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The Oshawa Times, 12 Apr 1960, p. 13

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JAYCEES HEA R TALK ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY | | Starts In The Home Graham (Tim) Nelson, assist-/foundation of the type of charac-|House. Some of the questions and told ter to be built. Osh-. Mr. Nelson continued, ant director at Simcoe Hall a dinner meeting of the awa Junior Chamber day, "juvenile delinquency is on|the parents V] Vi 0 'S a downward trend in Communities CITIZEN OF TOMORROW Mr. Nelson outlined the pro-/ gram, current in Oshawa, to re- duce juvenile delinquency, and of the program to rehabilitate delin- quents. He was speaking to a A combined audience of Jaycee's/of young Canadians. and their special guests, 40 boys Mr. Nelson said Oshawa from Jury House at the Ontario Training School for Boys at Bow- manville. clubs and groups actively inter- ested in the welfare of young citizens BEGINS AT HOME The speaker concluded, The speaker maintained that parents do excellent jobs of be- training in good citizenship starts!ins parents in the home, which he said, is the primary economic factor in QUESTIONS ANSWERED life During the question period that School is the second most im-|followed his talk, Mr. Nelson a . the church is swered questions put to him by ikon in ) thelthe cial guests from Jury, during of Com-| free time play or leisure hours the merce, at Hotel Genosha, Mon-|child remains the responsibility of As the child of today is the Ca- nadian citizen of tomorrow, and children are not only the respon- | sibility of parents, society has re- |sponsibilities also in the raising has done quite well. There are many our most Driver Jailed For One Year Thomas Arthur Beek, 20, of 496 present three - year suspension Mary St, Oshawa, was sent to|given him in 1958. He had only| two| jail for a year by Magistrate F.|been paroled from jail S. Ebbs Monday. He pleaded months ago where he had been guilty to a charge of criminal | serving a year's sentence for car negligence and of driving while|theft. his licence was suspended. He re-| Beek was involved in an auto ceived a six-month sentence on|accident on Ritson Rd. S., April each charge to run comsecutive.|l while driving a borrowed car. Beek's driver's licence was|The court was told one woman also suspended for a further three|will be in hospital with injuries years. This will be added to a|received in the accident for three Sr---- may ---- more weeks When police arrived at the ac- |cident scene Beek had left. De- |tecfive Sergeant John Powell told the court he found the accused three hours later in a Ritson Rd home y Two Causes Road Crashes oo. vo. cs There are two causes of road had continually defied thc law." accidents. Yes only two! Beek has a criminal res .rd dat- Mechanical failure, such as|ing back to 1955 including a pre- e outright breakdown of brakes or vious charge of criminal negli- steering systems, is one cause. It accounts for one out of every 12 road accidents, But bear in mind that although sudden ineffective- ness of a car component may be the immediate cause of a crash, behind the mechanical failure there is often the human failure of a motorist who did not take reasonable care to ensure his car was in safe condition Apart from mechanical let- down, the only true cause of ac-| cidents is the driver's failure to adjust to conditions, says the On- tario Safety League What about the other factors gence in Bowmanville two years ago A passenger time of the with Beek at the accident, Leonard Brautnall, 21, of 748 Cedar St., was fined $30 a week be- cause he obstructed justice by not telling police the driver of the car. CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congratulations and best wishes to the following resi dents of Oshawa and dis- ago that are so often blamed for po BE z trict who are celebrating their causing" accidents ice, fog, birthdays today: answers, in abbreviated form, fol- low Question: What you 2 ashamed to face your parents Answer: If you got any good out of training school, your par- ents will see it in you. Question: If I am placed in a foster home with the natural chil- dren of my foster parents, how will they feel toward me? Answer: The answer lies in you, how you will feel toward them, say to yourself, how am I going to sell myself to my new brothers and sisters. They will ac- cept you, if you will accept them. We have to work at everything m this life, even to becoming a