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Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 1 Sep 1955, p. 12

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.I.m w v Youth for Christ HoId Conference At Port Carling Jacob DeShazer, one of th farnous Doolittie Raiders dur ing the Iast war and who ha since become a missionary wil be one-,f the special guestsa the annual Canadian Youth Fr, Christ Conference at Port Car ling this week. DeShazer wh is now an ordained ministe will tell the story of his captur by the Japanese, his fort, ITonths of imprisonment, an' his conversion to Christ whilý in solitary confinement. Fol. lowing his release by the Ja panese in 1945 he returned t( the United States where hE look religious training to re. turn ta Japan as a missionarý to the people who had torturec him. DeShazer is now on fur. lough in North America and will speak at the annual Y.F.C. conclave at the beautiful Can- adian Keswick Conference grounds at Port Carling this week. Other speakers and musi- cians will include Rev. Pee Deyneka of Chicago, Mr. Jack~ X¶amilton af Wheaton. Illinois, Dr. Louis Paul Lehman af Grand Rapids, Michigan and Rev. John Ashley Woodhouse of St. Petersburg. Florida. Dr. T. W. Engstrom, Executive Di- rector of Youth for Christ In- ternational and Rev. Joseph 'Weatherly, Director of the work in India, will also bc guests at the Canadian Confer- ence. Canadian leaders from es far west as Calgary. Alberta and as far east as Montreal wiil be on hand. Approximately 500 delegates are expected. Mr. J. 0. Blackwood. local director of Youth for Christ is ettending the Conference. 0f every 100 Canadian house- ho]ds 55 owned cars at Septem- - ber, 1954. -*________________________THE CANADIAN STATESMMQ. - OVYMAWVM1w L-E. - INAn ir- is 'r er a- le Reformatory Con struct ion Sifte Sp'roufs Cernent and Steel THURSDAY, SEPT. lot,- 1961 'eeve G~. F. Herrington As good as Sing Sing e Air photo of reforînatory site near Millbrook shows skeleton of buildings and roof of one already'up. and roofs of Millbrookç -Globe and Mail, Harold Robinson In valley are church spires Carpenter Frank Nortb Welcome pay cheques I _____ WaiI of ceii on grotund floor of tvo -storey block swings into place Buidig rogessng borough and 12 from Port 9 The whole structure will be A tterLivin dominated by a 20-foot al 3ettr Lving!! f VIIIhM~ NIbrightly floodlighted inside ani URO Water Sys-IA t M ilibE5 o P riso out and studded with guard eive usf<es1 I e owers. Outside the wall will i ries usd frere To e aj ?,f # be the administration building en. ad wo er con-5 hrough which prisoners wil nd com fart of daily T lnd e 7LIhiesseteram, e le rcan mechi A nsat eur.cn- 5 illt i n ti i . L \- l- m 1 1 / e nl- t te rm , e a b i lera ro om e h i A nkedhilto nibi vi- mo-i~ecriy unit ta handle cal equipment and five guard Pumps are avail- lage. about lialfwav between the tough 10 per cent ai pri- towers. sizes ta rniet in- Port Hope arnd Peterborouîghis sonres hescoats ad The fiveoutside guard tow- or DURO dealer and steel de'signed ta ripen inoa distuî-bances like the Guelph will be virtuall\- impregnable. formnation or Write the most modern penal institu- riot af 1952. Within the walls. four cel ýfolder, «Running tion in North Amierica. A proper reform s,,ystem de- blocks. a detention wing for Faim N«egàmityN The new reformnatary. spot- pends an adequate segregation psychopaths, hospital, reception ted in whiat was onc-e a seven- ai prisoner types so men af dif- wing, kitchen, laundry, general. 