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Year 1947WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1WEast Missouri Reeve New Oxford WardenReeve Milton Betteridge of East Nis- souri is the new warden of Oxford county, winning out on the thirteenth ballot at the county council’s inargural session yester­day over several other worthy candidates. Mr. Betteridge has shown by his previous work on the East Nisr^uri township council and on the county council that he can beexpected to fill the responsible position of warden in a capable manner. He follows J. Winston Nichols, North Oxford’s 1946 reeve, who has retired from municipal life this year but who established himself as an outstanding warden during his term of office. The new warden faces no easy task, for 1947 is expected to be another year of great progress and development in Oxford county—and no progress was ever achiev­ed without solid work. Mr. Betteridge has shown in the past he is not lacking in ener­gy and progressive spirit.As warden, he heads the body which intimately touches community life throughout the county. There are many who would abolish county councils, would like to see the provincial government usurp the main functions of such councils. The manner in which the Oxford council has handled the county’s affairs in the past and can be expected to handle them in the future shows how grievous an error such an usurpation would be. There are actual­ly many valid arguments for elimination of provincial governments themselves. Coun­ty councils, for instance, bridge the gap be­tween individual municipalities and fed­eral authorities at least as well as a prov­incial government, and possibly better.Select Warden at InitialMeeting of County CouncilOxford’s county council for 1947 met in the county courthouse this afternoon for its inaugural meet­ing, and for the election of thewardenThis method Ballots variousfor the year.county is unique in Its of selecting the warden, are cast In favor of the nominees until such timeas one receives an outright major­ity. This method, one year resul­ted in a total of 55 separate votes being taken before the warden for that year was declared elected.This year's council is composedof the following members, (in eachthe first Is reeve, the tmmd dep­uty- reeve): Blandford, Oscar Sip­ple; Blenhheim, L, H, Sibbick and W. A. Cockburn; Dereham, Leroy Curtis and H. A. Little; Em bro, R. A. McDonald; East. Niasouri. Milton Betteridge and Grant Suth­erland; Norwich, Harold A. Bish­op; North Norwich, George Fcw- ster; South Norwich, Theodore Cooper; East Oxford, John A. Wallace; North Oxford, James Calder: West Oxford, W. J, Cuth­bert; Tavistock, Wilfred Corp, TilLwnburg; K. R. Watts and K. Anderson; East Zorra, Gordonv* MMi .... Ross and Fred Killing; West Zorracase, if two members are named. 10. H. Murray.ELECTED WARDEN — Reeve । Milton Betteridge, East Missouri, । was elected warden of Oxford county this afternoon on the 13th . ballot, at the opening session of the 1947 Oxford county council.MEMBERS OF OXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL, left to right, front row: Reeve K. R. Watts, Tlllsonburg; Deputy Reeve J. Grant .Sutherland, East Missouri; Warden Milton Betteridge, East Missouri; Reeve John A. Wallace, East Oxford; Reeve Gordon Ross, East Zorra, Second row: Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn, Blenheim; Reeve Theodore Cooper, South Norwich; Reeve 1* H. Slbbick, Blenheim: Reeve Oscar Sippel, Blandford; Deputy Reeve Fred S. Killing, East Zorra; Reeve LuRoy Curtis, Dereham; Reeve GeorgeFewster, North Norwich. Third row: Deputy Reeve H, A. Little, Dereham; Reeve R. A. MacDonald, Embro; Reeve O. H, Murray, West Zorra; County Engineer J. N. Meathrcll; Deputy Reeve Kenneth H. Anderson. Tillson burg; Reeve H. A. Bishop, Norwich: Reeve Janies Calder, North Oxford. Back row: County Messenger Thomas Pye; Reeve Wilfred Corp, Tavistock; County Clerk L K. Coles; Reeve W. J. Cuthbert, West Oxford. Milton Betteridge Named Warden of Oxford CountyMilton Grover Betteridge, 54, Reeve of East Nissouri was elect­ed warden of Oxford county, at the inaugural session of the 1947 county council in the courthouse on Tuesday afternoon.In one of (he shortest elections for the position of warden in some time, Reeve Betteridge was de­clared elected on the 13th ballot, taken little more than haU-an- hour after the election opened.The keenly contested vote start­ed with six candidates for the of­fice. By the fourth ballot the field had narrowed to four who stayed until the end.CandidatesIn the contest against Bette­ridge, who was nominated by Deputy Reeve Grant Sutherland, East Nissouri, were Reeve Leroy Curtis, Dereham, nominated by Deputy Reeve H. A. Little of Dereham; Reeve O. H. Murray, West Zorra by Reeve James Cal­der, North Oxford; Reeve Theo­dore Cooper, South Norwich, by Reeve W. R. Watts, Tillsonburg; Reeve Wilfred Corp, Tavistock, by Reeve W. J. Cuthbert, West Ox­ford; Reeve Gordon Ross, East) Zorra, by Deputy Reeve Fred Killing, East Zorra.After the first ballot was taken by County Clerk L. K. Coles, Ross who had received seven votes, asked that his name be with­drawn. After the third ballot was taken Cooper withdrew his name from the running. This left Curtis Murray, Betteridge and Corp to contest the position.From the ninth ballot on Bette­ridge led in the number of votes but failed to have an outright majority until the 13th ballot. His