member in a family MUST HAVE FAITH Question: Some of the boys are placed on farms upon their re- | lease, and feel in many cases they are being used as cheap hired help -- what can we do about it? Answer: When we have proper people and proper places for these boys, we will have over- come many questions that have come up this evening. Revert back to your probation officer and have faith in him. The Ontario Training School Of- ficial who accompanied the boys thanked the speaker, and the Oshawa Junior Chamber of] work that they were doing for the boys. Woman Gets Six Months | For Fraud A 40-year-old mother children, Mrs. Margaret of Uxbridge, was given a six month indefinite sentence in the Mercer Reformatory for Women Monday for defrauding the Prem- {ier Finance Company of over $7000 Magistrate F. S. Ebbs said he was taking into, consideration her four child her !ack of busi- ness experience and that she had no previous record but he did not feel he could place her on suspended sentence as re quested by her counsel. The magistrate said there was sufficient evidence Mrs, Weese had knowingly defrauded the finance company by juggling her books while operating a small women's clothing store in Ux- brgige Witnesses told Magistrate Ebbs earlier that fhe accused had 'given the finance company false information regarding money owed to the store. The business, Antoinette's | Teen's and Ladies' Wear Store, is of four Weese said THE MEMBERS OF the Osh- | awa Junior Chamber of Com- | merce, at their meeting in Hotel | Genosha Monday night, heard an interesting talk by Tim Nel- son, assistant director of Sim- coe Hall, on juvenile delin- quency. In the upper picture at right is Don Lowe, Jaycee presi- | dent, congratulating Mr. Nel- | "Treatment Centres Provide Training One of the most important phases of the work of The On- Tltario Society for Crippled Chil-| adults the bewildered par-! apped youngsters who are home for further raining after an initial period in raining centre. Few parents have (he ment, skill or emotional brium to carry out the proper treatment . for a cerebral palsy child in the early stages. That is why one of the society's chief aims over the years has been to band together - these pecple into parents' councils and try to make them understand the first thing to be done is to get the child out of the home and into a train ing centre routine as quickly as possible after his diagnosis. dren deals with frightened and hand ent enis of a equip equili- New Collegiate's Cost Is Explored By Council lie ®sharoa Times Stress Need For Swimming Pool What price a high school? SECOND SECTION OSHAWA, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1960 i For the proposed mew R. S. . PAGE THIRYEEN |McLaughlin secondary school, no one seems quite sure. MAY PLEAD GUILTY LOS ANGELES (AP)--District Violin Recital Monday night Trustee George K. Drynan explained the board of education's request for an addi- tional * $550,000 which will bring a cafeteria and study area. There will be no subsidy on the pool and only a part subsidy on the audi torium.) Architect's fees, $101,550. Site, $46,500. Equipment, $230,000. Ald. Christine Thomas asked | Attorney William McKesson said Monday a yer has asked him | hd Ld hli h if the prosecution would allow | eries 19 g t pr. Bernard Finch to plead guilty to charges of murderidg| Donna Grescoe, a talented Ca-|ludium and Allegro", by Kreis- iis wife and thus avert a second |yadian-born violinist, performed|icr and "Concerto in D Major" by trial. McKesson said he made no |the final concert of the Canadian | Tschaikowsky. commitment fo Finch's lawyer, [Concert Association of Oshawa| Miss Grescoe's coquettish smile the collegiate cost up to $2,300,-|why the board added the pool , cost "wher you know our (finan~ Finance committee of council cial) position?" is now faced with the problem of| trying to find the money. NOT APOLOGIZING Two million dollars was the. 'I'm not apologizing to any- figure first quoted to council by Body Jor dis pont. igi ys. the. board: last, summer, junct to a physical training pro- ESTIMATE REVISED gram for students in a city this 0) ." 