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08 Oakville - Trafalgar Journal Vol. 4, No. 13 Entered, 2nd. Class Mall, Ottawa THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1945 20 Pages 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per year In advance "FluB ug" Has Dist CL CL --This is Timmy--Timmy this year's Easter Seal drive on their mai of Rotary, he said. for 1951. Si 3 His real name is Dennis Gibbons, and he lives in Welland. He has been chosen ks Timmy for for funds for the Ontario Society For Crippled Children. Timmy has been crippled from birth, and he's a very game little lad about his handicaps. He's also very thankful, as are (his parents, for all ithe society has been able to do for lim and for the thousands of other children in Ontario which the society looks after. It lis the dollars which people subscribe through the use of Easter Seals which make this work possible. Once lagain 'the Rotary Club of Oakville is undertaking | the drive in Halton County and on March 1st, 3500 letters will be mailed by the club's committee jead- ed by Rotarian Ray Manbert. G. R. Craddock in charge of publicity, told us Tuesday that last year the club did well with the drive. "This year we hope to exceed $2,500 from the mailings. All the people have to do is jenclose their donation in the self-addressed and stamped: en- Velope and it will reach us. We'd also like everyone to use the seals Work (with crippled children was the chief concern RED CROSS CAMPAIGN HERE SETS PATTERN FOR CANADA Oakville and District Red Cross Society this year will probably be the centre of interest to other local societies all across Canada which were attracted by the success of the one-night, "blitz" campaign staged here last year and which will be repeated Monday night, March 5. When the Oalkville branch last year shot to the top of all local groups, topping its objective by the widest margin of the hundreds of societies in Canada, so widespread was the interest and so numerous were the requests for infor- mation about the plan that a brochure was issued for study by other Red Cross units. So, when Qakville's one-night blitz is repeated this year, there is every probability that the outcome will be of interest for more than Oakville; Red Cross workers all over the country will be watching to see if the success of a year ago can be repeated. Behind the appeal this year is the first dual objective since the end of World War Two. In addit- ion to its normal peacetime needs, the Canadian Red Cross Society has been engaged for months on the role for which it is fitted by international agreement, the sup- plying of many needs of armed forces inside and outside Canada. Long before the first Canadians had joined the United Nations forces, the medical services of Canada's navy, army and air force, had conferred with Red Cross officials and had supplied them with lists of their needs, ranging from blood plasma to hospital gowns FLU HITS INTERMEDIATES which, tion to meet gan fashioning chasing of materials. ernment. (Continued on Page 5) JUVES COME TO RESCUE By VINCE BARREY The flu depleted, juve inspired intermediate Lakeshores went in- to an early lead against the New Toronto Ostranders in a regular league fixture on Monday night. The team held on until the dying minutes of the game when its defence crumbled like a SOBEY straw mat when the visitors banged in four fast goals to Win a 7-6 decision. Minus four regulars, Coach Bert Peer, Kenney Pollock, Ken Brown and Gabby Galbraith, vic tims of the flu, the team was bol stered. by Milne, Orr, Rutledge and Simmons of the Snow Con- struction juveniles, who showed up remarkably well in the faster company. The Lakies went one up in the first period on goals by Alcam- brack and Speck, with Watson getting an assist on Speck's tally. Ostranders retailiated only once as far as scoring went but start- ed early. in highsticking and roughing up the Peermen. The referees, apparently also suifer- ing from the flu bug, let the game get pretty, well out of hand with flare. the visitors ponent On Watson's the period leading 5-2 opponent wide open, ning goal in the dying moments This promptly set in motion the vast network of Red Cross units in peacetime, also func- local and' national crises. Eager volunteer hands be- the hundreds of thousands of things needed hospitals and casualty clearing stations. Committees that enroll the experience of leaders of com- merce and industry began the pur- But despite this important war- time task, Red Cross has contin- ued through the year to meet the obligations reposed in it by gov- 'When Winnipeg flood the result that tempers began to When Simmons scored on a pass from Rutledge early in the second protested long and loud, adding fuel to the fire. Be: fore long fisticuffs broke out and Watson and his New Toronto op- were chased for