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‘The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper
Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers’ Association, and the Audit

Bureau of Circulations. Published every Monday and Thursday. Second
class mail registration number 1201,

GENERAL MANAGER; GORDON HAMILTON

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. __ THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1971

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_ Address: 4613 Lazelle Ave.,

EDITOR: RON THODY

Terrace, B.C. -

Phone: 635-6357 9

OUR OPINION

Progressive step

The 299 teachers of Stewart-Cassiar
School District 88, which includes
Terrace and suburbs, have found allies
besides The Herald in their bid to win a
better deal on pensions.

Emerging for a committee of the
whole meeting, trustees said that if the
B.C, teacher’s arguments are correct,
they'll stand behind their teachers to
the hilt.

And, they plan to write Education
Minister Donald Brothers saying so.

We must congratulate the school
trustees for their move. It shows
progressive thinking on their part and
an interest in the teachers and their
problems in this school district:

Recently, teachers throughout the
province voted 88 per cent in favor of
strike action if the Social Credit
government in Victoria does not meet
the just demands of the teachers.
Stewart-Cassiar teachers also voted 88
per cent to walk out.

According to minutes of the school
board’s committee of the whole
meeting, trustees urged: ‘‘The
government and the B.C. Teacher's
Federal should co-operate in for-
mulating a pension plan satisfactory to
both parties, and under no cir-
cumstances deprive their children of
their instruction.”

The local board will, however,
double check the argument. It had one
stipulation for backing the teachers
and that was “‘if the present scheme is,

in fact, inferior to those provided by
other provinces, the board supports the
teacher's position.”

The trustees also agreed to notify
parents of the possibility of a teacher
strike on the pension issue, and, in the
case of an actual strike, inform parents
of any arrangement decided upon by
the board.

The Herald beat them to the punch in
outlining the dispute between the
teachers and Victoria and warning
parents of a possible stike of teachers.

According to the ‘local teacher’s
association president, John Chen Wing,
all the teachers want is the use of their
own money. Simple as that.

He pointed out that the government-
controlled pension fund now stands at a
whopping $165-million. Only $8-million
is paid out in pensions in one year,
while the fund itself is growing by $18-
million per year, $10-million more than
is going out.

Chen Wing showed us figures

proving B.C.'s teachers pension plan is
the most pathetic in the nation in what
is purported to being per capita the
nation’s richest province.

And, in most cases, teachers in other
provinces pay similar amounts to
teachers here--but get a lot more for
their money.

If this is Social Credit, the govern-
ment is certainly not being too social to
teachers and at this rate they’ll be
lucky to get credit.

We started it

Canada’ really started something”

© “Ibok iidté of Pekinig’s térritorial Clim,

“when vit: recognized the: Communist: .i.:to.the Nationalist-held island of For-

government of mainland China last
Oct. 13.

Since then four other countries -
Italy, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia and
Chile - have done the same, bringing to
57 the total number that now have
diplomatic relations with Peking.

Others still, including Turkey and
Iran, may follow suit.

The latest to join the bandwagon is
Chile, which Tuesday became the first
South American state to establish ties
with the Peking regime.

A comparison of the recognition
formulas used in each of the five cases
reveals some significant points of
difference and political nuance.

It shows particularly a variation
between the approach of the Western
world, as represented by Canada and
Italy, and the so-called third world as
represented by Ethiopia and
Equatorial Guinea.

The formula accepted by the new
Chilean government under Marxist
President Salvador Allende falls, in-
terestingly enough, into the same
category as the Canadian and Italian.

Afile of the various bilateral accords
with Peking, as outlined in official
public declarations, was made
available to The Canadian Press by the
external affairs department. ~

Italy and Chile in their respective
joint declarations with China followed
almost word-for-word the format
worked out earlier by Canada and
China.

Like Canada, these two countries

mosa without either endorsing it or
opposing it.

Formosa’s status was the most
contentious issue faced by Canadian
and Communist diplomats during their
protracted negotiations at Stockholm
leading up to recognition.

Canada acceded to Peking’s demand
that it sever relations with the
Nationalists and vote for the sup-
planting of Nationalist representatives
by Communist representatives at the
United Nations, This last undertaking
was not written into the Stockholm
agreement.

