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Published for all employees of TheInternational Nickel Company of

Canada LimitedD. M. Dunbar, Editor

D. J. Wing, Assistant Editor

Editorial Office, Copper CHIT, Ont.

Authorized a second class mall by thePost Oce Department, Ottawa, and forpayment of postage in cash.Material contained in Inca Triangleshould not be reprinted unless permissionbas been obtained from The tnternationatNickel Company of Canada. LimitedCapper Cliff, Ontario.

Industry OffersWide OpporttrnitiesTo Serve Mankind

Noting that fewer students thesedays are showing a preference fora business career, and that manyexpress the wish to join an en-deavor in which they c-an servehumanity", Henry S. Wingatecountered that there are im-mense opportunities" in businessto achieve the personal satisfac-tion of service to mankind.

International Nickel's boardchairman was addressing the con-vocation exercises at MarshallUniversity, Huntington, West Vir-ginia, which conferred on him anhonorary LL.D. degree. Hunting-ton is the location of Incos rollingmills and alloy products division.

Mr. Wingate took his own com-pany as an example. It is an in-tegrated business, starting with

Henry S. Wingote receives honororydoctor of lows degree ot MorshollUniversity convocation. He addressedthe 1,054 groduoting students on thesubject of The Businessmon".

the exploration for new deposits,continuing through aU the stagesof mining, milling, smelting, re-fining and, finally, forming thekind of alloys we produce here inthis city, bringing forth produclsthat are giving service to industryand to people in all parts of theworld."

'There are many, many hundredsof dedicated people, working dayand night, to do these things," hesaid. 'They inspire newcomerswho cast their careers with us.They are devoting their lives tohighly important work that is ofgreat value to society."

Although to some graduatingstudents big business may seemimpregnable and impersonal, itactually offers broad and unique

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scope for individual fulfillment.An example was the launching byInco of a new and modern com-munity n northern Manitoba,'which is now the centre for anentirely new area of civilizationin what was formerly a wilder-ness.'

"All who participated In thisproject," he declared, 'will foreverhave the satisfaction of knowingthey have helped to build a com-munity of homes, schools and hos-pitals.

The challenge of change Inmany fields of personal activity iscommon in an industry like Inco,Mr. Wingate asserted.

We need, and employ, peoplehaving a variety of skills. We needgeologists to f).nd ores, we needmining engineers, we need scien-tists and metallurgists to improvethe methods of extracting metalfrom the ores and also to developnew and better alloys. We needengineers and we need good oper-ating men to make our mines andplanth work. But we need manyothers - lawyers, writers, artists,accountants, financial people,draftsmen, salesmen, and justplain people with drive and muchsense. We need creative people,compassionate people, to help Inthe making of metals that are iii-creasingly useful in many, manyforms."

This economic activity of pro-duction and distribution, he stat-ed, "calls upon a ceaseless drive inwhich innovation must be stimu-lated. The result Is the kind ofprogress that has brought about somuch improvement in life in re-cent decades."

AppointmentsJ. McCreedy, generai manager,

Manitoba division, announced thefollowing appointments effectiveJune 1:

L. R. Villeneuve, undergroundsuperintendent, T-3 shaft, Thomp-son.

D. Perdoek, general foreman, me-chanical department, Thompson.

L. I. VILLENEUVEBorn at Chelmsford, Ontario,

which was also the birthplace ofboth his father, and mother,Lucien Ville-neuve attendedthe compositehigh schooland then in1939 startedwith Interna-

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-- at Levack as ashoveller, roseto divisional

. foreman.1. R. Villeneuve When he was

transferred toThompson mine in 1960 he becamea general foreman. He now takesover as underground superinten-dent at the mines new T-3 shaft.

He was married In 1945 to Gil-berette Provost of Noelville, andhas two daughters, Joanne, 14,and Line, 10.

Nickel ForemostNickel was the largest single

money earner among mineral.smined in Ontario during 1966, con-tributing $291.2 million. Ontario'stotal mineral production duringthe year was valued at $964.5 mil-lion.

Reloxing ofter put.ting their dogsthrough their pocesore George Holderof the Copper Cliffsmelter misceilone-ous fitters with hisgolden retrieverRusty, and field trialcommittee choirmonOrest Andrews withJoker, his block lob-rodor. A little likeTopsy, Rusty forgotto stop growing otthe usuol 75.poundmork, and now tipsthe scoles ot ohusky 132.

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Of Game Bird Sport"It's a sad thought," said artist-

sportsman Orest Andrews of theCopper Cliff office, but it's a factthat every year millions of gamebirds are killed on the NorthAmerican continent but not re-trieved by the hunters. In a recenttest a group of hunters withoutdogs downed 20 ducks and re-trieved five. A similar group withtrained dogs dropped the samenumber and only lost one. Havinga well-trained retriever is a stepin the right direction as far asconservation Is concerned."

One hundred dogs were putthrough their paces recently whenthe nine Ontario Retriever Clubsand the Sudbury Kennel Club metat the Burwash Industrial Farmto conduct two days of retrievertrials.

To stimulate hunting conditions,the blast from a blank shotgunshell preceded each toss of foui'birds to different areas of the trialrange. Pointed by the handler,the dog was then directed to seekand retrieve, It was truly an in-spiring sight as the dogs reactedto whistle and arm signals fromtheir handlers.

"The price of a good retrievercan vary from $100 for an 8-week-old pup to as much as $10,000 fora well-trained 3- or 4-year-oldexpert," said Orest, chairman ofthe field trial committee.

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Also seen ot thewater trots s DoveSpefrs of the Cop-per Cliff mochineshop ond his goldenretriever Pandy, inthe oct of surren.dering o retrievedduck to SPCA In.Spector Harry Brownof Borne, who ot•tends oil live birdtriols held in On.tario. The wings ofthe domestic typenon.flying duck oretoped for protection.

Close to 100 pre-killed pheasantswere used during the field trials,and 150 live ducks for the watertrials. The duck's wings weretaped before the toss, and onlythree casualties occurred duringthe meet. Constant inspection ofthe ducks was made throughoutthe trials by an officer of theSociety for the Prevention ofCruelty to Animals.

The Retriever Clubs recentl\prepared a brief for endorsementof the Ontario Anglers and Hun-ters Association, suggesting thathunters with trained dogs be al-lowed a bag limit of seven ratherthan the presently legal fIve. Anytype of dog could be used, as longas it has psed official abiltytests," suggested Orest.

The 45 members of the SudburyDistrict Kennel Club will be hold-ing obedience trials on the 15thand 16th of July at the Inco Em-ployees Club in Sudbury.

ROYAL FE%STThe missionary smiled benevo-

lently on the native tithe aroundhim. "I will cure you all of can-nibalirn," he said hopefully, ashe retired to his hut.

There he was joined shortly bya native,

'The king has sent me to dressyou for dinner, said the man.

Ah," smiled the misisonary."How thoughtful of him. Youare the royal valet, I suppose."

No,' replied the native, I'mthe royal cook."

Retrievers a MustFor Conservation

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IncoFamily 3

Album

This is the big happyfamily of Frood hoist-man John Kruk. Johncame to the Company in1946 at Garson, hasbeen at Frood since1950. In the back roware Wanda, 12, John'swife Pauline with Chris,7 months, John jr., 7,and Cathy, 17. In frontare Peggy, 9, David, 4,Teresa, 10, and Debbi,14. The whole familywill be heading downHighway 69 later thissummer to spend acamping holiday at RockLake.

This happy band, the family of Copper Re8nerywarehouse clerk Joe Halverson, will be beating theheat at their camp on Kukagami Lake during Julyand August. A Coniston boy, Joe joined the Com-pany at the smelter there straight from school in1951. He has been at the refinery since 1962. Inthe back row are Patsy, 11, Joe jr., 13, and Brenda,12; standing are Gale, 9, Dianna, 5, Joe's wifeLillian with 1-year-old Janet, and Peter, 3.

There are two Inco employees in this pleasant familygroup, Murray stope leader Nick Hawryszczyszyn andhis daughter Irka, a vacation employee at CopperCliff who attends University of Western Ontario.Nick came to Canada from his native Ukraine in1948, and worked in a gold mine at Chapleaubefore joining the Company in 1951. Shown be-tween Nick and his wife Martha are Johnny, 5, Irka,and Lesia, 7. A trip to Expo is lined up for the familylater this month.

