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98 THE DAMLY TMIES-GAZETTE, Thursday, December 31, 1958 U Memorable Events Marked Year 1953 In Oshawa ARENA FIRE DEPRIVED CITY OF HOCKEY AND SKATING 0% On the morning of September 16, Oshawa's Arena, home of famous hockey teams, was com- ' the Arena left Oshawa without | shows the fire raging after the | ---Times-Gazette and Dutton Photos | is iii A pletely destroyed by fire within | hockey and skating facilities for the space of an hour. Loss of the present season. Top picture [nial anniversary. The St. Andrew's | roof has fallen in, while the low- | er' picture is an aerial view of the fire FOUR Four new schools were com- | the four outlying sections of the pleted and were opened on Sep- | city of Oshawa. tember 8 of this year, to serve | were of identical design and con- i" NEW ik SRR Re Se SE Si SE iti OLS BUILT TO struction, similar to the picture above of the new Duke of Edin- burgh School. Already the Board SCHO The schools | 'Oshawa, 1953 (Continued from Page 15) 9--The local Rotary Club, which had introduced "car raffles" to| Oshawa, decided to discontinue selling chances on cars. Work Segan on the CPR spur line for 10--Three people were killed in the worst accident in the history of Whitby. Brig. R. L. Purvis was guest of honor at a regimental re- union banquet. 13--Overseas delegates at the ternational Plowing Match visit- ed Elmcroft Farm. The Polish Al- liance of Canada held its biennial convention in the Polish Hall on Olive Avenue. 14---Bob Rife was presented with the Boys' Clubs of Canada "Gold- en Man and Boy" for outstandin, boys' work, the second such ro in Canada- The safe of OCVI was blown and rifled. Three babies born on Coronation Day, whose fathers were war veterans, were presented with silver drinking cups. 15-493 people enrolled at classes at OCVI, 17--GMC announced the retirement of William Marshall as Fleet Sales manager and the appoint- ment of E. C. Jamieson as his suc- cessor. Herb Chesebrough was ap- pointed Oshawa Welfare Adminis- trator to succeed Mrs. Joan Dwyer, the former Marion Bannon. The Kinette Club held a successful Children's Fair. night | In. | Oshawa Lions Club decided | | 19---Mary Leveque was chosen | their annual convention "Miss Red Feather". Centre |Samac. Jni d the | Bloet United Ch urel, burile ® | 26_Barry Authors and Howard Swinson, Oshawa's famed comic 20--The Dunlop Tire and Rubber | team, arrived home after playing Goods Co. Ltd. announced that |at London's Palladium Theatre. a large new plant would be opened | ; + in Whitby. The Community Chest | 27 Miss Myrtle Wilson, Campaign was opened at the Ro- | tary Club Luncheon. Northminster | United Church began a campaign | for $75,000 to finish the new build- ing. at Camp ing the Queen's Coronation Medal The Jaycees decided to sponsor a home beautification program | rather than Santa Centre. Mayor | W- J. Naylor received the Queen's 21--The Community Chest Fund | Coronation Medal. was launched with a donation of | 28 Frank W. Lee retired after 24 | $27,600 from GMC employees. The | years in the postal service. The to |Sung Party defeated the T'ang |Party at the OCVI student elec- tion, sponsor a teen-age safety drive. 22--Judge Farquahr MacRae was appointed junior county judge for | 20--Christ Memorial Anglican the county of York. Willian® H.| Church celebrated its 25th anni- Campbell of Ashburn celebrated his | versary. Roy W. Nichols, Courtice, 97th birthday. Caroline Werry of received the Queen's Coronation Coronation School won: the junior | Medal. Mrs. Fred Williams gave Red Feather public speaking con- | her 50th blood donation to the On- test for Oshawa primary schools. | tario: Mobile Blood Donors Clinic. | 23--James Lownie was re-elected |30---The Canadian Association of president of the local CCF As- | Consumers re-organized the Osh- sociation, Georgia McGarry of St.