_,Pagh 2 The Herald, Tuesday, August's, 1983

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Letters to
the Editor

rs tie Editor:

. Restraint and credibility has taken 0 on a new meaning in
recent discussions concerning the Terrace municipal —
“landfill operation. A recommendation from the municipal. .
engineer showed how the District of Terrace could realize a
substantial saving .of money if the “district, took. over.
Speration of its refuse burial site.

~ Some members of council appear to be in favour of the”

daliyhere ald

Clréutation: ;
$35-

. spring so buyers of new homes could: claim grants of $3;000
from the federal governmént, |

“tarts: to a five-year high in May,

mon > pemults that Were somewhat less than. satisfactory, -
; “The sompany, Canada’s biggest with operating revente

- . CAMEL'S HUMP NATIONAL FOREST, Vt. (CP) — U8:
Senator Gary Hart of Colorado took his-campaign for. the '

ising Corp ba tat te ee pith

an
for the: country's largest company. .
‘CMHC said housing starts in July were down. ah

would have taken place in July. er August took place in’ the

The grarits program, now winding up, pushed housing

The statistics made.public Monday shoved: th

‘unit housing such as. apartments.
Meanwhile, for. Canadari Pacific Ltd., it was the fratcha

Damage sought 2

forests of the northeastern United States, hiking mountaln :
tralls and lakeshores in search of sickly spruce and other .

_ evidence of acid rain damage.

Canada’s concern about aeld ralp figures prominently in
his campaign,

ended Monday that relations” between: the neighboring :

" countries are ly jeopardy as long as there are no controls‘in_

acid rain pollution in the U.S.- “They' rea ie eee the’.

bargain," he said in‘reférence to Canada
- recited figurea he was given in a private mesting with’
' Environment Minister John Roberts who told him 50 per

cent of the atid'rain in Canada comes from the U.S, while:
only 10 per‘cent- of that in.the U.S. comes from Canada’ .
Hart campaign: seemed to appeal to the small clusterg of
mostly tanned -and' fit: ‘activists . in the, _ environmental
movement who helped organize his tour through New York
state, Vermont, Massachusttis and New Hampehire ot
. CITES ANGRY CANADIANS; . ye
~ “The Canadians are rip-roaring: mad,' " -aetiviat: im”.
“Kraus, a forest recreation teacher, tald reporters ‘near the ~

‘faxpayers continuing to pay a higher than necessary cost;to- dock at ‘Saranac Lake, N.Y. He said he’s heard that‘up-to.

‘bury garbage, while at the same time preach restraint in
. other areas of the municipal budget:

: ‘The Landfill issue is réally one of contractor versus public :

... employee, it has nothing to do with fixed responsibility, It is
“obvious from recent contractor tendered prices to operate -
‘the landfill ‘that Terrace taxpayers have, over the years,
“been paying premium prices for contrac ‘run landfill,

: Municipal employees can operate the lan
Jes. The municipal engineer’ 8 figures bear this out. .

. The fact that.a contractor bids on a project does not

“pecessarlly mean that the quote hears a close realtionship -
“fo the actual costs to be incurred, Contractors are in -

“business to make profits. Why should Terrace taxpayers
‘pay profits to a ‘contractor when the landfill service can be

‘Paloiained ata ‘lower ‘Cost by competent municipal | ‘tafe, ..
CONCH: ngine x of many years experiencs.. °'

. | He has made a sound recommendation
Poncerning the landfilt and it’ should be implemented,
we oe * Sim Leinb

To the Edltoc: : :
: [read with'sadness the editorial. they toll not, nor do
a spin.” Well, so we do away with human rights in B.C.
“and we can go after those welfare bums. The times are
-yight now at last. ‘Taxi drivers driving welfare receiplents
“to the store. Yes, had the taxi driver ‘ever asked them.
“Friend, doyou notownacar?" The answer would be “Nol
2@o not, as on welfare who can afford one.”

