ViJ1E 4 COPPER CLIFF ONTARIO. JANUARY 1945 N[MER 10

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Ptihiiiiied for all employees or The Inter-iiutioii:ii kkel ('onipany o( Canada, Limited.

lion M. I)uiibar, EditorED1TORI.%i. OFFICE COPPER CLIFF, ONT.

VOLUME 4 JANUARY, 1545 NUMBER 10

For a RicherChristmas

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1crr' E1jritina!HE privilege of perscnally greeting every emoloyce

s unfortunately a physical impossibility :ri a Corn'

pony the aize of ours, and so it is with pleasure that

I accept he invitation of the Triangle to express the Oomph'

:Uents of the Season to every member of the INCO fa:oily.

These days we are all deeply concerned with keeping alive

the true spirit of the traditions upon which the freedom and

As this issue of Triangle is being hurried security of our natien have been built, so that the dearlyto press to meet an advanced deadline so itwill he in the hands of our readers before bought Peace which follows Victory may have a sound and

Christmas, the Yuletide spirit is already in enduring base. One of our greatest traditions is Christmas,evidence everywhere.

The other night we dropped into the Em- with its eternal message of Peace on Earth, Good Will toward

ployees Club in Sudburv md found a scene Men, and I sincerely hope that its blessing will bring comforttypical of ill INCO centres at this season.A group of people were bus decoratin and happiness to you and yours, and to your home,y gChristmas trees in preparation for the child-ren's parties which will be held in the Club.Among the workers were Margie Pawson,Mildred Nelson. Mrs. Kerlev, Sheila Keegan,Lois Smith. Bert Meredith. Nelson Thibault,Supt. A. E. O'Brien, Al Northwood, and1Eldred Dickie. all of Frood, Mr. and Mrs.G. 5, Jarrett and Alex Godfrey of CopperCliff. and Vern Tupling. Matching their ef-forts are eager volunteers in the other Em-ployees Clubs, everyone happy in the knowl-

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bout Editors Thurston Blakey, better known as Rusty to/1edge that the kiddies of their communities

.. .hundreds of friends, made the dramatic pit-

'will get the full thrill of Christmas. s front coverd T)rV;r, ture which appears on Triangle

Widely known pilot for Austin Air-this issue/1A busy week lay ahead of Santa Claus... Rusty has made his camera hobby pro-wa s

On Dcc: 16 he was slated to appear at they ,

And now we rise in defence of our pro- duce some of the nest photographs we'veFrood Athletic Association party at the Sud-

' to put it mildly, is on seenof the beauty of Northern Ontario. This

fessional dignity which L kbury Clwb. at Copper Cliff A.A. s party in the'

, a e,particular winter scene was shot on Moosethe spotCommunity Hall. and at Garson s event in the ,

Some callous fellow has been poking his near Wanapitae.evening. Dec. 17 will find him at the Re-tnerv party. Dec. IS at Copper Cliff's Christ- nose into the dead languages and bobs up BACK ON HIS OLD JOB

"mae program in Sudburv, Dec 20 at Creighton'

iGth the claim that the word "editor comesor Having received his discharge from thefrom the Latin "cdii" tomeanin ivEmployees Club. and Dec. 23 in his final

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. g g eput out, and 'taurus" (in Spanish it's "toro" Canadian Army, George Sargent is back on

appearances at Frood-Stobie Pit s party in meaning the hull, his old job in Copper Cliff Smelter. HisSudbury and also at Levack Employees Club.

tThe brother Frank, another ex.INCOite who

We wish to issue a categorical denialThese joyous preparations for the greatest .we claim with the greatest possible

worked in the reverb department, is still inderivationfestival of the year, and also the parade of , the service and is overseas.emphasis. is false, irrelevant and beside thecocial functions which go with the Yuletide ,point. The word "editor", according to the -season, all serve to accentuate the security

md comfort of life within the INCO family. way we see it, comes from uicient Mongolian"

.

It is hard to escape a sense of satisfactionh h d i b

"eddiii , meaning "greatly overworked andunderpaid". and "torrroh". me.ining "person -it t e roa program of spec al enefits whichof extremely high intellect". Iprotect our welfare and proniote our hap.

pinl'ss Thinking of these things leads mcvi- \Vhile we're on the subject, we were reading -

tahlv to a comparison with the lives of others, the other day about the origin of the editorial" -EtSRand prompts the suggestion that the best . It seems that in the prehieorie days"we 4 i

' )Christmas present you can give yourself is to when editors carved their papers on stone, a r•.renew 'our efforts its victors' savings, blood certain editor haivled out sine of the citizens 'donations, ivar ivork and other such avenues for not paying hi taxes . Arnii'd with a big,

k l b h f ll d hof service through which you can make your notty war c u , t e e ow came an am-' 1 Jpersonal contribution to the hastening of nic'red on the lintel of the editor s cave, peered

Peace on Earth into the darkness, and veIled ''Cume Out of -If iou do this you will give yourself a there. you Iilv-livered o ,tiid o

r't'her and a hitter Christni:is. \\'e hope you The editor, doing onie peering in returnhave one md ci'uig who it was, yelled hack, "All right.

you ditto, \VE'll be there in a minute WH E N YOU B 0% LiAs t result tf this ehoracter stic bit ofM.iny brilliant ideas have been lost to the

world because the h nk did h huick thinking, the irate subscriber. who sv:ie % D0W4 I J US1t i er not ave t e not prepared to do battle with a whole gang.

kiIl, the technique or the desire to give themphysical existence

hsirrii'dl' tied the pl.ice aiid soon torgot the N SE--C. 1'. Keiiering ncidi'nt. Not so the editor, Fort itis'd by his M . AProperty is the fruit of labor. Let not him success he continued to think of himself in'

who is houseless pull down the house of an- the plural until, like many presi'nt-dav editors. BE I NC CAREFULother, but let him labor diligently to build one he plucked up so much courage that he wasn'tfor himself. -Abrhoi Lincoln scared of anybody-almost. ,; -'

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STORY OF YOUR PAY-CHECK-6

Final ChapterMost Important

Sixth and final chapter in the story of yQurpay-check describes the most important phaseof all because this is where 14,000 INCOpeople step into the picture to reap the. rewardof their work.

Up to this point we've talked about thepassion of the Tabulating Department for accuracy in preparing the payroll, of the mar.vellous mechanical devices which are employedto produce the checks swiftly and efficiently,and of the way in which the Deduction Depart-ment saves the average employee from goingprematurely grey by doing his private book-keeping for him, it's a wonderful system andwe hope that in these articles we have been

I able to convey some idea of the big job whichis being done to get those harbingers of happiness into the hands of the people whoveearned them, on time every week of the year.

Were not going to go into any descriptionof what happens to your pay-check ,ifter youget it, for the simple reason that we can neverquite figure out what happens to our own,much less anybody else's. The butcher, thebaker, the candlestick maker all get their due.scme goes into the old sock for a rainy dayor the realization of a long.cherished dream.and some finds its way to certain other places,all of which fit into the pattern of a full mdctive life ,is we of this day and ige are wont

to live it.T,ike Harold Kirk, for example. Harold is

i skimm€'r on No. I Holding Converter in the3rford Department at Copper Cliff. He was5orn on a farm near Tamworth, Ont.. andcame to Sudbury to sign up with INCO in thespring of 1940. In l-l4 Harold and his f1-low €'mployees in C,inida will collect a totalof more than $27,000,000 in wages. To getthis money they will cash more than threequarters of •i million checks issued to them bythe Company paymasters.

