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RCAF TO GET SIX NEW HELICOPTERS The Piasecki H21A helicopter, six of which will be delivered to the RCAF early in the new year. of the largest helicopters now being built, H21A is fitted with ominiphibious | type landing gear, capable of landing on snow, swamp, land or the Piasecki | water, and will be used by the RCAF for rescue operations. Over 52 feet in length, with twin- | | rotors driven by a single high | THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combinin: The Oshawa Limes and Whitby Gazette ana Chronicle OSHAWA VOL. 12--No. 302 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1953 WHITBY PAGE THREE Four Minor Traffic Accidents Reported Blackstock Postmaster Marks Silver Jubilee On Tuesday, December 22, 1953 ery passed away in the fall of ql | | | Cartwright Gem a milestone in the History of Black- stock was reached when Charles G. Venning, Postmaster, and his wife, Ella Venning, as his capable assistant, completed twentysfive years of faithfyl service to this nity. In the first ye of this period the Christmas Sale of Stamps was between 1000 and 2000, and Mrs. Venning reports that this Christ- 4 _ | mas season the sale of stamps is horse-power engine, the cabin around 15,000 mark. of the Piasecki H21A can be fitted For about a two year period in with either 12 litters or 20 seats. 1941 and 1942, Mr. Alex. Gilbert, (National Defence Photo) |a assistant, had the Post-Office 7,500,000 Units In 1953 From U.S. Auto Plants | panies. It also started a series of (of the larger of the car makers. rumors about other impending con- | Most of the smaller companies cut '"indepen- | back their output schedules earl- By DAVID J. WILKIE * DETROIT (AP)--The tremend- ous production capacity of the auto industry was demonstrated again in 1953. Despite labor troubles and other factors that interrupted the flow of parts from its supply sources the industry will show unit output from U.S. plants of approximately 6,200,000 passenger cars and more than 1,200,000 trucks and coaches this year. That volume tops any previous 's output in the industry's his- excepting the record 1950 when slightly more than 8,000,000 vehicles were built. Outstan events of the year for the car included: - Cancellation ahd Stretch ons military contracts. 2. Kaiser Motors (Kaiser Frazer) Buichase of Willys Motors (Willys- ), for $62,000,000. 3. An o0.000.000 fire that de- neral Motors' hydra- transmission plant in Liv- onia, near Detroit. 4. GM's purchase of the Willow Run wartime bomber plant from Kaiser Motors for $26,000,000 continue hydra-matic transmission uction 5. Removal of goverment con- trols that enabled eral Motors, Ford and Chrysler to increase their over-all percentage of the industry's output. 6. Protests fro dealer ustry was associations that the over-producing. DEFENCE JOBS CANCELLED Military contract cancellations affected virtual every auto maker. Hardest hit were those with tank and aircraft contracts. The Kaiser purchase of Willys brought together the youngest and ret, solidations of so-called dent" aufo makers. Tacitly confirmed were negotia- tions for a projected merger be- tween Nash Motors and Hudson Motor Car Co. to bring together two concerns with assets in ex- cess of $320,000,000. The fire that destroyed General Motors' transmission plant shut off automatic transmissions for GM's Cadillac, Oldsmobile and Pontiac divisions and several non-GM us- ers. GM solved its immediate prob- lem by switching temporarily to another type of transmission for its own three divisions. More spectacular, however, was the speed with which it got back into production of, hydra-matics in space rented from Kaiser Motors at Willow Run. Just 12 weeks after the fire wrecked the Livonia plant ine loos, it had transmissions mov- ing out of Willow Run in limited quantities. OUTPUT CUT 100,000 Authoritative sources estimated to [the shortage of automatic trans- missions resulting from the fire cost the industry about 100,000 pro- duction units in October. However, growing new car in- ventories in dealers' hands and the imminence of model changeovers forced the industry to cut back its roduction schedules in November. ts projections for November went down by considerably more than 100,000 vehicles from October. Removal of governmental con- trols on production early 'in the year