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Idlers Hot-Rod Club of Toronto, iasts have their own language. and orc of a fast-growing group Here are some of the terms: of young Canadians who like to| Chanuelling -- removal of mo- turn old cars into speed-wagons, [tor body from the chassis and says he "first got the bug for weldin® it to the frame; _chop- speed" after buying a 1929 Model ping -- remova: of from five to A Ford for $8 10 inches from the centre of the I drove it around in stock con- roof and then welding it back dition (the way it came off the togethe. again making it more assembly line 30 years ago) for|compact and giving it the desired 8 about six months and then one of sleek look, drag -- race with mv friends read an article on|another car; bucket of bolts how to put a V-8 motor in a|automobile; slicks -- specially Model A. "I was hooked right| made racing tires manufactured then acd there." {for traction with treads three After eight months work on the!inches wider tlein normal tires; car, he says 'I wasn't satisfied, |peel -- burn rubber; bomb--fast 1 wanied more speed." ear; goodies -- speed equipment; He then purchased a damaged irons--iools; furnace -- welding 1935 Ford coach and fixed it. A [torch real hot-rod enthusiast by now,| In their short history the Idlers Ramsey replaced the original have had no traitic violations, not motor with one he had earlier leven a parking ticket. Injunctions Jo Oi A fe oe ae On Pickets Protested quarter of the total cost. { MADE THIRD "ROD" With $2,000 and approximately TH 600 hours of his spare time he now has. completed his third "rod." His biggest expenditure was $550 he paia for a 1958 motor at a wrecking-yard. | Ramsey leaned on the side of| his garage - turned - workshop, as he talked Six feet tall, his! Gppawa blonde hair spattered with grease p,q of Locomotive Firemen and and oil, he represents some of win men (CLE) decided Thurs- post-war Canada's youth. He of-| gay to ask provincial govern- ten speaks the words that have p.cnic to curh the practice of from a boat. Note the roll bar behind the driver's seat -- a safety meas- ure to protect the operator in case accident, AL RAMSEY, 21, of Toronto | the windshild built this hotrod in less than a year. It cost him $2000 and took 600 hours of his spare time. The 1934 coupe is power- ed by a 1958 engine and wheel discs came from a 1956 model, | of --CP Photo of ap stick into fi become almost a slogan among| cirivehound employers of seek- hot-rodders: 'Never Satisfied. ing court injunctions against The Idlers, &n eight-member| i yoting, 4 organization, started in 1958 with|" peiaoates at the general meet- about 5 participants. Ramseyins of the brotherhpod's Cana decided to reduce the number be- 5ian jagislative board approved cause of members who had no', ragolution seeking certain apparent interest in hot-rodding amendments to the provincial . ' fosher, shan to beast of a hot-rod|j,gicature acts 100 FEET OF RUBBER jmeny hers ap. nb h Al Specificallv, + the brotherhood [ "I want members who Will| 0) "mn endments ensuring that {build rods, mot idiots who are pe MR TIT h linter sted in making noise," he? anti-picketing injunction car C di hd tere i hid be issued for more than four i i days, -and that it can only be is- anda 141s Hit A little bit of trouble has ay after two days' notice to the croppea up with the neighbors, union. At present no' notice is re but most of them understand, quired # B S eed F V Tr [Fors Srrant Fleming, 19 a nem Other amendments to various |ber of the Idlers. "There is the Cc i laws sought by the - lodd ose who does a little com-|'anadian Jaws £ ' Mh) brotherhood: By KEVIN BOLAND [gear, raced ahead leaving Plaining. | 1. A flat down payment Canadian Press Staff Writer [100 feet of rubber behind, 'shifted COMPLAIN OF NOISE seven per cert on houses a TORONTO (CP Here's how|into second gear and left another| Chief complaints have e¢o0n-|praised up to $13,500 under Na- hot-rodder Aller Ramsey de-|50 feel of rubber. then pushed the cerned the rumbel of loud muf- tional Housing Act loans. scribes the way he raced against or to the floor and putiflers avd the excessive squealing, 2. Statufory income tax exemp- time his car into third gear of car wheels. tions of $1.500 for single taxpay- "I dropped the t CLOCKED AT 105 In Toronto there are some 20ers and $3,000 for married tax- and leit about 100 fe ) Ramsey = adds: "The . timer hot-rod clubs. Don Codner, owner payers up from $1,000 and $5,000, behind me. Then I threw it clocked me at 105 when I hit the/of a 1957 Corvette, estimates and $500 for each dependent not second and Izid another qu -mile." In 440 yards the there sre about 250 car clubs eligible for family allowance. of it tramped it, then threw young speedster had attained -alacross Chnada and 10 times more| 3. Dzduction of all medical ex- it into third speed of 105 miles an hour from in the United States. penses and, for railway workers Trauslated, it means he shifted a standing start. The vocabulary of the hot-rod- of 'costs of meals and lodging away from home. OSHAWA WOGD PRODUCTS For All Your Building eeds (CP)--The Brother- | Egypt Frees British Spy' ish government denied Thursday [that James Swinburn, a Briton { released this week from an Egyp-| tian jail after serving more than two years, had been in its pay when he was convicted on spy | charges in 1956. | A foreign office spokesman |was asked at his press confer- | ence about a statement signed by Swinburn under interrogation in {Egypt that he passed informa- [tion to the British Embassy at |Geizo but had not been paid for it. e spokesman said Swinburn was not in the pay of the British government. Swinburn, who lived in Egypt for more than 30 years as a uni- versily lecturer and later a news agency manager, was granted an amnesty this month and flew to England this week. The Oshawa Ses PAGE THIRTEEN VOL. 88--No. 224 OSHAWA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1959 | Insurance Act | | Takes Etfect MILES PER HOUR NFLD HOW FAST can you drive in Canada? It depends on the orovince, and ranges from a low of 40 miles an hour in Newfoundland to 65 in Alberta. Graph details the top speeds permitted in each of the 10 '50 MPH TO 65 MP . More Jobless | Under Protection | | By JOHN LeBLANC 8. The annual wage ceiling for {| Canadian Press Staff Writer [coverage is raised from $4,800 to OTTAWA (CP) --One of the|$5,460, and two new classes for most couiroversial pieces of la- contributions and benefits are ad- bor legislation in many years'ded around the top. goes into effect Sunday. | Hoisting the ceiling will bring It consisis of amendments t0|ahout 80,000 more persons under the Unemployment Insurance insurance protection. There now Act, boosting contributions to the are about 4,000,000 insured work- recession depleted insurance org in the labor force of 6,400, fund and raising the wage ceil-'ggg, ng of eligibility for Coverage. The additional contributions Liberals and the CCF fought it p05" jnorense revenue going tooth and nail at the last session into the fund by about $93,00../00 of Parliament, and kept up a for an estimated average annual near-filibuster for so long that its intake of $357.00: on : implementation was delayed for| ame basis ihe benefit total three months up to now. } 3 v 3 : should increase an average $24,- It also lacked the endorsation Shouid ase ge $24, of the government's unemploy- ment insurance advisory 'com- NATURAL GROWTH mittee, an employee - employer| Apart from this, the fund should grow naturally by some group of unpaid consultants. Labor Minister Starr had 10 $15-$16,000,000 a year in interest skip an international labor con-loy its investments in bonds of the vention in Europe to pilot it cash put into it. This interest safely through the Commons. |should go up, assuming the eco- THREE MAIN FEATURES Romy cobtinges. to: rise, Mair sigatures of the measure Meanwhile the fund has been are these: making a recovery on its own 1. Contributions into the insur-|{fromr the nosedive it suffered ance fund by employers, employ- during the recession. MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS Bi. ; N.S. N.B. QUE. ONT. MAN. SASK. B.C. speeds are not general through- | out the provinces but apply only to specified highways and in many cases are subject to | other speed regulations -- such as lower limits at night --CP Newsmap PEA, provinces but in some cases these speeds are permitted | i only on short stretches of high- | | way. The maximum of 60 for | Que for instance, applies only to a 30-mile stretch of six- lane superhighway. These top H we T Road By NEVILLE NANKIVELL Canadian Press Staff Writer The highway sty slogan for many areas says "il you want to live, slew down." The thought behind that appeal to motorists has prodded British | Columbia to take another look at cars from dodging around slower- its speed limit laws, and has Saskatchewan war'ly eying a ris- ing accident rate. But a cross-Canada survey by The Canadian Press shows that in most other provinces speed limits have been raised recently, or are being raised, and that pro- vincial officials scem happy with the results. ALBERTA FASTEST The top speed limits vary from 50 miles an hour in Newfound- land and Prince Edward Island to 65 miles an hour on. some four- ees and the federal government] From well over $900,000,000, it sed by an average of had plummeted in about two years to $432,800,000 by May 31. With the drain eased as employ- ment picked upp, it had come back to $448,600,000 by the end of September, 30 per cent. 2. The maximum period for drawing benefits while unem- ployed is extended from 36 to 52 weeks. Varied In Canada walking Stick miles an hour during the day-|for the revenue. Municipalities) |time some five years ago. They can set their own limits, remained 50 miles an hour at| = night, At the same time, the 40- RAISED IN N.B. . | mile-an-hour limit for trucks was| New limits of 60 miles an hour| . raised to the same as the limit|during the day apd 55 at night] TORONTO (CP)--Seldom now good example is Canadian author preven passenger|Pecame effective in New Bruns-'do the trusty blackthorn canesand journalist Gregory Clark, an wick last June - without undue swing from the arms of English old customer who has dozens of {moving trucks. argument or campaigning. The gentlemen in the parks of Lon-|Cox sticks in his Toronto home. R. B. Baillie, Manitoba motor|?€W speeds will be seduced don. | Mr. Cox says he has found in velricle ~ommissioner said that|through build-up or heavily-popu-| The age of the carefully-|Canada little but ordinary chest- although there have been no cam-| lated areas. fashioned umbrella and walking nut canes of the polished variety. paigns to change the I'mits, theve| Nova Scotia instituted a 60- cick is on the wane and William Almost nothing of hand-fashioned have been some representations Mile-an-hour. limit in 1958, pre-|Cox, an upright and distinguished | quality has turned up. {to provide acceleration and dece-|Vious to which the rule had been 74, is watching it go a little wist-| The best woods, he explains, leraticn zones to provide transi-|t0 drive at a speed deemed pru- fully. |are "good English naturals" -- tion between 60-mile and urban. dent for the conditions. J. Clyde] pin, a shop on London's Ox-|blackthorn, ash or .oak--woods ouglas director of highway sa-|r,.q Street, established in 1878, from Central America, Brazil 1 fety, said the new limit makes|y. Cox and his father supplied|and the West Indies. |SPEED IS RELATIVE Jaw enforcement simpler. Speeds some of the finest for thousands | "Speed as such doesn't neces-|so slow as to impede traffic are o¢ .istomers, including British ROYAL CUSTOMERS sarily make a large contribution prohibited. Fatalitics have drop- royalty. ' + | It was in these places that he to accidents," he said. '"'Speed|ped since the laws went into ef-|" CT. ooo oo Cin fand his father before him sought too fast for conditions is the big-|fect. ow he's in Canada VISIUDG {he highly-figured hardwoods for Age On The Wane for cars--to area 30-mile-an-hour zones. family and friends, and happy to/. ciomers that included Queen have met some lovers of his art/ nary George V, Edward VIII 'who agree with his thesis: "You and George VI ' can't walk properly without a|™ ype (he Second World War, when most soldiers stopped est single factor." | Fifty miles an hour is top for On some icy roads, 10 miles an Prince Edward Island where no (hour would be too fast, an RCMP [changes are contemplated. The spokesman added. limit is the same on Newfound- Ontario plans to raise speed|land's 150 miles of paved high- >" lane stretches in Alberta, w here |# a motor association official says "there's less slow-poking now--| the sloWv-pokers are dangerous on Check These PLUS SERVICES Some of the ouistanding reasons why you are wiser buying building materials through us: ® HOME CON- STRUCTION DIVISION. Com- plete home re- modelling, additions, and repairs including all sub trades. OSHAWA WOOD PRODUCTS LIMITED ® Available at all times, QUALITY MATERIALS AT REASONABLE PRICES. ® An unsurpassable FREE HOME PLANNING and ESTIMATING SERVICE. ® At your con- venience . . . TWO MODERN SHOWROOMS TO SERVE YOU Main Office and Showroom -- RA 8-1611 Downtown Showroom B4 Simcoe St. S.