m ee eee een e MARR geste L SUS EER ER EDDA 90 we ee I ee ee TSO Pa tet ee ee Page 4, The Harald, Friday. September 29, 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Offlce - 635-6357 . Published by Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers PUBLISHER - Laurie Mallett GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middiaton CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 635-6357 KITEMAT - Pal Zelinski 632-2747 KITIMAT OF FICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 7201. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published in the Herald, Reproduction is not permitted withoul the written permission of ihe Publisher. Responsible decision made Both the International Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers and Pacific Northern Gas Co, are to be commended for their decision to agree on binding arbitration. The company and the union have decided to allow an industrial inquiries commissioner mediate and both have agreed to abide by his decision. This gets the men back to work, con- struction galng again and puts labor negotiations back at a table rather than out on the street. Plaudits to both sides for taking a responsible position. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Your letters are welcome The Herald welcomes its readers com- ments. All letters to the editor of general public Interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right to refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style'and length. All letters to be considered for pubilcation must be signed. We ask that letters be typed and double spaced. Dear Sir: Re: Analysis by Nixon Baker, Page 4 - September 26, 1978 Inherent bias in jour- nalism against union job action is a common enough frailty but a gross example of such bias always somehow becomes an insult to the reader. Baker will likely not be requested to write for the New York Times but he should still, be held ac- countable for his journalism, particularly if you intend to print it. He writes: “The Dear Sir: Like many other Canadians, I am no longer surprised at the cynicism of the federal Liberal govern- ment, Amazed, yes. Angered, often. Take for instance, the budget cuts announced by Trudeau on August 1, and condoned by lona Cam- pagnolo, lo illustrate this cynicism. The cuts included a $2.5 million slash in con- sumer services branch. One service of this branch, costing $900,000 annually, alllows consumer: groups to intervene on behalf of all of us, at hearings which regulate among other things telephone rates, One such intervention this past summer by the Consumers’ Association of Canada saved eastern phone users some $150 million; Bell was per- mitled, however, an increase which will add a further $244 million to its reyenu@ in 1979. (Bell's profits in the first six months of 1978 were $169,722 million). While the con- sumers of Canada are cul, Dear Editor: I am, with the permission of Lady Roberts, collecting the letters of her late husband, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943), for publication. Roberts was a well-known poet and writer of animal stories, and an avid vut- doursman. He lived at yarious times in Nova Scutia, New Brunswick, Turunto and Vancouver, travelled extensively in Canada between 1880 and 1943 on lecture tours and personal visits, and had cuntacts with persons from all walks of life. reasons why the company does not want to sign with the IBEW are complex, but revolve around the fact thal Pacific Transmission has a large number of workers who would take such an agreement as a signal to ask for more money.” Surely this is a cir- cumstance- virlually demanding frum the editor a requirement of at least some factual basis fur such a typically gross generalization. A.J. Glover Bell is still permitted to deduct up lo 50 percent of the cumpany’s cost at appearing at rate increase hearings from their taxes. Liberal justice? While the consumer ser- vices branch loses, the governor-general gains - it's nol his fault, he has no chuice. Liberals plan to go ahead with a $2.3 million extension Lo the governor- general’s second home In Quebec City - this is. on top of $900,000 worth of renovations already done. When the work is done, the “huuse’’ will have 125 raums, Not bad, since Guvernor-General Leger spent a total of 10 days there last year. These two “small" items ifiustrate, in a real way, the difference between the Liberal’s handling of the average citizens of Canada, and the special interests which always seem ta get