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--==The Haileyburian Office in New Liskeard also. < . ; Nixon & Begg; GENERAL INSURANCE 3 Bank of Nova Scotia Building, 3 HAILEYBURY. Phone 10 ¢ ° ° Vol. 35; No. 4 HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 20th, 1939 Subscription Rate $2.00 per year. Housing Commission Plan Discussed From All Angles Chairman of Body and Head of Municipality Present Details of Situation Since Inception in 1923; People Who Were Not Burned Out Were Responsible for Plan Being Applied The whole situation in regard result that the government had to the Haileybury Housing Com- mission was thoroughly aired at the annual meeting of the Board of Trade on Monday night, when H. A. Day, present chairman of the commission and former town clerk, and Mayor S. J. Mason went thoroughly into the ques- tion, the former giving the his- tory of the inception of the plan after the big fire of October 4th, 1922, and more recent efforts) made towards a solution of the.) problem of unpaid loans, and the| latter presenting the present posi- tion of the municipality, which has had to assume about one- third of the houses built under the scheme. Mr. Day admitted that the topic was not a "cheerful sub- ject" and that he felt resentment er or by the municipality. ofnew contracts over a period 0 commission and of the council who interviewed the gov- "go back and collect the loans, Mr. Day said. e municipal standpoint, told the |rect responsibility for $120,000. in |March last in connection with |housing Commission properties |together with the debenture debt for the entire amount, less what had been paid on the loans. Hal lof the $60,000 represented prop- eae repossessed by the munici- } at the treatment of the govern-|pality and the other half was for ment in insisting on imposing interest and collections in former every penalty provided for in the years which had not been remit- agreements. The commission had|ted to the government. The insisted on payment in full' for wi] pe locked up when the chief CYCRY eDLOBETty) On which there) 4¢ police goes home at nights, in- was a loan, either by the borrow-' <tead of sticking to the former} : The | sractice of leaving two of the only concession was the writing 10 years. Representatives of the want to use part of the building! LOM ator a night's shelter. ernment "were virtually told tol in iwhen the new police officer, W. L.|district jail. The alleged assault | Mayor Mason, speaking from) tpece felt justified in asking some con-|amount still owing was $250,000. sideration in view of the circum-|the mayor said, of which $128,00C stances, he said, but repeated ef-|was owed by the borrowers. Dur- forts, interviews with various of-|ing the past year a total of $59,- ficials and the Minister of Muni-!Q00 had been. paid on the loans cipal Affairs had brought only a) but only part of this was on the tightenin gup of the agreements| principal. i and a_ demand for prompt pays | Of the original 110 contracts | | ment in the future, although the} 10 had been paid in full, 36 houses = authorities had consented to the had been repossessed by the town | writing of new contracts for|62 borrowers were paying their those in arrears. instalments under the new agree- Sketching the history of the ments and there were a couple of housing plan, Mr. Day said that|}cases where a settlement had not it had been originated by those!yet been reached. The town had who had not lost their homes in|34 of the 36 houses rented, but the big fire and who found that the unfortunate phase was that these homes and properties were these properties had to be trans- of no yalue, lacking schools, pub- ferred to the non-assessable list lic services and a town to make! thus remoying $60,000 from the them of use. The properties were |taxpaying property. If the houses a"curse" rather than an advan-!were kept rented, Mayor Mason tage to their owners, he said, andisaid, and the borrowers kept up the only chance to make them of 'their payments, $2,224 would be value was the rebuilding of the|remitted monthly to the govern- town. It was these owners of|ment. This, he said, would not Hospitality At Town Hall Stops After Wine Party Cobalt Council Will Have Doors Locked in Future; Tran- sients Disturbed In future the Cobalt town hall outer doors open for the conven- ience of