4 . . SATE TST TENT LEVEY FET ES EO RTO UTE T ED FES ‘ | "Page 2, The Herald, Friday, June 11, 1962 evi herald or every weekdoy at aot Kalvin Streat “by Sterling - TERRACE- Editor: : ~ Brian Gregg Ss ; _ ‘Advertising Sales: Terrace — David haimiiton Staff Writers-Photographers: 7 Mike Howlett ; Sports: « Reception-Clansitied: ’” - CarolynGibson .., Circulation: | _ Maria Tayior ‘NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any ediforial or photographic content published In the Herald. = = ‘Reproduction is not permitted without the written — permission of the Publisher... Don sii , _ _ She Edltor_ Letters to _ keep getting loxt! Vattan itd the uetdaor oa WORDMIAR just ys would find \steaete. on a roadmept Say “Here } YESTERDAY'S: GOMERGRAM SOLVED: : Caeser’s Legions were somatimes paid In salt! +Food -spolled sa rapidly in Rome's climate that. wives whose “husbands ‘weren't werth their salt’, to hide the taste, used a pungent seasoning extracted from rolling fishtl Seconds, To > the Editor, - Oh boy, pardon me; Oh girl, I blew it! dared | to call the y fullfledged, fullgrown, fully mature women of the feminist £ movement “girls”. -What an insult indeed! . Dear women, I didn’t mean it though. I just wanted to be | nice. People always urged me to be nice. Personally, 1 am. me a Play Boy, 1am certainly not that kind ofa hoy.) 1 - remember being sick and uncomfortable ina hospital when a friendly motherly type nurse came by all the time calling me “bay'’;- Girl, that felt good and it did more for me than the medicine. But the fullfledged women of the “Women | Terrorist’s Sewing Circle" in the - process nice and organized, don't, want ne My approached. with b nice, friendly names. ‘That is . “ ihe theantias th | NAL Chaat of ihe Patvonist's E Sewing Centre came off the ground and Is flying around on : dynamite sticks! vironmentalists of that area they blew up a B.C. Hydro- ; installation paid for by us litle guys. Their first target, r symbol of peace! More of these peaceful acts will follow undoubtedly. Until Canada is a heap of peaceful rubble! f We want a clean environment, you see? Such acts are a t clear outcome of study conlererices and film festivals, © E,workehope and seminars financilaly supported by the - United Church and the: Anglican Church. The World Council of Churehes (Churehes of the anti-Christ?) -has donated nearly $5 million ‘‘to combat raciam’’, $125,000 last ‘year to the South West Africa People's Organization. That money is supposed to be for educational (what kind of - “education’’?) and relief purposes. However, Salvation Army personnel were ‘present when casea with food” were opened. They contained weapons! Gift from the World’ Council of Churches... Frontliners in peace marches! For. . this reason the three million member Salvation Army. with drew from this so-called World Council of Churches. Commissioner Victor Keanie;. the S.A. former represen - tative to the Council said: “Our question was, why give - money to people who are using force when you are at the same time calling the world to disarmament and peace?” | 7 Hypocrites in the Church? Yes!!. . The communists ‘seea a lot of potential in a degenerate “church”. The Bible says this will happen in the end-time. | Rev. Jan Pit writes in his book “Persecution” about such’ churches: “Their way of becoming involved is by giving " practical support to the so-called ‘‘liberattow “movement”. ‘This does not involve the preaching of the gospel, but the overthrowing of political institutions by violence. In Laos T saw how funds, meant for purchasing medicine, w were used to buy weapons. I'was invited to attend the handing over of the “thedicine”; Displayed in ah open field were weapons.”: - this fuil-gro " ‘confrontation. Abortion for instance needs confrontation. . . The only legal weapon is the Gospel, the Ward of God. _ Preaching ~pious. sermons within the : cathedral is not enough,:- Each | hing’ must lead to “- action and confrontation. This ie our calling, ‘this is our