Oshawa Times (1958-), 20 Jul 1964, p. 4

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rormcramy ape rR RCN emer ee WINDOW CLEANING A student. at MacDonald dows created by the students ject three years Elementary School in Van- for the main entrance. A self- truckloads of broken colored couver prepares to clean a trained art instructor, Gord glass ago: grouping of stained glass win- Polowy, 34, started the pro- --(CP Photo) Girl From Newfoundland] 8th Annual Land Judging and many | iia ' pe ee i son sel Ge AD ah age gti apian gh ae ate 8 oe ares RE erg are ot gl gee engper ee ae perry Someone Is Listening For Cry Of 'Mayday' VICTORIA (CP) -- '"May-;COULDN'T CHANGE NAME day i There had been pressure to rename the Sudbury the Island Elworthy. "I wouldn't have it," Harold Elworthy says. 'I could:see the stories the first time sh2 went into drydock--'Elworthy is up on the ways having his bottom scraped.'."" In the midst of the indecision, Makedonia sent her signal. "After the Makedonia run I couldn't change her mame, The city of Sudbury, which had adopted her as a_ corvette, claimed a piece of the glory. Capt. Harley blagborne is from up Kelowna way--they. claimed a part in it. "Makedonia was taken to Vacouver and Vancouver See iccoria | 4 Her home| he 'ship that lies off her fan- . 5 ltai sinall " The Makedonia epic is only tail, the original "Suds. one of the stories which make| Since he went to work at 16 ITB's scrapbook locker an an-|@8 an office boy with a salvage thology of the sea. |firm, Harold Elworthy has fol- In 1949 Capt. Arthur Warren|!owed a philosophy of "continue barges, 1,600 miles from Black Warrior Lagoon in ,Mexico." ITB carries forest products for MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River, Rayonier and Crown Zellerbach. It takes light oil products to Prince Rupert and runs a weekly barge sched- ule to remote northern ports. LOST CONTROL From his office, Harold El- worthy can see the tiny Island Planet. As the Quinitsa, over- all length 35-feet, she was the tug upon which Elworthy built his fleet. "She'll run until doomsday or until we lose her." j | He ca also see Sudbury Il-- more than 200 feet long and one of the largest salvage vessels in the world. She is named for One code word, a cry of "help me." It was born in France but it has crackled across the widest, deepest ocean in the world in a Babel of' tongues. Among those who listen for it are the red-haired Elworthys, a family that has stuck close to its desks in two cities while sending one of the largest tug- boat fleets afloat ranging the Pacific. Donald Elworthy is vice-presi- dent in charge of operations for Island Tug and Barge in Van- couver. He's not a seaman. "You don't have to be a captain to run a tugboat busiess."' Nor are brothers Gordon and Ar- thur, who operate from the Vic- toria office; nor their father Harold, who founded ITB and now sits as chairman of the board. They're businessmen. "We'll tow anything from anywhere to anywhere for any- The Virgin Castle is one of the historical sites in Cyprus, CASTLE IN CYPRUS dominating the harbor of Kyrenia on the northern coast of the Mediterranean island. It was built about 1200 A.D. turned the steel towboat Island}€xPanding and always surround] Commander into an icebreaker| Yourself with good key men, at) by lashing logs to the bow and|8e@ and in the office. | charged into ice-choked Much-| In 1926 ITB absorbed Gardner} alat Arm on the west coast of/Towing; in 1952 Young and| Vancouver Island to. rescue|Gore Towing; in 1958 Victoria| seven marooned adults and a/Tug. hild, » i : 7]. Columbia and Alaska and {Hed ' Lesethe falter i 1941. follow | under the sun of the South|10,000-MILE TOW lip' "some ateck -mbninittes" Pacific. | In 1947 the tug Snohomish] = head himsselt with sale. ties CAPTAINS ON SHORE jput her line aboard a barge| ner cent of "'my own company ie ITB has 50 captains--"one on loaded with six smaller. tugs) hak? . me the boat and one on the shore"|and towed the strange cargo) He quit, ill and discouraged, | for each of its deepsea vessels.