The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

/ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, January 20, 1956 $ NEW WING OF OSHAWA GENERAL THE NEW $2,500,000 WING of | rapidly taking form, as the above | the Oshawa General Hospital is picture shows. Present plans are Building Progress On Wing Reported W. A. Holland, superintendent] His report on progress of Wing of Oshawa General Hospital, re-|"B", north of the Sykes Wing, ported on building progress of the pointed out that the terrazzo floor new wing before a meeting of the is laid and ready for rou i oard ing. : Be iv new wing of the! Plasterers start work on this hosptial might be ready for oc- wing next Monday, and equipment cupancy by July 1, but it was may be moved in within six weeks. sn due to the large amount of, In Wing "A", west of the Sykes equipment to be installed. Wing, most of the plumbing and "It will take 15 to 17 weeks to wiring is completed. put the floors in and plaster the] Terrazzo work begins here next west wing," Mr. Holland announc-| Monday, and it is estimated that ed. "Since there remains about(a floor can be completed, including 24 weeks between now and July 1,| grinding, in about 17 days. i tht would leave us about 8 weeks| 'Plasterers starting on Wing B"| for drying of plaster, hanging of will move into-Wing "A" in about doors, painting, installation of fix- two and a half weeks. tures and other necessities." Alterations to the kitchen and Brick work on the new wing is plans for the cafeteria are under noted. consideration, Mr. Holland said. Calls Insurance Arrangement On Office Building 'Iniquitous' OTTAWA (CP) The Canadajhe was putting up in annual in- Health and Accident Assurance stalment payments towards pur- . of Waterloo, Ont., has taken : a4 oN head office, which it pre- chase of the building--ended the ri from its presi-|deal. Viously had leased p | But it apparently happened some This information was contained|time after last July when CCF in a return tabled Thursday in the|leader Coldwell termed r Commons at the request of Stan- rangement 'iniquitous and Fi- ley Knowles (CCF--Winnipeg North nance Minister Harris agreed. Centre). WANTED CHANGE The information had previously At that time Mr. Harris said been made public by the insurance that while. no change had been company. made, he was hopeful it would not The return did not give the date he necessary to take action when on which company president E. E. the company applies for renewal of Putnam--who had been collecting its licence March 31. more in rent from the firm than Tne return said "the president Fire Chief by eg oy ie Dopey y she Lauds Staff For System the property ight by the company." | The case came to light last year |in correspondence between Mr. {Putnam and K. R. MacGregor, {federal superintendent of insur- Fire Chief H. R. Hobbs praised fire precautions at Oshawa Gener-| al Hospital in a letter read at a meeting of the hospital board this! week. He also noted that hospital pe ance, which appeared in the super- r- sonnel are well informed as to { | 1 Small retailers should "study the needs of the commun- ity and work to serve-it'" as a means of . countering the in- roads of chain stores, urges James C. Penney, chairman of the J. C. Penney Co. He says ment which will greatly benefit 1955. at the suggestion of the hos- and 2 a.m. accompanied by Nurse MADE IMPROVEMENTS in the New York Times that Zone Law Publicity Urged By Milliman gh grind- i ¢ Plan Water Policy Meet The Oshawa Planning Board last|15,000 square feet to 7,500 square night = took initial steps to-|feet," Mr. Millman said. wards establishing a policy for| Mr. Millman drew attention to the supplying of water to outlying|the well balanced ratio of indus- townships, and organizing a re-|trial and cial to resid gional planning board. tial assessment in Oshawa. In the Board members felt that both fringe areas most of the assess- issues .could not be divorced. The | ment was from uneconomic res- planning board decided to meet | idential development, he claimed. | with the Public Utilities Commis-| He suggested that perhaps steps sion to discuss a policy for the could be taken to take care of | water problem. {the hardship that exists outside Planning board chairman C. C.