Representing Copper Cliff in this month's familyalbum is the family of reverb department superin-tendent Bob Butler. Starting with Inco in the reverbbuilding in 1951, Bob later served as combustionengineer, and in 1961 was appointed assistantsuperintendent of the Iron Ore Plant. Shown withBob and his wife Carol ore their pert and prettydaughters Mary, 7, and Brynn, 10. A Lively PublicSchool trustee, Bob's recreations ore golf and thefamily camp at Fairbanks Lake.

Creighton underground 8 shaft hoistman Jacob Bzdelis seen with his magnificent Centennial foliage, andlittle 2-year-old Lyndon has a lot that he's proud oftoo. "Mine's coming off after the July 1st whiskerinocontest judging," said Jacob as he scratched hisbeard. "It's getting too hot for this sort of nonsense."A native of Elfros, Saskatchewan, he joined Inca atStobie in 1947, transferred to Creighton in 1966.Also shown with Jacob and his wife Fern are Lila,11, and Loretta, 13.

John Cundy, who works in the electricaldepartment at Thompson, came to Incofrom Wapella in 1962, enjoys all out-door sports. His wife Frieda's hometown was Wabowden, and her hobbiesare softball and sewing. Their childrenare Jo-Ann, who was born on May 23,and George, 17 months.

Foreman in the sampling departmentat Port Colborne with 13 years' ser-vice, Ed McWatters was highly re-garded for his pitching arm in juniorbaseball days. He's shown here withhis wife Esther and their attractiveyoung;tes, Thomas Joseph, 7, andMary Lynn, 9.

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ThompsonOi July 1st ,

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Hthroughout northern Manitoba by • -the Thompson Centennial commit- r -tee. and people caine by the thous- - \ajids to do just that. -

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T1ebom1I tv00 OaOOr; Sam Anderson and son Billy drew Another star performer in indian pow- Other members of the smash hit Creeaccount of Inco's sioo,oooooo ex- applause in Fast Grass Dance, wow was Walter Bonaise. pow wow party from Norway House.pansion program, established It-self as the province's hub of theNorth.There could hardly have been a • ' -

more appropriate setting for ajoyous Canadian Centennial ob- , 4 •

birthday party withActity UThere was more going on than a '-

person could catch with 12 pairs- - I ' -of eyes. There was an exciting ..- ---- ,. . -. '•'-

pow-wow by a party of Cree In- -dians from Norway House, proudly -attired In full ceremonial garb and Don Cameron cuts huge Canadian birthday cake, town's Children went wild over the rides on rst professional mid-

('ontlnuel on Page 19 Centennial Singers in background, way to set up in Thompson.

Colorful Cec Smith emceed opening; Inco assistant general manager Don Munnthird from left) extended Company's greetings.

Cats, dogs, bun-nies, and evena chicken in acoop gavejudges lots ofwork in petshow.

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High School band from Mahnomen, Minnesota, came 1,000 miles by bus todelight crowds with several concerts and smart marching.

Nick Ross with violin, Bill Monias withguitar, won talent contest.

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21 New PensionersGet Gold WatchesAt Mechanical Stag

There were head table place set-tings for 21 recently retired em-ployees at the reduction worksmechanical department PensionClub's 29th annual banquet. Heldat the Copper Cliff Italian Club,the ag attracted more than 300who came o give the old-timersa rousing send-off and to enjoythe usual good food and top-flightcnterainment,

Following the sumptuous meal,Ontario division general managerJ. A. Pigott expressed his congratu-

When thrush Louise Thompson calledfor a volunteer to help with her songstylings, John "Red" Robertson camethrough in fine style.

lations and thanks to the newmembers, and noted that betweenthem they shared a total of noless than 566 years of service withthe Company, "At first thought,'he said, losing so much experi-ence caused me some concern, butI'm sure much of their know-howhas been handed down togetherwith a real challenge to theyounger men who will be takingtheir places."

Maintenance superintendent F.G. Burchell added his personalbest wishes to the pensioners, andvoiced his appreciation of the finejob that they had done over theyears.

Each of the 21 new pensionerswas presented with the club's tra-ditional gift of a gold watch. Theywere Normand Thibeault, PercyLyons Archie Organ, Bill Pilon,Eli Ferland, Leonel Gravel, Ber-nard Willett, Tommy Harkins,Clement Valcourt, Joe Blais, ArchieClinton, Ozias Langlois, GeorgeHunt, Roy Basso, Ed Levesque,Norman Shell, Frank Majer'ik,

One of the 21 retirees who receivedgold watches, StanAnnis is congratulated by master ofceremonies JackO'Hara. Centre isclub president HarryCostella, and on theleft is maintenancesuperintendent FredBurchell.

Stan Annis, Albert Abbott, GordonSt. Germain and Alf Mash.

Comedian Billy Meek was thehilarious emcee of the stage showthat followed, and the wee Scotsoon had the crowd holding theirsides. New pensioner Waddy Pilongamely assisted exciting calypso

Vie SimpsonPopular Vic Simpson has left on

full service retirement after a 34-year career with Inco at PortColborne and a fine record ofactivity in the community.

He was born in Melbourne, Aus-tralia, in 1902, the son of a militaryintelligence officer, but the familymoved to Penang, Malaysia, whenhe was seven. In 1913, they movedto England, taking up residence inFarnborough, Kent, and finallysailed for Canada in 1919, settling

dancer Peggy Jackson in her un-dulations, and even though he didfinish up fiat on his back at onepoint, the little man got full marks.

Credit for a most enjoyable andsuccessful party goes to Clubpresident Harry Costello and thefaithful members of his committee,

in Simcoe, Ontario. A year later,Vic set out on his own to Port

Colborne.He worked at the

Ontario Bag Fac-tory for two yearsand then operateda garage for the

- next 10 years. In- July, 1933, he began

his long associationwith Inco at theNickel Refinery. InJune 1936 he trans-

Mrs. Simpson ferred to the mech-anical department

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where he remained until retire-ment. Made a foreman in 1951, heheaded up the woodworking crewsfor several years before retirement.During the sunimer of 1960, hesupervised the erection of the largepurification tanks in the Com-pany's new refinery at Thompson,Manitoba.

Marion Rambo of Port Colbornebecame Vic's wife at Toronto in1928. Their son Victor is a flightlieutenant, RCAF, stationed atWinnipeg, and their daughter Joan(Mrs. Henry Boyer jr.) resides inPort Colborne. They have fourgrandsons and two grandaughters,

Vic served with the RCAF from1941 to 1945. He was a flight ser-geant, first as an instructor andthen in charge of maintenance,based at St. Thomas and Summer-side, P.E.I.

He is a past president of thePort Colborne branch, CanadianLegion, and continues as theLegions service officer, a post hehas held for the past 20 years.He Is chairman of the Air CadetLeague of Canada, Ontario divi-sion, and a director of ith nationalorganization.

Vic's many and varied interesthInclude bird watching, woodwork-ing and gardening, in addition thyouth work. He and Mrs. Simp-son have planned a motor trip toBi'itish Columbia, including ex-tensive touring in the Rockytains.

A large number of Vic's associ-ates gathered at a dinner at theClub Rheingold to congratulatehim on his retirement and pi'esenthim with a complete movie cameraoutfit, He was thanked for hismany years of stellar service tothe Company by J. H. Walter,assistant manager.

OVERDOING ITAt the bedside of the dying Scot-

tish merchant, his sorrowing wifeand family gathered for a few lastwords.

Can you hear us, Father?"sobbed his wife. We're all here,praying for you your sons anddaughters and your old Maggie."

With an anguished scream theold man sat up in bed, Who'slooking after the store?"

MOSTLY BULLSo you like my pooch," beamed

the sportily attired gent. "I'mglad. It cost a thousand dollars.Very rare breed. Part schnauzer.Part bull."

'Amazing," chuckled the lady hehad just met. 'Which part isbull?"

The gent broke down. The partabout the thousand dollars."

The chief cause of human erroris to be found in the prejudicespicked up in childhood. (Descartes)

Ccmedian Billy Meek convulsed the crowd with his barrage of okes, delivered in a broad Scottish accent.

At his retirement party Vic Simpson (second from left) chats with old friendsin the Port Colb3rne plant, Ivan Royal, Art Byng, Art Lewis, Muir McGowanand John Spencer.

