ap » sei oh ‘Divider of NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED , “arian ” FRASER, Publisher: ' Jom CUNNINGHAM, Editor Published every Wednesuay at ‘Terrace, British Columbia me reserves the right to edit or refuse items In the: Waekly Newspaper Ady “Member of B.C. értising Bureay; B.C. Bublication of the paper. ry Division of the "Canadian: Weekly Newipspers Association; and Audit Bureau of Circulation. Well That's 5 Over “Squeezing: the slush ton our socks, .° applying : liniment | tO, assorted bruises, shaking our heads sadly at the dents on automobiles we breathe a sigh-of relief that the mess is now clearing up. - The mess was. three feet: of snow dumped on the area fast Thursday and Friday, followed by rain which transe | formed the town into ‘a crazy ‘skating . rink, The dismal weekend saw shops clos- ed, transport stalled, meetings abendon- ed, and in some cases men out of work becouse they could not get to their jobs. Citizens will probably get mad at the people responsible for moving: the snow. In some instances they may have reason- able cause, But the majority of com- “too much too the ice, er, éast and west Ultimately - total area hos se etatet eset yet enereeagees PRE Sess plaints wera unjustified, There: was just quickly: after the rain it would have. taken an army to break up The wild weekend did underline the vulnerability of the town to winter weath- ‘At one point we were cut off on both of Highway 16, the CNR line was washed out to the east, and slides and drift blocked both train and road to the west, a better road must be con- structed with snow sheds to protect the short vulnerable section. of Highway 16. The ‘cost obviously will be high but the the economic potential to Justify tt the expense, The Council in capsule _ Nineeday old Municipal Coun- cil News will be banished from the pages of the Herald, cour- tesy of Council, The decision was made by coune cil nine days ago when the follow- ing outdated notes were scribbled by the Herald reporter, In the past the Herald has covered council meetings Tues« day nights but the Wednesday paper is actually shipped out of Terrace on the 9:30 a.m, Tues day bus, Councillor Cam Lane firstpro- posed the idea of changing the Council meeting to Monday nights for benefit of the press, . Reave J, Fred Weber and Couns cil endorsed the idea January 10, gave unanimous consent toa first reading ‘to change the by-law_| covering the mesting night, Reeve Weber also broached the idea of changing the official closing time of themeeting, Pre. sently Council is supposed to fin. ish business at 10 p.m, and may only extend the time iftwo-thirds of Council vote for it. Weber Proposed an 11 p.m. closure with ous consent required ta voli Thess alana at “meeting- covered. A Brisk two hours, with ho major ~ surprises, roeve Weber showed. more than tions from the public will now open the meetings, And later the press have an opportunity to direct questions to Councfl formally, Reeve Weber in his opening ree marks asked Councillors ineffect not to shoot from the lip. : He warned that off-the-cuff re- marks made by Councillors could be confusing if the facts weren't first checked with Municipal ad- ministration, **If you answer a question on a street comer, you must ree member that you are in effect making a statementfor Couneil, +? the Reeve sald. “IT suggest that you use ‘the municipal administration to the Councillor Cam Lane; “This is an immediate thing, " Buncombe fold Founell, Council “ngreed {0 award the ee janitorial contract for Muni. ry Serviee who bid $395 per month plus v per hour for cleaning jail cells, Hall to Terrace Janitorial High bid was made by a Kiti. mat firm which bid $1050 per month, © 2 2 Reeve Weber listed acting reeve for 1968 at the meeting, with the first term, January. | & February going tolady councillor | 9 Dorothy Norton, Other terms are: March-April, May June, fullest extent, ” Main tte af the Tuesday night’ meeting was an apparent agrees ment by the new Council to give the go.ahead to Strachan construc tion to build the Pump station on Little's