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She Oshawa Cimes SECOND SECTION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1961 PAGE NINE AUSTIN F. CROSS Oshawa | OTTAWA (Special) -- "Austin Fletcher Cross, an Ottawa Citi- zen staff writer since 1929, and jauthor of the well known leolumn, Cross Town, died Christmas eve. He passed away jat 63 while watching television /at his apartment, 283 Maclaren Native Dies At Ottawa tor, Hamilton Herald, Montreal Star and Toronto Globe, serving in the press gallery for the Montreal Star and The Citizen. Polish Choir To Assist OCVI Band The O'Neill Collegiate and Vo- cational Band, under the direc- tion of Francis J. Francis LRAM, ARCM, LGSM, LTCL, In 1929 he began his "Geogra- phy Lessons" in The Citizen, and shortly after, his column, Cross Town, Surviving are his wife, Kath- concert on Friday, Dec. 29, at 8 p.m. in the OCVI auditorium, will be presenting its monthly} - |Simcoe street north. Principal jguest .artists are the Polish) |Choir of St. Hedwig's Roman} |street. His death followed a mild |stroke he suffered last summer/jerine, whom he _ married Catholic Church, conducted by CLUB IS HOST TO CHILDREN Happy Doubles Club of King | knee during the distribution of Stieet United Church. Caught | presents. by the camera is one of the One of the many happy events held just prior to the Christmas: season was the children's party held by the HEED WARNING Oshawa Police Report One Driver Charged i i i -) driv vas i llision orists in Oshawa seem to|were Frank Heaslip, 61, 74 Que jdrive, Islington, was in co heee taken Chief Constable Her-|bec street, who suffered a cut) with a car owned by Samuel bert Flintoff's warning regard-|right knee and his wife, Annie,|Green, of 211 Bowman avenue, ing drinking' and driving to|65, who suffered a minor in-| Whitby. It is not | heart. |jury to her back. jwas driving Green's car. During the holiday char Mr. Heaslip's car was stop-| The incident only one person was arrested) ped for a red light at the inter- a and charged with drunk driv-/section when it was struck| backed onto ing, two people were slightly|from the reat by a car driven} injured in a total of four minor|/by Timothy Carl Rush, 260] accidents in the city, and other}Grooms avenue, Oshawa. The than these instances a, quiet) accident, which caused an esti- weekend was reported. mated $450 damage was investi- With the approach of the|gated'by Constable C. R. Hiltz,| « New Year's holiday, the Chief) No injuries' or damage re-|roads at 6.50 p.m. Sunday. andsrem ds all rivers ia men pulls Srees dcive -- i tgs The cars, driven. by, Melville to rune me hens of the AR k x ar voren, Oshawa and Henri Huider, 61 mein: wad petibettiats ike, rt tear "Orene|ot 137 Rosehill boulevard, Osh the first] jawa, received damage to the "The record = st part of the holiday season is) | good so far, the Chief said. Let's! an es try to keep it that way." c | New Year's is the time for dances and parties and if you are one of those people who take one for the road, make it | Oshawa Bell Telephone offi- cials said today 8,311 long-dis- coffee, or take a taxi. | BLIGH? INJURY tance calls. were handled by 63 operating personnel --QOshawa Times Photo the street. Mr that the car then took off. $90 DAMAGE An estimated _ $90 ly, police estimated. There were no injuries. resulted, fairly extensive dam- in a collision at King street of $300. A new flax- some others, is on sale at $8 a bushel to registered Prairie seed growers, the agriculture depart- ment has announced. Theré will be only 1,000 bushels sold with a maximum 20 bushels per farmer. Slightly injured in a rear end)the working Christmas Day. Simcoe street south and Went-| . s worth street, Sunday evening,|/the Christmas staff was kept! Gjover's "very busy'" all day but there!the extent vii) A lance was little or no delay in com-| mbu Of the 8311 long-distance| Flax-Seed Variety jcalls completed from the Osh-| lawa exchange, 289 were to During the three-day period of|to Canadian -points outside off oppawa (CP)-- Saturday, Sunday and Monday|Ontario and Quebec. No. record seeq variety called no fire calls were received by|of overseas calls was available. resistant ar However, a rash of ambulance |were kept busy during the calls was received by the}Christmas Day influx of tele- department during the same phone calls. However, the staff answered -- seven on Saturday, never ran into any difficulty in| nine on Sunday and four on/relaying the information re- Christmas Day. quested. collision at the intersection of A company