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VOLUME 2. ('OPPER CLIFF. ONTARIO. OCTOBER, 19ô3 Nu1iR

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The Passing Scene

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Published for all employees of TheInternational Nickel Company of

Canada, Limited.D, M. Dunbar, Editor

H. L. Meredith, Assistant Editor

Editorial Office, Copper Cliff, Ont.Authorized a. -erond (las, nail by thePost Offcce Department. Ottiwa, and forpayment oI po rage in cash

Charlie 8yersCharlie Byers has gone back

down, 'The Valley" to live. 'That'shome to us," he grinned. BothCharlie and his wife, the formerMuriel Lett, were born and raisedin Eganville where they now havetheir home.

Charlie has taken an early serv-ice pension and the smelter willbe the poorer for his leaving. Hislong association with roasters andreverb furnaces made him an au-thority on their every whim andquirk. Superintendent of smeltersJ. N. Lilley considered Charlie topsas a supervisor and practically ir-replaceable. A true mark ofCharlie's ability was his unruffledknow-how in turning trouble backinto smooth production. Men andbosses liked to work with him.

For a number of years assistantsuperintendent of the reverbs.Charlie had been a member of

Two devout disciples of Paderewski, one his protege and last pupil, the other amusicianminer who finally heard him play on his 70th birthday, sat on a pianobench backstage at the Polish Combatants' Hall in Sudbury and exchangedimpressions of the great man. They were Witold Malcuzynski, the internationallyrenowned Polish concert pianist who had lust performed an unforgettable all-Chopin program to a capacity audience in the Empire Theatre, and Jim Miller,the Frood miner who is known to thousands as the deeply perceptive host on theInco Concert Hour over CHNO. Malcuzynski was brought to Sudbury under theauspices of the Sudbury Polish Congress and Millenium, of which Ted Pohorskiis chairman His concert was described as "the greatest musical experience inthe city's history".

supervision there s inc e 1937. "I wouldn't want to miss that fun."Earlier he had worked at most jobs There are two sheets of ice aton roaster and reverb, in fact he Eganville that she and Charliewas there in 1931 when they fiist hope to make good use of, andstarted up.' Charlie also hopes to do more ice"I ve had the good fortune to

"fishing.

work for the very best of men, The Byers have two sons, Gra-declared Charlie. 'Fellows like ham of Coniston and Gordon ofold Joe Workman, George Fer- Sudbury, and four graudchildren.guson and Russ Chambers. Theyjust don't come any better." it Charlie received a lot of goodwas Joe Workman who took natured ribbing along with a land-Charlie from Todd Lee's yard slide of high praise when the boysgang at Copper Cliff in 1920 and held a party for him shortly be-put him to work in the smelter, fore he left the district. On theNot too many fellows remember tangible side they presented him

tile old wedge furnaces I started with a power mower.on," he said.

After the first war Charlie Teofil Sindaraheaded west and also worked fora time in Buffalo before return'ng Teofil Sindara left Poland in 1927home in the early twenties. Later and, like many others who arrivehe worked at North Bay, sDent from the Old Country, went totwo years in the bush near Cobalt Western Canada, After a year inand a couple niore years at Kanus- Manitoba, he decided to come Eastkasing before coming to Sudbury to Oshawa where he was employedin 1930. "Job I liked best was by General Motors. In May ofbarn boss in the bush camD," said 1928 he started with Inco and forCharlie."I've always been fond of the past 35 years has been a mem-horses." ber of the mechanical department

The Byers hope to spend much at Port Colborne. He has workedof their summers at the family at various trades, but the two thatcamp on Lake Penage and in stand out are 18 years as a cooperwinter, of course, it's curling all and 11 years with the ironworkers.the way. 'I'll be back un here Teofil always attended to his dutiesfor most of the bonspiels" declared and was respected by workniatesMrs. Byers. a leader rn ladies' and uprvision alike.curling at Copper Cliff for years. In 1929 he married Stella Buda

They have one daughter, IreneMrs. John Sinko) who is living In

Oklahoma. Four grandchildrencomplete the Sindara family.

At a gathering in the mechani-cal department Teofil received awallet of money from his fellowworkers. Chris MacPhail spoke ofTeofti's many years of faithfulservice and C. H. Ott thanked himon behalf of the Company andexpressed the wish that Mr. andMrs. Sindara would enjoy goodhealth for a long, long tinie ini'etired leisure.

A typographical error irpt intoa telegram a man at the beachsent his wife: 'Having wonderfultime: wish you were her"

Nickolas BanreviIn 1928 Nickolas Banrevi decided

to immigrate to Canada from Hun-gary and his first venture in thenew land was hornc,teading inSaskatchewan. Nick says it wasliai'd work clearing laud and ontop of it all the depression set inand lasted well into the thii'ties.In 1934 he came to Welland Countyand started farming a few mileswest of Port Colborne and workingpart time at the Government e'levator. In 1943 he started with Incoin the yard department and for

the past 18 years has done a finejob as janitor. His duties werealways carried out to the satis-faction of his supervision.

In 1920 Nickolas married Mar-garet Dollas and Mr. and Mrs.Banrevi have one daughter, Violet(Mrs. Alex Bendas). They havetwo grandchildren.

Nick was farewelled at a gather-ing in the yard department, re-ceiving a purse from his fellowworkers and thanks and goodwishes on behalf of the Companyfrom C. H. Ott and CharlesBridges.

NO LOSTtQk 5JIDENT

"Well Done, Bill"When Bill Crabbe retired from theelectr'cal department at Port Col bornethis month he had completed 41 yearswithout a lost-time accdent. Pictureshows nickel refinery manager J.Howard Tuck congratulating him on hisoutstanding safety record. They standin front of the original rotary converterinstalled at the plant where now thereare 17. One of Bill's fir5t duties on shiftwa to look after this machine and hemust have taught it 5afety too becauseIt's still running fine.

Two Men oJ Music Talk About a Master

Mr. and Mrs. Banrevi

Mr. and Mrs. Byers

Mr. and Mrs. Sindara

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Many admirers from engineering and supply companies, and colleagues fromother sections of the Inco operations, joined the Copper Cliff mechanicaldepartment in giving a rousing sendoff to Walter Ibbotson at a stag party inthe Italian Hall. Fitter foreman Jock Rennie is seen above presenting him witha humorous parting gift, a block of concrete (NOT cement); general manager

Walter IbbotsonCan Look BackOn Fine CareerA transplanted Yorkshjreman I -

raised in the Cnadicn west.graduate electrical engineer whobecame m8ster meehanic of men'sgreat reductinn works, a rnnn whnsupervised the constructjnn of *great bui1dins and the installctinnof bi m8chiflerv yet who eniovs J a,.-the delic8te controls of his pr-cision-built camera. a mn whowas born in 1898 but who 1oksmany years younger, the ar in-terestin'r osradoxes in the life nf . p. 'Walter Thbotson. who this summerjoined the ranks of Inco pen-sioners. -: -

Not too mnv penole are wsre Athat this ouiet-spokn nensjnersupervised the consti11ctirn of aood portion of the buildin"s in I

Inco's great Sudbury dlstrt- }AAoperations. That wRs before he

Inca material and subsequently career" he said, He spent a yearsent him underground at Frood there in company with Len Ennis,to learn how a mine works. "Best Norman Kearns and the late I. J.thing ever happened to me," Simcox, before that part of Fin-

apolied his specinl talents to thedaily problems of the mechanicaldeoartment.

