12, 19 Hg ne tone Dakville rafalgar Journal Entered, 2nd. Class Mall, Ottawa Thursday, July 19, 1951 20 Pages 5 cents a copy, $2.00 per year In advance ol. 4, No. 34 ind Derry Charges "Not Justified" EGION NEXT IN CARNIVAL PROGRAM Central School | grounds will bc agaln take on a festive ap- arance, when Oakville Legion bids its annual carnival tomor- fd saturday | evenings. A is wheel, and a varlety of fics will provide lots of fun for bo voungsters, and there will be | kinds of games of skill and ck with lots of prizes. 'These mes will be operated by mem- bs of the local Legion, and not outsiders. Twice each eye- fue, at 7.30 and 9.30, the Legion pe Band, conducted by Pipe- jor W. Robertson, will par- be to the grounds 'along Colborne eet, to give programs of stir- ng pipe music. YOUNG CREW SETS OUT ON TRIAL CRUISE A giant bingo game promises b be one of the main centres of raction, as in past years. Then bee's a big draw, to be made by fic Ridler, popular sightless eran of the first great war, turday night. First prize will a $300 Dominion Government bu, with four other prizes of i bonds. There will also be 5s for ladies and men's wrist- ches, and a special draw for is and girls under sixteen, for hich the prize is a boy's or I's bicycle. All proceeds of the fnival go towards the Legion's et and welfare work SAILING RUBIN Some 30 to 40 enthusiastic youngsters, ranging in age from 8 to 16 years, have attended the Oakville Yacht Squadron's first three Saturday morning classes for junior sailors. And according to instructor Larry Cond, they are taking to the sport with a zest that should pave the way to some pretty fair junior competi- tion in the not too distant future. Along with Mr. and Mrs. Don Bath, Mr. Cond was instrumental in introducing the classes, which are designed to teach the kids the Tudiments: of speedy but safe AMING HAY MENACES RM HOME, BARNS hought to have been ignited a 5-year-old boy playing with: ches, a stubbora blaze Suny bh 0 No, § Highaay. Pires Bb from Trafalgar's two brigades ll = Cooksville unit battled the ines for four hours before sav- 8 the Bell home and two barns. the Journal last night. "We wel- come any youngsters who want to learn to handle a boat, but we ask parents to assure themselves that the kids have life preser- vers or are competent swim- mers." Classes, held men concentrated on the flings from the outset, but only ample water supply and ab- fice of wind brought success to efforts, Fire Chief George the second and fourth Saturday morning of each summer month, have attracted fle stated. Chief Freeman Bray | pov" ang girls on a 50-50 basis, fried "wet water," a new|ny ond reported. So far, the ical of a penetrating type | youngsters are getting strictly lt used for the first time by | fundamentals, and it will be that f Droute brigade, proved very | way for a while yet. On Saturday Eoiive. afternoon, however, the squadron Pleased 'With Verdict GLIDES 2 normal GLIDE 18 reduced at extra ] em pleased to learn that the report is favorable," Chief Derry Mournal reporter 'Wednesday morning, when apprised of the Eioner's findings. "I have not received a copy as yet, and un- © read it, that's about all | can say." SKIPPERS OF FUTURE GET ENTS DURING SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS plans a serles of three races in which the juniors will have an opportunity to serve as crew members, thus gaining experience in actual competition. There'll be about 15 craft racing, so every kid who turns up at the club- house before 2 o'clock should get into at least one race. "And be- fore too long, we hope to have races in which juniors will skip- per as well as crew our Snipes," declared Mr. Cond. Last Saturday, through. the. co- operation of -Scontmaster 'Dean 'Wilkes, swo' Sea-Scout boats "ara rue SCOUTS and the Sea. Rangers, of course, are among Mr. Cond's most diligent proteges. "It looks very promising for the future of the squadron," he concluded. BRAVES QUIT Oakville's footballing Braves will not take to the gridiron war- path this autumn, Johnny Black ruefully revealed Tuesday after- noon. "The O.R.F.U. has already formed two six-team leagues, which freezes us out completely," Johnny explained. "I told them we might be a little tardy in getting our entry in but that we'd cer- tainly have a team. It seems they just couldn't wait." Johnny, who had been doing a bit of quiet campaigning from his room at the Memorial hos- pital, had hoped to bolster the club's executive this fall with a batch of willing, non-playing foot- ball enthusiasts. He had figured the team would be stronger, that this' would be a good year. So he is naturally a bit miffed at this unexpected turn of events. "It's a heck of a note," he de- clared. "The league was glad to have us when we started three years ago, as we rounded out a group nicely for them. Now the recreation commission has a lot of money tied up in equipment, and we have no place to use it." The former Braye star, whose playing career was ended by an unfortunate, one-in-a-million mis- hap in a game against Oshawa, hasn't completely given up on intermediate rugby here, how- ever. He's hoping high school rugby will develop future inter- mediate players, and he's even plugging for touch rugby, with- out bodily contact, for the public schools. "Teach the kids the rudiments of the game before they get in- to high school, and we'll have good material for high school squads," he maintains. "We won't have a team this year, but if Al Nicholls can keep developing players at the school, we could get back in the fray before too many Octobers go by." John is particularly anxious to sell the touch rugby idea to the public school staffs, already has a couple of lads lined up who would be willing to help intro- duce the game. He would even roll his chair down to the school Saturday mornings to.lend a coaching hand. So you can bet he'll be pushing hard to put nis idea across. ; with tiny ; i ove, explains the Larry Cond, with tiny son Tony watching every move, ee , up the mainsail to a youthful class of future Salle