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The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 3

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The Windsor Stari
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i I A Cm) A ALA ljl WINDSOR. ONTARIO. Cily Coiivciilion A newly-chartered building trades organization, the Ontario Provincial Building and Construction Trades Federation, will hold its first big convention in Windsor in mid-October, beginning the weekend of the 17th. Plans include accommodations for delegates. cheme Given Okay WEDNESDAY.

AUGUST 12. 1959 Ats ikMI Sewage Plan to Combat Lake Pollution Temporary Measures Slated To Give Riverside Relief 77Tv JJ? Approval in principle was given by Riverside Town Council Tuesday night to construction of a sewage treatment plant, costing about $1,000,000, to combat pollution of Lake St. Clair by black, smelly water. better with more bang." T. Stewart Anderson, chairman of the Windsor arrangements, left, received an award from Mayor Louis C.

Miriani, centre, and Carl Johnson, chairman of American activities. (Star Staff Photo) FLAN I960 FESTIVAL Plans for next year's Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival were launched Tuesday in Detroit. A luncheon for more than 150 key planners of this year's successful celebrations heard the 1960 festival would be "bigger, Enthusiasm Reigns fcSfc p- I Jin bsLr Accidents Injure 10 In District Parked Cars, Posts Figure in 3Iis.haps By Motorists Parked cars and posts figured in a rash of accidents Tuesday night that sent six persons to hospital. Injured in the five accidents: Frank Clarke, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Clarke of 1183 Lena fractured right leg: Miss Mary Savoni, 18, of 933 Tusca-rora shock, possible fractured knee and leg cuts; Mrs. Richard Lind, 54, of 1672 Fac-toria leg and face cuts; her daughter, Melanie, 18, leg cuts; Mrs. Marion Lawrence, 60, of 2405 Howard hand cuts and bruised legs; David Lorette, 13. of 1029 Pelissicr back injuries. Miss Savoni was injured when she lost control of her car while making a left turn from Parent Ave.

to Tuscarora St. and hit a post. She was taken to Hotel Dieu by Windsor Ambulance. In an almost identical accident. Miss Lind lost control of her car while making a left turn from Tecumseh Rd.

to Factorta St. and hit a hydro pole. She and her mother were taken to Metropolitan Hospital by A.B.C Ambulance. Organizer Seeks End Of Walkout Plumbing Official Calls Of Union Men Renewed efforts to end the plumbing industry strike are being made today with both management and union leaders taking part. Joseph Connolly, general organizer for Canada of the Plumbers Union, arrived in Windsor today and immediately called union negotiators to a A Bigger ed on June 28 and ended July 4 "had proven to the world what a great community we of Windsor and Detroit live in." T.

Stewart Andtrson, chairman of Windsor festival arrangements this year said he would not be able to undertake a similar task next year. "I just haven't got the constitution," he said. The Windsor Star was presented with a Freedom Award for its work in promoting this year's festival and received high praise from both Canadian-and American festival planners. Mayor Miriani said that the 1960 festival will have larger celebrations and will benefit from mistakes made this year. Max Gurman, public relations counsel for the festival in Detroit said next year's arrangements will include a Sports Day bringing top Canadian and American athletes together.

"We were not too happy with CONST. VERN BOECKNER sets up radar equipment May Be Unpopular But Radar 3Iaking Roads Safer (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of three articles on radar and electrical speed timers.) By JIM CORXETT Whether or not you like them, radar and electrical speed timers have made travelling safer for you on the highways and byways of Essex County. Willie Wants Film Club Head Heading To Headhunter Land Bidding farewell to "Willie" Willenegger, manager of the Elmwood Casino, is turning out to be somewhat of a sadistic joke. To ease the situation immediately, council approved a suggestion of Board of Health officials that storm sewers in the east end of town, where residents were forced from their homes by smelly water last Friday, be flushed and super-chlorinated. Riverside, Tecumseh and St.

Clair Beach officials met a few weeks ago to discuss the possibility of erecting a sewage treatment plant on a joint basis. The discussion ended with the recommendation that Dr. A. E. Berry, chairman of the Ontario Water Resources Commission, come to Riverside to discuss the move.

Dr. Berry is expected to meet with the suburban officials next week. But Riverside Council Tuesday agreed in principle to go ahead with the project, even if Tecumseh and St. Clair Beach do not join the scheme. Charles Wallace, chief sanitation inspector with the board of health, and Edward Grassi, an inspector, inspected the storm sewer on the south side of the East Marsh Drain and reported finding sludge in the sewer.