|10,000 miles to Buenos Aires. jlater arranging financing Behind them stand 350 clerks,| Cambrian Salvor, in 1959,|through "one of our, oldest cus- divers, bookkeepers, electronics|sailed from San Francisco with|tomers" and buying back ITB. ' stenographers, deck-|an escort aircraft carrier and) Today the controlling interest cooks and waiters and|a 10,000-ton liberty ship hooked|in ITB lies with McAllister welders and dock wallopers.. |UP in tandem to her tow line|/Towing of New York and Mont- And always there is someone one, provided the price is right," says Donald. The ITB house flag, a white life ring encircling a red funnel, has been torn by tornadoes off Japan and ripped by hurricanes off Mexico. It has frozen stiff in the inlets of northern British By MIHAEL LITTLEJOHNS CARMONA, Angola (Reuters) This small town near the Congo border has become a symbol! of Portuguese determination to hold en. in Africa, despite the "wind of change' and United Nations appeals. The people of Carmona have not forgotten that it was here in the rich, coffee-growing County of Uige, of which this is, the Portugese Determined To Hold On In Africa . one-third of the population of northern Angola--who fled in} 1961 have returned. jthe coffee area. Angola ranks third among world producers of coffee, and a poor crop in 1960, with resultant economic hard- ship, was blamed in part for the following year's unrest. i f Most of the 200,000 persons-- Carmona is a major centre of and delivered them to the|real, but the Elworthys operate listening for the cry of '"may-|breakers' yards in Japan. it under contract. day." : Same year, same tug and the Only once did the Elworthys In mid-May it came with ajtow was 11,000 miles, taking/q..ort their desks for the sea. |Chinese infléction from the Taih the 30,000-ton battleship Almir- Donald and: Gondbit eltgoe |Sing, 9,000 tons, bound for Port-|ante.Latoore (once HMS Can-| | anes oi the etic rgd to land, Ore., who lost her pro-ada) from Concepcion Bay, |28 idly Gyo nal ts peller 1,700 miles west of here|Chile, to the same final des- igs Garon inet ihe. danather : ) mi the|tination. . he poten en In the mid-1940s ITB haq the|of a Pan gi = Bi the | Last year the call came from yewery y Q contract to meet the engineless M : the Greek freighter Elli, a|Pamir, four-masted windjam-| Today théy are married, with /10,000-tonner who also lost her mer, at sea and tow her into/three children. | propeller at 46 degrees north,| Vancouver. Ten years et 1170 degrees east. centre, that Angola's "war" started, with incidents which left 1,300 persons dead in a} wave of rape, torture, arson) and murder. far from Carmona as crack Portuguese commando troops search out African guerrillas deep in the jungle. And the grim defence of the town in 1961, when there was Pamir, as a German cadet! jling $227,038 to assist in con- Today, three years after-|struction of sewage treatment wards, the battle has pushed/projects in were announced by Central Mortgage and Housing Corpora- tion Wednesday. Colborne, Ont., Grew Up With Royalty FOGO, Nfld. (CP) -- There was nothing about the birth of |Chase and grew into a graceful }young woman. | Competition UBRIDGE X-- The eighth Nancy Coughlan at nearby Dog) The duke had a family por-|2%"Ual Ontario County land Bay in 1773 that foretold she| trait painted which included | Judging see her portrait hung in the Palace of Versailles and lead) would grow up with royalty,/Pamela. It was hung at Ver-|/@St. Thursday in the Black- sailles. water area, The competition When the - revolution broke| WaS\ sponsored by the Metro-| a life of excitement and in-out, Madame de Genlis fled to|POlitan Toronto and Region Con-| trigue. i Her mother, Nancy Simms,/ England with her charges. Pamela met Lord Edward| competition was held servation Authority, working in association with the Ontario was unmarried although this|Fitzgerald of Kildare, an Irish|Department of Agriculture. was socially acceptable in a\peer, while in London and they| The program for the morning| Until then, ITB practice had place where a clergyman might| Were married a month later.)was a tour in the Blackwater,|been to name the tugs Island. The couple moved to the Fitz-| Victoria Corners area to brief/The firm operates the Island not be seen-for years. Jeremiah Coughlan, an Eng- lish naval officer at Fogo, promised to marry Nancy Simms at the first opportunity. Coughlan followed the usual custom of English officers and returned to England for the winter, leaving his unwed wife vith her parents. When he returned in the} Spring to learn he was a father| he took Nancy and "Little Nancy," as the baby was known, into his house, promis- ing they would return to Eng- land in hte fal and be mar- gerald ancestral home in Dub- lin and briefly Pamela experi-! enced the only domestic bliss she was fated to enjoy. FOUGHT BRITISH Her husband was soon em-| broiled in Ireland's revolution-| ary. struggle against