LEGISLATIVE LEBRARY, PARLIAWENT BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, B ! TERRACE a dail T erald a VOLUME 72 NO. 44 20¢ FRIDAY, MARCHI 3, 1978 Kermode 78 Gears For Festival Kermode Theatre '76, the Provincial High School Drama Festival, is scheduled for Terrace May 17-20, 1978. The festival will see students and teachers from. around the province coming to take part in workshops and perform for the general public. Under the chair- manship of school Trustee, Elaine Johneon,. Kermode Theatre '78 is shaping into a great drama experience for Award winning student plays from seven regional drama festivals will come to Terrace to be performed ea nightly May 18 to 20 at the ._ R.E.M. Lee Theatre. Known as the “Showcase”’ ‘these plays will be ad- judicated by artiatic critic Kelth Digby and technical critic Norman Young, These provide further insight into - the production for audience and players alike. - Three professional groups will perform through the - week toadd to the festivities. “Loot will be staged by the Playhouse Theatre from Vancouver May 17 at 9 p.m. Special afternoon per- ’ formances from 3:30- 4:30 in school gymnasiums will be done by Santo Cervello and Jan Booth, | - Santo Cervillo, well known for his mime work will do “Metamorphisis March 18 and 19. Ian Booth will do “‘Mark Twain in Person” the same day as well, Amowng the workshop session offered by theatre specialiats are mime, acting, voice, speech, movement ‘musical theatre, staging, directing and make up. Sixteen top theatre per- sonnel will do six.2% hour workshops over the three days. . Several hundred students, teachers, and workshop people will converge on Terrace for the festival Representing schools of all paris of the province from . John to Langley, Nanaimo to Kimberly, they tered . Many ho! in local hotels -and many have requested billets. _ - All meals for ‘all’ par- | ticipants will be looked after by Mr; Augie Geeraert from - the Terrace Hotel. These meals willbe served in the Skeena gym, : Kermode Theatre -'78- promises to bring great live theatre entertainment for May 17-20. George Barrett Challenges Bennett call a provincial election or stop making inflammatory statements, ; Bennett said Monday he might consider calling an election if the New Democratic Party continued its eriticiam of the Social. _ Credit government. The premier called the NDP “‘the enemy within” for pre- dieting the province will end the year with a deficit, | - Barrett told a news confer- ente that Honnett has: - “eremted ‘au’ aly of eeonbmic-: uncertainty In the province: by. threatening an election, as he did last fall during. an emergency ‘session of the legislature. oo The NDP leader sald this” uncertainty, in conjunction with the government’s plan not to introduce a budget for the 197879 fiscal year untll | after the year has begun, has done: more to hurt the economy than opposition criticism ever.could.. He denied he predicted the provincé would. have a deficit. Barrett said he was merely quoting from Elaine Johnson-Drama Coordinator Statistics Canada figures the present government. when he said It appeared B.C. could end this fiscal year on March 31 with a deficit. Barrett said he feels the government will end the year with a balanced budget, “The fact is that they are a failure,”” he said. ‘They govern by threat without any clear direction whatsoever,’ The NDP teader also criti- cized the government for not due to its economic ex-\ allowing the number of pertise but because it has ernment of W, A. C. Bennett, ‘who is the current premier’s father. 0 WON'T PREDICT: |... Rarrett, said. bp.would not stability, the lea ip and the action necessary «to remedy the province's economic ills, -. He said that one initiative be would take would be.to launch a massive .em- ployment program for youth to give them “at least a sense of direction.” - Barrett said that in general, -Bennett* irresponsible and childish statements were yet another indication of the weakness of ta ing et thet ofveny:,; a ro in Eton, ‘but that his party ek ‘would be able to provi the — - unemployed to increase to _ 145,000, a large percentage of .. « but the evidence is strong enough for (some) link,” be said. . oo a The B.C. Police Com- mission disclosed on Tuesday that the increase in‘ the number of crimes from 1976 to 1977 was three times greater than the. increase from 1975 to 1976. Barrett also sald that about 400 employees of the | ‘ public works ministry were. told Wednesday they may arriy : have towail up to six months ed. or longer. to be given new Bomb-Hoaxer Charged ” PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — A 20-year-old Prince man has been in connection with a bomb threat at the Prince George senior secondary | school in June. ; John David .Young ap- peared in provincial court Wednesday charged” with intent to alarm by conveying a telephone message he knew.to be false. Bonnita Jones said she re- Terrace Library ‘by Michael Collins Your public library has 90,000 books, subscriptions lo - over 100 magazines and- adie ase pamphlets, recottia, maps, and people who are here to help you get what you want. . Here are some recent acquistions to the lbrary: The Immigrants By Gloria Montero. Montero has in- terviewed over 400 people who came from all over the world to make a new homein Canada. This interesting. account reveals the hopes, disappointments, ‘dreams and achievements of a broad . Spectrum of new Canadians. Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. This is a not 80 new . - book in a new edition, Farley Mowat describes a real wolf, an animal that man has hunted and destroyed - and: some of the old myths which led ta man's slaughter of the proud species. - eae to 6D persons attended the one day Bookeeping seminar tthe TerraceHotel, Wednesday, red. th by the Federal b ‘Small business bookkeeper”’-many of the women, from “‘the ,. frome: todpm, usiness Development Bank. rt of businesses where the wife of the owner does the a res ne renee MS At ge oe LP td i ing" came from Telkwa, Smithers, Prince Rupert, ceiveda call June 14 from a who said there was a bomb in the school. The... school was evacuated but no bomb was found. ; He is to appear in court March 9. City as classroom: By Marshall .