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More time for K-C The problems plaguing the Kimberly-Clark pulp mill in Terrace Bay have now been temporarily solved. The control order agreement reached last week gives Kimberly-Clark until 1989 to meet certain environmental requirements. K-C announced that it will spend approximately $2.1 million to upgrade its stripping system (to further reduce the effluent toxicity) and to further improve the mill's air emissions. Everyone is relieved that the mill did not close down, of course. But that possibility still exists. It is a two-fold possibility. Jack Lavallet, president and general manager of the mill, has said that Kimberly-Clark still has reservations about meeting this new control order. The fortunate thing here is that K-C does not have to in- stall the lagoon system it cannot afford. The chances of meeting the new requirements have been greatly increased. On top of that is the threat that the U.S. parent of K-C may close the mill if it doesn't show a profit by the end of this year. But the decrease of losses (from $17 million in 1985 to $8.1 million in 1986) shows that things are getting better. But Kimberly-Clark still has a tall order to fill. The com- pany has to keep the workers happy as well as the Ministry of the Environment and the parent company. K-C has to prevent as many layoffs as possible, meet the pollution requirements (let's not forget Pollution Probe and Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 4, 1987 Production Co-ordination Greenpeace) and show a profit by the end of this year. The possible scenario of the future is a scary one. If the parent company does close the mill because it is not showing a profit, the pollution problem will certainly disap- pear into thin air. If there is a profit by the end of this year but the pollution requirements have not been met, then what? Will the parent company step in anyway and close the mill? Organizations like Greenpeace have said that Kimberly- Clark is guilty of job blackmail. They are referring to the fact that K-C said it would have closed the mill if forced to spend the $20 million on the lagoon system. The end result to that would have been no jobs for anyone. Kimberly-Clark needs time to work on cleaning up its act. It's a very sticky situation. In order to keep the thousands of workers employed, K-C must be given time to clean up. Emphasis should be place on the future. People should stay informed about what is going on so that they are not taken by surprise. Don't forget the public meeting and the information ses- sion. The information session is on Feb. 5 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m at the Terrace Bay Recreation Com- plex and the public meeting is on Feb. 18 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Terrace Bay High School. Arthur Black By Arthur Black "People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.' Jerry Lewis Ah, there is nothing quite as magnificent as an entertainer's ego in full flower -- and nothing makes it blossom more luxuriantly than the nagging suspicion that maybe, just maybe, the adoring public might be growing disenchanted with the entertainer in question. Jerry Lewis is a perfect case in point. He's got an ego the size of the Goodyear Blimp and about as much sensitivity as there is lint in cockroaches' navel. Last year, a Montreal newspaper reporter by the name of Lucinda Chodan had less than kind words to say about one of Lewis's typically brainless performances. Old Jer blithely ex- plained the bad review away with: 'You can't accept one individual's opinion. especially if it's female. and you know, God willing -- I hope for her sake it's not the case -- but when they get their period it's really difficult for them to fun- ction as normal human beings."' Spoken like a true multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. But Lewis isn't the only celluloid celebrity to be caught licking his wounds in public lately -- there's an absolute rash of thin skin going around Tinseltown -- and an utter plague of lawyers feeding off it. You heard about the famous Joan Rivers phone call? Seems the Mouth of Midnight decided that it would be a swell idea to phone up Victoria Principal on the air and ask her all kinds of embarrassing questions while the studio audience -- and millions of TV watchers -- listened in. The star of '*Dallas" wasn't home, but La Rivers fixed her wagon anyway by giving out her unlisted phone number and urging everybody to give her a call. The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Publishing oA ge Melinda Himes Schreiber Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. Tie sme rst tke Second Class Mailing Permit Number 0867 ican EOE cn Palle 3 a ee ee Se a ee ee Ken Lusk 9 out of town $15 00 -- | Advertising .=5..= 5251 Se ee Betty-St. Amand. Yembe ot Ontaro: Congas in) 2 ee RE ERE Re pee eee ee Se Gayle Fournier Newspape's Assocation and The Canodian Conimunity Newspapers Asscciation Yj Yy -- t.