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VOLUME- 5 OCTOBER, 1945 NUMBER 7
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i1\'Iore Receive
Safet y /\wards
Employees at Coniston Smelter were re
cently pre:ented with the INCO badge of
safety distinction , the 100,000.SafeShifts P'
to which was attached a bar signifying that
they had also achieved their second 100,000
safe shifts.
Coniston was the first plant to qualify for
the new safety award, which was inaugurated
last year. On Ian. 7, 1944, it completed
100 , 218 fe sbifts in a drive which began
the previous May. Then, never faltering
in itS stride , Coniston went straight through i
to September 7 without a lost.time accident,
increasing its safe shift total to 200,161 and
qualifying it for bars as well aq nins. The
spectacular record was not broken until an I
accident took place on Dec 3 , after 227,965
safe shifts longest such run in the historyof
INCO operations.
Supt. Ed. Austin reented the pins and
bars to the Coniston workers, congratulating
each one perSonally.
Other INCOites who are proudly wearing
1OOOOO.Safe Shifts pins are the employees
of the Power Plants who started their acci
dent.free run on August 29 1936, and had
piled un their 100 , 000 safe shifts by April 7
of thi year. They're still going strong
tOO.
They received their fins from Suot. W. E.
Gillespie.
Hat off to you Coniston and Power
Plants!
'I'h( y- II t(I I? ai th
Every week since V.E Day the men have
been coming home from Overseas. They are
the boys who left Canada's shores on the great
adventure .
They are not boys any more .
They are men who have put behind them
boyish things. They are men of courage and
spirit.
These men had faitI in Canada and were
willing and eager to fight for her. And we
.ire not going to let them down!
The best
we can offer in job training, in education, in
rhe development of their natural talents is
being provided them. Practical help and
financial help are betng given to them in helping to re-establish themselves in business or
industry-to set them up in homes of their own
with the independence for which they fought
so unselfishly and so successfully.
All this costs money. It's going to keep on
costing morey for months and years. But
every Canadian will be unanimous in sa y in g
that it ertainly is money well spent. Funds
for these purposes are built up from Victory
Loan subscriptions. That is why the money
you subscribe during the 9th Victory Loan
Drive will be just ibout the most important
transaction since the Second World War began, It is so importint thit we urge every
one of our men and women to rehze tts
rgncy tnd necessity and sithsrtbe indtvtduilly rn even greitr um than has been so gen
erouslv ntri-ed )r tn pre tous Loins.
Thtnk o our rcsponsihtlittes to the boys who
fire comtng bick- think whit would be hap.
pening to us tf they hadnt come back victorious rnd "Stgn Your Nime for V ctorv'
ROt 1IW HONOR
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'i THESE HAtDIED. .TO PRESERVE OUR W OF lIFE.AUBREY A. RODGERS
ALBERT S. BLANCHARD
C. J. FISHER
Frood Mine
Copper Cliff Mchnical
Copper Cliff
CLAUDE R. MOORE
EURWEDD OWEN
FRED GREEN
Creighton Mine-Mechanical
Frood Mine
Copper Refinery
CHAS. M. COMPLIN
THOS. B. FORESTELL
LLOYD
Frood Mint--Mechanical
Coniston Electrical
Frood Mine
DOUGLAS C. FLESHER
WILLIAM GORDON
EARL DAUBNEY
Frood Mine--Mechanical
Port Colborne
Port Colborne
JOHN D. DOUGLAS
ALEX STALKER
ROBERT L.
Frood Mine
Frood Mine
Coniston Electrical
THOS. D. FOLEY
ARTHUR F. HOOD
F. CAMPBELL BUSHFIELD
Creighton Mine
Frood Mine
Frood Mine
GtO. E. POSTLETHWAITE PHILIP SOULLIERE
RONALD H. FOX
Frood Mine
Levack Mine
Frood Mine
HUBERT LAFRANCE
RICHARD C. DAOUST
JOHN L. F. LOWN
Police
Coniston Flctrical
Grson Mine
WALLACE IBBOTSON
FREDERICK KONIG
EDWARD F. KLEMMER
Copper Cliff Stores
Port Colborne
Creighton Mine
DOUGLAS A. MAY
MORLEY P. LOYST
LEO BERNARD WALKER
F rood Mine
F roo d Mi ne
Po l ice
ARMAND ETHIER
GEORGE N. MOORE
HARRY MAKI
Creighton Mm.
Frood Mine
Copper Cliff Electrical
DAN BERNARD
KENNETH A. GREIVE
CHARLES E. BROWN
Copper Cliff Smelter
Copper Cliff Smelter
Port Colborne
CLARENCE J. BAIN
LEONARD SMITH
CLARENCE NICKEL
C opper C l i ff -Mechanica l
C opper Cliff Concentrator
C opper Cl i ff S me l ter
MAURICE WILSON
LESLIE R. SCOURFIELD
JOHN STEPHEN KITTS
Open Pit Mechanical
Creighton Mm.
Copper Clff-Reearch
CLARENCE L. STEVENS
CLIFFORD DONAHUE
CLIFFORD G. GRAHAM
Frood Mine
Fro.d Mine
Copper Refinery
LAWRENCE J. McHUGHEN HARRY S. McINTYRE
THOMAS EASTON
Frood Mjn
Frood Mine
Frood Mine
W ALTER DA V ID C OOPER
GEORGE D. LEES
WILLIAM T. LANE
Copper Cliff Smelter
Murray Mine Electrical
Copper Cliff-Electrical
JOSEPH P. HALL
DAVID SCOTT
LESLIE BUTLER
Port Colborne
Coniston Smelter
Port Colborne
WM.
BRODIE
ANDERSON
ELMER
NEUMANN
THOS. F. HYNDMAN
Levack Mine
Creighton Survey
Copper Cliff Smelter
WILLIAM E. A. McMITCHELL
HARRY FARR
BEATTY CAMPBELL
Copper Cliff Smelter
Frood Mine
Copper Cliff Smelter
GERALD ANDREWS
WILLIAM MUNRO
WILLIAM F. JORDAN
Copper Cliff Smltr
Copper Refinery
Copper Cliff-Mechanical
ARC-IIE FERGUSON
ERNEST TO RVILLE
FRANK E. ANDERSON
Frood Mine
Port Colborne
Garson Mine
WILBERT A. HEALEY
LEO WALKBR
JOSEPH H. EVELINE
Open Pit
Frood Open Pit
Copper Cliff Smelter
EDISON MENZIES
HECTOR DESAYBUX
GRAHAM CHABOT
Levack Mine
Creighton Mm.
Coniton Mechanical
WILLARD DESJARDINS
FRANK VID
JAMES ANDERSON
Carson Mtn.
Creighton Mine
Port Colborne
VICTOR RANGER
HUGH D. PAWSON
MAURICE ONUSKI
Crighton
Mine
Copper
Reflnry
Copper Cliff Smelter
EDGAR GUThRIE
LEN ROGERS
RUSSEL DAVID MAThERS
Copper Cliff
Port Colborne
Copper Refinery
ALBERT BRANKLEY
CARL WALTER STROM
JOSEPH P. SULLIVAN
Frood Mine
Gron Mine
Copper Cliff Smelter
GEORGE A. MITCHELL
ANTHONY SMRKE
FRED BUCK
Port Colborne
Open Pit
Copper Cliff-Mechanical
C. A. McKINNON
RONALD P. HUDSON
ALEX ROY
F roo d M m.
