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i. - * About 50 carol singers went | Phrough most of the repertoire of well-known carols at the Oshawa Shopping Centre Fri- : day night.-They were the Osh- CAROL SINCERS AT SHOPPING CENTR awa Chapter and the Motor City Chapter of the Society for the Encouragement and Preservation of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America i Incorporated, better known as the SEPBSQSA. The program included carols as well as some of the well-known bar- Oil Firms Blamed For Price War The gasoline price war, which has resuiea in gas prices as low as 30 cents in some Ontario centres, has been felt in Osh. awa for some time, but there have not been any drastic changes recently. The price in Oshawa at the present time stands at approxi- mately 38 cents, with some variations above and below that figure. . Recent reports that prices had fallen sharply in the To- ronto area are regarded scepti- cally by some garage owners here, who seem to feel such extreme dips don't last long and changes may occur over- 2 |night. Prices in Brantford were re- ported as low as 29.9 cents a Toronto varied from 34.9 to 33.9 in a move against mass mer chaidise and private-brand dis- ber shop tunes. Barber shop- pers hope to make this an an- nual event. --Oshawa Times Photos 'Fine Youths For Firing Pistol "Two 16-year old boys were Wriday fined $5 and costs after Rotary Governor Here On Weekend weekend Edward G. This St. Luke's Plans For tributors. Oshawa service station opera- tors, however, are far from happy about the situation. They say it is they who sustain a loss, with the profits going to the pockets of the oil compan- ies. Said one operator: "I am going out of business as soon as I can find somebody to take over my station for the company. I have been in this business for over 30 years and I am tired of it. I am losing money right now." Many garagemen share this pessimistic outlook. "It's the big oil companies doing this, and the operator gets hurt," ssid another. She Oshawa Times -- SECOND SECTION OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1962 . PAGE NINE Alonzo Boyd Calls Police In House Row TORONTO (CP) -- Alonzo Boyd pulled a Thursday night--he called: Police Boyd, paroled Oct. 3 serving 10 years for offences that included sFEe Z $2.8 gis NUPSE Charg 2 Firms With Strike-Breaking ion of Public Employees (CLC), which have 51 municipal em- firms with strike-breaking Fri- they pleaded guilty to discharg- ing a firearm within the Osh- awa city limits. Constable A. J. Lavender told the court he found John Hol- Man, of 273 French avenue and Edward Parker, of 686 Philip urray avenue, playing with a 22 calibre starter's pistol after AT THORNTON ROAD NORTH FIRE FRIDAY AFTERNOON Family Of Six in Takes day. The locals sent telegrams in- forming the firms they wr sandd and salted city streets Storie, of Oshawa, governor of District 707, Rotary Internation- al, is paying his official visit to the Rotary Club of Oshawa. Since he took office last July 1, he has visited 47 of the 48 clubs in his district which extends from Guelph to Colborne and north as far as Shelburne and New Church Following a well - attended communion service, last Sun- day morning, the congregation of St. Lukye's Anglican Church met and discussed the erecting of a permanent church Brant Rockets Up For Sale WINNIPEG (CP) -- Black Brant rockets successfully fired Britain Takes New Look At Limited, Harmac Construction Limited and St. Thomas San- itary services sent telegrams to he heard shots. Plan New Road Near Montreal *A $10,000,000 proposal to re- Biilid. Highway 2 west from Montreal, to link with Ontario's Highway 401 at the provincial boundary, is being hailed as a te incentive to industrial lopment in the Seaway and promotion of the jrea's. tourist potential. "The plan to rebuild the road fe part of a multi-million dollar program envisaged by Province of Quebec in pre- for the 1967 World's in Montreal. @The announcement is also. of le interest to Oshawa t automobile owners rt companies. At present Highway 2, running east from Lancaster, follows gg we Canal for 14 ' and from that point to 'the westerly end of Montreal Island. ' Should a new road be built : & would cut down the time re- : to travel between Toron- H and .Montreal and would : fiiake the eastern section of the 'highway much safer than at , present. 'Rauniinity Chest : Total Now $246.648 ! The office of the Greater i Community Chest an- fiounced Friday that $246,648.28 | nas been contributed to the 1962 ' ign. The list of contribu- 'flons, not previously acknowl- ed, follows: MOE. Wiliams and Company Lid. 10.00 ' 25.00 50.00 Bradford. His visit to the Osh- awa club will be the last such visit of his year. The governor will preside at a club assembly in Hotel Gen- osha at 8 p.m. this Sunday. In attendance' will be the club directors and committee chair- club's new members. address the club at its luncheon day at noon. BORN IN OSHAWA District Governor Ed was and secondary schools of the city. He then entered the em- ploy of Fittings Limited, iron pipe fittings and valve manu- facturers. At the present time he is vice - president and gen- eral manager of the company as well as