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Dakville- Trafalgar Journal Btcred, 2nd. Class Mail, Ottawa Vol. 4, No. 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950 24 Pages 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per yean in advance Ening, M. WICKSON MBER AS tt Drummond, fle up of BOUR COUNCIL ENDORSES CANDIDATE: vice-president neil in draughting a constitu- Mr. Drummond lauded the most cases, town councils are local business men, ur now feels that under JICKSON VICTORIOUS IN FIRST EEVESHIP CONTEST IN YEARS, RAFALGAR BALLOTING LIGHT Li Trafalgar's northern wards and his own Bronte liwick providing the strong support that piled up more n two-thirds of his 963 vote total, be' Wickson, Monday defeated Reeve W. H. Biggar in tb township's first contest for Mr. Biggar, whose booming majorities in Wards 7 and counted for nearly half of his total, polled 788, . Wickson a 175-vote margin. Close Contest All The Way The issue was a doubtful one for the greater part of the Mr. Wickson jumping into bnte and 'Wards 3 and 6 were among the first to report. Biggar jumped right back into contention, however, en Wards 7 and 8 gave him 348 votes as compared with or his opponent. It was not until Ward 1, last to report, be the deputy-reeve 199 ballots to Mr. Biggar's 63 that former's victory was assured. rd will be found elsewhere in this issue. Deputy-reeve J. M. the reeveship in many giving an early lead when Tabulated figures by Stark Misses Out It was also a nip-and-tuck affair in the council contest where Frank Stark was eliminated from the four-man race for three seats. Mr. Stark, who lead the polls in Wards 1, 2 and 5, gave an excellent ac- count of himself in his first mun- cipal campaign, but dropped 66 votes behind E. G, "Duff" Pullen, another newcomer to the lists who finished third. Councillor Bob Marshall headed the poll, his 959 giving him an edge of 12 over run- ner-up Councillor R. C. A. "Rusty" Cumberland. Merry On Top Trustees Percy Merry, only board member standing for re-elec- FEATURED PLAYERS Chuck bell and Tony Grove bask in the warm, dazzling glow generated by Jim's dressing gown and photographer bulbs. TERRIFIC, TORRID, TONIC TABS CLUTTER UP REVIEW ATTEMPTS tion, headed his three opponents for the three vacant school board posts, emerging with a 16 vote margin over B. J. James, former township clerk. Denzil Lawrence finiohed third, 58 ballots ahead of ® . Allan. Mr. Allan had the Rh of polling the second highest. ward total however, his 205 in Bronte being second only to Mr. James' 266 in Ward 8. Although only 36 percent of the eligible voters turned out to exer- cise their franchises, those who did evinced a keen interest in the election. More than 250 thronged the municipal office while returns were being charted and stayed to listen to the condidates, while the Journal's telephones, which began to ring about eight p.m., had short- ly thereafter reached a jingling crescendo which kept four tabula- tors on the hop for the remainder of the evening. ' Oakville's [88 welcomed followers. way, own versions picnic n, Keystone cops fedisufed prisoners crowd, Mickey fe frolicked Daisy Mae, with Lil' by weather that reminiscent of April fers than Yuletide snow flur- energetic Junior [G8 cr of Commerce last Satur- Santa Claus to with all the full dress par- fanfare that goes: to gladden hearts of his host of. youth- ith the Citizens Band leading the Jaycees introduced of such al- popular floats as the Teddy 3 and Snow White he Seven Dwarfs, while in e chased through and Minnie Abner and brilliantly ked clowns passed out bal- YCEES WELCOME SANTA ~~ - WITH FAIRY TALE FANFARE lons to the kiddies. And at the parade's end, of course, rode old St. Nick in all his scarlet splen- dor, securely ensconced in a huge chimney atop a roof specially built for the occasion. The parade route from Wallace park down through the business section was lined with hundreds of youngsters, who happily shrilled their ap- proval. It was the launching of the Jaycees annual campaign to ap- praise residents