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ry Twilight Horse Show To Replace Vaudeville At Local Fair - THE DAILY TIMES-GA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA ETTE WHITBY VOL. 8--No. 76 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949, . / PAGE THREE Hydro Chairman Takes Press Party On Tour Of Des. J oachims Project (This is another in the series of articles by Jo Aldwinckle telling of her trip to the Des Joachims power development.) We stepped out into the mid- morning sunshine and the clean, invigorating air. Snow was banked perhaps two feet high on the sides of the road which was crusty with ice. Drivers were waiting to take us to the scene of the project. Driv- ing the car I was in, was Ross Morrish, a young surveying engin- eer from Highland Creek.. Also in the party was the chairman of the Ontario Hydro Commission, R. H. Saunders, who, after speaking in Whitby, had flown to North Bay and driven to Des Joachims (D.S.) to escort us personally over the project of which he is justifiably proud. | Along the winding road we went; | snowy slopes sweeping up on either | side, etched with thin white pines | and blackened here and there by | jutting rock. Across the horizon | a spur of the Laurentians pencilled | with pines climbed into the sky. Around a bend and the main dam came into view. The first thing that strikes one is its immensity. It looks like a giant Mecanno structure with tiny figures of men clambering | about on it. The span of the Bai- | ley bridge that tops the construc- | tion is 2175 feet or as far as the | Four Corners to the Y.W.C.A.. It is | 190 feet above the river bed or more | than twice as high as the General | Motors main office. A cdble across | the gorge carries a crane weighing | 20 tons and enormous wooden | frames are swung across like match boxes. | Work Started in 1946 | Actual construction at the site began in the fall of 1946, and it is expected that the first four uhits of this eight-unit plant will be ready for operatiom by 1950, with the remaining four scheduled for service by 1951. It will consist prin- cipally of a massive main dam and powerhouse and large auxiliary structures which form part of the | power development scheme. 'The surrounding area will be materially changed as a result of the project. Included in the work are the clear- ing of 11,000 acres of land between the Des Joachims site and the vil- lage of Mattawa (a distance of 75 miles) the diversion and rebuilding of 23 miles of railway line -and 12 miles of provincial highway. From the headworks incorporated in this main dam, at the head of the Des Joachims Rapids, eight 22- foot diameter steel penstocks will convey the water to the turbinés in the powerhouse at the base of the dam, * A tailrace channel some 7,000 feet long and 150 feet wide will be ex- cavated through solid rock in the Des Joachims Rapids section of. the river. Located adjacent to and north of the main dam will be an auxiliary dam approximately 1,300 feet long with a maximum height of 65 feet. We made our way along perilous catwalks and up and down temporary wooden steps. Our heavy snow boots made our going slippery and awkward, but we were | resolved to see all there was to be | seen and when Mr. Saunders led us across a suspension bridge made of slats about a yard wide with a cable running alomg each side for support, many hearts started to pound and it was grim determina- tion that brought them to the other side. Not so Mr. Saunders, he step- ped casually along and as he told | me to "mind the blasting wire he confided that a year ago he had been terrified of heights and sway- ing bridges and that he felt "puite used to it all now." Watersheds Surveyed He told me how it all began. Back in the '20's the watersheds of Ontario were surveyed far sites for the development of water power. Drillings were made and 'cores taken to discover what kind of rock strata lay beneath the surface. Des Joachims, La Cave and Che- naux were picked as ideal locations and work was started with local jabor and horses clearing the ground. Then as each stage was completed more and more men were brought in and a camp set up. Imagine the hard conditions under which these men labored compared with the hot showers and spring mattresses the workers enjoy' to- day. Work was impeded during the war years, but today the project employs some 2,700 people, hund- reds of whom are displaced persons, and costs an average $80,000 a day. The idea, in simple words, is to dam up this bend in the Ottawa River, so that the rush of water can be controlled to drive turbines. It will also build up a reservoir so | th: % the flow of "vater can be main- | tained at all seasons. I was told | that the present flow is 24 cubic | feet a second. I don't know wheth- | er that's good or bad, but I'm put- | ting it down for those who know about these things. An interesting | thing about this giant of man's creation is that it still bows the knee to Dame Nature. Provision | has had to be made for the annual | migration of fish upstream, and | cautiously | Coming Events RUMMAGE SALE, SIMCOE STREET Church, Mrs. E. Legge's