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HARO LD HOBBS LOOKS OV ER HIS ELABORATE INSTALLATION : FRANK BAKER, RIGHT, KEEPS AN ACCURATE RECORD OF MESSAGES "HAMS" ARE USEFUL Amateur Radio Operators Combine Fun With Service By JOE GIBSON Amateur radio operators, or "hams as they call themselves, are the only sts in the world whose spare-time fun is regulated by international law. And while they may be just so much static to owners of ordinary | radio or television sets, probably | no other group can assume as | much importance in times of emer- | and the locals are no exception, recall a test conducted a couple gency. When Hurricane Hazel ripped | least five years they add and re-| with the Ground Observer Corps | build in the process, at costs rang-|and the RAF. ) : | ing from $1,500 to $2,000. An Indian | took off from Boeing Field, Seat-| through Uxbridge last year, a radio ham provided that isolated com- | munity with its only contact with | the rest of the province for two days. Another amateur filed the | breach when Malton airport was cut off by a power failure at the height of the same storm, | WORLD LOG BOOK | The world log book of amateur | radio set owner contains more | names than the Toronto telephone | book. It includes princes and pre-| lates, diplomats and dairy farmers. Each is a member of an informal- world-wide organization that is en- tirey uninhibited by racial, religious or political prejudices. The prince | of Thailand is a member of the| organization in Siam; band-leader Tex Beneke is a paid-up member of the American equivalent. Each of them is a volunteer cog in a global wireless network that makes Western Union look like an inter- office communication system. Among the 40-odd hams in the Oshawa district is Harold Hobbs, of 85 Brock street west, owner and cperator of VE3PF -- know to fol- low amateurs as 'Peter Fox." The hams use the phonetic alphabet prescribed by the U.S. Federal Communications system. which is | also the alphabet used by the Can- | adian Army A for Adam, B for | Baker, C for Charlie, D for Dog Local Choral Group Plans and so on. The VE letters and the | 3 designates Ontario, the province | in which the station is located. A few other local hams are Ted Brant, of Whitby, Walter Colton, of Division street, Bill Marshall of | Richmond street and Frank Baker | of Hillcroft street. | BUILD OWN SETS | Ninety per cent of the amateurs | build Taking at their own sets diplomat operates a set valued at 23,000. The amateur broadcaster starts off with a small set and is limited to sending and receiving messages in the international code for the first year. Acquiring a certain amout of technical knowlege as he goes along, the beginner prepar- es for his first test -- to get his class B licence from the Depart- ment of Transport, Ottawa. After operating on a key for a year, with further study of radio theory, the class B licensee may try for his class A permit, which allows him (or her) to operate with a microphone and loudspeaker. The | amateur operator's licence must be renewed promply each year. INFORMAL FELLOWSHIP Radio hams have an informal, international fellowship of their own, with no sex, racial or religi- ous barriers. "You can go anywhere in the world," is their claim, 'and never be without a friend." CIVIL DEFENCE BASIS There is, already, the basis for a civil defense network of radio amea- teurs. Every night at seven o'clock the Ontario control station conducts a check-up of those who call in frequently. At the end of the roll For Its Initial Recital Boris N. Pashkulew a state-less refugee who fled before the Iron Curtain enveloped him in its folds | in Vienna, Austria has, in the few | months he has been a special | student at Oshawa Missionary | College, made quite an impression musically speaking on the campus and in the immediate community With the co-operation of the col- lege music department under Mrs. | Margaret Yakovenko, ATCM, BA, he has organized a community choral group called the Gloria Choir which will present its first COMING EVENTS KING ST. YOUNG PEOPLE'S UNION presents "Spooky Junction", a mystery comedy in 3 acts at King St. United Church, Oshawa, March 31 and April ist, 8.15 p.m. Admission 50c | Mar.23,25,26,28,29,30. | SPRING BAZAAR United Church, Wednesday, March 30 at 2.30. 7 FIRST FORMAL MEETING OF OSH awa Field Naturalists club Tuesday, Mareh 29, at 8 p.m. C.R.A. Gibb Street Guest speaker Mr. G. M. Bartman. Exe cutive - Secretary, of Federation of On- tario, Naturalists 72a RUMMAGE SALE United Church day March 28, KING STREET Friendship Group, Mon at 1.30. 72a MADAME NEVADA PALMIST AT 77 Ontario Street on Monday evening till Wednesday, Hours 11-9, 7. 