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EE ORE Wa The local softball house league got underway last night when "Curly" Hale's Eng- jnecring crew took Whitfield's Pulp Convert- ers into camp by the score of 9 to 2. For awhile it looked like the league opener would have to be postponed but the boys were determined that "the show must go on", so amidst frequent showers a 5-inning game was played and made it an official one for the books, The battery for Pulp was Whitfield and Keeley and for Engineering it was Gow and Rusnak, Ed Pineault called 'om at the olate and Umpirce-in-chief Runey Ostling called tem as he saw 'em on the bases, Friday night will see the other two teams play their first game when the Salaried boys meet Townsite, Next Wednesday end Friday two more scheduled games will be play- ad. It is reported that W, C,. (Wild Will) Borsum came in for a severe reprimand from Verl (Rabble Rouser) Thompson when he was ceught violating his player's contract by playing on the Engineering Dept. line-up when they ongaged Community Services team in a geme of "outlaw" softball one sunny Sunday afternoon, It was rumoured at first that Bill was going to be put on the auction block for his action but after the coach and he hed a session behind closed doors, it was decided to let the matter ride o-0-0 PULP DEPARTMENT COMPLETES ACCIDENT~FREE YEAR "As of midnight last Tuesday, May 15th, the entire Pulp Department completed a full year without an on-duty disabling injury. During this period, a total of more than 278,000 man hours were involved, We extend Sincere congratulations to Superintendent Gordon Rowlandson, his foremen and every Pulp Department employee for their excellent accident prevention efforts, May their noeaccident experience cont= inue for a long time to come} 0-0-0 48_AN ATID. TO THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT Please use receptacles of some kind, whenever possible, when putting out rubbish, leaves, etc,, for pick-up by the garbage trucks, This little extra efforf will make 45 just that much faster for the crews to do their work and so we will all get rid of our rubbish faster, 0-0-0 LEARN THE CAUSES OF FIRE AND PREYENT THEM ' Pago 7 {HE GUNNERS' COLUMN } Mr, Abbott's budget speech is history ~ now, but at that time the item that concern- ed most people was, how much of a bite will be taken from their pay cheque, Others would delve deeper into it and wonder about the $1,664,000,000,00 for defence purposes, This figure, of course, includes all of the armed forces Experimental and Research Lab- oratories, Just for a moment let's look into the requirements of an Anit-Aircraft Regiment, Every piece of Ordnance, that is,a gun, is a highly technical piece of achievement that costs in the neighbourhood of $60,000.00 to $80,000.00, and when you consider that there are quite a few in each regiment, this item alone can add up to a pretty heavy figure, ~ In addition to this, you can go on interm- inably listing all of the auxilliary items necessary to put these guns into service, such as: vehicles for towing guns, trucks for troop transportation, motor cycles, wireless sets and a myriad of other neces- sary pieces of equipment, Also to be con-= sidered, are the personnel themselves and the amount of dollars required to pay, arm, train, feed and maintain in the field is astounding, To pick a controversial figure of about $5,000,000,00 to operate one Ack Ack Regiment, would give you an idea of where your tax dollars are going. £t a recent local parade we had a dis-= cussion about a surprise attack on Canada by an enemy, The general concensus of opinion was that we do not have too many regular Army units at present and that the Reserve Army would not be effective enough to do much about it. It is quite evident that the Reserve Army is not up to strength and that it is our job to rectify this sit- uation, Let's not have the same old, old story - Too little and too late, All plans are in readiness for the scheme on Sunday, so let's have a real good turnout and make this practise well worth -- while, ' o-0-0 SCHOOL FIRE DRILL IS HELD A surprise fire drill was held at the Terrace Bay School on Friday, May llth. The alarm was sounded at 3:25 p.m. and all pupils were out of the building in 49 seconds, There were several members of the Home and School Association present as well as memb- ers of the School Board and Management. There were approximately 176 children in school at the time the alarm was sounded, Mr, Smith and his Staff deserve a great deal of credit for training the pupils in Mira Drills.