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VOLUME 13 NUMBER 8

Autumn Incense

('OPPER CLIFF, ONTRIO, NOVEMBER, 1953

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

Don M. Dunbar, EditorKliuToItI.tL OFFIIE ('OI'I'EK ('IAFF, uNT.

Critics ApplaudBook by ErikMunsterhj elm

Erik Munsterhjelm of the Geological De-partment at Copper Cliff has becomea literary lion.

His new book, The Wind and the Cari-bou" has just been published in Canada, theU.S., and Great Britain, and translations willprobably be printed in Swedish and Finnish.

The Victoria Colonist has said this aboutit: "The Wind and the Caribou' is one ofthe most entertaining and most informativedocumentary books to be published in along time about the Canadian Northland andthe men who live there."

On the other side of Canada the NewGlasgow (Nova Scotia) News reported, "Thisexciting book Is simply crammed with ex-periences that will delight all who love thewilds and the cold and camping out."

And the Hamilton Spectator's critic wrote,'It's an admirable book, and written withgreat honesty, some humour, and an extra-

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Leopard Skin for Bass Drummer

lishers, MacMiflans, met the Toronto criticsand other literary people at a cocktail partyin his honor, was interviewed on radio andtelevision.

All this was very okay with Erik Mun-sterhjelm. The cup of success was par-ticularly sweet because it had been long inthe brewing and there had been many aslip 'twixt it and the lip.

He started out to be a soldier, and it wasnot until he was 22 and had completed hiscourse at the military academy in Finlandthat he realized his ambition had changed.His Swedish parents, both artists, encouragedhim in his decision to travel,

ness of the north. The Wind and theCaribou," named from the Chipewyan Indianproverb, Nobody knows the way of thewind and the caribou," is the story of theiryears in the great empty areas beyond LakeAthabasca. Except for occasional meetingswith the few Indian inhabitants of thiswilderness, it was a lonely life but never fora moment dull. Trapping for fur-mink, fox,muskrat - and hunting for caribou, beaverand bear, kept them continuously busy. Theimmensely varied life of the wilds, the end-less journeyings by canoe along the swiftwaters and across the innumerable lakes, theproblems of house-building and house-keeping, the changing splendours of the sea-

He arrived in Montreal in February of sons, and the rigours of the arctic winter1928, washed dishes on the night shift at r gave them no time for boredom.

* Eatcn's bakery and did other Jobs for a few From trapping Erik gradually got into• -. months while having his first skirmishes with prcspecting. Although luck eluded him, he

'i.. the new language. In the fall he went west came close - at one time he had some claimsIon a harvest excursion and threshed grain at Crackingstone Point on the north shorefor Charlie Anderson and other farmers of St. Mary's Channel, near where Gunnarthe Champion district of Alberta. His har- Gold is located now. And he helped a pal dovesting pay was hot in his pocket and he some staking near what was to be the El-yielded to a yen to see California. There dorado Ace Lake Mine. There was no par-he Worked with pi'k and shovel on railroad ticular interest in uranium among the gold

J construction. One day his great size (he's prcspectors then - the atom bomb was still6 feet 6 inches tall and arranged in propor- to come.tion) landed him a job as doorman at War- In the last three of the nine years he spentner Bros. Hollywood Theatre. But a rollick- up north, Erik prospected for Consolidateding New Years Eve crowd got him in dutch Mining and Smelting of Trail. He came outwith the boss doorman by tearing the gold in 1939, most of his grubstake lost in a firebuttons off his uniform for souvenirs, and which destroyed his cabin and equipment athe went back to the pick and shovel. Goldflelds.

ordinary understanding of the ways of the He worked on the construction of a bridge, The war took him back to Finland, wheremen both white and Indian - the ani- and although it Was January the heat was he fully discharged the obligations of hismals, and the land itself, in the great ex- overpowering. Erik looked up at a mountain early military training. While there, at thepanse which is largely the unknown in the distance and saw its pinnacle covered urging of friends, he tried his hand at writ-Canada." with snow. It came suddenly to him that ing down some of the fascinating stories he

he must get back at once to the lakes and had told them of the Canadian north. TheBookstores across the country have re forests and the snows and frost of Canada, writing came fairly easily to him and he per-ported brisk interest. In Sudbury an auto-

graphing party is being planned. which was so much like his native land, severed at it. He became an author. InThe happy author was summoned to To- F From Edmonton he and a new-found part- another field, too, he Was successful - Anne-

ronto to celebrate the auspicious launching. f ner, Karl, struck out to try their luck as Marie Anderzen became his wife, and theyHe was entertained by his delighted pub- . hunters and trappers in the unspoiled wilder- (ContInued on Page 14)

