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There exists 4 word in the

English language that perhaps takes in

more people than any other single adjective. That word is APATHY.

The word means, according to Noah Webster, ‘Lack of interest or desire for activity.’ The feeling has’ engulfed mankind to the point where man has become dangerous to himself.

The simple fact that he doesn’t care is the main reason that much of the air on the earth is unfit to breath. It is the reason why so many of our natural forested areas and parklands are being destroyed. Man cares only about his own immediate needs and couldn't care less about tomorrow.

Some years ago, the word came into full light when, in an American city a man was beaten to death while a number of so-called ‘good citizens’ stood around shaking their heads

saying, ‘I don’t want to get involved...’

Peaple not wanting to get involved has resulted in Terrace having to wait nearly fifteen years for an Ice arena. It's finally coming around because someone got up and did something about it. Slowly, the people of Terrace are getting involved, and Terrace will have it’s arena.

But where are all the other things Terrace needs? Apathy seems to have

gotten the best of most of the people,.

and conversely, the people have become apathetic because of it, Terrace is sadly lacking in park areas, and the result will be that the transient population of Terrace will get up and go to some place that has something more to offer on a Sunday afternoon than a baseball game.

Several schemes have been

perpetrated to develop the park-areas:~»:- f

in Terrace, and particularly Thornhill: Mt That winced z

but all these efforts have heen thwarted by noting more than the ‘I couldn’t care less ' syndrome in this town.

A businessman of our aquaintance came to Terrace about three months ago. The attitude of Terrace people has started a deep hatred of the area. Why? According to him, Terrace’s potential is lst in the attitude of the peaple who-Jive here. :

Since nobody cares.about Terrace, nobody will stay, :

Terrace ommeca Herald

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ASSISTANT MANAGER . Georce T. English

EDITORIAL - Rudy Haugeneder, George English

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Published . every

P.O. Box 399 Phone 635-8357

-Business address ~ 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, B.C. &

At one point in our recent history, a major firm made an offer to Terrace that could have made it one of B.C.'s major cities. The offer was treated with a hap-hazard attitude, and the offer was made to another city.

But the people who live here couldn't care less, After all, they are only Going to be here for a few years, long enough to make enough money to move to the upper social stratae of a bigger place like Vancouver.

A number of service clubs in this area keep trying to bring up the level of involvement, but the final end was driven home last Friday night at the first annual Miss P.N.E, contest here.

There were a few people at the function, but the crowd was by no means capacity. In fact, three times the number of people that showed up would have been no where -capacity...because, who cares if these were representatives of the young women in Terrace? Who really cares what «ind of an impression Miss Griffiths makes on the rest of the people of B.C. when she goes to Vancouver to attend the pageant there?

This attitude is infectious, and it shows all over,

Many people in B.C. don’t know that Terrace exists as a civilized place. Th is is incredible. Do the people that have lived in this area for the last twenty years care so little about their city that they haven't made it known? A local teacher was at a convention in Victoria. One conversation he relates foes like this...

‘Where are you from?’

‘Terrace... Deedee tem,

‘those boys ran

from?’

That event was only three or four months age. So what else does Terrace have other than a number of enterprising young men who decided to do what they could to make Terrace a known place?

Terrace has very little so far.. One of these days, after the world has gone ahead the fathers of this city are going fo say,‘Wait for us’ and they will promptly be told to go cry on

‘gomeone’s shoulder. It will be too late.

In My View By Nadine Asante

President Nixon is going to China, No matter what the reason, the visit must be heralded as a move in the direction of better world relations.

How times are changing.

Nixon suddenly has become a peace emissary instead of the war. monger he proved himself to be since he was a young lawyer working for McCarthy during the era when a communist hid behind every American hot dog stand,

Doing an about-face from ordering nepalm to be dropped daily by the ton on Vietnamese women and children the American president has, in this pre-election year, pulled a truly ‘tricky Dickie‘ by startling the world with the news that he has accepted an invitation to visit the Chinese hierarchy, ;

Let's not knock the news but let's take a look under the headlines.

Could it be that after years of negotiating disarmament with the U.S.S.R. that even without” the misinformation’ supplied. by. ‘this — inefficient C.1.A., his disarmament . negotiators are well aware of the war | potential of the Russians?. .: ~ _-' Could it be that: his ‘changed’ attitude has been:‘fostered: by. the awareness that. America cannot catch up with the Russians in their mad race for domination:of space?

. ‘Could the change -of: Heart have .

