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I #& Spring means flowers, buds and growing things. But Donevan Collegiate students it means the annual Spring Prom and selection of Miss Donevan. | The big social event of the MISS DONEVAN- COLLEGIATE | Strynatka, last year's winner of |Day. Representatives from var- school season was held Friday | night. Shown receiving a bou- quet of one dozen red roses is Jeanie Kellar, on right, a Grade 12 student, Miss Donevan, 1960. Presenting the flowers is Sylvia 7 | 3 the coveted title. The Prom was attended by about 200 peo- ple. The auditorium was decor-~ | ated in an Oriental theme --Oshawa Times Photo Big Labor Dispute Hearings To Open By KENNEDY 'WELLS Canadian Press Staff Writer ( But wages are the main issue. First used as a method for set- The railways--six of them, withi/ting fair railway wages in the O'Neill 4 |for luncheon talks with Louw and to be the case, then the rest must 1 [Commonwealth prime ministers % |conference opened Tuesday. 7 | i India League here that the Com-'nomic and trading problems. TO BE SOLD HERE Racial Crisis Splits PMs By FRASER WIGHTON |monwealth may be becoming LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime|"too vague" as an entity and the] Few of us today haye any true Minister Macmillan went behind South African problem could lead conception of what life must have the scenes today for weekend to disaster. {been like for our pioneer ances- discussions amid a racial crisis in| "I want to lay stress on the tors. Even the members of the Commonwealth relations. {dangers and explosive character|Oshawa and District Historical He was host to Prime Minister|ot this situation," Nehru added. Society, knowledgeable about the Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman|COULD BE DESTRUCTIVE past as they are, sometimes get of Malaya at Chequers, his offi-) A similar warning was made a startling reminder that life was cial country residence, plus prime|today by The News - Chronicle. remarkably primitive even as re- ministers Kwame Nkrumah of The Liberal newspaper said Afro- cently as 100 years ago, Ghana and Walter Nash of New|Asian countries are talking off In a simply written, most Zealand. |sanctions and stresses are build-| charming little booklet to be sold It was Rahman who brought|ing up which could tear the Com-| 5¢ the Henry House this summer, the Commonwealth rift into the monwealth apart. (the grandmother of Donald Flem- open, denouncing External Af: "So far as the Commonwealth j,g Minister of Finance, tells fairs Minister Eric Louw of South|is concerned, South Africa threat- por own remarkable story of Africa in a press statement and ens to become more trouble than| jo far-off days when our ecity breaking off his talks with Louw she is worth," said The News- oq the surrounding district was over apartheid (racial segrega-|Chronicle. still a forest of pine and cedar tion). | "If the results of her member-| 4 204 oak and of those sturdy Macmillan hurried from Prin-|ship is to be dissension among|, "and women who settled the cess Margaret's wedding Friday|other members, as is very liablel;,ng and cleared it themselves A i with an axe. Mohammed |decide whether to risk the whole op OCEEDS AID SOCIETY {Pakistan President Ayub. Then he went to the first|flock for the sake of one recalci- 3 | British cabinet meeting since the|trant sheep." The booklet was written by the Louw planned to spend the|late Mrs. David Fleming in her weekend with the Earl of Home, | 82nd year and published in 1921. Prime Minister Nehru of India, Commonwealth relations secre-| NO her daughter, Mrs. W. H. who will spend part of the week- tary, and Prime Minister Diefen-|Furber, has most generously lend at Chequers with Macmillan, |baker of Canada and Sir Roy given permission to the Oshawa |said in a speech Friday night that| Welensky, prime minister of the|and District Historical Society to {South African racialism "might|Rhodesia-Nyasaland federation. [have the booklet reprinted and well shake the very foundation| The conference resumes its sold at the Henry House Museum, ot the Commonwealth." Iplenary sessions Monday with dis- all proceeds from the sale to be Nehru told members of the cussions on world finance, eco-|considered as "a. donation from Furber to the society's it ious occupations will be speak- ing. Students in Grades 11, 12 and 13 are allowed to participate. This Friday and Saturday, O'Neill had its annual Art Ex-| hibition. Under the direction of Miss Van Luven, the exhibition {pulling on the string could lift the {latch and open the door, and at |for safety." {HUMBLE FURNISHINGS | In this one-roomed house Mrs. Booklet Tells Of Life Of Pioneers Fleming, her two sisters and one| brother were born, ate, lived and| slept. "Two beds stood . at the east end of the house and the window between. Under the win- dow stood my father's chest." she writes. She describes a table goes on to explain how bread was made back in the days when Canada was young. "The bake kettle was about 14 inches across, with a lid to fit it, and three or four legs . . , Moth- ler would put a large loaf to rise lin this and when light gh to | | | in the centre of the room, a few|¥ chairs and some stools, her moth- |; er's chest and a clock and then 2 |bake, the coals were drawn out on the hearth in front of the fire . . . MRS FLEMING the bake kettle set over these and coals spread over the lid." This done, the actual baking took place with fresh hot coals being spread over the kettle lid as required and the whole contraption being turned continually so that' the bread inside would bake evenly. "This needed quite a bit of skill and attention," points out Mrs, Fleming modestly, and one car readily imagine that it did. PUNK AND FLINT With no matches, all fires were| started with a punk and flint. With| no stores not only were all clothes| made at home but the actua | cloth from which they were cut] was handmade too. Sheep were| washed and clipped in the spring, | their wool was carded then spun| into yarn and woven into cloth by the housewife. | One such wool carder will ac-| tually be on view at the Henry House May 21, the opening day.| It has been given to the Oshawa| and District Historical Society by Mrs. R. W. Graham. It was made| land used by her UEL forebears, | he door and hung on the outside|the Huyck family from the Bay|winjsor, London {during the day, so that anyone of Quinte, and is typical of the with showers ending this carder which would have been| handled on many an occasion by | night the string was drawn inside| Mrs. David Fleming herself as|intervals and cool. Winds she lived out the life she writes) of so warmly and entertainingly iin her book of reminiscences. WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy, Cool Expected Sunday TORONTO (CP) -- Forecasts Lake Ontario, Niagara regions: issued at 5 a.m.: Cloudy today with showers end- Synopsis: A storm centre over ing late this afternoon. Cloudy Michigan on this morning's/and turning cooler tonight. Sun-s weather map is causing unsettled day cloudy with sunny. intervals showery weather over much of and cool. Winds southerly 20 the Great Lakes region. As this shifting to west 20 late this after- disturbance moves through On-/ noon northwest 15 Sunday. n tario today the cold air over| gpasiern Lake Ontario, Georg-" Northern Ontario will spill south-/;35 Bay, Haliburton regions: ward bringing appreciable tem-|Cloudy today with showers end- perature drops to southern re-\ing this evening. Cloudy and gions tonight. Prospects for Sun-| yeh cooler tonight and Sunday. day are for mainly cloudy and ings southerly 20 shifting to' cool weather conditions through-| wast 90 this evening northwest 20 out the province. | Sunday. Regional forecasts valid until girkland Lake regioh, North midnight Sunday: . Bay, Sudbury: Cloudy with rain Lakes Erie, Huron regions, t,jay Cloudy with sunny inter Cloudy today|yals and continuing cold Sunday. after- winds northeast 20 to 30 today after-| northerly 20 Sunday. sunny) Timmins - Kapuskasing region: ne south-| cloudy today with snow or freez- erly 20 shifting to west 20 this ing rain changing to mostly rain afternoon northwest 15 Sunday. by noon and ending this after- Toronto, Hamilton, westernnoon, Partly cloudy and continu- noon. Turning cooler this noon. Sunday cloudy with proved itself an outstanding suc- ~ ym | funds. OCVI Pi | Mrs. David Fleming was born S |*"The house was not very large," she writes in the booklet, "being 12 | fev bo Je Na that 4 {front and storm, and two small O'Neill Collegiate and Voca- window's greeted the day . .. The {tional Institute collected $1200 for i gent A W uring the Friday noo ur, 3 : 4 near 2 5 hii Yacht Club, strong string attached to it, which Next Wednesday is Career as put through a small hole in dents who were witnesses to a most unusual incident, the wall protecting the parking area from the ship channel. cess as in former years. | opening her purse, tossed four The annual Grad Ball is next| bills toward the water. wonderful event held annually| trieved and tossed into the for them. | water with the others. The campus for the Track and Field] Two $2 bills and a $1 