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1 the idn't had ound jar. you lars. Thursday, February 22, 1951 = --_-- RED CROSS DRIVE (Continued from Page 1) victims were homeless and ill-clad, the Red Cross became the only of: cial relief organization, setting OF Up emergency shelters, equipping them with sleeping accommodas tion and kitchens, providing food- stuffs, channeling clothing to de. Dots for distribution, When the Rimouski fire swept that com. munity, Red Cross moved into the stillsmoking town and set up re- lief depots, food centres and so on. Locally, when a boat was des. troyed by an explosion, Red Cross supplies were available for the emergency. And in Oakville, as in hundreds of other communities and dis. across Canada, services SPECTACULAR SALE FINE ENGLISH BONE CHINA CUPS AND SAUCERS $1.00 - $1.39 - $1.49 Outstanding value, clearing to make room for new spring stocks. Come along in! ® ample is the provision of a blood bank and plasma service at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial hos. pital. Others are the home nurs. Ing courses, the maintenance of a loan cupboard from which any- one can borrow sickroom supplies which are seldom available in any home when sickness strikes, And to these are added the lo- cal society's contributions, in both finances and materials, to Red Cross Outpost hospitals, ambu- lance services and other facillties provided by Red Cross to alleviate suffering wherever it may ex The GOLDEN HOUR Bookshop 53 Colborne St. Phone 668 COMING SOON T0 THE CENTURY THEATRE surnine- MARGARET RUTHERFORD ao ALASTAIR SIM PHILIPS DELUXE WASHING MACHINE MODEL P50P WORK SAVER: TIME SAVER: MONEY SAVER L. F. CLEMENT HOMAS STREET NORTH PHONE 1441 2% HOUR SERVICE ON REFRIGERATORS & OIL BURNERS -- THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL AHOY THERE! Sea Rangers In Oakville at Last liver since last summer (and, pare for launching our ship in the even before that) there's been |mear future, - talk, talk and more falk about| The Guides and Sea Rangers Sea Rangers in Oakville. And now | are combining their Thinking Day they are about to become a real |ceremonies, Four of the Sea Ran- ity. Since last September, the of-| gers will be making their enrol- ficers have been taking training |ment Promise, Guides will be at SRS. Princess Royal in Tor- | presented with badges, and there onto, and on November 11th, after |'will be items by the Guide Choir. the Armistice Day Parade, the [A spacial ceremony for this day carefully chosen nucleus of the | will be "Spirit of the Guide Lay. Crew met to arrange instruction | After the Sea Ranger enrolment classes, choose uniforms, and get | ceremony we will be pleased to the crow organized. During the [receive applications from any three months since that date the | girly who wish to join the crew, ginls have taken a considerable |and be pleased fo answer any amount of training, including a | questions they may wish to ask. week-end camp, and now, at long | We hope to meet a great num bey last, the! ship is ready to take on of the glris who have shown scot hands. Interest during the period while Sea Rangers are a specialized | our. ship was being commissioned, branch of tite Girl Guide move: || So lev's see you all at victoon ment, for girls 15 to 21 who have | Hall tonight, Thursday, 22nd. met. a particular yen for "messing at 7.15 p.m, about with boats," whose family are connected with the navy or who just simply like the idea of the fun, adventure, and opportun- ities for service that Sea Ranger- ing has to offer. But, although closely connected with the Guid- es, membership is definitely not restricted to girls who have been Guides or Brownies. Anyone be- tween 15 and 21 may join, al- though a girl cannot be enrolled as a Sea Ranger until she has completed the Pre-Enrolment Tests. i The 22 nd of February is a very important. day to all members of the Scout and Guide movements. GIRL GUIDES MRS. J. F. GRAYDON On Tuesday morning last week Division Ci i Mr: H. YOUR ARENA PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21: 2.00-4.00: Appleby 4.30-6.00: High' School hockey 6.30-7.30: Juvenile hockey practice 8.30-10.30: Public Skating (children under 14 not al- lowed on ice) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22: 10-11 a.m.: Pre-school children, learn-to-skate class 1.30-3.30: Appleby 4-6 p.m.: Public School hockey 7.30: Industrial Hockey FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23: 1.30-3.30: Appleby 4-5.45 p.m.: Public school free skating 8.30: Int. O.H.A. Burlington vs. Oakville SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24: 8-12.30 a.m.: Minor league hockey (six games) 2-4 p.m.: Oakville Figure Skating Club 8.30 p.m.: Public Skating SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25: 2-4 p.m.: Oakville Figure Skating Club 4-5 p.m.: Skating (children up to 14 years) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26: 1.30-3.30: Appleby 4.30-6 p.m.: High School skating 8.30 p.m.: Intermediate OHA hockey. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27: 9-10 a.m.: Army hockey 1.30-3.30: Appleby 415.45: Public school free skating 5.45-6.45: Bronte hockey 8-11: Oakville Figure Skating Club It is the anniversary of the birth- day of the Founder, Lord Baden- Powell, and also of his wife, the Chief Guide of the World, This is the day set aside by all Brown- des, Cubs, Scouts, Guides, Rang- ers, Rovers, Guiders and Scout- ers, to think of all the people all over the world who have made the same promise as they have. So we chose "Thinking Day" as being the most appropriate day to take on a few more hands to pre- SHELTER NEWS Since opening its new shelter, Oakville Humane Society has been literally bombarded with calls for its services, Already there are a number of dogs in the pens avail able for adoption, including a fe- re I Than thought, effort and talent which and white hound and a black and [Vent into the making of this mes- tan hound, both male, for'a farm; | S46¢ Of goodwill. The pages of ed female blonde cooker | the LOE Book were the work and a contribution of British Sea Ran- Mrs. H. W. Jaffray, Mr. and Mrs. Irven Fell, Sea Ranger Shirley Wilson, Guide Joan Brown and Brownie Pat McDowell made up the dele- gation which met at the Brant Museum in Burlington to receive the Guide Scroll and Log Book from Guide representatives from Stoney Creek. Back in Oakville, the civic reception was presided over by Reeve Howard Litchfield in the absence of Mayor Black. Army headquarters, Central Com- mand, was represented by Lieut. Col. F. N. Ovens, and the Scroll and Log Book were then display- ed in the Armouries from three until nine o'clock. About three hundred visitors including Guides and Brownies from Burlington, Port Nelson and Milton came to see this impressive document. All were impressed by the spaniel for an adult family. One / S ee taken to the shelter has al. |5ers, Guides 2 Di fe dy been provided with a home [fhe towns and villages which es bor, There are al. |lined the routes from Oxford to 2 te or tothe Tole of Wight: Southemoic a them, | and Portsmouth, travelled by Can: a adopt ~ apt | atin and American forces mass. or ETS sania to call the |Il8 in the south of England for shelter at 515. Those taking ani- | tie D-Day invasion. After spend- mals will be expected to pay the |iDg the night in Ortona Barracks amount due for their board while | fhe Scroll was conducted to the in the shelter, and, in the case of [NeXt stopping place, Port Credit, dogs, to buy the licenses. The |D v. Commissioner Mrs. Jaf- shelter is still in need of a stable Mrs. Helmer, Ranger Judy broom, extra pails, a coal scuttle, , Guide Beverly Fraser and bage cans, a wet mop and gar. | Brownie Catharine Jaffray, who Tony E were provided with an Army es- Sma cort, and the Scroll and Log Book were given over to Mrs. B. P. Mal "FLU BUG" |i This week is" signiticant to all (Continuing from Page 1) Guides and Scouts as February Dr. James Mather, director of the | 22nd is known as Thinking Day, Halton County Health Unit, issued | in commemoration of the birthday a statement on Tuesday. He said |of Lord Baden-Powell, who, after there