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4, 1947 Ine VAILT 11IMESGAZEL1E PAGE NINE TUESDAY, FFEBRUARY What Council Did | City Couneil at its régular meet- | ing in the Council Chamber at the old City Hall last night completed business on its agenda two hours. I | | 3:8 E &s Bt : i i : il Ii 3 i: | ls at Ritson rear of the the Board of e Chief of Police with the men at L J A communication from the Police Commission regarding smoke and dust nuisance from the Kohen I Lumber Co, was received and filed las the matter is being handled by the Commission. . * Pb Moved to refer a communication from the Oshawa Fire Fighters' Association, regarding the 56-hour week to the next meeting of the Committee of the Whole Council when representatives of the Asso- ciation and the International Bro- therhood of Fire Fighters will dis- cuss the question with the Council, & ef * be Heard an outline of the work of the Oshawa Film Council from its secretary, P. J. McAdam, and re- ferred its request for a grant to the Finance Committee, * +b Moved to pay Anthony Mayer $960 in settlement of his claim in connection with extras in the con- gruction of the new Cedardale Fire all, * bd Refarred a compunication from the Public Welfare Board regarding an increase in salary for Miss Ivy Dixon to the Finance Committee. | * > b Referred a request from the Osh- awa Regimental and Clyvic Band for its usual grant of $2,000 to the Fi- nance Committee. i ferred an account from Nick , 848 Simcoe Street South, for $11 covering 22 loads of earth to the City Solicitor. re Referred to the Committee of the Whole Council for discussion a reso- ution from the City of London, On- tario, calling upon the federal gov- ermment to institute s policy 'of selective immigration, gL TY a | the proposed Referred an offer of $50 for a lot the north side of Rogers Street operate a grocery store af 50 Nas- sau Street, to the General Purpose Education, ai installation of traffic lights at the corner of Ritson Road and King Street, * +e Referred a communication re- garding a neor- sign at Henderson's Book Store to the General Purpose Committee. L235 IR J Referred a letter from the City Solicitor, outlining the Williams Piano Works deal, to the Committee of the Whole Council. * Pe Passed for payments the accounts of the various committees as fol- lows: Finance, $73,308.28; Board of Works, $38,506.78; City Property and Fire Protection, $0,338.08 and Gen- eral Purpose, $144.37. * Approved an account for $10--the membership fee in the Association of Assessing Officers. * + + Gave approval to an account from' the Ontario Motor Sales for $195 for the repair of one of the city trucks. This truck had a pis- ton through the block while snow- plowing. * bb Approved of the expenditure of $1,606 for a snowplow frame and blade for the new Secard flusher. This amount will be included in the Board of Works budget for 1047. bb Passed a resolution expressing the city's desire to have Oshawa desig- nated by the Ontario Department of Planning and Development as 8 planning area. This is the first step toward the setting up of a new Planning Board. * Re-appointed Alderman Clifford Harman as the Council representa- tive on the local board of the Vic- torian Order of Nurses, Australians Ponder Native Welfare Plans By WILLIAM STEWART Canadian Press Staff Writer Canberra,-- (CP)--Problem of Australia's 70,000 full and mix- ed-blood Aborigines, who once numbered 300,000, is engaging attention in many quarters of this country. There has been a great deal of public discussion of the situation of the "Abos" and whether their welfare would be served best by improved conditions on reserva- tions barred to the white man or by their absorption into white society. Plans have been announced for improvement of reservation life by assistance to church missions serving the = natives, by new schools and training centres, bet- ter medical facilities and care of the aged and infirm, Increase Administration Zones In the Northern Territory where Aborigines number about 15,000, the plans would be help- ed along by increasing the num- ber of administrative zones in the largely-undeveloped area, The Aborigines would get training for farm and cattle work and as tradesmen, Native children would et primary and technical oe n. In Central Australia, nativeaf- fairs officers and owners of graz. ing properties agreed on a wage scale which would give native workmen $2 a week for first-year employment, $2.80 for second- year and $3.20 for third-year work in addition to keep, improv. ed housing and sanitary and bath- ing facilities. In Western Australia, 25,000 Aborigines were recently granted the same rate of pay as white farmhands. ueensland, which has 13,000 borigines, spends about $800,000 a year on the wel fare of those in settlements, The fact that the states in which