spokesman said ceived pleting long-distance calls. | Calls Answered United States points and 201 Is Rust-Resistant the Oshawa Fire Department. Information 'operator's period as a total of 20 were|working in that department known who occurred after he car owned by Mr. Green Black stated to police. He said damage, resulted from a two-car colli- ion at Rossland and Thornton's |Tracy, 40, of Larry Gavenue;| \extent of $40 and $50 respective- east at the Townline Sunday at |about 8.40 a.m. Linde's car re- $200 damage while received damage to lafter touring Eastern Europe, Turkey and Spain. He fulfilled his fondness of locomotives -- developed in boy- jhood -- by collecting railway |timetables, Including his jour- \neying this year, he had travel- jled on 158 railroads in the Unit-| ed States, 40 in Canada and 30! in Europe. His assignments took him' to the founding of the United |Nations at San Francisco, the} Breton Woods Conference and| several political conventions in Canada and United States. Possessing a keen memory, he was intimately acquainted) with federal politics and knew most of the members in several parliaments by sight. A writer of imaginative lan- g books, including Cross Roads, 1936, a caustic commentary on| Ottawa and the country's poli- tical leaders. Born in Oshawa, he was the son of the late Dr. Milton F. Cross, an Oshawa deniist, and bridge and Yarker, Ont. Collegiate. He obtained a BA at Queen's University in 1923. He wrote for the Hamilten Specta- By STAN McCABE | marked 1961 for Western Cana- dian grain growers. ' | The selling boom promises to; '\contime in 1962. The outlook|in 1961 is estimated at 239,000, \for growing in most parts of| ithe Prairies depends on moist- 2; Wheat sales to Communist) \China put a rosy glow on the} the same time, sunburned fields| After a rainless fall, jhinge on spring rains in many areas, The Searle Grain Company has said that as a generaliza- tion, 'seldom have moisture} year," |. It noted some exceptions, mainl | |western Alberta as well as parts) of Saskatchewan or Manitoba ing the fall months, or both."| STILL HOPE The company's comprehensive report said there were losses| lrather than replenishment of moisture reserves in most areas in late summer and fall. | Moisture on summerfallow-- land not planted in 1961 and not {turned since the harvest of 1960 --was, generally speaking, much below normal. "Stubble land (fields from which a harvest was taken inj 1961) is in even poorer shape, | ;many areas being completely devoid of available moisture." "Such lands, therefore, will be entirely dependent upon any moisture conserved bet ween}! now and April 1, 1962, as well as upon growing-season rains in |1962."" ° It adds one note of hope "Nature has a way of confound- ing the experts; therefore, it is| |dangerous for anyone to look ahead to the 1962 season and = jsay that, because certain con- PRESENT CHEQUE TO UXBRIDGE HOSPITAL Gordon E. Coulter, Presi- dent of the Uxbridge Cottage * Hospital, is shown receiving cheque from Oshawa Times Carrier-Salesman Billy Van | awa Veghel. This donation to the Times bridge. readers in Ux- Hospital Equipment Fu was made on behalf of Osh- --Oshawa Times Photo ~ jditions exist at the moment, or Big Sales Year Canadian Grain | the|marketing year. in 1961-62," a ning of Christianity. The Christ- avenue, Oshawa, were involved|chances of good crop in 1962\Canadian Wheat Board repre-/™@S spirit will prevail most of 1930; a son, Fletcher Cross; |daughter, Mrs. Clare Shatfeld; | a sister, Evelyn, and a brother, Rupert. Funeral arrangements not been made. Dead Singer's Family Aided LONDON (CP)--Sir Malcolm Sargent, the well-known British conductor, has opened a fund for the family of James Milli- gan, the Toronto baritone who died recently in Switzerland of a heart. attack. "ir Malcolm, in launching his appeal, says Milligan was a have "Since his arrival from Can- ada a few years ago he had ity .. Aged 33, he was taken from us leaving a young wife and a son, aged 4, without finan- cial support." Contributions should be sent Musicians Benevolent Fund at petition in Geneva six years ago. He was the first Canadian to win the award. "There does not appear to be WINNIPEG (CP)--A bust injany well-defined pattern with! growing and a boom in sellingjrespect to the sequence of dry) or wet years," says the Searle report, The prairie harvest of wheat 000 bushels compared. with 470,- 000,000 a year earlier. At Sept. 1, supplies of wheat in all posi- tions in Canada were 595,000,- 000 bushels, 255,000,000 less than Although no