TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 197: r Terrace The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers’ Assocation, and Varified Cir- culation. Published every Monday and Thursday at 4613 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in cash, Return postage guaranteed. Second class mail registration number 1201. GENERAL MANAGER ; GORDON HAMILTON ADVERTISING MANAGER: BILL GROENEN Business Address: 4613 Lazelle Ave., ‘Terrace, B.C, Herald EDITOR KAYCE WHITE. Phone: 635-6357 P| OUR OPINION Northern mirage That great northern city Prime Minister Trudeau suggested he wanted young Canadians to build will be in the north right enough - about 100 miles north of Montreal, the prime minister told Canadian reporters touring the Soviet Union with him. Some of them thought he was joking. But since his remarks came after a visit to the Russian Arctic the chances are he was merely proving that many a true word is spoken in jest. For that look at the Russian Arctic may have removed from the prime minister’s mind any remaining trace of the great northern vision that John Diefenbaker saw way back in the fifties, Mr. Trudeau seems to be telling us to forget those visions of great domed cities arising in the Canadian tundra and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Persuading Canadians to live in them, if they were erected, would be iffic The history of civilization says anthoropologist Margaret Mead, is the story of man’s trying to get off the farm. Not many who succeed in escaping from the farm are going to settle on the difficult enough. frozen Arctic wastelands. The point seems to be that they They are as unlikely toappear as that vast network of Arctic roads, stemming from the really aren’t needed.. bate Kate Forrester was reading the morning paper after her husband had left for work. Suddenly her telephone rang. It was a next door neighbour. “Kate, it’s just terrible,” Millicent was exclaiming. “1 thought - with all your experience with children - you . might be able to help me, Tell me what todo. I...” “What is it, what's the matter?” Kate asked. “Can I come over? I must talk to you. ’msoscared. But Pll have to bring Benny with me. I can't leave him alone. He's got to go to the hospital. Oh, Kate..." “Stay where you are,” said Kate, calmly. “I'll be over in a few minutes.” When she entered Millicent's kitchen, she found five-year-old Benny tucked into a heavy blanket, looking very warm, cradled in his mother’s arms, “Oh, Kate!” Millicent cried out. “Whatever shall I do? Benny’s got ta goa into the © hospital for tests. They're trying to get a bed for him now. He was terribly sick in the night. The doctor called. Bob's gone out to get the prescription, It's just terrible!" Kate looked at the child's face. He was looking up at his distraught mother with anxiety and fear. I?’s much more terrible that you should he talking like this in front of Benny, she thought, The . kitchen was overly warm and Benny was far too heavily wrapped, . “I see you haven't made any coffee," ‘murmured, calmly. I've a whole pot on the stove. “Just wait a moment and I'll go and get it.” She went quietly out the back door... But it was,not alone to get the cofiee. Benny something that might be. just the thing. So small and compact was this something she waa able to place itin the pocket "of her jeans before returning to. _Millicent’s kitchen with: the “steaming coffee, ; Millicent still sat with Be on her lap, She was dabbing at. her eyes. "It's so unexpected, 80 frightful,” she murmured as Kate returned. © tt _ Kate filled two cups, ‘You ) make it sound. catastrophic,”:. . - - ghe'sald, cooly, “But it doesn't: _ hava tobe at all, you know.: And “don’t you think Benny would be betler off in this bed fora Kate: Was - Millicent’s tirst and only child, ._. and this was the first time he . _had been ili. Kate knew that in’ her natural distress, . Millicent ‘ _ needed help, She also knew that” she herself was:in posseasion of. Mackenzie, Alaska highways, that Alvin Hamilton (then northern affairs minister) was promising in 1959. Three years ago Dr. James Lotz, a geographer formerly employed with Whitehorse-Dawson, the department of northern affairs, said he had become very unpopular because he had warned that the north was not the untapped storehouse of mineral wealth many believed, A year later Dr. O.M. Solandt of the science council pointed out the folly of building Arctic cities that could only exist on government subsidy. Because the impossible dream has gone doesn’t mean the Arctic won’t be developed, It will be by a small group of skilled men. They will install the machinery to bring forth the oil and minerals, and a small permanent staff will operate them. Modern technology, in fact, suggests that much of the direction will be by remote contral from places like Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto. The Russians had more compulsive methods of making people go to places like Norilsk and huge, open-pit mines technology. that demanded numbers as well as