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May be you say northern folks and Canadians throughout the country over did the Amchitka thing. Perhaps you are sick to death over the publicity ' given to the blast and the reams of material broadcasted through news media. Those blast: protestors were really nothing. Probably a handfull of unrshaven legs and faces using megaphones to represent the whole of Canada...nothing but hippies.

Maybe not. The anti-blast Amchitkateers were really on your side; even though you might be thinking of throwing this particular piece of reading material into the nearest polluted ocean or have been responsible in the past for openly criticising the protestors. How you must protest protest. Well, at least you're alive and able to air your feelings - negative or positive. This is what the Amchitkateers were fighting for.

Their purpose was to campaign for peace. To enable you to live long and nuclear free days whether your skin be white, black,.red, yellow or cany apple turquoise.

This purpose particularly applied to those inhabiting regions located in close proximity to such things as nuclear blasts. The Amchitkateers lost this battle. So...if you think your side has been victorious, then think again, If you think you have heard the last of Amchitka blasts and protests then you had better disconnect the wires on your radio and television sets and perhaps stick cotton, batten. - Some good..old_ southern cotton batted *- “into® jour” ad hearing devices, .

Reports indicate the blast was a success. This means the road has been cleared to handle more and better nuclear underground blasts.

.For all the wise and peace minded persons on the western world, it is time for’ funeral chimes. . Do you think Richard Nixon will be sending flowers?...reports say he has accumulated a rare collection of Amchitka daisies...now extinct. |

You can bet your firecrackers there will be more Amchitka blasts. There will be more protest. When’ the next

bomb comes perhaps it will be no test. If it is a test, it might even be part of Russia's program If we’re lucky, and if the USA is rewarded for the actions of the past, the Russia testing site might be White House lane, Washington, D.C.

When the dice have been thrown, and the protestors and the anti-protestors have taken-up their respective sides, perhaps no one willbe feeling well.

The Amchitka natural plant life spent years developing into a stage of

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the herald:

PUBLISHED BY . NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED

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ED VAN DER LEELIE MANAGING EO!TOR

_ country off the - achieve everlasting peace and to put

. Hhecessary?

Daily Newspaper

MARY OLSEN. ADVERTISING

TERRACE, B.C.

STREET

Pieces

growth which might readily have been visible on Friday, November 5, 1971. But on the following Saturddy, these

plants were transformed into thousands of “green pieces”, At 2 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) that day,

every hair on the back of: every .

Amchitka Island animal was split by the impact of Cannikan. Leading up to this tragic day, thousands of Canadians had raised a vital question to the USA head of state. This head, however, had one very large mouth but no ears. After minus 10 seconds of count-down, the blast blew....Far out.

A familiar voice - the same one heard

from Cape Kennedy when USA space

experts have launched billion dollar bills into the clouds - spoke with assurance: “Cannikan a success...suiccess...success,” These reports were not ours. They originated from foreign soil. A soil that once lay close to us. A soil belonging to a country which no longer can be called a neighbour to Canada, but rather a far off world. How strange.

Its doctors prescribe DDT to sick patients; its food markets distribute mercury polluted fish to customers; its health authorities encourage radio active air; its cities and mountains ring with the sound of prejudice ending gun fire; and its responsible citizens form families (often through trial and error) and raise fine young children, all for the purpose of filling certain positions in society - namely military’ graveyards,

The USA is the.only one country on,

* this divided earth Which puts its least*~” _, capable thinker in-the White House and

causes its most capable thinker’ to immigrate.

The USA does not need the advice nor assistance from any other country. If they have to blow every other earth in order to

more stars on their flag, then they'll do it. If they want to.melt the snow of Siberia then chances are they'll do it before the. Empire State building is through some retaliation sprinkled over the area once called California.

