IN_TAX-EXEMPTION B % 1D A joint meeting of the District of Terrace Municipal Council: and representatives of the Terrace Curling Association took place in the Council Chambers on Monday, April 14 with all aldermen present and about a dozen members of the curling group present. Again the "NO SMOKING © REGULATION’? was ignored by Acting Mayor elmut Giesbrecht throughout the meeting although after the business. was completed he did tell the departing curlers that he would appreciate them respecting, this rule next e. ; The curlers put up a very strong ease which leaves members in council facing two unpleasant prospects, The first being to add to the $200,000 deficit in recreation administration last year or ‘suspended _ recreation activity. to saddle the taxpayer with the expense of operating the curling rink if the association does not get tax rellef and has to suspend _operations. Norah Jacques speaking on behalf of the Curlin Association advised counc that there were 672 mem- bers of the association making use of the curling facilities on a weekly basis. In addition weekend ac- tivities increases this by about 150. Also high school curlers making use of the rink number some 72 now that curling has been as a_ school Mrs. Jacques noted that the arena operated with a $100,000 deficit, the swim- ing pool a $79,000 deficit, the parks a $47,000 deficit, the recreation centre a $4,900 deficit and cultural . took over the o acilvities an $82,000 deficit while the curling facility is refused tax relief which would coat the city $5,000. It was pointed ou that the $500,000 curling rink is operated with one full ime employee and a part time employee. All the other work including the bar and ‘food facilities are operated by volunteer workers. Work on the icemaintenance, etc. are all done without pay. It was noted that if the city ation it would not be able to ac- complish ali this free work and the operation of the facility would add an ad- ditional $100,000 in deficit to the recreation budget if the rink was looked after by the district's staff. ; The curling delegation insisted that it was providing an essential service to the community just as any other branch of B.C. Tel capital works for Terrace area — The. B.C. Telephone Company has drawn up a series: of capital works projects for 1977 to expand telephone facilities serving subscribers in the Terrace region, says Stan Patterson, the Company's District Manager here. “The work planned or underway in this area is part of B.C. Tel’s province- wide capital construction, LONG TIME TERRACE Sandspit. program which calls for the expenditure of more than $280 million this year,” said Patterson. oe “Here in Terrace” he said, “major additions of central office equipment will broaden cur automatic number identification system to include Aiyansh, Masset, Port Clements, - Queen Charlotte City and This is the me RESIDENT Marg Hen. derson works with B.C, Tel and will be involved in the company’s 1977 Capita! Construction Program in this area. Part of ‘Marg’s job will be helping customers acquire upgraded service. | Youwon't findourocean . cruises listed in newspaper travel sections. i if you have ever wanted to broaden your horizons, we can offer you travel to many parts of the World and a place on the team as a trained seaman on a Canadian Forces Destroyer or - Submarine. _ {f you would prefer to broaden your horizons - ashore, consider the Infantry. You could become a highly trained member of an Infantry: Bat- talion on United Nations Peacekeeping duties In the Mediterranean, or perhaps fulfil a NATO support role in Europe. A Military Career Counsellor will be in Terrace 7 to answer your questions on Wednesday - April 13th at the Canada Manpower from 8:30 AM ta 3:00 PM. bon ¢ La : telephone - ..: project .in. this. region. this . areas,” equipment which automatically identifies the originating number when a direct distance dialed call is placed.” . And crews will install in Terrace additional central office switching equipment — the compiex electro- mecharical equipment required to route and direct both local and long distance calling. . Patterson sdid the company will install modern new telephone call - measuring equipment which utilizes magnetic tape — rather than the traditional paper tape -- to provide increased accuracy in long distance billing at Terrace. “At Aiyansh,’’ said Patterson, “B.C. Tel will upgrade telephone services to Nass Camp. At Greenville equipment will be installed this year to provide a direct radio telephone link to Terrace.” ; He said the largest single construction year is a job in which B.C, Tel wil) provide vastly improved links between Kitwanga and Prince George. ‘‘New microwave sites will be established at Nine Mile Mountain and Kitwanga to bring about a general improvement in service for subscribers in the Kitwanga region,” said Patterson. office is being'established at Lakelse Lake, near Terrace, to expand services in the area and to provide facilities for future ex- pansion in. the west shore region. _ “There are many other capital works to be carried out during the year throughout the district,” said’ Patterson, designed to upgrade existing services or to provide new telephone services {o rural or remote Patterson noted that