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. 20 New Members i Join Westmount «â€" Property Owners ~ Larger Than Leaf Gardens . Christmas Mail Heaviest Everâ€" ‘ Wrong Addresses Staff Headache § h and if it hadn‘t. been for _ * the haid work of the post office $ E ”"1‘m'|‘v' ton mt is eston, a ¢ nog:o ‘:nuld not have mn / . . ""When . people don‘t their mail properly, there x little we can do except send to the dead letter office, @auses extra work, gnd a lot of ie is wasted with sorting etc.," ¢ 9A M w# I x $ Wm? t Propérty © Owners ghdd their monthly meeting on ««Thursday, December; 26.. Twenty ;;m members were mélu.}cl:g, nm!i ‘amote: w z on 0% !.m:r&! 1 ,(_'T.':fll' take place at "Weston Rink ts Larger Than "\events, *> With a show proposed the : whole 1â€" : yard will‘ be utilized,‘ an "area 150 feet by 100 feet. |.â€" <Five mqo:'fflunh;vq been listâ€" Q.a for the raffle draw, to include ‘a Crosley radio, a Moffat Handiâ€" : Chef, a set of CCM matched skates q "bootl, record player and a $ a wal Prizes: will :also. be £ for the lucky gate draw, cos* address, and on some JA '::‘:Il. Thml: were gen * ied Tetrer _ officy Dt , and if it had ‘_“ haid wo.r‘k‘ of the 0 7 &‘cvlr flg meph in We . many more would no &vud. "When ; p ho dress mfl‘n‘dr mail pdn < r ie we can do g“el to the dead wauses extra work, time is wasted with & said Mr. Savage, V This rgd:â€":giâ€"hl been conâ€" strieted by. the:Weston Community Council is mainly for the younger folks of Weston. It is pointed out ‘that the? ::'ll :;n;: bonc(i:er 13 years of, on this cushion, It ,y{n{n the géme ieeof %qhm in the., Midget H. the Senior ‘A‘ Group as 27 tig Apiicisan Povese. These 5:3'“ wfl!)‘i&lsm, !orw}na ‘aVLer up every.. ghy. ednesday and En:‘lfl at 4 &m. The former goup play‘ their games on turdav mo.ning and from 1.30 to 2.30 on Sa y con, On. Tu Thursday at ‘a".‘i'h';‘“" I1 gi 7 l«’i'f'"iml 8 t & irls and for. boys in the lfiv& age %r-cket. There will also be general skating every Saturday afternoon for the above TIt is hoped to have adult general skating in the everling and as soon ms dressing roonis are â€"available there will be a P.A, system for supplying music. f ugh around December 14,| Another point that added to the fiz‘lm‘ off:about Saturday, m}u’y of Fhe employees, was the y 28. ;| dropping _ of letters and li‘cmls in d Bfl'%n.lll was not a bed of | the outside mail boxes. ving the roses, year like every Other this process is all right, but at year, people lfit-m&z" mail %-tm- it is another story enâ€" wrongâ€"insufficient ‘”Cl"- wrong | tirely. a’hen letters and parcels maddress, and on some enve yn no| are put through the outside boxes, address at all. Thousands eards| they drop into a large conainer ts evanae t i iesns en «dead â€" ' in fact, in every pogt‘ou a letter _dre and if khndn\b!l“(‘o! edald . possibly get into. . Letters ‘the haid work of the post office|frm this conainer_have to be _emplo vanud v ifamiliarity | sorted and facedâ€"up@@placed so all _with the people in m.lm s and stamps are facing many more would not have uyward). /Thisâ€"also takes time. deli "When . people don‘t| " approximately â€"twenty 3 mm:‘slal:j”"fl,' there | min hu ft? .onto li_000 bus‘n, .::‘ o except send | another fifteen ace up the e _ them bac :fit:.-uork. mnl ofl\eom A gfionm’?u," said fl(r.‘ Savage. B w and a of the course of a day, anyâ€" 1 wasted with sorting ?t-," one can see there is a lot of time said Mr. Savage Weston Post| wasted unnecessarily. All parcels ‘Maste th fi% 1 and letters should have been handâ€" of fast, ‘there are a 104 in at the wicket, for this does aval have not with the extra work, and ~of, and if nail is not u...ulmcmumsunh e PS * ¢ leliver« | more cheerful. * x _ on iess APhe boyb:‘:l:«‘»Wm trongl importance _ t oo nc o ie c meraenly wl | i sns 7 on onronts gocuroly, starting at 2 Post Office officials for years have turged‘ Canadians to mail Christmas cards.and gifts “flviâ€" iofldl:u ”thn: .