majors. return he took a neat pass from Beggs and before closed Lakies were The remainder of the game saw plenty of roughing. Craft and his were chased for fight- ing with a resultant play of four and five players per team on the ice. Davison scored two more for the Lakeshores, one on a solo ef- fort and one on a pass from Mc- Nally and the Peermen seemed to have the game tucked away with a 63 lead, with about five min- utes left. But with apparent overconfi- dence the forwards failed to backcheck, and the defence was Ostranders tallying three times in about as many min: utes and then firing in the win- y : Calling Coins! With a French coin dated 1705 Mrs. Alan Mackenzie rang up the best score to date for old coins in the search being conducted by local collectors as a result of the story carried in the Journal several weeks ago. She also has several coins of the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus, all well bitten on the edges like those mentioned in our story last week, which belonged to Mrs, James Peat. Mrs. Macken- zie also has a 3 phenning Ger- man piece dated 1748 which has her night in the dating race. Last week the invitation to top the dates of Mrs. Peat's coins brought this result--can anyone top Mrs. Mackenzie, if so please give us a call. NEW LOOK IN TOWN PARKS A bylaw providing for the bor- rowing of sums not to exceed $100,000 from the Bank of Toron- to, to pay the accounts of the new Community Centre Arena, was given the three required readings and passed by town council on Monday evening. This borrowing is necessary pending the sale of the 4 percent debentures. The following members were appoint- ed to the Oakville Recreation Commission: Lloyd Minshall, H. G. McKillop, 3 year terms; Ralph Crack, Mrs. Jean Smith, 2 years; Ralph Sturrup, one year. Another member isto be appointed for a one-year term. Council also passed a by-law for the issue of $100,000 debentures for plant expansion of the town's hydro system. B. A. Megaffin, chairman of the board 8f parks management, ad- dresseds council," requesting a-sum. of $7,175 for the current year's ex- penses. This is an increase of $1100 over last year's figure. Mr. Megaffin explained that the board expected to employ a fulltime worker the year 'round. "The parks board is going to undertake a major project," said the chairman. "We would like Oakville to be noted for its parks, like some of these other towns." The nature of the project had not been decided as yet, he said. Councillor Ross Gibson suggested that the board erect posts to pre-: vent parking of cars at the lake front at the foot of George and Allan Streets, in order that these sites might be used as parks. Mr. Megaffin agreed to this suggest ion. Councillor George Davis was appointed to the Oakville-Tra- falgar planning board to succeed Col. F. S. Milligan, who is resign- ing. The awarding of the arena refreshment = concession to S. Stainton for three years was ap- proved. ROTARY DATES ANNOUNCED The annual Rotary Carnival will be held this year on June 21, 22 and 23, at the Central school grounds, it is announced this week by the Rotary Club of Oak- ville. Members of the Club have begun to sell tickets for he event, each ticket bearing a number. A draw will be held on the last night of the carnival, and lucky num- bers will bring cash prizes for the holders of lucky tickets. Grand prize will be a $1,000 Dominion of Canada bond, with second, third and fourth prizes of bonds valued at $100 each. The Rotary Club of Oakville comprises a group of more than 80 business and professional men who sponsor many enterprises of public and community service. A Tecent project was a generous contribution towards the building of the Oakville-Trafalgar Memor- ial Community Centre Arena. . The Flaming News Fire losses in Oakville and the township served by Trafalgar Brigade No. 2 totalled $51,881 in 1950, = according to reports presented to town and township councils by Fire Chiefs Fred Shaw and George Wright. Oak- ville"s loss was $16,058, while Chief Wright reported a loss of $35,823. The town fire brigade answered a total of 66 calls, the township brigade 22. rict In Its ""Grippe" KCHING BONES, SNEEZES AMD HEADACHES HALT TOWN BUSINESS AND SOCIAL LIFE POST OFFICE HAS REPEAT PERFORMANCE or the second time in five years the Oakville Post Office was a target for thieves. On patrol Tuesday morning at 440 am, Constable Eddie- Heath noticed a window on the east side of the post office was -open. Checking, he found the aged will safe neat- ly opened. The two crowbars, clay hammer and long screw dri- ver used by the thieves were ly- ing nearby. Postmaster stated Wednesday mately $4,000 in stamps of var- ious denominations were taken. "There . was only about $60 in cash in the safe," be said. Chief Derry stated that a con- siderable number of stamps in the safe were not