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2 "THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, August 6, 1960 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN HIS HEART IS IN THE HIGHLANDS We're not so sure now that this is such a cruel, callous world. What changed our thinking, at least a little, was a story Friday about a man named John Porter Greig, an 88-year-old Scottish-born pensioner who has one am- bition--to die in the Highlands he has not seen since 1905. A Citv Hall group has started a fund to buy Greig a ticket to Peterhead, north of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he can reside with his spinster sister, Bella, one of his few remaining relatives. '1ts easy to get sentimental about babies and old people, but we hope this fund drive is a success because John Porter Greig is somebody special in our book. . Perhaps, to us, he represents better than any other pergon the tragic plight of thousands of senior citizens who are forgotten and alone in the late evening of life, with barely enough to live on. He lives in a small, attic room, with his books and papers (he's a well-read man) on a total monthly in- come that would provide little more than gratuity- money for a travelling salesman. Greig gets $55 monthly for O'd Age Pension and $10 in annuities. He has one suit. Greig has lived in Oshawa eight years, He was once a firsi-class mechanic in Toronto; when he arrived in Canada in 1905 he deposited five gold Sovereigns in the Bank of Hamilton, which later went broke. He has a special reason for wanting to go back to Scotland--he can now draw his Old Age Pension there, under a recent amendment to the pension laws. We get a queasy feeling when we think of John Porter Greig in that room where he recently spent his 87th birthday (alone), but we heard some heartening néws Friday. The Greig fund has already reached the $45 mark according to one of its two organizers at the City Hall--Miss Gertrude Tucker, superintendant of city public health nurses, who will gratefully acknowledge any contributions, Harry Chapman, city plumbing in- spector, is the other organizer. Doesn't that prove that there are some pretty nice people in Oshawa ? FAITH IS A WONDERFUL THING, KIDDIES! SOCIAL NOTE: Opening ceremonies for the city's new Rotary Park pool were postponed Tuesday for at least seven days because of "technical difficulties". Alderman John Brady, property committee chairman, was unavailable for comment (he was reported to be doing algae research somewhere along the Lake Ontario waterfront with Alderman Dafoe), but a City Hall spokesman said that the pool definitely would be open- ed this year "even if we have to clear the snow away." Then the spokesman (who did not want his name Yinked publicly with the pool in any way,) said: "Let's not get pessimistic about this pool opening just because we've already missed seven lovely weeks of Major Prepares Congo Squadron 57th Signals Squadron ready to|f go to The Congo. IE By BERNARD DUFRESNE | Canadian Press Staff Writer KINGSTON (CP) -- This past week the '"'scramblingest" man at Bauiefield army camp near ® here has been a tall, fair major | (with an almost steady smile on his "lips. He is Maj. Robert C. (Bob) Bindoff, of Ottawa and Kingston, who has been burning the mid night oil getting his newly-formed Troops Get | Details On Congo | KINGSTON (CP) -- Canadian signaliers and supporting troop # zoing to the Congo were told Fri- MAY BE MURDER WEAPON Ontario Provincial Police | ing officer of Paul Bordeleau | It was in truck with body of Staff Sgt. Constable Coffey, Bonneycastle and the arrest- | Bruce Mines teenagers pull .22 two | one victim Jacqueline Dumond, | 16. William Brechin, . 19, died from bullet wound in head. being held in deaths of rifle from trunk of police car. By FRASER MacDOUGALL Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) -- A saddened | Parliament paid moving and elo- quent tribute Friday to the mem- ory of Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen |as one of Canada's greatest | statesmen and orators. In both houses --Senate and Commons--leaders of all parties Members In Tribute To Meighen Memory the Commons, Hon Earl Rowe, Conservative member for ferin-Simcoe, rounded out Commons tributes. Mr. Rowe, first elected in 1 when Mr. Meighen was Conserv guage so clear and colorful that the pages of Hansard (official record of Commons debates) will always be a monument to his memory." | He was an outstanding scholar. An extemporaneous Speech on Shakespeare, including long quo-| tations from memory, had seen reproduced time and again in anthologies containing collections ability was legendary. ment and his debating skill . . . been Duf- the into warm places at night and ay what to expect when they reach the