The only real difference between the
Canadian, Italian and Chilean
agreements with China was a
housekeeping one. Ottawa and Peking
undertook to exchange ambassadors
within six months; Rome and Peking
within three, Santiago and Peking
‘‘within the shortest possible period.”

Canada, Italy and Chile recognized
the Communist government as the sole
legal government of China, But they
didn’t go as far as Ethiopia and
Equatorial Guinea, which recognized
Peking as the sole legal government of
“the entire Chinese people.”’

The Formosan question was not
directly referred to in the formal
agreements between the two African
states and China,

On the other hand, the accords do
contain a commitment by Peking to
support Equatorial Guinea and
Ethiopia in their “struggle against
imperialism, colonialism and neo-
colonialism.’

_ Japan takes lead

_. . Ina world troubled by pollution of
the sea, the air and the larid, the
Japanese islanders are doing great
.work. The Japanese Government
recently launched a major anti-
pollution campaign, and a special
parliamentary session was called to
consider a wide-ranging set of. new
laws... a

... The Government of Japan wants to
beef up eight laws that already, exist,
_and hopes to push through seven ‘new
bills to combat the growing: problem.

. Pollition: is. choking many .
Japanese cities, fouling the airas well
_as the country’s rivers and shoreline. ..

Industries in Japan have been causing

“coastal ‘pollution.

wiles

. Bat the government is working hard

Some of. the world’s worst river’ and.

to change things. The most con-
troversial bill being suggested by some
politicians demands jail sentences of
up to three years, and heavy fines for
industrial leaders whose companies
cause dangerous pollution.

Japan is hitting thé wealthy
tycoons where it hurts most. It will
deprive them of their liberty if they fail
to think first of the general public at
large, the people's health and safety.

- Many industrialists ‘are being
blamed for much of the world’s.
Hution. Anti-polluition measures can .

@ taken, and must be taken. But they.
cost money.-In. Japan, unless the in-.
* - dustrial. chiefs?"

pena ‘that i

make the country’s air and waterways

*-\¢leaner, they‘are ‘now likely'to end up.
_ behind’bars,,

Oy oa to

'. In’our particular part of the

Breater danger from the drivers .

money to

Here, there and everywhere...

HANDY PANTY

Maybe panty hose don’t
always stand up to the roughest
wear, comments Style, -
Canada's women’s wear
newspaper, but they do come in
handy sometimes in a pinch,

An enterprising nurse, after
witnessing a car accident in™
which a youngster was badly
hurt, applied her panty hose as
4 tourniquet successfully until

- an ambulance arrived.

Another panty hose came
through in an emergency when
a carload of tourists was
stranded after their fan belt

tuned to police frequencies. It

wouldn't have been so bad if .

these bandits had at least

broke. One of the women in thé #

Broup used hers as a substitute,
fan belt which” worked well °
enough to get them to tha
nearest garage six miles away.
TOW TRICKS

Montreal police got 2 bit
curious, reports Canadian
Automotive Trade magazine,
when they noticed certain
towing trucks were always

bought their own radios; in-
stead, they were using stolen
police sets.

OVER THE FRINGE

Employee fringe benefits cost
employers an average of $2,000
a year for each employee last
year, an increase of $400 in two
years , according to a research
report in Office Equipment &
Methods business magazine,
_ Vacation pay. is, the. biggest
costvitem’ but welfa¥e"benefits
(group life and medical’ ‘in-''
Surance, sick pay) have taken

“over second place formerly held

Johnny-on-the-spot time after -

time at accident scenes,

Even vehicles that shouldn’t
have been towed away disap-
peared and their owners were
charged thumping fees to get
them back.

After same sleuthing, police
rounded up a gang of tow-truck
“specialists” who operated
trucks with radio transmitters

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Bear shooting
raises ire

Editor,
Terrace Herald,
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Sir:

It-is difficult to avoid censure
in the public eye, particularly
when one is invelyed with the
education of some of its
children. But I do feel I must
speak out regarding the in-
discriminate killing of Wildlife,
which has been witnessed in our
area.