Canada’s protest accomplished little. So what if the blast caused no ill effects...are nuclear bombs They are certainly symbols of power and of war. They did a fine job of shattering our symbol of protest Bits and pieces,

There was nothing in the alarm over

Amchitka, Just as there is nothing in .

the White House worth mentioning,

- there was nothing in Amchitka. This is

‘the first of a series: of continued bombs and protests.

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_. SLIGHT, ODOR-FREE ‘green - garbage. . bags. ‘are becomi

increasingly ‘popular "across - Candi

- because of their: time and Jabor savinig

houseliolders: and

g “conducted tests showing that gare

he. first develope

in plastic bags could he collec K percent faster {han g

~ astronauts ina grounded: moon vehicle reminds us that in top‘ safety

THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C, > :

i. Wit th people now rnd me an more time for leisure, more d:-more people turn to somes kind of hobby-for relaxation, Asi years: have passed, hobbies have; become more and more}

- diversified: “Ca

represent some 50. or so] diana: who pergue ‘th bobby Of collecting old au fcence: plates. as collectors

items, 1s we try to get 4 Heencel

, plata: "from each provitice fo!

', each year plates were made; Inj

mabe several hundred folks @ who i ae: ‘enjoy the hobby no way. of. meeting haring the. same § ith which to trade §

hobby"with one ‘another, “We few fi ‘are trying to organize a national &

search Wo try to locate all people J

in’ ‘the country sharing. our §

ha 7 . po ie | “Otis—they distinetly asked you not to adjust your set!”

’ Dailies: issue cigarette advertising

The Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, in a brief to federal health and welfare minister John Munro, has urged the federal government to consider controls on content and form of cigarette advertising, rather than banning it.

The brief asks the government to: Revise Bill C-248, The

Cigarette Products Act, given first reading in the House of Commons on June 10.

Take positive action in education concerning the health implications of cigarette smoking.

Initiate and sponsor research on tobacco and cigarette products toward achieving the objectives of Bill C-248,

The CDNA brief admits it : does not speak for all publishers or for one particular publisher. “Ttis an expression of opinion of the majority of daily newspapers within its membership.”

The brief points out, “At a time when federal government spokesmen make frequent public references to the need for stronger Canadian communications media, the banning of a major source of advertising revenues inevitably works toward weakening the financial fabric of Canadian media, with broadly differential effects from medium © to medium, ” .

While not a minor factor, the CDNA states that cigarette advertising revenue is. not the

primary motivation for the’

brief. Concerning the’ prohibityion of advertising by Bill C+ -248, the

brief states: :‘Itis our basic premisethat a ban on or prohibition of the

dissemination of information.

about products. which ave

manufactured, distributed and -

sold by legally constituted companies in Canada consitiutes a abridgment of the fundamental right of the Canadian citizen to be informed,

‘Fundamentally, there is no difference between the freedom to disseminate information in news columns and the freedom to disseminate information through advertising, with the same responsibility for honesty, good taste, and_ legal implications applying. —

Tf a product is considered Sufficiently hazardous .to the health and well-being of Canadians, then its manufacture or importation ard sale can. be prohibited erilirely or.‘thange can be required in the product before it can be imported, distributed or sold.

“There are: instances of this course of action by governments in the past.

“However, where the evidence of danger tohealth of a product in common use’ over many years accumulated graduaily, and at a point in time its manufacture and sale ‘is prohibited, history records - adverse response by the public. The host of social ills attendant -

‘upon the prohibition of alcoholic |

beverages in the United States

serious .

numerous :

from 1920 te 1933 ‘feeds no.

elaboration. ‘When the “promotion of a Product i is deemed undesirable

because its excessive use may ‘be a health hazard, then a course of action adopted in the past has been the placing of restraints on the forms and content of promotion of the product,

“We recognize that controls on. the form and content of advertising for certain products by the proper legislative body may be justifiable.

“In the interests of good teste and the welfare of readers, daily newspapers and other media have exercised restraints on the type and content of advertising carried by the media often to the detriment of their Advertising revenues. ¢

“In addition, tice are in force numerous provincial and federal statutes. regulating the

type,.- style and content: of .

advertising for various

products and services.

