Prince
Rupert
Daily
MP,
Thursday,
December
..
start
wanr.ir
and
stories
of
mis-
Nechako
Damsite,
Alcan
Operations-
spread
through
the!
behaviour
disirict."
Key
of
Makes
Community
ews
11)5:
MOfiE
Rf
,
moktonT?
nr
P'Jij
here
eirV.T
nonihs
this
ye,r"
.,lht
!)
Nuances
ov
m
c
ew
and
Modern
The
result
was
that
many!
teachers
either
sought
posts
in;
the
cities
or
went
Into
business
lilt-,
creating
tne
tvacher
shortage
pios;
country
points
are
experiencing.
The
dilution,
Mr.
Huverstork
suggrsted,
lay
In
the
provision
of
three-or
four-room
(eacherages
Iwhei..
a
married
teacher
could
bring
up
his
family
under
normal
:
conditions.
Dy
EVANGELINE
VANN
I
knew
the
road
as
far
as
the
Indian
village
of
Stony
('reek.
Nine
miles
out
of
Vaiwlerhflof,
the
new
road
begins.
A
sign,
"This
fuel
for
trucks,
eats
and
shovels
only,"
and
about
15
miles
out:
"Warning-
Road
to
Nechako
Dam
Closed
to
Public"
and
the
excellence
of
the
road
signified
that
I
was
on
the
way
to
what
is
probably
the
key
to
the
whole
Alcan
operations
the
damsite,
GO
miles
from
Vanderhoof.
'--
c7Cr-
-r.V
'"'
Sfl
ijoll,
i2
i
a
I
Hurt
CASTOR,
Alta.
"Wagging
tongue.-"
in
fount
ry
di.strlels
are
a
factor
in
the
sh
ulage
of
rural
teachers,
.ays
G
K.
Haverstock,
superintendent,
of
the
Castor
school
district
hi
central
Alberta.
He
told
a
ratepayers'
meeting
here:
"Most
young
women
entering
the
teaching
profession
come
from
good
homes.
But
we
have
nothing
to
offer
ihvm
hut
one-
I
room
sharks
where
they
must
1
live
under
p:im!live
conditions.
'
'
If
these
young
teachers
want
to
take
part
in
community
life,
j
a.';
iru!v,'.)ormal
young
women
do,
!
r.nd
a
youni;
man
tnkes
them
home
from
a
social
lunetion,
it
I
is
not
long
before
vicious
tongu
's
VANCOI'VER
Vl
lOKI
t'oquitlam
8
p.m.
December
9
and
23-Cu!no.un
midnight,
December
2.
10
and
311
'
Tuesday,
12
Noon
Carnosun
M
ICE
AIIM,
STI
WAKT
AM)
POUT
SIMPSON
Sunday,
(
niiiosini,
II
pin.
FOR
NORTH
tl
I
KN
MMKI.OTTK
ISI.AMM
December
7
and
?1
."s.
Coquii.lam
midnight
FOR
SOI
Til
WHIM
CIMKI.OTTF.
INI.
OS
ss
C'oquitlunl
November
30,
Dec.
14
and
2i!
miduieht
FRANK
J.
SKINNf
K
Prince
Ruirt
Agent
Third
Avenue
l'lmne
CC8
Guaranteed
-to
You!
Only
Krllog's
K:iys:
"Inlilr
yur
ntrny
tmck
if
ynj
tJon't
tiw
thrxr
Brun
Khtkrs
nre
frrhrr'"
&-rv
fruity
vrlrm
to
KrtN.ttR,
rpt.A.I-;fi(l(.n.O:it.)
Tatk
why
'
and'anioni;
the
guests
were
Max
Wart,
"Oly
'
Olson,
Everett
Cliiiitm.in
and
J.
C.
O'Connor.
There
are
fifteen
such
houses
and
another
five
are
going
up.
Nixt
morning
"Stu"
Bromley,
camp
manager,
who
looks
after
the
sleeping,
feeding
and
entertainment
of
the
residents
of
Ne-fhake,
collected
me
and
we
first
vi.'ited
the
ho.spiial.
where
there
a.'O
three
beds,
with
J.
C.
O'Con-ii.
.r
in
charge.
Norma
Kenney,
who
is
a
Department
of
Public.
