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Legalization resbyt 'U0 ADA 6 107 Implementation Of Hope Report Is Requested _Twp burning questions of the day were dealt with at the annual spring meeting of the Oshawa Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, held at Brooklin United Church yesterday, under the chairmanship of Rev. 8 C. Fisher, of 'Brooklin. These two questions were the Hope Commission Report on Education, and its recommendations 'for curtail- ment of the powers and functions of.separate schools, and the question of legalization of gambling in Ontario, raised by Hon. G. D. Conant of Oshawa in an address to the Belle- ville Rotary Club a week or so ago. In its resolutions, Pres- bytery asked that the recommendations of the Hope Com- mission be implemented by the provincial government and registered a strong protest against the legalization of gamb- ling. These matters were brought be- fore Presbytery in the report of its Committee on Evangelism and So- cial Service, which was presented by the Rev. H. A. Mellow of North= minster United Church, Oshawa. The recommendation with reference to the Hope Commission Report was as follows: "We request the Premier of Ontario, Hon. Leslie M. Frost, to the r dations of the Royal Commission on Education in Ontario" as they relate to separate schools, and "We further urge our Minis- ters officials and members of our congregations to register their concern on this subject with their member of the Pro- vincial Legislature, and any other members whom they may contact." No Strong Convictions In discussion on this resolution, it was pointed out that the political parties in Ontario have evidently reached the conclusion that while Roman Catholics in this Province can be expected to vote solidly against any government that dares to implement the recommendations of the Hope report on the separate school issue, Protestants do not seem to have any strong convictions on the matter, and their views are not weighed to 'the same extent. The recommendations of the Hope Commission, it was stated, favored confining separate schools to the provisions of the Separate School Act of 1363, and that privileges granted since that time restored. One speaker stressed the fact that while the Roman Catholics be- came a solid political entity in mat- ters concerning education, the poli- tical influence of Protestants, as such was practically nil, because they had no cohesion or unity of thought. It was strongly suggested that all ministers and lay represen- tatives in the Presbytery should give their congregations leadership in stirring up strong support for implementation of the Hope Report. Gambling Resolution On the question of legalized gambling, the resolution brought in by the Committee on Evangelism and Social Service, was as follows: "We recommend that Presby- tery register its unqualified dis- approval of the suggestion of the Hon. Gordon Conant that gambling be legalized in On- tario, and that we go on record as disagreeing with his assump- tion that the present Liquor Control Act provides an ade- quate pattern for other policies, and that a copy of this resolu- tion be forwarded to the Attor- ney-General of Ontario." It was suggested that the name of Mr. Conant should be removed from the resolution and that it be couched in general terms, but an amendment to this effect was de- feated and the motion carried. Recommendations for greater in- struction of candidates for member- ship in the church, for a memorable type of reception service, and that the call for full-time service in the ministry of the ¢aurch be stressed, were put forward and adopted. Suggestion Too Drastic The . following recommendation was proposed by the Committee, but was defeated on a vote being taken: "We note with anxiety the careless- ness so often manifested in the matter of alcoholic beverages drunk in wedding toasts. So we urge upon all ministers when counselling with couples planning their wedding to PROTEST GAMBLING (Continued on Page 5) Coming Events SALE OF FANCY WORK, APRONS, children's wear, home cooking, candy and parcel post, will be held at Centre St. United Church on Friday, April 27th, ' Sale opens 3 «pm. Tea 3 to 6:30. East Group tea 25c. (97b) RUMMAGE SALE, SIMCOE ST. United Church, Friday, April 27, 1:30 p.m. Men's topcoats and suits. (98a) RUMMAGE SALE, FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2 pm., St. George's Parish Hall, Centre St., auspices Ritson Group. (98a) RUMMAGE SALE, KING STREET United Church, Friday, 2 o'clock. Auspices, Mary Street Home and School. (98a) re La Presbytery Critical Of Lesson 1 Helps Criticism of the Sunday School lesson helps published by the pub- lishing house of the United Church, which caused many teachers to dis- card them as inadequate, was voiced yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the Oshawa Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, when it was decided to have the lesson helps studied by the Com- mittee on Christian Education, | augmented by the addition of Rev. A. E. Young of Pickering. The subject was brought before Presbytery by Mr. Young in a re- | port from the retiring Christian | Education Committee, which was | as follows: "We notice with growing tendency of Sunday School concern the School lesson helps published by the Ryerson Press jointly for our | church and the Convention Bap- | tists of Canada. Not that we | would condemn the teachers who have culminated years of impati- | ence by making the change. But | it is noticeable, that almost always | the new Sunday School publica- tions adopted are those which take a completely literalist view | of the Bible, a completely legalis- | tic attitude towards the obedience | of Christian