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‘That battle of the
bands? ? Like, mn an,
it was psychedelic

* ‘By: JOE CUNNINGHAM

ai 6Like, man, even. after a double dose. of geritol, I couldn’t
im make the scene, >
m «The scene, to the cube-ltke mémbers’ ‘of community, ‘was the
a 17. hours festival of noise, lights, g0-go girls and pandemonium
F known as the Battle of the Hands, :
Battleground was the Terrace _ Community Centre, ‘Friday
A nieht and all day Saturday. . .
j. Your antique reporter is a 3%yearold ‘aftermath of that.
a period of prehistory known as the early Sinatra era. —

. But in HMne of duty last weekend he ? stepped J into the front
f Jine of the battling bands, .
aa 6 To speak the language, {t was crazy, .

a. 1 hasten to explain ‘that I. write this eye-witness account for
2 fellow fossils who may wonder what is . _ happening to modern
a yo

am 6To 6(write the report: for the Junior set would be redundant,
fe They were all there, a potpourri of jeans and miniskirts, shaggy

Jocks, dimples and. pimples,
g Every teenager in-town, plus strong representation from
Se Rupert, Kitimat, Hazelton and all points west of the black stump
converged on Community Centre : premises over the weekend,

am 6 Centre director Pete Fanning figured “well over 1500’' were

7 in and out ‘during the 17 hours of electronically amplified sound, .

ae 6The centre, an outwardly stald If architecturally abominable
siructure, was the field of battle for the combos,

Like traffic light with triplets

The experience went something like thts,
The curtalnis closed. ~~
In the centre of the auditorium suddenly a long rectangular ’
Mbcx flashes cotorec lights Mike a traffic. control that has just |
ae given birth to triplets, —
Odd color slides of ladles. kneecaps, Jong - hair,’ ‘and dream: i
fm like scenes are flashed against a side wall, —
i “Like, its psychedelic man’’, @ thin small valve peeps: out
of the surrounding gloom.
“So, go ahead and spell it,’” I snapped, |:
These are merely. overtures. The curtain remains closed,
There are noises off, of twanging and banging,
Somebody on the loudspeaker echaes through the auditorium;
“*Ah guess we just blew ay-nother fuse.’’
Remote from-the main audience, a: lover and his lass give a
ompletely uninhibited display of thelr mutual esteem, - .
_ Then a compulsive, dominant beat boos out and the curtains
svee opel..« ist hes
ig Bes the first thing you ‘have 8 ay ‘to jourselt is ‘ern kids
f are professionals,’ }.

{|
f
“i

The dominant chords ‘of rock, ‘the ‘hypnolle. rhein are only .

rt of a totalimpact of sight ahd "satind.. a
i Be gogo ° girls, lissome in white, gyrate: in ‘tltra violet Hight
making their structures gleam out of the darkness, - -
The lights:.change revealing band members, oddly castumed
& Kunching over instruments, swinging, swaying,
ered squawks into’ the mike. Jt 1s oddly compulsive cater~:
A waullng. |
+ The *iyries are almgst totally ‘Jost, What you do hear, you
think maybe his mother should wash out his mouth. with soap.
But the lghts, the beat, the overwhelming nolse get you,

Hounds: outhowled - ‘them all’

Number followed number, each indistingulshable in sound and
trom Friday night and all Saturday... ..-

The. Hounds of Baskerville, a Rupert. combo out-howled, out
flashed, out electronicked the. opposition to win. the Battle of
the, Bands. Plus $123. in cash -and trophies for each member.

Anotier Rupert group, the Shades Blue took “second money. of
$100.

Terrace’ s “Revised opyrights’* placed third for $75, and
another, junior, Terracé band the “Charlle Brown projects’”
reveivyed a consolation award of 350.

There could have been two more awards.

I nominates
1, .99 per cent of the 1500 kids who came for enjoying themselves
‘without -creating a riot, The same can’t be said for elther
. Prince Rupert or Prince George teenagers,

2. The organizers: and-bowncers’ who moved very: efficiently
on the oddball one per cent before it could rear its ugly pimpled
head.