their share, and much more. Yours truly, Erik Olthof . Terrace, B.C. This is my final attempt to collect additional Roberis letters prior tu completing the preparation of the existing collection four publication. I shuuld greatly appreciate hearing from any persons holding letlers from Sir Charles. ] can be con- tacted at the Ruberts Letters Project e-o Dept. of English University af New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brun- swick : E3B 5A3 Sincerely yours, Fred Cogswell Mince 7 O FF BEAT “OTTAWA - Well, now we know where we stana in--our. conception of the quality of our Canadianisin, a, ; ~ Senior mandarin Gordon Robertson, long-time secretary to the Cabinet, confidant of both Prime Ministers Pearson and Trudeau, has told us. ""Inshort, he says, only French Canadians have the true warmly emotional sense of nationalism that -makes.'for ~“being’” a — country. . English Canadians, he says, who think they have a swelling pride of nationhood are fooling themselves. The €noalish, declares this expert, think Canada is a great place - okay then, a reasonably decent place to call’ home - simply for the materialistic reason of what's In it for them. - “All this might be shrugged off as more bubble. ‘headedness of the bumbling bureaucracy except that it comes from Gordon Robertson. “- And he as principal-secretary to the Cabinet for federal-provinctal relations is one of the driving forces - indeed among the co-authors - of Plerre Trudeau’s proposals for constitutional reform. °°: ‘Now; Gordon Robertson Is not one_of the “new wave" that came-in with Trudeau and’’'French wer, oH : - While he didn’t come with the Parliament bulldings, he has been here a long time, having served his apprenticeship on the staff of former Prime Minister Mackenzie King. the top of the power structure - serving Prime Minister Diefenbaker as well as the Liberal leaders. 99 . _ Gordon Robertson signalled his thinking in helping to draft the constitutional reform package In-a paper, to the Royal Society of Canada. . : Ih It, because of the cold, emotionless pragmatism of the English as compared to the warm-blooded devotion to nationalism of the French, he sees “real, true national unity’ a long way down the road. The problem, in the meantime, will be to keep ahARdE Mate na OR Septe Consumers got a break in September as prices uf beef, Pulatoes and ° decreased in a number of ” @illes ‘across Canada. Sugar prices, however, rose in nine vf the 12 cities included in a menthly foud- basket survey by The Canadian Press. Fresh lymatoes and chicken also cust more than in August. Me] Davidson, president of the Canadian Sugar Institute in Toronto, said in an in terview that an increase in the foreign currency ex- change rate has been respunsible for the increase in sugar prices in the last month. “We buy most of our raw sugar in pound sterling from the Lundon market,” he said. “The exchange rate has gone from: $2.23 to $2.27 on one pound sterling and as a result whulesale prices have gune up roughly seven cents for a twokilogram package uf sugar.” ; Margaret Murray, a home ecunumist with the Beef Information Centre in Toronto, said the end of an eight-week strike of meal packers in August had a bearing un lower beef prices. “Prices are balancing off and the market is adjusting itself after drastically higher prices on beef back in May and June." . She said beef prices ‘are expected to remain stable for (he next month, but may rise gradually later in the fall." Coffee prices began tu drop in mid-September when General Foods Lid, Canada’s largest coffee ruaster, lowered ils wholesale price for ground coffee by 10 cents a pound. The reductions reflect a drop in the price of green coffee beans on the in- ternational market, a spokesman for General Foods said. The spukesman said, how- ever, prices soun might rise again if the frost which hit Brazil in August has done . extensive damage tu coffee fields there. coffee - The (l7-item survey in- cludes une pound each of sirluin-tip roast, ground chuck steak, frozen cod fillets, top-grade butter, tomatoes, frozen green peas, drip coffee and apples. Also included are one dozen medium-sized eggs, one quar! of whole milk, a 24- ounce lvaf uf sliced white bread, 10 pounds of first- grade potatues, two kilo- grams of granulated while sugar and a 28-uunce can of halved pears. The survey is nut intended io provide a city-by-city comparison since the product sampling is small. Bul il shows price trends in specific slures in certain cities fora limited number of items many families might buy. The latest price checks shaw: . St. John’s, Nfld.