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Parliament has now
recessed for the summer
and will not resume sitting
until October 12th.

IN RIDING
I will be spending mast of
the recess travelling

throughout the riding and
meeting with the people of
Skeena. These travels will
include a trip up the
Stewart-Cassiar Highway in
early August and visits to
the Burns. Lake and
Smithers Fall Fairs.

My office in the House of
Commons will remain open
throughout the summer and
I will be in contact with it
every day. If you: have a
problem you wish to bring to
my attention or if you wish
to meet me when I visit your
town please write to my
office. That is the fastest
and surest way to leave a
message for me and I wili
get in touch with you
directly within a day or so.

NEW HORIZONS -

J am pleased to announce

that ‘a grant under the New

* Horizons Program has heen

awarded to the Queen

EK

from Ottawa

Charlotte City Senior
Citizens Association for a
project entilled ‘Sunny
Charlottes”, The grant, in
the amount of $8,298 will
enable the Queen Charlotte
City Senior Citizens to
furnish and equip a lounge
and smal kitchen
designated for the use of
senior citizens in the new
Queen Charlotte City
community hall. The
Association also platis to use
part of the grant to organize
and run a community
library and start a sccial,
recreational and crait
program.

This is the second New
Horizons grant- that this
Association has received
and they are to be
congratulated on their
initiative and enthusiasm.
The revious grant,
awarded in 1973, was in the
amount of $3,540.

The New Horizons
Program is administered by
the Department of National
Health and Welfare of the
federal government and
offers grants to groups of

vay :
The Four-Way
Test

’ Of the things we
think, say or do.

Is it the TRUTH?

is It fair to all
concerned?

' Will it build GOOD

WILL and BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be
BENEFICIAL
to all concerned?

lona Campagnolo,

retired people who will
undertake activities for the
benefit: of themselves and
others in their community.
For further information on
this imaginative and useful
federal program, please
write to me care of the
House of Commons, Ottawa,
Ontario KiA 0X2. No
postage is required and 1
would be pleased to assist
you in making an ap-
plication.
A.1.B. WORKING
Much has been said about

the Anti-Inflation Board in’

recent months and about the
government's efforts to
reduce our rale of inflation.
Most of this commentary,
however, has been* rather
negative and has focussed

.on the objections of certain

groups to the wage and price
guidelines. .
Much more evidence,
however, indicates that the
anti-inflation program is
working and is being sup-
ported by the vast majority
of Canadians. The most
recent figures from
Statistics Canada tfor the

M.P.

month of June) show in-
flation to be running at an
annual rate of 7.9 percent,
below the government's
goal of an 8 percent inflation
rate by October.

Recent figures released
by the Anti-Inflation Board
also indicate the great
extent to which Canadians
are supporting this
pregram. Between the
establishment of the Anti-
Inflation Board last October
14 and April 9 of this year,
2,304 labour contracts have
been negotiated and sub-
mitted to the A.B. for
approval. Of these, 2,115 or

$2 percent have been within |

the A.1.B.’s guidelines,

As with most things, it’s
the same old story, The
small number of exceptions
receives the attention, while
the vast majority which are
in accordance with the
guidelines have been all but
forgotten. But the figures
are there. Canadians do
support the anti-inflation

program and because: they ~

do, the program is working.

Amazing misadventures of McFoisy |

Game Warden Lawson
battles his arch-enemy
Oscar McFoisy in this series
of articles explaining
regulations affecting B.C.
outdoorsmen. Prince
George Conservation Of-
ficer Doug Adolph, of the
Fish and Wildlife Branch,
sheds a humorous Hght on
the sometimes unknown
risks taken by those not
familiar with the law.

The Statute
. Section 10 of the: Wildlife
Act states that:

“No person shall possess
or wantonly take, injure, or
destroy a bird or the nest or
egg of a bird.” .

The Incident

There were really only
two thoughts in life that
Oscar was possessed with,
and one of them: was. to
capture the egg from the
nest of a bald eagle.

