THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1973 Terrace - The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers’ Assocation, and“Varified Cir- culation. Published every Monday and Thursday at 4013 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in cash, Return postage guaranteed. Second class mail registration number 1201., GENERAL MANAGER: GORDON HAMILTON 7 QUE i PAMEW~TZO Herald EDITOR | KAYCE WHITE: Phone: 695-6357" et ettace, B.C. It's to be hoped that Paul Hellyer is more misguided than mischievous in his complaints about closer ties being developed by Canada with Communist countries. It may be useful for his Action Canada group to try to appeal to anti- Communist ethnic organizations, as he did in a Toronto press conference Wednesday. But if Action Canada is going to depend on Red-baiting techniques that seem dangerously close to the attitudes of the late Sen. Joesph McCarthy, it will be of no use to Canada. Mr. Heilyer complains that ‘our government is moving in the direction of closer realtions with Communist dictatorship.’ He claims we are concentrating our time and effort in one direction when there are equally promising and ‘more reliable’ areas for expansion of Canadian trade and commerce. Is Mr. Hellyer suggesting that hard- pressed Prairie farmers should not sell wheat to Red China or the U.S.S.R.? Does he think it would be more sensible [arises mamorn BILL GROENEN OU R OPINI ON Misguided or mischievous? to ignore the existence of a Communist government in China, the biggest nation in the world, than torecognize it and exchange diplomatic missions? Diplomatic ‘recognition doesn’t automatically imply approval of the regime in another country, Nor does - the fact that we trade with another country mean that we endorse its form of government. Nor should it prevent us from offering legitimate criticism of that government. Mr. Hellyer is stretching things too far in suggesting there is something wrong in our selling goods to Communist dictatorships. And he is being mischievous if he implies there are leftists in the government who for political reasons are pursuing a leftward shift in trade. Canadians have shown many times that they are anti-Communist and they would not tolerate Communist learning in their government. He proudly asserts that he is a Liberal and a free trader. In that case, how can he really expect trade to become an instrument: of foreign policy? He contradicts. himself, The plattorm builders Parliament recessed on Wednesday for iis summer vacation without knowing how long it may live. Will ‘it go on for another year in. accordance with the usual four-year custom? Or will it be prorogued soon after its return on Sept. 7, with the Liberal government asking for a new mandate from the electors? Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has discouraged speculation about a snap election in the fall but even he cannot now what the events of the summer may bring ‘to’ complicate or clarify his political thinking. "“~ He has, however, taken the precaution to dress his government’s show-window with all manner of goodies calculated to offer maximum appeal to voters. Mere coincidence couldn’t account for the pre-adjournment rush to bring in so much draft legislation and welfare pro- posals designed to please so many sec- tions of society both large and simall. This came on top of the abolition of the three per cent surtax on individual and corporate incomes and the sweeping extension of the unemployment insur- ance plan's coverage and benefits. Still waiting for enactment is wholesale tax reform expected to start next Jan. 1, a more generous scheme of family allow- ances, assistance to agriculture, a new federal labor law that meets trade union demands in every particular, an anti- wire-tapping bill and another to abolish cigarette advertising. And how about that newly created Canada Development Corporation that's supposed to give every - Canadian a chance to become a capitalist while doing the Americans in the eye at the same time? With unconscious irony, the govern: ment has erected new barriers to protect the Canadian textile industry against cheaper competition from abroad, while bringing in new anti-combines iegisla- tion “to assure,.fair, competition and pricing” irr’g revalst it“hers also .under- talten to make its Jong-delayea ‘policy ¢ statement on foreign ownership of Cana- dian companies within a few more months, A new ministry of urban affairs is hot to save the cities from them- selyes. There just seems to