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fi |ing the day, children will not be " |pool early this month and it was HOLD PENNY FAIR AT NORTH OSHAWA The children who the | road, turned out in large num- | More than 50 children attend- | group was caught by the Seiya 5 ed and enjoyed to the full the | camera at the ball toss booth facilities of the North Oshawa | bers Thursday afternoon to games and events arranged | as they tried their skill. Neighborhood Park, Nonquon | take part in a Penny Fair. | for their enjoyment. This --Oshawa Times Photo HOT WEATHER MADNESS use [the pool only in the evenings : has been open less than two Rotary Park Pool Open Tye Osharon Ste Rotary Park pool will open | today at 2 pm., Mayor Christine] SECOND SECTION Thomas announced at a pre- OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1961 PAGE NINE dinner council meeting Thurs- day afternoon. Swim instruction will begin Monday morning and will be available every weekday morn- ing. Free swimming is allowed in the afternoons and evenings. Adults will be allowed to use and will be charged 25 cents. Children may swim at night but will have to pay 10 cents. Dur- charged. Waterproofing engineers, rub- ber-suited divers, concrete ex- perts, plumbers and just plain construction men have swarmed over the pool on the hunt for leaks and ways to plug them-- ever since water was put in the found the water was escaping "as fast as it went in", to quote one alderman. This on-again-off-again pool weeks since its official opening last Aug. 17. | Prior to today, the orly pool| operating in the city was Som-| erset, leased to the city by its] ! owners. In charge is Jim Hon | derson, who reported yesterday) that at one point there were 325] youngsters inside the | fence, with an estimated 200) waiting outside. | 1 The Canadian Pacific Rail- | poo way level crossing, on Ritson road south, which has been | is now being repaired. Seen quite rough in recent months | here is a group of railway | maintenance of way em- WORKMEN REPAIR RITSON ROAD LEVEL CROSSING ployees replacing the ties and the decking at the crossing. --Oshawa Times Photo Located roughly in the middle| of Oshawa, Rotary Park Pool] should take some of the strain Area Pair Minor Admits Win Trop hy Quaker leads the league with| 20 points in five games while| Cobourg-Port Hope Combines| {of the health unit for 15 years. | Drinking Charge At Lindsay William Edward John Clews,| LINDSAY -- A Bowmanville 17, of 436 Sammon avenue, was Pair won the annual Mackey Thursday fined $35 and costs,| Memorial lawn bowling tourna- much|, in second with 16 points|or 10 days, when he pleaded/ment at the Lindsay bowling 697 dogs have been picked up|this year totalled 90, Ald. Wal- guilty before Magistrate Craw-|club Wednesday. The tourna- ford W. Guest to a charge of ment is a highlight of the bowl- consuming liquor while still aling season here. minor. | Mrs. Bernice Carter and Fred The accused was picked up by|Cole headed up 36 pairs who the Ajax Town Police around|entered the mixed doubles 1 a.m, Thursday. He said he|event. They had a score of 54 drank six pints of beer after he plus one as high three-game went out for a drive and had|winners. a fight with his girl friend. Second in the three-game category were Mrs. Jean g | Millan, Oshawa (50 plus 6) and {fourth Mr. and Mrs. A. Cox, Port Perry (48 plus 3). Mrs. P. Hall and P. Skitch, Duman Ross umberland|w. "Scott, peterborough, were succeeds Miss Helen Miller who TUimersup with 18 ps8. Yesiged after being 8 member taken by Mrs. Bertha Cotey and Other new appointments to the | C y Curtin, in second place. Respec- o) Temple, both of Cobourg, as tive scores were 43 plus 2 and Apointments to the Cobourg 40. TE public health nursing staff in- Cc t fLi ing 1 | Thompson and H. Freeman, Pe- Health Unit ed ni Lindsay, won the two game Murray Roberts, Lindsay, with clude Miss Shirley Squibb, for- [terborough (51 plus 5), third |Mrs. Clara Oatway and S. Mc- DEB URE Miss Mary | event with a score of 51 plus arkins has been appointed sec. |, ",)q Myg, Agnes Darling and > i : -.|another Lindsay couple, Cobourg office include Miss|2"° SRE Kathryn Roberts and Miss Shar.