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the georgetown herald september j 7 1947 t young diplomat by d j leonard wnu ratura i don t want to do the dishes i m goin flshin with sam hes waitin now get right aheadthey re talked in the pan mrs morton s busy angers were stemming straw berries into a preserving kettle frankie stood on one foot and rubbed the other against the cdlf of- his leg he twisted his freckled face into a woebegone pout and gazed out the doorway on the doorstep spotted terrier sat guarding a birch limb fishing pole and a can of worms mrs morton smiling tenderly glanced sideways at him now son remember dad and i are giving you a bicycle for your birthday so cheerjjp better wash your hands too before starting at mention of thejycycle frankie sprang into action washed his hands and tackled the dishes only once in a long while he had to admit was he required to do any thing outside of running a message or cutting the grass only a few plates remained to be wiped when a shadow fell across the doorway he didn t notice the golden haired child until she took her ringer out of her mouth and aid hlo frankie hlo eunice it was an all time low in enthusiasm the child finger in mouth ad vanced and stood beside frankie her head just reached hii shoul der frankie s dishdrying activity had slowed down almost to the van ishing point mighty embarrassing his mother called un back to to the dishes aw gee ma im rotag fishing with sam not disdaining the i for the sake of starting the rational ball rolling want somethint countered frankie brustquely the curlygolden head nodded as sent well i m gonna be a juggler jn a circus when i grow up axe 7a frankie eunices big blue eyes shone with admiration sure i am didja ever see a juggler oh yes he throws up balls and plates and j eunice clapped her hands jumped up and down yelling let me see you do it let me see you do it frankie glanced quickly around bis mother was still in the pantry he looked at eunice the admira tion shining out of her blue eyes warned him he could not disappoint a lady j fe took the last plate and ap fhed the dish towel thoroughly mally the plate gleamed and glis tened and he could pretend no long ff that any damp spot remained k suddenly he took the bull- by the horns and tossed the plate upwards eunice shrieked as the plate whirled in her direction mrs morton bobbed her head out of the pan try just in time to see frankie fall forward and clutch the plate before it hit the floor f my stars frankie what on earth are you doing said mrs morton frankie got to his feet brandish hag the plate to show it wasn t broken gee ma i was just showin eunice how i can juggle and i lipped but it s all right 1 m through showin her now well i should hope so sighed mrs morton as she packed the dishes in the kitchen cupboard safe from further experiment oh frankie i just remem bered something declared eunice mama made some ice cream for lunch and there g a lot left she told me to ask if you d come over and eat it 1 will i shouted the recent ex ponent of the art of juggling why 111 even help your mother dry the 41shes dishes frankle7 teased hi mother frankie thought fast that men tkm of ice cream had made him italk too much certainly ma he laughed and commenced to make joggling motions with his hands 1 lost lore dom dishes now that m practisin to be a juggler i can fcaxdly wait to get my hands on jhose plates t i get out of here you yoiipoten- ttal diplomat i ooaunandedt mrs jtorjojt and couldnt help ambling aba watched him rac- tbe back lawn beaded these white lines help to reduce accident toll in province of ontario o the eirer beacr drhcr cant take his foot off the accelerator seconds only are required to clfar the roid of the car on the n ht c ar on the left swinging wide in a restricted area is a real hazard with a blind hill coming up machme will mark 2 miles highway this year uses huge quantity paint those white lines on ontario highwivs are not put there by the man who milks out tennis courts they re applied by a sp ch l truck that ivtrages as it works 8 to 10 miles an hour and carries a rew of three the ontario department of light ays has fn fact five of these trucks representing many thousands of dollars of valuable equip ment they are an important fact-e- or in keeping our highways safe so far this year some 1 500 miles at black highway have been ahlte- llned involving the use of about 11 000 gallons of paint it is ex pected that 2 400 miles of ontario highways will be so marked this year according to a highways de partment engineer laying those white lines with which so many motorists are fam iliar requires the skill and perspir ation of a sizable crew before the line- marking equlp ment is brought into play engin eers precede it and mark with sym bols just where the lines and bars are to be placed there