1: |series Monday evening. lai the beginning of "From San Grant B. Cooper. Finch and his| "ari. "Groscoe, who has played Domingo" by Arthur Benjamin mistress, Carole Tregoff, face athe circuit from Carnegie Hall to! prophesied to the audiznce the second trial on charges of mur-|mght-clubs, began her musical sprightly novelty treatment to fol- and conspiracy to commit der |career in Winnipeg at the age of/jcw. Other popular selections murder in shooting of Finch's in-| Later, the board revised its|size. And the boys and girls all estimate downward to 1,750,000 over the city can use it. lat the urging of an Ontario de-| "There are many reasons for |partment of education official spending $108,000 on a pool. You who argued that the new figure|can't put a dollars and cents value yas based on bids submitted onjon a pool." milar projects in nearby areas. five. Five years later she won a|played by the performer in the > |scholarship to the American Con- |atter half of the program wife. The first jury failed to reach a verdict. : Imonly servatory of Music in Chic ice then she has an New s Grescoe as an talented girl. Not sile already a mistress The i id unc onl of |dren's book, "Little Magic Fid-|the piano by John Coveart, of To- rou sense of style, a er insight into the future." is also the heroine of a written by a well-kn vriter, Lyn Cook. audience in the well filled bership drive for next season will ium obviously enjoyed the be conducted the first week a |program especially the lighter May. Mrs. J. L. Pegg is directing figure of |second half. The performer prov-|the drive with headquarters at| auditor ed her artistic ability with _ |two opening selections, "Prae-|store, 87 Simcoe street north. impre re record of tutors and concerts. York Times describ- nd her interpre.| A |tations give promise of still deep- lar ago. ¢'uded 'Wunderbar', "The Ban- jo and "Music ai »" | Mr. Drynan said the $1.750,000 oy, Fiddle", and the ii oure was based on the only esti- shady Imates available and was reach- .om-| Miss Grescoe also played an ed before the appointment of an y ig arrangement of Chopin's "E flat architect or the choosing of a "her Nocturne" better known to many|site. Dalai ® u a HTheco stim ates gain". She concluded the regu-|/from six to nine mi program with various melo- we call for tenders," Sheldies from the litling opera chil-|men"'. [ even one month ahead.' nown | 70N10. Mr. Drynan added that The concert association's mem- $1,750,000 was never intended t of a pool and the * f £60.000 for earthmoving her|the Wilson and Lee Lid. music | MAJOR ITEMS Carrier Winner trip to Easter a York during their days, are: Route 27, 48 orders; David row, 14, Route 3, Eugene Turchin, 35 orders; Marshall, 14, Route orders. All are from the cil lare: Mary Laverty (the Maple Grove; Mike Leddy The winners of The Oshawa|York, and will be looked after | Times New York carrier contest/by an agency with fully qualified were announced this morning. The carriers who have sold the : most orders for The Times and|TO SEE CIRCUS |won themselves Allen Steinfelds, 41 orders; Bruce Harding, 14, Route 12, 35 William 148, From the country, the winners girl), 12, Route 411A, 39 orders, with major items as follows: School including Contest include the cost of an auditorium, 'unusually large" | It was finally determined that else from the budget." |the school would cost $2,198,250 and swimming pool, $1,692,500. : (The auditorium will double as|ber of the board of education." PRESTIGE BUILDING Mr. Drynan added that "The collegiate is to be a prestige build- ing. High schools will be built in Toronto, Etobicoke and other pid- dling communities, and nobody ayo q/will hear of them. onths before he said. "Car-| "School costs are incredibly vari- She was accompanied at|able and it is difficult to estimate |R. S. McLaughlin sch {awa," he said. | Said Ald. E, F. Bastedo: "I'm very concerned over borrowing ool in Osh- the|more than we planned to deben- o/ture for in the next two years. "We may have to go back to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval and even if they do ar |prove, we may still have to get {the money by cutting something At the urging of Mayor Lyman | Gifford, Mr. Drynan agreed that auditorium |his remarks were made "as a per- sonal observer and not as a mem- s Named supervisors. The carriers will be in New York from Monday night to the has just completed i following Friday morning. Plans for the trip include a visit to the United Nations building, the Em- New holi- 15, Per- The Oshawa Power Squadron|tion ts first year|of CPS. of instruction in the piloting] The officers of the Oshawa course. Examinations were held|Sq Squad at the Oshawa Yacht Club March|mand 11 Successful Piloting Course and become members dron are: Sq Com- er, C. D. Wright; lieutenant pire State building, the Statue of Liberty, a tour of water swimming in Brooklyn, and in the evening, a show at Radio City music hall, Ringling's Circus at Madison Square Gar- dens, and a Broadway show. Ar- rangements have been made for the carriers to visit radio and 21 and of the 11 16, ni gr 32 who pass ty. 1} ny .ae¢ Oshawa Squadron chartered Oct. 2, wa 14, can- ed the piloting course, together with those passing ad- vanced grades, will be held at the Oshawa Yacht Club April 28. 