te ndodae Pt a BAT cee TRYST gp PAGE 2, THE HERALD Wednesday, February 15, 1978! -VF-y _ EDITORIAL: Who are the Unemployed? With the number of registered unemployed at the Terrace Manpower office currently at 2,500 one would expect, in a small community like this — they would be “highly visible,” indeed... that is, every fourth or fifth adult you meet would be out of work, and fairly easy to notice. A check with Juanita Hatton’s ‘Golden Rule”’ office - which is a one-woman ‘‘Manpower”’ office, revealed, Monday, her files list ap- proximately the same number - 2,500 looking for work - though not all of them actively doing so, some having given up, no doubt, others moved away, and some thankless persons having ob- tained jobs and not bothered to notify her office. One might expect to find advertisements by people looking for work to be plastered and displayed all over the place. A careful run through of the Classified Ad. columns of the Terrace Herald Monday, did not show a single person bothering to seek employment there. The other local papers are similarly overlooked, The free ‘billboards’ on the radio hardly ever - when we have listened - carried announcements sent in by job seekers. There is one category, though, which appears the most visible of all in that great grey mass of 2,500 ‘somewhere out there.” They are those who call themselves “babysitters’’. . One will generally find pen, pencil, china marker, felt pen and even occasionally notices by persons who state they are “... to babysit in my home.” Similar. an- nouncements are also carried on the radio “billboards,”’ But they are the exception. In trying to reach out to lend a helping hand (A free hand, we wish to emphasize) the Herald is offering to carry ady ments for people who are seriously in need of work and unable to find’ it. We are looking for people who need the income to support themselves and possibly a family. To help such out-of-work-and-looking-for-work persons (of whom there are repo 2,600 registered in Terrace, alone) we are , BB far as we are able, to help them | pare a “selling” ad, putting their abilities, into. words. _ should they find it difficult to-do so themselves. : We'tire-also-willing-tot‘write themup’? if they’: wish, and tella.bit about them, any s; skills they may have - that would not fit into the usual four or five line advertisement. We are even, where space permits, willing to take their picture and put their photo in the paper all for as free’, , But, in order for us to do this, they will have to step out from the invisible world in which they. are hidden, They will have to assume substance and have names, ages, addresses, phone num- bers (if possible) - we have to know who they are, how toreach them, something about them - what they can do, what training or education they possess, jobs they can handle - something, at least, to carry out our offer. How far are we willing to go in our attempt to, locate jobs for the jobless? Employment for the unemployed? Help for the helpless? a .To start with, we are willing to take up a whole page-or two pages - or more everyday, in the Herald if the need proves that great, We are willing to take and develop and print photos of some of them, where a photo would be an. ad- vantage - their advantage - and also might help a prospective employer make up his mind to contact him or her. We are ready to go out after and seek ad- ditional support from our readers and sub- scribers to help us help them, But where are the 2,500? Why aren't we being stampeded by the rush? We certainly thought we would have been, by now. — Manpower said we should expect at least 100 to 150 contact within the first month. We thought this to be a: very conservative figure. Maybe they know something we don't. We'll keep you posted. Sh Srmanrin Serpe. tay “And to think I moved way out here to get away from the hazards of urban living.” An letter to: The Minister of Education Ministry of Education, Parilament Bulldinge, Victoria ~ Letters To The Editor The Honourable-Dr, P. McGeer, Province of British Columbia, - (German amount of equalization payment” levied againat this School: District, and the cacalation from $380,000 in 1977 to an eatimated $1,200,000 for 1978, The Board are not in disagreement with the principle of for educational purposes should be ly distributed throughout the British Columbia School Districts, It is however, thelr contention that other costs boas by School Boards and Municipalities should also be taken into account when setting the basic education cost. For example, it is nectasary because of the higher cost of living in the North to y our teaching staff on an average $00.00 per annum er than in the Vancouver Metropolitan area. The coat of llving in the Northern area of the Province has recen the Laie Ratna: Rear ee bar cent higher “the Lower additional a] t er than in Vancouver. Due to our location t experlences very heavy snowlall and annual costs for municipal anow clearing Is in excess of $800,000, The foregoing are just some of the additional costs which are borne by the individual home owner and business man in this community and Incidentally in other Northern communities, On the premise that educational costs should be equalized throughout the Province we believe that tha other costs borne by the community should be taken nto account when setting the basle jevy. We would therefore ask your consideration in Provinelal baaie levy for this community, Because of the local concern expressed both by the hi shared reaponsibillty and agree that the burden of taxatlon . Nazi Shan in. ' Frangp ‘Alone accounte for ian al d per cent on all material itenis, Building coste dre: the 1977 adjustment factor of 80 per cent of the ‘also the of cost ary-Treasurer, 8, D, No. 80 (Kitimat) Dear Sir: . Some easy. jobs resemble each other and each