“illâ€"b“tt.d is year shows that people acted on The advice. s W "Collegiate " with "t : ulm-?lto‘:ale as quemw her t of honor over. the r, complete with,attendâ€" c u:x": ladies inq\‘vlait- F «Anv re @ een e one of the highlights of the udn m atnction t t show on ice, and ‘iee et, the show will also "l\o heaviest Christmas mail in w was dolinmi: otn‘ um‘e‘,‘ "ifi 0 , minute rushes Aortesd ‘thik" "The fai suaried to around December 14, :3' wm:l_fl_gl off:about Saturday, Westonâ€"can boast of a skating a than Mfi Leaf Garâ€" 8. is situated ‘on the fo of ‘the ~ Central nited Church. The rink is 10 feet "zg Headlining the acts be wthe star of the ‘Toronto next meeting, which will be events, and special, skating eontest of Carnival Queen canducted;among the. girls Collegiate, the carnival $ ho Wation‘s biegent Aor Tooae mok ue 4 RSP , the like 'on!l'hlell" d aaten Collegiate st Show On lce for the latter of ‘th e Â¥ M cm’nc':z&;‘- PAE -v;;.‘ $75,000 School o Be Erected in Thistletown Some 16,500 Calls Handled By Weston Operators On Dec. 24 Hum approximately $75,000, he said. It wll?fl”be so constructed that addiâ€" tions can be enefly npde lncmdifi attendance â€" begam~ to overcrowd the three existing schools in the section. One of the schools is housed 51 the > tion branch, Legion hall, on & renâ€" tal basis, When theâ€"new building i gmick pmtois n vert one of, hools into a privâ€" ate ‘n?amf "and "sen it. senior school, long ‘@a landmark in the district, will be demolished. phries, EODEAeR s s 2 C T year, was returned by acclamation for another term, A vote of thanks was tendered the trustees for their efforts regarding the new school. Other trustees are Percy Barker and . Mrs, Gordon Shaw,Joshua Lodge was reâ€"elected trustee on the community hall board,"a subâ€"comâ€" mittee of the school board. Police W. M. Ransberry New Trustee of. Etobicoke School There will be a meeting of in ~Aoane minton Club }or th_.'hto_g The Public School m'pfiomn of School Section No. 5, Etobicoke, held their annual school meeting in Humber _ Heights _ Consolidated School, December 26. The chairâ€" man, Mr. A. Patience, reported the purcinu of additional . property with a view to future expansion of the ‘ school building. Atflflmmt the . nine rooms . are ed. to capacity. Mr, W. M. Ran.sberrÂ¥. was elected as new trustee for the ‘boud, replacing Mr, James Moffat who is retiring. Other members of the board are: _ Mr.. Andrew Patience, chairman; . Mr.~ Hetb Niepage, viceâ€"chairman; Mr. C. A. P‘hlfiipc and Mr, Arnold Pitt. be held . in the office of the Director. of Recreation at 7.30 * There are three nights each \ week available: for m Monday, Tuesday and day and also Saturday afterâ€" noon. + Anyone who is in ted is welcome to the ting: on Monday at 7.30 p.m. . the Library t Twenty extha _A ployed this year, unskilled, and | re had to assist then the tasks. All thi faster, and dyery one will be sure of getting thgir mail."‘ 'fiunty ex pers were emâ€" ployed this year, but they were unskilled, and re r employees had to assist then( in a number of the tasks. All this\takes time, and with the added problem of du:{dins "who lives where" etc., the stat were, to put it mildly, "tearing thelk hair out." . ... .o aw, Louls Decision BADMINTON MEETING Trustee George Humâ€" seb Wc Order of Forgsters, James Hudson, oc aline sesldente, 60 BC Johw‘s James Hudson, 83, Of Weston, Passes to moving foâ€" worked as a/pal he ‘had j Acton. AJ foi Elizabet ter, Els Arthur, in Ohio Christopher â€" an g?, his 84th itE e d. Hudâ€" son came to country 84 years ago, sett in Toronto. Previous to moving Weston, where he worked as a ter and decorator, he ‘had in Kitchener and are ~his wife, the foi ‘Elizabeth ‘Tomalin Penney; ter, Elsie, at home; a son, Arthur, in Ohio; and two stepsons, Christooherâ€" andâ€" Leonard Penney. ; I!yout%.