PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, October 3, 1977 —Lthe herald) ~ 7 | Published by Sterling Publishers General Office - 635-6357 Circulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 (Kitimat) - 632-6209 . PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum $f. Terrace B.C. A mamber of Varitied Circulation. Authorized 7s second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage pal. . 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 la not permitted without the written permission of the X Publisher. J ‘No thanks, Jack — The northern corridor idea Jack Davis kicked around in Prince Rupert a few days ago shows the danger of the engineering mentality in politics. t first glance it makes sense, but only from an engineering point of view. The energy, transportation and communications minister said the Alcan natural gas route could be used also for an oi! pipeline, an electric power corridor and even a rail line. There’s only one thing wrogn witin There's only one thing wrong with the proposal. The line goes south, carrying presumably, power from a new dam, coal from new mines and Alaska oi], Northern residents don’t need new con- struction projects to ship their resources to centres of higher pulation density. lor do we need to be told the corridor may make the Kitimat pipeline roposal obsolete. That's like holding a gun to the head of local residents, telling them they have a choice between their methods of ecological suicide. Get the message By BOB DOUGLAS OTTAWA (CP) _ Governments will impose energy solutions on ordinary people “against their will" ‘unless people realize the urgent need to conserve energy soon, says Janez Stanovnik, a senior United Nations official. § tan o secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe, told reporters here Sunday that the energy situation is s0 serious that consumers must become aware of the need to change the way they consume energy. “Qur political institutions won't be able to survive ‘unless this matter has been brought; . to - public 2awareness,”’ he said. Eventually, governments would be forced to impose solutions if there were no popular consent. tanovnik is in Ottawa to open an _ international conference on human set- tlements and energy organized by his com- mission—a UN regional group embracing Euro Aan countries, Canada and the United States. More than 140 delegates from eastern and western European countries and North America are expected at the conference, which opens today. The conference is a follow- up to the UN meeting on human settlements § in Vancouver last year. Specialists on urban plan- ning and energy use are to discuss ways of using energy better in modern cites and are to make proposals that will be studied later by their governments. Stanovnik, a Yugoslav government official, said experts seem to think ‘that the 1973 scare will be repeated in 1985 if energy epmsumption continues at the current pace in Europe and North America. If oil consumption con- tinues at the current rate, the oil-importing countries will exceed the production capacity of the ail-producin countries by 1995, he said. He suggested that one reason many people seem complacent about the energy problem is that “vested interests” have succeeded in reducing fears of energy shortages. He indicated he was referring to the oi] companies. Oil companies dispute some estimates of world oil reserves, he said. But he did not care whether there was sufficient oil to last 30 or 100 years—the problem still was urgent, Today in history All 39 persons aboard an American Overseas Airlines aircraft were killed 31 years ago today—in 1946—when it smashed into Hare Hid, near Stephenville, Nfld. At the time it was the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation. The plane was bound for Shan- non, Ireland, from New York when it crashed 10 minutes after takeoff from Harmon Field, Nfid., where it had refuelled. ; 1656—Miles Standish, ERMAN Massachusetts colonist, 1900—Thomas Wolfe, American novelist and playwright, was born. 1998—The Australian national flag was adopted. 1914—The first Canadian contingent sailed from Gaspe during the First World War, and landed at Plymouth, England. 1931—The first flight across the Pacific, from Tokyo.to Wenatchee, Wash., was begun. OUG77 Unieariol Preis Syndetgia | /a| “| haven’t got those in a twelve but | can let you have a couple of pair of size sixes.” —<_Donna Vallieres living in town; we her Ann to giver her a name. She has one child who is three years old. Ann justs eparated from a husband a few months ago and has been living on welfare. It pays just enough for her to make end meet. welfare, get a job, Support hersel and her child an to make some sort of life for herslef. biggest problem is finding someplace to leave the child day care centre or someone who will be willing to fil] out the subsidy forms and —— Bluecollar politician OTTAWA (CP) — Even as a member of the political elite in his new position as federal finance minister, Jean Chretien continues to foster his image as the lucky son of working-class Roman Catholic parents from a depression-time rural Quebec village. “T'm basically a blue collar,”’ Chretien tells reporters. ‘I’m a bloody pea-souper and I’m proud of it,"’ he tells an Ontario audience. We didn’t have rich fathers to send us to English universities, we had to learn it the hard way,” he says of himself and industry Minister Jack Horner when Quebec Parizeau calls them incompetent. Chretien, 48, meets the provincial finance ministers this week, for the first time since he took over the portfolio less than three weeks ago. Finance is Chretien’s fifth cabinet post since he won the Quebec St. Maurice con- stituency in 1963 and became a Liberal As a young Jawyer in his home town of Shawinigan, Chretien had a flirtation with Quebec separatism but snapped out of it “when one of my friends said: ‘Chretien, Finance Minister Jacque. dean Chretien with white-collar you speak through your hat. You never met an anglophone in your life...” ENJOYS BATTLE Today he is a tough federalist but finds the battle with Quabee a source of energy. "You're in a field of mines all the time. But I think that makes life good. I don’t want a cozy life, I want an exciting life.” He fought. Quebec before the Parti Quebecois came to power last fall, once telling the former Quebec Libera government to “go to hell” when they said the federal government should be only an observer in the James Bay native iand claims negotiations. After six years in Indian and northern affairs, Chretien as president of the treasury board trimmed some of the fat off government spending and played tough with unions representing federal employees. e says that in both portfolios ‘I had all sorts of controversies but when it was no it was no and when it was yes it was yes and I think that’s the way I’m going to be in finance. You'll have to take me as ] am.” A thin, six-foot, dark-haired man, Chretien’s face is sometimes very pale, his eyes sunken. He was the'18th of 19 chil- dren in Wellie and Maria Chretien’s family. Only nine of the children survived because of a blood circulation problem. WANTED POLITICS Chretien’s father held down four or five jobs to get the children through school. Although Chretien says his forte was sci- ence, he chose law to become a politician. ‘He said he would be in politics, but not until he was 40," his wife Aline once recalled. ; The year they married, 1957, Chretien was vice-president of the Liberal Students of Canada. Their three children are France, Hubert and Michel. Chretien says he spends as much time as possible with them. They ski together. His French accent is thick when he - speaks the English he picked up from his wife, television, radio and debates in Parliament during the last 15 years. — will give youhe Chretien is fiercely proud of this. He recalls when Prime Minister Trudeau came to his riding in 1972 and 1 connections addressed a crowd of about 2,500 in French. When he was finished “I said prime minister there are seven Anglo- phones in the audience. Go back to the microphone.” In turn, Chretien started to address the audience in English, a heckler demanded he speak French and Chretien recalls “I . said there is not a goddamned son of a bitch who will prevent me speaking English here.” WAS OVERWORKED . Before his last post as industry, trade and commerce minister, Chretien landed in the hospital for several weeks suffering from exhaustion after extensive travels to the north and election campaigning. But he says his health is good now and, although he has not made up his mind . about any new economic policies, he is en- thusiastic: about the new post. A friend told him it would be hard. “He said youneed a food sense of humor. They for everything and if you do anything good you will never he thanked by anybody. - “I said: ‘Thank you, I know’.”’ The ball that changed the world Fonda (tere io aa? “Anglais, is he?” Business Spotlight More cargo for Air Canada MONTREAL (CP) — Air Can- ada’s cargo manager says a reorganization of his operation to be completed by January will increase -the rate of growth in cargo revenue to 12 per cent next year from the current annual average of 4.4 per cent. ; Martin Hendricks, 36, said in an interview the average growth rate for other carriers has been 7.8 per cent, but the traditional treatment of cargo as secondary to passenger service caused Air Canada to lose ground in recent years. “We used to be 12th in inter- national cargo, now we're 13th,” he sa Hendricks has spent the last few months reorganizing the cargi operation. “We're trying to bring about a fundamental change in attitudes toward cargo,” he said. ‘Because of our previous status, vehad no say in production decisions." And these are the crucial decisions because cargo must, to a great extent, share aircraft witt passenger Services. WILL GO ELSEWHERE Should the scheduled passenger flights be awkward for cargr customers availability of cargo space bi unreliable, the shippers go else- where. _ Hendricks has one combination jet—one from which the passenger seats can be removed to provide cargo space— which helps solve the problem of seasonal traffic. “Again, the combination is not the ultimate. We need freighters." But the DC-8, whic thinks is the best narrow-body freighter, no longer is in production | no one has come up with alternative narrow-body aircraft. ‘The airlines in general will have and and should the sig! Hendricks an shippers and I inten COMMITMENTS NEEDED “Getting one or two shipments on a charter basis isn't going to give us the 12-per-cent growth. “What you have to have is com- mitments that the shipper will use Air Canada all the time.” The sales force operates on a system whereby revenue that comes to Air Canada from a Montreal salesman’s effort is shared between him and those who handle the shipment. At the same time, .“‘the Montreal “Hendricks has a staff of about 1,100, including sales people in Europe. , “We know that there is a potential growth rate of 12 per cent to 30 per cent from year to year over the next few years,”’ he said. “This means icant work in felting to the to do that. MOSCOW (AP) — When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial earth satellite 20 years ago, then U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower dismissed Sputnik | as ‘one small ball in the air.’’ Nonetheless, the Oct. 4,. ‘1957, launching of Sputnik— a 185-pound silvery sphere equipped with four whisker- like antennas—catapulted both the Soviet Union and the United States into an era of intense and expensive space rivalry. Hundreds of increasingly sophisticated satellites have been sent whirling around the globe, with missions ranging from biological experiments to secret military communications and reconnaissance, With another Soviet space first,. the orbital flight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961, the Soviet Union and the U.S. were set on a technological competition to develop manned space exploration. The launching of a new Soviet space station, Salyut 6, last Thursday has in- creased speculation thal Moscow may be planning a major space spectacular to mark not only the Sputnik anniversary but also the th anniversary of the Bol- shevik Revolution next month. Despite the Soviet failure to achieve a manned moon landing, Western scientific observers say the Soviet Union has forged ahead with a space effort that on balance is larger, more diverse and better-funded than current ‘U.S. space activities. And is MILITARY STRESSED The Soviet program has put greater stress on military applications of satellites and other space technology. Data from a U.S. Library of Congress study show that from 1957 through 1975, the Soviet Union conducted 586 launchings for apparent military purposes, in con- trast to its 292 launches of civilian space vehicles. _ During the same period there were 326 U.S. military launches and 323 U.S. civilian Jaunchings. Aside from photographic reconnaissance, Soviel military satellites are believed to perform missions which include early warning against missile attack; navigational assistance for Soviet missile submarines and: other naval vessels j;-:-electronic eavesdropping on U.S. and other Western tele- communications; and ocean surveillance, using radar to pinpoint ships at sea despite cloud cover and radio silence. In the civilian field, the Soviet Union has landed unmanned Lunakhod test vehicles on the moon, sent probes to Venus and Mars, as well as put inte orbit around the earth a series of manned spacecraft leadin up to the latest Soyuz an Salyut models. Soviet and U.S. officials are scheduled to meet in November to discuss possible future joint rojects in manned space ight, building upon suc- cessful completion of the U.S.-Soviet ApolleSoyuz Space docking project in still changing MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Each of the brains that contro] the space shuttle’s three rocket as quickly as you can blink your eye. That’s 100 times quicker than the human mind can work, say the No daycare decalre the money as taxable income. The trouble with that plan though is that the only full time day care centre may have to close down and responsible babysitters are not easy to find. There's a young iat eal "Il just ¢ Ann wants to get off, try Her first and don’t Maybe Ann isn't so young and maybe she’s got two or more kids to worry about. Maybe she is married but her husband dosen’t ‘make enough money to suuport the family. I doesn’t really matter’ the problems that luxury of one parent stayine ffome to look after the hid's appreciate i overwhelming problems of day care, Lon considered a “feminist” demand there is an erroneous believe that day care centrvs are places are places where frustrated, housewives dump their kids’ on somebody else so they can seek fulfillment in the working world. Either that os irs a babysitting service for poor people who should had never had kids in the first place. The facat is, alot of parents find themselves all of a sudden broke and left to while she oges out to find a face many parents of pre- fog for themselves and job. The welfare people will school children are ‘the their little ones, And while pay up to $140 a month for ‘ Vander Zalm is busy en- abysitting fees, but Ann Many people who have couraging negative feelings will have to find a licensed been able to afford the toward welfare recipients, not enough is being done to enable people to go back to the work. means no J to work with manufacturers tocome guy gets credit from the guy who engines during blast-off i h up witha replacement forthe DC-8."” —_selis in Europe.” make 50 separate decisions built ‘the nystens’ m du "Te | ob for working parents Not only welfare mother wants to go to work; some wouldrather stay at home to do the parenting job. But for those who wish to earn their paycheque, the option should be kept open. This option could be taken away if the Terrace Day Care Centre is forced to close down for lack of facilities. If this happens, the laternatives for working parents are going to be very Ww. ie The first altenative is to stay, or go back on welfare. Not a viable one for those who see this as being on the dole. However, a parent can still get the government subsidy if she find a sitter to meet the requirementss set out by the subsidy program. Otherwise the parent or parents can work and try to _ that kin scrape up the $140 (double that for two kids) and find a private sitter, This isn’t as easy as it souonds. Not alot of people want to look after ‘omebody's else’ child for of money, Some people will af course, look after your child: responsibly and well, and might not want to be in- volved in the sudsid program. Maybe they look after more kids than the governments allows or maybe they just don’t want ot declare the money on income tax.. In which case, it’s pay up of don’t work. The tisk in employing a sitter which is not Heensed is that you are paying this money to someone who may plunk you child in front of a television set all day, or worse. If the Terrace Centre can't find another building by the end of the year, alot of parents are going to be in trouble, in a facility- oriented town like Terrace this should not be allowed to happen. eople in Terrace have done some really great things for individual needs of the communtiy. There is the beautiful new Child Development Centre, the struggling Child Minding Centre, parks, playgrouonds, just to name a few of the things around thata are geared to family needs. ; What we have to do is make sure this very valuable service is not lost because of neglectingthe. needs of one segment of the population.