THE BRITISH COLU IA JUNE, 1967

PUBLISHED BY THE DEP R MENT OF HIGHWAYS

Columbia River Bridge at Kinnaird lookingnorth toward the conf luence of the Kootenayand the Columbia rivers near Castl eg ar.

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The Paving BranchThe Paving Branch has made rapid strides during the past ten years. It evolved from a nucleus ofa few

men whose knowledge of paving was drawn from exparience, as little technical data was available, but who ,neverth eless, produced some excellent pavements, many st ill in operation. Today it is a h igh ly technicalbranch comprised of engineers and technicians capable of operating the latest scient ific equipment and usingthe most modern te chniques in paving construction .

Headquarters for the P avin g Branchis located in Victoria and is headed byJohn Kerr, Senior Paving Engineer, ablyass is ted by Peter Barnes. Jovi al andcap able Mary- Ellen Kingsfield is theoffice stenogr apher. The Paving Branchis resp ons ible for the design, prepar­ation , estimati on and supervision of allpaving contracts. It als o super visessome curb and gutter work, some minorgrade construction and overs ees th e op­eration of department al pulvimix ing andseal coat work. Th e Branch also pro­vide s technical advice on pavementm aintenanc e techniques to the main­t enance personnel.

John KerrMr. Kerr is a gr aduate of the Uni­

ve r s it y of Edinburgh in Scotl and. He

joined the Paving Branch eleven yearsago, after experience in pavin g on theprairies. He has als o had considerableexpe r ience In th e construction of air ­field s in the Middle and Far East. Hewas president of the Canadi an T echni­cal Asphalt Association In 1966 and ispresently a member of Council of theAs socia ti on of Engineers of B.C. Hisspare time Is taken up by the SouthVancouver Island Rangers, where heis assis tant Ranger, and by the VictoriaRugby Union, of which he is the pastpresident.

Peter Barnes Is a graduate of theUniversity of Saskatchewan. He startedwith the Paving Branch as a student in1957 and on graduating in 1963 wasposted to Victori a. Peter is tall, broadin the shoulders and efficient, nothingseems to ruffle him. He lives with hisfamily in Esqutrna l t ,

The P aving Branch operat es under the"Regional Pl an Or gani zation" which isan effective s ystem for decentraliza­tion. Thus at ea ch Regional headquar­ters there is a Paving Engineer orPaving Super intendent. These ar e JohnHynds in Region 1, Pat Bonser in Re­gion 2, Hank Sawatz ky in Region 3 andHany Waring in Region 4. At the pres­ent tim e there ar e Regional laboratoriesin Vancouver, Nelson and Prince

George. They a re equipped to ca r ryout the necessary testing on Iiquidaspha lt s , gravel and the combinatio n ofthe two. As these laboratories a restaffed by highly experi enced labor ator ytechnicians, the y ar e also used for thewinter training of Branch personnel aslaboratory te chnicians . In additi on to theRegion al laboratories there are seven­teen mobile laboratories , 30 feet by 8fe et trailers assigned to projects andstaffed by technicians under th e dir ec­ti on of the resident paving enginee r ofthe proj ect. One laborator y is cur rentl yin use on the Queen Charlotte Is lands.

Peter Barnes

.Department of Highways checking weigh scale tickets on paving project, BurnabyFreeway.

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There ar e approxl rnate ly 80 mem bersof the field s ta ff, resid ent enginee rs,engineering assi sta nts and engineer ­in g aides , trained in laboratory work,inc luding the design of asphalt mixesand the techniques of paving and su r veywork. In the summer work they ar esupplemented by 80 to 150 unive rsitystudents, depending on the number ofcontracts awarded.

During the winter the Paving Branchmen may be found anywher e in th eProvince on survey investigations forne xt years projects, at th e dr awingboards , at crusher s ites checking thegradation, in the labor ator ies r unningpreliminary Mar shall designs on ag­gr egate from new pits , or work ing forother branches such as Maint enance,Materials Testing, Construction orLoc ati on.

Minister's Message

We are going into our busiest season. It is alsothe start of the annual tourist migration to b. C.A s we have said befo re, we can 't build roadswithout maki ng a little dust but let's do our bestto ease things as much as possible for ourvisitors There were more than 5,000,000 of themla st year. I f we have to occasionally delay thetraveller (and we inclu de our own B. C. vaca­tioner; of cou rse) deto ur him, or even dirty hiscar a little, iet's offe r him help, g uidance and asmile, and see that he "gets through" with theleast diffi culty . Tourists spent more than $200million in B.C. las t year but even if they didn'tspend a nickel we owe them the courtesy ofgood hosts and neighbours.

P. A . Gaglardi , Minister

"I've been wondering..why I couldn't steer aroundthat tree!" .

THE ROAD-RUNNERVolume 4 J une, 1967 Number 2

Published Qua rterly by

Department of Highways- British Columbia1690 Main St ., Nort h Vancouver

Ray Baines-Executive EditorAr t hur J . Sc hindel-Editor

Associate Field EditorsPaul Connor Nort h VancouverAda m Klost er North Vancou verDave Wardell BurnsideJ . W. Morris NanaimoM. Butler Cour tenayJ im Harris Bridge Mai ntenanceAlex Caldwell North Van couverLloyd Burgess New WestminsterG. M. Vance ChilliwackJ im Ferrier Ka mloopsW. Kirkl and Williams LakeMurray Ramsay Salmon ArmDave Bowman Re velstokeAl Desi more Verno nFred Ev ans KelownaPete Fuoco PentictonH. R. Wa lker : MerrittD~ve Roberts ' .' LillooetDorot hy Wilkins Grand ForksP. Flood RosslandBill Hi ggins NelsonFred Angrignon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ew DenverIrene Labelle CrestonS. J . T ognela CranbrookSam Cara vetta FernieJohn Edgar GoldenBill I ngram Victo riaSteve Sviatko Smi thersC. Bart sch Pouce CoupeE. A. Beaumont Prince GeorgePat Tondevold Fort St. J ohnHo mer Good T erraceR. M. Boss Pri nce GeorgeS. Price Prince GeorgeGeorge Harper QuesnelGeorge Kent VanderhoofJ im Chenowet h Burns LakeE. Lund Prince Rupert

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Department Crew Keep Open Highest Arterial Highway In Canada

In fr ont of th e fam ous turbin e S eries5000 sno u: plo w are mem bers of th ecrew, left to right, Jo h n Edw ards ,Lloyd Olson, R alph H right and J ohnMorrow.