serious injuries 1961 grain-marketing picture. At|the 1960 figure, "In spite of the short crop age did, when cars driven by|withered the bankrolls not only|this year there is enough wheat Harry Linde, 34, Townline north, of western farmers but of the|on farms and in elevators, |RR 2, Oshawa, and Frederick|pysinesses that supply them. T. Glover, 60, of 246 Highland in Canada, to support an active sentative told the annual meet-|the evening although there will) Next to traffic, fire was the ing of the Saskatchewan Farm- ers' Union. Early in the year 750,000 tors 0 wheat. The sales were for cash. Following negotiations in y in northern and south-|Hong Kong and Peking, a long-|4Ppropriately decorated for this term understanding was reached. China undertook Firm contracts for 1960-61 in- volved a total of 94,000,000 bush- els of wheat and 38.000,000 bush- t els of barley for China. As Canada made sales to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Poland in addition to China and normal markets, the space in grain elevators increased quickly and farmers were able to deliver more of their grain. Specific price rises were dif- ficult to pinpoint in the maze of figures quoted by the wheat board for various grades, but the basic fact was that export prices had gone up--sometimes sharply. Attempted Murder Suspect Gets Bail SARNIA (CP) -- John Ata manik, 40, of Sarnia, charged witi) attempted murder in the|@™eund Panna is estimated to FOUND NOTHING shocting Friday of Sarnia con-|7ontain diamonds of a total} There tractor James Mason, 40, was| Weight of 3,000,000 carats. The|Natru who have been minin reieased Saturday on $10,000| Madhya Pradesh state govern |for months and have in al f wheat and 260,000 tons of|ttophies in this field, and. spe- reserve conditions in Western|barley were sold to Communist |'!@! numbers by the band "Ode \Canada as a whole been lower|China. Later a second contract|{0 Music" and "Mazurka" by} lat Nov. 1 than they were this|was signed for 60,000 tons of|© to/Suest artists we have many dif- Cree, rust-|"which have fared somewhat|purchase up to 5,000,000 tons of|ferent nationalities in the band, ; and said to maturejbetter for moisture, either dur-|wheat and 1,000,000 tons of bar-|@0d what better occasion could lines|two or. three days earlier than ing the growing season or dur-|ley to the end of 1963. Mrs. W. Grabarska. | Mrs. Grabarska has trained) this choir for some years now,| and the progress they have made has shown in the number| of times they have appeared in public. The choir accompanist} is Mrs, Irene Thompson (nee Wolek). Owing to the illness of Mr. | 'Francis, the band will be con- ducted by John Anderson, sen- ior music student of Mr. \Francis. John is a talented mu- sician and it is much to_ his credit that he can take over a band of this size and calibre at a moment's notice. This concert is the fourth 'in ja series of 10 being given by the |band, the last being on June 29, 1962. The main objectives of| these concerts are to raise funds | uage, he authored several|Simger of international repute. |for the European Tour which is| jto take place July and August jof next year. This tour will places he had visited; Snobs and) (uickly made himself respected/cover England, France, Ger-| Spires, 1937, and the People's|@S an artist of outstanding many, and finally end in Kerk-| Mouths, 1944, freely criticized|tecimique and musical sincer-|rade, Holland where the band will compete in the World Fes- tival. Concerts will be given by the jband in. all the countries they jare visiting. This is a wonderful jple and a unique experience; | After his. family moved to|7 Carlos Place, London, W. 1.|student relationship at the world| Ottawa in 1904, he attended) M-llgan won the top male/festival, broadening of the mind| Elgin Public School and Lisgar|award at an international com-|through travel and the mixin 4 |with people of other countries, | public appearances, group dis-| cipline which is so important to} them as future citizens, also prestige for themselves, the school, the city, and country. Is this trip justified? Some} say no. Most say yes and sup-| port the band wonderfully. Pro-| fessor William Overton, of the} British Broadcasting Corpora-| tion, states that the quality of} the playing of the OCVI' band is| well above the accepted stand-| ard of school bands in Europe. | \It might be of interest to the public to know that in 20 months of . functioning, the band has made 26 appearances and also} jwon four awards at music fes- jtivals. The concert on-Friday of this