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Thursdday, June 17, 1948 The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont, by Oakville - Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. Colborne St, E. (Next Post Office) S. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Phone 1208 IMMEDIATE WORK FOR THE PLANNING BOARD The uproar which has been occasioned by coun- cil's suggested change in the residential by-law to permit a business p: emises on the corner of Church and George Streets is one indication of the value which the new planning board will provide. In this case the council is dealing with an individual location, for the purpose of making available a location for the Liquor Control Board which they have expressed themselves as finding suitable to their needs. . But the same situation with regards to the by-law could un- doubtedly have been occasioned by plans for the loca- tion of any type of store in this place. It is the com- mercializing of the district that residents surely object to. After all, there is no point in raising objection to a liquor outlet in town, as this has already passed the stage where any action can be taken. Therefore it is, basically, a question of a change in the nature of a section of the town. Any growing community--such as Oakville-- must expand its business facilities with the demands of increased purchasing power. The increased popu- lation of Oakville and district, which has brought such expanded purchasing power to the town, means there is need for additional commercial space adjacent to the main street. It would not be reasonable to ask a merchant to locate his store so far from the shopping centre that he would not have the public passing his place of business in the course of their normal shop- ping operations. Yet if the streets one block north and south of the main street are to be retained forever as residential sections, then such a problem arises. All property along the main street is occupied at present with the few locations still unbuilt on already marked for stores and other buildings of a commercial nature. East and west of the main-street business section, as presently established, residential sections are also close. Also, the spreading of a shopping sec- tion into a long, single line is not practical or advan- tageous. There remains only the solution of broad- ening the present shopping area to the north and south of the main street. While this will undoubtedly work hardships on residents who have lived in these localities for a long time, the same experience has been met with | resigna- tion and understanding in other towns and s. In most cases, residents affected dispose of their proper- ties at much higher prices than they paid for them. Commercia land is worth more than residential. With the profits so derived they purchase other property not so closely situated to the noisy commercial sec- tion. In many cases residents are able to exchange old homes for newer, more modern ones without any Joss to themselves--and in many cases with a profit. To stand in the way of progress and cry "No" serves no useful purpose--either for the town or for the individdual. No one should wish to hold Oakville back from becoming one of the largest and most in- fluential centres between Toronto and Haniilton-- which is obviously its future. Any who so wish are short-sighted, for through increased growth comes increased revenue, and thus are made possible many of the advantages which at present are beyond the financial resources of the town. For instance, we need an artificial ice arena, a community centre; the Memorial hospital is yet to build, and we could make excellent use of a swimming tank. All are vital, and all cost money. This money can be made available through increased revenue for the town which will result from the growth of business. Where we feel council is making a mistake in this case is in approaching a subject which requires. wider consideration--undoubtedly by the new plan- ning board--with only one location in view. It would be wiser, we feel, if they were to be realistic in their outlook and admit that, in the very near future, the business section is going to have to swallow more territory. They should base their decision on discus- sion of this wider aspect of the change in the residen- tial by-law. = Possibly some other location for the liquor store might be sought at this time. Then the overall pic- ture of what should be done to make the town 'both effective and as little changed as possible could be discussed by the planning board, and citizens be given ample time to register their thoughts on the matter. _ The difficulty in this present situation lies with the fact that it is a liquor store which will be located on the property. To many people a liquor store is _ like a red rag to a bull--but we believe there would be just as much protest if it was to be a grocery store, or other retail outlet. It would spoil the nature of the location equally as much as a liquor store--for no one drinks their liquor outside a liquor store any more than they eat their groceries on the sidewalks outside aa grocery store. As a matter of fact, if any- one wished to find a location where liquor is not drunk, they would be wise to pick a retail liquor outlet. People merely carry. away their packaged goods as they do from any retailers, taking them home for consumption in the case of liquor. PEST CONTROL = Councillor Hunter's suggestion that the town dump be sprayed to cut down on mosquitoes breeding in the stagnant water which lies on part of the dump is a step in