CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, May 11, 1961

Steps fo Take After
An Aulo Accident

‘The wise motorist Is prepared

for any emergency, including the
ateps to take In the event of a traf-
fic nceident, according to the B.C.
Automobile Association.
“While many are innocent victims
of traffic accidents,” the auto club
said, “every such mishap, regard-
less of who ts to blame, imposes
certain definite and clear.cut obli-
gations on everyone Involved.”

‘The ,BOAA issued a. list of
“do's and donit’s” that, motorists
can carry in the glove compayiment
of their ‘cars:-

1 ~ STOP! Hit-and-run ‘driving |:

is a criminal offense, ‘Then, warn
oncoming traffic, or have someone
else do it, if you are injured.

2- Call a doctor to treat. the
injured, if any. Don’t move accident
victims untess it fs absolutely nec-
essary, Don’t administer firsteald
antess you know what-you are do-
ing. However, keep the injured
warm while awalting medical ‘help.

3 = Call the police, !f the ac-
cident ts at all serious. Identify
yourself and give police any. Infor-

mation they require, However, do}~

not make any statements as to lia-
bility. Statements made‘at the time
of an accident carry grent weight in
court, and you may find thet your
original conception of the accident
was erroneous. Do not discuss the
accident with witnesses.

4- Have your car moved out
,of traffic, as soon as it is feasible
after the accident,

garner information about

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DUNCAN LAKE damsite 60 miles northwest of Nel-
‘son is the scene of an extensive drilling program: to

geological formation near

the confluence of the Duncan Lake and Lardeau

river. Broken ‘white lines indicate’\4e probable dam
structure area. Mountains of the Purcell Renee are

in the background.

MORE ON THE TREATY

Columbia River

Reaches

By .BILL RYAN
Vancouver Province

There now can be Iittle doubt
that the proposed Columbia river
power development has reached an
impaase.

‘The 3.0. position was: outlined
some weeks ago. It simply offered
the federal government two choices
— Ottawa must undertake the
whole $458 million project on its
own account; or B.C, would under-
take the project if Ottawa would
guarantee the resultant power
would be cheap 4.28 mill power or
lesa.

Ottawa has frustratingly chew-
ed over the-alternatives and this
week It gave its answer in the pol-
ittclan's tried and tested fashion.

‘The federal government did not
come out flatly and reject the B.C,
terms, Instead, {ts decision - was
made known in these words in a
dispatch from Ottawa:

“Privately, federal sources dis-
miss them (the B.C, terms) os ‘Im.
possible’.

And the dispatch goes on to
state that “there seems little likeli-
hood that he federal side will yleld
further...”

(Thus we have reached a point
where Ottawa will not yleld and
B.C, will need not yield. If nelther

impasse

alde changes, politics may, indeed,
Kill the Columbla hydro project,

Ottawa should be fully aware
of the consequences, if this is to be
the case, Beyond question the Peace
river power project — over. which it
has no control and for which it
will receive no political or other
eredit — will go ahead speedily.

‘The B.C, government's position
on the Columbia is, as one observer
put it, “Immaculate.”

If it cannot get publicly-owned
Columbian power, it can get pri-
vately-developed Peace power. Peace
power ts not. four-mill .powsr —
‘but then netiher is Columbia pow-
er, for Ottawa is refusing to guar-
antee that it Js even 4.25-mill power,

(An educated guess at the cost
of Peace power would be. five to
alx mills, and the first bloc: of Col-
umbin power might be about the
anmo or more, The 3.C.

Board may throw some light on the
Columbia cost factor within a few
days.)

The B.C. government's policy
has been that both Columbia and
Peace projects should go ahead.
Prom the point of view of indust-
rial development and the stimula-
tion of the West Coast ib is a sen.
sible policy, but it cannot be im-
plemented without export of power.

51 Per Cent of Celgar’s Force From West
Kootenay, Barclay Tells Trail Alderman

‘The vast $65,000,000 Celgar op-
eration — scheduled to go into peak
production June 1 — will mean nu-
merots direct and indirect benefits
for Trail and the Kootenays, Ian
Barclay of Vancouver, vice-presi-
gent of Celgar and Columbia Cel-
lulose Company sald “last week at
‘Trail.

Speaking at a “get-acquainted”
anquet sponsored..by ..the «City:.of;
‘Trail, Mr. Barclay said annual pur-
chases of all divisions of the Celgar
empire would amount to more than
$13,000,000; a year,

First delving into the history
of the Silver City, Mr. Barclay told
the gathering of 70 that he remem-
bered an: 1898 clipping describing
the Trail Creek Landing as being
“relatively. unimportant.”

“Sixty-five years later,” he said,
“and we read clippings about Trail
— home of the 1961 World Hockey
Champions,”

Mr. Barclay said his company
‘was grateful for the help and gui-

dance recelved from Trail couneil
during the “hectic 1950s.”

