number 1201. ED VAN DER LEELIE MANAGING EDITOR GORDON HAMILTON PRODUCTION P.O. BOX 39797, 3212 KALUM STREET TERRACE, B.C. the herald: PUBLISHED BY NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED The Herald is a member of ihe Canadian Weekly Newspaper: Association, The B.C, Weekly Newspapers Association, and Varified Circulation. Published every Manday and Thursday a1 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, &.C. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. Second class mail registration GEORGE T. ENGLISH ASSISTANT EDITOR MARY OLSEN ADVERTISING § Our Opinion Gross ignorance Early last week, world famous actor’ John Wayne demonstrated what could be said to be gross ingorance in his press statement, “‘it’s none of Canada’s business...””, referring to the scheduled Amchitka bomb blast. This man, being as. famous as he is must be aware that the fault line that makes up the Pacific Ring of Fire runs from Amchitka Island down the Alaska panhandle, down the coast of B.C., Washington, Oregon, California, Mexico, Central America, South America, across the south Pacific, through the archepelegos in the south seas, up through Indo-China and the Far East, through Japan, Northern China, Korea, Eastern Russia, and back across the Bering Straight to Alaska again. It is very much the business of Canadians that the United States could consider starting what could be a cataclysmic chain-reaction of earthquakes, tidal waves and possibly even the odd volcano through one of Canada’s richest resource areas. It is very much the business of Japan that the United States would seek to test a bomb that will never be used at the risk of their entire nation. It is reasonable that the countries bordering on the ring of fire should be uptight that the Giant of Middle America is threatening.to not only rock...water lately than, enough, if they hea but possibly sink thé7boat ofthehrrthé wa! a triean ‘economy. eee It is very much the business of all persons concerned with ecology that one of the worlds biggest offenders in the field of pollution should propose to eas contaminate the waters of the: northern Pacific with deadly radio- active waste material. John Wayne seems to speak with some idea of authority...where does he yen get il? Has this actor the right to state what is and what is not the business of the people his countries could conceivably destroy with the test? Not likely, This man is going on the premise that since nearly everyone in the collective countries that make up the world know who he is, for that reason he has the right to say what we should or should not do. Would this man have the intestinal fortitude to travel with the people of it mean anything to him while he sits in his glass castle in New York that his professional home could very well slide into the ocean? It doesn’t appear that the Greenpeace? Does he cares. . How many people really do care? John Wayne is typical of numbers that probably run into the millions of people who really couldn’t care less. After all what is a couple fewer cities . along an already over populated coast (California, Oregon, Washington...). What difference does it make if a couple of insignificant little cities (Prince Rupert, Terrace, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, etc., etc., etc.,) . disappear into the muddy water that used to be the Pacific Ocean? _ What difference does it make to a country that has gotten into more hot teil Poy a litteamor re by ee BAM genie HA bec oeten 4 peste Who cares? We care, John Wayne. We care about the proposition to destroy half of the world. It is our business, and we: care about it. Mind your own business about who is minding whose business concerning something that is none of your business, Mr. Wayne. TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B,C. “Oh, sir! — About that gratifying horde of eager, _—— | a} é > 32 eon 5 E : “tne fed eo ; pa) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 197 . Ducledr.. tests at. notes over the tests, | the French, -exploded noted ‘in Washington. going ahead with its series re . Lagoon “in ‘the South. Paeil despite the strenuous protests oF ~ Peru, Japan and New Zéaland . Peru has threatened .to brea ‘diplomatic relations ani Ne - Zealand has :sent 11: ‘p “But nothing seems to budg “Recently, \the a high-powered device;. evidently a hydrdge: - bomb; It was the fifth this year] ' . and the 44th French nuclear tes - ., Since the country detonated its first atomic bamb in 1960, i In- the same way as alm resolution by South Pacifica leaders opposing these testsial have not deterred France, sof Canada's ‘protest about thei coming U.S, underground test i on Amchitka Island in thei Aleutians has merely been ¥@ ., The Americans are planning§ to go-ahead ‘in. October- with ‘their five megatyon bomb i explosion - which will be equal ¥ "to the force of five million tons of ‘TNT, 250 times. more @ powerful than the bomb that § wrecked Hiroshima in 1945. .