The Oshawa Times, 27 May 1960, p. 4

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the frames for the pictures which his wife, Catharine, paints, He is a member of the Lundy's Lane Historical Society--he could hardly escape it with the pano-| rama of history outside his win-| government's 11 - member dow, For the last 10 to 15 years he| committee on the cost of drugs has taken an increasing interest will ave at Queen's Park in books especially se June 14, |dealing with the Niagara area, Leslie Rowntree, Progressive paper crative sideline in postcards and His collection may one day go|Conservative member for York 4 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, Moy 27, 1960 Drug Committee Will Meet June 14 TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario select Publisher Makes Canadian History Tel pe, then the 1 Al By BRUCE LEVETT SGT. R. H. BODLEY, LEFT, AND CON ST. ROBERT SPEAKMAN ON PATROL ~Photo by Pomeroy Police Have Patrol Boat FRENCHMAN"S BAY (Staff)--|paddles; must have a bailing affic policing in Pickering bucket and if on the water after ip is not confined to high-|dark, must have regulation run- ways, Last year a boat was pur-|ning lights, chased to enable effective polic-| Any boat being used to tow be of Frenshynet's Bay and the skiers must have two competent Insp lace ront, [persons in the boat. ts Sovnehip Polke are Teal. 10 spond umn eh Ot Barber ares Ship . must not exc ive miles Soutime their kof Fain ist an hour and after clearing harbor those w. must proceed at a moderate with full observance of all safety speed regulations. Chief Reginald Parker has ad. It 18 8 breach of the Hauor vised that regular inspections .2%* ave Intozicating Jquor x on in a boat except a boat used as will be made of all crafc using |, residence the Bay and any other areas| * under his jurisdiction. Chief Parker said his men do | Each boat must contain a life- i wan} ® Spoil auysne s fun, ket for each and boats r only er ensure Jacket So Tn I A com-|the observance of water safety mnn cause of disaster. Just be-|rules, so that everyone on the cause a boat has four seats, this| Water can enjoy themselves, doesn' necessarily mean it| Each year drownings occur, should contain four people. Each|due to carelessness or ignorance boat must contain oars or two|of safety regulations. Pilots Set Their Own North Pole In Vancouver VANCOUVER (CP)--There's a basis it can automatically caleu-| North Pole In the centre of Van-|late the position of the sun--even| couver Airport and pilots fly due|though it is below the horizon--| south from it to Amsterdam. |by recording the direction from It may sound complicated but|which the greatest intensity of| $0 airline crews flying the polar|light is coming, route to Europe it's far simnler| The instrument protrudes about| than trying to fix their position an inch through the roof of the| from a compass which often|aircraft and analyzes the light di-| whirs like a propeller when in rectly overhead by a complex ar- the vicinity of the pole rangement of prisms, mirrors Canadian Pacific Airlines came and lenses. up against the navigational prob-| lem prior te inauguration of the Vancouver Amsterdam polar service, | Near the pole, the horizontal| eomponent of the earth's mag- netic field is not strong enough for a reliable reference. That, combined with effect of magnetic storms, makes a compass use- less. SKY NO HELP A sextant is no good either. The sky is often just a blue-grey, twilight void and the sun is out| LONDON (AP)--The cult of of sight behind the horizon and the hard black derby--bowler to eannot be used as a fix the British--is spreading west in E. C. Kendall, chief navigator ingti for CPA, explains it this way: ja springtime surge of manly "The trouble is that in Arctic|fashion. regions, calculating true north is| Once it was almost exclusively an endless task of altering calcu-|the badge of the off-duty guards lations. At 450 miles an hour the|ofricer or the business execu- angle from your flight path to| thabit that square the pole is continually changing [tives who This makes conventional naviga- mile of London called the City. tional methods impractical. What| Now the fashion is rolling from we have to do is disregard true London's financial quarter in ao Black Derby Fashion Spreading By ANTHONY WHITE north, and create our own north." |City, an undulating sea of blac This was done by drawing up derbies, to the plush offices of special polar route charts, which |the west end. peem to indicate that the North| Lawyers, advertising execu- Pole is slap in the middle of|tives, public relations men and Vancouver Airport, auto salesmen are wearing them, NETHERLANDS SOUTH Derbies bloom in Piccadilly, "This point we call 'grid north.'