THE BRITISH COLUMBIA J\-IARCH , 1968

PUBLISHED BY TH E DEPARTM El T OF H IGHWAYS VOLUJ\-IE 5, NUMBER 1

MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION JOB FORHORSESHOE BAY FERRY TERMINAL

Work is presently under way to en­large the B.C. Ferries terminal at Horse­shoe Bay. Construction has been dividedinto five major contracts, and the workwill form the first phase of a total recon­struction of the terminal, as shown in thephoto of the model.

Items in the first phase include a newberth, a two-level holding compound, ap­proach roads, outside holding lanes, andparking facilities .

The design of the new facilities wasdone by the Dock District of the Depart­ment of Highways under the supervisionof Special Project Engineer Bob Harvey.Project Engineer for all construction onland is Al Walisser of the ConstructionBranch on loan to the Dock District, andProject Supervisor for the marine struc­tures is Otis Cameron of the Dock Dis­trict.

Technical assistance was received fromthe Materials Testing Branch regardingearth pressures, concrete, and the anchor­age of tie rods in the rock cliff.

Photograph of the model of Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal showing the ultimateconfiguration of the terminal.

A bove, I'iew showing sheet pile bulkhead tie rods drilled and

grouted into solid rock face of cliff.

Middle right, view looking seaward (north) showing sheet pilebulkhead which will be filled 10 form the approach for the /lewthird berth, and marine structures being constructed in the back­ground.

Lower right, view looking away from the water (south) showingthe footings for the upper holding compound under construction

in the foreground and the approach roads and parking lot underconstruction in the background.

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LI T H O GR AP H E D I N CANADA BY A. SUTTON. OUEEWS P R I N T E R . V ICTOR IA. B .C.

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THE ROA D-R UNN ER

March, 1968Volume 5

Associate Field Editors

A. R. Limacher Victoria

Bill Ingram . Victoria

Adam Kloster North VancouverDave Wardell BurnsideJ. W. Morris Nanaimo

M. But ler Co urte nay

Jim Harr is . Bridge MaintenanceW. I. N . Hi ggins North Vancouver

Lloyd Burgess. New WestminsterG. M. Vance Chilliwack

G . V. Sandiford KamloopsJim Ferrier KamloopsW. Kirkland . WilIiams LakeMurray Ramsay Salmon ArmDave Bowman Revel stokeAI Desimore VernonFred Evans KelownaPete Fuoco Penticton

Jim Chenoweth . Merri ItDave Roberts . LillooetDorothy Wilki ns Grand ForksR . E. McKeown Rossland

S. J. Di xey NelsonFred Angrignon . New Den vel'

Irene Labelle CrestonN . Molander CranbrookSam Caravelta Fernie

Joh n Edga r GoldenSteve Sviatko SmithersC. Bartsch Pouce CoupePat Tondevold Fort S1. JohnHom er Good Terrace

E. A. Beaurnont ., Prince GeorgeR. M. Boss Prince George

Jack Doddridge Prince GeorgeR. Stephenson Quesnel

George Harper Vanderhoo fH . R. Walker BurnsLakeE. Lund Prince Rupert

Published Quarterly by

Department of Highways-British Columbia1690 Main Street, North Vancouver

Ray Baines, Executive EditorArthur J. Schindel, Editor

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Vemoll crew with N orth Okanagan M.L.A . and Minister with­alii Portfolio Mrs. Pal Jordan try out aile of the new roadsidepicnic tables designed by Landscape Supervisor Mike Pope andbuill by th e Department, The 460-pound tables have concretelaps and base finished ill terrazzo with cedar seals. Wit li Mrs .Jordan are, lej t 10 right , Marvin Zwarych , Rex Wiley, G. F.O'Keefe, and Foreman Les York, members of the crew who buillthe tables.

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Front page: Don Johnson, District Engineer at Terrace, andTruck Driver Eugene John son on a rescue operation in .. DutchValley " north of Terrace, after receiving a call for help froma local family flooded in their home. Photograph by J. SCHU­ETZE, Engineering Aide 3 in the Terrace office.

TOUGH ROCK JOB INNORTH VAN'S "KHYBER PASS" Convalescents

Du ring the past year, Superintendentof Equipment JACK SMYTHE has hadmore than his share of illness. Althoughnot completely recovered , he is back atwork striving to keep up with a demand­ing job. He still manages to 'keep smil­ing, and his co lleag ues hope it won't belong before he rece ives the "fully re­covered" report from his doctor.

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JIM GUNN, Bridgeman with thePrince George Bridge Crew, is convalesc­ing in Vancouver after a recent operationat the Vancouver General. His friendsand fellow workers wish him a speedyrecovery.

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H. V. BAILEY, Road MaintenanceForeman 3 at Grand Forks, is a patientin the Trail-Tadanac Hospital at Trail.Friends and fellow employees wish Har­old a speedy recovery.

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Fellow employees of DON YOUNG,Road Maintenance Foreman 2, and BILLPHAIR, Heavy Duty Mechanic, Cran­brook garage crew, wish them well andan early return to work.

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HARRY WARING, Regional PavingSuperintendent at Prince George, is ex­pected to return to his home from thehospital soon to continue his convales­cence.

