The Herald, Monday, October 29, 1979 Page 7

By TONY ATHERTON

It might be supposed that with one of the
world’s finest harbors, located smack in the
middle of British Columbia's shaggy north coast, °
Prince Rupert would be a natural for. the export
of forest products. _—

The supposition would be quite correct, but
the development of that potential is surprisingly
recent.

The recent upswing is not solely the result of

sudden increased logging ‘activity, however.

Although innovative techniques have broadened
the‘industry, forestry on the north.coast has a
history as venerable as that of fishing.

One major catalyst for the improvement is a
new emphasis on Prince Rupert as a major port.
. Pulp has been’a major commodity for the
port since 1951 when Canadian Cellulose Co, Ltd.
{formerly Columbia Cellulose) first opened on
Watson Island south of the city. A second kraft
pulp plant which began operation last fall has
meant increased throughput for the port, and it’s
a fact that only wheat’ surpasses pulp in the
volume of commodity through the port.

But if pulp exports have been a success
story, lumber shipments have had a checkered
career.

A decade and a half ago, the Vancouver-

| based Johnston Terminals, operating a section of

the Canadian National Railways Ocean Dock on
the Prince Rupert waterfront pioneered the
throughput development of rough lumber from
mills as far away as the Albertan rockies. But
exports were limited, and the small. volumes
were further reduced by the closure of the city’s
only local sawmill in 1969. .

The burning of the CNR Ocean Dock in June
of 1972 marked the end of an era for the Port of
Prince Rupert, but another event, three months
earlier, had already launched a new age.

In March of the same year, exactly 60 years
after Prince Rupert had been recognized as a
national port, federal recognition of the need for
awest coast alternative to Vancouver resulted in
the designation of the city as a National Harbor.

The decision to press for harbor develop-
ment in Prince Rupert could not have come

sooner. Acroes the province, 1972 was the
beginning of a dramatic upswing in exports, with
forest products retaining a high place among
export commodities.

The National Harbors Board was not long in
assessing the situation replacing the potential of
the razed CN'dock with Fairview Terminal,
completed in mid-1977. The 40-acre terminal,
with its 1,400 feet of dock space, provides ample

space for handling various commodities, and, *

following the installation of lumber treatment
tanks in 1978, the port again began to attract the.
interest of northern B.C. mills. :

By the end of this year some 70 million board —

feet of lumber will have passed through the port,
representing a 100 per cent increase over last
year's throughput. But, according to Port
Manager Bob Kitching, the port’s capacity for
lumber shipments has not yet even been dented.

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There are singular problems facing the

further expansion of lumber throughput,
however, About 90 per cent of the port’s lumber
shipment this year originated at one Prince
George mill, Northwood. The remaining ten per
cent was cream, unexpected, but not uhap-
preciated, collected when intense fall flooding
briefly cut off the regular eastward freight train
route of two Terrace mills.

And yet, over the next few years, Kitching
boldly predicts another 100 per cent increase —
and more.

There is a half billion board feet of lumber
preduced annually in northern B.C., most of it
destined for markets in mid-western U.S. With
controlled low freight rates on U.S. rail carriers,
the mills find it cheaper to ship their praduct by
train. mo

With the US.
deregulation of freight rates. as an aid to
faltering carriers, rates are likely to increase
dramatically. Kitching says this could cause

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overnment considering.

Bright future predicted for lumber here

many of the mills to court alternative markets,
perhaps along the U.S. Pacific Coast, and ship
through Prince Rupert,

But hoped for increases will not be totally
accounted for by a sudden shift in the shipping
practices of interior mills. Talk of new local
jumber mills, a decade after the Prince Rupert
Forest Products closed its doors, has port of-
ficials licking their chops in keen anticipation,

Two major mill proposals are presently
before the provincial Forest Service awaiting a
decision on timber supply after a Prince Rupert
Forest District Timber inventory is released
next month,

Officials of Silver Grizzly Logging say that
an experimental helicopter logging operation on
the Khutzeymateen Inlet about 60 kilometres
north of here.has proved successful enough to
warrant a local mill, with an annual output of up
to 50 million board feet. -

Silver Grizzly’s Elmer Kish says that the
new mill may be dependent on obtaining timber
rights on the Scotia River, now held by Q.C.
Timber Ltd. with sawmills in the lower
mainland. A further hitch in the proposal is the
company’s expressed desire to set up its milling
operations on Ridley Island, whose fate is, as
yet, still in limbo.

