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a MINIS Rat La LETTE TTR PAGE FOURTEEN ~ THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1948 Tots, Teen-agers ~ Work And Play At Simcoe Hall Each school-day morning 30 chil- dren, 4 and 5 years of age, patter into Simcoe Hall eager-to start on the program of eutting, coloring pasting, = story-tel and usic. Theil mothers may be out at work er preoccupied with smaller children, and they know that under the 'careful su ision of the staff they will be e and happy at Simeoe Hall. During July and Aug- ust a summer play school is open for children up to 12 years of age. A well-balanced program is ar- ranged and Simcoe Hall offers play- ground equipment including swings, teeter-totters, sand boxes, monkey bars, wading pools, as well as games, dolls, doll carriages, tricycles and 'wagons, - Each child is examined periodic- ally by a Health Department doctor with a nurse in attendance. In the winter months the staff, with the assistance of a volunteer worker of the Women's Welfare League, give the children cod liver oil, tomato Juice, milk and biscuits. Simcoe Hall was donated to a gwoup of welfare workers by Mr. Robson of the Robson Leather Company in 1935, to serve as a Settlement House. Today, the op- eration of Simcoe Hall is sponsored by the Women's Welfare League of wa and financed by the Com- munity Chest Fund. Extensive Activities Besides the Nursery School the activities are extensive, Tequiring a staff of pald supervisors, as well as the help of volunteer workers from the Women's Welfare League to direct the large groups of boys and girls attending the regular classes and clubs. As of June 30, 1948, the enrol- ment at Simcoe Hall numbered 686, and the Attendance during the six months' period ending June 30, 1948, totalled 16,864. Saturday mornings children recommended by their schools for this type of training, attend Speech ass, and those in attendance benefit considerably through these lasses. For girls and adults there are dressmaking classes, and the sewing machines at Simcoe Hall are used to great advantage at these classes. 'The Music School is a particular- Jy successful part of Simcoe Hall 'program. There are periods of in- struction in the afternoons and evenings, given voluntarily by ad- vanced piano pupils. The pianos are available at other times to those wishing to practice, being especially of interest to those not having the advantage of a piano at home. Piano recitals have been held, and a number of pupils have Jpassed music examinations as a re- sult of the training in music re- ceived at Simcoe Hall Instruction is also given in paint- ing in water colour and oils and weekly meetings are held for dis- cussion on stamps and coins. A branch' of the Public: Library operates at Simcoe Hall and all ki of worthwhile books are avail- able for children and adults. For the first six months of the year 4.104 books were in circulation. © Popular Meeting Place Simcoe Hall is a popular meet- ing place for children participating in all forms of organized sport, in- cluding boxing, wrestling, volley ball, basketball, baseball and hockey. During the winter Simcoe Hall sponsored its own hockey league of: five teams. Games were played on a hockey cushion provided at the rear of the main building. There were also two baseball teams en- tered in the Oshawa Minor Soft- ball Association and the Midget team finished champion of their league, having lost no games. Crafts play a major part in the program. Finger-weaving, braiding, felt-work, punch work, clay model- ling, shell work, leather work and embroidery are taught. Children make belts, beanies, slippers, book- marks, lapel pins, needle cases, brooches, earrings, vases, cushion covers, hooked rugs, felt vests, shop- bags and pot holders. 