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}iresident of Brougham and Osh- | Winnipeg Transit Commission at By ELSA STORRY ; A former !Joca! resident, now living in Winnipeg, described that city as "looking like a lone- ly outpost in the Arctic" during the worst blizzard in its history two weeks ago. Douglas H. V. Neal, a former awa,.who left his home, and his job at Mechanical Advertising Limited in Oshawa some seven years ago to scttle in Manitoba, said that he would not want to see such a storm again. On the fateful morning of! Thursday, March 4, he set out for home from his job with the 1.30 a.m. to face a 40 mile per hour wind, sending bitter snow land the driveway -- just enough |for years to come. One was of a TO LEAD ONTARIO OVERS Junior Farmers, winners of Overseas Scholarships, on a visit to the United Kingdom. The junior farmers, two H. L. Fair, representative for Ontario County, has been selected to accompany four Ontario agricultural squalls that made him reel. 70-MILE WIND his daughter, 8-year-old Julie, | and her high-school-age cousin | Marcia, with noses pressed to} jthe window watching a white {fury roaring through the street, | |pushing snow into enormous) \drifts. The wind had risen to 70 |miles per hour. Houses across the street were invisible. The EAS TRIP boys and two girls, were selected on the basis of their achievements. --Ontario Department of Agriculture Photo St. John Ambulance =". Holds Annual Meetin WHITBY -- Activities during) the past year were reviewed and officers elected at the nual meeting last week of the Whitby branch of the St. John Ambulance Association. Reports of the year's. activi ties given by the heads of the various units again pointed up the vast number of hours of public service given by these dedicated volunteers. Twenty nine members of the Ambulance Brigade gave 1,800 hours of serv ice to the community, plus total of 424 hours served nursing cadets. These impressive totals do not) Har P| eover the many, many hours of/ards, G Heffernan, Mayor study, instruction, lectures, etc.,) Harry Smith, Ajax; Reeve John put in by all members of the| Dryden, George Lofthouse, War units, to enable them to con-|ren Mowat and Mrs. F, H. M. stantly improve their knowledgel Inwin. and efficiency for better serv- ice i Mr. Wayne Lehman told of the aN successful formation of a boy's cadet section, with eight boys. Two of the boys now have uni- forms, thanks to the generosity of Charles Stafford and Mrs. Hall, honorary chairman of Scouting in Port Perry. OFFICERS ELECTED Officers elected fot the en- suing e Hono Patrons -- Mayor iD. G wman and. Charles a! Stafford by Honorary Scott, Ju Ne Vice-presidents ference Moore, Gordon Rich- I Coin With Date 1820 Found At Township Farm PORT HOPE A Bove) He said the coins were shipped Township cattle farmer made/to the United States as a North! quite a discovery this wee k!American token. When the coins! while putting a new floor in his|were sent to Lower Canada, he| ancient farmhouse north of the|said the date on the dye was Macdonald-Cartier Freeway to 1820 from 1825, be- the fringe of Cortett's Pond. of a law forbidding use Edger Eley was ham private tokens away at the baseboard vy , renee . found two coins, unlike an; BR ASS COMMON had ever seen before. ur. Lowes said specimens of On one coin was brass bid ace ad "bank token--Concordia : n those in copper 1844, half penny, Bank of Mont were local counterfeits. real, province of Canada." On, The. Original coins could be the back was what appeared to|identified from the local issue, be a picture of the old Bank of|"@ said by the fact that the Montreal. re tokens have eight, nine On the other coin was a harp|42¢ 10 strings in. the harp, and below it the date 1820, Or reas the originals in cop- the other side of this wa have ten strings. the face of a man With a wreath As for the val in his hair. re worth lit RELATES HISTORY The other 1844 coin he said Mr, Eley, who bought was one of several bank: tokens eis. fave in two parcels ued at the time. He advised 1948, has papers on the histor Eley to to the public of the deed of the farm where there are books Mr. Eley says the deeds dat ; the coins and assess back to 1891 when Nathan : Choate was the owner. One son, Asa ( t Ww killed when the horse he riding reared threw through a bridge railing son had purchased from Martha A. Herriman $7,500. In 1895, the 'de railway right-of-w the Grand $95 A son, Norman the farm to J for $10,000 Stage consisted of 1 Hume died in 19 His Angus on jaltered the common and coin », he said they tle. the 200 in} yy go brar"s to iden e v Skin Ointment Under Study and for (AP) -- only 10 An causes disap- makes some pa- irs younger is un ign at the Univer LOS ANGELES ed state 2 Olntment that not ance! t also e Cali ociation Sun- Samuel er with a for $12,000 he vide 5 fl 1orouraci sold the farm : i