The Times Herald from Port Huron, Michigan • Page 92

INDUSTRIAL SECTI0 THE PORT HURON TIMES HERALD WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949 PACE SIXTEEN International Link M-29's Forerunner At Turn Of Century the Grand Trunk Western railroad. Latest improvement in the tunnel is the project, still going on. of lowering the track seven inches to accommodats the larger train cars of td- Only 2, hours a on this project, ii, order to interruption of regular trail ules. Total cost of th lowering is estimated at Sojtt Joseph Hobson Made Dream tV -H 'f Of River Tunnel Come 1 rue was loosened by knife-like steel i The St Clair Tunnel connecting Custom Manufacturers jport Huron and Sarnia is not the I world's first underwater tunnel; Jthat distinction belongs to the plates, and passed back through heavy iron doors. Workmen be-1 hind each shield loaded the ex-i cavated muck on railway cars be rolled out of the tunnel and: dumped.

of the Finest KITCHEN CABINETS BARS COUNTERS DOORS WINDOWS Thames tunnel in tngianu, was built in 1827. But the tube under the St. Clair River is the worlds WBA Founded Here In 1892 Is Largest Benefit Group for Women "I think I shall make this my life work. Here is a real need and I know I can fill it." With this simple statement of faith and purpose. Miss Bina M.

West opened a basement office on Huron avenue in October, 1892. HER AIM was to found a fraternal benefit association for women. She succeeded in building the largest such organization in the world. Today's Woman Benefit association, with2155 member in the United States, Canada and Hawaii, $56,270,732 in first international underwater railway tunnel, and the first in North America to be built by modern en 7 Metal Mouldings Plastic Tile Rubber Floor Tile and Accessories Builders Hardware gineering methods. Ah thf ti'wfi, was built because Sir Henry Tyler, the forceful and! imaginative president of the Canadian National railway in the last Would you like to have a floor that you rfon'J have to wax or polish! Stop in and see it, ft9 obligations.

half of the nineteenth century. 5, tl WEISS BROS. This stretch of the old river road between Marine City and St. Clair about the turn of the century show, the future M-29 lacked smooth pavement but boasted the same striking view of the St. Clair river it bas today.

A river steamer (at right) glides down-river. Work went on every hour of every day for 15 months. When the shields met beneath the river in October. 1890, Hobson and six grimy fellow-workers squeezed through a shoveled opening and walked from the American to the Canadian side. STEAM WHISTLES in Sarnia and Port Huron heralded completion of the tunnel, and it was officially opened Sept.

19, 1891. Initial cost was $2,700,000. At first, steam locomotives were used in the tube, but the gases which collected there cost the lives of several workmen. In 1908. electric locomotives were put into operation.

Today, more than 240,000 railway cars pass through the tunnel every year one every two minutes. Although the tunnel itself measures 6,025 feet, or more than a mile, its total length including approaches is 11,700 feet. INCORPORATED as the St Clair Tunnel company, it is owned by FACTORY STORE 2321 WATER ST. DIAL Mmi realized that growing traffic had outmoded the train ferries across the St. Clair River.

After a couple of false starts in 1886 and 1888, construction was finally begun in July, 1889. Joseph Hobson, chief engineer of the Grand Trunk, used the radically-new shield method of tunnelling. He designed huge cylindrical shells, 15 4 feet long and 21 feet in diameter, made of inch-thick steel plate and weighing 80 tons each. THE SHIELDS, pushed forward by hydraulic pressure, advanced Molds Plastic Frames Knee-Action Parts Makers All Full-Size Autos Use-Pressed Metals toward each other from either side of the river like a couple of unfolding telescopes. Every full-sized automobile man ufactured in this country uses knee- The muck in front of the shields action parts designed and produced by Pressed Metals of America.

at Marysville. 'Ararat3 1 Company-designed products in WITH THE mvniMifii r-n OIL clude automotive independent wheel-suspension parts, steering linkage parts and spring shackles. AMAZING DURNEP Low Pressor T''i i--' I -f mi i I 1 -WWII I ij Jm I a i Lfi 4 si I 4 I I i I 1 Wi i it PL' '-Vs I -a--j "Jj' iniA'i hi ti THESE PARTS are shipped to nearlv everv automobile manufact A sensationally different oil burner! The Winkle! LP handles the widest rang of oils even the hardest-to-burn cafay tics all with equal Let Our Expertly Trained Staff Handle Your Shipping Problems urer in the country by rail, truck and lake freighters. efficiency. Winkler advanced Low Pressure design features will save you an astonishing amount of fuel.

