THE BRITISH COLUMBIA SEPTEMBER, 1968

RunnerP UBLISH ~D BY THE DEPARTMENT O F H lG WAYS VOLUME 5, N UMBER 3

BRITISH COLUMBIA'S FERRIESCOVER PHOTO

Courageous seaman, Clifford Carey, 21, received recognttton when the HonourableWesley Black, Minister of Highways, and Mr. F. M. Aldous, General Manager of theBritish Columbia Ferries, presented the Royal Humane Society certificate for savingthe life of a woman who fell overboard from the M. V. Queen of Victoria in March ofthis year. Seaman Carey swam from the lifeboat when a request for volunteers wasmade by the officer in charge.

It's a long way down! "A" Watch, MY. Queen of Saanich, on lifeboat drill atSwartz Bay.

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Aerial view of Horseshoe Bay FerryTerminal after the completion of PhaseI of the reconstruction of the terminal.

The new berth is on the left with itsstarboard dolphins braced directly backto the rock cliffs. This berth was con­structed specifically for the SunshineCoast Queen, which has recently becomethe mainstay of the Horseshoe Bay­Langdale run.

Behind the new berth is the two-levelholding compound and its access ramps.Traffic bound for Langdale uses the uppercompound, and N anaimo and BowenIsland traffic use the lower compound.

In the background are the new park­ing lots-one for public parking and onefor crew parking-and the outside hold­ing lanes, which will help prevent line­ups on the highway during rush periods.

In the planning stage for Phase II ofthe reconstruction is the rebuilding of thetwo original berths, extension of the two­level holding compound, construction ofan administration building, stores build­ing, waiting-room, and foot-passengerloading facilities.

The mail must go on! Mrs. AnneHunter, left, and Miss Gail Dennison,British Columbia Ferries, Head Office,sit proudly gazing at 17 mail bags, theday's work.

Associate Field Editors

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Publish ed Quarterly by th e

British Columbia Department of HighwaysVictoria, British Columbia

Ray Baine s, Executive EditorArthur J. Schindel, Editor

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September, 1968

THE ROAD·RUNNER

Volume 5

This issue the editors of the Road Runner welcomethe employees of the British Columbia Ferries Divisionto its pages and its subscription list. N ow part of theD epartment of Highways, the ferry organi zation hasnearly 2,000 em ployees at peak periods, 1,560 workingth e ships and 430 on shore. It has grown in a few yearsfrom a small service to a major system . It has carriedsome 20 ,000 ,000 passengers and 8,000,000 veh icles since1962. G ood crews and shore personnel have helped thisph enomenal growth through diffi cult periods. Trafficvolumes are still increasin g and the problems of almostcontinual growth are still with us . But the records showwe have a staff that can handle th em and we hope tosee m ore of its members and the ir work in th ese pages.

WESL EY D. BLACK, Minister.

The RR welcomes personnel of the British ColumbiaFerries to its pages this issue. The well-known servicehas grown rapidly since 1960 to a major ferry service with19 ships and 21 termin als. The winter strength is 400on-shore personnel and 1,200 on the ships. During thesummer this is expanded to 430 on shore and 1,560 onthe ships.

A. R. Lirnacher Victoria

Bill Ingram Victoria

Jim Winton North Vancouver

Dave Wardell Burn sideJ. W. Morris., Nanaimo

M. Butler Courtenay

Jim Harris Bridge Maintenance

W. I. N. Higgins North Vancouver

Lloyd Burgess New Westminster

G. M. Vance ChilIiwackJim Ferrier Kamloops

Edie Smith ._. WilIiams Lake

Murray Ramsay Salmon Arm

Dave Bowm an Revelstoke

Al Desimo ne Vernon

Fred Evans Kelowna

Pete Fuoco Penticton

Jim Chenoweth Merritt

D ave Roberts Lillooet

Dorothy Wilkins . Grand Forks

R. E. McKeown _._... . .... . RosslandS. J. D ixey .. Nelson

Fred Angrignon New Denver

Irene Labelle Creston

N . Molander Cranbrook

Sam Caravetta Fernie

John Edgar . Golden

Steve Sviatko Smithers

C. Bart sch Pouce Coupe

Pat Tondevold Fort St. John

Homer Good Terrace

E. A. Beaumont Prince George

Fred Bradley Prince George

Jack Doddridge Prince George

R. Stephenson Quesnel

George Harper Vanderhoof

H . R. Walke r.. . Burns Lake

E. Lund Prince Rupert

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"EXTRACURRICULAR" ACTIVITIES

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Bill Fowler and his wife, "Winnie,"have just returned from a holiday in theBritish Isles. Bill, a long-time employeeof the Department, is a Machine Oper­ator in the Lillooet District.

