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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday, June 13, 1978

EDITORIAL

Following our publishing a photo of telephone
poles lying. alongside Highway 16 between
Terrace and Rupert we received a phone call
form a woman whose husband, she said, had the
contract to cut them down and ship them South.

They are worth quite a lot of money she added, -

especially the poles that are creosoted—and a
dozen or so had already ‘disappeared’. She was

afraid more poles might be stolen after persons .

saw the picture in the paper. However, we are
confident our readers would not intentionally do
anything like that. Incidentally, removing them
without permission is a crime, punishable by
law-in case anyone should be tempted. (But
how do you hide a telephone pole, anyway?)

After one tragic incident in which three young
boys were apparently killed and partially eaten
by a male black bear and a second close call
when a bicyclist last month almost suffered the
same fate, and the third incident in Kitimat
about a year ago in which a bear ripped off a
young boy’s scalp—no one ought to need
cautioning about being careful when in bear
country...as all of us are.

As a reminder to my own family—and also as a
conversational piece, I have a lithographed wall
poster on my bathroom door that reads, “‘A Safe

Ottawa Offbeat

Ottawa,- In a recent syndicated column,
Dalton Camp compared Ruth Ann Wallace
facing down boos of Toronto Blue Jays’ fans at .
her “O Canada” rendition partly in French
with Barbara Frietchie's defiance of army
gunfire at her waving of the American flag.

In recounting what he called the ‘“‘daunttess
deed” of Miss Wallace, three errors in
historical fact about Miss Frietchie were
made by Mr. Camp:

-It was Barbara Frietchie, not, as Mr. Camp
wrote, Barbara Fritchie.

She cried: ‘‘Shoot if you must this old gray
head but spare your contry’s flag,” and not, as
Mr. Camp says, ‘‘my country’s flag.”’

-Her defiance was of Confederate, not as Mr.
Camp believes, ‘British troops.”

So he was wrong spelling her name, out on
what she said, and wide by 85 years with his

wars.

Nit-picking, you think, by a Civil War freak,
to fault Mr. Camp this way?

Perhaps, except that national anthems,
pride of patriotism and commitment to
country seem to have become corny if not
ridiculous. - 7

Take the other day in the Commons when,
after. approval of his motion, Nova Scotia

. Conservative MP Lloyd Crbuse rose to sing.

“God, Save the Queen,” followed by. “O:. . ..

Canada” in honor of Her Majesty’s 25th’
coronation anniversary.

For a long moment he stood and sang alone
until finally even the most ‘‘sovereignty’’-
minded of Quebec backbenchers on the
Liberal side rose and joined in.

In their balcony above Mr. Speaker, not half
the Parliamentary Press Gallery bothered.
' And back in the Gallery ‘“‘the-room,” where |
many newsmen watch the House on closed
circuit TV, there were sneers and jeers at the
singing of ‘‘The Queen” and “Canada.”

- §So, even if it comes from a Civil War freak,
it still could be heart-warming to recall what

Over the editor’s shoulder

Polar Bear Is A Distant Polar Bear’. The poster
resulted from the death of a 22 year ald Eskimo
student who was tracking polar bear footprints
when the bear, very cleverly, circled back and
attacked the youth from behind, ripping off his
scalp. The boy died before the Trans-Air sked.
flight, which had just taken off, could land after
it had been radioed to return to fly the patient to
Winnipeg hospital. -

Shortly after that tragedy, a Chipewyan man
and woman were attacked outside their own
home while waiting for a bus to town. The man
escaped, called for help, and the bear was shot..
After he and his wife recovered from the attack
and were discharged from hospital, the man
went to the refuse grounds and shot three polar
bears. The news reached me shortly after the
shooting (I was a reporter at the time) and I
checked the site and called the RCMP, to report
two dead bears. ‘There are three, not two” the
police corrected me. It was then I told them the
third was wounded-but very much alive, and a
frustrating bear hunt took place incorporating
trucks, Snow vehicles-and a helicopter that
lasted over 36 hours before the wounded third

1 was finally. accounted for.
During that search an RCMP constable came

by Richard Jackson

On that pleasant morn of the early Fall

When Lee marched over the mountain wall;
_ Over the mountains winding down,

Horse and foot, into Frederick town.

Forty flags with their silver stars,
Forty flags with their crimson bars,
Flapped in the morning: wind; the sun
Of noon looked down, and saw not one.

. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town
She took up the flag the men hauled down;
In her attic window the staff she set,

To show that one heart was loyal yet.