was quickly followed by an upsurge in the production volume one of the oldest of the auto com- and damaged thousands of mach- | | September and hal ier in the summer because their dealers were overstocked. The latter weeks of the year brought many protests from dealer organizations that factory output exceeded their retail market. They said sales were being made only through price slashing and over- allowances on trade-ins. Auto industry executives picture | the year ahead as the most com- | petitive since before the war but offering a market for from 5,250, 000 to 5,500,000 new cars. "BIG THREE" BATTLE Most industry analysts are pre- dicting a terrific squeeze on the so-called 'independent' companies through 1954. The big competitive | battle, of course, will be among | |'the industry's "big three" of Gen- eral Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Some of the industry's leading sales authorities have said there is nothing wrong with the retail | market that all-out sales efforts will not cure. Others are saying the merchandising division will | make money in the first half of | the year but wil have to fight | hard to break even in the latter | alf. The industry has attractive mod- els for the 1954 sales campaigns. | {For the most part relatively few major ng and engineering changes have been made. However there is more than ordinary em- phasis on interior and exterior colors and color combinations. In the industry's engineering department right now are move V-8 engines of increased horse- power, scheduled for introduction in 1955 models. Also in early stages of construction are several luxury models. " Third Bumper Crop In Row Brings Riches--Trouble By A. B. GARRETT Canadian Press Staff Writer WINNIPEG (CP)--Fears of fail- wre turned to problems of plenty for western wheat farmers in 1953. The early *g peered on a w posed a at to the season's growth. But the picture Tapaly changed to an- other extreme with record rains over many areas bringing the third successive bumper grain crop. The country's storage bins al- were bulging with 362,000, 000 bushels of wheat carried over initial payment--the remainder to be paid in later instalments as the | wheat exporter with total exports Canadian wheat board which sells [of a record 582,000,000 bushels. | all Canada's wheat, oats and bar- ley, completed mrketing. The board said things worked out better than expected. It gave these figures for the crop movement in bushels from Aug. 1 to Dec: 9, with comparative fig- ures for last year in brackets: Producer marketings -- 288,000,000 (358,000,000. Rail shipments out-- 276,000,000 294,000,000. Wheat, oats, barley eports -- 206,000,000 ) from 1952 when new grain began | (254,000000 from harvester spouts in August. The new crop was esti- mated at 594,000,000 bushels and Canada was confronted with twin : Where to store the Sra and where to sell it. RED IN FIELDS With country elevators congested farm granaries full, many farmers stored grain in open piles in the fields. One grain company estimated 58,000,000 bushels of wheat 3 were piled in the open at one e; At the outset farmers could de- diver only three bushels for each cultivated acre. They collected an In mid-December the delivery quota was raised to five bushels an acre and farmers rushed to con- vert stored grain to cash. In a single day they delivered more than 7,000,000 bushels of grain to western elevators. MARKETINGS NEAR NORMAL Chief Commissioner George Mc- Ivor of the wheat board said that possibly 325,000,000 bushels of grain could be delivered by the year end. He said this was close to the normal August-December market- ings for an average wheat crop. n the crop year ended July 31, Canxj regained her position as become important outlets: the world's leading grain and Officials were cautious in fore- casting the current crop year's trend. Up to Dec. 9, exports were run- ning 48,000,000 bushels behind last year's figure. Mr. Mclvor said 15,- 000,000 of the decline resulted from reduced shipments of low-grade wheat to.the United States: Low- grade supplies were not available. Other new factors included: Huge world wheat supplies which Stanley Jones, president of -the | Winnipeg grain exchange, said could mean a carryover of '1,400,- 000,000 bushels for the four princi- pal exporters next July; an in- crease of more than 40,000,000 bushels in