|the city's boundaries, but refuse McGibbon last night urged that|to supply water for expansion. action be taken on forming the! Chairman MecGibbon: "But regional planning board. He said that a report in The Daily Times- Gazette indicated that district mayors and reeves favored the | idea. N. C. Millman, board consultant, suggested the board consult with the PUC to determine a policy so that the city could approach other centres with a "reasonably unani- mous' policy. POLICY NEEDED Commenting on supply of water {to houses built in fringe areas, Mr. Millman said that board! | should establish a policy of not supplying services beyond the city | boundary. He said that Oshawa had space | for more than 90,000 inside the buffer strip and people only built | outside the city boundary to avoid | taxes and obtain cheaper land. | "As the population in fringe {areas increases, so do their de-| mands. If you provide water to such an area you allow the popu- lation there to double, for land --Times-Gazette Photos |allowances can then be cut from going to explain it to the people given water?" Mr. Millman: question." Ald. Lyman Gifford: "That is a good "In order (or later we will have to take back {the water in another form." TROUBLE AHEAD This raised the possibility of pol- lution of Oshawa and Harmony creeks, he said. Ald. Gifford forecast difficult times ahead for a regional plan- ning board. He claimed that rep- resentatives from other boards would have as much trouble with their councils as the Oshawa {board had with the Oshawa coun- cil. "There is not much use in the regional planning board if we are not going to have a say where the water is going to go and a say in sub-division," Ald. Gifford added. Calvary Baptist Plans Dutch Princess To Reach New Building This Year Milestone On Birthday | By RONALD FRASER [swung back again, soakin| "Hitherto hath the Lord helped Mrs. J. Hooper for the Flower| THE HAGUE (Reuters) -- Prin- number of officials in top i a. 4 a for a mid-summer opening this | quarters, as well as additional | in the community and will add | year. The wing will add many | service departments. The build- | greatly to the beauty of the city. | needed rooms to the hospital | ing is one of the most attractive | | Fat local church and to carry the Gos- pel to lands beyond the seas. + 4 (est daughter and heir apparent to underneath. The Chutoh slerk, Otto, Shar |the Dutch throne, reaches an im- GATIETY AND CHARM portant milestone Jan. 31. | s. | The above scripture verse found| fon the cornerstone of Calvaiyiard, reported the membership at Baptist Church was again brought|293, a net increase of nine over forcibly to the minds of the mem-|the previous year, be:s Wednesday night as the re-| A joyjew of the missionary ac- ports of the year's work were pre- tivity of the church was given by |sented at the 28th annual meet- Mrs. W. Lane, secretary of the ng. Missionary Committee. Systematic During the past few months the|ginancia) Yes is given to eight building of a new church home at{.;,rch members who are working ie pet of Cetiye ang id ou various mission fields are Sree! d iced, uv home on furlough. During {the 8. Jackson, secretary of the Build-|vear support ar pledged for Mrs, {Ing Somniiise Wormed The mem Norman Gentry who will be bers that after tha e yO |ing shortly with her husband : ling in constitutional affairs. would now proceed more steadily| missionary work in the Philip. 8% deacon: Se x ston, J. Vi ee and it was expected that the pines under the Association of =~ _.° "© ys In gd ny 3 Doard vl management -- G. Kd-| ne wanld ha J SF sir Thera BB 4 4 ~v | papusts for World Evangelism. | {early summer. The Building Com- np meeting accepted as ange mis-/\vards, G. Hurren, J. Hooper, E. mittee expressed its sincere ap-| ies, Mr. an Mrs. Ivan Johnston, W. Powers, W. Relmer, preciation to the members and Slonaries, ao Pc Pu bi W. Simkin, S. Skinner, W, Tonkin, friends of the church for their| Japan under the Association of 1« Trick. | sacrificial financial support of this|gaptists for World Evangelism, undertaking in giving $23,288 to-,nq Miss Audrey Hurlbert who is E. Hurlbert, Charles Hooper, Mrs. ward the new building during the going to Nigeria under the Sudan|V. Henkelman, Mrs. W. Lane, S. Benevolent Fund, and O. Sharrard for the Deacons' Board. Rev. C. M. Keen spoke on some of the highlights of the year's work | as Pastor of the &hurch. A hearty | vote of thanks was expressed by| the members to the Pastor for the| leadership he has given. her grandmother, Queen Wilhel- who was then Princess Juliana The following officers were elect-| mina, came to the throne. ed for 1956: Deacons -- 'A. R. Alloway, S.