difficult job is difficult in ita own way. ’ But a difficult fob is not any Jess rewarding than an the task, the greater and more distinctive are its » In fact, each man rises to a challenge in how own special way. School principals — good ones =- do not lead easy lives for there can be few tasks more difficult than the angling B. disheartening lives, eight hows a day, five BA ‘are few taske more difficult than the Imposition of authority upon children for whom authority is anathema, or the provision of support and care for ‘ehildren to whom support -] and care may be unknown, TERRACE — daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Circulation » 635-6357 Published by Sterling Pubilshers PUBLISHER... Don Cromack MANAGING EDITOR... Ernest Senior Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201, Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed, . NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, camplete and sole copyright In any advertisement praduced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is net permitted without the written permiasion of the Publisher. , or the teaching of that, which is important to children who will become adults in a soclely which does not know — and perhaps never has known — what is important! Adlfficult task, and a task of asort that we all shoulder vicariously or occasionally or as parents — but a task willing, if indeed ‘we were ' wa were able - to shoulder fessionally. And so we ve sae Wy and we need peincipala, We expect them to be tin spite of our imperfections and we do not more difficult than to watch hundreds of childrey each year grow older and to be e for their growth. But there can be few tasks - easy one, The more difficult — week, year after year, There . on Janual Munleipallty and the public, our Trustees feel that it would be most beneficial to meet with you to discuss the foregoing and poratbilty of establishing a more equitable method ing on. a regional basis. ; ’ more rewarding, It, 1s to be hoped that school principals and teachers when they retire, if they survive, remember the rewards not only the difficulties, deserve to. 8 8 ss... "Yes, all our school teachers deserve a place of honour, for they are generally a group of dedicated people who have’ the welfare of our children uppermost in their minds, Have you ever thought about the pressures that society as a wholehas placed on them.? The pressures from our children, ie joumeelves a parents, the department education and in some cases their own B.C.T.F. ex- perlence. Many parents cannot understand just why teachers do not have the magic wand: that would. make our children top of the class in all grades. We all know that the magic wand is out but we do have “something that will take its place and that would be oo- operation of parents with teachers and possibly a little co-operation «from the studen' The Terrace Herald, Terrace, B.C, Dear Sir, : On behalf of the Kinsmen Club of Terrace I with to express our th: to you for all your assistance to ua on our Mother’a March Dinner 29, 1978. Without your assistance it would have been impossible for the . Kinsmen Club of Terrace to undertake this project and make it a success. . ‘Thank you again. Sincerely, Dave Allen Secretary an they By DAVID MAGEE DUESSELDORF, West (CP) — The an magazine eles and broadcasts ar: a an be believed, The Board of School Trustees js most disturbed over the - Some Germans fret the hostages of hut cident last year. All major. West Ger- man Same ‘azines site| lea ; ther phenomenon of “The: Ugly German,” The host one of television's most Stern, ‘ carried an ar- Hcle ‘about the tremen- dous growth of West German investment in business and Industry The headline asked, “‘... and Tomorrow the World?” ddle-aged now will look a foreigner ° te | Lwas a Nazi,” no guilt complex about it ea few give the im- pression they are challenging the in- terviewer: - to - make something of it. BUY GOEBBEL'S DIARY Almost every week there is at least one television program dealing in some way with the Naz era; one of last year’s most popular series was about a Second World War German spy. Currently, bookstores feature the diary of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Sabian acietenen “Will Canadians make it asked. “Yes!’, - “Ts there anything in Real wealth vestments of of Canadian busines, hag other coun Inflation in Canada, over These were encoura, us present that we should perfect times... - I was congrat _magazinestyle ~ histories . first one produced in ‘of model Stukas, Tiger -interest shu ina hijacking kn _CONDEMN WAR d.;GAMES.....- BG swananare Raves aR “articles: problii ‘games, modes Fa - Fegalla in the context of “giving authenticity to a Germans © Heil’ salutes. to ea other as a prank were. ‘severely disciplined. The This Week in the last bad, he said as any other in pre aganda chief. The is a best-seller. it is possible to find, at almost any newsstand, e Luftwaffe or the the of Wehrmacht—from German One of 1977's box-office hits was a film called Hitler—A Career, the West Germany to be ven mass distribution.. e hobby shops are full tanks and U-Boats. Many visitors find this Nazism abhorrent. But a great many Germana, espe- elally ones under 40, ow litle ‘or nothing about the Third Reich. of "war: and toys’ s been condemned by several West German citizens’ groups. . Tronically, virtually all these items come from other countries, even though it is no longer illegal ta display Naz = The* “sellin ilm or a hobbyist's model airplane, Demonstrations planned by extreme rightists in Munich, who claim the Nazis were un- justly maligned, have m banned by the authorities. Two airmen who recently gave ‘‘Sie editor who approved the controversial Stern ar- ticle about.German in- dustrial might was fired. The editorial cartoonist : of . Duesseldorf’s Rheiniseche Post may have done the best job of expressing the cynic’s view of. the whole business. He produced a drawing that needed no.