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fF wvescazerre TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 RA 3-3474 All other calls Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEATHER REPORT Scattered showers possiblé. Thundershowers tonight. TWENTY-TWO PAGES VOL. 87--No. 153 Vo No eu OSHAWA-W 7 Cents Per Copy HITBY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1958 Authorized As Second Class Mall Post Office Department, Ottawa COLBORNE BAT 0,000 ATTEND BOWMANVILLE PICNIC > Bands Add | Gay Color To Big Show | By DOUG GLYNN Staff Reporter BOWMANVILLE ville celebrated its 100th birth- day and Canada's 91st birthday in jubilant fashion Tuesday as more than 10,000 persons invaded the Cream of Barley Park for the annual community picnic. The day-long festivities, part of the current week-long Centen- nial celebrations, began early in the morning with a children's cos- tume parade. Thousands of visitors from neighboring communities arrived in town with picnic lunches early in the afternoon. Humid 85 degree temperatures once again graced the fair com- munity adding to the success of the event. the picnic was the park's swim- ming pool which drew capacity crowds all day. GREAT SUCCESS The picnic was held by the Re- creation Department in conjunc- tion with the Centennial Commit- tee. Members of the playground staff, local service clubs, Good- year Recreal 2d the Bowman- Like all the preceding events held since Centennial "Old Home Week" celebrations began Satur- day, the picnic was hailed as a success. Its success was another indication of the efficient organization and planning by the people who have made this a great week in Bowmanville's his- tory. A large crowd lined the parade route to watch the colorful pro- session. Bowmanville Legion Pipe Band led the parade. Col- borne Band and Baton Drill Squad added to the spectacle with their precision drills and brisk music. More than 250 children, dress- ed in a wide variety of costumes pushing brightly decorated doll carriages and riding gaily decor- ated bicycles, took part in the parade. One of the children was dress od as a purple people eater, sy- asonymous with the currently popular song. Others wore cow- poy suits, skating costumes, In- dian garb and a wide variety of costumes representing a Cen- tennial theme, The parade marshalled at the Lions Centre on Beech avenue and ended at Central School grounds, Wellington street, where costume judging took place. Priz es were awarded in nine different rategories.: Members of the Kins- men Club supervised the parade] and judged the costumes for or-| ginality and attractiveness, | CROWDS COME EARLY Cars loaded with families began filling every artery into Bowmanville around noon. By 2 p.m. when the picnic was official- y opened thousands of people swarmed around the grounds. | Each child attending was sued with tickets entitling them to free pop or ice cream, a Cen- tennial hat and balloon, and a free turn at the fish pond oper-| ated by the Lions Club. The hats were given away by the Rotary| Club, while the Chamber of Com-| merce presented the balloons Children found no problems in obtaining their hats, balloons and] ice cream. It was a different .mat-| ter when it came fo selecting al prize at the fish pond. A choice of several items were available and this to many seemed like a most important decision like a stood at the booth for more than 10 minutes before selecting their prize. PICNIC IS FAMILY AFFAIR Opening ceremonies were at p.m. Mayor Nelson Osborne spoke welcoming former resi. dents, visitors and local eitizens Rev. A. C. Herbert, chairman of he Centenniai Committee; Jack Lander chairman of the Recrea tion Committee, and Centennial Queen June Wood also welcomed the large crowd is- 2 CITY EMERGENCY | PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-221 __ | Biggest attraction at § ON UNIT FOLLOWS INTRICATE ROUTINE 1 Ask Boycott Five Hotels Oshawa and District Labor Ciuncil members are to be asked| not to drink in five Oshawa Hotels where employes who be long to the Hotel, Restaurant Employes and Bartenders Inter- national Union, Local 280, go on strike