Page 4 The Herali, Friday, June 27, 1990 dally herald General Office- 635.6257 Circulation - 635-6357 postage guaranteed. PUBLISHER- Calvin McCarthy EDITOR. Greg Atlddleton , CIRCULATION. TERRACE - 635-6357" , Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, : Terrace, 8.C. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage pald Published by - Sterling Publishers In cash, return | \. : NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT Jo “The Herald retains fult, complate and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorlal or photographic content pubilshed n= the. Herald.. Reproduction “(snot permitied without the written permission of the Publisher. Jn ( < LETTE L » RS TO. Dear Sir: The Caledonia Awards Committee is grateful to the following groups and in- dividuals for their continuing interest and financial assistance; - an Course and Programme Awards: Acklands Ltd., All Seasons Sporting Goods, Architects North, Arnie’s Meat Market, Aurora Animal Hospital, Bank of Montreal; Charlie Belanger Plumbing and Heating Lid., Bert's Delicatessen,. Beutle Masonry Ltd., c. Telephone Company, Canadian Cellulose Com- pany Lid., Carter's Jewellers - Ltd., - Central : Flowers and Gifts, Cramp- ton and Brown, Danny's Place, Doc's Cartage and Storage Co. Ltd., Dog "N Suds, Elker Auto Supply "THE EDITOR Ltd., Emerson Medical Clinic, Erwin Jewellers, Ev's Men's Weat Ltd., Finning Tractor and Equipment Ltd., French Congul-General, Gim’s Restaurant Ltd., Haida Travel Service Ltd., Highe Surveys Ltd., Inland Ken- worth Sales (Skeena) Ltd., Kalum T.¥. Stereo. and Appllances, Ken's Photo. Studio Ltd., Lakelse Motor Hotel. oH. © Lehmann Jewellers Ltd., Dr. V. A. Lepp, Marwyn Truck Sales Ltd. Mr. Mike's Steak House,’ Mountview Hakery and Delicatessen, The MacGillis and Gibbs Com- pany (B.C.) -Ltd., MeColl Real Estate Services Lid,, and McElhanney Associates. Thank you, Bill Sturn & Dear Sir:. , A recent editlon of the Terrace-Kitimat . Daily Herald provided the public with astounding news that . the west Skeena logging road was @ sure solution to solve the shortage of timber, - supply to feed the sawmills in the Terrace area and that mainly he announ ement indicatedFMhat o ie the Terrace ae was nearing its starvation point, Further, that the beauty of the west Skeena ‘mountainsides could be a mere factor that could ereate some objection from the local residents. Sir, in Carla Wilson's - report, I find it quite disturbing that no con- sideration shouldbe given to other areas such as the Kitwanga area who might be needing ithe timber in the area in question as a major reserve! source for the future, . We seem toremember that a meeting held in Kitwanga last N' November, 1979 ended with mixed feelings and that there was a strong objection from the chiefs and elders of the Bands, that the area from Legate Creek and stretching west towards the Sand Lakes near the Nass area belonged to our an-- cestors and that this area that the B.C. forest service of Terrace is ready to allocate to the sawmills in Terrace is also within our aboriginal territorial claim. The Indian Reserves along the west banks of the Skeena River indicates that the area traditionally belongs to our. Indian ‘peopte, jointly with the Kitselas and Kalum bands, ,As we recall, the chiefs and elders, of our villages declared that there will be no roads built and no timber’ taken away without their consent and just recently, we met with the regional manager in Prince Rupert and we questioned him about their plans to survey for a west Skeena highway, and he assured us that It will be two years around the mid-1982 before any decision is brought forward on the matter. : 1 think that our Indian people will defend our’ aboriginal territorial claim especially when our future is threatened where once the timber is allocated to Terrace, our own livelihood. will disappear and die with the forest areds that we are looking to that will supply our own focal sawmills in Kitwanga for the next 40 or 50 years. Our band applied for a tree farm licence and we are depending on the area ap- plied for to supply our own sawmills for the few decades ahead. Yea, we know