“AGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, July 11, 1977 (the herald) Published by Gerling Publishers Lid, Terrace - 635-6357 Kitimat - 632-5706 Cireulation « 635-2877 PUBLISHER... GORDON W. HAMILTON MANAGING EDITOR... ALLAN KRASNICK KITIMAT MANAGER... W.S, ‘KIM’ KIMBLE CIRCULATION MANAGER... JACK JEANNEAU Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum $1. Terrace B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second claus 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 produced andor any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted without ihe written permission of the PubHaher. . y, We need unity of the heart There are a lot of people caught in the middle by the question of Quebec independence. There are those in Quebec who feel isolated from the rest of Canada, who are deeply hurt when their uage is booed at a hockey game in Toronto but who don't really want to take the irrevocable step of cutting their ties with the rest of the country. And there are those in English Canada who dislike the way bilingualism and biculturalism have been implemented and who worry about what appear to them unnecessary concessions to the French Canadians, but who would be devastated by a Canada without Quebec. . We clearly need a revised and up-to-date constitutign which could draw people together but there has to be a grander vision than the one we are generally presented with, First, there has to be— something that will convince Quebeckers that there is a better alternative in Canada. Second, assurance that western and Atlantic Province people, too, can be comfortable in this country. That vision will not come from cost-benefit proposals or economic balance sheets. The country will survive into the next century if we feel it should, if we have an emotional dimension - a tie of the spirit that makes Canada special in our lives and in the lives of our children. Unity comes from the heart and the soul, not from sneering or namecalling and not from the provincial and federal treasuries. - There has been a tendency over the years for Canadians to dismiss arguments that we live dangerously beyond our means as abstract sermons that may be true but which require little or no change in our life styles. The hard, cold facts are that we have come to the end of the road in our attempts to have the government bankroll us, We have encouraged government spending to jump from 26 percent of the nation’s output in the 1950s to 40 percent today. In cash that means from $8 billion-a-year to $75 billion. It comes right out of the taxpayers pocket, In 1975 and 1976 Canada became the world's largest per capita borrower. We didn’t just borrow to improve our worn-out manufacturing systems and provide new jobs, we borrowed to continue financing consumption. Now the tax load won’t bear much more, the - Bank of Canada won't print new money and the borrowing has eaten up enormous amounts of money in interest and repayments. Where do we go from here? How do we get more out of our economy than it can provide? Perhaps for a change, we listen, start to live, within our means and thereby take the burden off the poor and underprivileged and find again what it means to conserve and save. a HERMAN ©1977 Univers! Prom Syndicate We “You're sure I'll be able to swim with it?” ’ By SHARAN SANDHU LONDON (Reuter) — A British magazine entitled Race Today is urging creation of selfdefence groups to combat increasing attacks on the Asian immigrant community in London's run-down east-end districts. Ina discussion document, Race and Violence, Towards a Command Council, the magazine outlines proposals for “active service units" of 10 people from the immigrant community under the leadership of a secret command council which would organize TO COMBAT RACIAL VIOLENCE Magazine encourages self-def methods of self-defence. = Editor Darcus Howe, 34, from’ Trinidad, said the proposals arose from the staff's own work in the Bengali community. The monthly magazine is an independent journal of the black community in Britain: Previous magazine articles had ocused attention on the miserable life-style of the Bengalis, many of whom, it said, worked in crowded sweatshop conditions in the garment industry = in London’s east end, FAMILY STONED Recent attacks reported s by the media included the stoning and hounding of a young . Bengali widow and er children from a housin complex, vicious bottle an knife attacks on teen-agers, and the beating. up of Bengali men going to their 1 mosque. . The magazine sald all that was offered so far in face of increasing racial violence | was ‘‘a little moral support” from liberals .and anti- Fascists, “We have to protect our- selves, there is no alternative,’’ said the magazine, introducing its - proposals, The plan is bound NEWS ITEM: Mercury pollution in 273 lakes, rivers ‘U.S. is idol-oriented’ says agent — By BRUCE RUSSELL HOLLYWOOD (Reuter) — John Wayne would like you to use his favorite brand of headache tabiets. David . Niven favors a certain brand of travellers’ cheques. If a celebrity appears on U.S. television advertising a Botte ie eared ua him to do it. po “The U.S. is an idol- oriented country," he said. “We idolize movie stars and if one tells you to walk into _ the street in a white robe and with a carrot in your nose then you walk into the street in a white robe and | with a carrot in your nose.” STUMBLED.