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PONY LEARNS TO LIKE THE LIFE he . Fr OF A PAMPERED HOUSE PET Over Second A By PRINCE GORDON COBOURG -- Cobourg Mer chants may not get any highe: 74 they can at'least beat Frankford School Day" in Bowmanville. as they proved Saturday might in The day was set aside for for- Cobourg by trimming the mer students to visit their old fl "Franks" 6-4. schools, and was part of the wwining runs came in the program for the Centennial cele- inning when Roilie Camp- brations. ed a high fly to left field! As former graduates toured with two men on base. the high school it was interest-| Dean Kemp, playing left for ing to note the comments, | Frankford. lost it momentarily in| One elderly lady remarked as the lights and it dropped for a she walked through the chemis- two base hit. try laboratory, "I don't know, I | That was 'the ball game, al- didn't take much to chemistry," % though Frankford scored twice in #'the ninth to scare the winners. h George Stong, veteran righi| NJAX PERSONALS hander, worked until the seventh #| for Cobourg when Campbell went . in In addition to the two bagger, AA GRACE MILLS Lois campbell delivered a Sing and David, Beech street, spent [she seventh nd was one o r the the weekend with the former's| batters to get two blows lor the, nt wics M. Moran, Peterbor-| {wianers. Dick T i ough The others were Dick Turpin, "spo Norman Brear, and baby {who homered in the fifth and had Danny, Parry Sound, are spend- a single in addition, and Coie) Br ing a week with her mother, Mrs Jack Bevan who had two singles. |; 1004 Stoneman, Windsor avenue The Merchants got eight blows "ar. and Mrs. Milton Graham altogether : Nelson street, an Ajax pioneer ONLY FOUR HITS family, are moving to a new Wayne Shaw started for the ,,n6 in Whitby, this weekend gi ii wr A PAMPERED PONY is Spunky, adopted by Suzanne and Mr. O. Pellett of Stouff- ville, Ont., after he had been disowned by his mother seven hours after he was born. Spunky now is a regular resi- | shows how accustomed to the | cat. On other occasions he sits dent of me Pallet home, being life of luxuy he has become. behind the wheel of the Pellett admitted through the door, left, i It like a pet poodle. Spunky's life | He can often be seen mie up il Hight, an] Joke i] oi se was saved by the nursing of | on the Pellett chesterfield or world as if he knew what it is sleeping in bed with the Pellett | all about. Suzanne and, above left, he Plan Vacation losers and gave way to reliefer nfiss Helen Greer, daughter of 1 1 '50 c Fertile S Ldause Bible School 1 e 00 Bob Hunter in the eighth. Hunter ar. and Mrs. Gordon Greer, United caught the first part of the game|Glynn road, celebrated her ninth ® [] ] ! ; | AJAX -- St. Paul's Statistical a | 1g€eS Church announces that the an- and Shaw went in to catch in the birthday Saturday, June 28, with nual vacation Bible School will eighth a party for her friends. Those at open 'in the church basement. The losers got only four hits tending were Patty and Penny a middle- Monday, July 7, and will con-/but errors played a big part in Peebles, Barbara Andrews, Iris tinue to July 18. the struggle, Cobourg having four Curwood, Lucille Ball, Maureen They will be held from 9.00 to and Frankford 5. Spellen and Wilhelmina Koender- 11.30 a.m. and are for children] The wir leaves Cobourg in sec- man. from four years of age and up. |ond place, three games behind | Also celebrating birthdays this By ALAN HARVEY {Canada had 28.7 births for every|Canada is essentially Canadian Press Staff Writer | [1.000 of population, placing her|class country, steering between OTTAWA (CP)--For Canada, sixth among all countries com- y xtr s in wealth. P 0) these are the fertile 1950s piling careful records. Venezuela extremes 1 ealth. Population increases come mainly from the Cobourg Take Revives Memory On School Tour BOWMANVILLE (Staff)-- Hu-/while another elderly gentleman, yjonday by the cries of his two- |with a .22-calibre pistol to open A post-war baby boom, reflect led with 46.7 and next in line were ing Canadian faith in the future, is creating significant statistical changes. The four-child family is becom- ing what statisticians call the "model," or common, size This is in contrast with the threadbare depression days of the 1930s when a two-child family was the vogue BIG INCREASE A dynamic birthrate, reduced mortality fig and. until last summer a fairly liberal immigra tion policy have combined to pro duce a phenomenal 40-per-cent increase in Canada's population over the 15 years from 1941 to 1956 ires Mexico 45.8, Ceylon 36.2, Chile 35.5 and Peru 30.0. IN THE LEAD Among modern western coun- tries, the experts say, Canada stands in the forefront. Her v§ birthrate compares with recent figures of 24.9 for the United States and 15.6 for England and Wales A. H. LeNeveu, analysis chief in the demographic division of the bureau of statistics says the average rate of increase in Can ada's population of 19.5 for every 1.000 in the 1951-55 period is the "highest ever recorded" since re- cording of vital statistics began on a national basis in 1921 great mass of families whose breadwinner earns between $4,000 |a year, the national average, and 000. GENERAL TREND The post-war trend shows in all provinces, with the greatest rate of increase taking place in On tario and British Columbia. In absolute terms, 1954 figures show Newfoundland still has the high- est birthrate, with Alberta next and New Brunswick and Quebec sharing third place Specific fertility rates de- vised to cover particular age groups among mothers -- show that Canada's edge over the U.S in the blessed-event department Devotional periods, stories, arts and crafts, teresting. members will be Mrs. Brisbin of Holy Trinity church and Mrs, Wil will assist in the musical pro and games are ex- ine this season. pected to make the sessions in- 'von 6 and lost 4. Line Score: In addition voluntary help