Up the street came the rebel tread,
Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. ;
Under his slouched hat left and right:

He glanced; the old flag met his sight.
“Halt!”'—the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
“Fire!'--out blazed the rifle blast.

It shivered the window, pane and sash:

It rent the banner with seam and gash.
Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff
Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf.
She leaned far out on the window-sill,
And shook ‘it forth with a royal will.

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, ....

But spare your country’s flag,” she said,
A shade of sadness; a blush of shame,
Over the face of the leader came;

The nobler nature within him stirred

To life at that woman's deed and work;.

“Who touches a hair of yon gray head

Dies like a dog! March on!’’ he said.

All day long through Frederick street

_Sounded the tread of marching feet:

All day long that free flag tost .
Over the heads of the rebel host.
Ever its torn folds rose andfell _—s.

- On the loyal witids that loved it well; .
And through the hill-gaps sunset light
Shone over it with a warm good-night.

’ Barbara Frietchie’s work is o’er,

across a very new-to-the-North CNR employee
trying to get his wife to hold a two-year old son on
a polar bear’s back so he, could take a picture of

it with his camera! In describing the incident |

later, the Mountie said he just.could not believe
what he saw, yet I have heard that story mat-
ched--and even, possibly surpassed, by ignorant
behaviour on the part of persons encountering:

’ the huge, dangerous animals. *

And speaking of ‘“‘bears’”--a mysterious nude
male keeps popping up in the news, in the
Kitimat area. ;

A couple of months or so ago, a Girl Guide
leader driving a carfull of Guides from a Kitimat
conference reported seeing two males clad only
in mud, ‘thumbing from the side of the Kitimat-
Terrace Highway 25.. Intermittently, news
flashes of nude flashers and UF 0's (Unidentified
Flashing Objects) have been cropping up in the
Terrace district since last Christmas, when one
woman answered a knock on her door at 4 a.m.
and found one such male on her doorstep. -

A woman, recently moved to the Terrace .

district from Saskatchewan likes it here very
much and told us so on the telephone, the other
day. Especially does she like the Skoglund
Hotsprings! She wrote and told her relatives and
friends back in the dusty Saskatchewan desert-
and they are coming to visit her, this Summer,
and she had planned to treat them io the Hot-
springs. -

Now, she says, she has learned the public pool
will not be opening this year, since it requires

major repairs which could not be carried out in |

time for this year’s tourist season.
A check with Merv, the manager, showed this
to be close to the mark. Merv has had the small

indoor hot pool retiled, where necessary and has
Spruced up the outside hotel pool. If our caller
therefore desires to rent a‘rooni at the hotel,
quite possibly an arrangement could be worked
out to use the pools that would be satisfactory to

everyone. — .

Our caller felt the tourist advantages of a local
hot springs resort was such a drawing card
possibly the B.C. government might be willing to
help develop and upgrade the resort as a tourist
attraction. The Skoglund complex is said to be
owned by Compass Investments Ltd., of Ed-
monton, - .

One last note. We know we (the HERALD) are
far from being perfect. We know we have a long
way to go yet—but we think we are on the right
track for a smalltown, daily newspaper-and we
must be doing something right!

Alocal woman tells us when she put a small ad
in the HERALD a couple of weeks ago she
received over one dozen-serious replies—and sold
the house she was advertising “Just like that! ”
There is no question our readership is growing,
and our subscription list is taking some keeping
up to! There was the Mothers’ Day contest
which brought close to nine hundred entries--an
all-time record, surely, for a contest of this kind.

Personally, we deplore boasting, and prefer to
let the facts speak for themselves. But, now and
then, when we hear from persons. who haven’t
read a copy of the HERALD for six months and
are therefore not aware of the changes that have
taken place, and that our circulation has more
than doubled since then — we think we should at
least mention this fact, because after all--that’s
news, too!

. Why March of Dimes is so important t

B.C.’s new Children’s Hospital

Care and concern for the Children’s Hospital is

ig always in search of im- better child health care are

commitment to country of Barbara Frietchie
meant to John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) :
Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Round about them orchards sweep,
Apple and peach tree fruited deep,
Fair as the garden of the Lord
To the eyes of the.famished rebel horde,

“Women Alive’ — Threat to Women’s Lib?.