week, will be of particular in- terest as it is a Christmas con- cert. The choir in their glitter-| jing costumes will sing some of jthe beautiful carols of Poland, jsome of them dating back al- most 1,000 years to the begin- |be the implementation of other items as well, such as baton has won several awards and hopin. | By courtesy of G. 1. Roberts jand his staff, the auditorium is | festive season. Along with the we have to comply with the Christmas spirit "peace on earth, goodwill to men'. | The public is cordially invited o this and the other concerts taking place each month. Master lof ceremonies for the evening will be Jan Drygala. AUXILIARY REMEMBERS More than 500 patients at the Oshawa Generrl Hospital were presented with Christ- mas gifts when members of | the Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary Bertha Currie Anderson, of Ux-|o Sir Malcolm care of thelopportunity for our young peo-| visited al thle wards in the paste inat Hospital Saturday morning.| Bert James, of 75 Arlington street, is seen receiving his gift as the ladies visited his ward. Mrs. I. J. Metcalfe is BAe tessa HOSPITAL PATIENTS seen making the preséntation, The ladies' auxiliary operates a gift shop on the main floor of the hospital, --Oshawa Times Photo 42 Persons Killed In Traffic Accidents By THE CANADIAN PRESS Despite safety drives by po- lice, Canada's 1961 Christmas accident record was black. At least 65 persons died acci- dentally during the long holiday weekend, a Canadian Press sur- vey showed today. Forty' - two persons died in traffic, above the 38 predicted for the weekend by the Cana- dian Highway Safety Council but below the 49 for the Christ- mas weekend last year when the final fatalities total was 68. The survey, for the 78 hours from 6 p.m, Friday to midnight Monday, showed that a fatality occurred at the rate of one every 70 minutes, FIRE TOLL HIGH greatest killer, claiming 14 lives. Faulty Christmas tree lighting was responsible for sev- eral blazes Seven persons died in fires in Ontario, four in British Colum- bia, two in Quebec and one in New Brunswick. Quebec highways led the list with 16 persons killed. Fifteen holiday victim when a woman died of exposure outside a cafe in The Pas Two drownings were recorded, one in British Columbia, one in Quebec. Also in British Colum- bia, three other fatalities con- nected with normal weekend ac- tivities were counted. Three per- sons were asphyxiated in Al- berta. Provincial totals: Ontario, 22; Quebec, 19; British Columbia, 13; Alberta, 4; Saskatchewan 4; New Brunswick, 2; Manitoba The survey does not include normal deaths, known suicides, slayings or industrial accidents. Ontario dead: - Mrs. Evelyn Thompson, 37, Wallaceburg, Friday night when a car in which she was riding struck a parked auto north of Wallaceburg David Murdoch, 21, Stratford, Friday night when his car hit a tree alongside Highway 8 near Stratford. Lawrence Leforte, 49, Satur- day when hit by a car while crossing a street near his home in Fort Frances. Gordon James Reid, 39, Hol- persons died in road mishaps in} Ontario, five in British Colum- bia, four in Saskatchewan and} one in each of Alberta and New| Brunswick. One Newfoundland, Prince Ed-! ward Island and Nova Scotia) were free of fatalities, although) these provinces had the worst road conditions following heavy snowfalls. Manitoba counted its single Diamonds Found In Quiet BUMBAY (CP)--A sleepy vil- jlave in central India has be-| ~ |come the focus of national at- jtenuon, | It is Parina, where diamonds} have been found, attracting| huvdreds of prospectors who} _|hove to strike it rich overnight, found a diamond within days of A 500 - square - mile area! Hamlet carat $50 000. The dramatic find has made Mahomed a rich and re- spected man overnight. Then there is the case of Ha.ki, who owns and rents donkeys to the prospectors. He taxing out a licence, diamond. worth nearly} } loway, struck by a car Saturday while viewing another accident on Highway 2 near Belleville, Vernor James Danby, 54, Kingston, Saturday when his car crashed near Kingston. Archibald Robertson, 65, Sat- urday when hit by a truck near his farm home near Cornwall. Charles Hunter, 84, St. Catha- rines, Saturday when struck by a truck while crossing a street in St. Catharines. Walter Borutskie, 79, Sunday when hit by a car-near his home at Round Lake Centre. Harry Bowen, 57, Cordova Mines, knocked down Sunday by a car as he stood at a roadside in Cordova Mines. Pietro Roffare, 31, and Pat+ ricia Roffare, 3, Sunday in a fire in their Toronto