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Will it be : _ BENEFICIAL fo all concerned? letters to the editor Shelford protests Quebec nightmare Dear Sir: I wish to commiserate with my fellow bucolic peasants of the northwest, and in particular with the citizens inthe Terrace area, who are unable to receive Radio Canada Englais. Directly after the Korean effort I immigrated to La Province de Quebec to work and to live. Because I was a WASP I was immediately ostracized and markedly ignored by the aduit populace (much turning of backs and studied stares). No one would speak to me in 2 crowd unless I spoke French and then [ was laughed at for the old high school try. People who spoke to me in English, in private, were much afraid that they would become targets for the same treatment, and some hinted that they could be ex- communicated and even exercrated. Eventually the campaign was extended to include children. I was followed on the street by gangs who pelted me with sticks and stones, meanwhile yelling: “English no good: English go home’. (And I have no English blood). [ dared not go on the streets at night, therefore my only com- panion was my portable radio. One night I was listening to an English broadcast that kept fading, and in desperation I banged the set and broke it. Finally loneliness over- came caution and I ventured down town to a bar. The onl: person who would sit wit! me was the town prostitute. But only a short time elapsed, and someone shaved my head with a quart bottle thrown from across ihe room. Then I was surrounded by peonle with bottles and knives. Three hunters from out of town rescued me from the pack and took me home. One was badly cut, and I can still hear them yelling to the crowd: “This man is a - visitor to our jand; you will not harm him’’. To the dubious 1 quote Sophocles: “Far-streching endless time brings forth all hidden things, and buries: that which once did shine. The firm falter, the sacred oath is shattered; and let none say, “IT COULD NOT HAPPEN HERE’?’. William J. Lampkin Labour Council wants jobs Dear Editor, Skeena’s M.L.A. Cyril Shelfords reaction to the Shelford's’ Terrace Unem- ployed this week was predictable but nevertheless astonishing. Mr. Shelford who cam- paigned on a slogen to get the rusty equipment rolling is now supporting his governments programs creating unemployment. This same Mr. Shelford who fought against restraints on his own wages is telling the worker that he should cut his wages in half to allow the business’s to make more profit and put more’ poeple to wark. He is part of the regime that campaigned — to eliminate sales tax on building materials and instead increased this tax 40 recent, who in six months increased the cost of taxes and services by 200 per month for the average family. This cabinet that sends ministers to the northwest such as the Minister of Forestry telling the truckloggers,Mr. Shelford's former employers to get out .ot town, the Minister of Economic Development who admits he has no answers to the local problems. Mr. Shelford has now lopped these gentlemen by in fact saying that the 200 tradesmen out of work don't matter as they will be locked out by their em- ployers anyway. The fact that these people have nat worked in 1976 makes no impression on him. His statement that Jabour ‘is at fault for the lack of major development is a cheap political shot as he knows full. well as stated time and again, Labours sitions on such projects as never changed, labourers want par- ticipation in planning and feasability studies, majority Canadian ownership and as pollution free on operation as humanly _ possible. N. Smith, secretary, Kitimat-Terrace & District Labour Couneil Shriners’ circus Dear _ Sirs: The Terrace Shrine Club would like to thank the people of Tetrace and itimat for their par- ticipation in the circus held June 21, 22 and 23in Kitimat. and June 24, 25 and 26 in Terrace. Through their generous participation the rine Club was able to raise monies for the support: of burned and crippled children who are travelling from the “northwest: to various Shrine Hospitals for treatment to relieve their suffering and paln to such an extent that they can later live full and useful lives. Further 1 am enclosing a short slory which I call “Free Enterprise at Work”. As this story fs quite revealing I would sincerely appreciate it if you could maybe print it in the next editi ition of your newspaper. I feel it will be a of human interest to our comm unities. Thanking you for your co- operation, I remain Sincerely Yours, Alex Jd. Inselberg, President, Terrace Shrine Club No. federal legislation Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau . Ottawa, Ont. Dear Mr. Prime Minister: I was extremely disap- pointed in your stand on capital punishment, which completely ignored public opinion. I know you have stated on many occasions you wouldn't want the . responsibility on your conscience, I would ask you ta reconsider your stand because § know for certain I wouldn't want the responisbility of a murderer of children, who was released from jail and killed again, on my conscience, I would find this more dif- ficult to bear. Apparently this doesn't bother you as it is bound to happen several times a year. I would hate to have the suffering of young eople, often tortured, jore being murdered in eold blood, not in a fit of anger, onmy canscience. I think you have the wrong slant on the question, because people who are any good to society . couldn't live with their conscience after killing children, and if they can then they are no good to themselves or society as a whole. I am quite sure the average good Canadian, if he or she went mental and ‘murdered children, they would sooner be put out of their misery — I know I would. With no danger of the death penalty anyone escaping from jail would naturally shoot a. police officer because the worst that can happen is he can be sent back to jail, often killing others along the way. If [ was a police officer I would get out of the way during a jail break or robbery because it is a one- sided struggle. The mur- derer gets off with getting sent back to prison, if he can't shoot a guard or two and get out again. The licemen or policewomen ave