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VOLUME 31 COPPER CLIFF, ONTARIO, DECEMBER, 1971 NUMBER 9 PAGE Two INCO TRIANGLE

and the ingredients. Your money will turn into five gallons of Making wine is labor of wine, about 30 26-ounce bottles. Your real savings begin when you re-use your equipment over Established in 1936 love for Pat Gallagher and over again to make more batches. This month's covers There's always plenty of Christmas cheer at Pat and Irene Gallagher's Wine-making is simple, if you home. Pat's own wines provide the hot wassail for his grown-up follow your recipe and keep family of four and his 10 grandchildren - when they drop in to visit. everything hospital-clean. Just It all began shortly after Pat, a 34-year Inco veteran, retired from add water to the concentrated Creighton Mine in 1967 on a disability pension due to a heart con- juice, sugar, yeast and chemicals dition. "I was searching for something to occupy my time," he (to control the acid level and recalled, "and my wife suggested I make some wine." sterilize the bacteria in the fruit). THAT was four years ago and has become a rendez-vous for Set it all aside to ferment under his wife's suggestion has grown many local amateur wine-makers a plastic sheet and, in less than into a sort of second career for who respect Pat's opinion of a week, you can siphon or The decorations over the sun Pat as the owner/manager of their efforts. For his part, Pat "rack" your wine into the carboy room' In the Copper ClIff Hospital express our wishes to our readers The Wine Cellar on Copper enjoys meeting them to com- and let it sit. So the wine doesn't and to shut-Ins during the Yuletide Cliff's Poplar Street. pare notes on favorite wines or rest on dead yeast which will season. Merry Christmasl Our Pat says wine is the best seda- to swap secret recipes. destroy the flavor, you'll have to back cover is courtesy of Bell tive or tranquilizer in the world Hobby is popular "rack" it every few weeks until it Canadas employee newspaper, Bell News. and he's backed up by the medi- Wine-making has become one matures in three months or so. cal facts. Doctors have pre- of Canada's most popular family Then comes the grand day when scribed it to treat diseases of the hobbies. No one knows how you can bottle your brew. PublIshed for Ontario employees of The InternatIonal Nickel Com- heart and blood vessels since the pany of Canada Limited. 13th century. This is because wine tends to ease the discom- Peter Marshall, EdItor fort of high blood pressure by (705) 682-2604 reducing nervous and arterial Les LewIs, Port Colbome Reporter tension. 834-3611 ext. 216 When Pat calls wine his "health food" he's not far wrong To contribute suggestIons for ar- either, for it is a source of energy tIcles, please call the above tele- phone numbers, or wrIte to: for work and body maintenance, containing essential iron and Inco Triangle, Copper ClIff, Ont. sodium. Pictures Derek Wing, Cblef Photographer, Pat has many customers Ontario Div. Over 3,000 regular customers Terry O'Connor Photographer place orders with Pat for all their Circuiation wine-making supplies. Pat reck- Additional copieS ...... (706) 682-2102 ons he's as well-known in Pitts- Authorized as second class mail by the burg as he is in Copper Cliff, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. because so many Americans here on a contract buy their first Material contained In the Inco Triangle should not be reprinted unless permission wine-making supplies from him. has been obtained from the editor. Part of the reason for so many Pat Gallagher checks one of hIs own wInes, a redand-white blend, regulars is the personal touch he for clarity. He recommends using concentrated juices for wine- gives customers and visitors who makIng but also stocks drIed fruIts In hIs shop. The concentrate drop in - everyone gets the Is about twIce as economical as the actual fruIt, he says. Triangle opportunity to sample Pat's own wines over some entertaining many Canadians are making wine The longer you leave your photographs conversation. in their own basements because wine, the better it'll be, Pat ad- In the short time he's been in no licenses or permits are re- vised. Wine continues to age available business, Pat has built up one of quired, as long as less than 100 and mature even after bottling. the finest selections of wine in- gallons are being made at one Most will still require six months Prints of most photographs gredients in Canada. His base- time. Nonetheless, sales of wine before they're palatable. Most appearing in the Inco Triangle ingredients and equipment are fruit wines will improve if kept ment shop stocks 55 different may be ordered direct from: booming across the country. (A bottled for up to two years, but kinds of liqueur mixes and over Dionne Photography, 170 Bo- 70 different kinds of wines, both warning: home-made beer does beyond that they're not going to fruits and concentrates, as well require a permit - no charge - get any better and might even land Ave., Sudbury. Or call: as all the supplies required to from the Customs and Excise start to deteriorate, Pat said. 674-0474. Cost: $2 each. make them - from simple gal- Department.) Wines with high alcoholic con- lon starter kits to the acid and It's easy to appreciate the en- tent, such as madeira, however, specific gravity testing apparatus thusiasm for home-made wines are good "keepers" and madeira has lasted up to 100 years if the the advanced amateurs want. once you've tried them. They're You can make dry or sweet cork is changed periodically. Lately, he's also branched into cheap, easy-to-make, and what wines, the only difference is in wine-oriented gifts, such as other hobby gives such satisfac- Wine is made from almost any the amount of sugar you add to glasses and goblets, and fancy tion in the end. fruit and "we're developing new sweeten to your personal taste. candles. About $17 will set you up in wines all the time," Pat said. Most wines contain 12- to 13-per Running the Wine Cellar is the wine business. That buys the Tried and proven recipes suggest cent alcohol by volume, but Pat more of a labor of love for Pat. big plastic garbage can for fer- African passionfruit, apricots, "fortifies" his sherry and madeira He still has to take it easy due menting the wine, a large glass blackberries, blueberries, cran- with brandy. Two ounces of to his heart, but the whole family jar or carboy for holding the berries, loganberries, peaches brandy per bottle raises these pitches in to help him when wine while it ferments a second and pears, rhubarb, and, of wines to a potent 19- to 21-per they're needed. Irene's kitchen time, some bottles, chemicals course, grapes. cent alcoholic content. DrcL1u1R, 1971 P,c;E TIREE

