. Four stude Bent. sic a nt placement officers in the Skeena area "és honoured Terrace Days this week by. decorating the student corner of Canada Manpower with paper logs. ‘They_are (left to right) Jeanne Taylor of Kitimat, Darlene Storms of Prince Rupert, JoAnne Ames of | | Terrace Court Report . Irate fisherman leaves in:a-huff - . t John Miller is ready to be. ‘arrested and his family put ‘on welfare over a charge of: fishing in a prohibited zone. along. the Skeena River, July3. Miller appeared in Terrace provincial court ae ene i e charge but when he heard his Cane was adjourned for another week lead not - Terrrace and (seated) Jean Holloway, area coordinator. Storms ‘and Taylor were visiting Terrace for a student wrap-up conference. The antiques were provided by Ames and Holloway. a he complained he was losing money and he wanted his - day in court immediately, | Ju dge Selwyn Romilly explained a not guilty. plea automatically meant an | Sleeping bag is stolen; ‘aquarium, with fish , smashed -. At 9:50 am., Dorothy Leleton of Soucie Avenue reported to RCMP that a couple of sleeping bags had ‘been stolen from her home. » Jungle Jim’s, a pet shop at 4711 Lazelle,. reported a window broken by a rock’ throwing vandal, An aquarium with fish in it was also broken. Police did not place a dollar value on the damage. RCMP also reported twa stolen bycycles. One, taken from E.T. Kenney School, was returned to its owner after a juvenile was picked up. ‘The other is described ae a yellow mustang boy's e. adjournment, er left the courtroom angry and promised he would not be back. Horst Kooley had his case of fishing legally on the Cranberry River near the Cranberry Falls set over until October: 3 at his request, Kooley explained he did not see any signs prohibitin fishing on the river althoug he looked for them sever times, : Paul Russel “was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 or ten (10) days in default for refusing to provide a_ breathalizer sample. He had his driver’s license suspended for three.” THE HERALD, Thursday, August 4, 1977, PAGE 3. ~ BARKERVILLE REVIEW _ By JOANNE AMES For the Herald There is little doubt about | the overall professionalism of the Barkervilie Review, now playing in Terrace in honor o our 50th anniversary. ‘They provide a good evenin of — family entertainment, There‘is a little clownin tg a little ju; , @ e singing, ceect of fun piano and percussion accompaniment to all of the above. The jokes are mild, with a few references to sex thrown in for spice. It certainly isn’t the kind of humour to worry about letting your children see, though. a The dancing girls show a fair bit of shapely leg, Pleasing to look at, Their roblem is that they don't ve enough confidence in themselves...they seem to have their minds so firmly to take an impaired driver course. ; George Kirb was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 after he was charged with being a minor in possession of liquor. Kirhy was walking down. Scott Ave. with an open beer in ‘his nd, . Dick Vandervelde was iven a conditional ischarge and, placed on threé months probation after he was charged with | Good family on their feet and the steps they. are making that they hardly managed oeke outa smile all night. The juggler-clown, a young man named Robbie, eeps the audience -riveted by the daring nature of his act. He has them in the palm of his hand with the ‘Suspense he creates. e routines the group uses are standard vaudeville ones. The sereechy “opera” singers, the country hick on stage, the “cultured”? Madame’s version of a great tragedy, are a few of their numbers. Most of the performers are slick, and know their routines well. . But there is something missing. | Tt is not timing, or costumes, or sound, or any of those technical things that make a show run smoothly. . The minor problems with lights and exits and entrances on a crowded stage were handled well the night I saw the show. hat is missing enthusiasm and energy. Freshness. Iam not talking about the is ' Hind: of enthusiasm . they session of marijuana at long Bay. Ernest hreeber was iven a: conditional ischarge and placed on three months probation after he was found with four marijuana “joints” in his ‘seem to generate in the audience with old songs, or - audience participation. The enthusiasm they lack is for their own work. There is a feeling, as the night goes on, that these people are tired-of their own routines. They have iost the spontaneity: that must be combined with sureness ‘to make excellent comedy. : The two people inthe show who overcame this problem most effectively were Sid Williams and Miss Julian Cameron. Williams had a gentle, good contact with the audience. Cameron was the other end of the scale; she _carried her act off with a style and presence that led the whole stage. She is % songs out rather than singing