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A weekly paper published by
. Sterling Publications Ltd.

Published every Wednesday at 2212 Kalam ‘St,
Terrace, B.C. A member. of Varified circelatien. .
Authorised as second class mail, Registration number
1201. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed,

TESS BRO
. _" Advertising

Upgrade Yellowhead

These are days when the federal government is supposed to be
trying to make a new attempt to understand and respond to
Western needs and ideas.

One way to pursue this would be to respond positively to
Western urgings that the Yellowhead Route should be upgraded
to Trans-Canada standards in the physical sense and upgraded
in the sense of increasing its standing in the list of government
priorities.

At the convention of the Yellowhead Interprovincial Highway
Association in Edmonton last weekend, association president J.
Fred Weber of B.C. called for immediate and extensive
upgrading of the route, As if to underline his words, winter
weather has recently been again interrupting the flow of traffic
on the Rogers Pass route on the Trans-Canada Highway. These
recurring problems and closures are, of course, not encountered
on the Yellowhead.

What is also important is that ‘developing the Yellowhead is a
policy that accords happily with Canada’s other major policies
aimed at conservation and prudent management of resources,
including the basic resource that comprises the land and the
landscape, Twinning the Trans-Canada is not only highiy ex-
pensive, because of the difficult terrain in areas like the Rogers
Pass, but involves the impairment of the beauty of the Southern
route by the imposition upon it of obtrusive major roadworks.
And at (he end of the effort and expense you have only one major
transportation channel, And that is one which, though scenicaily
splendid, is vulnerable to interruption due to the effects of
winter.

By contrast, the Yellowhead can be improved to the level of a
first class highway without the roadworks passing the point at
which their volume and obtrusiveness cause serious damage to
the landscape in which they are sel. The expense and effort
required are less, because the grades are not so difficult as in
the Rogers Pass route. And at the conclusion of the expenditure
and effort you have a second major transportation channel
which has several special advantages. .

It complements the Trans-Canada but complements it by
providing an additional.route and rendering accessible areas
that would otherwise remain largely inaccessible to the
travelling public. :

It provides a communication facility that will benefit the
social and economic vitality of all the communities along the
route, from Portage La Prairie to Kamloops, and will link with
ihe prospective developments in Prince George and Prince

upert,

It will reduce congestion on that already strained Trans-
Canada Highway and that it will be effective in drawing off

traffic in this way is testified to by its popularity even now with

both private and commercial road users.

It provides an easier, all-weather route that is usable even
when the Rogers Pass is blocked by snow snow.

It provides the alternative routes, and makes possible the
circular tours, that. are so important in offering variety to
tourists and holidaymakers anxious to see as much of the
countryside as possible without avoidable duplication and
repetition of routes. .

The time is ripe for a renewed effort by the West to persuade
Ottawa to give the Yellowhead Route the attention it deserves.

, From the Edmonton Journal

Facts about breakfast

pork products, considerable of
the internal fat is also removed.
However, with side bacon there
. is no possible way of trimming
‘streaks of lean.and fat are
interwoven in such a way that
any trimming ts virtually im-

Consumers often ask, ‘Why is
breakfast bacon not. leaner?
Why don’t processors trim off
more of the fat?"' In response to
these queries, let's look at some
of the facts about breakfast
(side) bacon. © _

USSEAU

- load and doing all the work. Rich Green, Bruce Carruthers, Ron

The fat on most pork cuts can
be readily trimmed off,
producing a consumer product
that’s reasonably lean. In fact,
due to the extensive processing
involved in producing many
boneless and semi-bonesless

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eral

NEW, PUSSYCAT?
By Bill Smiley
brought in some old news-

papers, and — found them
fascinating.

smuanros | OE
GORDON W. HAMILTOB! & satoon AND THE
ae % LIQUOR STORE -

. ‘PUBLISHER, : Globe of
Pat O’Donaghy e
-- ‘Editor. 3

Thus cried the

1919, It had a circulation of
86,547. It had 24. pages.
Count the liquor advertise-
ments in your today’s big
city newspaper. .
Things were not so much

different sixty-two. years
3 ago, aside from the booze
PETES SRE TE, question. . . :

Another look

Several weeks ago, [ wrete an editorial concerning the
Terrace Chamber of Commerce. With the season of love and
peace upon us now would be a good time to review what I said
and the reasons behind it and to rethink my position. .

First the reasons, I wrote that.editorial to play the devil’s
advocate, to creale controversy and because what I did say was
true of a portion of the Chamber membership. How large a
porlion I do not really know.

