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WHITBY and DISTRICT Whitby Bureau Office: 111 Dundas St. West Manazer: Lioyd Robertson Tel. MO. 8-3703 Students Report On Club Sponsored Trips Last Summer Whitby Rotary Club sponsored two Whitby Dis- trict High School students to two tions and were all prominent in their field. Our resident speaker, Mr. Kanyiki is the Superintendent adventures in citizenship in On- tario. Susan Cuddy of Whitby repre- sented the high school at the first of Secondary Schools in Uganda, a country in mid-eastern Africa, pordering on Kenya, Tanganyika, Ruanda Urundi and the Sudan. He was execptionally interesting always able to enliven any rather dry lecture with his wit and humor," she said. She continued, "Our first speaker, following the trooping of the colors, was Mr. Valters, a member of the Secretariat of the United Nations who proved to be United Nations Association Gene- va Park Conference at Lake Cou- chiching. Helen Lamory was one of 125 students from all parts u o> tario who attended a United Na-|™* ie tions Seminar at the University/er's explanation. of Western Ontario. | VAST SUBJECT The two students were guest quently he would correct Auditorium. _Whitby Aren the speakers, In introducing High Schol thing," she said. tarian Donald Tutt said that they | . ,.oiized how very little we were outstanding students at the|y obo anse we had been given| during the seminar." as he gave the Negro Africans' view point. He and his family sat in on all our lectures and te the speaker or enlarge on the speak- | "Everyone went to the confer- speakers at the weekly luncheon| na with the idea that as they of the Whitby Rotary Club in the jnew nothing about Africa theyland duties of the United Nations couldn't' help but learn Ssome- h Miss Cuddy|events as the Jordon-Israeli crisis, Principal and RO-\ wont on "When we left however|and school and had excellent records in all phases of the High School program. REPORT ON UN The initial speaker Susan Cud dy began by sa) i pose of the week lor that was held at Geneva Park, |( v , She said! of 230 million, yet fewer than one | violence. was to study Africa that in attendance at the confer- ence were some 70 Grade 11 and 12 students from 53 Ontaric schools "When we registered upon our arrival," she said, "we were given a folder containing infor-| mation on Africa, a timetable and a number denoting our discussion groups." There were seven dis- cussion groups of 10, and ea | whom met in a different place and discussed different subjects] pertaining to Africa, such as economics, politics and social an idea of the vastness of the subject." She concluded, "The political | map of Africa is changing with such rapidity that it is difficult| . to keep up with its changes. | "There are 52 territories in the| ontinent with a total population fifth of these territories are in- dependent. The dream of every| African seems to be complete in-| dependence the soonr the better, | and Mr. Kanyiki was no excep- tien." "During our week's stay," she| said, "'a few of Africa's multitude | of problems were revealed to us| and all the students attending the| ch of seminar left with a new interest CANADA'S PART in Africa." | ATTENDS SEMINAR The second speaker Miss Helen| Lamory of Whitby began by| the Rotary Club for the most popular of the speakers. In all our discussion groups, he encouraged us to air our views about the topic in question, he would give the UN view and then concluded by adding his own ideas." UN BACKGROUND Miss Lamory continued, "He described backgmund, make-up {and discussed its actions in such the German-Berlin erisis | which was to be our main topic | She said that "'A Background of World War Two," a movie shown to American troops before they left to fight Germany, was shown to them the first evening of the seminar to demonstrate that even America used a very one-sided propaganda to move her men to Miss Lamory continued, "Our speaker on the second day was Mr. Richie, an active worker in Canadian International Affairs, who spoke about Canada's part played in the modern world, espe- cially through the security giver, NATO and he gave examples of Canada's aid in the UN and the Columbia Plan." "Our final speaker," she said, "was a representative of the De- partment of External Affairs, Mr. Shenstone, who reviewed the his- tory and crisis of the Middle East, blems. | thanking protien ee first two of these dis-|sponsoring her during her stay at|and described Canada's part in cussion groups we had adults as|the University of Western _On-|aiding these countries which have our leaders but then we were left|tario in order to participate