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MONDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1971

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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

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Achievement program which is expected to get underway in the Fall. \ ; “ ‘ LOBBYING coi’ Patterson, said’ the chamber

various’ levels’ of government over items such ‘as a new Skeena ¢rossing, improvements tothe Kalum‘ River Bridge and a bridge across the Nass.

- More emphasis was put. on touriom, with” financial assistance _ from the municipality, he said.

Patterson praised the Junior Chamber of Conimerce for its fishing and tourist guide.

‘The: guide has been very instrimental in: promoting the recreational aspects of. our immediate area,’ he said.

Patterson also mentioned the chambers’ sponsoring a portion

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promotion of the municipality's paving program. ~ PROMOTION: - ‘In industrial . promotion, we answered numerous enquiries not only from ali over Canada ‘and the U.S., but from as far away as Switzerland,’ Pat- tersen reported. We are -hopeful that. our activities in this field ‘will attract more in- -dustries and businesses to Terrace,

‘There are many people who

have contributed to the success of. the chamber during the year,’ he. added. ‘It would be . difficult to mention them all, but [am particularly grateful to my two vice-presidents, Bill Milliken and Hugh McKinnon and ta our hard-working treasurer, Cliff Proceviat for the spirit and enthusiasm in which they carried out their duties."

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During Cathie’s years as publisher, The .Herald’s cir- culation grew from 400 to 4,000. And.so did the town. .

In 1966, Cathie sold the paper to Northwest Publications of Vancouver. That company also bought the Prince Rupert Daily News and a number of daily and weekly papers in the interior. She remained as publisher until 1969.

*“] décided to sell out because I was getting older~ Cathie said,”

“] felt it was time for some younger people to take over ihe paper.

"But it’s still part of me,” she added. Cathie remains a shareholder in the Herald.

. And for the past 20 years, she has been an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, As _ ublisher, Cathie was also one of the “working press” who

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“The honor, Cathie said, came to her “absolutly” by" surprise.” ““T puess I was so stunned I

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things like this,” she said. But her eyes were moist.

_ Keeping the honor a secret from Cathie was her husband, Herb: Spencer. who last year

became: “a. lifetime. Chamber:

member, himself, ‘They’ were married last year. ~ “T asked Herb what he would

_ have done if I hadn't had my

hair fixed,’ Cathie said. ‘‘He told me, ‘L think I would have told you to."” PRESENTS AWARD ' Presenting the award to Cathie was Jim MacKay, ‘‘an old friend’’ and the © new Chamber president:.”. : - Born in: Saskatchewan, Cathie . moved to Prince: Rupert with her parents in 1915.’ : While Working: at the Daily “News, shé-met Tommy Fraser, .& linotypé operator. They were ‘married -in 1936. _In 1949; the Frasers bought. ‘lhe Herald then published by Chuck Sawle at Hazelton. Cathie recalls that Sawle was ‘an ald man then. : “Theré-were two elections in 1949-federal and provincial, Et “was too;much work for him -(Sawle). We had to make up our minds Fight away (t buy)” she. Sai

paper.

"If we hadn't the door of the Herald would have closed then,” she said.

WORKED TOGETHER

Together, Cathie and Tommy with a hand press started their long association with the Herald. ‘We did everything that year-even printing the voters’ lists,” she said.

Later that year, they moved the paper to Terrace, a town with a population of about 500 in those days.

“Our first employee was John Chapman--a pressman. He worked with us until the time I sold oul..and he never missed a day,” she said. chapyan now works for Spee-dee printers in Terrace.

Cathie is proud to point out that the Herald has been published since 1908 “‘and the files are still there. There area few missing because the rats got into then, but most are still there,” shé'said.

She is also proud to be voted to “who's. who”’ and ‘2,0 Women of Achievement,’’ a book printed in England in 1969.

In addition to those honors Cathie has something else to be proud of...a lifetime mem- bership to the, Terrace and District Chamber of Com-. merce.

_ I'm very happy and very proud to have it,”’ she said.

Williston ‘99 per cent ‘sure on. Nass

. Ray Williston is extremely confident that the Nass River Bridge Crossing project will get under way in 1971, Jack Ewart saysin his report to the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce. : In fact he says he’s 99 per cent sure of its starling when weather permits” which is what Williston told Ewart, tran- sportation and communications committee chairman for the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce,.in a recent telephone conversation with him. ~ Williston, ‘minister of lands, forest and water resources, also

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Ina report to the Terrace and: District Chamber of Commerce © ‘1970 committee chairman for transportation © and’. com- munications, - Jack * Ewart, .outlined enlargements of - ‘the | ‘field of telephgne - com- ‘munications in the ertace ‘ara, | ake _ The linking . up’-b B.C. Telephone with: Hitsalt now | ‘permits three voice!:circuits, | .two telegraph channels‘ and. CBC radio programming. ..

A coln telephone Tine ‘td ,Alyansh Valley: ‘was. also completed ‘last’ “ year ~ and: arrangements are underway for a’ line to be: installed for: -the. ‘Nass Camp.

“The firat half: of a ‘total 6K: ‘penditure of $600,000 for cable . ‘construction wag:completed to - iprovide u grading. for, the, “Thornhill te lephona service: ia ® ‘This will give all Thornhill” ‘residents individual “and two. ‘Party service, he‘sald, °° ~

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told’ Ewart that at a. recent meeting with the cabinet, top priority was given to ap- propriating funds immediately for necessary materidl to build the bridge: across ithe Nass River.

