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_ Boom As Markets Up 9 THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE, Wetnssdey, by 1, 198 tr ------p - East Townships Area By ERT JOYC ress Slall Writer ORD MINES, Que, houses of lord Mines are down the main street 1o e the asbestos indusiry more room, In one of the biggest moves ever in this province, some 140 , an Anglican chureh, the je hall, and the head office of one of the big mining com panies are being shifted to new wee there are a few lears as of the city disappears, Even (iimers figure that Thetford s an extra yesr's life with each passing house "Pwo years ago the outlook for this community of 17,000 looked ey---~greyer than the hig waste on from the mines that hem in on three sides and which in one section threatens almost Arp busy rue Notre Dame HOUSES IN THE WAY More than 70 years of constant ining had forced back the sides of the three big pits amine, the Johnson mine and the King mine--until no company eould forward without toppling the walls between them, They could not further afield without threaten to undermine houses th end of the city ¥Yaced with a shut-down of min Ing the hig joh-maker--the com nies agreed to split the ore in to in the | panies -- the Asbestos Corpors- | tion, Johnson's Company snd Bell (CP) | Ashestos Mines Limited, 8 British | country are flourishing communi: | | owned subsidiary----made # Joint | offer to sll owners, | They offered to pay twice the | municipal valuation---or roughly the marke cent, In addition househol could keep their homes, if they met {the bill for shifting them out of their own pocket, far no one has kiehed although one or two thoughit . they deserved more for pulling up stakes, But the $5,500,000 project involves not only houses, New mining op- erations will slice across the main Quehec-Sherbrooke highway and destroy several miles of streets Already the relocation firm has built hy-passes north and south of bulit 'by north and south , a has heen completed and a lownsite tealled Johnson's Park has heen laid out to receive the wandering houses Biggest single job was shifting | the . Bell | the railroad, Today, only the rubble | con hacked company---Lake Ashes of the old Quehee Central Railway depot remains, A spanking new station has gone up al the other end of town and 8% miles of new |rallway line bridge the cap with the old main line south of Thet- ford SECRET NEGOTIATIONS The railroad project was secret, For months the companies inp price in 1964--plus per | rs | the In spite of these periodic up heavals the towns of the ashestos ties, Both Thetford Mines and As: bestos claim they have more cars | per capita than any other ciiy in Capada, | TRADE THRIVING | Basic wage is $1.58 an hour, but a lop man can earn over $2 Hourly earnings average $1.77 and trade {18 thriving Gone are the pioneer days when #8 hand of tough miners al nearby Black Lake hitched the ramshackle | rallway station to the caboose of a Quebec Central train to register | their discontent and laughed up {roariously when the unsuspecting engineer pulled it out of town | Wages then were 81 a day Even the more cent depressed 30s are seldom talked about and bitterness of the 4% month {strike of 1949 is becoming a mem lory, Thetford, Ashestos and Black | Lake are riding the boom share In the fight for a bigger of the world market, one Ameri tos, an offshoot of the giant Amer: ican Smelting and Refining Com pany--is draining a mile-long lake and plans to strip 30,000,000 yards of lake bottom in the next 2'4 years {to reach ashestos rock | CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS Stephen Orgryzo of Kirkland | Lake, Ont, manager of the Black Lake project says: "We wouldn't dividing walls and convert the | cautiously bought tracts of land for | spend $20,000,000 | fwe didn't think | 4 into one hig hole mers were paid to move else. had to be put in without cost to! are The big move was on Last summer the first house Folled and 14 more went the same way by the end of 1954. This year A is 27, but Leigh Bladon the QCR. Farms were snapped up, sometimes under the names of {third parties, so that local land: {owners would not know what was afoot and boost prices, All the while there was a con The home: | the right of way for the line which | the ore was there By old standards Thetford and |g [the other mining towns are clean, | | modern communities. New arrivals | | say the towering dumps are de | pressing, hut the big menace--dust | {from the mills--is heing cut. The | | companies have spent millions 10! Former McGill University professor | tinuing round of secret talks with | check the fine grey particles that bosses the day-to-day opera s of Relocations Limited, a co rative company set up by the nes to ys it will be 15 to 20 years hefore ush the project