m one end T. nced with | Dance!" ation the le other. night ¢ and the f began shi ndow, Ch ptly stop SCIENCE DAKVILLE ndall Sts. Sunday Sei sday Even and 4th 7 m open Tu . You are ttend our ce use of nk of Torot {AND Dakville- Trafalgar Journal Vol. 4, No. 24. Entered, 2nd. Class Mall, ottawa . THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1951 STEWART ST. "LAKE" INSPIRES YOUTHFUL FISHING PLA IRKS OLDER R TARTAN TAKES OVER FOR SUNDAY SHOW The skirl of the bag-pipes and the flash of gay Scottish tartans will lend color and Scottish at- mosphere to the annual theatre and draw night of White Oak Chapter, L.O.D.E, Monday, May 21 at the Century theatre. The main picture is "Bonnie Prince Charlie," in color, and, appro- priately, the services of Oakville Legion Pipe Band, headed by PipeMajor ~~ William Robertson, have been retained for a concert. The band, which is donating its services, will parade from the Le- gion Hall and play in front of the theatre at 6.45: Ushers inside the theatre will be dressed in bright tartan cos- tumes designed by Miss Mary Chisholm. Following the perform- ance, bandsmen and ushers will be entertained by the chapter. In addition to the = main, picture, a film entitled "Our Neighbor", de- pleting the natural' resources and scenic beauties of all the Can- adian provinces, will be shown. Mrs. Ryland New, C:B.E., past national president of the LOD.E. and Mayor Black will officiate at the draw. T0 TAKE OVER NEW SITE Legal proceedings will be taken to expropriate seven and a half acres of land for the new $350,000 west side public school, it was de- cided at Tuesday evening's meet- ing of Oakville public school board. The land is situated north Of Stewart St. between Kerr St. and Queen Mary Drive. The board's offer of $1200 an acre to the three joint owners has been rejected. Trustee' D. A. McCon- achie expressed the opinion that this was a very reasonable offer, and that the next step would be to get a judge's ruling on a fair valuation, under the provisions of the public school sites act. W. L. Fulford, assistant prin- cipal of Central school, was ap- pointed principal to succeed M. L. Holmes, who has been appoint. ed supervising principal of Oak- ville public schools. Mr. Holmes was given authority to start kin- Knox Church May 23. NS, ESIDENTS Claiming that Stewart Street residents had had to pay $11 per day last year to pump away water that flooded the grounds and cel- lars of many homes, Roy Green Monday night asked council to take immediate steps to rectify the condition. "Why, it was so bad over there this spring that one resident's lit. tle girl looked out a window and asked her mother if she could go fishing," = he, 'declared. "When reeve Litchfield and councillor McArthur came up to investigate our complaints, they had to wear rubber boots to get around." The reeve to}d council a flood- Ing situation had been created when wartime houses on the street had been built lower than the road. "Its an unfortunate condition the town inherited when it took over the road," he stated. Mayor J. R. Black suggested the responsibility was that of the original owner, Central Mortgage and Housing Corp; or of the ten- ants who were now buying their homes. "We contacted Central Mort: gage; and they won't do a thing," replied Mr. Green, "Many of us are buying the homes now, and we certainly don't want our base- ments full of water all summer. The reeve told council his com- mittee-is conferring with the town engineer to find a solution to the problem. : Only' debate of the meeting, brief one, came about when coun- cillor Ross Gibson pointed out only 785 was allowed for in the estimates to cover a convention trip by assessment commissioner Percy Spurgeon. "We voted $125 at the last meeting, and I was told before the vote that the es- timates covered that amount," he said. "I fully agree the assessor should get the money and take the trip, but I thought we had to stick 'to estimates figures." "Was the amount your commit- tee paid for a police car the same as the estimated figure?" queried councillor Fred Turner sharply. "We paid $100 more than the estimated amount, and then the car went up again in price the next day," admitted councillor Gibson. "We'll save the amount elsewhere." "And well save that extra $50 for the convention elsewhere!" retorted councillor Turner. Councillor Lachlan McArthur, renewing his plea that a' list of salaries paid town employees be published in the press, was in- formed the matter was being at- tended to shortly. Councillor Gib- son, noting the chief of police re- celved a fee for acting as truant officer, asked that the amounts paid other employees for addition- al duties be published along with (Continued on Page 4) fo Operate One Big Team, aseball Association Decides An existing net deficit of $1,375 ould be wiped out during a suc- essful 1951 season of operation, president R. O. Bull predicted on riday night as the Oakville Base- ball assn. held its annual meet- g at the council chambers. Trim Deficit "Bad weather and the resulting * Mr. Bull told the then, we have in donations, to minor peewee, be in action under assn. and expressed the club financial and