Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 23 Jul 1955, p. 3

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WHO LIKES ICE CREAM Who likes ice eream the most est? Why Oshawa's kiddies, of course, and this despite a, recent Ottawa statistical report which City To Buy $16,500 Site The property at Nos. 28 and 30 Centre street, which the city 1s to purchase for $16,500, stands on the fringe of a site formerly oc eupled by a lumber mill Fhe property is presently owned by the late Maud Jennings esinle which inherited it from the Bykes family One of the original Bykes fam fly was al one time either city mayor or a city councillor, but there is no confirmation from eity records The property has a 66-feet front age on Centre street to a depth of Heel H-inches neighboring 1s the Centre street United Church The backs of the houses overlook the police car park. Present oe cupanis are C. Beatty and E, Weir } J. | tril MOSES! face Kenny Marshall street, above lefl when told of the His: iee-creamventing of Conant Just seolfed Ottawa claim pal, Bonny | elaims that British Columbia ehil | dren esl move of the white stuff than thelr counterparts in other sections of Canada, Vreckled RCAF Changes West Command OTTAWA (CP) A change command for RCAF station Winn pes has been announced alr orce headguariers Group Capt, RB, B. Inglis, 41, of Brantford, commanding officer of the station since January, 1953, has heen appointed director of aly intel ligence at air force headquarters He will be succeeded hy Group Capt. G. ¥, Jacobsen, 38, of Win nipeg, who has heen assistant to the director of strategic alr plans at RCAF headquarters here, The change is effective July 28 Group Capt, Inglis, horn in Dan ville, Que., received his early edu cation in Brantford, later attending ini Bishops College in Quehee TRAINED AS NAVIGATOR He joined the RCAF in July, 1040 trained as a navigator and served with the 405 Pathiinder Bquadron of homber command Overseas While a member of the famous Pathfinders during the Beeond World War he earned the Distin | guished Bervice Order and the Dis tinguished Flying Cross Since the war his air force Jobs have Included a stint on the staff at Royal Roads College, Victoria, B,C, a term as senior Canadian alr force liaison officer in London and a year al the RCAF reserve officers school, Kingston hy GM Plants and Offices Have New Phone System A 900-line dial telephone system, one of the largest and most mod: | single location where atlendi gs) whigh Inia operas | can rn in Canada, went in General Motors m, Lenore CASH, who has heen oberaiing GM tele: phones for 18 years, 'plugged in" the first call on a system so large and completely equipped . that i could handle all the phone traffic in a town the size of Ajax with lines to gt SYSTEM IS INTRICATE Planning for the complex, highly automatic system started two years ago, when the sustained drive of expansion at General Motors indicated that the increas ing number of employees and the growth in plant ares would soon outstrip the dial sysstem then in use. Bell telephone and Northern Electric engineers blueprinted a system matched in advanced fa- cilities by only three others in One tario, Technicians have heen in: stalling and testing the maze of complex since last spring The "'brain" of the Intricate sys tem is a lowslung, ultra modern switchboard located In the service core of the new South Plant Admin istration Building, By handling all inter-office and autgoing calls auto matically the ney h the seven operators, all of whom move to the new location, free to five me meticulous attention to incom calls "he new system provides 24-hour service, After office hours, when | operators are off-duty, inter-office and fulgoing calls can still be plac ed from all telephones, Incoming hi AWA A telephone system more than hig enough handle all the phone traffle a town the size of Ajax nto a tion In General plants tn n went Motors calls at to ai answered, The supervisory light, | goes an when the called | party replaces the receiver, lets pv that the eall has been night are direcled call other extensions in ihe various buildings (0 relay mes: or Hastings ith if he { I 4 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZE Combining The Oshows Times and Whithy Gerstte id Chronide OSHAWA- WHITBY, SATURDAY, JULY n, 1955 OSHAWA YoL, 14M, 171 _ WHTeY PAGE i Heat Idles City Plants 7" Low 80's Seen Sunday Heat Idles 20 Workers More than "#0 workers st the |' | General Motors south plant walked | Laff the Joh last night because of If | | | the primary and final hardware de | partments 4! | | degrees' the heal, despite company threats || of dismissal, 1 The walkout, involving men in oeeurred pl : An hour later, GM officials chased | y down the entire plant One workman ald the temper alure crawled to ""hetier then 001° in many sections of the | f plant Day shift workers at hoth the | north and south factories were sent | {home an hour early yesierday | | {had Powlenzuk, of Douglas street alan does his bit to dispel the Of tawa theory Times-Gazetle Fine Driver Of Truck Sum Of $50 James Hastings, of Rel at Ontario was fined $50 and costs one month, when he appeared hefore Magistrate ¥, 8, Ebbs on # charge of careless driving, Al second charge of falling to re main at the scene of an accident was dismissed | Fhe accused 1s a transport driv for a Toronto firm Witness Carl Koch sald the ae cused's truck struck the side of his car while he was parked on| the shoulder of Highway #1 The accused sald a tire wrench! fell between his feet and he was! {trying to throw it out of his way | He told the court he had seen the | parked car but pulled out a dis. tance from It and the only thing he could think would cause Mishap ould Mia the trailer he truck ney BWHUNE onto rou as 800n the cah did "I had no idea | had hit the car 2 I would most certainly have gone back to see what had hap: | pened," the accused said, 0 BUMPS Crown Attorney Alex Hall Photo er of the | wked he Sug what Ae ons pe the | | IN NAVED The seven pleasant-voiced opera: tors between them they've had Bl years of experience in providing telephone service at GM will he given time-saving and ervor-avolds | was yA the y and with a hump | such as that he would not he able in feel if PEC vouch To keep the Oshawa plants and offices In touch with other GM | establishments the new system in cludes a number of direel eity-to elty lines calls can be dialed, | oard will leave | on lines called foreign exchange trunks, to GM offices in Toronto, Bt, Catharines, Windsor and Des trout A general reshuffling of local numbers for GM phones accom Another innovation called panied the change-over to the new "double flashing recall", automat: | system. To avoid confusion, GM leally flashes a light on the switeh Bupervisor of Office Bervices {hoard to signal the operator that a Clive File and his staff had a new | party on a line then in use Is try. | telephone directory listing 1458 ex Ing to reach her, To set the signal | tensions ready lor distribution on | in motion the caller simply pres: | the day of the switch to the new wes the switeh plunger on his tele. | system phone and releases it, The flashing To provide the advanced dtiven continues automatically until the of the system thousands of elee. | without this device it Is necessary [trie eircults jam-pack a 30<foot to continue depressing and releas. | room next to the switehboard quai | ing the switeh until the operator is | ters. They are made up of 6,000 reached miles of wire and It took 760,000 A supervisory light that acts as | soldered connections to install a signal to tell the operator when | them # call has heen completed is anoth- | Al the outset they'll service 800 er feature. This Is particularly | GM lines with - another 100 held valuable when the operator Is In reserve, There are BO lines to husy the redulor telephone exchange, al Usually, when the operator plugs | most 70 per cent more than the in a line as associated light flashes | previous system used on, goes out when the call Is ans: | Bell telephone engineers say the | wered, and on again when the [new system will meel the always: | {eall has heen completed, On a increasing telephone Fequirements | [shart call the operator may not | of Canada's largest automghile | have noticed that the Hght was oul | manufacturing centre for "come and think the call had not. been 'tme to come," Ing assists by a number of new features, Called telephones for ex ample, begin to ring automatically when the operator connects a call, SAVING operating time and provid ing for faster answering and offices recently. First plans | Misters all traffic on the new GM for the highly complicated sys | switchboard, which is one of the tem were laid twa years ago. | four most advanced instalations Installation began last fall. A | in Ontario. In the photo at left counting device automatically re« | Bell Telephone Oshawa manager | ODA Reports On Crops Despite the extremely hot, hy mid weather and lack of moisture, during the past month, erop con ditions In Ontario and Durham eounties, although slightly below normal, are helng well maintain ed according to the statisties| | of the Ontario department of agri-| culture | Crop conditions, expressed ag al percent of normal, Wm the two counties wre as follows: | ONTARIO COUNTY Fall wheat, 80; oats, 00; rye, 96; flax, 85; 01; dry peas, HB; all hay erops! 