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Not 24 ol 1 At the Progressive Conserva- ive convention Tuesday night, in Milton, Stanley Hall, sitting mem- per for Halton county in the dl legislature, was chosen rovinci g the {o represent the party in coming election. Accepting his nomination, Mr. Hall thanked the convention for {he honor bestowed upon him, "It has been a wonderful privilege {0 represent the people of Halton in the last five sessions," id. "I have no fear in world that we are going to carry {he election again on June 7th. Ww. J. Beatty, president, opened the meeting and L. B. Dingle, sec- retary, read the minutes of the Jast convention, It was moved {hat nominations be made from the floor, and Mr. Spence nomin- ated Mr. Hall Ted Tyler sec- onded the nomination, and Peter Tulley, Burlington, then moved nominations be declared closed, R. Richardson, Oakville, seconded the motion and it was carried un- animously. Stanley Hall then went to the platform to join those who had been invited from the audience. These included Dr. R. K. Anderson, former M.P. for Halton; A. S. Nicholson, defeated federal candidate in the last elec- tion, and George Currie, Stanley loll told the 'audience that in 1948 thers were more bills passed relating to the ex- pansion of the province _ than were ever put through before. "The Hydro expansion received unanimous support in the house," he said. "This was the first bill Authorized as Second Glass Mail ne Oakville-Trafalgar Jou mal Oakville, Ontario, Thursday, May 6th, 1948 Ganley Hall Again Chosen to Run As Progressive Conservative Candidate during the Drew administration to receive such a vote. The CC. F. group voted solidly for the bill, but apparently Mr. Jolliffe doesn't believe in supporting "his members in the house for he has criticized it 'since' He pointed out that the Liberals outside the house had acted in-the same way despite members voting for it. This he contended was an unsat- isfactory state of affairs and justified asking the people of the province to ratify the program. "I shauld like to say to the home owners and farmers that it won't cost you one cent to make this conversion. It will cost the vari- | ous Hydro commissions and muni- cipalities--and they = have the surpluses from which to pay it. Financing on _this séale can not be undertaken in an atmosphere of uncertainty and suspicion," he added. ~ Speaking concerning the three- cent gasoline tax, Mr. Hall point- ed out the amount collected went not to the province but to. the municipalities to cover road im- Provement, 'There are four mil- lion American cars coming to On- tario yearly," he said. "Do you think three cents a gallon is much for them to pay to drive on the finest roads in the world?" Pointing out' that a tax which was collected for use on roads, and then was spent on road im- provement: was a sound tax, he asked his audience if real estate would stand such a tax if it were (Continued on Page 8) "At the. annual meeting of the Oakville Humane Society last night the following officers and directors were elected for' the coming year: Honorary presidents: Mayor A. BE. Whitaker and Frank Pullen; president, Mrs. Noel Eaton; 1st vice-president, Walter Reeves; 2nd vice-president, Mrs. Kenneth Marlatt; secretary-treasurer, H. P, Wanzer; directors, Mrs. Lloyd Harris, Mrs. Larry Cond, Mrs. Harry Ryrie, Mrs. Walted Reeves, Mrs. Clare Willis, Mrs. Harry MacKendrick, Mackenzie Robert- son, Alan Mackay, Dr. Lloyd- Jones," Ralph Sketch, Herbert Merry, Hedleigh Home, W. P. Gudgeon. In presenting her report Mrs. Eaton pointed out it had been de- cided to hold the annual meeting in "conjunction with "Be Kind to Animals Week." The campaign for members was also being con- ducted; she said. "A departure from' the usual method has been tried this year. It is hoped that all those who received -member- ship cards through the mails Will use the stamped return envelope for their fees," she stated. There were also members ready to ac- cept the dollar membership fees from those attending on the way out if they preferred. ~~ "Mr. George Wells on the Mor- rison Road has been -engaged to Humane Society Holds Annual Meeting look after the shelter," Mrs. Eat- fon told the meeting. "Both Mr. and Mrs. Wells are animal lovers, and we feel fortunate in having | them to look after this very im- portant work." In conclusion, she | expressed appreciation to Ralph | Young who audited the books of the society. Mrs. Pepler's shelter report re- vealed that 419 animals and birds were handled in