is no mar gin for error symbols placed in the exact centre of the road indi cate where and what tpc of mark ing is required also preceding the marking ma chine is a supplj truck with a ere of two that cirrles an adequate supplj of little red flats mounted on wooden blocks these flags are dropped along the fresh marking by a helper in a trailer attached to the marking truck wirnlng motor lsts to keep clear of the wet pnlnt the supply truck precedes the marking machine b a few miles and leaves stock piles of the red flags bv the side of the roitl later it retrieves the flags after the pain dry dont do it solid white lines on your side- must not be crossed here arc all the elements of a lalai accident curve solid white line an inpatient driver an approaching car operator brace dure b read to poll trigger of spray gun that paints white markings on ontario highways hli helper frank brewster is prepared to drop line of red flags warning motorists to keep off the fresh paint pointer in front of track enables driver ralph lee to keep operators gun in the exact centre of road on tario deportment of highways operates five of these tracks and so far this rear has whiteuned ba i5e mile of block highway iiov gpo h doccftt minister of highnajs pronnce o ontario whose department in re sponsible for the system of hfchwa marking as part of a construcllvi program for hithway safety stockdale sa s equipped w itn compressor and nlr curtain tht trucks apply a smooth even coal ot paint a long v shape fin attache to showup the white markings at night glass bead pnlnt is appl ed on the more hca uv travelled roads fine particles of hard smooth glis- harmless to tires is dropped into to lnc f 0 the truck and pro the paint priding a reflecting tndm somc cct ide 0 surface for car headlights so tar i k this year about 21000 pounds of curate pointer that keeps the truck oils glass bead paint has been laid in the right path for marking portions of ontario highway marked improvement in july accident record despite heavy traffic hopeful igns tha ontario is making progress in traf fie aeddint prevention are seen by the hon george h doutitt minister f highways who has announced that in the fu of the heuist traffic in the prownce fa history leilhs from motor tctiuvnts vere 22 fewer in julj this year th m m jnl of last year ind v fewer than in july of 10 vear at whin the volume of traf fk in ontario was very much s lv of nine chllarens lives in a single month is an indication that we can reduce the trntedj of trafric lissit bj a united and continuous effort thanks are certainly due to our school teachers lhc department of education the newspapers radio stations and other groups includ ing drivers who contributed to this victory in june ocfore the miller than it is todaj wirnlng tint ju1 s improvement in the traffic death rate could be quuklv rcverscel mr duucclt de dared there is certalnlv no trciund for romp icencj or for let ing up on our safety efforts throughout the province because of fewer fatal accidents in any single i school holidajs the department ol month our motor vehicle iran c educatlon my dcp is mill increasing rapidly and our won1 period of the car for fatal that carry neavy night traffic some 23 years ago the white palm was put on by brush from a band drawn buggv george stock dale highways foreman reports this was a slow and tedious pro cess and became quite inadequate oi the provinces paved hlghwav was expanded a spray gun was next used but the truck which car ried it had only sufficient paint to mark about 8 miles a day the new trucks built by the de partment of highways carry 350 1 wasted many accidents could be gallons of paint each enough for a avoided and lives saved by obey good day and a half work ur ing the white lrnea higha ays inspector ivan bas berry stresses that the white line ore put on for the protection o the travelling public and their warn tngs should be observed where vision is ess than 500 feet double white lines are laid their meaning to motorists is clear and concise do not cross the solid line on your side coat of white lines average about 30 a mile the public pays for this work it is good sense and safe practice to make sure it is not accidents is still ahead in fact i am even hesliant about releasing this encouraging news about the july dnp in fatalities when right no the worst week end for acct nts nere delivered throughout thi dents the labor da week end is schoolj w ontftrl0 chlldren ne education and my own department teamed up on a special child safetj drive a four page bulletin was sent to 25 000 school teachers asking them to close ihelr classes with a safety lesson then some 540 000 carrj home safety messages for par were delivered throughout the just ahead of us papers throughout the province and in the july traffic toll figures the radio stations