Copper R e fi nery
Port Colborn
PATRICK CRAWFORD
ALFRED J. GALLOWAY
JOHN MARSH
Open Pit
Frood Mine
Carson Mine
DONALD A. AUGUSTINE
LEONARD H. SAVILLE
STANLEY J. DUBOWSKI
Port Colborn
Port Colborne
Copper Cliff Smelter
ALFRED BALCOMBE
J. E. SOULIERE
JAMES SMITH
Port Colborne Copper Cliff
Copper Cliff
J. A. MYE CHARLES LEWIS WEAThERBY
VICTOR A. HUFFMAN
Frood Mine
Coniton
Port Colborne
DAVID H. JONASSON
BRUCE S. CORBETT
REGINALD GREENTREE
Coniton
Copper Cliff
Levack Mine
MURDOCK J. McLEOD
IVAN PAGE
ARTHUR DIWELL
Copper Cliff
Port Colborne
Port Colborne
DONALD D. McKERACHER
EMMETT J. DILLON
JOHN BECKETT
Copper Cliff
Creighton Mine
Port Colbore
ALBERT E. CLARKE
WILLIAM S. LOGUE
JAMES STANLEY HOWARD
Levack Mine
Copper Cliff
Frood Mine
JAMES L. MORTIMER
CECIL GOODREAU
WM. COLIN SOULE
Copper
Cliff
Copper Cliff
Copper Cliff
WALTER HUGH SCOTT
JOE ANDREWS
STEVEN MOLARCHUK
Frood Mine
Port Colborne
Creighton M ne
SIDNEY PHILIPCHUK
GORDON W. FERGUSON
HENRY EDWARD LACELLE
Copper Renery
Copper Cliff
Copper Cliff
ELDON THOMAS MAGILL LAWRENCE FREDERICK KING
DENNIS ARTHUR DAVEY
Copper Cliff
Gron Mine
Copper Cliff
ROBERT K. JACK
RAY EDWIN PATTERSON
HECTOR J. IECLAIR
G n.on Mine
Copper Refinery Copper Cli ff
DUNCAN MacKINNON
RODGER BRUNELLE MICHAEL OWENS HENRY GIPSON
l Copper Cliff Mchnial
Creihton Mine Cop per Cliff Smelter Copper Cliff Meh.n
LEE NASH AlEX. PHILLIPS
ERIC TIPLADY
JOSEPH C. KANE
I rood
1 rod Mine Port ('olhorn
Copper Cliff
PETE OBBEMA
PHILIP MJNTOSH BrRr MFEETORS ROBFRr K. JACX
(r..on Mine
(,pper Cliff (,,ir.,n Mine
()p Pt
WILLIAM POHO IIOW ARE PFTERSFN JOSEPH E. BOUI I T FRED RANGER
Copp-r (litf
rood Mire
l..vrk Mine
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JOS. P. BIRMINGHAM J OHN BII,RE N THN CRAWFORD HAROlD C. IRWIN
C tper ( 1ff Cni-.to Copper Cliff
(pp'r ( liff
I. GORMAN TIlT DOMNlC J. BELL ANTINO
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OCTOBER, 1945
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[IOSI "SENDS 'EM" AT EMPLOYEES CLUB DANCE
Bert Niosi, popularly called Canada's King of Swing", brought hi3 celebrated orchestra to INCO Employees Club in Sudbury on
Wednesday, Sept. 19, and drew a capacity crowd of dance fans. "He sends me" was the jargon of the jive heard on all sides. In these
Pictures are some of the club members and their guests who attended. Niosi is booked to return in October, playing at the Creighton Employees
Club on the 16th and again at the INCO Club on the 19th.
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Research Department's Annual Outing
O("f'013ER, 1945
own inner urge to write classical music, he
found himself chained to Broadway by the ease
and consistency with which he wrote popular
hit tunes.
As the film goes, there were two women in
Gershwin's colorful life, One, Julie Adams
(Joan Leslie) rose to Broadway fame to the
tempo of George's musical hits. The other,
Chrisiine Gilbert (Alexis Smith), met George
as the time of hi greatest struggle in choosing
between serious music and Broadway hit showi
and decided, most sensibly, that in either
eventuality he was a man who belonged solely
to his art.
A veritable musical feast, "Rhapsody In
Blue" presents in all twenty-nine of Gershwins
own compositions, including all of his more
serious works, and the most popular of his
Tong hits.
Also Sudbury.bound during October:
"Bring on the Girls" with Veronica Lake,
Son.ny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, and Marjorie
Reynolds; "Night Club Girl" with Slapsie
Maxie Rosenbloom; "China Sky" with Ran.
dolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, and Ellen Drew;
"I'll Remember April" with Gloria Jean;
"Maytime" with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette
MacDonald; One Thousand and One Nights"
in technicolor with Cornel Wilde (star of
"Song to Remember"), Evelyn Keyes, and Phil
Silvers; "Enchanted Cottage" with Dorothy
McGuire, Robert Young, and Herbert Mar.
shall; "Lady on a Train", Deenna Durbin's
newest; "Son of Lassie" with Peter Lawford,
)onald Crisp, and June Lockhart.
Advance tip for November: "Conflict" with
Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, and Sydney
Jreenstreet.
Draped nonchalantly over the sleek lines of Sproule, and Harold Borland; back row, Allan
'Two Ton Tony", flagship of Bill Gemell's Hughes, Harold Gathercole, Morley Gleason,
fleet at Lake Penage, members of the Research Arch Frame, Alex illis, Fred Huska (standing),
Department at Copper Cliff posed with their Geof Leech, Lud Ryski, and Wilf Craven.
guests for this picture by Jim Lee, August 5. Clarence Buck, who was barred from the picThey were on their fifth annual fishing trip. ture on account 0f being a professional, won
in the group are, left to right, front row, first prize for the day's best bite, a nice 3-lb.
Johnny Morrow, Willard Hughes. Fred Bur. pickerel. Fred Burchill took second money.
chill, Bob Saddington, Terry Bradbury, Kel kel Sproule caught a fine cedar tree. Lawns and gardens in INCO towns have
been judged by J. M. Mcintosh, agricultura'
Fulfilling the promise contained in its title tepresentative, Sault Ste. Marie, and prizes
(borrowed from Gershwin's best.loved musical awarded annually by the International Nickel
composition), t'e film presents an unabridged Company have been sent to the winners.
rendition of "Rhapsody In Blue" with Paul As usual, competition was keen in Coppei
Whiteman on hand to conduct and Oscar Cliff. in Creighton the gardens competing in
Award Prizes
For Gardens
Levant, lifetime friend of the composer, doing the improvement class were very good, pti.
full justice to the piano passages. Both stars cularly in the new townsite where the wor't
done on lawns and flowers added much to the
ave speaking parts as well, in the film, as do
many other notables of stage and screen who appearance of the town. In this respect
figured prominently in the composer's life, Creighton had a substantial edge on Levack.
where home-beautifying initiative was not nearAmong them are: Al Jolson, George White,
Hazel Scott, Ann Brown and Tom Patricola. ly as much in evidence in the new townsite.
______________________________________________ Several prizes were awarded in each class.
The warm and human story 0f the rise Top three winners in the various events were:
"RHAPSODY IN BLUE" a young Ametican from the sordid, uninspired 1. Most attractive home surroundings in
A musical treat of magnificent proportions tanks of New York's lower East Side, "Rhap. Copper Cliff, the effect of whi has beer
is Warner Bros.' newest and most distinguished cody in Blue" is a remarkable saga of inspira. obtained chiefly by lawn and flower plantings:
biographical film to date, "Rhapsody in Blue", tion and simple human dignity. 1, J. F. McKerrow; 2, G. H. Ferguson; 3,
the story of George Gershwin. With a glitter. Gershwin's talent sprang mushroom.like, E. H. Sutherland.
ing cast
of top-rank
performers
headed
Robert
Alda,
newly-created
star who makes
hisby from an ot'erwise cordid boyhood. As a 2. Most attractive home surroundings in
screen debut as the immortal composer, and youngster of ten, he had picked un enough Copper Cliff, the efftct of which has been obJoan Leslie, Alexis Smith and Charlec Coburn music from studying the keyboatd of a player tamed by the judicious use of lawn, trees,
in other impo:tant roles, the film is an exciting piano in a neighborhood penny arcade, to shrubery, and annual and perennial flowers,
and thoroughly rewarding blend of musical and astound his devoted but poverty-ridden parents such plantings being fairly permanent in charcinematic achievement, certain to be warmly (played in the film by Rosemary DeCamp and acter and providing an all-season effect 1, Wm.
welcomed by music and drama lovers alike. Morris Carnovskyi by rendering a fairly accu Acheson; 2, F. Steadman; 3, W. W. Chanmar.
rate Rubenstein's Melody in F. By the time 3. Home surroundings in Copper Cliff on
was eighteen, George had advancd suflciently which the most improvements have been made
to be accepted as a pupil by the eminent Pro- in 1945; such improvements may conform to
fessor Frank (Albert Basse"man. S'spporting the requireme-its in Class I or Class 2:
himself by playing professionally, first in a V. Baker; 2, J. H. Bruce; 3, T. Crowther.
vaudeville theatre, later as a song-plugger in 4. Best home surroundings, Coniston: I, F.
New York's famed Tin Pan Alley, the young Lalonde; 2, F. M. Aggis; 3, R. Hood.
composer early began to write his own tunes, 5. Home surroundings at ('reighton most
it was through the efforts of mu'ic publisher improved during 1945: 1, R. Tuddingham; 2,
Max Dreyfus (Charles Coburn). his earliest J. Dingwall; 3, John Wasno.
chanspion and lifetime associate, that Gershwin 6. Most arractive I o m e sur-oundings.
achieved his first colid success wh"n Al Jolson. Creighton: 1, Bruce King; 2, F. J. Pitman:
'hen a star, introduced "Swanee"-Gershwin's 3, C. Drennrin,
rst song hit'-in a Winter Garden show. 7. Best home surroundings. 1.evack: 1, F.
From that moment, success, money and fame Jenkinson: 2, J. Kennedy; 3, Geo. Ruller,
1ooded in on the musician, bringing with them 8. Home surroundings in Levack most inPaul Whitemen diresting the orehe,jr in
s conflict that persisted to his untimely death proved during 1945: 1, W. Quenville; 2, E.
unbridg.d rendition o( George Ge,thwjn', heeo
iiful ".Rlsep.ody in Blue." in 1937. Spurred by Professor Frank and his Hilton; 3, W. Hegler.
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Soccer Revival
Suggested
Garson Sr
Marking the return of soccer to the Sudbury
District, Garson Mine Gunners Monday after- /'41 %.
noon defeated Newmarket Army 3-1 in a game -which featuted the Labor Day celebrations at Garson. The Gunners packed too much ________ . : scoring power for the visitors, leading by 2-0
at the end of the first half while each club
tallied in the final stage.
