Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 26 May 1956, p. 3

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Oshawa To Spend $500,000 On SummerPavingProgram City Church Opens Drive For Funds The official -start to the First Baptist Church building fund can- vass came with a Loyalty Dinner held at the Northminster United Church Thursday evening. About 190 - people heard Frank] McLellan, Don Rice, Joe Wilkins, Les Parrott, Sid Parrott, Reverend L. D. Begg and Ron Collins out- line the needs for a new church) and how the canvass will be con-| ducted. | The speakers said that the ex-| pected cost of the new church at Hortop and Rossland Road would] | be $150,000. Of this, $60,000 will be| | raised by canvass. | | One speaker said that the can- |vass was designed to get {the church build and paid for with- {out a mortgage. It is hoped that this can be done by having church members pledge to pay a sum {each week for 150 weeks. | The canvassing group have al- ready pledged over $23,000. General chairman in charge of FRED TURNER 101 NEXT THURSDAY |Says Police Jump' Him Too Often John R. Rundle, 25, of Windsor, formerly of Oshawa, charged yes- terday in police court that police | were "picking on" him every time {he came to Oshawa. Rundle was | fined $100 and costs or two months {in jail on a charge of obstructing | the police. |, Jt took five policemen to subdue {him and throw him in the cells fol-| lowing a fracas on King St. east| in front of the Genosha Hotel on the holiday weekend. In court,| | Rundle said that every time he hit |Oshawa the word went around | "Rundle's in town' and the police | were ready. | Crown Attorney Alex Hall jump-| Ivo to his feet. "Who do you think you are? Wyatt Earp? I think this {man has been seeing too much] TV. | | Rundle said he had been "jump- |ed"" by the police after he had| {talked to a policeman who recog-| nized him in front of the Genosha.| Rundle was with his father having a coffee after they had had a few drinks at the father's house. RECENT GRADUATE | Elinor Barrand, 21-year-old | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. | Barrand, received her Bachelor | of Music degree from the Uni- versity of Toronto last week. She was awarded her Associate | diploma of the Royal Conserva- $420,000 Is Earmarked For Two Special Jobs The city of Oshawa will spend more than $500,000 on its paving program this summer, City engineer F. Crome said that around $420,000 of this total will be spent on two new paving pro- jects, not yet started. The remainder of the half-mil- lion-dollar-plus paving bill is made up of about $110,000 worth of pav- ing work held over from last year. Major part of last year's uncom- pleted work is the one-mile Went- worth street stretch of road be- tween Park Road and Ritson Road. W. E. Bennett Paving Ltd. of Oshawa expect to have the job done by the end of June. ASPHALT COATING | The only other piece of uncom: | pleted paving is a top-coat of] asphalt on Athol street between | Simcoe and Centre street. | City council is expected tol award a contract Monday night for | an estimated $180,000 paving pro- ject. | Under this contract, these streets will be paved: Ritson Road from Wentworth to Conant; Athol! street east from Wilson Road to 260 feet west of Chadburn street; | Rossland Road east from Simcoe | wide. Oshawa Postman Ends Long Service Artillery from 1909 to 1912. He | wilkins. A veteran of several of the famous battles of the First World War, Fred Turner, 382 Celina St., retired Thursday after 29 years service with the Oshawa post office. Turner, an infantryman with the Oshawa "B" company of the 20th Canadian battalion served under Canadian. field commander Sir Arthur Currie in the battles of Ypres, - Vimy Ridge, the Somme Paschendale and the pursuit to Mons To mark his retirement, Oshawa postmaster M. J. Moran presented Turner with a clock-radio and a sum of money contributed by Turner's fellow letter-carriers, Fri day afternoon BORN IN ENGLAND Turner was born in Norwich, England in 1891. He spent three vears in the British Royal Field came to Canada in 1912. the canvass is Frank McLellan. | Chairman of the canvass commit-| |tee is L. W. Parrott. Special Gifts Chairman is Charles Redden. Sid | Parrott is Initial Gifts Chairman. | | Chairman of the Teams Commit- {tee is Fred Crome. Division lead- lers are Harold Audley and Joe Canvassers are Morley Chesher, After his 1914-19 stint with thelqorqon Graham, George Winter, 20th battalion in England France, Belgium and Germany Turner worked at General Motors '| Charles Taylor, Albert Hall, Ron- +lald MacGregor, A. Hatfield, M. Deboski, C. Comerford, R. Moon, from 1919 to 1927. He joined the|p "Nojson "B, Moorby, L. McLeod, post office as a clerk in 1927, be- | o came a letter-carrier a year later. |; Fred is a member of the Fed erated Association of Letter Car- riers, Phoenix Lodge Number 22 of Independent the I0OF, and the Order of Foresters, Lodge 