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481 pay w. "= E HAILEYBURIAN Vol. 39; /No. 7 HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO TH URSDAY, MAY 6th, 1943 : Subscription Rate: $2.00 per year Two Local Boys Complete Training and Receive Wings John Cawley, Howard Ferguson Commissioned as Pilot Officers in R.CA.F. The names of two more Hailey- bury boys are included in the published lists of airmen who completed their training courses and were given their wings last week-end, thus adding to the ever-growing numbers of youths from this community who have gone on active service since the war began. One of them, John C. Cawley, elder son of Mayor H. E. Cawley and Mrs. Cawley has been given a commission Pilot Officer, one of a number thus honored at No. 8 Service Flying Training School, Moncton, N.B. P.O. Caw- ley was given leave at the week- end and spent a few days in To- ronto on his way home. The other local boy who has graduated in the R.C.A.F. is Howard Ferguson, son of Mrs. L. H. Ferguson and the late. Mr. Ferguson. He completed his training and received his wings at Dunnville, Ont.., and is now spending a well-earned leave at his home on Georgina avenue. He has also been commissioned as a Pilot Officer. Both these boys are well known and popular in the community. They, with many others, enlisted on the completion of their school terms and have given their best during the training courses, tak- ing everything in their stride and working hard to fit themselves for whatever may lie ahead. Their many friends and the entire com- munity extend congratulations and best wishes for the future. as EXTEND RESTRICTIONS ON LOADING OF TRUCKS TO JUNE FIFTEENTH The restrictions on the loading of trucks in this district have been extended until the 15th of June, according to Provincial Traffic Officer Art. Souliere, who has requested the district news- papers to make this known to their readers. Ordinarily, the re- striction, which provides for half loads only during the period when the frost is coming out of the ground, would be lifted at the end of May, but the backward season has made the extension necessary. All citizens are interested in the protection of the roads and all drivers should willingly abide by the regulations and prevent un- necessary damage durings the spring period. The Dionne quintuplets are leaving tomorrow for Superior, Wis., where they will take part in the launching of five new ships built there and to be known as the "Quint Fleet." VICTORY LOAN PASSES HALF-WAY MARK UP TO NOON ON WEDNESDAY American Sailor Gave Place on Raft to Haileybury Man Up to noon on Wednesday, local subscriptions to the Fourth Victory Loan had reached the half-way mark in the objective, Mayor Caw- ley, chairman of the commit- tee, said. This total was re- ported to headquarters at Kirkland today as $82,200. "There are other subscrip- tions coming to han d this evening," His Worship said, which will boost above total" Back From Dieppe Soldier Helps in Victory Loan Drive Sergeant C. E. Jackson Tells of Friend's Death in Big Raid; "Was Not One-Sided" Cote When Ship Torpedoed in Gulf of St. Lawrence The brave action of an Ameri- can sailor in giving up his place on a life raft, after his ship had been torpedoed in the Gulf of St. bability saved the life of Ett Cote, Haileyhury man who was a passenger on the doomed ship and who arrived home some day: ago from Labrador. Mr. Cote is still suffering to some exteni from his experience, but managed {to work during the past winter on the project which has taken |several men from this district, and it was itt Misericordia hospi- something of his experiences late last week. He needs some medi- cal treatment, he said, but when this is attended to he plans to re- turn to work in Labrador. Mr. Cote said that there were "He wasn't very big, but he did what he could,' was the tribute paid by a Canadian soldier who returned, wounded, from Dieppe to a comrade who gave his life in that raid, as Sergt. C. E. Jackson of the Royal Regiment of Canada Labrador project and the pariy waited some days-at Moncton, N. B., where they expected to get Lawrence last August, in all pro- | tal that he told- The Haileyburian | some 300 men on the way to the| concluded a brief address he made to the employees of the Wabi Iron Works at a Victory Loan rally held in the New Lis- keard plant last Thursday. In simple language, Sergt. Jackson spoke of his friend, 'Jim- my', who died with his head on the speaker's knee after the lower part of his body had been riddled with bullets. Sergt. Jackson said of 'Jimmy' that, although he was fatally wounded, he managed to throw a bomb over a wall into a machine gun post, silencing it. Before he passed out, said the sergeant, 'Jimmy' told him, "If you get back, tell them I did what I could." "He gave his life; I was lucky" Sergt. Jackson added, telling the group that a Tommy gun costs $200 and a rifle $50, and