job. In reply to Ms. Coosemans:.. “My. friend - George. Clutesi, Indian artist from Port Alberni, asked us years ago not to. speak about “the Indians”; but to say. “our Indians”: That: sounds warmer, nicer; and. ‘proves that wé do accept each - other inlove. We prefer to say “my, brother’* and not “that ~ brother of mine” if there is real lové.. ' Joanne Coosemans wrote: “any, more. ‘ghan youcanown - wemen, can you own those who-sren’t white. but native. Indian. They are not yours.” This statement-shows that *fullfledged. wonien: does. not” have a clue. about. Yes, we do possess each other in. ‘love!’ We are one huinan race... Yes, our ‘Indians are my . what weare ta brothers and sisters. There. is a; love-relationship. ’ Butlam: afrald| that our poor, ‘Jonely, liberated fulifledged - "women by. the name: of’ Joamie.does. not ‘appear'ta know ~ what real Jove is, To know what that is, you have ta come _ home to Jesus, the Prince of Love and Peace, who gave His fe to truly berate omen like you. ‘Love! _ ne Bill Homborg :- e fa BE tas Together with the peaceful en-— ‘four walls- of ‘a “ “The Herald welcomes Its readers comments. All letters 10 the editor of. general public Interest will be _..Printed. They should be submitted 48 hours In ad- -vance’of desired publication date. We do, however, / -tetainthe right to refuse to print leterson grounds "of possible Hbet-or bad taste. We may also edit letters for stylé and ftength. All letters to be con-: sidered for: publication must be signed. {t is im possible fo Print'a letter: submitted within 24 hours” at desired ‘publication date: * : “ye L ATTENTION PARENTS AND TEACHERS ‘Gomergrams for Kids’, In | today’s Entertainment Guide, Is FUN, and has great educational - vatue, Please let us know if YOUR children enjoyed I¥.. Send your. comments: “tar. GOMERGRAMS, ; : é co Dally Heraid, Box 377 : ages!” opinion on the propriety of my behaviour in connection wif ‘this ineldent at the written request of the principal. ; . began when a trustee of six years standing broke. bos ~~ policy by discussing a subject not specified in the agenda of school board's committee meetings. ‘Don't forget ¥o_ mention thelr. spe - OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Labor Congress took aim “today at the notion Canada can't afford substantially larger — pensions for senior ‘citizens. Ina briefto Health Minigter Monique Begin that repeated ~ .. past calls for major increases In public pension plans almost immediately, the congress said ensuring decent Ancomes for. the elderly Jaa social. responsibility that can't . ope shirked. hy - yt seretty [Nh ‘The: most:fundam ental: question: with, respect. to.cost-is 3.: Is providing adequate _ thirdsof pre-retirement earnings or more for individuals or - _ families who earned up to the‘average industrial wage, In philosophical, not technical: . retirement incomes worth the cost? - “From our point of view, there is only one acceptable answer: Yes,” | The group, representing two million: workers, wants - ‘benefits under the Canada Pension Plan and (ts sister plan in Quebec raised. mibstaneiahy how and more than doubled -by 1986, 0: As well, the’ congress ‘called for a 25-per-cent increase in the universal old-age security pension, a 25-per-cent hike in the guaranteed income supplement for single pensioners in- “need and an 11 S-per-cent rige in the supplement for couples ° _ Inneed. estimated $2.3 billion 4 year to federal spending. On other matters; the congress objected to the idea of allowing housewives in the Canada Pension Plan, ~ “The brief said this would create almost asmany problems 7 (as it would solve and it suggested women might be better | served by having husbands.and-wives split their Canada. Pension Plan benefits and by increasing surviver’a benefits. ' : Those proposals. are aimed at bringing all pensioners , across Canada above the poverty line and would add an. » Opponents of expanding the Canada Pension Plan have argued that the costs could either bankrupt the