$1395 B hone’ 635-2601. . 1964 CHEV HANDIVAN - Bob Parker Lt Ltd. : Terrace, B.C. : Prove i ww fF 8 a -@ Serving Terrace, the Hub City.of the Mighty Ske@ena Valley in Northwestern Library “ Periodicals Departnant, | “Veetoria, B.C, British Columbia . ob P Parker | a : LL Phone 435-2001 ae ‘Terrace, BS.” pcoth YEAR, — Noe . 14 Pogs ane 109 Cony. ae eas “4b00 Press ue Rin . Youre mad at the dust. \;. °° You think there might be wisely things in the water. -. And you figure the taxes are too _ That's part of your democratic priviloge, ‘friend, Hs also part of the same privilege to arise from. A ott your slé-me-dowm and register as a volar, —- - It takes a little more effort that dust plain griping, But {t could be worth It, - Terrace Municipality put a sizeable ad in Inst weeks Herald, It told the eligible voters to register at the THU g icipal office, Result: a big nothing, Eligibility isn’t limited ‘6 taxpaying ‘Any British subject.over 21 who has lived in the come munity for the past six months’ has. ballot privileges at the 7 December elvic election. * Tf hé — or sho ~ takes the trouble to register his John Henry at Municipal Hall ’’. Registration takes less than five minutes and requires no personal revelations, Jt costs nothing, _ Municipal Administrator John Pousette told the Herald. We go through this every year, This year it’s just the. same as in former years, So far there has been no re. last year’s election, slightly over two thirds of the actual registered voters turned out at the polls, - people registered to vote, only. 42 were tenant electors ana 30 wo were resident electors. Be Municipal assessor Bill Reid commented, ‘It’s cers | tainly reasonable to assume there is at least a potential 1,o00 of eligible voters. Where they are we just don't know. ‘They certainly don’t show up at registration time,” “This is a problem in every community’, Reid said, = “Notwproperty owners just don't.seem to be concerned with gm civic affairs, They don’t take the same pride in community matters. Perhaps it’s partly because actual property ownera a don’t promote civic pride themselves,” _ “In Australia they actually fine you if you However, Reld was not suggesting the same ruling would = sponse,” He added, don’t vote.”” . be acceptable here, . B essential. in Tho Municipal Hall .elections, Don’ t just sit” | . _ and gripe, get | ready to vote You don’t like the way the town is run. “If a man 1s forced to the polls under threat of a fine it " certainly dopant say much for his intelligence, which is the selection of of pod officials,” he offered, _ September 30, ‘Those eligible yoters whd do not register be- § fore then will” hot. “bé” bie to’ east a BALlG# ta the Decmnbor high, homeowners, will accept registrations until ¥ ~ pollution Tho now policy, calling for the stallation of sewage treatment hellities in. all municipalities, aves Terrace in the clear, ‘A $300,000 sewage treatment fant, large enough to serve a opulation of 20,000 was opened ere last year and is already perating on & near complete ee Completion of new sewer lines the community within the next -w months will close up all ADs, a. Terrace’s plant, situated near rauns Island was only the se- iond one opened in the province, nister of Municipal Affairs, Campbell termed ‘the fac- ty ‘‘one that shows foresight ‘Terrace ahead c on policy — .. ‘Terrace's toes-‘are untouched by the Provincial Gov- ernment’s new “‘get tough” policy on water pollution, a on the part of the people of Terrace,” The new policy will cost other B.C, municipalities nearly $100 million to Implement, They will not recelve. any financial agsis- tance from the Provincial Goy- ernment “because this would be unfair to communities which have already paid for their own treat ment facillties," . It is-expected the new ruling will be framed in Legislation to be introduced in February, Health Minister Wesley Black sald the water pollution move will be followed In about two months by air pollution regulations bat. he did not elaborate, Tenders called Terrace will have a new aire Port termina). Kitimat. say nothing’ of Seen Liberal Association president Art Bates received the *. | word anofficlally from Ottawa a log as big as that? That’s one 5 question poruered hy local Lion Al Purschke | and daughter Linda, It will also be pondered by all the people attending the Lions’ sponsored Loggers Sports’ on Labor Day (September 4) starting at.1 p.m, at the Stampede grounds at the end of Scott Ruad. | Best guesser gets the log, estimated to he worth $500, and donated by Eur- ean to the loggers’ festival. HOW BIG is Local truckers unfazed by weigh scale announcement. Terrace will have a new weigh tion should be up in time for the} m ° cale in the spring. spring break up in 1968, ae “the past, many of us have And the reaction from the local Horace Vance, & truck logger always: figured that the more men who haul the frelght!s sweet here for the past 16 years, was|weight we carried, the more reason, one man the Herald contacted. | money we could make, Truckers’ contacted by th His reaction: “Pm convinced| ‘‘But after talking to a lot of Herald seemed to be in favor of after careful study of this situa-|the operators around Prince the idea, - Hon that we'll be better off than| George and other places where The Government weigh scale station will be bullt across the Skeena bridge at the junction of Highways 16 and 25, Tenders have been called, Sta. the scale houses have come in, Tm not so sure that it won't be .an improvement for us in the ‘long’ run,’”* Vance predicted, “Ht costa a tremendous amount we haye- been with block load rules,” : Vance said he has given a lot of study to the matter of load restrictions and weight requirc- Tal Ex cae Peat Nean, ane . ce to keep these big trucks running every year, If you have a hired driver