The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

esearcher Sees Promise In New Smelting Process possibility that Canada's Sté---- day ~ wrence valley may one come the Pittsburg of North erica was forecast last week i p. £. Cavanagh, Oakville re- returned om Burope. Assistant director engineering and metallurgy the Ontario Research Founda: Mr. Cavanagh spent con- fowever, this country lacks the bal for extensive blast furnace fperations, and for this Authorized as Second Class Mail P. 0! Depts Ottama ie 3 Dept DtRY P, E. CAVANAGH fhe local research engineer optimistic | possibilities hich these revolutionary post- ar developments in _steelmak- linking of Canada consuming finy large scale output of iron for © many along the with production osts low enough to compete impossible even ten years ago." r District Motorists Heed Safe Driving Rules Impressed possibly by an all- out safety advertising campaign launched this holiday season by provincial authorities, Oakville and Trafalgar motorists = toed the line almost to a man in keep- ing trafic mishaps down to a minimum over Christmas, police reported Tuesday. Although a few minor accidents caused the oc- casional dented fender, no injur- ies were listed. If this outstanding record is maintained during the festive week-end to come, officers say, it will mark one of the most care- ful Christmas seasons this sector has ever enjoyed, Continuing to stress the catch phrase of the current safety campaign, you drive, don't dfink--and - if you drink, don't drive" police pointed out that it is still the driver who is postitive he isn't just a little bit swooshed who causes large: percentage: of ac- cidents. As The Journal pointed out editorially last week, alcohol and gasoline just don't mix. The police departments of the Lake- shore municipalities hope that you will keep this fact upper- most in mind as you enjoy your round of holiday activities. One slip up, they caution, could lead to a very sorry beginning for a bright new year. Fstarted the fireworks when Oakville, Ontario, Thursday, Dec. 30, 1948 5 cents a copy. $2700 Per Year in Advance. GREETING CARDS As has been the custom for several years, the Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co. will once again forward a consignment of used Christmas cards to the .British West Indies, Residents are reminded therefore, that the gay seasonal Service Clubs Hosts To Happy Youngsters More than, 350 strong, young 'Oakville packed every nook and crany of the Gregory theatre last Friday afternoon as town they received can be put to good use if left at any town drug store or at The Journal Office. Parked Hacks Hamper Snow Removal Job Although the first heavy snowfall has yet to clog town streets, Chief of Police John Derry this week. dropped a hint of the shape of things to come as he urged motorists to co-oper- ate with authorities where over- night parking is concerned. Leaving of cars at the curb hampers snow removal efforts, and drivers guilty of this prac- tice are apt to find their jalo- pies have been towed away dur- ing their absence, Chief Derry warns. service staged their gala fres Christmas party, for children. With moods varying from tense expectation, as the life story of Daniel Boone unfolded on the screen, to vociferous glee, as presents and candy were dis- tributed, the kids thoroughly enjoyed their own special Yule- tide event. They sang carols, howled at comedy short features, and generally managed to cons vince the committee in charge that the event was very .much worthwhile, The service clubs, particularly pleased at the success of the un- dertaking, voiced special ap- preciation of the intersst of Jack Dunn, who rounded up all the candy handed out to the hap- py youngsters. Juniors Lose Home Opener. To Welland In Bruising Encounter Outlucked . and outscored in a rough encounter which at times took on the appearance of an en- core to Deacon Allen's Boxing Day bouts at Maple Leaf Gar- dens, Baz Meggafinis Oakville junior pucksters dropped a 7-1 decision to Welland Trojans at Victoria park arena Tuesday night. Sudden soaring of the mometer brought about ice conditions early, Welland crew, considerably heavier than their opponents, soon took command in the slow, heavy brand of hockey which developed. After Nick Stevens snared a pass from Dennis Dra- per to open the scoring with the lone Oakville markd early in the first period, the local crew ever managed fo take advant- age of their superior speed in the slushy going, and it was all Welland from that point on. Tempers flared in the second period, when referees Bud Cam- eron and Kelly thumbed 12 play- ers to the sin bin, with six ma- jor penalties. Steve Rusynyk he fisti- ther- sloppy and the became embroiled in a cuff joust with Welland's Ar- gent, Three more fights broke out as the period progressed, and the arbitors had their hands full for several minutes. In one battle, Bill Currie, who picked up four stitches in- the first per- iod when accidentally clipped over the eye, had the patch rip- ped from his head as Robitelle began swinging a series of hay- makers, The burly Welland de- fenceman also had a session with the needle in the third frame, when a shot from Rusynyk's