By LESLIE K. TARR

The Women Alive’ organ-
ization is discovering that
the path of moderation

brings flak fram the right:

and the left. In spite of the
heat, however, the
movement is attracting
thousands of wonen to Its
meetings,
Nel] Maxwell, a housewife
and nurse in her 40s, laun-
ched Women Alive .in 1973.
she sald in an interview she
had regained a sense of
personal worth and realized
the need of a positive

Christlan movement ad-

dressing itgelf to women.
She and three other women

put up $300 and sponsored a

conference in Barrie, Ont.,

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where Ted and Nell Maxwell
live. It attracted 1,200
womento the small city, 100
kilometres north of Toronto.
Annual conferences,
couples’ conferences and
regional gatherings have
brought together thousands
of women—young and ald,
married and single,. mem-
bers of mainline churches
and of newer evangelical de-
nominations. This year's
annual conference at
University of Waterloo drew
3,500 and 3,000 others were
turned away because of
space lmitations.
REJECTS EXTREMES
Mrs. Maxwell said the
movement atrikes a
responsive chord ln women

‘Published by
Sterling Publishers

And the Rebel rides on his raids no more.
Honor to her! And let a tear,

Fall, for her sake, on Stonewali’s bier.
Over Barbara Frietchie’s grave,

Flag of Freedom and Union, wave!

Peace and order and beauty draw

Round thy symbol of light and law;
And ever the stars above look down
On the stars below in Frederick town!

who reject radicaliam and
sense validity in some of the
etiticlsms advanced by fe-

minists,

She sald the biblical
position regarding
womanhood has a positive
emphasis that has been
overlooked by both the
church establishment and Ita
critics. *

“The biblical emphasis is
upon mutual submission: of
husbands and wives. It runs
counter to the selfishness
and self-centredneas that
Clamora for righis at any

cost.

“If the biblical concept of
male and female roles was
accepted and lived, men and
women would realize thelr
potential and live in har-
mony and love."

In its five years, Women
Alive has firmly established
itgelf in Ontario. Calls from
Montreal and Saint Jobn,
N.B., resulted in large

‘conferences there. Now

Women Alive is considering
invitations to. Winnipeg,
Quebec City and other
centres, :

Women Alive makes no
apologies for its evangelical
commitment but it is not
interested in  hard-sell
evangelism.

MOST CHURCH-
QGRIENTED ’

Mrs. Maxwell said about
80 per cent of those who
attend conferences probably
have a solid church af-
filiation. She herself is a
Presbyterian

At her Barrie office, Mrs.

Maxwell, four full-time
employees and two volun-

teers handle, hundreds of
letters daily, Women write to
express appreciation
request counsel or literature

‘or inquire about a local

meeting...

She said the organization
dees not plan expansion for
its own sake but support
across the country is
demanding some hard
decisions about future di-

rection.

The enthusiastic reaponse
of women to the movement
tar outweighs its critles,
Mrs. Maxwell said. “When
you get fire from both sides,
you must be doing something
right.

“Our name describes our
mission. Full life for
women—and for men—is in
Jesus Christ. Without
waffling on other critical
issues, we want primarily to
see women alive in the
fullest sense of those words,”

(Rev, Leslle K, Tarr is a
Bap-tist minister and editor
of Faith Today.)

TODAYAIN HISTORY
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
June 13,1078

40 A.D.~The virgin
Mary, the mother of Jesus,
died. .

1965—William Butler
Yeats, Irish poet and
dramatist, was born.

1992—English actor Bail
Rathbone was born,

.1968—Dan Bullock, a 15-
yearold marine, became the
youngest American killed in
the Vietnam war,

sick and handicapped child
are the reasons for
Children’s Hospital. Illness
can be.a traumatic ex-
perience for a child, but it
can be lessened im an en-

* ylronment geared to one's

special needs and peopled by
those who understand these
special needs. Children’s
Hospital at 250 West 59
Avenue, Vancouver, is such
8 place.

Children's Hospital is a
resource centre of paediatric
expertise affected by the
needs of the community of
British Columbia. It Is not

only involved in the treating .

and managing of rautine
paediatric problems, but

provides highly specialized -

eare for the more serious
paediatric disorders.
Children's Hospital March
of Dimes Appeal was in-
corporated thirty-nine years
ago in British Columbia to
help the hospital to provide
specialized care and
treatment for all children in
the province. The funds
received by Children’s
Hospital from the March of

. Dimes are used in support of

child care programs and
services which are not
funded by the Provincial
Government.

Among the many im-
portant services and
programs which depend on
public interest and support

for funding is the Metabolic |

Screening Program... The
purpose of this program is to
screen the newborn for the
presence of an inborn error
of the metabclism. It {is

possible to detect such.

children by- screening the
urine.
Hospital Metabolic
Screening Program is now in
operation in 88 hospitals in
British Columbia and all
mothers with a newborn
infant are urged, to par-
ticlpate in the program so
that their child may be
checked. Without treatment,
these diseases of the
metabélism may have
severe consequences. The
screening program at

The Chiidren’s

designed so that treatment.
can be instituted and
damage prevented.

