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Stage Set For Opening Simcoe Hall Boys Club The official opening of the| new Simcoe Hall Boys' Club takes place tonight. The $400,000 structure will be formally declared open by Col. R. S. McLaughli after the offi- cial laying of the corner stone. Many civic dignitaries will be present at the ceremonies at the Eastview Park building. Mem* of the Ontario Regi- ment will form a guard of honor at the main entrance, The On- to lay the cornerstone in the;The shades are contrasted will entrance hall of. the edifice/the gray when used on doors shortly after 8 p.m. The cere-|shelves and counter tops. mony will be followed by an! Floors throughout the _build- invocation offered by Rabbi M.|ing are finished in vinyl asbes- Kutziner of Beth Zion Con-/tos tile, terrazzo and ceramic gregation. tile in the area of the swim- The guests will be welcomed|ming pool. Mechanical ventila- by Mayor Lyman Gifford. Rt.|tion has been installed through- Rev. Monsignor Paul Dwyer,jout the structure and a_ full pastor of the Roman Catholic/public address system. Church of St, Gregory The} The entrance foyer will con- Great, will then introduce Col./tain two portraits, one of Col. McLaughlin who will then de-)McLaughlin and another of Gov- tario Regiment band will also} provide music for the occasion./ Col. McLaughlin is scheduled Trevor F. Moore of Montreal, clare the Simeoe Hall Boys'lernor-General George Vanier. Club open. |His Excellency was originally Greetings and messages of|scheduled to attend the opening congratulation will be brought)ceremnies but declined the in- by Mrs. A. P. Fulton, president] vitation owing to ill-health. of the Women's Welfare League,) we general business and pri- vate offices are located near the main entrance as is the teen- age girls' activity room, A kit- chen which will be used for in- struction in Domestic Science jopens off the activity room. president of the Boys' Clubs of Canada. E, H. Walker, presi- dent of General Motors of Can- ada Ltd., will also bring a mes-| sage of congratulations. Architects Herbert G. Cole of Oshawa and representatives|GAMES ROOM of Pentland and Baker. of To-| A games room for the ronto will be introduced to the|dren is also accessible from the gathering. The contractors,)main foyer. The swimming pool H, M. Brooks Ltd., of Oshawa,|is nearby with changing rooms will also be introduced. for boys and girls with an adult chil- # The benediction will be given| Section in each. The rooms open Ministerial Association, Rev. A, them the pool manager's office lby the president of the Oshawalinto the pool area and between | Anglican Church, The official party will then be conducted on a tour of the new building. SEE NEW POOL During the tour the visitors will be able to see a swimming demonstration in the Olympic size swimming pool. Two Cana- dian high-diving champions, Don KENNETH R. THOMSON President, Thomson Newspapers Lid. | Woolcock, rector of St. Mark's is located. The girls' changing and dry- ing room: features up-to-date fixtures, hair-dryers, 75 adults can be seated in the bleachers which surround the pool. The Olympic size pool is 25 metres in length, 9% feet deep at its deepest point and three feet at the shallow end. CLUB IS VITAL TO OSHAWA YOUTH The growing needs of Osh- awa are continually being met through the efforts of public-spirited citizens. This community spirit is shown at its best with the opening of Simcoe Hall Boys' Club. As a director of the Boys' Health Clubs of Canada I know how vital a part the local organizations play in the healthy development of our youth. The new Oshawa building will stand as a Webb and Judy Stewart, will be © among those taking part in the aquatic display. Features of the new building which those on tour will see are the new gymnasium, recreation rooms and play areas. The in- terior of the brick-built building is decorated in cadet gray tones in a porcelain finish. Au _imterplay of relaxing colors is obtained by the use of accent shades such as_per- simmon, blue, orange and gold. Need 20 milestone in the history of the youth movement of Can- ada. School Girls Helo Sick Sixty-nine school girls are g \-| the Board, said there were now ing up their pleasure hours to} help the sick at Oshawa Gen-| eral Hospital And last night Board of Directers decided to} honor the "Candy S"ripers". The girls, who get their name from the striped uniforms they wear, help nurses with all sorts of jobs. Mrs. A. the hospital] Armstrong, Women's Hospital Auxiliary representa- tive on the Board, told the meeting that many come for two hours after school and work holidays without any material rewakd. Now Wey will be given special) tapes for their uniforms denot-| ing 50 and 100 hours service And a special personal] gift 1s being bought by the Board for each girl. with 200 hours. They will be presented at a party in January. Board member Keith Ross asked Mrs. Armstrong to keep| a close record of "Candy Striy | ers" leaving school. He said | "It will be very interestin:- t see how many become profes- signal nurses." Students There are places for another 20 students at the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital School of nursing, 'iast night's meeting of the hos- pital Board of Directors was old. Wm. A. Holland, secrteary of 49 students in a class and a total of 123 in the school. He added that there were places for 147. students. The Board had asked for an inventory of hospital equipment but Mr. Holland said that this would be a very