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tate~m4u VOL»m "tDurham- County's G'reai Fctmilv .Jrnalrg~ FUME 101 BOWMANVjLLE. ONT API T.TT* RTAV t li- or JEUNIvjCIrPA f Enlightening Reports On -Municipal Problems Given at Nominations Prerss madie by the Town He stated that whereas the o!Bonanv.. e tiurîng 1955 ideal situation is ta have indus- Was qujtlined at the Nomina- try paying approximately 50 tion Meeting for 1956 Town per cent o! municipal taxes, in Council members heid last Fni- Bowmanviîîe the sheare a! in- day night wben this ycar's ci- dustry is only 14 per cent. Re- vie officiais reporteti to the sidential taxes provide 71.2 per electors. cent o! civic funds anti lignt Mentioneti prominentîy were commercial establishments pro- -the hIring o! a ful-time Secre- vide 14.8 per cent. The town tary-lYanager for the Bowman- hopes ta attract new industries ville Chambar o! Commerce ta belp lighten the residential with Town Council backing, taxpayar's load, he saiti. erectiorn o! ncw streat signs Road Sulicrintendent ired plans for industrial expansion, Mayor Osborne believeti the anti preliminary work aimeti hiring o! a superintentiant for at establishing a municipal gar- the Roatis anti Streets Depart- bage collection system. ment was an important forward Mayor Nelson Osborne stat- step. "Sorte o! aur streets are cd that the fact be hati been in bati condition but we have elacteti for 1956 by acclama- only bati a limiteti amount o! tien coulti mean either that the money ta spenti on themn. citizens tiitn't care who 13 Part o! the trouble was causeti niayor or that they are satis- by a wet spring anti part o! it fied i wth the way thinga are can ha traceti back te the way being run. Baing an optimist, tbey were let go in the past." lie saiti ha wouiti rathar & be- Ha pointeti out that the gar- 1ieVe the latter. bage collection question is stil "Ifyo ar stisie, i ~not solveti. The Mayor com- ..I yo ar stisied itismendeti the special committee due.ta the bard work done by madie up o! Coun. Higgon, De-1 council as a whole this yaar," utJeeve Carruthers anti ha saiti. "Ail problems were Cun. .yn ehder for tie, bard .thoroughly discussati anti wei- work 4ey hati performati inI ~neibefora action was taken. obtai4.in~ information,. "I ain wte may have matie mistakes, infaý but peopla who make mistakes n .a*r of municipal garbage collectio, although, speaking arc those people who -arc try- c r s o nal I (nt) hnkte J.ng ta do something". will do a better job than thet Boards Are Valuable prasent collectors arc tig for1 He p aid tribute te the work the people who use their ser-f donc b Councillor Glen Lan- vices. However, l.believa that ae der- anti stateti that hae was municipal system would ha thee sorry ha would not be running best for the town as a whohe",v again. The Mayor also paid tri- ha saiti. Ha thanketi the press, bute, to the civic service per- for the completa anti fair cov-t formeti by variaus boards anti erage given ta councîl activi-c organizatiens such as the Pub- tics during the ycar. r lic Sehool Board, High School Reeve Sidney Little stated Board, Planning, Board anti that ha hati been Chairman o! Chamnber a! Commerce. Ha the Roatis and Streets Com- pointeti eut tja t the Chamber mittea during.1955 but was not t' has hireti a Sécretary-Manager sure if he was prouti o! the ànd ha bas accorhplislied a fact. "The present condition of greaet deal. the streats is flot entiraly aur 0 "Part o! bis work is trying ta responsibility", he saiti. We SI attract, new industries", Mayor cansultedti tec District Munici- Osbor '~painteti out. "Many pal Engineer of the Depart- t' îay f1t we don't neati new ment o! Highways anti it wâs bi 4nqustes, that thay wiîl in- on bis ativice that zno paving G 1raase aur taxes ln supplying was dona this yaar. Ha recom- cc hem WJ e ej .Wtcr, 2tll. Abat 449 -new1Y-P&Ve, tnc. t1hin' ro¶rr1 n schools street first 'be seahat up ta seect 5rm~ Increasati population whether thay wouid beava." t, '"ey fill brin g here. We have -Reave Little alsq stateti thatb tounti bat we have hadti taJhe District Engineer hati re- provide \thesc services thé pa.st comniendeti that certain streets a. fcw yaars anytvay, anti we ha built up anti put lu proper ar have 'loe.