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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951 THE DAILY TI MES-GAZETTE PAGE FIVE Pipers Play Lament To Mark Passing Away Of Hamilton Street Cars Hamilton, April 6--(CP) -- The soulful wail of the lament played by Highland pipers will set the musical background today for the last clattering ride of Hamilton's streetcars. 'When the last trams, loaded with dignitaries and veteran operators, roll over the belt line and pull into the car barns they will mark the end of a transportation era in this rapidly-growing industrial city of some 170,000 population. hy oie The rumbling streetcars and their clanging bells will be replaced by Diese] buses which will fill in until Hamilton gets its trolley buses into operation. Started in 1874 Streetcars have been the major means of public transportation here since Dr. Lewis Springer and John Irwin started their trolley system back in 1874. For the first 20 years horse- drawn cars were used. In those days it wasn't unusual for the dri- ver to stop his car and obligingly wait while a householder ran into a grocery store or butcher shop to pick up the family order. The horse-drawn era ended in 1892 when 25 electric cars went into operation. The new-fangled cars weze startling for a time to both passengers and horses, Wild Episode One of the wildest episodes in Hamilton's transportation history was in 1906 when employees went. on strike, demanding increased pay and union recognition. When strike-breakers were brought in, the men pelted the cars with stones and sticks and even fired shots. Cavalry troops were or- dered from Toronto and the Riot Act was read by the sheriff to clear the streets, Today, after special ceremonies, the last two streetcars will start out on their final run from Gore Park, While the pipers play their lament, the cars will clatter along with 16 operators who have reach- ed, or are nearing, their age of retirement. and have no intention of stopping to drive the new yel- low-and-red buses. U.S. Railways Are Opposed To Seaway Washington, April 6--(AP)-- A railroad witness said Thursday he believes backers of the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway have failed to prove it is economically justified. Gregory S. Prince, assistant gen- eral counsel for the Association of American Railroads, also told the House of Representatives Public Works Committee the waterway and power project would not be justified as a defence - measure "over the long pull." The Association opposes the joint Canadian-United States $1,000.000,- 000 project which four Cabinet members have stated is necessary from a defence standpoint. Under questioning, Prince con- ceded the basic opposition by the railroads. is because the seaway would be "subsidized competition." Burt Demands Control 0f Food Prices Cleveland, April 6--(AP)--George Burt of Windsor, Canadian regional director of the United Auto Work- ers (CI.O.), said Thursday living costs have risen more than twice as fast in Canada as in the United States. Addressing the U.A.W. conven- tion, he reasserted the demands of Canadian delegates for stringent price controls to spike the rise in the Canadian cost-of-living index. "Apparently our stupid govern- ment isn't willing to listen to the voice of the Canadian people," he said. Burt and other Canadian dele- gates said auto workers will join other Canadian Congress of Labor unions in an appeal to the Cana- dian cabinet for control legislation. Walter Reuther, president of the U.AW., assured Burt that "We are pledging our complete support tg our /Canadian brothers and sisters tose that they get justice on their Vegetable Growers To Stand 'Firm Chatham, April 6--(CP)--A strike of 5,000 vegetable' growers in South- western Ontario continued Thurs- day and as a result, the province may have a shortage of late tom- atoes. The farmers in Essex and Kent counties refuse to sign contracts with canners on the basis of arbi- tration board prices. Growers and processors have been dickering for about three weeks since the arbitration board set a minimum price of $27 a ton for ungraded tomatoes, $3 below the amount sought by the growers. Even if the two get together soon, it will be. too late to sow enough to meet the bumper de- mand, growers said. There is virtually no surplus left from last year in processed tom- atoes. Less than five per cent of the growers have signed contracts and many who have signed are returning them. Woodview Teen Agers Entertained The Woodview Park Association sponsored an enjoyable evening on Tuesday, when the "Teen Agers" of the district were entertained at a dance in the C.R.A. Auditorium. This dance is an annual event and proved to be a worthwhile and highly successful entertainment. Square dancing was included in the program by special request, and the youngsters really went to town on the "Hoe-downs". Winners of novelty 'dances were as follows: Balloon Dance, Marg. Haines and Carl Diedrichsen; Coat Dance, Joy Walker and Bob Sheridan; Lucky Spot, Margaret MacGregor and Jim Sharples; Elimination Dance, Nor- ma Booth and Joe Haines. A tasty lunch