|21, the gay, smiling princess will |Lagerquist, O. Sharrard, H. L.|sit in the four-centuries-old '""Raad Lyons; and the following are serv- Van State" as soon as she be rg the second of a two-year term! comes 18. This will begin her train rights and duties as Holland's fu- and spectators also laughing. ture sovereign and third queen in| Born in 1938, al Though not officially of age until known for her She wa: jold wifth ony where she per two younger si i reid Jo Doi gaiety and charm sters, Prince nr, farmed tha nrin great sense of ness, which is a distinctive mark of the Dutch royal family. young princess was naming a new|in 1947, Dutch ship. As she called out the Juliana succeeded her pagne broke against the bow andthe following year. in the buffer strip who are not The princess broke out in laugh- On that date, she will celebrate ter which soon had her father. her 18th birthday and take up new Prince Bernhard, and the officials | t the Soestdijk| succession to rule since 1890, when Palace, the home of her mother Princess Beatrix always has been s only about 18 months Holland was invaded and Princess Juliana left the country to settle in Canada. She spent five ss Irene the as A fourth sister, Princess Mar- The ijke, was born at Soestdijk Palace shortly before Princess mother, Missionary Board -- H. Gentry, vessel's name, the bottle of cham- Queen Wilhelmina, on the throne The retiring chairman of the Oshawa Planning Board, N. C. Millman, last night advocated a publicity campaign to familiarize the public with the new zoning by- law. Mr. Millman made the recom- mendation in a report presented to the 1956 inaugural meeting held last night at city hall. When annexation took place a few years ago, one of the chisf reasons for it working so smooth- ly was the pre-annexation publicity v.hich had taken place," he said, Commenting on off-street park- ing, Mr. Millman said that tifere is nothing to prevent large under- you give them water, how are you|Stcction of the city without provi-| |sion for off-street parking. BY-LAW REJECTED The Off-Street Parking By-law which was rejected by city eouncil last year contained regulations governing this, he said. The part | city, "The argument regarding the [availability of land, which might easily be justified in the centre of the city, would not hold in the |outer area," he commented. | Mr. Millman said that develop- ment of the Valley Drive between King street and Gibb street should be placed high on the priority list lopment. of civic devel * "I feel that traffic conditions will develop in this vicinity with such speed that this relief artery cannot be made available any too scon," he said, COMMERCIAL PROBLEM "One of the things which may | mutually help the downtown traf- |fic situation and also our downtown vetail situation would be the plan- rea development which would per-! {str eets. | mi* the full use of Bond and Athol |the Off-Street Parking Discussed At Meeting This would involve he sald, the extension of Mary street to Athol; elimination of the jog at King. Centre and Church; the elimina: Gon of the jog at King and Queen. "I have personally been very much concerned about some of the ribbon commercial develop~ ment which has been authorized by council recently, This is ag- gravated in certain cases by per- siting unrestricted commerce on both sides of a major traffic street. "This is bad planning and there is no use trying to dodge the fact. 1 suggest that the planning board form its policies in this connection if| takings being built in the outer|®"d stick to them." PARK PLAN : Mr. Millman suggested that the board's next task should be a 'major plan of city parks. | He said that the current policy of jvbtaining a five per cent convey- lance from sub-dividers for park to turn this water to the town-|of the by-law which resulted in it Purposes had not actually resulted ships we must have some