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Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 7, 1979 9 Durham East PCs Eleet Officers ut Annual Meeting P-VOWs in Canada: T he Story T"hat Couuldn 't be Told The election of officers was one of the highlights of the annual meeting of the Durham East Progressive Conservative Association held Tuesday, February 27th at Eastdale Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Oshawa. In this photo are the president and vice president of the association along with the guest speaker and MPP Sam Cureatz, from the left are: Mr. Cureatz; Marianne Zakarow, vice president; guest speaker Hon. Larry Grossman, Minister of Industry and Tourism; and Ray Lunn who was re-elected » rsdent of the association. Other executives elected last week are: Marion Manders, secretary; Doug 1erwilliger, treasurer; Tom Rehder, Bowmanville PC Association representative; Charlie Reid, Clarke and Newcastle PC Association representative; Thorold Bobier, Darlington PC Association represen- tative; Fay Jermyn, representative of the ladies' association; Representatives from Oshawa are: Walter Bestwick, Bill Austin, John McLaughlin, Bey Leask, Norm Wilton, John De Hart, Marie Libby, and Bill Langworth. GM Sets New Records for Sales During 1978 General Motors of Canada set new records in 1978 for dollar sales, unit sales and net income, all within a context o! improved employment and payrolls and improvement in industry worldwide balance of trade, F. Alan Smith, Presi- dent, announced today. Dollar sales of G.M. p roducts i 1978 totalled $7.7 billion, surpassing the 1977 record of $6.1 billion by 26 percent. Net income was $203 million which is 12 percent above the $181 million report- ed for 1977. The continued SUPERTWIN COMPACT DRYER Perfect Iaundry pair for apartments, con- dominiums or where- ever space is at a premium. No special hooku p or wirî ng required. Optional stand to stack units. * 2 yr. parts replace- ment warranty * Available in White and Harvest Wheat ORONO ELECTRIC LTD. escalation of costs which the Company has been unable to recover in the marketplace or through improved efficiency of operations more than accounts for this smaller increase in net income than in sales. Inflationary factors have reduced G.M. of Canada's 1978 net income as a percentage of sales, which at 2.6 percent compares with 3.0 percent in 1977 and 3.7 percent in 1973. After adjusting for inflation, 1978 sales ini constant dollars increased by 16 percent over the previous year, whereas net income in constant dollars was less favourable and increased by only 3 percent. Continued improvement in net income is essential to~ support the forward spending neces- sary to bulld more fuel- THE SIGN 0F A GOOD BUSINESS NEIGHBOR . %ftemifer THE SIGN 0F A MERCHANT WHO CARES ABOUT PEOPLE ... This embiem identifies the .civic-minded businessmen who sponsor n the community. For information cal Marg Bain Phne63-261 efficient, safer, and cleaner products; and to provide additional production capaci- ty. Investment in plant and equ'pent and special tools continues at a high level in order to provide additional production capacity at the Trim and Transmission Plants ini Windsor, the Foundry in St. Catharines, the Battery Plant and Truck Assembly Plant in Oshawa, the new bus assembly plant at Ville St. Eustache, and the addîtional facilities at our Cold Weather Development Centre in Kapuskasing. Factory sales of cars, trucks and coaches produced by G.M. o! Canada in 1978 amounted to 853,000 units, 76,000 units above the 777,000 vehicles sold i 1977. In addition, General Motors of Canada sold 265,000 units which were imported from the United States. 0f the total 1,118,000 units producedà and imported, 560,000 were sold in Canada, 478,000 were shipped to the U.S. and 80,000 were exported to countries other than tne United States. Average employment in 1978 was 37,000 men and women, with payrolls amount- ing $796 million. In comparison, average employ- ment 1977, the previous record year, was 33,800 men and women with payrolls totalling $689 million. At year end, 41,000 employees were on the company payroll as compared with 39,000 at the beginning of the year. Mr. Smith said that "1978 was a year o! significant achievement for General Motors, and we believe the outlook for our business in the year ahead is very positive." "Retail sales of 585,000 G.M. cars and trucks establishedl a record for the sixth consecu- tive year and surpassed the former record set in 1977 by 8.9 percent." he added. "We are confident that the Canadian economy will regi-ster cantinued -grow7th in real terms during the forth- coming months, and we pre- dict that General Motors and its dealers will experience another outstanding year in 1979. PADDY'S MARKET New and Used Furnhture and Appliances Trade-Ins Accepted on Appiances - Easy Credit Terms Available - Telephono 263-2241 Hampton Ontario Government Tender Tender No. 321 Seaied tenders wIil b. received until 12:00 noon, March 16, 1979 for a Garbage Disposai Concession et Darling- ton Provincial Park, RAR 2, Bowmanvllle, Ontarin. Tender documents and information are avaliable f rom the District Manager, MlnIstry of Natural Resourcos, 322 Kent Street West, Lindsay, Ontarlo, KgV 4T7. Telephone: 1-705-324-6121. Lowest or any tender not necessarlly acceptsd. O fMMý Mnistryof Ulq e sources Ontario By Ron Lowman Toronto Star It's infuriating any time when a journalist gets scooped on a good yarn, but when it happens 