was prepared by the Ladies' Auxiliary under the supervision of Mrs, Cyril Norris, President. Mr. S. J. Sharples was in charge of the excellent music which prevailed during the evening. Messrs. W. J. Clark, W. Burnett, George Stonebridge and Mrs. G. G. Haines comprised the dance com- mittee, Guests present included: Barbara Burns, Joy Walker, Gladys McKee, Joy Moffatt, Louise Beauchemin, Gwen Major, Heather Anderson, Katherine Burns, Dorothy Ann Gladman, Margaret MacGregor, Shirley Elliott, Marg. Boyd, Irene Elliott, Diana Nobbin, Norma Booth, Pat Stubbins, Helen John- ston, Marg. Haines, Jean Burr, Glynes Babington, Kay Simons, Donna Speirs, Donna Rusnell, Gail Authars, Walter Dixon, Alan Beard, Bob Sheridan, Walter Smith, James Sharples, Norm Mepstead, Joe Haines, Carl. Diedrichsen, Ronald Bowman, Bill Wickens, Alan Flem- ing, Ken Gwilliam, Jim Bel, Pat Brennan, John Heath, Orville Mc- Gauhey, David Flett, Ken Mason, Stanley Bice, Bill Williams, Shel- don Kalnitsky, Ron Webster, Bob McDonald, Walt. Bathe, Ted Mal- loy, Ken. Northey, Dave Hamilton, Pete Anderson, Glen 'Skuce. Club Plans Ball For Anniversary Practically every organization in Oshawa celebrates each birthday with an annual affair of some des- cription., With the Get-Together Club, it is done through an anni- versary semi-formal ball, and the date is Saturday, April 21. Ben- ny Louis and his orchestra will supply the music. For eight years the Get-Toge- ther Club has been an Oshawa- wide known dance, presenting Sat- urday night entertainment with the frank opinion that, for teen- agers, it is the best dance in town. It is a non-profit, Kiwanis sponsor- ed club, whose progress and at- tained goals, have astonished folk, not particularly of Oshawa, because something at hand is always taken for granted, but the astonishment is in other cities. The anniversary ball has always been waited for by those who like formal dances, and those who at- tended them have never been dis- appointed by G.T.C. Everyone is welcome. Home for Aged Is Criticized Cobourg, April 6--The Northum- berland and Durham counties home for the aged, just north of Co- bourg, is "dismal," a grand jury presentment said yesterday. The in- terior needed redecoration. Every bed sagged and was uncomfortable and many inmates were bedridden most of the time. There was a lack of diversion, with women sit- ting on hardbacked chairs around the walls, hands folded in their laps. There was a total lack of ventila- tion and fans which had been in- stalled did not remedy the situation. It was difficult to understand, said the report why government in- spectors would allow such condi- tions to exist. Replying to the criticism Warden George Walton said the report astounded him. "The department gives our county home one of the best reports in Ontario," he said. "It's true we are somewnat overcrowded but we do everything to make the inmates comfortable." Warden Walton said new fluores- cent lighting had been placed in a number of rooms and it was plan- ned to continue the improvement. There had been redecoratjons. There were sitting rooms for male and female inmates. "It is true there are no easy chairs," he continued, adding this question had not entered the minds of the board of management which operates the home. It is correct, he said, that some of the elderly ladies sit by the hour in chairs with. their hands folded in their laps, but this was because of their "senility" and lack of interest in their surrounc- ings. There are radios for their en- tertainment. "I would say the report is very finfair and no doubt the result. of hasty and poor judgment," the war- den stated. ASTI HM QUICK RELIEF breath, "Tave ree Templeton, ATMA "Capstles; spe specially made to help asthe bly, so they worl a onde a + long restful nightsof sleep. 60c, $1.25, 'Pontey' Called Red Fanatic Professor Bruno Pontecorvy, the British atom scientist who fled to Russia six months ago, was an ac- tive, fanatical Communist through- out vne 7% years he served in the British - Canadian atom project, Chapman Pincher writes from Lon- | don tw The Montreal Star. Security authorities believe he was in frequent touch with Rus- sian agents, giving them details about atomic explosive which his fellow-spy, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, did | not know. Ordered Back Pontecorvo was finally ordered to Russia by the Kremlin because he decided to resign his £30-a-week job at the Harwell, Berks, atom station, His new post as a professor at Liverpool University, which he accerted to further his own re- searc.es on cosmic rays, would have put him completely out of touch with atom defence work and reduced his value as an under- ground Communist agent. Two Soviet agents, who contact- ed him in Italy when he was on holiday with his wife and three sons last August, told him he could serve Communism better by work- ing on atomic weapons in Russia. When Pontecorvo asked for time to consider the offer they warned him that, unless he reported to Russian agents in Helsinki within a week, information which would automatically lead to his arrest would be lodged with the British Embassy in