TERRACE HERALD,

TERRACE, B.C

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1971 °

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I'm a Gibran freak.

You find us among people of
all walks of life. We may be
taxi drivers or lawyers;
loggers or physicians:
secretaries or key executives,
And, I discovered, a lady
alderman in Terrace.

Gibran wrote many books in,
his short lifespan, but perhaps
most popular of all is ‘The
Prophet” in which Almustafa
The Prophet (in effect, Kahlil
Gibran himself), leaves the
city of Orphalese for his ship
that was to return and bear
him back to the isle of his
birth.

Gibran was born in
Lebanon, but lived a
bohemian life in New York.
New York is his Orphalese.
What is beyond death is what
he refers to as the isle of his
birth.

. WHAT OF WISDOM?

But before boarding the
ship, Almustafa is asked of his
wisdom.

“T cannot tarry longer,’ he
says. ‘The sea that calls all
things unto her calls me, and I
must embark.”

“And alone and without his
nest shall the eagle fly across
the sun.”

But Almitra, a seeress,
pleads he remain for a
moment to “‘tell us all that has
been shown you of that which
is between birth and death.”

“Then Almitra said, speak
to us of Love,

There fella great silence in
the crowd.

“When love beckons to you,
follow him....Though his ways
are hard and steep.

LOVE MAY CRUCIFY

“For even as love crowns
you so shall he crucify you.
Even if he is for your growth
he is for your pruning,”

“But if in your fear you

“But if in your fear you
would seek only love’s peace
and love's pleasure, Then it is
better for you that you cover
your nakedness and pass out
of love’s threshing floor.

“Love gives naught but
itself and takes naught but
from itself.

“Love possesses not nor

«. would it be possessed; for love
: is. sufficient unto love."

On marriage, he says “You
were born together, and
together you shall be forever
more.

“You shall be together even
in the silent memory of God.
HEAVESLY WE.DS

“But let there be spaces in
your togetherness, and let the
winds of the heavens dance
between you.”

“Lave one another, but not
make a bond of love;

“Let it rather be a moving
sea between the shores of your
souls,

“Fill each others cup, but
drink not from one cup.

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“Sing and dance together
and be joyous, but let each one
of you be alone.

“*,..And the oak tree and the
cypress grow not in each
others shadow.”

The prophet is asked of
children. He replies:

“Your children are not your
children. They are the sons
and daughters of Life’s
longing for itself. They come
through you but not from you,
and though they are with you
they belong not to you.”

SOULS FREE

“You may give them your
lave but not your thoughts.
For they have their own
thoughts. You may house their
bodies but not their souls.”

“For their souls dwell in the
house of tommorrow, which
you cannot visit, not even in
your dreams, You may strive
to be like them, but seek not to
make them like you,..For life
goes not backward nor tarries
with yesterday.”

“You are the bows from
which your children as living
arrows are sent forth. Let the
bending of the Archer’s hand
be for gladness; For even as
he loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves the bow that is
stable,”

And, on giving:

ON ‘GIVING

“You give but little when
you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself
that you truly give.”

“For what are: your
possessions but things you
keep and guard for fear you
may need them tommorrow?”

“There are those who give
little of the much they have--
and they give it for recognition
and their hidden desire makes
their giffs unwholesome,

“And there are those who
have little and give it all.
These are the believers in life
and the bounty of life, and
their coffer is never empty.

“There are those who give
with joy, and that joy is their
reward. And there are thase
who give with pain and that
pain is their baptism.

“And to the open-handed the
search for one who shall

receive is joy greater than .

giving.”
WORKS PLEASURE
On work: “You work that
you may keep pace with the
earth and the soil of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a
stranger unto the seasons, and
to step out of life’s procession,
that marches in majesty and
proud submission towards the
infinite.”
“And in keeping yourself
with labor you are in truth
loving life, and to love life
through labor is to be intimate
with life's inmost secret,”
On joy and sorrow, the
prophet says: ‘“‘Your joy is
your sorrow unmasked. And

First aid meet
set for Kitimat

Imagine the sounds of a
fiercely blowing hurricane,
buildings collapsed
everywhere, piles of rubble, and
“blood squirting out from bodies
lying trapped underneath fallen
debris -- in Kitimat.

This could be the scene that
will face teams entering the
Provincial finals for the Work-
men’s Compensation Board's
Totem Trophy, in June.

Assistant Kitimat fire chief,
Eugene Spracklin recalled the
above scene which he and his
team were faced with one year.