: It ig cheaper, much cheaper with the ovat of insurance -
“and gas £0 high, totake a taxi. Some poor drink, why yes’
_and who can blame them in the misery and squalor that
‘some live in. Through lack of education, broken spirit and
seultural destruction in. some- instances solace is in th.
. bottle—sadly true, Could it be however, that the poor do not

:tip as well as the person on an expense account became
‘they can use their tips ag a form of a tax deduction and

‘thereby legally but truly feeding off of the worker who payo

‘taxes with no expense account, thereby not winning ‘the
‘sympathy of the taxi worker who pald so low a-wage must
‘to some cheap trick like waiting to cross the Terrace train
‘bridge on a red light with the meter running -instead of -
“taking the new bridge.: Alsochargihg extra money for more
Athan three bags of groceries, Try paying a mortgage on a —
‘taxi driver's wage.

‘Youth unemployed? Just ask the local army recruliment
-bow many applications with a two year Waiting list in most.
“tategories are waiting just to join the armed forces. Yes!
Iwo years even to get shot at and.there is a ‘waiting list.

Youth as a whole not wanting work—I say bull. Being Poor
“qualifies one for welfare, well, I'm afraid that’s not so. Ido

“pot consider the banks poor, however, out of billions ‘of. -

‘profits per'year not a penny fs paid in Income’ tax, riding the
backs of the workers to ever higher profits and atill no taxes:
paid. As for a garbled ‘spéech whats the average
‘educational standards of those on welfare, though I must’
‘feel it's rising in today's. society as more and more jobs
become, as Bill Bennett says, “redundant.” ‘What a fine

English word and that is~God's children becoming ~

“redundant.” 1 felt despair: as I was waiting for a reply
from a minister from any chiitch to the editorial; but the sin”
of omission rears it ugly head againi 1-pray for the
. -thurches here in Terrace for this sin- ‘they commit of not

following Christ with the healing of the poor in body snd. ;

soul; Badly they should know. better,

as for unions their contracts are ‘important, but at the

theetings I've been at more is said on firings than on human

fights being loat. Lost? I feel the churches; the editor, and
nions are lost. God forgive us ail!

Unemployed People's Committee,

; ‘William Buck and

. '  .” Karin Marin

| Terrace’s Rep. for The Anti-Poverty Group

‘to the Editor, .
+, Due to unforeseen circumstances the reunion scheduled

ise Sept 3-4 1963, has been postponed until spring of 194°

hopefully in conjenction with Sam Steele Days 64, ,
i:Serry if this has caused any inconvenience to anyone. If
feaders have any addresses of anyone who was in the band *
Jet us know 80 We can sénd them information on the’
peunion. Thank you and we hope to see you at the the

feunion.

a coed ~Cranbeook Bugle Band Revnion
: _ Box 656
‘ " Cranbeook, B, Cc, Vic 4).

C

‘for mich. ;

three million Canadians are upset bgt acid: rain “and
that's a strong conserisus."" # a

Kraus and other local experts told’ Hart an edtiniated 20-
_ percent of .2,800-lakes and- ponds: inthe Adirondack.
" tmotntain region of New York state are on the sick list die.
to acid rain, a figure the 45-year-old senator. ‘quickly’.
plugged into his standard spetch on the issue at later atops..

_ Clad in-blue jeans and denim shirt, senator crouched | ‘on.
the muddy shore of Bear Pond, helping’ experts measure the:..
acid content of the water, The pond, in the Lake Placid,’
N-Y., region is aaid to be one of many harmed by acid rain’
pollution from the U.S. Midwest. mn,

Hart proposes “pollution ‘control legislation: aimed ‘at ,
“cutting in half the sulphur dioxide emissions from coalfired ?
electricity plants in 31.5. states over.a 10-year period. The
“eniissions ate: "haid to. he the main contribulors torthes acid’ c.

.The. US, government would ‘help companies pay for é
pollution contro! equipment, an estimated $5-billion cost,:
with tax incentives, loan Guarantees and. subsidized heaps.
under Hart’s proposal. . :
ACCUSES OF DELAY... ;

. The. Reagan administration is expected to’ ‘announce ts:
own Proposals soon,

* Hart accuses the administration of dragging ‘ts feet on,
“the issue and claims fo be more. concerned about acid rain

. and other environmental issues~than the other tive

Democrats’ competing for, the party's presidential
nomination.