Marie Sheldo n, Clerk -Steno in the Wil­liams Lake Office, has a hobby that reallypays. She recently won $350 at a localbingo game.

D epartment H eadquarters bowling team(left to right, back row-George Wa gg,Jim Holmes, and Bill Ingram; front row-Herta Wagg, Betty Ingram, and HildaDewar) won the play-off of a 3D-nightschedule of th e Victoria , British Colum­bia, Go vernment Em ployees BowlingLeague, Second place was won by an­other Highw ay team from the LocationBran ch consisting of Jim Camb rey ,G eorgeand M onica Day , Cliff Ramsay, and BobStanden .

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Apparently everyone is taking to theskies these days. David Benoit, Fore­man at Anahim Lake, has just purchaseda Piper Aircraft 11 two -seater.

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Lige Gurr is pictured here with a 43­pound salmon he pulled out of the BellaCoola River last fall. Lige was SeniorForeman in the Williams Lake Districtfor many years and was transferred inMarch to the D ock District, out of theNew Westminster Highways District. Heis now a Sto ckman in that district.

Wh en Wayne Randell , District Engi­neer, R evelstoke, was transferred toPrin ce George, two paintings by a localartist were presented to Wayne and hiswife Shirley by employees of the district.

Peter Gelin , a D esign Engineer with the Bridge Engineering Branch , enjoying a vi sitto Egy pt . In the background to the right is Ch eop's Pyramid and , left, the great Sphin x .

In eluded in Peter's vacati on itin erary were Turkey , Italy, Spain, Portugal, M orocco,Holland, and England . Languages were no probl em as he speaks five.

Born in Caucasus, Russia, he later graduated from the University o f Belgrade.A ft er leaving Europe he practi sed structural engineering in Bu enos Aires, Argentina ,

where much of his work inv olved the designin g of earthquake -resistant buildings. Th efirst timber thin- shelled roofs in America were designed by him and built for the Indus­trial Exhibition in Buenos Aires.

He arriv ed in Canada in 1953 and work ed for the University of Toronto, wh ere hedesigned an ex perimental m od el of a concrete she ll roof structure. Peter joined theDepartment in December, 1959. His hobb ies are travelling and good music.

For Vern on F oreman Jack A mies, atrip of a lifetime. Jack and MargaretAmics have just completed a five-weektrip to Europe, where they touched suchcountries as En gland, Belgium, France,Ital y, Germany, Holland, Austria, andIceland. Jack and Margaret at theirbeautiful home overlooking Lake Kala­malka and the Coldstream Valley. Th eyhave a family of four daughters and oneson.

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PEEK INTO THE PAST

This is th e Lilley Bridge on th e Can im L ake R oad 3 miles east of Forest Gr ov e. Th epicture was probabl y tak en around 192 I . Department is (1/ present tim e reconstructingth e road around this bridg e and building a new Lilley Br idge.

Pavin g in th e goo d old day s. Notice the dapp er forem an standing in the backgroundwith a suit on.

Th ou ght to be the Kamloops District Patchin g Crew in th e late l 920 '.1'. Beats patch­holes, doesn 't it? For vintage car buffs would that be a Star ?

Paving Today

Pav ing Branch inspector Jim Taylorgiv es Truck er R eid White a tick et!

Pav ing Bran ch In spector Jim Ta ylorch eck s th e " pull " on Project S-0267­Gold River Road.

The Lake Cowichan crew on a pave­m ent patching operation on the SouthShore Road, Lake Cowichan; left toright, John Buskey , Robert SCOII, Ge orgeHolman .

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NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

On August 20th the Kalum River Bridge on Highway 16 caught fire around 5 p.m., apparently from a cigarette dropped into thepier. The Terrace Fire Department had to cut several openings into the bridge deck, left, to reach the flames under the bridge . BobHale, Terrace Bridge Foreman, right, and his crew did the repair work.

The Camp Creek Slide, Wednesday, June 5,1968, which took the lives of four personsand blocked the road between Salmon Arm and Revelstoke for 72 hours. Thousandsof tons of mud and debris to a depth of 15 feet were washed down, covering the highwayfor a distance of 600 feet. District Engineer Herb Coupe (foreground in hard hat)views the slide. Crews from both ends of the slide worked from dawn to dusk to getthe highway open for traffic.

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New radio satellite recently installedon Dunn Peak for radio communicationon the North Thompson Highway byKamloops District Bridge Crew and twotechnicians from Headquarters. Thenose-cone type of shell fabricated fromfibreglass is 30 feet long, has a maximumdiameter of 7 feet, and weighs 650pounds. Both the transmitter and an­tenna are housed inside . The satelliteoperates on batteries which need servic­ing every three years.

The new Taylor River Bridge underconstruction alongside the Bailey bridgeon the Alberni-Tofino Highway. ArnoldGlover, Bridge Foreman, Nanaimo, is incharge of the crew under the supervisionof Bill Bos, District Technician, PortAlberni.

