* THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1971
| Consumer
reports:

VICTORIA - Since 1967 the
“rights of the consumer have
become of major.concern to the .
Provincial Government,
During that year the Consumer
Protection Act was intoduced
and passed in the Legislature
and since then various
amendments have ensured that
fair treatment and practice is |
upheld in the modern
marketplace: =
Attorney-General Peterson 9
pointed. out that British
Columbia was thé first Province
in Canada to outlaw referral
selling, this was achieved with
the introduction -of an
amendment to the Act in 1969, -
and since then at least three
, other Provinces have followed
suit. Referral selling is a
practice of induerg a purchaser
to sign a time-sale contract for
the purchase of goods, at the
same time holding out to him
lhe prospect. of most of his
payments being pald for if he
furnishes the names of other .
persons who wilt buy a similar
product. The scheme was
proven to be largely illusory,
and often the person who has
been induced to sign the
contract, only did so because he
thought that the referrals would
be sufficient to pay for his
~ purchases. -
"Last year a> significant,
amendment was introduced to
‘the -Act which prohibited the
distribution of unsolicited credit
cards and unsolicited goods.
Again British Columbia was the
first to adopt this ‘aw and
. experience has shown that this
provision has been most
effective in preventing this
undersirable practice: - The
distributors of these cards have
now found, that by requiring an
applicant to first apply for a
credit card and to-give good
credit reference, a more
satisfactory record of credit

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. .

Terrace : Herald

The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper
Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers' Assocation, and Varified Cir-
culation. Published every Monday and Thursday at 4613 Lazelle Ave.,
Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in cash, Return postage guaranteed. Second
class mail registration number 1201. * °

GENERAL MANAGER : GORDON HAMILTON
ADVERTISING MANAGER: GARY CARD ’ Kayce White— Editor
Business Address: _ 4613 Lazelle Ave., Phone: 635-6357" J

OUR OPINION
Sense of responsibility

This is Chamber of Commerce Week
in Terrace, established to bring to the
attention of all citizens the aims of a
community Chamber of Commerce.

Active Chambers can help solve the
many complex problems facing our
communities today. An active
Chamber is an action team, working to
promote prosperity and progress in
Canadian towns and cities.

Total dependence on government
agencies leads to the drying up of
initiative and self-reliance. Through
Chambers of Commerce, forward
looking citizens band together to
express their views, arouse public
opinion and tak action, not for any
selfish reason but for the benefit of all
members of the community.

During the week of April 18-24, the
eyes of all Canadians will be focused on
the Chamber of Commerce movement
in Canada, This week has been set
aside to bring about a greater
understanding and appreciation, at the
local level, of the role of the Chamber
of Commerce movement in developing
a sense of citizenship and
responsibility and in building Canadian

Terrace, B.C.

Canadian Chamber of Commerce have
always been characterized by full and
considerate attention to the problems
of Canadians and attempt to reflect the
highest sense of national
responsibility. Through the Chamber
of Commerce movement, members
have become aware of the problems at
the local level, the regional level and at
the provincial and national levels.
Through their Chamber organization,
careful study is given to these
problems; legislation is scrutinized *
and the vitality of democracy is
demonstrated day by day.

It is not too much te say that as the
Chamber of Commerce movement
grows democracy should become a
revitalized and growing force in this
country. You can play a part by
Supporting your Chamber of
Commerce. For the Chamber of
Commerce Movement in Canada
stands for good citizenship, good
movement a good business.

“I suppose YOULL be a draft-dodger . . .”
FRANK HOWARD'S |

Report from Parliament Hill

It is not too much to say that as the
Chamber of Commerce movement
grows democracy should become a

communities for the nation.

A great many problems face Canada
in the Seventies, Now more than ever
before we must marshall all our
resources to overcome these problems.

The federal government recognizes
that the recommendations of The

Commerce.

revitalized ‘and growing force in this

country.
supporting your

_ lt won’

"It’s going to be interesting to see how
the government’s ban on cigarette and
liquor advertising works out.

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as people are pointing out.

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You can play a part by
Chamber
For the Chamber of -
Commerce Movement in Canada
stands for good citizenship, good
government and good business.

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‘only killers. “There's the automobilé,

Why doesn’t the Premier forbid

How will the Premier keep eastern .
Canadian and American magazines
and newspapers out of British

Columbia.

If he can find a way, he will be doing
more than banning liquor and cigarette
advertising -- he will be forbidding you
and me, and everyone else to read such
magazines and newspapers.

