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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1971

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passenger, &

Prince Rupert.
° - STRANDED

turn. back Sunday night.

Terrace Hotel overnight, .

One Greyhound Canadian
Coachway’s bus was forced to

Passengers were put up in the

A “Canadian - :National
Railways spokesman said on
’ Monday he went around town on

pa -huge truck, picking up
running’ belween” here: and
-Prined:-Rupert; “once. a deisel’
engine equipped with blades
plowed through. Freight trains
were delayed, but a spokesman
i said the passenger train wert
through en its normal schedule, .

The. train picked up one bus
E girl, heading ta

snowbound employees. —
” ‘Then; there was the tough job
‘of getting cats on the railyards
to clear tracks for passage and
“shunting of trains, -
“We'd had trouble since
Sunday," said Les Bryant,
Greyhound agent here, © |
“There was no bus -out
Monday, but one Tuesday. -

were a few hours off schedule
but are now back on regular
schedule, .
TWO SLIDES

Wilf MacDonald, District
Highways Superintendent, said
his- crews cleared away two
small snowslides.

He said the highway was

He said Tuesday the buses -

closed from 6:30 a.m. Monday
trecherous conditions’, =<.

Ice'on the Rupert side was a’
main reason for closure. Ice
and, in some places only one
lane in operation, on the
another, '
- Aircraft could neither ‘get in
or out,.ledving many air
passengers stranded.’ ..
, Sandy Sandhals;, B.C. Hydro
chief here, said his men were
lucky,. There was one brief.
“power outage in Remo where.
snow tripped a transformer. .
Power was off only during the
time men repaired the tran-
sformer, -  .)

There was also a short outage

to 10 p.m.-Monday’ “because of ;

Terrace side of the Summit was -

"TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE; B.C. . .

a: CARS TOWED a
- Late.- -Monddy, the.

|. municipality began towing | “T couldn’t get up Kalum Hill

away cars blocking clearing.
operations... Owners. were
required to pay a towing fee...

“It’s probably the worst

‘near Lakelse where a. snow-.
‘laden tree fell across the wires.

- singlesnowfall we've had,” sald
Mayor Victor Jolliffe, although
& few oldtimers said they’d seen

, Worse in years past.

_ and that’s the second time in
: five years that I’ve been stuck”
the mayor, who lives on the
_ bench, said. Tos

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® or subdivision are not held up

any longer than necessary is to
be another objective, -

Tan said that the procedure
for the many applications for
provincially-owned land and for
the ‘subdivision of privately
owned property, received by the
regional district, are very time
consuming, especially those
applications involving large
amounts of iand which the
Technical Planning Committee,

meeting once a month, discuss
at some length. :
He said “We are thinking of

the process- forming a sub-

meet frequently and at a
moments. notice’.

_ _ EXPANSION
‘Developing a plan of ex-
pansion for each of the
Development Areas over the
next five years will be a further
intention of Committee, ,

ways and means of Speeding up:

committee possibly which‘could -

Tan said that the amount of |.

| Zoning plan studied —
by Regional District

vacant land available and the
rate of growth of each set-
tlement over the next five years
will be assessed and the
possibility of providing services
to these areas discussed.

_ A start on development of
master plans for sewer, water,
reads .and other services -for
each of the Development Areas
will be the Committee’s seventh
objective. .

Tan said that it would be hard
to tell when a start on the plans
will be made: .

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member of the BCTF, -
ONE OF BEST

“Centennial is recognized as
one of the 10 best schools in
Canada,” said iocal association
president, John Chen Wing, who
helped organize the conference,

It was originally proposed by
Mrs. Myrtle Pratt, a Kitimat
teacher, Terrace was picked
because of its central location,
4 “The objectives .were>:to
relate. the BCTF executive
office to the schools teachers of
the’ community,” Chen Wing

said: ~ -
He added the media
representatives were invited to
tell the teachers just how they.
: can do the job of relating to the
‘community, and getting their
‘message across to parents.
4 GAVE INSIGHT
‘It (having press and radio
there) gave all people present a

‘vivid example of newspaper

editor

lot of insight into public
to convey the needs of the
teachers to the community,”
said Chen Wing,. who chaired
the conference,

Also discussed was the
proposed journalism class
which would embrace all facets
of newspaper production and
radio and TV aspects of jour-

“Our hands are fairly full.
with the other objectives”, he
said. He added that he realized
there were very few services in
the outlying areas but that any
local land developer groups,
like the Thornhill Ratepayers
Association, would be given
help by the Committee. -

These remarks also tied in
with the Boards other objective
which was “to provide such
miscellaneous planning ser-
vices as, may be required for
organised areas on request.”

Anacondas, the longest
snakes in the world, sometimes
grow to 38 feet and weigh up to
50 pounds,

| Itlists all sani-station facilities,
provincial and national parks, ||

' contained in the’.

