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WHITBY And DISTRICT Rai GAS PRICE WAR NEARS WHITBY The board may be tall but the price is low, is one way of announcing that the gasoline To By GERRY McNEIL Canadian Press Staff Writer "| EDMONTON (CP) rains in the Northwest Territor- les, the Mackenzie Highway be- comes a rutted mire--a A ribbon of road running 700 miles up into the north. Truck driver Steve Kalancha, 40, earns his money the hard way when the rain pelts down, for he has to nurse along his truck and the 124on van tugging behind, "You have to be consciou every minute when it's like this," he told this reporter, who accom- panied him on a trip beyond the 60th parallel, "It's easy to jack. knife and wind up in the rhu- PAVED TO GRIMEHAW The southern terminus of the Mackenzie Highway Is at Grim- |shaw, Alta. The highway from | Edmonton to Grimshaw is mostly | paved and takes a night for Steve to travel, Grimshaw he gets five hours' sleep and leaves about noon. His 12-ton load this trip ranged from a marine engine to cans of milk. Most was bound for Hay | | n Turns Road Rutted Mire rains," sald Steve, 'Narrow, round as a beer keg and shy on gravel. Greasy when it rains, dusty when it's dry." Steve unloaded some milk for the cafe and checked the tires. The inside wheel on the third axle was flat--a nail had punctured it --and he deftly changed the tire, A stop at Mile 293, and one of the all-night cafes that punctuate the highway, brought a cup of re- freshing tea. Dick Hedgeman, 25, of Barrie, Ont., hitch-hiking to Hay River, asked for a lift, Steve suggested he watch for a construction worker or a high- way resident going north. Strict company rules prohibit truckers from carrying hitch-hikers. The road, curving with the Hay River, narrowed even more as Steve crossed the 60th parallel into the Northwest Territories. A few miles farther, he made his last stop before reaching Hay River BREAKFAST AT FALLS "I often have breakfast here-- bacon and eggs over an open fire," he said, The roar of Alex- andra Falls, where the Hay River drops 106 feet into a spray- filled gorge, muffled his words. River, N.W.T., a Great Slave Lake port at the north end of the loft at highway settlements, One of the settlements, Indian | Cabins, is a cluster of log cabins !and construction trailers, The {lights of the cafe are bright and |at midnight, when Steve's truck [pulled in, i was filled with In- |dians and construction workers. [The rain had stopped and the sky { lwas light in the north, despite the hour. | "It's been a good dry spring," |said 8. E. Gullion, the highway maint foreman. "A couple of years ago fit was wet, really wet," he said. "Washed out a 12foot bridge a few miles down, We put in a 16- foot bridge and it went, Then the boys and I cut a few trees and laid a 24. Finally 42-footer held." > by and Oshawa, putting the final screw into place in the sign, proclaiming the price at 36.9 cents per gallon. --Photo by A. McCulloch Whitby area. Photograph above | shows Ernie Beausoleil, one of the service station attendants | along Highway 2 between Whit- | price war has spread to the Whitby Wins As | Sound Defaults Wednesday night the Whitby |BAD AFTER RAIN "That's the way it is when it Shifting Hill Causes Worry EDMONTON (CP) -- Grierson WHITBY PERSONALS Weekend guests at the home of Mr, and Mrs. John Jimmo, of Owen Sound evened the count at Brock street south, were Mr, | | | | highway. Some would be dropped | Merchants Juvenile Lacrosse (17:20 to complete the scoring for glub made it two wins in a row the period at home by defeating Owen| $und 72 in a fast checking BETTER LACROSSE game, although tempers flared| Whitby controlled the play in widway through the final period (the second period which saw amd Owen Sound pulled thelr both teams play a better type of Jeam off the floor and refused to|lacrosse than in the first period finish the game. After giving Butch Kadwell opened the scor them two minutes to get their|ing unassisted and two minutes team back i» the oak referee later Elmer Tran scored oa awarded the game Gord Holliday's pass to make It pag Mog 10:20 of tie inl 05 midway through the period. period. 3 Phil Clarke broke away and Gord Holliday 'put Whitby took Bob Adams' pass in front shead at 5:19 when he went in|of the goal to add another, and unassisted to beat Gould, D, Me-|finally with less than a minute Comb evened it up at 6:45 beat-|left to play in the period, Dave ing Rendell with a long shot to|Cannon combined with Koster to and Mrs, Clay Jimmo, of Ottawa, Mr. Allan Black and Mr.Ralph Black, of Turner, Saskatchewan, were recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H, Bratley, of 225 Perry street Mr. and Mrs. Harold Graham and two sons, Kenny and Randy, of Sudbury, are spending a week with their parents, Mr, and Mrs. Jack Johnston of Euclid street. Mr. and Mrs. L. H, (Bud) Cook and daughters, Gail and Anne, of Henry street, spent the last two weeks at their cottage at Stoney Lake, Mrs. Cook and Anne will