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"In Ajax Area AJAX (Staff) Circulation |growth of 'The Times" in Ajax ' land District in recent years has | {been in keeping with the increase {of population. It is a far cry from the war wears when one carrier in 1 Ajax delivered about 45 copies. A view familiar to many residents of Whitby and dis- trict is three-quarters of the working staff of the Whithy bureau of the Times. In the foreground is Mrs. Helen Wat- son, who has occupied this tacts all ladies' groups in Whitby in her search for social news and personals. She has been with the Times for five years. At the rear is Philip Simpson, news reporter, who | covers PUC meetings, school | same desk for more than nine years. She serves as recep- tionist, classified ad depart- | ment and telephone operator as well as bookkeeper for the bureau. Second from the front is Mrs. Idola Simpson, who con- boards and other assignments. | He has been in the Whitby | pureau since last October. Missing from the photo is Lloyd Robertson, manager. --Oshawa Times Photo Vindicator Oshawa, Whitby Merger Had 4 Pages Started In Good Old Days | A poet's corner, "The Moral of a Toothache", "Things a Farmer Ought Not to Do', and other od- dities all appeared on the front page of The Oshawa Vindicator in 1857. The paper had four pages and was subtitled, "A Weekly Journal Devoted to News, Politics, Lite- . te » rature Science and Agriculture. of the Oshawa Times, of 1871 and The largest bureau of the Osh- awa Times outside the city is the years located at 111 Dundas St. W., its or it site. Fur ne history ot the Whitby Gazette, which came into being in 1863. Since Whitby is the county seat, for many years still feels it is covering courts is almost a full-|"'old home" week when he comes Whitby bureau, for more than 15/time job. Police magistrate's back to Whitby for a visit or a |court is held every Tuesday and story. traffic court is also held once |County but all cases from the|office where he now serves as ie Times dates irom|each week but County and Su- a other graduate of the a |ganda Som Russia agaimst the {preme Court are also held here.|Mackenzie, who came here in Bh of "AD. The T a i ' Heard in the senior courts are|1954. After two years, he was he Times is an amalgamation + only cases from Ontario taken on the staff in the Oshawa | Today 16 carriers serve Ajax and | Pickering. Circulation is consist-| ently near the 1000 daily mark. During the war years and for some time after news coverage was by local correspondents. Since 1949 the district has been served by a full time reporter and photographer in the person of John Mills of Ajax. In his work he is assisted by Mrs. Grace Mills land a faithful group of local cor- respondents. A recent addition to this group is Mrs. Elsa Storey of Brougham who is doing an excel- lent job. NEWS STORIES Many big news stories Halifax Youth True In Family Tradition HALIFAX (CP) -- A 17-year- old Halifax youth is carrying on an army tradition that dates from the beginning of the century. Robert S. Hunt, recently sworn into the Royal ment, is the eighth of his im- have RCR. Robert's grandfather to the RCR from Army early in the 1900s. He tired in 1922. father, W.S. Hunt, warrant officer. Pte. Robert, Hunt's training will begin at the depot at London, Ont. PLEDGE TO IRAN WASHINGTON (CP) -- Presi dent Eisenhower told the Iranian ambassador Wednesday that the United States will stand by Iran in the face of a 'barrage of vicious and unwarranted" propa- Canadian Regi-| mediate family to serve in the started the tradition when he transferred the British re- story, please call as early as pos-| military (come out of this district. Late in the war years, two murder stor- ies made front page news both in the actual event and subsequent court trials. In recent years, the Jet plane crash near Ajax and survival of Canada's jet ace flyer, Jan Zur- owski, had nationwide coverage. | Several spectacular fires: in the town of Ajax and the con- tinual loss -of life on the highways plus many drownings and other causes of sudden death have made the news in story and pic- ure. | News coverage has also includ- led the consistent growth and de {velopment of the area and pres- lent indications are that a still is, in the | | larger development | offing. Management of The Times is |well aware of this expected growth and as the area grows, the service of this newspaper |will be extended. An additional service to sub- scribers in this area was begun last December with the publica- |tion of a full page of district news |and pictures once a week, a total |of 18 columns in addition to the daily news coverage: | This innovation has brought |forth many words of commenda- tion. An invitation is extended to all groups and organizations that have news worthy items of general interest to submit their copy to the local representative, John Mills, 36 Glynn road, Ajax. If a picture is warranted by the 1 sible so that arrangements can Six of his eight sons followed |be made. him into the regiment. Robert's| served 22 years, retiring with the rank of The Times is ever ready to support worthy causes and give publicity to church and service club events as long as they do not constitute direct advertising. Personal notes, social notes, accounts of weddings and visit- ors are always welcome. In the sports field, scores of games, hockey, baseball and bowling are also given space. With in the