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Thursday, April 30th, 1953 OAKVTLLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page 3 ! HOW ABOUT GEO. GIBSON? STAMP CORNER By J A M E S M O N TAG N ESS WHEN A MOUNTAIN SMOTHERED A TOWN ifty iw o i -- S E E-- P1CT0U AUCTIONEER CALLED DOMINION'S TOP TALKER * Durham N. S., (CP) K. Y. and the colonies issued two Parker is an M. A. Master stamps for the silver wedding, Auctioneer. one low value and one high value. One of the last of his trade in A few other countries have Pictou County, Mr. Parker is tops issued wedding stamps, includ in the business and still likes to ing Bulgaria in 1930 for the wedd recall the day he rolled through $9,000 worth of business in five ing of King Boris and Princess hours. Giovanna; Albania in 1938 for the j wedding of King Zog and Count-! "And that," he says, "takes a ess Geraldine Apponyi, and lot of talk." Greece for the wedding in 1938 How much? "I'll never know. of present King Paul and Prin Although I used the same words cess Fredrika-Louisa. over and over again, I do roll Recent royal visitors to Can out quite a few during an auction. ada, the Crown Prince of Japan My speed rate of speech is pretty and the King of Cambodia, have close to 300 words a minute, the been honored w i t h postage j average speaking rate is about 180 stamps in their respect&e coun- Average 300 for five hours and tries. For the present North that runs close to 90,000 words. American and European trip of} < > That-s a lot of words for Prince Akihito of Japan a special man and thafs a lot of words stamp is being issued, although Usten to> but they d and his picture will not be shown on sometimes wonder why. the stamp. The King of Cam bodia, part of French Indo-China, ' Short and stocky with keen who was in eastern Canada on eyes that can weed the real buyan unofficial visit, is shown on ers from the spectators, Mr. 1943 stamps of Indo-China under Parker says there are many tricks his name, Norodom Sihanouk, to the trade, under which he registered at One, he says, is to make sure Canadian hotels. that a few people don't straggle New issues: Thailand (Siam) I buyers with them. has issued stamps for the 60th anniversary of the Thai Red !. "At a time like that you must Cross Society . . . Egypt has or , have an ace up your sleeve and come up with something to make dered all stamps showing former them pause and listen. Once King Farouk to have the portrait you've stopped them in their of the king obliterated with ver tracks, you've got to be honest tical stripes . . . Brazil has issued with them and flash up a real a stamp for the 400th anniver , bargain. They won't remember sary of the founding of Sr.nto |how it, was done, but they will Andre . . . Spain is issuing a ; remember that they got some stamp on the centenary of tW thing they wanter, and they'll death of statesman Marques de come back to your next auction." Valdegamas . . .Portugal is issu- | CHAS. F. DOTY AND SON Dundas St. N. : Phone 76 New issues received include (top, left to right), Queen Elizabeth II set from Gold Coast with map stamp showing location of colony; East Germany's stamp for Russian author, Maxim Gorki; Luxem bourg's wedding stamp showing Princess Josephine Charlotte of Belgium, and Prince Jean of Luxembourg, and (lower, left to right), Romania's stamps for tennis championships and reconstruction; West Germany's stamp for author Thedor Fontane, and Hungary's mourning stamp of Josef Stalin. The marriage of Prince Jean of Luxembourg with Princess Josephine Charlotte of Belgium brought another royal wedding stamp for collectors. There have been a number of such stamps in recent years, signalling events of international importance. Egypt issued such a stamp for the first wedding of the former King Farouk in 1938 and another in 1951 for his second marriage. Persia, now Iran, issued two such stamps also in 1939 for the wed ding of the present Shah Moham med Riza Pahlavi, and again in 1951 for his second wedding. In both cases the rulers ^divorced their first wives because there were no male heirs to the thrones. One of the first such special issues was in 1920, when the tiny principality of Monaco overprint ed current semi-postal stamps for the marriage of Princess Char lotte. In 1943 the small state of Liechtenstein issued a commem orative set for the marriage of Prince Franz Joseph II and the Countess Georgina von Wilczek. Italy in 1930 had a set for the marriage of Prince Humbert to Princess Maria Jose of Belgium. In 1948 Canada issued a stamp to mark the marriage of the then Princess Elizabeth to the Duke of Edinburgh. The only other wedding stamps issued in the British Commonwealth were is sued in 1948 for the silver wed ding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Great Britain " THERE IS PRESTIGE IN BEING A HOME OWNER" HAROLD A. CLARKE LTD., REALTORS Phone 1296 T h e T h rillin g N e w 1 9 5 3 " T w o-T en ` 2 -D o o r S e d a n You go m uch farther on every gallon of gas in this great new Chevrolet... and Fifty years ago the town of Frank, Alta., was buried under 70,000,000 tons of limestone that fell off tu rtle mountain. The ^ide, as it was called, shows clearly as a white slash on the mountain face. The town of Crow's Nest Pass is in the foreground. By C. F. STEELE those within reach, the miners-- T 1^ 0V rOUble from downing Central Press Canadian Turtle Mountain. There are those husbands, fathers brpthers-- Correspondent who say o ld Turtle will again! downed their tools to come off Frank Alta -- There will be a f 1! ' yOU rarely hear this shift. Suddenly they found their fiftieth anniversary marked in the talk in Frank. way blocked. This caused only town of Frank on April 29, but It happened at 4:10 in the scant surprise, since for months, there will be no joyous note. On morning fifty years ago April 29. the timbers had been occasionally GREETINGS & G IF U the contrary, there will be a T .,gla" t overhanging front of broken. i n brought to yva i r c a sombre flashback to the great Turtle Mountain suddenly gave "This is a cave-in," someone Friendly Neighbor* Frank Slide of April 29, 1903, way, hurling a flood of limestone said. And the men accepted his * a vie & Social W elfare when much of the then booming down on the sleeping town and word for it and came out of the Crow's Nest Pass coal town was destroying it It rolled like a mine by another exit just as through buried to a depth of 100 feet in de of death across the whole dawn was breaking over the as many seconds. valley and the lives snuffed out valley. Amazed and horrified, WELCOME WAGON The Frank Slide is one of the would have been greater had not they saw their once proud little town all but buried and much major disasters in Canadian his many of the pit worker* been on tory. The number of dead has snirt and so escaped. of what was left a tangled mass On the eecasion o ft perhaps never been positively es The Alberta government erect- of ruins. They looked first for T h e Birth o f a Baby tablished; there was no means ed an inscription on the site of their homes and their families, ientAnnounoeoaeaH B of counting the toll of life. It the Slide, telling in a few words but to many neither were visible e i reeidenoe varies from 66 to 100, perhaps the poignant story of the vast in that weird sea of rock and ·4 N ew oom en to more. The property loss was tomb that still meets the eye of debris. Houses had been match great from the blow and Frank travellers over No. 3 Highway wood before that terrible catas never recovered. In 1903, with trophe as the speechless pit men P H O N E 807 pa" - Th« * saw. its mines working full shift and ing a short set fo r the 50th anni- ! ^ P arkef has a keen sense few layoffs, it visioned a "Place The C.P.R. Crow's Nest line "Disaster struck here at 410 . . x. , A ' of humor and uses it on occasion, in the Sun," as did a lot of west vsrsary o f the national automo- j ,, But with a lot o f stuff to ^ which links Southern Alberta w Sge o f T 29' 1903' A ^ ' t i c bile club and the 500th anniver- you just haven't time to do a lot ern towns in the roaring days at wedge of limestone 1,300 feet points with Southeast British the turn of the century. But Columbia, was destroyed, as was sary of the birth of Pr incessof kidding. The occasional joke fCet Wide " d MO Frank's one industry--the coal with the Slide these hopes were T t, k crashed down from Joana, who became a nun . . . 1° n some item that is being auc£ u t le mountain and destroyed mine. A new line has been ,.............. , , ., tioned off is all right but it must, grimly wiped out. Bolivia is issumg a set for the . " ,, , , , Frank today is a quiet little blasted through the wall of rock _ , , . ,. , .. be swift, get the laughs and thtui n f OWn °/ F ra n k ' Sevm ty milColumbus lighthouse being built die quickly M you whip right village with most of the homes Un ion tons of rock swept over two and the floor of the valley has clustered along the rambling miles of valley, taking 66 lives been reached with hope now of in the Dominican Republic. I along with the bids." main street, beyond the reach of nd burymg numerous homes, finding the remains of some of the victims. 3 200T e railway, along with An automobile road -- No. 3 3,200 acres of fertile land to a depth of 100 feet in 100 seconds." southern route of the Trans-Can -J k a bleak morning--the ada highway--has been built and on April 29 when the 50th an , P ' 1903- In many of he little colliery homes the wo niversary of the Frank Slide will men and children were alone. be marked, a new view point will The menfolk were on night shift be dedicated. The little burial plot, holding the bones of some TW U ° ld TrUtle' caUed who died, that April morning as j " ' *° *"« ^ d , because of k r o u n d d . b ^ y shape, some- they slept, has been renovated hat like the back of a turtle and made pleasing to the eye. t o it » a s d e e p , ^ ! These remains were found by workmen building the new high Strange tales had grown ud way through the Slide. They were around Turtle mountain. There tenderly re-interred, a cross erec-1 ted and the plot fenced. when °f IlrPr° Phecies taIked of Few vestiges of the town have hen folks got together that . . · Let OAKVILLE some day the mountain would yet been found in the excavated area but a level has been reach CLEANERS G i v e tall. These legends, for such they were, stemmed back to the ed that should disclose something. Your Suit That Look Indian days. One heard them, but There was one wild story that Like New Appeal. gained wide currency at the time dismissed them. But Old Turtle did shake itself of the disaster. It was that the W that fateful April m om Lg bank at Frank had been buried sending death and destruction with a fortune in its vaults. This is not true -- the bank escaped. w ' X ,, t P° n town` lt struck Time To Store Your The Slide is a fabulous source ^ th o u tw a m m g , although two Winter Garments. For years before there had been a of rock for the CPR and train sharp earth tremor that may loads have been moved east as Guaranteed Safe Stor far as Moose Jaw to be used for age CALL ^ ster. 1 ^ ^ ore the mountain col- maintenance work on its roads. But there is slight evidence to t S f h a d anadi!^ Padfic freight day that the material has been Frank TM1l through the moved out, so vast is the deposit east L f : d8' While to the spread out in wild disorder across east the crack train, the Spokane Flyer was all but due. The hor the valley. ror of it all but paralyzed the And over the panorama of train crew> a» but brakeman Sid rock, with here and there patches Choquette He was the hero of of grass and a few hardy trees the hour, for armed only with struggling to survive, Old Turtle his lantern he groped his way still stands, its sheer sides ris over the mass of rock and ing 7,000 feet from the valley. through the choking dust for a It is still considered by geolo full mile and flagged down the gists a threat and although Flyer, an epic in Canadian rail warnings have been issued, a few 31 Colborne St. E. way annals. families cling to their cottages As those who survived the in the danger zone, refusing to Oakville avalanche of rock sought to help move. WHAT A GLORIOUS DIFFERENCE A GLEAN SUIT MAKES PHONE 1557 TO D A Y! T r£n b U te dto^ OAKVILLE GLEANERS you scve on over-all operation and upkeep, too! 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