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2 THE OMHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, December 24, 1958 Blackstock Postmaster | Has Served 30 Years BLACKSTOCK change in the volume of mall at ment, Blackstock Post Office is reported | by Charles G, Venning, who has the former Ella Ferguson, and in| been postmaster for the past 80! December, the same year, they years "The sale of stamps for Christ: mas cards has risen (rom 2000 to present location for 21 years 10,000," sald Mrs, Veuning, Mr, and Mrs, took over the post office, | The post office hag heen at its ft Iwas first located where the mill Venning have) ls now located, In 1923 Mr, Veoning married operated the Blackstock Post Of-| In 1928 there were 5 hoxhaold fice for the past 30 years, as of ers, Now there sre 75, although Dee, 22. Concerning the stamps, population hag not fucreased to Mrs, Venning said that the any great extent, : stamps sold for one cent 30 years! The population of this hamlet 1s ago | approximately 250 The. 80 years Mr, Venning has CHILDREN ASSIST ' been postinaster are consecutive, | Mr, and Mrs, Venning have five with the exception of 1940 when children, Garry, Joyce, Nora, and he was an Instructor during the Wayne and Linda at home, Sceond World War. He served In the First World War ae exception of Linda, who Is 12, | a lieutenant deputized to work in the post of SERVICE MEDAL fice and, during the Christmas also! Kveryone in the family, with the In 1068 he received a 25-year rush, they help sort the mall, = A great service medal from the govern. Theye are no rursl routes oper out of Blackstock posi ating mice, The mall comes to Burketon gation by train and is trangport. ed to Blackstock and other yural post offices hy mail truck The outgoing mail is taken fo Burke. ton by truek, aod then by train § goes to Toronto, NO EQUIPMENT CHANGE An interesting feature of the Blackstogk Post Office is the equipment used, The hoxes are | the some opes that were used 3 years ago, Yoven the letter openey and the stamper are the originals Through post office munications, the Venning Tamnily | is In contact with almost evlry| resident every day, My, Venning is looking forward to many mare years as the Blackstock Posts master com CAPSULE NEWS Letter To Santa Returns By Mail pork in the United States 12 to 15 per cent larger than year, with producers getting fH GREENWICH, Conn, (AP) A letter, addressed to Banta Claus, North Pole, has joss WOMAN KILLED TORONTO (CP) =~ Mrs, Louise Woodchuek of suburban Ni York was killed. Tuesday ni when struck » a car, was Metropolitan Toronto's 125th traf fie victim of 1958, Earlier Tuesday, Evelyn Grace Lovghlin, B8-year-old pelio evip: ple, ded injuries received when struck a car Monday Driver 'Anton , 25, has charged with eriminal negligence, BABY LEFT IN CHURCH LONDON (Reuters) ~ A baby hoy a few hours old was found Tuesday wrapped in swaddling prices also was Hn nm eclably lower prices for gs, Some drop In retail pork y. wn ow VETERAN ACTOR LOS ANGELES (AP) = for bis portrayal of Cecil B, DoMille's King of died Sunday 60 years on stage and Warner -was born in Bt. J Woods, London, England, a8, A veter . ea cen A-- Dl Churches Hold Yule Services: church services fn Cobourg include an 8 am. and a WO Rm, service at Bt, Peter's Aufl oan Church, Christmas Eve there will be a special 11.50 watch J ice, with a short sermon hy Rector E, 8, Bull, --- Trinity United Church will Rave no special services for the Hive main New Year or Christmas holidays, Rev, B®, C, Kellowny, minister at Trinity United, sald that all the church's Christmas services had been held earlier, Bt, Andrew's ' Church, with ister Toners C, Jack, has scheduled a 10 8.m, 'ak bo y suburban ehureh, Church workers * Pl ¥ Ly Ly hit j a | BET PRODUCTION GOALS Part Of Canadian Pla So | slovak Soveament Tuetay Ng cent and increase consumer TORONTO (CP) Ontario en- | 340,000 last year. Hall these ex- hospital program on ' ' 7 sald the economic plan and a Jan, 1, | the remainder will be largely off-|als which have cost Ontario up| ¥ oh | sickness,' says Premier Frost, Ontario's deal with the federal sibilities under the plan will be| & i ! | NKRUMAN VISITS NEHRU clothes that had formed part of hd the Christmas decorations in a nt ospita cneme ad ih ambos a ' land took it to m hospital, PRAGUE (AP)~-The Ctecho- slovak government Tuesday night i (economic plan for 1060 to boost By PETER SYPNOWICH [iipalities from the expenses of grants totalled $6,000,000, This | [industrial production by 9.5 per Canadian Press Stall Writer | [indigent patients, amount to $8,-/ money will bé transferred to the foods supplies by 7.2 per cent, ters Canada's $430,000,000 na. peses are fo he paid directly | The program will bring an end B The official news agency otk tional hospital insurance scheme by the provinelal government and|to maintenance grants to hospit- | state budget for next year were "Our program will take care/set by increases in provincial to $11,770,000 a year, The provin-| i» approved by the cabinet, of the catastrophle incidence of Krants to municipalities, |elal government's main respoi- | 2 { " i " { Expected to cost $210,000,000 in #overnment calls for Ottawa to depreciation eosts, emergency] NEW DELHI (Reuters)--Prime 1959, the Ontario program pro-|pay 40 per cent of the cost for out-patient services and adminis: Minister Kwame Nkrumah of vides free coverage during Janu. OPerating general, chronic and| trailon expenses, | ary and February for the 5,300, 000 residents who paid their in. itial premiums in advance, Ontario's plan starts at the| same time as similar programs in Nova Scotia apd New Bruns. wick. Five other provinces started last July 1, Quebe¢ and| Prince Edward Island have not yet signed up, Total cost to the federal gov. ernment is estimated at $160, 000,000 for 1080. ONTARIO SHARES COST In Ontario, the federal ment Is expected to pay 000, 000 of the $310,000,000 cost. Pre- miums are expected to y more than $75,000,000 and the srovince will pay the balance of about $65,00,000, However, about $53,000,000 of the province's share is to come from funds now used for annual hospital grants. Oatario's advance enrolment covers 91 per cent of the 5,800,000 population, compared to 73 per cent under private insurance. Registration was compulsory for persons working for a firm employing 15 or more, About Sm others enrolled voluntar- Those who signed March premiums, with January covera . four children, two still at home, 400 February coveraie ree. This ou 1o tower onikiren. "Dili and Pres benefits untll the start of| Francis Leake have four children ers, laying Leakes of children early pald| try | convalescent hospitals, SOME COSTS NOT SHARED | But the federal offer doesn't {n. clude mental and TB hospitals, its insurance benefits the federal contribution will meet roughly one-third of the total cost, Ontario already pays nearly all the cost of operating mental and TB hospitals, Mental hospitals|to $2,000 a bed for wards and| tario Association for Retarded | raise $75,000 for a new cost the eroment nearly $38, 000,000 year and sanitoriums Administration Is expected to cost five per cent or about $11, | 000,000, Otside of the scheme's finan. [Because Ontario includes them in| clal structure will be federal and | provincial capital grants for con. struction ol hospitals and nurses' | residences. The grants, worth up| to $6,000,000 a year from each | government, have heen doubled Hope and happiness for every child of lower than normal in | telligence is the goal of the On [$6.60 a oquare foot for other| Christmas Daily For B.C. Parents By RON POWELL QUESNEL, B, C, (CP)-~Christ- mas comes every day for the Natko and their 231 Two couples, Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Leake and Mr, and Mrs, Bill Leake, have used Christian principles and a genuine love for children to form two of the hap- plest and most unusual house holds in the Cariboo cattle coun- try. Clarence and Elsie Leake have | the third month following the of their own, three at home, five| month in which application {ys Welfare children and "ape little|in touch with his brother Bill and answered by two fire fighting] boarder," 13 made, Thus, anyone enrolling in January isn't covered unt! March 1, HOSPITAL RATE UP Another incentive has been an ROBLEM CHILDREN The children range from five to 18 years. Most of them llving boys and no girls, so they in the two ranch homes came to cided to apply fo the Isolated Nazko Valley, 70/NO PROBLEMS - Flames Gut ' Frame Home in the excitement and confusion | At Pickering WORK AT ODD JOBS AJAX (Staff) -- A frame house {owned by Hendrick