| Thelma Calvert and Lorne merly of Hotel Dieu, Kingston and Sunnybrook Hospital. Mrs. | Dog Control Officer Picks Up 697 Dogs Alderman Albert V. Walker,|which includes skunks, rabbits, | |chairman of the city counci} squirrels and others, picked up |property committee said today dead or destroyed at the pound |that since the first of the year,|during the first six months of |and delivered to the Dog Pound. |ker said. | To date, 116 dogs have been | During January, 145 dogs | taken to the pound by their own- were picked up, 49 were {ers since the start of this year. | brought in by their owners, 34 {One hundred and seventy-seven|were retrieved by their owners, {dogs have been retrieved by|28 were sold and 132 were de- [their owners, 169 were sold and|stroyed. 467 dogs have been destroyed| In the same months, 54 cats at the pound since Jan. 1. were picked up, nine were {FIND 467 CATS brought in, three were given | During the first six months new homes and 60 were de- this year, 467 cats were pick- stroyed. Eight other animals |ed up by the dog control officer. were picked up dead or de-| {Forty-four cats were taken to|stroyed at the pound in Janu- {the pound by their owners, 26|ary. |wire given new homes and, During Februay, 129 dogs [449 were destroyed. were picked up, 17 were brought | Other animals of all type, in by their owners, 23 were re- | Failed To Deliver | of Gets Drunk On trieved by their owners, 25 were sold and 98 were destroyed. In the same month, 51 cats were "picked up, six were brought in by their owners, two were given new homes and 55 were destroyed. Eleven other animals were picked up dead or destroyed at the pound in February, During March, 118 dogs were picked up, 11 were brought in y their owners, 26 were re. trieved by their owners, 35 were sold and 68 were destroyed. In the same month, 68 cats were picked up, three were brought in, two were given new homes and 69 were destroyed. Thirteen other animals were picked up dead or destroyed at the pound in March. APRIL BUSY MONTH ; One hundred and 22 dogs were picked up in April, 12 | Employe's Book | Way To Court 'mpioy MacLean, proprie.| | ln Noor. tor of an Oshawa cartage busi-| | LINDSAY 5 AY year old ness, was Thursday fined $20 Whitby man--Stanley - Clay --|anq costs, or five days, when who earlier this week was fined he pleaded guilty before Magis- $75 and costs for impaired driv-|trate Crawford W. Guest Thurs- |ing, appeared before Magistrate day to a charge of failing to de- |R. I. Moore again on Wednes-|liver an Unemployment Insur- | day. |ance Book of a separated em- Clay vas' convicted: of being | Plovee to the local UIC office. intoxicated in a public place. | MacLean failed to deliver the p p + |employee's book to the National Accused was arrested by town Employment Office within the were brought in by their own- ers, 43 were retrieved by their owners, 24 were sold and 67 were destroyed. During the same month, 65 cats were picked up, five were brought in by their owners, two were given new homes and 68 were destroyed. Twenty - two other animals were picked up dead or destroyed at the pound in April. During May, 111 dogs were picked up, 18 were brought in by their owners, 34 were re- trieved by their owners, 29 were Low on Tobago Appointments outside Cobourg police at Caroline St. on Tues-| specified time. Bowmanville Re ter St les To Loses Match PETERBOROUGH The Quaker Tennis Club swept all race a eo onster five events from Bowmanville Wednesday in a scheduled Ka- wartha League match at Quaker A Loch Ontario monster was|Where I expected limbs I saw|versation with the monster spot-| courts, | reported seen off Darlington the occasional swirl of water/ter was a gem: Park Beach today by a man who|indicating them. I saw no eyes,| (Keeping in mind that the for- wished to remain anonymous! [but it's facial structure suggests/mula for a good newspaperman The man who phoned Thelit has them." is a little liberalism, Oshawa Timés in a state of ex-| Now monsters have always agnosticism added to a smacker- from five contests | treme agitation said the monster|seemed to be an act of faith.