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96 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Saturday, Oclober ¥, Wes The Story Of Another Oshawa-In Minnesota . SOME SCENES IN OSHAWA, MINNESOTA E Oh own" 5 Oshawa'. iti Judging from the pictures above, Oshawa, Minnesota, nam- ed after the city, is a quiet ru- ral community. 'Top picture | | shows the main highway inter- section, while the two lower pic- tures give different views of the community's one store. These | pictures were from negatives re- ceived by Col. Frank Chappell from a correspondent in the Osh- awa, Minnesota district. United Nations Day Recall S Great Aims Of Organization In 1945, the peoples of the world com 1 prehensive objectives continue , every field of human interest and desperately wanted the United Na- | a fered Lions son be at the heart of any attempt | relations, oi Rd Pyvople [to build a world order of peace,| It is the one meeting place where wars within a lifetime, they were | justice, and progress. {the representatives of sixty na- determined to save Hicinselyes and| More Shan that. the United Na- [tions -- the great and the small, their children, not alone from ations today is the bst hope--per- | ; . : third world war, but from total | haps the last hope -- for estab ish. | the. weak and the strong, the: rich destruction which such a war was ing conditions that could ensure|3nd the poor -- and the spokesmen likely to bring. | peace. Such conditions are: collec-|for all political views, social sys- Thus, through their governments |tive security against armed ag- | tems, cultures, and religions can they set up this living, working gression Sverywere 3 ie orld; be freely heard. Organization and launched the | peaceful se ent or all interna- | a " rane effort in history to pre- | tional conflicts by negotiation, med- JOPPORTUMITY FOR PEOPLES serve peace and promote world- |iation, conciliation, and judicial | As never before, the peoples of wide human betterment ---- to es- process; effective international con. the world are given an opportunity, tablsh nothing less than a world trol of armaments aimed at event. | throught the United Nations, to order of peace, justice, and pro- ual disarmament and abolifion of know and to influence what is go- gress for all all weapons of mass destruction, Xe; (Ing on. for one of its most impor. The effort seemed to be a good spect for the principle of equal | BR Weapons ro Lomo) ng peace, idea then. It is a last chance for | Fights and Scii determination of Tice ot nh a ne on swyvival today «- | peoples; promotion of ec - e ose opinion. The w Mt union of peoples who |ic and social advancement of all; [a0 Jnioemen bublic opin ie made had joined in the defence of civiliz-| and respect for fund Ral rights | oy we Open debates ation was still a fact when, on|and freedoms both for individual Yoder ite Pl hb 8 Srgans October 24, 1945, the United Na-|human beings and for peoples. | der the full scrutiny e tions Charter came into force. The | ~ the peoples of the world and |" \oreover private citizens of the bitter conflicts of power and ideo- | their governments make full use world, banded together in many logy now dividing the world were |of the machinery provided by the | thousands of national and interna- less apparent, conflicts which#have | United Nations, nif they develop | ional non-governmental organiza- since resulted in amassing power- | support, and strengthen it, those | {ions are assisting the United Na- ful armed might i conditions may be brought about. jon." "py spreading information In several regions since; there | If, however, they let the United about its activites by presenting has actually been bitter and costly, | Nations fail, there can be no hope | their views-and advice on subjects | The choice actually is a clear-cut of which they have special knowl- though localized, fighting. And the peoples must face the fact that|one. disaster and death or life | edge and experience, and by help- they continue to live today in dang- | apq hope. | ing to mold and give expression er of a third world war which| 4 necessary always, to remem- [10 public opinion. Many of these could wipe out civilization. ber that the United Nations can Organizations are enabled, through be no stronger than the tollective Sonsultative ararugements, to take the € i that support part in the work of the Economic agination of the world in 1945 as |. of ie Nations} hotning. It|and Social Council, its commis- an .a 1 powerful cure-all