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Voi. XXXII No. 47 IT‘S Electrical appliances of all kinds. TOWN GARAGE: The Timmins town garage, pictured above, is a former horse barn of the old Matâ€" tagami Pulp and Paper Company. Erected in 1923, it was purchased by the town for $8,000 in 1938. Both the interior and exterior are in a decrepit condition and the building is not sufficlently large to house the town‘s equipment properly. The place has been termed a "very poor risk" by the Fire Chief William Stanley. ILLEGAL HEATING SÂ¥STEM: According to orsent fire regulations in Timmins, the heating unit picâ€" tured above is illegal. A town bylaw calls for furnaces in garages to be situated in separate enclosures, to climinate danger of ign‘ition of gasoline and oil customarily found in a garage. . This heating unit was jinstalled in the present garage before this bylaw came into effect; neveytheless, it is a source of embarâ€" rassment to town officials when they attempt to enforce regulations among the general public and their "own home is not clean". NOT ENOUCGH SPACE: MHere three tractors and a grader are jammed into one corner of the garage The machines are parked so closs togethe,. that it is im possible to walk between them and workmen mus climb into driving seats. It is feared that in case of fire little if any equipment could be removed in time due to the manner in which equ.pment is packed in,. Replace:nent value of present town equipment is al most $150,000. . Second Section w se o ie s C P C AC P MAE Causes Embarrassment food mixers Valuable Equipment RS TO VOTE ON TOWN GARAGE Built In 1923 Published EVERY THURSDAY electric and battery radios \ record players in Timmins, Ont.. Canads Admiral Emerson are jJammed into one corner of the garage. walk between them and workmen must any equipment could be removed in time, TIMMINS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th, 1947 33A THIRD AVE. | Bea $75,000 Required For New Structure On election day, December 19, the voters of th> town of Timmins will decide whether or not theâ€" town reâ€" quires a new municipal garage. Voters will be asked to approve, or disapprove, the expenditure of $75,000 to replace the former bam at the: corner of Hector and Spruce street in wh‘ch the town‘s equipment is pres¢tntly housed. The present town garage was erected in 1923 to serve as a barn for the old Mattagami Pulp and Paper,Comâ€" pany. It was purehased by the town in 1938 for the sum of $q000 not for use as a permanent building, but. as a site for the erection of a new on*. Thirty feet by 96 feet in dimen:ion, it is not only inadâ€"quate properly to house fown equipment, but. accordir:; to Fire Chicf W. Stanley, it is class!â€" fied as a "very poor fire, risk." It is difficult to heat Jaccording to present standards in. Timmins, its heating plant is illegal, due to the fact that it is not in a separate enclosurse. This is a source of embarrassment to town officials when enforcing fire regulaâ€" tions compnelling other garages to adâ€" here to the present town bylaws.) The interior of the building is dark and dingy, with result that lights are hurned day. and night, with high electricity bills. j Both exterior and interior of the building are in poor condition due to the lensth of time the building has been standing and its original . conâ€" struction. Floors ‘in the upper storey are considerably heaved. Recently steel struts were extended from one side of the ubper storey to the other as a safeguard against the collapse of the building in severe winds. h However, those favoring the demoliâ€" tion of the present garags and .the erection of a new one, clainy that the greatest menace to the town is .. the fire hazard present in the creaking, old building. ~Two‘ factors enter the situation. it is claimed; of fire not only would the town lose equipâ€" ment with a replacementâ€" value of $147,850, but if a blaze took place durâ€" ing a period of heavy snows, protecâ€" tion by the Timmins Fire Department would be practically nil, when fire trucks would be unable to reach the seene of fires. "Town~ ‘equipnmtént ; <presently » being 'j.lmmed into! ‘the garage and its