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60th YEAR — No, 35,"

_ Bob’ Parker ltd. 7

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_ Serving Terrace, the Hub ¢ Gity of the My Skea Valley. in Northwestem British Columbia:

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4 LOOK INTO THE FUTURE was taken by three Skeena High

Grade 11 students Eddy Graf,

Elizabeth Horsfield and Terry

Kolterman, finalists in a Terrace Rotary. Club essay contest
on the theme of Terrace in 20 years time, Contest was won
by Elizabeth Horsfield and her essay appears on Page | 5 of :

.. this issue, It won her an oxpense-pald trip. to Ota

| Ghambers: convention as

Link highway 1 16
to Alaska route —

Northwestern B, C.J Chambers of Commerce will ask the
Provincial Government to step up northern road development to

link Highway 16 with the Alaska a Highway. .

Petition
postpones - |
| water: vote

Terrace Municipal Couneil de-
cided to‘ take tinie out for furth

,/a study before passing the 1968
‘water frontage-tax.

The by-law was due for final :

reading Monday night,
But following a petition Pro-
m testing Increases inthetax, Coun
a decided to review the legists-
lon,
R Monday’s meeting ts technic-
m ally adjourned to Wednesday noon
® when final passage will be either
mm approved or rejected.

@ Council*s decision to defer the
e vote followed the reading. of the
5 petition by Victor Jolliffe. Some
150 signatures were attached to

5 B the document. .

Reeve J. Fred Weber made
the Intilal suggestion that Coun
z cil could take time out for fur-
ther study of the by-law before

evote, .
BS . But Councillor Lloyd Johnstone’

said that he felt Council had
fo pass the by-law “unless some
. body can tell us where the mon
ey will come from.,?*.

.. Johnstone referred to the cost |"

Bor building the pumping station
mand infiltration. gallery on Lit.
Btle’s Island,

‘We can. defer the vote but:

‘ e still have to come hack to.

a” he said.
| "The new by-law will raise. the
mater-frontage annual tax by $5
50 householders recelving water
‘om munteipal,

The new by-law covers houses -

Molders who recelve.. water.
‘ough municipal lines and also.

householders who tap tle muir.

ecipal-watey supply through lines
mecivately.tnatalled,

For. people on the municipal

fine it means a $5 increase from

0 per year with proportion: |
ely higher increases ‘for lots’

ceeding 100 feet in frontage.
And people: on: private: water,

Ines will. pay | an. additional. $6.

bor’ annum. from’ the previous:

‘for’ the ‘minimum’ 100, ‘feet:

-} for :

* Convention

_ The request {s contained in

ja resolution passed at the annual

convention ‘of the northwestern
chambers held in Terrace March

| 21-23, -

It was proposed by the Ter-
race chamber, (See also:P. 3)

The resolution underlined the
need for the road by stating that
“two of the world’s largest min-
ing companies are spending
millions of. dollars at Stewart
and. Alice Arm and they coald
procure. and maintain’ a more
stable working force if -they
could get good highway connec-
tiona,?’

A> Kitimat: -resoluttoyi calling
immediate Federal Gov.
ernment development of the ports
of both Prince Rupert and Kiti-
Mat was also passed,

The Kitimat resolution said
that (ports in lower mainland
are congested with deep water
traffic and that the two northern
ports are served by a national

railway and offer a shorter route

to the Orient, ._

The convention drew some 50
out-of-town . delegates, plus ‘re. |.
presentation from the-hostcham-
ber Terrace. and nefghboring

Kitimat.

- Fourteen of the 20 chambers
in the northwest area were Fepres |
sénted.at the convention, —.

- chairman Bob
Christ] of Terrace saldthe meet-
ing was “‘as well attended as we
could expect at this time’ of;the
year”
However. he said future north

west conventions: will be held at | ;

a. more attractive time of the
year,

“Tt was a reasonably produc.
tive. convention, Christ] told
‘| the Herald, -

. He: ‘sald. that” "the : ‘convention day.”

chose industry. spokesmenrather
than politicians for speakers this
year and said the decision was:
approved by. Sees “

New venue: for.

hospital meet |
) anil

* Tonights (Wedne
meeting. of the nosey) a Dis-
trict “Hospital “Assoclation will .
eprowious mesiinge Rave béon

ous’ mi 5 have.
held ‘in the Terrace Commiumity

Centre.:: Bit tonight's’: ie a

-starting at 8-p.m,, will be hel
in'the Hospital: dining room.”

a - ‘Brighten

Se wa ve am Pty

Terrace -

‘B.C. Hydro ts working to give|
Terrace a brighter outlook, - .

