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Terrace Bay News, 4 Aug 1960, p. 9

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" August 4, 1960 TOWN TOPICS (Cont'd from Page 7) Nicks brother, in Verigin they visted with his Mother and with a sister in Kelvington, Stella and Sam Zielke motored to the Coast for their vacation, stopping off at Castlegar, Trail and visiting her brother and Vancouver and his brother in New West- | minster and another brother in Drayton , Valley, Enroute home they took in the Cal- | gary Stampede before picking up their child- | ren who had visited their grandmother in Oakburn, Man, They also visited other rela- tives in Edmonton, Beausejour and Great Falls. Bea and Len Williams with Roy and Joan | motored through the States to Sarnia to visit Grimsby and the home of a cousin then on to Niagara Falls before visiting with their families in East Templeton and Gatin« eau, Quebec, i Mr.& Mrs, Wm. Colborne and Jane were | visitors at Fort William and previously Mrs.Colborne with Jane and Don were guests | of friends in Sioux Lookout. DRYDEN CELEBRATES Dryden, one of the fastest-growing | communities in northwestern Ontario, is now ' celebrating the 50th anniversary of its incorporation as a town, Although it is fifty years old, Dryden is youthful'and dynamic, In the last fif- teen years its population has more than doubled to the present 6,000 people. The backbone of Dryden's industrial life is the paper mill, which employs 1,500 per- sons, but Dryden is far from being a ' "Company Town," - It is a community with a full range of | services and conveniences--a town where seventy-five percent of the homes are owner- occupied; a tourist centre which attracts thousands of visitors each year. 'So we salute Dryden, a town celebrating the achievements of the past with its eyes on the future, | END OF AN ERA Plenty of nostalgic prose has been written | about the end of the steam locomotive era. Writers have become eloquent about the wail of a steam whistle at night but they haven't said much about the men who had to sound the whistle, And cities and towns are making inquiries about installing one of the old- timers as "points of interest." How do engineers feel about the end of the steam locomotive era? Some of them may feel like giving the faithful old locomotive a fond pat as it goes on the way to the | junkyard but 'others may feel like giving it | a good, swift kick. | RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT FISHING LIMITS Although wide publicity was given an Ontario Lands and Forests announcement in. May regarding daily possession and export limits on fish taken by resident and non- resident anglers in 1960, Department offi- cials say some misunderstanding still exists, The Department announcement clarifying the Situation states: "The Department found it necessary to have information on the non-resident angling license for the 1960 season in the hands TERRACE BAY NEWS -------- Page 9 "of the printers several months before changes in the.limits of catch of fish for 1960 were confirmedby Ottawa. ° "It will be found, therefore, that the ex- port limits specified on the fish shipping coupons of the non-resident angling license for 1960 for lake trout, Kamloops or rainbow trout, splake and speckled trout are the same as export limits provided for these particu- lar fish in 1959, but are different from the export limits for these fish provided by the Ontario Fishery Regulations for 1960, "Under the circumstances, the following daily possession and export limits will govern for non-resident anglers and the following daily and possession limits will govern for resident anglers during the year 1960: "Two lake trout taken from Lake Simcoe or five lake trout taken from waters other than Lake Simcoe: "Five Kamloops trout or five rainbow trout or five of any combination thereof: "Three splake: "One and an additional fourteen speckled trout provided the additional fourteen in the aggregate weigh not more than ten pounds. "The daily possession and exports limits on all other species of fish taken by angling | will conform with the Ontario Fishery Regula- tions for 1960, POSTER PROCLAIMS ONTARIO'S CODE OF HUMAN RIGHTS A poster proclaiming Ontario's human rights code, stressing equality of rights for all regardless of colour, religion or background, has been published by the Ontario Anti-Dis- crimination Commission and is now available to organizations and institutions throughout the province for public display, Labour Minister Charles Daley announced in June. Inscription on the poster reads as follows: "It is public. policy in Ontario that all its citizens are born free and equal iin dignity and rights without regard to race, oreed, color, nationality, ancestry or place of origin, Through Ontario's human rights code, the Legislature has laid the ground where people of goodwill can come together and solve their difficulties." The poster carries. the signatures of Premier Leslie M, Frost and of Mr. Daley, Some of the reports in the Press and on TV lately would lead one to believe that the above mentioned poster has not been too widely read, Advertise in the Terrace Bay News ee te EE

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