African republic that lies astride the equator, The advice--touching on recent events in the Congo and on hy giene precautions to be taken-- came from the RCAF. | Air Commodore George Car- nenter, chief of the RCAF Air Transport Command -at Trenton, | which will air lift the 240-odd 5, spoke to the signallers at a private 30-minute conference. Later the troops heard from Wing Cmdr. Robert Walsh, chief medical officer of the Congo- bornd group. Some typical bits of advice: Food: Eat only food prepared specially for the troops or in approved restaurants, | Water: Drink lots, but only |from approved sources--or use a |water purification tablet. Swimming: Don't swim except in approved places, because some |streams and lakes in the Congo |carry disease-bearing worms. | Clothing: Shake your clothing |when taking it off at night or { putting it on in the morning to |get rid of flies, ticks and other | insects. Boots: Turn them upside down before putting them on. Scorpions and other creatures like to crawl |can take a nasty bite out of a man's foot. Snake bite: Make a half-inch ative leader, said, in part: "His |cut over the bite to cause bleed He was|ing and suck the venom out and brilliant on the floor of Parlia-|spit it out, Then report to a doc- tor. "The Squadron, 193 officers and men troops. will provide the commu- nication system for the 15 battal- ions brought in by the United Nations to keep peace and order in the new African republic. EXPECTS NO TROUBLE "I don't expect any trouble," he said in an interview. "Soldiers usually get on with everybody." Major Bindoff is a career sig- nalman who has spent all his|# adult life in the army. 4 He now is 39 and admits: "All I ever really thought about was the army." This is his first major com- mand after 19 years of prepara- tion in wartime and in peace. "Nothing glamorous ever happened to me," he said, but he was quite enthusiastic when speaking of the apprentice sol- diers school at Barriefield army camp here. FOUNDED SCHOOL Major Bindoff, when a captain, often brought up the subject of|} a school for young apprentice sol- diers. The army finally estab- lished one in the fall of 1952 with Cap'ain Bindoff in command. "I'm very proud of that school," he said. "Some of the first apprentices to attend now are non-commissioned officers in my squadrons,' He said what has struck him most about his squadron is its moral. plus about 50 supporting # » NU-WAY 4 RUG CLEANERS ® Dyeing and Repairing e Binding and Fringing ® Mothproofing Wall to wall carpets cleaned in your home a guard on his home. XY Generally below-normal tem- | and precipitation across the peratures are predicted for | country for the period. Tables central Canada and the west | give normal readings for vari- coast for August, according to | ous centres. These maps are the 30-day outlook of the United | based on predictions of the States weather bureau, Near | weather office which says its normal and above normal tem- | monthly outlook is not a speci- Newsmap The threats wife would be "Adolf Hitler's fic forecast and that a change peratures will cover the east | , "oo ion pattern may pro- coast and the Prairies. Map de- . |religious insults. F ascists [said he and his "eliminated" on | Plummer said he was certain rea en {his enemies were British Fas- cists. {met to consider a complaint {from Labor member Charles LONDON (Reuters)--A Labor ceived from Colin Jordan, na- member of Parliament disclosed | tional organizer of the British death by British Fascists, his The letter said that "in the wife nearly suffered a break-| oq, sont Britain of tomorrow it Imay well be you and your fel- {low racial renegades will face duce major errors. tails predicted temperatures' memorial day." B iti h MP The all-party committee had Panell about a letter he re- today he was threatened with|National party. down and Scotland Yard placed| The disclosures were made by|trial for your complicity in the [Sir Leslie Plummer last month colored invasion and the Jewish to. a parliamentary committee,|conirol of our land." swimming--after all there are still 24 more swim days ) > before school opens, if you don't count Sundays and rainy A ei A days. Did you ever look at it.that way? That's the trouble [of a man generally regarded as with the world today--there are too many pessimists, [the greatest parliamentary de- too many people who insist that this pool will not open [bater of his time this year. Won't they look silly one of these days?" | Hushed silence reigned in the has never yet surpassed. Malaria: To guard against this His outstanding loyalty. :tates- biggest scourge of the tropics manship and leadership inspired |take an anti-malaria pill a week, all those who were close to him sleep with mosquito-netting over and his sterling political integ-!your