Relaxing in the modern comfortof his fine new Sudburv home grinned Walter 'although at theWalter, with obvious pleasure, time I didn't think much of go-reminisced of his years n the ing from a top supervisory post toconstruction trade. "Mv first lobafter graduating from the Univer- mucker.sity of Manitoba ws on a con- It was only a matter of monthsstruction pro ject at Three Rivers" however until he was supervisinghe recalled. "That was in 1925 and the construction of surface build-I worked on two other projects for ings at Creigh-Fraser-Brace before we came to ton's new no. 5

shaft and theSudbury in 1928. We built the '-6 * following yearsurface plant at Frood and in1929 began the big construction Inco loaned himlob at the smelter. I was assistant , back to Fraser-

Brace to takesuperintendent on that job."The following year he superin- / charge of yet

tended the construction of the CIL another majorplant at Copøer Cliff, then moved • smelter expan-east and built a celloph9ne p'ant sion. Late in 1937at Shawinigan in 1932. When four and through 1938new converters were to be added - - .. he handled theto the converter aisle at Copper Mrs. Ibbotson surface construc-Cliff in 1934 Fraser-Brace sent for tion work at Le-Walter Ibbotson to handle the lob. vack when that mine reopened.He had been working as surface Early in 1939 Walter receivedsuperintendent at San Antonio what he considered a high compli-mine in Manitoba for a time dur- ment when Inco assigned him toing the depression. supervise the erection of a smelter

That same year the far-seeing at Petsamo, Finland. "One of theR. D. Parker tabbed Walter as good most interesting jobs of my

1. M. Gaetz right) was one of the speakers who lauded the guest of honorfor his outstanding career of achievement with Inco. In the picture on theright he is shown with Bob McLeary of the shops office staff and the fine paint-ing of the Copper Cliff works done for the occasion by the mechanical de'partment's gifted artist, Zygmunt Cymbalski of the Iron Ore Plant.

The long line of guests filed past the head table to wish the retiring mechanical superintendent farewell and good luck.On the left he shakes hands with Adam Herringer; next in line are Jim Metcalfe and Red Mellow; on the right, offer-ing their congratulations, are Johnny Robson, then Bitt Bray, an unidentified guest, and Cam Girdwood.

land was plundered by Joe Stalinand company.

Returning to Copper Cliff hewas farmed out to the engineeringdepartment but this was too quietfor a man of action. In a matterof months he was down supervisingthe tankhouse addition at PortColborne. Later that year hecarried out a couple of specialprojects for Fred Benard.

Walter laughingly recalled howhe got into the mechanical de-partment. "One day R. D. Parkerasked me how much I knew aboutmechanical work. When I saida little he told me I'd better learnmore because as of now I wasassistant master mechanic." JackGarrow was master mechanic thenwith Bill Ripley and Walter asassistants. In those early waryears, when the nicJel industrywas literally bursting at the seams,Walter's job was keeping themechanical installations abreast ofconstruction and ahead of pro-duction. One of his proudestachievements was the installationof 17 new Marcy mills at CopperCliff. "We set one up, ready torun, every five days," he said.

Walter had rather a colorful

career as a youth, Graduatingfrom high school before he was 18he joined the newly formed RoyalFlying Corps just two months afterit was established. An instructorIn communications - "we called itwireless then" - he spent sometime in Texas. Next stop wasToronto where he was operator ata small radio station. "I also hada small hand in, and saw, thefirst airmail flight between Toron-to. Montreal and New York," saidthis man of many talents,

Realizing that a college educa-tion was essential to a good jobWalter returned west and workedas an electrician until he earnedthe $450 necessary to enter uni-versity. Later he took anotheryear out to earn the money neededto complete his degree.

Walter was born in Yorkshire,England 65 years ago and cameto Manitoba with his parents atan early age. "I took most of myschooling at Soures, Manitoba,"he said. On a recent trip back tothat part of the country he en-joved showing Mrs. Ibbotson. theformer Dorothy Little whom hemarried in 1952, the many familiar

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Joe SztangretWhen Joe Sztangret came to

Canada from Poland in 1927, hisfirst job in the new land was ona faj-mn in Alberta. Before toomany months had gone by he wason his way to Welland, Ontario.and soon found work on theWelland ship canal. In 1928 hestarted with Inco in the masticgang at the Port Colborne refinery.From there he went to the SinterPlant where he was sinter machine-

man and grate layerman. In 1951,when the sinter plant operationwas curtailed, he transferred to themechanical department where hisoccupation has been box maker forthe past 12 years. Joe Is nowtaking his doctors advice and Isgoing on disability pension.

Annie Grydzan became Joeswife in 1923. They have twodaughters Mary (Mrs. WalterKiviecieni) and Stella (Mrs. TedChernicky). Two grandchildrencomplete the Sztangret family.

A couple of years ago the Sztan-grets took a trip to Mexico andJoe says "We are thinking aboutgoing again this fall, Its a won-derful country

A group of his workmates wentto the Sztangret home to presentJoe with a purse of money as atoken of their esteem. Charles Ottexpressed the managements ap-preciation of his service to theCompany and hoped that in timehis health will Improve.

Joe CraigenJoe Craigen has left Creighton

mine to retire on a disability pen-sion. A popular and respectedshift boss he Is keenly missed atno. 3 shaft where in the past 10years of 'shifting" he had estab-lished himself as one of the best.

Born and raised in the Napaneearea Joe worked for a time at Fal-conbridge before joining Inco in

ádiiMr. and Mrs. Craigen

1942. Expanding his mining know-h'dge with five years of variedunderground experience at Creigh-ton he then spent several years inthe mine efficiency departmentlearning other aspects of theoperation. He returned under-ground as a shift boss at Creightonin 19F2 and worked mainly atno, 3 shaft.

Mrs. Craigen, who was Rita

Dillon before her marriage to Joein 1943, teaches school at Creigh-ton. The Craigens have threesons, Hugh at university in NovaScotia, Gerry and Paul in gradeschool at Creighton.

The regard in which Joe is heldby the men at Creighton wasdemonstrated one day recentlywhen a gang of off-shift miners,transporting the "makings of apre-fab garage, descended on Joesdwelling. In short order theyerected the new garage and then totop it off gave Joe a wallet con-taining a number of large bills.

'I was overwhelmed " admittedJoe, and still am. I just dontknow how to thank all those whohad a hand in this Then headded thoughtfully, "Where elsebut in Creighton would this hap-pen? Thats why we hope to goon living here.

Pete PressacoAnother smelter oldtimer who

has taken advantage of the earlyretirement option is Pete Pressaco,an Inco man since 1928 and mightyproud of it.

For nearly 30 years Pete workedin the converter building, first asa puncher and then at the moreexacting job of skimmer. The lastfew years he was on lighter work.

Pete had two brothers farmingin Saskatchewan and thats wherehe headed when he landed In thiscountry from hIs native Italy in

1927. A year later he came eastand got a job in the smelter.

He was married in 1926 but hiswife died in 1948. He remarriedin 1950, taking his first wifes sisterAdele as his bride.

The Pressaco's have a son Pascin Sudbury, a daughter Angelinaat home and another daughterSolidla (Mrs. E. Pedinelli) inMichigan. The four grandchildrenjust love having grandad babysitthem.

