OMINECA "g _ BTACPOTA *£28IQET *Adad | : 10 Cents a Copy, $3.00 a Year — Press Run 3300 *2 Wednesday, Novemb a i 4 £ er 16, 1966 Er DESPITE COLD NOVEMBER winds, first sod was turned and construction started on Ter- race's $67,000 Centennia! : project (library-museum-tour- 2 rl ist bureau building) at the corner of Park Avenue and Kalum Street on Tuesday, November 15. A number of Centennial committee ofticiats and members were on hand. In upper photo, left to right, care A. J, Bud". McColl, .chair- man of Terrace. Centennial Committee; Hazel Cambrin, chairman, Centennial project} committee; Cathie Fraser on the finance committee; Ray Zacharias and Larry Pruden, members of the project cam- mittee. In lower photo, left to right, are Ralph Easton, Jim MacKay, Margaret Clarke and Mein van Heek, members of the building committee. Con- tractor for construction of the building is Guran Construction Company Ltd, of New West- minster, The Centennial pro- ject fund is stilt open for dona- tions thet may be left at any * Terrace bank or at the library. (staff photo) Lively Idea The Initial public meeting in nnection with what. form Ter- xe’s Centennial celebrations for 7 would take, was held in the Blakeburn Gets _ School Contract slakeburn Engineering Limited Terrace has been awarded the neral Contractor post for Phase of the B.C. Vocational School, tently under construction here, was learned this week, : ‘he contract in the amount of 4,700 was awarded in Victoria, keburn Engineering submitt tender for the job. =: ‘prk will commence immediate- nd Cecil Blakeburn, president he successful company, «sald y that work should be com- ed within six month provided p are no weather set backs. . ase II includes the construc. of a building to house boiler ns, installation of two boilers, tical panelling and .-heating 8 leading to other buildings on F te, i : eburn estimated the com. ., Will provide: Jobs for about Session For Community Centre last Wednes- day evening, November 9, A group of twenty-five people entered into lively. and enthusias: tic discussion. regarding -possibil- ities for the forthcoming celebra- tion of Canada’s 100th birthday. A. J. “Bud” McColl, chairman {of Terrace Centennial ‘Commaittee, appointed by Municipal Council, explained that one of the fune- tions of his commitlee was to .Spearhead and co-ordinate plans for the '67 celebration. He point ed out emphatically that the un- dertaking should. be “a whole-com- munity effort with everyone part- iclpating” 0 Mr. McColl stated that all-organ- izations, service _ clubs, groups, churches ete, have been contacted. “If anyone has been missed they should. come . forward, for the celebration is to be everybody's businesg,"' He polnted out that separate organizations would: still be hold- ing their different. annual events, and made the suggegtion that they might adopt a “centennial theme.” “However” he asserted “all. should group together for the one big event ee 67 Birthday iastic member ‘of the committee, told of some of the ideas that had come up in committee’ meetings ‘and stated, “We should shoot high" As July 1st is Canada's birthday it was -felt this would be an ap- propriate time for the major event running * Friday night through: Monday ‘evening. oo Numerous and exciting : sugges- tions were made. — but no de- cisions were as yet reached. The next public meeting is called’ for Wednesda will attend. -: rn Representatives at the meellng included: the .Skeena Square Dance. Club, Little Theatre, .. Ter- race Track and Field, Rotary Club, Students’ Counell, Elks, Provincial. Govt,, Thornhill ‘Centennial, ‘River- side School, Hospital . Auxiliary, Seventh day Adventist. Church, Rod & Gun -Club, -Skeena:: and Kitsumkalum Girl. Guides, - the Catholic Women's League.and the press and television. = 1 _ Members of Terrace Centennial Committee include; A. J, McColl, chairman, Robert Elking, : Parker Mills, Bert : Goulet,- Mra. . Jatk ) Mra. Edna Cooper, an enthus- Sharples and Mrs. R, M. Cooper, : TALKS BREAK DOWN - Teachers’ *quenzatdpg ST eoTPoTazed ‘Into Arbitration — § Negotiations between the tees and the Teachers’ Association broke down when agreement could not for 1967, , The 9.8 per cent increase final demand represents. a direct cost to ratepayers of $85,000, or a possible addi- tion of over 4.5 mills onto the Present school tax of 30.2 mills. Terrace school district ‘is one of the lowest assessment areas