control being rejected concerned only the Rt the acquisition of land for parks over the use of the water. Sooner central commercial area of the ad playgrounds. | "Unfortunately, in some cases, |we have allowed building to pro- | gress to the stage where it will be very difficult to provide these open spaces In the proper location," he said. Mr, Millman recommended the {board cease selling land back to sub-dividers, but rather hold it til! a park site is acquired. The {land not required could then be sold at the best possible price, with the sub-divider having first op- portunity to purchase. " Keferring to the disposal of thé city's Hills and Dales property, {Mr. Millman claimed that it should jue be sold until a by-law or agree- {ment has been enacted to regulate" the development of the area. A He also suggested that the des vel t i ial plan for" the board's Pp of a fi city 'be placed on agenda. In Labor By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) -- Changes are possible in the agreed-upon divi- Ci tter.than.even hrealr in. mumbo of personnel at the head of key | departments. | The result could be an attempt to reshuffle a lineup of high posi- tions agreed upon privately by the TLC-CCL unity committee last | November in advance of the Tor- _ Changes Possible s and Committee, H. L. Lyons for the cess Beatrix, Queen Juliana's eld-|morning coats 'who were standing Congress way of unification of the 600,000 members of the TLC and the CCL"s" 1400,000 members. Problems will he. |ironed out before the April 23 joint AFFECTED Ni th Jodofr, retary-treasurer, d, who holds thaf. sion of authority around the top convention. of the 1,000,000-member Canadian| LEADERSHIP NOT Labor Congress to be formed in April from an amalgamation of e Li anada's two biggest union bodies.' as president. Cla Groups in the larger trades and| president; as labor congress are understood to|Donald MacDonal be protesting an informal agree-|office in the CCL and as executive vears there with her mother and/ment of leaders that would give|vice - president Canadian Congress of Labor alsecr Gordon Cushing, ; etary-treasurer of the TLC... | Rank-anu-ine vbjeciions within [the TLC over the allocation of |department top jobs, it was under. Stood, followed a news report of |Nov. 29 saying that of the nine key {departments in the unified coms. gress, four would go to CCL men, three to' TLC men, one jointly to !year. During construction the Teg Interior Mission. The church ap-'awton, W. Mills, W. Sargeant, ular Sunday services are held nin oved the usual pledges of finan- Mrs S. Skinner, R. Watson. the CRA building on Gibb Street]. support for these new mis-| Ushers -- O. Allen, T. Atha, T. -(onto merger convention of next/a man from each congress with April. {the ninth to be filled later. However, any present diver-| The post left open was that of gence over the departmental posi-ichief of a department of internae (and the mid-week services in Gib- {bon Street Baptist Church. EXPRESS GRATITUDE E. R. Stacey, general treasurer the ar- of the church, stated that during| the year $7,588.89 had been given tor the operation of the local church an' $23,288 for the new builiding; Leonard Manning, Mis- sicnary Treasurer, reported $11,- 9219.04 for missionary work; and Gordon Ferguson indicated that $1,722.09 bad been given for the operation of the Sunday School. These amounts, along with the ganizations, totalled $44,635.32, now: is owned out- of the church. Gratitude was ex- reported for the Young Women's committee; Mr. Walter Lane, choir | tests pressed to God by all present for His bountiful blessings during the year enabling them to support the cionaries. (Collen. G. Delaney, H. Grant, G. V. A. Henkelman, Sunday School Hurren, J. Hooper Jr. T. John- | Superintendent, revealed a new|Ston. R. Lutz, W. Lyons. record in Sunday School attend-| Clerk, Otto Sharrard; general ance with an average of 270 per 'reasurer, E. R. Stacey; mission This is an increase of 12/2°V treasurer, Leonard Manning; t over the previous year. envelope secretary, G. Ranstead: During th building construction the stewards: C. Hooper, M. Rennedys! sisi Sunday School is housed in the 5 Lean, Authoritors, E. B. i CRA and in Adelaide House. Total Jackson, N. Peppiatt, Ihre Skinner t