Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 20 Oct 1955, p. 22

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#2 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, October 20, 195% EL i SOAPY LANDING SAVES SABRE An RCAF Sabre Jef has come B.C, to a safe stop after literally slid- ing to a landing at its Grosten- quin, France, base when the nose wheel became cocked at | right angles to flight direction Kelowna, who ordered a strip of fire extinguisher foam put on the run- way for the crippled nose wheel | The nose wheel's skid mark can | to slide on, and precise flying | be seen in by FO. Bob Caskie of Toronto, | strip, as the pilot surveys the | who straddled the strip with his Quick thinking on the ground by | main wheels and then gently low- ered the nose wheel to the greasy | Press Canadian surface, saved more than a quar- ter million" dollars of aircraft. safe but soapy ending, --RCAF photo from central the middle of, the | By WALTER GRAY Canadian Press Staff Writer FORT CHURCHILL, Man, (CP) Hands that once held a harpoon now clench an air hammer. Bodies once bent over the bloody carcass of a seal now strain over a car- penter's workbench. Once-primitive | people now are working in a white | man's world. A group of Eskimos are taking part in an experiment being con- ducted by the federal government's }| northern affairs department at this fil military base, 610 miles north of | Winnipeg. ® Officials here are elated with its | success so far. Andrew Spy, technical officer in the works department, said the « || natives did 'very good" work. | HIGHLY ADAPTABLE #| "They are very adaptable to any | trade," he said. Mr, Spy told of the recent diffi J culty army mechanics had in re- pairing an outboard motor. The + mechanics worked on the machine for nearly 10 hours without suc- | cess. | "Finally, one of, the Eskimos, Kidlapik, took over and in an hour and a half he had the thing going' said Mr. Spy. seven Eskimo families, as well as two young bachelors, were | brought to Fort Churchill from Fort | Chimo, a wartime U.S, military | base on the east coast of Hudson Eskimos In Northland Use Air-Hammers Now Cannon Balls, Yoke | For New Museum CORNWALL (CP) -- Cannon balls, oxen yoke, spinning wheels and a 'complete blac th shop are among the hundreds of items already donated to the proposed Seaway Valley museum. The St. Lawrence-Ontario parks | commission plans to shift several buildings from land: which will be flooded hv the seaway aud power project. They will form the nucleus il of the museum and will be fur- nished with relics typical of Sea- way Valley's "pioneer days." 4| Although no site has beén chosen | officials said they think the mu- seum probably will be located just | east of Morrisburg. | 'RED TOMATO JUICE Hands BOSTON (AP) -- across the vodka! Tt was served Thursday when 10 touring Rus- sian housing officials arrived at a hotel for lunch. Who drank it? Nine Russians drank tomato Juice. The 10th? He had a beer. PRICES ON MORE ITEMS ADD UP TO NEW PACK FANCY QUALITY AsP TOMATO | Asphyxiated Men Police Idenitfy | The Americans in the party. | f f | f KEEWATIN (CP) -- Police in | this northwestern Ontario resor?| JUICE 35 223 YOUR PANCAKES FREE! FL. Lloyd Skaalan, 5 Si CT SAR | bay. Most of the men left their | hunting and fishing to work at the | American base during the war and were reluctant to return to their old way of life after the war. The men arrived here last year They were joined by their families this summer he EE yy LANGUAGE PROBLEM i ESKIMOS AT WORK Three Famous Figures Honored by University KINGSTON, Ont. --A Scotsman, Edward Regimenf achieved great; In his address to the students an American and a Canadian were| distinction in Italy, a former rec-|yesterday morning, Lord Tweeds- honored when in solemn convoca-|tor of the University of Aberdeen muir spoke of the rich promise tion they were presented with hon-| (which has enjoyed over many|of Canada 'for the young and - orary doctor of law degrees by decades a highly favorable bal-| venturous" but cautioned Ca- the old Presbyterian college of ance of trade with Queen's Uni: nadians, first, not to permit "too Queen's University. versity) |large concentration of fhe and Tyler Maillet, believed to be| from the Kenora district. | The men, working at odd jobs around Keewatin, had been living {in the cabin. Their bodies were | found by the son-in-law of the cabin | o> Ah Sin |owner after he investigated heavy: jor camp officials. The natives all smoke coming from the chimney chosen in|. " 3 ir : : x ¥ > A 4 ; ae RR, . 0 quickly over. Because of their in-| Their take-home pay averages of the oil-heated cabin. Boner of Hudsons Bay Company| porn mechanical ability, they were about $50 a week. | Maillet has a sister in Sudbuty.! ae ors. and etl ainers, but doing as good, if not better, a job| Edward Berthie, one Eskimo who! = { shenik English, "SEURO. Wen San ms their white fellow workers, speaks English fluently, said he, qyes were worth "ten of some of | ped ) sh, Charlie and Silas Gordon and enjoys his work as a tinsmith "just the men we have around here "| y . : But in a short time the families : BY rl They were John Norman Stuart! «A pyilder of the Commowealth brains and hands of the people of Charlie Gordon, Jacob Gordon, rag Ty To gE Ry a f Iv Tike it b a | To prove it the natives' salaries om 1 "My family like it here and 1] were raised from $1.10 to $1.35 an SHIRRIFF'S WILL BUY YOUR PANCAKES WHEN YOU TRY . . . SHIRRIFF'S Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, son with a sound Canadian back-|t0 become