VOLUME 31 COPPER CLIFF, ONTARIO, DECEMBER, 1971 NUMBER 9

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Making wine is labor oflove for Pat GallagherThere's always plenty of Christmas cheer at Pat and Irene Gallagher'shome. Pat's own wines provide the hot wassail for his grown-upfamily of four and his 10 grandchildren - when they drop in to visit.

It all began shortly after Pat, a 34-year Inco veteran, retired fromCreighton Mine in 1967 on a disability pension due to a heart con-dition. "I was searching for something to occupy my time," herecalled, "and my wife suggested I make some wine."

THAT was four years ago andhis wife's suggestion has growninto a sort of second career forPat as the owner/manager ofThe Wine Cellar on CopperCliff's Poplar Street.

Pat says wine is the best seda-tive or tranquilizer in the worldand he's backed up by the medi-cal facts. Doctors have pre-scribed it to treat diseases of theheart and blood vessels since the13th century. This is becausewine tends to ease the discom-fort of high blood pressure byreducing nervous and arterialtension.

When Pat calls wine his"health food" he's not far wrongeither, for it is a source of energyfor work and body maintenance,containing essential iron andsodium.

Pat has many customersOver 3,000 regular customers

place orders with Pat for all theirwine-making supplies. Pat reck-ons he's as well-known in Pitts-burg as he is in Copper Cliff,because so many Americans hereon a contract buy their firstwine-making supplies from him.Part of the reason for so manyregulars is the personal touch hegives customers and visitors whodrop in - everyone gets theopportunity to sample Pat's ownwines over some entertainingconversation.

In the short time he's been inbusiness, Pat has built up one ofthe finest selections of wine in-gredients in Canada. His base-ment shop stocks 55 differentkinds of liqueur mixes and over70 different kinds of wines, bothfruits and concentrates, as wellas all the supplies required tomake them - from simple gal-lon starter kits to the acid andspecific gravity testing apparatusthe advanced amateurs want.Lately, he's also branched intowine-oriented gifts, such asglasses and goblets, and fancycandles.

Running the Wine Cellar ismore of a labor of love for Pat.He still has to take it easy dueto his heart, but the whole familypitches in to help him whenthey're needed. Irene's kitchen

has become a rendez-vous formany local amateur wine-makerswho respect Pat's opinion oftheir efforts. For his part, Patenjoys meeting them to com-pare notes on favorite wines orto swap secret recipes.

Hobby is popularWine-making has become one

of Canada's most popular familyhobbies. No one knows how

many Canadians are making winein their own basements becauseno licenses or permits are re-quired, as long as less than 100gallons are being made at onetime. Nonetheless, sales of wineingredients and equipment arebooming across the country. (Awarning: home-made beer doesrequire a permit - no charge -from the Customs and ExciseDepartment.)

It's easy to appreciate the en-thusiasm for home-made winesonce you've tried them. They'recheap, easy-to-make, and whatother hobby gives such satisfac-tion in the end.

About $17 will set you up inthe wine business. That buys thebig plastic garbage can for fer-menting the wine, a large glassjar or carboy for holding thewine while it ferments a secondtime, some bottles, chemicals

and the ingredients. Your moneywill turn into five gallons ofwine, about 30 26-ounce bottles.Your real savings begin whenyou re-use your equipment overand over again to make morebatches.

Wine-making is simple, if youfollow your recipe and keepeverything hospital-clean. Justadd water to the concentratedjuice, sugar, yeast and chemicals(to control the acid level andsterilize the bacteria in the fruit).Set it all aside to ferment undera plastic sheet and, in less thana week, you can siphon or"rack" your wine into the carboyand let it sit. So the wine doesn'trest on dead yeast which willdestroy the flavor, you'll have to"rack" it every few weeks until itmatures in three months or so.Then comes the grand day whenyou can bottle your brew.

The longer you leave yourwine, the better it'll be, Pat ad-vised. Wine continues to ageand mature even after bottling.Most will still require six monthsbefore they're palatable. Mostfruit wines will improve if keptbottled for up to two years, butbeyond that they're not going toget any better and might evenstart to deteriorate, Pat said.Wines with high alcoholic con-tent, such as madeira, however,are good "keepers" and madeirahas lasted up to 100 years if thecork is changed periodically.

Wine is made from almost anyfruit and "we're developing newwines all the time," Pat said.Tried and proven recipes suggestAfrican passionfruit, apricots,blackberries, blueberries, cran-berries, loganberries, peachesand pears, rhubarb, and, ofcourse, grapes.

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availablePrints of most photographsappearing in the Inco Trianglemay be ordered direct from:Dionne Photography, 170 Bo-land Ave., Sudbury. Or call:674-0474. Cost: $2 each.

You can make dry or sweetwines, the only difference is inthe amount of sugar you add tosweeten to your personal taste.Most wines contain 12- to 13-percent alcohol by volume, but Pat"fortifies" his sherry and madeirawith brandy. Two ounces ofbrandy per bottle raises thesewines to a potent 19- to 21-percent alcoholic content.

Pat Gallagher checks one of hIs own wInes, a redand-white blend,for clarity. He recommends using concentrated juices for wine-makIng but also stocks drIed fruIts In hIs shop. The concentrateIs about twIce as economical as the actual fruIt, he says.

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Visits Lawson Quarry

LEN CYWINKLowering a 70-ton side-dumpcar while loading quartzitefrom the quarry's 300-tonstorage bins, is car loader LenCywink.

A loaded 30-car train leavesthe quarry and makes the 64-mile journey to Clarabelle Sta-tion near Copper Cliff fourtimes a week. Last year,380,000 tons of quartzite wereshipped from the quarry. Itis used at Copper Cliff andConiston as a flux for smelt-ing operations.

Age 23, Len was born andgrew up in Whitefish Falls,and joined Inco to workunderground at CreightonMine in 1968. He has workedat Lawson Quarry for the lasttwo years.

Daughter of Crean Hillmaintenance mechanic LloydWhite, Len's wife Judy is withhe accounting department at

St. Joseph's Hospital in LittleCurrent.

EARL SIZEIt could be said that Earl Sizelives a double existence. AtLawson Quarry the 47-year-old Earl is a maintenancemechanic. But home on his285-acre farm near ManitoLi-waning on Manitoulin Island,he becomes Earl the gentle-man farmer and cattle breeder.

On his farm, 35 Herefordsshare pasture and barn withfive Charolais, a breed thatwas first imported into Canadafrom France in 1965. "They'rebigger than other breeds,"Earl explained, and they pro-vide good lean meat" At 18months a Hereford cowweighs about 1,300 poundswhile at the same age aCharolais tips the scales atover 2,000 pounds, Crossbredwith Hereforclc, he reLilting'stockers" carry about 150pounds more than a pureHereford. Expensive beasts,Charolais cows on the hoof

cost around $1,O0, and a bulltwice that much.

Earl's Inco service datesback to 1951. He worked atCopper Cliff and at Creighton

Mine before he started atLawson Quarry in 1969. Heand his wife Effie have twodaughters.

Backgrounded by the mastof a rotary drill, he was busyreplacing a bearing cap whenthe camera zeroed in on him.

