The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

- LDITORIALS 'Twas Fun While It Lasted! Tempers were frayed and angry words tossed about in a dispute last week between our Arena authorities and the Oshawa Truckmen hockey teani. The result was that, unless the situation changes, the Truckmen will play no more games here and the Arena will lose a con- siderable sum of money which would have corne in during the playoff series. We don't propose to go into the un- fortunate details. We understand that the Arena management will issue a press statement which should appear in this issue. However, we do feel that the Truck- mnen executive was at fault in this case. Arena authorities have bent over back- wards to satisfy every wish and whim that a most demanding team manager could present. The Arena was opened a month early; free practise time was made avail- able; the Truckmen were given the great- est latitude in arranging schedule dates and so on. In our awn position, although under no obligation to publicize this teani we voluntarily, and at considerable effort for our staff, felt it our duty ta do what we could to boost Arena attendance for Truck- men gamnes. Tume and again we urged the team management to provide us with more information concerning team mem- bers and also made promotional sugges- tions which in the main, were ignored. Despite this apparent lack of interest we continued our efforts ta present the Truck- mnen as a local teani which warranted better support from this area. .We realize that the crowds have been smaller than required ta pay the expenses connected with a team of this calibre. It was obvious some tume ago that sanie action would have ta be taken ta boost attendance or the team would not be able ta survive here. We are informed that the Arena executive was willing ta co-operate in any scheme which would have been mutually beneficial. That's why we say there was no reasonable excuse for the uncalled for procedure which was adopted in simply informing the Arena chairman by phone on Wednesday night that all the playofi games would be played in other rinks than Bowmanville's. This, after ail arrange- maents had been made ta play the games here. The blame for this slap in the face must be laid squarely at the feet of the teani executive. Undoubtedly, their excuse will be that the teani is a business organiz- ation whose first duty is ta make enough -money ta pay its keep and it wasn't doing that here. No anc will argue that point. But, certainly this is one business organiz- ation which did not conduct its affairs in a responsible fashion. The sanie executive was more than happy ta sign a contract here eanly in the season and we unden- stand that the contract stipulated that al home games would be played in Bowman- ville Anena. What reliable business wauld break such a contract without considera- tion or consultation and expect ta get away with it? Because of the Ioss which will be suffered by the Arena due ta this unfortun- ate experience, we feel the Arena manage- ment has a definite obligation ta take whatever action may be required ta in- vestigate the possibilities of recovering damages froni the teani. We have no desire ta penalize the players Who provid- ed excellent hockey for local spectators ahl winter, but the Arena also is a business concern which must pay its way or be supported by tax funds. Many sacrifices have been made by the Anena because of the Truckmen coming here and there is no reason why aur Arena should now suffer because of their decision ta play elsewhere. It was not the Arena's fault that the gate neceipts wene not as large as the Tnuckmen expected. Old timers who prided theniselves on neyer owing a nickel must look at aur present day way of living with consider- able misgiving. Nowadays, it's a rare household which is free froni debt. In many homes, the end of every month is a period of family crisis as the mad scramble takes place ta find enough money for the instalîments on the television, the house, the washing machine, the automo- bile, etc. Certainly tumes have changed, but we wander if it's good. We recall a speech