that the giant sawmills in Terrace are exhausting thelr timber supply and are spreading their tennacles everywhere they can, but, what will we do in our Kitwangar tea 4f the timber on the west Skeena River is also cleaned off during the next ten to ‘twelve years from now, we are intending to enter into the manufacturing of lumber and other products once we get approval on our T.F.L. application, and we will be- assured a long-term goal. For years we, have be telling the U prowttici eens Me dhat large. government amounts of timber supply was assured to the large corporation companies and they did not assure our ‘Bands any long-term timber supply. a We feel and we believe that the timber In our territorial Jand claim area belongs to the Kitwanga_ area and not Terrace, _ We think it's time that the ministry of forests decided to take a distinctive action and | cut back the volumes of timber that CanCel is using up. Also, by regulating the volumes that can be milled and ground to pulp, on -the- same token take back about 50 per cent of the timber. supply that they gave away - to the large corporations and leave our timber supply area be for the next few decades or more. ve Our. native people are hoping to acquire a large enough commitment from the minister of forests next fall so that we can com: mence to build a sawmill or other processing plants and . this will help our natlve people and non-native people in our Kitwanga area to set ourselves up for future social | and economic developments. We say that lt’s now our turn to do our thing.- . Anyone who takes timber t of - our area (traditionally) is really intruding and our people do not take it lightly. So far, I myself don't know what course of action our native people will take to persuade the ministry of forests that this land ig ours and the timber should be directed to the Kitwanga area and no where else. The streams, rivers, and hunting and trapping areas belongs to our ancestors, they fought to keep out intruders in olden days,.my father and uncles worked the Insect and the Fiddler Creeks and other tributaries to the Skeena River and each hill and mountain Is named in ac- cordance with tribal territories. We would be the best managers of the watersheds and rivers. We know what it takes to keep the fish coming back from season to season, The fisheries officers do not have to tell us what fish goes up certain streams along the Skeena from points Legate Creek and as far as the Andimaul Creek east of Kitwanga. Thank you kindly. Yours truly Clifford C.W. Morgan Member of the cote ss? Giwangak Band: - ¥ on The PARIS (AP) — The tall, haughty French general spoke into a microphone that sent his voice across the English Channel to a beaten, hurnilitated country. “Prance {s not alone ... I, . General de Gaulle, now in London, invite the offlcers - and soldiers of France to lin up with me.” Forty years ago Wed- nesday. Charles de Gaulle. broadcast “l'Appel de 18 . Juin” —the Call of June 18 — and changed the course of French postwar history, a course that’ eventually brought him to the presidency. se “The-French, who have ele- - vated the Call to almost my- thical” ‘proportions, are i * ’- By JACK SIMONS ‘MOGADISHU (Reuter) - More than 2,000 refugees from. Ethiopia pour into - Somalia's makeshift refugee. camps every day, Somali and international officials Most of them come from the disputed Ogaden desert of southeast Ethiopia which has been criga-crossed by camelherding Somall nomads for centuries. * - The Ethiopian. army, backed by‘ Soviet weapons and Cuban troops, ended the latest attempt by the Somali army to occupy the Ogaden in a counter-offensive in March, 1978. ° Since then, guerrillas of the Western Somalia Liberation Front have continually. harassed af FRE marking the 40th 4n- niversary thia week with fireworks, an Eiffel Tower sound-and-light show about de Gaulle, and a dozen new | * books analyzing the reasons for France’s worst bat- tlefleld debacle since Waterloo. Many .Frenchmen indeed are wondering, {n light of the Afghanistan crisis, whether the Soviet army could march into France as ‘easlly-as the Germans, The government will scon decide