INCO

JUNE 1972

LITTLE BIG MANHis fans call him "Canada'syoung singing sensation" and"the little man with the bigstyle". He's 11-year-old CohnButler, son of Inco pensionerSyd Butler. Nickel Capital coun-try and western fans can seehim in action at the MasseyAgricultural Fair August 25 and26.

Cohn was born in Sudbury thelast day of December, 1960, andstarted singing at the age of five.That was when Terry Robertsinvited him on stage during aSaturday matinee. Cohn recallsthat he sang two Beatle songs.Cohn memorized the lyrics byplaying records over and overagain while playing with his toysat home.

Later that same year Cohnappeared on CKSO-TV and otherlocal radio and stage appear-ances followed. When only 8,he cut his first two records, ' TheUnicorn" and "Crash the GrandOle Opry".

He has since sung with suchfamous country and westernstars as Sonny James, Hank Snow,Don Messer, Rich Little, CarlSmith, and Ted Daigle. Besidesthese appearances, Cohn has per-formed over 500 times profes-sionally at clubs in New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nash-ville, Montreal, Ottawa and To-

ronto, as well as country fairsthroughout Ontario and Quebec.

He has entertained over 17,000at a Victoria Day celebration atOttawa's Lansdowne Park, and700 inmates at the BurwashPrison Farm.

On stage, Cohn usually ap-pears in a sequined suit with asilk shirt. His stage wardrobealready numbers 14 costumes -velvet jackets, sequined cowboyoutfits and lurex pants, and spe-cial outfits for novelty numbers.As Cohn grows, so does hiswardrobe: he has already out-grown five pairs of cowboyboots.

Most of Cohn's entertainingis done on weekends, but whenit is necessary for him to missschool, arrangements are madefor him to bring his studies onthe road, being tutored by hismother, Elsie.

Cohn sings in English andFrench and accompanies himselfon the guitar. He takes musiclessons twice a month fromformer Metropolitan Operasinger Ed Johnson of Hamilton.He is also taking acting anddancing essons and is learningchoreography.

With all that activity and ex-citement, it is surprising Cohnfinds time for anything else. Butthis versatile kid also manages a

"B" average in school and playedhockey and baehaU for hisschool teams, too,

Hk father, Syd, relired on adisability pension in 1%7 after17 years with Inco. Syd wac onthe motor crew at No. shaft.Creighton. The family now livesin Ottawa.

Colins ambition is to have aband of his own and if every-thing goes right, I hope to he asuccess in recording and per-forming in Canada." Thereseems little doubt he is on hisway.

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INCO

TRIANGLEVolume 32 Number 6

Published for Ontario employeesof The International Nickel Com-pany of Canada, Limited, CopperCliff, Ontario.

Peter Marshall Editor(705) 682-2604

PicturesDerek Wing, Chief Photographer

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Six-year-old Michael Hum from ContributorsLevack Public School drew our Les Lewis Mary Sitko Al Crutherslunar lander. He's a student inMrs. R. Hamilton's kindergartenclass. His was the best drawing Circulationamongst several from grades one Additional copes (705) 682.2102and two as well. The astronautsseemed to enjoy their stay so Autharized as second class mail by the

much in the Nickel Capital, we Post Office Department, Ottawa, and forwondered what would happen if payment of postage in cash.they took a wrong tum out inspace. Orest Andrews put all the Material contained in the Inco Triangleelements together to make the L50ud not be reprinted unless permission

cover. More on the astronauts on has bean obtained from the editor.page 5. _________

Employees with better ideasFirst, the good news: employeesat Copper Cliff South Mine arenow included in the suggestionplan award program and on July1, Clarabelle Mill joins the plantsincluded in the plan.

Now, the bad news: All sug-gestion awards are consideredearnings by the federal govern-NAME LOCATIONE. Oja C.C. Smelter

H. F. Aubin Copper Refinery

L. A. Vincent Copper RefineryJ. H. LangeR. St. Pierre StobieA. VolttiR. Tessarolo Stobie

E. Tweedle FroodA. God in C.C. Smelter

F. Mansfield C.C. Smelter

G. Piccinin C.C. Smelter

J. Sutherland Garson - trans. toClarabelle Mill

E. Kishynski Garson

P. Desjardins l.O.R.P.

B. Todd Copper Refinery

L. Lagrove C.C. Smelter

ment and as such have incometax deducted at source beforepresentation to the winner. How-ever, as earnings, the awards arealso included in the tax state-ment and are included for Vac-ation Pay ca culations.

Below are suggestion planaward winners for May.

SUBJECT AWARDChanges to feed gates, $160Electric FurnaceTimer for Anode storage $135shearsSteam syphon for bone $105ashGroove pipe with tugger $ 45hoistLock for underground $ 45tool roomTrip lamp assembly $ 45Use of Bullard safety $ 30crane hooksChange expansion joint on $ 30F.B.R. weigh barsSignal light on lead track $ 30to Charabelle MillGrip on raise borer reels $ 35

Method to keep chalk $ 20marks on skip drum hoistNew Ni oxide sample $ 15containerHolding bar station at $ 15No. 3 furnaceChanges to procedure re $ 10Peerless armature turningand banding machine

Total $720

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Cohn Butler's first album will be released soon.

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• :. i._Joe Agius left hIs native Malta in 1950 to visit his brothers inPort Coiborne and has remained there ever since. Joe joinedInca in 1951 and is a lift truck operator in the yard department.He enjoys electronics, especially repairing TV sets. Picturedhere with his wife, Gladys are Keith, 8, RIchard, 6, Randy, 17and Michael, 4.

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Moe Vilieneuve finds living in the Mikkoia subdivision very handy forcommuting to the iron Ore Recovery Plant where he is a senior clerk inthe warehouse. His wife VIvian does most of the work in the garden, butMoe says he likes to take the credit. Daughter Jacqueline is 3 and theyoung lady on her mother's lap is 11/2-year-oid Jennifer. The musketabove the mantle is not only ornamental but is also a keepsake givento Moe by his father, Laurence Vilieneuve who worked at Levack Mine.

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Grouped around their blossoming apple tree are JamieGajdek and his wife, Brauna. Perched on the ladderare Eva, 11, and Willy, 10. Their eight-year-Old pet,Sampy, also appears to enjoy having his photo takenJamie started in 1952 and is a hoistman at StobieMine. One of his hobbies is teaching boxing to young-sters. and he is well qualified as he was Ontarioamateur welterweight champion in 1955.

A skimmer at the Copper Cliff Smelter, "Maxy" Tharand has been with inco for 33 years.Seated beside Maxy and his wife Olevine are two of their daughters, Laurette (marriedto Levack motorman, Bob Bett) and Lucille (married to Bernard Thibert, a sandfiii manat Levack). in the middle are Jeannine (Mrs. Joe Niceforo) Normand a driller atLevack, and Claudette (married to Art Seguin. a hoistman at Stobie Mine). Standingare Ronald, a mud-man helper at the refinery and Raymond. A grand total of 107 yearswith inco are represented by Max, his sons and sons-in-law.

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Scholarships valued at approx-mately $5,000 each, based on afour-year university course, havebeen awarded to 19 sons anddaughters of employees by TheInternational Nickel Company ofCanada, Limited. Sixteen wereawarded to children of OntarioDivision employees; three inManitoba.

In addition to tuition and fees,each scholarship annually pro-vides $500 to the recipient anda supplement grant to the uni-versity. The awards are made ona one-year basis and are renew-able for three additional years oruntil graduation, whichever isthe shorter period, providing thewinners satisfy the academic andconduct requirements of theuniversities where the scholar-ships are held. A total of 172children of Inco employees havereceived awards since the planwas begun in 1956.

The new recipients of the On-tario scholarships are as follows:

Gerald R. Allan of Chelmsford,whose father, James Allan, isemployed at Levack Mine, is agraduate of Chelmsford ValleyDistrict Composite School. Heplans to study mathematics.

Mark A. Anton,azz, of Sudburyis the son of Lino Antoniazzi, anemployee at the Copper CliffSmelter. A graduate of St.Charles College, he will studymathematics at the Universityof Waterloo.

