Page Two TERRACE: HERALD. TERRACE. B.C. -- _ EERE aia serena ee camnens ence csae scanpanecncannen aunansuarmmencnnounsnaar onccanccim cctnstet: TERRACE “Omineca" HERALD» A Division of NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED . CATHERINE M. FRASER, Publisher Published every Wednesday at Terrace, British Columbia Pesce Which way now? The sight of construction crews starting work on the Canada Safeway shopping centre last week is a welcome if belated sight, The delay in launching the million- — dollar project has for the most part been caused by local indecision; ond uncer- tainty over the bypass through Terrace. The new centre will be a major ad- vance in shaping this town as a central shopping orea for the surrounding com- munities. The blacktopping of Highway 16 to Hazelton, an expanding industrial community in Kitimat, and the proximity of Prince Rupert should eventually make Terrace a merchandising and, hopefully, an industrial nucleus for the pacific northwest, But to date it would seem that geography is our major and solitary ad- vantage. Terrace is a town whose initial attractions ore impressive. Easy access to deepsea ports ond the potential to tap the rich mineral and forestry sources of the interior are compelling induce- ments to companies investigating new industrial and retail locations, But the welcome mat seems inevit- ably to be a bill for high taxes, and Too much When will the shower of broken glass end? Streets, lanes, ponds, pools, parks, forests are alf spattered at some time with the brittle, shining, sharp stuff. It is one of the conundrums of the modern economy that so far has not received any solution. Meanwhile the problem of broken bottles presents a mounting, if not yet major, hazard. Forestry people are only too aware of the bush fire hazards presented by a broken bottle focussing the sun’s rays in the tinder-dry bushland. Swimmers suffer gashes from sub- merged pieces of glass, not infrequently flung into local lakes by thoughtless tosspots. ‘ . i:; Mototists!swill readily *flinch at the constant fhozard td tifés offered by the JOE CUNNINGHAM, Editor absurdly inflated prices for development land. 7 Meanwhile the community, lacking the industry and commerce it should attract, wears a down-at-heels look, Too few ratepayers pay heavy taxes which are still insufficient to pave the Streets or meet the educational budget our children deserve. One solution to this conundrum would be for the Municipal Council to appropriate or set aside adequate fand for industrial development. Such a step would ensure thot future investors in this community would not be compelled to pay excessive prices for the necessary land to bring industry here. Increased financial commitments of the town, and q stifling tight money situation may not make this immediate- ly feasible. But some study must be given to the probiem. Its solution determines whether Terrace will become a major clty in this area, a community with diversified in- come to withstand temporary recessions; or just another dusty little town which failed to recognize its opportunity, broken glass sparkling razor-sharp crystals spattered so frequently over streets, The problem is growing more acute. The introduction of the non-returnable bottle has cut out @ source of revenue for the small fry: it has deprived society of their scavenging talents which, In the past, have kept the glass situation at least tolerable, The BC Provincial Government's Kenneth. Kiernan has in‘ the past issued threatening noises ct the -proliferation of the non-returnable bottles. But whether because of pressure from manu- facturers, or a lack of leglislotive means, the noises have remained just that, Meanwhile, people just haye to pick their way through the pieces, and hope that in the future monufacturers will find plastic or tin cans. more siijtable for their purpose, Be ae Time saved is money earned A silver and blue twin- engined jet swooped down on the Skyport into Toronto on the latest stage ofa 36,000- mile trip -from the United 5 fo $1.00 Variety Store Featuring LOW PRICES FRIENDLY EFFFICIENT SERVICE Phone 635-2812 3210 Kalum the quarters hours. Kingdom to South America via the U, 8, Te was the DH-125-3AR, Atlantic Aviatlon cf Canada Ltd’s latest model of execu- tive