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The ling off vals 2, hey Eu- om- rain t in to ma- that J.8. be srit- J.S. the ter- 1 is uch the just sn't and rept ast, uch lear livi- and orts are tus 'der ling lest ting the ava cont awa ave lon he's glo- awa AZO, ales are , to hat peo- lear: fal lay. art. this PRINCE ARTHUR TURNS SOD FOR RAILWAY | Paper Shows Rrea Progress WHITBY CLUB CALENDAR This is the ninth in the ser- jes of articles relating to the history of Ontario County tells of the turning of the sod by His Royal Highness Prince Arthur for the Whitby and Port Perry Railway. The prince and his party ar- rived at the Grand Trunk sta- tion on a five-car suecial train, The engine was tastefully deco- rated as was the station and surrounding buildings. Thou- sands awaited the arrival of the train and cheered the dig- nitaries as they alighted. More than 100 carriages car- ried the notables and local resi- dents to the town. Among the dignitaries were Governor-Gen- eral, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Young; Mr. Turville, secretary to. the governor general; Col. Elphinston, aide to His High- ness; Lieutenant Governor « Howland, Sir John A. Macdon- ald, Hon. John Sandfield Mac- donald. Mr. Potter of the Grand Trunk, Mr. King of the Bank of Montreal, Mrs. Justice Morri- son, Judge Duggan and Mayor Harman of Toronto. BELLS RUNG The bells of the town rang, cannons roared and_ bands played. Arches and decorations lined the streets; while flags, banners and streamers fluttered in the breeze. Between five and six thou- sand people attended the sod turning ceremony when Prince Arthur used a_ silver plated shovel and a wheelbarrow con- structed of birdseye maple. The Whitby school children sang the national anthem; while 130 offi- cers and men of the 34th Bat- talion, commanded by Col. Fair- banks, formed a _ guard of honor. Following the ceremony the dignitaries and invited guests attended a luncheon at Tra- falgar Castle, the home of Sheriff Reynolds. The celebration continued long mnie mn TU DUC Corridor Area Residen Form Ratepayers Group WHITBY (Staff).- Fifty res- idents of the corridor area of Whitby 'Township, between Whitby and Oshawa, formed a ratepayers' association, March 11, after several councillors and persons invited to the meeting failed to arrive. A meeting, chaired by Rev. John Porter of Westminster United Church, heard only four speakers out of about 12 in- vited to present their views on amalgamation, at Dr. Robert Thornton Public School, Gar- rard Road. : Reeve Herbert Down of Whit- by Township excused himself Shrinking Violets Holding Contest WHITBY (Staff) -- Whitby Shrinking Violets TOPS Club has started a contest. The group is divided into three teams. The losers are to enter- tain the winners at an. Easter Party. Each member is asked to make an Easter hat, comic or otherwise for an Easter parade of hats at the March 21 meet- ing. Prizes will be awarded to winners. The "Queen" for February is Ruth Howlett with a loss of 15% pounds. The Weekly Queens are Sheila Bower and Ruth Howlett. Arrangements are being made to attend the provincial day of recognition to be held in Wind- sor, May 4, 5 and 6. 94 Visits Made By VON Nurse WHITBY (Staff) --It was re- ported at the meeting of the Whitby Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses that 94 visits were made and the nurse handled five new adult nursing care cases in February. The visits 'included 84 for adult nursing care, three for pre - school nursing care, three for post natal supervision, three for new born supervision and one on behalf of the patient. It was announced pre-natal classes: will commence at 2 p.m., March 15, at Fairview Lodge. WHITBY BOWLING WHITBY AND DISTRICT MEN'S LEAGUE (Wednesday) Triples 660 and Over: Bob Carter 796 (322), Don Duncan 777 (376), Bill Phil- lips 764 (270), Ted Munns 735 (254), Barry Denyer 718 (341), Roger Chlasson 710 (267), Wayne Johnson 681 (298), Andy Vanderende 676 (279), Jim Vanderende 663 (264), Charles Sneigrove 662 (233). Team Standings: Wilson's Food Market 7, Machinery 7, Bathurst 6, Whitby Barber Shop 5, Lambert Oil Ltd. 5, Storrar Ltd. 5, Ramblers 5, The Oilers 5, Golden Gate Restaurant 4, Andrew's 4, Whitby Police Assoc. 