In Picture No, I Harold Kirk is seen cashinghis pay-check at the bank. He has received

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1r juuuj Oraii 'uthirrtiu Nut prak

NEVERTHELESS:They are heard in the still houses; .ho has

not heard them?They have a silence that speaks for them

at night and when the clock CountsThey say, We were young. We have died.

Remember us.They say, We have done what we could

but until it is finished it is not done.They say, We have given our lives but

until it is finished no oi, can know whatour lives gave.

They say, Whether our ives and ourdeaths were for peace and a new hope, orfor nothing, we cannot say; it is you whomust ay this.

They say, We leave you our deaths. Givethem their meaning. Give them an end tothe war and a true peace. Give them a vic-tory that ends the war and a peace after-wards. Give them their meaning.

We were young, they say. We have died.Remember us.

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OUR WAY OF LIFE

AUBREY A. RODGERSFrood Mine

CLAUDE R. MOORECreighton Mine-Merhanical

CHAS. M. COMPLINFrood Mine-Mechanical

DOUGLAS C. FLESHERFrood Mine-Mechanical

JOHN D. DOUGLASFrood Mine

THOS. D. FOLEYFrood Mine

GEO. E. POSTLETHWAITEFrood Mine

HUBERT LAFRANCEPolice

WALLACE IBBOTSONCopper Cliff Stores

DOUGLAS A. MAYFrood M,ne

GEORGE N. MOOREFrood Mine

CHARLES E. BROWNPort Colborne

CLARENCE NICKELCopp.r Cliff-Mechanical

LESLIE R. SCOURFIELDCopper ClitF-Reerch

CLIFFORD G. GRAHAMCopper Retnery

LAWRENCE J. McHUGHENFrood Mine

WILLIAM T. LANECopper Cliff-Eletr,cal

LESLIE BUTLERPort Colborne

THOS. F. HYNDMAN(:o.per Cliff Smelter

BEATTY CAMPBELLFrood Mine

WILLIAM F. JORDANCopper Cliff-MechanicalFRANK E. ANDERSON

Garson MineJOSEPH H. EVELINE

Copper Qit SmelterGRAHAM CHAHOTConiston Mechanica'

JAMES ArJDERSONPort Colborne

MAURICE ONUSKICppr Cliff Sr,-elier

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RUSSEL DAVID MATHERS ARMAND THIERCopper Renery Creighion Mine

JOSEPH P. SULLIVAN KENNETH A GREIVECopper Cli Smelier Copper Cliff Srr!ier

FRED BUCK LEONARD SMITHCopper C!iff--Mechanical Copper Cliff Smelter

ALEX ROY MAURICE WILSONPori Colborne Creighton Mine

JOHN MARSHCLIFFORD DONAHUE

(T,aron MineFrood Mine

THOMAS }3ASTONSTANLFY J. DUBOWSKI Frood Mine

Copper Cliff SmelterWALTER D. COOPER

RODGER BRUNELL Copper Ci SmelterCrighton Mine JOSEPH P. HALL

MICHAEL OWENS Coniton SmelterCopper Clit Srelier ELMER NEUMANNHENRY GIPSON Levck Mine

Copper aiff Mechnic! HARRY FARRALBERT S. BLANCHARD Copper Cliff Smelter

Copper Cliff Mechnial WILLIAM MUNROFRED GREEN Copper Cliff Smelter

Frood MIne ERNEST TOUR VILLETHOS. B. FORESTELL Frood Mine

Coniton Electrical LEO WALKERWILLIAM GORDON Frood Opi Pit

Port Colborne HECTOR DESAYEUXALEX STALKER Cre,ghton MineConiion Elecir,cl WILLARD tSJARDINS

F. CAMPBELL RUSHFILD Gron MineFrood Mine HUGH D. PAWSON

PHILIP SOULLIERE Copper RefineryLevack Mine EDGAR GUTHRIE

JOHN L. F. LOWN Copper CliffConiton Electrical CARL WALTER STROM

FREDERICK KONIG Frood M,nePort Colborn ANTHONY SMRK

MORLEY P. LOYST Open PitPolic*, RONALD P. HUDSON

HARRY MAKI Frood MineCopper Cliff Electrical ALFRED J. GALLOWAY

DAN BERNARD Frood MineCopper Cliff Smelter LEONARD H. SAVILLE

CLARENCE J. BAIN Port Co!bornCopper Cliff Concentrator ALFRED BALCOMB

JOHN STEPHEN KITTS Port ColborneOpen Pir Mechanical VICTOR A. HUFFMAN

CLARENCE L. STEVENS Port ColborneFrood Mine Will relative, or friend, please forward to Tb.

HARRY S. McINTYRE Tnangl. fume, omtt1 from th list of INCOFro-od Mine employees who have made the Supreme Sacrifice

GEORGE D. LEES in the present war.Murray Mine electrical I

DAVID SCOTTPort Colborne

WM. BRODIE ANDERSON t TVL tiVi t GCreighton Survey osus eWILLIAM E. A. McMITCHLL

Copper Cliff Smelter From ResourcesGERALD ANDREWSCopper Reinry

ARCHIE FERGUSON We in Canada cannot boast of otr conser-Port Colborne I vation of natural resources," declared A. A.

WILBERT A. HEALEY MacKay, of Montreal, president of th Cana-Open Pit Iin Sud-dian Institute Mining and MetallurgyEDISON MENZIES

Levck Mine,

bt'ry on December 2.FRANK VID In future our exploitation must be more

Creighton Mine scientific, more complete, more economic,' heVICTOR RANGER continued as a prelude to announcement of aCre,ghton Mine

LEN ROGERS niw technical association dedicated to suchPort Colborne objectives. It is proposed, said Mr. MacKay,

ALBERT BRANKLY to form what may be known as the CanadianGron Mine Council of Engineers and Scientists, a na-

GEORGE A. MITCHELL tional and voluntary organization to representPort ColborneC. A. McKINNON some 19 or 20 technical societies of Canada.

Copper Reinery He estimated the group would represent aPATRICK CRAWFORD membership of between 40,000 and 50,000

Open Pit persons.DONALD A. AUGUSTINE He thought in addition to more scientihcPort Colbotn

JAMES SMITH prospecting, that engineering would also playCopper Cliff I a greater role in all phases of mining nd

J. E. SOULIERE metallurgy in the future. Another post-warCopper Cliff development would be more scientific market-J. A. MY1E [ing methods, concluded Mr MacKay. and weFrood Mine

will likely have to broaden our manufacturingC. J. FISHERCopper Cliff base in Canada in order to absorb a gre.ter

EURWEDD OWEN share of our production"Copper Renerr The executive lineup of the local C.1M.M.

LLOYD KIRSTINE brinch s now a follows:Frood M,neOfficers having one year vet to serve:EARL DAUBNEY

Port Colborne Chairman, A. B. Yates: vice-chairman, E. T.ROBERT L. ANDREWS Querney: Sudburv, L. L. W. AshCroft; Conis-

Frood Mine ton, J. Lilley; Falconbridge, R. Oliver; FroodARTHUR F. HOOD Open Pit, L Monroe.Creighton Mine

lected or re.elected for 945 dndOfficersRONALD H. FOX eFrood Mine 1946:

RICHARD C. DAOUST Secretary.treasurer, J. C. Bischoff Frood,Garon Mine T. Kierans: District, D. C. McKechnie Copper

EDWARD F. LEMMR Cliff, A. Harcourt: Copper Refining Division,Creighton MineC. Ness: Creighton, Frank McAtter; Garson,LEO BERNARD WALKER

Frood Mine Archie Massey: Levack, E. W. Gilchrist.

