| a: roximately. : 5 miles. past of
ror ae ay | charge

145%.

Phone 635-2801

1959 CHEV Sedan.

“Reb Parker Ltd.

hore Ltbravy, ’

Vietorla, B. Cf,

Tariodicals Department '

60th YEAR — No. 5

“Terrace, B.C,

TERRACE BELOW QUOTA

‘FOR BLOOD

DONATIONS

Terrace blood types gave last Wednesday but. tt wasn't

enoveh,

Terrace donors were tapped for 275 pints of blood at
the ted Cross Blood Donor Clinic held here.
The total was 25 pints short of the 300 pint quota set for

the town.
up from last year’s take..

But for the statistically minded, it was 20 Pints

The clinie was manned by 10. Red Cross nurses and they

were assisted by the Terrace Kinette Club,

Tt was held

in the Community Centre between 1;30 and 6:00 p,m, and

3300 p.m,

Chairman of the Terrace Red Cross Association is Fred

Adames,

In Kitimat a quota of 800 pints. fell far short as only. 500

were realized,

$4 000 damage - to camper

Family unharmed
in 10-foot plunge

A: Washington state family of five escaped. injury when
_thelr travel van took a ten-foot plunge off Highway 16 Sunday,

But the camper suffered an
estimated $4,000 damage after

_ it plummeted of the road 25 miles:

east of Terrace,

It crashed down the embank-
ment,

Douglas D, Decker, his wife
and their three. children were
enroute to Alaska in the rented
_ Clark camper unit when the ac-
cident occurred.

. The Deckers are from ‘Wash-
ington, ~~
“The vehicle akidded . on-B soft
shoulder, rolled over the high-
- way odge,.and down & deep ditch.

Damage has been estlinated

at $4,000. - :

The van is’ owned by Trayel-
Age Touring, a Washington ren-
tal agency. :

R,C,M.P. saldthé ac acéldent hap-
" poned at about 5:30 p.m., Sunday,

Terrace, ©

Yerga

Court report: --

‘Magistrate C, J. Norrington

presided over the following con-

vietions in Terrace | Magiatrate’a

| Court last weeks -

Twenly - two: convictlona for
speeding and minor traffic in-
fractions; five sundry cases and
one for driving without due care
and attention. ©. :

‘Magistrate F, H, Adamesfined
C, DesJariies $200 for impaired
driving and prohibited him for
‘driving for 30 days, Maurice
c on. the -same charge
fined $250 and: prohibited from
driving tor 30 days.

Marie ‘Wink fined: $40 for an

offence under the: Fisheries” Acts :
dfortail:|
‘ation’ ote]

Douglas Duncan fined
ure to. report to Imm
ficer, 01:

There were five convictions: for
speeding“and minor. trafflo. in-
fractions and one: on a sunkiey

TOWERING FLAMES. shoot high in the air above a silhouetted
fireman during the Veritas Catholic auditorium fire Monday -

night,

Joe Cunningham photo, See also page 2

Fd

Heart attack
fells swimmer |

A Kitimat man died in the waters of Lakelse Lake Wed-
nesday afternoon after suffering.a heart seizure,

Charles J. Hewson, 50, of 1304
Albatross Kitimat was ‘just en-
tering the water for a swimwhen
he was stricken. The incident
oecurred at the new Lakelse
Campsite,

Hewson was pronounced dead
on arrival by police and ambul-.
ance attendants from Terrace,
The death occurred at about 3:00

the arrival of the ambulance

wile and two children,

-.A doctor at the: seene admins
istered heart massage but the
man was’ pronounced dead on
arriva] at Mills Memorial,

A bystander says that more
than fifty minutes elapsed before |.

from Terrace.
There is no phone at the new
campsite. .

““tsell | the flamas had-taken hold... ...
~ Whether ther school’ "Wwould.also go ‘was a: ‘queation undec 4
ed until about. 2 am, - when ‘firefighters won Aull control :

Firemen fight —
to save school

Tuesday at first light etched’out a pile of

wet rubble, charcoal and still steaming timber
| that was Veritas Hall six hours before.

' One of the most spéctacular fires in this town’s history
wiped out the ten year-old community hall on the Catholic

Church property on Lakelse Ave,

Fire was first spotted at 1:35 p. m, by two attendants

at the Home Oil Station,

« They turned in the alarm but by midnight the fire was

firing sparks 300 feet in the alr while a dense eloud of

smoke loomed above the.town,

From then on, the story. was the struggle of the Terrace

‘fire fighters to confine the fire to Veritas Hall and save

the Catholic school; due to open for the next academic year

in two week’s time, '
‘They did,

They received a mammoth assist from some

100 passersby who, led by black-rabed nuns, emptied the school
of desks, teaching aids and all equipment from the threat-

éned building,

“The people were marvellous’ , said Father Thomas Cullen
‘priest in charge of the. parish in the. absence of Father
ap. mohan, O.M.L, .currently attending a . theological con-

-férence in Toronto.

“They took everything out, right down: to the pencil sharp-

eners,’. Father Cullen said,

SCHOOL DESKS ON LAWN

_The desks were piled.on the’ grass outside the church,
bit the Terrace Fire Department, led by Fire Chief Andy

Owens, saved the school building,

‘School and hall are connected by a long. corridor.

Despite ‘intense heat, firefighters mounted the roof to |

keep their ‘hoses playing .on the school building, -brightly

lit by the rocketing flames.

While, the big hoses shot water into the blazing hall, other
the corridor roof to play their hoses upon:
that, within the corridor .

men stood J on

thes: “school,:, despite = *the fact:

of the blazing hall,;.