the. past year, in comparison with 292 in the pre- vious year. "Of these 182 dogs were handled, as compared with 115," she said. « "There were 232 cats last year, compared with 167. Thirteen charges of cruelty were investigated. Receipts at the shelter were' $123.67 in 1947, as compared with $77.46 in 1946. Dr. W. A. Campbell, a new resident, has given his willing co-opera- tion whenever called upon," she concluded. Navy League Tag Day Miss Mary: Bull is in' charge of the Navy League tag day for the Angela Bruce LODE. chapter, which will be held on Saturday, May Sth. The Angela Bruce chapter js conducting the cam- paign locally for the league whose headquarters are in Toronto. Funds raised will go to further the work of the league on the At- lantic and Pacific coasts, where hostels "and clubs are maintained for seamen. The league TOWN AND TOWNSHIP THE MAYOR REPORTS By A. 'E. Whitaker The timing of our "Paint-up, Clean-up Week so that the radio and other publicity of Toronto's Campaign will be going on at the same time should insure that this year we will have a successful Week, Our town is growing in size and I am sure everyone will agree that a thriving, expanding com- munity should not have a dowdy ppearance. Anyone considering | living in our town will be im- Pressed more by a clean, well- Kept main street than they would if an air of sloppiness were per- Mitted. All merchants will co- operate to make this. drive for a Smart looking town a success. But householders should also realize that they must play their Part too. The campaign will make all of us look at our homes and property with critical eyes-- and probably everyone will find Something that needs attention. If everyone looks after the things they notice we will have an even THE REEVE rs By W. H. Big Possibly some LENT also, visits seamen. who are con- fined to hospital and provides them with- extra comforts. The motto of the league is "Keep Watch" and one of the aims is to educate Canadians in the import- ance of sea trade. 5 cents a copy. $2.00 Per Year in Advance. Ted Kennedy, Ken Waters at Hockey Banquet "In order to become a good hockey player, you must set down rules for yourself and keep them. Get plenty of rest and 800d food," said Ted "Teeter" Kennedy, when sddressing the minor hockey players of Oakville /| and district at the annual hockey banquet in Victoria Hall on Mon- day night. Ted, captain of the 1948-49 Maple Leafs, outlined to the boys the method of scouting used by National' hockey clubs and how they are schooled and trained. "Not everyone makes the grade for big-time hockey," he contin- ued, "so education is very im- portanteas well as playing hock- ey. Some players that step up to professional hockey "only last a few seasons and then they must turn to other means of livelihood and this is where education counts," he warned his listeners. Everyone wants to win and that should be uppermost in your mind while playing, but don't be a: poor loser, because poor losers are not good sports, he said. He offered his personal assist- ance to any of the boys who may in. the not too distant future be offered contracts for profession- al hockey. Ken Walter, president of the Ontario Minor Hockey associa- tion and guest speaker of the evening, took the word Heart and using each letter, dealt at some length on those points that go into the rounding out of a suc- cessful. hockey player, namely: Health, endeavor, ambition, rights and tenacity. The /boys present heartily en- dorsed both speakers. Softball League At fhe meeting of the softball division of the Sports association on Tuesday night it was decided there would be the following four teams in the league: British- American Oil, Bronte," Oakville Taxi, Gray's Ice and Fuel. At the conclusion of the season an all-star team will be selected to enter the © Ontario play-offs. Game times: Oakville 8:15 p.m.; Bronte, 7:15 pm. Trafalgar Council Regular Meeting At the regular meeting of Tra- falgar township council on Mon- day the subdivision submitted by Mr, Baxter was approved subject to not more than one house per lot and each dwelling- to contain not less than 750 square feet, ex- clusive of verandah. The sub- division is located on the 9th Line below No. 11 schpolhouse, and comprises part of Lot 5, Con. 1, SDS. The Bell Brothers' subdivision, above Milton, was approved with the same restrictions. It com- prises part of Lot 15, Con. 2, NS. Whe following motion Was mov- ed by W. S. Hall and seconded by Robert Marshall, and passed un- animously: That this council