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Oshawa Times (1958-), 26 Apr 1965, p. 18

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18 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, April 26, 1965 By THE CANADIAN PRESS |but many teen-agers prefer " ae Skateboard Fad Popular With Teens But Not Police dangerous pieces of equipment I've seen yet for children," says Staff Sgt. Archie Stewart Whether you call it skate-|make their own. | boarding, sidewalk - surfing or) Although hills provide the! skurfing, it doesn't alter the| most excitement, it's possible tol fact that Canadian teen-agers\operate on level surfaces as| (and a few so-called adults) have found a new craze. Skateboards -- smal! wooden platforms mounted on_ roller- skate wheels--are being man- oeuvred through the streets of just about every city in the well and this may account for' skateboard popularity in Re-| gina, a city that is notably flat. | The only limitation there has) been lack of stock, says al spokesman for a large depart- ment store. tried it in Oak Bay was fined recognize that the skateboards | ¢, for obstructing traffic, can be dangerous. In Montreal) they're called "coffins." A HOSPITALS BUSY | safety official in the same city has another name -- "booby A Vancouver policeman, trap." "\caied skurfing 'more a teen-| The skateboard, a sort of/@8@ Way of life' than a fad; and hospitals' report having scooter with nothing to hold on | in platiroie fo simulate|'teated skurfers for hand, arm) some of the action one gets|and leg fractures. Since Christ- surfboarding in the ocean. You|mas skateboard accidents have! can lie or stand on it, hit 30|/b0osted emergency ward busi- miles an hour going downhill, |&8s 'a good five per cent.'" snake your way down the road,| A sporting goods store in Kd-) of the Sudbury, Ont., police de- partment. "I'm thinking of ask- ing authorities to introduce a bylaw banning its use in the city." How to deal with skurfing may be a problem in some places, Chief Constable Charles Eveson of Whitney Township In Cornwall, Ont., Chief Al- lan Clarke says there may be a 'traffic bylaw' prohibiting their use, He reports some drivers have had_ hair-raising close calls with skurfers dash- country, a Cross-Canada Survey) Victoria reports skurfing hasinear Timmins, Ont., says helafter the Second World War by The Canadian Press ShOWS.| ooome rina an epidemic."|thinks a section of the Highway-|and settled in this town 75 miles) IZZA Many are skurfing their way The suburban municipalities of/Traffic Act would permit seiz-|northwest of Timmins. | into hospitals with bruises,|¢.anich and Oak Bay have for-|ure in cases where the boards| Since Mr. Van Berkel had telephone abrasions, scratches and broken) )aq,., skurfing on the streets|became a hazard for pedes-|been patronizing the coffee, 728-0192 limbs. and one 2l-year-old man who) trians. house for the last 50 years, Piet! The teen - agers themselves, . Vroon, the owner, broke into his ! E ing in front of their cars, but]' he doesn't plan to take action unless a serious accident oc- curs, In Kitchener, Ont., Inspector John Ulmer of the police traf- fic bureau wants paved ramps in public parks to keep skurf-|, jfrom customers who used bad |language. | 4 \s Trip Financ RIS FP a Poy yom go n ) By Profanity ldogs for blind pf ag guide This time he used 2,000 guild- KAPUSKASING, Ont, (CP)-- ers (about $600) to send his best A 72-year-old man was granted|customer on a four-month vaca- his greatest wish here Saturday|tion. iene 7 -- a 3,000-mile trip) . ; rom oHand and saw his) ITY 7 daughter and four grandchil-| Cry ae i dren--a trip "financed" by pro-- PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, fanity and the good will of a/Man. (CP)--Of 123 boy: in the coffee house in Utrecht, Manitoba Home for Boys here, Eight months ago, C. H. Van/8! are from Winnipeg, 12 from Berkel mentioned that hisjother cities, and only 27 from greatest wish was to visit His|rural Manitoba and the North- daughter, Mrs. Roland Morel.|west, Territories, She marriedca Canadian soldier, saws 7 ath ' ove" boiled fet Le OOS g make 90-degree turns, and take headers into a hedge. You can also lose your bal- monton tried to arrange withjers off streets and sidewalks. the owners of parking arcades! And a safety official in Halifax to have skurfers use their prem-|also suggests a special area be ll off, collide with|ises on Sundays but was turned set aside, ance and fall But Paul Leboeuf, manager of to be near kinsmen under sentence in Mountain Prison for terrorist activities, The Doukhobors trekked 300 This ramshackle town is home for 350 Sons of Free- dom Doukhobors who have gathered near Agassiz, B.C., Only One 'Prestige Project' Left For U.K. Air Industry By JOSEPH MacSWEEN away from the British and LONDON (CP)--Britain has/French. emerged from a truly