Oakville Newspapers

Oakville-Trafalgar Journal, 12 Oct 1950, p. 6

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=m Thursday, October 12, 195 CANADIAN DOLLA --Gentral Press Canadian Travelling will be made easier with fewer currency restrictions. And milady's wardrobe with the U.S. market open, should be more extensive and less expensive on many articles. Spotlight On Europe Zurich and Paris of today will provide subject matter for speakers at the next meeting of the University Women's Club of Oakville, to be held in the high school music room at 8.15 p.m. October 18. Mrs. W. H. Temple will discuss "Present Conditions in France," while Miss Ruth Robertson reports concerning "The University Women's In- ternational Conference in Zur- ich." R REVALUATION TO LOWE R SOME PRICES k ¥ Budget minded housewives are sell at the same price as in the U.S. high prices in the new dollar valuation announced by the government. Many imports from the U.S, formerly bought at the premium, will now enter Canada without quota restrictions and will S. --Central Press Canadian Photos expected toefind some relief from 10 per cent. WHITE OAK GHAPTER SENDS OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Queen Mary = Is Pleased "To feel that my carpet is now in the keeping of the people of Canada is more than ample re- ward to me for all the time | spent in making it during the war years," Queen Mary re- cently wrote to Mrs, John H. Chipman, National President of the Imperial Order Daughters the Empire. The letter was read at last week's\ meeting of An- gela Bruce Chapter. "When | presented my carpet to the Na- tion as a conttibution to this country's dollar export drive | always cherished the hope that it might eventually find a per- manent home in Canada, so | can assure you that nothing has given me greater pleasure than that, thanks to the generous action of the 1.0.D.E. my hope has been fulfilled and the crapet has become the pro: perty of the Canadian people. | know much myself of the work of the Order in Canada, and my sister-in-law, Princess Alice, has told me still more about the letter concluded. to learn "Just imagine the amount of food! you can store in a 6 Cu. Ft. freezing | locker--meats, fish, game, fresh and ready-frozen vegetables, - bread, rolls, cake, ice cream--enough for months! And all it costs is $16 a year" & Store your food in the most mg [8 dern locker freezing plant in the i province -- we Insure « againg spoilage. It costs less than , [@ nickel a day! 1 i "You'll Be Dollars Ahead and Much Better Fed" Bi-MOR FROZEN FOODS Royal Bank Bldg., Colborne St. Phone 1214.5 CONTRIBUTION TO FOOD FUND Wite Preservers If a little horseradish to the meat gravy be- fore serving time, for a steak dinner. _ A fifty-dollar donation to the Food for Britain' fund was voted at the October meeting of White Oak Chapter, 10.D.E., held at the home of Mrs. W. M. Copeland. Sums of $25 each were donated to the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Children's Aid, and $50 was voted to the Chapters scholarship fund. A letter was received from Mrs. Grierson, winner of the $50 prize in the Chapter's annual draw, who returned the money to be used in the .Chapter's work. Mrs. W. S. Blake was authorized to offer his- tory prizes for the high school commencement. An interesting feature of, the CHAPTER PLANS BAKE SALE meeting was the reading of a letter from Her Majesty Queen Mary Chipman, national resident L.O.D.E, expressing Pi T AID WELFARE PROGRAM satisfaction that the 'carpet donat- ed by the queen was in the hands Letters of appreciation for food parcels, written by recipients in Britain, were read by Mrs. H. Lofquist, postwar convener, at the October meeting of the Angela Bruce Chapter, 1.0.D.E. Mrs. Lofquist reported that a. consign- ment of foodstuffs and garments had been made to 1.0.D.E. head- quarters in September, for ship- ment to Britain. She urged mem- bers to increase their output of sewn and knitted goods for re- lief locally as well as for ship- ment overseas. The chapter will hold a sale of home baking and preserves at the vened by Mrs. proceeds will be devoted to wel fare and educational Carlton Green, Opportunity ful month to date, proceeds of $211. nounced by Mrs. vray, citizenship dance will be held convener. ning, October 19. share of proceeds