THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER INSTANT TOWN Town plan of B.C.’s newest community, Gold River on Vancouver Island, shows lay- out of streets and develop- ment zones. Revised in late December, the plan is not ex- pected to change now except in minor details. First resi- dents have been living in Area A since October 18, 1965. They are mostly families employed by the Tahsis Com- pany Ltd.’s Gold River log- ging division who formerly lived in the Gold River log- ging camp at the rivermouth nine miles from the town, where the Tahsis Company is now building a 750-ton bleach- ed kraft pulp mill. HOMES Twenty more homes are now being built in Area B and 37 in the lower portion of Area C, scheduled for com- pletion this spring. Work has started on 85 apartments in seven units in Area J. Work is under way on the B.C. Tele- phone Company’s central of- fice building on the lot just north of the apartment, be- tween the church site and the civic and commercial centre. Work will begin this spring on a 50-room hotel and the service station. The 16-room - permanent elementary school is scheduled to go into opera- tion this fall, the secondary school a year later. The town- site construction camp is cur- rently located at the south end of the town in the com- munity playing field across the Heber River. POPULATION Gold River, a self-govern- ing community located within the Tahsis Company’s Tree Farm Licence 19, about 50 miles west of Campbell River, is expected. to have a popula- tion of 2,000 when the Tahsis Company’s Gold River pulp mill goes into operation in mid-June 1967. APARTMENTS Construction has started on the million-dollar apartment complex at Gold River. The complex is the first major pri- vate development in the town and the apariments will be built on a three-acre site pur- chased by the owners near the heart of the new commun- ity. The apartment blocks will be grouped around a central recreation pavilion, swimming pool and wading pool. ALL ELECTRIC There will be 36 one-bed- room units, 42 two-bedroom suites and six three-bedroom apartments in the develop- ment, which will further the concept of Gold River as Can- ada’s first all-electric town by utilizing electric heating. Each apartment will be equipped with range, refriger- ator, garbage disposal unit, laundry equipment and drapes. The owners say that rents will be in line with compar- able accommodation in the Vancouver and Lower Main- land area. Single bedroom apartments will rent for $129 a month, two-bedroom suites for $147 a month, and three- bedroom units for $172 a month. QUOTE ‘North American industry, as a whole, is a long way from being in fighting trim,’ Rothmans. of Canada _presi- dent John H. Delvin said yesterday. “American industry has found that it can manufacture its products cheaper overseas than the United States or Canada, he told the Toronto Chapter of the American Marketing Association. “Walk into any expense account restaurant in any cap- ital in Western Europe and you think you have stumbled into a meeting of the Am- erican Management Associa- tion,’ said Mr. Devlin. “We see Japanese radios made in Japan competing against American brand name radios, also made in Japan! And you have all been in sou- venir shops in Canada where everything but the owner was made in Hong Kong,’ “In many cases it’s exces- sive management costs rather than the traditional labor scapegoat that makes North American industry uncom- petitive, he said. “Here in North America we have the most expensive approach to industrial man- agement that exists anywhere on earth.’... “Blaming administrative corpulence for escalation of costs, he said ‘I do not think we can go on indulging in this expensive luxury of hiring 10 men to make one man’s de- > 99 cisions’, —From report of address to AMA's 13th annual management seminar, Toronto, January 7, 1966. IE IES SECONDARY SCHOOL meee WEF TOWN OF GOLD RIVER Dectanen 1948 SERVICE INDUSTRIES ZONE =~ GOLD RIVER APARTMENTS ~~. &