Sai Naar te et Se ONE a," NE RT as late wee nt “tanireh eerie eee ea le A hetty provisional be placed before Skeena- Cassiar School District 88 [trustees next Wedriesday night. It calls for an: interim expenditure of . $3,530,000 school district budget will . This is “54,000 more than — the . $2,984,000 budgeted for in 1970 for | costs of ‘administration, instruction, operation and: maintenance. “However, in the 1971 total buidget's second draft by the > This is up $076, 000 from. 1970's budget Of $3,925,028... A well as the budgeted coats for admin|stration, operation, instruction. and maintenance, the total proposed : ‘budget. in- cludes conveyance of students; auxiliary services account, non: operating expense: ‘account; “ debts. and - currerit -non- itso does’ not include a ‘propose : 800,000 Feferendum trus hope™ Cassiar. School ‘District later. this: vei. ‘to. put.. before;.the ‘ratepayers of ‘the Skeengs struction to meet the growing - needs of the region, Just where is the money channelled? ‘The second draft proposal salaries to consider, According to the proposal, as - adopted in the provisional budget, the region’s 229 full- time teachers receive a total of $2,198,551, compared © to $1,857,000 last year. “Supervisory and District staff” receive $103,000 ~ a rise “Ad. Also, budgeted for is 45,00. for “increments” ~ up from $20,000 last year. Substitute teachers budget is up $5,000 from $30,000 in 1970. But,.then there's the school board administration staff. .According to the draft, salaries are up $7,000 from $50,000 in 1970 t to $57,000 ‘this- at $53,000 — ewan 00 front the previous year.. Trustee's expenses: for the _ year remain the same ‘at $15,000. costs RISE . : :: Clerical. staffs, . teaching supplies and “other in- structional expense’ is. also inpaints where your school from 000 in 1970, to hieet immediate school school district's finance com- shareable capital. account.’ "BOR ‘NEEDS * ; Binpol goes, when finally ap- ditional tort in September” year. Office expenses are up. added to the. higher cost of needs before a. fing]. mittee, q vnopring $4,672,000 i is. The final budget is still-tobé The refeferidum would be i proved, - receive $85,449 compared to $1,000 to $9,000 while general learning, according to. the budget is brought down. Propes sed. vated on ali trustees, varidus types “of school cot ' First, there are teacher $61,000 in 1970. _ administration expense is listed Cont'd on Page 2 Las . ‘ ~* 4 : ut F 2 _ L. : YOU CAN. AFFORD . . A PARKER FORD” xm I “i970 MODELS SE LLOUT v - NOW. ON! Cc ; A BOB PARKER FORD | Serving Terrace, The Hub Clty at the Mighty: ‘Skeena Valley in Northwestern British Columbia YOUR “northern” PRESCRIPTION: sence . ; ; Authorized ai'Second class’ mail 4, 535-2801 4613, Lazelle. Ave., P.O, Box 399, Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in’ ‘ash. Return postage guarauteed, ‘Second Class Mail Registration No. 1201. bah Larelte 635.4664, 65th Year No. 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1971 TERRACE, B.C. 15 CENTS A COPY | | Town approves $1.5-million 6 t e No matter how you look at it, residents of Terrace will continue to pay through the nose to keep the municipality afloat, There are direct taxes. dozens of indirect taxes, municipal and provincial, that we pay for on top of it all, If they don’t get you on direct taxation, they'll get you on sewer rates, business licenses, dog licenses, building permits, court fines and Mayor Victor Jolliffe said it is an interim budget, giving the: municipality powers to borrow lax moneys for’ im- mediate needs until a_final budget is approved by council in the Spring, And there are . budget comes from direct taxation which includes $782,000 (or 42 - mills) genera] purposes tax; $3,500 from B.C. ‘Telephone: and Liquor tax; $22,725 in improvement frontage tax -and- $5,000 from Pacific Northwest Gas. Jolliffe said sewer rates "raise - $82,000- sewer con- nections, $13,000 and garbage removal, $58,000 Business licenses, ac- cording to the provisional budget, will bring $50,000 inta municipal coffers: “dog licenses and impounding fees, $4,500; building permits, * $14, 000 and commercial vehicle licenses, $7,000. . COURTCOSTS .. faied mayor said $20,000 . is ; -omliquon tax ,. AONE, i sundry-r8htals and-: -others. service charges while $50,000. - Terrace -council “Monday. is picked up by-court fines and - "night, was. handed a costs, provisional budget - of. lnterest-and tax penalties $1,506,225 for 1971. sot account for $25,000 while SPECIAL POWERS contributions, grants and subsidies from provincial government | grants nets $282,000. The