1 . = ns - po i

LEGISLATIVE LISKARY, COMP. 77/78
iARLOAMENY KULLOINGS,
yicToaia, &.C.,

BV=1K4

Aldermanic candidates for election

#Ol |
|

peat gece

’ bled away in

By Donna Vallferes .
Herald Staff writer

. This is the last in a series of aldermanic candidates’

profiles,

Today we feature Gerry Duffus, John MacCormac,
and Dout Mumford, three of the seven contenders for
the three available seats on council which will be filled
after election day on Saturday, Nov. 19.

Duffus, a property manager, MacCormac, a
painter, and mumford, a security guard and in-
cumbant alderman, present their views on Terrace,
municipal council, and what they would do if elected.

Other candidates

ing for the aldermanic seats are

incumbants Helmut Giesbrecht and Jack Talstra, Lily

Meilsen and Alan Soutar.

This is the conclusion of our three-part series on
council candidates which was preceded last week by a
rundown of regional district candidates for electoral
area Ca and school trustee candidates.

Tommorrow in the Daily Herald we will have a
complete recap of candidates running in all elections,

Mumford

Doug Mumford has a
whole list of concerns and
a detailed platform but
hiis major “plank in his
platform is his role as
alderman.

Mumford, bowling
lanes owner and security
guard, was elected to
council by acclaimation
in the by-election held
last June.

“It is my duty as an
alderman to listen and
consider the views of all
individuals, clubs,
minority groups,

pressure groups. friends,

non-friends, delegations
or whatever," he said.
He believes it is his job to
help people with their
goals as long as those
goals do not conflict with
the rights of others. —
Another duty of council is
to “find,weleome and
foster new industries,‘
Mumford said.

Terrace has suffered
from a lack of diver-
sification in industrial
development, he added.
“We should not be trying
to put obstacles in the
path of a developer, but
we should greet him
warmly and allow him to
proceed with limited
restrictions,“‘Mumford

Terrace

daily herald

VOLUME 71 NO. 136

20¢

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1977

| Duffus

Gerry Duffus describes
himself as a “back u
man” and wants to bac
up the people of Terrace
on council.

Duffus , whoseryed two
terms as an alderman on
council but did not run in
the last -ernnicipal
elections, stressed that
municipal affairs are
“people services,” such
as policing, firefighling,
roads, sidewalks,
drainage sewage, water
systems and gargage
disposal.

Anyone elected to
eouncil must be familiar
with these areas and
must do a great deal of
homework before makin
decisions on counci
which will affect these

areas.
“Health and = in-
telligent dicussions with

fellow adermen, seeking
the. advice of staff
member's,.a Fair.. amount

‘of common sense and

ligic, and most important
of all listening,” are the
things needed to make
council work, Duffus
said.
Anyone elected to
develop policy must be
well acquainted with the
legal documentaries,
such as resolutions, bills
and bylaws, public
works, and finance,
Duffus aid.

“Money can be drib-
small
amounts,” he warned.
Borrowing arrangements
for large projects can run
into hundreds of thusands
of dollars, Duffus said,
so this money must be
spent wisely.

The
business” of recreation is
another responsibility of
council, he said, and the

“sensitive

Mayor and council
should meet with the
recreation commission
monthly.

Discussions on how to
improve and upgrade
recreation facilities in
Terrace would result in a
smoother operation of
these facilities and
greater use of the
recreation complexes.

“We have weathered
an economic storm,’’

Duffus said op
timistically. “Those otf
us who are there now
should decide to make
this our home town.”
Earlier in the town’s
history, residents were
told of a copper smelter,
a steel mill, port
development and railway
expansion. Asa result of
this, people made ‘‘some
panicky and expedient
decisions.”” Duffus said.
All of these things will
comein time, he said, but
we have to decide
whether we still want

Mumford said.

them ornot. How we can
receive them and how we
can adjust to them if they
do come.

“Most important is that
by taking these under
consideration, now, we
can derive the greatest
benefit for Terrace,”
Duffus stated. ‘'The
mayor and council are
expected to and must
ive the leadership and
irection.”

The alternative to this
is anotherr and bust, he
said, -

Whale beached
in Stewart —

STEWART, B.C. (CP)
— <A young whale
beached itself Tuesday on
mudflats near this British
Columbia coastal com-
munity after being freed
from the flats earlier in
the day. ;

Mayor Jan MacLeod
said the whale, which had
been freed by local
citizens, beached itself
again shortly after dark,
and appeared to be in
critical condition.