Jack Brinley keeping in tou ch .withth e crew and o uts ide communities.Co m m unica tions are through theregular department radio sys te m andradio telephon e.

Last winte r a crew of 12 underForemen George Lipsack and Bud Love­st rom, fought a hard battl e to keepopen the Sal mo Creston Sect ion of thesouthern Trans-Canada Highway, onwhich the" Kootenay Pas s" is located.

Th e Sa lmo Creston Section, 41.76miles in length, cros s es the Selkir kmountain s through Kootena y P ass. Itclimbs 15 mil es fr om an elevation of2,00 0 feet at the Sa lmo end, to thesu mmit elevation of 5820 feet. Theclimb fr om eas t to west is less sev­ere, usi ng 27 miles to climb from the1,750 foot level at the Creston endto the summi t. However, the steepe stgrade on the highway, one mile of 8%,is located on the eas t side two milesfr om the su mmit .

T he aver age annual snowfall at Koot­en ay P as s is 500 inches . Last winterthe total was 635 inches .

George Lipsach and Bud L ovestrom,Forem an of th e Ko otenay Pass Camp.

Geo rge and his wife Betty standingouts ide the ir trailer at Kootenay Pass .

W inter Work In The Paving Bran ch

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J ohn Pers chy, Pa ving Branch, chainsin th e A .D. d istan ce fr om a ve ryburied P.I. at Smithers . J ohn and hiswife have three children.

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John Persch.y, left, c.nd Norm Birh­land, right, Paving Branch, setting upa transit on a P. O. T. situated on ara il way cro ss ing west of H ou ston .N orm is married and has fi ve ch il­dren .

Sn o wshoes are a must in the Northespecially on H ighway 16' s HungryHill. Ron Much a m, Pa ving Branch,finds them handy when locating P.I .'s se t back so me di stance from thehigh way .

Foreman's Workshop

The Unsinkable Foreman

So you' re not paid enough and the going is rou ghAnd the co-operati on s eems nil,And it' s blood that you sweat for what you getAnd your road is all hot and uphill.But you know, after lunch, the re is one in that bunchWho will throw paper cups on the floor.You keep quoti ng the rules appe rt aining to toolsT il you' r e hoarse and you' r e blue in the face,B ut again there is one when the day's wor k is doneWho will leave tools all over the place ,T he year s come and go and the firs t thing you knowYou're as ba ld as an egg and dis gusted.Th e same guy as before throws his cups on the floorAnd the other guy' s tools are all rusted .You may think you' r e a flop, I'd advise you to stopAnd gtve credit where credit is due!What about all the rest your teaching im pr essed,And there' s s ti ll time to work on those two.No time to los e heart , just take a fres h star t ,And then on one mir acu lous day,Those guys ca tch on and the cups will be gone,And you' ll find all the tools put away!!!

Prin ce Rupert highuay district [ore­man 's meeting held A p ri1 19 and 20.Attending were, bach row , left to right,L . Klassen , H . Good, L. Harding , VI -.Kimble: ce n tre ro w, VI'. S ueeny, A .To f tager, L. Bedford an d fr ont row,J . Onions, J . Eduiards, D. L ock ­man , V. M orrison .

* * *A Burn s Lake Dis t r ict foreman 's

me eting was he ld at the Tweeds muirHot el in April. Some of the topicst hat were dis cussed were work com­rnunic ations, acc ident r eport s . hi r edeq uipment, s igns and others. Attend­in g were: R. W. Veitc h, Dis t ri ct Super­int endent : C. B. Rols ton, Senior Fore­man: R. SWindlehurst , Mec hanic Fore­ma n: :\1. Tet r eau, Southbank Foreman;H. Jones . Burns Lake Foreman and J .Che noweth. Dis t ri ct Offic e Mana ger,

On April 26, 1967, the Nelson District held a foreman 'swo rkshop at th e Ne lso n Court H ouse. Th ose in atten dancewere, fr ont row, left to right, M . A . M erlo, Distri ct En gineer,D. Godfrey, District Office M anag er ; Vic Vi ncent. Cres tonForeman; Charles J effs , Nelso n Foreman; l-V Budden;R esident Engineer , Creston ; bach rou, left to right, M ikeJoy, Cresto n For em an ; b . Ton er , Creston Fore man; bobBaker, Nelson Bridge foreman : Reg Dill, Ne lson Engineer­ing A ssistant; T . N utter, Ne lson Foreman; B. Tho mpson,Boswell Foreman ; and Floyd t .ib bons, Salmo Foreman.

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A Senior Foremen's Confe rence washeld in Apr il at T he Golden Chalice,Lou gheed Highway and North Road. Itwas at tended by about ;:;0 employeesfrom North Vancouver, New Westmin­s te r , Chilliwack , and Br idge Dis tri cts.

Principal speake r of the morni ngwas W. H. Forrest of the Super annua­ti on Branc h who gave an excell ent talkon Supe rannuati on and Gr oup Life In­surance. His speech was the highlightof the meet ing and he was as kedman y questi ons .

F . A. Mac Lean , Assis tan t Deput yMinis t er , was able to attend theme eting, while on his way to Sa lmonAr m, and s poke on gene ral problems:'.'ld answe red man y questions Withthe ass is tance of J . A. Dennison,SeniorMaintenance Engineer. Th e others peake r was Howa rd McLeod, Region­al Dr iving Instructor.

