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Published for all employees of The Inter-national Nickel Company of Canada, Limited.

Don M. Dunbar , EditorEDITORIAL OFFICE COPPER CLIFF, ONT.

To all our readers we wish

the Richest Joys of Christmas

and a Brimming Cup of

Happiness to toast the New

Year.

(M., Louise Haskins)

And I said to the man who stood atthe gate of the year:

"Give me a light that I may tread safelyinto the unknown!"

qnd he replied:"Go out into the darkness and put your;

hand into the Hand of God.That shall be to you better than light

and safer than a known way."So, I went forth, and finding the Hand

of God, trod gladly into the night.And He led me toward the hills and the

breaking of day in the lone East.

So, heart, be still 1What need our little life,Our human life, to know,If God hath comprehension?In all the dizzy strifeOf things both high and lowGod hideth His Intention.

For figuring out an exhaust system toremove the flame and smoke from aroundthe funnel of No. I pouring stand at theCopper Refinery , Claton Laroque, ladletender, received an award of $70.00 throughthe Employees Suggestion Plan . Mightyhandy piece of change , along about thistime of year.

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To all memb3 of the IuceSincerest ' ei for the happlueMdr

of You and Iours at Chris andthroughout the Coming r.

JANUARY, 1955

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Mr. Muscles WinsLucien Chevrier of Frood-Stobie, featured

in the Triangle some time ago, won secondprize in the "Canada's Most Muscular Man"contest at Montreal and then went to Torontoand took first place with his bulging bicepsin a Central Canada physique contest spon-sored by a bar-bell manufacturer.

To keep his terrific muscular developmenttoned up to concert pitch at all times, Lucienworks out regularly at Sudbury YMCA. He hasbeen interested in physical culture for morethan 11 years. His father and seven brothersare all weight lifters too. He came originallyfrom Shawinigan Falls.

GEORGE FERGUSON HAD ONE OFINCO'S LONGEST WORK RECORDS

One of the longest service records in thehistory of the Company, 44 years and sixmonths, stood to the credit of G. M. Fergu-son, superintendent of the reverberatoryplant at Copper Cliff Smelter, when he re-tired recently on pension.

Almost as much a part of the scene asthe stacks and slag trains, "Fergie" was bothliked and respected by his men for his fair-ness and impartiality, and for his thoroughknowledge of the operations.

Having staged a fine comeback from theheart illness which dogged the closing yearof his career at the plant, he is enjoying hisunaccustomed leisure to the full. He andMrs. Ferguson have moved to a lovely homeon Ramsay Lake Rd., and between this idealspot and the summer place on ManitoulinIsland they share with their son Don, lifehas taken on a new dimension of happinessfor them.

A farm at Ventner, near Prescott and onlyabout seven miles from the broad St. Law-rence, was "Fergie's" birthplace. He attendedhigh school at Prescott and then went on tostudy mining at Queen's University, althoughinstead of graduating he turned from histext books after three terms to take a steadyjob with the Canadian Copper Company atCopper Cliff. That was in 1908, and hisfirst duties were in the old Cobalt Plant,situated near where Mac Canapini's icefactory now stands. Custom silver refiningwas the business done, and among the otheremployees of that time who are now fellow-pensioners of "Fergie" were "Link" Leonard-uzzi, Eddie McKerrow and Omer Gatien.When the plant was closed down in 1913,"Fergie" moved over to the smelter and was fjust in time to help get the sixth blastfurnace going; two more were added afterthat. Then he went to the sample house,remaining there until the general shutdownof 1921. In 1923, shortly after operationswere resumed, he started shifting steadilyon the furnaces; Dune Fiulayson and DickColeman were the other two shift bosses.

In addition to the blast furnaces, the plantat the time had two reverberatory furnaces,one of which was operating, primarily for'melting blast furnace flue dust and fines.They are built in 1911, along with fourwedge roasters, and at first were fed from

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large hoppers at the burner end, and thenby hand-fettling along the sides. The firstexperiments with a fettling drag conveyoron the sides were made in 1923.

It was at Copper Cliff, "Fergie" recalls, thatpowdered coal was first used as fuel inreverberatory furnaces. Earlier types had alarge fire box at one end, hand-stoked. Direthings were prophesied by some of the die-hards when it was proposed to blow pulverized

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coal into the furnaces but the new-fangledidea worked out very well.

"Fergie" was married in 1915 to AnnieThomson, who at the age of 3 had come outfrom Aberdeen, Scotland, with her parentsto settle first in Vermont, then in CopperCliff, and finally in Sudbury. Their sonDon is with Inco's metallurgical department.

As a younger man "Fergie" was an out-standing athlete at both baseball and hoc-key. In later years he became known as one

1 of the district's canniest curlers.

"MORE TO BE PITIED," ETC.John rushed around looking for his coat.

