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PAGE A&3, THE HERALD, Wednesday, March 9, 1977

Report from Victoria

w Cyril M, Shelford, MLA

would like to thank Mr.
John Stokes, SPEC and
other such groups for in-
formation and the op-
portunity to respond which
will be of interest to many
concerned people in the area
and they too will be able ta
give their views on this very
important issue. As I
mentioned last week and [
will quote my letter in full:

‘Received your
newsletter and see you are
at least very consistent in
your views of opposing
development in the north.
I'm afraid I’m not that
consistent when it comes to
development but do have
serious reservations about
the oil line unless three
major questions are an-
swered, which I’ve asked
the government to consider
before any serious con-
sideration of the pipeline.

(1) Will the agreement
allow for a throughput
charge of not fess than 30c a
barrel which on a through-
put of 350,000 barrels means
$38 million a year? -

(2) Will it be clearly
spelled out that in the case
of oil spill, the company will
pay total cost of clean-up
even if done by govern-
ment?

(3) Will there be strict
traffic control equal to
airport control where the
tower knows exactly where
all ships are at any moment,
to avoid collision?

I’m sending a copy of a
Vancouver Province news
report that gives some
balance on the other side
and I must say I believe part
of it because of my war
experience in seeing four
tankers go down the first
day I landed in Sicily and
three on the second, with
little or no apparent
damage. A research project
on the wartime tanker
sinkings would be wor-
thwhile, as in the worst days
as many as 10 or 15 a day
went down. I fully realize
those opposed to tankers
wouldn't believe it even if
this research were done, as
unfortunately neither side
wishes to confuse the issue
with facts. I think it’s one of
the most unfortunate turns
of: events in the last four
years; positions have

become too firm in all areas,
whether it be politics or
development and makes jit
next to impossible, if not
impossible, for govern-
ments to govern and reach a
happy medium between the

‘two groups, which they must

if organized government is
te remain.

The N.D.P. had the same
problem when they at-
tempted to bring a plywood
plant to Smithers, the steel
mill to Kitimat or the N.W.
rail development - even
cutting trees or opening
mines. The end result has
been little or no develop-
ment in the area and not
likely to be any till attitudes
change. As the Honourable
Don Phillips correctly
pointed out, the time has
come when towns, cities or
villages will have to make
up their minds first as to
whether the majority of
people want development
and if they do then and only
then should the departments
of government spend the
taxpayers’ money and at-
tempt to locate interested
industry.

As you will see, i don’t
want the pipeline unless
three very important points
are clear which I maintain
have to be conditions in
order for us to take the risks
involved, but on taking this
position both you and I and
all other groups have to also
accept some responsibility
for the increasing numbers
of unemployed because of
aur action. I think you, as a
very religious man, should
remember them in your
prayers every night and ask
guidance as to whether this
is the right course of action.
No government, whether
they be Liveral, Con-
servative, N.D.P. or Social
Credit, in the western world,
or the Communists in other
areas, have found ways to
emplo all their people
without development and
expansion of 6 or 7. percent a
year, unfortunately it
always causes some
dangers and some pollution.
Some groups still have the
mistaken belief that.
governments can put all the
unemployed to work simply
by spending the taxpayers’
money. They can and do
much of this through L.LP.

St. Patrick's Day Ball

Caledonia band students

are sponsoring a_ St,
Patrick’s Ball on Saturday,
March 19, at Skeena School
Gym.
If you enjoyed yourself at
the Robbie Burns Dance,
here is another opportunity
for an evening of good music
played by the Big Band
Combo.

,Tickets are available at
Sight & Sound, Taylor’s

Men’s Wear and through the
Caledonia Band Students.

Proceeds from this ball
will go towards their travel
fund, helping ta pay their
way to the Abbotstord Band
Festival in May. :

A cold plate luncheon will
be served at midnight.

Tickets are $7.50 a single,
adults only and table
reservations may be made
by calling 635-2322,

IWA proposes
new contract

International Woodworkers of
America outlined 1977 contract
proposals Saturday that in-
cludeda wage increase of $1 an
hour and would mean a 30-per-
cent package increase for 42,000
forest workers in British
Columbia.

“Weare going to negotiate in
line with the economics of cur
industry,” Jack Munro, the un-
ion’s regional president, said
after a three-day contract con-
ference, “In our section, the
economics are very good,"

Munro said housing starts im
the United States, a major B.C.
lumber market, are improving
and forest companies are shaw-
ing more confidence.

He also said many union pro-
posals such as pension benefits,
health and safety and job recl-
assification are excluded from
federal] anti-inflation
guidelines.

Other contract proposals in-
clude a master agreement for
Coast and Interior wood-
workers; cost-of-living’ adjust-
ment improvements, guaran-
teed annual earnings, pension
upgrading and a plan to allow
research into health matters by
the union.

_ The union also proposes joint
investigation of industrial de-
mocracy—worker participation
in company decisions.
COST §3 an hour

Munro estimated the propos-
als amount to about $3 an hour,
Under the agreements that ex-

‘pire in June, the average pack-

age hourly rate is $10.20, and
the base rate is $7.01.
Negotiations for the new con-
tract are expected to begin in
late March, and Munro pre-

dicted a “difficult negotlating

year,”

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programs, Youth programs,
etc. However, these reduce
employment less than % to 1
cent. To bring about a
ong-term solution it takes
hundreds of people hiring 10
or 20 that really makes the
country move, Un-
fortunately this requires
development and with our
costs higher than anywhére
in the world it means mainly
resource development and
the feeding service in-
dustries that are off-shoots
of such development.
Remember it takes ap-
proximately $60,060 of
capital to hire one person.
There is no question if we
want to continue to drive
cars or heat our homes we
will have to agree to an oil
port on the Pacifie Coast
and one on the Atlantic, as
we are not self sufficient and
can’t expect the Americans
to take the risk and ship oil
to us like they do in the east.
One thing many forget is
that smaller tankers have
been operating up ard down
our coast since we started

using oil and gas many.

years ago.
Thope there is a solution to
these very complex

problems which I feel
confident the young people
ean resolve and for this
reason I’m sending a copy to
the schools with a challenge
to give a free air ticket to
Victoria for the one that
comes up with a practical
plan that can be used by
either the federal or
provincial government.