ADELARD RIENGEUTTEApproaching his 52nd birth-day as a bachelor AdelardRiengeutte grew up in LittleCurrent with nine brothersand seven sisters. "To say theleast, the experience made mea little leary about raising afamily of my own,' he said.

An Incoite since 1951, Ade-lard worked at Creighton andLevack Mines before his moveto Lawson Quarry in 1969. Heoperates the crushing plantsinglehandedly, using a jawcrusher and a standard andshorthead crusher to reducethe quarried quartzite tominus 1½ inches.

Living in Little Current,where his main off-the-jobactivities revolve around hisgarden, Adelard boasts he can

(over the 18 miles betweenhome and quarry in some-thing tinder 20 minutes".

In our picture, he is using aking-size wrench to set thegap on the crushing plant'sshorthead crusher.

CHARLIE DAGENAISResponsible for the main-tenance of the quarry's mo-bile equipment, Charlie Dage-nais is the resident garagemechanic. Of the 16 person-nel at Lawson Quarry, Charlieholds the distinction of beingthe first to have been em-ployed there. "I was in on theconstruction of the plant -I started on June 5, 1941."

In the garage, Charlie wasphotographed while salvagingspare parts from a retired 250hp haulage truck diesel motor.

Born in Pleasant Valley,just a little south of Espanola,he has lived in Whitefish Fallssince 1942. He and his wifeBeatrice have two school-ageyou ngsters.

AUSTIN STEVENSA shovel runner, AustinStevens has been employed atLawson Quarry since hejoined International Nickel in1941. Inspecting the electricshovel that he operates, hewas photographed while inthe 3-cubic yard bucket of themachine,

Born in Sheguiandah onManitoulin Island, Austin wasa Great Lakes fisherman be-fore he joined Inco. "We'dset our 28-foot long pondnets in the spring," he re-

called, "they'd be about 14miles off-shore and we'dcheck them maybe three timesa week. We had some goodfishing in those days. I canremember my father pullingin sturgeon weighing morethan a hundred pounds."

Austin and his wife Ellalive in Willisville, a mile or soacross the valley from thequarry. 'We've lived theresince the first house was builtthere in 1942," he said. Theyhave a grown-up family offive.

PERCY GRAVELLEPercy Gravelle started his Incocareer at the Frood Open Pitin 1940 and moved over toLawson Quarry in June 1941.'The plant was brand-new,"he recalled. "We started pro-ducing quartzite in January of1942."

Following some 29 years atthe controls of a churn drill,Percy switched to the job ofhaulage truck driver 18months ago. He was photo-graphed at the wheel of oneof the quarry's four 35-tonMack trucks that, prior totheir introduction to LawsonQuarry, saw service at both.Frood and Clarabelle OpenPits.

Born in Sudbury, Percy was12 when his family moved toWhitefish Falls. He still livesthere, and one of his neigh-bors who recently built a sum-mer home nearby is camera-man Harry Makin who shotfootage for the TV seriesRainbow Country" that was

produced in the area.Percy's wife Ann hails from

Tehkummah on ManitoulinIsland.

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I(gi,When Villa and Angelo Franchetto first posed for the Triangle camerain 1952, they had only two children, Jane and newly-arrived Raymond.Some things have changed and others have remained the same for thisConiston family. The most noticeable change is daughter Elizabeth,now 13 years old. Jane is in her fourth year of teaching Spanish andFrench at Marymount College in Sudbury. Raymond is in his secondyear of chemistry studies at Laurentian University. As for the thingsthat are the same, Angelo is still a 1st class carpenter at the ConistonSmelter 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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- Jim and MadelynSmith's identicaltwin sons Doug

• -back in June 1953.But Father Time

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-' djstinguishabl- sons: Doug, on

- the left, is a first

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

When the Trianglevisited the Dar -,. f'\Storey family in1948, it was justsix weeks after '-. 1Dar and his wife,Ad, brought hometwins Gary andGreg, much to theamusement of big -brothers Carl andRandy, then 9 and4, respectiVely.Carl, now married,transferred backto Sudbury thLyear from Denve.with the miningequipment firm he "irepresents. Randyteaches at Con-federation Sec-ondary School inVal Caron whileGary and Greg are completing their studies. In the new picture, Daris still "between" the twins, with Gary standing on the left. Carl issitting on the right ind Randy on the left. Dar is now efficiencyengineer at Little Stobie Mine.

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And so another Clzristmas is upon us and its withgreat pleasure that we present our annual look backto some of our early Album Families. To them, andto the /z:indreds of others ivhove appeared on ourpages over the past 24 years. the Triangle staff wisha Happy Christmas and Peace on earth goodwillto all mncn'.

The Then picture for the Harry Shebeski family was taken in 1948 whenHarry and his wife, Katherine, had two children, Audrey and Leonard,then 8 and 6, respectively. The family has increased by three since thenand all but the two latest arrivals are married. Audrey is Mrs. MarioFavretto and Linda is the wife of Roger Pagnutti, a 1st class garagemechanic at the Clarabelle Open Pit. Leonard is a body repair manin Sudbury and Margaret, 16, and Cathy, 12, are in school. TheShebeskis have six grandchildren. When the original picture was taken,the family lived on Martindale Road in Sudbury and Harry was a tapperhelper on the Copper C!iff Smelter reverb furnaces. They now resideon Cranbrook Crescent In Sudbury and Dad is a general foreman stillin the Copper Cliff Smelter. Harry's service with Inco dates back to 1937.

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Creighton pen-sioner Andy Nes-bitt raised his fam-

'C, ily with a respectfor the law: twoof his three sonsare Town of Cop-per Cliff policeconstables, Andy,Jr. in Creightonand Fred in Le-vack. His daugh-ter, Andrea, ismarried to PaulKelly. anotherCopper Cliff con-stable stationed inCreighton. Thethree Nesbitt boysin the 1971 pic-

.- / ture are Brian,'1 Fred and Andy, Jr.

The original pic-ture was taken inthe summer of

• 1954 when Andyand his wife Betsy

made their home on Nicholas Street in Creighton. They now live be-tween Creighton and Lively. Andy retired in the spring of this yearwith 34 years service all at Creighton Mine. They have six grand-children.

If the Trianglecamera had drop- -ped into the Alexand Gertrude Bu-jold residence justa few months laterback in 1951,Jean-Yves would -have been in boththe "Then' and"Now" pictures.Brothers Guy andGilles, then 3 and6 years old, re-spectively, are toobig to sit in thesame chair withmother or dad -now. And Jean-Yves no longer takes a back seat to anyone. At thetime of the original picture, Alex was a butt welder at the ConistonSmelter and the Bujold residence was on William Street at Coniston.Now their address s Nickel Street, still in Coniston and Alex is a 2ndclass maintenance mechanic in the iron ore plants roaster building.He started with the Company in 1942. The three Bujold sons in thelatest 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 Trianglevisited his Levack home back in 1954. At that time, Dad was working atLevack Mine as a stope leader; he's now a hoistman. In the back roware Sharron, 18, a Bell Canada employee in Sault Ste. Marie. Dick, hiswife Mavis, and Marie (Mrs. Jim Laframboise), who is a supply teacherfor the Sudbury Board of Education. In front are Richard (now marriedand taking a garage mechanic's course in the Soo), Ronnie, 13 andBennie, 16. Dick likes to spend most of his spare time keeping theLevack Minor Hockey League running smoothly.

