The new bridge across the Skeena River was named Skeena from 1940-72 and was the first white person the Dudley Little Bridge, Friday by Alex Fraser, “Metal Shop-ttd. born in, Terrace. The new bridge over the Skeena River is now called the Dudley Little Bridge after Dudley Little, the late Social Credit MLA for Skeena from 1960-1972, Little was the first white person born in Terrace. Alex Fraser, minister of highways, said during a meeting at the Terrace Hotel Friday, the Skeena River Bridge is ‘not the right name for this fine structure.” He said of Little "T never met a finer guy.” The name of the original Skeena River Bridge has been left unchanged although the bridge itself may shortly be going through some changes in appearance. * Department of Highways the staff informed reporters department is presently making studies of the bridge for the possibility of putting steel decking on it. The study deals with the un- derstructure of the bridge which will have ta be redone to provide for the decking. Department figures show the bridge is still being used by 12,000 cars per day which is more than the highways staff had anticipated. The bridge has stood up well for the amount of traffic that i OL Alex Fraser has gone over it, according to one department source, and has only dropped in use by about 50 percent since the Dudley Little Bridge. was opened in November 1975. Fraser, who was ona tour of the northwest, gaid he was in the area to assess the highway needs of the region. Following this assessment he will -be deciding what needs to be done and when to o it. a PROVINCIAL LIBRARY PARLIAMENT BLDS. VICTORIA B.c, Fraser said the financial “squeeze is on” in Victoria’ and there is ‘‘not enough money to go around.” He has $250 million to maintain and rebuild highways and’ roads, he said, and to make - roads out of “traiis" such as the Stewart-Cassiar road. He said he has committed, the department to paving five miles of road to Kitimaat Village. He left Terrace Friday afternoon to travel the Stewart-Cassiar read through Telegraph Creek and north to Whitehorse to learn what work has to be done on those roads named after Little He said the improvement of the roads north of Terrace are important to get the economy moving again. “This area has been sludied to death,”’ he said, ‘‘and it’s time for action....for the economic good of all our citizens this has to happen.”’ He added it was urgent for the government to upgrade the road to Stewart into a better class road and recalled the old Social Credit philosophy of government providing the transportation systems and letting industry provide the necessary jobs. Council denies hospital request Terrace District Council turned down a request from Mills Memorial Hospital at its Monday meeting to pay $250 toward the cost of repairing the pavement where the hospital put in a storm sewer line on Tetrault. According to the municipality the District of Terrace agreed to allowing ‘the contractor hired by the minister of highways. Littie (see insert} was MLA for oa. VOLUME 70 NO. 28 herald WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1976 TERRACE, B.C.. REALTY LIMITED RK AVENUE hospital to diz up Tetrault if it would do its own patch ving. A letter to the District of Terrace says the hospital is having a great deal of dif- ficulty with the disposal of storm water from the Hospital Site, particularly the lower portion. “The end result of the discussions is that the hospilal has had to allow $77,500 out of a fixed budget foregoing other things from its program to obtain ser- Council goes to committee Terrace Jaycees will have to wait until the matter of the 1976 Trades Fair Arena rental goes to a Terrace ‘District Council committee - and their request ‘for the rental to be waived is given further attention. The Jaycees made the request to council in a letter received at the July 12 meeting. It says ‘‘we propose that the rental of the Arena in the amount of $1325 during the 1976 Trades Fair be waived in lieu of the electrical wiring hook-ups which have been per- manently installed in the Arena.” The work done-by the Jaycees cost $3500.86 and council wondered if the Jaycees would again request the rental be waived inlieu of the work done after the 1977 Trades Fair. Council cannot waive the rental but it can give a grant in lieu of the rent, . Alderman Jack. Talstra, acting mayor during Gordon Rowland’s holidays, broke a tie vote which permitted Eileen McGhee, a Terrace taxpayer, to attend a committee’ mecting to decide if a water line at the corner of Dairy and Norlh Thomas be extended to her property line. McGhee said she owns property which consists of two blocks of land; one block has a building on it and one block is undeveloped. She said. at’ present sub- division is beyond con- sideration and she wishes to sell her house and build another house on the un- developed lot. She added lack of water is holding up her plans. Aldermen Gerry Duffus and Mary Little voted against allowing her into the committee meeting while Aldermen Sharon Biggs and Helmut Geisbrecht voted to have lié¥ “attend” the “meeting. Talstra said in breaking the tie "I believe I have my ear to the ground” and “I think this community wants more input into coun- cill...which is the people's council.” He added allowing tax- payers into committee meetings was one of the best ways of getting input from the public. Council turned a request from the Golden Rule for $2400 a year over to the committee level. (See the letters to the editor column of this issue for more details.) : Since the new Social Credit government has. dropped its support of the Terrace and District Community Resources Board many of the services offered by the board have ceased to receive funding. The Golden Rule was formerly supported through the Resources Board but is now left to its own resour- ces. The property at 5010 Graham Avenue will not be - rezoned light industrial from rural. The request was from a moving yan com- pany which wanted to establish headquarters on the property and was planning to use the building ior a warehouse. . After receiving public input at a public hearin June 28 council decide against the move. Increased cuttings There has been increased activity in ‘the cutting of sawlogs in the Prince Rupert Forest District this year compared to the'same period last year,- according a June forestry report, The report says the Catal| in forestry cuts to June 1976 is 124,945,677 cubic feet compared to 117,777,689 cubic feet for the same period in 1975. There were of Cedar cut;.6,071,986 cu, ft. of Spruce cut; 8,420,634 cu. ft. of Hemlock cut; 3,345,167 cu. ft, of Balsam cul; 