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| 25-6651 NOT EVEN BROKEN Not even a broken arm could keep Bruce Hamilton, '12, away from this inspec- tion. The occasion was the annual Sea Cadet inspection on Sunday. Captain Peter Ww. Wilch, inspecting officer, a Metropolitan Toronto mazis- trate in private life, re- views the Navy League cadets. As well as the Navy League cadets, veterans of the navy, Sea Cadets and girls' Sea Rangers attended the annual inspection. The inspection was held at Civic Auditorium Sunday. On parade for the Sea Caclets 5 Se ARM COULD KEEP HIM AWAY were Drake Corps and also Hawkins Corps, who are Navy League Cadets. An air cadet inspection was held at the Auditorium Sun- day night. --Oshawa Times Photo City Resident Drowns) toncs, cracker During Fishing Trip William Burton Robinson, 43, of 607 Bloor St. drowned Saturday in Rice Lake near Hastings, while on a fish- " ing trip. Eyewitnesses said Mr. Rob- inson, who was not wearing a lifebelt, fell from his boat when E., Oshawa, * it started going in circles Sat- urday morning. Dragging oper- ations were carried out by mem- | bers of the Cobourg Detach- H ment of the OPP and the body | was recovered late Sunday af- i ternoon. Mr. Robinson is survived by i his wife, the former Gwendo- ) lyn Hircock; five sisters, Mrs. Ken Andrews (Gladys) of King- F ston, "Mrs. Brevin (Laura) of Toronto; Mrs. A. Ferris (Pearl) of Oshawa; Mrs. Grace True- WILLIAM ROBINSON Mayor To Present Scrolls To Citizens 95 Years, Over Senior citizens in Oshawa| who will be 95 or over this year will be presented with a scroll by Mayor Ernest Marks during Senior Citizens' Week, June 18 to June 24. Only 11 names have been sent to centennial authorities Cecil Lundy, deputy city clerk and H. G. Chesebrough, direc- tor of social services. They are: Mrs, Mary Conlin, 96; Mrs. Ethel Drinkle, 96; Mrs. T. H. Everson, 100; Mrs. Frances Ann Hart, 95; Thomas Sands Foy, 95; Conrad Halushka, 100; Mrs. Johnson, 96; Col. R. S. Mc- Laughlin, 95; Mrs. Annie Pear- son, 96 and Mrs. Anna Mary Wilkins, 101. A program for the week in- cludes special recognition in Oshawa churches, Sunday, June 18; Open House Tuesday at Hillsdale Manor; a visit Wed- nesday to Parwood Manor, the home of Col. R. S. Mc- Laughlin; a Golden Age Club concert presentation at Mem- orial Park, Thursday and a mixed doubles shuffleboard tournament Friday at Halliday Sertrude Hull, 95; Mrs. Mary Manor. lover of Westport and Mrs. Stella Hickey of Godfrey and three brothers, Arthur of Actin- Eolite; Osborne of England and Allan of Oshawa. The funeral service will be held at the Gerrow Funeral Home at 2 p.m., May 17, fol- lowed by interment in Mount Lawn Cemetery. Rev. A. Wool- cock, rector of St. Mark's Ang- lican Church, will conduct the service. Born at Westport, in the Kingston area, Mr. Robinson was a son of the late Daniel and Nancy Robinson, bd prion married at Kingston and had been a resident of Oshawa since that time. GM EMPLOYEE A metal finisher at General Motors, the deceased was an adherent ot the Anglican Church. He was a member of Branch 43, Royal Canadian Legion. An active member of the Oshawa unit of St. John Ambulance, he was active in music and photo- graphic circles. During the Second World War he served with the Second Ca- nadian Division in Labrador, France and Germany from 1941 to 1946. RAIN HALTS GOLF DALLAS, Tex. (AP) -- The final round of the Dallas Civitan Open golf tournament was post- poned Sunday until today ke- cause of rain. Jo Ann Prentice is the leader after 54 holes with 206. PLANS APPROVED A fireworks display will be held July 1 at the Civic Audi- torium in conjunction with Folk Festival Week and Do- minion Day celebrations in the city. The display will be spons- ored by the city's centennial co-ordinating committee. A centennial torch will soon be installed at Memorial Park sponsored jointly by the com- mittee and Consumer's Gas Co. "It is the best location in the city apart from city hall where construction will be going on this summer," said committee chairman Hayward Murdoch, The. Oshawa Film Club will show movies every Wednes- day during July at the Band- shell in Memorial Park. MORE THAN 9,000 VOTE IN UAW ELECTION A record number of votes were cast in the massive three- day Local 222 United Auto Work- ers union election last weck. A spokesman at the union hall today reported that 9,046 votes cast was biggest vote ever, as compared to 8,400 in 1965. "We had a bigger working force in the last election too," TMA Ui boxes were locked up at the city's police station. Counting started this morning and some results are expected later today. "It is expected that by tonight we will know who the president and bargaining committee chair- man of the local will be for the next two years," the spokesman said. "The biggest job now is enemn init aun ferently this year. We think that we have a better method of counting and it should be fin- ished a little faster,"' the spokes man said. Albert Taylor, Local 222 presi- dent for the last four years, ex- pects he will know today if membership