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VOLUME 72 No.125

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1978

Atthe Terrace Speedway on Monday night the Hell Ridera

performed thelr daring feats before a packed house, The
show sterted a half-hour late due to the large turn-out,

One of the Hell Riders’ stunts ls pictured on the lett, The
two mea hung on while cars made sudden turns at high
- speeds and criss-crossed each other, On the right the

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the weatherman says:

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showers. Hopefully some sunny

spots. Temp. about 19 d
going down to 12 tonight,

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clown of the show Is lying on the speedway during the

motorcycle jump.

Kitimat ROMP report

Kitimat police report two
separate single vehicle
accidents.

At 12:10 a.m. Tuesday
morning. a ,juvenile, of
Kitimat, attempted a. left
hand turn off Nalabila road
in Kitimat oF anne’ by

‘was pre-em
the vehicle going out of
control and rolling over.
Damage was estimated at

$550.
A vehicle driven by Glen
of Kitimat, 20, hit the
Hirsch Creek bri on high-
way No, 23 Monday. The
posse ger, , Cliff Degerness,
also \of Kilimat,. was
taken to hospital with minor

i facial infurl rar
BS woe cer anal

eye eoae

group of youngsters gather In the Kitimat Day Care Center on Tuesday, following
announcement of the centers’ closure for the summer months.

stolen over the weekend
from the newly erected log
picnic shelter in Radley
Park, on the Kitimat River.
Police are still in-
veatigationg.

A radio telephone was
stoten from the shed at the
mounicipal dump Monday at
about 10:15 a.m. A plea for
its return was put out over

_ the frequency of the phone,

but to no avail, as yet.
Some heavy machinery, on
& logging road close to town,
was damaged over the
weekend, Several windows
were smashed and small
iteme stolen; ined

stereo “stoles from an
apartment last week has
offered a $50 reward for tne
return of his $900 unit.

-_ Police .

Fifty-six petition against

Halliwell neighbourhood pub «-.

within the half-mile radius.

Rev, Lesyk also stated that
ghborhood pub would
cause an ‘‘inevitable in-
crease in property damage
and thefts to surrounding

increasing
school age

Fifty six residents within a
half-mile radius of a
proposed neighborhood pub
on Halliwell Avenue have
petitioned Terrace council to
reject the construction of a

pub in that area.

Kaye. Ehses, a Halliwell

_ Property owner, appeared at
last-night's council meeting
with the letters which were
the result of an unofficial

survey done by the residents,

the pub oon came to
council to voice their. op-
position.

The * pab application was

.-A proposal was brought before the Clty Council requesting deferment of rent payments
to the municlpality during summer months because enrolment fees would not cover

‘operating costs, The proposal was denied Monday night. :
+ Spokesman for the Center, Ann McCabe, says she is quite angry about the decision.
-.. MeVabe says she “was told that Council turned dowa the proposal hecause it would set ,

“aprecedent to close every sumamer - this ia not our Intention," she stresses,
++ The center will be back in operation next fall,

Hospital board changes”

Because of low occupancy,
the firat floor childrens’
rete et
porilycl out td rooms
the second floor medical and
surgical wards.. The
childrens’ ward, usually
filled to overflow a few years
ago, has had only two to nine,
occupants. in its eighteen
beds uring recent weeks.
Summer is normally the
slack time in the hoapital
which eases the problem of

The resignation of Mr. A.
J, Jenster, Vice Chairman of
the was accepted
with regret. | Mr. Klaus
Mueller was appointed Vice
Chairman, with Mr. Jack
Toe’ Bauvay tas been ap:
fv] ay has ap-
pointed to the Board by the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional
District, and Mr. Brian Van
Snellenberg appointed to the
Board by Alcan Smelters &
Chemicals Ltd. replacing

an emergency pad off
Lahakas Boulevard, north of

the hospital, is being In-
vestigated. At the present
time, helicopters are landing
‘on the hospital lawn West of
the building but the board
wishes it to be known that
only emergency I landings are

The Hospital Auxiliary
served tea in the Extended
Care Ward to patients, staff,
and visitors, to mark the
third anniversary of the

opening of the Extended
Care Unit, June 2ist.
in some

areas of the hospital does not
have the special devices
needed to protect patient-aid
devices from surges of
current, To guard against
this, the Board is considering

the upgrading of electrical
wiring in certain areas.

