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18 THE WINDSOR DAILY STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957 Engineers Ready for Deepening Project Special JL Send Yours to ARGO With CONFIDENCE These Specials Good All Next Week Spring end Fall COATS 99 SUITS and PLAIN DRESSES 99 Free Pickup and Delivery No Extra Charge for 1-Day Service PANTS SKIRTS 49 Specialising in Formal Clothes 0 CLEANERS Quality Workmanship at a Low Cost 2570 HOWARD AVE. For Free Pickup and Delivery Ph. CL 3-2580 rk? II -jjj I ifl Mi .) iii I a 1 i syMB WHAT YOU I NEED WHEN Zr0 YOU BUILD! gCIr? If GIANT PROJECT Deepening of the Amherstburg Cnannei, We've a complete line of supplies to help you build, repair or remodel. CONCRETE BLOCKS FACE BRICK, 5 TYPES CEMENT LIME MORTAR MIX SAND GRAVEL CRUSHED STONE half of the channel (shaded gray). Workmen will drill, blast and remove some six million tons of rock and clay from the eight-mile waterway.

The project will be completed by 1960. a combination 01 tour large U.S. tirms, will dredge the upper half of the channel (black portion) and the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company will do the work on the remaining an immense project costing $22 million, is scheduled to begin by mid April. Two contracts have been awarded. Marine Operators, 4 Amherstburg and HagersvUle SEWER CROCK TRANSITE (SEWER) PIPE WEEPING TILE 1 l-l'5 8 iov 1 "J(-S- 1 If i I if, ir I I You'll Appreciate the High Quality 4 Jc BUILDERS' SUPPLIES LTD.

6160 Tecumseh Road East Phone WU 5-6318 Branch Yard in Essex Phone PRospect 6-7232 Operators, as they examine a drill bit which will be used to drill holes for blasting the river bed. Photograph at right shows the two test drills in operation in the Amherstburg Channel. HEArY DRILLING Dozens of pieces of heavy equipment, including drilling barges, scows and dredging barges are being brought to the Amherstburg area for the project Photo at A Ileft shows Gordon Marshall of Windsor working on a test drill now in action on the channel. Centre picture shows C. W.

Anderson and Warren Larsen (right), two officials of Marine anything To Rip 8 Miles of Rock, Clay From Amherstburg Channel 1 An army of workmen is preparing to rip an eight-mile chunk of rock and clay six feet thick and 300 feet wide, from the bottom of the Amherstburg Channel. The $22 million project is the first step in an overall plan for deepening Great Lakes connecting channels to accomodate ocean-going ships in the designed specifically for oneway, downbound traffic and is too narrow for two-way movement. When the Amherstburg Channel is completed, -work will be done on Livingstone Channel, the Ballards Reef and Fighting Island Channel, which now average about 24 feet. The project- is under the direction of Brig. Gen.

Raul D. Berrigan of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Direction uil St. Lawrence Serfway and to A- U.S.

army Corps of Engineers, directing the project. This is now standard practice in large construction jobs where blasting is involved. Modern blasting methods and ephasis on safety in handling explosives will cut down chances of accidents like those which marred the first deepening of the channel in the 1880 s. During the first deepening a duck hunter hit an explosive storage building on Fox Island near Grdsse, setting off a blast which practically blew the island off the map. On another occasion, drillers working from a barge miscalculated and the drill was driven into a hole already charged with dynamite.

Sixteen of the Amherstburg Channel project is under Col. Peter C. Hyzer of Detroit, district engineer of the Corps of Engineers. Funds for deepening of the Amherstburg Channel as well as the rest of the project are being provided entirely by the United States. Canada is paying entirely for Other parts of the Seaway.

Studies have shown that lake shippers would construct larger ships if connecting channels were deepened. Besides, many large ore, coal and wheat carriers are not being loaded to full draft because of the shallow waters. Importance of the extra depth becomes apparent when one considers that every additional foot of draft means about 1,000 tons extra load. other charges exploded in a chain reaction which sunk the barge and injured two of the men. Marine Operators will work the upper half of the channel.