Each year teams, consisting
of five members and a coach,
are judged in their ability to
administer first aid treatment
to ‘victims’ of a simulated
accident, The first aid problem
which is usually a case history ,
. WCB, files is a tightly-kept
secret until the teams wajk onto
the field.

EMTER TEAM

The Kitimat Fire Department
have entered a team into the
competion since 1959 and have
won the B.C, finals twice and
been knocked out twice fram the
zone finals held in Kitimat.

: Spracklin said that the Fire

Department will be entering |.

again this year. Teams
representing seven regional

areas of B.C. will compete in
District finals held throughout
the Provinee; the district final
for this region will be held in
Kitimat on June 12.

The provincial cempetition is
being run in conjunction with
both national and international
competitions, First aid teams

from all parts of North
America will be competing for

the International First Aid
Competition in Vancoiver. The
Canadian First Aid Cham-
pionships will see teams
representing all pravinces and
the two northern territories,
competing for the St. John
National Trophy.

UPGRADE STAMDARDS

Spracklin said that because

‘BC. first aid standards are

much higher than other
provinces they do not compete
in the National competion. He
added that he‘hopes that this
years competitions will en-
courage other places to take
place every year and possibly
upgrade first aid standards
throughout Canada.

the selisame well from which
your laughter rises was of-
tentimes filled with your
tears, .

“The deeper that sorrow
carves into your being, the
more joy you can contain.”

JOY AND SORROW

In other words, Gibran is
saying to know joy you must
also know sorrow.

On laws, he says: ‘“You
delight in laying down laws,
yet you delight more in
breaking them,”

But, he says later, ‘What
man's law shall bind youif you
break your yoke but upon no
man’s prison door?”

On talking: ‘You talk when
you cease to be at peace with
your thoughts.”

“And in much of your
talking, thinking is half-
murdered.” For thought is a
bird of space, that in a cage of
words may indeed unfold its
wings but cannot fly,”

TIME'S WINGS

On Time, he says today
mtist embrace the past with
re aembrance and the future
wiih longing.

On boarding the ship,
Almustafa tells the people:

“But sweeter still than
laughter and greater than
longing came to ‘me. It was
the boundless in you, The vast
man in whom you are all but
cells and sinews; He in whose
chant all your singing is but a
soundless throbbing. -It is in
{he vast man that you are
vast,”

“You have been told that,
even a chain, you are as weak
as your weakest link,”

“This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your
strongest link. To measure
you by your smallest deed is to
reckon the power of the ocean
by the frailty of. its foam; to
judge you by your failures is to
cast blame upon the seasons
for their inconsistancy.”

SPIRITUAL ‘FLAME’

“‘And behold I have found
that which is greater than
wisdom.

“It is a flame spirit in you
ever gathering more of itself,
while you, heediess of its
expansion, bewail the
withering of your days.”

As the ship of death comes,
Almustafa says:

“Forget not that I shall
come back to you. A little
while and my longing shall
gather dust for another bady.
A little while, a moment of
rest upon the wind, and
another woman shall bear
me.”

Gibran speaks of many
things, from pain to self-
knowledge; on teaching and
friendship. On goed and evil.

On all that gathers up in our:

life’s harvest. Above all, he
speaks from his heart,

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The best Science Exhibits are

not built at the last moment, but -|:

are the result of careful plan-

- ning and work over a period of

time,” said Andy Taylor,
publicity co-ordinator for the
upcoming Terrace Science
Fair. .

For this reason three months

notice is being given to any.

student in the Skeena-Cassiar

_ School District 88 (Terrace, the -

Hazeltens and Stewart) who

wishes to exhibit a science

project,

The Science Fair will be held
at Caledonia Senior Secondary
School on April 23 and 24,
Science exhibits built by the
students will be displayed. The
Science Fair Committee, a

group of interested Terrace.

science teachers, are
organizing the Fair. They hope
it will be a step toward
upgrading science education.

-encouragement: to

» The- Committee’ is urging
parents.to give. direction and
: their
children who intend to exhibit so
the final project will represent
his best efforts. —
CLEVERNOUS

Ina letter toparents about the

Fair, Taylor said “The best

exhibits do not- require ex-
pensive equipment. and
elaborate cabinet-making, but
rather. they use ‘simple
materials cleverly. arranged..
While the exhibit should be
neatly done, judging is not
affected by artistic abilities and
woodworking talents.”
“Projects will be ranked it
the following order by judges:
“Investigation of a problem:
Examples of such a project
would be ‘The effect of colored
light on’ plant growth’ or ‘What
will a magnet pick up?’ This
type of project requires time,
research and deep thinking.