through, | rallwoy officials, telephone and | power company enpineers, and city of whom had to he in | officials al on the plan before it went throuyh The wraps were not lifted until {once hovered in leaden clouds | | above the mining towns, Today the | alr Is clean | | The program, plus stepped up | wet al check-ups, is paying divi homes get their marching | near the end, Even when the story | dends, Asbestosis, once a threat | ers = "We're only esses,' Bladon says. "The hig | is in the first few vears. Af that it will slow up," | DE JOINT OFFER | "Most of the houses were either | @wned by the mining firms, stood | oh mine company land, or eould he | under provincial | opriated 5. To make wav for mining | it to prevent confusion and fll! will in the town, the three com: !fect, doing it as mining | finally broke in a local newspaper it hardly put a erimp in the pro- Ject--the bulk of the preparatory work had heen eomleled, a similar move was made at Ashestos In 1020 and further relo- | cations are in prospect ineluding shifting of a Roman Catholic church and several blocks of the town 'sometime within the next 20 | years" but it is not on the same | scale as the Thetford Mines pro- | hanging over every miner's life, | vy 44M brought under control and last year the industry announced that not a single case of the Jung: | scarring disease has heen renorted | in five years The unknown author whe wrote | of Thetford in a OCR railway guide | in the 1870s that "It Is a marvel that any human being should lo- | eate In such a forbidding spot should mavhe come hack and take a second look, LIKE ROWS MINE FOREMAN open-air arena are the ledges which reveal the successive le- # - bl. BR en Cal . | | vels In the Jeffrey openpit ashestos mine at Ashestos, Que Maurice | in the end of the open-pit mine | Smaller ashestos miniig commu | WA south of the Bt hetween Montreal world's ashesios ply da is the world's No The original Johnson Company tll a Canadian-owned . ween | Ineral, while still further hack the | A S0-mile-long rectangle lying Lawrence piver and Quehee city is the source of most of the About 6 per cent of the world's ashestos sup is either burrowed onl | miners underground or shovelled | from huge open pits In this area 1 producer, | and brake | €lothing is | sirerafl outfit one of the industry's hig concerns | with mines at Thetford and Black 'a menace, you'll find asbestos," ' lation of Local Government Offices, " | Lake # few miles io the south 4 the world's "grey gold" hy says Cap) Bindman, sales manager | | The ashestos country 16 8 80- of the Johnson Company i mile-long rectangle reaching from Only about wo to 12 ber cent of | | Bhipton township near Danville, the ore mined § neta . fue wn the southwest to Colerane, tos, The rest hos to he thrown lack Lake and Thetford in the | away. Clant eleciric shovels and north, From that pocket comes 65 | racks are needed per cent world's ashestos, | cheapest m of produetion--open (| some of it burrowed out hy miners | pit mining and millions of dollars, 1750 feet underground and the rest | are reawired for mills to process shoveled from he oes uel the rock MOUNTAINS OF TAILINGS The industry now Is undergoing i Mountains of firey white failings a 875,000 000 expansion program or cast-off by-products and deep' and the most recent plant--at the i| efrenta gashes in the earth mark ' Ashesies Corporation's Normande i the aren mine al Black 1ake--cost $16.00, {| Near Black Lake, 118 miles east 000) alone. At Ashestos, Que., 0 | of Montreal, where the houses ching | Shipton township, Canadian J # ecariously 10 the hillsides, trucks | Manville is building the world's {haul away the side of a mountain | largest ashestos mill, Only he if {| for grinding and separating in the | complete, the Jeffrey mill is as | mills. A few miles northe at Thel- high as a 14storey bullding and {| lord Mines part of a town of 17000 pearly 150 yards Jong, | which squals on an asheslos de yapy In SIZE | pow is heing moved (no make WAY | "Mines and mills vary in sire, 4 or, Wire production third |The Jeffrey mill will produce 25, shestos proper ned ein | 000 tons of fibre # vent, almost Muted fim & hol. ig enough | toile of The Inuit, i {store all the cars thal had heen | § ; J ' | has 10 he fed nearly 3.000000 tons produced in Canada in the last | of vock annually 4 Years, 11 is 300 feet deep and &l- | $ | most 8 mile wide It is this insatiable demand for A silky substance with # tough. ¥ock at the mills thal has forced || ness that would blunt a knife, as | Abandonment of many mines and hestos has heen known for maye | OWiged others to go below the sur: than 2,000 years. Marco Polo in the | face (| 18th century told how he found the Chinese weaving fabrie from the 1 SHORTY OF CHIPS BOUTHPORT, England (CP) People in this Lancashire