The other company will dredge the channel from opposite Amherstburg into the lake to the connection with Livingstone Channel. The channel is presently 600 feet wide but the project calls for the deepening in 300-foot width in the channel's centre. While work is going on, lake freighters will continue to use the channel but traffic will be strictly regulated by the U.S. Coast Guard. Work will be done only when the river is free of ice.

Ship traffic can not be transferred to the Linvingstone Channel because the latter is technique in which stretches of the channel were dyked off and digging took place on the drained channel bed. Technique on the Amherstburg Channel will be modern underwater drilling and blasting with huge dipper dredges, resembling large steam bucket shovels, used to remove the debris. Much of the danger with explosives which accompanied earlier channel deepening projects has been eliminated with new blasting methods. The contracting firm must carefully regulate the amount of explosives used in a "blast" because of the danger of shock waves damaging buildings in Amherstburg. A battery of the latest seismographs are about to be installed on the Canadian side.

Force of each blast will be carefully measured by the We Will (lean One Green Article Absolutely FREE when accom-panied by Another Garment. Story by Joe Masko Photos by Burt Johnson and Mike Bunt CALL Thug Shoots CL 2-1103 HTiether "ye" be an Irishman or not you're welcome to avail your-, self to Spotless Cleaners special I onerit our way of introducing our courteous drivers to you. Call now. Offer Good Till March 16, 1957 only 1" nanaie increased iase snipping. The entire project will cost $150 million and is expected to be completed by the end of 1963.

It is an immense excavation job requiring the removal from below water of some 44 million cubic yards of earth and rock, enough material to blanket 42 square miles with a one foot layer of fill. These workmen will man a mighty armada of barges, dredges, scows, launches and tugs needed to excavate an estimated 6,000,000 tons of material from the Amherstburg Channel alone. With work scheduled to begin by mid-April, the town of Amherstburg is buzzing with activity. Two companies, Marine Operators, a combination of four big U.S. construction firms, and the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co.

of Cleveland, have been awarded contracts and set up offices in Amherstburg. Tugs are busy towing heavy equipment to the area. Company officials and employees are seeking living accommodation. This and the fact that close to 400 Canadians will work on the project until its completion in 1960, ensures the town great expansion and a business boom. Present channel depth is an average of 21 feet.

It will be dredged to between 27fc and 283 feeL Material taken from the river bottom will be used to build compensating dikes to ensure that water flow remains unchanged. Methods of deepening the channel will differ from older techniques employed in the digging of Livingstone Channel in 1910 and deepening of it in 1930. Both projects ere accomplished by a "dam and blast" No ZY i i Service Tlfc Vj Store Man TORONTO (CP) A gunman slugged and shot a men's wear shop owner in a holdup attempt in a West-Central Toronto store Friday. The man fled in panic after he shot his victim Fred Sim-mons, 53 whom he forced to kneel down in the fashion of a Chinese execution while he struck him on the head with the butt of a pistol. Police believed the gun may have discharged from the force of the blows and said the gunman may have been wounded by his own bullet.

It ripped along Simmons shoulder blade but did not penetrate his body and was not found in the store, although a spent cartridge case was found on the floor. Mr. Simmons managed to get to his feet after being shot to call the police. He was taken to hospital. Police said the gunman, who fled without taking any money, may have been a member of a gang which stole several guns mi iwii th -it." ar kv i Come to Our Cash and Carry Stores now or Phone for Prompt City-Wide Pickup and Delivery by One of Our Eight Trucks 1468 LONDON ST.

W. ot McEwon CL 2-1103 On the East Side: 3905 SEMINOLE WH 5-6355 and 4660 TECUMSEH RD. E. at Pillette BOSS MAN Col. Peter C.

Hyzer of Detroit, district engineer for the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, is in charge of the deepening project. Blasting and explosive safety will be cfirefully watched by his office. a boom 175 feet long and weighing 75 tons, will be used to dredge the channel after blasting. The shovel is capable of raising 12 cubic yards or about 15 of rock.

f-(Star Staff Photo) MIGHTY-SCOW This photograph shows a large crane in operation at Ojibway where a scow carrying a battery of 20 drills is being assembled. It was prefabricated by the Mani-towac Shipbuilding Company. The crane, with from a downtown sport store last Star Want Ads Fill Every Need Saturday..