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W. NA YKI, of the Salmon Arm BridgeCrew, and MURDO McLENNAN, ofthe Salmon Arm Maintenance Crew,have both been on the sick list for sometime now. Their friends wish them botha speedy recovery.

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D. A. CARMICHAEL has been offwork since December 30, 1967. We wishhim a speedy recovery and return towork.

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H . B. BELL has been off work sinceJanuary I, 1968, and we wish him aspeedy recovery and return to work.

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E. W. DAVIS recently returned towork after a long illness . We welcomehim back and wish him good health.

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P. REZANSOFF has been off worksince December 21, 1967. We wish hima speedy recovery and return to work.

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P. KOORBATOFF-we are pleased tosee Pete on the job after his operation.

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D. M. MICHALSKY has been offwork since December 20, 1967. We wishhim a speedy recovery and return to work.

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tion Co. Ltd . Blasting was required tolower the grade by some 20 feet. Thecontractor's equipment was able to punchthrough the blasted rock and re-establish

a traffic pattern to conform with thenew grade before the opening of a pre­arranged road closure.

Engineering Aide Art Baynes, with theConstruction Branch, was on hand torecord pictures during blasting operationsby contractor Emil Anderson Construe-

for a distance of 600 feet. Approxi­mately 140,000 yards of material will beremoved to obt ain the finished grade, asillustrated right centre in the artist's con-

ception by Don Johnson, Resident Engi­neer, Construction Branch. Left centre,Wally Calder, Engineering Aide , is showncross-sectioning high up on the BigBench . Among other things, Wally is acompetent forester , soils technician, andpart-time rockhound.

For the past 18 months the Garibaldi Highway between Britannia andSquamish has been under construction.

As this area is practically solid rock,road closures were put in effect some­times up to five days a week and for sixhours each day to allow for blasting.Shown on the right is a particularlyhazardous corner known on the old roadby local motorists for years as the.. Khyber Pass."

To accomplish the grade desiredthrough the .. Khyber Pass," it is neces ­sary to cut the mountainside by 140 feet

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PEEK INTO THE PAST

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This was the Kamloops to M erritt Highway in th e winter o f1943, about 10 miles south o f Kamloops. Th e entire 60-m ilerout e is just th e same as th e sec tion sho wn. Th e car is a 1927Studebaker, and th e pictures were tak en by G. V. Sandiford, De­partment of Highways, Kamloops.

This is the crew that surveyed the Nakusp to Arrowhead routein 1938. Chief Location Engineer Harry L. Cairn s is in the cen­tre. The sam e crew surveyed many oth er locations throughoutth e Province. How many do you rem em ber? Perhaps the nameswill help. Standing, back row, left to right : J. Parent, J. D.Black, L. Bourque, F. Eht, Mr. Cairns, A . Werterstrum, D. Ber­ard , and H . Bowes. Front row, sitting, left to right: G. P. Sharpe,E. Brown, J. McNeill, and C. Mayall.

Old toteJuly , 1943 .River.

road over generally soft places at Thunder River inThis is on the N orth Thompson Highway near Blue

Pull Grader 164 , of unknown vinta ge, was located near Cran­brook by Location Bran ch R esident Engineer Jack Hacking ,standing beside the machine. A t th e COl/tro is is Dou g Perkins,Op eration Manager for th e L ocation Bran ch .

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"EXTRACURRICULAR" ACTIVITIES

Quent J. Methot, electrician's helper

with the Department, has a used car fursale. He stands beside a new Iavelinwhich he won recently on the Windfallprogramme. The purchase of a radiatorhose made the winning entry possible.

25-year Service Award

Ken LcMarsh, of the Abbotsjord Main­tenance Crew, Chilliwack Highways Dis­trict, receiving his 25-year service award

from Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Ken

has worked steadily in the A bbotsjordarea since November I, 1941.

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A Location Branch team placed second out of 34 teams in theannual inter-departmental bowling tournament held February 3rdill Victoria, winning the B.C.G.E. trophy with a team total of5.595 pins . Members were, left to right, George Musselwhite,Clif] Ramsay, Monica Day, Jim Chambrey, and Bob Standen,

Resident Engineer K. M. Humphrey

has accepted a position with the National

Parks Board at Revelstoke. Ken, beingan ardent curler, was presented with curl­ing shoes and sweater from his fellowemployees by Senior Road Foreman JimTitus.

Truck Drivers Bill Tymchuk, left, and

Bill Baddeley at their [avourite sport,fishing for whitefish on their days 00.

The fish weighed in at 3 pounds.

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Senior Maintenance Engineer J. A. DENNISON and Mrs .Dennison returned at the end of February from an 8.000-milecar and trailer trip to Arizona, southern California, and Mexico.They were joined for part of the trip by Mr. and Mrs. JackHague. Mr. Hague retired a few years ago as Esquimalt DistrictEngineer in Victoria. At Palm Springs on the way home theyran into Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nelson, Regional Highway Engineer,Kamloops, while shopping at a supermarket. Also at PalmSprings were Mr. Evan Jones. formerly Deputy Minister of High­ways. and Mrs . Jones.

