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TERRACE BAY NEWS Vol. I6 No. 40 October II, I973 I5¢ Per Copy P.E.O.P.L.E. by Scott Young'=- taken from the Globe & Mail I was in the provincial Government's Mowat Building on Bay Street yesterday: I4th floor, a dead end area with ordinary-looking brown paper parcels on shelves, and larger packing boxes on the floor, and a shallow but big wood -en box with a title burned into the 1id with a hot poker. This was $200,000 worth or summ- ertime work, draped around where the mailman and the express man had put it; IO weeks each out of I50 lives of a mixed bag of high school and university people in the province, who got from $80 to $II5 a week each. Somewhere on each parcel or box was an address: P.E.O.P.L.E project, Ministry of Education, Government of Ontario. .. P.E.0.P.L.E. stands for the words, Preservation and Exploration of Ontario's past - a Learning Experience. Bill Humber, project co-ordinator who goes back to environmental studies in York Univer- sity next week, picks-up one small parcel. "Just as an example," he says, "There's this kit from Jackfish ...." I. look..=A couple of boxes contain 80 color slides. There's also a tape cassette and a typed history of Jack- fish, including a four-page slide commentary. The point is, Jackfish, on the north shore of Lake Superior I6 miles from Terrace Bay, was big in the world once. The CPR steam trains that ran east and west to hold, they say, this country together, coaled-up there, and hell, everybody my age who did any travelling at all had stopped at Jackfish ... But Jackfish as it was, is no more. In a short time there will not be anybody around who can remember how it was. But now because six young people from the area made it so, continued page 2 ...... ais FREIGHT RATE REDUCTIONS "As announced by Premier William Davis, freight rate reductions in Northeastern Ontar- io will be put into effect on October I," James Jessiman, Chairman of the Ontario North- land Transportation Commission said today. Freight rates will be reduced by an average of I8 percent through a reduction of rates by. the Ontario Northland Railway and its subsid- iary, Star Transfer. The Government is work- ing with other highway carriers to see if they can participate in the reduction program. The national railways have agreed to co-oper- ate to allow the O.N.R. to cut its rates. The freight rate cuts cover a wide range - of consumer and manufactured goods such as agricultural machinery and supplies, fertiliz -ers, cattle fodder, vegetable seeds, animal . feeds, agricultural products and building mat- erials. The freight rate reductions are as follows: Rail carloads of the selected commodities, 20 percent. Non-carload (Express), I5 per- cent. Star Transfer also has a 20 percent re- duction on the selected commodities which are moved in full truckloads. For less-than- truck-load shipments, the Star Transfer reduc- tion is on a sliding scale which averages I5 percent. There is a minimum charge of 5 doll- ars from Toronto to Timmins on class I00 goods The minimum charge was 6 dollars and 48 cents previously. "The experiment of rate reductions will be watched closely during the next few months by officials of the O.N.T.C., The Ministry of Transporation and Communications, and the Min- istry of Industry and Tourism," Mr. Jessiman said. continued page 3