givings in the Sunday School for) 3 § " to have experienced in securing|alcohol to take an alcohol test." all 'parposes was. $3,458.35, The church also ratified the elec- {0 ha perienc 2 tion SR g the co-operation of doctors in| He immediately dismissed MAKE OFFERING > Sor of Ya. Heiman Nunday! frunk driving cases. {doctor without further question- G. Ranstead, envelope secretary, Moncur, president of the Senior! Raps Doctors |Sunday. per Sen Throwing his hands up in dis- Crown "Holy smoke, [velopes were in regular use during|irick, president of the Young! thing else in an effort to secure was dismissed. and Which is the highest in the history|the year. Mrs. Victor Bodashefsky Feuple's; Mrs. J. Hooper, flower their co-operation in taking blood| The case arose out of an acci- the dent in which the car driven by {Mission Circle, Mrs. O. Sharrard|leader; Miss Ruth Skinner, pian-| crown attorney. [Alan Steward evashed Jos stop. ifor the Senior Women's Missionlist: and Mrs. A. Kovach, social "I feel this is just thwarting it, DC The truck was owned by Circle, Mrs. L. Trick for the Choir,!committee. he added heatedly after Dr. G . generally," declared Accused, 42, Given Year In Theft Stephen Purko, 42, of Thornton's road north, was sentenced to one | year in prison, plus three months | indefinite, when he appeared be: |fore Deputy Magistrate Fred N. Thompson yesterday. Purko "had been convicted a weék earlier of being in possession (of stolen goods. At that time, he was remanded in custody one week for sentence. The goods in the case were taken han said that Steward's father, a broken knee cap in the accident and was removed to Oshawa Gen- | . " . |Kassay, an interne at Oshawa Herbert Winton. Says Dairymen Must Pay | lei st for a time, he said. Boys, on the other hand, reacted the| "I have lectured. I have written/ing. Though a few more witnesses offerings in the other church or-|stated that 173 sets of offering en- Women's Mission Circle; Clifford to doctors and I have done every-|were heard in the case, the charge passenger in the car, received al "more | forcibly," either by pretending to| ions will not throw a block in the tional affairs. Big Need By DON PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)--What Ian Fel- ws feels professional theatre in |Canada needs most can be summed up in one word--money. | Reginald Malcolm, who shares |with Fellows the directing duties | agrees. | "What it needs is a public," Mal- {got to have firm support--it's not something you can take up and put {down again whenever you like." The two men were discussing countered during its seven seasons as a professional theatre. It opened its eighth season recently with a Christmas pantomime, 'Babes in The Wood," and expects to present 19 more shows at the rate of one a week before the season closes. |LONG EXPERIENCE The CRT has operated continu- ously longer than any other pro- fessional repertory group in Can- ada. Fellows and Malcolm said it has gone about $5,000 in the hole since it started, but in Canadian professional theatre, they said, that's not a bad record. A reporter, bone-chilled from the the two men wide awake at the the cluttered but functional CRT at the Canadian Repertory Theatre | 9-below weather that day, found) f untheatrical hour of 9:30 a.m., in|} intendent"s annual report. At one point, in December, 1954, Mr. MacGregor had termed it "the improvident head office arrange the president personally." He urg- ed Mr. Putnam to 'divest your- self immediately of all personal interest in the property." their duties in an emergency. The fire chief's letter came as a result of an unannounced Bight inspection carried out Dec. 21, 0 1 te COMPETITION Captain William Murray and In- spector Robert Sledziewski made the inspection, between midnight G. Bulmer. : Only three minor improvements could be suggested by the officers following their inspection They asked that extra extinguish- ers be supplied for case rooms on one floor, that one exit light be replaced, and an electric hot plate in the kitchen be grounded) properly These improvements were made immediately, and reported to Fire Chief Hobbs in a letter dated Dec 29. 