executive vice-presi- dent of Canadian Brass Limit- ed, of Galt. A member of the Rotary Club of Oshawa since 1943, he served as-chairman of a number of club committees, as a director and as president in 1954-55 A men as well as many of the He will meeting in Hotel Genosha Mon- born in Oshawa and received his education in his primary building. G. W. Riehl, G. W. Kennedy, L. A. Hastings and Col. M. C. Finley were appointed a com- i i|mittee, with power to add to their number, to make a study of all that would be involved in carrying out such a project. St. Luke's first began wor- shipping in the Adelaide Mc- Laughlin Public School in No- vember, 1959, and was formal- ly organized as a congregation EDWARD G. STORIE dedicated Rotarian, he follow- ed in the footsteps of his fa- ther, Alex G. Storie, and a brother, Douglas M. Storie, both of whom served as presi- dent ofthe Oshawa Club. An active worker in many phases'.of, the life of his com-| munity, he is vice-president 0 the Oshawa General Hospital; ja director of the Greater Osh- awa Community Chest; a di- rector of the Industrial Acci- dent Prevention Associations and Metal Trades Group; a member of the Oshawa Yacht Mayor Thomas Given Thanks Chief Constable Herbert Flin- toff Friday thanked Mayor Christine Thomas "for all she's done for the department." He made his comments at the last 1962 meeting of the Oshawa Police Commission in the court- room. Both Magistrate F. S. Ebbs and Judge Alex Hall expressed their thanks to outgoing Mayor Thomas for her work on the commission in the last year. The commission also ap- proved suggested adult crossing guards at Rossland road and Gibbons street, road and Masson street, and installation of a sidewalk at King street east and Harmony road. | Club; a life member of the Oshawa Ski Club and an hon- orary member of the Oshawa Flying Club. ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY He is a former director of the Ontario Chapter of the Ameri- can Foundrymen's Association; a past president of the Ontario County Flying Club; a former zone chairman of the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Associa- tion; a past president of the Oshawa Curling Club; a former chairman of the board of man- agers of St. Andrew's United Church, Oshawa; a former di- rector of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce and a past presi- dent of the Greater Oshawa Community Chest. Governor Ed, whose hobbies are boating, hunting, skiing and Rosslandjand curling, lives at 221 Glen- wood Crescent, Oshawa, with his wife, Rotaryanne Betty and three daughters, Carolyn, Diane and Barbara. April 10, 1960. On Oct. 2 of the same year a temporary port- able church was dedicated by the Presbytery of East Toronto of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, on, Rossland road west at Nipigon street. In this building, with its very limited facilities,. the growing congregation has been worship- ping since then, and carrying ion its several activities. which include Church School, Wom- en's Guild, Couple's Club, and the 26th Oshawa Boy Scouts and Cubs. The building is also used. by the 2ist Oshawa Girl Guides soried by a group of mothers in the community. A teen-age group, "'The Breakfast Club," meets Sunday mornings in the homes of its members. At a recent service, the min- ister, Rev. D. R. Sinclair, or- dained to the eldership F. Sparling, F. A. Upshaw and T. MacKay. These men joined with the other members of the ses- sion, A. C. Craigie and Col. M. C. Finley, in the dispensing of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper this past Sunday. Sentence Youth To 8 Months | A 16-year-old boy was Friday sentenced to eight months def- inite and four months indefinite in the Ontario Reformatory with a recommendation he be screen- ed and sent to Brampton Train- ing School. Magistrate F. S. Ebbs told Andrew Harabulya he had not been liked by anyone at his last training school. The youth was charged with stealing a car, shortly after he had -escaped from the institution. and Brownies which are spon- in a test Thursday will be of- fered for sale to Western coun- tries, Canadian Bristol Aerojet, the rocket's designers and builders, said Friday. Bristol marketing engineer Bill Isberg said he hopes to sell the high-altitude research rock- ets in the United States, Brit- ain, France, Norway, Sweden and Japan. Prime users would be govern- ment and private space re- se agencies and universi- ies. Music Heard At Centre Loudspeakers were mute for an hour at the Oshawa Shop- ping Centre Friday night when about fifty barbershoppers ser- enaded the ordinary shoppers with Christmas carols. olling that, prevails during pre- Christmas days. The group was made up of members of Oshawa's two bar- ber shop groups, the Oshawa Chapter and the Motor City Chapter of the Society for the R Encouragement and Preserva- 'jtion of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. They went through most of the well-known carols in the typical, appealing barber shop fashion, putting in an original barber shop tune here and there. The beginning of the revival of barber shop quartet singing took place in Tulsa, Okla. in 1938 and has since spread |throughout the North American