support built up to 11 votes in the 13th count which were sufficient | to elect him.Second in Three YearsWarden Betteridge is the sec­ond warden from East Nissouri in three years. Alex McCorquo- dale was warden in 1945, when he was Reeve of East Nissouri."Milt” Betteridge was born In 1892 on the farm in East Nissouri near Lakeside which his father cleared and which he now oper­ates. He married the former Jean Greason and they have two sons and four daughters.He was first elected to town­ship council in 1936 and served as councillor for six years then three years as deputy-reeve. In 1946 he was elected reeve of East Niss­ouri.After his election the new war­den took the oath of office and was escorted to his chair by J. Winston Nichols, retiring warden. He invited ex-warden Nichols and ex-warden McCorquodale to sit with him.Need Continued InterestAfter congratulating Warden Betteridge on his election, Mr. Nichols spoke of the need for con­tinued interest in municipal gov­ernment."This is where the administra-i tian of Oxford County starts,” he' declared, “not in Toronto and not in Ottawa.”He stated there is often talk of doing away with municipal coun­cils."Keep up your interest,” he urged, "as soon as you have done away with this you do away with your birthright.”Mr. Nichols said he did not be­lieve in the term "municipal pol­ities," the correct term, he main­tained is "municipal administra­tion,” The council has charge of governing and executing the nec- * essary services In the municipal­ity, he declared."It. has nothing to do with poll-1 tical parties,"Other SpeakersK. R. Daniel,' M.P., Ingersoll followed ex-warden McCorquodnle in offering his congratulations to Warden Betteridge.Other speakers were: William J. Weir, Thamosfprd, warden in 1926; Dr. Howard Atkinson, Em- hro, warden in 1929; Charles Mil­ton, Princeton, warden in 1938; William McIntosh, Embro, warden in 1927; J. C. Eichenberg, Tillson­burg. warden in 1944; Ken War­dell, North Norwich, warden in 1943; Sheriff A. A. Bishop; Reeve Gordon Ross, East Zorra, and H. F. Johnston, Tillsonburg.The new warden called upon Rev. John Morris of Woodstock, to open his first session of county- council with Scripture reading and a prayer.The minutes of the last session of the 1946 council were read and the council adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning.NEW WARDEN TAKES OVER—Oxford’s 91st warden, Mil­ton Betteridge, East Nissouri, is shown here seated in the warden’s chair in the county council chamber for the first time after his election on Tuesday. He is receiving the con­gratulations of the retiring warden, J. Winston Nichols, for­mer reeve of North Oxford, who is standing beside him. Ex­warden Nichols’ photograph is still above the warden’s chair which he occupied last year.—(Staff photo).OXFORDBlandford....................Oscar SippleBlenheim.....................L. H. SibbickW. A. CockburnDereham......................Leroy CurtisH. A. LittleEmbro.........................R. A. McDonaldNissouri East...........Milton BetteridgeGrant SutherlandNorwich.......................Harold A. BishopNorwich North...........George FewsterNorwich South...........Theodore CooperOxford East................John A. WallaceOxford North.............James CalderOxford West...............W. J. CuthbertTavistock.....................Wilfred CorpTillsonburg-..................K. R. WattsK. AndersonZorra. East....Zorra West.,..Surplus of $19,127.66 for County Revealed in ReportThe auditors' report on the books of the county of Oxford show­ing a surplus of $19,127.66, was accepted this morning by county council. Following is a table taken from the report showing a com parison of estimates, actual revenue and expenditures made by the county for the year ending 31 December, 1946: General Purposes:EstimatedAdministration of justice andcounty buildings ..............$Agriculture and fox bounty Registry office .................Education (payable by' county) General administration .......... Miscellaneous ......................... Health Unit .............................. Reforestation ...........................24,000.005,700.00800.00400.0015,240.001,000,00 17,250.002,500.0066,890.00. Less miscellaneous receipts .. 2,890.00Charity and welfare .......... 63,625.00County Roads ............... 105,000.00Vocational secondary education 1,181.64 Academic secondary education 28,647.46County rates262,454.10262,454.10Surplus .. (x) Deficit.ActualSurplus$ 21,717.005,629.30346.21292.8115,057,751.559.3817,250.002,764.69$ 2,283.00 70.70453.79 107.19182.25559.38 (X) 1264.69 (x)64,617.144,886.0756,415.1297,351.151,181.6428,647.562,272.861,946.077,209.887,648.00-------------243,326.44262,454-1019,127.6619,127.6619,127.66Much Work To Be Done Says Warden"We have not a light year ahead of us,” Warden Milton Bet­teridge told his 1947 county coun­cil in liis inaugural address fol­lowing his election yesterday."There is a great deal to be , done this year,” he continued ask­ing for the co-operation of his council in carrying out his duties in office.He referred to the T.B. survey which will be made in the county this year saying it was a “won­derful thing for the individual and for the whole community.”The warden, who was chairman of the property committee last year spoke of the need for im­provements to the county registry ; office.Inadequate Building“We have in Oxford one of the1 finest sets of county buildings in Ontario,” he stated, “but last year it was brought to our atten­tion that we have the worst reg­istry office in Ontario. The build­ing has been found to be very in­adequate by the property commit­tee.”He felt it was unfortunate that the problem of building or chang­ing the registry office should come up at a time when materials and labor were scarce.