"What do you want It for, dear?" asked hiswife.

"That fellow Smith across the road justtelephoned to ask if I can lend him a cork-screw."

"Well what do you want your coat for?Surely there's no need to go out. You cansend Mary with it."

John turned upon her more in sorrow thanin anger-

"My dear," he said, "your last remarks sumup the whole reason why women cannot leadarmies, control nations, or take anything buta subordinate part in the affairs of theworld.

Sultan of Spuds Entertains at Stobie

At the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto this year Lucien Depatie of Harmer wonfirst prizes In both table and seed classes with his Chippewa potatoes . His dad , Theodore,was world potato champ in 1949. As a special lunch-time treat for some of the super-vision at Frood-Stobie No. 7 Shaft, where he is a member of the yard gang, Lucienserved up some of his blue-blooded spuds one day. "Marvellous!" Raid Al Olive (right), asst.superintendent. "Superb!" said Casey Jones (left), underground super. "Second themotion!" said Joe Ressel (centre), construction foreman. Lucien is 24, married, and thefather of Pierrette, 6 mos.

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Aircraft and "Bomb" On Electro-Magnetic Survey

An Anson aircraft is seen towing a "bomb", during an air - borne electro-magnetic survey by Inco's geophysics section, in theCompany's never -ending quest for new sources of nickel . Intricate instruments pick up and record the conductivity of the groundover which the plane passes as it follows a carefully controlled flight plan.

Mother Nature's Dark Secretsconfirmed when diamond drilling was under-taken in June and a lead-zinc-copper prop-erty of the first magnitude was indicated.such a survre aircraft isTang off rafitted with special equipment which includestwo co ils, a transmitter, a re ceiver and re-Probed by the "Flying X-Ray"corder, a winch, a radio altimeter, and a

A "flying X-ray" that finds ore by probing ' in other parts of Canada, the New Brunswick' ' bomb," so called because in appearance itsome of Mother Nature's best-kept secrets is project was the first time it had been put to closely resembles a military projectile. Incredited with the discovery of a rich new work under contract to another organization.' the "bomb" are installed two coils, an ampli-lead-zinc-copper mine at Little River, New Little short of sensational was the result fier, and a modulator.Brunswick. achieved for the American Metal Company When the plane is in flight the 60-lb.

The new air-borne electro-magnetic equip- by Inco's geophysicists with their highlyment, known to the boys on the geophysics specialized gear. After careful study of theside as "Air E.M", was developed by Inco records produced by their "Air EM." survey.engineers in collaboration with McPhar En- they recommended that Arnco give top pri-gineering Company. Although it has been ority to investigation of certain anomaliesused extensively by the Company to survey found in the area. The accuracy of thesepossible nickel-bearing formations locally and, geophysical interpretations was promptly

fiberglas "bomb," about six feet long and 10inches in diameter, is lowered on a 500-footrubber-covered steel cable and towed at anelevation of about 500 feet. Its tail fins helpto keep it on course-

The procedure is to measure the conduc-tivity of the ground in the path of flight.

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A signal sent out by the gear in the aircraft measures local variations set up in the It is recorded that in 1692 Aymar used ais picked up by the coils in the "bomb", earth's magnetic field by the presence of divining rod to trace down a hunchbackamplified, modulated, and sent back to the disseminated magnetite or magnetic sul-, criminal, the last man to be broken on thereceiver in the aircraft, where its receipt is phides. The magnetometer does not dis- wheel in Europe, and 11 years later used itshown on a continuous chart in the recording tinguish between these two types of deposits, to point out Protestants for massacre. Evendevice. whereas "Air E.M." does, thus saving an today it is used by men of unquesionable

The presence of sulphides within the: enormous amount of time and effort in integrity in search of water, frequently withplane's electro-magnetic field will increase ground investigation. marked success.the strength of the signal as it is received On the other side of the ledger, "Air EM." ( But away back in 1580 wise old Juliusat the "bomb", and will in turn he indicated will not distinguish between sulphides and Agricola opined that "a miner should be aon the recorder chart as a peak, called an graphite, which is non-magnetic. In areas good and serious man, and should not makeanomaly. On the other hand the presence where this is likely to be a problem, a follow- use of an enchanted twig. If prudent andof massive magnetite within the electro- up survey can be made with a magnetometer, skilled he should follow the natural indica-magnetic field will weaken the signal, and which does not pick up graphite. But in the tions which he can see for himself, and dig".will be shown as a valley on the recorder great majority of cases, "Air E.M." can be This salty piece of advice was not lost uponchart, used as the primary instrument. Agricola's descendants in the mining game,

