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Terrace Bay News, 26 Apr 1951, p. 4

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BOWLING DICTIONARY In case you or your bowling team are averaging 0.00 in the leagues, then it's time to be wise and learn the following terms for self-protection: ZYPTCHZOUITIS - A mysterious disease that causes you to think you can play the game. ALEEY - 4 narrow strip of board be- tween two wide chasms with you at one end and disillusionment at the other, BOWLING - One of the more refined tortures of civilization. Guaranteed to ruin tempers and break up families, BOWLING BsLL- An apparently round ball with a corkscrewts outlook on life. FOUL LINE ~ A black line that has a tondceney to mect you half way and helps keop your handicap up by kecping your averegc down, FOUL LINE JUDGE ~ Air raid warden on duty. Has a hawk's oye and Hitler's dis- 'position, Wears hat over his horns, GUTTER ~ 6ft. trench to keep your ball from m making a strike in the next alley. HANDICALP ~ Somothing no other team is entitled to, HEADPIN - Pin with no idea of co- operation, Falls over alone nine times out of ten, Stands alone the rest of the timo, PIN - Immovable object, approach of a ball. HOOK = Any straight ball you throw, KINGPIN - Opposite of head pin, falls dow, Pin-boys live on money paid for kicking it over, PIN~BOY - Perverse urchin with a pot of gluco, "who has a brother on the other toam,. Shrinks at SCORE =~ Record of your bad luck, 6.g., 200 for an opponent, Over his head, For you; "an off night", PLAYOFF - Finish fight between the two most hated teams, SPARE = Using two balls to other people*s one, SPLIT - Proof that the other toam is paying tho pin boy, STRIKE - What you get by skill, others by Jack; iia - You and four other people who couldi t kmock down a match with a barrage balloon, Summerside, P.E,I., Pioneer, o- O- 1: Never Page 4 THERE ARE IMPORTANT DAYS sAHEAD As we go to press, our safe day total stands at 107 during which we have worked 385,000 man hours, And our fre- quency rate (accidents per million man hours) is down to 4,8, just slightly above the 4.5 rate which was sct as our 1951 ob-= jective. Such a picture is encouraging, but we should constantly remember that no past experience assures a safe mill in the future and we should therefore, cach one of us continue to take all necessary pre- cautions to climinate hazards and work safoly. In the immediate future there are three important dates which we should work hard to reach without any on-duty disabling injuries, 1, By May 3rd, our frequency rate can be down to the 4.5 level. 2. By May 20th we aan set a new record for Consecutive Safe Days, May 28th, we can achieve a long time objective of one-half million safe man hours, "SAFETY IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS" SOFTBALL (Cont'd from p. 1) for Community Services and Bill Scott at the Tool-Crib for the Enginccring Tean,. A mocting to sot.up.the league and make all other nocessary arrangements has been called for Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in Teen Town, O=-O=0 NOTICE Items for publication in the T.B, News must be handled in one of the follow- ing ways:- Placed in one of the T,B News- boxes located at the Mill Time Clocks, and the Hudson's Bay Store, Placed in the Post Office, Delivered by hand to either the Recreation Office or the Personnel Office, No matter which system you chose, the material must be at any one of these places NOT LATER THAN 12:00 NOON ON WEDNESDAY! Material for publication must be in writing and no telephones requests will be handled, Send it in writing, and don't wait until Wednesday noon to do it, please, The fact that Wednesday noon is the Dead- line for all news doesn't mean that we won't accept it before that time, you can't get your news in too early for us, o-0=0

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