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25e Per Copy 124th Year Issue 44 0rntabuuî 623-3303 BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1978 30 Pages other and Dauuhte ie in Colision A Bowmanville woman and her daughter are dead following a car accident on Highway 2 and Martin Road in which their 1974 Pontiac was dragged 600 feet by a dump truck. Johanne De Smedt, 52, and her daughter Betty Susan De Smedt, 20, both of 259 Liberty St. N., were killed when their car was struck broadside by a 1974 Tandem truck loaded with hot asphalt early last Friday. The driver of the truck, Sylvester Rezende, 42, of Cambridge, was rushed to Memorial Hospital, treat- ed for minor injuries and was released the same day. Inspector Westbrook of the Dur- ham Regional Police, told The Statesman Miss De Smedt, the driver of the car, was heading west along Highway 2 and had entered the intersection of Regional Rd. 57 and Highway 2 when the vehicle was struck by the southbound truck. Police have laid a charge of dangerous driving against the driver of the truck. Both accident victims were taken to Morris Funeral Home and later to St. Joseph's Church, Liberty St. South where the funeral service was held Monday morning. He's AIl Set for" Christmas Ten-year-old Michael Waterfall has a head start on Christmas with this Hallowe'en costume. His Christmas tree outfit came complete with a star on the top and it won one of the prizes at the Newcastle Cubs' and Scouts' Hlallowe'en party held Monday evening at the Newcastle Village Hall. About 65 persons from all levels of Scouting in the Newcastle area took part in the Hallowe'en celebrations. Committee Okays Plans to Rebuild Stedmans Store Bits And Pieces MEETINGS - The election campaign is finally building up a head of steam, with at least three all-candidates meetings in the offing. Tonight, Nov. 1st, Newcastle and District Chamber of Commerce is holding the first at 8 p.m. in the Newcastle Village Town Hall. Bowmanville Jaycees have the second one (for Ward II candidates only) on Tuesday, Nov. 7th at 8 p.m. in Courtroom One in the Fire-Police building, Church St. The third session will take place in Orono Public School on Wednesday, Nov. 8th, starting at 7:30 p.m. GOOD PROGRESS - Bowmanville main street at the west end is finally taking shape. The curbs are in, light standards are being placed in posi- tion and it shouldn't be too long before things will be back to normal. Fortunately, the weather has been almost ideal and let's hope it continues. OMISSION - Apologies to George Cameron whose name was inadvertently left out of the list of nominated candidates last week. He's running for Ward 3 trustee on the Northumberland Newcastle Board of Education. SENIORS WELCOME - Next Tuesday, Nov. 7th, senior citizens are invited to attend the dress rehearsal for the Drama Workshop's presenta- tion of A Thurber Carnival. The rehearsal starts at 8:15 p.m. at Bowmanville High School's theatre. Opening night is Thursday, Nov. 9th fol- lowed by performances Friday and Saturday. WE GOOFED - One would think after his many years of loading film into cameras that the Editor would know what he was doing, but he slipped last week. As a result we had to borrow pictures of the fatal accident from The Oshawa Times. Those taken at the Knox Christian School bazaar and some of the skaters at Darlington Sports Complex were blanks. Hopefully, he'll check more closely in future. LOADS OF FUN - On Tuesday afternoon, most of the youngsters at the Waverley Road School were dressed up for Hallowe'en and had a ball parading from portable classroom to classroom. But, it's not only the kids who love to dress up. On Saturday, we did a tour of the area dances from the Lions Centre here, to Tyrone, Orono and New- castle and saw some superb costumes. We'll try to get some of the pictures in this week's States- man or Independent and others will follow next week. PARTICIPATION HOUSE - Are you interested in learning more about our Participation House project for the Durham Region. A guided tour of the first residence in Markham for physically handicapped young people has been arranged. Check coming events for further details. BLOOD CLINIC - If you receive this edition early enough on Wednesday, there is still time to drop over to the Lions Centre for the Red Cross Blood Donor clinic. It will be operating until 8:30 this evening. The town's planning and develop- ment committee approved the design for reconstruction of Sted- mans Department Store on King Street, Monday night, and will recommend to council it do the same. The design will retain the three- storey facade. A partial second floor will support the front wall and third floor elevation will sustain a sloping roof. Director of Planning, Leslie Thieves Take Cars from Dealer's Lot Three Trans Am sports cars, valued at $19,800, were stolen from their front row parking spaces at a Bowmanville car lot early Monday morning. The three cars, one 1978 model and two 1976 models, were discovered missing from the Cowan Pontiac- Buick lot at 12:13 a.m. Monday following a call to police from a Highway 401 gas station attendant who reported the drivers of three Trans Ams had gassed up at the station and then driven off without paying for the gas. When police called in the license plate numbers it was discovered that the cars were registered to Cowan Pontiac-Buick. Inspector Westbrook of the Dur- ham Regional Police told The Statesman thieves broke into the main building, took the master key used to open the metal boxes where the car keys are kept attached to the windshields of the cars and stole the car keys. A stolen car fom the Metropolitan Toronto area was left on the car lot. One of the 1976 models has since been recovered outside of Bramp- ton. Halloween Was Peaceful Despite all the ghouls and goblins haunting the streets last night, Bowmanville remained quiet. With police patrols increased across the region the number of in- cidents reported is down con- siderably from last year. Durham Regional Police Inspector Dean Westbrook said this halloween was the quietest he'd seen in a couple of years. Of course there were the usual remnants from the night Turn to Page Two Kristof, toid the committee he has seen the engineer's report and reviewed the architect's prelimi- nary drawings with the town's building department and is "sati- fied" with the way the building is being restored." It will be struct- urally sound and the facade won't crumble or deteriorate, he said. When the owners of Stedmans first approached the town for a building permit for reconstruction, they proposed building a one-storey commercial structure. The town, however, indicated it wanted to retain the existing three-storey facade, which had received only minimal fire damage, "in order to preserve the visual continuity and architectural character of Bowman- ville's historic downtown core," Mr. Kristof said the owners wish to begin demolition and reconstruc- tion immediately and "everything is moving in a very satisfactory manner as far as we are concern- ed." The committee agreed with Mr. Kristof's suggestion that the town enter into a site plan agreement with the owners of Stedmans to cover some of the construction details. First Recipient of Santa Claus Parade Button Two-year-old Diane Hogg had the honor this year of receiving the first Santa Claus Parade button from the head of this Saturday's Button Blitz Marg Crago, and she was quite happy about it. Actually, it wasn't the button that brought the smile. She wasn't all that thrilled about having her picture taken, until someone siipped her a stick of gum. That changed the situation considerably. Anyway, make certain you buy a button this Saturday to help the parade committee raise funds for expenses.