PAGE 4 se th A weekly paper published by Sterling Publications Ltd. saber GORDON W. HAMILTON. 2 PUBLISHER & Pat O’Donaghy Editor: Published every Wednesday at 3212 Kalum St, . Terrace, B.C. A member of Varifled circulation, Authorized.as second class mail, Registration number 120t, Postage paidincash, return postage guaranteed. MARK HAMILTON; £ ELREEN TOOVEY Circulation, Se SS Ons CSSA TESS BROUSSEAU Advertising Sra as Lam nene The Williston weeks are over and the weeks Coming Events The Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia, Terrace Chapter, will conduct a course for_inter- professionals in health oc- cupations on October 20 and 21st. The Course subject will be “Care for the dying and his family”’, The course instructor ‘will be Mrs, E. Darragh, Nursing Instructor at the University of British Columbia. , Fer any additional information please write Mrs. Jean Sosniak, Box 112, Terrace, British Columbia. of smoke return .. lt was a few minutes before council assembled for its regular meeting last Monday evening. The sun was shining brighily, the skies were clear, Mayor: Lloyd Johnstone and 2 couple of aldermen stood on the municipal building parking lot gazing to the south. As this reporter advanced towards these gentlemen, we (urned to align our eyes along the trajectory of that of the small group of men, There some thirty odd miles to the south rose ‘ iwo huge banks of smoke stretching towards the clear sky toa heigh| in excess of what was estimated to he 7,000 feet, ..The first magistrate, his eyes dimmed with sadness .men- tioned the fact thal at aleast during the two weeks of the Williston Era, he was able to see his beloved Lakelse Lake, He was referring to the decison of the dethroned Minister of Conservation to ban slash burning This ban coincided with the fast crucial moments of the election campaign and ended last Manday. ‘ For some people fun begins - where common sense leaves off. THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. ITS SEPTEMBER SO LONG SNARLY! by Bill Smiley That great biz “‘Who-o-0-0- sk” of air that is still rever- berating across the nation, from coast to coast, is nat -gaused by hurricane, ty- phoon or cyclone, It is the expulsion of breath from hundreds of thousands of mothers ‘after their sigh of Telief because school has started again. . There are many emotion- al reactions to the annual re-opening of school. Let's look at a few of them. First, the mothers who have had three or four school-age Kids on their hands for two of the long- est, most dreary summer - months in decades, During the past summer, the sun has been as elusive as medals. are for the Canadian Olympic :team. Rain, over- cast, drizzle, downpour, hu- midity, You name it; we've hadit. . So, mothers. You've had your brood underfoot most of the summer. Kids getting up at all hours, eating at all hours, whining, “There's nothing to do.” Yon've been making peanut-butter- and-jelly sandwiches until you gag at the sight of a peanut. You've bandaged cuts and scrapes, invented games, planned picnics which had to be held at \ _ home, rained-out, and been driven to the point where the kids. call you “OM Snarly.” ; For you, school opening was euphoria. Sure, you- love your children, but love, like most things, should be taken with moderation. Ad- mit it. When you got them . all off that first day, you made coffee, sat down, put feet up, lit a cigarette, suck- ed in your breath and let it out with a “Who-o-0-0-sh,” You felt a deep love for teachers, however momen- tary. You secretly thought you wouldn’t care if they doubled your education tax- es. Well, that’s one reaction. What. about your kids? Their obvious reaction is one of disgust and despair. *“A-a-h, school! Who needs it? Back to jaii.”” But how do they feel behind the complaining that is second nature to kids? Secretly, they’re delight- ed and excited. They are bored to the point of de- pression, whether they're in elementary or high school. They are sick of “Old Snarly”, They’ve had enough of working, if. they worked, or bumming, if they just bummed. Despite the constant criticisms of the “unreal” life at school, in my opinion many young people have far more “real” life there than they do at home. Opening day _means see- ing old friends, making new * - ones, exchanging lies about .. . what they did all summer. and sizing up, with a hard, cold stare, the new teachers for the year. : For high-school students, despite their attempt to be. blasé, it means the end of © that heart-breaking summer’ romance. But look! There are some new chicks, and some of last year’s teeny- - boppers have -turned’ into: tea} birds. And that greasy obnoxious Grade 10 boy of . last year is now a sophistica- ted Grade elevener, after a - summer pumping gas. And: he has a motor-bike! ; Most of all, at school they are accepted by their peers, At home, they were At school, they don’t ‘have to even pretend to love or respect their teachers: and disobeying orders becomes a game, as long as you're not tagged. ‘ : There’s another species. These are the mothers who tearfully, with enough in- structions and warnings to confound a Socrates, send off the first-born to the first day at school, Don’t worry, ladies. Next fall you'll be so glad to sce little Tim or Kathy off you'll think there must be something hard and cruel underneath your love of the brat. ~ = come :. bored. . apply see gl ‘An truistic teachers? - ists: who know ~ But, -despite the fact that they moan and groan just like the kids, from my ob- ~. servations, 98 per. cent ‘of them ‘are happy. to get back’. _...