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ED VAN DER LEELIE
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MARY OLSEN,
‘ADVERTISING

Insatiable Yellowhead

Two thirds of all community
newspapers along the Yellowhead

route have gone ‘‘on record’’
editorially supporting the efforts of the
Yellowhead Interprovincial Highway
Association to promote the route, a
Survey of 78 media reveals. Not one of
the newspapers who completed the
questionaire has opposed the highway
or the association.

While almost a third of the
responding editors indicated they had
not thus far taken any official editorial
stand on the subject, virtually all
indicated an almost-insatiable appetite
for more Yellowhead news. About half
the editors requested features of 500
words or more, while the balance
preferred shorter items. All but four
who replied thought they could use up
to six or more good Yellowhead stories
per year, Nearly all newspapers asked

Spirit of

Thanks to the persistence of a few
scientsts small corners of British
Columbia are being set aside as
inviolate ecological reserves.

It took them nearly six years to
convince the provincial government
that their project was worthwhile, but
there are now 28 such reserves and
recently the Ecological Reserves
Committee, a joint government-
‘scientifia,. group,» Tecammended
“establishment of another 27.

These reserves, many of them only a
few acres, are to be what Resources
Minister Ray Williston has called
“living laboratories” -- places where
scientists can observe miniature
ecosystems untouched by human hand.
and som where imperilled species of
plant and animal life, it is hoped, can
be maintained. .

The idea grew out of the
International Biological Program of

1964, but it appears -- surprise! -- that

‘Scientists to study.

for black-and-white photographs as
well - six could use colour photos.

Three quarters of the print media
said they would consider “‘hard news”’
about the Yellowhead, even if it were
not primarily local.

“Considering that many of these
papers are community weeklies who
cover primarily their local scene, we
are encouraged that so many editors
consider all Yellowhead news to have
potential significance to their readers”’
said George MacDonald, President of —
the Yellowhead Interprovincial a
Highway Association. “We intend to
see that the output of Yellowhead news
meets the demand,”

A parallel study of radio and
television media along the Yellowhead
also showed keen interest in material
about the highway and the Yellowhead
Association, although most electronic
media requested briefer items.

self-denial

B.C. is the first province to ‘take
legislative action.

The fact that to preserve parts of
B.C. it is necessary to fence them off
says something for the state to which
man has brought his environment and
for his fears of its potential It will be a
sad commentary on our first century if
all that is left of virgin nature in our
second century is a few small Plots for

Mr. Williston, “in promising
government support fo the program,
reminded the committee recently that
there must be a place in the wilderness
for job-making industry, but the
government must be commended for
every inch it gives toward
environmental protection. Perhaps
how it could be persuaded to devote
more attention to establishing some
Pcologicall reserves for People to use,

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“Living Laboratories”

The anguished concern of Canadians
over Amchitka was well expressed in a
full-page advertisement that appeared
in the Washington Pest on the very day

the announcement of Mr. Nixon’s-
decision was made.
The reasons these “concerned ”

people gave for imploring the
. cancellation of this test are too well
known to the people of Vancouver to
need repetition. Where will all this
end? The atomic warhead to be tested,
designed for the Spartan anti-ballistic
missile, is 250 times as powerful as the

bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. How Oo

big is the next one?

There is no agreement among
scientists as to what risks the test

Amchitka.

poses for the peoples of Canada,
Russia, Japan or the U.S. states
bordering the Pacific Ocean. On this
account alone it is a most dangerous,
irresponsible venture..

Millions of people, not. only

_ Canadians, deprecate such tests no

matter who authors them, Russians or
Americans, French or Chinese. But
they look to the most powerful nation in.
the world, .a. beacon light , of
democracy, to set the example.

: They-look for-a dignified reaction to.
the decision of the UN Assembly - itself
the most democratic of bodies. And for
the exercise of a Spirit of self-denial at

Brown ‘animated special, to. be

_netowrk, ..

' ‘Pebroddcast: Sunday; November? (7:00):
~- PM) in’ color: on. he ( CBC Television.

THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C.

“TUESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER. 2, 04 Vs
Letter’ to."

the Edi for

‘Sirs:

Regarding ‘the: Workmeng§
Compensation Board ..clsi : °
number 67072725... ~ O

Lbroke a window at the WCE
(Terrace) office-on Settembed o
27 and because of this have bee

“A very y sensible ruling for siupid ‘and ‘dangerous playthings eat
aa .

aren ak in

sent for a mental examinatiorggee
’ by my physician and the court 3m
I would like to clear the aire
that, bréaking -of ‘that: windowally

was merely a start and not they
end of a fight with the WCB, Ig
‘was the wrong start however. ¥
should not have used those
means in my fight to reopen m
claim and from now | will useage
the right means to bring justice
about. I will use the press anda

_ every other legal’ means tog
reopen that claim and find outiiag
exactly ‘why it, has been3imm
finalized.
In my mind the claim wasm
finalized illegally, without they
benefit of a . medical
examination. Therefore, I dare
the WCB to produce that file to
. Substantiate: their claims that Wy
they had the right to finalize it. aim
web maintain that my spinalga
condition did not come about asi
a result of an accident at work - 3s
if this was not the case, why vasa
Fhospitalized in October of 1967

Largest logging operations

Eurocan is contractor conscious.

BY DUNCAN CUMMING

Eurocan is a contrector-oriented company. Ask Archie
Stimbold who represents the Bulkley Valley division on the
Central Interior Loggers Association and is the largest of
Eurocan's logging contracts at the Interior operation.

Archie was the first contractor to sign on back in 1968 when the
Finnish-owned company began operations in the Ootsa PSYU
100 air-miles inland from its pulp mill at Kitimat near Prince
Rupert, and he has enjayed a close working relationship with the
company.

Or ask George Mackenzie, logging superintendent at the
Interior operation, whosays: 'Eurocan is very pleased with the
contractors here - our logging is 60 percent contracted and our
trucking is 100 percent contracted.” —

The Finns have a background of dealing with non-company
loggers because much of the forest land in Finland is privately
own

A hale and hearty 41-year-old, Arhice rules his home-grown
crew witha kindly, but firm hand. Mixed with a sharp wit, it’s a
combination which has helped him straddle the gap between
dealings with bath management and men.

There are five logging sides at Andrew Bay.on Ootsa Lake,
site of Eurocan’s only Interior legging show at the present time..
Contractors work three of the sides and cempany the other two,
Archie's counterparts are both Smithers-based, Fink Sawmills
and Fritz Gyger Log Haulers Ltd.

Archie did some pre-logging and road building into the area
before Jogging ‘Proper. started. git. was the break. he had. been

* walting for.”

Before Evorcan built its Kitimat pulp mill Archie and his
foreman Garry Conion had logged in the winters and sought
rental jobs with the Highways Department in the summers.

Archie and Garry, whohave been together since 1964, had only
a D7 and a Ds'in those days. Prior to this, Archie was in the
sawmill business with his father who was one of the area's
pioneers.

Eventually the Strimbold Sawmill and Planer Co. Ltd. at
Topley was sold to Pearson Lumber which in furn was
swallowed by the giant Bulkley Valley Forest Industries.

Although Archie was born in Smithers and raised in Topley
when this part of the province was the frontier, he’s no country
bumpkin when it comes to running his business,

Cost control for E.A. Stimbold Ltd. is by computer. Archie
rents computer time in Vancouver through a firm of Prince
George accountants and he receives a “print-out” each month
which helps him keep track of how much his equipment costs
and how much each piece makes ... -or loses,

The computer expert in Archie’s outfit is his “manager”, his
(wife Viola, who also has to make time to look after five kids the.
august. The eldest boy, Paul, 16, worked this summer on his
dad’s show. The kids apparently learn toski as quickly as |
walking, a legacy of the Stimbold’s Scandinavian heritage, and
the mantel is full of medals and trophies,

Equipment in the Strimbold stable now Includes a Dé, 4 D9
three Timberjack 494 skidders (three others skidders are hired)

a 966 and a 980 loader, a bunch of pickups ‘and a snazzy mobile -
workshop.

This last item Archie picked up at an auction and it boasts alr ©
and lube equipment, compressors welding gear and just about
everything else he might need to keep his equipment inthe bish -
runn:

In a lithe office in the back of the ‘trailer workshop, Archie
produces copies of company reports which show the welght per
cubic foot of the logs he harvests. :

“I know there’s no hanky-panky when I have these,” says
Archie. "Lots of companies won't show these to their

_ contractors,"

Another indication of the good relationship contractors enjoy

- -with the company is that they have access to the $30,000 worth of
. “parts which the company keeps in stock. The contractors -
_:, Teplace or pay for anything they use, and notify the company of

their spare parts to avoid. duplication,

Right now, the contractors are on one-year contracts, bit five
year contracts subject t to annual review. may not me in the too
distant’ ‘future...

