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4 a THREE EXCEPTIONS : 'To Allow Reporters At All Meetings Accusations that the Oshawa Board of Education "meets be- hind closed doors" will no long- er be heard. At Monday night's meeting of the board, Trustee William wete to be dealt with: salary negotiations; purchase and con- sideration of property, and mat-| ters dealing with personalities.| A. E. O'Neill and George Fletcher. (Up to Monday night, report- ers were allowed to attend and An amendment to the amend-jreport only open board meet-| ment, as proposed by Robertiings and standing committees) STRONG EASTERLY winds this winter and recent heavy rains have combined to wreak considerable damage to the property at Bonniebrag Point. Picture at right shows the ei ee undermining oi the top of the cliff and the exposed roots. Right, the result of the under- mining and soaking rain. This 24-foot maple slid to the beach, After acquitting a 16-year-old| |Oshawa boy of a. charge of| jassaulting another lad by shoot-) ing him in the eye with a BB gun, Magistrate H. W. Jermyn Would-Destroy BB Guns- Court brother, Strasic said he was shot) in the eye as he peeped through! a six-inch hole in a_ partition] wall. Villemaire, who works as a| taking with it a considerable mass of soil, leaving the cliff top vulnerable to further erosion. ' --Oshawa Times Photos SECOND SECTION TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1964 PAGE NINE WALTER C. THOMSON TORONTO (CP)--Walter Cun- ningham Thomson, 68, former leader of the Ontario Liberal party, died of a heart attack in hospital Monday. Mr. Thomson Hastings, Ont., and attended public and high schools ab\Nor- wood, Ont. He graduated from Osgoode Hall law school here in 1923 and was calfed to the bar of Ontario in 1923. In 1944 he was appointed On- tario solicitor for the Veterans Land Act. He was also past president of the Toronto Liberal Association and the Central On- tario Liberal Association, He was first elected to the House of Commons in a general election June 27, 1949. He re- signed the Commons seat for Ontario riding to lead the pro- vincial Liberal party in a vain effort to wrest power from the Progressive Conservatives in November, 1951. He resigned as Liberal leader born at « SEEK APPROVAL FOR NEW COURSE A letter confirming ap- proval of the 13 Technology course will be sent to the Department of Education by the Oshawa Board of Education. May 31, 1952. In the 1951 election, the Lib- erals took seven seats while the Progressive Conservative party took an overwhelming 79. The COF party took two seats with other candidates winning two for a total of 90 seats. The pre- vious standings showed Liberals with 13, PC 53,.CCF 21 and oth- ers three. Mr. Thomson was defeated in W. C. THOMSON War with the 21st Battalion, at-| taining the rank of major be- fore he was invalided out in 1918 after suffering trench fever at Passchendaele. He worked nights to put him- self through Osgoode Hall and established his own practice in 1935. In 1930 he settled on a 127-acre farm near Pickering, Ont., with an interest in dairy cattle and dairymen's onganiza- tions. MS Led Liberal Party In 1951 Election Mr, Thomson's first bid for office was an 'unsuccessful' at- the / Liberal | He was defeated by Harry C. Nixon, member. of the legisla- ture for Brant since 1919, who died in October, 1961 i He was unsuccessful as a" candidate for the provincial rid- = 4 of Toronto-St. George in After his resignation as leader lof the party, Mr. Thomson built up his law practice in Picker- ing. He was a Queen's Counsel. Mr. Thomson is survived by his wife, the former Maryon Judge; two daughters, Mfs. Donald McBeth (Mary), Pick- ering and Mrs. G. Thompson (Janet), Pickering and a son, David A. Thomson, Richmond Hill. Also surviving are a brother, Rev. E. A, Thomson, " "ono, and seven grandchildren. Mr. Thomson will be resting at the family residence, Picker- ing, until 10.30 a.m. Thursday. The funeral service will be held in the William E. Sherrin Funeral Chapel, Pickering, at 2 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Erskine Cemetery, Pickering Township. his own Ontario riding by CCF candidate T. D. Thomas. Mayor Michael Starr of Oshawa was runner-up to Mr. Thomas. During the bitterly fought election campaign of that year, the first as Liberal leader, Mr. Actior. was taken Monday night after trustees learned from George L. Roberts, principal of McLaughlin | Collegiate and Vocational Institute, that 21 registra- tions for the course have Nicol, separate school represen-|of the board.) tative to the board, passed with] A letter from the Oshawa and| four dissenting votes. |District Labor Council inform-| He recommended that, sub-| ed the board that the council. no adult supervision." ject to the existing practice ofjunanimously -- endorsed Trustee The magistrate ruled there the press reporting regular|Werry's original motion. was no evidence of Robert A.