-had the incrcased as- condition before paving, a sessment ýromn new intiustryt Deputy-Reeve Wilfrid Car- ed help p4y> for them", .ha decla.ç. ruthers reporteti on Countias e? ed. (Cntinueti on page sventeen) hi Darfin gton Officiais T Report Rapid GrowthT 0f,. Township Problems Reeve ROY W. Nichais wa elected by acclamation for hi ieurth term as Reeva o! Dar] 114gton Township during 1956a the Nomination Meeting behd i thc Township Hall, Hiamptor last. Frîday afternoon. Ther, wili be an election for Deputy Beeve and Council, however andtiis will take place on Mon day, December 5th. Garnet B. Rickard, R.R,4 Bôwmanville, a former Council 1er and Deputy-Reeve, wîll rur against Cyril H. Mumford, RR l. ifmtnfor the Position oc Z)eDpatyRee Ve. Four candidatq,ý will be geeking the thret counci scats. They are Councillors Rasc Stevens, Bowmanvilie, anti Chas Osborne, Ebenezer, who served un this year's counqil, W. H Brown, R. R. 3 , Bwmanviille Andi Arthur L. Blanchard, Hamp- ton. The tbrec members o! the South Darlington Area Scbool Board were elected by acclama- tion- They are Harold Muir, Courtice. and Kenneth Werry, Bowmanville, bath o! whon served this year, and Sydney Worden, ".. 2, Bowmanville. The township hall was fillec with ratepayers for the nomina- tion meeting and they heard re- ports from most o! the civic officiais who served during 1955. Reeve Nichola Reporta Reeve Nichais reported thai the new equalized. assessments wouid be used for counties' tax- ation purpases in 1956. This mneans, he said, that Darlington will be assesseti at $5.000,000 for 0,I unties purpses rather than qB500,000. THa stated that con- Îracta have now been let for the new United Counties' atininis- tration building and it looks as if a new counties' home for the ageti will also have ta be built. The, Reeve stateti that the Department of Highways had spcnt about $50,000 in 1954 on the new dévelopment roati from Hampton te a point north of Orono where it will join with the ncw Highway 115 te Peteri borough. An atiditional $121.000 was spent this year and a furtb- ~$200 000 will be neededti t J1. He pointed out that DeparmentofHlghways pievidçs Uic money for this de- ,eiloplüent road but the Uniteti Countjies must do the work. y1hen àqifpleted. this road wili1 onva la rbd-auiaSed highway £VC rin urlNUM5IRJK48 Free Deliver,4 H.M,.S. Zwinafore Now iPlaying at Town Hall-' Mu.nicipal Announced for EléefIgiihfl Beer Patrons The fit definite follow- up subsequent te the suc- cessfi plebiscite for a beer warehouse here, came this week. Word waa received by the Progresa Commlttee that beer and aie patrons ln Bowmanvllle could now phone their orders to the Oshawa warehouse and the supplies would be deliver- cd C.0.D. wlth no earrylng charges. Deliveries wI be made on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and orders should be ln a day ahcad. No further word bas been received concernlng the possible location of the Wvarehouse here. Elect Off icers For Rod &Gun During Banquet The Goodyear Rod and Gun Club held their annual banquet on Saturday, November 26, at the Queen's Hotel, Newcastle. Nearly 100 were present. Of- ficers for the coming year were eIected as follows: Elgin Brum- ell, president; Jack Hateiy, vice-president; George Young, secretary-treasurer; Jim Mar- tin, chairman of the Gun Committee; Len Fowler, chair- flan of the Fishing Comtiittee. A raffle was drawn and the first prize, a 12-gauge Reming- ton Wing Master pump gun vas won by Ross Wright; Brenton Farrow won the sec- ond prize, 2 boxes of 12-gauge Th peidn pine otOve r 200 c that the Club admitteti mcm- bers who did flot work at the Joodyear and that ail members multi