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= ; = aed <n ae a SCRE. aileyburian-Cobalt Post ESTABLISHED 1904 Vol. 56 -- No. 7 Haileybury, Ontario, April 21, 1960 5e GORY -Re-establishment Credits Unclaimed by War Veterans Representatives of the Canadian Legion from the Tri-Towns and Englehart met in New Liskeard Monday, April 18, to attend a school of instruction for Legion Branch Service Officers. The ses- sion was) under the guidance of E. H. Gray, Canadian Legion Provin- cial Service Officer of North Bay. Mr. Gray comprehensively cover- ed phases of Service Bureau pro- cedure, and sources of informa- tion, designed to enable Branch Service Officers to effeciently pro- cess applications from war veter- ans for assistance. An interesting side light was in- formation concerning the existence of $6,000.00 held' by the Depart- ment of Veterans Affairs in North Bay. This sum _ represents re- establishment credits unclaimed by World War II Veterans in Northern Ontario. Since the period during which such credits may be claimed expires in September of this year, Legion representatives were urged to endeavor to advise veterans with credits due them to take 'prompt action and submit COUPON My guess is that the ice will be out of Lake Temiskaming their claims. Service Officers pre- sent were provided with forms for the purpose. In attendance were: President F. Desjardins and secretary, J. Jones of the Cobalt Branch; Presi- dent W. K. Hurst and Service Of- ficer, J. L. Simard, Haileybury; President P.- Birnie and Service Officer W. A. H. Washburn, New Liskeard; President V. R. Burke, Service Officer E. A. Smith and Zone Commander J. J. Clancy, Englehart. Mr. Arnold Peters, M.P. for Temiskaming and a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee at Ottawa, was introduced to the gathering. Mr. Peters attended in response to a request from local Legion leaders to discuss the Le- gion's brief to Parliament. It was pointed out to Mr. Peters that the Legion members present represented some 1,500 war vet- erans in Zone 1 of Ontario Dis- trict '""K" of the Legion. None re- ceived disability pensions or War Veterans Allowances, therefore all were entirely -uninfluenced by any suggestion of personal benefit. Nevertheless; they were very much concerned regarding their less-fortunate - comrades, handi- capped as a result of war services. They expressed displeasure that the Government apparently intend- ed to ignore the Legion's reason- able submissions on their behalf. Mr. Peters stated that-he was well aware of this displeasure, having received considerable mail, not only from his own riding, but from widespread areas of Ontario as well, protesting the Govern- Girls in Training Plan District Rally At a recent meeting of St. And- rew's United church CGIT the girls were preparing for their af- filliation with the Women's Feder- ation, following their study of Af- rica. During this study they follow- ed the various age groups, start- ing with babyhood and following through to the adult groups of for- ty years and over. A Rally of all CGIT groups in the district will be held in Engle- hart on April 29 and 30, and May 1, with the Englehart United Church supervising. At this Rally there will be a program of songs, games and discussion groups, plus instructive films. They will attend a banquet on Saturday night and following this, each group will present a skit as their contribution to the program. Sunday morning they will all attend service at the United church. As many as possible of the Haileybury group are ~planning - to attend with their ede Mrs. W. Gagnon. In New Liskeard, cin groups are making-plans to attend. - St. -Paul's United expect all.their girls will attend with their "g@ssistant 'leader, Miss Lillian --Waite.. And St..-Andrew's Presbyterian group all plan to attend, with their lead- er, Mrs. 'T. A. Duke and - assistant leader, Mrs. C. Martin. .. . The girls will be -billeted. during _ their stay in Englehart. -A feature of the Aprit-meeting of the Women's Federation of St. -Andrew's United church. was. the ceremony of affiliation of the CGIT group with the Federation. A wel- come was extended to 'the girls by the. president, Mrs. H. ,. Pick- PAL 'was- announced fhup Mrz © Whorley. would -- provide -flowers "for the front of the="'chtrch 'on. ' Mothers' Day, in memory: of his - mother, Mrs. J. Whorley. The de- votional period was led by Mrs. C. E. Peacock. Mrs. W.