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MOVE
TO INCREASE SAFETY
IN SCHOOL BUS OPERATION
It was announced -this week by
Hon. H. L. Rowntree, Q.C., Minister
of Transport for Ontario, that addi-
tional regulations governing the
operation of school buses had been
made by order -in -council.
The Minister said that the new
regulations related to all vehicles
operated by, or under contract to
school boards, and vehicles used
solely for the purposes of trans-
porting children to and from
school.
The regulations require that all
such vehicles are clearly marked
with signs reading, "School Bus."
All vehicles, when used solely for
transportation of children, shall be
painted yellow with black trim.
The regulations also require all
vehicles carrying ten or more chil-
dren to have the following safety
equipment at all times, Mr. Rown-
tree continued. They must have an
interior mirror; tire chains or snow
tires on rear wheels except duals;
a speedometer; the body floor con-
structed in such a way as to pre-
vent the entry of exhaust fumes;
two windshield wipers and a de-
frosting device; inside lights; an
axe or clawbar and a fire extin-
guisher; dependable tires, and em-
ergency exits.
The Minister added that all ve-
hicles used as school buses would
require a certificate of mechani-
cal fitness being filed twice a
year.
In respect to the requirements
for the driver of school buses, Mr.
Rowntree said that all applicants
must be 21 years of age or over
and would be required to pass a
special driving test. A higher stan-
dard of proficiency would be re-
quired in the test, with added em-
phasis on knowledge of the rules
of the road and sign recognition.
The test would also contain ref-
erence to bus and equipment main-
tenance. The driving test must be
taken in an actual school bus.
• The applicants for school bus op-
erator's licences would be requir-
ed to file a medical certificate of
physical fitness and a standard of
vision higher than is required for
an ordinary driver.
The Minister said that he thought
these new regulations would do
much to ensure the safer opera
tion of our school buses and the
safety of their valuable cargoes.
Nearly 219,000 men, women and
children- of all ages participated in
Canadian Red Cross water safety
services and projectslast year.
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OPP Plays Active
Role in Northern
Communities
MOOSpNEE, Ont.—This frontier
settlement looks to future develop-
ment with the full anticipation
that accompanies the coming of
spring after a long, hard northern
winter.
Hugging the shores of the Moose
River 15 miles south of James
Bay, and 668 miles north of To-
ronto, Moosonee is now a quiet,
orderly community, somnolent in
the memories of booming activity
that once made it an important
anchor point in the construction
of northern radar warning sys-
tems.
But while Moosonee has an out-
ward appearance of somnolence,
the people who make up the set-
tlement are very much awake to
the great pgiential lying within
their community to become a por-
tal opening the way to a new era
of development of Canada's north-
land.
Uppermost in their minds is the
possibility that Moosonee may be-
come Ontario's first salt water
seaport through which vast re-
serves of iron would be funnelled
from the north to the great indus-
trial centres of southern Canada
and the United States. To the peo-
ple of Moosonee—Eskimo, Cree and
white man—this is no idle dream
for whiling away long winter eve-
nings. When they talk of it, they
talk enthusiastically, with convic-
tion that it will be done.
Residents are now eagerly
awaiting the results of a $100,000
joint Federal -Ontario survey on
the feasibility of converting the
settlement from a northern trap-
pers' outpost into a major seaport.
It is believed an announcement is
imminent.
Prime Minister Leslie Frost pre-
dicted at the end of 1960 that
Moosonee would become a seaport
n five- years, and Col. C. E. Rey-
nolds, chairman of the Ontario
].Northland Railway, which provides
he only means of ground trans-
ortation to this James Bay com-
munity, predicts that a start on
he $25,000,000 port will be made
his year.
While everybody can see great
dvantages in Moosonee's develop-
ment, it will not be without local
omplications. One of the major
oncerns is a sharp change in the
ving -habits of the native popula-
on which exists mainly on hunt.
ng and trapping.
Constable Fred Hart, who heads
he Ontario Provincial Police de-
achment policing the James Bay
egion, fears that atom'
mushroom
de-
elopment will bring with it a
harp increase in crime, a „prob-
m almost non-existent in the
ves of the more than 500 resi-
ents in the area.
Life is very quiet here. With
uch a small population, everyone
ows everyone else andwehave
ery little trouble. Most of it is
onfined to liquor offenses among
e Indians, and even that is pret-
minor," he said.
