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FRENCHMAN'S BAY - if Pe =. le? REAR WINDOW SMASHED . »» Russell Smith, Ottawa THIRTY-SEVEN FOOT CRUISER LANDS ON SIDE . «. Five-Ton Boat Blown Off Caulking Mounts Storm .». Tree Cutter Tired Of Buzz Sawing Air Downdraft 2 Belted Bay Cottagers $100,000 Damage Caused, f * OSHAWA, ONTARIO, F Oshawa Cines RIDAY, JULY 29, 1966 Hits City A two-alarm fire early this morning, at the home of Erna Litz, 117 Bloor St. E,, com- pletely gutted the second floor. Estimated damage to 'the building was $4,000. a ee CHILDREN ROMP IN TOPPLED TREES «+. Parents Add Up $100,000 Damage Score 3:35 a.m, and firemen fought the blaze for almost four hours. Cause of the fire is not im- mediately known and is. still under investigation by the Osh- 4| awa fire department. Penny Beggar' There were no serious acci- : dents at the scene of the fire, Help Required| Wrong-Way Motorists The alarm was called in at} er and fireman Donald Meehan! Two-Alarm Blaze House were treated at Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital for cuts and then released, There' was no damage or | threat of damage to buildings in |the immediate area. CAR WRECKED Donna Hollins, of Toronto, escaped injury Thursday eve- ning when she lost control of her auto on the Macdonald- Cartier Freeway, near the Town Line, west of Whitby. The vehicle, which flipped and roll- ed into the median, received an estimated $2,000 damage. however, fireman: Robert Glov- Money and volunteers are the two needs of the recently- IN DURHAM COUNTY formed Oshawa branch of the Canadian Save The Children Fund. Excused Temporarily | Many sleepy-eyed motorists, He said his department is not|one direction when crossing 7 Bool sedan tol are still trying to go the wrong-|having many problems with! one-way streets Bc omy rel Nene t tl way on the city's new one-way|traffic on Centre and Church! "There's always some driver) help Bul . a ranch's first fi-) streets Sts. which © were recently| who'll be coming the wrong-| nancial campaign | Traffic Sargéant William Changed to one-way routes. way. Welt ~ever--100---"'Penny Bes.) Tane says the approaches to, «Motorists usually ger the} "Also a_ pedestrian when|8ar" tins are now out and) the one-way streets are well/iqea that they're going the|Ccrossing a two-eay street may|about in the city. | marked, yet, motorists continue| wrong-way when they see three| think he's on a one-way street} 'Just one cent a day can save| to go the wrong way. of traffic coming at) and Pi to look two ways," a needy child," reads the mes- ON aroo: wil 1 on . y ed. ag cone charges will, the traffic sargeant) he added ie eee _o..iger of destructive forest fires. against offenders for BUS ROUTES Branch Chairman James Gor-|°" |, ; , day or so," says the police! ay : : "sg ..,/man said this morning that 'Total rainfall in Durham officer, "but if they are in- SPEEDING Reginald Smith, Public Utili-| with more volunteers he can| Was only .14 inches, not even a volved in an accident, charges| However, the police officer|ties Commission bus depart-|rinq the more money will be| quarter of an inch," said John will be pressed." said speeding on the new one-| ment eagpbio seg says there' collected pain ong it gg : bg , rese aj}Was no acute probiem yester- epartment of lands an or- The. traffic - eee problem sional bg day when buses were re-routed| The weight of the financial] ests, Orono. said a police squad car was)Pro! lhecause of Simcoe St. becom-|C2mpaign will be held off until| oe : positioned near the island on "The speed limit he these ing sueway conti bound jafter. the Centennial Project| "The area is still considered Simcoe St. N., yesterday when) streets is 30 mph and the law " z | campaig vardous, the danger of an the street became one - way| will be strictly entorced. We've| 'We had 'inspectors at ee ne. st ale t Pr yet ger Scie' fe pend toa northbound, preventing motor-)already charged several drivers| Points giving, passengers see cers collecting fos a Ye sid: very large degree," he said. ists from travelling south on/for exceeding this limit,' he raed gc ng aus pat reaching its climax. With| "With the holiday weekend the deci ' said. ; Ba : oa a this over the Branch will be|coming up, it will more than If people were awake they| Traffic Sgt. Tane warned that; The PUC is providing new concentrating its efforts |double the danger that now would see the sizns," Sgt. Tane| pedestrians should not form the| schedules and maps to assist) he ° ict exists. More people will be added "bad habit" of only looking in| passengers in becoming orien-| This Saturday the Branch|°* > To Dampen Rainfall in Durham County yesterday, was not enough to lanes relieve the area from the dan- be laid} them," the next) said. officer! Way streets is division Rainfall Not Enough Fire Threat seven forest fires in the area in a little more than two weeks. One fire, on the farm of Ken- neth Graham, in