A HANDSHAKE AND ATOTEM POLE are given. Arthur Laing by Stan Patterson, past president of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce. Laing, federal minister of public works,

was guest speaker at the chamber’s. annual dinner-dance Friday. He spoke of the potential of the north...Staff photo.

Chamber spent a busy year’

“Despite economic problems in this district our hospital, schools and other municipal services are being used to more than capacity.’

That was how Jim MacKay, as community affairs com- mittee ¢hairman for the Terrace Chamber of Commerce summed up his year. 4

He reported “hat projects backed by the. chamber were the limited paving program which was successfully com- pleted and the construction of the Sande Street overpass and access roads.

He added that the need for an arena is also being endorsed.

‘The principal problem facing our municipality is its lack of an adequate tax base to support all the services it is obliged to

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prepared speech. But in essence it was just another coat on the ‘same subject.

He said one of our problems is that most Canadians--84 per cent of them--live within 200 miles of the U.S. boundary.

TOO CLOSE

“And”, headded, ‘80 per cent of our gross national product is produced within 10) miles.”

But now, he said, it is time

Canada looked north and, already is beginning to develop its vast potential. _ He said Canadians must tirn from the U.S. and look to the Pacific rim nations, par- ticularly Japan“as Canada begihs ‘to efrerge with its own commerce and. identity. *

The US,, Laing’ said, ‘ is “embroiled in an Asian way spending’ $70-million annually on defense, with internal dissent, America is now con- fronted with a new world in- dustrial alignment all hungry for markets,”

- “Asia, led by Japan, now is much’ factory as nation, will shortly challenge every market- with products of the highest quality,” he said. And he added Canada, particularly, must

Nationalism, net only. in Canada-but in other parts of the world, has grown inthe past few years.

“A. fantastic increase ‘in exports by 30 per cent over the preceeding year proves that we have the things that other nations need.”

“But,” he added, “we are a growth nation.”

EYES NORTH

Laing cast eyes on the north.’

“We must expand. every

year,..we occupy seven per cent of the surface of the globe with less than one half of one per cent of its population.” - “In the matter of resources sof forests, minerals soils and energy sources, per capita of population, we are the richest “nation in the world,” Laign told the gathering.

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LAING INVISIONS RAPID GROWTH . “True north strong and free’

He cited unused potential of soil. He said mineral production is now exceeding $5-billion yearly of which 60 per cent is exported.

“We lead the world in three minerals, we are second in four and third in five."

“Mining is probably the thing we do best of all," he said. —

There’s abundant oil, natural gas...qil in the billions of barrels and gas in the trillians of feet, the minister said.

“Gur forests -of soft wood are extensive and capable of regeneration to justify a har- vest 80 per cent higher than at present.”’

Laing . said:--Canada’s “geography is net on the-nation’s) side, “it connects us naturally with the U.S.”

. SEA TOSEA

“But the nation is east to west, sea to sea.”

‘Laing said there have also been financial scandals and dishonest! practices in businesses which damage growth and the economy.

He added: ‘‘We cannot long have labor union leaders proclaiming they are on strike until demands are met and saying they shall see that no Lelse serves the public in the_ meantime.”

A number of professions, he said, are being abused.

“Weare a northern nation but young Canadians refuse to face the frontier,”’ Laing said.

He said we must erase commercial or labor tribalism and look to the notth.

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glimpse the possibilities of our

resources, Mineral production | J

‘in B.C. has gone -from $60- “million to just under a halt- -billion dollars in 30 years.’

“In 20 years,” he said, B.C.’s

forest values have quadrupled and three year's ago Vancouver harbor was a million tons behind Montreal but is today six ° million tons ahead.” ““Qur geography is surpassed-we stand belween } | the. U.S. and Alaska. We shall | occupy a ‘vital’ and regarding.;

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position of all that wealth.” he

said, referring to the Pacific Northwest. FIRST PRORLEM

“Canada’s first problem’ he said, ‘“‘is transportation—the job of getting people and things economically from hence to (hence-and suddenly, the rails and ships. with brilliant

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technology, are re-writing a traffic pattern for us.”

“Give some of your time to public affairs at some level..moral courage will soon be in a premium market.

And, Laing added, ‘This nation of ours is being beckoned to greatness. This i is no time for

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_Hespital Friday night after

being struck by a car.

The accident was on Sparks at Park and a RCMP spokesman said that the girl, Wendy Avison, was playing on the sidewalk when she ran into the path of a vehicle driven by Thomas Casey, of Terrace, said police.

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provide for residents, transients and outlying populations,”

‘MacKay said.

He added in his report that restrictions on the ‘use of the Skeena River “Watershed ‘for industrial " ‘use’ curtails development’ to a certain ex-

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a is suggested,’ MacKay ‘that the federal and provincial governments be petitioned for an industrial ineentive area established here for industries compatable with the fishing industry.’ ;

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“probably the most memorable (improvement) to all in our area was the linking up of the paving of Highway 16 in late August giving us a first elass' highway along the beautiful Skeena River.”

This was the opinion of Jack Ewart, 1970 committee chairman for transportation and communications, which he stated in his report to the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce.

He did, however, qualify. this statement by mentioning that “the year 1970 will not go down in the annals ef British Columbia history as one of great economic growth...”

Break-in

A 20 year ofa youth from the Chilliwack area was found guilty of breaking and entering offences into three local businesses when he appeared in court Friday before Judge CJ. -Norrington.

William James Leslie ‘Colés was given.a three months definite and nine months in- determinate sentence.

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