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Kiwanis Outlined Maiar Activities Of T.C.A.C. In his address as guest speaker? on; Monday at the weekly Kiwanis lunch-g eon at. the Empire hotel R. E. (“Bim' i | Sturgeon. director of recreation inl Timmins. made it plain that the work“; of the Timmins Community Activities; Committee intended to uphold mental; and moral health as well a; material! and physical well being. He also em-i phasized the fact that T....CAC work was not confined to children, as some thought. Important as youth service might be. it was only one phase of T.C.A.C. activities. There me about lwezlty-flve major activities in T.C.A.C. work. the guest speaker t'ld the club. These include playgr unds, beaches, hockey. baseball, skating, swimm 11g, softball, lawn bowl- ing. tennis. basketball. track and fieldl events. film service. weaving, pottery ‘ music appreciation. art classes. drama, parent educatitn and many other' helpful activities. ‘ 'Ihere were four playflounds in town three at them being little more than sand lots. but the Hollinger playground was an ideal one. None 0. the play- ground; however. had proper con-ven- iences and facilities. Courses were new undei way for the training of suprvisois fox the playgrounds. I There were two beaches in town. the cue t spmker said, though itfwas felt that the Mattagaml River {one was daiigercus. Yet some 30.000 in- dividuals incl used the Mattagami River beach facilitie. last year. All that cculd he done until this year was t) keep a supervisor at Mattagami as a protection against the danger of (I 1' (. w n i n g accidents. This year. though. it. was intended to have a second .ipzrvisnr at._ this beach, with a regular programme as. has been the case with [in other beach at Gillies Lake. last year 77.000 enjoyed the facilities at Gillics Lake; and this beach should prove cf incrmsing value. The director of recreation detailed improvements extensions in the service for Gillies Lake. Special mrntiun was made by the guest. .peukc-r of the art groups in town. and also other lines of activities were developing. The art groups now were practically self-supporting, and the cxhibition here were unusually creditable. “It is amazing the amount at talent that has been discovered in so many lines." the guest speaker so man :aid. Francisque (lay. on the replying to the. welcome tho charming Madame Vol. XXXIV N0. 22 in his address here Sunday afternoon Mr he and his party proposed doing in relation tc old age pensions and housing if his party we: (‘oldwell is «en with dapper Leo Lalnnde. lor Theatre. 1 Section 8 Pages l reception on behalf of the citize steps ofthe Town Hall after his. 2 extended him and Madame Gay t Gay. His Excellency. and 1721721 in .y afternoon Mr. M. J. Caldwell. National Leader of the 4 n; in relation to gold mining. and outlined his policy on if his party were elected to government in the June 2 T.eo Lalonde. loral candida te for ('(‘F honors. following 1 urer P. H. Lapozte o'itended the thanks 31' the club for the address. J. W. Lambertus, a North Bay Ki- wanlan, who has come to Timmins a3 manager of the Burke. drug stores, was introduced by Nick Basciano, as wa: also Secretary-h'easurer R. L. Ship. of the South Porcupine club. Gm. N. R255 introduced another visitor for the day, Cass De Flemming, of Toronto, representative of the Ber- nard and Barry Shows to be here next week under Kiwanis auspices. Community singing for the day was led by Ted Bartlett. with Secretary W. H. Wilscn at the piano. visitor for the day, Cass 1: tr 'I‘montn, representative nard and Barry Shows next week under Kiwani Community singing for led by Ted Bartlett. wi W. H. Wilscn at the ma W. H. Wilscn at the piano. Ciuirman G. N. Ross, of the achieve- . ment committee, Was pleased to report} the Timmins Club's standing for April} to be the ..ighest on record, 90.7. Chair- . man Ross. also had a few words to ay about the Bernard and Barry Shows. showing in Timmins from Jif-ne 6th to 11th. inciusive. A point of high interest in the lunch- eon was the presentation tr) Kiwanian Arch. Gillies of the Kiwanis Legion of Honour certificate and button for twenty-five- years of valuable service to the club and to the connnunity. The framed certificat.n was present- lotl by Past Lieutenant-Governor P. T. Moisley. and the button by Past Lieu- tenant- Goveintr W. O. Lnnidon. In mak