-been aided by. thé knowledge that he can’t outwit the Russians but that he still suffers under the. illusion;-that::”

the'Chinese are 4 primitive race an

peace? es ayn

'-Maybe Nixon hag. gurplanted:th

. old: adage,.\“if- you. can't’. beat- em: join’: ‘em “with. his... own’

version if. you can't. beat; ‘em,

_ efficient. propaganda about seeking

id” * "Phe" fact “that Nikeit ig" going’ te ~ he<can bamboozle. ‘them’ ‘with“his . i very. good. going to

scare ‘em by joining forces with their enemies‘‘?

_ Is Nixon taking advantage of the present unfriendly relations between the U.S.S.R. and China by using his news of the forthcoming visit as a wedge to open the breach between the two communist countries even further? Perhaps he is adopting the old ‘British imperialistic method of abetting dissention by ‘divide and rule‘?

- Typical of the way the U.S, stands by-her claimed friends is the tongue in cheek assurances to the puppet regime of Chiang Kai-Shek in Taiwan that she. won’t let down- her former allies, ©. Britain found out how much. American friendship meant during the horrible war years of 1938 until 1941 when she fought ‘alone until the States was attacked at Pearl Harbour. and was forced into the conflict. «=

Many world leaders feel that if they have the U.S..as their friend they don‘t need enemies.....Cuba, the Central American countries and some of the South American. countries to name.a few. oe

But hopefully, the Chinese who. |

were cultivating crops and enjoying ~- a thriving, enlightened culture -.. while white men were still running around in loin cloths killing: their - food with flint, should be well aware of the nightmares in the. American dream and the glibness’ of the - American tongue...” a

_ China is a very’good thing and one ©’

China with a ping-pong -bat and ball nstead of withthe fo B hat and ba’

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C,

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BILL SMILEY: These

During the winter, I literally grind my teeth when I know I must make a trip ta the city. The idea sours my soul, my slamach, and my normally sweet disposition.

T don't just think, I know what to expect during any part, or the whole, of the 180-mile round trip.

‘Freezing rain Thal means crawling along, half blind, peering oul the window because the windshield has a quarter- inch of ice on if, and wondering whensome idiot is going 10 come out of nowhere and clobber you.

‘Scatlered snow flurries.’ That is-a weather department euphemism, in these parts, for a howling blizzard. The only thing that isscattered are the wils of the weather forecaster.

‘Slight drifting conditions.’ Thal means a 40 m.p.h. wind sweeping white clouds across the road just as some jerk is trying to pass you and there’s a ten-ton gravel truck right in froni of you, :

Oh, they can’t fool me. But I grin and swear it. However, I pel my revenge inJuly. I sit under my oak trees and chuckle- yes. chuckle-, as | think of all these poor, tormented creatures belting their way through the mad traffic, trying to get where I aim, ‘

i's nol a nasty chuckle. Those. chaps have my ulnuist sympathy. It’s just a tiltlesort of revenge chuckle, The kind of thing you might hear Boris Karloff emitting as he sends his creator, Dr, Frankenstein, up in flames.

Sometimes, when my chuckle gets cut of control, I am decent

enough to take a walk downtown and stro) around looking al all

these swealy, frustrated, influriated tourists, snarling al their

spouses and children. .

My natural sentiments take over, and T can scarce forebear to

_ Weep, as I think of what they're been through (o get here, whal i, they: are going:through now!-and what they ihave to dn,to} Ahome,.. eo eed Death tered 1 ere “8s aA

When my emation gets quite oul of control, I somellmes drive

“7 fallen trom the rolled cuff oft

“SP house would stand, hands on hij

words will cool you off

soberly to the beach and survey the scene. ‘I's usually plunges me into further depths of compassion. Everyone is so fal.

Over here is a 200-pound lady in a 12-ounce bikini, dragging two kids, a beach chair, assorted towels and 200 pounds. She is utlerly miserable as the sweat destrays her makeup. And don't forget she has to walk half a mile back to the cottage, hauling whimpering offspring, and prepare dinner for her husband, who is fighting his way through the circus on wheels, her mother and father, who have been invited for a week, her Aunt Jessie and Uncle Tom, who have just dropped in on their way through. For

a few days. Poor lady.

And down (here, near-the water, is an elderly gentleman. . -

flaming red from bald dome to calloused toes, Enjoying himself, His paunch begins just below his chin and continues almost to his knees, How happy he seems as the children jump

over him, spraying sand and'cold water. Whal a delighied smile . he produces when the teenagerss’ football hits him squafely in’

the belly. He’s at the beach for two weeks, and he's having fun if

il kills him, .

