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SALE buys shown in ING 4 Ghe Gunes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1967 Starr Plans Official Start Leader Michael Starr, Ontario Riding MP, said today he will meet this weekend, with his ne campaign Manager, Eric N sen, Yukon MP, and will cc ne out fighting Monday wit the official start of his camp' gn to become the new leade~ of the Progressive Conse. vative party. Mr. Starr has t: xed to his manager only o> e, by tele- phone, since the announcement of their join' g forces was made last Sun ay. He said they didn't discuss his campaign. Mr. Nielscn will probably ar- rive in Toronto from Ottawa to- night and will end the week- end either there or in Oshawa, Mr. Starr said. The first official speech sched- uled for the campaign will be in St. Catharines on Wednes- day. Mr. Starr said although this is the only speech he has on his calendar at the moment new appointments should be added daily. For financial rea- sons Mr, Starr said, he is limit- ing himself to a low key cam- paign. Asked if he thought Mr. Nielsen would accept this, Mr. Starr replied, "I don't know, we will have to see what hap- pens over the weekend." Race Mr, Starr said today he agreed with Mr. Diefenbaker that "there is no room in this -jcountry for a two-nation con- cept. All provinces have a right- ful equal place but not under the two nation idea. status for any one province," he said. '"'Those who wish to speak French should have the opportunity to do so -- not by compulsion but by choice." COMPUTER POLL In a Toronto Star computer conducted public opinion poll at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion, Mr. Starr ranked seventh as the man most likely to suc- ceed John Diefenbaker. Of the nine candidates Mr, Starr fared better than only Senator Wal- lace McCutcheon and business- man John McLean. Mr. Starr said surveys of the public 'don't apply at all'. He said his low rating was "prob- "There should be no special | Fr A PROUD MOMENT for the members of the Oshawa Fire Department was opening of its hali in Cedardale the second fire in 1946. The late Chief H. Raymond Hobbs (left), who at that time was deputy chief; for- me: mayor Frank N. Me- Calium (now a city con- troller) and the late Wesley R. Elliott, who was in ably due to the lack of publicity I get. People don't get to know me as well as- some of the other candidates," he said. "Things will be different at) the convention, I am much bet-| ter known there because of past | On Wednesday Mr. Starr spoke to the Toronto PC Busi-| nessman's Association and re-| associations and elections." Mr. Starr plans to make al personal appeal to each of the| ceived loud applause when he|2,400 delegates before the vot- rejected the idea of any special! privileges for Quebec. four days. ing begins on the last of the \nicipal at Port Arthur, Mrs. Ruth Best- charge of the departmen stand with members of the fire department stationed at the Cedardale Hall. --Oshawa Times Photo Stick Helps Alderman Hobble At Convention Oshawa's only woman aider- Association ____j}man to attend the Ontario Mu- convention GM Increases Production i: soma To 1,462 Car, Truck Units General Motors of Canada has scheduled Canadian production for 1,462 car and truck units for the 1968 - model manufac- turing week ending tomorrow. The figure would represent an increase of 601 units over the first GM production week last year that ended Sept. 3, the To- ronto-based Motor Vehicle Man- ufacturers Association disclosed) tion week for last year GM ha' turned out 487 cars trucks. And for the week end- ing Sept. 10 last year the cor- poration automobiles and 455 trucks. foday. An MVMA spokesman said there is no breakdown on pro- ductions scheduled per GM Cool Reception For Voyageurs The nine Peace River voya- geurs who were given a civic reception at Oshawa on Sunday have been ordered out of Kings- ton by Police Chief Robert Nes- bitt. He said they were unlaw- The shaggy-haired buckskin clad crew from the tiny Pouce Coupe community, British their 5,200-mile journey to Expo. When they. were in Oshawa, the leader, Adolf Ikert, told The Times that they tried to recoup part of their expenses by selling souvenirs along the way. plans production of 612 automo- biles this week and 850 trucks. Car production in Oshawa re- sumed Monday. as lines started rolling, while truck lines got under way a> week earlier. ending Aug. 27 in 1967, MVMA recordings show. able projection of production by GM for next week. scheduled for the week ending tomorrow, ceeding GM's Ford has scheduled production fully