“That is something which will require a great deal of thought this year,” the warden said.Another question to be consid­ered, he added, was that of the larger high school areas in the county.Warden Betteridge pledged him­self to give his best to the work of the county during the year and, added, that with the co-operation of the council he could see no rea­son why 1947 should not be a good year for Oxford county.Gordon Ross Fred Killing 0. H, Murray 1947 County Committees Are NamedFor the second year Reeve L. H, Sibbick of Blenheim lias boon ap­pointed chairman of the county roads committee. The appointment; was made on Wednesday after­noon after the committees select-। ed by a committee of the whole met to organize.Finance ChairmanReeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg.1 received the appointment of chair­man of the council's finance com­mittee.The following committees were struck with the first named chair­man and the second secretary: Road. Reeve L. H. Sibbick, Blen­heim; Warden Milton Betteridge, East Nissouri; Reeve Theodore Cooper, South Norwich; finance, Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg; Deputy-Reeve W. A. Cockburn, Blenheim: Deputy-Reeve Fred S. Killing, East Zorra; Deputy-Reeve Kenneth H Anderson, Tillsonburg; | Ree\;e R. A. McDonald, Embro.Property, Reeve Gordon Ross, East Zorra; Reeve Leroy Curtis, Dereham; Deputy-Reeve J. Grant Sutherland, East Nissouri; Reeve John A. Wallace, East Oxford; Reeve O. H. Murray, West Zorra. Agriculture, Deputy-Reeve H. A. Little, Dereham; Reeve L. H. Sib­bick, Blenheim; Reeve W. J. Cuth­bert, West Oxford; Reeve James Calder, North Oxford; Reeve Wil­fred Corp, Tavistock. Education, Deputy-Reeve W. A. Cockburn, Blenheim; Reeve Leroy Curtis,) Dereham; Reeve R. A. McDonald, Embro; Deputy-Reeve Kenneth H. Anderson, Tillsonburg: Reeve George Fewster. North Norwich.EqualizationEqualization, Reeve Theodore Cooper. South Norwich; Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg; Reeve James Calder, North Oxford; Reeve H. A. Bishop. Norwich; De- rputy-Reeve H. A. Little, Dereham. Printing and resolutions, Reeve George Fewster, North Norwich; Deputy-Reeve Kenneth Anderson, 1 Tillsonburg; Reeve Oscar Siple, | Blandford; Reeve W. J. Cuthbert, West Oxford; Deputy-Reeve Fred S. Killing, East Zorra.Reforestation, Reeve John A. Wallace, East Oxford; County ' Clerk L. K. Coles, Ingersoll; Reeve George Fewster, North Norwich; Deputy-Reeve H. A. Little, Dere­ham; Reeve Oscar Siple, Bland­ford; County Engineer J. N. Meathrell, Ingersoll.The chairmen have not yet been appointed to the following com­mittees: Board of Health, W. A. Cockburn, K, R. Watts and War- den Milton Betteridge. County Home, O. H. Murray, W. J. Cuth­bert and Warden Betteridge. Pen- ! sion Board, Wilfred Corp, and j Mrs. L. H. Sibbick.Treasurer's bond, L. H. Sibbick and Leroy Curtis. Board of audit, Grant Sutherland and L. K. Coles. Juvenile court, Gordon Ross, War­den Betteridge and L. K. Coles. Hospitals, Woodstock, Milton Bet­teridge, Ingersoll, James Calder, Tillsonburg, K. R. Watts.Suggest Oxford Site for MatchThe possibility of the Interna­tional Plowing Match, aponsored by the Ontario Plowmen’s Asso­ciation being held in Oxford in the near future was seen last night as the agricultural committee of the county council put forth the sug- , gestion.In its second report the eommit- । tee recommended to council that | the county council join with the Oxford plowmen’s Association in | extending an Invitation to the On. tarlo amociation to have the match held in Oxford in the near future. The report, waa adopted.Thinks Ontario May Be Required To Absorb Japs JDeclaring that he held no “brief" for the Japanese In Can­ada. K. R. Daniel. M.P. for Ox­ford. pointed out yesterday that Ontario will probably be required to accept some Japanese from the province of British Columbia.Mr. Daniel, speaking at the in­augural session of the Oxford County council, referred to a re­solution passed by the council in 1946 urging the federal govern­ment not to move any Japanese into Western Ontario.British Columbia is asking, he said, to have some assimilated from their population and he be­lieved that the province of Ontario might be required to take some of them.Conservation 3 Authority on Oxford VisitRaywood Smith, London, con­servation authority, in an inter­view on Wednesday afternoon, agreed with the contention of re­cent Sentinel-Review editorials that there is ample work for the proposed Thames Valley Author- I ity to do without tackling the problem of building expensive flood control dams.Mr. Smith who is presently do­ing some "missionary” work on the project for the Department of Planning and Development, stated the Thames Valley Report gave many recommendations for land use which could be carried out by the authority.He also agreed that the fact was true that once the authority was set up it would be predominated by rural representatives, who, if they did not wish to spend money for expensive dams would have the power in their hands to turn the project down,The Conservation Authorities Act, he stated, was designed