Darlington Township, has been burning underground for nearly a month. It was feared the fire would pop up unnoticed and perhaps get out of control, en- dangering the pine ridge. "That fire is almost ready to be declared out," said Mr. Breen, "I believe that they have a man still looking after it, but all reports indicate that it is nearly completely out. "Grass fires could prove to be a hazard too, they're un- predictable and can at any time work their way under a reforestation area of pine trees Frenchman's Bay may have been the builder of fate for hundreds of east and south- shore cottagers early yesterday when winds up to 125 miles per hour lashed the area in a fran- tic five minutes, The weatherman missed the call completely but today came up with an explanation for the devastating storm that literally chopped 100-foot maple trees in two, capsized boats moored in the bay, crushed roofs and sent rumors of death through the area, A miracle happened. No one was killed or injured. The tiny bay, just west of Pickering, provided an outlet for winds stored in the upstairs of a rough lightning and thun- der storm that was whipping in easterly out of the Toronto area, A downdraft is what weatherman says it was. "You can get a downrush of air in the centre of a thunder storm, If it reaches the ground it carries very strong winds, often up to 125 miles per hour, which appears to be yester- day's case,' said the weather- }man in Toronto. | When the storm hit the wes- terly shoreline of the bay it fanned out because all the air stored was--givenan enormous amount of running room over the friction-free bay. As no ground objects, except scattered cruisers, aircraft, runabouts and rowboats, could impede winds crossing the bay they grew at a furious rate then knocked cold the east and unctaire UPEsairs |Trimaran -- the jsized and was still south ends of the bay, leaving the west side untouched. Today, life is almost back to normal for the 500 to 600 resi- dents on the stricken side. The storm hit about 8:35 a.m. and before it was over a mas- sive $100,000 damage or more was done. Impact of the blowup was so great that a 120-foot-long dock at Moorhaven. Marina (a 60- boat operation) was shipped some 100 feet away from its foundation and almost collided with another pier. A 40-foot strip of the uprooted dock was heaved out of the water onto another wharf and a pile-driver, estimated to weigh about two tons, toppled on a_ water cruiser, damaging the cabin shelter. In another part of the bay a a type of sail- completely cap- that way boat -- was late last night. Meanwhile, hundreds of tall, healthy maples were toppling like pickup sticks, damaging some of the approximate 120 cottages in the area, plus cars, aircraft and anything else in the way of their falls. BOLT BELTS BOAT One large boat was sunk by a lightning holt_and at least 20 others were just whipped over on their reverse sides by blistering winds. Edward Gabourie, service manager at Keen Kraft Marina, was just opening shop for the day with two other marina employees. and get the whole thing start- ed," he said. fated with the new routes, "he] wil te alding" an excutvel gp and i they ae careless, Two City Streets Close, . . " Widening, Services Work | Gorman could be bad,"' said Mr. Breen. Mr. Smith added that anyone There have been more than in doubt of the new routes can| Anyone wishing to volunteer telephone the bus department|Services to the Fund should 'for further information |contact Mr. Gorman at 728-6101. Buses travelling south onj| = cheese Simcoe St. will be re-routed via| the new one-way southbound will be The spokesman said for system exept for a short trip to per- | installa- Search Continues about one week starting today,|from Church via Richmond = Division St. and William St. will) st. to Prince St. and ieee back For 16 Year-Old be a four-way stop. Next week/to "Church St. via Bond St. | The search continues for 16-| A young Toronto lawyer has traft c a William St. will bel New bus stops with. red and| year-old Patrick Chappell miss-|joined the Crown Attorney's abd bel right of way at the! nite lettering will be located|ing from his home at 374 High-|department for Ontario County, a _ anticipated. traffic|°". Simcoe, Church and Centre land Ave., Oshawa, since July; J. Edward Howell assumed ilies, mo on -- 1C/Sts., the bus department super-|23. the position of Assistant Crown ing sedaarabler tag cantor will intendent said singe ee np Paes ibaa sie erie gd ee g ' sts " . ' July 1. be given an alternative route) .1%e Apple Hill route willland in. Montreal have been|*"Y 1: eee is, ; hang " , | : Already is hard y westbound also change but there are n0/notified of his disappearance. 