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April 3, PAGE 5

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— Life is Colorful, Laws Different, Customs Quaint

(Renter) — They don't
dizembowel Irish and Scots
on the Isle of Man anymore.
But they still birch teen-

: age youths and you might
. have'bad luck if you don’t.
the Pixies, on the fairy

An on ari ‘inland that was

the site of the first Derby in

1665, Horse racing and
betting were illegal until .
three years ago,

The -Islesof. Man, which
boasts. tailless cats, four-
horned sheep and the world’s
oldest... continuous .
parliament, also claims
some of theoddest folklore of
the British ales, ve

es

The island, a A and
tax haven in the Irish Sea,
has been almost totally in-
dependent of Britain since it
was first colonized by. the
Vikings more than 1,000
years ago and then governed
successively by Scottish and
English Jords.

The situation has changed

ever the last 200 years.
London now has limited

authority and the king or

queen of England is also the
monarch of Man. But the

island still writes its own |

lawa, levies its own taxes,

prints its own currency and
stamps and cherishes its own,

customs,

SUPERSTITIONS STRONG
Some of its habits might

surprise a visltor—those the

.Manxmen call the “‘come-

overs,” ‘

A few housewives still
sweep thelr. doorsteps_each
morning to brush away bad-
luck charms that migkt have

- been spread during the night
by evil spirits, eh

Everyone is advised to
greet the fairies as he
crosses a small, almost
unnoticeable bridge just
south of Douglas. -

There is also a traditional
fairy chief, Mannanan, who
protects the island whenever

“2860 —

ROVAL HUDSON

“pepair,"
Swanson, a.BCR director.

‘provincial:

A tour by a i6-car vintage
train to promote British
Columbla’s Captain James
Cook: bicentennial

- celebrations and tourism in

the province resumed

Friday after being delayed

by mechanical problems, -
The Goyal Hudson, nowned

‘by the B.C. Railway,nwas

in the Canadian
Pacific yards here.nIt took
16 hours work. restoring

‘proper lubrication to a

before the steam lo-
comotive was ready to roll

“It was a very minor
said Robert

* Swanson wouldn’t
estimate the cost of repairs..

_ ‘The train left Vancouver

Thursday on 9 33-day tour of
16 citles in Canada and the
United States. It was to
artive in Ottawa April 4,
where ‘the tour officially
opens, later visiting other
centres includisig Montreal,
Toronto, Chicago,
aad Cale Winnipeg, Regina
an ary,

The trainnfeatures three
exibit coacheadrom the B.C,
museum in
Victorla, a coach on British
Captain . wWJames: -Cook’s
landing on Vancouver Island
in 1778, and 12 cars for
dining, «: seeping and
reveption :

Kermode Theaire ’78

by Aaley Provera
The Terrace School Board
to host the British
Columbia -High School
Drama Festival in June of
last year, The application
‘was accepted and: Kermode:

School Drama Confermce
and Festival was theirs. In
pe years the event has

hald in Vancouver,
Victoria, Prince George, and
William's Lake.

wea Lb.

sat Kets heats rp is a
Beas te ibe et a rae ha ate

~Kermode Theatre ‘78 was
the unanimous choica to
imame the festival because it
so well represents the
Terrace area. The Kermode
is arare white strain of black
bear found predominately
around Terrace. Dave
Comfort ed the logo
for the festival, a profile of a
white bear outlined against -
evergreen trees,

' it waa in the late 60's that a
group called the Western
Association of Drama
Educaters or B,C, was
formed. These teachers
SE Ae mole and cs as a
group to promote and crea
a healthy environment for
drama in the province. The
idea of an annual High

Herring Catch Down, But-
» Value is More Than Double

’ VANCOUVER (CP) — The

. last major area of the
fishery

ended Friday
with returns to gillnetters up
more than twofold over last

Last. year the British
Columbin herring fleet
ved $25 million for the
ye tons of herring it:
_ harvested. This year’s catch
will probably be down to
75,00 tons but industry
spokesmen say ermen
will receive more than $60
million for it.