|ing of love for mankind) g Er. { was visible for three or four|At Loch Ness, the tourist season| Hysterical Male Voice: (Croa-| 1he¢ Bowmanville players put minutes before disappearing into/and the monster are apt to ar- kingly) Oh, my goodness. My up 8 Sctermined battle, carry deep water. rive together. |Goodness. It's monstrous. ing three of the events to three The monster he claimed was, It was hot weather but all] Dry Reporter: Is it? (he's dry sets, before being defeated. of a size and type unhitherto faces had been counted at|because he's dry) Anne Graham and Dorothy seen in any waters, save Loch| Whitby today, so off bundled two] HMV: Yes, and it's 60 feet Hunter beat Margaret Dustan Ness reporters with telescope, long|long. and Nora Allin 6-2, 1-6 and 6-3 ll distance lens and camera, DR: Look old son, it's little in the ladies' doubles. In mixed SHEEPLIKE FEATURES The result? You guessed it-- early for this sort of thing doubles, Barbara Pritchard and The caller seemed reason- no monster. And no-one at the] HMV: I won't give my name, Trevor Scott smashed out 7-5 ably intelligent. His description, (lake front owned up to being the but there is a monster in the and 6-2 wins over Jean Evans concise: "60 feet long. Small| mysterious caller. With all our|lake. and Lew Rundle. sheeplike features set on a very inane chatter about lake mons-| DR:-- (Pause) Well act your, Bela Nemeth and Tony Simp- strong neck -- the muscles|ters, you can imagine the re- age, and let the kids have a son easily defeated Colin Birth- kept rippling in it, reminding me ception we got from those/swim. wistle and Jack Dunn 6-2 and of a panther's leg when pacing|people who read other news-| HMV: Who is the editor down|6-2 in the first group of men's a cage. The head was approx- papers. Oshawa Times people, there? doubles. imately 10 inches long, the neck were sympathetic and all; one] HMV next tackled the editor-| Jim Pritchard and George six to seven inches in diameter, man even offered to don flippers|ial echelon, giving each member|Graham were forced to go to increasing in thickness towards| and oxygen tank and plumb the|a description of the beast. Oh! three sets before winning 5-7, the water -- there was two to|depths but we discouraged the|yes there was much consterna-|§.3 and 7-5 over Walter Eibler three feet exposed and behind! gallant soul. tion in The Oshawa Times news-|and John Thissen in the second the neck was a large "hump" | All in all it was a frustrating|room this morning but no sign|section. or body, greyish black in color.imorning, but the opening con-lof a monster in Lake Ontario. | In the third division, John Poynter and Hugh Dibben whip- ° ° {ped Dan Chartran and Dave Drivers Anxious |RETAILSALESTAX farts wisi' ™ ™ OFFICE TO OPEN Gets Month | To Use New Road An Ontario government | | office to handle retail sales COBOURG (CP)--The mod- Highway 401 now has 330 (2X matters will open Aug. ern motorist and traditional pro-/ miles of road in service. When 1 in Whithy it was an. tocol feuded Thursday completed in 1963, it will pro- The occasion was the opening vide 510 miles of freeway from of a 28-mile stretch of Highway Windsor to the Quebec border. 401 between Brighton and Port] Mayor M.. Wladyka of Port Hope. Customary speeches be-| Hope said the new section pro-| gan from a platform across the vides a chance for establish-| highway. ment of an industrial zone at the The new stretches of pave- edge of town. ment beyond each side of the, Mr. Cass announced projects platform were t8o much for the to improve highway connections motorists, lined up for about a hetween Toronto and Malton mile each way, and there were Airport, Ottawa and Uplands) a few choruses of horn-honking.| Airport and London and its air- One motorist got out of his port. The Ottawa and London] car, walked to within 150 feet projects were in the planning of the platform and yelled stage and the two at Toronto "'Shut up and let us through." would begin next year. rom 'the » platform - of ~digni- -Negotiations' began a few tavies came this reply by High- weeks ago to improve the link] ways Minister Cass of Ontario: between Uplands and Ottawa, | "The people here today have highways department officials waited many years for this said. No decision had been| road. Another few minutes/made on a route. won't do any harm." > [ GIVES LONG STRETCH FOUR AMBUALNCE CALLS | The new section, makes pos-| Ambulance crews at the Osh- | sible a through drive of 178 awa Fire Department reported miles on Highway 401, without four routine calls between| a traffic light, from Highway 8, Thursday morning and this| between Kitchener and Preston, morning. Firefighters had one to Marysville on Highway 2 west false alarm during that same of Napanee. period of time. nounced this morning. Donald McQuay, a mem- ber of the real estate firm of McQuay and Kidd, said the government has leased 1,700 square feet of floor space on the