- .- - -..--. i V' 'I [\II. UOPPFR I II I \RI'' j \\ \RY \(\I ILR !G ;..- ,4- .. I - '-uI% -* • A lp- .' ..---....-: p. - -. '4f F ''' l. I , -. I.c.. 7. .. I:ttze 2 - IN('() TRIAN(;LE JNl'.RV, 1047 --.- -r---, . - .. ... ' t1 Piilillshed for till emploYees of The liiter- natlolltLl Nickel Conipaiiy of Cttiiaila, LInilteil. Don M. Dunhar. EditOr EDITORL%L OFFICE COPPER CLIFF. ONT. JANUARY, 54 Nt'MQlR to I am glad of the opportunity to extend, through the I 1Liiamii? Triangle, sincere Yuletide Greetings to all Inca em- A iiriiy lltDtllItt ployees, their wives, and their families. TJUH'I' was taling when the weary May your Christmas be merry and bright, and may IN group reached the Inn. The tilly the New Year bring happiness to you and yours. don key was footsore and hungry. for / ihet' had travelled far that clay. The / woman on its back was fainting with tatigUe and pain, and the man by her side was trembling in anxiety for her. With joy they saw the lighted window nd the open door. Here at last was shelter and food and rest. Hut there was no room in the Inn. / A good man there is always one-' saw the sad group at the door saw the and surely upon the path to eternal ducing a brain-twister which we think is weariness and suffering in the sweet face peace. It would be the children who did a doozer. It's guaranteed to keep you out of mischief for at least half an hour: if you get of the woman, the discouragement and it, of course. Who else can do it? the answer in less time than that you are fear in the man, and whispered, "Come. If this would happen, as pray God hereby authorized to pass your plate for a There is room in the stable." it might, we would have the most magic third helping of turkey and stuffing, and no That night the Child, the hope of the Christmas since the birth of the Christ questions asked. Take it easy now: world, was horn, and choiring angels child. The problem is in simple long division. heralded the first Christmas morn. Out Which all adds up to this the Tn- The crosses represent numbers from 0 to 9, of distress came great happiness, and angle wishes you "A Merry Christmas" but not necessarily the same number. Only the second figure in the quotient peace ... and these a little Child had in the richest and fullest sense of those known. The answer comes ut even, with(7) nois brought, good and honest words. remainder. Fill in the 40 unknown numbers Christmas Day of 1946 dawns on a There must be room in the Inn, - by direct deduction, no guesswork being in- civilization still staggering from the someplace. volved, xxx xxxxxxxx x7xxx blows of niortal combat; a civilization _______________________________ which teetered on the brink of self- XXX X extinction, The world today is uncer- XXX tam, unsure of itself. It gropes for the llO1i IS YOUIt path to peace. s o ni e t i m e s blindly. striking out at the obstacles in its way BItAIN-PO1ER xxxx with the aimless and unthinking harsh" •.Iie ness which springs from suspicion and ____________________________________ xxx x fear, and consequent desperation. That much maligned means of transporta- it's not such a had old world, for all tion, the mule, hybrid offspring of an ass that. For us in inco, if you stack our and a horse, was the right answer to last ____________ lot up against that of the average, it's month's puzzle, us, shapes ourTeacher: ends, "What and binds makes us together, us better sustains a very good world indeed, We have First reader to report correctly was ICen than nature intended'?" many advantages, anti we have a well- Robb, librarian at the Research Lab,, Who Betty: "Girdles!" nailed us on Elm St. the evening of publica- planned security, and when you consider tion and whispered the magic word, "Mule." the broad benefits to mankind which Ron Silver, Mines Dept., Copper Cliff, accrue from our products. we have a checked in first thing the next morning, 'V very definite place in the general scheme after a sleepless night, and Tom Crowe tele- of things. That is worth a great deal, phoned from the Copper Refinery. First Creightonite to collect his pearl-handled s for the world as a whole, lets rernem- toothpick for the right answer was Jimmie her it's the only one we have at hand. Currie. iiid lets make the best we can of it. Three gals in the Accounting Dept at the \ou nd your family xviii he gathering Cliff figured out that the answer was around the g:niv decorated tree on Wolves,' having in