Grzelak, Har ay thilavte Uy Inoney sayued wood avenue north, half a mile to buy gifts for their parents north of Highway No, 2, was gut who have in turn made sure| led by fire, shortly after 8 am there is a gift for each child, |today. There will be the usual Christ:| No estimate of the damage re mas dinner with the trimmings to|sulting ' from the fire has been make the smiles a little brighter, made, Mr, Grzelak Is an em The Leake story began nine ploye of The Cooper Block Co years ago when Clarence Leake Pickering, and his wife came to the Nazko| The family was awakened Valley for a brief visit with a/ghortly after 8 am, today when and remained as ranch-|the pipes in the upper portion of the house became overheated, An Alter two years Clarence got|alarm was turned in, which was wite Francis and talked them M0 units from Pickering Fire Dept, coming out, | The fire left Mr. and Mrs, Clarence and Elsle had four|Grgelak and their four children, de- (Chester, 11; Joseph, 9; John, 10 r a welfare child, |and Stanley, two months, home (less, They are being cared for at + (distributed, | A | SCHOOL WILL PROVIDE HOPE AND HAPPINESS Children, With this in mind the | Retarded Children's Association | has launched a for retarded children in Osh awa. The will provide much needed facilities for the which started here school campaign to school work as Needy City Folk Given Assistance Herbert G, Chesebrough, city welfare administrator, sald this {morning that Christmas would he a happler day for more than 400 families and individuals as a re sult of the efforts of the Oshaw; |Ohristmas Cheer Committee which is eomposed of Oshawa residents and a large number of volunteer workers | During the past week food] haskets and cheques have been| men and Lions Clubs Other organizations! "To give an idea of the won in the city have made provision dprful spirit o Wg sald for other families, | Mr, Chesebrough, "Some people "We sincerely hope every|actually came to the welfare de. needy person has heen looked af | partment and gave unsolicited ter," Mr, Chesebrough comment. cash donations to assist the ed, "Everything possible has/ needy," US. Scientist Raps heen done to make Christmas a happler season for the needy of Oshawa I'he preparation of the baskets was handled by members of the welfare department staff who were assisted by 10 boys and girls from the city's three eolle glate Institutes, The distribution f the baskets was handled hy members the Oshawa Kins or » | | | meveral years ago, Here a child Is seen learning to use his hands | | by playlng with toys | OBITUARIES | FUNERAL oF | MRS, ROY 0, SHRIGLEY {The memorial service for Mrs, | {Roy 0. Bhrigley, Warren Ave, who died at the Oshawa General Hospital last Friday in her 42nd year, was held at the Armstrong Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m, Tues day, Dec, 24 Rev, 8, C, H. Atkinson, min Ister of Albert Street United Church, conducted the services Cemetery | The pallbearers were Shrig. ley, R, H, Shrigley, F Shrigley, |B. Dove," H, Wallwin and J ding. i Gou FUNERAL oF |Interment was in Oshawa Union| Ghana was greeted by prime Minister Nehru on his arrival] here by alr today, Nkrumah is on 8 4-day visit to Indla, STRIKES HIT COLOMBO COLOMBO, Ceylon (Reuters) Four thausand bank employes and a similar number of dock laborers who are on strike today partially paralyzed business in the city and port, SAY SPIES EXECUTED HONG KONG (Reuters)--The pro-Communist Hong Kong news. paper Ta Kung Pao says three alleged Chinese Nationalist agents have heen executed In Canton, It sald the agents were charged with infiltrating Into mainland China after training in Chinese Nationalist seeret serv. Ice organizations, SELECT CLIENTELE KIRKSVILLE, Mo, (AP)=The Northeast Missouri State College newspaper explained Tues: |day that a Jroofreader was at fault when the paper published A restaurant's Christmas ad ad. dressed to "our flends and cus tomers," PORK PRICE TO DROP MRS, MAREL BURGOYNE Christmas nothing for New Year's Eve dhe Michael's Roman Catholic Church will have u special midnight Dec, 24, with threé regularly scheduled masses Christmas Day, at 8, 9.90, ont priest is expected from Toronts te assist with solemn high mass, The same three special masses will'be held New Year's Day, regular prayer meeting will held Christmas Eve, but