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6 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, September 25, 1959 AT BOWMANVILLE COL. J. C. GAMEY Fire Destroys Auto Body Shop BOWMANVILLE (Staff) --|battled the blaze for about 45 Damages were estimated at ap-| minutes before it was extinguish- proximately $2000 when fire, be- ed. lieved to have been caused when | Mr. Hunt said the building, an air compressor shorted Thurs- which he has been operating as day afternoon, gutted the interior an auto body repair shop By FRANK PICKFORD ORONO -- Colonel J. C. Gamey, secretary - treasurer of /the Durham Central Agricultural Society, is a veteran of two for world wars, and although he has been out of uniform since 1944 he of Snuffy's Body Shop on King about 20 months, was partially near the CPR over-| covered by insurance, Trinity Church street west head bridge. Seth Hunt, 32, proprietor of the bedy shop said he was working alone in the building when the fire broke out about 3.30 p.m. He said his back was turned to the wall where the flames first started, byt he said he heard a noise. When he turned to see what it was, he discovered one of hers of group five, Trir the walls was ablaze, unable to get to the tractor. Group Meets y MRS. A. L. HOOEY BOWMANVILLE -- still bears the stamp of the sol- |dier. Tall, lean and fit-locking, Churcli. held the East beach. Mrs. presided and Working under the direction of votional period. Plans were outlined for the an- "JUST HELP OUT" Fire Chief Walt Hackney, Bow- manville Volunteer Fire Brigade|pual bazaar in Mrs. 1, {Hubbs was in charge of the de- November and -- |each member of the group was'some sunny a'tetnoon dnd likely 'he carries his 66 years as easily pack in the war of 1914-18, His hair is grey and neatly brushed, his moustache trimmed to the {exactness -of the hedge around {his garden. The Colonel is no stuffed shirt The mem- demanding obeisance to his past nity United military prestige. His handshake September A car and a tractor were ini meeting at the cottage of Mrs. the building at the time. He man- R, Gill, aged to get the car out bul was|Oshorne lis firm without being cruel; a |softly - spoken, modest sort of man with a quiet sense of humor. his neighbors he is just "Cliff." i Drop in on him at his home |we should stand behind it. 1 do/Afked to donate three gifts for ag not you will find him in his {the gift table. {favor hacking the board in its {recommendations to the munici- ipalities as they are a group {men who know what they doing." | W. A. Heberle, a Port Hope feouncillor said backing the board means nothing, because the councils were given three proposals and they back the one they like best. "What ested in childrer FIREMEN FIGHTING BLAZE AT BODY SHOP HIGH SCHOOL DILEMMA Councils Split On Plan For 2 New High Schools BOWMANVILLE (Staff) --|vided at the January meeting of schools. They would have to pull Eight municipal councils repre- counties council, and date the|together, and would have to de- sentative of the Durham District division back to January 1. termine which areas are going agree on the building of a 150- High School area failed to reach| Bowmanville Councillor O. J.|to develop. pupil school in Millbrook. unanimous ement on high Presson asked if the committee] |" Bowmanvill Reeve W. D. Hig- school sites suggested by the high gave any consideration to what COULD CHANGE lon said he felt he should de- school board to relieve pressure should be done to provide school Deputy-reeve Jack Brough said "io council's attitude. He at existing schools. T he v/facilities until the matter is set-fhe felt all the projected figures ..i4 it has been unfairly stated met in Bowmanville town to have the best, not just second best," he said. MAKE SACRIFICE : Deputy reeve Wladyka said: "If we have to make sacrifices to| get schools built, then let's do it and get some schools up. don't think thc whole school ville in the the committee felt the board's said, seems to be advocating that building program should be car-|going right back to where we in ried out, even if the high school started from. area is to be divided. If a large industry moved into Mayor Carruthers pointed out the area, it could change those chair. The the school : January next Bowmanville Hope, Mi castle councils € 1 tion by B lle ¢ t y- and give the board the reeve 4 at th light to go ahead and get schoo building program under way. two schools. of suppor Darlington township reeve Roy| Clarke township reeve, James a 500 to 700 pupil scl , Nichols suggested