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"| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1972"

» BI. JOHN'S = A- massive
‘effort <In- employee com-)
munications was credited today:
with helping the B.C. Telephone

‘Company ‘trim-expenditures in
1972. . -

has been
gratifying~our employees are
coming through,” he said, “The
success to date seems to in-
dicate that a company can

profitably spend time on en--

couraging all its employees to.
. find ways in which the job might
be done better.”’ mo

McNeil spoke at the annual’

conference of thé Canadian _

Institute of Chartered Ac-::
-countants in a panel discussion -
on corporations and their
communications with em-

ployees.. a. : vo
He said B.C, Tel decided to

. enlist the support of employees

in a cost-cutting effort after the’
company was granted per-
mission in late 1971 to increase
its rates for the first time since
1959-but by only about half the
amount it had sought, .

The Canadian Transport

f. Commission, which regulates
- the company’s rate structure,

said in approving the smaller
increase that ‘‘management
‘should contribute every
possible effort. to achieye
economies wherever they can
be found so as to build earnings:
up to the desired levels on a
basis just and reasonable to
both subscribers and

MeNeil toid the CICA that the
B.C. Tel employee com-
munication _effort--dubbed
Challenge in 1972 '-- grew out of
this CTC comment,

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The Pas Lumber Company Ltd.
Phone 563-3651

AT THE LOCAL CHURCHES

-; He sald the program javolved
Seminars at which employees,
were. told of the company’s
financial goals and the: im-
portance of. ‘achieving: ‘these
goals if the company is to: at-

’ . ,made on the job.

‘And they were encouraged to’
discuss among themselves
ways in which the performance
of the company could: be
enhanced, . Lot

The company reported
substantially improved ear-

Dear Ann Landers:. I read
with horror and. shocked
disbelief. your advice to the
woman who asked. if cousin
could saiély marry...

“nings for ‘the first half ‘of 1972.
MeNeil said these are due to the

_Pevised: rater’ now in effect,”

lower Income taxrates and the

‘distortion resulting’ from.

"comparison -with’the same

"period in 1971.when these.’

“characteristics .were.- nat

-* ‘present, However, the success |
7, Of: the Challenge. in 1972 _

. Program ' prevented . increased

~ volumes of Work activity and _

Coats of operation from eroding

, the improved earninge, he said,

He said the B.C, Tel effort to _

engage employees in its cost-
cutting program is a year-long

endeavour,

“One thing our employees
have made clear is that they’
want to know what happens to

(and you can’t do better than

_that for an authority).

Your answer was, “If both ~

are healthy and there is no

history of hereditary diseases in

‘the family, such a9 epilepsy,
hemophilia, hereditary blind-
ness or deafness, there is no
reason cousins should not
marry,” . .

My uncle and ‘aunt are first
cousins and they had two
One is as sappy as a
‘maple tree in April. The other
hasn't spoken to any of us for 10
years 50 we don’t know about
-her, but she looks mighty
Strange,

Please Ann, do some research
and reverse yourself, We have.
too many screwballs in this

_ World as it is. Thank you,-Cape
Codified, ; -

Dear Cod: Here's what Nobel
Prize-winning geneticist Joshua
Lederberg of Standford says

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“‘'Cousin marriages
unquestionably carry a greater
risk of genetic disease in the
offspring by a factor of 2to 4 for
the worse, However, this is of
the same order as having
children in the late 30's instead
of the early 20’s, So, every
couple must decide: for them-
selves. I would urge cousins
who are considering marriage

: to seek genetic counseling.” —

“marriage.”

From Amram Scheinfeld's
book, ‘Your Heredity and
Environment"; -

“Cousins - with superior
qualities. tend to produce
superior children. Charles
Darwin married his first cousin,
Emma Wedgwood of the
famous china makers, They had
many distinguished descen-
dants. Arbraham Lincoln was
the product of a cousi

So, Isay to cousins who fall in
love, your descendants could go

either way,

Dear Ann Landers; I know
there are limits to what you can
do, but will you please.use your

~ influence to contral the dog and

cat population in this country?

. It has been estimated that dogs
‘and cats will outnumber
‘humans. four to one within the

next 30 years, if something isn't
done. Can you imagine. over
800 million dogs. and cats
running around?
Mass'sterilization is the only
answet;' The pét owners mist
get over thé crazy notion that a
spayed animal is--unhappy,
deprive d or robbed of the
ability to enjoy life. He is no
more ‘‘robbed!’ that the woman
who has a tubal ligation or the
man who has had a vasectomy.

