T "ERRACE STANDARD Registration N No. 7820 Phone (604) 638-7283 11968) Lid, its illustration repro services and advertising agencies Serving tha Terrace area, Published on Wednasday of sach week by Cariboo Prass (1969) Ltd. at 4647 Lazella Ava,, Terrace, British Columbia. Stories, photographs, illustrations, designs and typestyles inthe Terrace Standard are Ihe ‘Property of tha copytighl holders, Including Cariboo Press Ropredudian In whole or In part, without writen parmission, is specifically pwohibited, Authotized as second-class mail panding the Post Offic Department, for payment of postage in cash, Gon Production Manager: Edouard Credgeur Jeff Nagel - News/Community, Malcolm Baxter - News/Sports, Publisher/Editor: Rose Fisher - Front Office Manager, Pam Odell- Compositor, — ee ~ Red Link Tricia Walker - Typesettey, Susan Credgeur - Composing/Darkreom, Special thanks t to _ ESTABUSHED APA: 27,1968. . Janat Viveiros - Advertising Consuttant, Sam Collier - Advertising Consultant, four . es RC VA Advertisin Charlene Matthews - Circulation Manager ja 4647 Lazelle Ave,, Terrace, B.C. “VEG ico Mariager: 9. - contributors and . no espondenis Fax (604) 638- 8432 Mike L, Hamm corresp : VERIFIED CIRCULATION: CONTAOLLED for their time and talents. ~ EDITORIAL, Fishing lesson This city has more in common than it thinks with Prince Rupert in looking at how cutbacks in the commercial fishery have affected that coastal city. What is going on in Prince Rupert now contains significant clues as- “to what could happen here. For several years Prince Rupert has faced the brutal reality of dealing with a declin- ing resource. Each. season there have been fewer and fewer fishing days, That’s ex- tended to fewer and fewer processing days and consequently, fewer and fewer fishing dollars and. jobs flowing into Prince Rupert. The circumstance peaked this year when | commercial fishing days at the mouth of the Skeena were cut in order to give more steelhead a. chance to return upriver to spawn. The cut in fishing days was a con- servation measure to save and bolster steel- head. But to commercial fishermen in Prince Rupert, it became an allocation is- sue — who gets what. Prince Rupert politicians, business lead- ers and fishermen banded together to form a Save Our Communities committee. The committee has two targets. One is the fed- eral government which brought in the fish- ing cuts. The other is. the collection of recreational angler groups who have an in- ~ terest. in Saving - steelhead. Again, it’s a who gets what issue. And that’s caused a lot of finger: pointing, accusations and bit- ter feelings all done in the attempt to preserve jobs and stability. “Brase “thie" wotd" fish ‘from all Of this a ; wy & gy yy The retirement this Friday of Dr. Donald ‘Strangway from his surgical practice marks the end of a long and honourable career in the northwest. First at Wrinch Memorial Hospital in. the Hazeltons and then in Terrace, Dr. Strangway did his best ceptable levél of health care, There: mind. That became: evident: ‘recently with ‘two letters — one on the general state of s always. more tia’ the strict put the word tree in iis place. Consider the impact, let’s say, if somebody decided that’ a goodly portion of the wood that comes to sawmills here should go instead to a mill in Prince Rupert. While jobs are not yet threatened in this. city, the possibility of parallels with Prince Rupert are contained in two recent reports: : One states that logging must be reduced, north of here because what is growing now isn’t enough to take the place of what is being cut. Another states there the north- | west milling capacity exceeds the amount of available wood. _ Inother words, the forestry industry faces the same situation as that facing the com- — mercial fishery — one of conservation and one of allocation. The one big difference is that the forestry industry affects every town in the northwest. And this means the allocation issue — who gets what — will be all important. The worst case is a degeneration into community against community for wood. A best case is a common effort to use wisely the wood resource for the best pos- sible interest of each community. - Forests minister Dan Miller has hinted at some sort of regional group to make those kinds of decisions.. The impression is that he and his officials are expecting the group to come together by some type of magical means. One of Mr. Miller's officials pointed to the need for “‘spirited leader- ship.’’ Northwest residents should expect to make their own decisions. But the initial push should come from Mr. Miller. tae io peek “Healthy words | health care in the northwest and the other on the loss of Prince Rupert’s sole general surgeon. Dr. Strangway believes that northern health care is different than in other parts _ of the province. And that’s. why the provin- cial government's © one-size-fits-all _ap- -proach to financing health care can’t and won’t work:up here, he. says. It is some-' thing to consider as hospitals and health care agencies up here struggle to meet the ~ dicta of those from down south. ‘It’s toothpick trauma "At last, B, Cys about to turn trees — into a value-added product. We're - growing . our own tooth- Picks... Jack “Munro, ‘chairman of the Fores! Aliiance: of 'B.C.,° says, “By the time the last cut is made "in “Clayoquot Sound,.' sometime from the :year 2073. to 2093,: the areas cut today will have coastal . western hémlock trees 35 metres Through Bifocals. | _ by Claudette Sandeck | DON'T GIVE THEM ANY PROMISES , THEY KNOW VOU CAN'T KEEP... “wrote the piece should never - tall and 32. cm, in diameter.’”. That's a toothpick. a Translating ‘those dimensions, you get a tree 114 feet high and Tound as a garbage can. Why, the alder beside-' our . ‘front. ¢ gate, shorier than the hydro wire, has a. ‘picks fold like a ~carpenter’s 12-inch trunk. ‘Munro’s hemlock * will: be four’ times® as’ high: yet | ~ four-fifths the girth, BCs toothpicks should be in-” d th, unlike ‘tlie, flat -. wstrial strength, unlike the, fat ‘Lyndon Johnson’s’ presidency, — dental floss. had an‘‘honoured - wooden toothpicks we now buy, made in Ontario from white pine, : ‘Morningside’ 5. according” Stuart” Melcan, The pine used is only sliptitly-1ess ‘knotty than the® frame lumber. of a modem: hideabed, ; Both, are designed | fo . collapse. That’s bad news, 5 for folks tke me with teeth; tighter: together’ than rlot police under siege. After a beef supper, there’s a mound. of: - splintered kindling under the edge af Toatpicls plate. ye ing goose, to eich coloured senti- ments on iced Christmas cookies, Space with our pepper.’ shaker. ‘and to pin together thin slices of beef rolled. around bacon, dill pickles,. onion and ‘galic to cook JYoulade, — | At the mere “touch — of cheesecake batter, today’s tooth- wooden tule. Toothpicks aren't | aS standard on the dining table as.salt cellars or sugar-bowls, although. during. place on.the White House table. You can. bet toothpicks share Any stringy food such as steak, corn on the cob or celery plays "7. ¢at’s eradlé among my ivories.- Because toothpicks are so un- ‘reliable,: dislodging: a stubbornly wedged almond, fennel seed,’ or apple core means. resorting to a straight. pin. or a needic, tools » rarely. found . dn: a. ining able centrepiece. ‘envy ‘people with teeth spaced like’; railroad‘ ties,-A former co- orker, Muriel, had a gap wide as CNR tunnel. ‘between: ‘her:front | teeth. She never knew the frustra- . tion of tweezing frayed floss snagged between molars grown . together tighter than New York brownstoncs, I could ask my dentist to play machinist and narrow my molars with a brisk filing, thus creating extra space between individual nippers. Or I could limit my diet to pap,- puddings, and soups.. _ Now. [ won't have. to. Insicad TH concentrate on maintaining my dental ‘health “until Munro’s hemlocks aré fully grown, ready for harvest © Pve already waited years for a : . flexible toothpick. What’s anoth- . er century? CHECK! I'LLONLY GIVE 7 THEM PROMISES TKNOW | | CAN'T KEEP... | ELECTION Clayoquot f olan remains good one VICTORIA — The Van- couver Stump, a four-page broadsheet whose masthead bears more than a striking similarity to that of the Van- couver Sun, hit the streets last week, Well, actually, it hit my desk. I don’t think you'll find itin the regular news outlets. The Stump is published by Guerrilla Media, a self-styled i ‘media ‘direct-action group” | which sayas'it is dedicated to demystifying some of the is- sues surrounding the govern- ment’s decision to log Clayo- quot Sound. In shart, the ~ Stump is brought out by the — environmental movement ] agree with the Stump on one thing: some demystifying © is definitely needed, but 1am not so sure that the Stump