As [originally wrote there are members of the Chamber who
do work for the ideals and principals of the Chamber and
perhaps that writing was too harsh a reflection on them. Bruce
Carruthers, out-going president of the CC visited me shortly
afler and we found that we do agree on many things and he
pointed out thal the Chamber did much in Terrace last year. I
concede that point. -

They ithe CC) are working for an improved Terrace’ and
working hard. Same of them. Others are content to sit back and
ride to prosperity on the coat tails of those who are carrying the

Kincade, Pat Boyle, Frank Skidmore, Willy Schneider, Jim
MacKay and several others are working for the Chamber and
therefore, as businessmen, for themselves.

_ As the Chamber grows, so does Terrace and as Terrace grows
so does the businesses involved. So why, I would ask, are a
dozen men working so hard for others? These men have
something that no other Chamber members do, a pride and a
belief in Terrace. These people are building a tomorrow for the
area. There are close to eighty businesses in Terrace and yet
this handful of-men are working by themselves to help develop
Terrace for themselves and the rest.

The Chamber is not working to potential, understandably. A :
small group can not be expected to do all the work.

One of my hopes in the last editorial was to stir these people
that do nothing out of their lethargy and inertia and getting them
to’ do something, It makes sense that if you work for the
Chamber you are working for the future of Terrace, and if your
working for Terrace, you are working for yourself.

One if though. [f the Chamber does indeed work ior Terrace.
Or any Chamber for any town. They can print and distribute all
ihe pamphlets they want, talk to all the people they want and
still see no great return for the investment of their time.
Perhaps what is needed is a stronger base to work from and a
strong position to work with. By working very closely with the

-. Council of Terrace and its committee’s.as well as those.con-...
‘imected with the Regional District Council, their voice -and

feelings (and with it their influence) would grow to become part
of the Terrace business scene even more than they are naw.

Gentiemen, perhaps the last editorial was a bit harsh and as
Mr. Carruthers points out, you have done good things in the past.
But, I would suggest, rather than continue in this way, it istime
for a re-valuation of what you are after. Willy Schneider pointed
outat the meeting I attended that the Building Committee of the
Terrace CC has become just a reporting committee and there is
a danger that this could happen to the entire Chamber of
Commerce.

bacon

possible. |

fattest of all cuts.

One of my wife's students”

FOR GOD AND HOME ©

Toronto on October 18, |

Side bacon is a product of the
belly area of the hog. The belly
is just naturally quite a.fat cut
of pork - in fact, it's one of the:

D, TERRACE, B.C."

., The Irish had two front.
page -stories,..There was
“nearly a settlement on the

- frish problem’. “Hands

were extended but they
were never gripped". and
the Sinn Fein political -
prisoners were released from
Mountjoy Prison as the out-_
come of their hunger strike.
Like, what's new?.

_ START WAR ON DRUG
TRAFFIC read another
headline, There was to be a
$1,000 fine for improper
use of narcotics, Apparently
the opponents of prohibi-
tion were scattering a leaflet
purporting to ‘show that
since Ontario went dry “the
use of drugs has increased to
alarming proportions.”

But the only drugs they
were concerned with. were
those oldies, cpium, cocaine
and morphine. Apparently
our granddads were not ac-
quainted with pot, hash,.
horse and speed. Or perhaps
they didn’t use slang terms.
Anyway, what's new?

Another headline stated:

LITTLE FIGHT LEFT IN

REDS. The whole article ~

revealed that the revolution
in Russia was just as good as-

Mining report

Dear Sir:
The following is a Resolution
passed at the last regular
~ meeting. of the Board of the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional

District held December 4th, |

1972:

“MOVED by Director Cliit-’

Director -Dubnick that Ad-
ministration” reply to Mr,. B.

’ Batesletter dated November 23,
1972, correcting his misun- .

derstandings as illustrated by
his letter; and that a copy of
Administration’s reply be sent
to the news media.”

.. Enclosed please find a copy of

~ our reply :.to -Mr. Bates.‘letter

which -appeared «in; -ygur

newspaper. We would like to his

this reply published in your next

edilion of the Terrace Herald.
Thank you.

_ Sincerely

Ray Pariitt,

Assistant Administrator

Dear Sir: ,
Please be advised that the

~ Regional “District of Kitimat-

Stikine does, not dispute the
points of argument contained in
your letter of November. 23,
1972. We would like to clarify
the doubt and apprehension
which may have stimulated
your concern.

