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wadnnday aligol 2lh 1959 the geoftoetown herald motorized delivery prescriptions called for and delivered 1 davidsons pharmacy telephone triangle 73048 out of town guists wrt present from acton brock vllle fiorgt town iakvitw long bran in mi nil co and toronto announce successful swimming students on august 8th 1959 an historical plaque commemorating the la guayra settlers was unveiled in guelph this plaque is one of a series being erected throughout the province by the dept of travel and publicity acting on the advice of the archaelogical and historical sites board of ontario among those taking part in the ceremony are shown leftto right mr g f koch chairman guelph plan ning board mr brock davis president wellington county historical research society alderman i toronto ushtrtd fred dixon guelph mrs john bould president daughters of scotland and janet kennedy auxil lary to order of scottish clans mt colin blyrh grandson of janet mcdonald one of the la guayra settlers mr alfred d hales m p wellington south prof j m s careless a member of the archaelogical and historical sites board the hon john root mpp wellington duffenn pjper don aid laird kemsley newspaper empire now part of thomson firm the georgetown herald will ac quire some large british associates when publisher roy thomson tak es oer the kemsley newsapcr em pire fthe merger agreement making him one of the giants of fleet street was announced a few weeks ago thomson described is as quite a deal one he set at 575 000 000 it is subject to agree ment trv shareholders viscount kemsley 75 ears old to thomson s 65 said he had agreed to accept 5000 000 14 000 000 for his majority holding in the publishing group one of brit am s biggest with backing of the directors he urged other shareholders to vote for the merger with thorn son s scottish television limited at a general meeting to be held august 14th big addition thomson torontoborn son of a barber will become master of 4 sunda newspapers 11 morning and evening papers outside lon don and eight provincial weeklies kemsley also controls four pub lishing and pnntlng companies he did not envisage changes in the staffs of the papers which he said seem to have fine executives under the terms of the thomson offer kemsley and his family will get 5 s14 for each 1 share ordinary shares which have doub led in price in the last 10 das had risen from 4 5s f si 1 90 on the stock exchange thursday thomson said that in the compli cated deal our price puts a value on the properu of 75 000 000 w e hai e great confidence in our abilih to improve the busin ess he said i alwajs feel the same a when i take over a pap- asked what he meant by we thomson introduced sid chapman secretar treasurer of thomson newspapers ltd canada and mrs james coltart managing director of scotsman publications and scots- tish television how had he made so much mon ey in all humility i say i always really wanted to succeed said thomson very few people real ly want to succeed everybody wants to make money but how many want to make it bad enough to work for it you have to want to be success ful to the extent of sacrificing per sonal pleasure and comfort different ambition thomson who now owns the controlling interests in some 50 papers in four countries says he doesn t intend to be a second iord beaverbrook politically spea king in that respect max lord bea verbrook and i have different am bitions thomson said in a com memal television news program reporter george fitch talking to thomson after announcement of the merger involving the 65-year- old publishers television interest with the kemsley newspaper em pire noted that beaverbrook had used his papers to push political objectives beavebrook is the publisher of the daily express group local autonomy thomson also said during the in terview he intends to follow the practice he had adopted in canada of giving each pubflcstion plenty of local autonomy in reply to anothre question he said there will definitely be no changes tn the editorial pohcj of the sunday times under his management the sunda times with a circu lation of about 800 000 is regarded as one of britain quaht papers it is said to have been the especial farm news pride of viscount kemsley 75ear old publisher who now retires from journalism it would be very stupid to contemplate any changes in the direction of the sunday times mr thomson said the merger is bj far the big gest transaction tn a lifetime de voted mainly to buying newspapers by his own estimate he now will control in all papers with total daily circulation of about 6500 000 succss story the irresistible success story of the affable driving scots canadian from toronto who left school at t4 started in north bay ontario wherrtm acquired a quantity of radio sets sold them and then bought his first paper six years ago after building a chain of small papers across can ada he now controls 24 dailies and three weeklies in canada and two dailies in the united states he crossed into scotland and took over the scotsman an edinburgh paper heavy with tradition and re- spectabilitj hustling and hustling all the way thomson brought the invig orating air of highpressure busin ess methods into the staid old of fices of the scotsman deeply of fending some and delighting oth ers by the vigour of his personal i ty he was iitat the birth of scot tish television regarded now as an immensely profitable venture when he received the licence for television in scotland he said ts like betting a license to print money since news of the thomson bid for the kemsley interests leaked out last week several british pap ers including the financial times and the observer have published personality stones on the portly bespectacled executive who now moves up alongside beaverbrook viscount rothermere of the daily mail group and cecil harmsworth king among the big four of bnt tsh publishing difficult tlmo the merge comes at a time when increasingly the big battalions on fleet street are