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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Wednesday, August 3, 1977

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JS

“Announcement of the award was made jointly

today by Highways and Public Works Minister Alex

aser and Forests Minister Tom Waterland,
the M.L.A. for Yale-Lillooet.”’

Having just had to chop out the above or similar -
wording from two press releases regarding routine
highway paving contracts, we can’t help but
wonder if the two gentlemen mentioned have any

‘idea of how silly their public relations men are
- trying to make them look.

Do they really stand up hand in hand at a press
conference in Victoria and recite the news in
unison? We doubt it.

Are they really so eager to get their names in the
paper that it wouldn't do for the highways minister
alone to announce a contract, or for the local
M.L.A. to announce it, without sharing the glory?
Or for the department: to announce it, without
name-dropping? ; ; -

If the work were being done in a riding

resented by an opposition M.L.A., would he be
ed as making a joint announcement with the
minister? ;

If the. answer to that last question is “no”, then
doesn't it amount to using taxpayers’ money for
political advertiseing? (What else is new?)

Do they really think that getting their names in
the. paper over and over in connection with
numdane

announcements will help them to get re- |
elected? Or does it just make them feel like big

shots?

Then there’s the final sentence struck on both
releases:

“Minimal interruption of traffic flow will take
place, with flagpersons stationed at strategic
points to direct traffic.”

That's supposed to be news?

Well, if the interruptions really were minimal,

Ez]

we'll have toadmit it would. be.nuews, at.that2:

- The Hope Standard

Anniversary
schedule

Terrace’s 50th birthday celebrations have been in
full swing the past few days. . .

There’s been a couple of dances, potlatch, spo
events, an interdenominational church service, a
pancake breakfast, Riverboat Days, a circusand the
Best of Barkerville to keep us party goers occupied.

oat more could there be left? The answer is,
it} Fi yy . , . .

Today the party continues with The Best of
Barkerville at the arena at 8 p.m. The Barkerville
Puppets, a children’s show, will get under way 2
p.m, at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre. There’s also a
midway at the Clovertawn site.

Qn August 4, The Best of Barkerville and the

‘Puppets will again. perform.
i

gust 5, the RCMP Musical Ride comes to town.
It wili be on that night and the next 7 p.m, at Lions
Park in Thornhill. Pioneers of the region will be
getting together at the legion 9 p.m. on August 5 for a
reunion party.,
The 60th anniversary celebrations finally end with
a stock car race at the stock car track. The race gets
under way at 2 p.m.

ERMAN

©1077 Ynnanel Frae Syndkco 8/3

“Look at this! Even the garbage pail’s
got ulcars!’’

being provided
domestic sources. And
millions of tons also are

Carter, blacks

. WASHINGTON (CP) —
President Carter appears to have
escaped without serious political
damage following his sharp re-
buke to a black leader who had
urged the president todo more for
the urban pee ,

But the incident has left ques-
tions in the minds of many ob-
servers, who are wondering aloud
whether Carter can tolerate

nt.

While maintaining a calm and
conciliatory stance in the face of
criticism from Congress and
foreign leaders, the president has

thin-skinn ity.

shown a ed sensitivity
to dissent from within his
administration,

An army general was abruptly
transferred ior expressing public
disagreement with plans to
w U.S. troops from South

Korea. After a group of women
complained about Carter's
ition to federally-financed

ons, the president made it

clear he wanted no more such

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Interpreting the news

reach

displays of opposition. .
. Publicly, at least, government
employees were to display the

proper team spirit.

e disturbing aspect of the
latest incident is that Carter
seemed to be extending the team-
spirit rule outside the gov-
ernment, .

The target of his irritation this
time was Executive Director
Vernon Jordan of the National
Urban League, a _ nonprofit
federation of civil rights groups.

‘Jordan, one of the first black
civil rights leaders to become
associated with Carter, helped
him build up a good relationship
with black groups, a relationship
that eventually gave Carter 90 per
centofthe black vote and thusthe
presidency.  # -
_In the first months of his ad-

. ministration, Carter maintained

black allegiance with rhetoric,

symbolism and a few key ap-

pointments. 5
But Carter’s attempts to move

“Money for a bottle of wine? How do I know you won't just squander it on a cup of coffee?”

7

Oil hold

final judgment is reached.
But even without the new
find, they say, Britain is

: jin poin

toward a balanced budget
prevented the kind of largescale
new urban programs that Jordan
and other black leaders want.

Jordan complained publicly
that the president was’ not
working aggressively to help the
urban pocr The complaint came
d language: . :

- “We expected Mr. Carter ta be
working as hard to meet the needs
of minorities and the poor as he i
did to get out votes. But sofar we .

have been disappointed.”