Cadet Murray Lemay of the Copper Cliff Highianders Cadet Corps pipe band isprobably the proudest bass drummer in Canada. Thanks to the citizens of Copper Cliff,Cadet Lemay is now sporting a leopard skin - complete with head and tail - as partof his dress, an honor that few bass drummers in this country enjoy. The animal wasshot in Kenya and shipped directly to the corps in Copper Cliff. Mayor W. T. Water-bury, who was lnstrumentai in getting the skin for the Highianders, is shown abovemaking the presentation to the bass drummer.

EKtK MLJNSTERHJELM

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105 New Members Join Quarter Century ClubsThis Year at Copper Cliff and Port Colborne

A total of 105 men from Inco's Mining & be welcomed into the distinguished fraternity Colborne branch wa planning its get-Smelting .nd Nickel Refining Divisions of men who have completed 25 or more years together in the Recreation Club, with 17 duequalif this year for membership in the of service with the Company. to join, As uuaI, in addition to a bountifulQuarter Century Club. The Copper Cliff branch of the Quarter spread of good things to eat, special pro-

As thi, issue of the Triangle went to press Century Club was scheduled to meet at Inco grams of entertainment had been arranged.preparations were being made for the annual Employees Club, Sudbury. with 88 to be Fol1owin are photographs of the 105 newbanquets at which the new members would added to the membership roll, and the Fort members:

EMIL GERTIIPort Colborne

SudburyDistrict

IncoPlants

J T. (IALLA6IIERCopper Cliff

STEVE RUSKO JOE KELLY JOHN LIPECZ ALEX PALOCZYPort Colborne Port Colborne Port Colborne Port Colborne

OLIVA PIAGNO TOM LUKE ERNIE BROWN ORRON LEROY BEN SANKO VERN IIANIIAMPort Colborne Port Colborne Port Colborne Port Colbonie Port Colbonie Port Colborne

G MAITELLO STEVE GALL HAROLD EDGE ROBERT RALSTON CHARLIE GIVEN WARREN DAVISONPort Colborne Port Colborne Port Colborne Port Colbonie Port Colbonie Port Colborne

PIETER BREGMAN PIETRO PRESSACCO RAYMOND SEALE LORNE HOBDENCopper (lift Copper Cliff Copper CUff Copper Cliff

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A%ARTHUR E PRINCE M. PUSZKARENKO FRED LUMLEY, Jr. THOMAS E. STRONG WALTER 0. WILSON W. MeCANDLESS

Copper Cuff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper ('III! Copper Cliff

VICENZO POLLESEL PRIMO ('AMILUCCI KEITH HARKINSCopper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff

J. A. ShIELDS ANGELO ANZILtopper Cliff Copper CIII!

ALBERT POULTON NORMAN H. KEARNS GORDON B. STONE L. A. ENGLUND WILFRED J. RIPLEY ROBERT OIKKANENCopper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff

WAINO LUOMA ARNE MAKI BILL WELYHOUSKI RALPH D. PARKER PIETRO VECCIA ROY SPENCERCopper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff

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DMYTRO KURYK S. A. CRANDALL MATTI PAKKALACopper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff

FRANK STEKLASA JULIUS SEPPOLA JAS. DAVIDSON JOHN COLLISONCopper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper Cliff Copper ('III!

