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Snowslides leave
many stranded |

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Springtime, are rare at this

time of year.

“They weren't huge land-
slides, but they were annoying
Slides," said Wilf MacDonald,
Chief of the Terrace and
District Highways Department.

About -seven or eight, he
added, would be considered
heavy while a dozen or s0 more
were what he termed “small

snowslides.,’’
*TROUBLESOME'

The larger slides were con-
Sidered “troublesome” for the
two shifts of highways crews,

MacDonald said these slides
measured from 20 to 30 feet and
brought trees, roots, rocks and

soil down with them.
He

working in two shifts,

Howard

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admits he has never gone
beyond grade 10 in school. But
‘ he’s a honor graduate from the
school of hard knocks, :
Already in the leadership
campaign are NDP deputy-
leader David Lewis, a lawyer;
Ed Broadbent, a professor;
John Harney, a labor leader and
Jim Laxer, a Toronto college
lecturer.

“TM A LOGGER"
When asked his profession,
Howard quickly replied: “Pm a
logger”, :
That was just one of his hard
- hats before entering politics. as
provincial CCF MLA for Skeena
in 1953,
“T worked at all sorts of jobs.
I'm pretty proficient as an iron-
moulder and they're getting
extinct...[ had blasting papers
when I worked underground (in
mines) when I was 2) and 22 and
I've logged,” Howard said.
The leader of the NDP should
be a man of the people with a
good rapport with both blue
collar and white collar workers
and an understanding of their
needs, Howard said.
NO IVORY TOWER
“He can't shut himself up in
an Ivory tower and put himself
above the peaple.” —
“If Lacéept the challenge (the
leadership race) what do I have
to affer?": Howard asked.

He paused for a moment, then
said, “Several things,”

Among them, he listed his
knowledge of the north, its vast
potential and its people.

“People here are more down
to earth and they are closer to
nature,’ Howard added, ‘This
rubs off on me.”

TAKES JAB

Indirectly, he appeared to be
taking a jab at the four
leadership hopefuls, all of them
academics and too close to Bay
Street (Canada’s financial
capital. in Toronto) to be in
touch with the common working
stife.

“The NDP is a party of the
people,” Howard added. “I feel
it’s part of my duty lo see that it
remains a party of the people; a
broad, cross-section of our
population.”

Howard said he takes the
pioneering spirit of the north
with him to Otlawa where he
lobbies for more development
onwhat might be called our last
frontier, as well as fighting for
individual civil rights.

RIGHTS FIGHTER

“The basic tenant of
democratic socialism is that ‘it
has respect for the rights and
freedoms of individuals end
that that state should not in-
fringe upon these rights,"

“T feel it is my duty to uphold
this tenant," he added,

Howard also talked about
buying back Canadian of
Canadian Industry, hinted at a
platform of putting more.
Canadian control in all unions
and keeping Canadian money in
Canada, _ .

Howard; an IWA member,
quickly reiterated’ he-was. not
“at this time” a-candidate for

He admitted, it was a definite
saibillty,"” but he added:

said a giant-sized
bulldozer with a strong blade
and geared for heavy duty, was
used by area foreman John
Anderson to tackle the rough
slides. He was backed up by a
crew of six or seven men

they had it opened after
hours. Vehicles

operations,
LONG HOURS

started risky

a.m. Friday.
along the highway by

plow.

River.
INTO SKEENA —

crews,

used in the operation.

through the debris.
Greyhound’s

agent in Terrace,
The CNR got off lighter.
HAD ‘LUCK’

blocked.

Crews were worked clearing
the road for about 86 hours, but

MacDonald said his crews
clearing
operations late Wednesday.
They worked all day Thursday
and didn’t finish the job until 2

Extra snow was dumped all

Canadian National Railways
clearing diesel equipped with a

The highway threads through
the Skeena Valley between the
CNR right-of-way, just a few
feet above it, along the sides of
the valley and the Skeena

Snow and debris was dumped
into the river by the highways

Two truck plows were also

In the wake of the slides, bus
passengers were left stranded
in Prince Rupert, Prince
George and points in between
until crews carved a route

Canadian
Coachways buses were held up
at the Prince Rupert and Prince
George terminals, said Les
Bryant, Greyhound bus station

It was learned that the CNR
runs six passenger trains
through each week, Luckily, no
passenger train was scheduled
Thursday, when tracks were

Local highways crews ar

Terrace and east, 25 miles.

and pulled into the

a two hours late.
bus left Prince
Prince Rupert,

tremely hazardous,
SLOWED DELIVERY

usual Thursday.

bus arrived late Thursday.
FREIGHTS STRANDED
Although there was no
passenger service on the CNR
Thursday, all freight trains,
ranging from 60 to 100 cars,
were held up.
A source said there are about
three freights whistling through
each day each way,
However, when the tracks
were cleared, extra cars were
hooked on to the temporarily-
Stalled freights in an effort to
return to normal schedules,
“Tt will take us a long time to
catch up,” an informant said.