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cost around $1,O0, and a bull (over the 18 miles between twice that much. home and quarry in some- Earl's Inco service dates thing tinder 20 minutes". back to 1951. He worked at In our picture, he is using a Copper Cliff and at Creighton king-size wrench to set the gap on the crushing plant's called, "they'd be about 14 shorthead crusher. miles off-shore and we'd check them maybe three times a week. We had some good LEN CYWINK fishing in those days. I can Lowering a 70-ton side-dump CHARLIE DAGENAIS remember my father pulling car while loading quartzite Responsible for the main- in sturgeon weighing more from the quarry's 300-ton tenance of the quarry's mo- than a hundred pounds." storage bins, is car loader Len bile equipment, Charlie Dage- Austin and his wife Ella Cywink. nais is the resident garage live in Willisville, a mile or so A loaded 30-car train leaves mechanic. Of the 16 person- across the valley from the the quarry and makes the 64- nel at Lawson Quarry, Charlie quarry. 'We've lived there mile journey to Clarabelle Sta- holds the distinction of being since the first house was built tion near Copper Cliff four the first to have been em- there in 1942," he said. They times a week. Last year, ployed there. "I was in on the have a grown-up family of 380,000 tons of quartzite were construction of the plant - five. shipped from the quarry. It I started on June 5, 1941." Mine before he started at is used at Copper Cliff and Lawson Quarry in 1969. He Coniston as a flux for smelting operations. and his wife Effie have two daughters. PERCY GRAVELLE Age 23, Len was born and Percy Gravelle started his Inco grew up in Whitefish Falls, Backgrounded by the mast of a rotary drill, he was busy career at the Frood Open Pit and joined Inco to work in 1940 and moved over to underground at Creighton replacing a bearing cap when the camera zeroed in on him. Lawson Quarry in June 1941. Mine in 1968. He has worked 'The plant was brand-new," at Lawson Quarry for the last he recalled. "We started pro- two years. ducing quartzite in January of Daughter of Crean Hill ADELARD RIENGEUTTE 1942." maintenance mechanic Lloyd Approaching his 52nd birth- Following some 29 years at White, Len's wife Judy is with day as a bachelor Adelard the controls of a churn drill, he accounting department at Riengeutte grew up in Little Percy switched to the job of St. Joseph's Hospital in Little Current with nine brothers haulage truck driver 18 Current. and seven sisters. "To say the months ago. He was photo- least, the experience made me graphed at the wheel of one of the quarry's four 35-ton a little leary about raising a In the garage, Charlie was family of my own,' he said. Mack trucks that, prior to EARL SIZE photographed while salvaging their introduction to Lawson It could be said that Earl Size An Incoite since 1951, Ade- spare parts from a retired 250 lard worked at Creighton and Quarry, saw service at both. lives a double existence. At hp haulage truck diesel motor. Frood and Clarabelle Open Lawson Quarry the 47-year- Levack Mines before his move Born in Pleasant Valley, to Lawson Quarry in 1969. He Pits. old Earl is a maintenance just a little south of Espanola, operates the crushing plant Born in Sudbury, Percy was mechanic. But home on his he has lived in Whitefish Falls 12 when his family moved to 285-acre farm near ManitoLi- singlehandedly, using a jaw since 1942. He and his wife crusher and a standard and Whitefish Falls. He still lives waning on Manitoulin Island, Beatrice have two school-age shorthead crusher to reduce there, and one of his neigh- he becomes Earl the gentle- you ngsters. the quarried quartzite to bors who recently built a sum- man farmer and cattle breeder. mer home nearby is camera- On his farm, 35 Herefords minus 1½ inches. Living in Little Current, man Harry Makin who shot share pasture and barn with where his main off-the-job footage for the TV series five Charolais, a breed that AUSTIN STEVENS activities revolve around his Rainbow Country" that was was first imported into Canada A shovel runner, Austin garden, Adelard boasts he can produced in the area. from France in 1965. "They're Stevens has been employed at Percy's wife Ann hails from Lawson Quarry since he bigger than other breeds," Tehkummah on Manitoulin joined International Nickel in Earl explained, and they pro- Island. vide good lean meat" At 18 1941. Inspecting the electric months a Hereford cow shovel that he operates, he weighs about 1,300 pounds was photographed while in while at the same age a the 3-cubic yard bucket of the Charolais tips the scales at machine, over 2,000 pounds, Crossbred Born in Sheguiandah on with Hereforclc, he reLilting Manitoulin Island, Austin was 'stockers" carry about 150 a Great Lakes fisherman be- pounds more than a pure fore he joined Inco. "We'd Hereford. Expensive beasts, set our 28-foot long pond Charolais cows on the hoof nets in the spring," he re- l'A,F Six I 'w'o 1RI.\N,I

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THEN and now I(gi, When Villa and Angelo Franchetto first posed for the Triangle camera in 1952, they had only two children, Jane and newly-arrived Raymond. Some things have changed and others have remained the same for this Coniston family. The most noticeable change is daughter Elizabeth, now 13 years old. Jane is in her fourth year of teaching Spanish and French at Marymount College in Sudbury. Raymond is in his second year of chemistry studies at Laurentian University. As for the things that are the same, Angelo is still a 1st class carpenter at the Coniston Smelter and the family continues to reside on 5th Street in Coniston. Angelo started with the Company in the spring of 1935.

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record with Inc started in 1936 he's a lead welder at the copper refinery The Smiths enjoy their home in Sudbury - they have the same house on York Street as they did in the original picture.

When the Triangle visited the Dar -,. Storey family in f'\ 1948, it was just six weeks after '-. 1 Dar and his wife, Ad, brought home twins Gary and Greg, much to the amusement of big - brothers Carl and Randy, then 9 and 4, respectiVely. Carl, now married, transferred back to Sudbury thL year from Denve. with the mining equipment firm he "i represents. Randy teaches at Con- federation Sec- ondary School in Val Caron while Gary and Greg are completing their studies. In the new picture, Dar is still "between" the twins, with Gary standing on the left. Carl is sitting on the right ind Randy on the left. Dar is now efficiency engineer at Little Stobie Mine. \t It R. 1971 PA(E SEvIN

And so another Clzristmas is upon us and its with great pleasure that we present our annual look back to some of our early Album Families. To them, and to the /z:indreds of others ivhove appeared on our pages over the past 24 years. the Triangle staff wish a Happy Christmas and Peace on earth goodwill to all mncn'.

Creighton pen- sioner Andy Nes- bitt raised his fam- 'C, ily with a respect for the law: two of his three sons are Town of Cop- per Cliff police constables, Andy, Jr. in Creighton and Fred in Le- vack. His daughter, Andrea, is married to Paul Kelly. another Copper Cliff con- stable stationed in Creighton. The three Nesbitt boys in the 1971 pic- .- / ture are Brian, '1 Fred and Andy, Jr. The original picture was taken in the summer of The Then picture for the Harry Shebeski family was taken in 1948 when • 1954 when Andy Harry and his wife, Katherine, had two children, Audrey and Leonard, and his wife Betsy then 8 and 6, respectively. The family has increased by three since then made their home on Nicholas Street in Creighton. They now live be- and all but the two latest arrivals are married. Audrey is Mrs. Mario tween Creighton and Lively. Andy retired in the spring of this year Favretto and Linda is the wife of Roger Pagnutti, a 1st class garage with 34 years service all at Creighton Mine. They have six grand- mechanic at the Clarabelle Open Pit. Leonard is a body repair man in Sudbury and Margaret, 16, and Cathy, 12, are in school. The children. Shebeskis have six grandchildren. When the original picture was taken, the family lived on Martindale Road in Sudbury and Harry was a tapper helper on the Copper C!iff Smelter reverb furnaces. They now reside on Cranbrook Crescent In Sudbury and Dad is a general foreman still in the Copper Cliff Smelter. Harry's service with Inco dates back to 1937.

If the Triangle camera had drop- - I ped into the Alex and Gertrude Bu- jold residence just a few months later back in 1951, Jean-Yves would - have been in both the "Then' and "Now" pictures. Brothers Guy and Gilles, then 3 and 6 years old, respectively, are too big to sit in the same chair with mother or dad - now. And Jean-Yves no longer takes a back seat to anyone. At the time of the original picture, Alex was a butt welder at the Coniston Smelter and the Bujold residence was on William Street at Coniston. Now their address s Nickel Street, still in Coniston and Alex is a 2nd class maintenance mechanic in the iron ore plants roaster building. He started with the Company in 1942. The three Bujold sons in the latest picture are Jean-Yves, 19, Guy at Laurentian University, and Gilles, now married and living in Garson.

