PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday June 27, 1977

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COUNCIL SNUB

IS BUSH LEAGUE

By MICHAEL TINDALL
For Terrace and District Chamber

The Alberta Northwest Chamber of Mines and
Resources gave a reception and almost nobody
came.

Approximately 40 representatives of gas and oil,
steel, lumber supply, drill rig manufacturing and
service companies arrived in Terrace by private
charter last Friday and held a reception at a local

otel.

Their intent was to meet with Municipal officials
and the Chamber of Commerce and learn
something of the economic and social ftavtu of
Terrace. eioly problem was that not a single
representative of the Municipality had had the
courtesy to put in an appearance up until midnight
when the Chamber representative took his leave.

Aldermen Cooper and Jolliffe were in attendance
at a Regional meeting and may be excused.
Perhaps the Mayor and some of the other alderman
were officially engaged and unable to attend but at
least one alderman was at home when called by the
Chamber to enquire about the apparent Municipal
snub of the Mines reception, and that person ~
made no effort to attend.

Indeed, he seemed completely uninterested,
mentioning only that he thought something had
been arranged some time ago.

And that, citizens of Terrace, was the lack of
enthusiasm, courtesy, and Municipal interest
shown last Friday evening by your elected officials.

I's not as if it were a last minute affair either,
The Municipal Clerk advised the Chamber of
Commerce about the reception in May and the topic
was discussed'. What worries most were the
comments heard at the reception and later at
dinner; comments such as, “Who'd invest here
anyway? Nobody’s interested.,’’

Or, “I wonder what’s wrong with Terrace?
Prince Rupert (their previous stop) had a whole
delegation out. The Chamber of Commerce will
nglyales much of the tosm function in ttrce and
Mayo Tat eedtliclthat maybe the Chamber should

. take over the industrial development concern as
well, Perhaps the Mayor's master plan provides
also for the Chamber to become the official .
welcoming body for visitors to Terrace.

Whatever the tayor plan, let’stotat he, his
aldermen and his municipal staff are sufficiently
well organized in the future to ensure that there is
no repetition of the bush league social and political
snub suffered last Friday by 40 Alberta
businessmen.

Nuts about tennis?

There are many frustrated tennis players in
Terrace who do a great deal of complaining
about our lack of courts, but little else to improve

em.

For those of you who are interested, a meeting
has been arranged for June 29, 1977, Wednesday,
at 8 p.m. in the Senior Citizen's Room at the
arena for the purpose of organizing a club and
electing representatives.

Dear Sir:

Your June 28rd issue
czrried a comment by Brian
Gregg, Kitimat Editor, in
which he concludes that
Terrace Council are ‘“‘tin
gods’. Mr. Gregg is
responding to some
comments made by a
Kitimat citizen and he is
entitled to his opinion,
however I am somewhat
disappointed in him because
were I to use the same
questionable logic 1 should
judge all newspaper editors
as a group and base my

as

by Les Rowland
of Oilweek

What is happening with
major projects all over
North America is typical of
the conditions which
prompted the request by
Kitimat Pipeline for
suspension of its application
to the National Energy
Board for a pipeline permit
covering a route from
Kitimat to Edmonton.

Opposition by so-called
environmental groups and
ecological scientists, many
of them in the “pseudo”
category but some with
genuine supportable
concerns, was very
reminiscent of a couple of
incidents in recent Alberta
history, They are
exemplified by the
psychological response to a
project which may cause
some disturbance to the
ground, the nearby stream,
the view of the sky or the
quiet surroundings: "We

on’t object to the project in

ROSS LAKE

HOPE, B.C. (CP) — Ross Lake, the
man-made reservoir that floods the
Skagit Valley behind Washington State's
Ross Dam, is a dry and dusty wilderness
of old tree stumps this week as a winter
of light snowfall begins to take its toll on
the water level.

Hugh McIntosh, a spokesman for
Seattle City Light, the utility that wants
to raise the dam another 122 feet to
enlarge the reservoir, says this year is
the first time since the dam was
completed in 1940 that the reservoir will
not fil] to full pool level,

Ross Lake crosses the Canada-United
States border about 25 miles southeast of
this Fraser Valley community, The dam
itself is 22 miles south of the border.