GEORGE KOVALCIK, in the Salmo nArm District , was sel ected as one offive men who attended a Fore manshi pand Supervisory Practices Cour s e, heldat Kel owna, pr esent ed by the Depa rt­ment of Adult Education .

W eed Brush Contro lScho ol Started

T he Department has recently in ­augurate d a series of schools dealingwit h che mical control of weed s andbr ush. T he first s ess ion was held inVancouver on April 4th and 5th, thes econd in Nelson on May 3rd and 4thand the third in Karnl oops on May 9thand IOth, A fourt h school is expec tedin Region 4 in the near future. T heschools , conducted by Michael Pope,Land scape Supe r visor, and A. L." Scotty" Freebairn, Dis trict Engineerfr om Kelowna, have been att ended bys ixty distr ict offi cials and sp r ay equip­ment operato rs . Th e infor mal t alk swere s upple mented by slides, and con­c luded with pr actical demonst r ationsus ing the Depa r tment's Joh n Bean high­way spray equipment.

S cotty Freebairn and M ichael Popewi th the For eman a t the Region 1week and brus h control sch ool.

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BRIDG ES

D. L. L aberge hard at work squaringti m be r in the N a nai m o Y ard.

GEORGE SANDERSON of Alde rgrovedied Mar ch 17, 1967, He r etired aboutth ree yea r s ago from the New Wes t­minster Distric t sign crew. He leaveshis wife . Mary, and a daughter at hom ea married son and married dau ghterin Port Hardy.

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OBITUARIES

MAJOa RICHARD B. GILDEA di ed inVic to r ia , Apr il 11, 1967. Aged 79. hewas bor n in Punja b, India and wa s agr adua te of the Royal Mil itar y Collegein Brita in, He se rved dur ing the fi rstWor ld War.

After some ti me in Afr ic a and Indiahe r eti r ed fr om the Ar my and came toCanada and joined the P r ovincialoovernment , Depa r tme nt of Highwa ys ,Location Br anch. He wor ked as Loca­tio n Enginee r at Lac La Hache and otherplac es in th e pr ovince as well as su pe r ­vising ihe locati on and const r uc tion ofthe road to the su mmit of Mount Doug las,Vic toria.

Major Gil dea retired fr om the De­pa r t ment of Highwa ys in 1957 andres ided in Victoria. He is survived byhis wife, Bethea, a married da ughte r ,and a sister in South Afr ica.

* * *R.C. (BOB) McLEOD, Road MaintenanceFor ema n 3 at Stew ar t died Apr il 19 athis home . Bob em Igra ted fr om Scotl andto Anyox in 1923 wher e he wor ked inthe old Anyox mine. In 1935 he movedto stewart whe r e he wor ked in thePr em ier mine until it closed in 1951.He sta r te d with the Departme nt inStewar t as a labor e r in 1952 and wasappointed Road Maintenance Foremanin 1956.

T h e Ea st l-Velling ton Bridge in theN an a im o area wa s recently reb uilt.The crew wa s, lef t to right, M at Cam­eron, J . S hepherd, Art T ans, Don La­berg e and Foreman Arnold c lover.

Ch uc k A rnold wh o rec ently tra ns ­ferred fr o m Squamisii to take overd uties as br idg e foreman in th e Co­mox Di strict .

T he Chilliwack District b ridge Crew, under fore man C. E. Johns on recen tly re­placed the old Cultus Creek b ridge, left, with a new one, right. The bridge si te isin the Cultus Lake Area, about six miles south of Chilliwack . For eman D. C.MacCol! leas in charge of rebuilding the app roaches. Pa ving of the approachesand bridge deck was unde r the sup ervision of foreman D. C. Rich ier. The newCultus Creek bridge has a roadway width of 24 feet, (5 feet 4 inche s wider thanthe old one), sidewalks on both sides, and a length of 120 feet.

Grand Forks bridge crew employees,B. Pavan and J . Ambrosimoff, rep air­ing a break in th e concrete deck onthe Rock Creek Canyon Bridge.

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So me of the Po uce Coupe Districtbridge creu: show n imm edi a tely afterplacing the la st 2"x6" la min a te on,the Kish ati ncuo b ridg e at M ile 20 onth e Alask a H ig huray , T he br idg e is533 feet long and 26 feet wide.

Peek Into The Past

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This is th e fir st automobile to tra vel fr om Seattle, W as hi ngton to Ha z elton , B.C. The car is a Studebaker Flanders . Th epicture was taken in th e late 20's and th is was th e seco nd trip made by the old timer . It is seen here facing th e old Vander ­hoof Hotel and bein g admired by some of th e local peop le. A ccording to reports, th e in iti al trip in 1921 was quite an expe ­di tion. Becau se of th e condi tion of th e roads at th e time betw een b urns Lake and S m ithers, th e car had to be dismantledpiece by piece and carried by pack horse until road conditions improved Then it wa s reassembled and went on under itsown pouer.

Above-this screening plant was located at Canal Flats in1929. Horses th en pulled sled ove r th e ramp and th e gravelwas sorted. Tyler Lindberg who now works at Jaffray withth e Department is on the right.

To the left-unusual j ob for th e Fort S t. J ohn bridge crewwas the lifting of an impression of a dinosaur's footprintfrom th e Hudson Hope Dam area whe re it wa s discoveredduring excav ation of the Power-h ouse. Th e footprint is to bedisplayed in the new Pro vin cial Arch ives at Victoria . In thepicture, Bill Ma rchall is opera ting th e cra ne, Henry De LaRonde is on th e tru ck and Erling Ness is steadying thecast .

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Safety Stories, Awards • • •

The Hazelton Road Maintenance Crew of the Smithers Dis ­tri ct received a Gold Award presented at a Safety Rally.inSmithers on March 1, 1967.