1acre wheat field astride the ferent degrees af rehabiljtatian shop for trades and chapel and boundar 'v between the village potential may receive treatment assembly hall will al be cor;- and Cavan Township, is, for and training which wili do nected. ~\ Millbrook, a nest ai modemin hemn most good. No detail for treatment or re- Sconstruction mi-acles. G. Hedlev Basher, deput-.' habilitation, from the best psy'-, Ccli bloc-ks are taking shape,. . mînîster. sa1 d the new institLi- chiatrists and miedical men ta flot a brick at a time. but a tion should increase the rehab- facilities for teaching a trade, wall at a time. the great slans ilitation rate at places like has been averlooked. ai concrete sailing smooîhlyv Guelph, Burwash and Bramp- For industry-hungrv Mill1- through the air. strung ta skmn- ton as greater segregation be- brook. the refarmatory is a ny cranes like a boot on a fish cames possible and hence pra- I bonanza. While a few die-hard lune. > grams more closely integratedý elements still oppose it, men The 140-ton canî'î'ete roof ta needs ai the men invalved.1 like Reeve G. F. HerringtorŽ.! sections. like slices of cheeze.; Millbrook was designed by dugst Ivan Grey and car-1 are boosied up their 16-foot. Toronto architects Barnett andl penter Frank North think ita steel supports by hydraujif- Reider. the same firm %vhichl great boon. jacks operated from a console lbas wau'king drawings under1 Russell Kennedy, who oper- 0f contrais. wav for the $1,,500,000, five-, ates a nearby farm, said Mill- 1 FTN R< Even ta veteran c'onstruction' stare\ Do n Jail extension. The brook merchanshv'a oo A OFTE E L rmen ai Geai-ge Hardy LAin.. Guelph riot pointed up need 1taugh years and welcomed the MITE» PF l general contrat-tors. the job- is for an institution ]ike Milibrook!'institution. CANA fi flot rouitine. Mixed wvith tb&ý but it Wvas planned long befo re.1 Reeve Herrington compares i dust and mud and nmachiner\ When officiais first appraach-te new unit t h eti h is the excitemnent afItrving~ ed Dr. J. W. Wright, then1 United States.1 B iO UG H sarething new~. a reex-e, thev had chosen Minl1-U'Tp to now there is nothing vallev village have taken thc rîght cambination af rural se- steel,"'lhe said. "Thev don't get and IIEATING praject ai their own. LcîitY and proximitx' ta labor aut aof- Sing Sing %-e- 'readilv; BOWMANVILLE The Ontario Departiment of ý and supp!Iv. Il sits in the midýt 'and this one will be jiust as sý,7 Stret out IReiorm Institutions has a spe- of a triangle ai the provinceýs cure. l'v'e been ta Sing Sing i Stet ot cial raie in its penal Sv.stemn fori- busiesi highwavs-Nos. 2. 115, several times, as a visitor, afi &MW.brook. -t will be a maxi- and 28-16 miles irom Peter- course.-Globe & Mail. lVorknien weld l40-ton, one-piecee roof into place History of Birch Island I~ Goes B'ack to Early 1 800"s One hundred and twenty-fivej Kirkconnel's HistorN', published............................ years ago this island was a part ini The Lindsay Post, February .... of the mainland on the east t shore of the much smaller Lake 8t, 1950, an âgreement was Druggist Ivan Grey Scugog. In 1819-20, the first1 reached between Purdy and the Town needs development settlex-s ai-rivedi in Victoria and Board of Works of the Province, Durham Counties of Canada of Canada in 1843. The govero - Mrs. T. Steele, Beadie, Sask., Mlon, North Bay. Belleville, Ot- West. They removed the forest ment built a dam at Lindsay M rs I. Pearson. Etobcaygeon, tawa, Bobcaygeon, Dunsford, cavering from the land and usec! in its present location giving/to and Mrs. R. J. Henderson, Bob- Oshawa, Torontu. Jackson's the field stones and boulders