jet —a new plane for of corporate whoosh, the jet - propelled, custom-interiored answer to making that 10 a.m. confer- ence 1,500 miles away. : For a cool million dollars purchase price it will whisk from four to seven execu- tives through the clouds at 5E0 miles per hour. You'can be 1,300, miles from head- in about three world The plane has the expect- ed trappings of the corpo- rate jet — refrigerated drink cabinet, tucked away galley and folding writing tables, _ Tastes are becoming more elaborate. A popular request these days is for the installation of electric type- ANDY CAPP Jl 7 STAND BEIN EMMED IN BY FOUR WALLS / low MANY WALLS ‘ag THE PUS — FIVE? TM OFF OUT- I CAN'T By JOE CUNNINGHAM | It was the deadest spot in the midsummer doldrums last Monday night. Page one .was a wilderness of white space, the top spot open to the least trivial of a bagful of triva. — You call it the silly season in the newspaper game, That's when the polesitters, the kooks and the crackpots get some page- one ink. News has ceased to happen while the whole world goes fishing, . That's the way it was when I called it quits at 10:30 on Monday night. Ninety minutes later a clang- ing telephone dragged me out of bed to cover the Catholic audi- torlum fire, . You read the story in last week's paper, It was the rou tine fire story, how much money went up in smoke, the when, where who and heaven-knows-why pre- sentation of facts” ~ “ A week later, it seems there is more to be told. Not hard facts, just a few impressions and some wonderment, ® You know about fear when you see a hig building belch fire and smoke. You know about awe, ‘and'you also know’ that ‘anyone ‘nside has to be dead. No one ‘was inside,..“... ° .* a And with ‘about five hundred other people with flames flicker- ing on their faces Hike an out- of-rhythm neon, you wonder how it conld have taken hald so fast, Two guys spotted itabout 11:30, The fire brigade was there in about ten minutes. And by 11:50 flames were shooting high in the * * That's. another story: ‘the fact . Afterthoughts of Firemen are the traditional heroes. The image-makers make them brave and bold, 1t’s the sort of stuff you takefor granted, But courage [s something that |- you don't ever take for granted, It was demonstrated Monday night,. And something more was obvious, a professional sid and |. teamwork which 1s much more ef- fective in fighting fires than the sticking. out of one’s chest and the striking of a fearless pose, Terrace Fire Department has a handful of pros, and some twenty or so volunteers, guys who will leave their job or thelr sack when that crazy air horn roars. *t- The only thing I know for sure about fighting fires is to pick up a telephone and holler for help to the nearest fire brigade. But it was obvious that this mixture of pros and amateurs were all acting like pras, The same couldn’t be said for the bystanders. Like one gent who left behind him a trail of broken windows, perhaps be- cause he figured the fire needed a little air. Only trouble was the windows were in the school, which wasn't touched, * « , that the CathoHe school’ is’ set to open on schedule next week, The building was saved but the smoke and water damage would have been heavy if it wasn’t for that ant-like stream of human beings who poured into the threat- ened building.and brought every- thing out, right down to thepencil sharpeners, There’s an image sticks in my alr. question of whether they could save the school, From there on, it was a|head ofa young, rather pretty girl shouting. angrily at a group of gawking bystanders: ‘Don't writers. In Europe it is becoming the fashion to have along a ste- wardess who doubles as sec- retary, taking notes en route, Grumman, which is also handled here by Atlantic Aviation, is about to intro- duced the Gulfstream Il, a 10-passenger luxury jet that can =omake = = the = Atlantic crossing in six hours and 27 minutes, in Town _ Phone 635-2414 SEARS SALES Variety Store _ The BIGGEST “LITTLE” STORE 3504 Kalum Canadian Lear Jet is ane ' other company in the field ‘ here. Four of its aircraft have been sold in Canada, Toronto Telegram News Service . TREES WARM SOIL . Windbreaks on farms raise field temperatures, thus guard. ing against frost’ damage and accelerating the growth-rate of Second