bill | * Meet held on Monday, Tuesday| were retrieved by spectators | | |in a little log house in Baltimore, Career Day MONEY IN HARBOR 2 feet by 8 feet im size, with no without their being aware of it. fastening on the door was a sneck the World Refugee Year Fund by has given a new slant to the Two women in a recent One of them alighted, walked Friday. All Grade 12 and 13 stu-| One of the bills blew away Some of the boys are seen in-| woman then stepped into the | and Wednesday, May 9, 10 and| with the aid of a pole. How- |north-east of Cobourg, in 1840, | , Most people find money dif- partitions. One door shut out the By DONNA HOWARD A inci t vhi 3 x + n incident which occurred lof my father's making, with a selling Mystic Grip Discs. problem to two Oshawa resi- model auotmobile drove up to over to the wall and, after dents are urged to attend this| on the breeze only to be re- dustriously practising on the back| car and drove off. 11, The winners will represent| ever, a $5 bill sank before they | i SLAYINGS (Continued From Page 1) the Ontario provincial police went | to the scene. | When police arrived they found Mrs, Caldwell and Miss Smith both wounded, walking outside. The body of Mrs. Bell was crumpled over a bag of potatoes |ing cold Sunday. Winds northeast after half an hour," added Mrs. 20 today northerly 15 Sunday. , Stokes. Forecast Temperatures / The dead woman's car is still parked in front of Mrs. Stokes' Low tonight, High Sunday home today. The children's tri-| Windsor cycles are still at the home too. |St. Thomas ..... CITY A N D Wingham . DISTRICT Toronto .. Trenton St. Catharines . Hamilton .... Muskol A To i isti k Id recover it. MONTREAL (CP) -- Canada's the two giants, CNR and CPR the United States, the system com- in the Distict Trac | cond recy biggest labor dispute -- between |chief spokesmen--refused to con-|pares the average wage of non- the railways and about 120,000 of sider any wage increase at all atjops to that of employees in the| on the back porch. First Ontario Provincial Police Meet. ROTARY SPEAKER Killaloe .. Dr. Murray Townsend will be Earlton .... their non-operating employees-- moves into its second phase Mon- day with the opening of hearings before a three-man conciliation] The first phase In the contract dispute ended last January when| negotiations between the two par- ties broke down after six weeks of sporadic and fruitless talks| and the board was appointed The hearings are expected to last a month and the board's de- cision, not binding on either party, will probably net be an- nounced for at least another month. There is no indic this "second phase will be thing more than a necessar liminary to the third govern- ment intervention to prevent a crippling railway strike When negotiations opened last fall, each oarty took a stand from which it has shown no sign of retreating. The non-operating unions, 15 of them grouping all railway em- ployees not actually engaged in running trains and headed by vet- eran negotiator Frank H. Hall, chairman of the joint negotiat committee, announced they wanted an additional 25 cents hourly, spread over a two-year contract. Present is $1.77. The non-ops also asked paid va- cations of three weeks after 10 average hourly wage years instead of 15 and four able-goods standard which has|at the McIntosh Funeral Home Male Quartet to sing at closing Sheep Day, OAC. weeks after 20 years instead of 35, as well as other changes. in working conditions {006,000 annually and almost half durable-goods industries -- those making such products as cars, machinery and electrical appli-| ances. OBITUARIES present, BIG BILL The bill for the proposed In- creases, they said, would be $65,-| Farm Ca UXBRIDGE (Special) -- Live-| JACK BACKHUS {stock judging competitions in Dur- Jack Backhus, 51 Nassau ham, Victoria, York and Ontario street, died at the Oshawa Gen-| counties feature one of the heav- eral Hospital, Friday, May 6. He|iest months of activity for Junior| |was in his 50th year, He was in|/farmers. From May 10 on, On-| |poor health for some time. Son!