The Nelson Bridge crew rec ently re ceived a GoldA uiard.Left to right, M . Merlo, District E ngineer; H. Penner, J .ltysk, R . Baker, Foreman; R. Peloso, A . Peloso, W. Heddle,A . Grieff, G. Hoover and M . Sp roul, R egional MaintenanceEngineer.

A Cold Safety .Award was presentedto the Rosedale Road Maintenancecrew, left to right, Alex Caldwell, Re­gional Safety Officer; Don Mac Coil,Rosedale, Road Maintenance [ore­man; Gabe Rollheiser, Safety Com ­mittee Representative; Ken Jackson ,Safety Co-ordinator; \ ince Franklin,Safety Committee Chairman.

A banquet was held on the eveningof April 20th at Cache Creek tohonour Doug Bain and his Ashcroftmaintenance crew with the presenta­tion of a Gold Safety A ward. Shownafter the presentation are left to right,back row , Doug Bain, Fred Johnson,Dennis -Meier, S. Bennewith and H.Hendricks. Front row, W . Bradley,Albert Gordon and R. Thompson.

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A Gold Safety Award was presentedto the Abbotsford Road Maintenancecrew. Left to rig ht, Pat Hassard,Abbotsford Road Maintenance Fore­man; L a uren ce S mith , Safety Com­mi ttee Representative; Don Richter,Patching Foreman; Ken Jackson, Co­ordinator of Accident Prevention,Civil Service Com mission; VinceFr a nk lin, Sa fe ty Committee Chair­man.

H. T. Miard, Deputy M in iste r ofHighways, p res en ted a S ilver SafetyAward in M ay to Ian Douglas, Pav­ing branc h S afety Co-ordinator. Theachievement was made by the wholePaving Branch, including universitystudents employed during the summer'months , the puloi-mixing crew and theseal coat crew f or working 306,430hours wi t hout a ti me loss accident.Left to right: F. A . M acLean, Assist­ant Deputy Minister; Mr. Miard; IanDouglas, who is also Resident PavingEngineer, John Kerr, Senior PavingEngineer; and C. M . R obertson, Resi­dent Paving Engineer.

A Gold Safety A ward was presentedto Ralph Dugas, R oad Foreman atHa zelton , left, by R. G. Harvey, Re­gional Highway Engineer of PrinceGeorge, centre, at a S afety Rally heldat Smithers in March. S J . S viatko ,District Superin tendent of Smitherslooks on .

* * *A Silver Safety Award was earned

by the Vanderhoof Road Crew for129,493 accident-free man-hours fromMay 25, 1965 to Decem ber 31, 1966.Recently M.W. Bernt, Senior RoadForeman at Vanderhoof, accepted theaward from Regional Highway EngineerR.G. Harvey in the presence of DistrictSuperintendent G.R. Kent and some ofthe award-winning crew.

* * *Kiyoshi Nkazawa, a mem ber of the

Celista Cr ew and present chairman ofthe Safety Committee accepted the"Roy McLeod" certificate from BertDibben, KamJoops, at a banqu et heldin April. This award was mad e to theSalmon Arm District for having year1966 fr ee of any tim e-loss accidents.About 138 peopl e attended the banquetat the Salmon Arm Motor Hotel. Dis­trlst Engineer H. F. Coupe was masterof ceremonies.

REGION 4

The Annual Regional Safety Awardwas presented to the Fort St. JohnDistrict in recognition of the lowestAccident Frequency Rate in Region 4during the calendar year 1966. A ban­quet and dance was held for all em­ployees in the Fort St. John Districtand for representatives from the mostremote areas of the District, CassiarAtlin and Dease Lake. The photoshows District Superintendent P. A.Tondevold receiving the Safety Awardfrom Assistant Deputy M inister F. A.MacLean.

REGION 3

P. C. Hayden, Chairman of the NewDenver Safety Committee receivingthe Safety Trophy for Region 3 fromAssistant Deputy Minister F. A. Mac­Lean, at the presentation dinner andparty at the Slocan Inn, Slocan, B.C.

The annual Regional Safety A warddinner was held at the ShorelineHotel, Nanaimo, May 12th. F. A .Mac Lean, Assistant Deputy Ministerpresents the Region 1 Safety Trophyto District Superintendent JohnMorris.

Regional Awards

REGION 2

The South Okanagan District held aSafety Award banquet March 17 atKelowna, Head table guests at theCapri Motor Hotel were, F . A. Mac­Lean, Assistant Deputy Minister: J . H.Smythe, Superintendent of Equipment,Victoria; B. Pass, Co-ordinator ofAccident Prevention, Victoria: TedAnderson, W. C. B., Vernon; J. W.Nelson, Regional Highwa y Engineer,Karn loops: A. H. Dibben, Regional Me­chanical Superintendent, Kamloops;H. D. Francis, Regional Safety Offic­er; H. F. Coape, District Engineer, Sal­mon Arm ; P. E. Bishop, District En­gineer, Penticton: A. C. Harper, rep­resenting F'Inning Tractor and Equip­ment Compan y Limited , and P. L. Kel­ley, representing General Motors Prod­ucts, and the Reverend and Mrs. N.Tannar of Summer land.

The Roy McLeod Memorial Trophy,the Annual Regional Safety Award for·the lowest accident frequenc y rate inRegion 2 during 1966, was presented byMr. MacLean and accepted by DistrictEngineers H. F. Coupe and A. L. Free­bai rn, They represented Salmon Armand Kelowna respectivel y, which won theaward jointly. General Motors Productsof Can ada Limited awar d was present­ed by Mr. Kelley and accepted by W.S.Carter. This award was donated forthegreatest annual reduction of mechanicaland vehicular accidents.

Assistant Deputy F. A. MacLean pre­sents awards to District Engineers A .L. Freeb airn, left and H . F. Coupe,right.

REGION 1

Minister's Trophy

H. D. (Harry) Francis, Region 2Safety Officer receives the Minister'sSafety Trophy from the Hon . P . A .tLaglardi on behalf of the personnel.This is awarded annually to the Re­gion with the lowest {requency rate.