Development of Canada’s north will manner. by Cay Wade. while? He looks very hot and sleepy tome, Let me take him up tobed, Milly.” She looked at the child, “Have a nap before Daddy gels back, Benny?” Benny nodded - wordless. He fell asleep almost as soon as his head touched the pillow. Somewhat relieved, Kate returned to the kitchen. Millicent had not touched her coffee. She was leaning with her head on her arms over the table, her fists clenched. “You don't get upset when your kids - are sick. I know you don’t - and I admire it, Kate, but...’” * “But I do get upset,” Kate answered, “It's just that I try very hard indeed never to let the kids know of the panic inside.” “You - in a panic? ” exclaimed Millicent, ‘Now [’ve heard everything.” “Before we met you and Bob, when Tim had major surgery, I wasn’t able to take it. I went to feces in front of Tim, It did im a lot of harm at the time - be at a different time, in a different context and (the prime minister seems to be telling us) in a much different VANCOUVER PROVINCE __ Life is to Live psychologically. Then a friend of mine told me about a little book called Suddenly it Happens - Your Child is [1], published by the Canadian Mental Health Association. It really helped me, I can tell you.” She pulled the little blue and white folder from her pocket and gave it to Millicent. “Here,” she said, gently, “take a look at it while I go and put some laundry in the machine. Tl be back in an hour. Before the hour was over Millicent was on the telephone. “Tm phoning the Association right away to have one of those folders sent to me," .she was saying. ‘“‘It's really great!’ “Isnt it?"' replied Kate, warmly, Then she added lightly while listening intently for the answer. ‘‘Have you passed any" of the ideas on to Benny yet?” “No,” said Millicent, with a hint of a smile in her voice. "He's still asleep - but I sure do intend to as soon as he wakes up.” Ruining our earth Through world-wide pollution, we are gradually ruining our earth, The U.S. Government, for instance, estimates that 62,000,000 tons of wasle, ranging from DDT Programs conflict. OTTAWA (CP) — Federal spending and administrative programs often work against each other and the national well-being and should be supervised by an overseeing treasury board, a Senate inquiry was told today. Echoing erlticisms levelled by Eric Kierans after he. quit. the Trudeau cabinet April 29, . Grant L, Reuber ‘told the national finance committee yarlous welfare, development, .. public. service and food- subsidy programs often conflict with over-all goals of stable economic growth, - Prof, Reuber, head of eco. nomies at University ‘of Western Ontarlo, presented a ~ . lengthy. written submission In | . asgociation with colleague Ronald G. Bodkin. ; ‘The senators. are soliciting. ideas on Improved ways-to run the. economy while avoiding excessive’ inflation “and _Wnemployment. , residues to old mattresses are dumped off sea coasts annually, And this is but one aspect of pollution. It goes not take into account the filth pumped into the air every day around the world, industria] pollution of rivers and lakes, oil pollution of the seas and beaches, © thus killing fish and wildlife. The. only ‘way . to combat _, pollution is to fight it with every means at our disposal propaganda, high fines or even imprisonment. ‘fgr- the worst offenders, and .. long-range Planning aimed at preventing pollution, The Japanese, for instance, are :working on an almost ‘visionary plan of having only electric cars in the centre of Tokyo and eventually other cities so as to reduce air pollution. ‘But one of the problems with pollution. ig that, talk..is far easier, than action. . The dreamers can draw up all kinds _of plans, yet unless there is a national and indeed a global will to change things, pollution can only get worse,’ All of'us must - be prepared:.to. spend time. as wellas money to fight a menace’ that Is ag: bad: as warfare .and - Blobal over-population, The... Northern Way by Ray Williston - MLA. . | It appears to me that there Is a growing need for. British Columbia's forest industry to give more. thought than it has been doing to the matter of serving the domestic market. A short time ago I told the annual meeting of a forest industrial group that ‘Although it is necessary for the industry to pay great altention to its competitive position in ‘the foregin markets, there must. be a recognition of our own needs — for forest products. | 4 “Local and special requirments must feceive | attention and this means there is still need for the mill that will cut to limited specifications,” 1 said, adding that, “It would be an almost criminal act for § industry to use a publicly owned resource and neglect the needs of the very people who made that resource available,” ’ Furtlier than this, I consider “And THIS, my boy — is your unemployment insurance card .. .” Bill Smiley A sober side to June iy one of the happiest months of the year in Canada. Or it should be. In other countries they have spring. In this country, we