: See story below, :

. trages of men: who fished. the‘ ‘Skeena when the pyramids were.

res

haw ‘recelvadthe Christmas dead.|
} al administrations for mail Jeav.

‘ed as follows:

for letters’ and Dee, 7forparcels,

STUDENT ARCHAEOLOGISTS have. thelr own club at Skeena
Secondary and their. own ‘dig’at Kitselas Canyon, Above (left)
Jan Watson, Jo Zenyk and Leslie Riner display artifacta found
at the sight while at right teacher Jack Hepplevhite goas over
‘the finer péints of a stone hammer with student We + Matheson,

‘twenty-five Skegna Secondary. students. are looking for the

young,
c Their. search ‘18 no. whim ¢ or fad, but a diseiptinéd archaeo-.
 Jogtéal "dig? made ta National, Museum. ,of Canada standards,

_* Aud they’ are finding artifacts of men who fished fram Kit:
“selas is Cangon. thonsands af. years ago, The length of time must ba

“Their. enthysiasm Jed tothe formationof the: students archae. :

“tec club at Skeeng Secondary,

. Some elght miles east of Terrace,

. Incidentally, they go there with the approval ‘sid. éo-opera4
tion of Kitselas band chief Gaxy White; why Fee with the Naf
Gonal Museum group, The site is on the :

; Teacher Dave | wales alsoappealed tothe publicto. use the.”
dr better judgment bet oming to the" ‘site, and to stay. out of”
' the pits, . :

ology is a very disciplined sciente, ' all the things. must be ree. -
, corded, One you have disturbed something: you can hever put it;
‘back the way ‘it was ériginally,’*
Students and teachers: go out to tneir sito oaturuayss and,
".Suridays,’ going-through the process of digging. and sifting | to find
the relics of the’ ‘past, :
“Ht takes ‘a trained eye'to ‘yeebgnize’ them, ° . :
” “Walker said that the acid soil had eaten all bone or: cloth,
‘All we will find is stone,” he aaid, *

The trained eyes being developed by ‘students’ anid ‘teactiors ;

can pick up the little notches ona rock that eould have heen used
aS a hammer by a stoneage man,

- Or a chip of rock made a3 an arrow head,”

»Some of the “finds” are recognizable as Ping manufactured,
The? symmetrical pattern of a grinding stone can he recognized, °

“? How far they go back, can’t be established yet, :

Teacher Dave: Walker feels'..the students. will dig until the
“comes, then: ‘spend wintér ‘classifying . their : material,
!: {The National Museum‘is currently: waiting result from Japan

~-on.¢arbon samplings ‘which could ‘bin the time factor to an error.

‘margin of only 200 years, .
_ An educated . guess ‘could put ihe material at aboiit 5, 000
years, old, but it?s, strictly a guess, a
i’ Meanwhile: a group of local high schoot: students ‘and their:
teachers are continuing the.archaeological work of the National
. Museum of Canada.team, : to. Jearn @ ‘the men n who lived at Kt.
Seles at the dawn’ of history. "°°: A .

~ Post office lists,
~ Christmas’ deadlines

“the ‘Canada: ‘Post. Office’ hag] “Antigua, Hahamas, ‘Barbados &

Tine dates: from all foreign post.| Dec, 9 for parcels,» --

‘Jamaica, Dee: 12 tor: letters:

ing Canada by air, To ensure and Deo; 9.for parcels,

delivery by. Christmas: time, ‘Tet-
terd ‘and: parcels should'b ] Rast. .

and Deg. a for ‘parcels, -:

pyttain Doo 1 for leters an, Central, South America 20th.

ae ‘er places.in West Indies:Dec;, 12
‘European Continetit, Dec, . i for, Iatters and Deo, 9for parcels,

for. Jetters. and Dec, 7forparcels, | . 7 tii & Now Zeala nd, Dee,

‘Rep. f South Afri¢a, Dec, pte 12 for letters and Dec, ] for par,
‘ee. 5° ek

‘Japan. & Hong Kong’ Dec, it for
letters: :and Dec, 7 for parcels,
er ‘Trans-Atlantic, ‘Places, |. ‘Other Trans-Pacific, : places,.
£9 for lettera : and Dec. 6|Dec. 9 for letters - and Dees, %.
e} : : = for. zoe ‘ :

Andlan -&° Paldatan: Ode. 11 for
va and Dec 7. ‘for parcels;

They trek a mile and a half through the bush to the dig site,

Bermuda, Dec. 12 for letters and.