a
Mackenzie,

Hayes HDXs fitted with 14-foot bunks an and hauls tout

_ trucks ha:

, made up in winter and prevents a backlog of work in the spring,

7 does the towing. A standard, small coastal tug tows up to’ five”
. yafts at a:time, each containing

between Ootsa and Tahtsa Lakes. The bundles dre loaded onto
off-highway trucks for the 35 mile haul aver Sandifer Pasa to
‘Udewater at Kemano where they are boomed agalnand towed to

“Forwarding is worthwhile here if we can use it 50-60 percent

of the year,” comments Mackenzie, explaining that the 990 is
versatile enough to be fitted in to a bit of loading and sorting
when not forwarding: Forwarding was applied 70 percent of last
season, but Mackenzie
assessing its future right now.” — -

Archie runs four skidders, the company six, and the other two
contractors bring the total to 20. Archie expects steady work
with Eurocan. There is upto 15 years of cutting left on the TSHL
where he currently works and Euorcan will undoubtedly open up
new operations as the need occurs.

The Eurocan pulp mills mixes coast fibres and fibres from the
interior to manufacture its special gradeof pulp. Euorcan has a
logging operation at Kemano and eventually the cut will be
about 50-50 between the coast and the Interior. .

The timber in the interior is 60 percent pine, 35 percent spruce
and the remainder is balsam,

“Of-highway trucks are best for our system,” ’ contends
Mackenzie who has been watching the trucks fitted with 14-foot
bunks since they were introduced last season. -

All trucking is contracted out. Ross Goodwin and Peter
Heibert both of Burns Lake, have Kenworths with eight-foot
bunks and John Scheck of Ootsa Lake an International with
eight-foot bunks.

Fritz Gyger has a truck with eight-foot bunks: asa spare, but

usually runs a Hayes fitted with 14-foot bunks. Roy Saunders af.

Nanaimo, Evorean’s largest trucking contractor, operates three
ie lake dum

Logs were bucked to 45 feet unti this summer. when 70 feet
became the maximum in an effort to cut down on handling.

The trucks with 14 foot bunks average 155,000 pounds net,
29-30 cunits, while the trucks with eight-foot bunks are carrying

16 17 cunits, Surprisingly, the bigger trucks appear to require _

less maintenance and have fewer tire problems, Bald logging
superintendent Mackenzie,

He credits.this to the fact that there are a few steep- grades.
“We plan to go entirely to the bigger size in the future and the
contract truckers have indicated they are willing to buy the
bigger trucks: as soon. as we have enough productica,”
Mackenzie reveals. ’

Although the big trucks have the muscle, they do not have: the .-

traction of the smaller trucks. ‘A big truck will go up‘a six

percent adverse without chains, but after that it’s stuck, Also,’ -

because of the way the wheels and springs are set up, chains are
hard to attach,
’ But the big trucks are mere stable aad can cross rougher

ground, enthuses Mackenzie who admits to being “sold’ on :

them despite initjal fears they would be unsuitable.

“Even the loading is proportionately faster,”. he says, -‘‘The «

big trucks will take-on 30 cunits in 45 minutes while the smaller
ones take on 14 cunits in-30 minutes.”

Time is lost trying to fit the last few logs atop the eight foot -

bunks, and loading is easier ‘on the 14-foot bunks because they .
are fitted with a flip-top stake developed a year ago by Roy
‘Saunders. .

The contractors are consulted over new equipment. and
techniques. Archie and logging superintendent Mackenzie
would both like to try a feller-buncher.

- You can’t inventory ahead with the: shears hecause after a

single pass in winter the felled trees may become buried with —

snow before the . skidders reach them, declares logging
superintendent Mackenzie. -

Innovations are everywhere on. Archie's side, raning from
bits welded on the tree shear to make handling easler, through... .
dozer blades adapted to slide ontoa loader's forks, to 45-gallons .
-water tanks atop the cats to stop engine fires and | quench brush |

_ fires started by’ machinery sparks.

