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EDR8A?, OCTOBER 26, 1950 PON~TYPOOL À few days ago we visited oui 1L red.la the Hydro camp gt -merw. At one ltime Edgar was quite an important village. It is a.Sew mriles north-east of Shanty Bay. When this writer wua YS4RM aquirt and worked for TIbemea Caldwell of Shanty Bay, lho had more- than one trip to the Ondut mil at Edgar. Hg remem- eri too, how he had ta hold the thm~-bus1iel grain bags by lari- term light, while his employer IOomp-shovelled the grain in. Anc, wS, betide Young Eddie's hide Oflho didn't hold the bag just ,Ight. The front of the 4bag had 11biang alack, while 'the back o! 0 iibal was kept taunt. Some- Ilipi., we were go tireci we got the bag technique reverued, but »w elow f rage from the boas sooji eWed that mental abber- ation. Acrosa from the Hydro camp stands the Negro Episcopal Church. It is a log building, about twenty by thirty feet in ize, eovered on the outside by clap- board. There arc three windows en-,gech aide, with panes of! lass rieasuring eight by ten Inches. T#ie altar la plain wood, the top belng covered by red feit.* There ta a clçk standing in one corner, probably used for the church reý- cords. Eighteen unpainted benches complete the furnish- Izxg. The floor appeaus to have -~ ---- ---~- - ---. - - - s ________________________ *1- UA14AD.LIAN STAT * FSr4At~N, pLWMYN VL' f YiLI been planed pine. This building was erected in 1848 by r4naW#y negro slaves. ThSq people weça rso numerous in this peetiop *et que ttinie that thçjt owned picat of th. sfarms on thep concessions from sEdgar rigbt down te Shanty Bay. rAny runaway slave was given free land in Oro Township. AI- r though the gesture was a kindly 1one, it didn't work out too satis- efactoxily, mostly we suppose, be- cause the negro slave wasn't gç- customed to that type o! soil, « cimate, or environrnent. r Perbaps lb was inevitable that 1hardier types of white settlerg Nwogld eventually take over the tnegro holdings, until today there 1is only onee negro left ini bila vi- cinity. Hp a aout 8b years o! age, lives one and a bal! niles teast o! E4gar, putterç about mak- ing tile. 'Wheà w. were around Shanty Bay, muot o! the "darkies", as they were generally called, worked ag 1abourerp, plasterers, etc. Waliçer Caldwell tells us thgt wi" on his upother used to go to the "Darky CIiurch"l aboyt 75 yearg ago, the Negroes sat on one aide, the wbites on the othor. The preacher u4sed to preach to the Negro half because they put more money on th. collection plate than the whites. The conemiis o! the whites was that the Negroea around Edgar were indiined to ho abiftless and light-fingered, therefore, flot an asset tQ the community. Per- MAR VIN HOLLENDERG Optomerist EYIES EXAMINED - GLASSES FITTED OFFICE HOURS Monday to, Safurday - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday Ail Day - EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT - 22 Division St. Phone 2024 .A 0. He is just one of the hundreda who during the day wif drop into the branch 1,81k around the corner. Savings depoeitors with thoir pay cheque e.retail merchanta with the day'0 cash., People consulting the manager about boans, others caaig chequs .. . itiaâall part of the. daily work of the branch bank. In ten years the nlmbe of accounts maitaiedby bank depositors lmasgrow" frorn 5,000,000 to 8,000,000. Ilis shows how Canadians have corne to couxit on their local ba.nks for a great Variety of services. The bankz keep paco witthei growing neda of the. nction. SPONSORID &y VOUR 8ANK Three Youths Escape Injury 'Vhen Auto Rolis Over in FQg Three Bowmanville youthe wçre involved in an accident which tcok place at the FVe IPoints, East Whitby Township, eaniy Thirs- d&y morning. No one was injur- ed althotzgh the automobile in which the trio was niding turn- ed over. Heavy fog, whlich ob- scured vision, was i bamçd for the accident. The three boys were idirig in a 1938 model car owned and driv- en iby Gary Dilling, 19, o!138 West Side Beach. With him were Wal- ter Woodward, 21, of 13 Brown Street and Thomas VanBridger, 13, King Street, ail of Bowman- ville. Precisely how the accident took place was not known but Chie! William N. Cairney of East Whltby Townshpwho investigated, maid thlit the %p of the automobile and the fenders were badly damaged whçn the car tuniied over in the dltcb.. Horse> d men of the Spanish Riding .choo in Vienna, sched- uled to apear at the Royal Win- ter Fair, Nov. 14-22., are tralned together for 12 years before niak- lng public appearmnces. M PIM A tAnTAV M MqA rVC AV t? lg'k - -T eQNT4ýl4i0 haps some misdemeanors blamed opi oijr black brothere were un- piMerited. When we were ai Shanty Bay, we knew el some wh 'ite folks th4t were "stIn1cçrý" ienough to do overt acta and blonie it on the Edgarites. It is to the evçrlgsting credit of the preseni generaton. of- Qrû whites that they caused to be erected ini 1947 a stone cair4à çon.