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The Oshawa Times, 17 Aug 1959, p. 2

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THE OSHAWA -_" TIMES, Monday, August 17, 1959 OSHAWA FISHERMAN CATCHES FINE MUSKIE No trick photography here-- that muskie is more than four feet long! Shown with its cap- tor, Len Smith, 27 Rowe street, (left) and his fishing compan- | George Stacey, 342 Eulaliel Anderson's Cove, fon avenue, the monster fish tipped the scales at 28 pounds, and measured 49 inches. The pair caught a total of five lunge during two weeks' fishing at Rice Lake. | The big muskie was caught on a "Pikey Minnow Silver Flash™ and battled for 45 minutes be- fore coming to heel. --Oshawa Times Photo CAPSULE NEWS Tile W Strike Ends TORONTO (CP) Marble, workers who walked off their a week age for higher pay| been given a 26 to 29-cent-| an-hour increase in a settlement! reached Saturday. The sirike of 850 members of Local 56, Marble, Tie and Terrazo Helpers (Ind.)| stopped terrazc work on 40 school] construction projects. | PREACHER STRICKEN SEAFORTH (CP)--Rev. H. V.| Workman, 70, died Sunday after) suffering a heart attack in the! t of Cavan Brick United] urch, Mr. Workman, who| served churches here, in Petro- Ha and in Tillsonburg before his retirement in 1958, was preaching as a relief minister. CRASH KILLS FIVE CALVERTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A four - i jet plane, on a with five American airlines crew men aboard, in a Long Island potato field as it came in for a landing Saturday. All the men were] leo. The Boeing 707 plane] ~ dived from a height of about 100 feet, burst into flames and exploded NOTED HARPSICHORDIST noted harpsi day at her home here. Mme, Landowska came to the harpsi- chord after 2 search for an in- strmment which most closely re- sembled the beauty of the instru. ments of the 18th century, SEVEN MISSING SYDNEY NB. (CP)--A woman and six children are lost in , dense woods about two from here. Mrs. John Mac- Nell of Sydney was out picking blueberries with four of her own children, ranging in ages from five to 12, and with two of her neighbor's children. RCMP or- ganized volinteers Sunday night when the group failed to return home. A police dog also will be used. . ADMITS REVENGE BINGE BUFFALO (AP) -- A 16-year- old boy has admitted, police re- port, that he did more than $14.- 300 worth of damage to Pennsyl- vania Railroad freight cars. Po- lee sald Frank Bartosiewicz of ' Buffalo sought revenge because a raflroad policeman once had or- dered him out of the Pennsylva- pia's freight yard here. The boy was charged with third - degree burglary and second - degree ar- son. NEAR-RIOT QUELLED BUFFALO (AP)--Police broke up a crowd of about 200 whites and Negroes Saturday night and quelled a near-riot which they said started from a tavern argu- ment. Police Capt. William J. Shanahan said the disturbance apparently began when a white man mistakenly thought that a Negro who was laughing at a television program was laughing at hm, No one was injured. MIKSZA CLAIMS FRAUD HAMILTON (CP) -- Hamilton Tiger-Cat centre Chet Miksza has charged a Winona man with defrauding him of $12,000 during the last two years. John Miller, 37, was arrested Saturday and charged with conversion and fraud on information supplied by Miksza: Police sald the charges were based on a real estate deal. {brief fliness. orkers CHURCH OFFICIAL DIES TORONTO (CP)--Rev. Dr. A. Neil Miller, 56, secretary of the stewardship and budget commit- tee of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, died Sunday after a ALLOW INSTALLMENT SALES MOSCOW (AP) -- Installment buying to cover radios, cameras, motorcycles, sewing machines, hunting guns, watches and cloth- ing has been authorized by the Soviet government. This is the first time general permission for installment buying has been CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congratulations and best wishes to the following resi- dents of Oshawa and district who are celebrating birth- days today: Billy MacDonald, 307 Eu lalie avenue; Lynda Panter, 744 Cedar street; Lorna Langiord, 906 Mary street; E. McKinstry, street, The first five persons to inform the Oshawa Times of their birthdays each day will receive double tickets to The Regent Theatre, good for a four-week period, The current attraction: "Don't Give Up The Ship." Reports om birthdays will be received only between the hours of 8 am. and 10 a.m, given. A government e ment said the goods can be bought with a down payment of 20 to 25 per cent with the rest fo| be paid in six months, STORM CREATES HAVOC CLIFFORD, Ont, (CP) A freak rain, hail and wind storm| slashed