THE BRITISH COLU.MBIA MARCH, ]969

RunnerP UBLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1

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Upside down weather patterns in Janu­ary and February brought these unusualconditions to the Lower M ail/land andVancouver Island. John Morris, NanaimoDistrict Superintendent, top left , challengesformidable 12-fo ot drift on the A lberni­Toti no road . Sicard blow er, broughtdown from A Ilison Pass, top right, worksthe Tofino rout e, where 25 feet of snowfell. A lberni Resident Technician RossEllis, two pictures above, inspects clearingwhere drifts average 10 feet. Meanwhile,0 1/ the Mainland, Chilliwack Distr ict washavin g its problems with heavy snow, lowtemp eratures, and high wind s. Twoscenes above, right, show Chilliwack andAgassiz areas after the Department hadopened up isolated communities. Pictures,bottom left and right, show scenes ofheavy drifting when steady 40-m ile-per­hour winds kept plugging up roads almostwith in minutes after they had been clearedby Department crews. " Big deal!" sayyou crews work ing regularly in theS almo-Creston, Hope-Princeton, andR evelstoke areas. Come on [ellas, itreally was unusua l. A total of 4 feet ofsnow fell (are your ready ?) even inVictoria!

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Pu blished Quarterly by the

British Columbia Department of HighwaysVictoria, British Columbia

Ray Baines, Executive Edi torArthur 1. Schindel, Editor

Number 1March, 1969

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THE ROAD RUN NER

Volume 6

W e have just come through a pretty severe winter, un­usually so for the L ower Mainland and Vancouver Island,where all sorts o f temperatu re and snowfa ll records werebroke n. Th e crews did a splendid job , part icul arly inareas where un precedent ed conditions were encountered,and pub lic reaction was very favou rable. Headquartersstaff say th ey ha ve never seen as m any letters praisinghigh way personn el in all parts of th e Pro vince for the win­ter work. But the crews hav e tim e for only a quick bow.Th ere are thin gs to do: let's see, there are those springbreak-up repairs, then perhaps some flooding and drainag eproblem s, after that some grading, and th en dust . . . .

W ESLEY D. B LACK, M inister.

HEADQUARTERS R.R. SECTION REPRESENTATIVESREPORTING TO FIELD EDITOR LISTE D ON THE RIGHT

Bridge-Dou glas Building Norm WharfWeiler Building .George Dougl as

Con struction .__.. .. E. C. Webster

Paving . .H. H. Sawatzky

Equipment ..__ Mrs. Edn a Paton

General Office .... ...... .. .. .. Reg Cooper

Insurance and Safety, Communications .. G. A. Cavin

Location-Dou glas Building .. R. Apple byWeiler Building 1. Fredrickson

Maintenance , Subd ivisions Access, and Land scape .. ___________________________________________________________________.. Mrs. Jean Co rless

Mate rial Test ing .. .. A. M. Brand

Personnel .10-Anne Vickers

Records and Estim ates G. S. Ripp engale

Right-of-way .. ..E. W. Pr itchard

Traffic Neil Vickers

COVER PHOTOY es, it's th e Fraser River at th e warm end, but thi s wouldn't

convince you. Ice jam near the A gassiz-R osedale Bridge dur­ing this year's record low January temperatures m ak es it lookmore lik e th e Skeena, N echako, or the Peace in Janu ary .( Photog raph by Gordon Va nce, Ch illiwack . ]

A. R. Limache r .... .. ...Victoria

Bill Ingram .. .. .. ....Victori a

lim Winton .. North Van couve r

Dave Wardell .. Burnside1. W. Morris.. . .... .. Nanaimo

M. Butler .. Courtenay

David Price .. .. British Columbia Ferries DivisionW. 1. N. Higgins North VancouverEllis Meads . Dock District

Lloyd Burgess .. New WestminsterDon Osborne .. Chilliwack

Jim Ferrier ..__..Kamloops

Edie Smith .. ...Williarns Lake

Murray Ramsay Salmon ArmM. 1. Newlands Revelstoke

Al Desimone Vernon

Fre d Evan s Kelowna

Pete Fuoco .. Penti cton1im Chenoweth ..__Merritt

Dave Roberts _.. LillooetDorothy Wilkin s Grand Forks

R. E. McKeown .. RosslandS. 1. Dixey .. Nel son

Fred Angrignon New Denver

Ir ene Labelle Cre ston

N. K. Moland er Cranbrook

Sam Caravetta .____ _ FernieJohn Edgar . Golden

Steve Sviatko .. Smithers1. C. Bar tsch Pou ce Coupe

Pat Tondevold Fort Sf. JohnHomer Good Terrace

E. A. Beaumont Prince GeorgeFred Bradley Prince George

1ack Doddridge Pr ince GeorgeR. Stephenson .. Quesnel

George Harper Vanderhoof

H. R. Walker.. .. Burn s Lake

E. Lund Prince Rupert

LI TH O G R APH E D I N CA NAD A BY A . S U T TON. Q UEEN' S P R I N TER. V ICTOR IA. B R ITI S H C OLUM B IA. 3

SOMETHING NEW FOR FOREMEN

Foreman L. G. Moore,Smithers, at the registrationdesk.

T. R. Yearsley, RegionalMechanical Superintendent,Prince George, instructing orrelating an interest ane cdote?

Some of the instructors at the Allison Pass 'foremen's school, left to right: T. J. Evans,Regional Mechanical Superintendent, Kamloops;J. A . Dennison , Senior Maintenance Engineer,Headquarters; J. H. Pankiw, District Engineer,Penticton; D. F. Martin, Regional HighwayEngineer, Nelson.