‘To put it bluntly, the factory is

Tee POC eee ey

‘B shut down but the Playpen is °

still operating. |
Thousands of animnals mus t
be put to death every year

turn tow.
TURN TO US”

|] WITH COMFIDENGE | (~

MacKays
Funeral
Home:

‘Phone 635-2444
Tarrace, B.C,

Serving Kitimat

‘piggesti
’ said... -

‘the program is very important.

to make sure that suggestions
are implemented, to-check how
they work, and ‘to make sure
that the employee responsible
‘for a given’ suggestion gets a
personal report.’’.. . “

“McNeil said —. the.
‘Challenge in 1972° program
involved 1,500: management
personne] and more than 6,500
classified employees, whose
total payroll in. 1972 is mearly
$100 million. ‘With .a - payrpil
commitment of that magnitude,
_an .improvetment. of. even. 1
percent is worth
he said. 7

because there are not enough
homes for them." It is much
‘more humane to spay cats and
dogs than to allow them to
produce unwanted litters,

'. Please, Ann; print this letter
and urge your readers to get
their animals fixed. Thank you
~-One who did,

Dear One: Although I have no.

pets I am. four-square behind
the spaying program and I urge
_ all you animal lovers out there
to push it in your local com-
‘munities. ~ 47

Dear Ann Landers: I do hope
you can change the words
around and make this letter
‘printable. Please try, [ have a
real problem. :

Tam now Program Chairman
of our church auxiliary, We

, meet‘once a-‘month and I must

preside. I have never been a
very good speaker and even if [
have two sentences to say I'm a
wreck, Before a meeting I can't
eat, My empty stomach growls
-and gurgles so loud I’m afraid
{he sounds will be picked up by
the public address system.

Can you help me?--Woes In
Warren ;

Dear W.: Avoid. liquids, Eat
some soda* crackers or dry
toast, That should reduce the
racket considerably.

Do you feel awkward, self-
conscious -- lonely? Weleome to
the club. There’s help for you in

. An Landers’, bookiet, The Key
) To Popularity.” Send 35 cents in
pepin, with your: requestvand<a
_Jong,..stamped, selfeddressed
envelope to this newspaper.

DEAR ANN’ LANDERS: [

was married on Thanksgiving

eve, The marriage lasted less .

than two months, My husband
simply walked out one day, said
T -was: boring and that he'd
rather live with his folks. I was

- ina blue funk for weeks and am

just now beginning to come
back to life and think straight.

Please tell me what should be
done with the wedding gifts? Of
-Course some of the appliances,
Sheets and towels have been

used, A close friend hinted that :
perhaps: I should return the °

unused gifts which came from
his relatives. Is it expected? Is

sit proper? Please advise me. I

‘am — Uninformed

DEAR U,: It is neither proper
nor expected that 4 bride return
the wedding gifts if the
marriage doesn’t stick. Forget
the hint, It’s'a bummer.

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“This monitoring aspect of

going after,”

: border”,

~ This will be the last of the

‘letters from the: Queen
‘Charlotte Islands for 1972, . One

-day mext week there should be.

the pleasure of a plane trip, or

trips, from Masset to Prince

Rupert, to Vancouver, to Vic-
toria. Another gir) was added to
the list of grandchildren on
August 15th, and tomorrow we
will journey to Queen Charlotte
City to bring home Carmen
Woode and her mother. There

will bemuch excitement around:

when the new sister is collected
and comes home to stay. (On
the fourth day of baby sitting,
Grandma has decided a short
holiday without any young ones,

~ Would be enjoyable!)

In the meantime the B.C,
‘Canuck has been receiving a
new paint job, inside and out,
and should be ready for the
Spring fishing in 1973. The

captain’s health has been im-

proving, but with few fish
around, it seems appropriate to
give up the fishing for this year.
Terrace fishermen Movld and
Pelletier have also decided this

so fisherman Bryant is not
alone in the decision. —

With no newspapers arriving, |

it is nice that a few people have
been writing, “In several in-
Stances clippings have been
enclosed. One from a Van-
couver newspaper tells of a
group of Fraser Valley
residents who threatened “‘to
join a SPEC-sponsored human
chain across the Canada-U.S,
border to prevent defoliation in
the area,”
failed many residents planned
to join a border protest planned
by the Sdientific Pollution and:
Environmental Control society

to prevent the spraying from _

being carried out.