MacDonald said roughest
Points along the road were at
21 | the 20 mile and 45 mile section,
moved

cautiously past the cleanup | responsible for road main-

tenance 63 miles west from_|°

Bryani praised the swift job
of clearing the read and said a
bus was able to leave Prince
Rupert around noon Thursday
Terrace
depot at 4:15 p.m. - a little over

About the same time another
George for

Iey conditions east of here
was said to make driving ex-

The delay also prevented The
Herald from home delivery as

Although the newspaper is
made up locally, it is sent to
Prince Rupert where its sister
newspaper, The Daily News,
runs off The Herald on its press,

However, newspaper crews
were busy getting your paper on’
the newstands shortly after the

MONDAY, JANUARY .11, 2%

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malnutrition and it's hard to
say,”’ Mills said,

86 BEDS
Right now, Mills Memorial
has 8 beds and last Friday, 81
of them were filled. Mills
characterized that as an
average day. ©

It was

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. Son said, temperatures had
: -béen normal for this time of
-year: in the iow 20’s at night
and the high 20's.during the
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' _ The flow of warm, wet air
boosted temperatures in the
Terrace area up to the 40’s and
at night the temperatures did
not go below freezing until late
Friday. *
Thompson said the tem-
perature did not go below 39
degrees overnight Thursday
and early Friday for “a record
high low for this date.” During
the day, it edged up to 43,
“The record high tem-
perature for January in
Terrace is 49, recorded on
Jan. 30, 1962," Thompson said,
The highest daytime tem-
perature ever recorded on Jan.
7 (Thursday was 46 ‘in 1963.
The assistant weatherman
said Terrace's normal
January rainfall is two-and-
three quarters of an inch.

PRETTY DAMP

“In the three days of the
warm spell, the official
rainfall at the airport was one
half an inch,” but it was an
inch or more in many areas,
particularly the lower areas,”
Thompson said.

Out on the coast, Thompson

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Spring

said Prince Rupert out-
drenched itself for this time of
year.
He said Prince Rupert's
normal average rainfall in
January is 3.22 inches: In the
warm spell's three days, 2.05

Freezing ‘rain temporarily
hitin the Terrace area making
driving extremely hazardous.
A number of minor fender- —
benders occured.

INSTANT FREEZER

Fhompson said freezing rain
is caused when rain falls from
4 warm flow of air through a
cold trough of air in low lying
valieys...sort of an “instant
freezer”, It falls as rain, but
bewumes ice the moment it
comes into contact with a car
or the road,

Roads were reported ex-
tremely dangerous east of here.

Near Vanderhoof, RCMP
were forced to close off High-
way i6 at a_ particularly
hazardous spot for several
hours, . .
: Cool, clear pleasant air.
lifted the clouds Friday,
cooling Saturday and turning
calder Sunday, clouding over
with some snow.

If wives really dressed
to please their husbands, they'd

| recreational destinations.

Ifan emergency occurred, he
said, and beds were needed that
discharged patients were using,
extra beds would have to be set
up in hallways. :
He added that of those 96
beds, only 24 are allocated for
children. In addition, 12 beds
are used ‘for maternity, three
for. intensive care ‘and the
remaining for general pur-
poses, .

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Ski warning
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is issued ’
Warning to skiers: avoid the
slopes until you have had time
to rest up from the trip to get to
them, . .
The B.C. Automobile
Association says that a large
percentage of each season's
skiing accidents are attributed
to skiers who are not physically
or mentally up to the vigorous
demands of the sport. They are
usually tired from having
traveled for hours to get to their
traditionally remote

An increasing number of ski
facilities are urging their
patrons to get used to the
change fram being in a vehicle
for a prolonged period of time
before attempting to challenge
mountains of snow and ice,
They suggest intermediate
rests of brief to overnight
duration, depending upon. the
extent of the customer’s in-
coming journéy.
Weekend skiers obviously in a
hurry to “get there, ski and get
back” are advised by BCAA
travel experts to slow down,
take it easy and realize that the

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