TRIANGLEJANUARY/FEBRUARY 1973

Inside:Christmas fun, good old wintertimeand a pensioner's profitable hobby

TRIANGLEVolume 33 Numbers 1 & 2

Published for Ontario employeesand pensioners of The InternationalNickel Company of Canada , Limited.

Peter Marshall, Editor(705) 682-0631

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Inco Triangle, Copper Cliff, Ontario.

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Photography

Derek Wing, chief photographer,Ontario Division; Mary Sitko, LesLewis, Doug Ogston, Max Ridi, andthe editor.

Prints of most photographs appear-ing in the Inco Triangle may beordered direct from: Rene Dionne,170 Boland Ave., Sudbury. Or call:674-0474. Cost: $2 each.

Features inside . . .

South mine's monster 4Powders come of age 5In the good old wintertime 6Collecting keeps George busy 11Fun before Christmas 12Faces and places 18Retirements 20Family album 23

The cover

Some of the stories found inside arefeatured on the cover. George Furch-ner describes his hobby of collectingold money on page 11; a specialsection describing what some ofour employees are doing this winterstarts on page 6; and on page 12you'll find our annual round-up ofthe athletic associations' Christmasparties.

Behind the scalesTake a look inside the Port Colbornenickel refinery's shipping warehouse andchances are that a lot of the floor areawill be filled with containers of S NickelRounds and other forms of pure nickel.All the nickel in the building, which hasa storage capacity of about 10 millionpounds, is weighed when packed andplaced in stock, and again when labelledfor shipment.

The extra care taken to double checkthe weight is part of Inca's long traditionof service which guarantees the qualityof the product and also guarantees thatthe customer gets his money's worth -in this case the weight stenciled on thecontainer.

Elvin Bearss has a special interest inthis guarantee. It's his responsibility tomaintain all the scales in the Port Col-borne nickel refinery and the adjacentresearch station.

Keeping track of the huge tonnagesthat move through and out of the refineryrequires the services of about 40 differentscales. The biggest belong to the ship-ping department which has two five-tondial scales, four 10-ton beam scales, andthe huge 100-ton railway scale located atthe east end of the plant. The smallestis the two-pound postal scale located inthe general office.

Elvin and his assistant, Stew Rowland,carry out regular daily inspections, rou-tine maintenance, calibrations, and majorrepairs on all of them. Their job is aroving assignment taking them into allcorners of the plant on a moment'snotice sometimes, when a scale breaksdown. Repairing the intricate pieces of

machinery is a challenge both of the menseem to enjoy.

"Assigning the two of us to maintainthe scales is good insurance," Elvinpointed out, "because the consequencescaused by poorly-maintained scales arestaggering." The refinery depends on asmooth flow of nickel from the anodefurnaces to the shipping department.Broken scales cause bottlenecks and therefinery cannot afford to wait even a half-hour for outside repairmen to respond toa service call. The answer is a con-tinuous preventative maintenance pro-gram to keep the scales "tuned", ac-cording to Elvin.

Inaccurate scales could cause short-ages to customers' orders and em-barrassment to the refinery. To ensurethat scales in the shipping departmentare accurate, the federal government'sWeights and Measures Branch checksthem once a year against a standardizedtest weight. Once a scale receives its

about ofl h t, sH'^a i>A: cWton is sca es. minor acciaents, suc afalling boxes, often destroy the scale'sbalance.

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Stew tried adjusting the scale's zero balancefirst, but finally decided to open up thescale and adjust its lever arm and ribbontension.

seal of approval from the government,it's up to Elvin and Stew to maintain theday-to-day accuracy.

How accurate? "Right on," Stew said,"for the smaller ones and to tolerancesfor the big ones like the railway scales.It's accurate to within 20 pounds of itsdesign capacity of 100 tons."

You don't learn about scales from atext book, Both men trained on-the-jobwith Frank Gallinger, Jr., now retired (seepage 20, this issue). Elvin spent sixyears working with Frank, and Stew threeyears. "That's the only way to learn thisjob," Elvin said, "because there's a lotof little things on a scale to adjust.Trouble-shooting experience is essentialso you know where to look when thingsgo wrong."

Because some of the scales are oldand parts are difficult to locate, Elvin andStew make a lot of their own replacementparts. In their corner of the refinery'smachine shop, the two tackle repairs re-quiring them to design jigs to fabricatenew metal parts from scratch, or to com-pletely strip and rebuild large dial scales.

Dial scales are gradually replacingolder beam scales because weights canbe read directly on the face. The dialscales are more complicated to maintainhowever, because they contain so manymoving parts. Narrow strips of metal,7/1000ths of an inch thick, called ''rib-bons". connect the weighing table to thedial scale. The dial head measures thepull on these ribbons to determine theweight of an object. Beam scales aresimpler. A heavy weight on the tablecauses a long !ever to raise one end ofthe beam. A known weight s put on oneend of the beam and then weights areadded or subtracted on the other end

until the beam balances.A variety of accidents cause head-

aches for Elvin and Stew. Boxes fallingon the weighing table damage delicatepivots, while pencil lead, splinters, shat-tered glass, or scrap nickel from theshears have been found in bearings."Ice and snow cause problems to thetruck and railway scales," Stew said,"but dirt is the worst thing we run into."

"The most unusual thing we everfound was a muskrat," Elvin recalled."That happened to Frank. He couldn't

In the pit under one of the shippingbuilding 's beam scales , Stew adjusts the

nose iron. This moves a long lever whichchanges the weight on the beam above.

get the scale to balance and when heinvestigated, he found the animal calmlysitting on the beam." The small animalcrawled into the plant through a drainagehole in the pit underneath the beam scalein the shipping building.

Elvin joined the company in 1940 andis now a machinist 1st class, Most ofhis spare time is spent tinkering aroundhis home and garden. Stew, a machinist2nd class, became an Inco employee in1951 and off-the-job keeps a stable ofthree horses.

Back in the shop, Elvin fabricates a jig tomake replacement links for the 100-ton

railway scale, while in the background Stewoverhauls one of the plant's older dial scales.

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South mine 's monsterLooking and sounding like some sortof prehistoric monster, the ho-rams in-stalled at four local mines are actuallytemporary stand-ins for crushers. The

machines are an ingenious solution to theproblem of reducing oversize develop-ment ore and rock at Creighton No. 9shaft, and Stobie and Little Stobie mines.At Copper Cliff South Mine, three of the

ungainly-looking machines are handling

all of the No. 2 shaft's 2,000-tons-per-dayore production until the permanent crush-er becomes operational later this year.

Located on 2250 level, South mine'smonster has two ho-ram impact ham-

mers mounted on modified back-hobooms removed from conventional sur-face tractors. The third hammer ismounted on a heavy-duty boom of spe-cial design for underground work.

Getting the ho-rams underground is aprime example of the teamwork used toaccomplish anything at a mine. Mecha-nics dis-assemble the machine on surface

and transfer it to the riggers who sling itunder the cage and deliver it to the levelrequiring a ho-ram. Then a train crewtakes over and trams it to the workinglocation. In the meantime, a construc-tion crew has built a concrete pad, andtogether with another group of mechanics,

they re-assemble the machine and fastenit to the floor with large bolts.

A two-man crew, one per hammer,operates two ho-rams. These machinesoperate almost continuously for threeshifts a day. The third ho-ram is kept

in reserve in case of a break-down orwhen one of the other machines is shutdown for maintenance. The men uselevers to control the direction of swingand lift of the hydraulically-poweredbooms, and a foot-switch for the air-operated hammers. The two men aresurrounded by the bolted metal screeningwhich is standard underground protec-tion, and have an additional metal screenmounted on the control dashboard to

protect them from flying pieces of rock

and ore.The crew also raises and lowers the

control gate to feed the ore on to the

grizzly. Ore is also dumped directly from

the buckets of ST4A and ST8 load-haul-

dump machines. Ore which is smaller

than the 14-inch opening falls into theloading pocket and then into the skip for

hoisting to surface. Over-size chunks are

manoeuvred or "raked" by the boom intoposition for breaking by the hammers.A 60-pound piston drives each hammerat 400 blows a minute.