Recreation Commission chips in $12,000 and “other revenue” is $13,500, which iricludes costs netted by the — Cont'd an | Page 2 . Cooper lashes out Alderman Mrs. Edna Cooper handed Terrace Mayor Victor Cars clobbered backing out Two ‘accidents took place within two days on Queensway in Thornhith, | -And both were caused by drivers backing onto the high. , way and struck by’ on-coming vehicles. The- first accident occurred New Year’s Day when a car driven -by Henry Azak-‘of Braun’s Island backed onto the highway from. & trailer court. Azak's ‘car was struck by one ~ driven by: William, ‘Milliken . of - Terrace, . ‘Azak was. charged: with failure to yeild right of way and driving without car insurance, -On the next day, January 2, a vehicle driven by Ina Gravelle backed out of a driveway-and onto Queensway, The Gravelle car was struck by: on: an-on-. coming vehicle driven by’ Jean Gosselin, oo : at Mayor. Jolliffe Jolliffe a strong; verbal slap following council swearing in ceremonies Monday. “T think the three new members of counci] -- as volunteers ~should serve on the Court of Revision,” a smiling Mayor Jolliffe said. : Mrs. Cooper, who won re- election to cotincil in December, along with newcomers [an MacDonald. and Gerdon Rowland, were officially sworn - in by Judge C.J. Norrington just moments before, It is. customary for new members 10. . Serve on- the _-Tevisiqn, cou: thi “f ve Momentwalter Mayor Jollifte ‘inade ‘hid-call for “volunteers”, Mrs. . Cooper. indignantly replied: “E was on last year’ 8 council so Idecline.". * Alter a. long pause, Mayor Jolliffesaid: “I will put the two new members onand the mayor. . will serve as a member." ces Later, Mayor Jolliffe said he would be meeting with various. members: of the council: to. - . Mission, B.C;,.on September-19, . determine “which - committees they will. serve on in, the 1971 . council, , A NATIVE SON became Terrace’s Centennial baby. Elmer and Patricia Wright of the Kitseles Reserve Monday photo. became parents of a robust hoy who NEW YEAR'S BABY A NATIVE. also..has the distinction of being Terrace’s New Year’ s baby...Staff He’s proud papa! Elmer Wright was about the happiest father you could find ariywhere - along the Skeena Mon- da y. “My chest, it sticks out a mile!’’.. he laughing easily when he was told his 18-year-old wife, Patricia, had just given birth to a healthy, robust boy. The child, born at 10:15 “aM, Monday at Mills said,- “named yet - was born. Rubber cheque costs man $350 | -the ‘Kitseles_: A man who signed a -$15 cheque on a non-existent bank account was fined $50 in Court , Wednesday... RCMP said Donald Paul, 20, pleaded guilty. to obtaining money under false pretenses, The. incident: occurred: in Paul was fined in default of 30 days jail. senténce, , tough time ‘of it.’ ‘to the parents of. the first baby ’ of-the year will be a boon to the Memorial Hospital, has. the proud distinction of being Terrace’s annual New Year's baby. And-- the first child to be born here in B.C.'s centennial year. ‘SPECIAL’ But there is something special about the bouncing seven pound, eight ounce boy, He's a native Indian, one of Canada's “first citizens”. Mrs, Wright had éntered the hospital just two hours before the boy -- who hasn’t been “It’s great, I think it’s really great,” said Wright, 30. The couple also have a daughter, ‘Ann, who is 15-months-old. - She's at home with. daddy at Reserve on Queensway, in Thornhill, . -TOUGH TIME : “Pin having a hell of a time; babysitting,..but sometimes my . father helps out," he said. ~ The. Wright's’ are having a ‘prizes given by town merchants — ; family. EX-MLA ATTENDS FIRST MEETING -- New: lork.administrator a ' Mayor Victor: - Jolliffe ‘and civic officials went bunting for’.a-' new -. municipal. administrator _ and: bagged what they | consider a prize: -catch. He’s Jack: Hardy, | who his initial announcement ‘in: ‘November, was for- merly- atop ‘Official in the - civil“ service-— ad. ministration , field. Manitoba — before becoming : Progressive: ‘Monday night. ‘TOP MAN: -picked fram,’ the to the ‘municipality.’ But:that’s just: a snostiarm i ; ‘ administrator. Jolliffe said - Hardy was *, gix. of: 23°." : applicante ‘for’ the job as: “assistant: administrator” OF | ‘ way. tar. ‘tardy wis in as the TOOK LOOK “Hardy accepted the post alter . he and his wife visited Terrace | ; recently, oe in” Ris: ‘earlier. “visit here, . job. The $350 in. ‘Hardy: and his wife were shown Their bad luck started during the tug boat strike last Spring when Wright was laid off his logging job with Crown Zellerbach. Shortly afterwards, he had his leg broken in an automobile accident while seeking another LEG IN CAST. Because of complications, Wright must use crutches as his Cont’d on Page 2 ‘Local teachers geared for strike ‘We'll walk out’ BY RON THODY _ After ao summer of discontent, strike talk is not new along the Skeena, Today it is echoing along the halls of schools in the Skeena-Cassiar School District. And, perhaps as early as next month, 229 full- time school teachers— most of them in the Terrace area---will walk out of their classrooms if their pension demands are not met by the Social Credit ‘government in ee hop, ake “ahs fon Chen | Wing, pussiden of ; : Ske |. ena-Cassiar’ Teacher's eternity told The Herald Tuesday that a province-wide strike “looms as a Teal "possibility." ‘WILL STRIKE’ “We will strike if necessary, but not necessarily will we strike,” he added on a Rote of optimism. But he said, “Eighty: -eight per cent of the Skeena-Cassiar teachers voted last Oct, 30 to take strike action if necessary in an endeavour to get better pensions.” The local vote matched the provincial strike vole average of 88 per cent, : The Legislature resumes January 21. On or after Feb. 8, it will discuss “money bills”, ineluding the ‘Teachers’ Pensions Act Amendments.’ Chen Wing said he wishes to make the strike warning known now “‘so parents can be given suitable advance notice of any strike so that alternative arrangements can be made for the students.” HANDS OFF He added the propased strike would not interfere with night school or ather activities for which teachers receive payments when the payment is not considered salary for pension purposes. “The strike is not against local school boards over local issues, but against the provincial government over a provincial issue," Chen Wing said. “But,’’ he added, ‘‘since local school boards have given over to the provincial government the responsibility for teachers’ pensions, it is inevitable that local boards be involved in any major dispute over the issue.” Among steps being presently taken by Chen Wing and his association are organization of a strike committee, establish- Cont'd on Page 2 - Building booms across Terrace ‘Top trustee to talk problems Skeena-Cassiar School District 88 trustees will he laying out the welcome mat February 24 to B.C,'s “top trustee". Visiting Terrace will be P.C.D, Powell, president of jthe B.C. School Trustees Association. It was learned at a meeting. of the school district Wed- nesday night that Powell has requested. a meeting with trustees, district superin- tendents and = secretary- treasurers of the Kitimat and Terrace region schoo! districts, Porpose of his visit is ta discuss District problems and relay them to Education Minister Leslie Peterson. It was learned Wednesday that Powell has requested a meeting with trustees, district superintendants and secretary-treasurers of the Kitimat and Kitimat Region ‘recession? - School Districts. An. economic You can’t prove it by Terrace construction, says the~ municipality’s building inspector, E.H, _ Thomas. In a report issued Tuesday, he admitted the total value of building permits was down about $i-million over . 1969, but. construction. -starts,. particularly in “housing,: _was markedly. increased. : Building, he said, started slow : but fired up “as_ the © year ; progressed. . : VALUE : Value of permits to the end of 1970, Thomas reports, were! $3,765,824 compared: to: " $5,087,822 at the erid of 1969. But, Thomas added, nearly: $2-million of this went for: construction of the new Terrace - Vocational School ~- a lions: share of the total value of: permits. In effect,- this shows con-: struction boomed more in 1970: than in 1969. Number of permits issued to the end of 1970. totalled 252 1 _recontly. gave up his seat - Conservative MLA for. St... . handle. anarrace’ 8: pretent. *“slides depleting Terrace’s rapid {digs the. Manitoba. Boniface, a suburb f: a et potential tb goba’ | = : Legislature to accept the Winnipeg. secrelary-creaaurer vith the | man of Bis character,” Jolliffe. 41g REALLY QUITE SIMPLE ONCE YOU GET THE NANG office by Judge. J, Norrie , tar right said then. Ritimat-Stlkine ; Re ional . : é re hag ason in his 20's and chool: ped da igtor, : Of council Monday. This is the fast swearlis Board.” Nocrington will perfarna,.. Th : February. Stal phote : “3 dob, in Terrace. ; H de his’ fli - . ardy, Mayor. . Victor: ae made aan Jo fe told The. Herald in. Awearing: ain. Soromonies | OF AT, says re-elected alderman Mrs. Edna Cooper to rooky © ~ aldermen Gordon Rowland, left and [an MacDonald, right. She | ! founclh of course.’ The trio had just been sworn into’