A presentation was made in January to FRITZ NEUBERT,who had worked for the Lillooet bridge crew for a number ofyears and has won a promotion to General Tradesman with theB.C. Forest Service. Lillooet was sorry to see Mr. Neubert leaveand wishes him all the best on his new job.

On behalf of the Quesnel District em­ployees, Senior Road Foreman Jim Tillispresents District Superintendent G. V.Harper with a pair of binoculars on hisrecent transfer to Vanderhoof.

E. P. Nelson , Road Maintenance Fore­

man of the New Denver District, with a

24-pound rainbow trout, caught in theKootenay Lake December, 1967.

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MISCELLANY

IAt 2 a.m , February 7, Ken Cudmore, of the Campbell River

Maintenance Crew, was salting the highway between CampbellRiver and Kelsey Bay when he spott ed a wrecked car over anembankment and heard a womall calling for help from inside thecar. As he was himself unable to get her out, he immediatelyradioed Deas Tower to contact the R .C .M .P., ambulance, andwrecker at Campbell River. He stayed at the site until helparrived. The driver was killed and the lady passenger injured.

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A n experimental bubble system was installed at the FrancoisLake Ferry this winter. Thre e-quarter-inch plastic lilies wereused with a 250 c.j.s. compressor . This system was successful illkeeping docks clear of ice at temperatures o f 2SO below zero.Picture shows the Francois Lake landing at sub- zero temperatures.The ferry operates between South hank on the south side andFrancois Lake Landing all th e north.

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Th e Region 3 hydra-seeder took on a new role last fall when itanswered an emergency call to fight a hous e fire which took placein Golden . The building was outside the city limits with IW

water supply. When the fire threatened to spread, the hydra­seeder and water trucks were called and quickly extinguished theblaze.

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•Bill Stimac, of th e Paving Branch. testing the capabilities of a

Profilometer all Highway 97 near Vern on . Th e device m easuresand records the roughness of pavement. Bill has been with th eDepartment for eight m onths, he has a B.Sc., is single, and hishobbies are hunting and fishing.

Joe Curry, Engineer for the Construction Branch , is shown be­side a slide which totally destroyed a 5 cubic-yard shovel bein goperated by A IIderSOIl Construction. The accident occurred Janu­ary 25 all the North Thompson No.5 Highway , A vola-BlueRiver section. New value of the shovel is about $250,000.

The Department of Highways opened a Winter InformationTrailer , December 15, 1967, ill Kamloops. It is well stocked withbrochures and current information on roads, ski-ing, ice fishing,as well as general injormation 011 British Columbia and oth erparts of Canada. It has received over 2.000 inquiries in the firsttwo months of operation.

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SAFETY AWARDS, INFORMATION, RALLIES

The Honourable P. A. Gag lardi , Minister, presented in Januarya bronze-on-gold safety award to J. W . G. Kerr, Senior PavingEngineer. The achievement was made by the whole PavingBranch , ineluding university students employed during the summermonths, the pulvimix crews, and the seal-coat crews, by working535,100 hours without a time-loss accident. Left to right, Mr.Kerr, Peter Barnes, the Honourable Minister, and H. H. Sawatzky .

Th e New Denver District Bridge Crew after receiving bronze­on-gold safety award. Left to right , H . Detta, E . Klein, R . Hopp,J. Walker, and Foreman R . Thirion,

Above picture shows the Bums Lake Bridge Crew proudlydisplaying the award of honour which was presented to them byLes Braddy, Regional Highway Engineer, at a special safetymeeting held at Burtis Lake. Left to right, back row, BridgeForeman Chris Egolf, John Reynolds, and Loyal Harrison. Frontrow , Erik Schroeder and Eldon Johnson.

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N il Accident Frequency

Rate for Four WinnersA record 0.0 fre quency rate was achieved by the four distri cts

winning their respec tive Regio na l Safety Awa rds for 1967.Na naimo Distr ict, the Region 1 winner, has received its t rop hy

fo r the seco nd consecutive year. Ot her winners were Mer rittDistrict for Region 2, Fernie Dis tric t for Region 3, and the Smith­ers District for Region 4.

A trophy is prese nted annually to the district in each regionwith the lowest accident frequency rate during the cale ndar yea r.

Although not winning an award, congratulations are also dueto employees in the Bridge Branch, Burns Lake, Quesnel, andDock Districts, who also ended the year with an 0.0 frequencyrate.

Region 2, with a frequency rate of 14.3, has won the secondpresentation of the Honourable the Minister's trophy. Thistrophy is for the region with the lowest frequency rate in theProvince .

The Department's over-all frequency rate in 1967 was 15.8, ascompared to 42.3' in 1964, when records commenced. Thisrepresents a reduction from 368 time-loss accidents in 1964 to160 in 1967 even though over I Y2 mi llion more man-hours wereworked in 1967.

Cause of Accidents

N ot Bad LuckMany things can cause accidents, but in most cases bad luck

isn't one of them.This was the theme of a recent article by K. E. Jackson, Safety

Officer for the Civil Service Commission . He cited a case wherea man slipped and broke his ankle climbing down from a grader.Someone called it H bad luck."