Seismic Survey

Use of the refraction seismic survey isthe latest technique employed by the De­partment to obtain data about sub-sur­face ground conditions. Lome Johnson,top, from the Materials Testing Branch,prepares portable seismograph for testshot. A small explosive is detonatedelectrically in the ground, and the result­ing shock wave is picked up by geo­phones which transmit electric impulsesto the seismograph and record them onfilm. Interpretation of the resulting plotsenables the operator to "read" the un­derground formations. In the lower pic­ture Lome is detonating the small blast,seen in the background.

Greeves had been hurt in a railwayaccident and brought suit for damagessuffered. Some time later a friend methim as he hobbled pitifully along oncrutches.

" Can't you get by without crutches? "the friend asked.

"Well," replied Greeves, .. my doctorsays I can, but my lawyer says I can't."

AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE

Pride of Department's air transport fleet, sleek Turbo-Beech lifts nose wheel of]during take-off at Victoria's Patricia Bay Airport. Plane was converted from a basicBeechcra]t 18 airframe by Department aircraft mechanics under direction of HughThomas. Crews installed PT6 turbine engines, new tail assembly, tricycle landing gear,new radio and navigation equipment, and new interior.

Chief Pilot T. B. (" Bert") Toye, left, at the controls of the Turbo-Beech. Bert, whohas logged many thousands of hours during a long flying career, heads a complement of8 pilots employed by the Department. Dispatcher and Link Trainer Instructor H. F.(" Speed") Norman, right, handles bookings and flight arrangements, The four pas­senger aircraft logged nearly 400,000 miles last year carrying senior British ColumbiaGovernment personnel around the Province.

Aircraft Mechanics Glen Lamont, left , and Ian Freemantle servicing 450-horsepowernine-cylinder Pratt & Whitlley engines on Beechcra]t 18 in Department's shop-liangarat Victoria's Patricia Bay Airport. Seven aircraft with full complement of pilots andshop crew provide efficient air transport and air-photo service for British ColumbiaGovernment departments.

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SAFETY AWARDS, INFORMATION, RALLIES

Bronze-on-gold award was presented by L. A. Braddy, RegionalHighway Engineer, in June to Burns Lake District for havingworked since May 12 , 1966, and having accumulated 395,525man-hours to the end of July, 1968, without a time-loss accident,Back row, left to right: Chuck Rolston, Senior Foreman; BobVeitch, District Superintendent; Mike Tetreuu, South bank Fore­man ; Reg Swindlehurst, Mechanical Foreman. Front row, leftto right: Hugh Carnie, Houston Foreman; Rene Betemps, Ferry;Ron Jones, Burns Lake Foreman.

In A ugust, Saanich District Superintendent A llan F. Park pre­.1'01 ted a bronze and two gold salcty awards to three SaanichDistrict crews. Shown are the Foremen of the three crews, leftto right: L. Croft, Langford Mechanic Foreman, gold award:R . Busby , Lan gford Road Maintenance Foreman, bronze award;and G. Coward, Burnside-Sidney Road Maintenance Foreman ,gold award.

Ed Braaten, chairman of Burns Lake SafetyCommittee, accepting bronze-on-gold award forwhole district from L. A . Braddy, RegionalHighway Engineer.

Rene Betemps accepting bronze award fromL. A. Braddy, Regional Highway Engineer.The Francois Lake Ferry Crew have workedsince Ma rch 12, 1966, and have accumulated57,058 man-hours witho ut a tim e-loss accidentto th e end of Jul y, 1968.

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The Creston Shop Crew of the Nelson District receivtng the silver award fromthe Honourable W. D. Black, Minister of Highways, for having worked 56,404hours without a time-loss accident. A ccepting the award is Shop Foreman EarlKline. The Minister also presented a silver award to Foreman Harry Haigh ofthe Creston Road Crew fo r a record of 106,707 hours without a time-loss accident.

Bronze safety awa rd was presented to Greenwood Road Crew by D. F. Martin,R egional High way Engineer. Crew consists of, left to right, C. R auch, M r. M artin,W . Walk er, Foreman J. Les lie, J. M eKinnon, and H . Lesergent, M issing fro m th ispict ure were L. M orra ll' and S. Bambini.

WEDDINGS

AWARDS

The Rossland District lost a long-timeemployee with the death of HELMERHANSON in July at the age of 59 aft era lengthy illness. Helmer, born inSweden, started work with the Depart­ment in 1944. He is survived by his wifeEvelyn and two sons , Dennis and Gordon .

MRS. VIOLA M. MULLALLY, RadioOperator, North Vancouver RegionalOffice, died Tuesday. August 13, 1968.

