TERRACE, B.C, -¥ . SEEN SER REA hates PaaS SED Ria ni TO st arata otien is “TERRACE “Omineca”™ feito lanteetntas HERALD A Division of NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED , ; M. FRASER, Publisher Or fete Terrace has something to be proud of in that it has a contested election for Reeve, Councillors and School Trustees next Saturday, In far te many - municipalities of British Columbia, Mayors, Reeves and Councillors will enter or remain.in office by acclamation, | Acclamation in those circumstances has to be regarded not as the approval -- of the people but rather as indicative of candidates who are too indifferent to run and an electorate that does not care. Already we have a similar situation affecting the district school board. in a story elsewhere, a school boord official has listed the cost of the election, a cost which inferentially would be saved if one candidate chose not to run. The © real point is not the merits of the can- didate but the appalling fact that one of the most intensely discussed aspects of our civic life, the education of our chil- dren, can not draw candidates to offer JOG CUNNINGHAM, Editor “feat ¢ etnies ‘it's up to the people their talents to its administration, The schoof board has to date done a superb job of education with an alarm- ‘ingly low budget, but it is a sick situation when the board apparently has to solicit candidates to join it. - This year, because of strong candi- dates, the election for Reeve and Council good.. has won considerable interest. The in- terest has to date been shown mainly by scuttlebut. The proof of it must be shown Saturday at the polls, The contest for Reeve has drawn major attention, All have run intelligent campaigns and have _ - Placed their platforms before the people. No candidate could be accused of rak- ing unrealistic promises for the sake of” winning an election. All have managed to present individual campaigns, despite the inevitable consensus for the common three candidates ” The Verdict for the Future of the community now rests with the people at the ballot box, Arch takes clay pipes, cannon balls PERRYLAND, Nfid. In the last 10 years Archibald Williams, an employee of a fish- processing company in this east- ern Avalon Peninsula hamlet, has acquired a collection of art. ifacts that would be welcome in almost any museum, He has assembled a collection which-is highlighted by a display of abont 15 clay pipes, which date back as far as 1717 and cannonballs used when the Eng- lish defended Ferryland against (CP) — | the French in the 1700s, Pleces of 17th century clay vases and a writing desk over a century old compose the remain. der of the collection, Mr. Williams said the items in his collection were found along the rugged, history-rich Ferry- land shoreline where many ship- wrecks have occurred since Lord. Baltimore first founded a col- ony there in 1621, Mr. Williams recalled the wreck of the Canadian freighter Torhamvan on Oct, 29, 1926. He said the vessel was heading for St, Lawrence port from St, John's Nfld, with a cargo of foodstuffs, mc Fishermen from Ferryland guided the vessel's crew ashore and there was no loss of life, Two bronze statues taken from the Torhamvan now flank the arched entrance to the com- munity's 102-year-old Roman Catholic Church. Our readers write... x eth we Editor, Herald I was extremely interested in your editorial of--November 29 and particularly the sentence a rush to the polis by all the dedicated dullards and commun- ity bystanders could form a stup- idity bloc and rob more intel- ligent voters of the effective- ness of their ballots,” Ry what yardstick, sir, do you measure an intelligent vot- er? Is an “intelligent voter” the person who votes for the same candidates. as yourself? Ur are ere er) Who's a dedicated abwedirracatfatmigyts you perhaps suggesting an 1.Q, test should be given before mark- ing the ballot paper,- and that people below a certain level be sent home without an opportun- ity: to vote? an My husband and I will be vot- ing on December 9, Suppose my husband votes: for Mr.