A weekly paper published by Sterling Publications Ltd. Published every Wednesday at 3212 Kalum St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varifled circulation. Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201, Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed. ELREEN TOOVEY' — TESS BROUSSEAU Circulation Advertising GORDON W. HAMILTOM, # PUBLISHER # Pat O’Donaghy Editor: MARK HAMILTON # SS RR oars na eS The welfare and financial security of his family looms large in a man's mind. He plans for insurance, organises his estate and makes out his will. But unfortunately, he seldom gives thought to the actual funeral arrangements. This is a sad act of om- mission since women usually live longer than: men, and it falls upon the widow lo make the. necessary arrangements. Public concern over the high cost of funerals has only manifested itself over the past ten years. It is a macabre fact that the total cost of funeral arrangements ranks third behind the purchase of the family home and car. [t's not unusual for funeral expenses to exceed $1,000. These include the funeral director's fee, the cost of a cemetery plot burial or cremation expenses, the price for opening and closing the grave, and the price of the commemorative plaque or marker. For many years it was a tradition that a widow’s grief could be measured by the size of her husband's funeral, Today, public reaclion against elaborale and overpriced funerals, and the call of many church leaders for a return to simplicity, have led to the formation of memorial societies. These societies, which ad- vocate simplicity dignity and moderate expenses in funeral arrangements, have been formed in a number of Canadian cities. . * Each society has its own method of operation, but in general, members pay lifetime fees of between $5 and $15, and receive advice and help in pre-planning simple, inexpensive funerals. Most memorial societies have arrangements with funeral directors to supply members with funerals of the utmost sim- plicity at prices ranging from approximately $125 to $250. Some societies also give information about the cost of more con- ventional, but still moderatley priced, funerals. Consumers’ Association cf Canada recommends planning funeral arrangements in advance. Inquiries, either by letter or telephone, about burial or cremation, can be addressed to local cemeteries or the nearest crematorium. A brochure giving further information and listing memorial societies in Canada is obtainable from CAC headquarters headquarters, 100 Gloucester Street, Ottawa, price 25 cents. Omer Om OOD Driving during the winter requires special skills, says the B.C. Automobile Association. One reason is obvious - road conditions can be more hazardous because of ice or snow, There’s another reason, too, one that drivers don’t often think . about - the days are shorter and more time is spent driving in ates wa ~Marknesss. 02.3 estes aoe In an average year, over BO per Gent of the highway fatalities” in Canada and the U.S. occur at night. The death rate per 100 million vehicle miles is more than two and one half times greater during the night than in daylight hours, Obviously then, night driving requires certain adjustments in driving patterns - and extra attention, expecially for vacalioners who may be traveling in unfamiliar areas. BCAA offers these tips for safe night driving: * . The first rule of driving at night is to slow down, The decreased visibility at night requires shorter stopping distan- ces, and this means lower speeds. You should be able to stop within the distance visible jn your headlights. On hills and curves this means you will have to.go even slower since the ‘lights may shine into space, reducing the distance you can see on the roadway. .. Your car's lights should be in perfect condition. Be sure the battery is fully charged, The output of your headlights will be greatly reduced if it isn't. Headlights should be aimed to reveal objecis at least 350 feet ahead, Clean the headlight lenses regularly, and particularly after rain, sleet or snow. Dirty lenses reduce light output. » Keep your vindaws | free of fog. Make sure the defroster is working properly. Lowering the windows slightly will help clear the frost. - ,, Carry a flashlight, flares or reflectors to warn approaching motorists in case of a breakdown. _ If it becomes necessary to stop in an emergency, pull onto the shoulder of the road as far as possible and use the car’s four- way flashers or parking lights. Leaving on the dome light when’ stopped also will help increase your visibility. Flares placed : some distance behind your car provide the greatest protection. . To keep yourself in the best possible condition to drive