There could be all kinds of dangers to
We are an
. apathetic people and it could be that we

will accept them sitting down.

Suppose I bring back from Seattle a

magazine containing cigarette and
Could I be

our freedom ahead.

liquor advertising.
arrested?

advertising
gasoline?

of cars, tires and

If ate a pound of chocolate very day

I’m sure it would do me just as much

damage as

advertising?

a bottle of whiskey.

Therefore, why not ban chocolate

Is Premier Bennett looking for an

excuse for an election? If these bans

this.

on certain advertising are declared
ultra vires, will he take the whole
subject to the people, which he always
says is the highest court in the land?
. More than advertising is at stake in

Personal freedom ‘could well be on

the firing line.

. Certainly, I agree that there’s too
much smoking and drinking going on.
But the weed and the bottle aren't the

James K. Nesbitt
Victoria

A muse on the news

BY NADINE ASANTE

we can live in hope even though
we die without it.

A spokesman for
Domtar said in the east that the
silent majority is in favour of
industrial operators . cutting
down trees in provincial parks.
He said their sawmill in Ontario
could not operate unless an
alternative was found lo the
present site of: timber cutting
operations in an Ontario
provincial park.

- You are the silent majority.
Do you believe in trees being cut
down in provincial parks?
Perhaps in Ontario it’s okay but
not in B.C.? ;

| MEXXX

An’ ‘American atomic
research scientist speaking in
Vancouver _-_ about the
forthcoming October blast of 5
megatons underground on
Amchitka Island in the Aluetion
Chain says that the U.S. has

absolutely no idea of whether or .

not the bombing will be
dangerous in reference to fall-
out or tidal waves. Contrary to
the wishes of most western
Canadians who are aware of
being alive and of a.number of
Americans too, the. U.S.
Government will go ahead with
‘plans regardless of. safety.

Washington wouldn't be awash
from the Pacific’ Ocean. A
boatload of sacrificing humans
will venture too close to the

. Proposed ; blast for ‘safety in -

hopes" of - stopping - the
Americans. The same type of
people‘ didn't stop the French

‘atomic testing in the Sahara but-

Jan Watson, Vice President, °

Woods and Lumber’ Operations
for Colcel announces the
appointment of E.C.J. Higgs as
Manager of Interior Lumber’
Operations. _

Mr. Higgs will assume
responsibility for direction of
the company's large sawmill at
Castlegar, B.C.

Mr. Higgs who has 35 years
experience in the forest
products industry of B.C, leaves
his post as Woodroom and
Materials Handling
Superintendent at Colcel’s
Castlegar pulp operations to
take his new position.

AXXX

Mr. Leonard M. McLennan of
Vancouver, Directar of Claims
Advisory Service for. the
Workman's
Board will be available for:
consultation Wednesday April
21, at the Prince Rupert office in
the Besner Block. 7

Workmen and employers in
the area who require advice on
claims’ are invited’ to’ contact:
-Mr. McLennan by phone at 621-
5305 or by visiting the office
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on
April 21, Lo,

“Columbia. Cellulose’ Puip -
: Division ‘In Prince’ Rupert...
reports in it’s house organ The -

reflects

Compensation .

‘forest lands. . ;
The centres are desighed to

Conveyor that an estimated 7000
young people throughout British
Columbia took park in
conservation recreation and
educational programs. of the
Canadian Forestry Association
of B.C. during the past year,
Presidennt T.E. Burgess told
ihéd Association’s members in
the annual report that the
Organization had continued to
emphasize youth in its 1970
programs.

In this connection, the
Association launched a new
program this year, the
development of a series of
special forest camps where
young people will be able to
participate in field studies that

- will include the protection,

management and multiple use
of the forest resources.- This
program said Mr. Burgess,
the Associations’
concern with the changing
public. altitudes and sacial
demands upon the Province’s

be used extensively for
camping ..-programs | and
instruction by the Junior Forest

Wardens, -Girl Forest Guards:
‘and Conservation Wardens,
‘They will also be available to -
other groups wishing to learn. —
‘more in the outdoors. about the
-., :forest, environment and. man’s
“dependence . upon: it, A.
“petnieient staff.is planned ta.
“operate the. .caraps and provide.
assistance.
- At 7 the ; St. James:

A

instruction: with the
of volunteers, <4.

ys

A trip of the sort we are
making to Australia and New
Zealand is far from a holiday,
although there are some holiday
aspects to it.
stayed in the same community
on once occassion for more than
a day. Mostly it's up at 7:00
A.M. - pack suitcases that
haven't yet been fully unpacked-
breakfast and leave by 8:00 or
8:30 A.M. for the next stop - into
the new hotel - register - leave
for meetings - receptions -_
discussions - sightseeing -
dinneérs - etc. ‘ .

