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Shout a little louder

During an election campaign speech in December, Councillor William McRae said that Terrace should do more shouting in Victoria, that we should have a man on Victoria's doorstep pleading our case just as often as possible. .

Perhaps Councillor McRae has a point. Northern Municipalities seem to get lost in the shuffle when it comes to equitable tax sharing. Governmerit officials in Vic- toria know Terrace is here. The maps tefl them so, the liquor sales tell them so, the school taxes tell them so, and the stumpage rates tell thern $0,

All we ask is a little more acknowledge- ment of our existence. Victoria could show this with a more equitable system of school cost sharing, with a much lerger slice of the recreational pie, with a stepped-up mining development plan with some sec- ondary, industry research and albeit with a much better highways system and gen- eral upgrading of transportation facilities.

At the moment Terrace District Muni- cipality is extended to the financial limit in its efforts to see to the service needs of a fast growing community, Costs of operating our schools are budgetted so carefully that School Board officials are known as “tight squeeze artists.”

Our pioneers worked towards the day when people could reside in this section of the province, not only with pride, but with comfort and contentment. We are still working towards that same day but is it really any closer now than it was in the time of our pioneers?

The work must go

IN {TS 20TH YEAR of service, CARE is helping to feed more than 37,000,000 hungry people on four continents.

_ To victims of war and disaster, CARE brings food for survival. To victims of the ancient cycle of poverty, disease and ignor- ance, CARE brings food as a tool far build- ing progress. School lunches turn listless children into alert pupils Daily milk saves pre-school youngsters from permanent phy- sical and mental damage. Family and hos- pital meals give health and energy to the sick and undernourished of all ages. Foad- for-work projects yield economic impro- vements., ,

A recent editorial in this newspaper pointed up the merits of establishing school

- taxation Industrial zones so that commun-

ities such as Terrace and Smithers might be more equitably sanved when tax sharing time rolls around, ~ ’

The idea was offered as a solution to the problem of rising school operational costs. .

We think the ‘zoning’ idea might prove equally as effective in other areas of our economy. Recreational facilities are sadly lacking in this area and the main reason seems to be a shortage of opera- tional funds.

It is our feeling that a lot of tax money is wasted in our province. Money that might well be used to subsidize such things as arenas, libraries; community centres and cultural céntres,

For example the B.C. Centennial float in the Rose Bowl Parade at Pasadena, Cali- fornia, cost this province $30,000.

The ice plant in the skating arena that Terrace one day hopes to have, will cost just about the same amount. We wonder which is more advantageous to B.C. — a million and one faded roses or 3,000 heal- thy young people?

Yes — Councillor McRae had a point when he said we should shout louder. Sim- ply electing a man to represent us in the Provincial Government is apparently not enough — unless ‘of course he can shout louder than the other Members and com- mand the ears of a somewhat indifferent Legislature.

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Donations of farm abundance are the mainstay of this vast endeavor. The coun- tries help too: Over the years, CARE has developed Partnership Programs whereby local governments wherever possible pay all or part of the costs of bringing these foods to their needy.

But the lifeblood of CARE’s work is still the individual donor who acts out of com- passion and good will, to help others less fortunate, For millions of the hungry, the CARE donor is the only source of hope. It is the donor’s name and ceddress, pre- sent with the CARE package, that gives it warm meaning.

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PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE, and dutybound to Floyd Frank, Leon “Bud” French, Harry Smith, William McRae ’ gentlemen are pictured just prior to being officially declared members of Terrace Municipal Council in a special ceremony conducted by Magis

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A_CENTENNIAL FEATURE

Vengeance - seeking Indians, friends of a murderer who had suffered frontier justice from Hudson's Bay Company agents at Fort St. James, captured a young company clerk in 1828 and threatened to kill him. But they accepted a gift of supplies — anstead and the clerk was freed, » Thus James Douglas was spared to become the first governor of the mainland colony of British Columbia. ;

Born in British Guiana in 1803, this son of a Glasgow merchant entered the fur trade at 15 and later married a factor’s daughter of Cree descent. While serving

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SIR JAMES DOUGLAS —

as an accountant at Fort Van: couver on the Columbia River \ he rose to the committee of man*'§

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colonies were joined in 1966, he3 lived only another 11 yéars and

was buried at Victoria.

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