Daily Times-Gazette, 26 May 1955, p. 3

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| K. OF C. ELECTS NEW SLATE OF OFFICERS Elected at a recent meeting, | the new executive of St. Greg: | ory's Council, Knights of Colum- bus, will officially take office | July 1. Installation ceremonies | will not be held until the coun 4 Graduate At Western University Four Oshawa students attending | the faculty of arts at the Univer: sity of Western Ontario will re- We their degrees at the annual| Sonyocation on June 4 | The successful students are] M. L. Bmith of Pickering who will | receive his master of business ad- | ministration degree; Oshawa, who will receive his bach: | elor of arts degree in business | administration; E. F, Donald of Oshawa, who will receive his bachelor of arts degree In the eneral course and Miss Joyre | © urran of Oshawa, who took sec- ond class honors in the business administration . and secretarial course at Ursuline College, The University of Western On| tario has also announced an under- | raduate award to Miss Doris YeNure of Port Perry, who took] second-year honors i business and secretarial science $1,500 Sarmarked For Safety Week At a special the oy of i udget of $1,50 for 1 e safet, in This cost will include all the 'expenses of the safety week to be held in Oshawa during the week of June 20.25 Shane BIG ANIMAL Irish elk, extinct for centuries in Europe, stood about six feet high with antlers spreading 11 feet COMING EVENTS | THE PIANO AND VIOLIN PUPILS OF | Mrs, John Dickson will present a re eital on Friday, at St. Stephen's United | Church, North Oshawa, 8 pm, Silver collection 1224 COME AND HEAR MR. JOHN RAN son, Sunday, May 20, 3 o'clock, Orange Temple, Bruce St, Subject "Britain's Position In Prophecy." Everyone come, May wel: | 26,28 | MONSTER BINGO Order Eastern Star, Union Hall, day, May , & o'clock, #300 prizes, Admission 25¢ DRAW, | Natur Cash 22h | AND CAR RUMMAGE SALE | - SIMCOE STREET United: Church, | Lh Friday, 1.80, Group | 12% | BINGO THURSDAY, MAY 24, 8 P.M, | UAW Hall, North Oshawa Park Auxil lary, Seven #40 jackpots 122 RUMMAGE SALE CANADIAN Corps Hall, 30 Richmond West, Friday (May 27) at 1.30 pm 121p ST. GEORGE'S GUILD Centre St Tea and Sale of Work and Home Baking Tuesday, June 14 at Ipm, May26, June! Notice to Oshawa Elks 382 BPOE Time of departure for Napanee trip, Saturday, May 28 at 2:30 sharp from Gray Coach Term- inal. All members wish- ing to go, contact Ray Drinkle, RA 5-3398 by 6 p.m, Friday, Fez will be worn, C. Bould ER G. Sweet, Secretary 122be SPRING in aid ST. HEDWIG'S CHURC J, M, Hart of | B the eil's first Beptémber meeting, | Pictured above are, Front Row, L. to R.: John Polman, treasur- er; J. J. Kelly, Deputy Grand Knight; J, J. Bawks, Grand Knight; J, J. Fox, Chancellor; By DR, R. E, COX (Second of a series of are ticles In connection with the celebration of Kinsmen Week, which is currently being oh. served in Oshawa and through. out Canada.) (J, H, Smythe, Warden, Back | Row: J, H, MeGuire, Trustee; L, J, Weeks, Guard; G, 8, Burke; | Guard; E, J, Clarke, Past | Grand Knight; J. E, Judge, | Trustee, and J, A, Labine, Guard Absent when the photo was tak City Kinsmen Keep Pace 'With Oshawa Expansion (t en were Rev, Dr, Paul Dwyer, | Chaplain, Robert Clancy, Fir nancial Secretary; John Regan, | Advocate; Lou Bodreau, Gugrd; | James McKenna, Trustee, and | Anthony Meringer, Recorder ! "Times- Gazette Photo Present Gavel 'To City Knights At Convention J, J. Bawks and Ed, Clarke, delegates to the recent Knights of 4 Columbus state convention at Kit: During the period between 1943 and 1948, the Club eame under gix presidents, They were L rooks, Ray Hobbs, Dr, K Cox, Douglas Cheseborough, | ert Robinson and John Cooke t was a time of many changes was "Milk for Britain" Oshawa Kinsmen the direction of E. Herb: | | Up until 1944 our major progzam While raising more than $50,000 for this war effort, we also carried on local welfare work, such as aid for the Children's Shelter sil clinics, along with to the hospital and hoys band DOUBLE MEMBERSHIP With the end of the and war, converting to peace-time activities we i RE were faced with the necessity of par ir | ton- donations {| meeting, One of our first ventures in hig field was supplying of more than $10,000 Our next important represented an expenditure of nearly $00,000, | new me Each and every one of the presi dents, along with a wartime mem- THROWN FROM MOTORCYCLE, YOUTH, 18, DIES An 18-year-old Toronto youth | died in hospital in that city ves terday from injuries suffered Saturday night when he was thrown from the pillon seat of a motorcycle near Oshawa, Policy sald the machine, driven hy Arthur Owens, 21, hit a bump in the roadway and Kenney was thrown several feet, suffering severe head injuries, He was ad- mitted to the Oshawa General Hospital and transferred to To. ronto Monday, Owens with minor injuries, playground | equipment our first step was the purchase of enough equipment for 14 play areas In the city, at a cost roject was lanning of our Civic Memorial meeting of the | Stadium, During these later years HY of the Oshawa Saloty definite plans | were gue Cham. | §fastruction 2 ie gor'a comple escaped | DR, R, E. cox bership, gave untiringly of their time and energy fo carry these projects = successful conclusions, JOIN R 8 iN AN when the war was over laid and the| and many young men returned i | we fi them ome our vanity, §0 that 1h to: we enjoy a membership of that of war years, These mbers have taken up the banner and are continuing to fill "the community's greatest needs. MIMS BEATS GREEN | 5 LOUIS (AP)-Holly Mims, 0 | day wi double Washington, fourth ranking middleweight, Wednesday night | stood off a late rally by Charley Green of Los Angeles to win a | unanimous 10-round decision in a | nationally-televised boxing bout at | Bt Louis Arena, Mims weighed 154%, Green 160, "1 SAW..." "While coming home on the bus recently, the bus stopped at the corner of Simcoe and Louisa streets, Some children got on, all except one little boy slip in the rear door let a man off, then before the door closed, I SAW the litte boy slipped in the rear doo sat down on the steps until the rest of the children got on, then stand up to join them." Miss - Patricia Cornish, 624 Christie avenue, is being sent two guest tickets for the fea: ture picture "Betrayed", now being shown at the Regent Theatre, or for any other fea. ture shown there during the next month, for having sent in this 1 SAW item, Entries for this solumn should be sent to the "I SAW" Editor, T he Times-Gazette, Oshawa. Two guest tickets for the Regent Theatre will be sent to the sender of any item published, Since only one item is used each day, only the most un« usual and striking observations will be published, and in the order in which they arrive at The Times- Gazette, BAZAAR of H BUILDING FUND to be held at NEW POLI SH HALL 168 BANTING AVE. (ELDON) ON FRIDAY, at 7:30 MAY 27th p.m, GAMES FANCY WORK-BING _FREE ADMISSION O-REFRESHMENTS EVERYONE WELCOME b | low, This isn't a bombed out area | in Europe but a scene in down town Oshawa, The building is on 'Rundle Park Opens Saturday | | Pans have heen completed tor | | the Sting of Rundle Park on Satur | The starting time will be 2 p.m, | There will be races and games for | young and old | There will also be free treats | for children, Mayor Norman Down will offi: | {ciate at the official opening at 645 pm. A talent show w fol | chener, presented a silver-banded avel to Members of Bt, Gregory's a ofl, of C, at Its regular meeting his week The gavel was handed fo them at the convention in recognition of | anexed hy the city in 1951 the service the local council has| | rendered to the community during | the past year The Oshawa council lg the only group of Knights In the province | which has sponsored Circle | Squires the council's junior bd | vision ~~ and a Little League base: | ball organization, | Both delogaton also reported on the convention, and the election of | officers for the province Mr, Clarke was chairman of the adjourned after {| the inifiation reports were heard which from a number of new members BIRTHDAYS Congratulations are extend. ed tn the following readers of the Times-Gazette who are ce- lebrating Heir birthdays to- day May Taward o Salmon, 656 Hor. avenue, to) Fairview | OBHAWA I" VoL, 14--No, 122 » Combining The Oshows Times ond Whithy Gastte end Chwonicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1955 PAGE Es Judgment Is Reserved In $65,000 Bus Suit The two-man Ontario Municipal | Board reserved judgment on a £65,000 compensation claim against the city made by the DeNure Bus Line of Port Perry, The