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EDITOR KAYCE WHITE.

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Terrace, B.C.

| OUR OPINION |

Games newsmen play

Newsmen who cover constitutional
conferences -- such as that held in
Victoria last week are used to
spending boring hours outside private
meetings and then piecing together
interpretations from misleading
rumours and incomprehensible
comments.

According to Sun columnist Aljan
Fotheringham who attended the
conference, the lobby of the Empress
Hotel was the most crowded portion of

. the Western world during that time.

Besides the assorted flunkies,
lackeys and aides of the various
provinces, there were 3,000 or so press -

_ - since all the sessions save for brief
opening and closing statements are in
secret -- standing around interviewing
each other.

“Sprinkled throughout this zoo are
figures that stand out as if coated with
flourescent paint. One doesn’t quite
know why, running one’s eyes over the ~
scene, but they, uh, don’t fit,’’ said
Fotheringham.

“They are the poor plainclothesmen,
The Horsemen dispatched in a tight
security guard around Trudeau,

Bourassa and presumably -- assuming
someone is interested -- the boss of
New Brunswick.”

“The RCMP is digging the vibes a
bit, one concedes. These invisible
heavies, lurking behind the potted
palms, have blossomed out in flares
and attempt at the latest mod clothes.

“But one’s: eyes rebel. What’s
wrong? Its those RCMP haircuts, The
poor chaps might as well be painted
blue. They’re as unobtrusive as a Mack
Truck.”’

“The embarrassed lads circle about,
trying to appear as if they’re spending
eight hours passing through the lobby.

Since participatory democracy had
retreated behind closed doors for the
duration of the conference, newsmen
gave their thoughts to inventing new
games. .

The most titillating suggestion was
matching the number of mounties
against the number of CBC hired hands
trapped in Victoria.

“It would have heen easy to
determine the winner,’ said.
Fotheringham. “The CBC ones were |
the chappies with the hair.”

Air fare war

The price war between international
airlines seems to be establishing one
thing: “students’’ can be almost any
age. This anticipates the day when a
weil-planned educational program will
graduate a scholar just in time to catch
the old-age pension.

In Canada students under 22 with

« special identification.cards can travel--< years: of agéahd<the-fact- they are-

“on domestic flights at half-fare, on a
waiting list priority.

The battle far revenue has altered
that situation in the international field,
Recently many major carriers have
been offering low fares for students
who could be up to and including 28
years of age.

Late last week Sabena, claiming to
be acting on the specific instructions of
the Belgian government, set the

student age at under 30. and cut

Toronto vs

It was grand therapy while it lasted,
but the traditional Vancouver exercise
of putting down Toronto is all played
out. Yes, madam, you may cry if you
want to; every community, indeed,
needs a dowdy yardstick by which to
compare its comeliness, blithe spirit
and machismo, if not gemutlichkeil.
By diminishing Toronto - ah; the
mileage obtained from those soul-less
concrete canyons in which a shot from
a cannon would hit nothing but an
orangeman mounted on a Sunday Blue
Law - we fed our ego. And what a roly-
poly it was. '

But it’s hard to keep up a delusion in
the face of so many incontrovertible
‘signs that the shoe, indeed, is on the
other foot. a

What has Toronto been. doing while ©
Vancouver has been alienating its
remaining available waterfront, .
looking resolutely backwards, thinking:
small? Why, building a $23 million
recreational complex of man-made
islands with lagoons, canals and what-
all on its water’s edge. Ontario Place -
well, thank heaven, the opening
i fireworks fizzled.

And what's this - people raising
glasses of red. wine and toasting the
chairman of the Ontario Liquor Control

A butcher shop in Vancouver
specializing in the sale of horsemeat,

bones. er ae
“The.idea may surprise some
_- Canadians but it will be no'news at. all

- horsemeat

cJoying it

“. Others view the practice differently,,
vas - witness:,the . uproar .in . Britain
“recently. when:

ven: the.word leaked out that.
old horses: from: the Royal Household.

Beat ’em or eat ’em

‘reports it is. doing a flourishing .
business in this era of $2.50 a pound T- ! 7
; . for rough justice to one segment of the

to Europeans who have beet: eating:
‘for’ generations and: en- .

another slice off the fares.