Health
nurse,
looks
alter
the
women
and
children
ol
the
community.
"The
best
way
to
go
into
the
kitchen
is
the
back
way,"
pronounced
"Stu"
as
he
shepherded
me
in
and
handed
me
over
to
BUI
Cannon,
chef.
Here,
as
we
were
conducted
through
all
the
departments
of
this
efficiently
i
run
establishment,
I
learned
thai
from
100
to
120
gallons
of!
milk,
125
to
150
dozen
eggs,
125
pounds
of
baron
V75
to
100
pounds
of
butler,
4u0
to
500
pounds
of,
jfiesh
fruit,
and
1000
to
1500
!
.pounds
of
meat
a
day
is
used.j
In
the
meat
locker
a
germicide
lamp
cuts
down
bacteria.
The
oil
iiai.ges
are
cleaned
after
fvery
meal,
and
garbage
removed
twice
a
day.
We
saw
some
of
the
two
and
a
ha!f
tons
of
potatoes
which
arc
consumed
weekly
being
hand
pveled.
A
mixing
machine
lakes
care
of
sixty
quarts
at
a
time,
and
a
toaster
deals
with
750
slice.':
an
hour.
Sloliarian
I.a.areviih,
a
Serbian
medical
student
was
(I
lini;
excellent
work
looking
after
the
fowl
stores,
where
it
Is
estimated
that
including
meat,
there
is
$.1(1.000
to
$35,000
worth
of
food
stored.
Seven
to
nine
I
hundred
pounds
of
turkey,
with
freMi
pineapple
from
Hawaii,
a?
on
the
card
for
dinner
that
i
!
nil;
lit.
We
took
a
look
at
the
new
community
and
recreation
hall
which
is
going
up.
The
auditorium
is
28
by
102
feet
and
salvaged
concrete
forms
ftom
the
tunnel
have
been
used'
in
its
corv
structlon.
A
barber's
shop,
lounge,
self-service
counter,
new
nr5t
ftffU'O
rinrl
fth
Joi-Hoii'rt
etfo
m
More
rtd
more
ihoppeti
are
reicUjI,,
CKtllenjer
SALMON
.
.
.
popular
bcctuK
4
fine,
uniform
quality.
Ttndn
and
tasty
Ucuit
i
if
'4
I
V
I
This
amateur
baud,
which
helps
the
big
Alcan
damsite
civw.
The
be
half
a
mile.
A
hangar
Is
in
the
course
of
ronstiuction,
and
c!
.
ic
Ly
it:
to
be
the
ski-hill,
on
which
enthusiasts
arc
working
at
v.
.rfr-ends.
Zero's,
on
the
west
side,
we
went,
up
to
320
feet
which
is
the
height
the
dam
will
be
above
t
tie
river.
Sixteen
hundred
feet
long,
and
10(10
feet
wide
approximately
at
the
bottom,
and
30
feet
wide
at
the
top,
it
will
be
the
biggest
Continued
on
page
9i
tt.lll
AH
Ql.t
,
No
nthft
hr.in
finkrs
ore
Rnojg-irr
end
so
crispy
in
milk!
Ili
rious
way
to
get
ettrrt
bulk
to
hrl
ynti
"kr-p
rf-ular"!
M
If
TT
.
11
procciicd
within
a
If
houtt
alter
uttlii
ijl'
tlr,i
rmht
Calibre
10
woik
under
camp
conditions.
Mannix
Ltd.
have
not
before
used
women
employees
although
M-K
have
used
i
Hum
in
their
camps,
so
this
is
by
way
of
being
an
experiment
and
the
ejrl.s
have
bevn
carefully
creened.
Key
operators
have
been
chosen
throush
head
office,
caluarv.
Extra
women
who
may
bc.
needed
from
tlnw
to
time
are
available
from
the
sixty
or
fio
manied
women,
many
of
whom
have
had
business
experience.
Office
buildings
are
well
lighled,
od
healvd,
with
an
inter-communication
system.
MEETING!
THE
GIRLS
!
I
had
the
opportunity
of
meeting
the
girls
socially
as
they
went
about
the
tasks
preparatory
to
bed-time.
