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'Haileyburian-Cobalt Post _Cobalt-Haileybury Curling _was represented by Mr. Alec Mo- ESTABLISHED 1904 Vol. 56 -- No. 47 Haileyburyy, Ontario, Thursday, January 26, 1961 DG GORY, New Processing Plant | May Move Cobalters are anxiously awaiting news concerning a new silver processing plant to serve the area's mines. Since Delora closed, the local silver mines have had to ship their concentrates to the "United States for smelting. A group of local mine man- agers returned from Toronto on Wednesday, where they met with Premier Leslie Frost and Mines Minister James Maloney and representatives of* several mining and refining concerns. Jerry Gerome, manager of 'Langis Silver, said yesterday that he is reasonably hopeful of a satisfactory solution being reached in the near future. Mr. Gerome said that the very well-known mining con- cern of Sherritt Gordan made the local mine operator's one proposal for handling cobalt concentrates, but did not make a proposal for silver. However, a tariff for handl- Consols Playoffs At Haileybury Five rinks from the Cobalt- Haileybury Club entered the local playoffs to determine who should represent the Club in the British Consols. The winning rinks were Ron Morissette, skip, with William ~Gro- zelle, John Morrison and Ralph Hargrave; William V. -Fleming skip, with Wilm E. Fleming, Ro- ger Fleming and Bud Dempster. Personnel of fhe defeated rinks were Taylor Pipe, skip, William Backland, Robert Hinds and George Stewart; Clayton Dunn, skip, William Mallett, Ted Fitz- gerald and Jack Buffam; Ben Bourget, skip, R. Campeau, Glen Moody and Ron Taylor. These winners will be playing off in Haileybury this week-end, with two rinks from New Liskeard and one from Temagami. Next week-end the district Play- downs will be in New Liskeard, starting February 2. to Cobalt ing both silver and cobalt is be- ing prepared by the company, and will be offered shortly. Mr. Gerome said that at least one, and possibly two other concerns are also inter- ested in handling the Cobalt area concentrates, and it is possible that the local mines will have a choice of three proposals. Bucke Township Ratepayers Meet At an executive meeting of the Ratepayers' Association of the North-West Township of Bucke last night, it was decided to recom- mend to the Membership that the Constitution be changed so that the name in future shall be the Rate- payers' Association of the Township of Bucke, thus making the mem- bership available to those who are entitled to vote at Township of Bucke Municipal Elections, or non- residents who are tax payers in the same area. It was agreed that the Association as at present con- stituted was formed for the pur- pose of protecting the interests of those tax payers in the area north of Haileybury, but that the picture had changed since that date. It was agreed that to be effective, the As- sociation should serve all tax pay- ers in the Township of Bucke, and that recent events had made this more necessary than ever. Recent developments regarding the pro- posed "scrapping"' of the new 1961 Assessment stress the importance of providing reliable information to tax payers, and to do every- thing possible to not only conserve the taxpayers' money, but to try and bring into effect one of the principal objectives of the Asso- ciation, an equalized assessment. This can be attained by making full use of the advice and facilities pro- vided by the local office of the Municipal Board. A general meet- ing of the Association members will be called on or about March 1, and a notice will be forwarded to all paid-up members. Emmett Smith Bonspiel A former member of the Cobalt- Haileybury Curling Club was hon- oured by the Boulevard Club in Toronto, where he is now a mem- ber, by an "Emmett. Smith Bon- spiel'. This was held on January 7, 1961 at the Boulevard Club in Toronto to celebrate Emmett's 50 years of curling. It was on this day that Emmett first joined the Haileybury Club in 1911. Entries were limited to 24 rinks and curling continued during the morning and afternoon. Two ten- end games were played by all com- peting rinks and suitable prizes were awarded. At seven o'clock.a cocktail party was held by the club and at eight o'clock over two hundred attended a banquet in his honour. Representatives were present from the Dominion Curling Asso- ciation of which Emmett is a life member-and past president. The Club sher a past president who spoke on behalf of the club. Representa- Held At Boulevard Club tives from the ladies' section and business girls section of the Boule- vard Club were present and ack- nowledged the guidance and in- struction Emmett. had given to their players. Wires were read from-the Presi- dent. of the Boulevard Club at present in Florida, regretting his absence, from the Cobalt-Hailey- bury Club, Northwestern Quebec Curling Association, Northern On- tario Curling Association, Sigma Mines. Curling Club, Ladies' Sec- tion