te % = oe By TEMPLE STREET Being fairly new to this rea I often wondered as I i drove between Castlegar and ‘3 Trail, about the millions of is telephone poles which dotted ‘:'sthe countryside, What possible e, I queried, could they pos- sibly have? Naturally I was surprised, like I'm sure you will be, when I found out that telephone pole ranching is apparently one of the major industries of this ‘region. But due to the more romanticized and commercial- ‘ized production of precious ‘metals, telephone pole ranching has been overshadowed by Cominco and few people know < of it at all, let alone as a major industry. With this in mind, I con- tacted a local rancher, a Mr. Igro Lautsapolls in the hope’ ‘that he would enlighten myself ‘and the public about this little known but major industry. This nls whet Mr. Lautsapolls had to z * well howdie there podner . yup... I dun binin this here telephone pole ranching bisness k for nigh on 20 yars now. In fact ¢ IL believe I'm considered one of ; the finest damn telephone pole ; growers in these here parts, : Many of ya aint to familyar : with Telephone Pole Ranching I +) “Wellits like this...as can be seen frum the pichur... we ‘owed the poles in strait lions cus, this ways theys easier to harvest when they reach full maturity. Them lines wot dun run from the tops of the poles is ats knowed as telephone pole inners, or as what we refers in > the bisness to, more simple like, + as telerunners, CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thureday, August 18, 1977 Polecat: Man Who Prunes Telephone Poles "Telephone Pole Ranching Big dideitey “Quite similar strawberry runners, “Now as the pole grows, it starts to send out these har telerunners so it can reproduce. As the runner lands on the ground a nuther pole starts to gro, Now yur probly thinkin that how cum theys all the same size... “If one'gros frum a nuther one then they should be dif- ferent sizes, right? Good point but thats one of the peecu- leeairities of telephone pole groing that only a xperiants rancher like muhself would know bout ... to yur “Yuh see, onest the new . Ee i * : runner stays on top of the pole, baby pole starts ta gro the momma pole {or actually its called the adult pole since tele- phone. poles don't come in mommy and daddy poles) . . . anyway... onest the baby pole starts ta gro the adult pole stops groing and thru the tele- runner it: feeds the baby pole. “You've no doubt heerd the expreshun “feeding someone a line.” Well that cum frum a ole telephone pole rancher. Also, ya might notice that the tele- This is so's it can absorb energy frum the sun. “If it was on the ground then it might get covered up by. leaves, or durt, or branches and then it wudn't be able ta get energy. Isn't Muther Nature sumthin’, - “Now the poles hav ta be watched very carefully as theys gros cus they have to be pruned to gro strate. In one of the pic- turs you'll notice them little 400 Drinks in Second; Bar Run by Computer It won't listen to your troubles or warble Irish ditties. But the computer bar can dispense one of 1,200 different drinks in less than three seconds, and it won't cheat the -eash register. The bar, demonstrated at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago, splashes, mixes and pours ingredients in the precise amount to fill the glass, The “SHOES THAT MAKE AN IMPRESSION* FOR SAVAGE SHOES AND ALL YOUR FAMILY FOOTWEAR areurera Phone 365-7025 — Pine St. — Castlegar eS Welcome drinks also are priced, taxed + and recorded, and a complete * customer -printed, all in the same opera- guest cheque is tion. It can pour from one drop to 44 ounces of liquids drawn by a gravity-fed pump through separate lines, preventing any cross mixing. The names of various cock- tails, glass size and all types of liquors are on the drink buttons on an electronic keyboard. Joe Shannon of Kent, Ohio, thought it up. He went from premedical and prelaw studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland into the juke box business. The jukes were in 17 * bars he eventually bought. “Then I found I was losing 18 per cent of gross receipts,” said Shannon, 37. “It wasn’t spillage or overpouring that was cutting profits. It was thievery or giveaways by clev- er bartenders, bar managers black spots on the poles. These are the pruning marks better knowed in the busness as prune hickies or prune pits. “Surely everybudy has heerd o' prune pits. A nuther telephone pole ranching expres- sion. “During the pruning sea- son we also get anuther im- portant comodity. As soon as the pole is pruned the sap from the pole runs very free and so it is collected and stored. “This sap is called pruning sap or juice which has cum to be knowed as’... you guessed it. . « just plain ote prune juice. Bet yur surprised bout that little fact. “As can be seen frum the picturs, these poles is jus bout fully growed. Anuther few whiles and they'll be ready ta harvest, Then they'll be ship- ped off and: made into trees. “Onest the mature poles (trees) has aged they are again harvested and made into a sub- stance called lumbar or wud, but thats a complitly differunt - thang all to gether... or what ya might say “a pole of a dif- ferunt color... Yuk, yuk. “Now ah'll give ya a few deafinishuns ta help. ya un- nerstans many of terms used in telephone pole ranching. Many of em ya probably heerd afore but didn’t know theys was cum from telephone pole ranching. Poland—a big telephone pole ranch usually 625 acres. Polecat—The man on the ranch responsible for seeing that all of .the poles are penned at the proper time. Russian—Alter. the pole is pruned, | what the sap does, Graham Bell—The and SoI thought up a computer bar that made all this Look to Castlegar Drugs for ‘Spectacular © You'll be surprised what Castlegar Drug has to offer In the schoo! supplies depart- ment. 