pe ak . FERED ENE. SERVING THE DISTRICT , 1965 LOCAL CHAMBER TO REVIEW CONSTITUTION President Neil Cornthwaite chaired the meeting held by the Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening in the Terrace Bay Recreation Centre. Minutes by the Secretary, Margaret Simmer, were approved. A letter of thanks and Two Dollars will be sent to each of the school children who submitted sug- gestions to the Centennial Project Competition. These were Jane Persson, Lita Marie Boudreau, Marie Delaronde and Carole Gaudet. Post Office Box Lobby hours were discussed with Post Master Clarence Buclk who was present, with some points being clarified, but it will be necessary to await a reply to the letter sent to the Postmaster General at North Bay. Chairman of the Membership Committee, Joe Commisso, reported twenty-one paid up members. A discussion arose to the advisability of having one grocery store remain open Wednesday afternoons during the summer months for the summer trade. Mr. Commisso offered to investigate. Ed Chateauvert offered to head the Chamber of Commerce Week scheduled for April 4 to 10. Roy Bray will work on tourist promotion this summer. The President read his letter of congratulations sent to the Terrace Bay Community Credit Union for their first prize in annual reports. Approval was given to submit an advertisement again this year in the colorful brochure printed by the Lake Superior International Highway Associa- tion. Jack Kelty offered to review the constitution be- fore presenting to the next general meeting, with a view to setting up a new schedule of rates and amendments . NEW FLORAL STAMP ISSUE ON FEBRUARY 3RD Two new postage stamps, honouring the official flowers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, will be issued by the Post Office Department February 3rd. The stamps are the fourth and fifth of a series sche- duled for issue between now and Canada's C enten- nial Year of 1967. The blue, pink and green stamp honouring Nova Scotia shows the Arms and the Floral Emblem of that Province, the trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens L.), more commonly known as the Mayflower. This flower was officially adopted by the Province in I90I, al- though as far back as 1825, it was used as a decorative motif on the front page of the "Nova Scotian" and on the buttons of the Nova Scotia Militia. The May- flower also appeared on a series of postage stamps issued by Nova Scotia during the period 185] to 1853. In 1936, the purple violet (viola cucullata) was officially adopted by New Brunswick as the floral emblem of that province. Instrumental in the choice of this flower as the official provincial emblem were the Women's Institute, groups of school. children and the Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel Murray MacLaren. The stamp is in red, purple and green. The two stamps are being printed by the intaglio process with complementary colour work by offset using hand engraved masters for the original plates. This combination of printing methods is comparatively new to Canadian postage stamps. It was used for the Peace stamp and the floral emblem stamps of Ontario and Quebec. The stamps are being engraved and printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company Limited of Ottawa based on drawings supplied by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. "TIMMY" CHOSEN FOR THIS YEAR The Ontario Society for Crippled Children takes pleasure in announcing their "Timmy" for 1965 will be Master Herbert Berzins, a ten year old Cerebral Palsy boy from Toronto, Ontario. "Timmy" will be making his first official appear- ance on January 28th when he attends the Sports Canadians pay tribute to Sir Winston Churchill -- great wartime leader who became a symbol io the free world during the desparate days of the war. Photo above: Churchill in Quebec in 1944