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4 THE OSHAWA TIMES Wednesday, June 27, ~ Acquit Driver Of Fire Truck BOWMANVILLE (Staff) --|quite-congested at that time of The siren on the Caesarea fire\day and added that there are truck was wailing and red|several signs in the village, lights flashing as the vehicle|"'10 miles per hour' and "15 headed for Lake Scugog, half! miles per hour" that have been a mile away from the fire hall. erected by the* cottagers, and) The volunteer fire fighters'also a 30-mile-per-hour limit) were on a practice-run fire|sign at the outskirts of drill. : Caesarea, But before they reached their Mrs. Carole Boyd of Orono destination the truck collided' told the court she saw the acci- with a car. The accident re- dent and suggested that the sulted in the driver of the fire| 'fire turck was going at a ter- truck, 44-year-old William' Mc-|Tific fate of speed, about 50 Donald of Caesarea being)miles an hour. She said she} charged with careless driving. |was afraid for her husband's When the case came to court| safety as he stood on the other here Tuesday, Magistrate R. B.| side of the road. Baxter dismissed it on the| The accident occurred near grounds that there was some| the government dock and when doubt in his mind that the,asked by the magistrate if accused was guilty of not hav-/cars could travel on the dock, | ing proper control of the truck.| Constable Den Hoed gio yes, The fire drill was. called in peg comg Mgt Bae Maal " = OEE RR RE i g the middie of a Sunday after- Mr. Deyman said that if Mc- noon, May 13. Mr. McDonald said this practice was neces- sary to show some new volun- teers how to operate the "port- able pumps," but under ¢ross- examination by Crown Attor- ney Harfy Deyman, admitted that there was no urgency in reaching their destination that day. LONG SKID MARKS The truck struck a car driven by Miss Mabel Challis of 52 Lib- erty street south, Bowmanville. Constable Peter Den Hoed of the OPP Bowmanville detach- ment said the truck left an 84- foot skidmark and pushed the Challis car sideways for 1l-and- a-half feet. Constable Den Hoed said Mc- Donald. had been drinking Later, in his own defence, Mc- Donald admitted drinking two bottles of beer that morning McDonald said he is employ- ed as a truck driver for the CNR in Toronto and in 1956 competed in. the National. Truck Roadeo. He testified that he the 'Challis vehicle was going to pass him normally, but all of a sudden it pulled in front of him. McDonald said he tried to swerve to the left to avoid a collision, but it was too late. AREA CONGESTED McDonald agreed with Mr. Deyman that the area was. thought Donald had driven thg truck through this intersection with- out any accident at the rate of speed Mrs. Boyd suggested, in such a congested area, it would constitute an infraction of the careless driving section and amount to almost 'criminal neg- ligence"'. RULE OF ROAD Defence Counsel Thomas Har- ris of Port Perry argued that Miss Challis had disobeyed a common rule-of-thé-road by not pulling over to the side of the road and staying put when she heard the siren "The real carelessness," he said, "was Miss Challis attempt- ing to cross in front of the fire truck at the last moment."' Mr. Harris aid it would be unfortunate {o convict a man who. was trving to carry out his civic duty to the best of his ability. Magistrate Baxter said he was reluctant to criticize men who serve as volunteer firemen "Tf it wasn't for them,"' he said, "there would be a lot of smaller communities without fire protection." His Worship suggested that Miss Challis perhaps was in a hurry fo get turned around, "so that when the race was on, she wouldn't be left behind." However, Magistrate Baxter in acquitting McDonald of the Friends Honor |Citizen's Charge Music Teacher | Mrs. Maude' Fisher, Music, Supervisor for Ajax Public! Schools was the guest of honor) at a buffet dinner in the Gen-| osha Hotel, Oshawa, recently.| Approximately 90 people wefe in attendance. | Among those present were. Alex Fisher, who accompanied | his wife, their daughter and) son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Dyer of} Scarborough, School Inspector] Tom Houghton and former In-| spector Mr. Archibald, the staff of the Ajax Public Schools, the, Ajax Public School Board and} their husbands and wives. / Neil Ellis presented Mrs.! Fisher with an orchid corsage) before dinner. The chairman, for the evening, J. Wilson, pre-| sented Mrs. Fisher with a dia- mond set watch on behalf of the teaching staff. On behalf of the School Board Mrs. M. Devolin presented Mrs. Fisher with a dozen red roses, and Henry Polak presented two plaques which will be awarded at the annual music festivals: the Maude Fisher Senior Award and the Maude Fisher Junior! Award, Mrs. Fisher expressed her thanks and recalled amusing and varied incidents that hap- pened during her many years of teaching music in Ajax. The committee in charge of making arrangements: for the evening were Mrs. Dorothy Price of Lord Elgin School, Mrs. Margaret Harman and Mrs. Donnie Nichols of St. Andrews Sehool, Miss Pat Wiggans of Lord Durham, Mrs. E. Pike and Mrs. T. Falby of Parkside School. The school children also paid tribute to Mrs. Fisher earl- ier in the week, when .a card designed by Mr. Griffin and his children bearing the name of every child now in Ajax public schools, approximately 1400 names in all, was presented to Mrs. Fisher and accompanied their gift of an opal ring set with two diamonds. charge, suggested that the bri- gade hold practice drills in