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NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
GODERICH
MEL.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE FAMOUS
CANADIAN MADE BRIGHAM PIPES
(SALES AND SERVICE)
Goderich News Stand
16 THE SQUARE, GODERICH JA 4-9926
When in Goderich drop in to see our selection.
110W MANY BANKING SERVICES WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE?
A complete range of banking services —because this is the site
of a new branch of a cha,rtered. bank /Outure customera will come here
to do all their banking, because only in a chartered bank is it
possible for all banking to be done under one roof /Each branch, large
Or stnall, Offers a:full banking service, from cashing a cheque to
financing foreign trade. Uach. has a staff trained and eager to ren.der
the high standard of service that features charered banking in Canada,
CRA.11,11 tR'ED BANKS i3ERV/110- YOU'll, COMMUNITY
1NEWS,RECORD• VISITS MAJOR INDUSTRIC Pogo 4,,,clinton tiew,i4R49.01 Thurg,,, March._ 15f,
IV Employed At -Sheaffer
Pen Factory' In Goderich,
Gripping Sections Trimmed
Lathe and punch press operator Mrs. Benno
(Armanda) Dubler, Holmesville, is seen trimming
the gripping sections of pens at the pen factory.
The plant employs 110 persons
(News-Record Photo)
Quick Canadian Quiz
Clinton Girl
Pretty receptionist
and switchboard operator
Mrs. Ross (Betty) Feag-
an is the official greeter
at the W. A. Sheaffer
Pen Company in node-
rich. Betty commutes
from Clinton every day.
(News-Record Photo)
"bubbles" to .enelese a 14,a). Not oemhly :and inspection..
pen crud refill are made inj
another department. The cards
are then sent to the shIPPing
room where tlypy stored' 144,
til (they are sent .04.4 to wholes-
sate and retail. outlets..
Vtr, A. Sheaffer the fOnnder
of the •company invented his first self-filling pen in 3908 and the first lever filling pen in
1913. Since that time the U.S.
company has grown until there
are plants in Fort Madison,
Iowa, Melberg-Ale and Victoria,
Australia and Sao. Paulo, Braz-
il. Parts are shipped for as-
sembly in Barnet, England and
Holland, and completed UnitS
from the Goderich plant are
sent to Hong Kong, Pakistan,
Egypt, Ireland, British West In-
dies arid' Singapore,
The pliant is open six days a
week for tours by groups or in-dividuals. Toms are available
from 1.30 'to 4 p.m. each day.
Last year 3,640 visited' the fac-
tory.
Cartridge Filling Machine
Mrs. Harold (Vernice) Stanbury, Goderich
seen left is inspecting filled ink cartridges at the
W, A. Sheaffer plant. Standing right is Marlene
Curry, Goderich, who checks to make sure a small
polyethylene tube has been placed into each holder
by machine (News-Record Photo)
The pen factory boasts of having a 24 hour
repair service, Seen here Mrs. Fred (Margaret)
Trevena," Clinton, is overhauling one of the fountain
pens returned for repair. Spare parts are kept on
hand for repairs to 30-year-old pens.
(News-Record Photo)
Packaging ink Cartridges
When you purchase a supply of ink cartridges
for yptir pen they could have been packed by (left
to right) Mary Lou Drennan, Kingsbridge and
Sandra Lee, Clinton. The cartridges are lined,
stamped with the company name and dropped into
a drum which feeds theih dowrt a stnall chute where
five at a tithe are ptished into the small Cardboard
Containers. (NeWSARecord Photb)
The Bible Today
The Bible ,abounds witch stor-
ies of God` using faithful women
to accomplish His purposes'.
Christian work eveaywhe a has
benefitted from the .itweted ser-
vice given by wamaa.
. The latest evidence of the
debt owed by the Bible Society
to women comes from Brazil.
About four years ago the Wo-
men's Auxiliary of the Bible
Society of Brazil came into be-
ing. Groups have been organiz-
ed in' 32 cities, two of them with
a population over three million:
Sao Paulo with more than 500
churcheS and Rio de Janeiro
with more than 450 churches.
In this vast country of 3,200,
000 square miles, these groups of
women separated by great dis-
tances, are enthused by one aim
.--to give the Bible to; their
homeland,
Last year no less than 50
percent of the income of the
Bible Society was collected by
the women. In' 1959, over 5,000
new members enlisted, and .ap-
proximately $3,800.00 was rais-
ed.
The women's organizations.
promote the observance of Bible
Sunday, take' part in open-air
demonstrations, put exhibitions
of Scripture in Shop windows,
have weeks of prayer and' en-
gage in colpoabage activities,
Suggested Bible Readings
Sunday fames 2: 126
Monday James 3: 1-18
Tuesday Janlea 4:` 1.17
'WedneSday ...... Janies 5: 1-20
Thursday Exodus 20: 1-17
Friday Psalm 51: 1-19
Saturday ... Psalin 96: 1-13
Clinton Resident
Visits Florida
Jungle Garden
SARASOTA, Fla. — Mrs, T.