There were a couple of scufiles followed by a sound of rushing
win as junior nasties | ‘were ejected forcefully from the scene,

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:{ donate a sum of money, for each

-BATTLE.OF THE BANDS braught
in the ‘torm of. go-go girls dancing in ultra-violet light last.
-Friday, ‘Saturday in the Terrace. Community Centre, Salvo
above was fired by the Prince Rupert Shades Blue,'*

In some heavy artillery

FOR REEVE,

Meetings. May 9 and May

-. .Passange of the by-law in
by Councillor W.H, McRae,

‘The new by-law raises the

from $850 to $1200 per year,
Councillor Harry Smith,
absence, defended the increase.

-Ralitles,’’ he said,

* raising the Reeve’ s remunerat!

A high. school drop-dut who

He is John Bastin, will: come
from Chetwynd

B

new ice

Terrace citizens with beards
streaming in the wind are ex-
pected to March In Kitimat,

Or at. least In. that general
direction...

The hike for ice leaves ‘the
Terrace | Community Centre vat).
1.30pm, ¢

The march ts the brain chile
of assotiatlon chairman Wayne
Seabrook,

‘He -calls it a walkathon

walkathon must have asponsor,’’
he explained.

The sponsor will be. induced
by. the would-be pedestrian to

mile covered by the Sunday hike,

And the hiker then captitalizes
on his poor, tired feet by put-
ting his hard earned gains inta
the pot to build an ice ‘arena
for Terrace.

$2 PER MILE
Chairman Seabrook believes in.

Me, I dig Benny Goodman,

| EXPRESSIONS WERE “RAPT when local teenagers tuned
| into ‘the. Battle of. the. Bands last Friday, Saturday. Music

ITS A WALK-A:THON

unions :

Bunions, blisters, callouses .and plain old tired feet will come.
to the -ald.of the Terrace Arena ‘assoclation Sunday May 21.

Nad

can | uy
arena |

admintstration, |
of school before completing Grada

his degree at UBC,
He left school] at the outbreak

. ‘ ' led -eitlzens will_joln the trek,
“Everybody who goes in thel

thinking big, He suggests a sum

of $2 per mile would be highly
Acceptable,

And he’s ready. to call hikers
‘pikers’* if they can’t make: it
at ‘least the 14 miles to Skog?
lund Hot Springs...

- “Of course, the, road does run
Tight through ‘to Kitimat?’ he}
‘sald with a mercenary gleam in
his eye...

He expects that many ice-mind-

He’ predicted that husbands with
over-endowed wives would pro
bably be glad to pay. mileage,

The converse would hold true
for ladies who feel that their}
husband's once slim waistline
has expanded due to excessive ine
take of malted beverages,

If a branch of: the Peace in
Vietnam committee can be formed
in time, the hike could also serve
as apeace march .

There are sufficient beards left
over from centennial obervances
to give the march anair of authene
ticity, .,

lovers Indicated their apprectation by. expressions ranging trom
the ecstatic. to -the “bomeleeyed. . .

of war in 1938, but returned

1940, ..-
» He went: back to sea where he
served for ten years,

in 1950, |
His first teaching assignment
was at Woodflbre, 2 pulp mill
community 80 miles from Van-
‘couyer,  —

TERRACE LOOKS GOOD’

After. four .years he became
principal of anelementary-secon«
[dary school at Edgewater near
Radium Hot Springs,

Aiter’ two years in Edgewater,,
Bastin became principal of a
similar school in Chetwynd, a
bodm town in the Peace River
country,
As the area grew, he became

Elementary and one Secondary
schools. . -

Due to local conditions, he be
came interested in Indian educa
tion, and has the conviction that
with new approaches, there can
come a-day when Indian students
wilt do as well in our schools
as thelr white fellow-Canadians.

Mr, Bastinis coming to Terrace
after 4 years-in Chetwynd, After
considerable - travelling around
the world, he feels that BC,
particularly west of the rockles,
is the place to live,’

He has’ been to Terrace and
thinks it looks very good.

Mr, Bastin Likes walking, fish
ing, waterfowl, shooting and boat.
ing, ‘and -his hobby is breeding
registered Charolais cattle, ©

B. C. mines: wary
of tax change, .
Howard warns

OTTAWA-Skeena MP “Prank
Howard has questioned Finance
Minister Mitchell Sharp on his
tax” plan for’ the mining Industry,

Howard used the House “ques.
‘tlon period to ask Sharp how the
Carter. Commission. report.‘on
taxation would be aplplied to the
mings.’

