ED VAN DER LEELIE MANAGING EDITOR GORDON HAMILTON PRODUCTION coming leaders in the fight for environmental and pollution control. Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers, Prince Rupert area have been fighting a long and lonely battle in the effort for cleaner grounds, healthier atmosphere, wildlife regulations and general ‘housekeeping’ to keep Canada alive for the proposed twenty-first century. Students, too have been pursuaded to become involved as could be seen recently by their ‘striking attempts’ against the Amchitka blast scheduled for the latter part of this month. Newspapers, as well as radio and PUBLISHED. BY - NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED Published five days a week at 3112 Kalum Street; Terrace, - B.C. A member of. the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publisher's Asseciation and Varied circulation. Authorized as second class mail Registration number 201. Postage paid in ¢ash, return postage guaranteed. P.O. BOX 399, 3212 KALUM STREET Certainly members of SPEC in the | GEORGE T. ENGLISH.» ASSISTANT EGITOR MARY OLSEN ° ADVERTISING TERRACE, B.C, The only way to go IS UP, UP, UP, Up- Ottawa officials declared last week that Canada was one of the up and television, have also been joining the bandwagon for that eventual day when a man may step out his back door and smell only the leaves as induced by nature. ’ Young minds throughout the world have imbedded in their heads the thoughts of a ‘world tommorrow that: will be more peaceful, more clean and more human than those of days spent.’ Perhaps the entire effort is a change that has become a realization for our entire society. A change geared to liberalization. and the ‘cleaning up.’ A change that has been our due for centuries, A change geared to the welfare of our people. Keep it up. - We can only move ahead and to the top. There is no better place. BUILDERS OF B.C. Robert Patterson Rithet Thinking big was natural for Robert Patterson Rithet. He built a reputation in the business world which was as respected in San Francisco and Hawaii as it was in British Columbia, Rithet dreamed of a railway bridge coridecting Vancouver. . ‘Island wit! the Minland, but’ even with the money ready he was turnea down by Ottawa. Then in partnership with Sir Sandford rleming in planning the Pacific lelegraph cable it was decided they needed a Hawaiian slaging island. The plan called for seizing a small, uninhabited recky islet and raising the Union Jack anit. A U.S. cutter chased them off ; ‘Ninéyear-old Clarence. ‘Willoughby: (nliyed: by - Pascal Bonnlere) is really’ just like’ any. other. Iittle-boy, except for his‘precoclous habit of in- "venting things. On CBC-TV's mandy Sta ae ‘although the island wasn’t officially American territory. Born in Duniriesshire in 1844, son of a farmer, he had business training as a youth before coming to Victoria in 1862. His early jobs included working as a stevedore for a while but he quickly moved into . wholesale. groceries; insurance, shipping and brokerage, gaining power and prestige with every year that passed. Rithet was also a shareholder in a sawmill at Moodyville, Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Albion, Iron Works and Capilano Waterworks. He was a principal promoter of the British Pacific Railway and. showy “by o Nietoria a * president oF “dificials when . he “begins ‘to lise: ‘ae pags “disappearer", . He. ‘polits it af ‘whitever:b wants removed and =. _ one. heue: comedy Is: ‘based on he constructed. the Outer Wharf at Victoria. He became : president of the city’s Board of Trade and In 1885 became mayor of Victoria. In 1894 he was elected to the legislature, Farming was a hobby ‘and he maintained aaa farms at California ahd Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, with headquarters in San Francisco, and was associated with Californians in other business enterprises, When he died in Victoria in 1519, it was said of him: “Probably no name is more respected on the Pacifie coast from San Francisco to the far north than that of Rithet...”" ae charges. a » it disappears,’ Delta. Hither was ” . found near the safe, | : * found, vos ye “Yeah, well if he’s normal why isn’t he turning into 2 . dropping out or somet! Parary is ing rebelling against soiety, ws drugs, Sylvia's Scrap. ‘Corner SYLVIA'S SCRAP CORNER Cf you don’t like it, scrap it) . BYS. JOHNSON There isn’t anything so rewarding or unsettling, as a family get-together, ‘ticularly when the family is split down the centre - one side of it religious, and the other made up of boozehounds. count myself lucky that both groups have not collided on our doorstep at the same time...