bed. The troops are sched- rity and character indeed earned led to start their weekly anti-! the lively respect of all those who malaria tablets next Monday. of the world's greatest speeches. A state funeral will be held in Toronto Monday with a morn- ing service at St. Andrew's United Church. Burial will take place Monday afternoon in the | whose report was published Fri: The committee reported that RA - |day. {Jordan's letter was a breach of Plummer said he started get- parliamentary privilege but rec RY STREET ting telephone calls and letters ommended that the House 174 Ma after he introduced a bill in|should not take any further mo. Parliament to outlaw racial anditice of the offence. HILLSDALE MANOR ULTRA-MODERN Remember Edward N. "Dickie" Rothen, Oshawa's oldest resident who celebrated his 105th birthday last Oct. 18? The Burmingham (England)-born bachelor is getting ready to desert his present quarters in the Anden Nurs- ing Home for a new residence -- Oshawa's plush, $1,250,000 Hillsdale Manor which is scheduled to open later this month as a home for the aged. The advance guard of senior citizens is due to start moving into the city's attractive establishment -- located at Rossland road east and Gorvale crescent in the northeast sector -- sometime after Aug. 15. "Dickie" will be one of the 205 residents in the ultra modern building. Fairview Lodge at Whitby will send over 92 residents, at the rate of four daily. The remainder will be from Oshawa. "Dickie", who has no living relatives in Canada, 2 was a former member of St. George's Anglican Church Choir here. He was also a hotel porter in Orangeville, Markdale, Bowmanville and Oshawa. His health is comparatively good. He gets up for his meals, and smokes a pipe, and can converse slowly for brief periods. Pneu- monia is his great fear. Hillsdale Manor is spa- cious and comfortable logking. It is set near the centre of a 30-acre estate, The building has wide corridors and high ceilings, painted in soft greys, blues and yellows. It has beautiful chapels, billiard rooms, beauty salon, and barber shop and auditoriums, Seventy percent of the cost was paid by the Pro- vince, the rest by the city. Maintenance will be shared on,a 50-50 basis by them, The detailed planning for the opening of this home --it is 347 feet long and 190 feet wide, and will include more thar. $80,000 worth of furnishings--is under the petsonal direction of Douglas Johns, the superintendent, an energetic and pleasant-mannered man. He is coh- stantly besieged by carpenters, painters, cooks, tele- phone repair men and architects (we met Edmund Parkin, brother of John B. Parkin, there the other day) but he never appears to lose his patience. "We have purchased the best and most serviceable fugnishings for this building," says Mr. Johns proudly. "That's because we expect these items to last a long time. Look at those mattresses. There are none better on the market. The same goes for the beds and the bed clothing." There's doubt about' it--*Dickie" Rothen and hose other senior citizens are going to a beautiful new home. one that should be due for inspection soon. "DICKEY ROTHEN" no CITY NEEDS AIR PASSENGER SERVICE Oshawa businessmen may soon have regular air passenger service to such points as London and Wind- sor: from here. It depends on a ruling next month by the Air Transport Board, Ottawa, when it sits to consider ap- plications for charters from three lines, Wheeler Air- lines, Quebecair, Inc., and Sarnia Air Lines Lid, Oshawa City Council has endorsed the applica- tion of Quebecair, Inc. because that line would service this eity in its proposed route between such points as Montreal and Windsor. Wheeler Airlines would exclude Oshawa in its Commons, where Mr. Meighen sat for 23 sessions from 1908 to 1926, when Prime Minister | Diefenbaker rose to announce his | death in Toronto at the age of 86 In the Senate, where he sat | through 13 sessions from 1932 to 11942, Government Leader Walter | Aseltine opened the series of tributes. |AT HALF MAST | i Outside, the Canadian Ensign fluttered at half-mast over the |Parliament Buildings' Centre | Block, location of both houses, in his memory. "I heard him speak on a num- {ber of occasions and they were unforgettable," said Mr. Diefen- | baker, a highly regarded orator in his own right. "He had the | amazing capacity to marshal his {facts and to express them in lan- | Court Could Decide Fate Of 7 Vessels HALIFAX (CP)--The fate of seven former Canadian ships. {which have become the orphans of the world's merchant fleet, may be decided here by an Ad | miralty Court. | Donald Kerr, a Halifax lawyer, said Friday a $1,500000 action for damages has been launched against the Cuban government by Flola Maritima Browning du Cuba. Browning, an American firm, claims