Prov, Library, Periodicals Deparbment, B. Cc. HL. LVIII, No. 34 PICTURE OF SILENCE is this photograph of 50 Terrace highway logging trucks, parked in pro- test after Department of Commercial Transport Tea ty School Tax Question Gets Study A Terrace Chamber of Com- merce resolution, tabled at the an- miual convention of the Northwest a hambers of Commerce in Smith: rs the first week in March, was n important item of business at ‘ie regular monthly meeting of ‘errace Chamber Monday even- mang, m™ The resolution called for “equal mcharing of all capital assessments 7 Kelowna Couple - ; Hurt In Crash A Kolawna couple, enroute to Kitimat to accept a posting with athe Baptist church, narrowly mescaped death last Wednesday when thelr car smashed inte a Blogging truck abovt seven miles ae of Terrace on Highway — Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fields were maken to Mills Memorial hospital mollowing the incident. Mrs. Fields avas treated for shock and abra- sony but her husband underwent murgery for injuries sustained in mae accident. . a Driver of the logging truck, John mpolezer of Terrace was uninjured a the mishap. ae Terrace ROMP said the accldent meight have been fatal if the driv- 2 of the truck had not had the meesence of mind to pull as far to me side of the road as possible. malhe Fields vehicle, a Vauxhall, es travelling towards Kitimat en it slid on icy pavement and mamimed into the side of the load- : logging truck. The Impact meocked the logs from the trailer med ripped out the side of the muxhall. An axe was used to free =, and Mrs. Fields from their maeached vehicle, The accident oc- d at about 1:30 pm.. SORRY . a No “Melting Pot’ this week. in an area to include Smithers, Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands and Port- land Canal school districts, Equal- lty of education opportunity for all children can only be achieved lf the educational tax burden is shared equally,” the resolution read, It was tabled for a two-month period so that the matter could be taken back to individual cham- bers for further study. A committee was formed at Monday night’s meeting consist- ing of Bob Christl, Vic Jolliffe and James MacKay, This group is to meet with a similar committee of Kitimat Chamber of Commerce tonight, March i6, SCHOOL BOARD COMMENTS Following editorial comments on, the issue in last week’s issue of the Kitimat “Northern Sentinel,” a spokesman for Terrace School Board stated: “The energetic reaction of Kiti- mat Chamber of Commerce to the. Terrace Chamber's resolution to amalgamate the school districts of this area for taxation purposes is interesting, but not unexpected, and is entirely a matter between these two business organizations, “Of prime concern to the Ter- race School Board is the equaliza- tion of educational opportunities for the children, and the method of attaining this goal. No amount of specious arguments and juggling of figures can alter the fact that there are two completely differ: ent standards of expenditure for educational purposes in the school districts of Terrace and Kitimat. A clear illustration is found in the relative 1965 school budgets. If the tax assessments of the two districts had been traded in that year ‘the Kitimat schoo] tax would staggering 44.53 mills — prob- ably the higheat in the history of BC. On the other hand, the Ter- race school tax would have drop ped from 28.2 mills to 18.51 mills — the lowest in the province. officials and RCMP staged o full-scale clamp down on load restrictions. Truckers have not yet decided whether trucks will resume hauling INDUSTRY THREATENED Transport. Thursday or remain idle until an agreement is reached with the Department of Commercial (McGrath photo) Today's Wildcat Truck Strike | Follows Police Clamp Down Terrace's logging industry was threatened with shutdown today when some 50 highway logging trucks ceased hauling because of police clampdowns on load restrictions in the area. Trucks were parked empty at the corner of Lakelse and Emer. son while drivers, owners and log- ging contractors called an enier- gency meeting at the Canadian Legion Auditorium, in an effort to decide on a course of action, “The wildeat truck strike began after two days of rigid enforce- ment by weigh scale officials of the department of commercial transport, and Terrace RCMP. Many truck owners were clutch: ing infraction tickets in their hands as they sat for the meeting this afternoon. The tickets have been issued for almost every minor infraction on the books, ac- cording to the drivers. Some have been hit for overweight loads, while others have tickets for over. height. and overwidth loads and still others have tickets for broken Mudflaps, burned out tail-lights and numerous other minor infrac- tions. Local trucker Horace Vance, act- ing on the direction of today’s meeting, telephoned A. J. Bower- ing, deputy minister of commercial transport in Victoria, He told Bow- ering that Terrace highway log- ging trucks were parked, and can no longer operate under such atrict enforcement of minor regu- lations, . ‘The deputy minister placed the blame on the local RCMP de- tachment and sald he would en- deavor to “call off’ his weigh stale officials at once. He suggest: ed that local department of high- ways officials might have requost- ed the enforcement, and asked that truckers check with superinten- dent of Highways, J. P. O'Toole. Asked to comment on the situ- ation, Sergeant J. H, Maidens of the Terrace ROMP said, “For the past two days we have been assisting the commercial transport fellows. ‘We have all the sympa- thy in the world for the local truckers, but we cannot be expect- ed to read things into the statutes which do not exist. If the regula tions are too restrictive, then the regulations should be changed." Spokesmen at today’s meeting . emphatically defied anyone to con: form to the regulations calling for an &' wide load, when bunk stakes all lean several inches outside the limit after the load has settled while enroute to the mills, P. Bass said that earlier today, a sample load was placed on one of the trucks and kept absolutely within the letter of the law. “By the. time we reached the check unit, there were two infractions evident,” he sald, A conforming joad under present enforcement was termed an “absolute impossi- bility” by many of the truckers present, A committee comprised of sav- eral truckers and logging contract org will meet tonight with depart- ment of commercial transport of: ficiats in an effort to reach some sort of agreement. Further meetings will be held to determine whether present truck ‘rates will be retained, or whether local truckers will geek a hike to $15.80 an hour for trucks, ‘in an effort to meot increasing operational costs. Present load requirements call for loads 8’ wide, 12.6’ feet high, aii 70 overall length and maximum 90,000 Ibs. Truckers claim a blockload of that size is, of necessity, well over the $0,000 pound requirement, On Thursday, road restrictions will place further hardship on truckers, when all loads are re- duced to 75 per cent capacity. tea JAMES H. JAMIESON James H. Jamieson has been appointed woods manager, Ter- race Woods Division, Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited. The Announcement was made recent- ly by J. G. W. McIntyre, exe: cutive vice president operations, — Mr, Jamieson, & graduate For: ester from the University of ‘Toronto, has 17 years of exper: fence in logging operations in Eastern Canads, Before joining - Columbia Cellulose, he held the Position of assistant woods mat- ‘ager for Marathon Corporation — of Canada, . oe ’ -Mrs. Jamieson, daughters, Mar- garet and Barbara, and: -son ‘James, presently in Ontario, will - join Mr. Jamieson at the con--. clusion of the school. term.