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CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDINGS
Published for aU employees of The International Nit cel Company of Canada, Limited,
Don M. Dunbar, Editor
EDITORIAL OFFICE COPPER CLIFF, ONT.
One of the pleasures denied the Triangle by space limitations is reporting wedding
anniversary parties. We have decided, however, that henceforth we will publish brief
accounts of golden wedding anniversaries celebrated by Inco pensioners, and will
appreciate receiving notification in advance of these truly wonderful occasions. To
start off this new feature, we salute three couples who recently completed 50 years of
married life:
40,000 Annuals
Ready to Plant
THE FRONT COVER
The scene is the Inco greenhouse at Copper
Cliff. where the beauty which brightens the
grounds around Company buildings in the
district with a riot of color during the
summer months is nursed from seed.
Every spring, commencing about March 1,
40,000 annual bedding plants get their start
here. The seed is planted in si:allow boxes,
two inches deep, in a mixture of sand and
leaf mould for good germinaVon, and the
greenhouse is held at a temperature of 65
degrees. Then the seedlings are all transplanted by hand to boxes four inches deep
Li which is a soil mixed to the following
ratio: 3 loads of loam, I load of sand, 4
yards of manure, 2 bags of lime, and 1 bag
ol fertilizer. The soil is doused with boiling
water to knock out weeds. The flats containing the transplanted seedlings are moved to
thc outdoor frames beside the greenhouse
for hardening off, and are ready for all kinds
of weather when planting starts at the end
of May.
Up to 60 different varieties of flowers are
grown, including snapdragon, petunias,
Canna lilies, salpiglossis, schizanthesus, larkspur, alyssum, lebolia, marigolds, calendula,
scabiosa. They are planted in the park at
Copper Cliff, around the employees' clubs in
the Company towns, around the buildings at
the mines and the power plants.
In the background in the cover picture is
Bob Grigor, the green-thumbed genius of the
garden who is in his 20th year with Inco's
agricultural department. As a young policeman back in Aberdeen his hobby was horticulture, at which he became so proficient
that for three successive years he held the
championship of Scotland at growing flowers
and vegetables.
C. D. Ferguson, chief of the agricultural
department, states that some 4,000 trees and
shrubs will be planted in Inco towns this
year. some by the Company and the balance by householders eager to beautify their home
grounds.
MIR, AND MRS. WILLIAM PARKER, who were married at Nairn Centre by Rev. Fr.
H. Ferron on November 12, 1903. Mr. Parker was born in England and his wife in
Chapeau, P.Q. He was employed at Inco's High Falls plant for 33 years before his
retirement in 1939. Of their six children, five are living: Irene of Detroit, Clifford and
William of Sudbury, Mrs. W. J. Dawson of Riverside, Ont., and Mrs. James Wallace of
Sudbury. Their youngest daughter, Kathleen (Sister St. Kenneth) died in 1936. Their
home at 155 Riverside Drive was crowded with relatives, friends and well-wishers for
their golden wedding party.
MIII. AND MRS. THOMAS HOOD were married in England half a century ago. Mr.
Hood was employed at both Copper Cliff and Coniston Smelters before retiring on Inco
pension. Their golden wedding party at their home in Coniston was attended by their
three sons and four daughters, Bill of Hamilton, Robin and Fred of Coniston, Jack of
Garson, Mrs. P. Duncan and Mrs. J. Hugh of Coniston, and Mrs. P. Rainville of Sudbury,
as well as by a large gathering of old friends.
Phone Numbers of
Medical Centre
The telephone numbers if the Inco
.%Iedical ('entre in Sudbur are:
Day
37164
Nights after 6.00 o'clock
Sundays and Holidays
37166
Why not clip out this notice and paste
it in your telephone book?
Your education never stops. You're always learning. Reserve judgment on your
fellow man. Look for the best in everybody
hut dont allow first impressions to sway
you. - Branch Rikey;
MR. AND MRS, WILLIAM BLI2EMAN, who said their marriage vows 50 years ago
before Rev, H. Moore at the Methodist Church in Copper Cliff. Mr. Blueman worked in
Copper Cliff Smelter prior to his retirement. A native of Manitouhin Island, he came
to Sudbury in 1898. His wife was born in Cobden. Ont,, and came to Sudbury two years
before her marriage. Their family, Harold, George, Pat, Vera and Wesley, helped arrange
the reception and party which was attended by a host of friends at the family home, 307
Long Lake Rd.
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With Spring in the air and spirits on the wing after the
long winter. smiles seemed to be a little more spontaneous as
the Triangle camera made its rounds for this months album.
Here we have: (1) Mr. and Mrs. Larry Arsenault FroodStobie) with Anita Marie, 9 weeks. (2) Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Moles (Copper Cliff Smelter) with Ron, 15, Richard, 9, and
Eric, 21 mouths. (3) Mr. and Mrs. Sandy MacNeill llnco
Police) with Sheila Anne, 2, Peggy, 12, and Freddie, 14. (4)
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Goodward (Creighton Mine( with Sharon,
9, and Billie, 312. (5) Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Goodspeed (Levack
Mine) with Dale, 2½, and Wesley, 11. 6) Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Zahavich 'Port Colborne with Shirley Ann, 3'/2, and Ted, 2.
(7) Mr. and Mrs. W. Johnson Coniston Smelter) with Norman, 21, Sterling, 19, and Graeme, 17.
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2;L000 plir('iiase orders, iiiany of them two depai'trnemit. Tue big chore of sorting this
tiie soiicl pages of items, mail, ciieckiiig invoices agaiiist
In the picture layout on tile opposite page orders, amid flhng is handled by four clerks,
we take a kok at the people who have charge ieft to right, Jane McKay, Corinne Forsyth.
of this most importaiit phase of the Corn- Connie Rogers, and Phyiiis Whmters. Since
pniiy's activities; tile picture was taken MI Rcers has re1. Here ale five of the buyers: standing, sigmmed, and will become the bride of buyer
Aubrey Mills; am'ound the de.sks. iockwmse George Watson on May 23. Her place has
I romn tile lower ieft, Jack Hoitby. G'orge been taken by Lorraine Brydg
Watson, Maurice LaPiante, Omer Boucher,
5. Louis vlcCieuian, purchasing agent, is
Mother Immco goes to market every working To streamline their work they divide their a veteran member of the department. Here
day of the year, buying into sections which they aiteriiate in lie .imms a batch of purchae orders.