--RA 8-1617 Courtice 9 Oshawa Telephones To Serve You Bowmanville--MA 3-2130 Ajax ZEnith 2-9600 © DOWNTOWN OFFICE OPEN FRIDAY TILL 9:00 P.M. eo good roads." Quebe¢ hzs a limit of 50 miles an hour on open roads and a top of 60 on a 30-mile strip of six- lane superhighway, All the other provinces have, or wilt have soon, top limits of 60 miles an hour. A rising highway death toll last month forced the British Colum- bia government to urder a double study into the province's new 60- mile-an-hour speed zones. The highways minister and attorney- general each ordered an inves- | tigation. The two departments will confer after tie studies are complete. "The basic fact of physics can't be ignored," said Attorney - Gen- eral Robert Bonner. '"'An acci- dent at 60 milees an hour is more serious than one at 50 or 40." CRITICIZE INCREASE | Criticism of an increase in the speed limit to 60 from 50 on sec- tions of abeut 22 B.C. highways ithis summer foilowed reports of | an increase in dea although ithe number of accidents was down from the previous year. | George Lindsay, motor vehic- les superimendcnt, said 60-mile- an-hour zomes have been "indis- (criminately adopted by motor ists." | Alberta has 60-raile-an - hou: |daytime limits and 50 at night-- except for about 144 miles of four- lane high where the limits are 65 and 55. Truck limits are 50 miles an hour day and night. The 65-55 limils became efiec- tive last July and Alberta Motor Association patrols report' that ale: 'It seems to be more gccidents and possibly it is ' dcreasing the unumMer," said Walker Blake, manager of the AMA's Edmontoa office. MORE ACCIDENTS The Saskatchewan speed limit is 50 miles an hour, with a max- imum of 60 on blacktop highways such as the Trans-Canada. Truck limits are 10-miles-an-hour less than for cars. There has been nc agitation against the speeds, but Provin- cial Treasurer Clarence Fines, in {charge of the highway traffic board, says if the accident rate keeps climbing something will have to be done. almost he said t months chewan." 'Someone wag killed every day in August' "If was one of the wo in the history of S: Manitoba highway raised its } carrying sticks, army men called 7 seem to make drivers more causing no| speed limits to 60 miles from 50, limits on all but onc or the prov-|way, but 40 miles an hour on ince's two-lane highways within|other roads. Twenty miles an the next two months to 55 or 60 hour is the limit in St. John's, miles an hour, The limits will be reported to have more cars per aised to 55 miles an hour from capita than any other Canadian 50 jon a few. The Ontario highways depart-| reports ment recommended the increases | climbing. following an intensive survey dur- ling the last scven months 6,000 miles of two-iane highwa Some highways aire gislation in sight but the. RCMP the accident rate is The Canadian Good Roads As-| Olisociation. says many roads V3. throughout Canada should have ] ady have 60: higier speed limits. The Cana- mile-an-hour limits | dian Highway Safety Conference Quebec's last change was four yrges "realistic" speed laws years ago when a top of 50 was based on local traffic conditions imposed on the highways. Until and favors speed zones. then the rule had been any reas-| The Canadian Automobile As- onable speed on open roads and|gociation urges flexible speed 30 miles an hour through popu-|jaws adaptable to local operating lated areas, In practice, this ruie| conditions and more research stil] appiies. |into the cause of accidents, It be- The province, however, gets |iieves that not enough is known to {regular complaints from motor-|pinpoint any cause, let alone ists, tourists and the Quebec speed, as the major factor in traf- Automobile Club that some small|fic accidents. towns nut up obscure, easy-to-| As B.C. Premier W. A. C. Ben- miss signs posting uireasonably nett puts it: "It's a question for low limits and nab drivers just|the engineers and the experts." | on some highways and to 50 city. There is no new highway le- | - GREG CLARK CUSTOMER | It makes the day for Mr. Cox if he meets one man who appre- ciates the value of a hefty, care- fully - produced blackthorn. A regularly at the Ben Cox and Sons shop in London. "It's a dying craft," says Mr, ox. "Four of my men died dur- |ing the war, ene afterwards