TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

HE WANTS TO BE EDITOR TOO. This brown
cat, obviously with an eye towards a journalism
career, wandered into The Herald office the
other day. Now, there are plenty of neat desks
around the office, but this guy headed straight

for our editor S cluttered desk fora cainap. (A
cluttered desk is a sign of the trade). He made
himself right at home while the editer was
probably having a catnap elsewhere—Staff
photo,

Trustees talk bu

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committee’s proposed budget.

Teaching supply totals, in-
cluding the Resource Center,
library books, music and
Zeneral total $154,000, up from
$124,000 last year,

And, did you know that school
telephones, according to the
recommendation, will cost an
estimated $5,500 in 1971? This is
up $1,000 over last year.

Of course, schools can’t be
without janitorial services.
Here again the school district
can't escape the cost spiral,

UP AGAIN

Some $207,500 is budgeted for
“present staff’? -- up from
$172,500 in 1970 while a further
$12,500 is budgeted for
“Estimated increase-new
units”, the same as last year.

Janitor supplies are
estimated at $19,000 for 1971, up
$1,000 from last year.

There are also necessary
items like light and power, fuel
and water to pay for.

Light and power costs are
estimated at $50, 000, up $5,000
from the previous year; fuel is
estimated at $64,000, up from
$55,000 in 1970 while water has

only gone up $1,000 to $11,000.

Strike talk echoing

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ment of strike headquarters,
apprising the school board,
telling public and non-teaching
employees of strike plans and
ensuring all teachers possible
are aware of the issue.

‘WON'T HURT’
Chen Wing said im-
provements teachers are

demanding should not cost
taxpayers any money,

“There is more than: enougn
money in the pension fund to
pay the improvements we
want,” hesaid. “The fund now
totals more than $165-million, is
growing by more than $18-
million a year, but pays out only
$6-million in pensions.”

“All we are asking,” said
Chen Wing, ‘‘is for the use of our
own money,”

Chen Wing said pensions for

ment-guaranteed bonds," Chen
Wing said,

He said a British Columbia
Teacher's Federation brief was

INSURANCE
Fire insurance costs, ac-

B.C. teachers are the poorest
teachers’ pensions in Canada,
“despite the fact that teachers
here pay as much into their
pension plan as any other
teachers in the country.”
PAY SIX PERCENT
- Teachers, he explained, pay
six per cent of the salaries into
the pension fund while the
provincial government con-
tributes on behalf of school
boards a fixed sum of less than
$20) a year per teacher,
“All the money is ad-
ministered by the government
and is invested in B,C. govern-

Building

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compared to 202 iast"year.
HOUSING

New housing starts, par-
ticularly were up, indicating a
booming construction business
over 1970,

Thomas’s report said 123
dwelling unit permits, valued at
$2,074,710 were issued in 1970.
This compares with only 83
dwelling unit permits valued at
$1,452,517 in 1969.

in the usually quiet month of
December, four dwelling unit
permits valued at $69,280 were
issued in 1970, compared with

.only one valued at $14,000 in
1969,
‘HEALTHY TOTAL’

Four homes consisting of twe
single family dwellings and a

‘Native son’
‘is born

January 4

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leg is still in a cast. ;

Among presents they will
receive from Terrace mer-
chants, include a blanket, infant
set, plenty of diapers, food, an
array of baby clothes and a
dinner for two.

Did Mrs. Wright think she’d
have the New Year's baby?

“It didn’t cross my’ mind,"
she said. “I was just tired,”

Mrs. Wright’s roomate in the
hospital, Mrs. Bill Sahonovich,
missed having the New Year's
haby by eight hours.

She had a son on December

permiis

duplex bring.’ this “years: con-~
struction figures to a final
healthy tolal,” Thomas said.
In 1970, he reported 30
alteration permits; 10 garage
and carport permits; 39
miscellaneous permits; 20
commercial permits; 24 in-
dustrial permits and six in-
stitutional permits.

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Automatic, Only 27,626 Miles

1967 Pontiac
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Kitimat

handed the government one
year ago outlining what he
termed “the inadequacies of the
pension Plan and calling for
several major improvements.”

Victoria, Chen Wing added,
ignored it.

“This year we are determined
our case will be ignored no
longer,”’ he said.

‘DRASTIC ACTION’

“Tf the government is not
Prepared to let us use our own
money, we're prepared to take
drastic action.”

Chen Wing added that the
average pension paid to a B.C.
teacher and his wife after 40
years of service is $294.40.

The teacher's association
president said that if the
Bennett government tosses out
- demands, 23,000 |.
teachers across the province
will strike;

“Teachers, he said, “have
been trying for years to get a
decent pension plan.”

“We've fallen so far behind
teachers in other provinces, and
members of the provincial and
federal civil services, that we
just don’t tolerate the present
pension plan any longer.”

