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ednesday, August 24, 1966.

TERRACE, B. C.

Skeena
Rds,
mir. Douglas said,

atest political. impact.

RON DOUGLAS
’... just for impact”

ather highway in B.C.”

eee nouncement

d by now,’

ws the disgraceful

Merrace. This bridge

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a ELLIS HUGHES

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i No Job Too Small!

YOUR "A" CLASS -
"CONTRACTOR

’ Qualified Residential,
Commercial & High Voltage
Elactrical Contresting

Ellis Hughes
- Electric Ltd,

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“During the
met six years contracts for High-
my 16 and other roads have been
ounced only at election times
order that they would have the
AS a
ult Highway 16, within Skeena,

in a condition worse than any

@ “Just a few days ago another
. was made about
menother contract having been let.
hile this is acceptable news, it
$ an announcement that should
Mave been made years ago. If we
mead a government in Victoria that
Meeally cared about people, High-
mvay 16 would have been complet-

aa. “Another part of this policy of
meelaying action on the legitimate
meeds of the people in this area
: condition of
mmhe bridge across the Skeena at
is old, in-

‘Frank Green were both’ born

2 No Job Too Big!

‘| time and time again. Happy’ child-
Ph _Vi3-5249 |

Skeena,

adequate, worn out and should
have been replaced by. row. It
should have been replaced at the
time the railway bridge was built,
more than ten years ago. Recent

statements by the Government].

indicate that the bridge replace-
ment will have to wait. If the
Secial Credit Government is re-
turned it will mean that the
people will have to wait until the
next election for the work to
start.”

Mr, Douglas concluded by say:
ing that the . sole function of
government members in the North
seems to be to make announce-
ments that the government per-
mits them te make and ihat they
obviously have no ability. or inter-

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Douglas Declares Highway }
delays Are Deliberate —

m Ron Douglas, New Democratic candidate for

gaclared Tuesday in Kitimat that the Social Credit Govern-
gent had deliberately held up orderly highway development
to serve _ political

abe

LUBERTHA TROELSTRA
+e Now,

Calumbia Cellulose has an-
nounced the winners of its 1966
University Extension Scholarship
programme, Each year the com-
pany offers seven $250 awards to
students preparing to enter. uni-
versity from communities adjacent
to. the company's operations cen-
tered in Prince Rupert, Terrace,
Castiegar, Nakusp and Revelstoke.

A further scholarship is offered
to sons or daughters of employces
of the company. All are renewable
annually to a. total of $1250 per

est in trying to represent people.

: student as Tong as

the . holder

Dear Editor:

Cathy Fraser has done it | again,
I read in your paper that Dudley
Little was the. oldest pioneer at
the re-union having. been born in
1914, .

Well, either Cathy didn’t ‘in-
spect the book, € know she
artived too late to. hear Emit
Haugland make the announcement
that Ken Kerr was the oldest
Terrace - born pioneer at the re-
union, having been horn in. 1913,)
or we have all jumped. on the
election band wagon and any front
Page publicity for Dud goes, ~
' Perhaps these few facts would
straighten this first born deal out
once and for all, The late Jack
Frank was the first white child
born in this area, Bill Bohler born
in Dutch Valley was the second,
Ken Kerr born in a Jog house on
the same site as his own home

stands today was the third, John]

Smith was the fourth,. Elsie Find-
ly the fifth and Janet Felber and

before the arrival of Dud Little.

Mrs. Alex Kerr. left this area
by river boat to have her first
born son in 1909, the late Duncan
Kerr, who (had he been born here)
a have been ‘the first while
chi

Since true pioneer stories would
make Peyton Place supplementary
reading for a Sunday School class,
I would say. we aught to drop this
“first” business. There must be
a lot of irué “native to the area”
people having a good ‘laugh, ‘since
their: first -horn.’sons were born
here a few thousand years ago.
Canada is what we build’ together,
No one race (not even the Indians
are one race) can claim any prior-
ily. Some of the early legislation
is best forgotten’ along with the
pioneer stories, One of the simple
truths of life came to light at the
re-union and this “was expressed

hoods were recalled,.
hard, work was

the -hard,
forgotten. So

even tthe People. the pioneering

+

: age of their children,”

SCHOOL DISTRICT
No. 53 (TERRACE)

m There will be a pre- -registration day held in the Terrace.

B Schools on September Ist. from 9 a.m. to:2 p.m: Please.
A register at the school ‘situate in: yc
1. Registrants should bring-a' birth certificate to verify the”

in

ir’ residential ‘area. -

By ‘Wel Is,
" Searetary Treasirer,

(eS)

. {Same qualities, .

times’ with . people.

-in Terrace. with ©: his parents
‘1807 when he was two years old.

—

letters to the editor. ces

put inta an early grave would
probably say the same, it was a
happy time, we all. worked to-
gether. The quarrels’ and injust-
ices and bullying. would be
forgotten. We are creatures .seck-
ing the happy life and cling. to
whatever. happiness. comes -our
way through | life, leaving the -un-
happy experiences: buried, Like
the dead. Perhaps this is good,
perhaps this: enables us to keep
going, perhaps we dare not- look
too. deeply into aur’ past because
it might bother our conscience a
little. At any. rate, il proves
mankind really is made up of the
the: old Indian
tales tell the.-some story, happy
all warking
together ‘Sharing the hunt. Those
reunions should serve to prove
there is no-difference in- human
beings, be they one race or
another.

: Sincerely,

~ Mrs, Kenneth Kerr.

Publisher's note: I am afraid [
failed to inspect the. signature
book closely enough. My apologies
to Ken Kerr — he was the oldesl
Terrace-born ‘pioneer’ at the re-
union as he: was born in 1913;
also to,A. E. Ted" Johnston, as
he was the oldest Terrace pioncer
at the event, having come lo ‘live
in

My. thanks to Rita Kerr for draw-
ing attention to the “first-born”
facts. —C.MLF. sony ;

‘ ma

1966 SCHOLARSHIPS

AWARDED

PETER FENGER
- re-newal |
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subjects. The award is based on
standings in, the Provincial: Uni-
versity Entrance examinations,
Winners for 1966 are Lubertha
Troelstra, P.O. Box 178, Terrace,
B.C. with the Robert. S. Stacey
Memorial ‘Scholarship ‘for sons or
daughters of employees, going to
Phoebe Katherine Bradbury | of.
Nakusp.._
Previous year's winners who
qualified for renewal of their

LEAH SEAMAN.
eae Fenewal+*:.

Michael. Fogarassy, Robert A.
Green’ and Michiyo Nakanishi;
from Castlegar — Gerald V. Gore-

Lanzarotta.and Phyllis A. LeFort;
from ‘Terrace — Peter: _Aiidrew
Fenger and Leah V. Seaman; from
Nakusp-Needles Donald &.
Craft and Diane Kay :-Fast; from
Revelstoke — Allen ‘C. Mitchell
and ‘Katheen FE. Rauchert: ‘from
Vancouver Eugene. Bernard

scholarship for the 1966-67 term

Bordeleau and William E. McLean.

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