H Baloney," wrote Mr. Jackson. .. Ed didn't break his ankleas the result of bad luck, he broke it as a result of bad judgment,carelessness, or thoughtlessness."

He went on to talk about luck . It is hard to define, but mainlyseems to mean" consequences over which we have no control orwhich can only be controlled or guided by some superstitioushocus-pocus."

"Let's come back to Ed's case," Mr. Jackson said. "Was it'bad luck' which caused him to be in a rush to get ou t of hisunit when he finished his sh ift? Was it ' bad luck ' tha t he didn'tuse his eyes to see where he was putting his feet? Was it 'badluck' that prevented him from having a secure hand hold as hegot down from his grader? "

" In safety work," he said, "there is a slogan which is seentime and time again-' slow down and Jive.' In Ed's case slow­ing down a bit could have saved him from the accident whichled to his broken ankle . . . to see where he was putting hisfoot, to think whether or not the footing was secure."

He said that the words" see" and" think" were the two magicaction words wh ich could change" bad luck " to .. good luck."

.. If every individual," he said, "will take only a moment tosee his surroundings, to assess the hazards around him, and thento think of the natural consequences of his actions, we will haveprogressed a long way on the road to preventing accidents."

')District Superintendent John Morris

proudly displays the Region 1 safetyaward whic h the Nanaimo District wallfor the second successive year. Theaward was made by Deputy MinisterH. T. Miard at a banquet in the Shore­Line Hotel, Nanaimo, March 1. Seatedare, left to right, Mr. Miard, Mrs . J.Morris, and Mayor Frank Ney of Na­naimo,

Chairman of the Nanaimo Safety Com­mittee, A Ihert Evans, receiving a bronze­on-gold award for the Nanaimo Highway

District from Civil Service Safety Co­

ordinator Ben Pass. The award was for654 ,988 man-hours without time loss and

is a first ever in British Columbia.

Regional Maintenance Engineer W . M .

Mercer, left, makes presentation of a

silver award to Bill Pleasants, chairmanof the Duncan Safety Committee, whoaccepted the award all behalf of theCowichon-Molahat Road Crews.

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The Prime Minister's silver award wa~ recently presented toRegion 2 Safety Officer H. D. Francis by Re gional Highway Engi­neer J. W . Nelson . Region 2 worked 803,687 man-hours with owa compensible accident.

Safety award presentation of a 10 all 2 membership and tieclip emblem was recently presented by Region 3 Safety OfficerGeorge K. A ustin, left, and District Superintendent Carl Shaw,right , to Bridge Foreman Harry Ball, Golden District. A 50 ­pound piece of steel struck Harry 's safety boot, cutting the leatherand partially crushing the steel toe cap, which prevented a serio usinjury.

Bridge Foreman Arnold Glover, right,receives silver award for the NanaimoDistrict Bridge Crew from A dministra­tive Officer R . J. Baines.

B.C. Safety Council bronze awards ofmerit were presented March 7 to Fore­man H. Winstanley and H. Gowler, rep­resenting two department mixing-plantcrews.

Don Bryant, right , chairman of the A 1­berni Safety Committee, receiving a goldsafety award on behalf of the A lbernt­Ucluelet Road Crew, presented hy Re ­gional Safety Officer A lex Caldwell.

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NEW FACES IN NEW PLACES Promotions

H. SAWATZKY,Regional Paving Su­perintendent for Re­gion 3 since 1960, hasbeen t ran s fer red toHeadquarters. Han kand his wife, Ruth,were entertained at a

pot-luck supper at the home of RegionalHighway Engineer Don Martin. Hankwas later presented with a transistorradio by Mr. Martin on behalf of Hank'sfellow employees in Nelson.

S. 1. TOG N E LA,District Office Mana­ger, Cranbrook, trans­fers to Victoria asSenior Clerk in chargeof the vouchering sec­tion . Silvio is marriedand has three chil­

dren, a son and two daughters. Mr.Tognela was presented with a flight bagand socket set by G. K. Austin, DistrictSuperintendent, on behalf of friends andfellow employees.

MRS. NELLIE MO­LANDER was thesuccessful ap plica n tfor the posit ion ofDistrict Office Mana­ger in the Cranbrookoffice. Nellie startedwith the Department

in Cranbrook in 1956 and has held vari­ous positions in the office, as well asprevious service with the Department ofFinance .

CHARLES__ (CHUCK) HEN-

DERSON recentlywon through compe­tition the position ofMaintenance Foreman2 in the Pouce CoupeDistrict. Chuck is

married, and he and his wife, Myrna,have three children. Chuck has beenwith the Department for J2 years.

JIM SMITH has re­ceived through com­petition the position ofClerk 3 Trainee . For­merly an EngineeringAide with the Mate­rials Testing Branch,Jim was originally as ­signed to the Nelson District office, butthe move was postponed when he camedown with appendicitis. While recover­ing he was temporarily placed as a Clerk3 Trainee in the North District officeand was soon transferred on a permanentbasis .A newcomer to the Equipment Branch

is GLEN G. HIGGINS, formerly withMaterials Testing Branch. Glen is anEngineering Assistant, doing machine de­sign and modifications. Although sta ­tioned with the Equipment Branch, hewill also continue to assist the TestingBranch, as required.

