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With the generally pessimistic news of heavy unemployment — and little sign of any im- Peerage fren power as red for employmen| the Terrace office one would su the im- mediate future for job seekers is bieak, indeed.

But not so!

As a matter of fact, Skeena MLA Cyril rob shortage of “epeclalized help” In just actual’ e of “s ip ust a

e—— this Summer, in fact, By “ help’ Shelford means people like carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, drywallers and constructilon industry.

And what does our MLA base this optimistic belief upon?

There r first of all, ot course, ime new Skeena Mall —a $9 million dollar project, preparation the alte for which is already underway.

There is the City’s agreement to install sewer lines for the project — a nice sum of money will be spent there — that is labour intensive, too. -

There is the new courthouse to begin, as soon as the weather permits (which it ought to soon). This should amount to two or three million

Then — the Skeena Health Centre — also given the green light, recently — another two or three million dollars there, says Cyril.

Manuel’s restaurant — plans for that call, for one thing, fora banquet room that will hold 350 people. You don’t built THAT for “peanuts”. .

And-speaking of restaurants, Gims’s has completed plans to move out of the present rented quarters into a shiny new two or three story restaurant of his own, with a full basement that he is having built as soon as weather per. mits. This will run at least to $350,000 and Gim hopes to move into it by August — so it is not just a pipe dream.

And we haven't even touched on the massive highway construction program! Three or four bridges are already underway on Highway 16 between Terrace and Rupert.

There is the work for Highway 37. Two new

~ tenders are being called on the Cranberry River _

a and the Nass. Completing the highway to Meziaden calls for over $20 million dollars to be spent by the federal and provincial governments during 1978.

That list, alone tots up to over 35 million Gollars. It does not take into account private

try input with major and minor projects.

There is the possibility of a new garage going up. Additions to the library. Improvenients to the recreation facilities (without being too specifig); ‘Anew. wholesale food ‘eompany has

portion between Kitwang

market with big plans for the future. We have not mentioned the federal and provincial government's work projects

Wehave left one hig ‘‘goodie” to the last.

For sometime now, Cyril Shelford has been promoting a government takeover of the Skoglund Hotsprings. His plan calls for the Parks Department to buy out one half of the land — and, with the backing of B.C. Developmen corporation — out of the total takeover would arise a first class recreational project similar to Banff, or Harrison Hot Springs, with top-of-the line hotel accommodations.

With Canadian Pacific having taken over

Northland Navigation and turned its attention to coastal shipping, “Why not” Shelford asks, “have them do something about the coastal passenger service?”

He forsees: cruise ships, laden with tourists, pulling into Kitimat, and being bused to the new Hotsprings resort. From there they would s a couple of days exploring the beauties and the 3} Ities of the Northwest — K’San villag

and recreation, the. lava beds, riding, boating, water , etc, . ;

Then, they would be bussed to Rupert,where they could take in the breathtaking scenery.of a hundred miles of the Skeena, and meet their cruise ship there — or — return to the cruise shi at ietimat and continue their voyage from that point, : ; At present, says Shelford (if I am interpreting

him correctly) the cruise ships only stop at Prince Rupert for a few hours — just long enough ' tomake up the beds and more or Jess have a rest stop — then they are off again — with very little benefit to the general economy of the region. If, somehow, it could be arranged for their journey to be broken at Kitimat, and bring them through the Northwest, not only would their voyage be more interesting, but we would all profit from it. It seems to make sense to us.

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— which is bound to have its steady —

taken on.12 empolyees and is eyeing the

e, RCMP stationed

FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE

Letter to Editor

“Loose” Editorial was unfair to ROMP

Dear Sir;

. Re: Your Editorial and I use the term loosely in the Feb. 23 edition.

‘You stated that Terrace is

paying to the tune of $14,500 -

week, for the services of

last

deplorable conditions and . Quarters in which the - Terrace R.C.MuPs have to work, but you sure don't hear

about it.

Perhaps the reason. you don’t receive every item on quality put it, In bocawe t it, 188

some of them are still being investigated, or plainly none of anyone's else's business. How could you take {t upon yourself to publish the of some “poor

youth” who's

was, in fact, breaking the

. Firet — the number of RCMP in Terrace. I was exprised at the number — wo I felt others might: be istereeted, A check reveals of the approximately 33-H oned in Terrace, 17 are for the acutal policing of Terrace, the ren are either" “rural detachment’ for outside the town boundaries, and for other: purposes. Terrace pays $22,000 towards the annual

P salary of each of this 17.

