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THE HERALD, Wednesday, Janvary 4, |\978, PAGE 3

Dear Sir:

When I reflect on the
number rot news cloglngs
have cross
desk over the year, I an
overwhelmed the
public service sup
which The Art itis
Society has reecived. We
. are dependent on the
understanding of editors
‘0 interpret our news
material for the in-
formation of readers.
You have done this most
effectively and our fund
raising campaigns, up by
., 52.9 percent, are one suci+
“= indicator of your
assistance.

I would like you and
your readers to know that
their support has made it

The Arthritis
ety to provide more
-. than 70,000

tments to
tents ‘with arthritis

0
B.C., and to extend
consultant services for

the first time-into several
remote B.C, com-
munities.

In those areas which
Jost our services a year-
and-a-half age because of
budget cuts, we are now
able to provide regular

treatmen from here

tweatment
Arthritis Centre.
Educational programs,
clinical = an basic
' research are on-going
- through the assistance

received. —
I know that the man
. Volunteers in ea
-; ;@ommunity who work for

a+ the Society on a

': ground basis and o

who help at campalgn
time, join with me in this

OTTAWA (CP)
Farmer Brown bought
‘too many blasting caps to
a with the dynamite he

5 Ss in
his: at and promptl
forgot about oe m

Several months later,
the children of some city
relatives were playing in in
the barn, eum
blasting and
eted them’ P Within a
w days, - several
children in the city school
.., - brought them
. — “show and tell. ”

>’: The scenario is not just
. br etical. One or two
r cases are brought
to the attention of of-
_ ficials in the energy,
mines and resources
. department every year, .
ted oie Rivieres, an

ves inspector, sai
"inan interview Tuesday.

’ In response to this type
‘of potentially disastrous
situation, ‘and other
-gbuses associated with
‘explosives, the depart-
“ment has tightened
ulations governing the
bale and possession of
blasting materials.

- The regulations, which
become effective in
March, flow from 1975
amendments to the
Explosives Act and are
ely aimed at gettin
rid of explosives whic
sometimes lay forgotten
but potentially dangerous
_ for as long as 20 years.

i fall types of explosives,
except smali quantities of
*’ ammuniton and fire-
. works, will need a permit
“to transport and possess
- the .

° PR viouly, one needed a
- perm only when the
* quantity exeeeded 150

VALID a DAYS
“The permits, which are
‘issued by the vendor, are
valid for only 90 days.
* “Phere is’ no more red
tape to acqillre a perm
than to satiety the vendor
eB

"* should’ a’ vendor not
*tenow. someone seeking to.
- acquire . .explogives, the

urchaser must. gain
certification from the

local police.

- Robert J. Smith

. Explosive danger

suse to elear : ‘some -

= Work-in' a: new"

~ (cont)

letrer of appreciation as
they depend so much also
on your assistance.
Our information doors
are always open to
and your read
anytime material
required on arthritis an
its modern, scientific
treatment.

My letter carries to you
andy your staff best wishes
for a successful New
stall Naga

ca
about better services for
patients with arthritis in

Yours sincerely,
Robert

Executive Director

Deas Editor:

December, 1977 has
come and gone.

What has become of
Cloverlawn?

Cloverlawn kepi saying
development s starts in
‘1977, They
saying this for a few

” Please Terrace Council
tells us what is hap-

PTO much tax dollars

are we losing on promises
that did not come true?

Who is
Cloverlawn? Is it out-
siders or is it local al people
who are involved

Let us start the New
Year by finding the
positive solution to the
ee at hand.

ou,
Yours Teal 7
Mrs, Lily Nielsen.

“Anyone who has a

legitimate use for ex-' ©

osives can get them,’”
said,

Ve
Take

“Brospectors.

not known to local
businessmen, can obtain’
explosives by showing a
prospecting permit.

Possession of the ex-

. plosives after the 90-day

od could result in a
fine or three months
in jail if they are not
destroyed or Tetumed,

Abandoning the ex-
plosives carries a:
penaltycf ,000° or six
menths in jail.