be no Hmit to the number of gaudy plans and promises that come tumbling off the task force assembly ine. Liberal politicians might be more than willing to point with pride to such a program and to exiol it on election platforms, especially if both unemploy- ment and inflation seemed to be either under control or less severe than they are likely to be next winter. The answer will invoive decisions ‘of high strategy but the government cer- tainly has prepared the battleground with great care. Now if only the public’s memory of that lovely parliamentary pay boost would recede .. . School Board buys “Civilisation The right to use the film Clark. version of “Civilisation”. the brilliant and widely-acelaimed 13.B.C, television series an the history of art forms in the western world. has been purchased by. the Department of Education and will be used as the basis of an experimental resource course, it has been announced by the Hon. D.L. 3.B.C, Oxford: Brothers. Minister of Or! Education. Great Britain.. The course, designed to examine the artistic peaks of civilization and thereby trace its development will be given starting in Seplember, ta Grade 12 students in Claremont Senior Secondary School in Saanich and Lord Byng in Vancouver. If it is successful it is expected that its use will be extended. The original ‘‘Civilisation” series was as produced by Kenneth rights now Lord Clark of Saltwood at the request of the and has since been issued in book form. Lord Clark, who has had a tong and distinguished career in the fields. has been the Keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Director of National Gallery in London and Chairman of the Arts Council of Mr. Brothers said that this new type of audio-visual course is a major resource program designed to give students an insight into the land-marks of our civilisation --. art, music. architecture and culture -- which have profoundly affected all man’s activities. The course will involve the extensive use of team-teaching ; techniques. with teachers ‘of art. music, studies supervising and giving further explanation to various parts of the film series. It is the first time that the film medium, rather than a textbook has been used as a major hasis for a course of study. The dust jacket on the book, “Civilisation’', tells of its purpose and that of the original series. “The impulses, ideas. discaveries and beliefs which have formed and nurtured Western civilisation since the collapse of the Classical World are most pawerfully revealed -- and most readily accessible -- in its work of art. its buildings, books and great individuals. That is why in this remarkable volume, in which hundreds of carefully selected illustrations underscore the meaning of the text. Kenneth Clark has chosen to explore our history and cullure through the diverse creative works of Western man. His astounding lucidity in dealing with so wide a range of ‘ideas and events gives the book its. special value ‘and importance.” ” the -English and social OW SHOOSEY ram, FLO, rM STILL ‘WAiTINt FoR ‘MISTER 7 RIGHT T! opt we Satna é You Tew L Goon Fi YOu, ETHEL,YOU AND ) I THINK ALIKE =} _ as cigarettes _ WOM fmm Fa three: “What do you expect... with them taxing all gains except ill-gotten.” Howard Hughes threatened NEW YORK - Sen. Harold Hughes, D Iowa. was threatened by a knife-welding heroin addict Friday as he toured a Harlem tenement called a ‘shooting gallery’’ by addicts who take fixes there. Hughes. considered a possible contender for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, and three other senators fled to the street after the addict pulled the knife. Hughes, along with Sens. Jacob Javitas., R-NY., Richard Seheiker, R-PA.. and Harrison Williams, D-N.J., and newsmen and TV cameramen surprised six male addicts preparing to :lake shots of heroin in the dingy basement room. The senators and newsmen were taken to the basement of the building by officials from a heroin detoxification agency across the street to show them the extent of the drug problem in the area. When Hughes andthe camermen reached the room and the camera crew turned on: its lights the addicts became’ angry. “Get the ----out of here.” one addict yelled. “You've got a lot of ------nerve. “Ym gonna bust this knife right up your ---.” The senators, newsmen and Victoria Comment VICTORIA-- Despite all the provincial government's claim fo the contrary, there is no better proof of the orphan status of B.C. municipalities than their recent effort to float a modest $15 million bond