attempting to sell trinkets for 1,800 cars and 1,678 trucks in a public park. t has scheduled production week for 3,016 cars and for the Columbia, are on the last leg Of| week ending Aug. 19 had slated turnouts of cars. fo produce 345 trucks, while its truck schedules for jamounted to 1,012 trucks. manufacturing areas in Can- ada. However, GM in Canada assembly At the end of the first produc- and 374 manufactured 2,568 GM built nothing for the week The association has no avail- Canadian production by Ford, is aimed at far ex- initial output. or about 2,216 units more han GM this week. Chrysler is even higher. It this 6,318 passenger For this week, Chrysler plans last werk on Sunday," She had sprained her left | ankle and injured her leg fol- lowing a heavy fall at Montreal train station a week before. Back home from Port Arthur "When we got today she said: "I went down with my husband and a party of 85 couples from the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce to visit Expo. to Montreal | station I was playing Boy Scout by helping another woman with her luggage, missed my foot- ing, rolled down the train steps and struck the platform, sprain- ing my ankle and tearing the ligaments of my foot. made it worse was I was hold- ing luggage in both hands. | "T had to rest up at the hotel | and all I saw of Expo was an hour's visit by taxi and a peep | into the Bell Telephone pavil- ion. What "{ got back in Oshawa on In Port Arthur Friday night and was due to leave for the convention by air she said. "It was too late to find a replacement so I had to go along." she had to travel by bus to and from the hotel. Just the same her injuries did not deter the energetic alder- man -- she is normally a keen water-skier -- from attending convention meetings. "It was a fine exchange of ideas between municipalities and I was par- ticularly interested in urban de- velopment which has much ap- plication to Oshawa just now." Support of a resolution urging the provincial government RONALD GARVOCK, BRIDE - TO - BE FLOREN a seems CE ANIKINA . « - Eskimo Girl Says Television Fascinating ' as- sume 80 per cent of the cost of education was voiced by Ald. John DeHart at the three-day convention. The resolution, by Barrie, was put forward tabled only 45 were dealt with. said the resolution was a first it was unwise to put all the re- | sponsibility on government. The federal gov- of the burden and both govern- the problem, he said. EIGHT ATTEND Altogether eight representa- tives from city council attend-|nearby Fort William and trans- deputy treasurer Ronald Teel were present as well as (Con. Ralph Jones. Ald. Bestwick, Ald. Russell McNeil, Ald. N man Down, and Ald. N James only one of| Rundle. many on the same subject on| Mr. Barrand said the conven- the Association's mammoth|tion was one of the largest he| agenda. |has attended. "They did not get Of the total of 137 resolutions| through nearly as many resolu-| tions as they had hoped," he In his remarks Mr. DeHart| said. | Most of the business dealt step in the right direction but| with this question of the cost of jeducation and I think there will the provincial|be appilcation to the provincial! jgovernment for greater assis- ernment should also bear part! tance." He added that Port Arthur ments should get together on was a "wonderful place" for a jconvention, and an interesting area. Most of the party stayed at extremely : strong Funeral Home for serv- -./the trade of Chief of the Oshawa Fire Department since . September, 1955, H. Raymond Hobbs, 64, died suddenly early today at the Scarborough General Hos- pital. He was returning from the annual convention of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs in Montreal. The deceased was met at Toronto International Airport by his wife and had started to drive to Oshawa when he was stricken, He was to have re- tired in February. Chief Hobbs is survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Hester, whom he married here in 1923 and two sons, Donald of Courtice and Robert of Whitby. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs, Leonard Anderson (Aud- rey) and Mrs. Morley Thomson (Madeline), both of Oshawa and three brothers, Harry of New- castle, Jack and Sydney of Osh- awa and four grandchildren. FUNERAL He is resting at the Arm-| ice in Christ Memorial Angli- can Church at 2 p.m., Monday, | conducted by the Venerable | Archdeacon Harold D. Clever- | don. Interment will be in | Mount Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations| to the Muscular Dystrophy Fund would be appreciated Friends are asked not to call at the funeral home before Sat-| urday afternoon. A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hobbs, the deceased was born in Toronto. He came to Oshawa at the age of four years and attended Centre, Albert and King Street Public | Schools. i For a time he worked with} his father at the Williams Piano Co. factory where he learned piano tuner. He also qualified as a stringer and Fireman For 47 Years, H. R. Hobbs Dies always stressed the need for) Kinsmen Club, a member of the most modern equipment/Cedar Lodge, AF and AM, & and methods, and the building)member of the Oshawa Curk of fire halls in remote sections|ing Club and an enthusiastic of the city to provide adequate|fisherman. Active in the work fire protection. of the Greater Oshawa Com- During his term as chief the| munity Chest he had served as Somerville street fire hall was|a group captain on a number of opened and staffed and _this|occasions. He was also a meme year city council approved the|ber of Christ Memorial Angli- building of a fire hall in the|can Church. east end of the city which will] Always keenly interested in be opened and staffed in Octo-| sports he was for several years ber. ehh the first baseman for the Gen- Since he joined the volunteer|eral Motors softball club which department in 1920 he had at-|won the Ontario and Durham tended all the major fires in}counties championship, Oshawa with the exception of} While he was deputy fire that at the Thornton Rubber} chief in 1953, he was the reci- Co., plant in 1923, pient of a Coronation Medal Chief Hobbs' most vivid|commemorating the coronation memories of his work included|of Queen Elizabeth. the fire at the old canning fac-| 'We go in when the others tory on. King Street West,|are coming out," Chief Hobbs the Bradley Arena fire, the de-|told an Oshawa Times report- struction of the Oshawa Arenajer recently. He remembered wise in September, 1953, the fire|when a loud fire gong raised H. RAYMOND HOBBS j that destroyed the Bassett block|him from his bed at home ... Chief 12 Years jin the 1940's and the conflagra-|when "duty called' and sent jtion which totally destroyed |him through the night behind a dain the ink and ede rooms | 28 Street United Church a|team of horses to fight a fire, at General Motors of Canada|*°2" 280. i meee fe Joined the depart Limited | Intensely _ interested in alljment, firefighting equipment Mr Hobbs jolted: the osh- [Phases of fire protection work,|left much to be desired. There Pia Volunteer Fire Depart-| U°, Was the co-ordinator and an/were no oxygen masks and no rent in 1080 under ihe late| active worker in the Ontario| protective clothing. Aerial Chiet Asta Cameron When County Mutual Fire Aid Asso-|trucks were still in the future the fire acivice beoaihe a per: ciation. He had been a mem-| and firefighters had to use ex- Tianent Tull-Hime Gatablehinent ber of the Ontario Fire Chiefs'|tension ladders to scale high abe Gh Wane appointed | Association for many years and| buildings. Panne The denartnneit then| Served as president in 1963. He| It was his proud boast that caneiated: OF 48 Men He was|"2° also a past president of |no Oshawa firefighter ever lost promoted to the Pane Of dibac the Ontario Fire Fighters' Asso-jhis life while fighting a fire, Sanant Mate 1. 1688 and a liew-| ciation. jalthough: several died years iatar ia the gaa of. cautain: ii He was a past president andjlater as the result of injuries Pp '|life member of the Oshawa|while engaged in their work. Elliott was chief of the eae 30 ENTRIES Seah om. Beard - Growing Winners 1, 1941, he took charge of the department Sept. 1, 1955, when Chief Elliott retired. Under his} direction the department was} expanded and equipment im-| proved to meet the needs of | chipper. Subsequently he work- | | Tributes were paid today to! Fire Chief Ray Hobbs, who died suddenly last night. Mayor Ernest Marks said in a {telephone conversation from | Honey Harbor on Georgian |Bay where he is vacationing: "The news of the untimely ed the convention. |portation was arranged from death of Chief Ray Hobbs has City clerk Roy Barrand andicity to city. jcome as a great shock. He was a dedicated fire chief and gave TORONTO -- W. Bruce Af. Association of Coroners in Tor formed in but no charges have been laid. construed to protect the doctor. He added that under the present law there is nothing which per- mits therapeutic abortions. Mr. Affleck endorsed a reso- lution passed by the Canadian Bar Association in 1966 which School Openin Delay Expected A new separate school schoc! addition, which was originally scheduled to open in Sevtember, will not