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Pj 4 Nf, I f 1/ 1*' Oshawa Man, 21, Dies Affer Car Hits Tree BIG ChurçJ'. AT heading north to the. park'from the. Macdonald-Cartier Freeway. 'Preliminaries wiII ,start at ap- proximately 10 a.m. on Sunday and continue tiirougiiout the day. Ad- vance tickets are available now at MoSPORI a cheaper rate than at the. track, f rom Frank's Smoke Shop, Bryson's Smoke Shop and Mutton & Gould's. A field of 30 drivers wiII, take the green f Iag in tiie f irst race of the. 1969, Canadian.American Challenge' <TURN TO PAGE TWO) 04*4êurn VOLUME 115 16 Pages BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MA)Y 28, 1969 150 Per Copy NUMBER 2à Late Saturday afternoon, Brian Copithorne, 21, of 144 Cadillac Ave, S., Osh- awa, lost control of his car at Brooks' corner, east of Maple Grove. It hit a large tree on the north side of the road, demolishing the vehicle as shown above and fatally injuring the driver. He was taken ta Toronto General Hospital by Bow- manville Area Ambulance and died on Manday. Spokesmen at Mutton & Gould's Service Station who removed the vehicle said the damage ta the front end of the car was the most extensive they had seen. The left front wheel and tire had been driven back into the driver's seat. Deceased was an employee of Snowden Industrial Rubber and Plastics Ca. of Oshawa. "Such a Beautiful Town" Survey Interviewers Find Citizens Most Co-operativei York University Survey Re-, by the 15 interviewers who -___ search interviewers are find. have been working in Bow XMIE mEn Bowmanville "a delight-i manville this past week on- EX ýM.P. -Attends Special Meeting Present Arguments To Prevent Closing of Customs Office Here A special meeting of Town Council on Tuesday evening was held to plan active opposition to the prop osed closing of the Bowmanville Customs Office. Mayor Ivan Hobbs presided. Russeil C. Honey, M.P. for Northumberland- Durham, came directly f rom Ottawa for the meeting, and representatives of industries in the area also attended to explain reasons why such a closure would have an extremely detrimental effect on manufactur- ers, and on ail businesses in the district. Mayor Hobbs said, he was f irst alerted to the danger of the elimination of the Customs Office here when- town of f icials- learned -without- any previous Six Trophie's on One Weeékena - - fuiplace. Lo work Ti uI-a nenainlst fI warning that men had arrived there and were'atal ____________ _____ unniousY hlacommunity life. ia h fiet ls BranCpîhon cuso i uanmusyhed "Everyone is Sa courteous theofc preparing t ls it. and heipful; not oilly are the '1 immediately telephoned Ottawa to Mr. Honey, Counies arde to but everyone else in town seem eaer t hep usout*. ur M.P., and inf ormed him of the situation. Mr. Honey * with directions and with la- *f ortunately at once was able to contact the Minister of Receive $ 6,000 Year cating addresses, where ta Revenue, the Hon. Jean-Pierre Cote, and obtained a Thewarienof urhm dtio tothàt efec wa pr- ar lnchs ad s on Ontemporary hait to the proceedings" the Mayor stated. Tfiewaren f Duham daion o tat ffec wa pr- itop af that it is such a beauti- Northumberland Counties is to posed by the special advisory fui tawn,".*one Toronto-based *~.(TURN TO PAGE TWO) receive - salary of $6,000 per and co-ordinating committee~ interviewer enthused.* vear. it was decided at the and adopted by couci Approximately one-tihird of ei A antSm rSco l Unîtd Cuntes <aunîl eet Durîng the current session, their work is completed andDe de A ant Sm r Shol ing laet week. A recammen- the special committee aisa the interviewers expect ta recommended tihat committee finish their field wark in an- c INDUSTRIAL LAND SOLD nienbers' salaries be increas- other two weeks. ýAn unnamed buyer this ed to $20 per day and the ses- Some 400 addres.ses have Ap i ,, r î a ofo ýfrpe1_tl dstM In-pe-da.,îleg-':edub, - " - teýt t pg, evn'1-1 . rçýir-1or o rPasy lae.ntr. Stee,1ad1uie-auc.sfu el purchased 130 acres sion pay lbe increased to, $25 been se1e çd to represent