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With all local lodging crammed due to a nearby pulp mill expansion, I lived in this little place. Electric baseboard heat and cool hot water with very little pressure. It was rather rustic living there in February when temperatures went to the ‘crossover point’ of ‘40 degrees below’.

As my room had no telephone, an archaic work rule provided that a clerk would bang on my door in the middle of the freezing night to tell me I had been called for a train. With 2000 people living there at Schreiber (pronounced SKRY ber) it didn’t take them long to drive over. Even in the worst blizzard with the deepest snow, walking to work didn’t take long either.