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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 197]

Terrace

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GORDON HAMILTON
EDITOR: RON THODY

Terrace, B.C.

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OUR OPINION
Playing with death

Dozens of youngsters in Terrace play
with death each school day.

Death rides the rails along the
Canadian National Railway tracks at
the Kalum Street crossing.

Big, lumbering freights zoom
through there several times each day --
- including the times when youngsters
are either on their way to school or
coming home from school.

CNR officials have warned parents,
in the Keith Street area south of the
tracks. They have pleaded to the
youngsters over the public address
system at Skeena Junior Secondary
School and Caledonia Sr, Secondary...
But they still keep streaming across
the tracks.

Some of the younsters are even
younger --- elementary school children.

‘It could prove fatal,”' a CNR official
warns,

He’s seen what can happen.

‘*At one place I worked I saw a head
on the tracks.,”’ he said.

He doesn’t want to see that again.

“When the Overpass was opened,
youngsters in the area made use of it.
But the novelty wore off.

Plans are in the works now to in-
crease the number of tracks across the
now closed-off Kalum Street from
three to six.

That’s double the chances of a
youngster dying under the wheels of a
fast freight.

But despite all pleas, the kids keep
coming. And so do the trains.

And some youngster isn’t going to
make it across the tracks.

Playing with death is a deadly game.

That's OUR money

All but one of the directors on the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional Board are a
trustful lot when it comes to public
money.

They don’t believe they need to be
bonded --- even if they are signing
public cheques. That’s our money, you
know,

Mayor Perry York of Hazelton says
the members should be bonded.
Anyone handling public money through
cheques, he felt, should be above
reproach,

Without bonding, who knows what
could happen to our Money?

Various municipal and other levels
of government have experienced the
embarrassment of someone or group
padding pockets with public moneys
through juggling the books and signing
cheques.

We’re not saying it could happen
here. But, on the other hand, the
possibility still exists if any member
can sign a cheque,

Of course, it takes two to tango. Or in
this case, sign a cheque.

The Regional directors suggest one
signature be that of its new secretary-
treasurer, John Pousette, a lawyer by
trade. As a lawyer, Pousette should
know the value and protection of
bonding those with cheque-signing
powers, including himself.

He didn’t even mention this.

However, he did tell the directors
that wherever possible he should sign
the cheques because he’s got to pay the
bills on behalf of the board.

Remember, gentlemen, thats tax
money you’re playing with. OUR tax
money.

Our business -- people

We must agree with the Alberni
Valley Times in its premise that a
newspaperman’s lot is funny, because
he has so many bosses who are
readers.

Actually, people are newspapers’
business, for largely people is what the
news is about. It only follows then that
when you deal with people you're going
to have a difference of opinion.

But somewhere along the line mast
people will admit the next fellow may
know more about something than they
do. But not when it comes to
newspapers. Everyone is the expert in
this field, except the people who are
involved in it. And it matters naught

how many years they might have been

in it either.

Fishermen know more about fishing,
the grocer more about retail food saies
and the electrical technician more
about electricity. Who argues this? So
why can't the newspaperman he
knowledgeable when it comes to
newspapers? Because everyone has an
opinion about news, that’s why. You’re
smiling, but it’s true!

But there’s nothing really wrong
with this - Editorial departments of
newspapers function only to inform
anyway. The conclusions are left to
readers, other than for the editorial
page and columns.

A newspaperman judges news value
on who does the story affect or who is

interested. It’s quite simple, really. |

That’s why a hike in the mill rate gets
so much attention, because it affects
most everyone in town. Education can
also be big news. because most people
have children. .

Police news is of interest to people,
that’s why newspapers carry it.
Reporters get telephone calis asking
why they missed a story. Nosy neigh-
bors? Perhaps. And reporters are
forever being asked to keep the story
out of the paper. So he becomes
damned if he doesn’t and damned if he

oes.

It shows what we all know to be true,
though, that peeple really are in-
terested only in themselves and
themselves in relation to their neigh-
bor. Everyone wants his name in the
paper when he makes that charity
presentation but no one wants it
printed when there's an impaired
driving charge involved.

It adds up to human behavior.