THESE HAVE DIED TO PRESERVE

Another of those enjoyable "lets get together off the job" partieswas held at the Nickel Range Hotel by the girls of Miss Pierce's shiftin Copper Cliff Smelter. Seen in the top photograph: back row, leftto right, D. Beland, N. Young, H. McLaughlin. T. Lafortune, R.Lessard, H. Pierce Imatron), N. Fawcett, M. Currie, V. Pakkala, E.Walker, J. Cuomo, 0. OBiien. A. Lajeunesse, A. Bennett, L. Leger,E. Tremblay, P. McDonald, J. Rousselle, E. Smith, J. Seguin; centrerow. S. Cuomo, L. David, P. Carter, M. Kenny, M .Mousseau, E.Perreault. I. Skrypek. L. Koski, M. Galloway, I. Maki, M. Johnston.L. Wilson. M. Jaworski; front row. M. Quenville, M. Streich, E.Muzychuk, Y. Laaglois, L. Kovanen, J. Prudhomme, R. Bertrand, I.Fortier, I. Peacock, P. Hartman.

The girls from Copper Cliff General office also held a dinnerparty reccntly at the Copper Cliff Club in honor of Mrs. "MacMcNeil Inee Olive Lee) md Mrs. Gordon Clement (nee Betty Major)

whose marriages took pla0e in November. Presentations were made ofa coffee table to Mrs. McNeil by Edna Thomas and an entree dish toMrs. Clement by Grace Stevens.

In the second picture are, left to right: back row, Dorothy Mc-Carthy, Mary Shamlev, Betty Jenkms, Cora Sykes, Ruth Butchart,Catherine Ratchfoid, Elsie Oliver. Frances Adams, Louise Schofield,Nora Bargnesi, Dolina de Soto, Robina Ballantyne, Margaret Elves,Jean Bell, Polly Morrow, Mary Milks, Lorna ,\utz, Rosemary Over.s.Dorothy Acheson, Dorothy Hawke: wcond row, Mary Whalen, JennyMartel. Josephine Travaglini, Dma Minardi. Evelyn Zmnkme. MaryWier, Naomi Perras, Marjorie James, Ruth Carlson, Sheila Granary:third row, Marion Stedman, Barbara Germa, Edna Thomas. OliveMcNeil, Betty Clement, Grace Stevens, Dorothy Dopson, Betty Spencer;front row, Kay Thomas, Ruth Robert. Gloria Ferguson, AudreyThomas, Phyllis Winters. Irene Mathe, Evelyn Gilpin ,,Anne Johnson.

WARNS OF DANGERS IN

COMBUSTIBLE INSULATION

!NCO Fire Inspector Bill Humphries issuesa s,ord of warning regarding the use for in-sulation of shavings, sawdust, or other mat-erial tFiat will burn.

Hydri, roles in his connection are as follows:if the hollow space in walls, floors, and roof

spaces of buildings are to be filled with thermal(heai) insulation, except . provided below,

only approved non-corrosive, incombustible

non.conducring materials shall be used, mad

these shall be applied in a manner not likelyto place any str,tmn upon the conductors or

raceways or on their supports.

'if such spaces be filled with combustiblethermal insul,ition, wiring shall be in rigidconduit or inflexible conduit with conductorsin a lead sheath, or lead.sheithed ,irmouredcable may be used."

Where the wires may be separated from the

combustible insulation by six inches of non-

combustible insulation rock wool, etc.) then

the combustible insulation is permitted. Ob-

viously wiring already placed In wall spaces

cculd not he easily covered by non-combustible

insulation. md therefore the use of shavings

or other combustible insulation in walls con-

taining wiring is not safe.

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MISS PIERCE'S SHIFT 4\D GE%ERAL OFFICE GIRLS HOLD DI'IER PARTIES

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Orford ProcessWas a ChanceDiscovery

In all the romantic history of the nickel in-dustry fess developments stand out with suchstartling clarity as the chance discovery of themethod for separating copper and nickel whichis used in daily operations in the Orford De-partment of Copper CliF Smelter.

Colonel R. M. Thompson was a U, S. NavalI Academy graduate with an honorary military

title conferred by the State of New Jersey.After a few years at sea he had resigned fromthe navy to study law at Harvard and then hadstarted to practice in Boston. Soon he hadforgotten law and was on the road to becom-ing one 0f the great industrial metallurgistsof the New World,

The Orford Nickel Company, which had beenorganized to exploit a small and ultimately un-satisfactory nickel prospect near the village ofOrford, Quebec. retain-ed Colonel Thompsonto handle negotiationsfor the leasing of a

I copper sulphide proper-ty at Capleton. WhenThompson went to Eng-land to treat with theowners of the mine hedecided it would bemore profitable to pur-chase instead of lease. -,This he decided to do.much to the surprise ofthe directors of the Orford Nickel Company,who, however, approved the purchase and re-organized the Orford Copper and Nickel Com-pany with Thompson as general manager.

In due course it was decided to erect asmelter near New York. Thompson went there,bought four acres of sunken meadow, prevailedupon New York officials to dump their ashesand rubbish there instead of at sea, and thusdeveloped at low cost a tide-water site for hissmelter. Before long copper ores from thewestern mines appeared at the seaboard for re-fining. Business was good and Thompson bor-

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rowed capital to buy out his ,issociates andreorganize as th Orford Copper CompanyThus nickel was completelY eliminated fromthe corporate title: vet ,ilmost immediately thecompany launched on a development that wasto make it one of the world's greatest producers

0f nickel.What happened was that Thompson hid

contracted to bus I 00.000 tons of copper orefrom Samuel J. Ritchie. the Ohio industrialistwho in (885 had organized the Canadian Cop-per Company at Copper Cliff. Ontario. andhad purchased several of the most promisingmines in the Sudhury district,

The first shipment of ore was received atihe Orfi,rd Smelter from Northevn Ontario

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The PicturesIn th accompanying photos the Triangle

camera takes its readers to the stripping floorof the Orford Department where a huskycrew of INCO workers reap the benefits ofColonel Thompson's discovery.

1-Dumping the Big PotsAfter treatment in the furnaces the copper'

nickel sulphides are poured into huge cast ironpots and left to cool. Then the cranes pickup the pots and swing them over to the stripp-ing floor where they are dumped. Nick Butchan,chainman, is signalling to the crane operatot'to dump a pot. Empty, each pot weighs aboutfive tons; when loaded the gross weight is 12tons.

2-A 'Thornpson Layer Cake"Here's a closeup shot of part of the "layer

cake" which comes out of a pm. ColonelThompson's separation method has done itswork well and the division between the gleam-ing nickel bottoms and the dark flaky coppertops is clearly seen.

3-Two Strippers in ActionJoe Kolibas and Paul Marychuk, strippers,

are busy separating copper tops and nickelbottoms. Although special furnace treatmentinduces easier breaking when the pot is dumped,much stripping remains to be done by the men,many of whom are veterans in INCO service,

1-Off to the Jaw Crusher

Stripped copper tops are pushed throughgrlzzlevs in the floor by Baker trucks, drop Intoboxes and are hauled back to the furnaces forfurther trearment. The nickel bottoms, how-ever, are ready for shipment to the Nickel Re.finery at Port Colborne. They are chained intopots and are then takers by the cranes to thejaw crushers where the big chunks are broken.In the ptcture "Blackie" Joachim, chainman,

sending away a 2 :-ton chunk of nickelbottoms.

