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{= ip me ie ' >). with-Chuck 'Thompson of tthe Sud- ¢ For a number of years small, tractors have 'eased the load of. those who work in our forests, and because of their importance 'in .lessening backbreaking labor they ~are looked" after with' all the love and care given a young" couple's firstborn. Full Time Job for TOLD BY DOUG LACARTE North Bay Division of the De- . partment-- of-Lands 'and Forests was host to newspaper, radio and television personnel on the annual ' safari: arranged to acquaint news © wnedia-with the plans and perform- ances of the men' who work so hard to keep 'the forests green and - Jakes full of fish. ' This annual outing is looked for- ward. to by reporters. and .photo- graphers, -and there is great. riv- alry .in -all- organizations -for the _.pleasure of being. guests of_ the ~ hospitable .and knowledgable for- estry men. 'The flight took off last Wednes-, : day morning in the new Otter air- i. -eraft belonging' to the Department bury Division at the controls. The ~ fight <covered 180 miles of the - North Bay Division responsibility, - with. stops at McConnell, Lady Ev- * elyn, Devil's Lake and. Bear Is- land. _ This reporter swallowed furious- ly in the 'imitial take-off to keep | °-* breakfast down, but. once out of - the thermals and pockets close to ' the ground the flight was pleasant - and uneventful. | Between hops, the trippers were ~ aquainted with the bases, which are instrumental in keeping our ' forests green. Located in strate- gic areas, the bases house forest rangers,.men and equipment and form an intricate network with the fire towers system in an_ all-out effort to get at a fire in the short- est possible time. -. The North Bay and Temagami _ regions 'have not recorded a _-ser- ious fire this year, but personnel are busy at other tasks. Campsite improvement and supervision, fish and wildlife, scaling, the laying _out of summer' resort subdivisions and portage. clearing are only a - few of the odd jobs performed dur- ing the April to October season. - Established in. 1960; when. an ac- _eess road was run in from Thorne to render the-MeLaren Bay site unsuitable, the three-man comple- War Veferans All. ex-service personnel and their dependents are invited to take advantage of a free Legion service. E. H. Gray, Service Bureau Officer from North Bay will be at Legion Branch No. 44, Cobalt, on Mon- day, August 21, 1961, at 10:00 a.m. and at Legion Branch 33 at 7:00 p.m. to give skilled ad- vice. on veterans' benefits. - _ Anyone with questions on war 'disability: pension, War Veter- ans' Allowance (Burnt-Out Pen- _ sion), Treatment, or hospital _© eare is urged to call or write -. Mr. C. BR. Sopha, phone 4707 or _ _4819,. Cobalt, or Harold Wash- - -.pburn, New . Liskeard, who will . "ness Manager. ment at McConnell Lake under Forest Ranger R. Coulombe pro- tect an area of some 250 square riles..Sand plains in the vicinity of 'the camp were logged. at. the 'turn of the century and devastated by fire soon after. A three-year reseeding and extensive planting program. along with natural seed- ing has added over 1,250,000 trees in two townships. In view of the then new proce- dure to' decrease the time between the start of a fire and the arrival tof fire-fighters, the base at Lady Evelyn Lake was begun in 1930.) 