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Dakville - Trafalgar Journal 4, No. 15 Entered, 2nd. Class Mall, Ottawa 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per year In advance THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951 ONS CITIZENSHIP AWARD |FREIGHT DEMOLISHES CAR 20 Pages {OES TO W. H. EDWARDS, JAPAIGN Si st won't ver buck. VIGOROUS WORKER ON BEHALF ales for many years, W. H. "Bili" afi night received the Lions Club of d of merit. Presentation was made by Lion Walter rammond Wa RT NOTED of community Edwards last Thurs- Oakville annual civic son, chairman of the service club's citizenship com- ee, during the Civic Night dinner meeting at Victoria Outstanding in a lengthy list were Bill's wholehearted ibutions to community projects in these capacities: he organizer of the town's civil guard during World: II; vice-chairman of the war bond drive until his en- ent in the R.C.A.F.; chairman of the Salvation Army Red Cross campaigns; member of the Memorial hos- il} board of governors, vice-chairman of the special Fs committee 'and member of the publicity committee lilibo the tund raising drive; publicity chairman of the St. [a8 building fund campaign, and member of the parish Bic. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are seen mbove, immediat- oliowing the 'announcement of the award. LL SQUADS TO RECEIVE AMPIONSHIP AWARDS HTURAL GAS § CUT DOWN KING COST ¥ille gas consumers can ex- lowered cost, and larger | it present negotiations Bcondlcted by the' United in Gas Co. Ltd, to secure gas from the Pnited Stat f brought to a successful fon, Announcement. of the as made this week by T. hop po t ing th ofiDlcto story concerning the Theat BBR. tons. 10 a cori out, benefits for the consumers ville and Bronte, will be, in this paper next week. I export permit is. required be US. government before Bl can be completed, tle pan, ly the natural gas is ge- A yote by the people of inicipalities concerned will fffcssary. Full information fing savings to be achiev- onsumers will bel provided the vote. Another ad- ¥ of the natural gas sup- Ml! be that additional cus- can be accepted by the is "not readily Cost of * migen 20 percent be last consumer price in- If a natural gas supply secured, an, additional ficrease. will be necessary, al manager states. PN i MILTON JUNIORS lig | for the King Clancy Fiicht begins shortly, Bud Speedy juveniles will ilton juniors at the arena Evening. The game gets fy Tat 7.45, and will be by public skating. is required to show]| Oakville's three highly success- ful baseball teams of last sum- mer will receive the emblems of their diamond prowess during a pre-season presentation night get- together at Victoria hall tonight (Thursday). Gordon Walker, am- iable business manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, will be the guest speaker for the occasion. In the forefront as the silver ware booty is passed out will be Bud Corbett's Snow Construction juveniles winners of the Ontario championship laurels, who will re- ceive the title trophy from Clar- ence Riddle, 0.B.A. convenor, and the Halton championship cup from county | prexy Mullen. Most valuable player awards will 80 to catcher Tom Sale and pit cher Wilf Herbert. In addition, light blue monogramed cardigan sweaters will be presented on be- half of the town by Mayor Jim Black, who_will act as chairman, and a set of leather windbreak- ers will be presented by Jim Snow. Arch Grant will add sou- venir stick pins to this impressive list. President McMullen will also hand over to player manager Al Yarnell the intermediate Halton county title trophy, while Bus Knight, popular Milton business man, will present his trophy to the Oakville Motors bantam champs. The program will conclude with a pair of movie shorts dealing with baseball, and refreshments provided for the occasion by the Angela Bruce Chapter I.O.D.E. Festivities under way at 8 pm. Flu Hits Clinic Influenza has scored another temporary victory, this time oyer the Red Cross blood don ors clinic scheduled for March 14. According to Mrs. J. A. Roberts, illness of committee members and donors has forced postponement of the clinic from this date to a later one yet to be decided upon. * get PUSHING TRIO COULDN'T BUDGE To Address The, efforts of three people failed to remove a car from the path of destruction after