24 France, AT WESTMOUNT | BORIS N. PASHKULEW recital, on April 1, in the College Auditorium Mr. Pashkulew studied music {in Graz and Vienna, Austria under | | the auspices of the Austrian Na- | tional Chamber of Music. For sev- eral years he was director of music at the denominationally operated college at Collonges-Sous Saleve in France He has given concerts in Paris, Geneva and Lausanne, call, the control station asks if there is any traffic (messages)"to pass on. If there is, these mess- ages are passed on through the volunteer, - amateur network that blankets the country. Messages can be relayed to any part of the North American Continent within two hours. | Some local radio operators can of years ago in which hams worked An American B29 tle, destination unknown. It crossed | into Canada at Victoria, BC at 8.10] a.m. EST. Seventeen minutes later, Firemen Called To Hospital City firemen answered one call last night. The number five truck was sent to the kitchen of the Oshawa General hospital when a wall receptacle caught fire, Em- ployees at the hospital extinguish- ed the fire before firemen arriv- ed. There was no estimate of the damage. Ci Police Order New Uniforms The monthly meeting of the Oshawa police commission was held in the court room of the Oshawa Police department Fri- day afternoon. Main topic of dis- cussion was new uniforms for po- licemen. Tenders for the new uniforms and other clothes were received from four local firms and two out of town companies. The con- tract for the blue shirts was giv- en to T. Johnston. The depart- ment requires 172 shirts for the year and these will each cost $3.85. The order for the 86 ties needed was given to the firm of Kinlock's, Oshawa who tendered for 85 cents each. This firm was also awarded the contract for the uniforms "which will cost 64.50 each. The T. Eaton company was given the order for overcoats, to cost $49.50 each. Permission was granted to the police to hold their annual ball on Wednesday April 20. Two letters of gratitutde were received. Field Aviation wrote to congratulate the police depart- ment for the service it has given in escorting payrolls to the Osh- awa airport. The letter said the "service had at all times been given with a smile." A second letter was received from the Busi- ness and Professional Women's club congratulating police for their efforts to relieve downtown traffic. Members of the police commis- sion agreed the taxi driving li- cence of Gaston Bernard should not be re-issued. It recommended Mr. Bernard apply again in six months, "I SAW..." "One day I was waiting for a ride home from work when I SAW an elderly gentleman light a cigarette. When he had it lit he sneezed and it flew out of his mouth into the slush in the road. This may not sound unusual, but he lit two more and the same thing happened to them. Just then my ride came along so I can't say what happened to the fourth one." Miss Hilda Roka, R.R. 2, Bowmanville, is being sent two guest tickets for the feature picture "Brigadoon", now being shown at the Regent Theatre or for any other fea- ture within the next month for having sent in the above "I SAW" item, Entries for this column should be sent to the "I SAW" Editor, The Times - Gazette, Oshawa. Two guest tickets will be sent to the sender of any item published. Since only one item is used each day only the most unusual and striking observations will be published, and in the order in which they arrive at The Times-Gazette, - REPLACE CROCKERY OTTAWA (CP)--Canada's armed forces, as an economy measure, are replacing crockery with plastic ware in some men's messes in an attempt to cut down on broken, chipped and cracked dishes, the de- fence department said Friday. an Owen Sound operator received | § the message from the coast and alerted the Ontario Control Point The amateur radio network had proved its effectiveness in the event {of an attack OSHAWA FOCAL POINT | Last December, Oshawa was the | focal point of one of the largest | civil defence exercises ever held in Canada. City Hall was set up as| § | headquarters for Region 4, the | | largest of seven sectors established | | across Ontario | At Zero Hour, the warning "apple | jack" flashed across an amateur radio network, centered in Oshawa, | that covered 11 counties. Seventeen | stations dealt with calls from *'stri- cken" areas. The operation, labell- ed "Trillium" and designed to test | the efficiency of communications | in the event of a nuclear attack, | lasted two hours Thomas Hopkins, co-ordinator of civil defence for Oshawa and regional controller for Region. 4, described the excercise as a suc- cess, "although some municipali- | tes showed a lack of interest." | The ham radio network, he said, - "functioned very well." Switzerland and in Lyon, France before he fled to Canada in 1953 Before coming to Oshawa he spent almost a year and a half in Mon- treal and will be returning this summer to take graduate work at | McGill University in the field of Boris Paskulew has been invit- | ed to return to Oshawa Missionary | College as an associate professor | in the music department next | year, it was announced today by Principal William A. Sowers who | has helpéd to write this chapter in a story of quiet Christian cour- |age that like many others, has brought some fine new Canadians to the shores of this land. BIRTHDAYS Congratulations are extended to the following readers of The Times-Gazette who are cele- brating their birthdays today March E. J. street; Fay Broad, south Jean Samells, Port Perry; Mrs. Albert Chilcott, 399 Ver- dun road; Mrs. Walter Price, 354 Park