She is one of the b'st customers in afl handhng; for instance one man takes teei
Canada and the tradesmen rub their hands and iumber, another has mining and smeiting 6. TilLs trio takes care of 'au the steno
in undisRlmi,ed dehght vh'n ,he approaches nmachinery, another eiectricai nmateriais, graphic work for the department, and that
their staiis. other castings, iubricants and refractories, covers a muititude of typing: Joyce Netzke,
Her .hopping h.t is made up from about another nnsceiianeous hardware, and so on. Miida Snowden. Jean Wiseman.
25,000 different items which he must keep They ima"e thousands of cataiogues on me 7. As superintendeimt of stores, C. C. Chapon the cupboard ,Mheives in substantiai uppiy to which they refer constantiy. man supervises the activities of the purchasto satisfy her iarge and iusty famiiy of nnnes. 2. Waveriey Tyei's, assistant purchasing ing department and also the big warehouse.s
miiis, smeiters and refinerie,s. agent, and Roy Bain, another of the buyers, at the various mines and piants, correiating
Last year she spent many miiiions of hard at it. the work so that suppiy is 'aiways ahead of
dollars for suppiies for her Mining, Smeiting,
3. Mac Forsythe, generai purchasing agent, demand. He has been with Inco 38 year,
and Copper Refining Divisions, and his assistant, Bill Thorpe, study a re- iongest service record in the purchasing deShe bought everything from tacks to quisition from the mines department. In the partment since W. T. Waterbury moved up
ttirbines. from flash iight buibs to 275-toil course of a year the purchasing agents from the post of generai purchasing agent
mine hoists, from rose bushes to fire engines, receive 3,000 visits from saies representatives to become assistant to the vice-president.
from canoes to tractors, of a tremendous variety of manufacturers Mother I'; Co's marketing affects the iives
Among many other things she bought: and supphers, They send and receive some- of thousaiids of Canadian$ apart from her
283,000 bags of cement and 60,000 yards of thing iike 1,200 teiegrams a month, spend own empioyees. She is known as a wise and
gravei, houi's in teiephone conversations. carefui shopper, and her integrity s un30,000 tcns of steei for drill steei, punch: 4, Of the 10,000 pieces of mafl which come questioned. This fine reputation she owes in
bars, grinding rods and bails, to the generai offices at Copper Chif each iarge measure to the personnei of her
545,000 tons of coai and 120,000 tons of month, 75' are addressed to the purchasing 'purchasing department.
Inco is
ne of iafladas
Best Shoppers
Other
furnace
coke,
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10,000 cai'ats a month of industi'iai dia-
for driii bits, ROY BEATTY WINS THE BENARD
TROPF[Y FOR BIG LAKE TROUT
600,000 feet of wire rope for smaii ,siushers,
39,000,000 feet, or 1,500 carioads of Ontario
and British Coiumbia iumber and timber.
$540,000 worth of eiectric wire and cabie,
384 cariods of expiosives,
S653,000 worth of rubber beits and hose,
7,000 kegs of naiis, enough for 18 carioads,
11.000,000 gallons of fuei oii,
18,000 pair of safety boots to be resoid to i
her empioyees at cost,
350 carioads of refractories,
7,000 bearings, '
12 carioads of weiding rods.
Mother Inco's staff of buyers must have a
detaiied knowiedge of all phases of her
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operations. When they piace purchase
orders they make every effort to seiect the - equipment and materiai most suited for the
purpose intended, aiways bearing in mind *
the advantages of standardizing on the ue - of simiiar machines and products at the
different piants. To accomphh this they
have the fuiiest co-operation of the research,
efficiency and engineering departments a
well as the operating departments who use
the materiai and service the equipment.
Efficiency departments at the different
piants ale constaiitiy making studies and. To Roy Beatty of Sudbury, a well-known was Dr. F'. A. Urquhart, director of the Royai
running actuai tests with competitive goods, fisherman who has frequentiy won awards Ontario Museum and a staff member of the
and their findings are used as a guide by for his pi'owess with rod and hne, went the University of Toronto, who deilvered a very
the purchasing department when piacing top prize in the 1953 competitions of the interesting account of the work of th€'
orders. Copper Chif Rod and Gun Ciub, the Fred museum and its reiation to conservation.
The buyers must aiso keep on top of new Benard Shieid. Hai'oid Boriand, president of the club, was
deveiopmeiits in engineering and manu- This trophy is presented annually for the in the chair.
facturing so that the Company may have fish which has the highest percentage of the
the benefit of the mo,st modern equipment weight of the recegnized worid's champion
POPULAR PROGRAM
and materiais obtainabie. They must know catch in its ciass. The big iake trout which Levack Enipioyees Ciub was packed to
their price tags, too, because even a maii Roy caught iast summer in Lake Huron capacity April for the Taient Night staged
differeiice in cost can add up to a iot of weighed 22 ibs. 5 oz., or 35.4' of the worid',s wider the dicticn of Liovd Davis' with
money when orderimmg in sucim tmememmdous record iake trout which weighed 63 ibs. Norm McG!ivray as master of ceremonies
quantities. At the Rod and Gun Ciub's annuai smoker amid two speciai guest attractiomms. the SudRquLsit.ions for the purclma.. of equipment in the Itahan Hall, Roy was presented by bury Barber Shop Chorus and Herb PaWs
and materiai for comm,tructicmm purposes or Mayor W. T, Watem'bury with th€ Benard with his two daughters, Simiriey and June.
pecmai jobs are issued by time emmgilmeering Shmeid and a iamidmng net. A particuiariy fine asortmmmt of iocai
departments. aimd requmsmtmomm. for all other Photcgriph'd above are some of time chmb's taiemmt made up the baiammce of the ioiig and
inatermai and cpcratmng .uppim',s are issued pri'ze-wimlners: ieft to right, Bill Bm'ay first greatiy appreciated pregram. imiciuding a
'mthr by the operating departmemmt requiring prize for chain cigar-.smcking, Aido Desaimti piammo scio by Paui Ellis, who distinguished
them or by omie of time .tores sectiomm. AU (first prize for smiiaiimouth bass. 4 ib. 8 oz.. imim.seif at the recent Music Festivai 1mm Sud
timese requmitiomms art' fimmineiied iiit the Roy Betty, Gimmo Cammapimmi (first prize for bury. He piayed Aiidaimte Romido Clpricpurchasmmmg department. pickerei, 7 ib. 4 o . Baii O'Briemm tirt prize cifta" by MiicR'iuliii.