previously used with 1948. Since then he s in treating back 35 additiona r three railways which had lin on his farm. sons, Rob containir 4i SUCCE ial cancer. Tromavitch s ers noticed . those who als d skin cancer STURDY HOMESTEAD o it was tried an ointment The old house is it Twenty patients with skin can- sturdy as a rock. M cer on the face were told to rub the wall partitions .,in the cream twice a day fora inch solid white pine month. Within two weeks, he he burned a pine tree stump.on Said, the ons of all 20 dis- his farm which wa t ed and so far have not in diameter d In each of the u rooms of the I are fireplace ed over now : con ! tends they still could be { : per He d n rom ¢ need University orot 4 re} when expo down to his farr I i ing to make home Since the di coins, I three n 0) dates Fred Lowe Port Hope questioned a the coins, v some light a the coin displa} He said Boston Har coin-issue wa i 1 He said he had two sam} himself, iid research. ned to help vould not call this ever, until -- five r more have passed with- but 3 rrence ' nt of the patients severe peeling i to sunlight while on their skin peeled the wrin- nade them look 10 "he said. 'But m to stay out of y uncomfort- » better ways, of getting rid s the ore y 1966 TV's $9.00 Per Month WHY RENT -- WHEN YOU CAN BUY. -- 216 Brock St. S. -- Whitby \girls did not gy» to school that day. Schools and _ businesses ler closed. Neal instructed by was \his next run, for all buses were being called in. It took until Saturday to tow them all to the garage. to a neighborhood store two | Branch Chairman: T. Mitten. Vice-Chairmen: Mrs. §. Burns and Mrs, R. H. Bedell. Directors: John Towne, C, E | Brown, Harry Inkpen, H. Hawk- lins, Mrs. D. Calder, Ted Web | ster and L, Hanne. Treasurer: Sandy Carlaw. Secretary: Miss Winona Mc- Keown Mr. Hawkins moved a vote of thanks, on behalf of the brigade and branch, to Mr. Newman, who was retiring branch chairman due to the pressure of public duties. Regret was also expressed at the retirement of C. E. Brown, as treasurer, and Mrs. Betty. Mcintyre as. sec- retary. Refreshments were -- served jand a social hour enjoyed by members and guests. He had to force his door open meeting of the Ajax Town Coun- cil Saturday afternoon Council voted 8-1 to go ahead with the Municipal Complex through the front door. Mayor Harry Smith informed council that as a result of sev- eral special meetings held Thur- sday with the 0. M.B. and the town clerk and deputy clerk, |council was now able to borrow| the monies through.the O.M.B.| Councillor Ed Wetherall term-| ed the recent developments as| "the most remendous thing that| as Common Market Talk Stirs U lhas happened' and explained | e&&s ito council that the special loan} ae jwith its 25 per cent forgive-| By JOSEPH MacSWEEN ness clause woud result in an} LONDON (CP)--"At last, a/initial saving of $106,000 to the real issue emerges." town while interest rates of five This was typical of weekend|three-eights per cent of two - headlines as the British election| thirds of the amount would save campaign became hotter after|the Town. $11,000 for the next a long, slow start. Nominations |20 years. close today ee ee ere cosy REDUCED | f The cost of the municipal com-} The issue of Britain joining pjex is reduced to $534,000 be- the European Common Market Callas of the special loan and caused the biggest inilial fire} Coyncil decided to pay $14,000) but there also were signs Of a'of this amount from its current| new battle over rebellious Rho- budget to keep the figure within desia. 25 per cent of the originally There were colorful incidents, /advertized amount. too, such as when Quintin Hogg} Bylaw 505 revoking two pre- --always an enthusiastic cam-jvious bylaws concerning the paigner--smashed his walking-|municipal complex was moved stick over a photograph of and seconded by Ed Wetherall Prime Minister Wilson at aiand William LeGross and re London political meeting. ceived the support of all coun- Wilson, addressing a South- cillors except Mrs. Mary Reid Ajax Will Proceed With Complex Work | Man Creston iia der for the. complex at $724,000 AJAX (staff) -- At a special;savings to the town on the pro- but reduced its price through to the initial|Negotiations with the complex Construction at the }0O.M.B. had promised that ap- jP |gratulated the Mayor, Ed Weth- ° Former Local Resident Seed Fair_ Tells Of Big Blizzard against the snow, and walk; By Sunday night 75 per cent through a drift in the driveway jof all cars in Winnipeg were to his shoulders. When he re-|; mobile -- host of them in turned he was completely ex-) pei 'agnosis y garages off back lanes, where hausted, and could scarcely stand. \they don't expect to get them 20-FOOT DRIFTS ee MD Sg ge ea eee : After the big blow,' Saturday MVL IMUYS Lie AUTiUUL ULL, aU was bright and clear. The radi- |5!0W blowers had to be