Many of the youngsters -of
Nass River Elementary school
have been given the priviledge
of observing these animals in
question, in their natural
habitat. Those who have been
part of the groups taken up the
neighbouring mountain during
recent years, have been par-
licularly fortunate. Many
times, adults and youngsters
have looked through a scope
and. walched the goat and
grizzly bears, as they romped or
pastured on the grassy slpes of

by pension plans. This switch is:
altributed to the impact of
medicare programs, which
almost doubled the average
welfare benefit cost per em-
ployee in the two-year period of
the study. ‘

; PITY POOREDITORS
Editor Biil Forbes of |

Canadian Printer & Publisher

magazine lists these points by

_ leading Canadian editors in the

never-ending argument about
the influence of advertisers
over newspaper editors:

-Editors are absolutely in-

not as yet learned to com-
municate with each other, one
reads about bears coming into
camp for several years and
youngsters being in danger, yet

one can live here and have

members of one’s family go off

fishing or hiking, armed with a

bell- andnever worry. Are we in
the same territory, or does one
half of the area not know what is
presumably happening in the
other? — ‘

» From a recent letter it seems

obvious that the only bear that

‘ever gave any trouble in the

camp, had previously been
wounded by a man’s action. Gne
hesitates to think what chances

- were taken when all five grizzly

t

bears were shot here--the

from wounded grizzlles, par-

ticularly when shooting ; took

place during the dark hours,
A different attitude must be

.taken by all of’us in regard to

pour wildiife, and strong protests

must be made to. our: game

department so that: our present

wildlife.

Mount Hoadley. “It-is-sad to. :

think this era is passing, Man,

as ever, remains the! earth's . |’

biggest predator, ©. - .

The night before the bears ”
were slain,,.members of my .;,
family had made: one of the

many special trips over.to see
the: family of bears, When we

heard next morning that allfour - The Editor, °
"The Herald, 9
:| Terrace, B.C... “

“Dear Siri

had bheen‘shot, we felt'a keen
logs. “Pictures taken at that
time, are a¢ appalling to see.as
those of the slain baby seals.

world, youngsters aré ina far

of Velilcles ‘exceeding the speed.

‘limit, or snowmobiles thant ever, |
. they could be ‘from:

yg phitnals tabs te”
“ein tie

any of our.

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* needs help

game laws’ will do more to
protect the ever dwindling

~ > Yours truly, .
‘ Elvira C, Bryant
_ Nass Camp

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“Minor baseball’

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dependent of advertisers; they
‘don’t need advertisers as
much as advertisers need
them.”

-- Newspapers are protected
nowadays by the wide range
and number of advertisers; no
advertiser is powerful enough to
influence editorial policy,

- Publie relations depart-
ments in large companies are
now sophisticated and sensible
enough not to use the threat to
withdraw advertising.

-- "The worst pressures come
from do-gooders. who want. to
ptomiole some ‘worthy’ cause
and “expéet newspapers ‘to
provide space, “ manpower,
ideas and everything else.”

-- Newspapers can’t make or
break politicians -- Toronto's
Mayor William Dennison was
elected without the support of
his city’s three daily papers;
Britain's Prime Minister
Harold Wilson lost the last
election while every public

paper said he would win,

~ “Tf. the’ press: can
manipulate its readers’
opinions and if it is capitalistic-
conservalive as many critics
charge, why have there been so,
few Tory governments in Ot-
tawa during the past 50 years?”

‘YOUR OPINION:

two years, nevertheless, we

must have your support for our
program and in some cases we
need your help. :

The .weakest area in our

league is always umpiring. We. |

must have fathers ‘or even
mothers to volunteer to officiate
at games. For those wanting to

~ help but needing instruction in

umpiring, we will organize
clinics so don't let lack of ex-
perience stop you from taking
part in organizing.boys’ sports.
This can be a. rewarding ac-
tivity, _

* . This year we want to ‘divide

up the labor as much as
possible, The ideal situation
would be ane game a week for

danger there might have been . °4¢h official during regular

play, i
In the coaching area we hope

HEY, FLO, I'VE.
BEEN THINKIN

VISIT THIS. |
WEEKEND 7,

WE? WHAT DINER
MEAN, WE ? WHY «

DRAG ME.INTO IT?)

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Tam ‘appealing .to.all parents 7

* of boys in minor baseball to'set
i, aside. whatever. plans. you have’

fi thé evening of Janwaty or

‘of, Terrace ‘Minot. Baseball,

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AW
F filloned gute Wed in tho pat

‘While: obrprggnieation:has.

and. attend the annual meeting».

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weeks tach year = About

payroll.
opinion poll and every English -~ :

“2h and help get baseball

FOUR-DAY WEEK?

