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Oshawa Times (1958-), 26 Jun 1964, p. 13

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Late Buying Redeems Losing Day market Thursday, but one re- deeming feature was late buy- ing which sent a handful of cpecaatve mining issues fo the Fits speculatives, Silver Standard and Tombil] each gained five cents to 97 and $1.30.. United omstock Lode tacked on four cents to 50, Ro- wan 1% cents to 18, and Bunker Hill and Genex -- the latter traded more than 500,000 shares --one cent each to 33 and 50, respectively. ine seg hae showed a String losses to k stocks. OPR was down 1% to rd 4, while---Distillers Seagram A. Y. JACKSON'S DESIGN DESIGNED IN 1961 'Group Of Seven' Artist Chose 3 Leaves Too OTTAWA (CP) -- Among the 5,900 ..odd flag designs sub- mitted to the government is one from A. Y. Jackson, whose co- lor-conscious eyes were peering out at the Canadian landscape from behind an ease! before, most members of Parliament were born. commenting on individual de- dicated he would like to talk to Mr. Jackson about his flag. my design," ently decided on a flag--al- theugh it's not a very good one.' Besides the vertical bars, Mr. Jackson doesn't like the aynat ; they are just like tree branches." : But he's all in favor of the maple leaf motif. igns, but Mr, Pearson has in-|., emblem or an abstract de- sign such as a tri-color, and there's so many of those it's hard to get a distinctive flag. We have no animal--the beaver rat--and so the aple leaf seems best. ving decided that, the gov- "I don't really want to push said the artist. "The government has appar- His suggestion for a distinc- "We had to decide either on|O"® ANNOUNCEMENT 'tive Canadian flag, painted about three years ago, is simi- lar to that now being proposed in Parliament by the govern-|f ment. The design of the 81-year-old painter, one of Canada's famed Group of Seven artists, has three red maple leaves joined on a single stem on a white background, But where the gov- gave up % al 60%. Banks were all lower. . Golds were 'the only section to | aye A a plus sign on index. Dome tacked on % to 2854 and Giant Yellowknife % to 11. Base metals were lower, but a few issues showed well. Hast- ings climbed 31 cents to $2.70, Leitch 15 cents to $4.85, and Wighland-Bell 10 cents to $7.10. Of the seniors, Inco was down 3 to 84%, and Noranda to On index, industrials were down .48 to 155.91, base metals 08 to 63.42, western oils .64 to 97.71 and the exchange index .44 to 145.53. Golds were up .37 to 132.65. Volume for the day was 5,562,000 shares compared with 3,703,000 Wednesday. ' ditch" Seaway Quietly Marks Busy Fifth Anniversary | OTTAWA (CP) -- The "big is five years old today-- but nobody seems to care. Exactly five years ago, the|"'salties" bearing cargoes from| the 135-mile seaway route from| that way. These wavy lines in- Royal Britannia sailed sedately through a ceremonial gate at the Montreal entrance to the St. Lawrence Seaway, carrying Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower into man's greatest inland aqua-highway. There were fireworks, bal- loons, whistles and bells the day waterway, sleek lakers burd- ened with tons of grain sail] |smoothly past chunky ocean abroad for the. inland ports ring-| ing the five Great Lakes, The formal transit June 26, 1959, of the St. Lambert lock on the south shore of Montreal har- bor by the blue-hulled Britannia was the ceremonial opening of the seaway, but the route was actually opened to ships in ernment's design has a vertical blue bar at each side of the flag, Mr. Jackson proposes a wavy horizontal blue bar at the top and the bottom. This, to him, makes a big dif- OLD TIME & COUNTRY STYLE DANCING AT SUN VALLEY PAVILION SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Featuring Gerald Elliott on the mene and Leo Purtin Vocalist. TO GET THERE: Drive north to Port Perry, take Lilla wo Pg 8 mi to the narrow bridge and Seagraves store, e the fi ioe ~~ to the right and foliow the signs to Sun vol Pavillon, ravi ference. "You see," he said Thursday in his apartment-studio here, 'it worth of equipment -- Giant|Was the rivers that opened up cranes, dozens of bulldozers, |Canada. Every province has ltruckers and dredges -- to cutlrivers, and all were ego Montreal to Prescott, Ont. The seaway itself cost $375,- 000,000 -- about three quarters of it from Canada, the rest from the United States which built two of the seven locks near Mas- sena, N.Y., across the river from Cornwall, Ont. --, a $600,- |dicate that history." WORKS ON DESIGN Mr. Jackson has been "'fool- ing around" with flag designs for years. About three years ago he turned out the design jthat was recently submitted to BOOK DESTROYED BOLTON, England (Reuters) Thousands of copies of Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure were torn up and destroyed under police supervi- sion here Thursday. Police geized the books at a Manches- ter printing plant; A Manchester court, after proceedings under the Obscene Publications Act, | ordered their destruction. St. Lawrence River. It seems that Muskegon, Mich. mark the birthday with a festi-) val Saturday. they pulled the cork from a vintage bottleneck in the mighty And now--five years later-- the anniversary is just another working day in the uneventful life of a time-tested waterway. is the only place that plans to Elsewhere on the international ine April. CARRY HEAVY CARGO Since the real start of the sea- way, ships flying the flags of more than 23 nations -- from Egypt to Formosa -- have car- ried 133,000,000 tons of cargo through the route. Pip ny ering there have been ,000 ship transists since that | The current seaway season is| At the same time, 000,000 power project was erected near Cornwall, a mas- sive job that created a huge man-made lake in the river, flooding seven shorelines vil- lages and forming a new park- land along the riverfront. |LIFT SHIPS The seven locks along the |river west of Montreal are like a giant water staircase--lifting]| \or lowering ships 602 feet from| the government by a friend. The copies went to the prime minister's office and to State Secretary Lamontagne. The gov- ernment has carefully avoided IN-DOOR GC our-poor ie POOL ROAD anda 401 EAST > FRIDAY NIGHT CARY GRANT & AUDREY HEPBURN "CHARADE" BEATALLS COMING SOON Watch this Paper for Time and Place CKLB Radio Will Be Repérting i SORRY ! NO ADVANCE SALE! FRIDAY ROCK HUDSON & PAULA PRENTISS "Man's Favourite Sport" KIDDIES' KARTOON KARNIVAL THORNTON RD. S. PHONE 723-4972 BOX OFFICE OPENS 8:00 FIRST SHOW DUSK LITTLE CAESAR and the 2ND HIT "KISS OF THE VAMPIRE" | the ocean level to the top of the| COLOR CONSULS Dancing 9 p.m. 'til 1. Admission $1.50 [Great Lakes system at the} Lakehead. | They replaced an old system| | of locks and channels along the |morth shore of the St. Lawrence |that limited shipping to less than| LAST Pearson May Revive ssi' ssn 'Ghost' Canada Medal ys 4 Ca ,»,Aaw sr It took five years and thous-|13 feet in draught. The seaway | ands of men, using $100,000,000'depth is 27 feet, | than 5,000,000 tons--32 per. cent |higher than in May, 1963 and exactly double the business in May, 1959 OTTAWA (CP)--The govern-jrangements for the establish-} ment is considering reviving the}ment of the Canada Medal." never - issued Canada Medal,|These designated the name of Possibly by awarding the first|the medal and provided that it One in connection with the 1967|be circular in form and of sil- centennial. ver, bearing a crowned effigy Prime Minister Pearson may) of the sovereign on one side and have given a hint of this inten-|the Canadian coat of arms with tion in the Commons 10 days|the word Canada on the other. ago. He noted that the Canada Medal, established in 1933 "'but not em set issued, has three maple leaves conjoined on one stem" --the same design as the gov- ernment's proposed flag. Mr. Pearson was interrupted at this point by an unidentified MP who said: 'What happened to that?" (the medal) Mr. Pearson replied: 'We will be resurrecting that, perhaps, one of these days." Reliable sources said Mr. Pearson wasn't being facetious; that the government has, in to tse the letters C.M. or," in French, M. du C. after their! names. It was never satisfactorily ex-| plained why the medal was ap- proved but never awarded. HANDEL'S OPERA A copy of the original edition of Handel's opera, Tamerlane, personally revised by the com- poser in 1724, is in Romania's Bucharest State Central Li- brary. Recipients were to be entitled : fact, been considering doing just that in connection with the cen- tennial celebrations. MADE 13 COPIES The medal has a curious his- tory. At least 14 specimens of it were struck after it was ap- proved. King George VI was sent two of the specimens. The| remaining 12 are believed to be in a government vault some- where in the capital, On July 17, 1943, a proposal was sent to George VI to issue @ medal "for the recognition of meritorious service by citizens) of Canada, whether civilians or| DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT Greenhurst Pavilion Dunsford, Ont. gang is back again! .-- but this time the party's got MUSCLE! "GET" Of the Season Featuring » The CHECKMATES REGULAR ADMISSION DRESS . SHORTS (Hardtime) Featuring DU-KANES Of Oshawa members of the armed forces or of the merchant navy, and of citizens of other countries| who have rendered valuable | and meritorious services." 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