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Three additions have joined Dick Coggins' family since the Triangle visited his Levack home back in 1954. At that time, Dad was working at Levack Mine as a stope leader; he's now a hoistman. In the back row are Sharron, 18, a Bell Canada employee in Sault Ste. Marie. Dick, his wife Mavis, and Marie (Mrs. Jim Laframboise), who is a supply teacher for the Sudbury Board of Education. In front are Richard (now married and taking a garage mechanic's course in the Soo), Ronnie, 13 and Bennie, 16. Dick likes to spend most of his spare time keeping the + Levack Minor Hockey League running smoothly.

Back after 20 years, we revisit the happy family of Preston (Pep) and Vi Roe. Eleanor (left) is now Mrs. Roy Dixon of Wefland; Harry, a third generation incoite, is with the shearing department and Doris Anne is now Mrs. Raymond Schooley of Port Coiborne. Nine grandchildren will add to the pleasure of Christmas this year when the family gathers at the home of Doris Anne for Christmas dinner. Pep is an analyst in the precious metals laboratory at the Port Coiborne Nickel Refinery, with The flash of the Triangle bulb that recorded the family of Charlie and 33 years' service. Agnes Moreau in 1948 seems to have changed a trend. Until then they had been blessed with three sons, but following the picture they welcomed three daughters. A shift boss for 21 of his 28 years with inco, Charlie saw service at Froo&Stobie, Garson and Murray Mines. He was working at the Ciarabeile Open Pit before his recent retirement. With their parents are twins Rona and Mona, Wilmer, Edgar, Reg and Carol. DECEMIWR, 1971 PAGE NINE Oktoberfest ist wunderbar At lort Colbornes Oktoherfest, revellers sang and danced in banner-bedecked Club Rhein- gold w the brassy strains of a German oompab band. The ball was filled to capacity as the 450 dancers "kiked up der heels, drank special beer brewed for the occasion from Bavarian hops, and gulped down succulent Ger- man sausages, sauerkraut and other German delicacies. Of special delight was the colorful performance by the Bavarian Dance Group from Hamilton. In their gaily-colored costumes and plumed hats, these young men and women brought to life memories of German folk dances of bygone generations. Oktoberfest was first con- ceived in 1810 when a Bavarian soldier, Franz Baumgartner, suggested that horse races be held Port gets new substation in Munich to celebrate the wed- This new 60 cycle, 115,000 voJt KVA when required. Further ex- ding of Ludwig, the 24-year-old transformer station, now in the pansion may be accommodated Crown Prince of Bavaria. The process of construction will take by increasing the supply to 230,- Prince agreed and the races were care of the electric power for 000 volts. a tremendous success. the present and future expansion The transformer station will Oktoberfest is held each year Emcee Louis Schweitzer of the programs at the Port Colborne step down the voltage to 13800 during the month of October. Hamilton Schunpiatter Dancers obviously enjoyed himself in Port Nickel Refinery. The initial trans- for plant distribution. Primarily, Kitchener started producing Coiborne. former installation will have a it will supply the power to the theirs on a grand scale in 1969 rated capacity of 20000 Kilovolt- new foundry additives plant patterned after the one held in ampere (KVA) and space is avail- which is scheduled for com- able for an additional 20000 pletion early in 1972. Port's school for casualties A casualty simulation course un- vised by John Potter, provincial der the auspices of the Emer- staff officer from St. John Ambu- gency Health Services for Ontario lance Association. was held in Port Colbornes Inco The successful candidates were Recreation Club last fall. The Geza Szalkai, John Koval, Walter purpose of the course was to Goulding, Arnold Pichette, train additional Inco personnel to Gaetan Rodrigue, Harry Roe and realistically produce simulated Don Moscrip. In addition to injuries for first aid classes and plant requirements they will be first aid team training and com- available for civil emergency ex- petitions. ercises at institutes in the Niagara The course was ably super- Peninsula.

An evening of fun and good fellowship: that was Port Coiborne's "Oktobertest". Among the crowd enjoying themselves were Frank Neheli, boxman In the electronickel refinery, his wife Mary, Eleanor Frey, and her husband George, a carpenter in the mechanical department. I Munich each year. In 1970, over out. A German band was im- 200000 people jammed the ported from Kitchener and parade route and in 1971, 300,- Lowenbrau beer from Germany 000 enjoyed the festival. for the festivities. Port Colborne residents of Homemade Germrn delicacies German origin joined together in were served throughout he 1962 to build their own club evening. which they called Club Rhein- Ja! Yu hben der time at 'er gold." Their first Oktoberfet was lifen ut der Port Colborne held in 1963 and has continued Oktoborfest. Yu sae zu yer- to grow in popularity each year. self, Sauerkrauten! Das her This year, it was completely sold Oktoberfest is sumting.

instructor John Potter chocks Gaetan Rodrigue's handiwork as Gaetan feathers out the plasticine on "victim Louis Ciolfi's other arm to start making a laceration. Pc; TEN INCO TRIANCIE She bandowan a winter a

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Nearly all of the tailings lines will be buried underground, as part of Inco's efforts to remain as unobtrusive as possible in the Lake Shebandowan area. Where burying is impossible due to the contours of the land, attractive trestles will be used to bridge the gap between tunnels.

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The headframe is half a mile from the mill. The collarhouse, to contain offices and the lamproom, will be built at the base of the tower. On the hill in front of the headframe is the fresh air raise building, which supplies ventilation and heat underground, and the mine substation. The original exploration shaft, located about a mile from this point, will become part of the mine's return air ventilation system.

Over 10,000 feetof tailings lines will extend from the mill to the special 280-acre tailings pond Inco created to hold mill wastes. All mine water is • treated on the

Framed by trees, Shebandowan's No. 2 shaft headframe is •. 2300 level un- clean and uncluttered. In the final stages of construction, derground, and the concrete headframe will be 176 feet high and will house - is then pumped two 15-ton friction hoists in its penthouse. No. 2 shaft is 1'/ -miles for 2,395 feet deep and the mine has a design capacity of 2,900 release into tons-per-day when it starts production in November 1972. nearby Gold Creek, through the second pipe. The third pipeline re- turns the tailings effluent to Photos by Cart Schyter :L the mill. DECEMUER, 1971 PAGE EIEVEN

Costing $31 million, the Shebandowan mine/mill complex is 50 miles from Thunder Bay. This view, looking west, shows the con- centrator building, thickener, reel house and conveyor gallery, and the services building (right). The towers in the mill building house the sandfill plant, a 1,300-ton coarse (minus 8-inch) ore bin, a 1,300-ton fine (minus 1.5-inch) ore bin, and an I 1,800-ton fine (minus ^-inch) ore bin, as well as a disc filter. The services building contains the general offices, shops, warehouse and dry for the whole complex. ..