can it lis not a super-state. It cannot pass | sions, and several of the specializ- prevent such a war? The following | 1.0." iv {0 machinery by means of |ed agencies --' a practice far in considerations may help to find the | hich the peoples of the world, advance of that prevailing in the answer. through their governments, can co-|days of The League of Nations. HOPES OF MANKIND |operdte: not in one body alone, [REFUGEES AND CHILDREN, The Charter of the United Na [but in many the General As-| In two tategories o£! pecple, tions remains in 1953 the embodi- ' sembly, the Councils, the Commis-' whose capacity for s Lselp is 1i- ment of the hopes of mankind, Ks sions, the Committees -- covering mited, the United Nations has a ed the hopes and captured the i WHAT'S IN A NAME iE Story of Another Oshawa -- Presented a Problem Involving Patient Research By COL. FRANK CHAPPELL But though e minuscule result, At least a few facts connection we stated -- with | name, by the way, was suggested to the early Village | Fathers by some Mississauga | Office was established in 1 {note finds it variously interpreted as signifying a "cross- Let none consider this love's labours lost. local contact established. Some considerable time ago we wrote an article | entitled "HIGHWAYS and BYWAYS". Amongst items | intended to be of local interest it also touched upon | curious names of a few other towns and cities. of were determined ond In this: some degree of careful doubt | -- that as far as we knew, our own city, Oshawa, was the | only place on the continent bearing that name. That | | Indians, when the first Post 842. Tradition and historic (ing place", or in greater detail, a "place where the canoe | is exchanged for the trail". The article appeared on the first page of the Second Section of the February 10th, 1951. At our house on Connaught Street we usually re- ceive the Saturday edition of the paper at about four o'clock in the afternoon. However, on that day, before three o'clock we received a telephone call. It was from a read- er living some distance north of Rossland Road Not only had he received his paper, but he announced,--to our secret gratification, be it admit- ted,--that he had just finished reag- ing the article in question. But he wished to point out an error. Deep- ly concerned, we if turn expressed regret and hoped the error was | something which could be remed- | ied. After all, we are but human {even if we do spend occasional hours poking amongst doubtful de- tails of a misty past. ANOTHER 'OSHAWA' The error, our caller stated, was in assuming that our own city was only such community bearing | that name. He stated that there ac- | tually was another place called Some years previously | he had scen the name printed in a | United States Postal Directory. He | believed it was located in Cas County. "linncsota, but unfortur- ately had nothing to substantia this. Nor were other details avail able. Well, even that fragment of in- | formation roused our immediate in- | terest. Sitting alone many thoughts passed through our mind. From whom had the place received ita name" How long had it existed as a community? What was its chief ac- tivity, population, prospects and so on? These and a number of other { like questions suggested them- | selves. But from whom could .we get the answer? Well, if the place had a postoffice, there must be a starting point of inquiry, Acting on such impulse, within an hour we had sent an airmail at Oshawa, Cass County, Minne- | sota, USA, also enclosing sufficient | United States stamps for an air- mail reply. Alas, for fond hopes. | To this date we have received no | acknowledgement of the letter, let { alone answers to our questions; al- | though to be sure, reasons of a | sort may appear later in this story. A few weeks later the comment of an Ottawa reader appeared in the correspondence column of the "Times-Gazette'", giving no par- ticulars bat calling attention to the same fact, that there was a place called 'Oshawa', in the State of Minnesota. THE PLACE "PIN-POINTED" In the meantime we had been studying maps, encyclopedias, gaz- eteers, postal directories and such material, but drawing blank at every turn. Suddenly, one day, from the Times - Gazette office, through the kindness of A. R. Allo- way, came a Rand-McNally road map of the State of Minnesota. And there apparently in the lake district of the wooded hinterland of the great State, sure enough appeared the name 'Oshawa'. The map reproduced on shows its location. But