reâ€" placement yalue follows: two large tractors at 26,000; three small tractors at $12,000; ~grader $11,000; â€" roller, $12.000; loader. $12,000 mixer, $2,000. Two sanders $2,350; three pickâ€"up Two sanders $2,350; three pickâ€"up trucks, $6,000; three platform dump trucks,â€"$10,500; tw steel.dump. trucks,. $7,500; three special garbage trucks, $23.000; bulldozer attachment, $3,000; three thawing boilers, $4,500; miscelâ€" laneous pumps, $1,000; general tools, $10,000; stock pile of construction Incidentally, it is impossible for all this equipment to be placed in the garage at the one time and some Oof it has to be housed in sheds in the town yards. materials, $15,000 Tentative plans for the new garage (if it is approved by the voters) call for the erection of a concrete block and stucco building on the site of the present structure. It will be a fireâ€" proof building consisting of two wings. with a salvanized iron roof. One wing will be two storeys, 48 feet by 80 feet in dimensions, with iown shops on the ground floor and offices and stores on the second floor. The second wing will be a twoâ€" storied affair, ©0 feet by 100 feet in dimensions, to serve as a storage garage. "Nothing fancy is called for," said an official of the town‘s works deâ€" partment. "It will be just a shon of adequate size, solid construction and protected from fire hazard." ing elivesâ€"â€"but, onee the habit is acquireg there‘s leads of readâ€" ing pleaswre in store {or you. It‘s prokiahla reading, rtooâ€"reading that, brpoadens the mind and ketps vyex in cleso tauch with s important of may hare to/ aemmire a tasts fer editorial vtadingâ€"like eatâ€" Like eating Olives ... the dey. Read the EBITORIAL IN TAIS NEWSPAPEER North‘s Potato Crop Much Less This Y ear Official Report Says Natyasz Remanded Again On Gold Refinery Charge Pioneeiing Resident Here Dies Friday at Haileybury Pster Natvasz, charged last week with bsing in illegal possession of a sold refinery in his home, was reâ€" manded ‘again for one week when he appeared before Magistrate S. At~â€" kinson in Tuesday‘s police court. The late E. J. Hormby was born in "Telcester," England, on 31 i1872%, and came to Canada in 1904. In June of that vear he arrived at Haileyâ€" bury, and with Dcc. and. C. A. Foster went to Cobalt in the "Silver Rush" of those days. They staked the ‘proâ€" perty which became widely known S the Foster Mine. The following . year his wife and five childrem joired him at Haileybury. g Oone of the wellâ€"known ploneer reâ€" sidents of the North passed away in Haileybury hospital on Friday night, Nov. 21. in the person of E. T. Hornby, who spent about forty years in this North, working in both Cobalt and Porcupine camps during the early days. Death resulted from a stroke. A sufferer. from arthritis for the past twentyâ€"seven years, since his reâ€" turn from the Firss World War, he had spent most of the last three years confined to his bed. "disastrcus of that date. Like so many of the oldâ€"time pioneers of the North, he was ready to defend ‘this land as well as to help in its development. He volunteered for active service in the war of 1914â€"1918, going overseas early in 1916, serving as a sergeant in Northern Ontario‘s 159th Battalion to the end of the war, and after, being demobilized in 1919. The late Mr. Hornbyv was well known in the Porcupine, having spent . the greater part of 1910 and 1911 in‘ this camp. doing assessment work on variâ€" ous mining tlaims. He left Porcupine on the morning of July 11. 1911, and so by a narrow ‘margin escaped , the disastrous firé of that date. Like so many of the oldâ€"time pioneers of the North, he was ready to defend ‘this land as well as to help in its development. He volunteered for Coming back to Haileybury in 1919, Mr. Hornby returned in March, 1920, to England. where he married Miss L. Kitchener, the couple returning to Haileybury in June of the sam»e year. The late E. J. Hornby is survived by his widow, and two sons, Fred, of Timmins, and Arthur, of Toronto, and two daughters, Mrs. L. Kenney, of Toâ€" ronto, and Mrs. A. Gredhardt, of Neustadt. Ont.., as well as fifteen grandchildren and nine great-grand- children. Sale