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Thursday, April 15th, 1948 Presents from the Pixies By Max Trell Mr. Punch Got Them the First Tuesday Every Month "Now, when I was your age," r. Punch was saying to Knarf land Hanid, the shadows with the urned-around names, "I. was eat friends with the Pixies." Hanid said delightedlysi "Did fou really know them, Mr, Punch 2" "Indeed T did, my dear, They fised to come and visit me the rst Tuesday in every month, rain br shine--" "Why did they come to visit You on that day," Knarf inter- fuped to ask. = i Didn't Hear Him But Mr. Punch didn't seem to Bear him, He went right on. And every time they came, they flways brought. me presents, For fiistance, one Tuesday in April Hey brought me a carrot-top."" "A carrot-top!" Hanid exclaim- Bi. "What good are carrot ops? That's what mother cuts J the carrots before she cooks fhem for dinner. She always fihrows them away." 'That may be" said Mr. Plinch. "There are carrot-tops, Bd carrot-tops, The one the fkies brought me was the most derful carrot-top in the IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM SMOKE and CARD SHOP OAKVILLE Phone: 1103-W world, T used to spin it around, It used to. go on spinning for hours and hours. No one ever had 4 carrot top as good as my Pixie carrot-top! = Filled With Marble "And on another Tuesday--T think it was in July--they gave me a marble-cake. It was just filled with marbles. And were the most wonderful bles you ever saw, No matter how far I rolled them, they al- ways: rolled back. And, best of all, when I was through playing with them, I could eat them." Knarf and Hanid thought these were certainly wonderful marbles, "Yes, put that carrot-top and marble.cake weren't anything compared to another present that they gave me. Ah, what a pres- ent it was! What a magnificent ttle present!" "What was it?" Hanid asked eagerly. "A horse-radish." "A horse-radish? But--but-- that's 'only a vegetable, Mr. Punch!" _ A Real Horse "It's a vegetable when you get it out of the garden, or buy it at the vegetable man. But when the Pixies give cs a horse-radish, it's really a horse. Of course," he added quickly, "it's not much bigger than a large mouse. The one they gave me used to gallop up and down the little table in my room, I made a saddle for it out of a postage stamp: And now and then I used "to hitch it to a cart made out of a matchbox. with buttons for wheels, I used to feed it two blades of grass and an oat, and it would drink its water out of a thimble. It was the littlest, loveliest, sweetest horse anybody could- have." "I want a horse like that!" Knarf cried. . "So do I!" 'shouted Hanid, Hard to Find Mr. Punch shook his head sad- ly. "It's hard to find the Pixies! any more, my dear. And it's hard for the Pixies to find the children. You see, instead of coming on the first Tuesday of every month, they now come on the sixth Tues- day." Hanid glanced hurriedly. at) the calendar hanging on the wall, She looked 'through all the months, "But, Mr. Punch," there isi't any such day! The five!" "IL know," Mr. Punch agreed, still' shaking his head sadly. "But that's when the Pixies come, my dear." If .you can find a sixth Tuesday in any month, that's when" you'll surely find the Pix- ies. And that's when yowll get carrot-tops that spin, and marble cake with marbles, and horse radishes that are really horses!" Lacquer, 75. Lipatick, $1.25. Sma Phone 248 Rich, sich pink with the assuring bluc that winks from diamonds... for your asily, your lips. Lacquer, Lipetic cha Tiaincota $2.05. BUILI Dundas St. - PHONE 76 LUMBER AND PLANING MILL pecial atention for the needs of the man who likes to do his own work Charles F. Doty & Son "NIGHTS 670 DERS' SUPPLIES North of C.N.R. - ,558-W most Tuesdays in any month are THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page 7 Modern Porcelain Enamel Frit Plant is New Addition to Oshville's Industry One of Oakville"s new indus- tries which has recently "com- menced manufacturing operations is Ferro Enamels (Canada) Ltd, which produces frit, the basic in- gredient for porcelain enamel finishes as applied to sheet steel and cast iron. The product, in the form of hard, glassy gran- ules, is sold chiefly to manufac- turers of stoves, Tefrigerators, washing machines, bath-tubs, and porcelain enamelled signs. Frit for use in glazes on pottery is also manufactured. The company is affiliated with Ferro Enamel Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, which has other branches throughout the world in England; France, Sweden, Hol- land, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. The company's plant was form- erly located in Ottawa, A re- markable growth in the frit re. quirements of Canada's enamel- ling industry and lack of space for expansion necessitated the move. Though frit is shipped from Ferro's Canadian plant to as far west as Vancouver, British Columbia, and-to Amherst, Nova Scotia, on the Dominion's eastern seaboard, the large majority of its customers are located in south- western Ontario, and for this rea- son Oakville, situated mid-way. between Toronto and Hamilton, with excellent rail and highway facilities, was. selected. In the factory, which jis 220' long by 66. wide and of single- storey construction, emphasis ing heights and ample fenestra- tion to provide bright and com- fortable working conditions. Floors are of concrete throughout with cement block construction to sill height and asbestos board above windows to the roof line. The layout of equipment pro- vides for continuous flow from one end of the factory to the other, and a railway siding with loading platform running the en- tire length of the building enables five box cars to be accommodated at one time, Raw materials are unloaded. into a hopper set. into the platform and feeding a 'bucket elevator - which, In turn, feeds either of two belt conveyors which carry the materials to bulk storage bins. There are 16 of these bins in two rows of eight, each bin having a capacity of ap- proximately 50 tons. Batches are weighed direct into a removable hopper set on a scale car which runs