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Old ‘newspapers t treasured

OLD NEWSPAPERS never die.

They may fade, wrinkle and develop a
rank mildewy smell, but ancient ucwspa-
pers continue to provide nostalgia seekers
with a unique glimpse of past life.

Instead of throwing away old newspapers,
many local residents have kindly dropped

_ off copies of the Terrace Omineca Herald,

the Vancouver Province and the Sunday
Sun at the Standard's office.

What do. news staff do with the bundles
of yellow tattered papers?

Reporters carefully tum each brittle page
fo” extrapolate any amusing stories or
curious facts found inside,

A prime example is an article in the De-
cember 3, 1969 issue of the Terrace Herald
conceming drug use in Terrace and in Can-
ada.

Thirty years ago, local doctors, nurses,
‘teachers, RCMP officers, parents and stu-
dents attended a drug seminar in Kitimat.

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Vancouver doctors came North to discuss
drug abuse in Canada.

At the time in Canada there were approxi-
malely 6,000 known heroin addicts and 60
per cent of them lived in British Columbia.

The article reported that the local resi-
dents who attended the seminar thought the
drug situation was being overblown and
overplayed.

Locals had felt that children would

*‘gtow up well informed and the percentage
of addicts would not likely increase per
capita with the population increase."*

Today, there are 12,000 to 15,000 heroin
addicts in. B.C. alone. Vancouver's
Downtown Eastside is the country’s worst
drug-infested area in Canada.

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Another story in the 1969 paper reported
thal the tive-attenuated mumps virus vac-
cine was available to physicians in Canada
for the first time.

Skeena mill then and now

When Skeena Forest Pro-
ducts first came to Terrace
in 1959, production ranged
in the neighborhood of
50,000 board feet per day.
Originally, there was a
single-cut band saw rig, but
this was replaced in 1968
when a double cut band rig
was installed.
~Jn.1969 the mill produced

“a quarter of a million board

feet per day.
‘Today, the mill produces

Did
yOu
know?

1184 cubic metres per day,
which is approximately
501,720 board feet per day.

That means the mill’s 170
workers produce 2,951
board feet per person per
day.

That’s a 195 per cent in-
crease in production from
30 years ago.

Don McDonald, SCI
spokesperson, said it’s hard
to compare the ‘mill
nowadays to the equipment

used years ago.

“This is a much more
modern mill,’ McDonald
said. ‘‘It’s like comparing
apples and oranges.”’

In the sixties, the Terrace
mill was unique for its
manufacture of complete
panabode homes.

The buildings were made,
or pre-fabricated, to
customers’ specifications
and shipped across Canada
and the U.S.

In 1969, Super-Valu supermarket was advertising pot roast
(chuck or round bone) for 55 cents a pound.
Today, Safeway sells pot roasts for about $7.03 per kilo-

"gram.

: Thirty years aga shoppers could also get six boxes of
Kratt dinner for 79 cents. Nowadays one box of KD costs

$1.09.

In 1968, Gino's coiffures was advertising wigs for $35,
fails for $38 and wiglets for $12.95. Nowadays, they'd

cost anywhere. from $60-$100,

Thirty years ago, floor tiles (9x9) at the Terrace Coop
cost only & cenis each, Today, one tile costs anywhere

Grom 65-95 cents.

In the sixties, the Terrace Hotel was advertising ‘‘ihe
finest business men’s lunch in town” at the Thunderbird
dining lounge. Today, the hotel doesn’t advertise a

clals!

*‘men’s’* business lunch, but it does offer great lunch spe-

Looking for
a new recipe?

Printed on the front page of the Dec. 3, 1969 issue of
the Terrace Herald, are the winners of the paper's
recipe contest.

After judging hundreds of entries submitted for
everything from coffee cake to Elephant Stew, city
councilior Edna Cooper awarded first prize and $25 to
Mrs. JW. O’Connell for her Monkey Bread recipe,
Hete it is:

FIRST PRIZE — MONKEY BREAD:

3/4 cup milk

1/4 cup sugar plus 1 tsp

1/4 cup lukewarm water

1 envelope dry yeast

1 Wsp salt

1 cup melter buiter

3 cups all-purpose flawer

Directions:

Scald milk; pour into large bowl and allow to cool ta
luke-wamn.

Dissolve 1 tsp. sugar in lukewarm water, Sprinkle
yeast over water and let stand 10 minutes, then stir
well.

Add well-stirred yeast, remaining 1/4 cup sugar, salt
and 1/2 cup melted butter to lukewarm water. Mix
well, then gradually beat in flour with wooden spoon.

When ingredients are thoroughly blended, knead
dough — without removing it from bowl — into a ball.

Cover bowl with a clean towel and let dough rise ina
warm place free from draft for about 1 hour or until al-
mosl double in bulk.

Punch dough down and turn onto floured board;
knead dough into ball. Using a floured rolling pin, roll
out dough into a 17°’x 12"' rectangle,

With a sharp knife diagonally cut rectangle into 11
strips, each about | 1/2 inches wide. Then diagonally
cut across the strips at 2 inch intervals making
diamond-shaped pieces of dough that are about 2 1/2
inches long,

Dip each piece of dough in remaining melted butter
and place in lightly greased 9 to 10 inch tabular pan,
building layers as you proceed.

When you are finished the pan should be about 1/2
full. If all the butter has not been used, spoon what is
left over the dough,

Cover with towel and let dough rise in a warm place -
free from draft for about 1 hour or until double in bulk,
Bake in a pre-heated oven, 400 degrees for 25 to 30

minutes or until nicely browned,

Serve bread warm, but do not cut it. Let everyone
pull off their own leaves,

Wrap in aluminum foil if you want and reheat it.