It would be folly to think that this is
the end of the competition. Air Canada
and CP Air have announced they will
follow the lead of their European
rivals. — ;

The present practice ignores the.
legitmate university students over 30

growing in number. Were such
competition carried to its logical
conclusion there would be lower fares
regardless of age or occupation. But
that seems a long-postponed goal.

When there was talk of airplanes
carrying from 300 to 500 passengers
experts were quick to predict this
would mean $100 return excursion
fares from New York to London. So far
these haven't developed,

But in air fares, it seems, strange
things can happen. -_

Vancouver

Board from tables at sidewalk cafes?

‘they were last night,

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which B.C. Tel buys a large part
of: its: equipment paid $17.9

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and: other charges to group
affiliates in. the U.S. in the last
five years, it was stated

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High and dry- by Allan Fotheringham "Vancouver Sun

VICTORIA - There is a
delighful line out of Stephen
Leacock when the Knights of
Pythias are headed for their
annual picnic cruise aboard the
Mariposa Belle. “There must
be sandwiches in those
baskets,’ wrote Leacock. I can
hear them clinking.” Well I
could imagine it happening toa
lot of people, but never to the
assembled heavy thinkers of the
land, rubbing heads here in the
fantasy task of finding a way
that Canada, to which the 20th
Century belongs, can amend
her own constitution without
going to London and asking the
Queen, pretty please. But there
the
premiers, attorneys-generals,
deputy ministers, boffins,
constitutional genii and
assorted high IQs with their
ladies. All tripping across the

“legislature lawn after"a theavy

day with the wherease$ and
howevers, boarding at the
Queen of Esquimalt in the inner
harbor for a sundown dinner
cruise around the Gulf Islands.
You could hear the sandwiches
clinking all the way up the
gangplank. ‘
The trouble is that no one. will
believe us when we tell about
Mr. Bennett, He has become a
creature of fiction for so long
now, from the innocents far,
afield to the wicked east, that
they tend to think we
exagerate. They did not believe
it when we told them he would
not allow the participants in the
constitutional conference to
smoke in their working rcom,
the legislative chamber. He did

‘stubborness,

Ontario official who controls a
major portion of the budget of
Canada's richest province,
“I've got to find our group's
bootlegger.”" The cream of
constitutional reform, sailing
into the sunset aboard the pride
of the fleet, became the “Brown
Baggers,” refugees from the
Commodore Cabaret. From a
day of intellectual wrestling
with the Guaranteed Annual
Income as opposed to the
Negative Income Tax, Supreme
Court reform and ways of
entrenching language rights in
the constitution, the captives
aboard the new Mariposa Belle
find themselves sipping from
the neck of the bottle like
‘loggers on a night out in Port
Kells.

Il’s a lovely evening. The ice
cream peaks of the Olympic

it in. the manner of any
abstemious old maid: refusing
to provide ashtrays. How do you
gracefully butt your fag on the
red carpet in front of national
TV? So, no smokes. They -
smirked when he told the world
in his opening address that the
constitution is not that
important but ‘‘particularly
important is the provision of a
healthy moral environment in
which our young people can
grow to maturity.”’ Then,
dehydrated by the desert of the
oratory, they rushed to his
luncheon for the premiers in the
Empress, eager of a stimulator
to counteract the soporific
Victoria atmosphere. Nary a
thing -- All they got was 2 little
white wine, the bottles wrapped
so securely in swaddling clothes
te disguise the labels that one
assumed they had been
retreived from the bullrushes.
‘Monday night, when the same ”
troops were summoned to
Government Housé for the

‘across the. waters, Eye.
fromm Mbhitoba east price
on the nearest

island. Mr.
Trudeau walks the deck with

Range in. Washington. sit out... into.an encountet group.Jn tha.
soul": ca¥e, ‘t
a Tok! satiwie

Madame Margaret, who’s fresh

and vibrant in a filmy orange .

pant suite. The French-
Canadian contingent on board is
enraged that it should be
expected lo play the vulgar
brown bag game of the sly
Anglo-Saxons. On ‘the bridge,
your agent gets into an
argument with William
Absoutely Clean Bennett,
suggesting that his B.C. Ferries
temperance role might be
lowered just for once when
Canada’s constitution-makers
weary from the chase in pursuit
of the unobtainable, might like a
lass of the grape to go with
their meal, the sunset, the west,
a nest and you dear. “A little
self-discipline never hurt
anyone,” is his reply. If there's
any more self-discipline this
whole think tank may retreat

the* clinking “OF th
havtivould drown, out: tHe
pealings of Mr. Bennett's
centennial earillion.

