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for the only Authorized Picture Link allowed.
All Pictures on all my web pages, are now Visibly Watermarked,
some are Semi Invisible, Some Secretly Watermarked,
And some have all 3 !
All my pages are now Right Click, copy and paste, disabled.
If this unauthorized use of pictures from this site continues,
I will remove the whole thing,
as there is no point in keeping it online.
I ask everyone that enjoys free history sites,
to start policing these violations.
If we don't stop this, no one will donate pictures to me or anyone,
and we all loose.
If you see one of my pictures on facebook, etc.
tell them to remove it, if they don't in a reasonable time,
please email me the culprit,
and I will add them to my
Wall of Shame
page.
Trust me,
I regret having to do this!
The construction compound today (2006)
is located on Victoria Dr. on the East end of Town.
Some of the Employees are / were:
Douglas William Bateson
August 10, 1920 - September 8,
2015
(note 1 below)
Hunter Simpson (note 2 below)
Dave Bratseth (Ca Maint- left in 1985 to Powell River)
Lorne Robson (moved to the Charlottes)
Russ Babcock
Chris Desjardins
Doug Driver (TOK) (hired in 1981)
Graham Sutherland (hired in
1981)
Eldon Fell
Keith Goddard
Nick Tombs (sp?)
Mike Harkins
Dale Shiloff (left to PG in 1988)
Graham Currie (quit in 1980)
Tom Allum (quit in 1980)
Glen Byrnes (resigned in 1980)
Jay Chapman (became I&R in 1988)
Terry Goddard (left to PG in 1988)
Bill Green (Became Smithers Janitor)
Arnold Sears (Cable Splicer- passed away Nov 1, 1979)
Chuck Harmon (hired in 1981)
Dave Deleenheer (hired in 1981, became Supv)
Patrick Gallagher (resigned in 1981)
Dick Jones (moved to Merritt area)
note 1- Doug Bateson was in the Telephone Construction
Business
longer than I am old, I am sure.
He was retired and living in Smithers, when he passed away.
The word Tough, isn't enough, to describe this man!
But also one of the nicest guys you will meet.
He retired in 1984, after 31 yrs+ service.
He was a WWII Veteran, and a Smithers Legion Member.
sad news, Doug passed away Sept 8, 2015 at 95 years old
Note 2- Hunter Simpson was a BC Tel lineman in
Smithers.
He was involved in the Broken Arrow incident,
in the Kispiox Valley.
The first recorded Nuclear accident.
Just before midnight February 13, 1950,
distress calls were received
from USAF Convair B-36B Peacemaker,
Strategic Bomber #2075.
Spec. No. 98-26751-H
built by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., May 28, 1949
It was en route from
Eielsen Air Force Base near Faibanks, Alaska
to Carswell Air Force base at Fort Worth, Texas.
The wreck is located at 5500 ft. elevation
Long 128°34’,
Lat. 56°05’,
on Kologet Mountain, on the west side of Kispiox Valley.
It was carrying a 10,000 pound Mk4 or "Fat Man" bomb,
with supposedly a dummy capsule on board.
Hunter, a Canadian, was included as part of a US military mission
that went in and demolished the remains of the plane.
His nephew, Harry Simpson
works in Telus Sp. Services, in Terrace.
Herbert Hunter Simpson,
died May 22, 1972, in Smithers, age 60.
According to Harry, he was in the military in his early life.
Plus he knew the terrain, and was a "bush man"
and was supposedly a friend of one of the American soldiers.
But questions remain why they included him on such a secret mission.
It is still a mystery how the plane ended up 200 miles off it's course.
Supposedly the bomb was dropped in the Pacific Ocean,
and all the crew parachuted out, leaving the plane on auto pilot.
with engines on fire, and failing,
it was assumed the plane crashed into the sea.
It was not found until Sept. 1953,
on a search for another downed aircraft at the time.
Past supervisors:
Larry Miller- (left to Smtr I&R in 1987)
Ray Benner
Dennis Blackall
Rick Perzson
John Donovan (ca 1980)
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