Personnel attending first group at foremen's school, A llison Pass, December 2 to 6,1968, front roll', left to right: Joe Pabin, Nell' Westminster; Robin Wright, Quesnel;Bill Bates, Parksville; Pat Hassard, Abbotsford; Percy Cutler, Rossland; Harold Bailey.Grand Fo rks. Second row, left to right: Mike Frisina, Williams Lake; Hector Gerow,Saltspring Island; George Coward, Sidney; Oscar Hogue, Gibsons; Frank Peck, PrinceGeorge; Charlie Blank, Coalmont; Don Williams, Athalmere, Back row, left to right:Carman Saporito, Revelstoke; Vic Booth, Bridge District; Pete Yells, Enderby; BobFrench, Bridge Lake; Earl McLeod, Savona; Harry Haigh, Creston; Morley Hyatt ,Kaslo; Lloyd Moore, Smithers; Ernie Schoening, Penticton; Jim Kier, Gold Bridge;Hugh Carnie, Houston.

Left to right, Mrs. Barbara Papp, Mrs. ClaraGraham, and Mrs. Nancy Richardson, thecooks at the Allison Pass Highway Establish­ment who prepared the meals for the foremenand instructors during their week-long stay atthe camp.

T he idea of a foremen' s schoo l pr ob­ably sta rted about five years ago when thePrince George Distric t foremen used tomeet for several hour s ever y Mondaynight dur ing the winter to ref resh them­selves in the three R's, to discuss cur rentoperations, and to lea rn a litt le ab out newtechn iques. The programme was receivedwith enthus iasm and seemed to fill a need.T hose invo lved tho ught it might be agoo d idea .to develop such a school forforemen of the whol e Province.

It took time and lots of work , but onDecember 3, 1968, a group of 25 fore­men, represen ting most districts in theProvince, met at Allison Pass on theHope-Princeton Highway. They were tospend a week of lectures, exercises, andinformal discussion.

Jim Dennison, Senior Maintenance En­gineer, directed the preparation of this

programme, with AlPark, Saanich DistrictSuperintendent, the co­ordinator. Along withmuch help from manyothers, the completeoperation of the De­partment was covered,

Park. with emphasis on thepart played by the foreman.

Mr. Dennison led the session off withan outline of the structure of the Depart­ment, explained some of our proceduresand policies, and in fact told them whatit was all about. Roy Gittins, DistrictEngineer, New Westminster, talked onthe functions of a foreman and trafficcontrol. Tom Yearsley, Mechanical Su­perintendent, Prince George, covered theequipment side of our operation. JohnPankiw, District Engineer, Penticton, andDon Martin, Regional Highway Engineer,Nelson, explained fundamentals of engi­neering and soils technology. The gen­eral maintenance session was taken by PatCarr, Regional Maintenance Engineer,Prince George, and Pat Dunn, District Su­perintendent, Vernon.

The final day Al Park gave the foremensomething on public relations, and BillHelmsing, District Superintendent, Mer­ritt, gave good advice on the need for,and promotion of , training programmeswithin the district crews.

Active participation by the foremenmade the programme a success. The"after work" talk and the opportunityto discuss problems with their counter­parts from other areas were useful ex­periences.

This was the first of a series of similarweek-long sessions planned for the nextfew months.

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WHAT'S NEW _ --_? Quarter CenturyClub

During the week of January 6th, a C.P.R. train was derailed near Sq uilax in theSalmon Arm High way District. The butane tank shown in the above picture exp lodedand slid do wn the hillside onto the Trans-Ca nada Highway, blocking traffic for seve raldays until the gas was com pletely burned out. Water was pumped from the lake into thetank to force all the gas out . Th e water line shows clear ly on the tank. The flame atthe upper end of the tank was small when this picture was taken as compared to theearly stage of burning.

RA Y CHAMBER­LAIN was one of therecipients of a 25-yearconti n u o u s-se r v iceaward, presented tohim by Premier W. A.C. Bennett at a lunch­eon in the Empress

Hotel on December 10, 1968. Rayjoined the Service as a junior clerk inthe Department of Pub lic Works in1943, and a short time later moved tothe Accounts Branch. He was trans­ferred to Pouce Coupe and then on toKamlops as an office manager trainee,becoming office manager at Penticton in1948. In the next five years he workedin Victo ria for a short period and wasrelief office manager for a time at bothPrince George and Revelstoke. Ray wasappointed office manager in the Equip­ment Bra nch, Victoria, his present posi­tion , in August, 1953. He and his wifeDoreen are ardent bowlers . T hey have ason 17 and a daughter 16. Ray is also akeen sports fisherman and golfer.

Larry Hiatt , Machine Operator 4 atFraser La ke , reports to work via snow­m obile. By skimming across Fraser Lakehe saves 7 miles each way.

On construction projec t near Prud­homme La ke in Prince R upert D istricton Highway 16, contractor uses a heli­copter to iii t and pile felled tim ber wherem uskeg is too deep for conventionalmethods. This projec t is being super­vised by G len R ose. It is th e first timehe licopters have been used for clearingin R egion 4.

R eceiving his 25-year continuous-serviceaward from the Honourable W . A . C.Bennett, Prime Minister, is A . Casagrande ,M ainte nance Foreman, Nanaimo District.Mr. Casagrande is presently stationed inDuncan, but during his 26 years with theDepartment he has worked in variouslocations, including Trail, Rossland, andN orth Vancouver.

* * *CECIL W. HUNTER, Road Mainte­

nance Foreman 2 at Merritt , received his25-year continuous-service award at Van­couver in December. Mr. Hunter workedwith the Department before the SecondWo rld War, when he was employed on astea dy basis in the. Merritt a rea as aG rader Operator, Labourer, and TruckDriver. F rom June' 5, 1942, to Jan uary24, 1946, he served in the Ca nadianArmed Forces overseas. Following thewar he return ed to the Department ofHighways in Me rritt , where he is stillemployed as a Road Maintenance Fore­man 2.