no spe. clal service will be held Christ. mas Day, prayer meeting has scheduled specially for the season, but Is a regular weekly menting for fellowship No special service has eduled for Christmas Day, service, but L117] and 11 am, A gw At Fellowship Baptist Church, a The Christmas Eve not been been sch. Calvary Baptist Church will hold a special Christmas service at 8,15 Christmas Day, but will have Eve or New nothing extra Christmas ear's Day, At Cobourg Salvation Army Corps headquarters on Division street, a special New Year's Eve watchnight service will be wid, starting at 11 pm, No Christ ot a thes an nterfere with annual leave for WASHINGTON (AP)-=A farm |i survey indica! supplig, of | members of the corps, / mh ley win ---- The memorial service for Mrs, [Mabel Burgoyne, who died at | Whitby, Friday, December 19, in {her 71st, year, was held at the {Armstrong Funeral Chapel at § p.m, Monday, December 22 Rev, W, G, Dickson, minister of Centre Street United Chureh condurted the services, Interment | Rev. A, Gordon Bak | HOLY TRINITY CHURCH | ANGLICAN | Corner Court and Barrie Streets, one block east of Albert er, Mus; Bec, B.D, miles west of here, as problem| The girl had a young brother was In Zion Cemetery children who just couldnt be| who also needed a home so Bill handled in other homes {and Francis decided to take him The Leake therapy has worked into their household, Affter this the home of Mrs, Cowan, a Inelghbor Five other children, wards of The Children's Ald Society, were Avro Arrow Plan |i iene: me | Pearson, Gordon Pearson, Will [fam Parrott, William Hazelton, CHRISTMAS EVE rates are all.inclusive, designed to stabilize financing by using al TORONTO (CP) Canada| "A long-range space-age plan flat rate instead of adding extras on an individual basis, rales for standard wards aver. age $17 a day compared to the old #8 or $9.50, Under the insurance plan, monthly premiums of $2.10 for single persons and $4.20 for fam). Mes provide standard ward care in any of the province's 228 hos. pitals--162 of them general hos pitals, 18 Red Cross outposts, 18 mental, 14 tuberculosis, 13 chro. nic and four convalescent, The insurance doesn't cover fees for doctors, anaesthetists or ambulances, But It covers every. thing else--meals, beds, nursing, x-rays, drugs, operating rooms, laboratory work and emergency treatment for accidents or sud den {linesses, WHILE NECESSARY Patients can stay in hospital as long as medically necessary hut Dr. R. W, Ian Urquhart, ehair. man of the Ontario Hospital Services , offers a warning: "This doesn't mean that we're fuing i vive le resident in for rest: of their lives, Doctors and itals aren't the only ones who will be responsible for the success of this plan--the people of the prov. ince will have to treat it fairly and not take advantage of it." Ontario has had to increase hospital beds by 75 per cent In the last 10 years and there have been fears the insurance plan will create a rush on the 30,000 now and homemaking Te os ' ng d side the h apital calls for 50-80 cost sharing between ! municipalities and the province, Dr. Urquhart says "not too much is going to change' in hos. . pital operations as a result of insurance program. AGENCY EMPLOYS #0 It means creation of a new agency with 600 em. ployees and operating expenses of about $3,750,000 a year. Although the commission will take over all insurance for stand. ard ward care, private organiza tions such as Blue Cross will be able to provide supplementary in. ™ wonders, It consists of generous ing, coupled with giving the chil. dren their share of responsibility and keeping them busy. Each of the boys has a cow to milk and there are two Shet. land ponies that have to be fed and watered, They all take turns at doing the dishes and they each have to tidy their own rooms and make thelr beds, The family has been caught up {experiment proved so successful ® NeW amounts of love and understand: (both families grew by leaps and not home at the time of the fire bounds "There was no problem in works| ing our own children in with the WEATHER foster children," Elsie sald, "No, we haven't got one angel] TORONTO (CP)--Official fore in the bunch, They are sll very|casts issued hy the public rormal people,' | weather office at 4:30 am And home is two houses nestled Synopsis: Colder alr returned