A PARKER Pinto’s BOB PARKER 635-2801 | “YOU CAN AFFORD] From $2,312 FORD” FORD | rw. Ses 4613, Lazelie Ave. P.O. Box 399, Terrace, B.C. WESTERN “TRAILER SALES LTD, “Your wheel estate dealer” wi, Year No. 34 b ‘MONDAY FEBRUARY 1,” SAFEWAY PARKWOOD. TERRACE, BG; - Highway 16 Weat . Ot Skeena Forest Products - | PHONE 435-4564 GLENDALE ||. 45 CENTS A COPY: PEER rine asreoiasratneranee : a Laing favors. Rupert port Bath Kitimat and. Prince proposed ‘superport’ Such a port would set off a remendous economic and boom for whichever com- munity gets the nod. & And, Terrace would benefit. But Friday night Kitimat was Ignored by federal public 35 works minister, Arthur Laing. =. Speaking at ‘the annual | “dinner and installation of ss Chamber of Commerce, Laing Bo i sald the federal government s favored Prince .Rupert for enlarged port facilities as a sent in the eee of this _ officials, part of the north, s .He sald the port is needed toz meet export demands from = Paelfie rim mations, par- ticularly Japan.and China. % He sald a port in Prince}. Rupert would also henelit Terrace; as hub of the nor-% thwest and as a distribution § center. Provincial © government = however, have% hinted that they feel Kitimat should be the harbor of aZ _ superport because of its # closeness to Terrace and the = road to the Nass which is 2 slowly opening up. Liberals ‘doing | juggling act ? Frank Howard thinks the federal government. is doing a juggling act with Skeena Indian school attendence figures and he doesn’t like it. “The figures given to me in the House of Commons by Parliamentary Secretary J-A. Jerome were false and misleading,” he said. Pioneer dies — at coast A pioneer | _Fesident.- Of Terrace was buried here last Sunday. Mrs. Hermenia Marla Lips, who lived in Terrace from 1920 to 1963, died: at Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster. She was 85-years-old, | -Mrs, Lips and her husband, John, lived on a farm on Pear Street for many years. Her husband died in June, 1962 and Mrs, Lips moved to Van- ecouver in 1963. .Funeral services took place at the Sacred Heart Church, Terrace, at 10 ‘d.m. on fanuary 24. Burlal followed at Kalum Cemetary. . Requiem service was conducted by Father Sweeney Following the funeral, a reception was held atthe home Mrs, Greg Seiben. Pall bearers were Greg Sieben, Tom Olson, Gorden Little, Lloyd Johnstone, Clarence Michiel and Kenneth Kerr... Mrs. Lips is survived by three children who attended the funeral here. They are Mrs. H.C. Ferguson of West Vaneouve, August Lips of North Surrey and Dr, Hilarie Lips of Ottawa. She is also survived by nine grandchildren, one great- grandchild, two sisters and two brothers. ; Superintendent of with Sister Phylis as organist. } - Howard, a well-known fighter for Indian rights, charges that the federal government ap parently doesn’t care about Indians and fails to keep itself informed. “There's a definite lack of communication and I plan to bring this up in the House on a question of privilage, ” Howard told The Herald. _ EARLIER REPLY Jerome recently, in replying: to a question from Howard, said that records indicated that 28 Indians had graduated from completed grade 10 and 11 have completed grade 2 in the last ‘stechool yeal.\: This. was: angrilly detiied by D.W.... Smith, ‘District Indian Schools, North Coast Education Cont'd on Page 2 Herion rap gets man two years - Two years less a day in jail was given to a Terrace man Friday who had been‘ found guilty of trafficking in-heroin in an earlier court appearance, . . District Judge D.K. McAdam handed down the. sentence - to Jewel Vauclair, 35, who had ‘een ‘released on a §2,10 bail since Monday, January 18, the day of his conviction. Terrace RCMP arrested Vauclair on December 13 and he had, at that time, 15 capsules of heroin, valued at $375, in his possession. His attorney,-Ceci] Pratt, had asked that the sentence be delayed so that he could obtain favorable character references for Jewell that could possibly lighten the sentence. Judge McAdam imposed the - most minimum sentence. FOR ME? Cathie Fraser Spencer is stunned as she receives a lifetime membership to the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce. With her is Jim MacKay, an “old friend” and the Chamber honors of journalism BY GAYLE THODY A woman who came to: Terrace in 1949 to build a newspaper, Friday received ‘a rare honor. Mrs. Cathie Fraser Spencer, 60, was made a lifetime member of the Terrace and \District Chamber of Co merce. The honor cam’ to a “stunned” Mrs. -Spencer before some 300 friends and collegues at the. Chamber’s annual din- ner-dance. For two ‘decades, “Cathie” was publisher of: the Terrace Omineca Herald, a paper she and her late husband, Tommy Fraser, built from a four, page tabloid to a 20 page broadsheet. ’ ROSE IN RANKS A woman Who rose in the ranks of journalism, Cathie joined the circulation depart- ment of the Prince Rupert Daily News at age of 17. She was just out of business college. Nearly 20 years later, Cathie was able to stand before the Daily News presses and watch . new chamber president. Cathie was publisher of The Herald for 20 years and a Chamber member for as long. She came to Terrace in 1449 ‘to build a newspaper.”’.;.Staif phote. her own newspaper . being prinied. “I was very proud. I was standing on the same ground I started out on,” she recalled Cont'd on Page 3 chunk out of its territory at its last meeting and spit it out at the provincial government. But the bite will save the municipality some $237,000 and cost Victoria $475,000. Or, simply, we're a few acres smaller in size but the taxpayer docsn’t have to pay half the cost. of the - ‘Spring Creek bridge. _ ‘Council moved to have the approaches to the bridge from the municipal side be taken ‘out of municipal jurisdiction and placed in the hands of the Council shrinks Size of Terrace Municipal council bit a - ‘be nudging the northern provincial government. Several acres are involved. “We'd be removing the site so that it will no longer be our property by slicing a plece out of the municipality,’ ex- plained Mayor Victor Jolliffe, The proposed bridge would boundaries - of the minticipality, north of Dairy Ave. and west of -Thomus. Ald. Lioyd Johnstone said the bridge would be used Imainly for logging anyway and there are no homes in the area, _ A. CENTURY. OLD, B Pa has ai birthday: this . year, ‘And in. Terrace, the’ centennial “71... celehration was launched at the Chamber . of Sominerce dinner Friday. night. fusing the BO. 7 birthday cake are Hugh McKinnon, centotinial: :¢hairman and ‘Mayor Victor Jolliffe, The . Wiskery fellow on the right Is Century. Sam who | will he od hand: tor the big birthday pares events, : Laing sings praises + of ‘Last Frontier’ ‘Go north, young man’ i e Chamber installs Jim MacKay was installed president of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce Friday night. Also installed during the chamber'’s annual dinner-dance were Bruce Carrothers and. Kerry Condon. Sworn in as treasurer Tom Porter. Immediate past president is Stan Patterson. + 4 Patterson praises Pp and national .