ROY WALKER, District Office Mana­ger at Merritt for the past 2Y2 years,transferred to Burns Lake in Februaryto replace JIM CHENOWETH, whowent to Merritt as Manager of the Dis­trict Office there. Roy is single, enjoysboating, water ski-ing, and fishing. He isactive with the Boy Scouts, having servedas scoutmaster and district commissioner.

GEO. W. HARPERhas recently transfer­red to VanderhoofDistrict from Quesnel,where he had beenDistrict Superinten­dent for five years.In 20 years of servicewith the Department he has worked withthe Construction Branch, the LocationBranch, as well as with the MaintenanceBranch in Nelson and Prince George,prior to his promotion to District Super­intendent in 1963. George is marriedand has three children .

GEO. R. KENT,Dis t ric t Superinten­den t at Vanderhooffor the past nineyears, recently trans­ferred to the NelsonDistrict. George join­ed the Department in

1946, spent 10 years in Vanderhoof withthe engineering staff two years as DistrictSuperintendent in New Denver and thenDistrict Superintendent in Vanderhoofuntil his recent move to Nelson.

GEORGE DODGEhas transferred to AI­berni in Region I. Hebegan work with theDepartment of High­ways in 1946 as chair­man of the construc­tion of the CaribooHighway at 70 Mile House. H is presentclassification is Engineering Assistant.He is married and has three children,twin boys and a girl. His hobbies arehunting and fishing.

Excessive flows of ice during an early break-up on the Fraser River created severalice jams in the New Westminster District, which made it necessary to stop service on theAlbion-Fort Langley Ferry January 29 for two days. Capt . D. P. Harvey put the

" T'Lagunna .. hack in service January 3/ between 7 and 8 pm . after the North Fraser

Harbour Board ice breaker cleared a channel.

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OLAF OLAFSON is retiring aftereight years' service as Engineering Aidewith the Location Branch in Region 4.

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A presentation wasmade by the DeputyMinister, H. T. Miard,January 31 to MRS.SAllY HIGHETwith 30 Headquartersstaff attending. Sallyhad been with the De­

partment II years, the Bridge Depart­ment, Personnel, North Vancouver Re­gion, Equipment Branch, and SpecialProjects. Mr. Miard presented a three­piece luggage set from Headquartersstaff, and on behalf of the North Van­couver office F. A. Maclean, AssistantDeputy Minister, presented a bouquet ofspring flowers arranged in a white Gre­cian type vase. A lovely vase was alsopresented by R. G. Harvey, Special Pro­jects Engineer, on behalf of the DockDistrict personnel.

Randolph (Slim) Pollitt has recentlyretired with 30 years of service workingon and under bridges throughout theProvince. Slim started in 1938, when hewas hired by the First Narrows BridgeCompany to help in construction of theLions Gate Bridge. In 1955 the BritishColumbia Toll Highways and BridgesA uthority took over the Lions GateBridge and hired Slim as Foreman ,Again in 1958 jurisdiction changed, underthe Department of Highways Mr. Pollittreceived the title of Maintenance Super­visor. In the following years Slim trav­elled extensively throughout the Provincesupervising the painting of such bridgesas Second Narrows, Agassiz-Rosedale,Nelson , Golden (Blaeberry) , Coquitlam,and various smaller bridges in the 111­

terior and on Vancouver Island. Slimhas three sons, one daughter, and eightgrandchildren. Slim is planning to devotesome time to his new hobby, lapidary .On leaving he was presented with agrinding-wheel from his fellow employees.

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A dinner honouring A. H lEESE,Mechanical Foreman at Merritt, on hisretirement after 42 years of continuousservice to the Department was held inthe Grasslands Hotel February 23.About 70 employees and their wivesfrom various parts of the Province at­tended and wished Mr. Leese good luckduring his retirement years.

A lbert Ogden retired from the Koote­nay Lake Ferries January 31 after serv ­ing 011 the ferries for 17 years, duringwhich time he had worked as Oiler andDeckhand, A Ibert served overseas withthe Canadian <1 rmy for four years inWorld War 11. He was presented with atravelling case frrom his shipmates andput it to good use right away as he andMrs. Ogden sailed from Vancouver all acruise via the Panama Canal to England,where they intend to holiday and visitwith friends and relations. Mr . and Mrs .Ogden make their home in Procter.

Capt. A. C. Batchelor retired from theKootenay Lake Ferries on January 31after 2Y2 years as Mate and RelievingCaptain. Captain Batchelor has had con­siderable service with the C .P.R . on stern­wheelers on Kootenay Lake before com­ing to the Department of Highways. liewas presented with a fly-fishing outfitfrom his shipmates. He and his wifereside ill Nelson,

He worked for a general engineeringfirm in New Zealand for four years andfor Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com­pany in England for nine years beforecoming to Ontario in 1938 to work forCanadian Bridge Company in Walker­ville. In 1946 he joined the BridgeBranch as a Design Engineer and wasduly promoted to Chief Design Engineer,Assistant Bridge Engineer, and SeniorBridge Engineer.