~C. Arnold, Miss Cec- elia Somerville and Miss Muriel Rice assisted Mrs. L. Childs in preparing Easter baskets for shut- ins. A motion sponsored by Miss Som- erville and Mrs. C. W. Tyson was passed, which authorized a do- nation from the Federation to send one of the "CGIT girls to the On- tario Camp Council, if her appli- cation is accepted. Following the business session, Mrs. W. C. Arnold gave an inter- esting and thought-provoking talk on conditions in South Africa, il- lustrating her points with many newspaper headlines and maga- zine stories. New Ball League | For District Town a. -M. Shouidice has igaued a 'call for all good citizens interested in. promoting Junior- and Pee Wee Fastball to a meeting at the Court, House, Sunday- afternoon, April 24, at two o'clock for the purpose of organizing the summer schedule for the big league players of to- morrow. Last year over 70 boys smaedc on the various teams in the leagues and it is expected that this year the number will be increased. 'Mr. Shouldice speaks enthusias- tically about the assistance receiv- ed last year from the citizens. of H.|the town, not-only in-coaching but' in other ways as well, and hopes' for the same- "co-operation « 'this: season. ment's apparent intention to dis- regard war veterans during the present session of Parliament. It was felt that an article by Elmore Philpott, which had ap- peared in the Vancouver Sun, very aptly described the*failure of. dis- ability pensions to keep step with rising costs and it was reviewed at some length. The article, in part stated, "When. Canada set up the very first war veterans pensions scheme back in 1919, the stated simple. It was that the basic rate of full pension for a single man was to be equal to the going pay of a day laborer. That is what was then called. a "pick and shovel man". We took over this fair prin- ciple from the British." Again, in part, the article con- tinues, "Now see how this has ac- tually worked out over the years. (Continued On Page Three) fundamental principle was very} Haileybury Legion Wants Members Canadian Legion Branch 54 Zone Ki1 meeting was held in the Hailey- bury Legion Hall. The meeting was, opened by the President Com. W. Hurst, after which the chair was turned over to Com, Zone Commander: J. J. Clancy of Englehart. "There was representation from all zone bran- ches but one, which was newly formed, The Zone includes from 'Temagami to Englehart and west to Elk Lake, This was a lengthly business meeting, many things were dis- cussed over zone operation. plus plus motions to take to the District meeting. The District meeting is held in Kirkland Lake, being April 23, '124, 1960, at which there will be my discussions. Com. L Simard chairman of the Membership committee reports that at this time of the year there are approximately 65 paid up mem- Silver-WMiller Mines, which re- sumed milling April 4, appears off to a good start. Silver output (for the first week (5% running days) is estimated at 21,800 ozs. If grade stands, up to the 25.7 oz '1average--and man- agement is confident that it will --production for ithe month will run 80,000 ozs., a very profitable level. Last month, a shipment of hand cobbed high grade netted $17,915, which pretty well paid operating expenses for that month. While costs will be up some- what now that the mill is run- ning, operating costs hove been slashed drastically from the company's hey-dey operations. An 80,000-0z. month today would be just as profitable as the 125,000-150,000-0z. months of a few years ag0 when two mills were operating, Murray Cooper, president, points out. Present plans are to maintain the mill rate at around 150 tons daily, with heads expected to hold around the 25-oz. mark. In addi tion, there will be shipments of hand cobbed high grade ito supple- ment production income, Develeping New Ore At the present tithe, 75% of the mill feed is being drawn from the . Silver Miller Mines Finding New Veins recently acquired Kerr Lake claim, with tthe balance ifrom the stock- pile that has been built up at the Brady Lake mine. Good ore is currently being bro- ken 'in two stopes 'at ithe Kerr Lake with some high gnade being cobbed near the top of a raise that has been driven from ithe 400-ft. to the 300-ft. level.