votes to return him to office. He is seeking his third vue NEA PO TL Mr. Taylor, head of the Demo- cratic Party is opposed by Unity candidate Gordon Henderson. About 115 candidates contest Offices this year as compared to 106 in 1965. Twenty - nine unionists are making bids for 10 executive posts. Rivals are members of ( the Democratic, Unity Right-- furan ITAA B) Building Permit Delay Mentioned COLUMBUS (Staff) -- East Whitby Township Clerk William Goldie said today he was mis- quoted in an Oshawa Times story, Friday. The story stated Mr. Goldie advised an East Whitby Council meeting that the Ontario - Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology authorities had blamed the department of edu- cation for a hold-up in taking out building permits for the college. Mr. Goldie said he told coun- cil that men on the job and not the authorities had advised him that the department was holding up the taking out of the permits. gst eS SCOUTS FLY THROUGH THE AIR TO AVOID A SPLASH eee Terry Ward, 14th Oshawa Troop; Terry Fice, 28th Oshawa Troop In Competition ? 'jof living and improved labor said the spokesman. During the weekend, -- She Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1967 sorting. ballot "Everything is | wy School A fire at the King Street pub- lic school caused an estimat- ed $10,000 damage to the build- ing and furniture Saturday af- ternoon. The fire department receiv- ed the call at 1 p.m. and two stations responded sending four trucks and an emergency van to the scene. Fire Chief Ray Hobbs said Fire Marshall's office will ar- rive Tuesday morning to invest- igate the cause of the fire. Entrance to the school was gained through the east door and firefighters took two hours to quell the blaze which ap- parently began in the base- ment and burned through the floor into a grade eight class- room on the first floor. At the scene, Platoon Chief Harold Taylor said, "I would say it started in the opening Blaze Investigation To Be Started oustide the downstairs into the basement". Chief Hobbs said arson had not been ruled out in the fire. Grade eight students at the school this morning were re- ceiving classes in the nurse's room, staff room and in the halls until better accommoda- tions can be found. The fire department also at- tended a fire in a vacant store on Celina St. Saturday night. Five trucks responded to the blaze which started in the south- west corner of the store. The fire department indicated that youngsters playing with fire crackers may have started the fire causing $1,000 damage. The fire department reported four weekend calls of fires start- ed with firecrackers and warn- ed that great care should be exercised with the use of fire- crackers this weekend. An Oshawa businessman and father of four children died Sat- urday, after his vehicle went out of control on Highway 401 and crashed into a bridge abut- ment. Tauno Johan Backstrom, 42 215 Toronto Ave., was pronoun- ced dead on arrivat at Scarbor- ough G eneral Hospital, after his. care struc seven guard Father Of Four Killed, Car Hit Highway Bridge Mr, Backstrom, whose wife died last November, left three sons, Dana, 8, Kim, 16 and Tauno, 17, and a daughter Toni, 12. A Downsview OPP spokesman Said today damage to the Back- strom vehicle was estimated at $1,500 and that no date for an inquest has been set. Mr. Backstrom was for many aid out dif- consecutive term. posts in the eastbound lane of Highway 401 at the Highway 2 overpass. His vehicle went out concrete bridge abutment. years a partner in the Crystal Manufacturing Company of Osh- of control and smashed into aj@Wa, manufacturers of aquar- 'iums. More problems have hit Mrs. Virginia Graham. Mrs. Graham, who was mov- ed to a flat on Highway 2 just outside of Oshawa by the Met- ro department of Welfare, was stricken by an attack of her bleeding ulcer and escorted to Oshawa General Hospital Sun- day by the Whitby detachment of the OPP. A spokesman at the hospital reported that she is feeling much better today. Her effort to obtain medicine for her sick children, Tommy, 13, with a heart ailment; Linda, Mother Enters Hospital, Children Need Medicine 1l-month-old Jamie with ear and throar infection, continues to be a problem. For five days, the children have gone without the needed medical supplies. A welfare department spokes- man said today he could not understand why the vouchers had not reached Mrs. Graham before today. The spokesman said the vouchers were put in the mail 10 minutes after Mrs. Graham called him on Thurs- day. She received a crib and re- frigerator Friday from the Sal- 9, with a kidney infection and vation Army. & Wing parties and independents. ain SOD TURNED IN SIX LOCATIONS Rev. L. W. Herbert, Gordon Bunker Site Dedicated, Sod Turned For New Kingsview Church Several hundred persons _at- tended the Kingsview United Church dedication of site and sod turning ceremony on the church grounds at Wilson Road North and Adelaide Avenue East, Sunday afternoon. In a spirit of ecuminism, the prayer of invocation was said by Father J. M. Markle, MA, asis- tant to