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_ MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1971: TERRACE, B.C.

“TRAILER
- “Vour wheel
‘SAFEWAY

Of . Skeena Forest
PHONE 635-4544

‘Gh Year No. 1 en

hot
time

A New Year's Eve fire caused
undetermined damages to a
house at the corner. of Kalum
and Keith,

Terrace firemen were called
out about 10 p.m. Thursday to
fight the blaze which broke out
in an upstairs hall or bedroom.

Owner of the house, Phylis
Smythe, was out of town when
the fire broke out.

Damages were confined to an
upstairs hali, closet and two
xedrooms. Cause of the fire is
undetermined.

Calls came to the fire

. lepartment from several neigh-
vrs who spotted the blaze.

’, With only two hours to go until
$71, the fire ended -Terrace

‘ecard of no fires in December.

For children

| Lions net |
over $50.

The Downtown Lion’s Club
took in more than $50 for its .
Christmas party for retarded
children.

” Allending the party were 26
children .from Terrace and
other Lowns in the district.’

Latest $1 donations f

arty: were fromi: *-:

Margaret Casey; con

, Strasbourg and. family; Glyn

‘and Sheila Wescott; Ron and
Judy “Jephson; : The: Tom.
Newalls; Ina.Roper.and family;
Joe and Jeff Harris and family;
Dave and Wendy Kushner and
Ray Alwood. °

-the

town.-—Staff Hf photo.

Car plur pl unges
‘over cliff

A. Prince ‘George family
escaped uninjured: when their

‘problem at all.
sacra Bee oe mia # When the post office received a bright re

Tuesday, :Christmas envelope addressed to simply: “Aun es
Policesaid Nicholas Vahlas of - Cathie” and “Uncle Herb”, they figured it out with
Prince George lost control of his little. trouble.

car on the ice near the airport -The mystery couple are Cathie and Herb Spencer :

hill.
The car plunged 10 feel over ‘of Crescent Drive. Thornhill.

the bank and the trailer landed
on top of it.

The, Vahlas family. escaped
uftinjured “but the. car and
trailer received a total of §1,500
damages. The trailer was filled
with the family’s furniture,
‘’ which was also damaged.

Who are “Aunt Cathie” and “Uncle Herb’?
For the Terrace post office, that question was noe

meant to put it on the Spencer’s Christmas prevent
‘but got it in the mail by mistake. Bs
_ The.one hang-up was that the Spencer’s had t

% pay 12 cents postage due. . -

3 pity we gota good laugh out of it,” Mrs. Spence
said.

THE NIGHT LIGHTS of Tertace glitter far below as The

pak

Herald photographer caight this scene from Kalum ain overlooking the

SNOW REMOVAL CREWS

Unsung heroes

More than one fool of snow
frosted -Terrace like a cake
Wednesday.

Children loved it. -Motorists
were a little less enthused as
they dug out their cars and
crawled down “Snow- filled
streets,

But already the unsung
heroes of Terrace were on the

job.

Who are they? Why Terrace’s
municipal snow removal crew
who, in shifts, had all streets
cleared by Thursday morning
when they conducted “mop-up”
operations. >
$24,000 BUDGET -

About $24,000 is budgeted
yearly for snow-removal,

- Sometimes

it’s more,
sometimes less. It pretty well
evens out, said a town official.

“Two ‘men are -on patrol
daily,” the official said. “They
start at 6 a.m. and cover all
municipal roads, especially the
‘ills and intersections.

“But; when more than, a foot
falls? ;

“Extra mén and equipment

‘are called out,” the official said.

The ‘town has two front-end
‘loaders, 10 trucks’ and one

" dozer. ‘If the snowfall warrants

it, more.trucks and dozers are
rented. yo
' CREWS BUSY

Wednesday night and weil
into Thursday morning, the

crews at full staff were busy
clearing streets and dumping
islands of snow into the Skeena
River. Sanding operations also
continued.

By Thursday morning, all
slreets were passable again.
But some trucks were still busy
being loaded with snow destined
for the river. Flagmen assisted
in the operation,

One word of warning,
however. The municipal of-

. ficial said whenever a motorist
Bets stuck, he is obliged to
remove it by tow-truck, if
necessary. Or the town will do
it for him at his own expense.

“It also blocks snow removal
for others,” the official added.

A EACEMOBILE was one result 0 Wedneetnys snowfall,
Boe will Stat ph a ae

Now you
that old

” For the first lime, you'll he

able to keep your old license
plates on your car.

Bul —- it’s still going te cost
you, says Mrs. Olga Elliott, at
the provincial Motor Vehicle

‘Branch in Terrace.

You'll still have to go into the
office with new registration

forms and for_a price, depen-

ding on the weight of your car,
you'll receive. a brand, new
sticker to replace your ald blue
and white one.

Mrs. Elliott said the 1971
decals willbe a colorfulred with
gold ‘numerals. .

FIRST YEAR

1970, said Mrs. Ellivtt, was .

the first year B.C. adopted the
decal system, similar to that
used - in California
Washington.

Mrs. Elliott said’ “owners of
- vehicles have up. to Feb, 27-to- -
Ket their stickers or thew: ‘plates. :

“We'd like ‘them lo:come ‘In...
“early,” she added.:
always a ‘crowded ‘riish. at. the =

ba of the: 0 atk poried.” eee revenuisiplans to mail the forms |

and

“There's

can keep
plate

Cost of new registration
slickers ranges from $14.40 for
the owner of a small vehicle to
$91.50 for the owner of a huge
Lincoln or Cadillac. —.

