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Daily Times-Gazette, 19 May 1955, p. 3

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FAMILIAR SPRING SCENE - One of the sure sigps that - spring has arrived is this sail. ing enthusiast fouching up the Jo t-work on his yacht at To- "Yonto Island, With the arrival of Simplify Highway Route | Easterly From Newcastle sunny spring weather in cen. tral Ontario, yachismen are sett ing their craft ready for another season, (CP Photo) Canadian Army To Build Town For Boy Scouts OTTAWA ~~ The Canadian Army Bas undertaken the task of virtu- ally building and equipping a town Niagara-on-the-Lake, this sum- er to accommodate an estimated 10,000 Boy Scouts from all narts of the World at their eighth World Scout Jamboree, Nearly two years of planning be- tween Army and Boy Scout offi. ¢inls have been carried out in an effort to ensure a sucpessful 10-day outing (August 18-28) for Scouts 'from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and 30 other countries including Austria, Egypt, Greece, Japan and Venezuela, More than 100 separate items of equipment from Army stores will be loaned to the Scouts for their emboree, These include more than 000 tents for living, messing and ospital accommodation, bedding every kind, sanitary equipment, urnishings of various kinds, hos -- | stores and equipment, engl- and signal stores, flags and agpoles, gasoline lamps and stores, flashlights and batteries, and a number of other camp stores, 0 EXTEND WATERMAINS { Army engineers are planning the #xtension of water lines from exist: maing to the camp layout, Xist lines are sufficien Il be recovered by the engineers Jami is over. . Army engineer respon. bility will be the cutting of a access path to the samp swimming beach. This path will upp! ds of Militia train. dn, A hata oar to| trical service and cam be rough planked to reduce dust and erosion, The road from the camp to the beach must also be put .into passable condition The camp will be divided into main samp and ten sub-camps, each of which will be provided with a Boy Scout first aid post to handle routine first ald cases. Pa- tients requiring further treatment will taken to the main camp hospital where extensive medical facilities will be available, This includes equipment provided by the Army and medical personnel from the Army, Navy and' RCAF, Nine Medical Officers, 18 nurs- es and 27 medical attendants pro- vided by the three arm serv. ices will be in attendance at the camp, Two dental officers and four dental attendants will be pro- vided 4 the army. $36,500 FOR CAMP While the Army stores are being loaned free of charge, it will cost the Boy Scouts in the neighborhood of $36,500 to have the Army pre. pate the camp for the Jamboree, his amount will be reduced to the extent of the value of the equip ment returned to Army stores when the Jamboree is over and will cover the provision of show- ers, extension of pipelines, mainte- nance, including pest - mosquito control, ; oh ] an one cent! mouth he Army camp Niegare paves is mekdow ahd teen an Ari ain helt Tian 'ot they agara and good xpanse of famous Th on op oi | glen 'ana Belp Wi at Teen Town The revised route of Highway #01 from Newcastle to Trenton was outlined by Highways Minister a is 8 + costly than more valu | Allan in an election address at|2ble f | Warkworth, , Allan was spesking at » Mr at inated Welfare At Highway 401 with H Iroquols, a to Seology students, and oni through Northumberland double crossing of the railway tracks and the other highway on TEEN TOWN NEWS Skip Willishs informs me that the rod at last Friday's dance WAS enormous, Sly and his able assistants, Gerry Virgin and Pat King handled the affairs on hand with much success. If you're won- dering where the rest of the board members were, there was a for- mal at Central Collegiate and most of them attended, Informants say that a mystery quartet came down around midnight and enter- tained the remaining members, Seeing there was no guest artist, | this jpertormance filled the bill in- stead, Turhing to other activities, we find the 1955 baseball season start ed off with a bang, The Oshawa Merchants Baseball Club really ut on a show