Group, W.A., Friday, April 1st, a o'clock RUMMAGE SALE, ST, Gl Church, 2 lo In EORGE'S { So | | taken from each batch, allowed to | a chicken H.E. Bathe Is Bathe Park Chairman | H. E. Bathe was vée-elected chair- | man of the Bathe Park Neighbour- | hood Association, Tuesday night, | with Mrs. Bathe selected as his Sec- | retary. C. G. Pilkey was appointed | vice-president with Mrs. Pilkey as | Secretary. The annual meeting was | held in Ritson Road School with 76 people in attendance, | A committee of 12 was chosen, | but were not given any set posi- | tion in the association, Those elect- | ed were: Thomas Seaton, Thomas Mitchenson, B. Piper, Mr. Wilson, | Clare Elliott, Harold Luke, Mr. | Homes, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Pearson, | Mr. Laverty, Mr. Dow, Mr, Fitches, | and Mr. Keay. Committee reports were read by the retiring committee chairmen. | A. G. Quinn director of C.R.A. was | present to give some advice on CRA and the work they do there. Storie Park Names Officers Auxiliary At ie Park) Ladies' Auxiliary met at | Press Women Tour Des os Bn + In bakery at Des Joachims construction camp. nan, Mary Jukes, Phyllis Wilson, Kay Daughen, Jo Aldwinckle, Elsie Robindaine, £2 | | College Hill Neighborhood (Stor- | the home of Mrs. Geo. Northey, 477 | % Cubert St. Tuesday evening. Re- ports of committees were given, one was of which was that over] Two Hundred Dollars was realized for various activities in the Park | 3 this summer. Several ladies volunteered to as- sist Mr. George Clark in counting the children in the district who | will receive refreshment tickets for the May 24th Opening Day celebra- | tion, | A crib quilt donated by Mrs. | Charles Stacey and quilted by Mrs. E. F. Poil was sold at the meeting. | ow All ladies interested are invited to quilt at the home of Mrs. Cecil | Durns, starting Tuesday, April 5. | The hostess Mrs. Geo. Northey | presided for election of officers which were as follows: President, Mrs. Geo. Clark; vice-president, | Mrs. Geo. Bell; recording-secretary, Mrs. Geo. Northey; treasurer, Mrs. Lloyd Stire; executive, Mrs. Robt. | Bailie, Mrs. Thos. J. Wilson and Mrs. Joseph Barrow; program re- Mayson S. Clendennan, Alice Waterous, Joyce Marsden, Kay Bellamy, Evelyn Cheney, Daphne Rooke, presentative Mrs. Charles Fogal; sick convenor, Mrs. Gordon Rae; work convenor, Mrs. Chas. Fogal; press convenor, Mrs. Cecil Durno. Next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Gordon Rae, 553 Ox- ford St. on April 27. ! the avalanche of logs finding thei) way to the mills. ; od Above the dam the river will wid- | en into an enormous lake and Mr. Saunders expressed the wish that this lake and other points will be | named after the men who have giv- | en themselves, mind and body, to | this epic of Ontario's industrial history. He would like this lake to be named after Dr. Otto Holden, the assistant general manager of engineering. By this time we had reached the three-storey building, rather like a house, where gravel, sand and ce- ment meet and are digested in the rotating concrete mixer, controlled by a man at a switchboard of flash- ing red and green bulbs. The plant is capable of producing 160 cubic yards of concrete per hour, which travels along a moving belt and is automatically controlled from grav- el pit to "pouring pipe". This name is mine, I expect there is a technic- al name but it escaped me. We went into the cement labora- tory where Albert Cernavski, 33, a civil engineer from Latvia, and Mike Bartkowiak from. West Po- land, tried to explain to us in the limited English at their command, the regulay testing of sample cylin- ders of cement used. A sample is cool and dry, then set in the steam house to strengthen and is tested after seven and twenty-eight days. Albert put a cylinder under pres- sure for us and it stood 78,00 lbs. before it showed signs of weakening. The biggest surprise of the con- crete plant was Albert Lowry of Toronto who is in charge of inspec- tion, at 83 years young. The concrete plant is on the Que- | bec side of the river and it was a | short drive from there to McCon- | nell Lake where an auxiliary dam | is being built by the Atlas Con- struction Company. Progress has driven the game away from the shores of this lake in the mountaing which abound in deer, wolves, fox and moose. This control dam will serve as a vent in flood seasons, when the water will be diverted through McConnell Lake and a flood discharge channel connecting the lake with a lower twist of the Ottawa River beneath the main dam, The sun was shining hot in our faces. The woolly underwear was getting tickly. It was wonderful to get back to the cafeteria; cast off windbreakers and sweaters and find dinner and trimmings | awaiting us. &To be Continued At Fair Park [within the next few weeks. Looking u = ---- rere Hogg, Elizabeth Cuddy, Jo Aldwinckle. Joachim Power Project §| The Oshawa Oddfellows and Re- | Mills Motor Sales . : | Oke Produce Left to right--Ed Krupp, Helen Gougeon, May S. Clenden- vr mA 85 1 fy ay p at McConnell Lake dam, are left to right, J. A. Blay, Robert H. Saunders, W. Ron Mathieson, Bill --Hydro News Staff