"AGE 4 THE HERALD, Thursoay, June 30, 1977, the herald ) Published by Sterling Publishers Ltd. ~ Terrace - 635-6357 , Kitimat - 632-5706 Cireulatlon - 635-2677 PUBLISHER... GORDON W, HAMILTON MANAGING EDITOR... ALLAN KRASNICK KITIMAT MANAGER...” W.S, ‘KIM’ KIMBLE CIRCULATION MANAGER... JACK JEANNEAU Published every weekday af 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Variiled Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1261. Postage pald in cash, return rctsqe guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any ediforlal or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction Bnet permitted without the written permission of the blisher, Garbage food requires tax? Speaking in Vancouver earlier this week Federal Health Minister Mare Lalonde told the Canadian Public Health Association that Canada should consider either placing a tax on junk food or providing financial incentives for companies: manufacturing nutritional food products. In support of these suggestions, Lalonde quoted statistics that. re-affirm the adage ‘‘An ounce of prevention (nutrition)iis a pound of cure (drugs).” Whether or not government should interfere in the selling of garbage food by the bastions of the free enterprise system is a moot point. On one hand, it can be argued the tax would hit those least able to afford it, for research indicates the worst diets exist among the poor. Of course, it’s a cynical argument, for it is suggesting that poor people should have equal opportunity with the well-off to fill themselves up with synthetic, valueless junk in place of food. On the other hand, we already pay tax on luxury items in this country and since a food without nutritional value cannot logically be considered a staple, it must be something akin toa luxury. But more significant is the fact that government at every level have waited so long to make a motion in this direction. It is significant because it illustrates the naivete and futility of looking to politicians for leadership. Politicians lead only those people who are less sensitive then themselves and in this field, that leaves precious few to be led. For 10 years and more, nutritionists have been denouncing the mass production of simulated, non- nutritional food, as well as the cavalier use of chemical preservatives, flavors and dyes. For as many years the establishment, including the medical profession has been discrediting nutritionists categorically, while supporting tacitly or otherwise, the manufacture, advertising and sale of worthless junk. . Nonetheless, whole or real foods have steadily gained in popularity. Natural food stores, once branded “rip-off joints”, have burgeoned throughout the continent as more and more people of diverse backgrounds and lifestyles are “cleaning up” their diets, The reason for the success of the natural food phenomenon is perhaps simply its appropriateness. Without the use of trans-continental television air space, and wholesale distribution in major supermarket chains, natural foods have cast a long shadow of doubt over Twinkies, Coco-Puffs and wonderful Wonderbread. After all, food without nutritional value is a contradiction in terms andthe term health food is a redundancy. Perhaps it was always only a matter of time before people saw through the shallow trickery of manufacturers who gradually processed the food out of food and replaced it with plib advertising slogans and bright packaging to foo] the natives. Well, thanks Mr. Lalonde, but you and your colleagues are a trifle late. You are followers not eaders, THE LITTLE WOMAN Aur b-if & ing Faruren Syrdrete, ker, Tay F Ware dul igh ty conqeyed J att time we invite all the people we meer there's att on for anybody we like.” U.S. firming up relations w WASHINGTON (CP) — No eyebrows rose when a Republean U.S. senator recently referred casually to the "commonality of interest between China and the United States.” The remark, made by Charles Percy of Illinois as the €.5, Senate foreign [uy ©: nmittee discussed Us. ° ions with China, passuu almost unnoticed, just one more sign of how much U.S. attitudes have changed on that subject. Once, U.S. politicians and diplomats routinely used “China” to refer to the nationalist government on Taiwan that claims to represent China, describing the real China as “mainland China’’ or “Communist China.” eT Since Richard Nixon made his well-publicized visit to China in 1972, that diplomatic fiction has all but disappeared, Internal turmoil in China last year and the U.S. election campaign slowed the U.S.