Head table guests at Vic Simpson's bg send off were Chrs MacPhail, Ross Butler, Les Lewis, the guest of honor himself,assistant manager Jim Walter who expressed the Company's appreciation to Vic, Cam Lynden and Murray Miner.

Young trees, shrubs and flower beds dot broad sweep of lawn in Coniston's Centennial Park. On farside, dense crowd is gathered around platform for dedication ceremonies.

CONISTON DID ITSELF PROUDTIle smelter town of Coniston, where civic Mayor Mike Solski welcomed the distin-

spirit always runs high, distinguished itself guished visitors at the ceremonies, including theamong communities of the Nickel Belt with a federal minister of national revenue, E. J.long-to-be-remembered Centennial celebration Benson, the provincial minister of municipalon June 23. affairs, W. J. Spooner, and Inco assistant vice- '. ..

Coniston was proud as punch, and with president and general manager J. A. Pigott, a. .plenty of reason. It marked Canada's 100th former resident of Coniston. -

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Ta bronze plaqsamemoriaJ cenotaph, group5d5ya ..to go with already established playground handsome floats, and the 14 pretty Centennial Silver Cross mothers lay first wreath at base offacilities. ('ulsttnuel on l'msge 20 new cenotaph in park.

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Along with cenotaph, stainless steel fountainwas also unveiled in park during ceremonies.

Joe Stelmach races to beat the throw butClarence Fox makes putout in old-timers' base-ball game.

Rev. I.. R. A. Sutherland dedicates Centennial Park. Mayor Mike SoIski wears chain of office. At right isLegion president Albert Gallant.

Among the Centennial beauties.Queen and parade princesses had special place during parkdedication ceremony.

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The A:nazmg MachineHere is the machine that performsfascinating feats of electronic legerdemain after people have instructedit what to do. Don Frattini is feedng nformotion punch cards to thereader, whch can take them at 1,000per minute and transmit the information to the computer's bank of knowl-edge. Artie Midgley is typing acommand to the computer throughthe console of the central processingunit beside him; if he types a corn-rnand that the machine isn't programmed to accept, the consoe willprint out a message telling him he'swrong. Sharon Taylor is mounting a2,400-foot reel of magnetic tape ona tape drive; every inch of this 9-tracktape can hold 1,600 alphabetic char-acters or 3,200 numbers; a tape cancontain nearly 30,000,000 bits of information, and there are 300 tapesin the library. On the right NancyRutherford and Bill King are checkinga disk drive holding disk packs contaming up to 7,500,000 characters

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Millions of DataComputer at F

The punched card pay chequesthat Inco hourly-rated employeesin the Sudbury district have beenreceiving since May are an indica-tion of the work being performedby a new computer recently in-stalled at Copper Cliff to handlesome of the data processing prob-lems which are so much a part ofa modern business enterprise.

For many years the Companyhas had at Copper Cliff one of thelargest Installations of conven-tional business machines in themining industry. As in otherphases of its operations, the newestand most efficient machinery is be-ing acquired to keep abreast ofsteadily increasing data processingrequirements.

The new machine is an IBMSystem 360, model 40 computer,

Processed byintastic Speedone of the most modern installa-tions available today.

Early computer models hadthousands of vacuum tubes, likethose in radios; newer models aremore compact, using the smallertransistors. This latest machinegoes a step further, putting manyminute transistors the size of a pinhead, resistors and other parts ofthe electrical circuitry, on tinychips. These chips are then wiredtogether on small boards, andhundreds of these boards make upthe central processing unit of thecomputer.

A Busy MachineInstalled in December 1966, the

computer's first job was the crea-tion of mine schedules for under-ground working places. This wasan essential first step so that each

each. In right foreground is the high speed printer from which come all reports requested from the machine at therate of 20 pages a minute. The printer also prints employees' pay cheques at a speed af two per second.

Systems analysts are seen here working out the extremely complex problemof linking supplies systems, cost systems, plant production report systems andmine schedule systems for inter-use on the computer. From the left are PaulMarsh, Bob Ryan, Jim Grassby (chief, doto processing), Niels Larsen and RandyCave (supervisor, data processing). Niels is pointing out on a flow chart,one of the tools of the systems analysts trade, lust how these links shouldbe made,

Nerve Centre of the OperationHere is a close-up of the main frame of the computer's central processingunit. Bill King is at the console. The circuitry that does all the calculationsis housed in this nerve centre.

A group of data processing and accounting department personnel inspect thecondition of the first batch of the new punch card cheques that have beenreturned from the banks. Since these cheques have to go through the com-puter once again, folds, tears or staples create havoc. Less than one percentof the batch failed to go through.

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icuracy VitalIf yau've ever wondered how theholes get into computer cards, here isthe machine that does it. It's a keypunch machine, with a keyboard likea typewriter. Cards must be punchedfor every step of every computerprogram and for all the original datastored in computer's fabulous bank ofknowledge. Merilyn Guenette andSandra Twardy are converting dailytime reports into cards for the com-puter to read, while in the foregroundMarg DeSanti is using a verifier tocheck that the cards have beenpunched correctly. Since 8,000 timereports are handled every day, it'svery important that the writing be asclear as possible. The computer ispretty good at kicking out errors butif the account number, employee's

working place could have its costsand productivity rapidly calculatedby the computer. Next came thepayroll with its 100 programs, its8,000-Input time reports every day,and Its 15,000 cheques every week.Then came the "critical path"construction schedules for some ofthe new plants such as the Frood-

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_ anumber, work place number and the occupation code are correct, it certainlymakes life a lot easier for everybody.

Stobie mill. Next on the programare new systems for plant main-tenance, inventory control, costing,and many other accounting needs.

A lot of people like to think ofthis kind of machinery as a"brais". Nothing could be furtherfrom the truth, say the data pro-cessing personnel, who refer to it

COBOL is "Happy Talk" to ProgrammersIn the data processing lecture room Gruff Raitt (supervisor, programming>gives a talk on COBOL - "common business-oriented language" - which isthe language most computer programs are written in. Very much likeabbreviated English, it permits programs to be written more easily than inthe earlier machine languages. The programmers shown are Tim Holgote,Ivan Teeple, Casimir Kiersnowski, John Scopazzi, Joe Spigelski, and MarleneCholette.

rather irreverently as "just a bighunk of hardware". It's com-pletely dependent on people. Itcan perform staggering featsfaster than lightning, but it hasto be told what to do, every stepof the way.

Step-By-Step InstructionsWhen system analysts and pro-

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grammers want to prepare a pro-gram for the computer to carryout some routine or perform somehighly involved calculation, theyfirst make a chart of the program.and then write a step-by-stepseries of instructions in COBOL,"common business-oriented langu-age". There may be as many as5,000 separate instructions for asingle program, all of which arepunched into cards by the keypunch operators. Fed to the com-puter's reader the instructions aretranslated into the machine's owninternal language and the machinethen stores the complete programof instructions on a magnetic diskor on magnetic tape. Committedto the computer's bank of knowl-edge, this program can be recalledon command, either whole, or inpart for use in relation to someother program.

Thus are stored millions of stepsof instructions, covering massiveamounts of data, all available atthe flick of a switch to be pro-cessed accurately at fantasticspeed.

When a program is to be run onthe computer, the necessary mag-netic tapes and disks containingthe data to be processed aremounted on the tape or disk drives.A call deck of punch cards, iden-tifying the program to be run andgiving reference to the flies to beprocessed, is placed in the cardreader. The computer operatorthen presses the Load button onthe console, whereupon the calldeck is read into the mcahine'smemory. The computer will thenlocate the required program indisk storage, bring it Into memory,and transfer control of the ma-chine to the first Instruction stepof the program. This Instructionis then operated upon, and fur-ther instructions are followed insequence unless otherwise directed.

Producing The PayrollIn producing the payroll the

computer on instruction recalls toits memory from tape or disk theemployee's complete master record.Each day during the precedingweek it has read and stored allhis time reports. It is now in aposition to calculate his gross

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The systems and programs library is where the documents and program cardsbacking up each system are stored. Don Crouse is seen setting up a projectorfor an educational seminar while Judy Opaleychuk and Gail Assman study aprocedure manual that will help them in typing program layouts. DickWilliams of the mines department and Bill Campbell of stores ore digginginto the files for computer program printouts needed in their work in develop-ing mines incentive computer systems and supplies control systems.