Dick ° ‘Grout, director
ofnfield ations for
federal fianeries, estimates
herring fishermen will
average $800 a ton.

‘Boll Maxwell of the
Fisheries Association of B.C.
sald otters may average
oa Ode tut it wil be about
.$700 average for the in-

He estimates that up to 90

- fests of the catch hag

p bought by the cash

OVERF APPEAR

A cash buyer sonly needs hs

fish

processing corapanies which
operate $2 plan

theee entrepreneurs had ob-.
tained boats sultable for
packing fish this Season.

’ Industry spokesmen said

~ that ae a 5 result of thelr ins.
fiuence the $490 herring |
". price .

negotiated for

teshermen:.;-and-- - Allied

Workers Union soared to as:

‘much as $1,-200.a ton. :
"MB suspect they have it

- to sich an

ts About 40 of -

ters by. the United.

from around the province
will icome to Terrace to
participate in workshop..
and 1 view student plays
chosen fromall regions of the
provinée. Much of the budget
is devoted toward bringing
top professional theatre
peo le to conduct the
ope. All participants
are charged a registration
fea to held cover costs.
Contributions have also been
requested from’: many
byainesses. Chairing ' the -
acommittes is Elaine Jobn-
son, School Board Trustee.

Much of the groudnwork for
the festival has already been
laid. In November 1977 a

- booklet of information dn

Terrace and the drama

“(their share of the catch)
frozen in public cold storage
fed ants and are now sitting
: ck waiting for the price to

ip,” Maxwell said. ‘The
Sopenese have heen paying
up to $20 a pound for a top
rate roe. I don't now how.
much higher that price can

George Howison of. the:
fishermen's unton sald some

gillnetters are grossing up to
$20,000 for the month-long

* Hewison said, however,
that the inlon is concerned
that the federal fisheries
department “has extended
northern ns and quotas
“extent. future
‘stocks of wherrig will be
affected. .

FISH DISAPPEARn : -

Early in the season the
fisheries reported up to.
50,000 tons of herring stocks ~
in Barkley { Sey the sre8

etters flehing the a
ea no trouble ‘takeng a
record 6,00 tons, :almost
doubling. lagt year's catch
ofn$,500 tonf. But when this
area was opened for the 140
gene boats, the. fish were

We depend on Barkley .
Sound for a quarter of the
herring catch. We are happy
with the price we are getting
but we are not.go happy with
the state of the resource,”
‘Hewison said.
Crouter. said feherles
biologists still. don't know
what happened to. the
Barkley Sound herring and It

- will be the maln-concern of

‘the . department when
‘year’s fishery is asses:

Boata were still fishing oft

festival was sent to over 500
high schools in the province.

Each school was invited to
send a delegation of up to 20
students with one teacher or
chaperone to accompany

will be served buffet style in
the Skeena gym to all par-
ticipants, lictel and billets
alike, during the entire
festival.

Once the students ‘have

bach. group... of, five.. By artived: and registered. a

; ; Wen AK, agnoate Skeena School which x
63 ed ari interest.io workshops they will attend.

come schools have There will be 18 workshops in

now . been sent official
registration forms to which
they mustreply by March 31.

It is expected that four
hundred people will come to
Terrace for the festival.
Many wilt come by bus and
ear and still others ~ by
chartered jet. from Van-
couver,.

There is to be an emphasis
on physical fitness once the
participants -azrive. No
trang
provided. All are expected to
run, walk or jog to and from
all festival events. .

Accommodation is: the
choice of the group — either
hotel-motel or billets. Meals
prepared by Augie Gecraett,

Port Simpson : and Kitkatla
Friday and were expected. to:
reach those areas’ quotas.
Also Burke Channel will be
opened in May this year fora
1,600 ton quota.
Crouter said the industry :
was looking for 11,500 tons of
roe drom 100,000 tons of

herring which he sald is'not ing

an impossible target. An
estimated 75,000. tonf of
herring taken by Friday will
produce more than 8, 100 tons
of roe.