|.. . meetings of the standing com- Werry's motion that news re- porters be invited to attend all rd and committee meetings was approved unanimously, The motion was first introduced six weeks ago. All trustees approved Trustee said Monday: jtapper for a welding company,| "T think all these (BB) guns|said he shot through the hole should be destroyed where there|"just to see if I could shoot ithrough it". "I didn't intend to hit anyone I didn't shoot him in the shoulder either," he added. Tells Of Life o--_ * were presented as follows: 4 Senior Pictorial -- to Phyllis\¢ration Dart were shown early), o:th exit from Mrs. Margaret Shaw's amend- ment that notices and agendas (if any) of all board and com- mittee meetings be mailed oui to reporters at least 24 hours before said meetings. Mrs. Shaw included in her amend- mittee, reporters be allowed to attend all meetings (except the three types named by Trustee no report until the board takes) final action. Treasurer Keith Ross, the let- ter said: "We feel that there is a great necessity for the board image in the public eye and in |,,Signed by ODLC Secretary-\vitiemaire, 258 Hibbert street, | threatening 13-year-old Marian |Strasic before the shooting. | Shaw) -- but that thy make |of education to improve their|SHOT IN EYE Strasic told Oshawa Magis- |the eyes of those involved with|trate's Court he was shot in the/pide and seek," he ; 2 ; added. Trustées "against the amend-|the board and that there is a/left eye With a pellet from Ville-) sd sap ment that exception would be|ment to the amendment were|necessity for a public relations| maire's rifle-type BB gun while| made if the following matters William Werry, Mrs. Shaw, Dr. Slide Winners Given Trophies At the last meeting of the Osh- @wa Camera Club. ribbons and medals were presented by the president, A. H. Dancey, to those members winning awards for slides submitted for the Show Silver medals went to the fol- towing: In Junior Pictorial -- to Harry Hibbard for "Fisher- man's Lute'; in Junior Nature -- to Thelma Rowland for "'Sta- lagmite Totem Poles'; in Sen- jer Pictorial -- Silver medal to Fred Mitler for Baby's - eye View", Bronze Medals to Grace Trull for '"Ring-a-Rosie"' for "Heather' by reversion to Ar- chie Dancey for "'Glass Study No. 2'; in Senior Nature -- Sil- ver medal to William (Jake) Laird for 'A Star-nosed Mole's Nose" and a Bronze medal -to Fred Miller for 'Caterpillar'. HONORABLE MENTION Honorable Mention ribbons In Ferguson for '"Lilypond Com- fort" and 'A> Million from Texas", .to Fred Miller for "Helping Hand' "Margie N 2", "New England Church "By the old Peat Fire", ""Water}"House at Night" third, Rob-/pavid Down, liam Laird for 'Red Eft" (1st. H.M.), to.Fred Miller for "'Cab- bage Butténfly", "Mourning Cloak No. 1', ""Grasshopper No. 1", "Bittersweet Nightshade' and "Chipmunk"; in Junior Pic- jtorial to Roberta Gates for "Fishing Hawaiian Style', to Harry Hibbard for 'In the Gar- den", 'Independents', "Birth Control" (1st Hon. Mention), "Cactus Joe" and 'Heat Wave', to Jenny Pringle for '"The Sha- dowless Day' and to Thelma Rowland..for "Racing at Mos- port" and "Horseshoe Falls'. THREE MOVE UP Bob. Stroud announced the points for the year and Harry Hibbard, Thelma Rowland and Roberta Gages will all be mpv- ing into the Senior Group, Fred Miller won the highest number of points and is the photo- grapher of the year. The slides submitted for Op- jin the meeting and when the| scores were totalled, Hazel Wor-| folk's Thomas St, Bridge came jout first, Roberta . Gates' "Anne's"' second, Fred Miller's) job to improve relations be- tween the school board and the various bodies they deal with as well as the public, and we feel that this can only be ac- complished by meetings of the board, whether they be com- mittee meetings or full meet- ings of the board, being open to the press and