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ec THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, December 31, 1965 1104000 RAEN DEEN eT en GAIETY GALORE* IN STORE HERE Oshawa will ring out the old year and in the new with plenty of fanfare and celebrations to- night, especially around the hotel cocktail lounge circuit. Revellers there will find plen- ty of the traditional fun-making gimmicks from trick balloons to noisemakers, plus the regular floor shows to get them in the festive moods. Advance bookings indicate that the city's '"'away-from- home" celebrations will be far more numerous than in previ- ous years. City hotels are ready for a brisk business ahd bookings are heavy for private halls and audi- toriums. It will mark the first New Year's eve when all four hotels licensed for cocktail lounges will have their floor shows operative at the same time. Hotels such as the Genosha, Cadillac, Central and Lanéas- ter will have their lounge rooms open with floor shows on Jan. 1, as well as the previous evening. The Coronet Lounge of the Cadillac Hotel will have "The | International Playboys" as its featured attraction with mati- mee and evening performances on Dec. 31, but evening shows | only on Jan. 1 HONKEY-TONK DUO The Hotel Genosha will have Georgina and Jimmy, the color- ful Honky -. Tonk duo, Starlite Room and 'The Brad- fords," perennial favorites from Bradford, England, in their old | stamping-ground, Harry's Hide- away. General - manager Martin Chizen of the Spruce Villa Hotel in Whitby will have Davey Yuan and his troupe for enter- tainment with matinee and eve- ming performances on Dec. 31 and evening performances on 'New Year's. The Gold Rush Lounge of the Central Hotel will follow the same schedule with its cocktail lounge entertainment. In addition to the above festi- vities, there will be plenty of midnight eve festivities else- where in the city. Oshawa's French - Canadian community will hold a_ special party tonight in St. Gregory's Hall on Simcoe st. n. with plenty of costumes, colored bunting and ceremonies in the traditional style of Quebec, their | mother-province. in the} More than 300 seats have been sold for the New Year's eve party of the Recreation Com- mittee of Local 222, UAW-CLC in the UAW Hall on Bond st. e. This, too, will be a colorful af- fair with all of the New Year trimmings. The Oshawa Golf Club has the "sold out" sign displayed for its annual New Year's Eve party for which more than 200 tickets have been sold. This is for mem- bers only. One of the largest parties in the city will take place in the Picadilly Room of the Hotel Genosha where the Oshawa Jay- cees will hold their annual Dec. 31 dance -- here also the "sold out'? sign has been posted. The. Recreation Club of Du- plate (Canada) Ltd. expects more than 350 to attend its New Year's eve dance and party in the Recreation Hall at the Osh- awa Airport. One of Oshawa's largest New Year's eve dances will be that of the Oshawa and District Old Country Club at the. Kinsmen Civic Centre. More than 500 are expected to attend this colorful event which brings together so many city and district residents who hail from the British Isles. with this social affair, it will be 'a sellout. | The Oshawa Armories will be the scene of a New Year's eve idance with plenty of military | flavor. It will be held by the Sergeant's Mess of the Ontario Regiment, but many of the guests from outside that classi- fication will be present, includ- ing visitors from Toronto's mili- tia outlets. The sergeants will be attired in their dress blues. There will be plenty of pomp and ceremony of a military nature. At least two Oshawa service- men's organizations will hold New Year's eve dances--Branch 43, The Royal Canadian Legion and Unit 42,. The Canadian Corps Association. Each of these groups will also hold spe- cial 'At Homes" on New Year's Day. The Oshawa. Yacht Club will also hold their annual dance to- night to mark the passing of the old year and the arrival of the new. It will take place in the clubhouse at the lakefront near the west side of the Oshawa | Harbor. Upswing For Year In Oshawa In Lounges, Dining Rooms In 1963 Oshawa didn't have any cocktail lounges or dining lounges with liquor outlets. Today that picture has been drastically changed, thanks to the city's. liquor plebiscite of Nov. 23, 1963 when "West" won on all three questions with one of the lightest popular votes on record in a municipal race lo- cally (14,344 out of a possible 36,228 for 39.59 percent). No less than four City hotels -- Genosha, Cadillac, Central and Lancaster -- have lounges and dining rooms with liquor li- Three city motor motels are rapidly nearing the last stages UPSWING FOR (Continued on Page 6A) 4 writer and counts As is traditionally the Case | pression; Mr. Guthrie landed a cences, and this is only the start. LIBRARY NEWS AND REVIEWS The following reviews , 'were written by Miss Ruth Brooking, Head of: the Adult | Circulation Department, Me- Laughlin