discipleship and an| attitude towards modern scientific | and internatiorial political move- ments which is far from represent- ing the convictions of our church | membership. | "It is the conviction of our com- | mittee that strength of Biblical conviction and the sense of Biblical | urgency can be obtained without | paying too high a price; it is not | our conviction that we are asked | to cut off our heads to save our souls. We. would raise the issue | here, whether the switch to funda- | mental Sunday School lesson | helps will not involve the pupils | in later and unnecessary struggles for an intelligent Christian faith. | They should, perhaps be used, but always with a watch being kept for something better. "It is our opinion that our pres- | ent Sunday School lesson helps are proving increasingly inade- quate, and that this situation is too serious to continue longer without | definite notice. We recommend that our best help should be offer- ed to the Board of Sunday School Publications in their exceedingly difficult task, by having the effec- tiveness of our lesson "helps con- structively checked by local super- intendents, aided by their minis- ters. We would also suggest that they be compared, by a committee of this Presbytery, with the best known helps available elsewhere, | with an eye to constructive sug- gestions coming from the concern- ed church itself to our Board of Sunday School Publications." In presenting the report, Rev. A. Young said there was a trend away from the material published by the United Church that these lesson helps were being ignored and other material used. Considerable dis- cussion arose, with some other ministers disputing that Sunday School teachers looked to other sources for lesson help material. It was finally agreed that the new Christian Education Commit- tee appointed for the coming year, with Rev. Mr. Young added, should make an intensive study of the Sunday School lesson help material and report back at a fu- ture meeting of the Oshawa Pres- bytery. INVITING OXFORDITES Oxford, England, April 26--(Reu- ters) -- Mayoress Mrs. F. M. An- drews, Wednesday night, said she plans to send personal invitations to the chief citizens of all the Ox- | fords in the United States and Can- { ada to visit here during the festival {of Britain, : Eyes Examined HARE OPTICAL 8 ROND ST. E. OPTOMETRIST ® Glasses Fitted T. BAKER whole question of Sunday School | Of Gambling Is Protested By THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whithy Gazette and Chronicle - OSHAWA WHI VOL. 10--No. 98 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951 2 PAGE THREE Tense Moment In Little Theatre Play Above Ail 5 iin is 'depicted one of the exciting and amusing moments in the Little Theatre production of "John Loves Mary", Norman Krasner's Broadway success, which is to be presented in the O.C.V.I. auditorium on May 3, | and 5. Left to right are Tom Fairbrother, as "John", Saundra Collis, as "Mary" and Jack Switzer in the main | comedy role of "Fred". The play, directed by Sarah Quin and produced by Joan Lambert, is a | comedy and a complete contrast to the recent production of "Angel Street". sparkling Measles Is Top Disease In Oshawa Two hundred cases of commun- icable diseases were reported to the Board of Health during the month of March according to the report of Gertrude M. Tucker, Supervisor of Public Health . Nursing in the city. The Board, at its régular meeting on Tuesday night, learned that there were 93 cases of measles during the month, 66 cases of mumps and 36 of chicken pox. There were three cases of Ger- man Measles and two of whooping cough, Six Infant Deaths . Births reported during the month were 79, There were 40 deaths of which six were infants. There were five stillbirths. Marriages during the month numbered 23. Taree hundred and persons representing 274 homes were' visited during the month There were 86 visits to elementary schools, 13 to secondary schools and three to nursery schools. The attendance at pre-natal classes during the month was 64 and 95 infants and five pre-school children were brought to tthe child health centre at Legion Hall. | During the month at the child | health centre 19 children were giv- en "shots" for combined antigens, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus and 19 were vaccinated for smallpox These children have completed immunization injections. ninety-six MEASLES CASES (Continued on Page §) Smiths Head List 'of Family Names In New Telephone Directory | The good, old English name of | | Smith heads the list of all those | listed in the new dial telephone di- rectory which has been issued this week by the Bell Telephone Com- pany. No less than 103 telephone listings bearing the name of Smith or Smyth, ranking well ahead of the second place name of Wilson, which is listed 90 times. In third place is the name of Brown or Browne, which apears 71 times in the new directory. . The new telephone directory re- veals some interesting facts, not only about Oshawa names, but in its general form and makeup. One | impression gained immediately, is | that the names and numbers are | much more easily read than form- | erly. A slightly larger face of type, | lin a new and very readable style is used, and there is also 'slightly more space between the lines. This is shown by the fact that while the | former directory ran 100 lines of | names to each column, the new one | contains only 85 to the column, the | result being a far more readable | product. : [ First and Last Listings The first listing in the directory ia that of the A. and A. Supplies Limited, 86 Simcoe Street North, | followed by A. Abbott, 97 Warren | Avenue, as the first individual list- | ing. The last name listed for