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12 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Canadian Champion$ At Skating C DAWN STECKLEY and DAVE LOWERY brought honor to the Oshawa Skating Club and to themselves by winning the Cana- dian junior pairs championship COMEDY HIGHLIGHTS of the Oshawa Skating Club Carnival at the Oshawa Arena on Friday and Tuesday, March 24, 1953 at Ottawa recently. This talented couple of Oshawa figure skaters will appear at the Oshawa skat- ing carnival at the Oshawa Arena on Friday and Saturday orovided by | Elaine Richards, talented young Oshawa Skater who is shown above in her comedy role. Apprentice Weaves Royal Stole, Girdle BRAINTREE, Eng. (Reuters)--A 16-year-old apprenticed boy nam- Alfred Fuller is weaving the shining cloth of gold which is to be used for the stole and girdle with which the Queen will be in-| vested shortly before she is crown- | ed in Westminster Abbey June 2.| One of four apprentices working on the hand looms at the mills of Warner and Sons, Limited, here, he weaves about one yard of cloth a day. The cloth is woven in silk shot | with a flat metal thread composed | of 90 per cent silver and 21% per cent pure gold, and is presented for the ceremony by the worship- ful company of girdlers of the city of London. Nearby, work is going full speed ahead on the rich, vivid blue and gold fabric which is to be used for. the frontals to the balconies and various curtains in the abbey, Woven into the blue ground with | a metal thread in a golden design embodying the national emblems of the United Kingdom -- the rose | of England, the thistle of Scotland, the leek of Wales and the Irish shamrock -- framed in a chaplet of English oak leaves and acorns. composed of fleur de lis and ivy evening of this week, when they will give their championship rou- tine as they presented it in the Canadian championships at Otta- wa. DAWN STECKLEY, star skat- er of the Oshawa Skating Club, andg runner - up for the Wom- en's Canadian championship at the recent. championship con- FRANCIS BOWDE NAND NORA DAFOE are the Canadian senior pairs champions and the Canadian senior dance cham- pions in figure skating. They tests in Ottawa, will appear as a solo skater at the club's an- nual carnival, to be held in the Oshawa Arena on Frida® and Saturday evenings. ~--Photos by Campbell Studios. Cold Earth, Hot Air Fail To Bother Japs By FRED SAITO NEMURO, Japan (AP) -- The ground is cold and the air is hot over Hokkaido. This port city on the northwest- ern tip of Japan's northernmost island, is typical. Walk out of town a little way, stand at the end of Cape Nosappu, look out over the frozen sea and there, miles away, lies Russian-held ter- ritory in the Kuriles. Desite the proximity, despite the fact that Russian and U.S. planes have duelled over their heads and Japanese fishermen have been seized by the Soviets, there is little noticeable tension among the 20,000 inhabitants of Nemuro. With the port forozen shut for four months, the town has gone into a sleepy - hibernation. only four in Over each design is a royal gd | leaves, with tudor roses. |" There is this sleepy peace now, The same cloth, woven in all and yet as recently as Feb. 16, old silk is being made for the |I watched two U.S. jets tangle with rontal of the royal boxes in the [two Soviet planes over the cape. abbey and for covering the regalia |The Russians refused to land and table in the vestibule. opened fire. The Americans return- In another part of the mills, on|ed the fire and sent the two Soviet |a special handloom on which the | planes racing homeward, one of purple velvet for the Queen's Cor- them trailing smoke. onation robe was woven before| Then Nemuro returned to its un- Christmas, a woman is now weav-| real quiet. ing the crimson velvet for the| Hokkaido is potentially one of Queen's parliamentary robe, in|the most dangerous spots in the which she will arrive at the abbey | world, in the hot and cold wars for the Coronation. of the great powers. The blue and gold which form| The Russians in the north and the 'theme colors" of the abbey | northwest, in Sakhalin and the Kur- hangings and carpets will be