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¢ Oshawa Times SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1964 Oshawa Man Victim Of Undertow In Lake Area Group A 19-year-old Oshawa youth drowned while wading off Osh- awa Beach around 8 p.m, Tues- day despite efforts by a human chain of Lake Ontario bathers to find him. The body of John Yurchi 881 Myers street, was recovered from six feet of water -- after being submerged for approxi- mately half an hour -- and arti- ficial respiration applied by Oshawa Fire Department mem bers. With resuscitation still being applied in the ambulance, Yurchi was rushed to Oshawa| General Hospital but was de- ¢lared dead on arrival. OUTSIDE 'PROTECTED' AREA | Yurchi and Linda MacDer- maid, 4 15, of 34 Grassmerejentered the water close the beach, just west of the pier,| around 7.45 p.m. No lifeguard was on duty and} the pair were wading up to their| shoulders in a section west of a row. of linked corks which de-| notes the beginning of deeper) water, Yurchi couldn't swim while) Miss MacDermaid could swim} sufficiently well 'to make the} beach. | The body was retrieved) around 8.15 p.m. by John Rob-| inson, 24, of RR 4, Oshawa; | Larry Ladd, 21, 191 Meadow) road; and Allen McDonald, 2 633 Burton road. Miss: MacDermaid told police that Yurchi -- a Sklar Furniture! employee -- arrived at her} home around 7 p.m. | They walked to the beach and to In shoulder deep water a 'large wave knocked them both off their feet and they could feel themselves being pulled out into deeper water," the police report PAGE THIRTEEN) * LEFT -- SHOVEL DIGS trenching for services on Mid- town drive, the north entrance from King street to the plaza, Centre -- Another shovel at the south end of the 10-acre a site working on the creek di- version. Right -- Workmen preparing reinforcing ma- terial as walls of new Brew- | ers' Retail store rise. --Oshawa Times Photo To Meet read. "John shouted for help and grabbed Linda . . . then she saw him go under. . . and he didn't come up." After scrambling out-of the water, Miss MacDermaid asked a woman for help but this was refused, police said. Shortly after, bathers in the 1,|area linked arms and in a line} Started combing the rocky bottom with their feet. Dr. Johfii C. Martin will per- form a post mortem today. BORN IN MANITOBA A son of Andrew Yurchi of street, entered the water just|where five people were splash-| Vancouver and the late Pauline 'west of a "protected" section ofiing in the shallows. Yurchi, the deceased was born Apart 37 Jan. 18, 1945, at Foley, Mani- toba and came to Oshawa a year and a half ago. An employee of the shipping department. at Sklar Furniture Limited, he was a member of| Years Brothers Meet ' "It was the strangest thing in,police inspector in the Old Coun-|mir Kostiuk (Pauline) of Mal- all the world . . . like something out of a weird dream," George H. , 294 Olive avenue, bo The Oshawa Times Tues- ay. It was the reunion last Thurs- day at Toronto International Airport of two brothers after being 37 years apart. The 57-year-old GM employee and his wife, Lenore, were near- ly in tears when they greeted brother Frank@53, his wife, Blanche and niece, Brenda Fos- ter, who flew from Sheffield. England -- the city George left to come to Canada as a slip of a man of 20. NOTHING TO-SAY "Tt was rather embarrassing at first because we didn't know what to say to each other," said George. "So we all went for a smash- ing dinner in Toronto and soon) we were all talking a mile a} minute," put in Frank, now a| father of four grown sons, and a grandfather to three. Brenda, 28, the daughter of the former Olive Robbins -- a) as soon as. we! ' | George says he came out to Canada in 1927 under a govern-| "|ment training scheme for would-| be farmers. "I worked for six months on a| farm near Lindsay and I tell) you I could have returned to) England anytime,"' he says. The following year he started work at GM, and this year with) the company -- in the stamping) plant -- is his 36th. In the meantime he and} Lenore have raised five boys/| and two girls: George, 28,/ Byron, 24, Frank, 23, David, 20, Robert, 18, Christine, 14, and Dorothy, 10. ' "Didn't think he had it in him," grinned Frank. TO