In addition to charting the conductivity of For centuries men have sought aid from although it was not until the middle of thethe ground over which the aircraft passes,. magic or enchantment by the use of the 19th century that Swedish engineers suggest-the recorder simultaneously graphs the divining rod, in England often called a ed measuring magnetic properties for theheight of the aircraft above the ground, and' "dowsing rod" and in America a "doodle discovery of orebodies.the relative position of the bomb to the bug". A treatise on geophysics states, "This Now Inco engineers have added this im-plane. This information, along with a con- strange rod, usually a forked hazel twig, is portant new refinement to exploration geo-tinuous strip photograph taken by a camera grasped firmly by the two hands on each side physics, opening the way for selective studyin the plane, will make it possible to pinpoint; of the fork, and the tip will, with some people of Canada's vast mineral resources at athe location of an anomaly to within 200 feet. only, point upwards or downwards, or become tremendous saving of time and work. Neither

In non-ferrous geophysical exploration violently agitated when it approaches its! rock, snow, water, ice, nor the inaccessibility"Air E.M." has distinct advantages over an-'quest. It has been used in the search for of remote timbered areas, now thwart theother instrument extensively used in air- water, minerals, witches, hidden treasure, lost aerial prospector with his "flying X-ray".borne surveys, the magnetometer, which animals, and the points of the compass ." (Continued on Page 13)

The Operator at His Instruments In the Plane

Here's what its like in an aircraft equipped for an electro-magnetic survey. The operator, Vic Kanerva makes a notation onthe recorder chart to assist the geophysicists in assessing the significance of the information picked up by the instruments . Oppositehim is the receiver, and on his left is the transmitter which sends out the signal to the "bomb" towed beneath the plane on a 500-foot steel cable paid out from the winch in the immediate foreground.

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"Play by Play" Story of an "Air E.M." Survey

The spirit of modern prospecting Is symbolized by this OrestAndrews drawing of an old-time "rock-knocker" riding gleefullythrough the skies astride a "flying X-ray". With this slick gadgetthe old boy will find orebodies he otherwise would never suspect.

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John Shaw, research engineer who helped develop the Inco "AirE.3L" equipment , has checked the installation of the 60-lb . fiber-glass "bomb" on the aircraft in preparation for a flight. In the"bomb" are coils and amplifying equipment.

"Air E.M." crews often face tough conditions for weeks on end.This base camp was at Ennadai Lake in the North West Terri-tories. In addition to high winds and heavy snowfall , a frequentflying hazard is fee fog , "a fine snow that never falls".

When an area has been selected for investigation by the chiefgeologist, the first step is to obtain aerial photographs and makea lay-down mosaic from which will be cut flight strips for navi-gating the aircraft. Bud Savage and Jimmy Lee are doing this.

Ready for the take -off, Ed Kenyon, pilot, and Roy Koronovich,navigator, study their flight strip while John Quance , operator inforeground , makes his first notation on the recorder chart onwhich will be graphed the conductivity of the ground.

Roy Koronovich , aircraft navigator , often doubles as barber forhis "Air E.M." crew pals . His customer here was Ron Taylor,chief geophysicist , and they say it was impossible to tell whichone had the Toni when the tonsorial mission was accomplished.

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Accuracy in Co-ordinating Results Important

A little Eskimo boy scampers across the camp clearing . Helpfulfor doing chores, the Eskimos care little about money but are quitehappy with cigarets for pay: one "butt" for a pan of water, five"butts" for a sewing job . They are friendly and honest.

Here Joe mihelchic is transferring points from the flight strip tobase maps on which will be plotted anomalies which were graphedon the recorder chart during flight. In all stages of this work,accuracy is of the greatest importance.

Iton Taylor, chief geophysicist, and Herb Stewart , explorationgeophysicist, are studying completed base maps to assess therelative importance of anomalies indicated by the air-borne sur-vey and decide their priority for investigation by ground parties.

Back in the offices at Copper Cliff Gene Glisky is "pickingpoints" - proving the flight path of the aircraft on the recorderchart by checking with the continuous photographic film takenduring the flight by the strip camera installed in the plane.

With proportional dividers, Johnny Dowsett and Larry Coderreplot anomalies on base maps for the use of geological groundparties which will investigate likely-looking areas using geo-physical equipment and, in the final stage, diamond drilling.

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A hangar and shops for "Air E.M." research and maintenance arebeing prepared near the landing strip at the Open Pit. JohnQuance (foreground ) adjusts a test oscillator while Vic Kanervarepairs an aircraft receiver. They are technician-operators.

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CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE

"Personal Contact" Is New Link Lawyer: "You say you want to get a

I divorce on the grounds that your husband iscareless about his appearance?"

Between Men and Supervision i twolyears."Yes, he hasn't shown up in nearly

The most recent and positive instructionpractice instituted at Inco is Personal Con-tact Instruction. This is given regularly byeach shift boss to all the men under hissupervision, An individual record is main-tained of all the Personal Contact instructionreceived by each man including the date hewas hired, topic and date of each instructionand the name of the instructor.