“A company’s greatest assets,”
he continued, “are its people. In
this regard, you will be interested
to know that, wherever possible, we
have always tried to utilize local
personnel,

“For the 345 permanent posi-
tions now filled, we had more than
4,000 ‘applicants, Of the permanent
staff, 51 per cent.are. West Koot-
enay residents and of that figure,
18 per cent are from Trail alone.”

Discussing various aspects of
the company’s operation Mr. Bar-
clay told the full Trail council, Con-
solidated Mining and Smelting

officials that a forest products in.
dustry must first of all start in the
forests.

“We have 250 miles of forests
along the Columbia River which is
a perfect “transportation system.
Our bill for 1961 operation of the
pulp mill alone isles be more than

Loeblich Galls GPR |=
‘A Bunch of Thugs
Against Progress”

“The biggest thugs in Canada
today are the CPR,” the Kinnaird
council was told Monday night.

Village chairman Carl Loeblich,
who attended the meeting as a
spectator ‘since he 1s still on the
sick list, sald that “everything that
suggests progress in this .country
today they (CPR) buck.”

Mr. Loeblich’s remarks were
made when the village tearned that
an access ithe village had requested
from the OPR was refused.

“Castlegar just asked to beaut.
ify a little plece of = and were
refused,”

“The bugbear of all forest men,
forest fires, 1s being carefully look-

ed into, Last year we spent 47,000
man. hours fighting. 82 fires. We
only lost 4,000 acres and we consider
ourselves lucky, We will be utiliz-
ing a hellcopter this year in fight-
ing fires as they are extremely.
handy.”

Turning to sawmills, the Celgar
executive said the company had
two: one will handle spruce and
pine, the other fir and cedar lines.

“About 61 per cent of the pro-
duction will be pulp wood and the
rest saw log species, The . former
Waldie sawmill will carry on & one-
shift-per-dey operation on cedar.
Nakusp mili will close in June, but
afi personnel will be absorbed else-
where, ’

-“The pulp mill division, which
started last November, cost wus

(Castlegar recently eked permis-
sion to turn some CPR property on
Front St.‘into a park and the re-
quest was refused.)

Mr. ‘Loeblich sald the CPR has
held up Trail’s track removal pro-
gtam for) years and Js holding up
completion of the over-pass at
South Slocan.

and it is one of the
cheapest in North America,

“Five hundred~and forty tons
a day has been our top operating
figure and this has been main-
tained for a number of days. But
the big thing with Celgar is quality
rather than quantity.

product contains a balance of: stren-
gth, so essential in this business.
We hope that sales will keep up
with production in our Initial year.”

Company guests and fellow Celgar| .

“Samples have proven that our},

benefits, Mr. Barclay sald annual

purchases from all Celgar opera-

tions would amount to more than
@ year; with

welcoming Gilgen said Trail had
for. yeara been looking for another
major industry for the: Kootenays.

from the Greater Trail area,

“We will be spending at least
$500,000 a year in Trail proper. it-
self'on hardware, electrical parts,
motor rewinding, freight, handling
charges.

employees themaelyés will ‘be’ spend-
ing here; nor does it inchide out-
leys for natural gas, power, acids
and other such items. #

“We hope the amount’ of bus-

iness we do here will ihcrease even
more in the years to come.”
The Celgar vice-president pral-
sed Trall council for its efforts in
encouraging industry to come to the
Kootenays.

“There are good healthy signs
in Trail,” he added. “Your gross
income. and the population have
shown considerable increases in the
last decade. And there are excellent
signs for © healthy future.”

Mill manager Eugene DeLuca
explained to the meeting that Cel-
gar had encountered a difficult time

are gradually

belng worked out,” he stated. “we

are proud to be here and we are

going to be good citizens. All we
ask is a little time.”

D. D. Morris, assistant general

manager of Cominco, congratulated

uncil,

“must have an environment where
people want to live. The Trail coun-
cil is doing an excellent job in ma-
king this a-community where we
all want to live.”

Mayor Leslie Read, in officially

is good,” he
Sessaeited: “Celgar is at the be-
ginning‘ of its career. We as nelgh-
bors: will grow together, F trust.we
‘will become closer in the years to
come.”

Other Celgar Personnel in ate

And -this:does not include -what4..-—.--

Rush, electrical superintendent; J.

©. Enevoldsen, chief project engin-
eer; Bob Foubister, yard foreman;
Mitch Warford, purchasing and
stores superintendent; W. J. Gor-
don, traffic superintendent; O. T.
Dalley, technical superintendent;
Alex Brokenshire, safety co-ordin-
ator; F. Waite, accounting mana-
ger; R, James, industrial relations,

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Discussing direct. .and -indrect
Twin Village Fire
“Departments May
: Exchange: Practices
“Castlegar and Kinnaird firemen
may trade half their: forces ‘with

each other on different fire prac- |“
tice nights to acquaint each other

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