at’ night, avoid long stretches of fatigue-inducing driving. Keep freshair in the ear. Avoid lighting matches or using lights in the car - these will diminish night vision. Keep the dome light off when driving and dim instrument panel lights. . When going from a brightly lighted building to your car, give “your eyes time to adapt to thedim light, On open highways look as far ahead as the car’s lights allow. Avoid locking immediately in front of the car, and avoid looking directly at approaching highlights or into your rear view mirror ' when a ear approaches from the rear. , Use low beams when within 500 feet of an approaching car or ’ within 300 feet of the car ahead. Always use low beams in fog. S; ¢ THOT SOUNDS When overtaking, flash your headlights to warn the driver ahead of your plans. , Slow down after Meeting bright ‘lights - it takes time tor: your eyes to re-adjest to the darkness. - _ Columbia Cellulose THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. 1 REST IN BED AND LOOK AT ME by Bill Smitey It takes some people a Iong time to realize that they are completely dispensable, | realized it years ago, but keep forgetting until some- | thing jolts me. Today it’s the mother and father of all colds. | haven't. missed a day’s work in about three years, at limes tottering off to the job with one foot in the grave, For some reason, | had the conceit to imagine that the entire English depart- ment, if not the whole school system, would crack, crumble and collapse fl weren't there, Common sense tells me that if I were ill for a month, nobody would ‘know. ‘the difference, and that if | dropped dead this Letters to the Let’s lay it on the line We are being bombarded by politicians from all parties at the present time. We are told that the wnemployed are on welfare and receiving unem- ployment insurance and that some of them are dishonest. This is probably true in isolated instances, It is also true that ‘there is dishonesty in all walks of life. There are dishonest politicians, doctors, lawyers, — teachers and union members. They all take money for ser- vices they do not perform or perform so poorly that to say they are grossly overpaid is an understatement. There are alse honest people who do not cheat the public or the government and perform. to the very best tof = >, thir ability: 784 . Let us ‘stop making the unemployed Canada’s. whipping boy and consider that. most of them will gladly work if given a chance. If they are mentally or physically disabled they are to be pitied but they can also be employed in limited capacities. If they are over 40 they are not ready to be discarded, Many of. them will work and work hard if only someone will employ them. Let us outlaw the clauses that are outdated on employer's forms that prohibit them from employing older people. The Insurance and Pension funds should stop living in a lime when people died at forty. Ifa medical examination is required, it should be given at . no cost to the prospective employee, Employers should consider © need when employing people. All other things the person who hopes to be self- supporting and not to the person ‘who has an adequate income from some other source, We are all members of the human race, Let us step climbing on each others shoulders and help each other, - If we all do this sincerely we will not have the unemployment that now exists. Discrimination as to age, sex, and even ap- being: equal, the job should be givento moment’ the human Tace would not falter for a sec- ond in its pursuit of folly, happiness and all the other things that make it tick. ' So, here 1 am surrounded by sogey kleenex, coughing ° up chunks of flung, and sweating like a mule-skinner every time 1 do anything more vigourous than blink my eyes. But it’s riot all bad. My wife is dancing attendance | on’ me, something she rarely ” does because I'm almost never ill. [ have a good, focl- ish detective story which I'd normally never have time to read. And perhaps most impor- tant of all, I have this lazy, hazy feeling that I Aave stopped the world and got off, even if only for twenty-four hours. My wife has just forced on me, quite against my will, a large libation of hot someone’ who heard the silent screams of thy kind, Who am I? I am a mature female who has had the honour of issuing precious life through my body,, But what should have been was not allowed to'be. My son, once a male among males, with rippling muscles and proud head held high, was slain; not in combat with his peers to win a mate to carry on our line but by a cold im- personal killer, His unseeing- eyes now stare at an ajacent wall in the murderer's home; one in a row of heads with un- - Seeing eyes. After last winter’s snowy