EE
BLACKS STONE. CARS
PORT ELIZABETH, South:

Africa (AP) — Thousands ‘of
angry black youths stoned
cara, beer halls and windows
in a black township outside:
Port Elizabeth on Thursday
after the funeral of a 16-year-
old. youth shot” by police.
Hector Mpande was . shot
dead ‘by police last. week
when a me of youths began

@ police patrol. and
the officers, opened fire,
official reports show. |:

-HEYERDABL ARRIVES ||eg

DJIBOUTI (Reuter). —
Norwegian explorer -Thor
Heyerdab arreved in this
ian Ocean port. Wed-
nesday aboard his reed boat
four ‘montha:: after
setting: out from - the]!
Euphrates estuary. Heyer-

across Tndian © Ocean

after’ calling ‘at’ Karachi,
Pakistan. They left Karachi
on Feb, 26.

rtation will be -

- under legislation

all; The students will then
follow a.time table as
follows: 7:30 b ‘ast, 9:80
workshop, 11:45 lunch, 12:45
workshop, 8:50 special
performance, 5:0) supper,
8:00 showcase student plays.
Several social events are
anned for the festival. An
‘ormal welcoming party
will take place Wednesday
evening May 17. From there
everyone will proceed to the
theatre to see the Vancouver
Playhouse : production of
and roller
skating. will be available
Saturday ‘afternoon, A
banquet d ‘is scheduled
“for Saturday evening and a
disco after the performance
at the theatre. =
Kermode Theatre'?8 —
four. great ‘days of live
theatre for everyone. in

° ‘Terrace to.come and enjoy.

Terrace Centre,

Students entering:
in B.C: ate now requri

- ~ -B.C/s. Heroin Plan
on Shifts Problem —

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
province’s planned .com-
pulgory treatment program
for heroin addicts will only
chase hard core users out.of -
British Columbia, the public
ulry. into conditions in
provincial jails fog. women
was told Friday.

John Ekstedt, provincial
corrections: commissioner,:,
said the program will do-
little mora hen to move the

“Tf don’t think that kind of
arrangemeat fon compulsor:
treatment will positively
benefit the cogrections
system,” sald Ekstedt who
has deputy minister rank in
the attorney-general’s
minis

try,

He said he favored
treatment of addicts within
the courts and corrections
system instead of in separate -
facilities to be provided
scheduled
for the current session of the
legislature.

Ekstedt, the first to ‘give.
evidence at the public

hearings when they opened

Feb. 6, was also the last
witness before they were

She said it willtake about a
month to compile the report
called for by. Attorney-
General . Garde Gardom
ike nhe ordered the i in

o legations’ al
sexual extortion and other
abuses at the women’s unit

_into Botswana at gun °
after the ralders entered the |

of the Lowtr Mainland Re
gional Correctional Centre.

Ekstedt said corrections
service employees ‘deserve
‘a medal” for enduring two
‘years

chaos from

resulting

reorganization. of the jail.

system and new contracts
negotiated by the B.C,
Government. : Employees’
Union in 1974 and 1975.

’ Higher wages and shorter
hours provided’ by the
contracts g uneregted ial jail

man Sa pawes + needs by 12,6
ceat he sald, | ee

ABDUCT CHILDREN

SALISBURY (Reuter) —
Black nationalist. guerrillas
have abducted 420 pupils
from a British Meth
Chureh missionary school in

. southwestern Rhodesia, a

church spokesman said
Thursday. The . students,
aged between..19 and 20,
were taken across the a bprder

int

mission Wednesday
said, Twelve of the
staff of 24, inclu
headmaster, Rev.
Kumalso, had also
Kidnapped, the spokesman:

SHOW HAS TOP RATING

Currently topping the U.S.
Fatln ie, ahead of auch
avo as sand |
Charlie's ‘Angels: is the
comedy series Three's

Company.

oat post econ adary schools

of jadministrative |

s, is the new -

English Placement Test.
Now A B.C. Requirement |

Thursday, April 6, 1976, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. in
Room’ 215, Northwest ‘Community College,

-y sth

Wht Do ads

to write’ the’ ah

Placement test. Scores from this test are used by
English: Departments to  assi
English courses appropriate to

The sitting of the test at the College i is being
run to accommodate. those people. intending to
enroll in College or University first year English
course in September.1978, It is open to those who
are not attending school at this time.