|aWwa Branch with Mrs, Uriah Jones Gregory's Separate School won the as president: The Oshawa Public geniog Red Fonte Buble pea | 2. a sssiion ing C j . Pri ine water: S | Q y test. Jom x loo, Pritchard, | Cf of $42,100. James Heffering, tario County to succeed Judge J; F | well-known Liberal of this district, MacRae. 4 '7 |died in his 7Ist year. i : | 31--GMC announced plans to triple 28 Chief oD: F! Helly and Capt. | ts distribution and storage capa- Laam Chit % the police | city. Miss Sara Moise, teacher at slong wit Chet I. J Elle an | King SieelSehol. Toceve the Fire Department received th o | Queen s Coronation Medal. Queen's Coronation Medals for out- | standing service to the city ol Bi trict public school teachers held |2--Col. R:-8. McLaughlin and Wil- school | teacher, was honored by receiv- | MEET CITY'S NEEDS | of Education is planning for ad- | ditional schools. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. liam A. Wecker were named di- | rectors of the newly-formed Cana- dan subsidiary of the General Mot- ors Acceptance Corporation. Build- | ing permits for October were $200, {000 less than in 1952. 3--Northminster United Church held a Victory Dinner to cele- brate having raised $90,000 in a building fund campaign to finish th new church. Ronald Keith of the | 15th Oshawa Scout Troop received | the Queen's Scout badge. |4 -- Four new Oshawa Public Schools were officially opened by | Dr. C. F. Cannon, Deputy Minister of Education. Whitby jail was branded as mediaeval by members of the Legislative Assembly. | 5--Robert: S. MacMillan was elect- ed president of the Oshawa Boy Scout Association. 7--The Oshawa organization of the | Knights of Columbus celebrated |its 25th anniversary. The local Stamp Club planned to have dis- | plays in the Canadian National | Stamp Week exhibition at Toronto. 10---Announcement was made that a plebiscite would be voted upon {by Oshawa property owners for $700.000. for a new arena. Members {of the 11th Armoured (Ontario) { Regiment - who received Queen's Coronation Medals were: Col. Gra- {ham Coulter, RQSM W. H. Turner, {SSM R. Clapp, S.Sgt. A. A. Hurst and Sgt. R. W. Martyn. | 11.-Oshawa honored her fallen war heroes at the annual Remem- brance Day Service. Oshawa Rail- way bus drivers union asked for suj in its protest Japon of service by Railway Co. 13--The Community Chest went over the top on the objective of $120,000. The new Coronation School eur- | Oshawa ! received the Elmer the Safety Ele- phant flag. W. M. Alsop was elect- ed president of the Oshawa Liberal Association. 14--Michael Starr MP eelebrated his birthday. Council abandoned 'the by-law which was to have been put to a vote for a new $700,000 arena. The coronerstone Cour- tice United Church was laid -with an impressive ceremony. 16--Col. R. 8S. McLaughlin was pre- sented with a silver trowel by Ar- thur Eadie, architect, with which he laid the cornerstone of the Mc- Laughlin Library. The "test case" of the Edible Oils Act was bro to a conclusion with a fine of $10 for the defendant who was found guilty of violating the act. 17--Mrs. A. W. Smith, chairman, and Mrs. T. K. Creighton, sec- retary, resigned from their respec- tive offices on the Oshawa Christ- mas Cheer Committee after many years service. Alex S. Ross suc- ceeded Mrs. Smith as chairman. The Rotary Club honored Col. R. S. McLaughlin for his many gifts to the city -through the years, by tendering him a testimonial din- ner. 18--Norman Down was re-elected president of the Vegetable Grow- ers. Association. The Kiwanis Club gave $4,000 and the Anglo-Canadian Drug Co. gave $1,000 to the Oshawa General Hospital Building Fund. 19--Mayor W. J. Naylor bought the first Christmas seals to start the Christmas Seal Campaign. The Parks Board announced plans for outdoor rinks. A. George Rodgers of the Oshawa Missionary College was appointed administrator of g hospital in Sidney, B.C. 20--Cyril Waite, manager of the Dominion Bank, was transferred | to head office after 12! years here. He was succeeded by Gordon Miles. Council was fold that 58 new school rooms would be needed by 1958. 