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18 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridoy, July 29, 1966 Raion' 'COUNTY LINES Hampton Kin Hold Gathering HAMPTON (TC) -- Members of the Horn family held a Pleesant get-together as guests 'of Mr, and Mrs. Edgar Horn 'at their Williams Point cottage, Lake Scugog. Among those attending were College Has Boy Wonder LANSING, Mich. (AP)--Mike Grost, 12, is one bev with no summer vacation problem, " The National Science Founda- tion grants him $30 a week to do mathematical research. It is a program to encourage 'college students and that is 'what Mike is--almost an all-A student at that. Mike has completed his s0- jomore year at Michigan State niversity's honors college -- studying calculus, physics, re- ligion, French and computer science. Mike was the youngest known freshman in the United States since 1886. He could receive a master's degree before he is old enough to drive and a doctorate at an age when many students are just entering college. Mike's father, William Grost of Lansing, says it's unimpor- tant whether Mike receives his Mr. and Mrs. T. Wray, Misses Minnie and Norah Horn, Hamp- ton; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Keane, Douglas and Paui, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Wray and Misses Maxine and Deborah Wray, Oshawa; Dr. and Mrs. Wallace Horn, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Horn and Misses Aloha and Naomi Horn, London, Ont.; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Allin, Sheila, Russell and Margo, Newcastle. Mrs, Eva Anthistle, of Hampton, was the Mrs. George Armour. Gordon Wilbur has returned home from Bowmanville Mem- orial Hospital following treat- ment on his knee. Miss Elsie MacMillan of Cornwall a former teacher at the Hampton School, visited with Miss Bertha Armour. formerly guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Mount+ joy spent the weekend at Mus- selman's Lake. Raymond Dallas spent the weekend with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Adcock, Claremont. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Balson, Tony and Greg, were guests of Mr. and Mrs, Gerald Balson, Lake Scugog. bachelor's degree at age 14, He and his wife Audrey would ra- ther see him proceed slowly, taking extra courses and ex- ploring new fields. MATHESON, Ont. (CP) -- Those who survived could de- scribe it only as a "giant or- ange wave." Everyihing in fis path was swallowed, almost in an instant. Death for most was mercifully swift. For others, it was agon- izingly slow by suffocation. Fire--the one thing dwellers of the forests really fear--was loose in the scrub bush end prairie-like grassland that sur- rounds Matheson. It destroyed six towns and 1,000 square miles of homesteaders' farmlands and bushland. The monetary loss was put at $2,000,000. Two - hundred twenty - men,"women and children died. That was July 29, 1916, and went into Canadian history as the Matheson fire -- the most tragic, but not the most devas- thras taroe |S Cairn Commemorates Northland's Fire Horror tating, in Canada's records of Soseer- Stee. 3+ ae Se comme orated today, 50 years later, with the unveiling of a cairn three-quarters of a mile south Matheson, centre of the burned area. NO RAIN FOR WEEKS Conditions that day were ideal for the outbreak of a for- est fire--no, rain for weeks, temperatures that in the pre- ceding fortnight had reached 100 degrees, low humidity, And settlers were burning brush and workmen were burning scrub' on railway right-of-ways. Sud- denly, entire townships were From township to township, the orange wave swept. The towns of Kelso, Nushka, Ra- more, Porquis Junction, Iro- quois Falls and Matheson were levelled. The hamlets of Homer and Monieiin ~~ were~ oiliciany listed as "damaged." A sepa- rate fire on the same day dam- aged Cochrane, 45 miles north- west of Matheson, and killed nine persons there. Entire families of settlers, who had come into the new land from the south to open up the riches of the northland, suf- focated in root cellars and wells where they sought refuge. Many were burned to death as they ran in terror before the orange wave. When it was over, rail- suffocating smoke, and Mrs. inn watched the 40-mile-wide ea of flame, whipped by 70- aile-an-hour winds, bear down 'pon them. But, somehow, the Jinn house was the only thing 'eft standing in mile upon mile of blackened ash. Mrs. Ginn, now 82, and her family lived. Many others did not. A search party the following day travel- led down the Black River in a canoe for 12 miles and located only one other family alive. ESCAPE BY TRAIN Most of those who survived the fire owed their lives to the proximity of a body of water-- rivers and small lakes. Others escaped by train to Kirkland Lake, 45 miles to the southeast, and other places out of the fire area. Fire-fighting efforts were futile and it was rain early in way boxcar loads of pine cof- fins were shipped into bury the What Mrs. Frank Ginn terms a miracle occurred that day. Her eight - year - old daughter, Joan, lay on the floor of their frame farm home, sick from! WATCH The Parade CKLB 'RADIO SPONSORED BY Robbies The Family Drive-In ELEN LE MLE LAT EN TNE LE CITY OF OSHAWA PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT REQUIRES AN ACCOUNTING CONTROL SUPERVISOR SALARY RANGE -- $6,145 to $7,325.00 (3614, hour Week) Will _be as Fpl for the internal of Public systems; supervising the processing for submission to the Data Centre; Clerks Must be o Registered Industrial experience. accounting within the Department 'orks, including the setting up of new procedures and of volume data on an add-punch supervising a staff of Accounting Accountant or have equivalent Apply in writing, stating age, marital status, education, experience, eorliest date aa ond other pertinent data, no later than 5:00 p.m., August 5, 1966. The Personnel Officer, City Hell, Oshawe, Onterio. August that finally quenchedjtownspeople and all 34 in the the smouldering ashes and re- moved the danger of a further outbreak. At the town of Nushka, 10 miles north of Matheson, Rev. Wilfred Gagne led 35 of his Ro- man Catholic parishioners to a clay ditch beside the - railway tracks where he believed ihey would be safe then he went back to the town. When the fire swept in, Father Gagne was burned to death with 28 other ditch suffocated. The town later was renamed Val Gagne in memory of the priest. A survivor of Nushka was 40 year - old Simon Aumont. He picked up the Aumont baby and told his wife and other children to run for the railway. He col- lapsed aiver running a snort Gis- tance and when he regained consciousness, went back to the ruins of his home to find his wife and nine children dead. Percy Alderson, in Matheson, ran to his home five miles in the bush when he learned that the fire was approaching. He and his young wife sat down on the ground as the fire swept around them, showering them with flaming cinders. Next morning Aracison was" buna, Mrs. Alderson caught a stray horse that had survived and led her blinded husband out of the Seorched bush. 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