Tuoma Perela, the Garson Mine home pro.
duct, was the outstanding star of the game
with a pair of goals, although the young Army
goalie, Norn' Briley made him work for everything he got. The Garsonites opened the
scoring midway through the first half. Tommy
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Sheppard fed a pass over to Perela who headed finely made German camera, and a hand- Occupation of towns provided them with a
it into the corded cottage. This marked the painted plate from the olde3t and smallest variety of jobs. They were among the first
rst score in any soccer match played in Sud. republic in the world, San Marino. troops to enter, and all billets had to meet with
bury district since the disbanding of the old But the most highly prized of Bill's sou- their approval before being occupied. Work'eague in 1940. Just before the end of the venirs, naturally, is a very attractive young wife ing with AMG and the town mayor, they looked
balf Tommy Armstrong picked up a loose bail whom he married in England in January, 1941. over barber shops, eating establi3hments, water
and tallied. Newmarket closed the gap by one She was formerly Miss "Tommy" Wi3son, and points, and even the homes of the civilians
goal in the second when Bob Erkhart scored iad lived in Toronto for 14 years before re- .iemselves. Barbers who refused to sterilize
n a penalty shot. After this Garson cut loose uirning to the Old Country early in the war. the&r instruments soon found their shops closed.
tgain, with Perela punching home the final Fhey were wed in the same church where he Disinfestatio. centre3 also came under Control
count 15 minutes before the whistle blew, parents were married during the Last war, of the Section and civilians as well as soldiers
The match was played on the tine new foot.
I'all field which the Company has built at Bill is back at his old job of trackman at passed through delousing chambers. Typhus
Garson. In the above picture are the teams, 1'rood, where he hrst worked in 1935. He e killer was Public Enemy Number One as
c'fficials, and pipe band which played lively enlisted in September, 1939, in the Toronto far as the Section was concerned.
airs to give a gala atmosphere to the occasion. cottish, served three years with that illustrious Bill comes from a fighting family well known
In a return match at INewmarket on Sept. 15 regiment, and then transferred to a Canadian n Sudbury for its splendid war record. His
the two teams played to a 1-1 tie. Heartened Field Hygiene Secion, in which he was a ser- father, E. C. McDona'd, was with the tunnellers
by their splendid sFowing despite so many Jeant at war's end. He saw action in Sicily, at Gibraltar, and four of his bi others were also
occerle5s years, the Garson boys are agitating jtaly, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. in the services. Incidentally he told us that the
strongly for a revival of the Nickel Belt soccer A multitude of duties on which depended the name McDonald occurred most frequently in
1oop in 1946. Prospective entries are Garson, ealth of a whole Canadian division was the ..anadian Army roll calls, with MacDonald a
Frood, Falconbridge and Creighton. There is responsibility of a Hygiene Section, a highly Jose second.
no doubt that the public would strongly sup- efficient unit of less than 30 men. Precautions ________________
port a regular soccer schedule, and it is hoped against typhus and malaria, close tab on stan'
ATOMIC BOMB FLASH
hat the move to organize will be successful, dard,of hygiene in every brigade's camp, SAW
hecks on the division's 80 or 90 water trucks, A seat 85 miles from ringide is hardly what
and inspection of the sanitary co citions a boxing fan would call a reserved pew, but
abandond camp sites, were some of the impor- when an atomic bomb is taking part in the
F ant tasks carried out by the Field Hygiene main bout it's quite close enough.
nen, whose mighty weapon was a flit gun. Bob Boe.mer, formerly of Copper Cliff Con.
centrator, wrote last week from New Mexico
.0 E. H. Rose, as follows:
'You will note that we are about 85 miles
A beautiful silver-chased punch bowl, dated
from Alamogordo. Well, that morning (Juh
1894 and apparently some sort of an inter-city
16) Mrs. Boehmer said someone flashed a light
sports trophy, is among the interesting sou.
in our window, faclnR north. Later i the day
venirs which Bill McDonald has brought back
with him from overseas. There were a dozen
had accidentally blown up at the stoage dump
glaes with the bowl but four of them were
near Alamogordo. but no one was injured, It
broken in transit, He went relic.hunt&ng in
id thatthat
there had
a number of enquiries
Amsterdam to secure the outfit, which has been the radio announced
an been
ammunition
dump
from as far away a. Albuquerque where the
valued by a Sudbury jeweller at $300,
ash had been seen, We had no different idea
A cuckoo clock, made in the Black Forest;
ntil the real news was released following the
of Germany, and silver spoons from Belfait,
'innouncement by President Trumaii 20 days
Cardiff, Edinburgh Blackpool, G I a s g ow,
later that an aromic bomb had been dropped
Naples, Florence, and other cities are items
n a city in Japan. Then we knew we had
wh1ch Bill pulled from his bulging kit bag
sen the flash fron the first experimental Use
when he landed home last month, He also of the most devastating weipon man has ever
has some Itilian tapestries a gun or two, a BILL McDONALD & SOUVENIRS devised."
Brought Ilorrie F'ine
I_ct of Souvenirs
Rige TR1JtNGLE - OCTOBER, 1945
Levack 's
Monday, Sept. 3, was a gala day in Levack
, when the Athletic Association sponsored its
first field day after a lapse of several years.
Taking advantage of the perfect weather and
the legal holiday, upwards of 1,000 people
witnessed a full day of sports with the winners
copping liberal cash prizes or merchandise in
every event.
Frood Open Pit ran up a 7-5 victory over
Levack All-Stars in a hotly-contested softball
game but the local team evened it up by
registering a 4-2 victory over Frood All-Stars
in hard-ball.
Two other softball games were played during
the day, one a juvenile affair, in the other the
Levack girls thoroughly trounced a pick-up
tquad that trailed behind all the way.
On the tennis court Ron McFarlane won
over AIf. Mallette in the singles, lst prize
$5.00, 2nd prize $2.50. In the doubles McFarlane teamed up with Eddie McGaw to chalk
up another win and collect $2.50 each.
Eddie Sansom won $10.00 the hard way
when he packed the 100-lb. bag of sand four
fifths of a mile in exactly six minutes and 23
seconds; his nearest rival, B. Young, Sudbury,
came in right behind and collected $5.00 for
a real good try.
In a mucking contest, N. Zatezalo, from
Copper Cliff, won the $3.00 first prize; Willard
Petersen was second for $2.00, and Sam Tarabalka collected third prize, $1.00.
At 10.00 p.m. the lucky ticket was drawn
on a boat and motor and was won by Mike
Nestman. Joe LeFleur held the lucky ticket
on a $50.00 bond, proceeds from this draw
going to Christmas Tree Fund.
In the horseshoe contest L. Adair won the
$5.00 prize for the singles and teamed with
D. Simpson ro take the doubles. Glen Thrall
and T. Kuula led the way in the married men's
race and Wm. Major and T. Koz were first
to the tape in the gallop for single menThere was a full program of races for the
children.
Special prizes were awarded as follows: Best
decorated car, Bruce Moir, $5.00; best girl in
costume, D. Bolton, $2.00; best boy in costume,
S. Snider, $2.00; best decorated bicycle, R McNamara, $2.00; best dog in costume,
Williams, $2.00.
Members of the Athletic Association wish
o thank all who took part irs making this
Field Day such a decided success. Business
men and merchants of Levack contributed
largely both in time and money, and everyone
concerned intend to make this an annual event
in the years to come.
Seven special buses were used to convey the
large crowd from Sudbury md vicinity, and
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die record ttirnout rounded ow a perfe diy 5. Young Don XThIt w ipp'd he sat An outstanding pcr(nrln.1ne has been given
the Employees Club, thincing to the music sternly it the contiol oi the motor which, with by Art Gobbo, the hard-hitting Coniston
1 Gibson's Orchesua, boat, was won in a riff1e by lucky Mikp Nest- catcher, playing only his second year of senior
In the accompInyii1g hiyout arc pictures man. Don looked a; ii l wotildn'i hav. ball, who has inecied a large parcel of pep
snapped by the Triingk camera a lively littlc minded very much winning the outfit himsdl, into hi teim and who simply won't take no
Levack's celebration: and we shared his seniiments, It was a mighty for in answ&'r on thos' pop fouls behind th
Some of the gaily decorated bikes and nice prize. home plate cage. Another star is Garry Wal.
their owners, left to right, Raymond McNamara 6, Winner of the best coiume event among lace, razor-sharp Cliff second-sacker, whose
winner of this event), Eddie Kukkola. the girls was cute littie Donna Ann Boulton, fielding and hitting have left nothing to b
Halor Johnson, and Sophie Zaharic. een here in her attractive get-up with her dog, desired.
2, 4, 7, 9. The parade of costumed canines which was also specially gowned for the Pictured above are the two championship
created a good deal of amusement for th occasion, teams;
0wd, particularly when the dogs forgot their 8. Bruce Moir certainly did a swell job of COPPER CLIFF: back row, Mike Rosi, rf:
dignity and tried to start a fight despite the decorating his car, spending long hours with Gerry Wallace, 2b; Rocky Canapini, cf; Georg.'
