Dalsy Malden of the. Terrace > Child Development Centre
(centre) accepts a cheque for $1.000 from Jean Dixon,
recently elected northwest zqne representative of the
Legion Auxiliary, while Lisse Sorensen, zone secretary-
treasurer, looks on. During the zone meeting held recently
in Stewart tie members from Houston, Smithers, Kitimat,

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Stewart and Terrace decided to donate the money.to buy.a-
Peabody Early Experience Kit and a Goldman Lynch
Sounds and Symbols Development Kit for the Centre.
Donations are made twice a year from funds ralsed In each -
community.

The proposed Alcan
aluminum smelter in
Manitoba will not interfere
-with the company's planned
Kemano expansion project.

- Although he does not rule
out a financial conflict if
construction was to be
undertaken simultaneously,
Alcan Spokesman Brian

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Businessmen and residents
of Western Canada are
learning to cope with the,
loss’ of Greyhound bus
service because of a strike
by company workers.

-“It's a bit like the post of-
fice,” said John Coates, a
veterinarian in Glenboro,
Man. ‘Once you loge it, you
learn to get along without
it’

Employees of. Greyhound
Lines of Canada iLtd.,
Canada’s largest inter-city
bus system, wenl on strike
at midnight Tuesday night
to back contract demands.

’ Tt is the first walkout by

employees of the Calgary:
based company since they
won bargaining rights in
147, Drivers, baggage
handlers, maintenance men
and terminal workers have
sel up picket ‘lines from
Vancouver to Sudbury, Ont.

Bruce Morrison, a
spokesman for one: gf the
many ‘courier operations in
Winnipeg,’ said calls from
outside the city have in-
creased by 15 to 20 per cent
since the strike started.

“It’s really not caused
any great deal of discomfort
here,” said a waitress at a
restaurant in Treherne,
Man., where the Greyhound
bus normally stops.

She said Grey Goose Bus
Lines’ Lid stops at the
nearby. community of

In Reston, Man., workers
at the local hospital
‘received their . payroll
cheques by courier, The
chéeques would normally
have come by Greyhound
bus.

The Alberta Motor
Transport Board has given

three bus operators per- 3

mission to offer scheduled
services linking

Lethbeldge, §
Calgary, Edmonton, Fort 3

McMurray and Cold Lake

during the Greyhound -#
strike. 5

Further approvals may
be granted next week
providing a connection to
British Columbia, Doug
Pearson, director of oper-
ating authorities, sald
Thureday, ‘ .

Hemingway insists that the
two projects are completely

separate.
. “They are two distinct

possible projects,”’ said .

Hemingway, "They deal
with two distinct
markets.”’

The Kemano expansion ,
project is aimed at
supplying Pacific Rim

Exotic Travel, an arm of
Canada West Tran-
sportation, will use 47-seat
luxury coaches with
stewardesses, sandwich
service and eight-track
stereo for $10 one way from
Calgary to Lethbridge.

In addition, Alberta's Red
Arrow Express will put four
additional buses’ into ser-
vice. - ;
Grey Goose Lines has
been approved for a daily
service between Edmonton,
Grande Centre and Cold

Lake, Pearson said.
Meanwhile,

no new

developments are expected .

until next week in the strike,
said Bill Palesch, secretary-
treasurer of the
Amalgamated Transit Un-
jon, Local 1374.

Palesch said the union be-
lieves the company should
make the first move to
resume megotiations, but if
.Do word is forthcoming in‘
the next few days, the union
wouki make an effat to
. bring both sides back lo the.

bargaining table.

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countries, while the
Manitoba project would
supply a Midwest United
States demand.

The Aluminum Company
of Canada recently signed a
letter of intent with the
government of Masitoba
which enables it ta begin a
full feasibility study for the
project. Alcan has been
carrying. out pre-feasibility
study work since 1960.

