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Plans For Annual Oshawa Racing Car Derby Complete § Racing Car Entrants Were Weighed In On Saturday Morning Well before 8 o'clock last Satur- day morning some dozens of Osh- awa boys between the ages of 11 and 15, all of them smart in the blue and white sweaters of this yedr's Oshawa Racing Car Derby, which will be presented on Gibbs Street tomorrow by CRA under the spon- sorship of Ontario Motor Sales Lim- .ited, were to be seen converging from every direction on the Gibbs Street Recreation Centre. All of them had with them the midget 'coaster on which were pin- ned their hopes of honors in next Wednesday's big event. Some of them just towed their cars behind them on a length of rope; others had managed to commandeer the family car and a sleepy-eyed fath- er while the most professional of all arrived in pick-ups and trucks with fancy wrappings for their vehicles, special tools, oil cans and all the accoutrements of Race Day. FIRST OF MANY TESTS The weigh-in was the. first of many tests the young erivers and their vehicles on which they have been working so hard for the past few weeks, will have to undergo between now and somewhere about 8.30 p.m. next Wednesday night when the Oshawa Racing Car Derby cham- pions for 1951 will be declared. Cars and drivers are divided into two classes, Class A for boys 13, 14 and 15, and Class B for the 11's and 12's. Each car must be made entire- ly by the driver who enters it and no car may exceed 150 lbs .in weight or 250 lbs with the driver. Weigh-in and preliminaries com- pleted, the next test will come at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning when the Racing Car Derby Inspection Com- mittee, made up of representatives of Ontario Motor Sales Limited, the UAWA, the Oshawa City Police, the Oshawa Fire Deparment, Mr. R, C. Bint and Mr. Harold McNeill, will make a point by point inspection of every car to satisfy themselves that the cars tomply with the printed rules and are safe to drive. The Committee, too, will award special prizes for outstanding design and craftsmanship. At 130 pm. on Tuesday the drivers will be -told whether they have passed the in- spection tests and will be allowed to make under supervision any mi- nor adjustments ordered by the Committee. By that time, the 32' ramp donated by Oshawa Wood Products will' have been erected at the junction of Gibbs and Centre Streets and young drivers will be havine their first trial run down the 776' course. START AT 9 AM. And so to Wednesday and Race Day -- the big moment for which the young drivers have been work- ing for so many months. The day will begin at 9 am. when the driv- ers and their cars will be paraded from the Oshawa playgrounds to the race track accompanied by hun- dreds of their playmates complete with banners, bands and noise and out to cheer their heroes to victory or defeat. At 10.00 am. will come the first Drivers' Parade down the Gibbs Street track to the official stand where Mr. Vic Henkelman, Business Manager of The Daily Times-Gazette will wish the young drivers "Godspeed," in their ardu- ous day's racing. Ten minutes later Mr. Henkelman will lower the flag which will set the first pair of cars off for the distance runs which are a new feature of this year's Derby. The second Drivers' Parade will take place at 2 p.m. with the open- ing ceremony by. Michael Fenwick, Secretary-Treasurer of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, From then until 530 p.m. races will fol- low each other at five minute in- tervals with the losers eliminated in each round. At 645 p.m. will come the start of the quarter-finals with the honors being performed this time by Mayor Michael Starr. TO DISPLAY RACERS At about 8:30 p.m. new Oshawa Racing Car Derby Champions for the year 1951 will be declared and all the young drivers will be parad- ed to Ontario Motor Sales show- room where the champion cars will be put on display. And from there | to the Genosha Hotel and the Rac- JAMIESON DRUGS PROMPT DELIVERY! DIAL 5-1169 241 KING ST. EAST Local Firms Take Interest In Car Derby Everyone who has seen one of the cars which will take part in next Wednesday's Oshawa Racing Car Derby--and particularly any- one who has seen one of the little coasters hurtling down Gibbs Street at 30 miles per hour without the benefit of the ramp--is commenting on the big improvement in crafts- manship and quality of this year's Derby entries. The improved stane dards are a tribute to the commu- nity spirit and the interest which Oshawa business concerns show in the youngsters' ¢big sporting event: of the summer season. The Derby, with its fairly heavy expenses, is only made possible by the enthusi- astic co-operation which CRA re- ceives every year from dozens of firms, big and small, who help to make Race Day a red letter day in the lives of the excited drivers and their young supporters. As in previous years, the 1951 Derby is being sponsored by On- tario Motor Sales, who put up the trophies and prizes, provide start- ers and two truck facilities and meet the expense "of promotion. This year both the Senior and Jun- ior Champions will receive