if the read- er wishes to spot it for himself, ke may do so by projecting a line | from Duluth, westerly to Fargo and intersecting it with a line almost due south from Rainy River, On- tario. The point of intersection of the two lines approximately marks the spot with which we are con- cerned. - Well, interesting as this may we, "TIMES-GAZETTE" on Saturday, | Post Master. This could be our | letter addressed to the Post Master | this page ! Fe we wanted to know more about it. By this time the subject had be- come a sort of challenge to per- sistent inquiry. Little did we think how much, or for how long we were to pursue this investigation, for then began a long series of letters to many different people in many different places. First, we wrote to the Honour- able Luther Youngdahl, who was at that time Governor of the State of Minnesota. Then, at his sugges- tion, to the Bureau of State Ar- chives at Saint Paul, Minn. Then to the newspapers of nearby larger towns and cities, such as Bemidji, about sixty miles north of those intersecting lines, and Brainerd, about an equal distance to the south of that pin-pointed Oshawa. RANDOM LETTERS By this time we had learned that its greatest population' had been from fifteen to twenty persons. Therefore one could hardly expect literature, or pictures of the place to be of any great amount, even if at all existent. Letter followed let- ter to ascertain the merest crumb of information. Sometimes a reply vas received that seemed helpful. But more often there was no reply, ven after a long wait, although rn nostage in U.S. stamps was 1 enclosed. Gradually bor 2a reconciled to the fact at not everyone is interested in !2tails of historic interest. And too, e admit that some of our letters ere vaguely addressed, even as arrows shot blindly into the dark- >ss." Still, we did get some re- plies. Our letters ranged from the Chief Inspector of Post Offices, at Wash- ington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, at Redby, M e were also at times in toach with Rotary Clubs, Cham- bers of Commerce and newspaper | publishers at any seemingly strate- | gic point of contact. | In this way a file' of corres-' pondence piled up. until we have around sixty letters concerning that elusive 'other Oshawa' so blandly and assuredly mentioned by onr original informants as being in the State of Minnesota. Certainly, we were believing by this time that the poor little place was hardly worth so much trouble. But a chal- lenge is a challenge, even if only made privately to oneself. And sc we refused to admit defeat by fail- | ure to get every scrap of informa: tion possible. In this mood although many months passed, we persisted at intervald*in continuing with this piece of unfinished business. FRIENDLY RESPONSE | Then one day we wrote to the | City Hall of Brantford, a small, but prosperous Minnesota city. Reach- |ing the hands of His Worship, the Mayor, Mr. Levi Johnson, the let- | ter evidently struck a responsive | chord. Here was a gentleman who | took trouble to inquire. More than that, he deliberately went to see what he had been asked about, as may be judged from the kind let- ter which follows: | "I apologise for delay in an- swering your inquiry, but I had some trouble in getting any in- formation on the subject. There is such a place, Oshawa, locat- =4 Shout fifty miles from Brain- erd. I wrote the Auditor of Cass County for information, but un- fortunately the reply was of little value. So on Saturday last I decided to see for myself and drove to the place in question. There is nothing there except { one building. A sort of country store in one half and the other half where they sell soft drinks over the counter and a juke box for music. I couldn't find out much about the name, A man who might have told me had re- cently died. On the day I was there they were having a sale of his holdings. They admitted receiving a letter from yon some time ago, but due to this sickness and death didn't get round to answering it. From appearance I should say it had never been more than a country store and one- time postoffice. In these days of automobile iravel, my guess is that within a few years it - a La Fosstono MAKNOMEN will not even have a name, but be just a recollection. I am sorry I cannot give you more information . . . ' { We were indeed deeply grateful | to receive so complete a letter. It! added the personal touch of a first hand observer to what we had already gleaned. By this time we were fairly clear