A less conditional proposal is one put for-
ward by Gregory Industries Lid, a wall
panelling manufacturer in Delta. Gregory is
eying a piece of BCDC property at Miller Bay
recently rezoned light industrial at the request of
the Development Corporation.

Greogry Industries president, George
Malpass, says s for the $6 million mill call
for annual production of some 40 million board
feet of lower grade spruce and hemlock for
markets in Japan. .

The output from these proposals alone could
increase the port's lumber throughput by almost
100 million board feet annually.

Tn addition, a recently completed roll-on rall-
off facility at Fairview has made the barging of
lumber, an economic mode of transport over

” short distances feasible.

Story and photo courtesy the Prince Rupert Daily News

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
visionary development plan
for Vancouver's. decayin
waterfront: that; :took.-17
months and s§18d to
develop has- . ant
since it wap unveiled with
fanfare 19 months ago.

Meanwhile, similar plans
for other Pacific ports, such
as San Diego, Callf., are
moving, ahead while the
National Harbors Board
proposal fades into the
distance. .

The Vancouver plan, set
out in 69 gloasy pages and
exquisite artist's con-

ceptions, featured proposals...

that’. would... change the

harbor from a wasteland of |

rotting plers, railway tracks,
unkempt gravel car parks
and a handful of marine
businesses operating out of
portable shacks into a
wonderland of parks, shops,
restaurants and moorage for
fishing boats and service

vessels.

A public fish market was:
to be located on a Canadian
Design
course
to be

held here

The Terrace Art
Association ia sponsoring 4
Tapestry Design Workshop
by Barbara Falkowska on
Nov.. 10 and 11.

Falkowska Is from War: -

saw, Poland and is a
graduate of the Academy of
Fine Arts in Warsaw. She
has exhibited her tapestries
in many one-man and group
shows throughout Poland, in
China, Mexico, Denmark,
Belgium and Italy. Her
shows have algo a i

Leningrad, Stuttgart,
Cologne, Prague, Lausanne,
New York and most recently

in. Stockholm.

Her work is included in a
number of museumc, a8 well
as in private collections in
Europe and North America.
She Is fluent in English and is
an experienced instructor.

For more information on
this workshop and to
register, phone Mary Walker
at 695-6404, Barbara Highe at
635-7562, or write the Terrace
Art Associatlon, Box 82,
Terrace, B.C. VBE 4A4.

3 to 4.weeks.

Port plan stalled _

‘National: Railways pier at

-the foot of Main Street on

&§ . Burrard Inlet.iParkland
manmade

¢ would lead to a
: island. There; s
< gunlit ‘squares’ find’ rooftop

gardens,
_ So much for the dream,
The reality is that the
harbora board, a federal
agency, has not yet com-
pleted the first step, which
was to negotlate with CNR
with a view to taking over
the pler. 3
The negotlations started,
stalled and got nowhere,
The res Rls {he Van
cpuver! port, anada's
ie geat in terms of tonnage
shipped, remains as it was.
The principal consultant

behind the harbors

plan, Gerald Hamilton of
Central Waterfront Con-
aultants, says the report now
ls out of date, although he
believes it could atili be a
useful blueprint for a revived

. Bho and eating areas,
The un Diego be

BARBARA —
FALKOWSKA

CLOSURE

The Salvation Army THRIFT STORE will be closed
until further notice as of Monday, Oct. 29th due
to renovations. Donations of clothing, etc. are
gratefully declined until the sto e re-opens in
Watch for announcements of

reopening dates.

were to ibe, d
“gervative ‘federal govern-

-' take a percentage of the
, revenue from food and Hquor

- strewn wasteland with no-

controlled by austerity-
ghbfoOttawa, lacks beth the
authority and the funds’ to
move 6's fgodahead., ¢

_ The newProgressive Con-

ment has honored a Liberal
pledge to provide $10 million
for a convention centre on
the waterfront, but is
unlikely to advance any
more, he says.

