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Wednesday, May 24, 1967.” _/ | TERRACE “OMINECA” HERALD! TERRACE: B.C.

Lodge pole
BC forest’s

fAuliorship of this article has
been attributed to the Hon, Ray
Williston, Minister of Lands, For-
ests and Water Resourcos.) « .

The Cinderella of the British
Columbla forests has ‘met -its|
Prince Charming, ‘This modern
true-life fairy tala in timber ree

pine described us| Terrace.

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volves around the once lowly|. . : vote ae -
lodgepole pine. and the pulp and]. - : ‘Your Rexall Stores”
paper industry, mops we, : a

In the early days, the lodge-
Pole pine was used for llttle else]
than hand-hewn rallway ties, In|’
later years it gained alittle more
prestige in the eyes of the forest|
Industry and began to be used for}.
other uses such as shiplap, boxes]. “
and crates, piling, mining timber,
Might and medium construction,
and telephone and telegraph poles,

Pharmacy

But it did not achieve the status’ Super-Valu Shopping
of such lordly trees as.the fir nite a
andthe spruce, .. . Phone 635-5617

Now, the changing pattern of

woot-use holds itt new ‘hope --
particularty ‘the growth. of the
pulp and paper industry which re-
gards with some favour the lodge
pole pine's qualities of density

and long fibre. . .
I we ‘| foresters have ‘not been the only

In Scandinavia for many years| ones to Tecognize the value of
the pine and.spruce. have been| our native lodgepole pine and
used in the production of pulp] many of {ts progeny are now
and now weknow in BritishColum-| growing in the United Kingdom
bia that the ladgepole pine will} and on the European continent
make @ good kraft pulp whenmlx- .dust because it fs a hardy fast.
ed with our spruce, _ . Browing trea that can take more
In fact, our pulp is comparable,| of a ‘beating at the hands of man
if not superlor,. to. the Scan-| and nature than many other
dinavian product which places us| species,
in an ideal position with our Eure ‘
pean customers who are providing
this province with one of its most
rapldly expanding pulp markets,

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on hot treeeon on or

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‘Danes, Frenchman, Hollanders,
Englishmen, .and Scotsmen,. all
have been to this province to

The lodgepole pine can befound| COMect lodgepole pine seed, In

almost anywhere in the province,
but its predominant economic Ime
portance fs in the Interior, . The
North Central Interfor is par-

APPROACH OF SUMMER fs herelded by council crews painting - " y
curbs with bright yellow paint to remind unwary motorists The week in Ottawa
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that parking is prohibited, . ..
oe Pearson angered by

Reports by two Canadian
of the International. Control

the United States raised a ‘commotion in the midst of the throne
speech last week in the Commons,

journalists that Canadian members

Canadian spy charge

_ {ticularly fortunate in that it con
tains nearly half the volume of

live merchantable lodgepole pine
in all of British Columbia, In the
same' region, this species
account for nearly a third of
the timber volume, while its par-
tner In pulp, the spruce, accounts
for about two-fLiths.

The combined lodgepole pine an-
nual cuts of the Prince Rupert
jand Prince George Forest Dis-

Commission in Vietnam spy for. |tricts increased nearly 3,000 per

.jeent over the past quarter cen-
tury and almost 80 per cent in

Gerald Clark, associate editor
of the Montréal Star who spent
two months in Southeast Asta,
wrote that Canadians are “func.
rtioning as spies when they are
supposed to be serving as inter-
inallgual ,civil..sery ants.’ 24‘They
were betraying their, trust by
passing .on first -. hand, obser-
vations of North Vietnam to U.S.

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that Mr, Pearson was sidestepp-

a_repeated denial. :

the denials were made, Mr. Pear-
intelligence, |.
: atte as
His article sald effectiveness
of U.S, bombing attacks andother
Items of military - significance
ard reported, | :. ms .
Tim Ralie, a CBC Ottawa cor

was that any Canadians had act-
ed as sples and I repeat that,’*
He added that an examination in
exhaustive detail?’ has been
started into the allegations;

‘Charges by Mr. Diefenbaker

ing the question of whether or not
the reports were correct brought

DP Leader Douglas asked Uf
the government had been In touch
with the: two reporters before

son sald the government denial

tha past five years, but the up
swing in the tree*s popularity
was more notable in the Prince
George district where the cut went
‘up more than 4,500 per cent be-
tween 1941 and 1966, and nearly
90.per cent between 1961 and 1966,

In 1941, the’ Prince George
district cut-of lodgepole pine was
about “47 per cent of the total
for the two districts. By 1961,
this share has risen to 71.3
per cent, and jast year it had
inereased again to 74,4 per cent,
But British Columbia? s

1985 there was a near invasion
of the North Central Interior by
fhe United Kingdom Forestry
Commission which sent out its
foresters to collect seed,
The British have found that our
hardy native will grow pro-
ductively on their island’ shealth,
They have also been planting it
along with spruce to protect that
less hardy tree trom adverse cli-
matic conditions. : .

