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PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday, April 10, 1976

EDITORIAL
Joggers
licence

The Participaction challenge between the town
of Vernon and Terrace-Kitimat has produced
more than the usual number of early-morning
joggers braving their way dangerously through
the trash of Terrace's broken glass and street
garbage, dog droppings and other fortunately
undetermined flotsam and jetsam of human
progress. Just as Eric Nicol has recently written
— in commenting on the plan to license joggers
first suggested in Los Altos Hills, California —
“Just ag sure as taxes, the jogging path of life is
dappled with doggy-do.” And no more elsewhere]
than in Terrace we might add!

The complaint, in California, was that jogg
were, Nicol says, ‘'....bowling over pedestrians.
The little old lady flattened by a moving mass 0.
Addidas might shrill “Get his number!" but a
size 84 EEE might be the best she could hop
for,”’

Nicol sees the problem of licensing joggers t
be that of classification. Those who jog on
pavement might be classed as vehicles, .whil
those who jog in parks could be classed as sma
game. To interfere with the latter, one woul
undoubtedly need a game . license!

Unlike Eric, Ido not question the joge
motive. Somewhat resembling a balding, rolle
up hedgehog, myself, and seriously overwieght
know what they and other denominations
such as Weight Watchers, Tops and other unhol
rollers are up to. To belittle me, that’s what!

While Nicolmay think Female joggers are th
biggest menace to roadside traffic, despite hi
denial that he is not sexist — I have oth
suspicions. Nicol sees a connection between
pendulous busty female jogger and the sight
malé motorists spinning their. wheels, thou
the snow has gone, and changing lanes withou
signalling — other than exuding a puff of stea
out of the driver’s window — as significant.

I know better. Besides, my wife has lon
since learned to seize the steering wheel an

such a sight hoves — or heaves — into view.

In one way, I agree with the pro-jogger-
licensing school of thought, but with a difference.

There should, I would say, bea city by-law (or
even by-laws) controlling joggers. let
amateurs pollute the local scene, with their hairy
limbs, their gaping mouths, their sagging —
thighs, or whatever. There should be competent
judges appointed “jogging inspectors’ (care
being taken not toconfuse that office with a close-
sounding woodland variety) who would check all
potential joggers for dress, form, size, grooming
— eye appeal and whatever.

A stadium should be erected, as soon as
possible, for just such a purpose. Surely ‘there
are ample funds under L.1.P., Young Canada,
Canada Works, including other highly pre-
election-vote-getting programs who would gladly
undertake construction. An annual Jogger
Judging day (preferably in June or July) could
be announced, and the joggers judging jury from
a favoured position in the judge’s box could
revue all candidates performances. They would,
of course, rate their selection in the same
manner figure sketersare judged, — by having
young females behind them holding aloft cards
mimbered from 1 to 9.

The possibilities are endless. The contestants

would be judged on their ability to step over
obstacles ranging from broken bottles to piles of
“Ranchers’ Delight”.
_ Other scores would be based on their ability to
bowl over old ladies, stop traffic, escape
snarling dogs and — well, anyway, by now I am
sure our readers will have caught the spirit of the
thing, and understand the general idea.

Should there be any shortage of applications
for the required judges, I would be most happy to
volunteer my services.

_ And if I should be unable to attend, I have an
idea whomightbe willing to substitute. Eric Nicol,-

I'm sure. Or an elderly clergyman 1 know,

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Ottawa Offbeat

Ottawa- The mischief-makers at External
Affairs are busy again.

Ross Francis, director of the United Nations
Political Affairs Division of the External Affairs
Department, has been exhorting black African
“Front Line” nation representatives that they'd
better make political waves.

The “Front Line” nations are Zambia,
Mozambique, and less directly, Tanzania, which
for years now have been carrying guerrilla war

into Rhodesia and conspiring with Cuba and the —

Soviet to undermine and eventually overrun
South Africa.

Canada, through External Affairs, has been
assisting them with direct funding and supplies
and material under the label of “foreign aid.”

Mitchell Sharp, when he not so long ago was
External Affairs Minister, referred to the black
guerrillas as “freedom fighters,” and stood by
passively when they shot to death a pair
of Canadian girl tourists at Victoria Falls on the
Rhodesian-Zambian border.

So naturally to Canada, where they could be
sure of government sympathy and support,
journeyed the other day a delegation of black
African guerrilla — of ‘‘freedom fighter’? —
leaders.

They were looking for more of everything
money, material, supplies, moral and political
support, and impossibly, perhaps even arms and
ammunition, trans-shipped, of course, via
Cuba or some other Communist country with
which Canada has been establishing comfortable
relations.