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PEEK INTO THE PAST

Found in th e (ill's o f the North Van COUl'er District office wasthi s ph otograph of an old gravel drier. Th e ma chin e was situatedat K elowna in the thirt ies and later trans ferred to th e Coa st .Gravel was dried in thi s machine and mixed with asphalt for patchmix material.

A tru ck-load o f seamless drawn steel pipe wh ich came aroundthe Hom in th e mid-1870 's. It came via Victoria, was tran shippedto Yale, and freighted 10 Barkervil!e by ox team s. Th e pip e wasused in Barkerville until it was dismantled and purchased by theDepartment in 1938 as good as new, with no rust , for use asculverts. Standing by is former De partment employee E. H.(Bert) A IIcock, who was General For eman at that time inQu esne l.

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A Sn owgo blower used on Grouse M ountain in th e thirt ies .It was sold to th e Kamloops D istrict for $ 1,500 and later trans­ferred to N orth Cariboo. Th e ph oto shows M echanic A rt Erwi nand Sho p Forem an Emil' Ew ing raking m'er th e ma chin e litCac he Creek from Sh op Foreman Bill Berwick and his operutor,Th e machine had a hu ge motor, but it managed only 2 miles 1'1'1'hour in heavy sno w, according to Bert A llcock, who sent in thepicture.

Scene out of the early thirties west of lIope dur ing construe­tion of th e Trans-Canada Hi ghway, th is L e R oi con crete mixeris operated by th e late George Roe (see behind th e ma chin e) ,W ork was in progress in 1932.

Y ou built your OWIl road as yo u travelled ill Jul y, 1931, alon gthe Prince Rupert Hi gh way betw een Ha zelton and Skee na Cross­ing (n o w the N orthern Tran s-Provincial High way) . Sh own inth e [oreground is th e late T om M oure, then General Forem anat Kitwanga. T om 's son Lluyd is now R oad Ma intenance Fore­man at Smithers.

Th e remains of the old Cottonwood Bridge 011 the Quesnet­Prin ce G eorge Road. The bridge was tak en 0 111 by ice in Feb­ruar y , 1935, and this picture was tak en a short tim e after th eice m elted.

S .S. Smokwa, born ill Pict ou , N ova Scotia, 1946, and originally named Scotian, wasused as a Halifax Harb our ferry . She was purchased by the Bla ck Ball Company andtow ed to the West Coast to be used Oil the Ho we Sound run, the only steamship ill servicewith British Columbia Ferr ies when she was purchased ill 1961 with th e rest of the BlackBall fleet. S.S . Smokwa lI'as used as a relief vessel for a time and then so ld in /966 tol . H . Todd & SOilS Ltd. Sh e is noll' in semi-retirem ent and used as a floatin g fish cam pat R ivers Inlet on the W est Coast.

OBITUARIES

JOHN FRANZEN, Grad all operator,Chilliwack Distr ict , died accidentally Jan ­uar y 3, 1969. John's death was a sorr owto his man y friends throughout the dis­trict.

JOHN MAGIS, Aut omotive Mechan ic,North Vanc ouve r shop, died Januar y 28thdue to illne ss. Mr. Magis was 57 andhad been- with the Dep artment since Jun e20, 1967. He leaves his wife, Ann, andtwo daug hters.

Retired Cranbrook employee STAN­LEY WILLISSON, 58, died January 14th.Stan started empl oyment with the De­partment Jul y 3, 1946, and retired in 1966because of ill health . He is survived byhis wife , Lucy, five children and sevengrandchildren.

CAPT. WILLIAM MURRAY, Masterof the M.V. Qu een o f Prin ce Rupert , diedrecently. Born in Scotland in 19 I2, heworked for Northl and Na vigation beforehe joined the British Columbia Fe rr iesas Second Officer in 1965.

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SAFETY AWARDS, INFORMATION, RALLIES

The Honourable W. A . C. Bennett,Prime Minister, presenting a " m illionman-ltour " award of merit to F. A. Mac­Lean, Assistant Deputy Minister, forRe gion Z's achievement in working a six­month period without d compensable acci­dent .

The Pouce Coupe Shop Crew was recently presented with a gold award for 128,126

hours without a time-loss accident. The award was presented at a dinner gathering illPOlice Coupe. Left to right, standing: Ben Anderson, Mel Empson, John Rutct.ynski,Tom Scheck, Walter Dalby, Jim Steven , Tom Yearsley, Herb Lexa, Stan Davies, A.Schuman. Seated: Ross Robertson, Walt Haddow, Birger Bragg, John Adama, GodfreyPowell, Bob Tauffenbach, and Mike Kennedy .

So You Want to Save TimeWant to save 28 minutes in a 1,000-mile motor trip? It's easy but you may have

to take a few chances, use your brakes a lot more ofte n and use more gas.

It's a little risky and expe nsive, but what's a risk or two if you can save 2.8 minu tesevery 100 miles .

A recent test in Europe showed how it can be done.

A tire maker and a precision-instrument manufacturer in West Germ an y carried outthis test.

Two identical cars were fitted with instrument s tha t registered every detai l of a tr ipof almost 1,000 miles fro m Hamburg to the Italian Rivier a. More th an half the distancewas covered over expressway ro utes.

One driver was told to make the best tim e he could, to pass whenever it was safeand to take the bends at maximum speed .

The second driver was instructed to take things easy, to avoid any risk and to moveonly as the traffic flow permitted.

Aft er almos t 1,000 miles the hard-working speed demon finished 28 minut es aheadof the relaxed dr iver.

Ta king every adva ntage, he averaged less than 50 miles per hour. He was behindthe wheel 20 hours and 20 minutes, and used h is brakes 1,339 times, includi ng fouremergency stops. H e passed 2,004 other cars a nd was passed by only 13.

The slow driver brake d only 652 times, had no emergency stops, passed 645 othercars, and was passed 142 times. His driving time was 20 hours and 48 minutes.