and [1 had to let the last man go a |few years ago. They can't be re- |placed." "FREIGHT TRAIN CLIPS OFF TOE NORTHAMPTON, Mass, (AP)--Donald J. Roberts, 21, Liberal Federation Opens Convention OTTAWA (CP) -- The national convention of the Young Liberal Federation of Canada opens here| today with the emphasis on or-| anization of the federation and| the Liberal Party, | of Sugar Cily, Colo., was The federation executive met| thankful to be in district court Thursday to set up committees | Thursday. and put finishing touches to the| He was arrested Wednes- convention program which in-| 49 night after the engineer cludes addresses by party leader| of @ freight train reported a Lester B. Pearson, New Bruns-| man Seeping close to the wick leader Louis Robichaud and be Sil to 1 aels, : | Police found Roberts was Baten Columbia leader Ray Per: | so ciose the train wheels cut | the toe of his right shi Mr. Pearson will address a ght shoe nos missed his foot. banquet tonight. Roberts pleaded guilty to "INTERPRETING THE NEWS U.S. Massive In Race Of R By HAROLD MORRISON ahead of Russia in space rock- Canadian Press Staif Writer etry. The United States is apparently preparing for a massive effort to DROP JET PLANS overtake Russia in the missiles| Coupled with the move is the decision race | And it would appear, on the fonqeliar Program: ior i basis of the existing continental [0 of the 2,000 : miles-an-hour concept of defence, Canada may 1108 Jet interceplor, a decisio also have to plunge deeper in the seen by Some observers as sign- costly and complex business of alling the end of the line for rocket operations manned interceptors -- ' : That is to provide more mohey The step up in U.S. effort and gop space rockets; less for efficiency is seen in the bold step' manned aircraft. The emphasis by Defence Secretary Neil H. appears definitely on increased McElroy to reduce interservice development of the automatic rivalry and bickering and design- processes of defence and less on ate the air force as the master the .use 'of manpower for sky service power not only for launch-| fighting ; ing of all military space rockets! For this awakening to the in-| but also for development and pro-!;reased possibilities of push-but- duction ton warfare, Russia rather than This move may be a bitter pill the U.S. may be responsible r the army and navy Over the years the U.S. made Il but it could open the prog in space defence but r central concen- scientists showed the ion of effort and funds to find U.S. that even with less national ways of catching up and "moving wealth, they could match and ex- to cancel a multi-mill- |, drunkenness and received a 30-day suspended jail sent- ence. Effort Fire Fighter Suspended ockets = i By Council » ceed U.S. rocket development." | The Pentagon has been persis-| KINGSTON (CP) -- John H. tently subjected to increasing McKinnon, 37, a city fireman for criticism particularly after Rus- eight years and president of the sia hit the moon with a rocket Kingston Labor Council, was sus- wo weeks ago. Shocked by Rus-|pendeq indefinitely Thursday for sia's brilliant effort, some U.S. insubordination. \ military officials predicted it] Ajgerne n G. K. Leach said the would be two or three years be- action was taken after a state fore the US. could close the pont was issued by Mr. McKin- missiles gap, providing Russia non in which he objected to coun- made' no fgeber progress. cil's decision to discontinue the WANT SPACE MAN lcity's fire alarm call box system. And there is no indication Rus-| Mr. McKinnon termed the sia will be content with just hit-/alarm box decision "a callous i , moon. Both Russia and |disregard for life and property." want to get men into He said he issued his statement space, perhaps looking to the day with the full endorsement of the when atomic weapons may not/labor council executive. The ex- {irected at ecutive immediately called an some enemy country from an emergency "meeting to discuss earth satellite orbiting in spaco.|the suspension It is also undoubtedly true that| Council said it is suspending in taking the step to concentra c|the call box service because less military spe effort in the airithan two per cent of the fire force, the I | r Reou {alarms were placed through the administrati also looking to!boxes. It costs the city an aver- the 1960 presidential eleetion. ~ jage $1,000 a call. be land-based but