With over 400 pieces of mechanizedequipment of all sorts in operation, theOntario Division is one of the world'slargest users of sophisticated mining

machinery. The turn-around from theolder mining methods has taken less thansix years, and besides opening up excit-ing new jobs for our employees, it's comehand-in-hand with significant improve-ments in on-the-job safety.

South mine ' s trio of impact hammers are a temporary measure until thecrusher becomes operational later this year . The operators are Don Wilson,

Bill Himst and Brad St. Jacques, almost hidden in the background.

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Powder comes of ageYou'll be hearing a lot about powderslater this year when the new Copper Cliffnickel refinery comes on stream. Nickelpowders are the newest and latest type ofproduct, Their popularity sterns from con-venience in the manufacture of compon-ents where high volume production iscombined with a requirement for dimen-sional stability and high strengths. Manu-facturers have discovered nickel metalpowders permit close quality control be-cause of their high purity. Great savingsare also possible because the final finish-ing operations are either eliminated orgreatly reduced. This high tolerance con-trol means little material is wasted asscrap.

Type 123 is classed as a ''generalpurpose" powder and is used in theproduction of high purity nickel chem-icals and catalysts. Some other usesinclude the direct rolling of pure nickelor nickel alloy sheet or foil, alloy steelparts, magnets, pressed electrodes forwelding, and as a binding agent formetal carbides. Automotive parts suchas side window pinion gears, oil pumps,hydraulic pumps, rod bearings and brakeanchor blocks are now made of sinterednickel steel, which started as nickelpowder. Other everyday applications in-clude parts for washing machines, lawnand garden tractors, mowers, snow-

Nickel powder costs more per poundthan nickel available in conventional re-fined forms, but the price differential islargely offset by reduced manufacturingcosts.

Nickel powder will be made fromnickel carbonyl which is produced byprocessing nickel sulphide crudes, preci-ous metal-bearing intermediates andrefinery residues from Copper Cliff, PortColborne and Thompson. These rawmaterials will be treated using two brand-new Inco-developed techniques. One isthe top-blown rotary converter for non-ferrous smelting, and the other is theInco Pressure Carbonyl process for therecovery of pure nickel.

Twenty million pounds of nickel pow-der and over three million pounds ofiron-nickel powder, a new product forInco, will flow out of the new plant eachyear. The nickel powder will be verypure, while the iron-nickel powder willhave a mixed composition of about 30%nickel and 70% iron. The refinery'sother product will be nickel pellets - 100million pounds of them.

In appearance, nickel powder is grey-black in color and particle size averagesin the order of 4-7 microns, a micronbeing 1/1000th of a millimetre.

While nickel powders come in a num-ber of grades, only Type 123, the mostcommon grade, will be produced here.The ' 1" distinguishes it from the lowdensity grades used for nickel-cadmiumbatteries, etc., while the ' 23" approxi-mates the bulk density, which varies from2.0-2.7 grams per cubic centimetre.

Weighing eight pounds , this 71/4 -inchdiameter drive gear is made from powderedmetal nickel alloy steel. It's used in thefinal gear train of a transmission for a hayand grain cutter. The only finishingoperations required are grinding the insidediameter and hub face.

machines, business machines and com-puters. Most of these small parts areproduced in presses, at pressures ashigh as 30,000 p.s i. In the United States,one manufacturer is using surplus 16-inch naval guns as pressure vessels.

Research on the carbonyl powder pro-cess was done at Port Colborne wherea seven-ton top-blown rotary converterand fully-equipped carbonyl pilot planthelped build up the Ontario Division'sexperience. Most of the powder develop-ment work has been done at the com-pany's Clydach refinery in the UnitedKingdom.

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I N THEGOOD OLDWINTERTIME

Figure skating requires lots of practice.Margaret Coyle dropped into the LevackArena to watch her daughter , Margaret, and3-year-old Mary Shannon Conners.

Figure skating

If most winter activities seem aimed atboys, there's one which is almost exclu-sively feminine: figure skating. Levack'sMargaret Coyle agrees: "If they didn'thave it, there'd be nothing else for girlsto do in winter.''

The old saying goes, look for a busyperson if you want something done.Margaret, the wife of Levack mine elec-trician Alex Coyle, has organized theLevack Figure Skating C?ub's v,=nter carnival for the past two years `,Ni-,en sh.e snot busy with the carnival or other townactivities she s raising her two daughters

Opportunities for winter sports abound in the nickel district.Every type of activity imaginable can be enjoyed - winter camp-ing and cooking out, snowshoeing, horseback riding, and, ofcourse, the three "esses" - skiing, skating and snowmobiling.It all depends on what you want to do. A white topcoat coversour rugged bush, and hundreds of frozen lakes and rivers awaityour exploration and enjoyment in the good old winter time. Weinterviewed a few employees and found some interesting peoplewho are involved with winter.

and running her own hair dressing salon.

The Levack club has about 150 chil-dren registered, ranging in age from 3to 14 years of age. All but seven aregirls.

"You've got to be enthusiastic aboutskating because its a hard, hard sport."Learning even the simplest manoeuvre,the figure-eight, takes hours of practice.It takes up to three weeks for beginnersto successfully complete a circle. "Dropinto the rink and you can see them goingaround and around. They have to learnto do it on the inside and outside edgesof their skates, and the circle has to beperfect without any wavy lines."

Good instructors help and Levack isfortunate, Margaret said, to have twovery patient teachers, Allan McPherson,senior pro, and Ina-Lynne Purvis, thejunior pro. The club has ice time fourdays a week, "but the really keen onesare out practcrag as early as 630 mostmornings," Margaret said

We'ae got some really good skaters

here, such as Karen Parenteau, KimJalsich and Jamie Johnston." Both Kimand Jamie have won district champion-ships.

Margaret and Alex arrived in Levackfrom Scotland about three years ago.Margaret, who doesn't figure skate, in-volved herself in the sport because it wasinteresting and because "it was a goodway to get to know people." Both herdaughters, Janice, 12 and Margaret 5.are members of the club.

Margaret says the skating is good forgirls because it provides 'exercise foryoung growing bodies, and helps developbalance, grace and muscle coordination.A progressive series of tests determines achild's figure skating progress and theyare presented with badges or pins ateach level, "They get a big thrill out ofachieving a badge and it gives themsomething to look forward to in the winterevenings."

This year's carnival will be a panto-mime of "Snow White and the SevenDwarfs". Work on the ice fantasy startedin November when the theme was set."But it will get really hectic three weeksbefore the show when we complete cast-ing and start rehearsals." Kim Jalsichwill be Snow White and Jamie Johnstonhas agreed to be Prince Charming. Twoshows will be held April 8, with the carni-val proceeds going to finance out-of-town competition expenses for some ofthe talented skaters. The club will alsoraffle a trip to Nassau. The winner willbe announced at the carnival. "Last yearwe had almost 1,000 people watch theshow and that was three times as manyas the year before. I think that's proofthe club is catching on in Levack," Mar-garet says.

''There's a lot of team wvork involved to

out on the carnival and I get a lot of help

The skaters mothers work on costumes

and sets and Yve' l have a large cornm:t-

ee to b.e'P , th the `final organ Zatlon

it becomes a Leaf commurJiy project

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Minor hockeyAsk anyone what's the most popular sportin the Sudbury district and the answer willbe almost inevitably hockey. But JimDavidson and Fred Mansfield don't needto be told. They know. Joint convenorsfor Copper Cliff's house league hockey,they've organized 350 boys from 4 yearsto 14 into 19 teams and four divisions.''Every year there are more kids,'' Fredsaid, adding that ''we had so many appli-cations this year that we had to set upa 'hold' list. We'd like to have moreteams but we can't get the ice time."

Notwithstanding that complaint, theprice of success, the Copper Cliff minorhockey set-up is one of the best in theregion. The youngsters have a good rinkto play in, dressing rooms, and a warmrink for parents and other fans to watchthe games.

"It looks like a tremendous year forhouse league hockey in Copper Cliff,"Jim said. "We feel we have the bestcoaching and officials in the district andbecause of their interest and enthusiasm,everything is running well."

