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By R. J. AND TORONTO lCPl—Hig-h above the Caribbean an airline pilot noted a ‘disturbance" of more than normal proportions. It was Oct. 6. 1954. Toronto. far to the northwest, paid no heed. ' H a z e l was fprming but she was 2.500 miles away and no one imagined she would camp this way. Haze _ . up fast from the Caribbe ' appeared to be blowing herself out in the United states. By Oct. 15 she was only a rowdy, ruinous rain- storm but- behind her was a trail of death and destruction — 100 killed in Haiti. 39 in New England. Winds at one time were 130 miles an hour attire centre. She pushed a rain front into southern Ontario. That met an eastbound cold front. a

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weather office observer at the

time: _ “It was like two huge pitchers 1 water crashing against each dher, shattering and dumping their conten ."

ain — the heaviest in re- corded history—fell on the Tor- onto area. It was as if a small lake suddenly had been dumped into the west-end Humber River Valley.

liVER ROSE Destruction was sudden. tragic, complete. Eighty - two persons ied. Whole street. Vere swept away. Damage in the Toronto area alone was placed at 324.000.0011.

other parts of southern On- tario were hit but the Humber Valley look the brunt of blow

Toronto was a city where ‘hurricanes never happen“ the night of Friday, Oct. 15, 1954. Rain was falling. Io heavu'y that thousands of downtown workers took three and four hours to reach their homes in the suburbs. But it was only an inconvenience.

Tragedy was building up ill the west. Rain during the pre ceding 48 hours had saturate: the number Valley. The hard clay shallow bowl in which the number River rises absorbed the first heavy rainfall and the river rose with misleading slow- ness.

Then the clay could absorb II! more water. Eight inches 0 rain came down on Friday, cl 15. It poured instantly into the river channel and the Humber- norma'lly placid. went wild. lr

e hour of Saturday

the flood descendec

upon the sleeping western sub urba on its 7o-mile course to

all the casualties wen in Toronto's western suburbs rl'l'hlrty-seven were on a single v

had been no warning HIM residents were trapped Ind drowned in their beds

the dents on his street

Charlottetown, Wed. Sept. 30, 1964.

vice station in Mount Dennis. a western suburb of Toronto, were partly submerged by wa-

the Holland Marsh area north of the city floods took their toll in property damage. On the cast

a des Ontario. Forty bridges in the metropolitan area were washed

ut.

Other Ontario centres were hit. At Beeton, on the upper watershed of the Humber west of the Holland Marsh. four pi-.\.r-‘r

people, the entire population. were forced from their homes in the Holland Marsh market garden area: Fifty houses were flooded in New Hamburg. Dam- age was heavy everywhere.

1.200 HOMLESS

But it was Metropolitan To- ronto, particulanly Etobicoke and Woodbridge. that sufiered most. Apart from the heavy loss of life. miles of valley roads and parkland were oblit- . On the Humber alone, more than 1,200 families were left homeless. A fire hydrant was the only evidence that Ray- more Drive had ever existed. From the flood. always when tragedy strikes, emerged stories of heroism and heart- break. One elderly couple lost a daughter. a son and his wife and six grandchildren. Nancy Thorpe. four months old that day. lost her father. mother. brother and grandmother. She now lives with an aunt. One hero was swept away after giv lng warning of the flood to rest-

The flood and storm subsided quickly. Add poured into the stricken area. A disaster fund was established. British Colum-

Hazel Brought lnconvenience Whichmlguilt Up To A Tragedy

ers entered shops and homes. [$70,000. The Ontario Hurricane N or th through Thistletown Relief Fund in the end paid out and Woodbridge and up througn I more than

of Toronto, the Don River swept ; $100-a-month tructive course to Lake 4 monthly

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sons were drowned. A thousand a

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‘houses

Student Nurses In Ont. Eligible

TORONTO ( CP)

hospitals will be eligible for in

a year under the Canada 5'1: dent loan plan. Education Min

Tuesday

prov inces are given the responsibn ity of deciding who shall be en gible for em.

Mr. Davis, speaking to

school directors. said that no.

where is society’s need

pie with advanced education

more apparent lbs in

health sciences field. ‘ a

t is one reason why we

tutions’ within the Canada stu- dent loans plan,” he sai . By making student nurses eligible for the loans the prov ince hoped many young girls would be encouraged to take up nursing as a career.

I Fraud Case ’ Judgement Postponed

QUEBEC (CPl—Judge Albert Dumontier of sessions court Tuesday postponed until Nov. 26 judgment in the case of Gerard Martineau, legislative council- lor, who was tried on a fraud charge embracing 11 counts and involving $34,600.

Mr. Martinea-u. 62-year-old former treasurer of the Union Nationale Party. was charged in connection with alleged un- earned commissions on Quebec government paint contracts be- tween 1955 and 1960.

He is also awaiting judgment Judge Jean Baillargeon 0 other fraud charges. One contained eight counts and the other five. A total of $23,000 was lnvolv d.

ler as the Humber River ov- erflowed its banks. (GP Photo)

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35.000.000 00d victims. When the trial ended Judge WIDOWS AIDED Baillargeon said he would give Widows still ae receiving judgment after Tuesday, the annuities plus $50 date originally set for Judge

for each child. All Dumontier's judgment.

