By JOANNE AMES
This year’s ‘hot spells and igh
year’s hot’ an t
rainfall are nothing to worry over,

‘according to George Blakey at the

_ Terrace weather oifice. .

“ We’re not headed for desert
conditions.
This is what May and June are

. supposed to be like in the area, For the

first time since the beginning of the
‘70’s, the average temperature and
rainfall for May has been the rule.

-And when compared to last year,
“average” may very well seem like the
sunny tropics.

summer was supposed to arrive‘on the ‘
slopes between October and April of
’ this year.

“Last year was probably the worst:

summer ever recorded for cool and wet

weather. The combination of the two

made it the worst summer on record
here, and our records go back to 1900.”

“We would be hard-pressed to match
it for sheer rottenness,” said Blakey.

_ What we do have to worry about is
the snowfall. ;

_ Not that there’s much that can be
done about it. The water for this

As every skier knows, it didn’t really
make it, ;

The snow pack this year was 64 per
cent of the average. That translates
into 259.3 cm., or the second lightest
snowfall in 20 years. The lightest was
the winter of 1969-70.
The Jow snowfall. has resulted in-

Sitticok a

lower tevels in some local lakes and
rivers, although the “apparent run-ofi”’
of the laat few weeks has raised them
closer to normal heights.

Little snow has also meant an
imerease in the dryness of the forest.

Herb Quast, Terrace. district for
ranger, says the ground conditions are
‘definitely higher” this year than other

years.

“There is only one-third the moisture
content in the ground now as opposed to
a normal June,” he said.

“There are two vital ingredients to
look at when you examine fire hazard.
The first is how dry the ground is, the
secondis how dry the larger fuels are.”
The larger fuels are at about one-third
moisture right now too.

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March

Herald staff witer

Response to this year’s
local March of Dimes
campaign has been ‘very
good so far,” Terrace
chairman W. M. Sturby said
Monday.

Mr. Sturby, civic
committee chairman for the
Loyal Order. of Moose Lodge
No. 1820, said about $2,500 is
hoped to be collected
locally. That’s considerably
more than last year's $1,100
gathering, but as he noted,
more Terrace children were

“SLIGHT SNOW COVER

Forest tinderbox if summer turns dry

“We're starting out in a situation is
drier than normal. The only thing that
will carry us through the summer
without a high hazard is a lot of rain
and cool weather,” Quast said.

The hazard registered ‘high’ on
Saturday. It has gone down to
moderate because of the moisture and
cool weather of Sunday and Monday.
Another three days of warm, summy
weather will put it right back up to the
red rating.

“Most places in the province
probably are our concerns about the
ow snowfall of the past winter,” the
ranger said, “but we are also
concerned here about the unusual
weather.” —
He's not just talking about the sun,

-

but about the lightning storms that
have been in the area. They caused
five fires in the Terrace district last
week, =
Some lightning is not uncommon in
the latter part of June and early July,
but this year it is early and damaging.
If hot dry weather comes back and
stays for a few weeks, both the
foresters and the provincial parks
branch will consider banning all fires
in the area.
“Campers will still be able to enjoy
themselves,” said Fred Heidt, district
ks superintendent, “They just won't
able to have fires.”
The fine weather resulted in an
earlier use of the Lakelse Lake
camping facllities, but Heidt also notes

$2,500 TERRACE GOAL

of Dimes campaign underway

made possible by March of
Dimes contributions.

Seventy-two children
from Terrace and area were
hospitalized at the
Children’s Hospital in
Vancouver over the past
year, double the previous
year's 36.

The March of Dime

provides funds fora number -

of programs that
health care does
subsidize. .
The Children's Hospital
Diagnostic Centre is one

public
not

program dependent upon.

- their

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Representing Beta: Sigma Phi sorcrity,:...a realservice
Maxine Inglis (right) presents Nancy Clay.
of the Terrace Child Development with a
cheque for $100. “We feel this centre fulfills

‘dame

to.owr. community and that -

. our donation will be put to excellent use
here,” she said, Ms. Clay sald the money
will be used to purchase equipment.

KITIMAT PRINCIPAL:
Local college inadequate >

Northwest Community
College ‘“‘obviously” doesn't
offer adequate courses and
facilities for students in the
northwest wanting to
further their academic
education. ;
That is the opinion of
George Neumann, principal
of Mount — Elizabeth
Secondary School in

Kitimat.

“They haven't even had,
until now, a full year for
transfer credits to other
universities,” Neumann

said.

