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UKRAINIAN COUPLE REUNITED...- | Red Cross Struggles. A quiet, soft spoken woman, Mrs. Mounce ts secretary of the Oshawa Red Cross unit. In between her many Red Cross tasks, Mrs. Mounce de- votes a good deal of her week to processing and maintaining her freedom files, At the minute the freedom file is packed with about 40 pending cases. Some are hope- fil, others are fot: All will take years to process. "We never," said Mrs. Mounce, "abandon a case. na ' zens| May get turned down over an de ede of ercuation onl ovet again, but we'never give dropped into the file. pap. Once. a file Ss cpanel e Stumbling through an inter-| don't shut it until the person preter, Zacharian Bezpaly's re-|W@ are after is free. a6 quest was an enormous one There are no promises here. He wanted his wife back from| Me always hope; but we can behind the Iron Curtain pater ne guarantees. "We have been separated for| HOPELESS CASES 17 years," he said simply. "I! "There are those cases, of would like you to do everything course, which are hopeless possible to bring her here to right from the start. Canada." "It is impossible at the NO PROMISES moment to get any young peo- There were no promises that|ple out from the Soviet coun- day, nor the next year or the| tries. year after that. | "It is only the old people we It took six and a half years|are successful with. These are of endless negotiations with the|the people who are no longer Russian authorities to win Mrs.|useful to the Soviets. me Bezpaly's freedom from her| "With the young people it is Ukrainian home. ; : Six times, Mrs. Bezpaly took| people who come in. I think the papers supplied to her by the|ethnic population of Oshawa Canadian Embassy in Moscow/|knows this." to her town militia authorities.| The Red Cross is the only The papers granted her per-|service organization in the mission to enter Canada. world that has the facilities to Six times the Russian police|negotiate freedom for people tore up the papers in front of} behind the Iron Curtain. Mrs. Bezpaly and told her to go| "We explain this to people home and forget about going to|who 'come in," said Mrs. Canada. Mounce. "Even so people some-| On the seventh attempt the|times don't take our word for| By CHRIS DENNETT of The Times Staff On a winter day six and a half years ago an_ elderly Ukrainian walked into the King St. E. office of the Oshawa Red Cross. His story was a tragic one; but one all too familiar to Red Cross worker Mrs. Etta Mounce.__ ti HLT She reached for a fresh file and in strong, capital letters wrote the family name of "Bezpaly"' on the front. some 40 people from Soviet Russia, All will take years to process -- an average of six years a case. --Oshawa Times Photo guarantees -- only persis- tence. A file is never closed until victory is won. In Oshawa Mrs. Mounce is negotiating the freedom of lies separated by the Iron Curtain is a' long patient task. Success comes slowly sometimes not at all. There are no promises, no THE STORY is a tragic one and Red Cross worker Mrs. Etta Mounce listens patiently and kindly. The bringing together of fami- andj; 'With Mrs. Bezpaly it took six years. A man we got back last year took seven years." When freedom is won, the ed Cross moves in to organize 'ansport. "We will have a person at every airport where the person might need help or advice," 7. The Red Cross charges noth- have on file involve Ukrainian{local militia authorities papers were finally accepted, |it. ing for its freedom service. | families." present the papers. aiAe pecdiaen to kare spoon "ae 4 TRAGEDY ig if we a do it," said) 'The procedures involved i "Like in the case of Mrs. rs. Mounce went on to say|Mrs. Mounce, "then noone can. 5 | > thi 5 Ukraine and travel to Canada.|that she knew for a fact that! ern the work are long and lengthy. | Baebety this can be eriay R On May 20 of this year, at 7.30| there were organizations in To-| DISTRUSTFUL __ |NEED PAPERS frustrating. But we are used to} ,. in the morning Mr. and Mrs.\ronto specializing on the tra-|. Seated in her small office) «inst said Mrs. Mounce,|it now. | Bezpaly were reunited after 23/ceqy of separated families, rs. Mounce, "'then no ONE ois family has to obtain the| 'The Russians don't make it years of separation. 'Th i ity | can. : ; pabthnseer ' It was a long, happy day and ae pg ge ag age pod difficult job to instill confidence|necessary immigration 'papersjeasy for obvious reasons. This i visi | Sanadian authorities. vhy we have to be persistent.|52id Mrs. Mounce very bit as happy as the ; i in her visitors. from the Cana is why we have to be pers ; Ukrainian couple was Mrs. pales on Ning alg lg |They have to be able too, to\The first five or six times the er >, 7 | isceasiielae * tee dealahct? 