radio." Two Injured In Crash A two-car accident at the in- tersection of Ritson road and William street east early Mon- day afternoon caused a total of $400 damage and sent two peo- ple to the Oshawa General Hos- pital with minor injuries. Drivers were: Pamela McMul- lan, 107 Wilson road south, and |Everett Miller, a taxi driver, of 615 Hortop street. Miss McMullan was treated for a bruised knee and a passen- ger in her auto, Mrs. Bernice McMullan, also of 107 Wilson road south, was treated for scalp lacerations and a bruised knee and released. Another two-car collision on Stevenson road south, near a the Oshawa Shopping Centre caused a total of $25¢ damage early Monday evening. Car drivers were: Harold E. Brown, RR 1, Uxbridge and 901 Hutcheson Sprite", "Monarch Butterfly",|erta Gates' "Aftermath" fourth,| street, Whitby. "Lemon Slice' and "Dear God", to Molly Sinclair "Architect's Nightmare', for to and Winnie McKinstry's "Hib-! bert St." fifth. | The trophies and shields were| Fs BANNER PRESENTED The banner of the Rotary Robert Stroud for "Building|not given out at this meeting|Club of Lakewood, Ohio, which with Sticks" and "Marlene No./but will be presented by the|was brought to Oshawa recent- 12', to Grace Trull for "'Red donors at the Spring Show at/ly, has been presented to. the Tulips and '"Tying Hobby'. In the Senior Nature to Wil- DISPLAY OF HOO Hooked rugs represent one of the productive results of Sheltered workshop programs provided for the mentally re- tarded. They are examined at the McLaughlin Public Li- brary of Wednesday, May 6. "Y We the eleventh annua} tario Association for Retard@d Chil- dren Conference, Sarnia by left to right: Mrs.Cecil Mills of Bowmanville, L. A. Havers 'George L KED RUGS ADMIRED club by Rotarian Roberts. Oshawa ------jand tell people how you hate/ator's licence. of Peterborough and Mrs. Herbert . Schuerman _ of Oshawa --Photo by Douglas Paisley, Sarnia playing in the basement of Ville- maire's home, Feb. 22. H He said since the accident he couldn't see out of the eye "'but) if the light is real bright I can} see an orangey haze'. | An ophthamologist's report} Said there is a 50-50 chance he| |may lose the eye; or it may get| |better. Strasic testified he was run- ning away from Villemaire| |when he was shot in the shoul-| \der, SHOT TH1ROUGH*PARTITION | Afterfgoing into an adjoining jroomh with Villemaire's younger Warned To Stay Away From Jews A 42-year-old Oshawa man, |who wore swastikas on his cloth- jing when he smashed a 'plate |glass door in the Cadillac Hotel, |Feb. 17, was warned Monday |to stay away from places where} there are Jews. |. After Albert Hickey, 125 Ce |lina street, was convicted of the} |wilful. damage charge in Osh-! awa Magistrate's Court, Crown| |Attorney Bruce "Affleck said) |Hickey's "views about Jewish) people are well known'. | | He urged that Hickey be or-| {dered to "keep away from areas| |where Jewish people are involv-} ed." ma | In complying with the request, |Magistrate H. W. Jermyn told) Hickey: | "You don't have to-go around| them because it doesn't matter whether you love or hate them. "You will pay for the window, keep the peace and stay away {from the Cadillac Hotel or any other place where you can mis- |behave."" | Hickey was given a one-year suspended sentence after Hotel Manager Jack Brickman said the accused swung a cane at |him, struck a cash register "so iI went for him and he ran jaway to a church across the! Mr. Brickman said, when Hickey returned with part of the cane 'in his hand, 'he kicked in a plate glass window in a revolv-| ing door'. ~ CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Cc atulations and best ietfee to the following resi- ents of Oshawa and district | who are celebrating their | birthttays today: Sandra Smith, 808 Col- bome street east; Lorraine Wotten, 64 Gatineau street; Barbara Nenadovich, 74 Oshawa boulevard north and Heather Denise Knox, 317 Kendalwood road, RR 3, Oshawa. | $20,000. The final figure is not "leontrol point at The accused's father, Robert Sr., said he went to the base- ment after he heard 'the boys were cutting loose'. "They said they were playing been completed and a furth- er eight expected. (If the program is estab- lished at MOCVI, students graduating from Grade 12 who complete the Grade 13 Cancer Blitz Is Success Every house in Oshawa had| a caller Monday night -- asking for a donation: to fight cancer. Organizers of the "cancer blitz" were hoping to collect yet available but from the count so far there is every indication the 'target was reached. Mike Manning, chairman of| the blitz, said today:. 