A longtime resident of The Hillat Copper Cliff, Pete has madehimself a very comfortable homethere with just enough work tokeep him happy. He enjoyed atrip back to Italy in 1955 and maygo again next year.

Joe BiscaroAdd Joe Biscaro to the long line

of Inco, pensioners, thoroughly en-joying rtirement. Keeping his Gil-man street home and garden in topshape, babysitting his five grand-children, visiting his many friends

these are retirement pleasuresJoe is savoring to the full.

Joe was born 62 years ago inItaly and had served for threeyears in the army before ventur-ing to Canada. On the advice offriends he went to Cooksvllle, gota job at the brickyard and worked

Garson Greyhounds won the five-team midget Babe Ruth league, knocked offthe champs of the Sudbury Playground league, trimmed Copper Cliff andCapreol for the district championship and the Knights of Columbus trophy, andthen topped things off by defeating the Moose Lodge team for the SudburyStar trophy in a thrilling series with the final game going 12 innings. In frontare bat boy David Della Vedova and Dale Brown, Don Croteau, Ricky Kulysky,David Thompson, Jim Stewart, Mike Maguire; second row, Garrett Cull, DannyBoyd, Jeff Della Vedova, Duane Drager, Brian Slywchuk, Larry Sedore, AllanLaking; back, assistant coach Joe Cull and coach Gus Della Vedova; notshown in picture, Mike Wasylenky, Philip Renaud, Rod McHugh. In the eight-team house league also sponsored by Garson Mine Athletic Association, GuyBergeron's team won the 8-10 year division and Liz McKnnons team the10-13 year division.

there until depression times forcedhim to leave. That was in 1936and with jobs scarce in that partof Ontario he headed north andsoon had a job with Inco. "Bestthing I ever did. happily declaredJoe.

Starting with the yard gang atCopper Cliff he moved into theOrford building in 1942 and later,n 1957, took lighter work as a dry-

man.He married Monica Mattiazzi in

1931 and their three daughtershave all married Inco men.Marys husband Corrado Simeoniworks at Copper Cliff, Jeanmarried Loivo Pevato, an electrci-an at the Iron Ore Plant, and on

I the 12th of October Bruna be-

Two District Championships for Garson

came the wife of Jack Dube, alsoan Inco electrician.

Away back in 1930 Joe made atrip back to Italy and hasnt beenback since. "I'm happy where Iam, he stated.

Garson' little league baseball teams finished the season in a blaze of glory,bringing home two Sudbury district championships. The Tigers, shown above,came out on top of the heap in the pee wee division of the Kiliopps league:front row, Reg. Lavictoire, Bobby Bedard, Dick Lanktree, Craig Chaperon,Stewart McKinnon, Billy Kyryluk; second row, Richard Claes, Ricky Thompson,Eric Downie, Carlyle Merkley, Mickey Fay, Billy Campbell, Keith Blim, StanNowasiilsk; back row, assistant coach Wilf Bedard and coach Charlie Chaperon.

Mr. and Mrs. Sztangret

Mr. and Mrs. Biscaro

Mr. and Mrs. Pressaco

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A general foreman at th. Copper Cliff mill, F. H. "Cappy" Captkk isalso well-known ai form.r commanding officer of 58th Sudbury Regiment,Here he is at home in Coppir Cliff with his wif. Molba and their family:Shorle, the wife of Leo Charbonneau of the Inca electrical department,Ron, 16, Diane, 14, and Elizab.th, 10,

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In a cosy farm home near Azilda live Aldege and Maria Spencer andtheir six sturdy sons, Gerry, 14, Raymond, 11, Donald, 8, Noel, 6, JeanMarc, 5, and Mourice, 3. A Levack man now, Aldege previously worked18 years at Garson ond three at Murray.

JKaren Young s such a littletomboy that she has alreadyhad two "shiners althoughhe only two years old,

Her mother, Sharon, camefrom Saskatoon and her dadGearge from Winnipeg. Hehas been a Copper Refineryman for three years. Theylive in Lively.

Staff auistant A. R. Smith, his wife Frances, and their delightful daughteriSherry, 17, and Tanis, 13, make this happy family group at Thompson,where they were among the first residents. The floral background ii bycourtesy of their neighbor, Ferelith Thornborouyh.

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-Our Port Colborne family this month are Mr. and Mrs. George Sathmary of 121 North

Crescent, and their children Brenda, 6, George David, 8, Wendy, 10, and Gregory, 1.

George and his wife Elenor Ann are enthusiastic Inco Club bowlers. A 15:year man, he

is a welder with the nickel refinery mechanical department.

Mrs. Williom Ryanof Gorson with hert1ower, her husbond'Quorter Century Clubphotogroph, ond histirst i0vitation to thernnuol bonquet ofthe lnco 25'year men.

Red Roses Said "Thank You"Wives of the new Quarter Century Club members sharedthe recagnitian with their husbands when each received adazen red roses fram Inca general manager T. M. Gaetz."1 shall be pleased if yau will accept the flowers accam-panying this letter, " Mr. Gaetz wrote, "as an expressionaf my awn and the Company's esteem far the part yau haveplayed aver the years in establishing your husband's goadrecord."

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Mrs. Bill Boldwin ofSudbury, whose hus.bond works in the oc'counting deportmentot Copper Cliff.

Mrs. Eino Moenpooof Sudbury, whosehusband works atFroad . Stobie mine,weors o pleosed smileos she stonds besideher bouquet.

LLiono, the wife of Joseph Viollno of the Mrs. Wolter Sokoloskie, li'iely, whose husband works otIron Ore Plant. Creighton, posed her roses against a winter scene.

"Aren't they beouti.full" excloimed Rito' Bertrond, whose hus-bond Vic works atthe Clorabelle Pit,

Mrs. Fred Predan of Azildo, whose husband Mrs. Bill Noble helped serve at the big banquet.is a Murray miner. Her husband is a Copper Refinery man.

Mrs. Roy Snitch of Coniston"I'd like a surprise like thisevery day, and please tellroy husband what I said."

Mrs. JackCliff "Thsroses I'vevery proud

Chairman Stresses Strong Confidence W! 1

In Quarter Century Club Address -

Hailed on all sides as the bcst the multitude with swift efficiencyone yet" was the 15th annual din- by the ladies auxiliaries of St.ner meeting of the Sudbury dis- Andrew's and St. Paul's churches.trict Inco Quarter Century Club A stalT of over 200 handled theon September 19. huge catering job without a hitch.