But Ross Francis, in the recent past an In-
formation Officer--that's pusher of propagan-

dist-for External Affairs, turned out to be ne soft |

touch. .

He was giving nothing away.

Except advice. ,

He was counselling the black African leaders
at a conference on the future of Southern Africa.

**You seldom hear questions about the struggle:
for black majority rule in Africa,” he told them,
“In our House of Commons.”

Pity.

And you know why? ;

“The average Member, of Parliament,” he
recounted, “‘seems to be much more interested
in the latest unemployment figures’. than the
black conquest of the legally ‘elected govern-
ments of white Southern African states.

And who's to blame for the Canadian
Parliament’s priority for this self-interest?

Well, Ross Francis told, them, they were
“partly” responsible for what he termed the
“Disinterest and ignorance of most Canadians.”

They were going about lobbying in “The wrong
way,” he coached them, .

It was no use chumming up to senior
bureaucrats in External — Affairs.

“You have to create a political climate if you’
want action,” he went on. “If you want the
External Affairs Minister to go any farther than
he’s already gone about Southern Africa, you
have to use political means,”’

Like demonstrations, protests, marches,
charges of Canadian racism?

Ross Francis didn't say.

But he did say, when asked, that he had been
accurately reported, .

And he was quite surprised that anyone should’
read into his remarks any suggestion of criticism
of parliamentarians for their disinterest in ‘the -
black African war, or of Canadians for their
‘‘ignorance”’of the situation.

But he confessed that yes, he supposed. that
“some people’? might think he was faulting
Canada for preoccupation with unemployment
and domestic economic woes to the exclusion of.
interest or commitment to the Third World.

Meanwhile, watch for a change in the
“political climate” that he urged the black
African leaders to create by “making waves.”’~

It’s bound to cost you money.

ae aS

~ “You haven’t said anything about my mushroom souffle yet.” =

Finds dog abuse rate high in
~ Thornhill-Terrace area

Why don’t more people in the Terrace area

- abuse their dogs? Stupid question? Not, reaiiy,

because its a great place to live if you've into
that sort of thing. Nobody will bother you. Why.
not? Well; for one thing, it illegal to trespass if
you don’t have the owner’s permission. Also, it
almost impossibly to find the S.P.C.A. They're
not in the phone book. Don’t confuse the S.P.C.A. -
with the: Animal Control Shelter. They’re :not
related, The Animal Control Shelter is allowed to
pick up dogs in the Terracecitylimits only.
(But do they?) According to the Agriculture.

‘Department in Smithers,it is the‘duty:of the':’

S.P.C.A. to control free-running dogs, as well as
the abuse of dogs both in and out of city limits.
But have fun finding the S.P.C.A.

We've found some really “great” examples of

dogs that have been abused, Remeber’ that
mother dog and cute litter of pups that had no
one to look after them! It’s a shame, but it was
illegal :to trespass, and they had been just left
starving by the. owners. Fortunately ‘someone’
frespassed enough to keep them alive. How
about that Irish Wolfhound found chained to a
porch-DEAD! I don’t even want to go into that:
There’s also some ‘‘loving’ dog owners who are
allowing a would-be beautiful Irish Setter to
starve to death. She’lllucky to have a concerned
neighbour who has been watching over her and

would you ‘believe, buying food especially for .

her! (He’s only 4 young student with not much
money, but at least he cares!) For the. three
weeks she’s been in heat, the poor thing has
constantly been having alot more romance.than

_ Signed _

weakened condiition, it remains to be see what;
will become of her litter! (She’s been chained.
day and night so doesn’t have much say in the.
matter)

If you want to see this gorgeous red-headed .

‘female, go up to Mark Road behind Riverside:

Groceries on Queensway and eat you heart out! |

By the way, there is an S.P.C.A. representive_
here, butinordertofindhimyoumayhaveto —
phone the R.C.M.P. who will tell you to go to the, ,
Animal Control Shelter, who will tell you to call
the Provincial building, who will refer you to the?

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R.C.M.P:,' Maybe out of ‘this you'll’ find the? .

S:P:CiA.. *- ‘representative: ” “We? on

Hot in Pursuit of Abuse OY

PS. ;

At the time of this writing, there’s also a-cute:
little white dog that’s been locked up all day at”
the same residence as the Irish Setter. At least”
there people are consistantly cruel, | -

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' TODAY IN HISTORY
By THE CANADIAN
_ PRESS

1746—England 1945—Canadian troops
defeated Scotland and Captured Groningen,
Bonnie Prince Charles at ¢nding the battle of North
Culloden. Holland. . - 4
1867—Wilbur Wright, | '864—There was a rush.
airplane inventor, born. ‘0 stake mining claims,
1917—-Lenin, after 19 "ear Timmins, Ont., after.

years inexile,returnedto @ Texas Gulf Sulfur:
Russia. copper strike.