plan or require contributions by workers and their employers so high they would produce a backlash against the plan. haven't, come up with serious alternatives ‘for persion reform. that. are any tess. costly. % aon et. tetepel hae Be tg suid - The: package proposed in the: brief wbald mow pubic pension plans to provide retireniént bedétits equal to twé- 1981, the average wage was about $16,500. — . While Ottawa would be faced with finding more maney. plements, workers ‘and. employers would cover the cost of an expanded Canada Pension Plan. : The combined contribution rate would rise. to'6.5 per cent from 3.6 per cent. Maximum benefits that now.amount to. less than 25 per. cent of the average industrial wage would: rise to 40 per cent immediately and to 60 per cent by 1936. To pay for future benefits at the 50-per-cent level, the _ combined contribution rate could reach 12 per cent or more. _ by the year 2000. The. congress. sald there is no rellable evidence to support: the fear. that relatively few workers would eventually ._ become burdened by the task of providing for a relatively. ‘ jarge number of pensioners. Demographic predictions are reliable for no more than 2 years into the futuré, it-said, and virtually all predictions .. 7 through the year 2001 show the percentage of elderly People ant the population won't incresse” noticeably.” — one indication interest rates will rise to last year’ 6 Fecord - Battered dollar. suffers fall the economic disadvantages of a failing Canadian dollar far outweigh the benefits, business spokesmen say, as the - battered currency continues. to set new lows | in world money markets. , Although a falling dollar makes Canadian products . Cheaper to foreign. buyers ‘and would in less-depressed. an The Churches are called by God fo: proclamation and~—~"economic times create more-export-sales —-and jobs — it Kelth- Dixon, ‘executive director--of —the “Canadian - ‘Importer’s Association, agrees, saying a lower dollar; to 75 cents U.S. for example, “‘would. be a disastet”” for tlie” also increases the-cost of. imports, adding to our ‘bur. denzome double-digit inflation rate. . . Statistics Canada calculates that for every one-cent drop’ in the buck’s value, the consumer price index jumps about. _three-tenths of one-percentage point. For example, a three- * gent dropin the dollar would push up our inflatlon'rate to an annual rate of 12.3 per cent from 11,3, per cent. . - The dollar bas been under downward pressure, against its ‘U.S counterpart for ‘weeks, as- ‘investors worry over the Canadian. economy and” federal « energy and foreign: in-- vestment policies send it’ plummeting to new lows.. .On Thursday, the curtency fell 27-hundredthsof a point to ° 9.11 cents Us s,, its lowest close on record, against the U.S, - dollar, ~ Conaimers: notice. the. effects of: our falling: currency... “quickly when - -they havé- to buy “imported | ‘frilis and. ‘ vegetables. or pay.for US. : vacations. Meanwhile, com- -panies eee: the. costa of . their _Armported primary: ar ‘manufactured goods going. Wp it normal’ times,’ debate’ would: rage over whether the inflationary effects from a lower dollar: would be: ‘otfaet by - the ‘benefits of an increase in’ exports. : : “But today, the benefits. from a lower dollar aren't being”: ‘ felt’ because our : biggest - export, industries -— forest .. products, auto parts and mining = can't sell abroad even at lower. prices. . — The crux of the problem now ts demand,’ not price,’ BAYA |. dim Moore,. secretary ‘of. the . Canadian: Exportera'*: - Association, which represents 500 exportoriented ‘com: © patties, Cts , “In-today’s conditions, I would. question whether a lower. --— dollar will have any beneficial effect: If there are no buyets gut there, ‘you could halve your price end still not get any, . sales,” . Moore sais our: minis, auto: paris and torent rodicls companies, depressed by the slumping U.S. car and housing -markels, Wouldn't benefit from a lower dollar. . 