Fred echoed Jim's comments: "Thecoaches are the backbone of our system.Jim and I register the kids, make a sche-dule and then the coaches take over."

Games are played in Copper CliffArena on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.Practises have been done away with ac-cording to Fred because "we found thekids would rather be playing games."Instead, games during the first threeweekends are used by the coaches todrill their teams, teach hockey skills, andform lines.

"Our coaches are more interested inteaching than baby-sitting," Fred said,"and between periods they give chalktalks on strategy and help individual play-ers with their weaknesses on the ice."

"We're really lucky," Jim said, ''be-cause we get an over-view of the wholething. We can see the kids improvingday-to-day, week-to-week, and that'swhat makes it worthwhile."

Aside from the squirts, boys aged 4 to8, many of whom are on skates and play-ing hockey for the first time, the CopperCliff system is a long way from "bushleague" hockey. It's well-played, well-organized hockey. "We'd like to see moreparents come out to watch their sons,"Fred said. "We can see a big differencein the children's play when the parentsare there."

The house ?eague is sponsored by theCopper Cliff Athletic Association whichprovides goaier's equipment and ice t meThe Association insists that all registered

Fred Mansfield ( Copper Cliff plate shop)and Jim Davidson (Clarabelle mill) worktogether to organize Copper Cliff minorhockey.

players be fully-equipped to prevent in-jury, and each parent must equip his ownson.

Besides registering players and sche-duling games, Jim and Fred keep a closeeye on the play for a unique reason."We try to watch as many games as wecan so we can balance the teams. Inthat way, one team doesn't win too often.If a team starts to dominate its league,we arrange an exchange of players, be-cause young kids get discouraged beingon a consistently losing team," Jim said."Another thing we insist upon is that eachplayer has equal ice time, and fortunatelyour coaches agree with this regulation."

Providing assistance behind-the-scenes are Jack Newell (Copper Cliffcottrells), the top official for the houseleague and a member of the AthleticAssociation's hockey committee, referee-in-chief Dan MacNeil, and Bob Perry whois league statistician. A complete break-down of goals for and against, goal-tenders' averages, and leading scorers ismaintained for all 19 teams..

Jim has been involved in minor hockeyfor almost nine years. "I played hockeywhen I was younger and I used to stop +n

at the Cliff arena after work to watch thekids play. After a while, I volunteeredand worked with Yacker Flynn and tookover after he left."

The job soon became too much for oneman to handle and Fred came on thescene three years ago when his sonbegan to play. "I simply asked Jim ifhe needed any help," Fred said.

The big event for the league is theminor league hockey tournament. To beheld March 2, 3, 4 at the Copper CliffArena, it will be a round robin tourna-ment. The annual awards banquet willbe in April, after which Jim's and Fred'swives look forward to seeing them aroundthe house on weekends.

SkiingIf there's a boom in winter sport, the twoactivities which have to share the creditare skiing and snow machines. Skiing,of course, has been around longer, butit's only with the advent of down-hillslopes with proper tows, that it's reallytaken off and attracted the crowds. Tosnow machines goes the credit for finallyproviding the incentive for manufacturersto design ,wnter clothing that really doessomething about keeping out the cold

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Winter fun

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The skiing Tuuris: Elmer , Tim and Ken.

Ice fishingDoug Ogston and his 8-year-old sonRobb: are avid fishermen - . . throughthe we. Every weekend during the wintermon`hs they load Doug's snow machineinto 'he back of his truck and head off for

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The Sudbury district is fortunate that its10 ski slopes cater to all degrees ofexpertise . The beginning family can finddifferent levels of instruction, and thegood skier has a variety of satisfying hills.where the lift line-ups are short andthe tickets inexpensive.

their favorite lakes . Doug recommendsPenage and Fairbanks lakes, or Half-WayLake, Pathway Lake and Fox Lake alongHighway 144 for lake trout: Mud Lake forspeckled trout: and N!c'ssing for pick-erel.

'Pick up a copy of the latest fishing

Residents of communities such asCopper Cliff, Levack and Lively have anunequalled opportunity since they canenjoy inexpensive ski clubs just minutesfrom their doorstep.

Elmer Tuuri and his sons Ken and Timare enthusiastic members of the LivelySki Club on 1st Avenue. Elmer is a cage-tender and relieving hoistman at Creighton mine

Elmer likes the convenience of theLively ski hill, which is only a five-minutedrive from his 11th Avenue home. Heenjoys skiing because "it gets you out inthe fresh air and it's a healthy sport. Youface a challenge every time you go rac-ing downhill because you have to makeinstantaneous decisions on how fast thehill is. Skiing is the best thing I likeabout winter."

Born in Creighton, Elmer started skiingas a teenager. "We didn't have organ-ized hills like our Lively club. We justwent out in the bush behind MeatbirdLake and made our own trails. We didn'tknow there was any difference betweencross-country and down-hill in thosedays. We went cross-country throughthe bush to get to our hills, and it washard work climbing back up without atow."

Elmer's interest in skiing died when hestarted work, but it revived with the open-ing of the Lively hill and his sons' eager-ness to learn the sport. "Some weeksit's the only thing we talk about at thedinner table."

15-year old Tim has been skiing sincehe was 6 and is "very good" now, Elmersaid. "He tells me what I do wrong."Tim has just joined the Lively High Schoolski team and may race for his schoollater this year. Ken started two yearsago when he was 12. Both boys weremembers of the Lively-Creighton JuniorSki Club when it captured the NorthernOntario Nancy Greene Ski League cham-pionship in 1971. Elmer speaks veryhighly of the Nancy Greene competitions"They're terrific. The coaching is excel-lent and it gets youngsters organizedinto thinking of team work, not individualeffort. We're lucky in Lively, too, becausewe have two great coaches in Gary Foyand Con Walker," he added.

regulations, though, to make sure the lake;s open and check what the bait and limitrestrictions are," he warned.

Worms or beef ever bring best resultswhen fishing `or speckled trout, and Dougsays a medium silver W1;'ams Wobbler'with a piece of sucker fastened to the

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Sometimes ice fishing calls for a lot ofpatience, as Doug's son Robbie found outon this trip. He waited most of the day forhis first bite.

hooks should attract lake trout.Doug is a safety supervisor in the

planned maintenance department in Cop-per Cliff. A well-known sportsman, hehas led the Copper Cliff Rod and GunClub for some years, and has written anumber of articles on hunting and fishingin the Sudbury district.

A variety of equipment comes in handyfor ice fishing. A sharp ice chisel orauger is a must for cutting holes in theice. Any kind of fishing line - flax,nylon or mono-filament will do - butbuy the strength of line according to thesize of fish you are after. Doug advisesthat a light line, such as an 8-pound test

line, allows better bait movement than a30-pound test line. As each angler isallowed two lines while ice-fishing, hesuggests you make them up in thewarmth of your own home. Several de-vices are used for ice angling. Dougprefers a home-made "tip-up", but somesportsmen use a short rod and reel and"I've seen people fasten the line to abranch over the hole."

Perhaps the most important considera-tion is the choice of clothes and footwear."A cold fisherman is a miserable fisher-man," Doug says, "so don't short-changeyourself on comfort." Nylon down-filledparkas, or snowmobile suits are best.

Wear a waterproof outer boot with a feltliner. ''Don't cram your foot into the boot.Leave a gap for airspace to providenatural insulation."

Doug and Robbie like to fish near nar-rows, off points, around islands, or nearcreek or river inlets. They get into theirfavorite spots by snow machine. For bestresults, Doug suggests fishing in 10 to 50feet of water for lake trout, five to 15 feetfor pickerel.

Whether you use live bait or artificiallures, jig or gently move your line in thewater, a strike will be exciting. When astrike occurs, Doug jerks the line smartlyupwards to set the hook. Then it's amatter of bringing the line in hand-over-hand and pulling the fish on to the ice.

Doug and Robbie take along hot drinksand warm meals in insulated containers,so they can picnic in comfort beside theirfishing holes. Coffee and hot soup tasteespecially good outdoors.

To help others avoid accidents, leave afrozen branch by your fishing hole as asignal for other fishermen that there areholes in the area.