in a/been forced to modernize them- on our own. Each student took a/United Nations Seminar last July. selves but which have not educat- turn at leading the group and|She said that 125 students from ed the people to accept the new keeping the discussion interesting Western Ontario Schools were methods. w and on topic." present to learn more about the] "During the week," she said, "All of our speakers were very | functions of the UNO and of world "we saw several films, among good," Miss Cuddy continued, crisis. {Which was one which followed a "most of them were connected in| "Dr. Gyn-Timothy was the| medical UNESCO team in the some way with the United Na-|chairman of the seminar and was Middle East, and another which . took us on a tour of the UN build- ing in New York to see the great Mr. Lester Pearson leading a de- bate in the General Assembly." Miss Lamory concluded by say- ing that their final after dinner speaker was Dr. McQueen; the Moderator of the United Church of Canada, who fittingly ended the seminar's lectures by saying that the United Nations could stand for understanding and Acquit Man Of Assault Of Kin An Oshawa man, Jack La-|the kitchen. She said she picked Rocque, 68, of Nassau St. oi oo the broom in self-defence and Tuesday Garden Party For Children Is Guild Plan All Saints' Anglican Church Evening Guild held its regular meeting last Monday evening at the parish hall with a very good attend ident, Mrs. F. Read, opened the meeting with prayer. Reports were read and e. The pr Is Fined $100 On Driving Count A Whitby woman, Helena Mae Roberts, 229 Perry St-, was Tues- day fined $100 and costs for im- paired driving when she appear- ed before Magistrate F. 8. Ebbs in Whitby police court charged with driving while intoxicated. In addition, her licence to drive was suspended for six months. Sgt. Clifford Partington, of the Whitby Police Department, told {'he court that on the evening of Teh, 16 he had been standing on the sidewalk on Brock St IN., when he heard a car crash across the street. He said that he observed a car with a lady driver proceeding south on Brock, then turn west approved. on Elm St., where he later found During the business meeting, further plans were made for the children's Garden Party to be held June 8 with the following conveners: general convener, Mrs. Jack Wilson; kitchen, Mrs. Harry Town; children's wear, Mrs. C. Watson; fish pond, Mrs. J. Everett; cards and plates, Mrs. R. Hawins; tickets, Mrs. E. Probert; advertising, Mrs. F. Read; table convener, Mrs. H. Hiscox; children's tea tables, Mrs, A. Scott. At the next April 4 meeting a children's opportunity sale will take place among the members. the car parked. He said that he found the accused and a com- panion in the beverage room of a hotel some minutes later. He said that she admitted being driver of the car which was in- volved in the crash. The parked car which had been struck by the car driven by the accused suffered $25 damage, he said. Both Sgt. Partington and PC James Hooker said that in their opinion Mrs, Roberts was intoxi- cated. In her own defence, Mrs: Rob- erts said that she was aware that there had been a crash but found Members were reminded that it{that she could not park until she will be a shower of wool for thé|found the parking space on Elm children of Korea. |St. She said that she had con- The meeting closed with pray-|sumed about six bottles of beer er. Mrs. S. Armstrong gave abefore leaving her home to come laywoman's view on Anglican prayer book. Lunch was the new downtown. Her companion explained that served with Mrs. T. Tomkins and| the rear bumper of the car pro- Mrs. A. hostesses. Robertson as HOSPITAL STAFFS | Twenty per cent of the 131,900 tealtruded and it was this that had caught the parked car as Mrs. Roberts drove close to it looking {for a parking space. His Worship reduced the charge full-time employees of public hos-|lo impaired and levied the fine, pitals in Canada in 1958 were Mrs. Roberts | Duncan B. McIntyre. graduate nurses. was defended by Debate Use Of Council Chambers me fei a os The town property committee has been asked to reconsider a recommendation that the council| chambers in the new town hall be made available only for munici- pal boards and groups. The com- mittee included the recommenda- tion in a report to council but after discussion council sent this portion of their report back to the property committee for study. Councillor Joyce Burns said {them to use the room, he said, {would create bad feelings. Councillor Robert Hastings won- dered how council would rule {which organizations would be per- {mitted to meet if they allowed |any to use the