Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg fran Tess monday october 9, i97s . Trie first Man a or Feu de 1 Broom Hilda t Dooley s world see. I gotta a Riga report on Columbus foot Mikly i a Niovi All about him i he was a Saltor who had some silly Tia non that the world was round. After his theory was the feud tit was so embarrassed he would Only sail at might one dark night he ram mis ship aground off the coast of to and after himself. A series of similar nocturnal misadventures his famous Auto Bisram " 1 j Dooley could a learn More about Columbus by Archie the fathers race first Sod hundreds thenthesom3 j put on a demonstration. Blondie i said Columbus j discovered americanism1 and she disagreed j at least i had his ships right the Monitor and the t Merrimac rip Kirby expedition Pes Monr Pon t wait up even if i m not with a Prima . He mfg i and Lois half hitch be time Fop a look at we Seroter Aho Here s our weaw6r a a a i dont know Why they can t play durin6 the Day when i m Bush with baseball. Courts were filled with adults i thought you were 6oins to the Park r3r some ni6ht Tennis Beetle Bailey dumb dumb no goodbye for smitty after almost 51 years smitty has retired from the newspaper comics Page. The perennial office boy has pulled his last fast one on his Good natured Boss or. Bailey and on or. B s cantankerous ind Ian guide Little Moose and he has twisted the snippy Steno for the last time. I when smitty first appeared on nov. 29, 1922 in the free press he was an Extension of his creator Walter Berndt who had been an office boy himself for two years on Wall Street i new York. I Learned Tolje tricks shenanigans and schemes of an of fice Berndt and became expert at smitty and his brother Herbie who has been a Happy six year old for quite a spell since grandpa was a boy come. To think of it have been cherished favourites of North and South. American readers through the intervening five dec Ades. Their antics Are flashbacks of things you did when you were a Young states it. S m i 11 y s eternal Sweet heart Ginny arid the Raf fish dog scraps Are other warmly remembered members of his world. Actually smitty will never retire. Smitty will live on in every office where there s an impish of fice boy and a Young at heart Boss and in every Home where there s boy to swipe the sweets or dream of rescuing the girl from the rapids. Ideas net Inco men awards Thompson Man. Staff Alert smelter refinery maintenance workers add miners came up with ideas for better Job efficiency in various sections of the International Nic Kel company s in he Thompson area which earned them a total of during the last month. Maintenance. Mechanic Ron Dyer at the Thompson mine and smelter worker Carl i Man were the two top men in the suggestion Derby. Or. Dyer rubber bumpers be installed on. Load Ziaul dump vehicles to prevent damage to the equipment. As a result of Carl Ding Man s doors be constructed in the East Wall of the Furnace scrap j collecting under the Furnace can now be carried out More and quickly. Again in the smelter Don Frederick noticed that things would go better if the Type of Cone rakes used in the thic Kener area were standardized his idea was that mild steel rakes should be replaced by better designed stainless steel models to reduce corrosion and decrease Down time. This was Worth Sterling Cole the refinery became concerned with the escape of Gas into the atmosphere from the Cobalt treatment department. He came up with a method of re circulating these gases and be came the recipient of for the suggestion. A proposal to prolong of suction lines by installing fibreglass pipes was a labor Sav ing idea that netted refinery Man Bryan Bassett a re Ward. Three employees were presented with John Cullen a haulage truck Driver at the pipe open pit mine recommended a modification of Drill Mast pins to streamline their operations. Furnace operator Andrew Lukey in the smelter suggested that lines to tapping blocks be relocated closer to the Furnace while Larry Fountain of pipe open pit saw the need to change the drive chains on drills to Cut Down maintenance. In the award class were Murray " Gladica refinery Michael Shields refinery Harou Sharp Mill Paul Selig Mill Wayne Thody Mill and Keith Mullian smelter. Winning each were John Cullen pipe open pit William Bellinger refinery George linger refinery John Stenc Becker smelter Ronald tur ton refinery and Henry con Nolly who won two awards Robert Lynch was a win near monopoly about 95 per cent of the world s commercial production of chinese gooseberries or Kik fruit is grown in new zealand Europe bound Nickel from the International n i eke i company s Complex in Thompson is loaded aboard the British Dalgleish lines freighter Tamworth at Churchill. During the 1973 season Inco has sent 2.4 million pounds of electrolytic Nickel to Europe through Churchill As Well As of Cobalt oxide. Including shipments of. Earlier seasons Inco s total shipment of the 99.9 per. Cent pure electrolytic Nickel is nearly 80 million pounds. Work goes on apace on water diversion scheme by Bob Lowery the South Channel As Well As a acres and min ago Thompson Man. Staff a mounting mobilization of Leavy Muskeg and Rock mov ing 1 vehicles and men is taking place along a 100-mile front rom Here North to Missi Falls on the Corner of Southern Indian Lake Mani Oba Hydro officials reported Lere last week. This is the key area in Dro s plan to permit he diver Sion of Asi Nuch As cubic Iee t of water per second from the Churchill River to the Nel Ion Hiver where it will feed present and future Power Sta ions at Kettle rapids Gil Long Spruce upper and Juwer Limestone and Gillam land. It is estimated that addition of the Churchill water will improve the efficiency of this entire system of Power stations by 40 per cent. While strictly in terms of overburden arid Rock removal and Yards of Cement poured the. Undertaking on this sector of the diversion would not rate among the greatest Hydro yen ures but in terms of logistics communication and the Oyer All co ordination of a wide spread operation the 32-year old