orbit of Metro To- ronto, the area is expected to provide the space for an explo- sion of population in the next 20 years. The Times will keep pace with this expansion. PAPER HELPS PUBLIC THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, March 26, 1960 21 Macmillan Declines Ottawa Invitation OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Macmillan declined Thursday an invitation to visit Ottawa this weekend for personal talks with Prime Minister Diefenbaker. Mr, Diefenbaker told the Com- prime minister to come here when he visits President Eisen- hy ashington millan is always welcome to come to Canada when his sched- we will permit. London reports said the British prime minister did not plan to be absent more mons that he invited the British {than three days. PITRE, JOHN MILLS New Fund 'To Help In Education | OTTAWA (CP) -- American] {money and Canadian brains are |combining to train Roman Catho- {lic priests to help better the eco-| {nomic lot of people in underdevel- {oped countries. A $15,000 scholarship fund from the New Haven, Conn., head of- fice of the Knights of Columbus, EXCAVATING BY W. HOSKIN Excavating A Grading Sand-Gravel ® Loam Fill FOR SATISFACTORY SERVICE CALL RA 86204 a' Catholic men's organization, The oldest copy in the files of i 3 "| 0p} the Whitby Gazette of 1863. BY! city of Oshawa. Assize sessions, reporter - photographer. Although 2 as enabled 10 visiting priests to| The Oshawa Times was published some quirk of fate, Whitby which| which occur about four times his home town is in Scotland, by Luke and Orr, Wednesday, pe rg Fr " Oct, 7, 1857 came a town in 1855 was out left side of front page, are two Whitby and Oshawa publishers poems. Ome is called, "To A|united to form the one paper and Pipe". The other is called ""Lust|the Whitby bureau was then born. For Money". Four full-time employees oper- One full column, at the extreme ate the bureau, to give news left side of front page, is devoted coverage and other services of to a "Business Directory". In the the newspaper to the people of directory are listed, the follow-| Whitby and its surroundings. ing: John Warren and Brother, of the present staff, the first Dry Goods and Hardware; Lock-to join the firm was Mrs, Helen|years has on man ions| 8 v . | y occasions pid : hart House; M. Robinson, Che-\watson, a native of the town, who| {CCF Vancouver Fast) said| mist and Druggists; John Sensan has. a telephone J uaintance West; L. Beach and Co., House, nim Many subscribers of ine Carriage, Sign, Banner and Orna-[["izied in Whitby, Mrs. Watson mental Painters, Glaziers Paper-/iaros the call She pn all Hangers, etc. elc.: and DUMETOUS classified advertising or directs ipnfion x wy dod Lois ito. oiler persoupel in He simply, "Selections". It is an ac. +: eount of 'Steam Farming" and | SECOND TO ARRIVE "The Canadian Steam Cultivator"| Second to arrive on the Whitby It says: 'The application of Scene was Lloyd Robertson, now steam power to farming opera- manager, who came here as aj tions is the problem of the day. reporter in the days when J. H.| Steam weaves our clothes and "Scotty" Ormiston was bureau prints our books, and grinds our manager. On Mr. Ormiston's re- food, but it does not help to| tirement, he succeeded him. grow it. We have driven huge| He and staff reporter Philip ships across the stormiest ocean, Simpson, who joined the Times we have fathomed the deepest/in October of last year, are re- mine, and have crossed the high- sponsible for all news coverage, est mountains by the aid of the|except social. Their beat includes elastic fluid, but we have not,|the town and district and also heretofore, learned how with its|the entire county, with the excep- help to plow the ground. tion of Pickering Twp., for spot STEAM CULTURE news. : ; "Why should we not have steam |, However, the major portion of | ach year, run daily for two| George will be remembered as |stripped by neighboring Oshawa « Wrlesory, A | '. | weeks. In the autumn of 1959, the bard of Whitby" for his con- In the poet's corner, at the top, and more than 30 years ago the there were criminal jury cases tributions to Page 5 during his in county court everyday for stay here. three weeks, | EA Cor ers. ume 1 GOVErnment Stand the history of a Whitby bureau, a - reporter was assigned to social On Apartheid Asked news here. She is Mrs. Idola |Simpson who in the past five] OTTAWA (CP)--Harold Winch {called every name in the Whitby| telephone directory in her search| for news which will interest the should not be granted its interim lady in the house. She also con-/money supply until it gives the tacts all ladies' org H in/g a full st t of its the town to find reports of their|giang on the apartheid situation El t visitor to the st in South Atsios. stor ® SLOres| «There has to be a more defi- of Whitby is Orville Branton, dis-| nite "more. militant and more ex. play advertising salesman for planatory statement by the gov- the Whitby bureau. Mr. Branton|ernment on what position it will first became acquainted with|i po» pe eaig Whitby residents nearly seven| Pri Mi ha : years ago when he was in charge| Ce Dnigey gs igi of circulation in Whitby and' - ore a e some years later transferred tol Cnagian government deplores display advertising where he e development of a situation again serves the businessmen and which has given rise to such women of the town. tragic violence and loss of life." But he said a full statement will