PREMIER BILL BENNETT

Itinerary

for

Cabinet visit

The following is the itinerary for the Provincial
Cabinet visit to Terrace on Thursday, September 23.
The Premier will arrive an the evening of the 22nd by
government jet. At 6:45 a.m. he will be jogging with
Terrace students and any citizen wishing to turn out
at Skeena Junior Secondary School track.(Thurs.}

The Premier will breakfast with members of the
Skeena Socred Executive af the Terrace Hotel bet-
ween 7:30 am. and 8:30 a.m.

There will be a. news conference at 8:30 a.m.
following which the Premier will be interviewed on
radio and television. At 11 a.m. the members of the
cabinet will be meeting with the District of Terrace.

An open to the public luncheon sponsored by the
Terrace Centennial Lions Club will be held between 12
noon and.1:30 at the Terrace Hotel. Tickets for this
dinner ara $7.50 and can be picked up at the Terrace

Heraldon Kalum, Al‘s Shoes on Lakelse or CFTK on
Lazelle. ‘They will also be available at the Door.
At.1:30' p.m, the Premier will be dedicating the
Dudley Little Bridge and the Cabinet Meeting will get
underway at 2 p.m. lasting until 5:30 p.m. Following
fhe Cabinet Meeting ihe, Premier will hold another
press conference at 6:30 p.m. : !

The Herald has learned that a total of 34 briefs had’
been submitted to fhe Cabinet as of lunch. time _

“Tuesday,” >

“Cedar firm
- frustrated

Mr. Ken. Turpin,. Vice

- President of Reflecto Shield
of Canada, has told the
Herald that an attempt to
locate a cedar furniture
plant ‘in Terrace has been
abandoned and the ‘firm’s
cedar products affiliate will

be locating in the State of

Washington.

Turpin :said that he came
tothe Terrace area to assess
‘the possibility of locating in
this area. He said that visits
to the local forest products
‘firms indicated that there
_ was an ample supply of the
low quality cedar that his:
firm required in the
manufacture of cedar lawn
furniture. He said thal he
also met Indian leaders in
-the area and that all seemed

right for the location of.such -

a manufacturing enterprise
in Terrace. -

according to Turpin the

All subsequent attempts
to obtain the cooperation of
the. provincial government
in this location have failed -
Turpin states. He said that
his firm has over $1,000,000
in orders on the books and
this was shown to govern-
ment authorities. However,

government wanted to look
into the company’s books
without giving the firm any
assurance that an
agreement could be arrived
at if the records sub-
stantiated the firm’s claims.

Faced with this lack of
cooperation Turpin said that
he has given up hope of
locating in Terrace and the
firm is now planning a
manufacturing complex in
Washington. .

“Terrace gets _
welfare cost relief

. §B.C. Human Resources
Minister Bill Vander Zalm
has announced. that his
. department would cease
‘billing © | some 5B
municipalities with
populations ‘of :less than
50,000 peaple the §0 cents per
capita a month — for
provincial welfare ad-
ministration.‘The\ ruling is
’ retroactive .to the «first of
September. =. - 4.
| This will mean a saving.to
* Terrace laxpayers of $2,000
this year and about $10,000 a
~ year.in future years,
:” Vander Zalm ‘said that the
municipal ~:share.. -of
. payments: to. welfare
recipients will remain,at 10
percent for now. ‘The

Second logging operation closing down

Skoglund Logging. Ltd.,
will be closing down
"operations as of the end of
September. according lo ‘a
company ‘spokesman, This
will ‘be’: the: -second such

operation ta shut downin the.

required per capila amount
dropped September first
from $1.55 a month to $1.45
because there now are fewer
people receiving social

_ assistance.

He ‘claimed. that the
government could absorb
the difference without
budgetary adjustment
because its “belt-
tightening” policies have
reduced the welfare roll’
from 130,000. to 105,000. The

‘dollar saving in this area is
sabout $3.5 million, This

means an additional saving
to the municipality of $4,000
for the balance of this year

and about $12,000 per annum
‘for subsequent budget
years.

past two weeks. Little,
Haugland and. Kerr closed
down last week because of
ils ability to obtain’ cedar.

» gs to continue operations.

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: .. Hospital grounds still for sale

As of press time today-the
Mills Memorial Hospital
Boatd had not paid the
$7,400 in back taxes ac-
cumulated over the past:
three years and. con-
sequently: the land,. in-
cluding part of the new
extension, will be seld at
auction in the Municipal
Chambers on September 30
beginning at 10 a.m. —

The only solution for this
administrative hassle is of

course to pay the delinquent

- amounti
If the sale is to be stopped, ©

taxes and fight afterwards.
There is no way that an
account receivable can be
cancelled at the provincial
government level. Also the
Terrace Municipality has
already paid out the School
District and - Regional
District’s share of this tax
to about - $3,500.