used. It ant sun shone on drifts of snow |is estimated that it will take that reached half way to the|three weeks to' get all "back top of the Neal residence, and|!anes open, and when all to the roof of the garage. Some of the drifts were 20-feet high. | "By Sunday night,'"' said Mr. | Neal, 'I had the walk shovelled over $1 million. ud te get the car out. The car doors |Transcona resident who tried to can't be opened in the @rive-|get out of his back door Fri- way, and when you walk down|day morning but the drifts were our walk, you can't. see over|so high he couldn't budge the the top of the snow." |\door. He telephoned his neigh- z bor who donned snow boots, HELPED ONE ANOTHER no casualties -- but there were | door. ciose calls. An eight-year-old boy sunk in a ten-foot drift, and was buried for 20 minutes. Someone noticed him, and dug him out in time. Mr. Neal was impressed by the way people came to each other's aid. "Businesses doo ed people,"' une, "he "took one look at a to stay inside. Photographs opened Food was: delivered to peopl HE without supplies by snowmobile; OF Bust a number of pregnant women| The most appealing photo were rushed to hospital by|graph of all was that of a for About 3 p.m., Mr. Neal went | snowmobile. Rural residents left lorn little figure approaching a |transferred to Dosco's works in their outside lights on so any-|sign which read, "Bus Stop.' blocks away for some supplies.jone stranded on the highway The caption said, "Will it, or! coke. | cougeigfind shelter." won't. it?"" Jalso authorized to sign a con Complex when approval is re ceived today. Milan Cnostruction original ject were close amount, considering the building site of the old municipal build would have to be retendered if|ing could start tomorrow. no O.M.B. approval was forth-| coming on the project by today.) APPROVAL PROMISED architects. lout for a month. Plows couid is cleared up, the cost will be The Winnipeg Tribune will be) \telling stories about the big blow Date Set UXBRIDGE -- Prof, T. Lane, Department of Soil Science, University of Guelph, will be guest speaker at the Ontario Soil and Crop Improyement As- sociation Annual Seed Fair and Hay Show to be held in the township hall, Sunderland, Mar. 29. He will. speak on 'Getting the most from your fertilizer doiiar." There will also be a discussion period on "The Use of Herbi- cides and Insecticides." Ken Fallis Soils andi Crop Branch} Toronto, and Grover Smith, | District Weed Inspector; will lead the discussion. The exhibits of grain, forage THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, Merch 21, 1966 § oe a.m., and judging will be com-) speakers, and to discuss cultural pleted by 12 noon. practices in connection with The afternoon programme will: growing of grain and forage include the comments of the|crops with other farmers. judges; Professor Lane's talk; a general discussion peridd; and the presentation of trophies. WANTED Good seed is good economics in successful grain growing. The seed fair assists in maintaining standards of high quality in seed, and affords an excellent opportunity to hear outstanding RAE R. JONES REAL ESTATE seed, hay and silage pvill be set up in the Township Hall, Sunder- land, between 9:30 and 10:30 Sales - Valuations 1 walked over the back fence, and Later that morning he found; Amazingly enough, there were|dyug away the snow from the! "Our Transcona resident was not impressed," said the Trib- nearby 12-foot drift and decided showed the,ion Steel and Coal Corp. steel | storm at the height of its fury, their customers reclining on fashion- rs to give shelter to strand- able Simpson-Sears beds where he said. 'People they spent the night, Metro em- his |travelled in groups so no one |Ployees fighting their way home |that removal of two wire-draw- | t come out for | would be in trouble by himself. |from work clad in cartons on|ing machines from the plant's| e|which they had printed, "Home wire and nail mills would re-| ltract with Milan Construction|the Sydney area could "wither }Co, for the construction of the!and die" within 15 years unless The complex will include mu- nicipal officers, council cham- |ber, library, fire hall and police | Mayor H. M. Smith said the|headquarters. Machinery Shift Draws Protest SYDNEY ,N.S, (CP)--James Nicholson, director of district 2, United Steelworkers of America (CLC) has asked Premier. Stan- field to intervene in the transfer of machinery from the Domin- mill here to a subsidiary plant in Ontario. In a.telegram to Premier Stanfield, Mr. Nicholson said} duce the mill's production by | -|about 50 per cent. -| He said the machines Were *\the Toronto suburb of Etobi- E. A. Manson, Conservative member for Cape Breton West, -|warned in the legislature that -j|an answer is found to problems \facing the local steel industry. Consultations 668-8841 or 728-6661 BROCK -- One Complete