the morning rather than during the afternoon when there are many people around. He also suggested that fire fighters in smaller places like fo "put on a little show for the people, and to call this practice in the middle of the afternoon wasn't entirely necessary." against an Oshawa youth that Upheld By Court BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- A charge of careless driving was brought to the attention of the police by a private citizen, was upheld in court here Tues- day. Ronald Vincent Sunderland of 2 ,Town Line road, was fined $50 and costs or seven days. Gerard Villeneuve of 176 War- ren avenue, Oshawa, told the court that while he was driving east on Highway 2 near Cour- tice in his' pick-up truck, he passed a car with a girl driving, which was only travelling about) 15 miles an hour. | He said he was only driving) about 50 miles an hour at the time, Then, Mr. Villeneuve said) this same car passed him about) Maple Grove, going about 80) miles an hour, and cuttiig him| off so sharply he was forced| over to the shoulder of the road.) Uxbridge Holds| Decoration Day UXBRIDGE -- The annual |decoration day at the Uxbridge] dow on the driver's side as be- Cemetery was held on Sunday! ing the same car he had passed a Watson, president; and) Neale: N, Alexander, secretary-treas-| He gave the information to{SUrer of the cemetery board,, police and a charge was sub-/ 2ccompanied Rey. Mr, Latimer) sequently laid. jon the platform. Mr. Latimer Sunderland said he first found delivered a very inspiring mes-| out about the charge through a sage to over a hundred visitors. | summons sent to him by mail. Many were pregent from a} He said he didn't know what it 800d distance, among them:| was all about and remembered|Mr. and Mrs. Russell Vance, | no truck on the highway. Toronto; Mr. and Mrs, Emmer- | The accused said his girl-| $n Vance, Oshawa; Mr. and) friend had been driving the car|Mrs. Jack Flewell, Oshawa; and when she got tired of driy-| Mrs. H. Vance, Oshawa; Mrs, | ing they switched seats at Cour- Fh Anderson, Willowdale; Mr. tice. Sonny Anderson, Mrs. Margaret His girlfriend said they had Caswell and Gloria of Toronto; | |Mrs. Helen Merrick of Wing- |been cut off by another car ' _ Wing which had passed between them | ham; Mr .and Mrs. Ernie Nes-|f- bitt, Ballantree; Mr. and Mrs. | and the ditch. Whitney, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Sunderland admitted trying to : catch up to this other car that #skin of Cobourg. had cut him off, but denied Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Foote driving 80 miles an hour saying entertained the Stiner family his car wouldn't go that fast. | 00 Sunday afternoon to a picnic. ee -- Over fifty enjoyed the get to- Mr. Villeneuve testified he gave chase to the car and had to drive 85 miles an hour to catch it while it was stopped at a stop light in Bowmanville. He said he took down the licence number and got a good look at the driver. He also identified the car as having a cracked win- Driver Missed °™: Traffic Signal BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- A Rexdale man who pleaded fined $15 and costs or five days Tuesday after Magistrate R. B. Baxter learned that a sign warn- ed traffic of a signalled inter- ; Section. Durham Dairy Princess Title iam: 5, oye, 1.01 » BOWMANVILLE: Mrs. hadn't seen the traffic signal Francis Jose, Newcastle will be/at King and Liberty streets May representing Durham County inj|*?: the Provincial Princess Compe-| Corporal Kaye Freethy of tition at the Canadian National|the Bowmanville Police Depart- Exhibition. Two entries had) Ment, who investigated the four- been received, but the one entry,Cat collision, said the Dynes ve- had withdrawn with the resuit|hicle struck a car. driven by that Mrs. Jose will be declared| Norbert Barth of High Park ave- county winner. nue that was northbound on Lib- : erty street. After striking two The Dairy Princess competi- astivey cave tidit " 4 tion for the county was to have § that were stopped at the intersection waiting for a been held on July 5 at the farm)" : of Carlos Tamblyn, Orono. Due Sreen light, he said, the Dynes to the fact thaf there is only |? ended on afbud its roof. one entry a competition will not i ' : be held. The Durham 4-H Dairy SLOW LEARNERS Club will however be holding its) THOROLD, Ont. (CP) -- A meeting on July 5 at the Tam-|modified two - year course for blyn farm with William Dunlop,|slow learners will be offered in dairy fieldman for the Ontario} this town's high school next fall. Department of Agriculture as|The course may include sales guest speaker to talk on "'Qual-|training with the co - operation ity Milk Production" of local merchants. guilty to careless driving was . jat Mr, and Mrs. Bill O'Connor's | Fifty adults and fifty-four child- Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Chase spent the weekend with her Mother and sister at Hastings and: took in the drumhead ser- vice at Nowood on Sunday. The town enfployees are busy building a new dock and while the water is lo they are clean- WMming area, | to help make swimming safer dt the Elgin pond, Gil Redi, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gil Reid of Reach street, is convalescing after an emergency operation for ap- pendicitis, at the Cottage Hos- pital. The first family picnic of the O'Connor and Burns families} was held on the spacious lawn! home on Maple | street, Ux-) bridge, on Sunday afternoon. ren attended from the Toronto and Oshawa districts. 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