There are some easy guidelines to re-member when crossing ice. A skier re-quires 13/4 inches of blue ice to supporthim; a man on foot need two inches; aman on a snow machine needs at leastfive inches of blue ice; and a car or half-ton truck needs eight inches.

SnowmobilingSnowmobiling is no longer a craze but away of life in Ontario, where it is nowthe second most popular sport after ski-ing. Snowmobilers, there are close to200,000 in Ontario alone, spend over $16million a year to enjoy their sport. Thismoney pays for vehicle operating ex-penses, park and club registration fees,accommodation, meals and clothes.

Rosaire Hamilton of Whitefish is amember of this group. Rosaire uses hismachine to go trapping and for trans-portation to his camp, 11 miles acrossLake Penage. Summer and winter, hisfamily of two daughters, three sons

Rosaire 's grand-daughter GisPle Gignac andher friend Mary-Ann Giroux enjoy everyopportunity they can to go snowmobileriding.

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Winter funand 11 grandchildren congregate there.We have quite a fleet of snow machines

when were all there,' Rosaire said.

Rosaire retired in August from the ironore plant after 37 years with the companyHe started in 1928 in the O'Donnell roastyards but quit =n 1931 to try his hand atother things. He returned to Inca in 1935and spent 28 years in the Copper Cliffcrushing plant before transferring to theIORP.

An experienced hunter and trapper,Rosaire really appreciates snow ma-chines. He's owned one for three years,and bought a second one recently for hiswife. She often rides along with him tocamp overnight in one of the cabinsalong his trapline. Enjoying an outinglike this together would be impossiblewithout a snow machine. "It sure savesa lot of walking through deep snow andyou can get anywhere you want to go inwinter."

Rosaire's grandson Norman or hisgrand-daughter Gisble are his two favor-ite snow machine companions. Norman,who is 10, has been driving a machinefor three years, but Rosaire is cautiousabout letting him drive out of sight.Snow machines aren't for kids. I let

Norman drive it in the fields or on thelake when we're going out to the camp,"Besides the drives to the camp, Rosaire

and Norman often go ice-fishing to-together. Norman's prize catch was an83/4-pound pickerel he caught three yearsago during his grandfather's first seasonwith the snow machine.

In common with most enthusiasts,Rosaire does his own repairs. One tiphe passed along is that clutches shouldbe greased every 10 running hours. "Ilearned that the hard way by burning outone in the bush," he said. It was along walk back," he recalled ruefully,and it cost me a crankshaft."

Rosaire has a healthy respect for win-ter. "I like the fresh air and being out-doors, but I always check the weatherand wind chill before I go out to drive."A proper snow machine suit and bootswith a top drawstring to keep out waterand snow are essential to comfort.Rosaire has found that wearing light cot-ton socks under his heavy-duty sockshelps because the cotton absorbs sweatand helps retain body heat.

The dangers of snowmobiling are amatter of record and Rosaire is wellaware of the perils. "I'm serious aboutsafety. I had no accidents in 371/2 yearswith Inco and I don't intend to have onenow." He suggests driving slower withpassengers because the driver hasn't thesame freedom of movement as a solooperator. "My snow machine is twice as

hard to drive with two people aboard asone, because it's more difficult to com-pensate and balance properly in turns."

Some of Rosaire's other tips:After standing overnight - on start-up,

raise the back of the machine or tip itover on its side so the track is clear ofthe ground. Gently open the throttle torotate the track and ensure it isn't frozen.A frozen track could cause serious andexpensive damage to the drive mecha-nism.

Never idle the engine more than threeto five minutes. Idling is the major causeof spark fouling and sluggish engineoperation. A shut-down and restart isbetter and easier on the engine than pro-longed idling since two cycle engineswarm up in one or two minutes at most.

Carburetor icing can occur at thewrong time. Carry a few small squirtbottles of alcohol de-icer fluid or wind-shield washer anti-freeze to fix thistroublesome problem. Alcohol is alsohandy to dry off fouled plugs caused byflooding from over-choking or cold starts.

And it's good insurance to carry sparespark plugs, headlights, a fuel filter, drivebelt and extra fuel, as well as some tools,if you're going on an extended drive.Rosaire suggests a shovel may come inhandy too if you're driving along a slushylake.

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Winds over 40 mph. do not significantly increase chill factor.Remember to calculate the speed you are travelling.

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Collecting keeps George busyGeorge Furchner's face lights up whenhe talks about paper money. His eyestwinkle and a grin spreads across hisface as he describes ''radar" notes.asterisk numbers, or shinplasters. Oneof the Nickel Region's first numismatists,his collection of paper money and Cana-dian coins is now one of the finest in thecountry

Far from being a frivolous hobby.George points out that ''Prices keepgoing up and that makes money a goodinvestment.'' George had a Co'lectionof gold corns. but gad prices went upso high, I lust had to sell. I made a niceprofit, too'' he chuckled,

George started collecting seriously in1957, prior to then he divided his loyaltiesbetween stamos and corns. He tradedhis stamps * for a feiN coins,, ho.vever,because he found corns vere more n-'eres'ng.

Geor'"te re, rocs om 'Se -o[`e r

3s cr Fief cherr st n 1963, :ter a 33 year

association with the refinery and thecopper industry. George's wife Alicedied in 1948, but his family of three hasstayed close to their father. Son Charlieis a machinist at the copper refinery andBud is an electrician at the Frood-Stobiemill. His daughter Nancy is married toBob Kanerva, and lives on Long Lake.George has already started coin collec-tions for each of his 10 grandchildren"so I'll have something put away for theirfuture." His chief retirement pastime,though, is adding to his own extensiveco'.section.

Seeking out the rare items he wantshelps George combine his hobby withanother passion: travelling. I pick upmy best uncirculated bills at auctionsales. And, while you can do a lotthrough the mails, it's best to attend inperson.

In his search for unusual specialties,George has cress-crossed the nont,nent,and sast year attended auctions in LosAngeles. Vancouver. Toronto. t,'?.ca;oNew York and St John's, Newfoundland.

'I try to sell something as well as buysomething on each trip.-

A dedicated collector. George couldnot resist the temptation even on hiswinter vacation in Ha-van Last year, heacquired a prized United States five dollarHawaiian banknote, issued in 1934. He*ssince picked up the note's 10 and 20dollar partners and on next month's tripto the Pacific paradise, he'll be on thelook-out for the special Hawaiian dollarbill.

George's =arge collection. housed in abank vault for protection, includes anuncirculated sample of every Canadiancoin since the first one minted in 1858,examples of most denominations of bank-notes issued since Confederation by pro-vincial, industrial, and city banks, andmany banknotes and scrip issued beforeConfederation. George is concentratingnow on idiosyncrasies.

"Radar" notes are so-called becausejust as radar is the same spelled fromeither end, so the banknote's serialnumbers are a mirror image of eachother. An asterisk preceding a serialnumber indicates that the note is a re-placement for a defective one removedand destroyed in the printing process.Another oddity George owns is a set ofnotes with solid serial numbers, forexample, L/S 2222222. Since there are10 million numbers in each series, thesenotes are very rare and very valuable.George also collects notes bearing thedifferent signatures of the governor anddeputy governor of the Bank of Canada.There have been seven such sets sincethe Bank issued its first notes in 1935.

George's rarest note is a specimen orproof bill. This is the first bill made offthe engraving plate. He has a coupleand each is worth $450.

George maintains that there is moreto be gained from numismatism than justthe acquisition of more and more differentkinds of money. A true collector is in-terested in history, too, he said. 'Stu-dying the history of money gives aninsight into both our past and that ofother countries," A good example isshinplasters. These were small 25 centbanknotes issued three times in our past.In 1870, they were introduced to counter-act a surplus of American coins. "Wewere practically flooded cut with U.S.coins then because the American dollarwas only worth 80 cents. They cameacross the border and dumped their coinshere." In 1900 and 1923, the small billswere issued again because the govern-ment thought we should have anotherfractional note. George sad

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FUNBEFORECHRISTMASChristmas has come and goneonce again in the Nickel District.It was a white one, and a happyday for all our readers, we hope.