—Sirloin- lip ruast was duwn 10 cents lo $2.38, wieners 20 cents lo $1.19, chicken one cent lv $1.38, potatoes 30 cents lo $1.69, tomalues 16 cents lo 69 cenls, peas 18 cents lo 33 cenls, apples 12 cents lo 57 cents and coffee 24 cents to 4.05. Ground chuck rose 95 cents lo $2.19 and milk four cents to 74 cents, Tutal cust _of the food basket was $23.73, duwn 13 cents fram August. Cost In September, 1977, was $23.88. HMatifax—Coffee increased $1 lu $3.69, sugar 10 cenls to $1.03, pork 1 cents to $1.99, chuck 25 cents Lo $1.69, bread twu cents to 45 cents, tumaltues 36 cents to 79 cents, peas two cents to 47 cents and apples three cents lo 46 cents. Wieners dropped 30 cents {9 $1.49, potaloes 30 cents tu $1.09 and pears six cents to 59 cents. Cost of the baskel was $22.83, cumpared with $21.60 in August and $19.78 a year ago. — Charlotietewn—Sirloin tuas| decreased 81 cents to $2.28, chuck one cent to $1.39, tumatues 20 cents to 79 cents, apples 28 cents to 46 cenls and pears three cents to 86 cents, Cod went up 14 cenls all-bee: wieners, cenirecut pork loin ruasl, top-grade chicken. _FOOD BASKET | mber saw bargains tw $1.78 Total cust of the basket was $24.31, down $1.20 frum August. Cust in Sep- tember, 1977, was $21.32, Saint John, oN. BA Tomatoes rose 40 cents tu 89 cents, butter five cents to $1.43, polatues 10 cents to $1.39, peas one cenl to 50 cents, apples 10 cents to 66 cents and sugar six cents lo $1.02. Sirloin roast dropped 10 cents. tu $3.43, wieners 40 cents to $1.19, chuck 30 cents ly $1.39, cud 26 cents to $1.73, pears six cents (o 83 cents and coffee $0 cents to $3.49. Cust of the basket was $24.01, compared with $24.88 in Augusl and $21.32 a year ago. Quebec City—Cud* was down 20 cenls lo $1,79, sirluin roast 15 cenls lo $2.83, eggs one cent to 91 cents, butter four cents io $1.35 and potatoes 51 cents to 79 cents, Sugar increased 31 cents to . $LOL, wieners six cenls to $1.69, chicken 14 cents to $1.29, bread eight cents to 62 cents, tomatoes 20 cents tu 59 cenls and coffee 35 cents to $3.64. Cust of the baskel wag $22.40, up from $21.83 in Augus! and $17.95 in’ Sep- . ember, ‘1977. Montreal—Chicken rose 14 cenls lu $1.19, wieners Six. cents 10 $1.69, bread 13 cents (v61 cenls, lomatves 20 cents lo 59 cents and sugar six- cenls to $1. Sirluin roast dropped five cents to $2.83, cod 20 cents to $1.79, eggs une cent to 90 cents, butter une cent to $1.38 and coffee 10 cents to $3.75. Total cost was $19.72, compared with $19.52 in August ‘and $20.07 a year ago.” iXtawa—Pork was up 54 cents (o $1.89, wieners 11 cents to $1.49, chuck €0 cents to $1.48, cud 11 cents to $1.85, milk une cenl tu 64 cents, bread 10 cents 10 56'cents, tomatoes 20 cents |v 6) cents and sugar four cents to 9: cents. Sirloin {ryast decreased five cents tb $2.73, potatoes 30 cents tu 62 cents, pears 16 centsto 43 cents and coffee 95 cents to §3.98, Cust of the food basket was $23.35,. down 35 cents frum August. Total in Sepiernber,. 1977, was $1985. © 9 2: ° the country on that road to unity. And. to do this, he says, English Canadians “sy gust make “Important changes in structure and .. ‘4 ™ practice (presumably constitutional) and above sag “bade ot Foronto—Potatoes drupped 20 cents lo 78 cents, perk 36 cents to $1.88 and peas two cents to 43 cenls, Sirloin roast ruse 10 cents to $2.48, wieners 16° cents4to-: $1.64, chicken 10 cents lo $1.18 and coffee 10 cents to. $3.59. Total cost of the basket was $21.78, compared with $22.53 in August and §20.21 a year ago. Winnipeg—Tomatoes went up 10 cents tu 59 cents and sugar (hree cents to’ $1.05. Sirluin rvasi decreased 10 vents (o $2.79, chuck six’ cents ty $1.49, eggs fuur cents lu 80 cents, butter one cent to $1.40, pulalves 30 cents to cents. Cust inSeptember was $22.65, duwn from $23.23 in ‘August. Total in September, 1977, was $19.66. ; ' nationalism.” ¢ all of attitude towards French Canada.” The essential Ingredient is a ‘shared: un- derstanding,” an empathy and a common purpose over-riding Edglish-French differences. Too many: English Canadians lack this quality, he says. : “And those who think they have It, he goes on, feel that way, ‘not In their hearts but in their pocketbooks. So when It comes to true devotion to nationhood, crass::materlalism ~‘inspires . the “English whil agen: strona emotionalism: fires | ie French. Gordon: Robertson puts it this way: “The Important fact Is that French Canadians have the attributes of a nation in their surging _ the hearts of By comparison, English Canadians, he says, _are either indifferent to the needs of the - necessary ‘shared. understanding and common , ' layalists ~~ : for - ‘+ Fhe’ ‘onus then clearly is on the English, + believes’ Gordon Robertson, to make. those $1.09 and apples 20 centsla 59° ‘iimportant.changes in (constitutional) form and oe purpose’’. with the French, or are devoted self-serving reasons. . practice‘and above all of attitude towards the > French. 