across a two-mile-square| area here Saturday, destroying| crops and lifting three barn S. POLLUTED BEACHES BARE | TORONTO (CP) -- Most To- rontonians heeded the signs warning of polluted waters at the city's beaches and despite the sizzling temperatures and high ' humidity, weekend beach crowds| were the smallest of the summer. The temperature reached 84 Sun- day and the discomfort index 78. SINGER CRITICALLY ILL MONCTON, N.B. (CP)--Gloria Richard, 24-year-old Buctouche, N.B. lyrics soprano who recently won a CBC trans-Canada talent contest, is eritically fll in hospital here. Nature of her illness has not been disclosed. WINDS KILL 46 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)-Vio- lent winds of up to 100 miles an hour killed at least 46 persons and injured hundreds in southern Brazil, oeports from the area said Sunday. The storm, which was accompanied by heavy rains and floods, struck Thursday | night. PLUNGE TO DEATH RABAT, Morocco (AP)--Nine persons were killed and 35 in; jured in a bus accident on a twisting mountain road §aturday. The bus plunged into ravine and overturned." The passengers were on a weekend excursion or- ganized by the Shell Oil Company for its employees. 'Man Held In Break-In WHITBY (Staff) -- Provincial Police are holding Dick Cairns, 18, 12 Woodglen road, Toronto, in connection with a break-in at a service station between Oshawa and Whitby, on Highway 2, at 2 a.m, Sunday, Two men in a service station across the road called police when they ndticed men in the station which had closed. Taken from the station was $90 and an electric razor which was found discarded in a nearby|. field. Police report they expect to make further arrests in con. nection. with the incident. | Constable W. L. Smith inves | tigated, Cyclist Has Narrow Escape WHITBY (Staff) -- A Green- wood youth had a miraculous es- cape from death Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding col- lided with a ear, hurling him six feet in the air and landin; on the car roof WEATHER FORECAST Sultry Heat With Showers TORONTO (CP)--Forecasts is- afternoon and evening showers (Sued by the public weather office land thunderstorms today and at 5 am.: ! Synopsis: The hot humid air | Tuesday. Winds southwest 15 to covering Southern Ontario is ex-25 today becoming light tonight. pected to remain over the area| Scattered with afternoon and evening show- Tuesday. Warmer today, cooler | Personality | Death List By THE CANADIAN PRESS | Port Colborne, Ont. -- Horace Joseph Allen, 74, president of ian Furnace Co., Ltd., of a heart condition. Toronto -- Rev, Dr, A. Neil Miller, 56, secretary of the stew- urdchip and budget committee of | the Presbyterian Church in Can-| Timmins-Kapuskasing: Cloudy aga Toronto -- Clarence E. Lack-| 2 him rstorms will develop. A weak disturbance moving sult in extensive cloudiness with thunderstorms in its viein'iy. Cooler temperatures will be ex- perienced in Northern Ontar: 5 this disturbance passes into Que- bec Tuesday. Regional forecas midnight Tuesday. Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, Niagara, southern Hali- burton regions, Windsor, London, Hamilton and Toronto: Partly |cloudy, witht scattered afternoon and evening showers and thun- derstorms today -and Tuesday. | Continuing hot and humid. Winds I southwest 15 to 25. 4 | Northern Haliburton, Georgian |Bay, Kirkland Lake regions, Sud- {bury, North Bay: Cloudy with ts valid until ay and Tuesday. aft n and evening showers or 'ers and thunderstorms' foday and thund Tuesday. Little change in tem-| |perature' today, cooler Tuesday. across Northern Ontario will re-|Winds southwest 15 today north- {erly 15 Tuesday. Forecast Temperatures Low tonight High Tuesday Windsor 70 St. Thomas London Wingham .. Toronto .... Trenton |St. Catharines Hamilton ... {Muskoka . [Killalbe .. {Earlton .. {Sudbury .. North Bay . {Kapuskasing . {White River .. |{Moosonee .. CEPT PRP OPP PTI OBITU ARIES - GILLIAN DAWN GUY ! The memorial service for Gill- fan Dawn Guy, Harmony road! south, who was fatally injur last Thursday. was held at the Armstrong Funeral Home at 2| p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15. |" The service was conducted by |Major M. Rankin of the Salvation] | Army. Interment was in Oshawa {Union Cemetery. | The pallbearers were William | | James, Jack Coull, Gordon But- ler and Kenneth Bdyant, | | WILLIAM CORRIDAN | (CORY) HOOD In failing health since last { December, William Corridan| { (Cory) Hood died at the family] {residence, 206 Quebec street, Saturday, Aug. 15. He was in his 81st year. A son of the late George and| | Elizabeth Hood. the deceased -was| {born Jan. 6, 