be returning to the cottage for the remainder of the summer roblem of the fooks the North River. Hill has been shifting uneasily since 1909. So have owners of businesses that line the rim of the busy spot in downtown Ed- monton., Every time Grierson Hill shifts, someone chudders at the thought of thousands of dollars worth of buildings sliding to the bottom. Buttresses, bulwarks and drain- age systems haven't solved the hill, which over- Saskatchewan Now the harassed city en- gineering department is sinking a shaft from the hilltop 100 feet down into old mine workings. It is believed the workings are the source of the water that has been Fifteen miles from Hay River, {the road forked. "In the winter, we go In to (Yellowknife on that road," said {the Mackenzie River for about | six months between freeze-up | and breakup. The river is not yet | bridged. Next winter, Steve's employer Grimshaw Trucking and Distrib- uting Ltd, hopes to send its trucks as far north as Copper- | mine, a settlement 1,400 miles north of Edmonton. A trail of dust blew behind the long silver trailer as Steve rolled into Hay River, a bustling fishing port and distribution centre for northern supplies. Steve backed the truck into a warehouse bay, | ending a 26-hour drive. Eight hours later, after a sound sleep, he began the 707-mile |Steve, Trucks cross the ice on! » » / # y Pets » SA YOUTH Wayne Sluman, 16, (left) and Mervyn McKee, 19, are shown leaving the courthouse in Hunts- ville Thursday, They are charged with the murder of two taxi drivers, whose bodies | were found in a gravel pit near | Whitney, They were commit. ted for trial after a four-hour THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, July 24, 1959 § Racial Boost the street and 1 have found trace of racial prejudice." Mrs, Gaskin is editor of house organ of a large sugar rum manufacturing firm, was formerly features editor the Georgetown Dally Argosy. "The first question my friends back home will ask me is whether 1 sensed racial prejudice here," she sald, of the internationally. known cricketer Bertle Gaskin, Mrs. Gaskin is one of the f Negro women in British Guiana who combine marriage with a career. The population of British Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, is made up of a mixture of races, Forty-two per cent of the country's 500,000 peo- ple is East Indian with the Ne: |gro forming the next largest group. Other racial groups in. clude Portuguese, Chinese and English. ARMED ROBBERY TILBURY (CP) -- Two armed men wearing nylon stockings as s robbed a confectionery about five miles west of here of $25 Wednesday, a customer, Law rence St, Louis, 23, of St. Joa chim, said one of the men used a revolver to knock him out when he offered resistence. Maria Will- man, 19, daughter of the owner, D. B. Willman, gave the thieves the money for the till, preliminary hearing. Handling the case for the crown is On. tario county's crown attorney, Alex Hall, ~(CP Wirephoto.) drive back to Ed t a load of fish in' his trailer from the boats that ply Great Slave Lake. | New Zealand Reveals Its Nationalism AUCKLAND (CP) -- National- ism is not usually very assertive in New Zealand, But it has sud- denly appeared in surprising form by banishing the school reading books which a generation the United States and have been widely used there and in Britain for the last 50 years. They have been universal in the public schools in New Zealand in recent years, Tory Confidence Boosted In UK. By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer political climate, Little more than a year ago, Labor headed the cially superior, who may consider themselves so- TIMES SUBSCRIBERS IN WHITBY FOR MISSED PAPERS AND WHITBY'S FINEST TAXI BRITISH POUJADISTS The Liberal victory in the March 27, 1958, byelection at Tor- rington, Devon, marking the loss of a Conservative seat, reflected the malaise among the Tory middle classes. As the anti-con- LONDON (CP) -- With every passing day, confidence increases | in government circles that the| Conservative party will shortly win its third straight general | election, This. may be euphoria induced by the golden summer--after all, polling day hasn't been annouced --but there is no mistaking the buoyancy in government ranks as politicians await the starting signal, The current guess is that vot- ing day will be Oct. 15, After that, Conservatives chortle, it will jus. be matter of how many extra seats they will gain, In the 630 « seat Commons, they now opinion polls and business was beginning to worry that Opposi- tion Leader Hugh Gaitskell would be the country's next prime min- ister. Now the parties are running neck and neck, and some feel the Conservatives are beginning to servative trend continued, some writers visualized the establish- ment in Britain of a protest group reminiscent of the malcon- tent French party led by Pierre Poujade, the anti-tax agitator, Little has been heard of these unhappy Conservatives in recent months. The easier economic cli- draw ahead. What