depths made our nomadic existence a nightmare .of misery: and deprivation, the strength of my youngest, a female, had ebbed. When I found her she lay dead by the tracks because she was to weak , to escape the path of an east-_ - bound train, ee The Creator gave some of us the strength to survive and propigate our own. Left alone, other sons and daughters may fill my womb if that is to be. This year, with the memary of last winter’s despair still fresh, the snow falls again, But ren- ding the white silence is the sound of death from the courageous hunters who use a steel pellet which they didn't create, to kill those which they are incapable’ of resurrecting. Does the Universal Creator of all life watch these killers through our dead eyes and with - the pain of our slain bodies? We can't form the question as we fall weaponless in terror from inevitable extinction but we ask what we have done to - deserve only death. Yours insincere query A Northern Moase _A matter. of: ai guts’? Dear Sir: Apparently ‘Mr. ‘Manfred Lubke isn’t as well informed as one would believe, He doesn't seem to read. the Herald pearance is unworthy of a’ anyway. democralic society, The only criterion for hiring anyone shauld be the ability te perform a given task diligently and pleadily day after day. Be logical and. employ the ‘unemployed poor wherever possible, You will quite likely be ‘ ppreeably | surprised at their ability. The experience of the’ Golden Rule over a period of a’ year has proved this to be true. ‘Thanks to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13 and also lo- for their generous contributlons recenily received by the Gelden Rule. Juanita Hatton for the Golden Rule . “What have we Mone’ to. deserve. ” death” Dear Sin... - Normally, my READING fs confined = the.’ -half- remembered signs of the first . snowfall of the year; the smell ° of adversity on the wind; and the sweet. taste . of.: sapting’s | _ ‘succhlent, food SUDO ye ete » My WRITING, is- that of my. fe on‘Mother Earth's mossy cor or white winter carpet. “Today. .J deviate from: the norm. through: ithe: jvorda. - been. I- went into the question of guls quite sometime ago with a Mr. Dan something-or-other but Mr. Lubke must have missed ose issues and so, for his sake, I will -go.into it all again. The question of guts does not alall enter my liking to-have a pen name affixed to my letters. This ig done so at my request due:to my position in this fair cily. If it were to come to light who I really am, 1 would be in some jeopardy as to my future re, Anda question for Mr. Lubke. Whal exactly do you find distastful about. the. PM’s figuage?. The words he has | re are becoming quite ‘‘commonplaée in the. English ' language, several of them have. ‘used ..in.” national Night zines: “such, B58, Saturday U ‘The ‘sameé words can be herd In the bars, walking. down the siteet, wherever. people of ages. gather: for a- little private talk and ‘in every second ‘hook on the newstands, This by no means excuses anyone but in your ‘quest ‘for. public cleaning - up of Canadian ‘morals.why nat -teeir:down Random: House and’ have'all’ the’ dictiondriés” and” a backed - books: “burned .. water,’ some -sort of éough medi- ' cine with the odd name of “Mr. lemon, sigar’ and Teachers’ Highland Cream. It makes me sweat, but. cer: - tainly eases the - cough. In fact, it makes life look al- most rosy. J: hope. she doesn’t run out of lemons. And stuff. fsn't it a pity, though,. that we go through life,.or the biggest part of it, with this feeling that we' re $0. im: portant, when we're. less than ants on the face of the: earth? Businessmen flog them- seives daily to meet. the competition. Executives and lawyers ‘drag home their brief cases. Doctors burn _themselves out in twenty yeats of inordinately long houts. Teachers develop ulcers or quietly go mad. Why don’t we all telax a lit- tle more often and tet the earth take a few spins with- out us? Perhaps the most guilty of all ave politicians. Right now the country resembles a disturbed bee-hive as our politicians hurtle about, every one of them con- vinced that his consti- ’ tuency, his party, and his country will go to the dogs tek” personally, is not elec- ted, A Negative Campaign Dear Sir: 1 feel that I must write this letter after hearing Skeena Liberal candidate John Mitchell speaking on a Smithers open line radio program this week, Since the beginning this man seems to have ‘run a purely negative campaign, against N.D.P. and Mr. Frank Howard in particular, Since Mr. Howard seems to be too much of a gentleman to rebut, perhaps it is time that someone did. Perhaps [should mention that I . am not anN.D.P. supporter, but if Mitchell continues this type of campaign I may become one, Some important questions which Mitchell evaded on, the program were: 1. His own performance, of which the Liberal Party and Mitchell boast. When questioned' about details, he replied: “Et is not relevant, since in the past he'has not been paid from public funds.” Now I ask you is this any sort of an- swer to give’ to the electorate? Of course his past performance in susiness and other activities is relevant, since this is the only way we can-know the type of person he really is,: hearing his reply I can only ask myself “Has he something to hide?” He constantly relates of his past activities, but we have nol heard of any actual ac- complishments on his past performance. 