This view of the key punch room shows some of the girls at their machines; in the back row, Rose-Marie Olivier,Dirce Mazzuchjn, Cecelia Downer and Kay Kuzniar; next row, Rose-Marie Maryshak, Norma Ceppetelli, Mary EllenFillator, and in front of them Sandra Twardy, Maureen Huntington, Marg DeSanti, Marg Lahti, and Barbara Tucker;in the left foreground are Marilyn Guenette and Sandy Walsh.

Library Busy Reference Hub

High angle view 01 the Cabot Trail, winding up thenorthern highlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

How DearFrom I

In thisfederotion ttbefore to ih

There isour countr)'smoods of itsboundless re!No countrymanifest desmuscle.

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Fishing village on Fogo Island, ofi the north coast of Newfoundland.

Fishing boat homeward bound at Perce Rock, Quebec.Skating rink in front of the City Hall, Toronto.

A great Canadian industry, International Nickel'sworks at Copper Clifi, Ontario.

year of the one hundredth anniversary of Con-.the people of our nation are awakening as nevere gbrious privilege of being Canadians.

is behg born a new and richer appreciation ofs cobrful history, its cultural heritages, the manys beauty, ls magnificent development, and itssourcesand opportunities for the years to come.in the world can excel its infinite variety, its

stiny, its inspiring challenge to heart, mind, and

theshold of our nation's second century wes Canadians with a deeper pride and sense of

y.ada! My country. Mon pays.

4Photographs trorn National Film Board, Ottawa

• Part of ancient Quebec City, v/towing Quebec Semin--j art tIow celehratin' itt third Centennary.

A beautiful beach at Cavendish Bay, Prince Edward Island.

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Lake Louise and its Chateau nestled below the magnificent Rockies.Thirteen exposures of tile ,nidnig/lt sun at Great Slave Lake

The grain elevators and rich farmland at Lewvan Saskatchewan.

Skyline of Vancouver againvt its spectacular backdrop of mountains.

Wild and furious action in tile steer decoratingcontest at tue annual Calgary Stampede.

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Henning BergstromSwede Bergstrom has elected to

retire on early service pensionfrom his job as first aid man atLevack after nearly 26 years withthe Company,

"The way I figure it," he rea-soned. "I'm in the best of health,

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I've got a good pension, whyshouldn't I enjoy it while I'm stillyoung at heart,"

Swede first saw the light of dayon a farm near Foam Lake InSaskatchewan in 1906. He leftthere for elevator construction atthe Lakehead in 1939, and whileworking there in 1941, was hiredto work at Levack. His move tothe safety department as a firstaid man came after seven yearsunderground,

His marriage to school teacherPeggy Hilmoe took place in 1941.

Swede and his wife are busilypacking for their move to BritishColumbia where they have a nuni-ber of relatives and friends.

"Scamp and I will miss the birdhunting around here," said Swedeas he fondled his spaniel's longears. "But I understand there'ssome good bird country out West,so I guess we'll make out OK."

Philip MorelliAfter 48 years with the Com-

pany, Philip Morelli has retiredon service pension from his Jobas an orderly at the Copper CliffHospital.

The Italian Club was the scenewhen some 250 frIends and ad-mirers gathered to honor his longand valuable service, and presenthim with a gold watch and a tra-velling bag. Present to recallsome of Philip's history and paytribute to his efficiency and popu-larity were Inco chief surgeon Dr.B. F. Hazlewood and retired chiefsurgeon Di'. H. F. Mowat, who re-membered that it was Philip who'taught him the ropes" when hestarted at the hospital in 1934.

Born in 1902, in Fano, Italy,Philip joined his brother in CopperCliff in 1919. He worked at tilesmelter for six months beforejoining the hospital staff as afurnaceman. Soon Installed as anorderly, Philip recalled that inthose days his duties included"feeding the furnace, cleaning thewindows, and tending a vegetablegarden beside the hospital," in ad-dition to his thoughtful attentionto the patients.

Philip married Landa Sylvesulin 1927, and has a family of twodaughters, both married to Irtcoemployees: Kay is the wife ofBucky Basso of the electrical de-partment line gang, and Irene ismarried to reverb departmentgeneral foreman Tom Antonioni.Three grandchildren complete thefamily.

Philip and Mrs. Morelli arepresently on a Eui'opean tour

which started with a visit to hishome towil for the first time in48 years. They will also seeSwitzerland, Greece and Englandbefore returning to their home onDiorite Street, Copper Cliff, inSeptember,

The smoke stack at Interna-tional Nickel's iron ore recoveryplant at Copper Cliff is the tallestin the British Commonwealth, Itstands 637 feet high on a base 22feet in diameter.

PRACTICAL YOIJNG MANNurse (to 8-yeai'-old Bobby):

"Would you like me to show youthe nice cute little baby the storkbrought your mother?"

Bobby: "Naw Show me thestork !"

A group of hisfriends in theCreighton mechani-cal department pre-sented popularpowerhouse engin-eer Ovjla Racinewith a fishing rodand box of tackleon his retirement.In the picture are:front row, mastermechanic GeorgePassi, Joe Fortune,Louis Roy, Ovila Racine, Alex Timeriski, assistant master mechanicMacDonald, Cliff Logan, Morris Coulter, Dick Brooks, Ray Larouche.

Paddy RaciiieAs a stationary engineer, Paddy

Racine has tended the boilers andthe shining compressors at Garson,Stobie, Murray and Creighton sincehe joined the Company in 1942. Heretired recently from Creighton onservice pension after 24 years withthe Company.

"They may be only machines,"said Paddy, "but, bless me, I gotquite attached to them. I knew alltheir' little tricks. It may soundfunny-but I miss them,"

Born in Aldfleld, Quebec, in 1902,

Paddy was one of nine children,and left home to fend for himself

when he was 15,Bushwoi'k and trap-ping filled the yearsuntil he joined Incoat Murray as a fire-man on the boilers,and one year later

- he successfullywrote his fourthclass stationary en-

AL _,gineer papers.

"I can't just sitaround doing noth-Mrs. Racineing," said Paddy,

who now has a full-time job in

charge of metals and maintenanceat a Sudhury salvage yard. "I'llbe taking some time off next fallthough- I've got a date vith amoose in the Foleyet area."

Paddy and Irene Robitaille weremarried in 1929, and their LtniilYof four are Raymond, J,'niiliieMrs. Euclid Quenville), ?tarce1,

and Regent, all of SudburY, to-gether with a fine crop of 18grandchildren.

With a great love for children,Paddy and his wife have alsobrought up four for the Childi'efl'SAid Society in addition tO theirown,

Some of the 250 guests attending the dinner at the Italian Club to honor Philip Morelli on his retirement after almost48 years as an orderly at the Copper Cliff Hospital.

Shown at the head table are Mrs. Gordon Machum, Philip Morelli, who was presented with an inscribed gold watch,chief surgeon Dr. Brent Haziewood, assistant general manager G. 0. Machum, and Mrs. Morelli.

Fern Roberts; back row, Ccc Johnson, Niorman

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Inco's 50 Years in Port ColborneSaluted Along with Centennial

A double anniversary, Canada's100th and the International Nickelrefinery's 50th, was symbolized byInco's impressive industrial floatin Port Colborne's record three-mile parade on July 1st.

Created by Refinery craftsmen,the float was surmounted by arevolving nickel stainless steelreplica of the 1951 CanadIannickel, which was specially struckto commemorate the 200th anni-versary of the isolation of nickelas an element by the Swedishscientists Cronstedt. The coin bearsa design representing the Com-pany's Port Colborne refinery.

A miniature smoking chimneyand fluttering flags rounded outthe exhibit, but the applause of

the huge crowds lining the paraderoute was mostly for the beauti-fully fabricated coin replica andthe two charming office staffmembers who rode beside it.

The 90-unit parade of floats,marching units and bands, a pic-turesque Centennial Ball, joyousstreet frolic and special religiousservices, were highlights of theJuly 1st celebration at Port Col-borne, a community with a strongsense of history.

International Nickel's goldenjubilee in the city sent old-timers'minds reaching back to the com-mencement of the plant construc-tion in the spring of 1917.