Maybe, upon reading this, readers
still won’t give us our due, that perhaps
newspapermen do know something
about newspapers. But it’s a safe bet-
readers will agree that newspaper
people do know something about
human behavior!

Successful co-operatives have
earned their success by being
practical, offering members the
services they want, and doing a
superior job at achieving
savings, Joel Welty of Detroit
told delegates to the annual
meeting of Federated Co-

- operatives.

“In each case the co-op
decided what its purpose was
and went. about fulfilling that
purpose without. letting any
secondary purpose interfere
with the main:purpose"’.

experience asa co-op manager
and. educator in Detroit,

Feb, 2.10-5, ‘

.» | Objectives for.co-op leaders:

Welty, who has had lengthy .

Michigan,.area: was guest -
speaker ‘atthe 42nd°-annual -
meeting of FCL at Saskatoon, -
“He laid down five points’ as:

os Firat; Keep, in mind . the

practical concept of what a co-
op is and not let it get confused
with such concepts as utopian
colonies or brotherhood orders.

Second:. Keep the co-op’s
main purpose as the greatest
motivation. Resist being
distracted or weakened by
minor or secondary purposes.

. Third: Be bold in guiding co-
ops. Courage is required to take
new approaches in the com-
petitive field.

Fourth: Make the most of the
co-op's natural advantages.
Involve members - they are the
most competitive advantage a

CO-OP has. -

for. mutal.; strength, .: -Co-

; operation among: co-operatives.

. SOLIDARITY
Fifth: Join with other co-ops

We help each other through co-ops

is one of the richest assets the
co-op movement has.

"Tf we, like the Rochdale
Pioneers, avoid the ideological
emphasis and concentrate on
crealing the best practical
benefit for members, we will
find ourselves growing and able
to-do more and more for the
people we serve.

We'll earn loyaity py doing,
not be academic theorizing”, he
told the delegates, .

‘Speaking specifically about

co-operative progress in some”

fields in his home area, he said
there are 1,700,000 credit: union

18,000 Michigan families live Jn
‘housing . ‘co-pperatives | and
provide themselves’ with .such

“extras ad .co-op-nurseriés..and

‘various social activities,

Ben

“Just looking, thanks .. .”

BILL SMILEY:

Jt’s one of those wild,
Canadian nights, with the
wind howling like a pack of
wolves on an LSD trip, and
snow seeking out every
crevice.

My wife came down today
and found a little kid trying
manfully to shut our front
door, which had been blown
open. There was about eight
inches of snow in the
vestibule, and the furnace was
Brunting away like a hippo
with a hernia.

It’s the sort of night when
you think with awe of our
ancestors. In their draughty
log cabins, and their sod
houses on the prairies.

They were giants, compared
to us, pampered, doughy,
creatures, who wimper about:
studio, his piano, his ad-
verlising, his overhead.

NO CAR?

Nope. It is a clear case of
‘ the vicious and get sick at the
thought that we might not be
able to get lhe car out of the
Grive in the morning. All over
Calumet Island and half of
Pontiac County, giving lessons
at fifty cents an on the stove
and cook breakfast, most of it

out of packages.

We simply can’t imagine
Belting up at five in pitch
dark, lighting a lamp, building
a fire, breating it through
three or four feet of snow to
the barn or lean-to to see
whether the animals have
survived, feeding the, numbto
the bone, and coming back
into make porridge.

A tough life, but in some
ways we must envy them,
They didn’t have to worry
about too much cholesterol in
the eggs, too much fat in the
bacon, They didn’t have that
demon of today, the alarm-
clock, to tear their tender
morning nerves.

NO ULCERS

And maybe, because they
weren’l geared to the dlock,
they Tnissed some of ‘the joys
of modern life. They didn’t
have ulcers, because they had
to do something about their
problems, not just worry
about them.

‘They weren't constipated,
because they didn’t have time,
in that cold.

Their women weren't 50
neurotic, because they didn’t

have time to worry about -

nerves, cancer, gray hair and
wrinkles,

It was a hard, brutal life, no
question. But were they worse
off than we? Maybe their kids
had to walk three miles to
school through the snow.

But when (hey got there,
there wasn’t anybody trying to
convince them that sniffing
nail polish was the greatest.