to set up authorities which would be mainly composed of rural mem­bers.Mr. Smith ;.dded that he expect- to have the opportunity during this session of addressing the Ox­ford county council on the mat­ter of the setting up of the Thames Valley Authority.County Grant to Memorial Fund At CollegiateA grant of $100 was made last night by the Oxford county coun­cil to the Woodstock Collegiate Memorial Fund, on recommenda­tion of the council’s finance com­mittee.The committee also recommend­ed that Warden Milton Betteridge and the clerk, L. K. Coles, be a committee to meet with repro- I sentatives of Woodstock and In­gersoll regarding a county muse­um.The official appointment of a i county representative on the hoard of the Oxford Hostorical and Mu­seum Society on the committee’s I recommendation, will bo made at a later date.Officials of the newly formed Oxford Historical and Museum So clety approached the council dur­ing this session seeking aid and support in promoting a county museum. The soefoty also request- j ed the council to name a repre nentatlvo on the board of direct­ors.County Council Gets Down To Administrative LaborAPPEALS HEARDThe county council today heard aiH»ttls for financial support from four agencies. This morning a re- preserttative of the Navy League of Canada, ahro George Patrick on behalf of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind addressed I Council. Thia afternoon the council heard appeals from the Aid to I China Fund and from the newly formed Ontario Historical and Museum society. Ross Butler, pres­ident of the society, ypoke on its behalf., COMMITTEES METAt this morning’s session ol county council three committees met to tackle their first problems of the year following their selec­tion of a chairman yesterday. They were the roads commilte, under the chairmanship of Reeve L. H. Sibbick. Blenheim; finance under Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg; and property under Reeve Gordon Ross, East Zorra.ENDORSE RESOLUTIONS ’Lambton county council has ap­proved two resolutions submitted by Oxford county council. One re­quests the Ontario Government to make it compulsory for every car or truck owner to obtain public liability and property damage in­surance. The other petitions the Government to subsidize the dis­posal of sewage in villages of 1,500 population or less.Says More Reforestation Will Require More LandOxford county is going ahead on reforestation," W.A.G. Thurs­ton, Stratford, zone forester for Oxford, Perth and Hui’on. told the members of the county council on Friday afternoon.Mr. Thurston stated that he hopes by this spring to be able to have planted all the land owned by the county for forestry pur­poses. If further reforestation schemes are planned the county will require additional land, he said.The school reforestation com­petition is being planned again I for this year, he stated. In this |Figures Given On Operation Of County HomeA deficit of $8,492.75 in the operation of the Oxford County Home was noted in the annual re­port of the board of management presented to the county council this morning by R. J. Forbes, manager of the home.Total expenditures for the past year were $24,499.09; receipts $16,006.34. The gross expenditure per week per resident was $8.14, the net costs per week per resi­dent $2.82.Woodstock paid $2,810.37 and j Ingersoll $474,93 toward the up- j keep of the county home during | the year.On January 1, there were 62 i residents in the home,’24 female and 38 males. An increase of two over the number one year ago.The total value of the county home farm has been set down at $20,560. Farm expenses amounted ; to $6,105.68; receipt# $8,113.23, makng a balance of $2,037.55.The county council tins morn­ing commenced Its first busincafi of the year by moving into com­mitted to select the standing com­mittees for 1947.Fearing heavy roads as a result of yesterday's blizzard, a number of the members of the council stayed in Woodstock over night. They were at the courthouse early this morning to greet those who had battled their way home last night and back this morning. All , of those members who drove home j last night reported this morning they had no great, difficulty on the roads this morning.Snow ClearanceFollowing on the heels of the ' blizzard, the council heard among | the communications a resolution , from Wellington county urging the । Ontario Department of Highways to subsidize the cost of approved snow plowing on municipal road", by 75 per cent. Wellington county . council reasoned that the plowing of municipal roads increased rev- , enues of the department by having more vehicles operating and ex- I pressed the opinion that the pro­vincial department should share 75 per cent, of the cost.Northumberland and Durham counties forwarded a resolution pointing out that the minimum ex­emption from income tax of $2,- 000 should be made to apply to all wage earners in Canada and not to just members of parliament.A resolution from Victoria j county urged the employment of more full time game wardens, in­creased fines for illegal fishing and establishment of more minnow ponds as an aid to maintaining and increasing tourist trade.competition each school is requir­ed to plant at least half an acre of trees in the spring.Fine OpportunityThe tree cutting bylaw, passed at the September session last year, opens vast opportunities for the county to improve woodlots, the zone forester declared. The tight­er the regulations of the bylaw the better will be the preservation of trees and the better off the county will be, he said.He added that an attempt was being made to employ a full- time caretaker for the county for­ests.The printing and resolutions committee through its chairman, Reeve George Fewstef, of North Norwich, recommended in its sec­ond report that Victoria count's j resolution seeking employment of more game wardens be filed.No Action , lThe second report of the finance committee under the chainnan- ship of Reeve K. R. Watts, Fill- sonburg. recommended no action be taken on theresolution of Nor-1 be taken on the resolution of Nor-1 regarding the establishing of a । minimum income tax exemption | | of $2,00.The committee also recommend­ed the question of grant.