Ontario Motor Sales trophies and cheques for $25., while awards of $20. $15., and $10. will go to the second, third and fourth places in each class. In addition, there will be awards of $25., $15., and $10. for prowess \n the distance runs which will be a new feature of the Derby this year, as well as special prizes for crafts- manship and for drivers who make an ouistanding effort, and a new prize donated by Leggette Flooring in the form of a trophy which the winning driver will retain. Another business concern, without whose help the Derby would not be possible, is Oshawa Wood Products, whose special ramp, 10 feet high and 32 feet long, will make it pos- sible for the midget cars to race down the course at speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour. The finish line bridge, donated by Ontario Steel Products, which was a successful new feature of last year's Derby, will again be erected, and from this the judges will be able to make split second decisions in races where winner and loser are separated by as little as one- tenth of a second. The facilities for the minute by" minute commentary by which thou- sands of spectators from all over Ontario County will be kept abreast of current developments on the race track, will be provided as usual by Warner Williams Electric, and among the many people to whom CRA is indebted for valuable facili- ties and services are Col. Graham Coulter of the Ontario Regiment for field telephones, Ted Bathe and his 'staff, Simcoe Hall, the YWCA, Horwich Credit Jewellers and Tay- lor Sports. Goodyear Workers Back After Walkout Toronto (CP) -- Production was resumed Thursday night at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com- pany plant in suburban New To- ronto when 400 tire room workers agree to return to work after a two- day walkout. Cause of the walkout -- suspen- sion of two workers who refused to work because the plant was too hot -- will be subject to a griev- ance claim by the United Rubber Workers. The tire room walkout brought about a production stopp- age throughout the plant. ing Car Derby Dinner and the pre- sentation of awards. Its going to be a big day's racing for the young drivers and their thousands of fans and the judges-- E. E. Bathe, C. W. Lambert and Harold McNeill for the morning session, M. J. Fenwick, G. E. Ans- ley and Dr. 8. G. Werry for the afternoon, and A. Perfect, E. R. Higgins and Mrs. Alan Quin for the evening--are going to have to make some very close decisions, There is no charge to spectators at the Oshawa Racing Car Derby which is sponsored as a community venture by Ontario Motor Sales Limited and presented by CRA. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA VOL. 10--No. 183 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1951 PAGE THREE ' Everything In Readiness for Racing Car Derby (>) Finishing touches have been put to the little racing cars at the C.R.A. during the past week and everything is in readiness for tomorrow's Oshawa Racing Car Derby on Gibbs Street in front of the C.R.A. Shown working on a car are Ken Lodge, 23 Hall Street, aftl 'Hack' Gibbs, 856 Simcoe Street South. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Mother Killed! City Receives 2 Hurt In Road Crash Uxbridge--An nn expectant h, was killed and two others were in- jured Sunday when two automo- biles collided five miles north of here at Sanford in Scott Town- ship. Mrs. Mae Angless, of the second concession of Uxbridge Township, was instantly killed. The mother of two children, she was hurled from the car driven by her hus- band, William, when it hit an east- bound car on the Scott Line road, driven by Kenneth Hollstead of Ringwood. A second woman, Margaret Barry of Ringwood, received a broken arm. Hollstead received minor in- uries. One of the cars crashed into a Hydro pole after the collision and power was off in the district for thres hours as a result. Both cars were heavily damaged. Const. | Victor Proctor of the OPP, Ux- bridge investigated, and said an inquest will likely be held. Policeman Is Charged With Murder Montreal (CP) -- Bertrand Ber- geron, 24-year-old suburban Out- remont constable, was charged with murder in criminal court Fri- day after a coroner's jury, had found him criminally responsible for tie shooting Thursday night of Mrs. Annie Czechowski. The 23-year-old mother of a seven - month - old son was shot in an east-end room the two shared. Bergeron, a rookie who joined the force March 1, will come up for preliminary hearing Aug. 9. Simcoe county is one of the few counties Ontario to boast three local museums--at Barrie, Colling- wood, and Midland. SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of Local 222 will be held in the Local Union Hall on August 15th, 1951. The meeting is called for the purpose of receiving nominations for the Canadian Congress of Labour Convention which is to be held in Vancouver the week of September 17th, 1951. Nominations will also be received for the following Executive offices: Vice President and Financial Secretary. By order of Local 222 Executive Board $6,803 Rebate On Beer Sales If the size of the annual re- bate from the Liguer Control