2, His slaiement on Womens’ equality was.a direct contrast to statements he has made openly PRIOR TO.STANDING FOR . ELECTION.. While he has stated that ‘Women are inferior in our society”. he obviously realises that a woman’ 8 vote is equal to a man's, so he says equal pay, equal rights etc., during his campaign. 3, Regarding his situation on his application for Canadian citizenship, he stated that he had applied 144:yéars ago and that the “assumption was thatit - had passed’, Surely on a subject as ‘important ” citizenship to an. individual, nobody would walt for 18 months and not bother to check " ‘why.he had not ‘received a reply to his application. One can only assume from this that either the mislaid application comment is & complete falsehood, or else Canadian cillzenshipis of so little Importance’ to? Mitchel} that it didn’t warrant his. writing a letter (and spending” the then 6c postage: onit) to check.on il. As anvintelligent voter [ can only assume the former to be true. I worder also on what dale he re-applled, as I know. of other British ‘subjects - who received their Canadian - citizenship within three weeks ‘of application. Sir, I could continue; but fee] thisis sufficient to make people think regarding Mr. Mitchell's answers. Please, Mr.’ “Mitchell, it you cannot: give speaches: ‘without berating your oppositldn, ‘and cannot anawer questions: dna straightforivard ‘manner, , then just KEEP QUIET! wos ‘L. should’ perhaps" identify myielf, since. many readers - may wonder who I ari. J algo -worked. with ihe. Boy: Scout ‘movernent since it's inception in Houston, having gesistad witha “(while : Mitchell. Cub: Pack p id aooita): with: and Eor” the past: two years T ” have, . been, dnd’ still’ :am, a Jeadei. of, 4, Brownie, After | _ other -subdiyisions being “proved by. the Distriet of ° . Terrace, Planning Committee, +3 WEDNESDAY. ‘ocToBER. 1B 1972 God forbid, but what ‘ would -actuaily happen if Trudeau, Stanfield, Lewis and .Caouette’ had “a four- 2 way air collision, which is — not an impossibility at the ‘rate they're haring . about their homeland? Would we just. have to throw up our hands and sell ' the country to the highest’ bidder? Fat chance. There'd be enough power-hungry men‘ and women, or just plain idiots, to. fill their shoes before the bits were picked up, ° , Nobody is itreplaceable. The sky didn't fall in when the British kicked their great war-time leader; Winston Churchill, out of office. The States didn’t dis- integrate after the deaths of Lincoln, “Roosevelt, . Ken- nedy. When Joe Stalin final- ly expired, Russia didn't ex- actly hit the skids. . “It seems that the only way to stay off that tread- mill of feeling indispensable is to be poor. The fewer our possessions, the freer we are to step off the merry-go- round, take a-look at the wonderful world we live in, and realize ‘that we are about as individually imper- © _tant as grains of sand. Yours truly, D.J. Read (Mrs.) The old line parties... Dear Sir: , Your front page decorated by the headlines of this character Mitchell, the Liberal am- bitionist, and the hopeless Conservative candidate Mr. Stevens, leaves me with the impression that these Old Line party candidates willdo and say anything, and blame others for their own polilical parties’ responsibilities regarding native people, whom we shoved aside and ignored for so very many years. In my opinion, it is typical of these Old Line party hacks to "-Lhave a fellow just like | that sitting downstairs talk- - "ing to his mother, He drift- “ed, in sthis* fhorning from - Montreal. He’é off to Alaska _ to spread the Baha'i faith. How is he, going’ ‘te pet there?: Well, if he can get ta Penticton’ by. ‘Friday, he'll: catch a.ride north ‘with some. friends. ! point out that. there is no way, short of flying, of getting to Pen- . ticton in two days. Oh, well, - he may hitch-hike,. going through northern Saskatche- wan. (He got the hint that } wasn't going to joan him alr fare. ) What was he going - to take? Well, he has a sleeping . bag and