M J ft- AURORA NEWS FRONT PAGE SECOND SECTION Number of Copies Printed This Week 4500 SERVING NEWMARKET AURORA AND RURAL DISTRICTS Of NORTH YORK ERA YEAR YEAR NO NEWMARKET ONTARIO THURSDAY JULY 3 SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS EACH WILD RIDE IN KING Crashes Car Chased turns Over In Escapes In Cruiser j PS King township side roads were the setting for a wild chase by car toick and police cruiser for the driver of a car who in this order is said to have crashed into a oar fled from the acci dent overturned on a gravel road then escaped in a police cruiser only to be arrested hour later Harry York township was arrested by the provincial police at his home hours af ter he is believed to have aban doned the police cruiser at Ave and The episode started when Wil fred Broad a farmer on highway slowed down to turn off the highway into his farm lane As he did so another car collided with the rear of Broads car The two men in the second car were very abusive said Broad and he sent his wife into the farm home to call the police The two men then wheeled their car past Broads car and started off down the highway with Broad in hot pursuit At the first the car turn ed east and roared across three concessions on the dusty gra vel road I had to go as fast as miles per hour to keep up said Broad At the corner of the sixth the leading car failed to make the turn and rolled into the ditch George Foster and Frank Marshall local farmers came along and stayed with Broad while they waited for the police The two men in the wrecked car appeared subdued after their experience Const Roy at tached to the of the Provincial Police arrived on the scene- He placed Wyles in the rear seat of his cruiser and returned to the ac cident only to look up in time to see the cruiser disappearing down the road Const command eered a light truck on the scene and took off after Wyles but lost him at He deputiz ed two more farmers to assist in the chase and then turned to the new highway and sped south In the meantime Witnesses of the theft of the cruiser had call ed the Newmarket police de tachment and within minutes alt available cruisers the scene Unfortunately orders for setting out the road blocks were also heard over the radio of the stolen cruiser and its driver was able to slip by road blocks to where the car was abandoned j J LIONS PLAYGROUND OPENS MONDAY r The Newmarket Lions club annual playground for children grade school age will open ibis year on day July at there will be a registration The program this year is in charge of Mr Neil Lothian who was principal of King George school last season As in other years there be a daily pro gram of organized games and craft work for the children It Is hoped to provide regular su pervised swimming periods The program was initiated by She Lions club eight years ago and the club foots all expenses It was intended for those child ren who will not be leaving town during the summer There is no charge for parents or children program be held at Lions club park each day ex cept Saturdays and Sundays for six weeks SCHOOL RESULTS Results for King George and Alexander public schools St Johns Separate school Newmarket high school a Conservatory exams will be found on page five of this issue Results for the other two public schools Stuart Scott and Prince will i be printed next week Aurora high school and Aurora public school results will be found on page Rural school results those so far sent in will be found on page nine Rural school results will be printed as forwarded by the teachers Plan To Cut Off South End Of York If the report or the Ontario section of the redistribution committee of the House of Com mons is accepted the riding of North will be cut off at highway No and will in fu ture exclude The area south of No will be known as York Centre All in all three more ridings are cut out of the area about Toronto Besides York Centre there will be York and York Scarboro The present scats are York North York South York East and York West York has been made up from York West with a small piece of York South York has been made from part of York North and York East The population of the exist ing Yorks is York North members of bomber were reunited after eight years At the home of the pilot Alex Campbell King are seen looking over their log book which tells the story of 25 trips over Europe and of being shot down over occupied France by a German j fighter Left to right are midupper gunner Earl Jones Toronto pilot Alex Campbell tail gunner have an averse Sam Harvey Vancouver Island and bomb aimer Chapman Toronto Era and Express photo population of 000 The redistribution of ridings follows the census Generally speaking the change will be welcomed in this section of York North In the years since the war the charac ter of the riding has changed from that of a rural riding to one with a highly developed urban area in the south and a rural area in the north The proposed lopping off of the south end will return to the rid ing its rural character Jack Smith Richmond Hill has carried the riding for the Liberals in the lost two elec tions c In King V m he had room for his head He kicked his way out of the plane into black air Alex flying boots Were gone He reached for his rip cord and found no cord or harness down working beside men whom to his knees He felt for his he assumes he fired his guns ankles reached a second time during a raid over his home- and felt the loops of his harness grabs and he had the cord a number of in his hand dug his fingers into man boys down at the plant the harness and pulled the who flew Me Alex said cord Cant hold that against them When the chute opened he though Chapman was dangling by his legs upside They were just like down twisting round winding who joined the air force and unwinding saw the He is writing an article which he hopes topublish about a strange result of the war of becoming friends with an allied bomber crew It is an almost unbelievable story now he is Four members of the crew of a Lancaster bomber which crashed in flames nine years ago this month met last weekend at King for their first reunion since the end of the war At the home of the Lane per Campbell 28 a flight lieutenant who won the the four