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THE VIEW FROM THE

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MARINE VIEW PLAZA

where the Northwest Chambers’ and Alaskan Af-
fillates met over the October 15 weekend. Delegates
from Terrace, Prince Rupert, The Queen Charlottes

citi | praesent to discuss with their
Alaskan counterparts problems and solutions com-
mon to all in the Pacific northwest.

and Kitimat wera

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Lp er es me

Chambers of Commerce and Alaskan Affiliates. (left
to right) Ted Moore, Past President and Installation
Officer; Bill Baker, Honorary President; Noel

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THE 1976.77 EXECUTIVE of the Northwast B.C.

EFROVINCIAL LISS&RY
PARLIAMENT BLDS,
B,C,

VICTORIA

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; Wo dworth,
President; Gordon Fehr,

President; John Stinson, First Vice:

Second Vice President;!

Heidi Boucher, Alaska Vice President and Don.
Murray, Sgeretary. (See photo story on page 3). |

$1.9 MILLION FOR SKEENA

~ LLP. Grants
to be announced

next week

The recommendations for
this year’s batch of Local
Initiative Grants are on the
Minister's desk and. an of-
ficia] announcement is
expected next week.
However, the Herald has
learned that $1,900,000 has
been recommended for the
northwest and all or most
are expected to receive the
Minister's blessing. ;

The Herald has also
learned that: top priorities’
have been accorded to’
requests from the District of

‘Council awards _
lift station-contract

“alderman. Gerry Duffag

waa: ansuccessful in his
attémpt to halt council from:
awarding two contracts on
the Sparks Street lift
station.

Council voted 5 to 1 in
favour of awarding Bud’s
Truck and Equipment the
contract ior installing the
life station equipment. The
installation bid was $195,465
and the equipment bid, from
Flight Canada Ltd., was
$17,250. nn

A meeting was held
Thursday, October 14 with
Alderman © Heimut
Giesbrecht as acting mayor
but, when Duffus raised
objections to the bylaw
allowing the municipality te
go ahead with the project,
Alderman Sharon Biggs
moved the meeting be
reconvened Friday when
Mayor Gorden Rowland
returned to Terrace.

Biggs, who was away an.
holidays when the work was
done on the by-law, said she
wanted time to see if the
objections were valid.

Duifus read the following
speech. ‘at the counci
meeting: ‘'The contrac!
under. discussion has
numerous hanging clauses. °
Other clauses are locsely
worded while still others are
vague, Legally it could
Jace the District of Terrace
in an unprotected position,
It could algo cost the District
of. Terrace thousands. of
dollars: more than the.
contract figure (of) §195,465.

“Very Ilttle can be ac-
complished at this time of
year when it is: considered

t ditches have. to be dug
and sewer lines installed in
the vicinity of two through:
fares which are heavily used.
by pedestrians and vehicles.

“The tenders should be
readvertised, the bids called

Thelma: Jessie Bradford
died ‘shortly after she was
found in her bedroom Oc-
tober 17 at approximately
4:30 am. by -her_ sister.
Bradford, who lived in the
Keystone Apartments Was’

7 Windows
Jim: ‘McPhillips ireported
two windows front of.

" Jungle Jim's Pet Shop were

pe Sudden death i .

Terrace totalling ap-
proximately $200,000 which
would create some fifty to
sixty jobs in the community.

These projects include |
di

Skeena Aute
Motal Shop Ltd.

|the herald

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1976

TERRACE, B.C.: |

some additional work on the -
Little Parks, the Nature.
Trail up Terrace Mountain,
a walkway at the end‘of Eby -
to the bench and drainage .
and storm sewer projecis.
Grants to the Golden Rule
which would allow two.
employees is also a good bet.
as is a grant to the Terrace
Development Society.

for. a second time ‘aa tne °-f

contract-agreements
rewritten,” said Duffus.
He argued council had
e final reading of

ssed
The by-law without sufficient --

council members present.
According to a section of the
Municipal Act two-thirds of
council has ‘to be present
when the by-law is passed.

At the September 13
meeting Mayor ‘Gordon
Rowland and Alderman

-Mary Little were ‘at the

Union of B.C. Municipalities
convention but. Rowland
said Friday all other
alderman were present and
they make up two-thirds of
council,

Alderman
Giesbrecht said the project
ig “years overdue’ ard
work should get started on
the . project before
basements start flooding
again, ‘ ;

He said the prices they
received were in line wi
what council's advisors said
they should be and the local
contractor will’ use local
Jabor'on the job. ‘'All of a
sudden there is supposed to
be something wrong after
months of work being done
on it,’’ he said, adding that
the morale of the municipal
staff is low and wrapped
in the project, ;

Duffus then demanded to
know how council could pass
a budget it claimed was kept

ito the bare essentials in the

spring and in the fall find
$60,000 from 12 items when

the emergency funds, were

ni yo ee

All aldermen,. except
Sharon Biggs, said the
budget ‘was . completely
justified and they did not see
any reason to: doubt the
choices of: withdrawing
funds from 12 items in the
budget to pay for the lift
station project,

taken to Mills Memorial

Hospital where she was’

pronounced dead on arrival.’