4A lower dollar won 7 lead to recalls of lnid-off forestry or ‘auto workers,” he says. - country, pushing tip inflation and Interest rates as investors became more uncertain’ about, the future and lent. heir., ° money only at “higher rates, : . oe _ And even in “good times, the ‘benefits derived. ‘from cheaper exports would be offset by increased: domestié:: costs, which n must! be Included in the price ‘af these exports, .. he says. ; . -. “Domestic prodiicers' “depend . heavily on. imports ; _ themselves and when they go up in price it adds to their own production costs," he says..‘"The Canadian manufseturing _Gammupity imports more than. anybody else." ” “Moore ‘pays ‘some - ‘companies, such as ‘newsprint’ 7 "producers, which conduct the bulk of their business In US, ~ dollars, benefit if our: dollar slides: between the time they - bill their customers and’ the ‘time they ‘get paid. *. 3 °- But that's speculation and exporters shouldn't be in that: . : ra Atay ey vnecessaryiin View Of thé continulrig losses the company is . buffering,” James said, “Unless Ralconbrldge aets:to stop the drain. on its resources and the bulldup: of nickél in--: “kind ‘of business;"hé Says: * Frank: Hracs,’ an’ economist: with: MeLeod ‘Young Weir”. Ltd’ of ToFénto, gays | it’s difficult lo dasess the impact. of the’ “falling doliar. when the country if is in a recession. | : However, he gays: ‘ott ‘firstquarter- merchandise ‘trade ~ surplus, the first slice the end of 1980, was dua more to the | effects of thé 1 recession. than, the competitive advantages of. ‘a lower dollar. : . wT While merchandise imports fell nine per cent. in’ ‘the quarter, reflecting slackening : ‘domestle demand, exports “fell only four per cérit. That reversed the country's balance: - of trade in goods and seryices to & seasonally a : million surplus from 6 $246-anillon deficit in the i981. o fourth. djusted §288- . quarter. ut -workdoree, af 110%, ee ae at th : " provides will be jn jeopardy!" «: alt pating of the board of schoo! trus af Se cl Gd washeld May 18, The agenda: ‘To interview) ‘principal to Thornhil) Primary School, icy No.3.04 of Part I, Division IIL reads;. ice calling the meeting stall be discussed." : However, while interviewing one principal that day; 0 oe trustee asked the principal his opinion of the Hart F (The. Hart farm had been discussed during an educati * eommiltee meeting the ‘day before.) The principal first ‘ ‘sought assurance that his remarks would be kept cob- fidential. Both-the inquiring trustee and the chairman pf the offered that assurance. (No one asked me a would, keep his remarks confidential.» The principal the , “The. Hart farm is 4 firetrap.” . He, was further patiined on ‘what he felt about the value of, the. coutdtr edyration : program conducted at the Hart farm." ° mck Because I chose todo more than thank the ‘principal f his honesty, and requested an immediate fire inspection the Hart farm. (and reported his remark in my May 91 column): Iam now‘pelng criticized by the board -f¢r breaching confidentiality, The board ig also seeking a leghl --No'gne seems to have noticed’ that.the wholé-incide “the special meeting. ” Neither is fire safety standards of school buildings oue of . the ‘confidential topics as defined by board policy... ‘the same trustee asked me why I respected the cor- .fidentiality. of. the Terrace Advisory Recreation Com- . mission when I did not respect the confidentiality of the The explanation is simple. ‘The Terrace Advisory Recreation Commission meetings are open both to. ‘the ~~ public and to the ‘Media; committees meetings of the schoal z board are not open to either the public or the media, - \) When T. attended: the annual: trustees. corivention ‘th Vancouver last month, I talked with trustees from varios school boards including Queen Charlottes, Prince Rupert, - Nishga, Burns Lake, and Sunshine Coast: They: were i éredulous when I told them. ‘Terrace school‘. efi education committee and other committee meetings were : ; all held in-camera. Seniors need better