be com pleted for the opening day of school Sept. 5. Pupils in kindergarten and grades one to six, who were ex- pected to attend the new round schoo! on Rossland Road West jwill go to St. Gertrude's school instead. Jchn XXIII is expected to. be completed by the end of Decem- ber Four classes from St. Chris- jto the school will be trans- jported to available accommo- dation elsewhere. fleck, Crown Attorney for On- taric County, told the National onto last night that illegal thera- peutic abortions are being per- Canadian hospitals, Mr. Affleck said in the past the law has been hopefully mis- 'Affleck Supports Change For Therapeutic Abortion where the life of the mother is -jendangered, where her health would be placed in peril, or where a_ sexual assault has taken place. He told the association that doctors faced with performing an abortion that could save the mother's life, face a dilemma as citizens and doctors He said although U.S. and |English law permits therapeutic abortions, in Canada the policy lor the hospitals varies from city | to city Wiiliam Quennell of the Metro- jpolitan Toronto Police Depart- iment told the conference that ihalf a billion dollars.is paid to abortionists in Canada and the |U.S.A. He added that abortions and| cause 300 deaths a year in Can-| ada alone BAND AT PARKWOOD After listening to the waukee Conntinentals" Youth |Band at McLaughlin Bandshell, | Wednesday night, Col. R. S. Me- | Laughlin invited the 127-member {band to tour his home yester- day afternoon. The band gave him a private concert before jgoing on the tour. Last night labout 700 people turned out at {Columbus Community Park to hear the band in its last con- called for a change in the law to permit therapeutic abortions "Mil-/nadian fire chiefs. excelient service to his city. "His concern for the safety caused|to be associated with a man lof his fellow citizens jhim to urge for many years|like Mr. jthe erection of a fire hall in jthe easterly section of Oshawa and his efforts were finally successful this year. family my deepest sympathy on behalf of the citizens Oshawa." Ernest Stacey, the fire chief's assistant, said news of complete shock." good man to work for," said Mr. Stacey. "He was_ strict idepartment will miss him." | Lyman A. Gifford, former mayot' of Oshawa, said he |knew the fire chief "a life- |time."" "We were both raised]; jin the city," said Mr. Gifford. |"He was one of the finest. He| | |was a very capable man and Shaw Critical Moonlighting Con. Margaret Shaw, has been wapgil g a warning finger at Ca- "Moonlighting by firemen de- prives others of work and thus affects the nation's economy," she said at Montreal during a panel discussion at the three- day Canadian Association of} Fire Chiefs convention. | "It is the sort of thing that) creates unemployment," she ad- ded Association president, Tom topher's school, who would havejcert in the Oshawa area. After| Lennon, beer housed in a new addition) the concert Reeve John Howden|any fireman reporting for duty jand officials of East Whitby en- jtertained the members of the band at the New Township Hall. told the' panel that "I extend to Mrs. Hobbs and| of || the death of Mr. Hobbs was "a) \ "He was ajj when he had to be and all the/ 4 Will Be Named At Ball Appointed deputy chief Mar. the growing community. He} The beards will be judged in One of the "hairiest" events| | Mayor Marks Says Chief :.37"22"", | | of centennial year is the beard|three categories; neatest, bush- ayor alr ays 1é |growing contest sponsored by liest and longest and a $50 prize \the Oshawa and District Labor|will be awarded for each. A | Council. | Polaroid camera and, for every- The contest ends Sept. 1 when|one entered, a beer mug, will | "Gave Excellent Service' three Oshawa barbers judge the| also be awarded. arefully cultivated growths of) 'Tickets to the ball are avail- bout 30 Oshawa men. Thelable from any labor council and the community," he said, |JUdging will be held at Civic\delegate, UAW Hall, Steelworke Deputy chief of police D. Fr. | Auditorium during the labOriers Hall and Civic Auditorium rguson said he had known council's Centennial Ball. _ |for $1.50. Fire Chief Hobbs for "many Despite the obstacles of a Fri-| years' and that both offices day night shift at _General HILD am worked very closely together in Motors and the beginning of a c REN PARADE the past. holiday weekend the organizers) Q<hawa children participated "I feel a deep regret for the|@xPect a full house. Steve Mel-|i, 3 «Walking Parade" today to loss of Chief Hobbs whom 1\Michuk, chairman of the Centen-\ofticially mark the closing of have been acquainted with for|"ial Ball Committee, said the|yjaygrounds. Twenty-six chil many years," said Mr. Fergu-|Pall is a community rather than\qren marched from the Chil- son. "It was always a pleasure|Sttictly a labor celebration and) qren's Arena to Alexandra Park everyone is invited. where the children had 'lunch. Hobbs. He will be| The first tickets to the ball/ the Oshawa Recreation depart said Mr, Ferguson.