Page 8 THH OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Thursday, May a7, 4 Residents Urged To Support Local Junior Baseball Program The Baseball ciation pro- vides facilities for hardball for children from 9 to 15, with Bud Corbett as coach and supervisor of the various teams. This Tr 200 children will take part. ing in the low 70's. was finalist in the Oakville Goll club competition, Doug McKellar, In 1940 he left the U.S. to join the R a physical Coach Corbett's baseball career started with the Beaverton team when he was 16, where he filled the position of short-stop. Moving to the west coast in 1926, he p €d Senior "B" ball on the Amer- ican Can Company team, which won the city championship. Teams in this league were used by the professional teams of the Pacific Coast league to train their rookies, which meant, that each year from three to five pro- fessionals-to-be augmented each team in the city league, so that the standard of ball was very high. Coach Corbett was a regu- lar player every year in competi- tion with these full-time players. instructor, being the organization and super- vision of baseball and sporting activ the service he settled in Milton. He has now opened a sporting goods store in Oakville which he operates in conjunction with his of coach position to the junior teams of the association. "I have been looking for a place to settle and get into my "Oak- ville appealed to my wife and to We feel it is a progressive town in which it will be nice to live." : line of business," he said. me very much. In 1935 Corbett moved to San Francisco, where he represented the A. G. Spaulding & Bros. sporting goods firm. His work was chiefly concerned with golf, which he plays personally, shoot- Coach Corbett is about the junior teams. "The op- portunity to work with such a large group of youngsters appeal- ed to me very much" he said. "The offer of the Baseball Asso- ciation was very fair and my ex- perience with the executive last year had been most happy. I feel we will build a number of good players from the youngsters for future championship teams." enthusiastic R. J. Hunter, president of the association, said the drive for funds being conducted at the present time was receiving good support from residents, but that the association hoped more peo- time," he said, "if we are to do the job we hope to do with our young people. Coach Corbett and does not suffer discomfort sa port of everyone in this work and Wwe would appreciate all donations no matter how small." aches and neuralgic poe The name is your assur- ance. Carry Paradol in your purse. DR. CHASES L Parabo .. eetings In Town A number of men and women have an alcoholic problemi, have | t! banded together to form their own group here. They hold week- ly meetings to discuss common problems, and their solutions, Alcoholics Anonymous is a non-denominational organization with no rules or regulations, nor membership fees. The only re- quisite for membership is that the. person who wishes to belong recognizes the fact that he or she is an alcoholic and has a sincere desire to do something about it, 'The new Waterloo Garden Trac- tors are now available in 11% H. P. and 3 HP. sizes, with a full line of implements, 24>, "We are not prohibitionists;" said a member. "We admire peo- Dle Who can be accomplished so- cial drinkers--but we do not envy them because we have become resigned to the fact that we can including a power-driven lawn mower. See These Before You Buy E. D. GREEN not dink socially ourselves. We 8TH LINE - OAKVILLE |have all tried to do this innumer- International Harvester | 2ble times without success. 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SCOTT [to a specific age group, We feel, many much younger tho al However, that there are many | selves; analit isifon these ys young married couples who de- hil club was organized ang all . n Sa clal entertainment such ,, 3 approaching formal jg inten eg ] cline Club "20s offer because they feel out of place amid so el 1S BREAD MORE FATTENING THAN POTATOES 2 YES. thousands thatt it is not an in- curable one," he stated. We asked If there were any membership restrictions. . "Everybody and anybody who sincerely wants to stop drinking is welcome to join us," he replied. "The disease of alcoholism is no respector of age, sex, social or financial positions. Our member- ship consists of people from every walk of life; from every social and financial strata. © We have one thing in common--we cannot handle liquor. We want to stop. t's just as simple as that." We ackea how people no OPS Subd: IMPERIAL ORDER 'DAUGHTERS OF THE EMPIRE might feel the necessity could ST join the group, We also asked if p Wwe could use his name, "I'd rather you wouldn't," was under a very ducing mu- sic perhaps more subdu- CLUB*20" By Marion Languay The intimated change in music as offered by Club "20° Saturday night has now become a reality. May 22nd found nine very capable musicians up on the stand the cessors and consisting of re- VOTE JUNE 7th Sponsored by the Oakville Chapters and wants to stop. been through the mill and can discuss the drinking of other al- % [the association deserve the sup-|coholics with understanding, Any- one can join," he continued. they have to do is drop a note to Box 1000 in care of this news- paper, or. phone Oakville 424-W, OF write a letter to 170 Yonge St, | the older group, and Teen Town A.A. A. Hold Weekly |oronto. wen send thom along [had very ably taken charge some literature to read. our members will be glad to call Saturday night seems to attract them and drop around to the quite a few of the Friday night house if desired. from Oakville and Toronto, who|trely up to them to. decide what | course, as there is no membership I ple ould recognize the value ofthe reply, "We alcoholics prefer] freshing: repertoire; Cub. "207s Desi TO: GIVE Do Women need to | this. activity in the fight against| to remain as the name implies-- committee plan a meeting every SET x suffer so fori juvenile delinquency and send | anonymous. However, there are a hr . MORE : mother writes: | their donations to tiie association. | a number of us whe woud sr | Wednesday from now. unti re "The company nurs: 'We need more money than we|ingly try fo help anybody who | 12th, for the purpose of making © MILE AGE recommended tial have collected up to the present feels he cannot cope with alcohol | plans for the flower formal on We've all that date. One of | all those of school age. Even so, Then it's en-| crowd, who are admitted, of hey wish to do," he concluded. |to the club confining its attenders One of the chief reasons for planning an affair of this nature is to interest the older than teen- "All lage group in the club's activities. 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