Terrace residents, also, of course, through their provincia] and federal in-

‘ come taxes do pay towards

the rest of the HM. Terrace's annual budget includes $530,000 towards saloriea for tho 17, plus the total salaries for the four stencs (secretaries) amounting to 1,5. Terrace also pays a contractual amount for the: com sséf telegraph, ‘telephones, stationery salaries of guards for pelsoners (ihe guards are municipal employees), ete. ‘The 1977 budget for, RCMP services for Terrace (alone) pald by Terrace amounted to $463,000. The actual building occupied as the RCMP Terrace headquarters is

_ owned by the municipality of

Terrace. The complete ‘RCMP program is worked out ona Federal-Provincial- Municipal contract basis. Terrace’a contract for RCMP services is of 5 yeara duration, The present contract began’ April 1976 and runs to 1981,

» Incidentally, a report ts handed in, monthly, by the local detachment, to the munleipality. This report - ets. mets, the number reported or wn to police, the aumber unfounded, the actual number, the number ef offences cleared by charge or otherwise, the number of adult males and

law, by your own admission. Perhaps six policement were

ed to undertake this earch. So be it. At least you know what six of them were doing that« night. I would imagine that the rest of the

_police force was either

“en sleeping or spending : cane time with their

families, as human beings are prone to do on occasion. I id hope that you don’t assume all 29 of them are on the job all the time. : Are you sure that the flag pole in front of the Municipal Hall, is the responsibility of the R.C.MLP - Perhaps that bears some looking into. Also, the week that the flag -

Canada, “if you’ recall. T: ‘wasn’t “aware that ‘the’ R.C.MLP. werenot permitted to fly at half mast in order to honour their fallen comraries. That isa the generally a practice, is it not? Maybe it isn’t in Terrace. ; .

The fact is that becausa the R.C.MP. are, by the very nature of their work, a very visible part of. our community, they are easy a ts for criti . It's too

adult females charged, the numberof juvenile mates and females charged, and the pumber not charged.

..As to the “flag pole in- eldent’'. Obviously, the writer of the letter signed “MLL. Whidden” (no eddress was given and not listed in the. Terrace-Kitimat

because you could put your editorial space to much better use. It’s also too bad that you are quick to con- demn he RC, Po without stopping to think that when something goes wrong, who do you think of first? Where . can youturn to help? number do you dial when you need -

asalatance.

‘Who are Cub Scout leaders for our sons? Who helps out with Cadets that our. sons and’ daughters belong to? Who makes it possible for your children’s bicycles to be easily identified if they are stolen? Who educates our ~ children about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse? Who inspects achool buses our

looks fot:our children wh they gét lost? Whosd. to" keep them out of trouble? ‘The list goes on ad infinitum. Conversely, who § Femembers when th a policemen, pro with directions whey they - get lost orhelpa them find-all - night gas stations or fix flat tires? Who remembers the policemen: that got a black eye ot broken nose or jeeding head, trying to stop a fight so no one else get

thootout, is a civilian man, woman, or child, — ;

. A final word — about the apelling In the editorials. I hope the writer is not foolish enough to belleve they are thé mistakes of the editor. Just as every member of the force ‘‘suffers''’ when a single member makes a.

directory) has not read‘the -mistake, so the editor also

editorial ‘of [act month, in which I commented: on the mourning for the killed RCMP. I also ran a photo on page one showing the flag at half mast. A member of the force in response to my query had told me. the flag was in thet position for that reason. What he did not. tell me however, was that it had come off its pulley — had - been that way for several days —'and remained that way for several days after burial of the tast victim. The writer also overlooked the . fact stated In last week's editorial, that I would not wish éo live under a. different system of policing than that

ofthe RCMP. Onething M.L. ~

Whidden should not forget Is that when an vidual member of the@pblic Is

has not, to my knowledge) when the innocent and defenceless victim killed ina

hostage taking Incident or

assumes responsibility for

TODAY IN HISTORY

policemen that got them to the hospital when they needed emergency treatement? Who remem- bers the policemen © who came to break the news of some tragic event affecting them, because no onecise had the guts to do it, and it’s of his job? Who remembers ‘the policemen who searched for days or weeks to find a hit-and-run. driver? Who remembers policemen who tracked down a lost hiker or volunteered 'to help when disaster struck? This List also goes on ad infinitum.

I think you would do well to find another target for your crititicism: besides the

wonder they have “nothing

to report. Also, before you next take

sean through

Webster's Collegiate Dic. tlonary and check your- spelling, grammar and punctuation. Ags usual, you're batting zero.

Your truly

that's the way it is, hurt? Who remembers the M.L Whidden.

- The Editor Replies...

everything published fh th. paper — mistakes and all. In that sense, the editor ls guilty,.of course. Keep reading, Thank your for your

eviticismas. Two other letters,

both far more critical than yours, were received. They would have been published in full — had they contained signatures. -

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‘Whaddyer mean, ‘I'll be late for work’? it's six ee o'clock in the evening.”

_| Herald gave

Terrace Job Opportunities

INSTRUCTORS, open ‘yacancies, $9.00 P

(D.0.E 4 for instructing courses auch a5 crafts,

er hr.

business, vocational and

academic general.