Board of Ontario to the mun- icipality is any gauge there was less beer consumed in Oshawa than in some previous years. The rebate this year was $6,803.76 as compared to $6,- 413.50 in 1950, $6,835.36 in 1947 and $7,626.34 in 1948. ' The amount of the rebate is based on a formula worked out by the LCBO based on the number of licences granted (five in Oshawa) and the total gallonage for the previous year. Several times the municipality has asked for details of this formula and exactly how the amount was arrived at but each time was given the "brush off." The governmental at- titude seemed to be: "It is none of your business." Crowded Cruiser Youths In Custody West Hill -- Forced to the ditch to avoid a head-on crash on Altona Rd. Pickering, "Police Sergt. Fred White took the license number of a car and relayed it to Scarboro police. A few minutes later six Toronto men were arrest- ed on No. 2 highway. Police said. they were charged with theft ¢f a tire, tube and truck wheel which were found in their car, and careless driving. Police said the men were drinking at a Pickering hotel, where a pick-up truck was jacked up and some parts taken. Driving along the road their car weaved from sige to side and forced the officer to the ditch. Police said Robert Topping, 19, of Lisgar St., Richard Squires, 20, of Wallace Ave, William Dullege, 22, of Gordon St., Charles McAfee, 24, of Havelock St., Ronald Eabor, 20, of Dundas St. W., and John W. Hayward, 27, of McKenzie Cresc., were charged. 3M Declares $1 Common Dividend New York.--General Motors Corp. declared a dividend of $1 on the common stock, payable Sept. 10 to shareholders of record Aug. 16. A like amount was paid in June and March, Last year, payments on basis of present stock were 75 cents each in March and June, 75 'cents plus a special $1.25 in September and. $1 plus special of $1.50 in December. The old common was split 2-for-1 after the September payments. Pocock to Command Infantry Brigade Ottawa (CP) -- Lt.-Col. John M. Pocock, 43, of London, Ont,, has been promoted to the acting rank of brigadier and appointed com- mander of the 1st Infantry Bri- gade (reserve force); army head- quarters announced Friday. He succeeds Brig. P. W. Strick- land, DSO, of Chatham, Ont., who has transferred to the supplemen- tary reserve. Miner's Rush To Sarnia Quite Usual Sarnia (CP)-- The head of the National Employment Service of- fice here said yesterday a "steady trickle" of miners from Northern Ontario had arrived in Sarnia in recent weeks seeking work but that there was "nothing unusual' in this. Lewis A. Babcook, NES manager denied reports that his office had been "swamped" with applications from miners. Some 1500 are idle in Timmins because of a strike at Hol- linger Consolidated Gold Mines. Mr. Babcook said a junior NES official, A. W. Key, claims officer was misquoted in a news dispatch Wednesday which quoted Mr. Key as saying that many miners had appeared here 'looking for any kind of work -- even odd jobs." The Canadian Press carried this dispatch. Fiseowm trom Bugsy 'Man Hospitalized Stouffville -- Thrown from the buggy when his horse bolted Sat- urday, Wellington Widéman, 86, of R. R. 3, Claremont, suffered severe injuires and was rushed to the Brierbush hospital, Stouffville, The accident occurred on the Ninth con- cession of Pickering township at when the horse became frightened of a truck. Wideman was driving south on the Ninth concession in the middle of the road, witnesses said. A soft drink delivery truck was 8 a turn to go north. The truck driver swerved his vehicle to avoid a col- lision and cases of pop fell off around the horse and buggy. Cases of Empties Strewn In Crash Toronto -- Thousands of broken beer bottles were strewn about Gerrard and Sumach Sts. Saturday after a transport truck overturned while trying to avoid a car. The truck, loaded with about 500 cases of empty bottles, upset when it hit bounced into a hydro post. William Parker, 26, of Bowman- ville, driver of the truck, was treated at St. Michael's Hospital for leg injuries. The overturned transport. and the scattered beer cases blocked the street for an hour and a half. Trams had to be rerouted until the debris was removed. Parker told police the car which was hit stopped momentarily and then dis- appeared. 9,000 in Peel Want Liquor, Beer Sale Brampton (CP) -- Nine thousand Peel county residents have signed a petition asking that the sale of liquor and beer be permitted in Peel county. (The Canada Temperance Act prohibits the sale of alcoholic be- verages in Peel, Huron and Perth counties. It is subject to local op- tion.) Brampton, 12 miles northwest of Toronto, is the Peel couaty seat. the Markham-Pickering town line : an auto making a U-turn and Trace Auto By Leaking Radiator : Following a spoor for over three miles caused by water dripping from a leaky radiator police were able to trace a car which was involved in a crash with a telephone pole near the western extremity of the city. 