bus Vine claims for loss of business re- sulting from competition with the Oshawa Railway Company whose hus service was extended into the | annexed area at the city's direc: tion In yesterday's hearing at the city hall charges were made that bus drivers of the rival lines had ockeyed thelr seven-ton vehicles " a stop-hy-stop race for passen: gers, Bus line president Fred De- Nure, Colonial Coach Lines driver for 13 years hefore operating his own line, sald he was being forced back Into harness, Business in the annexed area, he. claimed, was worth $10,000 a year to his com. pany. It was reveoled that the Oshawa Street Rallway Workers' Union had organized a door-o door canvas to solicit custom for the new serviee when it was be lieved its failure would result in| further layoffs of Oshawa Rellway| Company men Yesterday's hearing was the se: | quel to eity council's decision of January 24th, to direct the Osh: awa Rallway Company to extend its bus service to serve residents | of the former Fast Whithy area] Today, | of the Board will hear the case the Garton Coach Lines, whose claim for $150,000 compensation from the city is made on a similar basis Claim of the DeNure Bus Lines | tl is made under provisions of the|c Ontario Municipal Act which al Case Is Tough One To Settle, City, DeNure Told By Yeates were only about a hundred hous: es in that part 2 the area serviced by his line, hie he sald, v Joveloped considerably until war, He was a lone a there until 14 March, i , when the Oshawa Raflway | lows for compensation to b es adversely affected by annexas tion, For the claimants it wes stated that the extension of the Oshawa Railway Company hus service, resulting from annexs: tion, had caused "great Loss" For the city it was claimed that to effect adversely meant to de prive of some legal right, The city maintained the DeNure line hadsevery legal right today it had ever had Ontario Municipal Board mem: her Howard Yeates told both per- [ tes at the close of the hearing "it Is going to be a tough one as there is no case law to back It up," Fred DeNure, DeNure Bus Line, J heen in the hus business since 1927 when he was a driver for the Colonia! Coach Lines, He he gan operating his own line in June 1942, when an unrestricted licence was granted him to operate be: tween Oshawa and Port Perry, He sald he owned the hulk of shares in his company, incorporated in 1951 When he began operating there president of the sald he had sent its buses into the | ares, Under cross examination he sald he belived his service had been responsible for much of the de- velopment in that area, Rept: ing to a question of Rolly Mie ener QC, counsel for the DeNure Bus Line, he sald the Qthawa Rallway Company had applied to the Board for leave to enter the annexed area in 1048, The com: pany was told it could not extend ts service into the area as long os It was part of East Whitby, Michener: "What indication had you of these changes to be made?" DeNure: "I knew nothing but what | read in the press and heard on the radio," Michener: "You had no indica: tion from the city?' DeNure: No,' Michener: "Do you hold any Mi cence from the city, or what deal ings do you have with the eity? DeNure: "None, | Just receive my tax bill from (hem every three months," Mr, DeNure sald he paid $187 taxes eyery three months, Michener: "How did the Oshawa Rallway Ci y come into eom- 2 Oshawa Men Are Charged In Theft Of Auto Two Oshawa men were terday by Magistrate F, 8, Motors Co, of Canada Ltd, of Somerville street, were week, each, The two accused, Jack Brock street west, and Clarence Russell Harrison, 84, Parts remanded to June 28 yes. Ebbs when they appeared in police court on a charge of theft of automobile parts valued at $4,000 from the south plant of the General here, Howard Randall, 82, of arrested in Toronto last Police said the accused were in a panel truck which contained the stolen parts, from Toronto by Det,-Sgt, W, Jordan and Det.