Page 4 February 1984 Cassiar Courier

LIONS DEN REPORT

By Dave Brocklebank

“*1984—Help Us Roar”

It would seem to the writer of this column
that in the recent past we have been meeowing, if
my view and public input I receive means any-
thing. The “Roar” that built the swimming pool,
the Lions Campground and various other projects
is still there, but we need to be drawn away from
the fireplace where we lay purring contentedly.
The way this can be done is for a bunch of new
“Toms’”’ to juice up our clan and for friends and
neighbours to offer suggestions or criticisms. New
members are needed!

We received a lot of compliments for the
Community Christmas Tree, Thank You! Unfor-
tunately it was a bit late being installed to achieve
the Fund Raising Goal, this year will be different!
If you want to see a tree—like the Coca-Cola
Commercial—look for the donation boxes next
December.

To all those people who helped with the tree
stand, the tree, the wiring, the decorating and the
co-operation and co-ordination needed for such a
project-A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU-—you
are too numerous to list, but you are known and
won’t be forgotten—again, thanks from the Lions
and the community.

The year 1983/84 is the Cassiar Lion’s 20th
Anniversary—and in addition to a special crystal
beer mug—we are having minted a $2 Cassiar
Trade Coin. When we first thought of this project,
the idea was a souvenier for the people of Cassiar.
Since the proposal was put forward and the mint
was contacted we have been approached by coin

dealers across the country for coins,and articles
on the coin and Cassiar are to be published in
coin magazines across North America and Austral-
ia, New Zealand and Europe. The idea was—these
coins could be used at face value—$2—(They are
larger than a silver dollar) for a whole year (1984)
in Cassiar, at any Lions function—the Curling
Club or the Lounge. It now seems there may be a
larger requirement for them outside of Cassiar!

They will hopefully be here for Monte Carlo
—gamble with Cassiar Coins rather than that
cheap paper stuff!

Before the order comes in we can order Sterl-
ing Silver Coins—one time only—at $35 each.
Their real value is not known—as with any scarce
coin—it is many times the original cost. (One coin
dealer told me a town of 3000 people in Manito-
ba did a trade dollar a couple of years ago. The $2
coin—in brass—is now sold through coin dealers at
$75). We can also order solid 10K Gold coins at
$400 and 24K gold at World Gold Price plus 25%.
Anyone wishing solid silver or gold coins please
contact Dave Brocklebank, Box 106, Cassiar,
778-7683 or at the Powerhouse AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE—before the order is processed at the
mint.

I would like to apologize for the cancellation
of the Hay Ride, Christmas Carol Sing, December
23rd. Several factors were against us—weather,
hay and traffic regulations. Hopefully next year it
can happen. Sure, would be nice if we could have
real horses pulling a real hay wagon full of kids!

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fee

FOR SALE

Cassiar Lions Club 20th Anniversay—Etched Glass
Crystal Beer Mugs. Order from any Lions member
or c/o Cassiar Lions Club.

Also Sterling Silver or Gold Cassiar Coins.

Silver — $35

10K Gold — $400

24K Gold — World Gold Price plus 25%

LIONESS NEWS

By Pam Krawczyk
The Cassiar Lioness would like to thank all
the people who put so much time and effort into
this year’s Christmas Bazaar. We apologize for
the delay in our report and in expressing our ap-
. preciation. It seems this is the year of the breaks
for us (the cast kind, not the opportune kind) but
most of us are newly stitched, taped or stretched
back into shape and ready for the coming year.
We are happy to announce our new executive as
follows:
President — Tones Rita Brown
First Vice-P. — Lioness Mary Ryan
Secretary — Lioness Shirley Fournier
Treasurer — Lioness Shelly Overton
Tailtwister and P.R. — Lioness Pam Krawezyk
Tamer — Lioness Cecile Beaudry:
All Director — Lioness Hilda Cooper

After our slow beginning we have many good
things in store. The first of which is our annual
‘Skate-a-Thon’ in Feb. The proceeds go to the
"Timmy’s House’ in Vancouver which is where the
children (and parents) from outside of Vancouver
stay when using the hospital facilities. Next we
hope to participate in many of the Schmoo Daze
activities as well as supplying the Cotton Candy.
We are also applying for another license for T.V.
Bingo on W.S.T.V. These proceeds go to the im-
provement of our own Hospital and we hope to
have a more detailed report in the next Courier.

