Fe Nah ae OE iE» a ee The Herald, Wednesday, October 24, 1977 Page 7 Officials puzzle over rail ~ erash | FORT ST, JOHN, B.C, (CP) — Railway officials and police are trying to figure out why 11 rail tankers rolled away from ‘a siding, ran_ three - Kilometres downhill, then , crashed & and ex loded, cutting the be: tween part at the yeace River country and the . rest of British Columbla, nal agent for B.C. . est there may have been sabotage In- ' . volved, A 430-metre wooden ‘treatla approach to a steel bridge across the Peace River was destroyed when the runaway train derailed cn a curve in the ‘trestle shortly after midnight Saturday. The cara exploded after tumbling about 36 metres, setting fire to the bridge’a creosote-scaked timber. ulx af the gine, gars car asoline, our wero iemted with with fiel and . one. carried butane. Companies north of the bridge in B.C.'s resource- rich northeastern corner count onthe B.C. Rail line to ship their goods to southern markets and porta, Ralilwa officials started investigations Monday. Among the queations to be answered ae How did the rail cars get from a siding near Taylor, 16 kilometres south of here, onto the main line? —Was the awltch between the alding and the main track oped or closed? : —Did brakes on the - loaded tank cars fall or were th they deliberately B.C. Rel spokesman - Hugh Armatrong sald rail officlalsand RCMP would. be trying to find an an- swer to those questions. Rail officials have estimated the damage at about @2 million, but the cost of the incident will Tun much higher because shipments of lumber, petroleum products and grain will be rerouted and delayed. And there could A layatts in resource in- “It we can't move foreat products, we'll put 1,000 people out of work right away,” said Mayor McPhail of Fort Nelaon, a town about 200 ieldge wh north of the e which depends on the rail line to ship its products. “If we can't move our forest products, we'll put 1,000 pecple out of work right away. I sure hope they come up with alternatives.” Rail and government officials are studying alternatives, both for the movement of products now and for the replacement of the trestle _ Which crossed flood plain along the river, In Victoria, Economic Development Minister Don Philips sald the le might be replac with earthfill, It will be at least two months before another structure is in place, he said, As for alternative Bhipping routes, railway officiala were considering moving some products by truck all the way to the coast and moving others by truck to other rail- loading polnta such as Dawson Creek. Industries north of the trestle include three forest product firme in Fort Nelson, one forest firm and a refinery in Taylor, and a lumber company in Fort St. John. The moat recent figures show there were 559 car loads shipped from Fort Nelson during August and 617 car loadsa shipped from Fort St, John, ~ Trio finds they can fly BOTHA, - Alta. (CP) — When three young brothers, homesteading near Stettler, Alta., told friends and neigh- bors they knew how to fly, some thought they were a little crazy. But it was the nelghbors who were scratching their heads when they saw a light bobbing in the sky above the flelds and heard the ceria clanging of a bell. It was about 1907 and the Underwood brothers of Botha, 140 kilometres south- west of Edmonton, were carving themselves a place In Canadian aviation history. They had invented a flying machine, the firat in Canada sophisticated enough to challenge that of the Wright At night, they flew’ the huge round-winged’ machine like a kite at the end of a rope for a prank. -But evidence shows that never flew,+ without being ethered io the Although eiiip..h say only one’ brothers actually was nae ott | the ground on a single occasion, evidence has been unearthed eh aay tet, the plane mani ‘carrying different family members, Two Edmonton teachers, Gary Korens and Bob Fix, have spent about two yars researching the subject and feve come up with evidence aay proves the Un- derwood.