1963 Publishedbi-monthly for the employeesof ilk reakthe Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association

VO LUME 2, NUMBER JANUARY-FEBRUARY , 1963 FillingOut Workon Plant in Full FormsCan Take StrangeForms Swingon Several Fronts Many times we have to fill Full Operation Expected out forms and more often than not we botch it. Here is a very Before End of the Year go;d example of how it's done. Following the introduction of With less than a year remaining until the new plant is a free milk scheme for expect­ in full operation, the tempo of work is picking up on the ant and nursing mothers in the building site and on several other fronts. Republic of Eire, letters were The building itself is rapidly received, from which the fol­ nearing the stage when major yards of ready-mix concrete in lowing extracts were taken: TREASURE CHEST of 50-cent pieces was presented to Sam Gray. With mechanical and electrical com­ a single day. him are George McCartney, Bill Mills, Bill Hawes and Jim Kelday. ponents will be installed. Two cranes are on the job, 1. Please send me form for Tenders were called and hoisting cement up to the roof, free milk, as I am expecting orders placed before Christmas where it is dumped directly into mother. TiesNow Weaker on $112,000 worth of these the forms or into motor-driven 2. Please send me form for components , most of which will wheelbarrows. supply of milk for having child­ go into the service block. If the present rate of pro­ ren at reduced prices. I have a Gray and Fish Spent Moving Day gress is maintained, the plant baby 12 months old. Thanking Meanwhile, a planning com­ will be finished by mid-sum­ you for same. mittee has been working for mer, according to Chris Lehr, weeks on the hundreds of de­ project manager for genera l Helpful Friend 40 Years with FVMPA tails involved in moving from contractors John Laing and Son 3. Will you send me form With business nearing $30 million a year and a new Eighth A venue, Arctic and the Ltd . for cheap milk. I have a baby plant under construction, the FVMPA has taken its place branches to the new plant. Al­ Then dairy processing equip­ two months old and did not among B.C.'s most solid and vigorous companies. though some machinery and ment will be installed and the know anything about it until a equipment will be left behind, big moving job will begin. But this was not always the friend told me. the bulk of it will make the case, as a few long-time em­ 4. I posted a form by mis­ British Isles, Gray in Lanca­ move . ployees can recall. The Asso- shire and Fish near Belfast , and take before my child was pro­ And to complicate matters, both came to Canada before perly filled in. about 250,000 pounds of milk World War I. They went back will have to be processed, bot­ 5. I have a baby two months overseas with the 72nd High­ tled and delivered daily while old entirely fed on cow and an­ landers during the War. the move goes on. other baby. Now Golf Course Out at the plant site, contrac­ 6. Sorry I have been so long tors have had a little help from Gray got into the milk busi­ the weather, for a change. The in filling in the form, but I have ness with Model Dairy shortly recent cold snap held off the been in bed with my baby for after he came to Vancouver with threat of rain long enough for three weeks and did not know it his wife Eveline in 1913 . Model crews to complete a big insula­ was running out until the doctor Dairy consisted of a single farm tion laying job on the roof of told me. and miniature dairy at 49th and the ice cream storage area. Dry Daddy Continued on Page 2 Long Shifts 7. Milk is wanted for my Several days of long shifts baby , father is unable to supply were needed to put down three it. CREAMS IC LE, layers of styrofoam on the 75 8. I cannot meet sick pay. I by 130-foot area and seal it have six children, can you tell NEW PRODUCT under roofing. ,. me why? Arctic Ice Cream has Similar insulation will be come out with a new prod­ used on the walls and floor to 9. Sir, I am forwarding my JIM FISH uct dubbed the "Cream ­ retain the cold room's 25-degree marriage certificate, and two ciation 's birth was difficult and sickle ." below-zero temperature. The in­ CONCRETE is hoisted by crane children, one of which has been its infant years trying. It consists of two ounces sulating value of the styrofoam to the top of plant walls and a mistake, as you can see. Ties with these early years of ice cream on a stick, is equivalent to concrete more dumped into forms. Below, 10. I require extra milk as became a little weaker at the covered with two ounces of than 30 feet thick. sprawling four-acre expanse of I am stagnant . end of 1962 when Sam Gray a flavored coating similar Most of the plant roof is the building is graphically shown and Jim Fish retired after nearly 11. In accordance with in­ to a popsicle. comp leted and work on what by this aerial photo taken J anu­ 50 years in B.C .'s dairy indus­ Orange and straw berry remains is going ahead fast. struction , I have given birth to ary l 0. Office and laboratory are try, more than 40 of which were · flavors are now on the When a big section of roof is at left; service block, center fore­ twins in the enclosed envelope. spent with the FVMPA . market. being poured, 10 cement trucks ground; processing, storage, and -CANADIAN JAYCEE Both men were born in the bring in as much as 410 cubic loading areas in the background.

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- George Allen Photo PAGE 2 From the CreditUnion UP AND COMING Manager's Shannon Social Club will MeetsMarch 1 hold a sit-down supper and Desk Annual general meeting of dance February 23 at Fernie's, 709 - 12th Street, New West­ By L. A. Atkinson the Dairyland Credit Union wiil FVMPA General Manager be held March I at the Peter minster. Dinner at 7:30 p.m. There will be a bar and live In the November issue of Pan Ballroom , 1636 West music. "Milk Break, " I discussed with Broadway . you some aspects of the market­ Bingo will precede the meet­ ing from 7 to 8 p.m. and danc­ Jim Watson of Eighth Av­ ing of fluid milk. enue Purchasing is organizing Because there is more than ing will follow the meeting. Re­ freshments will be served. a theatre party to see the much­ double the amount of milk pro­ publicized re-make of "Mutinee duced than can be utilized in Main business will be reports on the Bounty," now playing in from directors and committees , the fluid mar­ Vancouver. declaration of dividends and ket, the bal­ Jim has reserved about 100 election of officers. ance must be seats in the $1.65 and $2 price manufactured ranges for February 6. The into other party is being organized through products. And the Staff Welfare Fund. because these CLEM'S WIFE manufactured BEST BOWLER products must ON THE MOVE Lil Vanstone, whose hus­ be sold in band Clem runs the Eighth competition Ford Burrows has been pro­ with similar products from A venue truck painting shop, is the top woman 10-pin moted to route foreman at other parts of Canada, their bowler at Burnaby 's plush Eighth A venue . value can never be more than Brentwood Lanes. the cost in their home province Les Taylor of Pacific Milk FULL-FLEDGED Canadians now, Tom and Miep Schalkx display Her 244 is still the high­ plus freight . This places the their Canadian citizenship certificates. Division has been transferred value of a hundred pounds of est single game rolled at the to Calgary. this "excess" milk, to be manu­ new alleys since they * factured, at approximately $3 opened. Rod Neil has been promoted per 100 pounds. Long Search Ends route foreman and moved from New Westminster to Eighth Av­ High Standard enue. The products manufactured UnionMembers by FVMPA which must meet ForTomandMiep national competitive prices, are It's a long road from Holland to Indonesia, back to OBITUARIES of course-Pacific Evaporated, CietCalendar Holland and finally to Vancouver. But now that they have Dairyland Credit Union has Pacific Instant Skim Powder , Ann Murdock passed away travelled it, TOM SCHALKX and his wife MIEP feel that put out a smart-looking calen­ away January 8 in Burnaby bulk skim milk powder and dar for its members. Fraser Valley Butter. All of it was all worth the trouble. General Hospital after a lengthy Schalkx a driver-salesman at year waiting period for citizen­ Bearing an artist's conception illness. Her husband Hugh is a these products, as I am sure Kitsilano Branch , and his wife ship was up last fall, the of the new Credit Union build­ body mechanic in the Eighth you are aware, are made in the became Canadian citizens De­ Schalkxs memorized two fat ing to be constructed next year A venue truck painting shop. most modern and efficient cember 14, thus bringing to an volumes of data on Canad a and adjacent to the FVMPA's new plants to a very high standard end a search for a new home took oral examinations. plant in Burnaby , the calendar Reti rements •-Cont inued of quality. The Pacific Milk and country that began 12 years They passed without difficulty was mailed to all members in Blenheim , on what is today and Sardis plants between them ago. and, as Tom Schalkx says a December. Point Grey Golf Course . are capable of receiving and In 1950 Schalkx left his na­ little wearily. "We probably The calendar also contains After six months with Valley processing in excess of one mil­ tive Holland for a five-year stint know more about Canada now facts and figures illustrating the Dairy, Gray transferred to lion pounds of milk per day. with a Dutch import-export than the average Canadian. " rapid growth of the Union. Standard Milk Company , which company in Indone sia. There he Marketing Patterns was absorbed by the FVMP A and Miep met and were married . shortly after World War I. The marketing channels of Hopelessly Spoiled Between 1922 and 1926 he manufactured products are When they returned to Hol­ managed the Creamos entries somewhat different from fluid land in 1956 with daughter Hendy Retires, But in both the Wednesday and Sat­ milk, where generally speaking, Marja in tow, they found that urday soccer leagues and won we sell directly from our own their years in Indone sia had several Wednesday league cups. trucks , through our own sales­ Two Sons Remain Gray was a wholesale driver­ hopeles sly spoiled them for life ERNIE HENDYretired from the Pacific Milk Plant last men to consumers or to retai lers in their native country. salesman until 1948 , when he who in turn serve consumers. After the easy-going life of month but the Hendy name is still very much on the pay­ became route supervisor. Butter follows the pattern of the tropics, the cramped living roll. Right now Sam Gray and his wife are just biding their time fluid more closely in that it is conditions and many regula­ His two sons, Cliff and Les until next summer when they l:landled on both our retail and tions of densely-populated Hol­ work there , one operating an will return to Ireland for their land seemed unbearable . evaporator and the other a wholesale trucks, but in addi­ first visit since 1919 . Having decided to emigrate sterilizer. tion, it is sold to wholesale Long Experience to Canada , Tom and Miep During his 20 years with the grocers, produce merchants and If unpaid work can be count­ Schalkx dug out a list of mean FVMPA, Ernie Hendy was a packing houses who do their ed, Jim Fish can date his dairy temperatures across Canada stationary engineer in the Pa­ own distributing along with industry experience to 1900 and looked for the city whose cific power plant . their other lines. when , as an eight-year-old boy climate was most like that of He came to the Fraser Valley Pacific Evaporated and Pa­ Indonesia. That was Vancouver. he delivered milk in his home from the Merritt area in 1942 , town of Bolton . cific Instant Skim Milk Powder They arrived here in 1957 where he had moved with his He began delivering milk in are, with few exceptions , sold and he landed his job with parents from Bristol , England Vancouver for Queen 's Own directly to wholesale grocers . Dairyland almo st immediately . in 1909 . Dairy in 1910, and moved to (To Be Continued ) Soon as the mandatory five- Following World War I ser­ Hillcrest Dairy the same year. vice with the 72nd Highlanders, After the War he again worked he became a stationary engineer with Hillcrest until it was bought for a Merritt coal mine . out by the FVMPA in 1919. 20 Grandchildren Jim Fish was promoted to Published bi-monthly for the information of the employees of the Hendy and his wife Connie ERNIE HENDY route foreman with the Associa­ Fraser Valley Milk Producer s' Association by the Public Relations raised 10 children-seven boys tion and held that position for Department. and three girls. And the birth Ernie Hendy and his wife 25 years. J. L. GRAY, Public Relations Manager of a grandson on Christmas have recently become interested Today he has no ambitious M. D. POOLE, Editor Day brought the number of in making jewelery from rocks plans for his retirement . He their grandchildren to an even and semi-precious stones and says he wouldn't know anyone CORRESPONDENTS Will Graham,New Westminster!·Bob Hind, Haney; Harold Hughes, VancouverHeights ; Jim Kerr, Eighth 20. they are taking a night school if he went back to his home Avenue Wholesale; Noel Layfied , Shannon; Roy Luty and Frank Hannah, Sardis; Norm Mcinnes, Eighth With the help of his sons, he Avenue; CourtenayMonk , Kitsilano; Ruth Morrison,E ighth Avenue office; Ralph Ruddy, Eighth Avenue course in the craft. town in Lancashire and would Retail; Mike Stachera, Dairyland, Sardis; Dave Thompson,Pacific Milk Plant; Kurt Wiersing, Arctic, built a new house near Abbot s­ Confirmed rockhounds, they rather stay here with his four and Stan Wilson, North Vancouver. ford two years ago and is now Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Dept., Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. plan rock collecting trips to the daughters and growing brood of busy with landscapin g. Int erior next summer. grandchildren . SERVICEDEPARTMENT CHRISTMASDANCE

Mr. and Mrs. Ory Kroeker . Good friends , it seems.

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Watching was just as much fun as participat­ Mr. and Mrs. Danny Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones, guests of Freddie ing, this couple found. Moran and Jack Harrop and his wife. Guzzon.

Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Bolderson and friends . Ken Devlin pulling faces and Sheila Riley an appreciative audience .

Harold Gilbert and Mrs. Jack Phillips. Jim Cunningham making his point to Nels Munro. Marg Watson and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Guzzon, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Asplen, Oscar Mr. and Mrs. Jim DeFries. Mrs. Gordy McLeod and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Falconvitch. Jones and his wife and Alex McColl, Mrs. Jack Phillips shares a laugh with Harold Gilbert and Entertainer George Smail has a last minute consultation with Mr. and Mrs. Bud Mason stop on the dance floor to hav e'I James Heriot. Walter Moran. their picture taken .

Friends of band leader George Smail. Mrs. John McKay with Mrs. George Pinchbeck.

Mrs. Betty Gordon, Brenda Moran, friend Ingrid, Mrs. Norma Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Bernd Braune and Mr. and Mrs. Al Langley.

Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Akins pose for a party Mr. and Mrs. Tony Brown, Sally Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Doris Ryley Mr. and Mrs. Alf Anderson and Mrs. George Niven. portrait. and friends.

Mrs. Don McQueen waits quietly for supper , Bill Swarbrick, Ian McKenzie taking a turn with Mrs. Kay McKie. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Simpson. not so quietl y. •hey won a door prize or spot prize, but no one seems to This couple also won a door prize and they also re main un ­ George Bird and his wife on the dance floor. ~member who they are. known.

eorge Niven and a much amused Mrs. Walter Moran. Hamish and Shirley McIntosh and a friend.

1e Stan Becks and Norm McLellans with friends. Twister s Joyce Simpson and Don McQueen.

espite solemn faces here, the party was a gay one. Norm and Lillian McDonald, Dorothy and Red Dyson and Joyce George Smail putting on a good show. Simpson.

jr. and Mrs. Jack Phillips, snappe d just as they came in the A conte mpl ative Larry Shaw with Maury Roberts. oor. SANTAWELCOMED BY SHANNONYOUNG STERS

Carmen Ferguson, Howard Salter's niece from Henry Rose with Santa. Seattle .

,I~ Meet Ed Wilson's wife Shirley and daughter. Three cheers for our man from up north. Reg Clarkson and daughter Denise.

Moe Fulkerson wife Donna, daughter Shelley Salter shares a joke with Santa. Sig Braethen's youn gest- Glen. Percy Poole the magician. Garilee.

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Christma s carol s-at least for som e. John, Beverley, Doug las and Margaret Gatto. Mr. and Mrs. Luigi Bastone, Marie, Toni, Tresa, Gina, Rita, Lugia.

Jill Wilson takes a poke at Santa. Tresa Bastone and an older man. Evelyn Stefaniuk's cousins, Rita, Barbara Garry Field wondering what' s inside. and Debbie. Betty Sullivan, Florence Manning, Mrs. R. Edmond­ Anne Cyr and Agnes McKnight. son, Hilda Hogg and Mrs. M. Crump.