Some super ideas are hatching to help Cassiar-
ites survive spring (or the lack of) which we hope
everyone will enjoy. Finally we are planning to
hold a membership drive tea in the near future, so
if you’re a little bit bored with the same old thing
day after day (or a little bit crazy is good) and

you’d like to find out more about the Lioness’

look for our posters on the tea or phone one of
our members. We’d love to hear from you.
Thanks again Cassiarites for your wonderful

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The Cassiar Guide Company held a small party to
celebrate Christmas. The afternoon of Sunday,
December 19, saw the presentation of a Christmas
play presented by the senior guides, the singing of
songs, and the enrolment of two new BAe Jan-
ice Joseph and Krista Randell.

Now with seasonal activities far behind us and the
New Year well on the way, the guides are busy
planning projects, testing for badges and awards,
exploring new and exciting fields of endeavor and |

by Denyse Tavener

planning possible camping trips for the summer
months.

A project of immediate interest is Thinking Day,
a day set aside by Guides to commemorate their
founder, Lord ‘Baden—Powell. It is:atithist-time
Guides make an effort to learn and discover new
information about guiding and its founder.

What do you know about Baden—Powell? Want
to find out more? Ask a guide!

BROWN IES

Eleven Brownies were enrolled in a spe-
cial Enrolment Ceremony held before
Christmas. They are:

Jessica Cameron
Raine Feldman
Jenny Snell
Lea Lister
Stacey Day
Melanie Dubois
Vanessa Clark
Jenny Beaton
Robyn Day
Jody Harrison
Sarah Conley

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H. Levins Arab Reach

In October, 1973, on Yom Yipper, the most solemn of
the Jewish High Holy Days, Egypt and Syria, with the
backing of other Islamic states, invaded Israel with the in-
tention of restoring the Old City of Jerusalem, the third in
Islam's triple crown of holy cities, to Moslem control.

A few days later, when the war was going disastrously
for the Israelis, the American government received two
communications. The first, from Israel, was a desperate
request for a massive American re-armament of the Israeli
forces: 25% of the airforce had been destroyed on the
first day, half the tanks within four days, and ammunit-
ion was running perilously short; without American sup-
port Israel would be crushed. The other from OPEC, warn-
ed America that any aid to Israel at that point would re-
sult in an oil boycott.

The Arabs had threatened an oil boycott in 1967, when
American support had enabled Israel to push out her bor-
ders into the West Bank, the Sinai, and the Golan; but the
boycott had been ineffective, and had broken down al-
most before it was imposed. On the other hand, aerial re-
connaisance flights over Israel had proved that the Israeli
government, faced with a nearly hopeless military situat-
ion, had taken out its atomic weapons, secretly hidden
under the Negev desert, armed them, and mounted them
on aircraft from which to drop them on Arab capitals.
It was a desperate measure, which would destroy not only
Israel’s enemies, but Israel herself, and perhaps the rest of
the world. The message was clear: Israel was prepared to
commit such a nuclear Masada rather than capitulate.

The American administration acted. Dismissing the Arab
threat?idridifaced with what!amounted “to nuclear black-

“mail, it mounted the largest airlift in history, pouring

thousands of tons of material into Israel, thus turning the
tide of the war.

A month later, America, and the rest of the western
world, was in the grip of a devastating oil shortage. OPEC
had turned off the tap; and this time, thanks to the organ-
izational skills and leadership of Saudi King Faisal, it
worked. Fuel prices skyrocketed ; riots occurred at service
stations whose pumps had run dry; truckers ran amok in
angry reaction to the strangling of their livelihood; people

literally froze in the dark.

King Faisal, Keeper of the Holy Cities of Islam, had un-
sheathed the sword of oil, declaring a jihad against the
Israeli occupiers of Jerusalem and their. allies, a holy war
whose weapon was oil.

This book is an alarming account of that war. It has re-
shaped the world, and remains the major component in
economic chaos that has gripped the West in the last de-
cade.

In Europe, country after country, bowing to Arab pres-
sure, has reversed its wiggle East policy, denouncing Israel

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and welcoming Yasir Arafat as the legitimate government
of the Palestinian people, in return for guaranteed long-
term oil contracts from OPEC. Within days of this diplo-
matic reversal, firms in these countries have received
hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from OPEC
countries -- an additional reward for espousing the Arab
cause.

