ans a pi TERRACE PAGE 4, THE HERALD. Thursday. November 24, 1977 daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6357 Published by Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE . EDITOR... JULIETTE PROOM Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, 6.C, Amember of Varifled Circulation. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement praducad andor any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher, Spirited conference comes to end : By CATHY McKERCHER ASHINGTON (CP) — The first U.S. government- sponsored Nationa} Women’s Conference ended on an emotional high this week, but leaders of the women’s provement realize they still have a long way to go in e@ fight for equality and political power. The four-day meeting Houston produced an almost unprecedented spirit af unity among U.S. women, with delegates beleving after it ended that they had jaken a major step toward policy change in country, But as the euphoria wears off, delegates, organizers and observers are faced with the problem of what the next stage should be. The meeting did come up with a 25-point program, proposing sweeping reforms in laws and government regulations to assist women personally, economically, legally and culturally, é central item in that program-and the prime test of the strength of the women’s movement-~was supporting the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. END DISCRIMINATION Since ite approval by Congress in 1972, the amend- ment prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex has been ratified by 35 of the 38 states required to attach it to the Constitution. With the 1979 deadline for ratification approaching, however, and with conservative o position to the amendment appearing to gain ground in many states, conference organizers regarded a strong endorsement of the ERA as absolutely essential to the future suc- ‘t of the women’s rights drive, Wi rganizers got what they wanted—an over- Iming vote of support despite the presence of a well-co-ordinated coalition of anti-ERA delegates at the meeting. The vote represented a major setback for the conservative groups opposing the amendment, led by Chicago political organizer Phyllis Schlafly. She not only expected the proposal supporting the amendment to be defeated at the Houston meeting, but had hoped the feminists movement would die out after being shown ag ‘the radical, anti-feminist, anti-family, pro- lesbian people they are.”’ Whatever else the conference may eventually ac- complish, it was a clear demonstration that the women's movement is alive and well. Perhaps the most significant achievement was getting 1,400 women from all regions of the country and with the full spectrum of religious, ethnic and po- litical orientations to do what the conference was mandated to do—develop a program informing President Carter and Congress on what American women want and how to attain those goals. As one feminist put it in a recent interview: “The only thing you can say for sure that all women would support is the abolition of menstrual cramps.” _ Many of the points approved by the conference, including an end to discrimination against homosexuals in everything from employment to child custody, appear to be considerably more ambitious than Carter, Congress, or state legislatures would be willing to support. Some of the recommendations would require action by local or state governments, not by the federal of- ficials who will receive the proposals. And the conference was unable to do anything to resolve the prime difficulty of the equality movement—the lack of elected women represen- tatives to Congress, However, it likely will have the effect of getting politicians to focus more on what their women cor- stituents want and may, as organizers hope, speed state legislature votes on the ERA. And if Carter comes out in support of at least some of the social reforms proposed, it will be seen as a victory, indeed, if Perhaps only a moral one, for women throughout the country. . HERMAN 8107? Univar! From Syadkote Wes Hall ideas expensive TORONTO (CP) — An Ontario Economic Council report says it would cost Ontarlo tax- peyers millions of dollars f Ottawa were to im- plement some of the Hall commission recom- mendations on Western Canada grain. The commission headed by Emmett Hall, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, made recom- mendations to the federal government on issues related to grain handling, marketing and tran- sportation and their ef- fect on the Prairie econ- omy, Among other things, it urged Ottawa to conduct a major reorganization of prairie rail services, including establishment oar authority, and called. for a review of freightrates which it said are. now hampering secondary industry in Western Canada. Alan Abouchar, fessor of economics at niversity of Toronto, analysed the commis- sion’s report for the science council and said many of the proposed measures appear to be inconsistent with economic planning on a national scale. ‘ ey could prove costly to taxpayers in other rts of Canada while aving little. positive effect on the over-all economic health of the Prairie provinces, he The Hall commission recommended gradual abandonment by 1981 of 2,165 miles of prairie branch lines used to haul grain and suggested that municipalities affected should receive federal government com- pensation equal to five years taxes on the abandoned _ properties. Abouchar —_ estimated the Ontario contribution to such compensation over five years would be about $2 million. “Lhe necessities of life are getting so expensive these days, all we can afford to buy anymore are the luxuries.” North Sea reserves large EASTBOURNE, England (CP) — An energy expert has described the orth Sea basin lying between Britain and Norway as the world’s most impor- tant new hydrocarbon province, with fuel that will fill Western Europe's needs well into the next century, Prof. Peter