ad- vertise for a constable for the Township of Trafalgar, duties to consist of general police work, building inspector and truant of- ficer¢ Salary to be $2,000 to and a car of Linbrook area may be why the speed signs restricting the area to 30 m.p.h. have not yet been erected on the 8th Line. They are in place on the other streets, This is because it is nec- essary to secure the approval of county council before. the signs can be set on the 8th Line, which is a county road. There is no doubt the necessary approval will be secured, but unfortunately it has not yet been put to the coun- cil. It will be at the next meet- ing. 13 Plans for the new bridge on the Morrison road have been ap- {proved and tenders will be called for shortly: This bridge has been designed by our county engineer and will 'be capable of handling traffic in..a much safer manner owing to its greater width and better approaches. It is not pos- sible, of course, to say when it will be completed, but the work will be carried out as rapidly as finer town. possible, Robber Makes: $300 Haul Thursday On Thursday a thief broke open the cash drawer at Clarke's Service Centre," Col- .borne Street, and took ap- proximately $300. The police are working on the case fhrough the finger-print de- partment.in Ottawa, Slogan Contest Already a number of entries have been received by the Cham- ber of Commerce for the slogan contest they are conducting, Te- ported George Clark. The contest is to choose a suitable slogan to describe Oakville and a first and second cash prize will be award- ed. "Anyone may enter as many slogans as they wish," Mr. Clark said, $600, The applicant not to be over 40 years of age and duties to commence as soon as possible. It was moved by R. C. A, Cum- berland: and seconded by J. M. Wickson that council endorse the resolution passed by the Oakville town council on April 27th, to petition the Ontario Department of Highways to resurface and widen No. 2 highway from Bur- lington to Port Credit. The area north of the Linbrook road to the railway, excluding a strip 300 feet south of the rail- way reserved for industry, was made a restricted area. Grants were made of §100 to the Oakville Public library and $50 to the Bronte Public library. The appeal of the board of direc- tors of the Oakville and District Temporary hospital that the grant be increased was held over until council could find out what the Oakville council had done with the similar appeal made to them. '| Post Office, Fire Traps in Bronte Because Building Restrictions not Enforced Legion Collection For Young Family . At a Legion meeting on Friday night a collection on behalf of the Young family was collected under the direc- tion of Cliff Reed, chairman of entertainment committee. The sum of $35.15 was~col- lected and a box into which members may drop further amounts was placed in the hall, Linbrook Association D. J. Wilkins was elected chair- man of the membership campaign at a recent committee meeting. of the Linbrook Area Property Owners' association. It was also decided to extend the member- ship from the present limits east to the Town line. The meeting felt the township council had been most co-opera- tive with the association in the past and it was felt that, with a a larger and more active mem- bership, even more consideration would be given to future prob- lems of residents, Chairman Alex Phillips was delegated to contact council with a view to having nomination meetings for town- ship office held in the evenings rather than in the day-time as at present. Local 'Drug Store Has New Owner Mr. and Mrs. George Clark have disposed of their drug store and are moving to Palmerston, Ontario, where they will open an- other store. During the 10 years they have conducted the business under their name in Oakville they have become well known to every one. : Lloyd E. Closs has taken over the business. Formerly he was proprietor of a drug store in Nor- anda for over 20 years, He has recently been located in Brant- ford. Serving his apprenticeship in_the drug profession with the Barnes Drug Co., Sault Ste. Marie, he left to enlist in-the Canadian Machine Gun Corps during the first war. He saw service over- seas in France. On his return to Canada, he graduated from the Ontario Col lege of Pharmacy in the Victory Class of 1920, and later graduat- ed from the State of Florida Col- lege of Pharmacy. Interested in boys' work while he lived in the north he organized hockey teams and other youth welfare projects. He is a past president of Kiwanis, and past master