their hands tied with a system that appears to favour the murderer and treats the police as the criminal. Wf you insisi on your present plan, then the police should be disarmed so they are less likely to get shot, the same as in England. . If you insist on taking this - action I strongly recom- mend another section of the Act be added to leave the relatives of. the murdered victims free to sue the Federal Government for full compensation . for all murderscommittedhy those jailed, and later escape ar murder guards, after being sentenced for murder. This is only fair if the govern- ment insists on taking action against public opinion. It is all very well looking. after the rights of the in- dividual, but what 2hout the rights of the majority and the rights of little children or women. raped, then murdered? Have you, and others thal support abolish- ment af capital punishment, ever thought of their rights? Yours very truly, Cyril M, Shelford MLA, Skeena Senators urge rule softening Senators have urged the government to soften suggested conflict-of-in- terest rules to allow Upper House members the right to hold shares and directorships in companies receiving govern- ment contracts, In areport on a three-year-old government policy paper outlining conflict-of-intereat guides, the Senate legal affairs committee said Tuesday it endorses ‘the principles and objectives’ of the policy. However, several aspects needed to be changed for “clar- ification and effective appll- cation,”’ the committee said ina report tabled in the Senate, The government paper recommended that no MP or ‘senator participate “directly, or indirectly, in any govern- ment contract," Tha Senate committee sald it is “of the opinion that a senator is not in a conflict-ol-interest situation merely because he is a shareholder or a director of a corporation that.is a party to a government contract or whose whollyowned subsidiary is a party to the contract.” Instead, the committee sald senators, their wives and de- -pendent children should be able to held up to five per cent of the shares in any company re- . ceivicg government contracts. Conflict of interest would only arise if they held more than five per cent, SET LIMITS The senators said they agreed with a suggested government provision that would allow them to accept government contracts as long as they were worth no more than $1,000 a year. But the commiltee said the amount should be ralsed to $5,- 000, In line with a suggestion from the Commons privileges committee which has already considered the guides. The Senate committee recommended that the Senate clerk be appointed registrar to receive disclosures of varlous holdings by members of the Up- per Chamber, . But while It said each senator should, within six months of as- suming office or six months after any conflict of interest legislation Is passed, file lists of the companies in which they. have a “beneficial interest,” the committee said such infor- mation should be kept secret. eee This 12-year-old bear seems ta be debating to himself or which of the 54 different varieties to choose from. He was recently abandoned by his mother and decided the local provincial park campground provided a Report from Victoria Last week I had the pleasure of going to San Francisco to represent the Government at the raising of a Totem Pole at the Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park. This project started a long time ago when Crown Zellerbach gave a 41 ft. cedar pole to the Academy. For some time they didn’t know what todo with a 5's ton pate until Harry Harred from, B.C. House in Frisco and Dr. George Lindsay from the Academy of Science came across the idea of a Totem Pole which interested a radio station whose call letter is K.S,A.N.- who started a program as a salute to KSAN. This brought in the K’San. Village al Hazelton and their master carvers Earl ’ Muldon, Walter Harris and Housing starts under the highly suecessiul Rural and -Remete Housing .Program have new been allocated for this year. Of the 379 units scheduled for construction throughout B.C., 83 have been designated for com- munities in Skeena. FEDERAL FUNDING The Rural and Remote Housing Program is a joint federal-provincial en- deavour, designed to bring low-cost housing within the reach of residents of the less-densely populated parts of our country, The federal government provides 75 per - cent of the funding for the program, while the provincial government provides the other 25 per cent as well as the program Management. : Under the program, private contractors build the homes, which are financed through the Assisted Home Ownership Program. On completion, the units are taken over by the federal-provincial patinership and sold on the sis of the purchaser's ability to pay. The monthly mortgage payments, in- cluding the principal, in- terest, and taxes are about 25 per cent of the family’s income. The remaining amount of mortgage payment is provided by the Department of Housing and C.M.H.C. When this program was initiated in 1974, 25 units were built in B.C. The dramatic increase in just two years is an indication that the Rural and Remote Housing Progrdm is ef- fective in meeting the needs of areassuch as Skeena, and has aided the communities involved. It is also a “hice reminder that .sometimes government be handled with a degree of imagination and respon- siveness. In Skeena, the R.