ý taining a plaque whioh stâte*, "Erected by the citizen$ of Sim- coe County and Oro Township, t0 the memcory of the families who lived. and are bgried here." FQl- lowing the gbove, arq he napgies o 24 familles. Names like Tomp- gon, jïgwkins. Eddy, etc. Wç sup- posé tbese people werç toe poosr to purchase beadstones, bectiuge we didn't notice any. But therq le grave aboiut a yegr old. We were told t4atthe last o! the O.-ç Negroea was burie4 there. Wlben ,. çr;quired about the agç4 col- ored gentleman living pear Edggr, we were told that he Wasri't an Oro Negro, he came in after the colony wvas establisbed. In one way, it was xiice of the Oro folks to not mention the fart on their monu ment that it was ereeted to the memory of NegrQ slaves Who-had sought refuge !romn their tyrannical U.S. masters, In this quiet land where slavery was not tolerated. But, if they had done so, it would have been more enlightening to the casual sight- seer o! the future. We vislted Lew Caldwell, only te discover he had marrled. Violèt Kenney who is related to Collette Ferguson. Collette, you will e- member, ja the young lady who used, to turg out such good articles in this paper a year or so ago, and is now with the Pe4erborougli Ex- amnmer staff. We hsd, a nice visit too with Hugh and Mary Graham, Leonard and Lizzie Whltely and of course couldn't go through Barrie with- ovit looking up our oid achool teacher, Mrs. George Smith. Mrs. Smith was more than just a teach- er holding down a Job. She re- alized and tried to malce herpDu- tls realize that an Entrapce Cer- ificate was the key to any sort of higher education and ail that it implied. If she were younger, she would likely quaiify as a first psychiatrist. She handled, at one time, in a one-room school, over 70 pupils, teaching ail the gralles from one to ten. Had excellent dlsçipiine, didn't believe in cor- pral punisjiment <except in self defense), had. the confidence of trustees and parents, and above all, the affection and respect o! those fortunate enough to be ber pupiis. If the present crop of school teachers were more like her, we believe the outiook of the average man and woman o! the near future Would be different. Because Mrs. Smith had the fat- ulty o! inducing her scholars to ee that the only worthwhile things in life were honesty, in- .ustry, integrity. lb la well known that flot one of the pupila she taught during .er eleven years in the profession, Lrned, out to be a bum, (except is correspondent). Mostly, we eieve, because o! the fine ideals je inculcated in the moppets she eught. Uer salary was second- gy to ber job. This kindly, intel- e ent, gracious lady lanot qulte Syoung as she uaod toi ho. Hep !einlng years ean be tempered vith the 'thought that she bas tenty o! former scholars who just tbout worship the ground she valks on. And the guy that loves ier the most is the stinker who Poiled. ber wonderful record, by îving te lbe expeiled by ber as ai incorrigible. Me We had supper with Evarn and iiy Caldwell-sad their family. Ient a night with Walker and lary Caldwell, who drove us 'to he Midhurat Nursery, where we aW deer, wolves, foxes, racoons, ýa fowl, wild ducka, wild geese, wans andi goodness knows what. Ve cooked our picnic lunch on toves provided by the nursery uthorities, sat at picnic tables, xamined the fine large pavillion, igled the guest book, saw the uge transplant beds, met the sperintendent and Watohed. a til- ig project being carried eut. We rere driven to the E. C. Drury orest at Daîston. This latter is tnibute to a p olitician who was Balist enough to give forestry The Tobacco Outiook Looks Promising With British Demand, <Sinicoo Reformer) Announcement that Great Bni- tain would tako an *addiional $1,000,000 worth of Canadian !lue-cured tobacco this year, bringing total exports from the 1950 crop to British manufpctur- ers to a total