Linda Robson with Lyn Brown. Gertrude Hall of Customer Ser­ FVMPA Women Employees vice. Dine Polynesian Style

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Sylvia McTaggart and Marilyn Gasler. Lilly Scott and Doris Ryley. Margaret Rogers and Jean Layfield, both Eleanor Laverty, much amused. of Shannon Dairies .

Betty Gresbrecht, Fern Nelson , and Sylvia Chris Rawson and Tina Mahood. Ruth Schafer and Eleanor Brewer. June Florczyk , in formal pose. Brown.

Sally Johnson with Marg Molloy. Isobel Polanowski with Trudy Newman of Pacific Phyllis Lockard and Elsie Wardlaw. Kay Long joins in the fun . Milk Division.

Mrs. Kemmie Blodgett and Doris Mogg­ Teri Sayer of tabul ating and Mrs. Elizabeth Hope. Mae Phillips with Gertrude Hall. Phyllis Lockard and Ruth ridge. Morrison. Mrs. Al Bryans, Mrs. Dennis Forster, Mr. Jim Part y planning committee members Ken Howatt, Rod Neil, Ken Lowe, Em On hor seback , Mr. and Mrs. Les McKay and Bob Steuter and Mr. Ed McLellan. Barden, Darrel Coates, Murray Swanson, Les McKay and Wilf Graham. Stevenson.

Mr. and Mrs. Dick Price. Mrs. Dick Ahone, Mrs. Walter Harnett, Mrs. Roger Dolbee and Don Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pederson. Lewendon. NW BRANCH CELEBRATESCHRISTMAS Parents whoop it up at one party and kids welcomeSanta at another

Shelly Ahone and Santa (really Dad) . Kathy Dolbee riding and brother Ron carrying. Lynne Swanson cheering a grim Santa.

A pat on the head for David Lowe. Linda Meyer, a little awed. A very happy Robert Cunningham with truck.

Terry Bryans and a new doll. Caroline McKay, pleased . Carol Lowe, satisfied with Santa's offering . Published bi-monthlyfor the employeesof ilk reakthe F raser ValleyMilk Produ cers' Association

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2 MARCH -APRIL , 1963 EighthAvenue Plant ReceivesIts LastCan 3 Billion Pounds of Milk

Handled; Over 40 Years An era came quietly to a close February 28, when the Eighth A venue Plant received its last can of milk. Can receiving shut down Eighth A venue's 1000 cans early to prepare for the move are now going to the Pacific to the new plant, which will be Milk and Sardis Utility plants equipped only for milk arriv­ and another 100,000 pounds of ing in tanker trucks. milk is arnvmg at Eighth The event wasn't important Avenue each day by tanker. enough for any official observ­ ance and many employees were unaware of the change. A few long-time staff mem­ bers got together to have their picture taken with the last can . They exchanged reminiscences about the early years and then went back to work. LAST CAN is stopped on receiving line for a picture. Norman and Walter Bayly. Can was one of about Above, from left, are Norman Mcinnes, Dick Eng­ 30 million that came in to the Eighth Avenue Plant Passed from the Scene lish, Bill Devine, driver Murray Morrison, Larry since 1923. There was no real signifi­ cance to this last can, except in the minds of a few older men. To them it meant that the city CreditUnion Report dairy industry, as they had known it, had passed from the scene. Not that there won't be cans WA LTER BAY LY Loans and Shares Up in 1962 going to the country plants for ... opens and sniffs last can years to come. In the city, how­ Dairyland Credit Union ing were carried out last sum­ union executive saw R a I p h ever, rtt>dern technology has loan business increased by mer to make it more attractive Ruddy elected a director. taken over the industry, com­ $57 ,000 in 1962 and shares to the prospective buyer. Cre­ pletely and for good. were up about $20,000. dit union officials are confident The first cans came into this they will get an acceptable price SOUR CREAM plant 50 years ago when it was These increases were revealed for the building. in the credit union's annual IS THAT WAY owned by the Standard Milk Education Committee chair­ Compa ny. Fraser Valley ship­ statement, presented to mem­ man Norman Mcinnes' report Keep the fresh milk bers at the annual meeting on pers sent their first cans to the credited the union's education sweet and the sour cream plant in 1919 when the Associa­ March 1. programs with contributing to sour and everyone should The increase in loans was due tion joined in partnership with the increase in loan business be happy. Unfortunately, Standard. largely to lower interest rates during 1962. not so, as one Haney that went into effect last year. Then, in 1923, the FVMPA Advantages Explained Branch driver - salesman bought out Standard and the Overall income of the Credit An open letter was mailed to discovered recently. Union was down $1600, how­ plant began taking the cans that members explaining the advan­ One of his customers were to come in daily for near­ , ever, as a result of the lower in­ tages of borrowing from the asked for sour cream that . terest rates and other factors. ly 40 years . credit union. In addition, a 1963 was "not too sour." During these years, the plant Dividend Maintained calendar with information about BILL DEVINE received about 30 million cans, ... records weig ht of milk Despite reduced income, the the credit union was mailed to ,. credit union maintained its four contain ing some three billion all members , he said. pounds of milk. per cent dividend and increased The Education Committee PlansMade the patronage dividend. was authorized to offer a $200 Original Shipper In all, 65 8 loans were made scholarship for a first year uni­ ForInter-Dairies By strange coincidence, the with a total value of $336,476. versity student again in 1963. last can of milk came from the Since incorporatio n, the credit Winner last year was Robert J. SoftballLeague farm of one of the original FV­ union has made more than 10,- Burton, a brother of Marcy MP A Shippers, A. 0. Morrison 000 loans, totalling more than Adems of North Vancouver Plans are going ahead for a of Port Hammond . Now in his $3.5 million. Branch. five-team inter-dairies softball 90's, Mr. Morrison still lives on In 1948, membership stood The only change in the credit league to operate this spring . his farm and keeps the shipping at 472 and assets were $153,- A first organizing meeting account in his own name. 000. Today, membership has was held February 24 to ar­ And by even more improb­ doubled to 937 and assets have range playing space and sound able chance, the driver of the increased almost five times to NewPost s Announced out interest in various dairies. truck that brought in the last '• $745,000. As presently planned, the can was Murray Morrison, son Arrangements Complete For Larkinand Devlin league will include teams from of A. 0. Morrison . Credit union president Reg Two management appo int­ Shannon Dairi es, Jersey Far ms, The only remaining employee Cockle reported that arrange ­ ments have been announced by Palm Dairies and two teams who saw both the beginning and CLIFF GERMYN ments had been completed with General Man ager L. A. Atkin­ from Dairyland. end of the procession of cans ... watches can through washer the FVMP A for construction of son. Dan Geary repr esented Shan­ to Eighth A venue is Dick Eng­ a new credit union office on the Grant Larkin has been ap­ non at the meeting; Dean Mar­ lish. site of the new plant in Bur­ pointed to the position of as­ tin, Palm Dairies ; Cliff Atkins, Due to retire in April, Eng­ HellWaited Wi thin naby. sistant production manager and Dairyland and Bob Simpson lish went to work as an engineer A bulletin board outside a The present credit union buil­ Dr. K. A. Devlin has been made was meeting chairman. for Standard Milk Company in church announced the subject ding at 423 West Broadway will director of laborator ies and In addition to league play, 1914, not long after the plant of the next sermon: "Do you have to be sold to comply with technical services. the league will try to arran ge was built. As . a can weigher know what Hell is?" provisions of the Credit Union Larkin was formerly director exhibition games with teams with the FVMP A for nearly 25 Scrawled und erneath in Act, Cockle said. of laboratories and technical from the FV MP A country years, he saw many of the 30 smaller letters was: "Co me and He said repairs to the build- services. plants. million cans come in. hear the organist. " A Shaky Foundation from the OldestDriver A national campaign is underway to agitate for Manager's W. L.Leitch taxation of patron age dividends that cooperatives, such as the FVMP A, pay to their members. The campaign Desk RetiresMarch 8 aims to gather support for the Equitable Income Taxa­ By L. A. Atkinson Dairyland's oldest retail tion Foundation, an organization formed specifically to FVMPA General Manager driver - salesman, W. L. seek this change in tax laws. (Continued from a previous BILL LEITCH, retired on In the words of its publicity material, the Founda­ article on the marketing of March 8 after 32 years with manufactured dairy products.) tion "is directing its attention to the failure of government the FVMPA. to collect income taxes from profits earned by coopera­ Bulk Powder is distributed At age 70, Leitch was by tives on the same basis as ordinary business. " mostly to industr ial users such far the oldest Dairyland driver The cooperatives' reply is that, with the exception as bakers, ice still working a retail route , and of a new co-op in its first three years of operation, co­ cream manu­ was probably the oldest retail facturers and salesman in the city. operatives do pay taxes on profits on the same basis as packing He started in the dairy in­ other businesses. Rebates to patrons are merely a price houses by dustry with Valley Dairy when reduction and no more taxable than are dividends paid truck or rail he came to Vancouver in 1927. W. L. LEITCH to policy holders by mutual and other participating in­ car, depend­ He became an employee of the Canada and nothing to keep ing on the des­ FVMPA in 1931. them here, should they decide surance companies. tination. Some Born near Kelso, Roxburgh­ to make the move. The Foundation is conducting an intensive member­ bulk powder is shire, Scotland , he served with ship drive to organize what it calls a "solid block of opinion sold through the 12th Royal Scots in France wholesalers or brokers who are during World War I. Corson Leaves with the demonstrated strength to bring about the necesl better located to service smaller Emigrating to Austra lia in sary taxing statutes. This means the power of numbers." accounts. 1924, Leitch operated a mixed To Run Alleys dairy and cane sugar farm. He George Corson has accepted But even if the Foundation succeeds in getting its Market Areas "power of numbers," its members cannot be regarded as disliked both climate and coun­ an offer to take over manage­ Because British Columbia is try, however, and left for Van­ ment of Legion Bowling Alleys necessarily supor ting the Foundation's anti-cooperative a deficient butter producing couver. in Mount Pleasant Branch 177 taxation views. This is because the Foundation is employ­ province , all of our butter finds Leitch is well known around of the Royal Canadi an Legion. ing some highly questionable tactics in its membership a ready market within the prov­ Vancouve r for his old time He had been with the FVMP A drive. ince. Bulk powder finds its fiddle playing. He has been since 1942 as a retail driver­ market mainly in B.C. and Al­ playing the violin since he was salesman and special delivery The Foundation's "personal membership" form des­ a boy and is still a frequent com­ driver. cribes its objectives as encourag ing research into taxation berta, while Pacific, both Evap­ orated and Instant Skim, is petitor in old time fiddling and seeking "equitable" taxation laws. On the surface, competitions . marketed in all four of the In April, Bill Leitch and his MilkBreak-UK Style this is a commendab le goal. However, what the Founda­ western provinces and the wife Catherine will return to Under the sign "Drink More tion means by "equitable" is not explained and no men­ northwest corner of Ontario to Britain for a three-months visit Milk" painted on a milkman 's tion is made of taxing the patronage rebates of coopera­ the Lakehead. that could turn into a perma­ delivery truck abandoned in nent stay. tives. As mentioned above, these London , England was another They have no relatives in sign: "Gone for Tea ". products, being competitive with production from other parts of Canada, have a relatively low New Pasteurizer Operators Picnic at Cultus? value. Butter prices, which are A suggestion box for "Fraser Valley Milk Break" was government supported are quite put up in the Sardis Plant recently and almost immedia te­ stable , but evaporated and skim ly a note was dropped in, asking: "Why can't the FVMP A powder are quite competitive . employee's picnic be held at the eastern end of the valley If an Eastern manufacturer , be­ cause of surplus stocks, or a for a change ?" It was signed, "The Powder Room Crew." desire to expand his market, re­ It's a good suggestion and, for several reasons, worthy duces his prices in our market­ of consideration. ing area, we have no recourse Maple Grove Park, where last year's picnic was held, but to meet them in order to is limited in recreat ion facilities for adults. On the other ret ain our market share. hand, Cultus Lake at the eastern end of the valley, offers Promotional Deals excellent swimming and picnic facilities for the whole In the sale of Instant Skim family . milk, over the past year or so, What' s mor e, a picnic at Cultus Lak e would give em­ special promotional deals have ployees from the city and country plants a chance to get been the order of the day and to know each other. not the exception . Evaporated prices are not so volatile, but GENE STEFANSON BOB SCHARFT Eighth Avenue there have been serious reduc ­ Eighth Avenue A U.S . credit union leader remind s us that a German tions, once in 1960 when we Prot estant, a Canadian Catholic and an American Jew had a short but severe price war, gave us the credit union movement-int ernational by and in 1962 a reduction of 45 birth and by ideal. Have you joined your Dairyland Credit cents per case as the result of a new factory opening in Al­ Union? berta.

A wise man lets the cat out of the bag himself. Other­ An understanding of the re­ latively low values obtainable wise some neighbor does it for him and by that time the in the manufacturin g market, cat may have kitt ens. again emphasizes the necessity of keeping fluid sales at their maximum level.