about thnift made sanie tume ago by Rev. Crossley Hunter at a service club in the area. He brought back the old days when thrift was a virtue pneached and encounaged froni the pulpit. Debt was presented as a cunse and null- stone anound the neck. But Mr; Hunter agreed that thrift, if practised today as it was at that tume, would be disastrous ta the economy of the nation. Today jobs and business genenally dcpend on a con- tinued circulation of money. If ail of us decided ovennight ta save aur money until we had enaugh ta buy the things we want, industry would be in, a panic and uneni- ployment would be nation wide. That undoubtedly is true, but we feel thene is a happy medium ta the situation. Those who use the 10%Z down method would be the f irst ta agnee that it is bath dangenaus and expensive. The temptation is ta look at the amount of the down pay- ment and decide we can afford the article, Her Majesty The Queen Becomes a Real Trouper Difficuit as it has become ta keep abreast of internationalO affairs, there is one bricht spot ta offset the gloomn of the mnany unhappy and unfortunate events which trouble the world at the present time. We have reference ta the inspiring trip Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are making at the present tume. The Vancouver Province expresses, we believe, the feelings of most of us who feel great pride for this graciaus couple's performance on thefr arduous journey: "Those of us who have felt misgivings at the rigorous itineraries confronting Qucen Elizabeth and Prince Philip where- ever they go on their trip through the Antipodes have been reassured by the pictures of the past few days. They show the Queen, radiant and smiling, driving through dense crowds of cheering people. Although hundreds were taken ta hospital after fainting in the tarrid heat, Her Majesty, after weeks of simlar public appearances, looked fresh and Estcxlished 1854 wl lb whîch aa ncrporated The Bowmczvle News, the Newcastle Indepndont 1 ~and The Orono News !0Olh Year ai Continuous Service to th. Town of Bowmanville and Durham County ANl INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER -leu 1.0, SUBSCPJPTON RATES $4.00 a Yomr, strictly in advcrce $5.00 a Year in the United State Publlshed by TEE JANIES PUBLISHING COMPANY ALutholad cm Second Clama Ma Pat OlLce D.partment. Ottawa Bowxnovife, Ontarrlo GEO. W. lAMES, EýDITO fongetting completely the net we are dnaw- ing anound aurselves as the number of monthly paynients grows. Menchants and aggnessive salesmen must accept a good deal of the blame for encouraging custoni- ens ta aven extend thein financial obliga- tions until every month is a mess of wonry which continues long after the thrill of having the new equipment has wonn off. Those who complain about a sales tax of 10 per cent think nothing of taking on financial obligations whene the interest rates on payments are as high as 24%1, sometimes almost daubling the pnice of the article bef are that long awaited last instalîment has been paid. Money lend- ing institutions make handsome profits by catering ta, these folks who have been caught in the instalîment net, letting theni consolidate their debts in one place, so it's not quite so confusing each month. Yes, it's quite a life we are living, but it has its hazards. Maybe we feel we must1 keep up with aur neighbours by having the latest in labor-saving and ententain- ment devices. But, it's a bit nerve-rac- ing, especially if sickness or unemploy- ment enters the pictune and we find thene« is not enough wonking capital ta keep uss in food for more than a week or two. Then,t of course, the situation is someone else's8 fault. Might we suggest that it is not theC high cost of living that iSsa tough on sot many of us. Rather, it is the high cost oft HIGH living. 