value. o! $9,000,000, %ame at a very opportune time. With the annual price-setting deliherations just around the cor- ner, this refreshing news may be expected to strengthen the grow- ers' position at bhc conference. British manufacturers are very keen to secure as much Canadian fiue-cured tobacco as possible and only exchinge restrictions împosed by the British Govern- ment prevent themn from btaking a much more sizeable portion o! the Canadian crop. As the British economic picture grows brighter, -we may expecb to see an even more generous allotment o! dol- lars for purchase o! Canadian CoMdPAREAND YUL CHOOSE umu tuc% ,UYFeR'GUIDE y l l :Z t t o n s 01 o t ROY COURTICE BU. I AN D PR0'B, D , !lue-cured tobacco. Afflt from bhe British an- nouncemeit it is generally con- ceded that CaTladiân !lue-cured toboqco should command a sub- stantiaily higher price this year than that of 1949, when the ave- rage xpinimurn price was !ixed at 42 cents per pound. Prices of much maberial and equipment that goes into the production of fiue-cured lea! have increased materially in the past year, white the generally inflationary ton- doncy means that the tobacco grower must have a higher price for his producb to keep pace with price incroases in other lines. Ris product in the form of cigarettes has gente up .in price and thero is every reason why the groWer eo0ld share in the advance. Again, many tobacco growers have suffered by reason of an un- favourable growing season and the gross weight o! their leaf is down sharply. Average returns per acre will be down markedly and the total. production is likely to be under 100 million pounds, off, at ieast ben per cent fromn tho expected volume fromf a reécord- breaking acreage. Under- these conditions, many growors wili re- quire to receive a highser price per -Pound if they are to continue ,in production. The manufactur- era have a vital interesb in the growers' financiai stability, since the demand for cigarettes is climbing sharply and it will re- quire the maintenance of a high Production volume to keep buy- ers' stocks at normal levels. One lean season, eiue to unbimely frosts or unusually bad weather, might prove disastrous ail round. These facts wili require careful consideration by ail parties bo the price-fixing conferenco' later this month. This part of Southern Ontario bas ,such a vital stake in the tobacco industry that ail ci- tizens will bo watchin,« with keenest interest'the outcome 'QI, tho% deliberations. The econo- mic Weli-being ç࣠thousands o! citizens is bound U4p with. the To- bacco Marketing Board's decis - ions. Canacla's prairie lands are part o! a great Plains region that stretches from the Gui! o! Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. 24 Ulvîsio St. nwnique~l PA~W ~~poe 'Mhe Federal Government làsuei more than 1,800,000 baby bonus c4oques monthly. T JCKETS TO EvgRYWBERE Air. Rail or Steamahlp Consuit, *URY& LOVELL Bowmanvllle il -1zS.W. Pqn 7 "i War Surplus and Factory Ckéarance Store RUBBER FOOTWEAR - ALL TYPES AT LAST- YEAR'S PRICES. Boys, Parkas .---~~----- ___$7.95 Arnîy Tunics ------------------- $2.95 Arrny Batti? Dress Trousers, new_____- $5.95 Air Force Trousers, new --$6.95 WQrk Pants $2.95 DUNGAREES _------____ 2.95 WORK SHTIRTS $1.75 FALL PLAID SUIRTS $2.35 H. B. Blankets ------ pair $12.95 Arrny Blankets, new ---- $3.25, A wide selectior? of: Army and Air Force Raincoats, Satin Bombadier Jackets, Windbreakers, Parkas . and Leather Jackets. ALL AT BARG4IN PRICES s LTED here are twelve mighty important eng'ie neering and construction'f eatures that insure long lîf e, low maintenance and greater . saf ety in - a truck. OnIy truck-built GMC's give you ail twelve! No other make offers more than two! Don't be fooled by claims-look underneath the paint. If you want a real truck that will give you most miles per dollar, use this check list to, measure up truck values. Remember,,al these extra fea- tu res ... so important to the owner and thq driver .. . are f ound onl-y on a GMC. YOU con curry bigger Ioads with better economy on a ÇMC truck NICHL We. BO WMAN VILLE Inalliogi workers la Germany are shown bere.lpacing medica.I SUP- plies earmarked for Korea by the IatersigttonaI Refugee Organiza- tien (MKO), a U.N. Speoiallzed Ageney. Fur JRO welfare pfficers are ialready ln Korea wlth fthe U.N. Mission aiding civiian refugees. . i i 24 Division St. Bowmanville 9 nomm PAQX WM