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r 1~ I I ~i V ! a ~Bowmnanville's Telephone Swvitchboard As it Was Way Back in 1898 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Augu st 11, 1976 13 Presentation of Certificat e M REALOR aàt Marlerrison 623-4115 llie Davey 786-2256 1 (Newtonville) %NE WTON VILLE' R~anch bungalow on large lot, attached gara g e, finished basement which could be apartment, $54,900.- terms. HETHERINGTON DRIVE ,is two storey home is iurban living at ifs best. A "aTrge sunny kitchen leads out f0 a deck and patio. With 4 bedrooms and finished rec. room. This home is a buy at $41 ,000. Terms. NEWTONVILLE AREA 2 acre wooded resîdenfial lot, luxury 4 bedroom home, 2 car attached garage, family room Mith fireplace - $69,900. 32-1 EA TATE I MI TED 181 CHURCH STREET BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO LlC MT 623-4428 $61,500.00 wilI buy a large 3 bedroom rancher on a 128' lot. Fireplace in liing room, separate dining room, finished rec. room. AIl the things you want in a home with country look. Jusf east of Bowman- ville. Horse Farm - 41 acres, 2 barns. Large barn has 9 box stalîs and 3 standing. 3 bedroom home with large fack room attached, Newtonvilîe. $84,500.00. Large morfgage at 9 per cent. Just East of Bowmanviîle - Extra large master bedroom FO SLEin-this, 3« bedroom 'bungalow, separate dining room, sliding glass doors, double atfached garage. OnIy $55,900.00 32-1 623 7694 137 King St. E., Bowmanville BOWMANVILLE- Excellent 623-7694 126».7661 sfarter or retirement home. 2 REALTOR, bedroom brick bungalow, very central location, new kitchen $55,900. 41/2 year old, 3 and private drive. WiII accept bedroom bungalow with f in- besf offer. Cali 623-4097. ished-panelled rec room 28' x 32-ix 13' with brick fireplace. Addi- flonal bedroom in basement. W NT D T BU Clo se ta schools, churches and A T D O BU 401 exit. Numerous extras. 50 - 125 acre farm. agood houge Reduced. 3, bedroom brick ranch style home with double car, garage and driveway t9nced yard and campleterI f ý nished rec room 32' x 12'. Try your offer. 5 Bedroom. Home. RentaI incarne of $45000 manfhly in Village of Newcastle. Asking anly $39,900. Try an offer. 32-1 'R ESU LT-S-COÔU-NT! Mulipîe Listing Service' 'Oshawa & District .,',Real Estate Board and level stone-freejland main requirements. Write - Advertiser' 631, C-o Canadian Statesman, Box 190, Bowma nvil1le, Ontario LIIC 3K9. URGENTLY REQUIRED! We have cash buyers for homes in the Bawmanville area. Perhaps your home would bring top dollar? We'Il be pleased ta appraise it for you,- and help yau locate the "home of your dreams". For friendly efficient sale of your home, caîl P. & R. Realty Company, Realtor, Bennetf Rd. and No. 2 Hwy., Bowman- vil le 576-6120. 17-tf Realtor Bus. 623-6121 Attention Farmers 34acresof level land, ideal for cash crops or for the horse lover, 2 road fronfages, barn 60' x 36', plus a 5 bedroomn famlly home. Asking $85,000. with excellent terms. Starter Home 4 bedroom bungalow, large lot 66' x 420', full basemenf, in the village of Newtonville. Lisfed at $37,500.00. Immediate pos- session. Strike Avenue Bowmanville, $51,900.00 for this 3 bedroomn brick bungalow with the 4th bedroomn in fhe basement, finished rec-room, hobby room, electric heat, carport and paveld drive. Vendor transferred, must be sold. Prospect Street Bowmanviîle, beautifully dec- orafed 3 bedroomn brick and aluminumn side-split, built-in stove and oven, tinished rec-room with wet bar, lot 68' x 140' ideal for thal swimming pool. Try your offer! I Regent Drive Oshawa, Harmony Road area, close f0 Eastdale Collegiate, immaculate 3 bedroom brick bungalow, finished rec-room, new roof, new humidifier on furnace, professionally land- scaped fenced lot. Listed at $55,900.00. Must be seen!! 32-1 GoodeorSupplying Steel Coble Belting for Syýncrude- The first roll of a substantial order of steel-cable canveyar belting for the Syncrude