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24 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, July 14, 1960 Be Era oa Vo Ie Wew Vry dw Newsman Writes Of Springhill Rescue THE BOOK CORNER By THE CANADIAN PRESS "There are 12 of us here. Come and get us." These words, spoken through a compressed-air pipe on Wednes-| day, Oct. 29, 1958, told sweating rescue workers that six days of hacking away at rock and rubble far under the surface of Spring- hill, N.S., had not been in vain. The terse communication is the dramatic climax of Miracle at Springhill (Holt, Rinehart and Wilson) by Boston newspaper man Leonard Lerner. It Is a chronicle of the disaster that took the lives of 75 coal miners; but perhaps it is more the story) of the men who managed to sur- vive though buried deep in No. 2 A Early on the evening of Thurs- day, Oct. 23, an underground shift of strata choked off North America's deepest coal mine and the only one left in operation in the town. Trapped below were 174 men. HUNGER AND THIRST In the next few hours 81 es-| caped or were rescued. By Sun- day 11 dead were accounted for. That left 82 missing, of whom al! but 19 were found dead. Against the ba ck ground of mass tragedy, Lerner focuses at-| tention on the story of the men| who survived the long entomb-|g ° Nestleton Women's Institutes ada, but of people in many parts of the world, The Governor's Lady, a biographical novel by Thomas H, , .has been named winner of the 1959 Doubleday Canadian prize. The novel is the story of Frances Wentworth and hér husband, John, who be- came governor of Nova Sco- tia largely as a result of his wife's affairs with prominent men. Raddall, who has lived in Nova Scotia most of his life, received $2,500 in cash and $7,500 advance against earnings from publication by Doubleday in Canada and the United States, and William Collins Sons in other coun- tries of the Commonwealth. ARCTIC PIONEER In Search in the North (Mac- millan) Guy Blanchet tells of pioneering flights in Canada's Arctic wastes. The author was leader of the first attempt to search for minerals by plane, spending 18 months in the far north in 1928 and 1929. Misfortune and adventure were common occurrences and the au- thor skims over the practical work of the mission, concentrat- ing on the hazards to planes and the frequent meetings with the carefree Eskimos. But it was during Blanchet's stay in the morth that Col. C.D. H. McAipine and his party--a total of eight men including Pilot Stan McMillan -- became lost after visiting Baker Lake. Dur- ing the epic air search that fol- lowed Blanchet himself became lost in territory unknown to air- craft, until his particular group of planes regained contact with each other north of Lake Atha- baska, and from there flew by stages to The Pas, Man. Mean- time, the McAlpine party had found their own way to safety. Blackstock WI By MRS. R. C. HILL BLACKSTOCK Blackstock ment--the 12 found alive six days|gpent Thursday on a bus trip to after the "bump" and the seven| Orillia district. The group visited brought out alive after nine days. | the Stephen Leacock home at Old Ordeals of hunger, thirst, dark-| Brewery Bay and had a picnic ness and isolation endured by two groups of men in spaces) where there was not enough gi irielg room to stand up straight vividly described. Lerner, Canadian - American news editor of the Boston Globe, is well-acquainted with Spring- hill. Besides the 1958 disaster, he covered the 1956 mine tragedy that took 39 lives and the fire in 1957 that nearly destroyed the town's business district. He has gone to great lengths to gather detail from the survivors and has produced a work that may stand as a historical docu- ment of a disaster that caught the imagination, not only of Can- areland Fenelon lected to represent High School at the Ontario Ath-|for a kitchen shower in honor of letic Leadership Camp, spomsor-|Gwen Wilson at the home of Mr. |lunch in Orillia Park. The return trip was made via Cobaconk, Rosedale Falls, when the roup were served a hot dinner oh the Fenelon Falls Institute. PERSONALS Vera Forder of Toronto, enter- tained Mrs. Garnet Wright, Port Perry; Lorna, Lois, Eleanor and Elaine, | Mrs. Lloyd Wright, Donald, Les-| friends in Fenelon Falls. lie Anne, Cheryl and Harold, at the' home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben-| spent Thursday and Friday with son Dunn, Oshawa, Wednesday. | friends in Hamilton. Mrs. Garnet Wright, Elaine Mountjoy has been se- Cartwright 'Makes Bus Trip ed by the department of educa- |tion. °° Clifford Dayes spent holidays in | Nashville, Tenn. Mr, and Mrs. Russell Mount- joy are spending a few days in Toronto with Mrs. H. Graham, Visitors to Mrs. James Henry and Melville Griffin during the weekend were Gertrude Henry, Doris Griffin, Mr. and Mrs, N. |Somers, Sheila, Norman and Glen, all of Toronto and Mr, and Mrs. Freeman Hepburn, Oshawa. Mrs. John Marlow returned home from hospital Sunday. | Mrs. John McKee fs visiting and Mrs. Romeril Rev. P, Mrs. Ruby Van Camp and Mrs. Eleanor Werry were hostesses EE -------------- Congratulations to R. JEFFERY on the opening of his 1960 MODEL HOME It has been a pleasure sist in building this 1 HOME by supplying all the lumber and other building requirements. MILLWORK & BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED 1279 SIMCOE ST. NORTH for us to as- 960 MODEL SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters)--| Chilean scientists, with a num- ber of foreign colleagues, are studying minutely the lines made on an endless tape. The tape was taken from the seismographs of the Seismologi- cal Institute of the University of Chile, and the scientists hope| that the lines will provide them with a clue to the "inside story" of the earthquake shocks which brought death and destruction to $0 many Chilean communities in May. The terrific forces which struck 11 provinces in southern Chile be- tween May 21 and May 26 caused an area of some 30,900 square miles to sink more than 6% feet, wrecked cities and towns, tumb- led down some mountain peaks and pushed mew ones up, changed the course of rivers and turned riverside