The proposed plant would

a employ 700 people and
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: year. «Construction of. the

. “plant and related hydro
facilities would cost Alcan ~

The guarantee of hydro
facilities. is the most
important aspect of the
Plants developmeni.- The
letter of intent calls for

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the TERRACE
ART ASSOCIATION

presents the

I 6th. Annual

Admission $1 -00

WAYSIDE
GROCERIES

New Summer Hours
as of Thurs. April 30

7 aM-11:30 pM — weersers4
9 am- 11:30 PM — weekends |

—Fresh produce —Confectionary
—Hard Ice cream cones
—F ishing & Hunting Licenses
—Submarine Sandwiches

“We are hereto serve you”
Corner of Keith: & Tetrault)
(All West Glass Centre)

‘Alcan and the government
of Manitoba to reach
agreement by July 1&2 on
Alcan acquiring a minority
ownership interest in a
power station. The water

licence would be for a 35"

year term with renewal
provisions for. further 15
year terms. —
According to Hemingway,
it is the availability of the
power base which keeps
Alcan in Canada. .
“Wholly owned power is

necessary. for. dae kerEsy

-considering - a bite near

“Winnipeg for the smelter.”

The pre-feasibility study
showed that the optinum

’ smelter site would be within

commuting distance of
Winnipeg 2s such a location
offered accessibility. to the
broad infrastructure the
plant would require.
Alcan is _ currently
completing 4 171,000 tonne a
year smelter: at - Grande
" ‘Baie, Quebec, using power
generated from. Alcan
owned hydro installations at
Ville de-la Bale. out or

_ Canada in the last half of the -

Kemano ll unaffected by Alcan plans -

Lamatic Villas by Marian

“Engel is an_ entertaining

‘farce on Toronto - manners

A and mores. The book

focuses on the trials ofa
magazine writer named
Harriet Ross, who, through’

'’ circumstances acquires up

to seven chiliren and by the

story's end, sees most of, .

them . leave. This book is -
quite different from Engel’s
athers and as a comedy,

presents: a new approach to
her subject.

. True Stories by Margaret

Atwood is a collection of
verse, cohesive and

J. powerful. One reviewer has °

Pomme, Maris, who recentty

‘is probably best known for.

> his Mem for the Mountaias,

stories about his work in the

. Forest Service in” the.
_ "The Liitie Imunigrants by”
Kenneth Bagnell ' lnoks at:

the importation ‘af child :
workers from: Britain’ to.

under the age of 14 and most”
slum chiliren, wereshipped.
and used as farm labourers ..
or household workers. It is -
an extraordinary tale fold
with compassion.

Two new novels, sure to-
be popular, are Creation: by
Gore Vidal, an. epic
historical novel about the’
civilized world in the fifth
century, B.C, and Nens and .
Sokdiers by Iris Murdoch, a
story of tangled loyes and
emotions as Murdoch turns,

_@ possibly mince romantic

tangle into a.demse knotty

“web of Intellect a

assy

* “Blephen

is another new book that is

sure fo. draw lots . of

_ attention. :
Saturday, April 23, is the
deadline for: submitting
‘your short stories. We are
announcing the winners on
Teadsy, May 12, 28 part of
Natlonal .Book‘ Festival

Week. This festival, which

- rims from May ii to 17 to
- celebrate “Canadian books
and publishers, ‘will see

tiple and. events in

virtually every library in
the country, - Terrace
_ Library will host the

following programs:

King’s ‘Dame
-Macabre, a non-fiction lok:
~ at horror inthe msss media,

| Teesdey, Bay: fn

" “Volcano” biography of

Maicolm Lowry at 7:20 p.m.- -

in the Library Arts Room..
Wednesday, .
Drama

“Margaret — Laurence,’ m

First Lady of Manawaka:
biography at 7:30 p.m. in

the Library Arts Room. -
Saturday, May 14: Puppet
ahow at 1:30 Library, Arts
Room.

’ We will be devia

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.112-800-663-3119

May' 13: .
Workshop —-
presented by Dennis Foon of -

* the Green Thumb Players.
Everyone welcome. 1:3

p.m. in the Terrace Little’

‘ Theatre's Kalum . Street.
Thereday, May 16: fiir

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Arts & Crafts Exhibition

SAT. APRIL 25—10am-9pm-

SUN. APRIL 26—10am-4pm
>’ CALEDONIA SCHOOLGYM

‘Come In, and meet the artists and view their latest work,
_ . Over 50 entries in watercolours, fo
oils, pottery, weaving, etc. .

Fri. 7P.M.-10 P.M.

FREE

Admission $1.00

| Children under 6}
with an adult