whether _—ito manufacture the neutron bomb, and there are per- sistent calla on France to broaden its deterrent force by spreading its nuclear um- breila over neighboring Wea Germany. Dy oe Ethiopian and Cuban troops in the semi-desert area t size of Britain, :; Refugees gradually began crossing the border into the: Somali republic, saying their camel herds had either been : driven away, from water by . _- the Ethiopian army. wiped out by machinegud fire. Officials from the United” Nations Children’s Fund and - other international relief organizations say there are nearly 700,000 refugees in the camps along the Somali side of the border and 90 per cent of them, are women and children. — ‘The women say the men shave joined the liberation front or been recruited into the Ethiopian army. The Somali government estimates that, if refugees call of June 18° - In general, the new’ books on the war tend to‘relnforce . the thesis that France, bled white by the Firat World War, was simply too tired to fight the Second World War. ‘The army blindly. trusted the Maginot. Line to hold back invaders, and thought cavalry charges could match tank divisions and Stuka bombers, ot About 120,000 Frenchmen died in 40 days of fighting. Eight million refugees - headed to the southern third of France that-an armistice demarcated aS an undc- cupied zone. The government fled Paris and lodged itself in the little _ health spa town of* Vichy, _ where the Germans set up @ fea as ‘Refugees swell population — who have come to live with . relatives: are taken into ~ gecount, 1.4 million people have been added ta the . Somali population of 3.8 mil- mn L, : In the southern. camps near the town of Luc, many . of the refugees are not ethnic Somalis but farmers: of Ethiopia's Oromo ‘minority who lived-in the .southern provinces. of Bale and Sidamo. Ce They say soldiers locted thelr farms, destroyed. their crops and took young men to fight Ethiopia's other secessioniat war In the Red Sea province of Eritrea. ~ Many of the. Oromo families walked for two -months across northern Kenya, sleeping by day and muving at night. . Verdun, . foreign collaborationist regime. Marshal Philippe Petain, victor of the First World War’s bloodiest battle, took over the leadership, intent on dismantling the-leftist de-- ~motracy. of’. the Third. ‘Republic which he blamed: for France's misfortune.’ On Jane 18, as 64-year-old Petain was suing the Ger- - mans for an‘armistice, 49- year-old De Gaulle urged ‘him to flee to North Africa and fight on from France's ~ colonies. De Gaulle was then so little known In France that his - speech went almost unheard. ‘Electricity shortages in ‘ France kept mat radios off. med to The rest were Petain's headquarters. 7 Somalia is suffering a two- drought which has hit its main exports of. Saudi Arabia and bananas to Italy. The resulting Jack of exchange. has resulted in severe shortages of commodities like sugar, _ and flour. a _In the refugee camps shortages: trarislate’ starkly. into hunger, . Child deaths in some of the _ northwestern camps "near the town of Hargeisa - are running at 50 a-week,, relief officials say. , The basic diet in the camps is rice, Some campe can aupply only two ounces a day per person. Milk powder, porridge and‘cooking oil are seen only rarely and then . Mogadishu. . Mmousin son his City, leaving the conference In beef to. ‘OTTAWA — To watch the: media blitz last | Week of the Premiers at the close of this latest you'd .néver - federal-provincial conference, guess ‘hat these constitutional talks have been. - .]- going on for. nearly 40 years. -|-. There was the m edia, some-250 to-300 press, . radio and TV representatives, scrambling. like so many: pro: football players. In the.‘closing seconds of the fourth quarter of a tled Grey. Cup game. ae gE Anything -physical, except .perhaps outright =. slugging, went as the pack fought for position around the Premiers. pee ees “How different from the first of these con” ferances called in the post-war 1940's by the late Prime Minister.Mackenzle King In an effort fo icify the then Quebec Premler Maurice Buplessis’ demandsfor ‘special status” without the .other. elght arousing the antagonism: of rovinces. oo - , New foundiand wasn’t represented at that first conference for It hadn’t at that time entered Confederation. .