a sweater and jeans . and boots, and it's only ‘about = three. - thousands miles, so there’s no prob- lem. He’s been to Mexico, New Orleans, New York and across, Canada from coast to coast, His total assets are those listed above. Physical, that is. On the other hand, he's completely bilingual anid has an education no: A University could provide, ' Best of all, he ktiows clearly that he is not indis- . pensable, association with McElianney & Assdciates, the company engaged by the land developer 4 to design subdivisions that will fomply with all requirements |i and regulations of the City | ies bylaws, should have a better ¢ knowledge of those bylaws. Cannot Council review this matter and tell the facts? . The taxpayers deserve } something better in the way of an answer. Sincerely, i Victor C.G. Jolliffe . a The late Dudley os Little “It was with great shock that ‘I : I, Hartley Dent, learned ‘of the 1 : death of Mr. Dudley Little.’ Mr. Little was the M,L.A, for | Skeena from 1960 to 1972, He | point the finge? of blame toward .. served the constituency (with |i the so few democratic: thinking” people who have been “crying in the Wilderness” for years; more or less all alone, in their efforts to improve the attitude, and impress upon us that after all we are our Brothers’ Keepers. Having never heard before of these two Old Line parly can- didales, I am more than ever left with the impression that they are.newcomers ta thee’ parts; so new in fact that they are ignorant enough to try again to.use the native people as another rung in their selfish political ladders. After living for many years in this area, I am still left thinking that the best example of the Old Line parties’ attitude toward the native people is when they permitied Kitimat to dump its raw untreated sewage into the river leading to the fishing village of the Hailsla people of Kittimaat. (This.of course left the Haisla people with nothing but the downstream benefits of ‘pollution. ) . ‘Yours truly, : Victor M. Bryant ‘Concessions to a land developer Dear Sir: - Further to my: letter regar- ~ ding Council giving concessions to a Land Developer, - The file’ has been read. I am of the same opinion that a concession was ‘granted toDr, Roger Hicks, and" that the District of Terrace did build a road on the West side of Pear Street, al the cost to the ‘Terrace taxpayers, whereas, ‘al the ‘same time, such as, Mr. Mario Dt Giovanni, on ‘Thomas, and" an“ application: by Mr. " Manuel Silva, for subdivision on. _ Tetrault Street (within one. . black. -of - Dr. Roger: Hicks property) .-< these other: sub- hard work” and ‘dedication. . Many of the projects that are now just getting under way, such as the new bridge across the Skeena are the results of his dogged persistence. I offer my . condolence and deep sympathy to his family.” ‘ t Hartley Dent OLDSTERS MEETING ~ John Glen presided at the ee October Sth meeting of Terrace iam “Branch No. 73 of the Old Age Pensioner's Organization held in the Royal Canadian Legion ¥ lounge. os ‘ The organization meets onthe | first Thursday of each month at |[ 2p.m. in the Legion lounge, 4425 Legion St. An invitation is extended wishing to join the group. After general business, ore A for a dinner on Oct. 20 at athe | Elks Hall were discussed, The dinner is to be at 6 p.m. and entertainment is to folow. It is hoped that all members will attend. ; ; Mrs, Belty Wishtman .was presented with a gift as a token of appreciation of her services, The new secretary is-Mrs. Judy Vander gouch, Who sis Arabella of Carrot . : Corner? This was the question . In the mindg of the pensioners - when Arabella wandered in off the street and- delighted. the pensioners with an hilarious sole presentatién, The ques on is still ‘unanswered but tha : are extended to ‘Arabella’ ‘oe the many laughs-she provided “Thanks also are extended to: ‘the Terrace Kinette Club who as usual at the: pensioners’ : ap- | meeting provided the refresh- 4 Serving at thi s par ticular meeting were Mrs Dorothy Mercer, Mrs. Murie 0 Boyle. and. ‘Mrs. _ Louella dividers are having. to-pay. the = full coat: of building roads, Ado not consider’ Ald, Mac- bi ‘ ‘Donald's letter ‘an answer to the - public. as: to: why equal. treat. - ment 1a ‘not: given. “hy: all: auib-- dividers « and I ask again, is {t wood know, or are they “just friends’? ~ Terrace’s : Aabdiviston bylaw requires the sublvider to. bu d ie roads, Ma on “ petivition, Cac. Or ‘personal in- vestigatls on? Consumers’ ‘Asaoclatlon of Canada urges the consumer; to ‘fight for the protection of his privacy and to urge his: Provinel =I Member of Parliament: _. BUppart legislation for” the contr a of ulation of ‘credit reporting _ national to any oldsters \a%