1959, by - the| , P. H, Phillips; sec. i Golds Find 8 television studios of the NBC net- work. All expenses on the trip will be paid for the contest winners. Route 380, 28 orders, ville; Fred Appleton, 14, Route 432, 25 orders, Kinsale; Pat Waters, 12, Route 250, 21 orders, Whitby; Ross Jones, 13, Route| 257, 17 orders, Whitby. 0 h M CONSOLATION FRIES it el S. awa an |awarded to two carriers as con- » Fined $100 Bowman- son. At left is Fred Upshaw, chairman of the youth develop- ment committee, which was re- sponsible for the meeting. In the lower picture is Mr. Upshaw with the trophy he won last | weekend in the District 7 orator- ical contest. Viscount bicycles |solation prizes. They are Bob-| bie Malcolmson, Route 63, 26 orders; Robert Huitema, Route |252, 14 orders, Whitby. | Sunday evening, April 17, the | winners of the trip to New York {will meet' at the bus station in |Oshawa accompanied by Bob Young, circulation manager, and {leave for Toronto where they will spend the night at the Prince George Hotel. knows what to do. When the con- rp avg) BY TRAIN fidence 1s gained they can BO Early Monday morning they home together. {will catch the train to New York, --Oshawa Times Photos. PICKERING (Staff) -- A charge of drunk driving laid |against Thomas R. Prest, 46, of |Simcoe street north, Oshawa, |was reduced to impaired driving |by Magistrate Crawford Guest in Pickering police court Monday. Prest was fined $100 and costs or 14 days in jail. | Constable B. A. Box, of the {Pickering Township police, told {the court that he had observed a |westbound car on Highway 2 at Canadian Power Squadrons when | 15 local boatmen were presented with their certificates for passing the piloting course examination. The classes for the 1959-60 season were conducted under the direc- tion of Training Officer Philip H. Phillips and were assisted by William R. Switzer and C. Doug- las Wright, The Oshawa Yacht Club provided the use of its club facilities for the classes and ex- amination. The basic piloting course is open to anyone interested in boating, whether or not they own a boat, but wish to increase their knowledge of safety afloat. Safe boating is more fun. Boating for pleasure is an increasingly popu- lar recreation for Canadians. Its increase in popularity, however, Support On Market TORONTO, (CP)--Golds found the only support among investors as the stock market lost ground Monday after a day of mixed trading. Index changes: Industrials off 1.21 at 502.98; golds up .40 at 89.44; base metals off .51 at 161.32 western oils off .24 at 97.55. Final volume was 1,493,000 against the 1,645,000 shares Fri- day. Imperial Life and Consolidated Paper led industrials down, both 8 er, (off a point at 73 and 40, while has been responsible for an in-|y.S. Ford slipped % at 70%, Ca- crease in hazard and a corre-|;.dian Breweries dropped 5% at sponding demand for knowledge.|333; and Canada Packers B and care and observation of the rules weston B both were off % at 45% This vital parent In am. March 19, weaving|of the waterways. |and 35%. instruction| arriving in the city at 9 p.m. which is an Easter Seal service New York, the Oshawa carriers provided free by the Ontario So-|will join up with carriers who ciety for Crippled Children does have won similar contests from when the Easter Seal|associated papers in Sarnia and the happy family Guelph. are provided with] All the carriers will stay in the embracing all the Governor Clinton Hotel, pheres of treatment and from rere) time to time a district nurse calls at home to make sure the) Firm Cannot not bus home. The) vis aids stop best results are being obtained. This service as many of the| other services of the Ontario So-| 'Recover {ciety for Crippled Children must continue and can only continue if people contribute to the Annual caster Seal Campaign objective of Sia, Tee campaign runs| Excise Tax from side to side betw-en the white line and the shou der of highway, east of Harwood avenue. FOLLOWED CAR He followed the vehicle nearly New|to Pickering Village and drove {alongside and put on his "Stop | Police" light. The car did not stop and he dropped back. A second at- tempt to stop the car was suc- cessful and he pulled his cruiser \across in front of it. In his opin- | ion Prest was. intoxicated and not {fit to be in charge of a motor | vehicle. Constable Box added that he radioed the station for assistance The basic course consists of | United Fuel A stayed ahead {equipment and governments reg-|2% at 51% all day. CPR gained ulations, rule. of the road at sea |% at 25% and Bank of Nova |seamanship. safety at sea, the|Scotia and Great Lakes Paper marine compass, aids to naviga- both were up .