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TERRACE BAY/SCHREIBER NEWS Wednesday, September 13, 1989 Editorial Page: The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by Laurentian Publishing Limited, Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT-2W0 Tel.: 807-825-3747. Second class mailing permit 0867. Member of the Ontario: Community Newspaper Assn. andthe Canadian Community Newspaper Assn. General Manager.......Paul Marcon Editot.......................David Chmara Admin. Asst...........Gayle Fournier Production Asst....Carmen Dinner A.C.C. Trade Show planning and hard work all for not Hard work, dedication, planning, late evenings and hopes have all gone down the drain concerning the Aguasabon Chamber of Commerce's Trade Show. Because of the dismal number of businesses that had signed up for the event, the Trade Show has been cancelled. There are probably a number of reasons for the failure of what was supposed to have been "the largest trade show on the North Shore". Among these is the attitude many local business owners have. Let's face it, if you want to buy just about anything locally there's probably only one store that sells the particular item you're looking for. Business owners realize this. Right or wrong, they have monopolies and know they have the market cornered. Accordingly, they also know a trade show would probably do little to increase their volume of business. In fact, a trade show could do the opposite. If businesses from outside the immediate area were to take part in the trade show, particularly businesses from Thunder Bay, local businesses could lose sales that would affect their business for an indefinite length of time. Large stores could move in and drastically undercut local businesses prices. The loss in sales local stores would have otherwise had could take weeks or even months to recoup. Promotion of the trade show could have been better too. Granted, businesses were presented an extremely well thought out package outlining the trade show. But it takes more than this to entice them to take part in it. Virtually no advertising was done to promote the trade show. If people on the North Shore don't know about the trade show, businesses inevitably question how many -- [WONDER IF THAT'S THOSE CRITTERS LOOKING FOR TOXIC WASTE DUMPS | * people will show up and whether it would be worth their while to participate. The timing of the planned Trade Show was somewhat questionable as well. Had it gone ahead, it would have taken place the week right after the Fall Fair, which means the two events, somewhat similar in nature, would have in effect been competing with each other. Obviously most businesses felt it wasn't worth their while to take part. And, unfortunately, the effort the Aguasabon Chamber of Commerce put forth in preparing the trade show was all for not. Single copies 40 cents. Subscription rates: $15 per year / $25 two years (local) and $21 per year (out of town). The News welcomes your le ters to the editor. Feel free | express comments, opinion appreciation, or debate anythir of public interest. Write to: Editor Terrace Bay/Schreiber News Box 579 Terrace Bay, Ont. 13 Simcoe Plaza - ° POT 2W0 So we may verify authorshi please sign your letters ar include your phone number. Flying - miracle or mistake? Once upon a time, a nosey New York Times reporter asked an Amtrak passenger why she insisted on taking trains whenever she travelled any distance. Was it, asked the reporter, because she was afraid of flying? "No," came the crisp reply. "Crashing." " Well, exactly. And any air traveller who says he or she doesn't feel just the teensiest tingle of terror when he or she steps off the tarmac and into that winyed cigar tube is either bluffing or sadly deficient in imagination. Flying is a miracle! There is no way in hell that 35 or 82 or 327 people in polyester 'suits or PF Flyers ought to be zinging along at 36,000 feet, sipping Kahlua and rifling the pages of Macleans magazines! Nothing makes me more humble than flying. Every time I wedge myself in my seat, fumble for my seat belt. - and wait for the oxygen mask © demonstration, I remind myself that I am defying gravity, tempting fate and thumbing my nose at the gods. Actually, one of the first things I try to do, even before I board, is get a glimpse of the pilot and co-pilot. Are they young? Too young? Mature? Decrepit? Do they look like they had a good night's sleep, or like two guys who just splashed water on their faces after an all-night brothel-cum- crack house? Even if I don't get to eyeball the fly guys, I like to speculate on what they're saying as we wait for takeoff clearance. And as I look around the plane, it seems to me that other passengers are playing the same game. How about you? Do you ever wonder what the pilots are thinking about when all the folks in the fuselage are thinking about them? Well, thanks to the cockpit flight recorders, we now know the answer to that question. You're going to be sorry you asked. Flight recorders are, of course, devices that automatically record all conversation in the cockpit before and during commercial flights. The idea is that if an accident occurs and the flight crew iS wiped out, investigators will be able to listen to the recorded tape and figure out what went wrong. Arthur Black Over the past few years, investigators have had the unenviable chore of listening to more than a few of those tapes. One thing they've learned is that there's a whole new language evolving up there in the cockpit. Pilots speak to each other of "doing a slam dunk". That's when a plane is kept above congested air traffic then banked sharply at high speed and "slam dunked" through the holding pattern down to the runway. The conversation behind that door is also often racist and sexist. Female pilots are "empty kitchens". Small private aircraft which get in the way are "Indians". I love their name for the standard in-flight dinner choice pilots are usually offered (filet mignon or chicken cordon bleu) -- the pilots call it "leather or feather". I'm not so crazy, on the other hand, about the name pilots have for live freight like you and me. dogs -- as in "How many dogs have we got in back today?" Sometimes the conver- sation sounds like a sound check from an all-night radio talk show. On a Delta Airlines 727 flight out of Dallas last summer, you could hear the They call us. pilot and co-pilot swapping such pre-flight chitchat as: An assessment of Jesse Jackson's political performance. "It's scary that someone could get as far as he did." Speculation about the genealogical roots of the U.S. vice president's spouse: "She looks like she's from Texas. She's got that horse face." The Delta pilots also joked about the dating habits of the flight attendants "in case we crash, so the media would have some kind of a juicy tidbit. they're such vultures." How come we have all these juicy tidbits about one particular flight? Oh, because some media vulture from a Dallas TV station asked the courts for a copy of the tape. Reason for _ interest? Because moments after the above conversation was recorded, the Delta 727 crashed on takeoff from Dallas, killing 14 people, 'including the pilot and co-- pilot.