1962 FORD. _— #100.
“Bloknp truck with ry foot: box. Call

Ernie Fisher or Jolin Ber

Bob: Pankey,

“Phone 435-2801
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riuary. 3,- 1968

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Snow. slides

~ snarl traffic :

ver’ holidays

‘Christmas weekend WAS B

iranayo
and apie a8 BnOW. reached a depth of 28 inches and eontimied
Th oie of the whitest Christmases recorded for the Terrace ,

area, hundreds of motorists
plowed ; out, .
could get home.

Snow removal chores.

“We put on an extra loader, five additional. ‘tucks! and.

three ranted graders to cope
He said the only snow remo

is that of a few contre islands ondowntown streets, Buncombe ».

said milder weather and possible rain would finish the

. Coachways System encountered no real problems

‘for snowslides onthe highways’ according to a commae
spokesman who commented.on Friday,

“We ran ‘extra buses to. accommodate the heavy. trafic.

At one time we were running four buses out of Prince George

and they were coming out of Vancouver as fast as ‘they could

load up,”’

People travelling north through the Fraser Canyon
cars off the road every half mile dué to aevere icea

conditions. .

CNR trains yan slightly pat: regular schedules as tumerous
express stops were ‘made at small way -statlons: between

_; Jasper and Prince Rupert,

“ passenger train did not leave Terrace ‘untll 10:20 p.m. .
. Hardest worked of all transportation facilities was Cana.
’ dian Pacific Airtines which had virtually every phase of ite

job hampered. by snow and fog
' * @Qne flight was- ‘iverted to Prine ‘George | when the. plot
was unable to land at Terrace,. Prince- Rupert, or Smithers, :

Many more waltéd fo. he plowed out 80 they:

Municipal Works § Supsrintendent’ Hank Buicombe told the:
Herald that the public was very covoperative: ‘when it came to

vo

‘furry of rtation iteaps :

‘stayed at home waiting’ tobe .

with the’ job," Buncombe aald,
val job remaining at the moment

prolest.

ried
‘BnOW -

The Christmas Eve. westbound:

‘Highways.

Traffic Ianes-to all points
rhour period over: Boning Day,

“reverse fo |
miss slide.

When a mountain roars down
Jan avalanche .of boulders,’ snow
f ‘and crushing ice, you have: to
think quickly,

Terrace cab driver Norman
Derrick heard the roar Decemb-
er 26 wiille driving passengers

A to Rupert.
Derrick jammed on his brake
s, slammed: into reverse .and
i with only. -feet to epare escap-
athe slide,
His passengers held: their| 5
;>reath for a: few-moments as
the taxi ‘sped ‘backwards down
or the highway,
a): The snowsllde pounded over the
wy xoad ‘and haliway across the
ai Skeena river, sending vapor
ie clouds of snow and mist into the
"air,
.’ This close ‘brush’ with death
ame on Tuesday - night . (Dec.|-
mber 26}... -

The cab. was talking “pus,

Ag passengers -to. Prince Rupert af-

#4 ter they ware unable to get seata |
on the evening bus run,

yi. Among them was Jim Irvine

4} 3x,, son-of, Mr, and -Mrs, Jam-
as Irvine of Terrace,

Jt. was just. too. close for
comfort,’ he told his parents |g

when he arrived back in ‘Ter-

new: could all ' ‘sop ‘the. snow
and. rock coming down in front
‘of us and nobody knew for sure
Just how long the’ slide was or

when and’ where it was’ golng |

0 stop, And the nolse waa the
f; weirdest thing I've ever heard,’
‘After turning back: to Dumont's
4 coffes”
i Woat, the travellers learned thoy
ould -have to walt) wntilhigh-
ways: .erews cleared a smaller
‘slide near Amesbury be ore hey
could return to Terrace." |

