“Kung Fu Is a serious form of Oriental martial arts and this was demon- strated to the multi-national audience which attended the Folkfest in Terrace Saturday.

Metric lumber measurec

Quick! What is a two by. four lumber in metric Measure?”

If you haven't a clue, you have until January 1, 1978 to find out. That date is M-Day, or Metric Day, for the construction sector in Canada when all measurements will be required in the metric system.

To assist the construction industry in easing into this system, the Department of Housing will undertake four pilot metric projects in various areas of the province, Housing Minister Hugh Curtis announced’ recently.

Four housing subdivisions ’ will be developed from

scratch using the metric measure. The raw land will be reploted with lot sizes in hectares. Servicing design plans will be in decimeter- per-meters’ scale. Specifications for storm drains, mains, underground wiring for hydro, telephone, cablevision and street lighting and new standards for pavements and road- widths will also be in the metric system.

_ Curtis said the depart- ment will also call contract tenders using metric terms and the housing units in the pilot subdivisions will be

- constructed using material having metric sizes.

The department has had discussions with the municipal councils of Ladysmith and Creston on the development of pilot metric subdivisions in these -municipalities.

- The. Ladysmith sub- division will serve as the

ICBC fraud |

During the first three months of this insurance year, 931 claims for stolen or fire damaged vehicles were opened in the Lower Mainland by the Insurance Corporation of, British Columbia.

_ “All claims of this nature are specially recorded and

carefully investigated,” Norman Bortnick, Executive Vice-President

and General Manager said. “This does not mean that all 931 claims are suspicious, of course, but our experience has” indicated thal these types of claims should be looked at carefully. As a result of our investigations 25 files have been marked as potentially fraudulent and our Special Investigation Unit is looking into the details of each one. We must| be quite certain’in our own: minds, of course, that the/ robability of fraud exists!

tore we turn a file over to: a law. enforcement agency for further investigation,”

“We think our record in defending the Autoplan

Fund from fraud is very’ 7

goad. Since September 1975 the end of May 1976, 29 fraud convictions have been obtained and a further 38 charges have been laid by

the Crown Prosecutor’s .

office,”’ Mr, Bortnick states. “This represents all

suspicious claims against

the: Fund, not just stolen

care or claims involving fire, . damage.” : ’

sewer and water,.

by time

pilot project for Vancouver Island while the initiative in Creston will be the showcase for southeast B.C.

The _ provincially-cwned Dunhill Development Corporation will designate and carry out a pilot metric project for the Lower Mainland, the minister said.

Curtis said he has invited the City of Prince George to participate in the program by allowing the fourth

roject, to serve as a earning tool for the con- struction industry in nor- thern B.C., to be located in this municipality.

“From these projects we will be able to determine

where potential problems could crop up,” Curtis said.

The minister said the department will seek the participation of all in- terested groups — labour, management, professional associations, and all levels of government — in the projects.

“We need the maximum input that we can get. We will learn by doing it together. There will be major problems with the conversion of the present system to metric, there’s no aubt about it. With these pilot projects, however, we

may be able to head some of

them off,” he said.

Provincial water check.

The implementation of a water’ quality check program to enable B.C. residents to obtain analyses -of their private water-supply

to determine its suitability”

for domestic use was jointly announced today by En- vironment Minister James Nielsen and Health Minister Rebert’' McClelland.

This riew service is_of- fered through the En- vironmental Laboratory, Water Resources Service, ‘Department of the En- vironment, 3650 Wesbrook Crescent, Vancouver.

Persons wishing to have their water supply tested should write to the above

‘address, enclosing a cheque

or money order for $5, payable to the minister of finance.

Tn return they will receive a sampling kit, made up of

LAFF of the WEEK

three bottles, a sheet _of instructions and a shipping container. Results of the test will be mailed back three ‘weeks after the samples are returned to the laboratory.

_ _ Nielsen said the service will be of con- siderahe benefit to residents in remote areas of the province or persons wishing to test water sup- plies at vacation residences,

McClelland said residents wishing assistance with interpretation of the laboratory report may contact any of the healt unit offices in the province. Staff in the regional office of the Deaprtment of En- viroanment’s Pollution Control Branch would also be available to assist: in the in the interpretation of results. ”

_ Mr. Young said. “T

. added,

THE HERALD. Wednesday, July 14, 1976, PAGE AS.

Energy explorations needed, says bank

Although prospects for proving up significant amounts of natural gas in Alberta and British Columbia have improved considerably, the on-going: Canadian supply prospect remains a matter of great concern, says the current Monthly Review of The Bank of Nova Scotia. The present indications, indeed, are that it will be impossible to meet Canada's ongoing gas demands from con- ventional sources much beyond the mid-eighties even if consumption growth were to be moderated considerably and exports cut off.

The Review underlines the country’s need for Arctic gas but does not address itself to the question of how Mackenzie Delta gas should be shipped to southern markets. Using National Energy Board supply projections and its own estimates of gas demand, the Review states ‘“‘that total Canadian requirements will shortly exceed the available supply’ from established areas even if no impediments are placed upon the movement of gas from Alberta by regulatory action or pipeline capacity’. The need for Arctic gas is urgent, not- withstanding optimistic forecasts of cutbacks in consumption growth, and of additions to reserves in conventional producing areas.

