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@ Skeena bridge

§ confirmed again

A new bridge across the
Skeena River into Terrace is
essential to the continued
development of this area, say
municipal and regional
officials.

But highway department
officials, politicians and anyone
having any knowledge about
such a proposed bridge are
tight-lipped about the project.

Socred MLA Dudley Little
offered a brief summary of
developments to date.

He said the provincial
government hes already
allocated funds towards the
project, said to bein the million
dollar class, °
studying possible approaches
and various bridge structures
for the development,

Little sald it is just a matter of
time before studies are
completed and previncial
authorities call for tenders for
construction of the bridge.

“I'm hoping for a start this
year, with completion some
time next year,"’ he said.

He claims his work towards
obtaining a new bridge for the
Skeena River has been
“finished” and all that is left for
him to do is to make sure the

Ehgineers are.

project proceeds,

The highways director of
planning in Victoria, who asked
that his name be witheld, saidin
a recent telephone interview
that engineers had almost
completed preliminary studies
(surveying and soil samples)
and that bridge structure and
césts were being studied. __

Highways engineers in
Terrace had no further
comments,

However, Ross Bowlby, a
senior road foreman with the
highways department in
Terrace » said engineers in
Victoria were processing
information obtained from
survey crews in the area during
the past few weeks.

To ‘engineers studying
possible access routes and
bridge structures it’s a matter
cf cost and economy, he said.

“Bridge access is vita]
because three traffic arteries
will direct the flow of traffic
towards the bridge from the
east,” added Bowlby.

A Highways crew had a boat
out in the water and were doing
fome Kind of testing recently,

said

| Liquor markup

hexceeds 50 pet.

VICTORIA — The ‘provincial ‘

government confirmed today
increases-in the price of most
beers and liquors - and
announced a new formula for
fixing future prices.

The new formula of settling
prices fixes them to specified
markups on the cost of the
product to the Liquor Control
Board.

Canvass.
starts

The Terrace Arena Campaign
shifted into second gear
Wednesday.

Augie Geeraert, Chairman of
the Local Business Division of
the campaign announced that 15
volunteers have begun the job of
canvassing the approximately
500 firms in the Terrace area:

“This is a big job,” Geeraert
said, “and we need the
cooperation of the businessmen
if this division of the campaign
is to reach its objective of
$100,000.”

Geeraert said-that this vital
part of the campaign should be
completed within the next three
weeks.

Markups range from 52 per

cent for B,C, beer to104 per cent
for foreign spirits, liquors and
fortified wine.

The price changes: A 12-
bottie case of beer goes up 20
cents to $2.70 plus tax:

The lower-priced rye whisky
goes up 40 cents to $5.20 from
$4.80, while the.$5.20 rye is up
cents to $5.40.

Scotch whisky is five cents
cheaper - $6.15 from $6.20 - and
‘imported gins are down by the
same amount to $5.35 from
$5.40. But home-produced gin is
increased to $5 from $4.80.

’ There is a 15-cent increase on
Canadian-bottled rum, to $5.05
from $4.90, and also increases
on most local wines of five to 10
cents a bottle. - .

The new prices came into

force Tuesday and were.

approved by the cabinet May 27.

The new price formula was
approved at the same time,

It allows the LCB itself to
adjust prices to relect costs.

The new markups, based on
the cost of the liquor to the
board, work out roughiy as
follows: ;

B.C. products - spirits 94 per

- Cont'd on Page 2 .

_.Skulking arid ‘jurking behind this ‘garbage container on
Highway 25 is Terrace Herald staffer Diana Smith. Diana, not

being a tourist, but a resident of the area didn't want to he

LITTER BARREL
TOURISTS

FoR

caught violating the sign at Tight. Despite the sign. she just
couldn't bring herself ta throw her litter on the highway.

ae

Prince George’s stranglehold
on the northern interior

broken, according to Terrace
Mayor Vic Jolliffe.

Jolliffe, who returned from a
meeting of northern interior

Friday, successfully mustered
enough support from various
communities to have the
original ‘“‘pro-Prince George”
presentation to Ottawa shelved
anda steering committee of one
representative from each of the
seven northern districts set up.
The Ottawa presentation
outlining the transportation
facilities, natural ‘resources
and availability of skilled labor
in the area north of Clinton to
the Yukon border was primarily

. link of the PGE and CNR: rail
nes. ,
The line, which would carry
natural resources and allow for
the development of the area

Terrace-Hazelton-Kitimat
‘region would allow for
_ tremendous economic growth to

the area which received these

natural resources, according to

Jolliffe.

