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Victoria, 8 Denartueas, -- Tarrece, BC, | 7 Be No a i “A 20 Pages ) os May 24, 1967 Wednesday ° ‘Rain | no ‘bar to | marchers > Local Elks cried “May day" when clouds obscured.the normal ‘Terrace sunshine Monday... “They decided ta call off the May. parade, But they didn’t: reckon with an _ army of junior marchers. who as« - Sembled on the super valu parking lot 22] set to march,’ * (See also page 8,) Nor despite a formal cancella- tlon of the event over local radio, the crowds lining the streets, There was just no holding back, : MAY QUEEN ; Su to the music of the Skeena Secondary band, May Queen Lindg Bennie led the. march, followed by the high stepping baton twirl- ers. of the Kitimat Elks Tvir- lettes, Elks designed the May proces sion stric tly as. 28 chlidren’ 8 parade, ; CoLoReUL cosTuMEs - The youngsters, with the help of sewing mothers gave a color- s Zul display of fashions uf the’ cons ; federation era, with a few of the | more imaginative golng right into the future, And despite the black cloudsthe rain held off, until the parade passed through the town. : Terrace Elks who sponsor the traditional big May Day parade de-emphasized the event this | year. They are nreparing for amajor parade July 1, when the business floats and assorted hoopla will be Used to .make ita once in a huntired * years celebration of Canada’ s big birthday. iE Why babies? | a It's mainly ‘because of the heat } Can we expect a rise In the birth, rate nine nionths after the merry month of May? . Interestingly, | in, Canada, our | highest birth rate has not been eee aa TERRAC I MAY QU: ‘WEN Linda Bennie had a smile tor't the c camera before leaditig marchers in last Mayday’ s May procession which braved rain clouds ta brighten downtown streets. minutes to. ‘halt the blaze,’ ‘took. a man to Mills Memorial . nine months after the spring sea- son, but May Itself, nine months after September. : In’ May, 1964, it was 8,3 per. ' 1,000 population and 1965, 9.0 per 1,000 population. So much“for the theory, that the coldest months of the year, = usually December, January - ‘and February--- 1965 and 1964, New Kenney primary school “Is designed for the future an‘ average number of births, 8,3 per cent per 1,000 population was recorded, The theory that weather affects the birth rate is’ not borne out in Canada, - Accordingly this theory states that nine months following hot spells, the birth rate will dip. A Schvul of the future received lis formal dedication in Terrace Friday, ‘The school is the E,T, Kenney school, and the’ man it is named for cut the ceremonial: ribbon, (see also page.3,) - - There are two major polnts of in the $395,000 structure is its architecture, 400 STUDENTS . - All 12 classrooms ‘are built around a circular gallery walk with a sunken Indoor playground area which can also be used as an auditorium. T, Kenney school ean handle 400 students, - The school ts not yet strictly a primary school, It opened Jan- vary this year to receive elemen- tary pupils from the old River- side school, we But. next September it will be strictly primary for the first three grades, Derek V, Shaw is principal, Speeches were made’ by Mr./- Kenney, Skeena MLA Dudley Little and J,F, Phiilipson of the Department of Education, But in bath 1965 and 1964, July hit a record high temperature, The birth rate the following March for both years, 8.7 and 8.9 per cent per 1,000 population was “second to May, the highest month, ditference anticlpating further tu- ture educational trends inthenew building. It Is strictly for primary child. ren (Grades 1-3 The second point of difference There is a stage platform on the gallery. walk off which are general, staff and princlpal’s otlices, . and medical room ‘and cloakrooms, . Desalte compact design the Ey Local churchgoers: told Vietnamese need bibles, not ‘bombs Terrace churchgoers Sunday, -* Rey. Raymond. ‘Tingley . of Vancouver, provinclal secretary ‘jof the Canadian Bible Society told an audience - in: Knox United: “It is tronical - that: billfons of dotlars’ should ‘be spent. on bombs. and planes and’ gas to de- stroy the people of Vietnam while money is nat available to provide the Scriptures. which. are urgently | : | required in that troubted- ‘Tandy’. Mr. Tingley Continued: | , *When . will: -Christfan. people wake “up and. realise ‘that false. Sjand, pagan: ‘ideologies’ “cannot bel overcome by bayonets and bombs but by bread and bibles which bring hope. and the truth that makes men free.?’ -The speaker expressed disap- pointment . that the Bible Sosiety tailad to meet ‘Its. 1966 target of distributing. 150 midion coples ot the. Bible by 60 miIHon coples, |. ‘He bldmed “those in this and ‘other. affluent . countries who en- bible; tore He. ‘called the: bible the corner- stone ‘of, Canada, = Poe BLAMED FOR LAG iN The. Fecent papal ruling. “that “removed th “ebilgation on the part of Roman Catholles: to abstain’ from meat. ‘on Fridays has serlously aftacted the. fishing Industry, Socording ‘to. Food In Canada, . Fish. “congumption has dropped, and the’ ‘Canadian market has beon ‘depressed, a The ‘large’ amount; ot ocean, fish” ‘avadlabte at. 1 U.S, ‘tas made’ the: task. of- ‘Manitoba! freshwater fish aven harder than it.has been, Poe qd _« Manftoba | 1s. ‘reported -to' have . betwee Vy milton Ibs, : of freshwater fish an’ store, particularly pickere!. filets. ee ‘prices in the LITTLEST “TWIRLETTE of them “al ‘had to” be- ‘eka’ Valerie Morphet who marched ‘in Monday’ 5 parade, ; a : Vietnam néeds - “bibles, “not. bombs, a "vancouver “minister told ° ‘joy. the . blessings of the open ; Firefighters content with douds, rain _| Terrace: Fire Department. had no compaints about cool weather, . They recorded one of the quiet- est weeks in the past two months, Only one serious blaze was en- countered, Fire broke out in an oil stove jot a trailer parked at the Reel In-Motel on Highway 16 West. Alarm was turned in shortly after midnight but the blaze com- pletely gutted the trailer. A woman and two children es- _feaped unharmed, _ Local tire- crew took only 15 - Fire department also answered {calls for three flooded oil heaters, {No damage was done, ~~. : - Department’ s ambulance crew | Hospital. May 20 after a diving mishap - at. the Skoglund Hot springs pool, They also answered a call the jsame night after a car accident jata devel ‘erossine Terrace’s NET 186 ‘MOTORISTS — _ But only Yender benders’ - reported i in “accident toll. RCMP. caught the dutck and nobodj was dead on loca hagnways . */25 -Sunday, “Corporal Lawson : coticern. to " |down,’* he sald. “That's where Press Run—4,000. ast weekend, RCMP ‘Statt Sergeant John - Maidens said that the traffle divi- sion apprehended 168 motorists. Majority were. caught Speed {ng by radar traps. ‘RCMP ghost car was also used in the weekend crackdown on Speeding. . ‘But the accident rate went way down, Sergrant Maidens commented: ‘}* it is unfortunate for motorists, but as our prosecution rate goes - up, the accident rate goes down FENDER. BENDERS Corporal John’ Lawson, in charge. of the traffic division, described motoring mishapsover the weekend as “strictly fender benders,'’ Police used radar in tour pe- riods over the weekend, They. worked Friday 6 p.m. to midnight, Saturday noon to 11. p.m., all ‘day Sunday and Mon- day 10a.m.toiipm, . Police worked Highway 16 both east and ‘West and Highway 25 to Kitimat, - GHOST CAR USED - While majority of “motorists a were tagged - for. ‘speeding, the ghost car. also ‘collected a few more for passing.on double Lines |. and on corners, - But the RCMP crackdown on traffic violations is showing some results, -- _ "We tried radar on Highway DEATH CAR ABOVE plunged into the Skeena near Prince Rupert last weekend killing two Kitimat men Antonio Famao Goncalves, 49, and Luiz Janela, 39, both of 46 Mallard St, THEY WALKED TO KITIMAT | Blisters, sore feet — and some fears — She was 14 years old and her pretty face was spolled by tears, She could see-the Kitimat boundary marker a-mile