Timmins Newspaper Index

Porcupine Advance, 27 Apr 1933, 2, p. 5

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If the employees of Canada Northern Power and its associated companies could be gathâ€" ered together they would make a townful. These workers number 350, and, with their families and those who would come to supply them with stores and other services, would be sufficient to found a town of 3,000 population. But, of course, they could never be brought together. Their work scatters them over eight hundred miles of transmission lines, over nine power plants, in scores of towns and mining camps. A Community of Public Servants Canada Northern Power Corporation Northern Ontario Power Company, Limited Northern Quebec Power Company, Limited THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Deep back in the bush the infrequent traâ€" veller finds power company employees tendâ€" ing the dams which regulate water supply, or patrolling the wires to assure constancy of service to the humblest householder and the largest mine. A restless lot, never satisfied with anything short of perfection, power comâ€" pany employees are ever on the alert, ever on the move. The high, even, uninterrupted quality of power bespeaks their worth. The finest of machinery and equipment will not function without human intelligence and neverâ€"resting watchfulness. Controlling and Operating Limited straight chara the heartstrin The story d are friends, in children get : to regulate t] filles. Polly g« on the bank, n cery store and "swWappIing, youngsters tC herself and i; for the insut comes home, deal. All enc There are the ‘battle c Clauses, the grocery store disrupts the gripping dra directed the who said:â€""A laugh is worth a hundred grcans in any market," At this time of soâ€"called depression, Marle Dressler and Polly Moran are two artists that can surely bring some measure of "Prosperity." No one should miss them here this week. The dates are Thursâ€" day, Fridnay and Saturday, April 27th, 28th and 29th. it : Anita Pagt ideally cast â€" the children : Lyn and Jerr Frank Darier tribute clever will be g feast of laughs. The heroines of "Caught Short" and "Politics" have as many battles as of yore, but the battles are louder and funnier. Then, to>, there is a dramatic twist in the new â€"story, ~and Marle does some They‘re at it againâ€"this time as mothersâ€"inâ€"law battling over the lives of their married children, in Metroâ€" Goldwynâ€"Mayer‘s ‘"Prosperity," now shocwing at the Goldfields theatre, Timâ€" mins, on Thursday, Friday and Saturâ€" day of this week, April 27th, 28th and 290th. Speaking of this picture, ‘"Prosperity," a recent review says:â€" "Frosperity" is a picture notable for the excellence of the acting and the remarkable number of humorous lines ard funny situations. It will help on "Prosperity‘"‘ by laughing away the blues. Marie Dressler and Polly Morâ€" an are guarantees that "Prosperity‘" will be a feast of laughs. The heroinecs For clean wholesome funâ€"but fun to delight the heart and chesr all on the rough road of lifeâ€"there is no actress on the stage toâ€"day to equal Marie Dressler, the Canadianâ€"born artist who has won on merit a fame that is worldâ€"wide, To mention Maric Dressler as appearing in a picture these days is to give the comedy the surest advertisement as being real comedy that none will care to miss. It is always good news to sayâ€"as can be said here and nowâ€"Yhat Marie Dressler and her partner in fun, Polly Moran, are showing in a picture in Timmins. Give Marie Dres: something to figh the laughs roll up. A scheme followed by the Knights of Columbus and by Douglas B. Chant, treasurer ¢of the Rotary Club to increase the amount availlable to their organizâ€" ations by way of grants for independent as well as regular relief work is conâ€" demned as vicious. Marie Dressler and Polly Moran Here in "Prosperity" chargeable to direct relief and items for obligaticns carelessly undertaken as reâ€" sult of indiscriminate issue of relief vouchers," says the report. "Fach of the claims presented to the province was prepared by the relief committee, the relief officer, the mayor and the treasurer, with a deliberate inâ€" tention of asking for enough to relieve the town from any payments whatâ€" ever," the report charges. tinct advantage and galin. It was largely due to a lack of reâ€" sponsibility on the part of the relief committee which composed three memâ€" bers of the town council that abuses were allowed to flourish, Judge Hall says. From January, 1931, to the end of July, 1932, exclusive of June, July and August, 1931, the Ontario Government paid Sturgeon Falls in public relief aid $18,246.40 in excess of what it should have paid. ‘"Many irregularities," in the issue of relief orders were perpetrated "which made it easy for both recipient and merchant who filled them to cbtain disâ€" tinct advantage and gain. indings made brought out. It however, that t take action in son cases of impropri likely at Sturgeo fort made for t improperly paid through the apy counts submitted highlights in the marized as follov practised the town from the deem th cannot t these pr them,." tl them," the report says. From January, 1931, July, 1932, exclusive of August, 1931. the Ontar "It becomes apparent that the town in each month presented a claim that represented items for moneys not spent at all; items for moneys not properly chargeable to direct relief and items for obligaticns carelessly undertaken as reâ€" Arrests May Be Made at Sturgeon Falls sented } of relief Judge H the Gov mendatic taken, b Report Issued by Royal Coommission of Enguiry into Improper Adminisâ€" tration of Relief at Sturgeon Falls, Findings Announced. ie governimen hese orders, ire louder and fu re is a dramatic ory, ~and Marie character acting haract trings cv deal n CDC and by . _confi made 1M marrie he new anC DA ne rep lows : â€" misrey atainin »3v the jlannin Da ngiy C@ mont th the ; ibm 1UTC bt is by "trading battles caust i divorceâ€"and 5. Marile sac 121 er and Poily Moran aboutâ€"and watch g incidental three rival Jam MM C@«)vernment wWHMI the most flagrant with some arrests out *esentation were relief orders in own in obtaining amounts to reâ€" , is charged. "I mdemn not only those guilty of 11 Xurn O0Of mney he Government y doctored acâ€" me cases. The t may be sumâ€" ncldenlalis, I11KC e rival Santa iventure in the cal battle that wo widows who until their Pach starts in imilyâ€"and fur there is a run a Job in a groâ€" it a way to put tTn rle sacrifices > end her life when Sonny Ofits of a big is report tc make recomâ€" hat should b¢ report to the the â€" evidencet does â€" some that tugs at M. Hall pre investigati3 rgeon Fall OUJ im WO believed Jacqult Giblyn and the then will An @alls.

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