the south of the Macdonald- wîll reini t 10 cenits pier study. In turn, Bowmanville where yau v411'rnoti ce 'a blank L f diu. ..I weekend in OttawaN h nee h taa~te Cartier Freeway, accordlnt mile. wili represent Canada in the space. This gentieman's pic- P ubILJ LIiIg n te stsCopeito andcatrdfstpcenth U to Information re e ce 1 v e il The new salary sehedule Is international study. Because turc should have appeared Open" event for 15 o2 erod n lownfv from Walter Frank Real fecieMa .o h the study is being conducted there but we goofed. te firstplc Estate. efetieMa 'o hs year- following precise scientific At the meeting of the Nor- coniests and then have public oie lc wrsa~ w rrs nSna The property Inciades the Thte alary. achedule for the samping procedures, inter- thumberland - Durham Board speaking finals in eac area, afternoon, Patsywa soo trte infntfth 10ar edro amUnited Counties counicil nien- viewers are neyer allowed to f * of Eduication field in obourg or onc final fer th~e two Tartan Twirlers inte sh ascio ofhé 'ig nt th are endeof warm bers is now the saine as Vic- substitute ont address for an- on~& r Thursday, A. H. Strike, counities., Lions ConventionpadeMisBkesshw aov vile Byeacb pluo meAout alsa receive the same mileage other. Conseq.uently, if an in- §4 r'wn, Northumberland Coun- board and it was generally of several hundredohrsehawnduig er th Lcet roery.Abutratio. Peterborough County terview is dcclined for any PEEPERS - A housewife frorn the Hampton aiea ty were appointed ta co-, 50 acres are In flowman- conilr aebe eev esn, the loss of tihat inter- , _______________PAGE____________ ing $15 for commtet sittecisvie presnsali ath hseôacmpanta opl f'epn oms late public speaking con-, TN O AETO twirling career. ville, the balance in Dar -_____________________acupleo_________Toms lington Towvnship. * nd esonfto $18.or Amttesitnstudy of psever a l hosas of had been spotted in the neighborhood. Another tests in the two counties. No plang for Immediate incrcase to $18 end $20 re- responses. housewife in town found six empty wallets behînd reo teDram Cior- y Lum er L d d T ucFlp, K is D i r development have been au- spectively ha$ been recoin- In order ta ensure as con- their garage where somebody had cleaned them aOUt Trustees and Ratepayers As- nouneed. mnei(UNT AETO _________ nened <URNTOPAG TO) and dropped thern on the ground. sociatian prcsented ta the t t i t j board stated that present ar- rangements for publicpek- M os ort Has Notïng on hes Cu s OMITTED- In an editorial'Iast week, we paid ing contests are in a confused M os or Ilas Nohig n T es C bstribute to those who endanger their fives and state. He said that this mat-I' 511 e x t e n d e e y e f f o r t t e l h s n v l e nw e e d i r e c t i o n f o h accidents of various kinds. We did omit one board was urgentiy needed. extremely important group, those who operate Mr. Strike was appointed -commercial towing vehicles. They charge for convenor of ail public speak- their services but go far beyond their duties ing contests in Durham Coun- niany times in risking life and limh te free an tanWeeyow asc- veq-or of tihese cantests in accident victim pinned in a car or truck. Northumberland County. Mr. t t t t Morrison said that his assa- SUMMER - Forecasts indicate that the temperature ciation 15 anxiaus ta know willjum to he 0 dereemar tody fr wht culd whet'her tht area should be willjum tathe80 egre mrk oda fo wht culdbroken into zones for these be the first really hot day of the summer season. It -____ __ shauldn't be long before we'11 be complaining of the In the Editor's Mail the excessive heat... a welcome change. tt t t NO PARASITE MECHNT -This Thursday at 7:30 p.. Dear Mr, James, retail mnerchiants from town are invited to a On reading the bits and meeting in the Recreation Office at the 'Town pieces in yaur paper 1 ob- Hall wben plans will he made concerning holda jected strangly to beingf À?. hours for the rest of the year, plus a discussion cle prst"ada - "freeloader." Sure. I watah- The vroom, vroom, high-powered