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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, Wi... “TERRACE, B.C.

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JUST MOMENTS AFTER this picture was taken,

a Freight train zoomed by.-—Staff photo.

Death may ride the’.

rails at the Canadian;
National - Railway.
crossing at Kalum Street. :

Every morning and
every afternoon, a flock.
of school: children hike’.
across = the railway,
crossing. a

“It’s a very, very:
dangerous situation?!"
says a Canadian Nationa] :
Railway official who,
watches them each day.

And, he says, “it's ©
always about the time the.

and from school,
: crossing as a short cut:

lay wit h deat

‘

‘Winner’ is loser

itrain is scheduled to
‘come through here,”

The children, on their way to
use the

TRAINS ‘FREQUENT

i “We irequently have trains of
7300 cars coming thraugh here.

: And there's nobody standing by
the tracks...we use radio
“communication,” he said.

And the man communicating

“with the trains. is sometimes:

unable to see peopie on the

‘tracks,

“It could prove fatal,’ the
CNR official said. ;

-He doesn’t want’to see. an
accident or a death and he
hopes parents will warn their

‘children ta stop the practice.

“Tt could mean ‘an arm or a
leg.” ; .

“At one place I worked, I saw
a head on the tracks. I don’t
want to see that again,” he said.

' - STREAM ACROSS
The children, sometimes as

‘many as 20 of them, stream
over the tracks between B and 9

am, and again between 3 and 4
p.m. — the same hours trains

* are expected on the tracks.

The ‘official speculates the

‘children live in the Keith Street

area south of the tracks and are
going to either Skeena Junior
Secondary School or, perhaps,
Caledonia Senior Secondary
School. .

But some of the children are
even younger.

‘*When the overpass was new,
they used it,” he said, ;

“But the novelty has worn off.
Ever since the cold weather,
they've been using the tracks as
a short-cut.

; STALL COMING

The official said he asked the
schools to announce the danger
over their public address
systems.

“But the kids are still coming
this way,” he said. .

Tracks across the railway
crossing: are going to be ex-
tended....“‘where they now have
three tracks to cross, they will
have maybe six in the future,”
he said.

Should elected officials who
sign public cheques be bon-
ded?

Mayor Perry York of
Hazelton thinks they should
be :

But his collegues on the

Kitimat-Silkine Regional
Board say it's not
necessary...

The controversy arose at a
board meeting Wednesday
when directors were deciding
who should have signing
authority for cheques.

PUBLIC MONEY
“It’s the public's money,”

Board thumbs down
bonding members

York said, “Shouldn’t the ones
Signing be bonded?”

But director Joe Banyay of
Kitimat, new board chairman,
said, “We are using public
money when we make a vote
here (in a meeting),”’

York replied: “But it is an
open meeting. It’s not two of
us getting together signing
cheques.” ;

Director Lawrence Dubnick
of South Hazelton was on
Banyay’s side. “It’s always
worked in the past (not being
bonded},”* he said.

But York wasn’t: sailsfied.

“I can't see what's the
problem being bonded," he:
sald.

When it came time for a
vote, York cast the sole
dissenting vote to granting
signing authority without
being bonded.

The directors gave signing
powers to Banyay, Evy Clift,
vice-chairman; John Nance
and John Pousette, the new
secretary-treasurer.

Any twoof the four may sign
cheques. But whenever
possible, Pousette, as a hired
employee, should be one of

those signing.

¥

A $3 -million referendum

¥

| expected *

. $3 to $3.5-million
referendum for hospital
services will be put
before voters in March or

April.
. he

mM

approved, will mean a
one mill levy for tax-
payers in the Kitimat-
Stikine Regional Hospital

%

$250,000 health center
planned for Terrace

Terrace will become
‘the site of a $250,000
health center planned to
serve people of this area.

The center will be built .
on land adjacent to Mills
Memorial Hospital and
will include mental,
medical and public
health services.

Plans for financing the
center were revealed at a
Kitimat-Stikine Regional
Board meeting in
Terrace Wednesday.

Taxpayers are expected to
pay about one-half mill
assessment to make the health
center a reality.

Total costs for the structure

will be shared by the federal,
provincial and local govern-
ments.