SEE FALLS The Robbins and Brenda Mon- day visited the locks at Peter- borough. and plan next week to drive to Niagara Falls. Holy Cross Roman' Catholic} Chureh. Besides his father he is sur-| vived by four sisters, Mrs. Cas- try, hopes to come to Canadajonton, Manitoba; Mrs. Jerry)jine: next year, says Frank, and|Krezneski (Annie), of Winni- Olive, "will come can persuade her". WORKED ON FARM veg; Miss Marjorie Yurchi of Oshawa and Miss Mary Yurchi of Foley, Manitoba, and four brothers, Frank of .Manitoba, Victor and Joseph of Oshawa and Thomas of Toronto. The remains are at the Arm- strong Funeral Home. Requiem High Mass will be sung in Holy Cross Church at 9 a.m. Satur- day Aug. 1. Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery. Rev.|cers of the company. Manage-|-- M. J. Darby, pastor of Holy Cross Church, will sing the mass. | Thieves Take Cash And Fags Thieves broke into the Hilltop Snack Bar, R.R. 3, Oshawa Mon- day night and stole $100 cash and approximately $200 worth of cigarettes. The snack bar.managec Roy Zealand, said entry was gained by ripping off a screen and push-! sister -- Said she "'loves" Can-| Frank says he finds Cana-ling up a window. ada and "I may return some The Sheffield contingent of the} Robbins family will stay here|Canadians eat a lot,",he added. sai three weeks with George and) his family. de Another ~ brother, Jack, aj aa TWO BRANCHES OF THE Robbins family met Thursday after a 37-year separation. Seen in Oshawa are, from the left, in the back row, Frank "The food is great but I think} Blanche agrees. } "But I don't like this corn on} the cob stuff," she added. day. but oh. this heat", -- "very friendly, and help-| Mr. Zealand, who was asleep in an adjoining room to that from where the loot was taken, id he 'didn't hear a thing'. Whitby OPP officers are in- vestigating. |Camadian National Railways Robbins and Brenda Foster of Sheffie'd, England, and George Robbins, 294 Olive avenue. In the front row are, left. Blanche Robbins, Frank's wife, and right, Lenore Rob- bins, George's wife Offiials | OTTAWA (Special) -- The |Oshawa - Port Hope - Cobourg land District Building and Con- |struction Trades Council will jhold a meeting here Thursday |with officials of the Department lof Labor, it was revealed in the Commons Tuesday by Labor |Minister Allan MacEachen. | The minister was replying to ja question asked in the Com-| jmons Monday by Ontario MP} | Michael Starr. The Trades |Council wired Mr. Starr to seek) this assistance in arranging a jmeeting to discuss the Coun-| jcil's request for changes in} wage rates established by a survey made by the industrial relations branch of the depart- ment, i In reply to another question asked by Mr. Starr on Monday, Transport Minister J. W. Pick- ersgill said he -had been advised by .the management of the that there has been no change in the company's policy about its employees crossing picket S. "Employees of the company are expected to perform their duties in accordance with the terms of their agreement," Mr. Pickersgill stated. "It has been the long-term company policy| that employees must cross pick-| et lines at customers' premises] until or unless substantial) which event, police protection| is sought by supervisory offi-) ment information is that there] are no threats of violence in the |Oshawa matter referred to." The railway transport union) had telegraphed Mr: Starr} to charge that the CNR had imposed disciplinary measures on employees of the railway in| Oshawa for exercising their) |judgment in not crossing a legal picket line. | Tunku Beams After Plea To Pearson OTTAWA (CP -- The prime} minister of Malaysia left Ottawa| for Montreal eally today where \he will conclude his three-day visit to Canada. Prime Minister Pearson and External Affairs Minister Mar- tin were at Uplans Airport to) see the tunku (prince) off. | Tunku Abdul Rahman }Tuesday night he was over-| whelmed at the way the Cana- dian government had responsed to his plea for help. "It was beyond my expecta-| tions, beyond my dreams," said) the Tunku. Earlier in the dav, Mr. Pear- son told him a Canadian mili- tary mission would be sent to} Malaysia to assess the federa-| tion's needs, and special finan-| cial