Photos. To Complete | Shower Rooms The building committee of the | | South Ontario Agricultural Society | | | has been given the "go ahead" sign |# the construction of | dressing rooms and toilet facilities | to complete in the Alexandra Park horse barn. It is expected work will commence Dir- ectors of the society last night authorized the borrowing of monies to complete the project. When completed the building be The dressing rooms will be used by all sportsmen using activities in will {valued at nearly $20,000. the park. Dr. W. H. Gifford also | pointed out that it may be possible to promote the installation of show- ers this year, "If we get this business done early this spring instead of waiting till September it will no doubt put us in good grace with every person in Oshawa," Dr. Gifford explained. Last year the City of Oshawa donated $10,000 towards' the erection of the building. Half that amount has been received by the society and the remaining $5,000 will be forwarded on completion of the building. Shell Dealers Asked To Give Good Service More than 100 Shell Oil service station dealers from Oshawa and Cobourg attended the annual deal- ers meeting last night in Hotel Genosha where the men were told that service is one of the main sources of selling gasoline. Through the medium of motion picture the dealers were introduced to W. M. V. Ash, president of the Shell Oil Co., who said in a short address that service, training and cleanliness means more to a service station operator than anything else. "Two years ago you could be in- dependent with your gasoline but today there is more than an ade- quate supply so now you will have to sell it," Mr. Ash said. A short skit showing the right and wrong way of servicing a custo- mer was presented to the dealers with Kenneth Marriet," Retail Divi- sional Manager as narrator. W. J. Thompson a Shell service station operator in this district was presented with an award for 15 years service with the company. | At the last meeting of the Osh- {awa Branch of the Legion, Percy | Carter, past first vice-president of the branch, and chairman of the Poppy Committee for about- fifteen years, was presented with his Past Officers' Badge and certificate of merit for his untiring services to the veterans of the city. Mr. Car- ter has been an officer of the branch, in some capacity, for a per- iod of close to twenty years, and richly deserved the eulogies ex- pressed wnen the presentation was made, In preparation for the provincial convention of the Legion in August, a series of pre-convention district meetings has been arranged. That for district "F", in which the Osh- awa Branch is located, will be held in the Legion Memorial Hall here en May 22, when a great gathering of delegates from all the branches in this central Ontario district wlll be present. In computing voting strength at the convention, for this district, the Provincial Command will accept per capita tax returns up to and including April 30 only. Reports of the Provincial Service Bureau of the Legion for February shows that during the month, 1,- 052 new cases were taken up by the bureau on behalf of war veterans. In the same month, 846 cases were brought to a successful conclusion, with adjustments. having a monthly value of $3,241.16; and a retroactive value of $27,538.21. For the first two months of the year, 2,200 new cases | have been accepted, and 1,683 have been closed, with monthly value of adjustments amounting to $6,178.39 and retroactive value to $44,808.47. Service bureau officers have made 111 visits to branches, and held in- terviews with 706 veterans up to the end of February for this year. J. E, Bays, service bureau officer, will be paying his next visit to the Oshawa Branch on April 20, and will be at the Legion Hall from 2.30 to 9.00 p.m. for the purpose of interviewing war veterans with problems to present. Members of the Legion were ap- preciative of the opportunity they wese given of forming @ guard af Ask Assistance For Erection 0.C.V.1. Memorial The committee in charge of the memorial, which is being establish- ed at the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute in honor of students who served in World War II, has sent out a letter asking for assistance in the completion of the memorial. The letter, which is self- explanatory, reads as follows: "A memorial to perpetuate the names of students registered at any time in the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute who served in World War II is being established. This memorial has been designed by Mr. Eric Aldwinckle,| a distinguish- ed Canadian Artist, 'who has pro- duced some very notable Canadian Art. It will take the form of a per- manent mural treatment of the main archway leading into the au- ditorium, supported on either side by a panel of the names. The de- sign is original, unique, beautiful, and appropriate. It will indeed hon- our those whose names are inscrib- ed thereon. "We are appealing to you to sup- port our memorial in two ways: first, list the name, address, and particulars of any former students, girls or boys, who attended the O.C. V.I. for any length of time and served