i- ect in Alberta came off the IUp at Bowmanville late in i~uy, and Sylver Kushniruk was there ta see it. Kushniruk,' a canveyor specialist wvith Syncrude, generally gets to wbhere the action is; he's been ta Japan and Germany ta inspeet conveyor belt production faciities as well. The Syncrude operation will need abaut 20 'Miles of steel-cable conveyor belting ta get started, accarding ta Kushniruk, and Goodyear is supplying a substantial amount. As far as Kusbniruk is concerned, Goodyear Canada bas several Advantages over its overseas campetitars. "Say we needed 1,000 feet of steel-cable beltingý, we could g et it from this plant in about tbree weeks. It would take twice that long ta get it fromn overseas suppliers. " 1 The 72-inch-wide belting will be shipped ta Syncrude in 1,060-foot raIls that weigb 39 tons each. "Rails shipped from an overseas supplier," Kushniruk explained, "would have ta be 300 feet shorter than this because of sbipping restrictions. This would mean more splicing when the beting is being instailed. " Kushniruk bas inspected several steel-cable' conveyor belt production facilities and finds the one at Bowmanvihle among the best. "One plant (in Europe) surprised me witb very poor housekeeping and warking conditions," he com- mented. Bob McKnight, faremnan of the canveyar belt department, points out that Bowmanville bas, the anly 120-incb steel cable conveyor belt press in North America and it is being used on the Syncrude order. "We also have the people wha are determined that tbe pro- ducts fromf the press- will be the best," be commented. McKnigbt noted that a 92-inch cahender had been installed ta produce laminated stock far belting. "This means we cari make wide 'belts witbout splicing lengtbwise," McKnight explained, "1wbicb, impraves aur 'production metbods and assures us of top quality. " - Wingfoot Clan Credit Saf ety Boot For Saving, Foot At Goodyear Dale Veinot, wha bas work- ed 11 years at the Bowman- ville plant witbout a lost-time accident, kept bis streak going recently because he was wearing safety shaes. Veinot, who works on the 120-inch steel-cable' conyeyor belt press, had a »0-pound '-1-d ", a lengtb of steelf used in the press during curing, faîl on bis rigbt foot. t felt like a nudge, sa I , didn't pay much attention ta it SaI the time other than pull my Congratulations ta Mr. and tvrs. Joe McCullougb who were 65 years married on Y.--'day, August 9th. A quiet ,.ration Was held for the fà"rfly at the home of Kay and Gordon Smith, Betbany. M~r. and Mrs. Bernard Neals, Kelly and Karen, spent the Civié Holiday weekend in Sarnia attending a Midget and Juvenile Bail Tournament.> 'r. and Mrs. Dave Preston q ~r. and Mrs. Ken Preston vI'sted last weekend witb relatives in Kingston. A warm welcome is extend- ed ta Mr. and Mrs. Perry and family wbo have moved inta the former Chlderbose home on the 5th line. Mr. and Mrs. Chlderhose bave maved to Barrie. ,Tabacco harvesting is un- derway at the tobacco farms of Jim Fajt and, Frank Szczygieh., 1Mr,. and Mrs. Laverne FËinney and family bolidayed this past week at a cottage on Shadaw Lake in the Norland area. Mr. and Mrs. .im Curtis foot back," Veinot said, "but when I bad a look later, 1 saw the leather had been peeled right off the steel toe." Veinot bas been wearing safety sboes for four years and is ghad he started the practice. "Some people say safety sbaes don't fit rîgbt and use other excuses, but 1 find they're no different from any other shoes. 'm sure happy I had mine on when the accident occurred." According ta safety coordi- NhTy pO were also at tbeir cottage near Coboconk. Mr. and Mrs. Barrie Sytnyk, Christina and cousin, camped the past weekend in Algonquin Park. Mrs. Bertie Neals, Bethany, Mrs. Mary Parks and Mrs. Muriel Watkins of bondon were Friday evening visitors with Bernard and Chris Neals. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stanley, Tim and Robbie have been camping in Springwater Park, Nestleton. On Monday they left ta visit relatives in Quebec. Recent cahiers on Dorothy and Keith Dewar were Mrs. J.J. Frape and Mrs. Flowers and family of Kingston. Dorotby and Keith Dewar and Dorothy's brother, H.L. Frape of Toronto bave return- ed home following a week spent with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Crumley, in Boston, Mass. Vera and Arnold Johns of Rexdale spent Saturday night with the Cliff Fallis' follawing the funeral of their uncle, the nator Gord Scbissler, had Veinot not been wearing safety shoes bis taes would have been crushed. "A,300- pound weigbt droppîng two feet constitutes a lot of force," Scissler said. Veinot is 110w eligible far membership in the "eTen-on- Two Club", an organization spansared by the' Ontario Accident Prevention Associa- tion. Ta join, a persan must have bad toes ar feet saved from injury by safety shoes. - Wingfoot Clan OL ' late Archie Wilson of Lifford. Visitorson Sunday were Mrs. Blanche Armstrong of Toronto and Mr. and, Mrs. Wilfred Franks of Cobourg. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hyland of Brackville spent the week- end in Pontypool with their parents. A stag was held on Saturday night for Pat Gallagher. Pal and Miss Betty Battrell of Orono, R.R.2, are ta be married Ibis Saturday in Peterborough. Wedding belîs will also be ringing on Saturday, Aug. 2lst for a former Pontypool young lady - Miss Debbie .McKee - whase marriage ta, Ken Rich- ards is ta take place, in St. Luke's Cburch, Downeyville. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bradley were away recently on ashort motor trip. Steve Angiers calied on Gerald Fisks for a short visit this past week during a brief stap-aver on a flight from Vancouver. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Curtis As we mark the lOth Sou.en(in the picturesque bat) . a ecage t a n onyour phone ta reac 1h the wol'and Miss Annie Trenouth frteeag.I a f operator and asked ber ta anniversary of the ol' (seated at the historic number Thomas Bingham's premises connect you. She knew every- first long distance telephone one s 1tandard magneto switch- on King1 Street- and it 50 body. Dial service was intro- eall between Brantford and board), and manager Wes happens that Thomas Bing- duced' in '1936 and Direct Paris, Ontario, on August 10 Shaw. The first telephones ham, was the telephone office Distance Dialing in 1966. 1876, aur minds turn back with were installed in Bowmanville manager -- the first. By 1883 Bowmanville bas corne a long curiasity ta aur own' local in 1880. They were rented from Bowmanville had' its first wysneisfrttlpoei telephone history. The above the Bell Telephone Company directory listing which con- in -- tere repna som shot, taken in the Bowman- for use on private uines. A year tained 46 names but no0 7,000 telephanes here. ville telephone office in 1898, later there were enough tele- numbers. Numbers weren't Courtesy Bell Canada Histor- shows aperators Miss Alice phones for Bell ta put in the necessary. You turned a crank ia olcin Celebrate lOOth ýAnniversary of Worldà's First Long Distance Cal "The coming long-distance télephone will be a playtbing, notbing more. Put a markan the assertion. " This, from an 1885 Syracuse newspaper, ranks as a worhd contender for wrang predic- tions along with Landon for President and Hermann Goering's arrogant assertian that British bombs would neyer faîl on Germany. Oný the eve of the lOOth. anniversary, August 10, of the world's first long distance caîl over the eight-mile distance spent a few days this pas' week touring in the Kaladai and Mazinaw Lake district. Dean Joncas, Alan Fallis Bryan McKay, Ron VanWier ingen and cousin,, Jon, frorn Holland spent the weekenc with Elaine and John Van- Wieringen in Kincardine. A large crowd attended thE sale at Everett Mitchell's ai Bahhyduff on Monday, Aug. 2nd. Ballyduff résidents migbt be interested in knowing that Mrs. Ada Clark