If the true spirit of Christmasis sharing and giving, then allthe members of the variousAthletic Associations at Incoplants in Copper Cliff, Levack,Creighton, Garson, Frood-Stobie, Lively, Willisville andPort Colborne, have their heartsin the right place.

This year, as every year, theyvolunteered their time andenthusiasm, to provide anadvance interview with SantaClaus for more than 13,000 sonsand daughters of Inco employees.

Their unselfish contribution tothe Christmas season - buyingand individually wrapping gifts,arranging entertainment, pro-viding refreshment - receivedits reward in the faces of theyoungsters.

The astonishment of childrensuddenly brought face to facewith Santa Claus, the wildexcitement of being held in hisred-sleeved arms, the delight ofreceiving gifts, and the brightglow of pleasure on the facesof parents as they watch thisannual show of faith and affec-tion, are thrills that only theChristmas party can provide.

Some of the happy faces re-corded by the Triangle's cameraare presented on the next threepages.

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1. A young tad gets a good grip on somepopcorn at the copper refinery's party.Held as usual in the Sudbury Inco Club,the youngsters received gifts andwatched cartoons while their parentswere served refreshments.

2. Pensioner George Furchner distributedcandy to almost 700 youngsters, whotrooped up to the stage, in an almostendless line, at the copper refineryparty.

3. Asked what she wanted for Christmas,this youngster, one of 750 of all agesat the Port Colborne party, seems eitherovercome or undecided.

4. Herbie the clown returned to provide abarrel of laughs for the young audienceattending the Port Colborne party atthe Recreation Club.

5. The Yates Sisters and their father werepopular attractions at the Lively party.Over 300 kiddies were entertained atthe high school by a magician, theworld's champion yo-yo expert, andacrobatic dancers.

6. Before dropping in to distribute candyand hear the childrens' Christmaswishes, Santa toured Lively on thetown's fire truck.

7. Creighton's Inco Employees' Club wasoverrun by almost 400 excited young-sters who waited through cartoons andmovies to talk to Santa Claus. Thislittle girl appears to have taken a likingto his jingle bells.

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13 8. "Busier than usual", Santa's helpers describedthe Levack and Coleman mines party. About 2,700children received gifts, although this toddlerdoesn't appear very impressed by the whole thing.

9. This youngster seems to be debating whether ornot to take Santa's candy. Surplus gifts and candyfrom the Levack party were donated to the ValleySchool for Retarded Children.

10. CKNC-TV's Marcel A. Mucker was emcee of theCopper Cliff Athletic Association's party at theSudbury Arena.

11. Frood-Stobie's spark plug Eldred Dickie organizedanother successful party at the Sudbury Inco Clubfor the three mines in the complex.

12. Copper Cliff North Mine and Clarabelle Open Pitalso used the Sudbury Inco Club for their party.A big secret is being shared here, for sure.

13. For everyone who says he doesn't exist, Santa hasa true believer. Taking her turn to thank him isthis child at Garson mine's party.

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Pensioner goes Bradshaws celebrate anniversaryto fur schoolIt's a long way from traplines and far-flung fur farms, but Canada's first inte-grated fur course is on the George BrownCollege campus in Toronto.

"Fur Business and ManufacturingTechniques" is a 40-.^,eek course inGeorge Brown's fashion technology pro-gram and its students range from would-be designers to a veteran Sudbury areatrapper. The latter is Roland Roy, a 48-year-old ex-trapper and miner who isparlaying his trapline experience into anew fur industry career.

Roily has spent most of his life sup-porting his family of six by trapping andmining, starting at Frood in 1946. Hetransferred back and forth between Froodand Stobie mines, spending most of hisInco career as a driller, but also workingas a loaderman. construction leader andstope leader. He retired in 1970 asa maintenance mechanic 2nd class atFrood, and went back to his traplinesalmost full time.

A long-time member of the OntarioTrappers Association - they call them-selves "fur harvesters" now - Roily isfamiliar enough with the northern pelts.Now he is learning of other furs - Per-sian Lamb, for example-which havemade Canada not simply the source, butthe largest exporter of manufactured furapparel in the world. At the college,he's working with some 70 different fursin 200 variations. Roily is learning thesequence from trapline to the furrier'sshowroom; the dyeing, cutting, blocking,and assembly of skins into high styledgarments; and the design, styling, pat-tern-making and furrier's craftsmanshipthat goes into the coat. The course alsoincludes advertising and fur merchandis-ing, and book-keeping.

There is presently a shortage of retailsales and service people in the fur trade.Successful graduates are qualified asfurriers, which is Rolly's new ambition.

Roland Roy holds a string of pelts usedin the course he's taking at George BrownCollege.

Pat and Elizabeth Bradshaw returned tochurch late last year to celebrate a mile-stone: their 50th wedding anniversary.The couple renewed their marriage vowsin a special ceremony at Christ the KingChurch in Sudbury. Later, in a 1933Packard car, especially loaned to themfor the occasion by Charles Helpert, theyled the way to the Copper Cliff LegionHall for a reception.

More than 160 guests attended thedinner-dance at the hall, where telegramsfrom Governor-General Roland Michener,Prime Minister Trudeau, Premier Davisand John Diefenbaker were received andread. The couple's daughter, Mrs.Mickey Carmichael, baked a beautifulthree-tier wedding cake which was pre-sented to the Bradshaws.

Pat and Elizabeth were married inOttawa, their hometown, in 1922. Theycame to Sudbury in 1930 when Pat joinedInco. He retired as an electrician in1963. Besides being a member of theQuarter Century Club, which he joinedin 1955, Pat is an active member of theSoutar Senior Citizens' Club, and holdsa pin for 45 years of membership in the

Happily married for 50 years, Pat andElizabeth Bradshaw recently renewed theirmarriage vows.

Royal Canadian Legion. He is one of thefew local veterans of the Battle of VimyRidge.

Elizabeth keeps active with club andchurch groups and is a member of theLegion Women's Auxiliary.

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are valuable, it depends on the bill'scondition and which series it is. 1923shinplasters are not necessarily veryvaluable, he said, because so many wereproduced.

George's advice for collectors startingout is that they buy the best coins orbanknotes they can afford. "When youstart, it's a common mistake to buy inex-pensive samples. Then you can't get ridof them when you finally buy betterqualities." The condition of the money,which can vary among seven grades frompoor to uncirculated, makes a greatdifference in the price to be paid orreceived.

Despite this advice , George suggestsit's not wise to pass up a rarity, evenif is in poor condition . Card money wasintroduced in 1685 in Quebec . Playingcards were issued in different denomina-tions to supplement the official currency,which was in short supply . " i had achance to buy one, but I blew it becauseits condition was poor and I didnt knowenough," George recalled . Now ex-amp es are too expensive to buy 'r,nenthey come on the market.

Besides card money, other Canaaian

monetary oddities include Army bills,used to pay troops; treasury notes, withthe denomination written in by hand; andmerchants' scrip, which was issued byearly merchants, often as payment toemployees.

If money doesn't seem to go as far asit used to, it could be true. Accordingto George, the average dollar bill lastsonly 10 to 18 months in circulation. $5,$10 and $20 bills last longer, up to threeyears for the twenties; $50 bills can lastup to seven years and $100 bills up to20 years, before they are withdrawn asworn due to usage. The Bank ofCanada destroys about $4 million worthof old bills each day.

One of George's proudest possessionis not money, but a rare book. It wasprivately printed in 1937 by Inco anddescribes nickel coins of the world. In1937, 29 countries, including Canada.had issued nickel coins and the bookcontains elaborate facsimiles and a briefdescription of each.

A charter member of the Nickel BeltCoin Club, George says new collectorscan get :a lot of help from the club'smore exper;enced members The clubmeets every third Sunday at 'he PresidentHclei +n Sudbury.