-A, and I vote for Mr. B., our votes will cancel each other out, How then would you decide which of us is the intelligent yoter and who is ‘the slob-like citizen’ who . A Lh ee en a beeen ai RA _ dullard? should have stayed home? . ’ Ruth Jayce Editor's note: The editor re- luctantly overcomes the temp- ‘tation to say that anyone who votes as he does is not merely intelligent but a paragon of in- tellect, a sage for our times, one of wit, perception, wisdom, who. is also totally. lacking in concelt, : : Seriously and at risk of re- peating himself from the prev- ious weck’s effort, he stresses that “intelligent voter’? in his g| book is anyone who has suffic. VOTE DON DEANE | FOR A SINCERE HARD WORKING fent interest in the community to study the candidates and their platforms, and then, after con- sideration, to cast a vote for elther Messrs A, B-or C, Un- der this system a vote for a losing candidate Is not a wasted ballot but an accurate gauge to ‘the elected party of the extent ‘of his mandate, and a reminder that there will be future elect. ions, : ' The “dedicated dullards’® in the editor's definition are the citizens who spend 12 months of the year whining about the state of local government but ‘won't take the time to study ‘either issues or candidates, They are the people who- just can't a | be bothered to vote. Surprisingly they do vote, how- ever, when prompted. by vast B|blasts of pious exhortation to ‘Ei | “vote for the candidate of your. choice, hut vote,” Then in afron-| zy of phoney patriotism, they immure themselves in a polling booth, and. exercise their dem- otratic process by selecting a B|candidate witha pin, keeping q\their eyes firmly closed lest a jthey be thought to . cheat, B|Others will elect’ a candidate |to government,.on the basis that he has nice face, an excel- lent criterion for a beauty con. "fj /test but misleading in an elect. jon, . -The editor does -repaat him- A |self and again refers to this : type of voter as a stupidity bles; i |Editor, Herald °° Thank you for- your. article si *When dog teams carried mail | COUNCILLOR. A: MAN’ “WITH. [THE KNOWLEDGE AND. EXPER. [TENCE THAT TERRACE NEEDS. || g|and mailman did the Shopping” F-Outstanding cit. BIN Homburg, : “te ‘gelas), TERRACE. HERALD, DY CAPP . THAT'S A GREAT 'ELP!. —A SHILLINGS WORTH BNOTHIN' THESE — DAYS! AN T KNOW YER BROKE,PET ff — I'VE GOT A SHILLING ee! ‘ERE IF YER 1 SORRY KID, BUT TAD To BUY My O° POTATOES MILLION DOLLAR FIGURE ! [DUNNO WHY, YER STILL LOOK LIKE A SACK, SWINE! Y' USED TOSAYIADA By CATHERINE M, FRASER In the’ year 1906, when Mrs, Nellie Adams of Usk — former Nellie Durham — was 7 years old, she witnessed the famous wreck of the riverboat Mount Royal in Kitselas Canyon. The vessel is rumored to have carried a safeful of gold when recovered. , In her Little-gir] eyes she thought the toppled riverboat was a huge scowin the river. Boats, portation went out to bring in the survivors, There was no one lost, but one old gent thought he had reache¢c the promised land and that Nel- jie’s sister Elsie was an angel, So terrified he was that he never again set foot on a boat. Instead he took out a pre-emption and ondence. Nellie’s parents, Charlie and Elsie Durham, and five children, Elsie, George, Fred, Nellie and Mary, came to Kitselas in 1903 to make their home, (Irene and Kathteen were born later in Kit- - The the Riverboat “Hazelton” with Captain Bowser at the helm, He was the hest known and most popular riverboat Captain on the Skeeéna, The story goes that Durham as a boy ran away from home and went to sea, However his dream had always been ¢o home- stead, and so he came to Kit- selds; pre-empted 160 acres, and worked for the Government Tele- graphs, The family lived in the telegraph office until their log cabin was built, . . In those days the community of Kitselas consisted of a'tele- graph office, two Hudson Bay warehouses and a small cabin that housed two prospectors, . When the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. construction started in 1906 the townsite began to grow, In 1909 to 1911 Kitselas was the largest community between Port Essington, at the mouth of the Skeena River, and Hazelton, about one hundred miles:to the East. an There were three hotels, three general stores, two poolrooms, a tent church, a town jail on the hill, and Enock Jones ran the town’s newspaper, the “Big Can- yon News", “Those were the good old, carefree days”, Mrs, Adams, recalled and told about the com. munity dances, complete with formal program and “dainty pen- cils, to record your dance part- ners for the evening”, Nellle’s parents taught her at home and so well; that there wasn't anything she couldn't read at the age of 8 years, Her father wes a good. story teller and it was from himi the children glean- ed a knowledge of history, The younger children went to Vancouver for part of their Schooling; but Nellie and Mary learned the practical way at home, They could fell a tree, stack wood, catch fish and were right there when cattle and game ‘were being butchered, Nellie learned to keep house from her mother and to Play the piano which she did for