Ina brief presented to the
Universities Council of
British Columbia, George
Nuemann and_ school
eareers counsellor June
Bernauer pointed out
difficulties northerns face in
gettin post-secondary
education.

Students who apply to,
universities and colleges in
southern B.C. looking for
better quality eduction run
into problems with housing.

an admission
uirements. .
he three major

universities in the south -
U.B.C., S.F.U. and U. Vic. -
all have different entrance
requirements in terms of

‘grades and courses needed.

In many cases, students
who apply at a single
university receive notice of
‘acceptance or

. refection toc late to apply to

other universities.

They are refused

” admission sometimes on
. “little reason.”

Neumann himself

’ intervened in a case

involving four students who
had applied to U.B.£.’s
faculty of science for
admission, Each of the four

” pad received a pass in one

course at the grade 11 level
in high school. ,
The faculty does not, as a

_ rule, admit students with a

mark as low as a pass in any

-. geience in the grade 11 - 12

years. Neumann phoned the

registrar and asked about

the rejections. The students .

were admitted to the
unive sity.

“It seems as though if we
exerta little pressure...well,
not even that, if we question
the, (the unviversity) they
turn around and accept the
students, Neumann sald.

e option of a city college
such ar Langara or Douglas,
is often closed to the student
who cannot gain university
entrance. Colleges r
that’ a student ‘establish
residence in the area six
months in advance of
application.

. Neumann's own daughter
got into Langara without the
six month residence in the
city only because he knew
the woman interviewing,
her. She. had been a
girlfriend of his when he was
15 years old, he said. |

Most students don’t have
such influence.

Neumann says he has
“already written the College
Council about this problem.
They say ‘that’s too bad, but
your students will just have

do the best they can’.”

Once accepted by a
university, a student. must
find a place to live.

Neumann claims that the
universities, though they
state a policy of preference
for out-of-city applicants for
student -housing, fail to
follow through on it.

‘They operate on a firat-
come, first-serve basis,” he
said. “We've found that we
simply do not get the
information and
applications ary sooner.
than the students in the

.. south, And we've found that

there are no preferences,
despite policies.”

A possible solution to the »
housing problem would be to
send out application forms
to northerners first.

The move to the large
city, from the quieter north,
may be too much for
students to deal with in
itself, The additional
adjustments to school may
be impossible to make.

For this reason, an
because the Northwest
College does not offer

, adequate courses, June
 Bernauer. said universities

should transfer some of
their faculties, to the north.
Forestry and marine

biology ‘would be ideally ©
suited to the area.
The facilities would not be

connected in any way. with
the Community College, but
would be extensions of the
central lower mainland
university.

“The unviersity would be —

decentralized eventually,
with different faculties
located in centres around
the province,” said
Neumann, “much the
ait set-up that U.C.L.A.
California has."

Asked if he didn’t think
the provineial government
was ying to serve regional
needs by establishing
Northwest College,
Neumann sald that might be
the case.’

“Tt has taken the college
in Prince George, New
Caledonia, an awful long
time to build to where
they can offer a full two-

And it’a

ear am.
yong B take the Northwest .

that

Neumann. emphatically
stated that he believes that
universtities who
established faculties in the

lege a long time to get

northwest would offer better .

courses and facilities

initially than the community ©

college has been able to.

Career counsellor
Bernauer thinks that if
y people can stay in the
north to ge! & good
education, “the tion
would not constantly move
te metropolitan areas. We
often find students who
e ving in the north
don't want to return after
five years in the south.”

Faculties located here .

might also serve the
of attracting and

filing young people trem

it
d the sow

students and like the north
enough to stay.

j equipment and facilities

FAMILY ALLOWANCE

donations. Offering a new

helped this year by
pattern of child care, this

CHEQUES DELAYED
' Herald staff writer .

Family allowance cheques for about half of
Terrace's recipients failed to arrive in time for
their usual delivery, yesterday, but nobody
seems to understand why.

According to post office spokesman in
Terrace, Vancouver, and Victoria, the cheques
‘were posted on the usual days. But for the
second month ina row, many local people did not
receive their money on time.

One.caller to the Herald said that when she
remarked on the problem to the local post office,

- she was told: “Don’t complain to us. Ask
Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo about it.”’
_ It appears that more than one person took that
advice. .

. Mrs..Campagnolo's .special assistant, Peter

_ Jones, said thaf many people had phone in about

' the delay, and that the Skeena MP’s constituency
office had been working on the problem. -

The Herald was toid that the family allowance
branch in Victoria, which does all the mailing for
British Columbia, ‘‘insists that they’re mailed
out by the same method and in the same manner,
- They led us to the post office.”