- A drive on the 400+ft. level has now {been extended across the Kerr (uake and into the adjoining Conisil claim, where a nice looking vein is currently being drifted. Management is hopeful of develop- ing a lot of ore in this virgin Mining Institute Dr. M. W. Bartley of Bartley, Greer and Associates, Port Ar- thur will be the guest speaker at the April meeting of. the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in the Haileybury Legion Hall on Friday, April 22, at 8 p.m. Dr. Bartley's subject ~ will be "The Iron Ore Situation in Canada as It Affects Our' Future Econ- " omy . bers out of a possible 300 veterans, There were 125 paid up members last year. Any veteran who wishes to the join the Legion is asked to send his membership to the Legion secretary or call the presi- dent and he'll pick it up at your home, Welfare and- Pension: Mr, Gray was at Haileybury at the Legion Hall April 18, from 3:00 p. m. to 5:00 p.m. Since the advent of the year 1960, your sports office hasn't been tos busy. In March a challenge was sent to the Elk Lake Branch to participate in the annual broom ball game but they would not ac- cept the challenge. The dart club is very, active and competition is keen for the O'Keefe dart trophy. Cribbage is another popular pastime around the branch and the Champions are ready to accept all challenges. On April 30 and May ist the dart champions are entering the elimin- ation dart contest to be held at the Cobalt Branch to fight for the chance to enter the Elk Lake Branch contest. The winners will be declared Zone K1 dart champs. At the Canadian Legion Curling Bonspiel held at Elk Lake, Hailey- bury Branch entered three rinks. Many sport events are planned for this summer including that fine old- game' of Horse Shoe. Cancer Society Stages Blitz Drive Next Wednesday evening, from seven to eight o'clock, a special eanvass is being madg to solicit funds for the Cancer Society. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. S. B. Bond, the town has been divided into ten sections and vol- unteer canvassers will call at every home. The fire siren will sound to start the canvassers on their way and at- the end of one hour, they will meet in the Home Economics room of the Public School where the contributions will be counted and coffee and cookies will be served to the workers. There are approximately thirty patients in the Tri-Town area who are being assisted by the Society and no one needing assistance is ever refused. Won't you help those' in charge to carry on this work? _ By C. H. Martin "Most - "seaports in}the world -to- _|day-are not workirtg to the limit of 'their: capacity and consequently, unless:-there- are cogent reasons for doing. so, there is little likeli- hood "ofany new seaports being opened up, However, along Cana- da's longest coastline, the Arctic, there-is but one port which has any. commercial significance that 'of _Churehill, Manitoba. It is against. this background of an al- most complete absence of any out- let to: world markets in the north that a report on the possible ef- fects of. a. seaport at Moosonee, 1recently made public, must be considered. Like the intelligence brought -hack= by. the spies dispatched by "Moses: 40. view the promised land, the report: prepared for the Ontario 'Government by the North Eastern ~", Ontario' Development Association, |tells' of an exceeding good land, flowing with the 'milk and honey' of twentieth century -commerce, -- iron, wood, coal, gypsum, lime- stone and fireclay. Up to the pre- sent these materials have remain- ed in the ground waiting for some- one to develop them, and it is because a port at Moosonee would greatly assist their exploitation, that such a port is likely to be a success. The consultant to the Associa- tion, Mr. H. F. Wiemar, predicts an outlay in the initial construc- tion projects of some $277,000,000, forty per cent of which sum would be spent within the Northern East- ern parts of Ontario, A second stage would call for an additional construction program costing in the region of .$224,250,000. Our own local manufacturing, agricultural, construction and commercial un- dertakings could expect to benefit Moosonee Seaport Planning Sparks Interest in North from this activity; and-it is for this reason that the conclusion to be drawn from the report that the siting of a seaport: at Moosonee is both feasible and desirable, is to be welcomed. The same reception cannot be accorded to another suggestion put forward by a Sudbury mining en- gineer. Briefly this proposal is to reverse the flow of the Harricana River by diverting it into the Ot- tawa River and thence by way of the.Mattawa into Lake Huron. The promoters of the project estimate that they can divert up to 25,000 cubic feet of water per second in this manner, the purpose of which is to raise the water level in the Great Lakes in order to allow Chicago to take an additional 1,000 cubic feet per second for use in their sewage disposal plant. The diversion of a_ significant (Continued on Page Two)