L;it Ve;lr tilt' pimrc'h;iimmg th'partmlm('mlt at for pt'kied tout. 4 lbs. 12 o'i,. , Ed Bcatty
Copjx'r Cuff. whicim bimy lila Lei'in i
i mmd 'omid pri'/e for .peckh'd tiou L) , George W' pru'mmmm' ict'ordimmg to our iiup k's, amid
.imppime.s mom' the Mmmiing, Snmt'itmmmg and Cpper Appieby (secomid prize fQr iake trout) We perform atcoidimig t our ft'ars. - La
Refining Divisiomis, proc'ss'd ipward of uet speakem' at time well-attemmded sniok'r Rochefocauld,
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Lady Curlers Collect Their Loot for the Season
Presentation of trophies and prizes, during a dinner party at Ogilvie (skip), Mrs. Archie Dimmick, Doug Walker, who made the
Sudbury's swank Granite Club, concluded another very successful presentation, Mrs. A. Pevato, and Mrs. Wally Flowers; RIGHT, the
season for the Copper Cliff Ladies' Curling Club. The president,
the winning team In the Canadian Legion event, Mrs. George Burns,
Mrs. Gordon Telford, briefly reviewed activities and thanked
members for their co-operation and assistance. Pictures show: Mrs. Ted Wilson (skip), Mrs. Tom Meehan; absent, Mrs. Walter
LEFT, the victorious team in the Robert Brown event, Mrs. Pat i Johnstone.
In the photographs above are: LEFT, the winners of the Junior Wilfred Burchill (skip), Bill Jessup, the donor, and Mrs. Eddie
Round Robin, Mrs. Bill McCartney, Mrs. A. Pevato, and Mrs. Charlie Saville; not shown, Mrs. J. G. Pappin. BELOW: Omer Racicot
Young; not shown, the skip, Mrs. Richard Sheridan; RIGHT, the presents the Racicot-Darrach trophy to Mrs. Jim Carrie, Mrs. Bill
team which copped the Jesrup trophy, Mrs. Jack Fitzgerald, Mrs. McCartney, Mrs. P. J. Fitzgerald, and Mrs. Wilfred Burchill (skip).
Senior Baseball to
Start on May 24th
Sunday afterncon. May 24. will see the
opening of the 1953 Nickel Belt senior baseball league with Coniston Red Sox, the
champions, facing Copper Cliff Redmen, the
runners-up, at Queen's Athletic Field in a
renewal of their thrilling 1952 playoff series,
Six teams will play the schedule this year,
Coniston, Copper Cliff, Freod, Creighton,
Garson and Shamrocks. It has been announced that admission prices at Queen's
Athletic Field will be cut from 60 to 50 cents,
and that the ball clubs will get a 65-35 split
of the gate at week-night games from the
parks commission. The league will have
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings for
games under the lights, and a large share
of the Sundays for afternoon fixtures.
Members of the league protest committee
will be President George Collins, Harry Towns
a newly elected honorary life member of
the Nickel Belt Baseball Association after 20
years of ardent service to the cause), Chester
McConkey, Charlie Roffey, and Rodger
Mitchell.
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Andy Halve rson
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They Had a Wonderful Trip
Yardmaster iii charge of transportation at - . Coniton since April 1, 1930, and a conductor
for 12 years before that, Andy Halverson - - •
retired on Inco service pension May I with - - __
the enviable record of 37 years and one -month with the Company.
At a largely attended banquet at the
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Italian Hall in Coni,ton April 30 he was - honored by his friends and associates and
-pre,ented with a wrist watch, suitably in-cribed. The presentation was made by an old friend, R. A. Elliott, former superintend -- - ent of Inco tran.sportation, himself now a '
pensioner and mayor of Lively. Andy's sub- -. stantial contribution to the success of the - - -•
nickel industry was gratefully acknowledged
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on behalf of the Company by R. H. Waddington, assistant to the vice president. Master . - - - of ceremonies wa J. C. MacKiniion, super- . '
intendent of transportation. . Before he came to Coniston to sign on
with Mond Nickel Co. on May 18, 1916, Andy had worked for the George Gordon Lumber
Co. at Cache Bay, now an Inco subsidiary. He started at Coniston on the furnaces but
two months later was transferred to transportation.
He was married in his home town of Wolf
Lake, P.Q., 40 years ago to Rosalie Jolicoeur,
and of this happy union seven children were
bo"n: Andy, Dick, George and Joe of Coniston,
Earl of Toronto, Margaret (Mrs. Johnny,
Doherty) of Smith's Falls, and Helen (Mrs.,
Edgar Donnelly) of Oshawa. They have 12
grandchildren, all but two of whom were
present with their parents for a grand family'
_______ In the fifth annual tour arranged by the flonnie Rheault, Helen Yawney, Rose Mary
principal, Miss Ursula Black, the senIorDavidson, Audrey Loupelle, Sandra Shamclass of Creighton Public School had a chuk, Elvi Ikonen, Sam Waytowich, John
most enjoyable and instructive trip to Brownlee.
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Hlghlighth of thefr itinerary were visith Ti
to the George Gordon Lumber Co. at Cache
Bay, Abitibi Pulp and Paper Co. at Stur- J
geon Falls, Des Joachims power development, the federal parliament buildings,
the Royal Mint, the War Archives, the /
- museums and the Experimental Farm.
Every Canadian citizen owns 45 acres of
,They had dinner in the parliamentary forest. All told, the ownership covers a
'dining room as guests of J.
Leo Gauthier, million square miles. Your monthly pay• 'M. P., saw an Allau Cuptween
playoff
game
bechecue,
your job, carries a forestKitchener
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Smith's
Falls,whatever
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dividend. Not as big a dividend as your
- were royally treated at the Lord Elgin children will draw, but still pretty satisHotel by Mein Host Carl DeMorest, for- factory.
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veryo iie
5tj2ke in 7/us
merly of Sudbury. The world is bidding for Canada's forest
______ Prearranged tours of the RCAF station products. Each year we respond with new
'at North Bay and the Canadian Army industries, ne1. towns, new forces of wellME, AND MRS. A, RALVEESON
establishment at Petawawa had to be aban- paid workmen. There's no end to this process,
i'eunion on Andy's 65th birthday, April 3. The doned on account of bus trouble, as long as the forests are kept evergreen and
surprise gathering was the thrill of a lifetime To raise money for their trip the students evergrowing. That's the criterion: How sefor Andy and Mrs. Halverson; it was the first staged tag days, a bazaar, tea, card parties cure are the harvest-fields of timber this
time the family had all been together since etc., realizing a total of $1,154.00 from their year, and during all time to come?