“We suggest that there is‘a parallel to the case of cigarétte - th

promotion ‘in the (advertising and .promotion of alcoholic beverages. :

“We, therefore, strongly urge ‘that in-place of a ban on the advertising of cigarettes, -the

- federal government consider...

controls on the content and form of cigarette advertising. | “IE advertising may be

thought of as having two major .

facets’.- information and persuasion, . then - it - {8 < the , persuasion . aspect which we “propase (be -.limited or controlled, The prohibition of

the dissemination: of factual

information about any product . is, in our view, an unacceptable. break with the freedems: af the °

IN MY VIEW |

Well here we are all safe and sound. The bomb was detonated and Prince. Rupert didn’t fall into the ocean, ‘It's snowing outside and. Christmas is coming soon.:

In- the words: of America's man in Amchitka, - James Schelesinger, Chief of the American Atomic Energy Commission, the five megaton nuclear device -went off

* “successfully and safely."

Now we can rebury our heads in the sands of apathy. But wait a minute, ©

Success and safety are relative. A gun pointed at the temple of mankind can be fired successfully and safely only as many times as there are‘blank - cartridges. In this particular game of chance aren't” the stakes a little too high to allow the hoys to continue, playing

Jam took his wife ‘and -two ‘small

daughters to Amehitka-at the time of: the’ test ‘to’. ‘prove .. to” contal skeptics the safety of the test.’ w His absolute disregard for the”: safety.of his‘own children in tha _ event of adisastroua’ mistake:

(and the flery: denth of. three-

priority’ ;

Schelesinger Allegedly :

BY NADINE ASANTE

measured ' ‘by the: fact that n no humans. lost. their lives immediately -from.- the - blast, then the test was successful and safe.- But life by the millions in.. the marine. biology: cycle was ended. Shredded. bits of baby seal, numbering in the thousands and. all other forms of sea’ life in the vicinity “may. be. the only

presently visible casualties.

crisply - burned. fish. ~.

But even now in ‘Alaska, .

fishermen are not allowed to

sell halibut: over sixty. pounds ,

because of the dangerous .

‘mercury content in large fish, ©

Soon the. limit will-be -set ‘at

. y

‘the . long term: of: radidactive . bh puch blasts, Jacque pustea ithe -. French. tinderwater ‘specialist’ has’

_warned of the slow death of. the, :

joreans of. the ‘world,

- But lhe words of.sane, trained -

“men ‘go. unheeded in the space th d war’ ‘mania that. has bec ey c..

thirty pounds then’ less and .-: finally halibut will probably joln'«:

theever decreasing offerings on, . - -world..menus:.° But! until ‘that’. time the’ public ~ ‘will: swallow.

more-mercury ‘along: with the ta being safe and. :

. Mother. Nature.-

swelling surge @ of resentmriént in . some..of .us against - our”

neighbors ‘who: ‘ignored sane . pleas ‘-:to cancel. tits: act -of. . premeditated’ murder. against:

|

The ‘only . ‘earthquiake is. the.”

“qemor in some of our hearts at

the’ monstrous’ offence ‘against the future of. mankind and his environment.:: -- - ; Safe‘and successful? * When the countdown reached: - zero. it: reached | the: end. of reason. ;

. that

populace i in a free society to be formed.

