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GRADS HAVE TRAVELLED so far since passing rE Ve Fo through the old school's portals that Misses Marion McNaughton and Christine Morton find plenty of use Globe Trotting By Mail for this globe as they dig in with other committee members to help run down current addresses. 2) | Sthe A Ti "chil > 2 B the When an Oakville boy or girl Sbeen the ~discovery of an Oak- \Ville-Trafalgar high school grads 'committee Mtheir organization program for' ould develop into a world wide [Search for former school 'pals. onster dance, holarship th contacting! the host of form- Jer students. principal, some sed through the school's por- 1s--in and out. The "Old Boys" Committee, which comprises Her- Bert Merry and six women, hope ¥ [#6 have as many of these former COMMITTEE MEMBER JOAN Thornton carries her quest for information concerning the present 'whereabouts of O.T.H.S. grads through a busy week day in her father's bakery. Every customer, feels Joan, is a potential source of data. rotracted Search For High School Graduates Becomes Major Research Ma evi students on hand festivities as possible. But they have had to spend a full evening for the June ery week for the past year en- gr: didn't. expect proposed ' reunion in June Artanging a gala revue, a and a memorial foundation as high- ts of the festivities was mere d's play, in fact, as compared in be ca etween 1924 and 1947, when late R. H. Archibald was 2500 students ru to trace ads, and Secretary Mrs. Jessie Lunau now has 78 sheets of name and address notes from which in- vitations will be made out for mailing this week. And there are several names have a present habitat notation beside them, as readers who have scanned recently published lists that still don't the Journal have probably al- ready suspected. All in all, some 1250 grads will on hand, if Mr. Merry's fore- st doesn't prove overly opti- mistic. The committee, which also in- cludes treasurer Joan Thornton, Mrs. John Maxwell Marion Morton and Mary Sullivan, have and . Misses McNaughton, Christine n a lot of former school day associates to earth, however. And YS : FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING AND REPAIR NEEDS . . . Get your home spruced-up for spring by making all repairs and improvements n cupboards, shelves . . . the grade of lumber you want, priced to please! You will find all your other quality ORDER For Early Delivery On * Chas. F. Doty & Son DUNDAS ST. N. whatever your needs, we have After Hours: 558-W or 670 ow! For steps, shutters, building needs here, too! NOW PHONE 76 n P " t listing a second friend, and sev- eral letters later find our man in the general neighbourhood of Timbuctoo." while some of the more distant lads and lassies may not be able to make it, they'll all get bids. Bev. Bixell, in Goose Bay, Lab- rador, and Cpl. Bruce Parkin, in an Arabian air base, may have just-a mite of trouble getting away just, for a one-evening stand hereabouts. A gal in Hen- glo, Holland is another doubtful attendant, as are others in Siam, Alaska, Bermuda and England. But a lad in Calgary is really hep on the comparatively short jaunt he has to make, and there are many others in Canadian and US. cities who plan to be on hand. And they tell you the are persistent! Why, these go-getters, those red-coat- ed gentry are almost careless. Oh, yes--there may be a Moun- tie or two present for the do. Oakville grads, the committee finds, are to be found in every line of endeavour. Mounties alongside SO THERE! One of the most sweeping indict- ments of the human race, according to the Kingston WHIG-STAND- ARD, is that voiced by a man who said he didn't count sheep when he couldn't get to sleep. He said he counted people instead--they bored him more than sheep did. It has been a befuddling under- taking, Mrs. Lunau explains, but well worth the effort. "We're get- ting somewhere at last, but we've been in a fog at times," she con- fided. "If we haven't a clue as to the whereabouts of a certain stu- dent, we contact a friend, who might be in Vancouver by now. From there we get a tracer back FLORAL VERBIAGE It may be true that daisies don't tell . . . but orchids always speak for themselves. Local Philatelists Have Opportunity To Add Interestnig Collection Item News of particular interest to a filler. They must be Oakville stamp collectors comes to the in an wha has announced that he has authorized the carrying of phil- atelic air mail by the first inter- national flight of a Canadian Jet- liner. The flight will depart from Toronto, Ontario, on the 18th Ap- at Ildewyld Airport, New York. Cachets will be applied to covers carried on this first official flight. Covers should be addressed fully as for ordinary letters with the name and address of the ul- timate receiver on the face. The envelopes should be sealed and contain forwarded