re- Frankford cruited from among the church Cobourg R H E July ond Hunter; Stong, Campbell (7, | kins of the Baptist church who and Bevan PRESIDENT TAKES OVER {Niven, Mary street, July 1 and 2 are Miss Winnie Wilmott 5 Miss Margaret Smith, Anna Cho 6 8 4/bar and Mr. Wm. Maltby, 103 (8) Exeter road Miss Fay Dalziel, who has spent the last few months with -- |her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs Fred Cruse, Beech street return- | | of modern lab desks. "We just used to get around a table dur- ing science." | WAS FIRST STUDENT Mr. Snowden was a student of the high school when it first be- gan and graduated in 1905. He still had his diploma, however,| and carried it in his pocket. At| that time the school consisted of} only five classrooms compared with the modern present-day fa-| cilities. Mr. Snowden was accompan-| ied by his daughter, Mrs. A. Brown of Hamilton, also a for- mer student of the high school Mrs. Brown graduated in 1928. When two young students told| the touring party that the stu- dents moved from dlass to class the graduates exclaimed, "It used to be the teacher who mov- ed from class to class." Another former student com- pared the present day desks with those used in his day and said, "Hmmm, nice easy chairs" and queried his guide, "1 guess you can fall asleep in one of those, eh?" Hay Workers To Return Soon WOODSTOCK (CP) -- After Point Anne who are unbeaten in weekend were Mrs. D. Davidson, more than 10 weeks of picketing Cobourg has Mary street, June 29. Mrs. Mc- striking employees of Hay and Company, Woodstock, Limited will return to work at the earli est possible date. The decision was reached at a meeting of the union membership here Monday night at which more than 225 employees were present. | All employees will get an in-| 1<56 J BOY IS SAVED REALLY LIKES FISH MONTREAL (CP) -- Norman NORTH WILKESBORO, NI. Carboni. three, of Montreal was (AP)--Ronald Walsh was fishing saved from possible suffocation alone when a rattlesnake bit him inside an abandoned ice boxlon the toe. He shot the wound THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, July 2, than second place in the Belle- morous, reminiscent . remarks C. H. Snowden, 78, of Bowman- vear-old brother, Rocky, and (it, then shot the snake twice, Kil- ville and District Softball League. featured Monday's Back to ville, commented on the number quick action by a neighbor. The |ling it. Then he drove 20 s neighbor, Vincent Yalenti, forced to a hospital. A doctor found ho open the door of the ice box and venom in Walsh's blood, treated took Norman out after he heard the toe and sent him--and the Rocky shout "Norman's in there" three trout he was clutching-- several times. ¢ ihome. ARE YOU SURE YOU COULD FACE IT ALONE? As your husband's chief beneficiary, would you know-how to administe his estate? Do you understand Income Tax Settlements and Succession Duties? What of evaluations and liquidation of assets? Inexperience in Estate Planning and management can cause unnecessary losses and untold worry. That's why so many wise men and women depend on the experienced help of the Sterling Trusts. Arrange to see Sterling Trusts with your husband today. You'll find them personally interested in helping you. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION grams. Rev. H. Crozier of Whitby A y \ 5 idlanc rda a0. Crease of approximately 16 cents will also assist _ Dr. Claude ed home to Midland Saturday, ac £ J ' ; ; "0 For the two week period the T the presi companied by her friend Miss an hour and the working hours " Bay St., 1 Dunlop St., staff has engaged the bus to jency the University of To-/Marilyn Parryment, Cedar street will be reduced from 42'z to 4 oronto Barrie pick. up childrer at Spelice's at a Tuesday <ith 5 Tlenge to. who will stay for a week. Mi during the life of the agreement Call Mr. Parker Call Mr. Alcorn approximately 8.45 am. and willl dey elop a greater public sense of and Mrs. Cruse and Brian also The contract will run for a per EMpire 4-7495 PArkway 8-5181 ; or . ' 3 I sek - a {| 8015 continue round Lake Vista Gar i anada's Spent the weekend with them -in|iod of two years from the date of | . i "ar obligation and pride in Cana Isigning which will be July 27. dens previous years, will provide re-| - 'argest institution of higher The Women's Association, as in |earning Midland Thus, it appears that the coun Surveys of the years 1940-44 results from Canadian women : h J freshment for recess i : try's human resources -are keep- has been decided that closing ex- and 1950-54 show a significant in-| continuing to bear children into ing pace with its physical re- crease for the latter period in the mature years. CLOSING EXERCISES ercises, including a parade com-| sources, now being developed at proportion of third. and fourth In 1954, there were 232.4 births! Owing to previous commit- bining the three vacation bible dramatic tempo order births. This, says Mr. Le-|in the U.S. for every 1000 mar. ments, Wedne say evening, July|schools -- Holy Trinity, Salva: Few Canadians think of their/Neveu; indicates the family of ried women aged 20-24. and onlv!|16. is the only time when Ro-|tion Army and St. Paul's United country as prolific. International three to four children is becom- 114.7 in the 30-34 age group. itary Hall will be available, so it'Church will be held on that date. comparisons are difficult because ing standard i rpg -- - -- btn -- of disparities between nations and, Students of fertility statistics the unreliability of statistics in usually, find that prosperity re- under-developed lands, but Can- sults in fewer large families. In ada stands high on any list--per- Canada, really large families are haps first among advanced coun-findeed op the wane, but the tries and close up even when you middle-size family is taking up ? include less privileged peoples. [the slack. Look at the figures. 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