Published bi-monthl y for the information of the employees of the Frase r Valley Milk Produ cers' Association by the Public Relations Sardis Men Win Department . J. L. GRAY, Public Relations Manager Gordon Craig and Stan Lyon GLEN LOUGHEED RALPH ROBERTS of the Sardis plant curled on a Arctic Ice Cream Shannon Dairies M. D. POOLE, Editor team that won the "F" event PASTEURIZ ER operator's licenses have been earned by Gene CORRESPONDENTS Will Graham, New Westminster; Bob Hind, Haney; Harold Hughes, Vancouver Heights; Jim Kerr, Eighth of the Chilliwack Bonspiel in Stefanson and Bob Scharff of Eighth Avenue, Glen Lougheed of Avenue Wholesale; Noel Layfield, Shannon; Roy Luty and Frank Hannah, Sardis; Norm Mcinnes, Eighth February. Lyon curled lead and Avenue; Courtenay Monk, Kitsilano; Ruth Morrison, Eighth Avenu_e offi ce; Ralph Ruddy,_Ei~hth Aven_ue Arctic Ice Cream and Ralph Roberts of Shannon Dairies. They Retail· Mike Stachera, Dairyland, Sardis; Dave Thompson, Pac,f ,c Milk Plant; Kurt W1ers1ng,A rctic, Crai g skip on the rink which passed examinations in December, following correspondence work ' and Stan Wilson, North Vancouver. was playing together for the and a one-week short course at UBC. These men are among a series Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Dept., Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. first time. of FVMPA produc tion employees to take the course. JoeRobinson Among Top Cio-KartRacers in B.C. Won 11 Trophies in 1962 After Just 3 Years' Racing If any FVMP A employee has won a measure of fame in the sports world, it's JOE ROBINSON. As a go-kart racer, he has an impressive record and has made a name for himself in B.C. and ARCTIC NOW Washington racing circles. Just four years ago, Robin­ HAS 'ZIPPER' son, who is FVMPA fleet super­ Arctic Ice Cream has intendent, built his first go-kart come to the rescue of peo­ and began racing as a hobby. ple who can't open a three­ Serious Competition pint carton without getting His first kart was capab le of ice cream all over their speeds up to 50 miles per hour. hands. Today he drives a custom-built A new "zipper pack " kart that will do 78 mph-and now on the market is easily ALUMINUM WINDOW FRAMES are being in­ dows will be covered with a decking and decorated his hobby has become serious opened by pulling off a per­ stalled, above, in the second floor of the office sec­ with plants for a roof garden. Partitions will be competition . forated strip along one side tion. Heat and air conditioning pipes are going in erected later in the office. The Dodsley Barrow In the 1962 season alone of the package. at the same time. Section of roof outside these win- archives and library is on this same floor. (March - September), Robinson won 11 trophies, four of them in international races. Colorsand Materials Chosen At Westwood circuit near Port Coquitlam, he has won Watchfor both the B.C. championship Plant Nears Finishing Stage sprints and endurance races in his A-modified class. WaterRacket washroom doors will be paint­ gallery adjoining the Fraser Val­ Heavy construction on Averaged 55 mph ed coral for contrast. ley Room-as the new plant's the main building of the In winning last year's endur­ If there is a death in your In the production area, floors reception room has been named. ance championship, he main­ family, don't be taken in by the new plant is all but com­ will be of traditional rust col­ Special attention is being colored water racket. plete. ored chemical resistance quarry given to decor of the Fraser tained an average speed of about 55 mph, including time lost for Some enterprising citizens tiles and walls will be finished Valley Room, along with the Although work on loading three mandatory pit stops . take names from newspaper with gleaming ceramic-faced Board Room and the Dodsley bunkers connected to the plant Go-kart racing is enjoying a death notices and quietly mail blocks in pastel tones. Barrow Room. a bottle of colored water, mark­ has not yet begun and construc­ growing popularity, Robinson The production room ceiling The Barrow Room, named tion of the garage began only says. Many sports car racers ed "Medicine," to the deceased will be painted with a special after the Association's first person. a few weeks ago, the plant it­ are switching to karts because vinyl material, first used for president, will be a combination self is entering the finishing of the lower cost. Many bereaved families pay stage. Seattle's Space Needle. of library, and FVMPA arch­ the C.O.D. charges, thinking Appearance of the production ives. There are more than 250 go­ To prepare for finishing, the dear old Granny or Dad ordered area is doubly important in that Exterior colors have yet to kart tracks in the United States FVMPA staff has been at work and many of the racers there the medicine without telling it will be under the critical eye be decided upon . These and them. for some time selecting colors, of the consumer. many other decisions will be have become professionals. B.C. materials and dairy processing karting is still entirely amateur . Although practitioners of the Visitors will be able to look made soon, however, as comple­ racket are careful to send the equipment . down into the production , rea tion of the plant is now only In addition to the A-modi­ fied class in which Robinson "medicine " only to people re­ Equipment Ordered from an all-glass observation about six months away. competes, there are B and C ported to have died after lengthy Orders have already gone out class karts. These are more illness, they have been caught when medicine was sent by mis­ for items of equipment that have powerful than the A-modified take to accident victims. long delivery schedules and SKELTON'S SPOUSEYIELDS karts and attain speeds of more orders from other manufactur­ than 100 mph. ers are being placed as quickly Although there is an element as possible. IN EXCHANGEWITH RAM of danger in go-karting, Robin­ Storeyon 2nd R ink After processing equipment is Nursing a small grievance against your wife? son says, it is much safer than Elmer Storey of the Pacific installed, it will be connected by sports car or road racing . Milk Plant was a member of a complex system of stainless Then by all means heed the example of Haney But, as he point s out, slither­ Dr. Al Millier's rink that was steel piping. Connectin g this driver-salesman ALEX SKELTON- buy her a ram. ing around a track in a tiny 120- runn er-up in the "B" event of pipin g will be a long, painstak­ Alex dragged wife PAT from the safety of her pound kart at more than 75 mph the Abbot sford Bonspiel in ing job requirin g welders with is excitement enough. February . special skill. kitchen recently to hold a piece of plywood he was The flow of milk and clean­ nailing for a makeshift gate to hold their ram in ing solutions throu gh this net­ the barn. work of pipes will be automati ­ Seeing its freedom in danger, the ram charged cally controlled from a single 1- seven by 12-foot control panel. the gate and met Pat , who was lookin g over the In fact, the entir e processing top, head-on. The ram got its freedom and Pat area will be controll ed from this settled for a broken jaw. master panel, with its hundreds of switches, meters and button s. Subdued and Restful Althou gh painting is still Anti-Fat Fad Risky some weeks in the future , many An October press release It will be made available to of the interior colors have been from the American Medical all FVMPA employees and chosen. The accent is on sub­ Association titled "Latest Food farmer members. Distribution is dued, restful tones, with occa­ Fad is Wasted Effort" warns being handled by the Vancouver sional splashes of stronger tones people that "the anti-fat, anti­ Milk Foundation, an educa­ to avoid monotony . cholesterol fad is not just fool­ tional body comprised of the The floor of the general of­ ish and futile ... it also carries major Vancouver dairies and fice and driver's room will be some risk." milk shippers. basically light in color, set off Copies of this press release with a scattered pattern of con­ from the U.S. doctor s' profes­ trasting tiles. sional organization will be dis­ Home Sweet Home Avocado green will be used tribut ed to every home delivery Up-to-date houses, according in the entrance hall, stairwells customer in Vancouver, as well to the "Holstein-Friesian Jour ­ ELEVEN TROPHIES that he won during the 1962 racing season, sur­ and on some of the door s. as to many special groups such nal," have wall-to-wall carpet­ round Joe Robinson and his go-kart. Although equipped only with a Walls in the rest of the office as doctors, nur ses, dietition s ing, wall-to-wall windows and 10 hp motor, the kart is capable of speeds to 78 miles per hour. The will be mainly of a buff tone and and school teachers. back-to-wall financing. motor turns over at 14,000 rpm with direct drive to the wheels. RoggwillersHave First ApprovedGoat Farm Processing and M arketing Facilities Still Limited JACOBRoGGWILLER of the Pacific Milk Plant owns and operates the first provincially approved dairy goat farm in the Fraser Valley . Working with wife Salena, Principal users of goat's milk Roggwiller has installed the fa­ are babies and older people, cilities needed to meet govern­ many of whom find it benefi­ ment standards. These include cial for digestive disorders or white-washed barn, separate rashes such as eczema. milking parlor and adequate Salena Roggwiller started the GERRY PERRY milk cooling facilities . herd about 12 years ago after a Size Varies visit to an aunt who kept goats BOB STEVENSON with Kay'£ Image just after the horse had won a They have 35-40 goats on in Switzerland . Although she Perry's race at Exhibition Park in 1961. This is one of the horses he raised and their small farm in the Straiton and her husband are both Swiss, trained at his home in North Surrey. district, near Abbotsford. The they were city dwellers there and size of their herd varies from had no experience with goats day-to-day at this time of year before coming to Canada. Boxers because this is the season when Racing No Longer the kids are born . They keep about 20 milking LOEWEN TAKES Do Well nannies, most of them Saanen A Sport for Kings or Turgenburg breed, with a SECOND PLACE With a few sets of boxing few crosses . Production of the Jake Loewen , general de­ gloves and a couple of bat­ Contrary to popular notion , horse racing is no longer herd runs as high as 200 pounds livery driver at Sardis, is a tered punching bags, Gerry the sport of kings, according to New Westminster relief a day. member of the Chilliwack Perry of Sardis is nearing Getting the milk pasteurized rink that took second place the end of another season driver-salesman BOB STEVENSON. and marketed has been the in the "A" event of the with his Vedder Crossing And he ought to know. He Roggwiller 's chief problem. To Osoyoos Bonspiel. finally trained to come out of Boxing Club. has been co-owner of a racing date there has not been enough Jake and his teammates the starting gate. Two nights a week, Perry string since 1949 and has six goat's milk produced in the Val­ brought home ice box cool­ An when the horse runs , there gets together with the eight thoroughbreds stabled on his ley to make a dairy for goat's ers for their efforts. is the jockey to be paid. members of his club in an old place in North Surrey . milk economically possible. All very unpromising? Yes, chicken house he has renovated "You can't say racing is a but less so if you do as many Join with Others with the boys' help. rich man's sport when about 60 The Roggwillers have been Roy Hill iard Dies things for yourself as do Bob They concentrate on physical per cent of the horses at Exhi­ Stevenson and his father-in-law paying to have their milk pri­ After Heart Attack conditioning, footwork and box­ bition Park are owned by ordi­ vately pasteurized and sold, partner, Harry Gilder. Roy Hilliard, checker at Kit­ ing skills, while soft-pedaling nary working people like truck Stevenson devotes about mostly door -to-door. Eventu­ silano Branch, died suddenly the destructive side of boxing. drivers and bellhop s," Bob ex­ ally, they hope to join with three hours a day to feeding, March 7. He suffered a heart Builds Character plains. grooming and training the other goat milk producers in a attack while working on night But, before you squander processing and marketing ven­ Manager-trainer Perry, an horses until they go to Lans­ shift. employee at the Sardis Utility your savings on an unknown downe Park in March for con­ ture. plug, consider a few of the bills Plant , thinks boxing is good for ditioning. that have to be paid before a boys but a poor choice for a horse ever goes to the post. 100 Days' Training SteelheadDerby career. "Learning to give and Must Own Mare There Gilder, who is re­ take a good poke on the nose If you breed your own horses , tired, guides the horses through helps build a boy's character, " LacksOnly Fish he says. as does Bob Stevenson , you the 100 days of training needed first must own a mare of good to put them in shape to run. The FVMP A steelhead derby Although Perry himself has racing stock. After paying a A former FVMPA employee has had all the ingredients for thrown few blows in anger, he knows enough about boxing to stud fee of $200- $300, you at Eighth A venue, Harry Gil­ success this year except one­ pour grain and hay into the der lives right at Exhibition fish. turn out some fighters with im­ pressive amateur records. mare for 11 months before the Park when the racing season The derby, which got under­ In addition to a number of foal is born . is on. way December 1 and ends Fraser Valley champions, he had Then you board the foal for Over the years, Stevenson March 31, has a fair entry of one boy who fought his way another two years before it goes and Gilder have had more than 21 anglers and competitive spirit through to the finals of the Ca­ to the track. Meantime, it has 20 winners, and many m o r e has been running as high as nadian championships . One of to be broken, exercised regu­ second and third place finishers ever. But up to the first week his present boxers has lost only larly when it can be ridden and (place and show, in racing par­ of January , not a single steel­ one bout in his career. lance). head had been entered. Their best horse was Siwash Fishing improved slightly in A Little Money Grace, followed by Rose Anna recent weeks, however, and Perry doesn't want to see his Lea, Kay's Image, H a p p y SALENA ROGGWILLER puts a there are now eight fish entered. club grow too big, but he would Marge and others well-known can of goat's milk in the cooling Leader to date is Frank Kernel settle for a few more members to racing fans . tank. with a 13-pounder. -and a little money . Broke Neck Gloves and bags they now use They raised a full sister to were bought with money raised Siwash Grace, only to lose her at fight shows staged with other when she reared and broke her Fraser Valley clubs. More mon­ neck as she was being loaded ey will likely come from this into the truck that was to take source, but not enough to get her to the track . the c 1 u b out of the chicken This year they plan to run house and into more commodi­ three horses - Happy Marge, ous quarters . Dynamite Bob and Mister H.G., a two-year-old that has yet to make his first start. Ciray andF ish And if this year comes up to expectations, all the time and Birthplaces Wrong expense of breeding, raisin g A story on the retirement of and training the horses will be Sam Gray and Jim Fish in the worthwhile. January - February issue of Bob Stevenson and Harry "Milk Break " incorrectly stated Gilder don't expect to make that Gray was born in Lanca­ their fortunes, but as Stevenson BIGGEST BILLY of the Roggwiller herd is shown off by Jacob Rogg­ shire and Fish near Belfast. says, "the horses pay t h e i r willer. They now have more than 40 goats and milk 16-20 of these Gray was born near Belfast and way." for close to 200 pounds of milk a day. Fish in Lancashire. ...

Publishedbi-monthly fo r the employeesof ilk reakthe Fraser Valley Milk Producers ' Association

VO LUM E 2, NUMBER 3 MAY-JUNE, 1963 EmployeesContribute Nearly$6000 to Charity Welfare Fund Statement Shows Donations Up $300 Emp loyees of Eight A venue Plant and Kitsila no, Vanco uver Heights and Haney branches contribute d nearly $6000 to charity last year through the Dairyland Em­ ployee's Welfare Fund. This was an increase of more Queen Alexandra Solariu m than $300 over 1961 donations. (Victoria) and the Polio F und These figures were contained in received $50 donations. Other the 1962 statement, presented gifts went to the Childre n's to the F und's annual meeting, Hospital ($ 100), Mission City Apr il 19. United Appeal ($35), Central About 400 members of the City Mission, Haney ($25), and Fund contributed a total of the Victorian Order of Nurses, $8615 through payroll deduc ­ Richmond ($25). tions. Another $1012 was car­ ried over from 1961 and vend­ ing machines and bank interest RoyLuty Has a brought in an additional $239. About $2850 was spent with­ in the compa ny throug h the TeachingTalent Staff Fu nd, with the largest ex­ Ro y Luty of Sardis completed MAKING HIS POINT at a meeting of the Eighth ster, Jim Kelday and Bob Cooper listen . This com­ penditures going to sick cheer his first term as an industria l Avenue Labor-Management Committee is Bud White­ mittee and others like it have been conduct ing suc­ and retire ment gifts. Fifty cents first aid instructor in Marc h head, left , while committee secretary Charlie Web- cessful mont hly meetings for ne~r ly three years. of each employee's monthly con­ and, if the performance of his tribution is turn ed over to the class is any indication, he is a Staff Fund. talented teacher. CreateUnderstanding $4200 for the Chest Twenty-three of his 26 stu­ Much the largest donation dents passed the final examina ­ from the Welfare Fund-$ 4200 tions, a high percentage for the - went to the Commu nity difficult St. John Ambu lance L-M Co111111itteesa Big Success Chest. The Red Cross and the Association course. The F V M P A Labor­ to explain the operation of other and give the committees an even Canadian Cancer Society each Luty had previo usly in­ Management Committees departments in the company. greater influence in labor -man­ received $350. structed a senior first aid course , Labor representatives are agement relations. Donations of $150 went to but this was his first class in the are nearing the end of their elected and management repre­ the B.C . Tubercu losis Society, more detai led industrial field . third year of successful sentatives are appointed, both the Salvation Army's Harbor Drawing on his knowledge of operation. for two-year terms . NewCarton for Arctic Light Corps, Central City Mis­ first aid, Luty is writing a series Committee members are Arctic Ice Cream has come sion, B.C. Heart Foundat ion of articles for "Butter-Fat" on Begun in 1960 , the commit­ lookin g forward to the reorgan ­ out with a smart-looking new and the Retarded Children's As­ first aid on the farm and in the tees have made a significant ization that will likely be neces­ six-pack carton for fudgicles, sociation. home . contribution to understanding sary when all branches move ice cream bars and popsicles . and goodwill between Dairy­ under one roof in the new plant. The carton features a modern land salesmen and their super­ They expect the changes to design and convenient new lock­ FVMPA Board Changes visors. bdng greater employee interest ing device. The committees, active at Eighth avenue and all the branches , are strictly advisory in that they make recommenda­ DORIS ISN'T ESPECIALLY tions to management, but don't implement any of their own proposals. LUCKY - BUT SHE WINS Wages, working conditions DORISRYLEY of Eighth Avenue office doesn't and other subjects for collective consider herself especially lucky , but few would bargaining are beyond the com­ mittees' scope, but almost any agree. other matter of interest to labor Two years ago she split $1095 sweepstakes is discussed. winnings. For six years, she has been winning Employee's Suggestions four-six times a year at bingo , although her biggest Subjects considered by the pot was $62. committees are submitted by That was before March 30 when fortune employees through suggestion picked her from among 1700 Canadian Legion J. J. BROWN J. C. BRANNICK . retires oft er 29 years . . moves up to President boxes or given directly to any bingo players and she came away from the game of the six labor or six manage­ J. C. BRANNICK, a mem­ Langley, a board member since $1029 richer. ment representatives . ber of the Board of Direc ­ 1944 and Gordon Park, secre­ tary, a position first held by his Minutes of the meetings are tors for 16 years and vice­ posted for all employees to read father 46 years ago. Advertising and Sales Bureau. president since 1960 , has and a written reply is sent by Ruddy and M artin Their demonstration on sell­ Arthur Rundle of Chilliwack the committee or by manage­ Finish Near Top ing milk at the home earned been elected president of is the other member of the ex­ ment to those who make sug­ them top spot in their own class the FVMPA. ecutive committee. gestions. Eighth A venue route fore­ of 29 and third place among all His election follows the re­ Other board members are The monthly meetings are 55 salesmen taking the 12- men Ralph Ruddy and Art Mar­ tirement of Presid ent J. J. J. C. Cherry of Mount Lehma n open to any member of the week course. Brown, who had served on the and two newly-elected directors , tin graduated near the top of a Dairyland sales staff and at­ Martin took the part of the board for 29 years. Peter J. Friesen of Poplar-Pear ­ tendance is particularly good large class in the Executive buyer for the demonstration Oth er executive members are donville and R. A. Robson of when guest speakers are invited Sales Course of the Vancouver and Ruddy was the salesman. Vice-president, H. S. Berry of Barnston Island. Atkinson Reviews Distributors' Brief to Conciliation Board

In this personal message to all FVMP A employees, General Manager L. A. Atkinson outlines the main points of a milk distributor/ brief to a Provincial Conciliation Board, concerning negotiations with Milk Salesmen and Dairy Workers Union, Local 464. The brief was presented jointly by four dairies - FVMP A, Jersey Farms Ltd, Palm Dairies Ltd and Drake's Dairy - in Poly Party Agreement.