3, A and T Motors 3, Jokers 2, J. B. McMullan Real Estate 2, The Golfers 1. WHITBY LADIES "FLOWER" BOWLING LEAGUE (Thursday Afternoon) Team Standings: Daisies 5, Violets 4, Roses 4, Pom-Poms 5, Daffodils 5, Tulips 3, Pansies 4, Asters 6. High Double Flat: Ev Curtis 475; High Double with Hdep.: Jannette Craddock 543; High Single Flat: 'othy Brown 291; High Single with Hdcp.: Marie Val- Heres 306. 175 And Over: Joan Coulthard 222, Ruth Morgan 178, Marie McLaughiin 176, Val Kosa 177, Marg Connelly 191, Angela Willls 182, Thelma Keogan 184, 213, Fay Carswell 214, Ev Curtis 195, Shirley Foeller 186, Kay Peterson 175. WHITBY AND DISTRICT MEN'S LEAGUE (Thursday) Triples 660 and Over: eeson 825 (308), Doug Rowden 799 (318), Bill Jordan 781 (314), Doug Allan 757 (264), John Bruechle 739 (312), Tom Perrow (252), tau Bedard 734 (261), Dick Adams 725 (278), Jim Kirk 717. (321), Bob Moet Mtge, Bill Wright 693 Roger R (273), Des Ben 689 (258), Ed Brush 686 (265), Bill 681 (252), Bob Cur- tis 677 (316), Joe Paplinski 674 (246), dim Ross 673 (263), George Ritchie 669 eae Koster 660 (266), BIll Gordon Team Standings: Post Office 8, County Bowl 7, Diamond Insulations 7, Kaiser from attending on the premise| that two earlier meetings in-| volving the public were suff-| icient to aquaint rate pay ers posed amalgamation. The ratepayers present at the meeting apparently did not con- cur with the idea that the pub- lic was well enough informed, however, and after listening to the representations made be-| gan to clamor for more in-| formation which was not forth-| coming. | At this point in the afternoon's proceedings, Mr. Porter decid- ed that, as the meeting had gotten away from it's original purpose, which was to discuss various phases of the amalga- mation, it should be adjourned and a new meeting convened if that was the intention of those present. The fact that it took barely 20 minutes to adjourn the first meeting and to form a new association complete with elect- ed officers proved that Mr. Porter was correct on his as- sumption. STUDY CONCESSIONS The Whitby Township Rate- payer's Association will inves- tigate to see what concessions are to be given to Whitby Township for their part in the amalgamation and to see how the present bylaws of the Town of Whitby are going to reconcile themselves with Whitby Town- ship's bylaws. The association feels that the interests of Whitby Township into the night. Chinese laterns and other illuminations were used: A torchlight procession, rockets and roman candles en- livened the evening hours. LAWSUITS COSTLY The 'work of building the line proceeded for a time; but Mr. Dumble sold out to a Mr. Eng- lish of Toronto who in turn quarrelled with the directors, who were left to complete the work themselves. As a result they incurred costly lawsuits and some lost their properties. When this crisis arose James Holden came to the fore. Faced with ruin he enlisted as his co-partners Messrs. Austin, Fulton and Michie of Toronto with the result that the line was speedily completed" and equipped. Under the new regime the line was freed of debt and trains ran regularly and Whitby made a fresh start on the road to prosperity. Property values were enhanced and Port Perry was built up from an insignifi- ttre i NNELHOR MN cant village to the dimensions of an important town where half acre lots became as valu- able as 100 acre farms were only a few years before in the same neighborhood. BRANCHES CONSIDERED Efforts to extend the line