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— Two: days of testimony -

has: produced @ variely of opponents: to an application by .°. Canadian © . Forest

Products’ Ltd. for a tree ;

farm _ cetice, for 819,000

Orwell was writing: Nineteen Elghty-Four, ;

his famous novel about totalitarianism,:was

he thinking of the current lottery mania?

: Consider the- following passage from the ©

~4book, ‘as its- main’ protagonist; Winston wa “Smith, -tries. to -buck - the. mind-numbing

~ system’ controlled. by. Thought Police and ;

“They ‘were talking “about the: Lottery. ‘Winston. looked* back when he had gone 30

o "They: were. ti arguing, vith vin ‘The’ e Lottery, ‘ath Its # weekly, payaul of

It.has been called computer madness and while not everyone is buying 6-49 tickets these days Bill Sturby and . ‘Helen Jefferson say that sales in the national mania at the

{local level have gone up by elght times. Sales in other: _] lotteries have dropped by half.’ At one point there were: Aobed hungry or goto bed rich. | three lineups to the back door in the’ Woolworth Mall. The .

— When George

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‘wrapped up ‘Thuraday there “was. _ opposition «from: two

main. groups,’ the Peace |

‘River branch of the B.C.

Institute of Agrologists, and.-

the Saulteau.Indian band,

‘The institute ‘argued that. Canadian Forest ‘Products:

hectares the Peace River . ieee has not made.a cage for. 68

n Comipanycofficais r remain optimistic. they will get the

application. Ik -recom- licence, bt a8 the hearing

mended the ‘company re-

Pam Whitaker’s

Skeena Sketches

Marvin and Lark Uschulmelsier a are "delighted that their -

_firatborn son is such a contented baby, because next week

they plan to fly to Co-mwall Ontario to show him off to ‘Grandma and Grandpa. Actually, they're plain delighted with John Alexander, born Dec. 7.. He weighed seven pounds, Mu ounces,

Jaques and Birgit LeBlanc are delighted, -too, . with their baby girl Vanessa Lynn Gisela, born Dee: 31. ‘She wasn't:

the last baby born in ‘Tertace in 3933 but almost, She's the - last in her family | anyway (for. the tine being) with two

brothers that welcomed all eight pounds, 15 ounces of her.”

‘e ‘was: ‘calm in Prince Rupert when our'son ‘boarded: the - ferry to Port Hardy on‘Jan, 7.. While driving back to © j

Terrace, ferocious cross witds accosled my car as they swooped down mountain passes that joined the Skéena -

- The river was astir with white caps and roiling ice floes: - meant “looking. Farther up, there-were sand bars with

gigantic floes deposted on them. From # distance the odd’

- shapes looked like polar bears in an arctic scene.. “The-road was mostly bare but within an hour of arriving in Terrace a blizzard hit, reducing mistniity to almost zero. = * January weather: for gure, -

“Another sight ‘on the road to Rupert was a . Speno rail "train. I didn’t know what that was‘either. When I saw it on

the way to Rupert I thought it: was Just a.work train with bright lights,

On the way y back i it had moved up the track a ways and .

was spewing yellow-orange sparks; and. fire from’ under

almost the entire length of its 10 cars. [wanted to stop and

gape bul thought I’d better keep travelling.

‘There was no answer when [ phoned the CNR si Terrace,

An ethployee in Prince. Rupert, however, gave me the following Information:

A Spend rail train ia specialized equipment from the U 5. that {a contracted out to various rallroads. It comes with its own men to operate: it.

Along its length are grinders | and it travels ‘lowly up. the

track grinding down imperfections ‘on the rails, smoothing — Se ci the serviceable life of the track. : How

about that: . . it you ‘Chiristmas tree is still’ sitting | in your yard why not

_ decorate ita second lime - for the birds. Tie small spleces -

of suet; lettuce, or bread crusts to the branchés. Sprinkle the entire tree with birdseed and watch the birds gather f for their own holiday: ‘banquet, Lt

Birth announcements and items of interest to thé general - public are ‘welcomed for this column, Phone 635-5178. _

per cent of the atea In the ~

OF the 262,000 hectares, at least 20,000 hectares.-are-”

. enormons prizes, was theo one ne public event: ec : _ which the. nrales (proletarlat) Bald seriots of ‘attention. ; o _ “It was probable there : were: -mnillions of. proles for whom the Lottery waa‘the prin-.. cipal’ if not the only reason for remaining alive. . 7 “Tt. was their delight, their folly, their oe anodyne’ ‘(harmless Soother), tellectual stimulant. a . oy - "Where the Lottery: wail ‘concerned; ‘even ©. people. who ‘could barely read - and wrile-- seemed: capable of’. intricate. calculations’ and staggering feats of- ‘memary.- oS There was a whole. ‘tfibe’ ‘of men who -

woke

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their . be a the: winmérs! of the: big prizes being non-

“odds are just as great if you buy. one ticket o or you buy 200 tickets and some people are spending their gracery money ~ trying to-win the big bucks. . But man will never beat the, “machine; say others. ‘Saturday fs the day people elther: go :

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- Only’ ‘amalt aun:

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“made a “living simply. by selling systems, : a forecasts. and, lintry amulets. ; _ a “winston had nothing to do with. rutnining _ ~ “the” Lottery,’ which was managed bythe |

’ Ministry: of Plenty, but he-was aware —: ‘indeed everyone in ‘the Party was aware — | ~that the Dbrizes_ were largely imaginary.”

