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OSHAWA PLAYGROUNDS GIVE HEALTHFUL This may not be the shade of the old apple tree, but it's shade anyway. And there's nothing like a little comfort to whet the artis- tic sense on a hot day. Shown here industriously applying paint Where's the ball? Jim Melni- chuk, 256 Wilson Road South, is in the centre in this dodgeball game at Eastview park. He exe- to avoid the Keep your eye on the ball! That advice is essential to the batter, Ed Zielinski, 117 Yonge Street and to the catcher, Terry Moore, 295 Athol Street East. Of to self-made windmills and to selves too are, left to right, Carol Marie Butler, 405 Athol Street East, Glenna Marie Cathmoir, 8, 51 Park Road North and Eliza- beth Ann Butler, 7. The dog in ee ball, but the ball avoided the camera as well. When Jim gets hit, the thrower of the ball takes his place as a target. It's a great ' game for the small fry, Super- sds course, for the umpire, Adele Planeta, 313 Gliddon Avenue, it's only a courteous afterthought. Nobody can argue with her -- at least not and hope to win. This RECREATION the background, Skipper, is seven too, but apparently he has out- grown this painting business. Supervisor here at Valleyview park is Dorothy Redpath. Times-Gazette Staff Poto. visor Maria Clarke, 60 Alma Street, maintains. Just the same though, she says, they like it bet- ter on cooler days. Times-Gazette Staff Photo . | purchased the Hedg: || her daughter Mrs : ing with her parents, Mr. Former Local Man Killed Near London LONDON; Ont. (CP) -- One man killed and three and crashed into a tree at nearby Delaware on Sunday. John Edward Arthur Morgan, 32 of RR 1, London, who was born in Oshawa, was instantly killed. His wife, , 30, suffered in- juries to her ribs and shoulders and head lacerations. Driver John Louis Dagenais, 21, of Windsor re- ceived facial lacerations and - sible jaw and skull injuries, while his wife, Rose Adele, 22, suffered injured knee and facial lacera- Morgan besides his .are two children, his mo- ther, Mrs, Mary Morgan, and his grandmother, Mrs. Arthur Smith, of Oshawa. GREENBANK Young People Retain Field Day Trophies GREENBANK -- Congratu- lations to our Young People on holding the trophies for another year on the result of the track | and field meeting of the Bay of %| Quinte conference held at Madoc on Saturday. . Mrs. William Sommerville visit- ing this week with relatives in Toronto. - Miss C. Main, U.S Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phoenix on the birth of a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. H. Hook, accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. C. Hook of Port Credit, have returned after Reyoraft, holidaying in | spending a few days at North Bay. Mr and Mrs Walter Phoenix and fmily, who have been stying with his mother, Mrs Emma Phoe- nix, have left for Montreal where they will take residence. Mr. Ethel Whitter is visiting with . R. Storm at Picton. Mrs. Velma Petrice has return- ed to her home in South Bend, Indiana, after attending the funeral of the late Henry Leask. Mr. and Mrs. William O'Neil, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. A. f | Jackson of Manchester, are on a Totor trip to northern part of On- ario. Mr. and Mrs. Abram of Port Perry spent Thursday with Miss Alma Harmon. Rupert Lee, his mother Mrs. Ty- son Lee and Mr. and Mrss Lloyd Lee of Toronto are on a motor trip to Eastern Canada. Mr. Lee is in Port Perry hospital until Mrs. Lee returns. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hook and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilson of Ux- bridge spent a few days near Fene- lon Falls. Mrs. Wilkinson of Hamilton visit- and Mrs. W. St. John. Mr. and Mrs John Michie have es home. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges have purchased a i |home in Brooklin where they will game is taking place at Bathe park where supervisor Diane Thomas, 353 Elmgrove Avenue, i® seen with bowed head in the background. Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Canada Is Voting To Pick Next Gov't OTTAWA (CP)--This is the day the Canadian voter takes over. He is electing the country's new gov- ernment. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Arctic to the border, : the men and women wielding the neil of power went to the polling th at 8 a.m. local standard time to choose their candidate. Some time after the ballot boxes are closed at 6 p.m., Canada will know the makeup of her federal administration for about the next four years. . More than 6,000,000 voters--a Canadian record--are expected to ! make the decision from among four major parties and a miscel- lany of independent candidates-- # totalling in 896. + _ At stake is the future of the Liberal government, in office 18 ars. Prime Minister Louis St. aurent, 71, is looking for his second general election win after leading his supporters to power in " 1949 with the greatest parliamen- tary majority in Canadian history. George Drew, 59, former Ontario premier and Progressive Conser vative leader since 1949, also is in his second general federal contest and seeking 'to bolster a 48-member representation in the lower House. The only other party with enough candidates in the field to form a government is the socialist CCF, which had 13 of the Commons' 262 members at dissolution, Under redistribution, the new House will have 265 members, of whom the Liberals already have elected two by acclamation in Quebec. Apart from the big three groups, the electors also can choose from candidates of the Social Credit party---mainly in the West--and the Communist Labor-Progressive party, largely im Ontario and Sends Kiddies {per child. In addition the club pays | transportation costs to and from Quebec. There are, too, 44 car- didates running as independents or under a variety of labels. An electorate estimated at a record 8,500,000 is making the choice in this first August election since 1874. The actual figure will not be known until enumerators report after election day. However, the popular vote is ex- pected to exceed the approxi- mately, 5,900,000 of 1949. This year's number of candidates also is ahead of the figure for that election, though not up to the record for 1945's wartime bal- lotting. In the last election, there were 849 candidates. Four years earlier, 954 ran. Rotary Club On Holiday The main project of the Oshawa Rotary Club for many years has been the aid of crippled children in the community.. For some years the club has been sending a number of - children to the Blue Mountain Camp at Collingwood as well as providing the money for examinations at Toronto hospitals and buying the necessary applianc- es This year the club is sending a number of children to the Merry- wood-on-Rideau Camp, near Smith; Falls. It costs the club $5 per day | the camp and, where necessary, provide the children attending camp with clothing. The club will be spending be- tween $1,200 and $ 1,300 to provide this holiday for local and district children. The money for this worth- while work comes mainly from the club's Easter Seal campaign. BOY DIES OF POLIO LONDON, Ont. (CP)--First polio death of 1953 at Victoria Hospital here, that of a seven-year-old Till- sonburg area boy, occurred Sun- day. Garry Pieters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Pieters, RR 1, Clear Creek, had been admitted to the hospital's isolation ward a week ago. reside shortly. he many friends of Miss Jean Stone who met with a misfortunate car accident on Monday evening and who is confined to Lindsay hospital, wish her a speedy re- covery. The annual decoration service of Bethel Cemetery will take place on Sunday afternoon August The morning service here will be cancelled. Congratulatioffs to Mr. John Phil- lips who celebrated his seventy- seventh birthday on Thursday. Miss Audrey Phillips of Toronto and Mr. and Mrs. Hastings of Lo- cust Hill spent Sunday with Mrs. Mina McMaster. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds and Rdb- ert Reynolds of New York state visiting with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Spencer. Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Blair an son spending a few days with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Risebrough at Sandford. Cecil Leask is holidaying in To- ronto. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Herron of Toronto visited with Mr. and Mrs. J. McKitrick on Sunday. Kill Or Cure Red Treatment FREEDOM VILLAGE ( AP)-- A West Virginia corporal told to- day how Red surgeons in a North Korean prison camp 'cured' beri beri, a vitamin deficiency disease. onl. ary W. Plum of Tunnelton, W. Va,, released from the Pyontong camp, said the doctors would make a cross shaped cut in the rib sec- tion of a prisoner, insert pieces of pork liver then sew up the incision. Alexei Koltsov, born in 1809, is considered one of the true peasant poets of Russia. enrolment, to be able to EAST WHITBY PARENTS - of - r CHILDREN WISHING TO START SCHOOL DURING THE COMING FALL TERM Due to accommodation shortage in several schools in East Whitby Township, your school board needs to know in advance the coming for i i 4 I with the etc. It is therefore asked thot all children (either beginners or newcomers to the township) be registered on or before August 15, of the school board. y or any before November 1. Your school board kK To begin school, a child must be an age of six full years on or dal Chai are: H Ross E. Lee; Walter Holliday; Arthur L. Smith; David L. Beath. J. H. PASCOE, Secretary-Treasurer, T.S.A. of East Whitby, 4 EB r OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY VOL. 12--No.