board Brown, stated he could not see located rl chairman Alan H. Strike address where the councils were going. and a 150 p sc I- the meeting. Mr. Strike said the He said the board was formed in brook. Hope n-hip and C yoard has been working on the 1950. At that time the municipal township representatives abstain-| school location problem since Oc- councils picked the best men nq oo back to where we were] ed from voting on the issue. tober 1957 and "we are nearing Shey could Sioa as Sheir repre: hen we started. representatives stated they| October 1959 with nothing accom-|® a gh school | . sai Hope p the proceeding was ed." He said the board is|board. Some of the present men, Mavar AT Tg ig Jou frregular, if not illegal. The still willing to assist in ~wver- bers of the hoard are the same| '. ..% ; "5 'vive in a little school board will meet to formal-' coming the problem. Hh at the inception of Ls ve lke it | present 2 via for two schodls 4 5ARD QUIT "Have we no faith in the RO sme of education repre-| He reminded the meeting that members of the LER he sentative William J. Stewart of the board's first proposal to the ashe to Ee He Yeas Toronto told the meeting which eight councils was made in early Fig Fo er Purse ves ob a & also included high school board 1958, to build 2 400-pupil hod! foe high school OE ne anes © |i differences, and he chairman, Alan H. Strike, build- 5 lathe \owus ip, Bear © ome, ant. Dn we think we. are|when the proposal was sent to ing Somimifiee chalsshay, Clair EE Est » mag y ap smarter than they are? If so, the councils bv the Durham 1 03rd secrels 5 La bs ; a tric choo! , Allig a4 that the situation in| The next proposal, which the let's tell them und eome up with, 2) on the schools to re-| "something ourselves." |get goi Darlington and Millbrook was board thought to be a pretty, "go"yoveq the meeting should|lieve the pressure. serious, sound one, was to construct 400-| ack the hoard to come up with a "I regret there seems to be "WILL HAVE TO BUILD" |and Darlington townships, and 2 tion was seconded by deputy-|sue. You can be sure we did not "No matter what else you de- 150-pupil school in Millbrook, and|reeve George Stapleton of Hope intend to hurt anyone when we cide, you'll have to build a school |for which it had the approval of | township. in Bowmanville town council In Darlington township . . . and|the department of education, also took our stand. We felt smaller what and that is ome reason why Bowmanville is opposed to small schools. The minimum for a brook, green cils give the board authority to|cerned its go ahead with the building of the there should be r the cons own school. " lieve the pressure. Mayor Carruthers = Hosnital Shows Small Surolus By MRS. A. L. HOOEY BOWMANVILLE garden, wearing blue overalls and a battered felt hat. Likely, too, you will find him taking his ease in a garden chair, a hoe in his hand. smoke curling from his pipe as he meditates. For, as he {readily admits, gardening {to arouse his enthusiasm. | here," he explains, imorial Hospital Board meeting Mamping down the tobacco in his $230,444. building program should be held oy gust were as follows: up just because we agree or dis-) large and costs or 10 days when schools, or dissolve the district pleaded guilty before Magistrate he was postmaster, a position he KAISED ON FARM and let each community have its|R. B. Baxter to a charge of im- had held for the past 25 |paired driving. second except for the "The question is, are we going [charge of having liquor in a to stay together as a district or|place other than his residence, World War IL o back to our own municipali-|Faryne was fined $15 and costs, ties and build our own schools, or an additional five days. | we are, primarily inter- was held Wednesday with chair-|pipe. "I just help out." is what is best for our man I. Hobbs presiding. A small @ and that's what we areisurplus in the opera | going to pay for. We want them was revealed ' The Colonel was never a per- ting account fessional soldier in thes terms of a permanent force officer. But ii as he carried an infantryman's & K fails * "My wife is the garden expert ? The Me- around & August accounts of $6103 were ever since he organized a platoon Wii approved, and.the treasurer ported the income to date $237,289 with expenditures Extra furnishings had to purchased due to increase in pa-| Iitient duys. Statistics for June, July re- as|at Orono soldiering has been one of | of his chief interests, his only! and of the Durham Regiment in 1922 real hobby in fact. |reading. He has That and read widely, {history and current events inter- |esting him especially. Commenting on Nikita Khrush- Admissions 609; births 185; pa-|chev's world disarmament pro- tient days 4929: average number|Posal, of patients daily 53.6, operations|S2Y: Colonel Gamey had this to "Disarmament would be a (including emergencies) 628; out. wonderful thing if it could be en- |patient visits 716. forced. Khrushchev didn't say hall tled. {were not worth the paper they yt come councils are prejudiced 'or W. D.