‘Sales Department ~ Mon. to Fri. 9 AM. 10.9. P.M. 7 Sat. 9 A.M. fo 4 PM no 635-2801. vey oe BOB PARKER FORD _ poker Lage eee eee v Premter"s ofttee, . _ Meterte, a. t. ; erg Trac, The eh Oy My fe Yay Nacorestrn Brith Catena TRAILER SALES. $ ED. “Your wheel estate « oo =. ] 7 Of. Skeena Forest Products EHIONG 0s 4nt4 ; iia Year No. : aS | “TaN, B.C., Sana ™ | Band - I lays for 500 ’ The Royal Fiji Military Band: “enthralled an audience of some 550 persons in Terrace Wednesday. The 36-member military band is touring the province unde the sponsorship of the British Columbia Centennial... ‘71 Committee, CP Air and local Centennial Committees. ; - As in all military -bands, discipline is the key ward. The group, who. have “averaged a performance a day since June 9 witha great deal of travellingin between, seemed” completely ~ 4 travelweary and worn .when they touched down an hour late - at Terrace airport Wednesday. Despite the fact that they had oe =—s less than two hours to freshen me. up and gel settled before their wee = =6performance at Skeena High we )6| School there was nothing am drowsy about their performance when — they appeared on stage in the school ; auditorium. Their music was also marked wee, §6=6 with the same discipline and it 1 was impiessive, being marked by keen precision. rythym and an agreeable blend of tone. LJ: Wallace, General Chairman of the British Columbia. Centennial ‘71 Committee ‘said after the first performance of;the band: in Vancouver that he was astounded by the excellence of the offering. . “IONE min cre BC, Centennial Chairman Lads Wallace greets Commander of Ri Royal Fiji miary Band ‘when they arrived in Vietoria ast “week, ‘Band "Performed to enthusiastic audience in Skeena ‘Junior Secondary School Wednesday. * bad to. worse~ It looks like the pubs should bi fairly crowded next week. weather should take a turn f for the: warse and the heavy rains begin, : The average iemperatire, 2 about three to five degrees below normal, should lie in.the 60 to 85 range during the day and drop to around 45 at night. | normally expected for this month except that the earlier, part of the month was dry. : damp cool weather in July. - Normally the first three- to four weeks of uly’ are reasonably dry with about 4.35 to40 per cent chance eof rain, raising to 50 per ‘cent during the last week, . -.. However the weatherman warns that.while a computer is J 4 mt Tight when fed exact information it is not always right about the: | weather because of unknown elements. “Tts output is a sheer. guess, he says, : Precipitation a = a trace of rains 16 inches. of rain ~ .25 inches ‘of rain | High . 73 75 67 Low 49 — 51 §2 June 7 - June 18° June 19 Weatherman forecasts ‘week phn! The weatherman says it will-be pretty wet this coming week'- with steady showers Monday through Wednesday-when the - The amount of rain recorded in n June’ to date is about ihat The long range outlook, -based on: a eomputers guess, is for . Provincial Tegislation threatens ~-teacher- tt oO. Teachers are. in’a . transition’ period because the government has taken away compulsory membership from: teachers, says John M, Chen- Wing, newly , re-elected president ofthe Skeena-Cassiar . District Teachers “Association. (SCDTA), “We must. secure our membership to prevent splinter groups from forming,” Chen- Wing said in an interview, “In ‘that case, every Tom, Dick and Harry will have .-to - bargain individually: with the board,”-- Chen-Wing, who was elected ~ tohis third term of office June 6 by a vote of 34 to 31 over. | opponent Walter. MeIntryre, says the SCDTA wants a direct vaice in policy matters. — - Currently the assocation has Membership to ng ‘direct representation in Vancouver, but is. represented jointly with Kitimat, Rupert, Queen Charlottes, and Bella Coola, Chen-Wing says ‘that he agrees with recommendations made by the B.C. Teachers Federation Task Force on boost membership in the assocation. Recently the’ task force accepted the principle inherent in the Rand formula, ‘namely, — that a person who benefits from the results of an organization's efforis should contribute to the costs involved. : According to’ BCTF’s June newsletter, the establishment of that principle as a condition of employment within school districts would, as effectively as ‘Thornhill needs fire department | _ There. is no such thing. as ~~ a minor house fires in Thornhill. ‘. Small fires usually. flare: into devastating blazes’ because. Thornhill department. . The British Columbia Forest has.“ :no ‘fire Service will offer assistance if . ‘equipment. and. men are. available but frequently ‘it Is . busy. Fighting mare reaused. fires’ in the wood: Bietybody : “exeept” ; participants - are ‘ready. for : ‘Terrace’s first-annial air show.” Art Bates, chairman, of the Even when available, ‘by the “time the forest service gathers _ its men ‘and resources a home -Inay be an inferno, - ; ._A- Terrace. fire department: - Spokesman says it cannot offer assistance in Thornhill because it is not within the municipality. - He explained that if ‘Terrace fire-fighting -“equipment’ were’ deployed ‘to fight: a fire in . Thornhill, and a blaze which ‘”. ‘erapted in Terrace destroyed a- home, the: fire. department’ | {be pimally liable to. the, shows. that many: personal financial disasters suffered by’ fi former; residents. could” have /:§ Prince’ ; “Although: ino. » major: fires have ¢ - been’ reported ‘in. Thornhill ‘recently, a check of. past fires ~€hen = automatic membership ensure - che ability of the organization to carry on programs in the interests of the. entire membership. . * One of ten recommendations - accepted by the ‘teacher’s representative