Local Hydro manager Jack ce
“Dougall announced last week that
the company will spend $10,000
in replacing 34 street lights "and
adding | 18 new lampstands, |

‘The “$10,000 capital: tab will
be picked wp, by. Hydro, But.
Terrace “Munteipal Couneil: will
have a larger light bill following
the installations,

Work. started last week and is
expected to be finished by the
end of this week. .

A total of 54 street lights will
be affected by the program,

- Thirty-four incandescent lights |
will be placed-by brighter mer-
cury-vapor lamps,

Streets. affected will include
Kenny, Sparks,‘ Eby, Birch, Sou-
cie, Munroe, Pheasant 2 ¥eo, Der-
ry nd Highway 16 East. °

Hydro Manager McDougall
algo-said thé company. wasbring-
ing a street lighting expert to
Terrace next month to-examine
the whole Hghting system of the
municipality and make recom.
mendations for ‘a five.year
‘system of improvements,

‘twill be done on a scien-

tifie basis,’ MeDo all said
brigly, “een 8

CPA switches
flight times;
mails change -

‘ Canadian . Pacific ‘Alzlines

.mer schedule April 1, :

ponding change in airmail closing
| times,

ing Terrace on Monday and Tues.

' Flight ry whieh ‘leaves. here
Monday. and. ‘Tuesdays at 4:50 |:

day at 6:55 pm,

. _. Every sother day, “Sunday . ine
“| elusive,’ direct flights. to. Van=
couver. wall leave « Terrace ' ‘at, | OF

450] pm,”

at ‘the:

switches its flight times to sum- .

||SCHOOL BOARD, THORNHILL
| DISCUSS SCHG QOLS'R

a _ “TRornhill Recréaticn Commision: and School Dis
trict. 88.cre now discussing Proposed rentals. for, the use

‘of Thornhill School.

. An earlier school board announcement that $3,000
rental: would be “ ‘charged : for ‘use of the school in ‘the
evening by offiliates of the Recreation. fommission drew

Strong. protest.

But it is undestood that representatives of the board

‘and the commission are now discussing the situation,
A meeting’ of ‘the’ Commission’s advisory Council

March 19 rejected a commission suggestion to offer $50
per month for rental : of the premises, in place of the
$250 set by the school board, “.

Puck league suspends

‘two. Terrace

players

Kitimat Intermediate Hockey League has. suspended two mem-

bers of the Terrace Omineca

. The suspensions, which: apply
only ‘to the -Kitimat league,
followed an incident.’ after last

Wednesday’s semi-final,

Terrace players Mel Motz and
Ed Kushner were involved in a
scuffle with | Kitimat linesman | 4
Jack Loran, |

_ The Kitimat league met Sunday
and suspended the two Terrace
players.

“Terriers? coach Peter Fanning :
deplored the incident, but called;

it* an: uncontrollable’ situation,

“* Phe majority. of the team
feels bad tliat this has haprened,”*

‘| he told the Herald,

. “IE they had just: shaken hands [
after the, period was. over they
would have walked offas harces,'”

Fanning said: that members of
the .two , teams. ‘were shabing

Terrace postmaster Robert
Dumma. has announced a corres~

CPA will have two flights téave |.

p.m. . will travel - via Prince |
Rupert.

Flight 38, direst | to: Vancouver siients asking. Council, o cover”

will leave each Monday and Tuese ||,

Bue ‘to. the CPA. changes: in
Schedule, ; ‘Post master Robert’
Dumnia Said that airmail losing:

office wal now -be.
et “thal: ype water’ passing

Soucie St ditch —

@ hazard to tots

‘Terrace “Munteipat Council
was told Monday Went ioe an
open’ ‘drainage ‘on. Soucte
‘Ste wag” a hazard to children.

