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THE OSHAWA TIMES, | Wednesday, October 10, 1962 7 Tragic Events No Stranger To Ole Miss By KEN DAVIS OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- The clerk in the general store said: "Let's call it Oxford. Maybe they' il locate the new university ; here.' So, the leaders of the 400 peo- ple in the north Mississippi set- tlement in 1838 followed clerk Thomas B. Martin's advice and called their place inthe forest "Oxford," presumably after the British university. Leaders . of Mississippi, 10 years later, opened the Univer- sity of Mississippi here. From that day to this--Ole Miss has been educating many thousands of the youtn of the south--except for four years, from 1861 until 1865; when the students and faculty were away fighting for the Confederacy. Tragic events are no stranger to the 114-year-old school, more tragic than he integra'ion riots that cost the lives of two men. Take the time on Aug. 22, 1864, that--as old court records put it: "The public enemy under A. J.| Smith came to Oxford." This means the Union Army under Gen. A. J. Smith, and it doesn't explain that during the few hours the soldiers were in Oxford they burned the town They've cleaned away most of tht debris from the integration riots by now, having modern trucks and equipment. And, mostly, it was. empty gas gre- nades, splintered glass and bricks. Certainly, the burned-out chunks of automobiles looked no- thing at all like the town of Ox- ford when the daylight of Aug. 23, 1864, came. The Oxford Falcon, a newspa- per of the day, reported the de- struction and quoted travellers as saying Oxford was the most completely demolished town they had seen. LEFT FEW WALLS An historic picture shows only a few brick walls standing des- olately against the skyline. It was a strange and terrible bit of war, the burning. Howard T. Dimick, writing in the Jour- nal of Mississippi History in 1946, said: "The burning of Oxford does not appear to have been necessi- tated by any situation which commonly arises under the Jaws of war." He goes on to say the town was undefended when Gen. Smith and his troops walked in They met no resistance. There was no sniping. NQO Confeder- [ ate supplies still were in the own, having been removed 4 days earlier. Oxford was with-| out fortification--except some| trenches on the south and the west, giving no advantage to! any Confederate occupation. "There: was apparentiy no) need for federal occupation of! the town on that day except the eo purpose of ced 'By Dimick's account, federal troops, among them some Ne- groes, were "plied with whiskey for the occasion. Under the per- sonal direction of Genera] An- drew J. Smith, whose conduct has been described as brutal, the invaders systematically ap- plied the torch." War Guest Book Leads To Reunion MONTREAL (CP)--A retired British couple, Col, and Mrs. Kenneth Maitland of Dingswell Place, Herts., are making a sentimental visit to Canada to see as many as they can of the 1,700 Canadians they got to know during the Second World War. When war broke out, they sent| their three children to Canada| for safety from falling bombs. The children stayed at nearby | St. Sauveur as wards of the! Canadian government. The Maitlands were so grate- ful to Canada, they turned over their home in Hertfordshire to Canadian nursing sisters For six years, _Dingswell Place was a temporary home for Canadians serving overseas Mrs. Maitland remembers serv- ing breakfast in bed one morn-, ing 'to 16 Canadians, most of them ill "Some of the nurses stayed! with us on sick leave, some on private leave and others on off- night duty," recalls Mrs. Mait- land, "They liked to stay at Dingswell because it was near London." Each guest was asked to sign a book, which the. Maitlands kept through the years for the day when they would come to Canada to see them again. To do this, the Maitlands have planned hotel receptions in Montreal, Ottawa 'and Toronto. Many of their wartime guests were from the western prov- inces, but time doesn't permit them to visit Western Canada. "This is our first trip to Can- ada," says Col. Maitland, a First World War veteran who did home guard duty during the Second World War. REPLACE PLAQUE HALIFAX (CP) -- An old plaque marking the birthplace| of two Canadian - born Royal Navy admirals -- Sir Westphal and his elder brother Philip--is to be replaced at the Westphal homestead near here. | Chey were born in the 1780s, .- George 1 STILL LOVE CHILDREN GROCERY SPECIALS EFFECTIVE TO 564 King St. E. | 500 Rossland Rd. ! 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