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Fe a GL FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948 TME DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THREE n Ontario Launches $30 Million Program To Aid 'Housing rl Too Much Butter Tucked In Ice Box Said Hitting Stock By George Kitchen Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, April 2 (CP)--Canada is suffering from too many pounds of butter tucked away in the icebox. That is the way a Prices Board official sizes up the butter situation. a a Odd thought it may sound, he said, it is one of the basic reasons for the country's current butter shortage. It means, literally, that too many housewives, ®------ 5 : anticipating a decline in supplies, have been putting tco many pounds away against the butterless days. True, there was going to be a shortage anyway. It was bound to come, the way Canadians have been gobbling up butter since the ration Wi moved last June. Added to thig"is the fact this-mormally is a period of low butter production. But the hoarding by housewives, instead of helping the situation, has orfty made it worse. At the moment, it looks as though the butter famine may last another three weeks. After that, supplies should increase. Estimates of the' current supply position won't be available for ano. ther 10 days or so but totals cover. ing the situation as of March 25 show that in nine of the larger Can. adian cities stocks were down 1,300,- 000 pounds from the preceding week. | The stocks were 5,033,670 pounds at March 25 against 6,348,703 at March 19. The shortage hits = particularly hard at the larger cities, where distribution problems are multiplied. Thus, Montreal, with its 1,000,000 or more population, is extremely od of butter. The smaller the city, less the hardship. One way to solve the situation | might be to reimpose rationing but prices board officials rule out this | possibility. It would, they say, be an unnecessary expense and incon. | venience to consumers to form a complex rationing organization and reissue ration books throughout the | country to meet a shortage which | will last only three month at the most. Easter Visitors Enfield Area a . HELEN STINSON Correspondent Enfield, March 31--Miss Margar- ct Smith and Mr, Ray Smith, spent Easter week.end in Bobcaygeon. Mr. and Mrs, Edgar Prescott, Mr. Elmer Prescott, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Prescott attended the iuneral of their uncle, the late Jos. Hambly, in Port Perry, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stinson and baby David, Toronto. Miss Vera Stinson, Toronto, spent the Easter week-end at the Stinson home, Miss Mary Helen Bowman, Blackstock, is holidaying at home. Master Murray Prescott, Port Perry, is holidaying at home for the Easter vacation. Mf. and Mrs. Hoskin Smith were among the guests at the Masonic banquet, Bowmanville, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith, Toron. to, Miss Jean Taylor, Mr. Jack Tay. lor, Tcronto, Mr. Gordon Taylor. spent Easter at home. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ormiston, June and Shirley, Brooklin, Mr. and Mis. J. Stark and Jimmie, Oshawa, recently visited at the Stark home. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskin Smith, Mar. garet and Ray, attended a birthday party at the home of Edwin Or- miston, Marple Grove, recently and report a very enjoyable evenug. Mr. ang Mrs, Horace Grills en. tertained their friends at an en- joyable party recently. The even. ing was spent in dancing. Misses Merle Ormiston, Brooklin, and Ruth Prescott, Toronio, spent the weekiend at their respective homes, Mr. O. Ormiston, Raglan, visited this mother, Mrs. Ormiston, at the Stark home. J. D. McLEOD RETIRES Toronto, April 2--(CP)--John D. McLeod, Director of Crops, Seeds and Woods Branch, Ontario De. partment of Agriculture, has resign. ed and will return to his family farm in Glengarry County to farm on his own account, the department announced yesterday. He is succeed. ed by Arthur H. Martin, Associate Director for Extension and former. ly Assistant Director of the Crops, Co-Operation and Markets Branch. FIND MAN'S BODY Toronto, April 2--(CP)--A man police identified as Anthony Dole. gowski, 50, of Depot Harbor, Ont. near Parry Sound, killed himself with a pistol late yesterday, police said. His body was found in a west. end High Park ravine. HEAT SAVER Tests show that about 50 per cent of heat through ordinary glass is saved hy the use of insulating glass. gy x Your 1948 RADIO LICENCE IS NOW DUE! Now Obtainable At wari 1). wag porn 9 and Service § Bond St. W. weeks or a What to Do To-Night Recreation Headquarters 100 Gibbs Street : Note: EASTER WEEK 9-11 a.m. --8Boys' and girls' classes 2-5 p.m.--Collegiate and adult classes EBvehings---Adulte Soi% ECIAL THURSDAY: 7:30 p.m.--Kiwanis committee meet- | ing, Board Room. { 2:00 pm. junio] radio drama re- sal. | FRIDAY: Family Night at CR.A. All regular activ 7:00 pry tying oe. ia bait mak- | 7:30 p.m. BE timingion People's Party. Auditorium. {SATUURDAY: No children's art class. 8:00 p.m.--Community Square Dance | Night, Eastview t tains other neighborhood | MONDAY: Fi 15% Hay of second weaving | 7:30 p.m. a Shore Radio Club monthly meeting. Young | | TUESDAY: 7:30 p.m.--Operetta rehearsal 7:00 p.m.