_ regional incentive plan has been’

mayors in Prince George.

concerned with a proposed rail °

immediately north of the

T errace now
in running

Prince George had been the  &

prime contender in the power
struggle to bring the proposed
line to their. area. The Prince
George support - came mainly
‘from Prince Rupert who need
Prince George’s support in their
bid for funds to become a major
northern seaport. .

However,:a threat by. Jolliffe
along with Vanderhoof Mayor
Everett Stephen and number of |
Peace River area mayors to
pull out of the. . Regional
Incentive Plan if there was no
solution tothe. alleged -pre-
Prince George approach was
successful in forcing the setting
up of the steering committee,
which will be chaired by Prince
George mayor Harold Moffat.

With the setting up of the
steering committee, the
Terrace-Hazelton-Kitimat area
will have an equal opportunity
to influence the take-off point of
the proposed line. Each of the
seven regional districts will
have a single vote.

The steering committee of
one person appointed by each
regional ‘district, plus one
alternate from each district,
will mean that the regional

Cont'd on Page 2

“Loffmark lied,

The. Socred government has

charge

Ralph ‘Loftmark told the

been accused of lying,.,to this
" province's registered nurses:

One year ago health minister .

Registered Nurses’ Association
of British Columbia that they
would be. allowed to assist in

Anti-pollution | groups
seek water authority

" Anti-pollution groups in
Several northwest B.C.
communites have begun 4

campagia for the establishment-

of a Water Authority that would
have a planning jurisdiction in
the watersheds of the Skeena
and Bulkley Rivers.

Delegates from SPEC groups ,

in Smithers, New Hazleton and
Prince Rupert, meeting at the
first annual Skeena- -Bulkley,
Watershed Conference in
Prince Rupert last weekend,
agreed .to work jointiy io
examine ‘the need for and
feasibility of a -Skeena
Watershed Authority.

Initial efforts wilt be directed
to determining to what extend
such an authority. could be
modelled on the ‘Okanagan
Basin Water Authority,

- , established in 1569,

Co-operating with the SPEC
groups is the Gitsan-Carrier
Tribal Council, representing
more than 3,000, Indians who
have traditionally earned their
livelihood by fishing the upper
reaches of the Skeena and
Bulkley. Rivers. Council
president Ray Jones is a
member of the Water
Conference steering committee.
Other members are local SPEC
ee Al Stratton of New
Wazleton, Dan Miller of Prince
Rupert and Joe L’Orsa of
Smithers.

L’Orsa told the meeting that

protection of water resources is
vital to the total environment of
the region. “The twin concepts
of land and water use are
inseparable," he said.
“Anything one does to the land
or the plant covers of the land

Skeena Health Unit has a a new
chief medica] health officer. . .

Scottish-bern Dr, Alistair
Thores, 34, moved his family to

- Prince Rupert to become the -

region's public heaith officer on
June 1. °

“ longer and more healthtul living
_ was well established. before -
such drugs were introduced -30

years ago,” .
“Particularly noticeable “tg
thé reduction. of deaths caused

-»" by diseases of infants and young

”.. people,'’ he said. -

Thores spoke enthusiastically :

about his. new dutles- and the
importance of public health in a

‘recent interview.
A cerlury ago, when public ~

health .services were . non-
existent, an individual could die

from. any number of illnesses —

and disease, he said.

“Today, “because of public *

health services, we are not only
reasonably ;. ‘healthy but live
almost twice as long as our
ancestors did,"” he added.

‘Thores ‘ feels the ‘ma or
* change in: public health is

many more .~ people: curvive

He believes’ that- this, is

attributable to public health

until they'reach their middle - ,

years. ‘becatide'; of — the.

Doctor urges vigilance

“measures which has helped .

educate people: in: better livin
habits. . B

Although ‘Thores ‘did not
elaborate on his specific duties

as & health officer, he predicted

that: Skeena Health Unit. will.
continue to * provide - efficient”
: “ concern ourselves even more in

:the future with the quality of

public health service...
‘Untll Thores' appointment
“this month, the Health Unit has

‘been without a medical. officer’

since 1987.

Skeena Health Unit'éerves an’ .
estimated 60,000 people living’
- between the Queen -Charlotte

Islands to Houston in:thé east
and Stewart in- the north. Its
southernmost boundary is
Kitimaat village.