294. Winsley, W. Sewell, G. Besse, D. Chute, A. Imeson, H. Gray, D {Rice, R. Collins. " CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Former Fred has two children. Arthur is members of the First Hussars (6th employed at the Dominion Bank in| Armored) Regiment from many Toronto. Albert is an associate edi- parts of Canada were arriving for tor of the Toronto Telegram. Fred the unit's 100th birthday celebra- also has five grandchildren. tion this weekend. An historical Fred has heen married 43 years. parade depicting the Hussars' de- He and his wife intend to take a velopment from a crack calvary trip to England this summer. Fred [regiment into an armored forma- said he will also visit continent. the [tion was to feature today's pro gram. fon Mrs. Jennie Wilson will be 101 next Thursday! brother fly in from New Westminster, B.C. for the birthday party. Mrs. Wilson was born Jennie Smith in Mariposa township and she gave The official opening Her 92-year-old | Thomas H. Smith, will | | as her recipe for longevity "early to bed and early to rise and lots of work in between." | Mrs. Wilson wouldn't like to see | | the "good old days return', and | | likes all the modern gadgets for | housework. | PLAN OFFICIAL OPENING ~~ OSHAWA HEBREW SYNAGOGU of the new Oshawa He- brew synagogue, 142 King St. E., will take place to- morrow at 6.30 p.m. opening ceremony, to be Michael Starr, MP for On MPP for Oshawa riding and Rev. Bruce A. Miles Ministerial Association. the community centre auditorium. followed by a banquet in { Head table guests at the banquet will include tario riding; T. D. Thomas, ; Mayor W. John Naylor; , representing the Oshawa Spring Planting Lags 3 Weeks Off Schedule Spring planting on Ontario County farms will be at least three weeks behind schedule this | year due to recent rain and low | temperatures, it was reported to- | day by H. Lyn Fair, department of agriculture representative sta- | Tomato plants already in the ground were wiped out by heavy {frost this week. Loss to Ontario {County farmers has not yet been estimated | Mr. Fair sald another drought {this summer, similar to that ex- Police told the court they had] advised Rundle to go home with his father, but Rundle insisted on inviting the officers to come "out behind the hotel." When the officers arrived at the police station witr their captive, Rundle insisted they take off his handcuffs. When this was done he again started to abuse the police vocally and physically, kicking one officer in the groin and striking several others. Eventually with sheer weight of numbers they threw the struggling man into the cells and his father along with him. $10 FINE Although the father had threat- ened the officers with the phrase "my son will take care of you', Crown Attorney Hall decided to withdraw the charge of obstructing against the father. Crown Attorney Alex Hall sug- gested that father instruct his son that he wasn't a "legendary figure" and the police had other things to do beside struggle with him every time he came to town John R. Rundle was also fined $10 and costs, or ten days on a charge of being Intoxicated. He was advised by t lic spankings for those people who won't obey the law." Rundle had been convicted be- Oshawa several years ago. "Intoxication seems whole basis of his trouble,' sentence on Rundle. ISSUES WARNING BERLIN (Reuters)--A warning that world newsprint supplies might run out unless substitute raw materials are found was deliv- ered here Friday at the congress) €ar. A Newspaper | Pushing his : Publishers Association. Rober t miles an hour up and down dim- Paris|ly lighted streets. reported | place after Trimble had been re- some Scandinavian|leased from jail two weeks pre- countries, normally looked upon as| vious. New Vaccine of the International director of the France-Soir, Salmon, newspaper that already importing news- producers, are print. COMMONWEALTH BANK BATH, England (Reuters) A Canadian - born Conservative member of Parliament Friday urged the formation of a Common- wealth bank "with annual lending powers of at least £100,000,000 a year." Ted Leather, a native of he Crown to re-| Bowmanville and Oshawa : vise his opinion of the local police. fined $50 and costs or 14 days in ""This is the kind of a case which | jail yesterday on a charge of care- convinces me we should have pub-|less driving, and | { whil Rabbi Martin Norden will officiate at the brief [fore of obstructing the police in|served consecutively. to be the will Mag-| months, |istrate F. S. Ebbs said in passing will be made to. the department |lowd to obtain a drivers license | for three years. |tured after a wild chase through | $50 And Costs tory, Toronto, five years ago. jSifeat east to Oshawa railway. | 3 : \ {SECOND CONTRACT | Be oN Jake her ARCT exam: [ A second contract will be called | L. R. Barrand is Oshawa city in @ couple of weeks for the pav- clerk. The family resides at 12 Sunset, Drive. Missing Girls Are Located Osawa police reported yester- day