Ottawa

PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Friday. May 5, 1978

Teamwork

EDITORIAL

The rising prices of heating fuels has jumped the cost of home and office and institutional heating not only to all time highs, but in some cases the payment of the monthly fuel bills results in actual hardship to some homeowners, forces up rent to tenants, threatens to bankrupt small business and cutbacks services at in- stitutions.

That in one city block of, say 100 homes, under the present technology, we have a situation where each of the homeowners has his own furnace heating his own home, is extremely stupid, clumsy, inefficient and unnecessarily

' expensive.

Many years ago it,was proved that a central heating system, piping hot water heat to a number of homes is far more efficient- and far cheaper, than individual furnaces for each. .

However, with the discovery of cheap gas supplies, which in turn resulted in the drop of oil

prices, home heating from individual furnaces became minimal in cost. It also gave the owner that sense of additional independence that’ everyone likes to boast. But now, many years later, the pendulum ‘has swung the other way. . The price of all fuels, including natural gas and oil has become a heavy burden to+bear- for private owner and businessman and big in- stitutions and companies alike. .

Solar heating systems costing roughly ten thousand dollars to provide up to 40 per cent of the heating requirements of on home are being tried- but surely they are not the total answer; they also require back-up systems. ‘The energy used to manufacture the elaborate solar heating panels and equipment could constitute a heavy drain on non-renewable energy sources.

Methane gas from sewage, and methanol from vegetation and woodwaste may someday be practical-but will take a few years and billions of dollars to put in major production. -

Meanwhile-almost under our very feet-we in Terrace and Kitimat are favoured with an apparent abundance. of boiling hot water and steam. This potential for “‘geothermal’’ hearing of homes is almost beyond price.

Surely it is ridiculous to ignore the veritable treasure at our-feet that could be transformed into piped hot-water heating for the entire

strict.

For almost a hundred years the city of Reykyavik, the republic of Ieeland’s capital, has heated the homes and buildings from natural “geothermal” hotspring heat, at an estimated saving of hundreds of millions of dollars. Short asit is, of most natural resources, for Iceland the geothermal heat has probably meant the dif- ference between a balanced economy and heavily unbalanced national budgeting.

The installation of a central system of piped

Let’s Heat Our Homes From Hot Springs

hot-water heating using local hot springs as the initial souce could. drastically lower the cost of living to Terrace and Kitimat residents, and could - if properly handled be used to attract healthy industries to the area, thus expanding the local tax base that is cited as being so desirable to a community.

Homes could thus afford year-round heated greenhouses; roses in December-not to mention fresh vegetables ... the possibilities seem en- diess, ' How long will the people of Terrace and Kitimat go on paying high heating bills while living on the edge- and possibly on top of boiling hot springs? oo

While the idea may not have been practical in the golden age of low cost fuels that are now gone forever, it certainly would appear this is the time to take a hard look at using Nature's bounty for the good of the majority- and not just the relaxation of a privileged few.

Offbeat -

Ottawa, - How refreshing it is to see the people buck the political machine and win. ‘

Especially in the Conservative Party.

But it happened the other night in Ottawa West, a riding that swings like a pendulum between the Liberals and the Conservatives and is considered by both parties in the “‘must win’’ category.

The Conservative riding executive with the blessing of the party’s national headquarters was parachuting in what they considered a sure winner of the nomination and a good bet to beat

. the incumbent Liberals.

He was a ‘'‘new-come” Conservative, a former active Liberal party: worker, Reeve .Andrew Haydon of Nepean, an Ottawa suburb booming to city status.

And he had the blessing. ‘ . ;

But an old party worker, who had paid his dues over the years, as a candidate sacrificed in impossible ridings and as a loyalist who gave his all {or the cause, wanted a shot at it.

Trouble was, he had been a two-time loser, beaten by former Finance Minister John Turner

- An honest, Old

_ be

and by a perpetual winner in an entrenched Liberal riding. . :

Bat they had asked him to make a run at those .

impossible ridings and he took the challenge.

Now he thought, if he could get the nomination, he could give the Conservatives a winner in Ottawa West.

But the bosses weren’t that keen.

Ken Binks, 58, a lawyer, not only was a two- time loser, but a little on the ‘too independent” side.

He thought for himself. mo,

He believed that when a man was elected to Parliament he should listen to his constituents and vote as the majority of them wished.

He was even in favor of a return to capital .

punishment, and what was worse, didn’t mind saying so. .

Before he made up his mind and went for the nomination against the candidate favored by the

party executive, he consulted his old friend John -

Diefenbaker. ‘ What the former Prime Minister had: coun-

a winner! |

selled him became clear when Ke addressed the convention, opening with: - eve “It is written in the book of Matthew - ‘Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant’. That will be my philosophy as candidate, and I pray as your Member of Parliament for Ottawa West.” .

Well, how about that! And in these trend: political days when so many parliamentarians insist they were elected to “think: for them- selves,” voting their “conscience” against the expressed explicit wishes of those who elected them!

Most unorthodox for Ken Binks to talk like that - and how old-fashioned to invoke the Bible - even more unsophisticated to speak of his naive

conception of conservatism in such un- ~

fashionable terms as loyalty, team-work, hard work, and dedication te best interest of the taxpayers.

