reaier’s

‘eterta, 5. et.

Office, —

- Terrace Municipal council
has ordered a row-honse -
developer to eliminate what
some calla death trap.

“Manual Silva has: already
sunk $2,000 in building
basements for’ proposed row
housing. The project has been

halted by the Board of

Variance. .
Left are two gaping hotes,
filled with water andice, ,
.Ag reported in Monday's
Herald, parents in the neigh-
borhood fear a child may slip .
In and drown. .

’ A PARKER

‘Pinto’'s

80B PARKER

” 635- 2801

“YOU. CAN AFFORD —

From $2, 312 : a
FORD

FORD”

“The holes are located near |

Kalum between Seott and
Olson.

If Silva doesn’t. take some

action, some aldermen said,

- they will order a bulldozer

onto the man's property, fill
the. holes and then charge

Silva for the work. . ;
It was suggested at couzcit
‘he complete- pumping - the:
holes free of . water; -
operation he had appare
begun; fill in the holes or erect I
strong barricades: arow :
them to keep children out:

’ . Alderman”

Mayor Victor Jolliffe agreed

* that something had to he done; :
but he pointed out he un-
1, derstood Silva was complying

7. with an earlier council request —
by pumping the water. cut..

PHOTO FASLE?

Ev . CUit.-

of settin

however, accused the mayor
g up a newspaper
photo in The Herald of the
pump ani then after the
photographer left, discon-
tinued the operation. ©.

““] don't. know whether it's

~ all drained or not,” he said.

RALD

ia’ Northwestern British Golumbia

" But, he added: “I think it’s
Hime council did something

about it,"

“We could get a bad press,”

“Clift added, “if some kid, for

example fell into it and was
drowned.” ;
-Earller- in the day The

Herald, in a front page. story.
made both Silva's . plight
known and warned of a child
drowning if. steps weren't
taken to protect youngsters.
-“T feel counctt Is in a very
grave position,” Clift said.”
Cont'd on Pose 3

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of Skeena Forest Products

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to.

Canada

. A flock of Canadian geese in
Alice Arm could be facing
extinction. :

Peter Nielsen, a Kitimat-'
Stikine Regional Board mem-
ber, complains that hunters
are killing the tame birds ...
without regard to hunting
regulations,.

-| The fleck in Alice Arm is one
of the few that does not
migrate, staying in that
community year-round,
Nielsen said..
He said that the flock
consists of about 250 birds.

H unters threaten

_north coast they stay all year

Geese

Old-timers, Nielsen said, fed
the animals and tamed them.

Now hunters are coming in
and killing off the easy prey,
he sald.

Nielsen asked the regional
board if it would consider
operating a game sanctuary to
protect the birds.
~ “It’s the only place on the

around,” Nielsen - told the
board.

The regional board has
referred the matter, to its
technical planning committee
for study. :

f Board approves |
s health center

The Kitimat-Stikine Regional
‘Board took a first step Monday
toward building a health center
in Terrace. . \

The board gave third reading
toa Pyle to borrow $93,000 as

. No decal yet?

Better hurry! a

Dealine for buying your new
| 1972" car: dévals is’ Saturday.

- Jim Frey, : motor‘ vehicle~
license inspector, said his
office will remain open until 5
pm, Saturday so motorists
can purchase the decals:

Anyone not having decals on
his car by Sunday must nat
operate the vehicle on the
highway until he buys them,
Frey said. .
. Casts of the decals depend
on the weight of the car.

the local share for building the «

center.

’ Members also asked for the
right to gain easements, rights-
of-way and licenses to build the

‘center, adjacent to Mills

Memorial Hospital. _

. The request now -goes to

Victoria for action.
John Pousette, secretary-

treasurer, said that if Victoria

approves the monies, the health

Total cost of the center will be
$250,000, Of that amount,
$93,000 will be paid by the local
region; $60,000 from the
provincial department of public
heaith; $60,000 from the
provincial department of

mental health; and $32,000 fram |

the federa] Indian medical
health services, An additional,

$5,000 could be coming from.

voluntary agencies.

a

center can. be: built withoutthe* ’
_, hegesgity. of a ‘public referen. -
” dam

Not ‘neighborly’,

says B.C.

Thornhill residents don’t want
B.C. Hydro as a neighbor.

‘When B.C. Hydro. applied to
build a  office-warehouse
complex on 36 acres in Thor-
nhill, some residents com-
plained.

As a result, the company is
now looking for alternative sites
for its building.

The property B.C. Hydro had

Nance named
to board

. The Mills Memorial: Hospital:

has a new member on the Board
of Tristees. wo!