The flash of the Triangle bulb that recorded the family of Charlie andAgnes Moreau in 1948 seems to have changed a trend. Until thenthey had been blessed with three sons, but following the picture theywelcomed three daughters. A shift boss for 21 of his 28 years withinco, 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 andCarol.

Back after 20 years, we revisit the happy family of Preston (Pep) andVi Roe. Eleanor (left) is now Mrs. Roy Dixon of Wefland; Harry, athird generation incoite, is with the shearing department and Doris Anneis now Mrs. Raymond Schooley of Port Coiborne. Nine grandchildrenwill add to the pleasure of Christmas this year when the family gathersat the home of Doris Anne for Christmas dinner. Pep is an analyst inthe precious metals laboratory at the Port Coiborne Nickel Refinery, with33 years' service.

DECEMIWR, 1971

Oktoberfest ist wunderbarAt lort Colbornes Oktoherfest,revellers sang and danced inbanner-bedecked Club Rhein-gold w the brassy strains of aGerman oompab band. The ballwas filled to capacity as the 450dancers "kiked up der heels,drank special beer brewed forthe occasion from Bavarian hops,and gulped down succulent Ger-man sausages, sauerkraut andother German delicacies.

Of special delight was thecolorful performance by theBavarian Dance Group fromHamilton. In their gaily-coloredcostumes and plumed hats, theseyoung men and women broughtto life memories of German folkdances of bygone generations.

Oktoberfest was first con-ceived in 1810 when a Bavariansoldier, Franz Baumgartner, sug-gested that horse races be heldin Munich to celebrate the wed-ding of Ludwig, the 24-year-oldCrown Prince of Bavaria. ThePrince agreed and the races werea tremendous success.

Oktoberfest is held each yearduring the month of October.Kitchener started producingtheirs on a grand scale in 1969patterned after the one held in

Munich each year. In 1970, over200000 people jammed theparade route and in 1971, 300,-000 enjoyed the festival.

Port Colborne residents ofGerman origin joined together in1962 to build their own clubwhich they called Club Rhein-gold." Their first Oktoberfet washeld in 1963 and has continuedto grow in popularity each year.This year, it was completely sold

out. A German band was im-ported from Kitchener andLowenbrau beer from Germanyfor the festivities.

Homemade Germrn delicacieswere served throughout heevening.

Ja! Yu hben der time at 'erlifen ut der Port ColborneOktoborfest. Yu sae zu yer-self, Sauerkrauten! Das herOktoberfest is sumting.

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This new 60 cycle, 115,000 voJttransformer station, now in theprocess of construction will takecare of the electric power forthe present and future expansionprograms at the Port ColborneNickel Refinery. The initial trans-former installation will have arated capacity of 20000 Kilovolt-ampere (KVA) and space is avail-able for an additional 20000

KVA when required. Further ex-pansion may be accommodatedby increasing the supply to 230,-000 volts.

The transformer station willstep down the voltage to 13800for plant distribution. Primarily,it will supply the power to thenew foundry additives plantwhich is scheduled for com-pletion early in 1972.

Port's school for casualtiesA casualty simulation course un-der the auspices of the Emer-gency Health Services for Ontariowas held in Port Colbornes IncoRecreation Club last fall. Thepurpose of the course was totrain additional Inco personnel torealistically produce simulatedinjuries for first aid classes andfirst aid team training and com-petitions.

The course was ably super-

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The successful candidates wereGeza Szalkai, John Koval, WalterGoulding, Arnold Pichette,Gaetan Rodrigue, Harry Roe andDon Moscrip. In addition toplant requirements they will beavailable for civil emergency ex-ercises at institutes in the NiagaraPeninsula.

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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 herhusband George, a carpenter in the mechanical department.

Emcee Louis Schweitzer of theHamilton Schunpiatter Dancersobviously enjoyed himself in PortCoiborne.

instructor John Potter chocks Gaetan Rodrigue's handiwork as Gaetanfeathers out the plasticine on "victim Louis Ciolfi's other arm to startmaking a laceration.

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Nearly all of the tailings lines will be buried under-ground, as part of Inco's efforts to remain as unobtrusive aspossible in the Lake Shebandowan area. Where burying is

impossible due to the contours of the land, attractivetrestles will be used to bridge the gap between tunnels.

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The headframe is half a mile from the mill. Thecollarhouse, to contain offices and the lamproom, willbe built at the base of the tower. On the hill in front

of the headframe is the fresh air raise building, whichsupplies 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 10,000feetof tailingslines will ex-tend from themill to the spe-cial 280-acretailings pondInco created tohold millwastes. Allmine water is

• treated on the•. 2300 level un-

derground, and- is then pumped

1'/ -miles forrelease intonearby GoldCreek, throughthe secondpipe. The thirdpipeline re-turns the tail-

:L ings effluent tothe mill.

Framed by trees, Shebandowan's No. 2 shaft headframe isclean and uncluttered. In the final stages of construction,

the concrete headframe will be 176 feet high and will housetwo 15-ton friction hoists in its penthouse. No. 2 shaft is

2,395 feet deep and the mine has a design capacity of 2,900tons-per-day when it starts production in November 1972.

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Costing $31 million, theShebandowan mine/millcomplex is 50 miles fromThunder Bay. This view,

looking west, shows the con-centrator building, thickener,

reel house and conveyorgallery, and the services

building (right). The towersin the mill building house the

sandfill plant, a 1,300-toncoarse (minus 8-inch) ore

bin, a 1,300-ton fine (minus1.5-inch) ore bin, and an

1,800-ton fine (minus ^-inch)ore bin, as well as a disc

filter. The services buildingcontains the general offices,

shops, warehouse and dryfor the whole complex.

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of building an attractive complex, the mill uses steelcladding of contrasting colors.

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Inside the mill building, thefoundations are ready for themill (left) and crushers (fore-ground). The mill will haveone standard and one short-head crusher, transferredfrom the Copper Cliff Mill,one 13½-foot diameter by22-foot long ball mill, thelargest in any Inco mill, and72 flotation cells. The nickel-copper concentrate will beshipped by rail to CopperCliff for further processing.

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Rising up from the 400 levelore bins is the 3,300foot

main feed conveyor, whichmoves along an inclined

tunnel from the mine shaft tothe mill. All the service lines

are also installed under-ground. Because the ore ismoved underground rather

than by surface trucks, thereis less chance of ore spill-

age. In the foreground is thereel house which contains

the drive pulley whichoperates the conveyor belts.

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Vacation shutdown isannounced at the 3rdCompany - Union meetingThe Ontario Division's first vaca-tion shutdown of operations wasannounced at the third interimCompany-Union meeting, heldin Toronto last month. The shut-down, to last three weeks, willstart July 31. It will enable mostsalaried and hourly employees,many of whom have not had anopportunity in the past due toseniority or production Commit-ments, to enjoy vacations withtheir families during the summer.

The vacation shutdown wasincluded in a general review of

business conditions, provided bythe Company.