Site Selected In 1916In October of 1916 a reconnoiter-

ing committee had come up fromthe Company's Orford works atBayonne, N.J., where matte fromCopper Cliff was refined, to survey

the situation. In this eroup wereAmbrose Monell, InternationalNickel's first, president. W. AflBostwick, who became president in1917, R. C. Stanley, who later be-came chairman and president, E.F. Wood, F. Ludlam, and C. G.Brannigan.

Choice of Port Colborne as a re-finery site was largely influencedby the proximity of water trans-portation and an ample supply ofelectric power. Property for theplant was purchased from D.McGillivray and construction wascommenced by the FoundationCompany early in 1917.

Using the old Oi'ford process,which was later transferred toCopper Cliff, production got un-derway in 1918. Compared to to-day's vast modei-n operation cover-ing several acres, the original plantwould seem very small, and manyof the practices crude and labori-ous, but nevertheless it was a high-ly significant development toCanada in that it made possiblethe complete treatment of nickelores to refined metal within thecountry of their origin.

Members of the original operat-ing staff came from the Bayonneplant, John More was manager,J. T. Kemp assistant manager, 0.Rohburg works engineer, E. A.Thompson master mechanic, W. E.Murphy works auditor, A. H.Schuyler superintendent of con-verters and cupola, H. P. Roesuperintendent of wet house andcalciners, E. T. Harper, superinten-dent of refinery. W. J. Freemanjr., who was to become manager,arrived in January 1919 to be re-finery superintendent succeedingE. T. Harper, who died.

Among the early employees wereJack Jennings of Bayonne, JackWilson and Frank Gallinger, whowere transferred from CopperCliii, and three well-known PortColborne men, Eddie Noyes, ArtWeaver and "Spike" Grace.

Has Made Big ContributionThe record of the Port Colborne

plant over the years has been oneof steady growth in productioncapacity along with great stridesin technical skill. In both respectsit has kept pace with the otherdivisions of International Nickel'soperations, building a world-widereputation for the Company notonly as the biggest nickel producer,but also as a keenly progressiveand efficient enterprise.

Two lovely Centennial princesses from the Port Colborne office, Elaine White representing the modern and ElaineLaing the traditional, gave a regal touch to International Nickel's double-anniversary float.

Inco's Al Crosson was grand winnerof "Brothers of the Brush" contest,community Centennial stunt.

Evening TribunePort Colborne Arena was strikingly transformed into "Upper Canada House"for Centennial Ball, second to none in Niagara Peninsula. Among the 800persons in costume were these Inca couples, Pat and Ken Brownell, Marilynand Larry Roach, and Betty and Les Parry.

Harry Preston Roe, 76, retired superintendent, is the anly member remainingin Port Colborne of the original staff at Inco's nickel refinery, where construc-tion commenced 50 years ago. He's shown here with his son Preston (Pep)of the precious metals lab., his grandson Harry of the electrolytic department,and his great grandson Richard, 2, unquestionably a future manager ofthe plant.

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Hardy Characters of Early DaysJULY, 1967

14th Sudbury appeared as Micmac Indians, complete with howls

Annual Cuboree a Colorful DisplayOf Some of Canada's First Citizens

Indians, fur traders, soldiers,settlers and other hardy denizensof Canada in its earliest daysmade a spectacular sight as thesixth annual Sudbury district Cu-boree presented a Confederationkaleidoscope.

Close to 1,000 cubs, from 42 packsbetween Burwash and Levack, andWarren and Whitefish, throngedthe parkiand opposite the CopperRefinery in a youthful salute toCanad&'s first 100 years.

In the warm sunshine some weremore fortunate than others. Thelucky lads wearing the authenticwarpaint of the early Ojibway,Huron, and Micmac Indians, werecool and comfortable in their loin-cloths and bare backs, while thoseplaying the part of the palef acefur traders huffed and puffedunder bearskin hats, buckskin

The hardy Selkirksettlers with theircovered wagon wereportrayed by A andB packs from 2ndMinnow Lake.

jackets, tall boots and heavy packs.The program for the day started

by bringing all the cubs togetherfor prayers and the traditionalstirring grand howl. This helpsto give the youngsters some Ideaof the magnitude of our move-irient," explained district commis-sioner Alex Gray. "The Interim-tional Boy Scout movement is thelargest uniformed organization inthe world, over ten and a halfmillion strong. We have a mem-bership of 35,000 in Canada, withhalf that number in Ontario."

Able and efficient cuboree chiefthis year was Mrs. May Thom ofFalconbridge.

In addition to costumes, the pro-ject of each pack included prepar-ing a display of articles and handi-work representative of the group it

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The fur traders of 1st Creighton were judged best. JTroops of Wolfe and Montcalm, portrayed by A and B packs of 1st Capreol troop.

2nd Sudbury's A and B pccks came as Ojibwoy and Huron Indians.

1st Waters A and B packs took a long stride back into time, arriving on thescene costumed as Vikings. Voyageurs and fur traders came from 1st CopperCliff below).

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Many beautiful floats were on display in the mile-long parade that waund Mayor Len Turner and Legan president Ted Marrson watch Os Silver Crossthrough Uvely during its Centennol celebration, mother Mrs. T. Roy places wreoth ot the town's new cenotaph.

-r'-';- 4: Teen-Age Sorority

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Donated Cenotaph ati'i - \. ''

-.1- Lively's CentennialDedication of a memorial cairn

and colors honoring the town'sf • warrior dead was a solemnly im-

L pressive feature of Lively's verysuccessful Centennial celebrationon June 17.

The cenotaph was adopted threeyears ago as a Centennial projectby the town's teen-age sorority,

4 Sigma Phi Kappa, and funds for.its construction were raised by aseries of activities conducted by

q these community-minded yGungladies. It was presented to C. J.

As their Centennol prolect these members of Lively's teen-age sorority, Sigma Phi Kappa, The towr's littlest cop wosMeaden branch of the RoyalCanadian Legion by Martha For-

raked the morey to build th towrs cenotap1. on traffic duty oil day. tin, and accepted on behalf of thebranch by president G. T. Mor-rison,: The ceremony of dedicating the

lcairn and colors was performed by

4: Rev. M. T. Fisher of the UnitedChurch, Rev. Arthur Crisp of theAnglican Church, and Rev. D.Whitelaw of the Baptist church.

Mrs. Corinne Young, daughterof the late C. J. Meaden, was oneof those laying wreaths at thebase of the cenotaph. Mayor Len

k,.Turner presented the wreath forh i i l tA ' t e prov nc a governmen .

A dsplcy of karate proved to be a popular ottrocton Senior dtizens. many of them n period costume, WereLively's official Centennial pro-

ject, a $15,000 addition doublingwth the big crowd, entertained at a tea party. the capacity of the town library,

was opened earlier thIs year andhas already proved a great boonto the community.

Centennial committee chairmanBert Squirell and his enthusiastic

. cohorts lined up the busy program$ of activities for June 17, with4 entertainment of the childrenchiefly in mind. And over 1200 ofthem, cheering, singing, and way-j flags marched with 200 adults' in the big parade, almost all inI Centennial costumes.

Among the many striking floatsr: in the parade were the prize-win-- ning entries from both public

-. schools, one a group of historicalcharacters portrayed by grade 7students of No. 1 School and the\ other a display of Centennial cos-

- tumes by grades 5 and 6 of No, 2School.

- Running and novelty races, con-- tests for best-decorated bicycle,wagon and doll carriage, and prizes

Thre were same 1,200 flag-wovrg school children as well as 200 cdults marching in the parade, many wearing for the best costumes were allCentenniol costumes. Flogs of oil the provinces decoroted the mom street. ('ntnne on P-ige 'O

For Fourth Consecutive Year LevackWins Inco Mine Rescue

For the fourth year in succes-sion the Levack mine team emergedvictorious among Inco entries Inthe annual provincial mine res-cue competitions, retaining thehandsome symbolic trophy donatedby John McCreedy.

Presentation of the trophy tookplace at a dinner given by Inter-national Nickel for the five teamsand their briefing officers at theCassio restaurant, mines manager

CompetitionG. R. Green doing the honors. Inhis brief remarks he praised theingenuity and resourcefulness ofminers in coping with situationsarising in their daily work, andsaid that the men on the minerescue teams stood ready to demon-strate these qualities to a highdegree in the event of a seriousemergency.

