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The Oshawa Times, 19 Apr 1960, p. 4

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riety tidy SR § |resolution submitted at the annu- Food-Fuel Sign Plea Rejected BOWMANVILLE (Staff) Town council Monday night| learned from the department of highways it would not consider erecting a "Food-Fuel-Accommo- dation" sign at the Liberty h 25 2 In submitting its request to the department for the erection of the sign advertising the conveni- ences, council was endorsing a a' meeting of the Bowmanville Chamber of Commerce. Department officials advised council by letter this sign they (cate to motorists travelling free- jf ways, | Imost cases, these services were was d d to indi- such as Highway 401, where they may obtain the three bas!c services. The officials pointed out in located on old highways at either end of a municipality where they were handy to tourists entering built to by-pass the area, the motorist was not aware of the existence of these establishments sincé they were usually out of sight of the new highway. In the case of Bowmanville, the Flying Dutchman is visible from Highway 401 in both directions and it should be quite obvious to persons seeing it that the only place of exit and therefore, the one which leads to this establish- ment is Liberty street. It was pointed out that the site of this establishment is probably much better, from the point of view of visibility from the high. way and availability of access, than any other on the entir length of Highway 401. The management of the Flying Dutchman has erected large red neon signs in advance of the turn-off in both directions just outside of the department's limit of control. This, according to de- BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT New Projects In Montreal By ROBERT RICE Canadian Press Staff Writer MONTREAL (CP) -- Montreal is going up so that more people can come in, New skyscraping buildings are piercing the downtown air--rising higher and higher as premium. value metropolitan land forces builders to go up instead of out. {atmosphere pulls people into the centre of the city--to the his- toric squares and open spaces of |the downtown area. 4,000,000 TOURISTS Last year, Montreal played host to 350 conventions, 8,000 small meetings and entertained 4,000. 000 tourists who spent about $159, Say the Place Villie Marie pro- moters: "A conservatively - estimated 50,000 Montrealers and tourists will visit Place Ville Marie daily." Then there are the office work. ers, Within a two-block radius of the new project about 80,000 peo- ple work in offices. Three new skyscrapers going up at the mo. ment will house another 25,000 of fice workers along Dorchester Boulevard. On top of this, say the pro- moters, 300,000 Montrealers 'ize within an easy two-mile reach of downtown paris of the city, Monte real is a city of apartment dwel- lers--almost half of all people in Quebec live in apartments, come pared with about a quarter for 000,000. The most spectacular building the rest of Canada. of them all is the new, still abuilding Place Ville Marie pro- ject, a multi-million-dollar shop- ping plaza, cruc:form-shaped sky- scraper, parking lot and sight- seeing wonder, FACTS AND FIGURES The promoters of the shopping plaza have marshalled some facts and figures about downtown Mon- treal. First of all, they say that by 1981 greater Montreal--a 30-mile GUNS OF THE TIMBERLAND Pewisd ty WARNER BROS, TECHNCOLOR® asepmsa LYLE BETTGER-NOAH BEERY J ig 6:5 AM. SPECAL A floral cross of Lorraine | President Charles deGaulle and formed the centrepicce at a | Mme. deGaullz, Left to right state dinner in Government | are: Mrs, John Diefenbaker, House in honor of French | Maurice Couve de Murville, partment officials enhances the visibility, "We cannot, therefore, consid- er making an exception to our town. NEW HIGHWAY When the new highway was PRESIDENT DEGAULLE foreign minister of France, Mme. Vanier, wife of the gov- ernor-general, Gen. deGaulle, Governor-General Vanier, Mme. enbaker and Mrs, Patrick Ker- win, --CP Wirephoto Bowmanville Rate Write Streets Committee BOWMANVILLE (Staff) --|nant mess all summer with Town council Monday night/wecds growing in profusion and tabled four letters of complaint{a mest unpleasant smell emanat- and requests for further investi-|ing from the mud. ommittee. ed the beach after pushing sand Following their investigation