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Port man top winner in Suggestion Plan awards

Port Colborne Nickel RefineryName Subject Award

R. Beauregard Modification to conveyor between Nos. 1 and 2 nickelshears to prevent spillage $ 394

J. Severinsky Different method of loading and strapping pallets of4 x 4 for shipment by rail 270

H. Lambert Replacement of cast iron burner nozzle on anodefurnace to an extended nickel alloy burner tip 185

S. Rudyk To use an FRP pipe in conjunction with the present1" plywood to contain the lower end of the FRPstand pipe in No, 10 retreatment tank

R. Stickles Pre-print weights of container on weight reports usedwhen shipping nickel to customer

W . Monfette Changes in method of placing band iron aroundll

borne nickel refinery is $394 richer as aresult of the first suggestion ever sub-mitted by him to the Suggestion Plan.He was awarded the cheque just prior toChristmas by his superintendent, RossButler, and according to Raymond, "Itreally came in handy".

His winning suggestion was to raise thesides of the conveyor carrying the shear-ed strips of electronickel from No. 1shear to No. 2 shear for cutting into 1,2 or 4-inch squares. This is the last stepin processing before the nickel is pack-aged to customer requirements. Ray'sidea has substantially cut down on spil-lage and the time required for clean up.

Ray joined Inco in 1945 in the shear-ing department but transferred to themechanical department in 1951 startingas a helper. He attended night schoolfor one year learning sheet metal layout.Ray also spent three years as an electricwelder. Today, he is an ironworker 2ndclass in charge of maintenance in theshearing department.

Gabrielle Gauthier, a Quebec girl, be-came his wife in 1948 and they havefive children and two grandchildren.

Thinking over his head start in theSuggestion Plan, Ray says that he has afew more ideas up his sleeve to submit."It's surprsing", says Ray. `that whatmay seem a simple suggestion at thetime can eventually prove such a biowinner".

etsbundles of nickel on paJ. Kovacich Devised a jig for holding button samples being

drilled at sample roomL. James Suggested installing corrugated iron sheeting to

divert spillage of FEP from covering anode furnacetie-rods

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Copper Cliff PlantsName Plant Subject Award

M. Hrytsak Garson Holding device for grinding drillratchet pawls. $ 75

D. Bean South Mine Changes to underground elec-trical wiring. 45

G. Chartrand North Mine Change to chute gate, 2000 level. 45J. E. Hanson Little Stobie Relocated ST-8 brake cylinder. 45L. Lagrove C.C. Shops Changes regarding repairs to

rotary drill hoist motor. 45G. A. Rae Frood Mechanical means to trip under-

ground crusher. 45B. Yellow C.C. Shops Method to fill motor wash pressure

tank. 45T. S. Bryson C.C. Mill Changes to storage cupboard for

oxygen and acetylene torches. 35U. Riutta Clarabelle Mill Permanent air supply to crusher

tugger hoists. 35F. McKnight South Mine Guard rails sheeting for "M" floor

around No. 1 FBR. 30J. A. Croteau Creighton Changes to window in swing

doors. 25P. A. Grant Levack Mill Emergency lighting at mill. 25M. Haukenfrers Little Stobie Change to seat on boom truck. 25R. Henry Clarabelle Mill Means to collect oil spillage from

crusher bowl stems. 25R. L. Pilon Clarabeile Mill Access steps to water valves. 25R Smethurst Levack Mill Alarm lights at railway crossing. 25A. Wolfram Clarabelle Mill Additional lighting at end of No. 7

and 8 conveyors. 25R. Brightman Levack Mill Lights at fuel oil car. 20U. Riutta Clarabelle Mill Safety chains at feed boxes of

crushers, 20

R. Thompson Levack Mill Protection `or workers wn mill a!s:ie 10

TOTAL $670

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Names to remember- new appointmentsMichael D. Sopko , acting manager, ironore recovery plant;M. C. Kossatz , manager, safety andplant protection;Peter W. Souter, manager, industrialengineering;James E. Wharton , superintendent ofutilities, iron ore recovery plant;Dr. Jack Juusola , superintendent, pro-cess technology, iron ore recovery plant;R. T. Haworth , superintendent, industrialengineering, smelting and refining;R. C. McDonald , superintendent, indus-trial engineering, mining and milling;J. E. Brodie , maintenance superintendent,Copper Cliff mines;0. T. Tuori , maintenance superintendent,Garson mine;Robert Remington , assistant superinten-dent, maintenance, iron ore recoveryplant;K. Stone , chief maintenance planner,Copper Cliff mines;K. Hoop , chief maintenance planner,Levack mine;A. C. Blackwell , chief maintenance plan-ner, Creighton mine;H. J. Derks , area protection supervisor,Frood - Stobie, Garson - Kirkwood andConiston complexes;J. B. Spencer , protection shift supervisor;L. Legault, protection shift supervisor;R. G. Roy, protection shift supervisor;M. Zettler , protection shift supervisor;J. Linney, protection shift supervisor;J. Dyck , supervisor, staff maintenance;John Malysh , administrative assistant,smelting and refining.

Triangle changesIf you've been wondering why the Tri-angle was "late", look for us on a newdate in 1973: the last working day of themonth. We took the opportunity with thestart of a new volume and a new year tointroduce a few changes Our new dis-tribution day was selected because it ismore convenent compared to the con-fusion which often arose over our formercirculation target, the middle Friday of themonth Besides this change. .ve've adopt-ed a more contemporary page size andthe company's standard typeface 1973 isgoing to be an exciting year for the On-tario Division Look for more nnovationsin the Triangle as we reflect these de-velopments and keep you, our readersinformed about them as they happen

Gordon Hurst and his wife, Beverley, groom "Billy the Kid" daily.

" Billy the Kid " is top dogPort Colborne's Gordon Hurst alwayswanted to become a dog breeder. Twoyears ago he took his first step towardsthat aim when he bought a championfemale golden retriever and built akennel.

Two litters and 17 pups later, Gord hasachieved his ambition. A pup from hissecond litter, "Gojana Billy the Kid" wasjudged 'best Canadian-bred puppy in hisclass'' at a show in Sarnia.

Of his 17 pups, Gord kept only two,Billy and Gojana Bashful Bridget, afemale. The rest were sold. All thedogs' names are prefaced by the kennelname Gojana, which Gord has registeredwith the Canadian Kennel Club. In eachlitter the names start with succeedingletters of the alphabet: first litter "A",second litter "B", etc.

Besides the Sarnia show , scene ofGordon ' s triumph, he ' s shown his dogsin St. Catharines , London and TorontoA champion dog depends a great dealon his hander. Cord says If a dog isn't

judges. Gord's son, 16-year-old Donald,has been handling the dogs at the shows.Donald said the judges look for qualityof breeding and bloodline, the shape ofthe head, and the texture of the animal'smuscles, among other things, in reachinga decision.

As a hobby, dog breeding is an expen-sive one, according to Gord. Besidesshow registration fees, travel and accom-modation are costly. "One dog won't eatyou out of house and home," Gord com-mented, "but six dogs will." The dogsare fed every night and he has obtainedone economy by purchasing dog foodwholesale from a local manufacturer.Proceeds from sales of the pups, whichbring in almost $100 apiece, also help tocover expenses.

While golden retrievers will always re-main his first love, Gord plans to expandhis kennel to include another beautifulbreed, Irish setters. His son Donald isin charge of this project and has recentlypurchased a female setter from Calgary.

handled properly, it won't vnn" The Gord joined Inco in 1953 and has beenhandler sets the dog up. runs him around the nickel refinery's supervisor of datathe ring and generally exhibits it to the processing for the past six years

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Faces & Places

The first blood clinic held insidean Inco surface plant collected73 pints from employees of theCopper Cliff Nickel Refinery. Thenickel refinery's recreation asso-ciation sponsored the clinic,organized by John Nugent, RedButler and Bill Ashenden. RedCross volunteer Myrna Faddiskeeps a close eye on JohnNugent as he makes his donation.

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Members of mines engineeringdepartments from Sudbury districtmines recently held their secondannual curling bonspiel. Fifteen

rinks competed in the two-dayevent at the Copper Cliff curlingrink, organized by Peter Kaynes.

Ray Bouclin skipped the top rink,with Rod MacDonald, Bob Lewisand Peter Dupak. Bob Co:ulter's

rink of Cam Smith, Chabbi Bhusaland Peter Kaynes came second,

followed by third-place skip MikeSharko and Bob Corrigan, Jerry

Mather and Dino Longo.