| And delighted hat-makers pre- We then reckon Amsterdam to be dict that soon women will be in due south of here,' said Mr. [oP the act. It's about time, they Kendall, say -- women last caught the A relatively new piece of equip- [craze in 1948. ment, known as the Kollsman |yyvg SOCIOLOGICAL rized sky light compass,| pendennis, The Sunday Ob- elps to alleviate problems |server columnist, saw a socio- Working on a sextant-periscope logical significance in the sudden boom, The derby's popularity, said ead state | Pendennis, 'increases with the New Affluence." . Which means it's becoming even more the emblem of the Business [sho | "London, of course, is the » bowler H.Q," Pendennis wrote, nternationa "and it is impossible to buy--or even to wear--a, bowler, for in- VANCOUVER (CP--The real |Stance, in Torquay. estate business has gone interna-| Torquay is a Devon summer tional, says Bert Katz of Ottawa, resort. If you wore a bowler vice-president of the Canadian |there, the natives probably would Association of Real Estate/laugh at you. Boards. But the derby hoom is only "Speedy air travel has made part of a bigger boom in hats. the whole world the oyster for| Before the Second World War, more people than ever before," |most British men did not wear he said in an interview. "The hats. Now, say the hat-makers, change in people's outlook has|60 per cent of them wear sport been revolutionary." {headgear in a variety of shapes, When the association was colors and materials. formed 17 years ago, he said, eastern Canadian agents won- dered what they had in common Church Conference with those in the west. "They have since found that : what affects one part of Canada Sends Resolution is important in other parts. More- over, there is a growing world market for real estate. "Now some dealers do nothing but sell through Previews, a new international clearing house that sells exotic properties to foreign, ers who have the money." And it was a two-way street Canadian agents were finding land and industrial investments here for capital from Switzerland, France and Italy and realtors in other countries were ready to provide for Canadians an old es tate in England, a ranch in Mex- ico or land in Majorca or Spain where hard currency goes much | further. : | KINGSTON (CP)--The Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Church of Canada will send a letter to Immigration Minister Fairclough registering the con- ference's "acute disappointment' at the government's "failure to respond to the plight of Chinese {refugees in Hong Kong." The resolutior asking for such a letter was passed at the con- ference's meeting here. The let- ter will urge special arrange- ments to allow a substantial quota of families of refugees to be admitted to Canada under the public sponsorship arrangements recertly prepared by the immi- gration ent, WINS MERIT Brownie Allison McBean of Pickering Brownie Pack may be a budding story writer. A recent effort has won special merit and will be published in the Canadian Guide magazine, Her story concerns a visit to a department store and a pur- chase of a puppy which was not given too cordial a wel- come at home. The puppy soon became am adult dog and was instrumental in saving the home from burglary and the capture of the would be thieves. Allison has earned her "writers badge". : --Photo by John Mills WMS, WA May Merge. 'Panel Urges KINGSTON (CP)-- A panel at | the United Church's Bay of Quinte| | conference suggested Wednesday {that the Woman's Missionary So- ciety and the Woman's Associa- ition be amalgamated, This organization should be- come an integral part of church | work, decided panelists Mrs. K, R. Rose of Toronto, Dr. Margaret Arkenstall of Newmarket Moderator Rev. P. G. White of [Toronto Dr. M. D. Patterson of Peter- borwiigh, chairman of the commit- tee on pensions, reported that as- sets of the pension fund Dec, 31, 11959, were $19,775,883 compared |to $5,014,358 on Dec. 31, 1929, All { widows' pensions had been in- creased by 80 per cent since Jan. 11, 1951. Applications for permanent re- tirement approved by the confer- ence, effective June 30, included: Belleville pres by tery, Rev. James Cleve Eastcott, Belleville, 40 years service; Cobourg presby- tery, Rev. Albert William Hard- ing, RR 1 Port Hope, 26 years, Rev. Arthur Claude Luffman, Baltimore, 38 years; Kingston presbytery, Rev. Roderick Alex- ander McRae, Newboro, 37 years, Rev. Archibald Peebles, Delta, 42 years; Peterborough presby- tery, Rev. Henry Cotton, Peter- borough, 44 years; Renfrew pres- bytery, Rev. William Rollins Alp, Perth, 40 years; Rev. James Archie Pue-Giichrist Smith Falls 46 years, to take effect Sept. 15, and Rev. Howard James Veales, Beachburg, 40 years, New chairman of the commit- tee on pensions is Rev, J. G. B. Armstrong, of Collins Bay. and | papers, Canadian Press Staff Writer |in the county, NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)| "By the next mail came back Frank H. Leslie, from the clut-/stamped addressed envelopes tered workroom of his Welland and a supply of copy paper. I County farm can look out across/was one of that great and re- 150 years of Canadian history. |spected body known as country| Through the big picture win-| correspondents," He branched | dow of Grove Farm he can see out to extend his coverage to the the sun rise over Navy Island in Paisley Advocate and the Tiver-| the Niagara River, where once ton Watchman, all without pay. thundered the oratory and the| It was when he contrasted his cannon of William Lyon Macken- $345-a-year salary as a teacher| zie. with the $2,000 income of A.W.| Fenian Raiders marched and Robb of the Telescope that Frank burned across the fields down|Leslie "seriously considered the the road. weekly publishing field." The banks of quiet Ussher, He kept the Tavistock Gazette Creek, which joins the Niagara|for four years until, looking for outside his door, once hid Ameri-|a location with an expanding pop- can forces who lay in wait for|ulation, he sold it and bought the| Britons and Canadians in 1813|Niagara Falls Weekly Review, a and "shot them down like birds" (four-page paper, How he ex- in a bloody prelude to the battle panded it to eight pages is one of Lundy's Lane. of his favorite stories. His editor, Archie Fleming,| 60TH ANNIVERSARY was correspondent for the St.