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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, March 28, 1984 The Terrace News is published every Wednesday by: e ? Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario. POT 2W0. O bp cyzLONn Telephone: (807) 825-3747. BS EDITOR AND MANAGER......................cceeeeeee Karen E. Park . : EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ........................55. ..... Lynne Badger ADVERTISING SALES....................... ccc cece Sharon Mark . PRODUCTION MANAGER................................Mary Melo Think before DEADLINE: Friday NOON Subscription rates: ae or tego api ---- Gon per annum (out-of-town). Secon ass Mai A. you vote Registration No. 0867. : J (on both issues) There are two important issues playing on my mind this week. One is the - recent announcement made by the Chairman of the Lake Superior Board of Education Mike Reid, on the recent report of the Ad-Hoc Transportation Sub-Committee to the trustees on March 19th. Chairman Reid stated that the Board has accepted the recommendations in principle and it will be discussed at the next Board meeting. One thing plays on my mind ... the Board has not definitely accepted the recommendations, although via a radio interview on CBQ with Terry Morris, Mike Reid led the people of the North Shore to believe that seat belts will be mandatory in all of their school buses. In talking with Marcel Tardiff, owner of North Shore Transit, he was just as surprised as I was when this statement was made. He had not received information on this fact and was not pleased with the Board's decision. I can't blame him. Reid stated that the cost to be incurred for installing seat belts in the buses as well as the regulation seats would run approximately $3,500 - $4,000. Marcel estimates at least $5,500 to $6,000 per bus which would include the high back seats, seat belts, plus installation costs, along with the reinforcement of the bus floors. For a total of 7 buses this would cost around the $40,000 mark. That's a lot of money to lay out on school bus transportation. And it isn't yet decided on who will pay. The availability of grants and subsidies are being sought after. The tax payer will be sought after. But there's no way that owner Marcel Tardiff will carry these astronomical costs by himself. And again, there still isn't proof that seat belts are the answer. One freak accident may very well cause injury and death to those hundreds of other school students being forced-to wear the seat belts, should they be brought into affect. More studies should be made into this issue. The Ad-Hoc Sub-Committee did a tremendous job ... but I feel that not enough time and effort was given by the people of the North Shore to put forth their views and ideas. It also affects the residents of Marathon and Manitouwadge. I am not aware of their point of view other than that of the drivers. And the school bus drivers are not happy with the Board's decision on the enforcement of the seat belt issue. The other issue that has been playing on my mind has been that of the raid being done on the U.P.1.U. at the Kimberly Clark Mill, by U.A. People are shook up. Tempers are boiling. Fists are being shaken. And from one person, I hear of families being torn apart. Why? This type of raid is not unusual. It should be expected by any large company when things aren't being run to the satisfaction of all union mem- bers. I think that such a raid would make the members stand up and be counted. Something that should have taken place years ago. As Vern Patriquin stated, "The great white father is gone." Economic crushes are _evident. People are tightening their belts, pulling up their socks. People are starting to sit up and notice that maybe their jobs are in jeopardy. That maybe things aren't as comfortable now as they were years ago. What Kimberly Clark is now going through, everyone else in southern, eastern, northern and other parts of northwestern Ontario went through 242 years ago. The U.A. is making a clean raid, contrary to popular belief. Look at other companies being raided by other unions. Some aren't so clean. Think before you leap down the throat of your best friend. Think before you tell your children how to vote on the issue. Think about your future jobs. And then attempt to make the right decision. Remember, whatever you decide will affect the future of your children and your grandchildren who may be employed at the Mill here in Terrace Bay. ' But whatever you do... don't sit back and think that things will go back to the way they were ten years ago. It just won't happen. Super Salesman. ae Are you Listening by REV. B.M. FELLINGER Have you ever noticed that the norm in today's society seems to be that when you have problems you turn to God as only a last resort? In spite of marital difficulties, drug or alcohol problems, in spite of a growing sense of emptiness inside that nothing seems to fill, in spite of a sense that there must be something more, the last place people think of turning to for help is the Church of Jesus Christ. There are many excellent support and help gtoups functioning in society. The Church is one also - yet it is more than just that. Perhaps people have an unfounded fear that if they turn to a minister for help they will have to join his particular church. Or perhaps, and possibly closer to the truth, they are embarrassed to speak to a clergyman. Why? Simply because they realize they are not right with God and don't wish to admit, even to themselves, that underneath all the external difficulties, the real problem is just that. They don't have the relationship with God that would make them the whole and complete persons they were originally meant to be. I said before, that the Church is more than just a support group. That is because the Church by it's very nature is divinely established. Being so, it is founded and exists by the divine power of God through Jesus Christ, who is, the Bible tells us, the Head of the Church. Therefore, the Church is now powerless. Jesus Christ is not powerless. Not only does He deal with the internal, bridging the gap between a loving Heavenly Father and sinful rebellious man, He also has the power to set free from the external difficulties that beset man as a result of sin. Jesus said "Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!" (Jn. 8:36) Whether it be drugs, alcohol, depression, insecurity, or one of the other many ills that afflict our society today, Jesus has the power to deliver and set free because He is a Risen Saviour. When He ministered on the earth nearly two thousand years ago He met the needs of the whole person. He hasn't changed. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb. 13:8). Space does not permit me to tell of the millions of people alive today who could testify to this fact, that Jesus has made them whole and set them free from whatever bondage they may have been in. In fact Jesus once told His listeners in Luke 4:18-19: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me : Because He has annointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. -He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To preach deliverance to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are oppressed To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."' Are you perhaps spiritually blind or brokenhearted, a captive, oppressed? The Gospel is a message of power. Perhaps you need God's power in your own life to help you with your hurt and pain and bondage. C.S. Lewis once wrote "Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world." Are you in pain - emotionally? physically? spiritually? Perhaps God is trying to get your attention. Are you listening? Why not call out to Him now? He's as close as the mention of His Name. This Week's Chuckle TEACHER - Do you know who Noah's wife was? STUDENT - Yes, Joan of Arc. Bie ae ee I don't know whether it's be- cause I saw the play Death of a! Salesman at an impressionable age, or if it's simply an innate lack of talent, but I do know one' thing: I am the world's worst salesman. I'm serious. I couldn't sell ; heroin to a junkie -- which is one | of the few commodities I haven't ' tried to sell in my chequered career. I've sold Men's Wear. | I've pushed Encyclopedias. I've ! worked in a newspaper advertis- | ing department. I've even tried to flog my own book. The only thing I achieved was a | remarkable consistency -- I was | hopeless no matter what product I : was pushing. I lasted exactly one , evening in the Encyclopedia rack- | et. I got fired from the newspaper | and, as far as I know, I still hold | the Cross-Canada Eaton's Mens Wear In-Store record for having | made no, count 'em, zero, sales | during one entire pre-Christmas | week. H You can't learn talent like that -- you have to be born with it. I was thinking about the pheno- ; menon of salesmanship, and my complete lack of it, while I was : reading a story out of Missis- : sauga last week. There's a guy , down there by the name of Simon Dalgleish. He's a businessman who's just put over a deal that Willy Loman lookalikes like me can only shake our heads over. | What's Dalgleish done that's : so special? Well he's just made a - delivery. To Saudi Arabia. Twenty-five thousand pizzas, all dressed, to go. Dalgleish is the owner of an outfit called Alora Foods, in Mississauga. One of the things they turn-out is pizza. The Saudi, Arabian order was no piece of ' cake. Aside from sheer volume, Dalgleish had to come up with | pizzas that satisfied Islamic food laws. In other words, no pork in' the sausage-meat. He even had to : find a special cheese that didn't contain animal rennet, which is a pork product. Dalgleish also had to come up with unusually biling- ual pizza boxes -- English on one side, Arabic on the other. But he pulled it off, and what's more the Saudis apparently loved it. New orders are flooding in from Saudi Arabia at such a clip that Dalgleish reckons his new , market will be worth a million | bucks to him before the year is' out. Which is good news -- and not just for Dalgleish. With the market secure and most of the. bugs ironed out, Simon Dalgleish stands to have a fair amount of spare time on his hands. And, that's good, because there's a city | just down the pike from Missis- . sauga that could use Simon Dalgleish's talents. Down the road in Toronto, the Public Health Department has a problem on its hands. Toronto's Public Health Officials recently observed Birth Control Week in | an up-scale, Big City kind of way. They announced, with great fan- fare, plans to give-away a free : condom to every teenager who | walked through the doors of one of their city birth-control clinics. ° The idea was to draw attention to . the male's responsibility in birth control -- and although it seemed | like a good idea at the time, it . didn't quite work out that way. Instead of legions of --con- cerned, caring teenagers lining up at the clinics, the Health | Department got editorials, head- lines, phone calls and a veritable , blizzard of hate mail accusing it of ! everything from Satanism to a. barefaced attempt to transform Toronto The Good into Sodom and Gomorrah. To make a long story short, the ' Great Condom Giveaway was a bust. The Public Health people had ten thousand to hand out. They managed to give away one hundred. What do you do with 9,900 unwanted condoms? Search me. | But I figure it's at least worth a phone call to Simon Dalgleish in ; 'Mississauga. Who knows? He might even be | able to combine it with his other | great marketing success. "'No, no, effendi ... this is a Mississauga onion ring. It's sup- posed to taste rubbery."'