There were 29 items on theCompany and Union agendasdiscussed during the two-daymeeting. Attending were repre-sentatives from Local 6500 (Sud-bury) and Local 6200 (PortColborne) of the United Steel-workers of America, the Inter--national Union, and Inco.

The interim meetings are notdesigned to renegotiate or extendthe terms of the Collective Bar-gaining Agreement. )nstead, theirpurpose is to clarify administra-tive and interpretative difficultiesin the contract; to keep problemsfrom building up; and to ex-change information on matters ofmutual interest.

Included in the latest exchangeof information was a review ofthe changing nature of the nickelbusiness, including the growingimportance of foreign ore re-

serves and of foreign competi-tion, as seen by the Company.Inco also outlined the steps it istaking to protect its position asthe leading world producer ofnickel, and the short-term finan-cial and employment problemscaused by the current slump indemand for nickel.

Figures released by the U.S.Department of Mines show that

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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 isin Canada (in sulphide ore) and86% lies outside Canada (mostlyin laterite ores). This, it waspointed out by the Company,clearly indicates that other coun-tries have the potential reservesto supply an increasing propor-tion of the world's needs.

Actual free world production in-creased from 703 million poundsin 1965 to 1,055 million poundsin 1970. The free world's cap-acity could reach 1,755 millionin 1975. Canada's share declinedfrom 74% in 1965 to 57% in1970 and could drop further to43% in 1975, even though thenumber of pounds produced inCanada is increasing substantially.

A steady decline in the pro-portion of production from sul-phide ores, from 77% to an esti-mated 58% in 1975, is beingmatched by a corresponding in-crease in the proportion fromlaterite ores. This demonstratesthe need for Inco to extend itsoperations not only in Canada,hut in foreign countries in orderto protect its position as the lead-ing world producer.

There was a brief discussionat the meeting of the threeforeign projects which Inco isplanning to develop in NewCaledonia, Guatemala and Indo-nesia. Plans call for these to bebrought into production duringthe 1970s and to produce a totalof about 200 million pounds an-nually which would be about25% of Inco's total output.

A slide presentation was shownto illustrate the Company's con-tinuing program to improveworking conditions in Sudburyand Port Colborne. The presenta-tion noted that since November1969, expenditures of $9,452,257had been planned and completedon such items as parking, em-ployee access roads, improvedworking areas and lunch roomfacilities. Since April 30, the dateof the last interim meeting, al-most a million dollars has beenspent on the program, and $2,-075,845 more is under study.

The Union reviewed withCompany officials the status andfunctioning of the grievance pro-cedures at the Sudhury miningand smelting complex. The

Ray Moreau, presi-dent of Local 6200and Jim Walter,senior industrialrelations advisor,talk over a fewpoints during acoffee break.

Among those attending from Local 6500, Sudbury, were Allyn Butler, NormCarriere, Mickey Maquire, and International Union representative LynneWilliams.

Ray Moreau, John Tronko, Gaetan Marquis and Jay Ayers were part ofthe Local 6200, Port Colborne, delegation.

This noise abatement shelter for the operator in the hoistroom at Levackis one of the projects included in the multi-millIon plant improvementsprogram in the Ontario Division.

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parties agreed to continue to in-vestigate the grievance proceduremachinery and to study alter-natives to improve the system.

Other items raised betweenthe parties included job descrip-tions and wage inequality investi-gations, safety problems, sub-contracting, the disability pen-sion claims procedure, absenteecounselling program and prob-lems created hy the decline inemployment levels in both Sud-bury and Port Colborne. Alsoreviewed were a variety of prob-lems dealing with the applicationand operation of some of theCompany's benefit programs.

The Port Colborne Union dele-gation questioned the Company'sdecision to retain apprenticesout of seniority at the same timeas lay-offs are being made. TheCompany explained that the re-tention of apprentices is neces-sary to ensure a continuingsupply of well-qualified trades-men in the future. It was, how-ever, agreed to review theUnion's arguments in this regardto determine if a mutually satis-factory solution could be de-vised.

The joint news release issuedat the end of the meeting stated:"While a number of issues re-main open, the Union and Com-pany representatives agreed thatthe sessions have provided a use-ful forum for exchanging viewsand exploring problems duringthe life of the current Agreement.It was also agreed that furthermeetings of this nature should becontinued following renegotia-tion of the Collective BargainingAgreement next year."

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Illustrating the perils of doing-it-yourself is John Weloski, a pro-cess control technician in CopperClitf. Obeying the new Ontariolaw requiring studs to be re-moved from car tires soequipped, he had a very closecall

He used a pair of pliers to re-

Inco sponsorsLauren tianhockey gamesThere's a special hockey treat instore for Nickel District fans.Starting next month, the Lauren-tian University hockey Voyageurs'games will be shown live and incolor on CKNC-TV, channel 9.All the remaining 1972 homegames will be telecast on Sundayafternoons starting January 9.

The hockey games will alter-nate with CKNC-TV's Cavalcadeof Sports, when the Vees areplaying out of town. The two-hour Cavalcades will featurehighlights of other varsity sports,such as basketball, swimmingand volleyball.

Sponsoring the series will beInternational Nickel's OntarioDivision which has promised nocorporate commercial breaksduring the programs. The pro-gram schedule is below:

January 9 - Live Hockey:Laurentian vs. Waterloo

January 23 - Live Hockey:Laurentian vs. York

February 6 -Cavalcade of Sports

February 13 - Live Hockey:Laurentian vs. Queens

February 20 - Live Hockey:Laurentian vs. Waterloo Lutheran

February 27 -Cavalcade of Sports

March 5 -Cavalcade of Sports

March 12 -

University Sports Roundup

move the studs from his tires."I grabbed the stud and was pry-ing it out using the edge of thepliers against the tire when itprobably slipped," John said.

'1 never saw it coming. All Iheard was a noise and the shat-tering of my glasses."

It could have been a tragedyhad John not been wearing safety

PACE THIRTEEN

Copper Cliff Guidesmake awards, honor leaderAlmost 100 Copper Cliff GirlGuides, Brownies and Rangersmet at St. Stanislaus Parish Hallin mid-November for their an-nual Mother-and-Daughter ban-quet. Over 150 Mothers andGuide leaders attended thedinner.

The focal point of the evening,convened by Ranger CathyFleming, was the presentation ofbadges, emblems and awardsearned by some of the girls atHazelmere and Doe Lake sum-mer camps.

The girls also honored retiringdivision commissioner ShirleyMaskell during the evening. Mrs.Maskell's involvement with theGuides began as a girl in To-ronto. She became a "Brown

Shirley Maskell re-ceived the covetedgold thanksbadge from Mrs.Richard Dow atthe Copper Cliffbanquet. Mrs.Maskell has retired from theGuides and wasthe Wildwood divi-sion commissionerfrom 1963 untilrecently.

Owl" in Lively in 1955 and thedistrict commissioner for Livelyin 1960. She taught Brownieleaders in the Sudbury area forsix years and worked for thepast year as an international ad-visor in the Algonquin area co-ordinating overseas trips.

She has been associated withthe Guide movement for nearly25 years, Mrs. Richard Dow, wifeof the Copper Cliff mayor, notedwhen she presented Mrs. Maskellwith a gold pin.