‘The warning was contied ina”
petition signed by Soucié' St, ¥e-

the ditch, » °;

“The ‘pettifon, als tgned by
other “residents in’ the -immnéd-
fate imi Ware was: reed ye contract:

The. "pation called the diteh
ty don it aaa ran by Poco
children’ majo

ae water abet terauek es

Terriers for five years each.

hands when the incident occurred
on the Kitimat fee...

It followed a 4-2 overtime loss
hy the Terriers ‘to the Kitimat
City Centre Hardware team,

aga? toss, following a 4-3 Mon-
defeat, eliminated the
Terrace team. ;

Coach ‘Fanning said that he
had resigned. from the team,
“I can't see myself associated
with this kind of thing,” he said,

During the Wednesday game
Terrace received nine penalties
to Hardware' 5 one.

1 'Hes

BC Tel

reveals
budget

Local football fans could see’
the 1968 Grey cup Hve on their
television screen,

But it’s a long way between
the Lenkurt factory in Burnaby
when components for carrying
live television programs areproe
duced, and the microwave towers
of the Pacific. Northwest where
they will be installed,

i. C, Tel district managerS,G.
Patterson said that live television
could be here as early as late
1968, -It will definitely arrive
by spring 1969.

Provisions for live video and
an enlarged Terrace telephone
exchange are contained in the
company's 1968 §67 milion
capital construction program.

Capacity of the aaa tele-
phone exchange will be enlarged
and facilities providing service

between Terraceand Lakelse will
be expanded and: improved this |.
year as part of the B. C, Tele.

phone Company’s $67 Tafllion | -

capital construction program,
Patterson, sald the district
will recetye $3.6 million share
of the budget,
Also included in the district's,
program are major Pelee

vy nate ene
for. tha : TerracéPrince| -
George microwave radio transe)

mission system... .

These two projects, involving
total spending exceeding $4 mil.
lon, Mill bring dizect distance

dialing service . about March,
1969, and facilitiés for live net.
worke ‘television transmission
into Terrace by late 1968, or
early 1969,
In the Terrace telephone of-

, fice,-a G00-line switching equip-

‘ment addition will be made ata
cost of about $50,000, to pro
vide facilities to serveadditional
customers in the Terrace eXe
change area,

Nearly $110,000 will be spent
on new facllities for service
between Terrace and Lakelse,

This project will include the
installation of four miles: of
burled telephone cable,

’ Patterson said the installa-
tions’ will net only provide addi.
tional circuits to Lakelse, but
‘also improve the quality of trans-
mission substantially,

The larger expenditures in the
district will go into completion
of the Terrace Primary toll
centre and the new microwave
‘facilities,

Mr, Patterson. said the com.
pany will spend $680,000 this
year on the former project. The
new building begun last year is
nearing completion andthe instal-
lation of equipment és to begin
soon,

Existing long distance facili.
ties now housed in the Terrace

telephone exchange building will |.

be transferred to the. toll b build-
ag this spring at a cost st of $120,-

a cane MINISTER .
- FROM NORTH, WAC TOLD oe

Northwest Chambers of Commerce want - Premier
Bennett to nome cabinet minister fram the north .

country.

The federated chambers convention here. Soturday

interrupted normal business
Premier asking for

to draft a telegram : -to: the *

“appointment of another Cabinet

minister -from the existing MLAs of. the: narthern part

of the province,”

The telegram followed the surprise decision of ‘the
Premier to take over the Highways ministry himself fol-
lowing the resignation of the Hon, P: A. Gaglardi ‘from.

the. post.

will reorganize Liberals

Ma rtin corti

' .
snub CC’
External Affairs Minister Paul
Martin did not snub the Northwest
Chambers of Commerce conven.
Hon, according to local Liberal
standard bearer Art Bates, 7
“Where do they get this kind
of information?”’, Bates asked.
Bates was incensed over a
headline in a recent issue of
the. Prince Rupert Daily News
which sald “Martin Snubs Con.
vention,"

-“The truth of the matter is,’? |:

said Bates, “Mr. Martin had

made plans. to visit Terrace on.

his itinerary in his leadership
campaign, and by coincidence
his tentative plans coincided with
the date set for the convention
in Terrace which was the 22 of
March,’?

