6 B.C. LUMBER WORKER 2nd Issue, May ‘Cooperation spells .. ON HAND fo greet Giacamo Clozza after his flight (in the helicopter shown in the background) from Langley to the WCB grounds for the Forest Products Safety Week flag raising ceremony, were from left, IWA District President, Joe Morris; Clozza; Anthony F. Douglas, Chairman of the Joint Forest Products Safety Committee. Keep forests green in B.C. The most painstaking efforts of government and industry to protect our forest crop from fire can be nullified by the action of one thoughtless camper, hiker or motorist, This thought is behind the nation-wide “Forest Conservation Week” program to be celebrated by the Canadian Forestry Association between May 17 and 24. Recent statistics recording a substantial decrease in the percen- tage of forest fires caused by care- ess campers and smokers in h Columbia indicate that the public is responding in a most gratifying way to the Associa- tion's program, comments Hugh J. Hodgins, president of the B.C. Branch of the CFA. In forest protection, however, eternal vigilance is the price of safety, and the Association is again using Forest Conservation Week as the opening salvo in an intensive campaign aimed at all sections of the public. B.C. Forest Service To assist in the promotion of this campaign the Association en- lists the aid of many agencies reaching into every corner of the province including the B.C. For- est Service, the public school system, the Junior Forest Ward- ens, CFA membership, press, radio and TY, Assistance of service clubs and other community organizations is also an invaluable factor in spreading the message of .forest protection and fire prevention throughout B.C. Fire-Conscious While: people are unquestion- ably more fire-conscious today the fact remains that hazard con ditions are becoming increasingly severe with the rapid growth of tourist traffic and the opening up | of many new camping and recre- ation areas. That this increase in the num- ber of people using the woods for recreation has not resulted in a corresponding upswing in the per- centage of fires charged’ to public heedlessness is due in large measure, CFA officials believe, to the constant reminder that “Only YOU can keep fire out of the forest!” First day accidents He escaped Here’s one man who'll never be without safety shoes on-the-job. On the first day of Safety Week Earl T. Cul- bert, an employee of Canadian THk MEO, Western Lumber Co. Ltd. at Fraser Mills was struck .on the foot by a 12” by 12” tim- ber. Fortunately for Mr. Cul- bert he was wearing safety shoes. The blow bent the metal plate in his shoe but his foot emerged from the boot unscathed. Another example of how safety equipment can save you from serious injury. Mr. Culbert and 12 fellow employees in his department are aproaching their 1,200th day without an accident. * * * ° z, He didn’t Ironically enough on the opening day of the campaign, a forest products worker was pre- paring the safety week no-acci- dent flag for raising at one cere- mony on Vancouver Island. While he was doing so a heavy gust of wind hurled the rope hang- ing from the flag pole and a wooden button used to affix the flag to the rope struck the work- man in the teeth resulting in the loss of his two front teeth and a bruised lip. Probably he was the only worker in the province who didn’t agree with the campaign. 1 THE FISH Coued PROBABLY | ALSO SOY 5 Our congratulations to workers, union ang in the forest products Week, May 12-17. i ty