They told council domestic waste has been getting into the sewer and because the pump in the of Riverside Dr. is not operated often enough, sludge and sediment builds up in the sewer. When the pump is turned on follow ing a heavy rain, suction from See RIVERSIDE Page 6 Aerobatic Show Sure K.C.A.F. to Keep Date in Windsor The R.C.A.F. confirmed today that its crack aerobatic team, the Golden Hawks, will appear at the Windsor International Air Show, Sept 19 and 20, despite the accident that killed one of the team in Calgary Monday.

SL F. J. Kaufman, of Trenton, officer responsible for coordinating the display at air shows all over the country, today said the team would complete its summer tour. The decision to continue is thought to have been prompted by the fact that the accident did not occur during the team's high-speed, wing-towing displays but during a normal landing approach. The Hawks' display is expected to be given a certain "edge" by the appearance of its U.S.

counterpart, the Thunderbirds of the U.S.A.F. who appeared in Windsor during the International Freedom Festival recently. Ken Courtenay, chairman of the Windsor show, said Tuesday at a meeting of the committee at 2451 R.C.A.F. Auxiliary Squadron headquarters on Erie St. E.

that he was awaiting confirmation from Washington. In addition to the Hawks, he said, the R.C.A.F. would send the Red Knight, a solo aerobatic craft painted in luminous red; four 33's which perform a "bomb Argos and Neptune coastal aircraft, and, on the Sunday, a formation of Chipmunk training planes to per form synchronized aerobatics. The two boys, David Lorette and Frank Clarke, were injured when they ran into the sides of cars near their homes from between parked cars. The drivers cf the cars were, Fred Matson.

50, of 1664 Highland and Frederick Todman, 23, of 1172 Lena St. Mrs. Marion Lawrence was injured when the car in which she was a passenger collided with the rear of a parked car on Farkwood Ave. The parked car was pushed across the street and hit another parked car. The driver was William Russell, 69, of 2405 Howard Ave.

Owners of the parked cars were, Jack Puff of 580 Pierre and Jack Arbcr of 1636 Dufferin PI. A hcadon collision, about l'i miles inside Point Pclee National Park, sent four persons to Leamington District Memorial Hospital, Tuesday night. The four were released after treatment for minor injuries. Calvin Getty, 43, Mrs. Violet Getty, 33.

driver of one of the vehicles, and their daughter Linda, 8. of 2232 Wellesley Windsor, were treated for cuts and bruises. Driver of the second car Russell Wilkinson, 17, of Georgia Leamington, escaped without injury. A passenger in the Wilkinson car, William Tilly, of 8 Johnson received cuts to the face and head. He left the hospital before receiving treat ment.

Both cars were demolished. Cily Man Held On Dm" Count A Windsor man, Albert Simpson, 37, no fixed abode. Tuesday night was arrested in Toronto by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and has been charged with the possession of more than $500 of heroin. Officers at Toronto's R.C.M.P. Narcotics Squad said the arrest was made in the Broadview Hotel, on Queen St.

Festival this year's fireworks celebration on July 3. It all depended on where one saw the fireworks. Next year we are going to put on a two-hour show downtown and will expand the fireworks to about 45 minutes," he added. "The J. L.

Hudson Company which donated the fireworks as a tribute to Canada and U.S. were a little disappointed, but intend to make up next year," he said. One worry that plagues all planners for next year's festival: How and who can top the billing of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip who literally "stole" this year's celebrations on the July 3 visit to Windsor? Guesses range from President Dwight Eisenhower and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, together, to Sir Winston Churchill. As one planner thought, "why not the summit conference in Windsor and Detroit it would be a natural!" said he would return he will release his film to television stations and special clubs. The films could be the only ones that will ever record the life of the dying tribe.

"Hope I see you again, Willie" "You are coming back, aren't you, Willie?" "Willie?" But the Swiss-born night-club manager, who leaves Saturday for the deep jungles of Ecuador, is taking the farewells with good-natured humor even when a friend calls out: "Whisssh, Willie. That's all it takes you, a headhunter, and whisssh. Hey, Willie?" iiie trip is Willie's second. His chief purpose is to complete a 16 mm documentary film that he began during his first trip in 1956 on the customs and ways of living of the natives. "It's not cs dangerous as most people think," Willie said to parry his friends' ambiguous goodbyes.