of Bethany is a patient in hospital in Niagara Falls. Mrs. Clark is 94 years ald and bas been living ahane and In remarkably. good health until recently. We would like ta remind readers of, the Decoration Service to be held at Ponty- pool Cemetery this Sunday, Aug. lSth. In softbahl this past week, Richardson Farms defeated Bailiebaro on Wednesday nîght by a score of 4-2 to take a one game lead in their best of 5 semi-finals. The home team needed a hast inning home-run by Wayne Falhis to pull out the victory. In the Scugog league, Cathmar defeated Utica 14-9 on Sunday. Lt was quite a hitting affairas Dave Rafuse and Brent Fallis eacb tahhied hame-runs for the lacals. This Sunday a game against Yel- verton is scheduled in Yelver- ton at 2 p.m. In an exhibition game hast week, Pontypool Midgets de- feated Millbraok men by a 6-3 caunt. A possible MVillbrook alibi could be that, because- their second baseman was absent, they bad ta settle for one of aur local players - D.J. - to try and fMI the position. Kelly Neals recently added a few more traphies ta bis collection. Pitching for Holi- day Ford of Peterborough in a 14-team Midget Tournament in Sarnia, he pitched 6 games ta take bis team to the finals and win the championship. Kelly was credited with 63 strikeouts for the weekend total and was awarded the MVP for the tournament. Last Wednesday night he pitched 3 innings for the Peterborough Men's League Ail Stars ta help defeat an N.H.L. team consist- ing mainly of Toronto Maple Leaf stars - the score was 2-1. Kelly again received the MVP award with 7 strikeouts; Gary Monahan was presented witl) the award for the N.H.L.'ers. Pontypool Ladies were elim- inated when defeated by Nestieton. The local Junior Girls have won a game in their semi-finals with Cavan. They meet again on Tuesday night. Pontypool PeeWees have tak- en the first game in their semi-finals with Janetville and will play in Pontypool an Thursday night. The local Midgets are still waiting for their play-offs ta commence. between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, it seems particularly imyopic. In 1975, Canadians ahane made, more than 800 mIllion LD calîs ta communi- 1ties in every country of the -world. Many have contributed ta- iward making telephone ser- ivice what it is today and wil 1be tamorrow. But the main progress began with the iachievements of Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish- born genlus, philosopher and public servant wha cëonceived the basic theary of telephony ;t during' a summer visit ta rBrantford in 1874 and trans- mitted the first intelligible speech in a Bastan actie on -March 10, 1876. Then in the summer of 1876, Ihe conducted a test which -became the world's first long distance caîl, one way, from the Dominion Telegraph tCompany Office in Brantford ta Robert White's Boot and Shoe Store and Telegraph Office in Paris, Ontario. The general manager of the Dominion Telegraph Campa- ny in Toronto, with a hack of vision comparable to the Syracuse writer, regarded Bel's proposed experiment as the wark of a crank and would have refused use of bis lines had nat his young assistant rescued Bel's application from the wastepaper basket and persuaded the manager ta permýit their use on the evening af August loth. Holding the crude iran box receiver ta bis ear in Paris, Alexander Bell first heard "explosive sounds like the discharge of distant artillery" . .. "mixed witb a continuous crackling noise of an indescri- bable character." He then changed the electromagnets from law ta higb resistence and the voices came througb "1clearly and strongly", be said, and the crackling noises "lwere nat nearly 50 annaying, though they still persisted." At the Brantfard end, Bell's father and others recited paetry, bits from Shake- speare, sang sangs and just talked ta thoseý gatbered in Paris where news of the test spread quickly thraugb the tawn. Citizens crawded into'the boot store ta