The reservoir was 1,554 feet above sea
level Wednesday, McIntosh said, 37 feet
below the planned level for the date. Full
pool level is 1,601.5 feet.

American campers and fishermen
visiting the parched reservoir say
they're not sure why Seattle City Light
wants to raise the dam.

“Y don't undersland why they want to
fo rebtooie veservoir bigger when’ they

soe tt fall now,” said camper

would rise.

July,

reer > ST od

Tree-stumped lake

Mary Williams of McNary, Ore.

“It's too bad the countries have to
disagree over it,” said Billie Everett, of
Sumas, Wash., who with her husband,
Henry, was shariig a campsite with the
Williams family.

B.C. OPPOSED

Environment Minister Jim Nielsen
has pledged the province wil! do all it
can to oppose raising the dam, whicm
would back the Skagit up another 7 1-2
miles into B.C,

The low lake levels have exposed the
rotting stumps of thousands of trees
logged off before the dam was completed
in the 1940s. Tourists anxious to launch
their boats must carry them from a high-
and-dry launching ram
stumps to the waler’s edge.

Some were prepared to take the
trouble, though, confident that the water

through the

“It's coming up,” said Harry Hawkins
of Auburn, WAsh, “It's always up in

** A lot of people didn't come this <: r
because they didn’t think the coula , at
their boats in the water. But you can do it

if you work at it,”

ad

Voice of the readers

Brian compares apples to oranges

opinion on my experiences
with a certain newspaper
editor in recent years.

The first two cases
mentioned in the article
were the Inselberg
Neighborhood Pub
Application and the ‘Potato
Shed" Land Use Cofitract.
The third case is presently
before the courts. None of
these cases are similar and
Mr. Gregg has given us a
classic example . of
comparing
oranges and going bananas
over the result.

apples to.

The applicalion for a
neighborhood pub occurred
prior to 1976 and only one
present member of Council,

the mayor, was involved in |

that decision.

Altempling to blame the
present Council for that one
is stretching credibility a
little too far.

In any event 1 find the
association of Mr. Inselberg
with the other two casesan
insult to Mr. Inseiberg.

On the potatoe shed issue
the suggestion was made
that all members of council

changed their minds

cause of a newspaper
story. That is simply not
true,

My stand has been
consistent and very clear
fromthe heginning, I am
oppused to the rezoning or
land use contract on the
grounds that to place
industrial land, spot zoned
between residential and
agriculture with the only
access. through residential
areas is nol good planning.

Other industrial land is
available for that purpose.

One man’s opinion

Please drill on my neighbor’s land

principle as long as it runs
over someone else’s
roperty !’

p One of the incidents was
very good natured and
personal because it involved
ranch friends whose kids
were in Alberta 4H and
raising champion calves a
few years ago. It was at the
time when gas leasing was
very active in the foothills
and companies were falling
all over one another to snap
up freehold leases. We had
done a litile quiet advising
on the psycho ogy of trying
for the best price before the
fever cooled off, Altogether
a dozen or more families
came out of the wheeling
and dealing with enough
cash bonus money to build
several new barns, remodel
kitchens, buy new
equipment and set up
university funds for the
young ‘uns.

A little later alt a regional
4H meeting we got into
conversation with one
family about what would
happen next and asked one
of the wives if she was
enthusiastic about the
prospect of drilling to prove
up the acreage. Yes, she
said, it’s going to be real
good -as long as they drill on
the ...... ranch instead of
our's.

The other incident was a
conversation with the guest
speakers at a_ recent
American Right-of-Way
Association meeting. This
dealt with community
response to power line and
pipeline rights-of-way and
the public relations involved
in setting out a route which
would satisfy both the
regulatory authorities and
the land owners,

The two speakers, both
representing one of the
protective associalions, put
up what the industry
audience thought was a very
reasoned argument about
mechanical details of farm
operations and movement of
equipment. Pipelines are
not much of a problem, they
agreed, because you hardly
ever see them, but
transmission line towers
can be hazardous. All they
wanted was mutual
understanding and

’ One of

discussion of each other’s
problems. However, they
did agree, with the sense of
humor that is essential if
you want to stay in either
petroleum or farming, thal
i’s a natural instinct to

‘agree with the need for the

power but want the
power line to go somewhere
else. This was essentially
the argument of all the
Crowsnest Pass commu
nities in an earlier-Calgary
Power hearing.