-It would appear that you have ,

overlooked the intent of this

study programme, the purpose.

planning

’ probability = . of

over, and the ‘“‘reds'” had
had it. | wonder if Stalin or
Kruschev read that, and
what they thought.

- There was an election on.
The Globe, as it still does,
tried to tell its readers how
to vole, .

On page 1, there is a box,

with a facsimile of the bal-~:-

lot, and the paper urges.
every reader to vote No to
every question on the refer-

' endum, About booze, that

is.

Every story about the
election is slanted toward
the Tories, against the
Liberals, and against booze.
So, what’s new, except the
booze adverts? .

In a desperate four-
column twenty-inch advert, °
the Liberals try to. separate
the political issues and the
booze issues. Not a hope.
What's new?

The rest of the front —
page could have been print-
ed yesterday. Trouble all
over the world. Gold-dust
galore from the Yukon.
Lloyd George carried to his
university chair by students,

of which was to use this mineral
Probability concept as a
tool in resource
evaluation.

The mineral potential maps
which have been prepared by
the Department of Mines are
based on publications,
geological maps, discussions

. with mining geologists and the

filed information of the British
Columbia Department of Mines
and Petroleum Resources.
Although you are concerned
with. mineral deposits in un-
mapped and unexplored areas,
please understand that the only

information on which the |

Department of Mines
Researcher's were reliant was,
by "necessity, “> Yexisting

documented and reported data.

The intent of the exercise was
ta illustrate in a concise
mapping technique the

* probability or -liklinood of fin-

ding an economically feaaible

‘ore body in.a given area. A

basic assumption in this ap-
proach is. that areas of a
favourable geology (or ex-
tensions thereof) containing the
greatest density of - mineral
deposits have the highest
containing
economically viable deposits.
This mapping programme was
completed and covers the entire
Regional District.

As youare perhaps aware this

is the first time .that the
Provincial Department of
Mines has consolidated. and

CROWN ZELLERBACH

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_. A viewpoint: on environmental hysteria
Another factor that impairs rational efforts to: :
cape with environmental problems is a tendency for- *

many’ sclf-appointed ecological messiahs to over-—
simplify both the technical and social problems. For: —
example, there is frequent reference to the “ecologi-
‘calchain®. 2. Lo

‘The ccological chain is a myth and so is its core.

relative idea that the breaking of a link meaps.loss 0 «2°
‘ of an anchor. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club eB
some 80 years ago, said: it much better. He. said, -...
“When we try to pick ‘out anything by itself we find: ~.
_it hitched to everything else in'the Universe'™: Rather
‘than a chain, this’ statement of Muir's suggest'acnét >.
or web and one that is far beyond..our ability to
define .all its intricacies or its-scope. The little. we -.
know about this web of life suggests: it has. amazing:
has. never been without. some rips:

; Fred’ Milligan, director of technical services for. Here's another, “Everybody knows that ‘industry
CZ-Canada’s coastal operations, has been named kills”. . \
winner of the award for the best article published -

- this year in the journal of the British Columbia As-

sociation of Professional Engineers.

- "The .controversial article, “Environmental Hys--
teria,” prompted what the magazinc—The B.C. \Pro-
_’ fessional Engincer—described' as one of the biggest
"reader responses in its more than 20 years of pub-

“lication.

ne Mr, :Milligan, jrecently elected vice-president of they téll us absolutely nothing about the problém.
" . the engineers’ association, emphasized that the views ! cial | j
‘expressed were his own personal ones.’ Excerpts problems of’ contamination and pollution. . . .

follow:

;, ;things,,but-no sooner had
»-Sfiled-the-land™.. 2.

d

'..s. The environment, like the weather, has been: a -
.. matter’. of concern for a. long time. The prophct
- “-:\ Jéremiah, for instance, is recorded in the ‘Bible as
co" having castigated the Israclites by saying, “I brought -
“you a'fertile country to enjoy its produce and good”
i you entered than you de-

Wide-ranging rhetoric . .
When, one scans the pages of newspapers.and .
agaziries,.listens to environmental programs on the _
adio and’ watches them on-T', one cannot help
ut be impressed by the range of ecological rhetoric. :
it- could. be put -in-statistical-terms and: a. curve: -»
tted, the curve would range from the rational to
‘hystéfical;’ with; ‘the average located ‘somewhere

~

And a third, “Consumers are demanding-different
products, clean air, pure water, and a quality cn-
vironment”... .

