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OSHAWA THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 6--NO. 270 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1947 Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES SEE VEGETABLE PRICES SOARING v Ask Assistance To Pave Park Road South Approach C.P.R. Pu A 4 With Request For Wig-Wag Signal Arising out of a meeting last night, of the East Whitby Township Council with officials and members of the Oshawa City Council, for the purpose of 'going into the condition of Park Road South, a resolution was passed asking the De- partment of Highways of the. province to lend monetary assistance in the paving of street, which is very heavily tra- velled and becoming more so due to the fact that it is only of the con- necting links with the new dual highway. Attention was drawn to the fact that the Canadian Pacific Railway level crossing on Park Road South constitutes a menace to those hav- ing occasion to use the road. Even at present, it was pointed out the street is heavily travelled. A reso- lution was passed by the meeting asking the railway to install a wig- wag signal for the protection of traffic. To Prepare Estimates Estimates of the cost of paving the street will be forwarded to the Department of Highways for study and gt a later date a joint delega- tion from the city and the town- ship will wait on the Department to press the joint request for the paving of the street. It was decided at a meeting of the East Whitby Township Council meeting, held prior ta last night's joint discussion, that work would be commenced on the repair of the = Park Road South this morning. The travelled surface of the street will be scarified and gravel will be ap- plied. It is Pelt this will go a long way toward improving the street which has been badly pitted with 'holes. Township Seeks Engineer In view of the resignation of Howard Hoskin as township road superintendent, the Township Council decided to advertise for an official to fill the combined posi- tion of road superintendent and engineer, Mr. Hoskin will termin- ate his duties with the township at the end of December. In addition to the members of the East Whitby Township Council, those attending last night's meet- ing were: --E. F. Marston of Port Hope, district engineer of the De- partment of Highways; Mayor F. N. McCallum; d. E. Cay, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Oshawa Council; Ald. M. Starr and Ald. Sam Jackson, chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Board of Works, and City Engineer W. T. Dempsey. | Microwave Properties Explained At O.C.V.L 4 Radio waves little more than an inch in length, which made our wartime radar possible, are today revolutionising some of the methods used .in radio and telephone trans- mission, H. A. Blachford, customer relations representative of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, told pupils of Oshawa Collegiate and Vo- cational Institute this morning. With the aid of a complete trans. | mitting and receiving apparatus set up in the auditorium, Mr. Blach- ford showed the audience some of the remarkable properties of these "microwaves," which are approxi- mately 1/12000 the length of waves used on normal radio stations. Holding an aluminum plate in the path of the waves, Mr. Blachford showed how music that was being transmitted was stopped, while a plywood board had no effect on the passage of the radio waves, Can Channel Waves This pRoperty of the waves is im- portant both in radar and in com- munications, Mr. Blach{ord said, because the waves can be "chan- nelled' and sent from point to point in one specific direction. The waves can also be twisted and focused like light waves, hence the title of the lecture "Talk Tracks that Turn." The speaker then held a plate at an angle to the waves coming from the transmitter, and showed how the beam could be turned, towards the receiver when it was out of di- rect line. Using a long flexible "Wave guide," which was simply a metal tube, Mr. Blachford showed | how the waves can be twisted in any direction. A further oharacteristic of the microwaves which the audience was able to see by visual demonstra- tion, is that they are "polarised." | If the receiver is turned on its side, it will not pick up the waves, and the music ceases. If a metal prism is beld in the beam, however, the 0.C. V. I Speaker H. A. BLACHFORD | Customer relations representative of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, who spoke to the pu. pils at the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute this mom. ing, waves can be turned on their sides in mid-air, causing the music to be- come audible once more, In