PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, October 27, 1977 (the herald )- General Office - 635-6357 (Kithmat) - 632-4207 Postage guaranteed. Publisher. ee Circulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 PUBLISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published avery weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized 7s second class mall, Registration number 1201. Postage pal. . cash, return NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editarlal or Photographic content published In the Heratd. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Published by Sterling Publishers “ Civic non-election Every town has a reputation, and Terrace is no exception. In a few short mon hs, this community will be known as the place where democracy withered upon the vine in the bo black days in the middle of November, 1977 because nobody thered torun for a seat on the municipal council. . The various crackpots living in the village of Paeksville, which wants the English language declared the official tongue of the province, will sneer in disgust at our dismal ormance. The good passing one of the most sexist and rehtnels es with disbe burghers of Kaslo, under fire for dog by-laws in B,C, will snort ef. Residents of Port Alberni, who regularly elect at least one avowed communist to an aldermanic slot will shake their heads with sorrow at the fun we’re missing. Citizens of Kimberly, who transformed their community from a dying mill town to a mock-Bavarian tourist trap will sigh and their shoulders. Residence of Terrace will walk with their heads bowed and scuff their feet in the presence of the upstanding citizens of Likely, Horsefly, Dot and Spuzzum. The spectre of a vote-less election year in which the mayor's seat is up for grabs is all the more horrifying when at least one councillor admits that city fathers can’t point to any solid accomplishments in the past year. We are amazed! We stand aghast! We view with alarm! Nothing is more unifying for a community than a good, civic slugging match between sharply polarized candidates with informed points of view. Issues get thoroughly aired and discussed. Stands are taken. Decisions are made and in the end the candidates who get elected are watched carefully throughout their terms in office and try to per- form much better. Nothing is more motivating toa politician in the middle of his term than the knowledge that he just squeaked by the in the last election and may not do so again. And nothing is easier for a politician who’s sure of re-election than to succumb to the normal human tendency to do nothing. If Terrace is to establish a reputation of civic non- involvement, we'll get what we deserve. Pop music healthy By JAMES NELSON OTTAWA (CP) — Terry David Mulligan, on a 10-day crosscountry tour scouting for new popular misic stars, says the state of pop and rock in Canada is pretty healthy. But it is run by “people with too narrow an outlook.” “We're finally beginning to hear Toronto bands in Vancouver, but we never hear anything from the Maritimes or Ottawa," said the host of the CBC’s popular radio music show, Goldrush. “Music in Canada has always been run by beople who never look beyond their own province, or 50 miles beyond their own city,” Mulligan said. ; ; ‘‘They’re big in their home towns, but that’s where it ends. It’s a terrible waste of talent.’’ He has been broadcasting the rock show from Van- couver on both the CBC's AM and FM networks for three years, trying— with some success—to attract a national audience. VISITS EAST He went to St. John’s, Nfid., Halifax and Sydney, MERAA N.S., to talk to dise jockies, talent agents and others, to make contact with rising new and young rock and pop groups. . After a similar whirlwind visit to Ottawa, he'll spend two days in Toronto— Canada's big Apple—and then stop in Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary en route home. . He has been inviting the unknown groups he finds to send him audition tapes, which could lead to studio recording sessions of up to half an hour each, for music to be included in future Goldrush shows. . “Two points are im- portant: They've got to be original, not just reworked medleys of The Rollin Stones, and the tapes n not be of broadcast quality so long as we can get an im- pression of what a group can lo bad Mulligan—whose face is best known from a series of beer commercials he has recorded for television in Toronto—says he doesn't romise anyone instant lame or fortune, and de- clares “this is not amateur hour on the CBC.” tofa7 ized Univeraol Preas Syncdicote “! haven't understood one word you said. Come back when your face gets better.” Mayor Jim Gordon says Inco Ltd., the multinational nickel and copper company that is his ‘ pattern which s Largest employer suddenly announces layoffs SUDBURY, Ont. (CP) — jant year. lans to eliminate 2,600 jobs e by the middle of next Over at the United Steel- workers of America hall, us,” he says. Eetors Tog SUPRA; pees a aa You'll have to come to the supermarket with me — I plan to “The company should be At told it owes an obligation to “The company should have said six months ago Inco corporate headquarters in Toronto, a public relations spokesman law and the rules of the city’s largest employer, “is Dave Patterson, the 28-year- that it was having real United States Securities Ex- as arrogant as any 18th-cen- old who heads the local problems and talked with change. Commission tury industrieliat.” union, says he wasformally the government and the prevented consultation. advised of the layoffs last umions,'’ Gordon says. “I Full public dislosure had He says he found out only Thursday, about 50 minutes believe it’s: ood to be made at once, he says, an hour before.it was an- after he heard the news on illustration why we have so or else the company might nounced that the company the radio. much labor strife." = _ buy two weeks’ worth of groceries and I'll need a co-signer.” Interpreting the news - Castro’s motives in Kthiopia The Canadian Press Reports that Cuban troops have moved into Ethiopia raise fresh questions about Fidel Castro's true intentions in Africa. While these reports come from only one side in the