-185 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953 PAGE THREE Native In LETHBRIDGE -- July 30 mark- ed the end of a long and success- ful career for Clarence Douglas Purdy, an employee of the T: Eaton Co. Ltd. for the past 41 years, who worked his last day with the firm. At 65, he is retiring. He started with the company in Winnipeg on May 27, 1912, as a clerk in men's furnishings. Today, he is assistant manager of the Lethbridge store of the national department chain. He is -- or was -- also head of the store's men's and boys' depart- ments. MAKE PRESENTATION E. C. H. Davis, store manager, presented Mr. Purdy with a lounge chair on behalf of the managers and assistants. Mr. Davis told the staff that Mr. Purdy was held in high esteem by both management and staff, partic- ularly in Lethbridge. He wished Mr. Purdy a happy retired life: and extended an invitation to Mr. Purdy to visit the store at any time. Walter Hay, on behalf of the Eaton Social and Athletic Club, presented Mr. Purdy with a smok- ing stand on behalf of the club. ENJOYED WORK In replying, Mr. Purdy said that he was sorry the time had come to retire, for in the years of his work he had met many fine '"Eatonians", ang had especially enjoyed the bast 18 years work- ing in Lethbridge. Thursday night Mr. Purdy will be the guest at a retirement ban- quet in the Marquis Hotel, put on by the departmental managers and their assistants. Honor Port Perry West Mr. Purdy was born in Port Perry near Oshawa, Ont., and went to school there. He worked 'in a bank for a few years when he com- pleted his schooling, and then went west to Winnipeg to join Eaton's. In 1915 he joined "Cameron High- landers." When he got to England, he was a sergeant, but he 're- verted to ranks" in order to get to France. "NOTHING BUT MUD" He went through the battle at Passchendaele as a corporal. He recalls wryly that it was 'nothing but mud"'. After over a year in the front lines, he returned to Canada. During the war, he was kept on half pay by Eaton's. Married men were given full pay by the com- pany while in the armed services. After spending six months at home, he returned to Winnipeg to work. He stayed there until Febru- ary, 1929, when he went to Cal- gary two weeks before Eaton's opened their store there. He was first assistant in the men's cloth- ing department there. In the spring of 1931, he return- ed to the company's store at Win- nipeg. In 1935, he came to Leth- bridge to take charge of the men's and boys' departments of the store, and has been here since. Mr. Purdy married a Lethbridge girl, Doris Stitt, in Calgary 12 years ago. He and Mrs. Purdy have no definite plans. They are going to visit Mr. Purdy's two brothers and a sister in Ontario for the next month or six weeks, and, unless something turns up, they expect to return to live in Leth- bridge. Uxbridge SUNDERLAND -- From histori- cal notes of the early days of On- tario County in the possession of John Fallowdown, it is recalled that Uxbridge was made a Police Village in 1862, and detached from the Township of Uxbridge and in- corporated as a village in 1872. By an Order in Council dated Sep- tember 19, 1885, the village was in- corporated as a town. The late Joseph Gould, the foun- der of the village, was the first reeve. His son, 1. J. Gould, was seven times reeve. George Wheel- er was reeve for three years; R. P. Harman was six times reeve and once mayor. H. J. Gould was five times reeve and once mayor. Jonathon R. Gould was five times reeve and once mayor. Jonathon 16. |R. Gould was the reeve and then for two years mayor. Dr. Joseph Brascom was the first mayor of the town and filled the office for three years. William Smith, Col. J. A. McGillivray, Andrew Patter- son, each filled this office for one year. William Hamilton (JP), Charles Kelly and T. C. Nichols filled the office for two years each. SETTLED IN 1806 The fizst settlement in the vil- lage was made by Dr. Beswick about the year 1806. The history of the town is in timately connected with the ener- gy, perseverance and good judg- ment of Joseph Gould, and his sons, Isaac J. Gould, Harvey J. Gould, Jonathan, Charles and Jo- seph. It rarely happens that the wardenship of the county should be held by four members of the same family. The father, Joseph Gould and his sons, Isaac, Har- vey and Charles, all held this hon- arable position. The building of saw mills, flour and oatmeal mills, the establish- ment of a woollen factory, the con- struction of th ronto and Nipsi- sing Railway, er a part of the Grand Trunk System, the estab- lishment of important factories was largely due to energy and spirit of the Gould family. The Pioneer Days In Area building and endowment of the public library is a lasting monu- ment also to their interest in edu- cational matters in this town where the founder's life was spent. William H postmaster, who frequently repre- sented Uxbridge in the County Council, and who at one time own- ed 300 acres of the village acre- age, was an enterprising and wor- ilton, merchant and | C summer week? Answer: the number really isn't quite that bad. Actually from 40 to 60 boys and girls aged four to 15 are in each playground every morning and afternoon. 