An address ringing with confi-dence and optimism by the chair- Gold Badges Presented

•1man of the Company, Henry S. Presentation of their gold mem-Wingate, was the highlight of the bership badges to 172 new 25-yeargala occasion that brought to- men took place at a friendly in-gether over 2000 long-service em- formal ceremony preceding theployees and pensioners. banquet. Top executive officers of

One veteran, former chief en- the Company heartily greeted andgineer S. A. Crandall, travelled congratulated the new members,from California to join in the who looked pleased and proud atfellowship which over the years joining the distinguished ranks ofhas grown into a solid Inco tra- the Quarter Century Club.dition. For an hour before the Canada's leading television per-banquet the Sudbury arena pre- sonality, Juliette, easily recapturedsented a lively scene as old buddies the big audience she first won four 11iIIIIIIkfIIIIIIIIIwarmly greeted one another and years ago with her sparkling charmswapped news, jokes, and reminis- and warmth. She kidded the head NEW MEMBERS of the Quarter Century Club were welcomed by general man-cences. table with a saucy styling of ager 1. M. Gaetz, presented with their gold badges by chairman H. S. Wingate,

The experiment of serving some "Never On Sunday," lured pen- and congratulated by vice-president J. C. Parlee. Here big Mike Ripka ofof the members with trays in the sioner W. J. Ripley to the stage Frood-Stobie, wearing a broad smile, shakes hands with Mr. Parlee.regular arena seats, in order that for a broadly amusing Big Badthe whole club could dine in one Bill", and got everybody keeping "We are going to have a veryhall instead of two, proved highly time or joining in as she sang successful year," he stated. "Wesuccessful, to the vast relief of many old favorites. The applause estimated that we would sell morechairman R, 0. Dow and his com- left no doubt she is still in a class nickel for civilian applications inmittee. The sumptuous chicken by herself as far as Inco Quarter 1963 than we sold in 1962. We are -dinner was delivered piping hot to Century Club members are con- going to accomplish that objective."

cerned. -Despite much more active com-Other outstanding performers petition from other nickel pro-

the variety show were Robert ducers, "most of whom have moreDowney, who pulled off a breath- nickel to sell than the market de-taking illusion with his disappear- mands" Inco has kept its shareIng doves, and Bori and Bor, the of the business and has been able

• c highly acrobatic dance team which to increase the marketing ofto the astonishment of all turned nickel notwithstanding the cut-out to be a one-man act, back in its uses for military ap-

Toronto producer Paul Simmons plicationsagain this year brought along abudding star to make her first "I stand in front of you entirelyappearance before a large audi- confident that 1964 will be a betterence. She was Loro Farell, an year for us than 1963," the chair-attractive young soprano who re- man declared to a round of MR. WINGATE greets Matti Luomaahocently came East from Vancouver applause. "I'm not simply talking of the Copper Cliff smelter.to try her wings in the big time, in dollars and cents. I'm talkingAlthough a little nervous she about the number of employees Nickel In the Sudbury communityscored a genuine hit with her that will be at work at the end of until probably about this time nextlovely voice, and the inco men 1964 compared to the present time. year. "But I am confident," hegave her a great hand. I'm talking about the volume of said, "that unless there is some

nickel which will be required from unsettlement in the world that IsThe Chairman Strongly Confident us by all the industries around the not now foreseen, when we meet

- Impressively optimistic about the world." again a year from now the employ-future of Inco was the message Mr. Wingate cautioned that he ment roll of this Company th Sud-

ARVI RISTIMAKI of the Copper Cliff brought to the Quarter Century did not expect there to be much, bury will go forward noticeablyelectrical department is introduced to Club by chairman Henry S. if any, change th the number of above the present time. I thinkthe chairman by Mr. Gaetz. ; Wingate. people working for International there will be coming back into our

fold men who we have been sad-

Jj Idened to see having to leave."Long-term Prospects ExcellentAbout the long-term prospects

- for the Company the chairmanwas equally confident. "We have

I today more nickel mapped out1 underground than we had 25 years

ago. I believe, through the constantingenuity of our engineers in de-

-- vising improved mining methods,-. and improved methods of treat-

ment, so that more and morematerial that we discover can beclassified as ore, that 25 years fromnow we will again look forward asconfidently as we do at the presenttime."

• Mr. Wingate reviewed high-lights of the past 25 turbulent

• years, such as World War 2, the• Korean War, and the US. stock-- piling program of strategic war

materials, all of which had createdinsatiable demands for nickel andknocked into 'a cocked hat" the

Company's long-range program for• orderly production and marketing

of its products. Inco had copedRON McFARLANE of Levack, Art Reid of Frood-Stobie, and Len White of Levack are the three new 25-year men shown with these emergencies, but athere being welcomed into the club. Beside Mr. White is mines superintendent John McCreedy. That extra hand in the serious cost to the building ofpicture belongs to J. C. Bischoff of the Copper Refinery, who passed the badges to Mr. Wingate. (Continued on Page 10)

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NOT EVEN GORDIE HOWE could have 5tickhandledhis way from end to end of Sudbury Arena the nightof September 19, but the welLorganized servingstaffs of St. Andrew's and St. Paul's ladies' auxiliariesput a hot chicken dinner in front of over 2,000 menwithout a single offside or penalty for bodycheckinginto the boards. The 15th annual meeting of Inco'sSudbury district 25year men, it was the largestbanquet ever held in Sudbury. In the surroundingphotographs are some of those who attended,including the four lady members.

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ALWAYS COOL in a crisis when he was smelter master mechanic Bill Ripley rose which the charming star and her partner acknowledged with a sweeping bow.gallantly to the occasion when Juliet-te wanted someone to sing 'Big Bad Bill" to Broadway could be the next stop for this vigorous youthful Inca pensioner.at the Quarter Century Club show. Their number brought a gale of applause

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long-time lasting markets, and itwas not until 1958 that a full-scale program of peace-time mar-ket development could be remount-ed. Then, when finally the supplypipe lines were entirely fliled, 'wehad to reach the hard conclusionthat we could not continue to pro-duce here, as we had been at alate above the total demands fromthe trade." Production was thenlevelled off to a rate which would

enable the Company to maintain strength, and of its confidence insteady employment, the future. This is the stuff that

A S3 Billion Contribution Inco Is made of.""You and I work for a Company

The importance of Inco opera- . that never stands still, that istions to the economic life of constantly moving forward," Mr.Ontario was noted by the chair- Parlee continued. He cited ex-man. During the past 25 years, amples of how Inco market se-he said, the Company had put search engineers are making nickelback into Ontario a net of close to the metal of progress "on a hun-three billion dollars, about half a dred different sectors of the scien-billion in improving production tific frontier where tomors'ow'sfacilities and exploring for ore to world is in the shaping."perpetuate the industry, a billion "The glamor of nickel's spectacu-for supplies and services to keep lar role in Telstar or moon shipthe industry going, and a billion tends to obscure the triumphs ofand a half for wages and salaries, genius and research here at home."This is a tidy contribution for one Perhaps more prosaic but certainlycompany to make," he observed, not less important to the Com-

He also noted with pleasure that pany's welfare are the improve-a satisfactory management-labor ments in techniques and processesagreement had been worked out on that have flowed from the brainsa three-year basis, and hoped that of inventive people at our minesthe Company and its employees and plants."coald look forward to a very longperiod of harmonious and prosper- Inco Sets Worldwide Paceous relations. In thus paying tribute to the

Vice-president James C. Parlee, initiative and ingenuity of leaderswho introduced the chairman said in process improvement on theof the Quarter Century Club: production line, the vice-president'Almost every man here is linked added: 'What we may not realizeby a common bond of more than is how they contribute to the Incoa quarter century of working to- hallmark of Quality. I was struckgether . . . through good times and by this only the other day when Ibad . . . with a Company for which read a conunent by the editor ofhe has helped build a reputation the magazine Mining World. Hethat is not outshone anywhere said, 'International Nickel con-under the sun. This is the solid tinues to set the worldwide pacecole of Inco's integrity and for new underground mining de-

velopments'. And this statementholds equally true for our Com-pany's record in the field ofmetallurgy."