Lieutenant-governor’s dinner,
they found they were restricted _
to B.C. wines. It is apparently *
the only case in history when
every cabinet minister's wine-
glass was retrieved unfinished
and the prime minister in a sly
dig, thanked his B.C. host for
providing the guests with a
“sample of B.C." So the’
doubting chaps finally became
believers. By Tuesday night
cruise time, armed with the
knowledge of Mr. Bennett's
the gathered
sophisticates of the land were -
reduced to elementary survival
tactics. “Excuse me," said an

Dear Editor:

I have just returned to my
home from attending the
concert given by the Royal Fiji
Military Band. I have net been
so thrilled for a long time and J
consider it a privilge to have
been able to listen to it. It was
with preat satisfaction that I
noted the fact that the hall at the
Skeena Secondary School was
full for this event. That Terrace
was able to listen to such a

Yes, indeed; open-air imbibing was
made legal in Ontario just a few days
before the board’s opposite number in
British Columbia, in a clever move to
curb inflation, ensured an éven Jarger
profit than last year’s $61.5 million by a
major increase in liquor prices.
Perhaps, in that mad Toronto traffic,
the sidewalk cafe degenerates will get
run over? .

Alas, no. Because “stodgy old
Toronto”? has followed Ottawa’s
Sparks Street example by creating a
four-block long pedestrian mall on.
Yonge Street, the main drag. But
surely it was shown to be a ridiculous
case of granny not acting her age? No
and no and no, it was a carnival - so
many folks strolling and drinking beer
and eating spaghetti at the sidewalk
cafes that a military band couldn't
blast its way through.

Will Torontonians, one wonders, now
look down their’ noses at
Vancouverites, still waiting for. their
-city council to give the go-ahead for a
civic square, mini-squares, 4 mall, and _
just about everything else that may be
fun? If so, would they like lessons in
-how it’s done? a s,
, - Vancouver Sun

cavalry might be sold to butchers in

France. ; vo!
Horsemeat stores; much as they may

puzzle. Canadians, offer..a possiblilty.,

population. These are

the confirmed. .
horse race patrons. ,

“They vat! least. have the. option’ of" '

- «beating the horses or eating them. And".

at the price differential between’ beef.
- and horse, if they can’t do the former, -

- they may very well wind up. doing the»

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. different from. what he or she

Bill Smiley

- A ten-year term —

At this time of year, the
average schcol-teacher takes a
deep breath lets out an even
deeper sigh, and wonders where
in the name of all that's
ridiculous the last teaching year -
has gone.

Looking forward to ‘il in

’ September, it seems endless.

But that doesn’t bother you.
You are refreshed, full of beans,
full of plans, and full of that one-
more-into-the-breach-dear-
friends spirit. ; ;

Looking in either direction
about February is a depressing
experience. Behind lie the ruins
of your buoyant September self,

Ahead lies a trackless desert,
with the end of June far beyond
the horizon.

But looking back, it seems to
have flown by at the speed of a
mallard, ‘You are exhausted,
you query whether you have
accomplished anything, -and
you are ready Lo step out of the
breach dnd into a lawnchair.

It's a good time for a quiet
assessment of what the while
educational business is about,

‘and also of whether you have
contributed anything more than
a fairly capable job of baby-.
sitting. | ; ;
The young teacher especially,
just finishing the first-year, has
hada genuine eye-opener, . First
of all, he or she has discovered
that the “learning process”, as,
the jargoneers’call it, is vastly -

“had imagined’ it to be,

:«, The brighter. ones realize. that ;
‘theyhave’ learned: more than:

they have been taught. They've“

Jearned that kids are people,
-that problems . are never “a5
large as . they. look, and: that’
nemos are for the wastebasket,

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, event get a bellyfull of holidaya.
"Especially when one has to get

_avocation, let me justsayit'sa.
—helhiya tough job. 3t’s,not for...

coupe ge eine § tT iad.

talented band and witness the

national dances of such an
. oe : ‘ethnic group must bring
; congratulations to whomsoever
was responsible for booking this
event for the peopte of this area.
Finally, may I congratulate the
band itself on a superb
performance, one that will be

For some of them, ithas been "emembered for a long time by

the most exciting year of their
lives, because it has been the
first year in which they have

and to observe. Thank You.

been totally involved in a real Yours very truly,
job, with real people, students. WM. T. Godden
For many of them, the year 852 River Drive

past has been a blur, or a Terrace

the folk who were there to listen ‘

YOUR OPINION

_ Dear Editor:

To save. any further
misunderstanding, I would like
to clarify the article reported in
your June 10 issue on “The
Killing of Sister George”.