SENIOR AR- CHITECTURAL _§MAN, 1 DOE , 1 et be experienced oe ec

crawings, assisting specification writing general office work.

MANAGER BOOKSTORE, 1 vacancy $5-$7-hour, (D.0.E.

Must be expereinced, - mantmum of 2 years should have some buying, budgeting, planning &x- perience.

COOKS, various openings, $3.25 hour and up. Speciality cooking.

REGISTERED NUREE, 2 $7.90 per hour.

Oreeaaiced in medical-

surgical abift work; 8-4, 4-12,

DRAFT-

12-8;00.

WFITTER, 1 vacancy, No reket, $9.60 % hr. to $9:00 % for Cert. LW.A, rate,

Must be certified.

AUTO MECHANICS, various openings, $9.00-hour to $9.90 (D.0.E.)

Must be fourneyperson.

WAITER-WAITRESS, various openings with various salaries.

Should have experlenice,

In serving of Liquor.

SPEECH Petrelli vacancy, $1 “month.

Completion of Grad work in speech pathology essential. Experience -in Educational t an asset.

PUBLISHER'S ASSISTANT, 1 opening, $4.00 (D.0.E.).

Must be fast, accurate typist (40 W.p.m.) some booking, reception work, phone. .

Uniess otherwise stated Jobopportuniiles exist within Terrace Township.

Ottawa Offbeat

by Richard Jackson

Ottawa — Perhaps

the ultimate idlocy of Premier Rene Levesque's ‘French only" law has

paratint faced in

the use by Alr France of flight simulators made to Engilsh

specifications.

The sophisticated technology firm that fabricates these

made-In-English

devices for Air France works in Montreal.

And, warns Reginald Groome, president of the Montreal

sete a ts Queen Eliza will move to is denied it under Levesque's language

following 4 trail

This unique engineering firm, when it moves, will be the Royal Bank, the of Aiewaye, Birks, oF number of |

Montreal, British Airways, Birks, an enormous and likely

engineering establishments,

laws.

— unless

the CNR Hilton-operated to Toronto If the use of

Levesque backs off his “French Only" law — the Sun ‘Life, Canada’s largest insurance company and the very foundation of Montreal's rapidly shrinking corporate world.

Says

Mr. Groome of the Levesque government:

‘There is no way they can destroy or ignore the existence of the English language in Quebec because international

business works in thet Language. “And if they want to sell to the

‘reat of the world, they will

have to sell on the world’s terms and not Quebec's because the world is the buyer and Quebec the vendor.

“But E don’t think that the Levesque

accepted the reality af this fact of business life.” Tough on Rusher, you say?

When, downto a compenent:

So whettRttfie

his federal face, he'a wounding you, too.

In the pocketbook.

Government has yet

ebec loses. business -and tax revenuey:{t draws froat.ts credit With We National Treadiity as still

cae ae thi thguage iad to apie

His managers brought Sam Wakim, the new underkind Tory candidate for Don Valley East to Ottawa to sit at the

fest of the Old Master.

And from Dief, who remains the party's derused asset, to learn some of the basic treks ofthe

trade. Especially how to warm up the crowd. Warm ‘em, counsels Dief, and you've got thelr attention. Scores of Tory MPs have learned their basics, in

_ even Party President Robert Coates, from the Ol

test un- political

i Warrior.

So how does he massage the crowd to get not ite at tention but ite sympathy and support? 8 ad

o. _ He's got a million of them. Having listened to them since 1840, it can be said that Diei's bares of tat een is

bottomless. To wit:

During the 1057 camagin-when he first broke

Liberal

of

rule — Dief saw a chap running up and down the main stem of Maple Creak showing “Not Ne No! No!” over

and over agaln

The local limb of the law stopped him and asked what in

tarnation he was up to,

“I'm ane of C.D, Howe's ‘yea-men’ on holiday," back, and trotted along the street "noing’ itall sewer, tt

Then there was the the John the a leadership and atten

Ap

nothing like this ed in - Premier of Mentone

Up spoke Robert “Silent Bob’ lamented Troy from one of the Ta

Bracken.took over,

made a speech in all his years In the Commons.

“John,” he counselled Mr, Bracken, “obviously you don't

ded his first Commons caucus, ed at the uproar of the infighting, he allowed as how his caucus when he was

McGregor, the late ronto ridings who never

know the difference betweena cactus anda caucus, In the

caucws the pricks are on the inal When Dief tells it, it isn’

warming belly laugh.

CORRECTION

An account of a statement by

an earlier edition of the Terrace

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control, - According to Bob stated that onl allotment of 4 be actually

earing this

a false im Mr. Ball's views on money aut ned

by -, What he said) at that meetiog uly about $3,000 0 ra ed for the poiso |. the. rest would be used up in condu

Bobby. Ball

t naughty, just a big heart:

toler J at the meeting, Ball ig studies. merely expressed h . Mall gays he — did not originate or make the nie fects. He

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