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Top row: the mystery shoe sound three feet
below the sidewalk of Northwest Sportsman

during the 4600 block revitalization program.
At right Is the actual mule shoe. Bottom: (left

to'right) An unshaped. ‘horseshoe, and. a

Shaped front horseshoe and a ‘shaped rear —

shoe.. Note. how the rear shoe is narrower, a ot

ash investig ated

Herald Staff Writer
TERRACE—The investigation of the cause of the float-
equipped Cessna 170 aircraft discovered crashed on

Wednesday is continuing.

The plane was located at-an elevation of 1 300 feet at the .
north end of Johnson Lake about five kilometers south-

- southeast of Kitimat.

“The bodies of pilot Clifford Flury and his father Gerald
Flury have been removed from the crash site and brought.
, to Terrace for autopsies today to determine’ the caises, of -

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“iti - ROMP ‘Bay the crath ‘penny
caused poor weather conditions ds thelargest-continuing wen

fa ctor,

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‘The police state that untit such’ time as the. ministry. of
transport reports.are received, no further information ‘can
be provided: The investigation is being conducted by the
MOT, ‘Kitimat RCMP. and Coroner Jim Lynch of Terrace.

_Money spent

. VICTORIA (CP) — The
_ Britlsh Columbia “govern-

ment. will spend $569 more

for each man, woman and
-child in the province than it
will - collect. during the
current fiscal year, Finance

‘Minister Hugh Curtis said

Thursday.
Curtis made the comment
- in- releasing: the’ ‘province’, 8
first. quarterly financial
report for the three months
ended June 30.0

He sald there’ have ‘Been

no significant changes since

- he presented his $8,5 billion .
budget July 7. “to cause a

change” in the anticipated
~ deficit of $1.6 billion.

The report shows that
spending for. the quarter
-totalled’ $1.95. billion, up

from the $1.78 billion for the |

corresponding ‘ period. last
year; while revenue Was
$1.66 billion, up from, the
$1.57 billion Jast year; and

that the government had.te. -
decrease its. working capital:

‘and borrow -§54 million. to
make up the difference.”’
Finance _ritic : Dave

Stupich: (NDP = = Nanaittio)
said there were no surprises
in the report, nor died he’

expect any. .
_ “The one to watch for will

‘be the second quarterly -
report which will reflect. the -

- tax increases announced at
the begining of the second

quarter, and the attending
legislation that I fear will |

. have a-bad effect on the
economy of BC, " Stupich
* sald,

Curtis said‘ the govern-
ment's figures
projections show that the
government was right ta

impose its controversial |
spending

wage and
restraiit program and cut
services and fire staff.
GAP WIDENS

He told a news conference

that in 1981, the government,

collected $2,516 for ach
man, women and .
the province, atid Spent
$2,583

_ expenditure,

_ and -

child in

Last year, it collected
$2,350 and spent $2,702, a
gap of $352 between revenue
and expenditure for every:
British Columbian, ©

restraint measures which
held expenditure growth to

* something less than the rate

of inflation.” :

“This year, we expect
revenue to amount to $2,426
for every resident of the

“ province. Expenditure, on

the other hand, will rise to
' §2, 905.’ a.

So, he added, in just two
years ‘the difference bet-
ween revenie and expenses

has jumped to $569 for every
person in the province — a
total of $1.6 billion...

“Without the actions. of .

the government. to restrain
‘this gap
already at-an unacceptable

- level, would have grown at a

much faster rate,” he ‘said.
Restraint':must be ex-

_ cerclied In sdected areas,

‘as is being done, Curtis said,

" “or we ‘postpone but then
inevitably shave to fice |

major . program: reductions’

and. or -tax’ {ricreases - in
future-years.""" ;
GROWTH SLOWED. re
a He’ said that because of .
the measures taken by the .
_ government, -..

BC.
reasonably expect the rate .
‘of: expenditure’. growth to.-
flatten. out ‘in fiscal year
1904-65."

“In fact it is possible that |.

there may.be no growth at

all in per capita expenditure .

jo the next fiscal year

though. we're still going to
be faced-with 4 very ‘large

budgetary - ie which will .

have to be met through .
borrowing.”
‘The report: showed that

_ liquor profits were up, sales:
were up, - |.

tax... revénues

‘See

Money”.

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Wohllben,

After consulting with local blacksmith Werner
who knows mule shoes from
mystery shoes, the Dally Herald was told that
he believes the mystery shoe belangs to a pony

_ but another blacksmith disagrees.

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Volume 77 No, 1

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People you “should know

Dr. R.E.M. Lee.