Rome. Fuchs told the Russians how to make the mechanism of an atomic bomb and how to manufacture uranium 235 explosive to put in it. But he never knew exactly how the more-powerful Mark II explosive, plutonium, is made. Soviet Bomb Pontecorvo did. And the U.S. Intelligence Service has now estab- lished that the only atom bomb yet tested by the Russians contained plutonium, He fooled the security men dur- | ing the 18 months he worked at| Harwell, and survived three M.15| screenings aimed at purging Com- | munists and fellow-travellers from defence laboratories. After the arrest of Fuchs, form- erly a German, Pontecorvo was given six further screenings. The authorities were so well satisfied with the results that he boasted: "I came through clean as a whistle." Before joining Harwell he fooled the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who screened him during the three years he worked at the atom sta- tion at Ghalk River, Ont. These screenings were particu- larly rigorous since Pontecorvo had been a close associate of Dr. Alan Nunn May, now serving at 10- year sentence for helping Russian spies in Canada. Pontecorvo escaped suspicion mainly because his dossier con- tained no references to his politics beyond stating he was a refygee from Mussolini's Fascism, Involved in Italy A checkup by British agents in Italy would have shown that Ponte- corvo was So deeply involved in the Communist movement there that he feared persecution on po- litical grounds. This checkup was never made because of a misunderstanding be- tween British and Canadian secur- ity officials when he first joined the atom project--then centred in Montreal--in 1943. The Canadians thought the Brit ish had cleared him. British secur- ity files show that clearance was left to Canadians. This man who was called by a fellow-scientist a "typical Italian --hot-blooded but harmless"--was therefore allowed to take a leading part in designing the plutonium production plant at Chalk River. He was able to get experience in handling heavy water and the other raw materials which will be used in hydrogen bomb experiments. Security chiefs are convinced that through his trusting colleagues at Harwell--to whom he was "good old Pontey"--he must also have been able to get information of Britain's latest atomic advances. Pontecorvo. deceived his fellow- scientists so completely that not even Fuchs knew he was a Communist, New Approach His approach to the dangerous exact opposite of that adopted by Fuchs. Whereas Fuchs disarmed suspi- cion by a shrinking shyness, Ponte- corvo used suave sociability to gain confidence, With his charming Swedish wife Marianne, who 'is believed to share his pro-Russian views, Pontecorvo was always welcome in the prefab homes of his colleagues. He was equally popular in the laboratory, where he made every life of a Russian agent was the |( effort to be helpful. New Weapon for Firefighters Airport firemen are demonstrating a new fire truck at the London, Eng., Some 6,000 pounds of liquid carbon dioxide and 300 gallons of foam solution are carried in the big tank. The fire killers are spraved from a boom and hand-operated nozzles, as shown. The boom nozzle can get close to the heart of an aircraft fire and can spray at a rate of 2,500 airport. pounds a minute, --Central Press Canadian. Palestine Border Clashes Threaten to Break Truce Between Jews and Arabs By ERIC GOTTGETREU Tel Aviv, Israel, April 6--(AP)-- United Nations observers feared today that continuing clashes be- tween Israeli and Syrian forces in the border area near the Sea of Galilee might completely shat- ter the Jewish-Arab Holy Land truce. Israeli war planes bombed Syrian troops in the area and across the border in Syria last night in re- taliation for the killing of -seven Israeli policemen Wednesday. Describing the bombing as "completely successful," an of- ficial Israeli spokesman said targets included the El Hamma Police Station in the border zone as well as "a number of fortified positions a few metres inside Syrian territory proper," from where the Israeli police- men were fired on and killed. A united nations headquarters in New York, Abba S. Eban, perma- nent Israeli representative to the U.N., handed a letter to the Se- curity Council drawing its atten- tion to the border clashes as a mat- ter of urgency. He described the Syrian actions as "deliberate and flagrant viola- tions of the armistice agreement" of 1948 which followed the Arab- Jewish Palestine war. Earlier this week, Syria sent a letter to the Security Council charging Israel had violated the armistice by its activities in the demilitarized border zone. Nine Months On Charge Of Manslaughter Cobourg, April 6--(CP)-- Found guilty of manslaughter by an as- size court jury Thursday, Robert Garbutt of London, Ont., was sen- tenced to nine months. Garbutt was arrested last September after a woman was killed -in an accident near Oshawa, The charge was laid following the head-on collision of two automo- biles on the morning of September 2, 1950. Garbutt was the driver of an eastbound auto which collided with a westbound auto driven by Gordon White of Toronto. As a result of the accident Mrs. Winnifred Fox, 74, who was on her way from Bowmanville to Toronto, with her grandson, Gordon White, was fatally injured. Mr, White suffered severe head injuries while Kenneth Hall of London, Ont, a passenger in the Garbutt auto, sus- tained facial cuts and concussion. Average U.S. Farmer's Net Worth $7,000 Minneapolis, Minn.