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TERRACE BAY NEWS Vol. 14 No. 21 Serving the District May 26, 1971 ANNUAL SAFETY CONFERENCE Representatives from the Kimberly-Clark Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd., Terrace Bay, will be attending the 56th Annual Safety Conference of the Ontario Pulp and Paper Makers Safety Association being held in Toronto, May 27th and 28th. Mill Manager John Ferrier, William Megraw, Don- at Laporte and Verl Thompson will attend to review the results of the previous fifty-five conferences; and to seek ways of improving an already impressive safety record. This conference will celebrate the reduction of injury frequency from 75.1 (in 1946) to 27.4 (in 1970) per 100,000 man-days exposure for the wood operations (a reduction in injury frequency of 63.5%); and an injury frequency of 40.1 (in 1949) to 14.8 (in 1970) per 1,000,000 man=hours exposure for mill/plant operations (a reduction in injury frequency of 63.1%). a va The theme for this year's conference is, "ZERO IN ON SAFETY". The conference key-note speaker will be The Honourable Rene Brunelle, Minister of Lands and Forests, Ontario. The banquet speaker will be Mr. Guy M. Minard, Chairman of the Board, Kimberly- Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin (Past Pres- ident and formerly Director of Ontario Pulp and Paper Makers Safety Assoc.). Programe speakers include Dr. John A. McCulloch, M.D., F.R.C.S. (C), Orthopaedic Surgeon, Toronto; John A. Fletcher, Loss Control Consultant, Toronto; J.E. Carrigan, Traffic Manager, Bulk-Lift Systems itd., Toronto; Lloyd G. Kerr, Management Consul- tant, Lloyd Kerr Associates, Toronto; F .W. Stevens, continued page 4 ........ ST. MARTIN'S SCHOOL WALK-A-THON Just over 200 persons took advantage of the per- fect weather a week ago Saturday to enter the Walk- a-Thon sponsored by the Grade Eight class of St. Martin's School in Terrace Bay. Poor weather since then has, however, delayed the collection of the money, but even the incomplete figures available at present indicate that the students have realized their goal and have raised sufficient funds for their class trip to Winnipeg the week of June 14th to 18th. The 20-mile route between St. Martin's School (Terrace Bay) and Holy Angels' School (Schreiber) was scattered with adults and children of all sizes between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., when the last walker finally checked in. Anyone driving between "Schreiber and Terrace Bay couldn't help but notice the variety of colorful clothing and headgear worn by the participants. Fortunately for many walkers, the St. John's Ambulance personnel were on patrol to massage sore feet, bandage blisters and generally give assistance and sympathy wherever necessary. A few statistics on the Walk-a=Thon: - «204 walkers were officially registered. (There were others who walked unofficially, just for the exercise, including one "mystery man" who is re- ported to have walked the whole 20 miles - assisted on the last part of the trip by a cane!). - Of these 204 who started, 182 made it at least as far as Schreiber. - 77 of these who reached Schreiber decided to call it "quits" at the half-way point and the other 105 set out on the return trip. - Of these 105, there were 89 who completed the entire 20-mile trek. In the Grade Eight class itself, all 21 students continued page 2 .......