Near the summit of Caine!’ 3 Hump mountain in Vermont,
science Prof. Hubert. Vogelman of the University of Ver-
. Mont said a high death: ‘Tate among red spruce trees, first
noticed in the area in 1978, may be caused by acid rain.

Some trees that would normally live for, at least three
‘centuries are dying as young as age 15 years and the growth .
rate of others has dramatically ‘slowed, Vogelman said.

Hart helped take a core.of wood from one giant’ BPrUCE | to

show the rings of stunted growth.

The dying trees lose leaves and branches and eventually
turn dark, some ‘of. them appearing ag ‘though they have
been burned. Ona clear day, from the top of the mountain,
Vogelman said “It looks like somebody ‘dropped a bomb on,
- this foreat.”

“Though acid rain may not be fully responsible, at least
“ita a contributing factor,” the professor said,

Spraying: continues —

NEEPAWA, Man, (CP) ~ Mayor Homer Gill didn "t like
the idea of having his 4,000-znember community bombarded
_ with the insecticide malathion Monday night, but there was
- nothing he: could do about it. . : .

Neepawa was one of four southwestern: ‘Manitoba com:
munities sprayed by. air Monday to ‘combat mosquitoes:
* carrying potentially fatal’ western equing encephalitis, also
_known as sleeping sickness. - b

Pill said someresidents told him they ‘wonld rather not be.

"sprayed.

“T questioned officials in Winnipeg about iton Friday, but
was. told we really didn't-have any choice,” he said.

‘ When the New Democratic Party government declared a
health emergency last month due to the danger of an en-
" cephalitis outbreak, ‘it. gave itself the power to order
province-wide, derial:spraying,

Gill said hid. commiunity didn’t have a serious mosquito
problern and le Goutbts the effectiveness of the spraying
Program,

“F've been out in the backyard all summer and'we’ ‘don’t
really have a problem arourd here that I've seen,” he said,

Gill said when Neepawa was sprayed with Baygon during
asimilar encephalltis threat in 1981, “three days later there
were as many mosquitoes as before.”

He sald town councils should have a aay In the chemical

spray decision, but added it is doubtful they would- ‘Oppose

Provinelal health officials.

‘The main reservations would centreo on the question ofthe
liability of a dissenting council if someone was to contract
encephalitis, a sometimes fatal disease affecting the
central nervous system, he sald: —

“Mayor Craig Stewart of Minnedgsa, about 30 kilometres
west of Neepawa, said he has not received complaints from
,residents in his comminity.

: [think most people feel it's the lester of two evils,” whe

said.“‘People in the rural areas are a little more
to accept it because they are familiar with chemical sprays
around the farm.” |

Experts are divided on the Possible harmful effects of

malathion. 1 = triduteed' of choot Sehodt Disirlet 88.

Ae

arply loa :

\ seasonally-adjusted ahnual -rate-of 146,000 : Arita << the’ GP Lud.
, lowest since the rate of. 133,000 unite last November and wel nddi}
a below ‘the revised June rate of “200,000 : ; 3

_, Bat the féderat housing agency said its experts ha
"predicting the drop because some ‘starts that: normally

7 ad a
a eee single-detached homes running well ahead of last year’,
While there was little change in the demand for multiple.

‘-compared with a. $70,000 profit last year. ;

+ wis. | acegunted for by «
.¢ CP eal and. the: 500:

: Profits from. oP Haterprises Lid, slid a2 srallion to’ 8, 8
million. Canadian Pacific Ltd. holds a 70: .2-per-cent share of
CP. Enterprisés, an investment. company: with ee

elidding the Algorna'Steel Corp. Ltd.,’ 1

CP Rail'a net income for thie fret halt’ was i about the ‘gare

: aslast year, but: interim grain payments.under the federal

‘program.to reorganize the freight rate structure for grain

- palsed rail profits by $67.1 million to $106 miilfon..

