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\ . THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1948 PAGE FOUR LATEST NEWS OF THE COUNTY TOWN OF WHITBY Business Office: Miss G. Macpherson. Editor: Robert Corbett, phone 2589 be.) Phone 703, All Departments Whitby Chosen As Site For U.C. Meet On Evangelism An important conference of the United Church of Canada on the subject of "Evangelism" will be held in the Ontario Ladies' College here on September 7th and 8th. Ministers and laymen from all parts of Ontario will attend and it is expected that about 150 will be accommodated over night. Conference leaders are men prominent in church life, some of them from the United States. This is the first time Whitby has been so honored being chosen the locale for this outstandingly signi- ficant conference, and it is a mat- ter of pride to citizens that the col- lege facilities were suitable to at- tract this body. Chairman of the conference com- mittee is well known here. He is Dr. James Semple, M.A, B.D,, of Peter- borough, Secretary is "Dr. R. C. Chalmers of the United Church of- fices in Toronto. Conference leaders are Dr. An- drew W. Blackwood, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ.; Dr. H. H. McConnell, Depart- ment of Evangelism, Federal Coun- Rev. M. A. J. Waters, Laurence Park Community, Toronto. Such subjects as these will be dis- cussed by the delegates: The Mod- ern Minister as Preacher and Pas- tor; The New Testament Basis of Visitation Evangelism; Training the Laity in Evangelism. Others who will figure prominent- ly at the conference are Harold M. Smith, Toronto barrister; Dr. R. T. Richards of London; Rev. Duncan McTavish of Hamilton; Rev. Car- men Hie of Toronto and Rev. A. M. Little. Registration fee for delegates is only $2.00 which includes accom- modation and four meals at the col- cil of Churches, New York, and Editorial Comment lege. Temporary Setback In spite of the blows struck at Whitby retail business by the opening of highway 2A there is some evidence that cer- tain merchants are not taking it "lying down." It is also encouraging to note that several new businesses are coming to town, an indication that outsiders also, have faith in the future of Whitby. This faith is felt to be based largely upon the establishment of new industries recently in Whitby and the industrial growth of Pickering township. On the other side of the picture are figures to show just how serious the opening of 2A was to local business. Tourist cabin operators and roadside stands report business down as much as fifty percent. Restaurant business is hit. Garage- men say their gas business is off thirty percent and transient repairs show a similar slump. With hardiy an exception other retail merchants say they have noticed the difference -- a difference which is a direct financial loss. Many avenues could be followed in an effort to retrieve some of this lost business. Without detailing solutions which might be interpreted as personal views, it can be said in a general way that advertising signs in strategic locations are a proven method of attracting business; new up-to-date store fronts are worth much in tourist business; newspaper adver- tising has been known to go a long way toward boosting business; novelty advertising can be valuable; a reputation for excellent or an unique type of service can become known widely in a community. All these and more methods of rejuvenation might be employed by a town which has suf- fered an economic blow. Just how much can be done when a whole business community becomes tourist-minded can be seen in the town of Bracebridge where nearly every store has been completely modernized within the past few years. That it is successfully bidding for the tourist's dollar is confirmed by the heavy crowds on the main street any day through July and August and this while other towns in similar resort areas fail to attract as many spending visitors. LONG CRUISE Stuart Roblin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Roblin, Henry Street, came home yesterday after a cruise * "around the continent on the "Shef- _ field." He will spend the rest of the "summer at home and then return to the Agricultural College at Guelph to complete a course. While in Victoria, B.C., last week he had the pleasure of meeting Donald Wilson of Whitby who has been holidaying there for the past month. Wife Preservers, Formed by successive vegetation and submersion of prehistoric forest and plant life, coal is classified ac- cording to its hardness and depth. inj ainst mo tals Fg the folds. insure against mild AIR-CONDITIONED NOW PLAYING TWO SHOWS AT 6.45 and 9.00 mh Ades, | OGART HITS A NEW HIGH IN HIGH ADVENTURE IN WARNER BROS. . TOWERING TRIUMPH! WH; BEBE iron swe © SCARIER FLAY BY JON WUSTON - BASED OW THE NOVEL BV Whitby News In Brief Accounts of social events, any news item" of local interest hr Ay Tr of visitors are appreciated. PHONE 1703 FALL ASSIZES The Ontario County Fall assizes are scheduled to open in Whitby on September. 