use the target range. Tf1hree R c Thé èhf et as par-' ot' okeppc cularly good. It was headed frst eppc with '.its :Y Billy Meek who seemed to fast-growing school population )e among friends. There were .were demnonstrated orn Monday' iso Norma Davis, Dot Marrihi with the opening o! a- three- ind Mrs. Brownlee from Osh- room public school at- Hamp- Lwa. Many encores were cail- ton. The most attractive school;, id for. The turkey dinner was buit at a cost of $48.500r froin ccellent. It was indeed a plans prepareC by former Bow- ghly enjoyable dinner. manvilleite, Architect l{erbert G. Cole, o! Whitby, already has over 100 pupilsant i wthin Ila few Years undoubtedly wl reen Tow n Ba xequire an addition., The opening ceremonies were bi C .]in charge o! Chairman Ae rh s aiurdav McMaster o! h othDrig ton Area School Board. Fol- ~tL onl owing a prayer o! eicto ýt Lions Cenîm y Rev. 'F. J. Reed, era Ther wil b a Ten ownvocal numbers were given by Thner ilbeaTe TonP upils. o! the Senior room un- Three of the principals in the cast of H.M.S. Pinafore, under the capable direction of Mr. D. C. Peters. Sailing the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta being presented this the good ship Pinafore is Bob Dow as the Captain; on the week bý a cast of Bowvmanville High School students at lef t is Margot Rankine as Buttercup, and Beverly Cowling the Town Hall are pictured here.' A favorite operetta with on the right is Josephine. many, Pinafore receives good treatment by the students -Photo by Carson Studio, Port Hope #t Opening ,:Pm $chool thsIchool;s well as for bis essential part in the school construction. School inspector Earle Webster intrbduced the teachers, including Principal Woolley, Mrs. Daviti Hall, Mrs. Hazel Ruttan anti Supervising Principal Mervin Hobbs. rGuest speaker for the avent <Continueti on page sevan) O.H.A. Notifies Lakefield To Appear Friday mancethis- saurday night, der-direction O! Musical Direc- Word was recelved here XDec. 3, at 8:30 p.m. at the tor Ross Metcalfe with Prin-' Wednesday that the On- las through the centre o! Darling- Lions Community Centre. Plans cipal Ivan Woolley accompany- tario Hockey Association is ton Township for residents trav- have been made for a real good ing at the -piano. Executive have notifîed the r- elling eastato Orono, Port Hope evening, with square dancing, Members of Sehool Board and Lakefield Intermediate "A" at or Peterborough. He pointed noveîty dances and lots Of Council were introduced by Hockey Club to appear ic out that Counties' Counil first prizes. The Crew Cuts will be Mr. McMaster to the ltrgre before the OHA. Executive n, asked the Department o! Highý- the special artists on records crowd of pupils and cîtizens to explain their actions at re ways ta provide funds for this this week. assemhled ini one class room Bowmanvllle on Saturday, y- road six years ago and it agreed This is gaing ta ha a good and the hall. Arcfiitect Herb Noir. 26th. This bearinfr W.-t downs hlp Gyerwlngoapldly dance, and everyone is invited, Cole was thanked for donating wlI take place at the Reeve NsichGosreorec ta a parents included. See you an attractive plaque, inscribed O.H.A. offices on Friday, Reehe pouaio eoarngtn as Saturday nght. with vital statistcs concerning Dec. 2nd. a. increased by 1,500 in the past In three years and the assessment R. bas doubled in the hast five G d o s P e e t N w T sa e t Of years. At this rate of growth, G d o s P e e t N w T sa e t She predicted that witbin five Mi years Darlington Township will ss be the largest municipality in .te United Counties in assess-J ýd ment and population. The assess- î.ment at present is nearly $5.000,- e,000, which is only $1.300.000 less than Bowmanvilîe. The present population at 7,250 is about le 1,000 isrger than Bownanville. township engage an engineer ta look a!tcr the road program, be .said, or at ieast hire a man with n tenginern experiene. He feit that such a man Wold give the