gave us max one of the results which will gladden vellous support the hearts of everybody is the lm the seriousness and size of on provement in fatalities among tarlos traffic safety problem is not schdi age children the preliml- in mr doucetts opinion realized nary figures gathered by the accl by enough people ontario now has dent recording division of the over a million licensed drivers and department of highways show five our motor vehicle registration is children killed in the five to 14 j running io per cent over last year vcar age group as compared wth he pointed out added to the 14 deaths in july of laat year that some 730 000 ontario vehicles we have in the summer months a bug influx of us cars amounting to more than our entire registration and creating on our highways what is probably the world s largest non resident motor vehicle traffic to keep the accidents down in the face of the great increase in accident- making conditions requires a ooo- tinual effort on the part of all of us mr douceit explained that in the spring of 1946 in anticipation of a lare increase in traffic a detailed study of the provinces yaffle aajety problems was made arising from this research work a planned pro- 1 gram of public education on safety was put in operation in the spring of this year as a corrective to the still greater increase in traffic im portant amendments were made to the ontario highwaj traffic act and this new legislation was timed to come into effect on julj 1 when the summer traffic was mounting rapidly the impact of this new leglsla tion on the motoring public nd the v crv fine suppoi t hich the new safetj laws and the whole cauae ol traffic safetj is receiving from the ontario newspapers and radio sta lions has probably contributed tc our lower latalitv results in july mr soucctt states improvement li a siiikie month however notb ing more than a hopeful sign it is no proof that we have vet reversed the uptrend of traffic casualties i add the warning that ihe dangers of an increase in lhc traffic toll to even more appalnng totals than in pre war jcais is a very real danger that is with us all the time laws safetj engineering and the general i building of a safetv conscious atti tude on the part of the public can only go so far in reducing accidents in the jast annhms continual at tention and effort b all of tw la needed o fall fair notes the race trick was in fine shape lor the harness event on lair day on comment by a lady attending fair i am enjoying the fair better than the c n e did you know stanger shows pla yed friday in bracebrldge and sat urday here some nop over night the poultry lawn show drew us quota of spectators and one of the big exhibitors was mr r h croaby secretary of markham fall fair the local eating spota in the grounds were certainly an added at- cractlon don packer got some shots on te aflr and we look forward to see ing few good ones boon tact qrtm of wlngham handled m t in hit usual fine afcyle m c eaaxm wtm booked for ano- cralgn reld you could see he carried the smile that wouldn t come off it was his fifth fair as president and much credit for the fine show rests on his shoulders the fair night dance on friday was a huge success when over 300 dan ced to the music of the merrymakers orchestra the lawn in front or the pylon proved an excellent spot to hold the baby show understand the merchants are al ready nouktng apace for next years show fete teat trev wll- nrif ktitbe rest of the boys for iwittliwin urtfl d i mo the big tent stan ball 1lpj spoke boyay ran the jodgea stand a dd the uons club did a lions chore on the gate tor which the society is grateful mr w p oollop of nerval 87 registered ea the oldest person at tending the fur the halton health unit is now in operation and inspected all the eat ing places at the falr did you knowthai cattle was a rri ng quantity at orand vaue fwr last week the first time in 68 ears if your donation to the fair is still outstanding kindly send it in as the treasurer wants to get out the prise money as soon as possible and close his books that bud kentaer opened his nev i da pharmacy last week in the former chapman drug store that construction is under way at the new wartime housing site on george street the george construe tion company again in charge of building an additional 25 houses we see this week tht lit aad airs j g collier win b urine in tbs boose on u street recently rusted by mr i ad flsbboa who o l bmwg that prank whitmee has a i new paint job on his whitmee elec tric truck brown with gold lettering that work has started on thft building on main street soon to b occupied by simmons jewellers herald advertising pays try it dancing friday saturday nightf 830 to 1 200 standard t4me bill howe and his orchestra at paradise gaxdens h nlh mlll aix conditioned for yonr summer cojtuapt j rests