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First Car Is Driven Off Line At New Ford Oakville Plant OAVILLE -- The 21st Ford car, built in Canada, a Model C of 1904 vintage, kissed bumpers Monday with No. 2,794,525 first passenger car to come off the final assembly line in Ford of Can- ada's giant new assembly plant here. It marked the official start of operations in the country's larg- est plant under one roof, only a vear and nine days after the erec: tion of the first steel. Several hundred employees and a few scores of invited guests cheered as J. M. Cochrane, vice resident and general manager of 'ord ville, drove the first car off the line. Mr. Cochrane announc- ed that the first car is being re- tained by the company because of its historical significance. A large scale open house is plan- ned for a future date, Rhys M. Sale, Ford of Canada president, announced. However, with the plant still under construction and roduction in the initial stages, it ad been impractical for safety reasons to invite a large number to Monday's ceremony, Visitors saw the assembly of automobiles from the point at which materials enter the plant until the completed vehicle rolls off the line. Only a few hundred men were at work in the plant. There will be 1,000 by the end of Musical Prodigy Wins At Festival SARNIA (CP)--For the third time in five years, the highest award of the Lambton county mu- sic festival was won Tuesday night by Elaine Keilor, 13-year-old piano ang violin prodigy from Wallace- The $150 cash award to the con- testant showing most outstanding promise in piano or violin classes cannot be won by the same person in successive years. The young Wallacetown girl has won in 1949, 1951, and 1953. The $25 violin scholarship went to Sheila Anne Slater, Chatham. perky maroon (and possibly 3,500 by mid-1954. July, 2,500 by the end of 1953, Mr, Sale said the plant is cap- able of producing 'better than one car or truck every minute of the working day," but added that its capacity depends very largely on demands of the market. "It is de- signed for the needs of a fast- growing nation," he added. "We are turning out more cars and trucks right now than ever before, but neither we nor our dealers can keep up with orders. This new plant puts us in a position to meet the needs of our dealers and cus- tomers in years to come, even if the demand is double what it is today." The first car off the line was a shiny Ford customline Fordor in Glenwood gray. It presented a sharp contrast to the little two- cylinder, chain-driven Model C which arrived on the scene with a driver wearing duster and goggles and a pretty feminine pas- senger in picture hat and veil. The old car was one of a pair from the first 117 cars produced by Ford of Canada in 1904-1905. Both are still in fine running order. The Oakville plant is capablé of pro- ducing as many cars in less than two hours than were assembled in 12 months of the company's first year in business. Ford Oakville has 32% acres of production space all on one floor and under one roof. It is of the most modern design in construc- tion and equipment. The plant re- presents only one phase of a $65,- 000,000 program to expand and im- prove Ford of Canada's facilities. Of this sum $32,500,000 is being spent in Windsor, where a new en- gine plant, a 50 percent increase in foundry capacity, a revitaliza- tion of the machine shop, and an addition to the power house make up a major project. The Windsor plant already has 60 acres of pro- duction area under roof. hoo AND BOARD By Gene Ahem I'VE FRAYED THE EDGES OF MY BRAIN, TRYING TO THINK TO UNVEIL IT FOR THE EAGER GOLFING PUBLIC? WHAT KIND OF GOLF PUTTER YOU'VE INVENTED WHICH WILL SINK 80 PERCENT MORE PUTTS! 1 EXPECT TO GET THE WORKING MODEL TOMORROW! JOVE, I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING...ILL HAVE A GOLD-PLATED "PUFFLE PUTTER" MADE AND SEND IT TO THE PRESIDENT! | Novel Idea For Crossing Safety OTTAWA (CP)--The House of Commons heard suggestions Tues<' day how railway crossing accidents might be cut and Canada given some free advertising through dis- tinctive marking of railway freight cars. G. . Fraser (PC--Peterborough West) said he recently saw an Am- erican freight car marked "prod- uct of Maine" in big white letters that threw a reflection from ear headlights at crossings at night. Canada should do the same. . G. Weir (L--Portage-Nee- pawa) said truck drivers had sug- gested to him that freight cars should be marked with a wide white or yellow band that would make them easily seen at cross- ings. , Transport Minister Chevrier said he would. bring the suggestions to the attention of the board of trans- port commissioners. Regina, provincial capital of Sas- katchewan, was incorporated as a city in' 1903. Out Of Control NORTH BAY (CP)--A 5,500-acre bush fire was burning along the banks of the Ottawa river 30 miles northeast of here Tuesday night, but scattered snowflurries are ex- pected to help bring it under con- District forester Frank Sider said 230 men were fighting the fire. A wind Tuesday helped Large Bush Fire THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, May 18, 1953 43 keep the northern section of the blaze in check. Heavy rain fell within 30 miles of the fire, but when the wind changed the rain was not carried over the area, Sider said two new fires broke out near Sturgeon Falls, McPherson township which was brought under control, and the other in Springer township, which was held after spreading through two acres. one in|ted s ARCHDEACON INSTALLED KINGSTON (CP)-Rt. Rev. en- neth Evans, Anglican bishop of On. tario, presided Tuesday at the open- ing session of the 87th incorpora- ynod of the diocese of On- tario. YEariier, Canon L. E. 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