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46 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, April 24, 1956 MBI Er Le By RUSSELL ELMAN Canadian Press Staff Writer TORONTO (CP) -- A ceaseless, throbbing pain in the feet of a quiet, elderly Toronto department store salesman is all that reminds him of an ordeal that 20 years ago the world. dwell or think of it, unless someone mentions it." Although he has to rest his feet an hour each evening, he other- wise leads a comparatively normal working life. AT WORK DAILY tomorrow flashes his name across| Getting up at about seven in the morning, he takes the streetcar T), April|from his suburban Kew Beach At Sxaetly 1 am. AS: yo home to the downtown store, where 2 ng and exhausted, stumbled he has worked for 15 years, the 7 e has ever been in one out of a 10-day t in a dank, gloomy mineshaft, ending an epic "without parallel in Canadian history. As he and a companior clamb- ered from the murky abandoned Moose River gold mine into the fresh, cool air of a Nova Scotian spring night, millions shared emo- tionally in relief at the ordeal's end. NATIONAL FIGURE By morning eye-witness accounts from radio and newspaper report- ers who went to Moose River from job. Due to a once irresistible urge to move about, Mr. Scadding worked in a variety of jobs from serving in the Canadian Army in Siberia after the First World War to being paymaster of a preserves company in Florida. He was time- keeper and in charge of supplies at Moose River. Now, however, he has a job con- nected with a lifetime hobby-- stamp-collecting. Many of his cus- tomers know him personally and often following a write-up in the Survivor Recalls Drama := Of Moose River Mine papers of the cave-in, persons he has never met will enter the store to say hello. "I'm practically my own boss," he says. "I do my own pricing and buying and no one interferes with me. Most evenings he stays home with his second wife, Jessie Isabel, and 21-year-old daughter, Joanne. His first wife died more than 20 years ago. ONLY SURVIVOR At 64, and head of the store's philatelic department, he is the sole survivor of a cave-in that in- carcerated three Toronto men 141- feet down in the black pit. Dr. D.E. Robertson was rescued but died in 1955, while Herman Magill, the mine-owner, never lived to see daylight again. The three, on a routine inspec- tion of the abandoned mine they hoped to reopen, were in the skip waiting to be pulled to the sur- face when the shaft fell in 40 feet| i Tr A A Sp gear without food and only a flashlight to illuminate the bleak cavern, not even wi T rescue oper- ations were in progress. On the 10th day following the Easter Sunday accident, rescue workers got through to the en- tombed men with a diamond drill, enabling cocoa and brandy to be dropped. A phone also was lowered and for the first time the men could talk to the outside world. + EXCITING RESCUE For the next three days excite- ment mounted as 300 underground and surface rescuers prodded and picked their way down to the trapped men. Finally to the cheers of thousands gathered at the pit- head and echoed by radio around the world, the break-through was made and the rescue completed. Apart from the pain in his feet, resulting from an operation after the rescue in which he lost all his -tces, Mr. Scadding rarely thinks about the ordeal these days. He spends a lot of time working in his garden and before going to ved around midnight reads a travel book for about 15 minutes. He never touches the five cartons o newspaper clippings about him in the basement. For the future, he has few plans except he doesn't want to retire. Ship Sinks; Landlubbers Blamed OTTAWA (CP)--A west coast op position member charged toda) that '"landlubber" officials of public works department who 2 the federal survey ship Hilun a winter voyage to the Queen lotte islands were responsible for her foundering. The accusation by Howard Green (PC--Vancouver Quadra) in 'the Commons brought an immediate denial from Works Minister Wint- ers. He also denied Mr. Green's claim that the Hilunga was seni on a trip nof permitted by her papers of certification, contraven. ing the Canada Shipping Act. Mr. Winters said an error in judgment by the Hilunga's captain was responsible for the fo of the 82-foot vessel on Aristaza. bel island off the British Cllumbia coast 350 miles north of Vancouver last February. above them. For a week they lived aad RE a i a a ats EE dads d many parts of the United States and Canada had made him a na- ; tional figure, who for weeks could SBEST UALITY STOVE OIL keep even the prime minister off | ll the front pages. ® Prompt Delivery! @® Courteous Service ! Dial RA 5-1109 2 0 PLANT A HEDGE -- ORDER NOW CHINESE ELM PRIVET ROSA MULTIFLORA hmurense' variety, | "Nature's Hedge of Easiest ond Fostest medium roi Hardy oses", 2-ft. 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