During Mr. Alton's years with the De­partment, bridge-building changed fromthe timber bridges of 20-odd years agoto the new familiar steel and concretestructures, including a number of firstsin the engineering field.

Mr. and Mrs Alton plan to visit friendsand relatives in Eastern Canada, theUnited States, England, and Sweden. Ontheir return to Victoria, Mr Alton hasintentions of gardening and catching upon long neglected reading

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A. SCHMIDT cameto Canada as a smallchild in 1910 fromOdessa, Russia. Be­fore moving to GrandForks in 1946 he wasengaged in farming." Tony" is very musi­

cal, playing both the violin and the saxo­phone; for several years he had hisown dance orchestra. From 1947 untilhis retirement on January 31, 1968, hewas employed as a truck driver, stationedat Grand Forks. Tony and his wife,Ella, have bought a home at Christinalake, where Tony plans on fixing up acouple of cabins and doing a bit of fish­ing.

Senior BridgeEngineer Retires

Senior Bridge Engineer JACK ALTONhas retired after 22 years with the De­partment. Mr. Alton was born in Sussexand received his general education inEngland and Malta. His engineeringstudies were at Auckland EngineeringCollege, University of New Zealand, andat Regent St. Polytechnic Institute, lon­don.

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REGIONAL LABS TEST PAVING MATERIAL

At each regional headquarters there is a pav­

ing laboratory staffed by experienced laboratory

technicians. The purpose is to test samples of

aspha lt supplied to projects within the regions,

mainl y for kinematic viscositie s, absolu te vis ­

cos ities, the distill ation of cut-back asph alts,

penetration of the residue a fter distillation , etc.,

and to run pr eliminary M arsh all designs on ag­

gregate to be used for future projects. They

a lso ass ist and advise field laboratories a nd do

work for project s in their vicinities, carry o ut

applied rese arch, train personnel for future

employ ment as laboratory technicians, and de­

sign ro ad mi xes fo r the districts.

In Nelson the regional paving laboratory is

loc at ed on Granite Road and is currently supe r­

vised by Jo e Kapuszt a, Techn ician I, under th e

ge nera l direct ion of the Regional Paving Super ­

inte nde nt. Jo e ob tai ned a B.Sc. in Forestr y

from the Sopron U nivers ity, part iall y in Hun­

gary a nd partiall y in Vanc ou ver wh en the un i­

versity mo ved there in 1957 , and has been with

the Dep artment fo r seven years. He is married

and is the fa ther of two girl s.

Last spring Jo e designed a nd built a co ns ta nt

tem perat ure air bath for his lab orat or y. I t is

used in the design of co ld mixes and is now

being co pied by the la boratories in th e ot her

th ree regions .

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Joe Kapuszta, on the right , explaining to H. H , Sawatzk y , then th e Pavin gSupe rintendent for R egion 3, the intricacies o f the air bath .

One o f the pieces of equipme nt in the R egion 3 labora tory, a Can no n­Ma nning vacu um -type visco simeter. L arry Bagan is seen viewing all abso luteviscos ity test. La rry has lived most of his li fe at Hu dson Bay and came fromSas katoon in May of 1966, where he had th ree years' previous ex perience inlaboratory work in asphalt, concre te , and so ils.

Harold M ori adjusting th e l Z-inch

screens on a Fisher sieve shake r. Har oldis an Engineering A ssistant with fouryears' experience in th e D epartment .

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A pav ing trainin g cou rse for survey and laborat ory work was held in K amloops from

February 5 to 23, inclusive . To demons /rate th e laborat ory work, th e co urse was held inthe R egion 2 paving laboratory . Pictured here are Stan Paloposki, En gin eering A ssistant,lef t, Paul Savenk o, cen tre, and AI Petty .

On the Job-Contending with the Elements

On Janu ary 20 at 1.50 a.m ., a slide blo cke d the Tran s-Canada Highway between Hope and Cheam und the Canadian National Rail­way . The slide crossed the highway about 500 feet east o f th e Wa h leach Power Station. Hir ed equipme nt and Chilliwack District crewsand equipm ent, working under th e direction o f R oad Ma int enance Foreman Don McColl, R oseda le, had the road open to traffic by7 a.m , the nex t morning.

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Prince George Bridge Cr ew , superv ised by Forem an Dean Bar­low, s wing prestr essed concrete st ringer into place as part of th enew bridge on the John Hart-P eace R iver Highway , north o fPrince George.

Installing culverts all the Nana imoRi ver R oad to replace large woodenstructures that collapsed during recentfloods is the Nan aim o Distr ict Cassidycrew, under Road Maint enance Forem anRuss Gallo way. L eft to right , N anaimoBulldozer Op erator Da ve William s, R ussL. Anderson , G . Bright on , and StallStupich.

This is th e Terrace Distr ict winter maint enance cam p nearSal vus on High way N o. 16 bet ween Terrace and Prince Rupert.The cam p-site was developed dur ing the sum mer months andprov ed worth while durin g heavy wint er snowfalls and snowslideson this diffi cult stretch alon g th e Skeena River.

Sn ow rem o val from Arterial HighwayN o. 363R in Da wson Cr eek is efficientlycarried out through th e com bined effortsof Department tru cks and the City ofDawson Creek sno w-blower. As sho wnin this picture, the equ ipment lI'as re­moving m ore ice than sna il'.