mus- ical evenings in their home, er became a thing of the past about ‘1912 when railroad con. Prince Rupert, - The firat through teain from Winnlpeg -to the Pacific coast terminal at Prince-Ruport was ron April 9, 1914, in ‘Following the flrst world war the Durhama moved to.Usk (3 Tilles - away), It was there that |Nellle married Dick Adams and made thair home,’ Mr. . Adama had his. own. sawmlll and min. ing interests, : po The - Adams have three child. ren,.aon Bill and two daughters, Mrs, AE, (Margaret) Earley of Coquitlam and Mrs, William (Hel- ene) Meltae of Terrace, ... ‘The mill closed down. in 1959 got himself a wife by corresp- = Riverboats on the Skeena Riv-| § struction was completed into|& Nellie Adams remembers .. : a - _ The day the Mount Royal sank in Kitsélas C anyon home in Usk, Over . sixty years is a long time to live in one community Mrs, Adams admitted, but said she went down, This was-never § canoes and all available trans. ¢ our many friends and relatives that visit us often, “There just isn’t a dull mom- The old Hazelton on the Skeena River, she wouldn't have it any other way, "We are happy with our tole-|. vision,’ garden, our own car and ent”, declared Usk’s gracious pioneer lady, who was our host for an afternoon’s chat, . These. rar wt Durhams came north on!- a a wi ° he " ae Pah Tiedemann built - BCs bird cages* _“‘A’ farmhouse with an outhouse on. each side arid a blacksmith: shop and two barns in the rear,"". That’ was how Amor De Cosmos, editor of the British # Colonist, in 1959 described Van. @ couver Island’s first legislative buildings —the master work of. ‘civil engineer and architect Hers mann Otto Tiedemann, ’ The editor suggested that the - CONe, Struction of the ‘Bird Cages" — $90,009 “expended ‘for as the first buildings were popu larly called —was a ‘waste of money. But Tiedemann apparent. ly ignored the insult and probably told his friends it was obvious that -De Cosmos knew nothing about architecture, : Tiedemann was bom in 1821 in Berlin, Germany and he came | to Victoria in 1858 as a civil engineer to join the Surveyor. General's Department, He de= Signed. the Fisgard Lighthouse, completed in 1860, In. 1862 he left government service to help Alfred Wadding- ton find a shorter route to the Cariboo, building a mule trail up the Homathko Valley. from Bute Inlet, Later the trail was considered by the Canadian Paci- fic Railway as a route and Tiede. mann worked for the ratlway com= pany. When the final relocation through the Fraser Canyon was chosen, he returned to private practice, He worked on surveys for a plan to bring Elk Lake water to Victoria and he did some work for the coal mines at Nanaimo, But the best example of his work still standing {a the court. house he designed for Victoria— now. housing the Maritime Museum, He also designed many old Victoria homes, | heprespit ee ence: but the Adams’ sttil: make thelr |f = SURE. ‘MOORE TIEDEMAN Tiedemann died in 1891 buthis name ' is perpetuated in Tiedemann Creek and Tiedemann Glacier in the Homathko region, — B.C. Centennial Commitiee DEVISED A PLAN.’ WINNIPEG (CP) — Four years of planning have resulted in, an emergency evacuation pian for the 33 nursing homes in Great- er Winnipeg, The provincial health department, in conjunet. ion with the Emergency’ Meas. ures Organization; devised the plan which, while basically for fire evacuation, can be, modif- - Vote To serve ‘Terrace, with courage, ‘integrity and. hord work, thoes tla emasculated, “|Report from Parliament Hill © Wedneday, December 6, 1987 tent tees io OME Wn YS +r tian + by FRANK HOWARD, M,PLO + My friend, Mr, Art Bates of; Terrace, ‘deserves a tiark - ‘of commendation’for- having performed ‘a: recently and1 want to say 50 publicty, ; public service” He invited: the Hon. Join Turner, Régistrar-Genoral sin’ Mr, | Pearson's.. Cabinet, to come: to 'Skeena, that is the way I understand the And Mr, Turner came, Regretfully, though; he could “only, -stay situation, ©: oat foe. While and was able to see only @ part of Skeena. “Nevertheléss that was good. ‘ Orjat least . - Ma Fo a short’ The more members of our ‘government’ who ‘come, ‘to we northern B.C. to-see-at first-hand what ‘is: taking place the better off we will be, for in the words of an ‘ancient Chinése ‘~~ Proverb — One look is worth.a thousand reports, -- “ *" - Other Cabinet Ministers: have come to visit Skeena’ in’ the past, some on a political mission and:- some for other’: Durposes, . soa : a . ML yt gm, All of these visits have been good for ft permitted thesa _: gentlemen.