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WILLIAM (TRIP) TRIPLETT, age63, Labourer with the Princeton RoadCrew, died suddenly July 13th. Mr.Triplett had been with the Dep artmentsince 1950. He leaves a widow, Eliza­beth, and one son, William.

OBITUARIES

FRANK H. LEWIS died on Thursday,June 20th, at Mountain View, California,after a lengthy illness . Born in Victoriain 1900, he entered Government servic ein February, 1938, as a Mechanic atStewart. While there he was also oper­ator of the rot ary snow-plough. In 1952he was transferred to Prince Rupert asMechanic Foreman, a position he helduntil his retirement in 1965.

All in the Dep artmentof Highways were sad­dened to learn of thedeath of J. H. A. (JIM )STEVEN on Jul y26th in Savona. Mr.Steven was Loc ationEngineer in Victoria

from 1948 until his retirement in 1956.He originally joined the Provincial Gov ­ernment Service in 1931 after workingfor the C.P.A. for a time. He was bornin Killen, Scotland, in 1893 and came toCanada after the First World War. Mr.Steven is sur vived by his wife, Gertrude,and son, J . E. Steven, District Superin­tendent, Pouce Coupe.

ANGELO PASSERIN was married toMiss Rosetta Marchesi of Kamloops in aJuly ceremony. Angelo and his bride werepresented with a lawn set by fellow em­ployees of the Lillooet District, whereAngelo is employed by the Dep artmentof Highways.

Married August 17,1968, in St . David'sAnglican Church at Celista were AileenJohnson and Jimmy Lamberton. Theceremony was perform ed by Rev. Hum­phrey, of Chase. After a honeymoontrip to M ontana, th e couple will reside illSalmon Arm, where Jim is a member ofthe Salmon Arm Road MaintenanceCrew.

Fern Rivard, better kn own as Car 2000,married Laura St rand on February 17,

1968 , at St. Anne's Church, New We st­minster, Fath er Maclronald officiating.

Laura is a nurse at th e SummerlandHospital. Th e co uple have recently pur­

chased a home in th e area. In July, Fernwas promot ed to area supervisor by Ca­

nadian M ot orola, so will no longer beservicing D epart m ent of Highways units

in the Penticton-Grand Forks area.

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The Burns Lake District Road Crewreceived a gold award, having workedsince Ma y 12, 1966, and accumulating257,647 man-hours to July 31, 1968,without a time-loss accident.

The Beaverdell Road Cr ew received abronze-on-gold safet y award from D. F .Martin, Regional Highway Engineer. Thecrew, under Foreman N . McRae, is madeup of S. . Houlind, M. Efonoff, ActingForeman 1. "Davies, and J. Jackson. Thecrew went from April, 1962, until May,1968, without a time-loss accident.

The Region No. 3 Constru ction Crewreceived the gold award fo r havingworked 96,000 hours without a time-lossaccident. P. B. MacC arth y, Region alMaintenance Engin eer , pre sented th eaward to Regional Con stru ction Forem anJo e Kobza and George Lipsack with th eScraper and Shovel Crews.

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A silver safety award was presented tothe Prince Rupert District Bridge Crewfor working 38,449 con secutive man­hours without a time-loss accident. Bronzesafety awards were presented to thePrince Rupert Road Crew, the QueenCharlotte Islands Road MaintenanceCrew, the Queen Charlotte Islands Con­struction Crew, and the Q-2 CrusherCrew at Masser.

The Balancing Act.. Thirty per cent of all injuries were

fall s.".. The greatest single type of accident

was fall s, 22 per cent.".. Fifty-seven of 177 accidents were

fall s, 32 per cent."To what do these statements relate?

Timber scalers on logs? Workers in thefrozen North? Neither. They are ex­tracts from studies of accid ent s in threelarge inside operations in th is service.They can be duplicated in nearly ever ydepa rtment. Mo re people get hurt andkilled on th e job from fall s th an any othersingle cau se.

What can we do about it? Hou sekeep­ing is important, keeping work areasclean and free from debris, keeping pas­sageways clear, removing trailing cordsin offices. Most important - we mustwatch our step, wear non-slip footwear ,and use the handrail on sta irs. Don 'tfall down on the job !

10-7 CLUBChief Clerk Frank Howland Retires After 44 Years in Government Service

TransfersWA YNE RANDELL, District Engi ­

neer, Revelstoke, was transferred toPrince George in May this year. Twopaintings by a local artist were presentedto Wayne and his wife Shirley by em­ployees of the district.

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LANCE PARKER has transferredfrom the Terrace District to the day­labour project on the Queen CharlotteIslands after the resignation of Bill Mor­rice.

Frank cuts retirement cake at High­ways employees' farewell buffet. Withhim are, left to right, the Honourable W.N . Chant, the Honourable W . D. Black,and Mrs. Howland.

