Local Elections Bring Choice and Close Mayor Race
Voters turnout 56 percent as four of five council candidates win seats in a hot Municipal and Village election. Jim Blom edged Russell Waters by four votes to become mayor. Leo Drabyk elected reeve with 78 vote majority. New council members include W A Campbell Frank Hanton Steve Tobak and others with terms starting November 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Apsit
Jim Blom
Gordon Johnson
Lyle Wilcox
Russell Waters
Leo Drabyk
W. R. Betluk
A. Karklin
John Hayward
Ina Harland
W. A. Campbell
Frank Hanton
Steve Tobak
Martin Okolita
Fred Bishop
Mall Returns to Full Production at Abitibi Paper Mill
Abitibi Paper Co. Ltd. in Pine Falls resumes full operations after a four day shutdown caused by a wood shortage. Mill manager D. D. Munroe says a good weather spell created a reasonable wood inventory to last until freeze up. About 350 hourly employees work at the mill which makes news print for four Canadian papers, including Winnipeg dailies, and about 50 U.S. newspapers.
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Abitibi
Pine Falls
D. D. Munroe
Abitibi Paper Co. Ltd
Manitoba Paper Division
Winnipeg
United States
Lutheran Church Celebrates Fifteenth Anniversary
The Lutheran Church of the Cross Lac du Bonnet marks its fifteenth anniversary with a special festive service on Sunday November 3. Rev Dr Otto A Olson Central Canada Synod President will preach. A buffet dinner follows the eleven oclock service. Hymn sing and coffee hour set for Sunday November 17 at 730 pm. Public invited.
Tanco Convention at CIM Meeting in Winnipeg 1974
The 1974 CIM Annual Western Meeting hosted by the Winnipeg Branch ran October 23 to 26 at the Holiday Inn. CIM members toured Bernie Lake’s Tantalium Mine and Dumbarton Mine, with J. C. Hayward presenting on mining at Bernie Lake. Tanco yields 700 tons daily of tantalite ore and described its high room and pillar method and mechanized equipment.
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C.I.M
Winnipeg
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Holiday Inn
Bernie Lake
Tanco
Dumbarton
C.im
C. T. Williams
J. C. Hayward
Winnipeg Inn
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Lac DU Bonnet
Lea Drabyk
Walter Zarecki
M. J. Ukrainec
John Woligroski
Ed Sikora
Ward
Ron Hirst
A. V. Mager
John Grewinski Sr
W. R. Belluk
Albert Karklin
Buddy Mager
Erik Tagesen
Pointe du Bois
Manitoba
Eric
Winnipeg River
Mall
Abitibi Newsprint
Harry Blatz
Jim Smith
Lutheran Church
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