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HECTOR GASCON WILBUR HERMAN THOMAS BUTLER JACK KARPPI ALBERT STONE HECTOR POIRIERFrood-Stoble Frood-Stobje Frood-Stoble Frood-Stoble Frood-Stoble Frood-Stoble

GEORGE HOLMES EDMOND CHARETTE 1IKE KACHAR PETER ROY CHRIS VALLIER ROMEO FRAPPIERFrood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie

ROBERT COOKFrood- Stoble

JUAM GLHIA HENRY LEBLANC G. A. DESCHENES ADELARD J. SAUVE E, MULCAHEYFrood-Stoble Frood-Stoble Frood-Stoble Frood- Stoble Frood-Stoble

CONRAD CAYEN PAUL DURETTE HENRY JACQUES FRED CVAR YRJO KARL GEORGE PASSIFrood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie Frood-Stobie

i1tE11 W. (dLBERT 10M MATEJKO LAWRENCE MALEY FELIX LUOPA A. MacKENZIE M. DUNSCOMBEFrood-Sthbie Frood-Sthble Frood-Stoble Frood-Stoble High Falls Wabageshik

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Con iston Wins 9thSafe Shifts A ward

For the ninth time since 1944 Conistonplant has completed a run of more than100000 shifts without a compensable lost-time accident.

Tile plant worked from March 9 to October20 without a lost-time injury to ring up thedistinguished achievement.

All personnel on the plant roll who workedduring this period will be given two theatretickets good for admisbion to any theatre inthe Sudbury District in recagnition of theirfine safety record,

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IF EVERY ONE SOME SPUD!

If every one who has a job could lie a Two farmers were always trying to outdomonth in bed, each other regarding crops. One morning

With broken bones and stitched-up wounds, the first farmer said to his boy: "GO over toor fractures in the head, Smith's and borrow his cross-cut saw for me.

And there endure the agonies that many Tell him I want to cut up a pumpkin,"people do, On returning the boy said: 'Smith said he

They'd never need preach safety any more couldn't possibly let you have the saw untilto me or you. this afternoon. He's halfway through a

iotato."If every one could meet the wife and

chiidren left behind, RECIPE FOR HAPPINESSAnd step into the darkened home where no, "If you want fulness of life, love and give.

more sunlight shines, Keep on loving and giving, against all dis-And look upon the vacant chair where couragements, and your nature will become

Daddy used to sit, richer and deeper all the while, and otherI m sure each careless worker would be lives will respond to yours. This method has

forced to think a bit. never been lmown to fail."

ABRAMO ZANIER J. H. STEPHENSON BERT BEHENNA ANGUS MeLEOD ONNI MALMBERG LARRY JONESCreighton Creighton Creighton Creighton Creighton Creighton

TOM SEMENIUK R. TRUSZKOSKI JOE BLOEMMEN LINO PIOTTO PAUL BROZCRAK N PESTRZELONYCreighton Creighton Coniston Coniston Coniston Coniston

MIKE SHINKARUK GEORGE MERETTO JACK PERTTIJLA FRANK T. CROME FRANK LEACH ALEK TUOMIMurray Murray Murray Levaek Levaek Levaek

ARCHIE HENRI JULIA PEERLA WAINO PAANANN CHRISTIAN WflTAGarson Garson Garson Garson

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Gloria Calandra Honored by Accounting Department Girls

Almost CaughtBy Hurricane

Nurse Nell Shamess of Copper Cliff hospitastaff had Lady Luck very much on her sithduring a recent holiday trip to Europe.

She was in France when a strike by civ!servants was threatening to paralyze th€country's transportation system, and she waaboard a ship that crossed the path of anAtlantic hurricane, but both times heescaped without any inconvenience.

"The strike started two days before wewere to leave France for Holland to take theboat home," Nurse Shamess said, "but atthat time only the railroad and postalservices were affected and we were able toleave the country by bus. We were fortunateto get out when we did because it was only24 hours later that we saw in the paper wherethe busses had been taken off the rOad andthousands of tourists were btranded:'

Her ship was one day out of New York onthe ieturn voyage when it ran into anAtlantic hurricane.

She was quick to explain that °it was justthe tail end of one, but it certainly kickedup a fuss while it lasted. It tossed the boataround and the waves were rolling almostup to the deck. Most of the pa&sengers weresick but it didnt bother me at all."

Nurse Shamess, who made the trip withher two iters, Dorothy and Esther, andMargaret Fowler of Sudbury. sailed from NewYork July 3 and arrived in England oneweek later. She visited England. Holland.Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy andFrance.

The style of the English girls won heradmiration. "From what I had seen andheard, I didn't think they would come up toour standard of dress, but they certainly do.I didn't think the men looked quite as smartas Canadians, though. The girls in Pariswere very stylish, too, and the men dressabout on a pr with the Americans.