R. J. KOBZA, formerly Regional Con­struction Foreman, transferred to FernieDistrict as Road Maintenance Foreman3.

In 1924 the mileageof black-top roadsin British Columbia was 189 miles; to­day there are approximately 7,000 miles.

The expenditure of the Department ofPublic Works in 1924, which includedroads, bridges, government buildings,etc., amounted to $6,333,342, about halfthat for loan repayments.

Last year's gross expenditure for theDepartment of Highways alone was$105,744,860.

In 1924 there were 39,472 motor­vehicles registered in the Province. In1967 the figure was 850,000.

LOUIS SCHULLI,Mechanic Assistant,Princeton Shop, re­tired June 30th. Hewas born in Winnipegand has worked forthe Department since1930, except for a

period of army service during WorldWar H. Louis is married with one step­son. During a farewell party and danceon an evening in June, his fellow employ­ees presented him with an illuminatedmodel locomotive.

Douglas Building, and more than 150employees of Highways and PublicWorks attended the fete and paid tributeto his long and dedicated service.

Among the gifts and presentations,framed and inscribed, was Mr. Howland'soriginal notice of appointment, drawn upwhen he was first taken on with the De­partment of Public Works as a messen­ger April I, 1924.

Shortly after his original appointment,Mr. Howland went into the Departmentof Public Works General Office as JuniorClerk. After various promotions he wasnamed Chief Clerk in 1935, a positionhe has held until his retirement.

In 1955, when the Department of High­ways was created, Mr. Howland's generaloffice retained the records and files andbecame the hub of both Highways andPublic Works.

During his long career Mr. Howlandhas served under 14 different Ministersand eight Deputy Ministers.

His hobbies are fishing and gardening.In the latter field he has specialized inchrysanthemums and has entered bloomsin Victoria" mum" shows.

On June 28th Leroy Vigue drove histruck i1l10 the Revelstoke yard for thelast time. He handed over his hard hatto Senior Road Foreman Frank Prailland went i1l10 retirement. Leroy hasmoved to his new home in Kelowna andis looking forward to lots of fishing.

Actual retirement date was Septem­ber 30th , but he left the DepartmentAugust 9th to begin a period of well­earned holidays and retirement leave.On that date a buffet was held in the

Frank Howland, Chief Clerk in Head­quarters, Victoria, has retired after 44years service with the British ColumbiaGovernment.

ALEC MARR, SignPainter I, retired inMay. He was presen­ted with a gold certi­ficate of appreciationand gifts from hisfellow employees.

HARVEY BAILEY,who worked for theDepartment of High­ways, Falkland Dis­trict, for the past nineyears, retired inMarch, 1968. He waspresented with a gifton behalf of the staff.

It seems a District Superintendent inRegion 2 who spent some time in thelocal hospital recently had a strangehobby. The word is going around thathe spent his spare time speeding up theintravenous feeding of some of the otherpatients. Needless to say he had to bereleased quickly before he started super­vising the operations.

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TRANSFERS PROMOTIONS

JACK D. SUTHER­LAND, Clerk 5, Of­fice Ma nager in Ver­non, has won the pos i­tion of Clerk 6, Dis­trict Office Managerat Kamloops. Jacktakes to Kamloops a

wealth of knowledge and will be missedby the Vernon personnel. He was a veryactive member in B.C.G .E.A. as a mem­ber of the Provincial executive. Jack andhis wife, Margaret, have five daughtersand one son .

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C. BILL PU RDYhas won the positionof Assis tant MechanicForeman in Cran­brook. Bill startedwith the Departmentof Highways at Clo­verdale in 1964 andtransferred to New Denver in 1966 as aHeavy Duty Mechanic, where he spenttwo years. Bill was married in Irvins­town, Ireland, in 1943 while serving withthe R.C .A.F. ; his wife was serving withthe R.A.F. They have three boys andthree girls.

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J. A. (JIM ) HOLMES, Per sonnel Of­fice, received recla ssification to Person­nel Officer I, Jul y 1st. He successfullycompleted the Government-spon soredBasic Public Administration Course inMarch, 1967, and has now successfullycompleted the first year of the E'xecutiveDevelopment Training Plan.

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WARREN HORSNELL, Draughtsman.Location Branch, Prince George, wonthrough competition the position of Dis­trict Technician at Prince Rupert. He isenjoying the work and is taking an activeinterest in the local sport fishing.

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S. R. DAVIES has won through com­petition the position of Mechanic Fore­man 3 at Pouce Coupe. Stan was em­ployed by the Fort St. John Highw ayDistr ict as Mech anic Foreman I at GoodHope Lake Camp (23 mile s north of Cas­siar ) for the past four year s.

