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a 194E i hs TIMES, Soturday, August 1, 1959 THE OSHAWA Thousands Leave On Long Holiday Monday Is A Civic Holiday Business Hits Standstill . APPOINTMENTS ih | % | 3 NEW CM SMALL CARS WILL BE hy This picture taken in the south end of Oshawa might re- mind some of the framework of | a new baseball stadium, which | it isn't, Instead it's part of the | PRODUCED HERE i The Oshawa Shopping Centre| 4000 tons of steel, 19,000 cubic GM small car which has been vards of concrete and 200,000 | so widely publicized. The plant bricks in its construction. The | will add considerably to the plant will be ready in the fall | vast GM south plant nearby to produce the Corvair, the new GM Photo new building for producing the | ent body plant on Park road Corvair, and construction is | an area of 630 feet by 450 feet going ahead rapidly. The build- | Upon final completion, the 3 N St To Be O d Find Bottl Transtusion Osh Sh Cent ranstusion Oshawa opping Centr | A fine of $10 and costs, or a Drain Bi To keep pace with the ever ex-|ways been venv partial to Osh-is one of the fastest growing cities month in jail, was imposed Fri- g |stores will be opened in the Dsh:|"and now in view of Oshawa be-|I remember correctly," he said, | Oshawa boulevard south in Osh- awa Shopping Centre by the end coming a potential sea-port city,|*'in 1953 there were 8242 students awa Magistrate's court Oshawa has witnessed the heav-|" Ajj three merchants expressed have received in confidence, per- high schools in Oshawa; this com-|ed he had observed Mrs. Selleck jest drain on its free blood trans- ihe view that Oshawa is one of taining to Oshawa and its growth, |ing fall there will be 13,495, an|run between two houses when period so far this year," Mr. Canada and is the ideal com- Oshawa will, in the near future, years officer investigated and found an Robert H. Stroud, general chair- munity in which to open a new be one of the major mercantile |unsealed bottle of liquor in her * ures by memory, "if statistics | Purse. stated today. The three new companies are 1 am very fortunate and pleas- gre correct there will be over| Upon questioning it was learn- He announced that the next ioc Book Stores Norman Beal|®d indeed to locate in the Osh- ; : : 5 This does not include - incoming|Fialka's residence. The latter has would be held this coming Thurs- (ins Unlimited. All are members| OPinion. it is the finest of its kind residents. These are the figures|previous convictions of hootleg- day, August 6 at St. GTegory'siof a chain of stores found in|anyWhere. t - 3 : : awa. These children will require] When passing sentence on Mrs. North between the hours of 1.30/tario Shopping Centre will perhaps be hooks and we will be able to|Selléck, Magistrate Guest said, p.m. to 400 p.m. and 6.00 p.m. the largest one floor Boy's and v : a |David Wadlinger, is a unique op-|; 4 second to nome in Ontario |SUSPEND TERM According to Clinic officials aeration in that it specializes in{ 8 of Canada | For several months now we| A Bowmanville man was given the face of Oshawa's chronic lighting needs from floor lamps tol In reply to the question asked|vey of traffic at the Oshawaland was to make full restitution shortage of volunteer domors for|ceiling chandeliers will be fea- Mr. Jack Cole, of Cole's Book |Shopping Centre It was encour-\by Magistrate C. M. Guest in |Stores, the largest General Motors small car, The | south. The main plant covers ing is an extension to the pres- | building will have consumed | panding Oshawa, three new|a Mr. -Norman Beal said, |ir . Dominion of Canada, "If|day upon Mrs. Mona Selleck, 288 'During the past few weeks ¢ oq plus other advantageous news Ilenrolled in public, separate and Det.