21---The new headquarters of the Sir Francis Drake Sea Cadet Corps on Oshawa Boulevard was officially opened. 24--The Sklar Furniture Co. threat- ened to leave Oshawa rather than pay a higher price than they had offered Council for a land site. 25--The CRA held a successful "Crafts in Action" exhibition. 6--Three armed bandits held up Fred's Drive In and escaped with over $100. Rosemary Bialek and! Ronald Swartz won Carter Scholar- ships for the county of Ontario. Ap- Foal was given by the Public tilities for the laying of five wat- ermain extensions. 27--Mayor W. J. Naylor was given acclamation for the forthcoming | year. 32 Oshawa citizens were nominated to run. for public office. 28--Mount Zion Masonic Lodge at Brooklin celebrated its centen- Society held a successful evening of Scottish dances. A Vampire Jet plane was lost in Lake Ontario near Whitby. DECEMBER Dec. 1---City Council attacked the bus service, aldermen declaring | it shameful. 2--City Hall announced that build- ing permits for 644 new houses for an estimated amount of $17,- 000,000 were issued in 1953. Osh- awa Street Railway Employees Un- ion made application to the On- tario Labor Relation Board for con- ciliation regarding a new revised contract. 4--Alfie Robinson moved to a new location from Queen Street to the south end of the city. Oshawa's ghost road was discussed in City Council and found deplorable. -- 30 aspirants for public office spoke at an open forum. 5--George MacGregor and Mar- garet Haines received awards for the outstanding boy and girl at OCVI senior commencement.--Sgt. Major J. R. Homes, Sgt-Major W. Milne and Regimental Quartermas- ter Sergeant W. H. Turner were honored for 25 years service each, at a testimonial dinner at the Ser- geants' Mess. 6--A baptismal font was dedicated in memory of Mr..and Mrg. H. J, Dennis 'at North Oshawa United Church. 7--Finley Dafoe headed the polls for one of the twelve aldermen elected when 32 percent of Osh- awa"s voting public used their franchise. : 8--Dr. George Werry was elected president of the Durham-Ontario Dental Association. -- Arthur E. Grass defeated Elmer Powell for ht |} | over $3,000,000. | 3 The new sewage disposal plant for Oshawa, which has been un- der construction for the past year, is now nearing completion, and is expected to be ready to be put into service in the early SEWAGE PLANT ALMOST READY FOR USE part of 1954. Most of the trunk sewers to feed into it have al- ready been laid. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Chest total was $126,363. 16--Installing Master W. Bro. J. N. Willson installed his son Stanley as Worshipful Master of Temple Lodge at the Masonic Temple. 15--Irate citizens of Elgin Street went as a deputation to council to ask why their petitions for sew- ers had been ignored. 18--The Oshawa General Hospital had 59 patents more than the limit of its rated capacity. N. C. Millman announced that city plan- ning would be for an Oshawa of 90,000 inhabitants. Mary Ann Grace of OCCI was given recognition for were used at the commencement exercises. 19--Mike Trimble, Oshawa Con- tractor, was killed when he was thrown from a truck on an icy road. Donald C. MacDonald, new CCF leader for Ontario, visited Oshawa and addressed a party meeting. 22--Announcement was made that a debenture issue of $1,137,122 would be handled by Bell, Gouin- lock and Co. of Toronto, at a tender of $102.15. Dr. and Mrs. R. L. McTavish were honored by the Westmount congregation for her writing of two songs which the pastor's splendid work during the building of the mew' church. 23--H. J. Mcintyre, superintendent of the Oshawa Railway Co. ane nounced new bus schedules and service extensions. 