Dear Fellow Employees: The order provides that , not withstanding the re­ population growth, they have tended to fall in volume sults of computations by the pricing formula for class at present price s. Most of you are aware that serious negotia­ I qualifying milk, the price will not exceed by more From 1958 to 1962, the population of Vancouver tions have been going on for some time between than $3 a hundredweight , the accounting value for and the Fraser valley increased by 96,000 or 11.7 per class three milk of the previous month. cent, while sales of fluid milk in the same area in­ Vancouver milk distributors, who are members This order reduced the price to the producer by 19 creased by only 1.7 per cent. of the Poly Party certifications and Milk Sales­ cents per hundredweight in December and the price We must also point out that the milk pricing struc­ men and Dairy Workers Union, Local 464. It under this order in January was 11.6 cents per cwt. ture in relation to competitive or alternative products is felt that all employees, whether union mem­ below the average class I price for 1962. should be such as to encourage the maximum con­ It would be very difficult and impractical to reduce sumption of milk in fluid form . bers or otherwise, should be aware of what is the price to the producer any further. It is our feeling that any increase in fluid milk involved. The effect of this order on the producer 's return is prices at present would result in a drop in consumption The union has requested an increase of 25 demonstrated by the following table : and will encourage the trend to substitutes. cents per hour in wages; three weeks holiday Average Class I price 1962 ...... $6.04 The latest report issued by the Milk Board shows Jan. 1963 Class I price under the 1962 total sales of milk in the Vancouver area to after five years instead of eight as at present; Order 27 ...... 5.924 be 91,311 ,783 quart s. Compar ed with 1961 sales of and sick leave accumulated at the rate of one­ 91,897 ,388 quarts , this is a decrease in total sales of half day per month. $0.116 585,605 quarts , or 0.6 per cent. The distributors have taken the position that , Reduction in value based on Vancou- An increase in the price of milk might drastically ver area 1962 volume 239,323 ,203 effect the volume of sales and wipe out any temporary in the light of all of the factors which have a lbs ...... $277,615 financial advantages derived from the price increase . bearing on the matter , no increase in wages or Retail price in Vancouver is already as high as any other benefits is warranted or justified in the MILK PRICE TO CONSUMER city in Canada, except St. John s, Newfoundland. Economic studies into the possibility of increasing renewal of the existing agreement . the milk price to the consumer indicates a number of PRESENT POSITION Among the more important reasons for this dangerous consequences. These studies show that not Clause II of the agreement now in force provide s position are: only have sales since 1958 failed to keep pace with the the following benefit s to the employee , at a total cost • The fact that wage rates and working conditions now provided are better than rates for similar categories in the milk business, in Sales of Milk in Vancouver Area 1950-1962 any other part of Canada. • They are also equal to or better than Metro politan Area rates existing in other comparable food in­ Populatio n in Thousands dustries in Vancouver and British Columbia. • Distributors have been operating in a loss position for some considerable period. Further 950 increases in costs will intensify the necessity for retail price increases in a market where sales // 900 / are not keeping pace with population growth. / / It has been estimated that the additional an­ ,/ nual cost of meeting the Union's requests would 850 ~/ --- ./, be $880,813 and based on sales of 65,802 ,399 { Millions of / quarts, would require a price increase of 1.338 Quorts // cents per quart to satisfy the Union's request 100 800 _v alone. ... / -- The following portions of the distributors' / 95 750 r brief are set down so that all employees may be / able to view this whole matter in its proper /' 91.9 91.3 v,,,,. ~ , perspective. , I~ ~ 90 700 / 89.6 * * * ,,,,., It might be suggested that the milk distributors of 85 650 Vancouver look into the following possibilities to im­ L prove their financial position : (a) Become more efficient 80 600 (b) Pay less for their milk supply ~ (c) Increase the price to the consumer Let us briefly analyze the above steps: 75 /74 ,g EFFICIENCY Every distributor in this area is continuously striv­ ing for greater and greater efficiency. In the past four 70 / V. years, great strides_ in economy o~ production an~ ~e­ liveries have been mtroduced . It 1s our honest opm1on ~4 ~ ~ that there is not much more one can accomplish in this 65 V66 .2 respect without very large capital expenditures . It is our belief, from investigations carried out , that the Vancouver distributors are much more effi­ cient than most of the distributors in Canada and the Milk Price 19c 22c 22c 22c 22c 22c 24c 24c 25c 25c 25c 25c 25c United States . This fact can easily be verified. Year-1950 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 PRODUCER'S PRICE This table shows a population increase of 22 % and milk sales increase of 32 % between 1953 and The B.C. Milk Board issued an order (Number 27) and 1958. From 1958 to 1962 population rose 11 % and sales 1.7% . on November 19, 1962, which will tend to reduce the price paid to producer s. The comparisons and examples of wages quoted Price Index (D.B.S.)-vs. Basic Wage Rate (Vancouver Milk Distributors) above demonstrate the following facts: • The basic wage of a dairy worker in Vancouver Percentage has not only kept up with the general trend in wages ,f 1949 base in Canada, but compares very favorably with other in­ 230% dustries in Vancouver and B.C. ~2-11 1,,--- ~2.11 • The dairy worker 's wage in Vancouver is the / highest wage paid by the dairy industry anywhere in / 220 f;~ Canada. t2·;1 WAGES, ANNUAL HOLIDAYS AND , 210 , WELFARE PLANS From Some Recent Union Contracts Signed in 7 (,_93 Vancouver and B.C. / 200 WELFARE BENEFITS j (i.as By studying other contracts now in force in Van­ 190 I couver it is apparent that the welfare benefits provided ', by the Vancouver Milk Distributors Agreement are as I good as any, and better than most. _l.£1,70 180 I ANNUAL HOLIDAYS I The annual holiday position of the Vancouver milk 170 // distributors is also very favorable in comparison with -lr,56 the other industries of Vancouver. ,-,/' The Milk Dealers Agreement provides for two 160 , ~(i.s, weeks after one year, three weeks after eight years and / four weeks after 15 years. In the other 26 companies / compared, very few provide for four weeks holiday. In 150 -~1.40 the ones that include it, four weeks are given only / after 20-25 years. / Some companies give three weeks after less than 140 $1,32 eight years, but give no provision for four weeks holi­ --~ day. Only the baker's agreement will have four weeks J *- II) after 15 years and that will come into effect in Octo­ I • *qi ~--1) (\I I 130 .)pub­ T. J. Robertson Dies Starting as an engineer's fire­ lic speaker. SchollLeads man, he went on to making but­ David, who has been speak­ Thomas J. Robertson, pioneer B.C. agriculture ter, then ice cream; he dumped ing competitively for only two PublicSpeaking leader, died at his home in East Delta on April 1. He and weighed cans, worked in years, did well recently in local was 70. milk grading, was a pasteurizer eliminations for the Optimists' Robertson 's death followed operator and spent the last few international public speaking Classat UBC by 10 days his retirement from years as a relief dairy worker, contest. Eighth Avenue Plant Super­ the Board of Directors of the filling in wherever he was Narrowly Missed intendent Vic Scholl graduated FVMPA, a post he had held needed. Competing with six other at the top of his class in the since 1938. Ran Away boys for the right to represent Junior Chamber of Commerce Born on his home farm in English has never been back­ East Vancouver Optimist Club Advance Public Speaking East Delta, Mr. Robertson took ward about starting something at the provincial finals in Vic­ Course at the University of B.C. his early schooling in Delta and new. At the tender age of 12, toria, David lost out narrowly His winning talk, in support attended the University of B.C., he ran away from his Lincoln­ to the winner in the 12-15-year­ of giving free narcotics to drug where he received a Bachelor's shire, England home and ship­ old division. The seven club addicts to end trafficking, was Degree in Arts in 1916. ped out to Canada with money finalists were selected from a delivered before the JC annual Mr. Robertson was active in he had persuaded his older class of 18. banquet. community and agriculture af­ brother to send from Vancou­ Two other FVMPA employ­ The public speaking course fairs all his adult life. For eight ver. ees had a part in staging the was among those he completed years, he served on Delta Muni­ competition. Joe Gray is presi­ to graduate from the Junior cipal Council. He was secretary Several Generations dent of the East Vancouver Chamber's three-year Executive of the FVMPA East Delta Local During his years in the dairy Optimist Club and Mike Rees is Training Course at UBC. for eight years and was chair­ industry, English saw several Bill Swarbrick, assistant en­ man of the Delta Advisory generations come and go. He gineering manager and Gil Planning Commission at his made ice cream for Bert Hoy Rumley, Arctic Ice Cream as­ death. East Delta , and Keith of Na­ around the time of World War sistant sales manager also com­ He is survived by his wife, kusp, B.C. , and four grand­ I, and remembers vividly the pleted the course this year. Clara; two sons, Thomas of children. day Hoy's son Doug was born. Today, Doug Hoy is plant superintendent at Shannon Dairies and his son Norman is Laing Expects to Meet Deadline working at Eighth A venue. Knew Them All Despite continued wet each 82 feet long and weighing nearly 27 miles, if laid end-to­ English has been well-known conditions on the site of the more than 12,000 pounds, will end. to all the presidents of the As­ be lifted into place around the There are another 20,000 new plant, general contrac­ sociation. When J. C. Bran­ end of April. hollow clay glazed tile blocks nick was elected president in tors John Laing and Son Work on retail and wholesale and some 10,000 fire bricks. March, English offered his con­ are sticking to their origin­ bunkers and parking sheds is When the last concrete is gratulations, saying: "I have al estimated completion being delayed by persistent mud . poured, ready-mix trucks will shaken the hand of every presi­ Visitors to the plant site have have brought in about 9500 dent the FVMPA has had and date. been impressed by the size of cubic yards. Reinforcing this I would like to shake yours too Give or take a few weeks, the sprawling main plant build­ cement work and providing before I leave." they say, construction of the ing. And vital statistics on the strength in other ways will be English and his wife will plant and all outlying buildings plant add to this impression of about 900,000 pounds of steel leave Vancouver April 28 for a will be complete sometime in size. rods, columns and beams. 3½-month vacation in Europe. July, or about one year from There are nearly 125,000 Impressive statistics? Yes, Among the relatives who will the time building got underway. blocks and bricks of various but not nearly so interesting as meet their plane at London air­ Foundations and columns for types used in plant construction. an unknown number foremost port will be two sisters English the garage have been poured The concrete blocks alone- in everyone 's mind - moving has never met. They were born and three main wood beams, 93 ,000 of them-would stretch day. after he left home in 1910. Publishedbi-monthly for the employeesof ilk reakthe Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Associatio n

