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2\ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturdey, November 20, 1965 MOTORING By CHRIS DENNETT Automotive Writer Of The Oshawa Times IT IS TIME to start worrying about Mosport. Its future, and with it the future of motor racing on Ontario, hangs in the balance. A month ago the situation looked black. I even spoke to some people who had given up completely. 'It's. going to be bought by a gravel company," was the most fre- quent black rumor. : Now, however, things don't look so bad. The big news this week was the bid entered by ex- race driver Jerry Polivka. Polivka is a name well known in Canadian racing circles. He drove for many years before retiring from the track and taking over the Canada Track and Traffic magazine, HIS OFFER includes the re-issuing of debentures on a dollar for dollar basis to existing debenture holders, paying off outstanding liabilities and fees of some $25,000 to the court appointed receiver, and the pledging of up to $100,000 in working capital. I understand that there are at least two other bids posted with the National Trust, the circuit's appointed re- ceiver. Neither of them, I am told, has been made by a gravel interest. The circuit is open for bids until December 1. At that time the National Trust sits back and decides whether or not it is going to sell. e Perhaps I am sticking my neck out too soon; but I will be very surprised indeed if there is no motor racing at Mosport next year. Mosport, in my opinion, is just too good to lose. And there are a lot of people of the same opinion. JERRY POLIVKA was one of the founders of the 2.5 mile circuit. Despite its almost immediate financial troubles he is apparently willing to have another go. His bid was made in grand style with a mass of handouts to the press. In the handout I received Polivka made a great point of saying that he intends to run the track on a sound business basis. . There is little chance, he says, of the track becoming profitable until greater use is made of it during periods when no races are held. In giving examples of other uses for the track he in- dicated that certain automobile companies have shown an interest in using the track to test their automobiles. Anyhow we should know something definite sometime before Christmas. We shall have to wait patiently until that time. A WORD IN YOUR EAR about an event the Oshawa Motor Sport Club is planning for tomorrow. The event is billed as a '"Car-Ousel" and will be run over 20 miles of paved and good gravel roads. Starting time is 1 p.m. tomorrow from the Greenwood Conserva- tion Area on the Greenwood Road, seven miles north of Highway 2 at Pickering. Charge is $1.50 per car and there will be dash plaques for the winning three cars. It sounds like a good jaunt. If you are interested in having a go at.a little elementary rallying contact Dave Jackson at 728-3748. CENTENNIAL YEAR will also bring a shot in the arm for rallying in Canada. Shell Canada Limited announced this week that it will be presenting Centennial Rally Awards, the idea being to stimulate and broaden interest in the sport and to en- courage more private entries in the international Shell 4000. ° The awards will be made on performances made dur- ing the 1966 season. Cash awards totalling $3,750 and specially designed Centennial trophies will be made in British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. The winning two-man crews, two from each region, will be given free entries in the 1967 Shell Centennial 4000 Rally. Those crews who have LIBRARY NEWS AND REVIEWS The following reviews were written by Mrs. Claude Ebbett of the Order Depart- ment, McLaughlin Public Library. Wandering Through Winter, by Edwin Way Teale. The famous writer - naturalist- photographer has excelled once again in this fascinating ac- count of his journey across America during the North American winter. Accompanied by his wife Nel- lie, Mr. Teale takes the reader on an_ unhurried, rambling 20,000-mile adventure from the Pacifie coast, across the south- western desert and canyons where snow never falls, across the frozen Mississippi, through the midwest, over the Appala- chian Mountains and finally up through New England to the snowladen woods of Caribou, Maine. In the early chapters. the reader will be absorbed with his description of the migrat- ing gray whales, his impres- sions of the desert where the mysterious desert winds seemed to sweep down like an onrush- Winter Across America Portrayed In World, Photo ing train as he spent a night in his sleeping bag and his rare good fortune is being one of the very few to see a hibernating bird called the poorwill (a rela- tive of the whippoorwill). Whenever possible, the Teales. visited wild life sanctuaries and bird fanciers will discover hundreds of references to many of our Ontario birds. An expert with the camera, Mr. Teale has enriched the story of his winter adventure with a generous supply of out- standing photographs portraying many of the scenes, wild crea- tures, and events about which he writes. Although a map is included inside the front cover, I found it more convenient and interesting to read the book using my Rand McNally Road Atlas for reference, The Road Grows Strange, by Gladys Hasty Carroll The apprehensions of a school teacher on the evening of her retirement are vividly described by the popular novelist. Gladys Hasty Carroll. Frank Walker were over, but she was Smoking Areas | By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Although Edmonton's separ- | ate school board forbids. smok- ing on school property, students | at several Roman Catholic high | schools have been given special | outdoor smoking areas. the experiment last year after | hearing residents complain that students gathered on near the schools to smoke at | noon hour. in a courtyard area on it is kept tidy. H. A. MacNeil, superintend- ent of separate schools; says jed college students is cleverly ; al |with their The school principals started |andg left with a new interest in | streets |to surmount their troubles. ipecome the widely known and Now the students may smoke |yespected author the | volumes earth turns, prised and relieved to find that became the trusted confidante of many of them and her in- volvement in several family crises and her sympathetic ap- praisal of the behavior of con- fused teenagers and disillusion- handled by the author. Worried parents, teenagers, farmers and college students came to her individual problems life, greater understanding of themselves and determination Carroll has Gladys Hasty of fourteen of readers. As_ the which was per- following of The Mandelbaum Gate, i by Murie] Spark : MaracaibmMiss::'4, by Van Wyck Mason : My Friends the Mrs. Millers, by Jane Duncan Those Who Love, by Irving Stone GENERAL A Gift of Joy, by Helen Hayes The Incredible War of 1812, by J. M. Hitsman Laugh Day, by Bennett Cerf Laurier, the First Canadian, by Joseph Schull Mrs. Simcoe's Diary. Edited by Mary Quayle Innis NEWS A few outstanding films avail able from the library during November and December are; Kenojuak, col., 20 min., beauw- tiful Eskimo prints Energetically Yours, col., 14 min. man's discovery of energy resources. Magic Molecule, col., 10 min, --the world of plastics. 23 Skidoo, b. and w., 10 min.-- felt that her days of service | Sur- | neutron bomb. - jwith retirement she had more | min. -- family life in four dif- Students Given bom to share the joys and sor- | ferent countries. rows of her former pupils. She| Background to Latin America, fiction and non- jj school grounds at noon provided | ¢c¢tion, all with an enthusiastic ment has worked well so far. the experiment is not an en- dorsement of student smoking. Rather, he says, it is recogni- tion that some students d0|perwick, Maine, where Mrs. smoke and an attempt to keep /Carroll lives. Each year it is them from smoking on the| produced at the foot of Hasty streets. He reports the experi- Regina has what must be | one of the youngest rock 'n' roll bands in Canada. The Boleros have three 15- year-olds, one 14-year-old and a 12-year-old, Randy Brown, the moving force behind the combo's forma- tion. 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