cities, like Val- divia, into seaports. SEISMIC AREA Professor Cinna Lomnitz, di- rector of the Seismological In- stitute of the University of Chile, was at Concepcion, at the north. ernmost tip of the affected area, when the earthquake began. "I felt," he says, "the ground rock- ing under my feet while the sec- and Mrs. Richard Van Camp Sat- urday. Mr. and Mrs, T. Horton and famly moved into their new home in north Blackstock Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. Russell McLaugh- lin, Bowmanville, were guests of| Mr, and Mrs, Harold McLaugh- lin Sunday. Mrs, P. C. Clubine of Grand Rapids, Alta., was a guest of Eva Parr for a few days. Mrs. Ira Argue, Mr. and Mrs. T. Holdge and boys, Mrs, E. Darcy and Russell Spinks attend- ed the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hyde, To- ronto, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. White and Mr, Braithwaite Cavan were guests of Mr, and Mrs. Wilbert Werry Chilean Scientists Seek Clues To Heavy Quakes ond hand of my watch made three complete turns." The whole of Chile is known to be a seismic area lying inside the circle of the Pacific's great seismic fault where 80 per cent of earth tremors and cataclysms take place. But another threat reaches from the equator to Antarctica: The Andes Mountains are still "growing." Chilean scientists explain that these mountains are still young, having been "born" only during the co called Cainozoic revolution which took place about 40,000,000 B.C. They cannot, therefore, be compared with their staid and stable "elders" which were formed during the Caledonian re- volution about 300,000,000 B.C, DANGEROUS TILT In other words, Chile, which is 2,926 miles long and only 155 miles broad at its widest, is, be- causc of the "growth" of the Andes, tilting dangerously to- wards the sea. At the sea, nature plays yet another practical joke on Chile. Not far from its coast are depths which descend to 19,685 feet into the seabed. This makes Chile what has been described as "doubly seis mic"--a country subject on the one hand to the phenomena aris- ing from the seismic fault of the floor of the central Pacific and on the other susceptible to effects of the slipping of the var- jous earth strata of the Andes ranges towards the sea, as they seek {0 establish a balance which is still insecure, VICTIM OF DUCKS DRYDEN, Ont. (CP) -- Two ducks flew in the chimney of an empty summer cottage at Thun. der Lake, owned by Mayor J.L. Skillen of Dryden. Trying 'o es- cape, they knocked over lamps, broke windows and 'eft the cot- tage 'a shambles," said the mayor, He found one duck 'ead J New Capital In Pakistan RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reu- ters) -- From a hilltop seven miles from here, President Mo- hammad Ayub Khan scanned a green wilderness from which will spring Pakistan's new eapital all the "TEAR REE ENNISKILLEN data collected and studies made by nearly 100 experts drawn from 46 specialized agencies of the government. GRACEFUL LIVING Its aim had been to "create a wholesome and dignified envir-| which Islam" --presented to it by the federal capital commission. Waving his arm in sweeping gestures which took in the pan- oramic view stretching away to the Himalayan foothills, Maj. Gen, Yahya Khan, chairman of the ission, pointed out its various features. Red and white flags indicated key landmarks in the plan, en- visaging the expenditure of 200,- 000,000 rupees (about $40,000,000) t, a place congenial both to work and to graceful living." Karachi, the provisional fed- eral capital ever since the parti- tion of India nearly 13 years ago, has had more than six months in which to assess its mew role as Pakistan's largest city with .a industrial part to play in na- tional life. The top echelons of most min- istries were transferred last Oct- ober to Rawalpindi, the tempor ary seat of government until the new capital is built. W Ferguson visited Mr. Mrs. C. Ginn, Cadmus. By MRS. RUSSELL GRIFFIN ENNISKILLEN--Mr, and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Yeo. Ted, Mary, and Neil, Mrs. Joyce Sel lick and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Trewin, Doreen and Donald and Rutk Pethick attended the Trewin plenfe at Spring Hill Park, Whitby, Sunday. Florence Werry, Hampton, and ('enn Ashton, Haydon, are visit- mg R, J. Ormiston. Mr. and Mrs L. Stainton, Gail and Doris visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hope, Port Perry. Mostyn Howells is spending a month's leave from the RCAF with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. w Howells before being trans- ferred to Quebec. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ferguson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lockhart and John, Bowman- ville, Mr. and Mrs, Donald Lee W.1. at Shirley Wednesday. Beth Ashton, Haydon, is om holiday with Mr. and Mrs. Ivan and| Sharp arp. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Magee and Allen, Oshawa, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Begley. Mr, and Mrs. Earl Stephenson, Oshawa. visited Mr. and Mrs. A Brunt. Wallace Stainton, Toronto, Mr, and Mrs, Jim Stainton and fame uy, Everett Washington State, USA, visited H. Stevens. Mrs. Fred Toms was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Moffatt, Oshawa, Monday. Jim: Muller, Castleton, and Gloria Wright visited Mr. and Mrs. G. Furry and Miss M. Wright, St. Catharines. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. Griffin and Laure visited C, Smith, Toronto, and W. H Banks, Weston, Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. E. Wright and Sanderson, Betty visited W. E. Columbus. on construction in the next five years. Approval of the plan gives the capital commission the signal to prepare the final detailed scheme and program. These the president will make public on the second anniversary of the army revolution, Oct. 27 this year. BIG INDUSTRY OUT The master plan provides for office accommodation for 9,000 civil servants who, with their families, will comprise 50 per cent of the population of the new capital in the initial stages. 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