(rnzied efforts of their owners at peacemaking. pins and brightly colored crepe paper, He Tresize, If; Maurice Kinkley, rf; Herb Perigoe,
H cre are four of the well-dressed contestants, received many compliments on his handiwork, ib; Joe Costigan, p; Stan Spratt, p; front row,
0wned by Norman Crawford, Peggy Wright, s well as a $5.00 award, lack Stack, trainer; Guy Hashey, utility; Ginny
Ronnie McNamara, and Marjorie Ovenville, 10. Two popular members of the crowd, Bertulli, 3b; Barney Hamilton, president of th
3, With the Wolf Cubs and the Levack Band een here enjoying potato chips and coke, wer. Copper Cliff Athletic Association; Joe Mcin the lead, the parade is seen here ready to Edgar and Pete Mallette, both former workers Donald, manager and c; Joe Paquette, cf;
proceed to the grounds by the Employees Club underground at Levack, who have seen service Bruno Taus, p; sitting, Percy Switch, ss;
where the celebration was held, overseas and are still in the Army. Boogey Signoretti, rf.
_________________________________________________________________________________ CONISTON: back row, Rolly Spencer, If;
Armand Lemieux, ib; Art Gobbo, c; Don
Slimmon, cf; Bernie Akey, scorer; Fuzzy
THOUSANDS OF FANS
WITH SPARKLING PLAY
TDELIGHT
Farnel, 2b; Mario Modesto, utility; Andy
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Gobbo, p; front row, Andy Barbe, rf; Einar
Strom, p; George Blake, ss; Custer Barazzuol.
3b; Teddy Evershed, utility; Sam Creswell,
________ coach Carmen Bray, p; Bill Evershed, trainer;
:itting, Bernie Forstell and Lefty Barbe,
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Close Race in
Ryan Contest
Although there are still three months to go
in the 1945 contest, the race for Ryan Award
honors is right into the home stretch as far
as INCO plants are concerned,
Garson, Creighton, Levack and Frood, in
that order, are each making a splendid bid for
the mine safety championship of all Canada.
or the regional award for Ontario which was
won last year by Frood,
As of August 31, Garson was in the lead,
with 6.46 accidents for every 1,000 men employed. Creighton was a close second with
7,28, Levack was running third with 9.17, and
Frood was fourth with 9.35.
As far as is known at Copper Cliff, all four
frequencies were better than that for any
other mine in Ontario to date. Frood won
:he regional award for Ontario last year with
2.64, and was second for Dominion honors,
which went to Stadacona with 10.7. Stadacona
iad an average working force of 187 men.
Some idea of how keen are the INCO mined
in their safety campaigns is seen in their per.
formance this summer. From July 14 to September 12 they operated without a single lost'
:ime accident.
Who'll lead the Ryan parade in 1945? The
€llow who can gaze into the crystal ball and
nd the answer to that riddle had better keep
the information to himself-he'd be mobbed
he went around making rash prophectes at
:his stage of the game.
Pb1T4:
IT'S A HARD LIFE
The sal esman waxed eloquent about the merits
of a vacuum cleaner, but the village housewife
wasn't impressed. She suggested that he talk
less and show her what the machine could do
Beaming broadly, the man fitted up the
er, thrust his arm into the chimney of the open
fireplace and brought a handfull of soot' which
he scattered over the carpet. He then shoveled
up some ashes from the grate and sprinkled
Drawing record crowds and dishing up some To reach the finals Copper Cliff took out them on the rug,
tally sparkling baseball, Coniston and Copper Frood, three gaines to one, and Coniton de "Now," he said, smiling triumphantly, "I'll
Cliff are locked in an exciting series for the leated Creighton, also by three games to one. show you what this vacuum cleaner can do.
Nickel Belt championship as we go to press The public has followed the playoffs closely. You'll be surprised, madam. Wheres the elecScores in the phiyoffs to date: Coni3ton, 4-3; giving the teams great support, The crowd at tic switch?"
Copper Cliff, 8-2; Coniston, 8-1; Coniston, 'the Sunday game on Sept. 23 was estimated at "Switch?" echoed the surprised woman, "we
3-I; Copper Cliff, 9-6. close to 7,000 people. use gas."
COPPER CLIFF' A ]V1 COI'JIS TO.2V
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B. C. BEARS DESPERA TE FROM MEA T RA TIONING
Intrepid big.game hunter who, in his spare time, is general anything. Almost before he realized his danger, Cec found his head
electric furnaceman at the Copper Refinery, where he has been em- in the bear's mouth. Laughing nonchalantly he sprang to his feet
ployed since 1930, Cec Matthews is seen in a struggle with a 900-lb. and engaged the vicious animal in a death waltz, at the same time
bear in this thrilling picture feature snapped exclusively for the Tn- unsheathing his shimmering blade. The bear forced him to his knees
angle by a daring cameraman working from the top of Mount Edith again but he had the situation under control. With the wild cry of
Cavell with a powerful telephoto lens. Carefree Cec, out for a stroll the true Tarzan he drew back his knife, then plunged it hilt-deep us
in a British Columbia jungle during his holidays, was attacked by cihe the brum's side. In the final act of this dramatic episode he is seen
bruin which, infuriated by meat rationing, was ready to eat almost in his bear skin, (Trail, B.C., newspapers please copy.)
STARTED WITH THE COMPANY
A T CREA N HILL MINE IN 1915
man could hope to work for.
In 1907 at Huntsville he was married
Miss Margaret Clark of Bracebridge, who di
in June, 1937. He has one daughter, M
guerte (Mrs. Don Dixon) and one son, Pc
James Borden, with whom he resides at 3
Melvin Ave., Sudbury. Once he gets the ha
of being retired he plans to do some travelli
but at the present time he's busy fighting
regular morning urge to pack a lunch.box a
flop the bus for the mine.
All his old cronies wi3h him many yei
of slippered ease.
HARRISON IS CHAMP
Final match for the 1945 championship of
Idylwylde Golf and Country Club found the
- .i two classy Frood shotmakers, George Harrison
'I
and Dan Stack, pitted against each other.
i In a closely contested game the smoothtroking Harrison took the decision. Twice ho.
a
.
-'
! piled up commanding three.hole advantages
- . only to see determined Daniel whittle them
-' ' - away. On the 36th green George was one up.
.
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* •XZs'
Stack had a 10.foot putt which would have
54
dtbh if he had
.
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I I It was a case of "Often the bridesmaid but
iever the bride" for Stack in his last three
Five old friends in a huddle at "Tuc" Scott's retirement party: left to right, Jim important matches of the season. In the
Myle, Howard Ringer, the guest of honor, Jim Stanley, and Harry Dennis. Manitoba Open at Winnipeg he was runner-up;
•
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the annual Labor Day tourney at the Sault
Back in the dashing days of 30 years ago Company pension, and the boys gave him a• 'Se was runner.up; in the Idylwylde chanipion
one or t e best camps in the Sudbury district, great send.off at a party in Sampo Hall. Bert -hip he was runner.up.
rrom a community spirit point of view, was Smiley, Assistant Master Mechanic of Mmes,
at Crean Hill Mine, which had beei discovered made a presentation of a gold watch to "Tut": HOME SOON H OP
by Francis Crean in 1885 and opened by thc of behalf of the gathering, and spoke highly
Canadian Copper Co. in 1905. 'of the guest of honor's popularity and record We were glad to get a postcard the other day
A leading spirit in Crean Hill doings was of conscientious service, from Trooper Wallace Urwin, son o,f the one
a versatile young fellow called Scott who re- Born in Desoronto in 1874. E. T. Scott was and only Tommy Urwin of Copper Cliff. Wally
joiced in the given names of Ellmore Tuttle cine of a family of eight, of whom three re' says he has enjoyed the Triangle, which has
i'nd who was promptly nicknamed "Tut" when main; he has a brother in Detroit and a sister kest him in touch w,ith home, but he admits
he arrived there in 1915. He had a fine tenor in Toronto. When he started at Crean Hill he d sooner be looking at some of his old
voice, he could play the guitar and piano or in 1915 it was as a policeman but two months friends than just reading about them, He is
fill in on half a dozen other instruments, and later he became a compressorman under Alex in Holland, and hopes to be back soon.
he was a good hand at getting up a concert, 'vlason. During the years down to 1945 he1
a dance, or a rousing stag party, During the corked on the compressors at Creighton, Mur.
next four years, until the mine closed down I ray, Levack and Frood, and was compressor. AND GLAD TO GET IT
in 1919, there was rarely a dull evening at man at Stobie from August. 1943, until his And remember, too, that there was a time
Crean Hill, and "rut" Scott could always be retirement, He cannot recall ever having been when Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife
found in the thick of the excitement, late for work, always got a kick out of his job, could eat no lean, but flow they eat what they
In August ihis veteran employee retired on and thinks INCO is as square a company as a 'can get, and lick the platter clean.
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By the time this issue of the Triangle is in
print, the INCO team will be champions of
tJe 1945 Port Colborne Softball League, barring earthquakes or atomic bombs. First two
games of the final series went to INCOs 9-5
and 8-1, the hard-trying Ironworks lineup
licrrally handcuffed by our boys.
In the second game Umbo Concessi emerged
a a one-man team. He turned in a beautiful
itching performance, allowing only four
bingles, and with two triples and a single he
betted in five runs.
