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[Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 23 January 1947]
It is a credit to the Welland County General hospital that it has gained provisional approval in the listings of the American College of Surgeons for 1946. Each year the listings contain hospitals in the United States and Canada which have compiled satisfactorily with the fundamental requirements that assure the best care of the sick and injured.
Provisional approval indicates a hospital which is trying to meet the requirements of the college, but for acceptable reasons has not been able to do so in every regard.
The hospitals of both countries are reconsidered each year, and as wartime difficulties have disappeared the standards are higher. In 1946, 3,118 hospitals qualified-a decline of 63 from the year before.
Dr. Irvin Abell, president of the college’s board of regents, explained this as a “sinking into post-war lethargy”. He said the college expected hospitals to be “leaders in the post-war effort to improve every type of welfare service.”
The citizens of a community are held responsible for insisting upon good hospital service and for giving the support and encouragement need to provide it. The two problems now facing hospitals are inadequate nursing staffs and untrained administrators.
The College of Surgeons appeals to schools and community institutions to stimulate recruiting of student nurses. It suggests that the public can see that hospital administrators appointed are men who understand both the professional and business problems of a hospital.
Niagara peninsula hospitals did well in the ratings. Fully approved were the Niagara Peninsula Sanatorium and St. Catharines General hospital. The Niagara Falls hospital was provisionally approved.
The requirements for approval include the following fundamentals: modern physical plant, clearly defined organization, carefully selected governing board, competent, well-trained superintendent, adequate and efficient personnel, organized medical staff, adequate diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, accurate and complete medical reports for research, regular group conferences of the administrative and medical staffs, and a humanitarian spirit-“the primary consideration being the best care of the patient.”
Newest Addition Will Be In Corrugated Steel; Lean-to Planned
READY IN MARCH
[Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 1 February 1940]
Foundation pillars have already been laid for the erection of a new corrugated steel sheeting warehouse and lean-to on East Main street for Atlas Steels Limited, according to plant officials. The new building will be completed toward the end of March, and will cost approximately $18,000. It will be on similar lines to the rolling mills for which a building permit was issued in December to the value of $14, 675.
Standard Steel Construction Company Limited of Port Robinson will have the contract. The building will have a frontage on East Main street of 100 feet with a depth of 157 feet, it was learned.
This is to be a storage building and will not involve any additions to the payroll, The Tribune was informed. The warehouse will be 80 feet frontage, with a depth of 157 feet, and the lean-to will have a frontage of 20 feet and a depth of 157 feet.
[Welland Tribune, 27 August 1897]
DUNNVILLE knocks Welland out on electric light prices. The electric light plant there is run by a private company, and run right up to date. An all night service is given the year round, and consumers can have a single light for seven cents a week; over ten lights, six cents per week each; and over twenty lights, five cents per light per week. The electric light station is a fine brick structure set on massive stone walls-a credit to the place. Messrs. Haskins & Ralston are the owners, and when asked if there was any money in it at these figures, cautiously and smilingly remarked that they managed to pay their way and have a little pin money to the good. The company have between 800 and 900 lights, and their machines have a capacity of about 1500. Incandescents are being tried at certain points along the main streets and give a promise of working well.
124 MORE WERE IN USE THAN IN 1938, COMPANY REPORT REVEALS
[Welland Tribune, 19 February 1940]
R.D. Hughes, manager of the bell Telephone Company in Welland, has handed to The Tribune a statistical report which shows that an increase of 124 was recorded in the number of telephones in the city in 1929 compared to that of the previous year. The total number in use was 2,277 in 1938 and 2,401 in 1939.
Mr. Hughes sated that if as some authorities contended, the number of telephones in a community formed an excellent barometer of general business, than it would seem that Welland was continuing to progress from this standpoint.
Continuing, Mr. Hughes stated that offices supervised from Welland showed a net gain in the number of telephones of 284, divided as follows: Welland, 124; Port Colborne, 118; Ridgeville, 22; Smithville, 4; Wainfleet, 14; Wellandport, 2. This entire territory, he added, now had a total of 5,293 telephones in service.
Mr. Hughes showed The Tribune the Bell Telephone Company’s annual report for Ontario and Quebec, recording a total of 785,455 bell telephones in use in these two provinces at the end of the year. The records showed a net gain of 20,000 telephones compared with a net gain of 18,804 the previous year. During the year the company paid out $16,928, 825 in wages to its 9,711 employees, 5-825 in wages to its 9,711 employees, 5,008 of whom are women.
The report notes that the number of telephones recorded for 1939 is “an all- time high for Ontario and Quebec.”
[Welland Tribune, 22 October 1897]
That eligible and commodious residence on North Main street (located opposite the house of County Clerk Cooper and now occupied by lawyer Cohoe, is offered for sale at a low figure and on easy terms. The house contains about ten rooms and is a very desirable locality for a residence.
For full particulars and terms apply to A.E. Taylor, Niagara Falls, Ont., or J.B. Taylor, Welland.
[Welland Tribune February 19, 1940]
Operations On Robin Hood Plant Held Up By Weather Conditions
The heavy rain and snow of yesterday and today caused suspension of work on construction of the new R
obin Hood Flour Mills Ltd. 2,000,000 bushel grain elevator and 4,000 bag per day flour mill at Ramey’s Bend.