Ethiopian ting, they lend themselves to a uggests that the Cuban presidentis in league with the Soviet Union as pari of a plan for largescale influence over vast terri- tories in the turbulent continent. Many national leaders, including those who have befriended the Cuban president, have raise estions why Castro would send ousands troops across the Atlantic to fight in ola, His standard answer is that his African comrades needed help, mainly against imperialists, and that his intention was merely to protect the Angolan government against ex- ternal threats. When the fighting there ended and the Cuban troops were still seen there, Castro maintained they would be withdrawn gradually. The with- drawal of his troops from Africa appeared to be a key point in the prospect for closer relations bet- ween Cuba and the United States. TORONTO (CP) household name amo sports enthusiasts, CCM appears to be back from the brink of financial ruin. CCM—Canada Cycle and Motor Co. Ltd.—had some lean years, featuring a succession of losses, Management and production problems, layoffs and a multl- — Long a Canadian million-dollar fire. Into this jumbled pattern came Ben Virgilio, 37, with a five-year contract and a mandate to return the company to the viable manufac- turing firm it had sprung from 79 years ago. Virgilio joined CCM in April, 1976 as executive vice-president and eneral manager after more than a ecade in the automotive industry. When he moved in, the first thing ho did was assess the company’s strength and weaknesses, he said, and concluded that its major strength was its name. ; Its major weakness: ‘The in- ability to penetrate the markets, in some cases because of prices, in others because of diversification into new products, and other cases simply plain ineptness.” brking nearly 14 hours a day, Virgilio spent six months assem- bling a m of a dozen new managers, mostly from the automotive industry, cleaned out the deadwood and watched others leave in anger. INFLUENCE SOUGHT But there have been grave doubts that Castro really intended to with- draw all his troops from Angola. Indeed, there have been rumors that his troops had spread from Angola to other parts of Africa, to train left- wing forces and influence political ‘powers in general of communist strategy. Some Western observers even suggested that Castro was in Africa not so much for the love of his African comrades as to help pay off a debt of gratitude to the Kremlin for the huge economic aid the Soviet Union has provided to the Cuban regime. The Soviet Union has given the existing Ethiopian governmen strong support while al the same time withdrawing aid from Somalia which has given sympathy’ and support to the Western Somalian Liberation Front in the Ogaden Desert. To charge Somalia with impe- rialism might prove less convincing and certainly likely to arouse little sympathy from black Africar governments more concerned about removing white power from Rhodesia and South Africa. | Business spotlight BEGAN TALKS : Then, as the team locked at production problems, Virgilio began what has become a continuing and amicable dialogue with the unions. CCM is owned by Levy Industries Ltd, a Toronto-based holding company <=:whose subsidiaries manufacture a wide range of products including automotive parts, agricultural equipment and aircraft components. Levy, in turn, is 97 per cent owned by Seaway Mult Core. Ltd., another oronto-based holding company. Both Levy Industries and Seaway are controlled by the Levy family. However, CCM may acquire a new owner, officials said, al they have not been specific about a buyer. But if it is sold, it would appear to be away on a firmer footing. Management consultants, en- gaged by CCM last year to see whether it should stay in business, had this to say: “We are reasonably confident that given animmediate injection of cash and a commitment by CCM to the suggested course of action, CCM can survive its current difficultles and re-establish its profitability. CCM is a viable operation, capable and worthy of survival,” The suggested course of action concerning a cash injection included ’ inventory A more pointed question is whether Cuban troops would be in Ethiopia for the purpose oi protecting a brotherly group or merely to sustain Soviet policy. TROOPS PRAISED At home, Castro has depicted returning Cuban troops, including the wounded, as heroes who fought for a just cause in Africa. Whether Cubans would consider the use of their countrymen in Ethiopia as a just struggle is another matter. To the average Cuban there may be little difference between ai Ethiopian and a Somalian. Castro now has completed what appears to be a fairly successful tour of Jamaica where he is strongly admired by Prime Minister Michael Manley. Castro also is admired by Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana. Cuba has helped both these Caribbean neighbors by providing doctors and fishermen as well as technical assistance. ) e In . Jamaica Castro also built schools and helped provide housing. In both neighboring countries there i among administration official great sympathy for the communist viewpoint, or as the officials prefer to call it, the socialist viewpoint. New man pulls CCM off the floor a multi-million-dollar, . federal; guaranteed loan .which CCM has recently acquired. The company did not disclose the terms of the loan. SPREAD OUT The company has two factories, one in Toronto and the other in St. Jean, Que. The Toronto factory employs 1,000 ple making skate blades, hockey elmets and bicycles. The St. Jean plant has 450 workers producing protective hockey equipment. It was at the St. Jean plant that a $6-million fire destroyed its total last winter. Officials said one of the mistakes CCM made over the years was to maintain heavy production of a certain line of bicycles long after the market had peaked, while con- sumers were buying cheaper im- ported models. CCM, together with other Ca- nadian manufacturers, appealed to the federal government to impose import restrictions, The government complied with their request last spring. What does the future hold? “Our objective is to make damn sure we can turn this company around,”’ Virgilio said. “‘We're going to