it stalled C.N.R. tracks on the crossing Saturday evening. The car belonged to Her- bert Leaver, Lower Middle Road East. With Mr, and Mrs. Duncan Patterson of Rodney, Ont. Mr. Leaver was returning home from 'an Oakville funeral establish- ment where he had been making arrangements for the burial of his ife, who died Friday. As the car was crossing the tracks it came to a dead stop, right in the mid- dle of the crossing. All efforts to start it were unavailing. Mr. Leaver, assisted by his two pas- sengers, tried to shove the ve- hicle clear of the tracks. They failed to move it. Five minute: later an eastbound freight train came along and smashed the car to pieces. Women's Club HUSTLING CANVASSERS BLITZ Sal IN MONDAY NIGHT CROSS CAMPAIGN Despite the among their ranks, Oakville's de- tachment of Red Cross Blitz can- vas: , led by Allan Masson, bad rolled the collection figure $647 above the minimum object. ive of $7,000 by 10 p.m. Monday night. Launched by the tolling of church bells, the drive got under- way at 7.30 pm. with porch lights blazing on alnfost every house. When the canvassers called and collected, they were sped on their way by the donors and the porch lights going out. Not Finalized "We don't expect to have the final figure totalled until two weeks from now," said blitzlead- er Masson at the Oakville club, where the various team captains were receiving the money from the members of their teams. "But there's 'over the minimum object ive downstairs in the safe now-- and we've a lot of industry and special names to hear from yet, We think this year will surpass last year's record." He recalled that the success last year had placed Oakville at the top of all localities in Canada per capita. "Everyone has done a marvellous job, and especially the Bronte crew under Rudd Watt. They came in loaded down with mud and money--we took the money. The army team also ex- celled themselves, and we all got a bang out of having the army working for the Red Cross. Us- ually it's the other way round. I think they realized that and were out to show what a job they could do. And they did it." "Flu. Hinders Many .canvassers had dif with muddy lanes and roads, in some cases were unable to make collections as man Masson stated that he hop- ed such individuals would mail their donations to president Mrs. Eyre s, or to him, "Today, more than ever before the Red Cross needs the support of everyone said. "Let us hope there ot be war, but the response canvassers have been afforded indicates that most peo- ple realize the need for generos- ity with this possibility ahead." Eye On Oakville National Headquarters was again watching the Oakville Blitz 4 | Technique, and when fhe success. infiltration of flue-- HALF-LOAD SEASON HERE SGT. JACKSON REMINDS Truckers in Oakville and dis- trict are reminded by Sgt. Jackson, of the provincial police, that the season for half-loads en. forced by the Ontario Depart- ment of Highways commenced March 1, and will remain in effect until April 30. During this period it is forbidden to transport more than half the weight of the nor mal load except on paved high- Ways. ~ "The provincial police will be watching truckloads very care fully," "Sgt. Jackson told the Journal. "We will pay special at- tention to those using tar and macadam roads which are weak- ened by melting frost. Truckers will smash these roads all to pieces unless they cut their loads down." TO FORM BRANTWOOD H. AND S. ASSOCIATION At a preliminary meeting held Tuesday evening, it was decided to organize a Brantwood Home and School assn. Guest speaker was Mrs. Swift, Burlington, H. and S. chairman for Halton and Peel counties, while Roy Smith, Ont- RUTH SUNLEY The Journal's popular COUNSELOR columnist, Sunley, will be the special speak- er tonight (Thursday) at the reg- ular meeting of the interior decor- ating group of ithe University Wo- men's Club. Mrs. Sunley will dis- cuss "Color In The Home." Hind Columnist SYMPHONY NEXT H.S. ATTRACTION The celebrated North Toronto Collegiate sympnony orchestra which topped all musical presen- tations at the recent Kiwanis mus- ic festival, will appear in Oak- ville on Friday evening, March 16, as a special extra feature of the Oakville Trafalgar Home and School's concert series. Recognized as Canada's lead- ing school music group, the 76- member organization that is