As stated, this was a non-
competitive Festival and so,
while’ agreeing that the
actresses named deserve every
credit for wonderful
performances, no awards were
given.

T would also like to thank
personally
contributed to the. success pf
this ambitious and difficult play

-- the people who worked’ so.

hard backstage - it takes many
people and much hard work,

The experience gained will
I’m sure be reflected in our fall
production.

Molly Nattress
4611 Morris Rd.
Terrace

. occupational

every one- who.

subsidiary Lenkurt Electric Co.
of Canada Lid, are controlled

- by General Telephone and

Elecironics Corporation of New
York. , ,

..Donald Armstrong,. vice-
president, controller, secretary,

_treasurer and a director of
-Automatic Electric, gave the
- figures

to the
Transport

Canadian
Commission
Tel’s
application for a general rates
increase. :

..The company is seeking

_- increases averaging 15 per cent
on monthly exchange rentals,

higher charges on many long
distance calls and permission to
charge more for installations
and other services. It has said
the increases will amount to
about $17 million in 1972,

.. Armstrong said that in the

_ five years from 1966 to 1970,

Automatic Electric and Lenkurt
paid $7.5 million in dividends to
GenTel. ;
,.Royally payments amounted

_to $4.9 million; administrative

fees $45.000; payments for
enginerring services $1,238
miltion; interest on loans
$823,060: commissions on
export sales $2.59 million and
advertising charges $134,000.
The ‘detailed figures
totalled just over.$17,9 million.

XXXK

. VICTORIA - A package
agreenicni for constitutional
reform was hammered out in
Victoria Wednesday after a 15-

hour debate between the
provincial and federal
fovernments,

. It will be about 11 days before
it is known whether provincial
premiers can get the approval
‘of their governments on the
coustitutional package.

.. The most significant proposal

‘would expand legislative power

of the provincial governments
to inelide family allowances,
youth allowances and
training
payments, Quebec has argued
strongly for provincial
dominance in this area.

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«NEW YORK - The justice
department asked U.S. District
Janlge Murray [. Gurfein
Wednesday to order the New
York Times to turn over for the
foverument’s inspection the
secret Pentagon study from
which its Vietnam series has
been drawn, - .

. Judge Gurfein signed an
arder instructing the Times te
appear in court Thursday te
show canse why it should net be
ordered to produce the huge
document,

..The Judge also granted a
temporary order restricting the
Times from publishing further
material from the documents
for four days. "
A lawyer for the Times told
the Judge that to turn the
documents over to the
government might permit
government agents lo trace the

- source that had given the

documents .to the newspaper.
The lawyer-argued that the first

amendment shields newspapers .

from disclosing their

confidential sources.

dazzle: endless hours of . —
preparation and marking a rs
papers; and a combination of me .
great leaps ahead and agonizing

prat-falls.

They're locking .forward ~.
desperately to vacation,
because they've really. been |
through the wringer. , They can
scarcely believe that they.have -
come through a year of teaching -
without anything worse thana , :
slight tle ora. voice ‘several? ,..-
decibels higher ‘than it was in’. °
September. Quite a few are
even more ‘‘dedicated" than
when they began. 67-0
Some of thern, fortunately not ~ =>
many, -are soured on the whole. _ ~
shambles and have, decided: °) -
they don't like kids, detest their
‘fellow-teachers, and loathe the
administration. They should
clear out without a back-ward
look, if they want io avoid
“unhappy: lives for themselves .
and all thase about them, —
‘ Teaching is ‘a - reasonably
well-paid job, with a long
holiday thrown ii. But J'xe ne,
never.met’a wealthy teacher -
and never will.’ And one can’

‘up ‘at’ slx ‘o'clock to drive his):
daughter towork. 9. Ns

"; But to those whoe nsider.it as a oo
“the weak of will or.the:faint of :
heart. 20 =: Sg

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