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1950 | n A Le Thursday, February 16, 1950 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page 7 Arts & Crafts Drama Group To Compete In Dominion Festival The Drama Group of Oakville Arts and Crafts will compete in the Dominion Drama Festival, their entry, "The Damask Cheek," having been accepted by the Fes- tival screening board. The three- act comedy will be presented at Hart House, University of Tor- onto, on Saturday afternoon, April 1. Tickets may be obtain ed from members of the group. An, interesting and enjoyable program was presented by Ralph Crack and. Ted Kober at Thurs- day's meeting of the Music Group. The following classes are being conducted at The Barn, Front St., Art, oMnday 8 p.m; Rug-mak- ing, Tuesday, 2 p.m.; Basketry, Tuesday 3 p.m; Wood-carving, Tuesday, 9 pm. Leather work Thursday 8 pm. Quality Venetian Blinds Custom Made Guaranteed Two Years REPAIR and LAUNDRY SERVICE Venetian Blind Laundry & Mfg. Co. SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK AAoRTOISE MAY Be Frou 1500 Ao 2,600 AIMES AS LARGE AS AHE SMALLEST TURTLES o> -- fio CENTURIES ENGLAND, BARS oF IRON JUERE SoLD BY fei HE UNTRYSIDE ERNIE Rien WARES IN BAGS. YES- 11 AMES AS MANY. By RJ. SCOTT NORTHERN --| foRfifaat R= %0 BOWLING yp BANTER Roy Tyrell led the way with a 328 high single as Schmoos main- tained their front running mar- gin in the Men's Major loop this week. W. Hughes came up with for the night. Schmoos 44 points gave them a comfortable 8-point margin over Haltons,. while Six Blows and Beehives were tied for the third slot with 34 totals. Other teams finished as follows in the point standing: Upsets 32, Acorns 31, Peerless 30, Chevs 28, Ideals 26, Evaporators 26, Air Coils 26, Rummies 25, Monarchs 23, Hitch- cox 18, Fords 18, and Westsides 17, Weekly Highs Frank Bradley's 328 and Jack Rogers' 865 copped last week's high awards in the men's divis- jon, while E. Shelley trundled 2 270 game in her 658 total to claim both top scores in the wo- men's section. a 767 triple to claim high honors | Social Owls Hoot Once a week a lively group of men styling themselves the Owls gather in a room in Riverside Lodge for an evening of fellow- ship and entertainment. They have been meeting for some years. The Owls' Club was or- ganized before the last war, when meetings were held at the old Gibson House. Right now the lub is flourishing and some splendid programs are being en- joyed by the members. Recita- tions by Chief White Owl Tom | Johnston, and songs by Deputy White Owl Walter Hooks, Harry Card, Bert Pickard, George Hast- ings, Bert Chesney and Ted and Ben Galley form part of the en- tertainment fare. One of the season's highlights was a visit from the Five Clefs Dance Band, made up of soldiers stationed at Ortona Barracks. Officers of the Owls Club for 1950 are: Chief White Owl, Tom- my Johnston; Deputy White Owl, Walter Hooks; Secretary, Hugh Windsor; Treasurer, George Hastings; Chief Penalty Keeper, Ben Galley; Entertainment Com- 'mittee, John Donald, chairman, Ted Galley, Harry Card, R. Dug- uette; Standard Bearer, W. FarT. OW English Fords Come In And See Them Stirling-Dynes]jLtd. Colborne St. Phone 800 Just Arrived A Shipment Of THE op Ba TOWN seeruvsrmoe By STANLEY w DOCS SPRING MEDICAL PROGRAM 1S ATTACKED § BY THE YOUNGER SET oe. Werk Bighes rrsed Service Club Plans Easter "Tp between New York and LaGuar- dia airport. And finally, after tacking on another $50 for pock- When it comes to taking care of every last detail, John Belyea is apparently in a class by him- self. John is in charge of the Op- et money, John bundled up the timist Club New York Easter [whole batch and informed his fel- holiday trip draw, and in this|low Optimists he figured he'd lin- capacity has proven himself as aed up a pretty fair draw prize. pretty convincing salesman, too.|They agreed with him--and But its in detail work that John [promptly handed him the super- shines. vising task. By the time the Most clubs, when booking a draw is made next month, Mr. trip prize for an organizational |Belyea feels he'll be able to turn raffle, would simply call up a tra- [over a tidy sum to the club's Unemployment (Continued from page one) building gets under way," said Mr. Lawrence, who was quite optimistic regarding the picture for the coming season. "There is going to be a lot of building in this area," he predicted. Industry could also be expect ed to provide a number of new. jobs, he said, pointing out that no less than nine new factories were being built between Oakville and Toronto's western limits, the. area served by the Lakeshore office of the Employment Service, which the Oakville office is & branch. a car won't start th morning; then those passeng phoning: frantically for other rides. And of course the usual requests for the correct time. By 8 a.m. the operator is ready for her relief and has really earn- ed it. The night I spent there was fairly quiet, I was told, but Miss Warburton had her hands full, for my money. are a few facts that in- Over a thousand long distance calls go out of Oakville daily. This does not count the calls from the firms that have their own direct wire to the city or the long distance calls into town. You often hear people remark. that the operators listen in, and therefore to' be careful what you Here terested me. vel agency, make reservations, and let it go at that. But not Op- timist Belyea. First he did the ob- vious, as above mentioned, book- ing an Easter week-end flight for two via T.C.A. Then he set about making reservations for the eventually lucky couple at Goth- ams Hotel Taft for four days. Then he figured out taxi fare between Malton and Oakville and say over the phone. This is non- sense. In the first place, the op- erators are far too well trained; secondly they are much too