in a series . @ bike and knowing the common sense rules of the road, Or damaged so that they lose their‘effectiveness, Your - . ah ld phono. the “cede aeliy: Centre‘ at‘ Box 21 Keep your bicycle ‘in good condition. | By Colin Chasteneut Terrace Community Centre ; Someone has said that “Know-how is half the Safety. Battle and Care-how is the other half,”’ . Your. know-how comes from the experience of riding It also will come during the tests: that you will be enter. ing in the Bicycle Roadeo on September 9, 1967, The Care. how is entirely up to you, o . Death or injury awaits even the most skillful rider if his bike is not properly maintained, far as maintenance goes, it is smart to have the bicycle checked regularily in a bieycle shop, but there are a number of things you can check yourself and keep in good working order without too much time or effort, A wrench, an oll can, some old xags and a pail of wat- er should be all the equipment you'll noed for a pretty ef. fective job. . a ne You shonld start by cleaning off ali’ the mud and eak- ed dust. Headlights and reflectors .are not very effective. if they are covered with mid, and. mud caked on tho fen- der and mud-guards can make riding pretty hard slugging, ‘When you have finished cleaning ‘your bike, check ‘to see if your headlight is working! properly, Ht should, by sat. - ety regulations, be. visible for. a distance of at least 500 feet.. Make sure that your; reflectors have- not been lost bell or. hom-is also important. “The time to find out if it ig working properly is now! ‘not’ when you might need it intraffic,, .' - i cay oe It is very easy for parts-to come: loose when riding - your bike over rough roads,‘ and. we' hava plenty of those,, Check and tighten gooseneck, and saddl: “Tt you ‘have: shy qu RCMP . , ad . * fi ) a itfe | just stand around gaping, get in there and help’? And they did, And the second thought. strikes me of nuns supervizing the chaos of desks being brought out onto the lawn, looking calm and direc- ting operations while those big. orarge and white flames hillowed behind them. . too. . . ‘Just like the ‘town, Ninety- five per cent good guys, anxious, wanting to help, watching, stun- ned by the bigness of the whole affair. And five. per cent of oddballs and nothings, the no-helpers who found the fire coincided conven- lently with closing time at the local watering-holes. . One guy staggered around pro- tesquely, filumined by theflames as if he were on a grand opera stage, yelling incornsequentially: ‘T don't believe in Jesus Christ,” And another very earnest chappie floating around. on his own private cloud of booze, scl- emnly shaking hands with every- one he can find. . ; 2 8 @ ; You wince. too at the clowns who take on gawking privileges the way, One place they did move away from, reluctantly, was at theback where 3 RCMP man kept thepath of live ammunition stored in the hall by Local Air Cadets, Later, alr cadets’ spokesmen said that no ammunition was there. Buta series of machine. gun like explosions shortly after the warning caused the gawkers to scatter. . a _ Maybe it was radio tubes. ‘@ e * . . __ That was the fire and its ex- _ Sitement, Reality came at &a,m, when I went back to checit the extent of the damage, . 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Tue, Wed, Thur, “THE FORBIDDEN PLANET Bept. 25, 26, 27, 23 in Color - THE GREATEST STORY Walter Pidgeon, : EVER TOLD Anne Francis - . in Color Shorts: Two Colored - Foulton Urslers’ presenta-" Cartoons - tton of the Old and New Testaments, and tells the story of Jesus’ 38 years on _ garth . Dorothy MeGuire, ~ ; Chariton Heston...’ Comedy in Color. No Shorts.) j ‘Don Knotts, Joan Stanley, . Fri.,Sat. "Sept: "7. Sidp Homer ..0.0025 —@e— SR Thur, Fri, Sat. _ Sept. 14, 15, 18 = HARPER —@— Mon. Tue, Wed. Sept, 1, 12, 13 THE GHOST AND - orts: “The Outalde . _ Lane: (Adult Entertainment) | “Dope iE Detective Drama in Color .* _ Paul Neuman, Janet Leigh; ... Lauren Becall,~ © . Shelley Winterg 0. Sat. Matinee — Sept. 16 HER TWELVE MEN... . Greer Garson, Robert Ryan. | DRIVE-IN THEATRE, Show Time. 1 Fri Sat Beph Bo se ss. 7) MAYA Sei | Adventure Drama in Color ° - MOL Lakalea ave, all your letters personally Phone 635-5004 ff oh... 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