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-'- ,: Looking north, this view of the mill building shows the Rising up from the 400 level 70-foot diameter thickener, and the main electric substation ore bins is the 3,300foot in the background. The mill has a design capacity of 2,500 main feed conveyor, which tons-per-day and will come on-stream using development moves along an inclined ore in mid-1972. In keeping with the Company's objective tunnel from the mine shaft to of building an attractive complex, the mill uses steel the mill. All the service lines cladding of contrasting colors. are also installed underground. Because the ore is moved underground rather than by surface trucks, there is less chance of ore spill- Inside the mill building, the age. In the foreground is the foundations are ready for the reel house which contains mill (left) and crushers (fore- the drive pulley which ground). The mill will have operates the conveyor belts. one standard and one shorthead crusher, transferred from the Copper Cliff Mill, one 13½-foot diameter by 22-foot long ball mill, the largest in any Inco mill, and 72 flotation cells. The nickel- r copper concentrate will be shipped by rail to Copper Cliff for further processing. PA(,E I WEI.VEE IN(o TRIANGLI Vacation shutdown is announced at the 3rd

Company - Union meeting The Ontario Division's first vaca- The interim meetings are not tion shutdown of operations was designed to renegotiate or extend Among those attending from Local 6500, Sudbury, were Allyn Butler, Norm announced at the third interim the terms of the Collective Bar- Carriere, Mickey Maquire, and International Union representative Lynne Company-Union meeting, held gaining Agreement. )nstead, their Williams. in Toronto last month. The shut- purpose is to clarify administra- down, to last three weeks, will tive and interpretative difficulties start July 31. It will enable most in the contract; to keep problems salaried and hourly employees, from building up; and to ex- many of whom have not had an change information on matters of opportunity in the past due to mutual interest. seniority or production Commit- Included in the latest exchange ments, to enjoy vacations with of information was a review of their families during the summer. the changing nature of the nickel The vacation shutdown was business, including the growing included in a general review of importance of foreign ore re- Some of the members of the Company representation were Frank Burnet, Hugh Judges, Art Bennett, Bruce Seli and Mel Young.

only 14% of the world supply is There was a brief discussion in Canada (in sulphide ore) and at the meeting of the three 86% lies outside Canada (mostly foreign projects which Inco is in laterite ores). This, it was planning to develop in New pointed out by the Company, Caledonia, Guatemala and Indo- clearly indicates that other coun- nesia. Plans call for these to be tries have the potential reserves brought into production during to supply an increasing propor- the 1970s and to produce a total tion of the world's needs. of about 200 million pounds an- Actual free world production in- nually which would be about Ray Moreau, John Tronko, Gaetan Marquis and Jay Ayers were part of creased from 703 million pounds 25% of Inco's total output. the Local 6200, Port Colborne, delegation. in 1965 to 1,055 million pounds A slide presentation was shown in 1970. The free world's cap- to illustrate the Company's con- acity could reach 1,755 million tinuing program to improve business conditions, provided by serves and of foreign competi- in 1975. Canada's share declined working conditions in Sudbury the Company. tion, as seen by the Company. from 74% in 1965 to 57% in and Port Colborne. The presenta- There were 29 items on the Inco also outlined the steps it is 1970 and could drop further to tion noted that since November Company and Union agendas taking to protect its position as 43% in 1975, even though the 1969, expenditures of $9,452,257 discussed during the two-day the leading world producer of number of pounds produced in had been planned and completed meeting. Attending were repre- nickel, and the short-term finan- Canada is increasing substantially. on such items as parking, em- sentatives from Local 6500 (Sud- cial and employment problems A steady decline in the pro- ployee access roads, improved bury) and Local 6200 (Port caused by the current slump in portion of production from sul- working areas and lunch room Colborne) of the United Steel- demand for nickel. phide ores, from 77% to an esti- facilities. Since April 30, the date workers of America, the Inter-- Figures released by the U.S. mated 58% in 1975, is being of the last interim meeting, al- national Union, and Inco. Department of Mines show that matched by a corresponding in- most a million dollars has been crease in the proportion from spent on the program, and $2,- laterite ores. This demonstrates 075,845 more is under study. the need for Inco to extend its The Union reviewed with operations not only in Canada, Company officials the status and hut in foreign countries in order functioning of the grievance pro- to protect its position as the lead- cedures at the Sudhury mining ing world producer. and smelting complex. The

Ray Moreau, president of Local 6200 and Jim Walter, senior industrial relations advisor, talk over a few points during a This noise abatement shelter for the operator in the hoistroom at Levack coffee break. is one of the projects included in the multi-millIon plant improvements program in the Ontario Division. DECLMRER, 197i PACE THIRTEEN

parties agreed to continue to in- vestigate the grievance procedure Inco sponsors machinery and to study alter- natives to improve the system. Other items raised between Lauren tian the parties included job descrip- tions and wage inequality investi- hockey games gations, safety problems, sub- There's a special hockey treat in contracting, the disability pen- store for Nickel District fans. sion claims procedure, absentee Starting next month, the Lauren- counselling program and prob- tian University hockey Voyageurs' lems created hy the decline in games will be shown live and in employment levels in both Sud- color on CKNC-TV, channel 9. bury and Port Colborne. Also All the remaining 1972 home reviewed were a variety of prob- games will be telecast on Sunday lems dealing with the application afternoons starting January 9. and operation of some of the Company's benefit programs. The hockey games will alter- The Port Colborne Union dele- nate with CKNC-TV's Cavalcade Marilyn Flindall is presented with her "junior camper" badge by Mrs. of Sports, when the Vees are Richard Dow, while Guide VickI Doherty, Ranger Beverley Koski, Guide gation questioned the Company's Vicki Poll, and Ranger Cathy Fleming look on and await their awards. decision to retain apprentices playing out of town. The two- out of seniority at the same time hour Cavalcades will feature as lay-offs are being made. The highlights of other varsity sports, Company explained that the re- such as basketball, swimming Copper Cliff Guides tention of apprentices is neces- and volleyball. sary to ensure a continuing Sponsoring the series will be make awards, honor leader supply of well-qualified trades- International Nickel's Ontario Almost 100 Copper Cliff Girl Owl" in Lively in 1955 and the men in the future. It was, how- Division which has promised no Guides, Brownies and Rangers district commissioner for Lively ever, agreed to review the corporate commercial breaks met at St. Stanislaus Parish Hall in 1960. She taught Brownie Union's arguments in this regard during the programs. The pro- in mid-November for their an- leaders in the Sudbury area for to determine if a mutually satis- gram schedule is below: nual Mother-and-Daughter ban- six years and worked for the factory solution could be de- January 9 - Live Hockey: quet. Over 150 Mothers and past year as an international ad- vised. Laurentian vs. Waterloo Guide leaders attended the visor in the Algonquin area co- The joint news release issued January 23 - Live Hockey: dinner. ordinating overseas trips. at the end of the meeting stated: Laurentian vs. York The focal point of the evening, She has been associated with "While a number of issues re- February 6 - convened by Ranger Cathy the Guide movement for nearly main open, the Union and Com- Cavalcade of Sports Fleming, was the presentation of 25 years, Mrs. Richard Dow, wife pany representatives agreed that February 13 - Live Hockey: badges, emblems and awards of the Copper Cliff mayor, noted the sessions have provided a use- Laurentian vs. Queens earned by some of the girls at when she presented Mrs. Maskell ful forum for exchanging views February 20 - Live Hockey: Hazelmere and Doe Lake sum- with a gold pin. and exploring problems during Laurentian vs. Waterloo Lutheran mer camps. Three of the district commis- the life of the current Agreement. February 27 - The girls also honored retiring sioners in Mrs. Maskell's division It was also agreed that further Cavalcade of Sports division commissioner Shirley attended the banquet to pay her meetings of this nature should be March 5 - Maskell during the evening. Mrs. tribute. They were Mrs. Marion continued following renegotia- Cavalcade of Sports Maskell's involvement with the Prior from Lively, Mrs. Alice tion of the Collective Bargaining March 12 - Guides began as a girl in To- Laurin from Azilda, and Mrs. Agreement next year." University Sports Roundup ronto. She became a "Brown Josie Pearson from Dowling.

