, Tuesday, July 20, 1982 TKR aliyh . : : herald ‘ini every y weekday a 10 5 Kani ‘Street | . G.b¥ -Sterling Publishers Ltd. “Registratic ipestag ivgulation: 695-4900:" rian Grega a Advertising Sales: : ~ Terrace: — David Hamilton aie Photographers: ‘Sports: Mike Howlett Don Schaffer “Tae "th the Editor, | oy c. _ Of her family responsibilities — . Reception-Classified: ane CarolynGlbson . Circulation: . coe Narla Taylor ; The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright . - In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. _ Repreductlon is not permitied without the written permission of the Publisher. Rate dropped : NEW YORK (AP) —A third major v SS. commercial ibank has dropped | the prime lending | rate it charges to top- Fated corporate customers to 16 per cent from 16.5 per cent, Morgan Guaranty Trust Co, the fifth-largest. U.S, com- . mercial | bank, today matched the rate set Monday by ; ‘Manufacturers’ Hanover Trust Co., the fourth-biggest U.S: bank by deposits, and eighth ranked First National Bank of | Chicago. Some smaller banks also followed the lead. | The change also came after the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. central] bank, dropped Its principal lending rate to - "115 per cent from 12 per cent, the firet reduction since ’ December.’ - Economists, citing a aubstantial drop recently in banks? coat of acquiririg funds, said they expected the 16 per cent "rate to spread throughout the industry this week, The 16:5 per cent rate has prevailed since February. The prime rate is a base from which commercial banks _ figure interest charges on business: loans. Top-ra' -porations-ofter-getoans at rates. lay ceuthiip the: “whith Behe’ fess‘ dreditworthy’ conipimTesFisually pay more than the prime, The Prime dose it apply to consumer loans. f Housewives exploit | " VANCOUVER (CP) — Housewives returning to the work- ‘force are exploiting their household and volunteer.ex- "perience to bypass starting at the bottom and move right - - into. middle management. : With a good resume filled with businessmnen’s jargon and a_business-like ‘approach to the job market, Susan Fane became alife insurance agent recently after the breakdown of her marriage.” . Fane started from, abasic premise that she wanted to be ‘in. sales and that she-was skilled in organizing and in - meeting people, and that she needed g flexible job because two. hoys, aged five and “geven. 0 \ . Her’ resume emphasized her skills and volunteer work as. a zone chairman with the Heart Foundation and mentioned‘ . her placeon the executiveofa political organization instead of touting her last job, a secretarial position held 10 years ago. Then she started contacting all the business people she kriew,- : She-told them she was looking for work and sald that. i although she knew they probably didn’t have a dob for her, she would like to talk to them about poselbilities, in a thelr field. > “Tt is common sense to figure out your skills and to write T your resume emphasizing these strong points,” says Sally . Ashley in her book Connecting, directed at. housewives returning to. paid work. ; '.Kathy Banky, currently the school programs officer for : the B.C. Foréat Museum at Duncan on southern Vancouver | Island, got her job after 20 years of unpaid: volunteer work - while her children were growing up. “1 don't think my 23-year-old teaching certificate was. worth: much but the volunteer work I did counted,” said . Banky.. “The. yeertificate you get from the Provincial ‘Museum after you've been a docent for two years is really ‘ looked up to because the museum is known for its training Program. _ “I've always done a ‘ot of voluntesr work that dealt with peopleof all ages like I have to do in this job. 1 started aco- - op play school; taught senior citizens cooking and basic . outrition,. worked’ in the school: library and was always involved in what used to be called the PTA." She included ail in her resume'and'she said it she could: have designed her. “moat perfect job” the one she has would ‘be it. “Another local businesswoman ; who __ after 20 yéars and gota graduate dedi then worked at the. " University of B.C. says’ "shel yo igigever. recommend the , - going-back-to-school: route, to a \yone else. She ended up ‘starting her’ own company ~,ahothér ‘recommendation “Astley makes — to make most Productive use of her skits... The job: market: these women ‘were’ Boing after. had nothing to.do with didvertisements in the paper and. articles - | about.the “job climate’ in business publications, : ~. Most management positions are not advertised; often o|went back to school people leave their jobs and new ‘people are hired to replace | them without the intervention of an employment agency or an ad. This is particularly true Jin ‘lower and middle _ executive or ‘decision-making’ aa < Women who leave the work force in their early 208 to have children’ discover when they look for jobs 10 years later that * they have developed skills of organization and leadership. they never ‘had before, says Norm’ Preston of Ability Per- sonnel, ‘ah: eftiployiment Sanath. ‘rogram for "people . ‘To the Editor, : In the world nat da _ have them giao. ‘I'm sure that'in Canada " which takes cate ofthe animals, and "People when thelr, a are killed lawlesaly? “growled. . People were. afrald of him. Hapeclally the” Anaillady. who brings us daily mail. One day: Jackie, who: -was chalned up, lunged at a boy. whe went pear our howse.. Fortunately, the boy is alright, “Therefore, I don’t. une 2 derstand why Jackie was killed, Moreover, I daresay that. _itwas inhuman towards the landlord’s children, because: he "wal their dog, and they lovedhim verymuch. - - Tt was on July 11. One man came on Sunday: in the af: ternoon (the landlord wasn't at home; there was only his . _wife), and he said ta the landlady that her dog is very = ~ dangerous; therefore he must destroy him. The young man “was from the municipal office, and was very angry; so - 1 "think - the woman was frightened. Also, she didn't suppose, ‘of course, that the man would be willing to kill the dog. That. is why she gave the dog to the man. Everybody believed the . . “dog would only be neutered. The children didn't sleep at ‘night; they prayed foy their dog, Buton Monday, when our landlord telephoned to the man and asked about his dog, the . man answered: “Your dog isin the garbage.” ‘I'm surprised to know that in Canada it is 0 easy to kill onanimal; andI think peopleshouldn’t be 20 cruel, MackandBozenaFelez 5 - an i » The Kispiox Valley Farmers Institute requested the weed . contrel program in the Kispiox Valley, concentrating on Canada Thistle. The infestation by Canada Thistle in the regional districts of Kitimat-Stikine and Bulkley Nechako is’ the worst in the province. ~ We have had very good cooperation from our represen- - fative Marty ‘Allen,‘and the Regional District of Kitimat- © . Stikine, and 1 wish here, to publicly thank them, I particularly object to the allegation as. reported. by _CPTK-TY in Terrace,/that the spraying is not properly. - ” supervised and is being done in an irresponsible mancer, ‘I ' am quite satisfied that the supervision is adequate; and the work is being done in a responsible manner by qualified personnel. I should like to: know how many of the signatori of the protest to the spraying of the rodeo rounds were residents a ' Unemployment may be reaching crisis proportions _ in Terrace as UIC benefits run out for hundreds of — workers laid-off in forestry-related industries close to "year ago. Terrace council has decided to form a ’ committee looking into the probleni-after having ‘received some criticism for its inaction from some groups in town including the International Wood- - workers of America. A rally.designed to protest the situation and educate the public on possible alter- natives is being planned by a committee of the North- . west Study Conference for Sept. 4. The position of . that. conference on unemployment. issues was presented in a paper’ reproduced here which was prepared for the conference by Ben Swankey. "In April 1982, the official figures for unemployment - - in Canada were 1,239,000, up from 886,000 a year ago. ‘work force... The corresponding figures. for BC. were 148,000 unemployed, 11.2 per cent of the work force. : Those ‘are the official figures which do not include the hidden unemployed - those who had stopped looking for jobs because there are none, Statistics ‘without work, had actively looked for work in the past four weeks and: were available for work.’ In , March 191, Statistics Canada permitted ‘that their . number stood at $89,000. A year later the figure was stated to be 200,000 but'this was so obviously in — ‘| contradiction to the actual state of affairs that they took another lock and came up with the figure of 407,000. Maybe, they should keep on looking; they ‘may find some more! Statistics ‘Canada uses a term called “geagonally adjusted rate of unemployment” ‘to describe the | “Instead of glving you the exact. percentage, they average it out over a year-and call it “seasonally. adjusted.” This evens out the highs and lows. Ilsa fictitious term,.a politician’ 6 trick to Jessen the im- . Summer day in Terrace when- the température is 25 degrees Celsius, that the seasonally adjusted