"We in Inco work together in aninvigorating climate of achieve-ment and progress. We do notstand still, nor merely mark time

we move forward."General manager T. M. Gaetz

expressed his "warmest personalgreetings" to the new members ofthe Quarter Century Club. Hepraised the work of the conunitteein charge of arrangements for theannual banquet, and thankedeveryone who had assisted in anyway to make the event a success.On behalf of the club he extendeda cordial welcome to Mr. Wingateand Mr. Parlee.

In proposing the toast to theCompany's pensioners, mines super-intendent John McCreedy com-mented on the great progress thathad been made in methods andequipment.

"But what will never change, Isincerely hope, is the spirit of re-sourcefulness, the respect for anhonest day's work, and the sturdypride in doing a job well that theold-timers we now salute bred intothis Company during its formativeyears," he said, "We are gratefulfor the knowledge and experiencethey have handed down to us overthe years. We are doing our bestto put it to good use, so that wein turn may pass on somethingsolid that can be built upon in theyears to come."

Speaks for PensionersAttending his first meeting of

the club as a pensioner, FredBenard responded to Mr. Mc-Ci'eedy's toast.

"We are proud to be remsisdedof our part in building a greatcompany," he said on behalf ofthe pensioners.

"Inco has long been well-knownfor its thoughtfulne.ss toward itss'etii'ed employees, hot only ingenerously assuring their comfortand security but also in maintain-ing the personal bond as closely aspossible. In taking care to givean old employee this feeling ofstill belonging to the gang, of stillbeing recognized and valued by theCompany with which he spentmost of his working years. theInternational Nickel Companyshows another facet of its great-ness.

"I know I speak what is in the

THERE WERE pleased smiles all around as Dr. Joe Bowen of the Inco medical staff stepped forward to receive his go'd 25-year badge from Mr. Wingate. Next in me is Gerry Mahon of the Copper Cliff warehouse. and standing beside him sR. R. Saddington, manager of reduction works, who with mines superintendent John McCreedy introduced the new members.

THE TOAST to the pensioners wasacknowledged by retired assistantgeneral manager Fred Benard, Stand.ing behind him here is R. G. Dow,chairman at the banquet.

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They Win 5,OOO Inco Scholarships

Scholarships valued at approxi- Street, Sudbury, a maintenancemately $5,000 each, based on a four- mechanic at the Copper Cliff Ironyear university course, have been Ore Recovery Plant.awarded to eight sons and daugh- John p. Cupp, a graduate of Portters of Canadian employees by The Colborne High School, has enrolledInternational Nickel Company of at the University of Toronto toCanada, Limited. The announce- study metallurgical engineering.ment was made today by James C. He is the son of Lee Cupp, 48Parlee, vice-president. Sugarloaf Street, Port Colborne,

In addition to tuition fees each who is research superintendent atscholarship annually provides $300 the Port Colborne Refinery.to the recipient and a grant of Barbara F. Desotti, a graduate$500 as a cost-of-education supple- of Marymount College, Sudbury,ment to the university. The awards will enter St. Michael's College,are made on a one-year basis and Toronto, honoring in sociology andare renewable for three additional philosophy. Her father, Alfredyears or until graduation, which- Desotti, 729 Lavoie Street, Sudbury,ever Is the shorter period, providing Is a shift boss at the Copper C11ffthe winners satisfy the academic smelter.and conduct requirements of theuniversities where the scholarships Dawn Eros, who graduated from

Port Colborne High School, willare held.The 1963 awards bring to a total study nursing science at Queen's

of 70 the number of scholarships Umversity. She is the daughter ofgiven to children of Inco employees Paul Eros, 50 Schofield Avenue,since the plan was inaugurated in Port Colborne, a laboratory tech-1956.

The new recipients of scholar-Research Raidersships are as follows

Clement P. Corbeil, a graduateof St. Charles College, Sudbury,has enrolled at the Royal MilitaryCollege, Kingston. He is the sonof Raoul Corbeil, 116 Ethelbert

hearts of all its pensioners whenI assure the Company of ourgratitude for its kindly interestin us, and of our continued faithand loyalty in all its endeavors."

Sudbury's own Chrissie Nemisled the singing of 0 Canada toopen the meeting. The invocationwas pronounced by pensioner H.J. Cullen of North Bay.

The 'moment of remembrance'honoring club members who havedied was observed at the requestof the chairman of the meeting,R. G. Dow.

The 172 new members enrolledon September 19 brought theQuarter Century Club's gran1total to 5,173, of whom over 3,750are active employees. There are2,850 Inco 25-year men in theSudbury branch of the club, 488at Port Colborne plus 20 who willjoin up November 7, 14 at Torontoand 14 at Thompson.

nician a the Port Colborne le-finery.

Gary L. Gaudry, who is a gra-duate of Lockerby Composite HighSchool, Sudbury, will a t t en dQueen's University, where he willmajor In mathematics. His fatherAdelard Gaudry, 113 Hill si d eStreet, Sudbury, is a miner at theGarson Mine.

Tanya C. Maenpaa, a graduateof Nickel District Collegiate, Sud-bury, will attend Laurentian Uni-versity, Sudbury, honoring inphilosophy. She is the daughterof Sub Maenpaa, 268 Orell Street,Garson, a topman at Garson Mine.

Sharyn L. Simon, a graduate ofNickel District Collegiate, Sudbury,will attend the University ofWestern Ontario, where she willtake an honors course in Frenchand Latin. Her father, ArthurSimon, 1219 Rinfret Street, Sud-bury, is mechanical foreman at theFrood-Stobie Mine shops.

Robert M. Strain, a graduate ofNanalmo High School, Nanaimo,B.C., has completed his first yearat the University of British Colum-bia. He will continue his studiesat that university in the Facultyof Education. He is the son ofRobert W. Strain, Thompson,Manitoba, a labor foreman at theThompson plant.

George TilsonWith 26 years' service, George

Tilson has made his last repairjob in the Ironworker shop at PortColborne and retires at 65 yearsof age.

He was born in Peterborough,England. In 1916 at the ageof 18 he joined the YorkshireDragoons and saw active service inFrance. At the end of the warGeorge decided to see more of theworld and re-enlisted with theOccupational Army and was sentto India to guard the Khyber Pass.Demobil1ed in 1922 he took offfor Canada, destination OwenSound, where he worked for theKennedy Marine Works until 1932when he decided to return oncemore to the old land - this time

no alone for in 1930 he marriedMiss Nora Elsa Barreto.

In 1936 the Tilsons again re-turned to Canada and in April of1937 George started with Inco inthe electrolytic department. Hisfirst job was on the scrap wash,then for a while on fire patrol. In1942 he transferred to the me-chanical department where he hasworked for the past 21 years.

Mr. and Mrs. Tilson have one

daughter, Catharine (Mrs. RichardDavenport) of Detroit who has twochildren.

At a gathering in the machineshop George received a wallet fromhis fellow workers. C. H. Ottthanked him for his many yearsof service to the Company andwished him and his wife goodhealth and happiness. Mrs. Tilsonwas presented with an umbrella.The TiLsons have recently returnedfrom a two-months' trip to theOld Country.

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landmarks of his old hometown.A past president and very active

member of the local branch of theEngineering Institute of Canada,Walter now plans to devote evenmore time to the interests of thatorganization.

