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OUR OPINION

At election time there are three directions that the news media can take: ignore the entire election; openly support one candidate; or attempt to present an unbiased view.

opinions.

Newspapers, radio, and TV are staffed by people. To be a completely unbiased person is to be less than human. However, the Herald solicited guest editorials from each of the candidates, and all but two replied. The Herald has a policy of presenting both sides of a story, that is when both sides are willing to talk. The Herald has an open phone line and is available at all times to any citizen who wishes to ask a question, make a statement or register a complaint.

There are two other election-related functions that a newspaper serves. One, paid advertisements in which the contenders buy the space to say anything they like, and two, opinion. On the editorial page, letters, signed

informing

the herald

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' Bprepared. = ¥ acknowledged the next question: Bruce - Freeman, |

By Doug Sack: . -

People who use grocery stores as their supply of food (as onposed to growing your own or eating out) missed a wail of.an cpportunily Thursday afternoon to question, or attack if you like, the managers of the big retail outlooks in Terrace.

Messrs. Carr (Safeway), Comeau (Super Value), King (Co-Op) and Smith (Overwaitea) were on view before the consumer as part of the Department of Agriculture’s forum held in Veritas Hail. .

Charles Carter, Provincial Horticulturist , who chaired that aspect of the program announced that no holds were to be barred and any question would be legitimate. Topics ranged from the problem of shrinking sausage to rumored poor treatment by the stores When dealing with local farmers.

Things were moving along congenially enough with several ladies in the audience asking questions typical of housewives.

Mrs. Mary Little of Terrace complained to the managers

Bruce Freeman (arms folded), President of the

sh President of. the Kitquni-Kak *" Farmers Institute.

“We local farmers are treated like dogs by your buyers, If we were treated like gentlemen we could take the - low prices you give us but to be lreated like serfs is a kick in the shins,” Freeman claimed. Further questioning afterwards indicated that the Co-op is the only store in town that “makes a real effort at having good relations with the growers,’’ according to Freeman.

Atfirst this brought a stunned silence from the managers on the hot seat. Then one by one they each disclaimed any knowledge of mistreatment to local farmers by their buying staffs. The government observers sat by with furrowed brows making notations on. legal pads.”

Further questioning about the room with various local farmers confirmed Freeman's estimation. John Bahr, who grows vegetables, said that although Freeman was <a little harsh, toa certain point what he saidwastrue. The only store I deal with is the Co-op, They are fair, The others like to ride the

Kitsum Kalum Farmers Institute.

that she sometimes finds goods | for sale with several different .

tags on them; each new one _ covering up the old.

She also mentioned that many -- times you find a nice thick piece- of sausage in the wrapper and a -

- scrawny squiggly in the skillet after. it's. been: cooked. ©: The managers «: fielded. questions comfortably.and were

when |. ‘they

“from

these °° vere _ conduct these fact finding tours ’ exactly for that reason, did look | ‘surprised,

farmers’ back.”

- Lfnothing else was gained, the

local. managers found. that buyers on’ their staffs are‘ not treating “local . producers. with

_ the courtesy they are due, OR

they were aware of.it and only.

+, managed to look surprised. ‘The feeling i the room was.that the:

government” officials, wha

"When asked what percentage

KEN FISHER

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columns and editorials express

Again, to be completely

unbiased is to be less than human. Everyone has opinions and everyone has the right to express them. In a letter or a signed column the opinion expressed is that of the person indicated by the signature.

When a controversy arises, if one type of news media edits releases that present only one side of the issue, it is the community responsibility of the other to present the opposite side. If this policy is criticized as slanted journalism, perhaps one should use both types of media to make their decision. Two 45 degree slants point to the middle,

The mayor-elect as leader of our community will have this publication's full support and co-operation in

the townspeople of

Municipal affairs. Congratulations, Mr. Johnstone.

Weather-beaten cottage nestled in the s

pt ee

now drifts on the bench in Terrace.

(D. Swanton photo)

Pastor’s Pen

Our world is wracked by explosive forces that threaten Take a minute to consider how the population explosion has pushed the world toward disaster. A new breed of scientist is offering his own special brand of prediction to a frightened world. Disaster for the planet Earth may be just around the comer say the

life itself.

population biologists,

Paul Ehrlich whose bood ‘The

Population Bomb’ startled the world which was just published a few years ago, speaks openly of a time when signs may go up “Standing Room Only”. Starvation is there just a few years ahead of us now and this ‘4s for millions upon millions according to his research. Those who visit the population explosion centres report frantic efforts by socialogists and politicians tc turn back the multiplying hordes who are threatening their = own

an

Consumers question

existence. But their best endeavors have done little to hait the 60 million a year population increase. That means that as each and every year passes there is approximately three Canadian equivilant populations added to this world’s population after all the deaths have been subtracted from all the births.

Right now the threat of starvalion has retreated a step or two under the skill of the plant biologists. Miracle wheats and rices now provide a temporary delay in what some scientists refer to asa mad slide {to disaster.