Now, you probably noted in those statements the
use of words like “clean" and “pure”. and “fresh”
and “quality” ..... The trouble with these words is
‘that, while they give us considerable information
about the state of mind of those who utter them,

They present, no focal points for anyone ‘to attack

Limit to loneliness -
We're often told how much ‘better, off. we. would .
‘be in that beautiful ‘world in which man lives in har-
mony with nature, 4 la Thoreau. But-that sort of a
life has its limitations—even. Thoreau could ‘stand
the lonely beauty of. Walder’ Pond: for only two
years, a Se
_2¢...Lwonder, too, how. much comfort it is to anyone.
4,at the bottom of: the economic ladder to. know that
thousands of: square .miles have. been locked. up-as ..
wildemess~areas ‘for him, particularly since ‘he ‘will
‘probably never-sce them anyway. And if he's‘a peri-
‘sioner, it will ‘probably be physically beyond his

times

resilience, yet it
OF tears. 63.2 Sa
_ I've ‘gone on. at considerable length: in’ finding
fault with what’ seems to be the current popular ap--
proach to’ ecological ‘and -environmental” problems. -
“L've done so deliberately because it appears clear to’
me that our very real problems in this area are not.
going to yield to. highly.-emotidnal, appeals. When -
‘the avalanches of. adjectives.have been cleared away.
the problems will still.temain,)... e200 Ope

~.. Dariger f extremes :

- reach, even though he may havé both the mancy and’ oe eople ‘will g¢ turned“ of

The: big: danger is tha

-*+-:"amueh: appreciated by users: of
Terrace toads,

led by a ragtime band (ex-: -
cept that today he'd. have.
been humiliated and led by ©
a rock band), Somebody's

M
“graphs? .. ‘Kellogg's ©. ‘Corti

fade, Horlicks’ Malted Milk.
"Red RoseTea: ;

ads“‘in tiny type for aids -
vwith dandraff, piles, under: -

‘ arm hair remover ‘for ladies, |

. kidney pills, -liver “pills,

wife, with a certain Jack of —

novelty, had presented him
with his third set of twins.
And similar garbage.

THE WEATHER. Same .
oid jazz as we get today.

_ “Probabilities: Fair weather;

_stationary or higher tem-
perature.” In other words,
it's going to stay miserable _
or improve. What's new?

But the real fun of an old
newspaper is the advertise-
ments, as they are today.
Even then, the auto manu-
facturers took a lot of space.
You had the choice among a
the Gray Dort, the Franklin, ~

. and something called . the
Lexington. But the copy -
hasn't changed much. —.

Instead of power brakes, «
you had the “one-finger
emergency brake.” Instead
of anti-freeze, you had the ©
Frankiin’s “Direct — air-
cooled. No water to boil or
freeze.”’ Wonder. what hap-
pened to that one? And in-

_ Stead of the 120 per cent”
performance promised for
today’s cars, the Gray Dort

rheumatic remedies. What's: -

mew? ee
- There ‘isn't exactly an-
entertainment ~section, ; a8
such, but the ‘King Edward.
Hotel. offered.a. dinner de..
luxe for $1.50, with music _
by Romanelli's . orchestra,
~The Alexandria was present- .

ing ROADS OF DESTINY: —

with Florence Reed. And
the Princess suggested La La —

Lucille, with music. by” -

George Gershwin. Evenings,
$2.00. Matinees, from 50g.
This was live theatre. At
~ Shea's there was a nine-act
vaudeville ‘show, Prices? 2s¢
to 50g... What's new?
should tell you? :
And in a coloured sup-
_ plement of :the time, there
‘are full-page ads for such
things as chewing gumi, Bon
Ami for whitening your
shoes, Borden's Milk, and
Pebeco tooth-paste, Can

you believe? In a recent ~ ae

Macleans, Canada's “nation:
al magazine”, there were
126 pages of writing and
just over 20 pages of liquor
advertisements, So what's
new?

Letters to the Editor

presented data onsuchascale. where you can charge ,

certainly this represents a everything with no payments —

significant start of a planning
programme which might be
compared to the Forest Service
Inventory Reports, the
Department of Agriculture Soil
Survey Maps, or the British
Columbia Energy Board’s
report on Electric Energy
Resources and Future Power
Supply for British Columbia
1972-1990. .

Please bear in mind that the
fundamental purpose of Dr.
McCartney’s report is the
development of a planning
concept that. will ‘assist the
rational integrated develop-

mentof the natural resources of.

the Regional’ District. of
Kitimat-Stikine:- ae

'  * “Sincerely
: n Ray Parfitt,
_ Assistant Administrator.