concentrating the resources as some of the smaller organizations are going to the wall the present bitter dispute in the printing industy arises part ly from the difficulty in applying uniform wage rates in a business involving organizations of unequal strength and size in assessing thomson s prdbable impact on the london and provin cial world observers have commen ted on his reputation for having relatively little concern with edi tonal policy his interest the ob servers said ts mainly on the bus iness side beiverbrook has already welco med thomsons entry into fleet street describing him as a most human and most attractive man for the six month period julj dec ember 1958 sundays sundaj times london 832 657 empire news and smdaj chronicle o ondon 2 149 034 sunda graphic london 913 643 sundaj sun newcastle 216 080 mornings the journal newcastle 133261 western mail icardiff 96 355 trip to newfoundland follows erin wedding tall standards of white hydrun turner will reside in i- rin gea and red snapdragon pink and white carnations decorated all sainu anglican church lrin for the wedding of giraldmi andrew daughter of imr and mrs walter andrews of point leamington of newfoundland and harry thomas tuner son of mr and mrs harr turner erin rv s ii coomless officiated and mrs w trjdermuii presided at the organ gien in marnat by lornt nip shipwa georgetown the bride wore a floor ungui gown of white lace featuring long tapered sleees and bouffant skirt cmbroi dtred with pearls and sequins her shoulder length eil was caught to a pearl halo and she carried a bouquet of pink carnations miss tmargo linusaj the groom s cousin uas maid of honour wear tng a brocaded pink gown that she fashioned herself she earned a bouquet of white shasta daisies mr dennis turner erin was best man and mr william turner the guists to their places following the ceremony a recep- m was held at the home of the grooms parents tht brides table was centred with a four tier wed ding cake and summer flowers the groom s mother received the guests wearing a beige dress with beige and brywn accessories she was assisted bj mr lome ship w a w ho w ore a turquoise dress wilh white accessories tor travelling b p ane to new foundland tht bride dunned a tur quoise and accessor- on august 20th the bt t t swimmers were tested at the com munitj pool sandra scoulnn scott and bob bingham examined the following people were sue cesful in passing their test brenda eason peter vanharme- len toni roodzant tom brad ley peter neuhof christopher cock adele snider gary bowers jane schenk phjllis barber man ln emerson thelma carney sha ron emerson brian purdy glen da emerson paul presswod arl ene crawford roger smith ken neth ogilvie janice cox linda omivk ixirraine seeking ton ran d crawford margaret hogg rob ert bouskill clarine reed mich ael sursema david booth robert mitchell dennis gardhouse bobbj sargent sharl seifned stephen howard david ingram deborah wright dale wdllttr stephen iounds rick pad field robert mcgcc shelles i ons sharon taj lor allan i ymis john mcgee nel son barber reta vanharmclen brian da elaine gault dick lin daucr richard leslie michael hilt robert bradle john proust lxslic morrow karen vt hi tin cu t ikwtlvn julia garside dim buttrt shirtc suchan ro dress with white nd hilton ics1ll hansn susan wotister libel tuller ronald ran golf anyone the new georgetown golf country club now under construction offers everything a golfer could wish for 6615 yards of championship calibre fairways and greens up to 7 000 square feereach clean rolling hills and the wooded credit valley makes this the most scenic new course in south em ontario first nine holes ready for play in i960 located 1 mile east of georgetown on 10th line design and supervision by c e robbie robinson one of america s top golf architects for information call croscent 84901 or writ to georgetown golf country club r r 4 gaorgatown free initiation for those pining for 1960 season please drop in and see how a good course is built concrete foundations brick block work sidewalks new homes floors garages commercial induttrial residential institutional bill hamilton hamilton construction every building need 8 retd court phone triangle 73480 on luir irn mr an i mrs km robert rankin tedd rankin m 1 rankin duuila ptnnce bil ly schenk sean bilsborrow the beginners were instructed by marilyn brown pearce and lesley recommend white grain for halton winter wheat j a f there are several factors to con sider in purchasing winter wheat seed there art three varieties with white grain recommended for halton these varieties are daw bul genesee and richmond the dawbul varietj is noted for strong straw and resistance to loose smut genesee is resistant to loose imut and is the highest welding vanetj n most of ontario richmond is more winter hardv than dawbul and gencssec but it is susceptible to loose smut registered and certified seed have blue tags on the bags that indicate their certificates hae been issued for an eta i purity and identity at the present time thert are 3 grades of registered and 2 grades of certified seed in addi tion there are 3 grades of com mercial remember that no r seed of all classes has higher ger i mination and a much smaller to erance for weed seeds and seeds of other crops than grades no 1 end no 3 it has been stated that the cost of seed in producing a crop of wheal is between band 10 per cent of the total cost of production it is sound economics to purchase the best sted possible so that the i remaining qq per cent of the crop production investment is protected unique savings snq following is a list of the kems ley newspaper purchased by roy thomson showing cities of publica tion and audited average net sales travel notes lowest trans atlantic fares to england and scotland pay later plan available for all flights john r barber travel advisor john ft laftttt agency insurance travel tkl 72114 mill stnmt ryouvean eye for beauty ford galaxie has it in the elegance 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