-{nto harness. And [do mean ~ harness. .-. ; a aa They've had along holi- . day: Theoretically, - teries,"” They, toa, have be- ‘spent too much: money, as everyone does on holidays. They will have new stu- " “dents, and there might even’ be a few bright ones, They. are going to teach better. hat is the reaction‘ of:. that fine, dedicated; ale r “groupe othe, “Aj few of them -- dread it; They are the-real- - “know what. it’s’ ~~ s going to be like In February. “~ Loe They. probably should not ho 5 -be teaching. - they ~. ’ have “recharged their bat-. ~ They have . ideas _they’-want: to, try.’ They've forgotten how wilt-. .éd-'they were last © June, They've forgotten how _ ghastly it’ all is in February. “Personally, “my battery has rin down “during the summer, and I'll have to re- charge it.at,school. This will be easy. Just attach your cables to 150 kids,.and the sparks will fly. | “Spring is supposed to be . the time. of rebirth, ‘re awakening and such. But in Canada, we don’t have any spring. Just ‘sdme rain -and mud between the misery of March and lushness of June. In this country, we all. “seem to conie alive in Sep- ‘tember, And getting back to school is like getting back to : reality after the dream-like quality of summer holidays. Let’s go, gang! eters to” In 1966 the Security Council passed a resolution ordering all ‘the members af the U.N. to againsl sanctions . Rhodesian expulsion: “There [ag wa s a blantant intrusion-of }@ politics. They (certain coun- tries) had a gun to-our heads. It children, were supposed to — : - ' a ‘fove and respect their * co parents, and had to obey 4 7 : orders, however grudgingly. . — 7 8 F . ‘of the Security Council, or any - discussion relating to the .. Fortunately the wird was from the north keeping the apalling wall of smoke away from us for the time being. But a change of wind would soon cover Terrace and its beauteous environment with the smoke of the post Williston period, By Larry Sommerfield ; Some observations ,. The problem of slash burning came up later in the evening, coinciding with a moment distraction which took the mayor’s mind off civic business for a few seconds as he contemplated an unusually beautiful sunset, Larry Sommerfield has been a of a capital city news broadcast, resident of the Terrace areafor Where a_university research the past twenty three years group had recommended to the having arrived Mareh 31, 1950.. government that — large He moved to Thornhill in July Unorganized areas such as 1987. He is a bachelor and has Thornhill be forced to in- operated fis own autobody corporate or join such a neigh- repair business since 1959. bouring area. Apparently the chairs panic was not shared by Mr. Sommerfield dislikes the audience, and the meeting . - publicity and tries to avold the | . Alderman Clift wondered if it would not be possible to get Smokey the Bear to attend a council meeting so that he could be reminded that it was his prime “raison d@’ etre” to combat forest fires. Yet off to the south one could not help but see a massive pall of smoke rise towards the sky. : ..Alderman Rowland called slash burning ‘‘assenine’. Alderman Clift interjected that since it takes 45 years to grow a tree, slash burning would seem to be a waste of time because In 45 years the entire Kitimat Valley would be populated and the forest industry backed lo the south. cous much easier to handle mechanical parts than people. He is very concerned about the Thornhill problem and con- siders it his duty to write this arlicle in the inerest of all residents. : Alderman MacDonald stated that he, in‘ many discussions with people ‘in the know” and close to the forestry industry, found that the industry was pronetochange in so far as methods in perpetuating the forest was concerned, He said that these people were knowledgeable and that they knew of solutions. He sadly contemplated that this slash burning season involved burning some.32,000 acres, a territory six times the area of Terrace. He Said the other methods were no doubt more costly than ihe easy way out mf slash burning but would be wor- thwhile. and other allegations, Each one was shot down by someone in the audience. The chair then the two vacancies in the original incorporating committee without success. To get the meeting over, a motion was made and passed to elect a delegation to meet with the incorporation committee and to report back at a later meeting. Two weeks later there was another announcement by the incorporation commiltee for a public meeting. At this meeting, we discovered ithe delegation that was elected by the meeting before, were now sitting at the table, posing as the in- corporation committee, and wondering why the members