BOWMANVILLE Representative -- Lloyd Quinton, 29 Temperance Street AND DISTRICT Octogenarian Traveller Returns From BO -- Using al- most available means of in this modern age, returned from transportal J. Berry has just another of his lengthy trips. Mr. Barty: a lifetime resident of Bowman! , is 82 years old and opérates a book store on King { Long Trip he sets out to see a little more of this good old world. This year he travelled by bus, train, plane, boat and a stage coach during his 15.- 000 mile trip that took him across western Canada, over the Pacific to Honolulu and back by way of Los Angeles. On his sojourn through western Canada, Mr. Berry renewed old acquaintances, many he had not seen or heard from in several years. Asked about Honolulu? "I enjoy- ed my visit there very much. On arrival the customary Idi was placed around my neck. The climate was moderate and restful. During my tour of the islands I saw the famous Hawaiian Dancers t land from my hotel window I could watch the surf riders. The cost of living compared equally with ours. The islands are laden with beautiful flowers and lush vegeta- tion, Everyone was very friendly and I found no ficulty." Mr. Berry went to Newfoundland three years ago, and in 1954 toured Alaska. He visited Mexico last year. He has made numerous trips across Western Canada. A lot of travel for anyone, but for Mr. Berry just another way to keep young. W. J. BERRY Prout Family Picnic At Orono The annual Prout family picnic was held at Orono Park on Satur- day, July 28, with an attendance of 74. The family were pleased to have Mrs. Sarah Pooley present this year, as she was unable to attend last year due to iliness. After a pleasant afternoon of visiting, supper was enjoyed. Fol- lowing the supper, President Glenn Prout called the gathering to order and gave a few words of welcome. Two minutes silence was observed in memory of de- parted members. The same officers were re-elect. ed for next year: President, Glenn Prout; Ist vic-president, Bruce { Red Cross To Test Swimmers BOWMANVILLE -- Monday morning August 13, the Intermed- jate and Senior Red Cross swim- mers will be tested at the Boys Training School Swimming Pool. Recreational Director Douglas Rigg said he had received word that a Red Cross examiner from the head office in Toronto will be here to test the swimmers. The Red Cross Water Safety committee have set up a new test standard that is much more diffi- cult than in previous years, hence the reason for the examiner com- ing from Toronto to carry out the tests in the Intermediate and Senior classes. Yeo; 2nd vice - pr Mar- garet Aiken; secretary - treasur- er, Willa Norton. Hennings concluded & very pleas- ant family get-together. A new sports committee was appointed for next year, Wilma and Roland Coombs and Dorothy and Ron Richards. An evening of sports conducted hy Ross Pooley and Mrs, Harold be held at Cream of Barley camp, Bowmanville, on Saturday, 27. Next year the Prout Picnic will July Man On Is Best doldg the job. This opinion has been expressed by administrators of the sugges- tion award plan, set up almost four years ago to encourage fed- of eral employees to put forward their own ideas ciency. During the first three months of the current fiscal year, since April 1, the suggestion award committee handed out 110 awards totalling $2,345. This contrasts with 126 awards in the whole of the plan's first year of operation. More than 300,000 public serv- ants mow are eligible under the scheme, extended last year to in- clude military personnel as well as civilian employees of the defence department. Thirty-seven departmental awards committees operate in Ottawa with sub-com- I mittees across the country. PRACTICAL IDEAS Source ¢ : office meth for work effi-{\08 The Job: AJAX BND DISTRICT NEWS John Mills, Representative -- Phone Ajax 426 language dif-| | talk about. This is their first meeting since 1919. On the left is Mrs. Grace Mills of Ajax, MEET FOR FIRST TIME IN 37 YEARS | These two ladies have lots to right is Mrs. Florence Kydd of West Seneca, Buffalo, N.Y. Girl- hood friends in Tewsksbury, England. Mrs. Kydd came to ; | tracts valued at Canada in 1919. Since that time they have always kept in touch by mail at long intervals. This week they met. ~Photo by John Mills PERSONALS Little Garry Gonneau, of Deep River, is spending a week with his aunt, Mrs. W. Griffith. Strange Mr. and Mrs. George Wilkes, 112 King's crescent, had as their guests last weekend Mr. Wilkes'| aunt, Mrs. Christina Fulton, of} | Vancouver and Hudson, New York, | land his sister, Mrs. Frances Cur- | zon, of Toronto. Sincere sympathy of all friends and neighbors is extended to the family of the late Mr. Charles Noland, Ontario street, in the pass- ing of a devoted husband, and lov- ing father. Mrs. Annie Douglas, Mount Den- nis, visited her brother, Mr. John Mills and Mrs. Mills. She was ac- companied by her son, Don Douglas, and granddaughter Lynda, of Highland Creek. It is nice to see wee Bradley Luke, Glynn avenue, out at play ain after spending two weeks in) the Hospital for Sick Children, Tor- onto. Mrs Norman Tait and two small | daughters, Cornwall, are visitin her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. rat as Rai mally rb, dent or fire hazards; cutting ad- ministration costs; standardizing based Pepper. RL a Eric Wilson, Forest road, is back] from a two weeks' visit with his parents in England. e forms; eliminating unneces- sary operations or waste; improv- tools, equipment and machin- ery; improving morale or better- ing work conditions particularly with regard to safety, health and sanitation. The scheme is administered the suggestion award board of the public service of Canada. Its members are Civil Service Commissioner A. J. Boudreau, board chairman; George T. Jack- son, assistant deputy works min- ister; S. J. Chagnon, assistant deputy veterans affairs minister; J. T. Marshall, assistant Domin- ion