-8gt. G. MeCammond, Both were granted bail of $5,000 They were brought #10 Whitby, MAY SIGN WITH EAGLES EDMONTON (CP) Johann Bright, star defensive halfbac with Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Interprovineial Football Union last year, may sign with Philadelphia Fagles of the Na: tional Football League, Fagle officials called the Edmon- ton club Tuesday to ask If the Eskimos had any strings on Bright, | The FKskimos replied he was not included in the team's plans for Gordon Dundas street west, Name Of Cat Pays $56,000 DRYDEN, Ont, (CP)--A business man's wife in this community, 175 miles northwest of Port Arthur, won $56,000 on a het placed in the name of her cat---8tinkpot, Mrs, Henry Storey held a ticket on second place Pannaslipper--a 100 to 1 chance, "When I heard the result T was so nervous I didn't know what to do. Then the phone started .ring- ing, on and on," she said, rv, Storey is an accountant and part-owner of a garage, "We were , Planning a trip to Nova Scotia," sald his. wife, "Now 41 may go further, Oh, its wonder: ul." Mrs, Storey has hought sweep: stake tickets for four years, "Stinkpot helped me this time," she said, His reward will be some exira special liver, the coming season, King street, just west of the ins tersegtion of "King and Simcoe streets, which Is known as The "OPERATION BIG SWITCH" will take place soon! RT S-- Four Corners, The structure was gutted by fire more than one year ago, Formerly the home of new structure WRECKING CREWS LEVEL DOWNTOWN SITE petition with you?" DeNure: "They did a very good job of ft They Jt in a 15-min- ute service, Their drivers got to know our drivers and found out our times, Instead of pulling out on schedule Riad pulled out ahead of us and got the customers, We got the ey lers, They would Jump ahead of us in the thicker areas, They were quicker on the draw." Mighener: 'What other steps did their drivers take to get bus ness?' DeNure: "Well, I heard that drivers were going from doorto- door asking people to use thelr buses or the service might be cur: tailed." Michener: 'How much, In your fois a Gur. sins been af: ay, "I cannot have taken pri on he Jt A 1 will have I present Pervice HA Rs hd I will Jave to go back arness as I was 18 years ago, They are akin the top of the bottle we are losing the cream, It's unfair we should lose this area.' Mr, DeNure sald his company's gross revenue from the annexed area wah about $30,000, or Aap: proximately $10,000 net, In addi tion to his passenger revenue the company fade about $1,000 a year several city firms, it Is heing demolished to make room for a for carrying newspapers and par: cels and another $880 for carrying school children, He believed the area would develop considerably in the future, At this point, John D, Arnup, QC, for the city, took up the fucationing. Mr, DeNure said his licence had always been for the Oshawa to Port Perry route, He had started a shuttle service into the annexed area-from the Grey: hound Terminal to Camp Samac |] - in Arnup; "You sald pick-up privileges Why!" you had no in the city, DeNure: "Public Vehicle Oper: ator procedure did not permit Arnup: "Do you know of any city law which says you couldn't?" DeNure: "No, but the Oshawa Rallway Company would have in: tervened, They have the city rights and we did not interfere, = Arnup: "This $1,000 revenue for newspapers and the $880 for carry: ing children have fou lost it yet?" DeNure: "It will be lost." Arnup: "Have you lost it?" DeNure: No." Arnup: Co say you have no complaints dbout your service?" DeNure: 'That is correct,' Arnup: 'Were you aware of peti: tions from residents to eity counell asking for hotter service?" DeNure: 'No, I was not." Arnup: "There is nothing to vent you from operating in area, Is there?" DeNure: No" Arnup: 'But you now have the competition of the Oshawa Rail: wa Company?" Nure: "Yes" Arpup: "On 1st January, 1081, the date of annexation, the holder Oshawa Memorial Service ® Monuments @ Markers te RL Wh TRE re his THE FREE ADMISSION Sacred Music Night OUTSTANDING 70 VOICE CHOIR FROM THE AVENUE ROAD CHURCH -- TORONTO Alle Noted Radio Minister -- DONALD R. SHEPSON Sal, May 28 - Simcoe St. United - 7:45 pm. OSHAWA Y.rC of the licence was Yrod DeNure personally, was it not DeNure: "Yes, He Company tt cy wa Te ed oo ant ual fk A was subsequently trans. dong | erred to company later in DeNure: "That's H ror 4 for the Ll DeNure Bus the board | fi fiat receipts in the annexed area ad dropped from 36,7 of total re. ceipts to 10.5 as a result of com: petition, He sald that business in that ares wis worth $10,389 pd net profit to the company, He said that with the loss of that bus iness, DeNure might as well Hote up, Theat ares carried the