'boys' woodworking shop is eqtiipped with a lathe and jigsaw, #s well as a good supply of carpen- / ter tools. At each woodworking class a 'talk is given on the care, use dnd maintenance of tools. The children make articles of thelr own choice such as sleighs, wagons, chairs, tables, hall trees, wall brackets, book ends, rolling pins, land tie racks. baseball bats, crystal radio sets, flower pot holders, kitchen knife holders, medicine cabinets, maga- zine racks, bird houses, wooden toys, saw handles, dog houses, model aeroplanes, whisk holders During the coming fall and win- ter months it is planned to de- velop more advanced crafts such as lino-printing, silk screen print- ing, plastic lacing, weaving on small looms, leather work-belts, small handbags, sheep-shearling moccasins and mitts and metal work. Many Club Activities Aside from the regular attend- ance at the various clubs described many activities of a special nature ,are featured at Simcoe Hall. A num- ber of the boys' and girls' clubs have made excursions to Toronto, visit- ing such points of interest as the Museum, Art Gallery and Parlia- ment Butldings. The various age groups have parties, and are able to enjoy movies shown with the recently purchased sound projector. At the end of June there was a Garden Party sponsored by the teen-agers. A Glee Club is conducted by a volunteer worker and this has proven both educational and rec- reational. Added features include a "Youth and Police' program conducted by an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Illustrated lectures emphasizing good citizenship, sum- mer safety, etc, are given and a St. John Ambulance First Aid Course will commence in the fall. Well-known Oshawa women de- vote much time and effort to the management and administration of Simcoe Hall which draws its means of existence from the Community Chest. Simcoe Hall' is a haven to children from pre-kindergarten age to adolescence. It is a guarantee: against delinquency. It: provides year-round leadership and facili- ties of the right kind. Oshawa has only one = Simcoe Hall, and only once a year does it ask your help to carry on. Make your donation to the Red Feather Fund a good one, so' that Simcoe Hall will get a.good share 'with! which to embark on another year of community 'service. Indian, 50, Guilty' Of Manslaughter Brantford, Oct. 16--(CP)--Edward Hill, 50-year-old Mohawk Indian on trial since Wednesday charged with murdering his frail, crippled com- mcn-law wife, May Maracle, 43, Friday heard a jury pronounee him not guilty of murder but guilty 'of manslaughter. Hill listened quietly as Mp. Jus- tice D .C. Wells told him he would hear his sentence. after the: Assize Court finished its docket of criminal cases, Thén he was led away to his jail cell. ¢ : Only crown witnesses gave evi- dence in the slaying of the woman whose beaten body was found Aug. 6 in a bed at the Six Nations Indian reservation home which she shared with Hill. A wine store clerk told of Miss Maracle buying wine on the day of her death. A neighbor told of Hill coming to his house to say that the woman had died. A doctor tes- tified that the woman's body was covered with bruises. Hydro To Build Big Steam Plant Toronto, Oct. 16 -- (CP) -- A new steam generating plant with a capacity of between 400,000 and 500,000 kilowatts will 'be bullt in either Toronto or Hamilton by the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission, Hydro Chairman Robert Saunders announced Friday night. Mr. Saunders said a report on the new plant would be completed by Commission engiheers within the next 10 days. e estimated cost would be $50,000,000. ! He said blans have been made to construct a steam generating plant at Windsor which will produce 240,000 kilowatts. The two generat- ing plants would serve all of South- ern Ontario, Mr. Saunders sald. HEARING: AIDS Western Electric Hearing Aids, the ONLY Hearin Aid ¥ 4 'N a large Operated by the Women's Welfare League, Simcoe Hall is the centre of varied and very useful activity in the southern part of the city. Its staff of useful crafts and arts which are responsible for the development of latent abilities and the type of citizenship which Performing Very Useful Service To The Comnunity | Oshawa needs. Simcoe Hall, which is the location of a branch of the Oshawa Public Library; is also the meeting place for a number of organizations. ~--Photo by Campbell's Studio Alaska, Canal Air Defences Said 80 ( Craft By ELTON C. FAY Washington, Oct. 16--(AP)--The United States' air defence in Alas- ka this winter apparently will con- sist only of five bombers and one group of about 75 fighters., Down at the other side of the American defence perimeter--the Palama Canal Zone--there ap- parently is no organized Air Com- bat unit. 