as to the ad- vantages of doing their Christ- mas shopping here in town, and Bill Hughes and his busy cohorts intend to bring Santa back to town each Saturday from now until Christmas Eve. "It was a good show in support of a worthy ob- jective. AS 'T TEASES BY BILL COTTON When director and co-star sim | Campbell bent the Journal editor's ear practically double last week, extolling the merits of his Oakville Club Players Group presentation of "Born Yesterday," 1 groaned inwardly as I read the handwrit- ing on the office wall that was going to assign me to reviewing another amateur play. Nuts, told myself, what a way to spend a Saturday night! Who wants to watch a bunch of well meaning eager beavers gnaw a Broadway script into tatters? And when the Globe and Mail's Herb Whitaker waxed lyrical about the local cast, I didn't feel any better about it. I thought it was nice of Herb to give the small town boys and girls a boost, but I figured it all must be weighing pretty heavily on his critic's con- science. I kept right on brooding at the prospect of Saturday night being the crummiest night in the week. So, as I sat back to watch the final performance of the three- night stand, I was quite prepared to type out the usual trite tripe about the show. I even looked around for a chair with better slumbering possibilities. They'd iven me a program at the door, and I could work from that when 1 woke up. Then it happened. The curtain (Continued on Page 6) Voters, Attention Town affairs will get a thor- ough going-over at Oakville-Tra- falgar High School Auditorium Monday evening, when Oakville- Trafalgar Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber stage their civic night. Candidates for town council and public school board -will address the gathering, and members of the audience will get plenty of chance to ask them questions. It should be a good meeting, If you're a voter, don't miss it. Program starts at 8 p.m. REEVE Biggar Wickson Total COUNCIL Cumberland Marshall Pullen Stark SCHOOL BOARD Merry James Allen Lawrence 199 142 22 3 164 'TRAFALGAR TOTALS, POLL BY POLL POLLING SUBDIVISIONS gorge ga iy 37 52 60 49 18 119 166 124 41 86 47 39 202 176 101 135 66 148 31 72 91 51 39 119 166 138 37 111 36 62 16 48 99 21 39 132 177 124 25 112 30 45 161 133 44 105 33 68 39 6 8 64 37 83 17 44 80 20 44 gq 13 1156 32 128 a1 70 8 9 Bronte Total 229 ral 920 788 53 47 162 963 282 118 252 1751 255 104 164 947 57 68 99 959 274 87 174 903 21 27 53 837 %5 69 6 17 266 87 149 901 164 rs 205 754 44 52 68 812 T |'sion, Kirk, Barbara New, Jim Camp- Jerry Peers' flash DAZED SCRIBE BRONTE PETITION MAKING HEADWAY, CHAIRMAN REP Good headway is being made in circulating the petition for in- corporation of Bronte as a vil- lage, A. Jennings, chairman' of the Bfonte police village commis- stated at the commission's annual meeting in Bronte public school Friday evening. A large number of citizens have already signed the petition, which will be presented to Halton county coun- cil in January. If it meets with council's approval it will then -be submitted to the Ontario Muni- cipal Board. Mr. Jennings also announced that Bronte would join the Hydro system at an early date, and that a vote would be taken on the proposed water sys- em. The financial statement, rea by Vernon Busby, showed a bal ance of about $2,500 for the year to date. The statement for the full year will be presented in the near future. Charles Lawrence and 'Watkin Martin, the other mem- bers of the commission, also spoke. Jack Osborne, chairman of Bronte Light and Power Com- mission, presented the annual re- port, which revealed a satisfac- tory; financial condition. B-A HITS NEW SAFETY RECORD Wednesday night at midnight the B.A. Oil refinery at Clarkson hung up its fourth record of no lost time from accidents in five years--the top record in the company. The achievement car- ries . withn it the President's award, a day's pay for all em- ployees of the refinery. Closest contender "for the enviable score of the Clarkson B.A.ers, is Moose Jaw, with its third award