7 |. 1986 MaRCURY. PARK cane’ “alt Beare. way power windows, tit: -ateerltig ‘ whieal. “Periedleais Tepartn at Victorias B.C. aa a “1966 GALAXIN XL CONVERTIBLE: power | windows, power seat, power poecic Power. _Only 9,000 ‘miles. cs are + ee Be w'eteraae | | ae, Fert : = a . “Seng Terrace, the Hub City of the Mighty Skeena Valley i in Northwestern B British Columbia’ aoe _Laotth ete i ie, 3 | path YEAR, No. 40." 18 Pages® —Wativesday, Laie 26, 1967 Te: a a Cap a Pres, ican ' A SMOKEY HAZE hung over the Lakelse valley at ‘the weekend as forestry crews - battled with in 45-acre blaze about nine miles south of Terrace. ‘DAMAGE ESTIMATED at $6,000 was incurred i in this Thursday noon fire that wiped ‘out. operational buildings at t Terrace Concrete Products ‘Ltd. on Little's Island. _| annual report from: the presi- ''| ors--of the . Association: - total ‘| sales -for the year were report- : 20. 20 per cent over last, year. At ‘Antual Co-Op "Reverend: H. Madsen,’ Minister. of Christ Lutheran Church of Terrace, was elected to,a three-year term on ‘the board of directors at.the 22nd annual. meeting of the Terrace Co-operative Association held April 18, Re- elected for three-year: terms were Mr, N. Doll, T. Ward and C. Place. ~ Over 200 mernbers and guests were in altendance ‘to hear guest speaker “R. L. Simpson, assistant manager of B.C.. Go- Qperative Wholesale Sacie ty in Burnaby, and to hear ‘the A 444. per cent patronage re- Membership in the, Co-opera- tive Association increased by 647, a 39 per cent gain from last year, Three new services, ‘a small motor sales’ service centre, maj- or appliances and furniture and a bulk petroleum Plant, were added during the year. ' President A. -Holden - and manager Corbin King gave de- dent; Managers and. directors. - * Ina report from the direct. ed /as $2,654,717, an increase of fund had heen authorized, -.| desire to thank you ‘for | Wish you, and:-yaur : | Agar Avenue Residents — ~ Plant Centennial - Residents of Agar Avenue between Kenney and Molitor agreed to plant trees and flowering shrubs in that area as 9 group Centennial Project and planting ceremonies were held on: April 15, School Millrate _ Hike Revealed _ For Terrace —- The 1967 school. tax mill rate will total. 34.8. mills,-an increase of 4.6 mills over: last year, it was disclosed this” week by Terrace District school board, +. The focal - school. district will be responsible for rails: |° ‘Ing 64 per cent of the budget estimated: at. ‘Nearly. $2,000 - 000. sehen! board officals ‘stat. |: ed. the Increase mill-rate was kept fo ‘a ‘minimum. hacause. of a $109,000 subsidiary grant given, by the Provincial _ gow ¢roment, | Province ® wide, -. ‘the - aver, “age: ‘hnillrate : I approximate: ly 303 mills. .{o£ platiting trees in’ the Agar! i Avene Park area, ‘Each, householder “planted trees or shrubs on his front lot and then’ shared in the work Mr. Andrew Toews and Mr. Gordon. Larkin served as af. ganization of the project and the planting. Reeve A. F, Goulet and Cen- tennial Committee chairman, Ae ds “Bud, McColl ‘addressed ‘thig. ‘Agar ealGntt ‘a and with the planting. « ‘stakeid, and "profected along the: 800 feet of park frontage. They included Drummond ‘Ma- Jet Hawthorn’: ‘and Lombardy Poplar. Almey: Flowering Crab- | apple shrubs are also on order fetelchiiceet i committee of two.for the or-|~ assisted . » Sixty-five. trees were ‘planted, 1 ple, Cutleat Birch, Paul's Scar. an Trees ‘but had not arrived | in time for the planting ceremony, Terrace District Municipality prepared planting holes and purchased $125 worth of plant ing. stock for the Park ‘Project. . New Letter “Boxes And Pickup Times | Two new street letter: boxes will be installed sherily In Terrace, One will be located Lekelse’ and) the other is scheduled for the. corner of ‘Sparks | and Seucie, : . - The Terrace Post Ofties has also announced. that effective May Tt, alrmail..closing ‘time: ; for ‘registered mall ~ will. 290 pam. For ordinary: mail it will close, at 5 pom. mo ‘Street fetter’: “box. plekup will begin at t 4:30 pan, a, pen oe ee maine ee rates . mm ie AN EAGER young “try look. ‘ gd carefully at the pictures ‘of the Pathers of Confeder- atlon, all neatly. displayed on the. walls ‘ lassrodm. Then the little gal - looked them ‘over again: - * After the third search she’ ‘informed’ her’ teacher, “You |. know, Vve..looked:: and . Took. © “ed but-¥-can’t find Abraham : Lineoin,”" How. about”. “that? . .And all. the tlme we thought... ha: was. the Daady of them: . allt , OVERWHELMING. de: ‘the: _only--word'for the ‘response.’ to: Terrace Alr Cadets Photo- © Bene - Baby” Confeat.’ ; Over: “Tso: entrida: So many in: fact," te, hag: who: _Tebelved ithe: -ftletal : fh Mie: andthe of her Terrace” "> ator? (Printer; Charlie. Brown. - been moved to “May 6 at. 4 _ p.m, in the Community Cen: “tras: Heaven help the ‘Judges! SORRY. Mr. Stewart, and Mr. ‘ ‘Magdans, but we had ‘a field’ ‘day. with commas and. semi. eolons..ln © our: Arts: .and . Craft: Show. story. “So we . missed: Mre, .. Tess, -Fenger. - +. who “was. Art, : Co-ordinator, woh and: Mi. de: ‘Thompson’ who =" ” ‘was: Crafta® ‘Coordinator: Anybody. .know ,.where ‘we | ‘ean find a Comma co-ordin: plmost “slapped "Ye: Ed. into.’ a ‘pomia over: those. ‘bomimas!) -., Skeena.. Gulde Group,” Let's. * medal this -year,: olf you - are ‘on the list’ please. sive us a call. " SATURDAY, “api 20: “3 p.m. Knox United Church. _ afternoon tea, perennial and pocketbook © sale, ‘ Spongerad * by “Parents “of: the .. First: TONIGHT’S;.. the: "lhe hear, the. Sheldon: Juckten : * College ‘Centennial “Singers - from Sitke, Alaska. They” “ondary Auditorium. ‘at-8 "p.m. “A: silver “collection - will he | . WOULD. like ‘to run pictures of -all: Centennial” Pioneers.’ have’ silver — green blue oF mauve. wilt ‘drang Centennial Medal For Pioneer Woman One’ of. Terrace’ grand ‘old ladies,” Mrs. ‘Mattie Frank, has received aco icati i ant-Governor of British’ Co congratulating her on be: The official. card. from: ernment House. States, . Ve They rendered. your cauntry,. ang. {that she has called home for over, half a ‘century. - ha ve. done your’ work well, : : id Cahada ‘is the ‘tieher for your years here. . Mrs. Frank, who is Bae. ‘came to live in Chemainus with her family in 1891. when: “dhe was eight years old. ... She moved to Claxtpa Can- nery on the Skeena River, near Port Essington, . in 1803, then moved into ‘the. Kitsumkalum Valley to- make her’ home in 1908. Mrs, Frank, a. widow lives . alone in her cottagé on Lazelle Avenue with members of the family living: nearby. ; She is very ‘alert to the pro- . gress taking place in the area ‘ARS, MATTIE FRANK | at the corner of Apaley and: ‘|-torium .was decorated in Cen- be. :“a complete sitecess”” .| the “Herald Monday that ‘over aiete| Vided by. the Chordittes. An old “band Me “D ‘Page, also of Ter- oj Face. voweral Centennial Balls during he: ‘appearing: ‘at: Skeenn Sac." » taken “put at you- don't’ for Terrace’s.. . «+ Cenfenniat pioneer. da the logging. for SSS te Meeting | | lailed reports on the expansion Plans which. are scheduled to get underway. shortly, This ‘will include a $1,300,000 two-storey addition which will provide 30,000 square feet of additional floor space te improve present ‘services. Three: extraordinary resolu tions on borrowing power, |- share structure and changes in the bylaws were accepted by the membership. The new ‘share structure is based on an unlimited number of $1 shares tather than the $10 share which was previously available to members. A fifteen year service pin was presented to Jan MacKin- non and five year service pins were presented to Mrs. Eileen Arbour, Cliff Bolton, Emil Klu- kas and George Holliday. Winners of the draw prizes were. Henry Doel! who won an aluminum beat, Mrs. Molstrom. the winner of a garden tiller, Mrs. H. Gray who. won an easy chair. and Mrs Evelyn, Chayba was the winner of 100 gallons of gasoline, Large grocery ‘ham: : pers were wou by. John Olson and Harold . Smith. _ - Skeena Kraft purchased the Limited’. has timber. - rights from Hazelton Sawmills Limit-) ed for an undisclosed sum ‘fol. lowing a period of negotiation, a company said Wednesday. The timber holdings are lo- cated in the region of Hazelton and consist of approximately twenty timber sales with an annual cut of about 35,000 cunits, It is planned that local eon- tractors who have been carry- ing out the cutting -for- Hazel- ton Sawmills will continue to _Skeena spokesman Kraf t. As ite of a Fires Cs ~ _ Firefighting A-go-go - For Harried Officials’. Three grass fires, two building fires and: three. forest fires last. week have produced asmok y haze over Terrace and prompted Terrace Fire Chief Andy Owens and Dist- ‘ Late “FRIDAY MEAL “Terrace firemen . postponed thelr Friday night dinners when two separate grass fires kept them on the hop from 5:43 p.m. right ‘through