'Forest. Ranger J..Loney -and his men: are equipped with the latest in fire pumps, outboard, motors, trucks and. portable and very high frequency radios to guard an area, which is a favorite spot for 'canoe. trippers, hunters, anglers and wandering tenters. : Valley, the Devil's Lake Camp was founded 'in 1937, but -with the in- Guarding Our Forest Wealth Experts crease in logging, mining and tour- ist activity, it was later renovated and the staff increased to three. Forest 'Ranger. B.. Harris and. his crew are responsible for 280 square miles of valuable timberland and ore-bearing deposits. The oldest of the four bases by far, the Bear Island base was established <in the latter part of the 19th century. -An ideal location, the major portion of the Temagami watershed can be patrolled from this point. Originally composed of one log building, expansion --be- came necessary with the influx of cottagers° and travellers to the area and five buildings have been added. H. Price is Forest Ranger in charge. Hosts during the tour were: W. B.. M.. Clarke, District "Forester; 'Assistant District Forester, D. M. Peacock; Chief North: Bay Forest - Located 29 miles-north of River: Ranger' L..L. Bronson and Chief: Temagami Forest Ranger, W. A: O'Donnell. One hundred and twelve giris were registered for the three suc- cessful girls camps held at Camp Lorraine this summer. These girls gained experience in Bible Study, hikes, cook-outs as well as learning to live together in new situations. 'Juniors in God's World' and 'Ad- venturing Together as Christians' were the books used for their Bible Study. These were adopted for Canadian use by the Committee on Teen-Age Work Department of Christian Education, Canadian Council of Churches. One morning a group of girls and counsellors hiked to the 'Top of the World' and then over to 'Old Baldy' to pick blueberries which were handed over-to the excellent. camp cook, Mrs. Don McGugan, for mak- ing into pies. Another day, the girls hiked to the Old Mission for a hamburger cook-out. While at the Old Mission, the girls were taken over to the Que- bee side. That same week, Mr. and Mrs. Don McLaren, pioneers of Lorrain Valley spoke to the camp about the Old Mission. As part of the outpost camp pro- jeet undertaken this year, beans were cooked on open fires on the beach by the girls. One evening the counsellors put on a show for the campers and the next evening the 'campers capers' was performed for the staff. Other activities were an 'Indian Day' and 'Shipwreck Party'. Mrs. G. Bowers, B.A., was the Girls Director and Mr. F. Patter- son, vice-principal of Levack Pub- lic- School, the Director for the Boys'Camps,.and also. Camp Busi- Life at Camp Lorrain Happy One for Girls Miss Jo-Ann Hamilton, a qualifi- ed teacher, was in charge of the craft shop where the girls learned basket weaving, to make stuifed animal toys, shell jewellery and many other interesting crafts. Swimming instructions were given by Miss Ann McBean and the health of the campers was in the capable hands of Mrs. F. Pat- terson, R.N. There was approximately one counsellor for every five campers. Heather Cameron of Cobalt who had just completed three weeks training at Bark Lake, Lois Sey- mour of Larder Lake, Lynda Ken- yon of New Liskeard, Carol Gib- ben of Englehart and Marlene and Christine Sylvester. of » Kirkland Lake completed the staff. Cobalt Geology A very comprehensive de- seription of the geology and underground workings of many of the mines in the old Cobalt silver-cobalt mining camp is given m a preliminary report now ready for distribution by the Ontario Department of Mines. The report, P. R. 1961-6, by the Department's resident geo- logist, Robert Thomson, is available upon application to the publications office in To- ronte. The price is $1:00 per copy. It covers parts of Cole- man Township, Concession IV, Lots one to five and the East-. ern "A" claims in Gillies: ; Thursday, August~17;71961 is through his stomach. Lands considerably .more satisfying. well fed by cook Gordon Nelson and his liams. The guests of the Department. who sampled the food last. Wednesday agreed that it tasted like: nectar and ambrosia, but Even as at home, the way to keep a mam happy and contented and Forests personnel are kept assistant Jack Wil- TORONTO -- Protecting 303,000 of Ontario's more than 412,000 