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cording to the committee, will
come to $25,100. Last year, the
costs were $21,000. Liability
insurance is pegged at $3,500, up
from $2,650 last year.

One curious item is “Ren-
tals.” Last year the board
budgeted $300. This year's
proposal. for rentals is a mere
$150.

And, you can't let garbage
pile up. Garbage removal,
however, does. Its budgeted
removal costs for 1971 is $1,250,
up $250 from last year.

“Grounds, wages and sup-
plies” budget i is $35,000 for 1971,
up $5,000 from 1970. This in-
cludes paying $18,000 to the
grounds maintenance crew,
keeping up playing fields at
$7,000. Driveways and parking
areas have a proposed budget of
$5,000. So do, surprisingly,
fences,

GETS RAISE

and building maintenance at
$40,000 and, for roofing and
heating, $7,000.

The budget committee; ac

cording to the draft, expects.

replacement of equipment at
$20,000 and repairs at $10,000.
NOT ALL UP -
Not everything is up,
Transportation of students is
down. According to the
proposal in the “conveyance of
pupils account’, bus contracts

for this year will _come to.
$97,000, down from last, year 5.
Transportation

$99,000.
assistance has a budget of
$8,000, the same as last year,

Also to be approved is the

‘auxiliary services account”.

This includes $7,000 for health
unit charges; $1,500 for dental
clinic charges and $500 for first
aid supplies, for a total of $9,000,
up $1,000 from last year.

Last year $10,000 was paid to.

the Association of Retarded
| Children, \ There is nothing in -
this year’ 5’ proposed budget for.

such
. ‘However, $500 is proposed for
correspondence

ALLOWANCES
Student boarding allowances

are estimated at $15,000 ~ the.

same as last year,

In its “non-operating expenge
account”’,.the. béard will con-
sider $12,000 for adult education
this year. Last year it paid out
$10,928.

Alsoup are proposed textbook
rentals, The proposed budget

. this year is looking for $10,500,

compared to last year’s $8,000

Under “debt services,” the
proposed budget calls for a total
of $394,500 as oppased to $783, 000
last year,

get

courses.
| compared to nothing last year.

Office ,

Of this, $663,378 is propesed
for ‘‘sinking funds’; $100,455 for
“serial debentures"; $5,000 for
“term loans” and $35,680 for
“bank charges,”

“Other instructional expenses

-listed in the provisional budget

-are Hart Farm, $1,000; School
telephones, $5,600; moving
allowances, $21 500; travel,
$4,500; District Superintendent
Expense, $6,500;
professional improvement,
$8,500; teacher recruitment,
$8,000; salary negotiations,
$2,500; elementary supervisor
supplies, $2,000; Inservice
grants, $2,500; principal's
confererices and travel, $1,000;
student teachers, . $3, ,000;

Science films, $1,500; science

fair, $200: ‘miscellaneous
workshops, $1,000 and
miscellaneous requests to
beard, $800. :

Not only teachers got a raise,
So did the Maintenance
Supervisor. According to the
proposed budget, he will receive
$11,664, compared to $20,800 for

1970.

Total budget for “buildings”
is $125,000, up from last year’ 8
$112,000. Of this, $56,336 is
pegged for wages of the building
maintenance crew, materials |

Provisional budget adopted _

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ambulance service, interest
on term deposits and sundry
items.
BREAKDOWN
Out of this, Jolliffe said

general government costs

$185,000; police protection,

$370,000; public works,
$190,000; garbage removal,
$150,000; social welfare,
$174,000: recreation and

community services, $90,000;

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EMPTY CRAGMONT
SOFT DRINK CANS ©

Effective January Ist, 1971

‘acific Reclamation - Ltd.

— Will Give 2° Per Can On Every Empty Cragmont Soft Drink Can
Returned To The Depot Locations. Depots Are Located Throughout B. C.

Wherever Canada Safeway Stores Are Situated.

Provisional Depot Address Is

x kok On Brands In Glass Bottles Presently Stocked, Canada Safeway Lid. wit
Continue To Charge ‘And Refund 5‘ Per 26 Oz. And Larger Botties, Smaller. Sizes Below

26 Oz. Are. Not Seld By SAFEWAY And Will Not Be Accepted For. Refund, _Bottes In
This Category Should Be Returned To: Those Handling These

Smaller Sizes.

TOTEM BEVERAGES 5110 Keith Ave. Terrace, B.C. 7

No Deposit Has Been Or Will Be Charged By SAFEWAY — os
When Customers Purchase Cragmont Soft Drinks

Industrial and commercial’
development, $14,000; debt
charges and interest, $226,500;
capital expenditure out ' of
revenue, . $75,000; surplus,

$19,725 and council: eon.
tingency, $12,000. '