In. 1979, when Joe Clark announced that Canada would
move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Arabs
reacted by threatening to cancel hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of contracts with Canadian firms, and to
withdraw billions from Canadian Banks. The threat was
that the Canadian economy would be destroyed, literally
within hours. Joe Clark changed his mind. —

Only America remained a stalwart supporter of Israel.
And even there support is crumbling, under the grip of the
Arab reach. Time was when only Israel had access to state-
of-the-art- American weaponry; but in land-mark decisions
in the late 70’s, the American Senate voted to supply such
technology to Saudi Arabia as well as Israel. The removal
of Alexander Haig from the position of Secretary of State,

and his replacement by George Schultz, has installed a
strong pro-Arab in a senior government post formerly oc-

cupied by a staunch pro-Israeli.

It is not only on the diplomatic front—oil for pro-Arab
policy—that the war has been waged. Staggering amounts
of money have poured into the Arab countries from high-
price oil sales: and, even after these countries have
mounted some of the biggest construction. programs ever
undertaken; after they have expended enormous sums on
arms, sometimes buying, nota ship, but a navy; after they
have implemented lavish social assistance, education and
health-care schemes—they still have billions left over to in-
vest. The Government of Saudi Arabia alone, for instance,
has $380 million a day, every day, to ‘place’ in the West.
This money has gone to buy land, buildings, companies,
banks and other financial institutions. It is estimated that,
if all the Arab-owned land in the Houston, Texas area (an
area where Arabs feel at home and are welcomed by the
people who formerly felt at home in Atabia when they de-
veloped the oil potential there) were put together, it
would be larger than the state of New Jersey. Just how ex-
tensive the Arab investment in Western countries is, is un-
known, because all transactions have a secrecy clause in
them. Even the American government has no real notion
of how much of the Américan economy is controlled: by
Arabs. But that it is extensive is beyond question: Arab
interests now control the petroleum process from the
well-head to the corner gas pump, just as the American
‘Big 7’ used to do, but do no longer. And the oil is ship-
ped exclusively on Arab-owned tankers.

Most ominous of all is that Arab money has been reaching
out to buy nuclear technology - from the French, from
the Germans, from the Americans. The government of
Kuwait now owns an American company that supplies
plutonium to the Pentagon; Kuwait now has access to the
same thermo-nuclear technology as America. Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, Pakistan and Iraq all have nuclear weapons cap-
ability. Never again will Israel be able to use its atomic
weapons as a lever to win American support against the
Arab states: that threat is balanced; and: over balanced
now, on the other side.

Most North Americans are -totally oblivious to this de-
velopment. We just don’t take those fellows wearing long
dresses and riding camels to the sound of Sigmund Rom-
berg seriously, and we go along blissfully under the de-
lusion that we are masters of the world, and masters of
our own fate. This book convincingly and lucidly rubs our
noses in fealty,

Our Lady of Lourdes

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Sher Jubilee Schedules

February 2nd: (Thursday)

- 6:00 p.m. Bishop H.P. O’Connor, O.ML.I. of
Whitehorse presides at the 25th Anniver-
sary Mass of our Church. With him will
concelebrate the Fathers Henk Huijbers,
Pierre Poullet and John McAllister, former
pastors of Cassiar, joined by the neighbor-
ing Oblate missionaries Joseph Guilbaud,
Denis Buliard, James Bleackley and our
Provincial Superior Allan Noonan from
Vancouver.

This will be followed by an Anniversary Din-
ner of the Parish at the Rec Centre, organized
and prepared by the ladies of the parish.

February 3rd: (Friday)

) The Bishop will celebrate the Holy Euchar-
ist at Good Hope Lake in the afternoon at
which a few children will receive their First .
Holy Communion.

8:00 p.m. The Bishop will meet in the hall
with the candidates for Confirmation and
their parents.

February 4th: (Saturday)

7:15 p.m: the Bishop will preside at the ¢

Mass in which he will confer the Sacrament
of Confirmation on the candidates.

February Sth: (Sunday)
11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist presided by our
Bishop

For the rest of February, regular schedule:

Sunday Masses; Saturday 7:15 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m.
Weekdays: 11:00 a.m.

All Saints Angli ican
Community Church

FEBRUARY:

Sundays 11:00 a.m. Family Worship
(Holy Eucharist 2nd
and 4th Sundays)
Sunday School

Wednesdays 7:30 p.m. Mid-Week Eucharist

(except Feb. 22nd)
8:00 p.m. Journey’ Bible study

On January 8th, the Festival of the Baptism of
Jesus, two young children were initiated into the
fellowship of Christ through the sacrament of
Baptism. They were Neil Moreton Stewart. son of
Brian and Kathy Mercer; and Natasha Dawn,
daugh ter of Elden Burns and Lillian Quash.

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