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The Bayfield Bulletin, 1964-12-10, Page 6RUSHY TALES by ART ELLIOTT F E BAYONET and SHEATH With Every Purchase of $10.00 ortMore Christmas Sale NOVEMBER 23-28 and DECEMBER 14 to 24 on all purchases of $5.00 or more on fishing tackle, marine supplies, diving swimming and camping equipment. Beautiful tray plaques. Extra special on 6" tray plaques. Reg. 70c now 3 for $1.50 ALL AMUNITION balance of all items in stock. Loading supplies motors, snow machines, etc. 1/3 OFF 25% OFF 25% OFF 10% OFF • RELOADERS • Standard Primers $8.00 Per 1000 Battery cup style to fit CIL cases $9,25 Per 1000 TO OBTAIN THIS DISCOUNT Please Bring This Advertisement With You. ELLWOOD EPPS SPORTING GOODS CLINTON OPEN FRIDAYS 'TIL 10 — DAILY 8-6 0 • • • THANK YOU To all who aided in my election as your Stanley Township School Area Trustee. I will work in the interest of the Ratepayers to the best of my ability. JOHN TAYLOR Page 6—Bayfield Bulletin—Thursday, Dec. .10, 1964 Good Trout Season Reported By Ontario Dept. Lands, Forests In the next week or ten days there will be a joyous exodus from the bush in Northern On- tario and Northwest Quebec, for there seems to be an un- written law, established by cus- tom of many years' standing, that all Who want out from Christmas to New Year's day may go, except for skeleton crews, generally volunteers. From all over the North within flying range of civilize- I wish to thank the voters of Stan- ley Twp. for their support at the polls on Monday, Dec. 7. I will endeavor to serve you to the best of my ability as a member of the Area School Board. JAMES CLEAVE 50b tion, the planes will be bringing in their loads of bush workers, claim stakers, geologists, min- ing engineers, line cutters, geo- physical operators, cooks and laborers, trappers and pulp cutters. For weeks now most travel on the ground has been accom- plished on snowshoes, because the white stuff is now three to four feet deep east of James Bay, and temperatures have been approaching 40 degrees be- low zero. For weeks the men have been wearing the moose- hide moccasins, the insulated underwear, wool liners in the moosehide mitts, parka tops have been up since the end of October. The tents and shacks have been banked with snow, and the airtight stoves have glowed red at night, not quite banishing the half-inch hoar frost from the walls. Night has been coming at four p.m. Work has been start- ing at a cold gray seven a.m. The northern lights have been shooting their weird patterns through the myriads of bright stars in the clear black sky. Since the middle of October, at .freezeup time, small parties in remote mining properties scattered all over the north have been trying to meet sched- ales set in the air-conditioned offices on. Bay Streit, where the consulting staff geologists, have laid out the work to be accomplished, passed the word to the field men, and then left their comfortable offices to dine in some cosy King Street emporium. Using your brains beats snowshoeing any day. A degree in time will keep 'those axehandle callouses away for- ever. The Cessnas, Beavers, Balan- ces and Norsemen will be drop- ping their loads of men at Tim- mins, Val d'Or, Amos, Rouyn, Sudbury, North Bay, disgorging them to trains, buses, cars or perhaps larger TCA planes that will carry them still further to homes in Toronto, Montreal or even Winnipeg. Many will fall by the wayside for a day or so, unable to pass the tavern door after abstin- ence of two months. Shook-up and shaking, they'll resume the pilgrimage, intent on finally making it to whatever can be called home. Who stayed in the bush? Why, the usual loners and the friendless who call the tent or the bunkhouse home and mean it. There just isn't any other place for them to go. Christmas alone in a hotel room doesn't make much sense, and the in- evitable drunk on Christmas Eve would be far too expensive, besides being too damaging to the health. So there they are, on a regi- men of light duties, such as fixing up the camp, stocking up on firewood, catching up on the bookkeeping or repairing equip- ment, while the 25th of De- cember approaches. There will come a night when the sky is like black velvet studded with diamonds, display- ed under the pale green and delicate pink of the northern lights. The constant wind will moan through the spruce and jackpine. The light top snow will sift and drift through the tag alders and the muskeg swamps. Some hungry wolves may careen through the night sounding like half a dozen far- away fire sirens with their un- canny howling. White smoke will gush from the huts and tents and try to climb straight up to heaven. The last battery radio will be snapped off. Coleman ]amps will go out all over the north. Fires are checked off, with only the occasional fitful flick- er from the stove casting eerie shadows on the canvas or ply- wood walls and ceilings. Men will roll and mutter in their sleeping bags or bunks. The snores will start. A tree will crack in the frost like a car- bine. Then all will be hushed. A star fails. The wind sighs. It is Christmas again, in camp. Bayfield Personals Mrs. Jack Hammond, (Bar- thena) who for the past 17 years has capably performed the duties of village post mis- tress, has retired. Mrs. Mayman is her successor. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Faber of Kippen were dinner guests last Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Penhale and family. To The Electors Of Stanley Township: THANKS to all those who supported me at the polls in the vote for school trustees. Yours sincerely, RUSSELL GRAINGER 50b Timber Although not entirely seas- onal., it is perhaps in order to review some of the timber pro- gram activities in progress and those that have recently been ocmpleted in the Owen Sound area. The greater part of the timber field work in this area is carried out on the Agreement Forests being managed by the Department. Much of the field work involves the planting of open land plus the management of the natural timber stands on the various properties. An integral part of any timber management program is con- cerned with the protection of resources on the lands from fire, insects, disease and ani- mals. During the past planting sea- son of September-October, the staff completed a 225,900 tree planting program in Grey County. Much of the open area planted is located on agreement forest lands acquir- ed in 1964. The trees were ma- chine and hand planted, the method generally being dictat- ed by the roughness or steep- ness of the site itself. Planting was as follows: 143,900 trees on Saugeen Valley Conserva- tion Authority properties, 74,- 100 trees on North Grey Reg- ion Conservation Authority properties. In combination with this spring's planting, the total number of trees set out in Grey County was 285,275. Stand improvement thinning in natural hardwood timber stands as well as young conifer plantations is now underway in Grey and Bruce Counties. Over 600 acres of immature hard- wood timber in Grey County will be selectively marked and thinned during the winter months. The method used is the frill-chemical treat opera- tion. Presently, row thinning of a red pine plantation is be- ing done in Bruce County. This first thinning is aimed at the maintenance of good growth and development of the future crop trees. 1964 Rainbow Season This year in the Owen Sound area we have experienced one of the best years for angling success than ever before. The spring rainbow catches were good and rainbow trout were taken by trolling well into June and even July. As the catches in the Bay were reduced dur- ing the latter part of July and early August, surprisingly the Sydenham River in Harrison Park produced some excellent angling for many anglers. Sev- eral rainbow and brown trout, up to six pounds, were caught during the hottest part of the summer. Evidently, a large number of rainbow trout migrating the fish ladder in the spring de- cided to stay in the river for the summer months and not re- turn to the lake as they usually do. In early September, rainbow trout were again being caught in the Bay by trolling as well as angling from shore. A sur- prising number of large fish were caught early in the Fall season and catches continued to be good up to the last weeks of the season. However, dur- ing the last two weeks the weather was dirty and there was a sharp reduction in the number of anglers. Only the most ardent fishermen were having success during the last wto weeks. According to the number of small rainbow in the spawning streams as well as in the Bay, we can look forward to a con- tinued inereas.e in the rainbow population. Personnel V. Fisk, Zone Forester for Bruce Zone, has been transfer- red to St. Williams Nursery. W. C. Sanders, Superintend- ent at Wiarton Fish Hatchery, has retired and moved to Sault Ste. Marie. NOMINATIONS Village of Bayfield NOTICE is hereby given to the Municipal Electors of the newly incorporated Village of Bayfield that a NOMINATION MEETING will be held in the VILLAGE HALL. BAYFIELD on MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1964 At the hour of 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., for the purpose of Nominating persons for the office of Reeve and four Councillors for the year 1965. If An Election Is Necessary, The Poll Will Be Held at the Village Hall, Bayfield, on Monday, December 28th, 1964 and will be open from 9.00 o'clock a.m. until 5.00 o'clock p.m., and no longer. The Voters' List, to be used, if an election is necessary, will be the List of Voters in Polling Sub-Division No. 8 as set out in the Voters' List for the Municipality of the Township of Stanley for the year 1964. This list will be posted in the Bayfield Post Office and will also be held at the home of the Returning Officer. Please note that when a candidate is not present at the Nomination Meeting, his nomination will not be valid unless there is satisfactory evidence that the proposed candidate consents to be so nominated. DATED at Bayfield, this 10th day of December 1964 LLOYD MAKINS, Returning Officer.