has entirely succeeded. . The front page is a some- what strained attempt at black ~ humour. A four-column head- ’ line says “‘NDP & MB an- nounce Merger.”” Whoever. try his or her luck with stand- up comedy. I’H just give you . the lead: ‘Victoria — The province’s ruling party and B.C.’s largest forest products company today announced that they have reached a tentative merger agreement, The joint com-. muniqué stated that recent events had made the two parties realize that they had many common interests.” Believe me, this stuff doesn’t: even qualify for a decent high school newspaper. Having said that, I must add that the rest of the publication is bel- ter. I particularly like the job the Stump does on Burson- Marsteller, the famous or per- haps infamous public relations company. ’ Burson-Marsteller was the company put in charge of get- ting the Forest Alliance off the ‘ground. The alliance is funded -by the province *s major forest .companies and promotes mul- tiple use of our forests. Nothing wrong with that I believe strongly in sharing - resources between the various GREAT! GROUSE FoR PINNER! BN! oF THAN AGUNIT MY: DEAR Mant IT'S | MUCH MORE: CIVILIZED To SHOOT WITH A CAMERA From the Capital by Hubert Beyer stakeholders. It’s the choice of the PR firm that might have been a little ill-advised. ] have writien about Burson- . ‘Marsteller before, but Jet me refresh your memory by giving you afew examples of what projects this company has to its credit. . . Way back when, Nigeria hired Burson-Marsteller to . polish its image which had “been severely tamished by - reports of genocide during the’ Biafran War. Later, the com- pany promoted Romania isa. good place to do business. In the late 70s, while more than 35,000 Argentineans _ ___ *‘disappeared,’’ the ruling mil- .. itary junta hired Burson- - : Marsteller to improve its inter- national image. The South ~ Korean government did Fikewise when it wanted to show a good face to the world ' for the 1988 Olympics. And guess who helped Mexi- co ram through the contested _ fast-track option for the‘North American Free Trade: ‘Agree- + ment? Burson-Marsteller. - Through its lobbying wing, the company helped the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons fo” prevent restrictions on breast ’. implants. And it helped the to- - bacco industry to downplay the health hazards of smoking. Union Carbide hired Burson- Marsteller in the wake of the Bhopal disaster that killed 2,000 people. Babcock & Wil- cox hired the firm after it had a nuclear reactor failure at. Three Mile Island. And last, but not least-—I really get a kick out of this one - — the Vancouver Sun hired ° ' Burson-Marsteller to help it spruce up its image and in- crease circulation. Ya gotta. : love it.. .. Some more good coverage is: given to what the Stump says: has been the Vancouver Sun’s— deliberate policy of killing | critical reporting on environ- | mental issues, It’s worth read: | ing and gives rise to the ques-. * tion of just how much Burson- Maistelier had to do with that policy, It quotes the Sun ‘managing ~ "editor Scott Honeymanas | _ saying, “the readers want to. have some fun and we should. have some fun making a pro duct that readers will enjoy.’ Gee, and] thought newspa- .. pers were supposed to be in. the information business, holding up a mirror to society. -and all that. Does all this convince me. + that the government’s decision to allow limited logging — .: and that’s what it is, no matter: - what ihe environmentalists try to tell you — was the wrong ~ one? Not by along shot. I ~~ frankly don’t give a damn whose image Burson- os Marsteller is polishing, I stick to-my belief that it was.the | right decision, based on com, : promise. — And that’s where the rub lies with many environmentalists.. They don't want to com- . ” ( promise, They want it all and. then claim they got nothing. ; And anyone who’s.not with... them, is the enemy. or, in my -: - case, a “dinosaur of journal: ism,” a label I earned from: - Vicky Husband of Western © Canada Wilderness Com- ° Ph nitice fame. Still, the Stump is a good read, and lest I be accused of . ignoring my friends in the en- 7 vironmental movement, I’11: : give you the address where ~ you can order.a copy for'$2., (cash only): GM Stump, PO: Box 65746, Vancouver, B. Cy ~ V5N SK7, | 7 50, waar you got FOR DINNER? ~ FRIED FUTICHROME, KopAK KABORS ?