for the fans, A auty contest was held and Miss Kathleen Keenan walked off with the honors, A parade followed with all the contestants participating, and all riding in convertibles, In an efforc to get the ball roll- ing on the wiener roast, President Don Hercia set up the committees at the meeting on Tuesday night, More word on this later in the month, For any of the older teenagers who would like to carry on in the recreational field, there is a new club formed at the C.R.A, ealled the Phalanx Club, This is a young man's club, designed along the lines of the Kiwanis or Lions club For Information, Wes Ogden or Doug Rigg would have it avall- able, An article in Tuesday's edition of this newspaper outlined the lang for the new skating rink to built behind the Kinsmen Clvic Memorial Stadium, Remembering last fall when the vote was taken for these plans, Teen Town urged their members to talk this subject up around home, Seems as though we might have helped in getting this rink!! Our executive member to be highlighted this week is Dave Gar- row, Dave, at the moment is the only member on the board who is working, and is employed by Gen- eral Motors at the new South plant, Many of the members think that this organizati 5 for student only, but thoy are mistaken, This club is open to an; in the teen- + Getting back to Dave, who last year put in such | a startling effort at the wiener he was elected to the Public Relations Committee, This year, he was recommended by the exist on nearby Lake Ontario, 'Senator Tributes The Fair Sex = OTTAWA (CP)--Senator A, XK ugessen remembered the women the Senate Wednesday, peaking on a bill that would t the time Senate vacancies n go unfilled, the Quebec Lib. eral started to say: "The Senate undermanned, . ."' But he quickly this to: © $01 perhaps, to be more accurate ¥ should say the Senate is under: mned and underwomanned," « The five women members ap- plauded, Time Limit Is Urged On Vacancies i "OTTAWA (CP)-Senate support {8 'increasing behind a proposal to t a time limit on vacancies in upper chamber, w» Two Liberal members, Senator , K. Hugessen of Quebec, the son an English lord and Senator rdon Campbell of Ontario voiced ir support Wednesday joining growing list of senators who have pressed backing for the meas. =A majority of the senators who Bi spoken so far in an extended te have favored the bill which d require appointments to fill eancies In the 102.seat chamber thin six months of their occur. pence. It would not apply to the nt 22 vacancies, = Senator Campbell said the meas. simply means that the Senate Id be het at full strength, A CRITICISM Senator Hugessen said the bill is g a criticism of the government the present extent of vacancies, would serve merely to pinpoint intentions of those who wrote da's constitution considerable, No prime minister would care to lay himself open to an accusation of flouting the Con- stitution by ignoring the time limit, Senator Hugessen suggested, however that the time limit be longer, possibly a year, NO OBJECTION The bill's sponsor, Senator Wil liam Euler (L-Ontario), a former Liberal trade minister sald he has no objection to changing the time limit, Senator John J. Kinley (L--Nova Scotia) said he objects to the bill because If it were passed it would seem as If the Senate "wants to be its own physician." A resolu. tion along the same line would have been preferable, He referred to other appoint: ments by the federal government and sald the fact that most re. nently-appointed Judges were Lib- gral adherents Is "the way it should 'Merit should be rewarded, and those who are eminent in the law, who have given good. service to their © country, who support the party and forward the principles of he party in power, are the sort of people who should be appointed to high positions during the time the government they support is in power." s, an office he well de- serves, Next week I'll have a special story for the column so 1 hope vou will be sure to look for it. "Til Then"', "JAKE' Has Perfect Teeth At Age Of 65 TORONTO (CP) -- Nickolas R. Fabb of Toronto opened his mouth Wednesday and dentists descended upon him in droves, They politely jockeyed for pos. ition, stood on