“He appeared to be
very disoriented,’’

simistic that the whale
could survive the night on
the mud flats.”

The mayor said Van-
couver Aquarium of-
ficials were contacted
and offered to assist in
any way they could.

“If the whale is still
alive in the morning,
we'll attempt to move it
into one of the shallow
salt water pools in the
harbor,” he said. ‘They
{the aquarium) indicated
they would come in and
do anything they could to

elp.”

MacLeod said. ‘“‘He had hel

lots of opportunities to get
out to deep water, but just
wouldn't go. He kept on
swimming into things,
like there was something
wrong with his sonar.”

MacLeod said a local
B.C. Hydro worker, who
was watching the animal,
said the whale looked
very sick and was "pes-

He said the men who
helped free the whale
noticed it had several old
scars that they said could
have been inflicted by
gun shots. ‘

He said the whale was
10-feet long, between 800
and 1,000 pounds and was
greyish-white in color.

A Terrace man has
lbeen sentenced to life
imprisonment after bein

found guilty of a secon

degree murder charge in
connection with the death
of another Terrace man.

Garth Clayton Young,
26, was found guilty’ in
Prince Rupert Supreme
Court yesterday after a
12-day trial in which

Murder trial over

another man, Patric
John Pepin, (7, was foun
not guilty,

The bedy of Paul An
drew Arnold, 26, wa
found at the end of
logging road near Kal
Lake Drive north o
Terrace last March.

A coroner's report rea
at the trial stated tha
Arnold had died fro
stirangulation.

French fries
smell fishy

RICHMOND, B.C,
(CP) — The British
Columbia - legislature’s
food inquiry committee
said Tuesday it would in-
vestigate the pricing
ractices of McCain

‘caods Ltd., Canada’s
largest french fry potato
processor.

Several committee
members feel that Mc-
Cain's, which is believed
to have received close to
$2) million: in various
government ny to put
programs, is trying to pu
a Delta, B.C., frozen food
plant out of business.

The committee voted
unanimously to call top
McCain’s executives and
senior officials of the
federal department of re-
gional economic ex-
pansion (DREE), which
gives grants to industry.

Geor;e Spetifore,
owner of the Delta food
plant, said his firm will
close in December
because he cannot
compete in a price war
being waged by McCain
of New Brunswick and
McLeans of
Edward Island.

Spetifore has said that
the two eastern firms
have received substantial
federal and provincial aid
in the form. of DREE
grants and freight sub-

Prince

sidies, while he has been
consistently refused both
federal and provincial
government assistance.

Alan Barker, manager
of the BC. Coast
Vegetable Co-operative
told the inquiry Monday
that Spetifore stopped
buying potatoes trom
Fraser Valiey farmers,
leaving 14,000 tons worth
almost $1 million without
a market.

Committee member
Cyril Shelford (SC—
Terrace) told the inquiry
the price war “aD rs to
be predatory pr ang and
if that type of thing
continues any planning of
future production (withi
B.C.) 18 absolutely use-
less,”

Committee chairman
Len Bawtree (SC—
Shuswap) said he expects
McCain's and DREE of-
ficials to co-operate with
the committee, but did
not set a date for their
appearance.

The meeting Tuesday

completed the first
session of public hearings
that started in May, but
committee members said
more hearings are likely
next year,
_ Bax-tree said that the
inquiry and various
studies has cost tax-
payers $438,000,

’ before soliciting

Stated.

“Our rigid restrictive
attitude is forcing us out
of the market for in-
dustry."

A long range plan should
be made to encourage
secondary industry,
according to Mumford.
This development plan
would include future
industrial _ sites,
residential sites and
recreational sites.

Such a plan would have
to include Thornhill,
Mumford said, if not by
amalgamation then by
co-operation between the
two communities.

Co-operation between
Terrace and Kitimat
must also be encouraged,
he said, because the two
are economically
dependent and should
both benefit from any
industrial, recreational
or medical facility in
either town.

“Better service for less
cost through better
management” will have
to be previded to
municipal owned
recreational facilities,

Concerning rezoning,
Mumford stated he would
like to return as an
alderman “to continue
the fight for the rezoning
af the 4700 block, Lazelle
Avenue.”

A public hearing should
be held to give the
property owners, along
with everyone in Terrace,
a chance to give their
views for or against the

rezoning.
“I feel the citizens of
Terrace should never be
denied a chance to ex-
ress their  views,’’
umford stated. “On the

contrary, they should be
given every chance to
ye input to as many
ecisions as possible.”