in Brit ish Columbia and has one of the} highest school mil! rates. Teach- ers’ salary seales in the Terrace district have always been among the province’s leaders and over 72 per cent of the operating bud- get is devoted to instruction costs, All efforts on the part of con- cilliating officer, Richard WM. Toynbee, failed to bring the two parties close enough to reach an agreement and he was forced to refer the matter to a salary ar- bitration’ board. Both parties expressed their keen appreciation of Mr. Toynbee’s untiring efforts to finalize the deal. An unprecedented number of school boards, 36 in all, “out of a total of 84 districts, have made the same. decision,;. and ,. arbitration boards throughout the province Will. be’ bringing down their de- Toastmasters’ Theme All About Terrace ‘Having set the theme, “Terrace — At The Crossroads," Terrace opment, past, present and future. through a history of Terrace’s past and presant and give them a Blance at the future during their annual social evening and dance on November 25. -: ; : Featured speakers will be Wil- liam Reid, “A. Cambrin’ and H. Terrace Board af School Tris: onday night be reached on salary increases submitted by teachers gs their the end cisions between now and of December. Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte islands are also among the districts turning to arbitration, Early Morning F ire Hits “The Motel’ A careless smoker’ may have caused a fire which threatened The. Motel early . Sunday morning ,_it. was learned here today. Terrace : Fire department officials are still investigating the blaze which gut- ted one room and partially burned another, in addition to causing severe heat and smoke damage to . the entire west wing of the build- ing, , Owner of The Motel, Bill Ben- nett, said today that it. was not necessary to evacuate anyone due to the blaze, as occupants of the west wing were out when it occur- red. . The fire was brought to his at- tention about 3 a.m. “by a. guest at The Motel. He said the initial blaze appeared to be centralized __ ‘néar a bed, lédding hini to suspect a smoldering clgareétte. os Terrace’ Fire Department. was . called out at 3:49 a.m. and battled with the fire until 6:00 am. Extent of damages has not yet been determined, and Bennett said today that he carried insurance against fire loss, . . —_———e so Special Cail Out | For Arena Members Newly elected president of the’ Terrace Arena Association, J. Warner, has called his member- ship to an extra-ordinary mevting scheduled for Tuesday, November Smith, each of whom will deal | 29 with one stage of Terrace’s devel- opment, past present and future. The event will be held in the Lakelse Hotel banquet room and tickets are now available from any Toastmaster member, . Following after dinner addres- ses, entertainment will be provid- ed by two local singing groups, | On Saturday, November 26, executive Toastmaster members from Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert will hold an inter-club workshop. a, ¢ - Purpose of the special meeting is to make an important amend- ment to. the association by-laws and to receive financial statements and reports from the Directors. . Any. other business will be ‘intro- duced following these two agenda items. re The meeting will be held ‘in the Chamber of Commerce room at the Community Centre ‘beginning at 800 pm All wiembers are urged’ to at tend... -Meltin Melting THERE'S ABSOLUTELY No TRUTH. to ihe rumour. that prime . downtown property (pre- sent site of the Catholic church and school) has been sold to Woodwards Lid. We phoned Woodwards to find out and they denied it firmly but nicely. We also phoned local owners of the - ‘property, who denied it equally as firmly but equally as nicely. ‘THE CBC JET SET has appar- -ently’ won out over common sense if. that .“THING” we saw on .television -last Sunday even- ing’ was’ any.’ indication . of ’“THINGS"\ to come, Why: didn't they simply: title the fool Pro. | ‘gtam ‘For. The Birds’? Why “commonplace and uninepiring? Pot s | a ANYBODY FOR. A SIDE OF _ BEEF? An electric dryer? A car? A fur piece for milady? They'll all be available to tha . ‘highest bidder during. the an- - nual Rotary Radio and Televi. . sion Auction scheduled for De =”: cember 2 and § — along with: - _ hundredg of other items, oe _WHO WON THE FREE TRIP to |: the Grey Cup game: at Inet |; Thursday's stag? Maybe. they forgot to make the drawl.