Premier Fidel Cas tro"s government frustrated a lease - purchase agreement by calling off erews sent to man the ships in the fall of 1958 A waterfront source familiar with the ships, operated by Cana | dian National Steamships until they were tied up by a Sea- farers' International Union (CLC) strike in 1957, said they are in poor condition and rusting | family plot at St. Marys, Ont. Mr. Meighen, a senator for 10 years and twice leader of the Conservative party, found suc cess in law and wealth in the financial world. but was frus- trated in the highest realms of politics by a disdain for compro- mise. RECALL ELOQUENCE The tributes in the Commons echoed the gifted eloquence with which Mr, Meighen habitually clothed his incisive thoughts. Prime Minister Diefenbaker said that in the death 'Canada has lost a 'devoted statesman, the Commonwealth one of its founding fathers and the world of letters one of its master crafts men." Mr. Meighen's only remaining parliamentary contemporary in "If you were asking me to buy them," he said, 'I wouldn't offer $25 for the seven of them.' An cighth ship, the former Canadian Challenger, is in Baltimore, Md., and is believed in better condi- | tion. SEIZES SHIPS Sheriff 8 G. Bauld of Halifax Thursday night boarded the seven vessels berthed here and at- tached seizure notices to their masts. The arrest was a step in the action taken by the Brown-| ing firm. The suit will be heard by the Nova Scotia admiralty dis- frict of the Exchequer Court. The Cuban government has seven days in which to contest the ac- tion. Otherwise, judgment will be given by default. The Canadian government sold the ships to Cuba in 1958, during the Batista regime, for $2,800,000. Thev have been idle since "They have been 'lying here with no one to look after them," the waterfront source said 'They are still afloat but would have to be reconditioned through out. The dépreciation 'tas been terrific." } proposed Montreal-Kingston-Toronto run, possibly be- cause it could previously receive no assurance from GM |that it would have regular use for such a service here. The Ottawa hearing was originally .set for Aug. {30th but this has been postponed to allow one of the |applicants to get further information. George Slocombe, airport manager, says he re- ceives many inquiries about airline service from Oshawa. | Conservation Area Opened By Nickle PORT HOPE (CP)--The Gan | araska River watershed will re- |main '"'a monument to the fore- | sight and vision of the people of {the Ganaraska Valley," Ontario Planning Minister Nickle said Friday. Officially opening the Garden Hill conservation area north of {here, Mr. Nickle said the Gan- araska Conservation Authority | has already acquired 8,000 of the 20.000 acres suggested by an of- ficial report in 1940, 'which ree- ommended measures to stop | flooring and soil erosion BAN LIFTED ACCRA, Ghana (AP)--Ghana has lifted an import ban on | "Drum," a FBuropean owned magazine for Africans published |in Johannesburg. The ban was ordered last April in protest |against the South African gov- | ernrment's ranial naliries | | illustrious parliamentarians.' dared oppose him." MAN OF PRINCIPLE In the Senate, Senator Aseltine recalled that he had sat behind Mr. Meighen in the upper cham-|__ br for 10 years. He was a man of "great principles, honesty and integrity' and 'one of our most "Mr. Meighen was an enthusi- astic believer in the Senate, thinking it was one of the bul- warks of our parliamentary sys- tem." To Senator W. Ross Macdonald, opposition leader, Mr. Mieghen was 'much more' than a former prime minister. '"'He was a man of superb intellectual powers, a scholar, a lawyer of noie, and one who at all times made fie maximum of his endowments." Wife's Report Frees Husband SARNIA (CP)--Murray Simp- 32, was acquitted on charge of attempted murder Fri- day after his attractive wife, still limping suffered that her cidentally. Mrs. Marian Simpson, 28-year old mother of four, said that on the day of the shooting her hus band returned to their home near Oil City, 15 miles southeast of here, as she was preparing sup per, son, wound testified her ac bullet 24, shot from a last Nov. husband The children sat down to eat, she said, and after a talk in the bedroom with his wife, Simpson went out the back door and re turned with a gun. While Mrs. Simpson. sat on the chesterfield in the living room, the gun went off twice, once into the ceiling, she said. "'After the gun went off, my legs hurt." "I told him to call a doctor," she sald. "He was scared and 1 was scared. He threw the gun on the floor. The children were still in the dining room." Mrs. Simpson said she had heen married eight years and has four children, aged seven, five, four and three. 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