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The Oshawa Times, 4 May 1960, p. 18

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18 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, Mey 4, 1960 Chemical Plants ||Seen Flourishing IKE COVERS HIS EARS Eisenhower and Gen,. Hugh President Base Commander Harris cover their ears as big guns bang away in fleld dem- onstrations at Fort Benning, Ga Infantry School today, | ~AP Wirephoto "CHASED AMMO CARRIERS' Retired Admiral Recalls Battles VANCOUVER (CP)~When the first shells' from the German cruisers began to churn the sea into a fury around his ship, the young Canadian lieutenant aboard HMS Caradoc had no time to savor his first taste of battle. "I was too busy chasing the ammunition carriers into action," said Rear-Admiral Victor Bro deur (Ret.). "Most of them were 15 to 17 years old and were down below crying their eyes out." The sea battle, fought in a thurderous four hours of an Oc. tober, 1917, morning, was the last major action in the struggle between the Allies and Germany for North Sea supremacy during the First World War, Admiral Brodeur, a member of the Royal Canadian Navy when it was founded just hall a cen- tury ago on May 6, 1910, vividly remembers his first action, SLIGHT DAMAGE "The shells were falling on either side of the ship, so close 1 was drenched with spray. Yet ace," he recalls "We just couldn't get used to seeing our- selves in the mirrors around the ' London arena, But we won." I | Berwick In 1914-15, then a lieutenant, he served aboard the cruiser HMS in the West Indies squadron, Returning to Britain to| 'Join Caradoc, he witnessed the surrender of the German fleet {off Rosyth, Scotland, at war's end, With guns hooded and pointed fore and aft, and the German | crews below decks, the warships | steamed between two long lines {of Allied vessels to complete the ADMIRAL BRODEUR viks, thrust him into the midst) surrender, "It was a sad sight for any navy man, They were very fine ships." The German fleet later scuttled itself off Scapa Flow. ACTION IN BALTIC Following action against the Bolsheviks along the Baltic coast, he returned to Britain for further gunnery training, In 1031 he was a commander we weren't hit once. Our only/of a South American revolution with two RCN destroyers, Van- damage was a small splinter torn|ana eventually exposed him to|couver and Fraser, under his from one of the decks." The Caradoc was luckier than her sisters, HMS Ceres, Calypso and Cardiff, all of which suffered the quiet rigors of a Washington desk, | Born in Baloell, Que., son of Hon, Louis Philippe Brodeur, for-| command off the west coast of Panama. Intercepting a call for help from the British consul in revolt-torn Salvador, he landed a severe damage. The Royal Nav¥|mer liberal minister of marine Smal: force and succeeded in pro- eruiser squadron finally wasiang fisheries and lieutenant-gov. 'ecting British interests, withdrawn as the battle raged, Stretching his stocky, still-trim frame in an armchair of his me- mento-crammed study, Admiral Brodeur, 67, recalled one hu- morous Incident arising from the action "1 believe the only direct hit we recorded was on the German cruiser Koningsberg. The shell landed in the messroom and failed to explode. When the Kon- igsberg surrendered with the German fleet in 1918 we found the shell aboard her, nicely pol- {shed and mounted." ernor of Quebec in 1023.24, he| was part of the six-cadet nucleus) of the RCN In 1000, serving| aboard the fisheries protection| vessel Canada. When the Canadian navy offi clally came into being 50 years aboard the cruiser Niobe, deliv. {ered to Canada from Britain Oct, |21, 1910, Trafalgar Day, In 1911 he was sent tc Britain to join HM8 Dreadnought, During that time the original six cadets --stil together--formed a hockey team that played the European SERVED 38 YEARS Rear - Admiral Victor Gabriel Brodeur, CB, CBE, CD, spent 38 ears In 'the Royal Canadian avy in a career that also took| {champlons, Cyrstal Palace, |REFLECTED GLORY ago he became a midshipman) He was officer commanding the Pacific Coast from 1938 to 1940, served with the rank of captain early In the Second World War as naval attache in Washington, then returned to the Pacific Coast Job in 1043 as rear-admiral, He [retired in 1947, | He now lives in Vancouver with his wife, Dorothy, His two sons, Nigel and Philip, are both in the services, Not the least among the changes. in the RCN's first 50 years, he belleves, Is in disci. pline, "I' we retained the sort of dis- cipline, Including the 'cat,' we had in the earlier days, we'd have a mutiny on our hands." "We played In the Crystal Pal | im into bates against Bolshe: CROSSWORD PUZZLE Pet Coyote Causes Stir In Winnipeg WINNIPEG (CP) -- Anthony Meyer thought he had solved his problem when he chained his pet coyote in his yard to discourage cats from eating his tropical fish, { But his remedy for the free- loading cats presented his | neighbors with two other prob. le:as: How to keep their cats alive, and how to sleep at night while the coyote howled They threw the problem into the laps of the East Kildonan council, Two petitions were con- sidered. One was for and one was against the coyote being kept as a pet. Some neighbors signed both petitions Mr and Mrs. Meyer ap- peared at the council meeting | and defended their coyote, | Bonnie, Mr. M one cat, 'The neighbor's cat came over to fish out of the pool and | the coyote killed It," Mr Meyer sald. "If their cals can | fish then my coyote can hunt." Then there was the matter | of the midnight howling | "They bullt a dog house for | her," said Edward Pacholek, | "so now she stands on top of the | dog house and howls." | PF. Byars, East Kildonan's secretary-treasurer, sald there is no bylaw covering the situa- tion. eyer said Bonnle killed ACROSS 1. Short religious treatise 6. Shoe ties 11, Wit 12. Full-grown 13. A shade of green 14. Book of sacred writings 15. Reclaim 17, Malt kiln 18, Russian rulers 20. A kind of flute 23. Accomplish 24. Goddess of harvests 48. Gaze 49. Roman 850. Measures of length DOWN 1.God of thunder greatly another's 8. Joyce Kilmer's . poem Labora ory 7. Farewell, in Mexico 8. Its capital is Havana 9. House wings 10, Let it stand (print,) 46, Insane 19, Steal 20. Bog 21, Asiatie river 22. Splicing tool 84. Belonging to us GlRI1 INID IN [A JINETR] [EIR [EIS] ALE] ILIAINICIE BNIAICTEIE] EL IORRMNESS] 37. Spoken 88. A wrinkle ¢5 (nat. hist.) Man's OTTAWA (CP)~The Canadian chemical industry seems fo be flourishing and should be re quired to show financial need be- fore it gets greater tariff protec. tion, s spokesman for agricul tural and logging Interests ar- indicated that such an inquiry would take the board so far afield it would have to revise its estimate of the length of the tar- if study, generally expected to Canadian Aniline and Extract Compeny Limited, argued that the special exemptions referred to by Mr, Blair are "one of the most insidious situations" in the tariff structure, It was unfair that some industries could import chemicals free while others paid up to 15-per-cent duty. He sald the structure of the Canadian' Industry is being seri ously threatened by foreign com- pet'tion from chemical industries with surplus production eapacity. take two years or more, Eric Gudgeon, president of ity The Association of British ued before the tariff board 'vesday, Gordon Blair, counsel for the Canadian Federation of 'agricul ture and three British Columbia Associations of Loggers, Lumber and Plywood manufacturers, ssid he Is surprised that the industry has not presented the board with over-all figures on its financial quired in requests to the tariff board for tariff increases, he said review of the chemical tariff structure, QUESTION ASKED David Hart of Canadian In- dustries Limited asked where Mr, Blair gained the Impression the industry seeks general tariff increases, because its brief Mon. day ted specifically it is not asking for a general increase, Mr, Blair replied that the chemical industry Is acking certain tariff exemptions on im- ports purchased by agriculture, forestry, mining and many branches of manufacturing cover- ing a substantial share of the chemicals imported. It also sought broader application of tar- iffs on imports of products of a type made in Canada, He appealed to the board to in- vestigate patent lies and as the board went further into al}. Chemical Manufacturers opposed tariff increases in a brief to the| bosrd, Canadian chemicals en-| tered Britain duty free and "we| feel strongly that no duty should) be placed upon the same product entering Canada from the UK." RUBBER FIRMS HEARD A brief by the Rubber Associa- tion of Canada indicated §# will oppose tarilf increases on chem- feals thet would "burden rubbe: industry with substa cost increases which it can ill al- ol ford to bear in the face of severe and growing import competition," It sald chemicals are one of the rubber industry's most im- portant groups of raw materials, totalling $23,628,000 in 1957. The Crown - owned Polymer Corporation Limited of Sarnia, in 8 brief presented ntial|Hehner, argued by counsel Erie tion for continual end-use tariff exemptions on imports for specific purposes, It did not elaborate on this point, BROADWAY START Bob Goulet, Toronto TV singer, makes his Broadway debut in the fall of 1960 in the Lerner and Lowe musical "Camelot." OSHAWA DRIVE-IN "EXPLODING WITH EXCITMENT | COLUMBIA PICTURES presents A WARWICK PRODUCTION (> VICTOR MATURE - LEO GENN ° TANK FORCE! CinemaScope + TECHNICOLOR®. 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