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The Haileyburian & Cobalt Weekly Post (1957-1961), 21 Jul 1960, p. 1

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Haileyburian-Cobalt Post ESTABLISHED 1904 Wael 56.----_ Nor 20 Haileybury, Ontario, Thursday, July 21, 1960 Sceehy Sx Full Days Of Fun And Frolic At Temiskaming Summer Carnival There will be no excuse for bore- dom next week when, starting Wednesday, the district wide "Summer Carnival' gets under way, A great variety of events are planned in Temagami, Cobalt, Haileybury, New Liskeard and Elk Lake. The big carnival starts Wed- nesday and will continue until Mon- day night. The carnival is planned as a co- operative effort by the communi- ties -concerned, under the general _aegis of the Northland Chambers of Commerce. Each town is staging its own individual attractions, designed to enter local folk and attract tour-| ists too. There is a great variety of at- tractions from beginning to end of the carnival. WEDNESDAY On Wednesday, golf fans from all over the north are expected to flock to the Haileybury Golf Club, where Bill and Dave Morland of North Bay will take on Al Balding and; Bob Gray, two of Canada's top pro golfers. The exhibition match is being staged in ald of the New Liskeard Wurses' Residence Fund. The Golf Club has donated use of its course and 'club house, and the pros are just charging travelling expenses. Al Balding hails from Markham and recently broke the course re- cord in the Ontario Open. Bill Mor- land won the Northern Ontario Championship and brother Dave, just recently, copped the Ontario Championship. There will be a golf clinic at two o'clock, and the golfers will tee off at three o'clock. If you don't care for golf, then a Tri-Town swim meet starts off with a splash at the New Liskeard Beach at two o'clock Wednesday. Haileybury Beach has been given a clean bill of health by the Temis- kaming Health Unit, and it seems almost certain that New Liskeard's Beach will be cleared in the next few days. Other attractions at the Beach in New Liskeard Wednesday after- noon are a teenage rodeo at 2:00 p-m. sponsored by the Jaycees, and bicycle races. The rodeo is open to all between 16 and 25. Names should be left at the Bank of Nova Scotia. Wednesday evening at the New Liskeard Beach there will be a short official opening ceremony to get the carnival underway, follow- ed by a horseshoe competition, boxing at the arena sponsored by the Canadian Legion, and dancing at the pavilion run by Club '60. This latter New Liskeard group will be holding dances at the Pa- vilion every night except Sunday through the carnival. THURSDAY On Thursday Cobalt will let its hair down with a day dedicated to the mining industry that made the old town famous. All the stores will be decorated with a mining theme, and already the Legion has erect- ed a prospector's tent on a down- town lot. At 11:00 a.m. there will be a dis- play of mine rescue -work, follow- ed by a hand steeling contest at 1:30 p.m. At three o'clock a tug of war is scheduled between the mayors and councils of the neigh-| ' boring towns and at 7:00 p.m. the fire brigade will stage a display of fire fighting. In New Liskeard on Thursday Ontario Hydro will stage a truck roadeo; and the Jayceés will spon- sor, a bicycle roadeo. At nine Parent-Teacher Tea At Holy Cross School Sunny skies, summer flowers and beautiful Lake Temiskaming formed the background for a suc- cessful tea sponsored by the Eng- lish section of the Parent-Teacher Association of Holy Cross School, Saturday afternoon, July 16, with the proceeds going towards the library fund. The tea was held on the patio at the home of Mrs. D. Pelangio, where the guests were welcomed by the hostess and the president of the assicioation, Mrs. G. Vezina. The attractive tea table was cen- _tred with a-white figurine, dressed in a profusion of, mauve, pink, white and yellow summer flowers and' flanked by mauve tapers. in| silver candelabra. Silver tea ser- x Mrs. J. Caufield, Mrs. D. Herbert |. vices at either end completed the appointments. : Pouring ~ during the. afternoon were Mrs. Rene