lengthy and time consuming operation. It was agreed that the inven tory should be made when the staff had completed more ur- gent tasks. It was also agreed to run a Christmas Appeal once again Last year the hospital. made $2,000 through the appeal. Dr. Roy Rossell told the Board that they were still laboring} under a shortage of nurses. Said Mr. Holland: "At 5 o'clock this evening htere were five vacant beds. They will probably be filled before the night is out." It was announced that Dr. Robert Just had been appointed to the medical staff. There have} been 14 »pointments and 17) esignations among the oursing and aides staff since the last | meeting. ' F. McADAM, Director -- Boys' Clubs of Canada TREVOR F. MOORE, National President -- Boys' Clubs of Canada THIS GYMNASIUM WILL BE ONE OF FOCAL POINT OF CLUB'S ACTIVITIES "She Oshawa --Photo by Aldsworth Studio Times SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963 PAGE THIRTEEN Plan Drive For Funds Baird. Virgil is a older man by James fatherly figure, a who exercises a r fluence on Bo. An enthusiastic audience jammed the McLaughlin Library Theatre Tuesday for the first night of the Oshawa Little Theatre presentation of 'Bus Stop". The William Inge play heads jthe gnoup's selection of three plays for the 1963-64 season. The three-act production was pro- duced by Mrs. Kay Topping and directed by Mrs. Gillian Heath. The action of the play takes} place in a small town restaur- ant, said to be some 20 miles west of Kansas City. The main characters in the play are all passengers in a bus which has halted -in the town during a storm, The leading man, Bo Decker, a rodeo winner and cowboy, played by Keith Williams, is ac- companied by a young cabaret) jvolved with the grass-widow Hoylard, part of another passenger, Dr. Gerald Lyman. Dr. Lyman, a former college professor, is travelling vaguely around the country after his dismissal from his _ teaching post. He attempts to lure away a young waitress, Elma Duck-' worth, played by Kathy Bell. The remaining character, played by R. R. Williams, is' Sheriff Will Masters, who is called upon to protect Cherie from Bo. The sheriff gives the young ittle Theatre Opens Year With Inge's Bus Stop training in- The bus driver, Carl, played |by Pat Patterson, becomes in- owner of the restaurant, Grace played by Barbara Lioyd.. Earl Bailey plays the singer, Cherie, played by Gwen O'Regan. The action of the play reveals that Bo fell in love with the girl in a town where he was appearing in a rodeo. Against her wishes he pur- sued the girl when she left town to escane him and means to take her to his ranch and marry her. Bo is accompanied by Virgil \Blessing, a ranch. hand, played SIMCOE HALL SETTLEMENT HOUSE ON SIMCOE ST. 4 cowboy a beating, which in ef- fect teaches him that one can- P tive meeting of the Oshawa and District Humane Society was held recently. In the absence of the president, Ralph Jones, the meeting was conducted by Bill Selby. Of main interest was his re- port on final preparations made Dr, Lyman is.given an insight into the real meaning of love during his talks with the young waitress but rejects it and the change that it would mean to his life. The bus driver and the restaurant proprietress sep- arate with the understanding that they will meet again. The Inge play will play to heavily booked houses until Saturday which is already a sell-out. The second production of the season will be 'The Glass Men- agerie'"', by Tennessee Williams which will play from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1. The third and last presentation will be, "Juno and the Paycock", by Sean O'Casey currently scheduled to play April 15-18. not have everything: one wishes for in life. Cherie later decides decides. that she does love Bo and will marry him. Drop-Outs p|attended for one week and had Decreasing In Schools "Stay in School" propaganda is paying off, it was learned at the Oshawa Chamber of Com- mittee meeting Tuesday. George L. Roberts, principal of R. S. McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute, quoted Dr. Robert W. B. Jackson, di- rector of educational research, University of Toronto, as say- ing that the number of Oshawa * |Grade 12 and 13 students tripled + |from 1952 to 1962. _| Other figures which showed _{elearly that the percentage of high school drop-outs has de- creased rapidly since 1952 are: |the number of Grade 9 students has doubled; tht number of Grade 10 and 11 students has increased 2.5 times. Mr. Roberts also stressed at the meeting that more people should be aware that the On- tario Department of -Education offers free correspondence courses in almost all elemen- tary and seconday school courses. "Many private enter- prises offer these courses at a high cost," said Mr. Roberts. Tron Firm Makes Offer Months of. negotiations tween an Oshawa manufactur- be- ing company and Local 1509, United Steelworkers of America, has resulted in an offer from the company. Keith Ross, international rep- resentative of the union said to- day that an offer was received from Ontario Malleable Iron Co. Ltd., at a meeting late Tuesday Mr. Ross said that a meeting of approximately 300 members of the local will be held at the |UAW Hall Thursday night. "The offer from the company) jwill be put to the membership 2 then," Mr. Ross said, "and any Oshawa Times Photo. 