/tario juniors will have plenty to lof the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph|do, with tour and parties in addi- structure re- Backhus, he was born in Torany| tion to entertaining visitors. Here March 9, 1911. He lived in Osh- is the schedule of activities for awa for the last 18 years, and the next month. was a member of the Christi May 10, 6.45 pm.,, United Memorial Anglican Church. Church, Uxbridge Uxbridge Mr. Backhus was married in Junior Farmer banquet in honor They will present the same ar-|1996 to the former Nora Under- of Riverdale Kiwanis, : guments before the conciliation| W00ds who survives. _ Alexander Braid, Sc otti sh board, but simply proving an in-| The deceased was a Canadian| Young Farmer, visits Ontario ability to pay raises carries no|Legion member. He joined the County. He will stay at the home weight with the unions, nor has|Canadian Army in 1943, served in Of Norman Meek, Sandford, May it with past conciliation boards, Continental Europe. He won the 10 to 17 and Grant Carson, Brook- Since railway revenues are Canadian Volunteers Star, the lin, from May 18 to 23. [largely fixed by government re-|France-Germany Star and the May 11, 8.00 p.m., High School, gulations, the principle has been Service Medal Clasp. Uxbridge -- May meeting Scott that to allow wages to be deter-| A private in the Royal Regi- 4H Beef Calf Club, 4H Grain [mined by revenues would, in ef- ment, he was discharged May 7, Club and 4-H Potato Club. fect mean employees were sub-| 1946. 7.00 p.m., Vivian Forest, No. 48 s.dizing public policy. | Surviving, besides his wife, is highway north of Ballantyrae -- DURABLE GOODS STANDARD |a sister, Mrs. J. Griffith (Nancy) fire fighting demonstration spon- Because of this the crux of the ©f Brantford. sored by department of lands and matter is the standard by which| Archdeacon Harold G. Clever-|forests. non-operating. employees' wages don, of Christ Memorial Anglican| May 12, 6.30 p.m., OAC, Guelph are set. This is the so-called dur-/Church, will conduct the service --Ontario County Junior Farmer again as much when extended, as history showed it would be, to the rest of their employees. They claimed their present operating revenues provided no {margin for increases and the {only source of increased revenues was higher freight rates, not pos- sible before next year at the ear- liest when the royal commission studying the rate They also argued that an in- crease in rates large enough to meet the requested raise would| !drive still more customers | other forms of transport. been used af a scale for setting/on Monday, May 9, at 10 a.m. banquet for bankers attending non-op wages in every dispute] Interment will be ih Union Farm Credit School. since 1950. cemetery. ! May 14, 9.00 am, -- Durham ROADEO QUEEN RIDES IN ANTIQUE AU Brian Nichols demonstrates a 1903 Cadillac to Deanna Buldyke, Miss Teen-age Road- eo. The automobile, in perfect running condition, is owned by Ron Fawcett, of Whitby, a member of the Antique Auto- | Committee, of the Oshawa Jun- | tique automobile owners in the | Swine Day, OAC. | 1.00 p.m., Brooklin | Spring Fair. 1 f= | | . | Group Worried | MONTREAL (CP) -- The Na- {tional Community Antenna Tele- vision Association, a system pro- viding "i-tant channels to sub scribers by private wire, decided |lin Junior | Community Aerial Ontario County lendar County livestock judging compe- titon. 9.00 am. -- Victoria County livestock judging competition. 9.00 a.m. -- York County live- § stock judging competition. May 15 -- Junior Farmer tour of Ontario County with Scottish Junior Farmer, Alexander Braid. May 17,°'8.30 p.m., Brock Dis- trict High School, Cannington -- May meeting Beaverton Junior Farmers, y May 19, 9.30 a.m., Port Perry, -- South Ontario Women's Insti- tute District Annual. May 21, 8.30 p.m., Township Hall, Brooklin -- Ontario County | Junior Farmer Social Evening. May 23, 1.00 p.m., Uxbridge --| Kinsmen Club Spring Show. May 24, 8.30 p.m., Port Perry| High School -- May meeting Port| Perry Junior Farmers. | May 28, 9.00 a.m., Sunderland -- Ontario County livestock judg-| ing competition. May 30, 11.00 a.m., Guelph -- Dairy Day, OAC May 31, 9.30 a.m., Uxbridge -- North Ontario Women's Institute District Annual. June 1, 11.00 a.m., Guelph -- June 2, 11.00 a.m., Guelph --| Beef Cattle Day, OAC. 8:30 pm. Township Hall, Brooklin -- June meeting Brook- Farmers. June 3, 11.00 a.m., Guelph June 4, CDNA DIRECTOR T. L. Wilson, publisher of The Oshawa Times, was elect- ed to the 1960-61 Board of Di- rectors at the 4lst annual meeitng of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Asso- tion in Toronto this week. | N.B. Election Scheduled For June 27 MONCTON, N.B. (CP) -- Pre- mier Flemming has disclosed his secret--New Brunswickers go to the polls June 27, a Monday. The premier Friday night ended months of waiting and wondering. Over a two - outlet television {hookup he said his government is asking for "renewed author- ity" to carry out positive steps __|which will be required by 1965. The Legislative Assembly Act |did not require an election untill ate in 1961 but the presence of matters of "great significance" self." to the future of the province had prompted his government to seek husband lived," said Mrs. Stokes. a new mandate from the people.