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ie Tfactawa. F HAILEYBURI Vol. 43;, No. 14 HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO THURSDAY, JUNE 19th, 1947 Subscription Rate: $2.00 per year Three Drowned in Worst Accident For Miany Years River Drivers Carried Over Falls in Attempt to Release Log Jam One of the worst drowning ac- cidents that has occurred in the district for many years claimed the lives of three employees of the Canadian Splint and Lumber Corp., early on Monday morning, when the boat in which they were attempting tobreaka log jam on the Larder River, east of Engle- hart, was swept over a ¢ (pid and they were unable to make shore. The victinis were Henry Jack of Heaslip, Herbert Watters of Tomstown and Stephen Gallag- her of Mackey's station, east of Five other men work- ing in the same party were able to scramble to safety when the boat was swept over the rapids. Four of them reached the log jam while the other swam to shore. Provincial constables Sam Whitehouse and B. Soroka of Englehart were called to investi- gate the tragedy and dragging operations to recover the bodies were commenced immediately, with the result that the body of Henry Jack was recovered the same day. Latest reports are that the dragging is continuing in the hope of finding the bodies of the other victims. C. Zeigel, manager of the Splint Company, for whom all the men had been working since the spring drive began on May 2, was called to the scene of the accident on Monday afternoon. He told The Haileyburian on Tuesday that the eight men had been in a six-oar pointer driving boat and had been attempting to break up. the log jam on the river. "The boat missed the top of the jam," he said, "and was car- ried down stream. All attempts to hold the boat failed and when it was seen that' thes boat would go over the rapids, the foreman gave the order for the men to jump to safety. Four of the men reached the log jam and the fifth man reached the shore. The re- maining three were carried over the rapids in the fast water and were drowned." Stephen Gallagher, believed to be about 38 years of age, was a marrried man. His wife and five children live at Mackey Station. SILVER DISCOVERY "EXCELLENT" SAYS MINING ENGINEER A. D. Hellens, mining engineer, who has examined the high grade silver discovery made on the pro- perty of the Harrison-Hibbert Mines Limited, at North Cobalt, said that the sample of diamond drill core taken from the third hole sunk showed an "excellent intersection" of ahigh grade vein. There is "good mill rock" on both sides of the vein, Mr. Hellens said, end the property every prospect of being highly important. The result of further drilling now being carried on is awaited with great interest and the property is attracting con- siderable attention in meantime. Flies From Buenos Aires to - Visit Parents in Toronto turned from Toronto, where he underwent on operation in the Private Patients' Pavilion of the General Hospital, and is recuper- ating at his home on Rorke ave- nue north. During their stay in the city, Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson had the great pleasure of a visit from their two sons, Cyril and Ted, who came to see them while their father was ill in hospital. The only disappointment was that Cyril could not arrange to come to Haileybury to see his sister and nephews and old friends. He flew to Toronto from Benuos Aires and had only a limited time to spend. Mining Act Amendments Available in Haileybury Copies of the amendments to the Mining Act of Ontario which went into effect on June ist this year, are available to interested parties at the recording office in Haileybury, Mining Recorder S. J. Mason stated this week. There are several changes which should be generaly known by those identified with mining industry Mr. Mason said, and a umberof copies have been sent for their information. A call at the office will bring the information. about 50 miles east of Mattawa. Henry Jack, who would have been 21 years of age in August, and Herbert Watters, 21, had been working for the company since driving operations started this spring. -- III III VV VV VV VV TY PROTECT Your Car or TRUCK and Your RIGHT TO DRIVE Phone 10A DODD DOLL 222225522222 225282 228202584202 8888 07 +7 Ontario's new Financial Responsibility Law July Ist, 1947 is effective For detailed information about the new Law and how it =~. affectS you as an owner of a Car or Truck, SEE Ian D. MacDiarmid INSURANCE AGENCY Haileybury COLOGNES Two fragrances for the price of one. Choice of: Apple Blossom Deviltry For daytime Mimzy Pinx Foe evening $1.50 - 95c - 60c Limited time only. SMALLMAN'S Phone 64 Haileybury ' Local Red Cross Raised $900.50 In Spring Drive Executive Meeting on Monday Evening Hears Report on Activities The Haileybury branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society rais- eda total of $900.50 in the general campaign for funds last spring, a shows meeting of the executive was told on Monday evening. Of this total $476 was collected by Mrs. Sis vice-president of Nicholls, second the branch and one of the bando workers through the war of humanity as occasion arises. Eight members of the executive a were present at the meeting, with Magistrate S. Atkinson has re- the president, D. G. Hogan, in the Mrs. W. S. Bradley, sécre- chair, tary, treasurer, gave and Mrs. E. J.. Atkinson who have carried on years and are still doing work in the interests reports of the activities since the annual meet- Build Ten Houses on Wartime Plan If Dept. Agrees Council Refers Project to Higher Authority; Purchase New Truck The town of Haileybury will enter into as agreement with Wartime Housing Limited, gov- ernment-owned company, for the erection of 10 or less new build- ings to fill a demand for rented