7. po SE 4 ANE EDI a Mrs. J. MacDofald, her sister Mrs. Claus of Oshawa and Morris Claus of Oshawa motored to Detroit where they attended the wedding of a nephéw on Saturday. * rb IN MUSKOKA Mayor and Mrs. William David- son spent the weekend with their daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald at Milford Bay, Muskok=. Lh GAME THURSDAY Whitby All-Stars will play their first game in the Ontario Softball Association playdowns in Whitby town park Thursday night when they play Westmount, East Whitby Champs. + + + ATTENDS RE-UNION Mrs. Violet D. Richardson was in Toronto last week where she at- tended the Paratroopers Special Service Force re-union, held at the Royal York Hotel. * + The Women's Institute will hold its annual picnic in the Town Park, on Friday afternoon. Members are asked to bring their own dishes. Friends of the Institute are cordial- ly invited. * bP ARRANGES: PROGRAM The after-dinner program at the Rotary Club today is in charge of Gordon Bateman, manager of the Bank of Commerce. " * + 5 HONORARY MEMBERS Recreation Director Gordon Mc- Mahon has been made an honorary member of the Whitby Rotary Club. Also an honorary member now is Dr. Graham MacDougall who was a charter member of the club and a past-president. * bP LAKE FRONT USED This year the facilities at Haydn shore Park and east along the beach are being used more than ever. There is lots of parking space and recent Sundays have seen good crowds down there. However Whit- by cannot offer a guarantee of warm water to swim in until the community pool is built. + $ MANAGER RESIGNS George C. Roddis who has been manager of Agnew-Surpass Shoe Store, in Whitby for the past ten years has resigned to take a position with the Gutta-Percha and Rubber Co., (Toronto. and will commence his new duties September 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Roddis will continue to reside in Whitby. Local Pool May Someday Good progress is being made toward a swimming pool like this for Whitby. Match This One The change-houses will not be built for several years it is believed since these "extra" items are mot included in the present budget. The pool shown above has just been opened at Ingersoll where it was built and donated to the town by A. E. Wilson of the Morrow Screw and Nut Company. At Ingersoll there is also a wading pool for little tots which is separated from the larger one by a high iron-bar fence. To Head New French Government In Paris, the Htiporiant news- ots the-moment on the political front is the appointment of Andre Marie (photo at right), former minister of justice of the Robert Schuman cabinet, as prime minister of the new govern- ment to be formed. His wife (photo at left) is thrilled at the news that her husband is to be the new premier. Me For Me By ph Lister Rutledg The recent threatened railroad strike has had--at least so we hope --a sobering effect on public think- ing. For a few days 'the country stood face to face with a threat that might for the time have set it back a century, to where the horse and the slow water haul were the only means of transportation. With no coal or oil or gas, highway traffic, to which our age is geared, would soon have been at an end. Food would have rotted in the fields for lack of means of distribution. Cities would have been starved and uninhabitable because their neces- sary services are dependent on the railroads, Whole industries would have had to close and tens of thou- sands of people who had no per- sona] interest in the dispute would have been without work or wages. These things did not happen, but the threat was there. That threat has made the public acutely aware that such a condition must not be, because the costs and the gains are disproportionate and ill-distributed, the cost to a whole people and the possible gain to a relative few. This is no criticism of the railroad men. They were following a well-beaten path that leads to