It was not by coincidence

that just a week previously,
a worker from the telephone

company reported the loss.

of his climbing spikes and
lunch pail, so Oscar was
well equipped for the ad-
venture, while. the ex-
citement of success and a
half bottle of Porch Climber
flowed through his veins. —

From Osear’s viewpoint
at the top of a 300-year-old
Cottonweed, it was im-

ssible to see Lawson (the
ocal Conservation Officer)
standing behind and below
him with binoculars fixed on
a huge brown and white
object flying suspiciously in

_ Oscar's direction.

Lawson had been on a
patrol of Bald Eagle Flats
that day and was curious
about a man silting in an
eagle’s nest at the top of a
100 foot tree, in drizzling
rain, carrying an empty egg

OTTAWA
and Small
Business

By KENNETH McDONALD .

Coopers and Lybrand,
the well-known chartered
accountants, wrote re-.
cently; “If one accepts
that taxes - in any shape
or form — area cost, either
af doing business or simply
of tiving, then this coun-
try's current efforts to
combat inflation are a
cruel hoax.”

Taxatlon is the price of
_ government services and
unless the price of them is
controlled at least within
the same limits as wages
and salaries and profits,
then everyone's disposable
income is reduced,

Municipal property tax,
sales taxes, gasoline taxes,

customs and excise duties.
income taxes — unless
these are’ used to provide
additional services. their
imposition reduces our
abilily to buy other goods
and services, if business
profits are held back while
income taxes on existing
‘profit levels are increased,
business income is reduced.
The same with wages and
salaries. Yet the tax effect
is concealed by the device
of excluding the cost of
government services from
the cost of living ‘index
which is used to measure
inflation,

_ Ottawa is fold of shift-
ing the blame for spending
to the provinces, and it
cerlainly has a point.
Between 1975 and 1976,

carton.

The only photographs that
Lawson was able to take
during the next few minutes,
that were in focus, were the

~ ones showing the inevitable

confrontation between a 140-

pound poacher and a 40° th

pound mother eagle.

A spokesman from the
emergency ward attributed
the minor nature of Oscar’s
injuries _to the branches
slowing his fall, the
cushioning effect of the roof
of Lawson’s pickup and the

fact that luckily, he landed:

on his head.

Oscar McFoisy had done
it again!

The Adjudication

Qne of the windows of
Court Room ‘B’ cracked
when the judge described
his displeasure at having
Oscar stand in front of him
again. . oo

Oscar stared at his feet

sales taxes increased by-
14 per cent in Nova Scotia,
25 per cent in Newfound-
land and 40 per cent in
BC. Corporate income tax
rates rose by eight per

eent in Newfoundland, 15
per cent in Manitoba and
HC; and 20 per. cent in
Nova Scotia. A new 20 per
cenit surcharge in Mani-
toba brings the rate of
provincial income tax. in
- that province to 51° per
cent of Federal Basie Tax
on taxable Incomes over
$20,000. For self-employed
. persons in Ontario, the

provincial health premlum ~

has been Increased by 45
per cent. In Quebec it has
gone: from .8 per cent of
income to 1.5 per cent, an
increase of 87.5 per cent.

__. Municipal property taxes
are shooting up. With 55
per cent of them going to
education, teachers’ union |
settlements of 20 per cent

when the Judge pointed out
that eggs and nest are
fundamental to the welfare
of all living things, Too
many have been .en-
dangered or lost as a result
of man's need to possess

em.
Animals and birds are
hard pressed as it is for
survival, considering loss of
much of their habitat to
man’s encroachment and
the perils of living in a
chemical world.

Any thoughts that Osear
had about the judge signing
his leg cast were soon
forgotten when he was or-
dered'to pay $300 in fines for
the offence, .

So don’t be an Oscar

MeFoisy, it just isn’t worth,
it

Let's see what kind of
trouble Oscar stumbles into
next time.....

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Taxation — too high a price

and more: are -working
their way thraugh in taxes.

The Canadian Fede-
ration. af Independent
Business is undér conti-
nual pressure from mem:
bers to seek reductions in
government spending.
There is no question it
must be reduced, -but
when whole communities
are dependent on social
spending ef ane Form or
another, sudden cuts
would be disastrous.

