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§ THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE, Monday, May 28, 1958 ---- CANADIAN OFFICER EXPLAI Cmdr. R. W. Timbrell, explains functions of the com- | mand position in the'super-mod- The commanding officer of the Canadian ship 'St. Laurent," Admiral Jerauld Wright, United States Navy, supreme com- | NS COMMAND POSITION RCN, | ern anti - submarine escort to : |be specially-made to suit the stork mander of the U.S. Atlantic fleet, during the ship's visit to Key West, Florida. Winnipeg's Polo Park Closing After July 4 By AL VICKERY |was a man who was destined to Canadian Press Staff Writer |become 'Mr. Racing' in western WINNIPEG (CP) -- Polo Park, Canada--the late R. James Speers the home of horse racing here who, a few years earlier, had | for 31 vears, will shut down per- ridden into the West on a bicycle | manently after this summer's from his Ontario home ' with meeting which ends July 4. Win- scarcely a dollar in his pocket pipeg will be without a race track.| Speers put up $10,000 and Polo The track, with its white high- Park opened with a three-quarter- beard fence and old-fashioned red-| mile track, large grandstand, two- roofed stables, will be torn down | storey clubhouse, beautiful lawns, to make way for a big shoppingspacious grassed centre infield, centre to serve the expanding west | easily accessible pa dock and a end and adjoining city of St./long string of barns. ames. The city once held three| Winners in those days were] tracks and Polo Park is the last|gingerly. patted on the head by survivor women in the fashionable waistless Lou Davies, general manager of| floral dress and pointed shoes. Al- the R. J. Speers Corporation, ma- most every racing man sported a jor shareholders in the land, says|straw hat. Otherwise, the general he | s a new track will be built! appearance of Polo Park has in nnipeg | changed little OPENED IN 1925 | Steward George W. (Judge) Polo Park opened June 13, 1925, Schilling has been at the course when racing was becoming well every year since 1925 established In the West. Some improvements have been Two other tracks operating in|made. A pond was dug out in the greater Winnipeg were not con- mid-field. The method of buying sidered big enough for the sports-| and cashing tickets was. speeded men who formed the Winnipeg up; a mechanical starting gate was Jockey Club. The River Park half- introduced; and concessions were mile track in the south end of the modernized. i was outmoded the grand-! One jockey and one horse stand stand was a well-worn structure; out in the minds of oldtimers the barns rickety; the surround- around. Polo Park. Few would dis- ing fences battered. Whittier Park pute the choice of Johnny Long on the banks of the Red river in|/den as the top rider to appear at St. Boniface was also too small at Winnipeg and of Joey as the fa- five furiongs, and was the scourge vorite horse. of jockeys because of its sharp ~Longden, who came to Canada corners Its well-known 'barn from England as a boy, rode at corner" has been the scene of Winnipeg from 1928 to 1938, then many disastrous spills. went on to greater glory on United Named to manage the new track States tracks, piling up the larg city 3 Years Bpart, Polish Brother To Meet Sister (CP)--A brother and ated for 51 years are »t again Friday thousands of from Czestochowa, Poland, LONDON (Reuters)--Work will where they said goodbye began next week on building the David Goldach, 69, will meet his first Mormon temple in Britain on sister Lena, 67, after ad interval a 32-acre site at Newchapel, near of years marked by two world Lingfield in Surrey; it was an- vars. In the Second World War nounced today. The temple, which Mr. Goldach and his wife, their should be completed in 18 months four sons and a daughter were will cost about £400,000, most of split up and sent to German con- which will come from the United centration camps. States. Britain has about 10,000 Mr. Goldach and his wife live'Mormons. TODAY'S CROSSWORD |at the Toronto home of their son, Max, a bread salesman. They ar- rived a few days ago from Israel Mr. Goldach's sister, Lena, mar ried a' Romanian after arriving in ithe United States in 1905, and now is Mrs. Stolon. She is travelling from Brooklyn, N.Y., to the fam ily reunion in Toronto NEW MORMON TEMPLE TORONTO - struction of. the St est number of victories of jockey in North America Joey, a little black two-year-old gelding, won the Winnipeg Futur- ity in 1932, and then captured the| hearts of the racing fraternity in| both the United States and Can-| ada with his courageous running. | Joey wound up his racing career! in 1939, but he still had one more triumph two years later He was led through the streets | of Winnipeg in 1941 for the Vic- tory Loan campaign. The first| cheque contributed was for $18,- | 500--half of the little favorites life- | time earnings, and it was signed | simply' "Joey." | The "Toy-town express' as | Joey was fondly known to horse lovers -- received gifts from all| over the continent. They sent him carrots and candy. Poems were written about him | In 1930 Polo Park became the! home of the rich Canadian Derby | for three-year-olds foaled in Can-| ada and run over 1'4 miles. The race now has a purse of $10,000] added--richest in the West. | The derby has given fans some of the best track performances in Canada, and has provided some of the biggest upsets. Ten To Ace, King's Plate winner found the distance too tough--the plate distance was 1's miles--and finished last in the 1942 running of the Canadian Derby. The east- ern champion, a 1-10 pre-race fa- vorite, took a 20-length lead atl one stage, but faltered and was] passed by every other horse before hitting the wire any Seaway To Hit New England BOSTON AP)---The New Eng land governors' committee on pub lic transportation said Sunday con Lawrence sea-| way "does not threaten New Eng-| land with large-scale reduction of traffic now moving through its ports." | The committee report said, how- ever, "it does not mean that the! seaway 'can be dismissed as al matter of minor importance to the | New England economy. The loss| of even a small volume of through | traffic would aggravate an al-| ready serious problem for the two major area ports, Portland, Mai and Boston." + Mame to CRAFTY THIEF AUCKLAND, N. Z. (CP)--Kay mirali, 14, returned from school see a man coming out of her house. "Good afternoon," he said E politely, extracting a steam iron negotiating committee headed by from under his coat. "Here is the iron your mother wanted re- paired." The girl thanked him as he disappeared. Then she found Vote To Strike Housing Shortage Causes Dutch Storks To Vanish By RONALD FRASER and renovate old ones. It is hoped THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Storks|this sum will provide about 50 good are disappearing from the Dutch nests which the storks will find countryside because they face a waiting for them when they return "housing shortage" almost as dras- each spring after spending the tic as that of the Dutch people winter in Africa. themselves. This country is short of some | Before the First World War, 200,000 houses, and since this prob- | some 500 inhabited stork nests lem is expected to take many years | were counted in Holland. .. census|to solve the storks probably will {last year showed only 58. The'be better off than most average | figure seems to have dropped most Dutch families in having a place of | during the Second World War, be- their own in which to live. cause in 1939 there were still 300) The storks' "housing shortage" {nests in use, while 10 years later caused fierce fighting among rival | the number had fallen fo just over pairs of birds in some parts of the 80. country last year. Pitched battles | The Association for the Preser- were held over the right to a nest, vation of Birds fears that storks with the result that a large num- n.ay become extinct in Holland if ber of eggs and young birds were action is not taken. It claims that thrown out and lost. these beautiful birds are leaving| Only 96 storks were hatched in because they no longer can find a Holland last year, as compared place to live. Storks do not build| with well over 1,000 before the their own nests but rely on finding First World War. |a ready-made site to lay their] Storks are cherished in the Dutch eggs. countryside and their arrival is Their traditional nest is on a always welcome because popular house or on a cart wheel attached belief has it that they bring good to the top of a long pole fixed in|luck to the house on which they the ground. These nests have to nest. With their contrasting white and and the association estimates the black plumage, and their bright cost of one such nest at 200 guilders red bill and legs, storks are strik- ($52)--too much for the average ingly conspicuous in the flat Dutch SUMMER IN MEXICO foreign sttdlents, mostly MEXICO CITY (AP)--The Unl-| United States, to attend trom the | summer versity of Mexico expects 1,000|courses starting July 3. Th Ty ds of C from coast to coast farmer to pay. countryside. Standing more than HOUSING CAMPAIGN three feet high, they walk across It has therefore started a cam- the land with a dignified air. in| paign to raise 10,000 guilders ($2.- search of their favorite food -1 630) to provide new storks' nests) insects, frogs and field mice. | strike meeting and that the vote Steelworkers ira fname | The union demands an across- the-board increase of 18 cents an | hour, two weeks holiday after one improved |vear of service and | health insurance. have come to Niagara when they've wanted up fo $1500 or more quickly. The Niagara door is open for you; in @ private interview your needs are looked after promptly and courteously. Rates on many Niagara loans are lower . . . and loahs to $1500 are life-insured af no extra cost fo you. There's a wide variety of loan and payment plans for your convenience . . . so drop in anytime. 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