in the Nazko Valley where there to Ontario late Tuesday and early {is laughter, singing, music and! today assuring a white Christmas goodwill every day of the year, |for almost all sections of the prov OTTAWA (CP) -- It will be an on-the-job Christmas season for nearly half the federal cabinet this year, thanks to a last-min. We rush of preparations for the approaching session of Parlla. ment, Ten of the 33 cabinet ministers plan to remain in the capital for the holiday, Another eight will be within a few hours travelling time at their homes in Ontario and Quebec, . Governor-General Massey also has decided to remain at Gov. ernment House here, instead of making his customary holiday "se to his home at Port Hope, ut the three party leaders in the Comunons are taking brief holidays away from Ottawa he fore Parlament gets back to work Jan, 18, Prime Minister Diefenbaker was to arrive In Saskatoon by train this morning to spend Christmas with his mother and brother, but is due back in Ot. tawa for three days of cabinet 10 Of 23 Ministers Stay In Ottawa ince, Variable cloud and sunshine are forecast for both today and Thursday with temperatures re sonal values, No major storm Is indicated for over the holiday but some snowflurries may be ex pected, particularly along the shores of the Great Lakes Reglonal forecasts valid until | midnight Christmas day, Western Lake Frle, eastern Niagara and southern Georglan Bay regions, Windsor: Mainly cloudy with an occasional snow flurry today, Cloudy with a few clear periods Thursday, Tittle change in temperature, Winds light Fastern Lake ¥rle, western Niagara and Lake Ontario re glons, London, Toronto and Ham. | ton Clearing and colder today Variable cloudiness with an oe easlonal snowflurry Thursday Winds light i Northern Georgian Bay, Hall | burton, Kirkland Lake and Tim mins-Kapuskasing regions, North Bay and Sudbury: Partly cloudy toclay. Increasing cloudiness and vantinuing cold Thursday. Winds light Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, High Thursday: Windsor FP | | 2 St. Thomas London Wingham since Ms return Dec, 15 from a 35,0004mile world tour that was out short by the illness of his in. valid mother, 86-year-old Mrs, Willlam T, Diefenbaker, PEARSON IN FLORIDA Liberal Leader Lester B, Pear: son has been In Florida visiting friends for the last elght days and will return shortly after New Year's Day, Hazen Argue, CCF House leader, has been travelling in Saskatchewan and will spend Christmas at Regina with hig mother, He plans to return to Ot: tawa Jan, 6, In Mr, Diefenbaker's absence, Finance Minister Fleming is act. ing prime minister, The 10amember strength of the Christmas cabinet ls unusually high, compared with recent years when the usual number of minis. ters here. at Christmas was around three or four, Most of the 10 have hometowns far from Ot tawa, and the calling of cabinet meetings last Monday and next Monday left them litile time for| 2 2 2% bo] wating) at the start of next week, will be his 'first rest - pe -------------- GOOD EXAMPLE | BY CONTROLLER OTTAWA (CP) -- Control. ler Wilbert Hamilton says there wouldn't be so many complaints about Ottawa's show . clogged streets if all automobiles had snow tires and women wore "sensible" a} 20 Toronto -- Trenton St. Catharines 0 Red China May io 0a 3 Reduce Land [Si For Production Sudbury 15 TOKYO (AP) Communist | travel Vi) 10 15 Kapuskasing White River STREETS CLOSED maining a little below thelr sea { North Bay 15 China disclosed today it will | The following streets will be missile nut operator | Const, John Speirs of Brechin OPP investigated Chestnut leaves his three children Mr wife and {should concentrate on hy Canada and Great {space craft and support aircraft should surely result 1nd renewed and leave supersonic planes 'to! sense of purpose and hope among other countries, says Kurt R.!the remarkable team of design Stehling, head of the United ers and production workers of |States Vanguard rocket program. the CI.108 and prevent thelr In letters to Toronto papers he! tragie defection to the U.S." sald countries such as the United States and Britain have the In dustrial and financial base to . build the "fantastically complex' | Brechin Ma supersonic alveraft in quantity and sell them to Canada far more cheaply than Canada can| La E frig them | Is