resort are faced with a crisis in thelr | adutianal holiday fare Many lish 2 " : (and eRhip shops are without their MADDY, BY FIRE, 'normal supply of polaloes since Geologists say the soapy fibre | floods washed out much of the was fashioned by fire and pressure | orp in the hawels of the earth more . | than a billion vears ago, Today i | . [is used fn eonstruction insulation, | COMING OF AGE | for roofing shingles, car gaskets CROYDON, England (CP) Res | linings, in protective | idents of this Burrey town who are for firefighters and in jet |21 this year are invited to a elyle | reception and dance in October, | ancient Romans used it in funeral | | shrouds to preserve the ashes of | cremated in the | dead heroes Forum "Wherever steam and heal are | organized hy the National Assoe: Two Peterborough men, Reid, 41, left inset, andl the pilot, Waller Wood, COSTLY WEATHER WOOLWICH, Bad weather during the last six | Bt, Mary's Church are to he months eost municipal authorities | As a 8,024 man-hours and £604 for var: | of lous extra work, say officials this Kent town, The hottest thing this summer won't be the weather ~ - - veo. it'll be sales It looks like we're maving inte the biggest sales Summer in history! Predictions are that people this Summer will spend far above the 43 million retail dallars they laid eut se freely last Summer, SOME SELLING SEASON! Do you know that peeple {| Laroghelle points to operations | at Norbestos, Que., one of the nities in Quebeo's Eastern Town ps Everything Is Humming In Asbestos Country By ROBERT JOYCE Canadian Press Staff Writer THETFORD MINES, Que. (CP)! Business is hooming in the land of ihe man-made mountains Sparked hy the most powerful housing spree the United States or Canada has ever known, ten of millions of dollars are being laid n ihe line each vear ta hoost produc: | a jon of a mineral that not se long trapper #0 was considered Iitle more | rocks Fan a freak of nature In the rolling wooded country that hugs the Quebeo-Maine border | in the Eastern Townships, probe deeper inte the earth gouge out the ore whose fire-resis tant qualities have won it a thou sand and one uses In housing, de fence and automobile production For this 1s ashestos country, DISCOVERED IN 18% The day in 1878 that Joe Fecteau French-Canadlan farmer to in Thetford would lead to ( RL Rh A ay men | Andy and stumbled on the strange | States township he could not have foreseen what it | nloyed in the 12 producing mines | Johnson, a shrewd general 0 | storekeeper In a nearby Scottish. | «| Canadian settlement, and' Johnson «| eame down from the hill town of + Inverness ta found the first sues | cessful asbestos mine In Canada | mear Thetford Mines Today mare than #00000 tans of . | finished fibre are shinoed to manus facturers in Canada, the United and all over the world, | | Mare than 6.000 workers are em: hill | and last vear the total wage He brought his curious Hod te topped the $34,000,000 mark Cane | buy mere in Summer months than most ather months of the year? No wonder, since ds surveys show, more than 90% eof the people are at hame on an average day during the Sums mer! Only a few are away on vacations at any time. And those who are away may be be replaced by visitors from ether areas DON'T MISS THESE SALES! Somebody's going te get the business . . . why net you? Whatever you sell, make sure you plan to promete your product or service all Summer long. Naot ta a few of your customers----but to everybedy in the area who can possibly buy! That, of course, means in newspapers, This messes prepared by BUREAU OF ADVERTISING, American Newspaper Publishers Association, d 4 and published in the interests of fuller 9 of Industry Needs Room, So Homes Remov NARROWLY MISSES CLAIMING THIRD LIFE in which Mrs, Rylee working Wn engine were killed instantly when thelr aiveraft plunged Into the earth near Rice Lake. The seaplane i, right Inset, | crashed five. feel from collage 4) FIVE VROM FOUR | STOKE D'ABERNON, Surrey, | England (CP)="The four hells of Ray [) ) y Bydney's evening England (CP) Jeon on Thursday a wal of five to make the joh Da 4 heliringers savior oe wi Hopped wor {| make them perhaps | ightes " | ehisrith hells in England, | elded to retin NO SUMMER REPLACEMENT for the newspaper! People keep on reading the newspaper all Summer long---for news, far amusement, for advertising, Across the nation they ge on buying 54 millien or mere copies of their newspapers daily through June, July end August, The surest way to reach the mest customers, mest often, mast effectively, is in the newspaper. If you haven't already planned a steady series of Summer selling adds----call us today! All busindss is local . . . and so are all newspapers! by THE YiMES. GAZETTE Wuhen a "Ble Views Catan = STRIKE ENDS YORE avert (Hew on June 4 new nav award, {0 W