'We di- vided the city up into five sec- tions, Each section leader divided up his territory under captains and they had canvass- ers, "We had more than 400 peo- ple collecting. I don't think we missed any doors." Left Scene Fined $100 A 2l-year-old Oshawa man who jumped from his car and ran away after he smashed into another 2uto was Monday fined $100 or 30 days in jail. Donald Bint, 172 Mitchell street, also pleaded guilty to not having an operator's licence and was fined an additional $10 in Oshawa Meavistrate's Court. Constable G, Oulette told Ma- gistrate F. S. Ebbs that Bint's car rammed the rear of a car parked behind 522 Harmony road south, March 16, "be- came frightened and ran 'be- cause he didn't have an oper- " The officer estimated total damage at $1,000. Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck said Bint had a record involv- ing theft, breaking and enter- ing, auto theft and escaping custody. Magistrate Ebbs remanded a drunk in charge of an auto charge against Raymond Near- ing, 37 1Sharon avenue, until May 11. Sharon Walsh, 323 Albert street, who faces a possession of stolen goods charge, was re- manded on continuing bail until May 8 Motor Sports Club Mans Control Point Five members of the Oshawa Motor Sport Club manned a Mosport last Friday during the running of the Shell 4000 car rally timed rally drivers on their dr- rival course. A critical phase of the. long distance rally, speed times re- corded as Mosport were to be used for tie-breakers, if needed. Club. members were: Dale Neil, Don Jeyes, Gerry Fahy, Technology course would qualify to enter second year at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.) Mr. Roberts reported the course was offered in Osh- awa last year but insuffi- cient registrations were re- ceived, Thomson promised a u- \itory hospital - care scheme within the first year of forming a government and sharply criti- cized the administration of Pre- mier Leslie Frost. Mr. Thomson, the son of a Presbyterian minister, served overseas during the First World Accused Hit Underwriters Hear Executive Awards were presented at the April meeting of the Oshawa Life Underwriters' Association, to London Life and Sovereign Life for 100% membership in the Association, also several new bers were inducted by Grover Gage. The guest speaker, Gordon Nairn, executive director, Pru- dential of Amgrica, a much be- loved\d well: known speaker amongst life underwtiters, ad- dressed the meeting and spoke on "the basics of life. underwrit- ing" He particularly pointed out that we do sell money to - ple, money to families , ifthe event of the death of the bread- winner and money to the bread- winner for his own retirement. This was one of the finest ad- The next meeting of the Osh- awa Life Underwriters will be held on May 22. Rotarian Gives Talk On Business The impact of advances in data processing on _ business forms was stressed by Rotarian Ian M. Thomas, sales repre- sentative of Moore Business Forms, in an address at the Monday meeting of the Rotary Club of Oshawa. The speaker. was introduced by Rotarian Jack Ovens. The appreciation of the members and their guests was voiced by Rotarian Geoffrey Andrews. The talk was illustrated. by a color movie. Rotarian Thomas said Moore Corporation was founded in Toronto in 1882 and today is the largest company of this type in the world. It has 20 plants in the United States and Canada; but still retains its head office in Toronto. Despite its world-wide scope the firm retains its Canadian | Using an intricate timing de.