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THOUGHT FOR TODAY MH scientists succeeed in boring a hole to the centre of the earth, it will be interesting to know if their drills struck a pitchfork. dhe Oshawa Time WEATHER REPORT Hot and humid tonight, Friday mainly sunny and a little cooler with less humddity. VOL. 88--No. 176 OSHAWA, "THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1959 Authorized As Second Class Mail Department, Post Office TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES is a i ack garden of W A DERAILED CN FREIGHT C. Brown train sent steel cars crashing down an embankment into the Mom Whyte Must Pay | Wednesday. Mr. with AT PORT HOPE Brown, | at 69 Shuter street, Port Hope, | Train Wreck | ® pe EXPLOSIONS RAC TWO CITIES IN U, Stadium In Etobicoke | | PORTLAND, Conn. (AP)--Ex- TORONTO (CP)--Reeve Ozzie Waffle of suburban Etobicoke] Township said today Etobicoke is prepared to supply a $4,000,000 stadium for major league base- ball. He said the site would provide . |a 35,000-seat park and have ac-| i | cess both by expressway and pub- 4 "a /] lic transportation. '"We have been | working on a stadium project for| six months," he added, "and ma-| jor league ball is all we need to put it over." He asked Jack Kent Cooke, ¢ |president of the Maple Leaf ball % | - from the back wall of his home. --Times staff pnoto by Macdonald Police Nab 2 Suspects 'Quick-thinking by an Oshawa policeman Wednesday night led | an unidentified neighbor, is seen surveying the wreckage which finished up only a few feet |der bright skies, the Queen and | Prince Philip boarded the royal club, to submit a proposal. ¥rneD C.. RICHARDSON Queen Sees Gay P.E.L CHARLOTTETOWN (CP)--Un-, Shortly before the Queen and Prince Philip landed at this| barge bound for the yacht Britan- | ploding chemicals shook two com- § munities today and lit up the pre- |dawn sky as flames destroyed a kl chemical distributing depot. Thirteen tanks of industrial | chemicals exploded in the blaze, | which a fire official said appar- |ently began accidentally, No deaths or injuries were re- ported. The biggest blast, which | knocked sleepers from their beds| 'lere and in Middletown across {the Connecticut River, came when a 13,000-gallon tank of al- cohol went off. The flames at times burst like rocket blasts 500 feet high. Flam- ing debris was scattered over a wide area. Sparks showered in every direction, even landing en some private homes. Between 20 and 100 families were evacuated temporarily from their homes, a few aged persons in ambulances. HON JOHN W. FOOTE, V.C, Ex-Minister Appointed Registrar | 755. to tm.a: liam Ackerman said of the first the company, Philipps h Chemical Company Ine estimated the loss of mately $500,000. He said the company lost 000 in chemical stock, The which employs 14 persens,is ia effect a warehouse. It chemicals, recuts them and-ye- ships them, The depot hosed a ndustsiat chemicals, bout 1,000 drums of i The plant is located almost-um. der the 100-foot-high Middletow Portland highway bridge, a link in a mid-Connecticut to Providence, R.I. The was closed to traffic for hours. iis 3) Mugford said fumes from the acetic acid could be dangerous, There were also 3,000 to pounds of cyanide in the Mugtord added. He said there from the fumes in the air atthe moment, : id not appear to be any threat Resident state Policeman" Wil COBOURG (Staf) -- Possibly|scene. for the first time in the history| C. Albert Mugford, manager of "It knocked me and half- town out of bed." nd to the arrest of two teenage sus-| pects in the clubhouse of the| Downsview Golf Course. Constable Stan Hodgson, on a routine check of the club house, Laundry Bill Injures Two Bertha (Mom) Whyte said Wed- Bal HORE Jill) Tor he Seratiment a found the south window broken nesday night two of the prob-| T a pas er in land the bars bent to allow entry. | lems that have hindered her|taken to Port Hope hospital early route from Toronto to Montreal s chesterfield was drawn to the| Whytehaven mission since an out. | this morning after a cable snap- had passed on the adjacent tack.