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BE ET ~ AJAX & DISTRICT NEWS John Mills, Representative -- Phone Ajox 426 Board Of Trustees Had Busy Meeting AJAX (Times-Gazette Staff Re- porter)--Before a small audience of six interested taxpayers, the Ajax Board of Trustees waded through a fairly heavy agenda last evening. Permission to hold a carnival on the ball field, on September 18 and 19 was granted the Kinsmen Club, subject to approval from the ball diamond committee, and paying for the flood ts. and Pickering Beach Road. A letter from Pickering Township Council made a request for the sign as several minor accidents had occur- ed at this point. : A request for further financial aid for the Boys' Club was received from its secret K. Spence. Board was unable to grant the request as the funds had been committed for playground equip- ment. A letter from the Ajax Volunteer Firemen's Association for conven- tion expenses for delegates to at- tend the Firefighters' Association convention at Thorold. The request was granted in the amount of regular expenses for two men. EXTINGUISHER SERVICE A letter from the Scarff Manu- facturing Company offering to take over the fire extinguisher service, received favour from the the secretary was instructed to prepare an agreement for the board's consideration. Permission was granted the Kingscourt Tennants Association to hold a street dance on the east side of Harwood Avenue South, on Saturday evening, July 11. The association was aked to make its own arrangements for barricade and police protection. TO INSTAL SIGNALS The board authorized the instal- of two red flasher traffic ignals at the intersection of Har- ood Avenue South fois King's # Mii $8 if E>F 5 g : ! i 1] The | €rs were exceeding the and on the west side of the North Junior School grounds. Special mention was made of the fact that the town foreman, Mr. Reed, had built one set of swings in his spare time and had saved the municipality some $225 on this set, and had materials on hand to build yet another set. The "equipment to be purchased will cost nearly $1,500.00. In fur- ther discussion it was agreed to lace life-savin, . Peach and Duffin's Creek in Rot- ary Park. . pon recommendation of Police Chief Traves, arrangements will be made to set up an electrical timing device to check the speed of cars in the town. Chief Traves said that altogether too many driv- 30 mile speed limit and now children were out of school the practice was par- ticularly hazardous. CORONATION SURPLUS The financial report on the Cor- onation Committee was presented and reported a surplus of $209.00, rather than a deficit of about this amount as had been erroneously reported elsewher.. The error evidently was made on the assumption that the com- mittee's budget had been cut to $500 rather than by $500, leaving the committee with $1000 to spend for the festivities. A letter of appreciation will be sent on to Ontario County Council for the paving of Second Street. This smooth, dustless road is real- ly appreciated by the nearby res- idents who have eaten or breathed huge quantities of dust these past three years. A request from a resident for a kennel licence was turned down as operation of a kennel constituted a busi were not permitted to operate in a res- idential zone, and this particular business could well become a bad nuisance. SCHOOLS COST LESS The board gave second reading this |%0 a by-law authorizing the issu- ance of debentures in the amount of $365,000 for school purposes. Following the second reading of this by-law, Chairman Robert Hunt gave an explanation why this by- aw was required. Earlier a by-law had been passed authorizing raising $496,372. This amount was an estimated cost of the new 16 room school and 4 room sets | addition to the north school. four | modification of plans had prod playground equipment will be located in the Tudor and Cedar , Exeter Street Park, Crescent Park Good work by the architects and equipment at the | $362 Building In Ajax Tops $744,810 AJAX (Times Gazette Staff Re- rter) -- Building Inspector W. E. oble reported to the Board of Trustees on the number of build- ing permits issued for the first hi of 1953. As predicted earlier this year, the total amount indi- cates that when the full year's re- turns are in, this year's construc- tion may exceed any previous year. Following is a summary of build- ing permits issued for the first six month of 1953: Institutional, 3 permits, $93,500. Industrial, 2 permits, $258,000. New Dwellings, 41 permits, .150. Additions and garages, 57 per- mits $31,660. TOTAL to June 30, 1953, $744,810. Water Contract Not Yet Signed AJAX -- The Ajax Board of Trustees has contradicted a re- port that an agreement had been signed with Pickering Village for a water supply. Robert Hunt, board chairman, said today that an agreement had been reached and would be signed as soon as 'the ment had been approved. At moment the agreement was in the hands of the Pickering Village Council. Heat Hits Korean Battle SEOUL (AP)--Infantrymen' and big guns of the U. 8. 