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SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THREE Galaxy of Missionary 'Heroes and At Salvation Army Heroines A galaxy of missionary heroes . and heroines will be at the Salva- . tion Army Citadel tomorrow, giv- ing witness to the saving and keep- _ ing power of Jesus Christ under all . circumstances. . In the morning service, Major Len Evenden, now recuperating from injuries received while in a ~ Japanese prison camp, will ke tell- ing the story of his experiences. He will be assisted by Brigadier Sow- ton who is shortly returning to her - gost in Northern China. In the afternoon service at 3:15 seven missionaries, dressed in cos- tumes, will be recounting the high- « lights of adventure packed lives. In this meeting China, Japan, Korea, . Burma, India and East Africa will . be brought close up to us by these men and women, who have obeyed the call to "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every , creature". The final meeting of the day will 'take place at 7.15 p.m. when, led . on by Brigadier and Mrs. Newman, late of Japan each missionary will present to the congregation an ac- count of the 'greatest moment in " their lives'. Present at all these gatherings will be: Major Cecil Dark, from India and Burma, who served with the British Army in the ' Burma "We Begin A New Century" "We mark the attainment of our hundredth year with a great deal of pride in the achievements of the past and look forward to a future 4 They Were Founders of Great Massey-Harris Company Kinsmen Club To Sponsor Popular Radio Show Here Canada's popular radio-M.C., Roy Ward Dickson, who always "packs em in" on his riotous visits wherever he goes, is bringing his madcap "Shirriff's Fun Parade" gang to the Oshawa Arena for one of the biggest, daffiest shows of his career, on May 5, just in time to celebrate his twelfth On M.-H. Board anniversary on the air! A side spitting riot of fun, with over $1000 worth of wonderful priezs, that'll have Oshawa fun-lovers rolling in the aisles, and wiping their eyes, for three solid hours! A complete sell-out is assured, and those who get their tickets early will be the hmart ones! Over 5000 people were turned away, disappointed, . last time the "Fun Parade" went visit- ing. It's a hectic business, this radio- broadcasting--but this man Dick- son seems to love it. He's done over 2500 broadcasts to date, with- out ever missing, or being late for one single show. The day of the famous "big storm", December 12th, 1944, it took him six hours to get to the studio; talked the sponsir out of cancelling his show; gathered 26 men from canteens as an audience, and put on a rib-tickling mirthfest Alanson Harris was the man who really founded the Harris branch of | With a rough homespun face like Edison or Ford, this picture of Daniel that sounded to listeners like he Massey-Harris. He and his father, the Rev. John.Harris, started a saw- | Massey shows a lank, determined jaw, deep sunk eyes and a long nose. | had hundreds there. Roy's on three big-time shows weekly, but man- ages to find time to make frequent personal-appearance visits out of town, to help raise funds for some campaign, as a military officer: Brigadier Annie Fairhurst, who Jas : Afery.Harrs Ne am His Taner Flv s spent many years in East Africa; » | m n and, after developing a revolving hay rake, opened up a Brigadier MR hay who spent some Era Dl Janes S. small foundry in 1857, The Harris plant was moved here from Beams- | It 18 @ face that would be looked at twice. Its owner had a mission in years in a Japanese internment | cou porns rtd. ville in 1872, life; nothing was going to stop him accomplishing it, camp, and is proceeding immedi- ately back to her post in Northern . China; Major Ada Irwin, returning . to her life's work in Korea; Major . Len Evenden,' who will return to China as scon as he has recovered from injuries received while in a . Japanese internment camp; Briga- . dier and Mrs. Newman, who have . spent many years in Japan. ' Special music will be used , throughout the day; in the morning the Young People's Singing Com- pany will be singing a plaintive * Hindu melody, and in the after- noon the Band will play that uni- que composition in brass band mu- sic, known as 'Oriental Melodies.' Local Endorses Private Bills The execuptive of Local 222, U.A. W.