Three of the district commis-sioners in Mrs. Maskell's divisionattended the banquet to pay hertribute. They were Mrs. MarionPrior from Lively, Mrs. AliceLaurin from Azilda, and Mrs.Josie Pearson from Dowling.

glasses, which shattered but didnot splinter.

John always wears safetyglasses and has encouraged his19-year-old son to use them too."It doesn't dawn on you how im-portant they are 'till somethinghappens," he says about safety

glasses, "then you say to your-self: how lucky can I be."

After his accident, John boughta narrow screwdriver to work thestuds out far enough to grip withhis pliers. The best way, if youstill haven't removed your studs,is to let your local garage do it.

Marilyn Flindall is presented with her "junior camper" badge by Mrs.Richard Dow, while Guide VickI Doherty, Ranger Beverley Koski, GuideVicki Poll, and Ranger Cathy Fleming look on and await their awards.

Christmas is forkids although18-month oldDerek Teneyckeseems a little ap-prehensive aboutOld Saint Nick.The meetIng tookplace durIng Cop-per Cliffs LightUp ceremoniesDecember 5. Be-sides Derek andhis dad Robert, ardiesel loadermanat North Mine,hundreds turnedup in front of thetowns hospital.They enjoyed carolsinging and 0watched MayorRichard Dow turnthe switch to lightup the R. L. Beat-tie Branch of theCanadian LegionsChristmas display,part of which formsthis issues cover.Santa arrived dur-ing the fun andhanded out pack-ages of candies tothe children.

For the past couple of months, local playgrounds have been gearing upfor the coming winter sports season. At the Valley Acres Playgroundin Val Therese, these volunteers replaced the ice rinks deteriorated lightstandards and installed high-intensity mercury vapour lighting. In thepicture the dedicated dads have just put a new pole in place prior tosecuring it. Identifiable are Leo Burns, Walter Kienapple and YvesBeland. Walter is a conveyorman in the Copper Cliff Smelter nickelreverbs and Yves is a process assistant in the Copper Refinery tankhouse.The project super on the right is Yves son, 10-year-old Marc,

On location at several of lncosplants at Copper Cliff, this four-man crew from Toronto-basedWestminster Films of Canada wereshooting footage for an up-datedfilm covering the milling and smelt-ing of the Sudbury district ores.On the right and in command ofthe action, producer Don F-laldanewas responsible for the productionof International Nickels award-winning documentaries Down-stream, Rye on the Rocks, and"Shebandowan: a Summer Place.With him are Leslie Koskota, direc-tor of photography Joe Seckeresh,and production designer Keith F-tar-ley. Groups interested in viewingCompany films can contact thepublic affairs department.

Faces&

Places

The largest amountof money paid outto date, under theCompanys Sug-gestion Plan waspresented to SouthMine mainten-ance foreman Roc-co Gualtieri byCharles Hews, as-sistant mines man-ager. The $1800cheque was forRoccos sugges-tion to use a dif-ferent type of uni-versal joint at mid-ship of the ST-4Aload - haul - dumpmachine. As a re-sult of his sugges-tion, considerablesavings have beenachieved due tothe need for feweruniversal jointchanges, and fewer incidents of oilpan damagecaused by theparts failure. Atthe time he madehis suggestion,Rocco was em-ployed as a me-chanic at Creigh-ton Mine No, 3.

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There are 30,000

that's the numberof dollars printed

CRib president Ray

surarrce payment -.the money repre- - 4sents the value ofthe clubhouse that -was demolished Lduring last year's -o r n ad o. T h e

cheque changedhands in front ofthe new clubhouseunder constructionon Birch Street in 'ivc:ag '"

000, the new build-ing was designed by Louis Bardeggia of Inco's general engineeringdepartment. Looking forward to a late December completion date, theclub's 500 members are hoping to hold a New Year's party there.

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Winners of the first annual mines engineering curling bonspiel wereskip Vic Larsen's rink. Vic, from Levack/Coleman, prepares to throwhis 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 wererepresented in the two-day event held at the Copper Cliff Curling Club.Each of the 28 rinks played four six-end games.

Legionnaires Cecil Dennie and Del Briscoe flank Cadet Captain AdrianLee as he steps Out to place the Highlanders' wreath betore the CopperCliff cenotaph during Remembrance Day celebrations in the town,Mrs. C. H. Buck, sitting beside Jack Quinville in the photo, aid the firstof many wreaths. The Copper Cliff Highlanders' pipes and drums playedduring the solemn occasion attended by hundreds of the town's citizens.

P,GE FIFFEEN

Elmira area farmers and members of the old order Mennonite Church,Henry Martin, Tobias Bowman and Abram Weber travelled north toNew Liskeard on a cattle buying trip just before the snow flew. Keenlyinterested in things agricultural, they broke their journey to view someof the spectacular results attained by Inco's agricultural departmentregarding seeding and reclamatIon of the Company's mill tailingsdisposal areas. Their knowledgeable guide was assistant agriculturistTom Peters.

Rene T. DlonfleHank Bagnell, president of the Onaping-Levack Branch 503 of the RoyalCanadian Legion, salutes his fallen comrades after laying the Branch'swreath at the Levack cenotaph, Beside him, during the November 11Remembrance Day ceremony, was Levack Mine area superintendentDave 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 photo-1j1 • grapher Art d'Ara-

utqr.111 zian of New York.1 11fl1 J d'Arazian was partaiii of a group headed

by John Cornell,-

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photography editor____________ of International

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__ Nickel Magazine._______J The party's "shoot-

"J- 'itinerary in-ing

*______ cluded the Clara-belie Mill. the Cop-

__________________per Cliff Nickel

____________________Refinery and LittleStobie Mine where

_______this picture was

taken of d'Arazian setting his cameras for an underground shot of athree-boom drill jumbo.

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RETIREMENTSAUREUO OR%SI

Aurelio Orasi, known to most asJack, is the second of three Orasigenerations th:it have worked forthe Comp'iny. His lather, Ama-deo, worked for the Mond NickelCompany for many years, and

his son, Ron, works for Incoas assistant cashier at CopperCliff. Amadeo is a healthy 91-year-old.

Jack was born in Copper Cliffand grew up at Worthington,Creighton, Frood and Levackwhere his father moved withMond. Before coming to Incoin 1933, Jack worked four yearsas a house electrician. He startedin the Copper Cliff Smelter, butalso worked at the iron ore plant,and Frood-Stobie Mill where hewas a 1st class electrician mostof the time.

His wife, the former AngelaGalati, was born in southern Italyand came to Canada in 1937.They were married in Sudbury in1941, and have four children andthe same number of grand-children. Mrs. Orasi has workedas a hairdresser in Sudbury forthe past 12 years.

ELNO TJKKANENEino Tikkanen was born in Fin-land and came to Canada in 1927.He started several different timeswith the Company, the last timein 1950. All his working years,

Inco and elsewhere, were spentin the mining industry. Heworked for Inco as a hoistman,seeing service at Crean Hill,Creighton and Levack Mines.

Married at Sudbury in 1930 tothe former Helen Lehto, Eino isthe father of two children. Mrs.Tikkanen was born in Torontoand grew up there and at BeaverLake. The Tikkanens have threegrandchildren.