assembly urge that as of September 1, 1971, every teacher employed in the public school. system of British’ Columbia be accepted ‘automatically as a member who was nat automatically accepted - ‘Wing — -ata BCTF member be required ‘to pay the BCTF an annual ” amount equal to the Federation: . and local association combined fees, in recognition of the fact that he derives financial -and professional benefits from its « services. Annual fees for BCTF: are $05 ; plus $22 a year for membership in the Skeena-Cassiar District Teachers Assocation. ” The. "Herald . invites sports groups, fraternal b any non-profit organiza Community. Calendar forthcoming events. — and_a phone number for |COMMUNITY CALENDAR ITEMS INVITED Community Calendar column.. . Activities sponsored by community service or : Items must be in writing and addressed to the editor, the Herald, Deadlines for submissions are -Friday noon for Monday’s edition and Tuesday “noon for Thursday’s edition. . Items must include time, date place of activity submissions for its odies, church groups, and tion are invited to use to publicise their further contact. _ Yellowhead | “Yellowhead gets” boost — An organization called the 16 ~~. Travel Association has replaced the Northwest British Columbia Chambers of Commerce as the’ body responsible for tourist promotion in Northern British Columbia: — _ The organization was formed at Smithers last Tuesday at a meeting of northern municipalities, districts and chambers of commeree. Recreational Minister Ken Kiernan. had requested the meeting. — Terrace was respresented by Doug Hartman, Terrace Chamber of Commerce tourism committee chairman, and Alderman Alan McAlpine. Both have been appointed pro’ tem directors until a permanent executive is elected at the Association’s annual meeting in October. Directors «© agreed at Tuesday’s meeting that the new organization. will be regional incorporated . under’ : “We will ‘hold. a: . difector’s meeting in’ the: near. future to bringin a: proposed constitution and by-laws,””. said -Hartman. | Yellowhead 16 will get cash grants from the provincial government, In 1970, under the administration of the Northwest B.C. Chambers: of Cormmerce, - only $5,000 of a possible $15,900 in such funds were used. The new: group will handle tourist. promotion | from McBride to Prince George and the-Queen Charlotte Islands. Hartman said the Association will work for better” promotion of the entire area.: : Hartman said there are now tentative committments for a total of $18,000 from regional districts and the district ‘of Terrace which has_ pledged $1200. Last year more ‘than $475 million ‘was spent in British Columbia by" travellers ‘from outside the province. ‘completed assignments and are now - Census count winding up The Dominion nose-count is in its wind- -up stage and enumerators are soaking their feet in epsom-salts baths. ‘Twenty-eight women “who have been employed as enumerators. have ‘almost ” their area _ calling back on people in hard- to-find*+ places,: says | Census Commissioner Art Bates, . ‘A quality control officer from ‘the Dominion Bureau of Statistics is.now in Terrace to edit and check a percentage of census forms to make sure they have been properly completed. . - The modern census originated in. Canada and we are still regarded abroad as a _ world leader in many aspects of - census taking. - The 1971 Census which began . dune-1, marked 100 years ‘of:*-. hational census taking and has_ been considered one of - the . biggest: peace-time operations. ‘the country has ever seen, It required 50,000. workers; ‘ specially-made ‘electronic ‘ equipment to “read”. and process millions = of questionaires, computers to ‘organize and compile the © information. Bates said that the .census-' -laking job. in Terrace and. district has been “tough. The women: --- paid on. a, per household canvas basis -- have worked hard and have done a good.jab.”- Bates said he has received more compliments than complaints about, the way the’ job has been done. The final stage of the census is a sit-down job: completed - forms are checked and boxed and shipped to Ottawa where all tabulation is made. . Bates said that the. work is going’ much: faster this’ time than it_has in previous: census. * Next stage of the work will be processing the millions of answers on tons of paper in Ottawa. The qiiestionaires will ben ‘microfilmed - and: fed’. te. FOSDIC ~ : Filrn Optical Sensing Device for ‘Imput to Computers. This . machine developed. especially ‘for census work, can “read” the filled in dots on the negative microfilm. - The magnetic tapes will ‘then be fed ‘into the .computer’s memory bank. The~ resulting millidns’ of “facts ~ about Canadians: and how they live. and work will be tallied i in large aggregate statistics: Statistics will not be. available ’ tothe public for several months. | Beauty | contest — flops: ‘The Terrace Rotary-club sponsored beauty. contest «to ‘decide the local representative ‘in the Miss PNE ‘contest* has been postponed to July 16,. - The. contest, originally * planned for, last’ Friday, was’ - postponed “because it ‘did . not ‘draw enough ‘contestants,’ said Rotary. president: Alex. Jd, Inselberg.,.. Only five: service. clubs sponsored entrants. : . Kiwanis-sponsored. alr. show. .. ‘glated for Terrace. Airport., been avolded if adequate. fire August 21-22, said anybody in, “fighting: ‘equipment ° ‘had’ been a the aeronautical field has been ailable.’ invited to parilipate e ; hen & residence. in’ Thornhill a. Bates: said he ‘has received. catches: fire its.owners can only | _ some indication of interest and. 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