Ques tioni ng the accu racy of th e experim ent, West Germany's biggest automob ile clubconducted its own test-an 800-mile ru n from Co logne to the Italian Alps.

The fast car too k 16 hour s and 52 minutes. The slower ca r took 2 1 minut es longer.

In the first test the fast driver risked his life in sever al eme rgency stops, passed threetimes as many cars, braked twice as ofte n, used 10 more gallons of gas, punished histires, suspension, brakes, and motor more severely.

But he did save that 28 mi nutes.

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Four D ist ricts AchieveZe ro Acc ident Frequency

Rates in 1968Two trophy winners in their respective

regions and two othe r in Region 2 had 0.0acciden t freque ncy ra tes in 1968.

The safety troph y is presented annuallyto the distric t in each region with thelowest accide nt frequency rate during thecalendar year. The winners for 1968were: Frequency

RateRegion I-Chilliwack 5.2Region 2-Penticton 0.0Regio n 3-Grand Fo rks 0.0Region 4- Burns Lake 5.6

Specia l mention must also go to em-ployees in Revelstoke and Will iams LakeDistr icts who maintain ed a 0.0 frequencyrate throughout th e yea r.

Region 2 has achieved an outstandingrecord by winning the Honour able theMinister 's trophy for the third consecu­tive year. This trophy is awarded an­nually to the region with the lowest fre­quency rate in the Prov ince.

The Department's over-all frequencyrate was 16.8 in 1968, as compared to42.3 in 1964, when reco rds com menced .This reduced frequency represents a re­duction of over 200 time-l oss accide ntsannually.

All employees of the Department haveparticipated in the improved accident rec­ord, and this is reflected in the 146 BritishCo lumbia Safe ty Cou ncil awards of meritearned by the Departme nt in 1968 andthe 453 awards earned since the Depart­ment en tered the award programme.

Th e Hon ourable W esley D . Black , Minister, recently pre­sented a silver safe ty award and a go ld safety award to H. H .Sawatzk y of the Paving Bran ch for its achi evem ent , includinguni versity student s em ployed during the sum me r m onths, Pulvi­mix Crews and th e Seal-coat Crews, in working 418,2 92 hourswitho ut a tim e-loss accident . L eft to right are A /Ian Ma cgill ivray,John K err, the Senior Pavin g Engineer; Mr. Black , Mr. Sawatzk y,and Orlando Ti sot.

Qu esnel D istr ict Bridge Crew receiving from R egional Mainte­nan ce En gineer P. J. Carr a gold-on-gold safety award at a safe tyrally held at the Quesne l Prov incial Building in Janu arv afterworking over 73 ,000 hours with out a tim e-loss accident . L eft toright : R . W . M cL arry , F. A . Sawmon, W. D . Gla ssford, Mr.Carr, B. A . L ilien weiss, L . B. G radnitzer . Mi ssing from the photowas H. J. Dwinnell ,

Th e Vanderhoof Gara ge Cre w received a sil ver award of meritfor 84 ,000 accident-free man-hours from January , 1964, to Sep­tember, 1968. Cr ew members are , left to right: M. J . Riggins,D . Reddecopp, Foreman John Sm ith , J . A . Ma cD onald, J . P.Palm er, and W. C. Mitchell.

Silver-on -gold and bron ze-on -gold safety awards were pre­sente d to G eorge Dragon, Drilling Supe rintendent, by Assistan tDeputy Minister F. A . Mucl.ean for th e Dr illin g Section erell'sof th e Materials Bran ch , whi ch ha ve now worked 130.000 " OU I'.\'

since May , 1966, with out a tim e-loss accident . L eft to right :Lome Johnston , Exploration Engin eer; Tom R eid, Mr . Mucl.ean,and G eorge Dra gon. A bsent was E. E. R eadsha w, Senior Ma te­rials Engin eer, away at a com puter course ,

The Regional Electrical Crew recently were present ed with agold safety award by th e N orth Vancou ver R egional High wayEngineer, M . G . Elston. Left to right , back ro w: Larry Barkley ,R on Rhode, Qu ent M ethot , D ennis Hall, JO/Ill Hutchinson , R onKristofj. Second row: Egon Willig , R oy Harr is, Assistant Fore­man Ray R eek ie, K eith Y oun g, Safety R epr esent ati ve Bob Barry ,Carl G oodman, Gunnar M erit , Jim Cummings, Fred Liden , EI('c­trial! Foreman Herb Gutteridgc. Front row: Joh n Furt ak , TomM yers, Pat Vandrishe , Menno Schmidt , Don Manlov e. M issingfrom th e photograph: Lawren ce Orbin .

S. 1. Sviatko, Distri ct Superintendent , Smithers, received bronze­on-gold award from P. L Carr, Region al Ma inten ance Engineer,Prince George. The Smithers Highway District cr ews since Jun e23, 1966, accumulated 360,163 man-hou rs without a time-lossaccident to Augu st 31, 1968.

Ral ph Dupas, Road Maintenance Fo reman, New Hazelton ,received silver-on-gold award from P. J. Ca rr, Regional Maint e­nance Engineer, Prince George . The New Hazelton Road Crewsince Ja nuary 19, 1963, accumulated 237,15 2 man-h ours withou ta time -loss accident to April 30, 1968.

Lloyd Moore, Road Maintenance Foreman , Smithers, was pre­sented with a gold award from P. J. Carr, Regional MaintenanceEngineer, Pri nce George. The Smithers Ro ad Crew since Octo­ber 2 1, 1965, accumulated 162,805 man-hours without a time-lossaccident to April 30, 1968.

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"EXTRACURRICULAR" ACTIVITIES

Winner of the Honourable W. R. May­hew Bowling Trophy was a Departmentof Highways team with a total pinfall of5,943. Players were Bill Ingram, WayneBallard, Hilda Dewar, Jim Holmes, andGeorge Wagg.