Shirley Maskell re- He ceived the coveted gold thanks badge from Mrs. Richard Dow at endorses the Copper Cliff banquet. Mrs. Maskell has re tired from the safety Guides and was the Wildwood division commissioner glasses from 1963 until recently.

Illustrating the perils of doing- move the studs from his tires. it-yourself is John Weloski, a pro- "I grabbed the stud and was pry- cess control technician in Copper ing it out using the edge of the glasses, which shattered but did glasses, "then you say to your- Clitf. Obeying the new Ontario pliers against the tire when it not splinter. self: how lucky can I be." law requiring studs to be re- probably slipped," John said. John always wears safety After his accident, John bought '1 never saw it coming. All I glasses and has encouraged his a narrow screwdriver to work the moved from car tires so heard was a noise and the shat- 19-year-old son to use them too. studs out far enough to grip with equipped, he had a very close tering of my glasses." "It doesn't dawn on you how im- his pliers. The best way, if you call It could have been a tragedy portant they are 'till something still haven't removed your studs, He used a pair of pliers to re- had John not been wearing safety happens," he says about safety is to let your local garage do it. Christmas is for kids although 18-month old Derek Teneycke seems a little ap- prehensive about Old Saint Nick. The meetIng took place durIng Cop- per Cliffs Light Up ceremonies December 5. Be- sides Derek and his dad Robert, a diesel loaderman at North Mine, r hundreds turned up in front of the towns hospital. They enjoyed carol singing and 0 watched Mayor Faces Richard Dow turn the switch to light up the R. L. Beat- tie Branch of the Canadian Legions Christmas display, part of which forms & this issues cover. Santa arrived during the fun and handed out pack- ages of candies to the children. Places On location at several of lncos plants at Copper Cliff, this four- man crew from Toronto-based Westminster Films of Canada were shooting footage for an up-dated film covering the milling and smelting of the Sudbury district ores. On the right and in command of the action, producer Don F-laldane was responsible for the production of International Nickels award- winning documentaries Down- stream, Rye on the Rocks, and "Shebandowan: a Summer Place. With him are Leslie Koskota, director of photography Joe Seckeresh, and production designer Keith F-tar- ley. Groups interested in viewing Company films can contact the public affairs department.

The largest amount of money paid out to date, under the Companys Sug- gestion Plan was presented to South Mine maintenance foreman Roc- co Gualtieri by Charles Hews, assistant mines manager. The $1800 cheque was for Roccos suggestion to use a different type of universal joint at mid- ship of the ST-4A load haul - dump machine.- As a re- sult of his suggestion, considerable savings have been achieved due to the need for fewer universal joint changes, and few er incidents of oil For the past couple of months, local playgrounds have been gearing up pan damage for the coming winter sports season. At the Valley Acres Playground caused by the in Val Therese, these volunteers replaced the ice rinks deteriorated light parts failure. At standards and installed high-intensity mercury vapour lighting. In the the time he made picture the dedicated dads have just put a new pole in place prior to his suggestion, securing it. Identifiable are Leo Burns, Walter Kienapple and Yves Rocco was em- Beland. Walter is a conveyorman in the Copper Cliff Smelter nickel ployed as a me- reverbs and Yves is a process assistant in the Copper Refinery tankhouse. chanic at Creigh- The project super on the right is Yves son, 10-year-old Marc, ton Mine No, 3. Di.u t M 13CR, 1971 P,GE FIFFEEN

There are 30,000

that's the number of dollars printed

CRib president Ray surarrce payment -. the money repre- - 4 sents the value of the clubhouse that - was demolished L during last year's - o r n ad o. T h e cheque changed hands in front of the new clubhouse under construction on Birch Street in ' ivc:ag '" 000, the new building was designed by Louis Bardeggia of Inco's general engineering department. Looking forward to a late December completion date, the club's 500 members are hoping to hold a New Year's party there.

Elmira area farmers and members of the old order Mennonite Church, P1aer. N;t' Henry Martin, Tobias Bowman and Abram Weber travelled north to New Liskeard on a cattle buying trip just before the snow flew. Keenly I 24 interested in things agricultural, they broke their journey to view some of the spectacular results attained by Inco's agricultural department I regarding seeding and reclamatIon of the Company's mill tailings disposal areas. Their knowledgeable guide was assistant agriculturist Tom Peters.

Winners of the first annual mines engineering curling bonspiel were skip Vic Larsen's rink. Vic, from Levack/Coleman, prepares to throw his winning rock. Ready to sweep are vice Gary Kaiway, North Mine, second Peter Kaynes, Copper Cliff mines planning, and lead Don Gibbon, Stobie. Organized by John Woznow of Copper Cliff, all mines were represented in the two-day event held at the Copper Cliff Curling Club. Rene T. Dlonfle Each of the 28 rinks played four six-end games. Hank Bagnell, president of the Onaping-Levack Branch 503 of the Royal Canadian Legion, salutes his fallen comrades after laying the Branch's wreath at the Levack cenotaph, Beside him, during the November 11 Remembrance Day ceremony, was Levack Mine area superintendent Dave Lennie, Hank Bagnell is a rigger at Levack Mine.

I Inco's Sudbury . area operations •1 ' were paid a work-

- . I ing visit by famed .' industrial photographer Art d'Ara- 1j1utqr.111 • zian of New York. 1 11fl1 J d'Arazian was part of a group headed aiii by John Cornell,

- photography editor ______of International __ Nickel Magazine.

______The party's "shoot- 4 ing " itinerary in- - ______' * ___ cluded the Clara- belie Mill. the Cop- Legionnaires Cecil Dennie and Del Briscoe flank Cadet Captain Adrian per Cliff Nickel Lee as he steps Out to place the Highlanders' wreath betore the Copper ______J J__ Refinery and Little Cliff cenotaph during Remembrance Day celebrations in the town, Stobie Mine where Mrs. C. H. Buck, sitting beside Jack Quinville in the photo, aid the first ______this picture was of many wreaths. The Copper Cliff Highlanders' pipes and drums played taken of d'Arazian setting his cameras for an underground shot of a during the solemn occasion attended by hundreds of the town's citizens. three-boom drill jumbo. P,\(ESixri;iN !N(O TRTANc,i E