“McLuabn, - :/ McLauhan takes another look at our fast changing civilization and has written a “text book’ about some of:- the things that make up 20th century man: _ radio, television, automobiles and coniputers, to name a few.. The Library is open. from toam-8pm Tuesday to friday, 10am-Spm‘on Saturday a. 2pm-Spm on Sunday. jobs with the government. The ministry is being scaled down because the new. B.C...]- ‘Buildings Corp.. has taken over most of its responsi] bilities. ; “Leaderahip? -Hogwash," |. he said. “'Cynicism? Ab- solute.” ~ As well, Barrett criticized the government for failing to - take any action to:-save the town .of Stewart, . whose . copper mine is closing. One juvenile was arrested after Terrace RCMP. were | ealled to a fight at. the Terrace Recreation Centre at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. night, mes over to his parents, Two other juveniles. left the scene before police . Shortly afterwards, police received a -report that Thornhill Discount had been. broken into. No details on that break ond enter were available, but police were ‘continuing = thelr" in- vestigation. .- . Aunit at the Ree! Inn was broken into. and culprits attempted: to. steal a television set. The attempt “was un- “guecessful, and the would-be thieves escaped before ’ police arrived. “An altempted ‘auto theft was reported ‘at -about 10 - pm. A resident on Straume Avenue started his vehicde and went inside his house while the car warmed up. A person got into the vehicle, but did not drive off. Tweniy records and $2 were taken from a trailer in Sunnyhill Trailer. Court at about ‘2 a.m.- an Entry.. was galned by smashing a rear window, «.” ‘and ‘terrace; but mostly from Terrace. Mike Kartasheff, manager of. the Terrace branch cf £208 was host to the assembly . The Seminar was orgainzes) by Bill Haslam, Bank Management Services (norleading). officer, from ‘New . Westminster, guest speaker at the day-long event was Al McApline of McApline and Co,, a local Chartered Accounting The youth was turned — .dty is expec “1877, Assistance Cheif Roseboom left and firemen Ray Tremblay ho morning. Aa sing down the log deck at LH&K pole yard ihursday tana firemen arriv will spend $18,500 this year to . determine whether con- trolling wolf populations ‘causes caribou herds to _increase, a _ branch spokesman said Wednesday. ’ . Mike Chambers, regional information officer, said the * SSOPTAWA (CP) “The: ‘Committee for an In- dependent Canada (CIC) called . Thursday for: - guarantees to provide a min- imum Canadian content in the Alaskan natural gas pipeline. compare caribou calving rates with a control group in the Kawdy Plateau area where wolves will be left alone. Both study areas are 150 kilometres northwest of Telegraph Creek in nor- thwest Britlsh Columbia. the special Commons pipeline committee, the CIC ‘paid it fears benefits to Canadians will be un- dermined without solid guar- antees on jebs and materials. «©: . Airport losing $700,000 | -. PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — The airport in this ‘eentral British Columbia ted to lose $700,000 this fiscal year. Airport manager John Williams said Wednesday the operation has a budget of $1 million and will take in $800,000 in commercial fees. Williams said while air- ports in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are expected to show a profit because of the amount of traffic they handle, smaller airports do not have that opportunity. Prince George airport havdied about 75,000 lan- dings and takeoffs during - with —280,-000 tasheff expressed firm, Similar seminars are belng held in Kitimat ( on March 20nd.).Prince Rupert, Masset, Cassiar, Stewart, Hazelton. The attendance was greater than ex himself as pleased with the strong: passengers passing through the facility. . Maintenance costs at the" airport are high due'to the severity of winters, Williams said, He said Transport Canada - doesnot expect the airport to turn a profit and that the official stand of the federal government is that they “recover costs maximum,"’ “We're hoping we can con- to the _ tinue to increase revenue by bringing incentives in woarketing,”” he said. The airport now leases space to local advertisers, Williams said, -and this service willbe expanded, * f pected, and Mike Kar- response the seminar had received from the people of Terrace. . : cagancna Nige Sith, Sas gee BA ae ry hE aes 88 : in big game populations and. help ‘the branch set more realistic bag limits in the - area, | He said strychnine baits buried in the Level Mountain area will be recovered .. Dotneatic steel companies could compete with those from other countries, but there was a danger the other firms could get aid from | their home governments. Mitchell Sharp = (L— Eglinton) said Foothills has announced it intends to parchase all its steel pipe in . Canada, but that guarantees would tle its hands In ne- gotiations with suppliers, He felt a government agency overseeing the contracts would be sufficient, ‘to. protect Canadian. in- terests. . Dr... Robert Page, who represented the CIC at many Fifty Chickens ‘and . two ducks weredestroyed ina fire in Thorhill Tuesday night when the building they were housed in burned to the ground. . , «Thornhill Volunteer Fire Department received the call at about 11-p.m. and arrived at the homeof David . Gibson at No. 3-2087 . proof that wolves kill caribou calves. . - He said the study, part ofa budget -for northern B.C., will begin. with a careful count of caribou populations. ‘Committee for independent Canada wants guarantees” -- In‘an ‘appearance before’ ” of the hearings leading up td-. the pipeline decision, said he also is concerned over the powers held by the agency... The legislation allowed only limited appeal of agency rulings, ‘“‘an un- Canadian restriction on individual rights." «. He said he would favor a suggestion for a committee of MPs to oversee. the’ agency’s Work, ce There also was a need for a second inquiry into the social, economic and en- vironmental Impact of the pipeline which will stretch — from Alaskan into the lower. 48 states. ; ; Firefighters Find 52 Fowl Fatalities — Queensway, 9 The fire , department's response Was quick, but the. call arrived too late to save the structure, ooh The fire was apparendly caused by a wood-heater. .” The chicken house was insured, butno costestimates were available. me $46,000 predator control ©