General safety engineer JackRickaby, who was master of cere-

Stowing owoy theirequipment in thegovernment minerescue stotion truckore three membersof the Garson team,Fronk Horsfoll,Mourice Martin, ondFloyd Loking.

monies, made special mention ofthe excellent co-operation extendedby the staff of the government'sdistrict mine rescue station atFrood mine in training the teams.

Assistant general manager Gor-don Machum, mines superinten-dent Mel Young, safety superin-tendent Charlie Hews, mines ven-tilation engineer Jim Rutherford,provincial district engineer ofmines Bill Hoffman, and RayFraser, safety director of theMines Accident Prevention As-sociation of Ontario, were headtable guests.

Victorious Levack was given agreat ovation, but at the same timewas warned by the other teamsthat its domination of Inco minerescue competition would get avery stiff challenge next year.

Tricky Test ProblemThe many hours of extra study

and training put in by the teamsin preparation for the contestproved to be a good investmentwhen they were faced with thetricky test problem set by thedepartment of mines.

They were required to rescue afireguard who was trapped in anunderground refuge station by afire burning in a battery chargingstation. Each team had to bringits man safely to surface despitea "power failure" which occurredat a crucial moment while theywere coming up the shaft in thecage. During this delay the man'ssupply of air from his Scott AirPak became almost exhausted.Consequently on reaching surfacethe team was required to rush himto the hoist room and connect hisbreathing apparatus to anothersource of compressed air.

Besides Levack and Frood-Stobie, shown in the accompany-ing photograph, the other teamsin the ail-Inco section of the pro-vincial competition were: Garson,Captain Art Schillemore, M. Mar-tin, J. Guthrle, F. Lak.ing, F. Hors-fall, M. Dushrene, and briefingofficer Jack McDonald; Murray,captain John Ratushniak, R.Plouffe, R. Tennant, K. Leech, W.Cichomskl, C. Weist, and briefingofficer Carl Clubbe; Creighton,captain Bill Duncan, D. Weidmark,R. Cormier, R. Empie, R. Peacock,J. Gauthier, briefing officer EricAshick.

LONOTONOUS LIFE'It says here in the newspaper,"

said the old gentleman, "that aman is run over in New York

Mines ventilotion engineer Jim Rutherford, sofety superintendent Chorlie Hews, every half hour."ond government mine rescue station superintendent Horry Moorehouse look 'Dear me F' said the old lady.over the equipment of three rescue teommotes. 'The poor fellow

12 Fine Apple Trees inNick's Sudbury Orchard

"All my friends were leaving forCanada, so I figured I should goalong too," said Copper Cliff dis-ability pensioner Nick Holynski.

He was 24 in 1929 when he leftProbabyn in West Ukraine to seekhis fortune here. "Like so many

Mr. ond Mrs. Holynski

others, I planned to return homeafter a few years with a nest egg.But instead I have worked for theCompany for 31 years, and with noregrets."

Nick had worked his way fromcoast to coast by 1935 when hejoined Inco at the concentrator towalk the tailings line. He wasemployed as a fitter in the reverbbuilding when he injured his leg,and since that time has worked inthe reverb office.

A Fort William girl, Alice Olenik,became Nick's wife in 1935. Theirfamily of three are Alicia, marriedto Stobie construction leaderJullan Maluha, Myrna Mrs. DanMaren) of Toronto, and Nick Jr.who lives at home with hisparents. Their two grandchildrenare close neighbors and alwayswelcome visitors.

The grounds around the Holyn.-ski home on Nicholas Street showthe results of careful and constantgardening. Nick's special prideare a dozen apple trees he plantedsome 15 years ago. "Our home isa nice place to be during the sum-mer," said Nick as he surveyedthe garden. "But now that wehave the choice, I think we'll beheading south for the winters."

TAKE IT EASY, BUD!Two sailors had been adrift on

a raft for days when one, losingall hope of rescue, knelt in prayer.

Oh, Lord," he moaned, "I've leda worthless life. I've drunk toexcess. I've been mean to mywife and I've neglected my chil-dren. But if you save me fromthis, I promise

'Hold it Jess," mterrupted hiscompanion. 'Don't promise any-thing drastic. I think I see laud."

The jubilont Levock mine teom receives the McCreedy trophy for Inco minerescue competition from monoger of mines G. R. Green (right): briefing officerMel Guse, Bob Nodeou, Tom Tolbot, coptoin Eddie Luomo, Roy leblanc, FredMooney, Roger Gosselin.

In a huddle to study the test problem are the Frood.Stobie mine representcitives, John Murroy, Sheldon Porter, Bill Mowhinney, coptoin George Orbeck,Ed Johnston, Dick Lompmon, Martin Von Home and (bock to camera) briefingofficer John l,eonord.

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Key Beam Is Big ImprovementTo Undercut-and-Fill Mining

A new type of construction to support the overhead sand fillin undercut-and-fill mining has been developed at Levack

mine and is iien a substantial measure of the credit for thatmine's increases in both efficiency and production.

The highly successful innovation is a key-beam structurethat replaces the laminated stringer with posts over which themat is laid to form the roof of an undercut-and-fill stope.

The timber legs of the key-beamare framed with bevelled ends tocreate an arch when matched ina short section of steel H-beam atthe centre of the span. The otherends of the timber legs are sup-ported on steel gussets bolted tothe pillar walls of the st.ope. Tim-ber braces are installed betweenthe key-beams. The mat Is thenlaid over the beams and themined-out area above is tightlybacklilled.

Under such a stum'dy self-sup-

ported cove!' it is now possible tomine multiple benches instead ofhaving to instal a post-supportedmat after each bench is miued, asis the practice in conventionalundercut-and-fill stoping. Elimina-tion of posts has also greatly in-creased the working area ma thestope, allowing the use of a 60-inch scraper when slushing, i'atherthan the 48-inch scraper conven-tionally in use.

Another advantage of the key-beam Is that it permits the use of

a mat made of 1-inch plank in-stead of the round logs installedIn the original design, greatlysimplifying the arduous and time-consuming work of nipping con-struction material Into the slope.

Since Levack is the major userof the undercut-and-fill methodamong Inco mines, the advantagesof the key-beam structure havebeen clearly demonstrated In itsproduction figures. Coming at atime when the demand for nickelis so great that every additionalton is of importance, such an im-provement in operations takes onspecial significance in the Com-pany's multi-million dollar pro-gram to bridge the production gap.

The key-beam principle hassince been extended to the otherInco mines.

Divine Inspiration?The idea for using the keg-

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beam type of construction came toGrant Bertrim, assistant superin-tendent at Levack mine while hewas vacationing in Florida. At-tending church, and presumaniycasting his eyes heavenward dur-ing the anthem by the choir, henoted the self-supporting archedroof of the building and graduallyfell to wondering why a similarbasic structure, transmitting tImeroof load to the walls, wouldn'tget rid of all those posts in under-cut-and-fill stopes.

"I suppose the moral is obvious,"he remarked to the Triangle wit.lma quiet smile. "Us Inco minem'sshould go to church more often."

High quality guitar strings aremade of a nickel-copper alloywhich stays bright and clean, willnot stain or tarnish, and resistscorrosion.

KEY-BEAM CONSTRUCTION IS ALSO USED in roofs of gangways and driftsat Levack, resulting in increased versatility in the mining operations. ABOVEa gangway on 3000 level installed between a pillar and sandflll; RogerGosselin stands at the chute, while Gary Bass replaces a piece of plankflooring. BELOW a key-beam roof in a crosscut; the miners are Alan Savoyand Alan Armstrong.

IN THIS UNDERCUT AND-FILL STOPE on 2200 level at Levack the new self-supporting key-beam roof construction permits mining of multiple benches,greatly increasing production efficiency. Drilling the second 10-foot benchare Dennis Trottier and Bob Lewis. Since this particular stope adjoins asand-filled blasthale stope, timber support has been installed at the end forextra protection.

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Garson's DayGarson was en fete June 24 for

a grand celebration of Canada's100th birthday. Although stagedon a smaller scale than many ofNickel Belt festivities, the fieldday was big with Centennial spirit.Members of the various com-munity organizations worked tire-lessly under the sponsorship ofNeelon-Garson Township councilto score a real success.

