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Oakville Record- EIGHTEEN PAGES Oakville, Ontario, Thursday, April 6th, 1950 Vol 64, No. 14 Wallace Park To Have | Floodlights ; Welcomes Generous Gift John M. Wallace, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Oakville Wood Specialties 915,000 for the purpose of i seating arrangements, etc. at accepted by the Council at its Monday night meeting and a resolution. ‘was prepared. and. passed changing the name of the park to Wallace Park as a gesture of appreciation. Council Limited, has given the Town nstalling floodlighting, better Victoria Park. The gift was At the same time, By-Law No. 1,115 was given three readings and passed. Under this by-law, a _ project under the Community Cen- tres Act has been set up to oper- ate recreation projects at Wal- lace Park. ~ Pirectors appointed by the Coun- cil are: Councillors John F. Isard ~gnd-bachian- MeaArthur;-€ok-h:- 06> Bull: Don G. Davis; Cameron C. Hillmer; Gorman R. McConyry; and Harry A. Wilson. The two Councillors are to serve until De- “cember 31, 1950 and the other five directors to December 31, 1951. . Directors of the Oakville Base- ball Association believe that, with the lights installed and more ad- equate seating than now exists, baseball in Oakville will become self-sustaining; that the program, under which over three hundred Oakville and district youngsters played organized baseball in 1949,° may . be even _ further expanded; and that eventually it will be possible for baseball to help finance other recreation programs here. June Ist Date Col. R. O. Bull told the Coun- cil that it had been possible to secure the necessary poles without having to go on the “waiting list and that it was hoped that instal- lation of the lighting equipment might be completed by the middle of May or early June. Since the Daseball program has been set up under the Community Centres Act it will be possible to ask the Provincial Government for grants up to twenty-five per cent of capital expeditures and for up to one-third of instructional costs. Mr. Wallace, who’ for years has headed the Oakville Basket Com- pany Limited, has been one of Oakville’s largest employers and has made generous gifts to the Arena Group Met Tuesday _ The Arena FactFinding Com- mittee met Tuesday evening to review progress to date. Chair- $e group a full report — and al most encouraging one — of | secure the required tion, | discussions of Mr. Wallace's |at-| est benefaction with the directors | of the Baseball Association, the donor stressed that his interest had | been captured by the scope of the Oakville baseball program and the | fact that so many youngsters were | enrolled each year to play organ: | ized Minor ball. In another part of this issue} we reprint a vignette of Mr. Wal-| lace that first appeared in the Record-Star for June 3, 1948. Zoning By-Law By-law No. 1,174 was brought in and provoked considerable discus- sion. This by-law zones the ‘Town for construction purposes and is the product of much work by Councillor Cooke's committee and the Oakville-Trafalgar Plan- ning Board. Specific objections were offered to classifying the East side of Allan Street as a “B" zone, . The Record-Star will publish the tentative plan in next week's issue. Another matter that got a thor- ough going-over was the question | of putting police officers in plain clothes to operate the speeding timing device. Reeve Litchfield, (Continued on Page 4) The Trafalgar Township Coun- cil met on Monday, February 3rd, and took no action to rescind its refusal to issue further build- ing permits to the Trafalgar Con- Biruction Company, headed by Hughes Cleaver and Harris Arm- pttong. The issuance of permits has been held up pending work- ing out of a plan to handle sew- ise in the Kent Gardens Survey which is.presently apparently not Mlisfactory to the Health Depart- ment. At the Council meeting, Dr. ames Mather, Medical Health Of- ier, said, “Kent Gardens is no lace for septic tanks. They will ever work. My only suggestion § that a deputation meet with the akville Council, including Dr. A. » Berry, Mr. Cleaver and Mr. ‘rmsirong, to clean up this situa- on as soon as possible. The only Olution js municipal sewage dis- esal of some type or othér, as fr as the engineering part is con- erned.”’ Last Friday, Dr. Mather, Ross empbell, Councillor R. C. A. end and Hughes Cleaver ted upon Dr, Berry of the Prov- | Township Refuses To Give Cleaver Permits . Toronto. It is understood that Dr. Berry felt that, if the effluent from the individual septic tanks were carried into the storm sewer and were filtered and chlorinated in a special unit to be built near the east bank of the Sixteen Mile Creek, there would be no pos- sibility of contamination of the waters of the Creek. The other alternative would be for the Township to lease sewer facilities from the Town of Oak- ville and run the Kent Gardens ‘BASEBALL rran—Ross— Blaikie —gave the) ber BENEFACTOR Single Copy 5 Cents. $2.50 a year, in advance. | a5 : © Hospital Opens Again 5 To All Cases;; Still Is i] Running Understaffed © In those haleyon days when the Board of Governors of ithe Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital was making the hospital function. — on paper — it was estimated that-it _|would be three months before the hospital was even 85% |full. By the end-of the first -week after its official opening, |Memorial Hospital didn’t have a bed left.to-offer=The-at= ‘tendant strain on equipment’and nurses unused to the new set-up, plus a seige of flu that depleted the staff, necessitat- ed the limiting of admissions by the hospital. registered nurses and one nursing This week, according to Arnold |aide short of the original budget Banfield. Vice-Chairman of the | Planned. To get the high calibres | Board and Miss Florence Roach, | RUFse suitable for an eee | Superintendent of the Hospital, | °f this type, and then to find” a things-are-easing-up a Httl® Those | of the staff who were ill are back |e ! Open Again nearby—place—for-her—te ive are wo major stumbling blocks, again, giving the hospital its or-| Universal Proble mm steps that have been taken to| | informa- | | Town and its cittzens. During the | John M. Wallace, who has given the Town of Oakville $15,000 for the installation of a flood- lighting system at the Reynolds Street ball park. As evidence of its gratitude to Mr. Wallace for his generous donation, the Council has passed a re- solution re-naming the park Wallace Park. Mr. Wallace has long been a resident of the Oakville district, coming here in 1914, when he acquired! control of the company now known as Oakville - Wood Specialties Limited. Officers of the Oakville , Baseball Association expect to have the lighting system installed by the latter part of May. Baseball Hits Jack-Pot: Schmoos Take Second: Badminton Titles Won By BILL WEATHERBED, Guest Conductor the first time in the memory of most of us. Mr. Wallace's gift guar- Life-Long Oakville Resident Dies Walter Riesy, a member of one lof Oakville’s oldest families, died jearly Saturday morning, April 1st, lat his home on Church Street. Mr. Riesy lived in Oakville all |his life, as did his parents, the jlate Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Riesy. }He-was-a-blacksmith and later a | Thanks to Mr. Johnaf. Wallace, the ball park is to have lights! mechanic by trade. this year and baseball will be on a pay-as-you-go basis in Oakville for| years, he operated a_ tool For many | shop | fhext to Stirling and Dynes. Two | antees that our present- baseball program. willbe expanded to take | vears ago he moved his business | in him’ a most heartfelt “Thank you.” Bud Corbett has worked out a plan with the Maple Leaf Baseball Club so that he will have fifty tickets allocated to him for the open- ing game on May 3rd and another fifty for the first Sunday game on May 7th. Does you want to go to either of these contests, get in touch With Bud pronto and put ‘Your order in. Incidentally, they. are good seats. BOWLING The Schmoos have wound up the second round of the Men's Major League bowling contest with 17 points lead over their nearest rivals, the Upsets; 21 points over the third-place Bee Hives, first round champs; and 25 over the Air Coils. second semester are: Final standings for the Schmoos . 86 Evaporators 52 Upsets 69 Rummies 49 Bee Hives 65 Monarchs 46 Air Coils 61 Ideals Ay B-A Peerless 59 Fords 43 Haltons 57 Chevs 38 Acorns 7 Westsides 36 Six Blows 55 Hitchcox 23 Comes now the big ROLL-OFF. The four top teams of the even more players and every player and fan in the area owes|to Church Street. sewage into Cross Avenue sewer: This alternative would involve in- stalling a larger sewer under the C. N. R. tracks at Dundas Street. Bronte Water Council asked Engineer George T. Power and Township Solicitor to consult with the Municipal Board regarding the proposed Bronte water system. A committee from the Humane Society asked that the restrictive by-law be amended to permit building a new