continental Europe's wheat production, increased mech- anization in European agriculture; the decision of the United States to sell subsidized wheat on the world market. In the face of this, Canada--still producing the world's best milling wheat--sought new markets. Mr. Mclvor said Asia, Central and South America and Africa have Forecast Lower Prices For Food In Six Months OTTAWA (CP)--Pigs, hens and rent collectors made things tough for the housewife in her daily battle against living costs in 1953. But the pressfire on her purse may ease. Federal experts fore- cast lower food prices in 1954. Retail prices seemed to be in the buyer's favor in the first half of as living costs continued the decline started early in 1952. Half-way through 1953, food and other prices began to perk up. Living-cost increases in the latter half eliminated all the drops in the first half and pushed the cost-of- living yardstick to where it was the spring of 1952. FOOD PRICES UP Causes were varied, but higher prices for foods and rents were 'mong the main factors. Pork and 3g prices rose to a two-year high. ents touched a peak. The consumer price index, bar- ometer for measuring living costs, reflected the 1853 slide and bounce. From the record high of 118.2 Jan. 2, 1952, it dropped to 115.7 Jan. 2,[ 1953. By May 1, the index had slid to 114.4, lowest in almost two years. By Nov. 1 it was back to 116.2, highest in 16 months and a half-point higher than the Jan. 2 level. In the United States, living costs reached an all-time high. In Canada they were still below the 118.2 record. Inflationary forces iseemed to be on the march, but they retreated. Price softening was on its way at the year end. During November the index dropped a half-point, mainly because of lower food prices. Federal food experts, at the an- nual federal-provincial agricultural conference in November, forecast lower prices in 1954 for meats, eggs, fruits, potatoes and grain. Bigger supplies of pork--which helped push living costs higher in 1953--are likely to be on the market in the latter part of 1954. EXPENSIVE BACON The high price of pork resulted from, the large United States mar- ket for Canadian supplies. There was a smaller market for beef and subsequently a price drop. But those who liked bacon for break- fast had to pay the highest prices in history. On the basis of 1949 prices equal- ling 100, the bacon sub-index rose to 127.2 Oct. 1 from 73.9 Oct. 1, 1952. The pork loin sub-index rose to 121.6 from 102.3. Generally, the food index re- flected the over-all cost-of-living | lin his general store, which is now | Saywell's. This was when Charlie, CNR Revenue Behind 1952 MONTREAL -- The diminishing | volume of traffic moved by the! railways is again reflected in the monthly report of the Canadian Na- tional system's. income and ex- pense statements for the month of | November and aggregate figures for the 11 months of the qurrent | year. In November, for the second con- secutive month, operating reven- ues were behind the corresponding | period of 1952. Expenses continued | to exceed those of last year, due | principally to heavy increases in the railway's wage bill in 1953. I Operating revenues for the Cana- | dian National System, all inclusive, | for the month of November 1953 | with $55,061,000 for the same month | last year. In the same period, operating expenses rose to $51,557,- 000 against $49,969,000 a year ago. The result is a decrease of $3,743,- 000 in net revenue for the month. Aggregate figures for the first 11 months of 1953 show a drop in net | revenue of $11,254,000. These figures are the operating | revenues and expenses only and do not include taxes, equipment rentals and fixed charges. { Auto Output | Off Sharply Canadian automotive production dropped sharply last week, because of the Christmas holiday, but the year's total figures to date set an all-time record, says Ward's Auto- motive Reports. The statistical agency reported a 26 percent "decrease in Canadian assembly last week, with 6,509 units built, compared to 8,852 a week earlier. To date, 477,010 cars and trucks' have been built this year. The count is almost 12 percent higher | than the corresponding period a| year ago, when 427,567 cars and | trucks were produced. U.S. production, the Ward report says, followed the same pattern, | with holidays in the major plants cutting