second floor of the Brock Building at the corner of Brock and Dundas streets. The office, which it is be- lieved, will have a staff of about 15, will handle the district extending from Scarboro to the boundary of the rgtail tax area to the east which will have its office either Peterbor- ough or*Port Hope Udora Coupl Mark Golde Anniversary UXBRIDGE -- Mr. and Mrs Horatio Westgarth, of Udora, "celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home Sat- urday, July 15. Mr. and Mrs. Westgarth were married at Vallentyne, Ontario, on July 19, 1911, by Rev. C. Jef- frey. After their marriage they settled at Udora, where they still reside. They have seven children liv- Sion came too late, for already | ing. Harvey of Udora; Mrs. Alan Jamieson (Mae) of Osh- awa; Mrs. Howard Glendinning 'To Pay Fine Kerry Merlyn Miller, 17, of 111° Colborne street east, was Thursday fined $50 and costs; or 30 days, when he pleaded guilty before Magistrate Crawford W. Guest, to a charge of stealing 11 bottles of hair dressing from an Annis street store. The store owner, William Kos- tashuk, told the court the accus- ed entered his place of business with a juvenile, July 11. He said 11 tubes of the product were taken from behind the cqunter. Nine of the tubes were put into the water tank of the store toilet and the remaining two were taken to" the accused's car, the store owner testified. ! According to Mr. Kostashuk the hair dressing is valued at 73 cents a tube. The total val- ue of the stolen merchandise was $8.05, n Magistrate Guest, in passing) sentence told Miller that small merchants are having a "hard lenough time, without these birds robbing them blind." He gave Miller a month to pay his fine. Penny Fair Fine Success A timid voice: "I'm scared 'Soup'." But Rosamond's admis- she had entered the House of Horror. | For one penny, fifty children |include Miss Marlene Ritchie, Port Hope office; Miss Enid Nott, Bowmanville office and |Miss Susan Hopkins, Campbell |ford office. | W. J. Hogle, Campbellford, after completion of the course {for sanitary inspectors, was ap- | pointed to the Cobourg staff. While an income of $4.64 daily is hardly adequate to sustain a beachcomber in the U.S.A. it will provide a private room and {three meals a day on the Carib- |bean resort island of Tobago, {made famous by Robinson Cru- soe and more recently by the | British Royal honeymoon coup- le. | MINOR COLLISION The latest hotel rate schedule | A car and a truck were in-|for Trinidad and Tobago offers {volved in a collision on King the prospective escapist a selec- istreet east, Thursday at 3 p.m, tion of 34 hotels. |The car was driven by Maurice| Eight of the hotels are located [Joseph Violette of 500 Gilbert|in Tobago, the peaceful Robin- |avenue, Toronto. The pick-up|son Crusoe island, recently the [truck was owned by Steve Za-|locale of Walt Disney's 'Swiss dorozny; .of «4587 Bloor ' street) Family' "Robinson™" and honey- east, Oshawa. Damage was/moon spot for England's Prin- minor. {cess Margaret, LEGION RALLY Local Members - Will Attend | President Donald Iverson and gion activities in the province lexecutive members Cameron | during the last two years dele- Oke and Walter Devenish of the|gates will hear the reports from {Oshawa Branch, Royal €ana-| officers along with standing and |dian Legion, will be attending!special committees such as Pro- |tne 22nd Biennial Provincial vincial President Harold Eaton {Convention of the Ontario Com-|of Newmarket; Provincial Sec- mand of the Canadian Legion in retary Patrick Biggs; Honorary Hamilton from Aug. 6 to 10. Treasurer George Laughlin; |They will join more than 1,000 ways and means; constitution other delegates from 500 and laws; poppy; public rela- branches representing 80,000 On- | tions; special pensions; organi- zation and development; service bureau; membership; sports; TVS; citizenship; scholarship; | " : |tario Legionnaires. Sunday, Aug. 6, will see the parade of nearly 2,000 Legion-| day. Clay told the court that he| | was on his way to the court: Toronto Band house to pay his fine when he met some friends and To Play Here drinking with them. Police Chief John Hunter said y accused's truck, valued at $400, | It as announced tay yay yas being held until the fine and of the 411 Squadron, was hemng Royal Canadian Air Force was paid. Auxiliary, of Toronto, will pre- |sent a concert at the McLaughlin FIRM INCORPORATED [Bandshell in Memorial Park at The current issue of The On-|8.30 p.m. Sunday, July 30. tario Gazette states that let-| The band, which is composed ters patent of incorporation of about 40 musicians, is con- have been granted to J. V.