on rails un- der the bins provided with trans fer tracks and turntables, and carries the weighed batch to a 50- cubic foof Ransome mixer. The weigh hopper is elevated by an electric hoist and discharged, by means of gravity and an electric vibrator, into the mixer, The mixed batch is discharged into a portable hopper at floor level, Processing is carried out in a 40' x 66' bay with 30' roof and a. travelling crane-for transporting the mixed batch to the furnaces and the fritted batch to the driers. The latest type of batch type furnace, fired by oil and with Has been placed on generous ceil- automatic temperature control, is employed. There are at present three of these units, with poten- tial capacity of 24,000,000 pounds. The nine-acre site provides ample space for future expansion, The frit is dried on continuous gas-fired rotary driers which dis- charge it over Magni-Power per- manent magnets onto vibratory feeders, where inspection is ried out before packing in multi- wall valve-type paper bags, 100 Ib, net weight. The dried frit is placed on pal- lets and transported by a gas- powered fork truck to the storage area, where the pallets are stored in three decks. A fork truck is also used for moving the pallet- ized frit to the loading platform whence shipment is made by rail or road transport. Frit samples from each batch are tested in a control laboratory equipped with porcelain jar mills, spray booth, electric drier, and two electric enamelling furnace Fired samples are checked chemical and physical tests and must meet rigid specifications be- fore the frit is released for ship- ment. Likewise, each incoming shipment of raw material 15 sam. pled and analyzed in the chemical laboratory and must meet speci- fications before it is used in a frit batch, The factory proper includes a milling department with a capa- city of 500,000 lbs. annually, where dry process and pottery glaze frits are ground for cus- tomers who prefer to them in powder form. In addition to its frit manufac- 3 receive turing facilities, Ferro's Canadian organization includes an engineer ing staff that will design and in- stall a complete enamelling plant, experienced enamellers who. will train its operators and assist them in their enamelling opera- tions, and a sales department that will sell anything from a double-pointed nail to a carload of enamelling supplies, The same ervices are extended to the pot- tery and related indus. tries. The colour department matches colours and blends oxides for porcelain enamels as well as glaze stains and ceramic colours of all kinds, ceramic Ferro Enamels (Canada) Ltd, with its large, modern plant and facilities, Is in a better position than 'ever in its history to serve the needs of Canada's porcelain enamelling and ceramic indus tries. Through its close associa- tion with the Ferro Enamel Corp, of Cleveland with its extensive research facilities and with other Ferro plants throughout the world, it is in a position to keep up-to-date with the Intest de- velopments in frits,* techniques and equipment, The officers of the Company are as follows: President, Brigas dier Wilfrid Mavor, C.B.B,, MC. vice-president and managing di- rector, Mr. . McDonald; vices president in charge of production, Mr. H, D. MeLaren; uecrotary- treasurer, Mr, H. R. Ostrom; a= sistant secretary, Migs E, Black. lock. Ld By Jerry Last week in inter-form sports upper and lower school basket- ball champions were decided. In the upper school, third form de- feated fifth form to win the championship with a score: of 36 to 28. 'In the lower school XB form defeated 1XB form, 23 to 13. Hockey champions for the school were announced last week, with "4th form coming out on top. The highest scorer for the season was G. Clarke with K. Brown second highest. Hockey and basketball season over, the big talk in sports is baseball, lacrosse and track and field. Many of the high boys are practicing hard for the local ball teams and there are rumors of lacrosse teams to be organized at school. Then of course there are track and field. . . . Mr, Car- berry said on Friday, "Training for track and field will start for all-the boys at the school this week." Numerous boys have been in training for several weeks and have shown their ability in the Hamilton Armouries several weeks ago. By the way, if Mom or Dad has a subscription to THE JOURNAL, watch for the new feature, "Hol lywood Reporter." Each week theatre tickets are being given away to the subscriber whose name appears in the column. If they clip it out and take it"to the Gregory Theatre box office they will get tickets with the compli- ments of THE JOURNAL. Some good films are coming in the fu- ture, s0 get a subscription if you haven't one already, Examinations were not over for everybody before the Easter holidays. Last week students Buy Your Books At... THE GOLDEN HOUR BOOK SHOP 6 Thomas St. - Phone % High School Review who Were absent for the Easter set wrote different examinations. All students were very happily surprised that they were able to write them and they have the teachers to thank for going to the rouble of setting more exams and giving their valuable time to mark them. With the deadline for last min- ute articles close at hand, the edi- tors and staff of The Pleiad, thes school year book, are working feverishly to get all their home work done. The response by the student body has been excellent with regards to writing stories and various features, but with' re- gard to photographs it has been very~bad, The photography edi- tor received a very poor resonse to his request for photographs of school activities, Regardless of deadlines, whotos are still needed, but quickly. How about looking through the album and digging sone up for us, please? Nothing can be said in regards to the date of distribution. But so far every- thing is coming along as schedul~ Give that - - - LARGE STOC GARDEN and LAWN That New Look BY USING Vigoro Plant Food AND Premier Peat Moss JK ON HAND OAKVILLE ed. ~ CU. 0. TOOKE PHONE 402 te isa AGAING; Over 4,000 can be SAVED! 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