00; pastures, #6; soybeans, | | buckwheat, 08; potatoes, 86; roots, 04; fodder corn, #6; eorn for husk ing, 06 | DURHAM COUNTY Fall wheat, 8; oats, BG; rye, 84; mixed grains | a. peas; B88; dry beans, #2 | hay crops, 86; pastures, 4 | Boy beans, 00; buckwheat, pola oes, 00; voots, 08; oe oorn, | 6; porn for husking, | 01; harley, | mixed grains, | har ley} LH all LH Jack Lowry of the explains eounting equipment Clive File, Supervisor of Services at GM, Pictured at the old switchboard before operation to | 18h expedition which conquered Mi Office | vight, | Company officials were unavail: #ghle for comment A union representative in the south plant sald GM spokesmen 'warned us that anyone wha | punched out early would be fired | minutes hefore the 20 men drop: | ped their tools "I SAW..." "While uptown this week, 1 SAW a small girl wearing shorts with long stockings, The temperature was over WW,' Margarel Webber, i Brock street south, Whithy, is heing sent two guest Hekels for the feature pleture "Deep in my heart' now being shown al the Regent Theatre, or for any other feature there within the next month, for having sent inthis "I BAW item Entries for this eolumn should he sent to the "I BAW" Editor, The Times « Gazelle, Oshawa, Two guest tickels for the Regent Theatre will he sent to the sender of any item published Since only one fem Is used each day, only the most un usual and striking observations will he published, and in the order in which they arrive at The Times Gazelle Graham Wants Attack On Satan LONDON (Reuters) Evangelist | Billy Graham wound up the Rap | List World Alliance congress here | Friday night with p i! for "an | alpck 0 on™. ind Hours them were 00 Hf ivf delegates from 80 nations who have heen allending the congress here during the last week In a half-hour serviee oleaded wilh his congregation And | Baptists all over the world to "re: | If you, we're done," were." He added evangelism oul BIRTHDAYS Congratulations are extend ed ta the following readers of the Times«Gazetle who are celebrating their birthdays to day July 24 Mrs, Emma Trick, 402 Front sireet (1878) John Mills, lax Congratulations are also ex» tended to the following, who are celebrating thelr birthdays tomorrow T. Rowland ling east G Rloor i Glynn avenue, Valllers, Town (Beatty) Collision, 181 street, west HUNT I§ PROMOTED LONDON (Reuters) Col. Bir dohn Hunt, leader of the 1068 Rpil- | Everest, has heen promoted lem. | porary hrigadier, the war announced Friday night the change-over are three of the | seven GM operators. From the left: Margaret Ewart, Barbara | Hoyd and Edith Willes, who has been with the company for 20 day Jus "They are de adlne ked on the out:| Press briefings nine p.m, | 7 / 5 24-year-old Wu " athe more than {tern at the Oshawa General pital He Is Di Chung Yeu Kwan DR, CHUNG Chinese Doctor Is Intern at OGH doctor Canada | Chinese resided in 40 years ago is an In Hos who | graduated in medicine at Sun Yat R n University on the gg d In 106d despite the hatte 4h ar i wa di His father, sides in Hong tor made his to Winnipeg WONDERFLY Dr, Kwan's main Himple an the early apostles | hing Youn, Is no i Monit 0 Jim Kwan, now ve: Kong where the doe home hefore movin last winter. He wi Graham | intern here for one year HOSPITAL fiance, Dr mterning Yin ul take. Toronto's New Mount Binal Hos ' it loo." Destiny Of Parley Be Known Tonight Canadian Press Staff Writer GENEVA fallure of conference Big Vow reste hetw and plamacy ROBBION the Kasi (CR) the hinged on today's last sion pact meeting The destiny of the talks that were | ters' ineeting at Geneva in October to herald a new phase of sweell SENSE OF TENSION veasonahleness in international di-| The success or momentous: Geneva d with a "restricted | een the top men of West This was a final bid by the head: af government to resalve the issues | referred to | minigters male lale meetings offiee | standing Issues, man sald then Years all olng calls hem hy the foreign | who broke up in stale: | Friday night after all a British spokes: Beoause it takes care of interdepartmental the new switehboard and out qoune the aperatares free to cons contrate on incoming calls, 700 City Steelworkers Get The Afternoon Off The weatherman promises a break In the current heat wave "hy Sunday when the thermometer 16 expecied tq. he In the low W's : Sand humidity In the H's 11 Oshawa, like the rest of the prov | Ince, wweltered yesterday when Aa high of 9 was recorded locally | { and thousands sought refuge at dhs i] = early to allow workers some hes! | rick heaches : relie] ONF. HEAT CASE Al Fittings, 14d slmost TH sleelworkers were given the after noon of) Fortunately there were no ports of hest prosiration cases re Some city plants closed down | Fairick, | treated al | the the rain Jilly | ills relief. By am. toda thermometer veg: AL n heart of istered " the ef i ACCIDENTS IN EARLY HOURS "There were two aecidents in Oh. awa in the early hours of his morning. AL 210 a.m, on Haris {hill ot the entranes to Grandview sireel, & car deiven by Carl W 19, of Toronto, ran inion the rear of & ear driven hy Fred Fudge, 2, of Town Line, Oshawa Lenn Blanchard, 17, of 9 Albert sreel, a passenger in the front ear, wiffered shock and was al the General hospiisl not detained, Damage 1n front car was and io hit V | the Oshawa General" Hospital yes | the rear car $150 _ Lerday and early today, although | Aan unidentified man was over come yesterday while walking on the street and was given first aid 4A wave of cool alr, sweeping! 