Program Each WHITBY -- Evening -- Starting At 7:30 The first day brought the terror! The second day brought-the woman... «two men are one man on "THE THIRD ~ DAY" RECOMMENDED AS ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ALSO -- ADDED ATTRACTION SHOWN AT 7:30 " 1) In Color Starring The Gorgon Peter Cushing -- Christopher Lee RECOMMENDED AS ADULT ENTERTAINMENT : FIRST ------ MORTGAGE LOANS @ FAST SERVICE roval on the project would be given today so that the tendered DURBAN (AP) -- The "first contract, which expires today,| : ; *}mermaid ever found on the could be signed. South African coast puzzled lo- Councillor Mary Reid asked} cal natives at Umhlali. Oceano- what the final cost of the build-| graphic scientists later identi- ing including furniture would be} fied the eight-foot body as that o the taxpayers and was in-|of a dugong, the sea mammal formed that ratepayers would | said to have suggested the mer- be liable for $520,000 in deben-| maid legend centuries ago. It tures including architects fees) was probably swept south by a and that the new complex would) hurricane. DEAD MERMAID FOUND Payments Planned To Suit Your Budget VICTORIA and GREY TRUST use existing furniture. The ori- ginal amount of debentures had been $640,000. Deputy Reeve John Hall con- erall and the town staff for obtaining the 20 per cent saving on the complex. Councillor Reid said she would still like to see a public hearing on the complex to pro- tect council. The mayor and clerk were "TENDERS FOR To be received up to 5 o'clock Address tenders ¢/e Mr. John 30% OFF Greeting Cards Toys - Hebhy Kits Purchases Over $1.00 Special Change-Over Sale at Newton's 23 ATHOL ST. WEST, OSHAWA Sig R. Attersiey, Choirmon, 6 Town Property Committee TOWN OF WHITBY Sealed Tenders Market 405 Dundes St. W., Whitby, Ontario, Tender forms available at Municipal Engineer's Office. FOUR TRUCKS" p.m., Thurs., March 24th, 1966. R, Frost, Township of Whitby, ned ind Mrs. €. Moore, Chairman, Sanitation Committee. COUNTY OF ONTARIO Tenders for Equipment Sealed tenders, clearly marked es to contents, will be received by the undersigned until 4:30 P.M., April 4, 1966, for the following equipment: 1. 125 H.P. Motor Grader with Snow Plow and Wing. Trade-in 1955, Model 12, Caterpillar Grader, One 29,000 G.V.W. Truck, Cob, Chassis, and Dump Box. Trade-in 1962 International, Model 1800, . One 24,000 G.V,W. Truck complete with Stake Plat- form. Trade-in 1961 International, Model B-1800. » One 7600-8000 Ib, G.V.W. Truck, cab, and chassis, Trade-in 1961 Chevrolet, Model 1-Ton (B), » Two Autometic Hopper Type Sand Spreaders, approxi. mately 6 eubie yards, + One Industrial Type Tractor and Loader. Trade-in 1959 Messey Ferguson Tractor, Model 35. One Hammer Knife Mower, - One Vibratory Compaction Unit for use in confined erees. Tender forms, specificetions and further information may be obtained from the office of the undersigned, Lowest or qny tender not necessarily accepted, W. A. Twelvetrees, P. Eng; County Engineer, 605 Rosslond Road Eest Whitby, Ontario. ampton meeting Sunday night,| Councillor Wetherall said the accused the Conservatives of CH stiffening the resistance of Ian Smith's Rhodesian regime,| which he said was holding on in the hope of Tory victory the British poll. "Mr. Wilson has not got a pol icy and. now all he can do is islander his opponents," count- ered Tory Leader Edward Heath. in GIVES TORIES HEART A new upsurge of dispute on the Common Market issue gave heart to Tories who have faced a big lead in Labor party popu- larity measured by public opinion polls. The polls, the latest of which reported Sunday, indicate a ma- jority of more than 100 for Wilson's Socialists who had an edge of only three' when Parliament was dissolved. Veteran correspondents scribe the campa quietest political fray since Second World 'War but see this as an advantage for Wilson who wants to keep the battle at a low key. Wilson has assumed the posture of a national leader rather than political protagonist and has largely confined him- self to reports to the nation But the Common Market quickly blew up into the hottest} issue yet when Wilson declared in a Bristol speech Friday: "Given a fair wind, we will) negotiate our way into the Com-!| mon Market, head held high,} not crawl in, and we shall goj in if the conditions are right. People like you. what they like most is v. Like our complimentary as And the wide choice of Last year we sold more seats Red, White & Blue ticke Why don't you call your Passenger Sales Office de the the One-Stop DECORATING SHOP Wallpoper and Murals Custom Draperies Broadioom C.1.L. Paints and Varnishes Flo-Glaze Colorizer Paints DODD & SOUTER DECOR CENTRE LTD. 107 Byron St. S., Whitby PHONE 668-5862 Of course they like the bargains. Who wouldn't? But and sléeping car passengers. 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