A serious amateur photographerand a keen sailor, Walter rightnow is having fun making certainrefinements and improvements onhis new home. "I am enjoying thislife," he said. "I've had plentyof job offers but they aU seem toInterfere with my pleasure."

Winners in the Iron Ore Plant softball league was this happy crew of softball stalwarts named the Research Raiders.Nickel Belt baseball fans will recognize some of their old favorites among them. Back row from left to right are, WalterSaftic, Mac Dunn, Merle Paquette, Gerry Wallace, Stu Wright, Dick Drewe, Jack Eldridge; front row, Einar Walli, ArtWuIff, Spike Wormington Bob Burke, Ken Kay (captain) and Dave Dunn. In a tough playoff series with last year's champs,Kirwan's Kfllers. the Raiders took two games and fled one. Other teams were Morrison's Mice and Pandke's Poachers.Sponsored by the Copper Cliff Athletic Assodation, the league provides a lot of fun and some pretty snappy softball.

Sharyn Simon Gary Gaudry Dawn Eros Clement Corbeil

Mr. and Mrs. Tilan

Robert Strain Barbara Deofli Tanya Maenpaa John Cupp

Scuppered Kirwan's Killers in Softball Showdown

The president of the Port Colborne Horticultural Society, research supervisor Peace roses. On the right is the outdoor living room at the Oakridge CrescentMichael Head, is shown with his wife in the lovely grounds of their Killaly home of Curtis and Mildred Cross, one of the town's most handsomely land-Street home. Inset is a closeup of Josephine Head with some of her gorgeous scaped properties.

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Neat as the proverbial pin are plant fitter Gus Koeber's grounds at his attrac-tive little place on Stanley Street.

Preserving fruit and vegetables may be a dying art, but not in the kitchen ofSadie Hause, where the air was fragrant with rich spicy aromas as the bounty

- from husband Roy's

r *! _...big garden was be-

.•..r' ' ing put up. Their

w j. 4 countryhomeiswith-.1-I • • - , j' in sight of the Inco

- stacks. Roy works inI the accounting de-- . * partment. All set for

- - . Hallowe en are Dar-lene and RonnieHouse, who have

* , staked outa couple

their daddy's gar-' P.' den for Iack-o'-lan-

A Sign ofCitizenshipInco People atPort Colbornetake pride inkeeping theirhome groundsneat and attractivewith well-groomedlawns and shrubs,beautiful floraldisplays, andbountiful gardens

Carmelia Dipetta, whose husbandAngelo is a stripper in the electro-lytic department, had beautiful dah-lias and roses in the garden at herhome on Ferris Street.

As usuol Louis and Irma Toth had one of the town's finest floral displays attheir corner home on Carter Street. A boxmaker in the carpenter shop, Louisworks hard to keep his place in nice shape.

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Nickel on Defence Duty Only a FewMiles from the Stopes and Furnaces

Inco workers in the Sudbury dis- He explained the role of RCAFtrict know from what they've read Station Falconbridge within thethat the nickel they produce has changing concept of NORADbeen vital in making the jet age (North American Air Defence).possible and launching man on his NORAD exists to detect, identify,peaceful conquest of outer space. intercept and, if necessary, destroy

What few realize is that within enemy aircraft.a few miles of their stopes and Originally, air defence of thefurnaces nickel is also on guard continent relied on strategic place-day and night against bomber or ment of three radar lines - DEWballistic missile attack by an enemy (Distant Early Warning) linepower. stretching from Midway Island in

At RCAF Station Falconbridge the Pacific, north to tJmmak,just off the road to the Sudbury Island near Alaska, east across

as at other units in theAirport I Northern Canada to the coast of,vast NORAD surveillance system Greenland, through Iceland andcovering 10½ million square miles to the Faero Islands; MCL (Mid-of land and sea, the unique proper- Canada Line) consisting of almostties of nickel and nickel alloys 100 sites from Dawson Creek,trigger a fantastically complex British Columbia, to Hopedale inelectronic brain. Labrador along the 55th parallel;

the Pinetree line, consisting of 33Nickel alloys such as Perma- stations in Canada, all operated

nickel, Duranickel, Inconel and by the RCAF, and more stationsvarious types of Monel, are used in western United States operatedin the electronic tubes, controls by USAF personnel.and hardware. They have such The role of the DEW line isproperties as high strength, low simply to provide early warningpermeability, electrical and thermal of the possible approach of enemyconductivity, and low electron aircraft.emission which are of special im- The Mid-Canada line functionsportance to electronic devices, to further identify and trace the

In the huge klystron tubes, sev- path of approaching enemy air-eral feet in height, used for micro- while Pinetree stations con- Icraftwave communications and missile

,trol interception of these aircraft

tracking, where high purity, low by manned interceptors.vapor pressure, and strength at An additional extremely import-high temperatures are essential, ant detection device is BMEWS,the cathode assemblies, heat the Ballistic Missile Early Warningshields and various structural System, whose huge radar screens,members are made of electronic each measuring about 400 feet xgrades of nickel, Monel, and Monel 165 feet high (or the size of a'403". And of course nickel stain- football field on its side) can detectless steel is extensively used in a missile 3,000 miles away. Thereinstallations where corrosion must are presently two BMEWS radarbe fought, stations in action - one with four

Complexities of modern jet air- giant .screens at Thule, Greenlandcraft, ballistic missiles, and inter- and one in Alaska with threeceptor weapons led to transforma- screens. A third BMEWS installa-tion of RCAF Station Falcon- tion is now being built in England.bridge into a semi-automatic The ever-increasing performancestation linked with the NORAD of jet aircraft led to a re-assess-network and equipped with the ment of the original manual con-latest in aircraft detection appar- cept of operations. Flying Officeratus. Berube said. 'It became clear that

Flying Officer George Berube, only an application of modernpublic relations officer at the air automation techniques could copebase escorted the Triangle on a with the complex air situationtour of the installations, including that could develop in wartime."the latest SAGE semi-automatic This led to the SAGE systemground environment) site, based on the use of fast computers

He said that since the conversion that would process and co-ordinateto semi-automation, the number data from several radar stations.of personnel required at the air Computers are now the brains atbase has dropped from 300 to 200. Falconbridge. They process andMost of these are radar technicians display data in microseconds, giv-arid maintenance crews. (Continued on Page 16)

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IMPRESSIVE SIGHT to travellers to and from Sudbury airport are the three greatfibre-glass domes, each 50 feet in diameter, which house the continually revolv-ing antennae at the RCAF radar station, one of the 33 NORAD Pinetree Line sitesin Canada. Various nickel alloys are vital to the high efficiency of the NORADsystem.

FLYING OFFICER George Berube is shown with the largest and the smallestelectronic tubes in the bewildering maze of highly sensitive detection and com-puter e4uipment installed at the radar station. Nickel is used in the cathodes andcathode assemblies of the tubes, and nickel alloys in many other components.

MAP SHOWS the North American Air Defence complex, or NORAD as it iscommonly known. Warning against manned bomber attack is provided by theDEW, MCI and Pinetree Lines, and by radar picket ships and planes in theAtlantic and Pacific. Warning against missile attack is given by the BallisticMissile Ecrly Warning System, or BMEWS, operatng over the continental polarapproaches.