Dorothy
Mc-Nichol,
up
here
from
Vancouver
for
a
few
weeks,
is
operating
a
tookk'.-eping
machine
for
Mannix.
Marion
Hislop
is
clerk
and
leeepHonist
for
Mannix
Ltd.,
and
Penny
Cail,
newly
arrived,
is
a
receptionist
in
the
time
office.
awiak
and
Evelyn
Massey
are
comptometer
operators
for
Mannix,
Doris
Hammond
and
Marion
Smith
c
re
stenographers
lor
Mannix,
Janet
Webb
is
sec-retaiy
to
the
auditor
for
Alcan,
Ellen
Cater
secretary
to
Mr.
Bremner.
project
manager;
Doris
Cunningham,
secretary
to
Mr.
M.
A.
Daly,
office
manager;
Mary
Landry
secretary
to
Harry
Jom-iny,
resident
engineer;
and
Betty
Dunlop
works
in
the
commissary
ay
a
sales
clerk.
Entertaining
in
one
of
the
pre-tab
houses,
provided
fully
equipped,
with
fuel,
oil.
light
and
i
water
included
in
the
rent
hilt
I
Produced
hy
Fishermen's
Fo-nperatiw
Ferleratinn,
VancMwi
I
k
i
,"C'
S
1
,...
i.
'A
NECHAKO
ENTERTAINMENT
-
to
provide
entertainment,
for
instruments
are
home-made.
ment
and
l-ecreational
facilities1
around
camp
and
pay
the
staff
salaries.
The
present
commissary
will
be
moved
over
when
the
building
is
completed.
Profits
from
the
sale
of
goods
here
also
go
into
the
rerioati)n
fund.
The
gue.st
house,
Harmony
House,
at
the
end
of
Harmony
Lake,
where
the
Quarters
for
married
employ-
1)1
!C!m
u,,a
Mannix
are
uuaiea,
nouses
six
gnosis,
me
.-.kating
rink
will
shortly
be
flooded.
A
unique
orchestra,
the
Nechako
Synipathetiques,
provides
appreciated
music.
THE
DAVSITK
Harry
Jominy,
resident
cngin-j
eer
for
Alcan,
took
me
on
a
tour
;of
the
actual
damsite
itself,
which
it'
sc
vast
that
machinery
which
sermy
to
be
as
large
as
prehistoric
monsters
when
close
to
it
on
the
east
side,
appears
on
the
west,
side
to
be
crawling
round
like
little
moles
in
their
earthworks.
We
watched
for
a
while,
the
jiunipr,
at
work
in
the
de-waier-i
ing
of
the
canyon
where
the
cof-
ferdum
has
been
put
in.
Then
jWe
went
past
huge
piles
of
rocks
m
tnroe
sizes
ana
the
screenmg
piant,
and
quartz
poiphry
quarry,
and
ojt
to
where,
before
the
load
across
was
completed,
one
hundted
tons
of
machinery
had
to
cross
by
ferry.
Then
out
to
the
airstrip,
which
we
measured
by
the
speedometer
of
the
car
to
VITAMIN
0
liCHtAStD
HOMOGINIZCD
v-
VACUUM
nrun
'
"
ltuy
It.
i
,
Pr
Kf'fS
:
,U
-
'It
-
'
i
...
t
without
furniture
were
Mr.
and
j
are
included
in
the
lay-out.
There
Mrs.
Black.
Mr.
Black
is
the
I
wiP
be
two
projectors,
and
mo-safety
director
and
Mrs.
Black
is
I
vies
will
be
shown
regularly,
in
charge
of
the
post
office.
!
Picfits
ausing
will
help
to
defray
There
n
party
was
in
progress
!
expenses
of
the
cost
of
equip-
.
iJ
..'..,.;--'..
'"','
i"'"i0'
fJ
Tb.
f"",h'
2Sl
:
'"-
'f?jp
"We
had
10
.slop
for
mouse
(in
the
road
before
the
hunting
.season
and
now
I
seldom
see
one."
observed
my
driver
Jack
Stewart.
By
now
we
were
following
a
truck
carrying
culverts
and,
ujlruui:hiiiK
a
sinn:
"You
are
now
enleiing
Alcan
Project
1G0,
fate
ahead
500
feet.
Everyone
slop.