continue to be dissatisfiec managers until we have achieved that goal, and then some,” “Given a fair start, we know this company is a real going concern.” says Ontario corporation face charges it helped - beehive le make a killing on the tock market using insider information on Inco’s troubles. While the com pany's corporate office is in Toronto, its financial section is run from New York. The spokesman says a few selected government people were given advance notice but he cannot say how much they were told. Ontaric Premier William Davis says he was told the afternoon before the announcement. MIGHT LOSE $5,000 “But the intricacies of corporate law mean little to Eric Hansen, who faces the loss of $5,000 he paid as a down payment on a new house a month ago. “Look, if they had told us a month ago, 1 wouldn't have bought the house,” said Hansen, his yoice cracking. “‘And the money I saved for a down payment could have tided us over until I found something else.” Hansen, a 27-year-old native of St. Stephen, N.B., spent five years working at a variety of jobs in New England before coming here | Inco: a giant that may kill a town “because I heard there was lots of work.” “Now I stand to lose everything,” he said. He’s four months short of the cutoff of two years, 161 days for the layoffs. Gordon says Inco seems to feel that since it provides jobs here it has met its civic duty. “We're just fed up with it,” he sald. The mayor believes his comments n about the company Ww: interpre as the angry rantings of another Northern Ontario socialist. “But I'm not. I was a Tory candidate in the 1967 provincial election.” The sole representative in this area of the old line rties in a sea of New emocratic Party mem- bers—Commons er James Jerome, a Liberal— shares the anger. He notes that the company announcement came 16 weeks before the start of layoffs, the minimum required by law. | “If that’s the minimum we are going to get, then the law is going to get tougher.”’ Voice of the readers M & G burner is smoke-free With regard to MacGills and Gibbs' intention to in- stall and operate a waste wood incinerator, it is - worthwhile to take a look at history associated with this piece of equipment. The old style teepee or non-modified burner can no longer be installed in British Columiba. The Pollution Control Branch wilt not issue a permit for such devices. The unit being supplied to MacGills and Gibbs includes the most recently developed techniques and control devices to ensure that complete combustion takes place within the bumer by providing the required amount of air at the correct ressure at the desired ocation. Temperature sensing devices located at the exit point (Stack) control the exit gas tem- perature at approximately $50 degrees at which tem- perature smoke cannot exist. Dampers in the stack remain closed or tially closed until this tem- perature is reached. The old style burners had no dampers and little or no control over the amount or ‘location of the air in- troduced to the burner- therefore the wood burner in an uncontrolled manner. As a company, we have supplied waste wood in- cinerators from British Colurmiba to New Brunswick and also to Australia. This latter installation was in aheavily travelled tourist area in New, South Wales and was regarded as a sensitvie installation. In conclusion, Mac Gills & Gibbs researched _ this project and purchased the unit which has proven itself in more than 70 installation, Your truly L. Hesketh Sales Engineer Lamb-Cargate Industries ” Let WCB train first-aiders Open letter to Education Minister Par McGeer; Dear Sir; We were very dissapointed to hear of your decision to allow St.Johns’ Ambulance Society to take over the adminstration of the Industrial Fret Aid okinging . of British Columbia. We do not feel that we have to remind you that St, John's Ambulance did have this responsibility for many years, and that the Com- monunity College took over much of the training because of the inadequacy of the former carriers, We have deliberatley held off writing to you on this matter because we feel that the matter is too important to be quielty brushed aside, which is what seems to have happended, f British Columbia, the Industrial First Aid At- tendant is reponsible for the health and saety of ail our workers, those who produce the wealth of this Province, and they are presently recognized as amoung the best trained in the world. We do not wish to see this valuable training jeopar- dised by allowing it to become a profit making, gree enterprise endeavour. The health and safety of our working population is too important to be left to those who wish to make a profit on this training. We cannot help but wonder-If the Provincial Government is going to “farm out” this important edcuation feature, how soon will it be before the education of our children is alsos'farmed out", We do not wish-to see our schools run by the free'enterprise” businessmen but we wonder is this is not the direction that the Government is trying to go. no, The present Industrial First Aid Course is set up and controlled by ithe ‘Workers’ Compensation board of Briths Columbia. - The course material is printed and supplied by CB. The First Aid In- strucots are trained by, and responsible to the WCB. The First Aid Supplies such as bandaids and splints are regulated by web. Qualifications of students are examined by WCB. Certificates of compentence are awared by WCB. The overall quality of Firat Aid care in the Province is supervised by WCB. What then is, or will be, the role af purpose of St. Johns’ Am- lance? Because of present role of the Workers Compensation Board in the training of flrat aid attendants in British Columiba, we feel that St. Johns Ambulance Society would take on the position of being a redundant and useless. Therefore we strongly recommend that all responsiblity for first aid: training, including ad- minstration of the courses, - be left completely with the Workers’ Compensation, Board, and that the WCB use the local communite colleges as the exclusive. vehicle for that training. Sincerly Barry English Secretary ; Labor Advisory committee: Serving Labor Councils : Of Kitimat-Terrace,Pacific Northwest Rupert. and Prince