As well as their rural home atBeaver Lake, west of Sudbury.

he couple also have a cottage atElla Lake in the same area. Einosummed things up by saying, "Myrelations with Inco \vre good atll the plants where I worked. I

also want to thank the boys atCrean Hill for the very fine send-off they gave me."

JOE ZIMMERMAN"Times were tough in this coun-try in the late '20s and early '30s.I rode the rods from coast to coastlooking for work." Saskatchewan-born Joe Zimmerman was remi-niscing about his pre-Inco dayswhen he really had to be on histoes to make ends meet. Joe's

luck changed and he started withthe Company in 1935 at the Cop-per Cliff Smelter. He spent mostof his service as a skimmer on thenickel converters. "I'll never for-get the day I hired on I sleptin a boxcar the night before,"he chuckled.

Married in Sudbury to AgnesShulman, Joe is the father ofthree children. Mrs. Zimmermanis originally from Warren. Theyhave six grandchildren.

The Zimmermans have enjoyedvacations in Florida, the Bahamasand western Canada. In 1972they plan to visit Europe. Thecouple used to live in CopperCliff but they now make theirhome in Garson where Joe main-tains a big vegetable garden. Theirsummer cottage on the FrenchRiver also provides a lot of re-creational pleasure.

ELMER BRANNINGElmer Branning started with Incoat the Frood in 937, after anexciting I 80-fight boxing career.

Elmer's record in

I-.'the ring included120 knockoutsand five wins bydecision. He wasknocked out fivetimes and lost therest on TKOs. It

• all started whenhis father brought

him home a pair of eight-ouncegloves and with 14 brothers, therewas lots of opportunity for spar-ring.

Elmer was horn at Port Perryin southern Ontario. hut grew upn western Canada on the familyfarm. At Inco he stayed at theFrood until 1950. when he trans-ferred to Stohie Mine where heworked as a rniinten ince me-chanic tor the rest of his service.\Iarried in Sudhury in 1937,Elmer is the father of three chil-dren and has I I grandchildren aswell. His son, Terry, is follow-ing in Elmer's lootsteps as a 2ndclass maintenance mechanic inthe Copper Cliff Smelter.

ONNI WILSONCopper Cliff native Onni Wilsonstarted with the Company in 1940in the Copper Cliff Smelter pliteshop. He worked mostly as amaintenance mechanic in the con-verter building replacing theplates that make up the big con-verters. Onni sold cars in Sud-bury for IS years and worked forthe Custodis Chimney Companyfor another three years repairingthe stacks in the Copper CliffSmelter.

He married Mary Foran inSudbury in 1934 and is the fatherof two children. Mrs. Wilson wasborn in the Ottawa Valley but

grew up in Sudbury after age 14;the Wilsons also have five grand-children.

The heart attack that levelledOnni a year ago has left him withindifferent health but when he'sfeeling up to par, he and hiswife will travel to California tovisit a relative.

Onni likes fishing and "keep-ing up the property" at the Wil-sons Sudbury home.

kEG FOUCAULTReg Foucault has put the safetybrake on his underground electriclocomotive and punched out forthe last time. Reg was a motor-man on the 400 and 2400 levelsat Frood Mine and covered manythousands of miles on Froods 22miles of underground track. Hestarted with the Company in 1930at Frood and worked continu-

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ouisly at that mine. Born in Ble-zard Vtllcy, he worked the familyfarm a number ol years beforejoining Inco.

Reg was married in Suidbury in1936 to Cecile Dignard. Mrs.Fouicuult was horn in St. (hrleshut moved as a child to Sudhury.Their only son Gerry continuesthe fmilv presence at the Frood:he's a raise bore boss alternutingbetween Frood and Stohie Mines.Gerry has presented his parentswith three gran&lchil&lrn.

Both Reg and his wife are infine heilth: they plan to do alittle travelling but will continueliving in Sudbury where theyoperte a conf.ti:niy torc intheir home.

ONNI KAINOLAOnni Kainolas retirement con-cludes a 38-year relationship withthe Company. It would havebeen longer still had he not left

iin 1929 to go trapping north ofLevack on the Onaping River forfour years. The bulk of his min-ing with Inco was done at theFrood-Stobie complex with an ad-ditional two years being spent atCreighton. He retired as a toolfitter.

Swea Engblom became Onni'swife in 1935 in Sudbury. Mrs.Kainola was born in Little Cur-rent but grew up in Garson whereher father, the late Charles Eng-blom, worked for the MondNickel Company. Of the Kain-ola's three children, Doris is mar-ried to iron ore plant roaster kilnboss Enso Floreani. Seven grand-children complete the family.

The Kainolas live in Sudburywhere they maintain a prize-win-ning garden. Mrs. Kainola wonthe Frood-Stobie Athletic As-sociation trophy at this year'sSudbury Horticultural Societyshow for the best rock garden.Onni plans to do more huntingand fishing now that time permits.

VIC GAZZOLAVic Gazzola joined the "interna-tional set" early: Born in NovaScotia, he was taken to Italy byhis widowed mother as an infant.The family returned to Canadaagain when Vic was 12.

Before coming to Inco in 1937,he worked at a foundry in Guelph,where he married Medina Prigi-one in 1935. Mrs. (Jazzola wasborn in nearby Acton. Vic start-ed with the Company in the Cop-

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per Cliff Smelter but transferredfour years later to Creightonwhere he remained. He was astope boss and pillar leader forabout 20 of his Creighton Mineyears.

The Gazzolas have a family offour children and five grandchil-dren. Their son, Vic Jr., is adraftsman with the general en-gineering department at CopperCliff. Vic and his wife plan todo some travelling soon, perhapsback to Italy.

ENIO CAMILUCCI"The best way to explain how Icame to Inco is to say thatI followed the bricks." EnioCamilucci better known as "Gin-ny", wasn't kidding. After arriv-ing in Canada from his nativeItaly in 1923 at age 14, he worked

I!4-for eight years in a Montrealbrickyard and kept seeing car-load after carload of brick goingto Copper Cliff. When the De-pression hit in the '30s, Ginnydecided to "follow the bricks" andjoined the Company at CopperCliff Smelter in 1934. In 1939,he was transferred to the CopperCliff Mill as a mechanic and spentthe last 10 years of his service onthe tailings line.

He married a Copper Cliff girl,Mafalda Longarini, in 1936. Theyhave six children and five grand-children. Their son Gordon is a2nd class electrician at the ironore plant.

Looking back on his years withthe Company, Ginny recalled: "Ienjoyed every minute I workedwith Inco: I raised a family ofsix children and was never with-out work all that time."

NAPOLEON LAROCQLJE"I really enjoyed being on thecranes but it's nice taking it easyon pension too," said NapoleonLarocque, better known asRocky".Some of Rocky's love for the

cranes must have rubbed off onhis family, for Victor, one of theII Larocque children, is a crane-

man in the Copper Cliff Smelterjust like his father.

Rocky was born in St. Charles,hut grew up in Coniston after age. His continuous service with

the company started in 1942 jtConiston. When he returnedfrom three years' wartime serviceoverseas, he began working at the

\Copper Cliff Smelter where hestayed, working 23 of those yearsas a craneman.

His life partnership with theformer Theresa Prieur began in1939. They were married in herhometown of Markstay. As we'las their 11 children, the Larocquesalso have 14 grandchildren.