And the same kids, when
they hit their teens, were
young men and women,
capable and independent.

My grandmother died at 33.
Faligue and child-bearing,
commion enough in those days.

NINE KIDS

There were nine children.
And my mother, the oldest
girl, reared the lot of them.

Most. of our. kids today.
couldn't raise a,guinea pig
without the help of twa parents
and a veterinarian.

I am presently trying to
convince my daughter that the
free-enterprise system has its
points, She has some piano
pupils. She thinks it is
atrocious that she gets only
half the fee the kids pay, a
mere $2 a half-hour, while the
studio owner takes the other
half, $2.

I point out to her that he

A wild’ Canadian night

picks her up and delivers her
home, that it is his studio, his
piano, his advertising, his
overhead. Nope. [tis a clear
ease of vicious capitalistic
exploitation of the young.

HITCHED-UP

And my mother hitched up
the horse-and-buggy, or horse-
and-culter, and drove all over
Calumet Island and half of
Pontiac County, giving lessons
at fifty cents an hour, And
drove the long, dark, lonely
road hame. :

It’s not the money. Half a
buck then was probably worth
more than four dollars today.
It’s the attitude.-

There’s «nobody: .toi-. be

blamed. , They grew up,in :an x,
era of comparalive peace, -

when a strong back and a
strong will gave you 2 life that
was rewarding, We grew up
through a depression and a
world war and = sought
securily. Our kids are
growing up in an era of
violence and fear and rapid
change and insecurily.

And perhaps the last are
more idealistic than any of us,
closer to the truth, with their
slogan of ‘“‘Love and Peace,”

SEE

'Why | voted for Little Park’

The Editor
The Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Watmough's letter to the
(Feb, 4) couldn't have been
more tothe point! What is more
ridiculous than indecision - or
more difficult than positive
decision. ;

When placed in the position of
having to make a decision you
must accept the fact that you
can not please-everyone. All
you can do.is be as objective as
possible, gather the facts, set up
your priorities and make up
your mind.

So let's have a look at a few of
those facts. In 1908 George
Little came to this area, Being
_an astute young man he
recognized a good thing when he
saw it, so fora nominal sum, he
pre-empted a large block of
land, .

In 1927 he subdivided the
portion that became the village
of Terrace. He.was required at
that time to dedicate a certain
percentage of the subdivision
for park purposes. (Just as
subdividers in Terrace are
required to do today}. His far
sightedness paid off well
because not only do we have the
city of ‘Terrace with its wide
streets and trees, situated on his
pre-emption but he left his
descendants an estate that they
benefit from to this day.

The park seems to have
played a very important role in
the life of the community

_ almost.to the polnt of there

being some. mystique or

-Jegendary value put on it,
7, Alaa in 1966, the “Rape of the
“* fillside” began, Indeed by none

y

sons, who. was. paid: by the
{municipality to: cut.:down the
tees. This. laid'the. park, bare
or.further assaults by: gravel
tru

- members in Michigan: -’Some :,. other than one of George Littles’

nd: overpasses “but it” |

immeasurably improved the
view from the lots on the 1957
George Litile & Son subdivision
above.

Now I have heard many
stories about George Little, as a
matter of fact I remember him
myself. I've heard him called

‘many things including realistic,

hard headed , far sighted and
positive but never soft or sen-
timental.

I agree with him and the

ople who live this property
that it,is a very important part
‘of Terrace and has the poten-
tial, as it did in the past, to play
‘a significant role in the lives of
-thepeople here, I didnot vote to
“assault” it one more time but
to restore it to life. Tdid not yote
‘for an “Arena Site” but for a
‘Recreation Center.

-'Good for Vic!"
a
The Editor,

errace Herald
‘Terrace, B.C,

yDear Sir: .

" Three cheers for Mrs, Vic
‘Jolliffe and her stand on the
‘beard! It's nice to know there
Yare still some of us who prefer
“our husbands as clean shaven
iindividuals.- and net another
grubby looking member af the

herd. .

* Qur- table at the Chamber of
4Commerce dinner was con-
jstantly annoyed during Mr.
‘Laing’s speech by one of the
iherd. who made an_ utter.