Odell, an energy adviser to the British government, told a three-day conference on advancing energy tech- nology organized by the Institute of Fuel, that North Sea oil and gas can supply more than half of Western Europe's total energy needs up to and beyond the year 2000, He said the develop- ment of Western Europe was historically based on the use of indigenous energy resources, but largely as a result of the activities of international oil companies, the region has become increasingly dependent on imported energy alter 1950. It now seemed that the period 1950-75 would prove to have been a relatively short-lived aberration from the norm in respect of the continent's energy supply and that there would now be a steady return to an economic Rich get poorer LONDON (CP) — The old contention that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer just doesn’t seem hold for Britain, a new survey suggests. In fact, while there still is a great gap, wealth and inco e are gradually being spread more equitably across the population. The findings are included-in a study by the Royal Commission oin the Distribution of Income an dWealth. - It shows, for one thing, that the amount of wealth controlled by the top one per cent of the population was reduced to 24.3 per cent from 25 per cent during And while the lower k80 per cent of the population still controls less than 25 per cent, their r portion rose to 23.8 from 21.9 that year, “ts Total personal wealth in Britain at mid-1975 sttod at approximately 240 billion pounds ($480 billion.) é rise in share prices that year should have favoreed the rich, the commission says, but other influences such as an increase in building society deposits and savings may have offset this, The flow of income also appears to be changinhg. Over the 1960-75 period, the highest-earning one per cent of the population found its total income dropping lo 6.2 per cent fro 8.4 per cent, before taxes. And speaking of income taxes and social securit contribution, the commission says Britaons ran equally alongside Canadians at about the middleof the scale of selected ind;urstrial countries. The commission, headed by former Labor treasury minister Lord Diamond, is charged with keeping the distribution of wealth and income under review, The commission generally backs up figures released two months ago by the tyreasury, contending that while taxes and social security contributions are lower for French, Australian, United States and Irish taxkpayers, the bite is mroe severe for the Swedes, West Germans and Japanese. One of the mnost significant changes in teh picture of private wealth in Britain, however, is that a greater pration of the population’s net assets now is tied up in ome ownership. Between 1960 and 1975, this figure more than doubled, to 37.4 per cent from 17.7 system which relied mainly on the use of in- digenous energy. COAL APPEARS Prof, Odell said that, in - the short term, energy resources in Western Europe could be devel- oped to meet an in- creasing share of the region’s total needs, While North Sea oll and gas could supply more an half these needs up fo or even beyond the ear 2000, other Western uropean off-shore oil- bearing areas would make energy . con- tributions and in the long- term be supplemented by energy from indigenous ca The expert continued: “Indeed coal could become the single most important energy source in the second quarter of the 2lst century, given the development of new technologies on both the au ply and demand sides.” These developments in conventional energy could largely eliminate Western Europe's de- mand for oil imports and also reduce pressure for the fast and extensive development of nuclear power, he added. “By 2050 it is not unreasonable to expect the commercialization of infinite energy resources such as solar, geothermal or fission. Thereafter, Western Europe's remaining reserves of conventional fossil fuel will hecome unnecessary to sustain the energy needs of the region, and may be reserved for other uses,” he said, Prof. Odell, from Rotterdam’s Evasmus University, was presenting a paper en- tiled A Return fo an Energy Self-sufficient Western Europe jointly with a universit colleague, Dr. Kennet! Rosing. Consultant wins damages VANCOUVER (CP) — J. Boyd Douglas, former president of a Vancouver consulting firm, was awarded $166,208 damages Tuesday for dismissal without adequate notice. Mr, Justice W. J. Trainor ruled in British Columbia Supreme Court that Douglas, who had been with the firm for 26 years and was _ its president and chief operating officer for the final eight years, was entitled to 21 months salary from Sandwell and Co. Ltd. Court was told the firm was founded by P, R. Sandwell in 1949, became a public company in 1969, at which time Sandwell was named chairman of the board and Douglas its president. The firm has 13 operating officers in various parts of the world and has more than 700 employees. It provides professional engineering and management ser- vices internationally, particularly in the forest products industry, Douglas, 55, was a University of B.C. graduate in mechanical engineering. ndwell told the hearing that he called Douglas to his home on a - Sunday morning, Feb. 20, 1977, and told him that he was being replaced by a new president and that the announcement would be made the following y. The supreme court judge based his award on Dougias’s $95,000 salary plus -pension, insurance and medical and dental benefits which brought the annual total to $94,976. The firm had admitted that Douglas was dismissed without adequate notice, Damn Yankees “Well now, you all know Ihave Spent about a year up that wilderness of errace and Kitimat, trying to get those Yics (YankeeImproved Canadians) and “bush niggers’? and Indian people, to go along with our making another mess of that country by using Kitimat as our oil port. At this point I must admit those local yokels don't seem to