caused the change? The influences may be subtle, millan as an attractive. political personality, after a period wnich he was described as the least - liked prime minister since Neville Chamberlain; the prom- Anisies "Trac, form in picking up any substantial pum- mate may be one answer. In any case She Spuplaint against con. servatism argely taken the of ol Be a voting, and there is no sign yet that the Labor or Liberal oposition is SERVICE PHONE BELL TAXI MO 8-311 If you have mot received your Times, ohone your carrier boy first. It you are unable te con- tact him by 7.00 p.m, PHONE BELL TAXI' CALLS ACCEPTED BETWEEN 7-7:30 P.M. ONLY ] ber of converts, nent part taken by Macmillan the corner. At 13:00 Butch Kad-|complete the scoring. oe al ewrth months, But the education department have 341 members, compared and Foreign Secretary Selwyn| well combined with Elmer Tran |" The final stanza saw no penal- to make it 2-1, D, McComb of|tles but plenty of tempers with [Fiver fou taf laws goss Teacher Ends Long Career mark, with referee Doug Vipond handing out the balance of game penalties to five players from| each team. The Owen Sound| coach took his team into the| dressing room and refused to DAWSON CREEK, B.C. (CP)--|continue the game which was Manitoba-born Mrs, Jean Gething awarded to Whitby. has retired after a 35-year teach-| Whitby Merchants now have ing career in the Peace River|two wins against six losses and country of northeastern British|on Thursday will try for their Columbia. Taylor, Pouce Coupe, Kilker- ran, Cache Creek, Huddon Hope, Claypurst, Dawsoy Creek fn tha tatively changed from Wednes- fertile district--and Mrs. Gething|day to Thursday night at 8:30 has taught at every one. po. at the Whitby Community Born at Riding Mountain, Man,, | ATena. she completed her formal educa: tion in Vancouver. After four years' teaching at Prince George, she moved to Taylor in 1924. She married Wesley Gething in| 1924 and they had one child. Mr. Gething died in 1935, More than 120 guests attended a ceremonial dinner held to mark hlocks, Mrs. Gething"s retirement. She| streets was "blacked out" for told them she plans to continue several minutes on Thursday her hobbies . collecting fossils! forenoon when a relay on a and minerals and keeping a scrap Byron St. line shut off. PUC book of historical events and linemen were working on the items of local interest. Iline when the power halted. BROC Phone MO 8-3618 NOW PLAYIN EVENING SHOWS 7 & 8:20 LAST COMPLETE SHOW 8:20 THE GLORIOUS ADVENTURES OF Fergus. Next week Mimico are the visitors with the game being ten- 4 WHITBY DAY-BY-DAY POWER BREAK An area covering about four on Brock and Byron AL HEDISON - JUNE LAVERICK DAVID FARRAR - MARIUS GORING 2 HOOD 0000000000000 00080000° The Captain preferred the merry maids on land to the mermaids at seal c E Mr. and Mrs. H, Bratley have returned to their home after spending nine days at Little Hawk Lake, at a cottage. Master Michael Spellen, son of Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Spellen, {is spending two weeks visiting |his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, | George Cooney, at West Hunt. | Gn |ington. Mr. and Mrs, Borg Jergensen |of Craydon road, will be spending | northern parts of Ontario and will {also spend a few days at Wasaga Beach, Mrs. M. Jergen Sr. will accompany them. John Hendriks is celebrating his 14th birthday today. His friends wish him many happy re- turns of the day. Mr, and Mrs. Dick Sundin and |{family, of Ottawa, are visiting |friends and relatives in Whitby. Cut Gas Prices In Brooklin | The gasoline price war may be over in Toronto, but has so far | unaffected areas in Brooklin, Kin- {sale and part of No. 2 Highway, [between Oshawa and Whitby, Prices range from 329 cents per gallon for regular and 379 for high test in Kinsale, to 37.0 cents on some stations north of Whitby. A gasoline war which broke out between four stations halfway between Whitby and Osh- |awa on No. 2 Highway, apparent- |ly has not ended, with prices re- maining at 36.9 cents per gallon for regular gasoline. Prices for premium gas in this area remain |between 47.9 to 48.9 cents gallon. Operators in the Whitby ar {lot of customers and trade to parently over in the Queen city, area operators are Several gas stations in the (39.9 and 36.9 cents for - regular gasoline per gallon be at least a month before prices returned to normal CRASH KILLS THREE MOUNT MORRIS, N.Y. (AP) first away from home win up in|s week's vacation visiting in the| | | | movement. When Edmonton was a small town, the hill was mined for coal but the shafts have been sealed for many years. If the shaft strikes water, pipes will be laid to drain it off, says city engineer J. D. Macdonald. The hill, gradually moving south, has prevented paving of a potholed road -- an important artery which, despite its poor condition, drains off much down- town traffic, Famed Coach Ravaged By Fatal Virus CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP)-- Jim Tatum, 