He was even crazy enough to style himself as, well - may Joe Clark, Flora MacDonald, David

Fashioned candidate can still

| “progressives” forgive him - an -“‘old-time

. Rory '

" He went even farther - he was for preservation

of the Monarchy and “God Save the Queen.” ‘The party machine hadn't wanted him because

they figured only ‘‘new-come’”’ Conservative, the

. ex-Liberal reeve Haydon was tough enough to

beat the incumbent Liberal MP Lloyd Francis. Francis, they said, was a “closet Con- servative,” who, while sitting with the Liberals, fought them on bilingualism and even criticized Prime Minister Trudeau. But Ken Binks had a word for them: “No man can serve two masters, Lloyd Francis can't be a Liberal in the House of Commons and a Con- servative in Ottawa West,” ,

' Finally Ken Binks rallied the delegates with words from Winston Churchill: ‘‘If you want victory, think victory, talk victory, act victory, and you shall have victory,”

The crowd loved it and the 2,300 packing the convention hall gave him a cheering first ballot

MacDonald, Douglas Roche and other victory.

Letters to the Editor and Voice of the People

From the Labour Advisory Committee Terrace

Your Federal Government and Canadian Banks to in- vest in mines and Industry. The only trouble is, mostly not in Canada. Low interest loans have been provided to Multinational Corporations for development in Third World Countries, whose Governments are often Dictatorships,

$50 Milllon to Texas Gulf for Copper in Panama

43.8 Million to P,-Harrison for Copper in Brazil.

878 Million to Inco for Nickel in Guatemala.

$80 Million to Mac Blo for

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Pulp and Paper in Brazil, $150 Million te Noranda for

Copper in Chile,

LAYOFF .... And the list

foes on and on...

Over 6,000 miners from St. Lawrence, Nild. to Stewart, B.C. understand this word only too well, Canadian tnines are closing or cutting back at an increasing rate, partially in response to competition from the Multinationals in the Third World. These are the same Corporations which have received loans of taxpayer

dollars. And When You Mix Ol and Copper... .

~ Publishadby § Sterling Publishers

, that forelgn Mu

Profits are the outcome of massive ‘investment in-.

vestment by Oil Companies —

in Copper ventures. Exxon has joined the Canadian Government and Banks in expressing financial con- fidence in Chile's reserves. One Billion Dollars in

Canadian funds have been -

matched by Exxon In that Dictatorship. Oil now, controls nearly 40 percent of the non-communist world’s copper reserves. It must ba a good investment |!

‘And in Ottawa...

’ Mra, Campagnolo,

Minister in an anfit Government, has stated... “1¢ we don't move in and capitalize on these new in- vastment opportunities (opening up in Third World Countries) some other country will, If we can't get. the jobs In Canada we might as well at least get some of

the Corporate Profit {ns

return...

Does she really believe

tlnatlonal

Corporations will send the profits here? Do we really want welfare rather than jobs? -

Fora comparatively amall investment the Feds could assist the workers in thie Community to purchase the mine and Keep thelr jobs. Mayhe jobs are too much to expect from Liberals or Tories.

: UNEMPLOYMENT COSTS EACH CANADIAN TAXPAYER $250 YEAR.

Wouldn’t you think they'd

rather invest in jobs???77 Prepared by Labour

Advisory Committee

Editor, Terrace Daily Herald. . .

I would like to thank the “Kind Gentleman” driving a truck with a camper on, for backing into my Dodge Dart car while I was in the Thornhill Grocery & Laundromat store at :6 o'clock on Thuraday 27th of April, and leaving with out stopping. “Now I ‘have a danted in door and along side of it, Luckily, I can still open the door, and lucky for him 1 waasnl itrit at the time, or got his llcgnce no

Thank you luck next time!

Yours alncerely

Haze) Lipinski

The B.C, School Trustee Assoctation

election of officers, which .

in the-past has generated as much excitement as a- Saturday afternoon knitting bee, fs going to produce sparks this year.

At stake is the entire. philosophy of what the unction of School Trustees should be., And this, according to Brian Westwood, leader of the dissident vaction, -is School Trustees uniting to form the- single most powerful voice In matters

“Mr." Better :

of Provincial education. Westwood, of the controversial Langley School Trustees who took on the might of the BC. Teacher's Federation on matters: of educational direction and won... is now mounting a campaign to institute what he refers to as “the will of the people” right across the Province. - This, says Westwood, is School Trustee Power. “Who else’’ he asks, ‘is elected solely todeal with matters of education? Certainly not the’ B.C. Teacher’s Fed, which is, after all, an association dedicated to the bet- terment of the teacher's lot in matters of. salary, working conditions an fringe benefits. Not the Minister of ‘Education

who is appointed to this rtfolio, . States estood. ‘‘The only

oup of people who can Fuly speak for the

_ parents and taxpayers on

matters of education, are those who. present themselves. for this function durin municipal elections. School Trustees”, Westwood who is vunning for President of

‘the Trustees Assoclaticn,

is backed by Marn Robertson who is on the ticket as Vice President, and Peter. Fasabender

sparkplug.

who is hoping for a Director's slot. Alt three are members’ of the

School. Board which spearheaded a return to basics in the

classroom,..coupled with the unique record of being the only School Board which was able to

Adhering the their slogan of School Trustee Power, Westwood and his supporters know they are definite underdogs in the May election in Prince George. They realize they are in the position of David facing Goliath.

‘reduce taxes.

They know they will not. only have to challange . e

the establishment in ¢

Trustee Association, but miHtant opposition from the B.C, Teacher's Federation who. realize Westood’s group is a threat to the awesome power they have ac-

cumulated in the face of:

weak, unorganized School Boards.

Win or lose, Weat- wood's challange will ensure one Ing. Complacency on the part of those who have con- trolled education in British Columbla for ears, has been rudely olted, Taxpayer-Parent- Power in the form of re- dedicated determined School Trustees, will be a

force with which to be reckoned from now on.

ACRMAN

“if 1 can’t afford to buy a really expensive birthd gift | don’t buy anything at all, So i didn't get you "anything.