§ INTO CAREER Ingels, 40, a fast-talking, ; hyperactive former TV comedian, got into the business of rounding up stars for commercials when he was coming out of an acute nervous breakdown which followed the failure of one of his shows five years age. A friend asked him casually if he could get a star to push an album of sentimental old songs. to cause controversy, since under British law, the organization of uniformed or paramilitary groups is illegal. The increase in the random attacks, some of which have resulted in hospital casualties coincides with the rapid ' growth of the National Front, an extreme. right- wing party which wants an |. end to all immigration and - the forcible repatriation of immigrants already in Britain. . ‘POLICE FAILED “The police and security forces in Britain have Ingels came back within hours with Rossano Brazzi. The friend was so impressed he asked him to get more. Ingels soon made a job of it, bringing in as many as 40 willing stars for some series of television commercials. WORKS BY PHONE Most of his work is done on the telephone. : Telephone numbers of celebrities are usually . Introduced by simply failed In their duty to protect black and Asian: people from attacks by Pile racists. They have not even tried,” said Howe. A Scotland Yard spokesman said in reply to @ magazine’s allegations. “The police reply toall calls: for assistance irrespective ‘of race.” He emphasized that the police are opposed to any form of vigilante groups. There are fears, however, that setting up ermanent immigrant | self-defence groups could result in a ‘similar response from the National Front and bring to ence flashpoint an already tense situation in the east end of London. ' Spontaneous self-defence groups did émerge in some London districts ‘last year following (‘a wave of stabbings of Aslan and black youths, but slowly died down as the violence el away, However, arecent wave of window-smashing — and daubing of Ku Klux Kian signs on the walls of Community Relations Commission offices in various British cities has raised the spectre of raciat violence once again. , Students hunt — MONTREAL (CP) — “You see that dripping faucet?” said the 22-year- old biology student. to downtown restaurateur Gregorie Veikos. You're the-one who has to’ pay for this wasted water.” . - Veikos nodded knowingly as his kitchen staff looked on | bewildered. . © The student belongs to one of the survey crews set up ‘‘ynder the Small Business Awareness . oe federal Office of Energy Con- servation, the program is rating in Montreal and 10 other Canadian cities. Students were given a oneweek training course and now are working as energy efficiency inspectors. Their jobs take them into restaurants, tav- erns and any other type of amall business where they have the owner’s rmission, 3 Once inside, they paint out the obvious wastes of energy. ep Sua poet eedhea ae ft andrcads unlisted. “But everyone’s telephone number is on somebody's list somewhere anda lot of those people owe me favors.” HOLDOUTS FEW | ’ Ingels said most stars will agree to appear although ‘there are still some holdouts like Charlton Heston and James Stewart. “Clint Eastwood says he is willing to listen. Now ’ *Look at this boiling water just going down the drain,“ Michel Ng Kwan Lim, 23, .a Concordia University computer science student, told Veikos. “May I see your furnace so I can give you & free efficiency test?’? asked Jamie Whyte, 21, 4 Concordia feography student who is the Montreal program's furnace specialist. .:- oy When the inspection was over, the crew presented Veikos with a form sh all his business deficiencies, ate. crews have iar enforcing power. They jus show a businessman how he can save money by conserving energy: The students, who work in teams of two, are ted to visit 35 businesses during their 40-hour week. | e Similar projects are under way in Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Ottawa- Hull, —Trois-Rivieres, Sherbrooke Fredericton, Halifax and St. John’s." ."”: lhe ape wan de abe Gab mi Lh one8 opal oye there’s a magn you would think had $20 million. Why would he want to do a commercial? Raquel Welch is waiting for the big one.” “Most ‘actors are surrounded by middle-men who don’t evén pass on t message," he said. ‘They turn down a $25,000 offer for their star just - because there's not ° enough commission in it for them." ‘Hazeltons back at starting point —_| A short-lived plan to unite Old Town, New Town and South Town foundered somewhere between the board rooms and the floors of public meetings; at the moment Hazelton is out of the’ picture, New Hazelton _ intends to incorporate no matter what and South Hazelton is considering joining New Hazelton. “We're right back to where we began, I depends on South-Hazelton. if they don’t want to go, it will just be New Hazelton incorporating on its own,” said regional district director Marty Alien who chaired the steering committee formed in January to examine the feasability of amalgamation. ; Public Information hearings were held late in