46-year-old North Carolina football coach who rose from a sandlot player to the pin- thas suddenly rebelled against these two golden-haired charac- ters. They are not typi¢al of New Zealand ways, it says. They do not talk like New Zealanders. NATIONAL SLANT So new books are to be pre pared with a distinctive New Zealand slant and introducing, among other things, Maori child- ren of New Zealand's native race. Janet and John will linger on awhile until the new books are prepared, but they stand under sentence of immediate banish- ment as soon as their replace- ments become available, Teachers have shed few tears about the passing of these uni- versally known characters, Janet John may be household words in homes throughout the U.S., Britain and New Zealand, but teachers do not seem to look {on them with any great affection . "Janet and John are mainly namby-pamby darlings who just do not ring a bell in the mind of He New Zealand child," says J. nacle of the c g pr died Thursday ight. He suc- cumbed to a highly contagious virus that ravaged his ky form. Feverish and delirious, his body covered with a red rash, Tatum fought his last hours vir- tually alone. Only his doctors were permitted at his bedside. His wife Edna lay ill at home suffering from the same malady. She is expected to recover. Tatum was visiting in Canada with his friends, coaches Pea- head Walker of Montreal Alou- ettes of the Big Four football union and Frank Howard of Clemson State, when he was called home after the death of a sister last week. Tatum went to hospital last Sat- urday. Doctors said the virus 'overwhelmed' Tatum, affecting PET | such vital organs as his liver and | Ee kidneys. ea |stated that many of them lost "a|BIG YEAR IN PROSPECT Tatum returned to his alma [other stations with cut - rate/mater here four years ago. He |prices." Many of them feared wanted to rebuild the school into they may have to close down due|a national football power. He to the gas war in' Toronto, but figured this would be his big now, with the cut rate prices ap- [year At the University of Maryland looking to- he had formed a football dynasty {wards business picking up again. |in nine years, "Organization," was Tatum's Brooklin area cut prices down to |TePly to those who asked him his secret of success. He starred as Many of |@ recruiter and was a top admin- the operators said that it would |istrator and organizer. Tatum became embroiled in & controversy with North Carolina State's student newspaper over professionalism in football. Wind- ing up the argument, he said: "It is a sad occasion when Mic! Bal "all af sea' NEW! RIOTO SATURDAY MATINEE 1:30 P.M. Three air force men were killed [academic leaders won't have a | Wednesday when a helicopter hit|sufficient education in athletics to (high - tension power lines and realize the benefits athletes re- |erashed into the 200 - foot-deep ceive from the field of sport. Genesee River gorge. They were| 'They seem to think that the searching for an 83-vear-old pro- only way for a coach to do a good fessor emeritus of the University job is to do a poor job and not of Rochester, who became lost|get many victories. while on a picnic. Dr. Walter H.| "I don't think winning is the ! us! hael con Bloor of Rochester, was found most important thing--I think it's |about three hours later, the only thing." ) senior i tor of primary schools in the "Auckland district. Lloyd in. international peacemak- ing efforts; and the general sense of economic well « being in the country. SUEZ FADES The average Briton, recovering from the psychological shock of Suez, is beginning to take a more optimistic 'view of things. One pointer is the slowing down of British immigration to Canada compared with the panic days of 1956-57 when Canadian immigra- tion offices in London dealt with daily queues, Something seems to have hap- pened in the last 15 months to John Cox was appointed here appease an important section of in 1836. His salary was $36 a |gyitish society, perhaps best iden- year. For six years before that!iifinq as the old middle class. he distributed the mail left at| Among its representatives are his house without getting paid at the army officers and profes- all, The mail was carried on foot| onal men who used to have a with 278 for the chief opposition party, Labor, TORIES STRONGER The Tory tub-thumping reflects] a startling change in Britain's, Family Finally Giving Up Post UPPER STEWIACKE, NS. (CP)--The Cox family has re- linquished the position of post- master in this central Nova Scotia village after filling it for 129 years. | | "W 1. an I Cash-short? Don't give up it's easy as A-B-C to get an you need. from Halifax, 60 miles away. . John's son Francis succeeded | Place in the country and send him in 1867. Francis' son J. D. [ther sons to the best schools. Cox took over in 1912 and was| In the post-war era of the wel-| postmaster for 33 years. |fare state, they have seem their | Harry Johnson, J. D. 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