While European statesmen ‘ser-
ched for political ways of hold-
ing thelr continent together, both’
the French and Dutch foresters
turned to the lodgepole pine which
they use to stabilize sand soils

countries, The Danes, Jn addition
to this use, have been planting
the tree on their heaths and us-
ing it for silvicultrual studies.

In fact, there has: been ‘such
‘great interest In our "lodgepole
pine uiong the Europesi, fores-
ters ‘that “ever our own research
foresters have’ had occasion to
use the results of thelr studies,

All of which just goes to prove |=™

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the truth of the old forestry
Proverb. that ‘the despised
Species today will be the prizes
species of tomorrow,’ a

respondent, spent six months in
Vielnam last year, -He' said. in
broadcasts following ‘the Star
story that lt was not secret the
Canadians co-operated with the

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By JEAN SHARP

Americans In Vietnam.

--He sald the head of the Cana-
‘dian milltary mission on the Icc
took photographs and made tape
recordings of a. U,S, raid on oil
dumps near Hanol last June, They
were passed to the Americans,
he said, and coples' of Canadian
reports from ‘the North Vietnae
mes capital to Ottawa were given
to the American - embassy in
Saigon, sometimes reaching the
U.S, command even before they
got to Canada, - eo

North Vietnamese
have been. cheated.

The Vanier Institue of the
Family is having a money-rats:
ing campaign, going to the public
for support.
When it was founded, it was
elven afederal grant of $2,000,000
toward establishment of an en-
dowment fund, and the federal
government will match, dollar for

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Phys-ed program
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ready to. suit every need. Star story, External Affat's Min. | YOUNgsters
ae Ss ster Martin sald Canadians “are | epmonToN

P (cP) - A Special
physical. education program. has
been developed for retarded child.
ren as a centennial project by
the Canadian Association for Re
' tarded Children,

not engaged in any clandestine or
spying activitles,’? His statement
said Canada and the other com-
maission. members, Poland ‘and
India, conduct a quasl-diplomatic
task In the war, . ;

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|| family Hfe education are planned;

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in exchange of views with other
Rovernments concerned,’? 7
Mr. Pearson agreed that ‘fi,
might be a very good -thing’® to’
have the men substantiate their

” Information ‘gained “1s avaib,|:

Main prupose of the program is
to enable retarded childran to
qualify for centennial athleticaw-
ards 4s normal children do.
Dr, Patrick A ust in , Alberta
chairman of the project and a
physical education professor at
the ‘University of Alberta, sald
that because retarded children

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dollar, other contributions, in-
cluding any from the provinces,
The institute, generally, is col-
Taborating, and co-operating with
existing organizations and groups
concerned with strengthening
family life in canada,
It Is developing a basle educa-
tional and information service,
Tt is also preparing to launch
several projects, A release says
in every instance the feaslbility
and value of each project will
be considered before it ls start-
ed, as will the possibility. that
any other organization might be
planning a project with similar
aims, : :
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A survey of Canadian families
1s‘ planned io learn more about
attitudes to family life,
’ Studies of several phases of

& survey to discover and classify
Programs now offered, and
evaluation of their alfectlveness,:
a study of representative indivi«
duals and families involyed in
such programs, development of
methods for the exchange of im
formation among groups, and an
assessment of ather sourcas of

newspaper columns and programs
offering counsel in mass media,

A library may be.established,
within an existing central library,
as a reference centre on the
family, foo ;
a ‘ bt

A study is planned of farnilies
living under special condlitions-
minority ethnic groups, rural
families, urban slum families and
one-parent familles. .

Another study may be. done on
the effects of technological and
social changes on familly Ife,
Such things as shift-work, occupa-
tional and regional mobility and
working mothers would be tn-
cluded, ;

A register of studies and re-
search on the family being done
by groups, universities and levels
of. government may be set up.
The release .says, other ‘pro-
Jects are also under considera-

On the farm, in the home, in
-ibutiness.and industry.

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cannot function at the same level
as other youngstersthe same age,
fj special courses had to he des-
B/fgnedforthem, . ;

These courses were planned to
iidevelop the same type of phy
misical skills thet other children
need to pass the tests, but scal-
ed down to the ability of the
youngsters Involved, :

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j| Awards for the children will
be. the same as those received
in‘regular competition « red{f:
crests for participation and/}
‘bronze, silver or gold awards
for reaching increasingly higher
levels of achievement. .
In: creating the spectal program,
members of the retarded child.
ren! s-centennial athletic program
development subcominittee also
produced: aid booklets whten cone
taln’ lesson ‘plans, physical edu:
Mication activities and recreation
activith oo, ;

~ ‘The. third phase -of the projact
is: the development.of recreation
@jactivitles, such as swimming and
am Skating, which ‘retarded ‘children I

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