But . firemen continued to stay with the “dwindling” fire
through the night - to prevent. any change of 8 further: out.

break,

. At dain, some sections of ‘the hall were still smouldering .
despite thousands of. gallons of water Poured ‘into. the build-. .

ing during the night. -
The schoo) did not escape completely.

School staff will have a major: job mopping | up the water

which?saved the building from destruction;
There could be some smoke damage,

Firefighters faced an additional hazard Monday

night,

FLAMES EXPLODED. BULLETS

Veritas Hall is also ‘headquarters forthe Terrace Air’

Cadets.

Stored at the rear of the building were rifles and

ammunition which exploded like machine gun fire when flames ;

reached the storage site.

The. building is belleved to be insured, but its loss will

parish.

; -mean a major financial handicap to Sacred Heart Catholic

Revenue from lease. of the hall for community functions,

plus

Weekly’ "bingo was used to, finance operation of the -
,Six-grades school. |

Ironically, the bingo game is the probable cause of the

fire which destroyed the building,
Bingo was played in the hall.
10 p.m. when parish volunteers locked up.

Game was over by about

‘A still burning cagarette in a trash can could have ignited

the blaze which destroyed the tinder dry building

But in the total damage caused to the hath “it will be dif-

ficult to pinpoint the cause,

No official figure was available on the amount of damage

. involved,

But unofficial estimates based on the building itself and

furnishings could be in excess of $150,000,

‘of the pr

TRUCKS AND EARTHMOVERS at work this week on the site
ected Safeway shopping centre e
per-Valu shopping centre is seen

cted. te open
the distance. .

in 1968,

"The man is survived by his

tt will take at extra year but |

Jthere is going to be.a million-

dollar Safeway Shopping Centre in

-| Terrace,

The big trucks began to shift
dirt this week as excavation of

“ithe five-aere site, bounded by

Lakelse and Emerson, . began.

Tentative completlondate, sub- | P
ject to snow, ice’ or labor un-
rest, is “sometime ‘in: 1968".

That is about one year later
than the initlal target date .set
in September 1966 when officials
of Canada Safeway and Dominion
Construction revealed plans for
the centre,
ting the sale of the property is
believed to be one cause of the
hold-up.

Project
Dominion Construction Ltd,
Andy Jorgensen of Vancouver,
told the Herald this week that he
is now setting up a hiring list
in preparation for ant actual con-
struction start shortly after
Labour Day.

He said that weather will be
a contending factor in the es-
tablishment of a completion date
for the big shopping centre.

“There are still a few details
to be ironed out but weather will
be our major interest. If weather

right through’ the winter,’ Jor-
gensen said, =~.

The centre will provide ap
proximately 50,000 square feet
of store area with Safeway taking
almost half the total, Also
Scheduled to go Into the centre

44s a branch of. the F, W,. Wool-

worth ‘Compatiy‘as well: aS ‘sev.
eral other ‘smaller retail outlets,
250 CARS -

Parking facilities for 250. ve
hicles are in the plans, as well] ih
aS a completely - covered. mall
designed to protect. shoppers
from the rigours of Northern

B.C. weather.

Dominion © Construction: Com.
pany Limited is oneof the largest
and oldest development and con-
struction companies in British
Columbia. ; The c has.
leveloped a‘ number. of shopping
centres, office ‘buildings andin-
dustrial buildings « throughout
Western Canada, |
Original plansftor supermarket
development, were made public In
July, 1985. when L, H&K,
Company Ltd, then owners of
the. downtown property block.
announced intention to apply for
permission. to Bubdivide tha five |.

Safeway. supermarket: was ‘pro-
‘Western mahtger or LH.

Co. Lid.. and’ former Terra
Reeve, Walter--A, Yoo, sald pr

ech ‘negotlations :

sid ts for
swernenient_tor|. 4 HE
IBC. faces
fire hazard

| porn at wed ewe Bel

is reasonable we intend to work

“At that: time ‘only’ $900, ono |

to complete the ‘transaction the
property had, to -be subdivided.

Municipal ‘sanction on the sub-
division request was delayed for
another seven months axl. H. | ¥
& K, Company withdrew its ap- = ¥
plication to subdivide the pro-. —

periy in February, . 1966,
Decision to withdraw the appli-

cation: came ‘after: Municipal
Council - called for Ikacre of
‘the L. H, & K. land: parcel
for road allowances in order to
facilitate an extension of Greig
Avenue.

Tinder dry

Hot dry weather over most of
the province last week gave Bri- ”

ane of: their worst weeks ‘on
record,

Costs of. batéling forest firés
to date this year is $2,570,000
compared with. $507,000 for the:
same perlod last year, .

‘In the record year, 1961, the.
cost had’ Mounted to $4, 406, 000 :
by the middle of August, =~

The more. than 350 blazes that wt
burned throughout. the province .. -
left 5,000° lumber’ workers idle —
a5 ‘voluntary or enforced: shitit-
downs ‘went into effect. at. many wero
logging operations; * 7":

‘Seven provinclal pe ks,. alin

tinder “diy. Vancouver . |
fonast™ ‘district- wera closed: to °
gut dow’ on the Increasing nun
ber of fires being -reported, °

The worst fire was largeblaze ;
‘started on VancouverIsland when *
8 blasting crew knocked downa _
power line, ‘The fire couldn't...
be contained and burned thro ;
more than’3,000 acrasofvaluable |‘
timber’ before it: was finally
brought under control. : .
The hardest hit was the Neleon
district’ where over. 800" inen

jected for the prime corner, | 'F