issue. The money was fo have been used for such warthy objects as water, sewer and pollution control facilities, It was to be raised ‘through 84 per-cent bonds sold by the Municipal Finance Authority, a body set up by government in 1970 to pool the credit of the municipalities. It's pretty, shallow pool, judging by the response to the bond issue. Two groups of dealers bid on the bonds, offering to buy them at an average price of around. $94 for a $100 bond. For the municipalities; this would-have meant an effective interést'rate | of 8.93 per cent. That may no! be as much as people are paying for new mortgages these days, but it’s a lot more than some organizations of the province are paying for long-term debt- money. ‘ By coincidence, the same week that the Municipal Finance Authority was turning” down the bods on its bonds, the Pacific Great Eastern railway was picking up $25 million worth of long term money at 7.26 per cent. The difference in the two rates is substantial, but -it is easily explained. The PGE is one of the anointed bodies that bears a provincial guarantee on its bonds, and hence can share inthe hundreds of millions of dollars that: Premier Bennett loans out every year fram trust and pension fundds under his control, Much of this money comes from the Canada Pension Pian, and the rest of it from such sources as teachers’ and civil servants’ pension funds. It’s all loaned out at the Canada Pension Plan rate wwhich is set by federal statue. The rate fluctuates with monetary conditions, but it’s always well below. the normal long-term -bond rate: -- B.C. Hydro gets most of this money, along with the PGE. The rest goes mainlyfor schools and hospitals, which are financed through authorities similar to the Municipal Finance Authority. Schools and hospitals get the provincial Buarantee, however, which means that they teo live in the sheltered world of Premier Bennett's funds. bee i 164,000 Abortions . anti-drug officials turned and — fled to the street, | Hughes, who was only a few feet from the man with the knife, said later he had not seen it. Apparently a cameraman had blocked his view. But he said he felt “it was a dangerous place to be in.” “When it's so wide open that, . "three or four United States senators can walk into a shooting gallery just across the street from a hospital where addicts are supposed to be recovering, when heroin can be bought on any street. then it's a national tragedy." he said. Earlier in the day. the four senators watched. from a hospital window as a 16-year-old boy bought five bags of heroin for $10 from a pusher at a street corner. In a few minutes the boy returned and handed over the bags to Sen. Hughes. The ‘‘buy" was arranged by ‘Mrs. Martha Davis. executive director of the United Harlem Drug Fighters, to demonstrate that ‘illicit drugs can be purchased openly on certain Harlem street corners as easily HEH! HEH! fone) EERE 1 TIME Wty Re — tee Tt Ep? JHE! | URE T pis BH . =. «© After. all, ! counci] made about not getting... i service, « the ideas 3 New York-- Over 164,000 abortions . will have been performed in New York City when the first year of Viberalized abortion ended Wednesday according to a report released by the health services administration. The report, a summation of | one year of liberalized abortion in New York City, also shows the majority of abortions were performed_on out-of state residents, that complications arising from abortions were decreasing and nearly one- . quarter of all abortions were performed on teenagers. The data revealed that 55.5 per cent of women who had abortions in New York City . weré not residents of the state. Over half the abortions in the city were performed on women under 24 years of age, according to the data, Of these, 37.3 per . cent were in the 20-24 Broup, 23 in the 15-19 group, and 0.2 on ‘girls under 15, YOUR OPINION. Letter tothe editor Dear Editor: ils interesting to read in the Herald that the people of ‘Terrace. are’ complaining that there is nothing for the young people to do and how involved everyone is in talking about what should be done for the youth in of Terrace, An outsider reading the Herald would almost think’. Terrace cared about its youth. look at the noise any - money from the - Opportunities for ‘Youth Program: . Yes, one would almost believe that the adults of Terrace cared. about its youth unless one had tried-to do something for the . youth of Terrace, Then they'd. see it was. all lip I tried int openmy store to kids ; to come in and dance to records