of the original committee would not join them. When it became obvious what happened, | went on record as not recognizing them and refered to them as a pressure group. This meeting was: turned into a shamble. When I arrived in Terrace twenty three years ago, there wasn’t much to it, The village consisted of several square blocks, with three stores and a total surrounding population of one thousand, The school had under one hundred students, and Thonrhill as such did not exist. With the passing of years it began it emerge, and there were frequent favorable ar- ticles in the newspaper of a very active ratepayers association. . Among their accomplishments was giving Thornhill its name, organizaing door to door postal «delivery, developing century park, and securing large blocks of crown land for future municipal use, _ On about this time one’of the Aboul three years ago the organizers of the T.T,P.A. had regional district asked the offered to help the chairman’ Thornhill Ratepayers with some of the paper work. Association to organize a public Before long, complaints came meeting for determination of back from. the government, | some-form of self-government, concerning the new recording There had been several ‘at- secretary, who apparently was tempts made in this direction very ambitious without the previously, but none had proved knowledge of the rest of the successful. At this meeting, committee and had to be. ‘after considerable discussion, relieved of his job. - an independent committee of There was ancther meeting five and one stand in were by the T.T.P.A.. which I un- .. Council, in full agreement that slash burning was a serious problem affecting all in the region, decided to have the ad- ministrator send a feller over council's signature, to the Minister of Forestry, with copies going to the District Forestry Officer and the local ranger asking that something be done about this matter. ..AS we left City Hall the huge white wall still rose to the skies and was still being held away by a northern wind, fortunately. Terrace - the communication hub of the pacific north-west . Prince Rupert is finally getting its port developed, the B.C.R. is pushing through to Dease Lake and more and more heavy industries are taking a good, hard look at Kitimat. What do these three areas of expansion have to do with the future of Terrace? ., Terrace has an ideal site, lecated in the natural mineral and (ransportation flows from the North and East, making Terrace the logical choice to become the communications center of the province's north, serving the ports of Kitimat and Prince Rupert. : ; : .. The Northern area of this province is rich in minerals and, fer the most part, untouched and unexploited. The opening of this area wilh the B.C.R.'s push through will greatly affect the ports . at Prince Rupert and Kitimat, Both are closer te.the Pacific markets than Vanconver interme of sea-milles, eating dime and cost for raw materials shipped to Japan‘and the expanding Chinese market, Both ports are open twelve months a year and a co-ordinated effort involving Vancouver, Kitimat’ and Prince’ ’ Rupert ports could keep materials moving efficently, without any of the three harbors becoming over-loaded. . and ‘to report later. The five . were. Clarence Cleve as chairman, Jim Glen, Steve Carte, who did succeed in kicking out the . Kitimat already nas two major industries that are supporting | most of the town, The. combined: taxes’ payed by. Alcan ' Aluminimum and Eurocan account for 65 percent of that cities tax’ revenue. Both companies: would like their tax burden’ lightened and are encouraging more industry to move to , ‘Kitimat. With its location. on. the Douglas Channel and its proximity to natural resources Kitimat can do nothing but ex: pand. - . : Sp + water improvement districts were out. This was followed a ‘few months later by, ‘a- third - meeting where. we learned that : water ' improvement “districts were. back in, The original © ie ‘committee was tocontiiue their =Darwin.: | ‘work, and ‘carry’ it 'to.a con- clusion, A. census was taken by - “one party, followed by a petition - by. another party, This process ; “was very slow and ho more: “announcement. were made,’ . And here in the center of everything is‘Terrace. We are at the branch of both the highway and railway with Kitimal-to the south and Prince Rupert West.:Any cargo bound fdr either’. * center must come through here but rather than continue as-a ‘relay’ for such goods, It will-be Here that cargos are diverted te _elther port, Lines of communication from every corner: of the 3 _srea willl have to converge on Terrace. *. The port developnient of this area could also mean lower ~ ~ prices for seme goods imported from Japan and China, Rather. ‘ than pay for the cost of shipping to Vancouver plus.the ad- ditional transportation cost {o here from the Lower Malnland, |. - shipping costs alone ‘would determine our'prices. 