"I expected to see more evidence of wardamage in England, hut it is urprtsing how!

quickly and well they have cleaned it up. Iwas different In Germany. Franklurt is stilIn bad shape, and Cologne and Heidleberare just now starting to restore some otheir more famous bulidthgs.

In Italy we went on a sightseeing tour olVenice by gondola; it wa quite an experiencseeing a city built on water.

I think Paris won our unanimous vote a.the most beautiful city in Europe. Every.where you went it seemed you were surrounded by trees. Our guide told me thereare more than 2½ million trees in the city.

°Holland was pretty, too, but the thingthat impresses you there Is that everybodyseems to be riding bicycles. The population

of the country is 10 million people and wewere told that 41 million bicycles wereregistered this year.

In Switzerland. we went to Interlakenfrom where we saw the famous Mount Jung-frau. We were fortunate that it was a clear

day and the peak wa.s visible; it's 13,760 feethigh."

The high cost of living throughout Europesurprised Nurse Shamess, °particularly sobecause I expected before we sailed that itwould be much lower than In America. Ipaid 55 cents In Canadian currency for a cupof coffee and 60 cents for a package of Am-erican cigarettes. A box of Kleenex we pay10 cents for in Canada costs 10 times asmuch over there."

Garson TakesNorthern Title

Turning In one of their best performancesof the year, Garson Gunners stopped SaultSte. Marie 5-0 In the Star Cup final to capturethe Northern Ontario soccer championship.

In their march to the championship, theGunners disposed of the Black Devils, Italiaand Polish White Eagles in the SudburyDistrict Football League. Soo won its wayto the finals by defeating North Bay 2-1 inovertime.

It was a different story In the Sudburydistrict league playoffs, however, as Ukrain-ians captured the Evans Cup after a toughbattle with White Eagles that saw the best-of-three serics extended to four games.

The first game ended in a 2-2 tie, WhiteEagles took the second 3-0, and Ukrainiansthen extended play to the extra game with

2-0 victory.

Garson was turned aside in straight games)f the semi-finals by Ukrainians. WhiteEagles had a tougher time getting byroatian-Adria in their series, taking the

lrst game 2-0 but being forced to a 22 tien the ,econd.

Croatian-Adria picked up the AndersonJup for finishing the regular season's play>n top of the league. They were followed by.Tkrainians, Italia, Polish White Eagles.arson Gunners, Hungaria and Black Devils

n that order.

Prior to her marriage, Gloria Calandra of the Copper Cliff Accounting Department was honored by the girls in the general office.She was presented with a steam and dry Iron, four pieces of silver birch china and salad salt and pepper shakers. Miss Calandra waswed in September to Bud Buchanan of the Copper Cliff field engineers.

NURSE NELL SifAMESS

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Inco's NewEmploymentOffices Opened

In an addition to the second storey of theInco building on Frood Road, Sudbury, theCompany's new employment oces wererecently opened for business.

A large waiting room, interviewing oces,a records room and examining and dressingrooms are included in the attractive layout,designed to handle large numbers of em-ployment applicants smoothly and efficiently.On the wails are framed photographs of Incoplants and operations.

Contact with new employees establishedin these oces is continued by the personnelocers at the various plants.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for heshall never be disappointed. - Pope.

WAITING ROOM of the Company's well-appointed new employment offlce, In a recently constructed addition to the secondfloor of the Inco building In Sudbury, is seen here. Every man applying for a job receives a preliminary interview, whether ornot the Company is hiring men at the time.

COMPLETE employment reeord5 for all Inco plants in the Sudbury distilct, a hugefund of Information, are In charge of Mrs. Rose McRoberts.

GREG ROY, junior employment agent, interviews an applicant. If hired the man willreceive a second, more detailed interview and a thorough medical check-up.

DISCUSSING applications are DaveChapman, empioyment agent, anJ AlexCrossrove, Inco's director of personnel.

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Slick MethodFor InstallingNew Airway

An underground airway, over 13 feet indiameter and lined with concrete for safetyand permanence, is being driven 600 feetstraight down through the solid rock at theCreighton Mine of the International NickelCompany of Canada, Limited, near Sudbury.

Part of long-planned preparations forbringing the lower levels of the mine intofull-scale ore production, the huge concreteopening will funnel fresh air to workings as1eep as 5,000 feet from surface.