The second-place Woodward Trophywas won by the Department of Finance.

Third-place British Columbia Govern­ment Employees Trophy was also won bya Department of Highways team with atotal pinfall of 5,849. The team consistedof Jim Cambray, Bob Standen, MonicaDay, Cam Porteous, and George Mussel­

white.Hilda Dewar won

the ladies' high singlewith 289, and CliffParker, member of athird Highways De­partment team, wonthe men's high singlewith 335.

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Bowlers Top 45 Teams

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Vancouver Area EmployeesSupport 1968 C.S.F. CampaignDepartment emp loyees in the Vancouver area have again

shown their conce rn for the less fortunate and have fully sup­ported the 1968 campaign of the British Columbia Gove rn­ment Employees Community Services Fund. Pledges are upa whopping 13 \12 per cent over 1967!

Credit goes to all who participated. Team captains wereGerry Barber, Vic Booth, Jack Brown, Bill Carruthers, IrvingGoundrey, Herb Gulteridge, Bill Higgins, Kenneth Johnson,Adam Kloster, Willard Kreitz, John Lord, Don Masson, JohnMontador, Dennis Peet, Art Schindel, Ed Turner, and JohnWaring.

Harry Lay, Assistant Mechanic, Kam/oops Garage, has beenbuilding ship models as a hobby for the past 16 years. He buildsthem mainly from pictures, and all parts are shaped with handtools. He has built sel'en models and won a third prize in 1949and a first prize in 1958, both at the Pacific National ExhibitionHobby Show.

Stan Newcombe, a Truck Driver on thePort Clements Road Crew, has won anaward for excellence in weather observingand reporting during 1968. He is a vol­untary weather observer on the QueenCharlotte Islands and received one of 25awards given out across Canada. Inrecognition of his work he will receivean inscribed wall barometer.

Winner over 45 British Columbia Gov­ernment teams in Victoria was this High­ways Department quintet . Standing, lejtto right : Bill Ingram, Hilda Dewar, andWayne Ballard. Seated are George Wagg,lejt, and Jim Holmes.

Christmas is long gone but the abovepicture merits space. The Departmentsof Public Works and Highways combinedto decorate part of the area in front ofthe Kamloops Garage in the light-up forChristmas campaign sponsored by theKamloops Shrine Club. The display wonthe institutional display trophy for 1968.

Familiar face in the Kevin Smale rink from Prince George,British Columbia curling champions for 1969, is, top left, P. J.

(Pat) Carr, Regional Maintenance Engineer in Prince George .Pat, who plays second and has been an ardent curler for manyyears, helped the rink come second in the Canadian CurlingChampionships in Oshawa, Ont ., with a 9-1 record. The othermembers of the rink are, top right, Bob Mclronald, lead; bottomleft, Kevin Smale, skip; and Pete Sherba, third.

Gordon Harford, Road MaintenanceForeman in Quesnel, recently spent fourweeks in Australia and New Zealand.En route Gordon also visited the FijiIslands. When he left Aus tralia the tem­perature was 102 degrees in Sydney­when he arrived home in Quesnel it was50 degrees below zero.

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In December, 1968, JOHN 1. JANZ EN ,Labourer, retired from the Abb otsfordRo ad Cr ew. He had been with the De­partment since 1954. The Abbotsfordcrew present ed John with a large barom­eter as a ret irem ent gift. His main hobbywas pain ting, and on his last day of workhe pr esented the Abbotsford foreman andhis crew with a pa inting to han g in theiroffice.

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JAC K LAWRENCEhas retire d after 21'12years of service withthe Department atGrand Forks. Jackca me to Gra nd Forksin 1925. In 1939 Jackwas among the first in

the town to enli st, joining the RoyalCanadian Artillery in September, andarriving in England on December 17.1939. He served in England and inContinental Europe un til his fina l dis­charge Au gust, 1945. He joined the De­partment in 1947, and has been a Gr aderOperat or for a number of years. BothJack and his wife , Evelyn. are keenl y in­tere sted in ama teur theatre, and Jack hasserved as chairman of the Boy ScoutCommittee and as president of the Dis­trict Fall Fair. He enjoys hunting, pho­tography, and refinishing old furn iture.A son, Robert . is with the Region 3Location Crew. An elder son and hisfami ly live in Australia , and a marrieddaughter and her family reside in Edm on­ton.

On O ct ober 4thf e ll o w worke r s andf riend s gathered inRo s sl and to honourROY TIPPING andTHOMAS COWLI NGupon their retirementfr om the Depart ment. ---:ripPing.

Roy conclud ed 16 yea rs of service asRoad Foreman 2 in Castlegar, duringwhich man y improve ments were made tothe highway system in his area . Tom myCo wling retired after serving as a Bridge­man 2 in Rossland since 1953. It is ap­propri ate that a joint farew ell part y wasarranged, since they had joined the De­

partment a t about thesame time a n d h adworked togeth er forsevera l years in priv atebusiness. Tommy, be­ing an ardent fisher ­man , was pre sentedwith fishing tackl e, andRoy received a desk

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Bruno A . Lilienweiss. Bridgeman J.Qu esnel, has retir ed af ter six ye ars of ser­vice with th e Distr ict Bridge Crew. BrunoW(/s present ed with a gift from Distr ictEnginee r D . G . Johnson on behalf of hisIII(/ny friends.

STANLEY E. ISBERG, Senior Fore­man at Fort St. John for the past fiveyears, recently tr ansferred to the Depart­ment of Highw ays, Princeton. As SeniorForeman, he took an active part in theman y district projects, such as the FortNel son Brid ge and access con struction,road development for the Briti sh Colum­bia Hydro at the Benn ett Dam , and theheav y district day-labour programme of1968 .