2-Loading For ShipmentFrom the jaw cruthers the nickel bottoms

are transported to the big hoppers from whichthe versatile little Baker trucks receive themand load them into box cars. The bucket ofthe Baker truck handles about a ton of bot-toms each trip. Truck operator in the photois Henry Denis and operator of the gate tithe hopper is "Chano" Christiana. As theyleave the stripping floor for Port Colborne Re'finery the bottoms are about 72 pure nickel.

3-Wilson Shift at Lunch

Jack Wilson's crew was on shift the dayTriangle happened in to the Orford De-partment for these pictures. Photo shows theboys digging into the lunch boxes in rhirlunch room: front row, left to right, PhillipGouin, Pete Lapushinski, Jimmy Jones, JimmyO'Riorden, Johnny Bercik, Alex Stefur.i:second row. Joe Kolibs, Nick Butchan, "Black.ie" Joachim, Paul Plante,Alf Dempsey: thirdrow, Paul Marychuk, Alex Nechat, John Drum.sier, Henry Denis, "Chano" Christissna. Peek-ing through the window at the back is Ton)'l.eone of Billy Chapman's lining stand gang.

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Pete Denniel Wins First $1000 Suggestion Award

TWEEDLECOLLECTSJACKPOT

Jolly old St. Nicholas will have to dig deepinto his sack of surprises to bring out anythingwhich can ho'd a candle to the Christmas boxesreceived this month by two Frood-Stobe OpenPit men through the INCO Employees Sug-gestion P'an.

Pierre (Pete) Dennie realized the dreamof thousands of his fellow workers when hewa granted the first maximum award of$1000 for hi suggestion on reinforcing bulldozer rollers.

Ernie Tweedk a'so clicked for a rich jack.pot when he received $523 for his suggestionon we'ding wear shoes to e'ectric shovd

i dippers.The awards are the largest yet paid under

the Suggestion Plan in the Mining, Smelting.and Copper ReLining Divisions of INCO,and to Denniel and Tweedle go the heartycongratulations and good wishes of everyone.

Pete Denniel, a rangy Westerner whose hab-itually cheerful grin was broader and morecheerful than ever after receiving the excitingncws of his 1000 windfall, was born in Franceand came to Canada with hs parents in 1910to settle on a homestead at Val Marie, Sask-atchewan. In 1921 he started farming on hisown but after 10 years he moved to theShaunavon district where he became a farmmachinery doctor, curing the ills of sick com-bines, trjctors, Caterpillars, etc. In 1936 hetook a job as Caterpillar expert on the bigPF.R.A. irrigation project at Val Marie, wherehe had some 40 Cats" under hs care andgot to know their every whim and mood. Itwas this experience which led to his becominga leader in the bulldozer department at FroodPit, where he h1s been employed since Sept-pmber of 1941. His wife and two children re-side at Val Marie; his son Paul is 15 ind hisdaughter Louise is 13.

Like so miny of the ideas which click forsubstanti,il awards under the Suggestion Plan,Petes "thousand dollar baby looks simp'ewhen you see it, and you wonder "Now whyin heck didnt somebody think of that before?But nobody did until Pete hit upon it, andbecause it greatly increases the hf, of thetrack chains and rollers on the hard-workingOpen Pit bulldozers, it w.is a big winner.

Originally the bulldozer rollers were mtdelike the one on the left in the picture (No. 1

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in the- l.iyout) s th two sets 1 Ring's to ke' p

the irack h.'iins in pl.ic,. Wlieii the flanges

Syore Jowti as oii the second of the three

ro k' rs, th c' track hi ii ci ttcn slipped dowi I

between them. nd ct4nsequt'nt we,ir n-id tear

WAS ,(ssivc.. Pete welded shroud between

the cntre itniges. md the troubk sVlS Ut in

lilf. k is cn svith his h,ind on one ofthe CAIUci m pr, ti ro lt. rs.

The other in.ijor iwi rd winner this meth.Ernie Tweedje, thinks $523 is ,i very plailntsurprise inde'd, particularly at this cason ofihe v'1r md more particukirly when a Iellowwas married nly three monihs Iso md can gr'adily use a nancial boost like that. O,OOO

A Sudhury boy whose father is ,i railwayengineer. Ernie started with INCO in 1935 1 c'qin the boiler shop at Copper Cliff. 3nd trans- -

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Ierred to the plate shop at Frood Pit in 1938.

- :He set sail on the matrimonial sea last Sept-ember and his bride was formerly Miss Iris -

-.' .•-;' '. - '.--- -..-Busby, well-known Sudbury girl.-... •:::-.

- -- .L.?In the accompanying picture (No. 2) Ernie -stands beside one of the 4iyard electric :i:" 'shovel dippers which scoop up the rock and - .' .'ore in the Open Pit. The dipper, incidentally, -: -weighs II tons, and tips the scales at a mere17 tons when loaded. Marked with white chalkso they'll show up in the photo are the wear -shoes which Ernie suggested should be madefrom discarded dipper teeth and welded to theheel band of the dipper to help withstand thesevere wear to which this section is subjected

The two record awards swell to $15,772, thein Pit operations.

is lliis pint of blood Co give.total which has been paid out in Victory Bondsiand War Savings Certificates to INCO em-ployees for suggestions on how to increase pro-duction, improve operations, effect labor or That. fnr aiay. a dying usnu might Iisematerial savings. Organized to reward an em-ployee for interest in his work "beyond the Tsk.* this. my bIood unit know n purt of 1.Hcall of duty,' the Suggestion Plan to date hasdrawn more than 6521 ideas, 1136 of whichhave qualified for awards ranging from $5.00 Ihis gon4' * . . In k4Mp niy Iiouielnnd frecto $1,000.

A few of the other INCOites who have also,ashed in recently on the Suggestion Plan are Dens Lyon S(In.IIpictured in the accompanying layout:

3-AT CREIGHTON -Andy Nesbitt, rigger, and George Carley ___________________

rope inspector, Creighton Mine, got a $10 Wai -. Is 7his YOIIJR C'hairSavings Certificate each for suggesting that a '. --

jack be used to assist in changing skip shoes. at the4-AT CONISTON

Phil Leclair, Coniston, got a $10 War Sayings Certificate for suggesting larger prongs Blood Donors' Clinic?on the chipping ,inchors in the converterbuilding.

5-AT COPPER CLIFF

Gerald Brose, Copper Cliff Machine Shop, __________ i -- - .----- - ----was awarded a 50 Victory Bond for suggest- - -

ing that standard gauge car wheels be purch- Another "must" in the Kirk budget, as in

ased with two holes drilled in each web to __________________ thousands of other INCOite budgets, is Warfacilitate handling when the tires ,ire being _______ Savings. Harold has been a bond buyer inturned down in the lathe. - every Loan to date, looks upon his little bundle6-AT MURRAY _____________

Jim Kilby, Murray Mine, drew $25 in War future just as much as a patriotic necessity ofunit heaters to heat the collarhouse and pre. - 'of securities as a wonderful investment for4the

4Savings Certificates for his idea of installing the present. Twice a year the Paymaster issues

the Victory Bonds on which payments have4-vent icing in the upper part of the shaft. 4 - been completed by employees under the Pay-

7-AT LEVACK roll Plan. During this war to date the INCOSani Williams, Levack Mine, collected a - -- family has bought a total of almost $7,000,000

War Savings Certificate for a suggestion which he is working. In Sudbury nd surrounding in Victory Bonds like the crisp ones laid outled to the installation of a turntable in the INCO towns there ire nine branches of the in Photo No. 3, Another form of regularcarpenter shop leading to the double framer. b'inks on which INCO cheques are drawn, and investment by which the Paymastir aids em-8-AT FROOD this service is supplemented by the other banks ployees to build up a cushion for the future

