the herald: PUBLISHED BY NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED The Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper: Associalion, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers Association, and Varified Circulation. 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. GEORGE T. ENGLISH ASSISTANT MANAGER RICK MUNRO EDITORIAL P.O. BOX 399, 3212 KALUM STREET GORDON HAMILTON PRODUCTION MARY OLSEN ADVERTISING TERRACE, B.C. Our Opinion Terrace will have an arena The Terrace Arena Campaign is going ahead full swing, and are gaining on the large objective that they have set out for. The Terrace Kiwanis Club pulled in about $5,000 at the air show, all of - which will go to the arena fund. And the Association itself has several things going on now to help raise the much-needed funds. For instance, they are holding a raffle on their Pan-a-bode headquarters on Lakelse Avenue, The tickets are going for a dollar apiece, and the winner will receive, delivered anywhere in B.C., the prefabricated building...complete with the wall to wall carpeting. Two C.P. Air tickets are being raffled, too. These tickets are for a trip to and from Honolulu, and the draw will be later this year. Tickets are selling for $10 each to a maximum of 10 tickets. C.P.A. donated four tickets to Honolulu to the arena association to use in their drive for funds, but a use for the other two has not yet been decided upon. The people at the Arena headquarters have offered to take all those bothersome bottles off your hands, so if you have a lot of the They . The. new Prince Rupert Civic Centre has certainly had its share of misgivings, problems, and trials of being ‘inadequate’. Even recently we all had hopes of a September first opening. That too has ended in disillusionment. The grand door opening is now GUESSED at September 20. Other reports have indicated a projected opening of October 1st, Yes, the problems have been there. But nonetheless we are receiving a new building . . . that alone makes the project worthwhile, Dealing on the question of worth . . . The Recreation Commission along with City Hall will soon introduce rate structures. It has been learned that the new centre will be operated on “come as you may basis’? with no mem- bership plans projected for the future. One could enter into arguments over such a plan but instead let us consider ‘done what's done”’ and enter another phase of the problem, if it may be called as such. Ina short span of time, a drawn-up list of rate structures will come into ber. potential litter, phone them and make arrangements to have them taken away. The biggest thing in the air right now, as far as the drive for funds is concerned is the giant auction, scheduled to take place October 8, 9 and possibly the 10th as well. “The auction will be for new and used goods, donated by Terrace business and the public at large. All proceeds from this auction will go to the arena. Phone the arena H.Q. at 635-6277 and they will make arrangments to pick up the goods once a week. They would appreciate all goods to be painted and put into good condition, with the value of the item marked, It's a good chance to clean up your attics and basements, get rid of all those unused articles, and support the arena at the same time. Doing the auctioning proper will be Larry Kaplam, Ray Skoglund and Lionel Sears, and the event is expected to be a big success and a lot of fun. Work on the arena site is progressing along at a good rale, too.- Last week, they started to pour cement for the foundations to the building. Terrace’s arena dream is starting to become a concrete reality. There is no more doubt about it. Terrace will have an ‘arena. have problems, too - | From Prince Rupert Daily News effect. It simply means the rent clubs and organizations have to pay for usage of the building. The new auditorium, as one example, has been rumored to receive a price fixture of $200 a night. Perhaps the main benefit of such a price is the cleaning power. Cleanliness will remain as the building enjoys no usage. At such a price anyway. A spokesman from one of the theatre groups explained, “We could never afford it. We wouldn’t barely make that much in a night. We would have to use one of the gymnasiums again." . the city fathers will consider their price scheming. They may seé profit but the community will not. The same is, of course, true for various segregated. parts of the complex. Everyone must be con- sidered in this matter, It would be a greaty pity to see a brand new building, ready to go, and nearly always empty. Teta TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. ‘While the Chiefs Vote For away Councillors will play VOTERS REGISTER. HERE | X Marks The Next Mayor \.' Get Well Cards an - ¥ou. Vote BILL SMILEY the trouble with drivers... | Well, it looks as though any more traveling I do before summer bids us farewell will be on foot, Kim passed her driving test today. section, They ranged from a skinny 14-year-old boy who wanted a driver's license for his _ Unfazed, they just grinned.