Thores said the unit™ has.

continuously... conducted:

extensive health: education:
programs hoth for: the. general
‘public and in, the Public: ‘achoo
_ system, °

“I]t is essential that we
maintain vigilance -- and that
e pay tribute to the

magnificent work that our staff’

has: been carrying ‘out under
‘trying conditions.

“Nothing remains static in
public health and we hope. to

‘people's. lives now..that more. of

them: are living longer," he -

said; :
Dr.: Thores was. born in
Aberdeen, Scotland, and

. graduated from the University . ;

of Aberdeén. -in. 1960: He
practiced in. Glasgow until he
emmigrated ‘to Canada. in 1964

’. where. he completed’. post -
graduate studies in’ pediatrics
at the. University of British ©
Columbia and. Vancouver.

Genera) Hospital,
Dr--Tharés . joined , the: BC:

‘will, inevitable affect the
waters, either streams or lakes.
This in turn will affect the land
contiguous to these water
courses,”’

He added that planning

should correlate the
development of diverse
resources to aboid the

exploitation of one at the
expense of others, He stressed
that the planning authority
‘would have to have
interdisciplinary expertise far
in excess of that invested in any
authority now in existence. Its
members should be drawn from
all. levels of government,
industry and the interested _
public.”
Increasingly
conflicts between the forestry
and fishing industries were of |
particular concern to the
conference, Resolutions also
expressed concern about the
environmental effect of a pulp

mill:‘teo be constructed at |

Houston by Brikley Valley
Forest Indistries Ltd ‘and
Proposed coal strip mining’ in

several locations throughout .
northwest B.C, and the Queen -

Charlotte Islands.

While. the proposed water _ ai
-authority’s actual formation

remains a future goal, anti-
pollution groups are continuing

. to combat other problems.
In-Smithers, the SPEC group

is studying the effect a proposed
pulp mill in Houston will have
on the natural ecological
balance of the river system
between Houston and Prince
Rupert,

Contd. on Page 2

: Correction
.:The Terrace Herald would
“like to- apologize to. John

‘Carlsen, manager of the
’ Lakelse Hotel for'a production

error. In lts-issue of June 2.
Mr. Carisen = had been
commenting: ‘on ‘the prospect
Of. increased: Hquor’ prices

"Weather

High = Low MN,
June3 0 43 a - i
June4 val 43 yp \
Juneb 75 43 é ) ae

Weather Forecast: Monday-cloudy with sunny period. Tuesday
- cloudy with sunny periods, Wednesday - mainly cloudy.

‘public health planning, . said

Vivian McVey, president of the

- 6) member Terrace chapter of

the. Registered Nurses’
Assogiation. a

To-late, she said, : ‘registered

nurses haven't been invited. to

| assist such planning:

Nurses, -by. virtue’ of their

profession, are ina position to

. offer sound valid-advice in any

public health policymaking
decision, she said.

Not only did Loffmark ‘fail to

‘Thursday - cloudy with a few showers and a stigh drop in
Predicted temperatures: highs 70-75 until

temperature,
Thursday when it should drop to 65. Lowsi in the 40-45 range.

live up to his promises but also
failed to show up as the guest
speaker at the. 59th. annual
meeting of the assocation in

apparent ;

_.This mammoth TD 25 bulldorer
started work Wednesday on the Terrace arena.

“the site, Clearing of the parking lot 5
- completed,: according‘ to ‘the. arena: campaign

Contd on Page 2

“I feel that we should it be |
satisfied... With «. 4
ach evements ; nor ‘ta 8. =
granted .. the tremendous’. leaving to obtain his diploma in .
advances! rectrdéd. inthe: public: “public health at. the Univeral.
breath tletd to. date,” ‘said.! Of Toronto. or

 Blte, The. site preparation -which Involves the |
_) novement of some 30,000 yards. of material is.’

‘expected to be completed in two weeks. Moat of |

_ the material belng moved from the site ls being ;

z wed to, Brade tt the barking tot at the north sai, af.

committee, a project, which campaign
« Hillel Boreditsky was successful due'ts.
* number, of volunteers who donsted their:
. over: te pakt’ ‘three; weeka. -

when due toa paste-up error:
comments: ‘froma previous
story. on eng. prices ‘Found its
way: , into “Mr. Chrleen's B..

- tremendous’ advances made: iin’
infectious disease control. —
“While this is. due’ in:some
measure tothe introduction of
- wonder drugs, the" trend to .

+ DR, ALISTAIR THORES