ete PO nT eed VOLUME 71 NO. 161 To cost $9 million -Skeena Mal Abacus Cities Ltd. announced late Tuesday afternoon, in a telephone conversation a from to the Calgary, r Terrace Herald, they have acquired a 9.4 acre site in Terrace upon which it plans to develop _a “Skeena Mall”, The . project involves the construction of a $9 million air conditioned and enclosed shopping centre; a K-Mart Department Store, with 50,000 square feet of Opp space; an Fortean Foods supermarket of 26,000 square feet and a further 78,000 square feet to accommodate an ad- diational 20 stores and services. Mr. J.F. Alan Corn- wall, vice president and regional manager of Abacus Cities Ltd. said: STRONG DEMAND “Wea are extremely pleased with the acquisition and par- ticularly that most of the space in the Skeena Mall ig already pre-leased. ihe oe demand for easing space is strong and we expect to be fully leased well before con- struction is completed.”’ Cornwall said ‘that in addition to K-Mart and Overwaitea there were 15 other tenants who hace gned leases the Center lo 4 estimated 85 pet cent leased position at this atage. NOVEMBER DEAL Cornwall added the shopping centre had been acq in Novyemver from Cloverlawn In- vestments Ltd, of Toronto and that ail premita and agreements with the. district of TERRACE HAVING BEEN ACQUIRED _IN- CLUDING FOUN- | DATION PERMITS FOR BUILDING CON- STRUCTION. Com- letion of the Skeena Mall slated for October 1978. “The Skeena Mall is a long awaited. develop- ment by residents of the Terrace district’ Com- wall told the Herald, ‘‘as evidenced by the heavy preleasing. “It is the first miajor enclosed and air con- ditioned centre in Terrace.” Th chopping tre is e shopping cen situated on the Northwest corner of the intersection Four customers had just left the Prince Rupert Coop Corner store and gas bar Monday night at 8:30. The lone sales clerk-a young woman- looked up to find two men wearing Hallowe’een masks-one holding what - Fire victims names given Names of the four juveniles who rished in the 3:30 Sunday morning fire which also destroy the Department of Human Resources ad- ministered McCarthy House was revealed Tuesday. Dead are: Stanley Tracey Galbraith, 15; Linda Elaine Galbraith 10; Gideon John Hep- worth 9 and Reno Chummy Wella 10, Date of the inquest has been set for January 31 at the Prince — Rupert courthouse, at 7 p.m. Coroner James Lynch of Terrace will preside. Inquest into the death by fire in Rupert which also occurred Sunday morning, of 17 yr. old Ruth Marie Jaeger will be at the Courthouse in Prince Rupert 7:30 p.m. January 24th. Masked men rob |. Rupert Co-op-..| Photos above are as follows: appeared to he a revolver. The spokeaman for the pair ordered the woman to lie face down on the floor, while th tifled the two cas registeres, The men left hurriedly on foot. immediately after the urglary. th ce reports gave amount of case taken as - $1,500 “at press. time Monday conflicting figures were still being received. ; . One of the masked men -was described at 5 feet'8 inches in height weighing approxima ry is pounds, wea’ ga beige raincoat, black gloves and black shoes. The second was said to be the same height, but slightly less in weight, wearing a dark woolen green coat and dark colored pants. The Rupert detachment of R were im- mediately summoned and carried out an in- tensive search of the area which is fairly wooded, without results. Phylis Bow:nan, editor. of the Prince Rupert Daily news was in the area and arrived just after the theft,with her camera. A picture of the scene will appear in tomorrow's Herald: — Two center pictures show the children of Thornhill Primary & Elementary schools excitedly watching their school Christmas concert Tuesday morning. of Eby Street and Lakelse Avenue in Terrace and will accommodate parking facilities for over 600 cars. The spokesman for rdon McCann ing a population of 16,500 residents with a trading area of 72,000, ESTABLISHED FIRM Abacus Cities Limited is an Alberta and B.C. based public company providing investment vechiles and related services for individual investors through operations in land and property development. e@ economy's Mayor puzzled 1 to go ahead residents office is in ancouver, with cor- porate offices in Cigary with divisisions in Calgary, Ed- monton,Vancouver and Victoria. Abacus is a seven year old company. lis shares are tra on the Alberta stock ex-— change. Terrace reactions vary on Skeena mall announcement Tuesday’s an- pouncement nat the ong-propose eena Mall would finally