Island to bring in water from the Skeena to aug- ment municipal supplies, Couneil were told to study the January 16. aon Styerehen": The other bidder, H, B, Construce tion gave an estimate of $198,. nodding. acquaintance with Ros 585. berts and his rules, which kept discussion to the point. The Reeve introduced a couple of procedural changes for Council meetings. _ Petitions and ques. Municipal engineer Hank Bune combe emphasised that the de~ cision must be made quickly bee cause the work must be done: while the water level is low, bid and make a decision Tuesday, Councillor Ey Clift; July August, Councillor Lloyd Johnstone; Sep. tember-October, Councillor Ian McAlpine; November-December, Counellior Bill McRae. e . Councillor Cam Lane called on Council to meet with Skeena MLA Dudley Little for informa- tion on the Provincial Govern. ment’s stand on building a new seer across the Skeena River,, : Constraction** wa 18° $158,475 for the water intaket’ ge wil take. Place. Janiary. - @ ws we, Counefl decided to send ad- ministrator John Pousette and ut |Councillor Ev Clift to a UBC sponsored courseonmodern traf. i planning in Kamloops Mareh |: ~ Divorce laws are medieval Changing Canada’s ~imadieval divorce laws is like trying to untangle a playiul kitten from a ball of yam. The task ig nerve-fraying be- cause of the overlappping of three distinee factors. — ‘the federal government whick must make the new laws — the provincial governments which must admin- ister them — and 2 fast-shift. ing moral and social climate which often creates the pres- sures leading to divorce, * After sampling across-section of Canadian opinion the Special | Joint Committee of the Sanate and House ‘of Commons on: Div.. orce (set up in 1966) said the sorted out somehow, But it is More intangible social problems which keep divorce reformers. up nights, . -- The mere passing of laws riages through : cheap, . quickie divorces is not enough, The needs federal-provincial mix-up can be: Speeding the burial of dead mar-’ - SERVICE business, _ Wife’ May,‘ and -thetr sen q Terrace at the end of t Jans ‘! Prior to that he was in Mr. Yoos has ten years experience in ‘the tire field, His | cd be Joining Mr. Yoon in ~ KALUM TIRE — LIMITED IS ‘PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE | THE ‘APPOINTMENT OF “WAYNE: YOos © aS manager, i. Me. Yoos. comes’ to Terrace from Prince George where he spent the past year employed in ‘the tite Quenel for for two: years, o include positive aid trom agen-. cies in every community for strengthening and rebuilding marriages, a new type of div. orce court with socially con- scious judges and lawyers, as Well as attached counselling and reconciliation services. Each province and community .| should ask itself these questions, What... programs: are .in our. schools for preparation of mar- riage and family responsibility? What recreational and other sac- ial facilities are there for heal- thy relationships? Is there ade- quate housing? What counselling services and court facilities de- signed to strengthen and rebuild marriages are available? .The public. is going.to have tc | agree to lay out money for these services — and tocooperate with: provincial andfederal agencies in order to get them, United Church Board of Evan- gelism., - e - Lendon wicked LONDON (AP) — George ‘Pin- sent, who ‘died at.76 in- Sep tember, thought London. a wicked place and left $23,520 to his wife onl cordition that she live ‘at least 90 miles from the city, Mrs, Pinsent is- living id Malmesbury, 95: miles’ away. 7 I'woré AKISS PET - GIMME BEFORE IGO . DON'T KNOW WHAT 'E SEES mm RAIN ME, AN! THAT'S A FACT ya ART BURGESS, lett, athletic: director for ¢ the project. Victoria Y.M.C.A, presents Ray Williston wit the last two of the five ‘100-mile” silver spoons | he won for his energetic centennial - Herder, nett: als tre onl, airs: bee %; “ntpied- serft rc faye: ey oa a They laughed and eve | Pre ab he ae DUK EA Pe? ond oa aséa Jato: At ight is Les C, Karagiants, mem. ' h bership services manager for the “ye fn the British Columbia capital, ca wat