‘TERRACE — When Vedder Morton and his wife bought their . three-year old grand- daughter Kendra a_ cartoon video for a Christmas present, they didn’t expect it to contain tanks, bombers and guns.

But there was ail that and more on a Walt Disney Donald Duck cartoon called '‘The Spirit of *43"".

“We were in the family room

playing pool and I heard (a yoice say} ‘guns, guns, guns.’ I wondered what Donald Duck was up to,”’ said Morton. What Donald was up to was a cartoon made during the Se-

cond World-‘War. Donald Duck

is an American factory worker and he’s just been paid, He soon becomes entangled by two other characters — one en- couraging him to spend the money While the other says he should save it to pay taxes for the war effort.

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That save or spend message is accompanied by factory scenes

- of tanks and guns being made,

German submarines sneaking up on Allied shipping and sw- inging bar doors in the form of two swastikas.

“Thanks to Hirohito and Hitler, our taxes are higher than ever before,” says a narrator’s voice in the cartoon. “Spend for the Axis (the name given to the German-Italian-Japanese alliance during. the Second World War) or save for the taxes.”

Although Morton says . the message may have been ap- propriate during the Second World War, he’s unhappy it’s

Natives, feds to sign deal

TERRACE — The federal minister for Indian affairs and the Gitksan-Wet’suwet’en of the Hazeltons this Saturday sign an agreement to negotiate self government.

Pierre Cadiuex and other of- ficials will be at a ceremony held in Kispiox, north of Hazelton, Gitksan-Wet’suwet’en spokesman Herb George said last week.

This will be the second such agreement signed in the north in less than a year. Last September, the Nisga’a signed

an agreement to negotiate self government and other matters.

Gitksan and Wet'suwet’en have before said they regard the negotiations as a formality because they have always had self government.

Also expected to be discussed is a by-law passed by the Gitksan village of Gitwangak in which the band council is dissolved in favour of running affairs through the traditional house system.

The same approach is being taken with social services and education.

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being reproduced and marketed now as a cartoon for children.

‘Ut offended me. It may have been a good thing in 1943 and may have been acceptable then but today, I don't think i it fits,’ said Morton.

‘F*’ve showed this to people

with children, and they were |

shocked.”

Vedder added he doesn’t think it is now suitable for adults but would be appropriate material for educational study. He’s been offered a refund from the Co-op which is selling the product.

A spokesman for the com-

“pany which duplicated and

distributed the video, HOV Video Productions of Ontario, said it has stopped shipments and won't make any more.

“We realize what happened with this particular cartoon,’’ said HGV general manager Kei- jo Tuusa, ‘We've gotten a mix- ed reaction.”

Tuusa said video duplication companies generally try to ship appropriate material to fit cer- tain markets but that- things sometimes go wrong,

He said HGY’s United States parent company is searching for a replacement for ‘The Spirit of °43’. It’s one ‘of four car- toons on ‘Donald Duck and Friends”’ and that title will be issued again when the replace- ment is found.

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF _ SCHOOL DISTRICT 88. AND THE TERRACE DISTRICT TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.

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