2 00" pose of this article was.to cover — “abit of. the: pastiand clear up “some. .of the -cohgusion,: ‘The questions in ‘most: minds® are, it’s a bright pietare for the future of Terrace; As the northern _areas of tls country. are opened up and expand in importance; : - Tertace will. grow, performing: pefhaps the ‘most: important : service in the area, keeping thinge meviig smoothly and rai L out through the porta of iKimat and Prinee Rupert: ‘of red, _ what ls their purpose, The mare: - ‘ft began -with a. tape recording | : ithe _ continued with the chair giving | .. _ limelight, saying that he finds it .;, gutone sided stories, half truths tried to get a motion made tofill - elected to look Into the matter, fortunately missed, where they. - the papers will know what‘hes transpired ' recently.’ The pur.‘ ‘just who: are these; people ‘and’. ‘prominent ones had their names ‘reach this office b y Septe on the Thornhill incorporation question they are acting for the good of Thornhill, but evidence is not bearing this out, . In my way of thinking, they just want power for the glory of power, and if they lack the natural ability for any purpose, mother nature certainly makes up for it in gall oops recently in the papers. Some of the same ones origirally were members of the Thornhill Ratepayers Association and left because they could not gain control of it, The same. people cause agitation at their own political meetings and had to be put in their place. In their own rminds they ‘may believe that A VISITOR'S TRIBUTE TO TERRACE, B.C." ‘This Valley of Terrace, in Northern B.C., Is something one dreams of, at Jeast to me. I’ve travelled the world o’er, andhave yet losee _ It’s equal in beauty - itsure thrills me, T envy the people who livein this Paradise, ; And wonder if they see what] see, with my ageing eyes . The ice-capped mountains on east and on west, © Seem tobe guarding this vale, that is so far west, I’m:told that your winters are rather severe, And, during the year, your rainfall appears. There are folk from all nations, here in this valley, And you live together, like one big family, Why can’t the nations of the outer world, we i Take a lesson from you, living together with flags unfurled? . The only regret, that I now have, is thatI’m over the “70’s’’, and not in the “20's”, So that L.could live, and feel so free, . In this valley of Terrace, in northern B.C. Eddie Gadd ee. a, ole . Civie election time is . . whos rer? . . ‘ . ; just around the corner Three city aldermen will be up for re-election this coming December. They are Alderman E.A Cooper, G.E. Rowland and [.C. MacDonald. In this connection the mayor Lioyd Johnstone asks that the following reminder be published to ensure that all elegible citizens donot lose their vote: - All parties wishing to be on the Voters’ List for the Munielpal election in December 1972 must comply with the regulations by September 30th this year. The Municipal. ‘office is open every day between 9 a.m, and 5-p.m, Monday — thru to and including Friday, and will also, remain openfer - the purpose of signing up for the Voters List on Saturday, | _ September 30th, 1972. .-J£you area Canadian Citizen or a British Subject, nineteen years of age or over, and have resided in Terrace for at least six months prior toSeplember 30th, 1972, you would qualify to be on the Voters’ List, ": * “Of you.were on the list for 1971 then forms were mailed out- -* to you for'-signature but if they are not returned to the . Municipal Office by September 30th, 1972, you would not -. qualify to be.on the 1972 List. _-: All residents and or Tenants of Terrace. who, meet the - _ above qualifications and whonow wish tobe putonthe Voters _ List and were not on last year, must. come into. the Municipal — _ Office’‘and sign the necessary form which must be witnessed - by the Clerk, ea In the case of Corporations who were ox the List last-year ~* and have already. therefore ‘submitted the required letter . appointing their Agent, and with their Company Seal affixed, they need only to slgn the form mailed to them and return it, ~ . but if'they. wish to change the name of.their Agent then they. "must "also. send a new lelter nominating’a person ‘who — a : qualifies - that is the y must be nineteen years of age or aver and a Canadian Citizen or British Subject, This letter would... algo require their Company. Seal, and must reach the ». .. Municipal Office. not/later. than Sept. 30,1972. 0.” Jos oo property; Owners in the, District of Terrace. ate... _- automatically ‘put on the Voters List when.copy-of the All . ~ ticipatio n of a state which is not ‘q member of the United -ticipate in the discussion, a -... International Olympic .Com- ‘founder of the modern Olympic ‘brought together once every oe amateur sports unmindful of + and sdcial status eliminated.” -*. the present Olympics was — - founded. We -have just wil \ disregarded by the expulsion of ° was political blackmail, nothing ~ but blackmail and we gave in.” In the case.of the U.N. the Security Council disobeyed. its own Charter. In the case of the 1.0.C. it gave in to blackmail. Rhodesia. Article 32 of the U.N. Charter states: “Any member of the United Nations which is not a member state which is not a member of © the United Nations, if it is a party-to a dispute under’ con- sideration by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the