there's no profit in it at all,’* 2 | this week, ; '| Tenders will be called on or about August 31, Bates’ source is G, H, Arb. ique, special assistant to trans port minister J, H. Pickersgill, What kind of a terminal it will be is not known. Neither is the amount of money the government is willing to spend on the muchneeded newterminal, A new airport terminal opera~ tions building has been. on the drawing boards for over five years, A history of soveral years of political ping-pong preceded A year ago a tentative expen diture of $70,000 for the build ing was put forth by the Hone orable Arthur Laing, of Northern Affairs, The figure Was rejected as too small by Frank Howard, MP for Skeena. | 4, The matter became the object |" of close study by the Terrace and District Chamber of Com~ merce, . - Present tacitities at the Tex ‘wace airport: have -beon “in use |'ing to teach ‘the: 9,900" Puesday |: Fi since the sceond world war. The building hes .a history.-of: cold'|- winters and water blisters from ~ | eotling drips during ralny wea ther, Conditions in the passenger waiting rooms came to: the fore prominently two years ago when were required to checkin under an umbrella inside the ding, . Canadian. Pacific “Airlines has expended. annual amounts of money in an effort to keep the _| waiting room facilities useable, Last week the airline company side achool will be pulled into] | annomeed a $9,000 expenditure for renovations to the waiting room, © ‘Plans to proceed with cOnes | struction of a new building will not change CPA’s renovationpro= ject, Airling .officials have stat. ed the work will go ahead as planned, The new terminal build. ing is expected to be at least two years under construction and CPA officials have said their operations would, be the last to move into the new facility. Art Bates said it was the CPA announcement that prompted him to contact the Department of Transport and ask ‘what new de- a velopments had occurred in the ‘terminal plans, Minister |‘ 7 ‘New air - terminal ‘ seen for Terrace TERRACE AREA ALL WET, FORESTRY MEN PLEASED aa people can take it or leave it! . Terrace Forestry officials are pieased to take ite every time and the recent wetting down in the Prince Rupert Forest District. has almost eliminated: any danger ot a major forest fire in this area, Deputy Ranger Walter Neros toldthe Harald, ““Dueto the recent wetting down, our hazard in careless campers and smokers, is pretty weil elimina He said there are no firce burning in the district and this district, aside from the hazard is very low at the moment, - , This ia a far ery from the situation in the Lower. . forest areas following one of in recent years. been sent to the fire area in flames. - Reco rd 7 Schools in the Terrace to a record 3,900 children next That’s the number anticipated by Sehool district No, 53 secre. tary = treasurer Ted Wells, area, 156 teachers will-be wait>|- morning, . ‘Hopefully, tho ° ’ umber “of teachers could rise to 153 be~ fora school opening. "We're ‘still looking ‘for a eo Teachers. nesded are for an occupational class at Skeena Saw condary and a Home Ee enh Secretary-treasuer Wells does not antielpate any over-crowding during the upcoming school year, But beeause of inevitable con struction delaya, the old River. service, Work. nearing completion but | fiasco, not ready: for the September 5 deadline is at Upland School where four classrooms and an activity room are being added, and an eight-room primary school at Thornhill, Atso under construction bitnot affecting clasaes is enlareement of the auditorium at Skeena Sec- ondary, Wells said the school ‘poard would bring three classes of Sal le a, ae u r new B: also said some youngsters stendine Uplands could be brou- ght to Riverside pending comple uple of teactiers, “Wells. sald). School which has this- Thornhill students into Terrace |. Mainiand regions where a travel: ben has been placed on the greatest outbreaks of fire All water bombers and available men and equipmenthave : an effort to stig, the sprvactng School opens. Tuesday enrolment. seen for schools district will open their ‘doors ; Tuesday moming. Vocational school This year, sometime. .: Terrace will have a Regal Vocational ‘School,. 060 has been awarded to Suns and Dutton of Vancouver to com~ ° ‘plete phase 3. That's the current story ry onthe generated into a public relations “Main breakdown in communica. tions seems to be in: Victoria, Communications in Civil Sere.’ vicase had Terrace Chamber of © Commerce -- and other local. citizens — believing the school Would open in the fall, «© 0°. Chamber had already launched — a ce efinding drive for onbot wenn, ther they'll: have to” ‘walt a year, Burns and Dutton Constriction Limited of. Vancouver. were. — awarded: the $1,575,000 contract for phase three work at the School, Phase three includes the. - of additional classrooms, construction af workshops, Average’ cost of a new logging | truck jg $50,000, and yearly ups keep averagas out at about 30 cents ‘q mile, Vance said his {/000 miles in a normal year. R. F. Johnston, district sup- erintendent for the Department of Highways, told the Herald, “The station will help local truckers,’ They may have to. raise their’ rates, but certainly the wear and tear on their trucks will be a great deal less,’’ Johnston sald he doesn't know H; whether’ the station will be VISITING HOURS OPEN ed formal. visiting hours 3 Ay ‘now be visited any time between. noon ‘and 8 Hospital: § “felt that | in the parking lot viotting | Clem to-right) Bull. Scots, clerk of work up tn the in dent, Dava Llod, Doug Lat 7 Dr. Marcelle Chinason, Dick Masta, Eine "Macdonald paid A fh, wT MaCall,. ae : trucka usually clack around 25, & manned on a year round basis, | § HOSPITAL ing 4 : The Hiapltat this week sctapp ontlron ; there was {oo much of-a jam)