agonizing) Despite the storms among reappraisal of its aircraft indus-|politicians and experts, British try with only one major new/)Aircraft Corporation and Sud project still in the works--the/Aviation of France are going Anglo-French . Supersonic' Con-|ahead calmly with production corde Transport. of two Concorde prototypes on And Tory critics maintaineach side of the channel in that only France's President de|what has been described as the Gaulle prevented Prime Minis-|smoothest Anglo-French co-op-) ter Wilson's Labor government/eration -yet seen. from chopping the Concorde--| The Concorde was the first which it termed a "prestige project to come under review project"--along with other new/after Wilson came to power in| aircraft October to find Britain in cru-! The Concorde, of course, is|cial balance-of-payments diffi- anything but an open-and-shut culties. enterprise, whether viewed by politicians or experts. Some say suaded from axing the Con- it is a pity that Britain, with corde only because» there was its aviation pioneering record/no escape clause in the contract going back more than 50 years,'drawn. up by the former Tory has no project of its own. government with France, The Others see the Anglo-French French might have taken Brit- partnership as the only possible|ain to the international court: at way that the industries of both'the Hague. countries can survive in com-| Wilson, in this view, turned petition with the United States.jinstead on the TSR-2, a tactical Some look forward to the dayjreconnaissance nuclear bomber) when Concorde will blast across described as the most advanced) the frontier of science, cross-in the world, ing the Atlantic at more than military 1,400 miles an hour, twice the jump-jet speed of a rifle shot, beating transport. the U.S. and the Soviet Union for once in a vital field. these could be chopped only in Others say Concorde will be|the certainty of a mighty row nothing but a confounded nuis-at home but without ance, laying a carpet of intol-/friends in Europe, where he erable sonic boom across the was anxious to foster a happier continents, Anway, they ask, relationship. who wants to cross the ocean) The emotion-packed planes--a and. a short supersonic takeoff contro- in 3% hours? Why should Brit-|versy over the TSR-2 cancella- from the. crew, it was lowered British Empire, he retired in| Annie Ogden, 81, formerly of B77) ain and France be sharing an|tion and aviation in general has\overboard 'to a suitable large 1946 to live in Bridgewater, 154 Bruce st., who died April estimated cost of $900,000,000--|become so involved in the dia- perhaps much more--for such a logue of politics, defence and frightening machine? prestige that the man on the The crifics also ask whatistreet finds it difficult if not would happen if President John-|impossible to judge the issues son ordered a crash program'He only knows that vast sums for a U.S. rival to the Concordeof lovely money have gone and managed to snatch ordersidown the drain. MATH KAS OF no RERPORR ORE SSL ACCEPICS wtat cae ee, oe The finest supermarket in Moscow is out of bounds for Russians. including this shopper. In top photo she leaves the store at the re quest ef a guard inside the door. At bottom she surveys the variety of goods that sel- dom find their ordinary Moscow The "dollar store' selis onb to people with one of 14 non- VAY into shop ¢ SONS OF FREEDOM HOME MARKET FOR FOREIGNERS ONLY The shacks shacks. built over the, tents which were then torn down from the inside. miles from the Kootenay valley in Septem,ber, 1962, and spent a cold winter in tents until they could scrounge materials for Historic Flights As Civilian Brought Fame To Group Captai TORONTO (CP)--Two flightsjant factor of the flight was the in 1924 brought lasting fame in|news that the fleet was cruis- aviation circles to Roy Stanley|ing away from it, (Bill) Grandy, who died in Tor-. "It was the only flight the onto April 8 at 71 airplane made that season, but Most of his working years/its value was amply proved. were spent in the RCAF where,|The ships turned about and lbefore retirement, he rose to/reached the herd, where they were --CP Photo lpeople and cars, and wind up|down. One operator reports the |with a variety of injuries. skurfers are using his ramps "If anybody wants to .use a|/&nyway skateboard in my district, he'd| Winnipeg is another city that better have a long front hall,"|!acks hills but this hasn't elim-| savs Police Director Joseph inated injuries altogether, One \Griffith of the Montreal suburb|!