it doesn’t say “Made in

“Japan”. — it’s made here at home in
Canada. But not in B.C.

The legend reads “Canadian

“Textile Screen Prints, Ltd., -Port:
“Credit, Ont.” The same firm: made 22°’;

different sizes\and types of cetitennial

vel

flags, including the ' pop
pennant model. ~** ;

“To givé-you an idea of the scope of”
the. operation, the: :provincial’ cen-‘

ular ‘boat’

tenniad flags?

tennial office in Victoria is ready to
order another lot of 25,000 of the desk-
size models — since the first 25,000 are
nearly gone, The Victoria office seils

.them for 50 cents :apiece to the local.
centennial committees, who sell them -

for 67 cents plus tax.

Assuming Victoria sells them near
cost, those little desk-size flags have-
oreught a Port. Credit, Ont., firm

$12,500, 5 re

‘Now we're not going to gripe too.
much — after all, they were made in’
Canada — but.at a time when. ‘most.

‘social’workers:.are estimating’B.C.'s
unemployment rate at between 12:and .

16 per. cent, every little bit helps...
, ‘Surely, somewhere-in B.C., there
is a firm that*can mizike little.cen-

é

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FETE,

“Now, maybe your dues would he
a little higher in Amalgamated Plumbers

an’ Steamfitters, Local

218, however...”

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‘You missed scoop!

The Editor
The Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C,

Dear Sir: .

Snowmobilers to Stewart-it
was just another snowmobile
ride-or was it?

The little machines and the
big men that rode them did
what the Chamber of Com-

‘ meree and the Provincial

government together could not
do. | When the Chamber
organized a motoreade to
publicise’ the feed fora-bridge
link, they had to resort to
helicopters and aircraft to
complete the link. Thus the
snowmobile ride was the first
snowmobile trip to Stewart, but
more important it was the first
overland trip of any kind from
Terrace to Stewart in memory
(if anyone knows the exact date
of the last- known person or

persons making the trip please .

let me know.)

Those citizens who are
backers of the “‘Skeena bridge
first” including myself should
have an epportunity to read the
message that was delivered to
the Thornhill Centennial
committee (the message was
presented to The Herald but not:
printed). Permit me to quote a
section of the letter, “This being
the first succesful crossing of
the Nass River by snow
vehicles (or any land vehicle)
and along the road which we

expect will be connected by a - you everytime - just when you

».May need it,

bridge over the Nass river this
summer it will be a very’
memorable event as the years
go by and to all of us in Stewart
a very worthwhile effort to help
us publicize the need of a road
link to connect our town of
Stewart with the rest of British
Columbia by road and further,

“in this remote northwestern

corner of B.C. where roads and
a bridge are still needed to end a
eentury of isolation for the
residents of Stewart.” “s
Those people really need the
bridge I hope that our com-
munities will show the Stewart
Snow Bombers their good sides
and I hope the Press can spare
the time away from the
Quarreling Council to cover a
story that may be like a breath-
of fresh air onto their narrowing

pages. .
', Why knock Howard? Frank

‘+ that is - the “logger statesman”
. to use a phrase coined by an -
editor -- from the south boy =. -

not by Frank. i

So-he didn't pick all his
campaign committee from B.C.
or the north. If he loaded his
ship with British Columbians
she would list so bad that’ she
would flounder and rall over in
the first heavy sea.

. : . rat
He has chosen men from ag’:

good a cross section of Canada.
‘as ‘possible, as any leader.
should if he expects to have an

plans to represent. :

You bet he wants to win, and
if he does he will put this corner
of B.C. into the place it belongs,

VERE up there with the. best af.
"th al wena * poet t

fs And if our. MP feels he has the’
qualifications to lead his ‘party

‘andthe guts enough to:try for’:

_Jels support him. :

‘Of late, we (the people ‘of the

he leadership, well boy-howdy,’

knowledge of the country he’:

north) have been hearing
rumors that Frank Howard has
Zone soft, gone (Shudder)
eastern even gone tea-total and
even ceased to be an _ in-
dividualist.

Well by Gar dat stan’ he tak
on hootch at polotic conventions
dat smell clean an’ prove to me
more dan ever dat he is rugged-
tobreast dat tide, an’ an in-
dividualist to you bat. I ‘tink
dat rumors she was start by
some city ding dong, ;

Tremambar, we usé call dem
“summer experts’, day stay
an’ see the summar but day
don’ las’ the wintar.

Day wan’ the lights out when
day drink in town.

Me, I drink ‘ard, I live ‘ard, I
don’t care if she be crowd or if '
the sun she shine, just so long
the constable look away, and
the company she be good.

One, how you call dat, night
club? Dats 'ard mon ami, but
his north she ‘ard not lak dat
sout?

We see in the Vancouver Sun
that the Minister of Municipal
Affairs plans to pass legislation
to force unorganized areas to
‘incorporate. Won't that be a
kick in thé teeth to Thontl!
Over there they’ve been trying
to incorporate for six years -
and Victoria won't let them.

1 would like vou to consider
letting me write pieces like this
. once-a-week - I would not censor

It might be good to have the
opinions of a person who has

resided in town for 10 years.

IT would try to comment on out
of place items seen in
Provincial & National news
releases (such as the last
paragraph of this letter) just to
fel people thinking and acting

I don’t want my name on the
it the

or

just call
Corner”

column
“Loggers
something.. ' .
; j Yours truly,
L, Watmough
Editors note:

Les you don’t need a
column! You're doing a
bang-up job of writing Letters-
lo-the~ editor. Besides, - this
editor from the south (south
Kitsilano), might coin-a-phrase
and call you something like
Terrace's “‘logger-philosopher”
or ‘adjuctive faller' or ‘poet
choker!' How’s dem chickens,
oldtimer!