‘requiring technical. skill: An

FROM _CRYSTAL-SETS TO ROCKETS... >

The simplest subjects are often ‘| -
the best. In this type'of project,
the student ia working like a
scientist. .

TECHNICAL SKILL
“Construction type of project

example might ‘be “A:.eryslal
radio” or.. ‘Weather. in-
struments’: Here the student is
working at the technical level.

Ifa student builds a project of
this type, be sure he actually -
uses his projéct ‘and keeps:a-
record of his successes and |.
failures, Se

‘Demonstration or
illustration .of a scientific
process or principle:

An example might be ‘A
model of a dam’ or ‘A voleano’
or ‘How the eye warks’.

Here the student explains
some phase or branch of science
so that it is more uwun-
derstandable to the layman.

Exhibits of this type are

wonderful teaching devices but
“are generally ‘scored. ldwer

since they do not usually involve

the student in the true processes — “4

ofscience.” ~—
In his letter ta parents, Taylor

.Tequested that students enter a

log of: their. work with their
projects. , He said:
- “This log should’ be of suf-

‘ficient length to tel? the story of
‘thie. student's’ ‘work,

his
problems, thoughts, results and
conclusions...

The log should not.be a report

_on some. area of sciante copied
‘from ‘a° ‘book,’. but.rather a

personal account or diary of the

‘student’s, work “.ag. ;'a - junior

seientist. ©
Primary grade students may
dictate their ‘log to-a. parent,
brother, or sister, ~-.
And, asks Taylor,’ thd: logs
should be typed or neatly
written in ink, if possible, —

Colcel

for its

George W. Scrimshaw,
president and chief executive
officer of Columbia Cellulose
Company, announced a net loss,
after taxes of $3,879,000 for the
consolidated operations of the
company for the year 1970.

Net sales for the year were
$84,000,000. .

In 1969, Colcel showed a net
profit of $1,421,000 on sales of
$103,000, 000.

Prolonged industry-wide
strikes that shut down Colcel’s
northern operations for 60-days
and interior operations for 71
days and consequent start-up
problems were cited as major

blames strike
-1970 losses

support its surcharge for
equalization of the floating
Canadian dollar.
During the year, Colcel
finished the construction of two
smallwood processing
operations in the Terrace area
and made substantial progress
towards the completion of a
modern new woodroom com-
plex in Prince Rupert. These
projects will permanentiy
contribute to the company’s
efforts to better utilize its wood
resources and reduce their fibre
costs.
* Haseldonck, the company’s
‘Belgian affiliate, realized. a

profitable year and expanded
its equity in a small Belgian
paper mill.

The company forecasts a
profitable year for 1971 and is

confident of its ability to expand |}

and develop in accordance with
its planned programs to in-
erease the efficiency of its

operations and for further |f

expansion.

Scrimshaw said that these
improvements will be in the
second half of the year when
world pulp markets are ex-
pected to improve as the
reviving North American
economy strengthens.

1R. R. 2 River Drive:

It was a tight squeeze

A miscalculation by a
Thornhill driver Thursday
resulted in an accident causing
over $300 damage to two cars.

Albert Emery, a Terrace taxi
driver, turning into a driveway
in the 4700 block Park Avenue

in one go because of snow
narrowing the entrance. So he
stopped, and tried again,

Pamela Smailes, of -Lakelse

Lake Road Thorohill, assuming
he’d make it in one go didn't
allow for his change of mind and
hit the left corner of-his taxi.

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causes for the year’s un-
satisfactory results.

In addition, Scrimshaw said
that the freeing of the Canadian
dollar had adversely affected
results, as it had affected the
results of all export-oriented
Canadian companies.

The softening of the North
American pulp market, as 8
result of the overall economic
decline in the United States,
made it impossible for Colce! to

- INSURANCE

Loses control

A Terrace man lost control of
his car Friday and caused $1,100
damages to’ two vehicles. *

RCMP said Frederick Locke
was driving too fast. for coad
conditions. . ~ .

As a result, his car skidded
while coming down Kalum Hill
and collided with a car driven
by Mrs. M.A. Munson.

Her car received $500
damages and Locke’s $600.

Police charged Locke with
failure to stay to the right side
of the road.

Coal exports from Nanaimo
for the year 1870 declined by
5,777 tons, The price of coal
was $10 a ton.

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