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[2s B Veo F \- ee PENS OE mr ey Deiat is oy eee Fo Reae ON ga Sa eM a Sy aE Fasc -- Fe eR Ee, DPT ELLE ORI ESTABLISHED 1904 Haileyburian-Cobalt Post Vol. 55 -- No. 1 Haileybury, Ont., March 12, 1959 5c COPY Haileybury Council Vetoes New Pumper Council failed to heed a recom- mendation submitted by the Ont- ario Fire Commission which re- quested that the obsolete fire fight- ing equipment now in use in Haileybury be replaced by more modern equipment. The vehicles in use now to pro- tect Haileybury from fire consist of a 1943 vehicle the first line of defence and a 1922 Rugles which proves very-difficult to be put in any. line of defence since it has a defective motor and has tobe towed to a fire. Mayor Arthur Cooke stated '"'We haven't been "ordered" to do anything yet by 'the. Fire Commission and until such a time as we are we don't in- tend any action." Bucke township has applied to the Haileybury council for fire pro- tection and has offered to pay up to four thousand dollars a year if this is accepted. Council decided that the offer would be consid- ered only on the occasion that they purchase a new fire truck. West Road residents are not very happy with their water sup- ply this time of year. Very un- happy indeed since several are re- ceiving no water at all. A delega- tion appeared before council last Monday night to appeal this situa- tion, stating that they could not be expected to pay water rates when they received only cold air from their taps and hot air from the council. Council assured them that everything possible was being done to rectify the situation. By-law no. 1994 was motioned and passed being a by-law for the purpose of borrowing from the Bank of Nova Scotia the sum of $40,000 to be withdrawn as re- quired to carry on current ex- penditures until 1959 taxes are collected. Water Chairman Charles. Cam- sell asked that Mr. Anderson of the Ontario Hydro be contacted and asked to supply a diver to go down in the lake and replace a screen over the water supply pipe. The pipe has been open for the re- ception of all the curious inhabi- tants of Lake Temiskaming for some time and it has been reported that from time to time they reach as far as the town reservoir where they had to be netted out. Councillors seriously considered spending some of their idle mo- ments constructing eight badly needed ladders for the docks to facilitate the swimmers this sum- mer. Haileybury rink has been closed ever the weekend in compliance with a government recommenda- tion. to remove the snow from the roof. The roof is substantially sup- ported by steel girders and stands little or no chance of collapsing. ' While no one on the council is particularly concerned that the skating rink will collapse nonethe- less some doubts were cast con- cerning the curling rink. Appar- ently the curling rink is the same}_ ~ construction as the ones that col- lapsed in Listowel and Englehart. _ Since being built no effort has been made to check the structure. The building was constructed of green lumber and since then the _ girders have dried eut and shrunk _- 'saving the boltings loose. Notic- fs this Councillor Bailey sugges- The Weather Week ending March 10th, 1959. ; ' Max. Min Wednesday. 45 20 ie Sahunsday 35 05 'riday DA 4 di aturday 22 --Ol - Sunday 28 --14 Monday _ ,- 28 --08 sday 30 --15 ted that a work crew' should be designated to do this. Northern Telephone refuses to install a telephone on the plat- form at the station. The installa- tion is a costly procedure costing around $300 and the present phone in use at the station is reaping only $1.00 per month. In addition to this they do not see how people in Haileybury are any more hon- est than those in Cobalt and so far three telephones have been sto- len from the station platform in Cobalt. The third one was not re- placed. To emphasize this point Northern Telephone cited the pay phone on the main street in Hailey- bury .which has lost three receiv- ers so far this year. In accordance with the name "University of Northern Ontario" Mayor Cooke moved that some effort be made to have it placed in a truly northern locale instead of a "pseudo-northern city" such as North Bay. "We have every- thing to offer such a moyement,"' Mayor Cooke stated "and I think that we should lose no time in communicating with the right people so that we might gain as much precedence as possible when the time comes to consider the site." rwas born. Local Curlers Win Van Italie The Van Italie Trophy, which has been played for throughout the district for a good many years, was won by a rink skipped by Clayt Dunn at the Kirkland Lake Curling Club the past week-end. With him were Gordon Stibbarts, vice-skip; Guy Marston, second; and Bill Mallett, lead. It is 22 years sitce it was last won by a Haileybury rink. A note of interest is that Guy Marston's father T: R. Marston, Kirkland Lake was skip of the winning rink in 1939 the year Guy His name is one of those already engraved on the trophy. Pioneer Employees Mrs. R. Jenkins and Mrs. F. Hume, two pioneer employees of the Haileyburian visited the Temiskaming Printing Com- pany this week to see 'just what had become of the paper since they left'. Mrs. Jenkins first started