00, toi The | n | MISSING PEOPLE Mounce whose patient inter-liseq to get his wife out of|'people are distrustful. They|SUPPor the cost of bringing/Russian authorities will just! Another part of Mrs. viewing and form-filling had| Russia. want to make sure that they| the relatives over to this coun-| tear up the papers and send|Mounce's work is the large brought about the reunion. "It is terrible that this sort of|are not endangering their rela-| ¥: : | the person home. number of missing person quer- WORTHWHILE thing should be going on. This|tives before they start to give| "Once this has all been ap-| "This is where we have tolies that flow into her office. "It is moments like these|is, why we always emphasize| information." jproved then the real work)keep on pressing. Sotaetimes "This is a two-way flow," she that make the job so worth-|the point to people when they| Most of Mrs. Mounce's busi-| begins. The Canadian Embassy the person will get frightened|said. "There are people here in while," Mrs. Mounce said.:"We|come in the office. |ness comes from the city's} Passes the approved immigra-/or discouraged. When one set of the city who will wish to trace worked very hard on this one] 'We always point out that|Ukrainian population. The Poles|tion papers on to the relatives) papers is torn up then we im-jrelatives living behind the Iron and it was wonderful to see|they should never give money|stand next in line. involved. From this point on it! mediately mail another set. We} Curtain. 3 the two together again after so|to anyone who promises they| 'Why this is, I don't know,'|is mainly up to him or her. | keep on going like that until we} 'And, working the other way, many years." can help." she said. "Most of the cases Ii "The person has to go to the' win. we get hundreds of inquiries } useless. And we explain this to F Zs a ; Lift Iron Curtain from people behind the Iron Curtain seeking the whereabouts of relatives in Canada." It averages out to about five queries a week. Those that involve the Osh- awa area filter into Mrs. Mounce's office. "We manage to trace a great percentage of these queries," she" €xplained:~"I-~do~-ali--the tracing work -mysélf. Some- times it can gq@t very difficult. I usually reckon about two weeks to track down a person. "T will check absolutely every source before passing the query back." Involved so closely in the work Mrs. Mounce has _be- come somewhat of an accom- plished detective. "People sometimes their names. This can make finding them very difficult. But there are ways and means. I always get excelllent co-oper- ation from the businesses in town who give me all the help they can." NEED CONSENT The finding of the person does not necessarily end the ~atter. "We need the consent of a person before we can pass any information on to relatives in Europe," said Mrs. Mounce. "Now, every' now and again we will get a query from a wife behind the Iron Curtain who is looking for her husband. "I will track down the hus- band and find that he has mar- ried again. This quite frequent- ly happens, Naturally he will not want his address passed on. "In these cases all I do is pass back the query saying the person does not wish his ad- dress to be released, It is hard; but that is all I can do. "The marriage may be biga- mous; but, on the other hand, the husband may have thought his first wife was dead." There are people too, Mrs. Mounce went on, who don't want their address released be- cause they think they may have to assume some sort of financial responsibility. 'We get a lot of people like this," she said. "What I do is go and have a chat with them. I explain that the person mere- ly wishes to restore contact. There is no financial responsi- bility involved. "This usually brings them round and I can tick off an- other query." change MILITIAMEN SPEND HOT, HECTIC WEEK TRAINING AT CAMP PETAWAWA MORE THAN 2,000 mili- tiamen, including a group from the Ontario Regi- ment, attended the annual ad must work consists of: Corporal Wal- together as a smooth and ter Czaus, 382 Central Park efficient team. This team Blvd. S., Trooper James Crowe, 498 Bloor St., and 4 militia summer camp at Camp Petawawa. Purpose of the camp this year was to provide an opportunity Trooper Rick Kirby, 565 Grierson St, _ Militiamen | __ Train Hard | With Tanks | Eighty tired Ontario Regi- : ment militiamen return from their annual summer camp this | weekend. é For the last week they have | been sweating under the sun at © Camp Petawawa, They were ' among 2,000 militiamen from § all over the province who at- © tended the annual camp. Emphasis this year was on tactics and communications. sl At the start of the camp the -- a Ontarios drew 20 tanks. Throughout the week the Regi- ment trained in formation with artillery and infantry. The training was supervised § by the instructional staff of the regular forces with the engin- eers and the signals corps train- ing with the regular force units now stationed at Camp Peta- wawa This year's camp was hot and dusty. And on top of this there were the inevitable mosquitoes to contend with. The heat didn't make the tanks any too pleas- ant to handle While the main body of On- tarios were at Camp Petawawa several more were attending courses. The second year student mili- tia have just finished their first week at Camp Niagara. They will be spending eight weeks there. 