The four-day work week, gays
Plant Administration &
Engineering business
publication, is fast becoming a
reality, as well as a firm AP'L-
C10 union commitment for 1974.

“And,” adds the editor, Jim
Vernon, “far from hurting
management’s. cherished
production statistics, it leads to
greater plant efficiency, ac-
cording to studies by efficiency
experts.” ST

National holidays now aec-
count for, several. four-day

eks €ach years 10, per
cefil. ‘The changeover reslifis in
improved morale and the
lessening of employee fatigue,
leading to increased praduc-
tivity. ‘Also noted: remarkable
decrease in absenteeism
(practically eliminated in some

-small operations): reduced

recruitment activity and ex-
pense, smaller overtime

MEMBERSHIP DROPS
Membership in the Hungarian
Communist party has fallen. to
650,000 from a high of 871,000
before the unsuccessful 1956 up-

- tising, the party newspaper re-

ported,

to have all coaches back from

‘last year but we can always use
more, as I feel each team should”

have at least twa coaches’ ‘as
well as a manager,
’ We are fortunate to. have

volunteers for all but. three -

positions ~on an 11-man
executive. No one has yet
volunteered for the important
jobs of the third vice-president,
chief umpire or player dgent.”

Please keep in mind that these ©

volunteers must have your

approval and support.
Please come out on January
rolling

for another season.

R.P. Kilbourn,
Vice-President,
Terrace Minor
Associalion. | ~

Baseball

forcement of anti-pollution
regulations, and firmer en-
forcement cf law and order
ranked first. and second in a
survey. conducted by the

“Canadian . (Chamber. -on. im:

portant current issues facing
Canada.” we
A study of the possibility
and: merit. of staggering
vacation periods in the school
system to aid student em-
ployment and to make greater
use of school facilities and the
Post Office to be operated as a
Crown Corporation came next
in‘order-of priority issues. _
700 ATTEND = -
The Canadian Chamber of

* -Commerce- conducted: four

different opinion research
surveys.at their. 4ist: annual
meeting held in Vancouver;
September. 20-23, which was
attended by some - 700
delegates from across
Canada.
Among replies on current
issues, 61.2 per cent of the
respondents indicated they
would like to cooperate in a
Canadian unily. program.
More than 85 per cent ex-
pressed the. belief that em-
* ployees of governments at all
levels who. are’ involved in
essential public services
should not have the right to
‘strike. oe
COOL ON GRASS
. Opposition was also ex-
pressed to more liberal laws
governing the use of
marijuana and against
government control of prices
end wages. .

Some “49-1 .per cent ‘ex-
pressed themselves as not
favorably disposed ‘to the

- proposal that all Canadians
should have a guaranteed

annual ‘income with 27.6 per

cent expressing themselves as
favorably disposed ‘and 21.6
per cent, not sure, .. -

The second survey’ con-
ducted among the’ delegates.
was.to determine the priority
rating‘of the respondents on a
list. of twenty-two subjects,
Some 228 delegates rated the
subjects as high, medium and
jow priority. — oe
“The fourth survey form’ was
mailed to‘delégates following
the ¢ist annildl'theeting OF th
Canadian Chattiber to:secure
an evaluation of the ‘annual
meeting. . St

The delegates were almest
unanimously of the‘. opinion
that the subjects. at the
‘plenary sessions were timely
and topical and that,: most
speakers effectively
stimulated discussion on-these
topies..

Other topics mentioned by
the respondents as ap-
propriate for ‘consideration
included pollution, free en-
terprise, and inflation. —

There was a division of
opinion with respect to the.
type of sessions which: were
‘best’ with the workshop
sessions nosing ‘out | the
plenary sessions 52-42, °

The delegates generally

expressed their feeling that
they had benefited personally
by participation in the annual
meeting and felt that their
business or profession and
thelr community boards or
chambers benefited from
their participation,

_ CENTENNIAL MEMO
Though Confederalion: oc-
curred in 1867, B.C, was‘not one

of the original signers, In May

1968 a ‘Confederation League"
‘was formed in Victoria with

_ Mayor . James. Trimble’ as _ its

first president. It was July 20,
1871, when B.C, finally joined
Canada. . so

Victoria and, Nanaimo. were
linked by telephone March 18,
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