transients who might | This decision was arrived at by| e town council on Monday night} Pidgeon, reported that some of temporary visitors had staged a wine party and had cre-| eeting that the town had a di- at4¢q so much whoopee that other the court was told. guests of the municipality in ad-| jacent cells had their rest dis-; turbed. The council instructed| Town Clerk A. W. Harrington to| have the doors put in order--the ; keys apparently having disap- peared--and the building will, be' closed tight in future from the} time the chief goes off duty until | the caretaker arrives in the early morning. At the same meeting the coun;} cil issued orders that tenants of} houses owned by the municipality and whose rents are in arrears be notified to vacate the premises by May Ist. The same date was also set as a deadline for those in arrears for water rates. The salary of the town auditor R. L. O'Gorman, was increased from $350 to $400, on account of extra work required by the pro- vincial government. The Cobalt council has two of its members out of active atten- dance at the present. Councillor James Lawrence is undergoing treatment in the Toronto General Hospital and Councillor Burt Sopha is suffering from a broke wrist, sustained in a fall in his garage. Councillor Lawrence has been granted three months' leave} of absence. 4 Dymond Township Calf er Real Freak of Nature' \last, with the result that the de- |the chief at Cobalt in investigat- Assault Charge Board of Trade and Rotary | ° isc ceror Combine Forces at Banquet Belated Hearing in Court Here Brings Fine or Jail Term; Local Man Was Victim A belated hearing of an assault charge, in which R. R. Warren of and the : , Haileybury was the victim and meeting on Monday evening, fol- Meeaiees Feeeaa ne ti . Wesley Davidson of New Lis- lowing a banauet the eae ar eta aooe o Es : ae ' af ee oy ee : \pe yho w as muc Keard the alleged aggressor, was dining room of Hotel Haileybury,! public service, and do it as well held before Magistrate Atkinson there was an interesting and en- a. fr, ashe ie : in police court here on Friday tertaining program provided for! Porhe tent sar. Mr. 'Luke the forty-odd persons present.) _- See Ca aes miro eae a RE Cal program in_| Said, the Board should continue terspersed with the regular busi- ao annuals Wek}. about radio Heke Ot Bo ihEbodiee ana there Teception, see that the climate and were several addresses covering pe oie oF ee local problems that provided food sea hee Presta baa for thought on some phases of act 8 i Sat ara oe h 4 ae community life in Haileybury TEC, AS L. Gare ee : aye that should react to the benefit asain ae fe oa : ! Baars SUES all citizens. Presiding were the ween: PBCATMIE CR UATORE IE heads of the two organizations, Chief among the addresses '), H. Tuke, president of the|S!ven at the meeting were those 3oard of Trade, and J. H. Mur-\|of H. A. Day, chairman of the ray, head of the Rotary Club, both! Housing Commission ,and Mayor of whom welcomed the gathering. |>- Mason, which are reported in another column. Other speak- ers were Jas. Reavell, secretary of the Public School Board; Dr. |J. A. H. Joyal, chairman of the |Separate School Board; Wm. dances by Miss Caroline Suther-|Long, secretary of the Foe a land of Cobalt, and solos by Mr. ural Society, and ete uke him- Periera. Mrs. J. A. H. Joyal self for the High School. played the accompaniments and}, Mr. Reavell gave figures show- Mr MclIsaac furnished violin mu- the board expenditures as sic for Miss Sutherland's darice $15,000 annually, of which $11,500 came from the municipal assess- ment and the balance from gov- ernment grants. He recalled that the staff had accepted a 10 per | See es Annual Session of Former With Weekly Meeting of Latter Form Interesting Program on Monday Evening; Songs, Music and Dances Interspersed With Regular Busimess When the local Board of Trade been cleaned up and put into first Rotary Club held a joint class shape by B. W. Hartley and S. Beanland, to whom he extended in main fendant was convicted and a fine of $50 and costs imposed, with the alternative of 30 days in the took place in June last and the accused had been in the Matache- wan district during the interval. At the same court session Vic- tor Soucie of Cobalt was charged with forgery. Evidence was to the effect that he had cashed a cneque for $14.00, bearing the forged signature of A.J. Murphy local timber operator. The sen- tence imposed by His Worship was three months. "Another Cobalt resident, Donat Ladouceur, faced two charges of obtaining goods under false pre- tences and will spend the next 60 days in confinement. He was given the term on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. A trio of youths from Thornloe district appeared on charges of theft of motor parts. They were released on suspended sentence. bound over in the sum of $100 for The musical program, arranged| by N. D. Mclsaac, vice-president! of the Board, and Past President D. G. Hogan, included community singing led by L. H. Periera, numbers. The Rotary. Club, which had postponed the greater part of its} regular business, presented a film| one year and paid the costs of the which had been loaned by a sim1- cent reduction | 7 a a rere hearing. lar organization in Xenia, Ohio |Y€4™S 4g0, which had not been restored, said that the Board had always had the best of co-opera- tion from the town council, and that there was a splendid staff of teachers and no friction of any depicting scenes from a hobby} fair held there on a large scale,| with particular emphasis on boys' work. This film was shown by| Rotarian R. D. Cumming, andthe -<°~"° : gathering was told by President|Kind in the affairs of the school. -Murray that a similar one of local Dr. Joyal told the eeting that activities of Rotary. was. being the actig~ of the Serhvate Schogl prepared) 'Mr.,Murray dlsot te-| Byard G2 ovine the' Sshool last minded those present that this, year hat peen a wis in spite week-end the annual hobby fair ot the criticism that had" | will be held and invited all to at-jheard. The result had been tend on Saturday, when the exhi-|the board had received some spe- bition will be open to the public./cial grants and an_ extension of Speaking for the Board "of | time on its obligations, together _ One charge of drunkenness and a few infractions of the tiaric regulations were heara, with the usual penalty of a fine and costs resulting. ne * Probing Thefts at Warehouse and Garage Provincial police officers from headquarters here are assisting ing two burglaries which occur- red in the silver town on Monday homes who were responsible for!pay the amount owing in 10 years the scheme, by which $300,00C/but "we are not worrying about was made available for building|that at the present." houses. They were also respon-| His Worship was not without sible, the speaker said, for an ac- hope for the future, in spite of the tive campaign to induce those) fact that the assessment had been who had lost their homes to re-|reduced by $60,000, and it still] build under the commission plan |takes about $70,000 to run the be eimight or early Tuesday morning A freak of nature in the form/A warehouse of the George Tay- of a calf which is equipped with'a|lor Hardware Limited, near the duplicate set of some of its phy-|1- & N.O. Railway, and Kennelly sical features is frolicking about | Garage, Silver Street, were the the Dymond township farm of premises entered, the locks being Fred Maille, who lives on the, forced in each case. At the hard- main highway north of New Lis#)ware warehouse 15 lengths of Trade, President Tuke gave an with better collections of taxes outline of what had been accom-,?¥ the municipality. The separ- plished during the past year, cit-|ate school supporters had suffer- ing the highway signs that had ed greatly from the last big fire been erected after. considerable|he .said, as some 60 per cent of worry with the Department, the|the burned-out area had been of efforts of the Board to prevent that persuasion, and this fact had \aggravated the situation through with the result that 110 citizens|town, collections had been better took advantage of itand "probab-|during recent months than for ly 100 of these would have been (Continued on Page 4) better off without it.' For five} years, Mr. Day said, there was| plenty of activity in town and the housing plan appeared to be a, success, but when the depression | came the payments began to fall behind. A few years later an ef- fort was made to secure an ad-| justment of the interest charges! and promises were made by the| then provincial government that. the interest would be written off.) This was one of the reasons why | the payments had been allowed} to fall behind, and another rea-| son was the fact that the muni-| cipality could not secure eviction} orders against those in arrears the government only having the} power to issue these orders. For the past the commission pality had been New Commissioner couple of years and the munici- striving towards asolution of the problem and en-| deavoring to secure an adjust-| ment of the interest rate of five} per cent, but without success.