-Sgt. G fusion service of any comparable tho fastest growing centres in|I am completely convinced that se of 5253 children in six|she saw the police cruiser. The ni A "And he said, quotir fig-| man of the Blood Donor Clinic enterprise areas in southern Ontario. > 1 8 J 20,000 enrolled students by 1963 |ed she bought the liquor at John volunteer Red Cross Blood Clinic yrante and Boy's Wear and Light-(awa Shopping Centre. In my : § A hat 'sold' us ir moving to Osh-|ging. Auditorium on Simcoe Street Shopping Centres across _| Our location in the Oshawa ig imi : ' nd | supply them. Our stock will be|*"Don't come back." to 9.00 p.m. Lighting Unlimited, owned by njan's Wear Store in the Domin- Pp} et come hack serious situation is developing injight fixtures only. All forms of LARGE CHAIN {have maintained a constant sur-|a six months suspended sentence each monthly Clinic. In July|tured at Lighting Unlimited. retail book aging to see the great number of| Magistrate's court Friday. only 210 pints of blood were do-| It is interesting to note Why chain in Canada. with regard to|YOUDg married couples, teen-| Reginald Stubbert, 24, 50 Queen nated against a minimum objec-|the companies are moving to Osh-|his interest in opening a store in agers and children patronizing street east, Bowmanville, tive of 370. While the gap be-|awa. Mr. Jack Cole and Mr. Nor-| Oshawa, he replied with a sparkl- the various stores found guilty of false pretenses. tween actual pints donated and|/man Beal issued the following |ing and jestful smile, "'children'".| Yes, the prospects in Oshawa He had passed two bad cheques. the basic goal assigned Oshawa|statements. |He went on to say that approxi-look good. We look forward to| Magistrate Guest asked Stub- has seldom been as great as in| "Oshawa, and it's continued mately 13 months of research serving the public and hope that bert how he was going to make July the cumulative shortage is|increase in population has been had gone into the potential of (I will personally meet many of restitution Stubbert replied, "rn pow assuming dangerous propor-\under my constant surveillance opening a store in Oshawa |vou on our opening about mid- get a job, sir." tions according to Red Cross of-/for some years now. I have al- According to statistics, Oshawa August." |" His Worship inquired, "Writing sands of Oshawa and district|of Canada plant by beginning " |residents have left for a holiday [their annual two week holiday McCammond stat-| was | The big exodus is on -- thou-|ed the lead of the General Motors by the seaside. When asked which coast was more favored travel agents were unanimous in on the long weeke: hutdown. naming the East. longer vacation. Of the thousands who will be| The C The August civic holiday week-|on vacation, however, not all of has always sent thousands of {them will be heading for the local residents streaming out of wide, open spaces. would appear to be Bermuda the city, many of them headive| Many will stay in Ostiawa and land Jamaica. for 'the cooling waters of ke use the holiday per to get Scugog. all the odd jobs dome or paint|/HIGH ON LIST All banks and government|the house and clean up the gar- One travel agency operator buildings, as well as City Hall age. claimed that Cuba, usually a will be shut down on Monday. | favorite vacation spot at this The City Council meeting/BIG SALE time of the year, is being al- originally scheduled for Monday| Oshawa hardware and paintimost ignored by his customers. night has been postponed until store merchants have indicated] He blames the recent political Tuesday at 5 p.m., unless some-|an increase in sales of such vital | turmoil as the reason. thing in the nature of an emer- household commodities as paint, With the advent of holidays and gency arises and then it will be|rakes, clippers, shears, etc. the likelihood that a great deal| held at the usual time of 7:30 Those who do go-on holidays of those on vacation, whether p.m will range far and wide. they travel or stay in Oshawa, 5 In addition, al downtown busi-| Oshawa and Whitby travel Will be doing a lot of swimming, | and stores, with the excep-lagents report that some 1500 water safety officials have ex- i tion of drugstores and restau-|families have made holiday ar- pressed their concern ever the © rants, will shut their doors Mon- rangements with them alone, for practice of good water habits. the two weeks beginning Aug. 3.