“Ryinidad ‘Dee, 12 for itr,

Ben Ginter to
flood Prairies

with beer? -

" Bridge and road builder Bon

Ginter, the rought-tongued ox-
tat. driver who. made a. large

“| slice of His $30 million fortune
‘ont’ of opening up the B,C. hin-

‘terland, is about’ to invade’ the

'. | vest of Canada, But with beer,

not cement,

highly profitable love affair with’
B,C, Premier W,A.C. Bennett's
Social. Credit. government. has-
come to. a bitter end, |For al-
most 20 years’ Ginter got most
of the govérnment’s highway and
bridge building contracts, With
“Flying Phil’? Gaglardi as High-
ways Minister, tt was often said:
“You cannot get anything done
in the ‘north without consulting
one of the Holy Trinity —Gin-
ter, Gaglardi and God.??
Earlier thid ‘year Gaglardl,
after a legislative row over land
dealings by his sons, was toppled
from power, At the same time
| Ginter fell from grace, ‘
He says now that “Gaglardt is

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wa 63 ry ee

“ing:

before, : tat pms T'don't: pay a
‘daring. ‘You seen how they pro-
tected Gaglardi when fe got in
trouble. Bennett told’ him net
to give me nothing » to shut me
out, Gaglardi told me himself,

So Ginter is renouncing. tis
construction business on behalf
‘| of the provincial goverriment-and
will concentrate an federal con-
tracts and expanding his beer
empire, He says Bennett is try-
ing to freeze him out of the beer
business. in B,C,, and as proof

stant © feuding - with” the ’provine
cial Hquor board, o

Maelean’s ‘says that Ginter
laims two million dollara is
owed ‘him ‘bythe provincial gov-
| ernment, ‘and that he has heen told
that.things would be “‘oasier” for

‘| him if he’ contributed more gen-

‘And he’s. dolig s 50 because his.

a hdkats, af Tre'the current’ ‘Mac. |
a at. tenths laste heat! wisldsstthan | gre.

‘fods ’, in< efther:1967* or 1966,

not outdo the record established

of this cites his brewery’s con-|-

- Forest products stay. as
biggest provincial export

- By) RAY WILLISTON
Minister of Lands, Forests
And Water Resources ~~
Forest products, almost -en-
tirely of British Columbia orl. |:
gin continue to make up the lar-

‘gest: Single share.of major com-/ 4
modities ‘exported through Brit-|’

ish Columbia customa ports, a¢-|'
‘cording tothe provincial Bureau
of Economies and Statistics, .
Yor the first six months of 1968
forest products accounted for al-
most;/$372,5 million, or onethird
of the $1,11.7,5 million value af
major’ ‘commodities — exported
through this province in the first
six months of 1968, Of the total
of. $565.4 millfon in major com-
modities- predominantly of Brit-
ish Columbia origin exported,

lion in commodities’ exported was
mainly of Prairie origin, -!

-The-4 per. cert: gain. incvalud
‘of: “exports. ‘averothhy firetvalx | u

‘the growth rates for similar per.

However, this slower *yate : of}.
gain does not mean that 1969 ex.
part values for the full yéar will

last; year,

~ Particularly. important t9. ‘this
province is the fact that the ex.
ceptions to the export expansion
‘slowdown were fabricated ‘wood
products such as lumber andply-
wood, and paper and paperboard
products whieh’ recorded greater
gains this. year. than’. in’ A967,

The only ‘decline’ ‘in forest pro-
ducts exports occurred in erude| ?
wood matetials such as-logs.and
pulp chips which,-in view of the
increased export’ of other wood
products,’ ‘Indicates the forest
industry’ here has been able to
increase the amount of proces-
sing done before elripment, to

erously’ to the ruling Social Cre.
ait. Party.

‘: «Failure to increase export sale

the |.
forest products share was 66 per’ :
cent, The balance of $552,1 mile.

rectify a deterloration in that na-

‘this, restraint is expected during

‘States, United Kingdom, and the

jto Japan and reduced exports ta
‘other Asiatic nations accounts
Jor the overall reduction in the
erate of gain, but on¢eagain forest
products “Proved to be the excep-
On

- Statisties show that although to-
tal exports through British Col-
‘umbia customs ports to Japan in
the first half of this year were
‘practically’ unchanged, ‘exports
.of forest producta to that coune
try were up by 18,3 per cent,
Of the half-year’s total export
of forest-products, Japan’s share.
was $53,1 millon; compared to
$44.9 million for the Bame por
fod last year,

It also ts interesting ‘to note
that for the first elght tm months of
this year, Japan replaced the
United Kingdom: as the second
most important:market for Bri-
tish. ah Columbla mepets with the

The overall, slowdown’ in ex-
ports to Japan is related to a Ja-
panése . government program to

4 tion's. balance of payment situa-
Hons, Although some easing of

the ‘last half of this year, it ts
not ‘considered likely that 1968
exports to Japan through Brit«
ish Columbia’ ports will exceed |,
those of 1967 by more than a
few percentage - points “with, or
eourse, the exception of forest
products, ,

Offsetting this static export
condition is the: fact’ that major
commodity exports to such im=
portamt markets. 93 -the United

European Commoii Market ahow=
ed amore rapid rate’ of gain than

forelgn markets,

; in 1967, .

It also is considered.

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probable that increased ciports
to these areas during the last
half. of. this year will continue to

compensate for the sluggtshness

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