- be laid over until the March session. The request of the Tavistock council the equalization surcharge for Tavistock patients at the Strat­ford General Hospital was laid over until a committee composed of Reves Watts and Corp and the warden could investigate the mai­ler.The council adjourned until Wednesday morning. January 29. When the balance of the Januaiy session will be held. Request County Help for Hospital at Tillsonburgwith $25 grant to each township for prize money to the schools en­tering.The reforestation committee also recommended the amendment of the tree cutting bylaw by the ad­dition of a clause to allow the Tree Conservation Commission, where special circumstances exist, to grant authority for the cutting of trees under the prescribed size.Among the communications read this morning was the approval by the Ontario Department of Health of the regulations for the Oxford county and Ingersoll Health Unit.Ross Butler, president of the Oxford Historical and Museum Society invited the council to name a member to the society's board of directors.Waterloo county informed the Oxford county council of their ap­proval of the resolution request­ing compulsory insurance for auto­mobiles. Norfolk and Bruce coun­ties approved this resolution. Wat­erloo and Bruce counties did not endorse Oxford’s resolution for government subsidy for sewage disposal in villages of 1,500 or less. Norfolk county endorsed this resolution.Reply Received On Milk RequestPromise of consideration being given in the price paid for milk other than going into the fluid trade was received this morning by the county council In a letter from tile Dominion Minister of Agriculture.In reply to a resolution passed by the 1946 council requesting an increased price for milk going in­to concentrated milk products, Hon. James G. Gardiner, federal minister, wrote:“All I can say to you at the mo­ment is that consideration is being given to the price which ought to be paid for milk for purposes other than fluid consumption and that some announcement will be made shortly.”The minister's letter was dated December 20, 1946.‘People are getting more hos­pital minded," John Stubbs, pres­ident of the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital Trust of Tillsonburg told the Oxford county council this morning.Mr. Stubbs and a delegation composed of J. C. Eichenberg and E. I. Torrens of Tillsonburg, ap­peared before the council and the finance committee requesting as­sistance for a planned 50-bed ex­tension to the Tillsonburg hos­pital.‘The trend today toward hos­pital insurance is and will make an added strain on hospitals in Tillsonburg and across the Dom­inion," declared Mr. Stubbs,Needed, Doctors SayThe doctors of Tillsonburg feel, he added, that a 100-bed hospital is needed. The hospital trust plan to erect a 50-bed extension to their present building which was originally built for 32 patients and which now averages 44 beds not including the nursery, which, the speaker declared "is always over­crowded."Mr. Stubbs gave a comparison of the number of patients over a ten year period. In 1937 the hos­pital had 810 patients and 129 births, a total of 939 patients. In 1946 the number of patients had increased to 1.970 and the number of births to 454, a total of ?,424 1 patients.In seeking a grant the hospital officials pointed out that 44^1 per . cent, of the patients to Tillsonburg hospital came from Oxford county.“We feel it is a worthy and 1 necessary cause,” concluded Mr, Stubbs, “our present hospital is ! totally inadequate.”Beforestationi The second report of the refor- Pitation committee presented byI the chairman, Reeve John Wallace. jEaat-Zorra, recommended a grant of $25 to the Ontario Conservation and Reforestation Association, the purchase of 300 copies of "Practi­cal Woodlot Management" for dis­tribution to schools, libraries and farm groups; the continuation of the school forestry competitions'Lincoln Backs Oxford Stand, Car InsuranceLincoln county council endorsed, the resolution of Oxford county council regarding compu^ory in­surance coverage of all motm veh­icles but went farther than Oxford in making recommendations, h was learned this morning. 