arrangements would be pro- vided to help Malaysia buy Ca- nadian aircraft. | Canada's contribution to Ma-| laysia under the Colombo plan would also be increased by some $4,500,000 and an addi- tional $1,500,000 would be pro- said) cational schools and training teachers. Canada also agreed to train Malaysian Air Force pilots in this country and sources said that initially eight pilots wll be involved. Canada's proposals fer helping Malaysia fend off tha confron tation policy of 4 1 were outlined to the tui ku when he spent 50 minutes with Mr. Pear- -- Oshawa Times Photo | son Tuesday. vided for equipping some 50 vo-) CIVIC HOLIDAY POSTAL SERVICE Postmaster W. E. Mann has announced that the ser- vice to be given by the Osh- Ask Drivers Stay Alert | On Holiday More people drive more miles jon the August Civil Holiday Weekend than at any other sim- ilar period all year -- and acci- dent hazards can increase as a result. It's a family-type holiday, the Ontario Department of Trans- \port points. out, and it often jbrings family type accidents. New Dominion Store Ready By Year End Construction. men are hard at work changing the face of 10 acres of creek valley land south of King street west, just west of the city hall, Dominion Stores Limited hopes to have its 27,000 square foot supermarket completed by the end of this. year. The esti- mated cost is $330,000. This is only phase one of a project which will see 10 or 11 "There have been in the early part of this summer a numebr awa Post Office on Monday, Aug. 3, which is being ob- served here as Civic Holi- day, will be curtailed. There will be no letter carrier, parcel post or rural mail deliveries during the day. The lock box lobby will be closed throughout the day and no wicket service will be' given. All mails will be received and despatched as usual and special deliveries will be made. One complete collec- tion from street letter boxes will be made at the same time as the regular Sunday afternoon collection. Ontario Steel Ontario Steel Products Co. Ltd., Toronto-based manufac- turer of automotive, agricul- tural and consumer products in metal and plastic yesterday reported a 23 per cent rise in net earnings for the first half of 1964, Earnings rose to $1,134,- 136 or $1.40 per common share from $920,984 or $1.18 a share in the corresponding 1963 period. Increased output domestic and export resulted 'in records sales, said 0. D. Cowan, president. New facilities at Chatham, Ont., for both markets threats of violence are made, in)and Gananoqué, Ont., are ex-jof the summer national tourna- pected to start production early this fall, he said. Reveal More Fake Reports On Ore Finds TORONTO (CP) -- Distribu- tion of false drilling results on a second speculative Timmins- district stock, Glenn . Uranium Mines Ltd., was. disclosed Tues- day in the wake of false re- ports on Windfall Oils and Mines Ltd. sent to several news- papers Monday. Bevan Anderson, manager of the Timmins office oi Doherty, Roadhouse and McCuaig Bros. said his company received a telegram from. Vancouver Iast week giving unusually good val- ues of ore that was supposed to have been found by Glenn Uranium. Mr. Anderson said he knew the wire was false when he saw Two weeks ago, P. C. A. Giardine, Glenn president, de- nied rumors from a Timmins brokerage office that Glenn had struck rich silver ore on its property near Windfall. DEATHS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Rome Salvatore Aldisio, 73, a Christian Democrat dep- uty who was a member of two post-war Italian cabinets. Montreal -- Fernand Danser- eau, 81, founder of what now is Montreal-Matin, a French- language morning newspaper. | Newport News, Va. -- Wil- jliam Ralph Van Buren, 78, | president of The Daily Press In- corporated which publishes The Daily Press and Times Herald; of a heart attack. | | Montreal -- Paul de Rober- |val Ouimet, retired insurance | broker and son of the late Mr. Justice J. A. Ouimet. Montreal -- Ethel M. Doull, 89, one of the oldest surviving graduates of McGill University. Profit Increased of tragic accidents in Ontario in |which whole families have been killed or injured," said Hon. \Irwn Haskett, Minister of |Transport. 