Dale Coop er, Road Maintenance Fore­man , Lake Cowichan, looking over floodsat Cowichan Lake.

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ABOUT PEOPLE

MRS. L. PRIC E be­gan at Headquart er sas teletype operator inNovember, 1956, anJworked th ere nin eyears . She then work ­ed for other bran che sof the Dep artment for

two yea rs, returning in 1967 to the Gen­e ra l Office as teletype operat o r. Herhobbies a re readin g and camping.

LORIMER DOUG ,PERKINS, .. D o u g "to all the Hi ghwaysDep artm en t th rough­ou t the Province, hasbeen awarded a Ce r-

;/ tificate of Registrationin Ci vil En gineering.

and in co nsequence is now ent itled to the.. P.En g." appellat ion. Doug recentl ywas passed by the Board of Examiners ofProfessional Engineers of Briti sh Co lum­bia.

1. A. CAMBREY,a member of the Plan ­ning and Design Sec­tion of the Loc ationBranch, has receivedhis Diploma in PublicAdmin istr ation. Thiswas the result of three

yea rs' t ime and effor t for Jim in success­full y co mpleting the th ree-year Execut iveDevelopment Train ing Programme.

In Location Head­qu arter s repl acingMich ael Miram s -Har­rison , who was re­cently tr ansferred tothe North Vancouveroffice. is RUSSELLLEACH. Russ had atou r of duty in the Forest Ser vice andalso worked in the now defunct V.M .D.

WM . W. ROG ERS ,in the Ur ba n DesignSe ct ion , h a s c o m­pleted a three-yearcourse at the Uni ver­sity of Victori a andreceived his Diplomain Publi c Administra-tion . T his is an exacting cou rse, tak enin the ca nd ida te's own time, Even so .Bill was able to spend a few hours (Ifspa re time on the con struction of a lightaero plane-a Mini -Cab .

Th e Departm ent 's most n orth erl ySto ckman, G ordon Frank. carries alit hisduties at the Good Hop e Lake mainte­nance esta blishment located near Cassiar .It is the ma in dispat ching depot for th eDease Lak e, Telegraph Creek , and A tlinma intenan ce cam ps.

Cranbrook Distri ct Office staff. left torigh t: M rs. Jill Born owsk y, Clerk -Steno2; Mrs. Dolorr es Har ris. Clerk-Stene 1;M rs. Adrianna Lain e. Clerk 2; and Mr s.Nellie M olander . District Office Man ager.

Ge orge H , Gil es. Jr.. left . Lab ourerwith th e Missi on area crew in th e Chilli­wack Highway Distri ct . retired in March.George. I r., start ed with the Departmentin May. 1947, and has worked out of th eDeroche Yard fo r 2 1 years. George'sfather. George G iles. Sr.. 85 , shown herewith his son. retired in 1947. H e startedwith the Department of Publ ic Works in/92/ and wor ked alit of the DerocheY ard for 28 yea rs. Both Jun ior andSenior Georges are living ill Deroche.about / 2 m iles east of Mission .

JAMES F. KEENLYSIDE died onNovember 4, 1967, at the age of 54 . Mr.Keenl yside sta rted with the ConstructionBranch in 1946 as an Instrument Man,in 1949 he was promoted to ResidentEnginee r. Jim supervised various high­way projects on Vancouver Island , theLower Mainl and , and in the Interior. In1957 he atta ined the position of Div i­siona l Eng ineer. He leaves his wife andtwo children .

JOHN TEDESCO, Road Mainten ­ance Forem an 2, of Beaverdell , died sud­denl y on December 18. 1967 . Johnnywas born in Grand Forks in 1923. Heserved in the Canadian Army in the Sec­ond World War from 1943 to 1946, andjoined the Dep artment in 1950. Friendsand fellow employees will miss hisfriendl y smile and qu iet ways, and theirsympathy is extended to his wife. Ca ther­ine, son Ron and daughter Linda .

OBITUARY

T he Depar tment was sadde ned by thedea th of J . D. ( DOUG) McKI NELL.Assistant Comptroller of Expenditure .who died on March 19, 1968, after alength y illness . Mr. McKinnell , who wasbo rn in Victo ria, commenced as a JuniorC lerk with the Department of Publ icWork s on October 16, 1930. His fullcaree r was with the Dep artments of Pub­lic Work s and Hi ghways in Victoria , withthe exce ption of Armed Forces serv icefrom September, 1943, to February,1946. Mr. McKinnell is surv ived by hiswife, Dorothy , and his son s Murray, 16.and Mich ael, 13.

Fort St . John District SuperintendentPat Tonde vold, in his twic e-yearly deliv­ery of pay ch equ es, hands one to JohnnyMcl'h ee, a Ma chin e Operator on th eWatson L ake-Stewart Highway in th eDease L ak e area. M r. Tondevold tNII'­cllcd 770 m iles to make this and otherdeliveries.