Friday George Heslop, secretary-trea- surer of the local, said in Toron- te today he would attend a labor council meeting next Tuesday and | TEXAS SONG IGNORES ALASKA DALLAS (AP) -- alway made much noise about their state being the largest. Today they talked a different tune--and will have to sing a new tune in their state song Generally, citizens of Texas are ready to welcome Alaska, the 49th and largest state to the union Not all Texans surrendered. One pointed out that if the state fights for its originally boundaries, it may recover half of New Mexico and great hunks of Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Kansas. These areas were lost to Texes in 1850 when the union bought them from a then penniless Texas for $10.000,000 Like to or not, Texans will have fo sing a new tune-- the words, at least, will be Texas, Our Texas, offi- al state song, calls the state gest a has 586,400 square Texas has 267,399. Texans {Kansas disc and Chrysler plants, Cars Sabotaged Seek Culprits DETROIT (AP) General Motors has offered a $1,000 rew ard for information on persons responsible for sabotaging 212 car bodies at plants in four cities The company said Tuesday 24| car -bodies were damaged Mon- day. night at Fisher Body plant No in Flint, Mich. Previously, it said, 106 bodies were damaged in' a plant at Euclid, Ohio; 73 in City, Mo., and nine in Baltimore, Md The United Auto Workers union iimed any responsibility for the incident The inion"s members have without contracts the last month at GM, Ford heen working for ask for "moral support". The council takes in almost 100 per cent of the working force in Osh- awa and district including the United Automobile Workers Members of our union will pick et all the hotels, carrying pla- cards," said Mr. Heslop "They will not speak to the public if any-| one crosses the picket line but] merely show their placards. 1 shall contact Oshawa's police chief to ask what picketing ar- rangements can be made. He will have to give approval to the num- bers of men we can put out," | Reginald Lancaster, president | of the Oshawa Hotel Association, | aid today the assiciation had no| meetings planned and any action would be "contingent on what happened Friday." The strike was called because . the association turned down de Over Tri mands for a compulsory union shop and collection of union dues by' the hotels OTTAWA (CP) -- Labor Min- The association agreed to pay ister Starr returned to Ottawa increases. and other demands re- from Europe about two hours too commended by a conciliation|late to hear Harold Winch (CCF board report. The board said it Vancouver East) say, in effect, could make no recommendation that Mr, Starr had been out of on the demands for compulsory! ihe country union shop and dues collection|current domestic labor troubles. "in the interest of good labor re- lations" and left it to the union and the association to work it out between them Rlaska Has Celebrations JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)--Alas- kans caught their breath today after tossing the wildest celebra tion since gold rush days, and looked ahead to a problem packed future as the biggest state in the U.S They poured it on Monday night, with whistles, sirens horns, bells and fireworks as they cheered news of the Sen ate"s passage of the statehood bill. Street dances followed pa rades, In Sitka, onetime capital of Russian Alaska, drinks were on the house At Fairbanks, the Chena River turned gold--as wildly happy res- idents poured dye into the stream near where one of Alaska's big gold strikes lured pioneers and sourdoughs at the turn of the century At Skagway, the gateway the big Klondike gold strike HON, Raps Starr MICHAEL STARR to attend a confer- International was back weeks ago ence of the Organization, in {his return Tuesday night. Earlier, Mr. Winch had asked in the House when the govern- ment expected the minister to re- {turn "and accept his responsibili- Ities" in connection with "the con- tinuing economic crisis" {from strikes, lockouts and unem ployment Acting replied that ing unfair to Mr. Starr who was in Europe attending to matters of vital