¢€tauch wood). AN AUNTIE FAME Take Auntie Fame’s arrival for instance. She blows in like a barrel with a tap on {t and heads . straight for thekeyboard. Did] - say keyboai 2 yPhat is putting it f After she has warmed her ~ fingers up, you can anticipate _one trip to the Legion at least, and. write off the invention of clocks. She will play all your favourite tunes from, “The Preacher Went A-Hunting’’’ to some hard rock, The following © day, when she awakens (sometime after twelve noon}, she will ask you to dig into her suitcase for a bottle of Vodka. This, she heartily tips to her mouth to launch the ship, skips breakfast, and continues to trip gayly back and forth tothe liquor supply the remainder of her stay. She's always loudly exclaiming, '‘Man, this is the best hotel I’ve stayed at!" Not’ the touristy type, .and likes to-sit-on. her perch in one spot if possible. .We would nottrade her for all the wine in B.C., even if there was any. Booze. blast _ bungled VANDERHOOF - RCMP. : got help from a Canadian’ Forces -explosives specialist Monday after sloppy safecrac- kers broke into a: government: liquor store’ here and left he- hind enough nitroglycerine to - demolish the building. Master Warrant Officer Robert Linley of thie Canadian. Forces base + points: ont. the’ :need for organization-here. -- ' Parents: Without Partners igm “an International, non-profit Zi non-sectarian, ‘educationa ze ‘devoted: to the welfare: _ interests .of-single. parents their children. it's program ani ~ At the Jast general, meeting iti -. was decided to hold a swimming i party. at the ‘Sam Lindsay i Memorial Pool and a total of 31 people attended. This-was very encouraging since Parents} _ Without Partners here’ is still i very yolitig.. Earlier this month a “a. card’ social ‘was’ held which 9 “-wag:very. well attended and as ji - wella wide range of meaning{ul 6% ‘topics: was discussed. : ; ‘The Kitimat. Chapter ‘of Parents. Without’ Partners is - holding its’ next meeting at 38 Yukon: Street, Kitimat on S- ‘anda, October 17th at 2:00 p.m. & ©, For. farther information, and “transportation telephone 632- § 2481. See you Sunday.” san ; a cs Yours truly, a Moy (Mrs. E. Green @ wi _ President ~The’ “bells ring: . Many thinking Canadians feel - concern and uneasiness about the accelerated changes taking place’ in their lives today. Changes of all kinds are af- fecting our lives, : titut lectireship. ‘- “ture” ; on aspects: of the fainily in today’s world. The first Bell Lecture will take place on. Thursday, ‘Oc- tober. 28th at 8:00 p.m. at MacEwan Hall, University af Calgary, The speaker. is' an outstanding Canadian scholat, - Dr. ‘Hyman. Rodman’ of "the Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit.. Dr. Rodman is a graduate of McGill ‘and-Har & .vard. Universities, and has § ‘ - undertaken distinguished rese- . arch in many apsects of family - life in Canada, the United States, ‘and. the West - Indies. His’ publications cover a wide range marriage, the" disadvantaged, race | retations, Invhis lecture Dr. Rodman “lll. look ahead and speak on “The Family and the Future", Dr.’ Rodman's. talk . will. be -of keen: ‘interesat to-social scier- tists in the West,‘ to those con- “cerned with the.family, to the, - ’ helping professions, and to the. general public. = The Bell Lecture arises’f from. the concert of Mr.“Max Bell of . at Calgary; ‘who-has, contributed. oe aa endowment to the Vanier. _ Institute ‘of. the Family, The ij ’ income.from his donation is. to.. . -be’ used ‘for a-lectureship in. @ ‘Western Canada on‘the family, 3 The terms: and conditions: for -| scretion ‘of: the. Mr, Bell has lived’a ‘long timé’ graduate of M.. eGill, University, ‘he joined his. father. then owner . of | the. "Calga gary Albertan in the. 90’s,. ‘Bell's energies .in thé. publishing field led. him : to. acquire ownership, or control of, . other Canadian: news pers.! He la a member of the | joard . of. Governors - of . McGill: University, and, ‘pigoclated with several other ;._ large enterprises. tyhy * This year's lecture, which is ~ aera | givein'in Calgary | - acknowledgement - ‘andi tribute to Mr,‘ Bell. The’ lec- st ty tureship, in years to come, will; bring . » scholars, to the Wet, a other outetanding MEMO ~ V1hH's, The Grand? alownslte there and sold lots for-: ‘are: seneroualy: Za