--Air Cadets, Auditorium, |New Officers Installed By I.0.0O.F. Lodge At the meeting of the Corin. thian Lodge, No. 61, last night, officers of the Lodge were installed for 'six. months' DD.GM. of District 4, and his staff. The impressive ceremony was followed by a number of well deliv- ered speeches connected with the work of the Order. Elevated to the post of "Noble | Grand of the Lodge was "Ed" Hawke who will have as his assist. ant Bro. Norman Laughlin, V.G. These men will be served by J. Nors. | worthy, Recording Sec.;Gordon Bar. ton, Financial Sec.; Arthur Flin. ders, Treasurer; Cyril French, Chaplain; Alan Leavitt, Conductor; Joseph Imesci1; Warden; Wesley Lackie, 1.G.; G. Wonnacott, 0.G.; Ray Greentree, LS.N.G.; 8. Turner, RSNG.; Lawrence Kehoe, LS.V. G; George Wotton, RS.V.G.; Clarence Yarrow. LSS.; william | Sim," RSS.; and Gordon Thomp. | son, J.P.G. cites as At---- CUTLERY COUNTS "Taste" applies to more than mere palate-pleasing, in the opin- | ion of government nutritionists. | They say that a table setting should the mouth. There may have been {a time when many people ery and rude eating utensils, cate dishes and attractive cutlery. According to the health people | specializing in food, such table ap- pointments will go a long way to making a meal a pleasure, which means that food will do one all the more geod. pd ne enter- | IOOF, | be as tasteful as what one puts in | could | have only rough and thick crock- | but | today, anyone can afford some deli. | Lodge Honors Member Here For 70 Years ™ The "Happy Birthday" song | echoed through the I.0.0.F. ban- | quet hall last night as a huge birth. day cake, with 15 flickering candles, | was carried through the hall and placed before James Gregory, the | oldest member of the Independent | Order of Odd Fellows. | The elderly gentleman, who cele- brated his 96th birthday yesterday, | was honored by the members of the | Lodge in which he has been active | for 70 years. Called upon to make a | speech, Mr, Gregory said: | "You know, it doesn't seem so | very long ago since I first joined the I.OOF. but in June I shall | have been a member for 70 years. {I can remember whet I looked {around the Lodge rooms and could {see only 14 or 15 brothers. We | we have now. I've seen many | changes, not only in the Order, {in the tity too, changes I'm glad to say that have been for the bet- ter. "I am pleased to see so many young men, who have become in- terested in the I.O.OF., and it's up | to these fine young hoys to start right in, in the spring of their life ! { tures more successful. "My family has all grown up, I | have lost my wife and there are | many times that I feel very.lonely | but I do the best I can. That has always been my object in life, to !do the best I can. I wish God's | blessing- and God's speed to all my | | Brothers as they go through life. I'm not far from home--my heav- | | enly home--but I am prepared to | go, to meet my Maker content with | | the thought that I have tried to do | my best on earth in His name.' | In conclusion Mr. Gregory thank- | | ed his many friends for their kind | thoughts and deeds at this time | and during the past. GIVEN 15 MONTHS Napanee, April 2--(CP)--Graham | | Marriott, 17, of Niagara Falls, Ont., { was sentenced yesterday 'to 15 months in the Ontario reformatory | on a charge of stealing an automo. | bile belonging to Clinton Drager of | Kingston. Marriott = was arrested | March 31 by Belleville police who | said he struck and slightly injured |a nine.year.old boy when he lost | control of the car about half a mile | west of here. FAMED FENCER DIES Kingston, April 2--(CP)--Death | has claimed a fencing expert, 83. |year.old Amos Seth Boutilier, | known across Canada for his skill | with the sword and bayonet. Born in Halifax, he was a former gymnas. tic instructor at the Royal Military College of Canada here. { thought that a lot then and it does | my heart good to see the number | but | and make this Order and their fu- | Times-Gazette photographer ate #Newly installed officers of Corinthian Lodge, No. 61, 1.0.0.F.»pose for a®------ r the ceremony last night. Seated from left are Ed Hawke, N.G.; E. A. Stephenson, D.D.G.M.; Norman Laugh, V.G. and standing in the first row from left are C. E. Yarrow, L.S.S.; E. Norsworthy, R.S.; R. Greentree, R.S.N.G.; S. Turner, R.S.N.G., Fy dren, Thompson, J.P.G.; George Wotton, R.S.V.G.; L. Kehoe, L.S.V.G.; A. E.! Lackie, 1.G.; W. G. Sim, R.S.S. In the back, from Flinders, Treas.; Ww. left, are G. A, Leavitt, Conduct ing Chaplain; J. W. Imeson, Ontario Surplus (Continued from Page 1) required for debt refunding and $350,000,000 for hydro and other development projects in the next | four years; .continuation of the one-mill municipal subsidy, esti- mated at $3,325,000; dental care for children of beneficiaries under they! a $21,- pro- Mothers' Allowances Act; | 600,000 rural electrification gram. He repeated again the Ontario request that the dominion govern- ment reconvene the dominign-pro- vincial conference ment on social security programs land cited figures to | contention that Ontario acted | provincial fields of taxation. The proposed dominion payment | for tax field rental in the last year | | would have amounted to $74,438,000. The Ontario government' collected | | from these tax sources $72.063,000 | without levying a personal income tax. It would have produced an- other $15,800,000 and made the total | $87,863,000. On Tax Question "The financial benefits accruing to thig province as a result of the non-acceptance of the dominions | | tax proposals must now be under- stood and fully appreciated by | every member of this assembly. In | ! sharp contrast to our own comfort- able situation due