continent. | "We just do.it because we like it,"' said one of the group, and he must have spoken the truth, for the cold was biting and the steam from their breath was mingling with the chords. The Oshawa Chapter are the Ontario District Champions, and the Motor City Chapter are the holders of the Course of Encour- agement Award. Bill Knight, of the Motor City Chapter, and Don Henderson, of the Oshawa Chapter took turns directing the group. Flames raced through the Thornton road north home of a family of six Friday afternoon, gutting two rooms ani a hall- way. Fifteen firefighters poured 700 gallons of. high pressure fog on the blaze that caused $5,000 damage. Mrs. Charles G. Norris, 750 Thornton road north, was alone in the house when fire broke out except for the family pet, a three-year-old dachshuad named Otto. Th dog was found by firemen, asphyxiated behind the chesterfield. Platoon Chief Martin Ostler said the house was filled with dense, black smoke _ that required firemen to wear masks. He said flames spread quickly through the clapboard addition to the stone house be- cause of high winds. Left Homeless Mrs. Norris said she was iron- ing in the kitchen when she saw flames coming from beneath a space heater. "I called the fire dpartment and had to get out right away,' she told The Times. Chief Ostler said "it was a good thing" that the four chil- dren, Carl 12, Eric, 11, Donna, 9 and Bonnie, 7, were away at school. Mr. Norris was at his place of work in Toronto where he is a business con- sultant. The Norris famil spent the night with neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. -Ross: Sutherland, 848 Car- tref street. eee Trucks from headquarters and No. 3 detachment carried water to the scene. Chief Ostler said a reserve truck was sent as a precaution. The sound that rose from the 2 Y T fifty throats was a refreshing a @ar erms change from the electronic car- Suspended Two youths were given two- year suspended sentences and a third bound over in charge of the Salvation Army for a month, by Magistrate F. S. Ebbs Fri- day. David Kelly, Hugh Madden, and Robert John Connors had all been charged with break and enter and theft. Kelly was also charged with another count. Madden and Connors were both given suspended sentence on the condition they stay away from each other and report to a probation officer monthly for the next two years. Kelly was given to the cus- tody of the Salvation Army House of Concord in Toronto for one month, at the end of which time he will re-appear in court for sentencing. The charges Brock Township. were laid in Stars Lose Twinkle At 30,000 Feet ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP)-- New information about air tur- bulence and the stars have been brought back by two men who rode a balloon to the edge of the earth's atmosphere. Air Force Capt. Joe W. Kit- tinger Jr. and William (. White, civilian navy astronomer, made the flight in an air force star- gazer balloon Thursday and Fri- day, ascending nearly 15% miles. They landed back in New Mexico Friday morning and re- ported, among other things, that stars lose their twinkle at about 30,000 feet. White said much of the data obtained will have to be ana- lyzed before an evaluation ~ of the experiment caa be made. UNFOUNDED BELIEF The notion that elephants are afraid of mice is not borne out by observation and experiments. The giants pay no attention to mice in their barns. OSHAWA BOY ENROUTE OVERSEAS Getting a first look at Europe when their ship dock- €d at Rotterdam, Holland, are ' Privates Bill Hunt, left, of @shawa; Terry Knott and Murray Brennen of Belleville, ay Ont. Enthusiastic after their nine-day Atlantic crossing the three men are looking forward to a three year tour of duty with Canada's 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Germany. They are all mem- bers of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment which is part of the NATO land forces in Europe. --National Defence Photo OTTAWA . --The National Employment Committee urged here yesterday that. steps be taken to ensure that the proven needs of the National Employ- ment Service in respect of staft shall continue to be met, in view of the special and direct contributions {the NES has to make in organizing the work force in Canada and increasing employment. The Committee, at its 82nd meeting, under the chairmanship of Frank N. Mc- Callum, Oshawa, while recog- nizing the necessity for broa applications of controls on the filling of vacancies in Civil Service establishments, as pro- vided 'under. the Government's present program, was unani- mous in stressing the im- portance' of maintaining NES staff at the most effective level possible in order to carry out its employment responsibi- lities. The Committee, as a result of its study of the question | whether the NES is adequate in the light of. present - day conditions, resolved that the Nationa! Employment Service |was to be commended on the general efficiency of its opera- tions with the resources at present at its command, but that improved and augmented services in a number of spe- cialized areas could add greatly to its effectiveness, and that such explanation should be kepi in mind in all future