but thé good people of Terrace: felt it was’. a fire hazard despite’. “the fact: that-no srioking'was allowed: on the: premises In came ‘the fire-marehall | “issue the : order which ; Next I tried to hold a dance in the community center-- a place that is supposed to be for the benefit of the community. The rental fees for the center were so astronomical that not even the wealthier adults would be able to afford: admission, let alone those deprived youngsters - errace is. so concerned about. ; | Next inquired about rentirig ‘local. ‘halls: but found that Suddenly they were all booked wFinally I booked the. Ukranian Hall for,a ‘dance but.it is now being: converted into'a church: and won't be, avallable ‘much ‘longer, : - J offer this challenge ta Terrace people wae" protess. tobe so deeply..concerned about: their children not: having anything to . fo: give me a piece of land and the necessary ‘materials ‘and I your young, =. ‘Down “with: lip setviee, If pene “are. “really | concerned, are-is a Way to prove Ih ie Platbush Avenue Freighter: os “Terrace. oe Ry Judy Kadie ‘Fight feet in front of you there are half a dozen babies swollen - with starvation. As the ‘bloated emblems our ‘neglect move across the blue-white screen; somewhere inside you feel your ‘ emotional and intellectual] doors begin loslam, You flinch. You. reachreachfor you drink anda - handful of potato chips, arid the CBC News maves on ‘to make raom = far the — hairspray commercials. . Under ihis steady onslaught of global miseries, our minds, have developed a kind of protective outer coating allowing painful. issues to. bounce off our consciences as easily as rubberballs, Tortured tao Jong by the newsmedia with problems too hidequsly large for arn individual to cape with, the Canadian is fast becoming immune to the — disturbing demands of warld news. Calloused by the sinht uf ‘PAS TOR’ fe _ viewing the world outside as _-would seem. Maybe that’s wh _ body on the roadside, we thin PED thousands dying in Pakista we have few nerve endings leg to sense the sorrows next doox _ As the grim replay of hung drags” on, the acquires for ws 4° " sightmatf aura of unreality. Vietnam the tragic play we've 5 thraygh.a hundred times. THA Hungry Millions theme 4 becoming a little trite. So here it is an casy lapse junky horror show that can Wy -ficked off wilh a plastic kno¥ Fifteen million Canadiax ‘sadly clucking tongues over tl headlines is perhaps even mor of the waste of time .lhan- there ‘aren't {too many Goo ‘Samaritans arotund. Like th others who ignored a hleeding thal Loving our Neighbour ha something, to do with fedora aid projects and feeling ba about the subsistence level ing Uganda. ; : PROFILE- Edgar Benson Our Money Man A finance Minister usually serves as a kind of lightning rod in any government - or at least itis he who attracts the bolts, As architect and executor of the Trudeau Government's tough anti-inflationary policies, Edgar John Benson has been assailed for encouraging massive unemployment. By letting: the Canadian dollar float free last summer, he earned the enmity of exporters whose products become more’ expensive in world markets. Citing the recent defections of Eric Kierans and Paul Hellyer, Tory Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield gibled of Benson: “Who else in the Government can terrorize the entire Liberal caucus simply by promising to stick with the Government?” The New Democrats’ financial critic Max Salisman is even more unkind. He has accused the portly (247 lbs. § ft. 1014") Benson of handling the economy with “all the wisdom and grace: of a demented hippopotamus.” While Benson’s tax reform package wii silence some of bis tormentors, he will :still: be cilicized both for going too far,, and for not going far enough. He is likely to respond with his - characteristic Buddha-like calm. He seldom bothers to try to dispel his image as a flint- hearted accountant. For all that,-a fairer tax system has been Benson's foremost ambition since he entered politics. It has always been his belief that ‘‘we need to improve the lot of the people at the bottom of the income scale.” ‘Benson himself acquired an early intimate knowledge of poverty. His father, a Lake ‘Ontario ferry boat operator, became an epileptic and spent most of the last 13 years of his }- ife in hospitals. The financial strain Benson remembers, “just ate up everything the family had.” To support his- mother and younger’ brother and sister, Benson worked for five hours. a day. in a local garage after classes