Merle Noyes, INCO outfielder, with a batung average of .576 for eight games, won the
batting championship of the league. Sam
Walker of Canadian Furnace and Maurice
Walker of INCO5 tied for second place among
the loop's swatsmiths with averages of .500.
The three take the trophy and prizes donated
by A G. °Mike" Offord.
The fast-travelling INCO team is pictured
above: Left to right, back row, Maurice Walker,
coach; Art Doan, Jack Clark, Herb Haun, Joe
luke; front row, Stan Bremner, Merle Noyes,
r.loyd Fitzgerald, Umbo Concessi, manager;
BJ1 Zuck, Ray Brown, Vince Upper sitting,
Jim Haun, mascot and head rooter. Absent,
Ftjtz O'Neill and °Babe" Noble.
Second picture above catches one moment,
n the opening game of the playoffs with Lloyd
Fitzgerald waiting for a fat one, °Lym" Lymburner of Ironworks behind the bat, and Jim
Moore umpiring.
In addition to their local laurels, seven membrs of the INCO team are playing on the
t.rry Port Colborne Dairy lineup which has,
rehed the Ontario finals of Intermediate B
ohball, and now await word as to whether
next victim will be New Toronto, KingIton, Cobalt, or Orillia. For some reason best
kwn to themselvs, the boys are kinda hoping
Cob!t will qualify for the execution. Those,
from INCO playing on the Dairy team RayJ
BFown, Bill Zuck, Fritz O'Neill, Herb Haun,
Urnbo Concessi, Maurice Walker, and °Babe"
Better to be a strong man with a weak point,
Lhn a weak man without a strong point. A
dnond with a flaw is more valuable than a
brick without a flaw.-Wm. J. H. Boetcker.
The best way to strengthen one's judgment
is to exercise it-The Shaft.
The world is moved not only by the mighty
*love of the heroes, but also by the aggregate
cii the tiny pushes of each honest worker.H, Kellogg.
Perennial
Any time the people in the general office
at Port Colborne are unable to get away for
a couple of weeks in Florida, which is quite
often, they pick up their Vitamin D by simply
basking in the rays of Jack Wilson's sunny
disposition.
Born on Sept. 27, 1888, in Barrhead, Scotland (or had you guessed it by his accent) Jack
was one of a family of six, evenly divided
betweei5boys and girls. As a braw lad he
'layed little golf but lots of hookey, fishing
,or brook trout and perch in the streams and
ochs which abounded near his home. Even-
ually he graduated to cricket and soccer, playng outside right in the latter game. Later he
#as to perform at the same position in Copper
Cliff, swinging over well-placed corner kicks to
accomplished booters like Jack Thompson, Art
nd Dick Death, and Brodie Brown.
In May of 1912, after he had worked his
vay up to the position of assistant paymaster
.n a Barrhead firm by the name of Shanks &
o., Jack got the itch to go to Canada. It
as a country where a man could get ahead.
he'd heard. The oIlowing June he landed in
l'oronto, and from then until September kept
imself busy with odd clerical jobs. In th
meantime he watched the Help Wanted
column, and one night he answered an ad for
.hich only a box number was given. A few
iays later he received a reply from F. P. Berniard, and on Sept. 30, 1912, he arrived in
Copper Cliff.
jack's first assignment was in the time office,
vorking with Dunc McKinnon, Howard Rowe,
Jim Higgins, and others. There were about
3,500 men on the payroll. He was there for
a year and then transferred to the storehouse.
Bill Waterbury was storekeeper and Ralph
Crouse was boss of the counter gang. R. L
Beattie was a member of the office staff.
Jack's break came in September of 1918
when he was posted to Port Colborne as storekeeper, and three years later he became purchasing agent, the position which he occupies
tc.day.
In May, 1914, at Toronto, John Campbell
Sinclair Wilson was wed to Agnes Galbraith.
They had been in the same class all the way
through school in Scotland, and it was one of
those boy-and-girl friendships that ripened into
the real thing. In Copper Cliff they lived on
Peter St., just back of the Catholic Church,
and then on Jones St. Two children were
born to them in the Cliff, and two in Port
Colborne. Their family: Robert, electrical
artificer with the Navy at Halifax; Jim, an
I.C.A.F. pi ot, listed as missing in action overseas; Dr. Ian (Gaelic for John), whose pals
call him Scotty and who is stationed at present
in Germany with the rank of captain; Jessie
(Mrs. Robert Head) residing in Toronto.
Trout sr,aiilg and soccer forgotten, Jack
these times concentrates in summer on golf, at
which he is no slouch, and on his summer
)lace at Reebs Bay, which he acquired in 1927.
In the winter he comes into his glory as a
howler, having been many times a member of
:hampionship teams. Last season his best score
was 408, a sizeable showing you will admit,
id his average was 228. He tied for high in
town league with his nephew, Bob Ralston,
irmature winder in the electrical shop. Not
a bad performance for a youngster.
In all his time with the Company Jack has
ever been off with sickness for more than
hree days, and he estimates his total sickness
'ayoffs at 10 days.
The secret, he says, is to have white hair.
WHO AM I?
I am more powerful than the combined armies
of the world.
I have destroyed more men than all the wars
of the world.
I am more deadly than bullets and have
wrecked more home than the mightiest of siege
guns.
I steal, in North America alone, more than
thre billions of dollars each year.
I spare no one, and I find my victims among
the r*ch and poor 1ike, the young and old, the
weak and strong; widows and orphan know me.
I cast my shadow over every field of labor.
from the tilling of the .oil to the making of every
necessity.
I murder, maim and cripple thousands upon
thousands of wage earners every year.
I lurk in unseen places, do most of my work
silently. You are warned against nit, but you
heed not.
I am relentless. I am everywhere - In the
home, at the mill, on the streets or whenever man
will venture.
I bring sickness, pain and misery degadat.on
and death, and yet few seek to avoid me.
I desuoy, cruih or kill. I give nothing, but
take all.
I am known by all, yet none betray me.
I am your worst enemy.
I AM CARELESSNI3SS.
OCi'OBER, 1945
Industry"
Colborne
INC() 1'RIAN(;LE
OCTOBER, 1Q45
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Barrel-Making is Thriving
Sub-Industry at Nickel Refinery
CLICKS FOR $143.00
At Port Colborne Nickel Refinery 'Roll Out head of the barrel into the "chimes" which
the Barrel" is a good deal more than a pul- ,ave been cut on the crozer. When it is in
ting polka-'it's a slogan, place he applies the permanent top and bottom
To package the gleaming squares of refined .ioops to the barrel, and the forming hoops
nickel for shipment to the industrial market, drop out of the operation.
ihe Refinery's cooper shop rolls out great stacks On the second truss machine, seen in No. 8,
of barrels and kegs every day with the smooth the permanent quarter hoops are added, a set
eli1 ciency which characterizes all departments of "feet" pressing them snugly over the bulge
of 1NCO operations. The product is made in of the barrel. Th,s step, in which Harry Smith
four sizes, and the shop has a per-shift capacity is the operator, is the final one in making the
of 280 large barrels or 300 of the standard barrel.
•ize, as well as 340 2.62 kegs or 360 of the A stack 0f the finished products is seen in
1.66 size. No. 9, where Jack Cuthbert, foreman of the
The forerunner of the present barrel was cooper shop, is pictured inlking over the barres
made and used by the early Romans, and as business with I. S. Compton of Mount Jackson,
yet human ingenuity has never been able radi- Virginia, stave manufacturer who happened to
cally to improve it. The only changes that be visiting the plant the day Triangle made
time has brought about have been in the the rounds.
methods of manufacture of the materials, and The regular barrel hoops are also made in
the finished articles, and in the number of I the Port Colborne plant. They are formed
shapes and sizes, from special steel 1% inches wide which comes
Modern science has never improved upon in rolls varying in weight from 150 to 400 lbs.
the arch construction of the ancients, it is After being cut to the required length and
A major award under the Employees Sug.
true that it is wasteful of space in piling, but punched on a machine which performs both
this waste is more than offset by the greater these operations simultaneously, the hoop steel gestion Plan was the $143.00 recently turned
Mrength and ease of handling compared to is fed through a pair of rollers, one set at an over to Ken Palmateer, trouble.shooter on the
other types of packages. Nickel is heavy and I ngle to the other; the hoop thus formed is big haulage trucks at Frood Open Pit, whose
travels a long way to its markets, so most ot dared, one edge having a greater circumference suggestion for putting an end to loss of grease
the products at Port Colborne are shipped in to the other, the flare corresponding exactly from the power take-off on the trucks proved
barrels and kegs. with the bulge of the barrel on which the hoop a winner. Born near Newmarket, Ken has
been with INCO since March, 1941. He was
Follow the picture layout on the opposite is to be used. In No. 10 Cameron Lynden
married in 1942 to Miss Annette Dugas of
page and see how the Refinery's cooper shop shows you the rolled and flared hoop steel,
rolls out the barrels, eady for riveting. Incidentally, Cam is the Sudbury and they have one daughter, Irene,
cidest employee in the cooper shop in point aged two. He is pictured here beside the
1. Teophil Sandara places staves around the )f length of service; he has been with the engine of one of the trucks which he helps
setting-up form, first step in barrel.making. Company for 20 years.
keep roaring up the Pit ramps.