- caption. It: showed the head and torso of a grim- faced Hitler disappearing into: an old-fashioned | meat grinder, Spewing: out the other end were and Deut- oint of view, | Mall } you'll rec _| excellent ~ Ottawa Offbeat by Richard Jackson. Ottawa — You likely missed it the other day in the dramatic rush of things in Ottawa. _ But finally — after 10 years of frustration —- a member of the lowly parliamentary press finally “got” Prime Minister Trudeau. Not that this particular presaman was especially lowly, for he was no mors lacking in lustre, virtue or the other human ties than any of his 280 colleagues In the Press Gallery. . Tt was just that to the Prime Minlater the prees, as you may recall, is “crummy”. And who knows, maybe it is. . In fact, in comparison to the Prime Minister who has the mind of a ed jewel (and the body of a 26-year-old, as estranged wife Margaret having said) the press ig miles out of its league. - nd When it comes, as it-does, at his press conferences — or in close encounters of another kind In the hallways of Parliment — that they’re eyeball to eyeball, the “Crumbe'’ are ex: travagantly outmatched by the “King”, There never, in living parllamentary memory, has been a Prime Minister so mentally sharp, or so ready to use that razor mind to cut people down tc size. Ask almost anyone in the Opposition, Tory or New Dem, and you'll find nobody anxious to cross verbal swords with him save perhaps former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. And Diet, even with the advantage of far reaching years during which he has matured into a living legend, calls lt a. day well Won when he can at least stand off the Prime eT ” eer gone th But never the press. was eh Be Aak the Prime Minister a question, any question, Sure, you'll get an answer. Usually courteous, seldom very informative. And never full disclogure, “: | "He slde-steps, Shadow-boxes. Shrugs.. Grins and‘ says nothing. Replies in monosyllables. Or responds in such convoluted multl-sentenced paragraphs even a constitutional lawyer would find difficult sorting out thesense of it. Fron painful experience the Gallery has learned never to- ry him a loaded question, because he blackiacks them with answers, Nor [a it advisable to ask a smart-alec question which begs . for the saver | putdown. . Nor y hoatility — or worse, a presupposed answer — for down comes the boom. Squash. For ten years, the Prime Minister has found his prees conferences — formal, or off-the-cuff — easy romps. Until the other day when a reporter —for the printed press, not TV or radio — stumbled on themagicformula, — Study carefully the Prime Minister's prepared press conference statements. Word for word. Sentence by sen- tence. Find a hole, even an opening. - Then ask a straight question. No slanting. No loading. No insinuation. Just an innocent, clean question. . Like the other day when the Prime Minister came to his press conference witha red statement, 10 pages long in which, among other things, he sald that ret National Capital Commission Chairman Pierre Juneau had done “an | job.” He had other praise for Mr. Juneau, but “excellent job” was the essence of it. : Up rose reporter Orland French, the PM's statement in hand, and remarked: ‘Your press release says Mr. Juneau has done an excellent job.” , . Trudeau nodded, walting for the question. “I was wondering,” continued French, dead-pan, “if you can give a couple of examples of that excellence,?”’. « Trudeau was noaplussed. Ambushed, St dead in his ‘Eaamplea of the ood job done?’ wa ~ "Examples of the g i e?" he asked, fumbling for Use and words. ‘'No, I really hayé not. got ay ae his -achievements,” , ; ae Not even one, Winter Games and then addressed 1 the subject of Canada’s _ We have not read many positive accounts of Caneda’s ‘economic state in recent months, & the Prime Minister's | words on this altuation offered a good deal of encouragement. through these’ tough timea?“‘he _ "Ig the economy going going down the drain?“ “No”, 0 years Canada has Savings and in- or the actual saleable output grown at a faster rate than any try except Japan in the last 10 years, s the last 10 years has net been as dustrial nation; ° - @ words. They reminded ma havea little falth in these tenant. eased A hear the Prime Minister. extend on organizers of our successful. B.C. Northern Winter Gamer Indeed, the Games were nhs red by all, and I wag pleased to see that the next Games will be ‘fheld in Smithers and that 1831 competitions will be held in . From Ottawa .. MILITARY DUTY Italian landed immi hela our history that justifies the deep’ express thas La See ” He went on to point oxt that ey yea equalled or outperformed other Western industrial natlona, - or the actual: holdings and Canadians doubled, he’ sald, The Gross National Product, of. LAEO! UNION «ant! was the one day the boom reversed and fell on the — M.P. _ ITALIAN CANADIANS RELIEVED OF HOMELAND voolieage the H bh m: (3) held taike wilh Italian officigia 7 Do" Who recently, It was made clear during mee . Danson Infor mayen mee cng al a lon ' even though they might enjoy dual nahin service, - Until now there had been some ints resident In Canada, when: they I m miany of you will be pleased that . which must be ent of. 33. The work on months and it is- will benefit’ by this MINISTER, HOLDS TALKS WITH KITIMAT OFFICALS; MANAGEMENT t NITIMAT Munro me B.C.Tel, ~ Federal Labour Minster John C.A.8.A.W,, Canadian Council of Unions, Canadian Paper. °° workers, Union and Chamber of Commerce, reptesental ven? during at recent int to Kitimat, and says that his:“first | han and probleme ore te resolution of problems. reer Oren wil 7 uly eee . non . oF . . liability on thé’ part of Float in Queen.)