| character. Although 85 per cent vice the OMSC men guided a of, its sales are in the United jStates 85 per cent of its stock is held by Canadians, The club was told thatthe first data processing equipment could produce 500 lines a min- ute. Thday the figure has grown to over 1200 lines a minute. To orovide forms which will accur- ately tabulate the material be |/Ed Skakie and Dav\O'F lynn Also cn -hand was Wayne Farr,| a non-member, | Ng processed the company has done 'much 'research to perfect its products. dresses given to the association. - Benefactor When an 18-year-old CPR roadganger, living in a board- ing car, askeq an overnight guest to wash his breakfast dishes, that's when the trouble started. Andrew Arbour told Magis- trate F. S. Ebbs that Bernard Chasle, of Vailleyfield, Que.: "Said 'no', then jumped on me and scratched my face." He also '"'struck-me all over |my face," Arbour asserted. Arbour said the accused came to the boarding car, parked near the station, April 24 ang '"'asked for something to eat and place to stay. So I let him stay overnight." After Chasle refused to leave the car following the assault Arbour said he and a friend "put the run on him". Chasle agreed that he had baulked at washing the dishes after helping Arbour to put wood and water on a train. "Don't like fighting -- no good,"' he said. "Twenty-five dollars or 10 days, with no time to pay," said Magistrate Ebbs. | NO. ACCIDENTS The Oshawa Police Depart- ment reports that in the 24-hour period up to 8 a.m. today no} criminal occurrences were re- On Lonely Island D. L. Michael, director of pub- lie affairs for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, in- terviewed Parkin Christian be- fore 1,200 people at the College Park Church Saturday morning. Parkin Christian, just past 84, is a tree of a man with a weath- ered face as seamed and crag- ged as the cliffs of Pitcairn Island. Tiny isolated Pitcairn Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is his home. He is the great-great grandson of Fletcher Christian, the mutineer who be- gan Pitcairn colony in 1790 with eight Bounty seamen and 18 Polynesians, OLDEST RESIDENT Parkin, a towering 6-foot 3- inch man with a size 18% neck, is the oldest Pitcairn resident) and the closest living relative of Fletcher Christian, the man who took over HMS Bounty in 1790 and sailed it to remote Pitcairn Island, For 25 of his 84 years on the island, Christian was Chief Mag- istrate of Pitcairn, the top offi- cial of the colonial government, elected by his fellow islanders. He has travelled to Australia, New Zealand, and to the United States. He was here six years ago as an official delegate to his church's world conference at Cleveland. , Christian speaks a musical combination of Polynesian and 18th centhy English salted with seafaring terms. SOLD GUDGEON During his brief stay in Osh- awa he told a tale of how he fished .up a fitting from the "Bounty's" hulk and how a Brit- ish admiralty man had tried to get him to give it away to Brit- ain, But his arm was not twist- ed. He later sold the ship's "gudgeon" to a museum for enough money to send his son | ported, PARKIN CHRISTIAN, great- great ..grandson of Fletcher Christian, the mutineer who began Pitcairn Colony in 1790, away to college in New Zealand. The son is now living in Aus- naid a brief visit in Oshawa on §aturday. At about 84 years of age, he is the oldest Pit- cairn resident"D. L. Michaed tralia where he is a leading lay: man of the Seventh-day Adven- tist Church in Sydney. Parkin has another child, Marjorie, now living on Pitcairn Island. Un- fortunately, says Christian, his son has all girls so the family name will die out as soon as the son perishes. The son's emigration to an- other area of the world is @ symptom of the troubles on Pit- cairn. racic po time, Pitcairn's ion rapidly declined. - : "Oh, I when we had as high as 200 persons on the island," he said in his lyric way, ONE REVENUE SOURCE No more cruise ships stop at Pitcairn Island with passengers to buy souvenirs--the only gen- erator of private income on the island. The colonial government's sole source of revenue is" postage stamp sale, The stamps are much in demand around the world. ie Christian is inthe United States on.a private visit in hopes of estab' g a kind of mail- order souvenir business, He has been following a rather rigid schedule of speaking appoint ments at churches, schools, and clubs. One victory has been gained, reports Christian, because t he island will have a full display of curios, wood carvings, mpd and other items on display at t! World's Fair in New York City in April and continuing for two. years, The booth will be adja- cent to the reconstructed "HMS Bounty", the ship made by MGM for the recest motion pic- ture, 'Mutiny on the Bounty". Nearly all of the islanders are members of the Adven' Church. They became Adv tists just one century after thé Mutiny. Now they are Chris- tians, in name as well as in spirit. is shown holding a replica of the HMS Bounty, as he and Mr: Christian discuss its history.