| And today, from his desk In Catharines Standard and, on re- the Niagara Falls Review, he ceipt of that newspaper in Nia- can look back across 60 years gara Falls, would mark stories io which the name Frank H.\The Review could use. The type Leslie and the title "publisher" | was saved in St, Catharines, 13| have appeared together on the miles away. mastheads of Ontario newspa- pers. HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY The occasion will be marked 'Every Wednesday, yours tonight by a civic banquet for truly went to St. Catharines for| Mr. Leslie in the Sheraton-Brock the type saved for the whole Hotel, He will receive a plaque| week and this went into The Re-| on behalf of the Review staff,|view. The physical effort to get| cial government scroll from La-|also took back a page and some- of the Niagara Parks Commis: sion, It was May 13, 1900, that 23.| journey was just as laborious--a year-old Frank Leslie, school teacher and country cor- respondent for country news| gave up all thoughts|Oct. §, of shoemaking, harnessmaking (&'8rm. blacksmithing and farming and| He had been planning for some paid $1,300 for the weekly Tavis-|time to convert The Review to al tock Gazette, |daily in opposition to The Dally "I was looking for a business| Record. When he heard a report to get into and in those days a that another daily paper was to small weekly newspaper could be be established in the Honeymoon picked up without much capital." FALSE ALARM It was a false alarm that made him publisher of a daily paper; it was tragedy which turned him climbed from a weekly with into a photographer whose pic-/ fewer than 1,000 subscribers to' tures went out all over the world. |its present strength as a daily The Depression made him, al- with nearly 15,000 subscribers. In| most against his will, a finan- 60 years, staff has increased cier. |from four to 100. He is the Canadian Press mem [JOINED BY GRANDSON ber with the longest service, . joining in November, 1917, less| The 100th was an advertising| that three months after CP's for. Salesman named Frank B. Les mation as a national news asso-|lle--his grandson. Bruce Leslie, elation. |Frank B.'s father, is editor and Mr. Leslie, who will be 84 on i . " three generations June 4, was born in Toronto and : taken to Glamis in Bruce County | #28 in producing the paper, as an infant. He was educated at| A sideline of The Review is the Walkerton and became a school [Printing and distribution of pic- teacher there, serving for a time ture postcards of the scenic Nia- i |gara area. Many of the views vs acing principal of the hgh were taken by Frank Leslie, He took on the job many years ago, WEEKLY CORRESPONDENT when his photographer was | pounds.' 1914, through a false up- financing and, "by the time I found out the report was a false |alarm, I was a daily publisher." Since 1900, The Review has He sent items to the Walkerton'drowned, leaving him with a lu- 'nobody but himself to take the into a historical library at The pictures, | Review, During the Depression, he be-| "Five years ago," says Frank came a member of the Niagara H. Leslie, "I bought many, many Falls Advisory Commission, a books. I put them aside to read four-man body set up when the When I'm an old man," city encountered financial trouble, and "was unable to meet its ob-| ligations," | He was appointed to the com. Boy Takes Steps mission after be had wried Rfter Heavy Burns work in this regard brought him| HAMILTON (CP)--Michael Mc. into contact with Guaranty Trust Kinlay, 12, one of five boys burnt Company, of which he has been hy an in an abandoned a vice-president for 20 years ghack at nearby Burlington Jan, He still goes daily to the office, 2, has taken his first steps in five editing the weekly farm and months, builders' pages. His weekly col-| g¢ Joseph's Hospital authori. umn Grove Farm Notes, i8 writ-|ijac said Thursday Michael fs ten in longhand on the backs of walking with the aid of a metal old letters and handbills, frame on casters, but he will not At home, be takes intermittent|be well enough to be released for interest in his basement full of/two months, power tools--sometimes making] Dr. Wiliam Kenny said the West and committee chairman, said Thursday the special body will begin immediately study of the cost of drugs and pharma- ceutical preparations in provi. cial hospitals and institutions, Premier Frost established the select committee during the last session of the legislature. The in- vestigation will cover drugs "used for the treatment of pa- tients in "public, general and rental hospitals and sanatoria in Ontario." boy requires two more opera. tions, Also injured by the explosion Ho Michael's brother, lan, 6, Murray Gavey, 8, Paul Moore, 13, and his brother David, 7, all of Burlington, The explosion was caused by a can of liquid tossed into a stove fire, Paul died Jan. 30, Murray fe still in critical condition, freedom of the city from Mayor that type was great. When 1 took| Franklin J. Miller and a provin.|the streetcar to St. Catharines, I| 7 bor Minister Daley, the chairman times more of the used type. At| y St. Catharines I had to carry the| type about a block, The Telurn former|Page of type weighed about 10) The Review became a dally| |manager of The Review, making| actively en-| § |City, Frank Leslie hurriedly set| ? 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