Lorne Sandberg, superintendent for Carter-Halls-Aldinger Co. Ltd., contractors, reported that conditions were such this morning that work could not be resumed after the weekend lay-off. Materials were being unloaded today.
At the end of the week, said Mr. Sandberg, the basement forms had been almost completed for the mill and warehouse. About 150 men employed on the work were idle as weather interrupted the construction.
[Welland Tribune February 16, 1940]
Construction Employe Goes to Hospital Suffering from Head Injuries
George Arnold, RR No. 1, Humberstone, an employe of Carter-Hallis Aldinger Co. Ltd, contractors for the new Robin Hood Flour Mills Ltd. Grain elevator and mill, suffered head injuries about 9.40 a.m. today while working on the construction, which sent him to Welland County General hospital.
Arnold suffered a cut scalp and concussion and his condition was reported at the hospital to be serious but not critical. Dr.Phyllis Black who was called to attend the injured man, said that he would be kept in the hospital for a day or two for observation. He was taken to hospital in the Dell and Merton ambulance.
Details of the accident could not be secured today, but it is reported that he was struck on the head by some falling object.
[Welland Tribune February 5, 1940]
150 Men Employed and This will be Doubled at Peak of Construction
Build Road
Workmen of the Carter-Halls-Aldinger Co. began pouring the concrete for the footings of the new 2,000,000 bushel grain elevator and 4,000 bag per day flour mill of Robin Hood Flour Mills Ltd., at Ramey’s Bend this morning. Lorne Sandberg, superintendent for the construction company announced today.
The concrete is hoisted in buckets from the huge stationary mixer up the 265 foot tower and poured at whatever level is needed. The top of the hoist tower is now at the 225 foot level but will rise another 40 feet before the work is completed.
About 150 men were employed on the construction this morning, Mr. Sandberg reported, and this number would be more than doubled shortly as the construction swung into the peak. Of the men employed the large majority were local men and this policy would be continued throughout construction, he said.
The roadway into the site north of Humberstone village on the west side of the canal from Omer avenue, is complete except for the installation of one culvert. The N.S. and T. Main spur into the site is complete and in use but the three spurs on the site off off this main spur are yet to be constructed.
[Welland Tribune January 15, 1940]
100 Men Laid off as One Unit Maple Leaf Plant Shut Down
About a hundred men were laid off by the Maple Leaf Milling Co., Ltd. At Port Colborne on Saturday as the mill resumed operation on one of the 6,000 barrel units this morning after a shut down of both units for a week. The company had been operating both units since the plant was speeded up to wartime production peak in October. About 425 are still employed in the mill, feed plant and bag company, according to Manager W.H. Cowan.
Mr. Cowan informed The Tribune this morning that the men laid off were men employed in October when the second unit was put into operation, bringing production up to the full capacity of the mill 12,000 barrels of flour per day. They had been told at the time, he said, that their work would last only as long as both units were operated.
The reason, said Mr. Cowan, was that sufficient orders could not be got through to warrant operation of both units. The second unit would remain idle, hr said, until such time as conditions adjusted themselves.
Believe this may have been from the file of George “Udy”Blazetith
DOWN MEMORY LANE
[Welland Tribune, Date Unknown]
If you think your telephone directory is becoming somewhat cumbersome, of if you’re having trouble ripping it in half, consider the 1885 edition.
Welland’s first telephone directory, issued about 29 years after the county of Welland was established, listed a grand total 25 names. The Bell Telephone exchange, then located at C.J. Page’s grocery store, was open for business 12 hours a day on weekdays, 4 hours on special holidays, and 2 hours on the Sabbath. The mini-telephone book, dated December 1885, listed the following names and information as follows:
Beatty and Sons, Main St.
Beatty and Sons, Foundry, Main St.
Burgar, Dr., Office, Main St.
Burgar, J.H. Druggist, Main St.
Court House, (Sheriff’s Office) Main St.
Dexter House, E. Hoover, Prop., Main St.
Duncan, C.J., (Sheriff) Residence, Main St.
Fraser, House, F. Tuckett, Prop., Main St.
Garner, L.V., Auctioneer, Residence, Main St.
Great North-Western Telegraph Co., Main St.
Gross, J.F., Pump Manufacturer, Main St.
Harcourt and Cowper, Barristers, Main St.
Hill, J.F., Ins. Agt., Residence, Aqueduct St.
Hobson Bros., Druggists and Div. Court Office, Main St.
Imperial Bank, Muir St.
Michigan Central Railway Station, Muir St.
Page, C.J., Merchant, Main St.
Page, J.C., Dep. Registrar, Residence, Division St.
Registry Office, Main St.
Sullivan, J., (Government Contractor), Residence, Main St.
Telegraph Printing Office, Main St.
Tufts, D., Omnibus Line, Division St.
Welland House, P.W. Raymer, Prop., Main St.
Welland Station, Main St.
Williams, A. Barrister, Main St.
In the accompanying photograph, taken in 1909, a telephone line crew provided an unusual sight in those days. The modification of the skyline was one of the first steps in providing the incredible technological changes in communications of the future.
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