nowhere. They were no more irresponsible than any other strikers. They were no worse than non-striking citizens who be- lieve that a demand that is econom- ically or politically powerful enough carries its own justification. It is perhaps the first step to con- structive thinking to realize that there is a penalty for economic sin, and that sin is that anyone should use power to assure ends to which he is not entitled by the circum- stances, or that benefit one at the expense of another, It is evidenced in the "me for me" attitude that is a threat to the organized society in which we al] live, for, pushed to its logical extreme, it means the end of organized society and a return to the tooth and claw of the jungle. It is well that the farmer shsuld have realized that his year's work was at stake, that the public should re- cognize that their safety and their ccmfort and their ability to live in their world was also in jeopardy, that they should realize that their rights, the rights to work and to move from place to place and to be secure under the organized society they had established, cannot be sub- Ject to the whim or the prejudice or the possible greed of anyone, So- clety, which means all of us, not some favored or some powerful group, must protect all jts members, for the essence of society is that it should provide a way of living to- gether and not by any compulsion, but of our own free choice. MORE TWO-CAR FAMILIES The number of two-car families in the United States increased 33 U.S S. Presidential | Rivals Meet President Harry S. Truman and Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who will fight it out for the U.S. presidency in November, meet for the first time since they were inated by their respective parties, at the opening of the International Air Exposition at Idlewild airport in New York. The chief executive and Governor Dewey forgot politics for the | J time being to join in dedication of the airport. Picture shows, left to right, the president, Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City, and Governor Dewey. * A ---------------------- Announcing! The Re-Opening Of The Whitby Office Of The NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE :«d UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18 In the Second Floor OF THE POST OFICE BUILDING! HOU RS . Open Wed. & Thursdays 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. per cent last year. Hydro Situation Is 'Touch and Go' Toronto, Aug, 17--(CP)--The sit uation in respect to hydro power has been "touch and go" this sum- mer, Chairman Robert Saunders of the Hydro-Electric Power Commis sion of Ontario said Monday night in a broadcast address. He appealed for the co-operation of all consum- ers to eliminate waste in the use of electricity. "We have been forced on almost every day to reduce power being supplied to five or six large indus- tries," he said. "For example, last Wednesday the cut amounted to 132,600 kilowatts." He repeated his warning that res- trictions would have to be imposed this fall and winter because of les- sened water flow in Ontario and Quebec power sources. ARTERIAL BLOOD Blood from an artery is of bright red color and escapes from a wound jets synchronized with the heart's beat. Whitby Classified FOR SALE--$4,000, IMMEDIATE POS- session: Six-roomed bungalow, good newly decorated, three-piece ial cement cellar, no furnace, £ rage. ,800 down, balance arranged. Phone V Phitby | 696. WANTED TO BUY--ALL KI} KINDS OF Poultry, also new and a featners. Highest market picts, ply J. Par- ker, 321 Brock LA 486 or Oshawa 1859. MALE HELP WANTED FOR SHIPPING department, Sday week, Splendid op- portunity for reliable man, permanent position. Apply Office Manager, Wm. J. Anderson Co., Euclid Street, "ung Aug _ 19) RIC FRIGIDAIRE, , oven control, $35; ; Lovely Kit- chen Cabinet, $30; ho "Chesterfield, cost $180 new, will sell for $90. Apply 215 Dundas Street east, rear entrance, upstairs, J. rk. (Aug. . 