‘yv:‘vqnbmythe day before ( as, take a look at the record of some 16,500 calls, #nd that‘s thoosing the minimum mt poater. phone ng the 24 hours preeodin,:"gfl.tmu day. Of those calls, some 15,000 oriâ€" ;flmbed in ‘Weston while incoming long distance calls were approxiâ€" mated at 1,500, and of the 15,000," ‘about 3000 were toll calls to Torâ€" onto, New Foronto, Long Branch and all those districts covered by the locals branch. for which the operator is required to make out a ticket. ~On each ticket the operaâ€" tor is. required to the cusâ€" tomers vtofi'hom wmnum- ber being called, where the call is going, the time of the call and the time the eall ends. Over that 24 hour rriod some 28 persons were on duty at the office with only ten operating on the board at m From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on iber 24, the calls averaged some 1000 an hour. .. On. g day some 11,000 ng éalls were recorded and approximately 2800 tickets made New Years Ere Yet To Come... ... ~And we‘re now building up to our West New Years rush which is almost as heavy as thM of Christmas," Miss C. Glass, chief operator, exâ€" plained. . . S If you plan on making aâ€"call at midnight toâ€"night then you‘d better get your order in early for you‘ll be just one of about 200 others who have the same idea according ‘j;o last year‘s figures. Some 600 persons made calls beâ€" tween midmght and 6 a.m. last January 1 and the total is expected to be even heavier this year. Miss D. Burns opened her home for the Christmas meeting of Weston Sanatorium Club when 862 gifts including cards and stamps, apples, candy, games, books, toilet articles and woolies were wrapped for the children: in Queen Mary Hospital: and the Davies Cottage. An allocation of $50.00 was voted for the shoe fund. Miss D. Burns Is Hostess To Cluh JOW OFFICIAL CHARTER TIT A splendid programme of songs and recitg%iions by Mrs. W. Pybus and Mrs. H. Nagle was arranged by Mrs. W. C©Duncan after which refreshmerits. were served t;; the hostess assisted by Mrs W; C. Maitland and Mrs,°B. Darkington. Exposure Blamed In Woman‘s Death Dr. I. H. Erb, who performed an autopsg on the body of Miss Marâ€" g.nret unting who was found dead the snow in North York, last week, has announced that death was &ue to exposure. â€" Miss BMm 46â€"yearâ€"old Chapâ€" lin crescent maid, was found frozen lin crescent maid, was found frozen stiff under a culvert by.two boys, Eot:hn ll(aCnba' le and Gng-m Porter; Policesaid. there were no indiâ€" cations of foul play, She had been in illâ€"health. & An inquest will be héld, and inâ€" tion is: being ‘conducted by Det. George Wilson _ and easman Lorne Norwood, North York Police. ADULT SOCIAL RECREATION If you are 20 years of age or_over and\wish an evening of fun and Jaughter, here is what the doctor orders, an Adult Social Recreation night at the Memorial School Audi~ torium on Tuesday Jan. 7th, at 8.00 p.m. flnt‘rrrolthcmng- the direction of E. O. Jones the close "'o'l"c'ii"]&.m’ Gikigs > : It all ke a ra‘l evening =.:t you _will re« member a long time. Come out t Mrs. Laura Calvert is Qo'in&llome Many Will Miss ‘Mother of Weston‘ KMRS. LAURA CALVERT _ Mre Laure: Calâ€" 9y Gonations, concerts, drawsâ€"and NC LRC, OMBRIIET NS ARTHe AAAOTOC Some 13: overseas o?miufiom were the recipients of the foregoâ€" ing, as well as 96 individuals who acted as distributors to bombed out k4:\nldun and hospitals in various parts w::. Letters From All Over World + ~Hundreds of letters