|Were presented by Mr. Melni-/ ment held a program of activie chuk to Hayward | Murdoch,| ties for the children in the afters chairman of Oshawa's Centen-| noon. nial Committee. very well respected by his men | missed," "My sympathy goes out to his family." Sa with an injury sustained while doing outside work should be) dismissed. \ MURDOCH RECEIVES FIRST TICKETS TO BALL . - » Steve Melnichuk, Ball Chairman, (Left), Makes Presentation HAYWARD COMPANY OF YOUNG CANADIANS... A young. Oshawa man will mariy a_ 19-year-old E: year is covered with skimo ice. snow and she found the flatter than she expected and ... SENT RONALD GARVOCK TO INUVIK _ City Man To Marry 19-Year-Old Eskimo Girl | girl he met while working for the Company of Young Cana- dians in Inuvik, North West Territories. The couple are Ronald Gar- vock, 22 of Stone Street and Florence Anikina. Today, Florence, who has never previously travelled fur- ther than 100 miles from the tiny settlement, 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle, was having her first. glimpse of Oshawa, proudly wearing a diamond soli- taire engagement ring. Mr. Garvock said Inuvik, pop- ulation 2,600, has a commrnity made up of 600 Loucheux In- dians and 700 western Eskimos, the balance consisting of gov- ernment employees. It has 1% months of total darkness, two months of sum- mer and for nine months of the ; There is only one cinema and no television service and Mr. Garvock said 75 per cent of the peop's are on welfare. Florence, who had a Grade 11 education, was studying in the local hospital. Sh2 told The Times she found her first sight of television fas- cinaling, but in Toronto she thoug't there were too many lights, cars and people. In Inuvik, where most people kept. dog teams and travel by sled, the pace is much slower but the town is extremely color- ful and the inhabitants live by fishin. or trapping for furs. Ficience, who speaks excel- lent English, said she thorough- ly enjoyed the Canadian Na- tiona' Exhibition and later the pair plan to visit Expo. Travelling by air from Inuvik enjoyed her first pizza in Ed- monten, At the moment they are stay- ing with Mr. Garvock's pare ents, both members of the Sal- vativn Army. Ronald was a member of the organization for 14 years and formerly played in the band. He said that his parents were "delighted"' with Florence. "My brother 'Sandy' says she is too good for me," he added with a smie. Later the couple will enrol at the North Alberta Institute of Technology where Mr. Garvock plans to take a two-year course in architectural technology and Florence will study commercial cooking with a view to becom- ing a dietician. After that they are hoping for a@ wedding in Inuvik, "It will He said that he first met Florence, who has three young- er brothers, when working with her step-father, John Pascal, who was employed by the In- dian-Eskimo Association. Both he and Florence's moth- er, Rosie, are pleased about the matcn: "Trey are very, very' warm people up there," added Mr. Garvock, '"'and accepted me quite well." He formerly worked in Osh- ns a draftsman and left 3 awa for Inuvik in October. The coupe became engaged just after Christmas. After a period of training in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he worked in Inuvik on a radio forum program, travelling in prairies much be a grand slap-up affair,"' said the MacKenzie delta by dog Mr. Garvock. '"'Everybody up team, gathering information there seems to be related and which was recorded on tape and we expect they will all attend." later broadcast. "T was liaison with the North- ern Affairs people," he explain- ed. "The inhabitants lacked knowledge of the government and how it worked, and what methods they could use in get- ting what they needed from the government." He estimates that altogether he has travelled 80,000 miles since he first left for the Arctic, 200 of them by dog team. Occa- sionally he slept out in tem- peratures 50 below zero and once he ate raw frozen fish. "It is almost tasteless," he said, "'and builds up body heat very rapidly." After the couple have further- ed their education they may de- cide to live in the north among Florence's people,