What is needed is an

- unequivocal commitment
from Ottawa and the pro-
vinees ta reduce govern-
ment spending, over a five
year period, at a rate
corresponding to increases
In spending in the private
sector. The two must
move in phase - public
reduction, private increase
- if Canada's social, and
economic fabric is to be
preserved,’ a

_it.will

This riverboat, made by a Skeena Secondary School
student in 1969, seen at the Provincial Museum Train
was a reminder the Lions Riverboat Days will be held
in Terrace this weekend. The parade starts July 31 at

letters to the editor

Boy

Dear Sir:

Boya Lake Provincial
Park seems to be in the
news media a lat lately. In
case you aren't familiar
with this park, it is located
approximately twenty-five
miles northeast of Cassiar,
B.C. The locals of this area
know it as Chain Lakes,
Some people think that the
development of this land by
the local people throughout
the years has damaged the
environment and is also
preventing the public from
using many of the attractive
areas along the lakeshore.
This is not true.

Why is the Parks Branch
so worried about the en-
vironment? When they
develop this land into a park
as any other park.
The trees will be cut,
pavement and gravel

oured over the — wild

lawers and the pollution af
the waters. I don’t think that
the peoplethat are using the
land now are going to ruin it
any more than when the
Government puts in a so
called improved park.

I lived in Cassiar for
approximately one year in
1972 and have been visiting
the surrounding country for
the past eight years. The
lake and the thirty-five odd
cabins and house-boats
there is the only recreation
that the locals have had for
years. This
developed for and by the
locals and tourists. The
Lions Club Campground and
the Picnic site was
established by the people of
the communities for the use
of the residence, school

children, and. visitors. It

opened up the lake and the
country. The people of the
north have opened and kept
up the land and net the
Government. If it weren't
for the places already

established and _ the.

hospitality and -deter-
mination of these people the
park wouldn't be as well
used and patrolled as itis ow
or will be. Also there has

‘been nothing stopping the

tourists to come and.use the
campgrounds and beaches.

Why since 1965 when the
land was proclaimed as’ a
provincial park weren’t the
owners of the house-hoats
and cabins asked to relocate
somewhere else? ‘‘The
inaccessibility of Boya Lake
in the past prevented the
Parks Branch from ef-

fectively supervising the.

park and implementing the
Park Act as it relates to
these unauthorized con-
struction projects.'’

This statement is false. If1
can drive a Datsim on these
roads there was nothin
stopping the Parks: Branc!
from driving their trucks.
How did all the so called

‘unauthorized = construction
‘get built if there Were no
proper roads? The ‘people

who have these placed. use
them for holidaying twelve
months of the year. I know
because I've spent
Christmas, Easter, and
summer vacations there.

The Government knew of
the construction on the land
when they staked it out as a

_ provincial park, eleven

land was.

years ago. To get into the
park Jand to stake it they
ad lo use the roads that
were made by the local
people. Authorization must
of been given to the people to
there. None has ever
stopped | them from
developing the land. Letters
have been sent to the proper
authoriteis regarding the
use of the land and there has
been no reply. The people
should of been told that they
couldn’t build and use the
land along before now.
There is nathing else for

.the local people. Most of the

places are not accesible by
road. A skidoo or boat is
needed. The roads that are
accesible to some of the
cabins are forty feet down

the side of the mountain and |

unless you pack and walk

down the only way to get to”

them is by using a four-by-
four. When it rains or snows
then even a four-by-four
won't be much use to you. So
how are the tourists going to
enjoy most of the lake in
their trailers and campers?
Also, how is the Parks
Branch going to keep the
roads in good condition
twelve months of the year?
Are there only going to be a
few camp grounds at the
south end of the lake that
are easy to get to year
round? If so why will
everyone have to tear down
their places? Why not make
the park a Class “C”’ and
only move out the one cabin
at the south end of the lake?