- Peter retorted, ‘Yeah, we shouldn’ta gorina sleep in all them there English classes”’. Fine physical specimens both, It was a pretty tense morning for both of us. She was afraid she might fail her test. I was _ afraid she might pass it, Just to complicate matters, she turned up for her test at 9-30 am, only to discover that she was slated for 3:30 pm. ‘She claims it was their mistake, but knowing my daughter I have a good idea who made the error. However, the chaps giving the tests managed to work her in at 10 am., when someone else failed to show up. So that meant T had time for‘only about ten cigarettes as 1 waited, pretending to read the morning papers, But it gave me a chance to look at the people preparing for their tests. Quite a cross They are pleasant lads,” but while neither is dumber than an ox, neither is smarter, Their procedure was typical. They filled out the application cards wrong, and had ta do them over again. When Mike was asked by the officer whe he lived, he jerked his thumb at Peter and said, “Two houses down from him", while the officer rolled his eyes, He wanted an address. Then thepairsatdownat the long table to fill out the written lest. Ten minutes later they were sitting, ‘brows furrowed, with about three out of forty squares ticked off, I- tossed them a word of encouragement. “It might be easier if you could read and write, eh?” i, Prince. aad al al George hosts meeting by’ The Honourable Ray Williston, Minister of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources, This week Prince George is the host city to a meeting of the Committee of Forest Tree Breeding in Canada and it was my they'll probably make excellent but dangerous drivers, Ym not implying that the driving tests are easy. They're quite tough. When 7 got my license, the job of the testing aspirants was a political sinecure, The tester told me to arrive at his place of business at 6: pm. He locked up the store, told me to drive him home, " about eight blocks, I gave him two bucks, and that was it, When my wife got hers, some motor-cyele, to an old chap with a hearing aid and almost blind in his left eye. Both passed, but ThopeT never meet either on the highway. Then a couple of former Students of mine walked in. They are the type who have probably been driving for several years without a license vand have finally been nailed, ‘back to sch ten years later, it was the same - procedure, The polce chief had - her pick hirn upat the office, the drove around three or four blocks and she took him home to ; lunch, (At his place, not ours). Today there's a whole battery of physical tests, a written test - on the rules of the road, and the actual driving test. A good many people are flunked, and I'm ail far that, What I'd really like to see is a compulsory test for every driver about every two years, and a good stiff one. Could you pass, Jack, with your color-blindness? Could you pass lady, with your total inability to parallel park? Could you pass, Grandad, with your arthritis? I think a great many of us would be put out to pasture, , ; Anyway Kim returned. [ expected to see her with a face as long as a foot. She was beaming, My heart sank. There's going to be a fight here every” ‘ Phillips, - areas which have nol co eS "MONDAY, AUGUST 30 19/EmE ‘Weekly fores#im «fire ‘report especially ‘costly with “estimated .expenditure f° $2,148,400, - Thia brings year’s total to $7,073,0( compared with $6,585,600 for ¢! ; . Same period ‘last year. fs ~ There were 197 new outhr in the province last week but rate fell off markedly to only . yesterday’as hazards droppe in the northern -region However, many of the 317 firg still burning are relatively bi and mopping them up will be . long and . costly procedure. *. The estimated area burne this year Is now 940,000 acre and already wellin excess of t annual-average of 265,000 acres "The. estimated area burneg this year is now 640,000 acred aaa and already well in excess of the jis annual average of 265,000 acres | Him Chief Protectior\ig Officer for the Forest Servicey explained that there have bee a humber of big fires in remo’ 1 hee fought because of the high cos of taking full suppression ‘. action. - There are now 2,600 men and "194 bulldozers in action against § - the fires. but this compares favourably with last Friday’s iam figures of 3,836 and 278. Hii Similarly, there has been less jimm air tanker and patrol activity @ during the past few days. vn extreme in the entire Nelson Forest District and Kamloops District south of the Thompson River. Vancouver Island and ,in the Hope-Boston. Bar area. Elsewhere it is low