|ducted by Flying Officer B. H. Aviation. Limited. . The . .new/Clarke. , The assistant. band: company has its head office master is William Askew, of in Oshawa. Oshawa. sold and 66 were destroyed. In the same month, 63 cats were picked up, 10 were brought in by their owners, six were give new homes and 67 were destroyed. Other animals picked up dead or destroyed at the pound during May totalled 18. JUNE FIGURES Dogs picked up during June totalled 72, nine were brought in by their owners, 17 were re- trieved by their owners, 28 were sold and 36 were destroyed. During the same month, 130 cats were picked up, 11 were brought in by their owners, 11 were given new homes and 130 were destroyed. Eighteen other animals were picked up dead or destroyed at the pound in June, (Averil) of Oshawa; Mrs. delighted to this and other George Bain (Dorothy), Leask- events featured at the Penny dale; Mrs. Arthur Perry (Lau-|Fair held on Thursday afternoon rine) of Holt; Mrs. George at the North Oshawa play- Sloan (Vera) of Toronto; Mrs. ground. naires, numerous bands and a massed color party to the Ham- ilton Cenotaph. The convention will be official- honors and awards and others. The convention plans include the public speaking contest finals under the chairmanship of Hon. J. P. Roberts, minister of MRS.* HORATIO WESTGARTH |ly opened by the Honorable Lt. The children, supervised by|Col. John Keiller Mackay, DSO, | Myrna Ross and John Flegg,|VD, LLD, lieutenant - governor came up with the idea early injof the Province of Ontario on the week and after planning and Sunday, Aug. 6. preparation, staged the fair as| Tommy Thompson (Grace) of Matawatchan, Ont. A son, Ralph, died in 1940. Twenty grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with] The busi ib their parents, were all home tol, «nec : . a) e business sessions of the celebrate the happy occasion. |. Special syent, Games 0%) convention will be held in the ; : booths - were set up, and the| Alexander Academy, James Mr. and Mrs. Westgarth re-ichildren participated enthusias-| 1 x : tg street south. Highlights of the ceived gold wrist watches as|tically. Proceeds from the after-|> cc. S i inclode: i remembrances from their fam- |convention will include: election ] noon's fun will provide a wiener| or" officers, university = scholar- ily. roast toward the end of the sea-| chine the public speaking con- Many friends attended the son test for school children and "at home" which was held at| This is just one of the speciai|other community projects. Fore- the family residence. Numer- events designed to keep Osh-|most in the business Sessions education, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at Sheraton - Connaught Hotel, Hamilton. Wednesday night, Aug. 9, the convention banquet will be held in the Sheraton-Con- naught which will include honor presentations to branch winners for the 1960 branch of the year and monthly bulletins which will be followed by the convention ball and floor show. The convention will end on Thursday with the election of officers for the next two years and their installation. ous telegrams of congratula-|awa's youngsters entertained|will be reports and some 100 tions, and many beautiful gifts|through the summer months. resolutions on veterans legisla- were received from their Under capable supervision, chil- [tion and other subjects which friends. dren on 22 city playgrounds en- will be for the welfare of Cana- Mr. and Mrs. Westgarth are joy similar @&dventures in rec-|{dian veterans. both enjoying excellent health. |reation. To indicate the scope of Le-| The convention ladies commit- tee has arranged an outstand- ing program of activities for visiting ladies which includes fashion shows, garden parties, and sight-seeing trips. | UNUSUALLY LARGE PEACE Although the Oshawa Horti- cultural Society was forced to 'ancel its annual Rose Show ue to the backward weather early in the summer, the heat and humidity in recent weeks has brought flower gardens | back almost tognormal. Seen | here is one of the Peace | Roses in Thomas Gurney's ROSE garden at 74 Colborne street west. Mr. Gurney has a fine display of these roses in both red and yellow. ~--Oshawa Times Photo