Mary Durjancik, a graduate ofSudbury High School, will studycommerce at Laurentian Univer-sity. Her father, John Durjancik

because they've won Inco scholarshipsis employed in the engineeringdepartment at Copper Cliff.

Boris J. Fesyk, of Sudbury,whose father Wasyl Fesyk is em-ployed in the Copper CliffSmelter, is a graduate of Sheri-dan Technical School. He willstudy business administration atthe University of Western On-tario.

Ross W. Hanham is the son ofDouglas F. Hanham, chief chem-ist and precious metals superin-tendent at the Port ColborneNickel Refinery. A graduate ofPort Colborne High School, hewill study engineering scienceat the University of Toronto.

WilUam C. Hews, whose father,Charles F. A. Hews is assistantmanager of mines at CopperCliff, is a graduate of the CopperCliff High School. He will enrollat the University of Toronto tostudy industrial engineering.

Judy A. Luyten of Sudbury,whose father, Andrew P. Luyten,is employed at the KirkwoodMine, is a graduate of LaSalleSecondary School. She will studymathematics at the University ofWaterloo.

Barbara A. Mills, of Levack, isthe daughter of William L Mills,employed at Levack Mine. Agraduate of Levack District HighSchool, she will study nursingat the University of Toronto.

Donald J. O'Shaughnessy, agraduate of the Niagara FallsCollegiate Vocational Institute,Niagara Falls, will study medi-cine at McGill University. Hisfather, Joseph F. O'Shaughnessy,a former miner at Frood Mine,resides in St. Davids, Ontario.

Margaret A. Skirda is thedaughter of Michael Skirda, anemployee in the general en-gineering department at CopperCliff. A graduate of CopperCliff High School, she will studychemistry at the University ofWestern Ontario.

Stanley J. Simmons, of Lively,whose father, Stanley A. Sim-mons, is employed in the pro-cess technology department atCopper Cliff, is a graduate ofSt. Charles College. He plansto attend Queen's University tostudy engineering.

Robert 1. Steele, a graduate ofLorne Park Secondary School,Mississauga, will study appliedchemistry at the University ofWaterloo. His father, Keith J.Steele is manager of design inthe engineering department ofthe company's Toronto office.

Edward Torbicki, whose fatherAlfred Torbicki is employed atthe Port Colborne Nickel Re-finery, is a graduate of PortColborne High School. He willenroll at the University of To-ronto to study chemistry.

Karan M. Williams, of Sud-bury, a graduate of Lo-Ellen ParkSecondary School, will studymathematics at the University ofWaterloo. Her father, R. J.Williams, is a mine efficiencyengineer at Frood Mine.

Edward Wolski, of Sudbury,whose father Matthew Wolski isemployed at the Stobie Mine, 5a graduate of LaSalle SecondarySchool. He will enroll at theUniversity of Toronto to studymedicine.

Stanley Yen, a graduate of

Sudbury High School, is the sonof William Yen, who is employ-ed in the mechanical depart-ment at Copper Cliff. He plansto study physics at the Universityof Toronto.

Aug. 19 is date forInco golf tourneyOn Saturday, August 19, 288enthused Inco golfers will taketo the field in the lush settingof the Idylwylde Golf Course forthe Annual Interplant Golf Tour-nam ent.

Awards will include threeteam championship trophies: theR. L. Beattie for low gross, andthe F. C. Lambert and A. Godfreyfor low net in each of twogroups of 36 teams randomlyselected during the draw, plusrunners-up and many otherindividual prizes.

Entries will close July 7 orwhen the 288 spots have beenfilled. The entry fee of $9 coversgreen fees, lunch or dinner anda dance in the evening.

First and second draws willcommence play at 7:00 a.m. and1:00 p.m. respectively. Summerrules and the Callaway handicapsystem will be used.

A committee from the processtechnology department is incharge of organizing the eventthis year. A special invitation isextended to pensioners whowould like to share in the day'senjoyment. Enquiries should bedirected to Janet Paquette at682-4482.

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Apollo- nautslike our rocksThey came a few weeks too earlyto be named "tourists of theweek", but nonetheless astro-nauts Eugene Cernan, Dr. Har-rison Schmitt, Robert Parker andGordon Fullerton, probably willbe the most famous visitors Sud-bury will welcome in 1972.

Astronauts Cernan and Schmittwill be aboard Apollo 17 whenit blasts off in December forNASA's last manned explorationof the moon. Parker and Fuller-ton are the back-up crew. Alongwith a NASA team of about adozen experts, they spent twodays in the Nickel District on ageological training mission forthe astronauts.

Unlike last year's simulatedspace walk by the Apollo 16crew, this was largely a series of"show and tell" sessions wherethe astronauts tried to locateand identify specific rock struc-tures they hope to find near theirlunar landing site. Like theApollo 16 crew, they were mostinterested in finding samples ofshatter cones and breccia.

Breccia are coarse - grainedrocks composed of angular frag-ments of other rocks, and areusually indicative of meteoricimpact. Shatter cones are apeculiar conical form of frac-tures which occur when rocksbreak under the force of a hugeshock wave.

The importance of on-the-spottraining was justified last April23 when Apollo 16 commanderJohn Young described a lunarrock sample this way: "Did you[astronaut Charles Duke] de-scribe this one with the blackstreak running through it? ithas a black fracture patternrunning through the middle ofit. . . . it's about 6 - it lookslike a Sudbury breccia."

The Apollo 16 crew also foundshatter cones on the moon andNASA officials said without theirvisit to the Nickel District suchdiscoveries would have been im-possible.

What this confirms is that atleast some of the moon's im-portant craters were formed bymeteors smashing into its sur-face rather than volcanic eruptions, which many scientiststhought these features repre-sented.

Guides for both astronautvisits were inco geologists. J.Guy Bray, manager of geologicalresearch, Don Phipps, senior re-search geologist, and Ed Pattison,

research geologist, did thehonors this year.

For some time inco geologists,led by Guy Bray, have beeninterested in the theory that theSudbury basin was caused by ameteoric impact. First proposedin 1964 by a NASA geologist, Incoscientists first tried to disprovethe theory but, failing this, havecome to agree with it. As aresult, Inco and NASA geologistshave been in contact for severalyears.

"Because of this research con-nection, and because we knowthe area and are familiar withits features, we were asked toescort the astronauts," DonPhipps explained.

Don was on the road a daybefore the a.tronauts arrivalchecking likely sites. He recom-mended they visit Lake Wahna-pitae, Windy Lake, Kelly Lake,High Falls, and the CreightonMine area.

"Not much organization wasrequired on our part," he said."Having done it last year whenit was more complicated withtraverses and base stations, etc.,we were well prepared for thisyear."

Asked for his impressions ofthe astronauts, Don replied: "Ifound Gene Cernan liked to keepthings moving. if we got de-layed, he'd say 'let's get going'.He was very concerned withkeeping to the schedule and wasall business. But he was verylikeable, as they all are.

"I was amazed at the way theygo into detail, especially Cernan,and keep asking questions aboutthe rocks until they get theanswers they want.

"Schmitt? Being a geologist,he was more advanced as far asasking questions and catching onto what we were showing them.He'll be the first trained geol-ogist to walk on the moon."

Asked if he'd hire "astro-geologist" Schmitt, Don replied:"i'd have to look at his qualifi-cations, but if we ever exploreon the moon, yes, i'd hire him!"

Besides their explorations onfoot around the Sudbury basin,the astronauts spent two hoursaloft on an aerial reconnaissance.They flew to Algonguin Park tocircle Brent Crater, anothermeteoric impact site, and thenreturned to fly over our basin.

Don spent most of his timein the cockpit telling the NASApilots where to fly. He recalled

Astronauts Parker and Cerrian look Don Phipps and Astro-geOiOgistover Keiiy Lake area. Schmitt discuss shatter-cones.

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that the two airmen were wellaware that they had expert testpilots as passengers. Don saidthe pilot and copilot didn't wantto bank too sharply as this"mightn't look right in theback."