chambers. He said {that either all organizations should be allowed to use the chambers or else none. Reeve Everett Quantrill point- ed out that the decision reached that since the property commit-{Would govern the type of furnish- tee had made its report, several town officials had visited the |ings necessary for the chambers. If organizations are to be allow- municipal building in Scarborough|€d use of the chambers, portable Twp. and had found that seven or eight organizations have use of the chambers for meetings, without charge. If council were to make it im- acquitted of a charge of swung it but the accused grab- casioning actual SS a LE li appeared before Magistrate F. S./boarded at the house grabbed Ebbs in Whitby police court, onthe end. : the complaint of Mrs. Betty La-| She said that the accused twist- Rocque, now of 902 Centre St. N.|ed the Boom out of He Dudrieps PC L. Fry, of the Whitby De- hand and then wrenched it from| she was helped to see world + 3 i her hands and as he did so, she| =~ x jacument. of The OPP, sud Jha felt a sharp pain in her hand ang| affairs through the media of many neighborli in peace. She concluded by saying that the seminar had been interesting and an educational experience in for. but munic th 'organizations ue the hall, ipal said, several groups in Whitby would have to seek other accom- modation and pay a high rent. Councillor William Davidson said that the council chambers are the property of the people of the town of Whitby. To forbid | furnishings will be installed. Mrs. Burns reported that the property committee has several letters on file asking whether they would be permitted use of use of the schools and wondered if council would be doing the same thing by banning use of the council chambers. committee for further study, concession, about 10:20 p.m. on|called for help. . Jan. 23, and found Mrs. La-| sUFFERED INJURY WHITBY Inside, he said, he found the a broken bone in her hand. PERSONALS accused in an upstairs bedroom.| Her father-in-law, she told the wanted to get out of the house. |struggle with the broom and said|their home after spending a week He said the accused was intoxi-|that Mrs. LaRocque complained with their daughter and son-in- Rocque to a son's home for the|hand. She added that after Mrs. rest of the night. * |LaRocque left the house she alt that i ,|TOOm. will be held on Thursday, March dren, said that her father-in-law mis own defence, LaRocque|2d, when the principal and the t : 1 {said that he was attempting to|ents. to be helped into the house. She|S2! i made coffee for him, she said,|'¢ave the house to go to the home| On Saturday, Mrs. Joseph Cows, He said that he did not know how [320d birthday. For the occasion STRUGGLE ON STAIRS friends and relatives came to con- Later, she said, she heard him hand LaRocque, then living on the 3rd arm. She ran outside then and Viewpoints, plaining of an injured wrist. suffered a dislocated finger and Mrs. LaRocque and indicated he| The boarder also told of the|of Hamilton, have returned to He called a taxi and sent La-|broom was wrenched from her of Maple St. W. LaRocque, mother of five chil-|down and send him back to his| School Association, Open House said he was intoxicated and had denied even seeing a broom and teachers will be meeting the par- room and removed his shoes. | Would not let him leave his room. {of Dundas St. W., celebrated her Magistrate Ebbs ruled that the |Wishes. Out of town visitors were: Rocque in the front yard, com-| "gy told the court that she had He said accused denied strikingicourt, boarded at her home. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Dalgleish, cated of a pain in her hand when the|law, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Pickard, The complainant, Mrs, Betty|managed to quieten the accused of the King Street Home - and had come home about 9 p.m. She| and then helped him to his bed-(of a son and Mrs. LaRocque| Mrs. LaRocque got the broken | ~ ate re ayes canis neo coming downstairs again and she| met him on the steps and tried situation had arisen because The the He noted that, the prob: | Dunn, Toronto, Mrs. Reg. Curl, to stop him. Eventually, she said, accused wanted to leave she closed the door at the foot house. De Her father-in-1 ine against it. Her father-in-law since ie calling her names and Oshawa. He ruled that Mrs. kicking the door and she opened Rocque had suffered her injury while wielding the broom against As he came through the door, the accused. she said, she struck him on the! John Greer head accidentally and the ac- Rocque. cused started to chase her around|ing Crown Attorney. stairs and braced her|lem now