members of Charlie crew recalled old times and even joked about the moonlight night July when they boiled out and landed In occupied France Alex was the pilot Jack Chapman of Toronto was t bomb aimer now works at of their trips moon twice and then a roof top Aircraft in crew of mechanics on the pro duction of Canadian designed There 9 re planes- Earl Jones of Calgary the war now a cab driver for Diamond in To ronto was mid- upper gunner Sam Harvey was the tail gun ner He and his wife travelled Europe is like a fantastic he said Then I landed my dream now as are many others and was dazed which are in the memories of Aided By bomber crews and fighter pilots All were safe except a second Heal nice guys you would pilot who was on the trip for call them Their friendships experience He died of shrnp- closer war experiences and dangers they shared have a between them Ninety Year Old Stone Church Anniversary At Roches Point In a small stone church was built at Point The ninetieth anniversary of the lay ing of the corner stone by Rev erend Walter at one time principal of Upper Canada College will be celebrated Fri day July and Sunday July During the summer of Reverend Walter prev iously a summer residents made his permanent home at Roches Point ami held divine services In a school house and later in a bam He decided to build a church and started collecting funds In the community A plan for a frame church was drawn up but it was found that building costs In those days would construction of a atone church with available funds The church was built under the direction of the minis ter architect or contract or The first service was held on January But the conse cration did not take place until when the ceremony was per formed by the Right Rev Dr Bishop Coadjutor at the time The rectory of Christ church was originally in and has been enlarged twice Accord ing to the parish register the first church wardens were Wil liam and Alfred ham The first baptism was that of Martha Sept The first wedding was that of William Moore and Phil- Jan fliere will be a social gather on Friday July at pm and fl display of old time costumes on the rectory lawn On Sunday July there will be holy communion at am and the anniversary service at V BC on Varicou- Hit By Junkers Island for the reunion Sam now is an engineer for BC For est Products on the Island Earl Judy Garland now a chemical engineer in Sydney Nova Scotia was unable to make the reunion He vas the only one prisoner after the crash The other two are in Britain Jock Donaldson flight engineer is Scotland and Ben Lyons the wireless op erator is with the in Lon don- ptuMgardt Raid Looking over the old Lancas ters logbook Saturday after noon Alex said raid on July when we ran out of gas at Ford A high wind had come that night and a lot of other just made it to the coast of Blighty with a full of gas Three of us crowd ed into Ford at the some time Alex Another airman remembers that night over too Ho is friend of Alex and Jack and works with them on planes at plant Now just another aircraft work er whom they see and chat with everyday he also flew that night but at the controls of a German night fighter a He Is once a major in the German was nine years ago July that Charlies last flight ended when all hell broke over France A few sec onds before midnight the boys were flying in cloud cover The clouds hid them for miles It was a split second after they flew out of the cloud for mation thot Charlie was hit the first time A Junkers Two Sutton brothers were taken to the Don jail last night Gordon Foster and Alvin Foster 24 were arrested following a restaurant fire after Wednesday morning A charge of arson has been laid against them The arrest was made a Raymond Simmons of the Ontario Fire Marshals Office Sutton Police Chief Clifford and York County police made an investigation last night w Ethel coowner of the restaurant in the Sutton business section at the edge of Black Creek discovered the fire at the rear of the building about am Sutton fire brigade under Chief Albert Snooks brought the fire under control saving other buildings on the main street Damage was estimated at yj According to Police Chief the fire was believed to be set by two men who fled from the rear of the restaurant paddling a rowboat with a crude plank as a paddle a quarter mile down the river Suttons Reeve William Parks saw two men trying to launch another boat from his property on the river some time after the fire lie them to stop or he would shoot although a rifle he carried was not loaded The men dropped the boat and fled The brothers were known to have been in the res taurant some time before the fire A Legion dance was being held on the main street at the time One of them had been told to leave the restaurant because he was creating a disturbance Last night police were investigating the scene of the fire and York County police officers took finger prints on the boat The brothers are expected to in magistrates court Newmarket at a later date Hospital Finances Improved Extra net wounds the next day The others landed separately and were hidden by members of the French underground had a different experience until they were rounded up by the under ground and directed to a deep forest south west of Paris where other allied flyers were hid ing living off apples and pota toes Between two and three weeks later General Pat tons army occupied the area and they wore liberated All the boys have the Caterpillar insignia had followed them the given to those airmen who had cloud by radar and had them in range and probably in gun- sight as they broke out of the cloud- Without warning C Charlie had been hit and ail engine was on firel Alex gave the order to prepare J to abandon the ship Thirty seconds after the first at tack the German fighter hit again and almost broke up the I Sam Harvey the tall gunner was stuck in the rear turret when Campbell gave the order to jump He the pilot to hold the ship for a second Last One Out Those were the longest sec onds I thought you would never lea ve Alex led Jonesie hit by shrapnel but got out The rest managed to leave the ship and Alex Campbell the pilot was last He plunged face downward through the escape hatch but the door was not properly