/-year-old girl fractured an 'of Outremont. ankle when she fell off a skate- SOME SEIZED 'board in front of her home. | Police Chief Reg Axell of Ot-| In Galt, 'Ont., where four] ltawa says his department has| fractures occurred in a four- received hundreds of complaints|4ay period, the South Waterloo and some OC URARACGE have| Medical Society has asked that been "temporarily confiscated,")| Parents consider carefully be- but he denies charges that some fore a llowing children un- have been thrown into the Rid-|restricted use of skateboards eau Canal, And the capital sony DOr abe ~~ age mgaes| ex- no blanket ban on the devices,|ceeds the skill of the opera- Halifax Police Chief Verdun) !0r. Mitchell says parents have been The toy warned repeatedly of the dang- eee : MacMillian Kin is one of the most | streets. But the effect is ques-| the rank of group captain, But|were able to take on capacity|iionable, One school reported| oddly, his two historic flights catches, That is the way. new jcame while he was a civilian, paar history was made and The first changed the ways|* ong tradition born. of the centuries-old sealing in-- PAID INDIANS | dustry in his native Newfound- In August. the same year ee see Plate Rap Grandy was the pilot of a fly-) ion e | neirance jing boat that travelled 900 miles! r the pilot and his amphibi-/j,°19 days--a rare accomplish-| ave aircraft ment at the time. The expedi- Until 1924 sealing skippers intion was made to pay treaty! Newfoundland stubbornly re-/money to Indians on a number Insiders say Wilson was dis-|sisteq attempts to depend onlof reserves in Northern On- being for motorized versions--/from the school last term for aircraft to spot herds of seals tario, | in the North Atlantic. They pre- . . ' € j ferred to trust skills inherited Veg bn ae "BI Grandy| from tel ola of sealers. (went overseas with the Royal| Bill Grandy changed their Newfoundland Regiment in 1914! minds with a flight in March,/hut two years inter Wie aan. 1924, onded to the Royal Flying PLANE ON SHIP Heirs serving as a fighter pilot With his trim little biplane og the rest of the First World lashed aboard SS Eagle, he ac-| companied the sealing fleet to He joined the Canadian air and two other/the ice fields. Of the trip one force soon after it was formed) tome in v historian wrote: 1920 and left it in 1922 to} "When the sealing areas were|Join Laurentide Air Service Ltd.| reached, the animals just didn't| While he was with the company| The prime minister kneW\seem to exist, and the vast|it established the first regular wocytioch main herd eluded the lookout/@ir-mail route in Canada at every turn, Being an ex-| He rejoined the air force in losing|sealer himself certainly lent 1925 and during the Second! grown, weight to Grandy's request that; World War served as. c'ficer the airplane be used in an ef-\cOmmanding Camp _ Borden, fort to prove its worth, Ont.,. and Torbay, Nfld. "So, without any enthusiasm; Awarded the Order of the icefield and, after a short run-|N.S. way. had been roughly levelled ~ the Avro and took off... | Plan Report On Landreville "From the air the main herd) was soon located and Grandy| estimated it to contain about 125,000 seals. The most import-; TORONTO (CP)-- of the Law -- Society Canada says the send to Justice Favreau a_ report Leo Landreville's {ciation with the | An official of Upper society will Minister uy on Justice former asso Northern On- tario Natural Gas Company Mr, Justice Landreville of the Ontario Supreme Court was ac- jof municipal corruption \NONG franchise granted )Sudbury while he was bury's mayor in 1955 and 1956 Society Treasurer John Arnup \said Sunday night a special committee of the society con }quitted last October on charges equipped to accommodate con-| andj ventions of 10,000 delegates after }conspiracy in connection with a/the 1967 World's Fair s in'the present limit of 5,000 causes Sud- much loss of business to Tor-| = sidered Mr. Justice Tandre- ly, cut lower thread every halt-| e ville's return to the Supreme inch or so. Top thread pulls out) & Court bench last November, easily lers of children skurfing on the 'Is Found Dead eight injured pupils. In neighboring Dartmouth some streets have ne vit OXFORD, England (AP) =| tually blocked by! kids using|Ppolice are investigating the skateboards and some haveideath of Joshua MacMillan, %s NOW THE SCREEN been confiscated but police Sa¥jprandson of former Prime Min- EXPLODES they're frustrated in efforts to/ister MacMillan. The 21-year- THE MOST stamp out what they call aold student at Oxford Univer- IMPORTANT "dangerous" sport ; sity's Balliol College, found MISSION Skateboard prices range froM\dead in his room Sunday night , ie ~" OOF THE $1.90 to $49.95--the high prices\had been given leave of absence COLOR ei WAR! PANAVISION" undisclosed medical TEASONS.| bm» UNITED ARTISTS OBITUARIES His father, Maurice, Conserv- 7 ative MP, was economic secre Box Office opens 8:00 P.M. tary to the treasury in the last : $s ¥ FUNERAL OF Conservative government, tie hid NS Eos helo the Quebec Safety League, thinks skateboards should be banned outright. 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