that two young Oshawa girls, missing from home for more than a week, have been located at Guelph. . The two girls, Shermain Haen- ely, 14, of 196 Athol St. E., and Gail Thompson, 13, of R.R. 1, Osh- ava, were reported missing May Kuto Cutbacks | Idle 220,000 | In Michigan By WALTER BREEDE JR. | NEW YORK (AP) -- There was good news for some businessmen this week--and a parcel of not-so- Long-range prospects continued! bright. Major corporations pushed | huge expansion programs: produc- tion of machine tools, freight cars| and other heavy equipment went | {ahead at full blast. But on several | other fronts the boom showed | | signs of frayfhg around the edges. | | The stock market, as measured iby the Associated Press 60-stock| Fine Driver 1 {| since the week of sept. 30. New 9, of |auto cutbacks boosted Michigan's Was| unemployment total past 220,000. CONTRARY TRENDS President Harlow H. Curtice of General Motors summed up for GM stockholders: 'The American economy would appear 2 the nomen yi be sub- | ject to divergent trends. Consumer The La oh Shevrolet 1958 miodel, goods industries, including not only and a r dation | aut biles but housing and cer- of | tain others, are being affected by 3 BA, : _|a contraction in consumer spend- highways that Trimble not be al {ing, On the other hand the heavy goods industries are operating at very high levels." But M. J. Rathbone, president the city which ended with revolver |of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) shots being fired at the tires of the predicted another year of record Police said Trimble was €arnings--based on an expected| ancient car at 65 five per cent rise in demand for | COMING EVENTS | BINGO AT THE OR Saturday, May 26, 8 p. Robert George Trimble, d to one nth in jail for driving a car e his permit was under sus- pension. Both jail terms are to be! mo! Trimble and his car were cap- All this took ANGE TEMPLE, . 122b BINGO -- AT THE AVALON, TUES. day, May 29, at 8 p.m. Six $40 jackpots, twenty $5 games. Fernhill Park 122¢ | BRITISH- ISRAEL MEETING, ORANGE Temple, Bruce Street, Sunday, May 27, u I 3 o'clock. Mr. Thomas Ransom. Subject "God's Oaths and Pledges, Has He Kept Them", May 24, 26 PROGRAM AND DISPLAY OF HANDI work at O.M. College auditorium, Sun: good news for others. {of average, suffered it steepest fall] tioned at Uxbridge. perienced last year, would place Toronto and member for Somer- Many farmers have been unable Ontario County farmers in an ex-'get North, said that at least half to begin cultivation due to soggy|tremely serio ; {condition of the land. Others on | us financial position. lof this amount could be '"easily| 0 ) FE ~~ |financed"' from Britain's own bud- {higher ground are working 24-hour PROMINENT VISITORS get surplus. He said: "There is a {shifts with tractors equipped with LONDON (CP)--A delegation of vast amount of work to be done {lights in an attempt to regain lost| Britain's Royal Society has been|in building roads, railways, har time. |invited to visit Moscow by the Rus- bors and power stations which | 'One dry, warm week would sian Academy of Science. The Brit- would open the way for industrial | help the farmers greatly," Mr.|ish party will be headed by Lord development inevitably and] Fair remarked. Adrian. rapidly." Convener Mrs. Latimer THANK YOU, SIR Next Week Delivery will be made next week | of the polio vaccine for the second phase of inoculations, Dr. A. F. Mackay announced today. This batch, said the medical of- ficer of health, will be only half of the amount sent along in April. There will be a duplicate of the previous set-up except there will not be so much vaccine. Inoculation clinics will be held on Tuesday, June 5, June 7 and 12, and Dr. Mackay hopes to give the second dose to those who received the first dose this year. Those chil- dren in kindergarten, and grades 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 will be effected. To date Dr. day, June 3, at 7.30 p.m. 123b The MONTHLY MEETING of the OSHAWA AND DISTRICT ASSOC. FOR RETARDED CHILDREN will be held MONDAY, MAY 28, at! 8 p.m., C.R:A. Hall, Gibbs Street. The film, "Tuesday's Child' will be shown. All welcome. 122b Dump Trucks Wanted Sam Payne, president Oshawa Lions Club smiles a big thank you to Mayor John Naylor, the first to purchase of the | peanuts in the forthcoming Lions peanut drive. The big sale starts on Monday as mem- bers of the Lions Club cover the entire city, going from door to | | door asking citizens to buy and help support Lionism Lions will continue with the drive un- til the entire city is covered Times-Gazette Staff Photo Marine Corps To Use Describes IODE"s Work By GILLIAN PRITCHARD Canadian Press Staff Writer QUEBEC (CP)--Material aid to | needy overseas countries given by the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire will supplement the fight against communism, Mrs. R. C. Latimer of Toronto said at the IODE annual meeting here Monday. 