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Haileyburian-Cobalt Post | ESTABLISHED 1904 Vol. 55 -- No. 39 Haileybury, Ont., December 3, 1959 5c, €ORM Children's Aid Society Help In Mending Broken Homes Nothing can replace a child's own home, Miss Margaret Telfer of the Temiskaming Children's Aid Society told members of the New Liskeard Kiwanis Club at their last meeting. Miss Telfer reviewed the his- tory of the Children's Aid Society movements, which in some cases had grown out of appeals to so- cieties for the prevention of cruel- ty to animals to do something for neglected children. J. J. Kelso of the old Toronto Globe was one of the prime mov- ers to organize the first Children's Aid Society in Toronto in 1890. There are now 55 societies in On- tario, which are a unique com- bination of public and government agencies. The society is concerned with the welfare of orphaned children, ab- andoned and neglected children. (Miss Telfer said that in past years the trend had been to remove children from homes where they were being neglected, but today the society is more concerned with saving the home as a whole. Miss Telfer said that nothing can replace a child's own home, and that a child can stand a good deal of abuse or privation if he be- lieves that he belongs to the home. We cannot supply or replace that bond of affection with purely ma- terial improvements in the child's living conditions, she said. To try and prevent having to re- move a child or children. from their own home, Miss Telfer said that the society tries to teach the parents to be better parents. The amount of physical neglect of children is on the decline, Miss Telfer said. However broken homes and unhappy homes can cause children a great deal of mis- ery. The family service work is de- signed to overcome this problem. But funds for this type of service come only from voluntary con- tributions, and such contributions are urgently needed. Miss Telter said that many un- satisfactory parents never had ad- equate homes of their own, and therefore have no inbred standards to live by. Many people marry young, looking for security,, but lack the experience or knowledge to run their affairs. Too many families drift into financial problems because it is so easy to take on time payment con- tracts. Then they drift into a morass of debts and worries. Some start going to the beer parlors to get away from their children and their worries, but at the same time drink is not the. social work- er's biggest problem. We try and help the parents raise their standards. Sometimes Three Candidates @For Council Seat At the second nomination meet- ing held in the Council Chambers Monday night, November 30, four men were nominated for the posi- tion of councillor. They were Ben Budgeon, K. M. Buffam, Louis Vannier and Ray de Souza. Of these all except Mr. Vannier have qualified and an election will take place Monday, December 7, when six councillors will be chosen from the eight running for the seats. Others who are letting their names stand are C. Camsell, J. Whelan, Neil Fleming, Dr. W. C. Arnold and James Timmins, we have.to get the basic needs into a home before service work can start. But it's not easy to talk about cleanliness when they have no soap nor the money to buy it, she said. Miss Yelfer said that in this regard a little help from service clubs can go a long way towards starting a family down the right road. Then the social worker can help the family plan its financing and train them to manage their affairs. We have been asking clubs to} send children to camps. It's hard to explain just how much this means to the youngsters. Ten days in camp away from crowds with lots of good food and exercise does wonders for the children 'she said. Miss Telfer said that sometimes neighbors are down on a family, and that this may be understand- able as dirt and dirty children are Cobalf Parade The old silver town of Cobalt is all decked out for the Christ- mas Parade which will be staged next Saturday. The Vol- unteer Fire Department has taken over organizing the par- ade, and in the process have decked out the town's main streets. : Christmas trees have been set between the. parking me- ters, adding a touch of green to the snow banks. The parade, including at least seven floats, will start at the north end of Lang Street at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, and wend its way to the arena, where Father Chrisimas will be present to hand out bags of candies. usually distasteful. However the social worker: can usually find something worthwhile and with patience and understanding many families have been 'salvaged. Miss Telfer appealed for a better } understanding of. the society's work, She said that if the grand- parents of some of the children in the society's care today, had been the subjects of social ser- vices, then the problem today would be much less. BE SURE YOU VOTE ON MONDAY Moosonee Port Starts Next February 15, 1960 The feasability of a deep water port at Moosonee will be settled | next year. Colonel C. E. Reynolds, chairman of the Ontario Northland Railway Commission returned last week from a meeting in Ottawa where it was agreed to get started on survey work by February 15. The meeting between federal and provincial officials resulted in com- plete agreement of a number of projects which will yield the en- gineering information necessary for an all-out effort -at making a Northern Ontario port. The Colonel said that the meet- ing was satisfactory in every way, and that he is pleased with the progress being made. Some of the decisions that were Four Local Curlers Win at Liskeard New Liskeard rinks took the three first places in the three-event bonspiel held in New Liskeard last week-end. Twenty-six rinks from the New Liskeard and Haileybury Clubs took to the ice on Friday evening and the 'spiel continued through until Sunday with only a break Saturday afternoon for the Grey Cup game. A feature of the 'spiel was the large number of new faces to be seen on the ice, many of them for the first time in mixed curling, and some of the old familiar ones were missing. First event was won by John Butler, New Liskeard rink com- posed of Fr._Murray as skip, E. Pollock, vice, John Butler and R. Maddock lead. Second place went to Gord Ross and his New Lis- keard rink, third to Bill Grozelle and his Haileybury quartette, fourth was Reg. Turnbull's rink of New Liskeard. Second event was won by Cec. Bond's rink with F. Fowler, vice, Bob McKnight, second, and 'Toots' Bond, lead. H. Maguire's New Lis- keard rink took second place, W. Fleming of Haileybury, third, J. Lott of North Bay, fourth. In the third event, Don Perrin of New Liskeard took first place, with M. Boyce as vice, Bob Hinds, second, and M. Percy, lead. Bert Levelley of Haileybury took se- cond place, while Ken Montgomery of New Liskeard and Bud Demp- ster of Haileybury were third and fourth. reached: To imstall two tide gauges, one at Moosonee and one at the outer bar of the river. These will record tidal flows automatically and will be read every week. To send a party from the federal department of mines and technical survey to Moosonee February 15. Théy will construct the shore con- trol stations which will be used as reference points for river sound- ings and aerial photography. To carry out an aerial survey, from which two maps will be made, one with a scale of two miles to the inch and the other 1,000 feet to the inch. This will be done after the mines depart- ment has completed the shore sta- tion construction, and will be start- ing early in March. .To take soundings in the river through to James Bay, Col. Rey- nolds has suggested a method of doing this which will cost only one third of what the federal officials estimated. Instead of using one or two launches to do all the sound- ings a group of canoes will be link- ed together by ropes and strung out across the river. Motorized canoes at either end will act as outriggers and keep the canoes in line. Two men will be in each can- oe, one to take the soundings and the other to record them. To install four river water flow control meters on the Moose, French, Abitibi and Onakawana Rivers. These meters measure wa- ter flow and collect sediment go- ing down the rivers. To conduct a hydrographic 'sur- vey from Moosonee through James Bay and-into Hudson Bay up as far as Great Whale River. This will determine if there is a passage which deep-water shipping will be able to use. (Continued On Page Hight) hg A Reverend Sister Rosemary Anne of the Order of St, John the Divine completed a four day mission Tuesday evening at the St. Paul's Anglican Church in Haileybury. She was present for the annual election of officers of the Women's Auxiliary, shown here with her. Front, left to right, Mrs. G. L. Cassidy, president; Sister Rosemary Anne; Mrs. C. E, Grozelle, vice-president. Standing, Mrs. John Brumell, secretary; Mrs. John Gilkes, treasurer. <a ~