| Mr. Budge said the majority of Were written on. The board, heli, their decisions. truc Y Io "What we are interested in is] is best for the students, Pole Fined $50 how that was to be done and it would be a grave mistake to take him at his word. His prom- *lises don't mean a thing." {EYES PROTECTED { Failing eyesight, soon | corrected, has curtailed the Col- BOWMANVILLE Staff) --|onel's reading, and so he spends On a Tuesday fined $50 den, his eyes protected by he glasses. Until early councils would have to figures overnight, He then pro-jimited vocational school is 700.|Samuel Faryne, 30, of 63 Brown the fine days outside in his gar- Samuel, convener of the festival to settle their differences posed the motion that the coun-iAc far as Bowmanville is con-|street, was sun- this years, four years he a'served with the Army during Now retired, he smiles as he says, "When my eyesight gets Town Constable Louis Phillips back to mormal I may take up {told the court the accused was involved in an accident at 10.15] p.m. at the corner of Wellington; and Liberty streets Sept. 19. or not in order| Faryne struck a hydro pole on gther consuming interest in to give the board the go ahead te eal Sige o 3 Dusty strest life -- the agricultural society to start building a school to re- when he attempted to turn right; : : > |from Wellington onto Liberty. Which he: has been said he! Witness found a case of beer incils had resolved|in the car, as well as a part FAIR GROWTH hoped the councils hoped bottle of whisky. s Faryne, he said, The accused said # was alamong other things, the enlarg- ing markets. {friend's car) he had borrowed.|ing and improving of He swerved to miss he struck the hydro pole. ed for six months, smelled grow from less than five Dis-| strongly of alcohol and his speech to the present fifteen; it could|was thick. Accused's licence was suspend- golf." In addition to his military ac- vities and post office duties, Colonel Gamey has had one his of secretary- treasurer since 1932. He has seen the fair grounds acres the re- | building of the grandstand and, the trot- ) a north. ting track, today considered by controlled |pupil schools in each of Clarke sition nid Sig el mo-|some hard feelings over this is-| bound car on Liberty street when| racing men to be one of the fin-|davs," est in Ontario, One reason for this is that the I members of the local driving club to be month Orono Soldier-Farmer Was Also Postmaster stuck it out and broke even when 1 finally quit," he said ACCOUNTANCY START In his vouth Colonel Gamer started oul to be an accountant, a career interrupted by World War i Following his twelve years ot farming, he took a job an bookkeepe: with the Orono creamery and was there three years, until avpointed postmaster in December, 1934. Tollowing his return from over- seas in 1918, he like most vet- erans - wanted nothing more to do with the Army He'd had enough, But in 1622, while on the farm urged by his friends, he organized platoon of the Durham Regimer being com- COL. J. C. GAMEY are allowed the use of the track in tip-top condition. ers and the people of Orono. "When I call for a 'working bee' before the fair, the farmers come and work like the devil," he said, adding that for six years troubles. fair. realized. The drama festival was most successful, largely due to the enthusiasm of Mrs. Edward committee," he said, Colonel Gamey was born in Ostrey Township, Grey County, in 1893 and raised on the farm. In 1913 he was visiting his sister- in-law, a patient in a Toronto hospitai, Her nurse was a pretty English girl. Cliff was 20 and fancy free. They were married January 15, in that fateful year of 1914. When war broke out with Ger- many, Cliff enlisted in the ranks and served overseas from Sep- tember 1916 until June 1919. | On his return to Canada hi {bought a hundred-acre farm five |miles north of Orono in Clarke Township. A loan under the Vet- erans' Land Act helped him fi- nance the deal, and for twelve {hard years he struggled to make a go of it against