| A PARKER eB ' Pinto's BOB PARKER 635-2801 "YOU CAN AFFORD ‘From $2,312 FORD"| FORD fl Berving Terrace, The Hub City af the. ‘intght 4613, Lazellé Ave., P.O, Box 382, Terrace, B.C. Authorized a s Récond class mail 4 Prenier's Office, . Victoria, B.C. Postage pata, in cad: .. “Return post guaranteed. Second Class Mail Registration No: wot a Your “northers” erescnrten saves . ay Lazelle 4 65th Year No. 5 \ THURSDAY, JANUARY 21,197 '; “15 CENTS A COPY reheat Larry Krause’s camper was last seen bobing about in: the icy Skeena River west of here, Bh And that's where it's going } jto stay ontil the ice melts, RCMP say. 4) «Krause lost the camper ‘Fwhen strong winds blew. it from his truck as he was traveling from Prince Rupert: to Terrace last week, ‘| =The camper landed on the There goes camper... | plop, inte Skeena Canadian tra cks. ; ‘Kranse ‘managed to move If from the tracks to the side of the river. But while he was away seeking equipment , the ‘camper somehow got into the river. Two motorists on Highway 16 reported spotting it In the Skeena- last week. : National railroad District studies | A zoning bylaw aimed at ea vontrolling land use in the f Kitimat-Stikine Regional em District is a major objective of | afi district's Technical Plan- ng Committee this year. Several other objectives were Sesented by John . Pousette, jecretary-lreasurer of the *egional Disirict. " The objective. is the , ‘velopment of a land use plan r the development areas by 7 e end of 1971. : : Committee chairman Lee Tan id, ‘Essentially this isa study Directors look | lown in dumps at Could this district become the ; para in British Columbia to + ‘maintain regionally operated garbage dumps? That's the question facing the ® Kitimat-Slikine Regional ut pdistrict as, il-meets next Wed- ‘nesday in Terrace. # ; The Thornhill Ratepayers m Association fast Thursday voted he ask the regional district: to. over “operation ofits ding? alepayers . have... been he dump far months, The gump is. leased ‘by. the atepayers and sub-leased by loyd Scoit. “Since Mr. Scott has not ‘omplied with conditions of the ‘ ase and shows no interest in ; @ disposal ground, he has been informed that the arrangement is now terminated,” the . Falepayers said. So now, they are looking to the ‘regional district for help. But whether the district can “pr will gel involved in dump maintainance remains: a uestion. Regional district directors ill learn that only two stricis in B.C. operate gar- age dumps-the District - of entral Kootenay and the egional District of Cowichan alley. A report from’ secretary- easurer Joha Pousette to the Wirectors notes that the new ollution Control Board has set harges follow two-car smash JA Terrace man has been harged after a two-car allision Sunday. de fisel, also of Terrace, five collision took place at the : 4 eitersection- of Kenney and féalsh abaut 10 a.m. Sunday, mh The Braam car ‘received $250 i ‘Amages and Mrs. Fizet's about : me the region and ssalisfied ‘with ‘conditions. at”: new zoning plan — of existing land use and, on the. -basis of this study, a zoning - bylaw will be prepared which in effect will control future land use. i] A zoning * plan for the. development: areas and the associated bylaws by tha end of 1971 is the second objective he said, DIVIDE LAND “This will divide the land into two types - an extensive growth development area and a sparsely populated outlying area, “The zoning bylaw will be more detailed for the development areas,” Tan said. Regarding waterfront property he said, ‘We will try to preserve all major waterfronts in the form of recreation for the public”, He added that this did not mean that there would be a freeze on the sale of all waterfronts, but only those which have the potential for Tecreation areas, LAND USE rag other abjective is broad and ise Plan for for. outlying ng . zoning bylaw by. the ond of 1972. Tait said that for this plan the