George, who served with the RCAF overseas efforts. Three generous donations added Don't blame the lumberjack, or the pulp
in World War II and was a prisoner-of-war to their exchecuer. and paper industry! They cut mature trees,
in Germany for 22 months, returned home. Similar tours are being taken this year to enrich Canada through thousands of
Dad was presented with a rocker-type chair by the senior students of Levack, Coiiiston products and a vast army of wage-earners.
and Mother with an armful of roses, and Lively public schools, with funds raised The real culprit in forest-stripping and desertMr. and Mrs. Halverson have left for by the boys and girls themselves during making is the "flame-thrower' - the careWolf Lake for their summer place, winch the winter months, less camper, motorist, sportsman, the settler,
they will remodel into a permanent home. In charge of the Creighton group along the road worker and others vho take from
They carry with them the best wishes of the with Miss Black were Mrs. L. McLean and the forest all it can give and then reduce it
wide circle of friends and acquaintances who Mrs. V. Trembley. The students are seen to a smoking shambles. When foi'ests burn.
have long held them in the highest esteem, in the above photograph: everybody loses,
Ted Ledingham, Bob Wallace, Earl Way- iflost Canadians are conscientious guardians
SURE ENOUGH!
towich, Donald Pierini, Ken Jones, Eddie of woods, waters, and wildlife. But each year
Those who said they thought "Sac" Trefiak, Pat Quinn, Sandy McLean, Larry 4,000 others set the country blazing and deCrandalls "retirement" would probably last O'Connor, Jerry Syvokis, Frank Mynerich, secrate two million acres. They incinerate
about two weeks were apparently clase to George Stanley, Michael Waine, Suzanne 350 million young trees that Mother Nature
tlw mark, The word from California is that Seguin, Mildred Dowdall, Dick Pentney, herself planted as a future endowment for
Inco's former chief engineer bought a fine Wendy Drennan, Rose Mary Aiello. Dennis the children of Canada.
home in Belmont and promptly got busy McLaughlin, Daphne Innes, Allan Massey, The first -tage in 'Conservation" is to Wipe
changing the garage nito a third bedroom, Marlene Moore. Pat Mumford, June Jonas- out the fire plague. Fire thrives by human
the breeze .'ay into a workshop, and a piece san, Anita Cayen, Teresa Coyhe, Therese reckhesness. It can be throttled by human
of innocent open ground into a carport. , LeBreton, Marilyn Boyer, Shirheen Ncwton, igihance.
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Fly-Up and Presentations for Lively Brownies
Present Tribute to
Queen Elizabeth
A badge presentation and fly-up ceremony made it a mighty important night
April 15 for 1st Lively Brownie Pack, under
the leadership of Brown Owl Ethel Diebel. The three Brownies who participated in the -fly-up to Girl Guides were Roberta Den- S
nison. Sandra Nelson, and Joanne Welsh.
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In the badge presentations 32 service stars,
28 golden bars, four golden hands and three
pairs of wings were awarded.
In the photograph above, sitting in their . S
Fairy Ring around the toadstool, are the Lively Brownies. Starting at the lower left with Marion Frizelle dn light blouse, facing 4
camera) and reading around the circle,
they are: Carol Yawney, Doris Gagnon,
Sandra Sandberg, Eileen Mahon, Jacqueline .
Gray, Brenda LaBrash, Barbara See, Tawny
Owl Irene Meadon, Bonnie Simes, Margaret
Bohn, Rosemary McDonald, Barbara Hutton,
Carol Mulligan, Margaret Gothn, Gail Kor- .
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Packee Mary Lou Hillen, Ar.ne Kinkley, _______
Sylvia Butler, Sandra Nelson, Joanne Welsh,
Roberta Dennion. Brown Owl Ethel Diebel,
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Tawny Owl Dorothy Strasser, Avis Lou- new Home for the Aged in Sudbury. Mayor and in the background are Tawny Owl Irene
pelle, Margarc t Lampi, Judy Turner, Dan Jesup was present to receive it on Meaden, Brown Owl B. Forsythe of Copper
Beverley Frizelle, Margaret Bvrnes, Pau- behalf of the board of Pioneer Manor. Cliff, Mayor Jessup, and Tawny Owl Dorolette LaPlante, Lorraine Brooks, Giselle Coronation 'mblems were presented to the thy Strasser.
Beau.schene, Sharon Thompson, Patsy Mc- Brownies by the divisional commiioner, Mrs. D. J. Dixon, cli.strict comInisiOner
Farlane, Joanne Williams, Caroline Young, Mrs. D. H. Forster, who warmly congratu- for Creighton-Lively, and the 2nd Lively Girl
Judy Tait. Margaret Whiting, Sally Aniie lated the pack on their enthusiasm and Guide Company and their leaders. Capt. M.
Deacon, Marlene Schriml. activity. In the second photograph Margaret Kerr and Lieut. V. Pitchell, were giiets for
To make their Coronation tribute to Byrne is receiving her special emblem from the evening as also were Capt. L. Pollock
Queen Elizabeth the Lively Brownies w,d the commissioner; the other Brownies and Lieut. M. Welsh of 1st Lively Girl
the proceeds of a candy sale to purcha,e a Thown are Jotnne Williams, Margaret Bohn, Guides and Brown Owl M. Denny of Ci-eighpicture for the ladies' .'itting room of the Margaret Lampi nd Sally Anne Deacon, ton.
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For First Aid
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To Copper Cliff
With as convincing a display of St. Jo's
Ambulance know-how as has been seen in
the 17 years of competition for the Ralph D.
Parker Shield, a Copper Cliff Smelter team
smoothly and smartly captained by P. Duff y
won the Inco inter-plant First Aid championship for 1953,
At that the Cliff team hadn't such a wide
margin on the other finalist lineup, the
strong Frood-Stobie entry led by fast-thinking Bud Fisher and composed of Pat
Hamilton, Russ Armstrong, George Sleeman,
• Weir Stringer (spare) and W. Gaylor coach).