ram. He particularly appealed Darents to get behind this The meeting approved an ex- ecutive slate of 22, which met in special session later in the eve- ning to appoint its own officers. This directorate ratified 'the fol- lowing appointments: president, R. 0. Bull; vice-president in charge of finance, George Gray; vice-president in charge of minor baseball and grounds, Jim Snow; vice-president in charge of inter- mediate baseball, Don G. Davis; secretary, Charles Oliver; asst. secretary, Fred Collier; treasur- er, Norman Ritchie; finance com- mittee, Cameron Hillmer, Dr. F. M. Deans, Gorman McGonvry, F. J. Farley, Ollie Johnson; grounds committee, Don Davis, Doug. Wil- son; minor ball committee, Bud Corbett, Bill Hughes, Harvey Lyon; transportation, Larry Wil- son, Joseph Rutledge, T. H. Blake lock, Arthur Tuck; publicity, Don Davis, Ollie Johnson, Bill Cotton; intermediate club committee, Norman Carter, Doug Wilson. Vernon Busby. Mayor Jim Black will also act as a director, Only One Team Following an extensive discus- sion, directors agreed it will not be feasible to operate two inter- mediate teams in the Halton county assn. competition this year, and decided to continue un- der intermediate A rating. Play- ers from both -ast summer's in- termediate squads will therefore become available to the Oaks.- % i) TYPICAL OF THE youthful interest in the annual hobby show Is that shown by John Hulme, shown adding a chocolate. filip to the White frosting on his entry in the cake baking contest. HOBBYISTS WIN FIVE CUPS, MANY OTHER AWARDS IN SUCCESSFUL LI Just about everything an in- genious or imaginative youngster could make or collect Was on dis- play at Victorla Hall Friday and Saturday at the annual Hobby Show of Oakville Lions Club. Trim model boats and planes, bird houses, doll-houses, postage stamps, matchbox covers, per- fume bottles, scrapbooks, sea- shells, leather wallets -- these were only some of the vast as- sortment of articles the boys and girls of the town and" district brought to the show. One of the biggest and most successful exhibitors was youfig Peter Street, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Street of Spruce St. Peter, who is probably Oakville's busi- est hobbyist, and who has won many honors in past shows, took first prize in the infermediate section with no less than firsts to his credit. His exhibits included a model car, model chuck-wagon, model fire-engine ladder, a pair of knitted socks, dressed dolls, and collections of coins, cactus plants and Chinese figurines. Art was well represented, with literally hundreds of drawings and pointings in pencil, pen, crayon, water colors and oils, 9 well-executed oil landscape show- DESCRIBES NEW PORTER EDUC PLAN How the new Porter plan of education, which is in operation in Brantwood public school, ben- efits both pupils and teachers, was described by J. R. McCarthy, itinerant inspector of the Ontario department of education, in a talk to Brantwood Home and School Club at its monthly meet- ing Monday evening. Under the old system the teachers are given a prescribed course of studies to follow by the department. The Porter plan permits teachers to prescribe studies on their own initiative, if they are able to do so. Grades are so arranged that a pupil remains with each teach- er three years. Under this plan the teacher is enabled to under- stand the requirements of each fin- dividual pupil better than under the old system. Exceptionally bright children are not retarded, while extra attention can be gly- en to backward ones. The Club has decided to give a travelling prize, each month to the class with most parents attending the meetings, Two points are award- ed for a father, one for a mother, In order to encourage the fathers to attend. ONS' SHOW ing a skating scene on the river by the Colborne Street bridge, won first place for- 16-year-old Blake Millar in the senior divi- sion. Firsts in the same division (Continued on Page 5) 24 Pages 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per year In advance WICKSON SEES BUMPER WEED ~ CROPS IF PROPOSED FIVE ACRE RESTRICTION PASSED Strong opposition was expressed by Reeve Joseph Wickson of Tra- falgar, and a property owner, E. J. Hallett, Eighth Line North, to a recommendation of the district planning board that would prohibit the sale of lots of less than five acres in the lower part of the township. A bylaw embodying this restriction, given first and sec- ond readings at a previous meet- ing of the township council, was up for discussion at Monday's council meeting before being for- warded to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval "It. would create an awful eyesore," declared the reeve. "Everybody would need to have five acres in order to live on one acre, There would be four acres growing weeds. We will have an awful problem if we let that sit- uation develop. We would be making a man pay $2500 for a lot when $500 would be enough. It would be better for him to put the extra money in a housgand- keep the weeds down. The agri- cultural reresentative is opposed to this plan." "The planning board would pre- fer the Municipal Board to decide on this matter rather