tem- _perature on that day isn't 35, it’sSdegrees. Theterm . “seasonally adjusted” is a real phony. - High. rates. of unemployment are becoming a- permanent feature of our society. In the last 12 years -- .Canada and 5,6 per cent for. B.C. . uriemployment in Canada for some ‘time, The figures increase, of course, during difficult economic times. ’ They rose substantially during the decline in- the economy which began in 1974 amd are éxtremely high now; in fact, they are the highest since the Hungry . Thirties, : _Economists supporting t the Establishment “and the Status Quo are using a variety of terms to deseribe © our current state.. They call it: “recession”, - “gtagflation”, and even “reverse. upward trend" - ‘anything except its real name, What.we have, of course, is & good ald - fashioned economic crisis and . using deceptive terms won't change ‘that fact.. : ’ Etonomic crises, periodg of boom and bust, are an. . Inherent feature of our free enterprise system; The . ‘them: every seven to 10 years since. The Great * Depression of 1929-39 was the longest and deepest in our history, After. World-War Il the pattern changed - _ tended to be shallower and deeper. It appears now, * though, that we are again reverting, beginning with deeper and_longer with oaly short “prosperity” _ Periods in! between, thathave haunted our economilc system ever aince its inception? While there are particular factors which tend to precipitate or effect each economic crisis, I. would suggest that the © underiving cause is unplanned . more then 4S years old, “ oe man's cruelty, T woud tao I ie welt can - d to cur landlords dog dete, tte” . ‘That's a'39 per cent increase and 10.6 per cent of the ; . Canada considers only those unemployed who were . - percentage of the work force that is unemployed, “they bave never dropped below 5.4 per’ “cent: for... : As the figures show, we have had a high level of . . first one in Canada took place in 1625 and we have had a for a’time: “Economic crises continued but: they © the 1974 economei crisis, to ones that.are. getting — What are the batic causes of these economic etises ee, “Letters to | a : ‘of the Kispiox vay. Lwas told that: a8 the women i «the _ Narthweat. Womens’ Festival they were. “Suked.‘to’ ‘sign: a. Was that ‘the: paper’ that: Was. presented at: the . * meeting of the regional board?’ : _, Terrace, and she should not butt into ours. You would think. ’ ” the whole grounds had been blanket sprayed, The fact is only. the thistle patches were sprayed, and who.wants to roll - ing thistle patch? If the women wished to move the Nor- thwest Womens Festival to another site, that Is their business. The Kisplox Valley Redeo Grounds is not a public . recreation or picnic grounds, but is held under lease by the Kispiox Valley Community Centre’ Association. _ ‘The people who gathered there on July 1 had a very en- Joyable old time picnic, and were not worried by the: spraying of the thistles three weeks previous: The ones who’ ‘ were worried were free to exercise their own judgement and attended the picnic held further up river. . ‘Three years ago, in deference to the wishes of some of the residents of the-Valley, the thistles on the redeo grounds were not sprayed. Certain people who objected to chemical: contro]. promised to control them manually. To my knowledge they were hoed incompletely, once, and I don’t believe any sort of manual control has been exercised since. “The idea that one or even more cutting will control Canada ” “Thistle in this country isa fantasy. The farmers object to a :.- _ seed plot whieh nullifies their efforts as well as those of thé — department of highways to eradicate the weed. Opposition the first year delayed its implementation | ’ until it was largely: ‘ineffective that year, thus the ‘program ~ to the program _and the dissentlon was only prolonged. To paraphrase, when we all recall the events that took . place’ recently, which will be remembered the longest, the spraying controversy, or the skinny dipping at Pentz Lake?" What kind of political hay can you make of that? | Sincerely, Kispiox resident for 54 years production for anunknown market in our competitive economic system. Sooner or later a surplus is produced (a surplus not in relation to what people need but what they.can buy back) and we have a crisis. The surplus has to be disposed of before the economic machine can start rolling again. — _ .Aclose look at the economic picture in the Western - world for. the past. decade or evén longer, Indicates that certain new features have emerged.The period — of-more. or leas sustained “prosperity” and low . tinem ployment that followed World War