steadily fall- | "There was no such thing as a economy in those recalled the Colonel. |"People who had money quit |spending, hanging on to their money against the depression get it there fast to relieve the pressure at Bowmanville High School." he said. He said the department had no desire to tell the councils and school boards where they must Jocate schools, The department did not fave a policy of smal schools. In the case of Millbrook, however, its isolated situation in dicated the need for a 150 pupil school He said it was the council's re- sponsibility to give the board approval for the co tion of new schools. He said was under the impression trouble was Bowmanville Darlington's , applic. draw from the a now it was over the failed to carry. | "When the third proposal, to| try to get approval to build a 400- pupil school in Darlington and a 150-pupil school in Millbrook was turned down, we felt as a board we had done all we could do, so we threw up our hands," he de- clared. He added that there was con- siderable discussion at board meetings on the merits of the larger schools versus the smaller schools. He said a lot of consid-| ie eration was given the possibility "lof 'a 700-800 pupil school Clarke and Millbrook the schools. He said it i up to the board to select the high school location for the proposed schools, known by everyone, by Septem-|] for one feel if we elect a board | and councils' responsibility to ap prove the board's proposals. He added he did nc idea of the area spl small areas, it thought it wise. SPLIT PROPOSED Reeve Reid Budge of ties Council to investigate the possibility of split said the commitiee visited the councils during May and June. As township each year for the next a result it recommended to coun- the ties council a division of area into two districts effective January 1, 1960. He said the de- cision was not based on unani- mous approval of all eight coun- cils, but a majerity of the muni- cipalities had agreed to the divi- sion FURTHER STUDY He said a further study of the ar ke the School. There are 300 students on g into the projection lists prepared by might be exped- the board, and we just can't ac- ient for the area to be split into |commodate them. A partial shift two large areas, if the councils system is mow being planned," Port |, Hope, chairman of the consultive|the next five years Darlington committee set up by United Coun- g the area, »| "As you all know, and it is well 1960 there will be a shift Bowmanville High - ber schedule at he said. TOWNSHIP'S GROWTH Reeve Roy W. Nichols said in township would add at least one and a half million to its assess- ment, and there would be at least 100 new families moving into the five years. Port Hope deputy - reeve Michael Wladyka suggested that| projected figures could be very| misleading. He made reference| to populs alities are all claim- He said the councils sch other |WANT SCHOOL BACK Councillor Murray Patterson of Newcastle village council said he thought the idea of the formation of the board was to eliminate the| smaller schools and build larger "We in Newcastle lost our school, and we want it back, and we are going to fight to get it back. We understood when we gave il up very gracefully that all the others were going to do the same, but they kept them. "If we can't have our school bac Lloyd Hooten, a member of schools were a step backward." Board chairman Alan H. Strike said the councils have given the board an idea of what it can expect. 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I never got more than six| {cents a peund when I sold, and BTW missiored licutenant, About 1932 he took a staff course at the Royal 'Military Staff College, Kingston, and when Canadian regiments were mobilizing in 1029 Yo was posted io the Haste ings and Prince Edward Regt. with the rank of major. He went overseas in 1940, but it was not lone yc'ore he was posted back to Canada with the rank of lieu- tenant-colone! to command the Midland Regiment, serving with thise mit until demobilization. CIVILIAN AGAIN Hz returned to civilian once more, to toke up his interrupted duties as posi master and secretary - treasurer of the Central Durham Agricul tural Society, Now he is retired from the post office and he says it won't be long before he gives up his work with the agricultural so- cie "There are younger men with ideas who can take over the job," he said, a little wistfully, "It's about time I stepped out. After all, 'm not getting any younger." 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