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New guide
| Nearly 2,000 government-
approved — tourist acy

are listed in the 1971 edition of
the British Columbia Tourist
Directory, just off the presses,
- Popularly known as the

issue containg visitor in-
. formation on all areas of the
province, including the Skeena.

ferry information, tran:
sportation companies operating
in the province, and gives useful
hints and facts on all prominent
centres and areas. Strip maps:
and a list of licensed guides are
150-page |
booklet, of which 750,000 copies
are available for national and .
international distribution, -

W.K. Kiernan, minister of
tourism, says the Department
of Travel Industry continues to
find a broad and demanding
interest in the directory, “It is
held in high esteem by B.C,'s
guests, and is the official travel
Buide for the province,” he said.

OXFAM aided
by teachers

The Skeena-Cassiar Teachers

teacher to decide whether to aid |.

Oxfam--the East Pakistan:
Relief Fund. : ;
The B.c. Teachers

Association earlier urged local
associations and teachers to-
donate to Oxfam. .

But the local association,

meeting Monday, decided “it is

up to the individual teachers to

make personal commitments to

Sive financial aid to Oxfam,”

nalism, : ek ma alte
Dy ing “the ‘conference,
techialeolak, educational. film,.

‘‘Jolirnalism Careers’ aimed at
senior high school students, was
presented, .

The film, written by Thody
and filmed at The Telegram in
Toronto, outlined production of
a newspaper and stressed the
news, sports and social
departments.

Tt will be made available to
most English 11 clases through
the BCTF to give students a

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“All We are asking is the. use

of our own money,” sald Ghen
‘Wing earlier this month,

Chen Wing said 229 ‘full-time
teachers in the district could
walk out, OO

He said they voted ga per cent
— the same as the provincial
average — in favor of strike
action. | ;

Chen. Wing seid the strike
“looms as a real possibility.”

: NOT POOR
In the earlier Herald. story,
Chen’ Wing said the govern-
ment-controlled ,pension fund
‘now stands ‘at $165-million.
Out of this, retired teachers
receive $18-million per year,

curlers

‘The Terrace: High School
’ Boys Curling squad was downed
5-4 and 7-5 by a strong Prince
George rink. in last weekend's
Regional: Curling Play-Downs,
held in Prince George, ye
-_ Rob/Lank skipped the Prince
George four to the ‘victory.

_ The first of the two games
‘went' into extra ends before
Lank placed the winriing rock to
‘break the 4-4 deaddack. - .

. There’ was no’ aged for
overtime in the second and final
game, however, ag the: Terrace
team ‘skipped by ‘Al Jacques
saw Lank's' team out-score
them by a 7-5 count:”

_ Terrace entered ihe Regional
finals by virtue of their win over

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He added it is growing by $13-
million per year while only $8-
million is being paid out.

Chen Wing described the B.C,
pension plan the poorest in
Canada.

He also pointed out that
should teachers walk out, the’
strike would not be against the
focal school board, but “against
the provincial government over
a'provincial issue.” |

The board in the meantime is
taking a close lock at pension’
Schemes used by other

, 197) budget. Last year’s budget

Sitting in committee last
week, School District. 88
trustees approved the second
draft of their proposed
$4,672,000 budget.

The draft, in an itemized
statement, appeared in The
Herald January 7.

It includes $2,198,551 in
teacher salaries, compared to
$1,857,000 in the previous
budget. .

The proposed budget is up
more than -half-a-million
dollars---§676,000--- from the

was $3,925,288,

The budget does not include a
proposed $2,800,000 referendum
the Stewart-Cassiar School
District wishes to put to the
people sometime this year.

It would be for building and
extension and purposes to keep
up with the growing district.
An administrator said last |;
year that the referendum could
not be put before voters in the

provinces,

Dec. 12 civic election because it

-$4.6-million budget.
discussed by board

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was still having difficulties
getting monies from a previous
referendum from the Depart-
ment of Finance, although
approved by the Department of

commodation . establishments, |_

“Green Book", this centennial ;|:

Association says its up to each: |:

Suspended

; blocks at the bottom of Kalum
. Hill and on Kalum Lake Drive.
MINOR ACCIDENTS
They also reported a rash of
‘minor fender-benders---but
nothing serious.-
Staff Sergeant R.W. Nelson
_ Said his men put their ticket
” books aside and were busy with
‘helping stuck motorists get
: their cars moving again,
He said it might be public
relations, but he added that
everyone has to help each other
in emergencies so his boys were
out there pushing with the rest
of us. ,

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‘Meeting
| postponed

The Kitimat-Stikine Regional
_ District meeting, planned for
today, has been postponed until
hext Wednesday.

The meeting will begin at 2
p.m, January 27 in Terrace
Municipal Hall council
chambers.

A meeting of. the regional
hospital board will follow the
general meeting.

Thieves raid ©
mobile home

Drapes, dishes and pillows
worth $300 were stolen from an
unlocked trailer Monday.

Theives entered a demon-
‘stration model at Terrace
Mobile Homes on Highway 16
west,
RCMP said the trailer had
been unlocked,
All the merchandise stolen
was new.
Police are investigating the
theft.

License

- A 26-year-old Terrace man
Pleaded not guilty Thursday
when he appeared in court
‘charged with having control of a
vehicle while his blood aleohol
level Was in excess of .03 per
cent.

But Bernard Dodd. was

Education.

‘convicted anyway,

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