"When we landed again inSudbury, you could hear theastronauts, were remarking howgood the landing was, and whenwe shut down Gene Cernanseemed to sense the air crew'sfeelings for he piped up: 'Oh

Captain, we're all right backhere'."

A moon mine?A moon mine? Unlikely said

Don Phipps. "i'd go out on alimb and say it'll never come,"he said when asked if mineralexploration on th moon waspossible. Our ore reserves onearth are sufficient for the futureand it will be a long time beforeit will be economical enough toship from the moon, he said.

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Most Sudbury district employees will enjoy asummertime vacation with their families starting July 31That's when Inco plants will shut down for three weeks.To help your planning, we suggest two NorthernOntario holiday ideas.

Polar Bear on tracksStick to the well worn touristtrail if that's your style, but youcould be missing one of the lastgreat, romantic train rides inNorth America aboard the On-tario Northland Railway's PolarBear Express. It's the major life-line stretching from Moosoneeon the Arctic tidewaters ofJames Bay to the supply center ofCochrane, 186 miles to thesouth.

Most of the year the PolirBear with its mixed cargo offreight and passenger coachesslips out of Cochrane just threetimes a week. But in summer,timetables turn crazy and fromJune 18 to September 17, all-passenger excursions will go sixtimes a week, every day butFriday.

And, at $12 for adults and$6 for kids over five and under12, it is one of the best travelbargains you'll ever encounter.Departing Cochrane at 8:15 a.m.and allowing five hours to ex-plore Moosonee and nearbyMoose Factory Island before re-turning at 11 p.m., it is a journeythrough history, with added

views of such modern triumphsas the formidable Otter Rapidshydro dam and the half-milecauseway and bridge that spansthe mighty Moose River.

For the more adventurous,there's an exciting canoe journeythat can be combined with thetrain trip itself, connecting atMile 142, about 45 miles southof Moosonee. The ONR has aworking arrangement with theMoose Factory Indian handwhich provides expert canoemento guide tourists down the voya-geur route of the Moose. Youg-sters over 10 are admitted andit includes overnight campingand side-trip fishing enroute.

The land between Cochraneand Moosonee has been tamedlittle beyond the width of therailroad right-of-way. It is a landof muskeg and scrub brush,whose scattered inhabitants are,in every sense of the word,pioneers.

You'll be struck by the casual-ness of the Polar Bear. For it,split-second timetables are arule-of-thumb, not a word oflaw. Officially, it makes only

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eight stops. Actually, it will stopanywhere, any time, for anyonewho flags it down, even if theyhaven't the fare for this is de-solate country.

Hunters and fishermen are letoff where they desire, theircanoes, tents and supplies un-loaded from the baggage car onthe spot. Next day, next week,or a month hence, the PolarBear will be back to pick themup.

Freight along the line isn'taddressed by town or hamlet,but by milepost, and a sharpblast of the horn signals that apackage is waiting by the track.There might be a short delaywhile a grisly trapper, ladendown with packsack and canoeover his head, climbs aboard.

Train time is a big event inMoosonee. Summer or winter,the station platform will bepacked with residents of thesettlement, some waiting forfriends or freight, most of themjust out to watch the Polar Bearcome in.

To the first-tripper, the sightsand sounds of Moosonee areabout as familiar as those ofKatmandu. This is no Hollywoodversion of a neat, tidy trontier

town. It's a tough, gutty work-ing community where the soli-tude is broken daily by the roarof aircraft taking off to supplymail and provisions to far-flungsealhunting grounds or to themissionary and trading outpostsscattered along the rugged shoresof James and Hudson Bays.

Freighter canoes are alwaysavailable to ferry visitors acrossthe half mile of river separatingMoosonee and Moose FactoryIsland. The Crees still make theirhomes for a mile along theisland's shore. To this day theseIndians trade pelts for life'snecessities at the Hudson's BayCo. store.

The island is a strange studyin contrasts. Here an ultramod-ern hospital cares for the Indiansand Eskimos of the northlandwhose nurses not long ago re-ceived isolation pay. A shortwalk away, near a supermarket-style trading post, is one of On-tario's oldest buildings ablacksmith shop, built in 1740and which today houses, alongwith the original forge, manymementos of early trading days.

Down the road is the ancientAnglican church with its beadedmoocehide altar cloths and Cree

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Brian HemingwaySand beaches in the north? Yes, on Moose Factory Island, where youcan also camp free.

Always a thrill for youngsters is when the Polar Bear Express rolls intoMoosonee.

language prayer books. Behindit is the tiny graveyard whosemarkers tell of the deaths ofmany of the early traders andmissionaries of the outpost.

The Ontario government step-ped in several years ago topreserve what is left of the for-tress trading post and a prizepossession is the island's onlystone building, a powder mag-azine befieved to have been builtabout the same time as theblacksmith shop.

There's a sense of timelessnessto Moosonee and Moose FactoryIsland, a deceptive feeling thathere is a community that willforever be a refuge from a morehectic life. Part of this romanceis due to the beauty of a truewilderness country, where onecan still gaze at a star-scatteredsky through smogless air, andwhere the charging tempo ofthe twentieth century seems todisappear as silently as the tide.But the sight of power dams enroute, the roar of airplanes, thesweep of the radar antenna atthe Canadian Armed Forcesbase, warn of an old way of lifemoving slowly to an end. There'sonly a few miles of roadwayaround Moosonee, but they'recherished by the inhabitants.You'll see lots of old cars withback-dated plates or no platesat all, and seemingly everyonedrives a motorcycle or scooter.

There are few souvenir bar-gains to be found. Moosoneeartisans are well aware of thepopularity of the tourist trainsand many will hawk handicraftsto the new visitors as soon asthey step off the train. Prices forcarvings and drawings, for ex-ample, although not as extra-vagant as in the south, are stillhigher than you might expect.

Extended visits are possible inMoosonee as there are two

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tourist lodges with good accom-modations and reasonable weeklyrates. The Sunday ,rnorgashord,offered at both just before thetrain leaves, is excellent. Thereare also two provincial parksthat are free to campers -Polar Bear Wildernes5 Park, afew miles north by canoe, andCharles sland's Provincial Park,a half mile away.

Getting to Cochrane for thetrain is easy. There are tworoutes from the Nickel Districtand both are equally interesting,with plenty of provincial parksalong the way. The shortestroute is to take Highway 144 to

Timmins, Highway 101 to Iro-quois FaUs and then Highway11 all the way into Cochrane.It's about a five-hour drive fromSudhury.

Highway 11, the famed Trans-Canada northern route connectswith Highway 17 at North Bay.Worth a visit are the pulp andpaper mill at Iroquois Fafls andthe mining museum in Cobalt.The entire northeast is a treasuretrove for those interested inrocks and rockhounding withover 50 different native min-erals, and Moosonee and MooseFactory are prime areas for fossilhunters.

Rock festival with a differenceYou probably won't strike it richhere, but you're sure to be keptin the chips.

Precious and semi-preciousstones, the elite of the earth'supper crust, are the main attrac-tion each summer when Bancroftplays host to some 20,000 NorthAmerican rockhounds for an an-nual five-day Gemboree, largestmineral show of its kind inCanada.

From August 1 to 5, devoteesfrom both sides of the borderwill converge on this community,about 30 miles south of Algon-quin Park, to take part in a rockfestival with a difference, a bighit since it started in 1964.

With only a hammer, a chisel,a small satchel and not muchmoney, you can enjoy the all-family recreation of rockhound-ing.

For the uninitiated, a rock-hound is an amateur geologistwith the adventurous spirit of asourdough who goes hunting forgem and mineral rocks. n theadvanced stages of his pursuithe goes in for gemstone cutting,polishing and making jewelry.

The Bancroft area hit miningheadlines in the early 1960s fol-lowing rich finds of pitchblendefor the production of uranium.Abounding in ores which makeit a rockhound's paradise, thedistrict lying within a 35-mileradius of the village is consideredone of the best mineral-collect-ing localities in all Ontario,yielding some of the world'smost prized varieties.

The entire mineral kingdomcontains some 2,000 species.Well over 200 of these are foundin Ontario, and the Royal On-tario Museum in Toronto hasover 70 specimens from theBancroft region alone.