stick opened up a 5-stitch gash in his head. Although seven His armor in the Tripp showed well in the Oak- ville cage, while Stevens, Dra- per, Bouchard and the Currie boys all had their moments. Guz- da, with three, and Schooley with a pair, led the visiting scor- ers. : Lineups: Oakville: Goal Tripp; defence Melanson and Draper; forwards, B. Currie, Rusynyk and Ste- vens; alternates _ Taylor, * Bou- chard, Herbert, Beggs and T. Currie, Welland: Goal Defence Deekes and forwards, Maloney, Whalen and McNulty; alternates, Reeves, If- tody," Argent, Schooley and Cun- goals pierced serambly tilt, McDougally; Robitalle; ningham. Disposal Plan t Presented 'New Engineering Problems Built at a cost of about $187, 000, the town's recently com- pleted sewage disposal plant presented problems which invol- ved considerably more work than usual, BE. H. Darling, con- sulting engineer, told The Jour- nal this week. The plant, which has a normal daily capacity of 750,000 gallons, required the ex- pert attention of nine major contractors, while many others supplied smaller items, Mr. Darling revealed. "Bringing sewage to the plant from the lower part of the town called for considerably more work than usual" he stated. "Reinforced concrete pumphouses were built on either side of the harbour where the existing sew- ers discharged. In each structure are two pumps which start and stop automatically according to the volume of sewage flowing. From the pumphouses, 5000 ft. of pressure lines were laid to the new plant. This line from the west side had to be brought across the river, this involving a pipeline 632 feet long suspended from the steel bridge." All construction work is of re- inforced concrete, with nothing of a temporary nature, Mr. Dar- ling" declared, but as the project was begun under post war con- ditions and at a period of high prices, every unnecessary de- tail in the way of architectural|2 ornamentation was eliminated. From a technical standpoint, the operational process offers an outstanding example. of the com- binihg of modern science with Social Whirl Starts To Slacken Although town and township activity has been chiefly of a social nature during the fes- tive season, municipal and or- ganizational meetings go back on schedule commencing next Monday, when newly elected councils of Oakville and Tra- nature's own methods. "When small communities in Ontario first reached a stage where they found it necessary to take care of their sewage, they. usually diverted it to some run- ning stream or body of water and here nature disposed of it without offensive results", Mr. Darling explained. "The new plant at Oakville is an application of nature's meth- od", he went on. "Instead of the stream, oblong tanks are con- structed and instead of the run- ning water and air, compressed air is forced into the tank at the bottom on one side which, bub- bling through porous material, agitates the water rapidly and provides the necessary air for oxidizing organic matter pre- sent. Under these circumstances, beneficient bacteria develop which, by their action, disinti- grate the solids and assist in the oxidizing, reducing all matter to inert substances which dissolve in the water or else pass away without any offence, In the lar- ger pieces of solid the bacteria collect and it takes ' a longer time to disintigrate these. On this account the sewage is pass- ed from the aeration tanks to set- tling tanks where all solids set- tle at the bottom and, as they accumulate, are drawn off into large storage tank where in the course of weeks or months the final destruction material is complete, a relatively small idue". except for insoluble res- In order to expedite the work of the bacteria, a portion of these larger solids is returned to the aeration tank with its load of bacteria. This "sludge" is said to be "activated" and," hence, the process gets it name "the activated sludge process". "The final undissolved are periodically drawn off the. large tank onto a sand . bed. where they' dry into a solid mass which can be readily handled, This substance is without odour solids falgar hold their meetings, followed Tuesday evening by the first 1949 ses- sion of the Oakville-Trafalgar high school area board. Town- ship council will convene for the swearing in ceremony at 10 am, while the town fathers will meet at 7.30 p.m. 4VERY-DANCEROUS AE} A Newly Discovered Tale of an old-fashioned New Year's By DAMON RUNYON New Year's Day. is always a [Ereat day back in my old home town out West, On this day everybody swears Off doing something or other, Benerally drinking, which is very ther drink again as lol they live or an feel better. No town in all America is Bladder to see a New Year than fy old home town out West, and Everybody in town sits up to Bive it a welcome. When the lock strikes twelve, one and all hake hands with whoever is round, and says Happy New ose Whether they mean it or as But if any stranger happens fo be in my old home town on IN, There is a reason for all this flict on New Year's Eve back Year comes in, and. omplaining that our town is ening timeq, % So) Grandpap says, that bell ring- po. 2nd whistle plowing and 1ooting. business on New Year's i long before Denver