Constable Hart, who was first
sted to Moosonee in 1954, said
at the close fraternity of life in
orthern communities of this size
st doesn't breed crime, but ex-
rience has shown that a major
flux of outside workers results
an increased crime rate.
As proof of his point, Attorney-
eneral Kelso Roberts and Ontario
rovincial Police Commissioner W.
. Clark, found only empty cells
a recent tour of 10 northern OPP
tachments, including Moosonee,
ikokan, Sioux Lookout, Nakina,
eraldton, Long Lac, Hearst, Kap-
kasing, Smooth Rock Falls and
chrane. Records show that there
generally little crime in the
rth.
For Fred Hart the problems of
]icing Moosonee in its throes of
velopment should not be diffi-
It. In addition to the assistance
Constable Douglas Culhan, a na-
e of Stayner who was recently
sted here, he will have the
rong backing of everyone of the
ttlers of the area.
Construction of a heavy radar
tion, part of the Pinetree warn -
system, is expected to swell
osonee's population by some 200
AF and civilian families during
s year. The Federal Govern-
nt has earmarked $7,000,000 for
installation and building is
eduled to get under way after
' spring breakup.
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THE CONVERSION of an old house to a boarding school is a diversion for RCAF airmen
overseas that will pay dividends for French school children. Soon to be ready for the chiI-
dren of broken homes is the new boarding school at Montmedy which some Cam.elite Nuns,
with the help of members of 441 (Silver Fox) Squadron have fashioned from a rundown house.
Warrant Officer Danny Danforth (left) and Wing Commander Hugh McLachlan, discuss with
the Sisters, projects which the airment have proposed to do for them in their spare time
to complete the program.
RCAF Group Unites to
Create School in France
o MARVILLE, France—Moved '-J y
the selfless ambition of a French
nun, the members of a jet fighter
squadron of the RCAF's Air Divi-
sion in Europe haveinitiated e ini i "Op-
eration
A
eration Silver Fox,"
On the completion of the opera-
tion the men of 441 (Silver Fox)
Sabre Squadron here will put 'away
their overalls, paint brushes and
tools; the dreams of a Carmelite
nun will be realized, and a board-
ing school for 40 homeless young
girls will be opened.
Right now, backed by contribu-
tions from personnel of the Mar,.
ville base, the officers and airmen
of 441 Squadron are busy in, their
spare time renovating an old three-
storey stone building in nearby
Montmedy, putting it into shape to
house the boarding school.
Their project has been dubbed
"Operation Silver Fox" and it
really began four years ago when
Sister St. John of the Cross, a
member of the Carmelite Order,
arrived in Montmedy, a town of
3,000, located a few miles north-
west of the Canadian base.
Without funds, and existent up-
on local charity and what she earn-
tive population a better chance to
become adapted to the increased
and complicated community ac-
tivity that would come with any
seaport development. -.
Over the years of his assign-
ment, Constable" Hart has risen to
local prominence and a leader in
community life through his cheer-
ful understanding of native prob-
lems and the way of northern liv-
ing. A raw-boned Navy veteran
and native of Copper Cliff, he is
a moving force behind Moosonee's
junior hockey league and, with
his English -born wife, Honor, ac-
tive in local curling run off at
the twin -rink Moose Factory Curl-.
ing Club, two miles across the riv-
er from Moosonee.
"There is good living in the
north and we need more people,"
said Moosonee's head of police,
confident that the day is coming
when his settlement will join the
ranks of other established major
northern communities.
2 TELL YOU IT MUT
STap__WE'VE GoT TO
.KEEP THESE DILLS
DOWN!
HEAVENS, FATHER, CEASE
SHOUTING! IT'S quI-j•E
SIMPLE.. -
ed from painting and teaching Eng-
lish, she made arrangements to
teach town children in a single
tiny classroom.
Before arriving in Montmedy she
had spent many years'
T the
.dle East and Soutern France, a d
from 1938 to 1945 she was in Can-
ada and the United States, study-
ing North American teaching meth-
ods.
Her dream, though, was to open
a school and home for young girls
from broken families. She was
joined by two more nuns of the
same Order and a few months ago
two women of the town made the
Nuns an offer.
They owned a building in the
town, empty since the. departure
of its last tenants—German occu-
pation troops.
The building had been lying der-
elict since 1944, There was no
furniture, it was badly in need of
repairs, and it was unbelievably
dirty, but if the nuns could use it,
it was theirs,
The Sisters jumped at the chance
and started cleaning operations,
using rakes because brooms would
not cope with the job.