24--Mrs. Leonini Bassi arrived in Oshawa to see for the first time her husband whom she had mar- ried by proxy in Italy while he was here. Edward J. Goodman was honored on the occasion of his retirement after nearly 50 years service in Fittings Ltd. 26--Five babies were born in the Oshawa General Hospital on Christmas Day. By THE CANADIAN PRESS JANUARY 5--British airliner crashes near Belfast; 27 dead. 8--Prime Minister Churchill vis- its Washington, ii 9--Korean passenger ship sinks near Pusan, 233 drowned. 12--Paul - Emile Leger, arch- bishop of Montreal, becomes car- dinal. 16--Premier Naguib dissolves all Egyptian political . parties. 20--Dwight D. Eisenhower in- |augurated 34th U,S. president. | 30--Fire at usan, Korea, leaves 9,000 homeless; damage 31--Irish sea ferry Princess Vie- toria sunk in storm; 132 lost. , FEBRUARY 2--North sea floods inundate English, Netherlands, Belgian coasts. 3--Dutch Red Cross sets figure for flood dead and missing at 1,783. 16--British House of Commons denationalizes trucking business. 24--Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, 77, dies in Germany. MARCH 8--Joseph Stalin dies in Mos- cow. 6--Georgi Malenkov becomes Russian premier; Voroshilov is new president of Soviet Union. 7--North Korean prisoners of war riot at Yonchon; 23 killed. 12--RAF bomber shot. down by two Soviet jets in Germany, six killed. 13--Russia vetoes UN Security Council recommendation to appoint L.B. Pearson as secretary-general, succeeding Trygve Lie. 14--President Klement Gottwald of Czechoslovakia dies at Prague. 16--Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia arrives in London for state visit. 18--West Germany agrees to pay $822,000,000 reparations to Is- rael for Nazi persecution of Jews. 19---UN guards quell riots of Communist officers prisoners in Korea. 21--Premier Antonin Zapotocky, & Jslected Czechoslovakia presi- ent. 24--Queen Mary, 85, dies at Marlborough House, London. 26--U.S. troops forced off "Old Baldy' in bitter Korea fighting; Mau Mau terrorists kill 300 Afri- cans in Kenya. 28--Chinese and North Koreans accept UN proposals for exchange of sick and wounded prisoners. APRIL 4---Ex-King Carol of Romania, 59 dies at Lisbon; 99 Turk sailors lost when Turk submarine collides with Swedish freighter off Turkey; Rus- sia announces charges dropped against 15 Soviet doctors accused of assassination plots. 7--UN General Assembly ap- proves Dag Hammarskjold of Swe- den as secretary-general. the office of Reeve of East Whitby. --Leslie Coles, night superinten- dent of the Times-Gazette died | suddenly. i 9--171 Lower School graduates re- ceived their diplomas at OCVI' Commencement exercises. -- Unit | 42, Oshawa, of the Canadian Corps Association received a Canadian Corps Flag from the Niagara Falls Unit 104 at the opening of the new clubrooms for Unit 42, 10--AB-17 Flying Fortress left Osh- awa for Pakistan to do photogra- | phic work. --Jury and Lovell was issued supplementary patent letters to become a private company. -- General Motors announced the es- tablish t of 10 training centres for mechanics. 11--Announcement was made that the Oshawa General Hospital would raise $1,000,000 for a new wing--Brooklin telephone exchange ghanged from a rural company to the Bell Telephone System.--The Chamber of Commerce announced that there was no slackening of work in industries seen in the near future. 12--The Oshawa Kinsmen Club presented a baragraph to OCCI in memory of the late Roy Dibbon, at the/commencement exercises.-- Rosemary Bialek was valedictor- ian and seven students received service medals instead of the us- ual six. 14--Alex Boyd, former ambulance operator in Oshawa, died in Pet- erborough. The 1953 Community 8--Ten killed in subway train {crash at London, England. 9--Britain rejects terms as ma- jority of 46 nations sign Interna- tional Wheat agreement. | 11--Allies and Reds sign PoW |, exchange agreement at Panmun- jom 15--Prime Minister Malan wins South African election. 