of the Masonic lodge. He is married with two children and as soon as his oo house is sold will move to Oakville. Postmaster Resigns L. B. Curran, of the 'Toronto is temporary post- master following the resignation of "William Litchfield, 'which be- came effective April 30th. "This™ postmastership will' advertised by Ottawa in due course,", Mr. Curran said. "Of course I can not say when this will be" Discussing the service, he said he had added two to the staff already. The staff was one short when he came, he stated. He said consideration was being given by the department for ways to improve the service, but that so far he had no information on this matter. be Following- the 'appearance of George MacLeod, chairman of the village of Bronte commission, and Alf Jennings and Ernest Belyea, members of the commission, be- fore Trafalgar council on Monday it was decided by council to ad- -vertise for a township constable to enforce the restrictions building by-law No. 455. of Stating that building conditions were in a deplorable condition in the village, George MacLeod said, "Things have been getting stead- ily worse, There is no inspection, or if there is Inspection nothing is done. Every Tom, Dick and Harry pulls in and puts up a shanty. Your building restric- tions are no good. We want to know what can be done about it." Councillor J. M: Wickson said he had been thinking about the problem and he thought that Bronte should have its own plan- ning board in conjunction with the planning board which had been established by the depart- ment. "They could decide their own building restrictions," he said. "Plan their own needs and come up with their ideas.' George MacLeod said, "I don't think your by-law is worth the paper it is written on. Can you enforce it?" There was discussion of the legality of the by-law and Reeve Biggar said he was sure that it could be enforced. Alf Jennings said he had been informed by Mr. Carter, a mem- ber of the Department of Muni- cipal Affairs, that it could not be enforced as it had never received their approval. "We have been bluffing people with it," he said. "We have come to the end of our bluff in Bronte." He cited an ex- ample of where he called the in- speotor to stop two which were unsuitable. spector told me he had stopped them," he said. "The next week one of the people said he didn't care about the by-law and went ahead and finished the building. He is getting $15 a month rent after a very small outlay. Referring to the fire last week Mr. Jennings said, "The blackest day in Bronte's history was last week. At the present time all we're getting is firetraps--we've 12 firetraps in Bronte now." He favored Bronte having its own set-up for planning necessary re- strictions, "Maybe we all have been at fault in not coming soon- er," he said. "Ofter we don't do (Continued on Page 8) Former Councillor Buried On Friday Funeral services for Edward Stansbury were held from his late residence on the Queen Elizabeth Way on Friday afternoon. Rever- end Fred Jackson conducted the services and interment took place in St. Jude's cemetery. Mr. Stansbury died suddenly at his residence on Wednesday. A prominent fruit farmer, he was a resident of Oakville and district for over 43 years. Eorn in Here- fordshire, England, 77 years ago, he operated a fruit farm on Kerr St., later moving his residence to the Queen Elizabeth Way. He served on the Oakville town coun- cil for three years, He was a member of St. Jude's Anglican church, Beside his' widow, the former Martha Anne Asquith, he is sur- vived by three sons, Leonard, Lawrence and Frank, all of Oak- ville. Two brothers, William in Virginia and Albert in England, also survive. CHILDREN IN DANGER WHEN FIRE TRUCKS ANSWER CALLS sParents, especially along the 8th Line, are warned to keep their children at home when they hear the fire siren. Owing to the illness of Trafalgar Fire Chief Mr. W. Wright, Mr. Alex Phillips was in charge at a fire on Sun- day and felt it his duty to call The Journal immediately "after. To quote "The children swarmed in front of the his own words, fire truck when it went up the 8th Line and it is a wonder sev- eral weren't killed. "When we are hurrying to a fire we have no idea but what the lives of other children are at stake and it would be most re- grettable if in our hurry the fire truck was responsible for a fa- tality. Remember, too," he said, "that the firemen are all volun- teers and head from every direc- tion when they hear the siren. Children should be kept off the Toads at such times?' =