'Our material aid will give proof Food costing $39,207, including | 662 parcels for British old-age | | pensioners, was distributed last |year at home and abroad. IODE chapters gave contributions to com- |munity centres, playgrounds, {swimming pools and skating rinks, |provided sports equipment, uni- | forms, band instruments and other |aids to recreation. | Mrs. Latimer reported on other have played an important part in hospitality to new Canadians," de- clared Mrs. Allward. IODE hospitality duties also in- cluded sending welcome letters to exchange teachers and entertain- ing official visitors from overseas, she said. Mrs. Allward said that Common- wealth visitors here for a long visit were able to enjoy community life Mackay doesn't know of any further deliveries of] vaccine before the summer vaca- tions. And, the MOH added, there won't be any booster shots given | prior to the vacation period. Dr. | Mackay said he would have no op- portunity to vaccinate the pre- school age children before the fall. He said he wouldn't have been able to set up the clinics he has in the past without the excellent assistance of the local doctors of Oshawa. For Hire LARGE JOBS Phone Toronto BAldwin 5-3201 ing of these roads: Park Road north from Bond street to Alvin street; Stevenson's Road south from King street to Elm Grove avenue. Also under this contract, Celina street will be repaved from King street to Bruce street. vu Cost of this project will be around $240,000. Wentworth street, Stevenson road south and Ritson road south are four-lane roads 44 feel wide. Three-lane and 33 feet wide are Rossland road east and Park road north. Athol and Celina streets are two-lanes and 30 feet » Paving specifications are stan- dard. Eight inches of _pit-run gravel is laid down first. This is followed by a four inch layer of crushed rock, a 4% inch layer of coarse asphalt and a 12 inch layer of finer surface asphalt. PAVED NEXT FALL City engineer Crome said that if everything goes as scheduled, 2% miles of citv streets will be paved by next fall. Paving work usually begins within days after the awarding of contracts, Crome said. If city council awards a contract Monday night, *then paving on the first ig ject will likely start shortly after, he said. petroleum products in the United States and 10 per cent rise in other non-Communist countries. STEEL COSTS WORRISOME Steelmakers look for another good year, but are worried about skyrocketing costs of maintenance and expansion. That was the consensus among steel industry leaders this week at the 64th, general meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute here. Roger M. Blough, chairman U. S. Steel Corporation pre- dicted that the industry's 1956 pro- duction will come close to the record 117,000,000 tons poured in 1955. Chairman Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion forecast a surging pickup late in the year after a moderate sum- mer slowdown. WON'T RETURN LONDON (Reuters) -- Charlie |Chaplin said Friday night he has |no intention of ever returning to: |the United States. "There is nofh-, ing Wrong with the hr deh people--it is the top who . and putrefy," he said. Chaplin, {here from his home in Switzer]; to work on his new film, A ih in New York, made the statemen! after being installed as a life Imember of the Association of |Cinematograph and Allied Techni- /cians and a member of the British" Film Academy. SERVICE IS MY BUSINESS Lloyd G. Corson Is your Life Insurance in step with * the times? Are present beneficiary arranges ments still satisfactory? Are the benefits payable actording to your family's best interests? Have changing family needs made your present insurance inadequate? Just mail the coupon for help in an- swering these important questions. LLOYD G. CORSON 47 PRINCE ST., OSHAWA OFFICE RA 5-6583: RES: 3-2537 | would like to review my present Life Insurance. NAME .... ADDRESS. that we, as a democratic, free phases of IODE work, including through introductions arranged by Gentler Training System In the past, 'the book' has; The practice of making the talk- served primarily as 3 guide for | ative recruit stick his head in a the non-commissioned officer dri bucket and shout "1 am: an idiot" By BEN PRICE PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (AP)-- J y /s have been]: For 40 years raw boy instructors at manufactured into United tates Marines here. The manufacturing methods hardly would have found favor with boy scouts, and the language of instruction would have been out of place at Sunday School picnics The result, howe has been a fighting force as close to real pro- fessionals as anything the U.S has produced Now the marines' highly contro- versial training methods are un- dergoing change, and from the of- [into tideswept other rank beer parlor measure the as the is a ficers' club to "slop chute" is called--there gloom. After his fourth beer one night an unhappy sergeant said: "We : svar el muic & ror HI: a } The word from the commandant, | permit is