Snow clearing

Dear Sir: . =
This is my first winter in
Terrace, and in spite of only a
.few light falls of snow, I am
surprised at the poor attempts
made at removing it.in certain
‘parts of the Municipality -
- particularly the downtown
area. | 7 ' .
Whatisthe purpose of leaving

the streets? As far as I can see
its just a nuisance to both

_ drivers and pedestrians. Also, —

why ‘do pedestrians have “to
walk ankle deep in snow on the
sidewalks? On Saturday

> morning FE walked from the

-. was going

piles of snow down the middle of -

Municipal Building. to- the

shopping area and found

_ >. walking unpleasant and for the.
small children it was difficult. ©
‘~~ Years ago when Terrace had»

“a small population this method

~ Sof snow clearing may have been
. + gufficient but now with heavy
‘traffic and“ more pedestrians

there surely should be a better
attempt made to clear ’:the
’ streets, This service ‘would be

Yours very truly

nly three

till ‘Christmas.
“And: there were in the same

‘keeping ‘watch over their homes.
-by'night but going to work every’

“And lo, the smooth-voiéed TV
‘announcer came upon them and.
ithe;:glories of many’ fine
weaésslons shone aut at them
nd ‘they ‘were so‘ alfrald they
ould never, be able to: buy:a
ie things their families wan-
Neen eo Ts
And the TV announcer said unto:
“fnto you good: tings of grent
Unto you' god ‘tidings -of ‘great :
Joy, which’. shall “te “to ‘all
-parduis, fathers, mothers, .
Children’ and relatives... 0°)

For unto’ you there is this day
he: city where our store [3,2

saviour, which’ is-‘our. credit.

“Xow ‘shall: find this: won-
is:; one. wrapped in’ -red
thing,’ with’: big “stomach

"Mrs. B.E. Blix -

country, husbands and fathers. :’

-morning to make lots of money.” -

Engagement

” {Toron

until February.” ao
And suddenly there was with,

the TV announcer a multitude of *

JV actors, praising the store
‘and saying “Glory to Santa the
mostest and on earth lets of

presents for all. And we're open _ | oe]
until 9 p.m. every night until 1@

Christmas.”

And it came to pass as the TV © a

actors faded away into the blood

.and gore of a high-rating. (i@

children's program,’ the father
and .mothers ‘said one to
another, ‘Let us now go even
unto this store which the TV
announcer has made known to
us,"

electric can openers,

one, dressed in red, with fake
whiskers and a truly happy
smile as he sat by the cash
register saying, “‘Ho, ho, ho.”
And when they had made their
purchases, they made known
* among all their neighbors how

they were going to have one of -

‘ the best Christmases ever, but
. Santa Claus (the credit
manager, that is) kept all the
time contracts in his safe and
pondered on all the interest he
to collect.

by Herb Williams

Sad loss

Dear Sir:

1 am writing this in deep ‘

. sorrow at the news of the

passing of a friend of long.

standing and an old. time

“history of Terrace’, His wife
writes, “Frank died: very

suddenly on Oct. 2nd. we had.’
- friends to dinner and sat around |

the fire talking and for a while
longer after they left. 1 went to

d sidewalks. the kitchen to do the dishes and |
and sidew couldn’t ‘have been ‘out-of the |

room -more than 15 minutes.
- When I returned he was dead.”
I am sure a lot of. people in.

Sincerely!
‘Mrs..S, Haudenschild =.
“(Ne- Helen A, Stnith)
847 Summit Aves

‘:, Priice Rupert. B.C.

“Mir and. Mes, Alf Darby are:
«pleased “to. announce the

marriage of their daughter py
io. Geraldine,: to - Mr, “Phillip:
‘Fear not, for I bring. Walker. The ‘ceremony was.

* performed by Father Maroney:

son Decdmber: 18; 1072,.in the 1

Church.of the Sacred Heart, :
: ‘Ontatle, 8."

Flakes. Shirriff's. Marma-. °°

- And - the: all-too-famitiar oe

“From his magazine

resident’ of Terrace’ and [&
Rosswood. Rank Ross, the son -} im
.of Annie Ross mentioned in the. 3m

‘Terrace Will .be sorry ‘te hear
2 this too.. Someof the pegple now

a a ae ts, will remember his wile:
hopping ‘days =*  as-hav az |

“Marjorie Jairbaira,"".

And they came with haste and -. a
found glittering wrist watches, -:
fur coats, transistor radios, .
new |
dresses and also the wondrous.

Re a RE trom ahr