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Herald

v Ast was threatened yesterday,

B thespace is going to get worldly
2. during the abscence of sporting:

activity, due to the holiday Jull
and plunge into the depths of
politics, philosophy, religion,
sex and high finance, Today we
will examine the world scene.
As we reach the closing
minutes of the 1,97ist quarter of
play, the standings are close.’ .
Canada maintains her position
as top. team in the. world by
virtue of her devasting victory
over the United States in
recognizing Red China.
Although suffering from a
weakened bench since her
natural resources are all but
used up, the United States is
holding onto second place, by
way of her decision to
continue foreign aid to the
Pakistani refugees, ;
Nonetheless, the loss of so
many key players in Viet Nam
has made America somewhat
less formidable than the old

days when she was the league -

leader.

Red China won a mighty
battle in the United Nations
witha strong performance from
her front line. She also did
wonders for the destruction of
mythology. Waitresses around
New-York commented that the

. Red ‘Chinese delegates were
among the biggest tippers in the
U.N. entrourage. Two points
for strict ideologists.

The schedule for the future i is
abit cloudy. The United States,
stariding on shaky ground and
speaking with a forked tongue
shaped in the form of a dollar
sign, have a big game coming

' yp in. March. with Red China,

who is undefeated since joining
the league.

The. U.S. tied Canada last
week during the Trudeau-Nixon
talks and are eager for victory.
It doesn't seem likely in view of
the fact that America is lacking
a leader.

Canada is idle for the. time
being; content to iet the
schedule increase her first
place lead, If Nixon talks as
poorly to all countries as he did
to Trudeau, we can reasonably
expect that "the unheralded, and
greatly under-rated, Outer
Slabovian: All-Stars will come
from nowhere and take
Diminishing America’s place as
the second nicest country in the
world for living.

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‘Works

‘The Terrace Department of
Public Works has a whole rash

of responsibilities that are -

carried. out to the benefit of
Terrace residents. Included are

sewer and water maintenance |

and construction, water supply
pumping -stations, refuse

. disposal and maintenance of the’

dump, road reconstruction and
maintenance, supervision of the
town’s parks and cemetaries,
and last, but certainly not least
in the eyes of our snowbound
winter residents, snow removal
and plowing:

Perhaps no other function of

this hard working department

has such immediate effect on
the daily lives of Terrace
residents as snow removal,

While the rest of the town
sleeps, crews of the Public
department. are
scurrying about like eager ants
to make the roads drivable for
the town when it awakes at 8
o'clock,

Hank -Bunkham,
Superintendant of Public
Works, stated that ‘his
department. has. the largest
operation in the city works.

During the winter as the
snowfalls increase and become
heavier, much of Hank’s time is
spent on the problem of snow
removal, Sewer and Water
Foreman Charlie Hansen has
his hands full also and quietly
goes about his duties but. it
seems as if the action shifts to
the roads where Foreman Ed
McFadden  handies his
increased crew and enlarged
responsibilities.

Working directly under
McFadden and being groomed
for foremanship is John
Giesbrecht. It's under John’s
watchful eye and participation
that the all-important. night
crew goes about it’s duties.

“It’s virtually impossible,”
Hank Bunkham was saying, ‘‘to
remove thé snow in the daytime
for traffic reasons. Se we start
up at midnight and go like the
devil until about 8 o'clock when
the streets become crowded
again.”

‘Working at night the
department rents two front end
loaders at $17.50 per hour and a
fleet of six trucks. They are
broken into two crews; each

" loader filling six trucks. Ther

‘him how things are.

is seldom a wait to aet loaded.»

“Breakdowns are no excuse
in my book," Bunkham went on,
“you don’t ‘tell people, sorry we
had a breakdown last night. So
we run six trucks te each
loader. That way we're sure

that ‘the loader will . keep

work

‘Constant. vigilance and

preparation is the name of the,

game. ‘If weather forecasts
predict a heavy snowfall crews
are put on alert and told to
expect to go to work at midnight

Lately there hasn't been need
to prepare them. IT’s becoming
an every night thing.

A morning patrol hits he
streets everyday at 6 o'clock
regardless of weather. Besides
checking things out, they salt or
put calcium chloride onthe
intersections and hills so that by
8 o’clack every crucial spot in
town has been taken care of.

In event of a storm or a rapid
drop in temperature they report
to theroad foreman and tell him
of the street conditions. Any

“number of things could have

gone wrong through the night.
A light drizzle that folks at
home may not have even
noticed could immediately turn
every street into an ice hockey
arena. The morning crew
reports to McK adden telling
The
foreman then decides on the
type of equipment and abrasive

-to be used on that day.

Generally sand is used on the
streets that are level and not at
intersections, Salt or calcium
chloride is used sparingly,
usually just at intersections and
steep hills.

‘You have to be selective inthe
amounts of these you use, since
the removed snow is dumped
into the Skeena River. - An
analyst from the Department of
Fisheries, at the request of
Public Works, took samples
from the snow and river to test
it.

“It was proven,"' Hank
Bunkham said, ‘‘that there is no
pollution or contamination of
any kind from the salt and
calcium. ‘The sand presents
another problem in the spring
when all the paved roads must
be swept clean.

The most difficult part of the
entire operation seems to be

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THE. HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C.

The midnight sculkers

| clear ‘Terrace roads.

simply ‘keeping. up with the |
snow. - Bunkham

the crews he hag now. Butin the
event of an emergency di
which the secondary streets

would otherwise be temporarily. ,

ignored, he has no qualms about
hiring more equipment. ."The
problem’', he says, ‘ig that

Then it snows heavily here it
also does on the highway too.

and sometimes there slmply

_ isn’t any equipment available.”

The Department takes care of
ali the roads within the Terrace
city limits. The Highways
Department takes on Highway
16.as it comes through town, but
the City is again responsible to
remove what they have plowed.

There are also two parking
lots the department tries to
keep clear, but the roads rate
top priority. It costs roughly
$2,000 a week when, the snow is
falling heavily.

In addition to the night ime
snow removal’ and the
continuous plowing or ice
breaking, a daylight crew goes
out to enlarge intersection and
to clean up whatever of the
heavy piles the night crew
couldn't pick up.

On Tuesday night of this week

an experiment was run on
plowing sidewalks. A small
front end loader, called a
Bobeat, was hired for one night
to test it's effectiveness in
clearing. walking paths which
had drifted heavily during
Saturday's high winds

$150 was allocated to hire the
machine and $144 of it was
spent. The results are common -
discussion about town as many
people expressed amazement at
the abscence of the previous
nights drifts.

“There never has been any
sidewalk program before,”’
Bunkham said, “and we were
testing this machine to see it’s
capabilities and the cost on a
rental basis.”

Another problem that
confronts Hank is cars parked
on the streets while his boys are
out working. “It hasn't been as
bad as in previous years, but
now as we really get winging it
becomes ail the more important
that the roads be clear of
parked cars so we can get the...
job done.”

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Hank * Bunkham, Superintendent of Public
Works, discusses the way his crew goes about
removing the snow from Terrace streets.

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, Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. one: na34
Sunday Evening ms pm. : .

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11:00 Morning Warship
7:30 Evening Services

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Phone 635-4014

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Rev. John Vandyk
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