PPIPU Severe wate eee: Page 4, The Herald. Friday, November 3, 1978 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6357 PUBLISHER - Laurie Mallett GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middietor’ CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 635-6357 " KITIMAT. Pat Zelinskl KITIMAT OF FICE - 639-9747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varliled Circulation. Authorizedas second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage pald 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 without the written permission of the Publisher. Published by Sterling Publishers 632-2747. Nobel prize | peace prod NEW YORE (CP).— The latest peace treaty is the Nobel prize committee, peace. The two leaders, once sworn enemies, $173,700 in this year's prize, part of the bequest set aside A oe be miltlonaire Nobel on his death in 1856. But whether Nobel in- | tended the peace prize to be used as a lure is not clear. As laid down in his will, the prize was to go to “the | person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Begin and Sadat, although are wonéihg “of” Gin agreement, aré.still meeting stumbling blocks. The threat . of a new Middle East con- group to prod flict, although reduced, has Egypt and Israel toward a by no means disappeared. Begin's recent hawkish statements on the future of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and doubts expressed by some Israeli leaders over the wisdom of withdrawal from the Sinal show that the peace movement started a year ago when Sadat made his breakthrough visit to Jerusalem, still rests on a fragile base. The announcement of the award = drew cynical snickers— like the New York wag who remarked that the two leaders were given the prize jointly to stop them from fighting over it—and scathing condemnation. In Moscow, the official news agency Tass called the award a bad joke, denoun- cing Begin as a terrorist and. Sadat as a sellout. It is not the first time that the peace prize committee pro has come under fire for its award, In 1973, the prize was awarded jointly to Henry Kissinger, then U.S. secretary of state, and Le Due Tho of North Vietnam for their work in ending the _war in Southeast Asia. Ag it ‘hired out, Le Due declined the prize and the war went on for another two years. THINK BY JIM SMITH SMALL a i 197A Universal Prest $yedicate ' “This room you gave me overlooking the ocean. fs that the Pacific, the Atlantic or the Arctic?” t gy ‘THIS WEEK. ye Be a from Ottawa - Tone Campagnolo, M.P. | ~ What’s a Dollar Worth? Maybe it has something to do with the Canadian psyche - an inherent belief that some- thing awful is bound to fatten us. -Maybe it's nothing more than an unusually harsh fall sending chills down our collec- tive spine, Or maybe It's simply Im- possible to look on the world with good cheer when ihe post Office ts crumbling before our eyes. Whatever the reason, there’s no ignoring the shock which has overwhelmed the Cana- dian public as the dollar ptum- mets (0 one low after another. The state of the Canadian dot- lar has become a natlonal Cal- vary, our own version of the Bay of Pigs, the skeleton in our closed exposed for the world to see and jeer, The only thing wrong with the sackcloth-and-ashes rou- tine is that It's soabsurdly un- necessary. Canada may have seen better economic times but worse crises have been weathered comfortably as well. The dotlar may have de- clined bud it certainly isn't down for the count, According to the theary of international (rade, a nation’s currency slides when the coun: try's economic structure sags. This Is generally Interpreted to mean that deciine Ina curren- cy ls irrefutible evidence that the nation ts in trouble on a global scale. According to international trade theory, therefore, we're in big trouble. Our dollar went down faster (han the Titanic, The last time a currency was battered this badly, financlers were Jumping from window ledges. But the theory of iaterna- tonal trade Ignores one of the most important elements that determine a currency’s value - the actions of international currency specutators, The spe- culators are gamblers but you won't find them at the $2 win- dow of your local race track; the bip-thme speculators con- tro! billions of dollars (many of them petrodollars today) that (hey bicycle from one cur- rency to another. If they de- cide to sell their holdings of dotlars, the value of the dollar falls. If they decide to buy dol- lars, the value of the dollar goes up. fi’s not much differ- ent from the price of houses: the more houses there are for sale, the lower the price of each | tends to go. . These speculators have been ganging up on Canadd, forcing the dollar to dramatic lows. In part, they are acting out of distrust of Canada’s economic management. More and more, however, they are following # pack mentality which goes beyond any in- depth analysis of our economy. Eventually - today, tomtor- row of nexi month - the spe- culators will decide to buy the Canadian dollar again. The dollar will rise and cur eco- nomy will be recognized as healihy once mor. The im- provement will be due only in part to changes in our econo- mile structure. More to the point, the value of the dollar is of relatively little real concern, When the dollar faits, exporters are help- ed, importers are hurt, the na- tional balance of trade im- proves and more jobs and small businesses are created. There's no need for pessimism = just understanding. “Think small” ip an editorial measage from the Canadian Federation of Independant