hemes, in the Department of \funicipal Affairs will allow the f deal to be completed. This was ai by the council at a spe- cial session held on Friday even- ing and following a brief discus- sion of the project at the regular meeting on Tuesday, June 10th. Members of the counefl, with Mayor I. A. Lytle presiding, dis- cussed the project from all angles made up a tentative list of lots available for the houses and fin- ally decided to place the project ing, explaining that sevral cases before the department for consid- of need in the community had eration of the officials there. The been taken care of. carry on his studies and his examinations. The meeting heard a report from the delegates who attended the district conference in North Bay last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tuke, Mrs. Bradley and Mrs, Nicholls were the representatives They vincial society *had been interesting and instructive. Fifty per cent of the campaign funds are being sent to the pro- One item specially mentioned was the pro- vision of taxi service for an_ex- service man attending the Pror vincial Institute of Mining, who was badly injured last winter ina motor accident. Through the Rec Cross branch, transportation had in been arranged and he was able to was eventually successful in passing affairs of the municipality were placed in department's hands a few years ago and are still under control of that body. Tt was revealed in the discus- sinns at the meeting that there arc a number of ex-service men the community who would welcome the opportunity of rent- ing the houses,. but no definite survey as to the number required has yet been made. An official of Wartime Housing, C. G. Hoose has been in town on one or two occasions, when he outlined the scheme to. the council, and _be- fore anything definite is decided stated that 21 of the 83 branches in the northern districts had-been represented and that the addresses by officials of the pro- both on, following the consent of the department, if forthcming, a sur- vey of the municipality will be made by company officials. The company is building groups of houses in other northern centres one of which is New Liskeard where some 35 buildings will be erected this summer. vineial Red-Cross, while-the_re-_. sther business of the special mainder will be retained for any- meetin emergencies that may arise in the community. Arrangements were made for +" ¥ ft with a snowplowing attachment the storing of some supplies le over from the wartime activities Sern) tals being made to straighten out the + at $6,436.55. of the branch, and a: domestic affairs of a British wa bride who is finding difficulty in No date was 2 e walk improvements settling down here. set for the next meeting of th branch. Constance Lake Water g included the purchase of a new truck to replace the old one in use for a good many years. The new vehicle will be equipped and will be much more up to date than the one now in use- The cost of the outfit has been figured Some further plans were made for the proposed street and side- which will commence in the near future. A general program of repairs will be carried out, it was decided, but the opinion of the councillors ap- Notesate sn: Raw (State peared to be that there would be no paving of streets done this Residents of the community cimmer, The extremely wet sea- living west of the railway an using water from Constance Lake 344 there has also been son has prevented an early start some are advised to boil it before drink- difficulty encountered in getting ing. A test made at th labora- a supply of rock suitable for the tories ot nue Department of purpose. However, arrangements Health at North Bay shows this aye now been made for a supply water classified "C" in a report of rock that can be used in street received on Tuesday by Chief of repairs at least, and a stockpile Police K. R. Watson. This is the \ ij} pe accumulated. first time there has been any pol- lution of Constance Lake since Fy--EN ELEPHANTS SEEN the supply for a section of the AMONG WILD LIFE ON town has. been drawn from that ~RypP FROM NORTH BAY source and the chief believes it has been caused bythe floods. A Qne local motorist said at the further test will be made imme- week-end that it is surprising diately, but in the meantime the what an amount of wild life may advice is "Boil before using." be seen during a drive up from Samples from the regular sup- North Bay. Being a keen obser- ply were all rated "A". Officers Re-Elected By ver, he always is on the lookout for animals, birds and other wild life while motoring, but his last District Music Teachers trip exceeded all others. He re- lates that he observed rabbits, The annual meeting of Temis- groundhogs, porcupine, four deer, kaming South branch of the On- one cow and three elephants on tario Registered Music Teachers' his way home. Admitting that it Association was held June 10th, js something out of the ordinary at the home of Mr. O. E. Walli, to see elephnats in the northern Haileybury. Correspondnce wa S districts, our informant says they read by the secretary and dis- were not of the "pink" variety, cussed. The fourth Tuesday of but belonged to a show troupe the month was chosen for future that was camped near the high- meetings. The same officers were return- the presence of the cow, however, ed for another year, namely: president, Eric E. Smith, Cobalt ; secretary, Mrs. S. Carr, New Lis- keard; with executive consisting of Miss Harvey, New Liskeard, Miss Maher, Cobalt, Mrs.Wathen of New Liskeard. A vote of thanks was tendered the officers for their efforts dur- ing the year, by Mr. Runnalls. The September meeting will be held in Cobalt at a place to be an- nounced later. Mrs. Walli served a delicious lunch, assisted by Mrs. Tuer. The meeting then