In the Kitimat case the
result was an ironic twist of
circumstances, because the
withdrawal for the present
from the Kitimat terminal
proposal, where the
embattled fishermen at one
point actually prevented an
official of the pipeline
company from getting on his
airport bus, has opened the
way for a new wave of
concern about the impact on
Puget Sound. This is the
alternative proposal of
Trans Mountain, which is
now being supported by the
Kitimat sponsors.

If it wash’t so serious it
would have been hilariously

funny to read the
impassioned comments to
the press by _ the

environmental lobby about
ihe iniquity of, in effect,
moving the threat from
“their” place to “our’s’’,
the large
environmental groups took
the logical approach of
telling the Thompson

The Kaieteur Falls on
the Polaro River in Guyana
drop 741 feet.

The Taj Mahal is really a
mausoleum, builtnear Agra
in the mid-17th century by
Shah Jahan for his favorite
wife, Mahal.

Lebanon was part of the
Turkish empire until 1914
and under french mandate
after the First World War.
Independence was declared
Noy. 26, 1941.

Napoleon Bonaparte died
al the age of 52. For his last
5'u years, he was a British
prisoner of war on the Island
of St. Helena.

“Wake up, Otis — There are either burglars or RCMP downstairs!”

inquiry commission it would
now switch its tactics by
opposing the Cherry Point
terminal proposal presented
by Trans Mountain which
thé Kitimat sponsors are
now supporting, The
environmental lobby will try
to get the terminal for Port
Angeles, although there is
no indication how the
residents around that port
on the Olympic Peninsula
would feel about it.

The frustration tne
applicant now feels appears
to be because he refused to
accept Council’s decision
hack in 1976 and because he
continued to gamble by
building an_ industrial
complex on the property.

Now the issue can be
conveniently obscured with
other issues like ‘‘jobs for
the unemployed”’, economic
stimulation” and “hardship
on the owner”. The real
issue still is land use.

Furthermore the
implications to giving in to
the kind of pressure now
being exerted is a little
frighteni ning.

It should be emphasized
that up to the present time
the potatoe shed owner has
not violated any city by-
laws. He itis not operating a
business out of the building.
On that basis any
comparison between this
and the last case is not valid
and is an insult to Mr.
DiGiovanni.

Finally to the Kitimat
citizen mentioned earlier;
I would like to ask him why
50 many people who work in
Kitimat prefer to live in
Terrace. People who
created ‘'The Ship of Foods’’
shouldn't throw stones.

H, Giesbrecht

Council fails.
to hear pleas

Editor, Terrace Herald

It always amazes me at
the priorities our council
sets. They are willing to
pive the Chamber of
Commerce grants for sewer
and water connections and
help build curbs for their
information booth. Yet
whenever Minor Baseball
has asked for improvements
to the ball parks, they are
told do the work yourself.

The council does not
realize that without the
many loads of sand donated
by local contractors to Agar
Avenue Park, and the help
of Minor Baseball coaches
and players, who raked
rocks in order to start the
season this year, the park
would not have been
adequate to play on.

Without the many hours
given by Colin Chaustenauf
and Red L’Estrange we
would not have such a
presentable park as Rotary
Park is right now to play on.
All Minor Baseball coaches,
umpires and scorekeepers
give a lot of volunteer time
with the boys and should not
be expected to to maintain
the parks as well.

The council talks about
promoting tourism without
even Hstening to Minor
Baseball when we say again
and again that if we had a
decent park with sewer and
water connections, so we
could have bathroom at
least, we could host the
Provincial Bronco Finals
for B.C. Minor Baseball.