“CP Alf reported 3 loss of $22 million, down from its loss of.
{0 millon in the firat six months of. 4082. Most of the dit-

: ference was due to the sale of two-Boeing 737 alrcrafi. A
ve ~ change in CP Alr's: capital atructure reduced the airline's.
ris interest charges. *

The loas from bulk shipping operations of cP ‘Ships Was

; "$20.7. million, $16.7 millon more than. the loss in. the -

corresponding period last year. The company’ blamed
deterioration of world shipping markets,. .
. Container operations incurred a loss of $6.2: million,

RACKS UP PROFITS 7
’ In other business news Monday: a4 :

_-- Thomason Newspapers Ltd., which ‘owns more than 125
newspapers throughout North ‘America, seid it racked up -

Hart told ldteners at each stop on a four-day tour that! earnings of 87. 1 million or $115 a share in’ the firat alx

’ months of 1983 compared with $45.5 million or 92 cents share

In the 1982 period, Revenues grew to $333 million from $929
million, Second-quarter operating : results at the Toronto
. Globe and Mai], its best-known Canadian: i newspaper, were
better. than in'-the. ‘previous quarter, reflecting cost .
reductions, , aggressive gelling of advertising and in-

2 troduction, of.new ‘sections ‘and features. |

_ Rights. abused -

GENEVA: Reuter) —- =the Anti-Slavery ‘Society ‘aaid
today it has evidence of widespread human rights abuses by
Indonesian ‘authorities that -has cost thé lives of some,
200,000" ‘Pepe ce Irian: Jaya, the: western hale. ‘of. New"
. Guinea.

rights organization, sald it has recelved reports of as Many

" as 200,000 murders of West’ Papuans ‘since .Andonesia an-

nexed the territory. in 1962; of aerial. bombardment of:
- civilians ‘and large-scale. arrests, and’ ‘detentions and":
executions by. the. Indonesian security forces: .

"It called on-the United Nations.to initiate an independent
‘inquiry into what It described as the threstened destruction

of the West Papuan people by the Indonesian ‘military...

The: allegations came in a report submitted toa working
group ‘of the ‘UN _ Subcommisaion on’ Prevention - “of.”
"Discrimination. and Protection: “of Minorities, which * ia

in Geneva. ° yoo ae

ree inveatigatlons carried out this year by the ‘AatiSlavery
Society confirm these ‘allegations of widespread abuses of
an rights, | rt:stated.:

hides vb oh, »

i: ot rn aie na je} with flerce. resistance. from. the-}
rope millton Melanesian ; people of the former Dutch colony ©

and “the militarization of West Papua and the continuing °
repression of the indigenous peoples'’ has been ac-
. eompanied by the immigration. of an estimated ¢ one million
~ Savanese, the report said? 5”

The Papuans are becoming a minority in their own
country, “pushed into remote and- economically im- .
“poverished areas and separated ‘from--all aspects of

=: _ political, social and economic life,"" it added.

‘Claudette Sandecki’s

_ Schools nal

Timing is paramount, - ‘

Four minutes without oxygen can result in permanent.
brain damage. Firemen know the importance of arriving at
the scene of a fire within the ‘first, two ‘minutes.
Obgtetricians respond to night calls in pyjamas, Teachers
[dock marks for student projects handed in one day late, |

When Phone calls are returned two days to a week after
the: message is received; when goals for a school district: -
‘aré not even discussed until-a board-of trustees has been in ,
"office 10 months; wheryan annual financial report legislated -
‘tobe “published” and available to the public by June 80has
not been made avallable even to the. by the first
.. week of August; when a news conference to explain a board

decision is held 11 days after the meeting at which the board -

‘made the devision—timing Is off.

