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BOB PAK KER FORD

Pranier*s offices

Whekert _ Re B.S.

iders are in the vicinity, this

tus Indians.
Mrs. Ann House, field worker:

Reatus Indians said the results |
S this-survey will be compiled
b the condition of housing and

MB This totem,.is part of the Indian ,

Br the B.C. Association of Non- °

Bducation facilities of these |

-

grhirty-three youths and ‘two people canbe ancertained anda .

program can be set up ta better -

ek, taking a survey of not.’ their let...

Mrs. House ‘explained that a’
“non-status “Indian” was: “A
:person.. having one-quartér
Indian blood; ‘an Indian living
off the reserve; or a franchised
‘Indian, that is, they don't belong:
to their tribe ‘trealy. aa
': She said.the movement was.
started. on April 28, 1969, and:
became its first paid field.
“worker In August, 1970.

Travelling along with her in

_ eight.tent trailers, are Harvey’

-Brooks, co-ordinator of the
project, and the 33 young people
ranging in age from 16 to 33.
Some of them are university
students and some are high
school students. They were
hired from Vancouver from!
names sent in, by each local:
branch of the association.

. van Adams is president. of’.
the Prince ‘Rupert branch and
Sonja Anderson and Richard

Grey are the two workers from
this local. .
- The survey started in Dawson

Creek, and moved westward to"

Prince Rupert, stopping at
various points along the way.,
The area includes the Queen

Charlottes but Mrs. ‘House-did-
not lhink the team would make ~

it over there this month:

She said the workers get the
names of non-status Indians ~
from each association, and the
youths then go to visit them to
ask them questions about their
housing coinditions and their
schooling. .

“OPPORTUNITIES FOR.
YOUTH"

The whole project is under the
“Opportunities for Youth’
federal program, and the
students are paid by the federal

not all Indians; Mrs. House
explained, she said they were
just interested in thé- subject
and would turn in their reports
at the end of August. :
She said the B.C, Association
of Non-Status Indians had been
set up by Butch Simitheram of
Vancouver, a cauncillor at
Canada Manpower Dept, and
association president. ;
There are ‘approximately.

2,000 members in the 22 local,

associations in the province and
membership fees are one dollar
per year,

; of Non-Status Indians.

There are aiso associate
‘memberships at two dollars

” yearly for anyone interested in -

the movement, but these

members| have no voting»

- powers.

The third class of mem-
bership is honorary, which is
given to any city dignitary or
person showing keen interest
and effort in the association’ $
work.

There were originally six field

_ workers, Mrs. House said, but

two had resigned, Besides
herself, there is one to cover the
Quesnel-Kamloops district, the
Cranbrook and Nelson area and
‘the Vancouver and Vancouver
“Island districts, . =:
MOVEMENT GROWING

She said the association's:
membership was growing by
leaps and bounds, and there was.
great enthusiasm amongst the
people they had contacted, In
fact, most of them had asked
why such a movement had not
been started before, and were
eager to hear more about it.

_As for the Prince Rupert and’
Port Edward areas, she said.
there was “great potential’
here and expected to have many’
new ‘members join:
movement...

Slie herself has been an ‘en-
thusiastie member from the
start and was a volunteer
‘warker until she became a paid
employee,

She said she is a member’ of
the Matis Tribe of Indians —
those of mixed blood, — and is:
the mother of 11 children
tanging in age from 10 to 31

years. She had her two youngest

children with her, She also has

12 grandchildren. —
She said she intends to devote’

her life to the “poverty of. the:

. government...The, workers -ate....tndians"’. and -help them’ ime...

prove . their. loti housing,,
employment and living con:
ditions. .

‘Asked ‘if - she found.“
discrimination here, she said: -
she had not,‘but had definitely
found it in other places, In fact,
She said, when she had worked
ina restaurant, she had often
heard slighting remarks, but
had never let it bother her and it

only made her all the more

determined to -carry on her
work with the B.C. Association

Investors”
weleomed

(n behalf of the council and the District of Terrace |
i] would like to welcome the members of the Alberta —
Northwest Chamber of Mines, Oils and Resources

to our area.

Their visit coincides with the start of the great
push to the north from the Terrace area into the.
-Nass-Stikine natural resource development area.

We are very pleased to have the members of this |
association here and when looking over the list of
persons attending, one sees many names ‘that are
connected with companies that could . well be
working within our area in the very near future, .

We welcome you, take a good look at our area and 7

please come back again.

_Vietor C.G: Jolliffe

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THE LONG ‘AND WINDING ROAD stretched aut
. before some ato walkers and cyclists. in Sundays :

walli-a-thon-bike-a-thion, The event was beta by
_ the, Terrace Knights of (Columbus to help | raise. 7

funds for the Arena, and brought: inabout $15, 000.

Walk-a-thon |
Great Success

“The Knights of Columbus
walk-a-thon and Bike-a-thon for
the Terrace arena fund was a
great success,” says walk-a-
thon ‘co-ordinator August
-Gerraert. ©

Hesaid that about 398 walkers

: and cyclists took part in the

event. The walkers had a
fourteen-mile hike from Motel
25 in Thornhill to Skoglund
_ Hotsprings. The cyclists had a
slightly more ambitious trek,
they had to ride tothe top of the
hill just outside of Kitimat, then
back to theHotsprings.

More,than $15 thousand was.
realized in the effort, but the
final figures have’ not as yet _
“been calculated. -

The walkers that turned out

ranged in age from six years to

-five years of age. Geeraert

sald that on little girl, a six and:

4 half year old from Vancouver
completed the entire fourteen
miles. Bill Tratch, the sixty-

five year old manager of a local

Hotel,. walked the whole trip,.

and later said, “I could have
walked back too: Bill brought in

- somewhere in the neighborhood

of $3,000 of the total.