~ Other black leaders picked up

the theme but the complaints

were still subdued by U.S. polit-

ical standards, amounting to Jittle

more than routine i the

White House by an interest group.

Carter, however, reacted
strongly at a speech and news
conference, listing government
programs and saying that “er-
roneous or demagogic state-
ments” would not help the poor.

A White House spokesman said
Carter told Jordan privately that

rapproch

ement —

Jordan’s criticism “does not help
and could fead to damage to the
hopes and aspirations of poor
e.” . ; .
Black Teaders expressed dis-
appointment at Carter's hostile

‘ reaction to criticism. Some noted

that he had not reacted in such

fashion when criticized by Jewish -

and other groups.” .

“There appears to be a double
standard," said Parren Mitchell, .
Maryland. Democrat an
chairman of the Congressional
Black Caucus.

Media comnientators talked of
“Carter’s mean streak” and
some said there is speculation
Carter wanted to please whites
who think blacks should be “kept
in their place.”

Most, however, preferred to
wait and see whether Carter was
revealing a disagreeable

sonality trait or simply reac-
fing emotionally because the
sincerity of his commitment to
blacks had been questioned.

IONA CAMPAGNOLO
MP, Skeena —

Canada Works - Second
Cycle Starts Scon
Deadline for the next
Canada Works series is
August 26. Many of you
have glready seen evidence
of the Canada Works
projects this year, as about
400 persons have been
involved in approximately
74 projects in our area
during the spring and
summer months. I w
urge all those interested in a
Canada Works project to
, pick up applications now at
. he Canada Manpower

offices.
The Canada Works.
rogram established earlier

is year by Manpower and
Immigration Minister Bud
Cullen is a new employment

PPS creation. It ia desig
utilize the skill of Canada’s
unemployment in providing

communities.
’ As is the case in other
federal job creation projects

LABOR HOLDS ITS BREATH

s key to British future

United States.
In addition to its own sup-
plies, Britain also gets some

Britain for refining and sale,

repay
Monetary Fund loans.
Strategists say that if the

Revenues will ckntribute

LONDON (CP) — Oil with reports of oil In addition to supplying On the British side of the:
may be the salvation of discoveredinanew area off onehalf of current daily North Sea seven fields are to the paving of overseas
Britain's ailing economy. It the west coast of the domesticneedsof1.7million pumping outoil atarate be- debt, the development : of
also may prove to be the Shetland Islands which pre- barrels, the North Sea has yond original estimates. new jobs, investment in new
litical key to the future of viously had been considered provided oil exports of 4.7 This production is likely to factories and, some claim, a
e beleagured minority La- barren of oil, . million tons during the first play acrucialrole in Prime long-term improvement in
bor government, = They are cautious about five months of 1977, valued Minister James Callaghan’s the +British standard of
Supplies are coming inso assessing the commercial at some &290 ($540 million). “election strategy and moves _ living.
fast irom the North Sea that significance of the new Shipments wentmainly to by Denis Healey, chancellor hi
currently about ane-half of strike and say more wells the Netherlands, Sweden, of the exchequer, to co é nould at the aed
"8 n are i ‘ore a i
M trem mus' € West Germany and the with unemployment and Flore it can demonstrate

International oh prospects, however,

some observers feel an in-

being exported to add to the well’on her way to regching crude from Norway which Callaghan government can Coming

county's total income from oj] self-sufficcency by; the has huge sea reserves, A hold out andl next summer, Sovernment would be in a

foreign sales, ‘ early 1980s, perhaps more norwegikn-owned pipeline concrete benefits from position to reap long-term
Now the experts figure the, than a year ahead of moves the supplies to NorthSeaoil production will Political benefit from the

country may get a bonus previous estimates. . be increasingly evident, . | North Sea legacy.

’ of those routinely recurrin

+ wsategy of . direc ie.

services or facilities to their |

Conservative —

By RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa, - Some of the older hands around
Parliament Hill have news for dear old Robert
“Bob” Howie.

And none of it is good.

Ol' Bob's been some bothered, ever since
arriving five years ago from Fredericton as
Conger’. ative MP for York-Sunbury, about ‘the

w
the bucks around here,”’

(Not to wonder..For this is where they print
the stuff, out at the Canadian Bank Note
Company and at the British American Bank
Note Limited, on orders from the federal
moneymen in the new Big Glass Temple of the
Bank of Canada, ,

(The free-spending feds need money, and
feeling a little too close to the next election to
hit the taxpayers with another increase in one
“mini-budgets,"
imply have the Bank print up a few extra

on,

(It’s the fast way to the 50 cent dollar and
‘compared to values Of only five years ago, the
feds are only a dime away.)

