PAGE As, THE HERALD, ‘ huraday June 16. | ot ee A aatitabatatatatatetecezetetee the her e @cna Kitimat - 632-5706 § s e Published by te . a a Sterling Publishers Ltd. Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A = s: member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class & mail, Registration number 1201, Postage paidin cash. return 3: se postage guaranteed. CIRCULATION MANAGER PUBLISHER ate st i JACK JEANNEAU GORDON W. HAMILTON 2 = KITIMAT MANAGER MANAGING EDITOR : WS. ‘KIM! KIMBLE ALLAN KRASNICK & NOTE OF COPYRIGHT = The Herald retains full, complete and sale copyright in any ¢ “advertisement produced and-or editorial or photographic * = content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not “ permitied without the written permission of the Publisher. zs sealants cake Meters are wrong answer One can hardly blame the peopie of Terrace for not wanting parking meters littering their streets. Terrace is already blighted by such metropolitan gewgaw as neon lights, fast food outlets and concrete overheads. When it comes to eyesores, about the only thing keeping us apart from Vancouver is parking meters. Not only there isn’t a problem with parking in the town, From the comments of business people and customers alike there obviously is. In many instances, people ignore the one hour limit and leave their cars in the same spot for most of the day. But this is a problem of enforcement. Some will argue that parking meters would make the job of patrolling easier. But like so many modern day answers, it is a sledgehammer solution to a fly- sized problem. And it is an expensive sledgehammer at that. Mayor Dave Maroney is right to have “a real hang-up” about parking meters. We are glad he does But we also hope that he takes some action to ensure that there is better enforcement of the : parking restrictions which already exist. Once the district gets its act together and ensures effective parking surveillance, all this nonsense about meters will be forgotten. Instead of opting for an expensive, big-time solution, Terrace council should get to work solving the problem in a sensible, small-time way. Letters are write answer Believe it or not, even newspaper editors occasionally run out of say. It’s at moments like these when one considers writing editorials about goats, or the weather, or about how one has nothing to write about. But the purpose of an editorial, and indeed of an editorial page, is not merely to fill space. Rather it is there to provide for an exchange of ideas: between the readers and the newspaper as well as between the readers themselves. One of the best and most effective ways of doing this is to write letters to the editor. Letters give you an opportunity to make your concerns known to others in the community, especially those who are in positions of influence. And readers’surveys show that letters to the editor are read and very often heeded. This newspaper wants to hear your concerns, be they big or small. So the next time you are fuming over something, don’t just sit there like a goat. Write a letter to this newspaper and let people know about it. FUN Nyt ae] | Voice of the readers the game of the executive Editor, Most of us are aware of who sits behind a large, magnificent desk and by exalting himself, intimidates anyone who might question or threaten his authority. Now; the latest move by city council is to ban anyone but aldermen from using “their” council chambers. “they dan’t be exalted or Aavisory apparently mights ‘walk mud onto the new plush carpet” and, in any case, chambers any dignity." Apparently one needs to elected to the dizzy heights of aldermen to know how to wipe the mud off one’s boots The next bylaw ° might have us remove our shoes and bow three times as we enter city chambers. - It might seem that the decision about the use of council chambers is a trivial one, hardly worth spending valuable time on. However, only one advisory body bodies lend the haps just exists, _ the recreation commission. The recreation commission has become a burr under, or on, the council's saddle recently, ‘Pompous council guards its and there is some danger of the commission stirring up action. So the council is playin one of those games whic will preserve their own sense of power and put any “body” which might dare to - offer advice, firmly in its place - down, The implications are frightening, This is the sort of decision made by men more than a liltle puffed up by their own importance. The trend seems to be to more elitism in local government and less communication between people and their elected representatives. The council chambers, built and furnished at great expense by, and for, the ople of Terrace, are to Pecome hallowed ground, fit only for council meetings chambers and the occasional visit of a dignitary. They will be used perha two or three times a week. and will remain = an expensive, empty edifice for the rest of the time. Furthermore, the move is to discourage advisory bodies who, in most progressive communities, are seen as a valuable resource, . “Ann Page” fr STUDENTS SURVEY THE PUBLIC Terrace people’s views on immigration By Dinah Osterlund Special to the Herald How do you view immigrants? Do you think immigrants should adopt Canada’s culture? These and other related questions were part of a survey taken by students of Mr. Harrison's Grade 11 socials class at Caledonia Senior Secondary School. The survey’s purpose was to determine the community’s view of immigrants and Indians’ claims and, also, the immigrant’s view of the community. To form the basis for this survey the students first defined tvo key words: Racism and Prejudice. Their definitions were: Prejudice - an unfavorable feeling; towards any person or thing prior to, or not base4i on, actual experience. Pacism - prejudice in favor of certain races, involves a hatred of a given race and a grading of races in terms of “superiority” of one to another. People of the community thought that immigrants shoul adapt “Canadian” culture but should be allowed to retain their own culture inside their own homes. They thought that East Indians are most reluctant to give up their ethnic culture. Many Canadians said that they felt that a Canadian should be hired over an immigrant because of high unemployment in Canada. Another common viewpoint ‘was that immigrants should have jobs waiting for them when they arrive in Canada so as not to contribute to the country’s economic instability. Others, however, said that immigrants should have equal opportunities jobs. When asked about Canada's immigration policy, most Canadians said that they thought it should be harder for people to come into Canada. _ Surprisingly, the immigrants interviewed agreed with most of fhose views and added that alihough they hadn’t suffered any racial actions, they thought that many people haibored’ negative attitudes towards em. East Indians and other Asian immigrants think they are the hardest hit by racial prejudice. This is, perhaps, a reflection of the Canadian’s view of their culture. The fact is that all of the three groups - Natives, Canadian citizens and immigrants - all love Canada, But the question remains: Do they love each other? Immigrants