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Terrace Bay News, 25 May 1972, p. 1

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TERRACE BAY NEWS Vol. 15 No. 21 May 25 1972 15¢ Per Copy AF. HAYCRAFT ANNOUNCES BOILER START-UP Looking toward an improved position in the pulp and paper industry, A.F. Haycraft, president of Kimberly-Clark of Canada Limited, announced dur- ing a luncheon address to the Port Arthur Rotary Club of Thunder Bay, the startup this Fall of a new $8-million recovery boiler at the company's Terrace Bay mill. Established in 1948, with a design capacity of 100,000 tons of Kraft pulp annually, the mill employs about 500 persons. Its present capacity is 147,000 tons. The new boiler is designed to handle an additional 100,000 tons production annually. Of the $8-million cost, Mr. Haycraft explained that $1.2-million is for an evaporator and scrubber to control air pollu- tion. A recovery boiler serves as the "heart" of a Kraft pulp mill and its purpose is to take waste liquors from the pulping operation and recover both heat and chemicals for re-use. "We have no intention of expanding the mill in the near future but want to provide for the possibility of an expansion with-in the life of this new boiler," he told his Rotary Club audience. The Terrace Bay mill is supplied with pulpwood from the company's woodlands operations at Longlac. The company also has a tree nursery at Longlac to provide continuing crops of trees, and to date, more than 25-million trees have been planted on Kimberly Clark limits. At the time the mill was built, a natural system for primary effluent treatment was put inte use so cont'd page 2 ...... UNICEF'S CHI LDREN'S ART WINNER WILL FLY TO PARIS The Canadian UNICEF Committee announced details of the UNICEF international Children's Art Exhibition which will take place this summer and fall. All Canadian children between 8 and 15 inclusive are eligible to enter and twelve entries will be submitted for international exhibition in Paris. One of these twelve will be selected as the principal Canadian exhibit and the artist, accompanied by his or her parent, will be eligible for a free flight to Paris, courtesy of Air Canada. Closing date for entries is July 31, in Toronto, where they will be judged by a national jury, co- ordinated by the Art Gallery of Ontario. The final international judging, by a panel including Mme Pompidou, Frau Willi Brandt and Elizabeth Taylor, will take place in Paris in early October. "While children in the developing countries depend on UNICEF, UNICEF depends very much on the help of Canadian children. So we wanted to find a way to say 'thank you'", said Mrs. Sybil Darnell, President of the Canadian UNICEF Commi- ttee. "We hope that children all over Canada will enjoy taking part in our Exhibition." Full details and entry forms are available now from the Canadian UNICEF Committee, 737 Church Street, Toronto. Drownings can be prevented, but only if you and your family respect the water. This summer remember to stay alive with Red Cross water safety.

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