. village

Still gold in

Atlin’s

“They must have
taken several million dollars

_ out of Gold Run in the last

few years,"’ sald Tom Kirk-
wood, a veteran. miner who
has cooled his gold fever and
now runs a resort, Gold Run,
an open-pit mine based on &

year-old Wwork-ings, is Atlin's

en,
.“"They’re | working on
virgin ground now,” he
added, “some the first rush
never got to, and some of it’s
real rich."

MUCH GOLD REMAINS
Just how rich the rush re-
mains depends on whom you

talk ‘to and how late in the

day you talk to him. All
agree, however, that more is
left in the hills behind town
than has been taken out, |
The goldfields gained a
new lease on life with the
advent: of new machinery

and rising gold prices. P*®

Today's mines are e openpit
@-foot trenches in which
bulldosers and front-end
push tons of gra
massive sluices,

“You need three people to
run a mine,’ said one Atlin
native, who normally works
other men's leases for a cut
of the profits, if any.

‘“You need a good placer
man, & good cat operator and

a good loader operator.”

> The mechanical know-how
of the pment operators
combined with the mining
savvy of the placer man, who
uses his hard-won ex-
perience to direct the flaw of
the gravel, can pull
thousands of dollars a day
from good ground. —
PAID IN DUST

Michael Morrison, a 23
yearold worker on the Yukon
fields of Dawson City, said
his cut of the take from a
me 6 mining wae about

5,000—nuggeis, es an

cust paid to him in a amall,

"T Igve mining, ” he said, a
souvenir nugget alinting
from a chain around

neck.

“A: good summer’s work
end at the end there's that
little bag of gold. I can’t wait
to hear the water running."

In the half-haunted Atlin
centre,
modern log cabins and
mobile homes ait beside the

i faudat Spon nee, A alee nf
“But out on the reeks,

‘where 200. ounces of gold .

'” Vancouver, Kitimat,
- Kemano, Terrace,
Prince Rupert and
: Stewart...

“and protected. .

creeks.

may be stored in a

coffee can, men tendto make
up the rules as they go along
and take their chances,

“I sat up all one night
looking at $10,000 of dust,’’
sald one old hand, who was to
get a share of the pay when
the summer ended, “The
others had goneto town and!
Biayed up to watch and
during the night [had to-run
two guys off.-

“They said they'd just

- been out for a walk, but I

Imow what was on their
mind, I can tell you, I did
some thinking myself, just
looking at that can.”

MINERS DON’T STEAL
But a true miner would
never steal another's gold,
the men around his table
agreed, because he knows
how much sweat it cost to

ce,
“I. might steal another
man's woman,” said one,
“but never his gold. He
worked too goddam hard for
that stuff. It would haunt
me. ii)

Just as there are no
locations attached to the
“good pay” to be found in
nearby streams, there are no
names attached to sume of
thecharactersthe gold fields
still attract.

One fs a former Toronto
disc jockey who arrived as a
tourist many yeara ago and
caught the fever. Summer
after summer he has poured
his cavings and those of his
friends into his Atlin lease,
but the barroom sages agree
he's never made a cent.

Helost his wife and family,
a career and 10 years of his
life, but never his sense of
humor or his lust for gald.

“He's obsessed,” said one
miner who has watched the
former broadcaster's battle

for years. “He's never made -

more than he spent.”

KIDS PANNED GOLD
More organized was the
mysterious Reverend Green,
& clerle of uncertain origin
and education, who's setup a
children’s cam) camp ln which
city kids panned gold during
an educational outdoors

where summer.

“Tl ‘never forget the
Reverend,” laughed Tom
Fenton, who's done most of
“the jobs to be done in the gold

fied. “He'd be sitting thera

in his. lawn chair, a drink
his hand, watching the ki

truck water up tohhisalulce.”

Snatch-rescue
— By Helicopter |

LONDON (Reuter) —
Space technology has led to
the development of a cage
pcb when suspended from
a helicopter, can snatch

people from burnin
skyscrapers. a
The journal New Sclentist

reports that the “Suspended
Manoeuvring System,
developed by the United
States serospace firm
Medonnell Douglas, is a wire
cage with a small aircraft
engine on top and nozzles
mounted on each corner. The
nozies rotate so that air
from the engine can be

directed to control the
alignment of the cage.

This allows the cage, with
a ramp on one side, to dock
with the side of a burning
building. The direction
control is a spinoff of
research into. aerospace
control systems.

An operator inside the one-
ton module can direct it from
a control panel or it can be
guided from the helicopter

using a television camera. |

The modules can be
switched depending on the
nature of mission, rescue,
fire-fighting or delivering
medical teams,

Sandy celebrates _
60 yrs. On Stage

By NORMANCRIBBES

MANCHESTER, England
{CP) — Celebrating 70 years
In show business this year is
Sandy Powell, the 78-year-
old Yorkshire comedian
whose droll whimsical
tumor is known to millions
at aoe and overseas,

first hit the boards:
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when he was only elght. He:
was billed as a boy soprano
and the audience loved his

But what - really
fetched them was his shrill

cry, addressed to the back of ©

the gallery: Can you hear
me, mother?’

Mother heardallright and,

being a vaudeville artist her-

aelf, she helped Sandy
become a favorite with
music-hall audiences and
later a star of radio and
television. His records have
sold in Canada and the
United States and he ap-
peared in royal-command
performances before George
V and George VI.

He was starred in Britain’s
firat television variety show
from a cellar under the
BBC's Broadcasting House
in London in 1982.

