number 1201.

ED VAN DER LEELIE
MANAGING EDITOR

GORDON HAMILTON.
PRODUCTION

- Several dreams came true last
Mondayevening. Several dreams in
the form of nightmares. .

Remember those nights when you
wake up in a hot sweat after being
chased through a cataclysmic yellow
fog by some unseen monster? The sky
and the air is a foul color, and the smell
is demonaic,.,like a scene from
Dante's Inferno...

Last Monday night, a real nightmare
happened, the sky turned brown, the
sun was red, and the air was yellow.

The street lights changed from Red,
Amber and Green to Fiery Orange,
Bland Yellow and Blue. People walked
around the streets of Terrace, eyes
turned skyward and awaiting the crack
in the earth that should have come.

It looked like the end of the world
was at hand. It felt like just before an
earthquake. Many people wrote letters
to friends on that Monday evening,
possibly feeling that it would be the last
letter they ever wrote.

Then the strange grip slackened, and
the light went back to a natural white.
When all the speculation was over, it
became obvious that the monster
chasing all the people around was
nothing more than smoke ...polluted

alr.

That monster was answerable to yet
another, bigger monster. The monster
of the minds of the people responsible
for the fires that caused the smoke.

Several slash fires, a couple trash

-burners at a couple of mills, a forest
«fire here and there and. a-ridge of low.:
" pressure locked the foul yellow smoke ”
in the Skeena Valley, and started on
it’s fictitious narrative.

By Tuesday morning, the smoke was

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gone. The people were no longer afraid
and no longer angry. The sky was blue
so why should they care about
yesterday. ;

Headaches dissappeared with the
smoke, and the nausea felt by many
not so used to the polluted air
dissipated as well,

An American now living in Canada
said that the scene looked much like
the permanent state of being in the
major american cities...L.A.,
Pittsburgh, Chicago...

Our comfortable little town is —

growing up, under the direction of a
monster.

Of course, we must be objective, and
not too hard on the industries that
support our city.

Of course we are expected to put up

with the decimation of the air we are —

supposed to be breathing, because
supposedly without this pollution we
cannot live.

A lot of hackles will be raised
because of the inability to accept the
fact that if we don’t stop destroying our
environment, we will have no need to
work.

If men are sick, they cannot work. If
men are healthy, they will work
happily, and accomplish more, making
more profits for the men who run the
business.

The air in Terrace last Monday
should show you what the air in
Terrace will be like permanently in.
twenty. years: if‘something is not done..

It was a prelude to a horror movie, a
foreshadowing of the tragic end of a
bad play. Lets bring down the curtain
on the thing before it’s over.

jecated on Lovii Avenue in Terrace, |.

© guards nor.. warning’ signs
strians and motorists In ihe area

"of the ditch ‘nd todate, n6'word has
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Locked vehicles will delay the thieves’ activity and will alléw

, ‘THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, : ;
“PRECIOUS: TIDBITS -

HERE IS a point of interest for any local weather enthusiagts,
The Meteorlogical cervices in Canada, including operations al
the Terrace-Kitimat Airport, are this year celebrating 100 years}
of confederation. The weather, however, has always been H

THE HERALD needs paperboys...lota of them. it seems tha}
regular paper boys slay: for. very short. periods and witho
notice (usually on paper day) they quit on the job.‘ Phane: |
come down if you are interested. There is no age limit Involyed
a JO RMEEXX Gv a x!
TERRACE ACMP report that some people here have no respect
for other people's property. This week three ¢f many cars stol |

in the area were recovered at a secluded , spot around No

Eby. The three recovered vehicles were damaged. Two of
cars had been locked in a sinall collision while. all, three
partially striped of accessories, with some windows also
busted. RCMP haveurged local car owners to be more cauti
“We have to make It more difficult for these thieves, they sa

time for possible detection by owners. RCMP patroling during
nights have found many parked vehicles, some unlocked and
some With keys still in ignition. Nobody likes ta wake up in the
morning and discover your car is missing. ‘Who wants to. spend
needless time searching for your vehicle, especially on those

late for-work mornings. . a

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Guest editorial BILL SMILEY
‘Magic Season  “Gitoiiiac

In view of the past two editions of your paper printing slash
burning propoganda, I feel its time to point out the other side of
this story.