Found here is such lapidaryloot as blue sodalite Ontario'smineral emblem), emerald beryl,

lilac-hued calcite, jet black horn-blende, milky white tourmalineand bright green amazonite, plusa score of rare minerals dis-covered in only one or two otherplaces in the world. The pre-cious materials are found onrockpiles, in quarries and pits,but mostly in the dumps of theold uranium mines.

Set in a 20-acre tent city, theGemboree includes field trips,visits to abandoned mines, swap-ping sessions and mineral dis-plays, besides demonstrations ofgemstone cutting and variousother facets of the pastime. Overthe years the scope has expandedto include hobbies in general:driftwood displays, leathercraft,gemstone jewelry and rare coins.

Besides providing a total intro-duction to the sport, the Gem-boree adds the fun of a fair, withsuch extra features as westernmusic, square dancing and out-door corn roasts.

For all collectors, swapping is

the great obsession and duringthe Gemboree there is a giantswap table. Children are amongthe keenest enthusiasts, Theyare sharp-eyed and make goodswappers. Much of the festivalis geared to their needs andthere is a children's day withprizes and halfprice rides.

Admission is $1 a day foradults for the first two days,$1.50 for the final three; nocharge for children under 12;free parking. Further informationis available from: RockhoundGemboree, P.O. Box 691, Ban-croft, Ont.

In Ontario, almost anywhereyou travel affords good mineralcollecting. Certain areas, ofcourse, are better than others.Three most likely areas, in addi-tion to Bancroft, are: Cobalt,Canada's once fabulous silvermining area; the Niagara Falls-to-Toronto horseshoe, and theCanadian shore of Lake Superioralong Hwy 17.

Parks cost moreCampers will pay more this yearto visit Ontario's 113 provincialparks. Revised fees include anincrease from $10 to $15 forseasonal vehicle permits.

The daily campsite fee, whichincludes vehicle entry, is up $1to $3.50 or to $4 with electricity,where available. The interiorcamping permit, which allowsthe holder and other occupantsof his boat or canoe to use canoeroutes and camp in unorganizedcampsites, is $2 per night or $20for 16 days.

The daily vehicle permit is up50 cents to $1.50 and the busentry permit has jumped from $6to $10 a day.

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Youngsters are welcome at the Bancroft Gemboree.

Br,an HernngwayNot far from Kenogami on Hwy. 11,you'll see this impressive water-shed marker.

Rainbow country:our employees area colorful group

More than 18,000 in number, Inco's Sud-bury district employees come in all shapesand sizes. Some are short, some are tall,some are fat and some are thin - a verycolorful group. Just how colorful becameclear when we leafed through the CopperCliff payroll lists and turned up no lessthan nine colors among the names.

Representing the 33 Whites on the roll,Clarabelle mill shift boss Ron White wasphotographed in the crushing plant whilecasting a critical eye over a spare crushereccentric.

A Sudbury lad, and the son of Froodmine pensioner Peter White, Ron was 17in 1950 when he joined Inco at the CopperCliff Mill. He was promoted to sectionalforeman there in 1966 and to shift bossin 1969. He moved over to the ClarabelleMill when it came on-stream in late 1971.

Ardent travellers who spent their lastthree vacations in the Barbados, Jamaicaand Puerto Rico, Ron and his wife Terryare parents of three sons and a daughter.

Ron Pink is a loner - he's the one andonly Pink on the payroll.

A planning foreman at Carson Mine,Ron was born in Ottawa and at age 15moved to Washington, D.C., with hisparents following his father's retirementfrom the RCMP.

Returning to Canada in 1957, Ron choseSudbury as a place to settle in order tobe close to relatives on his mother's sideof the family, the Pernu's.

He started with International Nickel atMurray Mines, and transferred to Carsonin 1959 where he became a shift boss in1966. He was appointed mine safety engi-neer in 1970, and to his present positionin 1971.

Ron married Shirley MacKay from PrinceEdward Island in 1959. They have twodaughters and a son.

A welder at Copper Cliff South Mine, DonBlue shares his name with two otherInconites, Carry Blue at Carson and TomBlue at Coleman Mine.

Using an arc welder, Don is running abead weld on a damaged hoe ram swingbracket.

He was born and grew up on a 100-acre Tehkummah township farm on Mani-toulin Island, and left there for Sudburyto enter the working world at age 17.

Don came to Inco in 1956, started atthe Copper Cliff Smelter, and was a crane-man prior to going underground at Carsonin 1966. He switched from hoistman towelder in 1970, and moved to CopperCliff South Mine earlier this year.

A recently purchased tent trailer is thecurrent weekend home for Don and hiswife Donna and their three youngsters.

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Working out of Creighton No. 5 Mine,Roy Black operates the No. 7 shaft sandfill cement plant at the Creighton Mill.

"There have been times," he said witha grin, "when being Black has led to a fewamusing situations. I recall the time whenGeorge Blue, Fred Green, Alvin Brown andI got in line at the time office windowto pick up our cheques. By the time theclerk got to me his eyebrows were up tohis hairline."

Roy has three others with the same sur-name to keep him company on the payrolllist.

The Ottawa Valley village of Waltham,Quebec, is Roy's home town. He travelledeast to Sudbury in 1939 and started hisInco career as a raise driller at CreightonNo. 4 shaft. He worked underground untilhis move to the No. 7 shaft collar housein 1967.

He and his wife Florence - whom hemarried in 1944 while serving in the Canadian army in England - are parents offour.

Fifty feet up in the air in the Orford build-ing at Copper Cliff, George Green is at thecontrols of one of the building's three75-ton travelling cranes that service theelectric furnaces, the acid shells, and thethree OB converters. George is one of 13Greens employed locally by Inco.

He knows the Orford building very well,and so he should, he's worked there sincehe left his home town of Eganville to workfor International Nickel in 1942.

A craneman since 1944, and with a goodhead for heights, George enjoys the somewhat lonely life aloft. "I can see every-thing that's going on," he said, "and han-dling and manoeuvring those heavy potsis a challenging occupation."

George married Beatrice Desjardines inNorth Bay in 1945, and they have a familyof five ranging in age from 26 to 6.

The largest color name group are theBrowns. They total 42 and can call forreinforcements from two more with thatadditional "e".

Copper refinery section inspector GerryBrown is a member of this executive club.Here he checks plating voltage in theplant's tankhouse.

Born in Westmorland, jamaica, Gerrymoved to Canada and Sudbury in 1967."My brother Cliff was working at thecopper refinery and encouraged me tojoin him," he explained. We were laterjoined by brother Fred and became a cop-per refinery trio. They've since left for awarmer climate," he added, "they live inToronto."

A young lady from Verner, Lise Savignacwas Gerry's bride of 1970. Their daughterDiane is 13 months old.

Apologies to Ken Silver at North Mine,the 11 Grays and five Violetts, and CopperCliff general engineering department pen-sioner Frank Orange, you weren't forgotten- there was only room for six.

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A million pounds of copper poursout daily from the refinery's new

VERTICLE FURNACELast year, International Nickelsold over 340 million pounds ofcopper cast into shapes such aswire bars, cakes and billets suit-able for the manufacture of vari-ous copper and copper alloyproducts - and all of it cameout of the Copper Cliff CopperRefinery. Now, with an eye tofuture demand for copper, therefinery has just put on streama novel system for horizontalwire bar production.

The new complex features ahighly efficient natural gas fur-nace with three to four timesthe melting rate of the electricarc furnace it replaces. The in-stallation includes a chargingsystem, gas-fired vertical shaftfurnace, holding furnace, twopouring ladles, casting wheel,and handling and inspectionsystem, all with a nominal cap-acity of 100 tons per hour -over one million pounds pershift.

Copper cathodes from thetankhouse are delivered to anunloading station where they arepicked up by one of four nine-ton capacity hoists which oper-ate through a semi-automatic

cycle on a monorail loop. Eachhoist load is raised and advancedto the furnace charging positionwhere it is placed on a motor-ized car which moves ahead andreleases the charge into the fuNnace. The entire system operatessequentially once the operatorstarts it.

