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Masi cians’

pay for band tour

Skeena Secondary Band ‘should
pave more musele than any other

Student musicians are gaining
the muscle the hard way, wields
ing shovels to clear snow from
roofs and driveways. They're
changing white stuff into green

And the money they get from
their labor must finance a$3,000
objective to send the Terrace
musicians on a five-town. tour
next April, * a

- Business ‘is brisk. in their
* thistiweek's - campaign; they’ al
ted 3450, 7 :

The snow shoveling project
is just one way. of raising the
tToney to have the town rex
bresented musically to Kelowna
and Penticton, —

The masterminds of the cam-
paign are the members of the
Skeena Secondary Band and choir.
Associatlon, They have two
money-raising ideas already, -

OOPS DEPARTMENT!

[Wasa bake sale which netted$70,

muscles —

The band will sell booster
tickets at $1 each in the coming
week, The booster ticket isn'i
just a contribution, it buys
admission to a later concert
by the band and choir,

‘munity Centre Wednesday Jane

uary 3l, again sponsored by the
association,,

"The Association at a January
10 meeting “formally endorsed
the tour itinerary, if the money
cen beeralsedh yt 4d ane

a lowes planer” bankd Tead

‘Cari R. Holden, Jr, - They hope
to give concerts. in Smithers,
Prince George, Quesnel, Kelowna
and: Penticton, and ending with
a jamboree for home-town folks
April 27,

There will also be a concert
in Terrace at the end of February,
-Another plan to raise funds

+4 e
fight sniffers

. Three Canadian manufacturers
of airplane glue are working to
fight the current teenage craze,
of glue-sniffing forkicks, reports
Hardware Merchandising. ;

‘One manufacturer is working.
on the development of afumeless
substitute; another is seeking
an additive which would cause’
sniffers to sneeze, cry or vomit,

The largest and. oldest of the
three firms is embarked ont a
preventive educational pr
in co-operation with the adie:
tion Research Foundatlon andthe
Ontario. Department of Health,
aimed at- helping teachers,
parents and retallers curb the
dangerous, sometimes fatal,
craze, :

Shaft hoisted
million tons

GLACE, BAY, N.S. (CP}- The
Dominion Coal Co,’s No, 26 mine
here is the only single Canadian |-
hoisting shaft ever. to bring |’
1,000,000 tons of coal to the
surface in a single calendar
year,
holsted 1,006,804: tons and
reached 1,000; 000 again on Dee,
19 of this year,

Cheese maker

TAUNTON, England (CP) —
A Somerset’ newspaper carried
an advertisement for a manager
to run a factory making the fa-
mous Somerset cheese, The fac~
tory is in Ireland,

“CANADIAN & ‘CHINESE FOODS. =

I Oper Monday ‘through Saturday,” 10 aun: to 1 a’
- Sunday, 10am: to 10

The above shovel-wielding people
were not gambolling on Olson's hill despite an addled caption
appearing beneath this picture last week, They are members

And there's bingo at the Com= |

Ged: Dodsworth ahd choir dircctor |

K did in 1986 when it 7

“snow remo

family thats’ Mattie Frank
end and Mrs, Tomas Marsh,

_ Terrace’

By Catherine M, Fraser .
‘It: 1s 60 years ago this May
that Terrace’s grand old lady —
Mrs, Mattie Frank — who lives

_ |in her cozy edttage on Lazelle §
'|=- steppedoffthe riverboat Port j

+ Simpson” on the ‘banks of the
Skeena River, into what to her
was the great unknown, and what
today is Terrace, -

amell: of the wild roses growing
on the river bank.
* With her four children she had

‘}eome wperiver from Port Es.