| Thev express concern for A lot of these seem to be de-|swimmers and boaters like will also be closed. stined for overseas as the travel The St. John Ambulance in | Local stores selling sporting agents report more European [particular have indicated worry | goods and boating equipment bookings than ever before. |over the high number of drown-| © |hav= wenorted an increase in the| It is interesting to note that|ings in the Oshawa area recent- sale of aquatic sports equipment approximately 65 percent of these|ly and accessories recently. {people have decided to travel by ) . This Monday also marks the air. they want to make their holiday Istart of the holiday season as| Many local residents are ap-|a happy and healthy one 'Play |many Oshawa firms have follow- parently taking their two weeks!It Safe'. New Cemetery Church Elects Is Discussed - Superintendent The Oshawa Cemetery Board contact with officials of the On- aribbean seems to be high on the vacation list also and the favorite spots in that area nd or on as | bs 4 Ye A ww C. T. SKERRATT ness They remind everyone that if | | R. H. KING E. J. Umphrey, vice-presi- dent and director of sales for General Motors Products of Canada Limited, today an- nounced two senior manage- ment appointments, C. T, Skerratt, top, becomes sales manager of the Pontiac- Buick - GMC Truck Division for the General Motors To- ronto Zone. R. H. King, below, becomes manager of the Business Management = De partment in Oshawa, be- low, succeeding Mr 0 ratt. Both appointments are effective immediaiely, wr. Umphrey announced. Q Rev. W. C. Cowherd of Niagara Falls, Ont., was elected superin-| tendent of the west conference of cil for guidance in the matter off 'They tell me there is no re-|delegates assembled Friday near| selecting a new cemetery for cord of their approving that land | this community, six miles east of| | Oshawa for a cemetery', he said. London. | |of the board, said that the pres-he added of London, who will complete his| ent Oshawa Union Cemetery willl qm poard feels that since the|term Aug. 9 when the conference) |run out of space in from six t0|,... in which this land is locat-|ends. | | He wants Council to tell the loot io now a residential area|were elected clergy delegates to| {board whether or not they would | oo" little chance of receiving|the Free Methodist Centennial {consider a new cemetery a ne, department's approval at this| conference in Indiana next sum- The board already has 27| . Inia and Morley Wilson of Dres- |avtes 3 land wageh they pur. Ih 0 righ De a den, were chosen lay delegates. | {chased for approximately x 28 J |sion for Union Cemetery. ' | Dr. Gifford said that Ald. Fin-| Mr, Barrand and Dr. Gifford] Joseph Moden, Bloor street, Are Remanded ley Dafoe claims the Council has|will meet with officials of the De-|was convicted Friday of impair-| ed driving in Oshawa Magis- | « hdlidd 3 " Roy Barrand, City Clerk, told|possibilities of a new cemetery|trate's court. He was fined $75| 5 404 in custody until Tues- |the board that he has been in before approaching Council. and costs or 10 days in jail. |day' when they will be sentenced | |for breaking and entering the THAMESFORD, Ont. (CP)--| decided Friday to ask City Coun-|tario Department of Health {the Free Methodist Church by Dr. W. H, Gifford, chairman "Such approval is necessary", He succeeds Rev. J. A Robb | |eight years. ed, Thornton road south of King] Mr. Cowherd and Mr. Robb| [cessity | time mer and W. D, Ferguson of Sar- 1 |in 1951 to be used as an exten- McClure. DRAWS FINE no deed to the property | partment of Health to discuss the b Two Oshawa teenagers were Downsview Golf Club clubhouse Wednesday night. This Was the decision of Magis- trate C. M. Guest in Magistrate's Court Friday. ficials. Mr. Stroud pointed out that right now even other communi- ties that normally reach their quotas are falling far behind be- cause of the usual reasons as- sociated with the summer holiday period. 'But, since it has been these communities whose steady giving has helped to bail Osh- awa out the implications for us are even worse now," he warned. Volunteer workers for the Clinic are putting forward even extra effort over the next few days to attempt to salvage the situation by securing a near capa- city turn-out at this coming Clinic. | of Oshawa who wish help in this emergency »sted to phone the Red Cross Randolph 3-29 for an apointment Queen's Hotel Waiter Fined For Assault A waiter at the Queen's Hotel in Oshawa was fined .