of ucknow‘ledfmcnt from all over the world have been received by Mrs. Calvert, includ ng‘gzou from the Lord Mayor of Norwich,‘ Alderman S. A. Bailey, the y in Waiting to her M:i'esty the Queen, Lady Seymour, and Mrs. Elen‘or Roogevelt, widow the President of the United States, Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt. _ . | _ , Palace, London. _ I¢: ;i‘a':fv&udhn chatrities, she organized draws in aid of the War Victims Fund of the Toronto Dailyâ€"Star and the Evening Telegram, and in aid &f’hd@éi&li‘i‘n&-’c’in&afi;h charitable organizations of all types. _ Mrs. Calvert also filled ditty bags for the Canadian Navy in conniecâ€" tion with the Navy League of Canada and organized the Children‘s Club in Weston whichv&,upgwhed boxes overseas under her direction. _ . indefinite. _ Bii;ybfi may be sure that many will hope for her quick Teturn, and will forget the little grayâ€"haired lady, so aptly termed, "The Mother of Weston." The Weston Lions Club will hold a special musicale, on Monday, Famou.g Artists To Feature Weston Lions Club Concert 'ble’he h;“ul“'th of h:“ Weston veterans fee ve & â€" mate _ "beef" o.v’-r a flm whereby a number of \moeenw on th “'k?.".‘;‘ C mbein Mmd on eUr re o with sewers while fi-&tflmm where they have resided for m number of months, must depend on what has been termed "a pootly constructed septic tank." Mrs. Y. J. Harrison living ‘at 80 Lipincott St. W., and Mrs. A. Deâ€" ie sepue fanks. may aro "oaimg are are overflowing into their fim No Sewers To ‘"Vets" Homes While Empty Houses Connected fi.‘t.viilbdrhw:uem im e pro Tol. &;’:.',&."‘ street unocbupied a RONALD STEWART "wEst * Mrs, Calvert‘s own picture now hangs in the halls of Buckingham "eston which deanwhed boxes overseas under her direction. And now Mrs. Calvert.is going home. Her visit, she states, will be To appear in Weston. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1947 all ® / _ * Humber Haxksu _ Mt. Dennis * tan s > 4 E ;Zl‘?'g"m h that when A he to |tion for sewers this fall th:’:!: he | cations had been closed ‘.;E' g.| "It was . & ru:f- st .come January ©20, in Central United Church, and four well known arâ€" tists will feature the pwgum of concert mlfi;:: Miss orothy Hamilton, contralto; Ronald Stewâ€" art, tenor; Jimmy fnnes, violinist; John Coveart, pianist. Undoub: the greatest young tenor sta ise in the 1946 seaâ€" ’son, is Rofiald Stewart, winner of the Toronto Kiwanis Festival, Hamilton Eistedfodd, _ Stratford Annual Festival, Peel County Fesâ€" tival, and the only Canadian to be chosen to l% at the United States Military Academy at West Point. . This ”“mni tenor is & keen stuâ€" dent of music, nmu memorized to date four lete operatic roles, and ‘has his t.hflm’ turned on the Metropolitan fall, "He has everything he . needs for opera, s;oneut .ndDrMso,: said nEdr;ard . . ney arrison B %Mhly gu all the muâ€" eal equipment of a genuine operâ€" %Sfiwurt appears regularâ€" ly on C.F.R.B., and is tenor soloist at fla Presbyterian Church, Toâ€" Dewar families are asking why 1 . The answer apparently lies in the time of the nppliuiLn made for sewers to the, town. X J was r ;";"&TM_ unds that no w would ummn e new main sewer was laid, .. BW 1.8 ul 4434 I icial ex« certain page 2 _ The members of the Hardington Home and School Association will hold their first graduation exerâ€" cises of Hardington school, ‘Wed nesday, January 8th, at‘8 p.m. _ Hardington H& S To Honor First , Graduating Class York Residents Denied Vote On Cocktail Bars Residents of York Township exâ€" pressed ‘their views on the action of York Township Council. in reâ€" glelling the byâ€"law calling for a ew Year vote on the issuing of cocktail lounge licenses in the "Lack of opportunity for voters to record thuzx' opinion by