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Charles Brid&e Vincent Curtin ioeph Gobel

Lloyd Marr Roderirk Mrlntyre Millard Minor

Salvatore SottileA familiar face around both towr

and plant at Coniston, SalvatonSottile has retired on service pen.sion. He worked at Copper Clifithe last few months before retire-ment but otherwise his 20 years olservice were spent at Coniston.

An enterprising young man whcfirst came to Canada in 1912Salvatore tried several businesVentures but Is probably bestknown as the long-time proprietoxof Coniston's local billiard empor-ium. He set up his establishmenton Edward street back in 1920 andoperated it himself until he joinedthe Company in 1942.

Salvatore left warm, sunny Italywith 17 other young bucks and fouxof them landed at Sudbury, heamong them. He worked on therailroad at Capreol, spent severalyears on and off at the Coniston

It'1Mr. and Mrs. SoLUte

smelter, worked a western harvest,and ran a movie house in Brace-bridge before buying his billiardbusiness. When business was slackat Coniston in the late twenties heran a billiard hall at Blind Riverfor a couple of years.

In 1922 he returned to Italy,married Rosa Bellibia in 1923, andreturned to Coniston that sameyear. They are proud of their sixdaughters, three sons and 15 grand-children. Daughter Mary marriedWilliam Ross of Creighton, Jose-phine is Mrs. J. Posocco of Sud-bury, Eleanor is Mrs. G. Beaton,Anne 4Mrs. A. Borato) lives inCapreol, Carmel (Mrs. I. Mac-Donald) in British Columbia,Connie works in Sudbury as dosons Phillip and Anthony. Frankis a sampler at Copper Cliff.

Salvatore is happily bringing hislarge garden into production thismonth and next on the agenda is atrip to Kamloops, BC. later this

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lGraham flenderion Louis Kalman Clarence Klauck

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Murray Richardson Vreston Roe Robert Ros%

year. Next year, possibly, a tripback to Italy will be their retire-ment treat.

In very good health this 69 year-old-pensioner is enjoying life to thefullest.

Joe GorsheJoe Gorshe was an apprenticed

bricklayer and mason beforeleaving his native Yugoslavia in1927 but since coming to Canadahas worked at almost everythingbut hIs trade. Miner, farmer,lumberjack, laborer, Joe has beenall these and more and now, en-joying a comfortable retirement,feels that mining was a pretty goodchoice after all.

acMr. and Mrs. Gorshe

A full service pensioner, Joe hadworked at Frood since transferringthere from Creighton In 1938. Hecame to Sudbury In the depressionyears and started at Creighton In1934. Earlier he had worked atLevack. "That was before the firein 1929," he said. Joe was minerand pillar leader for many yearsat Frood and had also worked onsurface the last few years.

Joe recalls arriving In Winnipegin March, 1927, "We were sup-posed to work on farms but therewas a foot of snow on the groundand the farmers didnt want us,"he said. Joining a friend at Levac after a couple of monthsbushwork, he moved to the Wind-sor area in 1929 and came back toSudbury in 1933.

Ten years earlier he marriedAngelo Oranzem. They have ason Joe in Toronto, a daughterStefani Mrs. E. Skrabble) atOshawa, and two grandchildren.

Enjoying his summer camp atthe French River and keeping hishome in Sudbury in good orderhelp keep Joe pleasantly occupied.Next year he hopes to make a tripback to Yugoslavia.

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Elmer Lancaster Yves Lem&y

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John Taylor Steve Van Donald Wilson William Zuck

Ted TkachykA trackinan in the yard at Frood

for over 15 years, with Inco servicedating from 1942, Ted Tkachyk hasretired on full service pension. Onhis last shift at Frood the trackgang gave him a wallet of moneyand their best wishes for healthand happiness in retirement.

Ted is a capable shoemaker andtwice since coming to Canada in1928 has set up his own shoe repairshop. The first time was at Win-nipeg in 1930. That lasted sixyears, then Ted was back workingin the bush. The following yearhe had his own shop on FroodRoad in Sudbury.

By 1942 Ted realized he wouldbe better off at the mine thantrying to save soles so he got ajob at Frood. Starting with theyard gang he became a trackinana few years later.

In 1955 he married Mrs. Kowla-chuk. They are now planning atrip back to Winmpeg, where theyhave mutual friends and a little

property. Mrs. Tkachyk has adaughter Katherine 4Mrs. J. La-framboise), and both she and Tedget great enjoyment from their5-year old son Teddy.

"We may move to southernOntario next year," Ted said. "I'dlike to buy a little farm aroundSt. Catharines." In good healthTed is bound to enjoy whateverhe undertakes to do.

RESTART OLD ARTElectroforming, a comparatively

old art in metalworking. has re-cently been vigorously revived toproduce a great number of intri-cate metallic objects. These includedetailed hollow ware, phonographrecord stampers, musical instru -ments, space-craft components.and molds for glasswork. Alsocalled cold casting, electroformmgis a method of fabricating objectsby electroplating a metal - mostcommonly nickel because of itsadaptability to the process - as ashell on a removable mold orpattern.

"Well, so long boys, its been nice to know you," said Ted Tkachyk to his pals inthe yard gang at Frood. He's shown shaking hands with Paul Rkher at the endof his final shift before retirement,

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Bob LambertDiminutive Bob Lambert, fa-

miliar figure around the open pitcrushing plants for 25 years, hasretired on service pension. Bobspent the last couple of years atthe Clarabelle pit and on his last

shift many ofthe boys ga-thered around( to wish himthe best in re-tirement. They

• also presented• him with a

purseof money.Bob was born

! near Surrey,1 - England, 65• years ago. His

- apprenticeshipas a machinist

Mrs. Lambert was cut shortby the war. After discharge th1919 he joined his parents atPrescott Ontario. "I got a jobwith Fraser-Brace on constructionwork he recalled. 'Reg EdmundsFrood machine shop) was my

boss. He was in charge of themillwrights.

Coming to Sudbury and the hugesmelter construction job in 1930,Bob decided Inco was a good outtto be with, so he landed a Job atFrood rockhouse in 1933.

Bob went to work in the old no.1 crushing plant when the Frood-Stobie Open Pit started up, andlater worked in no. 4 rockhouse.In 1940 he joined the maintenancegang in no. 2 crushing plant andcontinued at that work until re-tirement.

It was over 39 years ago that hemarried Isobel Death and they arevery happy together. Gardeningand short trips are among theirmutual pleasures. Bob is also agreat hand at doing minor repairsand improvements to their Sud-bury home.

CHEMICAL-TOTING BARGESBarges are transporting more

than 10 million tons of corrosivechemicals annually along the prin-cipal inland waterways of theUnited States. Tanks in barges car-rying the most corrosive chemicalsare lined with nickel chromium al-loys to safeguard against both cor-rosion and contamination of theproducts carried.

Bill RuffRetirement on early service pen-

sion doesn't mean Frood's BillRuff has stopped working. Onthe contrary he's busy as ever in-dulging his favorite hobby, taxi-dermy. With the hunting seasonin full swing, prize fish in goodsupply, and Bill about the onlytaxidermist in town, he hasn'tmuch time to go hunting.

A Frood man since 1930, Billwas skiptender at no. 4 shaft thepast 17 years and before thatworked on the 3,400 level pumps.He started originally with AlbertBrady's pipe gang.