The future results look gruesome, since control seems well-nigh impossible .when millions will die in famines like we have never known. “There will be famines” as Christ said now seems to take on new

tt be

meaning. Nations are now using famine as a war tool like we have never known either, even as Christ said atthe same “there will be wars and rumors of war”. He said this would bea sign of the last days, “when you see all this beginning to happen

take courage because your.

liberation is then near” (see Luke 21:28) :

Are. you surprised that’ God knew about this so long ago? Does it surprise you to know

_that He told this that ‘you yourself might have faith in Him in these last days? Does it seem more real now that He really loves you with an everlasting love? This is just one reason that it makes Him a God worth loving, do you see what I mean? :

Keith Dearing Pastor of the — Seventh-day Adventists

- a

“An interested.” Terrace Reader" who wrote in ‘your. paper, Thurs. December §.. -I thought at first it was from an educated ‘person, but as:I.read further it was quite easy to see.

where he. received © his. schooling. © .Maybe he should’. read Pierre Burton's latest book: and leara a few things of. Canadian history. ' Also take in. mind that all Englishmen are -

not as “Grandpa told him, that all Englishmen don't know. their:

ass from a hole in-the ground. |.

Of course Grandpa never told’

that helped to -make’ this Canada. Be ; the tales they tell are quite humoraus and some are quite true, Now I wonder if he is not one of the third generation that

doesn't have a pot to p-in or a window to throw it out. He certainly doesn't sound like a taxpayer of Terrace or he wouldn’t.be running the people. down who are trying to hold our taxes down to the right level. I wonder where he was during the years 1939-1946, I spent 5 years ‘and 3 months overseas. This army was made up of every nationality. We hoped to come back to what we hoped was social equality. But we’ find today far from that with everyone trying to push the

other fellow down. Even in'a |

small corimunity like Terrace, T have lived here for twenty- three years ard there has been: .

-plenty of undemocratic things ~

pulled off in Terrace, and not all by Englishmet, Hf you're (the

writer who ‘signed himself a -

third generation Britisher) a

Terrace taxpayer get down and. * help make Terrace a better -

place to live.

I promised myself long. ago ©

that the only way to live was’ that Iam as good a man as the other man, and he’s no better thanTam. Andone other thing: You sheuld be.man enough to *

sign your name. As I've never: *- been ashamed tosign mine. I'm*: -

English and proud of it. : ‘Mr. FW; Chastney

involved in -this: moonlighting.

Believe me. some of

- showed he could walk a’ : straight line, touch his nose

‘evidence had’ been-

- Dear Editor; this letter infor

"Dear Sirs:

The carpenters of the. Nor- 4 -

‘thwest District: Council are’. condeming.the practice of

moonlighting: that - has : been: (iam

going on'for years in this‘area, ie

particularly. when -the people :|iam

‘are public employees, i.e, their ; wages are paid by.us, ... ..-:

_ ‘The bullding of the-riew “Irly : aa

Bird’" store in Kitimat has just -

been completed by Mr.L. Bravo |

using five schoolboard em-. ployees. working Saturdays, . Sundays and evenings. : These moonlighters were even using

Le stionalities." -the Schoolboard shop and: tools hima of all the other nitionalities which are also paid for by the A

taxpayer, 2

_.We. feel we have a ‘right to

demand that the Schoolboard amy

instruct these employees to stop

-this practice ‘which is‘ unfair to ‘all. bona’ fide contractors and

nters aswell a8 to ; all unemployed in general, =~ ‘If they desire to continue, let them terminate théir-em- ployment with the School board and enter the labour market. on an- equal basis “with other. contractors and workers, . - Itis also very poor judgment on the part of “Irly Bird!’ and Mr. Bravo to use moonlighters to build this store expecting Union contractors | and’: car-

completed. Yours truly, _ John Jensen.

' | Business Representative.

‘Evidence on video tape NEW YORK (AP) — Luis

Vasquez, accused of drun- ken driving, was acquitted

Monday when 4 video tape “made after his arrest

-and "pick. up fromthe floor, -. : It-was the -first time such

:three coins,

presented: in‘’a-New York court, Os

a 7 : gathering “and conclude’,the,

me." 4. who opened 35 year-old cans of

tuna and found far more ”

mercury in them than in.cans_ , filled recently. ° Again it’s: the scientific equipment that has

caused the so called mercury scare. - :

day’s activity.;. ~-*

He spoke again of synthetic

food. He scorned those professors who say that syn- thetic foods are needed to “feed the world’s starving millions.

There is no reason why we cannot produce food for the total worlds population. - The problem isn’t a lack ‘6f food, it’s .poor distribution.” The Minister commented,

Jaughed'as he’ told ‘of scientists *

The Minister ‘again returned

totheretail stores. Aseveryone | knows, he. said “‘The cost of goods is not based on the price, but on what the traffic will bear,

penters to patronisé same when '

Horticulturist Charles Carte

and Les Smith.

of their total produce comes from local growers, all four estimated in the area of five percent. B. C. Agrictilture Minister Cyril Shelford grimaced at the ‘igure and whispered across the ‘table “Two percent at the highest,"

Freeman estimated that local produce could account for as high as 20 percent of chain store

- needs in the Terrace area. He again cited the mistreatment of |

farmers and discourtesy as the reason ‘more isn't purchased, “You go down on Monday”,

he sald, “and they say come |

back Thursday and on

Thursday they say come back : on Saturday and when you come:

back Saturday they tell you that- they just ordered a truck from Vancouver and they don't need

any more, So what do you do?’"-

~ Although the managers took a

roasting, they’ were ‘admittedly

in a most ‘difficult. positlon.