felt that getting into Canada was difficult enough under present rules and thought that Canada’s immigration policy was too restrictive. — Another point in which immigrants disagreed with Canadians was the issue of marriage. —_ Immigrants were of the opinion that it didn’t matter whether or not the person their child married was of a different race. . While most Canadians held this view, a few were reluctant in allowing their child to do this. ‘Another issue the survey covered was Indian land claims, . While most people knew little about Native Canadians or their claims, their opinions were greatly varied. Responses to this issue were that Indians have no claim to damages for what happened two hundred years ago; that they should be treated like any other Canadians; that they should be reinbursed for their vast losses and that they have aright to some land but should not use violence to get it. > “I'd love to take a five-week trade mission tour around the but I'd be accused of breaking up the country.” By MARVIN RAMUS Special to the Herald At this point in our history, the people of our nation are in a phase of awareness of depleting national resources, a time when everyone from the common worker to the corporate owner is talking and thinking of what is going to happen to us by the year 2000, I would like to draw your attention to another great resource being lost to us forever. That resource is Knowledge. . Yes knowledge, and experience, that everyone from government, to big corporations, and down the progression of size to the smallest business and individual tax payer, has paid an incalculable amount of money and effort to obtain. I refer to the thousands of elderly people that we let go from our work force every day of the year, the worker that we have paid and trained for many years, and just when he has' finally reached the point of prime knowledge, where he Le eee eau Papa Bear’s opinion ~ Wisdom of elderly should be cherished could derive great use of this person, we retire him to oblivion. After years of performing for us we sentence them to a fate worse than death. We shove them out in the cold with little or no income, unneeded, unwanted, ignored. God, what a waste! What a loss of our efforts towards more and better education in the trades. Have you ever considered the kind of training team we could have if we took some of these older people with their years of practical working experience and teamed them up with young university graduates who know all the theory? Their combined knowledge would give us the ideal working teams. Youth-knowledge-experience- the dream of all personnel managers. So I ask you, at a time when training institutes are finding it impossible to fill shortage of trained personnel, why are we ignoring one of our greatest resourced? Think of this, carefully, because tomorrow we, too, will be old! y, world like Lougheed, Interpreting the news ’ Carter-Congress start.to unite By GARRY FAIRBAIRN ASHINGTON (CP) — If history were written from newspaper headlines, Jimmx Carter's first -six months in the presidency would be judged a legislative disaster. Members of Congress have produced an endless stream of headlines as they blocked many of his proposals, rejected sug- gested presidential appoint- ments and issued hundreds of sharply-critical sta)tements on his policies. Even such major economic proposals as his suggested $50 tax rebate withered in the face of well- publicized opposition from a Congress dominated by his fellow Democrats. As prime minister in a parliamentar system, Carter might have had no choice but to resign. But the U.S. congress is not Parliament and history is not written from headlines. Behind the day-to-day defeats and retreats that make the headlines, Carter's policies have been making real progress in Congress. The progress, however, Kitimat women state job need Editor, Daily Herald The following is an open letter to Conservative leader Joe Clark As members of Kitimat’s Status ‘ of Women organization, we wish to thank you for expressing interest in women's employment problems when you visited Kitimat recently, In answer to your query, women do need employment here and are having difficulty finding jobs. Over 40 per cent of the people registered with Canada Manpower here in Kitimat are women. A reliable source at Human Resources stated that there are more women on welfare and more women heads of single-parent families in town. This source also gave two reasons for these women being on welfare, lack of jobs and lack of suitable day care when jobs can be found. Of the nearly 2000 hourly- paid employees at Alcan’s smelter, only 2 to 3 per cent are women, Arecent survey has found that most of these women consider their jabs to be permanent and would like to advance but most also felt that chances for advancement were small for women. In administrative jobs, Alcan employs 543 men and 125 women, Eurocan, the pulp and paper mill, has nearly a thousand hourly: paid employees and only 29 ourly-paid women. Our group has _ just completed a task force study far the Federal Government on women in single industry towns, and will be happy to send you a copy when printing is completed. Thank you for your interest. Tamitik Status of Women has to be judged by U.S. standards—in the context of one of the most complex and chaotic political systems ever produced by man by design or accident. It would be as unthinkable for a U.S. president to get a budget or comprehensive energy program through Congress essentially unchanged as it would be for a majority Canadian gov- ernment to have such measures radically altered by Parliament. There is no place for Canadian-style party discipline in the U.S. system, where more than 500 representatives and senators have virtually independent power bases and where thousands of special-interest groups fight an unrelenting battle for their pet projects in a myriad of committees and subcommittees. Carter aides, for example, are claiming a victory for the controversial water projects policy, which has een described as the esident’s greatest blunder in dealing with Congress. The issue began with the White House seeking— officially, at least—to kill 32 costly projects. Members of Congress reacted with vehement condemnation and threats of retailiation against other White House programs. The 32 projects on the “hit list'’ fell to 17. Then the House of Representatives voted 218 to 1% to provide funds for all the 17 projects. The vote, however, was only a superficial defeat for Carter. It indicated that supporters of the project could not muster the necessary two-thirds hes to sustain the pre ects if Carter vetoed the __A sidelight of the debate, illustrating the complexity of Washington politics, was that Carter's position wad championed by a Massachusetts Republican, Silvio Conte, and opposed by House majority leader Jim Wright of Texas. Congressional supporters of the project were left with _ atricky problem in trying to cut the number of projects just enough so that Carter would refrain-from a veto. Carter, who critized his predecessor’s frequent use of vetoes, would prefer to avoid them unless Congress acts completely against his wishes on a major issue.