Designed to serve the famous creightonfrom 58 to 64 levels with 350000 cubic feet ofair per minute, the new airway fits into themine's elaborate ventilation system, of whichhe main intake fan is located on 40 level andthe main exhaust fan on 30 level.

A portion of the airway is being partitioned3ff with corrugated iron sheeting to serve asa continuation of the mine's safety rnanwayo surface, and also to carry the pipelines in

which sand fill will be sent down from surfaceLo replace ore taken from the stopes whenmining gets underway.

It has no connection with the separateventilation system which has been establishedfor the large area of the mine in which the

Looking down on part of circular working platform, two miners are seen ioading round of hoies they have driiied in bench towiden out rectangular pilot raise to diameter of airway. They wear safety belts while working.

On opposite side of platform "TulTy" Tahvanainen telephones to his dekman on 60evei for supplies which will be lowered in steel bucket by tugger hoist.

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Smelter Needs800 Tons ClayEvery Month

Clay - more than 800 tons a month of itplays an important part in the operations

at Copper Cliff Smelter.It's used for refractory purposes where no

metal could stand up to the terrific heat andchemical action of molten matte or slag, suchas patching moulds, lining matte and slagchutes, making buds (plugs) for furnace tapholes, and claying the lips of converter stacks.

Some of these Jobs call for a tougher claythan others, so three different types are used- fire clay, "50-50" and swamp clay. Fireclay Is free of impurities and is the strongest:swamp clay contains some sand and loam;50-50" Is a mixture of the two.Fire clay gets the important assignments.

It is used to bud up the matte tap holes inthe reverb furnaces and for lining the bowlsof matte chutes. Matte coming out of thereverbs at about 2,200 F. would quickly eatthrough buds and linings made of an Impureclay, such as the '50-50" or swamp grades.

Like the matte, slag comes out of the taphole at about 2,200' F., but it freezes muchmore readily and can therefore be stoppedby a bud made of "50-50". When the slaghits the bud it freezes in a matter of secondsand helps plug the hole. The bowl of theslag chute is also lined with "50-50".

Swamp clay is the workhorse. It is usedfor "streamlining" matte moulds, lining mattechutes, sealing the gas line and lining thelips of converter stacks.

Fire clay, which comes from mines atMount Jewett, Penn., is stored in a bin atthe Orford building, while swamp clay, pur-chased locally, is stored near the pug millsat the east end of the smelter.

In the pug mills the fire clay is groundwith water to make it pliable. The secret ofturning out a good mix is knowing how muchwater to add. Too much water in the clayresults in a bursting of the bud when thematte hits it.

There are two mills working during eachhlft to keep up the clay schedule, one ex-

fiusively on fire clay and the other on swamplay and "50-50".

- It takes only a few minutes for the mill toSwamp clay is being used here to streamline a matte mould. E. BeIaner (nearest churn the clay into a oliable substance which

A batch of "50-50" clay has just been mixed in the pug mill and is being sliced up byHenri Rlngsley (right) and Gerald Gameche for delivery to the reverb furnaces.

Waldo Stonehouse, a reverb furnace Reverb furnace tapper Tony Scarsellone left) is about to bud up a tap hole. Thetapper, puts finishing touches to a bud. mattemen helping him are Hector Glroux, with the hammer, nd Jack (.lbbons.

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Eureka! Here Are Athletes whoPlay Just for Love of the Ga me

batch of "50-50" and swamp clay is mixedevery shift and sent out to various locationsin the smelter, Pure fire clay is made up andleft to season in blocks for 16 hours prior tousing to insure uniform moisture content.

Buds for the 15 tappings made on eachfurnace during an eight-hour period aremoulded by the tapper, who must be surethey are worked into a solid tough cone-shaped mass that will not break when thematte strikes it.

The bud is firmly fixed to a steel tappingbar and at the end of a tap is jammed intothe small tap hole, stopping the stream ofmatte. A three-man team is required to budup the tap hole because the pressure of thematte, and the kick of the steam driven fromthe bud when the matte hits it, would blowout the clay if it were not held firmly in placeduring the first few seconds until the heathas baked it solid.