telephony, these microwaves {are used for transmitting many | conversations simultaneously from | point to point, without the aid of | wires, | 'The transmitters and receivers ave placed on hilltops and towers as the | range of microwaves will travel only MICROWAVE (Continued on Page 2) Woodworking, Needlework Boxing, Folk Dancing Among CRA Winter Plans Woodworking, needlework, folk|are being added gradually and dancing, boxing and tumbling-- these art just a few of the activities which will get under way at Com- munity Recreation headquarters as soon as the present job of hooking up electrical connections in the building has been completed. A full program for children and adults has been drawn up by Re- creation Director Bob Coleman and the C.R.A. program committee headed by Lloyd"W. Smith and in. structors are being engaged. Com- pletion of the wring work will see the Gibbs Street building a centre of activity throughout the week. The woodworking shop is being readied with tools, supplies wood suttings and storage racks. Tools. * | many interested woodworkers are | already calling at thé C.R.A. office | to give advice and offer their time, ; Plan Folk Dancing Folk dancing and rhythmic exer- cises will be on the program in.a | new and entertaining program two | evenings a week under the direction i of T.W. Cotie, physical director for Oshawa public schools. Classes are | now being formed and they will be | free of charge. The evenings have not yet been named but periods will | be from 7 to 7:45 and from 8 to | 8:45 pm. If there is sufficient de- mand, a special staff course will be C.R.A. PLANS (Continued on Page 3) Fatal Crash Described By Defence Judgment was reserved to Janu. ary 9 today on charges of danger- ous driving against George Carrod and Walter Boyer of Picton, driver and owner-passenger respectively of a transport truck involved in a No. 2 highway collision August 14 when O. B. Griffin, Toronto, received fatal injuries, Magistrate Frank S. | Ebbs granted renewal of bail of | $2,000 for each accused. The accident, investigated by Pro- vincial Constable Gilbert Robertson, occurred just west of Whitby while | the tractor-trailer unit was heading east and the automobile owned by | the deceased man's son Rev. George | Griffin, also Toronto, was west- | bound. Previous evidence was heard | | October 24. Called to the witness box by de- fence counsel R. D. Humphreys, | K.C, Carrod told the court that he | was returning withohut cargo from | Toronto to Picton on a "clear, warm | day." Asked to describe what oc- curred, he said: "A small stake truck ahead of us ran along with its right wheels on the shoulder. I] was about 75 feet behind going be- tween 30 and 35 miles per hour. I FATAL CRASH (Continued on Page 2) Temple Lodge Officers For Year Elected "Temple Lodge, A.F. and AM. No. 649, G.R.C.,, played host last night to the members of Queen City Lodge, A.F. and A.M. Tor- onto, During the evening officers for the coming year were elected by the membership of Temple Lodge. . Those elected were:--Worship. ful Master; Bro, E, S, Reading; Sr. Warden, Bro. E. H, Pank- hurst; Jr. Warden, Bro, T. J. Simnett; Chaplain, W. Bro. F, G. Davidson; Treasurer, W, Bro. J. G. McIntosh; Secretary, W, Bro. A, 8S. Clark. Responding to the Grand Lodge toast proposed by Bro. E. S. Rea- | ding, Rt, W, Bro, J. N, McMech- in pictured Masonry as a beacon which stands through the years. "We should be the keepers of the lizhthouse," he said, "guiding and helping our fellow men in char. acter building." + W, Bro, Charles Pye, Worship- ful Master of Queen City lodge, | in response to W. Bro, 0. D. Friend's toast to the visitors, ex- pressed the pleasure he always experienced when visiting Osha- wa, He summed up a brief Mason- ic topic by saying, "If each one of us can impress the people we meet with the importance and beauty of the order, in that way we can help to make the world a better place in which to live." Entertainment was provided by three of the popular Dennis Play. ers. Mert Jones with an electric guitar and Wilf Barnes swith a Spanish, played duets and were recalled a number of times, Steve Karney sang and accompanied himself on th-~ piano. The artists' make-up was applied by Ikreddy Bryant, 'Arab' Committee Challenges U.N. On Partition Plan [Lake Success, Nov. 19 (CP)--An eight-power "Arab" sub-committee on Palestine today formally. chal- | lenged the authority of the United Nations in any attempt to partition {the Holy Land into separate Arab | and Jewish countries. The challenge was contained in | the report of a sub-group appointed | to present the Arab viewpoint to the 57-power Palestine committee of the General Assembly. All of this sub- group's membership