home. Matthew Nelson, 60, Toronto, asphyxiated Sunday in an apart- ment fire. FOUR DIE IN FIRE John Hartley, 25, and his 26- year-old wife of Toronto, and Mrs. Florence Stanton, 31, and her daughter Judy Lee, 4, both of Minden, in a house fire Sun- day at Minden Geraldine Phalen, 13, Wind- sor, fatally injured Saturday when hit by a car in Hamilton, Vincent Marinic, 23, Hamilton, Monday in a collision at Peter's Corners. Douglas Lane, 34, Chatham, fatally hurt Saturday in a two- car crash in Howard 'Township, Lorne Sopha, 35, Peterbor- ough, Sunday in a two-car colli- sion on Highway 115 near Kirby. Mark Huizinga, 19, Seaforth, Monday when his car was in collision with a train near Clin- ton. Mrs. Alice Courchesne, 55, West Ferris, knocked down by a car near her home Saturday. are also men_ like z| landed He will appear | meut has let it be known it! nothing. J : hefaw istr: Ic. 'would like as many diamond-| ae ise or that will heer nt: BUMP seekci's as possible to converge p, P da | Mason was reported in im-/°" »anna. Rosy newspaper ac-/p |PATTERN NOT CLEAR proved and satisfactory condi-\294rls have also whipped u The big question in manyjtion in hospital with. bullet|#¢Pe in many a poor home. have existed during the last 12 Proverty bail. overnment. The lessees are} P| mosily poor farmers and. land-| less ugricultural laborers, , | Jefferson |minds is whether Western Can- wounds in his right hip and| ada is getting started on a long had. ldrought period. | Bulletin Stresses Value of One Vote | VICTORIA (CP) of the Construction Equipment! | Owners of British Columbia em- |phasizes the importance of one |vote. It says: "One vote--caused Charles I to lose his head. "One vote--handed the gov- --A_ bulletin) wounded | Poiice said two shots from a 38 jentered the office of the Mason Construction Company. The man was disarmed and held for! \police by two brothers of the man, Douglas and Hector Mason. ALCOHOL KILLS 3 MOBILE, Ala. (AP)--Poison- ous alcohol concoctions were blamed by police today for the deaths of three persons here. For just one dollar, the state! provides the licence and allots a 2d-square-foot plot for the! s calibre automatic were Prospector to try his luck. All) sovernment. - fired at Mason by a man who tat ne needs now is a shovel| tions, plus patience. N®AK SURFACE Digging with the shovel the give expert advice on mechanis- jing the shallow mines. prospector hits red gravel only| a few feet from the surface. | The gravel is collected, washed|P"st, is also in the business. and dried in the sun. If the gods are kind, a raw diamond|S¢lls "lucky talismans" to pros- pectors at prices ranging from 2 |may sparkle from the heap.| Otherwise, he goes on digging| with a prayer on his lips. Theoretically, it is a hopeless ernment of Britain over to Oli- One man was found dead and business. There is just one part tver Cromwell. another dying 'in a rooming jOf diamond for every 34,000,000) "One vote -- elected Thomas house. Three others were taken|Parts of ore and to land two to the U.S, dency. ford Hayes to the U.S. presi- "One vote -- inaugurated 'con-'Sunday, night and officers said|spirea by the ex |scription in Whe U.S. in 1941,' dency, Pp presi- to hospital for treatment. Police|catats of raw diamond a pros- jsaid they found moonshine)pector has to mine as much as "One vote -- elected Ruther-|whisky in the room. A woman|20 uwtis of earth. was found dead in her home But Indian villa 'his pretty wife who found a 48- jtalisman the more prayets it con'ains. jeral theatre managers here jhave received notes from the _ |extremist secret army organiza- gers are in-jtion warning them not to show ample of 25-|movies starring Brigitte Bardot, 'her death was caused by pois-jyear-old Rasul Mahomed and/who has 'oned whisky. zation's extortion demand. The state has also entered the search. A 30-square-mile area has been leased out to the sponsored Na- Mining Development Corporation. A team of Russian exverts were also invited to Pandit Atma Ram, a village He has no licence himself but 0 cents to $8. The costlier a THREATEN MANAGERS NICE, France (Reuters)--Sev- defied the organi- To date, nearly 5,000 licences! & ave been issued by the state) | PUC KEEPS LIGHTS BURNING Despite the Christmas holi- day, emergency crews of the Oshawa Public Utilities Com- mission were onshe alert over the weekend. To some depart- ments in the city's adminis- | tration there are no holidays. A work crew from the Util- ities Commission is seen at 'work on a hydro pole jn the northern part of the city. --Oshawa Times Photo