about the place. From the Washington Postal authorities, we | learned that Oshawa had been es- tablished as a Post Office on May 11, 1916, with John H. Luiten as Postmaster. That it had been dis- continued as a Post Office on Oc- tober 15, 1944. Yet while these dates are very recent, no lone {seemed to know why it was call- ed 'Oshawa'. Even the secic tary of the Council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians had said in his neatly typed letter, that Ie Jgew of no such place in the ate. However, our search was not | yet over. We were anxious to get pictures as tangible evidence of the geographical existence of 'this little spot which for a while had bore the name of the city of which we are so proud. But this necessitated more letters -- even a couple of telegrams. But at last we received a letter from Mr. Melvin Ray, the prezent owner of the store -- indeed, the only building at Oshawa. He ery kindly sent snapshot negatives from which three views of the building and intersecting roads at -- let us call it for old times sake-- the Four Corners of Oshawa, io- nesota, appear on this page. But more than that, he also men 'oned when offering a reason for the name, that it was principally due to the suggestion of a Mr. Daniel DeLury, a Canadian, who still prac- tised as a lawyer at Walker, Minn. Here, most unexpectedly, we were at long last coming to the very nub of our original i eres'. Moreover, memory trickled back- wards. From other notes and ~-ad- ing we faintly recalled that some vears ago, a DeLury family 'ved in Oshawa. Thus there gleamed the faint probability that Mir. D-niel DeLury of Walker, the county town of Cass County, not far ro Oshawa, Minnesota, might have had some connection with Oshawa, Ontario. THE SPONSOR REVEALED We immediately wrote to Mr. DeLury. Promptly. by return ma, we welcomed his reply. So clear is it in explanation that we cuofe directly the opening paragraphs of his most kind response to our ques- tions: "The circumstances were as follows. Some 40 years ago the lands in that vicinity, formerly Chippewa Indian territory, were being taken up and de- veloped by settlers. Fields were being cleared and roads built. The virgin soil yielded enor- mous crops of clover hav and clover seed. The settlers around about needed a postoffice and store and as I was then a mem- ber of the State Legislature, I assisted them fin procuring these conveniences. When it came to finding a name for the post office, most of the settlers, having in mind their valuable farm product, desired the name "Clover". But some wanted an Indian n3me. However, the petition for "Clover" was turned down by the Postal authorities as there was already ano'her postoffice of that name, in the State. They then asked me to ONTARIO { KOOCHICHING 4 » S. Intemational Falls - LF y J 5 Cerne Bony PROP 1 SA OTTER TAL fp - \ [} - CROW WING ' MORRISON WLatle Falls Center | FANDOM! - @ Wilmer Meliose Cold Spring© STEARNS OPaynesiille r 3 J 'ou! LOW MEDICINE Granite J Falls nby ~ | OS: James | WATONWAN [ LES ser pot gomery by] AY Je Sueur © Northfield | t. Petergh Le Siew 3 === CgMankst \ Oke Comal 1 Mapleton ! BLUE EARTH | WASECA Hr . ! Mand Owatonne, fo Bi iPrain - 3 ---- N. Menkio. > © Janesvil Werlca FREEBORN Beri Lee - L ") Diagram of portion of the State of Minnesota, U.S.A., at approx- mate scale of 1'--40miles. The 'Oshawa' in question may be lo- cated slightly above centre of the sketch. Shown also from North downwards are, Rainy River, P SHOWS TOWNS LOCATION Ont., Redby, Bemidji, Walker, Backus, Brainerd and Minneap- olis, severally referred to in the accompanying article. Various larger lakes are indicated, but there are many more than shown in this improvised map. Oshawa until their death, . . . The name was submitted and eventually the Postal Depart ment gave its approval. . .."" So there in cold print, warmed by the personal touch of the spon- sor himself, we learn at last why our name was adopted in this dis- tant place. It was an Indian name. It had a pleasing sound. It was short and easy to use. But it also arose from the home-loving recol- lections of a one-time native of this part of the Province of Ontario. | VOCABULARY INCREASED | But although the Post Office has since been cloz d and its act ties transferred to the nearby bustling \ ilage oi Ba &« ul word "Oshawa" will probably ling- er long in that part of . ..nnesoia. Instead of a place name, it is now a noun, synonymous with the chief produet of that agricultural | countryside. | Again