Rocky enjoys fishing and hunt-ing and plans to make money outof a former hobby - buildinglawn chairs in his Sudbury homeworkshop.

WILLIAM GOYETFEBill Goyette is retiring to Ottawawhere he grew up. He was bornin nearby Hawkesbury.

Bill started with Inco in 1950at Coniston where he remained

throughout hisCompany service.Before coming toInco, he worked

• for seven years asa mechanic forthe City of Ot-tawa. "I was get-ting 50 cents anhour on that job

and the 89 cents advertised forSudbury miners looked prettygood so up I came."

Married in 1936 to MarthaMiron, Bill is the father of fourchildren: Mrs. Goyette grew up inOttawa too. The couple has threegrandchildren. Their son, Pat, isfollowing in his dad's footstepsand is now working in the Conis-ton Smelter.

EIZEAR PROUIXElzear Proulx, known to hisfriends as Elzie, wants to keep

g"on the go" during his retirementyears the first step will be tostart work as a school crossing

guard in the Hanmer area wherethe Proulx reside.

Elzie was born in Hanmer andstarted with Inco in 1946 at theCopper ('liff Smelter. He workedin the nickel revcrbs departmentand was a fi.ttler for I 8 years.Before coming to Inco, he workedfor scven summers at a sawmillnear Skead and later as a carpen-ter in this area.

The former Florestine Landrybecame Elzies wife in 1933. Mrs.Proulx was a teacher in Hanmerand area for 11 years. Theirfamily consists of two childrenand two grandchildren.

STEPHEN BEAUSOLEIL"La visite" at the home of Steveand Ella Mae Beausoleil in Han-mer can be quite an affair if alltheir 10 children and 25 grand-children are present. And youcan be sure that some of theconversation will be about Inco -two of Steve's sons and two of hisdaughters' husbands work for theCompany.

Sons Nelson and Laurent areboth miners, the former a switch-man conductor underground at

Stobie and the latter a driller atGarson. Margaret is married toGarson stope leader StephenBenoit and Phyllis is the wife ofCopper Cliff nickel converterspuncher Leo Laplante.

Steve Beausoleil started withthe Company in 1937 at FroodMine. left in 1943 but returnedthe same year to Garson Mineand stayed; he was a timbermanon the 14 and 2200 levels.

Steve was born near Penetang,the birthplace also of his wife,the former Ella Mae L'Esperance.They were wed in nearby Mid-land in 1934.

VERNER KUTSCHKEBetter known as "Kutch" to allhis friends, Verner Kutschke wasborn and grew up at Pembroke.

His decision tojoin Inco in 1950was preceded by

.. five years' damconstruction workin the OttawaValley.

- Working atFrood Mine,

• \ Kutch was a drill-er for most of his Inco years butbecame a switchman conductorunderground for the last four.

A bachelor, Kutch has lots of

PAC;E SEVINTEET4

plans for fishing from the camphe built near Mattawa back in1956. He is presently living inSudbury but plans to move backto the Ottawa Valley.

AUGUST RAINVILLEGus Rainville is the second ofthree generations in his family towork for the Company. Hisfather, the late Elie Rainville,worked for the Mond Nickel

Company and Inco for over 30years and his daughter, Jacque-line, is married to Jean Mathias,a senior clerk in the metals sec-tion of the accounting departmentat Copper Cliff.

Gus was born in Conistonwhere he started with the Com-pany in 1934. After transferringto Creighton and later FroodMines, he left the Company in1937 but returned later the sameyear. Most of his service wasspent at the Frood where heworked primarily as a vulcanizer.

Married in 1935 to Leona Le-vesque, Gus is the father of sixchildren and the grandfather ofnine. Mrs. Rainville's father, thelate Hector Levesque, also wasan Inco employee and worked asskimmer at the Coniston smelterfor 28 years.

When time permits, Gus likesfishing and hunting at the familycottage near Alban. He's busynow with the Rainville family'sbig project - a three-store shop-ping complex under way in theMinnow Lake area.

LONSDALE PARKERLonnie Parker was born in Sud-bury but moved to Coniston atage 12 where he remembers haul-ing wood and coal by horse-drawnwagon for the Laprairie liverystable.

Coniston was also the placewhere he started with Inco in1930. Shortly after he trans-

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ferred to Frood Mine until 1939when he went to Levack Mineuntil his retirement. He finishedas a 2nd class carpenter.

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Lonnic married Jean Giroux inSudbury in 1938. Of their fourchildren, Brian works as a drillerat Levack Mine and Jean is mar-ried to Peter Spilchen who alsoworks at Levack as a pipeman.Lonnie and Jean claim sevengrandchildren.

A fisherman and hunter, Lon-nie vill spend lots of time onthose pursuits at the family's cot-tage on Geneva I.ake near Car-tier.

STANLEY GUALTIERIStee' Gualtieri's service with

the Company started in 1936, 10years after his arrival in Canada

from his nativeItaly. He workedin the Copper

• Cliff Smelter'sOrford bins andwas a feeder bosson the charging

IPfloor for the lastthree years. Stevewas employed for

five years on the Welland Canalbefore he came to Inco.

A bachelor, Steve lives in Cop-per Cliff. His retirement plansinclude a visit to Niagara Fallswhere his brother and sister live.

vel hasnt ceased now that he's onpension. He plans to travel a lotaround Ontario and also Wantso sce British Columbia in thenear future, At home in Sud-bury, much of his time is spent inhis garden.

Born in Scotland, George cameto Canada in 1925. His career

Iwith the Company began in 1936at Creighton Mine but he trans-ferred later to Garson and LevackMines, where he was chief plan-ner in planned maintenance.

After the death of his first wifein 1952, George married Mrs.Mary Harrower Del-Pivo in 1955.Mrs. Secker was born in Scotlandtoo and came to this country in1912. Of their two children,Elizabeth is married to ArthurLye, a shaft hoistman at GarsonMine. The Seckers also havefour grandchildren.

JAMES FYNN

EARL BAWDENBelleville-born Earl Bawdenstarted with the Company in 1936after working in his home townat the CNR car shop. He even-tually joined the railroad at Inco

too when he became a locomotiveengineer in 1950. Earl spent allhis Company years at CopperCliff except for the last two whenhe worked at the ConistonSmelter still "betWeen the rails.

Married in Sudbury in 1937,Earl is the father of one child. Hiswife, the former Elsie Nickason,is originally from Giielph. TheBawdens live between Wahnapitaeand Markstay just east of Sud-bury.

GEORGE SECKERGeorge Secker managed severaltrips to Florida when on vaca-tion or special leave with theCompany and his interest in tra-

In spite of being retired, JimmyFynn will have no trouble keep-ing "in the know about Inter-

tional Nickel. Hiss o n, M e r v i n,works as a motor-man at Copper

4 Cliff North Mine- and three of his

daughters are alsoI married to Com-

pany employees- Roberta is the

wife of construction co-ordinatorWayne Taylor, Joyce is marriedto Copper Cliff maintenance fore-man George McDonald, andJunes husband, Bob McLaughlin,works as a maintenance foremanat Crean Hill Mine.

