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- Niagara Gazette - 8/5/1952
Claude A. Smale, a packing de-
artment foreman at the Electro
Metallurgical company, a division
of Uhion Carbide
and. Carbon
corporation, ' has
been retired after
completing over
28 years of continuous
service.
He has lived in
this city for the
last 51 years. -^
. A native of
London, England,
Mr. Smale wav ssiASĀ£
four years old, T \ ^
when his parents settled* in Seaforth,
Ont/in 1890. He was educated at
the Seaforth high school and came
here in 1901 to work as a silver
finisher for the William A. Rogers
company.
In 1906 he became a dispatcher
for the William A. Young Trucking
company, a job he held for 18 years.
He conducted his own trucking com-
' pany, which operated between here
and Buffalo, for several years before
comirig u\ Electromet in 1924.
Mr. Sm'ale was a.member of the
National .Guard during World War
1. He belongs to Electromet's 25-
Year club and he and his wife, Mr*.
Josephine Smale, are members of
the Zion Lutheran church. They
reside in Military road during the
winter and at a cottage near Dunville.
Ont., during the sumer*.
Mr. Smale was honored at two
farewell parties by his associates
beforA retiring.
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