-C.I.O.,, has given its endorsa- tion to a number of private mem- ber bills presented to the Ontario Legislature for consideration, The bills, which have also received the support of the Canadian Federa- tion of Labor, are as follows: Bill No. 40--An act for relief of sick and unemployed property own- ers, applying to furniture, chattels, etc Bill No. 51--An act to amend Hours of Work and Vacation with Pay Act. The bill seeks a 40-hour maximum work week, then over- 'tine, instead of the present 48- Hour week, It also asks two weeks' holiday with pay each year instead of the present one week. Bill No. 53--An act to amend the Labor Relations Act. It asks for inclusion of modified union shop, check-off and improved certifica- tion procedure as now in effect in Saskatchewan, Bill No. 71--An act to amend the Workmen's Compensation Act. It seeks 100 per cent. compensation, increased minimum benefits and coverage of silicosis. Bill No. 98--An Act to amend the Public Utilities Act. The bill seeks to permit municipalities to go into the milk, bread or fuel business in order to cut consumer costs. Bill No. 101--An act to amend the Milk Control Act. The bill seeks to permit co-operatives to give back 'consumers rebates on milk pur- chases. Bill No. 102--An act for relief of home owners sick or unemployed. The bill seeks to prevent seizure of homes in case of circumstances be- yond the owner's control. M.-H. Growth Is Continuing © Believing that growth never stops, the Massey-Harris Company in its centennial year embarked on a vigorous period of postwar ex- pansion. Projects recently com- pleted or under way is impressive. A new completely modern two million dollar combine plant is now in full swing in Toronto, Here in 1946 a $1,700,000 machanized foun- : tion. . At Verity Works the forge shop has just been converted. As a mat- ter of fact a great many plant facil- ities here are being modernized or already have been brought-up-to- date. Under contemplation is a new knife shop at the Market Street plant and a modern tractor machine shop is being installed at Verity Works, FALSE ALARM At 4.15 pm. yesterday firemen responded to a false alarm turned in from the corner of Elm and Al- bert Streets. The firemen had been called to this area earlier in the afternoon to extinguish a chimney fire. 18 FRAES Gas smas sass tess se mame sain ens wns ma ------- he Eh dry was built and put into opera- | "The modest beginnings of 1847 have developed into the far-flung organization of today with its ac- tivities spread to 72 countries throughout the world, The past but indicates where we have come from and the direction in which we are traveling. Its achievements are an inspiration to greater effort and the possibilities of the future stir our imagination and find us well prepared to accept the challenge. "On this our hundredth anniver- sary we are well advanced in the preparations for greater things ahead, with our new foundry at Brantford, one of the most modern, fully mechanized in North America; our recently acquired four-city- block factory at Racine, Wisconsin, for modern mass production of tractors; our new Combine As- sembly plant in Toronto, with all that modern 'production engineer- ing could wish for. "And with an engineering organi- zation staffed with highly trained specialists, sensitive to the new trends and requirements of ad- vancing agriculture that has initia- tive to design the new, and courage to blaze fresh trails. "The accumulative knowledge and experience of the first. hundred years but equips us for greater things ahead and places the re- sponsibility on us of achieving them --and it is in this spirit that we celebrate our hundredth anniver- sary." Add New Books Library Shelves The following novels ve been added during the past 0 weeks to the circulation depattment of the Oshawa Public Library: Modern The Master--Holland; Who Has Seen the Wind?--Mitchell; Deep Forest--Nygaard; The Strumpet Wind -- Merrick; Bright Skies-- Loring; Three Witnesses--Leiker; Darkling -- Gottlieb; Woman on Her Way--Baldwin; All the King's Men---Warren; Long Lash--Shurt- leff; The Listening World--Moore; Mrs. Mike--Freedman; The Swan Sang Once--Carleton; A Room on the Route--Blunden; Every Good Deed--Whipple; Counterspy Jim-- Berger. Historical Canal Town--Adams; The Reluc- tant Widow--Heyer; Pere Antoine --Murphy; Storm Center -- Mc- Spadden; World's Great Tales of the Sea--Mitchiell. Detective The Cinnamon Murder--Crane; The Widow's Peak--Nicholas; The Bone is Pointed -- Upfield; Two Clues--Gardner. Western The Rider from Yonder--Fox; Hang and Rattle--Bosworth; Trail Dust--Lomax; West of the Law-- Cody. C. N. R, PROMOTIONS Toronto, March 29 -- Staff changes involving a number of promotions in the Passenger Traffic Department, Canadian National Railways, Toronto, were announced today, by R. C. Gadsby, general passenger agent. W. W. Main, fromerly passenger traffic representative, succeeds the late R. E. Richmond as city ticket agent at Toronto. W, P. Neals, chief clerk in the general passenger agent's office, becomes passenger traffic representative. H. R. Rssell, formerly travelling passenger agent, succeeds Mr, Neal as chief clerk, while J. Hil- ton has been appointed travelling passenger agent. NATIONAL HOUSING ACT . BUILDING LOANS We are official We also