n:- the pz'esexit;.ti0n% both officials made fitting;- referenc: to the quarter century of faithful and helpful service given by Kiwanian Gillies to the Tim- mins KLwanis Club and to the com- munity. Klwanlan Gillie; has always been an active member of the club. and was president in 1935. Certificatiun Applied For Hollinger Mine Thc minus a: the Hollinger Consol- idated Gold Mines Limited through their Hollinger Committee of Local 100. Porcupine Mine. Workers Union. under the chairmanship of Tom Mc- Neil have requested and authorized Wm. Sc-fton, chairman of the Organ- izing Committee for Local 100,. to apâ€" ply for certification to the Ontario Labour Relations B:ard. on their be- The Vic IE spmkcr wa‘ dent Knowles .pozte oxtende for the addre any 01 Timmins was giw arriva‘ here Friday auern‘ by Karl Eyre. Mayor of 'l n Aubrey. town councillor was introduced flies, and Treas- nded the thanks TH ns was given the French Ambassador, riday afternoon. His Excellency is shown Mayor of Timmlns. Pictured above is n councillor. Advance Photo nal Leader of the CCF Party spoke on what lined his policy on natlonal health program. mt in the June 27th election. Here Mr. honors. following his oddress at the Palace Local 100 Secure Bargaining Agency For Two Mines To represent the men as a bargagn- ing agency any union must have 51% of teh votes. This gives Local 100 the right to represent the men on both. counts. The Companies where the vote was carried out have Iseven clear days in which to register protest if so desired. It is expected hbweover that the mines will agree to the decision made in the v:ting. - Thr- Labour Relations. Board have Thr- Labour Relations Board have ordered that a vote in three mines Aunor, Hal nor and the Paymaster Mines b0- curxied out. Arrangements are being made to set the day for the vote. Matches, Children Dangerous Pair Warns Fire Chief I'IMMINS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE Advance Photo George Leek Leayes .Rotarians (‘ontinuc To Study For United,W0rk 0n Polyo Church Ministry iChapter .ner president of the Young Adults Club. Mr. G. Lack has given unsparâ€" ingly of time ’and energy. . Acting upon strong conviction he sought admi'sion and has been ac» cepted {Or full time church work as lay supply on one of our homo Mis- sion fields, with a view to the or- dained. ministry on completion of re- ‘quired practical and academicflwork. As he. sets out upon this high en- terprise Mr. Leck will leave behind a splendid record and he will be fol- lowed by kind thought and earnest prayers for his success. The Congregation of the Trinity Unihd Church. Schumacher. Sunday nwning had the Opportunity of bene- (iting through the leadership of one 01‘ our own workers Mr. George Leek. As a recording steward for the of- ficial board. general superintendent a; the Sunday School. and Mentor oi the Trail Rangers group. up to the present time as well as being a for- Crowds, Station, Theatre See and Hear St. Laurent Aixuge crowd greeted the Prime Minâ€" vate car where he stayed lol- the ister, the Honourable-Louis St. Lau-xnight and the followmg morning he rent as he arrived in Timmins; aboard ‘ left by train for Porquis Junction the Northland last Thursday eaven-lwhere he embarked by plane to Ott- ing. He was enthusiastically greetedlawa. by the townspeople as this was the! â€"~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_â€"m__..-__ first time that a Prime Minister hadi .. S ' ever paid a visit to Timmins. He was! N OXt UDBI‘VISOI'S besieged by ”autograph hunters and' Cl C ' political admirers who sought to shake 388 0mm€nC€S his hand. In particular it was noted J o (1 his wonderful 'way with the childrenfg 11119 31' He stopped time and again to makel The next session of me Playgimind it possible for them to take his picture , Supervisors Course will commence on and to talk with them and shake their"; the 3rd and 4th of June at 7 pm. hands. in the Central School. Miss Jean With the Prime Minister Came some ; Smith Will teach ChildI‘C-“"s Theatri- Sixty members of his party conSiStillg! Gals 311d Ml‘. D011 Clark “'1“ LeaCh ,c m" nnronho‘ «2+on and numernusggames and athletics. . With the Prime Minister came some sixty members of his party consisting of his personal staff and numerous reporters of the large metropolitan daily newspapers of Toronto,0ttawa and Montreal. The local Liberal Association gave the Prime Minister, his party and prominent liberals of the riding a dinner at the Rainbow Roomof the Go‘. diields Hotel. Following the dinner the Piime Minister proceeded to the Palace Theatre w' erc he was the main 1 speakei at t'.