Melting furnaceThe melting unit is an

ASARCO-designed vertical fur-nace which consists of a cylindri-cal shaft 29.5 feet high, with atop diameter of 69 inches. it islined with silicon carbide brickand equipped with 31 high-energy release natural gas burn-ers around the lower circum-ference. Burners are positionedin four rows about two feetapart in the bottom 10-foot sec-tion of the shaft. Air and gas arepreheated to 500°F. in separateheat exchangers.

The column of copper in theshaft moves downward as itmelts in the burner zone makingroom for additional material.The furnace operates at highheat efficiency due to the re-covery of heat by the chargefrom rising combustion gases.

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ErnIe Rabeau, assistant manager with special responsibility for develop-ment of the vertical furnace and casting system, watches a two-ladlepouring.

Molten copper pours from one of two ladies into the pockets of a mould.

Furnace control is maintainedby one man from a central con-trol room where burner rates oneach row of burners may beadjusted to melting require-ments. A reducing atmosphereof 0.5-0.7 percent hydrogen ismaintained in combusted gasesto control the oxygen contentof the molten copper.

At maximum firing, the totalgas consumption of the furnaceburners may reach as high as2,100 cubic feet per minute.

An important feature of theunit is that there is never alarge quantity of molten metalin the furnace at any time. Thepossibility of a run-out which isalways of concern with metalbath furnaces is therefore elim-inated. Quick reaction to oper-ator instructions was built in andit can start melting about 35minutes after the burners areignited and stop melting in twominutes.

Holding furanceMolten copper flows from the

vertical shaft furnace through arefractory-lined launder to anenclosed gas-fired holding fur-nace of 20-ton capacity. Thisis a cylindrical vessel whichserves to equalize flow, tempera-ture and composition. The fur-nace, mounted on trunnions, hasan off-centre pouring spout andits rotation determines the rateof flow to the ladles from whichmolten copper is poured intomoulds on the casting wheel.A reducing atmosphere is alsomaintained in the furnace toprevent oxygen pick-up in thecopper.

The Clark casting wheel is 40feet in diameter and contains30 four - pocket solid coppermoulds. The wheel drive is un-usual because it is chain drivenby means of a hydraulic motorand is programmed to positionautomatically at the pouring sta-tion once an operator starts thecycle.

Two moulds are filled with

molten copper simultaneouslycvery 36-48 seconds, and thenpass over impinging water sprayswhich control mould tempera-ture. At about 180° from thepouring position the moulds aremechanically inverted, dumpingthe wire bars onto a slat con-veyor submerged in a water-filled cooling pit. In prepara-tion for the next casting cyclethe inverted moulds pass overcooling and washing sprays, thento a mould dressing stationwhere the pockets are coatedwith a slurry of bone ash inwater. They are then mechan-ically righted again ready forrefilling.

The holding furnace and cast-ing operation are controlled froma console located above thewheel and directly in front of thepouring station.

Handling and inspectionThe slat conveyor transfers the

wire bars from the cooling pitto the handling system compris-ing transfer and inspection con-veyors. As the bars are deliveredfrom the cooling pit they aremechanically spaced and turnedbottom side up on an indexingconveyor. Each casting is auto-matically stamped with INCO'sORC trademark, and productionsymbols. The ORC trademarkwas established in the early 1930swhen the refinery was calledOntario Refinery Company andwas partially owned by INCO.The bars are conveyed indi-vidually over an automatic weighscale which activates a paintspray to color code each baraccording to its weight range,and then move to two parallelinspection stations where theyare visually inspected anddressed to remove minor castingimperfections. Good bars areautomatically stacked in bundlesaccording to customer require-ments; advanced through anautomatic strapping machine andtwo dial scales to the unloadingconveyor for shipment.

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From the charging side, the air and gas duct-work, and preheatingequipment, surrounds the furnace shaft and burners.

At one of the inspection stations, Harvey Bailey and Bill Flynn removeminor surface imperfections and check sizes of horizontal wire bars.

The furnace charge car has just received a lift of cathodes ready fordumping into furnace's top by chargeman Ron Kinoshameg.

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7kFurnaceman John Ferguson monitors Individual burner settings in thecontrol room.

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Two-ladle casting of wire bars shows holding furnace in upper left, laundry system, intermediate ladles, and control cubicle.

Shift boss John O'Connor checks copper meltIng patterns InsIde thefurnace through a burner observatIon port.

Mine rescue in actionFire underground is one of theemergencies that can giveminers nightmares. Fortunatelyit's an extremely rare occurrancein metal mines, but if it doeshappen it's good to know thateach Inco mine has a well-trained and equipped minerescue team ready to spring intoaction quickly.

A simulated fire was the prob-lem which confronted teamsfrom five Inco mines recentlywhen they spent a day in com-petition for the john McCreedytrophy, presented to the topInco mine rescue team.

A team from Creighton Minecaptained by Phil Fournier won

it this year. His team memberswere Pat Boyle, Al Simpson, LeoSeguin, Dale Muirhead, vice-captain Brian Carson, and brief-ing officer Gary Maclean.

They narrowly defeated lastyear's top Inco team and all-Ontario mine rescue championsfrom Frood-Stobie, captained byjoe Shlemkevich.

As with the annual first aidcontests, the mine rescue testsalways spark keen rivarly amongthe mines, and each team dis-plays a fine esprit-de-corps anddiscipline.

Members of the other Incomine rescue teams were CopperCUff North Mine: captain Aurel

Bourget, jim Mclean, DaveFenske, Walter Morrison, GastonBerthelot, vice captain jackWallgren, and briefing officerGerald joliat; Frood-Stobie Mine:captain joe Shlemkevich, DavidBruce, Ed johnston, Carl Moore,Richard Lampman, vice captainBarry Deacon, and briefing offi-cer Nelson Allan; Levack Mine:captain Pat Arthurs, Robert Ner-pin, Robert Cartwright, MichaelGillis, jim Spicer, vice captainArne Maki, and briefing officerMel Guse; Garson Mine: captainGerry Clyke, Placide Dubois,john Lacey, Sidney Penney, vicecaptain john Laking, and brief-ing officer john Dagenais.

Faced tough proMemScene of both the Inco com-

petition and local provincialfinals was Copper Cliff Arena,which for the Inco problem be-came the 1800, 2000 and 2200levels of Blue Bell Mine. Burlapwas used to simulate the wallsof the drifts, crosscuts and ven-tilations raises of the problemarea.

The cagetender reportedsmoke in the mine's No. 1 shaftand smoke was coming out ofthe return air raise, the teamswere told. Stench gas, the rottenegg smell used as an under-ground fire warning in all Incomines, was injected into thecompressed air line and into thefresh air raise. All the produc-tion crews were accounted forat their appropriate refuge sta-tions, but two mine surveyorswere unaccounted for, and thesethe teams were ordered to find.

Cause of the fire was a groundin a power cable which resultedin a breakdown in two serviceraises. Both these raises werecribbed and dry and the cribbingwas on fire. Smoke and intenseheat prevented the teams fromgetting to the top of the raisesuntil the bottom was barricaded,thus cutting off the oxygen sup-ply to the fire. Then by open-ing water lines at the top of theraise, water could run down andquickly extinguish the fires.

Wearing their Drager breath-ing apparatus, the teams were indarkness all the time during thecompetition. Their only lightwas from their hat lamps. Oneof the two surveyors was foundunconscious and was given anextra Drager, and lifted out ona stretcher. His dazed partnerwas also given a Drager and wasescorted to the cage and safety.

Chief judge for the all-dayevent was Harry Moorhouse ofthe Ministry of Natural Re-sources, who also set the prob-lem. Assisting him from thegovernment department were

Mel Guse briefs Levack captainPat Arthurs.

john Hallows and john Guthrie;Hank Derks, Inco safety assistant(mines) and jock Thom, Falcon-bridge safety supervisor, alsoacted as field judges Inco super-visory mine rescue personnelgave a hand in briefing theteams and conducting oral tests.