Elmer was horn at Port Perry ouisly at that mine. Born in Ble- in southern Ontario. hut grew up zard Vtllcy, he worked the family n western Canada on the family farm a number ol years before RETIREMENTS farm. At Inco he stayed at the joining Inco. Frood until 1950. when he trans- Reg was married in Suidbury in AUREUO OR%SI he couple also have a cottage at ferred to Stohie Mine where he 1936 to Cecile Dignard. Mrs. Fouicuult was horn in St. (hrles Aurelio Orasi, known to most as Ella Lake in the same area. Eino worked as a rniinten ince me- hut moved as a child to Sudhury. Jack, is the second of three Orasi summed things up by saying, "My chanic tor the rest of his service. generations th:it have worked for relations with Inco \vre good at \Iarried in Sudhury in 1937, Their only son Gerry continues Elmer is the father of three chil- the fmilv presence at the Frood: the Comp'iny. His lather, Ama- ll the plants where I worked. I dren and has I I grandchildren as deo, worked for the Mond Nickel also want to thank the boys at he's a raise bore boss alternuting well. His son, Terry, is follow- Company for many years, and Crean Hill for the very fine send- between Frood and Stohie Mines. off they gave me." ing in Elmer's lootsteps as a 2nd Gerry has presented his parents class maintenance mechanic in with three gran&lchil&lrn. JOE ZIMMERMAN the Copper Cliff Smelter. Both Reg and his wife are in "Times were tough in this coun- fine heilth: they plan to do a ONNI WILSON try in the late '20s and early '30s. little travelling but will continue I rode the rods from coast to coast Copper Cliff native Onni Wilson living in Sudbury where they looking for work." Saskatchewan- started with the Company in 1940 operte a conf.ti:niy torc in born Joe Zimmerman was remi- in the Copper Cliff Smelter plite their home. niscing about his pre-Inco days shop. He worked mostly as a ONNI KAINOLA when he really had to be on his maintenance mechanic in the converter building replacing the Onni Kainolas retirement con- his son, Ron, works for Inco toes to make ends meet. Joe's as assistant cashier at Copper plates that make up the big con- cludes a 38-year relationship with Cliff. Amadeo is a healthy 91- verters. Onni sold cars in Sud- the Company. It would have year-old. bury for IS years and worked for been longer still had he not left Jack was born in Copper Cliff the Custodis Chimney Company and grew up at Worthington, for another three years repairing Creighton, Frood and Levack the stacks in the Copper Cliff where his father moved with Smelter. Mond. Before coming to Inco He married Mary Foran in in 1933, Jack worked four years Sudbury in 1934 and is the father as a house electrician. He started of two children. Mrs. Wilson was in the Copper Cliff Smelter, but luck changed and he started with born in the Ottawa Valley but also worked at the iron ore plant, the Company in 1935 at the Cop- and Frood-Stobie Mill where he per Cliff Smelter. He spent most i in 1929 to go trapping north of was a 1st class electrician most of his service as a skimmer on the nickel converters. "I'll never for- Levack on the Onaping River for of the time. four years. The bulk of his min- His wife, the former Angela get the day I hired on I slept in a boxcar the night before," ing with Inco was done at the Galati, was born in southern Italy Frood-Stobie complex with an ad- and came to Canada in 1937. he chuckled. Married in Sudbury to Agnes ditional two years being spent at They were married in Sudbury in Creighton. He retired as a tool 1941, and have four children and Shulman, Joe is the father of three children. Mrs. Zimmerman fitter. the same number of grand- Swea Engblom became Onni's is originally from Warren. They grew up in Sudbury after age 14; children. Mrs. Orasi has worked wife in 1935 in Sudbury. Mrs. as a hairdresser in Sudbury for have six grandchildren. the Wilsons also have five grand- The Zimmermans have enjoyed children. Kainola was born in Little Cur- the past 12 years. rent but grew up in Garson where vacations in Florida, the Bahamas The heart attack that levelled her father, the late Charles Eng- ELNO TJKKANEN and western Canada. In 1972 Onni a year ago has left him with blom, worked for the Mond Eino Tikkanen was born in Fin- they plan to visit Europe. The indifferent health but when he's Nickel Company. Of the Kain- land and came to Canada in 1927. couple used to live in Copper feeling up to par, he and his ola's three children, Doris is mar- He started several different times Cliff but they now make their wife will travel to California to ried to iron ore plant roaster kiln with the Company, the last time home in Garson where Joe main- visit a relative. in boss Enso Floreani. Seven grand- 1950. All his working years, tains a big vegetable garden. Their Onni likes fishing and "keep- summer cottage on the French children complete the family. ing up the property" at the Wil- The Kainolas live in Sudbury River also provides a lot of re- sons Sudbury home. creational pleasure. where they maintain a prize-winning garden. Mrs. Kainola won kEG FOUCAULT ELMER BRANNING the Frood-Stobie Athletic As- Reg Foucault has put the safety Elmer Branning started with Inco sociation trophy at this year's brake on his underground electric Sudbury Horticultural Society at the Frood in 937, after an locomotive and punched out for show for the best rock garden. exciting I 80-fight boxing career. the last time. Reg was a motor- Onni plans to do more hunting Elmer's record in man on the 400 and 2400 levels and fishing now that time permits. Inco and elsewhere, were spent the ring included at Frood Mine and covered many in the mining industry. He 120 knockouts thousands of miles on Froods 22 VIC GAZZOLA worked for Inco as a hoistman, I-.' and five wins by miles of underground track. He Vic Gazzola joined the "interna- seeing service at Crean Hill, decision. He was started with the Company in 1930 tional set" early: Born in Nova Creighton and Levack Mines. knocked out five at Frood and worked continu- Scotia, he was taken to Italy by Married at Sudbury in 1930 to his widowed mother as an infant. times and lost the the former Helen Lehto, Eino is The family returned to Canada rest on TKOs. It the father of two children. Mrs. again when Vic was 12. Tikkanen was born in Toronto • all started when Before coming to Inco in 1937, and grew up there and at Beaver his father brought he worked at a foundry in Guelph, Lake. The Tikkanens have three him home a pair of eight-ounce where he married Medina Prigi- grandchildren. gloves and with 14 brothers, there one in 1935. Mrs. (Jazzola was As well as their rural home at was lots of opportunity for spar- born in nearby Acton. Vic start-

Beaver Lake, west of Sudbury. ring. . ' ed with the Company in the Cop- Dt(r:4ttR. 1971 PAC;E SEVINTEET4