-: Liberal Rally which‘ officially opened the Local Liberal politician campaign for the new Fed- eral Riding of Timminrs. The Chairman of the meeting was Bob Buell, president of the Liberal Association for Timmins. Mr. Gre- gory T. Evans introduced Joseph A. Bradette Liberal member for Cochrane North in the Federal House. Mr. Bra- dette spoke on behalf of Karl Eyre the Lila-1'21 Candidate for the forth-coming election. The Prime Minister dealt in detail with the Gold Question which he said was very vital to this particular part of the country. The text of the speech on gold is printed elsewhere on this page with that of Mr. Cold- wells remarks on the same subject. At the conclusion of the meeting 'the Prime Minister went to his pri- "It is. a pleasure to be m Timmins as guest of the Mayor. The pleasure is all the greater because. I am con- fident yau intend to tend Mayor Eyre to Ottawa to sit with me on the gov- ernment side of the House of Com- mons after the 27th of June," said the Prime Minister. â€"â€"_.__._..___ _._.. < V, St. [airenfand Caldwell Review the Gold Question "The new constituency - - formerly part of Cochrane, represented since 1926 with great distinction by my friend. Joe Bradette - - who set a high standard for Mr. Eyre to live up to when he comes to Ottawa to join Mr. Bradette who will again be Member for Cochrane. It has been tremendously interesting to spend two days in this gold belt of Ontario and Quebec and to see these flouriszdng towns and cities you have created out of the wilderness and I have noticed the variety of your climate - - I have the opporâ€" tunity as Prime Minister to tell you how much all Canada owed to you for producing so muc‘aof the wealth which enables all of us to pay for many of the imports we need in Canada to keep up our production and our high standard of living. I know that a systematic effort has' bzen made in recent years to convince you that the Libcral party is not friendly to the gold mining industry. I want therefore to say a special word about what the attitude of the government at Ottawa to the gold mining industry really has been. And I am going to refer to deeds and not mere words. The government has al- Visitors to the rt‘gular the Rotary Club were Ray Kltchner Rotary Club. Dr Wm Taylor. chairman of the newly formed Chapter of the Pillo- myelitis Foundation reported that were undelway to contact all :ervice Clubs 5nd ot;.ex organizations’ of the district regarding this work. Paul Hamen reported tha' the Rat- ary road would be erectc-zl for the next meeting. The thanans were‘ favoured with a film “All American Soap Derby" shown by Tim DelVillano and Sponâ€" ‘ored by General Motors Ltd. and dLstributed by the T. C. A. C. The film outlined the preparations for the derby and the building of the. speed- wagonswhic}; must conform to spec- ification) regarding length. Elimin- ations are held throughout U. S. Can- ada and the Ycukan and finals are held in Ackron. Ohio. The T. C. A. C wil be running a ssap derby here late in the summer or late f all. I Approximately sevenfeen attended ‘the opcning classes of the course. Mr. R. E. Stuxgesn directm of the T.‘C.A.C. announced that anyone in the Porcupine District interested in Lthis type of work is concour “tend these classes. vate car where he stayed 101- the night and the following morning he left by train for Porquis Junction ways recognized the grc orthe prxiuction of gold in helping Canada to balance of tradc. wit States. 'IL: industry enjoys: one advantage that no other industry has - - and that is an assured market for its total production. But it also has one disadvantage and that is that the price a w:.ich gold can be sold is ixcd and can only be changed if we are prcopared to change the value of the Canadian d:llar in r:lation to the United States dollar. Ulllhbu wvu ........... Now the government realized that the combin: d effect of the restoration: of th e Canadian dolla1 to par coupled with the 1ising costs at production in 1946 and 1947 created a erious s. tua-l tion for 111211;; 1131 and high cost mines; at the very time when it was import-1 ant to the wholc