Those who write in early also get a word of praise from the department itself. The letter says: "I wanted also to thank you for letter in posting your good time. So many people leave their Christmas letters very late." While the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair calls this its silver jubilee year and will celebrate its 25th birthday with many new fea- Ww the Royal Canadian Afr Foree. 0. Mansiip Depot, they housed an sav init; training of many thousands of allied airmen. 44 "THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, Oclober 38, 1958 DANCE, FISH, PRAY ON BOARD Unique Ship Shaves N. Zealand Official Plays Santa Toy Boats Used {To Plan Project VANCOUVER (CP)--A deep-sea equipment. Capt. Warren will make gamble which began with toy ts |the trip three times. a and models has graduated into the| The aluminum firm has advised Samuel Hearne discovered the Slave River, ente Great Slave Lke, in the wintr 1771-72. Icebergs For Snapshots ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP)--A voy- age aboard the steamer Kyle, one of the workhorse vessels that link Newfoundland's coastal ports with the world outside, is a unique gt traction for tourists. s Everything from a square dance to a church service is combined with the workaday business of carry' ~ freight, mail and medical aid. . * round trip on the Kyle takes 12 or 15 days during which the vessel steams along the rugged, iceberg-dotted coast. Passengers do their best to catch on to the complicated steps of a Northwest river '"'set," catch squirming cod: by "jigging" over the rail and on the Labre jor run, voyage e . O'Keffe, ; '=elf has made the le's voyages unique, has settled ck from the ques- tions of the round-trippers, as the passengers are known. STOCK QUESTIONS "Where are the igloos?" and "will we see any polar bears?" are the two stock queries. Lea St. John's on her voy- . age rorthward the Kyle calls at Carbonear, mercantile centre in the days of sail. Catalina comes next and then Twillingate, picturesque two-island settlement and the lar- gest of the northern fishing towns. Between ports the round-trippers learn the strains of "The Star of Logy Bay," a rousing Newfound- land folk song picked out on a piano in the music room. Out on deck there is plenty of hard work. Lumber loaded at Car- bonear may be changed to the Win- nifred Lee at Hopedale and car- ried still LSet Boris. sel The Hudson's Bay pany th. route to stock four Labrador trading posts. One of the stops is at a light- [8 house where: a sign in four-foot letters dubs the stormy landing "Old Ulcer." Boats are picked up and launched by a over- the breakers TAKE PTUNE ABOARD Battle Harbor is the first stop in ".abrador. This is the night Neptune comes aboard with bN of hemp and a rope's-end sh. Assisted by a ghoulish-Jooking figure dressed in yellow oilskins and wielding a massi : razor he puts the through their initiation. The waters become ice-flecked as the Kyle steams on but passen- gers still stick to their deck chairs absorbing a hot sun which belies the northern latitude. There are unscheduled stops as the Kyle passes such places as ycomers Wild Bight, Wreck Bay, Ice Tickle, WHAT'S INTUITION FOR ? Banker To Men; Tell Wives All By HAL BOYLE NEW SORE (AD). Sam e years a 5 ess looking i came cig banker Garry Stulsberg's office and said he wished x borrow $5,000 Asked the of the loan, the visitor le. forward and said with candid t "I want to start a revolution, and I can't do it for a penny less than $5,000." ' "Although the government he wanted to overturn was somewhere in middle Europe, he had to leave without the money. But he completely satisfied with rg"s answer that a bank can't legally lend money to finance a revolution. 'That's the oddest request I've had in 33 years of banking," Stolz- berg ree .. In that time Stolz- berg, vice-president of the Com- mercial State Bank and Trust Company, has checked on 300,000 Loan applications involving $400, HIGH FINANCE Personal loans to the working man and the small business man Te as century. 8 banks in 1952 made 100,000,000 such loans totalling $13,000,000,000. And this doesn't include the people still oe Dawa Sop. personal loan field has made the banker a student of human nature, and, as Stolzberg puts it amiably, "bank- ers no longer bleed' when they have to smile." "Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a banker or a foot- ball referee. Many customers come to me with f argu- ments and want me to settle them on the spot." One such customers insisted that Stolzberg have a long chat alone with His fiancee in the bank office. Later the man anxiously inquired what he thought of her. Stolzberg said he thought she was very nice, and the fellow replied: "Good. We've made RISK FACTORS ' What factors influence a banker in considering loans? "Character comes first," said Stolzberg., "When a man doesn't know exactly how much he needs, what he wants it for, or how can pay it back--well, you have be dubious. afford and what she can't." Stuffed Buffalo Haunts Manitoba WINNIPEG (CP)--When does a buffalo become a white elephant? After it has been stuffed for more than 30 years. The story of Manny Toba, the misguided mascot, is a case in hand. The life-size creature was brought to light recently when the University of Manitoba was look- ing for a buffalo to lead its fresh- man parade. + The Winnipeg parks board said no, the students couldn't have a live buffalo to lead their parade, but if they looked in the museum they would find a stuffed one in a glass case. WORSE FOR WEAR The ancient creature, first stuffed about 1914 and in what a museum official described as "a state of disrepair," was dragged forth and carried to the fromt of the procession. Following the festivities, the stu- Sents Sbandoned the animal, which t christe Toba, om the front lawn of United College, a downtown university branch. There he Sioa Ly 5 more than thse weeks, watching Portage Ave. traf- fic with a sullen eye. It wasn't e: a case of ne- Beet, | Sivie Jaiviel wate glad to anny Jreseied him outtight = oe Frm nts. He was n prope: I he 1y poverty plorable condition. ! The a iiversity is not to eave Manny ace ba winter on the front he of the college. It may cost as much as i to have him moved, but moved will be--as soon as authorities find a place to put him. USEFUL TRIBUTE OAKENGATE, England (CP)-- This Shropshire village is the birth- place of champion jockey Sir Gor- don Richards, and in honor of his hthood and his Derby victory with Sir Victor Sassoon's colt Pinza last summer it has decided to build a dispensary for sick animals. SHIP AGROUND REFLOATED SOUTHAMPTON Ont. (CP)-- The freighter Manzutti owned by the Yankcanuck Steamship Lines rly peg a ugeen t y The tug Ruth Hindrhan arrived later from and pulled. the vessel free. No damage was reported to the ship. y SALLY'S SALLIES Run By Guess and Blackguard Bay. At Hopedale, end of the run, tourists fin. good camera subjects in Eskimo nm, a& mission house and husky do s. I A few, favored with a tourist's luck, find passage still farther northward. The Winnifred Lee makes the trip, a-other two weeks to Hebron and back. Hundreds of -trip; rs say it would spoil the fun. real thing and now the $1,500,000 steel heart of Kitimat is being towed slowly up the rocky west coast of Canada. The heart is the monster pots or crucibles, largest ever built, manu- factured at Portland, Ore., for the Aluminum Comp: of Canada's giant smelter at Kil t, 80 miles south of Prince Rupert. Arthur Elworthy, vice-president of Island and Barge, Ltd. planned the huge, 800-mile towing job with scale models, then gave the task to the seagoing tug Is- land Sovereign. Capt. Arthur J. Warren 1s in charge of the tug which will tow the steel barge Island Logger, loaded th $500,000 worth of the towing company that loss of the vital pots would be a crip- pling blow to the smelter's pro- duction schedule. "We're ready to withstand a hur- ricane if we have to," Mr. El- worthy said. "Our chief worries are the Columbia bar, Cape Flat- tery and bad weather in the open sea." First two loads for the Island Logger consist of 115 pots, each weighing 12% tons and measuring 33 feet by 12 feet and each jour- ney is scheduled to take five days. 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