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NORSHORE SENTINEL Keeping Watch on the Great North Shore VOLUME 1, NO 22 NORSHORE SENTINEL NIPIGON. ONTARIO THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1961 NOT OVER 10c NIPIGON GOES TO POLLS ON MONDAY Here are the Nipigon Candidates for Reeve and Council. Missing is L. Larsen. From left to right, back row: E.C. Everett, M. Atkinson, R. Taisey, E. Wright, A. Ash- worth: front row: O.A. Hannula, G. Routhier, G. Waghorn, More than 160 Nipigon citizens will lose their right to vote Monday unless their taxes are paid before the town office closes at 5 p.m. Monday town clerk Frank Wheeler reports. Any one of the 160 or more defaulters may receive their voting rights by making payment before this time. There are a total of 1,045 voters on the Nipigon voting list. A local bylaw, passed with the authority given council by the municipal act, deprives any citizen who has not paid his taxes in full from voting in the municipal election. Voters will choose a new reeve and one new councillor Monday from a field of six council candidates and three reeve candidates. Running for the position of reeve are Oiva Hannula, CPR telegraph operator; Gordon Wag-horn, retired and Gerard Routhier, mill worker. Running for council are Art Ashworth, Brewer’s retail manager; Murray Atkinson, wood superintendent, Northern Plywoods; E.C. Everett, retired; Lawrence Larsen, mill worker; Roy Taisey, mill worker; Elgar Wright, garage owner. Polls open at 10 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Town Hall Meet Great Success, Audience Loaded With Questions The Nipigon Chamber of Commerce Town Hall meeting Monday was an overwhelming success with close to 150 citizens listening to the platforms of the candidates for town office and then following up with an interesting but dignified one-hour question period. Despite the short notice all candidates were present except for Lawrence Larsen, running for a seat on council. Mr. Larsen was unavoidably absent due to work. Each council candidate was given three minutes to state his platform while each candidate for reeve was given five minutes. The citizens then asked a total of 15 questions in written form and signed with most questions directed to the slate of candidates as a whole. The questions included "Does the town restrictions on voting i.e.-no vote if taxes not paid-have the approval of the Municipal Board?;” (It does) "Views on the policing of the town;” (The OPP were given a vote of confidence) "How many council meetings have you attended in the past two years?;” (Most candidates had to say none) "Do you think Nipigon should increase its council by two more members?;” (Little comment) "What about the dogs tunning wild?;” (Hire a dog catcher or leash the dogs during the summer anyway) "What about lack of present speed limit on Nipigon streets?;” (Agreed this should be corrected, set at either 30 or as most said 20 m.p.h., lower in school areas) "What about beautifying Nipigon?;” (Most thought it was beautiful enough although there could be improvements by educating people about littering) Chairman for the meeting was Roe Skillen. Chamber president Don Cochrane and vice-president Bruce Ward helped handle the question and answer period. NORSHORE NOTES Rinks from Terrace Bay, Manitouwadge, Schreiber, Red Rock and Nipigon converge on Nipigon this weekend for the zone playoff in the Northwestern Ontario Ladies curling playdowns. The winner of this event advances to the District play-downs in Terrace Bay at the end of the month. Play starts at 8:30 Friday morning and continues through Saturday and Sunday morning at the curling club. A special meeting of the Schreiber high school and the newly-elected' council was held last Wednesday, to deal with the pressing problem of lack of accomodation for high school students. Nipigon reeve George O’ Neill attended Tils final council meeting Tuesday night after serving as reeve of Nipigon for the past two years. George did not run for re-election this year. He also served in 1954, 55, 56 as reeve and 1953 as councillor. Leitch Gold Mines poured its 1,000 gold brick Tuesday afternoon marking almost 25 years of steady progress and prosperity for the Beardmore area. Northwestern Ontario’s deepest mine, 4,525 feet -Leitch poured its first gold brick in February, 1937 and presently employs 125 steady workers. Together with St. Lawrence Corp. Woodlands Div., it is the mainstay of the Beardmore area. SCHREIBER NAMES TOWN APPOINTEES The inaugural meeting of Schreiber council last week saw the following appointed as municipal employees and representatives for 1961: Clerk, treasurer, tax collector and assessment commissioner, Mr. Russell Skinner. Utility man for 1961, Mr. T. Whitton, caretaker of Township of Schreiber for 1961, Mr. Arnold Burns, assessor for 196.1, Mr. Bill Furlonger; auditors for 1961, F.H. Black & Co.; solicitor for 1961, Mn H.G. Blanchard Q..C.; medical officer of health for 1961, J. M. Cornell M.D. ; ratepayers representative to Schreiber board of health, Mrs. Russell Skinner; ratepayers representatives to the library board for 3 yt. period, Mrs*. Doreen Wilkes. FIRST WOMAN TAKES OFFICE Schreiber council wel-comednewmembers includin g the first woman ever to take office at last Monday’s inaugural meeting and then rolled up its sleeves for a busy year ahead. The oath of office was taken by two new councillors Mrs. Inez McCuaig and Pat Guina, councillor George Gordon and reeve Bill Darcy, town clerk Russell Skinner and assessment commissioner Bill Furlonger. Councillor H.V. Harness was unavoidably absent. Projects under consideration for the coming year are paving of the streets, deepening of the subway with a sidewalk on the East Side and a possible sewer development to take advantage of the recently-announced government program for the borrowing of funds for such a project. FLYERS MOVE AHEAD Nipigon Flyers moved into sole possession of second place in the North Shore Hockey league Tuesday night at Nipigon as they defeated Terrace Bay Superiors 7-5 before 306 fans. Thursday night in Nipigon, Red Rock Royals will be trying for sole possession of first place when they meet the Flyers at 8 p.m. The Royals are currently tied in first place with Superiors with 12 points each. Flyers have eight and Marathon trails with six. Alex Legacy and Paul Baxter had two goals to pace Nipigon. Singles went to Ray Maki, Moe Kelso and George Swan. Herman Mannila had three assists to creep close to the scoring leaders. Tom Pollard and Bob Adamo had two goals each for the Sups who had defenceman Bill Pytyck in the nets. Regular goalie Don Dobson suffered a dislocated shoulder Sunday. Maurice Osmar had the other goal. Shadowed all night by Moe Kelso, scoring ace Marvin Osmar was held pointless.