to our insist- | ence upon retaining our constitu- tional taxing powers, is the plight | | in which one of the agreeing prov- | inces finds itself after one full year | of functioning within the frame- | | work of the dominion- provincial | | tax agreement. The province I have | { in mind is British Columbia." The west coast province recently | imposed a three per cent sales tax | | to obtain revenue of $12,000,000. Mr. | Frost quoted the buciget speech of | Provincial Treasurer Anscomb who | sald the agreement with the domin- |ion prevented B.C. from entering other tax fields and "there is, there- Br no alternative but to consider the 'only source of revenue capable of yielding sufficient funds." Mr, Frost continued: "Compare this with the position of the prov- ince of Ontario with no sales tax and no personal income tax, free | from any financial straight-jacket, {but with its full financial freedom | to raise, without restrictions, rev- ;enues from sources best able to v." Mr. Frost spoke at length, and in optimistic vein, of Ontario, its na- turdl resources, its position as the leading manufacturing province, its mines, its iron and steel industry, its agricultural wealth--and its pos- | sibilities for future growth. The governmertt's plan for future | development included the use of its -- -- grow this summer. incorporated in the h Administrators: € SIMCOE ST. N,, O ANOTHER | INTEGRATED HOUSING PROJECT By W. S. POGSON ABOUT TO START SOON ON CENTRAL PARK BOULEVARD New beautiful designs, attractive floor plans; priority of purchase to Veterans of World War II. Place your order now By acting now you can get any "extras" you want ouse for a minimum of cost. 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To Control Debt | Mr. Frost estimated the net debt at the end of the last fiscal year | as $468,083,820. He said the govern- | ment aimed .at keeping strictly under control finance costs of future works. This year, the government plan- ned to continue its rural electrifica- tion program with the eventual aim | of making electricity available in all | farming areas in the - province. ! Since" 1944 it had built 3,679 miles capital | of new line and added 58248 new | | customers. The 1948 program call- ed for 3,400 miles of line and 30,000 | ! additional customers. The govern- ! ment appropriation: of $10,800,000 | | for this program would be matched | by the hydro commission, and bring | total expenditure to $21,600,000. | The highway program in the last! the | | year, costing $61,00,000 was largest in the province's history. This covered more than 1,000 miles of road--paved, concrete, {and mulch surfaces--and work on mining roads. major In the com- to $57,000,000-- "which covers the maximum amount of work which the department can do with -avail- able labor, mathiney and ma- | terial." Cost of welfare services continued to increase, despite high = employ- | { ment, The figure for the coming year was estimated at $17,000,000 | expenditures | | of $9,600,000 five years ago. Health | | compared with total services to mothers receiving moth- the debt | in spite of | | the need for raising new money to | asphalt ! | ing year expenditure would amount | 2 4 Newly Installed Officers of Corinthian Lodge 1.0.0.F. ers' allowances 'were being expand- | | ed te include dental care for chil- planned for the department of had doubled the number of trans- port and semi-transport aircraft in | Expenditures of $8200,000 were | tt, 0.G.; V. L. Cole, Act. | 1ands and forests. The government | Proposed Measure | Cuts Cash Outlay For Wage Earner Toronto, April 2 (CP = Legiaation: to launch a four- pronged attack on Ontario's housing problem without com- mitting the government to actual entry into the construction business was on its way through the legislature oday. A $30,000,000 four-point program designed to encourage | construction of new homes and re-o------ | development of old housing was | given first reading in the house ! yesterday after introduction by | Planning Minister Dana Porter. The legislation--promised in the | housing. | | throne speech at the opening of the | i current session--was complemented | Reason for the provincial action | is to clear the way for one of the | one reason' the dominion had for | cancelling housing and thus enable continued construction in Ontario of federally-sponsored low-rental by a startling announcement from |1S | . > | points in the: province's plan. Premier Drew. It advised that Ontario's newly- This point declares that when 'a passed Crown Tenants Provinclal- | municipality wants to: take advant- | Municipal Lands Act would be with- | age of the federal low-rental hous- | held from operation. It was - this {ing scheme, the province will: offer act that constituted the issue when to pay one half of the cost of land Federal Trade Minister Howe. last |and services to the limit of $300 week called off 'all dominion: hous- | per house. This part of Ontario's ing plans for Ontario. ay | Premier Drew's decision, there- | HOUSING PROGRAM fore, was designed to remove the | (Continued on Page 8) FITIXT: | the provincial air service. Nursery | | stock production had been boosted {by $30,000,000 trees annually. Re- search had been expanded. Aid te Mining In mining, it was possible that the dollar value of production in 1948 would exceed the high of. $269,- 000,000 in 1943. Iron ore was play- | ing an increasingly important part | in the mining picture. 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