con- tinued and construction of a branch line' to Uxbridge and other centres, based on the granting of bonuses by the municipalities, were considered but came to nothing. In time Mr. Holden bent his efforts toward Continuing the . line to Lindsay. The Town of Whitby backed him with a fur- ther bonus of $20,000. Port Perry contributed a similar amount; while Lindsay and the Town- ships of Ops and Mariposa gave a $85,000 bonus. Subsequently the government contributed $2,000 per mile. The contract.for the line from Port Perry to Lindsay was awarded in 1876 to Gibson and Dixon and on July 11, 1878, the line was opened. PICKERING (Staif) -- On-| MONDAY, MARCH 13 tario County has progresseda| Co-Op Credit Union banking j\long way since 1897 when it|night; 1st Whitby Scouts; Whit- |was possible to buy flour at $4/by Baptist Church Explorers; and bran at $10 per barrell, re-|St. Mark's United Church spectively. Women Unit 1 and 2; St. | The July 23, 1897 edition of|Mark's United Church Women |The Pickering News reveeals a|Unit 7; St. Mark's United lot about life in the last cen-|Church Women Unit 5; St. jtury, Andrew's Presbyterian Women In The News, Whitby jewel-!|Group 1; St. Andrew's Presby- 'ler Jno. Barnard advertised|terian Women Group 4; House alarm clocks at 75 cents andjof Windsor IODE_ Chapter; a return trip from Pickering to) Whitby Brass Band Ladies' St. Catharines could be had on|Auxiliary; Ajax Ladies' Auxil- {the 'Steel City', a boat 'with allliary Hockey Association; Ajax- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, March 13, 1967 5 NATURE IS FREE Only about three per cent of Alaska's 586,000 square miles banking night; Salvation Army|is privately owned. Timbral Brigade. FALSE TEETH SATURDAY, MARCH 18 Salvation Army Young Peo- ple's Band. Chewing Efficiency SUNDAY, MARCH 19 Increased up to 35% St. Mark's United Church| | Clinical tests prove you can now Hi-C Group. up to 35% more effective -- if sprinkle fa ilttle FAS' our plates, FASTEETH chew better--make dentures average | e on your ie is the alkali STANDS ALONE {non-aeid) powder that holds false Australia, the only country coonteriante. Na gunner ace naee occupying an entire continent,| taste. Doesn't sour. Cheeks denture is close to 3,000,000 square miles! breath. Get FAS Powder to- fn aetant. jay at drug counters everywhere, modern conveniences', for 75 Pickering Hospital Women's cents. Auxillary. | | Thos. Beare, Whitevale, ad- vertised washboards for 10 TUESDAY, MARCH 14 lcents, sardines at five cents,|| Al-Anon Family Group; Whit- | lcanned corn at five cents and|by Whittlers TOPS -- Club; | ltomato catsup for eight cents.|Whitby Duplicate Bridge Club; | | Courts were as common then|Red Cross work room; Faith) las now, and on July 23, 1897 |Baptist Church Pioneer Girls; \Ira Boyer, Pickering, was fined|Sinclair Home and School Asso- | /$1 and costs for using abusive|ciation; Pentecostal Church} language. The News reports|Women's Missionary Council; | that "'at once his friends, who | St. Mark's United Church Wom-| lwere present, made up the|¢n Unit 10; All Saints' Anglican | Afternoon Guild; An minnnnnnnin amount by way of showing |Church sympathy for him. His lawyer| Whitby Chapter 248, Order of with the principals of the pro-|3 the W. C. Town Funeral 'Citizens Mourn Deat Of Fire Chief Corner ; lat his The funera: service was held Street South. The service was conducted by Home, at 2 p.m. today, for|Rev. John McLeod, minister of Bruce O. Corner, a member of| Whitby Baptist Church. Inter- the Whitby Fire Department for) ment was in Mount Lawn Ceme- 27 years and chief of the de-|tery. partment for the past 18 years,| Members of the Whitby Fire who died suddenly, March 10,/and Police Departments were Done ee ~--~| joined by a large group of fire fighters from area departments Study Vehicle |in forming a guard of honor at |the funeral home