-— and one and tounderstand, *- woman — to see, tohenr, to talk,.' _ Among those who have’ visited some’ part or another of Skeena since I’have been your M,P, have been (I'll use flow _ the post. they. held at the time of the visit) Transport-Mintster George Hees, Justice. Minister E Davie Fylton, ‘Extémial, ; Affiars Minister Howard Green, Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Fisheries. Minister.:Robichaud, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Elten Fairclough, Indian Affairs and Northern-Deve - elopment Minister Art Laing, Transport Minister Jack-Pick: ~~ ersgill, Labour Minister Nicholson © °° Souvte O8). Baha. : wish that many ‘more. of the ..Cabinet ‘would come.to~. B.C, and see what is golng on and what needs. to be - ad northern. * done, 65. ch Raph It is awfully difficult to. explain something. to. someone -'when he -hasn’t seen with the people concerned, _.. - The type of visit, of. course, which’-would serve us the area in question, liasn’t, spoken - ' the best is the one, or ones, whieh are not for purely political * Purposes, . indeed, we should ¢ toaminimum.. 1 look forward. to more® visits, Ministers can find the time to come and . One can always expect -to have his - at him and ] have no objection if that is : I would ask that I not be quoted out of, . ticular report, ‘but context, I know that we cannot keep politics out of it.and, net even try — but. we should keep it |. I hope more Cabinet visit. with.us. 7%. - done. with this par- a B.C. Comment Treason from within? By DORY THACKER VANCOUVER — It's time to State the Quebec-DeGaulle prob- lem as it reallyis,-. © + The real issue is with the in- siders, not the outsiders, it’s a case of treason and sed- ition ~ from within, © A group of: Canadians are ac-, cepting -foreign assistance to break up Canada, - The big single fact is that Can- ada is a plece of real estatd which belongs to all Canadians, 1 Québec ta ap astata oo! Nusa annie ag lq gos ‘ s rh i ey “Ys a det of Canadians’ wait to speak in French, learn in sro Pye ‘| French or think in French, let them. No . mature, disciplined Canadian mind would want it otherwise, . But when ‘it comes ‘to am- putating a piece of the country, that’s vastly different, . That is what*some Quebec people wanttodo, « . ot De Gaulle. is. helping: them, with words and. with money, He plans to step up- that help,:He said so, Sy But calling De Gaulle names ‘and telling him not to. meddle in Canadian“ affairs serves: no useful purpose, Hea ean‘and prob- ably will igriore such ‘advice, Remeve his Canadian. allies, however, and De Gaulle will be ; announced intention is to break} up Canada, And De Gaulle makes no bones about this intention, ~ His program of financial aid, ostensibly for cultural purposes, can be spotlighted, Under U,S, law the agents for any foreign government that wish- es to spend money in the U.S, for cultural’ or cther purposes Must register with the state de. partment, Thus their handling or means of disposing of such mon- eye is subject: to official scrut- ny. we - Canada at present makes no such .cequirement, But‘ the gdv- ernment can easily and quickly; enact a law requiring - persons att ‘OF Wat real |", ‘foreign government to’ register, and also requiring a public audit of all suc spending, ~ :"". ample, whether money :the: De Gaulle government’ sends to 'Can- ada is indeed being spent -on ‘cultural purposes, or whether it ts being spent to‘assist suchsed- itious groups. eee) Gaulle threat much more effects iia a ee ae || There-are.othenways, Per om ' Canadians can - handling funds ‘in Canada-for a| F Pyrenees, - VOTE | ] KERR T. G. words quoted back ve This is one example. of how. Canada’ can deal with‘the De- ively than by hurling invective at. This would reveal,’ for ex. in ae ORT ache FOR COUNCIL | No * Nagging i backache! He used to be bothered by backaches - and: tlred feeling? When he learned - What Irritation of the bladder and urinary tract ‘can reault In backache and lived feeling, he tuuk Dodd's Kidney Pilla, Smavt man, Dild’s Pilly * atimulate the kidneys ta help relleve the condition causing the Backache and tired. feeling: Soun he telt. better rested better, If you ‘are bothered by backache, Didd's Kitney Pills may help . Announcement “ammagat concRETE PRODUCTS cis6n Lr; . Mr. Warren Nesbit, President, takes‘ pleasura -in announcing the sale of the company, together with - * Skeena Concrete Products in Terrace and: Prince: - Rupert, to ‘Ocean Cement’ Limited of Vancouver, _ There operatioris. will continue. under their present . names and for. an Interim ‘periad under the.man- . og 1 ‘ you, too, Yuu can ‘depend on Dodd's," ei