FIRST EVER

Ben Pass presented the Award ofHonour to Lorne Slater on behalf ofthe Nanaimo and Islands Road Main ­tenance Creu :s. This is the [irst Awardof Honour u-on by the Provincial Gov­ernment.

The Medal of Honour

Con't on pgs, 12, 13

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Tra nsfers Department EmployeesW in Recognition

Wedding

M a r vin A . (Cork y) Johnson a ndGloria P. Me harg were married Ap ril22, 196 7 in Saint Andrews Uni tedCh urch, North Vancou ver. Marvin ,w ho beg a n with the Department ofHighways in M arch, 1965, is a wreck­er truck operator on the Port M a nn.B ridge . Gloria worked for the Depart­m ent from 1961 to 1965 at the R e­gional Office in North Vanco uver.The bride and groom spent theirhoneymoon in KamLoops and willmake their home in North Surrey.

J im Hayes , left, Truck Driver at Mer­ritt , re ceiv ed s il ver tray from SchoolDistrict No . 31 (M erritt) for his fifteenyea rs of dedicated service as a Bo ardM em ber. Johnn y Richardson, right,proudly displays h is certificate fo r 25years se rv ice to the Department re­ceived at the banquet held in theH oteL Van couver last De cember.

ZENON BURE­C HAILO, OfficeManager at F or tst. John is II goingsouth ", He will betaking over duti esas Offic e Managerat Pouce Coupe.

Road Sign?

JIM ODDIE, Automoti ve Mechanic atBos ton Ba r was t rans ferred to Kam ­loops.

T he Cariboo will aLwa ys have it'sch aracters , as the sig n abo ve shows.T h is s ig n is Located on the Old Cari ­boo Hig h wa y at Cine ma .

D. G. JOHNSON has been tr ans fer r edto Dis tri ct Engineer , T er r ac e.

DAVE LESYK, Automoti ve Mechanicat Karnloops s ince J anuary 1967 haspeen t ransferred to Boston Bar.

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JAC K KELSALL has bee n transfe r r edf r om Dis t r ic t Engineer , Reve ls toke toHeadquar te rs as Br idge Inspecti on En­gineer .

W. M. SPROUL moves fr om RegionalMaintenanc e Engine er to Regtonal Con­st ru ctl on Engineer In Nelson.

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PAT O'TOOLE takes over the Dis ­tr ict Super inte ndent' s job in Llll ooe t.Pat comes from T er r ace and has spenta number of years in the northern areasof the province. The Llllooet Dist r ictwelcomes P at and his family.

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J OHN PANKIW has taken over theDistrict Engineer's pos it ion in Pe n­t ie ton, T he Lillooet Dist r ict Wis hesJ ohn and his fam il y well as they goto the land of U Peaches and Cr eam",

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KEN McGREG­OR ofthe Loc ationBranch, Nel son,h a s r ec entlytransferred to theT axation Branch,C r anbrook, Ken was presented with anOl ympi c fishing reel by his fellowwor kers.

H UGH HO L ­L INS, has t r ans­f er red f r omCourtenay as theRo ad MaintenanceFor eman 2 In the'Cellsta are a ofthe

Salmon Arm District. Hugh hopes tohous e his family on the love ly s horesof the Shuswap Lake . .

PATRICK J .(P at) BONSER hasrecently taken uphis new position asRe gion al PavingEn gineer at Karn­loops. He was withthe Location Branch In Vict oria pr iorto his recent appointment. Pa t Is mar­ried and has two children. His hobbyis fi shing.

D. C. (DAVE)MacVICAR h asr ecentl y taken uphis new pos ition asRe gional Maint e­nan ce Engineer atKarnloops , He waspr evious ly R e ­

glon al Construction Engineer at P r inceGeorge. He has been wit h the Depart­ment since 1947 as Resident Enginee rwith Loc ation, Cons truction and Br idgeBranch and District Engineer In Mer ­ritt, Revelsto ke, Llllooet and WilliamsLake ; Region al Bridge Ins pector atKarnloops and Regional MaintenanceEngineer at Prince George. Dave andhi s wife Eleanore have three girl s.His hobbles are bird hunti ng and fish ­tng ,

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10-7 Club

BRUCE FORSYTHE of the Ashcro ftcrew has retu rned to work after a two­month la y off due to ill ness .

AUBREY BURGESS, Road For emanat Salmo has been hos pit ali zed in T r ailfor a ti me. His co lle ague s wish him aspeedy r ecover y and a quick retu rn towor k,

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CONVALE SCEN TS

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WILLI AMBRUCE Mc KEN­ZIE r etired las tmon th fro m theP enticton maint ­enance crew. Hesta r te d with the

Depar t ment on May 19th, 1956 as aBridgeman and duri ng the last fouryear s he was assi stant sign painte r .His fellow employees pr es ent ed himwith a power saw and appropr iates c roll as a far ewe ll gift . He and htsWife, Edna , will be r es iding at theirpresent address, 594 Gr een Avenue,Penti c ton, B.C .

A s ma ll part y was he ld in the Pe r ­sonne l Buildi ng of the All ison PassCamp Hop- P r inceton Highway r ec entl yto bid fa rewell and extend good wis hesto MRS. ROSE CAMPEAU on her re­t ir ement. Ros ie commenced with theDepartment on J une 20, 1960 as a cooka t Bir ch Is land and a shor t time late rwas t r ansfer red to Allison Pass.

F R AN K AN­T HONY GIGLICYT ­T I was pres entedwith a portab leSkil Saw by theCoqult lam yard onhis re cent retire­me nt . Frank ' s hobby and r et irementplans concern ca r pent r y. Bes ides beingan exce ll ent woodworke r . he enjoyswor king in the ga rden. F r ank ca me toth e New Westmi ns ter Dis t r ict ten yearsago fr om F ern ie where he wo rked upto a forem an in the Publi c Wor ks.