1I happy. For those who look for more than pictorial evidence, there is the fact that the Queen is in an obviously happy mood and she laughs outright at some of the sallies made during the receptions and luncheons. Furthermore, she tucked into a four-course meal at Woolongong, New South Wales with such relish she com- pletely confounded rumors her health has been affected by the heat and the crowds. The Queen, in fact, has become a first- class. trouper. No road show we can imagine could be as exacting, or exhaust- ing as the royal itinerary haif way around the globe. Presenting oncself, day after day, ta the thousands of people; listening ta welcoming addresses and after dinner speeches, being always graciaus, smiling and charming, is an ordeal ta tax the toughest and most durable. The light that beats upon thrones is abright and unwavering as ever. It is a spotlight of a million eyes, and those upan whom it is focused can neyer have more than a few hours' respite, a few hours ta relax and act like normal hunian beings. We of the British Commonwealth are fortunate that our Queen, the young woman who binds us together in common allegiance, is proving her queenliness and durability in one of the most exhausting tours a monarch has ever undertaken. There is growing evidence that before her reign is over her name will shine even brighter than that of her great predecessor, The First Elizabeth". Happiness is inwand, not outward, and So it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.-Henry Van Dyke. At Peterbono, the Review tells of one local hotel keeper who received a letter froni the Chief of Police asking bum not ta park his car in front of his own hotel. Odd part of the situation is that said bus- inessman pnavided a $50,000 parking lot at the rear o! his prèmises and it is used by every Tom, Richard and Henry who would otherwise be parking on the street. How- ever, it was nice o! the Chief ta take tume ta write instead o! simply having ope of his m'en attach a card worth $2.00 to the. win"B.eld. ___________________________________________________ ~fts=n T Li *1.11 V 1L).I.MA!i, l lltAItI5 and SDistant Past . From The Statesmau Files f 25 YEARS AGO (1929) 49 YEARS AGO (1905) At the Royal Theatre - De- Slogan of The Canadian lares Del Rio in Peter B. Kyne's Statesman'in 1905 was: "Our "Trail of '98". Town and County, Fixst; The Pupils passing Toronto Con. World Afterwards." servatory music exams includ. Jerusalem Lodge No si;G. ed Helen Smale, Evelyn Oke, R.C., had a gala "At Homes in Jean Wight, Dorothy Edger, the new Iodge room, Bleakley honors in Elementary Theory. Block, claimed to be one of the Tepic under discussion by the most handsome rooms for its Editor was Education-still a size in the Dominion. Brethren >burning subject today, particu- in evening dress accompanied larly this week which is Edu- by their handsomely gowned cation Week. ladies were welcomed by Past Radio was still in its eal Worshipful Master D. B. Simp- days-n artcle t earyo son and Worshipful Master John daysan rtile oldhowfans S. Moorcraft. The editor com- would get the news when an- ments that we have too littie of nouncers got the knack of it. such good fellowship in "this An interesting article appear- age of commercialism and busi- ed on Prof. John Squair and his ness rush." book "The autobiography o!f*a Dispersal sale of the famous Teacher of French". Prof Squair Waverley Farm Hackney horses, died Feb. 1, 1928, before the 50 ln ail, property of Mr. Robt. book was quite completed. Belth, was announced for March Loyal Orange Lodge Nu. 29, 2384 had an enjoyable dance at Amongtenwbosath the Bowman House, music for Public g thr e e ok The thes round and square dancing by e Lîr Rbrca weeTe ros- Elgie Harnden's Orchestra,. Bectlor, Rebca, We MGreor T. H. Knight had a letter -)f Ontario Sugar Co. at Berlin, thanks in ta his customers over (Kitchener), were advertising a quarter century as he turned 50c per ton for sugar beet pulp. the key in the lock of his Model A firm advertising butter col- Grocery. or says. "No mud in ours!" Ladies' lingerie as advertised Apparently Bowmanville had by Walker Stores Ltd, could be a Historical Society in 1905. It called "sensible". This was be- waq represented at the Ontario fore the age o! glamour. Hislorical Society, Toronto, by Town Council increased fire- Miss Holland and Miss Margar- men's salaries 19 in ail, fromn et Allen. $35 ta $50 a year. When may we expect that The eathwasnote of