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MICKEY POSTNIKOFF has won apromotion from Machine Operator 4 toMachine Operator 7. Mickey has beena member of the Grand Forks RoadCrew since 1965 and is widely knownthroughout Region 3.

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JIM DEW has received his permanentStockman' s rating in the Lillooet Dis­trict. Jim was former ly a Yardman inthe same district.

MRS. PATRICIANELSON has wonthrough competi tionthe position of Clerk­Stenographer 3 in Vic­toria. Secretary toAdministrative OfficerR. 1. Baines ( RR Ex­

ecutive Editor) , Pat formerly worked inthe Appropriation Section of HighwaysAccounts.

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PAT GUNN wasthe successful appli­cant for a Clerk 2position in the NorthVancouver DistrictOffice. Pat started inthe District Office inJu ly of 1967 as aClerk-Typist. Her main outside interestsare riding horses and going to night clubsand dances, especially when boy friendPete is playing in the band.

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PERCY WILLIAMCUTLER was the suc­cessful applicant forthe Road Foreman 3position at Rossland.Percy assumes his newduties after servingfive years as Road

Foreman 2. His service with the Depart­ment goes back to 1946, when he startedin the New Denver District.

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E. H. (ED) SWAN­SON won throughcompetition the posi­tion of Mech anicalForeman in Kam­loops. He was pre­viously MechanicalForeman in PrinceGeorge. He started with the Departmentin 1948 as a mechanic in New Denver,then moved to Que snel in 1953. He hasbeen Mechanical Foreman at PrinceGeorge since 1955. Ed is married andhas five children. His hobbies are fish­ing and camping.

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ED SCHMIDT wonan Engineering Aidepromotion for the Re­gion al Office, PrinceGeorge, recently. Edwas formerly withConstruction Branchin Region 3. He is

single and enjoy s ski-ing and fishing.'it 'it 'it

A. G . JONSON, of Courtenay, haswon the position of He avy Duty Mech ­anic at the Lillooet shop .

The Rossland crew gath ered recentlyto wish Road Foreman Donald J. (Don)Williams the best on his recent tran sferto th e Golden District. Don, left, isshown receiving a gift from Clifford T .Grieve on beha lf of all th e Rossland Dis­trict employees.

D. 1. F. (DON)MAcSWEEN has beentransferred to Kam­loops as Right-of-wayAgent from Smithers.He joined the High­ways Department inMay, 1961. He was

a Radio and Teletype Operator in Kam­loops and Prince George prior to joiningthe Right-of-way Branch in July, · 1966.He has spent the intervening years in Vic­toria , North Vancouver, and Smithers.He is married and has a daughter.

'it 'it 'it-ERNEST J. FAL-AR DEAU transferredAugust 1st from theKarn loops CrusherCrew to the posi tionof Automotive Mech­anic in the Princetonshop . He started withthe Paving Branch in 1967. Ernie wasborn in St. Benedict, Sask ., is marriedand has two sons and a daughter. He ispre sently hobbled with a broken leg, re­minder of an overly enthusiastic fishingtrip .

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LLOYD PEREPE­LECTA transferredfrom the Princeton tothe Burn s Lake Stock­man 4 position onJune 15th. He joinedthe Dep artment asYardman at Lillooet

in 1962. Lloyd is married with a sma lldaughter and son . He was a member ofthe Kinsmen and a volunteer Princetonfireman .

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ABOUT PEOPLE

WALLY STEW­ART, MaintenanceForeman, Port AI­berni.

G. (GORDIE) Mc­DONNEL, TransportOperator, started withthe Department inApril, 1947, as aTruck-driver. He ismarried and has fivechildren and threegrandchildren. His hobby is camping.

ALBERT CON­NOLLY, MechanicalForeman, Duncan.

ROBERT H. ROB­INSON was the suc­cessful applicant forthe Stockman 4 posi­tion in the Princetonshop, commencing hisduties there July 29th.Robbie was born in

Coronation, Alta. . is married, and hastwo smalJ sons . The move to Princetonmeant the end of an II-year hobby ofrestoring a Model A Ford coupe.

CLIFFORD CLARK, Road Mainte­nance Foreman at Fernie, recently suf­fered a heart attack and is convalescingin the Fernie Memorial Hospital.

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Convalescents

Grand Forks Associate Field EditorDOROTHY WILKINS is recuperatingat home following an operation in Julyin the Trail Hospital. Dot is progressingand hopes to return to work shortly.Her fellow employees in the district wishher a speedy recovery.

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J. TAYLOR, Saltspring Island graderman, is in the Veterans' Hospital, Vic­toria, and showing good signs of recoveryfrom a lengthy illness.

ROY JACKSON,Engineering Aide withthe Location Branch,is shown at work inPrince George on fielddraughting and design.