| window and a set of footprints Break of infectious hepatitis two|Ped during clearing operations at| Freight No, 406 was Toronto-|was visible. | weeks ago have been solved tem-|the scene of a train wreck which d out of Belleville, It com:| Const. Hodgson called head-| porarily, - occurred Wednesday, prised five diesel locomotives quarters and Det.-Sgt. Geo. Mc-| Five friends from Wi ars; A. R. Wilson, in * > rive and 93 cars. The first derailed|Cammond arrived. 'wived Wednesday night arge operations, and car was twenty-third in the train.| Hodgson crawled through the| 'the staff rn Ag Clarke, train master, were ad- Prince Edward Island capital right on time today at 11:10 a.m. ADT (10:10 a.m. EDT). They had made a leisurely overnight voy- age on the royal yacht Britannia from Point du Chene, N.B. The Britannia = anchored two miles out in the roadstead and the Queen's barge made the trip into the harbor through a elus- ter of white » winged pleasure boats. oH At the jetty she was greeted by Lieutenant-Governor F. Walter Hyndman and Premier A. W. Matheson. The premier, Canada's nia and an overnight trip to Char- lottetown, they talked with 25 widows and mothers of men and youths lost in the disaster. Clus- tered around the sad - faced women were some 66 of the 83 children surviving the storm deaths. mahand of the province, an ordained min- ister has been appointed a coun- ty sheriff and registrar. Hon. Jon. W. Foote, VC, former min-| ister of penal reform institutions) in Ontario, who resigned his post, and then finally resigned his seat as the b for Durham The Queen and her had comforting words for the be- |reaved women, some of whom were in tears. The Queen asked Mrs. Chiasson about her family, ranging in age from seven fnonths to 18 years. Bernard Jenkins, who saved A total of 61 cars were towed broken window and started to the Ontarlo welfare department| mitted to hospital about 1.30 a.m, has agreed to assume the cost of | today. doing the mission's laundry. | Wilson was treated for a broken Earlier Wednesday Mrs. Whyte|leg and chest injuries, and re- bad accused the welfare depart-\mained in hospital overnight. ment of breaking its promise to|Clarke was released after exam- pay for the laundry service. A|ination of a foot injury. department spokesman said it| The accident occurred when a had no intention of providing alwrecked freight car was being continuous service but wanted to| raised from the track bed. The oe Sous back io Jornal tC overturned, and the cable 3 S she wi parted. Both men were struck welfare department officials see by an end of the cable. | her records, a reversal from her| Crews worked until 2 a.m. in previous stand. She had pre-|an effort io clear one track of the| viously turned two department|two - track line at Port Hope. | officials away and invited Wel-|after the derailment of nine cars| fare Minister Cecile to visit her|oecurred shortly after noon Wed- personally. re nesday. She said she is willing now to| Wrecked cars were strewn turn ove the mission records, across both tracks, blocking this preferably to Mr. Cecile, but if part of the main Toronto - Mont- not to him then to his representa- real line completely. Track was tives. ¥ ripped up for some 200 yards, Mr, Cecile said he was glad and evidence of damaged ties Mrs. Whyte had changed her could be found a quarter mile mind and would send someone to pack, indicating that a car had het iccion today or tomor- heen derailed for some distance. The department wants Mrs. JUST MISSED BY DROP Whyte to reduce to about 40 the| Scene of the accident is a few number of children she has at|hundred feet west of Hope street the mission, at present about 115. south in Port Hope just a quarter She has refused mile from downtown, and less back te Cobourg sidings, CNR traffic was eventually routed past via nearby CPR hiding behind a pop cooler. tracks, the first passenger train,| On the floor were packages of due westbound from Port Hope|cigarets and gum Hodgson was at 2.26 p.m. DST, passing at 3.20 about to enter the ladies' rest p.m. DST. room when the second youngster Cause of the derailment was at|came out with hands in air say- first attributed