The nuns did their best, but
gradually they realized the job was
too much for them. In desperation
Sister St. John of the Cross ap-
pealed to the Canadians at Mar-
ville. Servicemen and their fam-
ilies on the base gave more than
$700—$100 coming from the Silver
Fox Squadron. and the squadron
asked that they be given the job
of putting the building into shape.
Working in their spare time the
Silver
Fox men strippedgenera-
tions
e
nera-
tions of dirty wallpaper from the
rooms of the old building, and they
patched and plastered and resur-
faced and painted the walls with
cheery colors.
They have repaired chimneys,
and have turned the basement into
a playroom, cut and piled winter
firewood, collected, repaired and
refinished furniture, found bdds
and bedding, stoves and black-
boards, and have done a hundred
other jobs,
Much remains to be done, but
the Silver Fox are hard at it., As
one airman put it:
"We're not going to quit this job
until the atmosphere of the school
is the kind that children every-
where need and deserve."
Many items remain to be bought,
from mattresses for 40 small beds
to pots. pans • and dishes, and at
times the Canadians find them-
-selves almost frightened by the
faith of the three nuns in their
ability to overcome all obstacles,
'The official motto of the Silver
Fox Squadron is "Stalk and Kill."
But when the Carmel St. Joseph
School opens early this year—as
the Canadians are determined it
will—i.twill be hard to convince
Sister St. John of the Cross that
there shouldn't be another one.
A SMILE OR TWO
A customer stormed into a but-
cher shop and flung down a piece
of brass on the counter.
"Will you please," he raged,
"explain that! I found it in the
ground round steak I just bought."
The butcher picked up the bit
of metal and looked it over care-
fully. Then he scratched his head.
"Guess I musta forgot to take
the collar off!"
After speaking 45 -minutes, the
candidate was still going strong,
"What I want is reform. I want
tax reform. I want election law
reform. I want judical reform. I
want high living costs reform. I
want—I want—"
At last a bored listener hollered,
"What you want is chloroform."
Two young women met on the
street and stopped to chat. One
remarked, "I'hear you've accepted
Frank's proposal. Did you know
he once begged me to marry
him?"
"No," the other acidly respond-
ed, "but he confessed that he had
done a lot of silly things before
he met me."
The fellow took his /Great Dane
to a veterinarian and complained,
"Doctor, my dog does nothing but
chase sport cars."
"That's only natural," replied the..
Veterinarian, "many dogs chase
cars."
"I know," answered the Dane
owner, ' "but mine catches them
and then buries them in the back-
yard!"
A woman lived adjacent to a pri-
vate zoo. She informed the police
that she had a skunk in her cellar.
"Make a trail of bread Crumbs
from the cellar to the garden and
wait for the skunk to follow it out-
side," advised the police officer.
Half an hour later the woman
rang a second time,
"Now what, madam," said the
officer, recognizing her voice.
"I did what you said—now I've
got two skunks in my cellar."
After rushing his wife to a ma-
ternity hospital, a young husband
nervously 'paced the waiting room
while the admissions clerk filled
out the necessary information. As
his wife was about to be taken to
her room, he grasped her arm and
blurted: "Darling, are you sure
you want to go through with this?"
Little Orville's mother enrolled
her precious child at a private
school and gave hi< future teacher
a list of instructions. "My son is
so sensit;ve," she explained,
"Don't ever punish him. Just
slap the boy next to him, That will
frighten Orville."
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The Columbia River, whose tre-
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to be harnessed within the next
few years, is the second largest
river on the Pacific slope of North
America. (Largest is the Yukon
River.) The Columbia rises in
Lake Columbia, a small Rocky
Mountain lake in the Kootenay dis-
trict of British Columbia, flows
north at first until it doubles round
north of the Selkirk Range, then
flows south through the Arrow
Lakes and across the internation-
al boundary to its mouth on the
U.S, west coast. Its total length
is about 1150 miles, of which 459
miles are in Canada. The river
has a total fall of 2650 feet, of
which 1360 feet are in Canada. It
drains an area of nearly 260,000
square miles; 38,000 square miles
of this are in Canada. The mouth
of the river was discovered and
explored by the captain of the
Columbia, a Boston trading ves-
sel, in 1792, and its source was
discovered in 1807 by David
Thompson, the first white man to
explore the entire.,stream from its
source to its mouth.
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