shelter 900 feet south of the C.N.R. tracks. Coun- cillor Cumberland said he felt that the Linbrook Ratepayers As- sociation should be consulted be- ial Department of Health in a for the request was acted upon. Alright - - You Tell One Poctor: “This eccentricity you all, a matter of heredity?" “Mother ity in * * ble with Soc that there's no one left to tax (fiercely): “There’s never been the slightest trace of our family!” —The Dim lights have the highest scandal power. . LJ = ialism is that you run out of rich people so speak of in your son — isn't it, Furrow. ? first round will fight it out with the four leaders of the second. The battle between the Schmoos and the Bee Hives oughta be plain epie (Continued on Page 4) Mr. Riesy was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church. The funeral service was ‘held | at S. S. Russell and Soy’s on Mon: day, Apriil 3rd. Rev. C. K. Nicoll officiated. The interment was at | St. Jude’s Cemetery. Mr. Riesy is survived by his | Som. Harold, of Michigan; two sis- | ters, Mrs. Daisy Beggs and Mrs. | Mabel Cooper, of Oakville: and a/ brother, Gage, of North Carolina. | Rotary Club Hears | A.A.Speaker Last Monday night, Rotarians | had, as their guest, a regular pan-| el speaker from Aleoholics Anon: | and methods used by A. A.’s in| helping alcoholics, Hunter Reid reported that the | sale of draw tickets for the Rotary | Carnival was successful to date. | One of Oakville’s oldest indus- tries, if not the oldest, is the Oak- ville Basket Company, It is also one of the most important. Nearly two hundred men and women are employed in its big plant, just south of the C. N. R. tracks, east of the Sixth Line. The plant makes baskets for the fruit-growers of Ontario and Nova Scotia. It also makes veneer for furniture factor- ies. Another of its products is skewers, of which it sometimes makes a million and a half a day, These are shipped to buyers scat- tered over the earth’s surface, in South Africa, Australia, South America, and other distant lands. Besides its Oakville plant the com- pany has two other factories, one at Burlington and one at Massey, west of Sudbury, It owns great timber limits in Parry Sound and but the rest of us. supply the wood for its products. rother parts of the north, which | John M. Wallace---Good Neighbor Great Growth Heading this large and enter- prising industry is John M. Wal- lace, president. It has been large- ly due to the vision and drive of this energetic industrialist that the firm has grown to its present -pro- portions from the relatively small local concern it was in the early years of the century. Mr. Wallace is first and foremost a hard work- er. He is a skilled and practical machinist who loves working with machinery. And he has a large share of imagination and business ability. With these qualifications it is not surprising that the firm has flourished under his leader- ship. Mr. Wallace was born near Mid- land, Ontario, the son of a gener- al merchant. After leaving school in Midland, he served his apprent- ‘iceship as a machinist in that town. Then he set out to travel and prac- jabout Canada the young man re- | ‘tice his trade. He went right out jto the Pacific coast, ~working in ;machine shops in North Bay, Win- | nipeg, Calgary, Revelstoke, Van- couver, and other places, and gain- ing a wealth of valuable exper- tence which he was later to turn to food acount. After several years of roving turned home. His father had ob- tained a contract to cut ties for the T. and N. O. Railway, which was about to be built. For three years John worked with him in the bush. Those were the early. days of the big Cobalt mining boom. The young man saw good business possibilities in that district, and went there to buy and sell mining properties. His next m-7e was to (Continued on Page 5). iginal corps. While no patients are being | turned away as long as there are | beds available, the Board has asked Oakville’s physicians to be a little easy on the hospital and to send .in only those patients for which hospital care is an immediate nec- }essity. Obstetrical cases and ob- stetrical bookings have been ac- |cepted right along. Last week, a further strain was put on the | staff by two serious accidents in- |volving three people. } But though the crisis is over | temporarily, Mr. Banfield would like to emphasize the point that the staff is operating with four | Miss Roach tells us that the |shortage of nurses and places for jthem to live isn't a problem re- stricted to