chairs and held a lamp aloft to nirove the light as they peered with professional in. expensive Port to] activi E" | sidered good and showed a good 2 at the western ap- stle, Survey) has at Sone its eastward leg and then to Trenton, oaches ighway 2 between W. Hope, spann ka river at an old dam on the northern outskirts of the town. The highway, will then continue east through Northumberland county, following the shoreline of the post-glacial lake, and keeping | Highway 2 snd railway to the | south of it until" Trenton is reach ed, Work is now going ahead on the stretch between Trenton and | Belleville, The original routing would have brought the highway north of Co-| hourg across Highway 2 and oth- er railway lines; then along the shore of Lake Ontario to a point west of Trenton, where it would turn north, crossing Highway 2 | snd the railway lines once again "l SAV..." "One day at noon, while standing at the corner of Bruce Street and Ritson road, 1 SAW a wild rabbit run across Rit- son road, through the traffic. It jumped at a boy who was standing on the sidewalk, Pre- sumably in self defence, the boy swung at it with a stick he was carrying, and knocked the rabbit down, The young- ster then picked up the rabbit and the last 1 saw, he was holding it in his arms.' Carol Edwards, 127 Central Park boulevard south, is being sent two guest tickets for the feature picture 'Battle Cry now being shown at the He- gent Theatre, or for any other feature there within the next month, for having sent in this "1 BAW" item Entries for this column should be sent to the "1 BAW" Editor, The Times - Gazette, Oshawa, Two guest tickets will be sent to the sender of any item published, Since only one item is used each day, only the most un- usual and striking observations will be published, and in the order in which they arrive at The Times-Gazette, Movie Club Plans Picnic (Contributed) The monthly meeting of the Osh- gg anville. The meeting opened with a dis- cussion given by M. Moffat con- cernin, e competition films, to be J od this fall, This being 8 m.m, night, things looked pretty good, There were three films run, and they brought forth oh's and ah's from members and guests, Keith Taggert's film was con- ort Hope it will cross H elcome and Ganaras- deal of promise, Miss yra Evans' film was quite a treat, as it gave us a view of Canada and her different cli- mates, from east to west coasts, A new member, Mr, Fetchet, presented his Florida holiday scenes, Very nice, indeed, All of these films were discussed by the club and very valuable ad- vice was given by Mr, H. Wagar, The minutes were then read by the secretary, Mrs, Lee Thrasher, A discussion was held concern. n terest into Mr. Fabb's oral cavity, Mr, Fabb is a dental rarity, At the age of 65, he has a perfect set of teeth, During a Jioup clinie at the con- vention of the Canadian and On- tarlo Dental Associations, Dr, C. H. M, Williams of the Univer- sity of Toronto faculty of den- tistry presented Mr, Fabb's teeth as an example of what proper diet can do. Dr, Willlams was discuss: ing the Influence of vigorous fric. tion and wear on teeth, Mr, Fabb, a television engineer here, was born and lived until 1930 on a tiny island off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, People there eat lots of raw vegetables and hard rye bread, PUT OUT FIRE KINGSTON (CP)---The combined efforts of the army, navy, RCMP and civilians put out a bushfire Wednesday after a seven - hour battle on Cedar island in Kingston harbor, Thirty soldiers, the rrew of an RCMP cutter, naval officers and 12 civilians fought the stub. born blaze to a standstill. About four acres of trees and dense bush were burned. PRINTER DIES PETERBOROUGH (CP)-C, E (Tom) La Branche, 71, chairman of a Peterborough printing firm, died Tuesday, He retir four hii ago as editor of the Peter- rough Review, a weekly news- Jiper. Mr, La Branche entered he newspaper field in 1918 when he started the first English-lan- uage newspaper at Trols-Rivieres, ue, ing the annual Movie Picnic, and it was decided to be held at Mr, G. Law's summer home on Lake Simcoe. The date will be announc- ed later on in our bulletion, The committee chosen was as follows: Mr, Reg