rs.electric railway running through T.A.he eth was nted gof 9r2.Bowmanville. is a query in the stP-oroC. A. Johnston. geo 2 local column. ste-mohero! . A Jonstn. Town Council have purchas- *Mrs. A. Colville, contralto So- ed a new teamn of horses for loist, assisted the Cobourg Kilt- $385. ie Band, Cobourg, at their con- Bowmanville market price o! cert. fail wheat bus. $1.05, oats, 37c, Sauina-Sauina Public Libra- table butter 20c, hay, ton $7.50. ry held a successful concert. McMurtry's had print at 10e Those taking part included yd. Misses Helen and Muriel Baker, The death is recorded of Mrs. Wm. and Jesse Van Nest, Miss Archie Tait, after a long illness. Evelyn Milîson, and an illustra- Revival services were beîng ted lecture on India by Rev. J. held at the Methodist Church1 H. Stainton, Courtice. with Rev. D. D. Crossley, pasi-, Orono - Rev. Win. Sterling tor, and J. M. Whyte, singingj supplied for Rev. T. Wallace at evangelist.1 Newtonville United Church. Whitby's water system was Subtct - "The Woman With frozen up for two weeks. a Painted Face." Solina-Mr. John Pascoe had Newcastle-Grass was show- a successful wood bee. ing green on the skating rink. Hampton - Darlington Coun- Skating and sleighing lasted cil voted aid of $2.50 a month barely a month. ta a man said ta be destitute. Lander Hardware h'm Convinood... SANITONE 01W CLEANING GETSOUT or.n ...u ~ioIT Cw Jbeauty, ta kitchiens, hathroomns, indd'toor s OutdOor furniture. Your chcel of sunny pastels, ricli deep coloi that stay color fui. CILUX i8 easy to use, easy.to dlean, quick-drying, long-lasting. Corne iii and see ta learn that there really was a cold-storagc man namcd Birds-f eye and an engineer named Die- sel has askcd if there was a man named Dawson a! Dawson City. There was. His name was George Mercer Dawson, barn in 1849 in Pîctou, N.S., wherc his father, Sir John Dawson, a gea- lagist, was also born. A!fter graduating from McGill University, George Dawson- was geologist with the North Amer- ican Boundary Commission fram 1873 ta 1875, after whicn he did pioneering survey work in the North West Territories and in British Columbia. He in- v stigated the resources of the Bering area and was instrumen- tal in leading fortune-hupters to the Klondike. It was apprapri- ate that the trading centre o! the mining regian should be named after him. It has been a long time since I have seen any a! H. C. Mason's writing. Some years aga, when he was farm editor for The Lon- don Advertiser, hie had a fine following with a little rural fea- turc hie called "Over the Line Fence"; but in recent years I suspect he has been busy with bis own farm in Western On- tario, in the truc Louis Brom- field fashion. He has taken time, however, ta gather together some of his aid poems-most of them are old, at least ta him- and Thomas Nelson.& Sons have just published them under the title "Three Things Only". The reader is quite curiaus ta learn what the thrce things are, but Mr. Mason keeps him guessing until this stanza ap- pears deep into the book: "'hree things only I have known Worth my spirit's arming- Worth the struggle, these alonte, War and Love and Farming.» Many of the poems are about wvar, the First War, mostly. And soine are about the people he loved after he came home !rorn the war, wounded, ta study at the' Ontario Agriculture College, and later ta teach there. In spite df the scientists, specialist and businessman which mast farm- ers have become these days, Hal Mao is enough o! a dreamner oe write like Burns, though he s net se socialistic. He is earthy ike Sandburg and rural enough to recaîl James Gay and James 'M'IIntyre, last century native îoets. But mast o! ah hle is Can- adian. Local Arent: HOOPÉIStt'-LADIES' WEAR PHONE: OSHAWA ZENTTH 13000 Y'alI Corne! Y'all Corne! to the DlA NC E end Fluor Show Newcastle Community Hall FRIDAY, MCARCH l19th The Best ini Old Time Dancing and Entertainment Wilh The Canadian Country Boy Neil Taft and Ris Canadiau Jamboree Gang DANCING 9:15 TO ON£ Admission - - - Aduils 60c each Children under 12 30c* S( Ic ti ti a] C bi ei iv. tc is li tc lm p a( What Others Say THE OLD FASHIONED GRANNIE