Adding insult to injury to residentsof Port Colborne is this sign at a

marina just east of the city. Windsgusting up to 50 mph sent Lake

Erie battering against the rampartsalong its north shore on January 8.

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L/Cdr. Charles Coldnutt, NavyLeague area officer for northernOntario, presents Chief PettyOfficer Tim Butler with the Cadetof the Year award. Tim is amember of Navy League CadetCorps 44 of Sudbury, and waschosen the best in Ontario fromamongst over 4,000 other cadets.Tim's Dad, Allan, is a machinistat the Copper Cliff smelter.

Copper Cliff Rod and Gun Club A&held its annual meeting at the endof December and presentedseveral members with awards.President Doug Ogston handspopular Lands and Forests Depart-ment pensioner Charlie Bibby hiscertificate of life membershipin the club.

At the same rod and gun clubmeeting, Elmer Laakso received the

Big Fish Award for landing a12-pound pickerel last summer. Bill

Johnson was named the CopperCliff club's sportsman of the year

and was presented with the DarrachMemorial Award.

RETIREMEN

Alex Blanchard, a general foreman at theiron ore recovery plant until his recentretirement, is very active as a memberof the Sudbury and District SchoolBoard.

Alex and his wife, the former MargaretBlackwell of Copper Cliff, were marriedin 1932 at Sudbury. They raised theirfamily of five children in Lively and havejust recently moved back to Sudbury.Their son, Jim, is part of the electricaldepartment at Copper Cliff. Five grand-children round out the Blanchard family.

The couple is planning a trip to theBritish Isles next spring to visit some ofAlex's relatives in Swindon, England, theplace where he was born.

n te3,!'..'The Flowerdays are taking advantage ofFred's recent retirement by travelling toall points in their truck camper. This pastsummer the couple's trip to Yukon Ter-ritory and British Columbia extended overtwo and a half months. Their destinationfor this year is Newfoundland.

Before joining Inco, Fred was em-ployed with the firm constructing thecottrels at the smelter. It wasn't until1935 that he actually started working forInco at the Copper Cliff smelter in thereverbs. He later transferred to thecottrels and was a cottrell operator whenhe retired.

Amy Gagne, of Espanola, married Fredin 1945. Their son, Peter, is a memberof the mechanical department team atthe iron ore recovery plant. One of theirthree daughters, Jeannette, is married toRichard McCormick of the transportationdepartment in Copper Cliff, Twelvegrandchildren complete the family.

John Twardy left Poland in 1930 to cometo Copper Cliff to be with his brotherWalter. A year later he joined the work-force at the copper refinery. For the lastseven years before retirement he's beena shift foreman in the casting building.

A Sudbury girl, Mary Kuchney, becameMrs. Twardy in 1939. They have twochildren. Their daughter, Sandra Ham-mond, is employed at Inco in the dataprocessing department as a librarianclerk in the tape library. Her husband,Ray, is a first class electrician at the ironore recovery plant.

The Hammonds enjoy fishing andgardening and are presently busy re-modelling their home in Lively.

All of the 36 years that Edward "Speedy"Carver worked at the Port Colbornenickel refinery have been spent with thepaint gang in the mechanical depart-ment. His specialty for the last few yearshas been painting all the signs used inthe plant.

Stevensville, Ontario, was his birth-place and, after leaving school duringthe depression, he obtained part-timeemployment with a planning mill. Hebecame an expert at puttying windowsand this experience stood him in goodstead when he joined Inco. He was sogood at it that Bill Wincott, a fellowworker, began calling him "Speedy" andit has stuck with him ever since.

''Speedy' and Helen Reinhart weremarried in Stevensville in 1935, and havetwo daughters.

Besides providing tender loving careto his vegetable garden, 'Speedy.. plansto spend some time fishing next summer

With 28 years' service at the Port Col-borne refinery, Wilf Saumure has retired,Wilf was born in Bouchette, Quebec, in1908, and at 15 started work for a papercompany. He moved to Port Colborneand started with Inco in 1944 on the 12-8shift in the leaching, calcining and sinter-ing department. He soon transferred tothe electrolytic department and remainedthere until retirement. For the last 15years, he has worked on the strippingfloor.

Wilf and Helen Lafreniere, also fromBouchette, were married in Ste. Theresein 1935. They have five children andnine grandchildren.

"After 50 years working, I'm going totake it easy," says Wilf and has madeplans to do just that. The summers willbe spent in a cottage at Ste. Theresewhere fishing is excellent but the couplewill return to Port Colborne each winter.For a change of pace, they travelled toFlorida last fall,

Maintaining all the scales in the PortColborne nickel refinery (see page 2)has kept Frank Gallinger busy for thepast 23 years. "Gaily", as he is betterknown, has put his toolbox away forgood after 38 years' service.

"Gaily" was born at Frood Mine in1913 but moved to Port Colborne in 1917.He joined Inco in 1934 with the paintgang in the mechanical department. Oneof his most memorable moments wascatching a fellow workman who hadfallen off a 50-foot ladder. For this feat,he made Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Betty Kellar, a registered nurse fromDeseronto, Ontario, and "Gaily" weremarried in Kitchener in 1948.

"Gaily" is immediate past president ofDistrct 3 of Gyro International and thiskeeos him busy Besides playing lots ofbridge year-round, his schedule calls forf sf-ing and golfing in the summer, and,rips to Mexico and Florda in the winter.

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Charlie Bennett's career as an electriciandates back many years when he workedfor Canadian Comstock and DominionElectric. It was only natural that whenhe joined Inco in 1935 he would start inthe electrical department at Copper Cliff_He has also been stationed at CopperCliff North mine and Frood mine as a firstclass electrician.

Scotland-born Rhea Logan was mar-ried to Charlie in 1936 at Sudbury. Mrs.Bennett has worked at Silverman's fora number of years. They both enjoyvisiting their three children and fivegrandchildren. Charlie's hobbies includetaping music and playing golf at differentclubs in the area. They plan to remainin Copper Cliff.

Emile Blondin , the charge mixer opera-tor in the anode department at the PortColborne nickel refinery for the pasteight years , has retired.

Emile was born in Hull, Quebec, in1909 and worked for 12 years clerkingin a grocery store before moving on toOttawa and then back to Hull in 1946 towork for a meat packer.

Learning that Inco needed men at thePort Colborne refinery , Emile moved toPort Colborne in 1947 . For three yearshe worked in the sinter building beforebeing transferred to the anode depart-ment where he was gas loco operatorand whee!man on the casting wheelsbefore becoming charge mixer.

Florida Rockburn and Em i le were mar-ried in Hull, Quebec , and have threedaughters and seven grandchildren Oneson-in-`aw,v, Andre Rollin, works in theelectrolytic department

The rail yards surrounding the CopperCliff smelter have been a second hometo conductor John Hall. For 35 years hehas been with the transportation depart-ment and his most recent train run washauling copper matte to the copperrefinery.

The year 1937 brought not only a new;ob, but also a wife. That was the yearhe married Ida Guy of Sudbury and theyhave two children and five grandchildren.

John looks forward to the hockeygames each week to "pull" for his fa-vorite team, and one of the leadingcontenders, the Montreal Canadiens.

Their summer months will be spent attheir daughter's camp on the FrenchRiver. The Halls made a trip to Floridalast winter and are looking forward togoing again.

A foreman in the mechanical departmentat the Port Colborne nickel refinery forthe past 14 years, Thomas William "Bill"Skinner has retired.

Bill was born on the outskirts of Lon-don, England, in 1910 but moved withthe family four years later to Canada.

In 1929, Bill first joined Inco in themastic gang, which at the time cameunder the mechanical department. Duringthe depression in 1931, he was laid off.Bill was recalled to Inco in 1933 andbegan working in the lead burning sec-tion of the mechanical department andcontinued with them until being made ap!pefitter foreman in 1958. In 1960, Billwas loaned to the Thompson Refinery to:end an experienced hand during start-upoperations there.

Alice Parr a reeistered nurse fromSt Davids Ontario, became Bill's wifen 1942 They have two chi dren amd two,irandchiidren

Nils Johnson has retired from Inco as asecond class plumber. but still enjoyshelping out friends and neighbors withtheir plumbing problems.