All of which leads back to Our Bob getting all
lathered up about the Department of Finance
and Treasury Board, when moving into the

‘ posh new Place Bell Canada Tower, not only

,” as he puts it, “they bash about with —

OTTAWA OFFBEAT
Government spending irks MP

clifcking out their furniture and
ding for $2,900,000 for new stuff, but another
£113 000 for palms, vines and other tropical
exotica.
He thinks it a crime against commonsense
and a “shameful shoving. of it to the

taxpayers.” ;

Problem is that-he - and nobody else in
Parllament either - can figure out anything to
do about it except get mad. ;

Even Prime Minister Trudeau can't.

Or won't

Although when he was new and anxious to
please, swearing to do his public duty he
solemnly and public] promised at a press

_ conference to “put the public service. in its

‘place’ - especially the Post Office -

- conscientiously serving instead of
unconscionably ripping off the taxpayer.

But that was yesteryear.

And the public service, especially the boss

“bureaucrats.and particularly the Post Olfice,
long have been out of contro}.

Supposedly bilingual federal public servants
refusing to spea sh - ‘un reasury
Board - shells out a multi-million dollar
language bonus.”

And nothing happens.

uipment,

‘South Conservative MP Jim Baskin told how he

The Post Office does as it pleases - or usually,
doesn’t pleases - or usually, doesn’t please -
about delivering the mail.

And nothing happens except postal rates go
up. ; 7
Two governments ago, former Renfrew

had gone to a deputy minister with a perfectly
legit mate petition from his constituents.

‘He stuck his feet on his desk,’ reported Jim
Baskin, “laughed in my face. Told me I was an
cut-of-power Tory and to get the hell out of his
office.”

And nothing happened. -

Now retiring Canadian Radio Television
Commission Chairman Harry Hoyle, in his
report blistering CBC news coverage as
vergin 2 on the subversive, urges merging of the
State Secretary Department and the
Communications Department to take the
broadcasters firmly .in hand. .

And‘nothing will happen.

Becaue

Because if it did, a brace of deputy ministers
and their assistant deputies, directors general,
co-ordinators and high-priced executives you
never ever imagined existed even in Fat City's .
Never-Never-Land would be,,,where?,

And that’s impossible.

Report from Ottawa |

Second phase
_ of Canada Works

such as Opportunities for
Youth and the Local’
Initiatives Program, the
Canada Works project are
approved on the basis of a
decision by a iocal
Ministerial Advisory Board,
Canada Works projects
were set for 2 cycles. The
first deadline was February
4, and this final deadline,
August 26, will complete the
rojects for this year.”
ope there will . be
enthusiastic reponse to this
excellent employment
opportunity in northwestern

MARINE AIDS

Several improvementa
has been made recently to
aid navigation for- Central
and Northern’ British
Columbia,

.These..improvements a
race rae aye nal

a exis :
and the installation of new
aids which occur in reponse
to traffic requirements.

The most important
improvement currently in
progress is the uction .
of Loran “C'" service to the
off-shore areas. This will
result in considerably
improved position-fixin
ability for vessels atin
up to 200 miles off the B.C,
coast,

lL am advised ‘that
automation of light stations
will result in changes to
some fog signals and lights.
Some fog signals may ‘be
replaced by radar
transponder beacons. I am
especially pleased about a.

roposal for an increase in

e intensity of the light at
Cape St. James. ;

well, the Coast Guard
is presently assessing the
need for a Vessel Traffic
Management System in the
Prince Rupert District. If

such a system is
implemented, it would
provide enhanced

information. and safety
service to marine traffic in
the area.

At the present,
negotiations are taking
place with 61,000 Post Office
workers on new contracts.
-Old contracts expired on
June 30, and so far, in spite
of a special negotiating
team called Intergroup,
there has only been progress
towards a new collective
agreement with the Letter
Carriers Union of Canada
(LCUC). It seems that most
letter carriers are amenable
to a settlement, but the
resistance .of Canadian
Union of Postal Works:
(CUPW) is still a major
factor in settlement of the
post office contracts.

At this point Post Office -
SUPW negotiations haye
broken down and the union
refuses to resume talks. .
There is .jitthe optimism
surrounding this matter and
there is the possibility of
confrontation - and possibly;

a strike.

‘It is unfortunate that. in
these days when we most
need inter-regional
communication there is the
possibility that it may break.

own,