1879, on Scugog Ts- land. He was married Sept. 4, 1926, at Whitby. | A resident of Oshawa for 34 | years, Mr. Hood was an employe! lof Pedlar People Limited for 23| | years. He was a member of King| Street United Church. | He leaves his wife, the former Emma Beatrice Hodgson, and two brothers, Roy, of Oshawa and Garfield, of Fort Erie. The memorial service will be held at the Armstrong Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. Interment will be in Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert. Rev. S. C. H. Atkinson, minister of Albert Stfeet United Church, will conduct the services. MRS. MARY KULIGIEWCZ The death occurred at Hamil ton on Saturday, Aug. 15. of Mary Mass, widow of William Kuligiewez (Colgovis). The de. ceased, who had been in poor health for several months, was in her 77th year. Born at Stoszow, Poland, Aug. 15, 1883, the deceased was mar- ried in her native town May 12, 1901. A resident of Hamilton for five years she had previovsly lived in Oshawa and was a for- mer member of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church here. Predeceased by her husband March 28, 1948. Mrs. Kuligiewez leaves five davghters, Mrs, Felix |Bablary (Tessie), of St. Cath- |arines; Mrs. Walter Folak (Mary), of Aldershot; Mrs. John {Piech (Helen. of St, Catharines: | Mrs. Paul Kondrat (Vickie), of! | (Stella), of Hamilton. The 'remains will he at the |Armstrong" Funeral Home for |Winona and Mrs, Paul Valchoff| Steven Ross Jackman, 16, was high requiem mass in Holv Cross riding his motorcycle on Brock|Roman Catholic Church at 10 St. N., when the accident occur-la.m. Tuesday Aug. 18. Rev. P. red. Police report the driver of Coffey will sing the mass and In- the car to be Mary Joan Heard. |terment will be in St. Gregory's 1187 Brock St. south, she has Cemetery. been charged with careless driv-| ing. MRS. N. RUSSFLL WEIR |awa. day, Aug. 15. She was in her 82nd year. A drughter of the late Edward as born Dec. 22, 1877, and was the last member of her family, Mrs. Weir was a member of St. Andrew's United Church, She was a past matron of the East- ern Star Lodge and was a mem- er of the Rebekah Lodge. She was predeceased by her husband in 1944, The funeral service will be held at the McIntosh Funeral Home at 3.30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18. Interment will be in Mount Lawn Cemetery. The members of the Eastern Star Lodge will hold a memorial service at the funeral home at 7.30 p.m. today. + ROBERT BATES Folldwing an illness of six month the death occurred at the Oshawa General Hospital on Sat- |urday,| Aug. 15, of Robert Bates. The deceased, who. was in his 85th year, was born at Studley, England, Aug. 8, 1875 and was married in England. | Mr. Bates farmed in the Athens |area of Eastern Ontario for 30 |years and for the past year had {lived at Greenwood. He was a | member of the United Church. | He leaves his wife, the former Carrie Hedges; a daughter, Mrs. G. Neil (Grace), wi Corners and Arthur, of Wood- bridge. Also surviving are Samuel, of England grandchildren, The remains rested a brother, and eight {day evening. The funeral service will be held at the Judson Fu- neral Home, Athens, Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 18, followed by interment in Athens Cemetery. MRS. ROBERT WILSON A resident of Oshawa for many years Mary Helen Whitney, widow of Lt.-Col. Robert Wilson, MD, 'died at Fairview Lodre, Whitby, on Saturday, Aug. 15. 86th year, had been in failing health for a few years. A daughter of the late Samuel Whitney and Mary Rundle, Mrs. Wilson was born in the Province tically all her life in Oshawa, Mrs. Wilson was a school teacher and a registered purse. {She was also a member of the United Church, She was predeceased by her husband, who was one of the ploneers of x-ray work in Can- ada, Nov, 1, 1919. She leaves a sister, Miss M. Whitney, of Osh- The funeral service will be held at the McIntosh Funeral Home, at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, followed by interment in Osh. ner, 66, secretary of the Ontario miik board for the last four years. Windsor, Ont. -- Tom C. Mec- all, 49, director of public rela- tions for the Chrysler Corpora- tion of Canada. Smiths Falls, Ont. -- James Jappe, 68, Cleveland lawyer and prominent Republican party offi- cial, of a heart attack. New York--Benny Fields, 65, vaudeville song-and-dance man, former Broadway ey, of a heart SN. Y.~Fleet Ad- miral Williath F. Halsey, 76, retired U.S. nav of the {Second World Wars Pacific |Ocean Theatre, of a heart attack. | fren 72, internationally-known sculptor. Port Dover, Ont.