man in the Copper Cliff Smelter guard in the Hanmer area where plans for fishing from the camp just like his father. the Proulx reside. he built near Mattawa back in Rocky was born in St. Charles, Elzie was born in Hanmer and 1956. He is presently living in hut grew up in Coniston after age started with Inco in 1946 at the Sudbury but plans to move back . His continuous service with Copper ('liff Smelter. He worked to the Ottawa Valley. the company started in 1942 jt in the nickel revcrbs department AUGUST RAINVILLE Coniston. When he returned and was a fi.ttler for I 8 years. Gus Rainville is the second of from three years' wartime service Before coming to Inco, he worked three generations in his family to overseas, he began working at the for scven summers at a sawmill per Cliff Smelter but transferred near Skead and later as a carpen- work for the Company. His four years later to Creighton ter in this area. father, the late Elie Rainville, where he remained. He was a The former Florestine Landry worked for the Mond Nickel stope boss and pillar leader for became Elzies wife in 1933. Mrs. about 20 of his Creighton Mine Proulx was a teacher in Hanmer years. and area for 11 years. Their The Gazzolas have a family of family consists of two children four children and five grandchil- and two grandchildren. dren. Their son, Vic Jr., is a \ BEAUSOLEIL draftsman with the general en- STEPHEN Copper Cliff Smelter where he "La visite" at the home of Steve gineering department at Copper stayed, working 23 of those years and Ella Mae Beausoleil in Han- Cliff. Vic and his wife plan to as a craneman. mer can be quite an affair if all Company and Inco for over 30 do some travelling soon, perhaps His life partnership with the their 10 children and 25 grand- years and his daughter, Jacque- back to Italy. former Theresa Prieur began in children are present. And you line, is married to Jean Mathias, 1939. They were married in her ENIO CAMILUCCI can be sure that some of the a senior clerk in the metals sec- hometown of Markstay. As we'l "The best way to explain how I conversation will be about Inco - tion of the accounting department as their 11 children, the Larocques two of Steve's sons and two of his came to Inco is to say that also have 14 grandchildren. at Copper Cliff. daughters' husbands work for the Gus was born in Coniston I followed the bricks." Enio Rocky enjoys fishing and hunt- Company. where he started with the Com- Camilucci better known as "Gin- ing and plans to make money out Sons Nelson and Laurent are pany in 1934. After transferring ny", wasn't kidding. After arriv- of a former hobby - building both miners, the former a switch- to Creighton and later Frood ing in Canada from his native lawn chairs in his Sudbury home man conductor underground at Mines, he left the Company in Italy in 1923 at age 14, he worked workshop. 1937 but returned later the same WILLIAM GOYETFE year. Most of his service was Bill Goyette is retiring to Ottawa spent at the Frood where he where he grew up. He was born worked primarily as a vulcanizer. in nearby Hawkesbury. Married in 1935 to Leona Le- Bill started with Inco in 1950 vesque, Gus is the father of six at Coniston where he remained children and the grandfather of throughout his nine. Mrs. Rainville's father, the I!4- Company service. late Hector Levesque, also was for eight years in a Montreal Before coming to Stobie and the latter a driller at an Inco employee and worked as brickyard and kept seeing car- Inco, he worked Garson. Margaret is married to skimmer at the Coniston smelter load after carload of brick going • for seven years as Garson stope leader Stephen for 28 years. to Copper Cliff. When the De- a mechanic for Benoit and Phyllis is the wife of When time permits, Gus likes pression hit in the '30s, Ginny the City of Ot- Copper Cliff nickel converters fishing and hunting at the family decided to "follow the bricks" and tawa. "I was get- puncher Leo Laplante. cottage near Alban. He's busy joined the Company at Copper ting 50 cents an Steve Beausoleil started with now with the Rainville family's Cliff Smelter in 1934. In 1939, hour on that job the Company in 1937 at Frood big project - a three-store shop- he was transferred to the Copper and the 89 cents advertised for Mine. left in 1943 but returned ping complex under way in the Cliff Mill as a mechanic and spent Sudbury miners looked pretty the same year to Garson Mine Minnow Lake area. and stayed; he was a timberman the last 10 years of his service on good so up I came." LONSDALE PARKER the tailings line. Married in 1936 to Martha on the 14 and 2200 levels. Steve was born near Penetang, Lonnie Parker was born in Sud- He married a Copper Cliff girl, Miron, Bill is the father of four the birthplace also of his wife, bury but moved to Coniston at Mafalda Longarini, in 1936. They children: Mrs. Goyette grew up in the former Ella Mae L'Esperance. age 12 where he remembers haul- have six children and five grand- Ottawa too. The couple has three They were wed in nearby Mid- ing wood and coal by horse-drawn children. Their son Gordon is a grandchildren. Their son, Pat, is land in 1934. wagon for the Laprairie livery 2nd class electrician at the iron following in his dad's footsteps stable. ore plant. and is now working in the Conis- VERNER KUTSCHKE Coniston was also the place Looking back on his years with ton Smelter. Better known as "Kutch" to all where he started with Inco in the Company, Ginny recalled: "I his friends, Verner Kutschke was 1930. Shortly after he trans- EIZEAR PROUIX enjoyed every minute I worked born and grew up at Pembroke. with Inco: I raised a family of Elzear Proulx, known to his His decision to six children and was never with- friends as Elzie, wants to keep join Inco in 1950 out work all that time." was preceded by I I .. five years' dam T NAPOLEON LAROCQLJE construction work "I really enjoyed being on the in the Ottawa cranes but it's nice taking it easy Valley. on pension too," said Napoleon - Working at Larocque, better known as Frood Mine, ferred to Frood Mine until 1939 Rocky". • \ Kutch was a drill- g when he went to Levack Mine Some of Rocky's love for the er for most of his Inco years but until his retirement. He finished cranes must have rubbed off on "on the go" during his retirement became a switchman conductor as a 2nd class carpenter. his family, for Victor, one of the years the first step will be to underground for the last four. II Larocque children, is a crane- start work as a school crossing A bachelor, Kutch has lots of Contfnued on Next Page PA(;E hI(,II tEEN 1No FRI,N.;I.t