the right direction. The only trouble is that it does not go far enough. There are other loca- tions in town where a like situation exists. There can be no hope of removing these trouble- some pests unless a comprehensive spraying is under- taken, with the co-operation of the township for any stagnant township water conditions on land adjacent to the town. Itis tobe hoped that a complete survey will be made to discover all possible lurking places suitable for breeding of mosquitoes and that the spray program will be adequate rather than localized. | Ti Tle By Bessie Cairns THE GENERAL A suburban home with a few acres of land is an ideal place for a young couple to raise a family or an old couple to raise chickens --we had neither of these in mind when we hought our we have since had experience at both. We bought a row of trees and a box-stall. The fact that 15 acres of land, a house and sev- eral chicken coops came with the deal were of little interest to us, but times change and the whole set-up has since provided us with plenty of headaches and many a laugh Prior to moving, the box-stall housed all my dishes, knick- knacks: and family heirlooms. Shortly afterwards it housed the General. The General started life as a baby chick on a farm near Tor- onto. Because he decided to break his shell around Waster time, he was spared the usual fate of day- old Leghorn roosters. Hatcheries selling sexed chicks snuff out most cockerels at birth, The Gen- eral's reprieve, took the form of being bought by a Toronto dealer, dyed pink and sold as an Easter novelty. For a brief time the fluffy little fellow was an old maid's pet in a Toronto apart- ment, where chickens were more welcome than children. When he grew past apartment size he was given to a neighbor of mine. The new owner founda buying food for one young rooster and having to plan to park him if she wanted to take a holiday a considerable chore. She passed him on to me. I called him General Nuisance and put. him in the box-stall. I had 500 barred rocks at the time that had taken me three days to sepa- rate according to sex and I had no intention of disrupting my flock. As the General grew, he retain- ed a little of his baby pink but he acquired the annoying habit of disturbing the early morning place--but | for hox-stall and crowing like a full- grown rooster. I began to be un- comfortably aware that he had carned his full title "General Nuisance," By this time, how- ever, the friendly gleam in his eye and the pink on the end of his feathers had endeared him to me. Every time I fed and watered him in his solitary cell, I said to my- self, "General, it's a life sentence r you. I can neither eat you nor give you away Nature in- tervened. I took sick and the General acquired spurs and the accompanying disposition. He hadn't taken kindly to the man I hired to help out and the man was no sentimentalist. Pink feath- ers and all, the General was shov- ed into a sack and carried to the execution block. As for me, was able to sleep much later in the morning with only a vague twinge of consciousness. 1 was even callous enough to hope he made a tasty morsel. Sometime later the box-stall provided ac- commodation for Ferdhand, a baby bull, but that's another story. aoa owo ow "ESSAY ON THE COW" I have copied this "Essay on the Cow" from the Allied Veter- inarian, which is printed in Indian- apolis, as I felt it deserves a wider readersnip. A cow is an angular feminine bovine, with four legs, an alto voice, a well-established milk route and a face that inspires confidence. A cow's husband is a bull. A cow's brat is a calf, Calves are used in the ure of chicken salad. Calves' brains can't be distinguished from scram- bled eggs. When part of a calf gets breaded it is called a cutlet. A cow provides vitamins for double chocolate malted milks un- til she is old enough to enter a can of corn-beef hash. Her tail is fastened to the rear of her back. It has a universal joint at one end and a fly-swatter on the other. A cow has two stomachs. The one on the ground floor is used as a storehouse for grass, loco, peace by flying to the top of the weeds, corn stalks, rock salt and the neighbour's cabbage. When the cow's storehouse reaches a state of either over-production or under-consumption she sits down in the shade of the old apple tree, and then belches like Henry VIII used to burp at a coronation banquet. This social error on the part of the cow makes some of the hay and stuff do a return trip from the storenouse back up to the, front part of the cow's kind face, where it is fletcherized. This is where the trouble comes in, be- cause a cow has no upper plate: All her teeth are in the lower part of her countenance, After this second-hand meal has been suf- ficiently gummed up by the cow she sends the order to the other stomach where it is turned into cow meat. INCERE Mere at this Prescrip. tion Pharmacy, your in. terests come first. Skilled, registered pharmacists give undiverted attention to your Doctor's direc. tions, We use only fresh, pure, potent drugs; check every compounding step for accuracy. Bring us your next prescription! An old cow has a tough time of it. In the end she gets skin- ned by those she has benefited, even as you and L A slice of a cow's rear end is very valuable to a cow, but it is only worth a nickel to a farmer, 16 cents to a meat packer, 45 cents to a retail butcher and $1.25 in a restaurant, not counting the tip. ERVICE- David J. Russell Phm.B, (Byers' Drug Co.) BR avans + Notice All Persons Who Would Like to Purchase An 0.T.H.S. 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