mind the human iVpe 'hristiiias morning, There'll be the rather than the animal. Signing themselves 'Three Little Red Riding Hoods," they wrote houts at your kiddies as they unwrap us a pathetic note about what a dull world iheir gifts. The careidly tied ribbon this would be if all th wolves were wiped out 111(1 the tissue paper xviii liv in all (li-Cc- of existence, and called us an old rneanie lions, The scene will warm your heart for even suggesting such a thing. They aid :hey felt better. though. on remembering nothing else cait. I'or hat is (hrist- that "we could still have mole of them." 11:0. the happiness of children, L. Frappier of the Smelter Safety Dept. i'i'onl tile OV a ' contt'ntnient of was another who thought the answer was 'flARY MeALISTER 'a, 4 'hrist 11135 Iliornine in our home, :un(l "wolf": he wrote. "I have one right beside A Scottish lassie, born and bred, is Mary ui iii lions of hoe' like yours, could me." What, in the Safety Dept.? McAlioter. aged 3. seen here in the tartan of Well, that one really wasn't so tough, but her clan, Her daddy is a member of the eoiiie the urge to i'ill the world tirniiv as a special Christmas dividend we're pro- engineering staff at Frood-Stobie Open Pit. JN('ARV, 1Q47 1\C() TRIANGLE Page 3 C' *1 REFINERY CREIGHTON MINE PORT COLBORNE SLTER CONCENTRATOR (Otto Spitz) Roger Stbbk Jk 'jhon (Ernie L,uon) Bud Montgomery To and From All Points on the Inco Compass... - GENERAL OFFICE MEDICAL (Nom Prr 4 fr (Winnifrd Shre.'e) FROOD MINE MURRAY MINE lexFrquharon d.Hkben) i W SHOPS 1J LEVACK MINE Jim Mtlfr) (F Bill Sun OPEN PIT POLICE GARON MthE CONISTON sTOBIE MINE aiWilbrt Jwitt Ro.lgr Bllnt)n 'iilo Sippol Paul Chykoki Teddy Riv Page 4 INC() IRI.NGLE ______ J.NU.\RV, 1947 SHOPPING" t: WORLD I MARKET ITH a vast sigh of relief Mr. and Mrs. other things from England, fire brick from W Inco will put the last parcel in place Scotland, roller bearings from Sweden, hemp at the foot of the Tree on Christmas Eve, from Central America. stand back to survey their handiwork, andThere is no telling how many man-hours say, Well, it 's been fun but thank heaven are required to produce the millions of dollars it's over for another year." worth of material purchased each year by The annual Yuletide shopping splurge is our Company, nor the employment involved a joy and it's a hardship. To be reckoned in transporting it from all over the face of against the thrill of gift-giving is the gnaw- the earth, but obvicusly they must be sub- ing indecision about what to get for Aunt stantial. Funnelled through this one de- Emmy, who sent bed sox last year, the f ran- partment is an economic influence at least tic struggle with the crowd at the counters, Canada-wide in scope. and the resounding wallop to pappy's pocket- The organization of the purchasing and book. Few there are, emerging from the 'stores department consists of a general pur- hectic ordeal of Christmas purchases, Who , chasing agent located at Copper Cliff , a . wont agree that once every twelve months separate purchasing agent for each divion is often enough, of the works (Mining and Smelting, Copper - World Is Their Market Refining, and Nickel Refining), a central Imagine being on a buying spree every stores department located at Copper Cliff, f the purchasing department at Copper working day of the year! Imagine having and a separate stores section for each in- Cliff: ro do your shopping all over the world, eat- dividual plant. 1. W. T. Waterbury. the Company's isfying the daily needs of a dozen plants No Hit-and-Miss Buying general purchasing agent (right) cheeks instead of just annual presents to your sisters When placing purchase orders, every ef- specifications of a glass brick product and your cousins and your aunts, fort is made to select the equipment and with Alec Kerr. purchasing agent of the Imagine having to deal with about 1,000 material most suited for the purpose intend- Copper Refining division. In the back- different firms, Imagine having to spend ed. always bearing in mind the advantages ground is Bill Thorpe, Mr. Waterbury's $30000000 in the course of a year. spend it of standardizing on similar machines and secretary. wisely and well, and account for every penny. products at the different plants. To ac- 2. C. C. Chapman. purchasing agent That's the assignment of Incos purchasing comp1ih this the purchasing agents have the for the Mining and Smelting division department.