ta' Purdv the use of ail the water caygean. Point, Belemonte, Bowmanville build fences. Some very large flot required for navigation and'jSriigaefv os i-adHmtn stones were rolled and hauled to maintain the water in the Survîvi n r rerfvtil adh apn. euilfoa by oxen dlown ta the shore line river and lake at a continuous' lam-Blmne , h ayhatflfoa of the lake as it existed at that level. North Bay, Charles. Oshawa. tributes, and words of sympa- tim. Tis ox ofboudes, irc Ilan isno conecedHarry. Dunsford, Gus, DuIns- thv and comfort, testified to about 400 feet from the new ta the mainland by a causeway'nafor. nd theedagheer - the high ehst aeminwic Ms shore line forms a breakwater and rustic bridge aver thenaMr.E.Fwe)B mn-Jhso wahed and roosting place for the manv flooded land. The ba so vte~ille- Bessie (Mrs. C. Burtch) The funeral service was con- friendy guis butis a azardto laoonot thera fteiln Toronto- and Margaret (Mrs. ducted bv Rev. F. J. Reed. at motor boating as imany vof these form an ideal harbour and -whnm. Axfo)Hapton, wei nithMods' ueral ChpnerBo- stones are barely below the sur- angîer's paradise. wo r.Jhso ie. mnîl.Ag 8h nen face of the wate r. Also surviv.ing Mrs. Jahnston ment took place at Verulani Reerig o h Otaj A- On the Labor Day weekend are thirtN'-three grandichildren Cemetery, Bobcaygeon. with friuralCommtssiOntsareortg each year for the past 10 years, and thirt-two great grand- grandson's as palîbearers. tf181 ru the fCoisseio ertmethe Cottage Association an the chiidren, and one bi-other Otto,- ______________ of 181,thefirt setles cme sland go al] out for a monster Borbcaygeon. tthe southern Township Of celebration which is broadicasti The first half af deceased's T 1 C K E T S Durham - Northumberland as by loudispeaker and may be life xvas spent in and around TO EVERYWHERE I arî' as 1792-93. A grist mniii heard from Janetville ta Caes- Bobcgeantescn-af~ Air. Rail or Steamship 1was establishedi near Orono b'. area. h omntIso uktn jthe Purdys. In 1836. the Gov- ___________ The omnte s wani Bnretond Consult ernment granted Williami Purdv yoy omnil n JURY & LOVELL lots 20 and 21 in the 6th Con- Hampton. 3owmanvilleI a b o u t 4 0 0 a c re s af la n d , w ith th ee r l a e fr m L n o . H m - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1right ta bizild a dam an thel MRS. WVM. JOILNSTON Scugog Riv-er without sub.ject-, ing him Ia an action for damagesi Although in failing health to any land further up the river 1 for several years, the sudden which might be flooded as a! passing of M\rs. Wmo. Johnston, resof ai hs dam. on August l6th at. Hampton,! When the dam was but. it camne as a severe shock toalal. O H II A raised the water elintlTh deceased Mary Anne Scugog River, the East and West1 (Minnie> Lewis, was born a, Cross Creeks and Sugog Lake i Omemnee, Jan. 2st, 1873. D ERI as far up as Port Perry. The1 daughter af the late Mr. and R E M IN D E trees on the flooded land died Mrs. James Lewis, af Bobcav- l I and the water became stagnant.' geon. In 1895 she married Wm. The farms bordering the riverj Johnston who passedi away and lake were flooded. The March ioth, 1928. She was also farroors rose in a î-ebellion and! predeceased by one son, Rob. marched ta Purdy's m ili and ert, and one grandson, Robert. o sc k u destroyed his dam.' as well as one brother. Jack. According ta an extract from 'Vancouver: and three sisters, %JALE 1 a L « Z~ D A & ~F UIf 2me BEVEM-E ?1JMPS & Liu LON DO N À cKx PLUMBING "A 3-5615 Division Courteous, Friendly Service for 74 V.ears - j 1 1 1

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