road north; Ross Gibbs, street Congratulations are also ex- tended to the following who will celebrate their birthdays to- morrow Mrs. Donald Pierson, 233 Pal- ace street, Whitby; Louis M. Cliff, 649 Carnegie avenue Kitchen, 138 Celina 124 Park road 177 Church JOHN CAMERON, BA ' JAMES A. MacDONALD, BA, LLB New Legal Partnership | | | A new legal partnership in Osh- awa is announced today, coinci- | dent with the dissolution of the firm of Conant and Macdonald, of 7% Simcoe Street South, Dis- solution of this partnership will be effective as of March 31, on which | date the new firm of Cameron and | Macdonald will come into being, with offices at. 18'2 King Street east, | Partners in the new firm of Ca- | meron and Macdonald are John | Cameron, BA, formerly of the | music and the romance languages. | firm of Annis, Jones and Cdmer- on, and James A. Macdonald, BA, LLB, formerly of the firm of Con- ant and Macdonald John Cameron graduated from the University of Toronto in 1946, and from Osgoode Hall in 1949. He came to Oshawa in 1942 to | take over the practice of the late Allin F. Annis, and, retaining that | name, formed the firm of Annis, | Jones and Cameron along with Ralph Jones. He is a member of For Oshawa Announced St. Adrew's United Church and an active Kiwanian. James Macdonald was educated fn New York, Nova Scotia and Montreal. He received his BA at Dalhousie University in 1951, and is a. post-graduate of the same university with the degree of LLB. He spent three years with the Eastern Trust Company in Ha- lifax, being admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in July, 1952, After be- ing articied to the firm of Cam- eron, Weldon, Brewin and McCal- lum, he was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada, and was associated with the firm of Har- ris, Houser and Jones in litigation practice. He came to Oshawa in March, 1953. He is president of the Ontario County Soccer Foot- ball Association, and active in lo- cal sports. Roger Conant, former partner of Mr. Macdonald, will continue his present practice in Ajax, and will be an associate of the new firm of Cameron and Macdonald. In view of the fact that spectfully requested by TO THE MERCHANTS OF THE CITY OF OSHAWA due to the explosion of fireworks, you are re-\ cil to withhold the sale of fireworks until Sat- urday, May 14th, for safety purposes. L. R. BARRAND, children suffer injuries the Oshawa City Coun- City Clerk, OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times ond Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY VOL. 14--No. 72 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955 PAGE 3 Trains, Buses On Time * Despite Heavy Snows Local travelling services were in no way affected by the heavy snow storm which blanketed Oshawa district in the early hours of this morning. Officials at the Gray Coach terminal and at the Oshawa Railway office said the! buses were no more than a few minutes late. All trains were on time and Canadian Pacific officials said: "It does- The wind blew and drifts piled high. Traffic slowed to a crawl and pedestrians stayed pff the streets as much as possible. Its Spring -- but old man winter still has a strangle hold on the prov- ince. Oshawa Hospital reports it had no casualties from the storm, The fire department had no troubles from the bad weather and public utilities commission report it had one call during the night. pole and sheared it off. The driver was not located and Constable D. Kostka of the Ontario Provincial n't amount to much as far as we're concerned." police is investigating the accident. PUC officials said they put up a temporary line but could not touch the pole until the storm let up. The commission expects more calls if the storm does not let up soon. Today's weather contrasts sharp- ly with that of a year ago. On March 26 of last year, newspap- ers were running front page pic- tures of the damage done by spring thaws. The bridge at John street At Courtice a car hit a telephone | was leaning heavily to one side with its foundation washed away. New sewers were also washed away by heavy rains. FOLLOW ME AROUND By TOM HICKMAN It's Spring on Park avenue. The birds are singing in the trees, couples stroll hand-in-hand in Cen- tral Park, barmaids fall out of windows and elderly men try blow- ing their brains out -- and miss. New York reaches up for the sky and life amid the skyscrapers ficke on as steadily as a time- Around at the Plaza Hotel, where wine waiters are well vers- ed in the art of ministering to the thirsts of weary pressmen, North met South when a hundred or so American and Canadian news- apermen agreed that the arrival n the Stages of the world's first turbo-jet &irliner was as good a reason as any for wetting whistles dried out at high altitudes. All the English languages could be heard in the Crystal Room of the Waldorf - Astoria's less cele- brated brother. Oxford accents and cockney twang, too, blended with more nadal dialects as cor- respondents of Old Country news- papers and aviation magazines mingled with the trans-Atlantic colleagues. THE CITY 1S YOURS The huge scale models of the Vickers "Viscount" looked