TH Triangle JANUARY 1980 The Seventies Page 10 Publications Editor: Peter vom Scheidt Triangle On the cover This month's cover carries some of the pictures that were taken at the Inco and the mining March 1973 when he was Ontario Division of lnco Metals community mourned the loss of elected a Senior Vice President Company during the decade of the John McCreedy who died in of Inco Limited. 70's. They represent some of the Toronto on December 7. He was Mr. McCreedy was born in significant achievements, events and 62. Winnipeg, Manitoba on March changes that took place during that Mr. McCreedy was Vice- 23, 1917. He served in the time period. A more complete review Chairman and a Director of Inco Royal Canadian Air Force from can be found beginning on page ten Limited at the time of his death, 1942 to 1945 and was a of this issue. a position he held since June professional hockey player with 1979. He had been Chairman Toronto Maple Leafs. He and Chief Executive Officer of received a Bachelor of Applied Inco Metals Company since Science degree in mining from April 1977. the University of Toronto in January 1980 John McCreedy joined Inco at 1949. Vol. 40, No. 1 Copper Cliff in 1949 and he John McCreedy was the became Superintendent of author of several published Mines for the Ontario Division in articles and technical papers 1962. He was appointed dealing with mining. He was Published by the Public Affairs General Manager for the also president of the Mining Department for employees of the Manitoba Division in 1967 and Association of Canada and a Ontario Division of Inco Metals was made Assistant Vice director of the St. Lawrence President of that Division in Cement Company, Brama lea Company, Copper Cliff, Ontario, 1969 and Vice President in Limited, the Centre for Resource POM 1NO. 1970. In December 1970. he Studies, Queen's University, Phone 705-682-0631. was appointed General Manager and the National Advisory of the Ontario Division and Committee on the Mining After February 11. 1980 the phone served as President of this Industry. number will be changed to 705-682- Division from April 1972 until 5426. 2 DECEMBER APPOINTMENTS Bob Archibald, industrial relations Donald Moses, mine general foreman, representative Copper Cliff. Shebandowan mine. R. Douglas Beckett, project engineer, Terry Paul, personnel administrator, Port Colborne nickel refinery. Shebandowan mine. Barry Bitner, maintenance services co- Gilles Quesnel, planner, mines ordinator, Port Colborne nickel refinery. engineering Frood mine. Lloyd Champaigne, mill foreman, Clarabelle mill. Robert Renaud, process foreman, matte Michael Chorkawy, power engineer, processing. central utilities Copper Cliff. Elizabeth Salhani, accounts payable Val Clancy, maintenance assistant clerk Copper Cliff. central shops Copper Cliff. Carolyn Sasseville, accounts payable Alex Felhazi, materials co-ordinator Port clerk Copper Cliff. Colborne nickel refinery. Brian Scott, preventive maintenance co- Douglas Goodale, grade and production ordinator, Port Colborne nickel refinery. co-ordinator mines exploration Frood Dueane Sly, senior geologist, mines mine. exploration Copper Cliff South mine. Wally Gretton, manager employee Donald Smith, industrial evaluator, relations Copper Cliff. industrial engineering Copper Cliff. Brenda Hamalainen, timekeeper Shebandowan mine, Rena Surins, accounts payable clerk Ellen Heale, horiculturist Copper Cliff. Copper Cliff. Judy MacDonald, senior purchasing Richard Urysz, audio visual aids clerk Copper Cliff. technician Sudbury. Alex Mckay, crushing plant foreman Clarabelle mill. Peter vom Scheidt has been appointed publications editor with responsibilities for Incos Ontario Division publications, the Triangle and IN Touch. He joined lnco in 1974 as a writer photographer for the Triangle and was most recently editor for IN Touch. A Personal Note The publications of the Ontario Division are for and about Inco employees and pensioners. They are your publications. While they of necessity are guided by the bounds of good taste and broad readership appeal, the content should reflect what you our readers are interested Hank Derks, chief first aid co-ordinator Ontario Division, and his wife, in. Joanne, have been admitted to the Order of St. John by the Sovereign Head of To do this effectively we need your the Order, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Hank and his wife recently attended opinion. If you feel we are neglecting the Investiture Ceremonies at the Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa where something, maybe its because we Canadas Governor General, His Excellency Edward Schreyer bestowed the havent heard about it. If you have a honors. Each year, the Priory of Canada submits to the Grand Priory in comment to make - lets hear from England the names of persons who have contributed to the development of the you. great humanitarian work of the Order of St. John in Canada. The Order is an ancient Christian brotherhood, devoted to work of charity and humanity. Both How can you do this? Simple. Just Hank and Joanne have been involved in teaching and furthering all aspects of drop a note to me. The address is on first aid throughout the Sudbury District over the past many years. Other the masthead of this publication. If members of the Order incfude Charlie Hews, president of the Manitoba Division youd prefer to phone, the number is of Inco Metals Company, and Jeoffre Perras, recentfy retired from the Copper 682-0631 until February 11 when it Cuff safety department. changes to 682-5426. 