A board spokesman: says
although in-house

being conducted, no physical
‘improvements such aa plier
demolition or fill programs
to; straighten the ragged.
shoreline are planned before.
next spring.

Port manager Fred Spoke
says the key to the plan will
be the convention centre, to
cost an estimated §25
million. Once work gets
under way, the rest of the
pleces will fall into place like
& jigsaw puzzle, he says.

While Vancouver is a

ber, paper, sulphur, coal, §

potash, grain and metals,
San Diego is the permanent

base for 150 U.S. Navy ships. (izes

But the two cities are
similar in size and both were
left with a decaying
waterfront aa ships and the
industries which service
them moved away fram the
downtown core.

The difference is that the] ©

California city now Is into the

final stage of construction of |

an it-acre complex named
Seaport Village which is
expected to attract three-to-
four million visitors a year
and provide §00 touriat-
industry related jobs. I

Private industry has put
up the $i4-million cost for
walkways, contoured gar-
dens, picnic areas and a
bicycle path leading to

ego port will

and use it to build non-profit
facilities such as parks.

Meanwhile, in the
equivalent area of Van-
couver, strollera along the
waterfront find a garbage-

where to sit and harbors
board signs along a pitied
roadway warning the public
to stay away unless they are
on busines.

engineering studies are ~

Capt. D. Thompson
Commanding Officer

. thing as perfect, that

L___. Teat drive the amazing Tercel at your Toyota dealer.

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Total Economy Project. Longitudinal Engine.

Toyota will be the first to
tell you that there’s no such

they will never stop trying to
pertect, to improve the
automobile.
introducing Tercel, the
Phase 2 Economy Car far
the crucial years to come.

Front Wheel Prive. in designing Tercel with a
. Toyota's Tarcelcenjbines fore-and-aft (longitudinal)
front wheel drive withla new Engine, Toyota has created
1.5 litre SOHC longitiidinal 4 Powerplant which is.ex-
engine, 4-wheel inde- ceptionally easy to service.

pendent suspension, direct This ease of access will
transmission linkage, |
2500mm (98") wheelbase ing your new Tercel toa
and special suspensio minimum.

eometry. 3

The Tercel has been 4-Wheel Independent

designed to reduce toa Suspension.
minimum the tendency of For years racing cars
some front wheel drive have used a 4-wheel
vehicles to veer with ac- independent suspension.

celeration or deceleration.

Naturally, Tercel has

- TOYOTA TERCEL.
The first perfect small car?

4-wheel independent

suspension with MacPher:

son front strut and pure

trailing rear arms. There are

stabilizer bars both front

and rear. To improve steer:

ing stability and brake

efficiency, to reduce to a

minimum snatching and
torque steering, Toyota

has ingeniously employed

slightly positive — offset

kingpin geometry on Tercel.

Thus shock transmitted

from the road to the steer-

ing wheel is efficiently
supressed and steering

help keep the cost of operat- balance is maintained.

The Lineup.

The four Tercel models

The Economy Story.

1980 Toyota Tercel 1.5 litre Fuel
Consumption in Iitres per 100 km,

Comparative
Urban Hi-way

Rating
6.9°
Estimates

*6.9 Utres/ 100 km equals
approximately 41 m.p.g.
1 galion equals 4.5 Litres.

*Numbers based on laboratory
tests using approved Transport
Canada test methods. Actual
consumption will vary. Urban
winter consumption will be
algnificantly greater, Consult the
1980 Transport Canada Guide
for detalls.

The automatic Terce! is

the lowest priced front wheel

drive automatic sold in

(Sedan, Sedan TG, Liftback Canada. In fact, the lowest

and SR5 Liftback) require

priced Tercel casts less than

very little by way of options. the lowest priced Honda.

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