appears to be solv the accused has moved 0/1005 "Welland, Mr. and Mrs,| } represented La- Bruce Affleck was act- Mrs. Jack Adams, Merriton, Mrs. Harold Dodd, Fonthill, Mrs. Rob- jert Little, Eganville, Mrs. Steven Raglan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert {Ralph Ballard, Hampton and many local callers. | Mr. and Mrs. Dick Adams en- tertained last Saturday evening |at Red Wing Orchards recreation (hall in honor of Mr. and Mrs. In place of the regular meeting ' |Henry Parson, of Tyner, Saskat-|- BROCK "C50 Phone MO 8-3618 a Evening Shows at 7 & 9 p.m. Now Playing Fecrurs store ot 7 and 3:20 These are two of the people who spent that summer at... RICHARD DOROTHY EGAN McGUIRE {mtu TO PERSONS 9 YEARS OF AGR on ova 'Have you made love like this to i any other [228 pirls before, i Johnny?' This is SANDRA DEE and the new star discovery TROY DONAHUE THE INN... THE GUESTS... TNE SENSATIONS OF THE GREAT BEST-SELLER! | chewan, sister of Mrs. Adams, on |the occasion of their 43rd wed- ding anniversary. The evening ner at which Mrs. E. Brown, of Whitby, mother of Mrs. Parson and Mrs. Adams, who is in her |90th year, attended and also the {brothers and sisters of Mr. and Mrs. Parson. Later in the eve- ining nephews and nieces joined ithe group. Mr. and Mrs. Parson were presented with a purse. | There were 55 guests present. Mis. Livingstone Is Group Hostess | The Florence Davey group met at the home of Mrs. David Living- {stone last Monday evening for their business' meeting with a very good attendance. The presi- |dent, Mrs. F, Lawrence, was in | the chair. The treasurer, Mrs. G. |Stott, gave a very encouraging | report. | The group was sorry to learn {that the past president, Mrs. | Bowman, was confined. to her |liome with sickness. A minute of | silence was observed in respeet {for the late Mrs. Marshall and |Mrs. Margaret Balmer, two for- mer smembers who passed away since the group's last meeting. At the April meeting plans will |be discussed for the group's fur- |ther activities. At the close of the meeting a delicious lunch was served by the hostess, assisted] by Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. C. | Barter, § party was preceded by a hot din-| { 4% USING PUBLIC LIBRARY April 3 to April 9 marks National Library Week in Can- ada and for some time the little girls in the picture, above, have been part of last year's statistics in borrowing books from Whitby Public Library. In the children's room at the li- brary there are over 5000 books for their pleasure and informa- tion and over 500 of these are new. Last year the boys and girls of the community borrow- ed some 25,000 books from the | library. Selecting books, in the | picture above, are, standing, Janice Shaw, aged 8, of Hill- crest School's Grade 3, and kneeling, Joanne Pickard, aged | 7, who is in the second grade | at Hillcrest Public School. --Oshawa Times Photo | Examine A 16-year-old Ajax boy who ad- mitted attempting to commit sui- cide by consuming 122 aspirin tablets was Tuesday remanded in custody for one week for sentence during which time he will under- g0 a mental examination. Rod- ney Joseph Crowsley, of 35 Roose- velt Ave., appeared before Mag- istrate F. S., Ebbs in Whitby police court, Sgt. Thomas Chambers, of the Ajax Police Department said that he had been called to the home about 6.30<p.m. and found the accused in bed. He said that ac- cused made a statement in which he said that about 9.30 a.m. that day he had purchased two bottles of aspirins and along with a number of aspirins in the house at the time, had taken 122 tab- lets with water, then written a letter to his parents and had gone to bed. About an hour later, the state- ment said, the boy became ill and was ill several times during the day. In the statement, the boy said that his intention had been to kill himself. "Accused told Magistrate Ebbs WHITBY COUNCIL BRIEFS | ASK PARK USE | A request from the Pentecostal |Tabernacle for use of Centennial | Park, from Aug. 4 to Aug. 14 was {referred to the property commit- tee. The group wishes to use the park for a tent meeting ASK CLOSING BYLAW A letter was received from the Chamber of Commerce enclosing a resolution asking the council to pass an early closing bylaw. PLANT 200 TREES Councillor Robert Hastings, of the streets committee, reported that 200 trees will be planted along Whitby's streets this year. They will include mountain ash, will be advertised to give resi- dents an opportunity of filing re- quests. BUY STEAM JENNY In a step to speed up thawing of frozen culverts in winter, the town has purchased a steam {jenny for $2239, the lower of two tenders. In the past Whitby