_by PAM WHITAKER
Herald Columnist .

neatly beside the Caledonia Senior Secondary School
“on Straume Avenue in Terrace, a part of the schoo]
- complex. ’ Unimposing and yet quite grand on t
it eats 702 people in comfort,

Robert Edmund Musgrove Lee arrived i in Terrace
with his family in 1956 when he was just completing
his surgical residency, His. good. friend, Dr. Jim.
Dukelow taiked him’ into coming to this area from .
Winnipeg, as he said he was “too busy” and needed
-help. ;
. By the time Dr, Lee had ‘become a full fledged :
surgeon, he had determined to make Terrace his
home. The family’ liked it here and ‘supported his ~
decision. He and his wife, Thelma, have enjoyed
‘being a part of the growth of the community. Dr. Lee
set up practice as general practitioner and surgeon

a ne

on. “
He has seen Terrace become: a sophisticated .

‘medical center in the Pacifle Northwest. ‘I feel quite
‘proud of our medical setup,” -he said. “It's thé best
outside of Prince George.. Ours is éne'of the few
towns where specialists. can practice full time. We
have a good stable group of-G.P's as well, no fly by
nighters.””

They have 25 doctors n now. When he arrived there
was only Dr. Dukelow, as.Dr. Mills, for whom Mills
Memorial Hospital was named who was just retiring.

' “Dr, Mills would walk down the street mornings in
his coattails and spats,.with. highly polished shoes,"
’ Lee reminisced. “At that time the hospital was
where the .Flynn apartments are—a terrible
situation. The Jab was quite literally a broom closet.
Obstetrics was open to thehall, just partitioned off by
a sheet.”

Athe civic center was at the weat end of the library --
block on Park Avenue when it burned in 1970 there
‘was nothing in the way of recreational facilities. Fire .
insurance contributed to: building the new arena: and
swimming pool.

Lee's interest In theatre tacllities stemmed from
- his appreciation of good musié. He was-the: first
. conductor of the secondary school band, In fact. was
“_instrumentai in. forming. the band, and was’ “the.
founding chairman of the Concert Society.

In. those early days it was not unusual to find hin _
cleaning, and: selling tickets, and promoting in order. :
to have everything. in readiness for a performance, = -

_- He was also trustee on the school board. Having
‘a theatre built was quite a controversial issue at. that
time, but somehow they pushed through a
"referendum for capital expenses with 64 per. ¢ént of.

‘ group were even taken out in the Terrace Herald.in ~~
_, OPposition of the project, They said-it would never be.
- self-sufficient but it has worked out well.” 3, -

After much finangling, the. government had. come
through and their budget was $700,000. The architect,
however, had projected that it would cost $1 million.
te did something so it came to $699,000. The rest Is,

Terrace

TERRACE—The REM Lee ‘Theatre is situated . |

der'at a-town the Alae".;
; ‘ace enjoying su afacility, ed Os, a.
_ the most modern ‘in the' province. ‘

until 1967 then specialized in Surgery from that times.

- the vote. “Full page ads by an anonymous person or... °°

‘Dr. R.E.M. Lee

Robert and Thelma Lee have enjayed it in Terrace
- but ‘regret seeing so many of their friends move
away, People have come and gone and they no longer
recognize faces on the street the way they used to:
{It seems to bea town of many young people that .

- come: and go," Lee commented.. "They will,

however, make it their home until retirement when

they plan moving to Victoria.
that we will stay here," he added,
everything tooffer except, perhaps, a lot of sunshine.

“It is quite possible
“This town has

- Our eldest daughter Shannon tives i in Victoria. “ She

4g a sociologist,

. Their second daughter, Leslie, is a botanist
‘married to Derek Oswell, a school teacher ast —
‘Quesnel; Bill Lee; their son is living at home, in the

process of furthering his education,

"There is. good education here,” Dr. Lee pointed

. ‘out; “They have a good selection of programs. We

Have preferred it to a private school for our

_ children,”

: RLELM, Lee was the chairman of the school board
cand ‘steering committee of trustees that established

‘the © Northwest Community. College,
-Campangolo was also on that committee.)

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'“The-college ig a tremendous source of pride to
.me,” hesa¥s, We have seen it expand from a limited

“vocational achool to the diversified college that it is.

Tt: ‘is: one of the most fortuitous things that has
“happened to this town—I have been quite astonished »

ab its scope.

“The distinguished surgeon is tall and stately: He is.
_ on Call most of the time at the hospital and refuses :to
use “one of those bleepers.” When questioned about

other hobbies he might have, he replied: .“We enjoy’

a cabin at Lakelse Lake but I don't have time for

: much else—I guess I’m not very interesting.”