ytownship better value for money spent. Applications are now be- - ing received, be said. The Reeve painted out that committees had been appointed cduring 1955 ta bandle the variaus branches o! township business and he would let themn treport for their departments. He sthanked ail members o! cauncil for their co-operatian during the syear and stated they had al done their jobs very wçil.V- r Rend Report 1 Deputy-Reeve Everett Vice, -who is not runnîng-again in 1956, ereported that 1%¼ miles of raad were paved during Uic year ta bring the total of paved town- ship roads ta Il1'% miles. In ad- dition, Darlington went in with Oshawa andi East Whitb)r Town- ship to pave the three miles north from the House That Jack Built te Taunton. The stretch from Ebenezer Church ta High- Ahl pupils of Grade 5 in Bowmanville Public Schools were presented with way 401 was completed this New Testaments by officiais of the Gideons International in Canada in ceremonies year, making it possible ta drive held at the three schools Iast Fdaymrnn.Inthe htorah boetaken t on hard-surfaced roads fromraymrng n epgap1 ov ae a Haydon te Highway 401. Tan Central Publie School, Dr. George W. James, Editor of The Canadian Statesman, is miles of new roati were bufit shown presenting one of the New Testaments to Judith Scott, daughter of Mr. and i an ning floarerd Dlstcused. Mrs.Mel ao ct.Wiigt eev n sJdt aly agtro r n Counng ordteves utselned Ml wley. Others in the picture, left to right, are: C. R. Robgrts Field Secre- the work o! the Dariington tary of the Gideons in Eastern Canada; Rev. A. C. Herbert, Rector of St. John's Planning Board during the vear Anglican Church, who addressed the youngsters; Principal Tom Turner of Central which included the piloting of Schoo1 and Arthur Alloway, President of Qeneral Printers Limited, Oshawa, and a (Cojltoud on page ietoa) anem(ber of the Gideons. Give Durham. Apples For Christrnas-Giffs They'll Be Appreciated On page five of this -issue of 'The Statesman, readers wiIl find an attractive advertisement for luscions, top-quality Durham County apples. This ad. is sponsored by the Durham Growers' Co-operative Storage Plant at Newcastle, and has been donated by The'Statesman as proposed. in an editorial a few weeks ago, in order 'to assist 'the growers t. move Durham's 1955,bumper a p pie ceop. .Irwin ColwiII, President of the Durham Growers' Co-operAtive. Storage the executive, and members, have taken us up on'this offer and we are very pleased to help in this way to boost a Durham product which we know from personal experience is tops in flavor, quality and healthful benefits. Be sure and read the ad. - and buy Durham County apples the best in Ontario, as proven at the Royal Winter Fair. Garbage Collection Con troversial Issue at Nomination Meeting The controversial question oi whether Bowmanville shoulÉ institute a municipal garbagE collection system andi whethei -the Public should healalowed ta vote on the matter became an issue in the civic election at the nomination meeting last Friday night. *Coun. John Regan, wbo -faces opposition for is counil seat, stateti that bis position is thai the matter shoulti be put toa vote of the ratepayers and thal would be bis position if re- alecteti. Reeve Sidney Little, who received an acclamation as Reeve, also took the stand that the matter shoulti be put before the citizens. Coun. Dave Higgon, who was chairman of a speciai committea set up ta study the matter anti make recommend- ations ta council; and Council- lors Jack Brough andi Tom Rebtier, took the view that the members o! council were elect- cd by the public ta conduct the town's business and they should bave sufficieht confidence in them te trust them ta act- in their hast interests. Coun. Brough pointed eu.t that the cammittee still must SD Day Means Drive Safely Local moterias are re- Minded that today (Thurs- day) taSaffe Drlving Day acros Canada. Ail drivera are aaked te be partlcularly careful