In preparation for the-

Annual Meeting of the
Hospital Society to be held in
September, a drive for in-
creased membership in the
Society is in progress,
Membership is open to any
person nineteen years of age
or over on payment of one
dollar annual membership
fee, A booth, to be set up in
the City Centre mall will
promote membership.

Purchase ‘of a 400§lb,
eapacity. washer-extractor
and a 100-lb, dryer has been
approved by both the
Provincial government and
the Regional District,

Policewoman
settles row

- DETROIT (AP)
policewoman shot and
her husband during an,
argument over her line of
wark, police said.

Mary Jones, 30, told detec-
tives she grabbed her gun
from under her mattress and

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killed

fired twice at her husband, *,

Leslie, $0, after he struck her

. in the face early Sunday,

Police said: the. shooting’
followed an argument bet-
ween thé two over Mrs,

_ Jones's decision to become a

policewoman in May, 1977.

The couple’s _ three
children were asleep. at the
time of the shooting, Jones
‘worked for a chemical firm
near Detroit, -

Mra, Jones was in hospital
for several hourg for shock,
questioned and released. ue
was suspended with |

pending completion of - ‘he

investigation. -

At the last council anaes . me ieotte
fig ae ebont:0-Fam

' for the schooner,

. statutory

made by Augie Geerzert.
Although council had been

prepared to approve a
committee recommendation
endorsing the pub, they

decided to- delay until a

survey of the area ‘was

take:

Kay
along with. three other
persons, also-wrote letters
independently to council

which were read at the
meeting.

‘proposed

Already Halliwell has
become a ‘drag atrip," .
iy a
drinking establishment is
constructed this addi inn:

2
Bpeeders and the results are

lous,”

The letter also pointed out
that Uplands Elementary
‘School is within the half-mile

of
Uplands Beet Church, «
there are. only Deg

pub that arge would be 2 mere would then go before the

they stated, and

paired drivers to

radius of the site, —
~ Rev. Robert Lesyk,

area,
customers would have to. residents.” ;
come from other areas, the Uplanda Church ig also a license would be granted.

Ebses said in their letter,

“Freelance”
abandoned

VICTORIA (CP) — The
provincial government has
abandoned the idea of at-
tempting to bring back the
schooner
Recreation and
servation Minister
Bawif said today.

Bawilf said it appears that
there is no chance the 100-
foot vessel could be. saved
from the reef in Panama
where it ran aground and
was plundered by local In-
dians several weeks ago.

He said the government
will file an insurance claim
for the $58,000 already paid
The
government had a to
pay $125,000 for the 81-ton
ship.

Con-

The minister sald he hasn’t
decided whether to ask the
Panamanian government to
pay for the vessel, -

Freelance,

Sam

a rel

‘homes and
danger

children.”

All of- the letters were
referred to the planning
which is
currently considering the

committee

Liquor Control Board before

Terrace to rezone
’ provincial site

Terrace . e gounel voted
it to rezone the

fot on on the'ee corner of Kalum
and Olson to make way for
the proposed courthouse and
health unit complex.

‘Council members and
representatives from the
B.C. Building Corporation
met last week to iron out
final negotiations concerning
off-site servicing, and “the
negotiations appear to be
complete,” according to Ald,
Vic Jolliffe,

The Crown corporation

ie ca
pay the—cost- of* pa
Kalum Street from Olson to
the southern boundary of the
property and to construct

curbs, gutters and sidewalks
on the east side. The BCBC
also agreed to install storm
drainage on the east side of
Kalum from Olson south to
tle intoe existing system on
Park.