"Usually the natives are friendly people, and even if some are hostile I have plenty of trinkets to give them." The trinkets (he has 600 in all) will be Willie's only armament. The natives still like to get their hands on shiny articles, magnifying glasses and colorful pieces of cloth, he said. He'll finish a 16-mm docu- For 1960: Celebration plans for Canada's Dominion Day and America's Independence Day next year had the fuse lighted Tuesday although the two are almost a year away. A "Recognition Luncheon," at the Detroit Veteran's Memorial Building also singled out hundreds of Windsor and Detroit men and women who worked to make this year's first International Freedom Festival "an outstanding success." Detroit's Mayor Louis C. Miriani said the festival which start- Highway 39 Work Set Resurfacing Job To Start in Fall Resurfacing of Highway 39 from the west limits of Tecumseh to Puce will be started before the end of September, Herbert Woollatt vice-presi dent of Woollatt Construction said today.

The Woollatt firm, of Windsor, has been awarded the contract by the Ontario Department of Highways to do the work of resurfacing and building culverts for $122,168. The Woollatt tender was the lowest of four submitted. Two other Windsor firms submitted bids and the fourth was by a Brant-ford firm. Removal of some of the old concrete and the building of culverts will begin in one to two weeks, Mr. Woollatt said.

The company expects to have other paving jobs in Leamington and Kingsville district finished by mid-September. Work on Highway 39 will start immediately following completion of this work. Completion is scheduled for the end of October. Under terms of the contract, the company must start within 50 working days from Aug. 24.

The highway will be resurfaced with hot mix asphalt. Crushed stone shoulders will be provided along the highway with the exception of the portion which runs through the town of Tecumseh. This section will have curbs. The highways department plans to start construction of the Highway 39 bypass around the south end of Tecumseh in the fall. Little Loot In Breakins Police today are investigating two breakins and three attempted breakins during the night.

Total loot as far as police are able to determine totalled two bottles of beer and a bottle of ginger ale. Alvin Gof5, 1033 California reported that a tarpaper shack in which he lives was broken into but nothing was taken. Entry was gained by forcing the rear door. The home of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy McRae, 756 Gladstone was forced when thieves ripped a screen door to gain entry. Joseph Donaghue, who is looking after the home while the McRaes are on vacation said he believed that two bottles of beer and the ginger ale were taken. Another two bottles of beer were consumed before the burglars left. Attempts were made to break into the home of Miss Betty Yuffy, 2168 Victoria Jimmy's Service, 3253 Peter and the Christie Brown Biscuit Co. Union St.

and Curry Ave. Who Told You That? sorry, inspector, I afraid my httle dog has eaten I "Then, surest i jou buy him a second helping?" I Saturday, Willie leaves from the Detroit Airport and, after brief stops in Miami and Panama, will land in Quito, capital city of Ecuador. "I'll be there late Sunday morning," "Willie said. "It's a quick trip. I'll have to organize my trip from there.

I'll need guides and some porters." The trip is planned for Santo Domingo de los Color-ados, a village about 200 miles west and south of Quito. Part of it will be by jeep; most of it by horseback. The object for Willie is the Colorados Indians, aborigines of Ecuador and a tribe which is almost now extinct because of inter-family marriages. Willie speculated there are only about 300- Colorados left. "I'm taking plenty of color film for my movie camera and my still shots.

I have a tape recorder, too," Willie said. During the latter weeks of August and the first weeks of September, the natives paint and dress up in ceremonial costumes for their harvest rituals. Willie said he planned to spend about two weeks with the natives, enough time to capture most of the time-honored ceremony. "The entire trip should take me about five weeks," he said. When Willie returns and he meeting this afternoon.

Following this session, he hopes to meet with management negotiators. He also has called a general membership meeting of the union for Thursday morning. At the membership meeting he expects to have sufficient new information to present a proposal for settlement, bring them up to date on negotiations and recommend what action they should take. It will then be in the hands of the members to decide, by vote, whether to accept the recommendation. The strike, which affected about 300 plumbing industry workers in the Essex-Kent area, began last Friday.

Wages were the chief issue. In an effort to solve the walkout, contractors made a new offer to the union of 30 cents an hour increase over the next two years. Ten cents would have applied immediately upon acceptance; another five cents would be given Jan. 1, 1960; ten cents more a year from now on June 1, 1960 and the final 5 cents on Jan. 1, 1961.

This was rejected by the union negotiators. The offer, which had been made conditional upon immediate acceptance, was then withdrawn by the contractors. The plumbers basic rate at the present time is $2.75 an hour, which they claim is 55 cents below what plumbers in Toronto are paid. Mr. Connolly said he was prepared to remain in Windsor until the present work stoppage was solved.