Chairman Vic Jolliffe must

_ get his Board to approve the

tax payment and get a

cheque to the District of

Terrace before the auc-
tioneer’s gavel comes down.
Gnce the roperty is sold
the Board will still have the
right to pay the delinquent
taxes plus interests and
costs for up to one year after
which date some citizen or
group ‘will be the legal
owner of a valuable piece of
property and a piece of a
ospital.
ere is a meeting of the
Mills Memorial Hospital

‘Board tonight and the

matter will no doubt be
discussed.

However since.

Director Wayne Epp
proposed a motion whic

was seconded by Mary
Little that the media be
excluded from Board
meetings there is no way
that the general public can
be informed as to what is
going on in those meetings.
This exclusion of the press
and media by the way was
taken despite a decision at

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the Mills Memorial Society
general meeting, whic
approved a resolution that
e meetings be covered by
the media as long as in-
formation on patients and
any matter that the Board
wished to keep confidential
would not be published or

aired. In fact, the Board,

which is there to carry out

the wishes of the Society,
has overriied the very
Society that it represents.

Campagnolo off and still running

Iona Campagnolo,
Skeena's Minister of State
for Fitness and Amateur
Sport, had barely. returned
to her office following the
swearing in ceremonies at
Rideau Hall before she had
a timetable drafted for her

new job.

Speaking to the Herald by
telephone she said that
within ten months she hopes
to set up a structure for
amateur sport funding that
provides equal access for

groups from across the

country, She noted that she
will have access to a
$31,000,000 budget for this
purpose.

“There are many people
in the outlying areas such as
northern B.C. who have no
idea what monies and
facilities are available’,
remarked the Skeena
Minister.

Speaking on fitness she
deplored the fact that
Canada has one of the

world’s best health care —

services costing seven
billion dollars a year while
so little money and planning
goes into preventative care.
She intends to look into this
inequity very closely and
agsure that more effort is
directed in this. direction.
Her two main concerns will
be to encourage Canadians
fo get involved in fitness
programs and to help
amateur sport as part of a
post-Olympic desire. :

Mrs. Campagnolo does not -

feel that being entrusted
with a junior portfolio will
hamper her efforts in
looking out for the interests
of her constituents and all
Canadians. In fact she looks
at her appointment as the
sensible one allowing her to
begin at a lower post while

aining experience. The

‘important fact, reminds

Mrs. Campagnolo is, that
northern B.C., for the first
time, has a voice at the

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| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1976

TERAAGE, B.C. :

destroyed to make way for the new Cloverlaw

Shopping Centre.

$1.731 million in loans approved :

The Municipal Finance |

Authority (MPA) of British
Columbia will borrow a
further $57.4 million for the
province's ' municipalities
and regional districts.

Approval to- borrow ‘the
funds was made by the
‘Authority at a meeting held
in Vancouver.

The requests for the $97.4

million came from 40 dif-,

ferent municipalities.and 11
regional districts.

The MFA, which has one
of the highest credit ratings
in Canada, was eslablished
in 1970 to borrow funds for
capilal works projects on
behalf of local governments.
All regional districts in B.C.
are members of the MFA.

MFA Chairman, Mayor
Ron Andrews of North
Vancouver District, said the

' Authority has marketed. a.

‘(otal of 18 issues totalling
$257 million. The’ new
requests approved will
increase to $314.4 million the

amount raised by the MFA

for municipalities and

regional districls,

operate throughout the |

winter months, lays the
blame for this shut-down to
the general slowdown in the

economy, .-Tentative plans.
are-to re-open operations.on' ..
the first:of Mareh-1977.°"".

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Of the new requesls, $19.6

Million is for sewerage

projects, $12.1. million for
water, $10.2 million for
public buildings and
equipment, $10.4 million for
parks and recreation, $2.9
million for roads and high-
ways, $1.8 million for local
improvements .and $350,000
for. drainage and dyking.

Mayor Andrews’said that
to satisfy its: requirements
the MFA must be present
and acceptable in all of the
world's long term. capital
markets. To date the
Authority has marketed
issues if Canada, Europe
and the U.S.

On its most recent issue; a
$52.5 million public issue
sold in the U.S. last May, the
MFA obtained the best price
given . any-

the U.S, market this year.

Attached is a list of the
requests, totalling $1.731
million which were ap-
proved by the Authority for
the Kitimat-Stikine
Regional

Skoglund'’s sub-
contractors are also closing
down including Kitimat

Valley Contracting Lid. In
all between 85 and 90 era-
ployees. will be out of work.

