52 x 12. SAFEWAY. DUTCHESS
bedroom | —: ‘completely furhished.

“Western Trailer Sales
West of Skeena Forest. Products, Hwy 1¢ *
; Phone 635-6584 ~ ~ Terrace,’ BC.. be

L.

| TERRACE HERALD,

Si Tait dere toMy Sn Voy orto iBetih Coheed

"Wednesday, November B, 1967.

jit could be Terrace truck

| What's 5 big, red and.

| goes across Canada?

Tt was just an idea — tosned in at adjournment — — but -

{t gaught 0 on like wild fire,

Reeve A.F, Goulet and at least
four Municipal Councillors went
home from Tuesday night’ s meet.
ing of Municipal Council coining
Terrace promotional slogans,

One of them may be festooned
across Terrace’s new Silvere
line fire truck when it makes a
homeward trek across Canada’
next April,

Fire Chlef Andy Owens will
go to Quebec to pick up the new
‘fire truck, but onty after cone
siderable discussion in Munic«

ipal Council as to the savings|_

involved in such q Sojourn,

It was finally agreed that driv.
ing the unit home would be more
economical than paying the eight.
or nine hundred dollars required
for freight,

A way in the news gallery suge|-

gested the Chamber of Com.
merce be invited to create 6
‘banner for the firetrick and
2 Reeve Goulet said: ‘That's a
me darned good idea, we could pub-
: licize Terrace right across Care
t ada’?
| Slogans like: “Folow the fire.
truck —the fire’s in Terrace,
B.C,’*, “There'll Be A Hot Time
in Terrace”, “Terrace ~ The
Hattest Development Area inCan

ada" and ‘Smokey the Bear is
Driving This Truck'’, wore tos.
sed in by Councillors and visit-

ors to the meeting.

“The Herald : - suggestion ‘is:
“Learn — Don't Burn — This
Truck Cost $33,048,”

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change.

S, G, Patterson, B.C, Teles
phone’s District Manager, said

connected at the time of the cute
over,

He said B,C.. Telephone has
spent more than $70,000 to in-
stall the portable switching cen-
tre and related customer and
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more than 1UU customers were! =

. the,
men ‘who live in Skeenaview Hos-

+ Government's Hospital,

Four residents of Skeenaview Still awaiting visitors.

tains -again,:
"| mornings make a person. ela

No on
© Skeene

This is the story of the lone-
liness of 309 old men,
It has neither beginning nor
end, It is a constant state
punctuated by the ritual of meals
and sleeping,
lt is the loneliness of

pital, a place with a eye.com.

| pelling view of-a town which |’.

does not seem to care,
A little strong maybe? But
that’s the way I feel after tak-
ing a’ tour of the Provincial

I went. up there at the invi-
tation of the psychiatric nurses
who staff the hospital.
They want to do something
more: for their patients than the
crowded eight hours of care they
put in each day

Maya Van Weston, the altrac-
tive nurse who showed me the
hospital, put their problem.
succinctly, :

“These men have no visitors
at all,
of volunteer visitors,”
That's. the -purpose of this
column, ‘To see if it can reach
the good people in the community
to invite-them a uitile time toa

practice In British Cotum

A. ensure safety and sanitation
: REGULATIONS APPLY TO:

GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA —

REGULATIONS GOVERNING
PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS

ALL PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS in British Columbia are affected by new Regulations,

| @ In addition tc general safety features in the planning and construction of pools, the -

ie Regulations covar such important points as adequate visibility, satisfactory bacterial. .
quality of water, absence of graasy and slippery poolside Surfaces rand ‘the avallabllity.
of attendants and lifesaving equipment. . alos

m@ No “FILL-AND-DRAW” pool (that which does’ not provide. a continunus sun6ty at clean .
water) will be authorized. - ve

@. Existing fill-and: draw pools must close by January 1, 1969. ; . : :

w Naw pools must-be designed by a professional engineer or: architset, registered tor,

bla. *

@ Writtan consent by the. Medical. Health Officer in the area is routed to: build a new.
pool or to alter.an existing one. :- , .

@ The Medical Health Officer tor the area is the approving authority,
@ The Regulations provide penafties for infractions. .
NEED FOR NEW REGULATIONS ™ °
Many new publie swimming pools are being built in British Columbia particularly ing con _
junction with hotels and motels. Regulations are required so that construction of all public ae
swimming pools will meet authorized standards of SAFETY ‘NO HYGIENE. ..
PURPOSE OF NEW REGULATIONS Te
To provide adequate standards for the design and operation o of ail ‘public swimming peats to :

- neglected old men

By JOE. 2 CUNNINGHAME

We have to get a group}.

| don’t. quite have the capacity to

mal visitors,’?:.

‘|-their time in skdlfnl woodwork-
found - in ong. of the big recrea-
have the motivation if they follow

oe the Christlan ethte and believe |

e visits
aview S

contact with the outside world

the hill,
; a

What could a yolunteer do?
-..“"They could start by talkingto

sald,
“They could play checkers or
chess with them, even readaloud

out.in & wheel chair,”’ .

‘and just a diive in a car,
“These men hardly ever get
to sea‘a parade," shesaid, ‘The
only time they get downtown. is
when ve drive them in our own
cars,’ Woe
. ¢ @ @ :

You don’t have to overlook the

hospital.

ing types of patients, ©

There are the odd Napoleons
surveying . the
archiés of their own minds, - .