quoting from Mr. DeLury's |letter, we learn further: | #. .. As I have said, the name "Oshawa'" was disti ctly Indian in sound. Now the In- dian tongue of this part of the country had no name for clover and clover was their rich crop. So with the consent of the In- dian Chi¢ftains on their reser- vation near here, I added a word to the Indian vocabulary, 'oshawa', meaning 'clover'. And the Indian farmers now call their clover crop 'oshawa' find some other name, prefer- ably an Indian one. Running over a long list of names back in my old Proviice of Ontario, I thought of "Osh- awa'. The name appealed to me. My grandfather lived there when he came over from Ire- land. My father MNved there until he moved some 30 miles north, to Manilla, My father's brother and sister lived on in Well, as will be seen from the cross roads, the little place, what- ever the original hopes, never be- came a community, as such, with churches and homes and schools and stores, nestling comfortably together for mutual support. Ap- parently, it just wasn't to be. As lumbering ceased and ground cleared, the farms became more (more roads and a State Highway gave ready access to the nearby community of Backus, an already established village. Thus, even the Postoffice ceased to function in 1944. And now nothing is left but the small store-eum-gas station, a memory and a word added to the Indian vocabulary. A FRESH DISCOVERY Now after all this meandering about the origin of a place-name, the reader is probably justified in believing that this is a conclusion {of the whole matter. But no -- there is something else. True, an answer has been. given to the comment of those two readers men- tioned at the outset. It was their observations that caused all these inquiries to be made. This has been a story of the "Oshawa" to which they had reference. But arising out of our many, sometimes tedious and oftimes fruitless inquirieg, we have made | a discovery of ofir own. Or rather, | the discovery was thrust upon us. | Actually, there is--or rather was |-- yet another 'Oshawa'. Where? | Well, that's another story that may | be told some other day. Just now we are more concern ed to offer grateful thanks to Mr, Levi Johnston, Mayor of Brainerd; John Strensrud, Past - President {of the Rotary Club of Brainerd; | Miss Bernadette Becker, Librarian at the Bureau of Archives, Saint Paul, Minn.; Chief Inspector of Post Offices, 'Washington, D.C.; Mr. Melvin Ray, present owner the store at Oshawa; and Mr. | pictures of the 'four' corners" or Daniel DeLury, former member of the Minnesota State Legislature and still practising as attorney-at- law, in Walker, the County seat of Cass County. There may be others to whom we are indebted. but certainly {without the kindly help of these | people, the facts presented in this little story would not have been | spacious. Modern traffic warranted | available. special interest. They are ref and children. The High Commissioner for Re- | fugees extends international pro- tection to some 2,000,000 persons, mainly in Europe and China, and | develops, with governments, spe- | cialized agencies, and voluntary organizations, programs aimed at their permanent resettlement. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency aids the 880,000 Arab refugees from the Palestine hostilities. Refugees from the Ko- rean fighting are helped by the United. Nations Korean Recon- strucign Agency. 2 Many refugees are children-- ill, undernourished, ragged as well as Bomglets and often or- phaned. The United Nations Inter- national Children's Emergency Fund, set up to care for children desolated by the Second World War, whether refugees or not, has provided supplies, equipment, and technical training for the care of millions of children and mothers in 84 countries and territories. The organization has been recognized as a model in its co-operation with such specialized agencies as the World Health Organization, the In- ternational Labor rganization, the United Nations Educational, Scien- tific, and Cultural Organization, all of which are in the thick of the fight to put within the reach of far more than half the population of the world the basic elements of a decent standard of living. FOR DEPENDENT PEOPLES pted by Members of the United Nations responsible for administer- ing non-self governing territories, just as preparation of the people for self-government or independ- ence is one of the basic objectives of the United Nations Trusteeship System. ' The welfare