' more slides feared

. open highwaya’
: _ out of Terrace after snowslides cut communications for a 2h

| miles further west,

ahop on Highway 16 | pH,

, 1" West,

open. but

are now on main

here,"

one step. ahead of: avalanches
{on titghway :16- West.”
Four major slides and three
‘| smalier ones plagued snowplow
crews and motorists, Heavy |
snows “and thawing . conditions
‘combined to make driving trea.
‘cherous. along the Skeena river.
Normally the snowslide. pericd
does not er until vat |
ary or. early February. ree
‘foot snowiall locally, brought with} .
it the hazardous‘slide ronalitions
The first major slideoccurred
at Mile 42 west.an Highway 16,
at about 10 p,m, ‘on Boxing Day,
_At approximately’ midnight ‘a
ecomd major avalanche wiped
out CNR. telegraph Hnes as well |:
as. the highway at-a Point ‘two

‘As Department of Highways |
erews worked “to get the
road eleared; yet another Brow.
slide plummettedacrossthehighe |.
way at Mile. 50, ..The fourth
alide .came. down at. Mile 3%.

‘Several vehicles were trapped |:
between the’ sides, awaiting Tes«)°
cue’ by highways crews, Snowe
‘plows and tractors on several|.

the rupbid: only: to’ find they had:
been cut off by more falling snow

In the Amosbury Bluff area,
numerous ‘minor slides: cut off
tratfle but’ were guleily eleared

"Seckesman for. the Department

of way, - ‘Homer Goode told

élearing finished ‘on Wednesday |
afternoon at about 1:15,

Goode said ‘the eombination of |:
heavy ” .- snowfall plus; mild]:
temperatures probably . was : to
blame for.the unexpected deluge,
said.that ‘several of the usual
‘slide’ areas have .not yet’ res
ledsed thelx snovpacks, aud ‘that
a -danger’
motorists Venturing onto Highw

chews. tried: sabeptrately, 2. kon .

Douglas climbs aboard. for his. last trib'as
condictar Friday, watched. by ‘engineer Art Solger and taré- |
: ed by” CN -workers. Bob Brown, ©, HL Miller, G.E, Silsby |
A and R. M, Cameron, - See story below,

Rode first: passenger train. to Kitimat

(Big Jim leaves his

caboose

after 45 riding years.

occasions ‘dug thelr way through |

High
the’ Herald’ Thursday that traffic |:
is: “now restored. -with: final |":

still exists’ for® all | ihe: wi

“1368 stork late.
then gangbusters

‘Terrace’ ‘sefirst baby to be- bom i irs, Canada’ s second .

gantry took his time.-"-., - De tae Bae

1

‘But .wher he-orrived it was gangbusters at Mills

‘Memorial: Hospital, : aan me

other early Tuesday. morning,  *
Official winner was’6 pound 15 oz, "Baby: “bay
.Nahuliak, son_of Mr. ‘and Mes. ‘Walter’ ‘Nahuliak, ve

The, ‘strong secorid place spot was takenby'8 ‘pétmd

“seven. Oz. z.: Baby. Seager, son of Mr,” ond ‘Mrs. Erwin: Sea-

the otal search, for ‘the first ‘baby, to. be born in
Canada’s 5:s ecorid ‘century: was stalled whier’ ‘it? ‘appeared
thatthe ‘stork, ‘like cther ‘cirborne ; ‘carriers; had *- been
-diverted: ‘ftom Terrace to land at Prince Rupe or ‘Smith-
‘Ors, oo

sree for the 29 our. tardiness.

“Babi Seager

aw Two: babies were ‘born, within’ half a minute af each

~ Bit’the. Tuesday. ‘morning’ ‘touchdown: midre ‘than +3

‘tive, ‘at

. Big. - Jim: Douglas ‘checked his
papers. and ¢ Tinibed. “UD. ‘onto the
big diesel;

- It wasa routine: trip. to: “Kite
> |-imat,, But ‘tt wasn't rouline when
| he made it.on January, 1955 when
‘be’ brought ‘the first passenger
train into. the aluminum town.

y Eviday the trip toand from Kit-
Limat ‘Was his. last job for CNR,
It: was: the end: of 45 years of
raglroading for Jim Douglas, ..

At‘69; he’s: retiring to build
a’ ‘house, at the mouth of the
Copper Rivér, .

“He“has | pent most of his rail-
‘roading. years. ‘on the Canadian
_ National" B rortheirn Line, .