-Singtén to join her husband,
Henry | Frank at Kitsumkalum,
Thely . isolated one-room cabin

| home - was: reached by climbing

a switch-back:from the river."
bank-40 ‘the bench land —.where
Kitsumkali am ‘Cometery: _atands
‘today,

: Mattia; Fiank. wondered just

|. whet ‘was ahead of her as she|-
“| Wound: her” way ‘up the narrow | |
“path’ that’ “day ‘and listened. to} -
‘the’ ‘children’s. voiees as they!
: ‘echoed through: ‘the tall timbers,

/'a8- one of the approx.

‘imately 42,000 Terracites, Mrs,

‘Frank: marvels | atthe changes

‘that have ‘taken: place; ard looks
cback:, with: pany memories a8] }

ily” lived :for-a time in: Chem:
‘pinus, later. moving to-Victoria,

f. = travelling by ‘Salling schootte
o When: "Matte Was 12 years old|.

‘the familly moved to Claxton Can.
-nery.on. the Skeena” River and

. ‘eventually w Port Essington; :’ :
Mattle: was tharried to Henry o
‘Frank in. Port Eseingtoniin: 1900)",

“at the age of 17.

ank.movod ‘up-river to
“and tn; May. 1908

rchldren — i

of the Skeena Secondary Band and they're offering their’

ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON in 1908 the Frank
- and others visiting atthe home of the Rever-

‘She still: reealls the sweet [|

af + Mal with: her.” ‘mottier ot,
“| and: sister,’ ‘iamigratod. to Sloux|
“T) City, -Towa, : to. join her fathor,|.
Slewho was:a. boat’ bullder. The fams|:

r tol The comfortable way to travel. le Airride suispension
Mrs, Frank jotned:him, with thete| :
the youngest not; |

ving talents to finance a band tour to the Okanagan

in the spring. See story below.

loz cabin was bullt by ‘Dad’ Week (at left
with broom) and Henry Frank in 1905 on the
benchland where Spring Creek Golf Course
stands today, - :

holding the baby

where the first

‘church service was held in the valley, -The

Ss grand old lady

came here by riverboat —

er, - which was a mile up river
from where the . Franke Bros,
dairy* farm stands today, (Mré
wy Frank raised the first twocalyes

that started the dairy herd, that
is today. one of Terrace’s indus-
tries,)

Ih reminiscing mood Mrs,
Frank told me of those early |
days,

- “We soon settled down to our
new way of life; cooking on a
camp stove and baking bread in
a drum oven on the stove pipe,

“The mosquitos wereterrible,
too friendly for comfort, We slept
under cheeseclothatnightand had
sInudgas poing outside and under
the ‘table at mealtimes...

Mattie Frank — age. in May

i] of drinking drivers will’ reduce |-

‘) ua,

| ain’ under stiff new laws,

‘| by 42 per cent from the same

-| figures

| | if:

Hf the world has ‘been “nting|
for proof that. stricter. ‘control

way accidents “and ‘deaths,
then Britaln has brought 't to to

Why it should take prdot ° ‘iB

‘t beyond. knowing, but apparently |:

that’s the way, too many. people
want it.

On last October 9, breat
zera were put into use In Brit.

One month ‘later police were |
able to state with accuracy that |’

in Greater London had dropped
period in 1966,.

le killed in the same period drop.
ped by 34 per cent — from 82
to 54, _

Surveys conducted ‘throughout
Canada indicate that these same
‘would apply in this
country if Impaired drivera were
cracked down and —. and it. is
interesting to note that 34 per
cent of total traffic fatalities
‘In Canada in 1966 is'1,787 neop-
le, There’s many a town in our
country which doesn’t have that
| many people living in it.

Just what was-done in Britain?
Here it is, in brief.

The legislation which wentinta
effect October 9 empowered. a
uniformed police officer to take
a breath | test at’ the roadside

i] os Ss :
he had reasonable cause
to suspect a driver of having
alcohol in his body; or~ ;
he had reasonable cause].

cut tendon car.

the fatal and injury accident rate |.