Morissette and and-Mrs. G. Lemay. The small tables for the guests - were laid with white covers with a rose floating in a rose bowl as a ~ centrepiece on each. Serving the ~- chen duties were Mrs. "Mrs. J. i #7 \ ia ' bs is ie -which she sold tickets, - winner being Mrs. H. Jones. guests dnd attending to the kit- D. Day, Hughes, Mrs. Gordon Short, Mrs. G. Rouse, Mrs. R. ing, Mrs. H. Jones, Mrs. A. mon, Mrs. R. Barron and Miss ~ gyanne Murphy. In charge of the attractively ar- : ranged bake table were Mrs. R. Regimbal, Mrs. T. Johnston and Mrs, C.sBurns. Mrs. J. Hughes donated a cake, decorated in the form of a doll, on - An unusual feature of this tea "was a Floral Arrangement contest with the. for organizations or individuals. Each competitor brought their ar- rangement and entered it in the contest which was judged by Mrs. H. Pickard, Mrs. J: A. Joyal and Mrs. J. Neelands. Following the judging the prize winners were an- nounced as follows: first, Mrs. J. Mason; second, the French sec- tion of the Parent-Teacher Associa- tion; third, Mrs. W. C. Arnold. New Industry Mayor Arthur H. Cooke of Haileybury is trying to get the German steel and armament firm of Krupp interested in Northern Ontario, The mayor says that-reports in a Toronto paper indicate that the com- pany. is planning to bring 1,000 German workers and = their' families to a 500 acre plant planned for Whitby, Ontario. _ According to the report the company intends to manufac- ture electric generators at the Whitby factory. - Mr. Cooke said that-he does not care whether the plant lo- cates at Haileybury, but he feels that the Tri-Town area as a whole is worthy of consider- ation. Mr. Cooke had Haileybury - businessman Klaus Sroka tele- phone to his father, Dr. W. Sroka, who holds a responsible position in the West German civil service. Dr. Sroka _ said that he would try and bring the matter to the attention -- of Krupp officials. ~ prak travel .to o'clock music fans are expected to flock to the Beach Pavilion where the King Ganam Show, featuring Tommy Hunter will be presented by Club '60. King Ganam claims to be head of the Royal House of Hoedown, and a rip roarin' square dance will be held after the show. On Thursday toe, anyone who would like to look around the many improvements at ithe Provincial Institute of Mining in Haileybury is welcome, as the mining School is holding Open House. (Continued On Page Five) Jeunesse Musicale Miss Daintree MacDougall will be leaving late this month to attend a summer camp sponsored by Juenesses Musi- cales at Magog, about one hun- dred miles from Montreal, "where she takes a course in voice training. She will be re- presenting the Tri - Town Branch of Jeunesses Musicales. Following her success at the Temiskaming Festival of Mu- sic, Miss MacDougall was awarded a bursary by the local branch for the purpose of at- tending this course. Plan Mass T.B. Survey For Iemiskaming District The regular meeting of the Tem- iskaming District Tuberculosis As- sociation was held in Englehart on July 19th. The President, Mr. J. H. Litster, welcomed*the many mem- bers and guests, among whom was Mrs. F. Battson, former secretary of the association, who-is vacation- ing here. Mr. David Goodyear of the De- partment of Health, Toronto, re- ported that plans are well under way for the Mass Survey to be held in Temiskaming -- District September 19th to October 14th. Area chairmen have been appoint- ed and clinic sites chosen. Chair- men for the different areas are: Temagami, Mrs. M. E. Sadler; Latchford, F. Keenan; Cobalt, E. Tresidder; North Cobalt, C. St. Cyr; Haileybury, Mrs. L.