DICK R ING -HAM, Mainte n-anc e Foreman,r et! red afte r 18yea rs s er vice onThe tis Is land.

Dick Is t r avell ing to Expo to s tart offhi s r eti r ement. Dick and Mrs. Rtngrnanwere feted at a small farewell get to­gethe r In Nana imo pr ior to his de­pa rture.

RICHARD M.BL AKE who beganwith the Depar t­ment of HighwaysLocati on Branchas a t r ans it man in1947, r eti red in

Apr il , 1967. In 1950 Dick was loanedto the North Vancouver Dis tri ct Offi ceas Engineering Aide in cha rge of theDis t r ic t Drafti ng Room and remai nedt her e until his retirement. Dick waspresented with luggage by his fellowe mployees who wished him well as heand his wife , Cathrine, leave for aholida y in Britain to visit friends andrelatives.

* * *A farewell suppe r and dance was he ld

at the Can adian Legion in Revels tokefor ED KING and HANS HANSEN, whoboth reti red in March th is year. Edwas pr esent ed with a scroll for 25year meri torious se rvice by Bill Nel­son, Region al Highwa y Enginee r . Heals o r eceived a reclining chair as agift from empl oyees and friends. Amonggifts presented to Hans was one pre­sented on behalf of the B.C.G.E. A. byRico Dltomasst,

GEORGE GIL­LETT ret! r esafter 14 yea r sse rvi ce at theLangfo rd S i g nSho p. An a rdentfisher man, hewaspresented with atro ll ing r ee l and line, whic h he intendsto put to good use. George will also bebusy pai nti ng and wor king with theT om Thumb Safet y Village. He is ag r eat beli ever in safet y and has workedhard and long on this project.

"DAK~Y" Mc ­LENNA~, who hasworked for the De­pa r t ment at Sal­mon Arm for 34years . reti red onApr il 13. 1967. He

was pres ented wIth an attractive t artanjacket on behalf of the s ta ff.

J . R. ( J a k e)K RU S HK IS K Y,fo r me r KamloopsDis trict Supe r ln­t ede nt , was pre­sented with asweat er as a de ­parting gift fr om

th e Kam loops Dis t ri ct for emen andResident Engineer . He has gone intot he inves tm ent bus ines s in Vancouver .

C. M. ROBERT­SON, a ResidentP aving Enginee rfor the past 11yea rs , is r etiring,o r as he puts It,is " handing in hisr ifle" at the end of J une. Robbie s ervedin the two worl d wa rs. In the fi r st hewon the Military Cross and In the sec­ond he was a prisoner of war in aJ apan es e camp for four yea r s . Hiscoll eagues wish Robbie the best ofhealth and good luck in his reti r ementat Moses Point.

W. A. NELSON,oi l e 1' , Koote nayLake F erries , re ­cently re t i redafte r 33 yea rs inD ep a r t 11l e n t ofHighways f e r I' yservice. He s tar ted in 1933 as a deck­hand on the So rrento -Scot ch Cr eekFer r y and took up residence at ScotchC r eek wher e he ltved until movi ng toBalfour in 1954 when he was transfer­r ed to the M. V. Ansco mb. He ser vedin the Canadian Ar my in Wor ld WarII fro m J uly, 1940 to Novem ber , 1943.At a ga ther ing of fe r r y employees onboard M. V. Anscomb he was pres ent ­ed wit h a wrist watch by Chief Engi­neer , Nei l MacLeod.

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Extra ' 'Curricular" Acti vities SAFETY (CO N T.)

R . ( .. (ho b) Harvey , Regional High ­wa y Engin eer at Prin ce George si nce1958 . and hi s ici fe , Ei:a, were honour­ed at a recent far ew ell banquet. Hehas been transferred to Vi ct oria asSpecial Projects Engin eer. Hob uaspresented with golf cfubs and cart.

The ei ghth Region 4 Annual Bon spielwas held in Prince George Apr il 15with 10 rinks competing, from BurnsLake, Prince George, Vand erhoof, Ter ­race, Pouce Coupe and Quesnel. Thewinners of the trophy and th e A eventwer e the rink from Burns La ke skippedby Bob Saul with Chuck Rolston 3r d,Bob Veitch 2nd and Chris Egol f l ead.Th e B Event was won by the Pouc eCoupe rink.

* * *Miss Wanda Jones was pr esent ed

with a going-away gift on behalf ofthe Court House Staff in Sal mon Armby H. F . Coupe, Di s trict Engineer .Wanda terminated employment witht he Department of Highway s. She willbe missed for her vi vacit y.

A Silver Safety Award was presentedby R eg iona l H ig h icays Engineer R .i . . H a r vey of Prin ce l eo rge to R oyS a by , bridge-Fore m a n at a rally inS mithe rs M arch 1, 1967.

Bert Larsen , left. and T ommy Ta saho , right, p laying in the Lower Fraser v al­ley's seco nd (, 01/ Tournam ent u-as at th e N etclands Golf Course in L angley onApril 15. John Hynds, R eg.onal Pa cing Superintendent. teas the icinner with thelow net score. Th e tournam ents are rece iving better turn outs this year an d indi­cation s ar e that th e players ha ve enjoyed th e compe tition. There is always room(or cisiting higliu -ay personnel

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Members of the Pa rksville maintenance crew gathered to say go od bye toHugh Hollins who was transferred to Celis ta eire, standing, left to right, HowardIngram , Ted Clev erly, Glen Ware, Ernie Harris, Lloyd Antrim, Pete Peterson,Albert Kennedy. Seated, left to right, Fred Woods, Lome A nderson, Hugh Hol­lins, Ken Woodford, Gay Markel, Ted Trill, Don Brittain, and R eg Pleasants.

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A/ex Caldwell, R egi on a l Safety Offi­cer, left, presen ts Silve r S afety A wardto D. Bryant rep resen ti ng the A lberniand Ucl ue le t R oad Maintenancecrews.