of|into the depression, thus avoiding the four complaints, the roads|the situation which existed be- and streets committee will re- fore, Mrs. Huron 'said. port to the next meeting of the| board of works before any action] FOURTH LETTER is taken. The fourth letter was received The first letter received was|from J. Robert Trejbal, a Mearns from H. W. McDonald, 27 Brown|avenue north resident. He com- street, | plained that Mearns avenue is Mr. McDonald complained a2ain in such bad condition that there is a tree on the boulevard residects are not able to use it in front of his property, which/for weeks at a time. has grown too large. He request-| He said twice a year, since ed pouncil have it removed, be-|1955, this road changes into a| cause in his opinion, it is too close river of mud and deep holes, to his house and is in the path/making driving Impossible, The| of prevailing winds, and is there-|lack of . proper ditches causes) fore dangerous to the house and heavy damage to fields and| anyone in it, {where the water stands for a| . long time, crops are destroyed. SECOND LETTER Mr. Trejbal complained every| Writer of the second letter was {a.m. and i: will expire at 12.01 Traffic Light Plan Passer BOWMANVILLE (Staff) Town council voted Monday night payers with nothing being done about it. He charged the basic principles of road building have not been observed here. There are no cost for a proposal by the CPR to install a synchronized three flashing light. traffic control. for road, and where there are, they have clogged or overgrown. Because the road is impass- able, it would be impossible to reach the houses along it in case of any kind of emergency, Mr. Trejbal wrote. He requested council to let Mearns avenue residents know as soon as possible, what it in- tends to do to improve this hazardous condition, Council voted to advertise a special town garbage pick-up April 27 and 28 and in addition to advertise the first instalment of taxes will come due April 29 Courcil will proclaim Daylight Saving Time April 24 at 12.01 Bowmanville's share of the cost for the new installation which will cost $5500 is 12% per cent which ts to, $688. The remainder of the cost will be divided 80 per cent or $4400 to the railway grade crossing fund 7% per cent or $412 to be paid by the railway. In addition to the installation charges, there is an annual! ma'n- tenance cost of $635 which is divided equally between the mu- nicipality and the CPR. Railway officials in a letter to council advised the CPR region- al officer advises them it is not expected the installation will be made until late 1950 or early in 1961, therefore any bills for in- stallation or maintenance are not likely to be submitted to the town before 1961. Councillor Ross Stevens in moving council approve the ra'l- way proposal said "if it would be any kind of an improvement to that Scugog street crossing, I'm definitely for it." Mine Men Richest a.m. October 30. Low Point In Market Stock Trade TORONTO (CP) -- Investors, taking advantage of an additional day's holiday, stayed away from the stock market Monday as trading dropped to its lowest point in nearly nine years. Final index changes: Indus- deGaulle, Prime Minister Dief- | Trucking to approve the town's share of the| trials off .96 at 496.52; golds off| U.S. Union Lr 35 | year council promises to improve) Gaosge Seilers, 108 Ontario these conditions but the state ol | street, {the road gets worse every year| "Mr. Sellers informed dl he| gels every y | was writing in regards to a ditch| ___ . Fi | on che north side of his house. He complained the ditch i nearly Vickers Files Suit . five feet below the road at one end and is very dangerous to For $33,842,000 traffic and children as well. WASHINGTON (AP)--Vickers- He said he was informed when|Armstrongs Ltd., filed suit Mon- he buiit his house the ditch would 459 against its main U.S .cus- 'be tiled and last year ome tile|tomer, Capital Airlines for $33,- was put in at the corner. This|g42 000 *'due and payable." tile made a great improvement,| The British firm raised its de- therefore, Mr. Sellers requested mand from $11,981,000 which pre- the tiling job be completed. viously had been specified as Author of the third letter to|overdue because, a spokesman council was Mrs. Howard Hur-|said, Capital failed to make pay- eon, a resident of the west beach| area. Mrs. Hurson requested the works department have its bull the west side from which section) saad is being removed. | She pointed out the removal of| the sand is leaving a deep .de-| pression which rises up to the] shoreline. Two years ago the sand| was not pushed into the depres-| sion and the beach was a' stag-| |tice that it was in default. |plied for foreclosure of the chat-| dozer smooth out the beach onie] ment within three days after no- at 160.68; western oils off .61 at 95.66. The volume 881,000 shares was the lightest since July 10, 1951. Thursday's volume was 1,185,000 Vickers « Armstrongs also ap-| mortgage on the Viscount| turbo-prop transports that it sold to the airline. shares. Capital's board of directors met| Weston B d a point at last Friday, but failed to come|34, with Alberta Gas off % at up with workable financing plans.|21% and Bank of Montreal off % The annual stockholders meeting|at 49, Aluminium Ltd, and B.C. of capital will be held here next|tclephone each were off % at 30% Wednesday. and 43%, while Interprovincial DUNBARTON PERSONALS |\or con bud Dominion Glass went ahead 4 points at 79, United ¥uel DUNBARTON -- Recent visi-| tors at the home of Mr, and Mrs. | International Utilities weat down at Melville Church, West Hill, on| 12 at 85. Thursday. went up 1% at 45, S=dman Broth- 48 at 88.05; base metals off .03 gained 2% at 54, General Motors WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fi |nancial report of the United Mine Workers Union filed with the la- be the richest union in the United |States with assets valued at $110,315,080. That does not count the union's welfare and retire- ment fund, estimated to total in excess of $100,000,000. The figures are contained in re- ports filed in compliance with the ew labor-management reporting aw, The report shows the union owns 40 per cent of the working capital stock of the National Bank of Washington, one of the largest in the capital. bor departmnet indicates it may |k D. Thompson were Mrs. Thomp-| A baby shower was held at the| son's brother, Mr. Jim Payton, home of Mrs. W. VanDuyn of and sisters Dorothy and Betty. (Pine drive for Mrs, D. Byrne. Christine Thompson returned to{About 18 ladies surprised Mrs. Gananoque to spend the Easter Byrne with many lovely gifts. holidays with her grandparents. |The hostess served lovely re- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hopkinson |freshments. spent the Easter weekend with| Weekend guests at the Ed. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cornwells were his brother, Roy Smith, Spruce Hill road. {and family of Ottawa. Mrs. Lloyd Chute has recently| Miss Bonnie Heward of Pine been ill with the measles. drive is celebrating her sixth Keep Saturday, May 7, in mind | birthday on Friday, April 15. for the One-We-Go Rummage| Mr. and Mrs, E. Cornwell, Sr., sale. Come and browse around|of Parry Sound, have returned in the United Church Sunday home after spending a month with School rooms and buy some|their son, Mr. Ed. Cornwell and home baking at the bake table. |family. The Base Line Home and School Congrabiations to Howard executive elected at the April 11icy0¢c 'who recently attended a meeting for the coming year was|gafoiy Drive banquet in Toronto as follows: President, Mrs. D.| o."0 ios his 11th year Safe- Earl; 1st vice-pres., Mrs. Eq. "a0 iy Plitz; treasurer, Mrs, B. Laureys-| We ore sorry to hear Mrs. J. sens; 2nd vice-pres., Mrs. E.| |{Heward has been confined to bed Parro; recording secretary, Mrs. the Hac holid H H. Plitz; corresponding secre. OVCr the .uasier holidays. er tary, Mrs. Plitz; executive (friends and neighbors wish her committee, Mrs. D. Oliphant,|2 Speedy recovery. Mrs. E. Fehn, Mr. E. Jorgenson,| Mr. Victor Rudik and Mr. Gor- Mrs. A. Thureson, Mrs. M. Mc-|don Annis are spending the East- Kay. ler weekend in Washington. Several residents from the area| Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mills of , "The Seven | Montreal spent Easter weekend Je he iy Christ Easter|With Mr. Mills' mother, Mrs. F. Sunday evening at St. Timothy's Mills. Church, Agincourt. The work was| Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Annis of directed by Bert Jackson, organist | Ottawa and Miss Annis Quacken- and choir leader. busn of Toronto are spending the Marion McClement was soloist weekend with Mr. and Mrs, E, J. at Almonds United Church Good |Annis and family. Friday morning. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jacyno of Dorotty May on the recent death 0 i i ith |0f her father. ro Mes: Geo, Watson, || Mr. Bruce Hollinger Has re- Mr. E. G. Code is spending the|turncd home from Ajax Hospital. Easter vacation with his daugh-|, Ms. hb Bosttie Jas giao Je ter, Mrs. Everett Smith and Mr, turned home from. Ajax Hospita Smith of Seaforth {and is convalescing from a re- cent operation, Mrs. H. V. R. Moore has re-| Bob Pe iy " - 'earce visited with his par- Joroee home from Oshawa Hos-\o,ic "yr "and Mrs, Harry Pearce, . :.jon the weekend. sr Cet ed © "| DUNBARTON UNITED CHURCH ome On : Mr. Rundall of the Bible Soci- The Flying-up ceremony of the tended op|€ty conducted the morning serv- Brownies was well atten lice. The: church" was filled to May erly capacity for the Easter service. of Dunbarton, is very ill in st. | "Happy Easter Morning" was the Michael's Hospital. |anthem and a lovely solo, the Mrs. Walter Lynde is in Ajax|"Hvly City,' was sung by Mrs. Hospital. |Vera Freeman with Mrs. Wilkin. Mrs. Alex Gourlie and Mrs. [son at the organ, The Junior con. Walter Willls attended a Thank-|gregation was conducted by Mrs. crs was ahead 1% at 34% Al 50 listed among th s Labrador was up % at 22% but| ong the assets Dome was off % at 20% and|2T® 10 per cent of the common Hudson Bay dropped % at 44% (Stock of the Western Kentucky Algom was off % at 11. {Coal Company, of which Cana- Calgary and Edmonton was off dian - born Cleveland financier 3 at Iss ons a " off 25|Cyrus Eaton is board chairman; certs at $9, Parific Petreleum off} hy ¥% at 11% and Bailey Selburn Fa do He Sinsnding re 15 cents at $6 55. the Western Kentucky Coal Com- pany. PIONEER POST The assets were built under the The first post office in Canada |management of John L. Lewis, was established at Halifax in|who retired as the union's presi- 1755. Ident in January. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1, Secure - 8. Beer (collog.) 9. Jose Mart!, for one 10. Regions 12. Begins 13. Get in touch with 14. Flushed with 15. Meager 16. Gold (her.) 17. A smart tap, in fencing 19. Generous 21, "Honest ~" 24. Discone nected 25. Tardier 27. Scotch "" alder ~--Morris, actor 30. Leads 31. Music note 32. Menu items 35, Gain victory 36, = branch 37. Gentle 39, Pythias' friend 40. Helpers 41. Denomina. tion 42, Pipe joints DOWN 1. Great Lak, 2.In bed 3. Winnow 4 Half ems TIRIUM] MIA ad] Ir [SIPIAITIE] 8. Waved, as 21, Siamese FI a the hair coin EL 6.0f an area 22, Shortest 7. Thin routes 8. Diplomacy 23. Short 9. Flower busi petals ness 11. Timid trips 15. Mineral 26. Donkey spring 29. Owns 17. Roman 30, Devase money tation 18. Going bes 32. Turf fore in 33. Exclamay order tion of 20. Holiday sorrow (Jap.) 34, Citrus fruit Yesterday's Answer 85. Walk through water 87. Club 38. Recline offering meeting in Whitby on|Mabel Cochrane and Mrs. Doro- Tuesday and a luncheon meeting 'thy Forsylhe, policy in this case, since, we have, in the past, refused to erect this sign in similar cases where the establishment was not evi- dent from the highway as this," the department said. Six Of Seven area around the city--Iis expected to have 8,500,000 people. Right now, it has about 2,155,000. Lost § {Port § STARTS TOMORROW 1001 Arabian Nighis' . 'Flying Fontaines' co Then they point how showman- ship and good merchandise draw shoppers from the province, east- ern Ontario and northern United States to Montreal, Half the $7,500,000,000. retail spending in Quebec is attracted to metropol- itan Montreal, The reply was received and filed. Montreal's European - flavored Ao oe Firms Back WINDSOR (CP)--Six of seven Windsor trucking companies were back in operation Monday night after a week-long wildcat strike by members of the Brotherhagd or ARER seventh-- Husband Transport Limited--refused to return to work when company officials re- fused to give them last week's pay. : Officials of local 880 met with rank and file members at a four- hour meeting Monday and per- suaded them to return 'to their jobs. But the strike was called again when employees of Hus- band walked off the job for the second time. Robert L. Wilson, business agent of the local, said the men were persuaded back to work in the evening. Hushand )! jel) (od [eo] 38 TITYTI HALL THIS WEEK COLUMBIA PICTURES presents a STANLEY DONEN production Hilarious In Technicolor BRILLIANT VERSION OF THE BROADWAY HIT [J LJ OP - KAY KENDALL | > 3 WITH FEELING!" 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