Prices are determined by the

weight of a vehicle. Other rates -

are $38 and $22,50,

‘Silent night’
for police
There was the usual merrymaking at private

homes, bars and the Red D’or Cabaret. |

You might say eld man ‘70 was eased out the door
- but there was no 1971 baby to take his place. .

And Terrace police arrested only one impaired -
driver as 1970 drew toa reasonably quiet close.

Tt was far more quieter New
Year’s Day as the previous
evening’s merrymakers were
nursing their hangovers with
gallons of coffee, old red eye or
the hair of the dog that bit them
the night before,

FEW ACCIDENTS

There were a few accidents,
RCMP admit, but they said
these were caused by slippery
road conditions, a hangover
from Wednesday's one-foot
snowfall,

The Terrace, Skeena and
Lakelse hotel all reported a rip-
roaring business and at the Red
Dor, a full house danced until
dawn to the Flintones, a local
group, and gulped in the New
Year.

They were giving old man ‘70
a good sendoff.

NO BABY

And while the press, camera
in hand, waited for a stery and
eager merchants waited to give
away gifts, no New Year’s baby
was born. There wasn’t even a
candidate, reported officials at
Mills Memorial Hospital.

Police said the evening was
generally quiet: with rio more

than the usual fender-benders.,-
They said they were kept:

reasonably busy with the usual
assortment of accidents,
perhaps up a bit, but nothing
major. .

A pedestrian, Stephen Fin-
dier, was knocked down by a
car on Kalum Street ‘about 7
p.m. New Year’s Eve. He
received facial and head cuts.

CHARGES PENDING

Charges are pending against

the driver of the car, Robert
William Gair, of Terrace,

Major damages were caused
to cars in two separate
collisions on New Year's eve,
RCMP said bath collisions were
caused by icy roads and there
would be no charges.

A. car driven by Jean Coburn
of Terrace struck one driven by
Tony Vandendool, also of
Terrace, The collision took
place at the Sande Street
overpass and the cars received

- a total of $300 damages,

At 3 p.m. New Year's eve
another collision occurred at
the intersection of Highway 16
and Highway 25.

SKIDS ON ICE

A car driven by Johanna
Defkerf slid. on the ice and
, Skidded off the road, A second
car driven by Juanuario Coelho
also skidded on the ice and
collided. with the rear of the
Defkerf vehicle, ‘The cars
received a total of $400
damages,

RCMP also report a rash of
minor thefts from cars in hotel
parking lots on New Year's eve,
Among the items stolen from
the unlocked’ vehicles were
_Slereo tapes, a transistor radio

Snowmobilers g gear |
for Regional. race-

Got a snowmobile?. Get into
the action! :

Regional. ‘snowmobile

Taxman — :
‘cometh |
‘Terrace. resienis® “should

* peeeive:) thelr “individual” tax:

forms dn the mail ‘thig. week,’
The’ department, of internal’

the first week In Januar
a ‘milion, Canadians. 1

‘cornpetiti tidns:.1m

champlonship. races will be held
in Smithers January 23. and 24.
And ‘Terrace -snowmobilers ;

— can take part and try for $2,500
in prize money...”

The races aré sponsored by
O’Keefe's. - That ‘company is
. Sponsoring’ regional races,
“covering. all’.parts of. B.C,
' where snowmobiles are a: mode

ae travel! in winter.months,!";;
‘prize maney for the six.

“ities is $18,500, :.

Citizen
bashes
bylaw

Joe Mitchell of Terrace has
a beef with the municipality.

Lust week he pulled up in
front of a medical building on
Greig Street to assist his $7-
year-old mother to her doc:
tor’s office.

“It was pretty darued
slippery and 1 had to help
mother get to the office,” fe

said.

When he retarned there was

e $5 parking ticket on his
windshield.

"I'd only been gone five
minutes,"" Mitchell said,

But, he admitted, the sign
said for doctors only.

“Legally, L admit, I'm in the
wrong,” said Mitchell. “But I
think the town's in the wrong,
too. ” - ..
"Mitchell-said ‘in canes auch
as his,, where he had to help a
_patient to an office, ‘five or 10
minute parking be allowed for
unloading passengers,

“Pll pay my fine, allright"
he said.

“But,” added Mitchell, ‘1
plan on going to Terrace
council to protest this, and ask
the town to do something
about it”

Mitchell added that he'd
only taken his mother to the
doctor's, returned to his car to
find Terrace’s peace officer
writing out the ticket. ,

“The bylaw should he
changed,” he said, ~

thefts ig, i Sa

. Parcels

Only one

leftover

The Terrace post office
reports it was unable. to deliver
only one parcel this Christmas.

And that was because the
outer covering had been stained
by a fluid, making it impossible
to read the address.

That parcel was sent to the

“dead letter” ‘office dn Van-:
couver, :

Even parcels with incomplete.
names and addresses managed
to get delivered to the rightful:
owners, .

“We have a staff who: knows’ f
most people in town," ‘asid:’
Postmaster Bob Dumma.” :':;”

If you feel that unclaimed
parcel may. be yours, Duihima:
suggests you write to: "The. -
Director, B.C.-.and ‘Yukon.
" Postal District,’ Undeliverable ..
‘Mail, “Vancouver, BC...

A description | of the contets,
if known, will: Kelp " :
Salivary. ml

a suspect In connection’ ary
series af coir “machine, thefts in

to. the
| Deane

Other regional. "aces: “pill be: _ th

‘held at: Princé-George; Nelson, -

Kewilona, and 100’ Mile ‘Honsb.
“Winters: -of'-the . ‘regional
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