and progress of all these people -- 20,000,000 in the Trust Territories and 150,000,000 in the non-self-governing territories -is the. deep concern of the Unit- ed Nations, through which the world is kept alive and sympathe- tic to their aspirations and rapid advancement, Thus, many dependent territories --some in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean, and others scattered about the vast waters of the Pacific--are entering a new era in which political, economic, and social influences are effect- ing dramatic changes. a territories are under the Trusteeship ' System. Every year the several Administering Author- ities of those Trust Territories re- port to the Trusteeship Council on the progress of their "wards." The Council also consider peti- tions from the territories and sends out visiting missions to sur- vey conditions on the spot. Member nations administering the other non-self governing terri- tories where 150,000,000 people live --most of them in Africa--also re- port annually on the economic, so- cial, and educational progress of those territories. In 1952; for ex- | i The development of self-govern- | m ent is one of the obligations ac- |information on 60 such territories. jail. (from a Stratford garage on Sept. A difficult post-war problem con- cerning special groups of Jepene-| ent peoples affected by the war-- the future of the former Italian | colonies in Africa--was settled by | the United Nations: Libya became ! an independent Trusteeship prep- | aratory to becoming independent | in 1960; and Eritrea was federat- | ed with Ethiopia. | In findi these formulas, the | United Nations took still further | steps in the evolution of colonial peoples toward independence. For, them, as for all the peoples of the earth, the United Nations is the instrument--the only existing in- strument -- by which man can achieve worldwide peace, justice, and progress. PLEADS GUILTY, REMANDED | WOODSTOCK, Ont. (CP)-Plead- ing guilty to two further charges | of false pretences, making a total | of 10 in Perth and Oxford to date, Robert Fraser, RR 2, Embro, Fri- | day was remanded in custody until Oct. 28 for sentence. He pleaded guilty to obtaining cash and gas 23 and to passing.a bad cheque for $25 for a used car in St. Mary's on Aug. 28 QUASH CONVICTIONS KITCHENER . (CP)--Convictions of besetting were quashed Friday against four truck drivers charged during last summer's strike. George Schmidt, toh rt one, Stewart Carter and James Elliot | U.S. Business Picking Up In Cheerful Climate By FRANK O'BRIEN WASHINGTON (CP) ~The United States economy has turned down a little from its towering peak of last spring and the Eisen hower administration has put its 'economic climate" theory at work tu keep the dip from being a plunge. Abruptly, the administration has switched from the emphasis formerly put on balancing the budget next year to foreshadowin, possibly continued red ink spend- ing. Fhe federal reserve system has made money easier to get by de- creasing interest rates thereby lowering™"the cost of doing business. There are indications business may be perking up in the more cheerful climate. INFLATIONARY SECURITIES Among other government remed- ies, the new administration has re- laxed, temporarily at least, its "hard dollar" program. The treas- ury has been borrowing on short- it | inflationary, term securities, the kind Eisen- howe theorists call inflationary. This is part of the 'economic climate" theory of the new ad- ministration. Eisenhower economic advisers believe the economy can be boosted or slowed down much as a plant's growth can be speeded or retarded by the climate around it. Unbalanced budgets, they hold, are nding to stimulate a drooping economy. The other half of the economie climate treatment for an economy showing signs of wilt comes from the federal reserve system, which controls the money supply. Last spring, government and pri- vate borrowing put a big strain on the money supply at a time when the reserve system had tightened up on the increase in money and credit. Interest rates shot up to 20-year highs, causing some bus- iness expansion deferments. government spe d business slowed up quarter. LECTURED IN LAW TORONTO (CP)--John Joh he was a lecturer law at Osgoode Hall. 52, senior assistant city solicitor and for 30 years a me ' ample the United Nations received had been sentenced to a week in [the legal department at City hall, died Friday. Born in- Morrisburg, NEEDS COQL The true salmon in waters of the 0 phere.