has rented the equipment. NO ACTION ON DOGS The applications committee recommended that no action be taken on a request to allow dogs to run at large during the winter months, THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, March 23, 1960 § Youth On Suicide Try that he had had trouble at home. His mother and stepfather were also in court and the court was told that the boy wanted to re- turn to England to his father, who was divorced from his mother nearly 10 years ago. The letter the boy wrote for his parents was given to Magistrate Ebbs to read. Acting Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck told the court that there appeared to be a serious emo- tional stress involved and sug- gested the boy be given an exam- ination. His Worship so ordered. Presbyteens Invite Churches Attend Mission St. Andrew's Presbyteens open- ed its weekly meeting with a de- votional service led by Ross Gib- son. The topic was 'Christian, Hope, Faith and Courage." This was followed by a business meet- ing at which reports were read and approved. All Whitby churches are invited to attend in the near future a program to be held at St. An. drew's Presbyterian Church by the Mission of Leper, definite date to be announced in the press. A short business discussion was held, Games were played. Next week's meeting will be held from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. Test Waring Given Ontario OAKVILLE (CP)--A test air raid warning went out to 39 On- tario municipalities Tuesday in the first exercise of the army's attack warning network. A spokesman at the army's provincial warning centre here said the test worked "far better than we expected." Details of how quickly the municipal centres responded to the warning were classified, he said, The spokesman said the exer- cise was concerned only with communications and no actual emergency work was done. Each of the 39 survival units across the province received the message and confirmed it. YACHTING CENTRE CHATHAM, England (CP)--A new yacht basin is to be built near here at a cost of £5,000. A spokésman said the Medway River now rivals Cowes as an important yachting centre. FRIDAY-NITERS LEAGUE Chris Robinson rolled the la- dies' high single game on Friday night with 322. This is the ladies' high single for the year. Ruby Lee took high triple with 693. Bob Brown led the men with a 306 single game and 703 for high triple. 600 Triples: Bob Brown 703; Ruby Lee, 693; Chris Robinson, 683; Ella Toms, 664; Jim Cherry, 658; Glen Rorabeck, 654; Ron Bragg, 645; Sandra Shepherd, 626; Doug Grylls, 602; Dink Bye, 601. Court Rules Out Teamster Silence WASHINGTON (AP)-U.S. dis trict Judge F. Dickinson Letts Tuesday denied a motion by the Teamsters Union to bar court-ap- pointed union monitors from giv- ing information to the press. The 84-year-old judge ruled that "the people have a right to know what goes on in the courts and they are indebted to the press for that information." . Letts said that court actions against the Teamsters, in par- ticular, have aroused wide inter- est - James R. Hoffa, Teamsters 200 Singles: Jack Scott, 206; Chris Robinson, 254, 322, 201; Lena Bye, 200; Phyllis Simpson, 203, 210; Bob Sherman, 280; Ross Spencer, 220; Becky Snelgrove, 233; Ron Bragg, 234, 224; Sandra Shepherd, 220, 210; Bob Brown, 306, 238; Agnes Simpson, 222, 227; Bill Spencer, 251; Doug Grylls, 205; Ella Toms, 228, 249; Dink, Bye, 248, 207; Sheila Gordon, 203; Bob Simpson, 208, 216; Bill Snelgrove, 266; Jim Cherry, 233, 211, 214; Bill Simpson, 235; Ruby Lee, 265, 253; Bill Shearer, 237; Bill Grylls, 238; Audrey Parish, 242. Lemon League: Ed Downey, 94; Bill Mifflin, 96; Marg O'Neill, 98 president who was present In court at the time of the ruling, told reporters "we will ap, , Hees Discusses Pilot Froblem OTTAWA (CP) -- Transport Minister Hees met Tuesday with a delegation representing the Shipping Federation of Canada and di d pilotage probl affecting St. Lawrence River pi- lots from Father Point, Que., to Kingston. The federation represents own- ers and operators of deepsea and Canals Assured Plutonium Sales OTTAWA (CP)--Canada is as- sured of a plutonium market in the United States after 1962, an official of Atomic Energy of Can- ada Limited said Tuesday. The official said the crown agency's current contract with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis- sion for the sale of plutonium ex- pires in mid-1962 but will be ex- tended. Plutonium is the basic material for nuclear weapons. The only matter to be decided is price. Plutonium is produced in the atomic research reactors at Chalk River. 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