Claying up the lips of converter stackstakes the biggest portion of the clay used inthe ccnverter building. Here it acts as abuffer so that when frozen matte is chippedfrom the converter lip the brick underneathwon't be damaged. It also forms a pouringlip allowing the matte to flow out of theconverter without damaging the steel plates.

A small amount of clay is used to seal theconnections between the converter gas off-takes and the line to the CIL acid plant toprevent air from diluting the sulphur gas.

J4Tatson and 'I1refiak simonpure"amateursma;beathing of everybody wants to play and there is no loaf-the past in most Canadian centres, but Sud- ing in practise. All a coach has to do is show

re 5o1f Chain pious bury can boast of at least 25. They are the them the plays and they do the restmembers of the Sudbury Hardrocks football They defeated Haileybury twice 10-6 and

Stu Watson of Frood-Stobie and Oreigh- team. 34-5 in a home-and-home series arid drop-ton's Nick Trefiak are this year's Inco golf So "simon-pure" are these athletes that they ed two games to North Bay for a .500 wcn-champions. pay out of their own pockets to play the lost record. The first lcss to North Bay

game they love. Of the four matches they as a 7-6 squeaker when the Gateway CityStu c:ptured the non-h;wdicap title by have played this season two were in North crew came through with a last-minute touch-

downing Ted Flanigan of the Mines Depart- Bay and one in New Liskeard, but the boys down. The Bay made it more decisive thement, He won his way into the nal.s with dug into their own Jeans to meet the second time, though, with a 30-0 triumph.a to-and-one victory over another Mines travelling expenses each time.Dpartrnent player, Ron Silver. The team is made up of men who played An intermediate team, the Hardrocks were

The handicap championship went to Nick high school football and who want to keep organized last season iii the hope that after a hard-fought battle with Cappy Cap- iii touch with the gridiron. All live in the Northern Ontario league could be et up.tick of Copper Cliff Concentrator. Nick Sudbury district: several are Inco employees. That dream has not yet materialized and

downed Alex Illis of the Copper Cliff Re- One thing about coaching a team like the Sudbury crew has had to centent itselfsearch Lab to enter the finals. I this," coach Dom DeMarco says, 'is that : with exhibition games.

Members of Sudbury Hardrocks football team are shown above: Larry Napran (trainer) in front with the waterboy. 1st row:Don Goddard, Jim MeGauley, Cecil Brown, Randy Pierce, Ross Mcphee, Fritz Grottolli, Lyle Beaton, Rolly Talbot; 2nd row: LarryPotvin, Wayne Taylor, Murray Cliff, Jerry Costello, D. Dusiavme, Don Samechuk, George Ebey; 3rd row: George Roy, Sid Forster,Jack Camalletti, Jerry Ready, Lodgo Marakinsky, Dom DeMarco (coach), Rudy Prete (manager), Alex Prentice, Joe Wadewich,

Lyle Reaton drives through a big hole to go over standing up in one of the Hardrocks'.

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Sudbury Sportsmen

Provincial ChampsSudbury Sportsmen brought the Nickel

Belt its flr5b Ontario softball title since 1938by defeating Whitby Stokers in straightgames for the Irovincial senior B championship.

Playing both contests on their homegrounds, the Sudbury crew captured theopener 5-0 and then went on to eke out a4-3 decisicn in the nightcap.

A pair of home runs by Joe Bratanich andthe steady hurling of Steve Borovich playeca big part in the Sudbury victory.

Members of the winning Sportsmen Clubare Johnny Baby, Merve Gribbons, LenThompson, Mitch Zulucki, Ron Rubic, GabbyHickey, Tod Sloan, Dave Scott, Mike FuracKelly Campbell, Joe Palladino, Joe Bratanich,Eddie Fortier, Omer Brideau, John Shew-chuk, Adam Borovich, Bob Sabourin, AlexKarol (manager), Larry Rubic (coach), LeoGasparini (president), Dom Castanzatrainer)

Paddy of Kendal

Captures $15 AwardPaddy of Kendal, a black Labrador owned

by Bill Hudgins of the Copper Cliff ResearchLab, captured the $15 Copper Cliff Rod andGun Club award this year for the locally-owned dog finishing highest in the non-win-ner stakes at the annual Sudbury and Dis-trict Kennel Club's retriever and Irish waterspaniel field trials. The second price of $10went to Elmer Quebec's Duke 16th, also ablack Labrador.