importance to his depart ment Napanee Man Fatally Hurt LATCHFORD, Ont, (CP) -- Al. Ont. died Monday of injuries suffered when a pipe being un loaded slipped and struck him Notingham was working on the Trans-Canada natural gas pipe- 1898, housewives paraded in the «ine near this town, on the On treets wearing embroidered tario Northland Railway 53 miles it proclaimed south of Kirkland Lake, when the r than Te better than accident occurred fo of "Bigs California, Alaska~God's coun. Police said an inquest will be Kr. "held a too long in view of Mr. Starr, who left about three|Dit the ground again, Labor the Commons within about an hour of arising| Prime Minister Green Mr. Winch was be-| fred Nottingham, 52 of Napanee. | ONE OF YOUNGEST BANDS IN CANADA--COLBORNE BOYS PUT ON DISPLAY HOLIDAY MISHAPS GLAIM 104 'Blast' Felt In Cornwall I At first, the firing team feared that only- half the 3,100 cans of : nitrone buried in rows in the dam | CORNWALL (CP) -- Seaway had detonated, leaving the plug {Valley is getting its face washed like a loaded powderkeg. jand lifted today. | "But when we got up and |" A nameless lake is growinz!iooked at if, it had gone Just as {with startling speed after 63,000) we had planned," said Dr. Holden! Iria ad Inching £2 Lo helped prepare first plage] | a > or the Cornwal am more than |lentless 75-hour flood in the val-|3g years ago, | ley. : Thousands watched with| |go The iss jore Wo gaps ju3 strange fascination. The long-her-| ool coflerdam a am. bE alded flood that forced 6.500 | Tuesday to release the pentup people to move seven old river Nalers of ihe St. Lawrence, Can front towns to higher land had ada's greatest river. finally started. | The shock was felt in down| sometime July 4, about 180 miles from the mast, Force of 00000 Fallons of water will fi p A oy - +1 |the new lake--as yet unnat - The explosion Sent tons of earth though Americans across the in {and hurled Tock boulders 'more ternational border have dubbed it than 1.000 feot : Lake St. Lawrence. The controlled flood is chang-SYMBOLIC GESTURE ing this' rolling, gentle country The flood began on Canada's side settled first 174 years ago|pirthday and will end on the in by United Empire 'Loyalist s0l- dependence anniversary of the ers. United States, a symbolic gesture A ghost land u S500 Bere to the international seawaypower being submerged to form a undertaking. [square mile lake that will be a Shipping. banned since Monday hydroelectric dam, fom the Smile area west of "Dr. Otto Holden. 67 chief. en- here will resume traffic July 4 |gineer for Ontario Hydro, poked USlng SD Us. locks near Mass) a button to detonate the nitrone, 6® N:Y- siep . P The explosion, marked by twin|dam and enter the power. pool. A | "anadia J t Iroquois, Ont., {spires of debris and smoke, rip C Snaan lock ek ic st E 8 .awrence River channel leaving By ROBERT RICE | { | Canadian Press Staff Writer | between Sheek and Barnhart I Ontario. lands to launch the flood ont Ario, ; | Muddy water foamed through| The trio of locks are part of| [the gaps and snaked 2%: miles to{the 135-mile St. Lawrence Sea-| the high, curving power dam just Way which is to be officially three miles west of downtown /opened next year by the Queen| Cornwall, Ontario's 18th largest and President Eisenhower x city. And then it began to back| The U.S. locks--named Eisen-| lup slowly but steadily. By night |hower and Snell--were to be dedi-| fall, more than 12 feet of water cated in daylong ceremonies to) covered formerly dry land. day attended by Washington and | "When the blast went, a great|Canadian dignitaries, | cloud of earth shot 150 to 200 feet| Already drowned bencath more| in the air,"" said Dr. Holden. than 10 feet of floodwater are the "Some rocks went at least 1,000|Corawall and Williamsburg can| 4) hy EATHS | 46 Persons Die | From Drownings AT CONFERENCE Aemyon K. Tsarapkin, head of the International Organiza- tions of the Soviet foreign of- fice, stands in line for passport check after arrival in Geneva, Switzerland. Accompanying Mr. Tsarapkin on his mission was Prof. Yevgeni K. Fedorov, head of the delegation of Soviet scientists expected to