that "every time you buy a bond you buy a rifle." Speaking further of 'Jimmy' the speaker said he didn't seem much of a Commando but had told the sergeant "he could be a man and die for his country." During the raid, com- rades heard him call to keep still , and "after that, things seemed better." "Lots of people think Dieppe raid was one-sided," said Sergt. Jackson, adding tersely "It was not."" He told how 5,000 Cana- dians' were met by twice that number of Jerries, and he said the invaders did considerable damage to the submarine base, the radio station and an air field. The Canadians left England at mid- night, August 18, sailed across the channel and by 4.15 were off the big ships into small boats and into the harbor of Dieppe> said Sergt. Jackson. the Third Victory Loan. necessary, as we all know To the Citizens of Haileybury and Bucke Township transportation by plane. planes did not show up and some of the men, about 160, were taken by train to Sydney, N.S., where they boarded the American ship sailing for Labrador. They had been out four days when the ship was attacked, Mr. Cote said, and it started to sink very quickly. He found himself trapped at frst with doors jammed and general confusion on board, but finally made his way out, only to find that nearly all the passengers and crew had taken to the boats and rafts. The sailor, whose identity he never learned and of whose fate he had no definite knowedge, gave him a place on the it, which he pushed off and then started to swim, after which they lost track of him. The six men were on the small raft for seven hours before being picked up by a corvette, Mr. Cote said. They ahd neither oars nora paddle and could do little but sit still and hope for rescue. The ship sank when they were only about 60 feet away from it, he said, but they escaped the suction and kept afloat. The water was calm when the torpedoing took place, but within 15 minutes a storm blew up and they had a bad time until the corvette sighted them. Mr. Cote could not learn very much about the casualties. He had been told later that 119 me» were lost, but whether this was correct he could not tell. The shock of the explosion was ter- rible, he said, and some were kill- ed instantly. There was no chance to save any of their belongings and no one was worrying about them at the time. "I didn't save a pin," Mr. Cote said. While not suffering greatly, Mr. Cote said he was not his old self and would have to have med- ical treatment for a time. He was glad to get home to see his people again, but intended to go The} 'Miller Memorial to Have New Site 'on Cobalt Square | Brave Action Saved Life of Emil Tribute to Geologist Who Gave | Town Its Name Will Have Place on Highway | ae | | The memorial at Cobalt to the jman who gave the town not only jits name but "a place among the | great mining camps of the world" and Which formerly stood in the grounds of the Temiskaming and | Northern Ontario Railway sta- [tion there, is being re-erected on |the famous "Square," where it j will be visible to travellers along 'King's Highway No. 11. That yreat north road, on its present jcourse, passes through Cobalt |from the old Mining Corporation |property to the Lang street bridge over the railway tracks. | Willett Green Miller, first pro- jvincial geologist of Ontario, was ithe individual who altered "Long |l.ake" of the first settlement of |railway construction days to "Co- balt," and the monument to his |memory records that fact. The }change in name was made almost \four decades ago, and many years {|later the memorial was prepared and placed in the small garden plot which formerly occupied part to provide a parking space for cars when the nearby town hall was sold to the Ontario Govern- ment for the new Temiskaming Testing Laboratory plant.. Mayor C. H. Taylor said this week that the memorial now will be placed on a suitable site in the centre of the town, at the crest of the short hill which connects the station with the business sec- tion. A base is to be provided and the memorial will be faced to the north fronting on that stretch of Lang street immediately be- yond thé "Square." -The munici- pality intends to arrange for a light to be placed above the memorial, the mayor said. This memorial to Dr. Miller takes the form of a bronze pla- que on a large slab of conglom- lerate. The plaque itself is the lwork of Mrs. Dorothy Dick, an eminent Engish artist, and the inscription reads: "Willett Green Miller, First Provincial Geologist of Ontario, 1902-1925; To Cobalt He Gave Its Name and a Place Among the Great Mining Camps of the World; He Read the Se- cret of the Rocks, and Opened the Portal for the Outpouring of Their Wonderful Riches; His Monument is New Ontario". The conglomerate slab came from the Mileage 104 area of the camp, near the site of the pre- sent O'Shaughnessy mill, succes- sor tothe original Northern Cus- toms plant and the later O'Brien mill. The