Nils was born at Kipling, Ontario, andcame to the Sudbury area in 1936 whenhe joined Inco at Frood mine. Afterdriving a truck in the Frood open pitfor several years, he transferred toCreighton's plumbing gang.

He married a school teacher fromParry Sound, Sagfrana Hall, in 1936. Mrs.Johnson has also taught school in thisarea as a supply teacher. Their two sonshave presented them with seven grand-children.

One of the most colorful characters atthe Port Colborne nickel refinery has re-tired after 37 years' service. Eugene"Smoogy" Kowalsky is going to drag thecanal for his old 10-pin bowling ball andvows to get it back into action betterthan ever.

"Smoogy" was born in the Ukraine in1912. After leaving school, he workedat delivering milk and bread beforesetting sail for Canada in 1926 to joinhis Dad in Port Colborne.

After spending six years sailing on thelake boats, ' Smoogy- first }oined Inco in1934 After a temporary lay-off, he re-turned permanently in 1935 in the anodedepartment, spending the last 30 yearsas operator on No. 9 charging crane.

Frances Stefanshen of Welland becamehis happy bride In 1936 They had fourch€ldren but one son has snce deceasedFive 1 veiy gr indc , ldren kt ep frompleasantly occupied-

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Aithouah horn in Scotland in 1907,Anthony ' Wick' Wassilaskus moved toCanada ,vith his family two years laterand settled n Cape Breton Island wherehis dad was ,vorking n the coal minesAt 14, Wick ?eft school to work in themines also and spent 20 years therebefore joining the armed forces in 1940.

After the war, Nick returned to Sydneyand was recruited by the Port Colbornenickel refinery in 1947. His first job wasin the shearing department but he trans-ferred to the electronickel department,,rverk'ng mostly in the cobalt plant.

His 'wife, the former Edna Lovell, wasborn in North Sydney and they weremarried in 1940 at Sydney Mines Theyhave one son.

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A helper and boxmaker in the Carpentershop for the past 24 years, with Incoservice dating back to 1936, Bill Wilsonhas retired.

Bill, still a happy bachelor, was bornin the village of Humberstone in 1915but moved soon after with the family toPort Colborne. His first job on leavingHigh School was looking after the booksfor an insurance agency but when theopportunity came to on Inco at the PortColborne refinery, he literally jumped atthe chance. It was quite a jump inpay.'he recalls and I have been happyhere ever since

A hometown boy at heart, Bill hasspent all of his 'ife in the Port Colbornearea except for his Army service over-seas n the Italian Campaign

Bill no,w makes his home with hissister ;rr,d `uvorte 'ec'r ontravelling

Being a bachelor. Lucien "Red" LeBlancnow has plenty of time to pursue hisfavorite pastime which is following thestandardbred racing circuit throughoutthe country Red, a self-professed ex-pert is planning to purchase a yearlingcolt and get into the sport as an owner'Who knows.' he says. 'it may turn outto be another Albatross and make me amillionaire."

Red was born in Ottawa in 1911, andleft school at age 15 to go sailing onthe Great Lakes as a deckhand.

During 1945 the Port Colborne re-finery canvassed Quebec for prospectiveemployees and Red signed up in Hull,Quebec His first job for Inco was work-ing in the shearing department. but hetransferred to the mechanical depart-ment in 1948. He went through the fullgamut of jobs in the shops before settlingin the blacksmith gang.

Add Joe Bourguignon to the long list ofInco pensioners thoroughly enjoying re-tirement . During the summer months,Joe plays golf every day, weather per-mitting, and the years he put in as acaddy at the Royal Ottawa Golf Coursein Hull, Quebec, are standing him ingood stead.

He joined Inco in 1947, starting on theP.M. calciner. In 1950, he transferred tothe anode department as furnace helperand furnaceman

Yvette Juneau, a Huf, girl, became hiswife in 1941. They had five sons but onewas deceased in 1963. Three other sons.Yvon, John and Andre work at theThompson plant. Four grandchildrencamp''ete the tamliy

An Italian by birth, Frank Shephard hashis own little bit of nostalgia of hishomeland right in his back yard in Sud-bury A photo ;n the October. 1971. Tn-anc'e showed Frank with his crop ofgrapes that he nursed through the coldwinter months His best vine is nowentering its sixth year.

Frank's career with Inco dates back to1926 when he joined the Mond NickelCompany at Levack. In 1933 he trans-ferred to Frood mine and on retirementwas a construction leader.

His wife, the former Nell Fluvian, wasborn in the village near Stobie mine.They were married in 1934 at Sudbury.

Frank and his wife enjoy having theirfour children and four grandchildrenvisit them at their farm-cottage near theFrench River.

Howard 'Howie '' Cram had a variedcareer before joining Inco at the PortColborne refinery in 1937 . He workedfor a shoe company , helped build theWelland Canal, and sailed the GreatLakes.

Howie's first job on joining Inco wasin the anode department but soon hetransferred to the electronickel depart-ment where he remained until retirement.Howie was a boxman in the tankhousefor the past eight years.

During the''ast war. he spent five yearswith the navy on convoy duty in the NorthAtlantic . On D Day, he landed with theAmericans on Omaha Beach but waslucky enough to come out of it withouta scratch.

Olive Whatton of Niagara Falls andHowie were married in Port Colborne in1937 Trey "Ave one son

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Emmanuel Hill couldn ' t help but have ahappily married life. He landed in Canadafrom his native Malta on Christmas Eve 1950.He married his wife Mary on Valentine'sDay, 1953 , and they have two beautifuldaughters , Joyce, 17 and Joanne , 14. Maryis an excellent seamstress as their newdrapes attest . Emmanuel, a former billiardschampion in Malta , has been at the PortColborne refinery since 1951 and is presentlyworking in the carpenter shop in themechanical department.

Rod Aelick and his wife, Gert, are both fromManitoulin Island. They still maintain afarm there where they are raising horses andsheep. Steven, 8, is now learning to playtheir 70-year-old piano and will soon beplaying duets with his mother. He also looksforward to the summer when he andDarren, 6. can play with their own coltand filly, which they also keep on the island.Rod travels from their home in Wahnapitaeto the Clarabelle open pit where he hasbeen a miner for the past four years.

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Ray Bouchard is well known for hiscommunity involvement in the Coniston areawhere he was a first aid man for manyyears at the smelter. He and his wife,Yvette, have lived there since 1956. Ray isnow a personnel assistant with the CopperCliff maintenance department. Seated infront are Anita, and Claudette, a teacher inConiston. Standing is Bob, and beside himis Don who now lives in Winnipeg and ison his way home from a vacation in Florida.Ray and his family spend the summer attheir cottage on Rock Lake.

Tom and Rose Guthrie and their threesmiling young boys make themselvescomfortable in the recreation room of theirhome on Westmount Ave. The boys are:Alan, 6, Todd, 3, and Jason, 2. Tom builtthe room himself. He is also a successfulhunter, He got his deer this fall and has theantlers mounted and hanging to prove it.Tom has been at the copper refinery for19 years and is a maintenance foreman inthe millwright department.

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inco1 973 Scho larsh ip Programfor Ch i ldren of Employees

Up to twenty -one scholarships will be awarded thisyear for study in Canadian universities . The awardshave a possible tenure of up to four academic years andannually provide for tuition and associated fees and agrant of $500 for other expenses.

ELIGIBILITYChildren of Inco employees enrolled in a program ofstudies required for university admission and who willgraduate with a secondary school diploma in 1973.

SELECTIONAn impartial Scholarship Committee will meet in May1973 to select award winners on the basis of scholasticrecords and personal qualifications . It is hoped thenames of the winners can be announced by June 1, 1973.

APPLICATIONApplication forms , instructions and conditions governingthe awards may be obtained from local schools or from:

Educational Aid SectionThe International Nickel Company of Canada, LimitedP. O. Box 44Toronto-Dominion CentreToronto, OntarioM5K 1E3

APPLICATION DEADLINEApplications must be completed by March 15, 1973.

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