$25 and costs for assaulting a patron of active. the hotel's beverage room by Magistrate C. M. Guest in court Friday Walter Niedzella, the complain- ant, gave testimony of how he was slugged by Edwin John Ever- itt, the Queen's Hotel waiter. Mr, Niedzella, his eye still not| healed, told of how Everitt had roughly ordered himself and a triend out of the ladies beverage room after they had been direct- ed there, supposedly by the man- ageress, Gertrude McTaggart. Niedzella continued to how after he was injured and bleeding he was not allowed to use the phone to call the police. Fi close the wound. Everitt and two co-workers at the hotel said Niedzella had at- tacked Everitt with a giner ale bottle. This was not verified by either Niedzella or his witness The accused had a previous re cord pertaining to wife beating Atomic Energy Plant To Start KINCARDINE (CP) struction of the atomic power plant near this Lak Huron community is to start th fall, it was announced here Fr Con y W. Neville Keefe, manager the Georgian Bay Developmer Association said the $60,000,0¢ project would employ some 1,2 men at the peak of construction are|. . 33 and arrange covery by western oils relate ght stitches were required to|corneal transplants in the year energy | | 'BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Dull, Monotonous Week Of Trading By RON ANDREWS | . Canadian Press Staff Writer | | | | | | | | this week probably would have|exports to the U.S. in June recorded their lightest volumes| Labatt led the rise in brewer-| | A wisp of speculative buying a minor advance by liquors a mild re- without much effort last week. [to $32.50 after the Ontario gov-| : els ernment announced the price of| NO DEFINITE REASON beer would be increased in Sep-| It was difficult to pinpoint the tember reason for the sluggishness in in-|?@ $1 rise to $34.87'% by Seagram's| dividual rows. Trade. factors oc, HOU, be incressed in Se | were encouraging but apparently a $1 rise to $34.87% by Seagram"s| had little effect and a 75-cent gain to $39.75 by| Some of those factors included | Walker's ; : higher iron ore shipments hy Western oils, in a tailspin for| Canadian mines for the first five the last few weeks, showed some| and breweries These were the highlights this {week on Canadian stock mar- kets; a week of dull, monotonous trading. When it was over a few major changes among individual stocks were noticeable and an overall trend was difficult to de- tect. ore cheques to someone else." Stubbert answered quickly, m | 'oh no, Sir!" 16th Victory In Harness TORONTO (CP)--Cecil Coke, 8| | mild-mannered driver from Pe-| trolia who won 10 races at Old Woodbine park all last season scored his 16th victory of the|into its usual August lull. current harness meeting Friday| . night. He had a ready explana-|000 men on strike, crawled along|corporations coast a rosy g of the year, a feat accomplished|ies and liquors, jumping $3.62 [tion for the marked improve-|at ment. the winner's enclosure. nobody can drive bad ones.' He brought the five-year - gelding S. V. J. to its second in the last three outings straining for the wire. "Good horses," he grinned in|tempo in most other lines was "Any- t Other changes included body can drive good horses, and| old| win|, | with |clever horsemanship in the last |70 yards when five horses were| Paul Burnett, 18, and Ronald Wood, 17, both of Roxboro ave enue, pleaded guilty to the charge. The two boys were ar- |rested as they were in the build- ing The police officer said he | found Burnett behind a pop cooler {and Wood in the ladies washroom. Magistrate Guest said to the yardstick available for measur- youths, "This wrong has cuased ing total output of U.S. factories, great embarrassment to both mills, oil fields and mines. In|your parents. You will carry this June it touched a high--155 per|phlack mark for the rest of your cent of the 1947-49 average. lives." This week the board conceded - publicly that its index is inac- curate and out - dated. A new yardstock that will give a truer picture is in the works. Measured on the new index, production for June should have been 165 per cent of the 1947-49 average--up 10 percentage points from what the old index said. Final Speed Burst By U.S. Economy JR. | Bethleham reported a profit of U.S.