tial. Gite oi aah ose borat} wife ari Me ' 7 aa ha "y ven § wore as Williston ran 500 miles ’ Minister of Lands, Forests, Water Resources __ * Canada’s Centennial inspired communities, organizations, and Individuals .to initiate projects Which would prove memorable and: at the same time have ‘some lasting value, The ¥.M,C.A, naturally wanted to emphasize physical fitness and the symbol of ‘100°? suggested & unique project of encouraging individuals to’ run one hundred Miles, - The regulators got into the acti and decided that no less than one mile nor more than three miles could be recorded in any one day, Those who completed the run were awarded a suitably inseribed silver spoon for which they had already paid at the time of registration’ and the re- ceipt of-the official record card. To make matters a little more difficult, the Victoria “Y de. elded- to award a special. certi- ficate to those who completed the. run within a 0-day calen. ‘dar period, * @ As one of the directors of the Victoria “Y", I wag ene couraged, along with 40 others, to. run an opening mile: for pub. Ueity. purposes, 1 did a little _bracilsing .on the ‘sige to sure I would not collapse in front of the TV camoras, : The resulting publicity devel oped some ‘ridicule among my . ‘colleagues and the members: of " EEFECTIVE FEBRUARY, at — INNING TRACTOR’ the press, so I: decided to’ ac- cept the chailenge and prove I could complete the 100. miles. kt is & strange world at either sixthirty in the morning or tene thirty at night, I came to know |- the newspaper boys, tie men who regularly walked their dogs, and even the police; : . At the beginning, the men in blue were convinced I was run- ning away from either a robbery or some clandestine affair, As time’ wore on I became aecented as just..another eccentric, one bothered to ask me “aig 1 ' was doing it, Close observa. tion proved :I was not practising for elther the Olympics or the Boston Marathon, e @ « In due course I finished the one hundred miles — having even completed a few laps in, Prince | George, where some motorists stopped to give me a’ lift as I ran’ down’ the. road, . rules. would prevent me from recording some of their exclamas tions, even in this relaxed, age, Upen completing the require. ment for my first spoon and qilet. ing my hecklers, felt 60 well I decided to go for a ‘second hut. dred miles, . This, too, was: “sccomplished bel with even less distress and effort than anticipated, Oneofthe news. paper reporters who’ wag ‘also engaged in the run,, lan Street, faceHously. ‘suggested I run. .to Prince: George. ~ a. distance. of ‘approximately. mile; - 2 Tn:the klda “about éconiomies in transportation’ which engued | finally "jokingly, sald that I would give ikatry, Interruptions” of. one type and : another plagued the program dure ing ‘gummer aie in Ws ‘ngten'| het people as n, Des Ottawa, or Montreal woul sunderstand my~ centennlal -pros|' ject, - ae canoe trip ‘involved a}. “@uniding no running, Finally the first of December “rolled around the and -“500" goal was’ dn aight df 1 averaged’ rum ‘ning almost three my. neighbours thought Thad cont: pletely lost my senses, . However, it. did. pay off. and on. Dacember’ 27, at :the ;“Y?"; I officially ‘completed’ the run Sera Meet ca eds, ..Tho, Ja marked :507 “miles |= but ery males. no difference becaiice Tam still running anyway, * of no better. way te literary |: “five hundred Lit, =: - Doctor. Christian Bernard ‘may’ : be the mary: ‘who Ariggered im- |’ t teen tok 2] Mal lovers in shape with as Htile seh ture of time, money, and equip. ment, I can readily recommend ,such running, although “Tseldom get any converts, © My daughter, Sandy, finally agreed to run with me for company, and, after elghty-odd miles, ‘she agrees it}|-~ has done her some good. T trust no one developsa mara. thon: swim for 1968, That would! & be just too much, “To the. “editor Editor, Herald °: . The Church or Science? _ I say science, Maybe the computer would say : that the church gave us the mor-|# al strength to continue to: exist — but science was the inevit-|E able result of the hellish ignor- ance of religion. Some Who was it? Galileo?, 7 ey ‘Newton’? said. “For every. act-|— - ¥ jon there is a reaction?'