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Daily Journal-Record, 16 Jan 1967, p. 1

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m GOOD EVENING The happiest families are those in which the are properly spaced 10 feet apart, VOL, 5, No. 113 ef Murder Trial Verdict Expected Today ... see story pg. 2 Spree — about The Home Nicsaper For Halton County Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Monday, January 16, 1967 Daily J ournal-Record | Not More Than Ten Cents Per Copy WEATHER Clouding over- this even- ing. Snow Tuesday. Low tonight 25. High tomorrow 32, tonight and early 10 Pages > ssunrH HALTON’S WINTER PLAYGROUND Marsh at top of ski hill at Kelso KELSO A WINTER PLAYGROUND Halton Authority Bringing Ski Area Under Its Control By MIKE SOLOMON Journal - Record Staff MILTON — Halton Region Con- servation Authority is in the pro-| =~ of ee the assets ae the | en Eden Ski Club fier it had vas offer turned down at Christmas. The Authority is ainigy erating the ski area at Kelso Park and in the short time since | went Eve has raked in’ ar- ound $3,500 already. “Ski conditions are excel- lent here," Field Officer Dave Murray the Jo - Re "cord yesterday, “We have around 250 people here today and on Sunday there were between and 400 here, : “Tl think ft was a good move to take over the ski business.” The figure asked for the as- sets of the club by the trustee in bankruptcy, is around $9,340. Before the Glen Eden Club broke Jast year the Con- lei Authority spent $23,000 on ow tow oon at Kelso, lo- cated gpa North Halton The club had liabilities of $15,- 000. Then the Authority decided, af- of Milton in Mac Students Ban Sexy Film SON — A film which! was partly made in Oakville by | McMaster University students has been banned by the student government because it overspent its ee by more than $1,000. Student gove Latha president Lachlan McLachi denied day that the film raed “Black Zero” was banned because it had ter considerable argument 1 Sacoaen, to take over the ski business. oh SKI MANAGER It appointed Ken Potter of Bur- | lington as manager of the area | and since that time hundreds | of Skiers and tobogganists have ed themselves on the snow- “Conditions for skiing are ex- cellent. They have been that way to-} since we took it over," said Mr. Murray. Beginners are aided by a dou- ble - rope tow service as well as instruction. Elk’s Store Break-in Follows Entry At Oak Queen Plaza Drugs i FRe2 ¥ g 1 she | used The T-bar lift is being put to full use and a rope tow is bei P ing up | provided for intermediate skiers. In charge of the ski ee is Vince ae of Hamilt Snowmal adh equipment hel to provide su pom tions at Kelso pe per cv a longer season A ski chalet» provides light meals and room for relaxation beside a rustic fireplace. school lessons er Mr. pane are held at 11 a.m. = p.m. Saturdays 2 Bae James is in charge ‘ot the Ski Patrol which supervises the hills in the area. Ski tows are in operation week- ends, Wednesday afternoons and Friday evenings. WINTER FUN Along with the Glen Eden ski area, the Kelso development also has other areas for winter fun, | including skating on the control F “This has become Halton's win- ter playground,” said one offi- cial. “On hit ends the crowds just flock=to Kelso. Kelso was developed by the Conservation Authority as a vast conservation area, spreading out from the flood control dam which cuts across the upper Src teen Mile Creek. An Sacre 1 — lake backs up behind f the ” summer months Kelso fs a favorite picnic, swimming sts fishing area. servation area developments at share cance aad Hilton Falls, al- so in North Halton. LAND PURCHASE 1966 the Conservation Authority ran into a controver- sy over its purchase of 140 ac- res of farmland that will be come part of the Kelso develop ment. The land bap purchased $70,000 although professional experts valued it at less than $45,000. Part by the Ontario oe ae eo * The Halton County museum is already located at Kelso, sitting at the “fe of the a and overlooking the lake. t SECOND VICTIM é from apartment at 