Sy it be sailorettes? Seated is Katherine Jaffray, 11, while working on the sheet a Kay Honeywell, 15, Margaret Ahern, 14, and Carol Robertson, 14. Journal Photo by Jerry Peers TOWNS FIRST TRAFFIC LIGHT ENOTFALEED Oakville's lights, at the first traffic stop- Colborne Dundas intersection, went into operation Monday, and are working quite satisfactory. Installed last week, they required some adjusting before they functioned according to traffic requirements. The signal apparatus, cost ap- proximately one thousand dollars, Ross Gibson, chairman of the town council's police committee, informed the Journal. An electri- cally operated signal, of the type in use in most large com- munities, is located on each of the four corners of the intersec- tion. It has the regulation three lights, red, amber and green. The green lights for Colborne Street. traffic remain on for 35 seconds each time. The duration for Dun- das street, where traffic is not nearly so heavy, is 16 seconds. "This signal is making a big improvement in traffic condit- ions on Colborne Street," said Mr. Gibson. "We wanted to install signals at the Wilson Street and Navy Street intersections, but council would only allow us one set. However, we are going to install "flasher" lights at Wwii- son and Colborne Streets, Bond and Head Streets, outside Ortona Barracks, and Cross and Dundas Streets, and we are moving the light formerly at Cross Ave. to Colborne: and Watson Ave. This should help in controlling traf- fic." Motorists are rapidly adjusting their driving habits to the new traffic lights, "A few go through the red light," said Constable Albert Evershed of the town police force. "We're giving peo- ple a few days to get used to it." Reeve Down, 7 Up? It was, of course, pure coin- cidence. During a lull in Monday afternoon's session of Trafal- gar Township council Reeve Joseph Wickson took: several hearty pulls from a bottle. A moment later there was a clat- ter, and the reeve fell from his chair, "landing heavily on the floor. "I wonder what was In that bottle" commented Tele- gram correspondent Irven Fell, amid the ensuing laughter. It was Mr. Fell who had stood the drinks for members of the coun- cil and the press--soft drinks, JUDGE DESCRIBES DERRY AS "EFFICIENT, INDUSTRIOUS," URGES POLICE Chief John B. Derry is officer, and the general charges of inefficiency against his fied," Judge Ian M. Macdon- s investigation with regard to administration were not justi ell found in his report on hi GUMMISSION "an efficient and industrious the Oakville police force. The report was released to the press at 11 a.m. Wednesday on instructions of Attorney General Dana Porter. Library Closing Oakville's public library will be closed during the entire month of August, it has been announced by Mrs. Elspeth Young, librarian. Borrowers will be permitted to borrow six books on each card before the library closes at 9 p.m., Tues- day, July 3t. SKATERS ATTRACT BIG AUDIENCE 'TO ARENA Youthful figure skaters dis- played their artistry before an admiring audience of about five hundred people at the Community rena Sunday evening, in the first of a series of skating exhi- bitions to be held every Sunday evening until the end of August. The performers were pupils: of Marcus Nikkanen and Miss Mary Jane Halsted, who are conduct ing a summer figure skating school at the arena. A silver collection vielded $46.67, which will go to- wards the Avena building fund. No Breach of Regs. "In the first place, it is clear that the evidence does mot es- tablish any offence in breach of regulations 1 (f) (i) and (iii) of the Ontario Police Regulations." The "findings" section of the 23- page report declared. "Similarly, no breach of the Bylaw setting out the duties of the Chief was proved, except perhaps the furn- ishing of the credit reports, which was immediately stopped upon complaint. Nor was there any breach of the provisions of the Police, Act' with regard to the duties of the Chief Constable. There is nothing to disparage the probity, moral character or ability of the Chief or his record in the community." _ Not In Bad Faith Judge Macdonnell, on the other hand, §xpressed the opinion Mayor J. R. Black and Reeve Litchfield believed their criticism of the chief to be justified. "I do mot think I should find that they (the charges) were made fn bad faith, as has been (Continued on Page Four) De oe oom ie i] emi a Bel STORRIE TO WORK WITH FORD ON SERVICES -- IF AND WHEN William Storrie of the Toronto tim of Gore and Storrie, consult- Ing engineers for Trafalgar Township, was appointed by cous- cil at Monday's meeting to act as liaison with the engineering rep- resentative of the Ford Motor Company of Canada in matters pertaining to construction of wat- er mains and seyers, should the firm decide to proceed with building program on the property on which it holds options. General consensus of council members was that the Ford com- pany was contemplating a big development of the property, "I think the Ford Company fs fry- ing to get away from the Windsor area, where there has been so much labor trouble," said Reeve Joseph Wickson. Mr. Storrie was of the opinion that the firm planned to organ- ize an assembly centre as well as of course! a distributing centre in Trafal- gar. It was felt by council that if the company went ahead with Its plans its requirements for water and sewer services would be tremendous, and that ceroperation between the firm and council would be essential, The tender of the Halton Pay- ing and Gonstruction was accepted for construction of water-mains on Sprucelea Drive and Cummock Cres., off the Mor. rison Road, at a cost of $1740.50 Councillor R. C. A. Cumberland sounded a note of warning re- garding over-expenditure for water mains in new housing sub- divisions. He stated he had re- cently attended a planning con- ference of several Toronto sub- urban municipalities at Cooks ville, and arrangements had been made to get out a questionnaire regarding the demands of sub- diyiders. This questionnaire would (Continued on Page 8) Company ~