Tn “the: “ahseriee” ‘of ‘any ‘real in- ~~ \tercommurications: ‘between one part of Qeeanta and anotiier, this was not difficult ;

o%

‘were actually paid out,

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_ association.

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pponerits Speak out against TEL. :

appy ‘for: a much smaller. area, ..:°* : Cin ..Haddaw, who presented the agrologists’ brief, said that of the.819,000 hectares” of land,: only.‘ 262,000 . hectares are con® sidered productive. She said: the company has not shown ~

why it needs ~ the’ other:

_ 657,000 hectares-i in the tree. farm licence, and should, be

in the . agricultural : arid: reserve. Some ‘of that Jand.. has been. identified ina‘ survey as highly suitable for agriculture; :

— There: are: other uses

for many ateas the com- ‘Gauthier: sald,

" when it) assesses its value as* ‘forestland. - Ss

“TOLD OF CONCERN —

The Saulteau band. said

"Canadian | Forest Products.

: shold’ : get} no- -apptoval .

; “whatsoever until the isgue of

land. claims are’ settled.’

eh Band councillor Amy Ani

Gauthier ‘said: she feels the “licence, “would - Prejudice ‘those. claims: : “

‘The band isi in the process

12,000 hectares of land, and * feels ‘the. impact ” of the *eence on, trapping, “and

hunting: sights: is of vital § importance. a =

“The: trappers strony.

“oppose. your. TE

pany wants to include ix the ;; faltness select ‘the. portions

tree farm licence; © . _ = The value of the 262,000:

; hectares as farm land at.

market prices would. be $65.5 million. The govern-

ment should consider that

Connie Roberts is. compéting at the B. Cc. _ Winter Game in Juvenile Ladies Singles from '. March 1-4. She won first place tn the skate-off

of lurid that would not affect

- such: a "valuable. livlikoed.””

Sccthe West. Moberly Lake. ~. Cree Band submitted a brief

“in “stipport? of the * ap-

., plication, although it also . *

in Burns Lake last month for the Games. She is currently working on third figurés, senior bronze freeskate and lunlor silver dance,

of. filing a ‘legal elaim to:

fy

“supports the i issue of Jand -¢laims.,

~ VANCOUVER: icp) — ” $rocimitiion fund to reduce - 2, the: size: -of the’ B.C. Salmon. “fleet” “could; ‘eliminate ‘as: many as. 1,200 boats : from: : the fishing’ ‘industry, the:. * president ‘of the Pacific’ Coast Salmon - ‘Seiners -| Association ‘Said Thursday,”

" Lioyd Heskin of Victoria’

““ suggested.: the ‘figure’ in

calling on other fishermen’s ‘groups. -to Jolin . his in: supporting. the “buy-back! proposal made to, the. federal . Fisherles Department. by the = industry advisoty “ council, oo a The $100-million proposal — was one of ‘several options. outlined by the council after: a yeat’s debate over the ' inquiry report in the Pacific’

fishery by Peter Pearse, a.

University’ - of BC.. economist, The report | called for drastic reductions in the size of the fleet and’: other reforms to save the’ - troubled fishery.

Fishermen ' had rejected abper-cent | cut

~ Support offered.

VANCOUVER (CP) Privatizing “some of the.

: government's supervisory — programs for young of

” fenders:could be a good way

- of involving the community

more in rehabilitation of juvenile lawbreakers, says

"a. director ‘of the John. ., Howard Society. °

“We applaud that they are doing’ this,”, Madge, Sasvari. said Thursday.. . “These programs shouldn't : he™ done’ by government agencies. anyway, especially * community

’ service programs.

- "With private agencies there- will. bé more, com- munity : irivolvement, .more

flexibility’! ‘and whore can-

_ tinuity.” "

. The. ‘ corrections _ branch ha. advertised for tenders from community _ .. Broups or, corporations -to” ‘develop . activities ‘and - services for. young: of- ' fenders, people on probation: ;

or. those required by the ©: courts. to. do - “community " ;

work.

‘Basvari said the prisoner welfare ‘society

is * par-. ticularly. interested’ in- the

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ra

the report's’ ‘main recom

_Mendations for competitive bidding for licences aid: a ° of “number of other measures *' 4 ' to rationalize the industry...

. They were given one year by Fisheries Minister Pierre De Bane to come up with alternatives. .* -

- Anew. aasoclate , Ceputy

‘minister, ‘Kenneth Stein, is

expected: to-present a fleet os ‘ reduction plan to.a meeting oe of the” councdl’ early: next

month, ‘Heakin. said: it was “first " thought ° the. +$100-million

could eliminate about 22'per- .

. cent ‘of the:boats. in: 4,000-

boat salmon fleet, bub later

estimates’ indicate: It could eliminate’ 30 per-cent, —

~One (of the “problems - witha. ‘buy-out

“scheme is” objections * it’

~ would ‘ bail-out -banks and

other.‘ institations whieh;

according - fo one estimate, hold mortgages against the fleet’ totalling $250. million.

‘Industry: officials agree.a

biggest

The landed. value;of ‘the B.C. salmon catch last year’ has: ‘been: eatithated at $125 8

cessful fishermen would riot:

‘opt out and high costs ‘and - ‘poor ‘markets. will push

others out anyway.

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