24--Winston Churchill becomes Knight of the Order of the Garter. MAY 2--British Comet jet airliner crashes near Calcutta, 43 killed. 7--Communists agree to leave in Korea prisoners who do not wish repatriation after armistice. 11--Fifteen lost, 16 saved, as freighter Henry Steinbrenner found- ers in Lake Superior. 15 -- Heavyweight chmapion Rocky Marciano knocks out Jer- expedition leader Col. H. C. J. Hunt knighted at London; jockey Gordon Richards wins his first E| som Derby on Sir Victor Sassoon's colt Pinza. 9--New England tornado kills 86; damage $75,000,000. 10--Britain's highest civilian award, sorge ross, awarded to Everest-climbing guide Bhotai Ten- sing. ¥-_Russians rush armored divi- | sion to quell riots in East Berlin. 18--President Syngman Rhee of South Korea releases 25,000 anti- Communist North Korean prison- ers; 129 U.S. servicemen killed in crash of big transport near Tokyo; Egypt declared republic, Maj.- Gen. Naquib named president and premier. 19--Julius and Ethel Rosenberg electrocuted at Sing Sing prison as atom spies. 22--Russia removes restrictions on foreign diplomats and news cor- respondents in Soviet Union. 6--Joseph Laniel, 63, becomes 19th post-war premier of France. 27--Churchill ordered by doctors to take a month's rest; Bermuda Big Three conference postponed. 29--Torrential rains in Japan leave 457 dead, million homeless. JULY Princess Margaret open Rhodes centenary exhibition at Buluwayo, Southern Rhodesia. 5--East Red actions. Russia's deputy premier and police head and sent for trial on treason charges. 12--Trans-ocean airliner with 58 aboard wrecked in Pacific crash. 15--John Christie, sex strangler, hanged at London. . 17--Maude Adams, 80, famed actress, dies 'at Tannersville, N.Y. 27--Armistice signed at Panmun- jom, ending Korea hostilities. . 20--East Germans defy Commun- ist police in flocking to distribu- tio points for free food gifts from 31--Senator Robert A. Taft, 63, dies at New York. AUGUST 9--Premier Malenkov announces Russia has H-bomb. 10--Liberal government wins Canadian general election with 171 seats in 265-member Commons. 14--Earthquakes on Greek is- lands kill 1,000, destroy two cities. 16--Shah Reza Pahlevi flees Iran after mob smashes palace in coup backed by Premier Mossadegh. 17--British business man Edgar Sanders released after serving 3% years in Hungarian prison for "es- pionage 19--Mossadegh ousted fom Iran premiership; Premier Zahedi 22--Shah of Iran returns from brief Rome banishment to Tehran. 27--Wilbert Coffin, 37, prospector charged with murder of thee American hunters in Gaspe. SEPTEMBER 2--Gen. Jonathan Wa , defender of Corregi San Antonio, Texas. 4--Maj.-Gen. William Dean, U.S. army prisoner in Korea, released by Communists. 6--Chancellor Konrad Adenauer wins slim majority in West Ger- an elections. 11---Mrs# Melinda Maclean, wife of missing British diplomat, van- ishes from Geneva with three chil- dren. 15--Madame Vijaya Pandit, 58, sister of India's Prime Minister Nehru, succeeds Pearson as Jes dent of UN General Assembly. 18--Kenya Supreme Court passes death sentences on 44 Mau Mau inwright, , dies at sey Joe Walcott in first round at Chicago. 16--Moscow announced pardon; for William Oatis, AP correspond- | ent imprisoned at Prague in 1951! for espionage. 21 -- Tornado at . Sarnia, Ont. causes $4,000,000 damage; four deaths in surrounding district. 25--Atomic shell fired from can- non by U.S. army in Nevada. 29---E. P. Hillary of New Zea- land and native guide Bhotai Ten- sing reach summit of Mount Ever- est. JUNE 2--Queen Elizabeth I crowned at Westminster Abbey. 6--Hillary and British Everest L terrorists. 21--Communist pilot lands Rus- sian-built jet at po airport to claim $100,000 reward and political asylum in U.S, 25--Anti-Communist Chinese pris- heavyweight title by technical knockout over Roland Lastarza in 11th round at New York. 25--Anti-Communist Chhese ris- oners demonstrate at Panmunjom against Indian custodians. 