John Bahry, Frood Mine, received a lO 0 Sudbury. are War Savings Certificates: they're currentlyW,ir Savings Certificate for his suggestion of 'And what else?" Making out the weekly being issued at the rate of 4,000 a month, and -lowering the gauge pin on the bit millers in budget in their home on Raphael 5t., (Picture to date INCOites have bought more thanthe steel shop. No. 2) Harold and h5 wife think carefully $3,200,000 worth of them.

over their commitments. There's the house. Despite ritioning, despite temporary short-hold allowance, of course. And there's some- ages, despite other little privations of war,

MORE ABOUT'hing for gas to keep Harold's c,ir, with its INCO families live well, Shopping is a plea-

our Payi1h J "riders' from the n'ighborhood, travelling sure in the modern stores of the district andec back and forth to the plint. Then theres the heavily-laden market baskets (No. 4) augur(Continued From Page payment on the house: the Kirks formerly plenty of the good things a man needs to eit

rented on Devon Road in the Minnow Lake when he's doing a full day's work in thethe check from one of the 10 Compiny pay- section but now they're buying a place of their mining, smelting, and refining industry.masters. either ,it one of the plant oHices or own. And dont forget the new Christmas And that's the why, where, how, and what-at the hank, whichever i more convenient for doll for young Lorraine, agid 16 months. And for of your last weeks pay-check. All thathim accerding to where he lives and what shift so it goes. remains now is to wait for the next one.

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clockwise. George Renaud, Ccc Matthews, AlexCrosscrovi', Frank Scott, Alex Kerr. WhitWhitton. Barney Graham. Russ Hewgill.

8. In this group seth a waitress hoveringexpectantly nearby are Leo Bt'audry, welcomedhack to the plant only a few days previouslyafter a long illness: Bill Johns and ErnieShannon

9 Archie C.inapini. gifted young Refineryviolinist, drew rousing applause for his selec'tuns: his accompanist was that accomplished

AT COPPER REFINERY'S

MECHANICALDEPARTMENT

BANQUET

The Trophy thatFrood, Greigh tonare Shooting at

p ,,,niei, V iC vnatelaint'.Approximately 100 members and guests it. And th.it's .i11 the pictures see hive. If ins-

tndd the ,innual banquet of the Copper Re- thing else happened during the evening, thehnery Mechanical Department 'it ihe Nickel caiiicra missed it, somehow.Range Hotel on November 25, enjoyed the din-ncr and the varied program of entertainment.and voted the affair one of the best in the eight HERE'S A LOOPHOLE, FELLASI

years since its inception. A law .Igalnst obtaining husbands underHonoted guests were st Class Stoker A. false pretenses which was passed by the Eng-

Lalonde, home on 21 days leave from the lish Parliament in 1770 enacts:Navy, and FIt. Lieut. Neville Spence of the R. "That all women of whatever age, rank,C.A.F., also home on leave. Other former profession or degree, who shall, after this act,members of the Mechanical Department wel- impose upon, or seduce and betray into matri-comed at the party included George Black, now mony any of His Majesty's male subjects, by

with the Mines Mechanical Department at virtue of scents, paints, cosmetic washes, ,lrflFrood; Walter Scott, now with the Electrical ficial teeth, talse hair, Spanish wool, iron stays,Department at Copper Cliff; Romeo Desilets, bolstered hips or high-heeled shoes, shall incutnow Mines Mechanical; Jimmy Bell, now with the penalty of the law now in force againstCanadian Pacific Air Lines; Dave Duncan Jr.. witchcr,ift and like misdemeanors; md thenow in the Mechanical Department at Copper marriage under such circumstances shall beCliff; Red Hodgins of Falconbridge. null and void.' -

Receiving their diplomas is graduate appren- ...tices of the Machine Shop were Percy La Roque'

MORE ABOUTJr. and Norman Ray, both of whose fathers aremembers 0f the Mechanical Department. Orford ProcessFollow the picture layout on the oppositepage for some glimpses of the doin's as the (Continued from Page 7)gang relaxed together for the evening: Although it will he late next spring before

1. At the head table, left to right, are seen in 1886 hut the smelt produced a pale metal the records for all Canada have been gatheredFred Ness, Supt, R. H. Waddington, Wes Hart that no copper fabricator would accept. Thomp- and the 1944 winner is announced, based onchairman), Al Welblund, FIt. Lieut. Neville son had an exhaustive analysis of the ore experience to date this year both Frood and

Spence, (was Research Engineer at the Refinery made and he was advised that it contained 2 lCreighton Mines will be well up in the running

before he enlisted, is now stationed at Ottawa) per cent nickel, that persisrent metal which for the Ryan Trophy, awarded annually to theJoe Bischoff, Len Kitchener. had so bedvilled the efforts 0f copper miners mine with the best safety record.

2. The Shops String Quartet made a big hit in old Saxony in the 18th century that they Should either Creighton or Frood win thiswith its melodious contributions to the program. had christened it

after "Old Nick." coveted award, it would be the first time in theThis group was originally billed as a quintet Ritchie was greatly depressed with the pros- history of the competition that a big mine didbut five minutes before the program started pects for his Sudbury District mines until hePaul Dow broke a string on his gee-tar and learned that nickel was then worth $1 a pound.

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had to withdraw. The boys had practised for; Realizing that his ores would produce many The Joksn T. Ryan Trophy, pictured above,two months, played well together. Professor times the world's annual consumption 0f nickel was presented for Dominion-wide competitionMatt Bell, standing, is drawing sweet notes Ritchie was soon drumming up new uses for in 1941 through the Canadian institute offrom his Stradivarius; seated ire George the metal. in the meantime it remained for Mining 'md Metallurgy by the Mines SafetyRenaud, Barney Graham, and Coney Alexiuk, Thompson to develop some more satisfactory Appliances Company in honor of its late presi-

dent, One award is made for coal mines andThe piano accompaniments were played by Ed- method of separating nickel and copper than another for metal mines.ward Reed, dean of Sudbury musicians, the slow and laborious "wet" method then in

3. A group at one of the banquet cables. use. Without a becer method his smelter would As a basis of the award, the best mine safetyLeft to right they are: Walter Scott, former never be able to produce nickel in sufficient record is taken as the lowest frequency ofRefinery electrician; Harry Clemens, Albert quantities to keep pace with the irrepressible compensation accidents more than six days'Madison, Tom Bell, and Jimmy Bell, who left Ritchie's vigorous sales campaign, duration) per thousand men employed through-Refinery 10 years ago and now flies C. P. Air One day Colonel Thompson was in the re- out the year at the mine, 300 man-shifts beingLines planes in Northern Quebec. finery when some hundred pots of smelted considered equivalent to one man-year of em-

4. Scene during the quiz contest, which was copper matte had been dumped on the floor. ployment. Smelter -mud open'pit operations area highlight of the program. The three Quiz He tapped one of these cones with a sledge excluded from the competition.Kids standing on the left are Mike Shamley, hammer and noticed -in unusual fracture He A plaster replica is given to the mine whenWilf Rivers, and Aime Chartier; in the trio then tapped cone after cone until he had gone the trophy is removed for award to a newon the right ire Ron Heale, George Black, through the whole lot. A score of them had winner.