The oak staves are purchased in carload lots
from manufacturers in the Virginias; it takes Riveting of the hoop is the operation picThere are errors which no wise man will
256 cubic feet of wood to make 1,000 staves, :ured in No. 11, with Sam Dorigo on the job.
for which the axe-swinging hillbillies are pro- And that's how barrels are made in Port treat with rudeness, while there is a probability
bably quite grateful. The circular setting.up Colborne cooper shop, an "industry within that they may be the refraction of some great
truth still below the horizon-Coleridge.
lorm is just the size of the end of the barrel n industry".
io be made, and six inches above it a forming
hoop is held in position by three arms. Teophil drives the staves in tightly around the I
circumference of the form, a second forming
hoop is added to hold them there, and thelI
hrst operation is completed.
Then the budding barrel goes to the steamer
where a 20-minute "Turkish bath" dampens
a.nd softens the staves so they will respond to
treatment, Lovern Benner is seen about to
<
pull one of the steam hoods down over a .
barrel in No. 2 picture of the layout, and in
.
,. .
".
3 he has the barrel on the windlass and
-No.
is pulling together the spread-out ends of the
staves with the cable loop. He adds another '
Mrs. Busby's Shift Steps Out
forming hoop to hold this end of the barrel
its position
1.-
.
Next step is the stoves, which are cast-iron cylinders 10 inches in diameter in which coke
.
; j
.4 ',
ares burn under forced draft. After about
l minutes on a stove the moisture which was "" -' added in the steaming process is dried out,
and the staves permanently retain the shape '1 into which they were forced by the windlass. - - ' 1'
bb Roy is placing barrels on the stoves in .
No.4,
Then the barrel goes to the first truss machme, where eight "feet" force on two second
forming hoops and also tightens the forming
hoops already in place. This is seen in No. 5
and Ken Brennan is the operator in action.
The "chimes" of a barrel are the grooves
around the ends on the inside, into which are
Fitted the head and bottom. Cutting the
chimes" is the work of the crozer machine,
scm in No. 6 with Joe Miatello at the controls,
The barrel is placed between two sets of knives
and the)' are drawn together while it revolves
about a horizontal plane.
- The heading machine is the next step. Here,
in No. 7, Art Bo)'er is firmly fitting the round
A live-wire group of workers is Mrs. Martha Busby's ,hift in Copper Cliff Concentrator, who had themselves a much-enjoyed dinner party at the Nickel Range Hotel the
evening of Sept. 5. Left to rightt Eva Chiapponi, Mary Osmachenko, Joyce Fox, Mary
Horak, May Desotti, Margaret Desloges, Lucia Conte, Noela Branconnier, Mrs. Busby
(matron), Margaret Davidson. Pierna Camilucci, Geraldine Marcotte, Eileen Halko, Clare
Castonguay. Myrtle Pearson, Myrtle Marshall, Original members of the shift, which went
on the job in September, 1942, are Lucia Conte, Pierna Camilucci, and Mrs. Busby. The
latter has a proud record of service; in three years she has taken just one day off, and
that was for her daughter's wedding last year. The girls presented her with a lovely bouquet
of flowers in token of her popularity.
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bear the duck bumps, the girls bravely adhered
to Atlantic City tradition by displaying their
pulchritude in bathing suits. Of course, everybody envied ihe judges but nobody coveted
their dangerous cask of deciding upon a win.
ner. The gentlemen with the overdoie of
courage were Rv. Carding, J. R. Rogerson, and
Reeve X'i!!iam Barry. They picked Miss Lois
The people 0f Coniston, pride and gratitude in their hearts, honored sonic Gliberry as Miss Coniston of 1945, and Miss
1I oniston lElonors Returning
Fleroes with Big Celebration
of their soldier sons at a day-long celebration on Labor Day. Highlight 0f the Joan Burd as runner-up. in the back row of
program was the ceremony at the bandstand in the early afternoon, when more than. No. 11 are the other entrants, left to right,
30 veterans of the Second Great War passed in review and received personal gifts. Miss Sandra Olivier, Miss Annette Gauthier,
"We want you to r.me'iber this day for ,. Miss Gertrude Landreault, and Miss Maureen
org time," Mayor E T Auctin told the ,resentation to the war heroes was taking place. Leonard.
gtthering. Addressing himself to the group of Ed is camera-shy and we had to sneak up on Planned as an annual event, the Coniston
rcurned men he said, This is our welcome him. Labor Day celebration was a gratifying success,
home to you, a small gesture of appreciation 5. and 8. Two of the s-vicemen photo- 3nd a credit to those who organized it.
for what you have done for Canada by parti- raphed as they received their mementoes from - -------ciption in the struggle for freedom md jus- Mrs. Walker. In No. 5 is Sgt. A. D. Lepage,
'ice, and of the honor you have brought to; and in No. 8 is ERA. C. H. Walker, son of
Coniston. We have a warm feeling in our he gracious little lady who made the presenta
hirts for you, we are proud of your fine ions. Just after the shutter clicked he leaned
efforts. We remember with humility of spi"ic forward to receive a warm maternal embrance
those who made t1'e supreme sacrifice. Th. 6. Mrs. Francis Forestell and Mrs. Jim Fore.
freedom we now enjoy is our inheritance from ste11 give their young sons a treat on the swings.
them for our gerteration n!ld generations to Joth their husbands have had di3ttngutshed
careers in the R.C.A.F.
come."
7. The crowd got a great kick out of the
E. Orendorif. commanding oflcer of the
Coniston Air Cadets, took the salute and acted novetty event on the program. One big laugh
as master of ceremonies for the pree-tation producer was the race in which each contestan
Mrs. A. Walker, member of the Veterans' hd to push a wheelbarrow on which was Homecoming Committee, made the presenta- enthroned a very live bullfrog. Every time . .
rion to the servicemen, Each received a hand- the bullfrog disembarked, the contestant had some black leather wallet, inscribed inice witi o stop, catch him, and put him back on the
the words: A keepsake from the citizens cf 'heelbarrow again, Navigating under a fulT
Coniston for the part you have played i- t- head of steam in the photograph is Clovis
5icond Great War", and a cerrificate of honor Olivier. J braring the Canadian coat of arms. Similar 9. E. Orndorff, principal of Coniton High . 4
eentations will be made to other Conitor School and commanding officer of the Air
ioys as they return from the services. Cadets, did a good job at the microphone as
Those honored on Labor Day included: master of ceremonies. Behind him are Mrs. ,
F.O. J. V. Forestell, Sgt. L. F. Forestell. A. Walker and J. R. Rogerson.
St. A. D. Lepage, P.O. W. B. Onuski, Sgt. A. 10. Another novelty event which proved to
WIaiTchuk, Pte. W. Kilemnik, ERA. C, H. be a real crowd-pleaser was the string-gobbling prank Rossi, ironworker at Port Colborne
Walker, L.A.C. J. R. LaPratrie, LAG. W. R. I contest. A dollar bill was tied in the centre Refinery, recently picked off a $20.00 award
.versIed, Pte. R. Ladurant, Cpl. R. Chabor of a long piece of string, the ends of the under the Employees Suggestion Plan for reSgt. D. Cresswell, Sgt. R. Chiswell, Pte. E. string were placed in the contestants' teeth, and designing the roof of the P.M. holding furCr.se1in, Sgt. M. L. Orendorif, W.O.i G. Hal- the one who ate' his way to the dollar bill nace. With the Company for eight years,
veron, LAW. J. Angove, Pte, J. Marlin, P.O. first was the winner of it. Gobblers in the Frank has to watch his step when he's working
R. Pelletier, Col. F. Charteboi. L Cpl. A. B. photograph, intent on the business at hand, around No. 4 Building, where his wife Irene
Chnrlebois, F.O. C. H. Bryce, F.O. J. Olivie", were Leo Quesnel and Severo Zanatta. is a casting wheel operator. They have a
r1. W. Yozuski, L/Cpl. A. H111. Cpl. R. Piece de resistance of the program was family of four: Joe is a wireless instructor in
Rnoit, Pte. K. E. Mick, Pte, E. C. M'ck, Tpr. the final event, the beauty contest. Although the Armored Corps Pete is in the Merchant
1). Ki'wan, Pte. Wtn. Maezuk and Tpr. N. the weather was chilly enough to give a polar Navy, Gerald and Errio both go to school.
forge. __________________________________________________________________________________
Committee in charge of the big celebration I I
Smith, ft Forestell,
Mn. A. Walker. Fred Creswell, Joe Blueman,
A. Halvorson, Bill McLaghlan, D. Totino, and I
J ehn Belowos.
A parade opened the program with members
1 the Cortiston Band, the Air Cadets. Girl
Guides, veterans of the two Great Wars. 8ownies, floats and decorated bicycles patticpating, Three $25.00 draws were made
during the da", won by Emelia Fournier, Jack
Sacy, and Mrs. W. Quesnel. I
In the picture layout on the opposi"e page
lome highlights of the big program, caught
I
Jitney Drivers Give GrOød Service I
by the Triangle
1. The returned heroes sand at ease ii front
camera:
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of the bandstand, to be called to the platform
one by one to rceive their c,reentions. First
Pcrvtceman called was Cot. R. Chabo, who
impd forward on crutches. He suffered a
-ierlgandfotuyciversa
'nd in still convalescing .
