Jol. 4, No. 19 Oakville - Trafalgar Journal Entered, 2nd."Class Mail, Ottawa Thursday, April 5, 1951 24 Pages 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per year In advanee SPLIT VOTE 0. BOOST CH A fou eated the motion, Monday bundle nto?" ~to-four recorded vote, which HARGE DISCRIMINATION AS BLOCKS MOVE IEF'S SALARY automatically de- night stalemated Councillor Ross Gibson's bid to have a $250 raise approved for chief of. bolice J. B. Derry and cul ons," said eh bote possible. appalled" youthful councillor Del Carrothers. hrough illness of councillor Ralph Wakely made the draw ted a heated d that Absence Sets Off Long Argument - | Introduction of the motion by coun. Gibson precipitated lengthy and varied argument, in which every member of elicited the protest from coun: arrothers that "the way this matter has been kicked around Spring Frolic A gay event of the spring season will be April Frolic, to be held under the auspices of the Angela Bruce Chapter I.O. D.E. in Victoria Hall April 20, The Merrymakers, Ortona Bar racks rhythm group, will pro- vide' the music for dancing from 9 to 1 am. Tickets may be obtained from members of the chapter. Mrs. Carl Wright is the general convener, and has on_ her' committee Mrs. John Maxwell, Mrs. Colin McGilliv- ray, Mrs. R. Y. Patrick, Mrs. Daniel Chisholm, Miss Helen Smith, Mrs. William Stirling, Mrs. Harley Dunsheath, Mrs. W. J. Nethercott, Miss Mary Sull- van and Mrs. Ted Adamson. DES. The ropes for, 1d Swings! and for, 1 the pine ouncil took part, and which nake into neo night is in extremely poor taste." ught fine a Plumps For Raise not only v other employee has idles hut anted an increase but our blice chief, in spite of the fact hem. That| i at I've tried to get council to free to it during the estimates ks," police committee chair- in Gibson declared in announ- biz bis resolution. "My com: ittee members opposed it, and b did the mayor. I didn't bring this motion at the estimdtes peting, to which the press was cluded, because I wanted the Room (Continued on Page 14) = [BSK TOWN TO ANY ? lers ; (T AGAINST K oo BORSTER request that town council ceed by way of injunction to t alleged "flouting of zoning and bylaws," by Harvey Forster, llder and developer of the For- survey, was turned over by fincil Monday night to town sol- r Angus McMillan for a ree- nendation. F. McCallum, appearing on flalf of a group of survey resi- fits, stated the group felt Mr. ffster was contravening the zon- 8 bylaw by "operating a lum- 88 business" in the area, and had ted buildings without permits Bh either building or fire in- tors. e ask council to proceed inst Forster in 'an attempt to P0 the growth of his enterpris- d to cut them back to what lis permitted to do under the ing bylaw," he said. "Hig traf- fu lumber is doing nothing to erve the beauty of the survty. residents are ready to take fi2n injunction, which we feel d be tried in conjunction a municipal proceeding, but B should be taken before April non-jury court sits April pli we don't act now, the sit: lin could last well into far" Quglas McConachie, golicitor PRIr. Forster, maintained the (Continued on Page 8) A dozen deadly long shots, ar- ched through 'the hoop with bom- bardier precision by airmen Titt- mar and Boone, last Saturday night gave Centralia R.CAF. Fliers a 56-47 'victory over Oak- ville Grads in the first game of their h dh LONG SHOTS PAY OFF IN BiG BASKET BOMBARDMENT AS FLIERS EDGE GRAD CAGERS click seven points. Bill Buck, Bill Hughes, Al Nicholls and Ewart Carberry all battled hard up front, while Jack Currie and de- fence mates Ted Kennedy and Lloyd Minshall, while unable to cope with _the Tittmar-Moore ef- series for the Ontario intermed- late "C" basketball crown, As-a result, as Grads take the floor Wednesday night shortly after the Journal goes to press, they face the far from simple task of wip- ing out a nine point deficit if they are to capture the town's first provincial hoop title. Strength In Length 'While the winners presented a well balanced! lineup that -featur- ed a fast moving attack on the Tong drill hall floor, Grads actual- ly had a slight -edge in play mak- length of the court, however, con- tributed in a large measure to Flier scoring, = for with Grad guards bottling un ghort passing attacks very effectively, Centralia forwards soon commenced laying back to snipe long set shots that accounted for more than 60 per- cent of their total. Trailing 24-23 at half time, Grads managed to jump into an eight point lead for a short time during the second session, but the unaccustomedly large playing surface took it's toll during the game's latter stages. But it was an acid test for the Fliers, who now realize that taking the 'series will call for an all out hoop blitz on their part. Dick and Doug 0 Offensively, Dick Farley and playing coach Doug Junkin paced the Grad attack, chalking up 17 and 14 points, respectively. Cap- tain George Juriska was a going concern both ways, taking time out from hig guard chores to REMAN FORTY YEARS, SHAW AVED FULL TIME CHIEF OCAL MAN = [BANS HORSE | SWEEP Wlcast one person in Oakville awaiting the results of the fe of the Irish Sweepstakes bu Saturday with more than flfual interest. This is Lloyd Il. of 20 Pine Ave, who has fibotiticd that he has 'drawn a in the big race. If his horse, {8 Brownlee, should come in @r. Baston stands to win fin: in the neighborhood of BO. Even should the horse = ll nowhere, the holder of the op! B8 vill get