memoiral was unveiled jon November 1, 1926, by the Hon. |Charles McCrea, at that time |Minister of Mines for the pro- |vince of Ontario, who delivered a felicitous speech at the ceremony. It was erected, according to the ,souvenir booklet of the day, un- \der the auspices of the Cobalt Ki- |prepared by Jas. Reavell at the LOAN TOTAL NOW HIGHER THAN IN LAST SIMILAR PERIOD Drastic Changes in Schools of District Are in Prospect Closing of Mining School One of Proposals Recommended by Dept. of Education Ottawa, May 5--Loan total today stands at $503,936,100 compared with $414,583,900 same period last loan. Tues- day total $67,590,850 more than 20 million higher same day third loan. General can- vass and payroll combined total $138,376,000 to date, this is 25% higher last loan, but need is for 33% if $500 million from this source be reached. Low Temperatures Provided plans proposed by the provincial. educational authorities are carried out in their entirety. |a number of drastic changes in "!the school situation of part of this |district are in prospect for the jopening of the new term next | September, according to inform~- ation available here this week. and Heavy SMOWS scion autatte ese is week Mark April Weather IeicssdeGt trelscHaolae Mines at |Haileybury and of five other schools in Cobalt, Coleman and Monthly Summary Gives Average | Bucke townships, with a re- at Nearly Ten Degrees Be- | arrangement of accommodation , at still other schools to take car« eM DUGAN isaac | of the pupils who will be affected when the summer vacation over. - The various boards of trustees in the areas involved have been notified by the Department of Education at Queen's Park of the proposed changes, but not all of them have yet had time to con sider the plans, it was understood here yesterday. Some negotia- is A mean temperature of nearly | 10 degrees below the average for | the month since 1894 and a snow- fall nearly double the amount usually seen in this district are the main features of the monthly summary of weather conditions Haileybury meteorological sta- of the south end of the station, | and which in 1942 was removed | tion and covering the past month. The average temperature was 51.8 degrees, compared to last year's 44.6 degrees for the same month and an average of 41.6 over the long period since the station was established. The snowfall was 11.1 inches, com- pared to the normal six and one- half inches for April, and there was ony .25 of an inch of*rain. In April of 1942 there was only .3 of an inch of snow, with the rain measured at .82, while the normal precipitation for the month stands at 1.5 inches of rain and 6.5 inches of snow. The maximum temperature last month was 62.8 degrees and the minimum just one degree above zero. Last year's figures for Ap- ril were 85.4 and 16.6 respectively. The year 1921 holds the record for a warm April day, when the} mercury rose to 87 degrees, while | 1919 has the cold record, with 17 below zero. The greatest} range in temperature last month! was 36.3 degrees, on the 22nd, and the least was 4.8 degrees, on| the 9th. | There was slightly more wind) in April this year than last, the| total mileage registering 4,939, compared to 4,837. The average velocity was 6.8 miles per hour, | compared to 6.7.in 1942. Highest | wind last month blew from the north, at 20 miles per hour, while the pervailing winds were from the northwest, 193 hours for a total of 1,880 miles. The longest | continuous breeze blew from the| north, for 36 hours, and there} were 93 calm hours in the month | this year, compared to 74 in 1942. Concluding his report for the month, Mr. Reavell gives the to-| tal snowfall for the winter "to date" as 120.9 inches. | | FLIES IN GLIDER ON | RETURN TRIP AFTER WINTER IN LABRADOR tions already are under way, The Haileyburian learned. According to the information available, it is proposed to make the following changes: Close St. Patrick's separate school at Cobalt and find accom- modation for the pupils in,#09ms said to be available at tlie high |school there; Close the Mileage 104 school and transfer pupils to Cobalt central public school; Close both public and separate schools at North Cobalt and the public schgol at Moore's Cove, sending all pupils to Haileybury ; Close the Mining School and transfer the fifth form at the Haileybury high school to the New Liskeard high school. In a number of instances, not- ably the fifth form and the public schools at Mileage 104 and at Moore's Cove, the enrolment is not very heavy. So far as Cobalt is concerned, there is said to be ample room there for all boys and girls attending school, and the closing of St. Patrick's would present no difficulties in that re- spect. There would still remain the Ste. Therese's separate school in Cobalt, but the Sisters who are the teaching staff there have apartments in that building, so that it was not considered feas- ible to move pupils from St. Pat- rick's