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i Ni of Bowmanville, He will receive: AAR -- TIMES-GAZETTE - TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3493 All other calls ....... RA 38-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-G: Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WEATHER REPORT Sunny and warm today and Sunday. Winds light, ¥ ZETT VOL. 87--NO. 151 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITSY, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1958 TWENTY PAGES. Authorized As Second Class Mall / Post Office Department, Ottawe CENTENNIAL Mavin, Jim Richards, Lyle Cooper and A. Bonk. In pie- ture right, Mayor Lyman Giff- ord of Oshawa sends this city's A GROUP er BOWMAN- VILLE RUNNERS, picture top left, pose with Alfie Shrubb, one of the all-time greats of the marathon world, at City Hall, Oshawa, today as opening greetings to the Town of Bow- ceremonies of the Bowman- manville as the Centennial ville Centennial took place opens. The courier is Lyle They are, left to right, A. | Hooper while Puul F. Chant, Stacey, G. Bagnell, Jim of the Centennial committee, Coombes, R. Burgess, Alf | looks on Shrubb, A. Daynes, Wayne Times Gazette Photos Alf Shrubb Opens Show Ten runners left city hall here today to take up stations along the route to Bow- manville. The first, Lyle Hooper was handed an illuminated scroll by Mayor Lyman Gifford, which will be relayed into the hands of Mayor thoner Alfie Shrubb, who came out of retirement specially to perform the task. It wag the first act in the opening ceremonies for Bowmanville's cen- i tennial celebrations, By DOUG. GLYNN Staff Reporter BOWMANVILLE -- Thousands of native sons and visitors, many of them from distant points in Canada and the United States, swarmed into this town of 8,000 today as the Centennial celebration got under way. The weatherman proved to be right in his forecast, and Old Sol was out in all his glory, fan- ned by a slight balmy breeze, as the big show got under way. and committee members were still hopeful that the crowd would top the 30,000 mark by the middle of the afternoon. (Please turn to pages 6, 8 and 9 for addition- al stories and pictures of The Bowmanville Cen- tennial.) The town put on its best dress . i : for this 100-year birthday party Dad a busy time keeping up with and the streets were decorated the rush. with colored flags bunting, and, The bright skies gave a céh- streamers, siderable boost to the attendance Thousands of greetings poured and late this morning hundreds from municipalities Canada, including messages from boring points as Oshawa, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker bourg, and Whitby. and Premier Leslie Frost of Ont-' "It's really warming up now," ario, said a member of the Bowman: Accomodation in the town is at Ville police about 9 a.m. today. # premium and hundreds of 'In fact it's been pretty busy people jostled around last night since I came on at 6 a.m., and as the street car ' al opened. it's getting busier by the min Today's opening ceremonies te: marked the end of two years of He added that he had never long planning by the Centennial seen the town so busy as Friday committee. The Hon. J. Kieller night. Hundreds of visitors could Mackay, lieutenant-governor 'of be seen, while parties were in Ontario arrived here this morning evidence .in almost every dwell- to officially open the week-long ing celebrations. Town officials were "It might seem a little quiet, ready to watch the parade from but the pot is beginning to boil a reviewing stand located on and I'm glad we have everything King street under control. I'm sure that| Sunday moring there will be everything is _2oing well and a "Neighborly Nevs" brodacast there'll be no hitch. | from the Town Hall. This is the A refowned professional sculp CBC's tribute to Bowmanville, In turist, Elford B. Cox, of Willow- the afternoon Rev. W. F. Bann. dale, was seen yesterday placing ister will be the _uest -speaker @ display of wood, stone, and at the open air church service in marble carvings at the, Lion's Memorial Park. Centre. Mr. Cox grew up in Bow-' Tonight there will be a dance Manville and attended _ public on the main street. A week-long school and high school in the carnival opened orl Di' ion street OWN. "Sculptors run in the fam. ily," he said. "My grandfather Friday evening fe turing rides A and games was a wood carver in Bowman. ' ville." He