Rees Jenkins, 131 Townsend
Street, Clinton, enjoyed a visit
to Sarasota Jungle Gardens
during :her recent vacation on
Florida's Lower West Coast.
The visitors mingled with flam-
ingos and other rare wildfowl
from every continent roaming
freely 'in these world-famous
gardens. Other points of in-
terest in Jungle Gardens were
hundred's of unusually colorful
tropical plantings, huge Royal
Palms 'bordering jungle traits,
and brilliant macaws and coca-
tops which, pose with visitors
for pictures.
0
Including fringe benefits,
manufacturing wages in Canada
average about $2.22 an hour,
compared with $1.19 for Swed-
en, 82 cents for Britain, 91
cents for West Germany, 79
cents for France and 65 cents
for Italy.
Photographs
Are a lasting memento
`of all special
occasions.
WEDDING PHOTOS
Our Specialty
Jervis. Studio
'130 Isaac St, HU 2-7006
4y OWL,
$.TAIM WMTVIR.
if inQVIiew
."w1=1,1-4.s" you on' the bead this
week And tells you about
y194 bought her a new
washer, like they do on TV
commericials, tell her about the
$75 washing machine at the
W, A, Steaffer company plant,
Since it was purchased in
1954 this nondescript machine
'has helped' 'reclaim over $25,000
in goild and other precious met-
als.
The metals are washed out of
the employees smocks and the
drain water sludge stored' in a
tank which is' emptied each
year and the metals' reclaimed
by refining.
The one million dollar fac-
tory located! :one4half mile east
of Go:cleric:1i on Highway $ ems
ploys 110 persons.
Every step in. the •manufac-
tare of pens completed at the
plant, from raw material to the
finished product. Only two
items are not produced right
at the plant, stone bases for
desk pen stands and the .outer
plastic case of ball point pens,
The cases are made at a parent
plant and shipped in,
MANY DEPARTMENTS
The factory is. divided into
many •departments which are
situated around a huge com-
ponent storage section. Such
departments as receiving, where
all incoming freight is checked
along with the plastic outer
barrels of ball point pens,
In the ink department vari-
ous chemicals are mixed in 300
gallon tanks with an "ample
supply of Lake Huron".• The
ink is either battled for filling
type penS or put Into polyethy-
lene tubes for cartridge pens.
The cartridges are -filled, cap-
ped and sealed automatically.
Display cards with plastic
The W. A. ,Sheaffer Company
has an injection moul'din'g graa
chine which as president Clyde E. Everett says, "observes the
abbath." The .moulding rna
chine takes' granular polyethy-
lene and mptdds it into ink
cartridges, all in a matter of
seconds. It operates 24 hours; a
day, Six ,days a week.
Sixty separate operations, are
required 'to make a pen nib at
the Goderich,, plant.. They are
drawn out o 14 and 18 karat gold, pauaditun-silver and stain,
less steel with 'a very hard ball
of osmittnairldiurn fused to the
point of the nib so the writing
tips last longer. The balls of
osmium iridium m ea sur e
22/1000 'inch .and cost $125 an
ounce.
After the components and'
sub-assemblies are made they
are stored until such time as
they are required for final as-
BACKACHE
Milling Fissures On Pen .Feed
A resident of HolmesviLle, Mrs. Wilfred (Verna) Glazier mills the small
fissure in which the ink flows to the pen nib. The feeds are made of hard
rubber tubes cut and milled at the Goderich pen factory. The W. A. Sheaffer
Company offers free guided tours every afternoon from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Over
3,600 visited the plant last year. (News-Record Photo)
Inspector
Quality control inspec-
tor Mrs. Henry (Ther-
esa) Kuiper, Clinton giv-
es the pens their final
check before they are
shipped from the W. A.
Sheaffer factory in Gode-
, rich.
(News-Record Photo)'
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GUARANTEED ceRttricAres
1. What early explorer's er-
ror gave the natives- of North
America the name of Indians?
2. What is the average an-
nual spending per family in
Canada in retail establish-
ments? • On doctor bills? On
taxation?'
3. Which of the Great Lakes
lies outside of Canada in its en-
tirety?
'4. Does the tax on personal
incomes provide one-half, one-
third or one-quarter of the fed-
eral government's total, rev-
enue? , •
5. Which of Canada's indus-
tries are in the group known as
the "primary industries"?
ANSWERS: 5. Primary in-
dustries include agriculture,
forestry, fisheries, trapping,
mining and electric power;
these industries employ about 20
percent of working Canadians.
3. Lake Michigan. 1. Christo-
pher Columbus mistakenly'
thought he 'had reached East
Indian Islands. 4. About one-
quarter. 2. Canadian families
spend on the average $4,000 per
year 'in retail establishments,
$50 on doctor bills, $2,100 on
tax payments to three levels of
government.
Material prepared by t h e
editors of Quick Canadian
Facts, the pocket annual of
facts about- Canada.
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