in the past war in any field of active service; second, favour us with a donation, large or small, to help defray the expense, which will amount to approximately $4,000. "We feel sure it is a matter of re- gret to many that no memorial was erected to those students of the Oshawa High School who served in World War I. Please help us to hon- our those who served in World War II. "For your convenience; a blank form is provided. Will you kindly help us by responding to this letter promptly and generously? With my thanks, I am, "Yours very sincerely, W. GEORGE RAPLEY, "Convener, General Committee," Want to Buy Sell or Trade -- A Classified Ad, the Deal is Made! honour for Prime Minister St. Lau- rent when he placed a wreath on the war memorial last Saturday, and also of the fact it was one of the . Poppy wreaths made by the members of the Oshawa Ladies Ausiliar of the Legion RO 'Many People Lend a Hand Tupoca Sale | bekahs are sponsoring a Tupoca Sale in the Masonic Temple on | April 9, to raise money for their | cancer, polio and tubercular fund, | called C. P. and T. | We wish to acknowledge the gen- erous donations of friends and oa and the following is a list to date: | Frank Mé&Callum W. Clark Supertest .. Mrs. Wm. Atkinson .. | L. Peacock | Eveleigh Laundry | Luke-MacIntosh Funeral | Home | McLaughlin Coal Meagher's Electric Williams Warner Radio and Electric | Modern Shoe Repair { Wilson and Lee | Jack Biddulph Electric ..... | Lander Coal ............. "es {I Collis and Son Burnett Plumbers Oshawa Dairy Brewer's Retail 2.00 5.00 3.00 10.00 Performing Horses And Jumpers Will Be Attractions Ll A twilight horse show similar to the one put on at the Canadian National Exhibition will be held in conjunctjon with the Oshawa Fair this year, directors of the South On- tario Agricultural Society decided at a meeting held in Hotel Genosha last night. The show will take the place of the eve ning performance which in past years has featured carnival acts. Dates for the fair were confirmed as Sept. 15, 16, 17. It is expected 50 or more horses, including experienced jumpers and performing horses, will participate Named Director in the show which in all likeli- hood will last about three hours. | While details of the show have | not been ironed out as yet it is| anticipated harness racing will precede the horse show of the Alexandra Park Grand- stdnd. Bands will also be in at-| tendance. | Would Be Permanent Event The meeting decided over- | whelmingly to affiliate witn the Canadian Horse Show Association. | It was pointed out that the A550 | ciation wishes the horse show to | become a perm.nent event. { E. L. Chapman, president of the society, told the directors, "I think we are making a move in the right | direction. I have been thinking of | the Horse Show idea for some | time. We want to stress toxthe peo- | in front | o ple of Oshaya and the surround=" ing districts Jthat the fair is an agricultural show and horses are part of agriculture." Dr. W. H. Gifford many 5.00 5.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 1.00 | 1.00 | Flintoff Hardware ... | Cooper Smith Co. ... | Libby Plumbers Price Kerrigan Edwards' Beauty Shoppe .... | Harrison & Kinsmen Hdwe. . Cranfield's Garage | Bobette Salon | Welcome Lunch Pauline Bedvarck | Morrison's Conféctionery | Vern's Barber Shop | Mid-town Shoppe | Ray Bennett Motor Sales ... | Andy Nagy's Garage Bissonette's Garage | Arcade Store 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 50 1.00 3.00 2.00 $131.00 Bathe and McLennan, % ton coal; | Henderson's Book Store, stationery; | Fred's Drive-in, basket of fruit; plained in past years that they have been unable to view the har- ness racers in action due to the fact they are working in the after- noons, He suggested the show commence down at approximately 9.30 p.m. Farmers Too Busy Norman Down pointed out that farmers in the outlying districts were busily engaged at that time and would not be able to travel to Murray Collis, lamp shade; Ward's Store, merchandise; A & P, order for merchandise ($3.00); Lovell's Drug Store, merchandise; Shredded Wheat Co.; Wm. Wrigley Co.; J. B. Williams Co.; G. E. Colborne Co.; Canada Starch Co. explained | Oshawa citizens have com- | | FRED O. KIRBY | 27 Park Road South who after nears {ly 20 years as an associate director |of the South Ontario Agricultural | Society, was last night appointed a | director of the Society. Mr. Kirby is president of the Oshawa Horti- 5.00 | at 6.30 p.m. each night and close | cultural Society. | the fair in time for" the opening gun. "Surely it might be possible for them to take one night off to see the show," replied Dr. Gifford. Dr. Gifford asserted that finance ing of the horse show would ree main pretty well the same as pute ting on carnival acts. Twilight horse shows of this type have met with success in Western Canada the meeting was informed. | i | REGULAR SMOKED SHANK END BUTT END HAMS Ib. 7c Ib. 59c PEAS CORN BEANS 29 CHERRIES .... 39c¢ RASPBERRIES 41c 29c¢ Cari ec 29C c FRESH PORK som : There's no Waiting in Line or Other Annoying Delays { 12 KING ST. 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