18) WANTED--FEMALE HELP WANTED, office clerk with typing ex stjence, 5- osition. Ap) ly . AC ON 0., (Aug. 19) 10, MED- SALE aE day week, permanent Office Manager, Wm. Euclid Street, Whitby. CROSLEY PORTABLE RAD ium size. Phone 3 331 Whitby. ___(190a) FOR SALE--RED ASTRAKHAN AF APPLES and Melba Apples, 6 quart baskets or more. y, ing your, your own containers. Ap- ply Orchard, Athol street Bos 'end, Whith, y. ( BEAUTIFUL ABERDEEN GRANITE HOUSE Four Acres, Barn and Chicken House $9,500 This property is situated in a sized village; void of shacks, and whieh is noted for its spendid homes. fh southern Ontario County, about 30 miles from Toronto. The village has wonderful sho) ping and delivery facili- ties, and is we standing profession, four med dentist, one lawyer, large modern school Yih continuation high school The house is of Scotch centre hall plan, large living-room and dining-room with sturdy oak floors, modern kitchen with up-to-date sink, three men large master room, ranite stone, oors, 3-pc., bath. Ali | rooms supplied with plenty of clothes | closet space, extra room for maid's uarters, cement cellar under entire Bullding. hot-air heating, good drink- ing water from never-failing well. A 2-storey barn, 30 ft. by 20 ft., with large chicken and brooder house ad- Jolsing with electric lights, controlled from the house. The land is rich soll and specially adapted for the growing of vegetables and small fruits. At the prices of eggs, vegetables, raspberries and strawberries you can build up se- curity for tomorrow and have a life- time home in a beautiful setting. The price is ust half of an architect's esti- mated cost of the buildings alone. The owner of this property is returning to England, hence the sacrifice price for a quick sale. Inspection through ap- pointment only. GORDON OSBORNE REAL ESTATE BROKER . WHITBY J. E. SHIELDS SALESMAN Phone 522. Evenings 2473 Mental Patient Dies In Assault, Inquest Ordered A patient at the Ontario Hospital, Whitby, died early yesterday morning as the result of injuries received in a fracas with another patient. Coroner Dr. F. A. Cuddy said that he has called an inquest for Thursday night into the death of Harry James Reid, 60, of 275 Kent Street, Lindsay. The man is believed .to have died from a fractured skull but the autopsy report of Dr. Harold Pritzker was not available last night. It is believed that Reid's assailant will not be named, nor will the patient be allowed to give evidence at the inquest. Chief Called Chief Constable Willlam Elliott Recently Wed ® ° investigated under instructions from the coroner and reported to Crown Attorney Alex. Hall, Chief Elliott will empanel a jury today. Although Reid's assailant cannot give evidence, purpose of the inquest is to absolve any members of the hospital staff who may have seen the accident. The incident is said to have been the culmination of a long period of bad feeling between Reid and a man about half his age. While working in No. 1 kitchen on Sunday the assault occurred 'and in the scuffle, Reid is said to have fallen aaginst a stove, striking his head. Superintendent of the hospital, Dr. D. R. Fletcher, was unable to make any statement on the acci- dent since departmental instructions are that all information must come from the Ontario Department of Health, Deaths at the hospital usually are such as to require no attention from municipal authorities but the inquiry is called to determine defi- nitely that attendants were not re- miss in their duty. It is believed that even if it wer legally possible for a patient to gi" 2 evidence the condition of the mar 3 assailant is such that his story would not be accepted. In Memoriam HAIRE--In lovin ng memory of my dear husband, Davi Halter who passed away, August 17th, Loving memories oat 'die As months go on, and the years Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gibson pictur- ed after their wedding in St, John's Anglican Church, Brooklin. Mrs. Gibson was the former Goldie Sa- rah Jane Keetch of Brooklin. They by. --Ai ays remembered by his wife and are living in Toronto. family. INJURED IN CRASH Montreal, Aug. 17--(CP) -- Mrs. Jane Hedge, 21, of Peterborough, Monday night suffered a probable skull. fracture when the automobile in which she was riding with her husband collided with a truck. The injured women's husband was not Donald's Motor Sales General Motors Sales & Service For Whitby and District FULLY EQUIPPED SHOP FACTORY APPROVED MECHANICS PHONE 304 injured. WHITBY ELECTRIC Earl "Jake" Bryant INSTALLATIONS, FIXTURES WATER HEATERS, FARMS Phone 650 Whitby GUARANTEED IMMEDIATE BUTT RADIO & APPLIANCE 130 Broek St. N., Whitby, Tel 707 JUNIOR PLAYOFFS WHITBY JUNIORS Meet Tomorrow night in Whitby Town Park (First of series for title) 5.30 P.M. _- supplied with the out- | ical, one J sub- Check Your RADIO and REFRIGERATOR Needs by Calling . . . WHITBY HOME APPLIANCE "There's Always a Leader" Phone 383 124 Dundas St. W. 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