busy. to be interested in your little pri- vate conversation. There are nine switch-board positions to serve Oakville, a. town of about 6500 people, and those nine operators are really slaving to handle the volume of boys' work program. "If that long imagined jaunt to see Broadway's bright lights is still eluding you, and you don't see it in your immediate future, Ill be glad to start you in the right direction for a trifling sum," he said yesterday with a grin" If we're Optimistic about the whole thing, why shouldn't you be?" (Continued from Page 1) pay phones; presumably from those street boxes. All the time I was there the night bell was ringing and lights flashed on the board. I asked the operator if the people of Oak- ville never went to bed? If some- one called me after mid-night, I would suspect an emergency or one of our friends with a low (very low) sense of humour. The operator did remark that the same people seem to stay up very late every night and put through these calls. Maybe they get lone- some at night and want to talk to someone, or as I remarked earlier, may just be night-hawks. About this time a call came in on a rural kine. But there was no Journal Researcher Finds local and long distance calls and still give the fastest, most effi cient service possible. re ------ TH TONGUE TIED ? ; A Permanents definitely aren't. Weather probabilities seldom are. second alarm for the same fire came in. This time we decided that it must be a huge blaze. With the second alarm the bell and lights were kicking up another Common sense usually isn't. Tiamots as mors calls came in for | A Ethis the usstot language, more volunteers to fight the fire. [21YW8Y? It was close to 2.15 a.m. before things became quieter. Remember, while this was go- ing on so were the long distance calls, mostly for Toronto. Who in the world would you call at that hour of the morning long dis- tance? And calls were coming in from Toronto too. In less than two hours there were 52 calls of all kinds for the lone night oper- ator to handle. Certainly she has no time to be lonely or bored. At 2.30 am. one of the local SINGER! Sewing Machine Company Sales and Service car will be in the Town of Oak- ville on Tuesdays for a period of four weeks starting January 17. New machines now avail- able. Repairs to all makes. Free Estimates in advance. Work Guaranteed. Phone line (possibly 12) would be with- out service until that one receiv- er was replaced, Miss Warbur- ton made out a trouble sheet and the first thing the next morning a repair man would go out to locate the trouble. Shortly after 1 am. a call came in for the Traafigar fire department. At last some excite- ment, I thought. From then on for the next half-hour the op- erator was so busy handling the calls that T did not dare ask any questions. The switch-board was lighted up like a Christmas tree and looked like an octopus with all the plugs crossing and criss- crossing. Call after call went through for the volunteer fire- men as the fire was in the town- ship. And call after call came in enquiring the location of the fire, which Miss Warburton could not answer, as the person calling had merely asked for the Trafalgar Fire Brigade. I became even moTe curious as to where the fire could be when a woman with a quavering voice asked the operator where the fire was. When told that the oper- ator didn't know, the voice whim- pered; "It is an awful fire. It's right behind us but IT don't know whose place." In the midst of al the fire calls, the usual local and long distance calls were coming in as well as calls asking the correct time. The reporters for the Tor- onto papers were calling in too to ask where the fire was. With ihe bell constantly ringing, the board lighting up like stars, it is a miracle to me how the operator at all times kept her head and her courtesy. For the next twenty minutes answer when the operator asked |goctors got a call. At that hour it oriwrite for a number. After repeated |could only be the stork making a SINGER SEWING attempts to get an answer Miss | quick visit, I thought, Then I MACHINE CO. War that the the board to sce if the |||39 Main St. Galt. Ph. 3165 receiver must be off the hook. |nogpital would get a ring which and our man will call The unfortunate part was that all [would verify my surmise. No the other numbers on that rural |nocpital call came in; but six minutes later the same doctor re- ceived another call. Well, at least he was already awake. Tss Warburton took this op- portunity to remark that Oak- ville's doctors were wonderful about answering late evening calls, She said that the operator had only to ring their number once. From 8 am. to 530 am. the switchboard was fairly quiet. Frequent calls came In asking the time. Many calls made at this period were from pay phones, Late revellers, no doubt, explain- ing to mamma why they were not home yet. . About 530 the calls started building up again. From then un- til shortly after 8 a.m. the op- erator was very busy. Mr. Ash- ley, manager of the Oakville office, told me that the volume of calls between those hours was heavier 'here than in any other town of comparable size. Wondering why? Commuters! People calling the station to see it theit train is on time; people who have missed their train call- ing friends to try for a ride to the city; drivers of pool cars call- ing their passengers because the Carsten Glahn Optometrist - Optician 163 Colborne Street Oakville -- TELEPHONE 1375 -- OFFICE HOURS ENGAGED GIRLS r SOs 11 you are A a ity, or just be Bixteen, a) aviet of aie comes 10 sion of Gosdwil fiom pubis spirited local merchants There's nothing to buy. obligation. Phone your. Wels como Wagon Hostess below. and arrange 10 receive these Welcome Wagon MEW YORK + MEMPHIS + LOS ANGELES. 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