VO LUME 2, NUMBER 4 ~29 JULY-AUGUST , 1963 WholesaleManager Mills Retires After 42 Years BILLY MILLS, Dairyland wholesale sales manager re­ tired May 24 after 42 years of service with the FVMP A. He joined the Association in 1921 as a route salesman . Pro­ motion s followed to route in­ spector , branch manager , retail and wholesale supervisor and finally to wholesale sales man­ ager in 1945 . Mills was named first man­ ' READY·-~ FOR PAVING whe n this picture was ager of the Kitsilano Branc h an unload ing bunker at left . The retail bu nker when it opened in 1924. taken in late Jul y, roads arou nd t he plant site ex tends from the far end of the wholesa le had bee n sp read with gravel and sand and rol 1- bunker a nd park ing ports are located on either Coming from his native Ire­ ed hard . The wholesale bunker is at right and side of the retail bunker . land in 1920, he became well known in Vancouver during the following decad e as a member of the "Creamos" soccer team DairyWorker's Dream that won several championships. He also played on the "Crea m­ Plant Ends Crowding~ Confusion os" baseba ll team. Landscaping plans are still After years of crowding burse the FVMPA for the build­ BILLY MILL S and confusion at FVMP A being consid ered and a separ­ ing and lease the land on which MORE BLARNEY ate contract will be let for the city plants and depots , the it stands. FOR BELFAST Durin g World War I he was work . a musketry instructor Sergeant There 'll be a lot of new Burnab y plant will Below the plant, beside with the 8th Battalion , Royal seem like something out of Greenwood Street , work on the FVMPALargest in West blarney and some no stal­ Irish Rifles. gic yarns when three long ­ century '21. Dairyland Credit Union Build­ As the largest fluid milk dairy Billy Mills was one of the ing is also speeding toward the time FVMP A employees Retail driver-salesmen who in western Canada , the FV­ founders of the Dairyland Glee August 31 deadline . meet in Belfast , Ireland have been battling city traffic MPA serves more than 80,000 Club and served as its secretary­ The buildin g was designed this summer. to unload and fuel their trucks fluid milk customers, more than treasurer for 22 years . along with the plant and in­ Billy Mills, Sam Gray will be sharing a loading port 2500 wholesale customers and clud ed in the genera l contract. and Jack Alexander - all with just one other truck. employs more than 1000 men The Credit Union will reim - and women. Irish by birth and proud There are 54 such ports, of it - have ar'lfanged where 108 trucks can be load ed their separate European FVMPAReturning in less than 15 minutes. At the tours so that they can get same time, 60 wholesa le trucks together for a day or two ToExhibition can park and be pre-loaded at in Belfast. After an absence of severa l the wholesale bunker. years , the FVMPA is returnin g 1 ½ Miles of Blacktop to the PNE this year. And the Instead of squeezing past Association is going back in a parked cars , drivers at the new Minibarn big way with an elaborate plant will wheel their trucks Dair yland Storybook Farm. freely on nearly 1 ½ miles of On the Road Lo cated on the main mall , blacktop , equiva lent in width to right in the hear t of the fair­ a two-lane highway . ground s, the Far m will feat ure Ice cream drivers will find Until Aug. 16 many young farm anim als, two the same conv enience. They Dairyland Minibarn is on the special animal acts, a model of will load at a large bunker , road again this summer, delight­ the new FVMP A plant and ad­ rather than waiting to line up ing children all over the Lower vertising displa ys. at chut es, as is done at nearly Mainland with its collection of Stars of the special shows are all ice crea m plants. far m animals. Casey the Chicken in "Casey Lift trucks will drive right ALUMINUM FRAMESfor doubl e g lass doors at the ma in en­ The trav elling zoo made its at the Bat " and Delma the trance to the plant are in place and ready for glass , above . inside the cold storage room and first shopping center appear­ Dancing Chicken. The display W orkman is carrying in Hem lock lumber for th e walls of the of young farm anim als will in­ carry stacks of ice cream to the Board Room . ance May 9 and will close up bunker for loading. for the year on August 16. clude a llama, a colt and a lit­ In side the plant, automatic Norma lly the Minibarn would ter of pigs, complete with sow. stackers and conveyors will do be on display until early Sep­ The farm will be und er the away with much of the liftin g tember. This year, howev er, care of Sharon McArthur who and carrying. Sharon McArthur, who runs has run the Dair yland Minib arn the show, will be needed to staff this summer and in 1962. Finishing Touches the Dairyland Storybook F arm During August, general con­ at the PNE. tractors John Lain g and Son Fo llowing is the Minib arn will put the finishing touches schedule for August: 100 Attend on this dairy worker 's dream Aug. 1- Shop Easy, 638 # 3 and they expec t to complete the Road , Richmond. Shannon Picnic job by the end of the month. Aug. 2-Shop Easy, 3745 Mor e than 100 employees A great deal of work re­ Rup ert. and their families turn ed out mains to be done after Laing Aug. 3-S hop Easy , 6515 for the annual Shannon Dairies leaves the site, however, and Main. picnic at White Rock June 30. the plant will not be in full Aug. 8- Shop Easy, 6305 Ther e were sports for the operatio n until late this fall. Frase r. children and entertainment for Althou gh landscaping is not Au g. 9, 10- Shop Easy, the adults and two fine meals includ ed in the general contrac t, 4326 Dunb ar. for everyone. And , best of all, Laing will level area s to be MASONS wer e laying the last concret e bloc ks on the retail Aug. 15, 16- Happy Shop­ the day was without ra in, ex­ planted and spr ead topsoil. bunker a t th e end of July . Each door will se rve two tru cks. per, 1375-E-49th. cept for one shower. A Longer View from the In every company there are a few employees who don't Manager's bother to buy their own products-and in so doing, they short-change themselves . Desk If, for example , FVMP A employees had all bought By L. A. Atkinson elsewhe:·e last year , there would have been something like FVMPA General Manager Due to an anticipated reduc­ $100,000 less in the Association kitty. tion in staff resulting from con­ There wouldn't have been as much money for higher solidation of FVMPA fluid milk wages, improve:! working conditions and benefits . Extras and ice cream operations in the li~e team uniforms and milk and ice cream for picnics new plant, the Association has found it necessary to implement might not have been so freely given. a normal retirement age of 65. Some employees scoff at this thinking . They buy any Al_though the r~tirement plan , brand that is cheap and handy. put mto effect m 1950 , pro­ vided for retirement at 68, pro­ It would pay them to take a longer view. vision was made to postpone retirement s on a year-to-year basis up to a maximum of 70 years, giving older employees time to build up a modest pen­ Some Ammunition sion. To avoid hardship to older Those of us in the dairy industry are often called employees, arrangements have upon by friends and neighbors to defend dairy products been made to 1111 against unproven theories of certain researchers and food a dopt the !Ill earlier retire­ faddists. Here is some ammunition for you on the con­ AC~URACY AND _DETAIL_ characterize t he work of Jerry ment age on troversial cholesterol issue: Lewis. Above, he points out intricate construction of a bui lding a gradual s~pp ly she? he made _. Model railroaders equip their rai lroads J?R. T. C. HUANGof Canton, Ohio warns, "Don't give basis. with anything you might see from a train . up ammal fats; they contain vitamins essential to health . The follow­ Besides, cholesterol from vegetable fats goes to and is ing schedule, which goes in­ stored in the liver. Do you want to die of liver disease or to effect this WhitePass RR Runs heart disease?" he asks. year, is in­ A medical research specialist, he says, "When you tended to cover the transition feed (animals) lots of those unsaturated (vegetable) oils, period with a minimum of ad­ In Jerry'sBasement verse effect to older employees: you see that the liver is as white as can be because of all Why do grown men play with trains? the cholesterol deposit s. With saturated (animal) fats, on (Based on age during 1963) Ask this question of Vancouver Heights driver-sales­ the other hand, cholesterol disperses all through the body." Those reaching 68 or over man JERRYL Ewrs- who plays with trains-and you will will retire at the time of moving to the new plant. get some pretty good answers. the first place , model rail­ Those reaching 67 will retire In and for all those other mysteri­ roaders, as Lewis calls them ChiUiwackPioneer on their 68th birthday . ous numbers trains have on their spend very little time actuall; Those reaching 66 will retire sides. playing with their trains. His on their 68th birthday. No detail is overlooked in­ hobby consist s primarily of cluding the odd broken wi~dow Walker Retires After Those reaching 65 will retire building railroads and all that and ti~y signs on the buildings , on their 67th birthday . goes with them. proclaiming: "Post No Bills " Those reaching 64 will retire For the puri st, this means 36 Years at Pacific " N o Tre spassing" or "Kelly for' on their 66th birthday. building almost everything - Mayor. " Retirement March 28 brought to an end CHARLIE Those reaching 63 will retire train cars of all kinds, loco ­ Authentic Railroad WALKER'S36 years with the Pacific Milk Division. on their 65th birthday . motives, track , trestles, tunnels , Jerry Lewis ' ultimate goal is He went to work at the station buildings , water towers , Employees below 63 will re­ a working authentic unit, com­ Abbotsford Plant as an evapor­ oil refineries , in fact almost any­ tire at 65 . plete with a running schedule ator operator in 1927, three thing you might see from the It is suggested that employ­ and specially printed certificate years after Pacific had been window of a train . ees in the above categories give of incorporation . purchas ed by the FVMP A. some consideration to their re­ Own Landscaping Every week , the year round , Charlie 's association with Pa­ tirement plans. Any employee Lewis joins four other model cific actually date s back to Even the model railroader who wishes to retire earlier railroaders for what he calls 1919 when he worked in the like Jerry Lewis, who doesn 't than 65 may do so and arrange­ "work meetings. " The meetings plant warehouse. At that time, build everything , assembles his ments will be made. are held at each member 's house Pacific was owned by the Pa­ trains and buildings from kits Those retiring between 65 in rotation and all the visiting cific Milk Company. ~nd does all his own landscap­ and 70 have the option of in­ members help the host member Of his three years of ware­ mg. Some buildin gs he con­ cluding their Old Age Pension build his railroad . housing, he recall s: "We had to structs himself , without a kit. with benefits under the FVM­ Each member has his own work much harder than we do Rather than choose their PA plan . This would increase p_rototype railroad and, hypothe ­ today - and this was becau se mode ls at random, many rail­ total pension benefits up to age tically , they are linked up and they did everything the hard roaders adopt a real railroad as 70 and reduce them thereafter. freight can be moved from one way." Employees who would like their prototype and follow it Charlie Walke r lived in the rigidly in constructing their line to another - at least on calculation s of combined bene ­ paper. Chilliwack area nearly long railroads. fits should contact Miss Margot It is unlikely that Jerry Lewis enough to call him self a pion­ Burge ss of William M. Mercer Jerry Lewis ha s set out to eer. He arrived there as a small duplicate the White Pas s and will be moving much freight CHARL IE W AL KER Ltd ., the FVMPA pension con­ though. Like many model rail­ boy in 1898 when his parent s sultants . Phon e number is MU Yukon Line as it appeared in Prairie and draining Sumas ers, he rarely plays with trains moved from Saskatchewan. 3-7551. the years between 1900 and Lake, now one of the mo st fer­ 1930 . When completed after at all. He just builds them, and As a construction worker, he In view of this change in took part in dykin g Sumas tile areas of the Fraser Valley. three-to-five years of steady rebuilds them - because this policy , options already taken by work, the model will look very is the real fun of model rail­ employees under the retirement much like the real thing. roading. plan can be reviewed and To achieve this kind of ac­ changed , if you wish. f/~ //JJ/e_y,iffli lk jSreak curacy, Lewis ha s gathered to­ gether and organized three fat Marg Top Student Publi shed bi-m01_1thlyfor the information of the employees of the looseleaf binders of data on the Margaret Craig, 16-year -old Fra ser Valley Milk Produ cers' Association by the Public Relation s White Pa ss and Yukon . daughte r of Pacific Milk Plant Department. Four Promoted Assistant Superintendent Bob Four driver-salesmen have Aged with Dyes J. L. GRAY, Public Relations Manager Craig was the top student in been promoted to route fore­ All his train cars and build­ Mission High School this year. M. D. POOLE, Editor men in recent months. ings are skillfully "aged" with She was awarded a pin for . CORRESPOND ENT S Wilf Graham and Harold special dyes that make them heading up the grade 10 class Wolf Graham, New Westminster; Bob Hind Hane · E I c 11 · · AvenueWhol esale; Noel Layfield, Shannon;'Roy L~\y !~d F~~~ok•Hjn annc~u~erd He.'gNhts; J,m Kerr, Eighth Hughes became route foremen look weathered and streaked and will have her name en­ Avenue; CourtenayMonk Kitsi lano· Ruth Morri O E. hth a., ar ,s, orm Mcinnes, Eighth Retail; Ben Donald, Dairyland, Sardis; Dave T:o~'pso~g Pairi~nu~.1iffpcr /a:r Ruddy,_ Eighth Avenue with soot. graved on a perpetual shield for Stan Wilson, North Vancouver'. an ' urt w,ers,ng, Arct,c and at New Westminster and R. Fleming and E. Demerse were Lewis uses decals for the the highest scholastic average Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Dept., Ottawa, and to r payment o postage ·,n cash. 1 named route foremen at Sardis . railroad's insignia on the cars among the school' s 500 students . FVMPAEMPLOYEES' PICNICAT MAPLE GROVE

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Soulful but content, Josie , daughter of Balloons, balls, ice cream , milk and plenty of food brought smiles to the Teeter-totters, swings and a wading pool Eighth Avenue's Joe Jessup, sips choc­ faces of the Felix Godard family, except for baby Godard, who was too kept bright-eyed youn gsters happy like olate drink . young for the fun . Felix works at Eighth Avenue . this young lady .

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The picn ic was literally a bowl of cherries for these Ray Bush of Eighth Avenue sat down to an elaborate Barbara Miske, Sandra Hosie and Sandy Miske dig two gir ls. They were among several hundred at dinner with his family and friends . Most picnickers into chicken dinner . They came as guests of Jim Maple Grove Park . brought their dinner. Stouse.

Christine Lear waves to passers-by Little Carolyn Forrest, daughter of A young ship's carpenter repairs the Erin McPherson rides while Pat Gode from her perch atop father Roy Lear's Terry Forrest of Kitsilano Branch , finds storm's damage and prepares to set pushes . Erin's father, Freddy McPher­ chest . He works at Eighth Avenue . the afternoon sun too bright . sai l again . son works at Eighth Avenue .

,'tl \.( / Pat Condon, daughter of Haney Branch Manager Al Lightbody, his wife and daughter joined with Cliff Shy Lynda Cooper feels more secure about the Percy Condon, shows off her pooch . Al I branches Akins and family for a picnic dinner . Both men work at camera with mother close by. She is the daughter of were represented at the picnic . Eighth Avenue . Bob Cooper of Eighth Avenue wholesale . Art InnesEnds Varied DairyIndustry Career ART INNES retired June 30, one of the best-travelled men in the local dairy industry. He worked for four differ­ ent companies in a half dozen or more plants during his 44 years in the industry . He began as a buttermaker with Central Creameries in Cal­ gary in 1919 and remained there until 1936 when he trans­ ferred to Vancouver as plant superintendent f o r U n i t e d Dairies. In 1946 Art became plant superintendent of S h a n n on Dairies and in 19 51 he joined Doug Hoy at Royal City Dairy . Doug is currently superintend­ ent of the Shannon Plant. Art became an employee of the FVMPA in 1958 when the Association bought Royal City Dairy. He was then transferred to the Arctic Plant as head 1930 HUPMOBILE restored by Gil Rumley run for several months . This is the sixth car he checker. star ted instantly when it was taken out of has rescued from the scrap heap and he pres­ Now caretaker of a Vancou­ ently has three Model-T Fords in the works . storage for this photo. Its motor had not been ver apartment block, Art and ART INNES his wife Dorothy are planning next year. It will be his first RevitalizedJunk a trip to the United Kingdom visit since 1919 . Rumley Gives Life to Old Cars BONES BREAK, TENDONS As a restorer of old cars, seat at the back, open to all the don't sit and gather dust. He drives them in parades and SNAP AND SARDIS WINS GIL RUMLEY comes pretty dirty weather. Gil requires one to two years takes them on "runs" organized Sardis softball team had compiled a record of close to disproving the say­ to restore an old car and he by the B.C. Classic Car Club, five wins, four losses and two major casualties by of which he is a member. All ing that you can't make a proceeds as follows: mid-July. silk purse from a sow's ear. First, he takes the entire car cars in the Classic Club must be 1932 models or older. Fred Franks got into rough ground chasing a Since 1946 he has trans­ apart and removes all rust, Not Worth Restoring fly ball and tore an achilles tendon . After surgery, formed six cars that should have mainly with sandpaper and The 1932 limit wiil not like­ died of old age into smooth­ sweat. All exposed metal is then his leg was wrapped in a hip-to-ankle cast he will ly move ahead much, Gil says. running, immaculate automo­ given a coat of rust preventa­ He claims modern cars are wear for two months. biles in original condition. tive paint. made of such poor materials Chuck Wiens is also wearing a cast. His is for Gil, who is assistant sales Makes Replacements they will not last long enough manager with the Arctic Divi­ a broken ankle, suffered while playing for the Many old cars have a lot of to become antiques and will sion, has revived a 1929 Model­ team. wooden parts and these are of­ never be worth restoring. A Ford , a 1928 Chevrolet, a ten rotten. Gil fashions replace­ On the other hand, he says, 1929 Pontiac , a 1931 Chevrolet , ments by hand and even re­ a 50-year-old car restored to­ a 1929 Buick and, most recent­ pairs some of the old wheels day will last another 50 years . years and he left Vancouver ly, a 1930 Hupmobile. with wooden spokes. Meanwhile, Gil is tracking June 27 for a second visit. Right now he is at work on Next he puts the motor into down parts to ready his 1912 Although Jack Alexander a 1912 Model-T Ford Roadster perfect running order and then Model-T for its second 50 years. has left the FVMP A, the fam­ and has 1915 and 1914 Model­ goes over the body, pounding "A set of brass headlamps for a ily is still represented by his T's waiting their turn . out dents and filling rusted-out Model-T would be gratefully re­ son Gordon who works at spots. Dirty Weather ceived, " he says. Eighth Avenue . By this stage, Gil knows what One feature of the 1912 parts cannot be repaired and he Model - T that Gil is particu­ begins the sometimes difficult larly fond of is the mother-in­ task of finding replacements. FVMPA Teams law seat . This , he explains with DanceTops Cottage Some of these he gets through Top and Bottom a chuckle, is a bucket-type advertisements in an interna­ FVMP A teams are holding CheeseSales Contest tional magazine for anti que car down first and last place in the Dairyland salesmen s o 1 d hobbyists . Others he scrounges new Dairy Softball League. nearly 26 tons of cottage from junk yards, garages and With only two losses, Dairy­ cheese during the spring cottage basements. What he can't find, land is in first place and Shan­ cheese sales competition. he makes himself or pays some­ non, still looking for its first Top salesman was J. A. one else to make. win, is at the bottom of the Dance of Eighth Avenue, with Any Part Available heap. JACK ALEXANDER 1602 pounds. He made $80.20 Any part for any car is In second place is a team in extra earnings and was available somewhere he says. from New Haven Institute and awarded $10 for highest sales in Rubber companies make tires Martin Paper Box is third. AlexanderSteps any branch. in old sizes just for people like Leading salesmen in other Gil and there are companies branches were W. P. Lemp of that make nothing else but parts Downat KitsilanoNorth Vancouver, 851 pounds; for old cars. JACK ALEXANDER,who C. B. Coobes, of Vancouver Many parts, such as the hand­ retired in June, must have Heights, 797 pounds; R. E. made fenders for his 1912 liked the people and his Hoy, Kitsilano, 792 pounds; N. Model-T, he acquires by ex­ work at Kitsilano Branch. G. Webster, New Westminster, change. For the fenders (and Beginning with the FVMP A 751 pounds; A. N. Skelton, other considerations), he traded in 1938, Jack spent all of the Haney, 559 pounds, and G. away his newly-restored Hup­ succeeding 25 years at the Kit­ Bartles, Sardis, 363 pounds. mobile. silano Branch. When he has collected all the parts , Gil puts the car back to­ Born in Northern Ireland , he came to Winnipeg in 1913 and Dr. Devlin Elected gether, refin ishes the interior }lt~~ and upholsters the seats with to Vancouver in 1918, where Dr. Ken Devlin has been leatherette or nylon fabric, in­ r)'\"'>l "'"-· he has lived ever since. elected chairman of the B.C. stead of the original leather. "It says, 'Not for weighing Last year he returned to Ire­ Chapter of the Institute of Once finished, Gil's cars cattle, hogs, or horses'." land for the first time in 43 Food Technologists. Published bi-monthlyfor the employeesof ilk reakthe Fraser Vall ey MilkProducers' Association

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 5 ~ 2 9 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1963 New Plant Move Underway NeilGray Officeand Deliveries Stay Namedto New Closeto NormalSchedules The FVMP A has completed the first stages of its big­ FVMPAPost gest move in 46 years. And it has been done without miss­ FVMP A General Manager ing a single working day. L. A. ATKINSONhas announced On Friday, October 4, the Association 's general office put and records from Eighth Ave­ the appointment of NEIL T. nue to the new plant . GRAYas marketing manager for in a normal day in the old plant and on the following Monday Using two long-distance fur­ the Association . niture vans and four smaller He will direct the operations it was again business as usual­ this time in the new plant. local vans, 16 Johnston men of the Dairyland fluid milk , Pa­ moved 18,000 cubic feet of the cific concentrated milk and To make this possible, many Association 's worldly posses- Arctic Ice Cream sales divi­ employee s gave up all or part sions. sions. of their weekend to put the new About 550 container s were His association with the FV­ office in order. Much of the used for packing and 10 load s MP A began in 1940 . He has planning and coordination (and were required to haul everything been a laboratory technician , a lot of the hard work) for the to the new plant . bacteriologist and chief bac­ move came from Fred Duck In addition , the sensitive IBM teriologist. and Ian Strang. equipment was transported on From 1957 to 1960 he was On the Friday afternoon , two flat-bed truck s and man­ B.C. sales representativ e for Johnston Nation al Storage Ltd . oeuvered into a special IBM the Creamery Package Manu ­ began moving a mountain of room adjacent to the general of­ facturing Company . furniture , materials, equipment fice by six skilled mover s. Retail Move Complex Transferring the wholesale other cars to Eighth A venue. TAKING A BREAT HER, Fred Duck and Ian Strang, like many delivery operation to the new There they checked out their ot her employees, worked long hours to move the genera l office plant from Eighth A venue and trucks , made their deliveries and in one wee ken d. Duc k and Strong ployed a large port in plan­ the branches was simplified by checked back in to the new ning a nd coo rd inati ng t he mov e and havi ng th e office ready the fact that there are normally plant, where their cars were for a ne a r-norma l day on the Monday following the move . no wholesale deliveries on Sun­ waiting. day . The wholesale move was Following the same plan , completed in one day, October Vancouver Heights and Kitsi ­ 6. lano branches moved on Octo­ OKANAGAN APPLE JUICE Moving retail delivery from ber 10, North Vancouver on Eighth A venue and the branch ­ October 15 and New Westmin­ es was more complex , however, ster on October 17. ARRIVES BY TANK TRUCK and had to be spread over 12 Although well planned , the The first shipment of fresh Okanagan apple juice from days. Dairyland move could not have this year's big crop arrived in Vancouver a few weeks ago. First retail operation to move come off so smoothly without Sixteen thousand quarts of freshly squeezed juice was car­ was Eighth A venue on October the "wonderful enthus iasm and 6. The drivers brought their cooperation of all the men in­ N EIL GRAY ried here in a stainless steel tank truck. cars to the new plant in the volved ," Dairyl and manage­ morning and were driven in ment said. Neil Gray has been manager Once again , the B.C. lower mainland became the only of the FVMPA subsidiary , place in the world where fresh, single strength (not re­ Shannon Dairies since 1960. constituted) apple juice in waxed cartons is delivered to Some Extended Moves the home by milkmen. Unlike the retail and whole­ not move until later. sale operations, there are sev­ A similar program is bein g NewJobs for Bob eral departments that have to be followed by Eighth A venu e Bob Cooper of Dairyland W ELL OVER 100 CARS near­ moved in stages , and some of garage , workshop, stockroom wholesale stepped into two new CreditUnion Meets ly f illed the main parking lot these extended moves have al­ and laboratory . Each has left jobs last month . He was pro­ An open board meeting of on the first doy of work in the ready begun. behind facilities still required moted to route foreman and al­ the Dairyland Credit Union new plant . Parking space to The Shannon Dairie s general for receiving, processing and so became "Milk Break" cor­ will be held at 8 p .m. October be developed at the ends of accounting office, for example , shippin g milk in the old plant . respondent for the wholesale 18 in the Odd Fellows Hall , moved October 10, but Shan­ Right now , the production drivers. Chilliwack . the present parking lot will be needed later . non production and sales will (Continu ed on Page 3) major suppliers requesting that, From the in their new hirings, considera­ NoelWants Still Hard to Beat tion be given to those of our With all the modern advances in techniques of sales­ Manager's employees to be laid off. The manship and promotion, personal contact through an response to this request has Rodand Gun been excellent and a number obliging salesman is still pretty hard to beat. Desk have obtained new positions Testimonial to this fact was given recently by a Van­ By L. A. Atkinson and more will follow. ClubMe ,mbers couver woman who had moved to Toronto. In a letter to FVMPA General Manager NOELLAYFIELD of Shan­ Temporary Employees non Dairies is looking for Dairyland, she wrote: As previously intimated, and This latter arrangement has "I would like to say how much I have appreciated the as I am sure everyone is aware, not been without inconvenience employees interested in courtesy, cheerfulness and excellent service shown by Bob. the consolidation of our fluid to our operation, since some forming an FVMP A Rod milk and ice cream operations He was our milkman for a number of years and was always temporary employees have had and Gun Club. in the new plant, will bring to be hired to fill in until the so friendly and obliging. about some reduction in staff He has contacted the B.C. actual plant move . However, Federation of Fish and Game "He also is a most excellent representative for Dairy­ in our production department. we are glad to put up with this Over all the Clubs and the Federation's Sec­ land. I started out buying only milk, and soon BoB had inconvenience if it means ob­ retary-Manager, Ed Meade has many years taining steady jobs for our men. us getting Creamo, butter , juice and, of course, cottage of operation , offered to attend an organiza­ cheese-like crazy! I think it is Each employee likely to be tion meeting. laid off has already been given "Please convey to BoB our real appreciation of his safe to say Main reason for forming a that the FV ­ a two to three-month notice club, Layfield says, is to take courtesy and service." MPA has act­ and will receive the usual seven advantage of privileges and (Signed) MRS. M. E. WITHAM ed fairly and day notice before the actual lay services open only to Rod and The salesman who earned this justly-deserved praise justly with off. Gun Club members. These include liability insur­ was BoB BLACKWELL. its employees. Waiting List This has been ance, junior firearms safety in­ Layoffs, of course, will be on the guiding principle affecting struction, monthly fish and a seniority basis. Employees all decisions with respect to lay­ game reports, access to fishing laid-off will have the option of offs and retirements in the pres­ and hunting areas over private being listed on a waiting list for ent circumstances. logging roads, derbies and tur­ It's Yours - Use It! possible re-employment, as ex­ key shoots and use of club faci­ First of all, there is the mat­ tra staff is needed . lities . The cafeteria in the new plant will give employees a ter of the elimination of post­ From the foregoing explana­ Cost to the member is less long-awaited opportunity to escape the cold bag lunch and poned retirement beyond the tion , I feel it will be apparent than $5 per year. age of 65 years, the limit set the crowding of the corner lunch counter. that no effort on the part of Those interested should send down in our pension plan. Dur­ Industrial Catering Limited will provide a good selec­ the Association has been spared their name, plant and depart­ ing recent years it has been pos­ to make the best possible ar­ ment to Noel Layfield at Shan­ tion of sandwiches, salads and hot meals, all of the same sible to extend to employees in rangements for all those con­ non Dairies, Annacis Island, or consistently high quality and very reasonably priced. This good health a postponement cerned. phone him at LA 6-7815 . cannot be done, however, without your support. from year to year , up to a maxi­ The cafeteria is open to any FVMP A employee. It is mum of age 70. This is no longer possible and in the in­ your cafeteria-make good use of it. terest of fairness a scheme of graduated retirement has been RICHM O ND BOY WIN S worked out. Retirement Scheme C-UNION SCHOLARSHIP In 36 Years This scheme was described JAMESBRENNAN JR. of 818 Lurgan Road, Rich­ in a previous issue of "Milk mond has won the $200 Dairyland Credit Union Break" and all employe es af­ Marriott Never Lost fected were notified by lette r Scholarship with a 7 4 per cent grade 13 average at giving the details . In substance , Richmond High School. A Day Due to Illness the plan provided for retire­ The 19-year-old son of MR. and MRs. JAMES Traffic inspector PERCYMARRIOTT retired October 6 ment of all empl oyees of 68 BRENNAN,he began an electrical engineering course with a long and enviable record to his credit. He had years and over at the time of moving into the new plant , one at the University of B.C. in September. worked 36 years in the local dairy industry-32 with the year 's notice to those of 67 Young Brennan's name was entered for the FVMP A- and had never missed a day through sickness. years and two years notice for scholarship by JAMES THOMSON, recently retired H e arrived on the local dairy those 66 down to 63 years . FVMPA production department employee and Credit scene with Fraser Valley Provision was also made for Dairies in 1927 , after coming increasing pension benefits by Union member. from eastern Canada . He be­ a consolidation of those bene­ Begun in 1960, the Credit Union's scholarship came an FVMP A employe e in fits under the FVMP A retire ­ program has not been made an annual award. It is 1931 with the formation of As­ ment plan with those avail able reviewed by a scholarship committee each year. sociated Dairi es. under the pr esent Fe deral old Beginning as a retail driver­ age pension. salesman, he moved up to re­ lief man, retail route inspector Other Provisions and finally to traffic inspector. For those employees to be Originally from Nottin gham, laid off, who are too young to FVMPABursary Winners England , Percy came to Can ­ come und er the retirem ent plan, ada in 1911 and saw much of several other provision s have the count ry while working on been mad e. The most impo rt­ the railroads, on farms, in ant of these is that made under mines and in the woods. the clause in the union agree ­ Percy is an ardent golfer and ments for layoffs and severance has played many times in the pay, the details of which are B.C . Senior s' tournament. In available in your copy of the 1942 he won the Associat ed PERCY MARRIOTT variou s union agree ment s. Dairies Tournam ent. Not cont ained specifically in He was one of the original Club and sang with the group the Union Agreements , is the members of the Dairyland Glee for a numb~r of years. opportunity for those produc ­ tion employees , likely to be laid off, to apply for positions in the sales department. All va­ cancies in sales are posted in the produ ction departm ent and Publish ed bi-monthly for the information of the employees of the pr eference in hiring is being Fraser Valley Milk Producers ' Association by the Publi c Relations given to our pres ent employees. Department. Several men from production WALTER J. PETERS SUSAN BENTLEY J. L. GRAY, Public Relations Manager have already been placed in the sales force. M. D. POOLE, Editor Walter J. Peters of Abbot s­ Winn er of the FVMPA $300 A fur ther opp ortunit y for re­ ford has been awarded the FV­ Entranc e Burs ary in Agricul­ Namesof Milk Breakcorrespondents are omitted from this issue,pending re -organization followingthe move to thenew plant. emplo yment is being provid ed MPA $500 Bursary in Dairy tur e at the Univ ersity of B.C . Copies of pictures in Fraser Vall ey Milk Break are available to employees upon request from the through the court esy of our Technolo gy at the Univ ersity of is Susan Bentley of North Van­ Public Relati ons Department. suppli ers. Sometime ago, let­ B.C. He is a fourth year U.B .C. couver. She entered UBC thi s Authorized as second class mail by the Post Off ice Dept., Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. ters were sent to all of our stud ent. fall . ..

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• WHAT TO KEEPand what to toke is the prob lem facing Anne Cyr, sor ting records at Eighth Avenue .

VISITORSto the ne w plant are met by the Association's nam e, spelled out in bronze at the front entrance .