Htis extremely difficult to understand why for the majority of
the fire season weare smothered with reasons an'why we should
be careful with fire and then all of a sudden, some magic time
arrives and we light up the forest.. If fire is harmful one part of
the year, doesn’t it do the same harm later in the season. I know
we will get the arguement we must burn in order to get new
forest started. .

There are many logged sites in our local areas where burning.
has not taken place, but look at the reproduction. I point
specifically to the Alice Creek area on the Nass Road. This is
one of the finest growth of new trees yet no slash was burned
there and the utilization was not up to present standards.

We have one site where one side of a road was burned and the
other side was left untouched. The untouched side has
reproduction which is at least ten years ahead of the burned
side. After all youdon’tsee a farmer burning up his old cabbage
leaves, etc. He plows them back into the ground for future
fertilization, when we burn the light leaves, twigs, etc,, this is
just what we are doing. If the material on the forest ground is
burned clean we can be assured the fire was hot enough to
neutralize the soil and destroy all seed sources down to mineral
rock,

On the other hand, if conditions are right so only the fine fuels

" are burned which would have decomposed into the ground in

short order then the larger trees are only blackened forming a
protective coating over the log so it takes much longer to
decompose thus slowing down the natural process of nature.
You wonder if the above is true why we do burn, may I suggest
“ . oo wood

the following: , - :

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"-Bivery, ime you mention the folly of burning to Forest Service
- advocaters of this practice they bring up the famous‘old slash

fires on the Queen Charlotte Islands some twenty years ago.
Lets get our heads out of the sand, there is no comparison
between utilization practices now as in the past. Just because
years ago it was thought slash burning was the answer, lets
admit times have changed and its not the cure we all thought it
was. Also the protective division of the Forest Service would
like to eliminate all hazardous areas in the province to make
their fire fighting job easy. Using this theory why don’t we burn
up all the forest in B,C, then we could lie back and relax in the
ashes and not worry about getting called out for fire fighting.

I think on closing, the logging industry, Forest Service and the
public should be congratulated in the way the forest fire fighting

' costs were kept down in the Rupert Forest District in the hot

1971 season. Lets not spoil it by spending great sums of money
on escaped slash fires. Watch the fire fighting cost start
ereeping up now that we arein the magic season - when fire does
no harm. I wonder how long the mill burners in Terrace could

operate before they created as much smoke and pollution as ;

we've had in the past couple of days.

Yours truly,
Gordon E, Rowland

> Jabou

‘. ” ‘This. year's experim

Col-cel workers
work, help
new Canadians

A few months ago, Hank Intven and Rob Nixon arrived in
Terrace, B.C., fresh from thelr classes in an Eastern university,
They had jobs waiting ata local sawmill even though they knew

nothing about the lumber industry. They brought something else

to their jobs - a willingness to put in eight hard hours per day as
mill hands, then conduct classes for their fellow workers during
their spare time. ; ; .

The two young men are labourer-teachers, participants in a
unique Canadian organization called Frontier College. They are
placed in jobs in locations where new Canadians can benefit by
attending classes that will help them in. their new home be it
instructions in English, history, economics, etc. — - 7

‘Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited had heard of the work
done by the College in other Canadian communities and felt that

the service. would assist New Canadian: employees in the’

Terrace area. Through Colcel’s interest, the Frontier College

placed two labourer-teachers with Pohle Lumber Operation, a.

sawmill operated by Columbia Cellulose.
Hank and Rob began on the greenchain. At first,

they were

Well, it’s that time “again,
when the nation’s biggest body
of baby-sitters goes back to
work, and the mothers of the
nation blow out a trumpet-like
Sigh of relief. Back to school
time.

It’s been a tough summer for -

parents. In July ¥ thought we
were going to haveto start
building an ark. August came
in like a lion with a couple of
violent storms, then settled
down for some fairly fine
weather. Fine for October, that
is. Last night the temperature
was .three degrees above
freezing. oo

This is the sort of weather
that turns amiable little
children into malicious little
monsters who drive their
mothers to the screaming point.