to moderate. As the season enters its latter oe stages, foresters are hopeful that the recent cool moist { Hazard remains high to mg in the & It is also 7am extreme in the south end of weather experienced on the m coast. and in the north will spread fully over.the province without a continuation of the persistent lightning activity which has plagued British Columbia this year. CENTENNIAL MEMO -- The | first sale of lots in New or ne Re + a of “f . _ Westminster took place June 1, WE NEED YOUR HELP The Terrace Recreation Commission needs If you are invol help. All their files and records were destroyed kind, please fill out the questionnaire below, and ved with an organization of any Pity. There is trust and hope that pleasure to give the opening address on Tuesday (August 24th). Because forestry is playing a major part in British Columbia’s resource development I would like to repeat in this column some of my comments to the committee. o- As the centre of a large integrated forest industry operating within British Columbia's policy of sustained-yield forest Management, Prince George is an appropriate place for sucha meating. Near the city is located the Forest Service's Red Rock nursery which serves a large area in the Interjor, There are 130 acres in nursery beds and Red Rock has a potential annual production of 15 million seedlings. With eight nurseries in the province responsible for providing | the seedlings for British Columbia’s entire artificial reforestation programme, it is obvious that we are taking our : tree-breeding programme very seriously. Red Rock, for example, has sections devoted to ledgepole pine | and spruce tree improvement; and at Cowichan Lake Experimental Station on Vancouver Island the Forest Service is concentrating on improvement of the coastal Douglas fir, The present objective for the eight nurseries is an annual overall production of 75 million seedlings by 1975. But this probably will not be the ultimate figure as, even with their present total area, the nurseries have a potential production of . up to 130 million seedlings a year. - However, we are not restricting ourselves to meeting our requirements with the present nursery and experimental station acreage, For example, just last May the government passed an Order-In-Council incorporating the reforestation nursery and seed orchard at Red Rock into a reserve to be known as Red Rock Forest. ; oe . The total area of this reserve is more than 5,500 acres, The nursery, as [ have said, is 130 acres and the balance of the area ' is being developed for seed orchards and clone banks, The clone — banks will contain seedlings and grafted stock from “plus” trees selected from throughout the Interior, as well as exotic . selections obtained from tree breeders in-other paris of the - world. Similar forest reserves have been made in connection with other nurseries in the province. . oo mo The need for constant development of’ our reforestation and research programmes can readily be recognized in the reading of the economic ‘studies by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations which show that world . demand for wood products is compounding at an annual rate of about 5 percent. This means that demand will have quadrupled by the year 2,000, eo : '. The question is where will this wood edme from? In British Columbia's case, -our production between. 1949 and. 1969 increased from aninitial rate of 4 percent to 644 percent by 1969, - ‘And we now are increasing our cuts through imposition of-a close utilization policy: which, . in. the not: too. distant future, >. - should bring our preserit annual cut‘of 1, billion cubic feet up to 3.4 billion cuble feat. -- ee eee tog However, further increases above the 3.4 billion cubie feet 7 - figure must come from intensified management, ‘thinning, fertilization and so on, . Not the least important. of. these . activities will be tree breeding, ee te This then is the-challenge. 29° | me Weare going tohave to rely.on research to determine the best’ thinning prescriptions to maximize yield and to-determine the. . _best fertilizer treatments’ to use, We are going to tiave.to plant: the most productive species for each site and we are going to. have to control losses. from insécts and disease-by ‘scientific » Management: 2: ; 5 Bey ya Bate ytd ue vag Ee The tree breeders: must tell: us’ what -aelections, ‘races: or. strains to usedn seed orchards for the. production of genetically “improved seed. And they must'tell us quickly for t i need fs _ Urgent. We must have this seed.at the earllest possible time if ‘ demand to. --; we are to meet the requirements, we expect, world make of ug. ee toed hin tp loss. by the’ recent fire, and they are presently at'a Name of Organization President ...........0:.... 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