'This came to light today in con- nection with an air force announce- ment that three five-plane flights of the new B-50 bombers will rotate on training missions in Alaska be- tween Nov. 1 and March 15. Under this program, only five of the bombers will be in the area at any one time. The only other conibat unit in the polar frontier sector is the fighter group regularly stationed there. However, air defence planning is based on the idea that both fight- ers and bombers could be flown to Alaska quickly if a sudden mili- tary menace develops. The forthcoming missions of the B-50s will be the first such bomb- ers have made in organized -units to any point outside the United States. : The B-50 is a radically-changed version of the wartime B-29. It has} a top speed of 400 miles an hour, Ji a. 10-ton bomb capacity; and, the} ait force says, can .rei targets "over 2800 miles" {rom the take-off | noint. ' doi tn Air Force officials told a reporten' they are unable to discuss futur plans for air defence of the Pan- ama. Canal. But .ayailable informa- tion shows that mo fighter, bomber or troop-carrier units now are based in the Canal Zone. The 36th Fighter Wing--an out- fit equipped with 75 F-80 jet fighters--Ilaeft Panama in August for transfer to Germany to reinforce the single fighter group there. WANT GERMAN. ORPHANS Johannesburg, South Africa -- (CP)--More than 600 South Afri! can couples, many of them child- | less, want ta adopt German or-| phans. Since the first group of 60} boys and 23 girls arrived, the Dietse | Kindersfond immigration organiza- | tion has been swamped with adop- | tion inquiries. ! FIREMEN'S HOLIDAY i Cobourg, Ont. -- (CP) -- Firemen were having a meeting in the town | hall here, which also houses the | jail, when a prisoner arrested for drunkenness pulled off his shirt and set fire to it. The firemen ran a few feet and extinguished the flames. i TREED BY BULLOCKS Hartford, Huntingdonshire, Eng- | land--(CP)--Two anglers 'by the River Ouse scurried up a tree when | 50 Hereford bullocks appeared, | sniffed their sandwiches + and | trampled their rods. % : g Storms Seen 1 Day Ahead -Weatherman Miami, Fla, Oct. 16 -- (AP) -- United - States * meterologists now look high in the air to map the probable route of a hurricane, A simple rule developed by chief forecaster Grady Norton of volves the use of radar, permits storm forecasting to be done on a 24-hour basis, As late as 1945, six-hour notice of an approaching hurricane was con- sidered "perfect" warning. Through long study of tropical air Norton has found that the dis- turbances are carried along by the mdin' air 'sttéam, sometimes far abcve the earth. Some meterdlogists still refuse to the | Miami Weather in- Bureau which in | turn to a northeastward direction." | His rule, which is so simple that | believe it, has worked every time it has been applied, Longer than 24-hour forecasts might be made, but Norton says that is ample time, "and there's al- ways a chance of some freak of na. ture upsetting the apple cart." The rule calls for an exploration of the upper air witty a pilot bal- loon until the "steering" level is found; "then we can tell which way the storm is heading and the path it will follow." When the recent October storm | was in the Florida Straits, Norton [said the storm would "continue to fhiead north for awhile and then It did just that, Radar plays a vital role. the war, pilot. baloons | probing the winds were good only |as far as they could be seen with | the aid of a telescope. Once they, passed through a cloudbank, the meterologist was through. Today, a small metallic box at- tached to the bottom of a baloon records on radar just about as high as the baloon will go before burst- ling: Before | used for. M.O.H. Has High Praise For Film | | In a statement issued this morn- | ing, Medical Officer of Health Dr. A. F, Mackay gave high praise to | the sex education film, "Sins of the | Fathers, which is to be shown to | Oshawa audiences next week, when he called it "the best picture deal- {ing with sex and venereal disease {it has been my privilege to see." According to Dr. Mackay, |a very high order and will benefit | the vast majority of the. audience." "The story is at all times dra- {matic and in some scenes shocking | to laymen," the Doctor said. "As in | many films, extreme examples of | pathological evidence (of venereal | disease) are photographed. In spite tators, the message the producer "the | educational material presented is of | of this tendency to shock the spec- wishes to convey is accurate. Simi- larly, the infallibility of a blood | test in diagnosis of the disease is implied in the dialogue. This test, like numerous other tests, is sub- ject to certain variations. "Rather specific