No foul play is: suspected
and Coroner Harry Femith

has ordered an inquest,

smashed

smashed October 16 causing -

$225 damage. |
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Helmut.

up.

VANDALS CA

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USE HAVOC AT

THE STAFF ROOM of Thornhill Primary School after an act ef mindless

Vandals . broke ‘into
Thornhill Primary School
di ‘the .weekend and:
caused $5000 damage. to
property and laid waste
some parts of the building.

Sigligut in ne of the beg
as one of the boys
vanerems The statiraom
was ransacked with coffee
spilled over the table and
oor. Cups were broken, the.
coffee urn was kicked in,
sugar was spilled and other

ful damage was done, ©

_ The vandals smashed two
aquariums in the basement’
of the school where they also”

Gigantic mineral
pment

The Assistant Deputy
Minister to the Federal

’ Minister’ of Mines : and

Resources has gone ‘into
more detail in regards to

_ possible mining and mineral

ocessing which is possible
‘or the Pacific northwest.
Jean-Paul Drolet, based.
his predictions .on known

* mineral deposits in this area

and the proximity. of those
deposits to the Pacific Rim

nations which are inthe -

market for ‘such metals. |
Mr. Drolet said that a

. 100,000 ton per year copper ,
aE in

smelter could be bu

theSstikine Liaird district.
For the Prince Rupert area .
he suggested the possibility.

-. O£a 126,000 ton per. year zinc .
“plant and a ‘65,000

r year.
capacity zinc smelter that

_ the blotter of the desk.

- beside the principal’s office

‘million kilogram per year

output
‘aluminum plant in Kitimat,

YOR
a the above projects could

“would - service’ present, “province.”

emptied fire extinguishers.
The general office was
also ransacked and the
vandals used cams of green

ra: int to cover the
typewters, the telephones,

e counters, the desks and
the walls. An obscene
message was also written on

The door of the principal's
office was kicked in after an
apparent unsuccessiul
attempt to set fire to the
door jamb. The office was
ransacked. The storeroom

was also ransacked.

markets ia the Pacific Rim
countries, . ~
-yHe also forecast a 67

molybdenum roaster and
expansion of copper refining
facilities. He also noted that

am

VA

be” Hey ae
NDALS broke into Thornhill Primary School and

ma ane re .

USING A GREEN SPRAY PAINT can vandals did not spare their
destructive behavior last weekend in the main office of Thornhill
Primary School. The typewriter, the telephone, the
the counter were not left untouched.

keh

‘the weekend.

walls, the desks and. .

VANDALS spared nothing in the ‘Thornhill Primary:
School storeroom where they wrecked havoc during

bs
a

. it
‘ a

there was good potential for
precious metal processin
and for. sulphuric acid.
developments -far -fertilizer
plants. |
The spokesman also
envisages a considerable
increase in the production
of the Alean -

This Increase couldreach an
additional 180,000 tons per’ .

be realized it would meati an. .
additional 14,000 jobs for the -

went berserk in the staffroom during the weekend.

Terrace Lawyer passes in Vancouver

Renald John Jephson
Terrace barrister an
solicitor, died in St. Paul’s
Hospital in Vancouver on
October 16 at the age of 46
after a brief illness.

‘Mr. Jephson was well
known in the northwest as a

lawyer and for his interests:
“In polities, He graduated

from U.B.C. Law. School in
1956 and was called to the

bar: the following year. He

- Kitimat

went to Ottawa after that to
accept a position as
Executive: Assistant to the
Minister of Public Works
and later’ Minister of Ex-
ternal :Affairs, Howard

“Green. Jephson remained In

Ottawa for four years before
returning to the northwest to
get up a Jaw practice in

In ‘1962 he. moved to;

‘Mr.

Terrace to practice law, In
1963 he ran in an un-
successful bid as the Con-
servative candidate in the
federal election. °

At the time of his death
Jephson was the
President of. the Prince

Rupert County Bar
Association’: and was
recently: the B.C.

the

représentatlve _ to

cee

Canadian Bar Association

Mr. Jephson is survived:
by his wife, Judy, and three:
children... mS

Funeral services. will be:

_ held on Saturday, October 23:

at 2:30 p.m. at St. Matthews:
Anglican ‘Church . with ‘the
Reverend Lance Stevens
officiating, Burial will he at

the District of Terrace
Municipal Cemetery. ©.

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