area would be divided into broad classifications, for example rural or forestry. - The Establishment of Local Advisory Planning Com- missions by the end: of 1971 is another intention of the com- mittee. The forming of such a ¢om- mission ‘‘will help us at each step in the development of the zoning bylaw with the ultimate objective being the Regional Plan,” Tan said. _ CUT RED TAPE ‘To set up eXamination and. approval procedures so that applications for Jand alienation. - Cont'd on Page 3 ur Hest Tétrace f s TORM DEALS PAR WE WERE: Terrace 'T KIDDING when we said Terrace was literally buried in snow Monday. Some 36.3 inches of the stuff clobbered the area, This buried car is just one example of the problems ’ heaviest single snowfalls in the town’s history. facing Terrace residents digging out fram under “one ( of the - —Staff phote. Wayward bus saga , It was a wayward. bus that or Pr ty Rupert, Sanday. De oe . vite “When ‘bus driver: John Skinner and his 26 passengers boarded the Greyhound Coachway's bus, they ex- pected to reach Prince Rupert in two hours. Instead, they spent the night sleeping on the bus. And, after a 17-hour jour- ney, arrived in Prince Rupert. The delay? An icy hill. Slippery roads caused the highway to be closed while Skinner and his passengers waited in the bus near Rainbow Summitt--just 15 miles east of Prince Rupert. - “It was too slippery to goon anyway 50 we decided to wait for ‘the sand trucks," the driver said after reaching Prince Rupert. Press, radio give lesson — to teachers — Key members of teacher’s associations from Terrace, ‘Prince Rupert, Kitimat and the | Hazelton’s met in Terrace Saturday to formulate public relations program. They also gat a peek at the proposed writing 11 course- which would teach joumnaligm, . as well as creative writing; to senior students. In’ an informal discussion, Herald Editor Ron Thody « outlined how the association can © better utilize the press: tq tell their side of the story. -He was ‘followed by ‘Keith, Tutt, news director ‘of. CFTK,: who talked - about broadeast news Al Over 20 teachers attended the PR. conferencé at Caledonia Senior Secondary School. : Leading the conference was Jack Hardy, Vancouver, press ' and information officer for the British Columbia Teacher's Federation... . Backing him up were Peter : Ross,".a’ Vancouver public - “relations consultant hired by the BCTF; Frank Shephard,' teacher-sponsor of the Catalyst, a progressive . student newspaper at Centennial Senior Secondary School, Coquitlam and Frank "Roemer, vice- principal of the Coquitlam school’ and an executive ~ Cont'd on Page 3. . IN PENSION BATTLE Trustees: back teachers School ' fustees‘emerged from’ az.ifti “committee of - the’ whole . meeting last week with | District | tentative support for area teachers in their bid fora better pension program. those provided by other . “If the present scheme. # is, in fact, inferior to & = provinces, supports the teacher’s position,” said board minutes Tuesday. - Stewart-Cassiar school board agreed to notify education minister Donald Brothers of their The’ decision. . It urged: and “struction. ” ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED The board said it is “deeply concerned”, ‘Members agreed to notify, & _ through the board office, the possibility ofateacher strikeon iS the pension issue, and in the ® Department of the En- case of an actual strike, inform parents of any arrangement & would boost Canadian prestige decided upon by the board, | Sand go a long. way toward In its January 7 edition, The Q ‘Terrace Herald made_ the teacher's pension problems known and through association president, John Chen Wing, the B.C. Teacher's Federation should co-operate in ’ formulating a pension plan ' Satisfactory to both parties, and under no cirenmstances deprive 3 their’. children of their ine & SER the board released “Its Sarena “The government FE # designed 2 engine. smost of us. pollution control. " seen Sore IN FEBRUARY” The province-wide strike _ better pension plan. ‘could come as early as gence Sect RR ‘ . A Howardmobile? Carmen leary of. ‘Learium?’ | tel », is strictly = Secret, ‘but, its purpose would ‘Send gasoline manufacturers angrily ‘Sputtering down the Toad. = You see, it powers a newly- vapor-turbine A steam-engine ‘to ; and, according to Howard, Bs = Canada could be a pace-selter Rif Ottawa would ‘Bive its blessings to the engine which She. Says is now ready for #automobile production, TELLS DAVIS = In a letter to Jack Davis, soon to be minister for the new ‘vironment, Howard says it ‘Howard,. who has j ie lumped into the NDP federal leadership campaign, Sald the. Sos sgumbensnannninger 88h infer parents of the strike February if the Social Credit ity. , Government turns. down. .the association's” derivands” for. a. Cont'd on.Page 3 si inventor of the new engine is William P, Lear, head of Lear Motors Corportation, He said Lear anticipates resistance from Detroit but is 3 EB confident that the compact, & cheap steam engine he has § & perfected will propel the car of Es the future. “ e : The engine is said to weigh % = 22 pounds, generate 250 & horsepower, good for 400,000 = = miles and operate with a new % secret formula fluid called Learium, a. form of} fluorinated hydrocarbon, Lear, says Howard, ha s been working since 1968 on his =: g steam engine. He's: also the inventor of the first car radio | & and the first autopilot for jets, & rook other things, so he’s no 00) Howard proposed ap-! preaching Lear to see whether & an agreement might be § reached, to produce thes engines with = canadian & government help. : ee Se ase ace A Terrace man was released ‘as found Bullty, af trafficking. in heroln, Jewel Vauclair, 35, was. set Htvee for sentencing In court here. ‘ January 29°) 2. » Terrace’ RCMP arrested Vauclali: on December 13 after \n investigation, oo i.’ :'The. defendant had:.15: cape. heti he-was' arrested: : i RO AND: } heroin valued at g37e - Vauelair: hid: Ui +. In an “earlier. court ap. pearance, Vauclair pleaded guilty ‘o possession of herdin.. ‘ He told the court he was using it to relieve paln fromulcerated - colitis, described ag an. “‘acute medical condition," aon ay told. tha: four : drug’ was fi or his a8. 7 TRACE ‘IN: BLOOD. . A doctor, ‘teatified.- “that needle: marks on. _ bid arnt. aad a “trace of ‘mor: a arently ‘trans tin the - | $2,000 bail Monday after he - ce . por ing . Vauclair. blood. The doctor said Vauclair had: no evidence of addiction. In court “ey possity hereii, in his onday, -Prosecuter - J.D. MacDonald: questioned |" ‘ Vauclair's ability to “live prelty. ° fairly’ while unemployed, The - defendant owng a: 1969:car but hag not worked for some time, - MacDonald sald, “After: Judg “found Vauclalr’ Bully, Attorney - :: Cecil : ‘Pratt asked! ‘that ‘sen-.. can obtain favorable character :’ references: for -his: client - - that» amay lighten the sentence. - ~ @SD.K. MeAdam ‘stencing: be: delayed go: that - ‘he + r was AY LONG warr for ‘Greyhound and" ‘a. -slippety:time for Farwest when Mother Nature’ - dumped her surprise package of 28.3. inches of "snow? folloewedby more than an-ineh of ‘rale:: Sunday and Monday. Because of 8 a 5 hour road. wo ow . . Said, ing Snow cripples buried town BY RON THODY Terrace was buried alive Monday. A treacherous warm front that had left Van- couver and the Lower Mainland paralyzed moved north for its final, crippling blow. — ‘Monday morning found some residents digging out from under 36.3 inches of snow which had been dumped on the area. Many remained at home, literally snow-bound, All schools in. Terrace and Thornhill were quickly closed. \ ‘SKELETON CREWS: | Offices and businesses operated with only skeleton . Crews, Some were forced to close. | Cars were left abandoned, Buses between Terrace and Prince Rupert were blocked by a snowslide. A treacherous highway 16 between here and Rupert was ordered closed for 15 and one- hali hours. The snow began Sunday af- ternoon as a warm front pushed a bitter arctic weather system nerth and east. Then, Monday morning, ‘the rains came, One-point-five inches of it.’ ; : RIVERS Terrace streets were literally rivers of water and slush. ~y 2 Boine: sidewalks were angler: ” “deep i in slush and knea deep at~ corners. Plaza’s and ‘cleared sidewalks became skating Many basements were flooded. This worked especially a hardship for those living ‘io basement suites. * Conditions worsened over- night, but by Tuesday many were able to dig their cars out and things slowly began to return to normal; WINTER HOLIDAY Schools, however,’ remained closed while cleari ng operations were carried out, giving thousands of students : a wintery holiday. Many organizations, service clubs and church groups can- celled meetings. - By Wednesday, things. were back to normal. Only scattered snow- showers were expected until Sajurday when another cold front is expected to move in. . ’ Weatherman Grant Thomp- son at the Terrace-Kitimat Airport said the snow began Sunday as the warm air passed over a dome of cold air vaitting over Terrace. Its center was about 100 miles * south of here. ‘UNSTABLE AIR’ “Behind the warm front was - - an onshore flow of moist, un- Stable Pacific air which brought the rain,” Thompson said. Rain poured all the way -inland te Burns Lake then petered out, In. effect, it was the vicious: tail end of the Vancouver storm. Sixinches of snow fell Friday. Another 2.6 inches piled up Saturday. . On Sunday, the biggest bundle---20 inches--- came down and a further. 7.5. inches of snow. fell Monday | morning before the rain began. '- COLDER WEATHER? — “Tt looks . like, nnsettled weather will. prevail, until ‘at. least Saturday," Thompson “Then there will be a return of colder-weather.” - A ‘new record high: tem- perature was set Monday'when the thermometer climbed to 41. ~ecktails, dinner anddancing to - ~ the ‘Big City Life’. ; The previous record for the day was 26 in 1956 and 1999, Monday, only trains ‘were - Cont'd on Page 3 Turn Show . e . . : into art! Fancy yourself. a sculpter? Then do your thing In th snow! Join in on the snow sculpte contest for the Lion’s Winte: Carnival Feb. 27 and 28, The contest starts Feb. 1 “and prizes will be awarded f the best plece of anaw-work| each week, Feb. 6; Feb. 13 and Feb. 20. pGemareke NL bey at * -When your plece of. angw is‘‘finished, just call Stocks at 635-2171 during the |day and 635-2460 eveninge. - Aphotowill be taken of yor snow-sculpter and enter it For the weekly prizes and’ ‘ Brand prize. epael te an Thieves use garbage can A garbage’ can: ‘and an unlocked bathroom window aided thieves in a house break, ; overnight Friday. Thieves oke. into the home of Andre Viens on Braun Street and made off with a portable television, 4 piggy ‘bank filled with $10. ; a case of beer, a wedding ring and $5 i in change. : . Te we wT Laing will | speak here Federal Public Works minister Arthur Laing will be guest speaker Jan. 29 at: the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting. The Herald announced more Chan two weeks ago that Laing was planning to include his. . Terrace visit in his B.C, intinery later thig month. and early | February, “Mr, Laing -is. not only an entertaining “speaker, but is very interested and enthusiastic about the future of our area," said outgoing president, Stan ‘ Patterson. : During the meeting, stticérs for 1971 will be installed. - New. presidents Jim McKay. : New vice-presidents are: Bruce. . e Carruthers and Kerry Condon. Tom Porter will be-treasurey. The meeting will beheld ‘in ' . the Terrace Community Center, Tickets are onsale: for $7.50. each. | This «includes: free e Fortier’ pulled a her oven'-Monday. Fortr of e16 Hal We , wan-eay Mrs, “aid the fire track wag Teach ‘her: home: