, = RUPERT STEEL & SALVAGE LTD, } ( TeRRACE-KITIMAT | — webu. |. ; COPPER. ’ BRASS 2 ALL METALS & BATTERIES re ea . MON. ° SAT. os . OPEN TIL & p.m. Location Seal Cove Phone 624-6639) | Votume 72 No. 153 Wednesday, August 9, 1978 100 Register arrives. in Terrace For Suzuki Piano Gourse Terrace is hesting the only Canadian Suzuki Piano Centre August 14 to 19, at the North West Community College. The course will include piano lessons for students with Haruko Kataoka of Japan, teacher training classes, parent orientation classes, and two evening concerts. The guest teacher, Haruko Kataoka, has been teaching internationally for several years, and is associated with the famed Dr. Suzuki, whose innovative teaching in Japan revolutionized violin playing during the 1950's. Mrs Kataoka after a week-long An inquiry has been or- dered into the death of a Kitimat woman who died suddenly in her home on turday. Christina Mary Smith, 55, . Was taken from her home at No.l Ochwe Street to the Kitimat hospital at ap- proximately 1 a.m. where ae FR ™ Counter services in the Terrace Post Office will change.to @ five-day-week operation starting Monday, t 21, says Terrace’s Acting Postmaster, Tom Jennens, Although the counter will be closed, My. Jennens noted that the box lobby hours will remain unchanged, and that Saturday mail will continue to be collected, processed and dispatched, He said full retail postal service would be available on Saturdays from Lakelse: Pharmacy, 4717, Lakelse, and that stamps are also available on that day from Riverside Groceries, 1998 Queensway. Mr. Jennens said the eldsure of Saturday retail counter service at the Terrace Post Office haa come about a thé reault of a atudy which showed the Dr. J. MacKenzie. Apparently the woman was having a snack and had complications in swallowing. Coroner D. J. Murray, of Kitimat, ordered the and Kitimat RCMP are sitll investigating. - * Office Cuts B 5-Day Service Tom Jennens and Scott McDonald revenue generated on a Saturday did not justify the post office staying open for the day. Postal stations in Van- couver changed to a five- - day-week operation last summer, Mr. Jennens said, and post offices ina number of interior communities CF followed sult earlier this year. When Terrace and ten other Post Offices in nor- thern B.C. make the change to five-day-week counter service on August 21, Jen- ners sald, they will make a significant centributlon to the reduction of overhead costs, Collectively, they will alice $30,000 off the area's annual operation coats when Saturday. morning retail costs are dropped. ott McDonald, Public Affairs Officer for the Ochwe Street was broken into on Sunday and thieves got off with two packages of meat worth about $10. Kitimat police are reminding people that if they gre going to be away for any length of time to make sure. all doors and windows are ack T eo ee See neg Ce REG Bam Reg got B.C.and Yukon Postal District was in Terrace, Tuesday, to introduce the . new five day week operation to the staff here. Asked when the vacancy left when Terrace post: master Al Sandercott was transferred .i0 Port uitlam last June, will be filled, MeDonald said a second competition to find a suitable applicant would first have tobe held. Ag yet a date has not been set, Meanwhile, the acting postmaster, Tom Jennens from Nelson will be covering off the postmaster vacancy in Terrace. McDonaid had no comment to make when asked what differences to the northwest B.C, region the’ proposed changeover fo a Crewn corporation from the present status as a federal government department, would come about. Sea at investigating a report of a missin 198 Dodge three- quarter ton truck. w. The truck, belonging to Duane Herbert of Kitimat, was taken from theold Jance towing yard on Tuesday. Hews Release From Jim Fulton “MDP Gandidate i) Canada. owned Export -Develop- ment Corporation,” sated a1 Fulton, the June closure "| Part would direst the 1 » Jim Fulton, federal NDP candidate for -Skeena, sald that a staggering 40.6 percent drop in capital expenditures on metal mines is expected this year according to Statistics “This enormous fall is tied to the present and proposed lending schemes of the federally Fulton, - ..Desplte harsh criticism from across Canada John A. MacDonald, chairman of the EDC, has indicated that the loan of 1 billion dollars to Panama may well go ahead, These funds would be used for the development of a forelgn copper: mine, which will benefit eastern Canadian manufacturers, (through exports) but harm the B.C. copper industry and economy. ..“In light of these palicy manoeuvres,” continued of Granduc Mines at Stewart is an early war- ning of further mine closures here in the Nor- thwest, [Falling copper prices due to ill-founded Liberal pollcies will create further unemployment.” ..“The New Democratic billion dollars earmarked for Panama into a long term diversification of the metal industry In Canada. This would create new jobs and =. strengthen the faltering mining and ex- ploration sectors.” 624 Fires Burning Terrace continues to set new weather records ag the summer goes on, Arecord for rain over a 24 hour period set August 5 and 6 when 71.8 millimeters fell on the Terrace area, The previous record was 31.2 millimeters set in 1955. The monthly average for the area is 56.6 millimetres. . BobRowson of the Terrace Weather Office adds another temperature record was broken as well. On August 2 the mercury climbed to 32.6 degrees breaking a record of 24.3 degrees set in 1961 and tied in 1965. Meanwhile, B.C, Forest Service officials are quoted in a Vancouver paper as ' saylng they are “‘sitting on a powder keg,” with 645 farest fires reported burning in the province. 2,000 firefighters, 25 water bombers - including 4 borrowed from other provinces, about 100 pieces of heavy equipment and dozens of helicopters were attempting to deal with the situation with some measure of success. Fire officials reported all but one per cent of the fires were under control, Tuesday afternoon. Officials declare they are most concerned about. the ‘potential situation with the forecast for - another’ five days of hot, dry weather in southern B.C. Added to this is the threat posed by a major electrical storm off the northern California coast — expected to reach B.C, y. A forest service official was reported stating that he did not know just how long the men and equipment will be able to stand the all-out strain on their resources that has been: thrust. ipon. the. tunService-by one of. the-worat fire seasoris ih recent years, already been spent on B.C. forest fires so far this year - treble that of last year. The province-wide ban on all campdires is still in effect. Even though record rains were reported in some parts of the Prince Rupert Forest District, there were atill 1,100 men fighting forest fires there at last report. With the large number of unemployed registered at the employment offices, and the thousands who have been laid off through the shutdown of the logging companies because of the high fire hazard, there has been no difficulty, to date, in : ting persons to fight the fires. In the state of Washington, south of the border, 1.5 ‘I million acres of forest have - been closed to the forest . industry because of the tinder-dry conditions there. Prisoner Captured Terrace RCMP captured an escaped prisoner from the Prince George Regional Tueeeay taening. early mi ; Acting on a tip, police at 6:30 a.m. in a private Apartment building on Lazelle Avenue. Demeria was not con- sidered dangerous, and reported]y went along peacefully when arrested. The man was placed in a local cell before being transferred back to Prince Georg Dogs dead from heat after race PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) — The death of two husky dogs marred this Okanagan elty’s Peach Festival last weekend, The two dogs from Pentic- ton’s sister city of YellowknifeMonkey and Hitler-died from heat prostration after pulllng a summer training cart through the festival’s parade in 36-degree heat. . “Heat prostration is not a pretty thing,” said Randx Manvel, fookeaman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ‘'They really suffered.” Manuel said the animals were left for an hour and a half in a bot asphalt area before the ‘ade, Their owner forced them to con- tinue the 2.4 kilometremarch after they collapsed one third of the way to the finish, he said. _OT ganizations. “each Almost $7 million has | . arrested Raymond Demeria . Riverb oat Days. PROVINCIAL L IBRAR Y PARLIAMENT BLOGS Miss Prince Rupert, Gloria Macarenko, joined Frank Donahue, VICTORIA BC president of the Centennial Lions, at Monday’s Casino sponsored by the Centennial Lions for (For more Riverboat Days pictures, see page 6). _ Kitimat Hospital Considers Organ Bank, Meals On Wheels An Organ Donor ‘ogramme has been set up the Provincial Govern- ment, consolidating the programmes of various terested ina specific part ar the human)’ Government programme anyone wishing to donate eyes, kidneys or other. organs on his death simply signa an authorization card which he carries in his wallet and places a small décal on his driver's license, which instructs medical personne t search for the authorization card, There is no formality to withdrawing