It is a known fact that sub- mission to blackmailers merely whets their appetite, Are we going to witness the possibility ‘of. Asian countries expelling Uganda for its policies aimed at Ugandan Asians, or Red China, when invited to compete in the next Olympics as it should be, blackballing Taiwan? We believe that all Canadian ‘sportsmen who have the future of the Olympics at' heart should carefully consider the im- plications of what we have just witnessed. We fear for the future of that great organization and trust that. all. sportsmen make their views known to their local Olympic Committee, The dispute. The Security Council shall lay down such conditions as it deems just for the par- Nations”, Rhodesia applied to par- right she was entitled to under the Charter. This right was~ denied and the U.N. in order to appease the African member states, thereby violated its own Charter, An organization which depends on moral principles for its survival cannot disobey its own rules withoutfalling, slow ly but surely,intodisrepute. Today we see'a similar tragic situation developing in the remaining opportunities for - internstional friendship and - understanding should not be . allowed to fall into bickering” mittee. Shortly before 1896 the forerunner of its eventual Games, Baron Pierre te demise, . -- Coubertin of France stated: “Nothing bul good could - result if the athletes of all countries of the world were Greenhill, D.F.C . Execulive Member, Friends of Rhodesia PS. Since the above was - written, I have just heard the terrible news from Munich - four years on friendly fields of national rivalries,. jealousies and differences of allkinds and dismay. with all consideration of i politics, race, religion, wealth Dear Sir: = Through the medium of your . ‘newspaper ‘we ‘would like ‘to. . ‘It was on these principles that nessed these principles being . who responded so readily to our - eall for blood donors on Sep- tember 5... - ee Ttis gratifying to know we live inan area where the answer to “an appeal of this nature is so promptly forthcoming. . “os... Yours very truly Mills Memorial Hospital ou A. Wagemakers the multi-racial’ Rhodesian team, This .expulsion was not only in flagrant violation of the Olympic. Spirit but -was especially vindictive since the Rhodesians had. been invited and had already artived in” Munich. oo re Avery Brundage, the retiring. President of the 10.C. com- mented’ as follows on ‘the Ear Training and Theory Workshop Sponsored by the B.C. Registered Musi¢ ‘Teachers Victoria & Branch . Set SF - Teachers end student-teachers should not miss the op- and:; feuding: factions, if which further fills me with - & Com "WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1972 - " this “year. ‘They: have new. \ Games, one of the very few” Yours sincerely, Cedric Association. ; . express our thanks to-all those ©. ¥ Administrator ; portunity to attend thls workshop. conducted by Rodney 3# Webster, Head of the Ear Training and Theory Department ‘at the Victoria Conservatory of Music..Mr, Webster has an A.R.C.T. Diploma in Composition and halds ‘8 first class B.C. - Teachers’ Certificate. Before joining the. Victoria. Con- - ‘servatory, he was Music Spacialist for the Saanich School “District, and a member of the Faculty of Educailon-at the = > University. of. Victoria. As well as- being an. experienced - & * teacher, he ‘ls director of the Amity Singers. and Music ... Director at. Fairfield United Church, He has had. several * campositions and arrangements performed here‘and In the East. His principal teachers were James’ Gerry, «John, Weatherseed, Healey Willan, and Otto Werner-Mueller. ~ ‘He is particularly concerned that theory has often'become © ‘of Toronto requiremenis. are a Step.in the right direction, ' F divorced from music,and he feels that the new Conservatory . & ‘ultimately to keep theory relavant anda natural oufcome of | - i | musical experience. of ~ These workshops are open to. any private music teachers, ‘school music teachers or advanced music students. A special ~ ; Invitation goes to Interested persons ;in: Terrace and Kitimat: & 1 -if.you‘re planning to attend or you Wish further.infortation gall Mrs. Helga’ - tmimediataly.e oe ye. ory tay ye Mire: Ry Webster's ‘Schedule. :; -. Fegistration is received fram Prince Rupert, In case you are | fF “a preperty owner and the record hag not been forwarded to ne “the Municipal Office, we would advise you to check the copy of the-Vo'brs List which is posted in the month of October. If your fna.-ie js' missing you must advise this: Office, ‘giving your Rewistration Number prior. to November: ist, as. the Court of Revision sits that day and -anly then-can errors:or amiasions be amended, 0 0, we SE oe, :” All Corporations who are properly. Qwners and are not now - onthe Voters’ List must sénd [n'a letter, signed by an Officer of the Company, appointing an: Agent_who. meets ° the ‘qualifications, and: atile. (he Company: Seal, auch letter to aber Both, 1974 al the lateat,"\ ‘Brunch.; , ‘ Workshop No. 3 - 2.p.m.; avizaitonal Mi fw. Prin Medi at hame'624°9775 or at work '624-5219; ° 9