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by Stephanie Wiebe

_ Have you ever listened to a
book: on tape? Like radio

theater, listening to a story or

play, your mind creates the |
‘scenes as you hear the words.
It’s like that secure childhood
‘feeling of having someone read
a bedtime story to you. ©
Some people need to have
books on tape, because of
restricted eyesight ‘or some

these tapes, listening to stories
rather than watching them on
television. Books on tape are a
valuable resource to non-
readers,

The Terrace Public Library
has a multitude of taped
books, from children’s stories
to modern movie scripts, The

_ for a person has stolen sixteen.
of the latest books on tape

- from the public library. This
person has a penchant for
mysteties, This person could
have borrowed the tapes for

. free, could tiave ‘even’ copied
them.secretly, but no, this per-
son had to steal them. Now .
nobody else can enjoy these

- ‘tapes..
other handicap. -Children, enjoy.

» To steal from a public

‘library is pretty low in my —
book, A library is for
everyone, to learn, to enjoy
and to share. What’s stolen
from the library is stolen from
all of us. Now a kid who
escapes into mystery Stories on,
tape is limited in his choice.
Now the non-reading adult is

selection is great, the demand is deprived of those stories. So--

strong. But some lowdown
scum has tainted this service.

meone’s imagination won’t be

exercised tonight because of the

Some dishonest pitiful excuse - selfishness of another. -

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_heglect with a sizzling performance at the !nn of the West last week. For details, see page B4.

_ A crime with no class at all —

I read in the-newspapers
about robberies, murders and
‘national crime. Our library's
problem may be only a small
petty theft. But it destroys a
small-town-comfortable feeling
that I always had about Ter-
race. Stealing tapes from the
library. Pretty rotten. Not only
that, but as a taxpayer, I
helped to purchase those tapes.

They were bought with my tax
dollars, for all residents to
share. I guess | bought them
for a lowlife sub-human mu-
tant, instead.

I wonder if this person had a
laugh over it, sneaking tapes
out past people who would
have happily let him borrow
them. I wonder if this is a.
sickness, a compulsive need to

take and hoard. | wonder if

this person knows how sad it is .
that his life is so incomplete he
needs to fill it with things taken’
from an institution so willing’

to give. a

A library opens up the world
to it’s public. Someone has just
closed a small corner of that

‘world,

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“more.

-- Inside Section B —

“War breaks out on Kalum St.: one of the Terrace Little
Theatre’s most successful productions takes another run, as
cabaret in the McCoil Playhouse... page B2.
_ The hard way back home: the Kitselas people want to re-
occupy their canyon on the Skeena, using persistence as a
moving van... page B13. . |
' A few signposts: the Terrace District Teachers’ Association
wants Terrace to be a nice place to teach... page B10.

And: Alie Toop, B13... Fae Mooney; B6... and a great deal

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