Public Library. The Blue Hen's Chick by A. B, Guthrie "The blue hen's chick," so the saying goes, was someone special, upon whom fortune always smiled, and as the biog- raphy of the American novelist and historian, A. B. Guthrie, un- folds we realize that is an apt epithet for him, From his boyhood in Mon- tana as the son of a school- master in the early 1900's, his love of books and his love of the West emerge as the greatest influences of his life and his writing. Looking back, he reflects that growing up in the country among the beauties of nature imposes one cost -- a child of the field never feels quite at home with steel and stone. To his father's interest -in. litera- ture, nature and the West he attributes: his desire to be a "under - 'un- earned blessings, the blessing of having or of having had parents both educated and aware." After' attempting to find some kind' of 'work during the De- job as a4 reporter on thé Lexing- ton, Keritucky Leader, where he remained for many years. Then 'a Nieman Fellowship Award took him to Harvard and in 1946 he completed The Big Sky, which won for him the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly after-| wards he left the newspaper | world to become a _ successful | writer in Hollywood. His old love of the West beckoned, how- | ever, and he returned to settle down in Montana. The book ends with a descrip- tion of an April day in Mon- tana. As the author searches | for a meaning to his life, he | reflects on the beauty of nature and on his good fortune in hav- | ing been indeed "the blue hen's | chick." The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson Rachel Carson intended to) complete "The Sense of Won- der but time ran out for her in! 1964 at the age of fifty-six. She had her master's degree in biol- | ogy from Johns Hopkins and | was best known for The Sea Around Us and The Silent | Spring. a book about the dan- gers of modern insecticides | which created wide-spread con- troversy. Her last book is largely a col- | lection of beautiful photographs | of the sea, sky, rocks and for- est by Charles Pratt, which | illustrate her thoughts and re- flections on the beauties of the world around us. 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Rachel Carson's closing para- graphs are a fitting epitaph to her own life, when she re- affirms her belief that 'those who contemplate the beauty of the earth are never alone or but '"'find re- serves of strength that will en- dure as long as life lasts." Following are some of the outstanding books which flashed across the literary sky in 1965. FICTION The Ambassador by Morris West Death in the Castle by Pear] Buck The Emperor of Ice Cream . by Brian Moore The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Mauiier The Green Berets by Robin Moore Hotel by Arthur Hailey How Far to Bethlehem by Norah Lofts Let Me Count the Ways by Peter De Vries Someone Special Found In Blue Hen's Chick Book The Looking Glass War by D. J. M. Cornwell ' The Man with the Golden Gem by Ian Fleming Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell The Source by James Michener Thomas by Shelby Mydana Those Who Love by Irving Stone Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman Winds of the Day by Howard Spring GENERAL Amid the Guns Below by Larry Worthington The Churchill Years, 1874-1965 The Courage of the Early Morning by W. A. Bishop Intern by Doctor X Is Paris Burning? by Larry Collins Journal of a Soul by Pope John XXIIZ... Kennedy by T. C. Sorensen Lament for a Nation by George Grant Laurié? by Joseph Schull The Making of the President 1964 by T. H. White Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford HAPPY NEW YEAR! NEW 520 KING W. May We Take This Opportunity To Wish You and Yours A VERY HAPPY GOOD BOY FURNITURE MART YEAR 728-5712 in small | which the author wishes each | NEXT WEEK'S ACTIVITIES AUDITORIUM JANUARY 2nd -- JANUARY 8th Sundoy -- Januory 2nd Thursday -- January 6th 10.00 a.m. -- 1.00 p.m, U.A.W.A, Hockey 1.30 p.m. -- 3.30 p.m. Public Skating 4.00 p.m. -- 6.00 p.m. Duplate Hockey 7.00 p.m. -- 10.00 p.m. Minor Hockey Exhibition game. Monday -- January 3rd 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. G.M. Office Hockey League 8:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m, City League Tuesdey -- January 4th 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Skating Club 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. City Leogue Wed y--J y 5th 8.00 p.m. -- 10.00 p.m. Public Skating Kad 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m, Skating Club Friday -- January 7th BINGO Saturday -- January 8th 7.00 a.m. -- 12 noon Ghurch League 12.00 noon -- 2.00 p.m. Little N.H.L. Tyke League 2.00 p.m. -- 4.00 p.m. Junior 'B' Oshawa ys Trenton 7.15 p.m. _ Junior 'A' Hockey Oshawa vs Hamilton (- COMING ATTRACTIONS Jonuary 25th -- Country Music Show. Ray 'Price, Little Jimmy Dickens, Blake Em- mons, Cherokee Indians, ia a tl ih. THORNTON RD. S. OFF KING ST. WEST