about 20 percent of the total -, $26.3 million allocated for service improvement work in the company’s northern division of operations would be sent-toimprove telephone services in remote and rural . regions. Curlers: present strong case the recreation department, The only difference being that it is able to provide this Sathout billing the taxpayer e taxpayer with a huge annual deficit. This would end if the association has to close shop. due to inability to pay the $5,000 tax bill to the district.. They contended that they were being penalized because they owned their own building while the taxpayer is asked to sub- “si all other recreation in the community and the region. Mention was made of the Kitimat Marina, Kitsumkalum Ski Hill, the arena and the swimming |, all of which are sub- Miised in the annual tax bill. They suggested that they were being penalized because they were a group of self-doers who get the work done at no cost while other facilities walt for all the work-tobe done before it can be used by the citizens. The aldermen on the other 7” ‘ hand are faced withatough <* problem. They made the: point that a precedent could created. To this the curlers replied that this would be an excellent precedent to set. If all groups did the work themselves as curlers do there would not be the in- credible deficit shown In recreation in Terrace. Council also is faced with the high cost of recreation in Terrace, This involves a total budget of $660,000 and with Helmut Giesbrecht at the helm of the Finance Committee there is definitely pressure to cut costs, Council] did not come to any decision but will rehash - the points made’ by the curling delegation at a future meeting. “all. - Report from Victoria by Cyril M. Shelford MLA, Skeena This week I introduced a Bill in the Legislature called the “Petroleum Sales Act 1977’? which is based partly on the legislation passed in the State of Maryland. It was recently upheld by the Supreme Court of Maryland after being challenged by the oil industry. Basically the bill would divorce the refiners from the selling of gas at the retail level. This would bring.back competition to the industry as all retail dealers would start off equal rather than the present . situation where support or subsidizing is given by the major companies to certain stations which is greatly detrimental to other stations. This type of action has bankrupted many small and medium-sized stations. The major principle of the bill is in Section 7 which . requires refiners to sell at one price to all areas in the. province. This principle is not new as it was adopted many years ago in liquor sales, chocolate - bars, cigarettes and many others including natural gas which is produced in the north and moved 1,000 miles to sell at the same price. Hydro adopted the same policy when they brought in the postage stamp rate during He said a new central esixties, not long after the B.C, Electric was taken over. This lowered the price - a great deal in the north and helped the development of that area a great deal. According to information available this would. raise the price in the lower mainland area by ap- proximately one cent due to the large gallonage sold in this area. . There seems to be a lot of interest in the bill and ho it will be accepted by the Legislature. We are also - Waiting for a bill from the government to resolve the same problem as promised in the Speech from the Throne. If this happens and resolves the problem as I see it then my bill will be withdrawn. - T attended an interesting meeting in, Vancouver on oni, oP C Pe a K F His Master's voice was good but Disco's better! : ‘Need music for “™ your dance, meeting \.. or party? ' @ Your choice of music (from ourlargerecordlibrary| : : ‘o Professional operators; e Reasonable rates it} Ao Light Show fi | (optional) or more information } phone 638-8216 or write Box 219, me may tte, | Me Terrace Tuesday which was the first of its kind in Canada where the Royal Bank head office in Montreal set up a social policy action Broup which is attempting to find out from a group of people from many sectors of society as to our ideas on the social responsibility of cor- porations. Those groups involved were the Em- ployers Council, Human Rights, Co-op Housing, the United Church, anti-poverty groups, Cit and myself as an MLL.A. Unfortunately labour was not present even though . invited. All of us wondered why and how we were icked for this first of its ind meeting. Other such meetings will. be held in other provinces. Man interesting pro Ss were made and a further meeting is planned to explore ‘the needs and desires of people. I expressed concern in three areas; one, the len- ‘ding policy of banks where ‘they encourage borrowing in good .times, then when markets are bad in one industry towns they with- draw credit, increasing the downward trend and in- creasing unemployed. The hiring policy of the corporation definitely fayours men in_ top positions; second — they favour pretty women; third — older women and ethnic groups seldom get the same opportunity. My. third point was I « thought the corporation should consider the areas of mortgages where a young, Man with a good job nor- ‘mally has no trouble ob- taining mortgages, while a young woman