A Stluer Safety A ward was presentedby R egional High way Enginee r R. G.H ar vey to O. C. Sanders, left, shopfor eman at S m ithers .

SAFETY ( CONT.) Promotions

L. A. (L e s)BR ODDY has bee npromot ed to Re­gional HighwayEn g in e e r a t

~ Prince George. He..... was forme r ly Re-

giona l Construc­t ion Enginee r at Nel son and RegionalMlntenance Engineer in Nor th Van cou­ver. P ri or to thi s he wa s Dis t rictEngineer in Courtenay. Les is a grad­ua te of th e Unive rs it y of Albe rt a. Therewas a farewell pa rty in D. F . Martin'shome and one at the offi ce In Nels onwhere his colleagues presented hi mwit h a wr is t watch. He is ac ti ve in cubwork and is a ski enthusiast. He and hisWife, Yvonne , have two so ns. Billy andTomm y.

P. B. McCARTHY for mer ly Br idgeInspection Engineer has been promotedto Region al Maintenance Enginee r InNel son.

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A. H. (BERT) DIBBEN rece ntly wonthrough competition the pos it ion ofDis trict Superintendent at Karnloops ,He was previously Regional MechanicalSupe r inte ndent in Karnloops, Bert andhis wife Jean have two children andthree gr andchildren. His hobbies arec amping and fishing. He Is also Pastres ident of Kamloops to astmastersClub.

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PHILIP E. (Phil)BISHOP was re­cently promotedfrom Dis t r ict En­ginee r , P enticton,to Region al Con­struction Eng i ­n eer' PrinceGeorge.

He be gan with the Department In1945 s hort ly aft er his dis cha rg e fromthe R.C.A.F . He was s tat ioned in BurnsL ake for a num ber of year s pri or tohis t r ansfer to Penti cton on Augus t1, 1961. His Wife , Nor ma, and threechildren, a daughte r Jud ith, and twosons, Mike and J ohn, will join himsoon In Prince George.

He was presented wit h fa r ewell giftsconsisting of binoculars, pip e and tobac­co from hi s staff and crews in the Dis ­trict.

New P.G. RegionalOfficials Appointed

* * *The Smithe rs Road crew r eceive d a

Bronze Award at a Safety Rall y heldin Smithers March 1, 1967. Road Fore­man L. Moore accept ed the award onbehalf of the crew.

A. (Ed) BUCKLEhas recentl y wonthe position of En­gineering Aide 3 inth e Pouce CoupeDistrict. Ed ha sworked with the

Co nst r uct ion Branch s ince 1956 and isgl ad to be back in his own home InPouce Coupe.

* * *WAYNE RANDALL has been pro -moted to District Engineer in Revel­s toke. Wayne formerl y worked in theNew Westminster District.

A.A. SP ENCER;formerl y of 100­Mile House, wasth e s uccessful ap­pli cant for theRo ad MaintenanceForeman 2 position in Quesnel. Artwas In the Willi am s Lake Dis t r ict forfive years, more r ecently as Foreman1.

PAUL D. RAY­MOND of Ros slandwas the succes sfulapplicant for theposition of Assis t ­a n t Mec h a ni c

F oreman 1 at the Grand Forks ga r age.P ri or to Joining the Depa rt me nt in

Dece mbe r , 1959, P aul owned and oper ­at ed a s awm ill and logging bus iness ,whe r e he maintained and repaired allhis equipment.

U Dar r y~ Churchill, a mem ber of th eFalkland crew and ch airm an of th eSafety Committee during 1966 accepteda Silve r Award Certificate fr om KenJackso n, Co-ordinat or of Accident Pre­venti on. The award si gnifies that SalmonArm District crews worked 164,162man hours without a time-loss accidentfrom December 2, 1965 to January 1,1967.

Left to right, H arold Flower, MarioMerl o, District Engineer, Nelson andRussell B ro ugh to n. Mr . M erlo pre­sented six -mo nths no-t im e-loss certifi­cates to Harold, Chair m a n of theS afety Co m m ittee, who accepted onbehalf of the N elson District R oadCrews and R ussil/ who accepted thecer tificates on behalf of the Crestonshop crew .

Abou t 100 employees attended theSaanich safety r all y he ld at Lan gfordApr il 28. Guest s peakers were Mrs.Lawrence, st. John' s Ambulance; KenJackson, Civil Se r vice Safet y Officer,an d the chairman was A. F . Par k, Dis ­trict Superintend ent.

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T he New Westminst er Bridge crewrece ived a Bronze Safe ty Award, pre­sented by District Enginee r Roy Git­ti ns at a safety meeting May 5, 1967.

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S teve Cult, M echanic Forema n, NewDenver, and E . Kline, Mechanic Fore­man, Creston , jointly rec eiving the A .R . I rving M emorial Trophy fo r shop

safety for the y ear 1966. A s theseshops were tied th e trophy will be heldfor six months in ea ch shop.

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R. J..,' . (B ob) Edwa rds, Test ing Bra nchDesign Engineer , left, A . G. (Gordon)J on es, R eg ional Construction S up er ,intetndent and L. J . H . (Larry) deb oer,R egional M oteriolsEngineer, on thefob near Valemount.

A cre w at wor k j ust east of Fe rniefencing on the p roj ect are, left toright, Coohie Cimolini, R alp h Fierroand Harry Ka isner.

The P o u ce Co upe p a tching crewhave fi red up Old S m ok ey again thisyea r and the t wo cre w men, JimN ic holson a n d Fran k Ch m ielewsk iwill p us h the mach ine over manym iles in the course of the su m mer.The crackfilling machines hav e provedthemsel ves In this Distri ct . T he Dis­tr ict can supp ly plans to a nyone in ­terested.

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On The Job

Pete N elson , N ew Denver R oad Main ­tenance Foreman and Tom R eed, Con ­str ucti on Forem an on the site of th erecent recon st ru ction work on No. 6Hig h way so uth of Silverton, B.C .