Residents who will use the
health center are those living in
the old.Hospital Improvement
District 17 which was formally
disbanded recently,

by | y Apr

The ye if

*, aioe eh I

District.’ a a
But even if the
referendum gets

green light now, the mill
rate increase won't
bounce. back to the
taxpayer until 1973, says
John Pousette, secretary-
treasurer of the regional
district,

Included in the referendum
will be hospital’ services for
Terrace, Kitimat, Hazelton and

Stewart -- the four
municipalities in the district.

‘UP IN AIR’
‘But Pousette sayd “it’s up in
the air’ as the exactly what

Cont'd on Page 2

1871

“1971

Pot rap brings jail —

A’ 25-year-old
Terrace man has heen con-
vieted - of trafficking in
‘Marijuana.

_ Gaeyan Roberge, was sen-
tenced to six months in jail
when he appeared in Prince
Rupert court: Thursday.

Roberge made a sale to an
undercover police officer last
August.13. A warrant was

~_ issued for his arrest ard he was:
picked up.in December, - .

He pleaded ‘not guilty" in his
first court appearance on
December 9 but changed his

a plea to “guilty”.

‘Phone rates
up, Up UP

You may soon be able to dial
inflation and rising costs.

That's right. Your telephone
rates look like they’re going up.

B.C. Telephone has applied to
the Canadian Transport
Commission for rate hikes of
varying. degrees in different
parts of the province, says Stan
Patterson, B.C, Tel boss here.

Patterson quickiy pointed out
this Is the first general revision
of rates in more than i2 years.

What's that mean to Terrace
if approval is given?

Those with individual. lines,

will pay $5.30 per month, up 70

cents. from the present $4.60.

Two-party lines will cost $5.15,
up 55 cents from $3.60 while
multi-party lines will go up 45

Cont'd on n Page 2°

the *

A family of 12 is scattered all © :

over the neighborhood today .
following a fire which levelled :
their two-story frame home in:

. Thornhill Thursday.

Neighbors and relatives were
- looking | after most of the.

‘youngsters while Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Taron were moving into a
small, two bedream howe on
their property along with the
younger children.

Mrs. Taron said she was

‘making donuts at the time,

about 4 pm. The pregnant
mother then lay down far a few
moments and thought she
smelled grease from the stove.
» “Then I saw flames coming
out of the kitchen and bathroom
windows, grabbed the three

fy | tle

scattered

children with me and ran
outside,” she said.
BLAMES LAMP
Mrs. Taron blames an outside
heatlamp used to keep the.
water pipes from freezing for
the blaze.

THE CHARRED RUINS of the Leslle Yaron home In Thornhill are a grim reminder of a fire’s fary.—Staff photo.

ENR LOOKS TO NORTH

Terrace. as terminus: a

‘The | Canadian

National: Kitimat-Stikine Regional Board

Railway. appears destined to go directors,

to the Yukon. °

‘This district would, obviously,

, But how it gets there interests have: much to benefit if the

J PETER BAILEY..MASTER SCULPTER

His ‘nudes’ won’ t make Playbo

. BY GAYLE THODY .
A: bearded : _ man,

wearing goggles, wields. _

| - a welding torch.

“Dm. very safety .

conscious. “I. take all
precautions ‘around.
machines as dangerous

as. these,” says, Peter... :
the man behind.
the beard .and: goggles.” ;

‘Bailey,
» What's: he doing?

Why, . creating a
sculpture, of course.

‘Bailey, a native of Leeds,
England, teaches Industria}.

Arts to boys to Skeena Junior

Secondary here.

“SOMETHINGSPECIAL...*__
But;-he’a ‘not your ordinary .

sho jeacher.”

Ba Ney Hig as: sculpture

painter, mi al
K

. as an n artist, They know 1 meas
a craftsman,” Bailey said the
other night sitting in his im-
maculate, orderly ‘metal shop,

On the desk before him °
one of his metal. sculptures, -

‘made from. cine found on:

~ the enor floor, |

. ; thing is: ‘ke: a game.

up.”

wt use
what [ find, .1 limit myself to
what's here...J don't tidy it

- Why isa man, so obviously
involved : with’ his work,
teaching: ‘shop? :
DP a - machinist ‘and a
ilveramith by rade. ‘That's

and iti
; intdgrated .