is ever ng yway until they "Son," my Grandpap says, "this ing business on New Year's Eve heard of. "Especially", my Grandpap says, "the shooting." "In fact," my Grandpap says, "it was the shooting part of it the first time we ever welcome in a New Year in these parts, which is the main reason why we never have any more shoot- ing, or other noises, like bells EL ~ EE routs," he says, "times are changed a lot since those days, and the chances are we can go ahead and have all the noise we can make, including shooting, but nobody ever thinks to change the law and maybe she is better the way she lays. Maybe so. "This town is not much town when we welcome he first New Year", my Grandpap says, "and nobody is even thinking of town has all that bell ringing, long before Denver is heard of. a New Year being on tap, or of giving it a welcome, when .the matter is brought before some of us in the Last Chance Saloon the day before by a character by the name of Digger Pete. "This Digger is a party of not much account, but he is some- what sentimental about such propositions as New Year's so he says to us like this: "Gentlemen," Digger Pete says, "the glad New Year is up- on us, and it is up to us to wel- come her in. It is up to us" Digger Pete says, "to sit up all night tonight and make plenty of noise and maybe drink a toast to this New Year." 'Well, nobody sees any ob- ection to this" my Grandpap says, "because we will all be sitting up all night anyway and YEARS and whistle blowing and shoot- Especially the shooting." drinking, although Joe McGurk has a long argument with Digger Pete about it being New Year's, Joe claiming New Year's al- ways has more snow on the round. "But Digger everybody where many days since the Christmas card from back East, and how it must be New Year's so everybody is satisfied, especially as everybody feels that it is a good thing to have an extra excuse for sitting up all night and drinking toasts. "Well, sir,' my Grandpap says, "it is certainly a big night in this town. We sit up in the Last Chance part of the night, and we sit up in the old Tub o Blood part of the night, and promptly at twelve o'clock by Pete shows it is just so Sam Hall gets = 0 ND: Sam Hall's 'watch we go boiling out into the street with cowbells and six shooters and start whooping things up. "We certainly make enough noise to satisfy anybody who likes to see the New Year get a nice welcome, even Digger Pete, al- though poor old Digger Pete never hears it, because by the time this comes off he is sound asleep behind the Last Chance Bar from drinking too many toasts. - "But what happens?" m; Grandpap asks. "Well, sir, when the noise dies out, and people start looking around, there are three dead Mexicans in differ- ent places, and four citizens badly wounded. - Furthermore, there are two bullet holes in my Stetson hat, which do not look accidental, 'Well, now", my Grandpap says, "there is not a citizen in this town in those days who cannot hit, a silver dollar at fifty yards with a six-shooter, drunk or sober, 80 it is not in nature that there can be so much care- less shooting as all this. "So the next day some of us get together and pass the law that still stands in this town that there can be no shooting or other disturbance whatever on New Year's Eve because when scalawags try to take advantage of a celebration to settle old grudges it is time to quit." "But," I ask my Grandpap, "what does the blowing of whis- tles and ringing of bells have do with the shooting? Why not stand for them?" "Well, of course, we do not have whistles in those days," my Grandpap says, "but maybe I forget to state that some rascal, with no sense of honor, hits Sam Hall on the head with a cowbell and almost knocks .Sam's brains out." a fer- tilizing value, for which purpose. it is generally used," Mr. Darling said. There are other details in con- nection with the plant, all plan- ned for one purpose, The sewage first enters a small, deep tank where any sand or other heavy. insoluble 'substance' will settle, From this it can readily be tak- en with a suitable air lift and thus is prevented from reaching. the aeration tanks where it might collect and give trouble, From this grit chamber, as the tank is called, it passes to an ap- paratus called a '"Comminuter' consisting of revolving knives in a cylinder through which the sewage is run. These knives cut up any cloth and similar sol- ids and convert it into a pulp substance which is more easily disposed of by the bacteria and does not tend to plug pipes. New Feature REMEMBER COOKEE? Commencing next week, the younger readers of The Journal will find a new feature when they. turn to the children's page for Mugs and Skeeter, Willie Dee and Max Trolls latest advent ure of Knarf and Hanid, Par- ticularly interested will be the youthful members of the Jun- for Humane Society, for H. C, Merry has agreed to relate, in weekly column form, the story of Lil White Cookee, In arranging to present this original and informative series, The Journal feels it is offer- ing a feature which will be ed- Co ight, 1923, Star C 4 copyright, 1948, King Features Syndicate, Inc. as well ag rtain- ing. Watch for it in next wesk's issue, kids, of organic =