adjourn- ed. : way. He could hardly explain as it was a long way from any settlement. ©The other animals mentioned are.occasionally seen along the road and form one of the real attractions of the North- land. Twenty inches of water covered asection of Highway No. 11, near Loon Creek, north of Latchford, after heavy week-end rains. Leslie Walton of New Liskeard caught a lake trout 35 inches long and weighing 16 pounds, in Lake Mendelssohn at week-end. PLANE BOGS DOWN IN MUDDY FIELD AFTER MISSING AIRPORT A Cornell aircraft made a forced landing at Maille's field on Sunday night and is now bogged down in the mud there and unable to take off again. The pilot, Edmund Day, of To- ronto, was bringing the plane from the west and, as it was get- ting rather late, began looking for a landing strip in the district. He missed the Earlton airport, but spotted a Lakeland Skyways plane in the field beside Fred Maille's farm on the north road T and set the plan down. What he didn't know was that no one was operating from that field because of the muddy condi- tion of the ground. Mr. Day left for Toronto by train, but he is expected back in New Liskeard on Saturday, when he willattempt to fly the plane out if the ground has dried up sufficiently. Legion Branches to Assemble Here For Zone Meeting Meet on Sunday Next for Election of Officers; Visit From President Members from all district branches of the Canadian Legion will gather in Haileybury on Sunday next, June 22, for a zone meeting, members of the local branch were told at the regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening last. Invitations to the branches have been sent out by Zone Commander J. H. Sumbler of New Liskeard, and the session has been called for 2.30 p.m. Election of a zone command- er and other officers will be on the agenda and, while all members of the Legion are welcome to attend the meeting, only accredited dele- gates will be entitled to vote. - Tt is expected that among other matter to be discussed will be the proposal for a Legion field day, with a softball tournament and other sports. The date is tenta- tively set for Labor Day, the meeting was told, and the gath- ering will be held at New Lis- keard beach. Another important meeting of the Legion branches will be held on Tuesday, June 26, when the president of the Provincial Com- mand, Comrade W. Burgess, will be in the North from Toronto and will be the guest speaker. The Haileybury Legion hall was cho- sen as the most central point for this gathering and arrangements are being made to have all dist- rict branches notified. This falls on the regular social night of the local branch, and refreshments will be served. At last week's meeting, the charter of the Ladies' Auxiliary, organized last fall, was received and arrangements were made to have it presented to the Auxiliary on June 24th. Mrs. Sumbler who is Zone Commander for the auxi- liaries, has been asked to make the presentation. The Haileybury Legion had been requested to sponsor a Boy Scout troop this year, a new com- mittee having taken on the direc- tion of the local Scouts, and the meeting last week passd a reso- lution to accept the responsibility and to allow the use of the hall one night each week for the boys' acitvities- The branch will be represented at the district meeting at Tim- mins, on June 29th, by the presi- dent, Wm. C. Inch, and immedi- ate past president J. T. Leishman. W. E. Maltby was chosen at the Legion representative on the town recreation commission, and 'Gordie' Lee is head of the sports committee which will arrange for an entry in the softball tourna- ment later in the season. Week's Weather Week ending June 18th, 1947 Max. . Min. Thursday ------- 65.0 36.4 ridays see =----- 604 428 Saturday ------- 54.0 47.6 Sunday -- 47.0 Monday 41.2 Tuesday : 40.8 Wednesday ----- 614 46.2 Precipitation for week_ 3.13" Max. wind (1 hr.)_ 12 m.p.h. Continuous Rain Brings Lake Level to Record Height New Liskeard Situation | Serious and 'Farmers in Despair Over Prospect Twenty-four hours of continu- ous rain at the week-end served to accentuate the danger from flooding and to discourage farm- ers who have been struggling to get their seeding done through a very unfavorable spring season. he level of lake Temiskaming, which had dropped earlier in the week, again rose to the highest point touched this spring, and the recession, since the weather clear- ed on Monday, has not been rapid. Only a slight drop could be seen at the Haileybury waterfront up to yesterday. The town of New Liskeard has been experiencing great difficulty in keeping the public services, es- pecially the sewage disposal plant in operation. Some basements in_ the downtown area there have been flooded and auxiliary pumps had to be secured to prevent heavy damage being done. A por- tion of the town is under water, near the mouth of the Wabi river, and the beach has been flooded for the past couple of weeks. The town has been informed officially that the dam at the foot of the ake is running wide open and there is apparently no means of relieving the situation until the water levels drop naturally. In Haileybury there was some damage to streets running up and down hill at right angles to the lake shore. Florence street, in particular, was badly washed out and had become impassable by Sunday night. Gravel and sand were washed down to the main highway on the Lake Shore road and had to be removed by truck in order to make that thorough- fare safe for travelling. Some residents found their basement walls leaking and wafer in the cellars, but nothing oF a serious nature occurred. The sloping townsite prevents any danger of (Continued on Page 3) FOR IMMACULATE ARMS AND LEGS Lijihh Dispatches unwanted halr smoothly, easily. 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