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_ TERRACE~Like a good mystery, story, the discovery of of,
‘> Originally supposed muléshoe buried three feet under the.

sidewalk in front of Northwest Sportsman: has. led to a
thread running through much of Terrace's history. |

- The. thread lias ‘run ‘from logging, to the’ military, “to
mining, to the every-changing remembered Joeation ‘of
George Little's barn.. .

And perhaps it’snot really a shoe afterall,

Werner.Wohllben has been a blacksmith for 35 yéars;. He
will turn 61 in a’ few ‘days ‘and would like to train someone

’ else in his craft. -His shop is currently located near’ the.

saddleclub grounds wherehehas30 regular horse customers.

It takes him about 1,6 hours to custom, fit four shoes on an ;

animal.

Wohliben Bays. he recently found what | was though to be.
muleshoes from near an old mine in the Usk area. He adds
the Usk area formerly had regularly scheduled pack trains
of mules. -

. Mules were popular then simply becatise they carry more -
‘weight than. horses.

A horse's load. limit. is.about , 200
pounds. A mule can carry about 50 pounds more, ©

Wohllben, who has a set of muleshoes, was asked by, | the .
Daily Herald to examine the mystery shoe. -

H might be any number of things, but it is not a ‘muleshioe ;

according to expert Wohllben. |
Wohllben thinks it is’a pony shoe of a, most particular.

‘type. He terms iteithdr asharp shot"? or a. “never slip,”=.
This type of shoe is used during winter much like people use =

Saloshes.: ‘The large hales ate not'for nails; ‘they are where

- one ‘inch: sharpened pieces: of cork extended from the shoe’ *

Wohllben says the feet of horses are extremely 5 sensitive. °

And the lighter.in color the foot, the more sensitive it is, He

also notes the ‘rear feet are almost’ always narrower than.
the front.

Wohliben believes the mystery Shoe is about 35 to 40 years
old. -Thereis not too much use for Poriies except for children
toride:. — -

Examining. the sharp. cut edges of the mystery shoe,
Wohllben thinks it has been cut down from a larger one.

Which is what Ted Johnson, another blacksmith Bays...

“I think ] made it,’ Johnson told the Daily Herald. ts
nota horse shee at all.”

Johnson was a blacksmith for George Little “for years"
and then. worked for L.H. and K,

Johnson says in the early days of logging,” logs were.

‘hauled in sleighs by horses. “Each slelgh had two bunks |

upon which the logs .would rest,

Each bunk had holes in it, one at each end. Chains were .

threaded through the holes to hold down the logs. The

‘chains hada habit of rubbing through the wood, so Johnson.

would take horse shoes and shape them almost into a circle
and place them around the bunk holes to prevent the chains |
from wearing through the wooden bunk. The reshaped -

shoes acted-‘much like those white reinforcements used for -

punched notebook paper.

In the early 1920's, Johnson says be made hundreds of the
reinforcements. .

These ‘sleighs used to- be parked ‘where ‘Northwest ‘-

; Sportsman now stands, close to George Little’s-barn which,

according to Johnson was located where Shoppers Drug

* Mart now stands,

“Derrick charged

Werald Staff Writer’ | ..
TERRACE—Terrace RCMP havecharged Arnold Morris’

- Derrick, age 18, of Kitwankool with aggravated sexual

assault.

The charge was laid after police. investigated the rape of a
20-year-old Terrace woman that gccured on Keith Avenue
on July 31.

Buses : painted

Herald Staff Writer |

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TERRACE—Two of the. three Terrace buses are

~ scheduled for a new paint job as ‘part of a BC- Transit.
provincial program, .
One Terrace bus is currently being painted and should be”

on the road next week, according to’Ken Merry of Terrace _

’ Transit.’ Another bus is slated to berepainted shortly. .

Terrace Transit has only three buses. \ Merry doesn’t
know when the last one willget the new colors. ‘That's up to"
_ BC Transit he says,

‘Two Prince Rupert busesand four in Kitimat wl also get
_the new req, white and blue and color scheme..

All the work for th eight buses ts being done by Atom —
. Motora of Kitimat. They were low bidder at a total of -
__ $18,203 for the 40;foot GM buses, That is $4,550.75 per bus,

The paint scheme consists of broad red stripes one foot
wide down the sides with a 2.5 inch wide biue stripe.
superimposed, set off by a half-inch: wide reflective tape .

’ which improves nighttime visibility. The front end of each
’ bus will be red, except for a blue stripe around the botiim

half of the windshield. Tharoof willbe white. :
A total of 55 buses in small Communities aré to be
repainted this summer. ~ :

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