&R. H.P. units have been designated for Fraser Lake, Smithers, andTelkwa(10 each) Masset ° and Port Edward (8 each). ograms can — Vernon Stephens who are now well known all over North America for their art as earvers, [t is estimated that over 200,000 people came in to watch the carving and 1,500,000 will see the totem each year in the Academy courtyard and be admired by 15 to 20 million in the next decade alone, The project would not have been possible without the complete co-operation by many groups on both sides of the border, to name only a few-Crown Zeller- bach that donated the pole; the tremendous efforts of the B.C. Department of. Recreation and Travel Industry, especially Harry. Harrod; Dr. George Lind- say of the Academy. of Science; €.P. Air who. from Ottawa “old Hazelton, South Hazelton, Granisle, and Fort. St, James. (5,each), 4: each at Sandspit, Queen Charlotte City and Dease Lake, three in Good Hope. Lake and twa in Atlin. These. new houses will be a weleome addition to the -housing supply in our area, and 1 look forward to im- plementation of more programs as imaginative and helpful as Rural and Remote Housing in the - years ahead. LANG TO VISIT. The Honourable Otto Lang, federal Minister of Transport, will visit Terrace and Prince Rupert on Friday, July 9. This visit is designed to give the Minister a first-hand lock at both the problems and the potential of transportation facilities in northwestern B.C., and also to talk per- sonally to the community representatives of the ople who will be affected y the decisions that are made. All of us in northwestern B.C. have a great deal al state in this regard and decisions cannot be made that do not take into account the needs, and desires, of the local residents. Mr. Lang's visit is, I feel, ar encouraging sign that such input is being sought, and hopefully, is an indication of things to come from our country’s first ever western Transport Minister, DOMINION DAY This report is being written on Wednesday, June 30, and is one of my last tasks before I return home to Skeena for the Dominion Da I will be spending Juiy 1st in’ Vanderhoof, for the celebration of the 50th birth- et of the community, and will travel to Stewart for the ard and 4th, On those days, Stewart and the neigh- bouring town of Hyder, Alaska will jointly honour the 109th birthday of our own country and Bi- Centennial of the United weekend.. provided —_ transportdtion,; Mayor Moscone of San Francisco who declared the pele raising day KSAN day. The event attracted over a thousand people and was covered by 4 television outlets and several radio stations. Three ropes were used to hoist the pole with around 30 people oneach rope, the rest of the crowd wanting to gel in and help. Neil Sterritt of Hazelton did an excellent job as Master of Ceremonies: for the event which went without a hitch. The 40-feot' slab power-sawed of the side of the log was used as a bar for the reception after. It will be used again this week for the same purpose when a new building will be dedicated called the Wattis Hall of Man. Dr. Lindsay and his wife will visit B.C. . THIS WEEK good source of Iood. Campers are warned to keep thelr food sealed up while parks branch officials trap the bear and move him to a more remote location. (Eric Brorup photo} this summer to explore the possibilities of arranging tours for lhe 10,000 members of the Academy. I have made arrangements to show them into some of the remote areas of B.C. which I'm sure they will find in- teresting. All of this is good public relations for not only the arts of our Native people, but also fer the whole province. It was a great honour for my wife and I to take part on this occasion. Certainly, in the field of recreation B.C. stands first in North America. All we need is imagination and faith in the future to change our reliance from a sagging forest economy to a new and exciting number one position in recreation and travel. industry. ; _ fona Campagnolo, * ‘States. Events such as these are, to me, one of the major rewards of being an elected representative. Every community in our area-and indeed, throughout Canada- has so much history, and such a pride in both its past and its future. To be ac- corded the privilege of sharing with these towns such memorable and im- portant events as these-or Defying activities such as the fal? fair or winter carnival-is an honour indeed. It is also a useful] reminder that ciected representatives are just that-representatives of the electorate. It is a fact which, on occasion, may slip from mind in the hubbub of Ot- tawa, andit is a fact that all representatives, on all levels, need to be reminded of from time to time. ad tax suggested . . Senator Salter Hayden challenged his colleagues in the Liberal-domi- hated Senate an Monday to defy the government and pass a series of amendments to con- troversial foreign advertising tax legislation. Senator Hayden (L— Cntario), chairman of the in- fluential Senate banking committee, said Senator Ray Perrauil, government leader in the Senate, and Secretary of State Hugh Faulkner were counting on a tame Liberal majority ta reject the amend- ments and pass the legislation intact. . He sald he was irritated by their attitude and by Mr. Faulk- ner's statements to reporters that the government has the Senate vote lo reject the bank- ing committee's recommenda- . tions, “If he thinks he can come in here and do that, well fine," Senator Hayden sald, setting the tone for tough final debate on the legislation. The bill, first introduced in the Commons by Mr. Faulkner 14 months aga, would deny Ca- nadian advertistera in Time, Reader's Digest and other for- elgnowned magazines and on U.S, border television stations the right to claim 100 per cent iticome tax deductions for ad- vertising ‘coats. Time hag already suspended operations of its Canadian news section because of the bill which would effectively double the cost of advertising. FREE OF CONTROL To qualify as Canadian for tax purposes, magazines would have te be 75 per cent Canadian: owned, free of foreign editorial control and at least 80 per cent different in editorial content from comparable foreign publications, After six weeks of public hearings, the banking com- mittee, which was almost unan- imously opposed to the bill, called for amendments to delay ’ its implementation and have a court rule on the content re- quirement. The retroactive Jan. 1 imple- mentation date for magazine sections of the bill would be de- layed one year and broad: casting sections, scheduled ta take effect on cablnet order this fall, would not be implemented without approval of both the Commons and Senate, Revenue Minister Bud Cullen, who refused a Time Canada Lid. request for a Federal Court of Canada ruling on the 80-per- cent conlent requirement, would be forced to refer any re- questa for clarification to the courts for a final say. In addition, sections barring tax deductions for auch schol- arly and technical forelgn: owned magazines as MD ol Canada would be repealed. Debate was to continue ot fire reading of the legislation esday.