natives still exist carry out individual programs for the Ab- origines has been the cause of some criticism on the ground there should be a feaera] native affairs department co-ordinating state efforts and bringing them to a uniform standard, Aborigins' Origin The Aborigines are sometimes grouped with hill tribes in south- ern India and other natives in islands between the Malay Penin- sula and the northwestern Austra- lia coast. The * mainland natives are thought to have been more re- cently arrived on the Australian continent than those of the south. ern island State of Tasmania, a different type virtually extermi- nated in the early days of white settlement and vanished altogeth- er since. Their only domestic animal when the white man reached Ay- stralia was the dingo, a wild dog, 7 and though their tribal organiza- tion was elaborate, they had-de- veloped only a few primitive wea- pons and implements including the curved throwing-stick known as the boomerang. . They were generally ignorant of cultivation but knew how. to produce fire by friction, They fed on kangaroos and other marsu- pials, -birdg and reptiles, insects, crocodile and turtle eggs, wild fruit, nuts and honey. During the war when Austral- ia feared invasion by the Japanese the Australian army enrolled na- tives in the Northern Territory, some meKing their first contact with the white man, and employ- ed them at a variety of non-com- batant jobs, Some natives joined the Aus- tralian services as fighting men and those who served overseas were given the privilege of voting, generallv denied Aborigines who do not hold formal Australian citizenship, Today the 47,000 full-bloods, and 23,000. mixed-bloods for whom there {is no comfortable place either in black or white Aus- tralian society, live in their na- tural state in the seclusion of re. serves or on cattle stations where they are employed as stockmen, drovers and shearers. Big Statue Bears "Honorable Wound" London--(CP)~--In a niche on the wall of Bush House, big business block on the Strand, a 20-ton statue representing the New World reach- i gv mmtil July 1944, for a torch y ano colossus boliz- | a 8 CENEE. cam ¢ rome e n from a homb took off the New World sta- tue's outstretched arm above the elbow. It will never get the torch now, for it has been decided that the lost arm is an "honorable wound," said R. D. Peck, managing director of the building, Three Wives Claim Him As Their Husband Spinning mill worker fronted by three women (right) who claimed he began when Welch returned from his latest his third bride, Thelma G: to find Mrs. Welch, not his daughter. 'The w summoned by the jather of Everett Welch (left), 36, is shown in a Philadelphia, married them without in honeymoon and found detectives awaiting him. 'They had been ther, who had visited the h shown as they appeared at the hearing, are (left Pa., court where be was con- divorces. The trouble of his son-in-law Thelma Ganther Welch, 19, wife No. 3; Mrs. Antoinette Pizzi Welch, 22, wife No. 2, and Mrs. by Welch, 34, wife No. 1, who has three children by Welch. He was held in $2,500 bail, Fine Reports Of Work Presented At Newcastle PAULINE DELINE Newcastle, Feb. 1. -- The annual business meeting of Mill Street United Church was held last week. Some 80 members were present to enjoy the pot luck supper, and social evening. , Following the meal Rev. G. OC. Quigley of St. Paul's Church, Bow- manville, addressed the congrega~ tion. The Linch boys of Orono ren dered three musical numbers inter- spersed with matter of business. Gratifying reports of the year's ac- tivities were presented in two min- ute speeches by the different organ- izations of the Church. F. W. Rickard led in a lively sing- song that was enjoyed by all. The following men were elected as Eld- ers of the Church: R. E. Ward, E. Thackery and G. Martin. Members elected as stewards were: F. Me- Mullen, J. Ssandham, C. Cowan, H. J. Toms, B, Rowland and J. Brown. G. Martin, on behalf of 'the con- gregation read a letter of apprecia- tion to the minister, Rev. W. W. Patterson and Mrs. Patterson for their untiring efforts and faithful work during the year. He then presented them with a purse of money as a token of their apprecia- ion The 'meeting also recommended by resolution to the official board that a raise be made in the minis- terial salary, adequate to meet the rise in cost of living and serve the needs of the congregation. Thank Offering Service The Y.P.U. met on Monday ev- ening in the Sunday School room for a special "Thank Offering" ser- vice to which all the tions of the church and the A.Y.P.U. were invited. Pauline Deline, Mission. ary convener for 1946 was in charge of the meeting. The worship period opened with quiet music, d "The read. Kay Toms read the scripture, Matt. 28, 19-20, Isa. 6, 8-13 and ex- planation. Hymn "Faith of Our Fathers" was sung, followed by a prayer. Evelyn and Betty Allin sang a duet "The Stranger of Gali- lee." The program consisted of a sing- song by Mrs, M. Sallows; Slides "Sunshine and Alber- ta", a reading by Mrs. P. Hare and a piano solo by Claire Allin, Hymn "In Christ there is no east or west" was sung, after which Rev. Patter- son led in prayer. A light lunch was served, During the gbsence of Mr, J. Dyer, the choir is being directed under the capable leadership of Mrs. J. Brown, Mrs, E. O. Fisher has been guest organist for the past three weeks, : The W.0.T.U. met on Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the Board Room for their regular monthly meeting. Pauline Deline in Gananoque, vis! t three days with Mr, Gerrard and Mr, and Mrs, Mrs. Edith McArthur has accept- ed a position at Trinity friends wish her success in in Port Hope. Her many new venture. Mrs, Robert Ward is recovering fh i ; i : i ¥ i i 1 i CONGRATULATIONS fo Cliff Mills and His Staff W. MOSIER Construction Superintendent after a week of being in bed due to a cut received on her head when she fell on ice in front of the Unit- ed Ohurch,. The councillor in charge of the streets should take hig position more seriously and see that the streets are ed before more accidents occur. H, J. Toms has been ill with the flu for the past few days. Two cars driven by Harold Hos- kin and Frank McMullen took twelve Y.P.U. members to the Pres- bytery Skating Party held in Whit- by on Tuesday evening, The mem- bers of the Whitby Y.P.U. served hat, soup and do-nuts at the Une ited. Church Aollowing the skat- ing. Glenna Wilson of Oshawa led in the sing-song, The evening clos- ed with one verse of "Blest be: the | test tie that binds." W. Wright. Trenton, spent the week-end with Mrs, Wright, Abandoned Lands Made 8t. Methode, Que,--(COP)--Ihirty- two families of this little Lake St. John district town have earned, by their diligence and skill as far~ mers, the title deeds to farms they came to as strangers nearly 20 years ago. The story goes back to the late 1920's when the wasted waters of Leake 8t. John were captured and harnessed by construction of the Isle Maligne dam, Land, formerly flooded ony in the spring, was ex~ pected to be submerged all summer as a result of this project. The Saguenay Power Company, Ltd., which owns the 500,000 norse- | power - hydro-electric plant at Isle beach and low- i | Masiigne. purchase ly. around the lake as pro- tec! om aguing damage to adjoining 4 es. . Part of their purchase embraced a section of the fertile land in the | credits through parish of St. Methode. Farmers feared al] the low fields around the lake be ruined by the nearby risen water, but as the years passed, Rev, Joseph Fortin, parish priest at St. ode, ob- served that hundreds of acres bcr- dering the lake in his parish were undamaged. . Successful Experiment The power company, in conjunc- tion with Father Fortin, engaged an agronomist to operate one of the lowest-lying abandoned farms as a . Within two years resu'ts proved the land nad suffered no harm and crops were abundent. This was a time of depression ani [Fallow by Quebecers it was suggested some families might find solution to their mob» lems at 8t, Methode and the com- peny offered the use of idle 'arms rent free to deserving persons. Applications came from all over Canada; each was considered ani 40 famil'es were chosen. The land was cleared and as some farms contained dwellings and barns, the "colonization" project consisted chiefly of mending fences, clearing drainage ditches and plow- ing the soil. Pedigreed Cattle Provided The company provided farmers with pedigree cattle on a hire-pur- chase plan. A new butter and cheese factory, a saw mill, black. smith's adn wheelwright's shop, and a grocery and hardware store were establiched and operated by the company which also provided farm a credit union, St. Methode's settlers an to forge ahead, Soon the Credit Un- don was no longer needed; settlers paid off the indebtedness on their cows; the operator of the cheese and butter factory purchased the busine:s for his own; the black- smith and the sawyer followed suit and the ecmpany store passed into privats hands, The scheme, undertaken nearly 20 years ago, reached its climax a short time ago when title deeds of |. their farms were presested to 32 of the original 40 settlers, The banjo was introduced into American by the Negroes. Bombay Plans Milk Colonies New Delhi--(CP)--The establish= ment of "milk colonies" in the rural areas of the province now 1s being considered by the Bombay govern- ment as an in of the posal' to cen a Vie adequate pasture land for the cate li it H 3 g 2 g B 5 ...at long last... Here's Good Fuel News! AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF OSHAWA AND DISTRICT! ws 18 ad ERIE RRR PERE ba we CERNE