1955 signed by W. A. Holland, superintedent of the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital Regular monthly inspections of the hospital and adjacent buildings will be éarried out this year COMING EVENTS The Monthly Meeting Oshawa and District tion for Retarded Children will be held in C.R.A. Hall, Gibb St., Monday, Jon. 23, 8 p.m. After the meeting, Tea will be a social half hour will be enjoyed. of the Assccio- served ond 16b hocky team in the CRA League. as 'fantastic', "little business and big busin- ness' depend on each other for survival in America's free competitive society. The more stores in a community, the more business." Mr. Penney ad- vises small retailers who are losing business-to larger stores in cities to co-operate in "ag- gressive shop-at-home pro- grams, Radio Park Holds Meeting | | tile: floor has been 'laid at |clubhouse and the plumbing job threats is progressing The | their | teen-age girls - will start series of dances Thursday It has been decided to enter a while in charge of an auto. | : bulance. The charge was dismissed bY There was about $200 damage lic relations is to be accomplished. ow's mite," Mr. Walsh continued. been scrubbed with alcohol before|of him. He applied his brakes, he The advice came from F. W.| "We talk glibly about the import- a needle was injected in it to said, but could not avoid the Mr. Walsh said an assessment of consumption would be higher and three cents per 100 pounds of milk|there would be no butter surplus 7 | " Bi ._ obtained $330,000 from its members |ffom De gies, Salon of 2Hay, last year. This meant that "455,000 product and they have taught the board of education, said Thursday public to believe it is "just as a special survey shows 80 per cent good as butter." |of the retarded readers in city General Hospital, appeared to give| evidence for the crown in the case of Alan Steward, a 29-year- old Uxbridge mail, carrier, who If P I S { ] was charged with being drunk rogra S Uccess u {Deputy Magistrate Fred N.|to each vehicle. SAINT JOHN. N. B. (CP)--Cana-|ing to spend only little over 72 Thompson. | Admitting he had had a couple dian dairy farmers were told at|cents apiece on behalf of their own, The case blew up when Dr.|of beers, Alan Steward estimated {their national meeting today they|industry, and they expect a bang. Kassay, a Hungarian immigrant, he was going 45 to 50 mph when must pay if their program of pub-jup promotional job for their wid-|said that the accused's arm had|he saw the stopped truck ahead alsh, deputy minister of agricui-lance of milk as an article of diet.| withdraw a blood sample to be crash. The truck had no lights, he ture and marketing for Nova Sco-land we fail to go much beyond tested for alcoholic content. | claimed. {tia. In his absence because of ill-| that." If farmers were "completely ness, his address Yas read by his sold" on thé health-giving qualities |ascistant, J. McNeil. of milk and dairy products, milk Says Boys Are 2 i sted in reading or b; would create a fund of $5,250,000. or worry about margarine. Ww t R d be Unimetesion bn [ading wi The dairy industry must be pre! Mr. Walsh said margarine sells ors ea ers sive behavior. pared to contribute at least half of|as it does because it costs less. | . y V that amount for the program. The manufactugers turn out a good! TORONTO (CP)--Dr. C. C. Gold-| The Dairy Farmers of Canada AS IT DOES BECAUSE IT CTS L Tink, chairman of the Toronto] VICTIM RETURNS TO SCHOOL {west, in a December break-in, Ten Canadian dairy farmers are will- auto tires and some tools were in-| | cluded in the loot which was found! lin Purko's house. | | Earlier Purko's son William was sentenced to jail for theft of the articles and another youth was The Montreal Waterworks schools are boys. | He told the board investigation by the child guidance clinic's read- ing division showed pre-school ac- tivities probably have much to do with reading ability. months ago a birthday party was (held for 10-year - old Dovel Eg |Scribner, a leukemia . victim, be-|in the r lcavse he wasn't expected to live until his real birthday Feb. 2.| ie 4 : {Thursday Doyel was released from dded: "We don't actually know | he hospital and expects to return hether the medicine had anything to school Monday. A doctor who|tu do with it or not, but certainly' torium in which the group pre- ents its productions are located ling La Salle y, | WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Four|ggfice, It and the 688-seat audi-|§ In Court Cases Canadian Theatre's I thought that Attorney Alex C.