Present’ ‘undertatnty: 7 “y ve
Government intentions had: cays

@ aah
‘a cuthack in mining operations ii ‘tha bush at 4800 .. i ny.

‘North ‘Sparks, On. May’ 18 &.grass

northern BC,’ ‘Howard sald,

“The: Finance ‘Minister. aid. ‘not
reveal | Government: ‘plana... Hows

matter.

~ PAY INCREASE PASSED | ;

; Terrace Municipal Council has voted Itself a raise in pay.
: Increased: Indemnities to the reeye and councillors,
~He was not present for final. reading..
Councillor Vic Jolliffe vated against the by-law.

“expense allowance, to $3,700 from $3,433,
Councillors’ remuneration, also “including expenses, Is hiked

“This increase {s not out of order in respect to other munici-

Councillor Jollitfe, voting against the by-law, explained that
, he supported an increase for councillors but was opposed to

Swith the type of action we're getting from the reve,
$3,700 ‘is too much,’?’ Jolliffe said,

New Skeena indeed
high school dropout’

" school is Skeena Secondary School! a new. principal,

‘to assume §

priicipal’s dutles in September. . §

Appointment. wasannouncedthis §

week .by ‘Terrace School Board. §

astin siicceeds present princi 9
acharias:

a. master’. sdegrea tn educational ;
‘While John Bastin. did ‘drop otit' : :
12, he later-returned to complete ;

to finish secondary studies in.

He began studles for his degree §

Supervising Principal of three}.

we NE a ee
: ~ Counei calls for big
~ $1,554,300 budget. .

COUNCIL

millrate to @ record 71.00
12 put through a by-law granting | -

ed
‘its earlier readings was Qppos 554,302,

Reeve’ s remuneration, including

acting reeve in Reeve Goulet’ s | (May 12,)

at Friday's meeting, . by-law

voted against it,

Cowell.

DEVIL AND THE SEA

But Councillor Vic Jolliffe coun-
tered: “This just keeps the river
Mowing. The schools are taking
it, not ug,"*

"Added Councillor Harry Smith;
"We! re between the devil andthe
deep blue sea,*’

_| Neither McRae nor Reeve AF,

Goulet were present atthe Friday
meeting, |

Major slice of munici i
revenue will be _funtelpal. tax
school board which takes a $434,
193 budget. .

Other operating budgets for-
municipal services are: -

General Government, $127,701,
Protection to Persons and
perty (police $234,929,

Pp works, $124,800,
Sanitation ain 6 Disposa
$104,090, * ns

Water supply, $81,000,
: Social Welfare, $36,840. on
-Reereation and community Sery,
vices, $39,594,

The miunteipal budget also all.
ocates 167,704 to cover debt
charges.

‘PENALTIES

| ‘Last week’s two meetings also
passed by-laws to augment tax
revenues and to adjust’ penalty
rates for-late payment.
Council has now imposed-a 5
Per cent penalty on unpald munici-
pal taxes after July 2 with an
additional § per cent to be levied
if taxes are. stilt not paid. by}.
September 30,
Couneillor LF. French ‘noted
that. the new system was actually,
‘|@ rellef to taxpayers,
*tIn the past it was ‘a straight
ten per cent penalty,’’ he said,

SSP

On,

went to sea and then returned to

'-" JOHN BASTIN
- » Skeena principal

Spectacular

JporeTera toate"

Terrace Municipal Council

That {sg the figure council set
to cover a 4987 budget of $1,).

The budget indicates a climb
of close to a quarter of a million
dollars from the 1966 figure,
Millrate was 66.11 last year.
Budget received final reading at
a-spectal public meeting Friday;

Earlier readings of the Budget)
(May 9} drew a protest
from Councillor W.H. McRae who

"It?s too high,’’ McRae told

has skyrocketed “the

mills.

Green ight
for Kitimat
pulp mill

Ben Ginter has given the go-
ahead and there will be jobs for
upwards of 600 construction work
ers in the Kitimat area within
18 months,

The Ginter go-ahead is for the
Eurocan pulp and sawmill
compiex here,

Eurocan has signed the option
on 800 acres of land.