There is an excitement about
all this of course, but after
awhile it becomes pretty
tedious and awfully tiring -
especially if one stays up later
than he should at night and I
have done this a couple of times.

With this sort of intense
guided tours one gets an awful |
lot of impressions and what I

We have only -

would like to do in this report is
merely relate little bits and
pieces of things that are
different than we have at home.

In one place I saw the no-
parking area along the curb
painted with the words ‘‘No
Parking - tires deflated”. This
meant exactly what it said and
apparently works because the
penalty for violating the No
Parking rules is costly and very
inconvenient and I suppose it is
the inconvenience that counts
more than the fine. ;

The No Parking violator gets

“a'ticket and the police simply *

also let all the air from ali the
tires leaving the owner with the
problem of getting a wrecker
from a garage - having all his
tires removed and taken to the
garage for re-filling, returned
and replaced. Add that one up
for cost and difficulty,

We stayed at a Travel Lodge

YOUR OPINION

Editor,
The Terrace Herald,
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Sir:

After reading editor Kayce
White’s first edition, April 19, 1
have a very strong feeling that
she will-do a good job for our
communily, even though, as yet
I have never met her: I am
writing this from my hospital.

d.

I published the Omineca
Herald for twenty years unti}
my retirement in 1989 when |
felt that someone younger
should take over,

] will never forget the day: my
late husband and I moved the
Omineca Herald from Hazelton
to Terrace in August, 1949,
green as grass as to the
community we had come to
serve, [remember the qualms J
experienced and that groping
sensation I felt, and we were
just pulting out a weekly 4-page
tabloid on a hand-fed press and
doing some ‘job printing at
thattime. .. ,

And so I feel a great
admiration for Kayce who so
quickly stepped into an
emergency to take over the
editorial helm. of the Terrace
Omineca Herald, now a twice-
weekly 10-page broadsheet,

I ‘experienced a feeling of
close kinship when I read her
editorial, “Nearly the Truth”,

And I.. was: just two
paragraphs down on the second
editorial ‘The Right to Choose”
when I knew it could be written

-by none..other than my good

friend, Ruth Hallock. My eye
then quickly glanced at. the
-eredit . line ~~ “Chlédonia
Courier". .

. Ruth Hallock:Js well known
and well. liked in Terrace, In

. fact.for a niimber.of years she
. was~ editor of the Omineca

Herald during my regime as

publisher, and was held in high

esteem in the community. .-
Reprinting her editorial ‘'The

‘Right to Choose! with - credit

line put.ancther feather in your
cap.as far as I am.concerned. -
She is tops in my estimation and

» how:publishes her-own weekly,

‘the “Caledgiila Courier” at Fort

et

a)

° |” CATHERINEM, FRASER: Al

May I] also comment on “in
My View” in the same issue,
written by feature writer
Nadine Asante and compliment
her for her article about “Fred,
the Fisherman,” and his.
mother. TI cannot speak too
highly of this Indian family.
Fred’s mother was a faithful
and dedicated Cedarvale
correspondent for the Omineca
Herald for many years -- J still

‘have a number of her original

copy among my newspaper
treasures.

In my opinion there is not a
finer, more religious family in
any of our Indian reserves. The
Skeena River valley was their
home long before we came into
it...

“I know that Kayce will
receive full co-operation from
General Manager Gordon
Hamilton and the Herald staff.

T would be remiss if I did not
mention Tess Brousseau who
puts so much time and effort
into her part-time job as staff
photographer, and a good job
too.

1 know that Kayce will
quickly swing into the life of the
community and realize the
great potential of Terrace, the
‘hub of the Pacific Northwest
where the Terrace Herald must
always, as Kayce so aplly put it
in her editorial, “provide a
vehicle for the public opinion
that shapes the community.”

My best wishes |
SPENCER

_ Terrace, B.C,

ey

Take heed

jy eLetters to the editor must be

igned by and bear!ihe address .-
:of the. writer’: The'shorter the
better: «A pen name: may be
-.used only In special cases. The
‘Terrace Herald may edit letlers .. _

-for- brevity, clarity, legality or
ee es

mates

. os

“f

i Wellington and were
provided each morning with a
pint of fresh, glassed-bottled
unhomogenized milk,
something I haven't seen for
years.

