Page 14 TERRACE “OMINECA” HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. Wednesday, July’S, 1967 OTTAWA OFFBEAT Dief now just an old dear to Liberals OTTAWA, «+ Whether he runs or retires, succeeds himself or loses a re-bid for the Con- servative leadership, two things are certain-sure about John Die- fenbaker, 1. Win, lose, draw as Dief the Chief, he'll stay on, leader or loner, as MP for Prince Albert, 2. And remaining, he’ ll con- tinue to fascinate if not always dominate the Commons ashe has for so many years - - holding its intent interest: almost from the day he entered the House back in 1940 as a tightly-wound black-haired, fiery-eyed, finger- pointing, poker-stiif Prairle-ra- dical-of-a-man, ‘He’ ll stay on in the Com- “mons, come what may, because this has been his life, his whole Ufe and nothing but his life for 27 years, +++ A child of Parliament, he often calls himself, and If he were to leave this spiritualhome of his here on this high and windy Hill, it would be as a helpless, hopeless orphan. He'd very probably quickly perish, his friends are quick to say, out of sheer desperate loneliness, Even now, stripped by some of his own people ofhis once almost magic powers to paralyze the Government in recurring fits of utter terror, he stii! remains the centre of attention in the Commons, +44 No longer Is he capable of panicking or stampeding the Administration into one of its demoralized retreats that were so famillar before his Party’ s reckless “rebels’’ de-horned him, but he continues to in- terest the Cabinet almost as- much as Prime Minister Pear- son, Ang that term*de-horned’? is Just the word for it - - that on the Old Chiefs own say- 50. For asked what it might be like in Parliament if he-nolong- er were there, he borrows a phrase from the days of Sir John Ae Macdonald and replies“ Like Hades without the Devil? * While he still may - - in fact, very probably does - - like to consider himself the Very Scou- rge of Evil, political and Par- liamentary, the Government very definitely does not | This is a‘new and rapldly developing situation, The Administration — still makes a point of publicly boas- ting that Dief, the Old Ogre, no longer frightens it. In fact just the other day, one after the other, PrivyCoun- tell, President Walter (Wonder- ful) Gordon and Finance Mint ster Mitchell Sharp, pounding their chests, proclaimed that the formerly fearsame bogeyman wasn't scaring anybody, But this procass of “de - horning’® has gone one long step further than that. Dief no longer is a Devil] to’ the Grits, but - - would you believe - - a Darling? They’re trylng to make him out to be an old Dear. q Just the aii day when the Commons, figuratively, singing, “Happy Birthday, Dear Mike, Happy Birthday to You,?' with everybody busy slapping backs when Prime Minister Pearson crossed over into his 7ist year, he singled out Dief as the one to thank for this demonstra- tlon of affection, He was so Pleased, purred the PM, that “my old ‘triend, the Opposition Leader'', had inl. tlated this warm outpouring of good feeling, Imagine that-- when only short months ago all they could. do when not bitterly slanging each other was to glare coldly. But there's other less trivial and even perhaps important evi- dence that the Liberals are cast- ing the Old Chief in a new role. They're pushing and shoving to crowd him out of the real life of Parliamentary political action and into the shadow-world of history. They seem detemined to try making him over into a living {mage of Sir John A, Macdonald even should he still live and breathe in the Come mons. it’s a sort of insurance policy against him regaining the awful power to paralyze, of ’ For they’ ve made his once- scorned Bill of Rights an his- toric document, ranking in equa- lity with the :proclamation of thelr own Prime Minister’ s new Maple Leaf Flag. Odd, too, giving the BIll of Rights such an honored place, for it seems like only yesterday that they let it run out-of print, | But there it ‘is, displayed proudly in the offices of most Liberals, and there ontheright, with the Prime Minister's flag proclamation on the left, when you and the annual half mil. lion tourists walk into the quiet beauty of the Parliamentary Lt- brary, show-plece architectural gem of The Hil, BUILD FASTER - PAY LESS BEAVER Manufactured Homes @ Mortgages available @ Low down payment © Over 40 designs @ NHA & VLA approved ® Panelized sections speed erection ® Specifications can be altered to