appreciate all the advantages it would mean to us down here in Texas. Also I'm still hurting from the time those people chased me off their village when I was only trying to tell them how good we would be treating them. We were doing fine for awhile; we got all the local politicians in our ket, Lucky for us that IP Frank Howard is out of the picture. We can expect support from their Chambers of Commerce. They have et to show any interest h the conservation of that wilderness anyway. For instance, all we had to do was hang that carrot fo jobs and business in front of them; they aren't smart enough to see beyond the carrot anyway. They don’t have to know we would be ringing in most of our owne people for the job, using only local yokels for the nigger work. Then along comes this Dr. Thompson guy with his publei enquiry stuff. This Dr. Thompson wasn’t hurting us at all, even though he spent about a million bucks on the deal. However, 1 am sorry to report that some of the facts the local yokels made public through this Dr. Thompson are hunting out efforts to hel those yics and “bus. niggers.” Lucky for us this Dr. Thompson is out _ of the picture also now. As you all know, the American Congress is too smart to allow the use of Cherry Point as an oil terminal. It would probably mess up the whole of Puget Sound and the Americans would not stand for that. Then Port Angeles is very reluctant, even though Juan de Fuca Straits Jf fourteen miles wide and no shoals or reefs with a straight course for the tankers. I am sure we won't make an oil port there either, because of our laws and regulations, which are geod for the American people. Now up therein Canada there are no regulations for oil transport. In fact when some of those old tanekrs break up and spew oil all over that so called beautiful coast, the taxpeyers have to foot the bill to clean it up. The tanker company then collects the insurance for the loss of ship and cargo. We would be home free. After all, we are not in the tanker business and if those guys can't get their Ships through those narrow channels with the tides and hurricane winds without smashing tham on the rocks, that’s their problem, not ours, The moise from those local yokels because of the mess wouldn’t hurt us anyway. Then look at all the money it would save us by going oug Kitimat? Also look at all the money the American construction and logging companies saved by drag-lining out the spawning tributaries of efamous Kitimat River salmon runs. All the Candaians did was curtail the com- mercial fishing, close down part of the river to Sportsmen: and tourist, and ban the use of salmon eggs for bait, in the in- terest of conservation. No problem for us Americans at all, now you take when Kitimat dumped their Taw untreated sewage inte the river above their Indian Village driving those people away from their fishing grounds. The noise made by that was very feeble, even though Dr. Wollacott told the people not to eat the fish, nor to swim there. The knew __ that eventually it would have - to be fixed up, but by the time the local yokels woke up to what was happening, the cost of the treatment plant would be passed onto the tax- yers and their kids. Pook at all the money the company saved on that deal There was no problem at all for the company when they decided to flood out hundreds of millions of dollars worth of choite farm land and rime timber in the tsa, Tahtsa and Whitesail lake country, In fact, there was more prime timber flooded over then than that stupid bunch of local yokels will ever take out of that country. There was mol any noticeable noise made by the government, ror the people, nro the Chambers of Commerce. The old carrot in front of their nose about jobs and progress fooled them again. Now mind yeu, we are too smart to let a thing like that happen in the good old U.S.a. We would have logged t first. Then again ther: was that little deal wih the Celanese Compaiy of America when — they decided to dredge art the spawning grounds of the Ritsumialcm Rivei, Now just to show you how Stupid the local /okels are — that river praluced the most fantastic nns of huge spring slimon, cohoe, pinks . and steelhead in the Eacific North West, : The value of those fabulous runs of ish to the sportsmen, tle so lucrative tourist ‘trade and commercial fshery was beyond estination. When the damagt was done the Dept, of Fisheries closed mist of the river te sportmen! Now the local yokes who could have made prt of their living fron the tourist trade are’ won- dering why they a left holding that empty.sack. The old carrot ‘trick really worked tha’ one also. : Ail those Canalians have up there isi fish, timber and a few jotato tches — oh yes and ncle Alcan. Ha Hi. Most of the logghg in B.C. is done by Ameican companies and wi get most of their Fraset fish, a lot of the Nass and Skeena salmon aniway. And thosestupid Yic pay for the cost of the spawning channels and ish ladders! We have them pretty well trained, but dann it they seem to be mar- tening up. Then igain there another problen. Lf those Indians kee pushing for their lan claims they could sbp us from messing up jome more of their land and rivers, which would hurt us badly, So before those local yokels tell us Yankees to go home we will hate to work like hell and probably go through the ck door and over the fence before we -beat them on this oil port deal. It might cost us a few hundred thousand to a Swiss bank to grease the skids, but that is only peanuts to us; look at a e money we could make out of it.” ; Victor M. Bryant News Briefs ” EXPLORER PLANS TRIP \ LONDON (CP) — A 42- yearold Briton plans to Make = an 11,-000- kilometre (6,875-mile) journey around ‘the perimeter of Greenland in 1978—-halfway by foot on land and half by water. Walley Herbert, veteran of a number of Polar treks, will leave with two companions Jan, 25, 1978, and hopes to finish the journey 14 months later In March, 1979.