'Fatal accidents are jalways shocking and dreadful |and we want to prevent all of them. But an accident that claims five, six or more lives |multivlies ihe shock, socrow and \loss."" | A man dr'ving a cvowded car |must remember. three things said Mr. Haskett: | --He must concentrate on the! operation of the car and not per- mit himself to be dist:aced by conversation or the activity of jchildren. | He has a special responsi- |bility to make sure that his car jis in first class mechanical con- dition. --He must remain alert. This means driving shorter distances or stopping to rest oftener than he might if he were travelling alone. -\danger of a shortage. Water Use Down Here Despite the heat wave of the last month there has been no strain on the. water resources of Oshawa. The gallonage pumped pe day has been well below the June record. An official at the water pumping station said, "water levels in our reservoirs and tanks are quite normal and there does not appear to be any. r|$75,000 toward the cost of the smaller variety stores anchored by a "large department store." The variety stores will enclose a -mall, Straightening of Oshawa Creek from King street south- ward to a point just north of Gibb street, is part of the plan to give Dominion Stores room for a parking lot for 800 to 1,000 cars. The creek diversion, costing about $60,000, is 70 per cent completed, a store official said today. Two entrances to the plaza will be constructed on John street, which will be pushed through to Nassau street. A new bridge will be built on John street and the artery itself will be widened to four lanes. SHARE BRIDGE COST Dominion Stores contributed $177,200 bridge. Department of Highways is paying $59,000 with the city picking up the rest, The north-end entrance to the shopping centre will be from King street, via a new piece of road to be known as Midtown Drive. This will be just east of the old Brewers' retail store. This entrance will run south and curve to the east. The new $80,000 Brewers' Retail store is now under construction on the north side of the drive-on the section which will parallel King street. At the same time, King street west from Park road to Mc- Millan drive will be widened to four lanes. Relief storm and sanitary sewers will be laid down by the city and the Public Utilities _ Commission will install a watermain. The. city has called: tenders on the John street bridge and the road construction. Domi- nion Stores has called tenders on its store, designed by Jackson-Ypes of Toronto. Creek diversion design work was done by Proctor-Redfern, also of Toronto. The city will put in the ser- vices on Midtown drive and pave it; DSL is paying for the work, as well as local im- provement costs on John street and King street west. "Last month there was a high water consumption but it has dropped now, owing to the clos- ing of several large plants for vacations and the fact that many users. have left the city on their holidays. The sprink- ling of lawns. during the past few weeks has mot affected our Oshawa Man Has Top Score TORONTO Lloyd Peel, Oshawa and Mrs. Harold Hea- ley, Plattsburg, N.Y., won top score in their section in the lToronto Whist Club pairs -- a |single - session championship |game with a field of 630 pairs. The event was held as part | }ment of the American Contract |\Bridge League at the Royal \York Hotel. Record crowds are |competing for nine major titles. |The tournament ends Sunday, |Aug. 2. supplies," The month of June saw a record 321,360,000 imperial gal- lons of water used in Oshawa. Police Clear Way For Truck Police were called to guard a Canadian National Railway truck as it crossed an Oshawa picket line Tuesday. The truck was halted by the picketers. made up of UAW and Oshawa Building Trades mem- bers as it approach>d the ent- rance to the General Printers building. Doug Sutton, acting president of .Local 222, of the Dragster Flips Driver Injured KOHLER -- Damages were estimated at $2,000 when a sling shot dragster, operated, by Jack Wiskin, 29, of Oshawa, flipped over on the Kohler Drag strip. The vehicles was going about 100 mph when it hit some blocks and went off the track, flipping end over end. The driver was treated by Dr. David Marshall at