The awards are sponsored by the CopperCliff club to encourage ownership of fielddogs in the Sudbury district.

The presentation was made by HaroldBorland, also of the research lab, at theclub's opening meeting of the year.

Paddy was introduced to Triangle readerslast month with his master in a picture storyof duck hunting.

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progressed, and concrete is poured by gravityflow from the mixing station located up on56 level.

While the 10-foot "lift" is setting, anotherround is being drilled off.

The efficiency of the construction cycleowes much to the sectional steel forms, whichcan be lowered into position for each pour ina fraction of the time it would take to set upwcoden forms, and of course can be used overand over again. Another important factor isthe 'push-button" service on concrete.

At each level of the mine a concreted station is being established in which ventilationsystem controls for the airway will be located.

Whatever teclnical description the en-gineers give the new airway, the men of themine as usual have their own name for it.They call it Barney's Raise,' after BarneyCain, the foreman cn the job. Many an accepted mining term had just such an origin.

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Some of the earliest recorded events in! Members of the Geological Department'sthe history of the Sudbury nickel industry, field staff took the parts of surveyors andsuch as the surveyor Salter in 1856 noting prospectors in staging the scenes. Abovecompass deviations on the site of what was I are some of the actors "on location": Georgeto be the Creighton mine, were re-enacted IBlack, George Gifford, Bill Bernard, Eino

Santala, Erik Munsterhjelm, and Hectorfor the movie camera as part of the new Charette. In the picture below some pros-motion picture being produced ror Inco by pectors travel by canoe through the 'un-Film Graphics of New York. charted wilds" of the Sudbury district.

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ritics Applaud L . .

lengthy exploration trips, the wind and the caribou - and a lot less(Continued from Page 2) bince joining the Company, his spare time{lcnely,now have a family of four, has been well occupied. In addition to fin

It was 1947 before he returned to Canada. ishmg the book that has just been put out, MODESTTravelling acrcss the country giving lectures he has built a home at Lockerby. He has 'The best thing for you," said the doctor,on conditions in Finland, he arrived in Sud- submitted another book to his publishers, and 'is to give up drinking and smoking, go tobury and there got a chance to come with is working on yet another, still with the bed early, and get up early."Inco, Which he eiigerly took. His work ap- north as his theme. Lire is just as busy and Doctor," said the patient, "I don't deservepeals strongly to him because it involves rewarding for him as It was in the land of the best. What's the second best?"

Re-enact Scenes of Early DaysFor New Inco Motion Picture

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Organizing for Bowling at Sud bury Inco Club

J. R. O'DonnellHad Long andVaried Service

J. R. O'Donnell, known to many as Jackand to others as Roland, and warmly re-garded by them all, has retired from activeservice after wide and unusually diversifiedexperience with Inco.

The call of duty necessitated that hechange his place of residence more frequent-ly than any other member of the AccountingDepartment. He served three periods withthe Mining & Smelting Division at CopperCliff, two periods with the Refining Divisionat Port Colborne, one period at the TorontoOffice, and was located at the New Yorkoffice for the past five and three-quarteryears.

Starting with the Canadian Copper Com-pany as office boy at the General Officeat Copper Cliff on April 23, 1906, he laterbecame junior clerk; then worked for a timeas stenographer in the Purchasing & StoresDepartment; then as outside clerk and time-keeper on the various construction jobs which

Furthermore, during his first period ofservice at Copper Cliff he was located for atime at Biscotasing to take charge of theaccounting work in connection with themajor dam improvements which were beingmade by the Company at the head-waters ofthe Spanish River; and in 1918 was locatedat High Falls to take charge of the account-ing work in connection with the constructionof the Big Eddy Dam. That job was es-timated to last for two years but he wastaken from it in November 1918 because hewas needed at the new Toronto Office. Also,while serving at Port Colborne at the timethat Inco purchased the British AmericaNickel Co., he was sent to Deschenes, Quebec,where he spent a number of months in thewinter of 1924-1925 in charge of the pre-

In New York, including F. P. Bernhard,former comptroller; W. T. Waterbury ofCopper Cliff, formerly assistant to the vice-president; Henry S. Wingate, vice-presidentof the Company, and William F. Kennedy,secretary. Roland was presented with an.mported Exacta VX camera and case, a Ughtmeter, and a projector, as well as a moroccanleather portfolio of signatures of his many

I friends in the Canadian and New York offices.The front page of the portfolio carried thisthought: Be it resolved that we who havesubscribed our names on the following pageshave signified thereby our sincere desire that

FJ. Roland O'Donnell, our good friend andfellow-employee, take with him on his retire-ment the combined wishes of all that hisfuture may be everything he had hoped for,and that good health, happiness, and serenecontentment may be his for many manyyears."