and the ceme- Repair Need WHITBY (Staff) --The direc- tors of the Whitby Branch of the St. John Ambulance Asso- ciation, at their March meeting, | were asked to approve an ex-| penditure of approximately $250) for much - needed repairs to the! ambulance. In this regard there was some discussion regarding the best method to set up a reserve fund for ambulance replacement. The present vehicle, it was said, is far from new and it is foreseen that in the next three, or pos- sibly four years, a new one may! have to be purchased. William Greig, brigade super- intendent, said regular meet- ings of his group are being held on the second and fourth Wed- nesdays of each month. He also said five new members had been added, bringing the bri-| gade strength to 15, which will lighten the load of volunteer work. He said, however, the | residents are being glect and that council is. not going into the matter in sufficient depth to make a fair agree- ment when the time comes to do so. The association plans to have a representative sit in at coun- cil meetings, to better obtain information about council's in- tentions and will hire lawyers to protect its interests, if nec- essary. The newly-elected executive proposed to join the association with two other ratepayers as- sociation now in operation in the township, to form a power- ful lobby in the area. As one member put it, "'We want some answers and we want them now!" The elected officers Larry Emmon, president; Bob White, vice - president; Vic Sheffield, treasurer and Mrs. Bob White, secretary. are: many d being made for attendance at public functions needed. Mr. Scott, superintendent of the Ambulance Cadets, said his 1l cadets meet regularly. He said he is looking for at least 11 new members. The age for the group is eight to 16 years. The boys handled the coat checking for the. opening dinner at the Centennial Centre and did it well. It was reported Lloyd Hanna gave an interesting lecture on first aid which was well. at- tended. Two new directors, Lloyd Gib- son and William Greenhalgh, were introduced. ' Ron Hawkins is supervising the work of the nursing cadets in the absence through sick- ness of Mrs. Dorothy Calder, superintendent of the nursing |departments acted as honorary tery. The chiefs of the district fire bearers. The pallbearers were Warren Watson, Warren Mowat, Bud (James) Heard, John Heard, Erskine Campbell and Vernon Dilling. Predeceased in October, 1964, by his wife, the former Olive Campbell, Mr. Corner is. sur- vived by three daughters, Mrs. J. W. French (Aileen) and Mrs. C. A. Rogers (Roma) both of Oshawa and Mrs. M. Bemis !Thelma) of Brooklin and two sons, James and Kenneth, of Whitby, both of whom hold the rank of captain in the Whitby Fire Department. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. A. Harlow (Pearl) of Whit- by and Mrs. N. Joynt (Roma) of Agincourt; a brother, Nor- man, of Whitby and 12 grand- children. residence, 300 Byron] "The Town of Whitby has|VS. Dr. Hopkins, in our fire chief and a member of|awa. the department for some 27/night calls. lthen complained of the injus-|the Eastern Star. tice of the fine and threatened WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 {HI Aboea!. , Whitby St. John Ambulance; | | General practitioners in the coivation Army Prayer and| {medical profession gid Still Bible Study; Ajax Senior Citi- peer common in this age. of zens' Friendship Club; Benevo- specialization, but the moderniinnt Rebekah Lodge 132: | |physician would find it hard to Knights of Columbus Council |keep up with W. H. ec ye 4305: St. John's Anglican addition ay an WA: 4 . init been blessed by the long andjto being a veterinary surgeon, |(nurch W Rc cutigar: Maia devoted services of a handfullwas a dentist, a blacksmith, | voc, coral of men whose names are weven|and an agent for the McLaugh-| . into its history. Your