The arch-tormenter of First Aid teams,
Tom Crowther of the Safety Department,
schemed up a particularly tricky test for the
final match. No less than three patients,
suffering from a bewildering assortment of
• - - Injuries as the result of an explosion on a
building project, were uncovered in the course
of the problem. The efficient way in which
both teams went about the business of
diagnosing and treating the three patients
won the unalloyed admiration and enthusiastic applause of the large audience,
First of the accompanying photographs
shows Asst. Vice-President Ralph Parker
presenting his shield to the Copper Cliff
'1team: P. Duffy, (captain), L. Shore, J. Babin,
J. Clarke, E. Bosnick spare), and Manley
Bennett (coach). The other pictures show
the Cliff and Frood-Stobie teams in action,
closely observea by the two judges, Dr. H. F.
Mowat, chief surgeon of Inco, and Dr. J. H.
Stanyon.
A total of 165 teams made up of 1,000 men
took part in the 1953 First Aid contests, Mr.
Parker said in his brief remarks; he stated
that the Company takes great pride in the
fact that more than 2400 of its employees
are fully trained in First Aid.
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RAISED THE ROOF
Jack Know what the ceiling said to the
four walls?"
Harry: "Nope"
Jack: "Hold me up, boys I'm pla.ctered!'
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I 150A tteizded the
Plate Shop Ball
'At Caruso Club
Good music, good food, and a good crowd
of friendly people made the second annual
Plate Shop Ball, held at the Caruso Club by
the men of the plate shop at Copp.'r Cliff. a
heck of a good party. A total of 75 couples
attended.
The accompanying pictures were taken just
as festivities were getting underway, and
show
1. On the left, Albert Merrifield, Miss
Yolande Roy, Mr. and Mrs. Buster Irving; oil
the right, Mr. and Mrs. Gethroe Thompsoll
and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Thompson.
2. On the left, Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Lind.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Basainette; on the right,
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lind and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Alexander.
3. On the left, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Chop,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Semanuik; on the right,
.Steve Hawryluk, Miss Edna Mash, Mr. and
Mrs. Art Bouchard.
4. The master of ceremonies, Earl Downey,
takes over the mike.
5. Pat Grass! (seated). secretary of the
affair, checks some details with a fellow
committee-man, Bob Kelly, who is accompanied by his wife. Other members of tt'o
committee which handled preparations for
the successful event were Buster Irvine and
Albert Merrifield.
Tremendous Effort
IBY Gatchell Midgets
Sudbury and District hockey fans, who saw
some pretty classy hockey as their Wolves
howled at the door of the Canadian senior
championship, nevertheless were electrified
by the showing of a bunch of youngsters from
Gatchell who put up a tremendous fight
against the powerful Toronto Marlboros in
the finals of the provincial midget hockey
championship.
Although the Marlies took the all-Ontario
decision in the rugged two-game series at
Sudbury, Gordle Buckman's Gatchell midgets
made such an impression in the first match
that more than 2,700 fans turned out to the
second "go" to holler themselves hoarse in
support of the game local youngsters.
Led by tricky little Delky Dozzi. who was
a standout all season along with Moe Bartoli
and Carl Nurmi, the Gatchell kids beat
,Coniston for the Sudbury and District
championship and the Frood Athletic Ti ophy.
They crushed the Soo midgets in a sudden,death game, scoring more goals against the
Soo netminder than he had let in all the
rest of the season, and they took the measure
of Rouyn in a best-of-three series.
AC('JDENT PENALTY
The Printed Word points out a valuable
contribution the newspapers make toward
disccuraging people from having accidents:
"They do this by printing the ages of the
people who have them, If Helen Glunk is
run over she comes before the public and
what's worse - before these who know her.
as Helen Glunk, 41. An accident is just about
the only time her age ciii dIg kor like this:
she ('an got married or organize the Floral
Society Annual Chi(ken Pie Sociable without
her ag"s dogging her, but having cii accident
isn't 'oi to."
Did von hoar jbout the tow perfuiiie that
dris'e' 5 i'rnI'ii ma çt? rt int'lls like mon€'
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Dar Storey Three-Trophy Winner at Levack
trcphy to, left to right, J. Mazur (vice), E.
Kauppinen (second), A. Hague (lead), and
Skip Storey. In the fourth group, receiving
the Dr. H. F. Mowat trophy from Dr. W. B.
Gibson, are D. Wright lead, S. Girouard,
Second;, E. Shank (vice, and Skip Vie
Romagna. In the picture at the right Vice-j
Skip Bill Bilows receives the Fera Memorial
trophy from A. Lcney, member of the club
executive; other members of his team, unable
to attend, were G. Thrall (skip), F. Dolci
second), and E. Mallette (leath.
The well-attended wind-up of the season,
held in the curling rink, was topped off by
a hearty lunch over which the boys replayed
a few memorable ends and talked happily
of the excellent pcsition in which the club
found itself at the close of a remarkably
successful first year.
WAS A 1vIIiNER
3 'YIEAR..S
It was the same old Storey" three time.s
ME. AND MRS. W. KRAZNOZONYK
when Levack Curling Club members assembled
fur their first annual presentation of prizes.
for seven years before transferring to Frood,
Dar Storey was the skip of no less than three where he rema'ed until he qualified for his
of the championship rinks receiving trophies, After almcst 38 years of credited sorvice as service pension, which became effective May 1.
a record which will probably stand for all a miner, Bill Krasnozonyk has traded his hard Married in 1912, Bill's wife died in 1941.
time in the club, hat for a fedora and will spend the rest of He was remarried in 1945 to Mrs. B. Kozara,
In the first of the above pictures Super- his days taking it easy. who has two daughters, Jean Mrs. John
intendent Frank McAteer is presenting the Born in Austria, Bill came to Canada in Pothier and Mary (Mrs Jhn Carter;, both of
H. J. Mutz trophy to the Storey lineup that May of 1914 and soon enrolled with Mond Sudbury.
won the Plant Bonspiel, left to right, E. Nickel Co. at their Worthington Mine. He His mates who have been working along
Wrixon second;. J. Hatch vice;, and skip was one of those who rode the last cage up with Bill at Frood-Stobie and admire him
Storey. Not shown is E. Hilton lead;. In fiom underground that fateful night in 1927 for his dependability as a miner, all hope he
No. 2 Frank Palumbo. the popular president after Superintend'nt Bill Mumford had will have a lung and happy retirement at
of the club, awards his trophy to, left to noted ominous rumblings and ordered the his cosy home at 474 Frood Road.
right, W. Lord lead;. R. Ludgate second. mine cleared: some hours later occurred the
W. Bilows Vice; and Skip Storey. cavo-in which put an end to operations at
In the third photograph W. Bell. vice- Worthington. Its easy to control your temper when the
president of the club, presents the Rolmac Bill was moved to Gar.son and was there; other fellow outweighs you.