than the planning board or the council," said Councillor R. C. A. Cumber- land, council's representative on the board. "They have no powers apart from recommendation." (Contiued on Page 8) TOP CANADIAN STRESSES NEED Eugene Kash, conductor of the Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra, was the guest speaker at the fin- al meeting of the Linbrook Home and School association Tuesday night at the school. He Introduced the National Film Board movie of the Children's Concerts in Ot- tawa, in which he played the lead. Following the movie he played a Bach Gavotte and an old French air. The leading concert master of Canada stressed the importance of making available to youth musical opportunity. "Unless we instigate the op- portunity of appreciation and un- derstanding of the potentialities of music, we may well raise a fu- ture race of button-pushers," he warned his audience. "I do not wish to depreciate the radio, es- pecially for small communities, but music begins where words leave off: Man is blessed with great articulateness--we owe it to our youth to make the oppor- CONDUCTOR FOR MUSIC tunities for articulateness of mus- ic a part of their daily lives," He explained that merely lst- ening to music was not enough Rather, as had been done with the children's concerts in Ottawa, a knowledge of the instruments themselves, and the form of mus. ic, must be combined with the au- dio aproach. "We must never lose track of what we, as individ- uals, must do to keep the great tradition of music growing," he said in conclusion. Past President (ora Taylor presented the tape-recorded pur chased by the association, with the assistance of the school board, to the school. The children's choirs, which will compete in the Halton Coun- ty Music Festival this week, en- tertained with thelr numbers, which were recorded on the ma- chine and played back for them later. A soclal period followed the meeting. freighter loaded. called this week. WHEN MRS. WILLIAM SPEERS celebrated her 91st birthday Friday last, at the daughter, Mrs. A. O. Flummerfelt, four generations of her family were on hand to enjoy the event with her. © Above are Mrs. Flummerfelt, great-grandson Michael Tipping, and granddaughter Mrs. R. Tipping, Mrs. Speers, whose formula for a long life is hard work, contentment and a sense of humor, still rises at 7 each morning to help her daughter with housework and to knit sweaters and sogks for her nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. her life, remembers well the old days when "the whole village" of Bronte would turn out to watch a She was predeceased by her husband 11 years ago, after 54 years of married life, Born at Appleby, Mrs, "It was 28 years after we were married that my husband and | had 'our. first meal together," "On the farm we always kept open house." Play Ball ! ! ! With the junior season getting under way even as the Journal goes to press, this baseball town's enthusiastic fans once more face a full season of var- led diamond fare. The Snow Construction lads play at Wal- lac park again Wednesday night, May 16, while the Oaks are scheduled to open their home season against the new Clarkson Intermediate "A" try May 23. Al Yarnell's prote- ges actually get their 1951 bap- tism of fire at Acton May 18, however, and will play a full double schedule of 20 games. They will engage in an exhibit- lon tilt here Saturday after noon with Ki of the sen- gy home of her Speers has lived in Trafalgar all she re- CELEBRATION GOES ON & ON, MRS. SPEERS ENJOYS IT ALL Birthday cards by the dozen, streams of callers, a veritable barrage of phone calls and heaps of flowers and gifts provided a memorable birthday for Mrs. Lucy Speers, Bronte, who was ninety-one on Frida "The birthday celebration started on Thursday and kept on until Sunday," Mrs. A. O. Flumer- felt, the venerable lady's daugh- ter, laughingly Informed the Journal, "The people kept on coming." Mrs. Speers recelved about seventy callers on Friday alone, and about sixty birthday cards, With her on her birthday were her four daughters, her son, nine lor Viaduct loop. at 3 pm. Full Haitor county foop and Junior West Toronto league schedules 'will appear in these columns next week. grandchildren and three great- grandchildren. A fourth great. grandchild was born next day, belug a daughter for Mr. and Mrs Charles Joyce of Port Credit. Daughters are Mrs, Flumerfolt, with whom Mrs. Speers makes her home, Mrs, IE. A, Joyce, Port Credit, Mrs, Fred Belyon, Port Hope, John McMillan, Kilbrl son Is Charles Speers of Windsor. Mrs, Speers had two blg birthday cakes with candles, one for Friday and ons for Saturday "She enjoyed every sald Mrs, Flumerfolt, "Just now mother 18 crocheting. Her hands are never dle, and she loves game of rummy any tim Mra. Speers was born at Apple- by, a daughter of the late Mr, and Mrs, Wm. Bumby, ploncer resh dents of the district. She ls the last surviving member of a family of elght children. For sixty-five years she has bean an active and devoted member of Walton Meme orfal United Church, and has many memories of Bronte and the district In the early days. She Is. the widow of the late W, H. Speers. bit of It"