planning for the NES, BOTH REPRESENTED The National Employment Committee consists of represen- tatives of employers' and em- ployees' organizations, and 6f |national organizations of women, veterans, agriculture and welfare. The Committee's function is to advise and assist the Unemployment Insurance Commission in carrying out the operations of the Nationa] Em- ployment Service, and to meet with the Commission and with officers of the NES at frequent intervals to submit recommen- dations on the NES and to consider reports from the Com- mission. Members of the Committee had spent some time visiting local offices of the NES across the country, in the course of their investigation, Committee Requests Needs Of NES For Staff Be Met high calibre of service. readerd by NES staff. Strong approval was ex- pressed by the Committee of the action by the Treasury Board, at the instigation of Labour Minister Michael Starr, in in- serting into contract forms be- tween Federal Government de- partment and contractors, of the clause specifying recruit- ment of labour for all govern- ment contracts exclusively through the NES. This step had been proposed by the. Moncton local employment committee, and passed by the Atlantic regional employment committee to the National Employment Committee, who in turn sub- mitted the proposal to Mr. Starr, NEXT MEETING Inclusion in the Committee membership of a representative of national educational organi- zations was urged, and the National Employment Service was requested to negotiate the matter further with the Cana- dian Education Association. The next meeting of the National Employment Commit- at a locale to be decided. ee expressed themseives let will be held 5-6 March, 1963, animously impressed with the oe Defence Policy LONDON (AP)--A reapprai- sal of Britain's defence policy--' hitherto linked to the Skybolt missile--was reported in the works today. As Defnce Minister Peter Thorneycroft cancelled a visit) to Germany and planned to fly home from the Paris NATO conference, a British aircraft chief warned that any replace- ment for Skybolt should be British. Sir Roy Dobson, leader of Britain's aircraft contractors, the locals Friday night inform. ing them that, in view of the llocal's promise to provide emer- they gency services if are withdrawing their services to the city immediately. The locals' ' telegrams . asked the firms to cease strike-brak- ing "in intrest of law and or- der and to elleviate possibility of violence." "We were here Thursday and be asked to help in the emer- gency" caused by this week's heavy snowfall, said Donald Hanley, Local 35 president. "When the men saw the sand- ing and salting operation by the three firms, they got mad. They are. still boiling mad that the government should not rely on the United States to pro- as a replacement for Skyboit. "We have seen where s2-called interdependence has led us," he' said. "Before falling into the same trap again let us see what we can do on our own." Sir Roy is managing director of the Hawker-Siddeley aircraft group and president of the So- ciety of British Aircraft Con- structors. 1,000 miles away from the tar- get, has cost the United States nearly $500,000,000 and has had a string of five firing test fail- ures, ' said in a letter to The Times) The Skybolt, a bomber-borne "a missile designed to be fired vide Polaris submarine missiles|tional ion, it was agreed that in case of emergency we would be only too willing to help." Prices Mixed In Bond Market By THE CANADIAN PRESS Prices were mixed in the bond market this week, in quiet trad- Z. Treasury bill averages in- creased slightly to 3.84 per cent average on 91-day bills and 3.96 per cent on 182-day bills, com- pared with 3.81 and 3.94 respec- ALS SIGN TACKLE MONTREAL (CP)--Montreal Alouettes Thursday night an- nounced the signing of George Canale, a University of Tennes- see halfback they hope will remedy their punting problems next season. Canale, who stands five-foot-nine and weighs 185 pounds, ranked fourth in the United States last season with a 41.9-yard average on 53 punts. Coaches in his Southeastern Conference voted Canale the But he said it appeared to have been a success. best pass defender and punt re- turn man in the league. tively last week. Day money was in short supply at 3% per cent. In the Government of Canada' market, 54s of 1963 traded at 102.30; 3%s of 1965 at 98.75; 448 of 1972 at 95%; and 4s of 1983 at 9256. In the provincial markot prices were slightly firmer, w:th the last new Province of Ontario 5%4s. of 1982 trading at 99; the last new Province «of Quebec 54s of 1987 at 97; and Manitoba Telephone 5%8 of 1983 at 100.25, Trading was quiet in the cor- porate market, with prices al- most unchanged. greece, Such scenes as the above-- taken on Simcoe street north are commonplace around Oshawa these days as elaborate plans are made for the welcome of Santa. With © Christmas rapidly approach- ing, there will be more of such scenes, north, east, south and west as Oshawa ° CHRISTMAS TREES ALL AGLOW residents vie with each other for the honor of having the most attractive Christmas lighting system. --Oshawa Times Photos early this morning waiting to -- ees . a Et mepuiliincamiet eis een Ae