arrange ordinary loans for buyers - , and builders DPhowe 4400 chofield INSURANCE Agency Representatives 6 Simcoe St. North Real Estate Brokers Origina The first of all Massey plants was this simple structure in Newcastle Here in the original plant of the Harris Company in Beamsville was which Daniel Massey acquired 4n 1847 and' named the Newcastle | made the farm machinery which went out under the Harris label from 2 In this plant, a far cry from the modern Verity Works with a floor space of approximately half a million square feet, were turned out the first plows produced by Verity in Brantford, Agricultural Works, It was destroyed by fire in 1864. Is of Massey-Harris Industrial Empire 1857 to 1872, worthwhile charity, From Alaska to Bermuda, the "Fun Parade" is a must among radio-listeners each week, and the Oshawa Kinsmen Club, who are sponsoring this visit in aid of their widespread welfare activities, are already being bom- barded with requests for tickets. Roy's promised us the biggest evening of fun that folks 'round Oshawa way have had, and that's good enough for anyone who's ever heard the "Fun Parade" on the air! It'll be a wild night from the word "go"--and some good sports are go- ing to win some mighty terrific pri- zes. Every seat will be reserved. Don't take any chances--order your re- served-seat tickets right away from the coupon in this paper. It's first come, first served--and no favor- ites! Quite apart from helping along a really worthwhile cause, or even (if you volunteer) winning a wonderful prize, you can count on a million hearty laughs in an evening's fun you'll be talking and chuckling about for months to come, DIRTY CHIMNEY A chimney fire in the home of Mrs. J. Sproule, 262 Albert Street, at 2 pm. yesterday was reported by Fire Chief W. R. Elliott to have started because of extremely dirty pipes and chimney. No damage was suffered, though smoke and water, thrown on the pipes by Mrs. Sproule, left a mess in the kitchen, where the pipes went from the stove to the chimney. Firemen rushed to the scene when a call for aid was put into the fire hall by Harold Sproule, son of Mrs. Sproule. Ladders were erected and the chimney investigated for any fur- ther evidence of fire. WILLIAM H, MOORE of Dunbarton, former member of the House of Commons for On- tario Riding, who has served for many years as a director of the Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Plans Progress For Claremont Memorial Rink Claremont, March 29--Plans are going ahead for the Clare mont Community Memorial Ar- ena and the committee under the chairmanship of Chas, Cooper are lining up their public subscrip- tion list. A second meeting was held Thursday and arrangements were made to proceed with the project which it is estimated will cost $15,000, Between $1500 and $2000 had already been pledged when the subscription list was opened this week. Ernie - Baker is acting secretary of the committee with Mr. Irwin manager of the Bank of Com-~ merce as treasurer, The Memorial Arena it is felt will fill a long-felt need in the community and district, and will also serve as a lasting memorial to the boys and girls who served in World War II, MASSEY-HARRIS SELLS PRODUCTS IN 71 COUNTRIES Massey-Harris sells its products in 72 different countries. It carries on correspondence in 27 langlages. It pays bills and receives monies in 53 currencies. Jhe Day. n Parliament. By The Canadian Press MONDAY: The Commons will consider gov- ernment control legislation. The Cenate will not sit. YESTERDAY: The Commons gave approval to supplementary estimates of $55,- 000,000; elected W. H. Golding (L- Huron-Perth) deputy chairman of the committee of the Whole House; saw Maxine Raymond, Bloc Popu- laire leader, win the right to dis- cuss what he claimed were "irregu- larities" in the Montreal-Cartier by- election; disapproved decisions of the Speaker and saw Mr. Speaker leave the chair; heard Finance Minister Abbott say he could see no purpose in calling a new Do- minion - provincial conference; heard him say he was "sick and tired" of hearing talk about the "uncompromising attitude of the Dominion"; heard H. W. Herridge (People's CC * Kootenay West) say a hen needed more window space than was allowed Commons steno- graphers in their typing rooms. The Senate approved an interim supply bill for $193,000,000; heard that divorce bills before it this session totalled 399, an all-time high; adjourned for an Easter re- cess extending to April 22. Toronto Plant Is M.