GRADUATES {have to await a report from the Over the years, the Whitby|/Canadian high commissioner's of- bureau has seen many reporters|fice in South Africa on the recent arrive on the scene to gain Jews flemomstretons there. Thursday night the government Dear Mr. Wilson: 1 have learned with a great deal of pleasure of your recent | expansion and of your location in the new Times Building in | | Oshawa, |" I understand that this new | building will give you a much | enlarged and modernized mod- | ernized newspaper plant which will enable you to provide for expansion. May I congratulate you most sincerely on this accomplish' which, undoubtedly, re- | flects the continued growth of newspaper information of great importance as it help to provide the public with news of local and world events which | certainly affect all of us in Canada, and also enables people to form a judgment, not only on the events, but also on the action taken to deal with them. With continued good wishes, I am, yours sincerely, R. P. VIVIAN, MP for Durham County TO FORM JUDGMENT study adult education and econo- 156 HARMONY RD. SOUTH mic co-operation at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S. The Canadian Catholie Confer: ence says the idea of the fund is R. P. VIVIAN paper experience. The newspaper business appears, to many, to be| one business where the rolling] stone gathers the moss and) many have graduated from the culture? Th ephysical obstacles Reis Seat lies within the town, in the shape J varying confor- Sampson SOE ein) us. mations of the ground--of wet| 9 VL, weather and of dry, are difficul- School Board and High School ties in the way, surely not pre- Board neetings, He also covers ventives. [2 olary "There have been various "2 i Theetings. tempts to solve the problem.| Stationary engines a drawn (ering town and county council ploughs from one side of a field | meetings and all court coverage, to the other without very great/unless there happens to be two| results, Everybody who has tried|0r more courts on at the same $0 solve the question of steam|time, which often transpires. Club and Kinsmen| members of the editorial staff in| |{the Oshawa office are graduates| Robertson's work includes cov-|of the Whitby bureau. Ford Lind-| Whitby office to go on to become] editors, writers, etc., on other| {newspapers. f |, But two of the long-service | {say, now city editor of the Times, | | gained his first newspaper exper-| fence in Whitby, under the guid- ance of J. H. Ormiston and al- though he has worked in Oshawa eulture has fallen into the error, | of which the above is one ins- tance. "They have sought to make steam available simply for work- ing implements now in use. It is as though ships fitted out with huge oars had had steam ap- plied to move these oars. The want was some invention which while it should bring into bearing all powers of steam, should also realize its advantages and its economy in a direct and appar- ent way. Such a machine we are eonvinced is one which we have seen this week at work at Be- verly. It is called the 'Canadian Steam Cultivator' ". DESCRIBE MACHINE The article goes on to describe the machine which had been patented by Mr. Robert T omaine, of Peterborough. Another article titled "Moral of a Toothache" tells of the value of the ache as 'the warning voice of animated nature against wrong doing" "Things a Farmer Ought Not to do", in another column, tells "A farmer should never under- take to cultivate more than =| ONT and the grand openi ean do thoroughly -- half tilled is growing poorer, when well-tilled land is constantly im-| proving. A column at the right side of the page is headed "Hard Wages'. The sub-head says, "im portant to boys who wish to choose a trade." A separate story of the importance of sun- light. There are four pages in the paper. Pages three and four are devoted, primarily, to adver- tising. Page two contains five or six feature articles Near the top of page one, it is quoted: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, 394 SIMCOE SOUTH k Congratulations TO THE OSHAWA TIMES OPEN HOUSE HEIR official ng of their quality suit NEW PLANT AND OFTICES . WE WISH THEM THE Bost of. Luck! MADE-TO-MEAS Priced from READY-MADE SUITS OF QUALITY Priced from :..oevesnasccssenss HOTEL RA 5-3743 HAND IN HAND - WITH THE TIMES ...Since 19 wearers. URE SUITS-- ... 61.50 Men who prefer quality in their elothes--auto- matically think of Johnston's . . . when the question of a new suit arises. Now is an oppor- tune .time to join the Johnston Company of * 150.00 . 66.00 * 85.00 Johnstons (Oshawa) Ltd. SIMCOE ST. NORTH to help clergy from underdevel- oped lands who ean return home| and instruct others in bettering| their own economic lot. Priests now studying at Anti- gonish are Rev. Emanuel Kiber- igi, Uganda; Rev. Leonel Car- volho, Sao Luis, Brazil, and Rev. Matthias Cimole, Nyasaland. For- Venezuela, Ghana, Rico and Brazil. The Conference says it hopes the training will enable the priests to "combat Communism and other social and economic probl of their homeland with a weapon which will prove effec- tive in bettering the economic lot of their people." | CONGRATULATIONS TO THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES 3 "OSHAWA'S FINEST AND LARGEST The HOTEL" GENOSHA extends Congratulations to their newest neighbor THE OSHAWA TIMES on this occasion of their official OPEN HOUSE HOTEL GENOSHA above all other liberty". PW SS A