375 Maple Av- board trad ovens: A funeral will oma Gakares at usse Gab. at Russell and Son Funeral ‘| Home, Street. (See | story on page three.) cj which backs up behind the flood | Rutoworkers Are Unhappy With Ottawa WINDSOR — Th cil of the United ‘Auto Work. ers Union in Canada, meeting in weekend sessions here, Sunday night expressed dissatisfaction with government action for laid- aff auto employees. George Burt, Canadian d tor of the UAF, said in a state- ment changes in transitional as- sistance benefits (TAB) an- OAKVILLE — Eidah Ford and Labor Minister , Were “pure Rube TAB how is available to laid- off workers only. when supple mentary unemployment bene- fits (SUB) have been exhausted. “It takes more than one lay- ew Downtown Bridge = Over Sixteen Creek | Chopped By Oakville OAKVILLE Creek this year, That's definite. A $i-million | |. bridge across Sixtcen Mile on Lakeshore Road won't be built | Council formally decided this at its budget session on Saturday. But not after objection from some councillors. Councillor William Gillies said the bridge would prove to be im- portant to the growth of the downtown area and should not be FIRST OAKVILLE ROAD DEATH off to exhaust SUB," Mr. Burt id. sal “When the worker is laid-off enough times so that he has no SUB credits Ieft, he will get TAB. “The TAB regulations. still places the full burden of com- pensation for a certified auto pact layoff_on-the worker's SUB credite-Aand still fails to impose any financial obligation on the employer." The 150-man council, repre- senting the UAW's 15,000 Ca- nadian members, unanimously voted to continue withholding “jts full support” for the Can- ada-United States auto pact un- til the government “implements proper program of adjust- pet arin for adversely alfected workers.” The council agreed to send a telegram . Senator Da- vid Croll asking him to recon- sider his decision against inves- tigating ap Lay as part of the work of the joint Senate Commons o enitios inquiring into consumer prices where the emphasis has been placed on food costs. Délegates from Local 222 at spaiatncs complai that the government was conducting a pitiful ‘- retrai AY 7 FRANK KOEGL, 28, OF OAKVILLE DIED AFTER A DANCE His best pal, Jo Sommer, inspects the damage in a Speers Road garag: Body Cut From Auto Aftér Driver Killed By ROY HAYNES Journal . Record Staff OAKVILLE — A lonely, 28-; year-old carpenter died in a two- car head - on, collision early yes- terday after he'd been to a dance at the GermanCanadian Club in} the Oakville Arena, Two other people were detain-| ed “at the Oakville - Trafalgar Memoria! Hospital with serious injuries and a fourth person was treated and discharged The accider®™ happened on Lakeshore Road West at Mar- garet Drive at 12:44 a.m, of 127 Brock Street. ver of a 1964 Corviair which he had owned for one year. Injured are: August Granitz, also of 127 Brock Street; detain- ed at the hospital with severe program for laid-off Generel Motors of Canada employ facial lacerations, internal injur. fes and abrasions, “He was a/ passenger in Koegl's car. He is in the intensive care unit. Ann Kelly, 28, of 39 37th Street, | Long Branch; detained wit | broken upper jaw, face lacera- ; tigns and abrasions, She is Ls Secpensicni fit The woman was a passenger in the second car. Ronald Walter Johnson, 34, of aes Caledonia Road, Toronto; dis. charged after treatment for | minor lacerations and abrasions. | Johnson was driver of the sec- | ond car, a 1961 Oldsmobile. eee EAST report that the Oldsmo- bile as travelling east on Lake shore Road and the Corvair was | he | going west. Both were appar- ently in the southern Jane and had a head-on -collision, Police had to cut setae the | car to get Koegl’s body from | the smashed car, | The Oakville fire department -| was called in to flush the street of — gasoline. OAKVILLE — “A fairly large ; number of people” have shown | said Doug Latimer, of George- president of the Halton East Progressive Conservative Association. enlist He said The Conservation Authority is | | association met