Prov. Library. Periodicals Department, Victoria, B. C. CE se EVOL, LVII|, No, 27 16 Pages ALF DAVY — the Champ At 22 (inset photo) forward on the “Hamilton Tigers’’ in the game that put Lacrosse on Canada's sports map. Wednesday, January 26, 1966 Fire Chief’s Car On Last Legs A report regarding the Fire Chief’s vehicle caused a few gasps Tuesday night at a meeting of Municipal Council and the fin- ance committee was instructed to study every avenue of possibility towards replacement of the unit as soon as possible. The Fire Chief's panel has been in constant use for 14 years and is now costing the Municipality ap- proximately $400 annually for maintenance and repair. Fire Chief Andy Owens suggest- ed a ‘year ago that consideration be given to replacement but later agreed to retain the vehicle untll the 1966 budget was set. His Tuesday report suggested that a replacement vehicle might be equipped to serve as an emer- gency ambulance in the event of a need for two such service vehi- cles at one time, “MIGHTY MITE OF BOXLA” Alfie Davy Named To Boxla by CATHERINE M. FRASER A tribute of prominent recognition has been paid a popular member of our community with an announcement made at the weekend by the Canadian Lacrosse Association, High on the list of charter mem- bers of Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame is Alfie Davy of Terrace, who, when box lacrosse was in its heyday in the 1930's was con- sidered “the dynamic scoring atom of the. New Westminster Salmon- bellies.” . Thanks to the ardent admiration of a proud, then teenaged sister, Alfie Davy's prowess on the la- crosse floor is recorded for pos- terity in volumes of press clip- Pings now in his possession. In an interview with Alfie to- day, he admitted a feeling of pride at the honor bestowed upon him, but was modest as to his past achievements. However, a solid gold inseribed pocket watch testified to his par- ticipation on the Canadian Cham- pionship team in 1937, While at the other end of a gold nugget chain hangs a world championship gold medal of achievement. A press release back in the 1980's acclaimed Alfie Davy as the “mighty mite of boxia.” In the May 1038 issue of the . Vancouver Province, Davy is ac- credited with “having pulled the Mann Cup Champions through their first International tangle with the Adanacs at Queen’s Park Arena — that little punch of the champion sent the terrific imp Hall of Fame through a. welter of slashing Ada- nacs to take his brother, Mousie's pass in front of the goal, squirm through a seemingly impassable throng of defenders and score the winning counter with but 27 sec- orids left to play.” In sports columns of city news- papers Alfie is referred to as “that little will o' wisp who is harder to check than an outbreak of mala- ria"; “the most sparkling man on the floor, and unselfish with his Continued on Page 3 Municipality Seeks Option On J. and M. Property Municipal Council will attempt today to obtain a three month option to buy 1.57 acres of developed property adja- cent to the Municipal Building and owned by J. & M. Truck & Equipment Company Ltd. The decision to try for the pro- perty came at Tuesday night's meeting of Council after a letter from a local real estate dealer was read. The property which presently contains the general workshop and office building of J. & M. Truck was offered for sale to the Muni- cipality for $105,000 with available terms. However, the present own- ers stressed a July 15 deadline. Municipal Council spent consid- erable time discussing the propo- sal before deciding to try for an option. Main purpose in trying to obtain the property would be to Sub-Contracts Out For Trades School More activity was recorded in the progress of Terrace’s Vaca- tional School Jast week when $443,000 in sub-contracts for the classroom and administration buildings were published in Van- couver, | : Filbey’s - Plumbing ‘&-~ ‘Heating Co, Ltd. of Kitimat was awarded the contract for roofing, plumbing and heating. Mid-West Electric of Terrace received the electrical contract. Brown & MeLennan of Vancouver was awarded the plast- ering work and Standard Painters of Vancouver received thé faint- ing contract. Tiling went to Dar- lington and Haskins, also of Van- couver, : General contractor for the Vo- cational School job is Bjornsen & facilitate the Municipal Works De- partment and provide future park- ing area for the Municipal Build- ing if and when it is required. Commenting on the proposal, Reeve Goulet said, “We've zot to find some way of raising the funds for this thing. I guess we'll have to Zo to the people because our bud- get is pretty well strangled right now. This is the best opportunity we've had in years.” Councilior Dorothy Norton call- ed for ah appraisal of the five lots on East Lakelse Avenue owned by - the District Municipality and which are currently being used by the works department. Formerly the five lots were used for the old firehall and equipment storage. The finance committee was re- quested to explore all possible channels of financing the J. & M. property purchase and the clerk was instructed, on a motion from Councillor French, to proceed with efforts to obtain a three month option to buy. Another property at the north- east corner of Kalum and Park came in for discussion by Council when'its owner, S. N. G. Kirkaldy protested a denial of his re-zoning application, The property is con- sidered unsuitable for residential zoning because of its rock and sidehill terrain. Kirkaldy applied to have it rezoned to commercial and was turned down. Council in- dicated an interest in the property for park purposes. It is located across from the lower George Lit- tle Memorial Park and borders on the upper section of the same Continued on Page 12 set | Melting Pot... ~ WE THINK the local quote of the week came from a Terrace logger type Monday, when he was heatedly discussing the dif- ference between B.C.'s logging methods and those employed in Newfoundland. Said logger set everyone on their teeth when he fuffawed, “Heck, in Newfound- land, even their premier is nam- ed Smallwoodi” SOMETHING NEW at the Ter- race Community Centre will be tennis instruction classes sched- uled to begin January. 31. More instructors are still needed so if you can help out — call the Tennis Club secretary at V13- 5580. : JACK WASSERMAN finally fell victim to the wiles of too many women, we guess. He said in a recent column that Power Cor- poration of Canada had "100 per. cent interest” in the then Lakelse Hot Springs, Still-owner Ray Skoglund says it just isn’t so, and we'te wondering if Pat Carney, Penny Wise and Gal f fridey all of whom share Was rman's new office, are just a bit too distracting for the Old aq Man of the Corner! a 6 THE PHOTO caption gremlins really got to us Inst week, We missed Mrs. Ed Philips, presi- dent of the Ladies Auxiliary to Mills Me.aorial Hospital in that particular group picture and we missed oldtimer Bert West in the Rotary group picture of our: pioneer citizens. Our apologies to both, and a happy broken lez to our photo gremlins. THE TERRACE Planning Report will be in the mail this week and if you are a property owner and happen to get left off the mailing list you may obtain a copy free of charge at the Mun: icipal Building. In fact you may get one the same way even if you are not a property owner. Don't forget. that Public Hear- ing on February 9, 7:30 p.m, Community. Centre. AN ARTICLE in the February 6 issue of Macleans magazine can help you decide before the next election whether your member of parliament ‘is a drone, a hell-raiser or an ef- fective legislator, First on the list of hell-raisers included in the article is Frank Howard (Skeena). He is joined on the list by such other Parliamentary notables‘a3 Eric Nielsen (Yukon) oe Ralph Cowan (York-Hum- r), see CALFIE DAVY“ Son of Burnaby. “MUNICIPALITY SEEKS" ter at A PROMINENT TERRACE BUSINESS couple, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. (“Bill"" and “Flo! Osborne, celebrated thelr SOth wedding anniversary Tuesday, January 25 when they held “open house” to hosts of friends. The Osbornes were married in Nanton, Alberta on a 92-below-zero day in 1916. Permanent residents of Terrace since 1945, Mr. Osborne operates his own machine shop and Mrs. Osborne, the Members of-their family present for the occasion were M Dawson Creek, Mr. and Ars. granddaughter Sandra Prekaski, Prekaski of Terrace, Ernie Zom (Vivian) of popular "Osborne Guest House.” r. and Mis, Bill Osborne Jr, of Osoyoos, Eva Pache of Vancouver, grandson Teddy Pache and great grandchild Rhonda ; (Vogue Studio photo)