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1953
Chairman Reviews Another
Outstanding Year for Inco
duced by our United Kingdom subsidiaries,
"Nickel is one of the fundamental
are now in regular scheduled airline operametals of the world and the number of
places in 'hlch it can be used is iimited tions. Experimental gas turbines in locomotives have been sufficiently satisfactory
only by our imagination and our wiii to
to justify production orders for such equipseek them out."
Such ls Inco's basic belief as expressed ment.
Insistent need for more powerful and
by Dr. John F. Thompson, chairman of
the board, in his address to the share- efflcient aircraft engines has imposed on
holders of the Company at the 51st our research facilities (in Birmingham, Engannual meeting heid at the Royal York land: Glasgow, Scotand; Baynne, New
Hotel in Toronto on April 29. Jersey, and Huntington, West Virginia) the
Excerpts from Dr. Thompsons broad dis- task of developg heat and corrosion resist-
cussion of Inco's affairs follow: ing alloys for jet engine service to operate
Nineteen fifty-two was another outstanding : at even higher temperatures than those now -. :
year in the Company's history. For the third encountered. New alloys to meet these re- successive year we maintained production quirements have been offered to engine
at capacity and supplied more than 75 per manufacturers for test.
cent of the nickel used by the free world.
PEACE-TIME USES
In the last three years, in response to an
MAKING OBSERVATION PAY
unprecedented demand, the Company de- Present government restrictions on end-uses
livered a total of nearly 100,000,000 pounds of nickel for electroplating, in ,ICSS Noticing things, and then giving some
more nickel than the amount which we de- steels and high nickel alloys, in copper-base serious thought to what you have noticed, is
livered over any prior three-year period, and aluminum-base alloys and in engine- the way to make the Employees Suggestion
exclusive of World War II. Our 1952 deli- ering alloy steels have, except in special Plan pay off handsomely. A first class
veries of nickel in all forms totalled cases, temporarily stopped effective develop- example went into the book recently when J.
249,000,000 pounds, an increase of more than ment of new uses. Some of our peace-time Brady of Garson Mine collectd $231.00 for
5,000,000 pounds over 1951. markets have been lost, but only tempo- suggesting that plastic domes be used on
rarily. Some may have been permanently mine trip lamps instead of glass domes,
DISTRIBUTION OF NICKEL
diminished or even permanently lost. But which are more expensive and have a high
Distribution of nickel throughout the year'we will discover new fields and certain uses replacement frequency. He's seen here acwas made internationally in accordance at present small, will be greatly expanded justing a locomotive controller in the Garson
with allocations recommended by joint action as the preparedness demand decreases. Mine electrical department.
of the Canadian and other member Govern- The concentration on preparedness has ______ _________________
ments of the International Materials Con- widened the range of our experience with Deliveries of all these metals combined
ference. Approximately 68 per cent of the many alloys in many fields and under some- totalled 287,000 ounces in 1952 compared
free world's supply was allocated to the United times novel conditions. This accumulated with 375,000 ounces in 1951, and 267,000
States and over 18 per cent to the United knowledge and experience will be invaluable ounces in 1950.
Kingdom, Canada and other Commonwealth to us when nickel again may be supplied The Company's output of platinum and
countries, without restrictions for all peace-time requireThe needs of military programmes and ments. They have completely confirmed the palladium was sold mainly in the United
defence-supporting industries and the build- outstanding role of nickel in the modern states market. Since the outbreak of flosup of government reserves required contin- industrial world. tilities in Korea, Canadian platinum, as in
uation of conservation and end-use restric- * * previous emergencies,
has been
a mainstay
in supplying United
States requirements
for
tions. The consumption of nickel, therefore,
THE FUTURE FOR COPPER
did not reflect free markets. Deliveries of refined copper in 1952 of : defence and defence-supporting purposes.
From free-world supplies of primary nickel, 234,300,000 pounds closely approximated those; Large additional quantities of platinum
which were larger in 1952 than in the pre- of 236,900,000 pounds in the previous year. metals are produced and sold in world
vious year, significant quantities were, how- Our Canadian consumers, as in 1951, re- markets by other free-world countries, inever, made available to the civilian economy ceived 55 per cent of the total. The remainder cluding particularly South Africa, and also
after taking out amounts allocated for the continued to be marketed in the United Colombia and Alaska.
defence programmes and making deliveries Kingdom, the United States and Continental This year is the 150th anniversary of the
to the United States Government stockpile. Europe. discovery of palladium by the British scientist,
As in the recent past, the steel industries With freedom of copper from all controls William Hyde Wollaston, who found this
of the United States, the United Kingdom and the end of bulk buying in the United precious metal in association with native
and Canada continued to consume the largeEt Kingdom, which may occur this year, our platinum. Within a few years, he and his
quantities of nickel. However, the defence competitive position as a seller of copper business partner, Smithson Tennant, a1o
prcgrammes in 1952 emphasized a growing should remain strong. The Company has discovered rhodium, iridium and osmium. Of
demand for nonferrous alloys containing been able to readily sell its refined copper the six platinum metals, only ruthenium
nickel. in preferred markets, and for the most part escaped their notice. These discoveries were
to regular customers of long standing. The an outgrowth of Wollaston's successful effort
recognized quality of our metal and our to produce malleable platinum for commerNICKEL IN AIRCRAFT
The production of military aircraft in the capacity to produce a wide range of vertically cial use without resort to melting.