'The driver, Frank Jablonsky, 153 Albert Street, is charged today with careless driving and failing to re- main at the scene of an accident. A resident in thes vicinity called police in the early hours of Sunday morning to say that an automobile {had crashed into a telephone pole in front of his house. Police went to the scene in a squad 'car but when they arrived they found no automobile and no driver. The pole was broken off at ground level and the butt moved a disfance of more than six feet. One of the police officers noticed a trail of water leading away from the scene and they decided to in- vestigate. They followed it to Olive Avenue, from there to Drew Street, to Eldon Avenue, Court Street, Em- ma Street and west to Albert Street. There, in a driveway they found a sedan--and the radiator was still leaking, Driver of the car, Jablonski, was arrested and brought to the police station. He was charged the same day. At one time during the chase the officers had trouble following the trail because it got lost in car tracks. However they were fortu- nate enough to pick it up again and finally as one man drove slow- ly in the automobile the other kept his eyes focussed on the trail which, officers said, zig-zagged all over the road. The arrest was made by Police Constable Mack Van Allen. BULLS EYE Verviers, Belgium (Reuters) -- Andre Radermacker, crack shot of La Calamine rifle club, near here, challenged Jean Kairis, another lo- 1 cdl sharpshooter, to hit his poster- ior at 300 feet. The challenge was taken up and Kairis scored a hit. He now refuses te leave the bed- side of his human target whose wounds are described as "serious." London--(CP)--Only five house. wives turned up at Willesden district town hall for demonstrations on how to cook herrings. So 21 girl clerks and typists were called from their jobs in the building to build up the audience. Some 50 Drivers Are Waiting For The Starting Gun Plans for this year's Racing Car Derby -- the sixth of it's kind -- are complete now and every day young speed- sters are out on the Gibbs Street Hill testing their midget coasters and keeping the results very secret. Altogether some 50 drivers, ranging in age from 11 to 15 years have built their tiny cars either in home workshops or in the CRA woodshop at the Gibbs Street centre, and Wednesday will see them going very grimly to the post, out to win honor for themselves, their sponsors and the playgrounds from which they come. The race, sponsored as usual by Three Crashes All Minor Mar The Week End It was a quiet week-end insofar as accidents were concerned -- and a good thing police were quick to say. There were three minor crash- es up until last night but no one was injured and property damage was not great, Murtin McMahon, 238 Eulalie Aver.ue, was driving south on Sim- coe Street South and as he went to turn off a side street his automobile came into contact with a car driv- en by Mathew Hawkins of Scarboro. Damage to both cars was minor. James Seabrook, Harmony Road North and Winifred Starr, of To- ronto, saw their cars come into col- lision on King Street East at Hart's Hill. In this case also dam- age to the automobiles involved was small. Grilles and hoods of two cars were smashed on Rowena Street in an accident involving automobiles driven by Augustine Tyminiski, of St. Catharines, and Stan .Lochey, 163 Conant Street, Oshawa, WANTS EYE LAW CHANGED London (Reuters) -- A member of parliament, Dr. HM. King, wants to make it easier for Britons to bequeath their eyes after death to aid the sightless. He is asking the minister of health if he will amend the existing century-old law which says 48 hours must elapse after death before donated eyes may be removed. This is to enable near relatives to lodge an objec- tion if they wish. With the rest of south-western Ontario, the Canadian National Ex- hibition is changing from 25 to 60- cycle. By the time the 1951 CNE opens on August 24, the eastern half of Exhibition Park will be con- verted. ®0ontario Motor Sales Ltd, will be held as in 1949 and 1950 at Gibbs Street between Centre and Nassau Streets, right outside the Oshawa Recreation Centre, and the cars will be launched from a ramp do- nated by Oshawa Wood Products for the purpose, Judges will be able to get a close-up view of hairsbreadth finishes from a bridge spanning Gibbs Street, donated by Ontario Steel Products. Racing starts at 10 am. and will be preceded by a parade of all the drivers from their Oshawa play= grounds. Divided into two classes, youngsters of 11 and 12 years of age are in the Junior Class and boys 13, 14 and 15 years old race in the Senior Class. Each racer is sponsored by an Oshawa business firm who meets the cost of official wheels and axles--a 'must' in last year's and this year's Derby--and material used in the construction of the car. Prizes in both classes of the Derby ar@® the Ontario Mo- tor Sales Trophy and a cheque for $25. to the winner, a cheque for $20, for the second driver, $15. for the third and $10. for the fourth, The exciting day winds up at 9.30 p.m, with the Derby Dinner at the Genosha Hotel to which all drivers, win or lose, are invited. Come Wednesday, August 8--the hearts of some 50-odd youngsters will beat .a little faster and to these drivers we say, "Good Luck and Good Racing." 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