Richard Rick Gittins Hydro resident Engineer and Irfan in charge thinks that it is As challenging As any. The total estimated Cost of the diversion not including such matters As mitigation to those whose communities or livelihood May be affected is million. This includes million for the Missi Falls 110 Miles North of million for the 5.7-mile Channel from South Bay to asset Lake 80 Miles North of. 18 million for the control Structure million for Timber Clearing and million or future improvements. The. Peak employment figure expected to be reached by mid 1974 will be More than men. The Centre of activities at the moments centres around the diversion Channel. The con tract has been let to a consortium operating under the name South Bay contractors com posed of Many ii company Ltd., Calgary As managing Winnipeg s Baum limited and c. A. Pitts construction Eastern limited. The completion Date is set for nov. 1, 1975. A search for equipment o the size and ruggedness required has literally gone on All Over North America according to or. Gittins. The items that will be arriving in a steady Stream through Thompson will include 10 cat 657 scrapers with engines front and Back and a carrying capacity of 44 cubic Yards eight cat 769 end dump Rock wagons ten d9 and 10 d8 bulldozers among the largest used in such construct and 10 cat 988 loaders. This equipment will see immediate action on the 5.7-mile Channel which will be Between 32 feet and 23 feet in depth and involves the removal of 10.2 million cubic Yards of overburden and million cubic Yards of Rock. Presently there Are about 6 men working on the Channel and living at the South Bay Camp but by february 1974 this will increase to about 300. The Brodsky construction company Saskatoon has prepared the campsite am constructed Access roads Dur ing this Spring and summer. At Missi Falls on the North end of the diversion arc two dams of 800 feet on the North River Channel feel or 310-foot spillway with provincial Crown Corpora Gates. This will require the corporation acres. Moval of cubic Yards with the Clearing or. Overburden and said care is being taken Yards of Rock. Tenders notify any local persons of a being called for. On this or Cabin or trap lines tract. May be flooded. Where it Baum has been engaged requested he said proves removing cubic undertakers remove the of overburden in the to 3 new location suit area. A Camp has been to the relatives and to abolished. Presently there Are 137 men on site and from Are relocated. A special Hydro officer is assigned to through until the end of work. Tember next year there Are Gittins said that Mannix petted to be have indicated a this control Structure has desire to hire As Many be ready to compound As possible locally. By nov. 1, 1975, and must Hydro has accept completed by january responsibility for loss of at Notini just 60 to fishermen and Northwest of Thompson an and will replace any foot Long dam is to be built or facilities affected by a 200-foot spillway with in the Lake or River Sluice Gates. Wild Wood a massive program to tractors limited have the damages is planned tract to prepare the a continuing management and construct the Access will also be undertake tenders for this contract also being called for. Again to the there Are 38 men working of his Job or. Gittins who the area but this will grow to in civil engineering maximum of 350 men the University of Mani August and september of in 1962 and has worked Hydro for most of his pro another major part of career said that present operation is on this project in along the rat River from shipping by plane and Lake to Notini where there constructing Winter roads be flooding. Patricia operating a tug arid Barge tors Ltd., Winnipeg has a along Southern Indi tract to Clear 700 acres m. Lake. The latter has been Orbanski limited out by Canadian com. Acres Penner and Ltd., Winnipeg. Pany Kola Gittins announced that acres Smook Bros. Catering contract for the Thompson acres Camps has just been son contractors to Cal Van Canus Ca. Man., acres Rohl e r i n g services Ltd., Van St auction Ltd. St. Hydro off opens at. Flin flin Jolon Man. By Northern Manitoba Manitoba Hydro company since its be unlocked the doors of its adding that the people office Here Friday and Well served. Rates he company and were reasonable and of various organizations interruptions were rare on hand to witness the maintenance service sex Hydro which took Over he expressed his plying the electrical heeds to the Hudson Bay min flin flon and Snow Lake and smelting adding oct. 1, kept the Coffee hot h a t he expected Manitoba the speeches would continue the tra mayor de Yauck of Northern Manitoba the ribbon cutting with a in the provision of de twist. The mayor used an Well maintained tric Wand to sever a of electrical service. After which the invited know the rates won t be viewed the new premises same nor the lights any 178 Wright but we do anticipate area manager for Manitoba Hydro will in de Tymofichuk made the Long term be beneficial for ing remarks and future of flin flon and the the Hydro staff. He also and mayor Yauck produced Carl Birston Tant general manager of Yauck concluded by tons who said Hydro both Manitoba looking Forward to and the him and s on flin flin and Snow Lake Success of their Degoti their electrical which brought the new adding that it marked a to flin flon. Also he Era for Hydro with its Hydro his congrats problems and new on the opening of their m a y or Yauck office facilities. Manitoba he did service to flon pointing out that takeover was initiated by knifes rival Council local la Tom Row residents of Snow and other interested and malagasy corned parties from the a a we Fps Unity. The need for her husband sleeping tonal electric Power by another woman and Killsc the mining company and rival in a knife Duel. Police City was now a reality and the husband looked on in Pef ully it would result in As the women Hacker pension and growth for the each other in a Forest Clear As Well As provide an the wife gave herself source of electrical police when the Battle was flin flon he said had ;