to work on the Haileyburian in 1905 and Mrs. Hume in 19066. They were sur- prised to see the great strides which had been taken in the newsprint world since the time of the hand set type. Education Week At Cobalt Kiwanis Club COBALT -- For -their regular meeting of March 3rd which fell within Education Week, the Co- balt Kiwanis Club had as their guest speaker Don- McGugan, principal" of the Cobalt Public School. Mr. McGugan dealt with 'the problems confronting education to-day and stressed that these were not so much the problems of teachers as they were those of the parents and ratepayers. Ratepayers were urged to take a greater interest in their schools and educational systems. Mr. Mc- Gugan then displayed some of 'the handiwork of his manual training class, and copies of the , school paper were handed out to club members. An invitation was extended to members of tthe Kiwanis club to visit the school during open house held on Wednesday; March 4th. Kiwanian Bob Latimore introduc- ed the guest speaker and Kiwan- ian Bill Stenson thanked him for his interesting address. Kiwanian Bert Dunseith, an ac- tive member of the Cobalt Kiwan- is Club during his stay here was presented with a souvenir of the club by president Arnold Todd. Bert has been transferred to New Brunswick. At the same time the club welcomed Bob Harring- ton who will take over Bert's po- sition as manager of the Wool- worth Store in Cobalt. Guests at the meeting were: Miss Judy Slaght "Miss Cobalt" for the Rouyn-Noranda Broomball Association Jamboree being held at the Noranda Recreation Centre, Noranda, Quebec, April 3, 4, and 5 and Miss Linda Speck who repre- sented Cobalt at the Temagami Winter Carnival. Local Figure Skaters In Annual Friday and Saturday nights, March 13 and 14, will be high- lights in the lives of many of the younger generation of Haileybury and New Liskeard, when the Fi- gure Skating Carnival gets under way in the New Liskeard Arena at eight oclock each evening. Not only the young skaters, but their mothers and Mrs. Chris Blair the professional, have been work- ing tirelessly in preparation for the performance. The program has been planned by Mrs. Blair, the costumes by Mrs. John Ross and Mrs. Steven Cawley of New Lis- keard, and Mrs. Jack Murphy and Mrs. Charles Camsell of Hailey- bury. The program has been divided into four Courts, '"'Down on the Farm," "Around the World," "'Ap- ple Blossom Time," and 'A Rainy Day." A special feature will be the appearance of guest skating stars, Charles Snelling, of the Toronto Granite Club plus Gertie Desjar- dins and Maurice Lafrance of Sud- bury. Mr. Snelling was five times Can- adian Senior Men's _ Champion up to 1958, Gold Medallist and was chosen for the Canadian Olym- pics, while the Sudbury pair were Senior Ontario Pairs Champions in 1959 and were third in Cana- dian Championship in 1959. _ Also providing talented enter- tainment will be the Haileybury Club members, Barbara Camsell and Linda Grozelle, Junior Nor- thern Ontario Ladies. Pair cham- pions, 1958, and Ontario Dutch Waltz champions, 1958; Marielle Breault and Bonnie Keon of New Liskeard Club, who were the Sen- ior Northern Ontario Ladies' Pair Champions, 1959 and Ontario Dutch Waltz Champions in 1957; Mrs. Chris Blair, the Club's pro- fessional instructress, who is a silver dance medallist, sixth figure test and who was a skater in the Ice Follies from 1950 to 1952. A comedy act with several well- known local stars will be a feat- ure and the Legion Pipe Band will assist in a Highland number feat- uring the New Liskeard Juniors. Recently the members of the New Liskeard Club organized a candy sale with skaters enthusias- tically acting as salesmen. The proceeds were used to rent cos- tumes and also to purchase mat- erial to make costumes. CFCL TV, Timmins, invited the Clubs to have some skaters appear 'on TV, and they were in Timmins on March 9 appearing on '"'Focus". Carnival Talented Pianist At Toronto Festival Miss. Marguerite Forget, former- ly of Haileybury, now residing in Ottawa, was a most successful con- testant in the Kiwanis Festival of Music, held in Casa Loma, Toron- to, February 16 to 28. In a class of thirteen, for violin solo, 16 years and under, Miss For- get. came first with a mark of 88, playing "Allegro Brillante', W. Ten Have. In the violin solo class, 18 years and under, test piece, "Czardas", Monti, she placed second among twelve competitors, with 87 marks. In the violin Sonta Class, for am- ateur or professional players, Miss Forget received first place stand- ing, 90 marks being given for her brilliant rendition of the First Son- ata in A Major by Handel, first and second movements. In_ this class, contestants were allowed to choose their own test piece. She was also awarded a one hundred dollar scholarship donated by Loblaw Groceteria, Limited, for competition in the above Sonta Class. ~The adjudicator Slderwick. Miss Forget started studying vio- lin with Sister Jeanne du Sacre Couer at St. Mary's Academy in Haileybury and now studies with Henri Laplaine, violin teacher at Ottawa University. was Edgar performance and played to capacity | audiences. -- The cast from "The Smugglers", Haileybury Public School -presentiaion last week, took many curtain calls for their cies