of Milk in Timmins Drops by 36,000 Quarts The funeral was held Monday afterâ€" noon at 3.30 p.m. from Tulloch‘s FPunâ€" eral Parlors to the Anglican Church. Interment was in the Solditrs‘® Piot, Residents of the Timmins D‘strict are @rinking 36,000 less quarts of milk per month than they were @ year ago, it is shown in the monthly dairy report of the Ontario Departâ€" ment of Agriculture, Latest month®* for whichâ€"figures are available is that of September. During that month in 1946, 359,610 quarts of milk were consumed in the district. This yvear the figure has fallen to 323,418. However the sale of fluid cream has shown a slight increase over last year. This September 5,252 quarts were sold, while a yvear ago the figure was 5208. The potato crop in Nerth Onâ€" tario was considerably less this year than in 1946, it was announcâ€" ed th‘s week in the monthly reâ€" Last year 1,786.283 byushels of potatoes were raised in the North. This year the figure is 1,445,108 bushels. The sale of chocolate milk dwindled considerably during the year. In Sepâ€" tember 1946, 5408 quarts were reâ€" p>ort of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. (Firemen To Inspect T own‘ Private Homes, | + # Fire Chief Announces Crank Wields Crank \On Local Storefront Poblished in Timmins, Ont.. Canada Plate glass in the store fronts Oof Timmins took a beating last week. when two different incidents occurred in which panes were shattered. :‘First firm to be victimized was Sole Brothers jewelry store, Third Ave. Exâ€" attly what happened to the stor? front is not clear. However, police say that a motorist leaped from a car, auâ€" tomobile® crank "in thand; ~and with a féew lusty swings demolished the glass in both front windows. It is said to have been a crime of malice. No efâ€" fort was made to rob the store. 43 To date no one has heen apprehendâ€" ; [ Then 91'1!Sat_vu;'day eyening, after the closing of l('gda,l; hoéq[s. an altercation between four men took place in front of McKeérrow‘s drug store. atâ€" Mountjoy and Wilson avenues One man was knocked through the plate glass winâ€" dow. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Haileybury branch of Canadian Legion. the coffin being draped with the Union Jack. ‘"Las? Post" and "Reveille" were sounded by Sgt. Farmer of the Haileybury Armâ€" ouries. Rev. Rose conducted the service. Damages to the owner of the: stork will be paid by the combatants. Halleybury cemetery The pallbearers were Comrades W Inche. T. Whyte, J. Reavell, L. David wW. Gordon and A Humphries. Floral tributes were recgived from the deceased man‘s family, Lily Linton, Barbara and Albert, Arthur and Ruth, and children Fred and Olive; wreaths from grandchildren, Ruth, West and Carole, William and Dorothy, Margaret and Frank and children; Zelda Bosâ€" senbery, E. B. Whorley, Mr. and Mrs. J. Reavell, the Canadian Legion; spray from the Porcup‘ine Advance. Among those attending from out Of town were; Mr. and Mrs. â€"P. J Hornby, Timmins; Mr, and Mrs. L KRenny, Toronto: Mr. A. S. Hornbyv. Toronto; Mr and Mrs. William Hornby SBudbury: Mrs, A. Rogers, Capreol. The Timmins fire department will extend its fire inspection tour of the town into private homes of residents, Fire Chief William Stanley announced today. The inspections will begin within (the next week. Bright spot in the dairy situation in the North is the increase in the amount of butter produced. The report shows that butter production in the Cochrane area increased from 266,133 pounds duringâ€"the first 10 months of 1946 to 325.286 pounds this year, Howâ€" ever, the manufacture of cheese was sliced almost in half, with only 8$4,000 peunds produced in the first ten months this year compared to 155,000 pounds in a similar period in 1946. Asking for coâ€"operation of the public in stamping out the fire menace to the community, Chief Stanley said that if only one bad fire hazard was discovered in the ho of the town. the entire new projfect would be worthwhile. tailed, while this year the amount noseâ€"dived to 3,120. At regular periods in the past fire inspectors have examined the towns places of business for fire hazards, but never before have examinations of private dwellings been made. "In order to keep down f‘re losses, inspection is the one weaâ€" pon which counts," he said, "Our purpose is not to intrude into the hnhomes of private citizens, but to point out dangers which threaten life and property."