_ Horticulturist Carter admired -

therm for putting themselves on:

the hot seat and commented .

- Some of ( filler In sausages, bone and fat

that they handled themselves very well, One manager who was invited, Mr. J. Mathieson of the Westend Store, did not show-

up. a . -. Being part of big retail chains -

the managers are often caught In the bind between. big compary officials and the

_ consumers: they. serve ‘daily,

The government... ‘official commented that he thought t- hey were doing a very good job

. and that, all things considered, *- - the consumer was being givena — good" service. |. .Hope’ was.

expressed: that ‘all: who

’ participated in the question .and

answer.. session learned something, © oes

AL) that’ ‘point - coffee was.

served and when things began anew Mr. Maurie King of. the -

“Department of ‘Agriculture “reversed the ‘program ‘and ..

began quizzing the cinsumers | on their thoughts about various

questions,

his<éoncerns: were;

r with panel of grocery managers, Brian Carr, Al Comeau,

hidden in rolled roasts, pre- .

Wrapping of meats and frozen meats sold as fresh. When he moved to the

labelling of synthetic foods, he |

began receiving . strong. comment from the andience.

Virtually - everyone foods being clearly marked as

Lake, expressed dismay over'a

package of three layer jello'she .

recently purchased at one of the chain stores, : =:

“I. took: ‘it. home’, ‘she

commented, -‘‘and.-read the

Tetrachrolideco-something in it

I wouldn't eat something like

that even if Iknew whatit was.” - Another’ concerned: local, Nick Samson of Samson's.”

: Poultty Farm agreed that a.Jot™:.. . Of-.the “labels " gre: scientific - jargon'that only scientists can - understand. He broke the _foom “apart when

whol

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‘having. produce labelied. b

r who‘. answered. favored.-synthetic -_

_ chain stores grow fruit in the _ container from one end to.the - a ae other, ‘It sald that there was .

‘he sald, . "It:

Corbin King

the can has roasted rabbit dung

init, then it should say roasted : eh

rabbit dung on it.”. . 7 Another area of concern was’

points of origin. Again response

_ was favorable. If an apple ‘is from the Okanagan ‘It should’

say 'so.-0n the package, One

t . person ‘mentioned a” relative such. Anne Anson, of Lakelse- .| L. . apples. This kind of labelling”.

who js allergic to Washington

would. do .away. ‘with ‘that problem .as-:. well: as “making - meats a. bit more interesting. Most. kids nowadays think -the

backroom. °:

"While ‘convérgation centred _ on. the Okanagan apple cider,: _ and it’s heen on my shelf-since,

John Bahr. agai got to his teat :

‘and said, “About that sparkling - cider from the Okanagan, Can't ; ; they. make-“a better: one,» It:

tastes lousy). “Ag the'aftéernoon sun began. tq

' darken,’ the‘ day’s: program “neared ‘an: end. “It. had ‘s

been a day oflearning. Minister . Shelford rose tp -adareas tho

an ae

more. mercury. | 2 scientific’. tedhnl

high’ ‘mercury - cof

> Mrs. Mary Little questions the panel.on shrinking - Ze, Sausages.

’ that he would never forget the . . {laboratory experiment in which _ White mice who were: fed, only. “Rice _ Krispleg. lost": their: : eyesight, But -when ‘their diet

was changed to whole oats; they

‘regained their. eyesight...

’ He said: that.-proponents “of

synthetic: food’ were’ “burying:

- their heads in’ the sand.”

Moving to the. mercury scare which has incteasad the, use of.

7 food Hot Natural, the Minister “ Reot

fed at-such reports saying ° ‘that’ there: only eueIns rma

because ‘tha ues’: of, erning.mercury: in the! aoil’

day than in the past.<:-.°

-,He“cited’ examples ‘of lakes untouched by man that possess’ _ Sontents," "He

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All the stored axe trying.to:

make dollard; but same-try to * ‘make toomuch.":. a. “Stl”, he went on, “the con- | sumer ‘is: belng serviced: very ” adequately by the retail stores. | Nonetheless, there are a interest’ that examined! 8 Co » At is: unfortunate that imore™ housewives, Sachelors “and - other. chain store patrons did not make‘use of this excellent. ‘forum. arranged: ‘by _ D ~epartment of. Agriculture, - Pethaps : the -Miniater Hit the « nail on the head when he told of _ discerning mercury: in th -a'worfan he ran into:during a” are so much more advanced fo . previous forum. 330°. ; eo, {don't have mich tatereat in, agriculture’; the woman.. atated; ‘buy, ald my food at the: procery:atore,.’. "5

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