Morley Hyatt, N ew Den ve r RoadMain tenance Fo re m an at Kaslo be­side a culvert bei ng ins talled in placeof the s m all creek bridg e north ofKa slo , B .C.

The Galiano Island crew, left to ligh t,For e m a n J a ck S h aw, John hell,Ralph S tevens and H oward M cL eod,Driving Tra iner Supervisor.

H arry Da wes, left , and John Dem ill ­ard g oing soft on their grader in theLantzville area .

Th e Gabriola cre w h a ve been bu sygetting ready for paving. Left to right,J a m es S il very, Jo h n K rastel, Fo re­m an No rman M cLaren.

Peter Bak er, Engineering A ide on thejo b, sheetin g th e Dease L ak e S h op .J obs vary considera bly when the en ­gine eri ng staffs visit the no rthern ex ­tr emity of the Fort S t . J ohn Dis trict.

About People

Gr and ForksOffice ManagerGladys M. Floydwa s born inGr eenwood, B.C.and after attend­ing the Nelson

Business Coll ege, worked in theGovernment Sub- Agency office in-Cr es ton and then at the Canadian Bankof Comm er ce at Grand Forks. Shecommenced emplo yment in the GrandForks Highways Office as Clerk-Steno­grapher in 1951, was promoted toClark 2 in 1955 and to Office Managerin 1956.

Gladys is an ardent curler and hasmany tr ophies to pr ove it. She is alsoa good shot , and many winters hassup pli ed the famil y with venison. Activein com munit y affairs, she is a memh erof the Orde r of Eastern Star, and theUnited Church Choir . She is a RedCros s volunteer blood donor, and todat e has given 12 pints .

She has twice been to England on theB.C. Gover nment Employees' charterfli ghts and in her little mini stationwagon tour ed a good deal of Canadaand the northern United States.

M a ureen O' B rien who wo rk s in theDistrict office in Pentic ton as Clerk 2...

Ron M olar, Regional Carp en ter Fore­man, sho wn on th e si te of the newRolla E qu ipment shed in the PouceCoupe Distric t. R on and his crewwork out of th e Region al offic e atPr ince Geo rge and are in much de­mand by the Districts.

Atz e H. Vander­kooi r ec e ntlycom menced em­ployment as Resi­dent Engineer onCons truc tion inKami 0 0 p s , Hecam e to Canada in

Apr il , 1967 fr om Afr ica where he hadbeen li ving in var ious countries ofSouthern Afr ica for the pa st te n year s .His la st posi tion was an eng inee rwith the Kar tba hydr o electric schemein Rhodes ia . He is married and hasfour child r en. Hobbies are sports,hunting and fishing.

Miss M argaret Crown, a new memberof the S almon Arm office staff, joinedthe Department April 11, 1967. H ereMarg aret displays the "Roy Mcl.eod"tr op hy which the Salmon Arm Dis­trict sh ares with Kelowna for a yearfree of time-loss accidents.

The Ne w Den ver office staff, PeteKolesnihof], Clerk , left, Norma Hay­den , Clerk- S tenographer; and FredA grignon, District Off ice Manager,on the steps of th e New Denver gov­ern ment offices .

Some of the better features of the Nelson Regional Office, left, Maxine Peaersen,origi nally from Creston, has been work ing for the Department in N elson sinceApril, 1965. Right, Mrs. Linda Hollins who came from England with her husbandin J uly, 1964. Linda and her hu sband hav e a two year old da ughter.

Dennis Hill, Dis trict Office M anager,a t work in the Chilliwack DistrictOffic e.

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Tricky Twigg Island Bridge Operation SuccessAt 10 p.m, Wednesday, March 22,

1967, the Twigg Island Bridge wasclosed to traffic for 26 hours. Th istime was needed to replace the temp­orary Bailey bridge span with a new150 foot steel truss. Once the steelwork of the new span was complete,cranes lifted it on to timber trestleson a sc ow. The timber deck, as phaltplank, B.C. hydro gas line and Rich­m ond Municipal water line were thenpl aced on the span.

During the latter stages of the con­tractor's wor k, the New Westminst erDistrict arranged for a second scow onwhich was built a timber trestle. Priorto the closure, notices were publishedIn the press, at least 20 organizationswere notified and spot announcementswere made from the r adio stations.Detour signs were erected and tworadio controlled trucks were pl acedat each end of Twigg Island Bridge.

The District Bridge Crew removedthe timber approaches to the Baileybridge while the B.C. Hydro Gas andRichmond Water Department cut theirrespective pipe lines attached to theBailey bridge. Two tugs moved the sec­ond scow directly under the Baileybridge, while boats were stationed ateach end of the Mitchell Island to en­sure that no river traffic cam e throughand the District ,Sounding Crew mannedtheir boat as a safety precaution. Asthe tide came in the timber trestles onthe scow rose, to support the Baileybridge; at 1:30 a.m, the tide had liftedthe scow high enough to allow the tugsto pull the Bailey bridge clear of theTwigg Island Bridge and move upstreamto one of the New Westminster dockswhere it was later dismantled by theDistrict Bridge. The interval betweenthe removal of the Bailey span and thenext high tide allowed most of theDistrict Crews a few hours sleep.

The scow carrying the new 150 tonsteel truss came into si ght at 11:00a. rn, March 23, and at high tid e by usingfour tugs the scow was manoeuvredinto line between the concrete pierswhile the steel span rested about 5ft. above the existing deck level. Highwinds hindered the operation. As thetide went out the new span descendedslowly and it was not until 7 p.rn, onThursday evening that the new bridgerested on the concrete piers. The Dis­trict Bridge Crew had worked on theapproach spans; the utilities were con­nected and at midnight thd deck wasswept and the first car crossed the newspan at 12:15 a.rn,

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We know a ship has a bridge but this is ridiculous.

Strange-looking vessel moves closer . . . sideways.

... and closer

... just another few feet

.. . and touchdoum: