Oakville - Trafalgar Journal -- : Val. 4, No. 31 Entered, 2nd. Class Mail, Ottawa THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1951 20 Pages 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per year In advance Threatened To Fire OpfMe, Derry States waar 5. TL Black informed COUNSEL SUM UP it oi Join B. he would eet him discha Sh "in oe LiL chief De ap Nelles Starr, K.C, summed up as morning a8 fF be third | follows: "The mayor, reeve Litch- probe entered made| field and councillor MacArthur The statement Wee He |have dls proved the general charges out of their own mouths. Free speech does not mean an al at unbridled license. This kind of ordering him t license can not be justified on ice station. the grounds of the sanctity of ORDERED i on the | Public order. I am inclined to ir Tiaet, celled Ay evident | think a jury would find the gen- le had been drinking, He | STU CLES MEICOIST | had gathered in| PE crowd A and was | vere mot suggesting the chief front {01d me a (1s not well trained or has not wring to Bet ih. 18 Hie 'door, | 2DIity. We suggest he is inefec- ble couldn't oben 16 FEOF | tive. rather than inefficient. Coun. hung Don ee Chung | Cll should not have to discuss , suid {ho sane stably | matters continually with the contacted {he | CONSE | chief. Oakville doesn't want rou- the RS ordered | tine, it wants initiative." SC An ia rear. | MI. Schrieber, counsel for the in access chief said "The whole i = home from the mayor 0 come to the Do- ch to me i 2 hp. 1 through Rotarian Alex Tilley congratulates Ernest Woods, winner of the $1,000 bond in the lucky draw at the big Rotary Carnival at Central School grounds Saturday night. With Mr. Tilley is Rotary President Bert Hardwick. Winners of $100 bonds were R. W. Rawson, Free- man, Angus McDonald, Arnprior, and H..E. Gilleland, St. Catharines. The $100 special draw was won by Mrs. J. D. Ketchum, 19 Palmer Ave., Oakville. In spite of bad weather Friday evening, the three- night carnival netted a substantial, sum for the Oakville Rotary Club's community and welfare work. Journal Photo by Thelma Brown wouldnt allow What, roc "from speeding and traffic ently, and called me Een. problems. Undoubtedly there is fie ordered me to. come down, lait mp o* estion is, ds it 1d refused to send the cruiser, | 2] EL cling me to get down a bo | munities of comparable size. The could. 1 took a taxi, and FOUN) 4own is free from crime and is e station open when I arrived.) oo to be that way.' he mayor called- me into my of) ® py qee™ "Macdonell adjourned and an argument ensued. It) oou "ong stated "A policeman's very evident hed beon rine [5S foto happy one Ha. shia fing, he was in an argumentive| yo woulq make his report to the F"" XPRESSED DISLIKE omer geal. 'I was civil. He told me hadn't fiked me for the past five years, + think Td done a good |Teasonable for a mew officer to ob. He said he was going to fire | discuss the matter with the mag- bre in the New Year, and I asked istrate. He stated that he was le didn't do it then.| instructed officer Hooks did not e he'd take it to council.|Sign the charge papers following "old him if T'd done anything | this discussion with Mayor Black ast him, it was inadvertant." | and that constable Hooks had re- ef then testified Mr. | leased Mr. Foskett. black had accused him of "call: For Harmony's Sake hg me a bootlegger." The chief| Asked why he had not taken it iid be replied that he was not|up With the Mayor, the chief said oncerned "with the past,' after|he had not done so as he wished hich the mayor had admitted |to maintain harmony. Counsel lei he had once worked for a suggested it would have maintain. every. ed better harmony if he had. "I OT FOR ME felt it was better not to," the "The discussion. went from one. chief said. bine to another, and he became With teference to the chief ore hostile, I didn't get home |having informed this paper he util nearly midnight." was asking for the hearing, and The chief said he had sent an|his delivery to this paper of a iiicer some time ago to inform | copy of the letter at approximat- ¢ mayor, a J.P, that he would |ely 3 pm. after having delivered 0 longer have summonses pre-| the original to the town clerk ured for signatures, and that| shortly after one, Mr. McConachie ir. Black would have to prepare | suggested the chief had an "ar- rangement" with the paper. "I vou thought that was a|did not," the chief said. "Why f doing it, I don't," |did you give it to only one pap- in or Macdonnell. er?" "Because the previous week il you keep on preparing |it had expressed editorially that asked Henry Schrieber,|it felt there should be an inves- chief's counsel, tigation." He'd do them for the Didn't Think So provincial and township police,| "You felt the other paper was fut not for me." !| hostile?" "More so, yes" Mr. REFERS TO EDITORIAL McConachie then asked the chief Questioned regarding his deliv.|if he hadn't released the infor- Yo a letter requesting council | mation fo the Journal because he E r a public hearing i io felt it would gain sympathy for larges pi him, Chief Derry |him. The chief agreed. Counsel fil le lad given "the. Jotter. t| asked it he didwt joel the public .30 p.m. on a| would have been better informed preceding what he|if both papers had been advised the next council|and the chief' said he did not pe th He gave a copy of the| think so. bite the 3 .m,, | Chief Derry stated he felt Sgt. o| Len Brown was quite capable of ce of his solicitor, | handling matters at the Basket lie paper= carried an editorial | Factory strike, when he left for fe previous week, dealing with | the police convention. He told be suggested investigation," he| Mr. McConachie he had been con. Joted. tent to leave the question of his He suid he postponed his dead-| permission to go, received fro 1¢ to council until the request sard, "To. Mr. Isard's descr "8 dealt with, and made no for- | tio Mr. Schrieber asked the 02! application to the attorney | chief" on re-examination if there Fueral until council refused the|had been a strike in Hamilton at dues. the same time. The chief said Mr. Schrieber drew attention to there was. "Was the chief of the P'cstigations of an alleged hand- | Hamilton police at ine {conven # he chief said he had sec | tion?" Mr. Schrieber ask search warrant from Mr.| "I can answer that,' ee Judge oly vefore arresting Arthur | said. "He was." lis, whom he suspected of op-| Referring fo the post office, "lig a hook on the main | Mr. McConachie asked the chief Yo one knew 'of ithe move, | if he didn't think the Post Office b sud. He then spotted Jenks, | officials would need any local as: prved him for a few minutes | sistance. "No. I asked them. They 0 saw a small boy hand him a | sald there was, we will con- Wien he took Jinks to the | tact y oh he said Jinks threw "¥ 4 piece of paper. = "15 Minute walk Cross-examining on _the Staist- CHARGE DISMISSED mas eve happening, Mr. br 1% it up, 1 found the |achie asked if the chief Se §.'. Zet rid of all the slips| Walk from his house in ten min- fi "7c on you! Con. Evershed | utes. "It would take me 14 or 15 {| found gaming slips and ab-| minutes," the chief sil. Mr) Mo- #100 on Jinks person, he| Conachie asked if he had yblun- bt charges laid against teered to come down oe Delp. fio ©"¢ dismissed in court," he ["I couldn't understand what--was going on. He hung 'up on me 'felt there had been | twice," the chief said, admitting ton" in this instance. He |he had not. Tony Snferred with Inspec-| Asked if he couldn't get the de- bug ison of the O.P.P, who | vice out more often, he stated that ited other handbook inves: | holidays, winter weather and lack ui" (0% Of which he sald | of staff made it difficult. "I would 4 In a conviction against|if I could," he said. He admitted Jolinso the device had been used only admitted to D. A. McCon-| three times this year, in April i counsel for Mr. Black,|"Then I went on my holidays, and had not laid any charges | was ordered to take another 'ction as a result of the| week's sick leave, So there vere not men enough available to get ug to thie release of Mr, | it out Mr. McConachie asked| Mr. McConachie asked if for- 10t been reported to| mer deputy-reeve Hunter was mot in fact the person who had sug- gested traffic lights and parking not Asked if it| meters. The chief stated he might feet. onstable Hooks' first| have discussed these with Mr. tinge) © chief was not sure.| Hunter but that he had recom- Suggested that it was | mended them in his police reports. bie saig Btruction ted hi 0 cas; Objection to Oakville separat P. S. DEBENTURE ASSESSMENT DRAWS SS. BOARD'S FIRE school taxpayers being assessed for public school debentures this year was voiced at the regular June meeting of the Separate School Board held in St. Mary's school auditorium. "No doubt it was an oversight, but just the same it is Irritating -- especially since this year it just happens that the separate school mill rate is actually less than iba, of the public school Support- er,' it was pointed out by McDermott, chairman of he board, It was suggested that the average taxpayer would not motice the over assessment and by unan- imous decision, F. J. Cornin, sec- retary-treasurer, was instructed to write the Oakville authorities and ask that revised tax notices be sent to all separate school sup- porters, with the public school debenture charges deleted. The difference this year be- tween the public and separate school rates amounts to 1.92 mills, the latter being lower. Of this, 1.79 mills is the amount shown on the tax notices as the amount due for public school debentures. Other business at the separate school board meeting included ratification of the appointment of two new teachers for the new year starting next September. Miss Norinne Levesque of May- nooth, Ont, was appointed p cipal, while Miss Inez MacDoug- all of Kirkland Lake was con- firmed as teacher of the junior room. Santa In Summer With Christmas nearly six months away, the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce have already started laying plans for a San- ta Claus parade, which accord- ing to Secretary Pete Watters, will be the biggest and best of its kind ever held in Oakville. jie project wasidscided upon a meeting of the chamber fast Thursday evening, and committees "have already been set up. From now until Decem- ber they will be busy arranging the thousand-and-one details that go to make for a success ful pageant, and this year's Santa Claus parade should be something well worth seeing. BIKE HITS BIG BUMP, LOCAL YOUTH HURT 'Thrown from his motorcycle when it struck a bump at the side of the road, 16-year-old George Duncan of Water Street suffered lacerations and slight concussion. The aecident occur- red at 11.30 Sunday evening, on the Second line a short distance south of Palermo, while the youth was. ing home. His companion George Fraser, of Normandy Drive, who was riding on the pil- lion seat, escaped injury. Duncan was taken to his home by provin- cial police, and given treatment by Dr. F. N. Sparling. references to the chief's ability were among those who expressed petence in carrying out his duties. LENGTHY CROSS EXAMINATION MANY WITNESSES, SEND DERRY HEARING INTO THIRD DAY Charges of inefficiency, levelled at Chief John B. Derry's police. administration by mayor J. R. Black, reeve Howard Litchfield and councillor Lachlan McArthur, were countered by highly laudatory as the attorney general's Inquiry wound through long Monday and Tuesday sessions before Judge Macdonell. Ex-councillors Jack Isard and. Robert Freeman and coun- cillor Ross Gibson, police committee chairmen during 1949-50-51, confidence in Chief Derry's com- Council All On call Counsel for the commission was Nelles Starr, of Toronto, while Henry Schrieber, Hamilton, represented Chief Derry and D. A. Mc- Conachie, Oakville, appeared for Messrs Black, Litchfield and Mec- Arthur. More than 20 witnesses were subpoenaed, including all mem- journed to Wednesday morning. bers of council. With Chief Derry still on the stand, the hearing ad- Introduce News Stories Nelles Stark, commission coun- sel, opened the hearing by intro- ducing as exhibits, excerpts from newspaper stories dealing with meetings of town council at which the Attorney General's charge to the commission stated, 'certain members of council . . . mad charges as to the efficiency of the administration of police af- fairs." Mr. Stark called Wilder Breck- enridge, of the Record Star; Bill Cotton of the Journal, and Irven Fell of the Toronto Telegram, to the stand to swear to the authen- ticity of the excerpts submitted. Dealt With Complaints The stories dealt with meetings of council held March 23, 1950, and April 5, 1951. At the former meeting, each reporter testififed in turn, reeve Howard Litchfield had told council Chief Derry had taken the police cruiser to Bur- lington the previous week, and that the reeve had been informed at the police office that the trip (Continued on Page 4) Hundreds See Gardens Sight-seers by the hundreds from near and far, including a large number from Toronto, en- joyed the beauty of some of Oak- ville district's loveliest' gardens when Oakville-Trafalgar Memor- ial Hospital Auxiliary held its garden tour. Unfortunately the attendance was cut by Friday's heavy rain. Gross receipts, how- ever, reached a total of $2,140. The gardens, beautifully groom- ed for the occasion, drew excla- mations of rapture from the many visitors. Gardens visited were those of Mr. and Mrs. Ryland H. New, J. E. Hammell, Harry Ww. Grierson, Dr. H. C. Scadding, Hon. Ray Lawson, Frank Pullen and T. R. Jarvis. Afternoon tea, ser- yed each day at the Hammell es- tate, was well patronized. Due to Friday's bad weather, the tour was extended to Sunday. Proceeds will be used fo pur- chase electrically heated food tray wagons for the hospital. HANK, JOE EXPECT TERRIFIC CLEVELAND ALL-STAR GAME, PHILLIES COMING IN AUGUST When Hank Goudy and Joe|be on hand for the school, could Vosmick, dean and top professor | not make the trip. Goudy and the of the Cleveland Indians baseball [ younger Vosmick, who led Amer- school, called the class to order [ican loop hitters at Wallace park Monday morning, | with Cleveland not too long ago, they counted more than 100 kids| were all the busier due to his ab- of all shapes and sizes who were | sence. After two days of funda- ready and eager to absorb diamond | mentals for one and all; youngs- knowledge. The youngsters rane-| ters over 16 took over the spot- ed from 10 to 22, but they might| light Wednesday have been all of an age, judging | They came from all over the Tor- from the way they went through | onto-Hamilton area, even brought one kid pitcher all from Prescott for a their paces. As the school continued on | the way Tuesday, Goudy and Vosmick be-|jook-see. came even more enthusiastic. "Hank is high on young Ian (for Oakville's Sheppard, your bantam hurler | tomorrow, and they're making the Who fanned 17 out of 21 Acton|most of it. Some of them even batters last Saturday," confided | played hookey from school to get Clare Hoose, ex-Toronto Osler | on the basepaths, 'and the Cleve star who is Indlan's chief scout|land organization in Canada. "Joe likes Ken POl-|gratulated on the manner in which lock, your smart young intermed-| they are helping the kids along-- jate shortstop. We've seen a lot|even while trying to help them- of kids who are worth watching, | selves as they seek to snatch a and we'll keep an eye on them." | possible future Indian regular. And this local major league at stop there. Don Monday night Town fans can keep an eye on the cream of the school's crop | tention doesn't Thursday night, when a Dair of Davis announced while playing and, Thursday. a terrific break diamond stars of is to be con- allstar teams will battle it Out | pynoqeiinia Phillies at Wallace park. The kids will be giving their best in an effort to to the Oakville Baseball assn.s minor loop program. Tris Speaker, famed outfielder | Presently making of yesteryear who was slated to! for the show. term their to hold a similar school here on ensure future attention from the| August 15, 16 and 17. Dale Jones, big leaguers, and the gate 20es| who supervises what the Phillies baseball clinics, arrangements HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS Promoted to Grade 10 with Hon. Ancevich, Sunny; Armstrong, Chris; Bayly, Peter; Blake, Hea- H S GIRLS HI I P ther; Campbell, Peter; Chilas, | L1aD. Gary; * Clifton, Duncan; Dyer, Peter; Fell, Margaret; Fraser, pot, ey on AT HOSPITAL ood; Hodgins, Bernice; Hotson, Tish; Howden, Gordon; Hunt, Eileen; Inkster, Eleanor; MecDuf- fee, Clayton; Micks, Lorna; Nairn, | Trafalgar High School, David; Near, Laverne; Norfolk, |by the Betty; Post, Mary, Rimstead,|being given a chance to sample Mary; Robertson, Carol; Rowe, | the life. The girls, Judy Merry, i Patience Thomson; David; Tuck. - Bever: | Lan aa Yin Mn now engaged months ville-Trafalgar got; Allan, Paul; Anderson, Lloyd; | al. they Elaine; Ryan, Doris; Scade, My: na; Schachtele, Pat; Small, Ji ley; Vestergaard, Edith; White, Peter; Williamson, Joan. Promoted to Grade 10 Adamson, Joyce; Ahern, Mar- Beedle, Beverley; Bovair, Muriel; Broadbent, Ted; Burns, Anna; Burrell, ler, Ernie; Castle, Chapman, Mary; Collier, Alfred: Cornell, Penny Crawford, Judith; Joan; Dorion, Yvonne; David; Dowdle, Shirley; Ross; _Hvans, Robert; John; Faryniuck, Veronica; Fish, Kenneth; ~ Ritzsimmons, Robert; Forth, Elizabeth; Gage, William; Gillies, Charles; Goudie, Peter: Grant, Jean; Green, Kay; Helen; Hawtin, Joan; Hazzard, Pajiricla; Heilig, Kenneth; June; Honeywell, Kay; Trighos, willie; | PREPARE FOR RED Jacques, Norma; Jaffray, Janice; factory," Dobrashian, | Lillian Dowdle, | Journal. training later Hall, | to them sufficiently. girl students of Oakyille- attracted nursing profession, Sharon. Armstrong, for the summer as nurses' aids af Oak- ot Hospit- the regular members of the nursing staff with the ser- ving of patients' meals and other. simple duties. "They are proving very Acting Superintendent. informed "The arrangement af- Dryden, | fords relief to the regular nurs- Eves, | es. The hospital is very busy just now." into regular if the work appeals Jokipii, Helv; Jensen; John; CROSS SWIM CLASSES Jones, Ronnie; Kelsall, Marlene; King, Elizabeth; Kotulak, Edward; Lockett, Rose; Lush, Marion; | Classes Mackay, Howard; McMann, Ruby; | 22d District Mereweather, Shirley; Mickle, | Start Monday, July 9, at Dan wil: Muriel; Mordaunt, Bob; Morris, | SON'S beach, Agnes; Mukai, Florence; Munro, | lstructors John; Murphy, Colleen; O'Brien, Pauling; Okumura, Mitsura; Par. | Crompton, kin, Valerie; Pickard, Anne; | Will take place at the beach July Pickering, Berniece; Pidgeon, [9. A schedule of classes and bus- William; Pope, Mary;, Proud, |es to the beach will be published next week. (Contiued on Page 8) The swimming and water safety by Oakville Red . Cross Society, west of Oakville. will 'be Miss Anne Registration KIDDIES PARADE AGAIN MAJOR LIONS CARNIVAL FEATURE A gala kiddies parade that, for| minlature, sheer color and originality, will| most original top even the excellent Lions car-|be on display in the Ross Stores nival efforts of the past, was|window next week And in addit- forecast this week by Lion Fred | fon, each Taylor. The parade is a matinee | will receive feature of the service clubs an-| ticket and a popsicle, The parade gets under way at a afternoon at We have classes, stressing | George's Square, moving to Cen- originality in decoration, for bi-| tral school grounds, fhe carnival cycles, tricycles, wagons and doll| site, via Reynolds a f carriages," he stated. "And this | st, Co year, we have a speclal competi-| route, tion for dual entrles--kiddies who | youngster must be want to deck themselves and the | ade right from the start, It looks like a big day for you, kids, so lustrate characters in a story or you'd better get busy on. those en. nursery rhyme. We'll have the| tries right away. nual three-day bazaar, which takes place July 5, 6 and 7 small vehicles out alike, or to il- town band and the Legion Pipe band, as well as several floats that are being arranged by local firms. Interest in the event has been very gratifying." In the classes for bikes, trikes, wagons and carriages, with a big was later the living special prize in the dual entry | Elizabeth Way class. Top prize of all, the 14-inch | F2lermo, goes annually to the entry. Prizes will youngster who enters a matinee theatre take place en and to be eligible, each in the par- Mrs. Shiela Hough was treated at the hospital Sunday night for There'll be three prizes each |Z Bunshot wound in her arm, and discharged from hog- pital. Mrs. Hough was dusting in room of her Queen residence, police stated, when a Lion silver trophy with matching | aiachirgeq > m0 8 accidentally =