’ The little kids are wonderful,too. Never a dull moment. If they haven't lost theirsand-pail, they've cut their foal on a rock, or they want money for pop, or they're out ton far, or they've simply vanished and are pre-iqbly drowned.

And the teenagers are grand. It just restores your faith lo see them gointo the waler occasionally. And there’s something cute aboul the way they lie around on the beach, not smashing anything, or waving any signs, Just lying there, about eighteen kids to twelve feet of sand, smoking and chatting intellectually. It makes you feel sort of good all over, to knaw that they're not out on the highways, doing goodness knows what, bul right here

an the beach, doing nothing.

«veo: Golly, Lenvy those city people.who.¢o Cle “ton it Hilt

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I wish] could get-a break like that in the winter.

eupnorthto getaway nade wate” "i 2 : Hihas he hyethcen \ {havi 20 year's-wifk iviéals; thé playgrounds, the privacy’af their own backyardaN.O'N, |

~The rug. hed a big bald spa ‘wherethe kids held. hei wrestling matches. The old say couch sagged in the middie ling “a sway-back horse, having fel] the bounce and weight of happ people. Hervand there a wisp 0 straw or -alfalfa tay, having

farmer's trousers, ., At times the. woman of. the

and disparage the zorry stale o} the furnishings. of that living

gaid, at least no word loude than the songs, screams, and ‘snores that were a part of the

grown, then a plush rug would

-proper place, to sit. But somehow - she -knew that to change it too soon would be wrong. i _. The children are grown and gone, but they always, at times, return to renew the sounds in that room. The new rug is even a better mat and the couch, as straight ‘as.can be, .will still withstand .a good tickling . session. The sounds, they sound the same, deeper, perhaps, and more mature, but still there is ‘the simple sound of a child. Many homes in our Jand have living rooms, But how meny have rooms for living! ‘Thai is

the challenge and a need for jie

every parent. By Re. David Kaiser Cheist Lutheran Church

Alcan reaches settlement

Montreal, Canada - The:

“government of the Co-operative - Republic of Guyana and Alcan . Aluminium Limited of Canada

. have reached a negotiated -

setilement in their discussions conerning the quantum of ‘ compensation to be paid as a result of the government's ‘decision to nationalize the operations of the Demerara , Bauxite “Company .an Alcan subsidiary. ;

Under the terms of: the agreement the government will pay. to Alcan a sum of approximately 53.5 million U.S. dollars over a perin? 24.10 more

percent: pew am. withholding tak? +

MONDAY, JULY 19,197)

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Indians are here

BY RENA POINT

As a newcomer {o fie North, T have come to the canclusian (hat the Native Indian just does not exist, for he is walked over and around, and even stepped on. :

Should he complain that he is not heard, for as far as the res! of the people are concerned, lie jusi isn't there... But this is very untrue, The Indian people are very much’ here and it’s about time they were included in the community development, projects, holidays and celebrations.

I watched a parade go by a few weeks aga, and I did nat sec any Indian people participaling. What a loss. .

As an Indian from the sourthern part of B.C., I was very active in local community affairs, and provincial and national affairs. [ feel there could be a lot more invaivement of Indian Peapie on the local level. ' ;

Ispent the Xeekend visiting Prince Rupert and for the great number of Nalive Indians I saw, I was very disappointed For in visiting the stores and different business offices, I did nal see a single Indian employed! “ y

Our Native People have a great wealth to offer the world: if given half a chance. ‘I proved this-right here in Terrace. By living with the Native people on the Kitsumkalum Reserve, I got tb know them and their customs. I found thal they really wanted to express themselves, bul were at a loss as lo how lodaso,

Tencouraged them tostarta Ladies club. For only in working iogether as a group would they he recognized. The Kitsumkalum ladies club came into being:

Since then, beading classed for old and young have been °

slarted and also the old Tsymsian falk singing and dancing have been revived, They are looking forward to many olher projects on the reserve, _

With the many surrounding Indian Reserves in {his area [ feel. there is a great deal of work to be done for the fulure peace and harmony of the North, " Oe,

With more and more young Indians being educated some day they may tot-be the passive peaple of today, bul a strong and demanding people, . , J .