Every shift boss is expected to make thiscontact with each of his men, usually notless often than every two months and insome cases every month. This is in additionto the "On the Job" demonstrations. TheSafety department cooperates with the shiftbosses by arranging to have the records main-tained with a minimum of bookwork for theshift boss. A standard form is made out andreturned to the Safety department where allrecords are kept and checks made to seethat all is being done as planned.

This form of instruction is adaptable foruse in every mine or plant regardless of sizeor location . It is equally well suited tomechanical, electrical and maintenance de-partments, to men distributed throughoutlarge areas or congregated in smaller places.

When a man is transferred from one shiftboss to another or from one mine or plantto another the personal contact record isvaluable for informing the new supervisorof the instruction the man has received todate. It also serves to remind the man thathis supervisor is interested in Safety, whichis one of the most important factors inactivating the Safety program.

There are many innovations in this formof training. An example is where topsupervision considers it advisable to con-centrate on instruction regarding a particularsubject. All shift bosses in designated areasaccordingly talk on this subject in theirPersonal Contact training. Following this,a check is made by the Safety engineer andthe men are questioned as to their know-ledge of the subject of instruction. Marksare assigned and the ranking of the shiftbosses is given to all concerned. The spiritof competition sparks interest.

The Front CoverThe winter scene on the front cover of this

issue was photographed in a snow-carpetedcorridor of pines to the left of the old No. 17Highway, near the High Falls turnoff.

The old white horse Daisy, is a born trouperat heart; Although it's doubtful if she everactually performed for a camera before, sheobliged Triangle by making like a circus steedproudly prancing around a sawdust ring.Her driver, Carl Saarela, who farms nearby, ishidden by the lengthening shadows of a.winter's afternoon, but one can almost hear,mixed with the soft creaking of the sleighand the muted rattle of the harness, hislow-voiced encouragement to his horse asthey near the end of their homeward journeywith a load of firewood.Before he took up dairy farming full time,

Carl worked for Inco at both Levack andFrond.

THE POINT OF VIEW

Boss: "Jones, you disappoint me. I've beentold you were seen at the company partyintoxicated, and pushing a wheelbarrowaround the room."

Jones: "Why, yes, I thought you approved."Boss: "Of course not! Why should I?"Jones: "You were riding in the wheelbar-

rowl"

PERSONAL CONTACT UNDERGROUND AT GARSON MINE

Shift boss Dave Teller makes a personal contact call on a crew who are preparinga chute bomb and making other preparations for blasting a chute on 2600 level at Garson.In the gangway picture are, left to right, Art Dore, switchman, Dave Telfer , Joe Bom-

hower, trammer boss, and Yuri Klssa, motorman.

FOREMAN AND MACHINIST DISCUSS WORK AT FROOD -STOBIE

The personal contact is made here by Jack Parry (right ), foreman in the machine

shop at Frood -Stobie No. 3 Shaft , chatting with Zenas Wowk, 2nd class machinist, who

is turning some bushings for Granby car wheels on his turret lathe . Keeping the

working place clean , wearing safety glasses all the time , and making certain that a flag

or some other warning marks the end of the revolving shaft in the lathe , are some of

things mentioned in their discussion.

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THE GREAT TEA-CUP MYSTERYBAFFLES BANNISTER, US TOO

Mond's Eric Bannister, erudite editor ofNickel News, London, wrote to The Triangleto say that the tea cup pictured above wasfound by the wife of a member of WigginSales staff, Mrs. John Beddows, in a littleold junk shop in the back streets of Bir-mingham.

The reproduction of an aerial picture ofInco's Copper Cliff Smelter struck a res-ponsive chord and she purchased the cup.Eventually it came to Eric's attention, and,scenting a story, he traced the cup to themakers at Stoke-on-Trent.

But the makers could throw no light on Iwho had originally placed the requisition,saying only that 12 dozen of these cups hadbeen ordered in January and exported inMay.

The files at Inco's offices at Copper Cliff,Toronto, and New York yield no trace of suchan order, much less a clue as to how Mrs.Beddows' cup wound up in a little old junkshop in the back streets of Birmingham.

Sounds suspiciously like "the little people",the fabled gnomes of mining, have beenbusy. What do you make of it?

How'd You Like toBe Chased by $734

More than a year ago Ernie Schrader ofthe nickel converter department at Copper'Cliff Smelter decided it would save the Com-pany time and money to use a mortar mixerwhen relining the converters, instead ofmixing the mortar by hand. He wrote outhis idea and dropped it in the SuggestionPlan box.