Business: “CONSTITUTION CONFERENCE | A good chance passed OTTAWA (CP) — The vincial premiers, divided among themselves, have passed up a chance to get something for almost nothing in the current struggle with Ottawa for political power. Cynies on the sidelines of the present federal-- provincial conference on the Canadian constitution say | the government may have designed it that way. But the fact remains that the premiers could have accepted a federal offer of a provincial voice in ap- pointments to a reformed Senate and the Supreme Court in Ottawa without giving anything in_ return. Divided, they effectively rejected that offer Tuesday. Shortly before this week's conference, a senior Ottawa political figure involved in constitutional reform complained privately that his government had com- simply mitted a bargaining blunder in offering the provinces a voice in federal institutions, with no strings attached. The federal government, he said confidentially, had adopted a foolhardy bargaining posture by splitting lia reform proposals of last June into two stages— offering the provinces. a voice in Parliament and the top court and proposing separate talks on dividing more crucial political powers to tax and to spend. ; His fear was that, having given away the Senate and Supreme Court points in the first stage, Ottawa then could not use these con- cessions to win bargaining points in the second, more important round of talks. But the provincial premiers have proved such federal fears growntdless. They split on how they should use the proferred power to appoint people to federal legislative and judicial bodies. And most insisted that the issue should be lumped into future general negotiations about which level of government should control powers ranging from fisheries and minerals to television and family law. The proposal to give the provinces a say in ap- pointments to federal in- stitutions, Prime Minister Trudeau said Tuesday, was designed to respond to per- ennial provincial complaints that Ottawa imposes national programs without giving proper consideration to regional wishes. - Under his idea, the pravinces would have their own nominees in Ottawa reflecting regional views on legislation and in court rulings on federal-provincial disputes. But the premiers resisted. Their opposition ranged from a statement by Richard Hatfield of New Brunswick that the provinces have no business getting Involved in federal government to demands by Peter Lougheed of Alberta that the provinces should appoint members to federel boards regulating transport ‘and commu- nications. Behind the publicly-stated reasons for resisting the federal offer, authorities suggest, is a recognition by the premiers of a possible they accepted, their freedom to challenge future federal actions would be diminished, Ottawa could respond by saying that provincial appointees" had taken part in the disputed action. In other words, the premiers would have no control over provincial appointees in Ottawa. CHICAGO (AP) -- in 1938, William Corsin thought he sounded pretty good in the shower, good enough to be an opera star, All he wanted was a way to hear himself sing. Sohe turned to his cousin, Marvin Camras. The result was the first wire recorder, “talking wire"— what we now know as’ the tape recorder. The family had known cousin Marvin was 4 genus since he built a flashlight from scratch at the age of four and a radio transmitter from a Model T coil at seven. At 22, working with scavenged piano wire, he built the forerunner of the modern tape recorder, a gadget that played back his whistled tune, Yankee Doddle. Hig discovery would revolutionize the radlo and movie industries and help launch television and rock music. It would aid development of sonar and mislead the Germans on D-Day. And it would make inventor Camras a4 millionaire but leave him, at age 62, bitter about people who handle money. Back in 1888, he recalls, Oberland Smith proposed that a lot of little magnets could record sound, but Smith's efforts to develop asound recorder were ig- nored until Camras was approached by his cousin. “T took some old plana _AND HEAR. HIMSELF wire, rummaged around and found some old transformers thrown out by Western Electric and bought a motor from a flea market. I worked in my cousin's father’s auto- body shop for maybe a couple of months,” he says. Then Camras set up the equipment in the basement of his parents’ home, turned it on and. whistled Yankee Doodie. He rewound the piano wire and started the machine. There he was, whistling Yankee Doodle. “| was quite sur- prised,’ Camras says. “In fact, I'm still a ble surprised it worked,” At the time a sophomore electrical engineering student at the Armor Institute, Camras took his invention to his professors, then to the Armor Research Foundation, a new con- suiting service. The foundation—now the EHinois Institute of Technology Research Institute—patented —_ the invention and hired Camras when he graduated. It was his first job and he's still there as a senior scientific ad- viser. d vwloped 8 we had level some pretty good units, but the armed forces were the only ones who could get one—it was all top secret,” Camras says. “We used it to help train pilots and to help He just wanted to sing» develop sonar for sub- marines.”” But the big, ultra-secret project involved D-Day, the Allied invasion of ‘Normandy during the Second World War. “We recorded battle sounds and developed equipment to amplify it thousands of watts,” Camras said. ‘The recordings were placed where the