4 WORKING inside a tank is hot work, especially when the outside tempera ture reads 100 degrees. Trooper Brian Hodgson, 124 Cadillac Ave., is ner himself with water, a drink .of : : A TANK makes a good dais for Captain N. M. Hall of the Ontario he talks to his for mixed forces of fighting arms and supporting serv- ices to work together. Regiment as ing at {tops train- ... NEGOTIATIONS TAKE SIX YEARS Osh WA Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1966 Summer At Auto Canadian Aiitoniotive-Muse- um attendance soars with sum- mer tourist traffic. Each day this week -- atten- dance at the museum has been higher than any day during' the previous month, said a spokes- man. QUEBEC GIRLS VISIT MUSEUM More than 100 French Cana- dian girl students on a 7,000- mile trip across Canada paid a. visit to the Automotive Museum while they were in Oshawa this week. They were part of a larger group of 350 boys and girls, 10 to 17, members of the Club Jeunesse Camping on a six-week camping -tour of Western Canada. Oshawa was their first port of call since leaving Mont- real Monday. By the time they return next month they will have visited 30 cities and villages across the country. The boy members, who travel separately from the girls, didn't have time for an Oshawa stopover because of baggage delays. | Visitors © Boost Attendance Museum ~Over-50-per-cent-of the atten. dance comes from outside of Ontario. during the summer months and half of that is from the United States. During the past few days we have had visitors from Holland and En- gland. People from California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iilli- nois have also paid a visit to the museum. Each day sees some change in the museum and by the fall several displays and cars will have' been added, said the spokesman. "Our efforts to make it interesting not only for the tourist but the local populae tion have made it possible for us to change or add new dis- Plays and automobiles," he said. A change of policy by the museum allows the people to Pay one admission charge and return as often as they like without paying more. A single trip through the museum is worth the price of admission alone but now each person has the added advantage of return- ing and seeing the new jchanges. This admission price is good for a period of one year. The museum is open seven days a week until 9 p.m. all during the summer months. DURING SUMMER Vacationing Will Escape Aldermen on vacation this summer will not be fined for missing council meetings. Mayor Lyman Gifford said the Municipal Act permits aldermen to be absent from council during the months of July and August without being assessed a financial penalty. Any alderman who misses a regular council meeting during the other 10 months is fined $10 for each one missed. For those elected representa- tives who take their holidays Hospital Reports Girl Improving A Lindsay girl was reported to be improving slightly but still in very serious condition in Toronto General Hospital this morning. Seventeen - year - old Lynda Lake, 85 Bond St., Lindsay, was seriously injured on June 27° in a motorcycle accident. She was further injured that same night when the ambu- lance in which she was being | rushed to Oshawa General Hos- pital collided with a car. Brothers Meet After 20 Years Walter Greenwood, 116 Lab- rador Dr., was reunited here with his brother, Robert, of Dartmouth, N.S.,. this week for the first time in 20 years. They passed each other in Africa during the Second World War in 1945, but never met. Robert, with the Royal Air Force ground staff, was en- route to West Africa and Wal- ter, an air gunner with the Aldermen $10 Fine in the winter months the Act is a little unfair, said the Mayor. Council this week agreed to , recess for the summer but Mayor Gifford said he expects to hold a regular meeting every two weeks providing a quorum of aldermen is available. Before council can meet it must' have a quorum -- seven aldermen present. "We only passed 10 bylaws at our last council meeting and we were there until after mid- night," the mayor said. "Can you imagine what it would be like if we waited until Septem. ber to hold a meeting." Hampton Girl Injures Skull A 20-year-old Hampton - girl sustained a fractured skull yes- terday when a car in which she was a passenger went out of control on the Solina Rd., Darlington Township, and smashed into a hydro pole. Miss Ludmilla Konyk, of RR 1, Hampton, was rushed to Bow- manville Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Toronto' General Hospital. Driver of the late-model sedan was Walter Krolewski, of Lot 24, Concession 3, Darlington Township. He sustained lacere ations to the head and face, He was treated at Bowman- ville Memorial Hospital but was later allowed to leave. Bowmanville Provincial police, who investigated the accident, said the car apparente ly went out of control when proceeding south on Solina Rd. The accident took place about RAF, was. on his way to Jeru- saler. a mile and a half north of High- way 2. -- MR RSS Camp Petawawa. Eighty militiamen attended the camp this week. 47Dept. of National Defence