In due course the Suggestion Plan Commit-tee mulled the idea over and decided to buy a,mixer and give it a trial. Ernie's suggestion:proved to be a sound one and it looked likehe'd receive an award of about $100.00 for it.Then somebody asked why the mixer wouldn'tcome in handy over in the reverb departmentwhen making repairs on the furnace side-walls. It was tried out with gratifying suc-cess. Since the original idea was Ernie's,the Committee said he should have creditfor the extra use that had been found for it.

So the amount of his award leaped from$100.00 to the king-size total of $734.00.

By this time Ernie had forgotten all abouthis suggestion and since he had not signed

Celebrating their golden wedding anni-versary recently were Mr. and Mrs. AllDavison, who were married in Welland onOctober 24, 1904. Alf was a member of thepower house crew at the Nickel Refinery,Port Colborne, for 20 years before his retire-ment in 1945. Both he and Mrs. Davisonhave lived in Welland County all their lives.Their two sons, John and Warren, work forInco and their daughter Zella is marriedto another Inco man, Maurice Hill. Theyhave two grandsons, three granddaughters,and one great granddaughter. Congratula-tions and best wishes to this happy couple!

THAT ROCK-RIBBED RESERVEthe form he submitted it, the Committee did ( An Englishman was travelling in a trainnot know his identity. But one of the and an American fellow passenger spoke toefficiency engineers happened to talk with a him.man in the plant who remembered having "Excuse me," he said, "but your tie isdiscussed the mortar mixer idea with Ernie "more than a year previously, although hecouldn't recall his name. Eventually thoughthe friend did come up with Ernie's name,and he and that $734.00 tax-free cheque havebeen brought together just in time for aMerry Christmas.

hanging out.Unemotionally the Englishman answered:"What of it? Your pocket has been on

fire for the last five minutes, but I haven'tbothered you, have I?"

Work is the yeast that raises the dough.

She Gets Her Deer Every Year

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Mrs. Bill Oja of Creighton hunts right along with the experts. In five of the pastseven years she has brought down her deer . She uses a Remington semi-automatic 12 guageshotgun with S.S.G. shot. The nice buck that filled her quota for 1954 went 204 lbs.Other members of the party, who hunt "somewhere back of Lake Penage", were Mrs.Oja's husband Bill the champion gardener), their son Voitto , Jalmar Niverl of Frood-Stobie , Larry Pyoli of Garson , and Arvi Koskela of Creighton.

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Christmas is the time for family reunions, and as hasbeen its custom since this album was inaugurated severalyears ago, the Triangle has rounded up representatives of allbranches of the Inco Family for the Christmas issue, and wewish them the best. (1) Mr. and Mrs. Dalton McDonald (Cop-per Cliff Transportation) with, on the left, Audrey (Mrs. ErnieLoney), Bill, Jim, Sandra, 13, and on the right Bernice (Mrs.Mike Skirda), Sally, 16, George, and Linda, 9. (2) Mr. andMrs. Aime Gosselin (Coniston) with Lorreine (Mrs. HectorBarbe), Patricia, 11, Cecile, 20, Claudette, 18; not shown isFernand, 25, of Belleville. (3) Dr. and Mrs. Joe Hilliard (IncoMedical Staff) with Neil, 21/2, and Alan, 6 mos. (4) Mr. andMrs. Roly Lalonde (Open Pit) with Denise, 7, Raymond, 5,and Donald, 1. (5) Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Brouse (Lawson

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Quarry) with the twins, Timmy and Tommy, 18 mos., andLynne, 7, Becky, 5. (6) Mr. and Mrs. Tony Fedor (Garson)with Donald, 2, Faye, 5, Henry, 6, Sam, 4 mos., and Tony Jr.,10, with his cat "Tabby". (7) Mr. and Mrs. Jim LaRoque(Copper Refinery) with Emma and Don. (8 ) Mr. and Mrs.Joe Fabiano (Port Colborne Refinery) with Lenny, 5, andLarry, 8. (9) Mr. and Mrs. Ed Evershed (High Falls) withBob, 12, and Warren, 8. (10) Mr. and Mrs. Pete Lucyk (Mur-ray) with Staphana, 14, and Maurice, 18. (11 ) Mr. and Mrs.Joe Gaydos (Levack) with Katrine Ann, 1, and George, 21/2.(12) Mr. and Mrs. Louis Marois (Into Pensioners) with, seated,Helen (Mrs. Len Deschamps), May (Mrs. Norman Anger),Lucienne (Mrs. Lucien Lauzon), Alice (Mrs. Ernest Bertrand),Grace (Mrs. Tom Martin) and Rita; standing, Alex, Leo,Bernadette (Mrs. Lucien Deschamps), Albert, Wilfred; absent,Irene of New York. (13) Mr. and Mrs. Roy Serpell (Creigh-ton) with Marguerite, 6, Mary Catherine, 7V2, Tommy, 5, andPatrick, 3. (14) Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fritz (Frood-Stobie) withJimmy, 6, Barbara, 4, and David, 8.