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It was during a live TV
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Powell suddenly dropped his
script and bellowed: “Can

‘you hear me, mother?” into

the microphone. Mother had
gone but the — public
remembered his old catch-

Between television ap-
pearances, Sandy still is
tourlng Britain’s vaudeville
theatres and just recently he
pulled in a capacity crowd at

the Harrogate Theatre in
Yorkshire. His accent and
attitudes are typically
Yorkshire and he treasures
memories of the Leeds City

Music Hall—long before: the

coming of talkies and tele-

vision, n
“I'm not retiring,” he said.
“I like to earn a bob or two

and it’s nice that people still |

want me.‘I'm booked up for
the whole of this year and I
get letters from all over the

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Atlantic

Crossing

With Balloon-boat

LLOYD
BERLAKE
LONDON (Reuter) — A
Scot and an American plan
to fly a sailing boat across
the Atlantic this summer In
@n attempt. to be the first to
cross that ocean by balloon,
Bon Cameron and’ his
American co-pilot Mark
Yarry have begun sea trials
in their 14-foot aluminum
boat, complete with sail and
mast, which, while they are
in the air, will serve as the
gondela for the balloon.

The 150 feet-tall balloon is
two separate envelopes: an
cuter balloon of 200,000 cubic
feet holding hot air and an
inner chamber of 150,000
cubic feet holding helium,

Despite the lives claimed
on several previous at-
tempts, Cameron says: ‘I
don't belleve it's that
dangerous. If I did, I
wouldn't try it. This is the
Everest of ballooning.”

The most red Yea
previous try was ost,
‘who lifted off from Maine in
October, 1976, and came
down in the ocean 700 miles
short of Portugal, where he he
was picked up safely, His
distance of 2,475 miles stands

as the record by free balloon —
in a single flight.
. FIVE LIVES LOST -

Many ‘others were less
fortunate and five lives have

TIM-

been lost in transatlantic
attempts since 1970.
Owner of Europe's biggest

balloon manufacturers &

Cameron made the first
crossing of the Alps by hot
air in 1972, Im 1975 he set a
world endurance record for
hot-air balloons of 18 hours,
56 minutes,

Yarry, 37, an investments
executlve, has logged 7,000
hours in balloons and aided
Cameron in the Alps
crossing.

The two plan to take off
probably from Canada and
probably. in September.

The flight is estimated at
four to 10 days. But the pair
are confident that they can
stay up for 20 days and will
have 40 days’ supplies in the
boat-gandola.

An Tealian’ washing
machine firm is providing
the main sponsorship. But
the two have begged from
other firms a large collection
of radios, flares, helmets,
hatchets, compasses, fire
extinguishers and even
trucks for equipment
transport in Britain.

A computer firm recently

chipped in with a calculator
to help them with navigation.

YOUNG HAWK NAMED

A young hawk taken from
the nest for training is called
an eyas,

Mobile homes are olaying an ‘important role in
providing housing forBritish Columbians...and the
Mobile Home Act has. been introduced to provide
an important service to those involved in mobile

homes. '

« The Mobile Home Registry,

a first for Canada, .

has been set up to recognize t . rights and protect
the interests of buyers and sellers of mobtle homes.
t's similar to the Land Registry in that it acts as an
information centre that keeps a complete record
of the ownership and location of all mobile homes.
It means that:all sales and changes of location are
registered to protect ownership interests. It means
-that a title search can bé requested toassure buyers

that they are indeed getting-lepal title. And
because it provides lenders with better

Ma "B25 Fort t Street, Vietora, British Columbia VEW 2¥5 Phone 3874361

THE HERALD, Wednesday, March 29, (979, PAGE 4

DISTRICT OF TERRACE

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a Public ;
Hearing will be held on proposed Zoning
Amendment By-law Project No. ADP.02-
7806,

The proposed amendment is as follows:
.- a) Rezone the South half of Biock 32 of
D.L. 362, R.5, C.D., Plan 967, being 2705 Eby BF
Street from Rural (Al). to Single Family
Residential (R1).

-(b) Rezote the remainder of the North
half of Block 32 of D.L. 362, R.5, C.D., Plan
967, being 3712 Munroe Street from Rural

| (Al), to Single Family Residential (R1).

The proposed By-law may be viewed by any
and all persons requiring more specific
information, during regular business hours
at the Municipal Hall.

| The Public Hearing will be held in the
Municipal Council Chambers, 3215 Eby
Street, Terrace, B.C., on Monday, April ard,
1978, af 7:15 p.m.

Any and all persons having an interest in
the proposed Zoning Amendment By-law §
Project No. ADP-02-7606 shall fake natice
and be governed accordingly.

E.R. Hallsor
Clerk-Administrator §

security, it could mean better financial terms fur
purchasers of mobile homes... -
The Act is in effect as of April 1, 1978. After that

date all mobile homes must. be ‘Tegistered befor

they can be sold or moved. If you're a mobile home
owner at present, or are considering becoming one
in the future, orare involved in thesal: orfinancing |
of mobile homes, you should be aware of huw the
Mobile Home Act protects you. Information hits
have been sent out to all known mobile home utters
and other interested parties, but ifwe missed you
let us know, .
Any information you may needis available f A
the Mobile Home Registry in Victorli, Regional.
. Offices of the Ministry of Municipal Affais:. -
and Housing and Government Agents.

_"..- Provinee of British Columbia
7 4 Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing -

- Honourable Hugh A. Curtis, Minister
'. - MOBILE HOME REGISTRY

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