It’s too cold to swim, It’s too
wel to play outside. They’re
sick of playing cards indoors.
They want pop and hot dogs and
potato chips at all hours of the
day and night, They quarrel
with each other.

- [have no sympathy with the

~ ‘Kids; it’ my heart Ses out’ to

t bes

“their ‘irdyed motheis.

So’ much for the little kids.

But at least you can give them a
belt on the ear when they
become unbearable, Teenagers
are twice as bad during a
summer like this one. Those
who aren’t working, but just
hanging around the family, in
most cases are impossible.

They groan with boredom,

They complain that there's |

nothing to do, though their
mothers are putting in twelve
hours a day. They demand the
family car and sulk when they
don't get it. And now that they
can legally drink over 18, who
knows what they're up to when
they are allowea ihe car?.

The girls tend to strike up an

- intimacy with scruffy-locking

- children.

boys, and the boys pursue
trollopy-looking girls, Ah,
parents must have hearts of
solid steel these days to avoid a
complete collapse.

That's why there’s an almost

universal sigh of relief when
school opens. It’s not that
parents. don’t love their
It's just that they
can't stand them after eight
weeks of a ‘cold, wet summer.

Mother can pack them off on

that blessed opening day, sit’

- down with a cigarette. and

coffee and start turning into.a
kindly, loving person ‘again.

Father can come home. from
work and not have to. settle

quarrels, fight about who gets -

the car, and spend two hours
getting smoke in his eyes over

. the barbecue,

both on day shift and spent several days getting to know their .

fellow workers, They explained their alrns to representatives of -
the local union who then: assisted. by introducing them -to-
employees around the mill.‘ They found a number of New --

Canadians: who were interested in‘attending English classes. |
Hank. and Rob then went. looking for classroom:space and
eventually with the help of. Pete Fanning, Director of the

Terrace Recreation Department, obtained space in. the. .
’ Community Centre. ae . oe
The first class in English was held on June 14 and: was

Even the kids are happy to get
back toschool, For a few days,
at any rate. They. meet: old
class-mates, ‘lie wildly about
their summer adventures,
renew Jast year’s. romances,

commence new ones, :fill'out | -
innumberable forms, and check _
out the new teachers for pretty —

or handsome ones, .

Their exuberance lasts: about

‘a week; until they have to start ©".
. doing some work,

hen the

~penduluin swings and they

attended by 15 students, generally representing such diverse © -
language groups as Portugese, Punjabi and French. By August, ©

. there were 53 regular students.enrolled. ‘One ' student fram |
- Portugal, had been in Canada for only one day when hecame to, :

class.

Selection of volunteers. for. summer’ work: takes place’ in:

February. at’ most Canadian univeralties. It Is. the Job- of the

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‘putlylng areas’as.a prerequialte:to

‘occupational training
Frontier, College ‘and: Columbia; Cellutoge’ are alreav’
‘Sbout'a labourer-teacher plan for-next year...

m er-teacher ‘to-bring people ‘together to provide 'a basic . .
_ adult chusdtlog service i potiylng orens aw a prerequli
nent in learning. waa so ‘successful that {thelr
y “talking wi 6

‘revert to. their: groans of week
“boredom, though thls is actually... 0°.
justa pose with a great many of:

them.

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- Terrace Omineca Herald.” You .

’ Letter

-ereates a mind picture that sama
lost in the new headline. NG
much of a tourist attraction o
souvenir for that matter. Tole
bad, you goofed, I think. .

Dear Editor;
Justa note to say that I prefer
your old masthead, ‘The

can tel] at a glance where the

paper . originates... “The

Herald” could be anywhere.
“The hub city of the Skeena”

‘signe

(Miss) Phyllis Wolanskig

For college students, ‘off for: <'-.
thelr first year, lt's a lime of:
excitement . = ‘and.
me te a anticipation. - They're finally: «+
-. Frontier College‘has ‘no campus, no grants, no degr¢es and © “oe
_ charges no:tuition. Its teachers are volunteers who earn their

living by working alongside the people whom they are teaching. -

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