1 = = io ary na tage changes in bus stop locations,| 4 learning the local ropes. He | When last seen Chappell wasjexpects to take his first court in ---- | wearing a pink and white The spokesman said begin-| aid ning at the intersection at Rox- ne om ised Oshawa next week. POLICE PREPARED striped shirt, navy blue jeans| "The work is going to be Two Oshawa streets closed Tuesday, Aug. 2, mit construction and tion of services Harmony Rd. N._ between Rossland Rd. FE ands Fast bourne Ave., will be closed for two weeks starting Tuesday to allow installation of subdivision services and proper grading of the road, a traffic department spokesman said today The road will be left with a granular base until it then it will be paved. Con-Drain settles, borough Ave., and Bond St.,| traffic will. proceed Assistant Crown Attorney \Joins County Department Crown Attorney's work for the next two weeks or so. LAW STUDENT Another new face in the Crown Attorney's Department jis that of Toronto law student |Peter Magda who will be work- jing in the department during jthe summer. | In the fall he will be return- jing to Osgoode Hall for his sec: Lid. of Toronto have been con- tracted for the job On the same day Bond St. E will narrow. to one lane, of traf- fic between Ritson Rd. and Division St. to permit street widening and track said rke r Work w gradually as far as Mary St., he added. remova the ress via Rich- 'se el 3 _.:, |ond year of law studies. busy and interesting,"' he said.| On graduation he is intend- A great hockey buff he iSjing to specialize in Crown looking forward to seeing the] Attorney work. Oshawa Generals play when the} Mr. Howell graduated from new season starts |Osgoode Hall in 1960. Up until With Crown Attorney Bruce/recently he was engaged in Affleck recovering from a re-|private practice in Toronto cent operation Mr. Howell willjspecializing in criminal shoulder most of the local 'defence. 4 spokesman for the Bow-|a8nd brown sandals. He may or manville detachment of the On-|may not be wearing glasses. tario Provincial Police said to-jHe js five foot, four inches, one-way route westbound to On-|day about 100 officers, many of]... hs 110 1 tario St., he added them from other detachments,|¥°8"5 apecsecgy In this way William St. will) will be on hand to handle the |complexion and black hair compensate for the 'two lanes|crowd expected to attend the} Police believe he may have} lost on Bond St., during con-| Kawartha 250 Races Saturday |headed for Montreal or York- struction, he' said. at Mosport, ville Village in Toronto. mond St. and Oshawa Blvd., to William St William St. will operate as *) has fair EDWARD HOWELL, PETER MAGDA e No-One Killed Or Injured "It was quite misty. The weatherman's prediction was 80 to 88 degrees in temperature with possible thunder showers. It started to rain slightly... started to get ready for work, It began raining harder. Then it all ahppened at once. It was like the sky turning upside- down," he said. "I hadn't been in the shop (a wooden construction that was a leaning structure at the end of the storm) more than three minutes, It was like a bomb when it hit." The 59-year-old Oshawa resi- dent of 51 Meadow. Cres, said he looked out a window of the shop, in the middle of the burst and all he saw was: "A wall of water. The rain was coming down so hard no- body would dare to walk in it, not to mention the winds that went with it." While he was inside a 20-foot cruiser was picked up bodily from one side of a dock, lifted eight to 10 feet in the area and chucked to the other side, crushing the tops of two cruis- ers on its way. Seven or eight boats wére capsized there; a 37-foot cruiser which the marina crew had been caulking all last winter and spring was shoved off its launching pad "and landed oa its side causing. unestimated damage. A 60-foot poplar tree fell on a marina truck and car. MORE SEVERE "Hazel wasn't as bad," Mfs, Richard Avis, one of the longe est residents of the area, said in an interview. "It lasted all night. This one was shorter but a lot more severe." Hurricane Hazel struck cén- tral Ontario on its historical pillage run Oct. 15, 1954 and was the last major storm hy tomas Bay residents re- call. pa SEAPLANE Irvin Gill of Sandbar Rd., one of the hardest hit stretches, leapod out of bed-as a sea plane crashed out of & tree on his front lawn. The plane had been picked up from the water 40 yards along the shore, hoisted 50 feet in the air and driven into the tree. Sherman Everard, living it a six-room cottage with his wife and two children, just bought a plane Wednesday. The Toronto man said the Piper J3 was flipped by the winds where it was moored in front of the cot- tage just off the shoreline. The wings are bent down like those of a gull coming to rest on a seaside rock haven. Even an 'Old Man and The Sea" yarn cropped up when a 65-year-old man and an 11-year- old boy were reported fishing on the bay as the calamity errupted. "They are dead," the rumor went after the storm. But Pickering Township police said later that mm: * his grandson, both of Toronto, spotted the storm soon enough to speed to shelter on the west side of the bay, ¢