open T president Chick editor John Meyer of the Era arid on tho award of the Memorial Trophy presented to the Ontario and Quebec weekly page judged to have tho best editorial page This Is the third time In a row that tho Era and Express won this award It presented recently at the annual convention of the Ontario and division of the Weekly if- At convention at Lake AND JULY AND The Salvation Army In truck salvage collection in Newmarket Mop and July and In Brad- Willing collect at every and store iJtiDAY JULY fames Anglican church Sharon will hold a strawberry tea bake sale on the church lawn to body Invited WEDNESDAY sponsored by the I xglori Wc hall Jackpot wealth Attendance prize Admission Field day sports and names fish pond and prizes ice cream candles and soft drinks with lucky draw Come anJ drop a penny with a ticket In the boxes Something for everyone at Zephyr your picnic basket Afternoon starts Supper to pm games to bail out All were given commissions after they reached England Their escape to the forest is another story days of lading and seeing their navigator being taken a prisoner making friends t underground French desire to blow up all military places would take a long lime to tell Sam was hidden in a ravine and taken away at night to the home of a French family A young girl could write and did the translating The same girl had found him wan dering around after the jump Sam has pictures of the family to this day and they write to him every July It was a fine reunion but the boys wished that Jock and Ben had been there Sam left for BC this morn ing In a brand new car The financial position of York County hospital is greatly proved It Stiver hospi tal board chairman said today The hospital in a poor financial situation a couple of months ago with bank overdraught of 60- has been relieved by muni cipal contributions and paidup grants All municipalities in ex cept and King town ships have made special grants The board asked for help through municipal donations in propor tion to patients they send to the hospital North has given Kast and among Aurora and Newmarket have granted the amounts the hospi tal requested Early in June Mr Stiver went to County council to ask for a grant considering that sends patients here No word has been received from yet he said The increase in hospital rates with p a I contributions have improved the hospitals po sition A retroactive grant of from the province and ft county grant of have been paid up Last Sat unlay there were patients in York County hospital A lot of patients for a hospital Mr Stiver commented The hospital is classified by the province as a 20bed hospital for grant purposes The building on Crescent Ave formerly occupied by the San- Electric Co has been sug gested as a convalescent mm which would relieve the pa tient accommodation problem at York County hospital Mr Sti ver has been touch with the Co which is asking for the building It would lake little to put it in shape for convalescent pa tients said Mr Stiver Hut the hospital is in no position to Toronto were Mrs Inez such a venture He said holm driver of the can Mrs 1 Woman Dead Others Hurt In Collision One woman was fatally injur ed and four others seriously hurt and fouryearold hoy was hurt when the car in which they were returning from an over night visit Lake cottage collided wilh a trailer on the curve at the east end of the flat Bradford stretch of St on Thursday af ternoon Mrs Lillian Young To ronto died following the dent She was sent to York County Hospital and two days later sent on to Toronto where she died The other women hurt alt of that such a building would save the hospital- accommodation problems l doubt if we would need to increase the size of the present hospital with the Sangamo build ing for convalescents If the pro vince the county and the muni cipalities could get together and acquire the building the hospital could operate it- he said An oftenheard complaint from hospital authorities is that con valescents arid old people need ing care but- nut in a hospital take up much of the lion They are usually in for longer periods take up room which could be used by short term patients and emer gencies CORNERSTONE LAID FOR NEW GOSPEL TABERNACLE pm Lucky draws Dancing JULY per and apron sale United church servcl from to pm Adults Children under years WEDNESDAY JULY Johns church annual ganicn party oh Rectory grounds tames booths Excellent supper scivel from to Plil Si AUG N Summer Show and sponsored by the AUG Nor Day Parade races baseball tournament bingo at North Memorial Arena EVERY THURSDAY euchre Bingo every Saturday Time pm In North bury Memorial Centre SViundhttona have been laid for new Gospel Tabernacle on St Newmarket Last Friday night cornerstone was laid by Rev Arthur Yielding and Fred Cumber a member of the church board Above Rev Yielding left and David Evans a member of the church board About attended the ceremony and sang two hymns The minister read portions of scripture Photo by Nora cub about head Mrs Viola broken arm and Mrs Nellie Booth broken hip Mrs Booth Is still in York County hospital but tho other two women were dis charged through the week boy Scott was rushed to the Sick Childrens hit with a possible fractured skull but has since been released As the accident recon structed the car went out of control white passing a gravel truck and a guard rail then collided with the trac tor trailer The impact the accident tipped the trailer on its side was loaded with soft drinks Col ALBERT FARMER Mr ami Mrs Nelson were the Lucky Farm Photo in the feature being weekly by rn anil farm on the eighth of East was that pictured in last week s issue fourth Lucky Farm Photo can bo found on page of this weeks Issue The prizes gift certificates of t each contributed by the merchants supporting the feat ure and a reproduction of the aerial farm photo can be claimed by the owner of the farm or the tenant if he is work ing the farm and must iden tify it at and Express office Mr and Mrs Nelson have lived most of their mar ried life Mr Nelson father farmed the land adjoining It Mr Nelson bought the- farm a few years after he was married He did mixed until a few years ago when he retired and now lets the out for pasture in the summer v