7th division broke up two more Chinese attacks today in the four-day s gle for Porkchop hill in western Korea. Artillery shells scattered some Reds who rushed the dug-in Americans. U. S. foot soldiers hurled the Communists down the slopes of the Allied-held height in savage hand-to-hand fighting. The Reds still had a toehold on part the hill. Another fierce battle raged six miles to the northeast where South Korean soldiers held off 40 at- tacking Reds. Murky skies limited air action at the front, as daytime temper- atures reached a sweltering 98 de- grees Thursday, the hottest since last August. school buildings at a saving of $130,000, which was a very happy situation. It was remarked it was another of those "miracles" at- tributed to the Board of Trustees. by | provided ele © SAnuting installatiion of several pieces ! ering mended. Life will be \4 equipment NE Board of Trustees. A refreshment booth will be erec- ted to take the place of the tem- porary booth being manned each weekend by members. Last week- end .George Finley was in charge of the booth on Saturday after- noon and Reg. Goslin on Sunday. The visitors kept the booth quite busy. Test will be taken along the creek and lakefront to determine the purity of the water for swim- mers. Last year's tests were ex- cellent. Visitors to Rotary were Hunt and Stanley Balsdon of CHARACTER ACTOR DIES NEW YORK (AP)--John Far- rell, 70, character actor in musical and television productions, died of a heart attack Thursday at his Brooklyn home. Farrell was born in Boston, entered vaudeville as a i ancing come- and d Ap Te Tg Re became his wife, he. formed the team of Saxton and Farrell, widely known on the vaudeville circuits for many years. The name Africa was first given by the Romans to their provinces in the north of the continent. k- TRAIN FIRE TORONTO (CP)--Fire broke out in a railway boxcar Thursday and caused $3,000 damage. Firemen were forced to direct streams of water on six Canadian National Railways tankcars along- side the boxcar. The blaze is be- lieved to have been started by a spark from a switching engine. GETS 10-YEAR TERM MONTREAL (CP) ---Maurice Lauzon, 24, who robbed a oeely store of $120 at gun-point May 30, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison and told he escaped the lash because his healt! is not good. Lauzon earlier had leaded guilty to the charge before udge Eugene Lafontaine in erim- inal court. ORANGEMEN i PROTESTANTS who are interested in forming an Orange Lodge im Ajox, to the C ation Please communicate with Box No. 508 When the Black Bass "gets his back up" other fish beware. His hard, spiny dorsal fin raises at the first sign of danger and becomes a sharp, vicious weapon of deéence. This helps the Bass geard his nest of young from fish of prey. CARLING'S THE CARLING BREWERIES LIMITED WATERLOO -- MONTREAL -- TORONTO -- TECUMSEN iW TRIE Rubber Rebounds Against Leaf Blight Disease Hi i Da re ericas on a beachhead blasted out by science against the leaf blight dis- ease, The weapons include delicate He- vea rubber seedlings nursed back across the Pacific to their ances- tral home, and 'sandwich trees" built by plant experts juggling roots, trunks, and treetops like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Tropical America's natural rub- ber output is still only a drop in the world's rubber-collecting cup, the National Geographic Society says. But the success of plant dis- ease fighters in growing resistant strains from southern Mexico to Brazil now offers hope that rubber can again become a major crop in tountries were rubber began. FROM AMAZON TO ASIA Compared to the slow, staid trav- els of other vegetable products, natural rubber has bounced around the world and back in less than a century. Its trail of wealth leads |! from Amazon jungles to England's Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, thence to Ceylon and Singapore and to huge close-ranked rubber plana- tations all across Malaya, Java, Borneo, and Sumatra. As late as 