Ontario Community Newspapers

Terrace Bay News, 27 May 1947, p. 5

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HERE AND THERE It was a foggy-day that Ed. Brady installed his semaphore road block on the millsite. When it was finally in position and raised to permit free aceess, the tcp was virtually lost in the clouds -- it is only twenty-six feet high. . =c00e The Commissaries in bcth the Upper and lower Camps are beeoming more and more like the corner drug store every day, Besides stocking every imaginable item of need, they now feature juke boxes. Got a nickel, Slug? | Page Five -cOc= A brief visit tc Malcolm Spidell's Drive Camp, revealled the fact that the Highways Depart- ment have constructed two camp buildings about 700 feet east of Malcolm's establishment. Plans have been made to erect two more buildings to serve as offices. Staying in the existing build- ings are several undergraduates working on survey parties for the summer. The bulk of the work- ing force will stay elsewhere so as to be located at the centre of each highway secticn. -o0o= Tuesday, May 27th, will mark an important date in the eonstruction of the Schreiber-Jaekfish Highway. It is on this day that the bidding closes to contractors for the various seetions cf highway to be constructed. -o0o- An interesting feature about the Hydro-dam project is that barge-mounted monitors will direct high pressure streams of water to rip away the earth ecver on the east bank of the river. This will be done in order tc expose bed-rock on whieh tc build the dam, A version of placer mining j -#O00= Increased activity is evident at the lake water-intake site. Two power shovels are busy excavating the foundations of the pumphouse there. Preliminary preparations are being made for the dredging operaticns scheduled for this summer, The fire break on the eastern boundary cf the construction area is virtually completed. Equipment and erecting erews of Canadian Bridge are arriving on the job for the installation of the mill steel work, -o0o= Colin Campbell, a Fraser-Brace Engineer, arrived in Terraee Bay on Saturday evening, May 24th, after driving up from Sault Ste. Marie via Duluth. Welcome, Colin, and we hope you will enjoy it here. -oOo- Reg. Legault also left Saturday, May 23rd, on his vaeation. He is heading for Armprior, Ontario, humming "Munagua Nigeragua" no doubt. -o0c- The Wcodlands Department did a good job in clearing out the ball diamcnd. Ontaric Construc- tion have very generously offered to stump and grade the area free of chargee So, it wont be long now. ~c0o- While installing his radio, Ted Jones managed to get. his wires ercssed and hooked the aerial on to the ground connecticn, or vice versa, This improved the reeeption, however, and Ted was unaware of any unconventional hook-ups until his two sons, Foster and Ted, Jre, pieked it cut. After rearranging the wires, reeeption was again as much improved. -o0o- Better catch up with the picture taking as Kilroy leaves for his new home in Bowmanville Saturday next. On his weekend trip to the townsite on Sunday last, he was the centre of attrace tion wherever he went and had at least fifty snaps taken.. Hie many friends here wish him a life cf ease and enjoyment 'down South'. aetice Many thanks to cur contributors for their writing in this issue. To Doug Aherne, Dolores Humby, Len Christianson and also to Walt La who helped out in Bob Sheppard's absenee. =O Oo=

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