& There are fears the U.S. bomb @ might cause. earthquakes, a. tidal wave and radiation . =o The South Pacific lagoon of & Muroroa. is a-long way from % -. Canada, the Aleutians are only # miley from § In both @ ~ + Jabout. 1,400 / 7’ Anchorage, Alaska. expectant, determined, returning MPs — they AIN’T ,.. !” ok. eases, ‘however, Canadians | '. - Qught to be equally conderned & and should make their protests § ‘heard more loudly so that they @ ied: kee ee re wapee Soe ft wasn’ tso bad*during “last- i winter and: spring, “Hl Won't! talowee ‘te long till we're seeing the great pumpkin. around these parts, Just 4 shoppt ng days lefe tli BILL SMILEY The ivory covered halls of learning Teaching in our school this fall.has been a combination of walki the gauntlet. When school opened, about fifteen hundred kids and eighty teachers walked into something that looked as though the Irish Republican Army had been using a testing ground for bombs. A new addition, about the third since I came here, was in its glorious death throes. That means it might be finished in six months, . IE. wag sbebun byyear most outsid work, lively, especially in the spring, with the Italian workers ogling the gi and being ogled back, and drinking beer on the job and yelling and laughing. -But termites, the inside workers, got into the mausoleum and the result, complete chaos, The termites ng the plank and running it for a couple of years as size, “A honk; Ret, because of the construction was le: brick piling and steel In fact, it was quite monsoon. Did you every rls through the windows if you had lights? during the summer, the Just for a while at least, is tr anything na room tha naked light bulb at the back and is so full of somebody else's junk (equipment), that you couldn't see your students even are electricians,plumbers, floor and ¢eiling men and others of the ilk. If you aren’t tripping over an electric cable or walking through some fresh- poured concrete, you're liable to be showered with sparks by a welder working overhead. The library isn't ready, there is no cafeteria, and the gym is not finished. These are pretty important areas in a school that Didvyou every try ta teach poetry, with a jackhammer blastitig a few feet away? It’s ‘like trying to have an elegant Zarden party in the middle of a‘ to compound confusion, the numbers of all the rooms have been changed. Thus, my old room, 269, is now to teach t has one E202 or 204.. I’m still nat sure which. ; Time was, when a little grade niner would ask, “Sir, can you tell me where Mr. Kacklin'’s room is.” I would answer with sublime confidence, “Sure. Just along the hall to the boiler room, turn right, and it's about three doors dawn on your left,”’ Now I haven't a clue where Mr. Kacklin’s room is. [ think he’s * moved some-where, and the place is so big E couldn't tell the kid how to get there if I did -know,- a 4 Attook me talk an hour to find the new staff “lounge”, which turned out tobe a square, bleak, underground hole with no windows and a couple of light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. In the proposed cafetorium (a bastard word if there ever was one), the windows were sealed - off because it would be air- conditioned, Can you imagine what it will be like in.there with the smells of cooking and fiva hundred bodies, on a hot day. It seems to me that school architects are in a class by the the them, bitterly rigidity, themselves, like carpenters who would Specializes in designing schools being asked to build something that combined aesthetics and utility. - However, there’s always a brightside to things, The public address system is not working. The bells are not working, { Theseare two boons, ahd hope = 4 they never get‘ them Working,’ None of the teachers has gone stir- crazy. yet,- despite the are'litect-s windowless rooms. ~ In fact, there’s a certain gaiely and sprit de corps among the staff, the sort of thing that always emerges ina great disaster, like a bombing, paralyzing blizzard, And the kids love it. Kids love confusion, especially in their teens, when they begin to resent. regulations, rules and _would never tackle Board of Evangelism | anything bigger than an out- ad SocialServices, { door privy. _ Perhaps “1 wrong United Church of Canada Pehaps they are - —_—_—- hampered by rigid budgets, But —_- .