The suggestion from
Harry Simpson of Hazelton
in regard to Heritage Day is
excellent. It goes as follows:

We owe our heritage to the
senior citizens that built this

eat nation. They worked

rd and suffered great
hardships in travelling by
canoes, wagons, on saddle
horse and on foot to carve
out a homestead in the
wilderness with the help of
our native Indians. It was
from this effort and hard
work that made it possible
to build a communication
system of roads and rail
which made progress
possible.

I would suggest in
celebrating this great day
we dedicate it to our senior
citizens and work for them
like they worked for us. This
nation wasn't built on a day
of rest.

1 suggest all workers and
managers donate their pay
for this day’s work into a
Heritage Fund with the
interest being used entirely
for. the senior citizens in

honour of the pioneers. For §

their service they should be
given a Heritage Button
with the words “For Service
to our Senior Citizens’.

If all managers and
workers donated it would
mean $366.7 million a year
in Canada. $44.7 million a
year in B.C. The interest:
only on this would be used in
the first year. It would be
$440,000 and double next
year and thereafter.

This could be used for .

senior citizens -homes,
special care homes etc. with
a generous Xmas bonus.
Never again would the
senior citizen be a forgotten

person in society. The fund -

would be administered by a:
board appointed by labour
and management people
who donated. :

I'm convinced if properly
sold by all of us and the
press it would soon build toa
terrific fund for the sole vse
of people. This shows real
imagination,

Thank you for your in-
terest in this very important
issue and I look forward to
hearing from you.”

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Phone 635-7737

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The total estimated cost of
vandalism against B.C.
public schools for one year
1s over $7 million accordin
to a report just releas
from the .C, School
Trustees Association. Of
this figure, fire accounts for
almost 75 percent of the
vandalism damage.

‘The report is based on a

Survey of vandalism ex-

perience in school districts
om July 1, 1975 to June 30,
1976 conducted by a special

BCSTA Task Force on.

Vandalism. Sixty-five of

B.C.’s 75 school districts

responded to the survey.
Other findings show that

school districts which utilize

“technical”

lower vandalism rates than
those which do not, . The
preventative measures that
a ppear to have the greatest
elfect in preventing van-
dalism are on-site
caretakers and fences.
Vandalism rates were ex-
ceptionally low in districts
where there were on-site
caretakers and no school
district which employed
caretakers was subject to a
large fire.

most. three-quarters af.
total estimates vandalism.
damage against schools is .
by secondary

committe
school pupils and adults
cause aver $1 million in
school vandalism. Recent
drop-outs and transients
together only cause 3.5
percent of vandalism, _ _.

Vandalism damages per
pupil average out to $13.85.
figure, however, in
cludes damage by large
fires in seven school
districts. If the damage
from large fires.is excluded,
vandalism damages are
then estimated at $4.62 per
pupil.

The BCSTA Task Force
was established by the
Association’s Executive last
summer: to determine ‘the

nature of vandalism‘in the.

school and the magnitude of
the problera. The Task
Force soon discovered that,
aside from insurance
claims, there was no data on
acts of vandalism against
school property. The report,
then, is in response to the

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lack of available data and
therefore represents the
first attempt. to paint a
generai provincial picture.

The Task Force realized
at the outset that there Is an
inadequate data base in
most school districts for
obtaining costs of van-
dalism, so the survey was
designed to, obtain
reasonable estimates of
vandalism costs where
exact data is not available.
Therefore, the results must
be viewed as estimates only.

However, even with
estimated data, the report
does show that vandalism is
a problem in B.C. schools,
even though it is not a
universal problem.

The report also shows that
the state of record-keeping
for incidents of vandalism is
poor, The reasons for this as
given in the report arc that
“only large school districts
may possess the
sophistication in their ac-

systems to
separate out vandalism
damages from the regular
maintenance and repairs

-program” ‘and also that

vandalism is a very minor
Problem .in many small
school districts’’ -
therefore ‘‘not
treating as a separate ac-
counting entry”,

Regarding the cause of:
vandalism, the report states
that “‘those hoping for the
data to clearly demonstrate
the causes.,.will be disap-
pointed in that the problem
is too complex for a quick
solution”. One of. the
report’s two main con-
clusions is that an
evaluation of vandalism
prevention programs is in
order so that more effective
long-range solutions to the
vandalism problem may be
found. ye

The second conclusion is

that “the installation
‘technical’ anti-vandalism

measures must‘be done on.a: ..
clear cost-benefit basis in

order to ensure that the cure
is not muorg’expensive than
the disease. Obviously, if
this is to be done the method
of record-keeping could be
changed in order to more
accurately dete:mine the
eosts of van/laliem.”

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Bellamy, Simon Dodd and -Schooner and Brenda Reid.

GRADE EIGHT
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Mary-Jane Asaria, David
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Lorraine . Holubowski,
Heather Ignas, Roberta
Patterson, Sindy Julseth,
Mary Ferguson, Ursula
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Honours,

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Hagen, Con-

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nelly, Valerie Calder,
Shelley -McRae, Rodney
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Honourable Mention
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Faber, Cheryl Clay,
Dorothy Stauffer, Georgina
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Lynne Carey, Vida Fastershank and Sandra
ield.

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