* The |} pendulum ‘of time, and -human ‘6motion sivings from ‘the extreme right, then to the extreme left, i but will never. ‘stop. until. some |r extemal force is exerted Against ‘mortal liye: nee | Av Cuntman : “Like Jack Dick and go only for Jack, Checks preferred: . Pin-stripes may look good ona ‘ ‘nian, - but girls are more, tater-} 7: ested in checks Loved pets, bur | BROCKENHURST, ” England” ~ Frances Pineinay loved’ all ‘her pets dearly, but: when she dled at thet age of 68, she. loft “Indtructions that herthree donkeys,‘ threa- cats and-a pony | wore to re Nae ne feared fx. animale cared : SEE re toad patnlerety, Her i] BBL, wishes wore oa carried out, despite protests "from Hampshire ante || to pisit the Government - for. .can- celiing the “Roads to Resources" program, , card ° “elaimed’ that. abais | doning. of the road had held back “the expected growth of Terrace and the ares surrounding nw ‘ “Transport Minister “Hellyer, _| should visit us. 80 -he can. sed.at a | first hand-the great. need: which| : exists for access to. that part of B.C. which lies north of. the Nass River,”’ Howard sat sald, “Hg might be able to tell us whether the easily given com~- mitnents made by Mr, Pickers- ‘gill (Hellyer’s predecessor inthe Transport portfolio) about har- | bor development In the area are going to be lived ” p to.' ; a Howard aiso put a siidation to his invitation, “If Mr, Helle yer does come to Visit us, I Terrace NDP - elects slate The New Democratic party ‘of Terrace held its atinual meet. ing in the Terrace Hotel Wed- nesday, January 10th, ’ The annual meeting elected) the following. officers for the| coming year: president Mr..Nor- man Smith, vice - president Mr. Bert ‘Auriat, secretary Mr, Saw- ant Singh, treasurer. Mrs. Bar|: bara La Carte, The meeting also elected com. tittees to. deal with. organize-|. tions,. social activities, and hos- pital visiting. rg el _ which -ineluded -cbite |: — ptruction. ‘of a Stewart-Cassiar |, a visite eins for-the purpose pf deal. a 4 oath public's business end : ? inte the, env" the Hen tor. a Liberal: feadersti, . ae a: || The siocin MP, dettsiood the ” Liberal exclusivély-for partisan poll» a al pumposes.”.We have: ti too much ofthat already,” * Howard: -als said that Parila! ment’s. most’ pressing problem was: to’ "promote employment oD: portunities, » en ‘ bot, He: ‘pald ‘that -6.3 par ent. ithe labor’. force: an BAG, wae u une "with pie uneiploynient altuation in northwestern B,C. -la'as | as it a ever’, been’ ‘the. Ts mi i ‘ook eral government,’ aes He said he intended to “xalse the question when parlament meets January. 22 and to “put forward a:number of. suggestions tally will help o our area’ecoroniis ci o Over... "Christmas Howard visited: Port, Simpson, Kitkatla,’ Prince’ "Rupert, Terrace and Kiti« in Skeena ‘gym a new series of soccer classes’ starts’ Wednesday night: in the Skeena Secondary gymnasiiom, ‘ The classes given’ by” Glyn Bishop will be divided into a7:30 to 8:30. session for th 118 age range and from 8 a ‘for‘seniors;". i>. 3 The a op aredivicede equally in to general fitness, soccer skills and indoor soccer, * ‘ Classes start WednesdayJanue ary 17 and will continue, The purpose’ is: to promote interest :in soccer: locally and - tw. provide two teams te-play in rey wie ihe ‘Same as‘ exportitig job | & “the local soccer leagne When the Frank Howard, MP for Skeena, seadon mn beens. of told the meeting that there was a distinct possibility that a fed- eral electlon could be called by| ¢ June and in any event..would|): take place at the earliest’ -pos-| sible moment that the Liberals feel would. give them 2 good | * chance of being returned as the | 2: government, ; a Mr." Howard pointed out that |: the. the “policy. of. of the aberel Boy- ‘nd Ramet fror ane ied from | a Stoners ‘opportunities “andj was a major contributing factor to the slow down in economic activity. 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