!. Start of the mile race, which was won
'uridily by fleet.footed Bill Aggis, well-known
...$
YOUng Coniston athlet,. He was presented . . ..... .. . . •W
WUh a handsome trophy donated by Robert - . . He is second from the left in th
lture. Don't be deceived by the position of Day in and day out, in all kinds of weather, left to right, Evelyn Pilatzke, Marie Wentzll
Dan Totino, on the right who appears to be the jitney drivers cover their routes between and Mabel Volpini. Al! joined the Compn
tri his marks; he didn't run the mile at all, INCO plants in the Sudbury district, carrying late in 1942; Marie Wentzell has the longc"
ir fired the starting pistol mail and passengers. Cheerful and obliging, service of the thrpe, vnrolJing in October of
3. A view of part of tht' Bingo stand. which and always ready with a snappy comeback for that year. Photogriphtd with them s Hugh'
"Prated steadily throughout the das with good the inevitable ribbing they receive tt each stop, Graves, dispatcher, whi arranges thir iiii'
Iflzes going to tht' winners, they are popular wherever they go. In this aries; he has been with INCO sirtce Jr
4. Supt. E. T. Austin, mayor of Coniston. picture three of the drivers have lined up 1936. At the right in the picture is hc othCe
Ppors in this candid shot snapped while the their steeds in the smelter yard at Copper Cliff better known as "the peanut stand'.
OCTOBER, 1945
INCO TRIANGLE
Wire Bars at Copper Refinery
Producing
HIGH STANDARDS
BY
WORKERS
Certain requirements of the electrical industry specify grades of high
ductility copper rod, wire, and Rat tape, which must undergo sharp
severe bends without edge cracking, and hne wire having a uniformly
smooth sltver.free surface which is coated with enamel or the new type ________
synthetic resins. __________________________________
Although usual industrial demands for rod and wire are satisfied by
the material fabricated from conventional horizontally cast wire bars,
the special products mentioned are generally produced from end.poured ______
bars. These bars, known to the trade as V. C. wire bars, are cast a the
Copper Rehnery in vertical water cooled copper moulds and have uniform _________ physical and chemical characteristics which are desirabJe in the fabrica _______
non of the specialized products.
Photo No. I shows the bars on the inspection conveyor, following
casting and quenching in the cooling water bosh. Harvey Bailey and
Mike Sninsky are inspecting, grinding out minor surface flaws and chip
ping the copper tn which sometimes forms during casting at the Junction
of the mould door with the bottom of the mould.
In No. 2 Simon Lamothe and Lucien Campeau cut the bar to correct
______________
length by sawing o the top 't" end. - - __________
Mike Stroka is seen in No. 3 feeding the bars to the pointing
machine and in No. 4, Joseph Lalonde,
it
the exit of the machine,
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I
remoe the pointed h.irs. This production the ercicd[y cast wire bar. By this process Photo No. 5 shows Thelma Thiessen md
machine was developed by ihe Copper Refinery properly designed nose is secured which facili- Ruby Pridinore checking two lifts of the hn'
ri co-operation with the Ingersoll Milling ed 4 " square by 54" long V,C. wire ban,
Machine Company, Rockford, Illinois, for sim- tates entry of the bar in the mill during th loaded on a narrow gauge car and placed on
ultaneously machining nose on both ends of fabricators hot rolling operation. ne of the two master scales for out turn weighs.
OCTOBER, 1945
INCO TRIANGLE
United States Newspapermen
Are Impressed by Development
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FLORICULTURAL TREAT
Winding up a four-day tour of Northern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec
mining operatons, which one of the group frankly described as an eye.opener," a
party of 13 American financial editors visited Sudbury on September 8th. They
- were accompanied by representatives of the Ontario Mining Association, the Toronto
Board of Trade, and the railways.
J
The United States writers took home for - - their millions of readers a new conception of $25,000,000; electric power purchased, in addi.
the background and °know how" of Ontario tion to own production, 100,000 h.p.; timber
mining. They expressed amazement at the consumption, 60,000,000 board feet; coal con
scope of development, and took keen interest sumption, 550,000 tons; coke consumPtion,!
jt all phases of operations, many making ela. 200,000 tons. Amounting in some of the peace
borate notes on which to base their articles. years to as much as $100,000,000, the value
At Sudbury the party split up to cover" J of INCO's exports of nickel, copper and other
the Nickel assignment, one group being guests products was seen to be one of the principal
of INCO and the remainder going to Falcon. features of Canada's export economy.
bridge. A trip underground at Frood, a visit Even more impressive was the information
to the Open Pit, and tours of the concentrator, released to the visitors on INCO's contribution
smelter, and copper rehnery, were included in :0 the war effort. I• the INCO itinerary. The two groups were en.
tertained at luncheons at the Copper Cliff Club Canada went to war in September, 1939, and
and Falconbridge Club, and in the evening, the during the ensuing six years International - entire party was entertained at a banquet at th Nickel Company's production of nickel's cop
Idylwylde Golf Club. per and platinum metals was placed at the
service of the Allies, without price premium
The visitors picked up some very impressive or government subsidy.
gure tofor
round
out their
During the six war years INCO produced I
learned,
instance,
that tostories.
the end They
of 1944
the tonnage of ore treated from mines of the and delivered to the Allied countries for mili.
Sudbury district totalled approximately 120,. ary and essential purposes about one and one A floricultural treat which was at its best
000,000 tons. Frood Mine, they were told, has half billion pounds of nickel in all forms, this year was the Dorothy Perkins Climber at
produced 36,300,000 tons since 1899, and since together with more than one and three quarters the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Holmes,
925 500.000,000 board feet of timber and billion pounds of rehned copper and substan- Frood Village. Plted four years ago, this
15,000,000 tons of back fill have been used tial quantities of the platinum metals so vital iovely climber is now about 14 feet high. The
underground in this mine. Since 1938 Frood- to modern warcare, of which the company is pink roses grow in clusters, sometimes as many
Stobie Open Pit has produced more than he largest single producer. is 20 to a branch. Special care has to be
23,000,000 tons of ore. The 20 shafts which To accomplish this huge production INCO given the planting to prepare it for winter.
have been sunk on INCO.owned properties xpandcd its facilities in Canada and also in t is taken down and laid out on boards to
total more than 36,000 feet, and there are the U. S. at the request of allied governments keep it off the dam'- ground, then covered with
approximately 212 miles of underground and out of its own funds, to provide an addi- uilding paper and hay or sod to prevent any
workings. tional 50 000,000 arnual pounds of nickel, at moisture reaching it.
The economic importance of INCO was re- a cost of about $35,000,000, thereby boosting
vealed to the newspapermen in the following ts nickel production capacity about 20/c. Included among the visiting party were:
round figures on Canadian operations alone During the later war years, 1942-45, INCO Phil Hanna, Chicago Daily News, Chicago,
during 1944: tonnage of ore treated, 12,000,. delivered nickel for war purposes to steel and Illinois; Paul McCrea. Nation's Business, Wash.
000 tons; average working force, 12,500 per. other nickel-consuming plants in the U. S. ington, D.C.; C. A. Shiveley, New York Sun,
Sons; wages and salaries, $29,000,000; freight alone, at an annual rate more than twice as New York; C. N. Stabler, New York Herald
paid to railways, $6,500,000; supplies and great as the maximum of any year prior to Tribune, New York; 3. W. Love, Cleveland
equipment purchased, including fuel and flux. 1939. This was done in addition to supplying Press, Cleveland, Ohio; M. S. Rukeyser, INS.
Canadian, U. S., and other Empire nickel & Hearst Newspapers, New York; S. Schultsky,
requirements on greatly increased schedules. New York Journal.American, New York. N.Y.:
in addition to the production of its own Robert A. Vanderpoel, Chicago Herald Amen.
mines and plants, INCO undertook at govern can, Chicago, Illinois; A. Wilfred May, Com.
mercial & Financial Chronicle, New York;
mental suggestion the refining of the nickel Ward Shultz, Detroit Times, Detroit, Mich.;
production of the neighboring Falconbridge B, Haydon, Business Week, New York; E. C
rickel mine as well as that of the French-owned
nickel mine5 in New Caledonia, which had Walzer, United Press, New York.
been cut 0ff by the war from their refineries Canadian:-R. A Bryce, president, Macassa
t Kristianssands and Le Havre. Some of this Mines Ltd.; S. W. Mcintosh, Ontario Mining
ir,ing was done at the Huntington, West Assn.; E. N. Robinson, Canadian National
Virginia, plant. Railways; E. S. McCracken, Canadian Pacific
Railway; Col. C. E. Reynolds, T. & N. 0. Rail-. The company's rolling mills at Huntington.jy; A. A. Cavanagh, T. & N. 0. Railway;
Birmingham and Glasgow produced and deli- E W. Bickle, president, Toronto Board of
vered substantially increased quantities of Trade Col. N. C. Pearce, Northern Miner
: j vitally needed MoneL Inconel, and other nickel Press Limited.
alloys for the war effort.