with an equally good job has a great deal of difficulties. It was made clear by others that banks have more power than elected governments as they niake the money, set the interest rates, set the terms of loans governing repayment etc,, have the power to’ imcrease or decrease the money supply, which can cause a boom or recession. All government can do is pass laws and get its money rom the taxpayer or borrow from the banks and charge the interest to the taxpayer. Federal interest payments alone come to over four billion dollars a year — second highest government expenditure. I compliment the Royal Bank in seeking ideas from people for the first time, I . would welcome suggestions that can be used at Che next meeting but not personal problems, only those that affect wide areas of people. GETTING ‘BOMBED’ IS DYNAMITE! of Vancouver, | ree TP CAR ACCIDENT - Mrs. Ann Sandercott of 31-4 THE HERALD, Wednesday,’ April 6, 1977, PAGE Aj “he an + ie he 619 Queensway found herself in an unfortunate position after the gas pedal on her car stuck and she bent down to pull it out. Her car went out of control and ran into a parked 1976 Infernafional Scout owned by Ricar Automotive of 4711 Lakelse Ave. It also hit the signpost. The accident occured at 2:45 p.m. on March 31. (Dave Hamilton photo) , Advisory on education - for the deaf An Advisory Committee on Education for the Deaf has been formed to assist the Ministry of Education in providing for the special needs of hearing impaired students and their families. “The advisory committee will have a province-wide mandate and will strengthen the pravince’s , capability to deal with the Uu cation of the deaf,’’ said Education Minister Dr. Pat McGeer. The committee will establish criteria by which the ministry can assess the effectiveness of education offered to hearing-impaired children in a variety of settings. It will also liaise with post-secondary in- stitutions in the province to ensure that deaf students have access to and are | placed in, suitable classes, | Committee members will assist in developing policy for programs for pre-school children and their families and will also assist the ministry in evaluating material, including workshops and offering advice to parents of deaf children. The 10-member com- mittee will be chaired by Robert Wood of Vancouver, chairman .of the provincial government’s forest policy advisory committee and the parent of a graduate of the ’ Jericho, Hill School for the ~ ‘Deaf. . Others appointed to the advisory committee are: Dr. Robert Boese, a professor of sociology at The University of British Columbia; Wayne Bottlinger, coordinator of programs for the deaf at Vancouver Community College; Karen Carruthers of Vancouver, a former student of the Jericho Hill ‘School for the Deaf; Dr. Bryan Clarke, a professor of special education at UBC; Edith Grainger of Chilliwack, the mother of a deaf child; Peter Kosof of Nelson, a psycholo, ist with the Selkir Mental Health Centre; Henry Lumm of Prince ‘George, the executive assistant to the superintendent of schools medical - for the Prince George school district, whe has done much work in the field of special ediication; Dr. Donalda MacLean, coordinator of the hearing disorders program. _ at the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver and Dr.’ Lewis Robirison, a UBC professor and the father of a Jericho graduate. . “We are committed to providing hearing impaired students in this pravince with the best education. possible," said Dr. McGeer. ‘We have a good track record in this field, but: any récord can stand im- provement. The committee is a provincial body and I look forward to its advice on how to improve the education ot the hearing impaired.” Members of the advisory committee will serve until May 31, 1978. . ‘ porations: CANADIAN IMPERIAL ' BANK OF COMMERCE CONRAD M. BLACK Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce an- nounces the election of Conrad M. Black, LL.L., M.A. as a Director of the Bank. Mr. Black is Chairman of the Board, Sterl- ing Newspapers Limited and Dominion Malting Ltd. He is President of Western Dominion Investments Co. Lid. and a Direc- tor of Argus Corporation Limited, Eaton's of Canada Limited and other Canadian cor- THE DISTRICT OF TERRACE NOTICE ' IN OBSERVANCE OF EASTER, the offices of the District of Terrace will, in addition to the normal weekend closing dates, be closed on the following days: Good Friday — Aprii 8, 1977 Easter Monday — April 11, 1977 , OPERATING HOURS FOR THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL GROUNDS fo the Easter weekend will be as follows: Good Friday, Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, From April 12, 1 April 8, 1977: April 9, 1977; April 10, 1977: April 11, 1977: OPEN 977: 11:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY TO SATURDAY CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED GARBAGE DISPOSAL GROUND SUMMER MONTHS FOR 1977: ’ GARBAGE NORMALLY PICKED UP ON GOOD FRIDAY WILL BE . PICKED UP THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1977. ; GARBAGE NORMALLY PICKED UP ON EASTER MONDAY WILL BE _ PICKED UP TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1977. PUBLIC WORKS EMERGENCY TELEPHONE ‘NO. 638-8188 DISTRICT OF TERRACE ee Sete th