30 SUPERVISORS Guiding the children in various games and handicrafts are about 30 supervisors under an executive staff made up of W. M. Brewster, Director of Recreation; Doug Rigg, Assistant Director; Joan Lambert, Program Director and Wes Ogden, Sports Director. All the supervisors attended a three week leadership training course in the spring for two nights a week. After that with other district supervisors, they went to a camp where they learned handi- crafts to go along with their leadership qualities. The results can be seen in any of the parks around the city. Children are absorbed in carving tightly coiled magazine paper or in making paper models of animals 'that actually move. Once a week, or oftener, each playground has a special event such as a pet day when everybody brings their great dames or gold fish, a hobby day, a Cowboys' and 7,000 Kiddies At 17 Oshawa Parks Many Events Keep Children Busy Where do 7,000 Oshawa youngsters go of a hot, To one of 17 city parks espe- cially supervised by carefully trained CRA leaders. That 7,000 is a gross total, so® soap, in making bracelets out of |t Indians day, a pirate day, a back- wards day, or a day for a fishing expedition, a mock track meet, a doll show, kite flying contest, stuffed" animal parade, dress-up parade, treasure hunt, candy sale, auction sale, a day for a hike, or a day for whatever else the re- sourceful supervisor may think of. FOUR AREAS The seventeen parks are divided into four areas each with an area supervisor. At intervals throughout the summer the areas have a special event such as a trip through the city dairies. Occasionally the four areas combine in a city wide event like the Penny Fair or the Watermelon Eating contest. Whether it be dodgeball, an archery contest or a ball game, there's always something doing at the playgrounds. And an important point for parents, there's always a well-qualified supervisor around 00. Supervisor of the South area is Marilyn Black, 106 Albert Street, Josephine Beard, 48% Bond Street East, supervises the West area; Beverley Bull, 46 Nassau Street, is in the East area and Ann Sabo, 33 Ritson Rgad, is in the North area. TORONTO (CP) Clarence Bowen, 33, and Richard Campbell McCart, 32, both of no fixed ad- dress, were charged Sunday with murder in connection with the slaying of two old men in a down- town Toronto rooming house last Friday. Police said the men were ar- rested in Cobourg Saturday. Chief inspector John Nimmo and six of- ficers escorted the pair here from urg. Slain in the rooming house were Joseph George King, 81 and George E. Weaver, 78. Weaver's throat was cut and King was strangled with his tie. Two Suspects Arrested At Cobourg For Murder Police said Weaver's throat w slashed by a table knife--foun carefully wiped clean of blood--or the broken edge of a wine bottle. The tie was twisted tightly about King's neck and bits of a broken wine bottle were around his blood- ied head. It was believed that the two men were killed in a fight that followed a drinking party in the cheap, dingy room. The room was littered with empty wine bottles. Lightning does not travel in a zigzag path of acute angles. It curvers and twists, but makes no sharp turns. thy citizen. His grand William, also postmaster and acting magis- trate, was closely connected with the rise and progress of the town. INDUSTRIAL GROWTH About 1856 Mr. E. Wheeler of Stouffville built a sawmill and grist mill. These were operated by his son, George Wheeler, who was for some years a county council- lor and reeve of the village and representative of North and West Ontario in the Dominion Parlia- ment. The tanning of leather was car- ried on since the year 1833, when Mr. Joseph Bascom built a tan- nery there. Mr. Midrew Patterson carried on a large business for years. Other early merchants of Ux- bridge were: John Bolster, Har- man Crosby, Archie Weeks, Carle- ton Lynde, Ira G. Crosby, Joseph Thomas, Robert Johnson and A. T. Button. Mr. Button for a time had a large barbering business at Ep- som in the Township of Reach. The town is situated at the junction of two streams which fur- nished considerable water power. This town was one of the first of the small towns of the Province to establish a municipal system of water works. It was lighted by electricity in the early days, had good High and Public Schools, numerous churches, and a prosper- ous organ factory. The town also had good hotels and two news- papes. It was considered one of he best market towns in the Prov- nce. PERSONALITIES Other personalities, of the early PIONEERS (Continued on Page 5) 12 King St. E. UEHLER MEAT SPECIALS! TUES. & WED. SLICED BEEF LIVER 29. CLUB STEAKS 2s. SLICED BOLOGNA 2 1s. SHOULDER VEAL CHOPS 1b. CHECK NOW and PLAN io ATTEND SHAW FOUR BIG DAYS! THURS. 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