watcb the experiment. Some asked if they could put that new- fangled "receiver" ta their ears ta listen ta buman voices actualhy coming over a wire and pretty soon everybody wanted ta listen. Within twa years of the test a telephane exehange apened in Hamilton by the Hamilton District Telegraph Company, the first in the British Empire, nintb in the world. in 1881 Bell Telephone President C. F. Sise was 50 embarassed' by the $8,600 installation cost of the Hamil- ton-Toronto telephoneline, that he used personal funds ta complete it. In 1975 Bell Canada and its subsidiýries spent more than $1 billion an capital imprave- ment, and similar annual spending is in sight ta keep pace with service demands. In the 1920s telephone opera- tors in Toronto receiving requests for long distance calîs sent t hem by messengers, on roller skates ta another position for completion. In 1920 it took five operators 14 minutes ta conneet a long distance caîl. Today, .with Direct Distance Dialing, it takes less than 17 seconds. But despite Direct Distance Dialing and other innovations, aperatars still play a vital role in providing telephone ser- vice. Bell Canada bas some 6,700 aperators, bath men and women, and stories abound of the thausands of emergencies tbey handle in the normal course of their duties. Stories like that af a Toronta a beart attack thanks ta the operator who gave first aid instructions ta a frantie mather whose child had stop- ped breathing after swallow- ing a quarter. Thanks ta the aperator breathing was re- stared whihe the chihd was rusbed to hospital. A second operatar tells of a call from a woman gasping for breath - - - tben silence. The operatar kept the line open ta trace the call, alerted police, andl ail the time heard nothing but a barking dag at tbe otber end. When the police arrived, the woman was unconsciaus but a month later ber daugh- ter called ta say ber mother was ahive and recovering, from Region's 'Specia Delays Developr Bowmanville We Any development of land in the area west of Bowmanville, designated as a special ýstudy area under the region's Of- ficial Plan, was postponed following a decision of the Newcastle Council hast week. The councîl accepted the recommendatian of the Plan- ning Advisory Committee describing the landowners' application ta change the designation of the area' for devehopment purposes as prema ture at the present time. G. A. Hadgins, a consultant ta the three development firms that own the 700 acre parcel of land, asked the council ta alhow them to take part in the region's special study f the Bowmanville West area." A motion was defeated which called for the consor- Letter to Hampton, Ont. Dear John: I don't do much writing ta the Editor or anyane else any- mare, but after reading of Mayor Rickard's intention ta gel same work done on -somne of the sidewalks in a few of the tawns and villages round about, just thought 1 would put in a word for Hampton. Lt is goad ta hear that Mayor Riekard is interested in the wejfare of the peaple in the places mentianed. Lt is interesting ta note that these places are all put in the front of the area. I wonder wby? Naw I don't begrudge these people any wark tbey mây get done. I wish them luck (they, wilh need it). But why not include Hampton? I can't recaîl this area being bombed during the' wars, but the sidewalks sure look like il.