school there without dis- rupting arrangements in effect. In any event. accommodation could be secured in the high school, it is stated. The changes now proposed are asequel to the visit recently to the district of officials from the De- partment, which in turn followed an interview a deputation from ~ the town council and _ school boards at Cobalt had with the Minister of Education and others with regard to financial _ condi- back when he recovers. He was | wanis Club, with Cyril Knight, being given the best of attention one-time assistant to Dr. Miller ||in the hospital, he said. and for some years with the Nip- || As a coincidence, Mr. Cote pro-'issing mine at Cobalt, taking an duced his leave certificate which) active part in the planning and had been signed by Terence |carrying out of the scheme. Smith, also of Haileybury and Mine managers in Cobalt at the Up to the present time, the subscriptions from many haye been substantially increased from those made in There are a number yet to be canvassed, but in many cases this should not be THE ATTACK" Money must be lent to the Government to buy the necessities in tools and provisions of war. to reach our objective of $160,000 there must be still Five men were passed by the) greater response to the efforts of your local committee. During the remaining days of the Loan we are sure that you will realize it is your individual interest and effort that will attain the mark set for us in this Fourth War Loan. The Victory Loan Committee H. E. CAWLEY, Chairman N. MORISSETTE and C. Subscriptions will be taken by: H. E. Cawley, W. J. Dobbins or J. E. Dunn or at the Bank of Nova Scotia. formerly with the Canada North- ern Power Corporation. Mr. Smith went to Labrador last win- ter to the same project on which Mr. Cote is employed. FIVE MEN ACCEPTED BY BOARD LAST WEEK FOR ACTIVE SERVICE what is needed to "BACK If we are district medical board, meeting at the Haileybury Armories last week and have been enrolled intu the active services, the highest number at any one time for a considerable period. Three of the new recruits are from New Lis- keard, one has home in Cobalt and the fifth is from Gillies De- pot. The New Liskeard men are Charles Oliver Perkio, John Allan Jackson and Basil Matchett; Michael John Sutherland, Cobalt, and Allan MacDonald, Gillies Depot, are the other two. F. TUER, Vice-Chairmen Back the Attack! Buy Victory Bonds! time co-operated in the arrange- ments. The memorial includes what Mr.McCrea termed " speak- ing likeness of the man to whose memory we dedicate it today." In its original location at the station the tribute to Dr. Miller was an object of interest to many train tarvellers, and on its new site it remains, by request, on T. & N.O. property. | so -- Two More Haileybury Boys Leave to Join R.C.A.F. ' Two more Haileybury boys, William (Bub) Glazier and Eric (Abe) Davis, left on Tuesday evening for North Bay to enlist jin the Royal Canadian Air Force. They are both students at the High School and have reached the age when they can be accepted. There was a large party of stu- dents and other friends on hand to see them off on the late train, and the best wishes of the com- miunity go with them as they start cut to serve their country. \ |tions in that town. As a result of To make the trip home from) that interview, enquiry was made his winter's work partly by the into the general school conditions up-to-the-minute means of trans- of the area. portation that involves the use of| a glider towed by a regular air-| The ice on Lake Temiskaming plane, was the interesting exper- shifted considerably last night ience of Vic Stevens, brother of/anq several large patches of open R. G. Stevens of New Liskeard,| and who has returned to this North Country from Labrador. Mr. Stevens came as far as Mont- real in this manner, it was stated, and five other men all with their baggage, occupied the glider. In the plane were ten men and their) equipment, in addition to the crew, so that although the jour-| ney occupied slightly longer than if the plane had been alone, this was more than compensated for by the extra number of men and material that could be carried.) Mr. Stevens was in Temagami) this week and later went\to North! Bay. Elk Lake was the first com- munity in Temiskaming district to exceed its quota in the Victory Loan campaign. They passed the $12,500 mark on Monday, accord- ing to R. S. Taylor, district chair- man. Back the Attack! Buy Victory Bonds! 2 ri water were noticed this morning. A working woman in one Tem- iskaming town bought a $100 Jictory bond, giving a cheque for $55, all she-had in the bank, $15 in cash that cleaned her purse and telling the canvasser that she would earn the balance just as quickly as possible. Week's Weather Week ending May 5th, 1943 eae eae! Max. Min. 29.0 30.2 24.4 ; 28.0 Monday 48.0 34.6 ditiesday. == =s---- 64.7 31.0 Wednesday ----- 67.0 39.2 Max wind (1 hr.)_ 20 m.p.h.