United States, the United Kingdom and cast special shapes will be very helpful in Today, 150 years after its discovery, palCanada in 1952 consumed large amounts of future competition. ladium is a precious metal important in both
nickel-containing alloys, including engin- Concern has been expressed that the market industry and the arts and we have become
eering alloy steels, stainless steels and com will be unable, in the face of increasing its principal producer. It has many uses
plex heat-resistant, or 'super", alloys, competition from aluminum, stainless steels in electrical switching apparatus, as a cataA large quantity of the primary nickel and similar materials, to absorb the expected lyst in chemical processes, in dentistry, and
for aircraft alloys in the Un'ted States is enlargement of world copper production. My in jewelry and adornments. These estaconsumed by the steel indusi:y, which uses experience with this type of competition j blished uses are being further developed and
it iii the manufacture of special jet engine that in the long run good development and new ones discovered.
alloys, as well is in stainless steels Rnd low sales effort.s on any one commodity tend
MINING EXPANSION
alloy steels. to expand the markets Lor all. The developHigh nickel alEoy of the Nimonic and ing of markets for copper in the coming The Annual Report has referred t,o the
Inconel types produced in our plant.s in the years will be helped greatly by the high cost progress we have made during the year in
United Kingdom and the United States of construction, maintenance and repair, and various phases of our underground mining
have been required in such large volume as 'the consequent economy resulting from the expansion programme, This programme.
to necessitate expansion in production fa- use of more permanent materials, financed entirely out of the Company's own
resources, has made oosible our current
annual production rate of approximately
Additional nickel consumption can be fore-'
WOLLASTON ANNIVERSARY
seen in gas turbines and aircraft jet engines' Our production of platinum and palladium, 250,000,000 pounds of refined nickel,
for other than military uses. British com- the two principal platinum group metals, as We have repoi'ted in recent years that
mercial transports equipped with jet engines, well as of rhodium, ruthenium and iridium, the mining of our open pits was expected
containing special alloys developed nd pro- continued at a high level, to be completed by the end of 1953. It has
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than we had previously anticipated and,
therefore, the life of the pits will be somewhat extended,
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EXPLORATION
As can be noted from the Annual Report,
we have approximately doubled our expendi- ''
tures for exploration as compared with the
previous year.
In the Sudbury Basiii, where we have six operating mines and large holdings of mining -4
lands, our exploration activities were intensified. Geological and geophysical studies
have been actively pursued within the areas
immediately adjacent to our operating properties and in the vicinity of other known
ore occurrences. Extensive studies also have
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been made of other locations within the
Basin where geological structures and information justified further exploration or;
diamond drilling. ;
Added to these activities has been the work
undertaken in the Northwest Territories on:
At the Recreation Club in Port Colborne the season's 10-pin bowling champs were
the exploration concession which we received: the Anodes, seen above Jack Royal, Harold Knox, Robert Dobson, Eugene "Smoogy"
from the Canadian Government in 1951, and
KowaLsky, captain, Eddie Balogh, and Carlo Martini,
referred to in our Annual Report of that year. _________
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Due to the remoteness of this area, exploration is both difficult and expensive. For of a new and modified process, these metals ing as an alloy element had we not deliberwill now become available in increased quan- ately set out to bridge the gap between pure
example, it has
been necessary
to establish
permanent
winterized
camps and
to replace tity and of gi'eater purity. Considerable science and industrial practices. What is
the conventional methods of ground trans- progress was made during the year in the; learned in development and research laborportation with thoroughly reliable air trans- conservation of acids and reagents used in atones and also in the field is assembled
portation. the refining of precious metal concentrates, and made known to both scientists and
You have probably seen references in the; Birlec Limited, of Birmingham, England, industrialists through our technical service
ress to our work at Mystery Lake in northern a wholly-owned subsidiary, celebrated its sections located in various key industrial
Manitoba. This investigation is still in the twenty-fifth anniversary in 1952 with its areas in the United States and Canada, and
preliminary stages and all that has been total volume of sales at an all-time high technical information centers located in the
determined is the presence of a large low- record. This plant produces arc-type and United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy,
grade nickel deposit, non-commercial under induction melting furnaces, a wide range of Germany and five other countries. The
present conditions. Exploration is being I industrial heating and annealing furnaces, oldest of these information centers, Centre
d'Information du Nickel, of Paris, France,
actively pursued to determine the extent of and dryers. celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary during
the deposit and to search for possible enrich- j With the expanded facilities mentioned the year,
went of ore grades. at this time last year and continued high
We must continue to make heavy expendi- levels of demand for defence, the output
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
tures for exploration in order that the huge of our Huntington Works in West Virginia The Company's educational service actitonnages of ore which are being consumed was more than 15 per cent above that of vities are now in their seventh year and are
each year by our operations may continue 1951. Nickel-chromium alloy production Was used by 175 universities and colleges in
to be replaced. • : higher, most of which went to the aircraft , Canada, the United Kingdom and the United
industry. The volume of high nickel alloys States which offer accredited courses in
PLANT OPERATIONS
supplied by our subsidiary, Henry Wiggin engineering subjects. These institutions are
With the continuation of peak demand & Company, Limited, from its plants in supplied currently with up-to-date technifor nickel, our smelters at Copper Cliff and Birmingham, England, and Glasgow, Scotland, cal information for faculties, students and
Coniston, Ontario, and our refineries at was the largest which this company has ever : libraries. Each institution has received nickel
Copper Cliff and Port Colborne, and Clydach, recorded, with the Nimonic se'nies of alloys, ' alloys for laboratory study and a comprehenWales, operated continucusly throughout the principally for the aircraft industry, figuring sive exhibit of nickel-containing materials.
year so as to maintain the Company's pro- prominently in the total. i The scope of this service Is expanding
duction at full capacity. Operations at our Bayonne Works in New and includes literature for 75 other degreeTwo important process developments at Jersey were higher than a year ago. his giving schools, including technical institutes,
Copper Cliff the recovery of nickel and plant is an established source of high for science teachers in many secondary
iron ore from n.ickeliferous pyrrhotite and temperature alloys in sand cast forms and schools and for public libraries. In some
the oxygen flash smelting of copper concen- precision investment-castings for industrial institutions, special lectures and assistance
trates - were referred to in the Annual and aeronautical components. Demand for in organizing courses in metallurgy have
Report. The oxygen dash smelting project welding electrodes, another important product, been given.
has already reached the point where by- continued to increase. Production facilities Fifteen fellowships for study in the fields
product liquid sulphur dioxide is being during 1952 were enlarged to provide for of nickel, copper and the platinum metals
delivered to the Canadian trade. The pyr- current demands and also anticipated in' are currently in effect in Canada, the United
rhotite process has been carefully tested by creased sales. Kingdom and the United States.