This burner can be adjusted to produce just the right amount of heat in An average of some 900 employes turn the parts out in a recently-expanded plant. Biggest periods of expansion for assets, annual interest earning of $1,878,365 and benefits, paid to date totalling more than $81,000,000, is a far cry from that first beginning 57 years ago. But national headquarters remained in Port Huron, although they have long since outgrown their basement office. The present national offices at 1338 Military street were dedicated in 1917. AND THE STAFF, which in 1892 consisted of one determined young woman, today includes 125 local employes and some 250 field All of them are WBA members.

The Woman Benefit association maintains a health service In all states and provinces, and health centers in 36 major cities. Physical examinations are available to all members without cost. Organizations sponsored by the WBA include the Pioneer club, for women who have been members continuously for 25 years; the Westway club, named after the founder, for young married couples; arid Gamma Nu sorority, made up of the younger WBA members who are active in charity work. The WBA also sponsors dancing and dramatic clubs. MISS WEST, who later became Mrs.

Bina West Miller, stepped down from the presidency in May, 1948, remaining as board chairman. She was succeeded by Miss Agnes M. Koob, her secretary for 33 years, who will be interim president until the WBA's quadrennial convention and election, which will be held at Atlantic City in June, 1950. Mrs. Mary E.

Baird is editor of the WBA Review, issued nine times a year. It is printed right at national headquarters. Other officers include Miss Frances Partridge, supreme secretary; Mrs. Maud M. Tomlinson, local financial secretary; Mrs.

Clara P. Embury, building superintendent, and Dr. Mary B. Campbell, supreme medical examiner. your boiler or furnace.

Most the company were from 1936 to residential oil burners are oversized to prevent nozzle clogging, hence waste as much as 50 of heat and fuel. Investigate today 1 i You have only to see the simple, dependable design of the Winkler LP Burner to realize why it is the answer to your heating problem. Telephone now for a demonstration. 1941 and again during 1947 and 1948. With today's automobile industry at full throttle, the company's production is at a peacetime peak.

COMPANY PRESIDENT J. W. Leiehton founded Pressed Metals L.nnnSurj EARL C. SMITH, INC. MOTOR FREIGHT SERVICE Times Herald Staff Photo of Toronto but moved the plant to Marysville in 1919 to be closer to automotive centers at Detroit, Flint The plastic frame for a refrigerator freezing compartment is from an Injection mold at the St.

Clair plasties division of andPontiac. Presed Metals officers are Mr. Standard Products company. The St. Clair division operates three of S93 Leiehton: Don Leiehton, vice pres the world's largest injection molding machines, and produces plastic Phone 8135 ident.and W.

P. Carson, secretary-treasurer. The plant manager Is radio cabinets, automobile window handles and instrument panels, Ice ii i 1 1 cube trays and dishware. William Wade. CUSTOM WELDING i uz.

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Fishing One Of Main Attractions In Blue Water Land Where natives and visitors now ((? rn INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL-DOMESTIC AND meet for some of the most elegant service and finest food to be found 1 in the State St. Clair Inn there used to stand a fish cannery- Once a major industry along St. Clair river and on Lake Huron and Hill i Lake St. Clair, the whitefish and herring fisheries have virtually vanished from the area. Pickerel, herring, sturgeon, mullet and pike were seined in great numbers before any regulation was imposed.

i SWOT Later corporations from Detroit! II nil i i 11 ran Cheaper Faster Better exploited the fisheries with a fleet of boats and huge seines. In 1837 a catch valued at for the season is recorded for St. I Clair County. In that year. 4.000: barrels of fish were caught and processed at the Fort Gratiot fish-' ery alone, bringing a price of from $6 to $8 a barrel.

Fishing is still an impotant oc- cupation and souce of livelihood as well as one of the most thrilling sports along the river. The many I nets doing in pretty festoons on! wharves, lawns and backyard dry-1 ing poles comprise one of the char-; acteristic sights along any Long lines of rowboats and out-boards, particularly in the morn-; ine and evening hours, make a feL 1 FR SHOP or HOMEj jl JgL 25 Years Dependable Service traffic line in St. Clair river as un-! ILc ending as the lines of autos on River drive. Strings of black and green bass, walleyed pike, suckers, red- horse, mullet, "muskies," and sheep- heads fall regularly in the anglers bag. Your Assurance Of Quality Workmanship PHONE 4095 POWER TOOLS We have a complete line of Black Decker Power Tools Whitman Barnes Drills Winter's Taps and Dies CARBORUNDUM ABRASIVES It's Got To Be Good" PRECISION TOOLS Nationally known makes as Brown Sharpe and Lufkin Tools Kraeuter Pliers Crescent Wrenches "If It's Purchased Here NELS HOFFMAN SONS BEARD CAMPBELL CO.

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