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For Loans e“Messed in an editorial in the Jerusalem

Studeu' ‘ nurses at 52 Ontario teaching

terest-free loans of up to $1,001'

ister William Davxs announced

Although the interest - free

for peo- .

the

were happy to include the 52

It arm as ‘specified educational insti-

lsrool Critical , Of Council For ‘ Jewish Action

l TEL’ AVIV. Israel (Reuters)~ I Reaction in Israel to the delib 1 erations by the Ecumenical Council in the Vatican about the ‘Jewish document" has been ' generally critical.

typical attitude was that

Post which said many Jews do not believe the Jews of today or of 2,000 years ' ago stand in need of the church 1absolution on a charge of dei- cide—a charge which they cor rsider unreal and unrelated to . historical events.

A more bitter reaction has linked the blood-stained history of anti-Jewish persecutions by

the Roman Catholic Church with the current discussions in. e

l ll Rom 1 levelled against Pope Pius X11. '

a . . . luncheon meeting of nursing 1 that he failed to throw in the

,moral weight .against the Nazi r crimes.

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church anti-Jewish

This latter theme was devel- l . I the evening newspaper Maarxv. } I The article complained there‘ was no mention in the church document of the extermination of Jews by the Nazis. ' l “This makes it appear that! lthe only thing which spoils the‘ "relations between Jews and Christians is something than had happened 70 generationsl back in Jerusalem and not something that happened 20! years ago in Europe. . . . i

‘The silence of Rome Ln 1964' is but a continuation of the si- lence of Pius v in 1944, ex-= cept that for his silence the ex- 3 cuse was made that had he opened his month he might have endangered all members of his church. Today’s silence has not even this lame ex- cuse . . .”

Veterans Act Is Expected By End Of Oct.

OTTAWA (CID—Veterans Af- airs Minister Roger Teillet

H.

it also raised the charges .

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The Travellers. first internationally famous

‘ folk-singing quartet. are to be

among the many headline en- tertainers in Charlottetown for the Royal Variety Perform- ance at Confederation Centre Theatre, Oct. 6th. S Johnston. Sid Dolgay. Gray and Ray Woodley. . personalties whose cross-Can- ada tours. television appear-

ces and recordings have won them wide popularity. Since 1953, the members of this outstanding quartet have been rediscovering folk tunes,

TRAVELLERS TO APPEA

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polishing them up. and per-

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and Vitality that they well de-

' forming them With such verve serve their reputation as one

ROYAL PERRMALCE

of North America's foremod folk-singing groups.

said Tuesday he hopes to have amendments to veterans’ legis- lation before the Commons bv the end of October.

He told the Veterans Affairs mmittee the amendments still awaiting final cabinet ap- proval, are to the Veterans Land Act, war veterans’ allow- ances. veterans' pensions and the army benevolent fund

The date was an objective, not a commitment. but the leg- islation would certainly be in

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flood orphans will receive 4 when they reach 21 years of summer mounts. It is typical of age. Ontario and federal 80‘“ post - Hazel conservation areas around Metro that lure hun- lost homes dreds of thousands throughout talled $2.800 Can such a

and businesses to- ‘dlsa-‘rlfl' “like other preventive steps have been taken. Storm-warning and flood-forecasting facilities have been improved. The department of transport has assigned a full- time meteorologist to the job. niy bad memories remain of Hurricane Hazel. Mr. . . Ward. who spent seven hours clinging to the rooftop of her house before being rescued by helicopter, doesn’t like to think

gain. Toronto has taken steps to ensure that it doesn't. The first move was to expropriate 387 in low - lying danger areas and to ban future housing developments ere.

Then it set up the Metropoli tan Toronto and Region Conser- vation Authority which in 1959 approved a $38,000,000 flood-con-

trol program .for the 1.900- of Oct. 16. 1954. “You‘d go square-mile region. It is being crazy brooding over mu we carried out over a 10-year pe- says‘

06 y. Raymore Drive lives

oda again. It has been rebuilt—on safer ground—but is a third shorter than it was 10 years ago. Much of it now is a park. Its survivors have nicknamed Calamity Crescent.

Many reservoirs and concrete flood channels have been com- pleted and eventually. 13 dams and reservoirs will ring Metro Toronto. They will confine and channel flood waters harmlessly into Lake Ontario through regu- lated river systems.

OPEN NEW DAM

A major dam in the system. Claireville, 20 mile t of Toronto. was opened by On- tario Premier John Roberts _and

it GLEASON HONORED of Miami Beach. Fla. where his

weekhr TV show originates this season. .

the Commons before the end of

tor

in our difficulty in obtaining rses."

The minister blamed the doc

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nd and Frank Fane

an ombudsman to act watchdog for veterans‘ l.

as I inter.

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shortage also on a general v national shortage. being hit first." he said. , Teillet. backed by H. W. Her

ge (ND — Kootenay West) 3 (PC—Vegre. ‘; ville), turned down a sugges- ‘ tion that the department have

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the year. ‘

Dr. J. N. Crawford, director general of Treatment Services. said an 'alarming shortage of nurses for veteran hospitals. He blamed this partly on the general shortage nation- ally but particularly on the heavier wonkload imposed in veterans' institutions.

Dr. Crawford s aid some wards have been closed because of the shortage.

‘The patient load is not as attractive as outside. In my opinion this is the main factor 1 f I I I I I I I U‘

for a complete ; line of ,

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Arthur L. Laing. federal minis- ter of northern affairs, Sept. 16. Ontario and the federal govern- ment are sharing the cost of the

stem.

The Clairevlile d a in, like some of the others, creates a 380-acre storage reservoir and a

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