Cayuga for abrasions, bru'ses and a fracture of the right wrist. Woman Suffers Head Injuries Oshawa General Hospital today head injuries sustained in a two-car collision Tuesday even- jing. | Mrs. Sidney Oakes, 246 Wil- |son road south, was a passenger |when it came into collision with \in a car driven by her husband a car parked on Olive avenue. | Mr. Oakes told police just prior to the accident he and his wife were discussing a bathing suit and his vision was imparied by bright sunlight. The two. autos sustained a total of $1,150, CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS Congratulations and best wishes are' extended to the following resident of Osh- awa who is celebrating her birthday today: Mrs, Charles Dart, 306 St. Eloi avenue. Phone 723-3474. ~ A 36-year-old Oshawa woman) - is in satisfactory condition in|~ after being treated for severe) that} ' UAW spoke to the driver stress- the illfeeling which such an action aroused in Oshawa. Mr. Sutton said that the cross. ing of ihe line had beer pro- tested by many people over the telephon2 erd told the driver that several of the callers had uttered threats against those crossing, Three policemen helped clear a way for the truck into the plant. On the picket line were repre- sentatives of 10 building trades. The UAW supplied pickets also to make up the total of eight Eleven young men from Osh- awa, Metropolitan Toronto and; Luton, Bedfordshire England will be among 380 graduates of the General Motors Institute Flint, Mich., who receive bach- elor degrees in mechanical, in- dustrial or electrical engineer- ing on July 31. Ten of the men who have successfully com- pleted five - year engineering courses are sponsored by Gen- eral Motors of Canada. The eleventh is sponsored by Vaux- hall Motors of Luton, England, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation. The graduation ceremonies will mark the 37th commence- ment for General Motors Instt- tute, an accredited negineering college which provides General Motors. Corporation. with about 25 per cent-of its engineers. The student body of 2,500 is made up of topflight high school graduates. selected by GM plants for appointment to co-) operative programs in either mechanical, industrial, or elec- trical Engineering. For four years students alternate be- tween periods of academic edu- cation in the classrooms and laboratories at the Institute and co-ordinated work experience at their plants. Qualification for a bachelor's degree. requires suc- cessful compleion of a fifth- allowed under the court injunc- year phase of the program pro- 380 To Graduate At GM Institute _ and the sponsoring units...Of the nearly 8,000 graduates of GMI, about two-thirds have remained with General Motors. Donald M. Campbell, 334 Ross- land road west, Oshawa; Gor- don A. White, 742 Jasmine cres- cent, Oshawa, both of GM's Standards Department and John C. Larmond, now on special as- signments, Plant Engineering, will be among a number of graduates of the Class of °54 re- ceiving 10-year graduate keys during the commencement exer- cises. The keys are awarded an- nually in recognition of high performance on the job. The Canadian graduates spon- sored by GM of Canada are: Industrial Engineering Degree -- Warren D. Clark, 461 Masson street, Oshawa; Dennis H. Mason, 170. Park. road. south, Oshawa; Donald A. Petre, 349 Marland avenue, Oshawa; R. David Thompson, 471 O'Connor 'drive, Toronto. Mechanical Engineering De- gree -- Jack L: Barclay, 28 Barker avenue, Toronto; Leo E. Hearn, 349 Marland avenue, Oshawa; Norbert Huth, 349 Marland avenue, Oshawa; John S. Isles, 9 Gatwick avenue; To- ronto; James R. Johnston, 41 Division street, Oshawa; Garnet D.. Wylie, 2 Viewbank road, Scarborough. Third and Fourth-Year Engin- vided to meet the varying needs and situations of the students' eering Certificate -- George Lat- ter, Luton Beds, England. saps CANADAN CADETS ON CARRIBEAN CAPER Sixteen Canadian. Army Cadets are spending five weeks on Barbados in the first | exchange with their Bar- badian Army counterparts. Visiting the colorful water- front at Bridgetown are Cadet Maior Josevh Bryant of Osh- awa, and Cadet Major Roger J. Pennell of North Bay, Ont. National Defence Phote L