Clearance of the site will start
Within the month, Ginter a Prince
George industrialist, said.
‘Eurocan will also build a road
to bring wood overland from West
,Wahtas and the salt: ‘water -of
Barrie Reach,

Eurocan president Ginter sald
“| that he -expects. construction of.
the sawmill to start beforefreeze-

up this--year: and the pulp: mill

work As. scheduled for Spring

pro- | 1968,

He said he: ‘expects. ‘the ‘entire

“| fob. to’ be completed ‘within 18

- The: 800. ‘gore’ Eurocan site is
south “of the Canadian Liquid Air .
Plant. on. both sides: of the ‘Alcan, a
road to the snielter, _ :
‘Giater said Eurdcan ‘had up =
graded potential production tig.
utes for the pulp mill.

“He revealed that the latest atud-

ies called for daily - production

of 515 tons of -kraft paper .and
lightweight linerboard, plus 235
tons ‘of. ‘unbleached kraft . ‘pulp, . -
Eurdcan ~ recelyed the ‘rights

to. 26,5 million cubic teet of!
timber in the Kitimat area over:
applications from Crown Zeller-

back.

Eurocan is backed’ _by ‘a com:
sortlum of Finns, }
Major shareholder in Eurocan’

is Enso-Gutzelt Oy, a company:
in- which 51 per cent of stock is, - .
controlled by the Finalsh, ‘Gove
ernment, ;

rath tat seta atatattate’

nasannesneseanres peseocnaneencaart aoa"

fire guts
residence

Flames shot 20 feet in the
when fire gutted the D,E, Bout:
residence, 3614 Kalum, early °

Saturday.

No one was at home when th
spectacular blaze erupted in’
area behind the kitchen stove,

But firemen led by Fire Chlegorganizes the May Day parade,
Andy Owens risked falling beams] But this year they
in an initial effort to check for| committed to bring into being a
occupants, - ones: te aehundrés-years emai

nial parade roug errace
an. was, turned in- at 1,45 Streets July 1.

People living in, the area sa

the flames stlooting high in the) plans,

| Elks ask

, SUITS B ERE EEN =

May Day procession is for the |
children this centennial year,
according to Terrace Elks,

+

alr.
Local flre crew fought the:tirel will be no May Day activities.’
‘for over an hour ‘before subduing] Elks’ Paul Bogelund, said,

It, ‘tRather, May Day will be de-

Despl
pues. the Te of coven they voted to the children of Terrace’

with axes to bring the hoses Into
play.
The older-type. house was owned].
by Antonio Goncalves of. Kitimat,

for ‘the children,*”

start’ Monday May .22 ‘trom the,
Super-Vahi Parking lot, a

GRASS FIRES”

Ise to‘Emerson, then horth along
Emerson to Civic, Centre Park
$250 in damage fo, 21957 Cadillac ‘for: ‘flag-rising,. speech by the May
owned -by Clifford: C,’ Nielson‘ o: of] Queen, races, prizes, and free ice
Skeena. Valley Traller, Park Sun, cream and pop,
day. ; Elks Bogelund commented: "Wa
Terrace flremen were called to hope that many children will turn
Lakelse and Atwood: at -2.-pmie
to, :extinguish’ the’ ‘Diaze. which]
“was believed to .be_ caused by ‘an!
electrical © short eircutt : In. ‘thal:
engine: compartment, -. -
Two minor. grass. tires « were
eittIngulshed by, ‘tirémea lg
week.”
ie The first was! ‘reported May

A tire’ caiised an: estimated

‘Ureases -{o emphasize the Cén
tennial "motif. of of: the. parade,’®
“Adults won't. be . overlookad,
“Traditional ., “Midhight.. Dance
goes, on as usual, The Ball starts
oer may 21: and

fire,*:, “believed | to :have , been| cone

‘gtarted: ‘bya digcarited cigarette eee ‘awards for

Lazeile :

ard: sald: he: ‘would dolly. op ‘te

was, xeported
i dress

to May Procession’

The local lodge traditionally >

are. also] ;

So Elks have adapted thelr :
“This does. rot mean that theral J

and that a ‘parade: wil! he staged :

ELks plans call for a 1.80 p.m. f

Parade travelg east along Lakes

out in. period ‘dresses or novelty| §

4) different, categories of contenatal |

sea Sas

children

RAILROAD. TRACKS ‘atvateh
to Ottawa: ‘and that’ ‘where -
-Vincent Knight. (above) is nowy). |
Vincent, 0.16 year-old studentof ~~

}. Skeena Secondary. 1a cne-of 240
; from’ all