statistician; Mrs. D. B. Sin. clair, executive assistant to the welfare minister; D. M. Watters, secretary to the treasury board, An award is paid only after ap accepted idea has been put into and Board Executive Secretary H. A. B. MacCraken. Full-length Movie Made By ANTIGONISH, NS. (CP) -- A ull-length movie, believed the irst ever made by students m a university campus, has been hown at St. Francis Xavier Uni- rersity. An hour-long documentary film n all phases of university life, he picture was produced by 'harles Copelin of Liverpool, i.S., and Gerard McEachern of ydney, N.S, both members of nis year's graduating class. The film is complete with wsic, and narration by Stephen tonahue of Portland, Me., an- ( ther 1956 graduate. Original rec- rdings for the movie were made n the campus by an interested lumni, Charles O'Brien of radio Students CAREFUL PRODUCTION The movie was more than a year in the making. Over 3,000 feet of film was shot and about two-thirds of that appears in the finished product. Final by |daughter Marlene spent the holi- Sincere sympathy is extended to the parents and family of Jack Jef- frey=. who passed away in St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, as the result of an accident. Mr. and Mrs. Alf West and day weekend visiting relatives in Campbeliford. LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) = The strange doings of a moth that| is believed to fly to the mountains| to escape summer heat are being| investigated here; Experts observing the behavior of the army cutworm moth at the science service laboratory here say there is evidence to support the assumption that this partie- ular pest, like many humans, takes off for the mountains as soon as the weather get hot. The moth emerges in southern Alberta in large numbers in June and then disappears. In August and September it's back again, laying eggs in grain and alfalfa fields and storing up trouble for farmers, L. A. Jacobson, entomologist in charge of cutworm investigations Of Moth Probed earth in the field. «| BEACOCK cutworm moth is a prolific egg-| layer, compared with other vari- ever, the quantity to the egg-laying stage. Doings at Lethbridge, says severe cut- work moth damage has been re- ported in the United States near mountains, He says experiments have shown that the hotter the weather the shorter the moth's lifespan. 'Two-Year-Old Highways Dept. NG Lets Contract TORONTO (CP) -- Five con- $855,123 have been awarded by the Ontario de partment of highways, Deputy] Minister M. A. Elson announced! Friday. Largest contract of $278,914--an- nounced some hours after the first four--went to Heafrey Construc- tion for grading culverts ular base on a seconda'™» way 2 near Ban- access. Two contracts for thé trans-Can- ada © highway project were awarded to R. A. Blyth of Tor- onto. Freight Train Kills Boy, 8 CORNWALL (CP) -- Eight-year- old Henry Bies was killed Friday when struck by a CNR freight train at a level-crossing here.' Police said the train crew ap- parently did not know of the ac- cident until they reached Brock- ville, about 50 miles west of here. Is Drowned NAPANNE (CP) -- Two-year- old Robert Wilson was drowned Friday after falling through a well-covering at the back of his parents' home. FOR MISSED PAPERS IN BOWMANVILLE " Phone MA 3-5561 If you have not received our Times - Gozette by p.m., call KING TAXI All calls must be placed before 7:30 p.m. To survive in the months the insects seek cooler, higher al- titudes. If too far from the moun- tains, they might be found in old houses or beneath clods of moist Mr. Jacobson says the eties of the moth species. The chances of moth "plague," how- | LUMBER are said to be slim since insects rarely survive in | 328 RITSON RD. N. NEWS BRIEFS WITH HARDY PLANT a cereal plant held SERIOUS CARELESSNESS Officials estimate that 80 'per cent of Canada's forest fires are started by human carelessness. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN Egg production in the first six months of 1956 in Canada was 206,00,000 dozen. | VACUUM VALUE Metals melted in a vacuum are more pure and three to five times stronger than metals smelted in air. TRAFFIC TUNNEL Little Michael McGuire, Burcher street, was host on Wednesday last to a group of friends on the occa- sion of his fifth birthday. They all enjoyed a wiener and marshmal- low roast, complete with favors in the back yard. Mr. and Mrs. John Mills had as their guest this week. Mrs. Flor fence M, Kydd, of West Seneca, Buffalo, N.Y. Mrs. Kydd and Mrs. Mills were girlhood friends. and later sisters-in-law, in England. They had not seen each other for 37 years, so had a lot of reminis- cing to do, which they 'both enjoy- ed very much. PICKERING PERSONALS Boye's Department Store fs closed for two weeks to allow the manager and staff to enjoy a vaca- tion. The manager, Mr. Jim Koch and family are holidaying in the Maritimes. Mrs. Doris Horto, is holidaying in the Orangeville istrict. pr was done by a motion picture laboratory in Toronto. Between 700 and 1,000 students and faculty appear briefly in the film. The sound track carries the voices of the university glee club, the Mount St. Bernard choral group, a portion of a college musical, the Xavierian Choir, the college dance orchesirs and Father W. X. Edwards at the organ. . In_addition to presenting life at St. F. X., the film records brief visits to the affiliated institutions 0 'ation CJFX at Antigonish. i FOR NEW FLOOR BEAUTY SAND and REFINISH YOUR FLOORS . . . DO IT YOURSELF RENT THE SANDER NOW a AY LANSD OWNE HARDWARE OFPOSITE CAMP SAMAC of Xavier Junior College, Mount St. Bernard College and St, Mar- tha"s Hospital. A 6,300-foot traffic tunnel to be, |built under Baltimore's Patapsco| River will handle 12,000,000 wveh-| |icles annually. [ ANCIENT CASTLE Berkeley Castle in England has been owned by the same family| since it was built in 1153. 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