--Mr, Average U.S. Farmer has a net worth esti- mated at $17,000 and made a net profit last year of about $2,225, a survey released here reveals. The Family Economics Bureau of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company based its fig- ures on official government statis- tics, drawing them together simi- lar to a corporation's annual re- port. Total value of American farms on Dec. 31, was estimated at $91,- 000,000,000 in land, buildings, live- stock, and equipment. Its 1950 produce came to about $30,000,000,- 000, or around a third of total farm value. While farm population has shrunk from 32,000,000 persons in 1900 to 28,000,000 last year, the smaller agricultural force now pro- duces twice as much good and other products, the survey added. Analyzing the average farmer's worth further, the study also said he owned at the end of 1950 some 195 acres of land which, with buildings, is booked at $10,000. His mortgage is down to $850, or 8% per cent of value, compared with a 20 per cent mortgage before World | war -II In addition, - he owned $2,200! worth of implements, machinery, and motor vehicles and $2,100 of livestock and poultry. This brings his total food factory value to $14,- 300. From this' plant he sold $4,350 worth of produce, on which he net- ted $2,225, and used another $350 | worth for his family and himself during the year. This $4,700 total output amounted to about a third of plant value, compared with an output in 1900 and 1910 of about a sixth and in 1929 a little less than a fourth of average farm value, | Other assets included $1,200 | worth of crops in storage; $3,100 in cash, bank deposits, and United | States savings bonds, and. $350 worth of stock in his local farmer | co-operative. Liabilities included, in addition | to the $850 mortgage, about $1,100 | owed the bank, the commodity credit corporation, and local mer- chants. 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I can, how- ever, tell you what to do about the knit hand wear problems. Everybody's got to get a sheep. Place to Start That's the place to start. Accord- ing to government figures we have adequate supply to Surplus in al- most all departments of agricul- tural production, but in the sheep business we are (to wax poetic momentarily) like the lamb's tail. The happy housewife who prices a lamb chop may know about that, and if she is amenable 0 instruc- tion a great lesson awaits her com- prehension. The scarcity of sheep, per capita, is alarming. I fee! safe in saying that any- body who never kept a sheep has missed a lot. I think the general unfamiliarity: with sheep might be the cause of our state of affairs throughout the world. People who keep sheep usually know what to do under any circumstances. At this time I should like to mention the goat, who is a wood- pile cousin of the sheep, but over- rated The goat plays a part, brief- ly, in the lives of many people, and seems to get all the publicity, The goat is quite stylish at times. There is a ways somebody about to go all out for goats. I think there must be a society that pushes them, be- cause the speeches always seem to be the same. The goat is easy to take care of; can be carried on the running board; he (or she) is friendly; the milk has nutritional qualities of great importance, and all at once the gentleman is in the goat business in a big way. Up for Sale This lasts a week or so, perhaps lenger, and then the man goes about trying to find something to do with his goats. He is still en- thusiastic, and tells you you ought to have goats. He recites the speeches the same way, but he is eager to .sell his animals. He doesn't seem to see anything curi- ous .in his position. When the goat approaches the end of his rope, he seems to be ensnared, and by a boojum at that, because he softly and sud- denly vanishes away and is never heard from again. The incidence of hirsine anatomy in places that sell fine lamb roasts is something | to think about--or possibly it Is| ~ Blamed For eal Court to Mother Toronto, April 6-- (CP) -- Mrs. Mary McCreery of Peterborough yesterday won back the custody of her five-year-old . son from his father. Ontario Court- of Appeal blamed the "unreasonable interference" of the boy's paternal grandmother, Mrs. Helena McCreery, and "the readiness of the (boy's) father to accede to the domination of his mother" for domestic strife that led to the couple's separation. The father, James W. McCreery, | had been awarded custody of his son, John David, in Peterborough last January. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Creery had lived at the paternal grandparents' home in Peterborough until last April. A. A. Macdonald, counsel for the mother, said the mother had refus- ed to accept rules laid down by the grandmother for the boy's care. In awarding custody, Mr. Justice R. E, Laidlaw said court hoped the father "would divest himself" of control his parents had over hini. He said he hoped that, with the child away from the grandmother's influence, the parents would be re- united. something not to think about. Many people can probably bring to mind certain Sunday dinners when the lamb didn't exactly suit. I don't say it was goat--I merely say that we seldom see goats in the mar- kets, and yet on every hand we perceive the energetic and bright- eyed people trying to dispose of goats. The sheep has none of these| attendant side issues, and I prefer it. The goat gives milk and I find nothing wrong with it; the sheep gives me none, and I am content. My limpid-eyed cow gives a good deal more, and I don't have to stand her on a box to get it. My sheep is better still," because I don't have to milk her at all. A sheep is easiest to take care of, too. They'll eat old bean vines, and thrive anywhere. Goat is Fussy But a goat, in spite of stories about his gastronomic versatility, is actually a fussy eater. He will not devour tin cans, as the cartoon- ists regularly prove. He has to have the best of everything, and then he will clumb up on the wood- shed and bleat and make a fool out of the whole family. I never had to rescue a sheep from dizzy heights. I am merely trying to establish a case for the sheep. The flesh goes good with the palate, And best of all, a sheep gives you wool. Every spring you take your sheep hand and clip off the wool, burrs, old barbed wire, fence splinters, blackberry canes, and sundrjes. This is stuffed into a burlap bag and there are mills where they have some method of extracting the fibre from the tare and tret, after which they will spin it into yarn for mittens or make it up into blankets and yarn goods. You will find one of the nicest in Sheep Shearing Hints Offered For Growers Ottawa--Sheep shearing is one of the important spring activitiss in this part of the country, and J. C. Crowe, a technical officer at the experimental station at Nap- pan, N.S. has offered a few valu- able hints. At the Nappan farm, he says, shearing is usually done during the latter part of May when there is less chance of the shorn ewes be- ing exopsed to cid, wet weather. Sweating the sheep, by enclosing them in reasonably close quarters overnight or by shearing following warm days, will soften the wool grease in the fleece, which makes for easier shearing. Whether the job is done on the floor or on a shearing platform, the surroundings should be ktpt as clean and dry as possible, so that all chaff and dirt will be kept out | of the fleeces. Properly constructed feed racks and care in distributing the hay while feeding will greatly assist in preventing chaff and dirt getting into the wool. Care in handling the sheep while shearing will tend to avoid any un- necessary . struggling which may lead to severe injury and possibly a permanent reduction in value due to cuts and rips by the shears. Second cutting should be avoid- ed. This is done when the first cut of the shears is made too far from the skin and a second cut is made to remove the lower part of the wool. This second cut wool is of reduced usefulness in manufacture, After removing the fleece in one piece, it can be spread out on the floor, skin side down. The tags are removed and packed separately. The leg and belly wool is folded toward the centre. The fleece is then rolled into a compact bundle, starting at the rear, so that the shoulder wool is on the outside. It can then be tied tightly with paper twine, which is the best ma- terial to use since it doesn't become entangled in the wool. The fleeces should then be pack- ed in wool sacks made especially for the purpose. If these are not available clean bran sacks may be used. If the wool has to be stored for any length of time on the farm, a clean, dry place, free from in- sects and excessively high tempera- tures is most suitable. 'satisfactions come from having your own wool in great bundles fresh from the mill. The mill doesn't return the nettles, burrs, wire, tec., so in addition to what a sheep eats, a good part oi the bric- a-brac around the home place gets carted off in the wool, and you keep your dooryard neat. Thus, pleased at every turn, you don't run around trying to get rid of your sheep all the time, but you keep them, and gradually get to have about six, and when some year the mill returns your yarn and sends you a cheque besides, you will be glad. The little lambs are cunning as little kindergarten bangs, the old ewes grow more wool, and next week I will knit. are you BUY ING SELLING then Reach eager buyers . . sellers in the CLASSIFIED AD columns in our newspaper. Every ad is a crackerjack salesman as it quickly and efficiently delivers your message to the city's largest market-place! Phone 35 --. The Classified Advertising Department. ber that means profit and results for you. RENTING SWAPPING look to WANT ADS for profit and results! . look for anxious Gill 35 the quick action number THE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE . it's the num-