SUCCESSFULTEST RUNS ove r, Ron Montie who was piloting the craft when it crashed at poses with his home-made autogiro at Chilli ­ Delta Air Show, after the sma ller driving pro ­ wack airport . At the controls is John Edmeston pel ler behind him sudden ly disintegrated. TemporarilyGrounded Montie Builds His Own Plane At least for a while, RoN tion of wings on a conventional Ron says, "but I was able to plane. build it myself with material MONTIEhas to keep his feet BRINGING ORDER out of chaos in the checker's office ore "You can buy the complete costing arou nd $500 ." Harold Pegg, George McCartney and Earl Gatley. on the ground like the rest machine for about $3000," Pilot Edmeston has taken .. of us . the craft to an altitud e of about A maintenan ce employee at 500 feet, but did not push it the Sardis Utility Plant, Ron close to its top speed of about built himself a 72 h.p. flying 80 mph. machine , called an autogiro , Cruises at 45 and succeeded in having it The autogiro cruises effec­ passed as air-worthy by the De­ tively at 45 mph and gasoline partment of Transport. consumption is suppo sed to be It performed like a veteran about four gallon an hour, al­ .. in test flights this summ er and though Ron has found it uses just when Ron thou ght all the less than this. kink s were out , the 490 -pound The rat e of climb is said to .. craft broke a propeller and be about 1000 feet per min­ FIRST TO USE the new ca feter ia were Ron Booth, Fred crashed at the Delta Air Show. ute , with a ceiling somewhere Dougharty, Ed McCann and Lloyd Kinchen. They all work on around 10,000 to 12,000 feet . Pilot John Edmeston was not the shipping platform at the new plant . Th e cockpit is open to the injured , but the auto giro was weather , however, and Ron heavily damaged. Ron wasn't agrees it would be definit ely at the control s because he chilly at these altitud es. doesn't have a pilot' s license yet . FORD BURROWS Move ,-Continu ed • Might Re-build Now he is trying to modify BurrowsAdds department , still at Eighth Ave ­ the engine to avoid a recur ­ nue, holds the key to compl et­ rence of the crash. If success­ ing the move. When it moves­ ful, he will re-build the auto ­ Dashof Color and this depend s on sewing up giro. Rout e fo r em an F ORD loose ends at the new plant­ the other departm ents at E ighth He built the original ma­ BURROWSadded a dash of A venue can close up shop ther e chine from plans supplied by color to the first day of for good. an American firm with parts Arctic Ice Cr eam is in much CONVEYOR SYSTEM tokes milk to men waiting along the from machin e shop s and junk work at the new plant. the same position, with th e wholesa le bunk er. Dai ry land whole sale op eration moved Oct ­ yard s around Chilliw ack. Ford brought two baskets move awaiting finishing tou ches ober 6 and wa s fo llowed by reta il sa les . He bou ght the mot or and and two vases filled with pr ize­ on ice cream production, stor­ prop eller and assembled the winnin g dahlias and chry san­ age and shippin g facilities at overh ead rotor from a kit. themums from his garden in the new plant . Although the machine re­ South Burn aby. They look ed Even when the move is com­ semble s a small helicopter , the good enou gh for a flower show plete, ther e will be a big job for • engine drives only the small - and they were. someone to do at E ighth Ave­ prop eller behind the pilot and Althou gh he has been grow­ nue. Stored in the old vault are thru sts the machin e forward. ing dahlias for only two years, thousands of records accumu ­ The rotor s are turn ed only by Fo rd has won 42 prizes with lated over the 46 years th e air and they perform the func- his flowers, includin g 12 at this FVMP A has been in bu siness. year's PNE. Althou gh most of th ese can He ha s about 100 dahlia be thrown away, there are some KanellesPromoted . plants and 67 var ieties, but things of grea t historical signifi­ Mike Kanelles has been pro ­ thi s is not enou gh, he says. For cance to the Ass ociation th at moted to ro ute for eman at Arc­ show purposes, he plans to will be sorted out and kept. tic Ice Cream, rep lacing Jim double the numb er of plants And by th at time, No rth Rorke who has moved to th e and nearly doubl e his varieties Am erica's most modern dairy SETTING UP SHOP in t he Engineering Deportment 's second U .S. next year. plant will be runnin g wide open. floor q ua rt e rs ar e Jim Byres and Bill Swarbrick. StaffFund Also Funston Changes in Store EndsLong For L-M Committees The Fraser Valley Staff and Welfare Fund is being Service expanded and the Labor-Management Committees are Retirement August 31 being re-organized as a result of the move to the new plant. NEARING COMPLETION when this picture was taken in ended 43 years of service September, the Dairyland Credit Union office building will Representatives of all staff, There will be 24 members ope n for business October 18. The Credit Union's first office with the FVMP A for SAM welfare and social clubs met on the committee, 12 from re­ was a desk drawer . FUNSTON. September 10 and heard a pro­ tail and 12 representing whole­ He began work in 1920 with posal to incorporate separate sale. Each half of the commit­ funds at New Westminster and Fraser Valley Dairie s, hauling tee will be composed of four milk to Eighth Avenue from the North Vancouver branches , route salesmen, two relief sales­ Credit Union Shannon Dairies and Arctic B.C . Electric, C.P.R. and men, three route foremen, two C.N.R. depots. Ice Cream into the Fraser Val­ route supervisors and one man­ ley Fund. Sam recalls driving Packard ager or operations supervisor. Finds a Home and Federa l trucks with open Officers of the four separate Employees formerly at Eighth funds attended the meeting and cabs and solid rubber tires. Avenue will have two route After 20 years of makeshift quarters and crowded These trucks gave a cool ride took the proposal back to their salesmen representatives and membership for consideration . offices, the Dair yland Credit Union has a home of its own. in winter and a rough ride year each of the city branches, one. round, he says. They will report back to a Meetings will be on the third The Credit Union moves into second meeting this month. Wednesday of the month, with a new $25,000 building this He took the first load of milk month, adjacent to the new to New Westminster and Kit­ Social Clubs the first meeting set for No­ vember 20 at 7 p.m . at the new plant-a building which cul­ silano branches when they While the Fraser Valley minates the Union's spectacu­ plant. opened. Fund is operated strictly for lar growth. charity and to provide gifts for This success story began in employees under specific cir­ 1943, when 10 FVMPA em­ cumstances, the separate funds ployees put together a total of in branches and other plants Webster $20 and founded the Credit served also as social clubs. Union. The first office was a Under the scheme now be­ drawer in the desk of part-time ing considered , the Fraser Val­ on Famed treasurer Rip Robinson's desk. ley Fund would remain un­ Today, the Credit Union changed and a separate social U.S. Team boasts 948 members and assets fund or funds could be set up of $801,000. later. MIKE WEBSTER,19 -year­ Moved into Shack The Fraser Valley Fund, old son of Eighth A venue which includes employees at When the Credit Union out­ Haney and those formerly at route supervisor CHARLIE grew its desk drawer office, it Eighth Avenue and Vancouver WEBSTER,has won a posi­ moved into a shack on the Heights and Kitsilano branches , tion on the Notre Dame SYLVIA-DAWN SMITH parking lot next to the paint has offered to create positions University football team. shop on Cambie Street. After much soul-searching on its executive board for repre­ A six-foot two-inch ,, 255- sentatives of the separate funds . and some misgivings, the Credit pound tackle, Mike won a SingingStardom Meanwhile, arrangements are Union moved into its Bro ad­ scholarship to the South Bend , all but complete for reorganiz­ way office and eventua lly Ind. college last year and star­ SAM FUNSTON ing the Labor Management ForSmith Girl? bought the office building. This red on the freshman team. Committees at Eighth Avenue, Sylvia-Dawn Smith of building will now have to be Born in Northern Ireland, he sold because of laws limitin g emigra ted to Kingston 11 Ont. in Kitsilano, North Vancouver, One of Two Sophomores Abbotsford entered the New Westminster and Vancou­ In September he moved up Credit Union investments . 1913 and went back overseas ver Heights. to the right tackle position on University of B.C. last Treasurer-Manager Cy Jones from 1915 to 1919 to serve in and Assistant Treasurer Gor­ the War. A New Committee the varsity team. A bad ankle month and began a teach er­ sprain put him temporarily out don Aasen expect to move to Sam Funston has no specific In their place, a single com­ training course which she of action , but he came back their new building October 17 retirement plans other than de­ mittee has been formed with hopes will pay her way strongly and mad e the team. He and to be open for business voting more time to his garden­ two parts, one representing re­ is one of only two sophomor es to a professional singing October 18. ing and square dancing hobbies. tail employees and the other on the team. career. wholesale. The two halves of The 19-year-old daughter of this committee will meet separ­ Mrs. Dorothy Smith, who works ately but on the same night, so Hot Meals, Low Prices in the office of the Pacific Milk that the whole committee can Plant , Sylvia-Dawn will be­ be brought together to discuss Planned for Cafeteria come an elementary school matters of interest to both . teacher to pay for further sing­ Employees at the new plant will be able to buy a hot ing lessons. meal in the staff cafeteria for about 50 cents. Although Sylvia-Dawn has Caterers, Industrial Catering SAMPLE 3: Baked ham been takin g piano lessons for Limite d, will prepare the food with pineapple sauce, whipped more than l O years, she began at a central kitchen and bring it potatoes, butt ered green beans, singing only three years ago to the plant ready to serve. roll and butter (50 cents). with a Job's Daughters choir. A typical week's menu will SAMPLE 4: Steak and kid- Since then ,, there has been a be: ney pie, parsley boiled potatoes, stead ily increasing demand for SAMPLE 1 : Ro ast beef with buttered sliced beets, roll and her vocal talents in and around horseradish, parsley boiled po- butter ( 45 cents). Abbotsford. tatoes, green peas, roll and but- SAMPLE 5: Grilled salmon The youn g mezzo-soprano ter (55 cents). became soloist in the Abbots­ steak with lemon, baked pota­ SAMPLE 2: Baked sausage ford Christian Science Church toes, creamed celery,. roll and and sang at many weddings and in pastry rolls, whipped pota­ butter (50 cents). toes, green beans, roll and but­ A wide variety of juices, MIKE WEBSTER funerals. She also appeared in the Abbotsford Senior Second­ ter (45 cents) . deserts, sandw iches and pastrie s Thi s fall he will be playin g ary School production of Gil­ will be availab le daily at low against some of the top teams bert and Sullivan 's "Pirates of prices. Coffee will be sold at in U.S. college footba ll, includ ­ Penzance. " cost and milk, plain and choco ­ ing Syracuse University in a In June she completed grade late, will be free. game to be played at Yankee six voice lessons and passed the The menu will be restricted Stadium. final exam ination with first to milk, coffee and sandw iches Despite his success on the class honors. until all cafeteria equ ipment is footba ll field, Mike 's first in­ If Sylvia-Dawn does make installed, probably before the terest is still in gettin g an edu­ the grade professionally, she end of October . cation- and he is maintainin g wants to work in opera or oper­ The cafeteria will seat about a good B average at Notre etta where she can comb ine 100 persons and is open to · Dame . singing and acting. IJ any FVMPA employee. Publishedbi-monthly for the employeesof tlk reakthe Fraser Valley Milk Producers ' Association