Osh- awa is that of Walter Zygmount, 243 Huron Street. | Following behind the Smiths, | y Wilsons and Browns for the dise tinction of having the most listings come the Clarks or Clarkes, listed 58 times, the Johnsons, Johnstons and Johnstones, with 48 listings and the Jacksons, with 41. Behind them come the following, with their number of listings: Thompson or Thomson, 38; Cook, 34; Reid or Reed, 32; Graham, 31; Mitchell, 313 McKay, Mackay or Mackie, 28; Ele liott, 27; Wood, 27; Hall, 27; Mor= rison, '26; Williams, 26; Young, 24§ Wright, Jones and Campbell, 23 each; White, King and McDonald or-Macdonald, 22 each; McLaughe lin, 20. : The Scottish clans are well reps | resented in the Oshawa telephone | directory. There are no fewer than 464 listings in which the names bear the prefix "Mc" or "Mac", al= though, of course, some of these could be Irish, But distinctively Scottish names appear as follows: Cameron, 17; Campbell, 23; Davide son, 15; Buchanan, 4; Ferguson, 13; Graham, 31; McDonald or Macdon= ald, 22; McGregor, 5; Mackie, Mace kay or McKay, 28; McKensie, 10; McDougall, 4; McIntyre, 10; Mce Laughlin, 20; Morrison, 26; Murray, 11 and Wallace, 13. Interesting Twists bd There are some other interesting twists to the names in the new FAMILY NAMES |, 4 (Continuea on Page 5) After Public telephones in Oshawa will operate in a different way follow- ing the conversion to dial opera- tion here at midnight on Satur- day, April 28. Now you don't deposit your nickel until the connection is made by the operator. Under the dial sys- | tem, you will have to put in your nickel before you can dial your number. : But you will get your nickel back if there is no answer or if the line is busy. An ingenious device in the public telephone returns the nickel in these circumstances the moment you hang up the receiver. Here's what happens. When you put your nickel in the slot, it falls down a runway. On its way down it trips a lever which closes the circuit to the central office, caus- ing the dial tone to be heard on the line. While the number is being dialed the nickel remains in the coin trap where it fell at the end of the run- | way. The coin trap, a sort of min- iature platform, retains the nickel | in suspension until the receiver is hung up. If the line is busy or if there is no answer, the coin trap is tipped by a magnet towards the "return" chute where the caller re- covers his money. If the call was completed, the magnet tips the trap to the opposite side, releasing the coin into the '"collect" chute which leads to the coinbox. In the case of a long distance call, the operator has at her dis- posal the "return" and "collect" keys which enable her to operate | the coin collector relay at' the par- ticular telephone where the patron has placed the call. When money is to be refunded she operates the "return" key which deflects the coin trap of the public telephone and guides the coin down the "re- turn" chute. If money is to be col- lected, the "collect" key is oper- ated in the same way and the money falls into the cash box. When the nickel drops down the slot it tells a lot to the operator. She knows you are calling from a public telephone. These lines are confined to certain groups or levels of wires, and are terminated as groups at special positions on the | switchboards. All calls coming from public telephones light up on that particular panel and the op- erator can spot them at a glance. The nickel, and other coins, also tell the operator how much money you're putting in because the run- ways are so arranged that each coin of a different denomination gives her a different signal. Public Telephones Will on | Operate Differently Dial Conversion Orono Pastor Chairman Of Presbytery At the spring meeting of the Osh- |awa Presbytery of the United Church, Rev. Andrew E. Eustace, of Orono, was elected chairman for | the year 1951-1952, succeeding Rev. | M. C. Fisher of Brooklin. Rev. G.| |C. R. McQuade, of Whitby, was re-| | elected to the office of secretary of | Presbytery, and Dr. C. W. Slemon lof Bowmanville was re-elected as treasurer. The inductions commit- | tee for the year will be made up of | these executive officers. | Chairmen of the various standing | committee of Presbytery were also! elected as follows: | Archives and records, Rev. D. T.| | Lancaster; Christian Education, Rev. F. J. Whiteley; Church prop- erty, Rev.. W. P. Rogers; Colleges | [and Students, Rev. Dr. Stanley Os- | borne; Evangelism and Social Serv=- | |ice, Rev. H. A. Mallow; Finance, | | Rev. R. M. Seymour; Home Mis- | sions, Rev. George Telford; Mis- | | sicnary and Maintenance, Rev. J. K. | | Moffat; Missionary Education and | Overseas Missions, Rev. R. J. Scott; | Pensions, Rev. M. C. Fisher; Pub- | lications, Rev. H. A. Turner; Statis- | tics, Rev. G. C. R. McQuade; Insur- | ance, W. F. Rickard. | Other elections and nominations | made by the Oshawa Presbytery | were as follows: | Settlement Committee, S. G. Say- well, and Rev. A. E. Eustace. Nomination of successor to Rev. George Little as editor of publica tions, Rev. Petar G. White. Nomination of successor to Rev. Archer Wallace as associate editor of publications, Rev, Wilbur K. Howazd. Lay Representative to the Bay of Quinte Conference, Fred Ormiston, Brooklin, | GET $10,000 BENEFITS Washington, April 26 -- (AP) -- President Truman signed into law Wednesday a measure giving $10,- 000 death benefits without cost to all men now in the United States ! armed forces since the start of the ' Korean war. Families of those kill- | ed in the conflict will receive bene- | fits payable for 120 months at $92.50 a month. Asoo sees sees eee eee eee "GOD'S LAW PROVIDES INTERNATIONAL AND WALTER S. 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