($123,159,000 compared with $53,- 823,000 a year ago. Republic's net to $67,089,717 from $23.904,- | By WALTER BREEDE NEW YORK (AP)--The economy put on a final burst of speed this week before hegding|tose 1602. Earnings of other industrial low The steel industry, with 500,- 1111): 3094. 1) yA) 57 KING STE, OSHAWA, ONT® a snail's pace. Railroad ght business declined. But the this week. General Motors netted $590,- 000,000 in the first half, up 77 per : |cent from the $334,000,000 earned Consumer spending was on the; the first six months last year. rise almost everywhere except in| This brought total profits of the steel producing centres |five U.S. auto manufacturing Auto factories poured out more. mpanies to almost $975,000, han 122,000 cars--not quite asians +h.ee times what they made many as in recent weess buts year ago. nearly twice as many as in e| - : 1 3 Oil company stockholders were same week last year | pleasantly surprised profits The three biggest steel com-|*" a Ioritie first half panies announced their mid-year Were up sharply | frei von n wa fa RA. 8:6201 Unlike Wall Street, where the New York market has skipped {ahead in brisk trading since the United States steel strike began two weeks ago, Canadian mar- kets have been anything but months of the year: more na-|Si8DS of recovery in mid-week. tural gas sales in Canada dur- Elsewhere in the markets, ing the first half of the year, Changes were small and trends higher employment and wages; |" 5 ¢, Scarce higher retail sales in May com- Index changes at Toronto: In- pared with 1958; an intresse ny dustrials up 1.04 to 552.60; golds ; a 90d: we ; 5 Canadian pulpwood production in of Wi 5 29.84; we Stern oils up| If it hadn't been for the act-|June and in the first six months| 1: to 119.20; base metals up 1.84 ivity among 2 few speculative lof the year compared with last a, + Montreal mining stocks, Canadian markets year; and higher Canadia EX eaanges & onLrea 2 ? e wine igher - anadian oil Banks up .46 to 69.61; utilities off| CORNEAS REPLACED 0.6 to 153.5: industrials off 2.9 | | Ito [to 329.6; combined off 1.7 to 271.0; | papers off 5.8 to 464.8; golds up| 12 to 90.59 205 Canada Blind Bail Granted Have Sight Again Union Officers | | VANCOUVER (CP)--Bail has | TORONTO (CP)--At least 205 5 been allowed for twe Tronwork- selling for the parents 5 p- ' U y blind or nearly blind Canadians|schoot blind children and the are. CTS, Union officials convicted of had their vision restored through school blind childr - iy ; ren and the PFO" contempt of court but they are vision of residential care for 750 not expected to be released from | elderly persons i 3% .: . : | y perso in 17 modern prison until late today | residences. . | The men, business agent Tom! "TALKING BOOKS" McGrath and President Fernand | "Talking books" marked their|1«€opold Whitmore of Local 97 of 25th anniversary. There are 50,-|the Bridge, Structural and Orna- 000 printed books on 700,000 rec-| mental Ironworkers Union (CLC) ords circulated among blind read-/ were placed in Oakalla Prison ers in Canada. -The service was Friday when they failed to pay expanded to French in .the past|$3.,000 fines for contempt year. A braille magazine for chil.| Mr. Justice F. A. Sheppherd| dren of school age was also|2ranted an application for bail started {and set it at $3,000 each Pat O'Neal, secretary of the |P C. Federation of Labor, said {the federation likely would post Bs bail for the two men following a Imeeting today. The meeting had to approve the use of the money ending March 31, 1959. The Cana- dian National Institute for the Blind has records of these opera- tions, but more may have been done without the institute's know ledge. |. The sight-restoring surgery re- places damaged corneas with healthy tissue. The Eye Bank of Canada now overates in six of the seven institute divisions. The hank is one of many ser- in the institute's | {vices outlined | A consultant service for an es |annual report ] : timated 150 deaf-blind people be In his presidential message, gan with the appointment of Mrs alph S. Misener, said, "As the Albert McGuffin of Vncouver as year drew to a close it was ap-|national consultant