The average tourist wants
somewhere that is clase to
water and easy to get to. Not
someplace on top of a hill to
camp and then have to drive
halfway around a lake to
ick up and drop off a boat.

ow many southerners
want to swim in a lake
that .has northern tem-
peratures? Their children
weren't going to enjoy the
swim because the water is to
cold.. There is ap-
proximately ‘two weeks of
the year if that, that the lake
warms up enough to have a
comfortable temperature
for swimming.Also unless
the lake is stocked there
won't be the dreat fishing
that people are bragging
about, There are other lakes
and rivers that could be
develaped by the Parks
Board, For example Dease
Lake, -_Dease River, Sim-
mons Lake, Airplane Lake
and Good Hope Lake. Why
just Boya. Lake? As [
suggested before, make
Boya Lake into a Class “C”
Park and develop the other
lakes so people have more of
a choice to visit. If this park

isn't kept up as most of the -
sites aren't on the -

off roa
way up there, there is going
to be bears in the garbage.
This isn’t very safe for any

camper.

I believe this to be an
injustice lo the people of
these northern
‘munities. One can’t destro:

and take away ail the work.

and years put into building
and enjoying these cabins
and. house-boats that these
people-have. Let the cabins
etc,, stay and if someone
should want to sell out and
leave the lake let the people
of these communities have

at 1 p.m, at the arena.

first choice and then the
Government.

The completion of the new
development at Boya Lake
Provincial Park will not
enhance recreational
potential of the area. For the
locals will not suppor! this
area as much as they have.

The only way we can help
these people and others who
will be in the same situation
is to raise our voices. [ hope

Dear Editor,

The statement in your
paper dated July 14, 1976
regarding the late Dudley
Little is laughable where it
states that he was the first
white child born ‘in Terrace.
_Jobn Smith was the first
white child born in the area
that was the Village of
Terrace in the late spring or
early summer of 1913. The
first white child born in the
area and in the District of
Terrace in Apri] 1909 was
the late Jack Frank. Jack
was given a silver cup from
the settlers in the area at
that time. I believe the in-
scription on the cup is “the
first white child born in the
Kalum Valiey”’, The mother
of Jack still lives in Terrace
in. the Senior Citizens‘
Home. Others beside myself
who were born in Terrace

Terrace is terrific? ©

Dear Editor:

] have lived in Terrace for
about three years now and
have never seen a more poor
excuse for a community in
all my life! Mast of the
people here drive as if they
got their licence in a
Cracker Jack box. People
never signal their intentions
and a lot of people just don’t
drive with any common
sense whatsoever!

Another thing is the very
high rate of theft and

Frank b

9:30 a.m.; the Outhouse Races begin at Furlong Bay
August 1 at 1p.m.; the Bicycle Roadeo begins at |
p.m. at the Safeway Parking lot and the Casino begins

a Lake action urged.

you hortherners and
visitors from the south will
help us to let us keep the
recreation we've enjoyed
for so long. I’m an ex-
southerner and now a
northerner and am _ very
concerned about the way the

_ north and B.C. is being run.

Please help.
Thank you .
Anne Sevin
Terrace, B.C,

orn first

before Dudley were: Frank
Green, Janet Young (Mrs.
J. Felber, Terrace):
Dorothy Frank (Mrs. Earl
Smith, Terrace) and Elsie
Finley (married in Van- >|
couver}; Dudley was bornin .
1914. .

I do beliéve the Sate
Dudley Little did a lot to get.
the new bridge across the
Skeena but was well paid for
it. It is regrettable thal he -
did not live to see them .
completed. The- naming of:.
the bridge after him was.
strictly a political gesture. .

As a suggestion, wouldn't”
it have been better to have~;
named the bridge after a.
pioneer who received little :
or no renimeration for his °
or her efforts to beller the”
community. s

Yours truly
Kenneth Kerr ;

ol

damages done to homes and .
businesses ‘here. 4
Another thing that is quite
maddening to see is people.’
walking right in the middle '
of the road while thére is a
perfectiy good sidewalk to
trek on, Why is it that the
Terrace District did ex-
tensive paving last year and,
have done nothing: this

year? Could it be political
_slrive for

last year's
paving?
A very fed-up citizen

com-.

Wrong salesman.

“Skeena Health Unit
wishes to inform local

currently selling heatth
literature door-to-door in

residents that it has no’ tis area, and identifying

association WHATSOEVER

with individual(s} who are

themselves as represen-
tatives of ‘Public Health’ or
‘The Health Department’.””

ELAFFor ane WEEK I