232,965 cu. ft. of Fir cut; 9,491,021 cu. ft: of Lodgepole Pine cut and 393,147 ecu. ft. of miscellaneous timber cut in June, 292,965 cu. ft. ~ Foo ‘Western Canada’s East Indian community dancers delighted the audience at the Folkfest In the R.E.M, Lee Theatre Saturday. The dancers received the Jensen appointed to NCC program Northwest Community College recently hired John Jensen, of the Kitimat- Terrace and District Labour Council, as program developer, coordinator and instructor of the NCC labour program. Jensen says the program will be developed to give the working people of the north- | west a chance to better themselves and unions. The rank and file and special interest section of the program deals with apprentices; young workers, federal employees, Natives, women’s role in unions, white collar workers; knowledge of rights and obligations pius municipal, school and hospital boards. The general interest section deals with orien- tation; labour history; job stewards: Parliamentary rocedure; public s abour law: labour'’s role ‘society; Workers’ Com- nsation Board and UIC; abour's image; political education and retirement. Credit courses include, bargaining, organizing, political psychology, t education, leadership; peaking G ; their gu advanced grievance procedures, arbitration; journalism, research and communication plus claims and appeals procedures. The program begins this fall and presently Jensen is travelling throughout the northwest informing all the John Jensen unions in the area about the NCC courses. He says he is presently waiting for feedback from 90 different locals across the - same kind of enthusiastic applause they will no doubt receive when they perform for Canada at the Olympics later this summer. northwest and adds there are 10,000 people involved in these unions. “Most programs are available to belter the in- . dividual and the employer,” he said, ‘this one exists to better the individual and the union.” Jensen, whois a carpenter by trade, has devoted 4 good number of years to the Trade Union movement and to the betterment of the worker in general, ac- cording to a letter sent to the unions. ‘ “The program will provide educational services to union members, stewards and officers in fields that are relevant to the bet- terment of individual members and locals, in the complex world that the trade union movement must function in, whether it be concerned with the actual - daily business of unions suc as bargaining, grievances, stewards’ and officers’ ‘training or their relationship with other unions or the community-at- large. Jensen is interested in members, address, phone number, name of contact, hearing from unions the name of their union, local number, number usual meeting place, whether they wish him to attend their meetings and when and do they presently have courses, seminars, lectures that they would like to have and what they are. He . said from management's point of view “labour education is not a bad thing” and the program can be geared to any union or anybody. * He said one example of how the program will help peaple is the retirement seminar which will provide information lo people who are 65 years of age but who are not financially or psychologically ready to retire. It will show them how they can plug into the gavernment programs. Jensen says anyone wishing to contact him about the program should telephone 635-6511 or wrile - to him at Box 726, Terrace, B.C. of: vices which it might have - expected the municipality to provide,” the letter says. The letter says the hospital cannot afford to pay the cost of repairing the $250 job as “hospital programs are unwilling to share in the cos! because itis off-site and wouldnothave shared in the piping cost either had they noticed the work included in the mechanical contract. Under the circumstances it would seem only reasonable for the municipality to arrange and pay for the paving repairs.” Council said when it was preparing its budget for 1976 it told Mills Memorial Hospital Board it would commit funds for some of the off-site work needed at the hospital but the board apparently refused because they were working on an earlier schedule and could not wait for the money. Council then budgeted its money in other areas. Aldermen Gerry Duffus and Mary Little, the municipal representative on the hospital board, moved and seconded to refuse the hospital the cost of repairing Tetrault Street. Jaycees receive Doug Misfeldt and Wayne" ° Braid were each presented witha Jaycee senatorship at the Annual Jayeee In- stallation and Awards Night Saturday, July 3. Both have been in the Jaycee’s organization for a number of years and were given the special awards on the basis Doug Misfeldt of their outstanding fine work in the club. ‘Wayne Braid has been with the Jaycees since he joined in 1967. He was Vice- President of the Kitimat Jaycees Club in 1968-69 and again in the next term, 1959- 70. He moved to Terrace the year after and has been with the Terrace organization ever since. He became the Terrace Jaycee President for the 1970-71 term and was the Regional Vice-President the year after. Doug Misfeldt joined the Jaycee Club in 1968. He became the President of the Terrace Club for the term gq senatorships 1971-72 and later was the Regional Vice-President for the Pacific Northwest in 1974-75. Senatorships in the Jaycee organization are given on the basis of out- Standing personal achievement and con- tribution to the club. The local unit from each town submits the name and a resume of any applicant. An international Jaycee Board (covering over 39 countries) then reviews the ap- plications and awards the senatorships. A senatorship Wayne Braid entitles the holder to life- time membership in the international organization and is one of the highest awards given to a Jaycee. The Jaycee Club has been aclive in Terrace for more than 26 years —. Wayne Braid and Doug Misfeldt are the second and third win- ners in Terrace of a Jaycee senatorship in that time, Alcan studies Mexico A contract has been signed between JALUMEX S.A. DE D.V. and Alcan Project. Services Limited, for the latter to carry out a detailed feasibility study for the Mexican Government on the proposed 150,000 metric ton per year Mexico- Jamaica Aluminum Smelter to be located at Coat- zacoaleos, in the State of Veracruz. Negotiations have been in progress on various aspects of the smelter for about 18 months, The study is already underway and scheduled for completion by October 1976. No decision, either by Jalumex or Alcan, has been taken yet on subsequent technology, construction or equity participation in the smelter. ode Be te on ee re Pa men”