-sHis ‘career. started in 1917
-working out-of McBride on the
‘Grand Trunki: Rallroad,

“He drew his first:railroad pay

| chee atthe age of 12 as a\=
‘call boy to round up train crews,

“By” the time he was 15 he was
bond a regular: shift as. brake-

m Mie took’ one year ‘oft ite: tall.
une in 1925 altar atrain crash,
Bat:’he.. was back: in June, 1926
: rakeman,’ and on January
3, 1931 he _Fecelved conduct-

‘s'statug, * a
He “worked: on’ lines through
‘the: Rockies: ’ from‘. Edmanton,
, aa to Smithers in, the tid

As soon as
possible’ -
- Bates told.

Av mall ‘box-will be an added

“accessory for Terrace homes in

1968, °.
Federal Liberal ‘candidate for

| Skeena, Art Bates predicted(Dec-

ember 27) that a letter. carrier
-service would start in 1968. He
said he has recelved a letter
from thé' Postmaster General's
‘Offica in Ottawa confirming the
service,

But there is no indication yet
of when home delivery of mail
will start, :

Bates aid that tha Post atfiee
letter inferred that it would be

. “as soon as possible’, :
Post office authorities wilt |

first plan postal routes. And mail
boxes, will need to be added to
homes and apartments by home
owners and tenants. -.

-The decision to grant. home |
mail delivery to Terrace appar.
ently follows a survey. of hom-
es made here last October by

postal authorities,

The survey was anactual count
of houses and population to. see

JOINS 1968

HERALD

LS " Laconic, shrewd, with an insight into lhe humen

foibles,. =

Those -are ‘three ways of. desciibing Ann Landers,:
the witty qnalyst of human problems who comes ‘to, the.
Terrace Omineca Herald this week,” -_ - ;

‘The first colurnn appears: ‘on page 3. It wl be. :

regular feature:

‘Addition of the Ana Landers columey: io: “regular
features is-just one, of new ideas going. into the “Terrace
Omineca Herald, 1968 version. Watch’ for” ‘moré!:

ideas in the. next six weeks.

if-there were the required 2,000 _

calls in. a ' concentrated. area,

An earlier ‘count the previous:
year had revealed that ‘Terrace
Was approximately 10 short of
the requirements, -

Commenting on -his commun-
ication with the Ottawa ‘postal
authorities, Bates said: “This
is most. heartening news, I must
commend the Post Office’ De-
partment for thefr. speed in sur-
veying and-recommending the ox- |
panded and neces

No riews is good news. fromthe

“Terrace Fire Department: °
, “And that’s the way things stood
on Thursday, December 28, as

Terrace residenta began to rouge |

themgelves from their’ Christ-

_” | mas : lethargy: and. tesumé “the 7

regulaf work. routineg; . ~
“Fire. Chief~Ardy ,Owens ‘told

, = th. Hoxald: -"'We. ‘haven't a thing | °
'{t0.: report. This -has: been te

-| quietest Christmas ‘holiday i
years for the Terrace Fire De-
‘{Bartment,?™ t.

‘He ‘added. a word of, warning:
“And I hope it stays-that. way,’

Former: Christmases that
have dawned cold and’ ‘clear,
have .called firemen out when
"do-it-vourself”’ plumbers | at-
attemptad to thaw frozen’ water
ted to thaw frozen water suiply
supply lines, or when careles
placed Christmas. tree lights set
homes afire, .

-Fire reports’ from across. the
nation over the Christmas week.
end revealed parents and child-
ren dying “in Quebec and: Sask-
atchewan fn audden fires, *

In Terrace, the’ pleture Was
a ‘Trach happier’ one,

’ A giant tree-burping at aTwel-
fth Night Bonfire ia ‘scheduled
here on Friday evening. Rasid-
ents will be-able to rid-their
homes of their dried-out ‘highly’
combustible Christmas trées,

“VANCOUVER (CP). — People’
Should..be treated as persons,

‘not things, Mary Frame. told a

‘recent inatitute of tha Executtve
Housekeepers -. _Associgiton. of
B.C, Mrs, Frame,’ an executive | ——
housekeeper at ‘a ‘rehabilitation
centre ‘here, sald: “There is no
greater’: contribution’ to an or
ganization: ‘than to develop: the}
potential : of an employee so he

can’ becorhe mora ‘selfdirecting.

and . consequently ‘more Dro
ductive

“perrace: tn’ one: of ‘the most;
‘uonredictable: airports we ‘have
40-deal- with,” explained Cana,
dian Pacific. Airlines public re.