Monsignor Paul Dwyer, of St. Gregory The Great, Roman Catholic Church. The word of God was read by Rabbi M. Kutziner, BA, Beth Zion Hebrew Congregation. King Street United Church was destroyed by fire more than a year ago. The site was put up for sale and land for the new Kingsview Church was pur- chased from the city. Services are being held tem porarily at the Seventh-day Ad- ventist Church, King Street East. "The ceremony was well at- tended," Rev. L. Wesley Her- bert, BA, minister of Kingsview, said today. "The whole ceremony was characteristic of the whole- hearted. support we have re- ceived from all churches and places of businesses in the city. "It is truly faith in action," said Rev. Herbert. The sod was turned in six locations which will, when con- struction -is completed, be spe- cific areas of the church. Ernest Luke, former member of Metcalf Methodist Church and Choir and Mrs. W. Russell, CLOSE TO 100 TE NTS 500 Scouts Excel In Camping than we really expected," saidjOshawa and District Boy Scoutsjused by the leaders to co-or- Alan Shewring, assistant scoutjawarded a plaque to the best|/dinate the operation. Five hundred Oshawa and Lakeland Region Boy Scouts showed their scout masters what camping was all about during the weekend. Young campers entered the Camp Samac grounds at 7 p.m. Friday and had their 80 to 100 tents set up before dark; in addition to preparing kitchen shelters and garbage pits, and performing various other tasks necessary for setting up house- keeping in an acre and a half of stream and forest. "This is a better turnout 200 Attend NDP Dinner Clifford Pilkey, New Demo- cratic candidate for Oshawa riding, said at a "Meet the Candidate" dinner Sat- urday, Ontario needs a gov- ernment sponsored automobile insurance plan, alterations in municipal taxation, consumer protection against the high cost legislation. At the dinner and dance at- tended by more than 200 people. Mr. Pilkey and Thomas Ed- wards, NDP candidate for On- tario South riding, outlined plat- forms for the next election. Al- bert Taylor, president of United Auto Workers Union, and Will- iam Cumptsy, regional organi- master of the Seventh Oshawa HISTORY five sub-camps made up of patrols from the various geo- graphical scout boundaries. Cost to each boy was kept to a minimum. "It came to about $11 for the five guys in the patrol", said 12-year-old Ed- ward Bartlett of the Seventh Oshawa troop. This is in ad- dition to a 50 cent registration fee for each boy. Setting up camp was not easy. Robert Chapman 14, of the 28th Oshawa and leader of Panther patrol said '"'the dig- gong was quite hard; there were a lot of rocks around here. "T've been to three of these camps", he said, 'and this is the best organized." Camp chief Gordon Rahme, and his staff were in charge. AWARDS Bear claws were handed out to scouters completing certain events and enthusiasm was ev- ident as they distributed 4,000 by Saturday afternoon. Mr. Rahme awarded centen- nial patro] awards to the five best patrols in the camp. They were judged on participation in camp events, a march in and appearance of camp sites. 4 zer for the NDP, also spoke. Joe Fry, commissioner of the SET UP AT SAMAC overall patrol -- honors going troop, who took The Times on|to Patrol number 308 of thejeverything they needed with a tour of the grounds and ex-|Sixth Oshawa Scout Troop. The|them . plained different historical pro-|plaque is awarded each year|/keep an eye on them", he jects undertaken by the scouts.|to the outstanding patrol. said. "But the boys camping Assistant Scout Master Shew-/has improved a lot. This is4 Ee : ring told of a relatively newjabout my fourth year with The camp was divided into|piece of equipment to camping] them, and I can see how they've "The kids brought almost . » but all the leaders -president of the UCW broke ground at the Nathex, where the main doors will be situated. In location two, the Nave, Gordon V. Hawker, recording steward of the Official Board, broke ground to symbolize the unspoken prayer in the heart. Location three, by the south door, toward King Street, Mrs. Jack Shortt and Miss Maud Base sett, former members of Met calfe Street Methodist Church, broke the ground in recognition of heritage given by former members of the church. Ground was broken in location four, the entrance to Christian Education floor by Lloyd Weid- erick, superintendent of the Church School and Ian Mace Pherson, member of the Junior Boys' class. Location five, East Centre Sanctuary, A. E. Hatfield, chair- man of the Committee of Stew- ards broke ground at the place where offerings of the people 'will be brought. Ground was broken on location six, the Rostrum, by Minister of Kingsview, Rev. L, Wesley Here bert and Gordon Bunker, a member of the building commit- tee and a member of the board of trustees for 25 years. Construction on the Kingsview Church will begin within two weeks, It is expected to be com- pleted in nine months. Dedication of the church is slated for Easter Sunday, 1968. FLAG RAISING EVENT TESTS SCOUTS Pulley Attached To Pole By Young Campers #