and Fred Perrier. Standing in the centre is ftactured in the same way-the bottom third In 1941, the htst year of competition, Creigh-Dave Duncan, who fired the riddles at the of the cone had broken away as a bright sul- ton Mine hnished second for all Canadiantwo tecusms of brain-trusters. Appropriate prizes phide from the top two-thirds, which showed metal mines in the Ryan Trophy race; in 1942were awarded according to a box score kept dark and flaky. Samples were then taken and Frood Mine was third; in 1943 I.evack Mineby Morgan Shoveller (back to camera at thelong table, writing furiously), proved ihat ,in almost pure nickel sulphide w,is third.

had settled in the bottom third while the top Both Frood and Creighton have every rca-5. Another group at dinner: clockwise, start-

ing in left corner, Maurice Keaney: Stoker Al section contained copper, iron, some nickel, son to he proud of the splendid safety recordsLalonde, son of Johnny Lalonde of the drill and a large amount of sodium, which have made them leading contenders inroom, a former Refinery apprentice who is Thereupon Thompson began to function, the Ryan contest this year.now on convoy duty in the Atlantic; Johnny L'ron inquiry he learned that various residues

Netcke, Percy La Roque, Ad Rahellato, Ainte from the chemical house had been part of the•Lepage, Lucien Levesque, Stan Mitchell, Hughie charge that had produced this unusual matte., ANDY SPY WRITESMcPhail, Lloyd Young, Ron Ray, and Harry He detailed a man to melt normal matte inTolonen crucibles. each with one of the chemicals used Scottish-tongued Andy Spy, who uxed to

6. Here's the hard-working committee which in the plant. One he,iting after ,inother pro- work in the time office at Frood and bewilderwon congratulations all around for making duced negative results. then at last came am the boys with his fancy finesses in the oldihe event a success; left to righh Barney Gra- heat which gave a product siniilar to that wh:ch inter.plant bridge contests, sends us a handsomeham, manager; Dave Dunc,'mn, treasurer; Wes , h.id inspired the experiments. The chemiea Christmas card with a picture of his unit over-H,-irt, banquet chairman: Frank Scott, who in that crucible had been nitre cake, a by- seas. Andy is a major in charge of the outfit.collabor,'ited with Matt Bell in arranging the product of nitric acid manufacture. Thompson Says he somet;mes sees Major Joe Cawthorpeprogram: Leo Desilets and George Renaud, re- bought a carload, tried it in his furnace and Scores, Copper Refinery) and they indulge infreshments: Matt Bell: Kelly Stormes and Sol 'got the expected result. And thus was born the odd bit of elbow exercise together. SendsHunter, refreshments, the Orford Process of nickel separation which his best regards to Frank Learned, George

7. A lot of grub disappeared in this cornet: is in use at Copper Cliff Smelter. rhorpe, and all ihe gang at Frood,

' CLASSESFEATURE.

CREIGHTONThere's scarcely an hour of the day or eve-

iing that something isnt going on at Creighon Mine Employees Club, but it takes the boys

and girls' gymnasium classes to really make therafters ring and the floor joists quiver.

Every Wednesday is kids' night at the Club,.vith more than 150 youngsters taking part.Prior to each class-theres one Lor the boysand one for the girls-the pupils get the runf the iuditorium for an all-out romp during

which they let off surplus steam. Then theysettle down for a period of physical trainingcith their popular instructor, Barney Barni-:ott, in charge.

The gymnasium classes get a high prioritys far as directors of the Club are concerned

The activity is regarded as one of the mostvorthwhile on the Club calendar. And it ratesa high priority also among parents, who areglad to see their bairns reaping the health-,uilding benefits of organized gymnastic work.As for the kids themselves-they love it, asrtgular ittendances demonstrate.

The Employees Club is particularly wellquipped for physical training. Besides the

5ig auditorium where the classes are held there'sthe downstairs gym with its triining bicycles,walking machines, dumbells, barbells, punchmgbig, boxing gloves, wrestling mat, etc.

Group pictures on this page show some

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he young gymnasts with their instructor. - -'-- - -v---. -

In No. 1 is a tribe of embryo Tarzans, left - __________________

to right, hack row Ernie Lekun, Raymond - - -;.Jones, Lloyd McChesn. Bob Moro. Donnie - -Johnson, Cliord Cardinal, Arthur Chevrier. - -lam Behenna, Lawrence Cardinal, Giks Rivet.J'hn Kayshuk. Piul Kuzina, Tom Earl, Bob -

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Tuddenharn, Arni Kotonen, '4€'lvin Latvala,

blV;j -Hreljac, lawrence Gonnella, Gino Fievola, -Michael McAteer, John Secen, John McDon- -,ld.

Some of the members of the girls class are ,photographed in No. 2, left to right, backrow: Lorriine Michalchan, Ercia Damiani,Alice Bellas, Annie Zyma, Ellen Riutta, Emeli. -Palys, Poldi Gliebe, Jessie Starkey, Irene Macko, -Norma Gonnella, Stella Kozak, Joan White, -Betty Rivet, Muriel Lnmarche, Teresa Cayen, rFrances Tremblay; front row, Sheila Farrell, -

-Catherine Farrell, Jacqueline Galipeau, Anni€'Rintula, Lyda Cryderman, Sherill McGowan,Mary Hreljac, Mary Grivich, Shirley Ribic,Olando Cuomo, Argia Cuomo, Helen Moyle .

-Emily McCormick, Roberta McCormick, AnneMclsaac.

Photo No. 3 finds the Professor showing the 'Fway to a group of the girls: left to right, front

Cuoma, Dora Kol;baba; back row, KozaIGlenys Thomas, Jessie Starkey. - -. . '-.

In the fourth picture Instructor Barnicottwatches half a dozen of his charges go throughtheir paces: left to right, front row, TomBehenna, Giles Rivet, John Kaychuk; back -row, Archie Damiani, Alfred Kotonen, Buddy -Johnston.

Spark-plug of this valuable community pro- If a fellow ever approaches you on a dark-ct, Barney Barnicott, is a peppery little Corn- night, pokes a gun in your ribs, and tells youshman who looks and acts about half of his to put 'em up. and if after a quick glance you /48 years. He comes naturally by his intense see that this fellow is Gordon Rustin of Froodinterest in physical training because his grand- Open Pit plate shop, our advice to you, brother,fither was m ,ierial acrobat in an Old Country is to put 'em up. He knows his guns.circus tzoupe and his father was a professional Not that Gord Rustin is in the habit of goingbcer. - around prodding people with pistols. Far from

Early embarked on a fistic career, Barney it. But after 18 years as a gun collector he canfought his rst pro scrap at the age of 12 at tell you the ancestry and shootin' habits of _________________Truro, ii Cornwall. He soon walloped his way almost anything that wears a trigger. _________

to the top of the heap and at different time Spread out for inspection in the top picture ________held the flyweight and bantamweight champ. are some of the prizes of Gordon's registeredionships of Cornwall. During his service with collection. And on the right he poses with a -the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in the pair of flintlock cavalry pistols which were used -First Great War he traded leather with top- ii the Battle of Waterloo. He picked them upflight fighters in England, France, India and in Toronto from a fellow who needed fiveEgypt, and estimates he was billed in a total bucks a lot worse than he needed a brace ofof more than 200 pro battles in his day. cavalry pistols, and Gord has since been offered forth with other guys who like guns," he says,

Shortly after he came to Canada in 1920 $50 for them, and after a few years you have quite a bunchBarney went into the ring igainst the. great Among the most interesting items of die col- of them. It's a hobby that grows on you likeFrenchy Belanger, who was flyweight champion lection are a 41-calibre Colt Derringer, the vest all other hobbies."o th' world. They fought twice, once to a draw pocket pistol which the wicked gamblers often With INCO for more than three years, Gordr Hamilton and the second time to a technical carry in Oppenheim novels; a five-barrelled was employed at Lawson Quarry before trans-