the evening... | The -first blaze was "at the corner of Sparks and ~ Scott where children with matches _were believed to have been the cause of flames which licked into .tall, dry grass and bushy undergrowth. At 6:59, while men and equipment were still busy at the corner of Sparks and Scott, a second fire broke out in dry grass at the corner of Eby and Halliwetl| Children with matches were also blamed for the second outbreak. a . At 7:08-pm. on Saturday firemen were called ito the slough at the foot of : South Kalum street where tall grass was burning: out of control. Cause of the third blaze has not yet been, detérmined. i ‘SAWDUST HOPPER. Earlier in. the day: ‘ firemeri| were called to, Skeena . Forest Products. Ltd. to extinguish ‘a small blaze in a sawdust hop- per. Damage. from the fire, which ‘was spotted at 11- al., was. termed. “fairly light. ud By eerie West: "where a barn; ‘Owhed- the fire which ‘destroyed the ‘puilding has not: yet been de termined. A saddle horse kept in the ‘barn was rescued by Bobby Sheasby and a young compan- jon: The animal was slightly, dazed trom pneumonia shots re- ceived 24 hours earlier, and refused to move on ‘a normal lead. Young Sheasby summon- ed more assistance and the hoarse was pulled elear of the blaze without injury. aa CONCRETE COMPANY A garage, office, and clectri- cal storage and tool shed were rated by fire Thursday at Ter- rict Forest Ranger Orville Gorley to: urge ‘all residents of the Terrace area to ‘‘take care." : fir - DY Cie N. ‘Booth, was ablaze; Cause of ‘lGorley : told race Concrete Products Ltd. on Little's Island.’ - : The fire was altended by BO, Forestry crews as ‘it was bey- ond the boundaries of Terrace Municipality,‘ Owner of the concrete’ com- pany, Dudley G.:Little, estimat- ed losses at $6,000. He said the blaze is: believed to have start- ed from ‘a welder's. spark. Ter- volunteered ‘assistance :in -an effort to quell the blaze. OLD REMO © On Thursday afternoon for. estry freighting crews were again alerted when fire flared up on a B.C. Hydro right of way slash area near Old Remo, Hydro workmen and forestry officials brought the blaze. ur der control quickly, ..... : LARGEST BLAZE Largest fire of the weekend’ was reported ‘to forestry offi: cials by a. privale citizen. H burned over’ 45 acres of wood: ed area between ‘Highway: 25 ‘| and Oli's. Place, at Lakelse Lake: Twenty men .and two cater. pillar’ ‘tractors | ‘were ‘used tg fight the fire: which was fanned by winds up ! fo 20 iniles per hour. ’ ae The blaze. was. reported ' at aol abaitt 1 p.m. Saturday, ‘and mop os ping up stages ° ‘had’ begun b ph OFFICIALS CAUTION ; Commenting: on” the’ forest fire . danger Monday,. Ranger the Herald the 1967 spring season has been unusually ‘dry -and - that four fires have ‘been. reported so far. He said the outlook is for'some rain, ‘whieh will ease the situation. - Terrace Fire. Chief Andy Owens said, “We siriply cannot emphasize enough the dangers of burning grass. without first properly ‘Preparing for the job. Children with. Matches are also a &rave problem and’ parents should Keep a loge eye on them, o 7 , CW. Stages | | ‘First Ball | | ‘The Terrace Catholic Wo-| men’s League came up with a first Saturday evening, . when}. they staged, the first Centennial |.:' Ball of the’ year. Veritas Audi- tennial theme for the occasion and .Centennial dress was the order of ‘the day. — ‘Members - ot .the ‘CWL dance committee have termed the ball 201 and a spokesman for the group -told 80% of the: -people: attending wore. Centennial attire. ‘ CFTK's early bird, Dave Cash, was master ‘of ceremonies for the event’ and music was pro- fashioned roast ‘beef dinner was served at midnight and a-floor show followed the supper hour. Featured vocalists were Miss Jeannette. Dakin. and “Berne: dette and Paul”. . A-pattel of, three judges cam- ' prised’ ‘of: Mrs. Mary Little, Dr. “Marcelle: ‘Chizsson and Reeve |. Av Be “Beet! Goulet * awarded’ costume’ ‘prizes’ ‘to: Mr, and Mrs,’ Marcelle:: Brousseau. of. Kitimat;| "SI Miss Jean’ Johnstone. of ‘Terrace’| Ci Tt Is expécié Ps ‘there ‘wilt be A landed vat. Terrace: ‘the: -balanee of 1967, The Ter race” Centennial Committee hag Indicated the: possibility of a Mammoth: Ball’ on‘ or about July} 1y. Which, ‘is thé. ‘date selected’) celebrations; ain Centennial. F 21, They were . ve rae Oy ‘Alean 0 ) \itport; aboard. attended: :a*. smorgasbord: i ; d race. Municipal. off-duty firemen | ‘that.