pensions? flattered when someone calls me a boy. (Please don't call ~ - . And layt week in a special mesting af thie board wilh Les "Canty, an official from‘ the ministry of education, ‘we “discussed the Stewart schools problem for perhaps half ai “hour before Canty asked:us to move into an In-camiefa -Bession, public. We would not have minded if members of tha public or the media had been present’, he sald, (Naive soul, Little does he know the vagaries of. the Terrace schook . ~~ board!) ‘The chairmah of thé board then polled each trustee _ ‘The congress rejected those.claims.and said the critics . Oe individually to get their assurance that what What ¥ we were ‘about to-discuss would remain confidential. rea ' gyaiNongthelese,,. tata Spe ier Sire. cf; teacher me DF with the details af what the-baandbed cussed confidentially, with Canty Hie evening belopse The teacher had been clued in about the in-camera session by a thustee who had preceded the divulgence with. the rampant dictum, “This is just between you and me. en So it seems the real issue is not that confidentiallty ts. disregarded. The real: issue is which trustee is breaking = . confientiality, and how. Other trustees seem at liberty to disclose anything they. choose.. The difference is they in- ~ . ' form only one person at a time and precede. their. disclosures by warning the listener, “This is confidential’. ‘ My tailing aeems tobe that I boldly set words to onaper fe for _alltoread. And cap. itwith my byline,. ° The opinions expressed in this column are those. of the ; “writer and do not reflect the opinion of the board of echeal . trustees of School District 88. : Rate increased “The Bank of Canada kept a tight rein on its trend-setting pate: Thursday; letting-it rise only a third of a percentage . point, to 16.2 per cent from last week's 15.87 per cent. And Finance. Minister Allan MacEachen said there was: “ fevels, despite the increase. -. The rise did not spark any immediate | increases in the “interest, rates charged to" businesses and consumers by the . chartered banks, ~ ‘One trader said the Bank of Canada was trying to walk a tighirope, allowing Its rateto increase enough to show itis- still prepared to,defend the dollar on forelgn ‘exchange markets, but not enough to ) prompt chartered banks toraise thy ey railed | to perk upt up thet dollar, which ri resumed — level-ever. Fae PERE - The chartered banks may be considering an increase'h _ their own‘rates, said’ an: industry sourcé, But théy : probably; be ‘reluetant to act because they. fear adverse ~ publicity and are concerned about ub he effect of higher rales: * ori thie" edor my." De ie ‘ mi dn ‘anolner development, Falconbridge Ltd:.of. Sudbury, - arinounced ‘Thursday 1,000 jobs'at ‘Its-local: operations” P be cut indefinitely’ beginning next. January, “William James, Falconbridge’ president, and. chief " operating officer, also said in a ‘statement ‘that the com- “pany, the regidrl's-‘Wecondiérgest rhining employer, will - -extenda Suinmer 5 Shytdown, " 13 pee fi from. 10 weeks. “aver. an} The job cuts ‘affect. 25 per coh of the compa’ é ara: . : 7 ee : “04 7 “y regret ‘the need. to take. reas ‘measures, but they. ake. ventory; the future of the’compary, afd ail? dF the Jobs at alreate we : Falconbridge lost $22 million: during the last quaiter or” ‘#1982 and $13 million. in ‘the first three months. of this, ‘ye In other business news Thursday: ‘*° - i — Foreign automakers - captured - 29.5 per ‘cent of the > market in May, up from 28.2 per cerit in April ¢ and 28.1 “cent @ year ago, show figures released by the: ‘Automobid Importers “of; Canada. -'The -larger-.share«came:.d customs restrictions and the recession. . Figures show salbs “of series Sa cars, in May: totalled a, up From abssaten “Api “athe | Special meeting no business other than that specified in the ~ At the school board meeting held in Hazelton this week, _ “What "we have. been discussing up Unti) now fs - Cloned’ at” TH 1 Cente UB; vies oweat” ‘Goslig ~*~