-H. Biggest The nine Massey-Harris manu- facturing plants located in North America and in Europe vary con- siderably in sile. They might be grouped into four brackets. The largest--a class by itself--is the head office and main plant at To- ronto. Its floor space runs over 1,300,000 square feet. The next largest plants are both in the United States, They are in the 800,000 square feet group. These plants are at Batavia, New York, and Racine, Wisconsin. There are three plants in the 500,000 square-feet bracket. Both Brantford plants, Market Street and Verity Works, come under this heading. So, too, does the second Racine plant. The three smallest plants in terms of floor space (250,000 to 300,000 class), are at Woedstock, | Ont., Manchester, Eng., and Mar- quette-lez-Lille, France. Massey-Harris Co. Celebrates Centennial Linked With District Last night more than 700 guests from Canada and the Uni- ted States attended the Massey- Harris Company's 100th Anniver- sary dinner at the Royal York Hotel, One of the largest all-Canadian manufacturing companies, Mas- sey-Harris began about 100 years ago as two small family organiza- tions. One of its founders, Daniel Massey, grandfather of Hon, Vin- cent Massey and actor Raymond Massey, set up 'a repair shop at Newcastle, in Durham county, to make maple syrup kettles. Soon, he branched out into farm tools and machinery. 5,000 On Payroll About the same time, Alanson Harris opened a little shop in Beamsville to manufacture revol- ving hay rakes, Like Mr. Massey, he, too, expanded his operations and soon was making a complete line of farm equipment, By 1890, the two companies had invented a number of farm implements and were competing against each other, not only in Canada, but on the foreign mar- ket. In 1891, they amalgamated their forces under the name of the Massey-Harris Co. By merg- ers and expansions, the company continued to grow until today it employs 5,000 people and has plants of subsidiary companies in 10 countries. During its 100 years of opera- tions, the company has endured good and bad times, It boomed in the early 1900's when the west was opening up, lost about $20,~ 000,000 during the depression years from 1930 to 1936. It was just getting back on its feet in 1937 and 1938 when the war came alpng. Today its, future ap- pears brighter than ever. The guest speaker at the Cen- tennial Dinner last night was Leonard W. Brockington, K.C., whose eloquent address was broadcast throughout the nation, Mr. Brockington reviewed the history of this great company from 1847 to 1947 channelling its progress with that of the de- velopment of Canadian industry. From "cradle to combine," from "fatm slavery" to the present high standard of living on the farm, from a small two-storey one-man show in Newcastle, started by Danie] Massey and a very small beginning zy Alanson Harris in Beams- ville to an industry which today is known throughout the world ---one that has done much to help increase the production of food for a hungry world, Tribute To Founders Mr. Brockington referred to the fact that in the early days | two men would have to work hard to reap by cradle three a- res of grain in a single day, wor- king from daylight to dark. To- day, a farmer's son or a farmer's daughter with modern equipment will cut and thrash the products of 50 acres in a single day. Mr. Brockington paid tribute to the founders, to their successors and to those who today were carry- ing on in this all important in- dustry which is helping to make the lot of the farmer easier and more productive, He also paid tribute to James S. Duncan, President Massey-Harris Comp- any and those associated with him. Mr. Duncan, he said, had risen from office boy to President of this great empire, The company's Centennial mo- tion picture "A Romance of Two Hemispheres" was presented and was very much appreciated. Joseph Howlett, an employee for more than 60 years spoke on behalf of the employees of Mas- sey-Harris Company, stating that throughout the years Massey-Har- ris employees had been loyal to the company chiefly because the company had been loyal to the employees. "I have been with the company more than 60 years." Later in the evening, the Presi- dent of the company, Mr. Duncan introduced a group of employees who had been with the company for more than 50 years. Hon, George A, Drew, Premier of Ontario, spoke briefly paying tribute to the Massey-Harris Company for their industrial lea- dership and their contribution to the industrial progress of the Do- minion of Canada. , Included in the guests were Hon, Ray Lawson Lieut-Govern- or of Ontario; Dr, H. A, Cody, Chancellor of the University of Toronto, and many others prom- MASSEY-HARRIS {Continueds on Page 2! THE MASSEY-HARRIS CO. on their Ot Anniversar We the Massey-Harris representatives of Ontario and Durham Counties take this opportunity of tendering our Congratula- tions to this great Company on the occasion of their 100th An- niversary. We are proud to be a part of this great company, which has brought so many improvements in machinery and labor-saving devices to the farmers of Canada. COMPLIMENTS OF . .. 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