I first met George through his wife Janet,
when I was editor of the Prince Rupert Daily
News — about four years ago. Jean had written a
Letter to the, Editor telling how she had heen
“ripped off” at a local garage in Hupert for
repairs to her car, Through the publicity the
paper afforded, and through Jean’s persistence,

the Garage (a Gulf station) gave her a refund of
something . like — seventy dollars.

Janet phoned to thank me, and invited my wife
and I to drop in and celebrate the victory. It was
then that-I noticed her husband was not well. We
learned that through the doctor’s having given
him a wrong prescription, according to Janet,
his kidneys had failed and she was going out with
him. to Vancouver to take instruction on a
portable renal dialysis machine. George was a
fhastly shade of. yellow, as proof of kidney
failure. Sometime later I had a phone call from
Janet to come on over to their fifth wheel trailer
in the trailer park and see their new “‘baby”. .

The “baby” was, of course, the so-called
portable renal (kidney) dialysis unit. A mass of

‘tubes and technology it filled about one fifth of
‘the trailer. Through it, every second day, George
would hook on to it with Janet’s help, and within
five hours or so would turn fram a deep yellow to
a normal, healthy, pinkish skin color.

It wasn’t easy! It wasn’t convenient — but it
meant the difference between life and death..

Through it, George was able to return to
work for his very understanding U.S. owned

aviation company which was installing special .

‘equipment for a hydro sub-station in Rupert. '

Some months later we had a farewell party for
George. and Janet who were returning to Mon-
treal, the Canadian headquarters for George’s

any normal dog could stand, and being. ‘in-a

and Janet — a true story —_

company. George was doing well. His con-
dition had pretty well stabilized. He had to avoid
getting over-fatigued. He maintained his
cheerfulness throughout the time we knew him.
Almost a year later we had a phone call from
Montreal. Janet was telling us the bad news.
George had had a stroke while on the kidney
machine, One side of his whole body, was now
paralyzed. We followed his progress in-
termittently. We knew things must be getting
tougher for the couple by the day. Every now and
then when the pressure was getting too much, we
could tell by conversation that Janet would get
herself nicely drunk — and then return to face
the difficult and uncertain future of caring for a
man who was tied for life to a system of tubes,
bottles and pumps. = ti 7
_-As she once said — “I can see his whole life
flowing through those plastic tubes, If they ever
stop — he’s dead. Sometimes, because of
-malfunctions, power fluctuations, and other
problems, there were times when death. came
very close. Thiss weekend, another phone cali to

Goerge and Janet. George had had a heart at- -

tack and been rushed ‘to hospital. There he had
two-more attacks. .
As if this was not enough, this weekend’ the?

doctors hav confided in Janet tnat George has
incurable (terminal) cancer of the bowel. -
“That,” said Janet, “Just about does it,
Kidneys — well, there’s alwyas the chance of a
transplant that will enable you to return to
normal. With a coronary, if you are careful, you
can usually learn to live with it. But when it
comes to cancer of the bowel...” her yoice broke. .
‘I think I can understand what Janet was
Saying, and how she feit.

Nothing —— is

| 1406 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg, Man. RQTZE2

The last couple of years my wife and I have
canvassed the block where we live for the Amual .
Canadian Cancer Society Fund drive. It is no
picnic. There are dogs at some houses that.
always act as if they would like to take a chunk.
out of us.- Occasionally there are rough.
responses. Some, when they give, give:::
grudgingly. Usually it manages to be raining, as:!
well, And I dread canvassing, anyway, =“

But, with the knowledge of George and Janet’
and the fact that cancer is still the terrible.
disease that can break down even the stoutest of |
hearts —like Janet and George — I would galdly .

«do it.again. tas:
This is, of course, a true story. It is also true’

that this month is Cancer Month, Cancer MUST.

“be beaten. It is killing too many fine le,"
When the Cancer Drive comes to your door ws.
give, as much as you can. More than that —

encourage your sons, daughters, friends to ‘get’
into Cancer research'— to come up with a cure.
more urgently .

Marsh World: if
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (Squaterola squatarole) ~ |
This striking black and white pigeon-sized bird |.

ranges over a vast area, nesting In the Arctic and
wintering in Brazil and Chile. Durlng migration it

is attracted to flooded fields, shallow marsh edges

of the wing, next to the body,
Bucks Unlimited (Canada)

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needed. on

occurs on both coasts as well as the interior and |

and mud flats. Their fall plumage is & drab mixture # *

of grey;brown and white, similar to-the Golden |
Plover; ‘however it canbe Identified. in flight by cs
the black axillary feathers located on the underside |

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