1900, nearly 99 per cent of the world's rubber came from Brazil. But jungle workers tapping one or two wild trees per acre could not keep pace with sky- rocketing demands of the automo- bile age. By 1934, the Far East's planatation system accounted for 99 per cent of rubber production. Ironically, although South Ameri- can Para or Heva rubber made Far East planatations possible, it could not be domesticated in this hemisphere. As fast as trees were planted in close formations, they fell victim to leaf blight, a disease that does not exist in the Orient. Since the early 1920's, major U.S. rubber companies have tried to establish planatations in the American tropics. Beginning in 1940, their eforts and those 'of cooperating Latin American coun- tries have been aided by scientists of the U.S. Department of Agricul- TAILOR-MADE TREES Rubber trees sometimes were re- built from the ground up -- roots from one Hevea strain, trunk from joined a mo. ing gr . -yie! strains from Sumatra, nursed in the Philippines, were brought to Costa Rica. Disease-resistant var- ieties were hunted down in jungles of the Amazon. Today there are three U.S. rub- ber research stations in the tropics at Turrialba, Costa Rica; Marfranc Haiti; and Cuyotenango, Guatema- la. Experimental plantings have been made successfully in at least nine countries to the south. Quaran- tine gardens at Coconut Grove, Florida, act as a clearing house for the entire hemisphere. Results are beginning Carefully selected and tended rub- ber trees with blight resistance are coming into production. Plantings are expected to increase 20 per cent in 1953 alone. Small farmers, seeing rubber successfully grown and sold, are asking for seedlings to plant among their coffee and ca- cao. With leaf blight beaten, Am- erican-grown rubber is on the re- bound. KILLED IN COLLISION CORNWALL (CP) -- Reginald Moore, believed to be from Mont- head-on crash of an automobile and a transport truck at Dickin- son's Landing, 10 miles west of here. Details of the mishap were not available. to show. |ty real, was killed Thursday in the |d THE DAILY TPIMES-GAZETTE, Feiday, July 10, 1008 § Small Cheap Jet Is Planner's Idea By ARCH MacKENZIE Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP) -- A top British plane designer is working on a powerful pocket 'et fighter, only a third as heavy and a quarter as expensive as the conventional pe. The pint-sized plane will nothing away to ordinary - s competitors except size, claims W. E. W. Petter, who designed the record - breaking Canberra jet Ne Duiding a prototype of the Nelle a proto e e plane, ad the Gnat. He expects it to be a potent anti-fighter or bomber weapon, and at the same time to be four to five times fast to produce than bigger planes. ; statistics listed by Petter smack of the lightweight fighter craft turned out by the Japanese uring the Second World War, cashing in on economy and man- oeuvreability at the expense of the pilot's lack of armor protection. The resemblance is only skin deep, however. Petter's plans dis- ve count the possibility of the Guat being merely an expendable addi- tion to existing armaments. What he has in mind is a heavy- hit fighter, with swept wings two or 30-millimetre guns, light ejector seat, radio, big body fuel tanks and possible radar range- finding equipment for the guns. Petter thinks it may be ible to produce as Sf un as 00 Gnats for the £2,000,000 that it costs to buy 215 Sabre jets or other up-to- the-minute fighters. Petter estimates the combined weight of the necessary equi ment plus pilot may total only 2,250 pounds, 40 per cent of the plane's total weight. He calls his hypothetical eraft a practical flying weapon whose short production time and saving on man - hours in construction "makes possible efficient produc- tion in many countries which might otherwise not be able to contribute to their own and North atlantic Treaty Organization de- ence." MEAGHER 'S FOR DEEPFREEZE REFRIGERATORS - QUALITY ee SERVICE e SATISFACTION BUY BETTER BETTER BUY OUR SPECIALS ON SATURDAY MORNING ~ SAVINGS » ~ +100.' = N SPECIAL! BAL. $5.25 9.6 CU. FT. $339.50 FOR ONLY $319.00 With Trade 9.6 CU. FT. $369.50 ONLY $36.95 DOWN < "BAL. $4.50 A WEEK 9.6 CU. FT. $429.95 ONLY $43.00 DOWN BAL. $5.00 A WEEK 11.5 CU. FT. $469.95 ONLY $47.00 DOWN A WEEK Meagher's and staff invite you to come in on Saturday, or any day of the week to inspect and select from our DEEPFREEZE REFRIGERATORS and RANGES. You are under no obligation. 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