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 6 ~29 NOVEMB ER-DECEMBER, 1963 LivelyCareer Ends ForArctic Plant Plant Had Several Owners And Many Different Brands After a long and varied career on the local dairy scene, the Arc tic Ice Cream plant closed its doors November 15. The plant was shut down to move the Arctic Division to the During the 1930's, the FVM­ new Burnaby plant . PA opera ted the plant jointly Owned by several companies, with its partners in the As­ the plant processed milk, but­ sociated Dairi es. ter and any numb er of different Sometime during the late brand s of ice cream during the 1930's or early 1940's the FV­ more than 40 years it was in MPA acquired the Arctic brand operation. name and in 1944 Arctic be­ Before 1923 the Arctic plant came a full-fledged division of the Associa tion. CREDIT UNION officers and members went Rip Robinson, mana ger of B.C. Central CU, processed milk, butter and ice to Chilliwack October 18 for a meeting with Da iryland CU boa rd member Peter Wilson cream for four or five different Many Times Output CU members from the FVMPA's Valley plants . and, stand ing, Da iryland Sales Manager G. W. companies. The FVMPA 's Fras­ Before closing up last month , Above are Dairyland CU Pre sident Reg Cockle , Ramsell and Cy Jones of Dairyland CU . er Valley ice cream was made the Arctic plant had been pro­ there , as was Arctic ice cream, ducing at a rate of more than althoug h Arctic was not to be­ 750 ,000 gallons a year-many SomeUndecided come an FVMPA brand until times the output the plant was many years later. built to handle . In 1923 the Assoc iation took Millions of gallons of ice S-W Fund Enrollment Lagging over sole operation of the plant , cream came from the plant over the years and shutdowns were Efforts to enroll employ­ have not joined . Anyone wish­ branches and at Arctic . but continued to process ice cream for several other compan­ rare . Even when fire razed part ees at the new plant in the ing to enroll may obtain pledge Officers of the social club at cards from the Payroll Office Shannon Dairies say they are ies. It was not until 1926 that of the second floor and roof in ... FVMP A Staff and Welfare or from Ralph Ruddy. interested in forming a new the plant processed its last milk October , 1958 , only two days Fund have met with only Meanwhi le, it appears un­ Fraser Va lley club that would and butter. were lost. partial success. likely that anything will be done be open to any FVMP A em­ Consolidation of staff and before the end of the year to ployee. welfare funds from New West­ reorganize a social club or clubs It is expected that a meeting Operating Here Soon minster and North Vancouver to replace those disbanded at of those interested in forming Soon after the plant closed, plant December 7 and until branc hes and Shannon Dairies New Westminster, North Van­ a new club or clubs will be held movers began trucking equ ip­ then shipments are being made und er the FVMP A Fund was couver and Vancouver Heights early in January. ment from Arctic to the new from the old Arctic plant. proposed at a meeting in Sep­ plant and they had comp leted Only enough cold storage ,. tember. the move after about two weeks . space has been kept there to Representatives of these sep­ Much of this equipment was handle day-to-day needs, while arate funds explained the scheme PACIFIC PLANT CLOSES bought in recent years with the reserve stocks are being held in to their members and reported back to another meeting in mid­ FOR ANNUAL OVERHAUL new plant in mind . rent ed storage space. October. 800 Revels an Hour Until Arct ic is in the new • About 80 per cent of the The Pacific Milk Plant shut down November Only major piece of new plant, the production staff is North Vancouver staff had 16 for its annual overhaul. It will be back in opera­ equipment is a Vitaline novelty working at D airyland or Shan­ agreed to the plan at the time of tion in mid-December. machine , capab le of produc ing non or taking annual vacations. the October meeting and offi­ Some of the plant staff go on vacation dur ing 800 revels or bars an hour. It And if prese nt schedules are cers of the Shannon Fund say was installed in the new plant met , Arct ic will be operating in the shutdown. Others take the month off from their their group will join when they more than a month ago . the new plant and the staff will move to the new plant. normal jobs to assist with the overhaul as part ­ The Arctic sales staff is be back on the job before The New Westminster group time maint enance mechanics , paint ers and so forth. scheduled to move to the new Christmas. is und ecided, although some in­ dividual members have enrolled in the FVMPA Fund. Officers of the FVMP A Fund hope to approach those who Pity and Soap Opera Await the Milkman Pity the poor milkman the week startin g on Tuesday " . and What I am gettin g at it's lowest ebb . For example: . who spends his days squint­ except when such delivery day at is that we'll need an extra "3 quarts tod ay. Thank you. PLUMBER HAS falls on a Mond ay." bottle of milk on Frid ay of ac­ If this not e blows away, please ing at scrawled notes And, as if the English wasn't count of Mr s. Cleary 's aunt­ knock ." > HOT FLUSHES and deciphering fractured problem enou gh . . . the deaf one- will be here over At Christmas the housewife One of the plumbers who phrases from his custom­ "Signore, the weeke nd. She was the one resorts to rhyme . . . worked on the new Dairy­ ers! Mi dia due botti glie del Lat ­ who was married to the man I The dairies rightly say land Cred it Union buildin g te Approbato oggi per piacere ­ told you about who ... " . Keep the milkm an on his way. made a mistake which must Over the years, Dairyland Graci e e Saluti- " And there are dom estic prob ­ Do not get him in a stink have caused him (pardon milkm en have spent man y a Then ther e's the intri guing lems ... By giving alcohol to drink. the pun) hot flush es of em­ painful moment puzzling over note with a hidd en meaning . .. "No more milk th is week So take these cartons home barra ssment. the mysteries of the housewife's "Dear Sir, Tack you . going to be a bach­ with you He got his pip es mixed English, as in . . . Would you kindly leave one lor. wife and Kids are leav ing To be enjoyed when day is up and, for a few days , "Instead of cream every 4th additional bottl e of milk today me Tempora rily. Keep the 9 through. Credit Union emp loyees Cy day and 2 qts. of milk every 2 and oblige? Thanking you , I cents Because Milk is Far to F inally, there are tender Jones and Gordon Aasen days I would like a quart and remain, Cheep.- Ros s." notes of condolen ce .. . were possessed of that lux­ a pint every 3 days except on a Very trul y your s." Some not es to the milkman "I'm sorry about the dog ury of luxuri es, a hot run ­ Fr iday or a Saturday and ½ On some door steps the milk­ must be written late at night or bite, but he'll get to know you ning toilet . pt. of cream every 2 days for man is treated to soa p opera , ear ly in the mornin g, when the after a few months like he got the first thr ee delivery days of every other day .. . housewife's facu lty for logic is to know the poor gasman." refund of his contributions in a From the lump sum, with 2½ per cent interest. Rod-CiunClub A Year-Round Pledge Manager 's If, however, the employee has been with the FVMP A for more MeetingSet Last September I read in an American farm publica­ Desk than 20 years when he leaves before normal retirement age, An organizing meeting to tion these words : By L. A. Atkinson he can elect either to: form an FVMPA Rod and Gun "Best advice I've heard recent ly-remember the spirit FVMPA General Manager • Receive his contributions Club will be held in the new of Christmas, especially this week." A number of employees have in a lump sum with 2½ per plant cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. inquired recently about the FV­ cent interest and cease to be a December 11. Prophetic? Yes, when we look back to the terrible MPA retirement income plan member of the plan , or Ed Meade, Secretary-Man­ events of November 22, 1963. and a few words about the plan • Leave his contributions in ager of the B.C. Federation of might there­ the Retirement Trust Fund and Fish and Game Clubs will be As we gather with our family and friends this "festive" receive his retirement income there to explain the purpose of season, let us pledge ourselves to year-round observance of fore be of in­ when he reaches normal retire­ terest. Rod and Gun Clubs and priv­ ment age. ileges and advantages open to the principle: In the fol­ Optional Settlements members . "Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men." lowing sum­ mary , 1 will There are a number of differ­ A number of employees have ent ways in which the member shown interest in a club since touch only on may choose to receive his re­ Noel Layfiel d of Shannon ~- ~ those points tirement income, including sev­ Dairies suggested that one be that may have eral options under which a sec­ formed . President been misun­ ond person can become a joint Advantages to members will derstood, rather than attempt­ member of the plan. include liability insurance, jun­ ing to deal with all features of You will be advised of these ior firearms safety instruction, the plan. various alternatives before your monthly fish and game reports , Eligibility normal retirement date and be access to fishing and hunting She Is Widely Known Membership is mandatory for given the opport unity to dis­ areas over private logging roads, all new employees who are over cuss them with your supervisor. derbies and turkey shoots and The FVMP A's best-known employee has retired. 21 and under 60 years of age He will assist you, if you wish, use of club facilities- all for Mrs. Elizabeth Hope, for 21 years hostess in the Dairy­ and have completed two years to choose the option most suited less than $5 per year per mem­ service with the FVMP A. to your circumstances. ber. land Reception Room at Eighth A venue, left the Associ­ No medical examination is ation November 29. required . Since joining the Asso­ Members' Contributions ciation in 1942, Mrs. Hope Each member is required to New L-M Committee has welcomed thousands of contribute five per cent of his persons from hundreds of earnings for a maximum period of 20 years after joining the Members Appointed organizations to the Recep­ plan . The re-organized Labor-Management Committee met tion Room. If he wishes, the employee November 27 and began laying the groundwork for a new may contribute more than the She served them tea, constitution. cookies, ice cream and (if required five per cent of his earnings . Such extra contribu­ This was the first labor man­ Brooks, G. H. Waithe, Ken they were lucky) some of tions are tax deductible up to a agement meeting since the sepa­ Lowe, Bill Mason, R. E. David­ her delicious home-made bis­ maximum aggregate amount rate committees in the branches son and T. C. Valouche. Man­ cuits. In return, she received (including regular contributions) were disbanded and repl aced agement representatives are W. permitted by the Income Tax G. Hawes, Jim Kelday, George fQJJntk§§ ktt~rn gf thank§ by a single body, representin g Act (currently $1500). These all the Dairyland sales staff. {I~m!gn,Ian Milt§, fl·gb {;ggptr from school boys, club sec­ and George Rule. extra savings do not affect the The new committee has 12 retaries and others, and to Association's contribution. Wholesale alternates are C. wholesale, 12 retail representa­ W. Weibe and W. K. Biggers, her guests her name became Retirement Income tives and 13 alternates , 11 for MRS. ELIZABETH HOPE both for employees. synonymous with Dairyland . The FVMPA contributes retail and two for wholesale. ·• Mrs. Hope's experience in talking to groups goes back whatever is required to pro­ The wholesale and retail halves vide, together with the mem­ of the committee meet separ­ to the years before and after World War I when she was a ber's own contributions, an an­ ately but on the same night, so AnnualServic e school teacher at Nelson and other points in the B.C. nual retirement income of 1 ½ that the whole committee can DepartmentDanc e Interior. She left teaching and came to Vancouver in per cent of his total earnings be brought together. 1925. during the time he paid into the Employee members of the re­ Setfor Dec . 21 plan. tail committee are Don Koch, The FVMPA Service Depart­ Aside from her work with the Association , Mrs. Hope Thus, an employee who earns John Dance, T. D. Moffat, Jerry ment will hold its annual Christ­ is well-known for her accomplishments in the community. an average of $400 a month Lepinski, A. V. Daoust and mas dance December 21, be­ during the full period of par­ In 1961 she went to Ottawa , where Governor -General Dean Mayfield. Management ginning at 8 p.m. , in the Cana­ ticipation in the plan could ex­ representatives are Howard Vanier invested her with a Serving Sister award, in recog­ pect a retirement income of ap­ dian Legion Hall, 4358 East Morton, Charlie Webster, Bill Hastings, North Burnab y. nition of her 22 years service with St. John Ambulance proximately $1440 per year or R eid, Wilf Graham, Alan Mixer, food and music from $120 per month. Association. Hughes and Murray Swanson. George Smail and his band are In the case of an employee She is Past Matron of Grandview Chapter No. 9, Ret ail alternat es are, for em­ all included in the $2.25-per­ makin g extra contributions , ex­ ployees, John Jones, T. D. Sher­ ticket price. The dance is open Order of the Eastern Star and a long-time member of the act retirement income cannot boar d of directors of Dairyland Employees' Credit Union . buck, Eric Held, N. Hovden, to all FVMPA employees and be calculated until retirement A. G. Bartley and, for manage­ their guests. B@SilU§@gf YilfiilBl@§a ffasting Mm. l=Iopti§ phmninga trip to vi§itrnlative§ in On= ffiefit, o. F. Tupper, nmMe.li­ Tkkeis are avaiiabie from the plan . These include earn­ tario and Pennsylvania. Our best wishes go with her for Ien, Don Lewendon, Bill Ha­ Walter Moran and Dan Flem­ ings of the member 's extra con­ gan, Rod Ne il and D. R. Wat­ ing at Eighth A venue and, at a long and happy retirement. tributions , earnings of the Re­ son. the Burnaby plant, from Al tirement Trust Fund , average Employee members of the Lightbody, Bob Simpson and age at which retired members Last night I had a funn y pain and to the doc I flew. wholesale committee are W. E. Cliff Bolderson. Said he: "T hat comes from overwork, there's nothing I can do." of the plan die, and other fac­ You need a m onth of quiet rest," he added with a smile. tors. "You 'd better drop your golf and try the office for a while." Death After Retirement If a retired member of the plan dies before he has received in monthly in stalm ent s an amount equal to his own con­ tribution, plus 2½ per cent Published bi-monthly for the information of the employees of the compound interest , the remain­ Fras er Valley Milk Producer s' Association by the Public Relation s der of this amount will be paid Department. in a lump sum to his estate. J. L. GRAY, Public Relations Manager Other Settlements M. D. POOLE, Editor If an employee who has Namesof MilkBreak correspondents are omittedfrom this issue, pendingre -organization worked with the FVMPA less followingthe moveto the newplant. than 20 years leaves the Asso­ Copies of pictures in Fraser Valley Milk Break are available to employees upon request from the ciation before normal retire­ Public Relati ons Department. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Dept., Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. ment age, his membership in '"Hey. Sleepyhea d! How obout a nice big kiss for your the plan ends and he receives a favorite milkman this morni ng?'" FVMPA Employees Work •1n a Bright New World

...... _, FORMERShannon employee Margaret Rogers HOT MEALS have received a . warm reception from employees . WHIMS AND WANTS of customers concern talks with Bob Muter. Evelyn Stefaniuk is at Mrs. Jean Slack of Industrial Catering serves Bill Hilton, while Jean Layfield, Mavis Lambourne, Tommy Ken­ center and Dairyland veteran Kay Long, right. Eleanor Brewer of route accounting eyes the fare . nedy, Gertrude Hall and Betty Sullivan.

DOUG TURNER of the Tabulating De­ FRAMED by the tilted cab of an Arctic FEEDING cards into a reader punch GARY MILLER makes a setting and partment adjusts a card sorter - one Ice Cream truck, Art Holmes works on card unit in the IBM data processing pushes a button on the console or of many time savers from IBM . a motor in the new garage . department is Howard Stevenson. control center of the I BM.

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MEMBERS of the milk shippers' accounti ng staff are ACCOUNTS PAYABLE staff members are Sally TABULATING DEPARTMENT prepares punch cards Anne Cyr, Retta Edmondson, Phil Campbell, Doris Johnson a nd Mrs. Elfreda Crease. On th e phone for IBM processing. Staff above are Terry Sayer, Josie Ryley and Mary Miller. is Reg Cockle who heads up purchasing. Wilson, Linda Robson and Sylvia Brown.

· HUNDREDS of call s a re handl ed every WHOLESALE driver Tommy Lindsell TABULATING department super ­ DUTIES of Mrs. Kemmie Blodgett and day by switchb oa rd ope rator May Phillips, disc usses a n account with Eleanor visor Ernie Marett talk s things over Myrna Smith touch on many phases of with the ass istan ce of Carol Cradock, left . Brewer and Bob Bellinger. with Sam Swetlow. general office operation . CU Has Al's SoccerGoalkeeping Business TookHim Near the Top Upswing Hangs Up Boots After Dairyland Credit Union ha s had a rapid upswing in Playing Round the World busine ss since moving into At the ripe old age of 33, AL ALLEN-GRAY is retiring its own building beside the from a soccer career that has stretched over 25 years. new plant. A retail driver-salesman, Al Although much of this busi­ began playing soccer as a seven­ various minor leagues and by n es has been in cashing year-old goalkeeper in his na­ the time he was 15, he was cheques, which is strictly a non­ tive Englan d. Still a keeper , he playing in England' s semi-pro profit service, the Credit Union closed out his career here last Southern League. There he year with Mount Pleasant Le­ learned fine points of the game has picked up 10 new members BARBARA OSTEN since it moved. BORGE OLSEN gion, perennial champions of from old professionals on their Manager-Treasurer Cy Jones th e First Division, Minor way down and young players and Assistant Treasurer Gordon RidingSuccess Trail League. being groomed for pro careers. Aasen expected to be cashing During the years in between, All-England Final more than the $2500 in cheque s Al played in some pretty fancy From 1952 to 1956 he play­ they had been handling each company and came very close ed in the Hampshire County pay day at Eighth Avenue, but Borge and Barbara to making the grade as a profes­ League and, playing with the they weren't prepared for the sional. Ford Motor Company team landslide business that came He developed quickly in the from Southampton , he went with the first pay day in the Form Winning Tea111 right through to the all-England new plant. Horses and BORGEOLSEN share a prominent place in final in a tournament for bus They had $10,000 on hand WE NOW SELL company teams. and had to borrow an addition­ the life of MURRAYOSTEN and family. Al tried out with Southamp­ al $6000 from the FVMPA. The family's attachment to ------PANCAKE MIX ton, then English League Sec­ On succeeding pay days, pay­ horses goes back to Murray's and two third placings recog- ond Division champ ions, and father who broke horses for pay nized by the Canadian Light The list of products sold roll cheque cashing climbed to through dairies at the door­ might have won at least a re­ $18,000 and, on November 15, in Montana and their kinship Horse Society. serve place on the team , if he for Borge Olsen stems from his Murray enters a few horse step and in stores cont inued to more than $20,000. to grow last month when had not signed for Royal Navy "When the new plant is in considerable knowledge of shows himself, but says the real service before his tryout. horses and how to train them. pleasure of riding is not in win- Pan Quick pancake batter full operation, we expect to be went on the market. He was invited back by cashing more than $30,000 in Borge, an instantizer opera- ning prizes. S . 1thampton, but when he left tor at the Sardis Plant, was once "The main object," he says, Prepared daily at a cen­ payroll cheques," says Cy tral location, the mix is be­ the Navy he went to sea in­ Jones. a riding instructor in his native "is for us to become good riders stead with Union Castle Ship­ Denmark. and to enjoy the satisfaction of ing sold on a trial basis until As an addi tional service, the market and sales potenti al ping Co. and played soccer all Credit Union now provides having a well-trained horse un- Taught for 10 Years der easy control. " can be determined. over the world with his ship's counter cheques which the em­ He started riding "too long team. Al would just as soon ployee may use to write a per­ ago to remember" and was forget one of these games play­ sonal cheque on his bank ac­ trained as a riding instruct or at ed in Iran-in 123°F. heat. count. The Credit Union cashes Nearly50 Years Aakirby Ridin g Club in Den­ Regular Goalie these and payroll cheques with­ mark. He taught there on a He became the regular goal­ out charge. part-time basis for 10 years be­ keeper for the Mount Pleasant fore coming to Canada in 1955. Henderson Ends Long team when he came to Vancou­ From 1958 to 1961 he gave ver in 1957 and he remained free riding lessons in Chilliwack with the team until 1962, when and one of his star pupils was Milk Plant Career he moved up to St. Andrews Murray Ost en's 15-year-o ld of the Coast League. daughter Barbara. HAROLDHENDERSON, Pacific Milk Plant office man­ St. Andrews dropped out of Borge no longer holds regu­ ager, retired November 15 after nearly 50 years in the the League later the same year, lar classes, but he keeps his evapora ted milk business. and Al finished out the season horse with the Ostens' horses A native of Chilliwack, Har­ with Mount Pleasant Legion. Al Allen-Gray feels there is and continues to give Barbara old got his baptism in the milk a great potent ial for soccer in the benefit of his long experi­ business in 1912 with the long­ the Vancouver area. However , ence in competitive riding. departed B.C. Condensing Com­ local soccer will be limited , he Come Along Fast pany at South Sumas. He work­ says, until there is a Canadian ed in the office there unti l 1916, And in the four years she has soccer league. when he joined the Canadian been riding, Barbara has come " Ri ght now , the Coast 7vf:.7<64 army and went overseas until along fast. After competing in League is as high as players 1918. "You forgot my yogurt!" the Chilliwack Horse Show, at here can go without leaving the Southlands Ridin g Club and at New Owner area," he says, "and this is not Han ey, she has a first, second He returned to Chilliwack good enough for the best play­ and went to work in the same ers." plant, but under a new em­ r ployer. The Borden Co. had • FishDerby bought out B.C. Condensin g Co. during the War. We AreMechanized By today's standards, Haro ld About 1800 separate ma­ UnderWay recalls, the South Sumas plant chines are used to process and was a bit old fashioned. He package FVMP A milk. Entries are now being taken HAROLD HENDERSON by Fred Franks and Frank worked in nearly every phase of Kernel of the Sardis Utility Plant the operation, including sealing 1959 he was named office man­ for the annua l FVMPA Steel­ cans- individually by hand. ager. head Derby. In 1939 he became manager A fisherman of nearly 60 For the modest sum of $1, of the Borden plant and held years standing, Harold plans to any F VMP A employee may this position until 194 7, except devote many a pleasant after­ join the race. Only condition s for a short interval durin g noon of his retirement to pur ­ are that your fish must be World War II when he went to suit of the wily Vedder River caught on the Lower Mainland Ontario to manage another steelhead. and it must be weighed before Borden Co. plant. a witness at an FVMPA plant. Joined Pacific Entry fees are returned to the When the Sumas plant closed FVMPA Cioing Places winners as prize money. Don't in 194 7 due to a shortage of More than 300 vehicles are wait until you have landed a milk, H arold joined Pacific on the road each day haulin g big fish before entering the Milk as assistant plant mana ger milk and other products of the ,. derby. This practice is frowned under the late Paul Chevalley. FVMPA. These trucks log upon and, what's more , its con­ Later he was assistant manager more than 3.4 million miles trary to derby rules. under Frank Forrest, and in yearly. "What's the Boss want?"