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Weddings

Sandra E. Mc Kee and Ben Baller , ofth e Cranbrook Sur vey Crell', were mar ­ried November 4. /968, in th e Cranbrool:Anglican Church . Ben is from Arm­strong. The evenin g ceremony was per­formed by th e R ev . D . Anderson.

Friend s of M. C. K. (MIKE )STRUVE may be interested to learn thathe was married in January, 1967, to awidow with two children, a boy of 18and a girl of 15. The couple spent twoweeks in Greece on their honeymoon .Mike retired in 1964 as District Super­intendent at Fernie and returned to Den­mark. He keeps bus y with club work,tennis, and the Engli sh Club.

JIM WOOD. Proj­ect Supervisor for theConstruction Bra n c hon the Burrage Riversection of the Stewart­Cassiar R 0 ad , pat i ­ently waiting for thespring thaw. Jim hasbeen assisting the Regional ConstructionEngineer in the Prince George RegionalOffice over the wint er months. He justreturned from a vacation in Mexico.

WARREN HORS ­NELL , LocationBranch Draughtsmanat Prince George, hasrecently been regis­tered as a technicianwith the Society ofEngineering Technol­

ogists of British Columbia.

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MRS. PAT SAXONhas been with Head­quarters PersonnelOffice since 1952. Sheis in ch arge of recruit­ment procedures fortypists and stenogra­phers and is secretary ..to the Per sonn el Officer. However, thistalented lady, with years of experience,is of unlimited use in most areas of per­sonnel administration. Well liked andrespected by all, Pat is the ideal personfor the job .

MISS MARIE A.SCHOLZ joined thePouce Coupe staff inNovember as Clerk­Typist. No newcomerto the district, Mariegrew up in the area .Her main interest has

been her famil y's orchestra, with whichshe played piano and accordion for sev­eral year s.

MRS. S. McADAM,of the Fort St. JohnOffice, was recently in­formed of her reclas­sification to Clerk 1.Shirley began her em­ployment with the De­p a r t m e n t over two

years ago as a Clerk-Typist. She hailsfrom the sunny Okanagan and is notedfor her cheerful voice and bright repliesover the radio.

1. DODDRIDGE,Regional Office Mana­ger at Prince Georgesince last spring, hasserved in 10 differentplaces throughoutBritish Columbia afterstarting with the De­

partment in 1950 at Victoria. Jack ismarried with two children and enjoyshockey, ping-pong, and numismatics .

A recent addition tothe Prince George Re­gional Office is MISSSHARRON CLARK.Sharron was born inRossland, B.C.. andcame to Prince Georgewith her parents in1953. Sharron has worked in PrinceGeorge, Edmonton, Whitehorse, Trail.and in 1964 went abroad for 3\12 years.spend ing time in Australia, New Zealand,and England .

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R. M. BOSS, Dis­trict Engineer, PrinceGeorge, originallyjoined the Departmentin J u n e , 196 1, amiserved two years as anEngineer-in-t r a in in g .

He became District Engineer at Ferniein 1964 and was transferred to PrinceGeorge in 1966. Dick is a firm believerin fitness, plays badminton and volley­ball at every opportunity. His hobbiesare golf and bridge.

B . HALLIWELL,Soil s Design Engineerwith the Material sTesting Branch. Vic ­toria , and presentlyworking in Region 4.Bert graduated with aB.Sc. in engineering in

1963 _and M.Sc. in engineering in 1965.After completing a further two years ofpostgraduate work at McGill , Bert cameto British Columbia with the HighwaysDepartment in June of 1967. Bert issingle, and his main interests arc playingIntermediate "A" hockey in the winterand golfing in the summer.

PETER BYRNE isacting Regional Pav­ing Superintendent atPrince George . Hehas served with theDepartment for 10years and was previ­ously in charge ofpulvimix throughout the Province.

D. A. (DENNIS)LINDBERG, Re­gional Materials Engi­neer in Prince George,came to the Depart­ment in September,1966, when he was thesuccessful a p pi ican tfor the position of Regional MaterialsEngineer. He is a graduate of the Uni­versity of Alberta with a B.Sc. and M.Sc .in engineering. Dennis, his wife , Jackie,and their two boys enjoy ski-ing in thewinter and camping in the summer.

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ON THE ROAD

Picture on the left shows the N orth Thompson High way prior to finished location and construction. At the righ t is the high wayafter com pletion. This is south o f M ount Robson , th e hig hest peak in the Canadian R ockies, J2,972 feet , and this gives an idea of themagnificent view which will greet the motorist trav ellin g up the new highway.

John G erhardt, R oad Maintenan ceForeman, supervising th e rem oval of thenewl y set no-p ost guard-rail from itsform at Langford.

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Nanairno Sign Crew, Mat Cameron,left , and Marvin Worden , com pleting anew sign on th e Island Highway.

The Con crete No-post Guard-rail Crewon the job in the Nanaim o Dist rict . Leftto right, Stan Stupich , Bill Ritchie, andG eorge Windle .

Tuning up 348 , Don Wyber , left , Mechan ic in the Qu esn elshop, and T ony Gunst , Truck Driver, who was transferred toQu esnel recently .

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.~Gravel-screenin g operation under way an Gabriola Island

under the dire ction of Road Maintenance Foreman Joh n K rastel.