economy to keep; up the pioduction of gold. We were? also aware that the closing 01‘ minor wouid be a threat to the existence of many Canadian communities which had been built up around the mines. To m-et that situation, the govern- ment rec: mmended and Parliament ap- proveed the Emergency Gold Mining Act. T3.at legislation has been of substantial assistance to mines which could not otherwi e have been kept To m-et that situation. the govern- ment reczmmcnded and Parliament ap- proveed the Emergency Gold Mining Act. That legislation has been of subs‘antial assistance to mines which could not otherwi e have been kept in operation. Up to the middle of this manth. 88 mines had received as. sistance under this law. Tue assitance payable for the year 1948 amounts to nearly nine hundred and one half «Continued on Page Seven) w .. . _, iugnt uou. LOUIS at. Laurent, was not axunanu nuauuxuxn'ua; Lanauas pupuuu 1 “nu, .vxunbtcn, uic only mobbed by hundreds of people on his arrival in 'l‘immins recently but youngsters and oldsters alike beg- ged for his autograph. Shown above is the distinguished minister signing his name for an admirer while Karl Eyre. Mayor of Timmins, and the Liberal candidate in the June 27th. election looks smilingly on. Through- out it all Mr. St. Laurent's smile and courtesy never w avered. Advance Photo A .___.__.____ _.___._.â€"...r_-~4 â€"â€"â€"â€" m“ 2nd. 1949 i the grc-at importance n of gold as an elemen‘ iada to maintain our ado with the United meeting of Schlichter .ag zed to Punched In Tumult“. Ont. Cuub Ivsav munsmf ”-rw*ma-â€"~O ”n-w-“m"fl French Ambassador,Wife Impressed By Timmins His Excellency Francisque Gay. the French Ambassador to Canada and hi: wife Mme Gay visited Timmlns on their tour of Canada prior to their return 'to France next. week. They were entertained jointly by the Town of Timmins and the Club Richelieu at a banguet in the Rainbow Rbom of the Goldfields Hotel on Tuesday rllintl after pare in tl This str m the on t prog “Before returning to France". said the ambassador. “I wanted to go around Canada in orer to thank personally. the Canadian people for the marvel- ous effort they had given in order to save democracy. Without the help of North America. France was lost and that is why we are so grateful to this country. On the other hand I wanted to give a. picture of France as it stands now. France has been deeply wounded by the war. Before the conflict France had. 26.000 miles of railway and when the enemy retired after the occupa- tion she was left with 11.000 miles of railway. Her navy,which had been her pride was reduced from 2 millions to 700,000 tons. evening. Mayor Karl Eyre welcumed and in- troduced the Ambassador in English and Leo Lalonde of the Club Riche- lieu in french. The industry as a whole was de- stroyed. more than 460.000 homes were Retail Merchants Protest Chip Wagons Parking By-law Two letters were received from the Timmins Retail Merchants Associa- tion. The first Was on the Chip Wa-- gzns and the other was on the Park- ing By-law. In the letter regarding the Chip Wagons the Association complained that they created an oflcnsive odor in the stores and the refuse of paper cups and fallen chips clutter up the streets. The council in part agreed with the ccmplaint and the clerk read a tettot‘ from the City of Ottawa ex- plaining their method of ridding the city of the Chip Wagon nusiance. Mr. (‘cldwcll 0n the The Palace Theatre on Sunday af- ternocn found approximately nine hunched pcople cn hand to hear Mr. M. J. Coldwell the C.C.F. national leader speak in support of the local :andidate Mr. Leo P. Lalonde, and on the policies of his party and its bone- m to the people of Canada when they are elected to power. The chairman of the meeting Wit“ Mr Tcm McNeil a stauncl. support- ex of the working m n and the trade union movement. M1 McNeil intro- duced Leo P. Lalmde who spoke bnef- ly on the O (1 Age Pensions. the bettel hou ing and the freo gold market. “The free gold ma1ket is no good for L3 working man, but is good only for the big producer and not venl long even for h.m."‘ ho said, "and is only an e'ection promise of the Conserv- Mr. St. Laurent has said the C.C.F. of Mr. st, Laurent’s statement \ are liberals in a hurry. but i say, “tho was made last Tuesday night, m Liberals are slow Canservatives”. ?occasion of his visit to Timmins Mr. Wm. Grummctt C.C.F‘. member Mr. Coidweii then proceeded [ ~of the Provincial Government for the. View the accomplismnests of the DistrLct of North Cochrane. introduced r-ral Government as against thci Mr. M. J. Coldwel with a short sum- 5 cmises made in the 1945 e11 mary of his life and his political car ' which they had not lived up to. eer with the GOP. Party. ’ ‘Libeari Government has been 0! "1-was in this town of 'I‘immins just i :ng in the interest of big busincs' two years ago making an appeal forifirom pressure of the 099031‘10" 1 votes far a local candidate and I MiThat is why they removed the back again," said Coldwell. I haVefceilings. and the excess profits a very high respect for Mr. Lalonde. The Liberals announced a Na for his ability and for his knowledge (Continued on Page Eight) letter regarding the parking (iold Question the ruined and the, amount of debris left and after the occupation might be com~ on pared to the amount of dirt removed ieir in the digging of the Panama canal. hey This is a very brief picture of the dc- ~wn struction which faced France after lieu the war. We were forced to impose mm on the french people a very austere day program which they accepted above all expectatflion in- In the very short years of recovery lish France has become the first produc- the- in: country of Europe in the coal in- dustry. Before the war France was said producing 6 million tons of steel 8 In the very short years of recovery France has become the first produc- ing country of Europe in the coal in- dustry. Before the war France was producing 6 million tons of steel a year. now it has reached an all time record of 8 million and is planning in obtain in 1952' an outlet of 11 millions The navy has been restored and our production of electricity is the best in Europe. Facing all those facts I want you to have faith in the French people. Your help and your friend- ship was not given in vain. Before the war our population wa~ decreasing and that was our greatest worry. Our soldiers have come back from concentration camps they have built new homes and last year our population had an increase of 348.000. Since the war we have replaced the one million soldiers lost on the front." In closing the Ambassador praised the wealth of Canada. He said that (Continued on Page Eight) came in for considerable discussion as the Retail Merchants protested the ‘2 hour parking by-law. Councillor Bartlcoman favoured the merchants bringing in a petition to have the parking by-law changed. It was finally agreed by the council to hold a. meeting with the Retail Merchants and discuss the parking by-law. Town Council Appoints Local Weed Inspector On the recommendation of the Timâ€" mins st‘ticultural Society, the Town Council appointed Mr. Bill Harrower as the Weed Inspector for the Town. It was passed that in a resolution by the council that he be paid the sum of $50.00 per annum for his services. Single Copyâ€"Five Cents gencr'ally. We have mot on numerous occasions and I know you will give him your support at the polls on Juno 2711;." “Now I would like to touch on the policies and programmes of the polâ€" it.cz:l patties. The election program« mes of the old line parties are drawn up to get votes and for no other pur- pose. A few people with big inter- ests decide what is to be said and what the people are to do. This is not so in the C.C.F. Party. The programme for our palty are laid down at the Nati:na1 Convention and I who am :ne of their spokesmen believe and agree wit'z. it." :ne 01' their spokesmen believe and agree witi. it." Here Mr. Coldwell dealt in detail with the gold question explaining the the C.C.F. policy. The Text of which Was issued to the papers represented so that he could not be misquoted on this point. The text is printed else- where on this page along with that of Mr. St. Laurent’s statement which was made last Tuesday night on the occasion of his visit to Timmlns. Mr. Coldweil then proceeded in H:- view the accomplishinests of the Lib- eral Government as against their pr- emises made in the 1945 election which they had not lived up to. The Libeari Government has been operat- ing in the interest of big business and from pressure of the opposition party. That is why they removed the price ceilings. and the excess profitsntax.‘ tarties are drawn or no other put- with big inter- be said and what, This is not so The programme National