“Timing. can: often mean’ the difference between
-otlectivéness and. useleasness; between - caring and.
ener ‘Between a willingness: to serve and a show of

-"“Itis not unusual for federal and provincial party leaders

to hdld a news conference the moment they emerge from an
‘important’ closed door meeting. Then, whatever they say to-- -
thénews medial has immediacy and impact. ‘It gives the
ceporters and public upto-themminute facts {9 ponder,

But to hold'a news conference two weeks after the board's
action makes me wonder why the board would bother to call —
inews conference at all,

“The néws conference scheduled by the District 85 ‘trustees
“or ‘Monday, Aug. 8 was to explain a board decision made at

committeé-of-the-whole meeting July 2.

at the July 28 meeting (called by the vice-chairman) the |
“4ve trustees present agreed to write to Premier: Bennett
yutlining their objections to the proposed Socred legislation,
The trustees hoped that by adding their concerns to that of
other opposing groups, the rhinister might be persuaded to to
modify his legislation. At the end of the meeting, the
‘trustees agreed to make details of their concetna public
after the wording of the letters to Bennett's ministers had

been finalized, They agreed to do this by way of a news “~~

conference with all available trustees in attendance,

What makes the late timing of the news coliference 50 .
noticeable is that the modifications which the board hoped .
to encourage have already been deait with by Bennett and
his caucus last Wednesday, Aug, 3. For the Terrace school
board to’ make its position towatd the proposed legislation
public almost a-week after the Socred goyernment has
reconsidered the legislative package: is anticlimactic, .

' The letters to Bennett's government were drafted and the |
-wordjng was being checked with individual trustees by
_ felephone Aug. 3. Yet the board’s news conference: was
‘pos until Aug. 8, 11 days after the meeting at which
the trustees decided to protest the Socred Tigislatlon.

_ Whythedelay? ,
The opinions expressed hy this column are those o the

‘lle teak Seino ta ne soap, ‘ oh ineluded:°
“largest newspaper, commutiity newspapers aroun Topopto

“Ls Finance Minister Mare Lalonde’ ‘announced
“use computer software under licence will be. able’
a off the costs of acquiring the lteence under. propaed ni
- software, under licence the sameé tax breaks as firms

computer instructions, a opposed to the computer itself, -

branch of Judaism...

-an extraordinary gain of $1.94 milllon from the sala oflagd...
‘Revenues. were almost unchanged at “$261.7 inillfd i. The :
-eompany, which publishes the’ Toronto: Stat, Canada’s.”

“and Harlequin, romantle fiction, ' sald. strong. gains: |In
"newspaper and printing @perations: were ofteet by. a decline | .
‘ii book publishing.

tax amendments. That will give high-tech firms: tha
purchase, the software.cutright, Softwear is defined. ad.
‘which is the hardware; :The tax amendments: will. ‘be

' petroactive to May 26, 1076, when capital cost- allowance -
rates for computer software were last modified

Woman appointed —

St, LOUIS, Mo, (APx—Achaplain at Jewish Hiepital in |
St. Louls says she has beet selected ai the fiyst.women'to _
heada full U.S. congregation asa rabbl of the Consetvative

- Rabbi Béverly Magidson s2 sald Monday whe will dasurie

~ her new post in mid-August as head of the Congregation
Beth Shalom in Clifton, NmY., a suburb of Albanymi The

congregation has 105 familles. ©.

In. April, Magidson came within four votes of becetntng
the firat woman to be admitted to the Rabbinical Assenibly,
which is the rabbinical association of the Conservative
branch of Judaism...

She. sald a will continue to seek admission: to: the:
organizatio 4 A

Magidson ‘sald she had heen able to obtaiti a position. with
‘the Conservative congregation despite her. failure, to be
-admitted to the rabbinical group because of a shortage of.
Conservative rabbis in the United States, 8

‘She was ordained a Reform rabbi, ‘although she said he

” considers herself ‘to be‘ a Conservative Jew.’-The Con-:

servative movement oceuplés the middle ground between

: the liberal Reform and the conservative Orthodox: groups."

The. ‘London-based society, the world’s ‘oldest. tiuman

4

"program as Bill Vander Zalm is. Really all this fuss is
- inevitable. To borrow an old Christian proverb:. ‘When the

“Jot of howling in the wind. These concepts were fashioned In

- : . Be ee
“

Stargate

by Brian Gregg |.