‘He is John Nance of Thormhill
who:will represent the Kitimat-

Stikine Regional District on the:

hospital board...
Nance was appointed Monday

following a letter-.from N.C. .

’ Miller, chairman of the hospital
board to the regional. district.

chosen was 36 acres belween
Crescent Drive, Highway 16,
and the Celgar logging road.

On the site, B.C. Hydro
planned to build “an office-
warehouse-workshop-storage
eomplex,"

EMPLOY 218

The complex will employ 200
people when completed.

But the Thornhill Ratepayers
Association said the land the

- ¢ompany chose will ultimately

become the town center when
Thornhill. is incorporated.

And they want it saved for
that purpose.

So the ratepayers appealed to ,

the Kitimat-Stikine Regional
District for help.

. Dr. Gordon Shrum, chairman
of B.C. Hydro said his firm will
consider alternative sites if they

meet .the following
requirements:

~The site is close to a major .
highway

“It is close to an- established -
Cont'd on Page 2, -

angry

6 8

A FROG AND _A CLOWN won the most humerous costume
award at the Rotary Club Mardi Gras last weekend. Un-
derneath the costumes are Herb and Enid Street who modelled

their garb on puppets from Sesame Street, a children’s
program. More Mardi Gras hi-jinks will be featured in the next
issue of The Herald...Staff photo.

BUT DIRECTORS OK LEASING

Don’t sell. heritage

Prime. parkland within the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional
District should be leased—and
not sold: “to developers.

That's the feeling of the

regional board which wil] un-

dertake a recreation study of.

the Aistrict this year. —

Land swap vetoed -
by Regional. Board.

A proposal ta swap land near
Lakelse Lake for property on
Highway 16° east has been
turned down by the Kitimat.

Airwaves make |

alderman sic

: ‘Alderman Ian MacDonald
admits. he's got the. queezies.

speaker ‘ien’t that good,”: he
‘admitted nervously to Terrace

Munlelpal, Council Monday -
ght; -

“My capacity’ as'-a public:

participate in a’ proposed: ;
program on community affairs. -

- SHORT TALKS:

“ According toJ, Fred Weber,

“managing director of Skeena .

Broadcasters, the ‘programa ‘
- would be: “comprised! of: short '

talks ‘from. representatives of.

"the mayor. and council of.
. ‘Terrace and. -Kitimat,.. -and.

: members of the

Public at ne

Weber. wrote that a . member -
of the public or service club

* would fallow the public official, -
- “The format of the

would-be three four-m » 40.

“This would not be a question *
and answer.show, he agded, The .
material would be pré-tec ded

-second. talks,” he sald.

gram :

Stikine Regional Board's

. fechnical.. planning committee. .

The -land’.exchange was’

- proposed *. - by. - Thornhill ©
Properties, ° a privale
development firm.

-No’ reason: was given in
technical planning committee

minutes for the proposed swap. 7

‘ MORE-VALUABLE

in tirning down the request, |
the planning committee noted '».
that the highway property was -
more valuable. than the land
near the. lake.’ :

‘The Thornhill: Properties.
“request was’ to exchange 39.
- acreg.,"on-- Lakelse - ‘Lake for’
crown land along the highway.

The.committee described the .

lake property as “‘low lying and

. Marahy with only a narrow belt.
fronting. the Jake ‘having some

recreational potential. The rest»

New Hazelton said he wants a
‘site at Chimdemash Creek

_ developed as a park and not by

a private developer...

“To my way of thinking,” he
said, “we will be giving away
one of the nicest spots between
‘Hazelton and Terrace” if a
private developer is allowed to
build recreation facilities on the

BOAT LAUNCH
Plans callfora boat launch on
* te property.

1 “If we are going into a park

“Cont'd on Page 2

Director Lawrence Dubnik of -

1871

1971
Thieves grab
bag of coins |

Thieves stole a blue suitesse
filled with coins when they

broke
National” _ Railways
Wednesday morning.

RCMP said a window at the
rear of the freight shed was
broken to gain entry,

into the Canadian’
shed ©

oO oust mayor |

council 4

Jolliffe survives
motion of censure

.A determined bid by council to censor Mayor
Victor Jolliffe fizzled Monday.

.A further bid to order him to apologize to a man.
on whose property the municipality was attempting
to get an easement through also failed, through 3 a
series of tricky moves by the mayor.

.And The

Terrace

Herald, was -

whitewashed of any suggestion that it was derelict
in its duty as a newspaper.

it the council had succeeded
in forcing Jolliffe ta apologize
and in censoring him, it may
have had enough evidence to
oust the mayor. from his
position,
STORM ERUPTS :

"The: storni.dxupted. atter ico

members of council read in the
Feb. 18 edition of The Herald
that, according to the mayor,

” the municipality could not get

an easement across a man’s
property.