'It is recommended by Lincoln council that where insurance cov­erage is refused that, it be neces­sary for the licensee to deposit a bond with the Department of ^The council further recommend­ed a more thorough inspection of qualifications be made befoic motor vehicle operators are hc-j CnA(C' their session this morning (he Oxford council gave second reading to a number of bylaws and adjourned to meet in commit­tee. .Indications were this morning that the council would sit tonight to complete the business of the session.Road Budget For County $273,000A budget calling for the ex­penditure of $273,000 on the Ox­ford county road system was ad­opted by the county council at the final sitting of the January ses­sion last night.The figure is an increase of $63,000 over the amount expended last year. The amount paid by the government on the expenditures will be $141,500 in the form of subsidies. The estimated share the .city of Woodstock will bear will be $1,500 which will leave a total of $130,000 to be raised by the county in general tax levy.A breakdown of the amount to be expended as passed in the form of a bylaw is as follows: Construction:Roads and culverts $140,000Bridges (special rate) $ 20,000Maintenance:Roads and culverts 81,000Bridges 1,000Machinery:New 41,000Repairs 6,000Miscellaneous (urban ex­penditures, etc.) 20,000253,000Bridges construction (special rate) 20,000Total 273,000Government subsidy, 50% on $253,000 $126,500Government subsidy, 75% on $20,000 15,000141,500County and city share, 25% on $20,000 5,000County and city share, 50% on $253,000 126,500131,500Woodstock's share 1,500General Levy 130,000Tells County Council TV A Mainly RuralFrom a study of the Conserva­tion Authorities Act W. Raywood Smith, London conservation au­thority, declared to the Oxford county council yesterday that, the proposed Thames Valley Authority would be predominantly rural.The contribution of the rural municipalities to such a scheme would be largely one of improved; land use to Increase underground water supply and to control silting up of the dam or dams construct­ed, Mr. Smith stated.“I am convinced that no one would be financially hurt in the Thames Valley Authority,” he con­tinued.AssessmentOn the question of assessment, Mr. Smith made it clear that the authority pays on the assessed value of the land at the time it was acquired. It is expected, he added, that nearby land values would rise, especially in depressed areas. It would, however, he claim­ed, be unfair for the authority to be charged increased assessment on land they are using for the benefit of the community.Answering a question on the payment for the dams proposed, such as the Fanshawe Dam, Mr. Smith stated such projects were paid for by the communities, the cities and towns below the dam.“In the case of the dam at I Fergus,” he said, "to my knowl­edge, not one cent was paid for by rural municipalities”Basic Fact‘The basic thing about the re­port (the Department of Planning and Developments Thames Valley Report) is soil conservation," Mr. Smith declared. "It means the controlling of water and snow where it falls and not waiting until it goes mad down stream.”‘Tn conserving the soil you in­crease the flow of streams, your streams are less muddy and they carry more fish,” he continued. "Beautification naturally comes with better land use Nothing is more hideous than an eroded and gullied countryside. In controlling erosion beautification follows as a matter of course. I do not consider that beautification is an item on which it is necessary to spend money, it follows naturally with good farming, protection of our roads from drifting, protection of our soil by cover crops, and the protection of our water supplies by numerous small ponds and re­forestation of non arable land."All these things make for permanent, prosperous agriculture and the natural beauty of wind­breaks adds to farm values."In conclusion. Mr. Smith stated,- he was making an effort to visit all township councils and answer their questions regarding the pro­posed Thames Valley Authority.MARRIED man, experienced farmer, capable of handling modern equip­ment and pure bred cattle. Free house, with all conveniences, milk, eggs. etc. Good wages and perman­ent job for the right man References S referred. Written applications by anauary 10th to R. J. Forbes, Su- «erintendont, Oxford Countv Home, foodstock, Ontario, phone 97. 11812Oxford Tops Provinces in December Cheese Output Must Not Let Reds Take Over China, Council Told“If wo let Chinn go Communist we arc paving the way for n third World War which will be fought right here in Canada where East meets West," Rev. E. J. Robertson warned the Oxford county council yesterday in making an appeal for support, in the Canadian Aid to China Fund.Rev. Mr. Robertson, minister of Central United Church, Wood- stock, told the council that the ob­jective in Oxford for the campaign is $12000.“China is devastated and in the throes of civil war,” said the speaker, “undeX these conditions Communism grows/’ He reminded his audience that China has one- quarter of the world's popula­tion. He saw in the aid to ChinaTo Distribute Warble Powder; Cut Fox BountyOxford’s county council will this year return to a program of dis­tributing warble fly powder to the farmers in the county, according to a report of the agriculture com­mittee adopted last night.As the council completed its final sitting of the January ses­sion the second report of the agri­culture committee was presented by the chairman Deputy Reeve HaiTy Little, Dereham.The report recommended, and received approval, of cutting the present tax bounty in half mak­ing the bounty $2 effective Febru­ary 1. The fox pelts are to be turned in for payment of the bounty within two weeks after be­ing killed.The balance of the fox bounty is to be spent on warble fly pow­der for the farmers of Oxford county, the report stated.GrantaThe report further provided for a grant of $400 for the Oxford Plowmen’s Association and a grant of $100 to the Oxford Crop Improvement Association.Emerson Moulton, Verschoyle, was named corn borer inspector. In a bylaw’ making appointments, read earlier, Mr. Moulton was made weed inspector and an in­spector under the plant diseases actReeve Wilfred Corp, Tavistock and Reeve James Calder, North Oxford, were named delegates to the Oxford Crop Improvement As­sociation. Reeve L. H. Sibbick, Blenheim, and Deputy Reeve H. Little were named delegates to the Woodstock Agricultural Soc­iety and the Ontario Agricultural Council.a means of keeping that vast coun­try out of the clutches of Com- mu niem.