Killed Mr. Stehling was replying | jeriticlsm of his censure of the |Avro Arrow, a Canadian-built su personie Jet Interceptor aircraft Y ractor | "The CF-108 "aircraft 1s magnificent engineering achleve- | BRECHIN--Trvine Ross Chest ment, far ahead of the Vanguard ° 4 missile in this respect," he sald 2, of the Mara in his letter, Motel at Mara Beach, southwest "It is a sad _olrcumstance that of here, was killed Tuesday when the US, aircraft company lobby his tractor tipped over and pin has been partially responsible for ned him in a ditch on the 4th the Bot ee mim tb Concession road, Mara Towasin democratic countries." Chester Harris of RR 1 He asked: "Why didn't the Brechin, was driving along the Canada proponents of the CF.105| road when he saw the over make a sales survey in the U.S [turned tractor, He found Mr and obtaln a written purchase | Chestnut"s body under the order? vehicle RESENT FOREIGN ORDERS It is believed that Mr. Chest "Didn't they, realize that such nut was driving the tractor to {companies as Lockheed and|Brechin when it slipped into the {North American Aviation would, |diteh and tipped over when he {through their congressional rep tried to free it |resentatives and lobbyists, bit [terly fight the award of such a {Juicy supersonic plum to foreign (rma? He sald Canada, Britain and| {other Commonwealth countries | {should pool thelr resources and] AY n produce a conunon aiveraft or HOSPITAL REPORT family of aircraft suitable for| Following is the report of the their various logistie require.|Oshawa General Hospital for the {ments week ending Dec. 20: admissions, [ He criticized Canada for not!223; births male 11, female, [teaming up with British firms In|21; major surgery, 25; minor sur [development of missiles and in|gery, 66; eye, ear, nose and {not taking the lead to propose a|throat, 32: treatments, 97 Casts, joint Commonwealth spate effort! 1§ physiotherapy treatments, with the US. 200 CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE Britain] od | the Ray Burgoyne and Adam Gor | T0 TRY ALT | WASHINGTON Atomle Energy Commission 1s looking Into the possibility that {abandoned salt mines might be {especially good places to dump {radioactive waste, The AEC sald {Monday it is negotiating for tests {in Kansas, The AEC sald salt would not absorb radioactivity MINES (AP) The EUROPE'S WEATHER RAD LONDON (Reuters) Nature | welcomed the Christmas season In Europe with a blast of bad weather Monday, At least 12 pers [sons were killed and 6,000 made [homless by storms which swept Eucharist 10:00 AM.--Family Euch Children | 11:30 P.M.~--~Blessing of Crib, Procession and Choral CHRISTMAS DAY SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS 8:00 AM~~HOLY EUCHARIST 11:00 AM~CHORAL EUCHARIST 7:00 P.M,~~CAROL SERVICE arist and Blessing of the | across Spain for three days, | TONIGHT AT 6 P.M. CLOSED ALL DAY FRIDAY, DEC. 26 surance for private and semi private care, And while the commission will to - ordinate hospital services throughout the province, it won't bake over the hospitals, They will remain autonomous institutions Doe of the main benefits will be | the elimination of hospital de | eite, which totalled $2 871,658 year, Another wil be relied for mun OSHAWA C ENTR 3 Za SHOPPING footwear, He suggested Tuesday that A city bylaw be enacted re- quiring all motorists to equip their cars with snow tires or other "traction" equipment Mr, Hamilton admitted that "My wife doesn't wear the right footwear In winter." rs. Hamilton said her hus band's car has no show tires. closed Wednesday for construe tion: Ritson road south from Rloor street east to Wolfe atreet; | Glcaeastle avenue from Glen. | grove street to Glenbrae street; | |Glenbrae street closed at Glen. | claimed |castle avenue; Byng avenue {world record yields of 71 tons of {closed at Simcoe street north; rice a hectare (247 acres) of Tecumseh avenue closed at Sim land In five provinces and a mun-|coe street north, Simcoe street lelpality as a result of intensive north from Beatrice 'street to n enltivation a Ovehard View wilisard drastically reduce. cultivated farmland in 1059, indicating all may not have gone well with the expansion of food production un dertaken this year At the same time It RE-OPENING SATURDAY, DEC. 27 AT 9:30 AM. 11.30 P.M, ALBERT STREET UNITED CHURCH (Albert & Olive)