go ahead was greeted with optimism that Terrace’s economic dark days are over. Mike Tindall, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said the mall will be a big help to the town because of jobs created through con- struction and the opening of new stores. sod Construction costs will pro in the range of $5 to $6 million, Tindall estimated, and although the major contractor isn't likely to be local, other sub-contractors will be. _ And once the. mall is constructed, a number of new jobs will-be created froma new stores which will be coming into the mall, Tindall said the go- ahead on Skeena Mall “definitely’’ shows a prowing interest in errace from outside industry. He pointed to a number of -other recent im- provements such as high- way upgrading, govern- ment office expansion and private investment in local stores which in- dicate that Terrace is getting a more positive economic profile. Mayor Dave Maroney, however, declined to comment on the an- nouncement, stating that it the takeover of Cloverlawn By Abacus Cities Ltd. was contrary to what he had heard. Maroney said that in conversations he had had as recently as last Friday with representatives of Cloverlawn he had un- derstood Cloverlawn would still be involved in the project. Abacus Cities had paid back axe on the Lakelse proper mayor said, md had sta they | would provide financial backing to Cloverlawn. Maroney’s reaction to will this was that the mall would finally be con- structed because the Money was available,but he was not aware that Abacus. Cities - Holeiti:the-wall” made- would the ro ; P eoian Piwek, manager of the local Overwaitea acquire store, saidhe was pleased Pp to hear of the an- nouncement because Overwaitea has planned on going into the mall for about years. The major reason for the move, Piwek sald, was the opportunity to enlarge the grocery store facilities and take ad- vantage of a shopping mall, The new store will be considerably larger and ill also be a more modern facility, the Manager said. Piwek said that business in town warrents this type of expansion, search continues Terrace police an still searching for yo a man ‘believed to have plunged into the Skeena River with his truck about 40 miles West of Terrace last week. Police receive the in- formation last Thursday that a truck had gone into the Skeena River and dispatched a diver to the scene who found some tools in the river but did not, according to police, bring up anything else. Other sources stated a tool box and a “Tidy” gasoline tank that have Adolph is a lucky lad i4 year old Adolph Rioux is a lucky lad. \ Monday nigh: Adolph, according to Terrace RCMP , apparently ran out in front of a car as it was travelling East near the Tillicum © Theatre on Lakelse Avenue. What could nave been a fatal accident resulted, in nothing much worse than a broken nose and some bruises, his arents, Gilbert and uliette Rioux said, Tuesday morning, Left. above, Michel Smith, age 9, af Grade 4 Thornhill althoung he was scheduled for x-rays at Mills Memorial Hospital, to see whether there was any further injury. Doctors have assured Adolph, according to his Twim father that he should be home for Christmas. No charges are pending, The accident points out the importance of crossing at properly marked intersection-and the danger of parked and other vehicles restricting pedestrian view. ee cera i Pe ee ae Elementary holds crocheted Christmas decoration that won her 2nd prize of $5 in the Herald contest. (Tides were swite ed in yesterday's Herald photos with First prize Herald contest winner Cindy Boyd's photo being switched with third prize winner Yvonne McColman) been indentified as belonging to George Huber Cowden, of Terrace. RCMP have a Missing Persons bulletin out for a George Hubert Cowden, born 29 Nov 1930, residing at 3315 North Kalum. He is described at 5’6”, 170 Ib. with brown hair and hazel eyes. R.C.MLP. said Tuesday dragging the Skeena River is because of the ice in the river. The water at the spot the truck is believed to have entered is from 50 to60feetdeep, Police say they are waiting for the water level to drop before attempting to resume the search. The area where the search is taking place is © also known, locally as “Hole in the Wall” and has a long association with Indian legend and mystery: Last year RCMP police divers recovered a murdered man from the Ex- chamsiks River which runs into the Skeena near there, and a Prince Rupert man was sen- tenced for the “Hole in the Wall’? murder-rape. SEA OUR ESSE TS impossible’ sarrieme nay Right, above - one of the bronze sculptures on display WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1977 LEGISLATIVE isvaRY, COMP. 77/78 PARLIAMENT EULLDIIS » | VIGEORIA, BeCe jol Lm ¥ | 20¢ fl aa a 7 7 7 r . e from Thornhill Elementary Christmas concert Tuesday morning. gg Council offered Red D’Or for health minister meet - B.C.G.B.U. officials resented a special offer to city council to provide accommodation for interested persons wishing to meet with Minister of Health the Hon. Bob McClelland Wednesday at the two o'clock meeting. Earlier as reported in the news media Bob Hallsor had said the Wednesday meetin would have to be limi to 14 or so invitations due to space limitations at council chambers. The BCGEU had also offered to rovide procedure directions in published form as worded y council that it would distribute to al] persons attending to ensure an orderly.meeting......- The Union additionally offered to provide free of charge the services of a sergeant at arms. e mayor, at noon Tuesday assured union representatives he would pass on their generous offer but not give them any definite | com- mitments the council would accept the proposals. The accommodation offered by the union was the free use of the Red D’or room at the Terrace Hotel. The BCGEU representatives con- tinued to meet throughout the rershainder of Tuesday in an attempt to get council to change its ited number of in- vitations to Wednesdays’ meeting with. the health minister Skeenaview psychogeriatric Lodge odge employees and members of the BCGEU union fear the facility will all. assurances to the be phased out and patients transferre elsewhere, despit con- trary by the = ad- trator Brad Gee and department officials. but ni gs also See sole the are replaced, they will provide a greatly reduced bed capacity, with many of the present patients being moved to Smithers, Maple Ridge and Prince Rupert. The staff insists this would upset and distur’ an patients. They also feel e suggestion to move the facility to a site close to the Mills Memorial Hospital is an unwige_one -. gtating a number” of” of reasons, both psychological and practical. A“leaked” report of an interdepartmental - survey conducted last year insisting the present stru structure isin good condition and would be superior to any suggested new replacement building because of the ce and low- y's Herald. ( today’s Editorial on page 4), . The government survey also claimed that the cost of thoroughly renovating the © present structure enabling it to operate for at least a further 10 years period would be from one third ‘one quearter the per square foot cama “a ° replacemen building. Terrace Library shows cast metal Ranging from polished gold abstracts to junk- eap textured busts, the cast metal sculptures how displayed at the Terrace Library arts room are a_ visual variety. Sponsored by the Terrace Art Association, the exhibition of schultuwres are on loan unti] Dec. 23 from the Burnaby Art.Galery. Although there are only about a dozen sculptures on exhibit, what there is to see is worth a trip downstairs in the library. Metalwork sculptures is an exacting craft. The artist starts with a wax sculptures will eventually be the basis of the molten bronze when it is poured inot into a cup sculptures and flows down into the form. The waxis sprayed with alchol to ensure a clean bond. The solid mold is them . placed into a very hot iin and, while s the mold is taken out an packed in sand. The molten metal is pured into the mold and the form is ready to be carved. Once this process is complete, chemicals can - be applied to the bronze to achieve various colours ranging fromx bright green to black or brown. The metal scultures, created by various Canadian artists, can be seen this week until Friday during library hours, Headline confusion explained Monday's Herald Airport Hell of a Meas’ quoting Kitmat director and alderman George Thom, was referring to the transfer point for bus passengers to Cp Air and e epartment of Transport to the Airport- AR Cy | at the Terrace Centennial Library Monday to Friday of this week, and in no way made reference to the con- ditions of the Terrace Airport. Thom was complaining, at the Kitimat Stikine regional meeting Saturday, of buses double parking on Lak Avenue with the result that lugguge ended up in pubbles or on snowbanke while passengers wairted for half an hour before boa the bus to their destinations. Our apologies to the ort manager for any confusion resulting from the headline quote.