- Wise- man; New Liskeard, R. T. Hutch- inson, W. E. Anderson; Rural, Harvey Plaunt; Earlton, Maurice Gauthier, Englehart, J. H. Litster; Kirkland. Lake, Fred Giddings; Matachewan, Hubert Neumann, O'Brien, J. Wintar; Elk Lake, Mrs. A. H. Leishman; Larder Lake, Mrs. A. M. Mageau; Kearns and Virginiatown, R. Pugliese. Mobile X-ray units will be sent from Toronto and in the larger eentres tuberculin tests will- be given as well as X-rays. The tuber- culin test consists of a small in- jection just under the skin and two days later a second visit is made to the clinic to have the reaction read. A positive reactor is a person who has had contact with active tuberculosis, but «does not neces- sarily mean this_person has TB. An X-ray is then taken and will show whether any activation has taken place. It was decided to purchase needs for a san. patient from this dis- trict and also clinic supplies for Dr. J. Brown for monthly clinics. These clinics have been discon- tinued for the month of July, but will be conducted regularly start- ing on August 12 at Haileybury Hospital, August 26th at New Lis- keard Hospital and August 31st at Englehart Hospital. Swimming The Health Unit has notified the Haileybury Recreation Commission that the water at the Haileybury Beach is now _ Safe for swimming. : The Life Guards are now on duty and the Swimming Class- es will begin immediately. SALLY ANNE WHITBY Haileybury HEATHER MacARTHUR Cobalt DELIA MAY GEARY New Liskeard Three Leave For Stratford One thunderd and: eighty Cana- dian high. 'school "students will the - Stratford > Festival this summer as. guests. of the Can- ada 'Council. During a four-day -| visit to the famous 'Shakespearean centre the students, will aittend performances of "King John", "A Midsummer Night's* Dream", "'Ro- meo.and Juliet" and "H.M.S. Pin- afore" They will-also visit the exhibitions of paintings, book's, 'theatrical costumes and Indian -Lerafts-on display "in Stratford-.and tour backstage alt thé unique Fes- -|tival Theatre-- A luncheon: -has been. arranged at which 'the. stu- dents will have an-opportunity to meet and stalk with many of tthe stars of 'this year's' productions. Three. girls <'from- this: . district will attend. Heather MacArthur, Gobalt, Sally Anne Whitby, Hailey- bury, and Delia May Geary of New. Liskeard. ; Chosen for a. sativa da iobeeeat in drama, music or literature, 'the aac were selected.by the Pro- vincial Departments' of Education in cooperation with the Canadian Education' Association. "They will travel to Stratford aboard the "Canada Council.-Train', leaving Victoria, B.C.;-and'St. John's New- foundland on July 22. Along the route they will be joined by stu- dents and chaperones from _ 'ten provinces, the Yukon and North West Territories. In order to make connections, many -of the young people will -have ito itravel miles from outlying areas to the main transcontinental fine using every form of transportaition from air- plane to motor boalt. Bastern and Western halves~of the 'train will join' in-Tofonto 'on July 26 and cover: the Jaist lap of ithe journey together arriving alt the Festival centre about noon. In speaking of the Canada Coun- cil Train, Dr. A. W. Trueman, Di- rector of tthe Council said, "The young people travelling to Strat- ford will be the ifuture-artists and audiences of Canada.-It is import- ant for them to see Shakespeare come alive as the plays are per- formed by what. Brooks Atkinson called 'ithe finest classical com- pany in North America." 'Providing them with 'this {fine introduction to fine drama and music, is one of With Canada Council Train the soundest and most enduring investments we can make." Last year, students attending 'the Festival reacted 'to the Stratford productions witth- wonder and ex- citement. "Never until I had seen tthe plays perfommed on tthe Fes- tival stage did I ever dream Shiaakespeare could ibe so exciting, so alive and so moving", wrote an Ontario 'student. Most of the studentts also com- menited on tthe impact'the journey had on 'them. Few had previously travelled far outside their own province and for those from the extremities of the country the 'trip was ia revelation. A new sense of the vastness, diversity and po- tential of Canada was impressed upon them. One girl wrote from the prairies, "I was prouder of Canada than Ive ever been before. We future citizens have indeed a rich inherit- ance in Canada', Equally import- ant. was the opportunity provided by the Canada Council Train for young people of English and French backgrounds to get to know one another during the visit to the festival.

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