+ .

_ Since you

4 Keep B.C. Beautiful: oo

-T Ban, the Beard! .-
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*

igusiance of himself with his
pine tlekets,;
ri have shown your
{ctatee, men, how about mine.

A thriving vital focal point for
our town, which would en-
compass skating, curling,
swimming, green park,
tobaging, picnicing, badminton,
tennis, trees, flowers, scenery
viewing and the whole bag of
tricks.

Isay its Councils duty to plan
this area in as much detail as
possible so thal the people of the
community have a worthwhile
goal and a positive objective.

T envision projects for groups
all the way from the present.
Arena Assoc. & Curling Club
through the Service Clubs down
to the Jr. Forest Wardens, the
Boy Scouts and the Brownies!

Oh yes, ] can hear the roar
now. Impossible, can’t be done,

not enough money. But I say it

FLO/ Your
ANDY'S IN

CAN be done and the time to
startis NOW. It might take us
20 year's, but we'll do it a step at
a time and the first one is the
hardest.

So what do you say Terrace?
Have we got the guts to meet the
challenge George Little threw
out 63 years ago?

I voted YES. ;

Alderman Edna Cooper
Terrace

CENTENNIAL MEMO

Prior to 1863 Lamaichi Bay,
Kuper Island was the lair of
Indian pirates who preyed on
seafarers in Trincomali and
Stuart Channels. A naval ex-
H.M.S. Forward, dispersed the
pirates and the four leaders

involved were hanged at Vic-

toria,

"generation.

Gawwscience

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By REY. K. NEILLFOSTER

The news media report that
South Vietnamese troops
supported by U.S. air power
have moved against the Ho Chi
Minh Trail in Laos.

At this writing the expected
fireworks in the United States
have not yet erupted bul
already opponents of the Nixon
Administration have con-
dernned the invasion and, true
to form, the Communists are
calling upon the U.S. to observe
the Laotian neutrality which the
Reds themselves have trampled
for years.

Still the United States is
leaving Viet Nam and the

‘Carabodian and Laotian .mini-

wars are but aberrations of the
phased withdrawal.

Recently. we listened ta a
retired Lt. Commander of the
Canadian Navy lecture on
leadership and authority. In his
opinion, one of the vital factors
in the exercise of authority is
what he called the “or else
factor." And he noted, the
Americans in Vietnam do nat
have that. They say. instead,
“Surrender, or we'll go home.”

At best conrronting the
Communists in Cambodia and
Laos can only buy time for tiny
South Vietnam. Surrounded by
hundreds of millions who have
sworn vengeance, Saigon must
eventually fali--unless it learns
ihat God Almighty is the “Lord
of hosts,’’ God of the armies.
There is such a thing as divine
intervention in war. It happened
at Dunkirk and in Israel’s Six
Day War.

Classified
driver
licences

A proclamation was made
on December 15, 1970 by the
Lieutenant-Governor which
will bring into effect on

:. September ist, 1971 certain

“amendments. made to. the
*‘Motor-Vehicle Act in 1968,
The effect of the amend-
ments is to bring in a system
of Classified Driver Licences
in British Columbia. After
September ist, 1971, all
Grivers licences will be
classified according to the
type of vehicle the driver is
qualified to operate. There
will be six classifications of
licences with special
classifications. being assigned
to thedrivers of the large high-
way tractor-trailer. com-
binations, buses, large trucks
that carry a gross vehicle
weight over 24,000 pounds, and
taxis. Special skill tests will be
required of the drivers who fit
within these classifications
and medical reports will be
These’ singular
reminiscences of the intensely
human, if somewhat
‘enigmatic Khrushchev are full
of unexpected insights into the
minds, motives, strengths and
weaknesses of his colleagues
~ Stalin, Bulgarnin, Veria,
Voroshiloy, Malenkov,
Zhukov, Molotoy, Mikoyan,
Kaganovich and many others
— all of whom lived
dangerously and some of
whom came to sudden and
anonymous ends. The man
who brought Russia into the
twentieth century speaks
across ‘the East-West barrier
in the earthy, forthright styte
we were so familiar with
before he was deposed, and
what he had to say forms one
of the most important records
— and experiences — of our

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