Due to anticipated low participation ‘in this
testing session, The Educational Research In-
stitute of B.C. has determined. that only. one
testing centre is warranted -in each College
region. It may be possible to adjust this, if we are -
im sufficient advance: notice of a ‘significant

emand in any other College: centres. .

‘Persons who would be planning to write this
test are urged to make the College aware either
directly or through the Community Education
[Services Co-ordinator in their area, Enquiries. .
may also be. directed to the Student Services
office in Terrace. (686-6511)

| Students to
eir needs. ’

635-6357

~Mil- ,

the ruling monarch pays a

visit ‘by casting down a

mantle of mist to confuse the
enemy. It was foggy most of
thetlme when the Queen was
here in 1972.

And there are no such
things as rats on the Isle of
Man. The . evil-looking
rodents that almost wiped
out the puffin colonies in the

south were really, to a Man-

xman, “long-tailed fellows."

The tailless Manx cats and
the four-horned Manx
loaghtyns sheep were also

pushed to the brink of ex-
tinction, though in thelr case
by people.
CAME WITH ARMADA

The cats, possibly the
island’s best-known gift to
the world, are thought to be
the only surviving descen-
danls of a breed once found
in Spain. = -

Islanders believe they
arrived from a Spanish ship
wrecked on the coast after
the defeat of the Armada of
1689.

The cats are plentiful now,
especially az household pets,
but they ‘still are bred at a
special cat home to ensure
that the line survives.

' The Manx loaghiyns also

nearly disappeared, But now
they, too, are being bred to
assure survival -and -to
provide wool, which is
browner, coarser and wears
harder than that usually
found on lowland

Telanders are algo proud ‘of
the nags that pull what they
boast are the only com-
mercial horse-drawn tram
cars in the world. . ~

The trams trundle along
the main promenade during
the summer. And special
laws have been passed to

. ensure that the horses do not

endup as dogfood when they
are re! .
SOME LAWS REVISED
Until the laws were over-
hauled at the turn of the cen-
. tury many had ot even been
i written, They were largely
| hat legislators of the 1, 000-
year-old. -Tynwald
(parliament) called “breast

law: *—regnlatlons that came

"PERSONAL ANO

from the heart.

Among the lawa that were
thrown out was one under
which a Scotsman might
forfeit his property, if not his
life, if he set foot on’ the
island.

Even more drastic was one
repealed in 1497 which
decreed that Scots and Irish
could be hanged, drawn and
jartered. Local historians
presume the law dated from
the time when the Isle of
Mar was a frequent target of
marauding pirates and in-
vasion from Scotland and
Treland.

But birching for teen-age
boys still ig on the books aa

ent for crimes of
violence, although it is under
review by the European
Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg,

Until the mid-16th century,
the island was ruled almost

as a personal fief by Enngiiah
or Scottish lords.

INAUGURATED DERBY

One of them was the Earl
of Derby who, in 1665, of-
fered a gold plate as a prize
to the winner of a hor#e race
on the island.

The race was held perlod-
ically and took the. family
name. But in 1790, it was held
for the first time in Epsom
and never again on the late of
Man. By that time the ruling
lord, the Duke of Athol, was
forced to: sell rights to the
island to the Crown.

Horse racing and betting
were banned in the 19303 an
reintroduced only in We,
about 10 years a
Manx opened the first legal
gambling casino ‘in the
British Isles, n

The sporting event . that

pute the Isle of Manon the

map is the annual moter.
cycle races which
years ago and are hel inthe
first two weeks of June. Just
about all other daytime
traffic is banned while the
island-wide races are held.
The island crest is a three-
legged emblem with the
motto “Quocunque Jeceris
Stabit— whichever you
throw me I stay Ad

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