This would mean at least
eight teams consisting of
fifteen boys each and all
their coaches, parents and
friends would be coming to«
area. This would total ato t
two hundred people who
would be needing food,

motels, etc. This is not a
small amount by any
means,

By GORDON HARDY

Tt was Calvin Coolidge
who once noted, in a
moment of crystalline
perception, that ‘‘When
more and more people are
thrown out of work,
unemployment results.”
Coolidge himself later Lost
his job as President of the
United STates when the
Great Depression hit.

Unfortunately, what
Coolidge found to be true for
unemployment is not
necessarily true for
unemployment insurance.

Just because you lose your
job, don’t count on getting
UIC benefits automatically.

The Unemployment In-
surance Commission has to
protect the working
Canadians who pay for the
scheme from too heavy a
load. Parliament has laid
down strict rules in our
unemployment insurance
scheme, and woe to those
who ignore them.

You can lose six weeks
worth of payments, called
benefits, for quitting your
job without good cause, or
for being fired because of
your own misconduct.

You can be penalized for

false = or misleading
statements,

You can be denied
benefits because you

a

received holiday pay when
your work ended, and the
Commission decides that
you are on holidy, no
unemployed.

But, you can appeal any of
these decisions.

The greatest number of
appeals take place because
people have been cut off
unemployment insurance.

In most cases, claimants
have been cut off because
the UIC says that they have
limited themselves too
much in the wage they will
accept, the area in which
they will work, or simply
because they have not
looked hard enough for a
job.
One lawyer who has
handled a number of these
types of cases says, “In
general, if in doubt, ap-

Once you heare about a -

decision going againat you,
you should appeal within
thirty days.

Vancouver lawyer Allan
MacLean tells of a young
woman who rather foolishly
reported to the UIC that she
had holidayed at the
Calgary Stampede for ten
days while she collected
benefits. In fact she made
an error; her claim had
begun wellafter the Calgary
Stampede.

The woman was cut off, or

But our pleas fall on deaf
ears while the Chamber of
Commerce manages to have
their needs met without a
bat of an eye by City
Council. .

Th Chamber of Commerce
seems to have priority over
.groups like Minor Baseball
who keep 265 young bays
occupied for three and a half
months of the year.Council
has tostart listening to other
organizations in Terrace.
whenthey askfor help
Lil Farkvam —

President Terrace Minor
Baseball

Thanks

Editor, Terrace Herald:

I would like to take this
opportunity ta thank the
many organizations that
assisted us in havin

another suecessful
competition.
Special thanks to:

Canadian Propane, Terrace
Co-op , Overwaitea, Toco
Crafts, The Search &
Rescue, Jim Jefferis Esso,
Rowford Splice. Rite, Cedar
River Timber, Twin River
Timber, Dog & Sugs,
Tomohawk Tribe C'Bers,
Labatts Breweries, Water
Lily Bay Resort & C.F.T.K.

Also to the drivers of the
busses who so skillfully
drove the narrow road to the
take off site: Henry
Neutzner, Bill Christy, Roy
Clifford, Brian Doually,
Percy Gauronski.

Many thanks to Paul
Kaminski who's generosity
makes it possible for the
flyers to land and the
spectators to watch with the
use of his farm.

P.M. Bowen Colthurst
President
Skeena Hang Gliders

aw

disentitied, but, since she
had found a job by this time
she didn’t bother to appeal.
Several months later the
UIC demanded a refund of
$1100.

Had she appealed the
original decision it would
have been easy to refute the
demand for a refund. She
had simply made a mistake
in her declaration to the
pmission. Yet, since the

y day appeal period was
over, MacLean, acting as
the woman's lawyer, had
considerable
getting her a through.

The appeal procedures
will ‘cost you nothing more
than the price of paper and
postage. They are not
particularly ifficult or

timidating if you know
what you are doing,

You can give notice of

dimply by writing s lets to
mpiy Dy w ale
the UIC. Then in most

cages, you appear yourself, ©

with or without a lawyer or
other representation, before
a board of referees. You
state your case, the board
decides, and the matter
finishes there.

Appealing is a matter for
which you should be fully
prepared, If you want to
appeal, contact the Van-
couver People’s Law School
for a copy of their booklet,

ifficulty —

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