So] ask you today. Open a few doors to my people and give

_ them a chance to show you their worth ar. Indians and not a - carbon copy of the dominant society in which they are forced (o

‘tive,

Aholiday the police will be very

Police will cooperate

When you are goilig away for

And: housebreakers are inot -fosled by well-laid schemes of

cooperative about the house you

‘Jeave behind. Just in case some

disreputable individual. has

designs on your silverware, it's

best to disguise the fact the place has been temptorarily vacated. vy

The officers will tell you about the sort of thing that gives you away. Don't let the newspapers

-coliect:in front of the house, or

milk bottles In the back. The police will advise about drawing

cor not drawing drapes, whether -— edlgh

‘should be left. on- or‘ not,

It's comforting to know: that. -

they ‘will keep. an-eye-on your little castle. ‘They will remind

you to, to let thém know swhén = °° youl get back, so they E s watch’ off, -and’'Won't\be,

hen You!)

can’ call . 7

‘citizens and: policemen, If, there's an accumulation. of: handbills around the froot door, ‘the people are away. * ~..

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Dear Editor:

Mason Williams wrote a song that lakes about fourty seconds to play through. Fhe entire content of it is this...

‘Isn't life beautiful.,.Isn’t life

gay...isn't life the perfect thing.

to pass the time away.,,’ . Isa nice thought, although 1 don’t agree entirely with his choice of phraseolgy. It's too bad thaf' more people don’( think = like: that, We live in what thousands of people have called the most beautiful country in the world, but very few people who live here will agree with that. ‘There seems to be-a bit of ‘eontradiction in the fact that

. most of the people who say that -

this place is beautiful live and love (heir native Chicago or New York City... :

But we know better than that don't we, -We know that life is beautiful and-that life in Terrace, apart from al) the pelty greivances is. one of the more aesthetically beautiful places (to live in Canada.

So instead of running around looking like you're wanting ta kill someone, why don't we try

_ lo et-erce Mayor Jolliffe into .

declaring a Municipal Smile day...a day on which all persons caught not smiling will ‘be thrown into jail and not released unlil midnight of that day,

Conformity being what it is, ‘(hat could be the only way to make people smile...face it,

_ You enjoy smiling, so why (ry to frowning at -

- impress people by them? — | oe .

Why don’t we try tohorn in on Prince Rupert's reputation of

being ; the’ friendliest. cily. in.

_B.C,? Why don't we-take up the

initiative ‘and: become the

~Your Opinion- eee

friendliest city in Canada? It's not impossible.

As @ final message to you business. peaple, there is no better advertising than a smile. ” ‘Besides, if you smile, it shows thal you are enjoying life, and if

- you smile, you will enjoy life

one hell of a lot more,

Kieraen MacAlleistaire, Terrace, B.C,

Dear Editor: --

T would just like to say that I

am. most dissapointed with the people of Terrace. [ am

. referring to. the. Miss. PNE

pageant held jtere last weekend.

People seem’ (o he- really funny. 1 mean funny pathetiy, ha ha... There were very few people who turned out at the eontesl, and most of them left as

as soon as the judging was.

finished.

You think it would have been .

a drag to. stay after the eontest...but the only reason it would have been a drag was because you people made it that way. No dance can be made

infoa good time if nobady wants -

to‘stick around and enjoy it,

Was. it because'there-was no.” booze there? Iwonder about the ~~

intellectual level af the people of this town, if their idea of a good time is to get so drunk they can't see. .

_ Js that the only way you can. . . enjoy “yourselves?

| TI also atlended:: the Miss Prince Rupert Pageant about a month ago, That was a real occasion, and everybody... enjoyed themselves. What's the matter with Terrace, anyway? .

_~ -Mrs Morten Hensbey. %

Dear Editor:

After reading. ‘Nadine Asante’s wonderful write-up - pboul the entertainment at the Civie Centre on the evening af July seventh, and recalling some of the ald-timers, I felt very proud and happy to ‘have been there among so many of my old friends, .

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- Tam very sure it brovgh many happy memories to us all, It Was wonderful to'sée Charlie Lindstrom and his wife dancing

* together after all these years, and Fred Hampton was there too. Fred came into the valley

~ aver the Kitimat (rail in'March 1908. aa ; "

Tom Olson did very well as M.C., ashe had to go back a few years to try to tell some of the old history. +

It ‘was’ all. a very happy occasion, and it was nice to “meetold friends once more, 1 hope some’ 6f-them will-come to

'. the? senior ‘citizen's home on -Tuck avenue to visit us. We all like ‘company, and we will talk about the old days and enjoy a Bqod.cup of:tea together,

' Terrace, B.C.

_| 7SINGLE STANDARD _LONDON (CP) — -Bachelor -babbies are seeking equal rights ‘with policewomen.As, an ex- periment, “unmarried -female constables . in -newly-built . apartments have. been :given ‘ more freedom while they are off duty. Now’ the: nen want | restrictions on inviting girl- friends and‘ other regulations .

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