- . "I can't imagine any firm that ~ Cen te nn id | Alert. w ‘fetish for in 1892. . ; | KKXXXK, blitze or ‘a Foundation. - - . . . . CENTENNIAL MEMO - Alert § Bay was named in 1860 by 3 Captain Richards of HMS Plumper, It was named. after e.17-gun screw corvette HMS ¥ “i - alee foe ot IEMA AH CENTENNIAL MEMO __- Vancouver Electric Tramway § opened in 1690. Service was | extended to New Westminster ] Youngsters -stand to ‘gain most by Eating for’ Heart Health. The earlier in life that # correct eating habits are for. @ med, the better the chance of % reducing the ‘risk. of i heart disease, says the B.C. Hear’ reach the ears of both Prime # - Minister Trudeauand President 3 Nixen. The fallout from ‘the } French tests and the dangers of @ the U.S. five megaton bomb are §f the problem of every human | being interested in preserving # our already shaky environment. _. They «were: married ‘and. had “the United States but had been .in'° ~ Canada for a couple of years. ‘They’ ___ loved their own country’ but could n NADINE ASANTE It was a grey day when the sand, water and sky all blended mistily. ] was sitting on a log at Spanish Banks with my two youngest children, We had a bag of crusts and the seagulls. - were circling hopefully above us. I noticed a very tail couple walking hand in hand down the Shoreline toward us. ._ As they neared J noticed the man hada slightly grey, bushy beard. He wore tweeds and brogues. His jacket had leather patches at the elbows. All that was missing was a good briar pipe. The woman was as tall as he with no makeup and good Sensible walking clothes, I remember thinking she looked gaunt, yet there was an aura’ of ‘peace and tranquillity in her eyes. and in the set of her face which made her almost beautiful, a They were obviously very fond of - each other.- In their late thirties ‘or early forties they still walked hand. © in hand and I couldn’t help but appreciate the way they looked inte’. : each other’s eyes and smiled. often. during: their conversation, °°). -y': They sto children and ‘pat our dog.. We adults | -Smiled at: each” other. and: said something about the gulls being very hungry for this time of year, ~~" It was October.; © 8b Maybe the desolation of the beach.“ prompted friendliness, I don't know,, ut. I found..miyself drawn: into: « ed to speak to:the °° Jim. i _ Chapter of -th foe “evolved -from a group” trying :to preserve the giant redwoo _, Of the Pacific Coast. ues éach other-often.: 0 0 highly ~ campus, ’ Sun at. - that longer stomach the internal and external policies of the.U.S.A. Jim had a responsible job in the | Forestry Department on the U.B.C. arie was a4 wildlife ‘illustrator whose work had a ppeared in National Geographic and other respected national magazines, She had also illustrated many ‘children’s nature books and - her : talents were. continually in demand by book publishers, 'I'was writing for the Vancouver time and — they. limented: me. onan: article compl "which had appeared in the previous : day’s editorial page in defence of Dr: ~ Spock’s civil rights stand. | “We formed *. Society | a mutual admiration | _-, during the ‘next. few :-months: and. - :: “learned how very deeply they shared animated;.intimate conversation |. a _With these strangers out of the mist. . _ Their nares were Jim and Marie...” teenaged ‘children, ... They’ told .m they were from the'éastern part: 6 e “trail from man my concert: about the horrors of the -, pollution, and. the artificiality of our’: ¢ Sotlety. ee ~ dim "was: forming a . Vancouver: - the ‘Sierra ‘Club. which We visited =: Their home is a paradise for _ orthinologists and beachcombers;' - ‘Intrigaing driftwood. offer -, every vari | : her. work, are at home in their living’ room.: Huge'‘woven baskets: hold... untold treasures from’ the.sea and“. orests.. -Happy,.-huge ‘houseplants’: ‘tr tles. and jsills. A | : comfy fireplace lights up the-ores in the large natural, rocks tumbled on iéces that | ‘perches. for stuffed. birds. of ;Variety,-which Marie uses in - continuing slaughter in Viet Nam, - forests’ IN MY VIEW - his calibre will be offering their lives _ of. radiation at such Close proximity. ito | the blast! which: will ‘be : equivalent of. six. .million: ‘tons - of: >. TNT: They know very well that the” . -« Waves from such an upheaval could: - : engulf their small boat.: °°." ve their hearth. ‘Their big dog wanders - from guest -to guest with wags of . friendship, Their:‘home is'a happy, _ good place to be, They-are real: = |g people, very deeply.in touch with eac other and with life. They are a “together” family, ‘But. Marie and the children are «1 Late last Wednesday '° - night, Jim Bohlen and eleven other“ ‘. - brave. men sailed slowly from” Vancouver harbour on their lonely. ., terrifying way ¢o the coast of - i -Amchitka Island where ‘early in: - . Occtober, the United States intends ' "to test a five megaton bomb: They:~ | ~ will protest in their own silent way ... | _ |. against the insanity of such obsolete...” ’ testing which could ‘devastate: a-:.) . - ‘portion of. the earth with quakes and |: ': tidal waves, and which Surely will ou. i | *-kill and mutilate thousands of birds; 7 got to know Jim and Maire well ..° -* alone now, seals, fish and other living things.’ * The-test may be halted but if -it | isn’t, Jim and eleven more men of. in thename of all of us...you and me, They are well aware of-the hazards’ . By the time the bomib is.detonated,: John Wayne :will: be ‘back between’. _°. -Satin-sheets in his tinsel land. “He _ Who calls such protests “a ‘bunch of, ** era hens ven 7 ae a be we should leave ‘be . the: -. Airthe name of common ‘sense and:"""'| & “in the hope of peace-these men are..;. |. ‘willing. to lay: down.their Ivies. 9°)... re es D -home.