The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 41

...11 Work force grows from 75 to 300 Rgtired' Scotsman revives Newfoundland shipyard i. By JOHN HUSSEY wCP Correspondent MARYSTOWN, Nfld. CP). This Newfoundland south-coast fishing port, once borne of scores of fishing smacks and small schooners, now is attracting world shipping. A $lS-multon shipyard is serving Canadian and foreign vessels and enjoying its first successful season since it opened five years ago'.

So far this year the work force has increased to almost 300 from 75 and is expected to increase further this summer. The Marystown shipyard, a Smallwood government development project, was officially opened in August, 1967. Kenneth E. Wood, vice-president of George T. Davie a Lauzon, subsidiary, of Canadian Vickers was appointed president and general manager.

The shipyard was supposed to turn out 12 fishing trawlers a year of ISO tons each but soon after its opening Canadian Vickers closed out their Lauzon operation and Mr. Wood was transferred to Aus tralia. LAYOFFS BEGAN An experienced manager to replace Mr. Wood could not be found. Annual losses were underwritten by the provincial government and major layoffs began.

The Marystown shipyard was awarded its first contract to construct four stem trawlers for Atlantic Fish Poces-sors a new plant setting up in the Marystown area, but due to delivery problems two vessels diverted to a mainland yard. The remaining two, after considerable difficulties, were completed at Marystown in 1969. In thbe first two years of operation'' losses amounted to more than $1.5 million. Much of the blame for failure was attributed to a slump in the fishing industry and slow demand for new trawlers. Recent progress at the yard is credited to its new manager, John Rannie, a Scotsman who took over last fall.

Mr. Rannie was associated with construction of some of the world's largest ships, including the Queen Elizabeth 2. When she was completed he retired but was persuaded by the Newfoundland government to come here and revive the Marystown yard. BUILT WORK FORCE Mayor Larry Hudson of Marystown says Mr. Rannie has overcome apparently insurmountable difficulties in the rejuvenation of the yard and building up an efficient work force.

Mr. Rannie is also focusing attention on the yard by a strong advertising campaign, offering round-the-clock repair and refit service. Captains of foreign vessels, especially those fishing in Atlantic waters, are bringing their vessels into Marystown. East Germany tops the list of visitors followed by Portuguese, French and Spanish The y8rd has a docking system capable of handling ships up to 3,000 tons. Construction of two 650-ton stern trawlers began late last fall and the vessels are expected to be ready for delivery in December or January.

The trawleris are being built for National Sea Products Ltd. of Halifax for its Newfoundland TAKEOVER PLANNED Last July, when Canadian Vickers announced it was pulling out of Marystown, then premier J. R. Smallwood said Pan-Maritime Ltd. of Zurich, Switzerland, would take over the existing yard and enlarge it at a cost of $56 million.

The big, new yard would be ready by December, 1973, would be geared to build supertankers and employ up to 3,000 people. Little has been beard of the expansion plan since last October's provincial election, when the Liberal government was defeated. But the name Marystown Shipyard, or Marystown Marine Works, synonymous with failure, has been replaced with the more optimistic and venturesome-sounding Marystown Shipping Enterprises 1971) and the Pan-Maritime subsidiary is having a minor boom under the guidance of Mr. Rannie. Serviceman's drug convicti thrown out VICTORIA (CP) A Cana dian Forces serviceman has had his earlier conviction and sen tence oo charges of possessing a restricted drug thrown out by the judge-advocate-general's of fice in Ottawa.

However appeals by four men were dismissed and their sentences were confirmed Pte. Ronald Albert Gibson, 21, of Espanola, Ont had been sentenced to six months in prison and dismissal from the service. Pte. Joseph Legare, 19, of La- valle, Pte. Joseph Simard, 19, of Toronto; Pte.

Ross Steeves, 18, of Ottawa; and Pte. Joseph Dandomeau, 20, of Danville, all had appealed the severity of their sentences but were refused. The charges, of either traf ficking or possessing drugs, re sulted in sentences of from six months to two years less a day in prison and dismissal from the force. The men were based at CFB Esquimau near here. Frog-jumping contest marred by tragedy HARTFORD, Conn.

(AP) The annual Mark Twain memo rial frog-jumping contest at the writer's house was marred by tragedy Saturday. In the final jump-off, Hippetry Hop, spurred by nearby slaps on the table by its' younger owner, covered 66 inches in three leaps. Pickle Puss, however, fell victim to a misdirected slap by its master, 10-year-old Charles Sherts of West Hartford, and died after one flop. A second prize was awarded posthumously. NEW YORK (AP) New Jersey's weekly 50-cent lottery has been such a winning ticket for extra revenue that five other American states running the game have copied the technique of tantalyzing taxpayers with inexpensive chances for rich re wards.