“China united and prosperous would be a great factor for world peace,” he said, “China gone com­munist would be a world mennce.’*NO ACTIONNo action was taken by Essex county council yesterday on a re- solulion passed by Oxford county' council at its December session asking government subsidy fori sewage disposal in villages of 1.500 population or less. The resolution wax sent, from Oxford to all other couties for endorsation.SWORN INMrs. Rose Hamilton was sworn in today by Sheriff A. A. Bishop ax matron of Oxford county jail. Mrs. Hamilton replaced Mrs. G. Skinner in the position on Nov. 1.JUST HEARSAY"MyJ My! What an adorable hat"Elect Hugh Harris to Head Red Cross Society in 1947County Council Winds UpFirst Session for 1947The first session of the 1947 county council for Oxford came to a conclusion last night as the councillors wound up the busi­ness in a night sitting at the county courthouse.Reports and bylaws paving the way for the administration of the county for this year were given consideration and passed by the council.Among the reports was the 18th annual report, of the road superintendent, J. N. Meathrell, second report of the road com­mittee, second of the agriculture committee, fourth of finance, third of property and second of the education committee.Nine BylawsNine bylaws, providing for ex­penditures, borrowing of money, making appointments and pass­ing accounts, were given their third readings.| The education committer under the chairmanship of Deputyi Reeve W, A, Cockburn, Blenheim, | recommended that the member* I of the committee and the county clerk be delegates to the county council section of the Ontario Education Association convention on April 8 and 9. It .8 also moved that Mr, Cockburn. Reeve L. E. Curtis, Dereham. and Reeve; R. A. McDonald, Embro, be ap­pointed members of the Oxford Consultative Committee on Sec­ondary Education.The members of the property committee and the county clerk, were given authority to proceed with negotiations for enlarging] and improving the county regls-i try office.The property committee was! also granted authority, through the adoption of their report, to1 do necessary painting in the courthouse and county jail.The fourth report, of the fin­ance committee Is dealt with in another column also the second report of the agriculture commit­tee.The. county road committee proposed that the request receiv-' ed for assuming as a county road the south boundary of the county west from the cast quar­ter townline of Dereham town­ship be not acted upon until an j inspection of the road is made] with the road committees of El­gin and Norfolk counties.Endorse Subsidy IdeaThe council, on recommenda­tion of the road committee un­der the chairmanship of Reeve L. H. Sibbick, Blenheim, endors­ed the resolution of Wellington county requesting a government subsidy of 75 per cent, on snow removal on municipal roads. The resolution was endorsed in-so-far as it applied to the payment of subsidy but not on the point of the Department of Highways ex­ercising more direct supervision of snow plowing work by equip­ment owned by the municipali­ties.AppointmentsThe following appointments were made through a bylaw: Trustee to Tillsonburg high school board, Donald Gibson; trustee on Nor­wich high school board. H. M. Marshall; auditors, of the criminal justice accounts, Deputy Reeve Grant Sutherland. East Nissouri, ? and L. K. Coles, county clerk: (county solicitors. MacDougall and Whaley; secretary of the board of management of the County Home, L. K. Coles; messenger to the county council, Thomas Pye.The third reading was given to the bylaw amend ng the tree. cutting bylaw passed at the Sep- , j tember session last year. This ' J amendment provides that where i special circumstances exist the ( trees conservation authorities may grant permission to cut trees un- i der the sizes required in the orig- i I inal bylaw.County Council Prep School for ParliamentYesterday, in discussing the opening session of the county council, it was point-1 ed out that such councils are well constit­uted to handle the diverse problems of a fairly large area. In this connection, it is interesting to note that so many Labor | members of the British parliament learn­ed their job at County Hall, headquarters of the London county council, that the council, greater London's governing body, has been christened “the prep school for parliament.”County Congratulated on Court Record by JusticeWoodstock Fall Fair to Return After Absence of Eight War-Clouded Years I Expenditure of $295,000 County Council EstimateA recommended expenditure of $295,1)00 for the current year to] be raised by taxation was adopted by the Oxford county council yes- j terday in adopting a report of Its