Apollo -nautsContinued from Page 5

If any exploration is under-taken it will probably be foracademic rather than economicreasons. Few exotic mineralshave been found up there and"all indications are that therocks on the moon are similar torocks on earth," Don said.'There's no indication of orebodies as we know them onearth, although some of the rocksamples have been higher intitanium than similar rocks onearth," he added.

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Working fast, Creighton Mine team brings out a casualty.

Joe Shlemkevlch shows strain afterit's all over.

The winners and their trophy: Alan Simpson, manager of mines MelYoung who made the presentation, Gary Maclean and Phil Fournierholding the McCreedy trophy, Pat Boyle, Hank Derks, and CrelghtonNo. 9 underground superintendent John Smith; front row: Creighton areasafety supervisor Norm Lessard, Leo Seguin, Brian Carson and DaleMulrhead.

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'-' FacesTwelve hundred choralists and 150 of the Young Sudbury 72 concert. of Education, 66 local schoolsyoung musicians are in thIs photo Sponsored by the Sudbury Board participated.

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SIxty-four enthusIastIc golfers en-tered mines engineering's annualgolf tournament, held thIs year atLively Golf Club. Gil Quesnel,Frood engineering, tees off on thecourse's fourth hole. HIs partnersare Greg Kuzyk, Copper Cliff NorthMine, Len Faulkner, Creighton No.9 Mine, and Ed Skene, Frood Mine.

Places

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Inco's 1,250-foot superstack Is now almost 90 per cent complete andwIll be on-stream the end of August. The stack's largest lIft ever wasrecently hoisted to the bottom of the liner. It's this 110-ton transItionpiece whIch bridges the breeching and liner. Work remaining on thestack includes Installation of electronics in the electrostatIc precipltators,and the completion of the breechlng whIch attaches to the stack flues.

Sudbury's first "tourists of the week" were taken on a tour of ClarabelleMill, Clarabelle Open Pit, the superstack and the taIlings farm, At theOpen pit observation point, Inco public relations officer Brian HemIngwayuses the pit's giant map to describe the region to celebritIes Mr. and Mrs.Arthur Brogan of Nova Scotia. Looking on are Chamber of Commercevice president Bob Bryson and controller Murray Davidson.

Les Lew'Port Colborne held its annual Memorial Day Parade May 28. Sponsoredby the Royal Canadian Legion and the city, a large number of bandsparticipated in the parade and the services held at the cenotaph.

Popular Stew Augustine retires

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Described by his Port Colbornefriends as a real nice guy",Stewart Augustine recently re-tired after 37 years' service atthe Port Colborne Nickel Re-finery. The regard in which hewas held was amply indicatedby the overflow crowd thattaxed the Port Colborne Clubsfacilities to the limit at the fare-well dinner in his honor.

Vern Barker, plant manager,acted as chairman for the eve-ning and Gordon Machum,assistant general manager (pro-cessing) for the Ontario Divisionwas among the several speakerswho lauded Stew's service tothe company. Gordon presentedStew with a hi-fi set on behalfof everyone at the party.

Stew was born in the villageof Humberstone, now incorpor-ated into the city of Port Col-borne, in 1912. After finishinghigh school in 1932, he joinedthe Humberstone branch of theImperial Bank of Canada asledgerkeeper and relieving teller.He remained with them throughthe depression years until he

joined Inco at the Port ColborneRefinery in 1935.

His first job at Inco was onthe box floor in the electronickelrefinery and Stew remarked thatit would probably take 25 years'seniority to hold down thatsame job today. Stew joined theaccounting department as plantmetals clerk in 1936. He becameassistant works auditor in 1955,assistant division comptroller in1960 and division comptroller in1962. During re-organization ofthe Ontario Division in 1971, histitle became comptroller, PortColborne Nickel Refinery.

Stew and Eleanor Lambert,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.Lambert of Port Colborne, weremarried in 1936. They have oneson, Jan, presently on staff at theCopper Cliff Nickel Refinery.Two grandchildren are theirpride and joy.

It has been Stew's boast thatin all his 37 years at the plant hehas never missed reporting forwork on New Year's Day to startthe ball rolling on the yearly re-ports - some mornings in spiteof his New Year's Eve celebrat-ing.

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Children should wear lifejackets at all times, even when arpresent. Perhaps thIs group will get the message during SalWeek, July 1-7.

Mary Sitkoi adult ise Bcatlng

Be water-wise, wear life jacketsWatercraft deaths or accidentseach year result almost entirelyfrom various kinds of humanfailure - from conscious refusalto obey laws to pathetic ignor-ance of boat operating pro-cedures.

One of the highest prioritiesfor boating safety is the wearingof a life-jacket. Of the morethan 200 drownings from boat-ing accidents each year in Can-ada, more than 80 per cent ofthe victims were not wearinglifejackets.

While the law requires thatthere must be a lifejacket orcushion of the type approved bythe Ministry of Transport forevery person in a boat, peoplecontinue to ignore it. Reasonsvary. Some just don't know thelaw. Minor inconvenience orexpense may be the poor ex-cuse for boat owners or pas-sengers failing to buy or rentlifejackets.

There is also need for im-provement in operating, loading,fueling and safety equipment.

Of the more than two millionpleasure craft owners in Canada,too many are unsure of thehandling qualities of their boat.Some, for example, don't under-stand the planing characteristicsof boats. Others who switchfrom outboards to inboards donot allow for rate-of-turn differ-ences.

Operators who crry a suffici-ent number of lifejackets in theirboats do not always insist thatoccupants wear them when

water conditions warrant. A life-jacket lying in the bottom of aboat is little help to a non-swimmer thrown into the water.Children should not only wearlifejackets at all times when inboats or around water butshould also be taught how tofloat in them.

Power boat owners should payattention to safe fueling prac-tices. Switches should be offand not flipped on during fuel-ing, and smoking, of course,should be forbidden. All pas-sengers should be off the boat.

Certain Canadian waters arebecoming crowded with boats,and powerboats have a greaterresponsibility to take care whenthey approach canoes, rowboats, sailboats and water skiers.Running lights are required foroperation after dark.

It is illegal to:• operate over-powered craft;

• tow water skiers without asecond person in the boatto observe and relay theskier's signals to the oper-ator;

• operate an in board boatwithout a Class B1 (carbondioxide dry cFemical) fireextinguisher;

• buzz other boats and swim-ers.

Boating can provide hours ofenjoyment but thought andcommon sense comes before funif one wants to remove thepossibility of an accident.

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Gus MaconttoStew Augustine thanks his friends. Looking on are Bob Browne, Stew'swife Eleanor, and Margaret Barker.

On the banquet circuit...

Skip Ralph Shore's squad won the Inter-Rink Event and took home golfbags as prizes: Stan Maggs, Ed Riddoch, Ralph, and Ray Caverson.

The winners of the W. T. Waterbury Event for shift curlers missed thebash as they were, appropriately, working 4-12 shift. They were skipRon Gauthier, Baptiste Comin, Steve Oreskovich, and Jerry Dubrueil.

Copper Cliff curling

Colts event win-ners were skipCec Brown, VerdyVilleneuve, andMike Sokolowiczand John Gibson,both of whomwere absent forthe photo. Theywere presentedwith electric carv-ing knives.

The Spence Beav-er Memorial Tro-phy goes to theclub champs:John Henry, BobCoulter, skip KenSilver, and (ab-sent) Gary Tuomi.

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Binoculars were awarded to the winners of the SIngle Rink Event: MikeKrossey, Bill Beavers, skip Wayne Leavoy, and Aldo Long.

Largest curling club in the Nickel Belt, the 400-member Copper CliffCurling Club closed out its 56th season recently With an awards night.Winners of the J. R. Gordon event were Les Parr, Bob Patterson, skipGord McQuarrle and Aldo Long. They won golf carts as prIzes.

A cake designed as a curling stone was the centrepiece at the 25thanniversary of the Ladies' Section of the Copper Cliff club. On handwere Elsie Madill, drawmaster when the club was founded in 1947, BettyHazleden, the clubs first president, Ad Storey, incoming president, DoreenBuchanan, outgoing president, Evelyn Pilatske, a charter niember, andIrene Beres, a new member.