-.----- son BUT CLOSE f* Letters to the editor One of the hottest local topics is not only the layoffs at the pulp mill, but also its disregard of the ministry of the environment's pollution control orders. The issues are closely linked, with Kimberly-Clark threatening to close the mill completely if they are forced to comply with the orders to cleanup. The mill has been polluting our im- mediate environment for years, but a steady paycheque allowed us to avert our eyes and noses from it. I remember driving to Jackfish Lake as a child and pointing out the 'stinky creek' to my brother and sisters. The white foam was fascinating to our young eyes. We laughed and plugged our noses, and teased each other about who had 'you know what'. It's a game my own children play to- day. Somewhere along the chain of command, it was decided to cover up the 'effluent stream', the adult name for It. "'Out of sight, out of mind," the old saying goes, and so they built a clean, corrugated steel facade. There environmentalists who forewarned about the pollution we en- The next day, Principal's attor- neys called Rivers instead, and whacked the late night comedienne with a $3-million lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that poor Victoria suffered "humiliation and an- guish" as a result of receiving "numerous telephone calls from individuals she did not know."' Well, my heart is certainly hemorrhaging for the beleaguered soap opera star and I think three mil is little enough for such hum- iliation and anguish -- especially if it means I can sue the next half dozen folks who phone me with of- fers of vacuum cleaners, retirement property in Florida and subscrip- tions to Maclean's. Speaking of lawsuits, the famous Doctor Ruth has lauched one of her own. Apparently, the world's shortest sex therapist sustained a bruised ego as a result of a speech she failed to give. It wasn't the speech, or even the audience -- it was the excuse the counter in our world of the eighties. It was easy to ignore their dire predictions in the sixties, but it became more dif- ficult in the seventies when the effects of pollution were more apparent. Now we're in the midst of a decade which blatantly broadcasts the failure of men and women to manage and preserve their environment. We allowed it to happen. We let the promise of big money blind us to the realities of the pollution being pumped into our lake and air. Let's stand up for ourselves, our children, and grandchildren, and de- mand of our government that big com- panies be made responsible for clean- ing up their mess. Let's not' be known in the history. books as the generation that let pollu- tion continue. Let's be known as the ones who cared and cleaned it up. Sincerely, Maureen Tychoniak. Another response to hockey inadequacy Dear Editor I certainly emphasize with Elise Kenny. Her accounts of the skirmishes she has fought in the hockey wars bring back a lot of memories. In our family, we watched three 'generations' of our sons go through the Great Canadian Experience of kid hockey. speakers' agency gave for Doctor Ruth's no-show. The agency claimed that she was suffering from 'emotional illness." Doctor Ruth got quite emotional over that -- so much so that she is suing the agency for slander -- to the tune of a trifling $1.3 million. But that is not the most delicious piece of egocentric litigation cur- rently clogging the U.S. judicial system. That honour has to go to an action recently launched by Miami. Vice-nik Philip Michael Thomas. Thomas is the pouty fashion plate who portrays Detective Rico Tubbs -- displaying, as some wag once wrote of another less-than- great thespian "the full gamut of emotions ranging from A to B."' He is suing the National En- quirer for a whopping $14 million. Why? Well, mostly because the Rag We All Love to Read at the Checkout Counter alleged that Philip Michael was a "mama's Some of these men are in their '30s now, and some are still playing hockey- for fun. Elise is having a painful time learn- ing the fundamentals of the game, as they apply to parents. Parents of kid hockey players must do four things: 1) produce the kid; boy.'" The Thomas lawsuit actually blusters (would I make this up?) that Thomas had never been "a mama's boy but was a high school athlete and a masculine hunk". Such supreme silliness will not surprise anyone who has followed Philip Michael Thomas's career. The man raises narcissism to an art form. If this guy and Jerry Lewis ever got together for lunch, they'd have to rent the Astrodome to en- sure adequate headroom. So much conceit and so little reason for it. Makes me wish Golda Meir was still around. She had a special talent for deflating bloated egos -- such.as the fawning government flunky who tried using fake humility to ingratiate himself with her. After a few tedious minutes of grovelling and bootlick- ing, Mrs. Meir took the wretch by the shoulders, fixed him with those marvellous deadpan eyes and said: "Don't be humble; you' re not that great."'