There, are the Sick, the infirm,
and old men whose memories
wander,
But the: majority ave “people
without any obvious quirks, They
are there because they’re old,

take care of themselves, because
no one else in this wide blue
wonderiul world ~except the
Skeenaview staff. gives a soli.
tary damn about them. ~~.
‘listen to what Maya ‘Van

need personal contacts. If only
someone would adopt even one
of these old men and make him
& personal friend,”
"We look atter their personal
needs but this. can’t replace nor-

This is. not . entirely. a sad
story,. Some of the men pass

ing, pottery, making quilts, even
reading newspapers, . ,

-But the sight that made me
‘want to:write this. columin was

tlon rooms,
' Seventy. men sat in chairs,
There Waa no conversation, : They’
all. stared. into space, ‘It was
Bie a Srotesque Vegetable gar=
on,
. Some of the church -groups
could help, They should at least

diiduls who just want
omething for their fellow
“Could ‘algo--do the job and

Humans bigger sooner now

Boston radiologist finds

Man’s growth rate has been changing in the last few
centuries,
The onesyear-old infant of today is seven per cent taller
and 12 to 15 per cent heavier than his counterpart in the
. 19th century, says Dr, M,H, Wittenborg, Boston radiologist, .

peanut

“How wonderful tosee the moun-
Nice, ‘crisp - sitiny.| -

to be alive. ge says. herel)

Watch tor tt Coming soon!
A public auction. of unclaimed
items and court exhibits: If the
Terrace RCMP storage area be-
comes any more congested be-~
fore the sale, we can only guess
what might-happen to policemen
and prisoners alike. PS, Pro-|'
ceeds go into the Munielpality's
General Revenue, «

Guess who? 4 who in the AT
erican Book of Who's Who, most
recent edition? Catherine .M,
Fraser, that’s who. Catherine
M. Fraser is publisher of the
Terrace Herald, and one of not
too many Canadian women listed
in the book,
* e +
The Herald steadfastly refuses
to believe the rumor being most
gleefully spread by the ungodly,
that Terrace Rod and Gun marks-
man, Ed Hinz, had an unsuccess-
ful encounter with a grouse re-
cently — at a range of 15 feet,
Impossible}
s e e .

Yes — to all those who have
been wondering whether or not
I managed to make the grade
with the driver’s licence, I. got
onel It was tough going, but I
got onel So be on the aleri—
there’s a ‘brand new menace

“A taste of |

local
high as four votes In the forth

t butter

he road, we
ee

’ Pisase Mr ‘Muntelpal Super:
Jntendart’ of Eublle Works, could
‘we-have pedestrian crosswalks

where it.is intersected by Scott’ .
Avenue? The apartment area: ~
to the ¢ast of Kalum hag. close.
to 100 . youngstera | attending .
‘school and they often have tiroub-
Te getting acro4s Kalum Street,
e

- Story. goes “that Frank Howard; ‘
MP for Skeena, will appear onthe
American guess who panel show,:

we'll never see the film. clip
but tft would be teresting eee:
e panel manages -to
him. They did okay with ead
LaMarsh. . .
« ‘e ee.

If anyone is wondering what
happened to this sticky fingers:
corner last week — it’ just: gO
lost in the last minute abuffle,.
Guess nobody missed it either, *.
because the 480,000 phone calls
I expected Hitzzoner, jhe «to

receive, simply
erialize,
e * @«
. The tenant aid resident elector

business is great, but. it has
its “not so great” aspect as.
Well, It means that some of cur
voters are entitled to as.

coming Municipal. elections, : °.

group of old men whose only :

is their nurses; and a view from|

fact that Skeenaview is a mental | .

unreal mon-| .

Weston has to say again: "They|:

the “patients,” Mays Van Westeny*+ h,

to those whose eyesight is poor.) -
“Or, on a nice day, take them '

Its. four wings represent vary-|.”

with hotels ‘dnd motels,

standards set by these Regulations.

HEALTH. BRANCH

@ ALL PUBLIC SWIMMING FOOLS, Including those bullt and/or operated in onjunetion
- Operators of EXISTING public swimming povis have until January 1, 1969 to meat tha. ;

- @ Pools in APARTMENT HOUSES and. PRIVATE HOMES are NOT. considered to be public wn
swimming pools and are NCT. governed by these ragulations, a
These REGULATIONS GOVERNING’ PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS. were: authorized by: the -
Lieutenant. Governor in Council on August 2h, 1967 under provision of the HEALTH AGT.

DEPARTIENT. oF HEALTH seis AND’ corr INSURANC E
oe ‘ S

feceive the gratitude of the old |’
mon whom. the. world wants ‘to
forget.

She ‘also mentioned bus rides];

his is 1967, ‘time you started ‘your lifetime. olay.

fiom: dishes with’one of today S great new automatic

oy

. Forget everything you've » heard about dishwashers
up: till now: that dishes have to be pre- rinsed. and

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the drying, Dishes are washed ‘hss
water hotter than your hands: beslpe stand! .

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: ‘The: hospital: could use- news-
‘papers: and magazines — ii most.
languages. because’ Skeenaview
‘has’:-Mmany - nations. _ represented
among its people,

4 |: If. you should decide that, after
: all, Yyou-do' belong to thé human

|| race,’ give Maya Van Weston. a,
“fl | call, at 635-55 79,. She can handle I
‘tthe details from thers « i

‘| Tot: ‘more mate into’ oe

de then: any. aaleay. ena bays —

painted on North ‘Kalum Street.

“To Tell The Truth", Odds are.