Hunting jackets went to the victors in the Toronto-Dominion Event:Yacker Flynn, skip Gord McQuarrie, Dick Hobden, and Roy Sipprell.

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Grouped around Munroe Smith, longtime chairman ofthe Creighton Athletic Association, are David Kitey,top goalie in the Creighton minor hockey league andJerrol White, the leagues top defenceman. Kneelingin front are Danny Hreljac, captain of the "Chicagoteam, playoff champs, and also the league's top scorer,and Wayne Cuti, assistant captain of the Chicago team.Seventy4wo Creighton youngsters participated in theleagues five teams and at the banquet presentedMunroe with a fishIng rod and reel in appreciation forhis hard work on their behalf.

NEXT MONTH: The bowling banquets

JUNE 1972 PAcE SEVENTEEN

Over 200 youngsters participated in the Copper Cliff Athletic Association'sminor hockey program. Representing their championship teams arecaptains Ross Grooms of the atom dIvisions 'New York, Fred Taylorwho led the Bantam's Toronto team, Alan Butler of the pee wee's'Toronto", and Scott Kudia's "Montreal" squirts.

Tops In the four-team mines shift league Is Frood Mine, back row: Ed Murdock, MikeJordan, Bob Nesbitt; centre: manager Edred Dickle, Al Tryon Gordon Lamore, ErnieRogerson, coach Ken Lavalley; front: Conrad Pilon, Len Lamore holding the Frocxl-Stobie Athletic Association hockey trophy, Carl Lahti, and Fred Brebant.

Smallest team in the Copper Cliff league, but all heart, the Reverb Aceswon the Cliff championship in a twogame total point series with Town.Team members are, standing: coach Ivan Thurlow, Oliver Mukkala, SteveWatktnson, Dale Brown, Peter Lawtis; kneeling: Mike Laroque, Ray Butler,and ivan Pigeon. Absent for the photo were folly Gervais and Jack Carré.

RETIREMENTSD. LLOYD YOUNG

When "Lloyd was 16 he leftThesaIon and came to Sudburyto work at Frood Mine. Beingyoung and cirefree, he quit in1929 and was later hired on by

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Fraser-Brace Construction wherehe helped construct the copperrefinery. In 1935 he was rehiredby Inco and started at the cop-per refinery as a pipefitter andwas a maintenance foremanthere at retirement.

Lloyd and his wife, the formerMary Tremblay, have six childrenand eight grandchildren. Two oftheir sons work for the company.Wayne, who lives in Thompson,is in the mechanical departmentthere, and David is an appren-tice mechanic at Copper Cliff.Daughter, Marilyn, is married toRene Nault who is an under-ground supervisor at CopperCliff North Mine.

ED WINNAfter 36 years' service in thePort Colborne Nickel Refinery,Ed Winn has put away his lasttest tube and entered the finalassay in the nickel shipment

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record book. Now he says, "I'llhave lots of time to pursue myfavorite hobbies" They includecamping, which his family hasdone coast-to-coast. Huntingwoodcock and fishing will fillin any spare time.

Ed was born in and receivedhis early education right here inPort Colborne. Following threeyears at Queen's University, hejoined Inco in 1936 in the gen-eral lab and except for a briefperiod in the research lab, spentall his time there as an analyst.

Freda Christiansen, RN., fromPembroke came to Port Colborneto nurse a mutual friend's wifeand that is how they first met.They were married in 1937 andhave three children.

ANDREAU JUNEAU"Sailing the Great Lkcs for 14years as wlieekmdn on one ofthe CPR pdsenger liners be-tween Port McNicol and Fort

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William was quite an experi-ence," recalled Andy Juneau.However, contrary to the oldadage, a girl in every port, heremained true to only one,Clorinde Boyer of Lafontaine,Ontario whom he married in1935.

They have four children andone grandchild.

Andy was born in 1910 at Vic-toria Harbour, near Midland, andat age 14 started working in thelocal saw mill. A year later heleft to begin his sailing career.In 1935 he moved to Port Col-borne and found employmentwith Fraser-Brace Constructionduring the addition of Nos. 8, 9and 10 units to the electronickelrefinery department.

One year later he joined Incoin the EN.R. department and re-mained there for 36 years asbasement labor, boxman andanode scrap washer. The last10 of the 20 years he spent withthe scrap wash gang were ashead man.

OSMO TALOAfter arriving in Canada fromFinland in 1928, Osmo workedfor a short time in the bushcamps and later became a milk-man. He recalls many cold dayswhen he travelled to Creighton

in his horse-drawn wagon todeliver milk. When the oppor-tunity came in 1930 he joinedInco at Creighton Mine andfew months later transferred toFrood where he worked thebalance of his 41 years' service.At retirement Osmo was a skiptender.

Aune Kivi was also born in

Finlind and she crne to Cinadia ycar later than Osmo. Theymet and were married in Siid-bury in 1934. Two of their threedaughters are married to Incomen. Barbara is Mrs. Allan La-chance and her husband aleader at Levack. Wendy is Mrs.Don Watling dnd her husbandi' at Creighton. Seven grand-children complete the family.

ROLAND MALLETEEWhen "Oscar" \allette met hisbride-to-be, Yvette Cloutier, onthe skating rinks in Gateneaux,Quebec, he said their meetingwas just "luck". They were mar-

ned there in 1931 and later cameto Sudbury where he started withFraser-Brace Construction in themechanical department, con-structing Inco's concentrator andconverter buildings. Later hejoined Inco and during all of his35 years with the company, hewas a maintenance mechanicand maintenance foreman at theCopper Cliff Smelter.

They have four sons and fourgrandsons. Their son, Guy, is autilities foreman at the Iron OreRecovery Plant, and Marcel is acraneman in the converter build-ing at the Copper Cliff Smelter.

JOHN DUPONTTo Jack Dupont retirementmeans he will have more timeto pursue his hobby of collect-ing coins and attending conven-

rtions as a member of the NickelBelt Coin Club. Coin collectinghasn't been just a passing inter-est for him, but a pastime heengaged in before joining Incoat Creighton Mine in 1941. Jackdid various jobs during his yearsat Creighton and was an orepass tender at retirement.

In 1933 he married a girl fromhis hometown of Pembroke, andher name was Eileen Lavigne.Along with their three sons theyhave 15 grandchildren and onegreat-grandchild. Their son, Gary,is in the leaching section of theIron Ore Recovery Plant.

THOMAS CORN4THWAITESince retiring is a shift hosfrom the Copper Cliff Refinery,Tom has been busy upervkingthe operation of Pliza '69 here

in Sudbury and seems to enjoyevery minute of it.

Manchester, England, was hisbirthplace and he came to Can-ada as a young lad. In 1928 hestarted at the Copper CliffSmelter but broke his service towork for CIL for three years. Hereturned to the smelter and latertransferred to the refinery. Priorto joining Inco in 1928, he wasone of the first employees atthe Eaton Groceteria, until theywent out of business.

Tom married Winnifred Finleyat Sudbury in 1933. Their familyconsists of six children and 12grandchildren. Their daughterRona is married to Don Sabou-rin, who is a tram operator atCreighton Mine.

GLEN GONYOUGlen, who was a powderman atCreighton No. 3 shaft, is knownas "Rocker" to many of hisformer work mates. He wasborn in Deseronto where he

worked in a canning factoryprior to enlisting in the ArmyService Corps. After the War heheard Inco was hiring and heheaded for Sudbury.

Glen was married in 1969 toBetty Garner in Lively. He hastwo daughters and three grand-children.

The Gonyous enjoy travellingand watching television.

ARTHUR BURDENBefore becoming an Inco man,Art worked in a number ofmines: lead and zinc, gold, and

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he also did some developmentwork on claims.

He started with the companyin 1930 when the Copper Re-finery first came into operationand one of his jobs at that timewas making ladles. At the end ofhis 41 years' service he was ageneral plant foreman.

His wife, the former Leala Le-brick, was born in Sudbury andthey were married in 1933. Theyhave three children and an evendozen grandchildren.