that hence- hike Gen. Randolph Pate, all marines will be trained|w forth ; vet i" "by the book that is, the fog force manual. | recruit depot. Over the years the instructors have developed their own methods of discipline and training, methods not condoned anywhere in "the hook' but which the marines have felt to be effective Now all this is changed--and Staff Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon did it. On, April 8, a moonless Sunday night McKeon marched a platoon of recruits past the rifle range and Ribbon creek. Six were drowned. McKeon said he did it "to teach them discipline." of {He now is in the brig awaiting a court-martial. A sharp curtailment in the inde- the Arill instructors has been but into No more will instructors be ted to take recruits on night| From now on the instructors received an influx of former Recruits will stupid idiots," cers from the German, Polish and pitals and welfare agencies, she were provided at citizenship courts pendence and autonomy of effect use no profanity longer he called among other things. this marine corps people wish to do our share in re- habilitation of the less fortunate countries," the national services |convenor declared. 'Every mem- ber of the IODE knows that as- sistance to those outside our own {500 times is out. No longer will al country must continue." she added. "hoot", as recruits are known, be| Last year the IODE spent $347,- given a toothbrush and told to 478 on welfare work, 84 per cent scrub an entire barracks lof it in Canada and the rest The platoon which turned up, abroad with dirty rifles--or even one dirty| "It is regretted that for several rifle--could in the past: expect to years our relief supplies to Eur- report to the drill instructor after OPé and Asia have been steadily supper and stand with rifles over. | decreasing," she said. Two years head until weary arms collapsed.| 280, 60 per cent of their work That, too, is out Was Sone 1» Canada, 40 per cent " abroad, she said 'nee © m " ee Jundamenist Sere Te hel : Twenty one tons of clothing was other services is that in the past sent for distribution in Europe and Hath J y the non - commissioned officers| 514 in 1955. It included five tons La sent to hospitals and organizations have demanded perfection. There]; "| nited Kingdom. Clothing was provided at home for burned- out families and new Canadians. Nine cases of tropical clothing was sent from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to British West In- dian hurricane victims Members last year put hours of voluntary ployed by the drill instructors to achieve perfection have had a strong Prussian tinge, which is not Surprising Back in the 1920s the marines offi- offi cers and non-commissioned even the Russian armies. is no doubt that the methods ol in 7.308 service to hos said. entertainment for veterans and the donation of furnishings and equip- ment to hospitals, convalescent homes and institutions. A total of $18,094 was spent on recreation purposes. More than| $10,100 was voted to other welfare organizations from JODE funds and 10DE members helped raise | another $3,109 for other welfare agencies. IODE contributed $10,386 to the British European relief fund and $4,730 to the Korean projects fund, which buys supplies of x-ray film and developer. National hospitality convenor | Mrs. Hugh L. Allward of York | Mills, Ont., said members played an important part in welcoming immigrants and overseas students She said that reports from the 970 chapters in Canada indicated further growth in hospitality du- ti I es ». | 10SPITALITY DUTIES | Parties 'were given for immi- attending English classes students here under -the plan, and refreshments grants and for Colombo "Across the country, convenors the IODE affiliated Victoria league. Mrs. G. Douglas Little of Tor- onto, secretary of the IODE maga- zine Echoes, appealed to Echoes chapter secretaries to submit mag- azine material in regulation form LITERARY COMPETITION 12 King St. East Phone RA 3-3633 | "So let us work towards a 50 per uehler"s She said the short story com- petition would be open this year to the public as well as IODE mem- bers. A financial contribution from one chapter would be used to pro- vide an additional feature in each issue. Civil defence convenor Mrs. Gra-| ham "Sinclair of Toronto appealed for more members to join civil defence. "It is of great importance that more and more members become civil defence-minded," she said. Monday Only! (sHouLper) lp. 45. Meat Specials! VEAL CHOPS cent with goal." chapter response next 100 per cent the year, A lively and growing interest in| empire and world affairs was re-| poried by national convenor John MacRae of Toronto. Nati standard bearer Mrs. Donald G of Chaudiere Basin. Que., said 21 new standards, including one pro vincial, were dedicated last year Mis ultimate ECONOMY STEAK 2 ws. 79- LEAN RIB STEW REEF A VEAL STEW (BONE IN) wih Ibs. 35

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