Page 2, Tha Herald, Wednesday, September 12, 1979

Terrace trade tour a success |

BY DON SHAFFER
Herald Staff Writer

The Pacific Northwest has
long complained that the
Lower Mainland's financial
moguls have ignored the
area, Now , they may no
longer have any reason to
complain. Monday the
Terrace-Kitimat area was
visited by a delegation from
the Vancouver Beard of
Trade, which was making a
swing through the northern
area of the province ex-
Ploring economic and In-
dustrial opportunities. The
visit to Terrace-Kitimat was
the first event on a five-day

_ itenerary, and according to Terrace, Kitimat, Prince _

Rod Cox, president of the
Terrace and District

Chamber of Commerce , the .

affalr appeared to be a
SUCCESS,

“The majority of the
people who came seemed to
be very impressed with the
area, and especially the way
the area has been developed,
" Cox said. I don’t think any
of them really realized how
well developed the area Is,
and Lf we've alerted anyone
to the area’s possibilities,
then we've spent our time

The visit and tour was part
of “Exploration North 79,"’ a
five-day sawing through

Rupert, Prince George, Fort
St. John, Dawson Creek,
tehorse and Fort Nelson.

¢ trip has an exhausting
schedule , during which the
group is liable to develop a
bad case of travel numbness,
“We were fortunate to be
at the beginning of the tour,
* said Cox. “After a while,
all the places they are going
are liable to run together.”
The Board of Trade
delegation was composed of
a select group of executives,
The tour membership llat
included . an honorary
chairman, nine company
presidents, twa  vice-
presidents, two general sales
managers, a national sales

manager, a B,C, government
representative and a City of
Vancouver representative,
as well as consulting
engineers and industrial
sales people. ;
The purpose of the tour is
to provide the members of
the Board of Trade with an
increased awareness of the
economic activities of the
communities which they
gia and the areas which
ey serve. The group hopes
to establish communication
with the communitles and
industrial centres of
Norhtern B.C. and the
Yukon, and to develop a
better understanding of the
people and their way of life.

“~The tour arrived at the

Terrace-Kitimat Airport at
6:45 am. and were then
given a bus tour of the
Terrace-Kitimat corridor
area, stopping at Skoglund
Hotsprings and the DuBose
Viewpoint to get an idea of
what this area had to offer.
The group, which also in-
cluded members of Terrace
and Kitimat municipal
governments, prominent
area businessmen and
representatives from the
Kitimat -Stikine Regional
districts, was split into two
buses, The tour of the
Corridor area and Kitimat
was led by Den Stewart,
Kitimat municipal planner ,

. and Kitimat administrative

assistant Adrian Jones,

From the viewpoint , the
tour went te Kitimat to look
at the golf course, From the
golf course, the buses went
through the service centre
toward Alcan. While the
buses were atopped at Alcan,
Kitimat mayor George
Thom presented the
delegates with gifts from the
Kitimate chamber of
Commerce, and he was
presented with a gift from
the delegation.

The buses then toured the
Eurocan dock, looked at the

*

service centre industrial
sites, and then cruised
around the ' Riverlodge
Recreation Centre. The
delegatys next looked at the
City Centre Expansion and
Arena construction site,
After a brief drive around
the upper level of the city,
through the Nechako neigh-
borhood, the group left
Kitimat and headed back
toward Terrace and a lun-
cheon put on jointly by the
Terrace Chamber of Com-
merce and Alcan.

During the luncheon in the
Skeena Room at the Terrace

Hotel, the delegation was.

welcomed to Terrace, and
Rod Cox was presented with
a plague for the Chamber of
Commerce.

The delegation left the
Terrace Hotel at 1:30 p.m.
and drove past Caledonia
Senior Secondary School and
the R.E.M. Lee Theatre.
The buses on the Terrace leg
of the tour were hosted b
Rod Cox and Alderman Bo
Cooper.

After
Lee , the buses went up
Lanfera Hill and up past the
Northwest Community
College. The group was
treated to a drive around the
campus, after which they
backtracked past Uplands
Primary School and down
Halliwell to the Skeena View
Ledge Intermediate ood
Home. Then groups stop)
there and enjoyed | the view
from the corner of Kalum
and Munthe and then went

‘down Kalum to the Arena
and Poo] Complex.