“To illustrate more clearly” the import of this proposal for control or prohibition ‘of the persuasion aspect of cigarette advertising some examples can he cited,

“Cigarette advertising could be required to omit any scenes which create the impression . cigarette . smoking.

contributes to or is associated

with the improvement or maintenance of health, or any exhortation to anyone, particularly young people to begin smoking, or any implication that smoking is desirable, increases social success or contributes to well-. being in- any way.:- The “advertisements could be. ‘Tequired to contain thewarning . ..

prescribed by, the Act for the ~ package and: the: amount ‘of

nicotine, tar or ‘other constituents in.. the smoke, “Sustration could: be limited 'té e package and the product, . and copy limited to statements -

_ Of fact about the type of product

~ plain or filter, length, type of, tobacco, etc, The foregoing are’ -given as examples ané not as recommendations, 6 . be

“Persuasion _ could —

m ‘removed: and information about . the product remain. ‘Machinery

now .exists within the federal’ government for reviewing advertising and product .. ‘packaging which, no “doubt, ' ‘could be extended to’ reviewing ~.

advertising for cigarette |

products. : wo A ‘bomb “Editor, The: ‘Sun, Sir a

"While. ‘we're saying sad fare- _ wells. to Anichitka, we have a

bomb right beside us,-Atlanlic

"Rlohéield;: at. Cherry Point, is making | its contribution:to the

‘fight against..Mother Nature. : Its going to take a While at

3.7. milllon gallons. per, day “Being dumped.. :

dust. how | much - can the . oceans’ * stand: before they. go ~ the wily” of ‘many lakes and «rivers? ‘

"verse. the . trend -in-10..0r.,20.

/ yeays or. will the-oceans be a

“dead. septic “tank © to: -the world's industries and human

. wastes? :

Amehitka looks. ke, more of , :

“the same thinking. “Bar Tetum

:> PLEASED < Cui setr

w “every. “|. Wewspaper and publication, a : total of about 300 in all: - :

gr: for’ pi ‘letter: and any. -possible clue as. - to'where’ I'can find Elling

a result, we have taken up

a collection to pay for printing. -... and postage costs and are

‘Sending a Copy of this letter to - single Canadian. §

- ‘We need the help of ail papers

. ‘in order to locate.even.the most .- isolated collectors, We then will -: have newsletters, elect officers,

.. ete. like any. other club, ‘But’

‘first all people across Canada must be informed as to the- inovation of this club, .-. -;

In a near. issue’ of. your publication, could: you please find a place. to ‘slip a small notice regarding our Canada-

-wide club so we collectors may learn of each other and become aunited body. Your help.would be truly appreciated. - In order for the Licence Plate Collectors Club of Canada to become a reality, we really must ask for

your support. Thanks very much, Many thanks’ for your spPort of of our efforts,

-" BruceLobay ff 410 Washington Ave. Winalpeg 16, 1 15, Manitoba.

Elling ‘Anderson.

Yo”

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Dear Sir? wit

I want to ‘congratulate you on publishing @ fine ‘newspaper I. have enjoyed” ‘subscribing to, . especially since “revitalization of :the paper’: several months

‘ago. I-hope you can help’ me,

through: the publication ‘of! this

_Tetter,:to locate’ an elderly man

whose name. is Elling ._ Andergon., Elling’s brother Andreas Andersen died in :Terrace on “Jan. 19,--1967. Andreas’ Andersen: ‘Nett a. ‘sizeable amount of money: in an.

~ egtate: that: Gan; be: claimed by- _ Andreas if le can be located be- ze fore expiration of 5 years, which

. oveurs on Jan. 19, 1972.’ Time is - running | ont:so I. would ask.the Klnd “itizens of Terrdée to

pledge help if possible..Write to.

me as soon as possible please.-I- had ‘hoped to visit Terrace on my way north to property I own:

‘at, Dease Lake but plans. were: . changed at-the last monient and — ' I flew t up, ‘and therefore missed eanvasing Terrace tofind a clie

- concerning. Elling . . Andersen, . | Hope. ; the - good people - of. Terrace “ “realize what _ an ". enormous benefit:they will reap | ‘from ‘the: tourist’ attractlon‘.of

- that beautiful:North | ‘country

accesible soon’ via: Terrac Will. ‘there. ip a way to Tes, yp

Andersen No. tetatien: to me.

B, RICHARDSON ~ BO! Bos

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