--John Deni- son, 76, former president of Mont-| real's insurance exchange build- ing and a former director of the ed.and Mary Barrett, the deceased Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa. | Toronto--Tracy E. Lloyd ' 65, {who worked his way from office | boy to vice-president and director | of Hinde and Dauch Paper Com-| pany of Canada. | Glen Cover, N.Y. dson Rich % | | | OSHAWA CADET Cadet Robert Gilbert, 68 Wil. son road north, a lieutenant in the Army Cadets was sent to Banff for a three-week course in such varied fields as Judo, the new Canadian automatic rifle, the C2 and mountain climbing, During the camp sev- eral tours were conducted by the Department of National Defence to Lake Louise, John- son's Canyou and Lake } newanka Of the 235 cadets who ended the camp 196 were--flown out by the Royal Canadian Air Force in C 119 Boxcars. The language barrier between cadets from Quebec and Ontario was soon broken as each put an effort in prac- tising High School French and Enlish. The cadets were given leave each pight into Banff proper and all day Sundays. OYS TRAINING IN ROCKIES # Throughout the three week camp, it was said by all the cadets that it was the most fun they ever had in their lives. To attend this camp, these cadets must achieve a difficult test known as the Master Cadet Test and qualify in practical work such as drill, range, man- oeuvres, and general ficiency. {Pratt, 65, financier and former, Standard Oil Company execu- tive. | CITY AND DISTRICT TWO-AUTO CRASH Siippery roads and poor visibil-| Sunday at King and Nassau Observers For Laos? streets, The cars were driven bv Laos that a United Nations ob- 'Woman Dies From UN 15, Her Bath Tub The death occurred at the fam- High River, Alberta and Baden, ily residence, 510 Palace street, |of Whitby. Miss Neva May Switzer. The de- ceased was in her 64th year. ity caused a two-car collision] LONDON (Reuters) -- Britain| Whitby, on Saturday, Aug. 15, of| The funeral service will be held {today supported a request from at the W. C. Town Funeral Home, Whitby, at 2 p.m. Wedn William Godfrey, Lawson road and Edward Smith, 375 Nassau street. Police said no one was injured and estimated the dam- {server be sent to the Indochina |state to investigate a Commu- {nist-backed revolt on its borders. | An informed source said Brit- Miss Switzer was found dead Aug. 19. Interment will be in St. in the bath tub by her brother,|Johns Cemetery, Sunderland. Baden. Coroner Dr. John Lennox|Rey. John Smith, minister of of Uxbridge conducted an en- Whitby United Church, will con- age to the vehicles at $600. ain is seeking Soviet approval for CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SUBJECT the move. Soviet Ambassador Ja- The - spiritual relationship of {cob Malik was summoned to thel|d quiry and an autopsy to deter- mine the caute of the death, Sun- ay. Born at Wilfred, Ont., Miss duct the services. of Greenwood and two sons, William of Easton's! at the Me- Intosh Funeral Home untfl Sun- The deceased, who was in her of Quebec but had lived prac- The motorcycle was complete- ly demolished. The car sustain- ed $400 damage. Jackman was treated for abrasions by Dr. C. A. Johnston of Whitby. In failing health for some time and seriously ill for a few days, Mary Elizabeth Barrett, widow of N. Russell Weir, died at Fair- view Lodge, Whitby, on Satur- | Above is one of the prize. winning roses at the annual Flower and Vegetable Show held at E. A. Lovell School last Saturday by the Oshawa | Horticultural Society. Despite ROSE WINS PRIZE AT SHOW awa Union Cemetery. Rev, A. J. Wilson, of Toronto, a former editor of The United Church Ob- server, will conduct the services. {God and man was set forth in the Lesson-Sermon entitled "Soul" at Christian Science serv- ices on Sunday, Aug. 16. The Goiden Text was also from Psalms (99:9): "Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God is { holy." STREETS CLOSED The following streets will be closed today for construction: Ritson yoad south, from Bloor to Conant streets; Mary closed at Alice street; { avenue, closed at Oxford street; Park road north, closed at King street; and Tecumseh avenue, closed from Simcoe street north to Somerville street. Whenever possible these. streets will be partially open to permit move- ment of local traffic, Extreme weather conditions, such as heavy rain, may result in the closi foreign office to receive a writ- ten proposal to this effect. The approach to Russia results from the fact that Britain and Russia were co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference which ended the Indochina war. Ngon Sananikone, brother of the premier of Laos, left Vienti- ane for New York Saturday. For- eign Minister