hand- running coming up, However, to- tals of man-hours involved in the two plants are separated by prac- tically one million hours. The million-and-a-half man hours of Clarkson is a record in the in- dustry, and one man would work 110 years to get in that much time. There will be a celebration party for the employees on Fri- day in the Compounding and Blending plant. The refinery per- sonnel has copped the award in 1946, 1947, 1949 and 1950. SUNDAY POWER CUT There wil be a power interrup- tion in Oakville early Sunday morning, but it won't last long. On the east side of the river the cut will be from 7 to 7.40 a.m., and on the west side from 7 to 9 a.m. Only consumers on 66 2-3 cycle power will be affected. AGCLAIMED AS Mayor James Black, Reeve Howard Litchfield, and Deputy- Reeve Ted Lauder were returned to office by acclamation at Oak- ville's nominations Friday eve- ning, while the following eighteen were nominated for six council seats: Harry J. Allen, James L. Cooke, Phil Chambres, John M. Campbell, D. E. L. Carruthers, George Davis, L. R. Freeman, M. D. (Mickey) Forbes, George Gray, Ross Gibson, John F. Isard, A. B. Lankin, Lachlan McArthur, S. A. B. McCleary, B. A. Megaf- fin, R. F. Sanderson, Fred C. H. Turner, Ralph M. Wakely and BE. J. Bonus. Eight Qualify Those who qualified and will contest the election for council are Messrs. Bonus, Turner, Me- Arthur, Allen, Gibson, Davis, 'Wakely and Carruthers. Mr. Turn- er and fr. McArthur are the only two members of this year's coun- cil seeking re-election. Councill- ors Cooke, Freeman, Tsard and Edwards have dropped out. Hilmer Lofquist was given an acclamation as public utilities commission. Mr. Lofquist has al- BLACK, LITCHFIELD, LAUDER EIGHT QUALIFY FOR SIX REMAINING POSTS ready served five two-year terms in that office. A. Weatherstone, JAMES R. BLACK 1950 chairman of the public school board received an accla- mation as trustee for Ward 2, ( Continued on Page 3) Tabulation Later On Arena Campaign Final tabulations of canvass returns for the Oakville-Trafal- gar Memorial Community Cen- tre Arena campaign were not available | this week owing to the untimely death of Robert E. Peat, in Fort William on Monday. Mr. Peat, who visited Oakville ' last summer, is the father of James Peat, manager of the Royal Bank, and treasur- er of the campaign. In response to the information that his fa- ther had suffered a stroke, Mr. Peat left by TCA to be at his bedside. Unfortunately Mr. Peat Sr. passed away before the plane reached Sault Ste. Marie. In addition to his son in Oakville, Mr. Peat is survived by another son and daughter. He was predeceased by his wife a few years ago. SMITH NAMED LEGION PREXY Alex Smith was elected presi- dent of the Oakville branch of the Canadian Legion at the annual elections Friday evening, Other officers for the coming year are 1s Vice-President, Willlam Card; 2nd. Vice-President, Wil- liam Anderson Jr; Secretary, Charles Ford; Treasurer, Kenneth Chamber: Execufive, James Black, Arthur Brown, Robert Had- den, Ollie Johnson, Frank Ger rard, James Steed; Sengeant-at- Arms, P. Purdie; Standard-bear- ers, Hubert Hunt, Harry Shoe- maker; Padre, Lt-Col. the Rev. C. K. Nicoll. Tomorrow evening the Legion celebrates its 23rd anniversary with a banquet at Leglon Hall. Representatives of the Dominion and Provincial Commands will be present, and a splendid program of entertainment has been ar- ranged. Jack McLean will act as master of ceremonies. HITGHCOX HOLIDAY DINNERS SHARPSHOOTER BILL HITCHCOX just couldn't' manage to hold all the birds his Winchester 12 gauge pump gun and fine marksmanship won for him in last Saturday's recreation com- mission turkey shoot. Bill took home three turks to top some 50-0dd enthusiasts who braved rain and fog to take part in the shoot, which also rewarded the efforts of eleven other marke- men with fine prize fowl. The shoot, held on the vacant land Just west of the Queen Elizabeth Way-Seventh Line stoplight, netted slightly more than $52 for the Oakville-Trafalgar Mem- orial Community Centre Arena campaign.