was no resemblance be- [a distinguished military career in tween the flu germ which was | which he rose to the rank of Lieut. sweeping into the county and the |General, founded the organiza. one which caused so many deaths | tion of Boy Scouts and Girl Guid. in 1918. The germ was the same |es in 1908 to promote good citizen. as the recent outbreak in Eng: (ship in the rising generation, By land. All sections were suffering, | coincidence, it Was also the birth. but Oakville was the first and |date of Lady Baden-Powall, World hardest hit. "It is a disagreeable Chief Guide, and In her honour disease but it usually runs its|Guides think on thls occasion of course in three days without com- | the world aspects of Guiding, plications. As in most respirafory [and sister Guides of other no. diseases, it is most severe in the | tions. Brownies will hold thelr very young and the very old," he [Thinking Day and Flying Up cor. told the Journal. He also said that emonies on Tuesday at 7.15 at it was felt there was no need to Victoria Hall. Due to the growth close the theatres as this move [of the companies and packs it has would not be valuable enough to become necessary fo split the "counterbalance. the inconvenience | ceremony for lack of space, Sun. caused." day afternoon at three o'clock Schools Open Best there will be the annual Scout- Explaining it was better to keep Guide Church Parade at St the schools open the M.O.H. rea-|Johws CHurch for the Thinking soned "It fs better to keep the [Day service, and the Guide Choir children at school under super- [which will compete shortly In the vision than to turn them loose to [Kiwanis Music Festival will take gather in other places where [part in the service, there would be no control. Cer-| Service Stars were awarded in tainly we should all avoid need [Third Brownie Pack last week less contacts with crowds, but we |when Helen Shand and Sandra should not panic and disrupt our | Hately received One-Year Stars, normal lives" Dr. Mather's pres-| Mary Sutton, Barbara Thompson. cription for when the flu strikes | Frances Arbon, Two-Year Stars: followed the advice of Dr. Soanes. [and a Three-Year Star to Eliza. He stressed the importance of [beth Feson. To give the meeting i fate bed to avoid complica-|a Valentine flavour, Brownies tions and requested all patients were treated to candy and cookies. to call their doctors. Fourth Brownie -- Pack, at two 2 recent enrollment ceremonies, TOWIRG SERVICE PHONE 1063 - NIGHTS 1939-J . HEDLEIGH HOME LIMi "The Home of Chrysler, Plymouth, Fargo - Sales and Service" DUNDAS STREET NORTH - OAKVIL| received the following new mem- bers: Carolyn Baker, Donna Al- way, Gail Cherrington. Wendy Webb, Gloria Jean Leek, Marion Robertson, Beyerley Heath, Char- lotte Wood, Joan Craig, Janat Aft- ken and Doris Burley. Unfortun- ately, there 5 too much out- side competition, as this pack met on Saturday afternoons, and it has been decided to disband, the Brownies transferring to the oth- er local packs. The Lixibrook Brownie Pack will LE hold its first meeting on Tuesday, TED M i ll nN "It saves me time and steps; keeps me in touch with my family and friends; is always ready in emergencies." AND 17s VALUE keeps growing all the time. With more and more families get- ting telephones, you can reach twice as. many people as you could ten years ago. And the traditionally friendly service is being steadily improved. Yet today your telephone actually takes a smaller part of your family budget than it did some years ago! Friendly and efficient telephone service, at a reasonable price, is one of today's big bargains. If you haven't yet got service' You can be sure your neighbour hood will be served, and your place on the list protected. Taking care of people without service as quick- ly as possible is one of our biggest and most important tasks, COMPANY OF CANADA February 27th. TAKE HOME SOME SILVERWOOD'S BULK ICE CREAM CARTONS FROM 10¢ UP MANY FLAVORS TO CHOOSE FROM Silverwood's Bricks only bricks still retailing at 35¢ DONNA LE CANDY AND NUT SHOP Opposite Century Theatre Phone 1229-w