ballot is a sad condition of affairs. It does not: become the: Ontario Governâ€" ment to assume an attitude of dicâ€" tatorship," . said W. â€" J. â€" Hughes, manufacturer, Wychwood avenue. "If a man wantsâ€"a drink it is his personal affair. York Township has a population of 85,000 but canâ€" not apparently determine the reâ€" nctiot:n. of its citizens by means of a vote. "Although the vote would have given some indication of how the publicâ€"feels about cocktail bars, the municipal voters‘ list would not be the bestâ€"list to use in testing pubâ€" lic opinion," said F. J. MacRae, reâ€" tiring reeve of York Township, ‘~ "If it‘s magtl in ‘the city togrote on the question then it‘s 1’11«‘ to vote on the samée guestion in York Township. I arh sorry it had to be. fva';fim;a;}z- they couldn‘t put the vote," said Rev. A. J. Eagle, of Chalmers United Church, Mount Dennis. ; Chance to Vote Later "I think it is a provincial matter and it is unfair to have municipal politics move into provincial poliâ€" mfirmk::llrcehm tgm on the t at a later date, the comment of Rev. A. J. Jackson, St. Hilda‘s church, Fairbank, _‘ "York Township is certainly at a diudvmtlfe,” said Deput ‘au; C. 0. Moffatt. â€""The act xon not Afford our people & vote, although of course the vote, had it been posâ€" sible to take it on January 1, would not be a true picture, as on&y taxâ€" gl ers and tenants could cast their t -Yhu. I feel the present m tion. places ns in a very Rodflon. Municipalities over Wm ' ave no opportunity to state opinion." When 85,000 people are barred from vodi{ under present legislaâ€" tion on matters of such # tude it certainly calls for action by the incoming council to correct the conâ€" dition," said J ames Hogarth, printer, Fairbank. ‘rucdu." tonmm 45 Expect To Annou Location Of New / With In Next 2 We ferent storyâ€"Don‘t let there be a "next time. < till t come, cae evermioee milh it 8 come 4 they wish, -inin have the chance to flirt with death, b{ "drinking while driving." Don‘t forget that someâ€" times “dfi‘%m theg ofkflirt- ing," ‘an plays for keeps. Wi’o wants to start the New Year in a sixâ€"foot box?> . So, again we whrn lay safe npdfifquv_e your car -tm ’St‘rt ns}qlel&e rmrbm' at hon%. _Start 1 o y giving Weston & clean accident sheet. 70â€"Ton Shovel Skids On Ice ~â€" And Rams House â€" A‘ 70â€"ton steam ° shovel and tractorâ€"trailer struck the veranda and â€" corner of ‘.U'B' ‘f* apartment dwelling by Mrs. . H. Stone, when. it slid backâ€" ward while proceeding "'&u-d."" on slippery pavement. < The verâ€" on slippery pavement. â€" The verâ€" anda was ‘badly damaged, ~and l!rontwindow‘yvuhohl. P Mrs. Blanche â€" Proctor, Mrs. Stone‘s daughter, had been ‘watchâ€" ing the shovel travel up the road the house. ing the shovel travel the road :n‘d_uw it .begin mfl. toward "The roadway had been but when t]uA’mgchip_ty :::lfi the â€"railroad (t1 there was a Â¥hre of ice Mmmmld‘}g: t on the road," she said, jar and the sound of the crash were ~worse than anything else." One of the nicest things . R Z:K;‘i'h C Noe F4 ??ooa n@fi ‘s, : e shoes an 6 feeli ‘?ridesliuh hip o mg of relationsl '\rmg'c healthy for the buyer n: for t the years _ ©>.s. o. 90â€" Weston is. most fortunate in h high tgb ~of and â€"w in never be any about . 1 behind his with â€" the first place, ) T osagienanen zes tha suj are the more ch has of ple customers. + ? Weston know gm can bu y nd save more by ac own homet@wn here than they mi town. They know that the th.gul utensils, food all are they know that they can always security makes ghe ,comes upor the sensation of It‘s Pleasant And P next time may be a difâ€" 4% some .. $000,0 square dootâ€" town‘s asses years ago. ~Fo rated © only operated 4 Aiehou’t"" igh th involves 1,778 30 apperts, ob