What bas happened ta the old fashioned 'grannie? Years ago, when a woman becamne a grand- mother she assumed somcthing more than a new dignity, she joincd a select and respected minority more noted for its wisdomn than its activity. The mere. mention o! the word ",gradmother" created an in- stantaneous mental picture o! an aid lady dressed in a black, or perbaps lavender, ankle- length gown of no particular styie, quiet, retired and, let it be admitted, somewhat defeat- cd by life's battces. There wcre many things that would neyer be expccted o! the old fashion- cd grandmother. Being a gran- nie was like being a member of a dignified profession. For example, there was the matter a! dress. This must at once proclaim grannie's genera- tion, there must be no artifice, no attempt ta steal a !ew years by looking "a young matron." Grannie knew ber place in the buman !amtly, she was content in it and did not try ta jump back a generation. Even wben the hideous but- ton boots and bonnets had fin- ally passed away, Grannie's bat and grannle' s shace, like ber gowns, were made for ber gen- eration. There were even stores that traded excluslvely in these sombre and digni!ied articlei, wvhile others specialized in keep- ing grannie agcd-looking and remate. The bat, usually black, was trlmmcd wlth a !cw beads or ribbon. It looked, If such a tblng wvere possible, like an eccentric thlng bctwcen a toque and v bonnet, and it cammanded res- pect. Grannie's shoce were com- fortable, !ashionless and "bun- ion-proof." ýGrannies are, happlly, stili with us, but they are no longer "typed" in their profession, tbey have naturally~ merged into thc population. TodaY's grannies do not sit in the ingle-nook and <nit, or placidly read and doze Life today i s recognized as s constant challenge witb its best rewards and !ulfiln.ent coming ao those wbo accept it In the outside world. It us. in !act, a Aorld that might bave !rigbt- encd the aId !ashioned granule to dcath. I E t An estimateu 3,300,000 Cana- dians receivc montbly cheques !rom the fede-ral government- RCMP 5,000; members o! armed farces 104,000; veterans and de- pendents 200,000; civil servants and employees o! Crown Cor- porations 330,000; aged and blind pens4oners 7,65,000; fam- ily allowanc. 2,000.00o. Sir John A. Macdonald was Sales and excise taxes pald in At Nov. 1, 1953, average wage among thase who founded thc 1953 by the Canadian automo- in Canadian manufacturing in- dominion. This 35th anniver- bile industry totalled $162,765,- dustries was $1.37 an hour; sary should be observed not oniy 130. The industry's payroUl for average wage in 1945 was 67 in Saint John but right acrass the year was $146,121,601. cents an hour. the great breadth o! this won- derful land of many races brought together in the homo- geneaus unity. It will be a Saint John affair mainly, a! course, because there was a Saint Jahr. Stampede or a Canadian Na- tional Exhibition, or a Uniteci- i Church a! Canada, or any other groups and events that have a "" , national fallawing. %~ It is ta Saint John's credit that the people are remembering the beginning o! it ail, 350 years ago-before the Le Blancs and _ i tb8g the Tilleys-when !urs, flot ail * or uranium, was the wealth of the North, when !ish, nat pulp- wood, was the praduct o! the& New Brunswick province. Gaad luck ta Saint John ini cammem- arating the beginning of ail Can- < - . ,,lA L Personalityof the Week George VanBridger, who for and Sanitation, the American the past 7% years bas been as- Water Works Association, the sistant manager o! the Bow- Eastern Ontario Meterman's manville Public Utilities Com- Association apd the Central On- mission, was promoted ta Man- ta.rio Mete-man's Association. ager o! the local hydro and wa- ter system an the retirement of George E. Chase in September. - . Mr. VanBridger has 25 ycarp . experience in the electrical ~ field, having been cmploycd for 12 years with the Hydra- Electric Power Commission o! Ontario and for five years as manager o! the bydro-clcctric system and the waterworks de- - partment at Iroquois, Ont. He was born in Winchester ,. and attended public and hign