| He kent moving around to avoid LIBERAL ENTHUSIASTIC Liberal Opposition Leader |Louis J. Robichaud said after the announcement he greeted with | "profound , . . relief and enthus- iasm' the premier's decision to place his government's record before the judgment of the peo- on tthe scene were Cpl. Ray Wil- liams and PC Charles Whiteside, of Whithy. They found Bell's the speaker at the meeting of the|Sudbury ... Rotary Club of Oshawa, in Hotel North Bay ... Genosha next Monday. He will|Kapuskasing .. body 21 feet east of .the garage, with the gun nearby. They also found a pane of glass . . BRSsRsEnsssEEsES 58 55 55 55 55 55 55 45 45 40 45 45 40 45 © speak on the aims and objects of River .. 5 gn ie ims nd icc o hl | caseemanna broken out, of the door into the rear porch and another pane punctured in the east win- dow of the sunporch. Mrs. Bell had fallen just inside the porch and the ruptured bag of potatoes indicated she may have attempt- ed to shield herself from the blast by holding it in front of] her. Taking charge of the investiga-| tion was Insp. Don Nicol, of the| CIB, who after making a pre- liminary investigation, refused to| say whether he considered the in- cident a murder-suicide. He and other officers of the Whitby De-| tachment, including Sgt. Charles) Hefferon, were attempting to| piece together the story which led to the tragedy at 7 a.m. they had| vet to interview the two injured) women, who were reported to be in not serious condition, Mrs. Bell had told Mrs. E. Stokes, who worked with her at the restaurant, that her husband Albert didn't know she was work- ing there. He had come into the grill] about two months ago but his| wife had hidden from him, Said Mrs. Stokes: "His eyes |popped out when he saw her. He |grabbed her by the hair. 1 thought he was trying to kiss her. Then he grabbed her by the throat. "Violet's neck was all red. He had been drinking. Bet I figured she would be all right." | Mrs. Stokes said Violet told her that "he used to beat me up. He said he was going to kill him. "Violet didn't know where her| 4 | £ Tender EATN A 5 TRUE -TRIMBEEF (> 2" 12 KING E. -- RA 3-3633 Meat Specials! Mon. & Tues. y 5 Ibs. Sausage Meat for 1.00 GET 5 LBS. FREE] Tender WING STEAKS uw. 69° VEAL PATTIES 2 ..69* Monday Only! Shoulder PORK CHOPS 3: 1.00 paying her any money. "He left the restaurant quietly' CITY OF OSHAWA mobile Association of Toronto. | The car, built in Dearborn, | Michizan, was one of the first Cadillacs manufactured. Mr. Nichols is an official of the Teen-age Safe Driving Roades for Chamber of Commerce. Contestants in the safe driving Roadeo will have an opportu- nity to demonstrate their driv- | ing skills in the very latest | models of convertible autos. An- | TOMOBILE | Friday the time has come for ac- tion to protect "its business. The association passed a resol- ple. And, he said optimistically, ' "following the election" he will| ution at the close of its conven-|call a special legislature 'session {tion here favoring representa-|to deal with such pressing prob- | tions to the department of trans-|lems as the "Flemming premium] {mort and the Board of Broadcast|tax which works such hardship Governors. y on so many of our people." 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How- ever, police officials would not | permit the uge of ancient vin- tage autos inthe cavalcade. --Oshawa Times Photo NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS e DOGS NOT P e ALL DOGS IN THE CITY MUST BE LICENSED Notice is hereby given to all dog owners that City By-laws grovide that dogs shall be prohibited from strained by a leash, from By-law 2365, as amended, requires that the 1960 licences must be purchased by February 1st. Dogs n stray dogs and i d- ERMITTED TO RUN AT LARGE running at large in the City of Oshawa, unless re- May 1st to July 31st, 1960. ot carrying 1960 licences are being considered as being destroyed. Avoid having your dog picked up and possibly destroyed by purchasing your licence without delay if yi Complaints of dogs running at large and the large dogs seen require rigid e Dog Control Officer has been given instructions accordingly. Dated at Oshawa this 30th day of April, 1960. Ld ded dogs not claimed within 48 hours are ou have not already done so. hh 'H d of nforcement of the provision of the by-laws and the ALDERMAN JOHN G. BRADY, Chairman, City Property,. Fire Protection and General Purpose Committee. A