fit your purse @ _GET STARTED NOW! GET YOUR FREE BROCHURE OF HOMES FROM C. STRASBOURG Box 2500, Terrace, B.C. Phone 635-6750 Bor write direct to BEAVER LUMBER, P.O. Box 246, H. Surey STOR-ALL all metal construction baked .enamel finish available in three sizes complete 99000 and up : BUILDING OUTGOIN* PRINCIPAL of Cassie Hall school LF, Bud’ * French was honored by students, office staff and teachers this week as he completed his final term in Terrace after 10 years, Making the presentation was student Nancy Sparks, The outgoing principal is also a member of the Terrace Municipal Council, THE EDITORS SAY Y.T. toads likesmall puddles If a Yukoner sits still long enough, he's bound to see-and probably meet--the most Intere- sting public figures Inthe world. Queen Elizabeth visited White- herse and Prince Philips has been twice to the Yukon,. The Prime Minister has come, as— have cabinet ministers, ambas- sadors and groups of parllamen- tarians, The Russians were here en bloc . . There are times when it is advantageous to be a big toad in a small puddle, «= Whitehorse (Y.T.) Star. SUPPORT FLUORIDATION Residents of Grand Forks and A.C. should support and urge local councils to act on fluo--}- ridation, While fluoridated water supplles cannot supplant the brushing of teeth regularly, it can go a long way In the pre. ventlon of cavitles when normal caye of teeth is taken, - « Grand Forks .(B.C,) Gazette, _ POSITION IS EXTREME. According to the Roman Cate holic church abortion is murder, It says that legalized abortion {s nothing more than a licence to Kill Surely suck a positlon’ is extreme in today's world with today’s knowledge. Tt fs an uncompromising posl tion with little compasston, and one that Is out of step with the social needs of the time, -- Rouvn-Noranda (Que,) Press, Ask first, shoot later young hunters warned FREDERICTON (CP) - The Fredericton branch of the New Brunswick Fish and Game Assoclation Is teaching tomorrow’ 8 hunters to ask questions first and shoot Jater. The association is in its 13th ‘| year of an intensive program almed at curtailing the annual fall carnage In the province’ s woodlands, Since 1954 more than 2,700 Persons have completed the safe-hunting course andonlyone | graduate is known to have been involved In a hunting accident, The majority of the partici. pants are boys in their early teens although whole famllles have completed the four courses, . They are told over and over again; No man‘ ever looked like A deer or a partridge, These fellows didn't think they saw game, They saw a movement or heard something, And’ they fired. And they werewrong,!’ The younger boys are told not to be too trusting, “Never take someone else's word that a gun 1s unloaded, If your buddy pas- ses you a gun, open it and look, or {7 you don’t know how, make him do it,’ - Successful students receive safe-hunting badges and certi- ficates, which, in case of juve. niles, permit anyone over 14 to -carry a gun for hunting smaiJ game while accompanied by a certified sponsor, In addition to safe gun hand- ling, participants are also taught, woodlore, WATER SAFETY We must do something about ‘the needless loss of life in and on the water, We must continue to talk about swimming courses for people of all ages, We must atreas the proper handling -of wJboats. and the use of approved Iifajackets and other equipment. We must make people think more about water safety. Rouyn Normanda (aue.) Press, - PLAGUE ON YOUR HOUSES In “Romeo atid Jullet’® the young man’s friend Mercutio pronounced ‘a plague on-both your houses?’ - - on the proud famtlies of the Montagues and | Capulets whose feud from gener- atlon to generation was bedevi- ling the city of Verona, and the rest of the world might well pronounce the same _ sort or malediction upon the Arab states and Israel as their con- tinulng quarrei offers a new threat ta world peace, -- Coch- rane (Cnt,} Northland Post, GONE To HYS HEAD? He (Premier Dante} Johnson) appears to be trying to wres power from. Ottawa and trans- fer it to Quebec. It seems he has a lust for power, that he yearns power and will do every- thing possible to get it, Has the fact that he has succeeded in becomingPremiergone to his . head? - - Huntingdon (Que,) Gleaner. WHY NOT GIVE? Sooner or later, {f an indiyl- dual lives here long enough, he will either have a loved one in the hospital or be there him- self, staring up at the celling ~ « and yet the vast majority of these people are reluctant to give to the