The main fear was the con- .

tamination of the water supply
that could result from. the
Spraying since most of the wells
are only several yards from the
border,
mentioned as being one of the
main components of the
defoliant, it would appear as
though this could be the same
spray that was to be used on the
1,600 acres of British Columbia
this year. (This is the spray

used as a “‘touch-up” process on -

the highway between Prince

Rupert and ‘Terrace in Sep-_

tember -of last year, the day

before so many birds. were ©

found dead at Prince Rupert.
Nobody will ever know how
many: died before reaching that.
city, but the spray was said to

. be as “harmless as table salt,”
At thatrate we had better check
our table salt very carefully!)
Apparently the spray policy
at the border stems from a 1925
Canda-U.S, treaty “under
_ which the two countries agreed
to maintain a clear tract of land
at 10 feel on each side of the.
According -to’ Carl
-Gustafsen, JBC representative,
“There are about 6,000 boun-
dary markers along 5,526 miles

. Of border. and we must maintain
‘a elear line of vision for site

surveying.” The spray policy
has heen in effect for at least 15
years, so it has taken a Jong
time for people to become
aware of the dangers of the
harmful properties in common
agricultural chemicals “widely

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If verbal protests:

Since 2, 3, 5T was —

“At Copps....
campus
Classics!

‘One showed a crowded beach in
Moscow,- near the ‘Moscow
river. Thousands of. ‘people
were ‘there to escape from the
heat and there wasn’t even-a

- place where anyone could

sprawl out. Along with this was
an article by Humphry Davy
entitled “Our Vanishing
Seashare:.We Can’t Afford the
Loss", Priorilies seem t6 be
given to the building. of an ex-
pensive road rather than to the
Setting aside of oceanic
property for the benefit of all.
The countries ‘of Britain,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Australia and New Zealand
have all been setting ‘aside
coastal greenbelts, and all

private homes are being bought.

up.’ But here we seem to be
allowing large U.S. land
development companies to
operate in B.C, “They mainly
concentrate on’ waterfront,

’ Selling lots in all parts of North
is the time: to return home, - - _

_.» Aphone can be an office...
: “You're independent, You've got your
“own business or you're just on the

move a lot. You probably spend most
of your time between phones.

. Give yourself an edge,

_ vironment.

of life in the Queen \Chariottes
and adventures at seamum —
‘accepted as being safe.”
Then there were two’ in-

teresting clippings from a
_ Victoria paper (July 31, 1972)

America, promoting résort
‘centres and trailer parks by the .

seaside.”
_Mr. Davy may be another one

of: the voices. crying in the.

wilderness, but, at least he is
trying to waken a laconic
pubiic. What a platform for a

political party this would be -.
. buying and setting aside large

tracts of green belts along the
urban waterfront and in rural
areas! J can imagine it would
bring in a lot of votes in all the
larger cities of the province,
where. people will soon be
unable to enjoy ‘scenic bluffs
and cliffs, the coves and
headiands", And in time in-
stead of being able to get away
from itall, there will only be the

" films to see on television of how’.

it used to be - and recorded
voices of the wild life. Already
such a. record has been ad-
vertised on television, so we are
probably lucky to live in. the

northern area where we are still °

able to see and hear. animals
and birds in their native. en-

... anywhere,

- Hot-mustard. cait on
', @ Very. humpy toe!

Fall ‘72 version of the
classic penny loafer

_ choose mustard and.
brown or Black and —
Burgundy

14°
14"

Don't miss that emergency call or tha
crucial order because you're driving
Aradio telephone.can make an office

At this ‘time it :would ‘seem
appropriate” to" merition’ that
much of Graham’: Island is
already owned by foreigners, —
So many people have spoken of
wanting to mové to the Queen
Charlottes when. they’ retire,
and I'm hoping they'll have the |
foresight to get busy right now -
on obtaining property for ‘the
future.

And on thie note Tl! conclude -
the letters from Massett. There’
hasn't been'too much sunshine
here but the weather ‘has-been
comfortably warm... No “doubt
the stay at Masset has-been
more restful - for ‘me: than

‘driving around calling ona lot -

of people, and perhaps ‘Tl save
the visiting for another ‘suni-
mer, One of the enjoyable
experiences was walking along
North Beach enjoying the sea
and sunsets, as well as the
searching for, and finding’ ‘of
agates. And of course it is also
enjoyable to have the affection
and love from the little ones - it
does make baby-sitting . wor-
thwhile. See le)

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