something pretty Bilal in the way of a con- 8h prize £ve 10 idea how much I'll Mr. Easton informed the In a phone conversation §. "Naturally I'm pleased #1." He had often bought Ickets before, he said, but 5 the first time he had horse. He purchased his brigade for 40 years and A member of the Oakville fire volun- teer chief for the past seven years, Fred Shaw wag appointed full time fire chief by council on Monday night. Chief Shaw, who Willi receive a salary of $3200 a year, will combine his duties with those of building inspector. Joining the brigade in 1911, two years after it's formation chief Shaw became deputy chief 14 years ago, and became chief in 1944 following the death of chief Alfred Hillmer. He is a past pres- ident of the Ontario and Lake- shore Firefighters assns. "It's a far cry from the early days," he recalled Monday night. "The old equipment was really something, as compared with our present setup. At my first fires, we pulled the reel ourselves, in- stéad of riding on it. It wasn't un- til 1919 that we got our first truck." \ The local brigade got it's first hook and ladder in 1923, and it's first pumper in 1929, "chief Shaw recalled. "So you can see that I've watched a lot of changes in the brigade since Listarted answering alarms," he said, with a reminis- cent smile. Council also raised brigade members remuneration to $1.25 per call and practice, stipulating that that figure should apply as an hourly rate where a call lasts ing and ball handling." The very |i forts, successfully frustrated Flier attacks from close in. All Out Effort Junkin returned from Gentrali confident that his charges can Drové the superiorfy of their Passing game on the high school 8ym court, and at the same time smother the long tossing of Flier forwards. He also feels that strange baskets may curb Flier doy in this method of attack. At any rate, Grads will be on the ball all the way as they strive to den- onstrate that Ontario title match es for Oakville teams aren't the monopoly of their baseball cous- ns. PrEPases DEiELoEMENT Arte aici WEST GCULORAE BT. BATRAMC SEB ein ipa i ostnee Sonar Bice Blueprint For Beauty In Tomorrow's Town A PET PROJECT of mayor J. R. Black is a plan to improve. and beautify the entrances to the town. At the mayors suggestion, Dineen & Philips, town engineers, have turned out sketches of the Proposed entrances, the one above showing howing how the Colborne St. West approach may look at some future date. The project was not included In this year's esti eration by council. Watch, the Journal for the East entrance. mates, but is still under consid- gineers' of an Colborne St. NEW PRICE DR. PLANTS READY TO PRODUCE IN NEAR FUTURE Two new industries are locating on Price Drive, which runs off Keer Street morth south of the Oakville Lumber Company's plant. | Footings have already been poured for the plant of Roux Laboratories, a branch of an Am- erican firm manufacturing -chem- ical products and cosmetics. The other firm is General Carton Cor- poration Limited, whose business is being removed here from Kit- chener. MOVIES AID STUDENTS IN CHOOSING JOBS, McKAY STATES Reunion in Charleston While holidaying in Charleston, South Carolina, recently, H. E. Rose of Watson Ave. was play- ing golf on a public course. Noticing a man approaching the green who. seemed unfamiliar with the procedure for obtain- ing a visitor's ticket, Mr. Rose offered to assist him. In the con- versation 'which followed, the stranger revealed himself as a fellow-officer of Mr. Rose's in World War 1, whom he had not seen since August 1918. His name was P. T. Rowland, a Sault Ste. Marie lawyer, who was' a lieutenantcolonel in the 58th infantry battalion in which Mr. Rose was a major. The chance reunion formed the sub- Ject of a story in the Charles- ton News and Courier, with a Picture of the two veterans. BLAZE QUICKLY QUELLED A chimney fire in a house own- ed by J. Davison, Pine Ave, gave the fire brigade a run late Tues- day afternoon. The blaze was al- most out 'by the time the firemen arrived, however, and no damage was done, How students are belng aided in their choice' of vocations by the screen was demonstrated to Oak- ville Rotarian Monday evening by S. Alex MacKay, Oakville, educational director of Associated Screen News. The speaker said that his organization had started producing vocational guidance films after Toronto teachers had complained that they were forced to use films produced in the United States and dealing with conditions there. "We felt that if young people Were going to learn about career oportunities in Canada we would have to produce the material", sald Mr. MacKay. "We began a Canadian career series with the support of business and industry." Film strip; were made dealing with mining, journalism, railroad: ing, medicine, and the telephone industry, and were presented to Canadian schools by business and industrial organizations, "These films are doing an ex- cellent job throughout the length and breadth of Canada", Mr, Mac- Kay declared. "By telling puplls about the opportunities In this country we get less Communism, and also keep them from going to the United tSates." He showed a film on the medical profession, sponsored by the Canadian Med: cal Association. This film por trayed various phases in the car- | eer of a medical student and a practising doctor, A Lifetime Of Service When. Oakville District residents visit the Queen Mary Carpet display, which is being, conducted