Bill's family moved from An-

caster In 1905 to a farm locatednear the site of Falconbrldge mine.In 1929 Bill helped with the con-struction of that plant. His firstcontact with Inco was in 1917 at

the Mond mine and later he wasskiptender at the Murray.

Beatrice Collins became Bill'swife in 1930. The Ruff family arestrong Inco people. Son Dick Isa machinist at Levack, Susanmarried Bob Perry, until recentlya draughtsman with Inco and nowa teacher at Lockerby CompositeSchool, and Marylyn's husband IsMorris Sabourin, an Iron OrePlant man. Bill and his wife arevery proud of their nine grand-children.

A camp at French River, hunt-ing, shing and taxidermy arehigh among this active pensioner'smany pleasures. "This retirementis great, Just great," declared Bill.

During a oneweek conference at Northern Region headqucirters, North American Air Defence Command North Bay,the CanadaU.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence flew to Sudbury to inspect the Inco operations. There were 20n the party, comprising sen'or officials of the RCAF, USAF, U.S. and Canadian army and navy, and external affairsand state department authorities. They were entertained at luncheon at the Copper Cliff Club by general managerT. M. Gaetz, who is shown above with members of the joint board: seated left, Hon. 1. Dana Wilgress chairmanCanadian section, right, Hon. H. Freeman Matthews, chairman United States section; standing, Rear Admiral GeorgeN. Wales, USN; Major General Jamie Gough, USAF; Willis C. Armstrong, United States state department; ArthurR. Menzies, Canadian department of external affairs; Commodore John Deane, RCN; Major General J. D. AlgerUnited States Army; Malor General J. P. E. Bernatchez, Caiadian Army; unfortunately absent when photo was takenwas Air Vice Marshall C. 1. Annis, RCAF. The distinguished defence experts displayed professional interest in theInco plants, and questioned their guides in great detail.

On his last shift at Clarabelle Open Pit, Bob Lambert was presented with a fare- of workmates who had gathered to congratulate him on his retirement after 30well gift, then modestly stood front and centre for a photograph with the group years of faithful Inco service.

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and hospitals ai'e other areas of man, Theresa Mrs. L. Gauthier)activity for the smartly uniformed of Espanola, and six grandchildren.Red Cross Corp.s members. Dave must take things easy now

'There is so much we could do and to an active man this makesif we had more workers," Mrs. the days seem mighty long. HeMcPoland said. "We are looking has few complaints however butfor new volunteers. I'm sure any would welcome more frequent visitswoman would find that you get a from his friends and old work-lot more out of this kind of work ntates.than you put into it."

"I'd say 'amen to that." saidMiss Reynolds. smiling at her e enee ii

t visitors eager enthusiasm. "If it ,

weren't for this old heart of mine ((ontinued from Page 13)I'd try to get in it myself." ing air battle information such as

the number of attackers and their-, weapon status,

Dave Sarazni He said SAGE was fist activatedj Dave Sarazin was born on the in New Jersey in 1958 and now has

family farm near St. Charles in developed effectively in both Can-1902 and remained in that area, ada and the United States. Todayapart from winters in the bush most air weapons are controlledback of Gogama, until coming to by SAGE direction centres, withGarson in 1941. III health has put the exception of the Nike ballistic

him on the side- missile, manned by the U.S. Army.

lines and he was RCAF Station Falconbridge is

f retired recently part of the northern NORADon d,i 5 a b i lit y region with headquarters at Northpension. Ba

'P All his years y.at Garson were The role of station Falconbridgespent With the is to provide radar data and atramming crews, weapons control function to thework that Dave pai'ent control centre. Close liaisonadmits he en- between the two units is pi'ovidedjoyed. "I sure through the data and maintenancem i ss the old control centre at the air base. A

Dave Sarazin gaig" he said, ground - air transmitter receiverCorine Landreault became Mrs. provides voice and automatic data

Sarazin in 1934. They have a son communication facilities for useRoger working at Copper Cliff, two by the direction centre to controldaughters, Jacqueline whose hus- both manned and unmannedband Lloyd Morrow is a Garson weapons.

Figuring in Miss Reynolds' reminiscences is the fire which destroyed the originalCapper Cliff Hospital an the night of January 16, 1912. A temporary hospitalwas then aperated in a converted clu bhouse an Park Street until the presenthospital was built and accupied an Feb ruary 26, 1914. 4'

MISS IVY REYNOLDS AND HER VISITOR '

Bright and alert, her sense of since June, 1962. Prior to that she ,humor undaunted by many years resided in Sudbury with herof semi-convalescence due to a mother, Mrs. Mary Ii'vlne Rey- J. -heart condition, Miss Ivy Reynolds nolds, who died in 1960 at the agei'ecalls early history of the Copper of 95.Cliff Hospital. When the Triangle called on her

\en she arrived at Copper she was enjoying a visit from aCliff in 1913 to join the nursing member of the Red Cross Corps,staff, the original hospital had Mrs. Sheila McPoland, and Missburned down and she started work Reynolds took the occasion toin the temporary hospital which praise the work of these volunteershad been established in a club- in giving their time to their many 'house on Park Street. worthy activities. "Mrs. McPoland One hundred couples danced to the music of Con Di Salle's orchestra at the

If Miss Reynolds' memory serves or some other member of the corps Copper Cliff Italian Hall and had a wonderful time as the Inca Electricalher right it was on February 26, regularly drops in for a little chat," Department Welfare Association held its fifth annual party. The association"1914, that the staff and patients

hshe said. I could not have a

president, Warren Thompson, said Jim Edmonds and his committee did a finemore deli htful visitor it is vermoved into the new ospital. Dr.McAuley was chief surgeon, and

g . ymuch appreciated," , lob with the arrangements. Bucky Basso is secretary, George Charland, treasurer.

assisting him were Doctors Harris. For her part, Sheila McPolandYoung, Bennett and Feldhans. said, "I could not find more pleas-Miss Alice Hunt was superinten- ant or i'ewarding work. It givesdent of nurses, with a staff of me a great sense of well-being toMiss Isobel Wallace. Miss Edith be doing this." An Irish girl whoMcGregor, Miss Jean Scott and five years ago came to Copperherself. Cliff where her husband Frank

In 1916 Miss Reynolds succeeded works in the metallurgical depart-Miss Hunt as superintendent of nsent, she joined the Red Crossnurses and held this position until Corps a year ago. Although sheher retirement on disability pen- has two young children she man-sion in 1935. ages to spend about 24 hours a

Born at Uxbridge, Ontario, in month in corps work, mostly at

1887. she was the first student Pioneer Manor where she visitsnurse to eni'ol in the training the residents, arranges to takeschool at Sault Ste. Marie General them on drives, and plans otherHospital. She graduated from the entei'tainment to brighten theirthree-year coui'se in 1911. days. Among those enjoying themselves at the snappy shindig were Margaret and

Miss Reynolds has been a popu- Blood dunce, the White Cane Jim Edmonds, Donna and Don McKibbon, Jenny and Warren Thompson, andlar resident st Pioneer Manor Club, paraplegics, the orphange Pat and Bucky Basso.

in her cheery room at Pioneer Manor 76-year.oid Miss ivy Reynolds, an Incapensioner since 1935, is shown with one of her favorite visitars, Mrs. SheilaMcPoland of the Red Cross Corps.

Electrical Department Guys and Gals Kick It Up