the Brit-| ish. A warrant was issued. for his. arrest and he travelled about in disguise. Later he went! into hiding but was discovered} by three British agents. Mor- tally wounded, he made his} way to his castle and died in| Pamela's arms. ried. It was hi two years before Cc found it con ient to go back to England. There is no record hat he ever took the trouble to get married, and eventually Nancy took u needlework in a small English town to support herself and the child. EONT TFRANCE The Duke of Orleans, p . i st J akeco se ereneey Bens 10 De |soil problems, and to find a sol- \nobility who had been her child-|Ution through better soi! man-|up considerably this year. He Pamela was the sole bene-) \ficiary of her husband's will,| jand financially independent, left \for Germany where, in 1800, jshe met and married an Amer- jican named Pitcaim. | They were divorced and she} }come reunited with the French jhood companions, Disappointed, | |she took up residence in a con-| French nobleman who had put|of 55. | his children one Madame de Genlis to be educated, wrote to a friend in London asking him to send to|schoolteacher France a litt e six-year-old Eng-| into the care of} She was not entirely forgotien| in Fogo. Her cousin, Harry| \Simms, told her story to a| here Since then she has become part lish girl. She was to become a/of the folklore of this little is-| companion for his children. jland off Newfoundland's: north-|Smith, Port Perry; 2nd, Dean|"id class of Holstein cattle. The duke's friend happened tojeast coast. see little Nancy and persuaded her mother to let her go. Madame de Genlis took to the CAVE ART FOUND LISBON (AP) -- Nine cave} little girl immediately and re-|paintings discovered" last year named her Pamela. Later she)at Escoural, in southern Alen-|Uxbridge;' 2nd Jack Pearson | paid Pamela's mother £25 to|tejo province, are estimated to|Uxbridge; 3rd, Rae Ewen, Ux-| allow her to adopt the child./be 13,000 years old, Portuguese|bridge; 4th, The girl was educated withiarchaeologist Dr. Ferinha Dos|bridge; the royal children at Belle Santos said Monday. FOR URANIUM CITY Uranium Is Biggest Headache URANIUM CITY, Sask. (CP)|nium City borrowed $3,000,000) fers, however. Real estate is al- Uranium gave this rugged/to provide the necessary ser-|most worthless. northern community its name,| vices. | its reason for being and its big-| In 1961 the international ura-|made in Uranium City is gest headache. The headache is a capital|town's population fell |nium market collapsed and the] to the} |Barber, the competitors on the various soil types to be found in the area; and on how to identify them. Harvey Wright, soils spe- cialist for this area, and Tom Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Au- thority, were in charge of the instruction period. The compe- tition was under the super- vision of Lynn Fair and Doug Keys, Ontario Depar'ment of Agriculture, Uxbridge. Following lunch, the group went to the farm of Bruce Mc- Millan, Blackwater. Here they judged the soil at four differ- ent locations on the farm The land judging competition assists the various contestants to recognize and know. the soil types on their own farms, and in other parts of the County. It helps them' to evaluate their agement practices. The top five winners in each a\vent and died in 1831 at the age|class were: Juniors -- Ist, John Harris, Claremont; 2nd, Grant Mus- tard, Uxbridge; 3rd, John Noble, Uxbridge; 4th, Robert in 1884.|Smith, Port Perry; 5th, Stan- ley Kerswill, Stouffville. Intermediates -- 1st, Aldon Smith, Uxbridge; 3rd, Keith Jones, Claremont; Barry Leask, Leaskdale, (tie); 5th, Allen| Jones, Claremont. | Seniors -- Ist, Lloyd Wilson,| Fred Wilson, Ux- 5th, Charles Sutter, Oshawa. The only investment being by El- dorado, spending $1,200,000 this year on new equipment to im- jfaith was seen last year when But it was another Greek freighter, the rusty Makedonia, jand a retired corvette, the Sud- |bury, keeping a rendezvous off |Japan in 1955 that broke an |ITB tradition. | Suds" brought her safely to /Vancouver, 3,000 miles under tow and 43 days through eight |major storms and uncounted gales described in her log as | 'moderate.' Rocket, Island Planet and doz- ens of other craft, all with the Island prefix, ship, was lost off Africa. Twice ITB crews have gone to the rescue of the Canadian Pacific Steamships' Maplecove, once dashing 800 miles to her side. The rescues and the salvage operations grab. the headlines, but the big money-maker is