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It hits the poles just before they reach their period of maximum growth thereby |. stunting the growth and almost completely destroying the crop. Many a big rancher has been totally. wiped out by this dreaded disease. Polo—What a section of poles is called after it has been hit by the dreaded blight “polio”. Politiee—A strain of insect that caused total disruption and confusion in the telephone pole population, The pole grows straight but there is very little bulk to it and it results in skinny poles. Flagpole—The end result from politics, Polite—A special strain of tele- phone poles developed and so called because the fibers lack density and ;mass and’ are therefore very light. Polygon—See pollack. Pollinate—The telephone poles are usually, at least on. the major ranches, grown in rows of eight. Police—Is sort of slang term used to describe the ice that forms on the tele-runners dur- ing the winter. If this ice is not removed from the runners, ice but the term police has been around for so long that almost every rancher uses it instead. Policéman—The man responal- ble for making sure that the ice is removed from the téle- runners during the winter, be- fore any major damage is done. le—Refers to the method of cleaning up the pole-doodco or polka, If this is not’cleaned up any animals that get caught in it may damage the base of the pole as they try to escape. Polliwog—He doodles all the day. The man responsible: for cleaning’ up the polka. : Pole Vault—Once the poles are harvested they are stored in vaults to prevent telephone pole rustlers from stealing them. Polynesia—A phrase coined by the son of one of the biggest . telephone pole ranchers, after his father had been hit on the - head by a falling pole and ite remember anything. That about wraps it up.’ Hope you are more wiser now about one of our major in: dustries, Should you have any questions just write to Alexan- der Graham Bell II c/o the North Pole. ~ Old Crank-Type Telephones Finally Put Out to Pasture in Balderson, Ont. The Balderson Rural Tele- phone Co, has. gone out of husincss, So has the local telophonist with her personal service Louch, Tho 203’ subscribers who live in this. small, crossroads community 40 .miles west of Otlawa have switched to Bell Canada’s dial phones and the 64-year-old Balderson company has vanished as one of the last private crank-operaled tele- phone systems in Ontario, Margaret Smith, 63, says after almost 20 years she is enjoying a full night's sleep and a gond long holiday. Since 1958, she was the full-lime operator. “I guess most of all I'll miss the feeling that I always have somebody Lo talk to,” she said. “IUs going to be an es- pecially’ big change for the elderly people,” said Mrs. Smith. “Many of. them don’t know the numbers and never had to. All they did was ask me to connect them and that was In 20. years, she had memorized almost all the num- bers and voices. . “There have been times. . when somebody. phoned and raid there's: a: fire or: thelr husband had heart attack and I've been able to send the fire trucks or the ambulance to the right place.” Mrs, Smith was the sixth operator of the Balderson ex- change, which started in 1912 when a group of residents decided they needed a supple- * mont to the telegraph wire: Joining Perth and Lanark, They started with $300 and charged $25 for the phone installation, “I never got paid well,” said Mrs. Smith, “but every: . body always took ‘care of me.” “I never had time for a garden but every fall people . would bring me vegetables from their garden, At Christ- ‘mas, which is ubout the busicst time for me, somebody always brought me a hot turkey dinner.” But with an ihsedaliig volume of calls—up to 450 a day last year—the strain on both operator and equipment be- came too much, In September," 1974, the 184 sharcholders put the com: pany up for sale and Boll Coad made the only bid of $20,000. 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' ded the bably be allowing his name to stand for Mayor in the annual ‘November municipal elections." 3 Abrosimoff. said he has already received a great deal of electorate of the city. for. the good turnout at the polls and : paid tribute ‘to his supporters, “to whom he gave credit for his victory. ‘The ‘election resulls have renewed: his belief. in’ the’ ‘people's sense of fair play and the’ democratic process, -he added. Mayor until. the end of the year,” was the. comment trom i} He the term of former Mayor shim a The Gazette that he will pro- Coquitlan Deputy Clerk Joins City Hell Staff ‘A 36-year-old former’ Dis- trict of Coquitlam administra- tion official has joined ‘Castle- gar's city hall staff. Barry Baldigara, appointed July 25 to’ the position of ‘city clerk, has worked for 12 years i e. District of - Coquitlam, gaining experience in taxes, F collections, data programming and his most recent capacity as district deputy clerk. While: working at Coquit- lam District he completed a four-year © University of B.C. correspondence program fora -ssenior diploma in municipal ad- ‘PUBLIC NOTICE TO. RESIDENTS . OF THE CITY OF CASTLEGAR 197 SPRINKLING. REGULATIONS CHANGE = ‘ministration, specializing i in ace counting ‘and financing. -’ Married with a three-year- - old daughter, Baldigara. was C ‘ :born and attended school in Grand. Forks. . Baldigara ‘replaces’ pre- vious. city clerk -Rick Beau. > “We'll still have an Acting to rum again, and in order to fulfill his re- sponsibility \to his supporters ~ he plans to contest’ the mayor- alty again. + Theextremely. close result of the. election demonstrates that there has been no clear-cut indication of support by a large. majority .of the