pilot plant procedures and we are now
taking the steps necessary for designing DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH NICKEL A FUNDAMENTAL METAL
a first production unit. Development and research efforts continued Each year we have endeavored to pres.'nt
As a result of major alterations completed to be directed largely toward the problems to our shareholders a continuing picture of
during the year. the operating efficiency of encountered in rearmament and in the the Company's development and of its part
our nickel refinery at Clydach has been adjustments required by civilian producers in the fields of mining, refining and selling
greatly improved. In addition, encouragiiiig faced with the necessity of using emergency nickel, copper nd the platinum metals. I
results obtained on a pilot scale have war- alternates in place of the materials with think it has been apparent for many years
ranted the installation of a full-scale unit which they have been familiar. It is in- that our basic belief has been that nickel is
which is expected to result in savings in the teresting to note that, even in these times of one of the fundamental metals of the modern
cost of producing nickel at this refinery, prolonged restrictions on the use of metals, World and that the number of places in
The alterations in the department dealing it has proved impracticable to satisfy many which it can be used is limited only by
with the recovery of cobalt and copper have of the requirements of industry in terms of our imagination and our will to seek them
been completed and this department is now other alloys containing less nickel. Appreciable out. We still are animated by the convicni full operation, enabling the oxides and knowledge of the usefulness of nickel has tion that there are many uses for nickel
salts of those nietals to be more efficiently been gained which, coupled with the fruits as yet undiscovered and that by determination
r'xti'acted and recovered, of long-term research projects, will be of and persistent effort these new uses will be
The capacity for production of rhodium, great assistance in promoting future markets found and developed profitably. Your Comruthenium and iridium at the precious metals when conservation measures are no longer pany is in a strong position, both in material
refinery in Acton, London, has been increased in effect, resources and in skilled and experienced
by about 75 per cent. By the introduction Nickel would not now enjoy its high stand- , personnel, to successfully continue this task,
tage
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Metal Painting Produces Fireworks
George Free/a izd
Now on Pension
Although a heart conditicn forced him to
apply for d.sability pension when he wa.s
oniy a tittle more than a year short of full
retirement age. George Freehand of FroodStubie No. 3 Shaft warehouse .s 'aured by
his doctors that he can look forward to many
years of slippered 'ase if hell just take good
care of hinmelf uld relax 24 hours a day.
A happy Scot with studious inctination
his favorite hobby has been r'ading the
works of the great philosophers), George has
won many friends despite the quiet tenor
of his way, and they are unanimous in good
wishes for his health and contentment.
A regular fireworks dlsplay, as lf a perpetual Iloman candle had been lit, ls seen
as Harold Lambert bullds up a shaft wlth stalnless steel ln the machine shop at the
Nlckel Ileftnery ln Port Colborne. The process is known as metalizlng, A stainless
steel wlre is drawn through a hand gun under alr pressure and, melted by an oxy-aietelyne torch, ls sprayed onto the shaft as lt revolves ln the lathe. The method is much
faster than electrlc welding.
Ransom.
11. ThIs time it's a lesson on the Bren
gun by Sgt. Schmidt Ueft tc Cfn. Bryce,
(Continued from Page 9) Cfn. Lepage, Cfn. Clare, and Cf n. Cram.
explains the ignition system of a motorcycle 12. Parade over and another busy nlght's
to Cfn. Boyce, Cm. Leach, and Cfn. Elllott. duties discharged, this group relaxes ln the
9. A new bench lathe, recently arrlved at comfortable officers' mess while Major D. H.
the armories as part of additlonal equlpment Forster, MBE, ED, Ueft), who has been
to be installed, is set up by Cpl. Tuori, ccmmanding officer of the unit slnce lts
electriclan, and Sgt. Abbott, mechanic. ineeptlon, spins a yarn. Others are 0: c
10. Basic instructlon on the Sten gun ls R. Bryant, Lieut. G. Des Groseilliers, 0/c J.
glven by Cpl. MacNeill (second from rlght) Coward, Lleut. Ted Harber, Capt. Gord
to new members of the unlt, Cfn. Bush, Cfn. Machum, Lleut. Tom Plckard, and Lleut. Les
It Is just a little over 24 years ago that Dahlwlck, Cfn. Perreault, Cfn. Allan and Cfn. Ramsay.
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George showed up at Frood Mine one morn- ________ ___________________________________________________________________
ing to take a job in the steel shop whlch _________________
had been promlsed to him by his frlend and
fellcw Scotsman, Jack Dingwall, whom he had
met on a vislt to Suabury. George, who had
been working in clothlng stores in Toronto
and Hamllton since hls arrlval ln Canada
a
in 1927, was determlned to make a good first
impresslon at hls new place of employment, ______________________________________________________________________________
and so was wearlng his beet blue sult and a
pearl grey hat. He
steel shop was no place for that sort of attire.
About a year later he was transferred to
the warehouse staff and he remained there
throughout his career with the Company,
earning a reputation for steady and reliable
service in the big task of feeding the hungry
underground operations their highly varied
diet of supplies.
There was a fine turnout at the retirement
party they staged for George in the Oddfellows' Hall in Sudbury. Mac Forsythe,
general purchasing agent of the Company,
was master of ceremonies and spoke in
'appreciative vein of the sterling qualities of
the guest of honor. Presentation of a purse
of money was made by Pete Sewart.
Born at Motherwell, Scot1nd, on July 12,
1889, son of a contractor in a steel plant,
George was 'a clerk in the vork of the
Lanarkshire Steel Co. in his home town for
24 years. During his ervice in World War I.
in which he won the Military Medal, he was
married while on leave in Dundee in 1916
to Janet Andrews. This happy partnership
was broken in February of 1952 with Mrs.
Freeland's death in Sudbury.
Their two daughtc'rs are Joan Mrs. Norman
Beaton) and Mary Mrs. Garnet MacGillivray both of Sudbury. There are four
grandchildren. one girl and three boys.
soon
found
out
that
the
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Art Weaver and
New Diesel Loco
The holder of the longest service record
among hourly rate employees, and the neWest
piece of equlpment at the plant, are the team
seen in the accompanying pictures taken at
the Nickel Refinery in Port Colborne.
Art Weaver, who started with Inco back
in 1918, recently climbed down from the footplate of the plant's old ,team locomotive and
took over the controls of a brand new diesel
engine.
'She's quite capable of doing all she's asked
for, gives you better vision from the cab, is
cleaner and more comfortable," ay Art of
hls new stead. 'What's more, there's no
coat to are, no boiler to fill, and she's more
efficient."
In the top picture the rli'w locomotive Ls
presumably engaged in chasing the old iron
horse off the property.
Prrtd