G ERRY GOU L D ,Right -of - way A g en t,t r a n s f e r r e d to t h eSmithers Right-of-wa yO ff ice fro m N o r t hVancouver on JanuaryI, 1969. Ge rry com­menced with the De­

pa rt ment May 10, 1948, and has served inKaml oops and Victoria un til his transferto North Vancouver on July I, 1968.Married with one son, the Goulds arelooking forw ard to their tenure in thenorth.

TOM AARTS, Engi­neering Aide 2, Nan ai­mo, was transferred toPort Alberni and re­classified to Engineer­ing Aide 3. He ar­rived just b ef 0 r e thebig snows did a n dfound himself a very busy job keepingcheck on the Alberni-Tofino Highway,where 25 feet of snow fell.

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GORDON A. EAKIN has won throughcompetiti on the position of Heavy DutyMechanic at Fort St. John. Gordonsta rted with the Department in 1967 inCra nbrook as an Auto Mechanic and waspromoted to Auto Mech anic (Cert .) inApril , 1968. Gordon is married and hasthr ee children . His hobbies a re campingand fishing.

HENRY H. MEER­MAN recently wonthrough compet itionthe position of Assis­tant Shop Foreman atPouce Coupe. Henryworked in the Fort St.John shop for 61;2

years prior to his promotion. He , hiswife, Yvonne, and their three children arenow settled in Dawson Creek.

AL WALIS5ER, awell -known projectcon struction engineerin Region I, was re­cently ap pointed to theposition of Bridge Dis­trict Engineer in NorthVancouver. AI's new

respon sibilit ies include the care of all themajor brid ges in the Lower Mainland, aswell as the George Masse y Tu nnel andsections of the freeway. A V .B.C. grad­uate, Al spent 141;2 years with the Con­struction Branch on major projects. Hishobbies are boating, hunting, and build­ing.

RA Y REEKIE re­cently won throughcompetition the posi ­tion of Assistant Re­gion al Foreman Elec­trician for Region I.Ray work ed for theBrid ge District as anelectrician maintaining the Ma ssey Tunnel( forme rly De as), Oak Street Bridge , andMor ay Cha nnel Bridge . Pri or to enter­ing the Serv ice in 1958, he worked on theelectrica l install ations of the De as Tunnel.

W. R. KIMBLE, Mechanical Foreman2, transferred to the Willi am s Lake High­ways District from Prince Rupert afterwinning the position of Mechanical Fore­man 3 there, February 1st.

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ABOUT PEOPLE

BROCK H ILLIA RDis an E ngineering Aidein the Doc k Di stric toffice, New Westmin­ster. He comes fromPort Alberni; his inter­ests are baseba ll andbas ketball (h e p Ia y s

forward for the C.Y,O. Saints ) .

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A ble Seam an GEO .VILLENEUVE, Q uar­termaster, M .V . Queenof Vi ctoria . Geor gehas been with th e Brit­ish Columbia Ferriesjust ove r a year. H etransferred from th e

ship movements crew to the Qu een ofVictoria a sho rt time ago.

W. C . T HOMSONg ra d ua te d fro m theUnive rsi ty of Briti s hC olumbia , ea r n i ng aB.A .Sc. in ci vil engi­nee ring in 1951. Heimm ediat ely began em­plo yment wi th the De­

partmen t in th e Design Secti on of theBri dge Bran ch . W alt has also wo rked o nbr idge co nstruc tio n as a R esident E ng i­neer man y time s, a nd in th e summer of1968 he w as tr an sferred to Bridge Con­struc tion Bran ch as an assista nt to th eBr idge Constr uc tion En gin eer. Walt co m­pl eted Pu bli c Admi nist ra tion C ou rse in1966. He is m ar ried and has two chi ld re n.

C. B. (DON) FOW­LER is a D raught s­m an 3 in the Doc kD is t ri c t , New West­min s ter . P reviouslyD on was in the C ana­dia n Forces a t Vancou­ver a nd C hilliwack . Henow lives in C oquitlam, is married, andhas three boys and two girls. H is inter­ests include cur ling and sco uting.

DON F. EFTO DA.Equipment Br anchS to ckm an, Victoria .or i gin ally jo ined th eServi ce in M arch ,1957, as an En gineer­ing Aide a t New D en ­ver, t r an s fer rin g toVicto ri a in 196 2. D on 's duti es inc lu deass isting th e O ffice Man ager. m ak ing res­e rva tions for pool car s, and see ing thatabout 3,500 sets of licen ce-pl a tes reachth eir dest inat ion before ex piry of p resentlicen ce-yea r.

H ECTOR MAC­L EOD, Di st rict Tech­nici an , N an aimo, waskept bu sy this wintervi siting the Gulf Is­lands, which experi­enced s e v e r e wintercondition s thi s ye ar

with the de epest snows ever encounteredin this area.

W . A. BOWMAN,B r id ge C on st ruct ionEn gin eer, g ra d u a te dfrom the Universit y ofMan itoba in 1942 witha B.A.S c. in c ivi l en gi­neering, th en spe nt 3V:!yea r s with th e R oyal

Cana dian E ng ineers, wh ich incl ud ed ser­vice in N orthwest Europe . F rom 194 6to 194 9 he wo rked for C . D . How e Con­su lt ing Enginee rs in Po rt A rt hur and Van ­co uve r. He joi ned th e Brid ge Branch in194 9 a nd was appoi nted Brid ge Cons truc­tion Enginee r in 196 0. Bill co m pleted th ePubl ic Adm ini st rat ion Course in 1962.He is married and has four children .

MAYNELL PAT ­TERSON, Clerk 3, inthe Nanaimo office ,took well to the lon gs n o w and ice condi­tions on Van co uver Is­land. M aynell did alot of her driving inEdmonton, Alberta.

MISS JUDY JEW­ELL recently joinedt h e reg i o n a I sta ff a tKamloops as a Cl er k­T ypist. She formerl ywo rked i n the officeduring the summer of1966 while attending

college. Her hobbies include sewing andpainting.