square mile area against forest fires. requires not only a small army. of trained men but also an anbelievable amount of equipment -- what an army would-cal) "ma- teriel". As with an army in: action,. de- cisions, strategy and quick move- ment also are. essential; the idea of being there "fastest with the mostest". During the Forest Fire Season, Aormally from April 1 to October 31, fires break out on an average of eight-per day. During the severe fire outbreaks in June and early July. in' Northwestern Ontario, fires reached a peak of,85 in one day. The regular protective staff dur- ing the Fire Season numbers 2,000. This staff is augmented by extra fire fighters. when needed; 2,622 were added to the regular staff during the Northwestern Ontario fires this year. Transportation is important, so ithe Department of Lands and For- ests has 900 vehicles, 1,500 boats and canoes. The Department has 44 air- vraft -- Beavers and Otters -- and rents five helicopters. The Beaver aircraft can carry 90 gallons of water in float tanks. The larger Otters carry 180 gal- Jons. The Otter, froma lake or river source a mile or two away from a fire, can drop water on it at the rate of 3,500 to 4,000 gallons an hour--- or about 20 tons; that fs equivalent to what could be thrown on a blaze by two high pressure fire pumps in the same time. "We have enough fire fighting vquipment. and maintenance re- quirements to supply up to 10,000 men,' Lands and Forests Minister the Honourable J. W. Spooner points out. - "We use 757 miles feet) of fire hose. "Other working equipment in- cludes: 1,300 fire pumps, 1,564 two- way radios -- one of the biggest radio networks. of its- kind any- where; 320 fire towers, 80 to 100 feet high, watching for "smokes"' and able to triangulate positions of fires for exact guidance to fire crews. going in. "In addition there. are compar- able numbers of: fire fighting tools (4,000,060 such as pack pumps, shovels, axes, © Men and Machines For Fire Control Pulaski tools, fire other hand tools. "To house men.on the fire line, we have 2,400 tents and, with them, 31,000 pairs .of 'blankets, as well as adequate cookery and dining equipy-y. ment --.pots, pans, plastic plates and cups and so on. "The efficiency of our fire fight ing force can be judged by the steady decline in the forest: area, burned during the past four, dey cades. Here are the ten-year avert ages: 1920 to 1929 1930 to 1939 brooms andy 475,000 acres 400,000 acres 1940 to 1949 241,000 acres 1950 to 1959 97,516 acres "The 1960 fire loss -- 31,386 acres -- thus was Jess than one-third of, the ten-year average for 1950-59." Exam Results For Grade Kill Peter Bond -- Eng. Comp. 59; Eng. Lit. 59; Peter Brisson Eng. Lit. 66, Chemistry 51; Rob- ert Brown -- Eng. Lit. 54; Lynda, Grozelle.-- Eng. Comp. 56, Eng, Lit. 68, Zoology 52; Allan Haarala -- Eng. Lit. 51, History 63, Geom- etry 57, Zoology 51; Diane Kosh-~- ilka -- Eng. Comp. 66, Eng. Lit. 63, History 66, Algebra 51, Geom- etry 60, Botany 66, Zoology 66, Fr. Auth. 70, Fr. Comp. 69; Rob- ert MacDiarmid Eng. Comp,, 58, Eng. Lit. 62, History 53; Anne, Olson -- Eng. Comp. 71, Eng. Lit. 80, Chemistry 55, Botany 50, Zool; ogy 60, Latin Authors 70, Latin, Comp. 63, Fr. Auth. 61, Fr. Comp,, 62; Diane Rudd -- Eng. Comp. 532 Eng. Lit. 77, Algebra 63, Geom, etry 64,.Chemistry 68, Botany 89, Zoology 80, Fr. Auth. 56, Fr. Comp. 56; Erna St. Louis -- Eng, Comp. 53, Eng. Lit. 59, Algebra, 51,. Geometry 54, Chemistry 51, Botany 50, Zoology 53; Sally Whit. by -- Eng. Comp. 80, Eng. Lit. 74, Algebra 78, Geometry 75, Trig. 65, Physics 54, Chemistry 58, Lat- in Auth. 64, Latin Comp. 74; Carl Osterberg -- Physics 57; Rheal St. Cyr -- Fr. Auth. 63, Fr. Comp 65. OLD PENAL COLONY Norfolk Island, 13-square-mile.. area 900 miles east of Australia, colony from 1788 to 1856. was. used by Britain as a penal,