invasion wasn't to take place, where the Germans, through nted false information, ihoagnt the Allles would ii * After the war the public learned of Camras's work. Hea the marvels of the talking wire. . In 1947, Camras went to Hollywood with his device—by then tape had replaced wire—ani movies haven't been the same since. Until magnetic recorders were developed, sound wae: recorded directly on film with the use of a vibrating mirror, ‘¢ was very clumsy,” _ Camras says. “Within « few years everyone Was using magnetic tape. It's the same basic system year industry but Camras says: “Money sticks to the people who handle it. An entire industcy eprang up around the tape recorder, but not much of it reached me." Camras looks around his sparsely furnished office on the ninth floor of the 20-storey Ilinais Institute building on Chi- cago's South Side. “I'm told my inventions built this place, but it's the vice-presidents who have offices upstairs with car- - Camras has created or developed 500 inventions that have been patented. The Institute holds each of the patents and has issued licences. L.J. Lo- renz, assistant te the director of the Institute, concedesCamraa’s earnings “probably are minuscule when you consider the magnitude of his inventions.” But he “T¢'g normal procedure companies to ign agreements tht assign any Invention they come up with to the company.” And, noting that the inventor has become a millionaire, Lorenz says Camras was lucky that the institute developed his idea because ‘‘we took it far beyond what he had in mind ” Meanwhile, what of cousin William Corsin who started the ball—or tape—rolling? “He heard himself and agreed he sourtded pretty bad." ihe Camras. " of people who sing In the shower have made the same discovery on tape. They sounded a lot better to themselves than others.” “Keep B.C. green....spend money’. - It's an old joke — but the message is still clear. Tourism Is one of the most Important Industries in our province, anda very important creater of obs. ; | In recognition of this, and of the large role fouriam can piay In enhancing the economic base of all areas of B.C., the federal government has entered Into a $50 million five-year agreement with the Province of B.C. to assist the “travel industry”. Tourism Is primarily the respon- sibility of the province, and the federal par- ticipation — and money — Is in recognition of the Industry's strategic role in creating jobs and spurring our economic growth. KKK. Under the agreement, the federal and provincial governments, ‘through a_ |otnt management committee, wiil focus attention on supporting the development of various types of facilities needed to stimulate in-province travel and to encourage longer vacations In B.C. by both residents and non-residents. Emphasis will be placed on reducing the seasonal nature of fourism, Identifying and developing prime destination areas, and creating a long-term fourism development strategy. All areas of the province will be eligible for assistance under the program, except for lower Vancouver Island and the lower mainland. These areas do not need the economic assistance that communities such as ours in northwestern 8.C, require and have therefore been excluded. Ka The $50 million agreement wilt operate through several specific programs. Of direct assistance to persons in the tourist industry In our area will be incentives to en-° courage the upgrading of tourist facilities by means of low-interest and forgiveable loans. | would hope that through this program ft will be possible for facilities such as fhe Lakelse Hot Springs to be revived and to again become Im- portant tourist attractions. Financia! support will also be made available for tourist attractions which will encourage visitors to stay longer in areas they go to, and there will be funds for development of the ski industry at major locations, including con- sideration of year round tourism complexes of an international callbre. kk The goal of the tourism agreement, and of the other components of the federal government's economic assistance programs to B.C., Is to provide an environment which will allow , local residents to develop our economy in a respon- sible and positive manner. Tourism Is a particularly valuable industry in this regard, and 1 am confident that the new agreement wil! be of great bencfit to us. A responsibly operated tourlsm Industry can both he compatible with the environmental concern that is so much a part of our northern lifestyle and create jobs In locally controlled and owner businesses. Another example of the benefits brought to northern 6.C. by the federal government's economic assistance is the opening earller this month of the new water and sewer system in the town of Fort Nelson, in northeastern B.C. Fort Nelson Is an area of very rapid growth, and the old sewer and water system was totally inadequate to Its needs. A new $7 million-system was built, with fun- ding provided by all three levels of government. The federal government's assistance in what Is normally a provincial responsibility has provided Fort Nelson with a sewer and water system which will allow It ta meet the demands of industrial and residential expansion, and has helped make possible the rapid economic growth of that community. . For further Information on the .taurism agreement or on other aspects of the federal government’s programs of assistance to our area, please write to me care of the House of Cammons, Ottawa, Ontario, KIA 0X2, No postage Is required. 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