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Capital punishment-- -} -the easy way out

Canada’s five-year moratorium on the death penalty ends in December. Parliament must soon debate and drait new legislation, And MP’s mail is reported running discouragingly high - in favor of re-instatement of capital p- unishment. So

The death penalty is the easy way out for an apathetic public. They can feel secure in the knowledge that one death has been avenged by another, that society has been purged of another threatening element.

Murder and violence is a condition of society itself. It is the pathetic story of poor mental and physical health, retardation, poverty, alcoholism, lack educational or job opportunities mounting up in the pressure cooker of

daily . existence -- until the final blowolf.

Will the death penalty stop the psy- chotic killer? Will it protect society from the premediatated killer who ‘rubs out’ for a price?

Invoking the death. penalty for murder has just about as much logic as handing out the death sentence to the guilty party in a fatal auto accident. The punishment does nothing to get at the cause, it does nothing to deter murders or accidents in the future.

There must be alternatives. More research financed out of government grants -- more humane efforts and financing in the neglected areas of human misery poverty, education, housing and job opportunities.

A dirty word

The grain farmer looked out over his fields of number one northern hard and said to the harvesters: “Boys, today we'll cut a little spot here and a little over there, and let the rest stand. That way there won't be so many complaints about the appearance of the stubble."’

Doubtful, one of the hands said: “Won't that make it awful tough sowing the next crop?”’

“T know, I know,” said the farmer.

- “But too many folks care about the

-way things look between times.””

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While it is unlikely that any grain |

farmer will ever plan such a cut, harvesters of the timber crop are now almost continuously assailed for not doing it. In fact “clear-cutting” as opposed to selective cutting has become a dirty word among preser- vationists and critics of the forest industry. ,

Across the border, . President Nixon’s decision not to.implement an executive order restricting clear- cutting on U.S. federal forest land has raised a predictable hue-and cry among environmentalists —- an uproar which, equally predictably, echoes among the brethren in British Columbia. .

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Clearcutting means the harvest of every commercially valuabie tree in a given area. It is particularly apt for logging out of deep valleys and across steep slopes. To bring men and machines onto mountain sides and into

- ravines more than once for selective

cutting is economically impossible —

not to mention doubling the ar- duousness and hazard of the work. Therefore, where coast and interior ranges run, there you will generally find clearcut logging in B.C. Elsewhere in the province, on easier land, the selective cutting system is widely used. Good examples are to be found in

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interior Douglas fir and yellow pine timber areas of the Cariboo and Okanagan.

There is no doubt that the af- termath or clearcutting, like a wheat stubble field, is extraordinary ugly. As an observer once commented — “‘it looks like Jand on which a war was Jost.”

But potential for another crop from clearcut land is roughly twice that of land selectively logged. Logging slash .can be carefully destroyed.

“I. Seedling trees are then properly

spaced and set in a good depth of soil. Man-planted forests in clearcut areas

Vice President of Export sales, George Gray, lends a helping hand when loading truck Johnston Yards

), TERRACE, B.C,

at the

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CANADIAN TRUCKS EXPORTED TO RUSSIA

These trucks are at the beginning of a long land and sea journey which will take them to Moscow where they will be on display during the 1972 Agricultural Trade Show. Hayes was the only truck manufacturer invited to exhibit in this. Show and the s- pecifications of the truck-

s were dictated by the Russians. Their climatic

can be fertilized more easily, forest -

fires in them are checked more rapidly and insect infestation and disease more readily controlled there.

In another quarter, charges of monoculture’ in reforested areas (establishment of a single tree specie to exclusion of all others) are groun- dless — one might say, treeless. Douglas fir is frequently the preferred commercial specie and’ is planted where practical. However, this is done in the knowledge and expectation of natural invasion of the stand by so- called ‘‘volunteer’ trees such as spruce and hemlock. The clearcut reforested area can be a very mixed bag — pleasurable to the recreationist and profitable to the industrialist.

Unfortunately, five-inch tall

seedlings (and larger ones, toa) can seldom be seen from the roadside or from the air, Thus nature lovers may travel through a logged-off valley in ever-increasing anger at the apparent desolation. Nonetheless, despite a tremendous time difference, clearcut forest acres may be compared with the grain stubble fields where, in the debris, freshly sown seed is ger- minating for another crop cycle of ‘growth, maturity and harvest.

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and geographical problems were nothing new to Hayes, whose trucks operate worldwide under all that Mother Naute can come up with.

climatic and geographic- al problems were nothing

new to Hayes, whose trucks operate worldwide under all that Mother

The President of -

He wants Queensway kept separate from Thornhill

Dear Sir: .

AS 4 property owner in the Queensway area I am very much Concerned with the varied proposals being made regarding the immediate future M0 Thornhill. Too many cesidents, myself included, 1aye been content to sit back apathetically and let events run cheir course. In my own case, and 1 believe that this is true of Nany Queensway property ywners, this dis-interest can be attributed to our feeling that -his is a small area and isolated rom the rest of Thornhill] and ts problems. Indeed, until ‘ecently, [have never been able © get a definite answer as to whether or not Queensway, garticularly the western end,

. was to be included in the '- various proposals -for the

formation of some type of

- Improvement District, It now

appears that like it or not, we are part of the plan being submitted by one group calling themselves the Thornhill Incorporating Committee, and

’ * who seem to infer that they are

backed by a majority of Thornhijl -residents,, . presume to’ speak ‘for: the Queensway area. ‘ “

While it is no doubt true that some . people | on’. Queerisway- support this committee; let me’ state that“ until’-1 read. about

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only assume that this committee just contacted those residents of this area who they

knew would be in agreement -

with them. No doubt this is their privilege, but I do not think it gives them the right to say they speak for a majority of Queensway. Ashort time ago a few neighbours met at my home wilh members of the Thornhill Incorporating Commiltee and representatives of ihe Kitimat- Stikine Regional District with @ view to learning more about the proposals of the former group. This was merely an informal discussion at which ‘some personal views were aired, and -yel we have since been

accused, beth by telephone and : ala public meeting, of holding a” “secret meeting to dictate to the |

people of Queensway.” |!