confer wi'h Western scientists about entering into nuclear test con- trol talks. By THE CANADIAN PRESS crossed the centre line and col | The price of Canada's four-day |lided with the Hali car. {weekend birthday celebrations:| Newmarket is 25 miles north of {104 persons killed in accidents. | Toronto, A Canadian Press survey of the, Michael Anderson, 12-year-old Dominion Day holiday period|sen of Mr. and Mrs. James An- found 50 killed in traffic and 46 derson, died Monday night in a more drowned. Eight died in Sarnia hospital thrée hours after other accidents, |he was struck by actar im Moore "The toy, amassed between 6 Township, near his' home. {b.m. Friday and midnight Tues-| Police said the car was driven day, lopped last year's Dominion by Mrs Stanley Hollands, of Day record of 98 set during a Mooretown, 15 miles south of three-day ' holiday. {Sarnia. Lasi year, 54 were killed on the! Eric Kuch, 5, of Newmarket {roads ana 31 drowned. died in hospital Tuesday of head The Canadian Safety Council injuries suffered Saturday when had predicted that 45 would be|hit by a car near his home. Po- killed in traffic mishaps this 'ice said the boy ram into the year. path of the car. ow 1h DROWNS IN QUINTE Newfoundland, Prince Edward Eric Zimmer, 21, was drowned Island, no fatalities. Tuesday while wading at Zwick's | Nova Scotia: Five dead, two Island in the Bay of Quinte. Po- (killed in traffic and threellice said Zimmer, a non-swim- drowned, mer, stepped into a deep hole New Brunswick: Four dead, and disappeared. His body was two killed in raffic and two in recovered by the crew of an the crash of a light plane at Path [RCAF crash boat sent from the Tuesday air station at Trenton was the picture across EATS HIMSELF OUT OF $250 FLIN FLON, Man. (CP) Orv Thompson of Flin Flon ate himself out of $250 at the eighth annual trout festival here. He considered his eight pounder too small to enter in the competition, and ate it for dinner Sunday. It would hove won second prize The $500 first prize was won by Erni Dion of Flin Flon, with a 30-pound trout caught Saturday in Lake Athapapuskow. This was the only official entry and the smallest fish ever to win the event. It was understood sev- eral other fishermen had not entered their catches as they also considered them too small. Quebec: 36 dead, 18 in traffic,| Barry Beynen, four, was (including six in one highway| irowned Tuesday while wading in smash), 16 drowned, a 14-month-|Cedar Creek at Southside Park boy strangled on crib harness and Woodstock. an eight-year-old boy crushed by| Police said the child, at the lan apartment house elevator. park with his parents Mr. and Ontario: 29 dead, 14 in traffic, | Mrs. Theodore Beynen, was found 12 drowned, one man hit by a floating in deep water, aboul 73 train, another killed in holiday feet from a wading section for motorcycle races and a 14-year- youngsters. old girl dead of an undiagnosed] Roger Gagne, five, was attack while swimming. {drowned Tuesday when he fell in Manitoba: Three dead, one in 'he Sturgeon River while playing traffic and two drowned. on logs near a government dock Saskatchewan: Four dead, all!at Sturgeon Falls, drowned. | Artificial respiration was ap- Alberta: 11 dead, nine in traf. plied unsuccessfully. He is the fic, two drowned. [son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Gagne, | British Columbia: 12 dead, fouf{Mr. Gagne is in hospital in To- in traffic, seven drowned and a ronto. woman killed in a 75-foot moun-| A holiday reunion at Niagara tainside fall {Falls for two Dutch families from Ontario deaths included: [St. Catharines and Brockville Ronald Dray, 35, of Keswick ended Monday might in tragedy. and William Hall, 66, of Newmar-| Ineke Verver,"14, of St. Cath ket were killed Monday night arines suffered an attack while when their cars collided eon a'swimming with her young sister feet into the air and buried them|als--first started as tiny canoe selves 18 inches deep when they [channels more than a century 1ago. LATE NEWS FLASHES "Ike" Sees "Reckless Risks" A WASHINGTON (CP)--President Eisenhower accused a House of Representatives committee today of taking reck- less