“He left three ‘days later than
planned," said Bates, “‘and
arrived Sunday night, to meet
with his delegates ag was ori-
ginally planned,’

‘Martin’s itinerary took him,
prior to. coming to Terrace, to
all the major centres: west of
Winnipeg. He flew from Prince
George, touching down at
Smithers, and stayed over night
in Terrace. .

-After a swim at ‘Skoglund Hot
Springs Monday morning, ‘Martin

Jelt for Victoria and Vancouver

before returning to Ottawa,

Art Bates said he was pleased | -
with: the turn out of. delegates
and with: the high calibre of
-questions put, to. the AMitister,

he. operative - yord.- was
when’? and not ‘‘if**,

During : an “overnight. op in
‘| Terrace, |. Sunday,” 2", Martin

- Skeena ‘Liberal ! Association:
‘Approximately 30... delegates
and their wives from. Prince
Rupert, | Kitimat and. Terrace
attended the meeting, “

-In reply. to questions flelded
from the floor of the. meeting,
Martin’ said ‘the “most: serious’
problem facing Canada ‘today is
the Quebec’ problem. |

“While it is. a minority making
most of the noise,’ he said “there
is nevertheless 4 very Serious
problem,’ -

Martin ‘said he feels that he is
the only man, being bilingual,
with long. service and. wide ex-
perience, capable of: solving the ;
problem,

Martin. also . said. one. of -his
major. duties as Prime Minister.
would be to visit all areas more
often and he would see that his
ministers - would do-the’ same,

“Regarding our involvement
in Norad.and Nato,”* he said "we
must handle this very carefully
and not attempt ‘to go it alone,”

In response to a question from
a delegate concerning universal
education, Martin - said: em.
phatically, ‘‘The federal govern.
ment: ‘should: not get- involved .
in education,” “This is. pro.
vineial jurisdiction and we should
only participate by offering guide
lines or federal assistance allow-
able under the present constitu.

in .

He said that. he: praised Prime. ;
Minister. Pearson's efforts. in
altering’ the “constitution, but
there ‘should’be much more pro-

> vincial involyement,;’

Martin. reported:-on" the fine
reception: he received inSmnithars: -
on his brief few minute stopover, :

enroute to Torraces cee

Production agreement made

Japanese back.

“Japanose. capital is expected| low grade material could be
to ‘put. a Terrace-based mining! mined at a profit on a lange

operation into ful! production.
Kleanza Mines “Croesus” pro-

perty, flve. miles east of Terrace, - :

is“ the: property involved in the
agreement;

-Richard H,.Bates, president ot
Kleanza. Mines: ‘Ltd, announced
Friday. ; that. ~the company had
‘signed’ an «.exploration-develop-
ment: agreement with Titan Mines

leved to be backed by

é
%
k
bi

apital, has. Agreed to: |

"- gong property, which
consists. of ‘one ‘hundred amd
twenty. mineral claims,

‘The’ fon, ‘eeaentlally, - a’ low

fifty miles = ..
aa and-the:low -

atlon of: the: showings,

Kleanza mine?”

scale.

Under the agreement, Kivania
retains about 50 per cent of the
¢laims on the mountain, -”:

Titan has agreed to proceed
with & preliminary diamond dril-
ling program to commence’ at

once to evaluate the dopth-grade'| 44

‘vised and planiied bya" an
merit committee composed oftwo |
from. Kleanza. and three from: :
eaten,” under the “ages
under « the agreenia a
will ot ‘for. forming me
before July -30;.

relationship on the property ard |jro
to: determine suitability of vars.

fous geophysical: methods for: fur- 9

ther study,
After . an evaluation. “ period |!
Titan has agreedto advarice funds

totalling’ over ‘one: hundred thous:
sands dollars:in-several stages | ths.
between Angus; 196s. and vane to

1970, ©.

per ¢ent by Titan.” |”
: Titanhas‘also agreed to bring
the’. 2B ry, into production.

new agreement, to. convert fin in

expended... on‘ the Property Anta
shares

: Kleanza