May and early in June to determine how the people felt and to explain the idea to them. But something went awry; a lack of information an several misconceptions seem ‘to have made people think twice about the whole idea. According to estimates worked out by the regional district, taxes would have increased about 10 percent in New Town and South Town and would have gone down in Old Hazelton. To - some people this seemed to imply the other areas would be taking on Old Hazelton’s debts, but rather they would be sharing the cost of supporting a municipality, a task Hazelton carries alone, “Many people are worried about taxes,” said John Aantjes from the South Hazelton Water Board. “There was just no way they'd all go in one big lump. There's too many idden debts in terms of incorporation,’’ said ‘Lawrence _ Brants, . ff ; oe Dubnick from New Town. But he °, could not give any examples of those . debts; he has resigned from the steering committee as well, but would not say why.. ; The situation is at a standstill now; the, steering committee has decided the people of South Hazelton should be | carefully screened to see if they do want to join New Hazelton, ional district planners spent a great deal of time’ putting the proposal together, always working under the direction of the''steering committee and have completed a zoning map which leaves almost everyone conforming and has. even worked out a tentative budget. The benefits for New Hazelton are obvious, “New Hazelton right now is providing all the facilities of a municipality without receiving any of the help. Water and sewer grants are available as well. as natural gas but only if we _ are incorporated,’ explained Dave Webster, also of the steering © committee. . Getting South Hazelton would be an . advantage because RIM Forest Products would provide a solid industrial tax base for any community. But the advantages for South Hazelton are net as obvious, and many people are suspicious of joining New Hazelton and incorporating. Just before the public meetings a straw people o see what reaction would be; 2 results were 76 against and six for amalgamation with New Hazelton, Aantjes sald. “Maybe they’re not really ready yet. As well as being worried about oll was conducted by a few — taxes everyone seem to think the towns are too spread out. Ifitcomes - down to it, we can just as well do it on our own and keep RIM Forest Products to ourselves,” he explained. “Personally I think it would be wonderful if the towns all got - together, but I can’t see having just two of us together,’’ he added. Sowhy not Old Hazelton? Everyone refers to “old grievances” and either doesn’t know what they are or refuses to discuss them. “It's an‘old feud between Old Town and New Town which dates ‘back a long time. Thirty or forty years ago they would have been shoo another," Allen guessed. . “Tdon’tknow what the enmities are big problem if we had all gone together. Here they would like to see it go, but feel fairly safe without it,” Hazelton mayor Alice Maitland said. In any case, Hagwilget and Two Mile, neither of whom expressed any desire to join the committee, lie between Hazelton and New Hazelton. But for a while the feeling seemed really positive, she said, and .she agrees with the idea that the only way to get anywhere is to be one- community with one voice as far as industrial development and political representation are.concerned. Although Hazelton was invited to join the steering committee, it was clear it was an invitation to give _advice. It was understood t Hazelton would not be considered, because everyone thought no one would go along with it, Maitiand said. “But at one of the public meetings, the question came from the floor, Why at one ’ butIcansee thatitwouldhavebeena . not Old Hazelton too? And I said we'd | like to join. I can’ speak for every - citizen of Hazelton but no one ppposed what I said,” she explained. But after that first meeting the - itive feeling rapidly changed and ore long the plan was dropped. So Old Town will remain on its qwn for a few years more, and perhaps New Town and South Town too.’ ‘“There’s always -been fights between the towns as:to who gets what, That’s why they moyed the government agent to Smithers years . ago,” Allen said. co Another on-looker pointed out that “the towns are fighting over a pie that no-one will have-unless they get together, for only as one voice will — services start to come ‘without causing fights over who get it: There are some advantages to! incorporation and amalgamation; Direct representation, grants, contro over planning and community _ identity are. some listed in a booklet prepared by the regional district. . But there are disadvantages especially if those involyed resen each other; the same hostilities could remain. but . become: more: concentrated within the confines of ~ council chambers. However there is still uncertain —. as to how the majority of people do is - feel. f “T-really wanted to see an official’ ballot to see how the people do feel,” as Maitland said. ; . But any referendum that does come now will include only the people of New Hazelton and perhaps : ‘South Hazelton and the question concerning — ’ Old Hazelton will not be asked. —