echo- |iles, are believed to have Hok- ed in the capes to be worn by the |kaido ringed with about 4,500 bom- canons of Westminster at the serv- bers and fighters. To defend the ice. The cloth for these, a rich |30,000-square-mile island, there are silk with a gold "pineapple" first U.S. planes and a Japanese na- taken from 15th century Italy, is tional safety foree of 28.000 men. also now being woven on a hand-| i y loom at these mills. | segiments. One 3,000-man 4 (ment, with artillery and tank units, is charged with the defence of the vital 300-mile coastline along the Sea of Okhotsk, which separates the Japanese from the Russians in the Kuriles and Sakhalin. An- other reggiment is to be added to this line in the spring. Six more are stationed in the terior. Although Nemuro is the closest point to Soviet-held territory, mili- tary authorities here do not believe the Russians would attempt to in- vade Hokkaido through this area. As a port, Neumuro is frozen out four months a year. In the warm weather, thick fog makes naviga- tion extremely hazardous. A more likely target, in the opine | ion of Japanese officers, would be Wakkanai, Japan's northern-most port and only 30 miles from Soviet- eld Sakhalin. The sea north of Wakkanai never freezes over be- gauss of warm currents from the south. Family Flees Fire |At Chemong Park ! PETERBOROUGH (CP) -- Mr. (and Mrs. Charles Watson and their ' three young children fled in their! night attire early Monday from ! their burning home in Chemong Park, six miles north of here. Mr. Watson had to leap from a 12-foot balcony to the ground and get a ladder to help down his wife and children. Mrs. Watson, an ex- pectant mother, suffered shock. An overheated oil burner in the kitchen is believed to have started This force. is made up of eight, the fire which destroyed the 1%-| regi- storey frame house. >-- represented Canada at the 1952 Olympic Games. They are among the champion skaters who will be featured at the Oshawa Skating 1 Carni -- rim ---------- Workmen Find 16-ft. Mural Of Christ Life PICCOTTS END, Eng. (CP)--A | 16-foot water-color mural, depict- ing the life of Christ, has been discovered by workmen repairing an ancient farm cottage in this rustic Hertfordshire hamlet. The painting, in five panels extending along the walls of the cottage, is believed to date back nearly 500 years. An authority on Norman archi- tecture said the work bore traces of vandalism, probably committed one of the local skaters to be featured in solo and comedy skating at the carnival of the ELAINE RICHARDS, one of the outstanding figure skaters of the Oshawa Skating Club, will be in the time of Oliver Cromwell. The , figures, typical of those used cen- | P edestrians Jurjes ago by monks Seakh So illiterate, were found to have been | . 'Gain Safety By Bead String badly mutilated. The murals done in red, yellow and blue, portray the Nativity, the | baptism of Christ, with the figure of John the Baptist and an angel; | Christ with hand raised in bless- | ing; His body being taken from the | motorist who has drive» cross and Mary with St. Peter and | miles sees other figures. {i rrr Generations of one family had 100 years without being aware of at lived in the house for more than |the painting. LONDON (CP)--An 88-year-old | crossing. Here pedestrians 800,000 | stand so that motorists could see a solution to Britain's they intended to cross. -- -| Bennett advanced his proposals arnival Oshawa Skating Club on Friday and Saturday of this week at the Oshawa Arena. highway problems in what he calls a "half-moon" and a 'string of pearls." The motorist, F. S. Bennett, sug- gests installing a row of reflectors 50 yards on each side of the high- way to warn drivers of a crossing. This he calls the string of pearls. The half-moon is a semi-circular safety zone at each end of the cou a national conference of the | Pedestrians Association. ICE FROLICS OF 1953 Presented by the OSHAWA SKATING CLUB ® DANCE NUMBERS © SOLO PERFORMANCES ® DUETS © COMEDY AND PRECISION ACTS © FRIDAY and SATURDAY, MARCH 27th and 28th OSHAWA ARENA 8:00 P.M. ADMISSION 1.00 TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE AT HENDERSON'S BOOK STORE