a school there. In 1929 lie joined the Winchester-Lancaster Rural Operating Area a! the H.E.P.C., and while warking there toak a carrespondence course in elcc- tric and meter engineering from the Fort Wayne Engineerig Scbool. In 1941 he became Secretary- Manager o! the Iroquois Hydro- Electric System and Waterworks Department, and remained in this capacity until caming ta Bowmanville in 1946 as Assist- ant Manager o! the Bowman- ville P.U.C. under Mr. Chase. George Van Bridger Active In Electric Groups The new Manager o! the Bow- Mr. Vanbridger bas long manville P.U.C. is married ta been active in varlous electri- the former Elizabeth MacDon- cal associations. He is a Past ald o! Ormond, Ont., and bas Vice-President and Past Secre- three children: Anne, Mrs. Dale tary o! the Central Ontario M<ý- Huf!man o! Bowmanviile; Tom, ter Association, a member o! eerving in the Royal Canadian the Ontario Municipal Electric Corps af SignaIs at Kingston; Association, the Association o! and Nancy, wbo is attending Municipal Electrîcal Utilitice Bowmanville High Scbool. and the Eastern Ontario Munici- Mr. VanBridger attends St. Pal Electrical Association. He John's Anglican Churcb and also bolds membership In the was formerly a member o! the Canadian Institute ! Sewage Bowmanville Lions Club. THE TOP SHRELF (By Benjamin Beveridge) club, where aiea the !irst seeds of a colonial thieatre were sawn by the writer Marc Lescarbot. Down tbrough the years Champlain bas remained above the quarrels between the French and English in Canada, and mon- uments have been raised top hini not anly iii> the Loyalist City and in Montreai (wbere he is bur- led) and Orillia, Ont., but ini many places througbout the land which was once a French Colony. That Saint John, a city built on the loyalties o! the peopýe wbo were taa British ta sign the American Declaration a! Indc'- pendence, who vebcmently op- pased anything wbich threaten- cd ta deprive them a! their Brit- ish heritage, that such a city sbauld on Jane 24, 1954, and for same days therea!tcr, bonor the name o! the man whase country in other years !ougbt vainly ta destroy ail things Brit- isb, le something o! an -achieve. ment in the successful merger o! two sentiments and two dis- tinct ways o! life. New Bruns- wick is largely French today, but there wil be no bitternes an the occasion o! celebration. Champlain, being himeel! above the differences between the twa European enemies V<i>5 a founder o! Canada, just as Lord Selkirk cleared the way for colonization ithe West and t It was in 1604 tbat Samuel de Champlain, the Father o! New France, explorcd and namcd thc St. John River in wbat le naw the province o! New Brunswick. And at the confluence o! that watcrway ajid the Kennebecasis River <up wbich Capt. Kidd was later ta sal) in 1783-almost a quarter century a!ter the Frenchi in Canada werc !inally defeat- cd at Quebec-the city a! Saint John was foundcd by the Unit- cd Empire Loyalias. It was the first city ta be incorparated in CEanada. A fascinating pageant le being planned for that old colony this summer ta commeniorate the 350th anniversary o! the arrivai o! Champlain and de Monts at the Bay o! Fundy river. Oniy last year Saint John marked the l7Oth year o! its !oundirig in conjunction witb the Coronation celebration, but since it le a town given ta tradition and sen- timent it could not be expected ýthat the boosters of the cfty Would let the date pass this year wlthout due recognlition. Cbamplain's vistot the site o! Saint John was significant because It waz just across the Fundy (at Annapolie Rayai) that tbe !irst calony in what was ta become New France was founded. It was ini this Nova Scotian fort that Champlain sol- diers created the Order et Good Tume, America'a tirât socia F -1 'r 1 ', T ý r - , --ý- PA= TWO Our 10%_DownEconomy 1 -1 1 1 SEE WHAT SANITONE DOES FOR YOUR SUITS: *Colors Sparklo *Spots Vanish *Beffer Press Lasis Longer go Finer Finisbing Rostores "Like-New" Look i p-w j' -i THE CANADIAN STATXRMA19- Innimamxy..lrip OWPPA15VP% qAlYVILLLr, ONTARTO à Fi 1 1 R.CM à V %ff Aprir il 416 1 AIRÀR 1 1 7 KING ST. E. PHONE 774 BOWMANVILLE le