B director Jim McKeachie
of Vancouver,

The | “Herald. “canbe, “Mes
Keachie while doing a: “ebeck on
Christmas. travelling.::.. Heavy :
snow put. flights off schedule
All passengers t Terrace got
through - but . there .were some’.

| with drinking drivers,

-ers, Corporal Lawson said. 3. .

‘the. power..to suspend 4 driv.

ed this. week!-that. Thomas "A,

White Xmas

“Terrace ROMP have 1 no quar: :

rel with a |. White Christmas.
While police--manned sniffing
Stations, they had few encounters

“The show was a ‘God-send, 4

‘Herald, .. \

“People, whip. were | "visiting
house to. ‘house just. walked,"

Police ‘setup 37. roadblocks |p
in the Christmas. period to Dec.
ember 2, and halted 457 cars,
. One driver received a 24-hour
license suspension, - :

But -two--others wore charged

with belng impaired,

‘Nine other, charges were [aid
under the motor vehicle code and
26 other drivers were ordered ta|:
have repairs made to their cars,

- Despite hazardous driving con.
ditions, only.12 accidents were
reported. No one was injured,

Because’ of the snow it was
not ‘possible ‘to assess ‘whether
the new curbside suspenstion law
had any effect on drinking driv. |-

Corporal, Jobin Lawson told the, :

|major . diversions, . Cne' flight -
‘}was. sent to Prince offer
‘both Prince Rupert and ra
normal alternate landing fields
“were. fogged or -spowed in.
McKeachie also tookissuewith |.
* letter front. ome, Chamber

Over the holidays, “CPA,
scheduled extra Alghts when wees
ther “offered: an Opportunity | to

get pa passengers to their destined

Pee Teattic. “Was - exceptionally - "
heavy and we, were flying’ with --
capacity loads most. of — the:
timne,’? MoKeachie safd, “‘As far
BS wo know, everyone managed to
get where they: planned to ete
We flew all through one pigit
clean..up poreenger I pack
With: flights,

race’ diverted: to Prince Ren”
CPA was faced with yet another -
problem — that of gettingpassen. .
gers and mail bybusfrom. Ripert
to Terrace and Kitimat, Ls

be

The curbside law introduced pee

last September’ gives the police

er’s licence for 24 hours if
they think’ he is affected:by
liquor but 18 not sufficiently af.
fected to ‘warrant a charge: ott,
impalred driving. ;

In Vancouver, Police Traffic

Superintendent A, H. Rossiter 7
earlier claimed. that - thé: :new 4:

law. had eased the fears of drink-
ding: drivers and had not caused

-FHights ‘Ter
Hmited to a 1500 foot.’ calling
and two lle visthility during
daylight ‘th ourd atid 1500 feet

any reduction in the number. af ’,

drinking: drivers found . in road T

blocks. °

WINNER"
NAMED |

- Terrace. ‘Lions Club: ‘announes

Easton. of :4448-Walsh,: was the} co

winner ‘of :_tholr nustang’ dram,

OPENS: THIS WEEK

‘Phopekil sdungotera move retnto|
amodern $305,000 - ‘sebeol this

Seven grades of children ‘will
“transfer : from: Thornhill Elem-|:

Jagsrooms. tle
; eet facilities completa int-
7)

paca

ding does not hive ‘a ‘fall baso-

‘| Ment,’ There’ 1s however, a part- a
‘ial -basoméht for incinerator and ,

electric power Plant,

of fléhérinon a

i :
The $206, 0 ‘schoo! was bull]: m

“he: ‘prlekconitiuetion ‘pattde|