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Safety GlassesSave SufferingAnd Sadness

While inspecting a hang-up in a drawhole underground at Creighton Mine, the'general foreman was struck in the face bya piece of ore hurled at great speed from themuck above . His safety glasses were com-pletely shattered but his eyes were not'injured.

After hearing of this and similar ex-periences , it is difficult to understand whysome men neglect to wear the eye protectionissued to them . It's said that some men actual-ly spend more effort thinking of reasons whythey shouldn't wear safety glasses than itwould take them to conform to the practice.

People say that glasses fog up and getdirty. This problem has been taken care ofby installing cleaning boxes at convenientlocations; effective cleaning and defogging'liquids and tissues are supplied in these.

Another excuse is that some persons con-sider they cannot wear eye protection. Ar-rangements have been made at practicallyall First Aid stations to have eye protectionfitted or adjusted. If a wearer gets head-aches, possibly he needs prescription glasses.

Another well known alibi is that the jobwill only take a minute so it is unnecessary toput on safety glasses. However, it takeseven less time than a minute - possiblyonly a fraction of a second - for an accident -to cause the loss of an eye. Along this line,one out of every five accidents at Inco'sreduction plants and one of every seven ac-

Sam Cnarette, conveyorman at the OpenPit, was struck in the face by a piece of rockthrown from No. 27 distributor . His safetyglasses were broken but his eyes were notinjured.

cidents at the mines is an eye injury.No one wishes to lose his eyesight or have

it damaged. No one ever thinks that hewill, but chemicals may splash, wheels maybreak, splinters of steel may be whirled.Wise men will wear eye protection before the

A Christmas party for newcomers to Canada from many lands was held by theSudbury Council of Friendship at the Canadian Legion Hall. One of the groups takingpart in the carol singing was a Polish choir, seen above : left to right , Henry Jablonski,conductor, Mrs. A. Plach (whose husband Karl works at Frood-Stobie No. 7 Shaft),Bruno Garbowski (a driller at Murray ), Mrs. E . Garbowski , and Bob Dembek (a timber-man at Creighton No. 7 Shaft).

While he was driving bolts through aconverter hood at the Copper Cliff plateshop, a washer struck a plate worker in theface. A hardened lens of his safety glasseswas broken (see above ) but his eyes werenot injured.

plant at Copper Cliff a piece of steel strucka fitter in the face. One lens of his safetyspectacles was broken but his eyes were notinjured.

While turning alloy steel on a lathe inthe machine shop at Frood-Stobie, a cuttingwas thrown against his face. The piece wasembedded in the safety mono-goggles he waswearing. His eyes were not injured.

During a casting operation in a sandmould, at the Copper Refinery, some moltencopper erupted from a riser hole in the mould.Both lenses of the moulder's cup goggles ;were splashed with molten copper. His eyeswere not injured.

A splash of molten matte from a converter'at Coniston Smelter struck a nearby processlabourer in the face. His safety glasses wereruined but his eyes were not injured.

The mastic man was laying brick in theCopper Refinery Tank House, using hot tar

accident. as a cementing material to provide an acidHere are some other instances where' resistant surface. As he lifted a brick to put

safety glasses were worth many times their ? it in a layer of hot tar, a second brick stuckweight in gold: , to its under surface and then dropped into

While tapping a reverb furnace at Copper, the hot tar, The tar was splashed in hisCliff a splash of molten slag was thrown into ^ face and on both lenses of his safety glasses.the face of the tapper. His safety cup His eyes were not injured though the scaldinggoggles were plastered with slag, one lens temperature and sticky nature of the tarwas shattered, but his eyes were not injured. would probably have caused the loss of both

While removing bolt heads in the sinter eyes if he had not worn safety glasses.

GAVE FOR FLOOD RELIEFA suggestion by Susan Douglas, Grade VII,

started the ball rolling, some inter-classcompetition developed, and the pupils ofCreighton School finally wound up with acollection of $75.00 for Ontario flood relief.

PROFESSIONAL PRIDEA bored cat and an interested cat were

watching a game of tennis.Bored Cat - You seem very interested.Interested Cat - It's not that, but my old

man's in the racket.

The best way to kill time is to work it todeath.

Bill Petryna was chipping a hole in theslag dump at Coniston . A piece of slag flewinto the air and struck him in the face. Hissafety glasses were broken but his eyes were

'not injured.

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DUNC WILLIAMSTAKES PENSION'AFTER 17 YEARS

Dune Williams retired recently on disabilitypension from the Electrical Department atCopper Cliff with 17 years and 11 monthsof credited service.He was born in 1912 in Larchwood, where

he attended public school, and later took abook-keeping course which, as things turnedout, he never used. In 1929 he joined theCPR as steamshovel watchman and fireman,but he was laid off in the fall of 1930 andworked intermittently at any job he couldfind during the depression years of 1931 and'32. The job he remembers best from thisperiod was the one where he was the govern-ment's youngest assessor and tax collector,quite a task in those days.