Roy Irwin, and 1 work, Mrs. convener of the Shop, reported that September was the most success: with total A dance for new Canadians of the town and district, to be held in conjunction|nylon garments, with White Oak Chapter, was an-| Labrador was' Colin McGilli-| 1oya-Jones The in the High School auditorium Thursday eve- The chapter's from opera- of the I1.0.D.E. The Chapter donated $100 to the carpet fund to aid Britain's dollar shortage. It was reported that 34 babies were examined at the Well Baby Clinic last: week. This clinic, at which members of the Chapter as- sist, is growing in popularity. An appeal for used rayon and to be sent to made by Mrs. C. on behalf of the Grenfell Labrador Mission. PINK LAYETTES Boast of a Belgian doctor that a {Glidden 1 Glidden Zt 7i NEW sere SATIN DECORATOR COLORS - READY-TO-USE BLUE SPRUCE Mix 1 gt. ROSE BEIGE CHARTREUSE "y/ BERKSHIRE GREEN + COLONIAL BLUE * Glidden Spred SATIN Decorator Colors are ready-to-use, require no special wall primers . . ish your decorating with one material. Made with a synthe- tic rubber emulsion base, Decorator Colors are amazingly easy to apply .'they flow more smoothly, more uniformly than conventional touch in twenty minutes. ADDITIONAL COLORS MAY BE OBTAINED BY INTERMIXING SPRED SATIN DECORATOR COLORS. Berkshire Green with 1 gt. Colonial Blue Mix 1 gt. White with 1 qt. Monterey Brown Mix 3 qts. Confetti Yellow with 1 gt. Pinefrost Green DROP IN AT 75B COLBORNE ST. AND SEE THE LATEST GOLOR CHIPS +/ MONTEREY BROWN / WINEBERRY . you can start and fin- deep-color paints . and they dry to INTERMIX FORMULAS: CANYON RED Mix 3 gts. Monterey Brown with 1 gt. Wineberry. LAUREL GREEN Mix 2 gts. Berkshire Green with 1 qt. Monterey Brown . CHARCOAL | Mix with 3 ats. Berkshire 4 Green with 3 ats. Colonial Blue and 1 qt. Wineberry. fyRSDA 1 frees 3 tion of the refreshment booth in tot 'n teens shop, Colborne St. on| wallace Park was $316.35, it was Saturday, October 28, starting at|announced by Miss Jessie Gordon, 9.30 a.m, The sale will be con-| convener of the booth, WHODUNITS, HEMINGWAY TOP he can tell the sex of a child be- fore birth recalls one old family physician who used to forecast that every child would be a girl, If it was he was right. If it was- wt, he never had any complaints from the parents. Hard on the RECENT LIBRARY ADDITIONS There's 'more intriguing' reading tor," Louse. Stinetorf; and "Owen matter at Oakville Public Library Glen," by Ben Ames Williams. with the latest acquisition of Heading the list of non-fiction fourteen books. Detective story, works is "Anybody Can Do Any- fans will welcome "A Murder Is thing," latest book oy Betty Mac- Announced," by Agatha Christie,! Donald, author of "The Egg and famous writer of detective fiction.| 1". For fishing enthusiasts there Ernest Hemingway's much-pub-| i: Standard Book of Fishing" licized new novel "Acr The; by Bruce R. Tuttle; other works River and Into the Trees," is an-|are "Eleanor of Aquitaine," other book for which there should Amy Kelly, and "New Ways be brisk "The Spanish| Better Sight," by Harris Gruman. Gardener," is by the popular au-| The people have not thor A. J. Cronin. Other recently |been forgotten, either, two books works are "The|having been added to the juvenile demand. young acquired fiction Legacy, by Nevil Shute; "Af section. They are "Marcia, "Pri Lamp is Hea by Sheila McKay | vate Secretary," by Zillali K. Russell; About Mrs. Laslie,"| MacDonald, and "Cowboy Small" Vina Delmar White Witch Doc-| by Lois Lenski. DRESSER SETS MAKE IDEAL XMAS GIFTS Drop in and see these lovely sets-- Make your choice now and let us put 0. B. BERGQUIST Jeweler Phone 1231 Colborne St. E. it away until Xmas. The Oakville Lumber Co. Ltd. Paint & Wallpaper Store COLBORNE ST. OPP. POST OFFICE PHONE 138 i female sex, perhaps, but it's true. Ee | | No matter what your trucking job; theres an All new, All proved Interna- taal built to do it better. Let us dem- uistrate how Heavy-Duty Engineering pays _off in performance--what Inter- national's new streamlined utility means In terms of cab comfarr, safety. beauty, Cal Model for Model "Roomiest cab { on the road" Church St. at Navy. VANGUARD Canada's Family Car MAXWELL-BROWN MOTORS "Vanguard--International Sales & Service" Telephone

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