K. 0. for Belanger at Toronto when Barney muzzle-loader, one of the first types of automa- ferring to Open Pit. He was married at Strathid to quit oi account of a badly cut eye tic revolvers; a wheel-lock single barrelled per- ford in 1939 to Florence Toms and their homeBarney's last fight before he hung up his gloves cussion cap pistol; a pair of double-barrelled is on Wembley Drive in Sudbury.as an exhibition bout against Woolly Johnson cap and ball pistols three pin-fire revolvers, ___________

in the Palace Rink at Sudbury 16 years ago. all six-shooters, with slots in the cylinderEver since he enrolled with INCO at Creigh- through which the pins on the cartridges pro- PARDON OUR BLUSHES-IF ANY

ton in 1926 Barney has been a sports livewire Ject.in the camp, lending his expert assistance in In the top corners of the layout are a shot Waiting for the show to start in the Regaltraining and conditioning hockey and baseball bag and a powder horn, the latter with an ad- Theatre at the R.C.A.F. Station at Greenwood,teams, instructing in boxing, and holding Justment for measuring quantities of powder NS. one evening last month, Squadron Leaderphysical training classes The children are hi up to two grams. Ed McGill (Accounting Dept.. Copper Cliff}

favorites, of course, but he also gives gymnas:ic On the left is -i cap-and-ball type military noticed that the officer in the seat ahead o

nstruction to about 125 grown-ups. This me-ins musket. which though of ancient vintage, can im was reading a copy of the INCO Triangle.hes at the Employees Club on an average of still knock off a groundhog at 50 paces. Beside The two fliers introduced themselves and

tve evenings a week.- a cheerful, enthusiastic t is a double-barrelled pin-fire 12-gauge shot Ed s new4ound friend turned out to he Flyir.gvolunteer who gladly donates his time to help gun, probibly 100 years old. On the right are Officer Tom Mulligan, who worked at Creigh-

other people keep healthy and happy, He's a 2.gauge centre fire shotgun with outside ton Mine for three years before he enlisted,good man, is Barney hammer, dated 1860, and ,n old Enfield gun and whose dad is Tom Mulligan of the Creigh-

which shoots the '57 Snider cartridge-.-a mili- ton Time Office.tary ob dated 1869 Across the iop is a veteran (Dale Carnegie please note How to Win

NICE CHRISTMAS BOX Kt-ntucky muzzle loader, better known as a Friends and Influence People- Be seen read-

squirrel rifle -. And near .e bottom is one ing the INCO Triangle).Payday is always welcome but payday the of the famous 'hoss" pistols unusual chiefly

w'ek of December 1 1 was doubly s'elcorne be. for its size.

c,iijse the annual Christmas Bonus checks were Gord Rustin, who hnils from Stratford, can't OWO-O-OO-0issued to INCO people, Just nicely timed to remember where he got half the guns in his Wolf: A member of the male species whd

up che sl,k n Yuletide gift problems. collection. You Just ke'p trading back and devotes the hesr leers of hs life to women.

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7-21 Teams in LeagueAt the Copper Cliff Club the mixed bowling

Ii sgue is in the throes of playdowns In itsannual Christmas tournament. The loop isdivided into three groups; winning team ineach group will enter the finals with plumpChristmas turkeys is first prize and chickensfor the runners-lip. In addition the runners-upri e ich group will receive cash prizes. Picture

shows the two teams which reached the finalsin group 2, skippered by Gordon Harry andSam Nute About to spill the maples forsirikes ire Kay Jennings and Mary Kennedy;

1. & 5-Old Timers honored Joe Leclair. the leader, and his wi e, Gatie'i seared in the front row are Rena Tatham .indthe pianist; behind them are Riy Belanger \Ir and Mrs. Gordon Harry; in the back row

Two widely known and well-liked Irishmen, who calls the square dances, ,in D \hrtiri are Walter Johnston, Sam Nute, and Howardeach with m.iny years of ealuable INCO service a * Thomson.to his credit, were honored by their fellow Captains of the 24 teams in the flourishingemployees recently on the occasion of their 3-Their Christmas Card leigue are G. Hazleden, C. Beach, A. N-lcEwan,rerirement on Company pension. C Stemp, C. Coo, E. Southcott, L. Mont'

It has no gaily-colored holly festooned upon gomery, D. W. Finlayson, D. Finlayson, T.Jimmy McMenamin is seen in No. 1 (right it, nor any traditionally happy Yuletide scene, Crowther, G. Harry, G. Montgomery, B. Ross.

receiving a purse of money from Assistant but it's still the nicest Christmas card Mrs. C Nute, W. deSoto, V. Johnston, E. Lambert,Superintendent Jack Lilley on behalf of the Don Brown of Copper Cliff ever received in F. Bain, T. Bradbury, R. A. Elliott, R. Bell,Aldege Blake shift in Coniston Smelter. In her life. Its message reads; "1 have been taken A. Crossgrove, M. Malnarik, and A. Godfrey.the centre is Nick Todd, who was chairman prisoner of war in Germany I am in good a a aof the stag party given in Jimmy's honor in health,' and it is signed by FIt. Lieut. Donaldthe Conistuis Community Hall. H. Brown, her husband. 8-Trio of Le'vack Bo,t'lers

Although Jimmy originally enrolled at Vic' Don Brown, formerly of the Concentrator The bowling alleys in Levacks busy Em'tons Mine away back in 1910, and later was othce staff, was reported missing early in Octo' ployees Club are kept going day and night.

skimmer in the smelter at Coniston, there ter after air operations over Germany. It was Here are three enthusiastic trundlers checkingwas an interval in his service during which he not until eight weeks later that his wife learned the score of a practice game; left to right,had a fling at farming. He returned to the through the International Red Cross that he Marie Courchesne. who works in the rockhouse;pLnt in 1923 and for years has been a popular was safe, and a few days afterward she received Mrs. Eileen Fay, whose husband, Charlie Fay.dry man, giving and taking repartee with the the message directly from him, dated October is a compressor man; Gertrude Fay, anotherhr vs in his good'humoured Irish way. 12. Don has more than 50 sorties to his credit, rockhouse worker.

Jimmy was born in Ireland 67 years ago, and including eventful activities in the D.Daywas married at St. Charles to Miss Armelin manoeuvres which brought him special men. FORGOT THE OVERHEADLefebvre in 1910. Of their nine children six don in Canada Weekly. He is a wireless air,ire living; Mrs. Primo May and Mrs. Dick May gunner. The colored preacher had just finished hisof Copper Cliff, Mrs. Carmen Bray, Rose, and Happy smiles light the faces of Mrs. Brown sermon about free salvation and asked a brotherPatrick, of Coniston, and Pte. John, with the and her pretty little daughter Virginia, aged to take up the collection. At this, a memberCcinsdian Army. four, as they discuss their favorite 'Christmas of the congregation arose and protested; "Pah.

Cornelius (Con) Kirwan, familiar figure at card", and even young Don Jr., just a year old, son, Ah thought you said salvation was free,free as the water we'uns drink."

