THE TEMPEST that arose last week over the B.C. Ferry Corp.'s (BCFC) refusal to “allow TNE trucks onto its’ ‘vessels has died down, according to Mike Carter, vice-president of operation * for the Crown corporation. The dispute blew up «between Maemillan Bloedel, othe B.C. Federation of Labor and IWA-Canada over Mac- ‘,Blo's policy of hiring open- shop construction companie ‘like TNL to do its work, The legging company ; claims it will be able ta save ‘more than 10% on its heavy: “construction by allowing % open shop bids to vie with 5 union bids for jobs. yu Last week, BCFC refused to load TNL trucks, prompt-% ; ing outrage by several MLAs including West Vancouver Mitchell said BCFCg, should not be entitled et never be ereroted for ideo- a logical reasons or labor dis-¢ lem on the NDP government’ SBE Lubor Code, which in me was amended to allow picket-2 {ing at sites other than those of $7 the actual labor dispute. i Carter said Tuesday, “Ourss i | TNL.” os He said the corporation has ie Ga a standing policy that if pick-2 ifeters involved in a labor dis-S pute show up at a ferry termi @nal, neither the picketers nor, 83 on-board. a Ht . Both trucks and Picketerssi iG were denied access to the fer- ries at several terminals forj siseveral days, he said, but thisi gg week TNL has been able toga 4 Carter was unable to pro-§ vide figures on the number of ¢ picketers or trucks turned ‘away from the ferries. ie The North Shore Lifeboat fs Society, a volunteer, nosi- a “profit society, is engaged i in ace ee ‘capital fundraising project ton eplace two marine ve they 7 at “lifeboats which serve the i Greater Vancouver area. Members hope to buy work ee #minum hull vessels with twins, iesel engines to replace fail- ye ng, older boats. The NSLS isee pproaching corporate and F/SGT. Howard (Sandy) Sanderson examines a Wanne-eickei, Germany in 1945. NEWS photo Mike Wakatistd mode] of a Halifax bomber, the aircraft he was in when he was shot down over West Van veteran recalls life and death in the RAF. EVEN NOW, when pretensions of noble motives might be excused, Howard “Sandy” Sanderson is frank about why he joined the Roya! Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. By Kate Zimmerman News Reporter | When one of his fellows in the RAF accused him at the time of not being patriotic enough to “King and country,” Sanderson — who ‘says he was a “spoilt brat” — told the truth. “I told him I joined up for wine, women and song,” the 71-year-old West. Vancouver man said, laughing. “He had some sort of serious stroke at that point.” Sanderson's ambition was to become a pilot, like his brother, who was flying Hurricanes in North Africa. When he realized there would be lots of _mathematics and study involved, Sanderson re- mustered to Air Gunner. He went overseas in 1943 and became a spare gunner, filling in whenever crews needed him and avoiding the lectures and other responsibili- ties that being part of a crew demanded. He managed to complete 35 missions before he was shot down on Feb. 9, 1945, during an air raid on a synthetic oil refinery in Wanne-eickel Do you think Remembrance Day is losing its significance? Mrs. Welsh West Vancouver Remembrance Day should always remind us of the ones we lost. | lost my brother who was 19. Shelly Schellenberg Véest Vancouver 1 sell poppies and [ find the feeling towards Remembrance Day is not as appreciated as it used to be in the Ruhr, near Duisberg. Sanderson, who was spare air gunner in the mid-under turret, was the last to leave the burn- ing Halifax bomber because he wanted to retrieve a good luck charm affixed to his air force cap. As the plane plummeted toward the ground, the lack of oxygen depleted his energy so much that Sanderson couldn’t extricate himself from the plane. “T actually sort-of gave up,” he said. “I went unconscious and when | woke up I was hanging in the chute (in the air).” The “horrendous wind” blowing at the time was a force in his favor. Sanderson landed in a farmer's field —- not in Germany, as he feared, but near Zillebeke, Belgium. Two 17-year-old girls found him and brought him into the farmhouse and made him coffee which tasted like “burnt rope.” Because the German front was proceeding east, the shoeless Sanderson soon hit the road west, for France. En route. he came upon a British army vehi- cle. Rejecting the soldiers’ offers of medical treatment, Sanderson instead asked for money 50 he could hit the bar once he reached Lille. “IT was given 2,000 francs occupation money,” he said. “ft found out that cognac was five francs and I said, ‘By God. I'm here for the duration!’ ” Shawn Davis North Vancouvei as strictly Canadians. Yes. A reason why is multicultural- ism, which makes us hyphenated Canadians, instead of sceing ourself Sanderson wound up spending 10 days in Lille, being ministered to by French girls. “Eventually the long arm of the air force caught up to me,” he said with some regret. “They took me back to Blighty.” Sanderson’s memoiies of the war are mostly fond. “It was all a big game to me at that time As an Air Gunner, for instance, Sanderson. was never called ‘upon to shoot anyone face-to- face. - “With us, it.was split-second. Everything happened at the speed of light.” And, he said, “All my friends that got killed over there ... it didn’t do anything outstanding to me at the time.” It was a year later, after his return to Canada, that Sanderson felt their loss, His sister told him he couldn’t accompany her somewhere because she was going with a chum. Sanderson’s eyes welled up. “For about six months at the drop of a hat I'd get choked up and cry,” he said. “I must have gone through some sort of trauma.” He’ ll be the air force flag carrier in the legion color party today, and he’H think about the friends with whom he shared good times, and bad, in the war. “tt seems like it was just yesterday,” he said. “Of course, most of them are gone to that Great Airport in the sky.” TODAY is Remembrance Day. a time when Canadians are supposed to reflect and honor the sacrifices made by Canadians overseas and at home. Canadians of a war generation are more touched by Nov. If ceremonies than young people, two generations removed from the battles. Ann Abbott North Vancouver Yes.