Officials in at least 20 other states looking to lotteries for financial relief have asked New Jersey for help in setting tip their systems. Inaugurated in January, 1971, the New Jersey lottery netted more than $60 million during its first year of operation and offi Ji cials estimate that figure will reach $93 million by June 30 of this year. Says Ralph Batch, director of New Jersey's lottery: "We are pleased with the success of the lottery thus far. The results certainly show that a weekly lottery with 50-cent tickets was a wise choice." The New Jersey success was closely watched from New York and New Hampshire, where profits from longer-running lotteries, based on the monthly sale of more expensive tickets, bad not been meeting expectations. Monday, June 19, 1972 SMILES AND LEI.

HONOLULU' Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger received a smile and a plumeria lei from Lynne Nimoto of Honolulu as Kissinger ended a two-and-one-half day stopover. Kissinger agreed to pose for pictures, but had nothing to say to reporters, as he left Honolulu Sunday on his fourth visit to China. (AP-Journot Wlrepholo) New York entered the lottery business in 1967 and, with a pop ulation more than twice that of New Jersey, netted a total of only $120.3 million in its first four, years after forecasts of $500 million a year. Last year, New York netted only $26 million for education on gross sales of $58 million. This year, the 50-cent ticket has col lected more than $1 million every week for the schools, as ticket sales went to three mil lion a week from two or three million a month.

The state's record for tickets sold was established the week of March 12 with 5.788m Top weekly prize is $50,000, same as New Jersey. High heels trip up Houston 'policeman' HOUSTON, Tex. (Reuter) A "policeman" was arrested here Saturday when spotted wearing high heels with a patrolman's uniform. The "police man" turned out to be a woman barber student. She was ar rested for impersonating an offi cer.

mm wmssm you can sore on quality children's paywear of low sale prices The Ottawa Journal 41 Ice-free Arctic? 'May Jiappen by year 2000 WASHINGTON (AP) Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice' cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000. The gradual change in cli mate, Balchen says, eventually may make possible tanker ship ment of oil from Alaskan and Canadian fields, and pave the way for water transport of the Far North's wealth of uranium, nickel, iron, lead and zinc. Balchen, 72, is recognized as a leading specialist on the Arctic. Forty-seven years ago he was a pilot-engineer with Nor way's Arctic explorer, Koald Amundsen, and in 1929 he flew U.S. Admiral Richard E.

Byrd on the first crossing of the South Pole. During and after the Second World War, he played a key role in development and opera tion of U.S. air bases and sup ply stations in Greenland and elsewhere in the Norm. In a study on the polar climate, Balchen says the ice pack over the Arctic Ocean decreased from 43 feet in depth in 1893 to a current average thickness of six to eight feet, winter and summer, over an area of five million square miles. "Calculations indicate that if the pack ice were to disappear, the Arctic Ocean surface temperature in the coldest months would be about 42 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pack ice cover Weekly lotteries more successful would not form again." CHANGE WEATHER miiaer weainer wouia snui the revolving cyclonic wind systems' of the northwest Pacific northward into the Arctic Ocean to form a new low pressure sys tem, Balchen says.

The moist air from these lows would dump a great amount of snow over Alaska, Northern Canada, the northern Atlantic' seaboard, central Greenland, Scandinavia and the Soviet Union, increasing annual snowfalls by eight to 10 feet and giving those areas cold winters. Weather across the northern half of the United States would be 20 to 25 degrees warmer than it now is, Balchen adds. "The central part of the United States would get dry winters, with a large water deficiency. The southern region-Florida, the area between 15 and 30 degrees north latitude-would have it 10 degrees cooler in winter." Other natural phenomena oc curring simultaneously could include an accelerated melting of the polar ice cap, Balchen says. Five scientific reports since 1953 have supported predictions that, if the warming trend con tinues, the Arctic Ocean will be free of ice by the end of the century and will remain an open ocean.

Balchen said melting of the floating ice would have no bear-' ing on the world's ocean level, which has risen only nine inches in 100 years by the gradual melting of glaciers over the last century. UK dockers vote to return to job LONDON (Reuter) Five thousand striking stevedores voted today to return to work Tuesday and staved off the im mediate threat of a paralysing nationwide walkout. The back to work call. sounded at a mass meeting in London, was expected to be heeded by 30,000 other dockers across the country whose mass walkout on Friday bed up Britain's major ports. or nc )dul.

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