% at 64% and 38. ition, charts and piloting, and| Quemont led wines with a gain manners and customs on ship-of 20 cents at $9.75, while Steep board. |Rock was up % at 10%. Labra- More advanced courses in pilot- dor was off a point at 23%, No- ing and navigation, plus courses randa dropped 3% at 41, Hollinger in related subjects like seaman-\was off % at 24% and Cassiar ship, sailing, engine maintenance slipped % at 12%. In senior ura- and weather, are open to those niums, Algom lost 3% at 11% while who pass the piloting examina-/Gunnar gained 10 cents at $8.60. mmm canons on Go |and Sergeant Peter Hollywood land Constable Robert Speakman snow, rain, bad roads, liquor dense traffic, children or animals on the road, etc? These are not causes of accidents, they are conditions; troublesome condi- tions that result in accidents only when a driver fails to adjust for them 25 TREATMENT CENTRES Of Ontario's 14,191 crippled children, some 4000 are afflicted with cerebral palsy and of these more than 1000 are undergoing treatment in some 25 special |crippled children treatment cen- | OTTAWA (CP) -- The Supreme |came to the scene. They corrobor- {Court of Canada ruled Monday ated Box's evidence. Buy Land For {that Beaver, Lamb and ShearlinZ| uEST AT DINNER |Company Limited, formerly of Defended by Russell D. Hum- - - Railway Line Mrs. Orville Greer road east; Mrs. Margaret Wright, 625 Perry crescent; John Plews, 73 Arlington av- enue: Michael Dawson, 156 Gibbons street; Mrs. Mike Coe, 27 Rowe street; Ethel Taunton |,5w going through bankruptcy, the court was told. Good Friday Uxbridge, is not entitled to re-| ! : phreys, QC, Mr. Prest said he cover $30,000 in excise taxes haq 'heen driving all kinds of from the national revenue de-|yehicles in Canada and Europe Scarrow, 82 Westmoreland |tres in the province. There, be- : council partment. The good driver knows that he, avenue; Hilda Visser, Ross- cause of the backing financially| can travel in all conditions in equal safety, by adjusting his per- formance to the conditions. By lowering his speed and taking, extra care he can be as safe in a snow storm as he would be on a sunny day. (If conditions are extreme, he "adjusts" by leaving the car at home, or parked until things improve.) The only conditions over which land road east; Betty Miller, RR 1, Columbus; Tilles Ran- court, 306 Admiral road; Francis Cosway, RR 3, Osh- awa; Mrs. Robert Byrne, 483 Nipigon street; Julie Thorn- ton, 142 Division street; Mrs. Oliver Hubbard, 531 Nipigon street: Mrs. Margaret Wil- bur, Nonquon road; Paul Shetler, 149 Guelph street; Jack Kelly, 45 Albert street; the driver has no opportunity for| adjustments are "Acts of God",| such as sudden earthquakes; tidal} waves, or landslides. Happily,| these are so rare that, statistic- ally, they are unimportant Almost all accidents are caus- ed by people. Nearly every bat- tered car, every injured motor: ist or pedestrian, is evidence of one or more drivers whe did not/ adjust to conditions. { A ---------- | station at Jo-| hannesburg: South Africa, which, cost £10,000,000 and 14 years to build, opened im April, 1960. George Murphy, 122 William street east; Judith Nelson, 53 Hillcroft street; Douglas Alexander, 114 Rossland road east; Judy Bannon, 12 West wood road; Eleanor Taylor, 140 R¥sehill boulevard The first five persons to in- form The Oshawa Times of their birthdays each day will receive double tickets to The Regent Theatre good for a four-week period. The cur- rent attraction is '"The Third Voice" and "Thirteen Fight. ing Men." Reports of birthdays will be received only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. NEW The new STATION railway Service At Post Office As Friday of this week is be- ing observed as Good Fridav | Postmaster Norman Moran has |announced that the service to be {given by the Oshawa post office |that day will be somewhat cur- tailed. While ali mails will be recélved and