father as|iin Carriage Company of Osh-|THURSDAY, MARCH 16 He accepted day and) Whitby Baptist Church Cubs; Salvation Army Wom-| years was one of them. "IT extend to you and members of the Corner family at this time the deepest sym- pathy of the council of the Town of Whitby." The following tribute was paid by Warren Mowat, deputy chief of the Whitby Fire De- partment: "Whitby has lost a devoted fire fighter. Chief Corner gave|crossing a little to the north of unstintingly of his time and 1 abor to protect the citizens of|butchered a brood sow and a) the town. He has been our fire chief for 18 years and in that time there were few occasions when Whitby would have been found without a fire chief. "It was his duty and love to|-- serve the community in fire fighting and fire prevention. He will be missed by all area fire fighters, but particularly by the members of the Whitby Fire Department Whitby. "I would like to express my deepest sympathy to Bruce's family in their loss of a devoted father." and citizens of|voters. As far as community recrea-\en's Home League; St. Mark's} the ition went, there seems to be a/United/ Church Women Unit 3; | lack of information, except for) Faith/ Baptist Church Women's one comment: "All available|/Missfonary Society. youths in the village are hoe-! i ing turnips." |FRIDAY, MARCH 17 There was a time for humor! Red Cross Senior Citizens') too. This bit of local news must|Club; Pentecostal Church have caused considerable de-|Young People's Christ Ambas-| light to the villagers. "On Fri-|sadors; Co-Op Credit Union | day evening last at the CPR | ot the 133 Brock St. N. WHITBY EVERY TUES. NIGHT Doors Open at 7 P.M. Admission 50¢ No Children Under 16 Years of age please. here, the Toronto Express) gang of fairies came along in the night and picked up the tender pieces and the company could not find an owner for the remainder of the pork." FROM HORSE'S MOUTH AHMEDABAD (AP) -- Elec- tion candidates in the recent poll in India used symbols to identify themselves to illiterate An independent candi-| date whose symbol was a horse pulled a wooden nag round the streets with a loudspeaker in its mouth calling: "Vote for me." BORN IN BROOKLIN | A son of the late William John and Rachel Ann Corner, the de- ceased was born at Brooklin in 1906. A resident of Whitby since 1907, he worked for many years meant more new members are|in the blanket factory operated | by the Samuel Trees Co. He then worked for the Natlie Knittings Mills in Whitby and Hamilton; and for the past 10 years had been employed by the department of works and later the department of health doing maintenance work at the On- tario Hospital, Whitby. A keen sports fan, Mr. Corner was the immediate past presi- dent of the Ontario County Mutual Aid Association. De- voted to his work as a fire fighter, he refused to leave the town for any reason in case there was a need for his ser- vices in the capacity of fire chief. TRIBUTE PAID The following telegram was sent by Mayor Desmond New-| division. man to James Corner. | _MHITBY Recommended os LAURENCE HARVEY EDDIE FISHER ie JOHN O'HARA'S. *BUTTERFIELD co-starring DINA MERRILL | CinemaScope | METROGOLOR Starring DON MURRA BROCK Wow Playing -- One Complete Program -- Each Evening at 7:30 ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ELIZABETH TAYLOR Also Second Feature Attraction -- "THE PLAINSMAN" ALL COLOR PROGRAM Bingo Starts at 8 P.M. SHARP DRUM UP PRESTIGE... For Your Business 1966 A RECORD / -- YEAR OF GROWTH Tell Your Company's Story in the... ' WHITBY PROGRESS EDITION TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE OSHAWA TIMES TUES., APRIL 4th Advertising Deadline: Thurs., March 23. Phone 668-3703 or 723-3474 for an Advertis- Ing Representative, Ws Distributed Around The World! $ $$ Y -- GUY STOCKWELL } 4 RAE R. 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