In addition, the numiber of peop- .

paired drivers,

| alyzers and finally recommended |
on February 9, 1967, that the

to suspect a driver of. having]

Pub. ‘owners, : erit 80 ‘far as

‘to buy’ breathalyzers.” of thetrt a

own and: allow customers. (for
llve shillings) to test themselves
‘hefore. they left and make their
-own choice of whether or. “not
to drive, -”,
The net effect: was. that” far
fewer cars were seen on Lon-

'
So all right — ‘proof ‘it is, ‘fon's streets at night, and those|

were there were Inyolved
in 42.par cent fewer accidents,

Gives one to “pause; don't it
Gearic?.

Well, then, what's hoppening
in Canada?. .

At present, police. have found

dt so ‘difficult to prove drunk
driving charges that they rarely
lay one.
On the other “hand, impaired
driving charges and. ‘convictions
-have. become | 50 common that
dally newspapers ‘in major cities
only print them as.a-lst of
‘names, without details, “under. a
general court column, = = -

In other . words, police” are
hampered in attempts at enforce-
ment by a law which does not
have teeth in it, and the public
has become, apathetic. about the
situation, as reflected In. the
‘newspapers, ._*

And yet, hundreds of ‘Canad-
jana die on our roads and high-
~ ways every year because of im-

The Standing. Committee on
Justice and Legal. Affairs sat
for almost a year, heard count-
less ‘witnesses | on. the - subject
of drinking drivers and breath-

Criminet Code be amended to

of:,08 per cent-or, LYS:
‘a motor vehicle! 3":

:, Phat initial analysis: seal iBe :
made by breathalyzer, w :
‘sequent blood. of ‘urine teata tor

confirmation; and - ae

"That {t be an offence. for any
person to refuse to take’ such
a test If an‘ officer. has’ onise
to believe the person has «in-
Mitted an offence under’ the’ Hirst
‘section, 9 ae
The CHSC. has _been urging
Just such ‘legislation for-s Jong
time andpresentedextensive sup-
porting material to the Justice
and Legal Affairs Committee last
year and this, And we:had some
solid support from. ‘other. import.
ant organizations, =~

The Canadian Bar Association
has come to the conclusion that
the use of breathalyzers' on sus.
pected drinking drivers is‘ not
an infringement of civil lberty
{there’s a limit on speed, -no
‘Matter how well’ you drive —
why not..a-limlt on. the amount
of alcoho? in your blood?).."

The Canadian Medical Assoc-
iation has confirmed that breath-
alyzers: are’ an accurate way to
measure blood alcohol levels.

The federal. government has
introduced legislation to. amend
the sections of the Criminal Code
dealing with drunk ‘and impaired
driving, very much along the lings
of the recommendations. :

‘Perhaps Parliament will, take :
‘note of the British success and -
speed these amendments intoleg-'
islation. (Highway Safety ‘Nows)

committed a-moving traffic of-
fence; or

the driver had been in-
volved in an aceldent, .

=

What followed was simple. the
officer produced’ his portable

chemically. treated crystals; the:
Aarivero.took- -aiideepabreath and

stals turned green, on to the
station, ;
At the station, a second

breath test was offered. If it,
‘alcohol, blood .or urine tests

aleohol blood level higher than
,08, prosecution followed. ‘The ‘
penalty on conviction:: ;

A fine of at least $280 and or
four months’ imprisonment and
loss of the driver's licence for;

a year,

course was strict enforcement.

station themselves outside pubs}:
to take tests of anybody who
left the pub and entered a car
“| with the anpayent intention of

driving it. .

fy

Campbell seeks |
puck tourney

VANCOUVER (CP) Mayor
Tom Campbell has been authori-
zed to hame a three-man come.
mittee for Vancouver’ 8 final bid
for the

committee: set’ up to study :
plicants, a

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@ ‘Reclining | seats: @ Restroom:

equipped - coaches -

breathalyzer, a tube filled with}. 1.

blew into the tube; if the cry.|-[>

too, indicated a high level of|-

followed, If these indicated an| J

“What made the law work, of

Some police went so far as to| &

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