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TERRACE “OMINECA™ HERALD, TERRACE, BRITISH

COLUMBIA .

Wednesday, November 23,°1

Alcan Has Answer
To Big Family Housing

Alcan Design Homes Limited, home building: ‘subsidiary
of Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd. has previewed sim-
ultaneously in Montreal and Toronto’a series of four bedroom
two bathroom homes, equipped with all
appliances including a dish washer, and furnished ready for

occupancy even to the cur-
tains on the windows, which
should sell for about $10, 000,
excluding lot.

According to Alcan Design
Homes’ president J. C. Neely,
these prototype Universal Homes
are the result of two years of re-
search and development by Alcan
to provide an attractive, comfort-
able home of high quality at a

rice which has vanished from the

anadian scene in recent years.

Until plans as to subsequent
manufacture and distribution are
complete, the protetype homes are
located in a private research area
and are not open for public ‘view-
ing.

Four different prototype models
have been manufactured to date,
all of which offer a variety of ex-
terior and interior design and
furnishings. Additional models are
being prepared.

Alcan Universal Homes have
been accepted by Central Mort-

Alcan “Pointer”

Erases Distance

Professor Hubert Daoust
of University De Montreal has an
electronic class-room pointer that
reaches 300 miles to Arvida, Que-
bec.

Although Dr, Daoust remains in
Montreal, he is teaching physical
chemistry to some 80 university
graduates in Arvida with the aid
of modern electronic communica-
tions equipment,

The students, all graduates in
chemistry, engineering, mathemat-
ics and physics, are employed in
the huge Aluminum Company of
Canada, Lid. plant or in research
in Aluminum Laboratories Limit.
ed in Arvida.

Professor Dadust sits in an ‘of-
fice in Montreal and writes black-
board material on a telescript
machine which transmits the
image by telephong line to Arvida
where il is projected onto a large
screen in the classroom. He speaks
-through a combination speaker-
phone and microphone unit linked
to loudspeakers in the class. Stu-
dents communicate with him by
telephones scattered through the
lecture hall.

Alcan is the first Canadian com-
pany to employ this system for a
full-scale lecture series, although
it has been used previously for
single lectures by industry and
educational institutions.

The equipment is owned and
maintained by Bell Canada.

‘Professor Daoust put in a full
day at Universite De Montreal
then “meets” his class at Arvida.
Three times in the course of the
serles he goes to Arvida for clas
ses, and establishes a personal re-
lationship with the students.

Despite some initial difficulties
while the Professor and students
become familiar with the equip-
ment, the students in Arvida are
enthusiastic over this new means
of keeping educationally up-ta-
date. Dr. Daoust considers it a
very useful advance in the tech-
niques of education.

Alcan. conducts a number of
educational courses at Arvida and

_ ds considering much wider use of
the equipment to bring outstand-
ing educators to its classes inatruc-
tors who could not spare the time
to go to Arvida for a full lecture
series, |

ees oe
TWO-WAY VISION. — Swim

ming along jn fresh water without
spectacles, the anableps a ¢ropical |
fish, is truly a four-eyed specimen.

Thig Hve-bearer, which sometimes
grows a foot long, has unusual div-
ided vision, Its eye resembles that
of a frog, exept that the upper

portion is adapted for sight in the

air, while the lower ts for vision

In the water: -

major electrical

gage and Housing Corporation and
they have been engineered for all
Canadian weather conditlons.

Amongst additional points made
by Mr. Neely during a press pre-
view of the Homes was that alum-
inum, mainly in the form of sid-
ing, windows, Soffit and Fascia
was used only where it was the
most logical material and that
home builders throughout Canada
would benefit from the introduc-
tion of the Alcan Universal Home
because it would serve to expand
the total Canadian housing mark-
et.”

Alean has under consideration
plans to build assembly plants for
The “Homes Canada and if the
Company proceeds, Initial produc-
tion is expected by the fall of

Ap pointments .. .

MIKE SEATON BRIAN PIWEK

named to the position of produce manager is Mike Seaton, of the
Terrace Overwaitea staff. Mike and his wife Karen will leave Terrace
on November 28. The Seatons have resided here for a year. Prior to
coming to Terrace, Mike worked in both Overwaitea stores at Prince
George. He has been with the firm for five years, Promoted to the
position of produce manager in the Terrace Overwaitea store is
Brian Piwek, 19, of Terrace. Brian joined the firm here upon
completion of his schooling 18 months ago. He is well known
throughout: the community and is a popular member of the
Terrace Overwaitea staif,

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OFF TO A NEW Overwaitea store in Kamlsops, where he has been.

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