: Euroean is ‘responsible ‘for 30,000. acres urider® ‘its: cutting

-permitat Andrew Bay and it is not taking any chances with fire. °

More than two-three times the forest service minimum for fire-

fighting equipment is available and regular practices are-held,

The yequirements are for acrew at the fire in three minutes and:

‘water. in five,

‘Although Arehie is not personally involved in many aspects of
life at Andrew Bay, he is an integral part of. the whole the same
fame

a See ‘bécause ‘company. ‘and contractors ‘share’

ler camp:

sites a Madill Crane which lifts and dumps an.

jogs into'the lake in two milnutes.. The ‘trees. are
bundled on the larger trucks, but two loads from the sinaller
‘be are etter: at the: lakeshore: hefore

ve milé pipe lai arid A
‘keep about. 100. acrea: of the bay ice-free:“‘Thrée main sections

can be kept open individually. "The system enables booms to be

:. Two dozer boats make up. the booms and Rivtow Marine Ltd. -

the 87 mile haul to the head of Tahtsa Lake; 2
The rafts have.to be split up and shuttled through the narrows

mill at Kitimat,-another $7-mile water jour#ey
Roy Saunders ‘has a fleet. HDXs swith iefoot: Bus

noncommittedly remarks: ‘we! re.

“ Ont! takestiore ‘{ust betow the camp ‘whieh contractors and :
q : window.’ Again I asked for. the. |i

7 came to court only to commit
? me for.a mental examination. :

s ‘another. doctor ‘fromi:.the sane.

900 cunlts. It takes: 50 hours for ca

‘ and, why. was I. drawi
compensation-for that injury.
That injury. was nev
properly investigated. I was
released from hospital, still in]
pain, which persisted months #
- later. When. sometime in the
first months of 1968 I_asked by 1m
physician for help. Ihad an x-|
ray to check if [ had-had ulcers.
. When the result was negative, f%
the doctor did not proceed to @
find. out what the real cause of @
my. discomforts were jm
Therefore, the hospital kept on ‘Gm
sending.me the bill for that x-
ray until the fall of that year, @
not realizing that I ‘actually
have had. an incomplete
investigation of an accident and 7%
not ulcer trouble, From then or im
I was under the impression that 4
the pain would gradually "%
disappear, !
T tried several times to go
back to work but every time the 7%
pain came back. Then in about
the middle of November, 1970, §
my realization that I was not @
able to work prompted: me to
ask for a'complete. investigation
and then the trouble with the J
~ doctors and WCB started. .
On December 21, 1970, I was ia
advised that the. claim was:

I was on compensation for an B
accident I sustained in August,
1970, and-in order to be justly
compensated for the 1970
accident the board wanted proof
of my wages or of my health. j§
Since 1 was not capable of |g
holding a -job in my trade, I |
asked my. doctor ta send my
medical report to the WCB. .
Now the doctor claims that. he
does not know anything about
that, since -] did not see. him
lately regarding this matter.
Finally I succeeded to have an
xray taken months later - in
February, 1871, and this is the |i
manner 1 went about it. Iwent 1§
- to the office of WCB:and laid im
down on the counter, telling the

‘employees there, either to call (ix
the police, an ambulance or (im
make an x-ray. appointment.
After lying down for about a
half an hour,1 ended up withan 5%
. &ray. appointment from my jem
physician. The result of this x-- i

: ray alone proves that my spinal fm
trouble alone didn't allow meto 7m

_ work. therfore now this 3g

_ Warrants:a complete medical Fam
examination on the 1967 claim, HR
_ plus it-serves to: answer an 1m

- inquiry from WCB on the 1970 (a
claim in order to set the amount
of compensation for that claim.

_ Now ‘alk the time 1. have-
‘visited: my ‘physician reularly,
_ asking: : for: any«: help -
“ medication if'not otherwise tut
to stop the pain and I was not
_ able:to obtain even a‘ pill from ‘if
- that doctor but on September 27,
1971 1 broke a window. in the: |
‘WCB office in protest of the 1967:
claim being’ finalized and not”
being able to obtain any help for
the: pains } Twas having =
‘ The same. day I was arrested
to pay my debls to society for |f
‘themischief of breaking -the }

doctor to: prescribe: somethirig
4 for the pain but the good doctor

So again T-asked fora doctor |
. ~ because I was still in Balin... Now.

* clinic... ‘prescribed --; some’
- medicine merely, hy consulting
“my*. files. ands:for’ your:
“Indormation it helped. to relieve
the pain..; . 3

C:.was: ‘sent to Riverview
“Mental, Hospital, ‘nevertheless, |
found ‘sang: and: able;:to. stand.
trial for mischief and I am now
‘Serving. a.six: months suspended
sentence for. breaking that