Ot his tive month
record on council,
Mumford stated he has
worked hard to learn the
systems and procedures
of municipal government

and feels he is now in a
position to give more
Input. ;

“T have supported ail
positive development
proposals, and am
pleased to say that I took
part in recommending
the library referendum,
he said.

“IT feel that my in-

volvement in many
aspects of life in many
communities has taught
me to make decisions,’’
Mumford said. “I stand
by my judgements but I
can, when proven wrong,
admit it and change my
view.”

MacCormac

John MacCormac said
his reasons for getting
into municipal politics for
the first time as ‘“‘many
and varied.”

He first decided to run
when, during the
municipal by-election in
June, two candidates got
in by acclamation, a

: situation he feels ‘is

“unhealthy.”
MacCormac stated he
has four major

chalienges if he gets
elected to council,

They are gettin
Terrace an expanded,

ermenent job base,

eeping what Terrace

already has, ad-
ministrating the com-
munity in an economical
way while. maintaining
services, and “doing the
above three in a way that
works with the people of
Terrace -- not just for
them.”

People don’t need a
“big brother’? approach
from council, Mac-
Cormac said, and instead
should be able to
determine their own
wishes,

He has specific plans to
see Terrace grow, and
feels we must show solid
community support
elp
from senior govern-
ments. :

However, the social,
political, economic and
environmental aspects of
development must be
considered before any
steps are taken to develop
Terrace.

Skeenaview Lodge is
one of ' MacCormac's
special concerns.

Council should
“demand” that decisions
involving planning for the
senior citizen care
facilit
with local imput, Mac-
Cormac said, and that ia
something the present
council is not doing.

MacCormac is not
personally involved in the

e, but said he is
making it an _ issue
because “‘nobody else has
taken a stand on it.”

The wages and
menetary loss to the
community could he as
high as $3 million,
MacCormac said.
Skeenaview employs 100

TO OUR VALUED
CUSTOMERS -

. The staff at the
Herald apologizes for
any = inconvenience
caused by our
changeover from days
to afternoons (and the
subsequent jate press
time).

should be made -

people who could lose
their jobs, he said, “and
we can't afford to have
anymore unemployed in
this town.”

The real loss, though,
MacCormac feels, is that
36 residents have already
been transferred as part
of the provincial
government phase-out of

e lodge and nobody
knows what’s happening.

“I want to let pecple
knwo what the hell is
going on up there,” he
said.

MacCormac feels
council could do more to
promote secondary in-
dustty in Terrace.

“It's a responsibility of
council] to seek monies
whether local or out of
town,” he said. Council
has to come up with a
more feasible plan to
promote investment

within Terrace. . 9 -+-."--

“We should seriously
look at 1,000 acres west of
the airport,” which could
be available for in-
dustrial land, he said.

erry

Prisoners to be taken
off commercial flights

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Canadian Penitentiary
Service has stopped
moving prisoners on
commercial flights and
henceforth will use
military planes for
transfers, a spokesman
said Tuesday.

The move follows the
observation in a report
last June by a special
Commons subcommittee
that members were
“concerned about the
movement of dangerous
prisoners on commercial .

aircrait.”

The subcommittee,
appointed to investigate
prison violence, said
transfers should be made
by train, prison buses, or
military or other
government aircraft.

Air Canada protested
movement of prisoners
on its aircraft last year
when several passengers
cancelled tickets on
learning that hostage-
takers were being
transferred to an eastern
penitentiary on the same
‘Wight from Vancouver.

oat

especially if Thornhill is
against amalgamation.

MacCormac stated he
was definitely against
spot zonign, but since
1972, councils have
promised they would
draw up a master zonin:
plan, ‘which no counci

as done since then.

MacCormac concluded
his platform by stating
that he has no conflict of
interest in serving on
council and that everyone
has to join together if
Terrace is to prosper.

Cattle
weary

PRINCETON, B.C,
(CP) - Motorists
travelling the southern
Trans-Canada Highway
between here and Hope
Tuesday night had to
contend with a herd of
wandering cattle.

Police said that two
cattle trucks collided 38
kilometres west of here
and as a result, 165 head
of cattle were set free,

RCMP said it would be
some time before the
cattle, which were
roaming the highway
about six kilometres on

each side of the accident
site, could be rounded up.