Both Jimmy and his wife, theformer Eleura Morrison, are fromWestmeith in the Ottawa Valley.They were married at Pembrokein 1930 and have five children.10 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

1930 was also the year thatJimmy joined Inco. He workedas a skimmer in the Copper CliffSmelter converter building.

Although the Fynns lived manyyears in Copper Cliff, they arenow Sudbury residents.

1No FRI,N.;I.t

After receiving hearty congratulations from Hugh Judges, manager ofindustrial relations and personnel and Graham Byers, supervisor ofhourly empbyment training, graduate Paul Caza received a diploma fromJim Scott. During the course, Jim was the representative of Managementand Training Systems for Industry Inc. Paul Caza is now working at theCopper Cliff Nickel Refinery as a 2nd class instrument man.

New instrument mengraduate into jobs

Thirty-five new instrument men received their trade certificates andjob assignments during a short ceremony in the Training andDevelopment Institute in Sudbury last month. Most received 2ndclass positions, but some were successful in bidding for 1st classvacancies. They were the first graduates from Inco's 52-week longintensive instrument training program.

Emphasis in the course was placed on practical work on processinstruments with some theory about the principles involved in theiroperations. The candidates became familiar with both air-operatedpneumatic and electronic systems, and were taught how to repairand install, and trouble-shoot the main types of instrument hard-ware in use throughout Inco facilities.

During the year, the course was divided into two groups whichalternated between two weeks in the class room and two weeks ofon-the-job training at mines and plants.

Inco instructors Dan Mitroff and Mike Myc assisted Jim Scott ofManagement and Training Systems for Industry Inc., the firm whichorganized the course for the Company. A second year-long coursefor instrument men starts next month, and Dan and Mike will bejoined by a third Inco instructor.

Inco's rapid expansion in the Sudbury area was one reason forthe introduction of the course, but the increasing trend towardssophisticated process control systems meant the regular four-yearapprentice program had to be complemented to meet the Company'smanpower requirements quickly enough.

All the candidates in the course were graduates of the two- orthree-year electronic instrumentation courses offered at OntarioColleges of Applied Arts and Technology.

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The 35 jobs open in instrumentation at Incos Sudbury area operationswere offered to the graduates based on their company seniority. LarryMaxfield (centre) and Rory Sim had identical seniority so the reliablecoin toss was used to resolve the problem. Cliff Duncan (left), per-sonnel co-ordinator for the planned maintenance department, showedthe grads the opportunities available. Rory opted for the Frood-StobieMill where he works as an instrument man 2nd class, while Larry is a1st class instrument man in the Copper Cliff Smelter.

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Busy workshops look aftermentally handicapped youthin Sudbury and the Valley'Mental retardation is a life-time handicap ind requires alifetime program", according toW. C, "Duke' Jarrett, LittleStobie mine engineer. A veteranof 15 years o volunteer workwith mentally retarded chil-dren, he should know. He isnow chairman of the adult ser-vices committee of the Sudburyand District Association for theMentally Retarded. There are40 such individuals, aged 17 to26, in the W. C. Jarrett Indus-trial Training Centre, nine in asimilar Valley facility, and over200 in the four schools for re-tarded children in Sudbury andthe Valley.

The Sudhury & District Asso-ciation for the Mentally Retardedworks with what are classed as"moderately retarded". Theseare the "trainable" people, whowith proper instruction in super-vised "sheltered workshops" canbecome self-supporting to a de-gree. A few have been suc-cessfully placed with local com-panies but most of the traineeswill probably work at the Jarrettcentre for most of their lives,

In contrast, the Valley Associa-tion looks after persons whohave suffered less than 25 percent mental impairment. Withproper schooling, these peoplecan master academic work, andcan become self-supporting asadults.

Both issociations work toavoid a situation whereby amentilly handicapped person ispushed out into a world whichis not ready to receive him, andfor which he is unprepared.Workshops are small businessThe sheltered workshops help

these youths make the transitioninto adult living through trainingin a work situation. In Sudbury,the Jarrett Workshop has a full-time professional staff of six,headed by director Brc1ie Hart,

Virtually a small factory, theworkshop is run like a business,bids on jobs from local indus-tries, and "rewards" its em-ployees. One of its mainstays isthe manufacture of the woodenwashers used with roof boltsunderground in Inco mines.

The Valley adopted a differentapproach. They train their chil-

George Walli, Her-man Middlesteadand Roddy La-londe, aU Incoites,look over the Val-ley Residence'snew Ford farmtractor. RichardLavallee, a gradu-ate trainee, is thedriver.

dren in agricultural techniques atthe first small residential trainingcentre in the province. Entirelybuilt with volunteer labor, theresidence is located on an 80-acre farm in the Blezard Valleyand is well-equipped with ma-chine tools and a new farm trac-tor, all of which the traineesoperate themselves.

The Valley residence providesa home-like atmosphere wherethe nine children living-in are en-couraged to take responsibility.They are gently disciplined bytheir residence father Inco pen-sioner Herman Middleste3d andhis wife, Agnes. After 18 monthsthe youths return home to theirown families.

Education is importantBoth centres attach great irn-

Ijortance to education of a for-mal nd informal type, stressingthe development of acceptablepersonal habits, it home and inpublic.

In Sudbury, a portable class-room behind the main buildingis ucod for the education pro-gram directed by one of the staffmembers. In the Valley, oneroom has been set aside for aunique self-help situation. The

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The cafeteria ofthe Jarrett work-shop doubles as awork room. In theforeground, Incoore samples arebeing sized forpackaging later bythe CNIB. In thebackground, agroup is cuttinggreeting cards in-to Christmas gifttags - now onsale throughoutthe Nickel District.

trainees, who commute to theValley Association's own school,do their homework together andeach night one trainee is an in-formal teacher and leads a re-view of the day's classroom work.

The Sudbury sheltered work-shop was named after DukeJarrett in recognition of his ef-forts to persuade the communitythat such a facility was needed.

Besides Duke, other membersof the Sudbury workshop's boardare Norman Stoner, chairman,Enoch Pratt, William McMullen,Bethel Bailey, Evan Gordon, andsilver refinery shift boss TomCornthwaite.

Incoites are very prominent onthe hoard of the Grandview Resi-dence in the Valley; GeorgeWalli, chairman Levack Mill pro-cess technology, Grant Bertrim(Copper Cliff North and Clara-belle Open Pit superintendent),Roddv Lalonde (Levack ware-house), William "Ted" EvershedCopper Cliff process technol-ogy), Norm Dawes (Levackdriller), Hilliard Johnston (Levackrigger 2nd class), Dr. Ed Leclair,Dr. Ron Andrews, and Mrs. AliceChristison, all give their sparetime to the project.

Mike Tychowecki, Peter Bolton and Peter Berthelot put the finishingtouches to roof bolt washers. The Sudbury workshop has turned out over160,000 of these for Inco and Falconbridge mines. Watching are shopinstructor Maxime Morin and Duke Jarrett.

On their way to a barbecue when this photo was taken tast summerare the youngsters who live-in at the Grandview Residence: RichardLavallee (drIving), Tony Hiborn, Judy Hankonen, Marlene Sasky, GaetanKinsley, John Moylan, Linda Bois and Bob Dewar.

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