| Last year a final survey was} made by officials of the depart-| folio in the Hepburn cabinet, will ment, interviews with the minis-| Be Bepoinien Gare ws ter were arranged and all pos-| next few days. Mr. Gordon will sible steps taken to bring the) succeed the Jate Edmond G. matter to a settlement, with the Odette. "CHINTZ COTTAGE" A THREE-ACT..PLAY Under the Auspices of the United Church W.A. WEDNESDAY APRIL 26, 27 & THURSDAY, According to reliable reports from Queens Park, Toronto, Hon. A. St Clair Gordon, minister without port- . | | | | | | IN UNITED CHURCH, HAILEYBURY ADMISSION ADULTS, 35c; CHILDREN, 25c keard. The animal, born a fev days ago, has a nermal body and one head, but it has two mouths, a couple of sets of teeth, a pat of tongues, two noses and four nostrils. The extra equipment is directly above the usual features and the calf can use either set as desired. This bovine curiosity is healthy and frisks about the farmyard in manner similar to other calves constructed on more orthodox lines. At the end of March this year there were 2,708 applications for jobs on file at the Mine Employ- iron pipe, 20 feet long, a keg of 3- inch nails, a hacksaw and a pair of heavy pliers were missing the proposed diversion of the main | \ xu Ie road around the town and_ the|the succeeding years. The final settlement, Mr. Joyal said, was fact that the collection of miner- : £1 6 1 ; Pa 2 als kept in the hotel rotunda hadjProving ot benent not only to the while a 17-plate battery and a } |separate school supporters but to poaape: of tools had disappeared jall citizens of the town and he rom the garage. Governor of Madrid lcould see a distinct improvement = es ; in the situation this year, with |prospects of a reduced tax rate if \all were forced to pay. For the High Schoot, Mr. Tuke said that there was Neil Donovan, alias Austin Craft, accused of robbing a bank} in Timmins last fall, was convict- ed at Cochrane last week'and sen- tenced to serve eight years in (Oysrieen Rea fi ng town in penitentiary. He had been held eae Y By "ete ae, pits in the district jail here through lthe conear Rear Systems with out the winter and at one time F Bsa AIS SOs school, St. Mary's Academy and asse Guz s. is 3 issaulted Guard Jos. Thisdelle ; a business college, besides the inflicting injuries which kept the! ment Bureau in Kirkland Lake. (Continued ou Page 4) latter laid up for several weeks.| Fi A yer tine atte atl wi Take Noticé! ather | | The Week's We Week ending April 19th Mr. for Dominion Stores). supply of Choice Milk and present s' MILK 10c per quart opportunity of se The CENTRAL DAIRY announces the sale of W. Cor- | ville's interest to Jos. Fairen (former Delivery Man of the pasteurizing plant on Main Street, where a prepared to make Special Deliveries to any part of town at five minutes' notice. service to our steady customers will be kept on the As Taxpayers in Haileybury, we would appreciate the | Max. Min. i i Thursday -- PSA Oe LED | Biriday ne 50.0 28.0 i Sais T PAT Piha -- 2 9) General Don Luis Alarcon De La Saturday -------- 320 110 Fairen has assumed charge uastra, commander of General Sunday ----_-____ 386 16.0 Trancisco Franco's Moroccan artil- | Monday - en eae 220) ery, has been appointed civil gov Tues ~ - ' i ernor of Madrid. General De Lu Pose -- 36.6 32.0 Cream is available, and is Lastra's principal job since his ap ednesday -_-__ AT T3220) pointrr-nt has been the feeding of , Precipitation for week_ .49" needy Madrilenos. Max. wind (1 hr.)_ 17 m.p.h. In addition, the regular sw Tea and Produce Table VEVOCVUVTVGU ECV CUBITT 9TR0R290000000290000000 chedule. 10 Tickets for $1.00 [= | | | mosenthe public. Under the Auspices of St. Paul's W.A. New Phone No. 23 Central Dairy HUARD & FAIREN, Proprietors _-- SATURDAY, APRIL 22nd | 3 to 6 p.m. OVVCLTVVLVVELEV LET VONTLNUT290N00000000"0 etlestee At the Home of Mrs. G. H. Hayward, Lake Shore Road