Stricter regulations,
under the Criminal Code,
ted SONS

sessing ‘cxptoshe es for
riminel al purposes.

Des Rivieres said the
rules will be enforced
through spot checks by
inspectors, which include
members of the RCMP,
Quebee Provincial Police
and Montreal Urban
Community police.

t

pial

fave a peaceful and
prosperous year in
1978. We hope that
ou will continue to
onor us with your
patronage during
the coming year.

Practise “Tndge
3302 Kalum ° 635-6719

Quebec terrorists won’t return

have been

‘ging

MONTREAL (CP) — British trade they wouldn't get a fair Cossette-Trudel write ina
trial if they returned to letter published Tuesday
Canada to face charges in by Le Devoir that they
the kidnapping of former have already been

ces convicted by politicians
and the news media for
their participation in the

October, 1970, kidnapping

of Crogs,

‘We have already been
tried one hundred times
since Dec. 3, 1970 when
the federal Gxecutive

expelled us,"

“Charged one hundred
times, judged summarily
undred dmes and
oo vlctod one hundred
times without recourse
by the political machine
in ower Fig
e ‘ormer
members, now living in
France, wrote to Premier
‘Rene . Levesque last
September asking that all
charges against them be
dropped so they and their
two children could return
to Quebec. The appeal
was rejected by Lev
and Justice Minis
Marc-Andre Bedard. -
In their letter to Le
Devoir, the Cossette-
Trudels say the media
gu conclu

ty “even tno te
eed and the erent
responsibilities haven't

been established before a
judge or commissioner.”
HAVE NO HOFE

seriously envision that
will be possible to assure
us a fair and equitable

trial?” vidna pping
Was &
political action which
ed in the

can't be :
context of é€ criminal
their

peoltical ae in any

” action pales
anime deeds done in the
name of national security
by the federal and
provincial governments

com-

Two former members of missioner James Cross.
the terrorist. Front de Louise Lanctot and her
Liberation du Quebec say husband Jacques. _

ster

While recent
allegations about RCMP"
wrong-doing: are ex:
plained away by Prime
Minister Trudeau and

_ doe, Chay, of -Bullers Glass and Glen Sheppard of. Electrolux patched up the
' Electrolux, olfice window Monday after high winds caused the window, to: > break. - ‘Fox,’ i ‘they are Raa legs::.:

we od

ihdatided > + : as #4 veo

.

and their police forces: .

Solicitor-General: Francis: .

illegal than FLQ acts
committed in the name of
Quebec. independence,
the two exiles wri
Like several ether
prominent FLQ figures in
recent years, they
renounce terrorism and
their former terrorist
organization.
Viclence, note the
CossetteTrudels,  ‘‘only
hastened the emergence
of a muscular state and
police pov: power’ and slowed
evolution of
progressive social and
palit eal trends in Que-
They made virtually
the same renunciation of
violence in a 1972 letter to

’ a Montreal journalist who

worked for Agence de
Presse Libre du Quebec, il
a left-wing news agency.

The letter was later
cited by the RCMP as a

justification for an illegal
raid on the news agency’s
office in an eftort to.
obtain. information on

supposed F'LQ links with
international terroris)
organizations.

In their letter, nh two
exiles deny sug uggeations
by JeanPierre Goyer,
federal supply and ser-
vices minister, that they
participated in terrorist
activities after they were
expelled ftom anada
and sent to Cuba.

Goyer made his
comments last October in
reaction to release of the
1972 letter to the news
agency.

HAVE PAID PRICE

Former FLQ members,
say the Cossette-Trudels,
have more than paid the
price for their actions
with ail sentences or ex-

in their letter Her to

thei Levesque, t uckee bec

ir plea to t 2

government, rather than

oo Ottawa. they don't
sa e

want by dase te be part

“of an intergovernmental

ping-pong game_...””

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3304"Kalum St...

A New Year’s Greeting —
toall of our patrons. The Thedest in in "78,

SULUNOUENE

Fashions .

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