is Arab or Moslem or both, The report was submitted as a nine-power sub-committee put the finishing touches on a complete plan to partition Palestine. Both reports were expected to be ready for debate by tonight. . The "Arab" group recommended that the assembly postpone action on the Palestine question until the International Court of Justice could clear up legal points raised by the Arab countries. This would mean an indefinite delay on a final Pales« tine solution, This - action came as delegation sources indicated that the proposed Palestine partition. is going to be sharply criticized by the United Kingdom, which finds little merit in it, Seeking Honors At Winter Fair With entries at a new peak in the cattle classes keen competition is assured for the prize ribbons at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. the farm's fing bulls, | Always a consistent winner in the Holstein classes, Elmcroft Farm, | Oshawa, again has a strong entry. Above is Harold Jebson, one of the | Elmcroft employees, polishing the horns of Elmcroft B. Lochinvar, one of Two Shot As Bandits Raid Cafe In Montreal, Police Hold One Man *-- 'Oshawa Model Montreal, Nov. 19--(CP)--A mid- night struggle between two gunmen and patrons and waiters in which one bandit blazed away, wounding two customers in a daring holdup of fhe swank Chez Ernest cafe on downtown Drummond . Street, left these results today: One gunman under police guard in hospital with a probable frac- | tured skull inflicted with a bottle | | and one of his own guns. Two bandits still at large. Frank McCormick, prominent Montrealer, wounded and reported by hospital officials as improved. Graham Rutherford, 22-year-old son of the president of Rutherford Lumber Ltd., wounded in the shoul der. Another customer injured in the struggle who did not require hospi- tal treatment. McCormick, 42-year-old father of two childfen, and Rutherford were shot as they tried to resist the two gunmen. "The third thug waited outside the cafe in a taxi. McCormick, earlier reported "in a dying state" with a bullet lodging an inch from the heart, was re- ported in "good" condition today. Bandit in Hospital The bandit in hospital, tenta- dition, He was knocked out with a a dozen waiters and patrons who TWO SHOT (Continued on Page 2) tively identfied as Victor Diamond, | 45, was reported in "favorable" con- | For Community Council Study | Government sources said the new FRANCE TOLD BLUM PLANS NEW CABINET Paris, Nov. 19 (AP).--A spokesman for the Socialist Party announced today that former Premier Leon hoy 1 ® 50 Per Cent Gain Predicted As Ban Hits Short Stock Toronto, Nov. 19 (CP)-- With = wholesale prices *"ouf ! a 50 percent gain in the retail prices of all | vegetables except potatoes and turnips would materialize here next week, an official of a large groceteria chain pre< | dicted otday. Blum had agreed to tr to form a new government. A rising wave of background. The announcement was made by Guy Mollet, Secretary- General of the Socialist Party, at a luncheon of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association. Mollet, considered a member of | the Left Wing of the Socialists, said | he believed a new cabinet would be | formed within a few days to suc- | ceed that of Socialist Premier Paul | Ramadier. France had permitted herself to | be divided into two groups and that, if gil war should result, it would be "as bad as,it was in Spain." Military trucks rushed flour into | Paris to assure the French capital of its daily bread. Mollet said a force was necessary | to oppose both the Communists and | Gen. Charles De Gaulle's Rightist | Rassemblement Du Peuple Fran. | cals. A Blum government repre- | sented France's last chance to keep herself a country in which would be | found "liberals, pacifists and demo- crats to whom the Americans could talk." Blum, 75-year-old veteran states- man, formed a caretaker ccalition government of all Socialists last December during the transition to the fourth republic, after unsuccess- fully trying to bring in the Com- munists. shipments of flour, with reserve stocks already in bakers' warehouses, would keep the bread ration table in spite of the walkout of 4,500 Parisian millers, The Communist-led General Con- federation of Labor (C.G.T.), seek- ing a 3,800-franc '(about $31) in. crease in the minimum monthly |wage and 25.per-cent salary ad- {vances pending negotiations, already has tied up France's coal mines, most of her automobile industry, and her Mediterranean ports. Shaken by the developments, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier worked - hard to build a stronger coalition cabinet, but neither he nor former Premier Paul Reynaud, his possible