away, And she just couldn’t make it. . She was just one story-of the Kitimat walkathon which’ started almast as.a gag idea by the local arena committee to raise a litle money. said,’ ‘The average spead-was And. it. was taken. Seriously | by 97 Tocal people who omed the §0 miles an hour, « - hike < Sunday. ” : Legal: Speed: -on Highway, “aby “ is. 60: Tatlestper hour; i i pan E --Corporel-Lawsonalso saldth the Kitiniat highway: was. ofmal ‘police, “= “twe have to slow that highway t because of the ge, we" “wanted to show: ‘the “adults! “of Tertace that.we could do it, Besides, we want an arena’,’? ‘pioneers ‘ Nine Canadian ploneers will be honored at ‘a Special old timers dinner in Terrace June 4%, During the Old Timers Dinner, which {s ‘being sponsored by the Ratary Club of Terrace and the Terrace Centennial Committee, | Pioneer. Medallions will be pre sented to Mrs, Gertrude Albert ;j Little, Mrs, Jaspehine Muckle, | Mrs. Katherine Rose. Fowler, Ernest Joseph Fowler and Mrs, Millicent Eleanor Pear] Glen, - ‘Also recieving medallions wilt be Mrs, Mattie Christine Frank, Charles Albert Whitman," Mrs, Minnie Morris.and Mrs, Eltza- beth Matilda Whitlow. Gther picheers and old timers from the Terrace area will also he included on the guest List, ‘Phillip Pickering trom Telkwa will be the guest speaker at the dinner to which the” public is invited. ” lwe have all our fatal accidents,?’: KEEP YouR CooL a cool when accosted by the police, ghost. car en route to Terrace trom Smithers. reasoned that 2 man Jn such al’ State of anger would probably take it out on his car. ther down:the road. two speeding tickets In 15 mite utes over the weekend. ' VANCOUVER(CP) br, Fritz Bower, one who made a 100-mile trekthrough| . ‘sub-zero temperatures in Alaska in 10 days, said the march was a frozen hell, But he saldtheord- eal may help him develop a more compact instrument pack for mes- brine body chemistry in similar She -hiked* 35 miles: ‘on the promise of ten cents 2 mile trom both mom .and dad. : ., She was one of the surprises of the Sunday walkathon, . Wayne Seabrook, president of the Arena Committee, when he thought up the “walkathon figured that it would be-a reasonably goad hike to make it to the Hot Springs. . But 23 of the 90 starters hiked all the way to ‘Kitimat, “And. at. '10 Pm, some 37 people were still bent : on trying to. make it all the way, The idea of the walkathon was that each. hiker would find a sponsor’ to. guarantee so-much a mile to be turned over. to the ‘ arena fund. $400 TURNED IN: TO ARENA FUND To. date $400 has been turned in, ibut of the amount pledged, - Ninety ‘people, mainly teenagers, registered for ‘the hike, -, Reeve AF, Goulet cut the ribbon at 1:30. p,m, which launched a long stream of walkers on to the Kitimat highway, and even- tual blisters, charlle horses, stiffness and aching legs, : Some 50 per cent of the marching forces made it to Skoglund. Hot Springs, i First man to reach Kitimat was Ron: Hamilton, First girl, and a very creditable fourth uut of the 2a to finish the total distance. was Bernadette Renaud. Here are the 23 people who finished: — Firsts Ron Hamilton, Second: Jeff’ Dilley, Third: Ed Ritchie, ‘Fourth: Bernadett - -Renaud-First Female, Brian Short, ‘Allan , Jacques, Vernon Jacques, Bon Gare, Jim Mooney, John ‘Vanden. boer, Steve Coates, Yvette Losier, ‘Jacquiline Beaupre, Paul Brousseau, Mike Adams, Bob Bates, Tom Dorling, Morris Mac- It may also pay to keep ‘your. ~ One citizen was halted by the He was incensed at the ticket, The ‘constables who halted- him They radioed to colleagues: fur. That's how one citizen acquired this is only one quarter This march was . frozen hel]. . of 17 sctentl Leslie Boller, Angele Brousseau, Dougall, Robert Amos, Leonard Lealhound, Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, THEY. "WERE - ONLY KIDDING, This is Just one group of the > “Antvepla: band af marchers who hiked from Terrace in the a ivee T ", tion: of’ Kitimat Last Sunday:In a walkathon to alee tandes 3 ‘ Brojected, leo aren