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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life and work in the lumber industry in Terrace, B.C., 1940-1977 PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Greg M. Sieben (lumber industry production superintendent) was born in 1921. Saskatchewan background. Arrived in Terrace in 1943 with Army. Pohle Lumber. Major MacMillan. Salvus in 1948. Transportation. Honesty in the 1950s. Logging: falling with hand tools, late 1940s. Hand bucking. Early power saws. Handling large trees. Sawmilling, steam power. Mrs. Pohle's part in sawmill operation. Diesel machinery. TRACK 2: Second Pohle mill, 1950s: foundation, arrangement of steam-driven mill. Improvising parts. Steam engineers, atmosphere of old mill. Modern operators' booths. Electricity. Automation. Hiring practices in the 1950s. Employment of immigrants: language problems, Dutch immigrants, Portuguese immigrants, post-war and present work attitudes. Changes in life-values in past 20 years.