Oakville. For some time now, this shortage nas been the subject of grave discussions at nurses’ and medical conven- tions throughout the country. Tor- onto, for example, is experiencing the same difficulties as Oakville. So are most other cities and towns. Several Oakville townspeople called Miss Roach in response to the plea for nurses’ rooms close to the hospital. A few said that after they had made certain arrange- (Continued on Page 4) The Bobbies’ Ball Last call to get your tickets | for the semi-annual Halton Police Association dance, to be held Wednesday, April 12th |; at the New Pier Ballroom, Burlington Beach. Ducats are | $1 per person and all pro- ceeds go to the Policemen’s Benevolent Fund, Bobby Em- erson’s eight-piece orchestra will play for dancing. Vocalist will be blonde Vi Emerson. There'll be door prizes aplenty and an evening of fun is guar- anteed. Drop into the Oakville Police Station for your ticket, today. : Music Festival The winners in the Trafalgar Township Musical Festival had not been announced as we went to press. The Festival was ~heid on Wednesday, April 5th in the Tra- falgar Memorial Hall. The adjudic- jator was George Smale, Director of Musie at the Ontario School for the Blind, in Brantfora. Next week we'll list the winners in the four- teen classes, Subway Crush The final expiration date for 1949 ymous — Ken Brookes of Toronto.! licenses, which was March 20th, | Mr. Brookes explained the aims|is over, thank’ goodness. To Phil | Chambres, the issuer, it’s like a bad dream. Five hundred people shuffled up the steps of Mr. Cham- bres’ house, some of them clut- ching as many as eight licenses for renewal. In all, Mr. Chambres calculates roughly that he issued seven thousand drivers’ and car licenses. He's still on the job, however, for those procrastinat- ors who are either getting some- Briefs | Birth Records 'Are Essential | Jf Johnny comes home and} ; |announces that he has to have | | |a birth certificate to play Baae| | hath don't Sable” at hine ance |he or his mentors are “nuts,” | | | Neither is. Very sane, in fact. | | The reason that John has to | | |have a birth certificate is that | ; {the Ontario Baseball Associa- | |tion won't accept anything else} |but, as evidence of a player's lage, Baptismal certificates, no. | Doctor's affidavits, no. Aunt Ag- | +atha’s Bible--no- It must “be a | birth—-certificate Now if Johnny playing baseball under the organized program hére in Oakville and, if he turns out to be quite a Player, he may find himself picked to play on one of Oak- Is }wille's O.B-A. teams . ~ Pee | Wee, Bantam, Juvenile or, la- jter, Intermediate . and if ihe hasn't got that birth cer- tificate he just doesn't get to play in O.B.A. competition. Besides, birth certificates are very handy when you come to apply for a passport. Or when| you claim to be the oldest liv- ing Haltonite. | | |they won't be stopped and asked to produce! First Aid's First Fifty-six people ‘turned out for the First Aid classes which be- gan‘last Tuesday night. Forty-two were Girl Guides and 14 were | Scout and Guide leaders. The First Aiders were given some prelim- inary instruction by Dr. R. D. Appleford and an hour’s demon- Stration of simple bandaging by Len Hope. The course will be completed in six weeks. Lessons one else to drive them, or who clutch the wheel and pray that are being given every Tuesday ey- ening at Lusk Hall. Mrs. Giddings Gets Jewels Back The Police were baffled. Mrs. Estelle Giddings, Lakeshore High- way East, was the happiest crea- ture alive. Anly a little white dog called Pune carried on as usual — and he was largely responsible for the whole thing! Of course, Punc didn't take the $18,000 in jewelery from his mis- tress’ bedroom — he'd rather have a bone than a diamond any day. Everybody seemed to think it was someone at the sale on Monday who'd made off with a tiny bag containing $18,000-worth of -neck-- laces, clasps and brooches. dings notified the Provincial Po- lice. Monday night, she was so upset she went to bed early. At 9:30 p.m. when the bell rang and the screen door slammed, Mrs. Giddings just pretended she was not listening. The next morning, our four- legged hero came scratching at Mrs. Giddings’ door asking to be let oul. Down they went. And what should be behind the door but the bag of jewels that had mysteriously disappeared the day before. If you look closely, you'll see thatthe tilt t6 Piine’s nose is a Discovering her loss, Mrs. Gid- - little more notigeable than it was before! : t