37 years after the event, what can you say? Ravenstein, a book by British author Rowland Ryder, unveils an inside story, o! the 1942 Battie of Bowman- ville- between German prisoners-of-war ana Cana- dian camp guards, which The Star was prevented from publishing by wartime Ottawa censors. t also tells some unreported stories about a secret kangaroo court convened in the Bowmanville camD by angry U-boat commanders to try a fellow-prisoner for surrendering his boat, and an assassination attempt on General Johann von Raven- stein by two fanatical Nazi SS officers. The pair decided his enthu- siasm for the Nazi, as distinct from the German, cause, was tepid, held their own sum- mary court martial at which von Ravenstein wasn't present and passed a death sentence. Friends warned the general, who barricaded his room with furniture and foiled the SS men's efforts to break in. Next morning, von Ravenstein was transferred to the camp hospital with a minor heart attack and the SS officers were dispatched to another prison camp. Ravenstein: Portrait of a * I M I I M I I I M M M I German General is published in Canada by Thomas Nelson and Sons (214 pages, $21). Ryder, the author, gathered his material on the Bowman-. ville camp from Friedrich von Goetz of Toronto, after being introduced to hlm by mail by this writer. I've neyer met Ryder, who obtained my name from British sources, Coinci- dentally, 1 was in Canada under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan at the time of the Bowmanville battle, but knew nothing o! what was going on there. Former Pilot Von Goetz, a former Luft- waffe pilot and a Canadian now for many years, knew von Ravenstein well as his senior officer at Bowmanville, which housed pilots, the U-boat men and Afrika Korps officiers. Von Ravenstein, an officer and gentleman o! the old Prussian Junker tradition, had been a page to the Kaiser Wilhelm and for remarkable gallantry in World War I had been awardecl the Pour le Merite (the Blue Max), Germany's highest decoration of that era. A tank general in World War Il in the Western Desert, he was captured, torpedoed, by his own side, spent months as a prisoner in Cairo, Alexandria and South Africa, and had a hand in an attempt by 1,000 German POWS to seize the ship SS Pasteur en route to Duban. Later, at Bowmanville von Ravenstein prevented the kangaroo court from trying the U-boat commander and politely refused a request by the camp commandant, a Col. Bull, to have 100 men shackled as retaliation for the shackling of Allied POWs. That's when the Battle -of Bow'manville' began. Regular Canadian troops were dispatched to reinforce the Veterans'. Guard and Ryder reports that eventually the fighting became a good- natured affair, with the Canadian soldiers throwing aside their bayonets. One hundred Germans were hand- cuffed, but in a week it was all forgotten. The Star's Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas, who has been work- ing the police beat since the invention of moveable type, remembers the, battle well. The Star covered it exclusive- ly after receiving an inside tip. Seven staffers under the late Major Claud Pascoe, OBE, a veteran o! the Crimea and World War 1. rented a whole floor in a local hotel and went to work piecing the story together.1' "I remember crawling through an apple orchard near the prison camp and being warned by a guard with a fixed bayonet to get out, or else," Thomas said. "lWe filed stories and pictures to The Star for four days, but the censor, Bert Perry, had his orders from Ottawa and nothing was published. It was frustrating as hell." Wire Ruse Thomas recalled a number of POW escapes from camps at Gravenhurst, Bowmanviîle and Monteith. on one, lie and Telegram reporter Perc Cole triect to get into tne main gate of the Gravenhurst camp, but were bounc!ed. Cole then phoned his city editor, Bert Wemp, a World War I major in the Royal Flying Corps, and told hlm to send a wire to Cole reading: "Report to Col. Bull (camp commandant) at once. Signed, Major Wemp." They waved the wire at the veterans' Guard and got in. Two minutes later, with the irate Bull threatening to arrest them, they came hurt- ling out again in their car. Thomas said it was tough covering POWS and incidents' in tueir camps because the military wouldn't co-operate. "They were scared of reprisals in Germany against Canadian POWS if stories appeared,- Thomas 5810. 11 was somethlng to do wlth the Geneva convention, toc!' Eventually, after a number of escapes, the mnilitary sought * the help of newspapers in running picture of prisoners who were on the loose. Thomas remembers the late Norman Phillip of The Star drivîng nome f1rom Espanola andpicking up a suspicious character who was hitch- hiking. Convinced he was an, escaped German, Phillips dropped hlm at Huntsviîle with the excuse that had to see someone, but would pick hlm up again on the south edge of town if he hadn't got a lift. Phillips drove on into Hunts- ville, heard a band, spotted a military church parade and pleaded with the officer in charge to come and grab the man; "You're drunk. Get off the road," Phillips was told. Finally, he ran to the police station, told his story to Chief W. C. Carson and together they arrested the German on Highway 11. Photogravher Strathy -'Stogie" Smith, sent to the pcene with Jocko Thomas, was shooting pictures like mad when the arm appeared'and threatened to arrest hlm if he didn't give up his film. 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