_ancart. teacher, .
"he ° Bava:

‘in “aa
pemnle are eine to have more :

“Ieigure time. They're: not
Boing. ta know what lo do.” — -

“1, Before hecame to B.C, from .
"England. three _ years ag0, :

Bailey. applied. fora job as an:
‘t teachers .
"Bul, after seeing the schools
here, ‘I didn’t want to work as:
The schools ~

 "pailroad came through here on
_its way. to the mineral-rich

north: country.
And- the tegional board

directors are doing what they.
' ean to see that it does. ,

_ “PROMOTION
‘They. voted Wednesday to
spend $6,000 on promotion to
extend: the railway north,

.As John-Pousette,. _gecretary-. a

four alternative ‘routes | ‘to the

north, And the westerly route |
* (through ‘this: ‘destrict)' is. only

one of the choices...
“T hope this’ regional district.

‘can aggressively promote to
. Ottawa extension of the CN Line
north,” he said. a
mar. CNR official, .H,. Spicer,”

very. poor fucilities:. I: Will be
ow :

treasure’, pointed out, there are —

ames in Thornhill |

She said it was located in a
watershed attached to the
house.

Mrs. Taron quickly got the
children out of the house and
ran toa neighbor’sfor help. But
there was only an elderly
woman there.

As soon as they saw thick,
black smoke belching up, neigh-
bors ran to the Taren home.on
Matson Road, near Old Remo
Road.

A. son, David, 16 said he and 10
or 12 people rushed: to the scene.

_ By this time most of the house
was in Hames.

“Tt just.went too, fast,” said

David.

Tn the house when the fire .
broke out were Wendy, sevefi,

‘Terry, six and one-year-old

Chris.
.. David said he and neighbors

. grabhed what they could before

flames entirely enveloped the,
home.

“We saved a couple of
dressers and some clothes and I
grabbed a bunch of guns.”

“Then we saved a freezer full
of meat.”* he said.

Mrs, Taron ran to a nelgh-
bor's and called her husband,
Leslie, at Finning Tractor
where he worked.

He rushed home, but by the
time he arrived the house was
entirely in flames.

The house was partially in-

sured.
“We're moving into a small,

two-bedroom house we have on
the property,” Mrs. Taron said.

The three youngest. children
will stay with their parents.

David, 16; Fern 13; Jim, 12;
Ronnie, 11; Marilyn, 11; and
Hal, nine, are with relatives and
neighbors.

An older daughter, Dianne, is
living in Calgary.

But there was a lot that could
not be saved. The family still
needs clothes, bedding, cooking
utensils, mattresses and other
essentials.

Anyone whhing to help the
Faron family out may call Mrs.
Taron’s father, Fred Coburn, at
635-5726; Mrs. Joseph Roy at
635-7772 or Mrs. Dave Gibson at
635-5991,

Harold Olsen's customers
got The Herald a little late
"Thursday, But he had a good
-OXCUSE,

Harold took time out from
his paper route. to fight two
fires, - .

ot all ‘started about 4pm
Thursday | as. Harold, 14 was,

siting in: the kitchen eating ice .

‘cream, 2):
‘His © cousin: came. running

: into , the’ “house. excited. and. |

calle fe tor. help to but ‘out ao
re.

That tire was vat the home of
‘and .Mrs. Leslie -Taron |
hear Otd ‘Remo Road.
‘despite the efforts of the boys;
_and about 10 other people, fhe
house. burned. to .the-
Wher Harold caine
"about. an. hour. later,

Hi eraid paper boy
\—‘johnny

“And,

on spot

waiting to he delivered...
' After ‘dinner, Harold's
father drove him to- the
Riverside. ‘Trailer -Park® ‘on

Queensway to deliver papers..

As Harold was gettiig'out of: -
the car, he heard shouts ‘of |
“help, help". Following: the
‘voice, Hareid found a: trailer
on: fire. ‘
> He ‘van: hack and tela. his

father and then ran to nearby
trailers, geiting help... 0°
paid off. The, firefighters ©

threw Water.and: show on the:

: “traller owned by D. Laxar and
ere able: ‘wo save: it ‘and: i a

This time; Harold's ‘efforts oa