PAGE 4 The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, The 6.C. Weekly Newspapers - Association, and Varified Circylation. Published every Monday and Thursday at 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. Second - class mail registration number 1201. ASSISTANT MANAGER - George T, English PRODUCTION ~ Gordon Hamiltan EDITORIAL - Rudy Haugeneder, Gearge English JG ADVERTISING - Bill Groenen P.O. Box 399 . Phone 635-6357 Business address - 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, B.C. Our Opinion Residents barking Many Terrace taxpayers are barking in protest over the way the local SPCA is treating degs and other animals. SPCA spokesman Albert de Jong says the complaints are arising from persons being misled by an article appearing in last week’s Herald. Persons misbelieving that the SPCA received tax collected dollars from the District Municipality to feed and house impounded animals have formed the major complainants. Over a talk line show heard on radio station CF TK last week women were up in arms over the erroneous fact, Mr. de Jong this week cleared the ait: by stating that the Municipality in no -- way pays for animal keeping. The. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty-to Animals is solely responsible for feeding and housing costs. The Municipality only enters info the picture as a party in the contracting of the present shelter to the SPCA. The women apparently were angered by the false belief that taxpayers were paying twice the hecessary amount for the dogs. Why should a Terrace resident be charged in tax for feeding animals when they are charged again whenever they call at the pound to collect an impounded animal, they said. Now that the picture is clearer Mr. de Jong hopes that the phone will stop ringing and the protests over the. matter will cease. He said that the recent protest came in view of last week's article about the pound’s wiki bear Smokey. Terrace residents were sore that their money was feeding a bear found in the Thornhill district. Even though tax money never enters the picture Mr. de Jong said that in Smokey’s case - as in every wild animal’s case - money for feeding purposes is supplied through the local game warden on behalf of the government. Other complaints hitting the Terrace shelter this week have been the reported barking nuisances caused by local dogs. Residents having loud mouthed dogs on their block have pointed their angry fingers at the SPCA for necessary action. - Terrace SPCA officials however have no power in this area and say all similar complaints should be handled through the RCMP. No dogs have tedate been charged with disturbing the peace but Mr. de Jong says that dozens of complaints are phoned in each week. Since so many complaints have been directed to the SPCA Mr. de Jong says it is time that the SPCA start doing its own complaining. He said that many dogs in the Terrace area are not properly licenced and that to avoide painful impounding fees local dog owners should get licences and renew any expired licences for their pets. Dog licences cost $5 for males and $20 for females. Unlicenced dogs impounded require another $8 for their freedom while the charge is less at $5 © for licenced animals. An extra $1.50 is added for each day the animal stays at the shelter. -The money raised through licencing is handed over to the Municipality -while the remaining funds are directed to the SPCA. The society is then responsible for paying food, wage and other miscellaneous bills arising from operating the shelter. Within 72 hours of capture all animals are considered pound property. It is then up to SPCA officials whether or not the animal should be given out to respective pet hunters or rather done away with altogether. Animals only found on Municipality property can be picked-up by the .pound, Any dogs found with expired licences are treated as unlicenced dogs and go through the corresponding procedures. SPCA is pleading with local residents to succcessfully keep pets under proper standards. They say that impounding animals and charging for their release is not the most enjoyable thing to do. "MB, Campbell Photo. - vt , See Eee Se eS ee oo NS ant hy ON ~ Yi 08. ra A fail Mee, 7 \f British Columbia, but ther - and. troublesome. E - the ” fire nortt of Donald yesterday “I problems by blowing from the | _ hampering progress but. 115 BILL SMILEY ON CAMPING: I don't know how you've fared, but so far it's been a rotten summer in these parts. Instead of the “sunny with sealtered showers," it has day after day, “rainy with sealtered sunshine”. - Usually, by now, municipal councils are begging citizens to go easy with their lawn sprinklers, or flatly threatening householders with a fine if they use them al all. - Brown, burned-crisp lawns are common by mid-August. Not at our place this year. We haven't used our sprinkler since the first week in July and the lawn is alarmingly verdant and growing like weeds, which of course a good portion of ours is. Not muchonecan do about it. But my heart goes out to the poor devils who are tenting. Tenting is great fun under ideal conditions. It's about as close as we can come to really getting back to nature. There's the pleasure of finding that choice campsite with a mere 30- degree . list, the satisfaction of getting. the tent. up ‘on the fourth try, the adventure of exploring a new camp and its adjacent waters. There’s the long day of puttering about in the sun, fishing, swimming, . gathering firewood, relaxing. For the men and children, that is. There’s