lonely on their -stands -as - scotch -and sodas were superbly borne by su- personic. waiters. An ambrosial lunch was followed by the an- nouncement: "Gentlemen, the city is yours; do with it what you will." Visiting journalists, many in the company of American friends, ven- tured into the unknown and it was "Summer on Park Avenue" . . . by courtesy of 'Highland Cream." The young barmaid who fell from a West 20th street window had dozed on the hallway window sill. She was quite unhurt, and when a passer-by found her on her hands and knees she pointed to the third floor and dazedly mur- mured: "I must have fallen!" Just as well it wasn't the 33rd floor. We still don't know where the bar is. I am beginning to understand why compulsory military service is so highly thought of in the States. After all, you never know if you will want to blow your Some Reflections From Manhattan brains out at the age of 65 so learn- ing to "aim off' for March winds could be useful. BOTH WERE "LUCKY" The elderly man who pointed a .38 calibre revolver at his head and pulled the trigger, while I was in the Big City. missed with the first two shots. Perhaps they were just "warming rounds," or maybe he was more successful in finding that bar. He was lucky the third time. So was the young expectant mother 350 feet across the yard. She two stray bullets just missed er. At the Plaza's Persian Room, Ella Logan, the little star of the still-remembered "Finian"s Rain- bow" is now back as a headliner after several y@ars ab¥ence. New Yorkers, I am told, go along to SEE the lovely singer just as much as to hear her. NEW USE FOR TEABAGS Chorus girls and dewey-eyed de- butantes who dance 'til dawn are popularising TEA in the States. Hot tea-bags, they claim, are just the thing for clearing tired and bloodshot eyes. All this and cham- paign baths, too! Are American women more fig- ure conscious? Have they better figures: Or is it just that they know-how: to dress in order-to-show themselves off to the best advant- age? Or maybe male visitors to the States are more figure conscious there? AT UNITED NATIONS I spent an afternoon at the Unit- ed Nations building and listened in on the Security Council from one of the glass-fronted press booths. Israel was promising peace with Egypt if Egypt will end its state of war against her. Abba Eban, Israeli representa- tive, said his country was prepar- ed to give an assurance that if no hostile act is carried out by Egypt against Israel, then no hostile act will be carried by Israel aguinst Egypt. In other words . . . if you love me, I'll love you -- but you gotta love me first. UNIFORM OUT OF PLACE United Nations Secretary-Gen- eral Dag Hammarskjold, chin in hand, looked rather pensive -- or was it fed-up? The red-tabbed uni- (BOTH FLOORS) OSHAWA COLUMBUS CLUB are sponsoring a MONSTER BINGO 400% IN PRIZES 20 Games - Share the Wealth - Jack Pot UAW. Hall - Fri., Apr. 1st 8:15 P.M. Admission to Bingo 50c Entire Proceeds in Aid of the K. of C. "Little Big" Baseball League Transport Services Carry On In Storm form of Major General E. L. Burns, Ottawa chief of UN true supervi sion organization in Pi , look: ed as out of place in the council chamber as did the general in the red-tabbed uniform. As we left the magnificent build- ing by the East River, our atten- tion was arrested by a shout. A birdlike man in a perky hat flutter- ed to our side. "Excuse me, old boy, but I represent the Times of London . . . just wondered how many you have in your party from Canada. Want to send a para to the paper, you know." We told him and with a brief "Thanks, chaps', he darted off like a telegram and was swallowed up by New York's traffic. In the Special Sessions court the Mickey Jelke vice trial was blos- soming out once wugain. The New York grapevine has it that another and nastier case may soon be coming to light -- involving big names in the artistic world, WORTH GOING It was worth going to New York, if only to see the lights of the cit: as we flew over Manhattan Island. The journey from Malton Airport to Oshawa was infinitely longer and far less comfortable than the night flight from Idlewild. JAILED IN RIOT CASE. MONTREAL (CP)--Roland Val osi, 22, was convicted Thursday on a charge of theft arising out of last Thursday's riot at the Mont- real Forum. Criminal court judge Gerald Aimond sentenced Valis to three months in jail after he pleaded guilty to stealing $100 worth of bracelets, watches and necklaces from a St, Catherine street west jewelry store, ONE SEWING KIT With Every Purchase of Gasoline (During March) A RON HASTING CITIES SERVICE STATION 627 Simcoe St. S. $190.00 CASH PRIZE | | Times - Gazette Crosswords J As there was no winner to last week's puzzle, the prize_ money for a correct solution of this puzzle will be $190.00 WHAT Solve the clues os ofter you have Filled The Times-Gazette, Oshawa. A be divided among those puzzle money. No ou would in any crossword it in, mail it to Il answers must be receiv delivered not later than 9 a m. on Thursday, March 31 one contestant succeeds in answering i having correct solutions. 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