'decision will be made then." :|meeting set for Dec. 5, i|/meeting was adjourned. for the society's coming mail jcampaign. About 20,000 folders, \printed and prepared by a local Oshawa firm and showing appealing pictures of cases of cruelty and neglect to helpless animals will be mailed to every householder in the following days. The Oshawa group is for the first time taking part in a prov- funds undertaken by many local groups with the help of the On- tario Humane Society. The pic- tures used for the folder have been taken only in the 'last year in Ontario, and the cases involved have been brought io court by the Ontario Humane Society. Shocking conditions, like the ones shown in the folder, may Oshawa area also; and may undetected due only to too little nel. The Humane Society would however like to declare once more that it's intentions are to prevent cruelty. and neglect to animals rather than to have to prosecute them. Stan Mitchell, the Oshawa Hu- mane Society's inspector, then gave his report on several cases he investigated in the last month. In one case two bulls were injured in a fight, left un- to be shot. The Humane Society is considering laying charges With the date for the next the REV. N, F. SWACKHAMMER Let Patients Know You Really Care Christmas is the time to let people know you care for them. You may not know them : they are among the 75,000 pa- tients in Canada's mental hos- pitals today. But you can bring them cheer at Christmas. Under the chairmanship of Rev. N. Frank Swackhammer, the drive in Oshawa is on for gifts to these patients. The Ontario County and Osh- awa branch of the, Canadian Mental Health Association and the White Cross Volunteers who assist the hospitals are hoping hoppers will a ther name |Christmas to the mentally ill, | Each volunteer group is ask- jing that an inexpensive gift such las cigarets, scarves, cards, sketch books, writing paper or toiletries be sent to the local collection depots of the CMHA. donor's name and a letter of acknowledgement is sent- from the receiving point. The donor's name is then removed from the gifts before they are distributed. A number of volunteers are ready to wrap presents. Ali gifts ane individually wrapped and ribboned with attention to variety, It is planned that the wrapping will take place Dec. 12 at the White Cross Centre, Simcoe street south. Patients love the colors and |feel that individual care js given jto them and that people have |to their lists and bring a happier p SHIP BLOWS UP GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP)-- An engine-room explosion Tues- day aboard the 8,997-ton Fin- nish freighter Bonny, in dry- dock here, resulted in three deaths and serious injuries to 10 persons. The ship's second engineer and a shipyard worker burned to death. A bystander on the pier died, apparently from a heart attack. Cause of ince-wide campaign to raise] © very well be apparent in the|M inspection by authorised person-| jo liquor outlets are signs of pro- oress and refinemen' in Osh- awa," emphasized Major Lewis, "and we do this on the basis of the results of the three most recent studies made by alcoholism commissions in the U.S.A. as given in a recent Report magazin, that for every 25 cents received in liquor rev- enue someone must shell out a doliar to pay for the resulting damages, Only good can come from a definite vote 'No' on all three liquor Satur- day," he contends. a The Know an. Vote No Com- mittee of Oshawa met Monday nig' to map strategy for the final, week.of the campaign, ac- cording to Major Lewis, and is appealing to all voters to cast their ballots in favor of restrict- ing outlets to their present num- ber and rejecting them in the annexed areas of the city. Chest Fund Still Grows With its objective attained, the Greater Oshawa Community hest Fund is on to new heights. Robert Branch, execu- tive secretary, announced this morning that $266,774.15 has been contributed. The list of donations, not pre- viously acknowledged, follows: Ulrich. Strahl (Contractor) i H. Dusureauit (Contractor! D. Redpath (Contractor) Oshawa Wood Producs Ltd. Sianey Pe Harding Caretaking and Floor Maintenance veS» wStus 388883 Besse Lorne Goodman Plumbing and Heating, + Wy Rene Thiebaud and Son 15.00 Ontario Steel Products Lid. Emp. 354.00 Sklar. Furniture Company Emp. 799.30 Oshawa General Hospital a 5 4. Lelian Bidg. Supplies 50.00 Bathe and McLellan Bldg. Supplies Ltd. 15.00 . Emp. Bank of Montreal Employees ing Centre) 1.90 Canadian Tire Corporation Associate Store Emp. 26.00 Auto Workers (Oshawa) Credit Union Members of Oshawa and District Real Estate Board (Additional) Miss B. Minaker 15.00 Pediar People Limited Employees 1,065.28 The Public Utilities Commission te 160.00 Employees Victorian Order of Nurses Emp. 22.00 Lovis $. Hyman 25.00 Total to Date $266,774.15 FIVE CALLS Oshawa City ambulance crews have answered five calls during the past 24 hours. Two involved traffic injuries and the remain- ing three were routine. The fire department responded to two calls, one to stand by after a hydro wire came down at Hor top and Switzer and the other to extinguish a minor car fire the explosion was not deter- mined. on Richmond west. VOTE "NO" Morley Chesher, left, Mrs. Howard Brown and Major Fred Lewis of the "'Know-and- Vote-No committee' display one of their posters in the current Liquor Plebiscite cam- paign. The plebiscite will be nét forgotten them. held next Saturday, Novem- CAMPAIGN ber 23, to decide if new liquor outlets: will be permitted in Oshawa. The poster displayed was' made by Mr. Howard Brown. There will be three ballots in the plebiscite, two for voters in the old area of the City, three for the new. Voting is from 8 a.m. to € p.m.