arent that CNIB service was| More than 2,000 blind people Rowding a betier life for blind employed full-time on the staff 'anadians and at the same time|and in institute workshops as we! A CE V. pening new opportunities for thelas in general a 2s vel SAND BEER IO LINE and lind in need of assistance be- more than $3,000,000 during the tackles have arrived for Worm ts ond ons borders." : _ |year with the Golden Bears of the h ins itute provided service| Services to war blinded are not ORFU senior series. Bill Curry 23,263 lind Canadians at a|included in CNIB's operating ex-|25, comes from the NFL Detr( st of $2 466,525 during the year. penses as the department of vet-Lions and Bob Haller 23 fro he work included special coun-|erans' affairs meets the full cost.'the Chicago Bears camp |r 11078. CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congragulations and best wishes to the following resi dents of Oshawa and district who are celebrating birth. days this weekend: Those who celebrate today are: Mrs. William Millar, 1177 Ravine road; Teresa McCaffrey, 39 Elgin street east: Mrs. William Wood- ward, RR Oshawa: Mrs, Mabel Ross, 292 King street east; Duncan Erie Brock, RR 1, Oshawa; Mrs, Frank Gravelle, 348 Louisa street; Frank Scott, 409 Kendalwood road; Joe Hroncich, 349 Elm- grove avenue: Joe Konarow ski, 1310 Simcoe street north; Mrs. Evelyn Bouckley, 17 Quebec street; Penny Shet ler, 159 Guelph street Those who celebrate on Sunday are: Rose Gardner 176 Simcoe street south; David Allen Sharp, 110 Wood street Those 3 who celebrate on Monday (Civic Holiday) are: Joseph H Soathwell, . 506 Dundas street west, Whitby The first five persons to in- form The Oshawa Times of their birthdays each day will receive double tickets to The Regent Theatre, good for a four-week period. The cur- rent attraction is "Green Mansions' Reports on birthdays will be received only between the hours of 8 am. and 10 am. earnings--and the results were despite the much-discussed pet never better roleum glut. lAU 'S NEW MEASURING STICK [HUGE SROs more money| Looking back on the first half, lin the first half of 1959 than any|the Federal Resarve Board ge: steel company ever earned in any cided to snsnge oh gia ng six-month period. The total, $254,- Tod of industrial output. {948,000 compared with $135,650,-| For years the board's index of 1000 in the first half of recession |industrial production has been re- {1958. garded as the accurate | Inot be known for at least three weeks. The three-year agreement pro-| vides for a 4%-per-cent increase| in basic pay and a reduction of |the working week by 90 minutes {to 42 hours. 'Stoppage Of Papers | Will End | SHORTEST WAY soviet sn] TO CALIFORNIA page which has shut down 4,000 SVERDLOVSK, Soviet [printing firms and 1,100 provin-| Union (AP)--Vice - President |cial newspapers for more than| Richard Nixon started down | six weeks will end next Wednes- an elevator shaft of a copper ay no i Tov mine near here Thursday. |day, union leade and emp oy-| He paused and noted that [ers announced Friday night Sverdlovsk is almost directly Loud cheers came from the| opposite his native California | onfereine room for Lord Birk-| on the globe. Pointing down lett, 75-year-old former lord just-| Je Shan: he told his Soviet lice of appeal, who has acted as| [ioaererae Ph Bog iis rH "This 2d the shortest way days of .negotiation, Ten unions| to California the direct land 150,000 workers were in-| route.' |volved in the dispute over wages {and hours Industrial experts estimate the | stoppage, which started June 17, {will have cost employers, *ork- ers and unions about £30,000,000. | HE HAS GONE TO GET HIS NEW AUSTIN-HEALEY SPRITE ED WILSON SEZ: Beautiful seamist end walnut LONDON LANDMARK The White Tower, oldest part|week ; i | the Tower of London, was built |the wage - and - hours settlement William the Conqueror in|negotiated by their leaders bedroom suite r. and rs. dresser, bookcase bed ond matching chest of drawers. Reg. $249, speciol $188, plus a Free Serta mottress. WILSON FURNITURE 20 CHURCH ST. WILLIS MOTORS Tauton Rd OSHAWA RA 5-0331 | Under the agreement, there| |will be a return to work next while the unions vote on The results of this ballot will