î One place wbere a socalled culvert carnies water under thesidewalk, il is raised up and bas a crack bath sides, where a small child couhd gel a foot caught and be crippled. tium of devehopers ta have active role in th'e special study alang with the town. The council accepted Mr. Hodgins' request ta change the wording of anather sen- tence in the planning commit- tee's report from a flat denial of their amendment applica- tions ta "considered as pre- mature. " The consultant said the large amount of work and mnyinvested- in stucdies iiitd by the three develop- ers on the Bowmanville West area shauld also be included in- the special study. Newcastle Mayor Garnet Rickard told the cauncil that giving a single graup the rigbt ta have input inta th e special study would be a redundant move because every persan concerned shauld be included in the planning process. the -Editor 1 am surprised that a man ai Mayor Rickards palitical ex- perience would omit Hampton from that lîst. 1 am alsa -surprised he did not include the mucb need sidewahk in front of Bowmanvihle Library. Away back, (in The Good Old, Days), beforeRegianal' Government cast its shadaw over Darlington, Hampton was (The Hub of the Universe). Now that Newcas- tle bas taken over that role, things have changed, nat for better but for warse. No one asked me for my opinion of Reginnal Governmenl but, here it is. It is the warst curse that bias, bit the average persan in the' hast 80 years. (I don't want ta go back taa far, or someane may try ta contradict me). ý I am a long time reader of The Statesman. t bas gone up in price over the years- but unlike most other things il bas given full value and a bonus besides. Very Best Wishes Sam E. Dewell FINAL STANDINGS E.O.B.A (Tyke) DIVISION Peterborough Belleville Oshawa Whitby Bowmanville Trenton Lindsay G.P. 16 16 16 16 16 16 Bowmrïanville defeated Trenton 7-5 an Saturday, August 7 and played the second game in Trenton'on Tuesday evening. Pts. R.F. 32 239 24 159 21 154 20 150 13 131 10 137 R.A. 39 87 81 130 172 181 Congratulations were recently extended to Mr. Fred Brown from the Town of Newcastle for successfully completing a two year study p)rogram. The presentation of his certificate for finishing the "T.J. Mahony course" for roads superintendents was Made by Mayor Garnet Rickard- during the August 3rd council meeting. fast work of the aperator. Not ahl stories are sa Loombes Framily serious. Reports one aperator: IIoIds Picnic "A yaung boy called to say O ùdy u.8 h there was a 'stiff ' in bis bouse COneSundamy Ag.thea and would someonec ae Thisl alyPr o hi it away. Then he hung up. stle Vnallenie, P arkfr bir Guessing a prank, the opera- ml6th a nnual lcna. 42famet tor kept tbe liné-ýpen, called memers noye abufe back and said the police were ie dinner t noon.g on their way witb an ambu- le ineris was benga lance. After a long silence, aket e Chs obesrwn a very- meek vaice at the otler bse fpahsb rwn end said, "This is David and the lucky n umber 25. Mean- David's sorry." I while, guessing the weigbt (of a Yes, operators are a vital watermelon weighing 18'/2 lbs. part of today's sapbisticated was won by Benjue Tkatch. communications network. t dmner, the minutes of Like telephone service itself, te previaus picnic were read we tend to take them for and elections were hield. New granted. Little did Alexander executive for 77 are Pres. -Les- Graham Bell suspect wben he lie and Ellen Combes; Sec. conducted bis long distance Treas.-Dennis. Coombes: test on that Augus tlotb Spoarts Committee-Randy and evening in 1876 that out of it Wayne Coombes. woul devlop n inustr Races were conducted by wiwould e mplo y tnbou-tr Shirley Auch. Races 7 and sands op epl s edcted -under-Mike Coombes; 10 and san f eoleand proictd under sack race-Cathy Frei- as operatars a can vie sr;10 ta 15 years-Dan tecbnical facilities which a Coibs ladies shoe kick-Jil carry tlýe human vaice around Coombes; men's shae kick- the planet eartb and even outDaCobe;hetao- i7osae Benie Tkatch; itime- race- Cathiy ÇQambes, tug of war- U Ro~d Coa'mbes' team; balloon throw-Danny -and iIi S f -d Coombes;, men's race-Dale Tatch. * W hile everyane was being %au m% nflo drenched by the rainte decided ta cal off the horse- shae tournament and every- one go ta John Coombes' borne *StA E (] te~rd2.ipereveryone lf for home. DELICATESSEN FOOD MARKETÉ "'TheWWorld of, Foods"' MAPLE LEAF STORE SLICED$,7 LEAN BONELESS McCAINS FOE POT ROAST Peas-Carrots 79 lb. 29 kgo. 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