FRANCES BRAN­DNER has recentlyjoined the regionalstaff at Prince Georgeas a Stenographer.She is married, hasone daughter, and hasa flair for poetry.

LEN BOURGE­AULT has been work­ing on the SaanichSurvey Crew for overtwo years and has nowdecided to return tothe University of Brit­ish Columbia this fall.

Len, who is married and has three smallchildren, hopes to become a geologist.

MRS. SHEILALAWLOR, Clerk 2 inthe Nanaimo DistrictOffice.

BILL SOLBERG isnow in Prince Georgeas Engineering Aidewith the ConstructionBranch. Bill has work­ed on the Stewart­Cassiar, Chetwynd­Hudson Hope, andPrince George-McBride roads. He ismarried with two children and enjoyshunting and fishing.

MISS KARENTAYLOR, who star­ted with the Equip­ment Branch in Vic­toria as a Clerk-Ty­pist in March, 1967,was married October5th to John Logan, asteward with British Columbia Ferries.As Karen is planning to stay at work,the Branch wilJ not be losing its cheerfulco-worker and coffee-maker.

FRED BRADLEY,Timekeeper, PrinceGeorge District Of­fice. Fred has beenwith the Departmentsince May, 1962. Heis very active in ama- ~

teur theatre produc-tions and played one of the leads in alocal production of Mikado this springin Prince George.

MISS V ALE R I ECAMPBELL is thecheery Clerk-Steno inthe Penticton DistrictOffice. Born in Trail,Valerie was for sever­al years a member ofthe Fruitvale drama

group. A graduate of the Trail BusinessCollege, she joined the Department staffin April. Valerie sews many of her ownclothes, plays the accordian, and enjoysthe Okanagan swimming.

ROY FORDHAM,Clerk 4 (Office Man­ager Trainee) PrinceGeorge. Roy has beenwith the Departmentsince May, 1961. Priorto his appointment tohis present job Roy

worked as Regional Stockman at thePrince George Yard. He is married withtwo girls.

R. D. PURDY, ournew Williams LakeDistrict Stockman asof May 16, 1968. Bobcomes from Calgaryand thinks WilliamsLake is the perfectplace to live as hisfavourite pastimes are hunting and fish­ing.

J. S. (STAN) DUG­GAN from Banff, Al­berta, joined the De­partment in March,1968. He is workingin the Regional Ma­terials Testing Labo­ratory in Kamloops.

He previously spent nine years with theFederal Public Works in testing labo­ratories at Banff. His hobby is ski-ing.He is married and has two children.

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SECOND NARROWS RESURFACING

Surveyor Ed Skarrup and helper check­ing the level on the screed rails whichhave been set , The machine in the back­ground is the small scarifier cleaning thesurface.

Project Engineer Al Walisser checkingthe concrete overlay thickness.

Mike Ditrolio leveling the screed rails.

Burlap cover keeps the concrete fromdrying and cracking during the four-daycuring process.

In order to keep traffic disruption to aminimum, the work was carried out ona 24-hour basis with all concrete pouringdone on the graveyard shift when twolanes of the bridge could be closed. Speci­fications allowed only one lane to beclosed during the daytime.

The asphalt surface was removed bygrader scarifier and loader, upon whichthe surface was cleaned and roughenedwith a Tennant G 12 scarifier. This largemachine, one of only two in existance,was brought in from Topeka, Kansas.Prior to concreting, the surface was alsosand-blasted to secure a good bond be­tween the old and new concrete. It wasthen thoroughly scrubbed and washedwith a flusher truck to remove all dustand loose material.

Late in July the task of resurfacing thesix-lane 4,200-foot-long Second NarrowsBridge was undertaken by day-labourforces. Plans calle d for the removal ofthe failing asphalt surface, to be replacedby a 2-inch-thick concrete overlay on thestructural concrete deck.

The project was under the directionof Senior Materials Engineer E. E. Read­shaw and Tony Locke, of the MaterialsBranch. Work was carried out by BridgeMaintenance District, R. B. Gilmour,Superintendent, and Al Walisser, ProjectEngineer. Bill Sainsbury was Co ncre t­ing Foreman and Ritchie H aro ld wasDay Foreman, with Bob Chown takingthe afternoon shif t.

Work was completed on schedule injust over two months.

Concrete placing was by a Clary me­chanical screed, which ran on steel railsbolted to inserts placed in the deck . Finalfinishing and brooming was done byhand, upon which the surface was cov­ered with burlap and kept wet for fou rdays prior to opening for traffic.

Total crew averaged about 40 men,with daily production about 600 feet ofJane. Highest production was 900 feetof lane, which required 90 cubic yardsof concrete .

Condition of deck after removal ofasphalt surfacing. Note foreign materialwhich must be removed to ensure goodbond of overlay.