despatched as usual and spe- cial deliveries will be made, there will be no letter carrier parcel post or rural mail deliver- ies One complete collection will be {made from the street letter boxes| |at the same time as the regular {Saturday aftrnoon collection [time The public lobby at the post | | [by Easter Seals, the children re- |ceive phystotherapy, occupational |therapy, nursery school training |and take part in a program of| rehabilitation unex celled any place on this continent The goal is to help the child himself make him mobile, able to dress and feed himself and to make the most effective use of his physical and mental assets. | Oshawa City Monday night agreed to pay a total of {$700 to five owners of land abut- ting the Canadian Pacific Rail- way at Wilson road south, for use of their land as a temporary diversion track. This is in connection with the construction of the Wilson road subway. Council also passed an expro- priation bylaw which will affect The court reversed a decision of the Exchequer Court of Can- ada ruling that the company was entitled to recover the money The company ceased operations at Uxbridge in July 1953 when its plant was destroyed by fire. Until 1956 the revenue depart- ment had considered mouton, a product of the company, as a fur for purposes of excise taxes. In that year the court ruled that mouton, used in the manufacture {for 30 years. He said he was a iguest at a dinner party and had |taken three drinks before dinner, la glass of champagne with din- {ner and two drinks after dinner. [He denied being affected by what |he had drunk. He was astounded {when Constable Box said: *You |are under arrest for drunk driv- ling." | Assistant Crown Attormey {Bruce Affleck: "By your own [statement you had 10 ounces of aleohol that evening." When the doctors helieve the|six other area owners of mostly child is ready to go home they invite his mother to spend regu lar periods 'at the treatment centre to watch fhe therapists) actually working on "the child's] arms and legs. In a few days| the mother will select one of the| exercises she would like to try| and is given instructions . until she becomes proficient | | KNOWS WHAT TO DO | More and more exercises and vacani property This bylaw will allow the city land easements for the diversion track PASSOVER WEEK JERUSALEM (Reuters)--Jews ir Israel and throughout the {of women's coats, was not a fu {and was not subject to being taxed as a fur. After an investigation of the company's accounts early in 1953, the revenue department issued an assessmeni against the company of $61,722, The company reached a settlement of its excise tax Three defence witnesses testi- fied that Mr. Prest had seemed normal after the dinner party, that his speech was not blurred and that he had control of all his \faculties. | SIMCOE WOMAN HURT BALTIMORE (CP)--Mrs. Car- liability with the department with |rie Wilsom, 82, of Simcoe, Ont., a payment of $30,000. |was one of five persons injured A refund of the $30,000 was | Monday when the brakes of a sought 'by the company on the Pennsylvania Railroad train world Monday night began cele- bration of the week of Passover. Passover is the festival which office will be open from 8 a.m. duties are added until she is ac-| commemorates the exodus of the to 6 p.m. but wicket service, with tually doing the work of the staff Israelites led by Moses from eption of money order ai but before mother and child gol.' NE 4 ¥ bank business, will be hore to continue this treatment,|> in Egypt. Thousands of ble between 8 a.m, and 1b|it is firmly established that the|Visitors have been arriving here ichild understands that his mother|by sea and air the last few days. the sa 8 ndage availa am. grounds that mouton should not departmen said that the $30,000 was paid under a settlement ' agreement and should not be returned ever, the revenue locked and brought the train to have been taxed as a fur. How- |; sudden stop. Mrs. Wilson, a enger on the Miami-to-New Y East Coast Champion suf- fered an injured left elbow and Iright hip. = i ison 3 i out Camping for crippled 'chil- pled boys and girls fo have a en = Just one 2 many Ways | two er three week holiday in that Easter Seal contributions ? pie are used. The Ontario Society the fresh air. The Easter Seal for Crippled Children has five | campaign runs to April 17 and such camps that make it pos- | has a provincial objective of | gible for more tham 1200 crip- | $850,000. \ /

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