2 southeast seross the provinee, "4 caused thundershowers In the Osh. a awa distriel during the night, hut 'Man Invents A | OFTAWA (CP)--A Russian-horm ! Canadian scientist has found a way 157] eliminate mueh of the noise in| : | the huge, roaring machines of the | paper mills he National Researeh Coupeil | selentist, Dr, George Thiessen, has devised a complex mathematics | formula for re-arvanging thousands of suction holes on nne of the ma chine eylinders ealled a "couch roll." This voll 1s extremely nolsy but when the holes are rearranged and the eylinder moves al the right speed range, "the sound waves In terfere with each other and nearly all of the noises are cancelled oul,' the counell sald in a slalement Thursday Dr. Thiessen, 4 Canada from Russia In 1984. He pital, They have known each other | received his training at the Uni nine years, They graduated togeth. | versity of Saskatchewan and Col ef umbla University, He 1s head of Dr, Kwan hopes to obtain a 1i-| NRC's acoustics group in the ap: cence qualifying him (0 practise | plied physics division, welh in fhe British Commaen t wealth, if he passes the Do Pound Dest 10 i Se pe thelr future "ee 50 Dogs ' YEU KWAN emigrated lo | Delarge of 21 An Oshawa motorist whe thought {he was making the turn ine | Bimeoe street from: Taunton rosd {collided with & telephone pole al a2 am. He wes Howard W, Elena streel, Es timated damage to his ear was #175, He was not hurt, . 01d Treasures Noise-Killer Re-discovered PARIS, Ont, (CP)~David Brooms field, neeustomed to living in a home slesped In story, has dis [eovered two new treasures among his possessions Mr, Broomfield's home belonged lo an ancestor, potter Jaeoh Ahrens i German who learned ths art there and in France, subsequently emigrating to Canada Bo fine was his work that almost 100 years ago his exhibits won first prige st an International exhibit In Paris, When & neighbor was going through some old sealers in Broom: field's home recently he discovered a slender Jug, 11s seals intact, with contents that gurgled, A label, printed in Duteh, says "ouracan" a Hquewr of orange peel, cinamon and mace, The jug is believed an suthentin Ahrens work, while the ewracan could he years old, Binoe Ahréns' poliery faclory was swept away in a flood ¢ Fi the ne ad oh River in 1508, flowever big not he that old i sequently became 8 0 Ho. y | inion Counell examination st May eventually practise together, Pr, Kwan is the youngest of his family, His brother Is studying commeree in Venezuela and he has | married sisters in Hong Kong | and Detroit | br Kwan says Oshawa General | va i peel his pottery pie Vare-iri Will Release Facts Of Army Pilfering An average of BM dogs a month, all of them strays, are destroyed by the elty dog oun yiad. eats destroyed average glo Ka ¥ lost beautiful hanty rooster was pleked up At the end of the three-day period It was given to a little hoy, | Hospital "is a womdertul hospital | Heoently a {and 16 sure the patients appreciate WINE VOTE ROME (AF)--Fremier Antonio Begni won a vole of confidencn 131 to 100 in the Renate Friday night, completing parliamentary approval of his new centre onlition govern: ment, The differences were aver Ger man reunification, European secur: iy, disarmamint and a non-agres These are suggested 1s sues for a possible foreign minis The impasse created an 1ith-hour sense of tension, casting a shadow {over the "summit" talks which opened here last Monday amid real expectations and an outward show of harmony One factor which mystified dele gates was the unexplained decision [of (he Russians not to hold further Closing CHRISTIAN SCIENCE STATION CKEY (580) INDAY 9.45 AM, VANCOUVER (CP) = Pefonca Minister Ralph Campney said ¥ri day a full statement on army pile fering here will he made withi the next few weeks, He described the losses as "pelty thieving' and sald, "There 18 very little in If, Only a few people are Jotiented " Brig, George Kicking, y gommander in B.C, dise aod the thefts In a press sonferene CLOSED FOR STAFF HOLIDAYS Re-Open August 2 FLINTOFF HARDWARE LTD, March, July 25 12 KING ST, E, RA 3-3633 SAVE ha Buehler's MEAT SPECIALS Mon, Only! SHOULDER Veal Chops . 45° | Veal SHOULDER Steak - 58° RIB VEAL | VEAL STEW CHOPS (FONEIN) ib. 59 | 5.1.00 BONELESS VEAL STEW ib. G8.

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