The man was identified as .

Paul Botin, 4905 Mills Ave.

Residents of the area and the
mayor admitted that water and
storm drainage was backed up
in a deep ditch running down the
middle of Mills, and parents
feared for the lives of children.

Jolliffe was charged by
council ‘Monday of slandering
the man's name and called on to
apologize.

The mayer flatly refused. He
defended statements he had
made to The Herald when the
newspaper telephoned him for
his comments.

During the noisy, unruly
meeting, aldermen © were
launching a bitter, unceasing
attack on the mayor, during

- which Jolliffe called council

“Judge, jury and executioner.”
_ TELL STORY

During the meeting, The
Herald was asked by acting
mayor Evy Clift to tell council
how the story and the mayor's
statements got into the
newspaper.

Herald Editor Ron Thody
refused to speak while a motion
was on the floor, and told
Council according to Robert's
Rules of Order (rules 'to direct
most meetings) forbade him to
speak at that point. .

“We don't go by Rabert’s.
Rules,”"" snapped Ald.
MacDonald.

Clerk-administrator, J ack :

Hardy informed Thody. that
council went by Botano’s Rules
of Order, but added the editor

-was correct in not speaking at

the meeting.

aT,

Jan.

Later, in a borderline action,
acting-mayor Clift suspended’
the council meeting to allow the
press to speak, vindicating both
itself and Mayor’ Jolliffe.

Jake Peters launched the
donnybrook. He was : Speaking
on. behalf -of Botin.: °

Ald. MacDonald made a
motion calling upon Jolliffe to
apclogize to Botin “for having

Cont'd on Page 2
No chain
for mayor

Mayor Victor Jolliffe says
he doesn't want another chain
around his neck.

“I've got enough already,"
commented the mayor
following Monday night’s
council meeting in Terrace..

The mayor was referring to
a letter from Dominion
Regalia Ltd, Toronto, which,
among other things, makes
chains of office for mayors.

Looking at council,
Alderman Allan McAlpine
sald: ‘Do the others think it
will do the trick?”

“No... don’t think we need a
chain,” said Ald. Mrs. ‘Edna
Cooper.

- Let's file the letter, mut
tered Jolliffe, looking at the
wastepaper basket. :

According to the letter,
“When worn by the incumbent
at all official meetings and
functions, a Civic Chain o|
Office adds great dignity’ t
the office of mayor. During
your centennial year, the
will doubtless be many such
oceasions in your com-
ft munity.”

It continued: “If you ‘do not
have one, the acquisition, and
presentation of. a. chain o
office would be fitting ‘and
newaworthy ‘highlight of your
centennial celebrations.” -

The last thing Terrace needs
now, said Jolliffe, later, is a
chain of office,

meeting thal
ants to keep up with the times.

at ‘any. rate.

‘minutes of a committee of tlie |
Whole . meeting held Feb.’ 16
peared in The Herald Feb. 13- .

reetin ‘council in: its regutar

“of.the’, land js cut phy ale el

: and creeks;!

‘Can’ t we. meet in secret? ?

pati oe im

3 It appeared at “Monday's
“ > municipal
“> Alderman. Ian .MacDonalc

Or—with The Terrace Herald, -

‘Herald. stories upset MacDonald. _

Mayor Victor Jollitte tried to « which the media had agendas, joining ‘the- inion of. B. C

ol MacDonald down and'even and then we went into ‘com- Municipalities: in protesting the -
‘pointed out one of the items had ‘= mittee of the whole (closed door - ‘proposed ‘telephone’ hike, the .
been ‘brought to. council's at- “meeting),’ ” -” information was supplied by the
terition by the newspaper and — -‘"There -was: nothing - secret “radio. station:.

Jolliffe’ further: pointed’ out:
that’ both the press and‘radio ©:
‘Had contacted. himself for
.. comments or both subjects and |
he had merely Informed them of

Tm not going out 0
the same..as. -you...LF you

another by radio, about that" the mayor added,
-"These minutes have. been . Jolliffe pointed out that most
circulated all over town!" cried ‘of the: business’ wag” ublic
MacDonald. ‘Look;..they'ré in -- ‘knowledge anyway. :
~ this paper; there are four items « In” regards .-to. : - council's :
on these minutes.” =": ~ “discussion, and’ approval «in

' “principal of a brief protesting a
'. Suggested. cutback’ of:-CNR
passenger trains,; Jolliffe said

all: the. information cara