Pm. not even as “upset over the Bill Bennett restraint —

much to doabout nothing. Bennett made himself yery plain
before the election and the people chose’ to tent ‘the

» blind lead the blind both fall in the ditch.
. I find this whole struggle between the right and the lefta .

the 19th Century, which is why Russia as a practitioner ‘of H
the basic principles of socialism now stands on the verge of
écotioriié bankruptcy, atid the West és'x practitioner of the. §
basle principles of gréed hay allowed thie Third Worle to pul: 4
_ the rug from under its collective feet. ‘
Obviously people are frightened for their future,
Economic instability has lead them to lean towards the
traditional orthodox values that built the country. ~ This
move to the right in North America would have been a move
to. the. extreme left had this been the Soviet Union..
‘Abandoning the unions is not so terrible when you stop to }
think that in the industrial heartland of Ontario wages are
farlower than the standards the people pf B.C. are used to.
But, as even the union people in. Ontario will tell you, you
don’t build an industrial heartland by giving all your profits
to the employees In wages. ‘
How then does industry survive in a province like B.C..
_when industry is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to -
recover from.such.a recession as we've just seen?» The

* unions expect.the same wages they got when mes were

good, The stores refuse to lower their prices because unions
continue totake high wages. This dog eat dog vicious circle .

. continues under the laws-of supply and demand. And then,

lo, out of the east comes the. messiah with his six and five |
program, Some messiah. Some program. More band aids.
Quite frankly I don’t think Bennett’s solution is.all that:

_ great either:, You don’t: find real recovery by throwing

people out of work, Who is going to buy industry’s products
. downtown ifqll people get is bread and water money? And lf
you increase. the numbers-of people getting only bread and
-water money is it any wonder-the propheta of doom (as.
opposed to the profits of glogm) are having afield day?. The
important point is to remember that this recovery program .
had no-base. A’ solid base of rising employment. - Who is
going to buy the products?

One should also remember that while Statistica Catiada

- claims the unemployment figures are dropping it Is really

only the increase in the unemployment figures that are

' dropping. Unemployment is still increasing in Canada but .
. hot as much as last month. Well, you have to stop —

somewhere or the whole country is going to be out of work

and that-would spell disaster for the nation,

So what do we do? -How do we wake the unions up? How .
do we wake the employers up? How do wa wake the’

_ bankers up?: How do we wake tha people up? As [said
before: ‘When the blind lead the blind both fall in the ditch.

~_A friend was recently called on to make a bank payment.
My friend asked the banker why he-was calling him, “Call
‘that dummy down in Victoria. “As Tong as he is putting |
people out of. work instead of getting people back to work
there is no point in calling me. I'm just making bread and

‘ water monéy and as long as their computer down there

keeps screwing up ]'m lucky if even get that, 1'd love to go

back to work but industry:tossed me out on my ear because
. times were tough. Why don’t you call industry, I'm. ready

‘fo go to work—it’s flint that there isn't any work. You k
The to make Some sort of payment to how good faith, .-

; Faith ‘aw what? I'd like to go to work. Get mea Job and I'd —

‘love ta shaw you all kinda of good faith,”

-Bockety

And tlieh we have the typical carnal Chirstian: “well the
Bible says ia man doesn’t work he shouldn’t get any food.”,
Yeah, sure. The only trouble is that moat people don’t grow
' food anyiriote. And IE they. do jt wouldn't support them year
round. We have this thing called division of labor. . The,
farmers grow the food and we buy it at the supermarket.” 7”
That way everybody can work and get something to eat. ,
oe? Yu: rs go out and bag your roast dinher on

! ause government has regulated
: ta be that when you got hungry you
t a hoot your dinner, °
i that now depends on society tor.its i
society responsible for either :
cone Thies If there is no' work then.

peovidis
a got ta pre efood. Either that or we could.
open all roads, pullj all topa and let ‘er rip in’virtual i
anarchy, Then we could take what wa want’. '
So let’s not be too quick to pass judgement here, This “|

thing tim’t over by'stiy means. *

ons