divorced from thg Matthew Adams, Tommy Adams, 9 penter, Tommy Adams a painter, think we will stay. The children pour. 16-0z decanter : OQ. of a former governor - general of ground, whom the University|§oil." and, second, to avoid being willie Adams, Silas Gordon and \ginio' Adams an electrician and Ho gy are excited about school and come| \irs, Spy said the natives had! If their arrival was confusing to the Eskimos it was even more so Canada, Lord Tweedmuir, Adlai ~ is deceived by the "old dream about gdwar orthi ar . : a : U wishes to honor for his own ut | Edward Berthie were sorted out. Edward Berthie a tinsmith. How-| 2 ; n running home every day with only one complaint. the 1952 presidential election in the library of his distinguished of mankind." several other Fskimos, among : i things to show and tell us. " 3 i ie United ion Brg TR 8 and well -- A Bhi i our THE, Srowing Sin lification of them hres from Chesterfield inlet, oi their other abilities on other| Bill Beswetharick; labor foreman ho hey BS Tost Snlavpy duis ompson, "has found its permanent home in| eria' lite and a clisregard| rt , Kidlapi : op i i i " y th - "| versity of Saskatchewan on De perman of the experience of the past has Foo Too. Kid gpik, Suj Shawnee. "There is absolutely no segrega-| In charge of the Eskimos, said the! "They don't like the heat.' 1 Presentation of the degrees was RY {tended to make our thinking be-! their worth. To is a skillog tion," said Bill Kerr, northern 'af- os . oui WORKING LIBRARY ity ny] oir worth, 100 290 1 skilled! fairs agent. 'They are allowed t by Chancellor of Queen's, Hon i come slack and evasive in many| carpenter, Kidlapik runs a hy. oni oate nes ved Charles A. Dunning In his address Friday afternoon important directions . 4 draulic drill and Shammee is a tile participate fully in camp life. Rain which swept the city later at the official opening of the John «This prittle creed of over- layer. During the last winter's The natives are paid a regular in the day held off in the late Buchan JED ary, Lord reeds. simplification can do us untold army exercise, Bulldog II, the | 25¢: averaging $1.35, an Your for Fi ning and the weather w as muir had stress that this was|da ack in his 4 ; ives Bn : 4 an eight-hour y, SIX N meng damage. Look back in history and three natives acted as scouts. | with time and a half for yr. Stevenson, democratic nominee in sehievements and at i when! the inevitability of the betterment ready ng aff were Sad : nents 1 a time € ready on the camp staff were ever, their foremen are quick to A ne : a ® Prompt Delive slightly cool and skies overcast a 'working library" and was tofyou will find these beliefs are not| After work and on Sundays this r" ry) be put to use by students atinew. They were dusty and dis- : | CAREFUL WITH MONEY Queen's. ; : {hevelled when the pyramids werc In describing his feelings at be- new, And they will no doubt per- ® Courteous Service! Dial RA 5-1109 last summer the three harpooned 150 white whales in the Churchill river mouth, which they sold to a during the ceremonies in Convo- cation Hall CLIMAX OF ACTIVITY Mr. Spy said the Eskimos are| "very cautious in handling their] money.' men long This was the climax of two days of considerable activity about the University, yesterday highlighted | by the dedication of the John Buchan Library, an addition tof the main University (Douglas) Library. | Principals in a ceremony in which 4,000 volumes and the pri- vate papers of John Buchan --| first Pons Tweedsmuir and gov-| ernor - gemeral of Canada from 1995--1940--were presented to the University were the donor, Col. R. 8. McLaughlin, Oshawa, Ont, and Mrs. McLaughlin, Lord Tweedsmuir and Lady Tweeds- muir, Rector of Queen's, Dr. L. W. Brockington and Principal Dr. W.A. Mackintosh. GIVES LECTURE 'Friday morning, Lord Tweeds- muir delivered the Alma Mater Society lecture before almost 800 students in Queen's Grant Hall The citation for Lord Tweeds- muir, read by Principal Mac- kintosh as he was presented this morning to the Chancellor prior to the presentation of the degree read as follows: "I have the honor to be structed by the senate of in- the university to present to you, that ha he may receive at your hands the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, John Norman Stuart Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, ex- plorer, soldier, author, whose in- terest in and knowledge of our northern frontiers is equalled by few Canadians, under whose com- mand the Hastings and Prince ing present for the dedication, he|gist in the minds of said that the day "is not only al after the pyramids have crumbl- happy occasion but a memorable |ed. whaling factory at $1 a foot. LEARNED QUICKLY | The Fort Chimo natives, tem- one for my wife and myself and my family in Great Britain," | Dr. Brockington, a close friend| PIONEER MILL of the Tweedsmuir family, recalled] The first papermill that it was "a wistful ocgasion was built in 1803 at St for some of us sion for us all. It is not for me| treal. construction huts outside the camp area, were given instruction by | in Canada| camp engineers under Major Lloyd v Andrews, but a joyful occa- a village 45 miles west of Mon- Macdonald. They went on staff as laborers 'but their apprenticeship was porarily quartered in abandoned] 3 20: Per Gol. CO. LTD. | "They know the value of a buck," | Ill he said. | The natives are also paying the VIGOR Ol L price of earning a living in the| white men's world. Income tax an unemployment insurance are de 78 BOND ST. 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