said that it was hic 'There was little doubt but that T oubt but that 1. John Tabb, who present]: this will be the bigg and most | colorful display ever put on hy this town HEAVY REGISTRATIONS Registrations were heavy yes Mr. Cox has been a profession- terday and more than 1000 had a! sculptor for eight years. He put their names in the registry Operates his own studio in Willow- book by 7 p.m. Friday as clerks dale and his mother and father still liv tow In 1954. he lefi Bowmanville to CITY EMERGENCY attend the University of Toronto He then became a teacher at PHONE NUMBERS Upper Canada College. , 1 POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 ves in Bowmanville, who taught him to select different kinds of voods for carving, while he was still a boy. e works strictly on modern styling. He said he gives his two daughters every opportunity to work on sculpture, but does not encourage them in any way. His vork takes him te, churches, schools, and he also executes fig- \ures for fountains, . across Of cars arrived from such neigh-» Co-! DOORS WILL OPEN DAY SA RE RR 4 12 MEN ABDUCTED IRA PEARCE "I Remember When , . , " | | | Bowmanville Man 96 Years "Young" BOWMANVILLE early. Ge! up eariy alone." "ord Steps Up 5 Les WINDSOR (CP)--Ford of Can-| John 8. Blunt, vice-president of ada, bucking the recession which|Holmes, said the Sarnia firm will has cut deeply into new car sales, hire about 100 men to work on has scheduled all-Canadian pro. initial block production. duction of its six-cylinder engine Since the development program in six months. started Ford has been steadily x 2 . replacing U.S.-made parts in its President Rhys M Sale, Buh six-cylinder engine with Canadian nouncing the step Friday, said it products. . Now. all parts except will mean increased employment the block are being made here. at the Windsor plant and at Ford has been producing all-Ca- foundry in Sarnia, where the en- nadian eight-cylinder engines for gine blocks are to be manufac- more than 25 years. tured. Mr. Sale said Ford decided to The $4,000,000 program to de- proceed on schedule with the en- velop six-cylinder engine produc- gine plan despite lagging car tion in Canada began two years gales. ago and will complete its final| The recession has not shaken phase next fall when Holmes our faith in the future of this Foundry Limited at Sarnia be- country one iota," he said, "even gins casting the blocks. {though like many other busi- Mr. Sale said 400 1aen at Ford's nesses we have had to tighten Windsor plant are now engaged our belts somewhat for the short in six-cylinder engine production. term." Installation of 47 new machines! Ford plans to put the first all- will increase this number by|Canadain six - cylinder engines about 15 per cent. into its cars next Jan. 1 Labor Distrusts Liberals, Claim BIGWIN INN, Ont. (CP) -- Asaid labor distrust of Liberals call for nationalization of the na |dates back to the time of the late "Go to bed stipulations made by the kindly Leave liquor gentloman for a long life. He has moked a pipe most of his life, Ira Pearce gives this advice to!and enjoyed it, anyone who wants to know the Uatil 1955 he was a newspapet secre. of living to a ripe old age. dealer for a Toronto newspaper And Mr He's 96 years young resident of Bowmanville. Pearce should know.|He has sold papers since 1903 or the oldest | 1904 when he heard complaints | 'hat no newspapers could be ob Mr Pearce reminisced today tained in the Bowmanville area. as the big Centennial Celebration | Tn recognition of his excellent ser. | got into full swing. But unless you would Activity is his secret of A farmer by profession, doing chores around his Even ther However, to "'take it easy" stroke he suffered Despite this, he still home on the outskirts wife died in with his son, Henry, 33, daughter-in-law, Dorothy. Smoking was not one of he told his age -- article about him on his take him for 68 or so. of service. living ; he re- Courtice on the Base Line. tired only three years ago from remembe) home leven as large a he didn't want to quit. !tice," his doctor ordered him the NO PUBLICATION DOMINION DAY There: will be no publiction of The Times-Gazette next Tuesday, July 1, which is Do- minion Day, but publication will be resumed the follow- ing day. The management wishes all a happy holiday on the com- ing weekend and also during the Dominion Day holiday. |vice the paper wrote a feature | 50th year Mr. Pearce was born south of when Oshawa wasn'l piace as Cour he recalled He was the son of Mr. and Mrs because of a Henry Pearce. His father migrat- enjoys {irom Cornwall, England. His first wa.ks and trips to town from his job paid him Since his cleared the land where the family 1941 he has lived lived on the ed to Canada in the early oe 25 cents a day. Hel Base Line and was and sne of the original settlers in the district Ira attended No. 4 Public School in Darlington Township. After Ileaving school he continued work- ing ou his father's farm until 1914 when he purchased the property at 56 Concession street where he presently lives His wife was the latefEmma Bragg of Maple Grove, They had two sons. Henry, who lives at bome ard Gordon, who lives in Toronto His work will be on display all week at the Lions' Centre. at Beech Ave., along with numeron antique items being shown by the | /Women's Institute, sidered day at the close of a three-day 1930s. tural gas industry was to be con- Mitchell Hepburn, Liberal pre- by Ontario Liberals to-|mier of Ontario during the late policy conference in this Mus | koka Lake resort. "Mr. Hepburn said no CIO or- ganizer would be allowed into the The resolution was submitted province from the United States. to the conference late Friday He said any night by John Fleming of Chat- enter Ontario would be stopped hum but was shelved for later!at the border by Ontario Provin- consideration because many of!cial Police." the 150 delegat~= were absent. Mr. Gargrave said it was en- It proposes that Liberals couraging that a union organizer "adopt as a plank in their elec-|should be asked to address the tion platform the public owner- conference but declared that the ship of the gas utilities." only political party which prom- A CIO organizer tossed a spark |ises to give labor a fair deal is of controversy into the confer./the CCF. ence Friday by claiming that or-| Shouting began when Toronto ganized labor distrusts the Lib- Alderman Philip Givens accused eral party. |1abor of following Conservative Bert Gargrave, assistant direc-|policy by advocating immigra- tor of the steelworkers' union, tion restrictions. LATE NEWS FLASHES Six Persons Die In Crash MONTMAGNY, Que. (CP)--Six persons were killed to- day when a towing truck and a pickup truck collided near Police this industrial centre 30 miles east of Quebee City said the victims, not immediately identified were all riding in the pickup truck. The accident occurred shortly after 8 am. Eight Killed In Baflle BEIRUT (AP)--A battle raged for more than 12 hours overnight in Tripoli between government and rebel forces, insurgent sources: reported today. Eight persons were killed and about 20 wounded--many of them by-standers caught in stray bullets--the reports from the northern port city said. English Poet Dies RYDE, Isle of Wight (Reuters Poet Alfred Noyes died in a hospital here today. He was 77. One of his best known poems was The Hizhwayman. who attempted to "| Tues: {rence }| 2 Canadians HAVANA, Cuba (AP)--Rebels, Mrs. John Schissler, wife of & {who kidnapped 10 U.S. and two kidnapped California engineer, {Canadian engineers from a min-| said a rebel leader told her the |ing camp say 'the men will be men were takem in reprisal for {treated well and released after ajthe alleged U.S. aid but they will few days. | be well cared for and released ip The Cuban government was a few days. trying to get the men back. U.S.| officials of the Moa Bay Mine Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith. f a: said he '"'expects the men will be ing Company were reported talk released fairly and un- Ing tp rebels, seeking the release | harmed." of the engineers. The officials ex« The men were abducted from pressed confidence that Castro Moa on Cuba's northeast tip, % Thursday night by 200 rebels would urm ther loose when they {the U.S. state department said pointed out that the incident was were commanded by Raoul Cas.|Pad publicity in the United States tro, brother of rebel chief Fidel2"d Canada. ; . Castro. Three Cubans were killed., The (eels pS iematised Theis The Canadians were identified ®2Use last February by kidnap. as Harold G. Kristjanson, 37, of| Ping Juan Fangio, world cham. pion auto racing driver from Are {Winnipeg and Edward Cannon, : : 50, of Cornwall. Kristianson's par- gentina, in Havana. He was re- ents now live in Geraldton, Ont. | leased unharmed. Mrs. Cannon said in Cornwalll In Ottawa external affairs of that she had been planning to|ficials said a cable has been di- Join her husband shortly in Cuba.