Mayor Swan advised Council that McDougall Hall is in such a bad state of repair that every effort should be made to close
it down following the end of this winter's program. Cominco will not spend any further money on further repairs nor do they
expect the City to put any more money into it.
Cominco has offered Scouts, Cubs, etc. meeting space in their garage building, and this, with greater use of school
facilities should ensure closure and will not work any hardship on organizations. Private enterprise might step in to take
over canteen services.
It is the feeling of the Recreation Commission that when the curling rink is paid for in 4 years time, new recreation
facilities could be considered. Meanwhile office and meeting place for recreation business could be incorporated in the
proposed change rooms to be built at Coronation Park.
The Corporation of the City of Kimberley NOTICE
Civil Defence sirens will be tested within the next few days to assure their operating efficiency. The signal will be of 3
minutes duration and consist of two distinct codes.
1st - Alert - A steady note for at least 3 minutes.
2nd - Take Cover - An undulating note for at least 3 minutes.
When the sirens are tested and put on operational duty, any note of longer than 3 minutes will be the result of false alarm
or malfunction in operation.
Phone 427-4114 to report location of siren in trouble.
This notice affects only the City of Kimberley.
Al Watson, Civil Defence Officer
Cominco Ltd. is now the official name of the firm known for the past sixty years as The Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Company of Canada Limited. Supplementary Company of Canada Limited. Supplementary Letters Patent effective May 16th from
the Secretary of State confirm the change of name, as approved by the shareholders at a special general meeting following
the 60th annual general meeting in Montreal on April 28th.
The new name was proposed because the expansion and diversification of the Company had carried it into other activities
beyond mining and smelting, and into other areas beyond the confines of Canada. Today Cominco Ltd. is a major international
Company, although ninety-five per cent Canadian owned, with undertakings on five continents.
While the greater part of the Company's business is still in mining and smelting and is still based on its early holdings
in Southeastern British Columbia, mainly at Trail and Kimberley, B.C., Cominco has grown since the issuing of the Dominion
Charter of 1906 to be one of the world's largest producers of base metals and chemical fertilizers. During the same period
it has broadened its interests into a number of other industrial fields.
Beginning in 1931, when the Company started the production of fertilizers, capacity has been steadily added and new plants
commissioned. Installations at Trail and Kimberley, B.C., at Regina, Saskatchewan, at Calgary, Alberta and at Beatrice,
Nebraska, now have an annual output in excess of one million tons. A new potash mine in Saskatchewan is scheduled to be in
production by 1969, and will give Cominco a basic position in the three main fertilizer materials, Nitrogen. Phosphate, and
Potash.
Cominco Ltd. is also engaged through subsidiaries in the fabrication of lead and zinc. The Company, in addition, is sole
owner of Western Canada Steele Limited, an integrated steel complex in Vancouver. Other interests range from heavy chemicals
to high purity metals, compound semiconductors, and thermo electric materials.
Overseas, Cominco is a partner in Mitsubishi Cominco Smelting Company, which is building a lead smelter at Naoshima,
Japan, and in Cominco Binani Zinc Limited, which has a zinc smelter and sulphuric acid plant under construction in
Southwest India. Both of these projects will be in operation this year.
All systems "go" on mail service
Two weeks ago in an East Kootenay Exclusive report carried in this paper it was announced by Post Master General John
Pierre Cote that the city would receive door to door delivery service.
Yesterday, Kimberley Post Master Floyd Waldie gave the green light to Kimberley and Chapman Camp residents to begin
registration at the Post Office once they have a house number, mail box or mail slot at their residence.
Mr. Waldie advises that as soon as 80% of the 2008 homeowners register that the door to door mail delivery service will begin. The post master also pointed out that the delivery would be scaled to get the greatest amount of mail to the home each day and that parcels would be delivered. The downtown area will receive two deliveries a day.
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