In their’ brief to the Department of | Municipal Affairs, -° the

and “impossible” suggestion of four separate: Improvement Districts in’ Thornhill,.

and” ,Unacceptable and impossible to.

“Whom? ©: Evidently to thelr

-, petition | representing © '‘84

“percent in favor for Action in @

1 United Thornhill" 84 percent of .whal?- ‘I feel sure that if a-poll “was. taken-in the”. area, there wo id

- Thornhill - Incorporating Committee: ‘speaks of the ‘unacceptable’

It: also speaks of a

Pensway ° t be 84.

Hayes, Jack Curcio, and George Gray, Vice- President Export Sales will oe going to this show which opens in Septembcr. The three

units in «aestion are the-

HD 400 Dump Truck with a Reliance Dump Box, the latter also made in V- ancouver; a Hayes Hd - 409 Legging Truck and - Hayes WHD Oil Field Bed Truck.

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need and want, with pernaps Fire Protection as a primary concern, .

In conclusion, Jet me stress tha 1 do not pretend to represent any percentage of

_opinion in Queensway, but I do |

know that many residents are basically in agreement with me. As this is still a democracy it is onty right that these views be made public through your newspaper, to correct the impression that a certain group of péople is speaking for all of Thornhill. : ; Yours Truly, C.E. Bartlett 1839 Queensway

_ Syrvival in the wilderness

Survival in the Wilderness is the focus of a’ special 6-day short

- course being offered “by lhe

U.B.C. Centre for Continuing

‘Education, ‘Monday, August 21

to Saturday, August 26 at Strathcona Park Outdoor Education Centre on Vancouver

Island. = _ Allhough increasing numbers

. of. people .are venturing inte

B.C,'s wilderness’ areas,-.most know . little .of . wilderness

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Curcio feels that these units are already sold and consequently has equipped them with full arctic equipment. This means that each truck is equipped with a lined battery box and has heated fuel lines which pass through the fuel tank and ‘keep the fuel finid during the lowest - temperatures. The cabs have extra insulation and the engine, oil pan,

transmission and rear ends all have plug-in he- aters. ; .

All trucks are painted

in the red ‘and white - .

colour scheme with maple leaves which is becoming increasingly familiar to Canada’s export markets as this growing Vancouver Company extends its sales to the furthest corners of the globe.

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He wants to unite Thornhill

Dear Sir: —

I'm writing this letter to the editor and to the people of Thornhill as well. ;

L would just like to refer back to Tuesday night's meeting of June 27th in the Thornhill Elementary School. It makes me sick to think that we, the

- people of Thornhill, cannot make any forward strides and gel incorporated as a co

“complete water improvement district.

It seems everybody has a different opinion as to what and how this should be done. So, ‘therefore everybody is disgusted with everyone else.

Has it ever occured to you

Rasi passes

Well known in this area for his interest in junior hockey, Ernest Rasi died in Mills Memorial Hospital, ‘Terrace, on

’ Monday, June 26 after a lengthy ilness, He is survived by one son; Alan, in Victoria. The fu- neral was held on Friday in Victoria, : .

and aquatic life to outdoor first ald. A two-day survival. experience in which small froups will be left in the wilderness with minimal gear will be included. Te

—_. Course coordinators.will be: .

their own ‘inlerests,

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that we might be blaming the wrong people for all the dissention and: unrest among the people -- so that aur minds are being taken from the real issue at slake. I'm sure we are all wanting ‘and desiring, the same thing, but as long as there is a:cerlain few people keeping us slirred up and keeping our minds off the real issue - they know thal we cannot reach our ‘goal. Did it ever occur to you why we have so much difficulty Getting incorporated? Did you

ever stop to think that there are

‘afew people who don’t want us to incorporate.as a unit, or not

atall? Well let us take a look at

some of the things which have happened in the past years -- or not so long ago.

Why did our local regional . &

member sit on the petitions for

two years when 84 percentofthe

eople desired to become

‘incorporated as a water

improvement district. Why all at once did the regional

members come up with the crazy idea of'splitting Thornhill four ways? Their answer is: it is costing toa much,,.but that is all -hogwash The regional members have nat come up

_ with one sound reason why we » couldn't become incorporated . ‘a8 ‘one unit. © an

“I firmly believe the regional |

"a qembers have: not given

Thornhill a fair shake -- their interest rests with another faction who are pushing for ] believe. that's where our trouble lies. i believe the regional board is trying to sell us down the river,

"Jet us tell ibe regional board to

keep their nose out of (his thing and Um sure we will accainplish | something. | - :

“Wake-up folks. “Letus get off ff

our fal behind and do what we

and: thes maybe we will get. This: thing. has

ime we uniled for, >

‘have lo do, let's get our eyes. open and take a good look. as to | why idcausing weal the trouble’. Ea

edtoo long

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