hospital fund, How stupid can people be? - - Hamboldt(Sask,) Journal, PRINCE PHILIP will: get the bird when the Peregrine Falcon above ia flown trom Bn to Europe _by CPA jet. Tho faleon was captured as a fledgling, in the Gucery Charlotte islands. The bird is tthe might.” Rileau Hall cooks’ problem ‘Tie Czechs like beer for breakfast, but seafood and chocolate flavors are definitely out for the Shah of Iran, These are jusitwoofthe scorea of logistics problems facing planners of official dinners be- ing heid at Government House in Ottawa this year for kings, queens, emperors, presidents, - prime ministers and other natlo- . nal representatives, in Canada to visit Expo £67. Maurice Cutler, Maclean-Hun- ter business newseditor in the capital, surveyed the situation for Canadian Hotel and Resta, rant, He reported that some 60 lunches and 60 dinners have to be catered in strict accordance with the demands of protocol and in many cases religlous, dietary and other food pre- ferences, First of the 60 heads of state to arrive at Rideau Hall was Emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia in late April: last to arrive in mid-October’ will be President El Hadj Ahmadou Ahi- djd of Cameroun, A complicated system of en- suring that the distingufshed guests will not have the same mea] twice is operated with strict military precision, The biggest test of all comes when *#doubleheaders’? occur, In the jargon of the hosts, this is when one visitor arrives for lunch and another for dinner, One of the keys to planning these sumptuous meals is a special guide showing the var- jous culinary aversions of the guests. ‘The Iranian monarch, for in- stance, will not eat seafood, He also avolds sweets with cho. colate flavors, The proper religious dietary law will also be observed when the President of Israel dines at Government House, Dinner, plamers, however, have to be prepared for cases when infor- mation about food and drink preferences or allergies do not arrive in time. One such example wasthe fact that Ethiopia Emperor Halle Selassie’s vislt coincided with the Ethiopian lent of the Cop- tic religion, And then there was the unm expected request by some mem- bers of Czechoslovakia’ s entou- rage who are good beer drin- kers, Beer is not a typical bav- fourtunately some ‘ced bottles were found whentheCzechs ask- .ed for some at breakfast. Meal planning fs at least two months in advance, The chef Selects the food and submits the menu for approval. | erage: at Government House: but: 23 Ball teams in Terrace now Terrace has 23 ball teams. That's the flgure computed by Community Recreation Centra director Pete Fanning in a quarterly report, : Fanning sald that teams total represents a 10 feam men’s league, a ladies team and the balance coming from Little League and Pony League for boys in the 914 age range, The racreation director also reports formation of a young adults club with 20 members at the first meeting, 4#Commencing in the fall, Itis hoped they will have regular meetings and programs pro- vided on a year-round basis,’! Fanning sald, He also reported that 50 boys and girls had registered for twice weekly tennis lessons, Two horse shoe pitshaye been installed behind the library and senlor clitlzeng will sponsor a July 1 tournament, Centre also expects new gym lights to be installed before July 1. Nothing in human life is more to be lamented than that a wise man should have so influence, HERODOTUS little. Beer for breakfast but: Ho seafood for the Shah | Unfair to _ margarine? — The parliementary consumera committee has recommended an end to the discriminatory tax treatment of margarine, accor- ding to Food In Canada, business publication for the Industry. ‘éThe federal sales tax’ on margarine was complained of frequently by consumer. groups,*’ the committee repor- ted after its journey across Canada to getconsumer’ sylew- points, It agreed with the con ‘clusion of the recent royal com- mission of taxation that “from a neutrality standpoint, it is imperative that both butter and margarine recelye the same sales tax treatment,** ‘Like the man who threw 8- stone at a bitch, but hit his atep-mother, on which he .ex- | Storator 80 bad!!? ‘| PLUTARCH Terrace” Drugs Kalum, St. BS Open Sunday 12-2 p.m. Stores’’ Lakelse “Your Rexall Pharmacy One must learn By doing the things; for though you think you know it. You have no certainty, unt vou try. sophocles - 4619. HILLCREST AVE. 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