RETIREMENTS

Continued from Previous Page vel hasnt ceased now that he's on Lonnic married Jean Giroux in pension. He plans to travel a lot Sudbury in 1938. Of their four around Ontario and also Wants children, Brian works as a driller o sce British Columbia in the at Levack Mine and Jean is mar- near future, At home in Sud- ried to Peter Spilchen who also bury, much of his time is spent in works at Levack as a pipeman. his garden. Lonnie and Jean claim seven Born in Scotland, George came grandchildren. to Canada in 1925. His career A fisherman and hunter, Lon- nie vill spend lots of time on After receiving hearty congratulations from Hugh Judges, manager of those pursuits at the family's cot- industrial relations and personnel and Graham Byers, supervisor of hourly empbyment training, graduate Paul Caza received a diploma from tage on Geneva I.ake near Car- Jim Scott. During the course, Jim was the representative of Management tier. and Training Systems for Industry Inc. Paul Caza is now working at the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery as a 2nd class instrument man. STANLEY GUALTIERI Stee' Gualtieri's service with the Company started in 1936, 10 I New instrument men years after his arrival in Canada with the Company began in 1936 from his native at Creighton Mine but he trans- graduate into jobs Italy. He worked ferred later to Garson and Levack Thirty-five new instrument men received their trade certificates and in the Copper Mines, where he was chief plan- job assignments during a short ceremony in the Training and • Cliff Smelter's ner in planned maintenance. Development Institute in Sudbury last month. Most received 2nd Orford bins and After the death of his first wife class positions, but some were successful in bidding for 1st class was a feeder boss vacancies. They were the first graduates from Inco's 52-week long on the charging in 1952, George married Mrs. intensive instrument training program. floor for the last Mary Harrower Del-Pivo in 1955. Emphasis in the course was placed on practical work on process three years. Steve Mrs. Secker was born in Scotland instruments with some theory about the principles involved in their IP was employed for too and came to this country in 1912. Of their two children, operations. The candidates became familiar with both air-operated five years on the Welland Canal pneumatic and electronic systems, and were taught how to repair before he came to Inco. Elizabeth is married to Arthur and install, and trouble-shoot the main types of instrument hard- A bachelor, Steve lives in Cop- Lye, a shaft hoistman at Garson Mine. The Seckers also have ware in use throughout Inco facilities. per Cliff. His retirement plans During the year, the course was divided into two groups which four grandchildren. include a visit to Niagara Falls alternated between two weeks in the class room and two weeks of where his brother and sister live. JAMES FYNN on-the-job training at mines and plants. Inco instructors Dan Mitroff and Mike Myc assisted Jim Scott of In spite of being retired, Jimmy EARL BAWDEN Management and Training Systems for Industry Inc., the firm which Fynn will have no trouble keep- Belleville-born Earl Bawden ing "in the know about Inter- organized the course for the Company. A second year-long course started with the Company in 1936 for instrument men starts next month, and Dan and Mike will be tional Nickel. His after working in his home town joined by a third Inco instructor. s o n, M e r v i n, at the CNR car shop. He even- Inco's rapid expansion in the Sudbury area was one reason for works as a motor- tually joined the railroad at Inco the introduction of the course, but the increasing trend towards man at Copper sophisticated process control systems meant the regular four-year 4 Cliff North Mine apprentice program had to be complemented to meet the Company's - and three of his manpower requirements quickly enough. daughters are also All the candidates in the course were graduates of the two- or I married to Com- three-year electronic instrumentation courses offered at Ontario pany employees Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology. - Roberta is the wife of construction co-ordinator Wayne Taylor, Joyce is married to Copper Cliff maintenance fore- too when he became a locomotive man George McDonald, and engineer in 1950. Earl spent all Junes husband, Bob McLaughlin, his Company years at Copper works as a maintenance foreman Cliff except for the last two when at Crean Hill Mine. he worked at the Coniston Both Jimmy and his wife, the Smelter still "betWeen the rails. former Eleura Morrison, are from Married in Sudbury in 1937, Westmeith in the Ottawa Valley. Earl is the father of one child. His They were married at Pembroke wife, the former Elsie Nickason, in 1930 and have five children. is originally from Giielph. The 10 grandchildren and one great Bawdens live between Wahnapitae grandchild. and Markstay just east of Sud- ______- bury. 1930 was also the year that Jimmy joined Inco. He worked The 35 jobs open in instrumentation at Incos Sudbury area operations as a skimmer in the Copper Cliff were offered to the graduates based on their company seniority. Larry GEORGE SECKER Maxfield (centre) and Rory Sim had identical seniority so the reliable George Secker managed several Smelter converter building. coin toss was used to resolve the problem. Cliff Duncan (left), per- trips to Florida when on vaca- Although the Fynns lived many sonnel co-ordinator for the planned maintenance department, showed the grads the opportunities available. Rory opted for the Frood-Stobie tion or special leave with the years in Copper Cliff, they are Mill where he works as an instrument man 2nd class, while Larry is a Company and his interest in tra- now Sudbury residents. 1st class instrument man in the Copper Cliff Smelter. DEcLti31:R, 1971 P.\GF NINETEEN Busy workshops look after mentally handicapped youth in Sudbury and the Valley 'Mental retardation is a life- In contrast, the Valley Associa- time handicap ind requires a tion looks after persons who lifetime program", according to have suffered less than 25 per W. C, "Duke' Jarrett, Little cent mental impairment. With Stobie mine engineer. A veteran proper schooling, these people of 15 years o volunteer work can master academic work, and with mentally retarded chil- can become self-supporting as dren, he should know. He is adults. now chairman of the adult ser- Both issociations work to vices committee of the Sudbury avoid a situation whereby a and District Association for the mentilly handicapped person is Mentally Retarded. There are pushed out into a world which Mike Tychowecki, Peter Bolton and Peter Berthelot put the finishing 40 such individuals, aged 17 to is not ready to receive him, and touches to roof bolt washers. The Sudbury workshop has turned out over 160,000 of these for Inco and Falconbridge mines. Watching are shop 26, in the W. C. Jarrett Indus- for which he is unprepared. instructor Maxime Morin and Duke Jarrett. trial Training Centre, nine in a Workshops are small business similar Valley facility, and over The sheltered workshops help 200 in the four schools for re- these youths make the transition tarded children in Sudbury and into adult living through training The cafeteria of the Valley. in a work situation. In Sudbury, the Jarrett work- The Sudhury & District Asso- the Jarrett Workshop has a full- shop doubles as a ciation for the Mentally Retarded time professional staff of six, work room. In the works with what are classed as headed by director Brc1ie Hart, foreground, Inco ore samples are "moderately retarded". These Virtually a small factory, the being sized for are the "trainable" people, who workshop is run like a business, packaging later by with proper instruction in super- bids on jobs from local indus- the CNIB. In the vised "sheltered workshops" can tries, and "rewards" its em- background, a group is cutting become self-supporting to a de- ployees. One of its mainstays is greeting cards in- gree. A few have been suc- the manufacture of the wooden to Christmas gift cessfully placed with local com- washers used with roof bolts tags - now on panies but most of the trainees underground in Inco mines. sale throughout the Nickel District. will probably work at the Jarrett The Valley adopted a different centre for most of their lives, approach. They train their chil-

dren in agricultural techniques at trainees, who commute to the the first small residential training Valley Association's own school, centre in the province. Entirely do their homework together and built with volunteer labor, the each night one trainee is an in- residence is located on an 80- formal teacher and leads a re- acre farm in the Blezard Valley view of the day's classroom work. and is well-equipped with ma- The Sudbury sheltered work- chine tools and a new farm trac- shop was named after Duke tor, all of which the trainees Jarrett in recognition of his ef- operate themselves. forts to persuade the community The Valley residence provides that such a facility was needed. a home-like atmosphere where Besides Duke, other members the nine children living-in are en- of the Sudbury workshop's board couraged to take responsibility. are Norman Stoner, chairman, On their way to a barbecue when this photo was taken tast summer They are gently disciplined by Enoch Pratt, William McMullen, are the youngsters who live-in at the Grandview Residence: Richard their residence father Inco pen- Bethel Bailey, Evan Gordon, and Lavallee (drIving), Tony Hiborn, Judy Hankonen, Marlene Sasky, Gaetan sioner Herman Middleste3d and silver refinery shift boss Tom Kinsley, John Moylan, Linda Bois and Bob Dewar. his wife, Agnes. After 18 months Cornthwaite. the youths return home to their Incoites are very prominent on own families. the hoard of the Grandview Resi- Education is important dence in the Valley; George Both centres attach great irn- Walli, chairman Levack Mill pro- George Walli, Her- Ijortance to education of a for- cess technology, Grant Bertrim man Middlestead mal nd informal type, stressing (Copper Cliff North and Clara- and Roddy La- the development of acceptable belle Open Pit superintendent), londe, aU Incoites, personal habits, it home and in Roddv Lalonde (Levack ware- look over the Val- ley Residence's public. house), William "Ted" Evershed new Ford farm In Sudbury, a portable class- Copper Cliff process technol- tractor. Richard room behind the main building ogy), Norm Dawes (Levack Lavallee, a gradu- is ucod for the education pro- driller), Hilliard Johnston (Levack ate trainee, is the driver. gram directed by one of the staff rigger 2nd class), Dr. Ed Leclair, members. In the Valley, one Dr. Ron Andrews, and Mrs. Alice room has been set aside for a Christison, all give their spare unique self-help situation. The time to the project. PGE t\'VLE N4TY iNCO TRIANGLE

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