Copper Cliff Concentrator where he worked for wears a broad grin now that he knows his "Salvation is free, Brother Brown,' replied12 years, was presented with a purse of money daddy is alive, the parson. "It's free just like water is free,on behalf of the Morrison shift by K. S. Clarke

*but we pipes it to you, and you have to pay

left in Photo No. 5) Assistant Superintendentat the mill, and Mrs. Kirwan (centre) received .1-..-Bingo Packs 'em In for the piping."

a lovely bouquet of flowers. Standing at the Inveterate favorite of young and old, Bingo GRADUATE OF OLD RENOiight is George Connors, who arranged the continues to draw capacity crowds at INCO

Two Hollywood kids were talking as theypresentation. Employees Club in Sudbury. Picture shows walked home from school. "I've got two littleBorn in Renfrew County in 1876. Con Kir. some of the players in a recent session, every, brothers and one little sister," boasted one.

wan's first job w,is in a lumber camp; even, body concentrating hard as the numbers are How many do you have."tu.illy he switched to farming and for 15 years called over the loud'speaker hook.up and,.,,1 don't have any brothers and sisters," an-tilled his land near Ville Marie, P. Q., where flashed on the master board. More than 1,300 sw'ered the second lad, "but I have three papashe was married 45 years ago last August. He people turned out for the Bingo party at the by my first mama and four mamas by my lastn;oved to Haileyhury where he worked in a Club on December 13, when 25 turkeys aver, papal"saw mill, and then in 1920 came to Coniston aging from 12 to 15 lbs. apiece and severaland took a job in the old Siond Concentrator special 25.00 cash awards, were part of thethere. When it was dismantled he was trans- booty. Another Christmas Turkey Bingo was KOGAKAMI CATCHfr'rred to Copper Cliff mill in 1931, first work. scheduled for December 20.ing on flotation .ind later as a conveyor aoperator.

Tw,,lve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ifl Family Tradition .

Kirwan. One son was killed in ,i power com. Bob Mclnnes of the Accounting Departmentpany accident .it Niagara Falls. A daughter, at Copper Cliff comes from a well.known Sud.Si*ter St. Martin. 5 a nun .ac Lindsay, Ontario, bury sporting family, so he's expected to deli.md a son is in the priesthood at London. ver the goods in any sports activity, includingThe other members of the family reside in or marksmanship On November 15, while on a

ne,mr Sudhurs-. hunting trip in the Lang Lake district nearTo both these old'timers as them' enter retire. Lawson Quarry, Bob spotted .m big bull moose

eent Triangle wishes good health md content -at a dist ince of about 125 yards, drew a carefuli,nt, Them- will ong be remembered by their bead with his 30-30 Winchester, ,ind droppedt,'llow workers, hi' prize in its tracks. The animal weighed

a about 1,200 lbs. and was five years old accord.iiig to the prongs on its horns, Out came a

2-Either Round or Square c.,inera to record the historic moment for the,udmiration of Mclnnes generations met unborn,

An Old Timers' Orchestra ivimich specialici's md this was the picture made. Bob stands An even 100 lbs. of trout gladdened theboth round md squire dances ,mnd is m.mking with his foot on the vanquished baron of the hearts of these three fishermen during a two-big hit with the hi'p'c,mts of Sudbuury and hushlarids in approved conqueror fashion; on day session with rod and reel at Kogakami

[)istrict, is this group of musicians, all but one his left are an uncle and a cousin, Doug Home Lake about two months ago. Picture showsof whom .sre INCOites employed at Copper ,,r St. Cath,mrines and George Biggs of Niagara some of the catch, biggest of which was a 21-Cliff. The orchestra will be a year old on Falls; on his right is another uncle, Emerson pounder which took about 40 minutes to land.New Year's, has been pl.mving it least one Biggs of Niagara Falls. The Sudbury branch Left to right the fishermen are A. Li;ppinenengagement every week since its organization. of tlm family cams' out on the lung end of the of Gatchell, who works in Copper Cliff machIn the front row .mre Johnny Leclair, Martin score--Bob's moose was the only game bagged me shop; A, Moustgaard, manager of Copper[aley of C.mn.mdian Industries, A1d'ge Vincent, on the trip. Cliff Dairy; E. Salo, Copper Cliff,

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No Starvationof Hockey Fans

Measured by Open Pit's d'si'.'e ViCtOtV over

1-lam Iton Tigers in th ape ning exhibition tiltof the season Dezinher Q. and by the Warm-upfixtures of the Copper Cliff Senior Leagueschedule. Nickel Belt fins are cert.iiiily notdoomed to any stars'ation hockey diet thi5s, inter.

It's as plaifl .55 .5 Wen on .i 5hti01.'(' thatsmiling Frankie Graham is building high.class team to carr. the proud Open Pit colors.Despite lack of conditioning his boys showeda definite edge over Hamilton in .ll Jepart.ments of the game and were Full s.s(ue' fortheir 7-4 victory. Now Frank is gunmng formore matches to put a razor edge on his hockeymachine: he hopes to bring Hamilton hack forai'.other tussle and also to stage exhibitionswith St. Catharines, Staffords of Toronto. HullVolants, and Toronto Army, to mention fouro the clubs with which he is dickering Unable

'to condition his lineup in regular league play,,Frank figures hell need at least six tough exhi-bitions to put the boys in shape for a playdownbid.

Special ceremony to mark the opening ofthe season found INCO President Robert C.Stanley, who was in Copper Cliff on .1 shortbusiness visit, facing the puck in the stadiumwhich honors his name. Top photo ri thelayout records the occasion. The two scrappycentre-ice stars who are jockeying for firstwhack at the rubber disk are Mayor W. S.Beaton of Sudbury and Mayor E. A. Collinsof Copper Cliff. Seen it the left ire Jacki'.lewstead, representing Sudbury Lions Clubwhich sponsored the game and netted .4OO tosend Christmas cheer to needy families: W. E.Mason, publisher of the Sudbury Daily Star;INCO Vice President R. L. Beattie,

The second picture catches one of the game'ssparkling plays. Pit goalie Morris Gerth hasmade a great save on a powerful attempt byBill Dinning (ex-Copper Cliff> and JohnnyConick (ex-Frood Tigers> of Hamilton. Pitdefencemen Rolly McLenahan and Danny Lin-ton swing to break up the attack as Conickraces around the net to retrieve the puck.Early in the second frame Pit was two goalsbehind, but stepped up its pace and smothered

'Tigers convincingly.But if Open Pit seems to cop the main spot.

light in the 1Q45 hockey parade, don't sellCopper Cli'f Senior League short on entertain-ment value, Boiled down to four well-b.ilancedand potentially powerful lineups. on which ap.pear several of the Pit players and also manya hero of yesteryear lured out of retirement tokeep the hockey flag flying during the war, theCliff adult loop is playing i brand of hockeythat deserves a liberal slice of public recognition.

The four lineups. Coniston. Refinery. Van.cans and Engineers. play a double-header eachMonday night at Stanley Stadium. Presidentof the league is Gordie Alcott. with AubreyWright as Vice President md Tony Demarcoas Secretary. Each team also has a weeklypractice session. Copper Cliff A.A. is sponsor'mg Engineers and Vaticans: Coniston md Re.finery A.A.'s back their respective teams.

Pictures show two of the Senior Leagueteams the other two will appear in .i sub.Sequent issue)

3. Coniston: left to right, hack row. S. Para-dis. coach: G. Laprairie. manager: A. Barbe,captain: S. Soroko, V. Price. 0. H.slverson.R. Spencer. B. Akey. trainer: Hector Barbe.macot: front tow. A. Halverson. G. Baldisera.N, Farnel. A. Lemicux. A. Gobbo. G. Gobbo.M. Laforge, L. Oliver. (Absent. G. Duhaime.)

4. Engineers: back row, left to right. M.Smrke. T Demarco. Nap Crriere. Jim Dewey.Pete Kalapaca. Bud Hashey. coach, Frontrow. A. Tomori. G. Heale. M. Kauppi. L.Germa, J. Flynn. E. RedI.

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