3°. ol ‘Among Repzina—Purk went down ‘ $1,30 (o $1.78, wieners six * cents (0 $1.29, potatoes {Wo | cents lo $1.33, apples 34 cenls to -45 cenis and coffee 30 cents to $3.09.. Sirloin roast Increased 50 cents to $3.18, : ch’? means, well..... ? chicken 11 cents ta 99 cents, . chuck 14 cents to $1.79, cod » three cents to $1.98, eggs one -cent to $6 cents, lomatoes two cents to 47 cents, and Total cost of the basket was: " $22.12, cumpared with $23.26 in August and $19.73 a year apo. : dinenton—Supar . rose five cents to $1.14, sirloin roast four cents tu $2.69, pork 50 cents tu $2.95, cud 20 cents $1.75, tomatues 10 cents te 59 cenis and peas eight cenls iv-49 cents. Wieners drupped WW cents tu $1.29, chuck 34 cents Ke $1.25, eggs one cenl to 95 cents, apples 30 cenls to 39 cents and coffee cight cents to $3.55. Cost of the Seplember basket .was $24.15, up 14 cents ‘from August, Tutal in September, 1977, Was $20.64, - . Vancouve;—Apples weit down 10.cents tu 49 cents and sirloin roast two cents’ lo $2.97, Pork increased, 10 cents tu $2.45, chuck 10 cents to $1.79 and sugar 10 cenls lo $1.09. Tutal cust of the basket was $23.75, up from $23.57 in August and $20.96 a year ago. TORONTO (CP) — The decreasing value of the “Canadian dollar and higher cosis uf imperts mean eluthing prices in Canada will increase substantially in the mext year, clothing mantacturers say. Until now, the price of clothing hag been a minor Clothing costs going to go higher factor in the inflation rate, which sluud al 94 per cent last month. A shirt manufacturer said, huwever, shirt prices mighl rise six per cent by spring und 12 to 15 per cent by the fall uf 1979, Irvine Wismer, president of Cluell-Peabudy und Co. Lid, of Canada, said Wed- nesday half the material fur the Arrow division of his company, the largesl meri‘s shirl-maker in the country, is imported. Harry Kneilinger, general manager of Gaytugs Lid. of Montreal, said he expects the next year to be the roughest in the tasi five or 10 years for increases in clothing prices, ~ His company is a mijor supplier oof — children's clothing. The garment manufac- turers say Canadian-made clothes will be affected as well as imported clothes. | STEPHENS sugar eight cents lo 91.13... those: ‘important changes” con- stitutionally, the replacement of the Queen by a Canadian? - ‘And ‘changes ‘of affitude towards the Fren- VIC" P.COMLA | i. Our sotlety has been brainwashed for so long by people who seek to cure every problem by ‘ ralding the taxpayer’s wallet that a politician -who wants -to:¢cut government spending risks being. branded as an enemy of everyone who draws a government pay cheque and as a heartless *. persecutor of the poor. As | see it, the truth Is otherwise. | find plenty - of well-Intentloned people on both sides of the argument, but these who build bigger bureaucracies are hurting everyone, including government employees and the people who need help»: ; : “An Impoverished community, however good people's. intentions, cannot pay its public ser- ” : vants well, nor. can’ It be generous to the un- ’ fortunate. A wealthy one can do both. _ No matter how concerned we may be that the _ wealth of the community should be. distributed fairly, we must recognize that nothing can be distributed until it is first produced. If we all spend aur time seeing that everyone gets as much as everyone else, all can find absolute equatity In destitution. _ The practical question, of course, is whether our soclety. already has too high a proportion of Its work force engaged ‘in activities which, however desirable, do not produce wealth - because the producers must pay the cost for ail . the others. - Successful application of Conservative: prin- ciples will certainly result in a smaller proportion of the work force being on the government payroll, but if will also result in more. productive jabs being available for everyone - and both government emoloyees and those who reed government assistance will be able fo share in the real increase in wealth, ‘ ‘ "’ And he has been around ever since - at or near: