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The Oshawa Times, 25 Apr 1961, p. 4

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\ | Motorbike Speeding Admitted PICKERING (Staff) -- An Oshawa motorcyclist who was chased along Highway No. 2 by Pickering Village Police, who had to force ten cars to the side of the road in the chase, was charged with careless driving in police court on Monday. Joseph Van Kiuk, 18, of 628 Crerar avenue, Oshawa, pleaded not guilty as charged but said he would plead guilty to a speeding charge. Constable Lawrence Watson of ph. the Pickering Village Police De-| Police said that later partment told Magistrate Craw-(was found parked behind a ford Guest in court that on Sun-|ering supermarket and day, April 2; at 4.15 p.m, he|trace of the driver could be was parked in his cruiser in|found. A search of the car re- Pickering Village when he heard|vealed a pair of oxford shoes a loud roar. He said he observed|and beneath the hood in front a motorcyclist travelling at ajof the radiator were two bottles high rate of speed through the|of liquor. village on Highway No. 2, in an| A search for the driver was easterly direction, and he then|unsuccessful until a Toronto gave chase. man reported to the Ajax police In the chase, he said, ten cars department with no shoes on his were forced off Highway No. 2|feet. in the attempt to' catch the ac-| James Corbett, 1821 Dufferin cused, who turned south on|street, Toronto, pleaded not Harwood avenue at the Ajax in-|guilty to the careless driving tersection. ch , Constable Lawrence continued that he tracked the motorcycle to the rear of a store on Har- wood avenue and that upon in- vestigating saw the accused come out of a building adjoining the store. The officer said that Van Kiuk admitted that he was the driver of the machine. In view of the fact that there was no evidence to support the charge that the accused had driven carelessly, His Worship consented to- decrease the charge to speeding. Van Kiuk was fined $20 and costs or five days. THEATRE GUIDE Regent -- "The Dark at The Top of The Stairs." Shown daily at 2.10, 4.25, 6.40, 8.55 p.m. Last complete show at 8.45 pm. 4 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdey, April 25, 196) Liquor In Auto Results In Fine PICKERING (Staff) -- A To-|car in i ronto man who over four miles in his i oy Circle of Decep- 10.15 p.m. 8.30 iE Biltmore -- tion" 3.00, 6.35, "High Time" 1.15, 4.50, 'y et] 858 § SF = H : E E GH 2 3 2 §2Es gf g 8 k i i ] g g i 8 v i g§ that shortly after 2 a. i g i x 3 § | ir 8 &5 i opens at 7.00 p.m. Show starts at 7.25 p.m. : Pi hed at Sea," 1.00, , 6.10, 8. Jn. 1 7.35, show visit the centre in June. He will officially open the new building and adress the membership. Foot Slipped, Crash Caused PICKERING (Staff) -- A Squires Beach woman pleaded guilty on Monday to a charge of failing to yield the right of way. Kathleen S. Smith was repre- sented in court by her husband, who pleaded guilty on behalf of his wife and offered an explana- tion to the court. Pickering township police tes- tified that on Mar. 22 a two-car collision took place at the inter- section of Station Road and the Base Line, Pickering township. more people will be using the facilities of the centre than ever before, President Walter Reuther of the UAW-CIO will Choir Wins Applause At Benefit PORT PERRY--One of the highlights of the social season Ainsworth, Larry Sheffe, Joe Badour, Bruce Lee, Ken Simp- son and Wm. C. MacDonald. All in all it is expected that tion Centre, Port Elgin, Ont. Shown in the picture, left to right, dre Bob Spencer, of Oshawa, Joe Kenny, Jack g 1 gd 58 tee prepare for an active sum- mer program at the Educa- UAW Centre Is Readied For Active Fifth Season er of the UAW will visit our Education Centre in June," said] Mr. Badour. He will officially| open the new building on June 3 as well as address the mem} bers of the Canadian U! 1 Council. Prominent citizens and| as held on Saturday evening. community leaders of Por t| When the Ontario County Junior Elgin and district will be in-| Farmer Choir held its benefit vited to attend the opening fes-| night show in the auditorium of tivities and to meet President{the Port Perry District High Reuther. | School. This outstanding perfor- Mr, and Mrs. Albert Scam- mance was put on to raise funds mell continue as managers of|for the benefit of the Ontario the Education Centre. "ThelSociety of Crippled Children. Committee: has every confi-/The auditorium was filled to dence in the ability in view of| capacity, with some 700 attend-| Damage totalled $75 to the other their past performance," said ing, Mr. Badour. | "he. sh driver's car. Wm. C. MacDonald, former| The show was arranged andl poco geiq that Mrs. Smith) Canadian UAW Education Di-| Produced by the music director, : | | Mrs. Elsie Dobson, ATCM. Pre-|stated at the scene of the acci-| rector, has been promoted tof .:: : the Detroit Ty He|Siding at the grand piano, in-|dent that she was proceeding| north on Station Road and came has been replaced as Education|stalled for the occasion, was Director in the UAW Canadian Mrs. Marie Taylor, ARCT. Lynn| oo) ston at the Base Line Region by Allen Schoeder who| Fair, Agricultural Representa- y ' is a highly qualified member of tive, extended a warm welcome but her foot slipped off the the Canadian UAW staff, {and introduced TV personality clutch and the car jerked for- ward and collided with the other vehicle. * Rick Campbell, as master of ceremonies for the evening. The guest artist, Betty Weir, a , y Mr. Smith told the court that prior to the accident his wife's car had to be pushed because delighted everyone with her charming vocal selections. Dr. the battery was down and that she was afraid of stalling. M. B. Dymond, MPP, Minister of Health for Ontario, congratu- A fine of $15 and costs was imposed. H : tion Bullshine" 2.15, 4.50, 10.05 p.m. Last complete at 8.50 p.m. Brock -- "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" 6.55 and 9.55 pm. "Blood and Steel" 8.45 nm, Last complete show 8.45 p.m. Driver Fined PICKERING (Staff)--A Tor- Immediately after Labor Day, will begin a round of weekend study conferences for various union groups. The last school of the season will be held Septem- ber 30-October 1. A one-week school for the Building Se r vice Employees Union will be held during the week September 10. All in all it is expected that more persons will be using the facilities of the Centre than in any previ- ous year. The building program includ- ing a new dining room, kitchen and six-room apartment for Mr. and Mrs. Scammell is almost completed. An amount approxi- mating $45,000 has been spent on building the camp improve- ment since the close of last sea son. "Further building and ex- pansion is already being plan- ned," said Mr. Badour. "We are pleased to announce that President Walter P. Reuth- PORT ELGIN -- "The UAW Education Centre is headed for another busy season -- in fact the busiest yet" said P. T. (Joe) Badour, Chairman of the Management Committee on the occasion of his recent visit here. The Centre will open its fifth operating season May 27-28 with two groups of union students from Windsor and Toronto, to- talling 80 persons. The Canadian Labor Con- ess Women's Auxiliary Con- erence of about 60 persons will be at the Centre on May 30-31. The District Council will hold a three-day conference on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of June. The Canadian Labor Congress summer school will occupy the Centre for a five-week period beginning June 10 and conclud- ing July 15, after which time the Centre will be filled to Sapaciiy with vacationing fami- es. Story Of Explorers Told In "Discovery Of The World" One of the greatest stories in|world's greatest heroes; the tries, peoples, beasts and trea- all history concerns man's de-|bold, restless men who, through sures. termined fight to discover and|the centuries, have set out t0| Many of these items are col-| Wrestler Athol Layton, of Toron- explore the earth. find, chart and conquer the un-|jected here for the first time --|to, spoke briefly on the benefits The story of how, after cen-|known. Here are portrayed, inlamong them the reader will|derived from the money raised turies of dogged effort and of|sharp word vignettes, the earlyifing for the first time the great for this worthwhile project. hardship endured, he finally|Asian tribesmen to the great pioneer map of Ptolemy; exqui-| One of the features of the eve- triumphed is one of the finest|l6th-century explorers to theisite renditions of the Oriental|ning was the presentation of a and most' inspiring history has|/modern Marco Polos who havelartists who portrayed the found the secrets of the Antarc-|qrama of the West invading the to offer. heights of . : : Many expeditions have made tic and attained the East; fanciful interpretations of Everest. the Medieval era -- rooted in| their contributions with their - rooted accounts of newly - discovered DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN theology, touched with imagin-| seas, rivers, islands, moun-| Author Albert Bettex is a|2tive genius; on-the-spot draw- tains, deserts, forests and fro-|gistinguished historian, well1|!"8S made by explorers on the zen continents, and of theqquipped for such an important| Peaks of the Himalayas and on| task as this. Swiss-born, he was| strange peoples, animals and the plains of Siberia and| {many more, All of these items| editor for 14 years of the Swiss] is Du oe is now with Li-|are superbly reproduced, many d of them in full color. brarium, periodical of the Swiss| ee ; Bibliophile Association. He has| This is truly a book to delight| written a series of studies of|the eye and inspire the imagin-| cultural history which have been|ation. This book is filled with| published in various countries|rare riches for the reader -- it| and has worked as an editor of|is a collector's item and should] the Manese Library. {find a rightful place. | One of the highlights of the| The story of the exploration book, of course, is the unusual|of the world is a long drama of| collection of pictures for illus- human effort directed towards | tration purposes -- for these are the pictures with which ar- 1 \ tists through the centuries por-|pedition crew nearer, be it by a trayed their excitement and short step or by a long stride, to| wonder at an unfolding world --|the day when the earth's fea-| d|tures would at least be clear {and mankind could have a com-| prehensive picture of its differ- | ent regions and the life that | peopled them. | As the concluding paragraph| says: { "The explorers' reports and | pictures bring the earth before | us in all its fullness, a precious stimulus to our feeling for na- ture. Man becomes a poor crea- ture indeed if he has no vital relationship to the world in all its aspects. The writings and| pictures left to us by the explor- ers are of immeasurable value if they help us to throw open ourhearts and minds to the Paton and Hubert_.€ox con-|radiance of the universe in spired to steal $460,000 from|which we live." Brandon Packers between Jan. 1, 1956, and Nov. 30, 1960. ; Paton and Cox, respectively president and vice - president of Great West Saddlery, ac- | quired control of Brandon Pack- ers in Nobember, 1956. Control- ling interest was transferred to Great West in 1958. Under cross - examination by Harry Walsh of Winnipeg, coun- sel for Paton, Wudel said he had no authority for removing the files. BRINGS IN FILES Wudel brought 11 folders of files into the court room, which he said included all he had re- moved from the company. They later were tendered by Mr. Walsh as exhibits. Earlier in the hearing, G. M. Adams, now co - manager of Brandon Packers, testified that the missing files would include|Any Government Deficiency Pay- references to management Ser-iment will apply only on properly vices provided by Great West ~ graded wools. Saddlery to the meat packing|sec,re fhe utmost by patronizing firm. the organization that made this hi the $350,000 avalved jn Ye possible. charge agains Paton and Cox, $208,000 is the total of manage- SHIP COLLECT TO ment fees paid to Great West Our Registered Warehouse No, 1 Saddlery for 1958 and 1959. The Weston, Ontario Crown contends that no ser- vices were provided for this money. because he lost his wallet, was| found guilty of failing to pro- duce a licence and fined $10 by! Magistrate Crawford Guest on Monday. Howard William Kay, 3951 Lawrence Ave. East, Toronto, was stopped by Sgt. Richard Bodley of the Pickering Town- ship Police Department on March 17 and told to produce his licence. Sgt. Bodley told the court that Kay was given seven days to produce the licence and that the charge was laid after 21 days. The accused, who pleaded not guilty, stated that he had an operator's licence dated April 10, which he applied for by mail on March 18. e rate Guest learned that Corbett had admitted to Ajax police that ignition keys in his possession were those of the car parked behind the store in Pick- ering village. Defence counsel Russell Humphreys of Oshawa claimed that no evidence had been heard that Corbett was actually the driver of the car abandoned in Pickering village. The driving charge was dis- missed by Magistrate Guest. In answer to the charge of having liquor in a place other than his home, Corbett pleaded guilty. Constable Ernest Holmes told the court that he searched the Before flying from the Toronto International Airpor. (Malton), relax at take the simmer 2% . 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ONLY $63 to $86 WEEKLY Including delicious meols RESERVATIONS: Box T-5, Minett, Muskoka, Ontario or Your Travel Agent lated the Junior Farmer Choir on the presentation and extend- ed high commendation for their efforts in supporting such a worthwhile organization as the Society for Crippled Children. SPEED RECORD VANCOUVER (CP)--The 15, 332-ton Greek freighter Kalym- nos has set a speed record for bulk-grain Joading in Vancou- ver. It took on 10,350 tons of grain in 7% hours. A ---- Don't Feel Like A Stranger... "Paradise"! Wherever You May Be On Your cheque amounting to close to five hundred dollars, by the president, Grant Parrott, to the plucky little chap who repre sents "Timmy" for the 1961 Eas- ter Seal Campaign. § plans to be found there. The story of the great explor- ers and the worlds they found -- from before Marco Polo to the conquest of Everest -- is beauti- fully told in 75,000 words of text and illustrated with a collector's gallery of contemporary pic- tures in a new book, "THE DIS- COVERY OF THE WORLD" (The Musson Book Co. Ltd.) by Albert Bettex. Certainly this must be one of the most magnificent volumes of its kind in contemporary times, a word-and-picture drama of the continuing drama of explor- ation. Here is told with dramaland with which they recorde and color the story of the the discovery of strange coun- Took Brandon Packers Files BRANDON, Man. (CP) -- The Have The -- ~ Oshawa Times weitsesuttiagaringatanromsomesinriosiws NIAILED TO YOU WHEREVER TIMES arrives every day, bringing you all the news, plus your YOU ARE VACATION RATES... THE OSHAWA TIMES WILL BE MAILED TO YOUR COTTAGE OR RESORT AT THE REGULAR CARRIER RATE OF . . . agement servibes for day-to-day operations. He was testifying at the pre- liminary hearing of a charge that Toronto businessmen Hugh former general manager of Brandon Packers Limited testi- fied at a preliminary hearing Monday that shortly before he left the company last August he removed files said by an- other witness to contain refer- erences to management ser- vices provided the firm by Great West Saddlery Limited. A. L. Wudel, who left Bran- don Packers' employ last Aug. 28, also said that during his Cubans Still Hold Priests OTTAWA (CP) -- Four Cana- dian priests imprisoned in Cuba last week still have mot been released, External Affairs Min- ister Green told the Commons Monday. Replying to Lionel Chevrier (L -- Montreal Laurier), Mr. Green said the Canadian em- bassy in Hanava has been do- ing its best to get the priests out of custody. Mr. Green noted that a fifth man, whom he implied is a Ca- nadian but did not identify, had been arre: but since re- leased. 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