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Shout a little louder

During an election campaign speech
in December, Councillor William McRae
said that Terrace should do more shouting
in Victoria, that we should have a man on
Victoria's doorstep pleading our case just
as often as possible. .

Perhaps Councillor McRae has a point.
Northern Municipalities seem to get lost
in the shuffle when it comes to equitable
tax sharing. Governmerit officials in Vic-
toria know Terrace is here. The maps tefl
them so, the liquor sales tell them so, the
school taxes tell them so, and the stumpage
rates tell thern $0,

All we ask is a little more acknowledge-
ment of our existence. Victoria could show
this with a more equitable system of school
cost sharing, with a much lerger slice of
the recreational pie, with a stepped-up
mining development plan with some sec-
ondary, industry research and albeit with
a much better highways system and gen-
eral upgrading of transportation facilities.

At the moment Terrace District Muni-
cipality is extended to the financial limit in
its efforts to see to the service needs of a
fast growing community, Costs of operating
our schools are budgetted so carefully that
School Board officials are known as “tight
squeeze artists.”

Our pioneers worked towards the day
when people could reside in this section of
the province, not only with pride, but with
comfort and contentment. We are still
working towards that same day but is it
really any closer now than it was in the
time of our pioneers?

The work must go

IN {TS 20TH YEAR of service, CARE
is helping to feed more than 37,000,000
hungry people on four continents.

_ To victims of war and disaster, CARE
brings food for survival. To victims of the
ancient cycle of poverty, disease and ignor-
ance, CARE brings food as a tool far build-
ing progress. School lunches turn listless
children into alert pupils Daily milk saves
pre-school youngsters from permanent phy-
sical and mental damage. Family and hos-
pital meals give health and energy to the
sick and undernourished of all ages. Foad-
for-work projects yield economic impro-
vements., ,

A recent editorial in this newspaper
pointed up the merits of establishing school

- taxation Industrial zones so that commun-

ities such as Terrace and Smithers might
be more equitably sanved when tax sharing
time rolls around, ~ ’

The idea was offered as a solution to
the problem of rising school operational
costs. .

We think the ‘zoning’ idea might
prove equally as effective in other areas of
our economy. Recreational facilities are
sadly lacking in this area and the main
reason seems to be a shortage of opera-
tional funds.

It is our feeling that a lot of tax money
is wasted in our province. Money that
might well be used to subsidize such things
as arenas, libraries; community centres
and cultural céntres,

For example the B.C. Centennial float
in the Rose Bowl Parade at Pasadena, Cali-
fornia, cost this province $30,000.

The ice plant in the skating arena that
Terrace one day hopes to have, will cost
just about the same amount. We wonder
which is more advantageous to B.C. — a
million and one faded roses or 3,000 heal-
thy young people?

Yes — Councillor McRae had a point
when he said we should shout louder. Sim-
ply electing a man to represent us in the
Provincial Government is apparently not
enough — unless ‘of course he can shout
louder than the other Members and com-
mand the ears of a somewhat indifferent
Legislature.

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Donations of farm abundance are the
mainstay of this vast endeavor. The coun-
tries help too: Over the years, CARE has
developed Partnership Programs whereby
local governments wherever possible pay
all or part of the costs of bringing these
foods to their needy.

But the lifeblood of CARE’s work is still
the individual donor who acts out of com-
passion and good will, to help others less
fortunate, For millions of the hungry, the
CARE donor is the only source of hope.
It is the donor’s name and ceddress, pre-
sent with the CARE package, that gives it
warm meaning.

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PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE, and dutybound to
Floyd Frank, Leon “Bud” French, Harry Smith, William McRae ’
gentlemen are pictured just prior to being officially declared members of Terrace Municipal
Council in a special ceremony conducted by Magis

TERRACE "Omineca” HERALD |

the taxpayers of Terrace,

and Harry Tupper.

(staff photo)

are the Messers
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trate C, J. Norrington Monday evening.

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A_CENTENNIAL FEATURE

Vengeance - seeking Indians,
friends of a murderer who had
suffered frontier justice from
Hudson's Bay Company agents
at Fort St. James, captured a
young company clerk in 1828
and threatened to kill him. But
they accepted a gift of supplies
— anstead and the clerk was freed,
» Thus James Douglas was spared
to become the first governor of
the mainland colony of British
Columbia. ;

Born in British Guiana in 1803,
this son of a Glasgow merchant
entered the fur trade at 15 and
later married a factor’s daughter
of Cree descent. While serving

Our Sounders

SIR JAMES DOUGLAS —

as an accountant at Fort Van:
couver on the Columbia River \
he rose to the committee of man*'§

| Wednesday, January 5, 1966

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agement and was sent to Van-

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eouver Island to establish a fort |

in 1843. This was the founding '
of Victoria and ultimately the. |

colony of Vancouver Island.

He succeeded Richard Blanshard ,

as the Island colony governor in

1851 and in 1858 became the.

governor of the mainland colony, §

holding both offices until 1864

when it. was felt each colony

should have its own authority. ,

Retired and knighted, when the §

colonies were joined in 1966, he3
lived only another 11 yéars and

was buried at Victoria.

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