3 1938. Ten years later tests were inaugurated in collaboration with Looking back McPhar Engineering Company to develop the airborne process. Air EM through the pages was completed by the summer of 1950 and from that time on it was used for geophysical exploration. of the Triangle An aircraft towing a bomb" E'_ became the symbol of the new prospectors . those who did their work from the sky. As the plane passed over an area, equipment inside would send out a signal which was bounced off the ground and picked up by the "bomb". It was sent back to the aircraft where the signal would be processed and charted giving geologists an indication of what lay below. It was in this 1955 issue that the Triangle presented the Great Tea Cup Mystery. Eric Bannister, editor of Mond's Nickel News in London, England was given a teacup for examination. Purchased by a woman, the piece was interesting in that t bore a reproduction of an aerial view of the Copper Cliff smelter. 40 Years Ago Haven). Every Saturday many of the Subsequent investigations revealed Thumbing through the Triangles of 120 boys in Midget NHL hockey did the manufacturer but not who had early 1939 we find that the 900 battle at Copper Cliff's Stanley ordered them or where the rest of the man, Martin Home shift at Frood Stadium. All had to sign a standard 12 dozen cups eventually wound up. Mine had completed 119 operating "Good Behavior" contract, days or 97,211 man shifts without a something the pros today might well lost-time accident. To quote the adopt. A final big league touch came 10 Years Ago Triangle: 'this splendid mark totally in the form of the ultimate prize The J.J. Robbins Company ten eclipsed the previous Frood record of donated by President R.C. Stanley, years ago presented Inco with a 59 operating days, and established a quite appropriately named the Stanley working model of a raise-borer. It was precedent that will probably be Cup. part of the company's salute to Inco's exceptionally difficult to beat." As January, 1939 saw a modern longstanding policy of extensive co- accident free time piled up the entire innovation come into many local operation with manufacturing firms in mine seemed infected by the homes. The manual telephone was the development and improvement of enthusiasm of trying to make the replaced by, what was termed, "one new mining equipment. Called "part 100,000 hour plateau. The streak of the most up-to-the-minute dial of the revolution in mechanized un- ended, much to everyone's offices." Gone were the days of derground mining", the raise-borer disappointment, in early February of picking up the phone and hearing the was designed to ream circular 1939. operator say "number please". openings up to seven feet in diameter Forty-one years ago, a form of Dialing made the whole process of for ventilation raises, ore passes and NHL hockey was played in Copper making a call automatic. The Triangle service ways. Cliff. Far from being professional carried the eight, easy-to-follow Also in January 1970, eight hockey hockey, it was midget hockey with a instructions on how to properly dial a teams from across Canada and the big league touch. Kids fourteen years telephone, complete with sketches United States took part in the first of age and under donned regulation showing each step. Inco International High School NHL uniforms (Maple Leafs, Tournament. A total of five thousand Canadiens, Rangers and Bruins) with 25 Years Ago fans took in the three day event the name of their professional Twenty-five years ago Triangle attesting to the popularity of the counterparts emblazoned across their readers learned the hows and whys tournament concept. When the puck backs. of "air EM" or airborne was faced off for the championship it The league, conceived by Gordon electromagnetic surveying. The was a pair of local schools, Lockerby Alcott and sponsored by the Copper January 1955 issue offered insights Composite and Copper Cliff High Cliff Athletic Assocation, also into this method of locating ore School, who had survived. Copper included four farm teams (Syracuse, bodies. Ground magnometers were Cliff eventually won the tournament Providence, Philadelphia, New first used in the Sudbury district in crown by virtue of a 6 to 1 score.