N . G . WHARF be­gan employment withth e British ColumbiaForest Service in 1938.T his service was int er­r u p t e d from 1939 to1946, when he se rve dwith the Army and theR .C.A.F., includin g se rvice in N orthwestEurope. N orm agai n left the Ci vil Ser­vice in 1955 , reco mme nci ng with the D e­pa rtment of H igh wa ys in 1956 in his pres­ent cap acit y. H e is m ar ried and has tw och ild re n.

LEN JOHNSON .Sen ior B rid g e DesignEngineer, a nat ive Vic­torian. joined the De ­partment fo II ow i n ggra dua t io n from th eUnive rsity of B r i t i shColumbia in 194 6. He

spe nt the next few years de signing bridges.and in 1952 was tr an sfe rred to th e fieldas a Bridge Construc tio n Resident E ngi­neer. Later Len returned to th e bridgeoffice , wh ere he has re ma ined until h isrecent a ppo intme nt as Brid ge Design E n­ginee r. He is a past ch airman of th eVictoria Bran ch of the En gin eer ing In st i­tute of Cana da , a nd presentl y is servingon a cont inuing education committee fo rprofession al engineers under the jointsponso rs hip of the Engineering In stituteof C an ad a and the A ssociati on of Profes­sio na l Engineers of British Columbia.His ho bbies are badminton, woodworking,and fishin g.

F . F. (F R ED) DEGU G LJ E L M O isC lerk 4 in Kamloop sD i s t r i c t o ffice. Freds ta r te d with the D e­p ar tm ent in M arch.1960. in Nelson, as aRad io Op e r ator andhas wo rked through various office po si­tion s to his present one. H is hobbies a revaried and include gun collect ing. If any ­o ne has a ny old guns, he wishes to en­large hi s collection.

1. W . (JOHN)CHAU HAM, Engi ­neering Aide with th eMaterials Te stingBranch in Kamloops.He arrived in C an ad ain M a y, 1962, fromIndia and joined the

Dep artment in 1965 . H e has attendedtwo world Boy Scout jamborees and h asa lso tr av elled a ro und the world threetimes. He is married and has two chil­dren . H is hobbies include world tr av el ,scou ting , and soci al work.

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F. E. WITTIG re-cently won the Sw anPrize f r o m the A sso­ciation of ProfessionalEngineers, by ach iev­ing the hi ghest avera gemarks for the final pro­fessional e x a m s. Hejo ined the Department of H ighwa ys in1956 and terminated in 1966 to join C o­lumbi a Bitulithic Limited. A ll of Fred 'sfriends in the Department an d particularlythose in the Pav ing Branch wish him wellin hi s new venture .

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North Vancouver District CrewsClear Squamish Highway Slides

On Thursday, February 13th, a rock-slide occurred on the Ga ribald i Highway, 12mi les north of Horseshoe Bay , bringi ng down roc k and debr is onto the highway. High wayCrews under the direction of Senior Road Forema n Ed Tu rner and Constr uction ForemanBert Melsness worked long hou rs blasting the rock and clearing the roadway. Tr affic flowwas further delayed by another slide 14 miles north of Ho rseshoe Bay on Mo nday , Febru­ar y 17th, until Wednesday, February 19th , wh en the roa d was again open to the public .Mechanica l stra in gauges, whic h measur e the slightest movement in the rock face, hav ebeen inst alled an d will help to inform the Depa rtment of any fur ther movement whichmay take place.

W EDDINGS

K elly Squ ires and Irene Forsyth e werem arried at th e United Church in Smith ers,N ovem ber 9, 1968 . K elly works as {/II

A ssistant M echanic in th e Sm ithers Ga ­rage.

The daily press was intrigued recently by our use of a rock noise listenin g device afterrecent rock-fall at Port eau Blu ffs on th e H orshoe Bay-Squamish Hi ghway when tests weremade for poss ible fu rth er failures. Here th e equipm ent is displa yed by tw o of the De part­m ent's bette r-loo king Engin eering A ides, Mr s. Judy White, left, and M rs. A rlene Dra per,both L aborat ory T echnicians in the Materials T estin g Bran ch at Victo ria . Geophonesinsert ed in deep drill holes pick up sound sim ilar to frying bacon if there is mo vem ent .By readin g th e int ensity and frequ ency of these sounds, ex perts can tell if m ovem ent islik ely to develop into slide.

IDEA CORNER

A wedding of interes t took place onDecem ber 28, 1968, ill Vic toria, whenJo-A nile L. Tre mb ley, of th e Person nelOffice , and D . Ne il Vickers, of th e TrafficBranch, were married . A Deportmentalpresentation was made by the JJonourab leW . D . Black in his office Decem ber 19th.Th e Traffic Branch also prese nted th e cou­ple with a gift.

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A sign suppo rt fab ricated by the FernieS ho p is proving successful in th e heavysno w area betw een Elko and Crowsnest.Th e su pport is adjustable vert ically andhorizontally to conform to winter andsummer conditions.

Ed Turner, R oad Maintenance Fore­man, N orth Van cou ver, surveys clearin gof th e Squamish Highway slide from th etop of th e slide looking north.

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On e of th e first bridges to be built inth e Fort St. John District is currently he­ing strengthened at th e centre pier withfo rm of steel Il-piling and construc tionof an ice-breaker . Temperatures in th e40-degrees- below range ha ve been en­cou ntered during th is project.

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G old R iver Maintenan ce Crew had its collec­tive hands full this ye ar with snow-removal prob­lem s. Sh own dur ing the operation are, left toright , Stan Summers, R oger Winkler, Bill King,Foreman, and D oug K enn edy .