the Postmaster, outer wrapper plainly marked "First Flight Covers." The covers must reach the Postmaster at Toronto not later than the 16th April, 1950. The covers from Postmaster-General, | Toronto, are to bear Can- adian postage at the normal air mail rates applicable for the des- tination to which the covers are ril, and terminate addressed. A service fee of ten cents per cover is to be assessed in addition to the normal postage requirement and should be for- to the Toronto with the covers. warded Postmaster at D HOME TOWN ewimvsmmom By STANLEY Liq TI MAW, HAND ME SOME MORE | | NAILS - -- [LL HAVE THIS LEAK PLUGGED /N A MINUTE --THEN, WELL BE SNUGASA BUG J The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal March 30, 1950 SECOND Thursday, Page 9 SECTION Fire Chief Stands Idly By As Flames Raze Small Structures When Fire Chief Fred Shaw drives to the scene of a blaze and stands calmy watching no less than three structures being gutted by wind whipped flames without so much as raising a hand to summon his diligent bri- gade, it definitely comes under the heading of news. That's just what happened last Thursday morning, but the chief may in this case be excused for his inactive spectator attitude. He was, by special invi the U.S. govt. as a component of all types of paint. "Tt can be used in any type of paint, flat, gloss or semi-gloss," he explained. "However, the painter cannot mix the compound in himself. The paint must be prepared in the factory, as the percentage content will naturally vary in different types. This fact, of course, will also affect the price figures." This reporter readily agreed with other observers : | observing a tailor-made conflag- ration; property losses, it turned out, were negligible; and the news, while it was still just that, i|had a pronounced "Science Mar- ches On" flavour. The fire in question burst into previously planned flame in the parking lof of a progressive lo- cal industry, Langmuir Paint Company Ltd. The structures were carefully prepared huts--at least they were meant to simu- late huts, even though they look- ed suspiciously like large packing cases--the were put to the torch in an effort to establish the effectiveness of a recently dis- covered fire retardent paint, of which the firm is the sole Can- adian manufacturer. And _ the demonstration was highly suc- cessful in that respect. Only complaint voiced by 25 or more insurance representatives; re- porters, municipal officials and company executives who watched was that a windy, muddy, damply snowing March day did not pro- vide ideal conditions for obser- ving a practical display of sclen- tific progress. Of the three separate blazes, all touched off at the same time, the plain, untreated wooden cas- ing was, of course, the first to collapse in a heap of charred rubble. The second, covered with a regular, good quality paint, re- quired more time, but the flames eventually reduced it to ashes. The third, however, was covered with a mixture containing the new compound, trade tabbed Fire Guard Safety Finish. And here laboratory experiments paid off, for flaming gas soaked rags tossed into the casing did little more than form a charred scale before burning themselves. out. E. J. Farley, Langmuir's gen- eral manager, was well pleased with the results of the demon- stration. Mr. Farley sees great for the during wartime by 2 first used that the compound, made up of antimony oxide and a chlorinated material; may well be of great assistance to firefighters of the future. As Chief Shaw has often pointed out, ten minutes can make all the difference between total destruction of a home and squelching a blaze with minor damage. This retardent prepara- tion, if proven successful in prac- tical use, could provide that all important short period that would allow a brigade to get matters under control. Rising Creek Waters Trap Toronto Youths Although floods which plagued sections of the Toronto area had no counterpart in Sixteen-Mile Creek as far as the town was concerned, two Toronto youths! were trapped on a small island about five miles north of here on Saturday. A rope 'ferry' op- erated by a trio of husky police officers quickly rescued them from their plight, however. Harold Brown and Robert Montgomery, both 20, had cycled from the city for a bit of target shooting. Choosing the island as a safe spot, they became So en- grossed in the sport that they failed to notice that rising water was cutting off their return to the creek bank. At 2 am, after they had been on the island 12 hours, farmer Lloyd G. Harmer heard thelr cries for help and no- tified police. Provincial Constables Harry Wilson and John Bunce, with Tra- falgar Chief Fred Oliver, were soon on the scene, equipped with: rope with which they hauled the shivering pair to safety. 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