today i order tiât Canada'. accident toîl may b. drastleahly reduced. WIth itreets slippery and treach- erous, moterists should take MOre precautiona than ever to atvoli 'Oçf1V nceidfnta. )f bring in a proper, efficient and d economical Plan for municipal ;e garbage collection in the form r of a by-law before council d wjll pass it and set up the e collection system. «'If the n People haven't enough con- ;t fidence in their council to trust them with this, we might 3just as well have a vote every week," he declared. à Coun. Tom Rehder agreed twith Coun. Brough's views. Coun. Dave Higgon stated that bis committee to study garbage collection which included De- puty - Reeve Carruthers and Coun. Tom Rehder, had gone (Continued on Page seven> C. P. R. Officiais Expound Safety To School Pupils Hazards faced by chfldren who play in or around railway property was brought forcibly ta the attention of the pupils :at Bowmanville's three public schools and Bowmanville Higli School on Monday atternoon by W. 9. Ramsay, of the Can- adian Pacific Railway's De- patetof Investigation and C.P.R. Constable L. Deabina. The two railway ofticers showed two movies "Danger- 'DUs Playground'l andi "The Long Way Home From 'Sehool"t te the children and gave brie! talks' on the danger cf playlng around railway yards. They stated that 275,000 School child- ren across Canada have seen the films and heard the lec- tures in the C.P.R. camxpaîgn te prevent injury te chfidren arounfi railway prorerty. The following citizens are either candidates in varlous municipalities in this area, or have been elected by acclamna- tion. CARTWRIGHT TOWNSHIP Alil positions filled by aocla. mation.' Reeve-C. Wesley Sweet. Dep.-Reeve-Bruce Ashton. Council - Merlin Suggitt. Jack Green, George Black. Board« of Education-.-Mrs. Loranza, J. McArthur, Harold Kyte, Wallace Marlow. How- ard Forder, Victor Malcolmi are the other members o! the Board. VILLAGE 0F NEWCASTLE Election for ahl offices, ex. cept Hydro Commissioner. Reeve-(l to be elected) J. Harry Joue, Douglas J. Cun. ninghbsm. Counil-(4 to be elected> Ross H. Dickinsonm Fred G. Couch, R. Brenton Rickard. Frank Hoar, Parncombe Le. Gresley. School Board-.-(3 fibe edec- ted) Irvin J. .McCullough, D. R. Dewdney, Douglas G. Wal- ton, John F. Rickard. Hydre Commission- H. Stan. ley Graham. TOWNSHIP 0F CLARKE Acclamation for Reeve, Dep. uty-Reeve and School Board. Reeve-James T. Brown. Deputy-Reeve-Earl Walk- ey. Council-(3 to be eledted> Fred Lovekin, Hartwell Low- gery, Ernest Dent and Russeil Le Savery. ýg School Area Trustees- EC. Y. Russeli Osborne, George Mor- ton, Reg. Elliott, C. Farrow. VILLAGE 0F ORONO Police Trustees-(3 to bu elected) Roy P'orrester, Harry Mercer, Joseph Walker, Percy M. Lunn, Sydney Rutherford- and Roy Winters. TOWNSHIP 0F MAN VERS Election for ai positions, ex. cept Deputy-Reeve- Reeve-(l ta be elected) R. J. Payne, Ea ri Argue. Deputy-Reeve- Lewis Mc- Gui. Çouncil-(3 to be elected) Fenton Fallis, Robert Brown. Harvey Malcolm Henry Jake- man, Clarence iirown. DARLINGTON TOWNSHIP Reeve and School Board ehected by acclamation. Elec- tion for Deputy-Reeve and Counci!. Reeve-Roy W. Nichols. Deputy-Reeve - (j to b. elected) Garnet B. Rickard, Cyril H. Mumford. Cottncil-<3 to be ele_çted) Arthur L. Blanchard, Wifliam H. Brown, Charles E. Osborne and Ross C. Stevens. School Board-Harold Muir, Kenneth Werry, Sydney Wor- den. TOWN 0F BGWMANVILLE Mayor, Reeve, DYep.-Reeve, $chool Board and Public Util- ities Commissioner elected by' acclamation, Erection for -the Council. M!Yor-Nelson E. Osborne. Reeve-Wilfrid Carruthers. Deputy-Reeve - Sidney Lit-. tle. Council-(6 ta be elected) W. David Higgon, Jack Brougn, Lloyd Preston, John Regan, Thomas Rehder, Glenholme Hughes, Norman J. Scott, Keith Lathangue, Albert H. Sturrock, William C. Kilpate rick. Public School Board -Wm. G. James, Arthur Hooper and Clarke Wilson. Public Utilities - W. 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