Driving in New Zealand and
Australia is along the left-hand
side of the road with right-hand
drive cars. In crossing the
street of course the tendency is
to look in the direction from
which traffic would come at -
home, namely fromthe left -
but here it comes from one's

‘‘tight - but after a few.dramatie
“moments, like “Haig Sens

whiz by you from the “wrong ”
Side, one does learn,

At AUCKLAND we stayed at
anew hotel - richly appointed. [
had a room with full heavy wall
to wall carpeting - full bath -

radio - television set - couch -
ete. etc. Something like this
would be around $20.00 - $ 25,00
per day at home, but here it was
$11.50. | .
CANBERRA, the Captial of
Australia is a lovely city. It
apparently was designed by an
american Some years ago and
has acres and acres of grass -
trees - scrubs - flowers. The
government buildings have

great amounts of space between

them.

We sat in on Parliament for
awhile and I wagzather shocked!
ta'seeeutir asin Sattendance of!
Members -* very ‘few of whorn
were listening to the debates -
some of whom were talking with
others - some were reading
books or papers. Generally it
was just like the Parliament of
Canada in Ottawa.

Conscience

and Comment

__ By REV. KNEILLFOSTER

United States Army Lt. Wm.
‘Calley has been convicted by a
military tribunal in Fort
Benning, Georgia for the
Slaying of 22 Vietnamese
civilians at My Lai. ;

When the decision to convict
was announced by the jury, a
strange, nearly popular outery
rolled across the United States.
Millions believed that Calley
should not have been convicted
at all, and yet other millions
believed that the unfortunate
lieutenant was no more than a
handy scapegoat.

As we said, there is something
Strange about it all. Mr. Calley
is a product of “Christian®’
culture.’ As a4 boy in Sunday
Schaothe may have heard of the

. exploits of Joshua, the general

who wiped out Jericho and
slaughiered everything that
moved.

Moreover, Wm. Calley was
trained to kill, and no doubt had

THANKS, MARY, ) A
LOVELY

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done so efficiently on other

occasions.

Now, after his nation has sent
him to kill, he is brought home
to be condemned for doing it,
His crime, it seems, is not‘ that
he killed, but that he killed when
he should not have. .

We are not about to defend
Calley. That was done in court.
Bul the twisted logic of the case
is painful -- and perilous.
Americans used to say, “My
country, right or wrong.” Now
they ask, ‘My country, right or
wrong?’ * Jesus’ words could
prove prophetic, “Every.
kingdom divided against itself
is brought to desolation.” =”

BRANJICA, Yugoslavia (AP)
— In 1910, when he was 322,
Mileta Vujic was retired from
the police and given a life
pension because of a serious

lung illness, He’s 94 now, feeling ©

fine. ;

we SAD REALLY, AT ONE TIME ;

iS “AVE

(CAN FILL A

BEEN ON

BOUT ‘OW

consumers has evolved.

This year’s amendments are
a continuation of the
Government's efforts to further
the rights of the British
Columbia consumer, while at
the same time’ not over-
legislating in this field, so as to
interfere with the fair operation
of the marketplace, New
amendments to the Consumer
Protection Act will come into
elfect on July 1, 1971.

The- most significant
amendment concerns consumer
contracts, Over recent years a
| practice has developed whereby

a provision is writlen into a

contract to the effect that if the

seller of the goods under
contract, should at any time in
the future, assign his interests

to. another person, usually a

Finance Company, then that
‘ other person although accepting

all the benefits, would assume
none of the obligations. In most
cases this was not understood
by the consumer when he
purchased the goods,

The consumer although
obliged to continue to make
‘payments under the contract,
could not approach the assignee
over defective goods, or-in the
event that the seller does not
live up to his obligations under
the contract. ‘

When the amendment
becomes effective, it. will be —
possible for the buyer toe present

+ any defense, which hemay have
against the seller, to an action
brought by the third party to

whom the contract has bee

assigned. .

The Sections of the Act
dealing with Contract Relief
were also amended. A recent
judgment by the Provincial
Court of Appeal has indicated
the need for such amendment,
which permits a Judge to
rewrite the terms and
Conditions of a contract if it
‘could be shown that the interest
charges are excessive and the | |
transaction is harsh. This new
amendment hes broadened the
terms of the Section to-allow a
more liberal interpretation,

Wider.- discretion by the
Courts -is also provided - by
another amendment to the
Contract Relief provisions,

BOY.CAN SHE
FILLA GLASS J

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