|rected to the Canadian Legation Cannon, a native of Montreal,|in Havana asking for particulars came here in March to work on of any Canadians involved in the the project kidnappings. . y Mrs. Cannon said rebel attacks GERALDTON, Ont. (CP)--Har- closed operations shortly after| 1d G. Kristi 37 Wi that, but it reopened later. 0 - Kristianson, 37, of Winn peg, one of 11 American and WANTED TO GO {Canadian engineers kidnapped "I love travelling and I most| Friday night by Cuban rebels, is certainly was looking forward to|experiencing his second abduc. going to Cuba," she said. "But|tion in that country in about I'm afraid they should never have|three months, come back the second time." | His father, Otto Kristjanson, Fidel Castro has been trying|said in a telephone interview that ; since December, 1956, to over-|rebels had held Harold prisoner ecutives and four companies on throw President Fulgencio Ba-|for some six hours sometime in the ground of 'lack of evidence." tista by attacks from the Sierra| March, but they released him Mr. Justice Wilson said the Maestra, 100 miles southwest of|after they loaded stolen equips adjournment was a relief to him|Moa, although his forces have ment. because "I have been haying my not been active since defeats in| The father said he is "not tos own troubles lately and will ap-|April. Castro has accused the|worried" about the fate of his preciate the extra time." United States of helping Batista.|son. soon ROBERT SOMMERS Judge Throws | Out Motion Sommers Case VANCOUVER (CP)--Mr. Jus- |tice J. O Wilson Friday threw out a motion for quashing the charges in the Sommers bribery- | conspiracy trial. New defence moves aimed at {dismissal wili continue next Wed- nesday when the trial goes into its 34th day. Six defence lawyers are pre- pared to argue for dismissal of the one conspiracy charge and 24 bribery counts against former lands and forests minister Rob. ert Sommers, three timber ex- Canadians Celebrate 91st Dominion Day Canadians today plunged into a] Celebrations elsewhere are on|camp. CPR and CNR had extra . rour-day lLelter-skelter of evenis/a smaller scale but the enthus-! {rains scheduled while TCA re- {celebrating the nation's 91st birth- 1asm is expected to make up for ported heavy bookings, particus day. t larly in the West. Feature of the Dominion Day Safety groups warn that the en-| CBC radio and television will elebrations will 'be the creation | thusiasm is often carried too far carry a Message from the ov. 7, July 1, of a lake near on the highways. The Canadian | 0. oeneral at 5:45 p.m EDT Cornwall, to serve the Ontario- Safely Council predicted that 45 Tuesday over the Trans-Canada New York state power station be- traffic deaths would occur be- network and at" an early evening ing built along with the St. Law- tween 6 p.m. local time Friday|y "0 "5 S0 CHEE Cte rence Seaway. |and midnight Tuesday. This com- Prints have also been made avail Tuesday marks the anniversary pares with 54 in the three-day |. 10 'o lvcal stations of the creation of Canada by the weekend last year and 55 in 1956. 9,008] Stations. : federation of the united provinces! A country . wide crackdown on The Flin Flon trout festival of Upper znd Lower-Canada (On- motorists is hoped to reduce the June 27 to July 1, including an tario and Quebec) with Nova Sco- toll . !I-miie canoe race with $1,000 tia and New Brugswick in 1867. Advice to motorists to concen- | first prize features Manitoba's Manitoba joined in 1870, British [trate on good behavior was is- Celebrations. Winnipeg has its an. Columbia in 1871, Prince Edward sued by R. B. Baillie, provincial [nual Scotiish games Tuesday. Island in 1873, Alberta and Sas- commission of motor vehicies in| Mavor 1. H. Cowburn of Ree katchewan in 1905 and Newfound- Manitoba RCMP ia Alberta said gina and Mayor Sid Buckwold of land :n 1949 all available patrols will be out. Saskatoon have challenged each The 'ake will be formed when' The holiday weekend is*tradi-'other to see which city can have an 'earth dam, is exploded, re- tionally a heavy one [or travel the least accidents. Numerous leasing a flood from the St. Law- with schools closing for the sum- fairs are taking place in Saskat- | Imer and youngsters going toichewan. Havana Holds | ---- BT ------ SGA