Thanks

The Editor
The Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C. -

Dear Sir: .- -
The Terrace

shown In: our ‘recent ‘miusial:
production of “Salad Days”.

Light Opera ..
Ass'n. send their most sincere.”
thanks to you for allthe help'you.
have kindly given and Intetest”

He wants variety

The Editor
The Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Sir: I think you've got
pretty nice country around here
but you got two problems. At
least I think they are problems
and that is that there’s no place
where my kids can ice skate in
this town and there’s just one
crummy TV station. .

Idon’t mean it's a badstation

sports-wise or -entertainment-.

wise but I come from Surrey
and down there we got a bunch
of stations to choose from and if
we don’t like one program we
ean turn the channel to another
one. .

My kids like hockey andI’ma
newcomer but I understand you

_ have been trying to get an ice

rink here for-seyen or eight
years. which I think is un-
believable. What's wrong with
the Town if it can’t havea place
to go and watch hockey instead
of going down to Kitimat? I
work in Kitimat but I like
Terrace better because it is
more like a town and not a
bunch of boxes. But they’ve gat
an ice arena and you haven't.

All the TV isn’t that bad, I
enjoy-Hockey Night in Canada
and there are some good shows
on. But doesn’t CF'TK serve a
big area like Prince Rupert and
Kitimat, etc? That’s‘a big area
and it should be big enough to
have the CTV network in here
and if we don’t like one of those
high-class CBC plays we could
switch. Maybe you could locate
a station in Kitimat or Prince
Rupert.

I think a lot'of people would
like a second channel for more
variety,

Yours for an ice rink and a.
choice of TV channels,

Bill McNabb,
Thornhill.

Super mayor?

The Editor . ;
The Terrace Herald,
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Sir:

was certainly impressed when |
read the Mayor's letter (March
8). Let's face it, we've got to
give credit where credit is due.
He is is a master at the art of
“political manoeuver!"? ;

Think of it. If Council indeed -
manages to get ‘drainage, .
paving, ‘and’ the Deep: Creek.’
‘water intake" ‘completed;; the”

Mayor will take full ' credit
because he ‘“‘manoeuvered"
them into it.

- But if it happens that these
things don't get done; whose.

fault will it be - you guessed it - , :

the “six chains" around his
neck who insist on “dragging
their feet.”

Nice spot to bein if you can

“manoeuver itt”. .
Reminds me of-an old saying;

he's a Natural Leader! He only

lacks one thing - Natural
followers.

. Impressed
(Namewitheld by request)

‘To politicians:'

The Editor
.The Terrace Herald
. Terrace, B.C.

Dear Sir: .
An-Answer to all Politicians:
Upon the whole surface of the
Blobe there is no more spacious

. and wonderful domain

Open to the freedom and genius
of free men - et
We have’ the opportunity. to
realize a social structdre that
would be of greater benefit to a
people than either socialsim,
communism, capitalism. | /

A. voluntary. Intelligent
People in wisdom.
Shouldn't we ail keep our
politicians from attempting to
divide Canada, divide the
Commenwealth of Nations and

ssociations? ye
Assoc Juhnston Latham,

Terrace,

HENRY CREASE.
B.C. BUILDERS ©

A rugged &

"While on circuit. in thi

Cassiar Judge Henry -Feriniiae

- Pellew Crease met ‘with

serious accident but cortinue-#ae

to try cases while lying on By

stretcher. So desperate did hi im
condition appear that hijaae
Indian bearers wanted tim
desert him. But Crease madi
them carry him up and dow: ie
the steep trails “not fee ie
forward as. a dead man,” h
later . wrote ;
foremost.”’ He progressed thii lie
way, holding assizes as hig
went, down the tortuaus trail

from Dease Lake, throug!
Telegraph Creek, Laketon
Glenora and down the Stikin Sim

. River to the sea where tie tool

a ship home to Victoria.

province. He was at once a’
rugged pioneer, at .home
roughing it with miners
‘heading for the Cariboo, and alm

‘scholar with the professional jam
knowledge of a member of the 4

English Bar. His robust

frame, resolute temper, and jaa

practical knowledge of life on'f
the trail made him par-
ticularly valuable ‘in the
colony which hecame Baum
Canada's sixth province inf
‘1871, ; -

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Crease was a Cornishman, ‘em
son of a British naval eaptain, 3
:- Who: first--came to. Canada
shortly ‘after he graduated Mae
from Canbridge and had been fae
called to the English Bar in 3g
1449. After working with a 7

survey and exploring party on ae
turned to

-Lake Superior he

England to manage “the
greatest, tin min

world” iri his native Gornwall. Pr
‘Economic. conditions\in 1857 Sam
forced him to relingu

enterprise ‘but it“ had “given
him ari understanding of
miners which stood him in Ge
good stead after coming to iEm

British Columbia’ in\1854, He jae

was the first barrister'to be
called to the Bar of both the fem
Island and mainland colonies, cae
In 1860 he was elected to the Ex
legislative
ancouver Island butresigned
the following year when | he &
was appointed .. Attorney
General for Brilish Colutnbia,

This position he continued to:

hold after the union of the .
colonies in . 1366 until his
elevation. to the Benclt in 1870,

He was a member of the (am
Legislative Council of British [iam
Columbia and shared with J, (ee

W. Trutch,. the ‘Chief :Com- fj

missioner of Lands.and works [ae

the honor of introducing the
resolutions for union with

Canada on. March 9, 1870 and [ea
participating “actively ‘f, the Fam

lively Debate. *

On his retirement from the
Bench in 1696 he was knighted
and continued. to: live;{h On-
tario until his death in'fWs, at
th age of 82. :

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