II is al an end, We have entered a period when high unem- ployment, an energy crisis, a monetary crisis, and a high rate of inflation have become chronic and eprmanent features of our society, This is inevitably - . bringing in its wake also a period of political’ in- stability. - ~~: - Finance Minister McEachen and Prime Minister _ ‘Trudeau have time and again emphasized that, in their view, the main problem facing Canada is high _, inflation -and the main way to fight it. is: with high interest rates-which also mean high unemployment, - Ottawa, and our provincial government. too, con- tinue to assert that wage increases are the cduse of- inflation: The corporateowned media has heen. playing the same tune. The solution, they. say, Is wage: controls, Tae "We! ve e been down that road before - from 1975 to 1978. . ‘Inflation was not halted. Price controls were never . really imposed. Profits increased but the living standards of working peopl went down, The real purpose of those wage controls was to keep.up profits “ata time of economic erisis when production was falling and markets were shrinking. What the Canadian. people were subjected to was.a govern- * mentorporale consplracy.-to make labour -the ". “seapegoat for inflation. They did a con job on'the «| Canadian people, The first main cause of inflation is. price-fixing by “donot ieet that thie wraying of the inisleron the Kispiox Wel os ". Valley -rodeo. grounds ‘was’ done. in an “underhanded. © manner” aa charged by Nancy Rosa, of Terrace. Tshould _ . Suggest to her-that we do not interferé with her- business in. Soe Mathew chapter 4, nh to appear eectearee Ourest course in, Zephaniah . 2:3,. Paalm Word to the ave been sib “to respond to the v EN Nasti fp have kaown Mrs Allen for 34°" years! How nice for Mr, Allen, | auppose, that he did not motion or second the: motion to suddenly spray public ‘property with a chemical not proven safe, What that has to do with the real-issue unfortunately escapes me. - 3 Let's face It, the problem is the principle of the matter, not who made the suggestion, the motion or seconded it, And rio matter how well-respected Mr. Allen or Ms, Nash are in their area, the fact remains that a potentially lethal chemical was sprayed in an area where many people congregate; people who may not know that Tordon is not eis || 4 HelenCampbell - . proven safe, children who have no say in what they are exposed to, and pregnant women, who are at highest risk of all. Avery unfortunate precedent has been set; ‘eure, let's go ahead, as long as a chemical has not bean proven to be - lethal, yet, we can spray to our hearts’.content.. Alter all, we won't even be around If and when the effects of exposure to Study Conference examines unemployment | ” can Jeast affordit-and giveto those who least need it. politically, atleast, Canada does not appear ready for all . as that asa Uae oat ~ Tt.is ap bent, however that, gaaet x ’ structural changes are neeried, bn Doth the, economy - the flight of capital out of the country, Nationalize the _ bainks and other financial Institution and bring credit ’ build -affordable housing, building secondary. in- . « building an east-west power grid, building gas and oll . pipe-lines from coast to coast to serve Canadian : “needs, building a Canadian merchant marine.. BC. Telephone and establish a two-price syslem for the big corporations. "Free enterprise” is a myth; 000°" today every important sector df the economy is . dominated-by a few corporations. They compete for markets and for the consumer dollar but they engage in price-fixing among themselves to bleed the public. - It has become, for them, a way of life. -The small _ fines.to which some of them are occasionally sub- jected: to under the anticombines tegislation has - become nothing more than a license fee te continue the practice. Controlled high interest rates. and the high cost of energy are bu two exaimples of ‘Brice. fixing, . The second and biggest single catise of inflation is- “ the arms race, Arms’ cotttracts have always been of. __ ' a cost plus and open-ended nature and accompanied’ ‘by rampant profiteering: -And, ‘they: are ‘utterly , wasteful; the. weapons become obsolete almoat as ~ soon, as ‘they go into production and sometimes > before, ‘ . This year the U.S. ts spending $220 bllon for arms. and Canada is spending $7:billlon. =" ‘The arms race,’ based es it is-on polley of guns 7 before butter, inevitably leads to worse conditions for - - working people: . to cuts in social services, to, higher ~«: . taxes, to restraints andl wage controls, ‘and ta: higher a unemploymert. ~Spokesmen for the big ‘corporations, the: govern. a _ ments ‘that serve these corporations, and -the cor-- porate-controlled media ‘are peddling the line thatthe ~. ‘Way out of the recession and {o heat inflation is to” . . impose wage controls and give atill" farther : tax " contessions to the private sector, -. There is, of course, no ‘evidence whatsoever. ta support their contentions that: this will being increasing profits. at the. ‘expense of the: living stan: wt dards. of the ‘people. - “It is further r evidence that as, far’ as they : are con- : - cerned, the role of. government in our “free en- " . terprise” society Is to redistribute the wealth in — os "main metropolitan area, the Great Vancouver region, - taken’ out but little is-put in, “The unemployment precedent involves the ability of a ‘small group of people to decide very quickly | what they deem appropriate for the whole, | Maybe Mr, Allen and Ms, Nash would rather be free of a tew thistles, but I believe that it is obvious that out here, in . ithe real world, there are many,. many people who would rather risk picking burrs out of their clothes than face unknown repercussions of a questionable chemical, ‘In closing, 1 would like to say that it is ‘painfully clear to me that Ms. Ross cares about people. 1 still den’! know what.Ms, Nash cares about - do you? _ should be in the direction of more public ownership, _ ‘steps to increase the purchasing power of the people, fod creation programs and cuts in arms’ ex- _ penditures. Specifically, we could consider: ~ . @ Impose price and profit controls. lay off workers or close plants to provide more jo ' pecurity. Tordon are proven beyond a doubt. Part of that ‘Sincerely, Marlanne Brorup-Weaton Ld favour of the big corporations - take from those who- It may be argued that the way to abolish economic crises and make the economy serve the. people is to establish . full public _ ownership of all important | sectors” of the econamy, with production for use. rather than for profit - a form of socialism. : But such a change, although the demand for itis growing. and our attitudes to public control of the economy-to.. ensure that it serves the needs of our people, These | @ Government action-to bring down interest rate. The imposition of foreign exchange controls to hit under public control, = . - @ Job creation programs auch asa program to dustries to process our raw materials before export, -@ Nationalize the oil and gas industries, the. CPR, oll and gas with the domestic price based on the cost of production. _ @ Increase taxes on the big corporations to ensure that they pay their lair. share of taxes, Close the tax loopholes. Io @ Impose restrictions on the right of employers to » . 7 @ Cut arms’ expenditures by 50 per cent. ... “Outlying areas like the northwest, away. from the | oo 90" face a particular problem. In our saciety the role of suburban areas is toserve.the metropolis. In times of . economic difficulty such as the present, they bear the - o main burden and are the hardest hit. Everything is - figures illustrate this situation. © i ’ April of this year with an unemployment rate of 15.3. ‘per ‘cent. +. -@ludes Prince George, had 16,000 unemployed - - 198 | . per cent of the work force. . . 7,000 unemployed; -the rate of unemployment varies . from 10 per cent to 19 per cent in this region.. ot. - The smem ployment rate in. the Vancouver area is. _. total number, of unemployed ‘is based on‘a sainple | ‘survey and hot a head count, that the figures vary. : tam month tp month and coukd be out by 40 parent a ow "fact that the! “a ae the: ~ “governmentaction to cottect this situation; " “development for people." But is Is unlikely that we prosperity or-halt inflation,’ It is simply a method of.“ development of our area, and (2)-to join with other i (“fight £06 fundamental stractural changes, le 7 - The Thompson: ‘Lillooet economic region. ‘(which centrea around Kamloops) had 7,000 unemployed In ~ The Central Interior economic’ region, ‘which in- UIC figures ‘for the Skeena area shows ‘more than 9.2 percent. . . The federal department, Manpower, says ‘that these figures’ must be taken with edution,.that;the | wer), However; that ddesn’t change the _ f- - : outlying areas'ate not obly hard hit: they ot hit; ‘and: in-the: greatedl: need :of Our . immediate concern at this "donference: will be able'to build an island of prosperity in a sea of. economic ‘depression in the rest of- Canada.” Therefore, we-have a twofold problem: (1) to ad Vaiuce. a series. of realistic. proposals for. the .. mitided people ‘and Groups acrosa Canada:‘in. ae Tt ‘is with thesé:‘two factorg ‘in: mind that. the P proposals inthis paper have been made. Wyte