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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1971,

_ TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. -

Terrace Retarded Childrens Association
reveived $250 from two groups this week,
Retarded Children's Association director Jack
Cook accepts $50 cheque from Mrs.: William

Preston on behalf of Terrace Whist Club and $200
from Marge Chartney on behalf of Terrace
Lapidary Club.

Forest fire season may start
earlier than expected this year
warns District Forest Ranger
Tom Harvie,

Harvie said that unless there
is some rain in the East Kalum-
Thornhill District, forest fires
could begin within the ° next
week,

B.C. Forest Services -chief
protection officer Cy Phillips
said in Victoria that the north-
eastern part of the provinte is
already drying out.

However, late spring and
heavy winter snowfalls will
keep fire hazards to'a minimum

_ for several weeks.
Forest fire season usually
Sas 6begins in May of each year, and
with it comes — stricter
regulations for open campfires.

Phillips ‘said’ that ‘’a
considerable ‘number of. last
year’s recorded 4,003 forest
fires started from abandoned
campfires. Damage was heavy.

Phillips said that
consequently: the department
must revise its campfire permit
policy to make the public more
aware of forest fire hazards.

Fire season near
- permits restricted —

all persons to whom. permits are
issued.

AS ‘in previous. years, a
general ‘suspension of all

ampfire permits may. be
imposed when fire hazards -

Teach critical stages.

‘Compiete information

regarding the new regulations |

and Wildlife. Branch . Offices,

Is available from all Canadian
Customs. Offices in B.C., Fish

tourist bureaus and travel
offices as well as Forest
Rangers and Forest Districts.

In addition, conditions-under
which campfires may be lighted

are listed on the back of each :
‘permit..

Local business... and’
professional women were told
Saturday to point ‘the way sa
other women can realize thejsr
dreams.

Former president of the. Cc.
Teachers Federation ‘Hilda.
Cryderman told a regional
conference -of the ‘Canadian:
Federation of Business and

Professional Women in Terrace.
-that the federal report on the.

Status of .Women is. the ‘first
“comprehensive document’ of
social conditions in Canada.”

She said that-we should read
this “no-nonsense” ‘report, with
shame, :

“It explodes many “myths,”
said Cryderman,

The report ‘stated “that.
currently there are 238,000 one-.
parent families in Canada, -

“Approximately 90 per cent of
these families are headed: by’
women and two-thirds of them.
exist below the proverty level,” ie
she said,

“One quarter million people’
in this nation are the, welfare’
poor. -To be poor is tobe without
enough money arid to have little
hope for better things.” -.

Miss’ Cryderman said that
poverty brings apathy and
alienation from society, as well
as a belief that whatever you do.

. depressed thirties everyone was

between the poor and not-so-
’ poor,” she said.-

, changed more in the past sixty-

will not turn out successfully,

“Poverty is a feeling that one
is powerless and deprived of the.
means of obtaining’ the most
elementary things others, take
for granted.”

Miss Crydéerman « irged
business and. professional
women to recycle their- values
and put people first. =. -

She said: that during’ the

in the same boat and by

skimping ‘they | revived . their |:

pride and selé-respect, ona
“But poverty in the midst of
affluence. widens : the rift

The quality of* life has

years thanit did in the previous
two thousand years," she said,
“As our society moved forward
our children were surrotinded
with twice as much as..their
parents had in their teens.”

World. population will double |-

within the next 27 years and
multiply five' times within the
next seventy years if left
eunchecked and. the. world
environment will not be able to
withstand the pressures of an.
unchecked Bopulation
explosion, she said.

Miss Cryderman predicted

made: to the problems that
- confront us, she said.