Public opinion has been slow to recognize the urgency of the situation. Yet there already are emerging signs of inadequate gas supplies. Had the Canadian economy been stronger and the weather more normal, gas would net have been available last year to meet reasonable expectations of Tequirements in the area east of Alberta. With the economic recovery now well underway, the Review says that the need for Arctic gas to sustain industrial con- sumption and exports will become clearer and- that shortages in domestic supply can be anticipated —

perhaps as early as the coming winter — in the form of cutbacks in interruptible industrial supply.

The existing facilities to transport gas from Alberta to central Canada have little spare capacity and it would appear that the Jack of assurance of a long-term supply of natural gas from either Alberta or the Arctic is currently an imposing hurdle in any major ex- pansion of these facilities. Unless this transportation investment is expanded, the growth of gas consumption in central Canada will soon be restrained Oy iasutticlent pipeline capacity.

There is still gas available in Alberta which is surplus to the province's forecast needs. Nevertheless, there seems little likelihood that the new production in Alberta will do more than safeguard Alberta’s growing consumption while allowing withdrawals from the province to be main- tained at their present levels, or a_ little higher, unti] somewhere between 1980 and 1985. In other words, significant growth in domestic consumption outside Alberta could only come with the assurance of frontier gas or (for a time) with a reduction in exports. , Shortages of natural gas have already occurred in British Columbia. In the fall of 1973 deliveries had to be reduced sharply and these cutbacks have continued, with no immediate im- provement anticipated, Asa result, B.C.'s exports have already been cut back —

and in 1975 were 24 percent .

less than the volume of the province's aythorized ex- port contracts.

In the face of emerging domestic shortages one natural reaction is to con- serve supplies by curbing exports. However, if exports of gas were stopped im- mediately, domestic demand would not sustain full production and this would have a discouraging effect on new private ex- ploration and development.

Bulkley Valley to receive forestry input

Residents of the Smithers-Bulkley Valley region will have a chance to express their concern about forest management in a “public input” program planned by the B: Forest Service.

Chief Forester E.L. (Ted) Young recently announced a public meeting will be held in Smithers on July 22 to explain how planning will be done in the one-and-a-half million acre Smithers Public Sustained Yield Unit. Any interested resident or organization will be invited to serve on a committee to represent loca] needs and interests in the planning process. _

. “The days of regarding. our forests only for timber- harvesting are long gone," y we must give seriaus con- sideration to many other factors.’ “These, he said, “included fish and wildlife, stream protection, watersheds, and recreation."”

.“While being concerned

about the value of the’

timber resource to the economy of the region,” he ‘we must also take

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; Senior Citizens — ~ Rental Accommodation ~ 3404 Kalum Street

..B.C, Housing Management Commission is taking applications for senlor citizen accommodations in a 40 unit, 3 storey apartment building with elevator at 3404 Kalum Street, Terrace. '

-.. Interested persons over age 55 may apply to M. Langley, P.O, Box 203, Terrace, Phone 635-3249, ; .- Bachelor or one bedroom units available. Successful applicants may be able to apply for rental supplements depending bn annual incomes.

BA. Housing Management Commission | J.D. Scott Area Manager *

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into account the important social and community aspects. We want the people who live and work in this area to provide us with those social guidelines.’’

At the July 22 -public meeting it is planned to form a small committee of interested citizens which over the following several months will work with the Forest Service to formulate plans for the management of those forest resources.

The meeting will be held in the Muheim Memorial Elementary school at Smithers starting at 7:30 pm. and will be co- ordinated by David Lawrie of the Forest Service Engineering Division and John Wenger, planning forester with the Prince Rupert Forest District.

If you ask for Kitchen Cabinets at Al. & Mac,

_and so very many peapte

do, you ‘are directed to Dennis &° Kelly. Dennis and Kelly are fully trained in. the art of establishing the proper layout for your home, be it an older model or brand new.. Estimates Ere drawings are 5 ailable free-of-charge and terms are available to sult your budget. Cabinets are stocked af. Al & Mac by the hun- dreds, In fact Al & Mac Is the only stocking dealer Kitchen Cabinets between Prince Rupert and Vancouver. You have to do it that way If you are to give proper service in the north and IRLY Bird marketing philosophy insists upon

-service. lt’s no wonder

Dennis & Kelly are such busy men! —

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The National Energy, Board

_ estimates that, as a result of

such a policy, potential supply would fall short of domestic demand about two years earlier than if exports continued, However, “‘such considerations serve only to reinforce the basic political inappropriateness of totally and immediately stopping exports of natural gas to a country upon which we are substantially dependent for a very large volume of

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trade, generally, and for the coal to supply electric generators and steel mills in Ontario in particular.

The Review notes that the costs = and benefits associated with shipping natural gas from the Mackenzie Delta to southera Canada are not easily compartmentalized in a regional sense. Never- theless, some regions may ultimately gain more than

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