to a coupling|ing, "Here I am." drawbar which sheared loose, Later, Paul Burnett, 18, 154 fell to the track, and bounced & Roxborough avenue, and Ronald search the building. He checked the main room and found a youth tallest at six-foot seven, towered thiree fishermen by taking ieth over the Queen as they shook|aboard his L, was quesgione hands |by Prince Philip, who .sked At. 4 the size of the fishin At the dockside was a guard of Ebow thinking they were Hd honor and color party from the| owhoats, He was told they are Summerside RCAF. base and as|ycyally about 40 feet long. she landed an artillery salute of} Several women expressed their 21 guns was fired. ' | gratitude to the roy2! couple for After the brief ceremony at the seeing and talking to them and jetty Her Majesty began a 24-hour for their contribution, announced |several weeks ago, to the Escu- county in the legislature a few months ago, has been appointed sheriff and registrar for the United Counties of Durham and Northumberland. Detective Ken Young of eity police and approximately 12 courtroom spectators had a close escape from serious injury this The announcement was made in a telegram today, in which Attorney-General Kelso Roberts stated the appointment was made by a special order of the legislative council, Mr. Foote succeeds Fred C. Richardson, who has occupied| the position, for the past 14 years. Mr, Richardson is going back into private law practice. | Mr. Richardson came to Co-| bourg in 1931 to take over the| wheel over the rail. Wood, 17, 183 Roxborough ave- visit to the island province. Nobody was hurt in the acci-|nue, were charged with breaking The Queen was in bright sum- minac disaster fund which now ; d practice of the late Judge Frank dent, although at first it was|and entering. They were to ap- mery yellow with a white hat. |has passed the $275,000 mrk. Field. He continued to practice] morning in Magistrate's. Court. {when a bullet, accidentally dis- | charged from a "32 calibre pistol by Crown Attorney Alex Hall hit the courtroom carpeting and riocheted into the panelling in front of Mr. Hall's desk. There were startled cries from spectators and witnesses as the gun discharged shortly before Magistrate's Court opened. | The gun discharged in front of | Detective Young who was waiting| to speak to Mr, Hall. Thé Crown Attorney, experi- feared one person might have pear in court this morning. lost his life. era -------------------- POINT DU CHENE N.B. (CP) law in the town until 1945 when|enced at handling firearms, had he was appointed sheriff. He is|cocked the pistol and held it close Gun Discharged i In Courtroom is one time the safely paid off." An investigation. - be conducted by the Ontario vincial Police to find who brought the weapon to court. Ray Allen Wood, 38 Church street, charged with possession of an 'offensive weapon, was sen teneed to three years in Kings ston Penetntiary by Magistrate Frank Ebbs. The weapon, involved in the accidental discharge, was stoles by Woods from a Whitby home, Police said Woods threatened a youth who gave chase after thé breaking and entry of the house. Woods told the youth, "Stand back or I'll let you have it." Magistrate Ebbs said in view NO TRACE OF "PASSENGER" | This was a "hitch-hiker'" no- ticed riding in one of the open gondolas loaded with steel ingots which were part of the train. | |A tiny grey-haired woman in | black, surrounded by 12 of her 13 surviving children, sat on a {Northumberland Strait wharf {here Wednesday night and |blinked back the tears as she re- Stouffville Chief Will Not Resign SPONSOR PARTY MISSES BOAT BAY CITY, Mich. (AP)-- also well known in Port Hope| where he opened an office and| looked after the practice of H.| R. S. Ryan, QC, while Mr. Ryan was overseas. Mr. Foote will take over his Mrs. Lillian McCormick No trace of the man could be] STOUFFVILLE, Ont. (CP)-- ceived a sympathetic smile and missed the boat Tuesday-- {found in the wreck, but specu-| Police Chief Frank Edwards said kind words from Queen Eliza- new duties effective Aug. 1. to the floor, away from the spec- tators, as he pulled the trigger. T TIME Mr. Hall said later, "T always check out a pistol. This is the of Woods' long record, there was no alternative but to sentence Woods to the maximum sentence of three years on both counts of "breaking and entering and theft" and of "possessing an of- first time it has ever happ It is lucky I checked it out. This d.