yesterday now planning two other such con-| decided, subject to general st i proval, to hold a inating | ration fartaie? Sheek i No Confederation, No French Canada | ee eS, ee East RENFREW, Ont. (CP} — A to the U.S. were “lost In the iad pot.” ) He described Canada's bicul- turalism as the country’s most | try. | terest | “the candidates “will Provincial Bore direagy Seen all announce themselves. “Once we have set the con-, vention within the next two or| reeks,"" he ended, vention date. said Latimer, | probably SEVERAL OTHERS He did not specifv exactly how many but he remarked: “We'll have to see who comes | indicated in the Journal-Record | but there are several others. “We'll probably set the con- attractive characteristic. “This was not a characteristic federation merely cemented a when French agreed to remain in British North America on the er- standing that if they did so they would be equal partners in the development of a new coun- and distinguishing | Election Interest Builds In New Halton East Riding three w | YOUTHFUL ENTRY One person who has announ- eed he will seek the nomina- ed is 22-year-old Wiliam Sar- gant, son of Bill Sargant, the | Fostive of the Peace and influ- the exécutive af ee the woodwork, We've) ential tory in the former vib | and | had a large number as already | jace of B ronte. For the retested fn Halton East Rev, R Skuce, a 7% Edens sachet at Appleby Col- armounced . He Halton was split up into two ings as the result of redis with Oakville placed in the eastern riding and Burtifigton in the western riding. an | in Halton West. Fire Chief Doug Wilson said the man was jammed between the seats and the car hood. “The| CU h a! Corvair jooked as though a train had hit it," he remarked. KOEGL’S FRIEND One of Koegl's friénds, who was due missed it, wag at Ted's Garage, Speers Road, inspecting the crumpled Corvair. He is Jo Som- mer, of Burton Road, Sommer sald: ‘I'm Jucky Il didn't go.” He said that Koegl had v few friends and no girl triends, “I felt sorry for him somehow,’ said, Koeg] had been in Canada for three years since he left his home mear Vienna, Austria, For most of the three years he has lived in Toronto, He was for- merly employed by Reisner Home Improvements Ltd. as a carpenter. Koegl's parents" are still living in Austria, TRAFFIC DEATH Koeg! is the first traffic victim * Oakville for 1967 although not first<accident victim. Mrs. Violet Benallick, 70, died on the way to hopsital Friday evening after she had been rescued from a smoking room on Maple Ave- nue. The last traffic deaths were over the Christmas weekend with four e being killed in Oak- ville. The last fatal accident to happen on the e Road | was the triple death crash in which three young women died in Novem The last fatal accident to hap- pen at the Margaret. Drive - Lakeshore Road 1965 when the daughter-in-law of a Steel Company executive was Killed after a car in which she was riding hit the back of a stopped | bus, to go to the dance but ha was!/ten by Hugh ete First uced in Eng postponed. Other possible cuts fn the budget’ should be explored DELAY BRIDGE But Mayor} Anderson said in sil ot all the Sg tar the council is. facing the bridge should b be delayed. Councillor Murray Haesiler sug- gested that council recommend that the new council in 1968 start OAKVILLE — Council gave the axe to tree trimmers Sa- turday. A budget session agreed to knock out $850 for a transmitter. re- between the men - the work on the e “expedi- Hously" in the first months of office, And-also that the Ontario Muni- cipal Board be notified that council has taken notice of its warning about excessive spend- ing. BEST COURSE cil would be in for a behead aos term instead of the present two- only cost the town $100,000 and the other ener would from. the Oak Players At Poor Alex e love will open and continue eee urday showing both at = nine p.m. each night. i gat EEE Naas Satna Carroll al Pat iors an” “The play is also Perils of Purity” was writ- pro- land by Bra- I GOOD NEWS TODAY

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