instructions are | given with reference to treatment | for syphilis, Actually, with modern fdrugs and improved techniques, the time of treatment has been | greatly reduced from the ene-year | period stated in this picture, and | the probability of cure greatly en- | hanced. "With these modest reservations, | the film is highly recommended to | all adults and most adolescents." AN OLD HAND Churchill, Man. -- (CP) -- When | | Canada's gavernor-general, Lord | Alexander, piloted a train during a | | trip from The Pas to Churchill, | trainmen wondgred how he started |and stopped the locomotive so smoothly. He - explained that he following used clothing: of any description, cotton the parcel at your door. SEND PARCELS TO: 67 St. Nicholas St. learned the trade during Britain's | 1926 railway strike. 4. Do not pay any money for shipping. you are shipping the parcel collect .and, we will pay shipping charges at this end. ; (References: The Bank of Nova Scotia, Queen '& MeGaul Sts.) CASH for USED CLOTHING We will pay the highest cash 'prices for the TORN, DIRTY or OTHERWISE old shirts, blouses, towels, underwear, cotton dresses rags, pyjamas, etc. " DIRECTIONS FOR SHIPPING 1. Wrap and tle securely in paper or corrugated: hox. 2. Make sure your return address is printed clearly on the inside and outside of the parcel, speed our cash remittance to you. 3. Phone the express company and they will pick up : This, will - Help Tell .the driver rae GREB rrapmve company Toronto, Ont. True reports on the veins. and loss of blood couldn't have survived one. strangers had not stepped in. They were Canadian men and women who had each given a blood donation to the Cana- dian Red Cfoss National Blood Transfusion Service. When the doctors called for blood to save the life of the accident victim, it was the blood of those seven which pulled him through. "Were you one of them ?"' Today, he is a healthy, happy, ot Cory The only thing that marks him as different from the average man is a rather searching look that sometimes comes into his eyes as he walks along the street. of Victoria, British For he often thinks of the seven who saved life and wonders who they are. As he looks into a stranger's face, he silently asks: "Were you the 1 thank you from my heart." one of them? If so, by CLAIRE WALLACE There is a man in Canada Who has the blood of seven total strangers in his Maybe you wince at that idea. He doesn't. Without it, he would be dead. ; Two years ago he was seriously injured in a crash. He received desperate head injuries, and te operation was imperative. But shock 2 delice Bi had so weakened him that he work of the Red Cross by leading Canadian writers f... seven useful citizen ed his The work of mercy never - Zatienks needin, anada. Similarly, the mother who gave birth to twins and would have died except for blood trans- fusions . . . the baby so anaemic at birth he could be kept alive only by donated blood . . . the maimed . . . the sick . . . the old --all those who owe their lives to blood. transfusions say: "Thanks, unknown friend." Free blood for Canadian hospitals The Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service plans, as soon as possible, to extend whole blood and plasma free to all hospitals right across provinces --British Columbia. and Alberta -- provide this life-saving service. Last year, Alberta and British Columbia distributed 21,044 bottles of whole blood and 2,364 bottles of plasma, resulting in the saving of many lives, Remember this, as the Canadian Red Cross appeals to you now for funds. Your money is essential to the Blood Transfusion Service and other phases of Red Cross work. Give gener- ously. A life may depend upon your donation. it, in Already two Red Cross Services include: Blood Transfusion, Outpost Hospitals, Aid to Sick and Disabled Veterans, Treat- ment for Crippled Children, Disaster Relief, Nutrition Services, Home Nursing Courses, Swimming and Water Safety, etc. Jsighed by the World-Famous Bell Telephone Labora- ries. ends . . . Give generously to the CANADIAN RED CROSS Which Is Included In The OSHAWA COMMUNITY CHEST Yes Friends! rr It's Important To Give Generously To This Worthy Community Fund FREE DEMONSTRATION AT THE Hotel Genosha Tuesday, October 19, 2 to 8 p.m. "Priced from $47.50 (Model 63) Less' Batteries and Custom Ear Mould. Shghtly higher for Bone Conduction. ' HENRY PUTNAM & SON 399 GEORGE ST. 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