overall production to 30 percent below the previous week's totals. Brandon Editor Dies In Harness BRANDON (CP)--The 'sprightly humor of William Noakes which brightened the editorial page of randon Daily Sun for more than J0~years will no longer ap- pear in prifs The 82-year-old dean of western newspaper men and editor of the Sun, whose column, 'Sun Gleams," brought chuckles to readers who is a First World War Veteran, joined the armed forces in the Sec- ond World War and had the great misfortune of breaking his back during manouevers. The late Edward Montgomery | was the previous Postmaster and erved 'in this capacity for 20 years. The office was a small building attached to the east side eof the | family residence on the corner, | Dr. McKibbon, | Henry property. which is now the home of Mrs. William Van Camp. Mr. Montgom- {It was levelled by fire, and Mr. 1928 and his daughter Mrs. Amy Fitchett carried on until Charlie Venning took over in December. In February of 1929, Mr. Ven- ning established the Post Office in the front part of the building which is now the Marlow Transport Com- pany Mill. Then in December of 1938 the office was moved to its present location on Church Street. Previous to Mr. Montgomery, was Robert Philp who was Post- master for a short period in a small building on the property which we know as that of the late Mrs. Albert Henry. Mr. Philp mov- ed to Burketon village at the death of his wife. | Before that, R. H. Prust was | the village Postmaster, a position | he held for a long time. He had a | Tailor shop and Post-office com- bined on the property where Mr. Leslie Mountjoy now has his home. Prust and his family moved to the large white brick house which had been built and occupied by a later the Albert (Port Perry Star) Polio Vaccine Heads List of Top U.S. Medical Achievements of 1953 NEW YORK --- The development a promising vaccine against in- which succeed- of fantile paralysis, ed last year's discovery that the | blood derivative gamma globu- lin is capable of providing tempor- | amounted to $52,906,000, compared | ary protection against polio, was rated by experts as the top U.S. medical achievement of 1953. Mass field trials of the new vaccine, de- | veloped by Dr. Jonas E. Salk, are | planned for next year. Preliminary tests indicate that it mav nrot~-t inoculated children, for three years or longer, against the three known | types of polio virus. Another important advance in the fight against viruses -- the minute causative agents of polio, the com- {mon cold and a variety of other dieseases -- was scored through the development of a new tech- nique for culturing the germs. The new method, worked out by Prof. Renato Dulbecco and Dr. Marg- aret Vogt, study the effect of drugs on indiv- idual viruses, and makes it possible for the first time to observe direct. ly the action of the microoganism on living cells. In the field of biochemical re- search, experts believe that the che ical synthesis of oxytocin, one o sents an achievement of far-reach- ing significance. The substance. secreted by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, plays a vital role in childbirth and may have other essential functions. Oxytocin is the first hormone belonging to a group of complex substances call- | ed polypeptides ever to be produc- ed outside a living body. Its syn- thesis, a feat that culminates 20 | years of research, was accomplish- ed by a team of scientists headed by the renowned biochemist Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud. A major development in basic research. is also represented by the discovery of the mechanism where- by the body converts fats into en- ergy, one of the most fundamental of physiological processes. This ac- complishment, which is expected to shed light on many important medical problems related to body chemistry, was announced by Dr. David E. Green and his colleagues. Continued progress in the therapy of infectious disease was marked by the discovery of new types of antibiotics and other infection-fight- ing agents. For example, a drug highly effective against schistoso- | | tered a he body's important hormones | jor 'chemical regulators', repre- throughout Canada, died Sunday in his sleep. Mr. Noakes had appeared in good health while spending Christmas with his family. Wednesday, he had prepared editorials for today's paper. Born in