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Page If ILLS OUTLOOK Saturday MirtbM IKS on Haltop Hills The Arrow proudly remembered 25th anniversary of Candas jetfighter By BRIAN Herald The morning of March was bitterly cold Yet thousands of people gathered outside at Malton Airport to watch aviation history being made Many of the people present that day made their homes in a small community of about 000 people called Georgetown When the wheels of the row CF 103 supersonic delta winged planed left the ground a loud cheer went up from the crowd When those wheels touched the ground again an hour later test pilot Jan was hoisted up on the shoulders of the crowd The most advanced sophisticated fighter Interceptor plane was off the ground and it was Canadian made What those workers didnt know was thai In under a year they be out of work All them It was payday the afternoon of day Feb At 3 p m workers were lined up to pick up their pay cheques when on announcement cancelled the Arrow project Thinking the era of the manned airplane was at an end Mr baker decided to spend his billion dollar defence money on the guided missile made by Boeing All those Jobs were terminated In stantly It was the most massive layoff In Canadian history And it was done Immediately in one afternoon In Georgetown one in ten residents worked on the Arrow jet plane or the engine The workers at the Malton plant and at the plant were stunned To Georgetown the layoff was devastating Some compared it to a depression Everywhere people were walking out on their homes abandoning their mortgages and in some cases their furniture And as Joan Hill a file clerk who worked for remembered at least one person in town committed suicide after the layoffs Up until that day the Arrow had been the talk of the town Everywhere people were waiting dtedfy for the first flight to takeoff Today anyone who talks about the Arrow recalls It with enthusiasm and pride The day of the first flight workers had a terrific feeling inside recalled Mrs Hill whose husband Boy was an engineer on the Arrow Everybody was Just so wrapped upinit Gordon Hunt of Georgetown who worked at at the time was one of the thousands of workers who dropped everything and went out side to watch that first flight It was an exciting day You dont see a first flight very often he said Jerry McHale a Georgetown real dent who worked as a tool maker for Canadian steel Improvements the firm which made the turbine blades for he Arrow also talked with pride about the plane It was a Canadian achievement Everybody was proud of it But Black Friday as It came to be known ended all that When the project was cancelled the diagrams were burned and the five planes already produced and others In production were complete ly dismantled STORE HOURS Thursday ft Friday CftySry- Gueipn Georgetown NORTHVIEW CENTRE The most distressing thing was when they sent a guy out on the tor mac and cut up the planes recalled Mr McHale The cancellation of the Arrow contributed to the downfall of Mr Diefenbaker said Mr McHale It was a national event A description by Georgetown res if H Former Avro Arrow worker Jerry McHile a book written about the Hie and fill of the Arrow Mr who a tool maker at the In recalled how devailitlng the liyof to Georgetown on that fateful day of Feb 1959 Friday Her Id photo the loud speakers gives graphic account of workers In a Feb edition of the Herald Mr Cass wrote that worker were In a nightmare People were walking around with blank stunned faces Mrs Hill who was working on on illustration of the Arrow at the time returned to her drawing after the an to complete what was now a grim task when a fellow worker said What are you doing that for There no point If the effect on the aircraft In dustry was enormous the effect on Georgetown was devastating The place was like a ghost town Hunt People walked out of their houses and left their furniture A newspaper report said the town lost a week buying power at the time when a T bane steak cost Just cents a pound It was pretty grim said The government reconsidered building a new school on Weber Drive and the Ontario Municipal Board was thinking about cancelling an extension to the town sewage plant Well over people signed up for the newly created Georgetown Employment Service to help local workers find jobs For sale signs were on houses everywhere Many left for the United Slates to find work many others returned to their native Br lain where they had come from lo years before to work on the Arrow One former Arrow worker who described himself as a refugee from Malton asked council to help workers lobby the government or consideration of their mortgages Council did just that But the Canada Mortgage Housing Corpora lion said no It would set a dangerous precedent Mr who bounced around doing cleaning and painting Jobs to pay for his a month mortgage for sixth months returned to his firm after it rebounded from the shock It was a definite degression SAME DAY TAX RETURNS Buy A Lb Buy A Box Elmira Poultry CHICKEN 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