of the Sigma Mines Club, Montreal Thistle Curling Club, El- liot Lake Curling Club, Bevcon Curling Club, Sudbury Granite Curling Club, Siscoe Mine Curling Club and a great many personal wires from curlers in Ontario, Quebec and the other provinces in Canada. : : The Boulevard Club presented Emmett with a diamond studded Boulevard Club Pin the first one ever cast by the club. A very fine floor show was provided by the Club during the evening. by smoke and water. The home of Mr. and Mr. Cezare Corbelli of Third Street, Cobalt, was seriously damaged by fire during the early hours of Wednesday morning. The fire started in the upstairs apartment oc- cupied by Maurice Trudel, which was almost gutted. The downstairs apartment was badly damaged Reeve Harry Groom and hi's merry men of Bucke township went into a secret huddle last Thursday, and came out with a resolution that is throwing the township into a tizzy. The Reeve and council voted to throw out the recent reassessment and levy taxes for 1961 on the bas- is of the 1959 assessment. The reeve said that the town- ship is setting 1a precedent, but they believe that if the department of municipal affains investigates, it will find that the council's ac- tions are justified. Mr. Groom claims that the coun- cil has petitions before it signed by 160 persons, asking for the re- assessment to be scrapped. There are also some 150 appeals against the court of revision's decisions be- fore Judge J. B. Robinson. All tthe councillors are said. ito have voted in favor. of the motion except Councillor Chester Hopkins, who abstained. : "J tried to persuade the' council that it had no jurisdiction in the matter, and they are wasting their time and the taxpayers'"', Mr. Hopkins stated.' Wa tae (Mr. Hopkins said that he is in favor of ironing out any unjust Situations that have arisen during the reassessment, rather than try- ing to scrap the whole thing. "The judge and .the town solici- tor have already told the town council that they cannot throw out the assessment unless they can find (that the: previous council did something illegal', he continued. Mr. Hopkins said that hé has written to the department of mun- icipal affairs, asking that an ex- pert be sent up to put the coun- cil on the right track. | The township councillor also crit- icised Mr. Groom for recent state- ments in which he claimed that the township is in bad financial shape. "Last summer Mr. Groom urged all the taxpayers to refuse to pay faxes unless tthe council resigned. Now he can see that a good many teok his advice. If we are short of money, he must take his share of the blame", he sadded. The Weather Week ending January 24, 1961 : Max. Min. WednesGavic no. nals 00 = -14 PRN USOAY, cea os seem ere -9 -25 Ori Gayot es pee twitter -3 -14 Saturdays eee -7 -17 SUNGAY ect es ee -4 -20 IVIONGAY? eo re, ret teak or 00 = -23 PUUCSAE Yds sass Otto arses cae -10 - -17 - denotes below zero. Bucke Council Busy . Laurent Belanger Township in a Tizzy Returning Officer For Temiskaming Laurent Belanger, Earlton, has been appointed Returning Officer for the Federal riding of Temis- kaming. His appointment was made effective by order in coun- cil. Mr. Belanger recently returned from Ottawa where he attended a course of instruction for returning officers at the office of N. Caston- guay, Chief Electoral Officer for Canada. Mr. Belanger told the Speaker that his first task will be a com- plete revision of the polling sudivi- sions throughout the electoral dis- Scholarship Awards For Mining School Mr. O. E. Walli, principal of the Provincial. Institute of Mining in Haileybury has announced . the awarding of 21 scholarships, valued at $2,227.00 to high ranking stud- ents at the school. The Major J. H. Rattray, M.C., Memorial Scholarships, each valu- ed at $200, went to Joseph Mather, Sudbury; Lionel Gunter, Ormsby; David Barnes, Normetal, Que.; Chester Kajdas, Kirkland Lake; J. P. Lessard, Val d'Or, Que. The Interantional Nickel Com- pany Scholarships were awarded as .follows :Michael. Weatherley, St. Catharines, $200; Laurent Car- on, Evain, Que., $125; George Green, Kirkland Lake, $125; James Nicholls, Haileybury, and Paul Willmott, Gravenhurst, each ree- ceived $75. The Mines Scholarships. went to Brian Glassford, Hamilton, and Terence Ferderber, Bourlamaque, Que., each received $125; Gary Vedova, Timmins, and Bruce Ir- vine, St. Catharines, each receiv- ed $50. The Women's Association of the Mining Industry of Canada, don- ated four prizes of $50 each and these were awarded to Donald Sirkka, Copper Cliff; David Wet- more, Port Credit; Robert Blackie, Beaconsfield, England, and Mar- cel Caron, Haileybury. The Prospectors 'and Developers Association donated two prizes one of $75 and one of $50. These were won by Balfour Thomas, Capreol, $75; and Charles Camsell, Hailey- bury. 50. : David Barnes of Normetal, Que., received the Association of Cana- dian Testing Laboratories prize of $50. COEDS a db