con- ducted by John M. Dow also com- prises from its members a 35 piece concert band and a choir, all of which will participate in the varied program to be given here. The North Toronto group re- cently won highest honours ever accorded a musical group when the adjudicator awarded it 96 points for its performance at the festival and expressed praise of it as ranking with most topflight adult professional orchestras. As a special dividend to the success- ful concert series presented this winfer in Oakville, the concert committee feels that it was for- tunate in having Mr. Dow accept the invitation to appear in Oak- ville. TRAFALGAR APPROVES GRANT T0 MEMORIA L HOSPITAL, FIXES BUILDING PERMIT FEE Trafalgar Township council at Monday afternoon's meeting agreed to make a grant of $944.77 to Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital to help cover the deficit incurred "in the hospital's first ten months of operation. The request was made by a de- putation from the hospital's board of governors consisting of Tom Chisholm, chairman, Dewart Fleming and D. J. Russell. Mr. Chisholm, spokesman, referred to the difficulties which the hospital had i inni arfio Federation e, also contributed his share of or- ganizational information. An organization meeting will be held Tuesday evening, March 20, and all parents are urged to be present in order that they may become charter 'members of the Brantwood H. and S. assn. ful result was reported Tuesday morning, Harley Neff, Ontario Chairman, said it was the first section to report, and the first to 80 over the top. "Oakville is cer- tainly leading the way for an eas- ler and more effective way to canvass," he said. "About half a dozen other sections are trying the blitz method this year, and I believe others will follow." Monday night Mrs. Eyre Davis received the following telegram: "Heartiest congratulations te your workers, Oakville first branch over the top in Canada." It was signed by Leopold Macaulay, National Campaign Chairman, d in op- erations. While initial difficulties had been overcome, he did not feel that the hospital would be able to wipe out the deficit this year without assistance. "We think we have operated pretty efficiently," said Mr. Chish- olm, "but it has been quite a bat- tle in some respects." He stated that 103 of the patients passing through the hospital had been from. Trafalgar township, exclus- ive of Bronte and Milton. An amendment was made to the building by-law, which fixes a maximum fee of $15 for building permits. Formerly there was no maximum, the fee being $2 for the fi thousand dollars of thte building's estimated value, and one dollar for each additional thousand. Two readings were giv- en a by-law for construction of a water-main in the Cairns sub-div- islon, The by-law will go to the Ontario Municipal Board for ap- proval before receiving its third reading. SELECT KEN POLLOCK MOST VALUABLE INTERMEDIATE PLAYER Kenny Pollock, peppery young shortstop of the Oaks, was chos- en the most valuable player of the 1950 intermediate season, as the team' assembled at the Murray hotel Tuesday night to enjoy a steak dinner and a "hot stove league" discussion of prospects for the coming season. The choice, announced by playing manager Al Yarnell, was unanimously ap- proved by the fourteen players present. Oakville Baseball assn. prexy R. O. Bull also addressed the gathering, following which the players completed one of the. season's longest phone calls, all haying a brief chat with assn. director Don Davis, bedded down with flu. Designs Crest Oakville-Trafalgar high school's Joe Ezesky, a grade XI, student captured second prize in the industrial arts crest contest sponsored by the Ontario Educa- tional assn. The competition, which was province wide, call- ed for a crest which represent- ed the different activities taught in a school shop--draughting, welding, woodworking and ma- chine shop practice. Teacher of the course here is W. H. Capel. FEATURE FIRST FRIVOLOUS: FASHIONS FOR FROLICSUM FRY DIMINUTIVE GAIL LOFQUIST, will be among the youthful models ta a Athy hugging an Easter bunny, and Ba king part in "Fashion Fables," a rbara and Leslie Scott, five-ye: i twins, ed in Victoria hall Saturday afternoon under the sponsorship of the Anglea Bruce Chapter 1.0.D.E. style show for the younger set being present- {i ol ot --- -- -