Burwash, Sussex, Eng- land, in 1871, Mr. Noakes started in the publishing business as an artist and * engraver. He later worked in Ireland, the United States and Canada as a reporter, feature writer, desk man, press bureau editor and newspaper edi- or. The newspapers and news ser- vices where Mr. Noakes worked nel uded: Hastings Observer, Eng- j : and; Lancashire Daily Post, Pres- trend. This column, which had ton; Hull Daily Mail: Belfast Fre reached a peak of 122.5 Dec. 1, ing Telegraph; Toronto News; Ot- 1951, dropped to 113.5 'Jan. 2, 1953. |tawa Journal; Rochester Post-Ex- ® : |press Ottawa Citizen; Western By May 1 it had slipped to 110.1. | Associated Press, Winnipeg; . Re- Then it bounced to 115.5 Oct. 1, gina Leader; The Canadian Press: highest in a year, retreating to|and the Brandon Sun. 1134 Nov. 1. CHRISTMAS BONUS STEADY RENT INCREASE wR GRESLEY, England | Rents, meanwhile, continued to | --rousewives came out with, rise Stoadily Fhe Shober index, | Sacks, baskets and buckets to | covering rents and home-ownership Scoop Ww free coal after workers | costs, which rose 3.1 points in the | 1% this Derbyshire village, looking | first 11 months of 1952, increased | OF an old drain, struck a coal by another 2.7 points in the first |>"2 Sieh 11 months of 1953, rising to a new | WAY DOWN high of 125. A group of explorers set a ver- One consolation to the rentpayer tical descent record by going down was that pace of the increases |1510 feet in a Pyrenees canyon seemed to be declining. It may |in 1951. ng ..| BIRTHDAYS its housing construction. | Other cost-of-living changes were | Congratulations are extended to Mrs. Fred Beadle, 188 Or- relatively small. Medical costs | were higher, but cigaret prices were lower. Clothing showed little change, but the cost of running a house, including laundry bills, was | chard View Boulevard, Osha- wa, who is celebrating her birthday today, Dec. 28; also to Everett A. Lovell, 67 Rossland Road East, who celebrated his a shade higher. | Dixtuiay yesterday, Dec mber | ENR | The household operations column | edged to 117.4 Nov. 1 from 116.5 Jan. +2. It was just one-tenth of a point from the all-time high of 117.5 Oct. 1. LET'S rALK oe By REG. AKER and FRANK DOWNEY We have nothing to talk over, except the staff at Schofields wishes every one @ Happy New Year SCHOFIELD INSURANCE ASSOCIATES LTD. 6 Simcoe St. N. Dial 3-2265 Hit By Auto Drunken Man Leaves Scene of Accident Four post-Christmas accidents were on police rec- ords this morning. No one was injured in any of them. Late Christmas night, at 11.30, two 16-year-old drivers were involv- ed in an accident opposite number 16 on King Street West. Howard Aldred, 16, of 125 West- mount Avenue, Oshawa, pulled out from the north curb on King Street West opposite number 16 and struck the fender of a passing car driven by Alvin D. Puckrin, 16, RR 2 Whitby. On Saturday about 5.45 p.m. Wil- liam Hall Ross, 179 King Street East, reported striking a drunken | man as he made a left turn from | Albert Street on to Athol Street. | He said the man staggered into the path of his car. Although knocked down, the man was apparently not urt and knowing that the police had been called, he left the scene. Saturday night at 11.40, a col- lision on Simcoe Street South was investigated. A car belonging to Charles Gerace, 195 Simcoe Street South was parked in front of that address, facing north on the east side of the street. A northbound car, driven by Louis Zuly, 936 Simcoe Street North, 'collided with the parked vehicle. Zuly was reported to have been drinking considerably. His wife, a passe.ger in the car, said she had asked him not to drive and had tried to advise him of his condition. The right front fender, wheel, headlight and bumper of the Zuly car were damaged. The left rear fender of the Gerace car was damaged. Harvey Lunney, 22, Bowmanville, and Albert Heer, 28, of 273 Frénch Street, Oshawa collided at the in- tersection of William and Mary Streets yesterday. Heer said he was going south on Mary Street and could not stop for the red light. He went past the corner and hit Lunney's vehicle which was travel ling east on William Street East. Damage to the Lunney car was estimated at $300. Estimated dam- age to Heer's vehicle was $100. LONDON, Ont. (CP)--The 33rd Oshawa Represented At Ont. Boys' Parliament opening and will take part in