the long day of puttering about with dishes, cooking meals, fooling with balky gas steves, and administering first aid to sundry scrapes, cuts and bites, solid... Baby it's cold - for the lady. Few women like tenting. But even for them there are joyful aspects. When the Jast pot has had its black bottom cleaned with sand, when the last child has been tucked away, milady can perch her weary tailbone on a stump or a stone by the campfire, look into the blue-red-orange flames, and dream of the glorious day when this ghastly trip is over and she'll be back in her castle, with a proper stove, refrigerator and automatic washer, She sits there, counting on her fingers, with a dazed smile. When the campfire is dying, Mom has her supreme moment of the day, She can crawl into her dampish flanelette pyjamas, crawl info the huddle of blankets on the camp cot which is tilted toward her head, and shudder for hours with a combination of cold and fear of - the things that go bump in the night. What tops it all is that: about 3 a.m. she discovers that - she has to go to the bathroom. Is purely psychologicai, of “7 COUTS ‘flashlight doesn’t work, and the little house with the facilities is 80 yards away, across ground thatis crawling with snakes and spiders with a bear behind every tree. This is where she gets her revenge. Whining and whimpering, she rouses her spouse from a deep, sweet slumber and issues. an ultimatum: either he gets up and goes with her, holding her hand all the way, or she starts Precious tid-bit recious tid-bits The following i is.a brand new column which is going on a test flight in this edition of the Herald. Tid-bits of information barely warranting a separate headline and more than a few inches of column space will be fitted into this column. Readers take note that if this particular column fails to appear in any following issues, the test flight quite certainly landed with its nose in the ground, . kkk Spokesmen from the Terrace and Prince Rupert CP Air headquarters said morning flights were cancelled on Friday, August 13, ,They said unfavourable weather conditions which : spread from sky to sky between the two communities did not . permit landing, according to company safety standards. ‘The spokesmen did not confirm whether or not the date” entered into the picture, Friday the 13th flights were however resumed | in the afternoon and evening. kkk Local RCMP have been on the prow! late at nights over the past week and have discovered potential sore spots. Local criminals should skip over this section for it might lead to some unlawful - reciprocal goodies. Police say many doors to downtown businesses have been found unlocked. Responsible proprietors | have been called out of bed to adhere to necessary lock-up ‘action, The Herald advises local business people to check doors before reliring for. the night. undisturbed hours of sleep not only for themselves but for any | | This precaution will allow potential break-in and entry artists currently on the prowl, kk ok Girls on, the hont for suitable companions should follow ‘the: - following instructions: STAY AWAY FROM THE. HERALD.: Herald associate editor. and manager George English has: | reportedly beén pestered by hungry females over the past days. Even this particular article was delayed in the writing to answer. - a telephone call which had some personal female acqualntancé: . of George's waiting impatiently on the line. We at the Herald “| - _ believeingetling a paper out onto the street and to your doors at: a week, This proposal however is threatened now: that our chief man is quite afraid to appear in public. ‘Besides, ” hiring private limousines to escort George to work | is hard maa . least twi our budget.’ 98,000. | pints needed _ Hospitals in’ Bri tidh Columbia and = the Yukon |: ‘need approximately: 98,000. \ Chiriey- . elght) aration blood donors to meet a entre birementa - req rt a ~ hundred) blood.: ‘@onors ‘every |. ‘"* week ofthe year! Four hundred (460) ‘donors: every. day: ~ five. days a week—must voluntéer' go’ ” that the Red Crosa Transfusion throughont! the. y An: average ‘of is ‘lola fivey patients. every.day of- the: year will receive a blood transfusion’. in this’ area-of our. country, . 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Several are bij ‘Although the vone nev ‘District had just one new outbreak yesterday and thal Prince Rupert District had onl four, the interior of the pravince continues to suffer from hot d weather and widespread lightning activity.: io ‘There was no big spread al® 30,000° acre SUE but winds are creating} south by day.and from the north at night. Dense smoke is men and 31 bulldozers are continuing to build fire guards. The 1000 acre PALM fire in the mountains 20 miles north- west of Donald has run up into sides of the GOLD River and is Of 99 fires burning in the Kamloops Forest District, three are proving difficull to control. The 1200 acres MATE fire south merritt is one and the 300 acre RAFT ~ outbreak near. CLEARWATER on the North Thompson is another. The third is the 300 acre KAN fire located at the mouth of the KWOIEK Creek .in the Fraser Canyon south of Lytton, Rain fell over the 250,000 TEE fire northwest of Fort Nelson yesterday and guards are holding. The LION fire north of TAKLA Lake which burned for a week and spread over 1200 acres is now being mopped up. - Elsewhere in the Prince George * District, a number of large fires in remote country contime lo pese problems but al] new outbreaks which were generally caused by lightning are small in size, .