-fam-dly.'s. sears was far more cant than many people rea The ‘story of the three Underwood brothers — Elmer, John and George — has remained largely ignored, apart from brief mentions In books and other publications. The brothers bullt their machine from local materials, by laminating wood and welding metal. They had to experiment with several different medels before perfecting their flying They also lacked the financial support and technical knowledge of other early airmen such as the Wright brothers and Al- exander Graham Bell. In- stead, they used only books on the theory of flight — released long before flying became a reality — plus thelr own ingenuity. It is cooking for them ARY (CP) — The success of a cookbook pe by eight young algary women is a rnyutery, but sales have al- topped’ $1.5 million. ou have done everything wrong,” Ed- monton publisher Mei Hurtig told the women. ’ “But it's working. So keep dolng whatever it Is u're doing.” The astonished but @elighted authors are Karen rimacombe,- Linda Mariya iyie, Helen Mes, Lyle, Helen Miles, Val Robinson, Joan Wilson and Moira Mackie. Molra ed te Vancouver shortly the came off the and is no longer assoct- ated with The Best of Bridge Publishing Ltd, the com- bany the women formed. The women decided three Kin ago that It ralght be to cozapile a cookbook of erin reiy ack ey Pinot reguiarly at ea other's homes for bridge. - “The food la always the best part of bridge," they Knowing nothing about printing, publishing, marketing, distribution or finance, they y Jumped in in where large firm tread and came up with The Beat of Bridge, Date Me MOF ate ‘Muchlevements. There ara photographs showing a proto! the Underwood's manne t being dragged along the main street of Stettler on the back of a wagon for exhibit at the town’s annual summer fair, Some ple in Botha, about 14 kilometres east of Stettler, still proudly remember the Underwood heed early efforts at Marley Groves, 73; who used to run the local store at Botha and bought grain from Elmer Underwood, recalls that the Underwood family Invented quite a few things. Originally from the United States, John K. Underwood, the brothers’ father, in- vented the dise plow which still bears his name. The family also Invented a sheaf carrier, Groves was 50 proud of the Underwoods that he produced a short pamphlet about 12 years ago to com their “By this time, interest in flying had spread over the continent and the Un- derwood brothers were content to send their huge Klte-like machine aloft for their own enjoyment as well as (that of) their friends and neighbors,'’ he sald. “During the summer, the huge bird was seen high aloft at the end of its tether by many farmers of the district. Even. at--night, when the- winds were right, the boys would send it up with a lantern swinging beneat it, and a weird light bobbin about in the sky cause much comment and even more alarm in the Botha district.” Groves sald the machine weighed about 202 kilograms with an eliptical wingspan of 12.6 metres. It sometirnes was towed along behind a team of horses to give it the momentum to lift off the ground when there was not enough wind to sustain ane brothers packed down ‘a “landing strip” along a field of summmertallow near their farm to allow the aircraft a gentle run on its motorcycle wheels. The airplane generally was powered with a welght- andpulley system while aloft; a small engine was installed later that enabled the aircraft to taxi but not take off, Groves says the Un- derwoods finally were forced to give up on their ex- eriments in aviation ecause they lacked an engine powerful: enough to get their machine off the ground. It would have cost about $1,200, a large sum in those days, so the machine just fay around and disin- tegrated, But Kozens and Fix, In-— trigued by the romance and mystique surrounding the Undetwoods, say there's more to the story than that. After Interviewing John Underwood, now 97 -and living in Onkland, Callf., Kozens and Fix say the Underwoods achieved powered flip t but never free of the craft’s mooring, The fact that the airplane was fitted with rudimentary ailerons and a rudder showed that the Underwoods intended to fly it free of its tether and be able to men- oeuvre it. But the Underwoods finally gave up on their project, for reasons that still ~ are unclear. Even Howard Underwood, Elmer's son who lives on the West Coast, doesn't know why js project was aban- done “It was long before my time but 1 do know about it from conversations with my father,’' he said in a telephone interview. “He was very interested in aviation at that Hme. It's something that we are proud of and the kind of thing we used to talk about around the kitchen table." Bee ee 4513 Greig 635-2926 NORTHWEST PIPE AND EQUIPMENT LTD. PIPE. Pi UMBING S$ UPPLIES, PUMPS. KOSES. NUTS AND BOLTS. FENCING. 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