|fensive ."" The terms were to run concurrently. with the champagne bottle. The sponsoring party had to board a tug and follow the de- stroyer Lynde McCormick into the harbor for the chris- tening. The 4,500 - ton vessel is named after Mrs. McCor- mick's late husband, an ad- miral. {lation ended when nearby resi-| Wednesday night he will not re- beth. |dents reported seeing a much-|sign as police chief and chal-| It was a moment of solemnity shaken man leave a car not de-|lenged town council to hold an|that contrasted with the usually railed, and flee for the security open meeting to discuss the mat- gay atmosphere of the royal tour. of road hitch-hiking. ter. The woman was Mrs. Albert Serious damage to a nearby| Stouffville council July 9 held Chiasson of Baie Ste. Anne, N.B., house was narrowly avoided,|@ secret meeting and unani- whose husband, 17-year-old Son) when several cars plowed their | mously passed a resolution re- and three other relatives were! way to within yards of a house [questing the chief's resignation among 35 drow ned When a Foam owned by W, C. Brown, at 69 within 30 days, charging oppres- battered the fishing fleet off Es-| Shuter street. sive and tyrannical dizoipline. 'cuminae, N.B., June 19 and 20. K would be "breaking wy} than 400 yards from a 60-foot drop covenant with God' to let any of (from the Gamnaraska river via- the children go, she said. duct. Nixon Sees Mills, Mines, Hecklers SVERDLOVSK, Soviet Union beria be opened up to more for- (AP)---U.S. Vice - President Ri-|eign visitors and to more ideas chard Nixon took a long look to- from outside. day at heavy industry in Siberia,| Nixon told hecklers were in visiting a huge tube rolling mill |gyerdlovsk that Western radio and a copper mine near this city hroadcasts to them are being of 600,000 on the east slopes of ; the Ural Mountains. Jamel Sud that they dv, hot Mr. Brown said there was a noise like thunder for about three minutes, with the continuous sound of stones, pieces of timber, and small pebbles striking the house. Foster Parents Urgently Needed TORONTO (CP) -- The Chil-| dren's' Aid Society announced | By THE CANADIAN PRESS Blistering heat hit Ontario a {culty in finding foster homes for on the east and west coasts re- {its charges because of a sharp|laxed in idea! summer weather. increase in the number of young-| Stifling humidity and tempera- sters under care and a decline in{tures running into the high 80s prospective foster parents. fand low 90s were recorded in the nd Wednesday it is meeting diffi- Quebec again today while folks; central provinces. The west coast sat /in the mid-60s. Newfound- anders enjoyed 60-<degree read- gs. Even the 80-degree air which {covered most of the rest of Can- |ada would have been a relief for {the sweltering citizens of Ottawa High sjots of the nearly 11-hour, Pervouralsk mill and the Degty-| arsk mine. And Nixon also took | 2 long drive through the area surrounding Sverdlovsk, a centre for the production of strategic metals, armaments, chemicals and heavy machinery. Despite the hecklers who ed his footsteps Wednesday in Novosibirsk and again in Sver-| dlovsk, Nixon said his welcome! Two drownings within a few in the Soviet Union has been miles of each other featured the warmer than he expected, especi- rush to escape the extreme heat ally in Siberia, which has been a yesterday. At Tyrone, a small closed region to most foreign community just north of Osh- visitors. Thousands of Russians awa, Clifford Traviss, 18, of turned out in Novosibursk and nearby Enniskillen, a strong Sverdlovsk to applaud him. swimmer, lost his life in the old Nixon cancelled a dinner in his mil] dam pond Wednesday night. honor Wednesday night to work A few miles away, Jerry on a speech he will give from James 'Gall " / J s Gall, 6, drowned Wednes-| Moscow Saturday night over the av afternoon