successor, were having any immediate success. This was the labor situation: Northern France--14,000 coal min- ers on strike and main pits closed. Oshawa will be one of the com- munities used as a model for stu- Marseille -- Between 60,000 and 70,000 dockers, sailors, transport and other workers on strike. Troops Communist-led strikes provided the | On Hospital Board ERNEST MARKS; JR. Who was appointed to the Osha- wa General Hospital board of di- rectors, last night, replacing George W. Finley who moved from the city. Mrs. Hugh Hall was also named to fill the vaean. | cy caused by the resignation of Miss Jessie Dillon. A 4 It" was estimated cabbages woul@ | sell for 25 cents as compared with | last Monday's 15 cents, onions | would go from four to six cents a | pound and spinach from nine to 12 |or 13. An official of the Ontario Pro= duce Company said the ban ime | posed by the government Monday | night on vegetable imports from the United States had caused a shortage that domestic supplies could not re= | place. | Tomatoes are on the banned | list and today's price of 32 cents | will almost certainly rise, perhaps | to 60 or 65 cents within a week or | so. Canadian hot houses would not {be able to supply head lettuce, | beans, radishes, green peppers, | green onions and cucumbers, it was | said, and present stocks would not | last more than a few days. CKDO WEDDING BROADCAST A complete broadcast of the Royal | procession and wedding ceremony of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant | Philip Mountbatten will be carried {from 6 to 8 a.m, tomcrrow over {radio station CKDO. The station has also scheduled a re-broadcast | for this district from 8 to 9 o'clock tomorrow night, { THE WEATHER { Cloudy today and Thursday, Not much change in tempera- ture. Winds light. Low tonight | and high Thursday 32 and 42. Howe 'Czar' American dollar crisis may not be made until it 1s known what response industry will make to re- quests for voluntary co-operation, it was learned today. Under an order-in-council passed last week and released Monday, Mr. dy at a conference on ¢ mmunity unloaded perishable food. American council] 'being planned for Nov-|seamen on the freighter Henry ember 28-30 by the University of | Gilbert Coston in the harbor voted Toronto Extension and School of a resolution supporting the strikers, Social Work in conjunction with | but did not strike themselves. ' the Toronto Reconstruction Coun- | cil. Three different communities | will be studied--a medium size Ontario city (Oshawa), a surbur- ban area and a section of Toronto, Representatives from each will | give information on their com- | munity and the purpose is to spot needs, inventory, resources and identify barriers blocking effect- ive community action. These will be summarized and the problems set out for study by work groups during the remainder of the con- | ference, : The. panel discussions on the model communities will take place Friday night, November 28, and a group of some eight repre- sentatives from community agen- cies in the city has been invited bottle and one of his two guns by | to take part. The conference is under the di-| tried to stop the bandits after they rection of C. E, Hendry, profes- sor of social work, University of | Toronto, who has spoken in Osh- awa on several occasions, Proprietors of eating establish- ments in Oshawa will have an op- portunity to discuss the'new provin- cial regulations governing public eating places, at .a meeting called by Dr. A. F. Mackay, medical offi- cer of health. The meeting will be held. in the auditorium of Centre Street School, Thursday, November 27, and any points which are not understood will be clarified at that time. Proprietors have already heen provided with copies of the regula- tions which were passed at the last session of the Onmtdrio Legislature and take effect January 1, 1948. They. have been notified also that the local Board of Health's approval for renewal of licenses for 1948 will be based on compliance with these regulations. Under the new regulations the New Eating Place Rules To Be Clarified at Meeting local board or the medical officer of health is given power to order closing of any eating establishment "that is or may become dangerous to health or may hinder in any manner the prevention mitigation or suppression of disease." Within 24 hours after such an order has been issued the operator must ke notified, together with reasons for the closing. While of the opinion that clean- liness in eating places was of ut- most importance, members of the Board of Health expressed the view last night thal this section If car- ried out to the letter was "pretty arbitrary" as the operator was without 