The buses were separated,
at which time one bus went

the Pohle Lumber
Sawmill, and the other went

to the top of Kalum Lake |

Road Hill and viewed the
Price-Skeena Forest
Products sawmill. The
buses. then met at the
Terrace Municipal Office,
where they were shown the

the pass by REM.

Borrie, Honorary Chairman
of Pemberton Securities
Limited, said he was im-
pressed with the prosperous
atmosphere in the Terrace-
Kitimat area, and the
“range of development
throughout.”

“I'm amazed at the
amount of land still left in

. timber between Terrace and

Kitimat, and at how wide
open the area is."

Thetour arrangers tried to
get the group exposed to as

’ great a range of industries

and development as they
could be, and they were
successful in dolng
that,However, this strategy
proved frustrating at some
points in the tour for certain
members of the delegation

Kas Tazawa, industrial
director of Nican Trading
Company, was frustrated at
one point by not being able to
get.a cloge look at the. Price.
Skeena mill.

“It would have been nice to
get in there and have a look
at the mill," he said.

Rod Cox acknowledged
that this was a hit of a
problem, but to get everyone
in and out of the buses
several times In the course of
the afternoon would have
delayed proceedings con-
siderably. “It is a shame
that they couldn’t have taken

~’ a bit more time at the places

we saw, or gotten cut a few

more times, buthadwe done {YPe

that they wouldn't have been
able to see half the things
that they did.”

All in all , the local
businessmen and public
officials were quite satisfied
with the results of the tour .
. Judy Jephson, from Park
Avenue Realty in Terrace,
said, “This type of thing can
do nothing but good for the
community,”

“If we make an Impression
on only one of these people
then the whole effort has
been a success, When these

Beer taken
seriously

By TOM HENEGHAN

FREISTADT, Austria
(Reuler) — The people of
Freistadt decided more than
two centuries ago that thelr
beer was far too Important to
be left to the brewers.

The 149 houseowners
within the medieval walls of°
this northern Austrian town
founded a communal
brewery in 1777, forbidding
all other beer brewing in the
area and making themselves
the directors of the town's
most prominent industry.

Now, 202 years and gener:
ations of small town feuds
later, the firm survives as
Europe’s only communally
owned brewery, a tunlque
enterprise that sells just to
it ome ee but
regularly wins m or
excellence in international
competitions. .

Communal ownership has
helped Freistadt, a town of
6,-£00 hidden in the rolling
hills between Linz and the
Czechoslovak border, keep
its own brewery while other
amali firms gave way to the
few beer giants that now
dominate the Austrian
market. . ;

Even the criginal building,
complete with apprentices
quarters and lofts storing
hope, ja still in use.

Strong local Interest

ensured that the non-profit

commune shick to the recipe
for |ts tart brew, a pilaner
close to the famous
beers of Bohe'ntees jobs

The townspeople all appre-
clate these advantages, he
adds, although they are often
divided over other issues,

_ “When there are 140-
owners, there are inevitably |

of small al
that effect the
ae

all sorts
disputes
commune,” says Schneide
brewmaster since 1952,
In one of the longest of
recent feuds, one resident
with a personal grudge
against several brewery
board members began

delivery system, but chaos
remained In other areas, The
ayerage annual ton
af about 40,000 hectolltres
dropped to 33,000 hectolitres
in 1977 while the normal
profitable enterprise 1
into debt.

When restaurant owner
Wolfgang Deim became
chairman that year, he
ataged a bicentennial
colebration and then in-
troduced an austerity
program, He also gave u
$4,300 annual salary to ire
the brewery's first business
manager.

Most townspeople
welcomed the more efficient
management but had to be

ersuaded that thelr
Fvidends should be atopped
for several years to help the
commune over its financial
difficulties.

admits that managing it
would be easler lf he could
make important’ decisions
without censulting his neigh-

bors.

“But this brewery is
unique in and wa
want to ati to our
traditions," he says, adding
that those traditions did not
stand in the way of the brew-
ery's gradual return to eco-
nomic health.

Although small changes’
have been made in the
commune's constitution over
the last two centuries,
almost all the original
statutes still apply.

Only the owners of the 149
narrow houses in Freistadt's
baroque ald tawn belong to

the commune. They elect a

board and tts chairman
every . and can
approve or reject all policy
decisions ‘at monthly
meetings,

ou, ban thabrewery pays out

dividends, the commune
members receive sums
figured in relation to the
number of buckets of beer

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