Iheie,
Huss
btarkey.
com-
pany
policeman,
asked
me
what
mv
bu.'lness
was.
After
explana-
.lions.
I
adti.'d:
"I
expecled
to
be
'
frisked
for
liquor."
"That
ban
was
lifted
come,
days
a;o,"
I
was
told,
"But.
are
you
carrying
firearms?
'
1
was
asked,
after
he
tuld
us
it
was
sixteen
miles
to
Nichako,
still.
A
fleet
of
private
cars
was
parked
on
the
left
as
wv?
de-'
;:i-enried
into
the
village
dominated
by
the
water
tower
on
which
was
written:
"Nechako,
safety
firrt."
A
party
of
forty-seven
H.S.
students
was
departing
after
a
vi-it
as
wo
arrived.
Ellen
Carter,
.secretary
lc
J.
R.
Bremner,
project
manager,
was
selected
to
vhnw
mo
n
rniinrf
rhi
ri
n
a
mu
stnv
"Abandon
hone
all
ye
who
enter
here"
did
rrpt
seem
at
all
an
appropriate
motto,
for
the
girls'
dormitory,
when
I
had
looked
around
at
the
bright
living
quarters,
where
each
girl
has
a
room,
and
there
are
washbasins,
showers,
laundry
facilities
and
a
pre-ciou'
pel
son
called
"Mike,"
who
mothers
them
all,
makjs
their
beds
and
does
their
rooms.
As
breakfast
is
at
seven
o'clock,
and
i."
a
"must,"
the
morning
is
long,
j
starting
at
7:30
and
ending
at'
mid-day
but
it
is
necessary
lo
synchronize
office
hours
with
'
working
hours,
and
shift
wirk.
1
There
is
an
hour
arid
a
half
for
,
lunch,
and
then
work
goes
on
until
dinner
at
fivj,
the
second
sitting-
at
6:30.
I
INK
MEALS
j
I
had
been
given
a
complimen-
1
lary
weekly
meal
ticket,
which
wa:'
punched
after
eating,
with'
a
different
punch
each
time.
Everyone
fat
whe.-o
they
wished,
;
and
each
table
had
permanent'
fillings,
so
to
speak,
catering
for
I
the
tastes
of
every
nationality.
I
There
were
five
kinds
of
ceivals.j
innumerable
sauces
and
condi-i
merits,
tins
of
vegetable
and
fruit,
juices,
a
large
assortment
of
pre-
I
:'(rver
and
jams,
coffiv.
tea,
or'
milk
to
drink,
meal,
fish,
com-
i
l;inatio
salad
including
Olives,
I
vegetables,
desert,
fresh
fruit
I
and
cookies.
There
is
no
limit
in!
ouantit,
and'
as
to
quality,
it
is
mil
found
there
if
it
is
not
the
best.
Tlu
men
at
j
heavy
eaters,
es-'
peeially
of
meat,
n
costs
$13,000
a
week
to
feed
the
employees,1
$550
a
day
to
feed
a
man.
He
is'
charged
$2.50.
The
single
girls!
are
not
charged.
This
policy!
pays,
as
there
have
been
very!
itw
complaints
about
food.
A'
constant
turnover
of
staff
is
a
costly
business
in
transport!
alone,
costing
anything
from!
-u
iu
$uuu
eacn
lo
bring
nien
in
'
The
office
starf
ran
be
divided
into
three
groups,
the
employees
of
Alcan,
Mannix
Ltd.,
sub-contractors
of
Morrison-Knudsen,
and
B.C.
International
Engineering.
M.
A.
Daly,
office
manager,
Ktive
me
some
particulars
concerning
tile
women's
staffing,
in
which
I
was
particularly
interested.
It,
is
not
easy
to
get
girls
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Wcv'e
switched
to
Marfiff-Sntjur
flniihri
offf
a
wonderful
thoiw
of
fylt
owl
colon
to
mrt
vry
decorating
nti.
TtSy
rt
eptionoify
fKwmicei
(Sav
outttandmg
coverage
and
hiding
qualiti!,
Hand
up
lo
yw
it
war
ond
wolhr.
I?
jur
to
far
th
complete
Matfin
Vno
lino
pntnti,
vorntitwi
and
onamvli
for
rry
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