‘ This is attributd to the fact that .lâ€"'_ Y while butter increased in price up toi convic 40 percent, cheese showed only a minor | disorde increase All firemen will be in uniform when inspections are made. Washers â€" Troners Hoover, Royal, Premier : Eureka vaccuum cleaners floor polishers. Lemire was wearing the placards of a union picket when he inflicted the lengthy gash, half an inch deep, on Bisson‘s face. However, on his own evidence. Lemire was not a member of the striking union. "I am glad to see that the union is not involved in this, for it would be a black mark on its name," â€"commentâ€" ed the magistrate. "However, I quesâ€" tion the wisdom of the unicn in perâ€" mittine persons of this type to be on their picket lines." Bisson testified that he nad been working in the Mount Roeyal hotel durâ€" ing the day and that he had drank beer with his brotherâ€"inâ€"law, Clarence Michaud, and his employer, before leaving. He said that they had cross? the street to where their â€" auomobile was parked in front of the St. Charles hotel, when an altercation took place with picketers in front of the latter establishment He claimed. that his employer, who was hobbling on crutches, had fallen to the street and that picketers had abused him verbally. When he had remonstrated with them. Lemire had reached over another iman‘s shouldor and slashedchim ‘with a "Bnifs, he salid. He explained his ignorance of the | moving picture by saving that he had | fallen asleeno in the theatre. He denied | being a union man, and as well as | wearing picket placards, "His alibi is the weakest T have heard in a long time," said Magistralt | Atkinson, in passing sentence, _ Lemire has a long record h:cluding convictions for theft, operation of a | disorderly house, assault and infracâ€" tions ofi the liquor laws. Then Lemire had gone to an adâ€" joining service station where he and Michaud quickly located him (Lemire,) The aceused man had taken to his heels up a lane, to be trapped in a doorway near Pine street. When they discovered Lemire there he was brandishing a knife, Bisson said. He quoted the accused man as saying ‘"One step nearer and. you‘ll get some‘ more." At this Bisson. and his brother went to the police station. Michaud corroborated his brotherâ€" inâ€"law‘s evidence; but when examining a lineâ€"up in Timmins police. station that evening he picked a man other than Lemire as the slasher. Deftence Attorney Saul Platus made capital of this point in .discrediting Michaud‘s evidence. Michaud maintained that he had made a mistake in the lineâ€"up and insisted that Lemire was the man who had threatened them with a knife in the doorway. Erncst Desjardins, an employee of the Windsor hotel, said that he had been a. bystander during the slashing and that he had seen some unidentiâ€" fied person raise his hand to strike Bisson. He identified Lemire as the man who had run into the lane purâ€" sued by Bisson and Michaud. Prevâ€" iou<ly, he had seen Lemire parading as a picket, he claimed. Fourth crown witness was Sergeant Gordon Beacock of the Timmins Police department, said that he had questioned Lemire on the: following Monday. According to the officer, Leâ€" mire had claimed that he was eating in the Golden Arrow restaurant when the slashing took place and that he had spent the evening in the Palace theatre. However, Lemire was unable to give the name of the movie he had seen, nor able to identify the cast, nor describe the picture in any way, the officer said. i When he was called to the stand, Lemire said that he had had a drink of wine and coca cola at the Cliarles hotel and that he had left Cedar street half an hour before the attack took place, He declared that he had never seen Bisson or Michaud before in his lite. Single Copyâ€"Five Cents hard laborâ€" atâ€" Tuesday‘s of police court in â€" Timmins. that the union is , for it would be name,"â€"commentâ€" However, I quesâ€"