them. Maybe it was the night and the heat. Mayhe it was along couple of days on the road that ha d them worn out. Whatever it was, I felt that the show would have improved about 50 percent if everyone had taken an iron- enjoyment. FRAN DOWIE...a star of the Best of Barke Me ti IN ‘ ae ees rville. fortified vitamin and gotten a good night’s sleep. — to see the show if have a chance, though. a relief from the machine laughs of T.V. It has a certain amount of guts and ou style that something like definitely Sanford and Son lacks. (Instant tis. Ser. POP ee eee i — months and was instructed jacket pocket. | or ed 5 ati me the kind of lady who belts A smelly business...but profitable, “+ "Halibut earn $10 million a to earlier figures. "’, regulated as to territorial waters, season .: May 8 - Sept, 30, licensing, hear and catch an Prince Ru . By EVELYN OLDHAM PRINCE RUPERT, Residents of this seaport on the coast of “northern British Columbia like to bra a: . that it is the halibut capital of the world. © "+". Aetually, more halibut are caught off ‘*) Alaska but they're processed at various ‘““ports and none of these equals in dollars ‘ or tons the catches handled at Prince . Rupert. Prince Rupert even though catches have dropped drastically in recent years - to Jess than half a million pounds in 1975 from more than seven million in 1968. Some blame is placed on overfishing by Russian, Korean and Japanese trawlers. The hope is that regulations laid down by the International Pacific Halibut ommission will, in time, boost landings Fishing boats are size limits, Halibut boats can be spotted by the _ poles bobbing in the water off their sterns. From the poles a long groundline with ear for’ Asmall part of the Rupert fleet. (Photos ‘courtesy of Prince Rupert Daily News). $10 MILLION INDUSTRY pert: just for the halibut hooks is anchored ‘and set along the bottom, baited with herring or salmon or octopus, The line is known asa skate and several skates may be linked to make up a string of gear, all marked by buoys or ' floats. . Prince Rupert has been a halibut centre since the last century, and fishermen formed their own co-operative in 1912 for ’ buying supplies and setting up & cold- - storage plant. Today both American and Canadian fishermen sell catches at this port, where they are processed and frozen at various ‘ canneries. One processor, the Roosevelt Fish plant, is the largest in the world. Halibut caught range from the minimum legal 10 pounds to 349 pounds. - They are flat fish with diamon-shaped bodies and fan tails. Men and women filet and slice a halibut for freezing in a few minutes with wicked looking knives. There ig no waste - 95 percent is put to use and the other five percent makes a high- | protein animal food. On other days the canneries handle : ‘herring, cod or salmon the valuable roe, \ with was fnce thrown away goes to Japan by the ton. The fish is sold all over the world, not only in Canada,. the United States and Britain as in the past. Despite its modern business. buildings and civie centre, Prince Rupert still has the frontier look of the wild west with a . wide main street and wooden buildings with false fronts, The Visitors Bureau likes to point out the number of totem poles in the city and has outlined a walking tour'to take them all in. The city hall is decorated with Indian motifs, as Prince Rupert is a meeting place for mainland Tisimpshian Indians and the Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 8) miles across the strait. so The museum and art.gallery, in an attractive log building, would be a credit to qa much larger centre Prince Rupert has a population of around 20,000. Exhibits show archeological finds in the ‘region as well as iocal fish, animals, shells and birds ilke the Lapland longspur and the tufted puffin. Its Indian collection is a treasury of handwork: a. beaded headdress, vest, slippers and a jacket made of wolf skin and decorated wilh deer hoofs and abalone’ shells; copper jewelry, fierce ceremonial raven masks with hinged beaks and clothing made from the inner bark of cedar. : One section shows Haida argillite black slate carvings,’ transparent spoons made from bone and a.replica of a Haida war ’ canoe with carved paddle blades. When a civic booster was queried more closely about the cily’s halibut title, he sald: ‘There's more to Prince Rupert than halibut, salmon and lotem poles. We had fire engines herein 1911 when Toronto and other eastern cities had horse-drawn wagons. We have the biggest harbor in Canada and it’s the third-biggest in the world and ice-free all year round. “We have the CN Railway, a seaplane - base, the Yellowhead Highway, an airport. and our harbor is the closest Canadian port to Japan to ship coal, lumber, cellulose, copper, sleel - and fish, And trees - the Prince Rupert Forest District covers 80 million acres of rain forest."