‘The BCBC also gave their
assurance they would not
oppose the paving of Olson
from Kalum to Hanson if the
local residents want it paved
and would contribute to the
paving on a local im-
provement program.

Although Council’ had

| originally: asked the Ore

poratiod to pay the: cost: of

‘s cava Gutter," “Midewalk and

Doring the Hell Riders’ performance the truck above,
drove through the tube whereexplosives were set off, then

flew through the alr, and landed safely on the ramp.

Sunday. shopping

called
“Out of Control”

Sunday shopping is out of
control in British Columbla
and the only solution is to
introduce legislation to
regulate it on a province-
wide basis.

This was the view ex-

today by the B.C.

pressed
- Division of the Retail

Merchants Association of
Canada in a brief delivered
to ‘Attorney- General Garde
Gardom by RMA general
manager Joan Wallace.
The brief aske the
provincial government to
introduce a Retail Business
Holidays Act which would
prohibit most stores from
on Sundays and
holidays.
Exemptions would be per-
mitted for drug stores, small
stores selling
newspapers, tabacco, an-
tiques and handicrafts,
for stores in tourist areas.
outenatieg jfhopping is
prolifera many areas
of the provinces, particularly :

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food, .

in the suburban areas

Vancouver, and
the Lord’s Day Act Is
powerless to prevent it,'’
Wallacesaid. “That Actis 70
years old and its maximum

fine of 0 is hardly a
deterrant to a major grocery
chain,”

The RMA brief o

surrounding

- Sunday shopping has the

support of the Lower
Mainland Independent
Grocers Association and the
B.C. Retail Furniture and

Both Ontario and Quebec
now . have _ provincial
legislation
Sunday shopping and
Alberta has introduced a
similar bill, Wallace anid.

‘There is no strong con-

‘sumer demand for Suiday

shopping in B.C., Wallace
sald, and Lf consumers were
aware at the extra costs
involved, they ‘would

certainly oppows it

v

prohibiting

Shop-closing bylan

repeal gets closer

Repeal of the municipal
shop closing by-law in
Terrace ig one step closer
after Terrace courcil gave
third reading to the
necessary by-law at Monday
night's meeting.

Council went ahead with
the repeal following a
meeting last week with the
Chamber of .Commerce
retail committee where
proposed amendments to the
by-law were made by the
businessmen,

The amendments

Suggested were of a

housekeeping nature, ac-.

cording to a council com-
mittee report, except for a
proposal to exempt all
defined shops from the
atated closing hour on the
Thursday immediately
preceding Good Friday,

¥. Labour Day and December

Ald. Halmut Gteabrecht,
chairman of the general

government committee, also

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told council that the mer-:
chants had requested ‘that
four days of each year be set.
aside for special sale hours,
similar to the ‘‘Midnite
Madness” sale hed earller
this year.

The “Mtldnite Madness’’
sale resulted in the
prosecution of 15 merchants
who tock part in the event
and prompted the original
move to repeal the hours by-

law. .

Giesbrecht said it is not
certain whether this four day
exemption would be allowed
under the Municipal Act
which governs previncial
shop hours by-laws. .

any decisions on the issue
are made,

Council also decided to
contact officials of KMart
which will be moving Into the
new Skeena Mall on Lakelse
when construction is com-

pleted in the. fall, The 2 of
ficials will be invitedto meet. ~
with the general government.
committee to discuss thelr =
policy on shop closing hours
and their intentions for ‘the
Terrace store. .

John Cllft, ‘a spokesman

for the 4600 Block Merchants

was also at Monday's
meeting to remind councll
that the merchants feel there
is a reed for a muilelpal
shop closing by-law,

Clift cited an example of
one rtilng which pas een
adver an ope ona
provincial holiday.

1 of the present shop
closing by-law needs only |
final adoption before
Terrace would be without a
municipal hours by-law and
provincial statutes would
come into effect.

Provincial statutes under
the municipal . by-law are
more restrictive than the
municipal - by-law. but are
rarely enforced within the
Province.

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