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Home My WebLink AboutThe Bayfield Bulletin, 1964-08-19, Page 8Watch For The "PENGUIN" This amphi car is to be test drii ., down at the Bayfield River on Saturday err It i not! WATCH FOR IT SpotkAg good) ol .211.a4 CieWO-od s 80 King Street — CLINTON — 482-9622 F WEST STREET LAUNDROMAT 54 WEST STREET — GODERICH DIAL 524-9953 Washing and Drying 24 Hours a Day DRY CLEANING Mon. to Fri. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. PATTERSON'S USED FURNITURE 97 St. Patrick St. — Godcrich -- Dial 524-7616 F BAIRD MOTORS GODERICH LTD. Pre-'65 Clearance Sale Clearing All Company Demonstrators . . . PLUS . . . many dollar savings of all new units at hand. ONE WEEK SPECIAL 1959 BEL-AIR Sedan featuring . . . V-8 automatic, whitewalls, wheel discs, washers, two-tone paint, V-1 condition PLUS A 16 FT. MOBILE HOME, This trailer was built in 1964, sleeps 6, has aluminum windows, screens, electric frig., propane gas stove and sink, insulat- ed, exterior finished in aluminum; been used only 3 weeks. SPECIAL COMBINATION VALUE AS IS SPECIALS $2150,90 1959 FORD, V-8, auto- matic, radio. AS IS $650 1958 PLYMOUTH V - 8, automatic, radio, AS IS $550 1957 CHEVROLET Sed- an, V-8, stick shift, radio, good condi- tion—AS IS $750 1958 CHEVROLET Sed- an, 6 cyl., standard trans, mechanically A-1—AS IS $675 1956 CHEVROLET Two Door, 53,000 orig- inal miles, mech- anically A-1, needs some body work. AS IS $375 1959 PLYMOUTH Bel- vedere V-8, auto- matic, mechanically A-1, worth $1095 AS IS $750 1955 CHEVROLET, 4-Door, Sedan, 6-Cyl., standard trans., radio, exceptional condition $595 We Also Have On Hand A Wide Selection Of A- I Reconditioned Used Cars Carrying The OK Warranty. BAIRD MOTORS 414 HURON RD. 524-8311 Page 8—The Bayfield Bulletin—Wed., August 19, 1964 There's a lake just north of the mighty Eastmain River in northern Quebec and eighty miles east of James Bay which didn't have a name up until about four years ago. Now it's called "Hungry Lake". How this came about is, of course, our tale for today. Alex Mathias, my Indian part- BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN CLINTON SHOW STARTS AT DUSK Come as late as 11:00 p.m. and see complete show. THURSDAY and FRIDAY August 20-21 'nip Family Entertainment "COME BLOW YOUR HORN" FRANK SINATRA BARBARA RUSH Colour Cartoon SATURDAY and MONDAY August 22-24 "Muscle Beach Party" FRANKIE AVALON ANNETTE FUNICELLO Colour Cartoon TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY August 25-26 "SOLDIER IN THE RAIN" JACKIE GLEASON STEVE McQUEEN TUESDAY WELD Cartoon Coming: "The 3 Stooges In Orbit" "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" ner, with Jack Kirk, formerly of Larder Lake, Ont.. and I, were flown in to the lake just two days before freeze-up with orders to carry out a magneto- meter and electro-magnetic sur- vey on a large and interesting group of copper claims. Alex and I had spent half the summer in the area and were familiar with the layout. Knowing what kind of winter weather to expect, we didn't consider the summer camp site, which had been located high on an outcrop with a view to collecting a cooling breeze. This time we sought shelter in a dense grove of spruce and jackpine at the west end of the lake, and spent the first two days felling logs to make log cabin type walls for our ten by twelve tent. Winter Hits The AM two days were balmy, but on the third day a mean sleet storm blew in, covered the ground with freez- ing slush, and brought with it hundreds of Canada geese. They were just as disgusted with the weather as we were, and sought refuge on the nameless lake. But not for long. One shrewd old gander spotted the end of a gas drum sticking out of the swampy lake fringe, trumpeted out a warning and a command, and all took to the air again, storm or no storm. That night a thin sheet of ice formed from shore to shore and the temperature dropped to ten or fifteen below while about nine inches of fluffy powder snow fell during the night. This didn't seem signifi- cant at the time. After all, the tent was up, the logs were chinked with moss and we were snug as bugs in our tent home, toasted by the airtight tin stove and comfortable in our sleeping bags. We set to work cutting the base line and taking off a grid of side lines. making good time and confident that our month's supply of grub and other supplies would be more than adequate. Freeze-up gen- erally brings plane-landing ice in about two weeks, and then another Beaver load of stuff could be flown in the 350 miles from Amos, Quebec with no trouble. Down and Down How wrong we were. That three quarters of an inch of ice, now under a foot of in- sulating powder snow simply refused to thicken, though temperatures went down to twenty below at night. Still the grub pile looked reassur- ingly high and there was plen- ty of time yet. Our carefree attitude altered slightly day by day as Alex who was acknowledged chief cook, Would remark as he tos- sed a can into the garbage box: "Well, there goes the last of the ham." Or it would be: "That's the last of the canned peas". After about ten more days of these casual comments and no improvement in i c e conditions, we took a look at the puny collection of card- board boxes. Reckoning day revealed we had about a dozen spuds, some of them badly frostbitten, a seven-pound bag of flour, some baking powder, a half - pound bar of semi-sweet chocolate, a can of butter, part of a pound of lard, half a gallon of maple syrup and six onions. And the ice was still only about an inch thick, not half enough to beer even a light Cessna. Mighty Hunter, "Mighty Hunter" Mathias took over. Stuffing a coil ut bronze snare wire into his par- ka pocket, he stepped into his snowshoes and plodded off into a semi-blizzard and was gone for nearly three hours. He came back with a self-satis- fied look on his usually enig- matic face and remarked that he had made a few rabbit set- ups and there would be no cause for panic. We were in almost daily radio contact with our base at Rouyn. Quebec, where our friends at Gold Belt Air Ser- vices apppreeiated our reports on the dwindling grub pile. and, wise in the way of bush pilots, discounted our ice thickness reports by fifty per- cent. Our work days shortened in direct relation to the size of the grub pile, and the hunger shakes came earlier in the day. Then serious atteinpts to work were abandoned and the em- phasis was put on getting in enough firewood. Improperly fed, we found a two-mile snow- shoe jaunt to replace a claim post or look for Ptarmigan or snowbound partridges became a major expedition. 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