-. ne co, But then as now, the Quebec Premier was the odd man out, with the other provinces suspicious of any ‘concessions Mackenzie ‘King might be disposed fo grant In an effort to appease the ever-dissatisfled and restive provinces. The conference opened at 10 in the morning In the Senate Chamber. ‘ a _ All very orderly, even sedate. _ Radlo and TV hand't yet been admitted to the Parliamentary Press Gallery, much less fo the House of Commons or the Senate. - Just the print media was there, at most some 30. representatives, covering for the Canadian ‘Press, the. then British: United Press, the™ Toronto, Mantreal, Windsor, Hallfax, ‘Saint ’ John; Winnipeg and Vancouver papers, and the members of the Southany:chain. oe The Prime Minister spéke, and in turn the . Premiers of the English-speaking provinces... And that -was it. oo me Premier Duplessis, silent and listening - carefully, had heard enough. . 7 It was just before noon, with the conference walting.to hear from him, when he rose, walked out of the Chamber, and In the Senate foyer, an: aide handed him his black top hat. --.. -- He donned “it, left the Centre Block by the _ Senate entrance, stepped into. his waiting sine and was on-his way back to Quebec. hhed Stience. -- No media flying squads had been waiting at the ‘doors to waylay the Premiers when they should leave. re ‘The press, like the: conference participants, were left cold in their seats. There was a belated rush by the press for the door, but by that time Premier Dupiessis was probably rolling down the Montreal Road, then . -Ottawa’s east-bound exit. ae ‘The Prime Minister “and his Cabinet, In con- sultation with the Premiers, put together. a communique which, like most If not all such-pro- , forma documents, sald nothing of substance. . ~ ‘The discussion of course had been “frank and — free,” there had been ‘“‘ameeting of minds,’ and Lt “progress” of an undefined sort had been made. It was over as quletly, If not as formally, thanks to the unpredicta ‘as It had begun. ble Maurice Duplessis, As that day is remembered, there was some wonder’ astonishment ant a degree of in- - dignation express y the Prime Minister and only in the camps closest to faithfully echoed in butletins of the late editions of the afternoon newspapers. But there was no. mass press “‘scrum,” no pushing and shoving, elbowing and butting to get near enough to Maurice Duplessis fo question him.’ He was too fast onhis feet and Into his timo for the then felsurely press to do much more than stare open-mouthed as he made his swift, but decorous surprise exit. * Ye waited until he got back to Quebec City to talk to hit own Press Gallery of what a waste of » ‘time the conference had been. TETTERS TO) Dear Sir: . .. ms , An open letter of thanks to the community: AS you may. have heard, the first Northwest Women’s Festival held at the Hart over two hundred women and children participating In the weekend's activities. A large part of the credit 1 gaes once again to the In- _ credible community support which we received in con- ' tributions.of food, money and — labor. This _ includes Alcan, Bert's Deli, Blue © Ribbon Bakery, CanCel, The Chalet Inn, Dave Comfert, The Kitimat Hotel, The Terrace Legion Ladies Ausilary, The Northern Motor (nn, Northern Signs. Northland Deli, Overwaitea (THE EDITOR _} farm on June 13, 14, and 15° was a prand success with . ‘in Terrace 7 and Kitimat; - Pizza Hut, Pizza Patio, Price -Busters, Samson's :Poultry Farm, Safdman Ina, ‘Savalas Restaurant, Shop- Easy, Skeena Broadcasters, Skeena Mental Health Unit, Slumberlodge, Terrace Drugs, The Terrace Co-Op, Terrace Correctional Centre. Terrace, Kitimat and District Labor Council, Twin River Timber and, of course, this publication: To each of these con-' tributors and to the people of Terrace who made. the festival. participants welcome) we extend our sincere thanks. ws Until the next festival, - hyve a great aymmer, ‘Sher Morgan, The Terrace Women's ' Centre and The Northwest Festlval-Cammittee