taken. "Possibly the look-out man saw Constable Heath coming and gave the warn- ing," he said. A finger-print ex- pert from Hamilton was unable to find any prints. "The robbers either wore gloves or taped their fingers," the chief said. He also stated the job indicated that the men were experienced safe-crack- ers. Robbed on the same night, Ma- son's Hardware in Bronte was en- tered by thieves by way of the back door. About $5 in cash was taken. The tools used in the post- ) ; al robbery were not, as first was thought, secured by this break- in. CENTRAL GOES, NEW SCHOOL PLANNED Immediate construction of a new 12room public school on the west side, to cost approximately $350,000, was urged by Alan Wea- therstone, chairman of Oakville public school board, Who appear- ed before town council Monday evening to ask approval for the project. If started now, Mr. Wea- therstone said, the proposed new school should be ready by Sept ember 1952. The public school chairman told council that present school ac- commodation was badly crowded, and would become more sO unless a new school was built right away "There are now an average of 40 to 41 pupils per class,' he said. "This is considerably higher than the recommended average. TWO rooms at Central school are being used for staggered classes." These classes, he said, could be elimin- ated by Easter, when at least three rooms in the new West- wood school addition would be completed. It was estimated that in September 1952 there would be an increase of 30 children of 5 rears of age, over and above the regular increase. "There is a very rapid growth in the number of young children," Mr. Weather stone pointed out. The chairman proposed the pur- chase of a building site between Kerr Street and Queen Mary Dr., north of Stewart Street, for the building of a one-storey school to contain six rooms for junior, and six for senior pupils, the latter to come from Central school. "The board has under active consider- ation the final closing of Central school and the building of a new eightroom school more suitably located," said Mr. Weatherstone. Adverse reports on Central school, hed said, had been received from the department of education and the public health officer. Poor lighting and toilet facilities were mentioned in the reports. Con- ditions at Brantwood school were such that three more classes William Litchfield that appro: "HALTON HEALTH UNIT M.0.H. STATES BUG NOT DANGEROUS, BUT STRESSES CARE NEEDED Sweeping into Oakville from Toronto, probably through the ef- forts of commuters who brought it home with them, the fu germ took heavy toll of Oakville fam- ilies toward the end of the week and over the weekend. Reports of whole families confinéd to beds, and of firms with staffs greatly reduced were common. Local doc tors, instead of the customary 8 or 9 calls waiting for them in the morning "were greeted with lists of twenty and thirty patients with high fevers. Epidemic For Sure Dr. E. P..Soanes, chief of staff at the Memorial hospital, stated there was definitely an epidemic in progress. "The attacks are mot too serious," he said. "But pa- tients feel very poorly and must disease has run He stated most cases of pneumon- ia resulting were in men who were trying to return to their work too soon. "They should not try and get out and around too soom, OF else they may find it comes right PETE SUTTON, IMPRESSES NEW YORK INDOOR MEET Lloyd Percival, director of the Sports College, and Canada's top track coach, took a group of Can- adians to the U.S. Interscholastic Indoor Championships held at Madison Square Gardens, New York, Saturday afternoon. Among them was Pete Sutton, running under the colors of the Oakville High School. "Bete turned in such an out: standing performance, even though he did not win the final heat, that he received offers from the top coaches of many U.S. universit- ies," Lloyd told us Tuesday when he telephoned. "N.Y.U., ome of the top track-team universities was particularly interested, and Georgetown was ready to make almost any offer Pete wanted." Coach Percival explained the 440 was run in 8 preliminary heats from which the 6 best times were taken for the final. Sutton cashed his heat with the lead time of 52.8 to qualify. "In the final there was a jam up - at the first bend," Lloyd Per- cival explained. "Under their rules this means the race must be run over. On' the second trip there was another mess at the second bend, a runner going down right in front of Pete. He had to hurdle him, come almost to a full stop. That lost the race for him. If he hadn't had such bad luck he'd have stood a good chance for a win as the winning time was only 52.6, and Pete won his first heat so easily he could have bettered his time." back on them--and with more serfous results," he warned. Almost, No Journal Almost decimated by the bug, was the staff of