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WATER SHIELDS NUCLEAR REACTOR Haul Far North Riverboat Cargo By JIM PEACOCK northwest of Edmonton and 250 FORT NELSON, B.C. (CP)-- miles north of the rail line at The Streeper brothers were Fort St. John, B.C. asked why they stay the, Their route, which crosses no north 3 i |large lakes, is ice-free 10 days : »|to three weeks earlier than the "The north has mosquitoes, sel ns ' said Barney Streeper, 'but the Athabasca Rive ; 3Y stem used th has bed bugs." by much larger water-transport ey were asked why they|operators from Waterways, stay on the river, where they | Alta. who must await the y R ih 7 | breakup on Great Slave Lake. Jaye ees hauling freight for 11) Wp, \"4hoir route is more ex- " "ug ; " pensive, too, and once they've "Money" sald Woods, much| used their early-arrival advant- doin e vo little in so short a|ase; they can't compete on the ong Barney added . {long haul. They spend the rest une, it went in "an inter-|of the summer making six or " - | sev: < E h- view aboard the New Era, their| seven shorter trips on the sout Yew - powered river tugboat | 60 end of the river system. with which they push four or/ CAME FROM NEVADA five flat-bottomed scows down-| ~ «we haul everything from river each spring to points aSigq;y to barrels of gasoline," far north as Aklavik and Inuvik|¢aiq Barney. in the Northwest Territories. "And we've never ONE TRIP YEARLY pound of freight--yet," Barney, 60, and Woods, 58, Woods. aperat et he Streeper Brothers The Streepers came north in| Marine transport Company|1917 from Nevada, homestaeded | which travels about 5,000 miles/o nl and farther south in the | a year down and up the Nelson, Peace River region for sight Liard, Mackenzie and Pele Riv-|years, then went into saw-mil- ers in a freight - hauling season|ling near Dawson Creek until that extends from late May to|the Alaska Highway construc. mid-October. iton began in 1941. They trucked In winter Woods builds new on the highway for two years, scows at his home in Dawosn|then began thier river-boat ser- Creek, B.C., 300 miles south of vice. : : here. Barney relaxes at his Fort| "We go tstarted in this bus- Nelson home. |iness because we had no better They make only one far-| sense," said Woods while he re- north run a year, travelling|laxed in the combined kitchen- 2.400 miles in 2 5to 30 days on dining - office space in the their first trip out of this Al-|wooden tugboat. aska Highway point 600 miles! Now, knowing better, they re-| Seagram's Martini-Master Has Exclusive Features OSHAWA -- The unique con-|store a supply of vour favorite tainer in which Seagram's Gin cocktails. They also add a dis- is sold, the Martini-Master, is tinctive new note to dining when in sunk a said much more than just a bottle. 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Hobbs, Chief OSHAWA FIRE DEPARTMENT 'Only C {In The Commonwealth By KEN PRITCHARD HAMILTON (CP) -- This pool # is not for swimming. Its invitingly blue waters-- {demineralized, decontaminated and constantly circulated--have more important functions. They serve as radiation shield, mod- rator and cooling medium for "McMaster University's nuclear reactor, the only one on a uni- % versity campus in the Common- The reactor, housed in an impregnable - looking, 15-sided « , concrete building, is playing a "3 leading role in the enrichment nd expansion of science and ngineering studies and re- earch at McMaster. © This featured performer in Canada's race toward scientific "7 excellence resides near the bot- tom of a 100,000 - gallon, tile- { lined pool. It produces on com- { mand one megawatt of power. ./ The associated radiation and ! neutrons are put to a bewilder- 'ing variety of peaceful uses. | 24.HOUR SCHEDULE The eerily beautiful blue light| container called a "rabbit," run-|as research assistant to Dr. 'of the reactor in action first|ning through tubes such as are|Harold Urey, Nobel prizewinner | { colored the waters of the Mc- used to make change in some in chemistry in 1934. " Master pool in 1959. It was i operated then for one shift daily, five days a week. As research ' projects mounted, the machine went on a two-shift operation.| completed in the few seconds| witkiin a few months to Me- On Oct. 15 it is scheduled for|during which the materials re-|afaster. round-the-clock seven { days a week. What's a $2,000,000 nuclear re- actor doing on a Canadian uni- ER eM : versity campus? | main in it--obviously--because| That was the question put to they love the life. Dr. H. G. Thode, who became Advancing highways and im-|president of McMaster July 1 | proved communications -- along |after Dr. G. P. Gilmour retired fwith father time--one day will|because of poor health. Dr. {force the Streepers to retire.