The pavement is broken up by thescarifier blade on the grader shown in thebackground.

Project Foreman Ritchie Harold isshown here demonstrating how a gas drillis used for drilling holes in which thebolts that secure the screed rails are em­bedded.

This is the large scarifier which is usedfor removing foreign matter from theunderdecking. The rotary action of theblades, moving at 5,000 r .p.m., removesapproximately one-quarter inch of mater­ial on each pass.

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ON THE JOB

Brushing on Lakeshore Road, Kelow­na, are Ewald Hanet, Machine Operator3, with saw and John Flegel, Labourer,with fork. Beautiful Okanagan Lake isin the background.

Fueling bulldozer on the job are, left,Reg Martin, Road Maintenance Foreman2, and J. C. Chaplin, Machine Operator13, both of the Kelowna District.

Donald Reid, a long-time employeewith the Vanderhoof Road Crew, withhis grader .

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Don Bryant, A iberni Grader Operator,shown on the job. Don is active in theNanaimo District safety programme.

George Boyce, Mechanical Foreman,Port Alberni.

Galiano Island Crew-Foreman JackShaw, left, and Neil Wilson-shown onthe job preparing a section of Parlier PassDrive for the 1968 paving programme.

The Electrical Crew, Larry Berkey ,left, and Jim Cummings, on the job inthe Nanaimo District.

Harbhaian Grewal, Engineering Aide3, right, and Tom A arts, EngineeringAide 2 on the Nanaimo Survey Crew,are shown on the job.

Nanaimo District Operator Joe Baumelon the roller in the Nanaimo area.

LOCATION CREW

Location office staff-Chief Draughts­man Jack Benson, centre, Gilbert Car­riere, left, and Virgil Swanson.

Field crew-Nels Card left,and John Mcl.aren.

Field crew, left to right-s-Transitman Dale Hunt, Ray Koebernick,Chris Gadsden, Bob Andrew, and. Harry Newlove.

One of the very busy Highway Location Crews is the one currently workingin the Lower Mainland area under the direction of Norm Hester, Project Super­visor. Norm has an office staff of three draughtsmen at North Vancouver anda field crew of eight, whose working area ranges all the way from Hope to Rich ­mond, to 15 miles north of the Village of Squamish.

Dale Hunt and John McLarenare the crew's two transitmen, withChris Gadsden as levelman andNels Card, Ray Koebernick, HarryNewlove, Bob Andrew, and DonPowell as chainmen. In the office,Jack Benson is the Chief Draughts­man, assisted by DraughtsmenVirgil Swanson and Gilbert Car­riere.

Ready and wiIling to tackle al­most any type of survey, most ofthe crew's work has consisted ofrunning the many photogrammetriccontrol surveys throughout theLower Mainland. This is veryexacting work, requiring goodorganizing ability on the part of " .the project supervisor and a high Location Project Supervisor Norm Hester.degree of accuracy by both fieldand office personnel. The crew hascome through with flying colours.

John Ewanick, Machine Operator 11, washingup after greasing the shovel. John has beenwith the Department in Fernie since 1951 andhas operated H-77 most of that time. He ismarried and has two children. His favouritesport is soccer, and he was a member of theFernie United Soccer Club for a number ofyears.

Spring break-up, summer and winter condi­tions all present special problems in the AnahimLake area. Left to right, George Reed, WayneEscott, Tom Engebretson, Milton Rutherford,and Fred Elkins.

" Mailman" Keith Gagne from Kamloopspicking up Government mail in Salmon Armduring the postal strike. He was always ontime.

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In 19 5 1 the Motor Vessel V acationland, 3,844 tons, came d own th e

ways of the Great Lakes Engineering Company shipyard in R iver Rouge,

Michiga n , b u ilt to carr y a u tom obil es and passengers across Mack in ac Strait.

When the strait was b r id ged she was purchased by Quebec own er s andr echristened the Pere Nouvel. She was used between Rimouski and B ale­

Comeau across the St. Lawrence River, a run of approximately four hours.

T he Pere Nouvel was subsequently purchased by the British Columbiafer r y sys tem to serve on th e Horseshoe Bay-Langdale run because the two

ships in service there were u n able to meet traffic peaks. A British Columbia

Ferries skele ton crew was sent to Quebec to take delivery ami bring theship to British Columbia via the Panama Canal, an ocean adventure thecrew will long remember. Prior to going into service the ship was corn­

pletely refurbished; mezzanine decks were added to the car deck to give

her a capacity of 185 cars; a fast-service cafeteria, seating 212 passengers,has been installed to serve snacks and light meals during the 50-minute

crossing. Repainted from stem to stern, renamed the Sunshine Coast Queen,

a ll that remains is her former profile. She is 360 feet long and 73 feet 7

inches wide, largest in the British Columbia Ferries fleet.