whole service, he ended, ARNUP: "The company's loss in 1064 was $569 before eprecia- tion, What would davracintion be?' Harper: "About $4 Arup: "Bo net loss in 1964 was approximately $4,500." r, Harper agreed he had no occasion to conduct an analysis to determine what part of the serv. ice the profit was coming from, He sald they had always figured the annexed ares was a third of the business, Without it, he sald, Delite would be lucky to break " b+ Rallway Company hus driver Murray Paterson was the only other witness called, He was asked by DeNure's counsel, Rolly Michener: "Is it' true your com- pany made an effort to get busi: ness in the annexed area?" Paterson; "What do you mean?" Michener: "Did you receive in-| structions to do any canvassing?' Paterson: "Not from the com- pany, 'I only received instructions to carry out my schediles,' Michener: "Then who gave the Instructions?' Paterson; "The Union was in. terested In getting business,' He, sald drivers had gone out can. vassing for one day the weekend rear door of { (Canada) Limited plant in Ajax... with a pass key he possessed, snd stealing cused said he took the Toronto and sold them hand dealers, The pumps were valued a $100 for the compa oy took place on May p.m, cused, who has spenf three and eleven months in 1947 for 77 charges, the Nichol, . told the court that the accused should have psychiatric treatment to "bring him to himself," - June 1 could Man Admits $100 Theft Frank Thom, Bf of T fly tore ain? 0 Thonmoson Mdmiied snteving ee ba Pump ne remand The ne: mps fo second two pumps, The accused, who Cg worked said the theft 4 at about 11 the a6. years Speaking on behalf of ov, Earl a United Church minister, Thompson will be sentenced on ------ stand, ""DeNure's have miffered not as a result of annexation, but from competition from a company with a city franchise held since 1930 and now boundaries operating within wider Counsel for the DeNure Bus Line replied that the DeNure Company was the tranferree of the lleence already nexation, sald, taken away. That Is not the case, It Is a question of: Have we heen adversel ponly ri the ri fected," in existence before an. "It has been asked," he "What legal right has been affected? That Is 'the t we claim to have lost-- t not to be adversely af before the new service started, He denied. the suggestion that he teid to beat rival drivers, saying: "As far as 1 am concerned, 1 am not going to jockey seven tons of equipment to get a couple of customers," He aad hat %| hs the other driver was stopped Sould pass hi hm, If he wi was stopped, | sv river would pass, In his Sonchuding | | oh, {oun BLACKHEADS. Don't blackheads t two from amy" fd AAT i i wel jor a Yihes ted out that Act did: not oad to com or on a pu asengers, and so have always ypolisti ' not be a Meiopo 0, r, chener continued: "Granting a public service ve. Helos licence to DeNure's gave he sombany exclusive rights to A on that route, It has been Sufgonted that the adverse affect as not been the result of annexa- tion, But if there had been no annexation the Oshawa R. "In 1M7 the Oshawa y Company a lied to your board but were told the city could not grant a franchise for the com: pany to go into the annexed area, herefore, the adverse affect on the DeNure Buy Line is directly attributable to annexation, "The city has taken the view that there Is a little harmless Jom tithon, That the company still rmitted to carry on where it has been used to operat: ing, That position is untenable," Counsel for the city, John Arnup closed his case by submitting the 'statute was not Intended to co- ver the loss of business from law: ful competition, It was meant to cover the loss of a licence as a result of an an. nexation order, You do net look at the result three or 10 years hence," The questions to be decided, he sald, was whether It could be said the applicant was directly affect: ed by annexation when he still has the rights he had before annexa: tion; could it be said he had been adversely affected when he was Hot in business until after annexa: on, The com ny, continued Mr, Ar nup, had s yd a substantial loss of over $4,000 in 1054, The only change after 14 March was that the Oshawa Railway So mpany had started operating the area, EVERY DAY IS SAVINGS DAY GLECOFF 1.&.A. 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