tomorrow by both chapters of the 1.0.D.E. in Stirling-Dynes showroom, there is, we believe a most important thought that should be borne in mind. Queen Mary spent many years in the preparation of this beautiful rug, and they were years at the end of a long life of service to her country. When she had completed her master- plece it did not enter her mind to keep it for her own enjoy- ment. Her love of her country, as exemplified by her years of unselfish service while Queen of England, was still her first thought, for she sold her carpet and donated the proceeds to aid her' country's strained finances. This example of unselfish- ness and love fof country is a thought that we could all dwell on with profit. These are days when everyone of ug could de- Vote some of our time also to the service of our country without personal reward; To a lady who undoubtedly is known and lov- ed by all families in Canada, as she is in England, will go a sa- lute from the people of the Oakville District as they pass in front of her carpet, many hours of her life when a om Archie Mutch. more than one hour. and think of the [purpose to which she put less resolute woman might well have settled down to quiet leisure, without thought of making AS TOWN TAX ed bylaw, the figure arrived in closed estimates session. Have No Say Commenting on the rising pub: lic school rate, mayor J. R. Black explained council "must supply certain moneys" to the school boards without "having any gay" as to how these sums were spent. "We were alarmed by this year's estimates, and asked the boards to reconsider. The public school board definitely did reconsider, ag it returned the estimates to us nearly $3,000 in excess of their former figures. Some members of council have expressed the feeling such expenditures are not justi- PS. RATE MAIN OFFENDER FIGURES RISE A sharp 5.38 increase in the public school rate was the major itemt responsible for boosting the town's mill rate to 63.5 mills for 1951, it was disclosed Monday night when council officially announced, through passing of the requir- at following several evenings More Ups Than Downs Other increases that will dig Payers' wallets this year were noted in the county rate, 1.36 mills to 7.26; general debentures, up 1.29 to 3.10; and general expenses, up 1.16 to 30.38 mills. tion of 1949, 1950 and the new more deeply into rate- up A complete tabula- figures will be found on page tied, but about it." Road Costs Up The high school board, he said, had done an excellent job in re. ducing its rate slightly. Old and new road expenditures and a new pumper firetruck were respons- ible for the jump In the general rate, while the hospital and arena debentures had hiked up the de- benture rate, he stated. The county rate change, the mayor explained, was due fo the new revaluation that had been we can't do anything undertaken last year. TURNER ANNOUNCES JUNIOR HOCKEY CLUB IN PROSPECT : NEVER TURNED LIBRARY DOWN WICKSON SAYS Concern over the recent In- crease In Oakville Public Library fees for Trafalgar residents was expressed by Mrs. James D. Ross, a Trafalgar resident, who appear- ed before the township council onday afternoon. "Myself and some of my neigh- bors are quite concerned about this," Mrs. Rosg told. the council. "We don't think we should be paying more than Oakville sub- scribers. We feel that library fa- cilities should be free to every- one, especially children." She wanted to know why council had refused to make the library board & grant, Reeve Joseph Wickson explafn- ed that the council had not made --®. Although one hockey season Ia barely over and the next Ia months away, plans are already well un- der way to Ice a junior "B Q.HL.A. hockey club here next winter, "In fact, we're already In, and we'll have a strong, battling club, too," councillor Fred Turner, long time puck enthusiast, told the Journal yesterday. Oakville junlor pucksters will be grouped right in the Immediate district with Brampton, Aurora and possibly Dundas and Burling ton, he stated. Nucleus of the team would be drawn from juven- lle grads and a pair of local june lors, Denny Camm and Thompson, who played with Milton this win ter. But a number of promising future stars from down Port Cre- dit way are counted on to round out the squad. "I'm on the hunt for a junior calibre goulle," Fred admitted. "But I've seen enough In recent workouty we've staged to assure me that we'll have a crowd plens- ing aggregation." brary board has ralsed the price for children to 50 cents," sald the Candidates mentioned Included any refusal, and that no definite |Ralph Simmons, Ron Orr and request had been made by the |Mucker Milne, who saw service board as yet. The matter had been | with Lakeshores near the nem. discussed by the council and Dud-|4on'y end, and Don Rutledge, Ray ley Hitchcox, chairman of the 1 (Bertrand and Don Lush, brary board, but no final decision had been arrived at. C lor' Pullen sald that Mr. Hitcheox had |reave, He belleved, however, that agreed to determine how much it would be fairer to char Would be required from the town- |subseribers a dollar fee than to ship In order to supply township |place the burden upon people in children with free library cards. |the northern part of the township They are now charged 50 cents, | who made no use of the library. and adults a dollar. I Jory the LEE oe = : 4 n annual grant of $250 to Tian dispensed thatytie THAR KE BA amount suggested by the board thls year was $500, |