the towing of forest products. Says Donald: "We carry rail cars, barges of explosive. We have brought tankers United States yards from Japan by jury-rigging bows on them. "We tow industrial salt, 11,- in open centre-sections of 000 tons at a time to | New Agriculture Official Is Named A. H. K. Musgrove, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture has announced the appointment of Raymond A. Hergott to the position of sec- iretary-manager of the Ontario | Federation of Agriculture. Mr. Hergott, who is 46 years of age, is well-known throughout Ontario. He was born in Water- loo, Ontario, where he receiy- ed his primary. education ard later attended. the Kitchener Collegiate Institute. Following UXBRIDGE Mr. G. \Clemons, secretary-treasurer of |the Holstein - Friesian Associa- \tion of Canada, was guest speak- er last Wednesday at the annual Ontario County Holstein Club \twilight meeting: The meeting |was held at the farm of Lloyd |Prouse 'and Son, Brooklin. |" Mr. Clemons reported that the export of Holstein cattle to some 15 foreign countries was jemphasized the importance of {milk production records, an | general quality in our cattle. He icongratulated Holsteifi produc- Jers in the County on their out- |standing success at the major Canadian Shows and Cattle |Sales. The evening program began with the judging of one splen- |Gerry Nelson, Holstein field- jman, was in charge of the judg- ing competition. The official placing was made by a panel of four prominent Holstein breed- ers in the area. Some 400 people took part in jthis part of the program. Over }116 Ontario County 4-H club 'members took part in the jun- the $60,000 arena and curling rink burned down. It was re- placed with a $100,000 structure paid for by grants from the municipality, a donation from Holstein Cattle Judged By Four Area Breeders M.jior division of the competition. | The winners in the three divi- sions were as follows: PRIZEWINNERS Junior division: 1, Jim Wilson, David Bailey Brooklin; 3 Robert Smith, Port Brougham; 2, Perry. Ladies' division: 1, Mrs. R. J. Miss Francine Saint Paul, Beaverton; Black- water; 4, Mrs. Robert Baker, Smith, Blackwater; 2, 3, Mrs. George Irwin, Sunderland. Men's division: 1, Glen Wil- son, Claremont; 2, Norman Gim- blett, RR 2, Oshawa; 3, Frances Jose, Newcastle; 4, Don Had- 5, Albert den, Blackwater; Cooper, Brooklin. The presentation of prizes to the winners was made by Lynn representa- tive, assisted by president Ralph Fair, agricultural Chambers. Jim Prouse spoke on behalf debt of $2,200,000. Mayor Jack) present 1,500, The community|prove the quality of uranium Woodward says the town prob-|then had a property assessment! ore extracted. ably couldn't pay it if Eldorado) of more than $12,000,000. Today} A. R. Allen, mine manager, Mining and Refining Ltd. was/it's $8,000,000. More than 50) says the investment is being forced to close its uranium|cents of every tax dollar goes|}made because indications are mine. toward debt retirement. |that uranium will again be in Eldorado, which pays 75 per AN: jdemand in the mid-1970s and cent of the taxes here and em- me fois aig gilt « probil ee "we can offer a_ better. ploys 500 of the 1,500 residents,| ; , |product when people: want it.' \lem. Residents are sometimes) tyr- Allen, who fears the town pod in 1968, Pesta that. €X-!reluctant to pay taxes because! wil die if the mine is aban- contracts are grim. msec an phe ee |doned, says the Crown corpora- j i : l. uw) tion is i Foo Deg aad ph ed on ing out, leaving their buildings| new le sg Men " month Wat are a wai jempty and their taxes unpaid,"|heing given to a slowdown in fieth of boas 'ion as (S498 the mayor. "Some of the|onerations to stretch present Gtiien . sckacl a h oads,/back (taxes are pretty old and| contracts beyond 1966. Eldo- were enddenly need ritals| we've started stepping on them|rado is also investigating the were suddenly needed as the| pretty ha' someone 2 tiny bush settlement overnight| orate md. if leaves of retaining employees | became a town of more than| year a 8,000 chancé to pay: and then take/STILL HOPEFUL Backed by the Saskatchewan) possession."' "Miners are great government and Eldorado, Who) Seizing the buildings doesn't|hoping," says Mayor Wood-| bought the debentures, Ura-iput dollars info municipal cof-|ward, and an example of thea for 'uranium worth $235,000,000. Eldorado and public subscrip- |lion, Only $2,000i s outstanding. Eldorado has always helped with civil projects and aided its own employees. It