_ Post office spokesman were no more specific.
‘They too said that normal procedures had been
followed and that the cheques just had not
arrived. 7 ' .

Jones said that Campagnolo’s office would
continue the investigation.

Kitimat blotter dots

Police report

Areport was made Friday
that someone had smashed
one of the windows to the
Husky garage with a rock.

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Judy Nelson reported the
theft of a Pentax SP 1000
camera from her car while
it was parked at Paradise
Lodge Friday.

Healthy
thieves

Police received a report
from Mt. Elizabeth
Secondary School Friday
that a wastepa basket’
had caught fire in the girls
washroom. Foul play has
not deen ruled out.

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Hirsh Creek Park was
vandalized Saturday when
the storage shed was broken
into and the tool box was
broken open. The woman's
toilet was burned down and
two signs were destroyed.

Stolen from the park were
a case of toilet paper, a case

one stop unit evaluates and
assisses the condition of
multi-handicapped
youngsters.

Last year alone, the
centre provided treatment
for over 5,400 children. The
cost of operating the
diagnostic centre for 1977 is
budgeted at $79,335.

March of Dimes dollars
also go toward the support
of the hospitai’s Breast Milk
Bank. The hospital supplies
breast mill. to all in ants
requir is service
honpitais across the
province. The breast milk is
donated by breast feeding
mothers who have more
milk than their own infant’s

needs.

The milk is picked up b
the hospital, teurized,
and frozen until ready to

_ use,

This service has helped
many young infants and
premature babies
throughout British
Columbia who could not
tolerate any thing other than
breast milk. est babies
would not have survived
without this service.

The Terrace March
S atteaing ur ai? y and 1 is
contin un .
Canvassers have already
knocked on a number of
doors, and, as Mr. Sturby
noted, response has
generally been good. .

But even more money will
have to be raised if the fine
work the Moose Lodge is
undertaking reaches full
frultion.

THE HERALD, Tuesday June 21, 1977, PAGE 3

thatit has dried out vegetation and soil..

Park attendants are very conscious
of the possibility of fires under such
conditions, and watch carefully for
unattended camp fires.

“Mast people are responsible,” he
said, ‘‘but there are always a few who
are careless. It is illegal to leave a fire
unattended.”

There are no doubts about enough
electricity being generated at Kemano
by present water supplies. The dam
there is fed by the Nechako snow pack,
which came to normal levels this year,
said Russ McHone, spokesman for

can.
Oh, what they would havedonetoget .

that snow onto Kitsukalum Mountain
for all those ski-bums!

March of Dimes campaign chairman W. M. Sturby

New study of coal’s uses

PITTSBURGH (CP)
Coal Processing Consultants
(CPC) said Monday it has
been awarded a $500,000
contract hy
Columbia Hydro for a
further study of clean an
efficient methods of
producing gas and
electricity from Canadiar

British

Hydro and the Canadian
energy department, will
investigate the feasibility
and designs for demon-
stration plants.
Construction of a
demonstration plant to test
advanced — firin and
gasification methods of
some of British Columbia’s

coal. lowgrade coal was
The firm said the study, recommended in a previous
commissioned by B.C. study commissioned by B.C.

ee

Hawker Siddeley Canada tro

f

Hydro and the federal
department.

One conclusion of the first
study was that both
pressurized fluidized
combustion and gasification
of coal may offer significant
potential benefits when op-
erated with gas turbine
powered generation.

The studies and design are
to be completed early next
year.

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of garbage bags, a set of
rainware, two shovels, an
axe, a rake, and,a broom.

Police have two suspects

in custody.

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Police received a report
Friday that someone had
attempted to break into
Dairy Queen by using a
crowbar on one of the
restaurant’s metal doors.

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Police received a report
Saturday of children
throwing eggs off the Haisla
ss at cars, Three
suspects have been
questioned by police

concerning this matter. _

Terrace thieves probably

got __—i their minimum
uirement of vitamin C’

but did not end up much,
richer after three break-ins
over the weekend.
- An RCMP spokesman told
the Herald that thieves
made off with 15 oranges
and two pineapples during a
break-in at the Terrace
Health Centre.

Thieves also broke into a
Terrace apartment, which
was empty, and to Kalum
Shell service station where
it is thought they took a
small amount of cash.

RCMP believe that the
three incidents may be’
related and are continuing
to investigate.

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