Roland and Mrs. O'Donnell are makingtheir home at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., where thelatch-string will always be out for their hostof friends.

Roland's father, John O'Donnell, who re-tired from the Company on February 1, 1922with 25 years' service, is now 87 years old.He resides at Stirling, Ont. He is the second-oldest of the pensioners from the Mining &Smelting Division, being exceeded only byHarry M. Sidford of Collingwood, 90.

were under way at Copper Cliff prior to theFirst World War; and then to the GeneralOffice once more on various accounting andclerical duties, 1I LMPRESSED

In November 1918 he was transferred tothe Company's newly-opened Toronto Officeas chief assistant to the auditor. Upon theclosing of the Toronto Office in February 1922he went to Copper Cliff as assistant worksauditor; then was transferred to Port Col-borne in July 1922, and back to Copper ClIffin September 1933, in the same capacity. Hewas aooointed works auditor at Cnnr cliff J. R. 0 DONNELL

BY SMELTERC. B. Raynham of Weston, a cycling en-

thusiast who has logged 266,000 miles by bikesince 1929, paused at Copper Cliff last sum-mer for a visit to the smelter. He wasmightily impressed with the operations, andin the column he writes for the West YorkTimes and Guide, he described them briefly,concluding with the remark, Many thanksto Inco and the fine guide who showed me apart of this stupendous plant."

m February 1935 and was transferred to Fort paration of the metals-in-process at theOR AROMINATIONColborne in September 1940 as works auditor British America nickel refinery for shipment

there. In January 1948 he was appointed to Inco's plants for further treatment. If all the women Were taken out of circu-assistant to the comptroller and transferred About 40 of his associates attended a fare- lation what kind of a nation would this be?to the New York Office. well dinner for Roland at the Chateau Tavern "Stag-nation,

Vai O'Neih, bowling impresario at the Inco Club in Sudbury, l shown presiding at the organization meetmg of the women'sbowling league. Clockwise from Val, those In attendance were Rattle MeCrea, Mary Price, Pat Weatfall, Fran Boudignon, Ida McKaifl,Nellie Kurlicki, Flo Robinson and league secretary Margaret Woclacott. Approximately 60 members are bowling in the league thisseason. In the men's leagues, ZOO have registered from Frood, 140 from Copper Cliff, and 50 from the Copper Refinery.

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SNAPSHOTSOF LIFE WITH INCO

A perfect cribbagf hand - that's whatGeorge Snaire is beaming about as TerryRupoll turns up the five that did the trick.George held the Jack of Sp des and fives inthe three other suits. He hs been playingcrib during lunch hour for the past 17 yearsbut this was the first time he had ever seena perfect hand. He was teamed up withBruce Hughes against Rodney Gunning andTerry Rupoli at the time. tU work at theplate shop at (opper Cliff Smelter.

I N( O 'FR [AXGL E November, 1Q53

At Port Colborne Frank Michaels is stripplng pure nickel starting sheets fromstainless stee' blanks on which they are deposited. They are used in electrolytic tanksas base on which cathodes of pure nickel are built up.

The fellow who said they should figure outa way of equipping telephones with televisionmust have been thinking of Joyce Graham,popular switchboard operator at the CopperRefinery.

Dinky locomotive and converter slag pots at Copper Cliff 35 years ago. Engineer Inpicture is late Arthur Walmsley, father of Ethel and Jo Waimsley, General Office.

The gal with the "southern exposure" is 2-year-old Colleen Keegan, ducking for anappJe during a hallowe'en party at the home of Cecil Keegan of the Copper Refinery.The other children are Theresa (iawalko, 9. Patricia Keean. 6, Sharon Scott, 6. EleanorHughes, 9, Paulette flourgeault, 10, flenls Marshall, ii, Tim HolgaLe, 10, Don Keegan, 8.

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