Following a brilliant bicycleparade the opening ceremony wasconducted by township reeve LeoJones. Then came the childrensraces in the Lions Club park, withsilver dollars for the winners andtreats for all. After that therewas some wild jousting as contest-ants belabored one another withpillows while sitting astride agreasy pole. A log-sawing contest,a tug-o-war In which five teamspulled mightily, and softball, soc-cer and horseshoe tournamentsadded to the enjoyment. Unfor-tunately the fiddling contest wasrained out, but the street danceand go-go show was moved to thehigh school auditorium which waspacked with people, many incostume.

The committee in charge of thebig day was: Len Atkinson, chair-man, Bill Sleaver, chief of policeJoe Carriere, Mac Brown, BenScagnetti, Fred Desjardlns andNart Cummings.

This smoothworkingteam had that oldcrosscut saw sing-ing, and seemedsure to set a recordtime, when the handie broke I

Little Miss Jumping Bean

The chIden's races were a big feature of the NeeionGarson Centennial Field Day.

You could hear the mighty muscles creaking in the tug-o.war contest.

Four ringers, no less!

This salute to progress got a big laugh as It passed in the parade.Young gladiators had at one another fiercely on the greasy pole.

JULY. 1967

LEONARD 6wiJ1902 • 65 YEARS

Barney HamiltonIt's a good thing that no Holly-

wood talent scouts were amongthe 390 attending the retirementparty held for Barney Hamiltonat the Italian Club, or the CopperCliff electrical department wouldprobably be minus several goodmen about now.

The boys wrote and acted outtwo side-splitting one-act comediesshowing the 'New Way" of mak-ing electrical repairs, and a sup-posed "Old Way" which included

in the cast onecharacter closelyresembling the hon-ored guest of theevening.

Ontario divisiongeneral manager J.A, Pigott was pres-ent to offer congra-tulations and good

o wishes to Barney,,J who worked for the

Mrs. Hamilton Company for 45years. Barney

couldn't bear to see electricalequipment in poor shape," he said."If a motor wasn't running justright, he took a firm stand, taggedit, and it didn't run again until itsas fixed."

Electrical superintendent A. E.Prince recalled some of the high-lights of Barney's colorful careerand, on behalf of the gathering,presented him with a color tele-vision set. Other gifts, in a lighterscm, included a stout pair of sus-ponders intended to eliminate Bar-ney's characteristic two-ws'istedhitch to his pants.

Organizer of the highly success-ful party, and emcee for the even-inc was electrical foreman BillVanAllen. The budding actors

Barney enjoyed thejokes on himselfmore than anybodyelse at the party,On the left is emceeBill VanAllen, andon the right elec-trical superintendentArt Prince and gen-eral manager JackPigott,

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wouldn't suit this youthful andagile veteran at all. "I've got ajob lined up for the fall," said he.

understand that idle retirement

"I wouldn't be happy just twiddlingmy thumbs. I like a job with lotsof challenge - and believe methere was plenty of it with theCompany. I enjoyed every minuteof my time there."

who displayed their latent talentwere Red Harryett, Bobbie Kujula,Sheldon McCartney, Sid Yateswith his banjo, Dennis Hannah,Rollie Albert and Ron Sirkia.

Born in Copper Cliff in 1902,and christened Leonard, Barneywas well-known in his youngerdays for his love of cars and therather carefree attitude with whichhe drove them. "And that's howI got my first nickname," he ex-plained. "I guess the boys figuredI resembled racing driver BarneyOldfleld. I really don't know why,my old Ford with the box couldonly make 38 miles an hour fiatout."

Assistant To Electrical Supt,After working at two local stores

he joined Inco in 1920 as a steamhoist fireman, and three monthslater, switched to the electricaldepartment to work on the Orfordblast furnace electric locos. Heworked as a first class maintenanceelectrician until 1928, then spenttwo years as switchboard operatorat the smelter substation. Elec-trical construction followed, andin 1936 he was promoted to elec-trical construction boss. Thatsame yeas' he became electricalforeman, and in 1961 was appoint-ed as assistant to the electricalsuperintendent.

His marriage to Isobel Greigwa.s solemnized in 1929. The couplehave been blessed with two daugh-ters, Lorraine (Mrs. Don Saville)on the staff of the Port ColborneHospital and Barbara, an operat-ing room supervisor in South PeelHospital at Cookaville. Their threegrandchildren are visiting them attheir home on Clarabelle Road inCopper Cliff for two months ofthe summer.

Anyone who knows Barney will

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performing tribal dances to thebeat of a tomtom and the high-pitched native singing of leaderWalter Bonaise. There were base-ball, soccer, bowling, billiard, flourpacking, and greasy pole tourna-ments. There was a soap-boxderby, a big talent contest, afashion show, a pet show, a thrill-ing fireworks display. There wasa community singsong, parachutejumping by Doug Cowell, judgingof the beard contest, and four orfive dances. The ponies in thepony ride had to be given a reston account of sore feet. The fa-mous Keystone Kops levied "fines"left and right with reckless au-thority. There was a barbeque, afish fry, pancake breakfasts. Therewere draws for a summer cottageand a car, A '10-piece band ofclean-cut young high school boysand girls from a small Minnesotatown with big spirit played stirringmusic. There was an inter-de-nominational service of praise andthanksgiving. And every eventdrew a big crowd,

Rain forced postponement of thegrand parade on the morning ofJuly 1st, but with true Westernoptimism the committee just re-scheduled it for early evening, andsure enough the sun burst forthin the nick of time. The town'syouth groups, sports organizations,fraternal and service organizationsand the nurse's association, wereall well represented in the trium-phant procession, which was ledby scarlet-tuniced RCMP constableGreg Balmer, riding Adrien Baker'sbeautiful saddle horse.

$8,000 Raised for LibraryThompson came through the

three-day bash in fine shape, andwas delighted to hear that about$8,000 had been realized towardcompleting the furnishing of thetown's official Centennial project,a handsomely designed newlibrary.

Hundreds of willing helperspitched in to assist the Centennialcommittee, which was composedof: Don Cameron, president; DougRoss. secretary; Jack Bryson, vice-president; Hugh Boyd, treasurer;Roy Hill, construction; Pete An-derson, concessions; Don Duff andMarilyn Lamontagne, publicity;John Zonneveld and AudreyHooge, Indian liaison; HawleyDuncan and Joyce McDonald,program,

The West may traditionally bea "next year" country, but 1968'sThompson celebration will have togo some to surpass the great saluteto Canada's 100th birthday.

NOT HIS FAULT"Why is it that sometimes you

seem manly and sometimeseffeminate?"

"Heredity, I suppose.""Heredity?""Yes, half of my ancestors were

men and half were women."

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Lorne NobleWhen he kept his date with the

Triangle camera for a retirementpicture Lorne Noble was in train-ing for his trip this summer to theCalgary Stampede, hence thatsweeping sombrero.

A Manitoulin Island native,Robert Lorne Noble had farmed

and worked Inthe lumbercamps on theNorth Shore

) before joiningthe Copper

• Cliff police de-partment in

When he

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stepped intoretirement athe Creightondetachment,where he had

i.orne Noble been stationedfor most of his 25 years' service,inspector Kiley presented him witha wallet and keycase on behalf ofhis fellow officers. He also receiveda poem of which he is very proud,written in his honor by Creighton'spoet laureate, Jim Kearney.

Jean Stringer, who becameLorne's wife in 1927, died in 1955,leaving a family of four: Marion(Mrs. Fred Piehl) of Limehouse,Ontario, near Brampton; Kathleenand Nancy of Hamilton, and Ron,an electrician at Copper Cliffsmelter.

Lorne, who resides at Naughton,takes great delight in his sixgrandchildren,

It was double honors for the14th Sudbury Boy Scout troopwhen two brothers, Cliff andRichard Paquette were presentedwith Queen's Scout badges, thehighest award in Scouting, TheIsoys are shown receiving the Scoutleft-hand handshake from theirproud father, Joe Paquette of theCopper Cliff transportation de-partment, following the presenta-tions.

At the same ceremony Richardon the righti was also selected

as the troop's most progressivescout of the year.

District commissioner Alex Graymade the presentations and notedthat "This Centennial year, 1967,becomes even more memorablewhen you consider it is also theDiamond Jubilee of the foundingof the Boy Scout movement." Healso extended his congratulationsto the boys' scoutmaster, HaroldSaville of the Copper Cliff carpen-ter shop, and their parents "whomade it possible for thcsn to attainthis high degree of efficiency."