At all times during the war period the nickel
output of the INCO refineries kept pace with
military and essential requirments. At the
cessation of hostifities the company had nickel
stocks substantially in excess of those carried Christian morality is qualified to survive be.
even at peak" times in its previous history. cause love and agreement, which unite men, are
stronger than hate and fear, which divide them.
In the past INCO has supplied 80 or more -Ralph Barton Perry.
of world nickel requirements. Comparing the Commerce is the great civilizer. We ex.
company's present enlarged nickel üroduction
capacity of some 300,000,000 annual pounds change ideas when w exchange fabrics-Robert
with estimated world nickel consumption in Ingersoll.
the °peak" pre-war years----the highest such It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailestimate being about 240,000,000 pounds in ing that assures the prosperous voyage-George
Soap Gets in My Eyes" might be the title of 1937-'-it is evident that as far as production William Curtis.
this unusual photographic study by Jack Spen- capacity is concerned INCO could easily supply Knowledge comes by eyes always open and
ctr, well-known Port Colborne Refinery shutter . all of the world's nickel needs, at least at any working hands, and there is no knowledge th,it
shark,
annual rate likely to be realized for a few years. is not power. Jeremy Taylor.
Gems of \Tisdoni
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OCTOBER, 1945
lage 16 IN('O TRIANGLE
LIVED IN CONSTANT PERIL AS
SECRET AGENTS AIDING TITO
TO
.ifitJ
7
Secret missions . . . intrigue . . con tacts with the underground . . . parachute
fierce gueri:la fighting in the mountains
landings by night enemy territory
and forests of occupied countries . . thi was the thrilling side of the war seen by
two INCO men who for two years lived behind the rigid wall 0f censorship built
around the Special Services of the British Army.
COPPER CLIFF
.
Matt Jurman and Ilya Chutuk are back at
- Lee Alexander (Navy), Ar no Id Boyd
their old jobs with the Company, the former a
(R.C.A.F.), James Cunningham (Army),
hoistman underground at Creighton and the
Arthur Cuppage (Army), Joseph Dingle
latter on the "deck" in Frood collarhouse.
(Navy), George E. Evans (R.C.A.F.), Donald
They have a great story to tell.
Ferguson (Merchant Marine), Walter H.
Enlisting together at Toronto in March,
Flowers (Navy), Thos. J. Hannaway (Army),
1943, they spent four months in training at
Callum Johnston (Navy), Elvino Longarini
Oshawa, then went to England where they were
(Army), Joseph Maltby (Army), Sydney
transferred to the Special Services Branch of
.'Smith (R.C.A.F.), Bert Taylor (Army),
the British Army. Both natives of Yugoslavia,
Harold B. Tunney (Navy); Cyrus R. Weaver
they were assigned to the section organizing
,, (Army), Roy H. Bain (R.C.A.F.), Frederick
assistance for Tito's Partisan forces in that
/ .' . Brown (Army), Richard H. Clark (Navy),
country, and were sent to Special Services
George F. Fish (R.C.A.F.), Charles S. Germa
headquarters in Cairo. There they were given
(R.C.A.F.), Frank E. Hawkins (Navy), Roy J.
instruction in gunnery, motor biking, and
'
'
', Ladurante (Army), Leonard Hodgins (Navy),
little commando tricks which come in handy
Harold Keast (Navy), James S. Land (Army),
when you are at grips with an enemy in a dark
James MacKay (Army), Alex. Montgomery
alley.
- (R.C.A.F.), Donald Munn (R.C.A.F.), Alfred
Pinard (Navy), James Rae (Army), Elmer
Next phase of their training took them to
-- - .. Schieman (Army), Jos. W. Smart (Army),
Haifa, in Palestine, where they received inRobert Thomas (Navy), Emmanuel Wootton
struction in parachute jumping. Ilya Chutuk
was then placed on the permanent staff of
(Army).
irstructors at Cairo and Matt Jurman became
GARSON
a member of one of the four-man missions
Ernest Ashick (Army), William T. Bell
to be sent into Yugoslavia. His knowledge of
MATT JURMAN, CREIGHTON (Navy), Dick Swanson (Army), Francis P;
the Slav languages and of English qualified
acts
of
sabotage carried out. The element of Sullivan (Army).
him as interpreter; other members of the
mission were a major, in charge; a radio .anger pressed close about them day and night LEVACK
The mission kept in constant touch by radio Peter Gorry (Army).
operator, and a spare man.
with Cairo headquarters. Every few nights, OPEN PIT
One night they dropped by parachute from near some pre-arranged landmark in a clearing 'Edward Peattie (Navy).
a plane flying low over Greece. They carried
a forest or on top of a plateau, they would FROOD
radio equipment, Sten guns, pistols, etc. Their lay out a pattern of exposed lights as a signal Elie Chutuk (Army), Chas. P. Crofton
assignment was to make contact with the of their location, and then lie in waiting. (Army), William A. McDonald (Army), Alex
Yugoslav Partisans.
Eventually a British plane from Egypt would R. MacLean (R.C.A.F.), John Wolfe (Army),
For three weeks they travelled on foot toward fly over, fast and low, and parachute down August Delwo (Army), Thos. R. Draper
the Yugoslav border, making thçir way by un- ammunition and supplies from 200 or 300 feet. (Navy), James McGhee (Army), James J.
frequented roads at night and hiding in the The fight for the liberation of Yugoslavia More (Army), John Sigurdson (Army), Wilwoods in the daytime. Greek patriots were
their guides, and Greek civilians furnished would go on with renewed vigor. ham Stevens (Navy), Cecil 0. Taylor (Army),
In September of 1944, when the Bulgars inCarl F. Wagner (R.C.A.F.).
them with food. They saw many German:
CREIGHTON
patrols but never had to fight. Their job was: Macedonia capitulated to Tito, Jurman was
to reach their destination, not to take a chance: transferred to the Dalmation coast as liaison Maxwell Ireland (Navy), Keith W. Maitland
officer
between
a
British
artillery
regiment
and}
(R.C.A.F.),
Henry
Olfert (Army), Norman
on being killed enroute.
Shortly after they crossed the Yugoslav he Partisan troops there. This was a straight Simpson (Army).
border they made contact with the Partisans. military proposition, though, with little of the
PORT COLBORNE
Then commenced 12 months of the most ex- tense excitement of guerilla warfare, and he
confesses it was something of a letdown. Ernest Kettle (R.C.N.V.R.), Bert Adams
citing life Matt ever expects to experience.
When V-E Day came, Matt obtained a short (R.C.N.V.R.), Donald Ho me (R.C.A.F.),
The mission became part of a Partisan bri- 'eave and went to visit his old home about 25 Steve Harrison (R.C.N.V.R.), Chester Cameron
gade. They hid in carefully selected moun.
miles east of Fiume. There, for the first time (R.C.N.V.R.), Clyde Dickout (R.C,A.F.),
tam retreats, When the brigade was on the
,ince 1933, he saw his wife and daughter, his Jy Doan (R.C.A.F.), Charles Bridgea
move the mission marched in the centre where old
mother and father. They did not know (Army), Oliver Edwards (R.C.N.V.R.) Arthur
there was the greatest measure of protection. L5e was coming. Tears spring to his eyes now Wilson (Army), Victor Rivers (Army), David
There was fighting every'day-always fighting.
They were cleverly schemed ambushes and as he recalls the joy of their reunion. But in Flett (R.C.A,F.)
swift surprise attacks, almost invariably in- three days he was away again, this time to
flicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Rail- Trieste, where the situation was dangerous. W. I. T DRIVERS LAUDED
roads and bridges were blown up, and other After liaison work there he was transferred to A bouquet of orchids for car-owners coItaly, and eventually sent back to Canada along operating during the war years with the Warwith Ilya Chutuk. The latter could not dis- I time Industrial Transit Plan was contained in
cover the whereabouts of his wife and four a letter received on Sept. 6 by Jack MacKin.
children, and his mother and father, all some- non, INCO Transit Officer.
where in Yugoslavia. Their home had been From George S. Gray, Transit Controller,
smashed, he heard. Since returning to Canada came this tribute:
se has learned that one of his sons was killed "May I take this opportunity of expressing,
in the war, but that the rest of his family on behalf of Transit Control and The Departis safe. ment of Munitions and Supply, our apprecia
These two tall fighting men, both Canadian tion of the co-operation and assistance we have
:itizenis, have returned to their peacetime tasks, i'eceived from Plant Transit Officers and from
mntent in the knowledge of having gone to Plant Management during the past three years.
he aid of their mother country in her peril. "The drivers of the cars are to be complimented for a job well done. They provided
Every man has three characters-that which for a transportation need in Canada during
'Se exhibits, that which he has, and that which the emergency, which could have been taken
'Se thinks he has, 'care of in no other way."
-Karr Designed solely to provide essential transYou are what you ihink you are, You create' portation for war workers and concentrations
yourself in the image you hold irs your mind, of the armed forces, the Wartime Industrial
What you .sre advertises what you think. rransit Plan was abolished as of Sept. 15.
ILYA CHUTUK, FROOD
-Thomas Drier : INCO's Transit Office was closed on that date.
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