this newspaper, which suffered losses of two staff members last week, but opened on Monday with three other cas- ualties, and the two cgnvalescents walking (very slowly). Game to the last slug of type was O. Pet- ers, linotype operator, although he shared his chair with a hot- water bottle all day Tuesday. Bill Cotton, a semi-corpse until Mon- day night, gave sad voiced re- ports of ills and chills beyond bearing on Tuesday from his bed. With only three members of the staff, Phil Thompson, Leslie Mar- tin and Vince Barrey untouched to date by the busy flu bug, this organization exceeded by a long way the over all average of 5.5% employees away in the industries in town, as reported Tuesday. However, there were several plants which came close to us as the illness spread daily among 'workers. Scholars Are 11 Best situated school this week was Linbrook, where. most of the pupils were back following ilk ness, although the score had been high the previous week. The high. school reported an unprecedented 76 pupils absent on Tuesday. Oth- er schools reported somewhat similar conditions. . 0. H. Issue Statement Owing to the publicity in the press and frequent inquiries about the doing of public meetings, schools, theatres and churches, (Continued on Page 5) BRONTE MAN IS RESCUER Quick action on the part of Les- lie Burtt, Bronte service station proprietor, saved the life of 76- year-old Arthur Smith, a cripple, when a gasoline fire broke out in the service station Tuesday after- it oon. Mr. Burtt was using some gaso- line to clean a car fuel pump In the workshop at the rear of the station when a motorist drove up to purchase gas. Hurrying to serve the customer, Mr. Burtt knocked over the gasoline can. The fluid ran under a heater, there was a blast, and the interior of the build- ing was a mass of flames. Mr. Burtt rushed back into the blaz- ing shop where Mr. Smith was sitting, seized him and pulled him through the door to safety. The Bronte fire brigade was sum- moned and put out the fire. Dam- age to the interior of the service station was estimated at about $1,000. With the announcement in Pres- ident R. O. Bull's letter to the citizgps of the Oakville district, which with the annual operating statement will be found on page three, that the Baseball Assoc tion ended the year with a def members of the association coup- led word of a drive to obtain this amount. It was the feeling of the association that residents, indus- tries and merchants would want to back the assoclation to the ex- tent of $3,138,58 deficit so the 1951 season could start with a clean slate. Reasons for the deficit will be readily apparent to citizens who recall the delays, and additional expenses met by the association in erecting the lights in Wallace Park. With better than half the season over before the park was avallable for games, and a cold and rainy remainder of the sea- would be meeded by of next year. E: The board had obtained appro- val of the Ontario department of education for the proposed new school on the west side, and had engaged the services of an arch- itect, Mr. Weatherstone told coun; cil, He asked council to authorize the purchase of the site in order that a start could be made as (Continued on Page 3) son, the a could not hope to be able to regain the fin- anclal losses occasioned by lack of home games in early season. However, based on 1950 experience, directors feel sure that the as- sociation can operate, with a full season's revenue against expen- ses, on a profitable basis In 1951 and following years. Oakville Baseball Association play an active part in the devel BASEBALL ASSN. STATEMENT RELEASED, DRIVE LAUNCHED opment of minor ball in town, with many teams in operation under the capable direction and coach- ing of Bud Corbett. The cost of this program Is not a light one, but it Is fully expected that with its cost Included in the agsocla- tion's program, there will still be a profit, To the program with the youngsters goes much credit for the non-existent juvenile delin- quency in town. Chief John Derry and other public officials, whose concern such matters are, have repeatedly stressed the valué of the snmllfry baseball program. In a very real sense, this fmport- tant donation now being sought will be gifts toward maintaining this important force for good among the town youngsters. 'While Mr. J. A. M. Wallace's donation was the cornerstone on which economically successful op- eration of the baseball assocla- tion rests, other residents will ap- preclate when they have read the president's letter, and studied the statement, that the first year's operations could not have be other than a losing one, They will shortly recelve letters through the mail asking for thelr individ- ual support. The directors hope that a generous response will én- able the association to clear off the crippling deficit.