Harding, Forest Diliing, Miss Myra Evans and M, Glecoffe. We are looking forward to the efforts of this committee some time in July, The secretary, Mrs, Lee Thrash: er, presented a film taken in Flor- ida with all her new gadgets, She suggested that we do not attempt to use new apparatus till we know our cameras better. Will try to remember this advice, Lee, The latest film presented was from Mr, Pasco's camera, and it was just grand, H. Wagar finishd the evening off with a talk on composition in our movies, So come along, you movie cam- era bugs, and join the fun, You can learn a few things or perhaps you are qualified to help us be- ginners. All advice and experience and films welcome, There will be a meeting in June, second Thursday, held at the Bal. moral Hotel, Bowmanville, =1f the measure were adopted, he id, no one could be penalized not making appointments in . It would have little legal wBut its 'moral effect would be -- = COMING EVENTS RMAN PARK BINGO, FRIDAY HTEht 8 pm. St. John's Hall, corner and Simcoe Sts nm ICHRE. SCOUT HALL, CORNER a Vista and Gibbon, Friday, May at 8 pom. Admission 30 cents. Lunch od. 17a - = Albert Street United Church » Men's Club is sponsoring an = AUCTION SALE for the Radio w Fund, MAY 28th at 2.30.p.m. + Donations will be gladly receiv » ed. What have you? Phone * RA 5.0448, or RA 5.4945 or RA 3.2049; 17 the Karnival The officers, directors and members of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club desire at this time to ex- press their sincere thanks to all those who assisted and contributed in any way to make 'this year's Karnival the grand success that it was. The Oshawa Kiwanis Club is indeed grate- ful as well to the public of this community for the splendid attendance during the two evenings of Vern / Walker, Pres. THE {OSHAWA Joins | Combining The Oshews Times and Whithy Gezette end Chronicle DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE © WHITBY VOL. 14--No. 117 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1955 PAGE 3 Qu inte Conference Program Mapped GOING TO EUROPE Lieut, D. M. Youngson, son of | Mr. and Mrs, P. D, Youngson, 576 King street east, a gradu. ate of the Royal Military Col lege, who leaves for Europe sory to join the Royal Ca- dian Engineers, attached to the Canadian Brigade in Germany Mr. and Mrs. Youngson attended their son's graduation ball on Monday night, Seeding Is Nearly Ended growth of crops in both Ontario] and Durham counties in weeks, Seeding will be practically completed in both counties this weekend, Most cattle have been turned out to pasture in the district | Fall wheat in Durham county while in Ontario county the land is being prepared for corn, | AWARD DAMAGES { WHITBY (CP)--E. Whitby, 62| of Toronto was ordered Wednesday | to pay $25,679 damages in connec- tion with a traffic accident fin- volving three cars three years ago, Damages went to Mr, and Mrs, Frank Tuck of Port Perry and Mr, and Mrs. Henry Davies of | Oshawa. The latter couple re- ceived $12,000, Will Elect President On Friday, June 10 Announcement was made for the 31st Bay of Quinte {Church of Canada, which this year will be held in the| E. D- |United Church at Port Hope from Tuesday, June 7, 10 press representative, Rev. Law- Friday, June 10, The featured speaker this year will be Rev. Dr. A. W. Blackwood United Presbyterian minister in the United States who is profes. sor of Bible and Preaching School of Theology at Temple University Dr. Blackwood will speak on a number of occasions on the theme Following business meetings by | sociation banquet is being he recent | various conference committees at|the conference church the Myith Dr J )-| the subject "The Ideal Church of | C. | Today." 