The following year was a brighter one forDune, for in 1933 he rejoined the CPR andwas married to Beatrice Vincent of Sudbury.On July 22nd, 1935, he came to Inco. Hisfirst job was water tender on the waste heatboilers at the Copper Refinery, or the On-tario Refining Company as it was calledthen. Later he became coal plant operator,then shift engineer, and finally powerhouseoperator. In 1943 he joined the RCAF.

On his return in 1945, he got his old job Iback, but the strain was a little too muchfor his health and in November '46 he trans-ferred to the Electrical Department at Cop-per Cliff smelter. He worked on the linegang for a while and then on electrical con-struction. Next he worked in the separationbuilding, then in the casting building, andfinally wound up in the converter buildingwhere he remained until his retirement inNovember.

His plans for the future? Well, as soon ashe can get away, he's heading for a warmerclimate; his doctors have recommended NewMexico. But, since he admits that he stillhas business interests around Sudbury, nodoubt he and his wife will be back at 145Regent Street before too long.

MAt a retirement party held in the Legion

Hall, Sudbury, popular Dune Williamswas presented with a pair of suitcasesand his favorite armchair, in which be'sseen here with W . H. Soule , electricalsuperintendent , on his right, and BaynehtcKelvie and Andy Kanerva behind him.

60 Couples at Pilot Mill Party

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Members of the Coniston pilot mill staff and their guests had a fine time at abanquet and dance held in the Club Allegri . In the top picture Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kellyare the couple in the immediate foreground , and beside them are Mr . and Mrs. DorlandKidd. Across the table, on the right , are Mr . and Mrs. George Schmidt, and, on theirright, Mr. and Mrs . Verdel Price.

In the second picture is another table shot , with Mr. and Mrs. Ontario Toniolo inthe foreground . The pleasant party was attended by over 60 couples; convenor of thecommittee was Jack Allison.

'it to survey large areas in Manitoba, includ-ing of course the Mystery Lake country,Mother Nature sections of the North West Territories in-

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eluding Ferguson Lake, and the Lac la Ronge1 ^e1^S Sec ets area in Saskatchewan.

Most of f thethe workork of assembling and assess-; Iing the information gathered in "Air E.M."

(Continued from Page 5) surveys is done by a trained staff in the field.Characteristics of nickel ores and nickel- I Accuracy, and a broad background of expert-

bearing host rocks are such that they can be ence in interpretation and correlation of thedetected by magnetic geophysical meth- results, are of the utmost importance.ods. Ground magnetometers were first used Continuous research has been carried onin the Sudbury District about 1938. Then at Copper Cliff by Inco engineers on electro-the need was felt for instruments whichwould explore large tracts of ground rapidly,particularly in areas where other types ofprospecting were ineffective, and air-bornemagnetometer surveys were successfully in-troduced.

It was late in 1948 that Inco became inter-ested in the development of an air-borneelectro-magnetic system, and by July of 1949the work was underway in collaboration withMcPhar Engineering Company, By June of1950 tests were completed and McPhar pro-nounced "Air E.M." ready for action. Sincethat time Inco has flown it more than 21,000square miles in geophysical exploration.

magnetic survey equipment and operatingtechnique. This work, along with mainten-ance and repair work, will soon be transferredto a hangar and shops near the landing stripat the Open Pit.

FRIEND OF THE WEAK"Dad," asked the small boy, "Why is a

man not allowed more than one wife?""My son," replied the father, "when you

are older you will realize that the law pro-tects those incapable of protecting them-selves."

The Company has covered the Sudbury Experience is hard co buy on the easyDistrict with "Air E .M." and has also used payment plan.

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Leading lineup in the Garson ladies' league is Eileen Ralph 's team : thaE s Eileenscoring, Jean Zimmerman bowling , Vera and Joyce Latendre and Evelyn Tulloch watching.

Here's a glimpse of the action at IncoEmployees Club in the big, enthusiasticFrood-Stobie league . Hurling a strike isMel McNichol , with Erle Dunn watching.At the extreme top left is Albert Stone,league secretary-treasurer since 1938.

j sponsored leagues in the Sudbury area.

Bowling Dying?Well Not So'sYou'd Notice It

Despite the gloomy statements of thosewho say the sport is on the decline, a totalof almost 1,150 Incoites, playing on 180 teams,are taking part in organized bowling thisseason at the employee clubs or in employee-

Hot spot of district bowling, according tothe figures obtained in a run-down by theTriangle, is Creighton, where five leaguesoperating at the Employees Club have atotal of 250 maple-spillers. Largest singlegroup at the Creighton Club is the Livelymixed league with 84.