Bridge Job Pact 'Close' Railway and city engineers are meeting today at City Hall to discuss repairs to the Pea-body Bridge on Riverside Dr. E. Ray J. Desmarais, public works commissioner, said "both sides are close to agreement." The city has maintained the Canadian National Railway has omitted some necessary re pairs and has not included costs of repairs which the city argues should be paid by the railway. The bridge over the CN R.

tracks is weakened by rusted steel and crumbling concrete. Temporary repairs were made earlier this year to keep the bridge in operation. degrees, occurring on July 1 when the maximum was 86 and the minimum recorded at 58. Rainfall was slightly higher this year with 3.55 inches measured, compared with 2.09 inches in July, 1958. Rain occurred on nine days this July and on 10 days a year ago.

Thunderstorms swept the area on five days during the month, and on six days in July, 1958. Just to complete the summer picture to date, the weather recorders report that June in the i i i area cuuiu ue is)untu vci, close to normal although the ut considerably below the normal of 2.98 inches and caused early concern in agricultural quarters. This is the opinion of police officials who have used the devices for periods ranging from three weeks to three years. Electrical timers are being used by municipal police forces in Leamington, Essex and St. Clair Beach, while a radar unit is the instrument used by the Essex detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police.

"They're a great deterrent to speeders and a great factor in cutting down accidents." says Chief David Freeman of Essex town police. "They're not used to produce revenue." Concurring with Chief Freeman on their value in reducing highway death and destruction is Sgt. Jack Hatch, head of the O.P.P. Essex detachment. He produces these figures to support his contention: From January to June of this year, two were killed in traffic mishaps in county territory under O.P.P.

jurisdiction. Last year, during the same six-month period, four were killed, and in 1957 and 1956, 12 and 16, respectively. It was in the fall of 1956 that the detachment put the radar unit into operation. Since then, the number injured in accidents has dropped by about one-half, while the number of accidents has decreased by approximately one-third. Using statistics for the same six-month period, here are the figures on injuries: 1959, 66; 1958, 103; 1957, 92 and 1956, 127.

Here's the tally on accidents: 1959, 216; 1958, 281; 1957, 282; and 1956, 341. Sgt. Hatch attributes part of the reductions to Ontario's TESTS AIR The city's new sampler was set up on the roof vi -t II i pn point demerit system which went into effect early last spring. But the figures had begun to tumble before the system came into effect. Radar is the answer to the bal ance, Sgt.

Hatch says. Riverside's police department may be joining the growing list of users next year. The Riverside Police Commission decided Tuesday to recommend to Town Council that money be allotted in the 1960 budget for the pur chase of a radar unit. No Smoke's Good Kind Establishment of an international agency to control the smoke emission from ships plying the Detroit River has been recommended to the International Joint Commission. The proposed Eoard of Control on Air Pollution would take over the work of the joint commission's technical advisory board oh air pollution in the Windsor-Detroit area.

The new board, according to the recommendation, would continue to work with ship companies on the voluntary smoke control program until a federal smoke control code is put into effect. The report by the advisory board states river shipping is responsible for only a part of the pollution of the area's atmosphere. It points out other sources of pollution are being dealt with by other agencies, such as the provincial health department and Windsor's air pollution control. air pollution of City Hall checks on the apparatus, while lh It's Just Your Imagination If You Felt Cold or Warm If you thought it was colder or warmer during July than for the same month in 1958 the difference was mostly mental. Temperatures for the months were almost identical, officials of the meteorological office at Windsor Airport said today.

Likewise the number of days with rainfall. The highest temperature for July this year was 91 degrees and was recorded on July 30. The lowest reading was 54 and went into the record books on the second day of the month. High and low for July, 1958 was 88.9 and 54.8. Highest range between high and low temperatures was 28 rr i 1 ECUADOR BOUND "Willie" Willenegger, manager of the Eimwood Casino, leaves for the jungles of Ecuador Saturday armed only with cameras, tape recorder and plenty analyzer part of the neur L.

R. Keddy, deputy building commissioner, places the protective glass covering over the $500 machine recently purchased by the city. (Star Staff Photo) of trinkets for the natives. this morning to keep track of the amount of smoke and sulphur Windsor's atmosphere, Patrick Costello, left, air pollution inspector. mentary movie he began in 1956 about the customs and ways of living of South American natives..

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