Art and his wife are enjoyingthe summer visiting with theirdaughters at their cottages.

FRED SLOANWhen Fred Sloan came to Sud-bury to work in the nickel minesit wasn't his first experience

mining. He remembers seeinglarge nuggets of gold in the Hol-linger Mine at Rouyn, some ofwhich weighed as much as a halfpound.

It was in 1928 that he met andmarried the "schoolmarm" ofVinton, Quebec's one roomschoolhouse. "I had as many as46 students ranging from gradesone to eight. Things got a littlehectic at times and my wholeday was divided into 10-minuteperiods", recalls Mrs. Sloan. Sixchildren and 24 grandchildrenare not a problem to her afterthat experience.

Fred retired as a powdermanfrom Frood Mine where he hasworked since 1929. Their sonSherman, known as "Chucker",is a shift boss at Garson.

Fred is filling his spare timewith carpentry work and makingsmall tables and chairs for hisgrandchildren.

GEORGE DODDSYorkshire, England, was thebirthplace of George Dodds. In1926, he left for Canada and

Blake and they have one sonand three grandchildren.

Looking for steady employ-ment during the Depression,George moved east to Sudburyand construction work withNordale at Frood and LevackMines. When this work wascompleted in 1940, George fin-ally moved to Port Colborneduring construction of No. 12Unit in the electrolytic refinery.Later, George was offered twomonths' carpentry work by Incoand stretched it into the 30years' service he had on retire-me nt.

After the loss of his wife in1955, George married her long-time school chum, Kay Alex-ander, in 1956, They have oneson, Kenneth, age 14.

JOHN CHILLAK"I was tempted to quit severaltimes and go into greener fieldslike some of my chums, but

somehow resist-ed the tempta-

' tion, whichturned out to bethe best thing inthe long run."This was the wayJohn Chillaksummed up his36 years with thecompany.

He started on the line gang in'35 and transferred to the FroodOpen Pit until it ceased operat-ing, then moved on to the Clara-belle Open Pit in 1961. He wasa maintenance electrician andon retirement was a maintenanceforeman.

Both he and his wife, theformer Mary Bodnar, were bornand raised in Saskatchewanwhere they were married in1937.

The Chillaks spend the wintermonths in California with oneof their three children and theirthree grandchildren.

EDMOND LEBRETONEd Lebreton has worked his wayup the ranks in the mechanicaldepartment during his 38 years

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AL) \1'...•.settled in Saskatchewan doing service with the company. Hefarm and then construction started out as a first class fitterwork, in Copper Cliff then transferred

In 1934, he married Marjorie to Creighton when the mill

opened in 1950. At retirementhe was a general foreman.

Espanola-born, Gabrielle Arse-nault, became Ed's bride in 1930at Sudbury. With 13 sons anddaughters, and 40 grandchildren,there are few lonely momentsfor Ed and his wife. Their son,Roger, is a diamond drill bossat Copper Cliff South Mine anddaughter, Lillian, is married toRino Delucca who is a first classcarpenter at Copper Cliff.

During the summer monthstheir camp on the French Riveris the meeting ground for all ofthe family.

ARTHUR KUULAThunder storms used to beworrysome because of the pos-sibility of electrical power fail-

ures, but powerhouse operatorArt Kuula can sit back now andenjoy them. During their yearsat Nairn Falls, Art and his wife,the former Beryle Potts, becamevery fond of the picturesque areain which they have made theirhome. Mrs. Kuula takes care ofthe Inco boarding house there.They have two children.

Art began his career with Incoin 1941 at High Falls and latertransferred to Copper Cliff, Afterthe War he returned to HighFalls, later moving to Nairn Falls.

He will be combining fishingand watching television at hiscamp on Lake Agnew.

ELGIN PEThNGLL"I enjoyed working for theCompany and was always welltreated during my 37 years'service," remarked Elgin Pet-

4'tingill. Born near Belleville in1908, he moved the next yearwith his family to Port Colbornewhere his father worked for acement company.

Elgin worked for three yearsat the cement plant and duringthis time studied to become adental technician. He finallyopened his own business, butfinally closed shop in 1935 and

came to work for Inco in thegeneral lab. He transferred tothe PM. Lab in 1945 as ananalyst and remained there untilretirement.

K athleen MacDonald be-came his wife in 1936 and theyhave two sons and three grand-children.

ROBERT SEAWRGHTToronto-born, Bob Seawrightcame to Creighton in 1934 when

he joined Inco as a yard laborer.He became a first class mechanicand was a hoistman and hoistinspector the majority of thetime.

He and the former Mrs. JuneWillett were married in 1964 inSudbury. Bob has one daughterand a son, Bob Jr., who is em-ployed in the engineering de-partment at Coleman Mine.Besides being a golfer who canboast of getting a hole-in-onetwice, he is also a keen bowlerand curler. Collecting recordsis another pastime of Bob's andhe now has close to 4,500 re-cords in his collection, includingmany of the original Carusorecords.

MORLEY CHAPELLEBefore coming to Inco in 1934,Morley had a varied career. Hewas a rancher out west, a cookfor the CPR and he worked onroad and bridge construction.

Prior to settling down, he de-cided to go to England alongwith three cars of cattle fromout west and, when comingthrough Sudbury, jumped offthe train to visit relatives.

He started in the mechanicaldepartment at the smelter,worked in the Orford buildingas a craneman for 20 years, andwas a shift boss in the converterbuilding upon retirement. Hewas an Inco employee for 37years.

Morley was married to MillieRicher in 1935 in Sudburyfl Theyhave three children and twograndchildren.

JUNE 1972 PAGE NINETEEN

THE GREEN !FBUMBHome landscaping notes by

DON YOUNGWell-planned and properly maintained shrub groupings, used asfoundation plantings or as border accents, lend an air of permanenceand quality to any home setting. These areas require a minimum ofmaintenance once the initial construction is properly completed andare therefore a desirable feature, from several points of view, tothe average home gardener.

In our northern climate with its severe winters, we have to bevery careful not to encourage prolonged rapid growth of trees orshrubs into the late summer. This later growth is the result of grow-ing conditions which are too ideal for the plant's own good. Wemust keep this in mind when maintaining areas around trees orshrubs.

There are two main causes of rapid plant growth: high fertilityand too much water. Once the shrubs have been planted properly,it is unwise to give them any more than a once-a-year feeding of5-20-20 fertilizer @ 20 lbs.f1,000 square feet applied in early spring,and lightly cultivated into the surface. I consider it a good idea tomulch a shrub bed with well-rotted cow manure every two years,in ear'y spring or late falL This maintains a good organic balance inthe soil as well as providing essential nutrients.

It is very important when cultivating or hoeing around trees orshrubs to remember that the majority of the feeding roots of theseplants are located in the top six inches of soil. Plants will not thriveif their roots are being disturbed constantly so be careful not todamage them during cultivating.

Cultivating should be done only as a means of chopping suchadditives as manure into the surface or as occasional maintenancenecessary to keep weeds in control. It never should disturb thesoil to a greater depth than two inches around established shrubs.

Once trees and shrubs are established, they become reasonablyindependent in satisfying their water requirements. Given a gooddepth of soil and a good watering no more often than once a week,

trees and shrubs will thrive very well. We must, of course, makeallowances for unusual weather conditions or circumstances such asoverhanging eaves which will prevent natural rainfall from reachingthe ground.

As a general summary, I'll remind you that shrubs are not thesame as annual flowers and if you treat them as such, you will nothave success with them. Many a successful flower grower in thisarea has concluded that his green thumb doesn't seem to apply totrees and shrubs, simply because he kills them with the kindnesswhich is necessary to maintain flowers.

I hope that everyone is enjoying lush green lawns as a result ofhaving tried the procedures outlined in the last article. It seems thatmany people are hesitant to accept the fact that they can't obtaingood results with their gardens simply by thinking about them. Trytackling the problem scientifically and with a bit of honest effort,you'll be surprised with the good results.

PAGR TWRNTY INCO TRMNGLE

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Regular cultivating keeps weeds under controlin shrub beds.

Foundation plantings add a lot of beauty and value to your home.