The Dental Program at
Children’s Hospital provides
a free dental service to
children whose parents
cannot afford to pay for
dental care. In 1977, 3,675
children received treatment
through the dental program,
Approximately 53 dentists
provide this service free to
the children on the program.

March of Dimes is also
used in support of the Breast
Milk Bank at the hospital.
The hospital supplies breast
milk to all infants requiring
this service to hospitals
across the province. The
breast milk is donated to
Children’s Hospital - by
breast feeding mothers who
have more milk than their
own infants need. The milk
is pasteurized and frozen
until ready to use. This
service has helped many
young infants and premature
babies throughout British
Columbia who could not
tolerate anything other than
breast milk. Many of these
babies would not have
survived without this ser-
vice.

For medical reasons,
Many people, especially
children, require dietary
treatment with specialized
products. These products

‘ are often very exclusive and

difficult to locate, The
Children's Hospital

Specialized Product [ba

Distribution Centre (S.P.D.-
C.) has been initiated {o help
solve this problem. ‘The
8.P.D.C. program, which is
funded by the March of°
Dimes, locates suppliers of

the specialized products,

purchases bulk amounts for
patients, stores, distributes
and sells the items needed at
cost price te patients. —-
Youngsters with metabolic
disorders, malabsorption
problems, allergies, Celiac
disease and other medical
problems, have been helped
through this Children's
Hospital service.
Children’s Hospital

proved delivery of health
care to children and has
developed new programs in
child care because’ of its
research, Among these
developments are the Day
Care Surgery Program,
Children’s Hospital
Diagnostic Centre, Care by
Parent Unit and the Am-
bulatory Unit.

Paediatric research and_

commonly found together,
These are some’ of the ser-
vices Children’s Hospital
offers to the families of
British Columbia.“ When you
support Children’s Hospital
March of Dimes in your
community, you are helping
to meet the many neets of
B.C.'s Children’s Hospital
today.

Dear Editor: .
Within the next two weeks
the Ministry of Forest Act,
Bill 12, and the Forest Act,
Bill 14, will be given 2nd

reading in the Legislature.
The greatest share of the
public wealth in our
vince comes from the
B.C. Crown Forests and the
long-term health of our
economy is dependent on the
legislation which determines
how this resource -is
managed. These two new
Acts are by far’ the most
important bills to be brought

Saat

p short period of
time which has elapsed since
the introduction of these bills
on May 12th, widespread
concern has been growing
that aspects of the proposed
legislation are net in the best
interests of sound forest

management and the
general public welfare, In

certain crucial areas it does.

not follow the recom-
mendations of'-the Pearse
Royal Commission on Foreat
Policy on which it was to be
sed, . moe
As spokesperson for the
Coalition for Responsible
Forest Legislation (C.R.-

F.L.), I visited the head

office of the Agsdciation of

B.C. Professional Foresters
(ABCPF) in Vancouver on |

May 29th, delivered our brief.

onthe new acts, and inquired |

ag. whether the
Professional Foresters were
golng to advise the public
about Implications of ‘the
New Forest Act. Mr, Cedric
ented Registrar, said that

were busy preparing ‘a
brief for the Forest Minit
the Honourable Tom
Waterland, whlch is to ba

submitted by June 15th, -
When I asked him if this
brief would be public he
replied that was “up to the
Minister”, — ,

Since the written policy of
the A.B.C.P.F. states that
one of the objectives of their
society is to inform the ~
public as well as the .
government of the im-
plications of policies af-
fecting the use of forest land,
we the members of C.R.F.L. —
would like to know if the
Society of B.C, Professional
Foresters is going to fulfill
this responsibilty by ad-
vising the ordinary citizens
of the effects of this
legislation. We believe that
essentially the new Acts do
not implement the sound
Principles of forest
management that the
Professional Foresters have
agreed to uphold,

Will the Professional
Foresters also join the
rowing number. of groups
(which include the Union of
B.C. Indian Chiefs, the B.C,
Independent Loggers
Association, the Federation
of B.C. Mountain Clubs, the
Sierra Club of British
Columbia, the Federation of
B.C. Naturalists, the Telkwa
‘Foundation and the
Canadian Scientific
Pollution and — En-
vironmental Control
Society) which are asking
the government to table this
Bill until the next session of
the legislature to insure
sufficient time for public
debate and consideration af
amendments? an
. Paul George

for Cosktion
Responsible
Forest Legislation

for