have a bleak month before the last snow goes, and June bursts forth in all her lush, soft spendour. Grass is startling green and the cattle fill their bellies with the juicy sweetness after a long _# Winter of confinement and dull fodder. Young ones of all species’ actually gambol, snort, kick up their heels and butt their mothers on one side, then on the udder. Our trees have forgotten their groaning and cracking in the teeth of winter; they bow and whisper like ladies at a garden party while the squirrels scamper saucily about their legs and the birds twitter’ among their ample bosoms and verdant hair. June is full of anticipation. The boat owners are painting and repairing and launching. The golfers are having their finest hour before the silly summer duffers swarm onto the courses, And school is nearly over. And the most beautiful marriages ever conceived are in the offing. - . It is a month when surely every Canadian should be- shouting, ‘“‘Praise the Lord”, or “Let joy be unconfined”, or at least, “Wow! This is the Breatest!"” But a benevolent Providence, _ inits wisdom, must remind man that every rose has a thorn, that every light contains its darkness, that every good has a balancing evil. It’s probably just as well. If there were no bad smells, we wouldn't appreciate the good ones, If we never felt pain or illness, we wouldn't appreciate health, - . So, in June, as in life, there's another turn of the wheel, another side. of the coin. Editor. Terrace Herald Dear Editor In your issue of May 17th is a - write-up of the Hart Farm: in which the writer goes back into ‘history to tell the begiining of the farm. [ don't know where the writer got the Information set forth in the article but they don't correspond with the facts as | know them. The farm.was started, not by Mr. Hart, but was _ the homestead of -Matt. Allard, a ahalf, breed trapper and -prospector who took up the homestead and. built-the log . bin: about; 1912,, Matt lived area’: during the: 1930's and eventually * purchased ..' the *: property from’ Matt. I don't... =; There’s all that glorious nature, just waiting to be revelled in. And there are all those mosquitoes and baclk- flies just waiting to revel in turning you into a swollen porpoise or a stripped skeleton. There’s all that luxuriant prass. But the dam’ stuff is up to your knees before you get your lawnmower overhauled. And there's all that young life. June was a happy month for my _, mother, more years ago than it _is. decent to talk about. She. proudly bore her third son, me. But what she got was a sickly whelp who cried for two years without stopping and barely survived every infant’s ailment there was in those days. There’s all that anticipation. But the boat owner discovers that the rats have been at his sails, or the termites at his hull, or his motor has developed a perforated ulcer. And the golfer swings too hard on his first day out, slips a disc and is out for the summer, To be sure, school is nearly cut. But June is pure hell for both teacher and student. For the teacher it is a scramble of final reviews, an avalanche of evaluation, a surfeit of statistics. Fair enough. He’s paidforit. But he might as well be teaching a couple of cords of wood. The bodies are there, but the minds and spirits have fled through the open windows into the musky June air. It's even worse for, the student. There is that oaf talking about poetry when the taking place outside that stifling rectangular prison. The blood stirs, the limbs go Janguorous, the eyes go glassy and that retarded adult up front might as well be talking to himself in Swahili. : As for those beautiful marriages, conceived § in heaven, and timetabled for ‘June. If Thad any statistics, I'd »say that statistics show that fifty per cent of them will endin YOUR OPINION — greatest poetry in the world is - ' programme. June’s delights a life of quiet desperation, thirty per cent of them will be unbearable, ten per cent will be impossible, five per cent unspeakable. The rest will wind up having their sixtieth anniversary pictures in the local paper. ['m not being cynical about June. I wouldn’t miss it for anything. I am. merely, as usual, presenting the facts. Accident toll down 200 deaths a wee Safety experts from @CQOBs - national forum on traffic, home, - Canada meet inSaskatoon June 6-9 at the Canada Safety Council Conference with the aim of working out better methods of reducing the high unnecessary national accident toll. ‘While preliminary indications point toa reduc. -tion in the number of accident victims last year, there is still no room for complacency,” J.C. Thackray, President of the Canada Safety Council, said in announcing the Conference programme. “More than 200 Canadians die weekly in accidents, thousands are severely injured and the - annual costs run to billions of dollars,” he said. , Traffic deaths and injuries decreased more in 1970 than in any year since the . Second - World WAR. In comparisen to 1969, traffic deaths declined 344 last year to 5,030. Injuries dropped 2,027 to 179,957 ar 1.13 ‘per cent. The first time there has been any decline in this category in 25 years. Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures on home, recreational, farm accidents are not yet available, Mr. Thackray attributed the traffic improvement to better safety education, engineering and ‘enforcement, the . three areas covered in the Conference The _ traffic decrease took place despite a substantial increase in vehicle registrations and drivers. The Conference is the only think the depression: years in ‘the late 30's Matt was unable to pay his taxes, but think this’: unlikely, - - ‘At the time the U.S, entered. ‘the -war Joe. Hart. had established quite.a mink farm‘... ‘on the property, plus”’a few: . »-beaver, However, his helper, a--. . - young American, left lo join the *- army and the animals had to he -_ “disposed. of. _ undoubtedly fixed up the old-log " house and did further building. ‘-The Columbia. ..Cellulose ‘wanted the -property: and eventually. Joe sold ‘it.to.them’ ~:~ , * about. ten years: ago, Joe-then ‘moved to the head of: the jake ~“there:steadily until he-retired ton and bought ‘the original Annie Duncan, on Vancouver Island, **.- around 1938. Joe'Hart was quite :;, a regular sumer visitor to the .f;. .Roas home and ‘that “of “her phew, Conroy, ed afte _ Joe Hart- Rosewood, was, - ‘Roop farally: ; 2F rank Read, = and - and . occupational © licensed. _ nothing. : recreational, farm and occupational safety. starts June? with a critical lock at the effectiveness of safety programmes and campaigns in ‘preventing accidents. Representatives of Canada’s main safety organizations will be on hand to discuss their: | -efforts and field questions. - Other topics to be dealt with which are very much in the public eye aré: The impact of noise on modern living; medica] aspects of accident prevention; new thoughts in motivation and ‘communication; effects of tafety-oriented legislation and “uf enforcement in preventing eccidents and the effects of engineering in the prevention of ‘zccidents. - CENTENNIAL MEMO In 1862 miners stared in awe as ‘21 camels were brought to Yale as a means of transport for supplies to the Cariboo. The— experiment was unsuccessful. The camels scared horses and~ their hoof pads were unsuited to the rocky trails, But at least one _ is known to have survived until 1905. There -was a gold strike on the Columbia River in the Big Bend area in 1864 which created a new gold rush in the year following. But’ many of the ‘prospectors earned little or (dit, Paden i tea » work the industry is doing itself no favour as it will lose. public support of its export activities if needs at home: are not looked after. ot .There are other matters of concern. By.and large we are still using lumber and: many other forest products in almost the same way that we did a century ago, while. ‘other building material industriys are passing the forest industry by. Aggravating this situation is the fact that if is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the kind and qualily of lumber at the price that makes it more desirable than some other product. ; The overal] problem of competition by non-forest product building materials Is particularly evident in the province’s school construction program. mo More than three,years ago in _ one of my columns I said that mounting school construction costs in the face of a rising school-age population and the consequent need for additional educational facilities, were presenting problems that concerned us all. 1 offered the comment then that..the.. problems, . however, . were ones for which the forest industry could: offer at Jeast-a partial solution. I think now thiscomment may The working programme ' have been too optimistic. Today, architects, $chool planners, building contractors, suppliers, etc., are starting to together on school - construction programs year by year.in the.various distriets and discovering what is needed in the. way of manufactured 4, . building. components with the idea of having them mass- produced in order to minimize -construction costs. The forest industry seems nat --to have made.any particular effort to become involved in these - discussions and has apparently offered — little evidence of interest or of any research it may have. done towards providing satisfactory and competive materials in this field. . The result. has been that school construction in British Columbia has gone more and more (‘to steel frame _.construction and the use of _ plaster board. And while, there is Some manufacturing of these - . building materials on the lower mainland, the greater supply is brought in fromeasternCanada. This, in a province which prides itself as one of the world’s leading producers of forest products. and. which is making: considerable effort to convince overseas markets of the desirability of. wood m- aterials in construction, strikes me ‘as a rather ridiculous position for us to find ourselves in. eh s 4 “OU AVE T' MAKE ALLOWANCES Bf -'E DIDNIT AVE 4 VERY JAPPY_, Ie canine 2 LONG ON