Be sure and use butter as margarine does not work
with this bread.

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Add crunch
to salads

In a May 8, 1958 issue of the Vancouver Province, the
newspaper's food editor advises readers to add crispy
potato chips to give salads crunch.

Here's a recipe for a crunchy salmon salad that would
make a filling and tasty luncheon dish.

Crunchy Satmon salad

1 Ib can of salmon

2/3 cup ripe olives

1 cup dried celery

1 cup shredded lettuce

2/3 chp mayonnaise

2 (bis lemon juice :

1 tsp grated onion. — &

1 package of crushed poiata chips

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 2, 1999 - A5

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

The Mail Bag

Officer behaved badly

Dear sir:

As a Terrace resident and a fisherman, I would like to
apologize for the treatment that an American visitor
suffered from two fishcrics officers a few weeks ago
while he filming a segment of his fishing show.

The fisheries officexs apparently sat in the bushes for
a half hour before confronting this man and giving him
a ticket, as per BCTV Monday night news.

My question is why would they just sit in the bushes
and watch? Were they hoping that this person would
slip up so they could write him a ticket?

I realize that the fisheries have a duty to do, but hey,

what has happened to ‘‘across the border relations and :

tourism, not to mention free publicity for our area’? and
just downright wanling to be informative to the general
public?

This man may not have understood the fishing
regulations, Most people will agree that just under-

slanding our fishing regulations requires you to be a

Philadelphia lawyer.

I wonder if the fisheries themselves know what:

changes take place from day to day, and if they can t

keep up to the changes then how can we be expected
to, and even less how is an outsider who is brand new
to the area able to?

Wouldn't you think that instead of waiching they

would have shown themselves friendly and gone out.

and talked with the gentleman and his crew regarding
catch and release. It is all weil and. fine to say they
should have been in the know and not have claimed ig-
norance, and maybe they should have, but I would just
like to say to these officers.

Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for not going and
talking to this man, introducing yourselves and ex-
plaining the rules. Wouldn’t it be more practical as
fisheries officers to be more human.

K. Karlsen
Terrace, B.C.

Get RCMP to
check records

Dear Sir:

I was amazed when J read the article in the May 19,
1999 issued called ‘Volunteers still charged for
checks”,

Tama search and rescue volunteer in Coquitlam. We
just brought on 10 new members to our team = which
now tolals 48. I simply gave the names to the RCMP,
not the city, and they rana check for me.

What was the cost? Nothing,

The reason Terrace is charging, for this service is to
recover costs. I think Terrace needs to ask itself what
the value of those volunteers is. These individuals give
of themselves and are often the pillars of the com-
munity.

I know from experience that my volunteering comes
at a cost to me and my family but I don’t mind. I
would mind if the very community I volunteered for
charged me simply for being a volunteer.

If your community does not support volunteers, -

which is very obvious, then cut them out of the loop
and go directly to the RCMP like we do.

They are very apprecialive of the help and contribu-
tion volunteers make to the community and would hap-
pily do the check themselves.

On closing I even wonder if municipal staff have the |

legal right to do criminal checks — I don’t know the

answer to that one but I wish all the volunteers luck in :

this issue.

Dwight Yochim |

Coquitlam, B.C.

Aboriginals are
victims again

Dear Sir;

The Northern gillnet fleet has become the latest vic-
tim of public opinion. The tyrannical nature of public
opinion, which imposes its domination over every-
thing, has tried, convicted, and imposed a death
sentence om the gillnct flect from the Prince Rupert
area for the so-called decline of the prized sport fish,
the almighty coho. And David Anderson, the Minister
of Fisheries and Oceans has ingratiatingly taken on the
role of Mr. Ellis.

As in all black comedies, the state-managed fishery
in the Skeena River system has produced its share of
losers, Winners, survivors, and opportunists,

The “‘tragic farce’’ that is unfolding in the Skeena
River’s commercial, spori, and aboriginal fisheries has
all elements ofa black comedy.

The winners, losers, and survivors, however, all stand
in stark contrast to the opportunists who in my opinion
have a special place reserved for them in hell,

Commercial sport fishery interests and the Steelhead.
Society of B.C. have always viewed the commercial
gillnet fishery at the Skeena estuary with a virulent
kind of Euro-Canadian-bred disdain that may be genet-
ic in origin.

This: dominant European tendency to dominate and
control-is a manifestation of a “‘selfish gene” that has
served its masters well when it comes to hijacking
resources from the politically and economically
marginalized sectors of society.

Whether it is by wild coincidence or by deceit and
design, the principal victims again as in the past in this
resource reallocation scheme — a euphemism for
hijacking a resource — are aboriginal people from the
Pacific Northwest.

These morally bankrupt opportunists are once again
using conservalion io justify their campaign to
eliminate the aboriginal gillnct fleet at the Skeena
estuary. But this time, unlike our past passive reaction
to abusive fishery policies and regulations, we will not
go quictly inlo the night.

Area 4 First Nations Commercial Fishers Association
is gaining allics and support from various communities,
unions, organizations, and businesses in their legal and
political battle to take back the fishery in Area 4.

In closing, ] would like to pose some rhetorical ques-
tions to those who are about to gorge themselves on the
salmon resource at our expense: The public justifica-
tion for draconian and punitive fishery regulations and
policies in Area 4 is conservation of fish stocks, But
protection for whom, and at whose expense? Whose in-
terests are served? In short, who slands to gain from the
curtailment of the commercial fishery in Arca 4?

That ingratiating David Anderson left no doubt who
the beneficiaries of the demise of the gillnet fleet
would be. -

Ray Guno
New Alyansh, B.C,