Dale Cooper, Maint enan ce Fore­man, Lak e Cowiclian, experiencedanoth er heavy snowjull thi s wint er.Dale was off work for sonic timewith a SCI 'ere /lu condition. T cm­pcruturcs were down neal' zero fo ra length y period at Lake Cowichu n,and Dale is I /O II' face d with [rostdam age to th e pavement,

Fort St . John D istri ct day-la bour proj­ect, west of the Halfway R iver on R out eN o. 29, was com pleted in tim e for theChristmas holiday. At that time, con­struct ion crews had been contending withonly th e normal weather conditions and aminor slide , seen in the foreground.

Able Seaman Walter H olland seen herewashin g th e bridge paint, a daily taskaboard British Columbia Ferries vessels.Walter was formerly with th e R.C.N.

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Bridge Foreman Om er Pederson , ofVanderh oo f, replacing asp/wit tile on th eNechuko Bridge near Fort Fraser on/I igliway 16. Fi ft y - degrees - below - zeroweather created a high failure rate for th etile decking.

A Ibert E vans, M aintenance Foreman /at N anaimo, had lots of practice correct­ing ice conditions . A lbert says he doesnot mind th e salting operatio n, but it istoo m uch when a carload of salt freezesand has to be broken by pick to get it out.

Har ry Da wes, left , and Joe Beaumcl,Nunaim o District , mixing cem ent forcatch basins. llarry missed his hobb y offishing during cold wealher bill took upfishing th rough holes in th e ice O/ ! th elak es, an IIII U.II Ul I procedur e fo r Vuncou­I'er Island .

Ra y Gould, Bulldozer Operator, right ,at th e contro ls of his m achin e with /I arbGr ewal, Engin eering Aide 3, discussin gsnow-ploughing in th e Gr een M ountainarea. Sn ow in that area was extreme lyheavy and kept Ra y and Harb and a num­bel' of hired units very busy,

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A Paving Branch train ing course in laboratory work was held inKamloops, February 3rd 10 71h, inclusive. In order to demon­strate the laboratory work, the co urse was held in th e Re gion 2paving laboratory in Kamloops. Here working the mathematicalpari of the course are Dudley Paul, Pulvimix Foreman; DavidGeernaert, Grader Operator on one of th e pulvimix crell's ; andPaul Savenko, Pulvimix Foreman.

The smallest of the fleet, British Columbia Ferries M.V. SeaWolfe V and her operator, A. D , Cherry. Th e vessel is in dailyservice bel ween Langdale terminal, Keat s and Gambier Islands .

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GARY STACEY, Low-bed Operator in the Smithers HighwayDistrict, is recuperating from surgery after he broke his leg inNovember, 1968, during a hockey game in Smithers between theSmithers Totems and the Kitimat Olympics. Gary, who startedwith the Department in 1962, has been a member of the SmithersHockey Club for II years. Friends and fellow workers wish Garya speedy recovery.

HORACE BROWN, Loader Operator, Nanaimo, recuperat ingat home after a major illness .

Seen here being launched just six years ago in Victoria, theMY. Queen of Esquimalt is noll' in Vancouver 10 have an 84-foolsec lion added. Like th e restaurants for the Sidney and Tsawwas­sen, this addition was prefabricated in advance of her arrival intodry dock , When completed early in June, the nell' .. stretch ferry "will be some 395 feel long and capable of carrying about 195vehicles. Scheduled to resume service for the summer, she willhelp ease the congestion on the Swartz Bay-Tsawwassen run .

Bill K azanowski scaling at Dry Creek Bridge sill' east of Goldenin the Kicking Horse Canyon. Normally a runner on a diamond­drill cre w, Bill here is working with th e high-scaling crew formedfrom the D rilling Section for special rock-work projects.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA FERRY QUEENRESCUES SICK CHILD

T he Briti sh Co lumbia Ferr ies vesse l Queen of Prince Rupertplayed a pro mine nt ro le in the successful transfer of a 3-year-oldgirl from a re mote coastal light house station to hospital in Feb­rua ry.

T he child, Caroline G. Voigt, the da ughter of a light house­keeper, was evacuated toge ther wit h her mother from the BoatBluff Lighthouse on Sarah Is land, some 350 miles nor th of Vic­toria, and transported by the ferry to Bella Bella hospital, 36 milessout h and east from Sarah Island.

An urgency call was received by the ship at 10.22 p.m. on thenight of February 12th when the vessel was approaching BellaBella. The Master, Capt. Arnold Ryles, turned the ship aboutand headed back to Boat Bluff, arriving there at 12.30 a.m. Feb­ruary 13th . The ship's lifeboat, manned by a trained emergencycrew and in the charge of Chief Officer Eric Coombes, waslaunched at 12.40 a.m. in heavy snow and with a strong adversetide running. The boat was brought alongside at the lighthouse,took the sick child and her mother aboard, and was picked up bythe Queen of Prince Rupert at 1.12 a.m . The vessel then pro­ceeded once again to Bella Bella.

In the inter im, contin uo us radio co ntact was maintained withBella Bella hospit al by Alec N icolson , the ship's radio op er ato rand technician. He passed medical bulletins on the co nd ition ofthe child whic h wer e given to him by Mrs. Maria Logan , theship's firs t-aid atte nda nt.

Arriving off Bella Bella, the Captain mana:uvred the ship to asafe position off Government wharf, and the lifeboat, with thesame crew, was again launched. Transportation met the lifeboatat the dock, and the child and mother were taken to Bella Bellahospital. After confirmation from the doctor that all was well,the vessel resumed her run to Kelsey Bay at 4.1l! a .m .

Credit must go to Captain Ryles for bringing the 5,l!00-ton ves­sel into as safe a position as was practical for the two launchingsand retrievings of the lifeboat , to the crew who handled the life­boat under difficult conditions, and to the teamwork of all officer sand men involved in the rescue.

Subsequent reports from Bella Bella described the condition ofCaroline as .. very good" and expecting release shortly.

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