sports cars wiIl be in action this weekend 4 urîngq the Can-Ain Challenge Cup race, but their quiet, miniature counter- Sparts have been racing here for weeks during the Pinywood Derby. These are tWe cars that start off as- pieces of wood, four nails and wheels. Wolf Cubs ~ th&ghout the area 'ring them home and then the work starts. Father (or A 1iok) joins forces Wvith the youngster to design and manufacture a car that ,15ô o~y looks like oneC of the big ones, but also runs on this hardwood course, in conipetition with others. Winners in design and speed receive trophies for their efforts. This photo shows some of the members of S5th Bowinanville Pack who yre racing last week at the Lions Centme District iinalz are tanight. ed the fireworks from the warmth of a car on Martin rRoad. However, before you start calling people names it would be a better policy jto question their motives. i Unfortunately, we had a Ichild who contracted Ger- Jman measles Moneay after- noon, and rather than be responsible for infecting a Ipregnant waman and have. an unborn child suf fer the consequences. we decided ta watch and enloy the fire- wrs from the isolation of our car. l'm. sure if you questioned others there you might have found many with ve.ry good reasons. AlIso I was surprised and somewhat puzzied when a clown disguised by sun- glasses approached the car and asked for a dontion for presumabiy the R ot ar y Club. 1 donated but l'm net toc, sure te, whom. A good way te inake r% few dollars and very pOor business on be44lf of the Rotary Club. 1 hope thiat ini the future we will be able ta attend tht display at the High School as we have in the past and support a good cause. Sincerely, J. Richardo. Eifs note:, Sorry we of.ý fended you. but our refer- ence' was ta those wh% en- joyed the show, meases or, no measies, without makin aw owtuUti Ilermnan Den Auit, .43, ôf PFort Coulonge, Que., was killed early F'rid morrnng when the, tractor-trailer, loaded wltk lumber, ý Ig Mn, vrtur ed on the ighway'36 exit raznp, approaching Hw y 2 iwaa W M4YLr Transport. Three heevytow trucks fromn ntO sT * .cejie, but it stili took thiemo w011 9ver'an~bu ýcouId be lifted up lar enough t0o.,zevo, th@, Aînbulançe -pçrsc»ueIand Provlntia1 1>ofce rýe oved Den Ault ta Memorial Hopta w a,< a~v1by Coroner Dr. B. D.,HubIbr4,The~- Chpl orbuaL., 4, 'j',] i * Sports car buffs, on their f irst expedition of the year to Mosport, wiII be happy that th. new CPR subway on Liberty St. N. was com- pleted in time for this weekend when thousands of them wiII b. * j * i I. e on parking problems. This is an open meeting for ail retailers and a large crowd would 'be helpful so binding decisions niay be made. TREES - The nany residents who love trees arc taking a beating at the marnent as power saws eut through the beautiful big ones that line bath sides of Church Street. Crews are cutting them down from Temperance Street ta Scugog ta make way for widening the street. It's a sad sight. * t t t1 t t ANTIQUES - Te mark the opening of the season* for the Museum in Bowmanville, a special program has been arranged for 7:30 Thursday evening. As a special feature several antique cars will be on view outslde the building on Silver Street. There will be a 1936 RelIs Royce owned by George Donnerai of Nestieton, a 1925 Superior Chevrolet owned by Wilbur Miller of Oshawa and a 1928 Ford owned by Lawrence Sherwin of Orono and possibly several others present. t t i .t .t i. FINqALS - Tonight at the Lions Centre, Wolf Cubs from the District will be racing their home-madle cars in the finals of Pinewood Derby. Some of the father-mother-son manufactured, jobs are beautiful and mtn very sxnoothly. If you have a minute, drop over and watch them go. It's a real thrill. FOOTBALL - Plans ar e now underway for, an Oldtimers Football gamne and reunion on Satur- day, August 2nd at Solina football fieidanqi hall *at 3:00 p.m. They hopet. have displays ot old photos and some historical information. If you bave any pictures or clippings, contact Biarry Davey at «23-5025&