{passed out with the ark!" stormed Miss Ruth Hall, QC, commented angrily yes-|Mr. Hall. "I thought any doctor ; terday on the difficulties he claims/would know better than to use Is Money a Roman Catholic boys' school a couple of blocks from the Royal. {Canadian Mint in lower town Ot-- |tawa. | Fellows said the CRT currently /has a company of about 15. It pays a minimum salary of $50 a. |week. Rent for its quarters comes~ to $185 weekly and it has to pay, the city a business tax of about $40 a week. Other expenses bring Provincial Constable D.. Kerno- com said in an interview. "It's| total operating costs to almost $2,- 1000 a - week. If the conversation centred on money, it seemed understandable. Financial problems have beset the | eral Hospital by the Brooklin am- the problems the CRT has en-|CRT since it opened in October, 1949, after the Stage Society, its predecessor, folded following a one- year season in 1948. HIGH STANDARDS <f Our Prescription Com- pounding Standards are given suspended sentence in the same case. BAD INFLUENCE In passing sentence on Stephen Purko, Magistrate Thompson said: "What surprises me is that, ac- cording to reports, you are a hard worker and a good provider, but you have -been in trouble before. { "You haven't been a very good Radio Park held its first meet- influence on your son," he added. | |ing of the new year recently. The| wee [ the| charged that D. F. Ferguson, de- At the hearing a week ago, Purko \puty chief of police, had used to obtain a statement from him in which he admitted knowing of the presence of the stolen goods in his house. The deputy denied this, and Magistrate Thomp- son described Purko's allegation chief And Dowd Family Are 'One' MONTREAL (CP) Montreal; joined the waterworks in 1880 and has perhaps the oldest - known Tetired in 1933 as secretary of the water mains in North America.| department And almost as old as the system | The present director entered the is the Dowd family's connection! waterworks service in 1909 and with the waterworks. [Tom 1920 to 1946 served as as- The city's water supply has been sistant superintendent until assum- a prime concern of the Dowd fam-|ing his present post. ily for 123 years and civic officials| KNOWS THEM ALL . recently paid tribute to Frank Vic-| Mr. Dowd is familiar with every tor Dowd Jr., assistant director|block in the city--above and below of public works and superintend-|the pavement--and he can tell you ing engineer of the civic water- abput Montreal's w 'works sys- works and sewer department tem from as far ba 1800 The Dowd heritage began in 1832) In the early days, he says, Mont with Francis Dowd, grandfather of real got its water supply from a the present director, who worked few public pumps, some public and for about 25 years for the water- private wells, and from carts _ works, His son, Frank Dowd Sr., carrying water from the St. Lawr- {im "a quiet learning situation" and Boys, he said, are less interested ard that only time will tell i vhether recovery is permanent, probably uninterested in pre- I believe prayer and faith had a ureat deal to do with it." primer stories based on family life. ! | | When girls have reading troubles they try to overcome them, at ence river. The population then was about 9,000. The first water mains were made of wood and carried water on a gravitation system to underground | brick cisterns. The wooden pipes frequently burst, however, and in| |1816 were replaced by cast iron | pipes, some of which are still in use on Notre Dame street. | | A primitive steam pumping plant replaced the gravitation method in} 1819. By 1830, the system had a capacity of about 93,000 gallons daily for a population of 60,000. | 5 YE ARS PAYMENTS AS LOW AS 5.92 125 CONANT -- Free BURNERS | AND FORCED AIR UNITS 10% DOWN TO PAY! PER MONTH ON OIL BURNERS GEO. THOMSON ou... Estimates Day or Night high. Here's why. We use only the finest drugs. We have the most complete stock possible. Our Pharma- cist is' well-trained. We use the best to give you the best... in quality and service. That's why you can depend on us with complete faith. RA 3-343) ]