Khampan Panya said he will ask for the dispatch of a UN observer to the scene of the fighting. Russia and Communist China are pressing for the reconvening of the three-power armistice su- pervisory commission for Laos which was set up by the 1954 truce conference and adjourned indefinitely a year ago. The Lao- tian government is opposed to its return on the ground that it 'has completed its task. Its members |were Canada, India and Poland. of other streets. CASH BOX RIFLED WHITBY (Staff)--The OPP Whitby detachment report a tele- phone booth, on Highway 2, near G wood, had been rifled early Sunday\morning. Constable W. L. Smith who investigated said the cash box had been pried loose and taken. Hamilton Man Wins Car Race JARVIS (CP)~Ray Carter of Hamilton drove his Jaguar XK-SS to victory in both feature events in the sports car racing program at nearby Harewood Saturday. In winning the 15-Jap formula libre (open) and the final one- hour le Mans race, Carter--who was using a limited-slip rear axle 'Royal Family Attends Church BALMORAL, Scotland (AP)-- The Queen Sunday made her first appearance in public since the a t she is ct ing her third baby early next vear. "i Accompanied by other mem- bers of the Royal Family, she attended services at Crathie Church, a quarter of a mile from Balmoral Castle where she is va- cationin; instead of Ris previous lock dif- ferential -~ handed the little Porsches their first major set- backs this year. Frank Hooper of Toronto took a commanding lead in the stand- ing for Canada's first sports car racing championship with 420 points when he won the fourth race and placed fourth over-all In the le Mans. Hooper drove a. moiifisd Austin-Healey. SOURCE OF INCOME The Dominican Republic's big crop sugar, about 1,000, tons a year. extreme dry and hot weather a most encouraging number of entries were placed.® The com- THIN SLICED ° PORK LIVER LEAN MINCED BEEF LEAN mrt plete results of the judging ap-_| pear on page three. ~Oshawa Times TROUD! Sensational Meat Features Tuesday and Wednesday Only Ib. 59° Ih. 19° 4 lbs. 1.00 | | Heather Week Festival Opens | EDE, The Netherlands (Reut- |ers)--Charles P. Hebert, Cana- dian ambassador to the Nether- lands, opened the Heather Week festival here this weekend in the presence of many Canadian guests, | This year's festival bears the theme of friendship between the Netherlands and Canada. Since the end of the war nearly 1,000 Ede inhabitants have emigrated to Canada. | One of them, Mrs. Betty van {Droffelaar 'who now lives in |Prescott, Ont., returned to her home town this summer to be in- augurated as Queen Calluna XVI, ruling over the festival. SON DIES IN FIRE PHILADELPHIA (AP) A three-months-old baby died in his crib when fire swept an apart- ment building early Sunday. A lall previous birthdays, Switzer was a daughter of the| late John and Susan Switzer, She received her education at Mount Albert High School and the Col- lege of Education in Toronto. During her teaching career she taught in the high schools at} Merrickvi'le, Mount Albert, Port Elgin and Newcastle and for the past 25 years had been a resi- dent of Whitby A member of the Whitby Unit- ed Church, Miss Switzer was an ardent horticulturalist and much interested in music. She leaves three brothers, Allan, of Oshawa; Wilfred, of Margaret Gets Red Roses LONDON (Reuters) Two | dozen red roses were i Sunday to have arrived at Bal-| moral Castle in Scotland for Princess Margaret from an un- known American admirer. He also is reported to have placed an order for a corsage of orchids to be delivered to the princess next Friday, her 20th birthday. Meanwhile, the princess, the subject of romance rumors for years, was preparing to spend! FOUR SEASONS TRAVEL & ) An - A - < RA.86201 -- See you tonight in the Stanlito, AIR CONDITIONED Selling Your Home ? PHOTO CO-OP 150 solesmen ot your servies, Contact your local realtor. 1 land where she was born, Last week she journeyed north to join the Royal Family at the Scottish estate. Roman Catholic Church Collapses FOR RENT modern typewriters and adding machines of all makes: Under- woods, Smith Corone, Royal, both standard and portabl models. Special student rates. Walmsley & Magill Office Equipment Ltd, ST. ROCH de VACHIGAN, Que. (CP)--A partly - completed Roman Catholic church collapsed Saturday night during a violent thunderstorm, The church, built entirely of wood, had a seating capacity of 1,000 and was to have been com- wall of flame drove back Joseph pleted next spring. Damage was Sipes, 40, who attempted to res-| estimated at $20,000. cue his son Joseph Jr. Three! 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