26--RBritain ends sugar rationing after 14 years. 29--Mayor Ernst Reuter of Ber- lin, 64, dies of heart attack. NCTOBER 1--Form' © Egyptian Premier Abdel Hadi sentenced at Cairo to 3--Queen Mother Elizabeth and | German Communists | disclose 50,000 arrested for anti- | 10--L. P. Beria, 53, dismfssed as' surrenders to new |P {ted in Review Of Outstanding World Events During The Year 1953 be hanged for treason. 5-New York Yankees win fifth Straight world series, beating Brooklyn Dodgers four games to two 6--Britain sends warships and troops to avert threatened Com- munist coup in British Guiana. 7--Body of kidnapped Bobby Greenlease, 6, found at St. Joseph, Mo.; police arrest C. A. Hall, 37 and Mrs. Bonnie Heady, 41. 8--Mobs in Belgrade smash windows of foreign embassies, pro- testing Anglo-American withdrawal from Trieste area. 9--Britain assumes control of British Guiana as state of emer- gency declared; ousts Premiep Cheddi Jagan. 13--Sir Winston Churchill awarded Nobel literature prize. 14--Belgian airliner crashes at Frankfort, in Germany: 44 dead. 15--Britain explodes atomic wea- pon at Woomera range in Australia, 16--Big aircraft carrier Leyte wecked by explosion at Boston; 30 dead. 21--Bobo Olson of San Francisco captures vacant world middle- weight title, beating Randy Turpin of England in New York. 22--Churchill government wins confidence vote on suspension of British Guiana constitution. 28-U.S. army account says more | than 6,000 Americans probably were among thousands tortured or | massacred by Reds in Korea. 29--Nineteen killed when British Commonwealth Pacific Airline plane crashes near San Francisco. 30--Gen. George C. Marshal, American soldier-statesman, wins Nobel peace prize. NOVEMBER 4--Pro-Italians battle police in riots at Trieste. 8--Israeli Premier David Ben Gurion. 68, resigns. 9--King Ibn Saud of Saudi Ara- bia, 75, dies at Bahrein. 12--British Parliament passes re- gency act. making Edinburgh in- stead of Princess Margaret regent in event of Queen's death or in- capacity. 14--Eisenhower addresses joint session of Commons, Senate, at Ottawa. 22--British museum experts say Piltdown skull is partly hoax. 23--FElizabeth and Duke of Edin- Purgh leave on Commonwealth our. 24--UN Security Council censures Israel for border raid in which 58 Arabs killed in October. DECEMBER 4--Big Three conference at Ber- muda arranges four-power foreign ministers conference at Berlin, 8--Eisenhower in UN General Assembly speech proposes nations should form international: atomie ool. 12--Panmunjom talks to arrange Korea peace conference break down; U.S. envoy Arthur Dean withdraws from sessions. 14--NATO council at Paris hears U.S. State Secretary Dulles warn that U.S. would have to consider Teyising basic policy if European army including Germany is not formed soon. 17--Russian gover n ment 'an- d Beria f d to traitor ous plot. 18--Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Heady executed at Jeffer- son City, Mo., for kidnap-slaying of Greenlease boy. 20--Elizabeth and Philip leave Tonga islands en route to New Zealand. 21 -- Mossadegh sentenced by court-martial at Tehran to three years in prison for treason: Rus- sia expresses willingness to discuss Eisenhower's atomic pool plan. 23--Mocow announces L. P, Beria and six others shot for treason; Rene Coty, 71, elected French president after 13 ballots. 24-New Zealand train wreck at storm-weakened bridge costs 166 lives; 103 killed in Czechoslovakian train wreck, 25£.Queen Elizabeth delivers Christmas message from New Zea- land, stressing Commonwealth's equal partnership of nations and races. 26--Eisenhower announces pro- ressive reduction of US. forces in orea. 27--Interim government appoin- ritish Guiana. 28--Big Three accept Russian proposal to delay Berlin meeting of ig Four fore ministers for short time.