~ Grand Knight Bill Young and

walk-a-thon: co-ordinators
-August Geeraert and Ken
Ferguts give their thanks to all
the. people'-who participated,
contributed and’ helped in the

, “undertaking.

‘Mining boom forecast ;
for Terrace & district

It's inevitable. Terrace will
some-day become a regional
mining centre.

‘Those people involved and
_ Investing in mining know it and -
so do the economists’ and -
. politicians,

One of the groups that realize
this area's future ~ mining’
importance is the’. Alberta

‘Northwest Chamber of Mines,

; Oils. and: ‘Resources,

The. ‘group will’ artive in.
"Terrace. fora brief one day:
survey” of the potential. in this
"area, -

‘Comprised’ of “top. Alberta.
‘business’, executives ; they. are,

—_ me . — — < touring. British . Columbia to!

“Investigate | ‘investment

© Skoglund’s Hot Springs” near

: opportunites, Peat yd

« Vaeationer
drowns |

An early morning ‘gwim. in

‘Lakelse Lake resulted in the: *
. death of a Prince Rupert man; -
enitton Borge, 44, of Prince
ae i been swimming -

a | eat unidentified campanian
when: ‘he evidently panicked and:

The group will arrive in
Terrace on July.22, A special
reception has been planned for
the following morning. .

‘During the group's stay in the
area _ docal prominent
‘businessmen and. resource
people will attempt, to impress,
‘the importance of the region
and reveal the advantages of
‘investing here,

Extraordinary. The drug
stores and shopping marts are
running out ‘of sun tan lotion,

Not since 1958 has there been .

such a: rush on sun tan lotion in
the Terrace district, .

The merciless sun has been
pouring its skinintegrating rays
down on the helpless populace
for five. consecutive days...and
it doesn’t look like it will let up
for awhile either.

The temperatures have been ‘

‘running 10 degrees above
normal in the mid BOs. ‘
A temperature of 87 last

- Saturday matched the record

high for the day set in

1958...that’s when this area last -

had a hot spell in July.-
Since the first week in June
uatil last weekend the weather

had been abnormally damp and.
cool] for. this time of the year, .

The weatherman says there is

6 indication of rain on the long -

range weather map. However,
it may cool off..a meager five
you guessed ‘it. -tover. the
weekend.
However not alti iS aS rosy as it
_May. seem.
Whenever .

‘there is

industry suffers, :

The fire hazard has already -
reached the ‘high’ ‘stage and -
could easily’ slip .into extreme.
. with contiiued hot. -weather.
‘Already. woods ‘crews .are.
working’. vearly, ‘Morning shifts

and quitting. by. early afternoon.
Thisi is done to take adva nlake

an...
extended ‘hot “spell the forest —

of cooler morning weather and
getting out around one in the the
afternoon thereby reducing
chances of man “caused fires,

Most wooded areas in the
province are creeping into the
high and extreme fire hazard

range forest ranger Tom 7

Harvey said.

Although no fire restrictions
have been enforced the
situation could easily change by.
early next week.

All_ private industrial roads
including the Nass: Road, East
Kalum Road, Copper.and White
Bottom Rads will be closed to

- the public by the weekend, he

said,

Fire fighting crews will be on ..

Standby all weekend :
extinguish any outbreaks.

H- the weather raises the’
forest fire: hazard to extreme-

. ‘the ‘woods may, be closed to.

Beaches, Beauties, Burns

both industrial and recreational
trave] through the forests may
be prohibited,

No fires were reported
burning in the immediate area
at press time.

School trustee
resigns

Ata general meeting of the
Board of School Trustees held
-on Wednesday, 14th July, the
resignation of Dr, R.E:M. Lee,
chairman of the school beard,
due to pressures of his surgical’
‘practice, was accepted.

Dr. Lee’s Letter “of my
Resignation read; “‘It is with
-very-great regret that 1 tender
* my resignation as Trustee of the

Cont'd on. n Page 2 -

Te obs available

* Studerits. Are, you" ‘really
looking. for. work?

Sharon ~.. Fisher, .
employme ne:
‘eounsellor -": at ‘Canada:
Manpower say8: ‘People are.
willing to help you but you thust
show. initiative yourself.’
“Students must, work at finding
a’ job - if they are: to he
‘successful, | .

. youth

. “We: know, * she: said, that
"there. are- ‘many. ‘students .

“unemployed at, this time but...
- Only :

seven. have. taketi’ -
advantage’ ‘of the - golden ;-

“services ‘opportunity. offered ‘bythe ~ .

Herald in placing their own help:
wanted.
advertisement free of. charge. .:
“This, should be part: ‘of- a
‘student's: plan.
employment.”
Only, by worki
job. han en
id. -

FRANK HOWARD ta guest editoriat

In my travels inrough Skeeha
> this”: summer. ‘ore of: - the
1: predominate - estions asked
related; to. an: élection, - -

* When. will the election be? or.
wil there be an election this
Fall? Orit looks like the Prime

Minister is:on'an élection tour. .

Sometimes I reply by-saying 1,
“Tenlly ~ don't" :
~ sometimes I say,
= ‘Wilt ba on
t

Election. Day shall be: ona
Monday. Domne ,

‘next few years. .
To answer factually about the
next election I point out that not

. more thar five yeard.can ‘lapse

between. oneelection, and. thé

next and, ‘that: only. tha Prime.
- Minister can decide ‘when an.

election is to. take: plice,.

Party. is’. doing-whnt are its.”
“chances if an elec ed. -:

Byer’ ‘alee 1 haive been. i ‘Rader

‘its. sunaidleey atte ‘and ie

aking the‘same. asexsmeht.

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