provided $5,000 mortgages at low inter- est rates so they could build homes. Payments were $30 a month, a blessing during the inflationary 1950s when a one- room apartment cost $125 a month. The firm still has $3,500- 000 outstanding in residential | mortgages to employees. | Eldorado is the last of eight producing uranium mines in the area and has invested $32,000,- 000. Since starting in 1953 it has produced 18,355,992 pounds, of Last year it turned out 1,855,- 212 pounds, a drop of 103,000 from the previous year. Market Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH non-acid) powder, holds false teeth on firmly.To eat and talk in more comfort, just sprinkle @ little FAS- TEETH E joey, past § late Odor" (denture breath). Get ASTEETH the completion of his formal education he served for 5% years as an instructor in the Canadian Army attaining the }rank of Captain. | Mr. Hergott served as secre- \tary-fieldman for the Ontario Folk School Council from 1948 until 1951 when he joined the staff of the Onatrio Federation \of Agriculture as fieldman. He served in this capacity for two years at which time he was pro- moted to his present position as Director of Field Services for the Ontario Federation of Agri- culture. | | Mr. Musgrave announced that \Ur. Hergott will assume. his |new duties as secretary-manag- er of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture on August 1. CHINESE BUILD UP MADRAS (AP)--A heavy Chi- nese build up near the Sikkim- Bhutan border was _ reported Thursday by the Madras news- paper the Hindu. The paper said the latest Chinese protest note alleging air and ground viola- tion of the China-Sikkim and China-Bhutan border by Indian troops is being intenpreted as "a ruse to cover their increas- ing buildup... ." of the Prouse family, and wel-|- ~ ate comed the group to their farm. Entertainment was provided by The Melody Folk Singers, Pef- ferlaw. Ralph Chambers, presi- dent of the Ontario County. Hol- stein Club, was in charge of the program for the evening. With More Comfort FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline m your plates. No gummy, a taste oF feeling. Checks only a tiny garrison of 14 Afri- jean and four white soldiers here, is widely held to have thwarted insurgent plans and tipped the scales against them. LAIM PROGRESS GET LOANS OTTAWA (CP)--Loans total- six municipalities receives $69,592 for a. gravity sewer, forcemain, sewage pumping station and a stabiliza- tion pond. Englehart, Ont., re- ceives $60,200 for a sewage pumping station, stabilization pond and a forcemain. Field Crop Demonstration UXBRIDGE -- Ontario County armers and 4-H club members are invited to attend a meeting Thursday at, the department of agriculture field crop demon- stration plots on the farm of Russell The meeting starts at 7.30 p.m. Morrison, Beaverton, Harvey Wright, soils and crops specialist, Lindsay will be the speaker. A number of new oat and barley varieties have been ncluded in the tests this year, The department of agriculture notes that it is interesting to compare these new varieties with the old standard varieties that have been used during the past few. years. There are corn variety plots and also plots that compare planting corn at different rates. A stand of Birdsfoot Trefoil can also be seen. FAIR EXHIBITORS Some 6,500 exhibitors from more than 50 countries will take part in the 1963 Leipzig autumn fair in East Germany. | The Portuguese do not yet jclaim victory-in what their Af- rican critics call a "colonial jwar," but they estimate that jless than two per cent of An- gola today is in the nationalists' hands, compared with a maxi- mum infiltration of six per cent of the territory at the height of the revolt. Officials said they believe that Angola could be wholly pa- cified quickly if only outside aid ceased. | As troops comb the bush country, a far-reaching village- jbuilding program is being pressed in northern Angola. The aim is to attract those Africans who fled into the bush in the wake of the revolt and persuade them to make new homes in communities of 2,000 or more inhabitants, where they will Sc a more difficult target for trouble than in the days be- fore 1961, when they clustered in scattered hamlets of only 20 or 30 families. Each of these new, villages more than 80 have been estab- lished so far--has a central wa- ter supply, school, health serv- ices, church, and enough cultiv- able land for substence crops. 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