Garson men's league has the highest singleenrolment in the district with 140, closelyfollowed by the Levack ladies' league with132 and the Frood-Stobie men's league with130.

At this season of the year it seems like agood idea to pass on the appreciation of thebowlers to those loyal and long sufferingsouls who direct the affairs of the leagues:

CREIGHTON: men's John Krystia, secre-tary-treasurer; ladies, Mrs. Albert Cassell,secretary-treasurer; mixed, Albert Cassell,secretary-treasurer; teen-agers, Lloyd Gotro,president, Marie Barbe, secretary; Lively

mixed, Ray Forth, chairman, Velma Ray,secretary, Bob McClary, treasurer.

GARSON: men's, A. Muir, president, RayGresham, vice-president, Martin Chepesiuk,secretary-treasurer; ladies, Mrs. Jack Laking,president, Mrs. Ernie Brankley, vice-presi-dent, Mrs. A. Monk, treasurer: mixed, GordonYoung, president, R. J. Teahen, secretary-treasurer.

FROOD-STOBIE (At Inco Employees

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n In this handsome group In the Garson men's league, Leo Demers looks- on as DaveAt Inco Employees Club , Sudbury, it's Lennie and Tom Johnston handle the books. In the background are Primo Pidutti,Dorothy Purves in the foreground ; seated Len Matson, Arnold King , Ollie Matson, Perce Rowe , and Ray Greshman. Office andare Marge Myers, Hattie McCrea , Bea Gresham 's teams are represented.Harmer ; standing, Mary Price, VickyPanay, and Grace Johnston.

Club) : Eldred Dickie, chairman, Albert Stone,secretary-treasurer. (Both have held thesepositions since the league was formed in1938.)

COPPER CLIFF (At Inco Employees Club) :Vern Tupling, president; Herb Eastwood,secretary.

COPPER REFINERY (At Inco EmployeesClub) : Len Andrews, secretary.

LADIES (At Inco Employees Club) : ValO'Neill, secretary.CONISTON (At Uptown Alleys) : mixed,

Ralph Taylor, president; Jackie Jolicoeur,secretary-treasurer.

COPPER CLIFF CLUB: Tom Peters, chair-man.

LEVACK: men's, Cliff Roy, secretary; 1ladies, Mrs. Bessie Holmes, secretary.

FORGETFUL FELLOWWaiter: "Mr. Brown left his umbrella

again. I believe he'd leave his head if it'were loose."

Manager: "Guess you're right. I heard himsay yesterday he was going to Arizona for'!his lungs." !

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Mrs. Ernie Mosher, who plays on a teamcaptained by her husband, is seen inaction in the Creighton mixed league.

Awaiting the arrival of Wayne Nute to complete their lineups are a couple ofteams in a tournament at the Copper Cliff Club. In back are Kathryn Flynn, CarsonJohnston, and Jean Brillinger ; In front, Irene Neal , Bob Neal , Marilyn Rutherford,and Basil Fee.

Everybody's happy in this group in the Coniston mixed league: front , Mrs. LeonardBelanger , Gaby Gosselin, Ann O ' Shaughnessy , Annette Poirier , Mrs. Benny Taylor;back, Len Spencer, Keith Boyd , Mrs. A. Rivals, Jack Allison , Dario Chezzi, Fred Chay-kowskl, Jackie Jolicoeur.

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SNAP SHOT SOF LIFE WITH INCO

"You two fellows are going to see a lot ofone another , so you may as well get acquaint-ed right now ," said Nurse Mary Hanrahan atSudbury General Hospital , introducing TedHodgson of the engineering department atMurray to his brand new son.

One of a party of six hunters, each of whomgot his moose , Bill Wright of Frood -Stobietime office is seen with the victim of hisdeadly aim. He bagged the animal west ofGogama within the first hour of the season,and it weighed 1,400 lbs.

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One of Santa 's first appearances In Sudbury District was at the IODE Christmas

Party at Copper Cliff Community Hall . Among the lifelong friends he made there

were Christopher , 2, and Kenny, 4, who greeted him with their mother , Mrs. Jean Meria.

Their dad Sylvio was on shift in the separation plant at the smelter.

"Yippee ! Santa Claus ! Bring on the loot !" Armand and Norman , who were one

year old on December 15, opine that Christmas is a jolly old time indeed. Their

palpitating pappy (with pride that is ) is Henry Bouffard of the casting department

at the Copper Refinery.

Who said "A policeman's lot is not a happy one." Fie on that Gilbert and

Sullivan ! What copper wouldn 't be the happiest man on the street with three fine

kiddies like these : Marilyn, 4, Douglas, 7, and Gary, 3. Their parents are Constable

and Mrs. Ross Force, Port Colborne Refinery.

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