-China rapprochement, but the Carter administration is moving steadily toward cutting formal U.S. ties with Taiwan and establishing full diplomatic relations with Peking. The closer relationship has moved far beyond sport and cultural exchanges; trade is increasing and both countries are reviewing policies that inhibit sales of sophisticated U.S. tech- nology to China. SEEK CREDITS now provides regular summer tours. FIRED EDUCATOR GETS SETTLEMENT VICTORIA (CP) — Dr. Stanley Knight, 38, the educationist fired by the former New Democratic Party government, told a news conference Wednesday he has received an out-of-court cash settlement and has had his name and reputation cleared in B.C. Knight would not disclose the amount of the settlement but did say it also provided for his reinstatement followed by his immediate voluntary resignation in order to ciear his name in the Public Service Commission records. He also revealed that a similar settlement was reached with the five persons who worked with him in his research division and were fired shortly after him. The settlement came 2!2 years‘after Knight was fired from his position as director of the Research and Development Division of the department of education, then under Education Minister Eileen Dailly, Knight's firing raised a storm of protest and a Supreme Court suit for wrongful dismissal was filed. Knight said that a week before the final court date of June 6 to 8 the government finally agreed to make him a firm offer. The settlement was made final on Tuesday. Knight suid the cash setllement was ‘equitable’ and ugreed that it might be close to five months pay, about $12,000. Interpreting the news Congressmen from farm states also are pushing for U.S. government credits to China so the Chinese can buy U.S. ‘wheat, a development that would sliffen competition for Canadian and Australian wheat salesmen. But serious problems still® remain, Politically, the U.S. government faces questions from those who fear cancellation of the U.S.- Taiwan defence treaty would lead to a Chinese in- vasion of the island. The Chinese refuse to give formal assurance that Taiwan will not be invaded. They say Taiwan is part of historical China. and any such action would be an internal matter. They say x Looking up the rotunda at Simon Fraser University...the Vancouver institution | Coffee. By JUDY CREIGHTON CP Family Editor Contrary to predictions that coffee prices could begin to drop this summer, Canadian shoppers were hit again with price increases in June. A Cross-Canada Survey of the monthly food basket by The Canadian Press showed that in St. John’s, Nfld., a pound of coffee rose 71 cents to $4.69and in Charlottetown it was up 60 cents to $4.89— the hi Rest price noted— from the previous month. In mid-June, Hyman Solomon, vice-president of marketing for Miracle Mart, a_ division of Steinberg's Ltd. of Montreal, said there was a significent drop in prices paid for green coffee beans on the New York Stock Exchange. ; The decline to:lowed an announcement by Colombia that it was culling the export price by 34 cents to $2,69 a pound. But Bob Tebbutt. a com- modity lulures broker in To- rontn, said no one will know until at least mid-August whether the Brazil coffee crop will suffer any damage and any price decreases full U.S.-China diplomatic relations must wait until the Uniled States cancels the defence treaty, ends formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan and withdraws the 2,000 «U.S. military personnel there. U.S. officials hope some way ean be found to protect Tai hil ting the : hinese requirements” ‘as the administration Chifiese requirements. One possible solution might be the suggestion made recently by a junior Chinese official who said that the United States might add toa US.-China statement an ex- pression of its concern for peace jin the Western Pacific. The theory behind that suggestion is that b agreeing to inclusion of suc a U.S. statement China would take months to be reflected on retail shelves, SUGAR CHEAPER In eight of 12 cities surveyed, sugar prices were lower. Potato prices continued to fluctuate and in eight cities they were up. St. John’s, Néfld., reported a rise of 80 cents to $2,79 for a 10-pound ag. ' The survey of the 17-item monthly food basket is con- ducted in the same super- market in each city on the last Tuesday of each month, It includes one pound each of sirloin-tip roast, all-beef wieners, centre-cut loin of pork, top-grade chicken, ground chuck steak, frozen cod fillets, top-grade butter, tomatoes, frozen green peas, drip coffee and apples, Also included are one-- dozen medium eggs, one quart of whole milk, a 24- ounce loaf of sliced white bread, 1¢ pounds of first- grade potatoes, two kilo- grums of while granulated Sugar and a 28-ounce can of halved pears. The survey is not intended to provide a city-by-city comparison because the product sampling is small. However, it shows price f Prince - Construction would “be implicitly promising to refrain from attacking Taiwan but would not formally be accepting limits on its ‘‘internal actions. DEBATE ISSUE | ; ‘Whether such diplomatic devices are acceptable to” the United States is a question now being debated conducts an intensive re- view of its China policy. Leonard . Woodcock, Carter's choice as chief U.S, ‘yepresentative in Peking, made clear to the senate committee that the administration 45 committed to establish normal relations with China ith China and has no: such. com- mitment to keeping the Taiwan defence treaty manently. _ The biggest problems, however, may come after relations are normalized. Carter—or his suecessor— then will have to decide whether to allow the Chinese to buy U.S. military equip- ment. One of the world’s largest concentrations of military force .is alon Chinese border and the Chinese government appears to be waking up to’ the fact that its military equipment is far inferior to that of the Russians. Report from Ottawa | Summer work for members By IONACAMPAGNOLO M.P., Skeena Tam sure many of you are planning for family vacations at this time, Quite a few of you have planted your vegetable gardens and generally, the annual relaxation time for most Canadians has begun. Parliament will likely ’ continue well into the summer this year, as the government still - has approximately 14 more bills to present for legislation. In the meantime, I will be points in visiting vario . A British northwestern Columbia. : A few weeks ago, I visited George, and Vanderhoof where I had a very good meeting with the Sinkut Mountain Cattlemen’s Association. Recently, I saw many of you in Terrace, Kitwanga and Prince Rupert, Tenders for Schools Meanwhile, Guran_ Company Limited of Langley has been awarded a contract in the amount of $746,880 for the construction of a Day School at the Kulkayu Indian Reserve in Hartley Bay. As well, I shall very shortly be announcing the successful bidder for construction of the school at Port Simpson. Grain Elevator Workers Studied A study of respiratory abnormalities among grain. elevator workers wi gin this summer and will involve some 13,000 individuals in our province. Dr, Stefan Grzybowski of the University of British Columbia will conduct the study. He will examine the effects of exposure to grain dust and will probably suggest, in his project summary, -that an Occupational Lung Disease Unit be established in the FOOD COSTS SURVEY | prices still on the rise trends in specific stores of certain cities for a limited humber of items many families might purchase. Halif&x: Sugar rose 21 cents to 99 cents, apples three cents to 46 cents, wieners 21 cents to 89 cents, cod 10 cents to $1.49, milk one cent to 62 cents, potatoes four cents to $1.99, tomatoes 10 cents to 89 cents, peas one cent to 46cents. Total cost of the basket was $20.95. One month ago it was $20.24 and one year ago, $15.09 for 12 items. . Montreal: Potatoes climbed to $2.09—an increase of $1.10, pork up 25 cents to $1.73, bread three cents to 47 cents, apples 28 cents to 59 cents, pears six cents to 74 cents, sirloin roast $1 to $2.18, Chicken was down 20 cents to 69 cents, chuck 40 cents to 58 cents, tomatoes 10 cents to 69 cents, peas six cents to 39 cents and sugar five cents to 94 cents. Cost of the market. basket was $20,681 compared wilh $19.69 in May and $15.90 for 14 items one year ago. Ottawa: Chicken dropped 47 cents to 59 cents, chuck 30 cents to 93 cents, potatoes 71 ‘cents to 98 cents, tomatoes _ 10 cents to 59 cents, peas one rovince, using experts From a number of U.B.C. departments.’ - grantof $84,999 from the Department -of National Health and Welfare has made this project possible, . and I sincerely hope that all of you who ‘have an opportunity will offer assistance in this research. Prime Minister Trudeau Discusses Commonwealth Games As many of you know, Canada will’ host the mmonwealth Games in. 1978, in Edmonton, Alberta. The federal: government, and particularly, Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch, for which I am responsible, has been heavily involved in planning for these Games, and we are making every effort to ensure they will be @ SUCCESS. Specifically, a great deal of effort has gone into ensuring there will be full rticipation in the Games y ‘all Commonwealth nations, and that political differences do not in any way mar this sporting event. One political problem that has threatened the Games has been the South African policy of Apartheid - or, that country’s separation of black and white peoples. As youknow, all Commonwealth countries have boycotted South Africa aS a protest toward apartheid, and‘Canada has a clearly defined pdlicy for all sporting contacts with South Africa’ which I have enunciated in a letter to all Canadian sport bodies. _ New Zealand, however, sent a rugby team to play a South African team last year, and the Prime Minister of New Zealand has: since proclaimed that he would not prevent citizens of his country from taking part in sport exchanges with that country, . f] cent to 44 cents and sugar five cents to $4 cents. Pork was up 11 cents Lo $2.09, cod 23 cents to $1.58, butter 11 cents to $1.27 and coffee 47 cents to $4.65. Total coast of the basket was $20.42 down from $21.14 in May. Cost one year ago was $17.72. \ Toronto: Sirlain roast dropped 10 cents to $1.68. and ~ tomatoes 10 cents to 89 cents. ‘Wieners rose two cents to $1.06, pork four cents to $1.52, chicken eight cents to 96 cents, chuck 15 cents to $1, cod 16 cents to $1.54, potatees 10 cents to $1.99 peas three cents to 54 cents and apples 12 cents to 59 cents. Total gost of the food basket. was $21.28 compared with $20.83 in May and $16.87 for 14 items one year ago, Winnipeg; Coffee rose 54 cents to $4.23, tomatoes 10 cents to 69 cents, potatoes 32 cents to $1.79 bread two cents to 39 cents, butter four cents to $1.31, eggs two cents to 87 cents, ci $1.59, chuck 20 cents to $1.19, cents and sugar seven cents to $1.06. Cost of the basket was $21.18 compared with $20.26 in May. Total one year ago was $16.45 for 15 items. . the Soviet- - 10 cents to -