from the programme - it is only necessary to destroy the authorization card. he medical staff of the hospital is extremely interested in this programme and has invited a team of spectalists from Vancouver to visit Kitimat and provide further information on the programme, ip- themselves. to: have a ho! Leg ape eto ay It The hospital is in vestigating participation ina Kitimat pacity gramme to enable peo tinable to p meals for Wea pnt SE ag” This is intended to improve eating habits, which will in turn improve general health and allow people to live on in their home surrouadings rather than having to enter an institution. The programme is fun well in many British Columbian communities, including Terrace. At the Board of Trustees meeting held July 26th the operation of the hospital Emergency department waa discussed, This service is not Intended to deal with routine problems which are nor- mally treated in a doctor's office and which are causing some over-uze of the service. When injuries or sudden acute illness occurs, par- ticularly at night or on weekends, a telephone call should be made to the Emergency department to enardinn te tik ) rn ey a VER ep peaseee Ce tne Society membership should be increased to be as representative of the community as possible. To promote membership, a desk has been set up in the City Centre mall. The an- nual membership fee is $1.00, _ Discussion continues on various pleces of equipment to improve services at the hospital, in particular a computer-operated chemical analyzer which will cost some $20,000 and an infant transport incubator costing $8,500. , Also under discussion has been alterations to the emergency department and repairs to the roadways. “Transfer Of P.0. to Crown Corp. -. Long Overdue, Says B.C.G.E.U. VANCOUVER - “‘Tran- sferring reponsibility for the Canadian postal service to a crown corporation will decrease dramatically the probability of labour- management confrontations. in the post office,” B.C. Govermment Employees’ Union General Secretary John Fryer said today. “] find it absolutely in- credible that the workers in the post office, represen by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, were forced to mount the kind of cam- paign they have in support of this proposition when all they wanted was to negotiate basic working conditions. “It’s about time Trudeau recognized the need,” he ted fortunate something continued, “it's just un- wasn't done years ago.” “We believe such a move, in this instance, is absolutely. necessary”, he said, “and management of the postal . service by a crown cor- poration wiil allow CUPW to negotiate more effectively with the employer." Historic Touls, Totems. Lifestyles Featured at Terrace’s Mini-Museum hy Frances Stanley Terrace’s new mini- museum, located on Keith Avenue, is displaying a number of different items throughout the months of August and September. Included is an exhibition of stone artifacts from the archaeological excavations at the Kitselas site. - Stones from which “choppers” are made are called cobbles, and these tools Include knives, projectile polnts, scrapers, and an adze. This display was returned to the Terrace Museum by the National Museum of Canada, Another new display is a twelve foot totem pole, carved by Horace Stevens from Greenville, Nass River. It is called the Pole of Sharp Teeth (Shag-Gaw-Wane) and is a replica of a pole which stood at the village of Gitika for over sixty years, but which is now in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It was eighty-one feet high and weighed several tons. The figures on the are illustrations and heraldic emblems, portraylng traditions and mythical adventures of the ancestors of the clan to which it belongs. Horace Stevens used no electric tools or sandpaper on this, his first large pole. The mini-museum has & selection of toola used in earlier years, when work was done by hand or horses. Perhaps a viewing of these tools will help you better Appreciate the machines of y. In addition to having displays of ploneer lifestyles, there is @ section native Indian heritage. “This in cludes the many paintings done by students from Kitamaat Village. Thia art is based on traditional Nor- thwest coast designs, but includes some _ totally original work. These peintings will be on display Terrace until the Labour Day weekend. Correction In Tuesday's edition of THE HERALD, we in- correctly named the student nurses as the booby prize winners in Monday's Bed-a- thon. The actual winners were a group of students from Canada World Youth who are in Terrace for the summer as part of an in- ernational student ex- fe program.