3 pm. on Monday, June 6, conference will be officially open- ed by the president, Rev. H Wolfraim, MA, BD, at 10.20 am on Tuesday, Mr. Wolfraim will] conduct the memorial and and deliver the sermon, Mission Night will be held with addresses by Rev, George Bryce, MA, BD, D, Paed who has served | in India and Rev. R, W, K. El of the board of home missions Wednesday morning's session will | be given over to the reception of | president, Rev, greetings from the local minister | MA, DD; immediate ial association and. mayor of Port|dent, Rev, Alfred Poulter; secre 23 an address by | tary, Rev the Very Rev. George C. Pidgeon, tant secretary, Rev. K, J. Craw- Hope; as well MA will be held on Wednesday even- ing be th speaker on the theme "The Ideal Minister for Today". missionary of the United Church # heme | of Canada in Angola, will speak | Ideal weather has promoted the| The Health of a Christian Soul." | on Thursday afternoon. The lay "| d in 4 niversary of the United Church of | ence were made public, In the long COm- | Canada 'will be celebrated at 9.15 has made excellent growth to date | munion service at 3 p.m, that day | on, = on "prida | Fidler, BSc, BD, On Tuesday evening the annual |the conferchce from the General | Counc | boards of -the church, |ficers and conference executive lott BA BD assistant secretary | will be held at the Friday morn. ing 'session, BA, Rev, E. Glover, BA; chairman settlement commitice, Rev, C, D. McLellan, BA, BD; secretary of the settlement committee, . Rev, D. M. Smith, BA, BD, D., Th; president of eoitence lay 240 i y ciation, W. E. Tummon; secretary tis week of the Program of conference lay association, Conference of the United yi, 8, Johnston; statistician, Rev, Snelgrove, BA; archivist, A. M. Laverty, " ; ford BD; treasurer, J. lov | rence H, Turner, BA, BD; minis {ter of conference church, Rev, The ordination service |B, K. Cronk, BA, BD; secretary ! { of billeting committee, T. A, Bow € | man. Dp. Dr. Blackwood will "Oldest Plane fi ae the Havilland 80 in y Puss Moth CF-AVC, which has its headquarters at the hangars of the Ontario County Flying Club in Osh- awa, recently celebrated its 20th birthday by a visit to the -ompany of its birth in Toronto, The plane is owned by Dean Cor- bett Oshawa and rank Smith of Toronto, of whom are Rev. A. Pinto Ribiero, associate Students Win Awards On Wednesday the final result of | the examinations in the Queen's The celebration of the 30th ao-| University faculty of arts and sci t 6 pm, | Blackwood speaking on list of students who were awarded rizes and fellowships were two ocal * residents, Didericka T. Pereboom, of RR 2, Oshawa, a student in the faculty of arts at Queen's University was awarded the Edgar Forrester Scholarship in oral French ($20), N: H. Edmondson, son of Mr, and Mrs. Byron Edmondson, 793 Bess- borough street, Oghawa, also in the arts course at the university, was awarded two prizes, The local boys won a $15 general scholarship with Rev. Frank representative to office and the general The election of conference of- Officers of the conference are: H. C. Wolfraim, past presi members of the local club, On its visit to Toronto it was piloted by Jimmy Jenkins, the Ontario Coun- ty Flying Club's engineer, Fntries in CF-AVC's Loz Book disclosed that she was manufac. tured on April 4, 1935, and had been constructed from small com- ponent parts of the De Havilland Company of Canada, During her life she has flown all over Canada and the USA, The CF-AVC is a siter craft to the Puss Moth flown by Jim Molli- son on the first East - West Atlan. tic crossing, the Puss Moth flown by the late Bert Hinkler when es- tablishing his world record flights. CHARGE BOY BRAMPTON (CP)~A 13-year-old boy Wednesday was charged under the Ontario Juvenile Act in the shooting last Saturday of William Burrows, 11. The boy was shot in the stomach as he played with a in reading and %35 in drama for "The Happiest Days of Your Life." J R. Trumpour; assis cousin in the town dump. He was operated on for removal of a 22 calibre bullet, Bedding PETUNIAS VERBENA PHLOX PORTULACA PANSIES ASTERS ZINNIAS SNAPDRAGONS CARNATIONS GAILLARDIA . JAS. WANNOP BLOOR ST. E. AT HARMONY 'RD. -- PHONE RA 5.3482 Cutting NOW is the time fo Plant your BEDDING STOCK | Buy direct from your local nurseryman who will be only too glad to give you complete information and advice on how and where to plant and any other pertinent information you may require. @ Remember you get hetter healthier plants ® You gel personal service and advice '® And of course, a much wider selection OR Borders : SWEET ALYSSUN (White and Blue) LOBELIA AGERATUM DWARF MARIGOLDS R. B. 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