in Lake Scugog 2 Soviet radio and television net- a3 : |Scugog Island. Jerry, from Ux- work. In it he will urge that Si- |, idge, - was visiting relatives| (with his father and mother at| CITY EMERGENCY |" '™ PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 5 ESCAPE THE HEAT TYRONE (Staff) -- Tourists, | motorists and police last night| spent hours 'dragging for the| {body of Clifford Traviss, 18, who| with a party of friends from En-| |niskillen decided to go for al swim about 9 p.m. His brother| |brother, Clifford with the rest of| | Another member was Thornbeck, 14. {| It was stated that the youth : {was normally a strong swimmer, | Traviss was the son of Leonard |and had frequently used the old|/and Mrs. Traviss of Enniskillen {mill pond dam. According to his|and was the sixth of 17 children. PORT PERRY ry James Gall, 6, son of Mr. John |until about 7.30 a.m. today that {the body was discovered in about 110 feet of water, Seath) the party swam across the pond, |; a a distance of about a quarter of| y : and Mrs. Helen Gall, of Ux- a mile, and. then started back. {bridge Township, was drowned As he neared the bank on the wednesday afternoon in a slip 2 Drown Near Oshawa Gall were preparing to return home. Mrs. Gall was dressing Billy, 2, and Helen, 5, and started look- ing around for Jerry and his brother Larry, 11. | At this point another boy, Fred |Silk, 9, from a neighboring cot- [tage, came running up to the family and said that he had seen Jerry "swimming underwater'. Ontario Swelters In Stifling Heat |and Toronto where Wednesday's highs of 92 and 88 respectively |was expected to bc topped by tonight. {HOT IN MONTREAL | Quebec City and Montreal had their hottest July 29 on record | with no hope of relief until Fri- day at the earliest. A high of 94 broke a 5l-year- old mark of 89 in Quebec City while the 93 in Montreal was two | degrees over the 1931 record. For | Montreal it was the 16th straight | day of above-80 temperatures. The heat wave broke on the Prairies Wednesday. Afternoon temperatures in Winnipeg and | Regina dropped to 77. Tempera- | tures in the same range were ex- | pected today. British columbia temperatures varied from the 80s in the interior fo 60s on the coast. | In Nova Scotia many thunder- | storms were reported and tem-| peratures of about 80 were fore- cast for today. |ONE ONTARIO DEATH | The heat was held responsible | Iie fath Sion in Lak The family ran to the beach [for at least one death when a| 3 z Is father was dredging In Lake and searched the water for 1060-year-old construction worker | Was 10 1Roubie. td soine es [Scugog, minutes before Larry found the|in Barrie collapsed on the job. | appeared and help was sum-| VISITING RELATIVES boy's body ling in six feet of] A man in Windsor who tried to return trip, it was noticed he | moned. : cits water, about 15 feet from shore. |beat the heat by sleeping on a The family: was visiting rela second-storey veranda fell out of bed and suffered a possible frac- tured neck when he hit the |ground 25 feet below. | The risk of forest fires was {heightened by the general dearth | |of rain. A record 54 fires, all un- der control, were burning in On-| tario. ; The OPP detachment from tives in a cottage on the sixth Bowmanville, assisted by the concession of Scugog Island near crew of a hydro truck started a/Ambleside Beach. During the search for the youth, but their afternoon the father had been efforts were hampered by thick helping a friend deepen the mist which covered the area. shoreline so they could dock Drag operations were car- boats closer to shore A nurse, from another cottage, who had arrived on the scene, {gave artificial respiration for 10 minutes until the ar- about rival of the Port Perry Fire| Brigade. They used a resuscitator for 45 | minutes, but failed to revive the IStewart, 15, was with the party.iried on all night, and it was not! About 4 pm. Mr. end Mrs. poy, a 2 RESCUED FROM FIRE Sandra Spavin, 24, her face | registered pain from burns, is belped down ladder by Boston wv firefighter from three-alarm | blaze which swept a five- | 3 apartment building on Come. monwealth Avenue.