Copper °

“mere” meaning lake. .

that the ‘ghetto. > riot of the
sixties will be minor skirmishes
compared with ‘thase to come
because of our social problems;
will multiply as cities become
overcrowded. ©

Instant. decisions - must be

Blasting -government and
business . -developers, Miss
Cryderman noted that a 20 x 20
foot law can sustain one person
in oxygen; ‘yet we convert green
fields . into... highways,
subdivisions and parking lots.
We convert forests into and
’ green lawns into stone gardens
to save tnowing, them. ;
“We must reassess the
meaning of prosperity, progress
and economy,” she said. “It
must include the right -of
everyone to a decent
environment, .,,nat only in
scientific ‘terms but in human
terms as well.”

CENTENNIAL MEMO --
Invermere B.C. was once called
Ctiy and later’
Canterbury. The present name
is from the old English “inver”,
Meaning at the mouth of, and *

The ignition - EE
system: ‘with the fastest.
startin: boating
Only Mere.
Every Merc. |
No other outboard ignition
system measures.up to

x

’ Monday’s council |
_ Alderman Lioyd J obnstone said -

 titnder which"
should operate:

_ Commerce,” sald: Clift,

That includes teaching people to
put out their camp fires.

The new rules are the
following:

Outlets for campfire permits
have been greatly reduced.
They will include all Forest
Ranger and Forest District
Offices, The Protection Division
Office in Victoria, and only such
olher agencies as may be
required to adequately serve
the public.

Permits will be valid only
within the Forest District in
which they are issued.

The effective, term of each -
permit will ‘normally be
specified to meet the need of the
applicant. but will -not
necessarily. be for the full
season which officially extends
ta the end of October.

Any forest Service Officer has
the authority to suspend. or
cancel a permit if the holder is
in violation of the regulations,
Prosecutions can lead to fines of
from $50 to $500..

Records will be maintained of

- Chamber of Mines is ‘trying to
- promote ‘mining in the area:but ¢

_ ferent SERVICE, me

efficient’ postal’ service ‘that
Caesar's letters from’. Lon:
diniuin were det
 in-Rome within

No. grant
for Mines

errace Municipal: ‘Council
‘has refused to grant $400'to the
‘ local Chamber of Mines to cover.»
office rent'and utilities":
- Speaking’ to. the. ‘motion: cat
meeting

. it would appear that Terrace.

- deserve no more ‘special ,
cohsideration. than is- given: the -
Council of Forestry,

Alderman ;Ey.. Clift said. ‘he
_ feels that the. Chamber ‘of
‘Commerce. is.: the. ‘umbreslla

li: Andugtries”.

‘““Reqitests . should ‘some.
through -. the: ‘Chamber . ot

“he Romane established ‘gph |

elivered to Cic
24 da

.’ Thunderbolt zaps up to.
. 40,000 volts to the spark

Fastest, hottest spark of

_ Thunderbolt keeps the ae

_ pioneered Tungsten alloy. .

your: Meroury dealer.’ 'That' 's
; -where you’ nN wind, uP anywa'

Thunderbolt. The difference

is in the amount of voltage
Thunderbolt deliyers-to the
spark plugs, and how fast

it gets-there. ; ae

plugs in microseconds.

any outboard. So fast,
voltage doesn't havea
chance to. leak away. And

engine firing smooth as silk”
at all speeds from idle fo
fiat out.

Put that together with Perma
Gap:spark plugs (Merc- ©

center electrode), which are ,
designed to, last for several”
years of use, and you have”.
the best ignition: system on:
the water. oe

Ask any: ‘Mere owner. Ors 860:

‘

| Here are the Facts |
‘Read the chart below and you will see how much less your personal
ncome taxes are in British Columbia compared to'those of people with
the same i income living in the other three Western Provinces. oe

PROVINCIAL INCOME TAX CALCULATED ON YOUR BASIC INCOME TAX
AND PAID ALONG WITH YOUR FEDERAL: INCOME TAX. ,

‘Basic Ti Tex .

Provincial Portion of Your Basic Income Tax.

"600

140 -

185

British Soe
"on {ncome_ Columbla _ Alberta . Saskatchewan. Manitoba
$ 100 | $. 28 $ 33 | $- 34 .[ § 39).

1700.

420...|-.

pep]

840. fo,

120

1,400

Hilda Cryderman