miasis, a worm infestation which | session of the Ontario Older Boys' |leadership training courses, Bible is rapidly becoming one of world's top public-health problems, was revealed by Drs. Sidney Arch- | er and C. M. Suter. The drug is re- | lated to the German anti-schistoso- | miastis compound Miracil D, but is potent, In relation to antibiotics, the major emphasis fell upon broad- range drugs sugh as terramycin, which continued to score striking | successes against a host of infec- ions ranging from pneumonia to | | dysentery. In addition to broaden- ing their horizons in human medi- | cine--as exemplified by the report | that in 1953 the list of diseases known to yield to terramycin pass- | ed the 100-mark -- antibiotics en- new area of usefulness through the conquest of hitherto- incurable plant diseases by ter- An operation for the repair of | | defects in the wall between the two | lower chambers of the heart was one of several important achieve- | ments in heart surgery announced ! during the year. The procedure, | which uses a hollow nylon needle | to close the defect, was developed | by Drs. Harris B. Schumacher and | Harold Kind. High doses of X-rays from a| new 2,000,000-volt x-ray machine | were found to show particular! promise against advanced lung | cancer. According to Drs. Hugh F. | Hare and John Trump, promising | results were observed due to this | therapy in more than half of 23| "hopeless" cases. | LESS HOPS Canada's 1953 crop of hops was | valued at $1,036,000, or about 27 | | per cent below 1952. the | Parliament opened here Saturday |study night to map out a program for youth groups sponsored by Protest- ant churches in Ontario. The 'speech from the throne" said the parliament will be asked | said to be 16 times safer and more |to approve a budget of $25,000 for increase of $8,000 over 1954--an 1953--to expand the program. Premier William Dowdell, 21, of Windsor said he will seek approval to double the present boys' work program, Some 100 boys, representing a membership of 6,000, attended the periods and discussion groups during the six-day session. Leader of the opposition is Erie Snider, 19, of Harcourt. The government reported that the Ontario boys' work board spon- sored 30 camps in 1953 and was in direct contact with 394 boys' groups, Christian youth councils were held in seven areas and a province-wide public speaking con- test was held. T. M. Palmer of North Bay, chairman' of the board, welcomed the parliament. Charmed Blue Bloods LONDON (Reuters) -- 'Major" Arthur H. Rowson, 37, whose suave way of charming wealthy London women almost landed him a lucrative contract to make Amer- ican TV films, is settling down to seven years in prison. Rowson posed as a big-time pro- ducer from Hollywood and his line with the ladies: "I find you very lovely. Would you care for a screen to" His chief victims were: 1. Lady Liane Winston-Davis-De- marris, whom he fleeced of nearly $3,000 after promising to get her into the movies. 2. Margot Garcia, 24, heiress to a drug company's millions. Row- son talked her out of nearly $3,500 for a "screen test" and investment in his 'film company." Night-club singer . Brunhilde 'With Movie Star Offers | ramycin and streptomycin. ! enables scientists to | y D yer Jorns. He met her in Germany on a "scouting" trip, evaluated her lush brunette charms and gave her the "I'll put you in big lights" line to the tune of nearly $900. ONE SPECTACULAR "NO" During the fraud trial, which ended here Tuesday, it was dis- closed that the smooth-talking de- fendant had one spectacular fail- ure. His screen test technique com- pletely flopped in the case of blonde Lady Carey Coke, 19. Lady Carey's mother, the Countess of Leicester, gave him a firm "No." Rowson had done so well in penetrating the blue-blood inner circle of London that he had al- most persuaded a Hollywood firm (to give him a contract to make TV pictures here, the court was told. SNARES ENE NRE § casion NEW YEAR'S EVE. CORSAGES Flowers make a "date" an oc- and there's no occasion in the year more ap- propriate for a lovely corsage of flowers than on New Year's Eve. Make it a point to send your _ladyfair a fresh fragrant corsage from R. B. Reed and Sons, florists. Phone right away CORSAGES OF ROSES, CARNATIONS, MUMS $3.00, $4.00, $5.00 ORCHIDS and GARDENIAS -R.B.REED & FLORISTS 102 King St. West Phone 5-1131