'comeback. As the new document is in con- _EATING RULES Paris--Mgdjority of workers in six main autmoobile and truck manu- facturing plants struck. The Paris region C.G.T. federation of unions issued a statement urging all metal- lurgical workers in Paris to strike. Busy Month At Hospital October was the busiest month for-some time at the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital with a daily average of 183.96 patients in residence, a total of 382 operations and 104 births, according to the report of Miss Mary Bourne, superintend- ent, The average number of patients rose from 154.43 in September | and 140.16 .n August, Births were up 17 over September and 13 over August. The number of operations per- formed in the main operating room also showed a sharp in- creasé over recent moinths, The October total of 382 compared with 252 in September and 236 in August, Treatments and opera- tions in the emergency operating room totalled.249 as compared with 204 in September and 212 in August, The number of pat- ients admitted jumped from 552 in September to 6569T in October and the, number discharged, from 598 to 734, The Hospital board of directors last night approved a recommen- dation "that milk consumed in the hospital be purchased by bottle rather than by bulk, A heated food truck is also to be ordered for use in the north extension now under construc. tiom. ; SUGAR DOWN ONE CENT Ottawa, Nov. 19--(CP)--The Pri- ces Board last night announced that effective today, the ceiling price of sugar will be reduced by one cent a pound, in view of the removal of the excise tax on sugar | Howe was given power to control the {import of capital goods by all in. | Conceivably | dustries in Canada. {under this power he could cut off | essential imports from any industry which refused to co-operate with the government in finding a solution to the problem of the adverse trade balance with the United States. Mr. Howe said yesterday that he planned to approach each industry individually: to discuss with them ways in which they could voluntarily help in meeting the problem. Make Parts Here Branch plants of American com- panies, for instance, would be asked of Industry May Reguate Imports In Dollar Saving Plan Ottawyar Nov. 19 (CP).--Any deci- sions to increase the broad powers given Reconstruction Minister Howe | to deal with industry in the present |if they could not manufacture some | of the parts they now import from | the United States. At the same {time they would be asked if they could not make parts or comple- mentary parts which could be sold to the parent American company for | United States dollars. | When asked if the government would "kick around" any industry that declined to co-operate, Mr. Howe replied that "we don't make threats." One source familiar with Mr. | Howe's record said it was possible | the minister would: follow the same | coure of action as when he was in charge of the munitions and supply department during the war. ' Then, said the source, Mr. Howe | would call in an industry and ex- | plain what he wanted done. If | voluntary co-operation was lacking {he would notify the industry that, he planned to obtain parliamentary DOLLAR SAVING (Continued on Page 2) PROBE B.C. Hotel, claimin others. USED CAR cent. why Sudbury, North Bay ment. (Continued on Page 2) and amounting to one cent, HOTEL FIRE Port Alberni, B.C., Nov. 19 (CP)--A deputy fire marshall today will "investigate into the $100,000 fire which yesterday destroyed the 41-year-old King Edward g one life, possibly two, and injuring 10 PRICES UP London, Ont., Nov. 19 (CP)--On the heels of price advances in Canadian-built autos and new import bans, price increases on used cars here have averaged 10 per Dealers said, however, that new prices still were below. the mid-summer peak. NORTH MAY GET LIGHTS Sudbury, Nov. 19 (CP)--Prospect of an early lifting of power restrictions in Northern Ontario is forecast in unofficial quarters as the result of an interview with a ranking executive of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Reached from here by long distance tele- phone, this official said he could see no valid reason and northern communities would have to continue under power rationing once a new power line being built is "cut in" falls plant on the Sturgeon River. U.S. VOTES AID MEASURE Washington, Nov. 19 (AP)--The Senate Foreign .Relations Committee today. approved legislation to pro- vide emergency aid tor France, Italy and Austria. Chair- man Arthur Vandenberg (Rep. Mich.) said the vote was 13-0, Vandeberg told a nress conference that the com- itfee also voted unanimously to place a number of amendments in the bill, submitted by the State Depart- at the crystal