risks with the security of the United States by voting to zit funds for foreign aid by nearly $600,000,000. New Fighting Breaks Out in Cyprus NICOSIA (AP)--New fighting broke out today the south Cyprus. port of Limassol. A Greek Cypriot shot and killed and a Turkish Cypriot seriously wounded io sep- arate incidents. Both gunmen escaped | Syrians Open Fire With Mortar | TEL 'AVIV (Reuters)--Syrians opened fire with mortars and 'machine guns today on Israeli laborers working on land reclamation on the eastern bank of Lake Huleh, an Israeli army spokesman announced. Car Hits Truck, Woman Dies PICTON, Ont. (CP)--Mrs, Alison Sullivan, 40, of Well- ington was killed today on highway 33 about 10 miles west of here when her small European car collided with a three- ton truck driven by Malcolm Johnson, 52, of nearby Bloom- field. | Child, 4, Killed By Car CANNINGTON, Ont. (€P)--Connie Kathleen English, | + four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William English, was killed Tuesday night when hit by a car in front of her home here; 28 miles north of Oshawa. Driver of the car was Floyd Eric Barkey, 19, of Pickering, ' in was gon Rd |rasions fo the hin his |of a junior final race on the {mile oval track lon the track and arms was and 3 : were watching him ride for the(loined in 1949, British Columbia'and field day. a museum was first time. He had been a motor-|'n 1871, and Quebec City, the cele- dedicated at Fort Langley where leyele year Rider Killed At Meet Here One rider was killed and two others injured during the Domin ion Day |Alexandra Park Tuesday is Emerson Shantz, 23, of Lach ine, Que Motoreyvele Races af Injured and discharged after [treatment from Oshawa General Hospital 396 | Gill were: Eugene Gill, of Park St. S:., Niagara Falls suffered a 1 t leg injury Antrobus, 992 Toronto, sustained left shoulder Thomas ab and Shantz the fell last from lap Police said motorcycle on Injured, he sat waved his to show other drivers he there His fall however, had raised (a thick cloud of dust and a cycle arket th 3 tanciz [struck him. Shantz was dead on|Monies marked the federation of dancing. {arrival .at hospital, where doctors | said |The races continued his skull was fractured P. E. Shantz of Markham, the dead man's grandfather, said he SPECIFIC SIGNIFICANCE Emerson's sister, 'Lynne racer for more than a Eugene Gill was injured earl Kings-| county road north of Newmarket. |and the three chiidren of Mr. and | Police said both men were driv- (Mrs. H Mulder of Brockville, ng alone. The Dray vehicle went [Firemen worked unsuccessfully jut of control on" wet pavement, lior two hours to revive the girl. Canada Marks "91st Birthday By THE CANADIAN PRESS Beaumont Hamel in France Only Solemnity and. gaiety were all|36 of the 800 men answered roll |» part of activities as Canadians call after one day of the bloody the country's 91st/fighting = against German en. trenchmeuts. holidaygoers, Wreaths were placed Tyesday watched parades, went to ball at Newfoundland war memorials |games, bet their money on the and flowers were set on the tavorites and flocked to parks, graves of former servicemen as lakes and summer cottages. the island paid tribute to the The July 1 holiday was cele- Jead of the two world wars and brated under summer skies, with the Korean confiict. hot weather in the east and pleas- Quebec City celebrated its 350th ant temperatures in the west. |birthday' with a parade of 80 From coast-to-coast the cere-|floats and 30 bands and folk celebrated birthday. Dominion Day the united provinces of Upper| Celebrations in British Colum- and LoWer Canada (Ontario and hia were linked to the province's {Quebec) with Nova Scotia and|centenniai observances. Boys INew Brunswick in 1867. {competed in the western Canada soap box derby finals near Vane And for Newfoundiand, which zouver, city police held a track B.C ago, dispiay brations had' special significance. |the Crown colony of It was Tuesday, July 1, 1916, proclaimed 100 years that the Roval Newfoundland night-time fireworks was a iit fer in the afternoon. See page 12. Regiment fought in the Battle of 'up the city of New Westminster,