|Thode is uniquely qualified to | They don't look forward to the answer, because McMaster's nu- prospect. | clear science program has been Barney perhaps 'dreads it his special interest for more more than Woods, if for no|than 20 years. | other reason than that at home| "The nuclear reactor is help- this wife insists he remove his|ing to make McMaster a com- | weather-worn, turned-down felt| munity of scholars," said Dr. | hat, which aboard the boat is|Thode. "It tends to unify the {seldom off his head. whole university program and IMPROVED BEVERAGE | ibs Xpand the exchange of The first coffee. percolator| : | was devised by Jean de Belloy| LATEST IDEAS USED lin 1800, but coffee was used] As many as 23 research pro- centuries earlier in Arabia and grams, serving medicine, Egypt. |science and engineering, have service, Pan casi a 1 ampu been carried on at one time within the reactor building, which incorporates all the best ideas from reactors installed earlier at United States universi- ties. The reactor is a source of neutrons, the fundamental build- ing blocks o. nature, and of gamma and beta rays used in irradiation research. Fuelled by enriched uranium (93 per cent U-235 and seven per cent U-238) the reactor is used to produce radioactive iso- topes of practically every ma- terial, to examine the physica! makeup of materials, to study the effects of radiation. Research remains to be done |in such fundamentals as the nature of the fission process, {not yet fully explained, differ ences in nuclear power fuels, and the properties of fission | products. | The reactor on campus en- |ables McMaster research teams [to experiment with short-lived | radioactive materials. A plastic [large stores, whips radioactive materials from the reactor to the adjacent Nuclear Research Building where experiments are main radioactive. | PUBLICLY SUPPORTED | The rise of science and engi- {neering to parity with the arts program on which McMaster |was founded has coincided with |the transition of the Baptist ed- ucation centure to a mon-de- nominational, publicly supported university. The transition occurred dur- ing the presidential years of Dr. | Gilmour, a Baptist theologian. | Alter the Second World War the| Baptist Convention of Ontario| | and Quebec, which had operated McMaster since its incorpora- tion in Toronto in 1887, exper- ienced increasing difficulty in financing the expansion which seemed desirable on the Ham- ilton campus, to which Mec- Master moved in 1930. As a non-denominational school, Mc- Master did not qualify for gov- ernment grants. s Reactor! W- Germans 'Back In Rocketry By TERENCE DAVIDSON In 1948, non - denominational Hamilton College was set up as an affiliate of McMaster to ex- pand the science program. Ham-| BONN (Reuters)--West Ger- ilton College's first new building/many is coming back into was for nuclear research. Its/rocketry with a major develop- fourth, opened in 1959, was| ment effort as a result of a the Nuclear Reactor Building, decision to join a European linked to the Nuclear Research scheme to launch communica- {Building by an enclosed ramp. tions satellites. In 1957 all of McMaster Uni.| Rocket research, banned in |versity became non-denomina-| Germany by the Allies after the tional except the affiliated divin-|Second World War, virtually THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, October 10, 1961 11 Union and the United States were preparing the way for to- day's sputniks and discoverers. But Britain, earlier this year, came up with a plan for a three- stage rocket which would launch European satellites, It was based on the Blue Streak rocket, dropped from Britain's defence program last year. Britain asked other Eueopean countries to join in the $196,000, 000 project, arguing that earth- orbiting satellites soon could have big commercial possibili- ties for television transmission and in world-wide communica- tions networks. There was hesitation in Bonn, but the West German govern- ment finally agreed to join Brit- ity college, still supported by|stood still for years while Ger- the Baptist Convention, It has/man-born experts in the Soviet ain and France in the project. A West German expert com- mittee said Germany would take part in developing the rockets thirdstage, the first two stages being Britain's Blue Streak and France's Veronique respec- tively. Government departments al- ready have started a survey to establish how much extra in- vestment would be needed for West Germany to bring its re- search facilities up to the stand- ard required for space research, excluding work related to manned flight. The dean of the West Ger- man space is 56-year- old, silver-haired Prof. Eugen Saenger, head of the Suttgart Institute for Jet Propulsion Re- search. a fine new building on the | campus. | {BORN IN WEST | 'The new president, Dr. Thode, | joined the McMaster faculty in| 1939. 'A 51-year-old native off Dundurn, Sask., he graduated] from the University of Saskatch-| "DON'T GIVE FIRE A ewan and obtained his doctorate | {in physical chemistry at Uni-| | versity of Chicago. ; | His deep interest in nuclear] | research was enhanced by two) |years at Columbia University | WEEK OCTOBER 8 TO CAUSES OF FIRE A National Research Council | {atomic energy research project) which Dr. Thode joined in Mont- {real in 1943 was transferred There the research | group used Canada's first mass | spectrometer. | | Dr. Thode has been principal | |of Hamilton College since 1949, | {and in collaboration with Dr. |Gilmour provided much of the] {impetus for McMaster's for- {ward strides in science. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, BEING OBSERVED N ONE OF YOU TO DO YOUR PART IN THE H 4 unnecessary fire waste, and tl 'Hospital Phone Service Broken | A bulldozer, working on a | parking lot just off Alma |street, cut the telephone cable | providing service to the Oshawa |General Hospital at 8.56 a.m. today. Complete service was re- |stored by Bell Telephone repair {crews shortly after 11 a.m. J. W. Lowry, Bell manager, | |stated that one trunk was re- stored to service at 10.10 a.m. |and that the entire service was Fire Prevention Week, Oc exist in the home, store or factory, creating ous to life and property. We can help to prevent loss of life and pro safety rules and heeding the advice of the some issues during the coming week. Christine Thomas, On the direction of City Council, | hereby proclaim the week of October 8th to 14th as Fire Prevention Week in the City of Osh- awa. | call upon the citizens of our City to observe Fire Prevention Week by giving particular attention to conditions which might pears elsewhere in this issue of the newspaper and will appear in CITY OF OSHAWA PROCLAMATION i. 8th to 14th fire hazards danger- perty by obeying the Fire Chief which ap- MAYOR OF THE CITY OF OSHAWA Sell A Complete L ARE INVITED McLellan Tire & Ba OSHAWA 38 PRINCE ST. MCLELLAN Tire & Batfery Lid. ine of FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT SERVING EVERYONE YOUR ENQUIRIES ttery Lu. 725-1021 fin operation by shortly after 11 {a.m. | When the cable was cut Bell | |officials informed the Oshawa | Fire and Police Departments to | prevent panic which might re-| |sult from residents of the area] hazards. which to live". START", then you can be assure | A Message from Oshawa"s Fire Chief... TO ALL CITIZENS OF OSHAWA AND DISTRICT . . . PLACE TO START", IS THIS YEARS SLOGAN FOR ATIONALLY DURING THE AGAIN URGE EACH AND EVERY. IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE OME, FACTORY AND PLACE OF BUSINESS. The ever-increasing loss of property, personal possessions, household articles and the tragic from the ravages of fire, point f an all-out effort by all citizens, in doing his or her part in the pre- 14, AND 1 ONCE 4 loss of life, out the necessity o vention of fire. The fire prevention bureau of the Oshawa Fire Department conduct regular year-round inspections of public, tile building, institutions, schools, etc., and an "In Service" home inspection program is carried out by on duty crews at all three Oshawa Fire Stations to October, in an effort to eliminate any and all existing or potential fire hazards. results achieved in these inspection programs are dependent on the full co-operation of all citizens. Won't You Do Your Part in reducing hereby make Oshawa a safer place in which to live. The Oshawa Fire Departments inspection staff stand ever ready and willing to assist in this vital work. "Open House" will again be held during Fire Prevention Week, when all three Oshawa Fire Stations will be open to the general public. Fire Preven- tion material will be available and we shall be pleased to hear from any interested group who might wish to have films and/or speakers at their meetings during the year. A telephone call to Fire Headquarters at 725. 1154, ext. 41, approximately two weeks in advance of your meeting, will | provide time to arrange films and speakers. Be your own fire inspector, check your home and place of business, and, If you have doubts whatsoever, as to the safety of your premises, call the Oshawa Fire Department for any necessary assistance. Once again | urge each and everyone of you to do your part in our Fire Prevention Program in the elimination of all existing and potential fire REMEMBER -- If you do your part and, "DON'T GIVE FIRE A PLACE TO d that Oshawa will be "A safe place in H. R. HOBBS, FIRE CHIEF OSHAWA FIRE DEPARTMENT industrial and mercan- during the months, may The being unable to contact the | hospital. 14 as Fire Prevention Week. For Sound Protection Consult The Following Agenis . . . H. G. ROUGHLEY LTD., Insurance, 64 King E.\ SCHOFIELD-AKER LIMITED, 360 King St. W. FRANK E. TURNEY, Insurance, 47 Prince St. RALPH VICKERY, Insurance, 46 King St. W. JOHN WACKO, Insurance, 207 Simcoe St. S, W. B. WHITE, Insurance Ltd., 110 King St. E. W. R. WESTLAKE, Insurance, 211 Mary St. E. L. WHITELY, Insurance, 111 Sutherland St. W. R, EMERSON, 140 Dundas St. E., Whitby STUART C. ROBLIN, 102B Byron St. S., Whitby GEO. H. VICK LTD., 18 Brock St. N., Whitby JOHN L. LAY, 107 Kingston Rd. E., Pickering J. A. 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This is the heart of the proclamation to 18,000,000 Canadians in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Canada designating October 8- STOP FIRES gored If Fire Strikes You... you'll be glad to be insured through an independent agent, a member of the Oshawa and District Agents' Association. He is NOT a company employee . . . He depends on YOU for his income . . . and that makes YOU the Boss. Thet makes the difference when he nego- tiates with an Insurance Company for settlement on Your behalf. C. E. MORLEY, Pickering STUART R. JAMES, 24 King E., Bowmanville NELSON OSBORNE, 7 Lovers Lane, Bowmanville NEIL F. PORTER, Orono H. W. EMMERSON, Port Perry HOLDEN EMERSON, 53 King St. E., Oshawa A dn" A" HA dh hl A "le nat. mt li