For the District of |
Terrace a loan in the

amount of $279,000 was
approved for local im-
provement. The loan will be
repaid over ten years.

‘A loan in an amount of
$1,185,000 was approved for
the District of Kitimat for
road improvements, aiso to

be repaid over ten years. -

The Kitimat-Stikine —
Regional District saw a loan ©

in an amount of $72,000
approyed for recreation

purposes. This is payable

over ten years.

- The ba

through a loan: to the
Hazelton community in an
arnount of $195,000 for water
services to be repaid over
the next 25 years. ;

“province’s 28

ance is made up.

Canadian i
. governmental borrower in

District’ and |i
_ District of Terrace: .

H MAYOR GORDON

ROWLAND of: Terrace

j has been re-elected a

director of the B.C. Union

i of Municipalities and

thus is the only such
director north of Hope.

; Alderman Mel Benson of

Dawson Creek was

' elected President and

Paddy Duke, of Lumby
was elected Vice-
President. .

‘candidates

_ reminded to kee
* closed and locked and other

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cabinet level. She said her
voice will. be heard in
cabinet and in cabinet
committee meetings.

Top on her list of
priorities, and remaining as
such, are the proposed
Kitimat-Edmonton pipeline,
the 200 mile fishing limit,
transportation in the north,
settlement of the Nass In-
dian Land Claims, the
routing of oil tankers along

e Canadian west coast,
ate,

PARK AVENUE —

REALTY. LIMITED

: the herald ‘

REALTY WORLD.

~ Regional District

he bureaucracies ask

for something to do

The chairmen of the
regional
districts, still smarting from
statements made by
Municipal Afiairs Minister
Hugh Curtis in which he
pointed to ‘widespread
-antipathy”’ of residents with

*#egard ta thé ‘regional

districts as well as criticism
of the rapid growth of the
bureaucratic
created in most districts,
got together to try to justify
their sizes by asking the
minister for something to do
with the huge staffs now in
this fourth level’ of govern-
ment. .
The united front called for
the provincial. government
to revise legislation so that
their boards can improve
their effectiveness. In a six
page brief, created during a
secret session at the. 7ard
Union of B.C, Municipalities
convention, the chairmen
said that they mist have

empires |

increased responsibility for
decision making.

They mentioned powers ta
pass land-use and sub-
division by-laws without
reference to the Department
of Municipal Affairs and

‘also the power to adopt
. -official. community: plan by-.

laws without first obtaining
provincial approval.

The regional bosses
complained that while they
are asked to’ undertake
community planning and
management
within their boundaries, a
good deal of the authority to
implement these functions
rest with provincial agen-

cies. ;
The district chairmen

‘complained . that ° even

simple by-law amendments
now can take from six
months to several years
because of delays within the
municipal departments in
Victoria.

‘TV choice and
costs increase |

is pleased to announce new
and improved cablevision
service for the Pacific
Northwest. :
. Effective November 1,
1976, TK Cablevision will be
offering KING-TY (NBC)
Seattle, KCTS-TV (PBS)
Seattle, partial KIRO-TV.

| Municipal
‘elections

There are no definite
for the
November 20 civic elections
in Terrace as yet. The three
incumbents have not made
up their minds as ye.
There is still a while
before anyone has to declare
as the close of nominations
is not unti] 12 noon on
Monday, October 25.

Bulldings invite
break-ins

RCMP reports. six
building premises in the
downtown area were left

insecure on the night of .
September 20. Local store -

owners and managers are
windows

entries secure as a
safeguard against possible
break-ins. -

Skeena Broadcasters Ltd.

ernie

(CBS) Seattle, CHAN-TV —

(CTV) Vancouver, and
CFTE-TV (CBC) Terrace,
all live and direct, via
microwave. ae
With this added and much

‘improved service, it is
necessary to adjust the |

cablevision rate structure.
As you are no doubt aware,

the CFTC approved the ©

extra channels with the rate
of $6.50 plus mitrowave
costs to get the signal te our
systems. :

At present $2 of our
current $3.50 rate goes
toward microwave ahd
videotaping costs. The new
monthty rate of $12.50 will
provide an additional $4 to
cover the costs of the two
new microwave channels

. required tobring NBC,PBS —.
and CBS (partial service), -

to the Prince Rupert,
Kitimat and Terrace areas,

As you can see the rate
you are.paying to TK
Cablevision for their
distribution is not changing.

The increased rate is '

reflecting only .. the:
microwave costs in
providing additional
channels.

There is, at present, a_

province-wide study te
semi-equalize cable rates in
B.C. When this sharin
becomes a reality, rates will
be reduced. .
Future plans also call for
the addition of FM Radio
service from, Vancouver, -

of areas.