at Cobourg Collegiate Institute. An able student Benson also. collected over 30 medals as a hurdler -- selting a tempo he has more or. less maintained ever since, At 19 Benson went overseas - with the First Canadian Survey " Regiment “'l was the youngest - - guy in the troop,” he says, “I had to beat everybody. up to keep them in line.” After serving as an artillery observer in France and Belgium, Benson moved on with an advance unit . to Nijmegen, The Netherlands - and toward a meeting with-his bride-to-be. Marie Louise, who is always called “Mylou,’? was not swept: off her feet. He was the same as everybody else,” she says matter-of-factly, “But be kept coming back, That was — ce. By 1946 Benson. Mylou : and: thelr infant son Robert were. will personally build a hall, for. back in Canada, where he was enrolled as’ a commerce undergraduate at Queen's - University. To supplement his - . $120-a-month veteran's grant as Benson. washed .windows: and worked‘ as.-the janitor of: an: apartment building, {One of the . tenants; Charlie Bollis, is now - Bensan's the -: chauffeur): ° On: “graduation, Benson articledwith - - venerable - Kingston - . chartered ‘accountancy ‘firm of | ’ Engtand,” Mack;herson, and, the. Benson ‘Ilfe," Leonard“: and“ 4 be. Pearson was about to announce ” been hurled back at the Liberals “these who say that this” * Ottawa's hints of using them - portfolio and looks foward to an Henson. admits: been’ right wher ‘the’ tried - ta family fortune began to look ie He became a chartered Bis accountant, then a partner. In 3 his spare time he taught @ accounting, economics and business law at Queen's. ; After a chat with Oppositon § Leader Lester Pearson, Benson decided to run for Parliament in 1962, “T though we had a lousy Government,” he says “I didn’t like Diefenbaker. i didn’t like - ja what was happening and] was & very interested in doing +9 something about the tax {@ system.’’ Benson -won his Kingston seat in the ‘62 election; when the Liberals took office in 1963 he became Hag Finance Minister Walter @ Gordon's ‘parliamentary # secretary. Gordon denies that i the younger man was in any sense his protege. “He’s a very able fellow. I don’t think that he had any or needed any sponsorship.” In short order Benson proved his managerial capabilities as Minister of National Revenue and then as President of the Tresury Board’ When it became clear that ‘his decision tostep down in 1963, Benson joined a like-minded group- including Gordon, Larry Pennell, Jean Marchand and Pierre Trudeau - which met to consider the succession, For a while the group considered putting Benson forward, but, he says, ‘I wasn’t very happy about it.” When P,E.T, finally decided to take the -plunge, Benson played a_ key organizational. role in the Trudeau campaign ~ and was a help in other ways, as well. After the leadership convention, Benson and Mylou accompanied Trudeau to: : Flordia, Trudeau - who by then had a considerable anonymity problem - solved it by checking into a Fort Lauderdale hotel as Pierre Benson, Looking back over his zealous crusade against inflation at the cost of deepening unemployment’- Benson says that given a second chance he would not significantly change the Government’s stance, He does concede that Trudeau made a political boner when he warned just before Christmas, 1969, that to beat inflation the Government - would let unemployment rise ag high as 6 percent of the Jabor force - a statement that. has repeatedly as the jobless rate went even ©‘; higher. But Benson insists Government doesn't worry about unemployment ‘just don't: . know - anybody “in the . Government: Of course you: worry about it."' Benson” dismisses mandatory price and — income. controls - ‘for “all: of as tools that are not appropriate to a ‘free enterprise economy. Says he: “This type of economy ° is best, It's: god-awful in some respects, But it's: the best there is.’ Despite an © his’: A public unflappability, .Benson is feeling the ‘weight. of his: ‘eventual’ change -- probably” back: to private life, Mylow to being concerned. over. the pace hor husband sets for himself -.and over his weight, which ‘ig so © high up that he has. trouble breathing.” Benson has told -his constituents that he will again . + be a candidate in the next © ; election’ - perhaps with the. knowledge that it will be soon, - But.he says, “I don’t intend to spend my life. In. politics.” .Mylou"he: muses, may. have | - dissuade: him’ from” entering polit{es in the first place. “She was ssensible,, Its. a: + hel of a.