There wasn't much doubt about who was the guest of honor at this retirementstag, or who was the victim of the gags in the cleverly humorous skits stagedby members of the Copper Cliff Electrical department, It was BarneyHamilton's night all the way,

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earnings, charges up that pair ofsafety shoes he bought at thewarehouse, figure out his incometax deduction, etc., etc., and de-termine the net amount of hischeck which it prints out in detail.The cheque number and the netamount it stores on tape. Theaverage time of the computer perman per week for all of this pro-cessing is about six seconds,.

The punch holes in the chequerepresent it.s number. When thecancelled cheques are returnedfrom the bank they are runthrough the computer, whichrecognizes the cheque numbers,refers to its stored data, and veri-ties the bank's record of theamount of money it has paid out.Just like that,

Needless to say, the girls and

men who do this work need quitea special aptitude which isn't invery great supply, and then theyneed training to learn how to usethe tools of the trade. Nearly allInco's programmers and analystshave been found in various depart-ments of the Company mines,smelters, purchasing, accounting,etc.

One of the chief things they needto know is "how to be careful", sothat the programs they write don'tproduce garbage, and as a matterof fact that is what everyone con-nected with data processing has toknow; every shift boss, every clerk,every engineer, every person whoproduces data that may eventuallyend up in the computer has to tryto "do it right" so the machinedoesn't waste its time grinding outerrors.

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Queen candidates in their grace-ful gowns of the early days, wasled by the Coniston band led bydirector Dan Totino and resplen-dent in new uniforms.

The park area, a 20-acre bud-ding beauty spot in the centre oftown donated by InternationalNickel, was landscaped and lawnedwith the assistance of the Com-pany's agricultural department. Itwas dedicated by Rev, 0. Campeau,rector of Our Lady of MercyRoman Catholic Church, and Rev.L. R. A. Sutherland of All SaintsAnglican Church.

Impressive CenotsphTwo Silver Cross mothers, Mrs.

Lena Forestell and Mrs. HelenChabot, placed the first wreath atthe base of the impressively simplecenotaph with its long sword offreedom and bronze tablets listingthe Conlston men who gave theirlives in two world wars. The ceno-taph, donated by the Royal Cana-dian Legion, and the modernstainless steel fountain crafted bymembers of the smelter mechanicaldepartment, were both designedby Leo Poirier, Coniston man onthe staff of the engineering de-partment at Copper Cliff.

The mayor's chain of oflce, anornately designed continuous linkof nickel was presented by thevery active Coniston Lions Club.It bears the municipal crest show-ing the two smelter chimneys,along with two locomotives signify-ing the railways that serve thetown, and clasped hands designat-ing the many ethnic origins andcreeds all working and living to-gether for the betterment of thecommunity.

Ecumenical Centennial ServiceIn the morning 850 flag-waving

schoolchildren paraded to the parkto join the townspeople in aninter-denominational service ofpraise and thanksgiving. Dec11-cated during the service, the flagsfor the pai'k's seven flagpoles wereraised by Boy Scouts and GirlGuides. Children's races were runoff, with silver dollars as prizes.

An exciting display of fireworksand three big dances put thecrowning touch to the festivities.Maureen Smith was crowned Cen-tennial Queen.

Mayor Solski in his eloquentaddress, traced Coniston's historyfrom its origin in 1905. A small

farming community in NeelonTownship, it was named after thetown of Coniston In CumberlandCounty, England, by T. P. Johns-ton, construction superintendentof the railway built through it Inthat year.

"We've reached a 100-year chap-ter in Canada's history, We shouldbe proud to take part In it, as wemark a new beginning of ouractivities as a nation in the secondcentury.

"Let's make it a time of confi-dence, optimism and determinationthat we, together, shall spare noeffort to cultivate and preserve theprinciples of truth, honor and jus-tice in Canada and among all thepeoples of the earth."

The mayor acknowledged thecommunity's debt of gratitude toInternational Nickel, the membersof the town council, and the manyorganizations and citizens who hadcontributed to the success of theCentennial celebration,

The town's Centennial commit-tee was made up of G. Sartor, T.Paradis, J. Fera, J. Barbe, P.Gnidoskl, 0, Halverson, John Fan-tin, Maurice Gaudette, Mrs. M.Quesnel, Mrs. G. Adams, P. G.Olivier and P. Vanderhenne.

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portrayed. After judging, topmarks and the prize of a packequipment box went to the well-turned out 1st Creighton packunder leadership of tireless cubmaster Eddie Cayen of Creightonpolice detachment.

Members of the 2nd BattalionIrish Regiment gave a very real-istic display of modern warfaretactics, after which the youngstersshed their restricting costumes totry their skill at various obstaclecourses and other hilarious shena-nigans resigned to absorb greatamounts of youthful energy.

A moving sunset ceremony, withcampfire sing-song and music fromthe pipes and drums of the CopperCliff Highiand Cadet Corps band,drew to a close a day during whichmany a young lad gained someinsight into the sturdy characterand spirit of the pioneers whowrested this part of the continentfrom the wilderness.

Many Inco men are actively in-terested in the Boy Scout move-ment, helping to fill the urgentneed for leaders to carry on this

Copper Cliff Club's Bowling Champs

League supervisorKen Fyall is seenpresenting the Rose-mary Ovens trophyto the proud win-ners of the ladies'bowling leogue,coptain Barb lay.br, Marg Faddick,Nancy Campbelland Dinny Mc-Closky.

Winners of the mixed bowling league,shown with the E, C, Lambert trophyare captain Doug Fuller, DoreenVilleneuve, Russ VanAllen and LyndaMa rynuk.

worthwhile program of buildinggood citizens for the Canada oftoworrow. Among those seen atthe Cuboree, marshalling theircharges and assisting In the ad-ministrative work, were HaroldSaville of the Copper Cliff car-penter shop, Jim Van Exan of theIron Ore plant, George Tincombeof the smelter electrical depart-ment, Morley Doherty of the con-centrator, Bill Gowen from thereverb department, Jerry Bertrandfrom the payofflce, and Jack Som-mers from the separation buildinglab.

Ed LeBreton Proud ofHis 30 Grandchildren

Born and raised in the fishingvillage of Tracadie, New Bruns-wick, it was appropriate that re-cently retired Frood service pen-sioner Ed Lebreton was presentedwith a fishing rod and reel by a

Mr, and Mrs. LeBreton

bunch of the boys who visited himat his Riverside Drive home todeliver the gift, and to wish himwell In his well-earned leisureyears. Ed worked for the Companyfor more than 30 years.

Born in 1902, Ed tilled the landand cut the tall timber until 1935when he decided to see a littlemore of Canada. He had travelledas far west as Sudbury by 1936,and joined the Company atCreighton mine. Two years laterhe transferred to Frood, worked

at the open pit, and for the past10 years has been a salvage man.

In 1927, Ed married a widow,Mrs. Julian Arseneault, with afamily of two - Wilf lives In Oak-ville, Isaac in Sucibury. Since thensix more have been added to theirfamily: Eva is the wife of Creightonstope leader Felix Mallais, Arthuris a chipper at the Copper Re-finery, Lauraine is married to Le-vack driller Alvida Dignard, Clar-ence is a feederman at the CopperCliff smelter, Lilian is the wife ofGarson driller Alvida Arseneau,and Gerald is with the army atPetawawa. There's no shortageof grandchildren - a total of 30already grace the scene,

Ed plans to get a lot of mileageout of his new rod this summerwhile at his camp on NepewassiLake. "Three of our family havecamps there," said Ed with achuckle, "one beside the other.Sometimes I wonder if we shouldcall it Lebreton Bay."

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thoroughly enjoyed by the chil-dren.

The high school teachers out-pulled the Leglonaires, and theElks outpulled the Lions, in tug-0-war matches in which the gruntsand groans of the contestants al-most drowned out the cheers oftheir supporters. There was High-land dancing and an exhibition ofkarate.

The day wound up in greatstyle with a display of fireworks,after which hundreds kicked uptheir heels at three separatedances.

Mayor Len Turner expressed thethanks of the community to allwho participated in making Can-ada's 100th bIrthday a memorableoccasion in Lively.

Winners of the teen league and in-dividual trophies were Ian MacEwan,Gerry Bissonnette, captain MikeHeaphy, Peggy Fraser and Jane Syer,