finance committee. This figure represents an increase of $32,500 over last year's estimates.The report was submitted to council by Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg, chairman of the com­mit tee.The increase in the estimates this year was occasioned by a jump* of $63,000 in estimated ex­penditures on county roads, which rose to a total of $273,000. -Most of the other estimates remained on a par with last year's.Estimated expenditures this year for “general purposes” to­talled $65,000: charity and wel­fare, $65,000? secondary and voca­tional schools, $35,000; county roads. $273,000; for a grand total of $438,000 less than the subsidy of $143,000, leaving a balance of $295,000 to be raised by taxation.Reeve Watts remarked that, the finance .committee was "sympa- towards the Tillsonburgthetic"hospital trust's request for finan­cial aid in the building of an ad­dition to the Soldier's Memorial Hospital in Tillsonburg. While pointing out. that the council was not in a position to make a final decision on the grant as yet, he nevertheless intimated that a grant of between $50,000 and $75.- 000 was being considered by the committee to be paid over a five j to seven year period.FARM HELPWANTEDMarried man, experienced farmer, capable of handling modem equipment and pur© bred cattle. Free house with all conveniences, milk, eggs, etc. Good wages and per­manent job for the right man. References preferred. Written applications by January 10th to R. J. Forbes, Superintendent Ox­ford County Home, Wood- stock, Ontario. Phone 97.Accredited Area Delayed Due to Staff ShortagesK. R. Daniel. M.P. for Oxford, i disclosed in the House of Com­mons in Ottawa yesterday that he had received a letter from the Woodstock Board of Health urg­ing that he bring the question of Oxford being made a T,B. accred- ( ited area before the House.Federal Department of Agri- i culture officials an? reported to have informed Mr. Daniel and sev­eral Western Ontario members that lack of staff, not funds, is responsible for the inability of the department, to expand its work in the field of bovine T.B. restrict- . ed area.Requests NumerousRequests for the inclusion of ad­ditional counties in the restricted. area scheme, and for an increase in services in already established restricted areas, have piled up lately in the department. With few exceptions, the department’s response has been the same in each case—insufficient veterinary inspectors to handle the work.T. B. Barrett, Progressive Con­servative member for Norfolk, carried to the department a com­plaint that two farmers in his rid­ing, who had applied for inspec­tions under the T.B. combat ser­vice, had beeri refused, and yet inspectors went right by their farms while making their rounds.Other district members interest­ed and making representations to the depaidment include K. R. Daniel, P.C., Oxford; A. E. Robin­son, P.C., Bruce, and A. J. Brad­shaw, P.C:, Perth.Mr. Bradshay said he had re­ceived letters from livestock asso- । ciations and individual farmers urging action in his county. The Woodstock board also made rep­resentations to Hon. Paul Martin, minister of health and welfare.। and to Hon. James G. Gardiner, minister of agriculture.Oxford County sought to come under the scheme before the war, but the move was suspended be­cause of the personnel shortage that developed. Now, however, every effort was being exerted to make 4he county a TB-free zone.Predicts Majority Will Support Conservation PlanAfter Interviewing county councils of Middlesex, Perth and Oxford, W. Raymond Smith, Who la acting in an advisory capacity to the Ontario Department of Planning and Development at London, predicted yesterday that majority of municipalities in the Thames Valley Watershed will support proposed conservation and reforestation measures.Cracking a belief In some quar­ters that the plan received little backing, because only two muni­cipalities, London and St. Marys, forwarded to the minister of pub­lic works requests for the setting up of an authority. Mr. Smith pointed out that actually only two such requests were needed to have a meeting called.Permit DiscussionDelay in calling a meeting Is to allow the engineer to discuss with the 45 municipalities con­cerned their special -interests In the plan, and to explain to them how it will affect them financi­ally and materially.A common misunderstanding among rural municipalities con­cerns construction of a dam on the Thames at a proposed site about five miles above Fan­shawe, Mr. Smith has found.“Many were under the impres­sion that they would be saddled with the cost of the dam,” he said.“By precedent it has heen fair­ly well established that the con­tribution of rural municipalitiesNew Provincial Police Officer Appointed HereCharles Worrall, 23. Norwich, has been newly appointed highway traffic officer with the Woodstock provincial police detachment, re- placing former provincial Con­stable Walter Marsland, who re­signed from the force in Novem­ber.Provincial Constable Worrall was recently discharged after serving • with the armed forces for five years. He joind the army in Lon­don, 1940. and went overseas with the 4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regi­ment. He served in Italy with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment.He has been in police work for the past eight months and prior to coming to Woodstock he was in Port Stanley and London.to such a scheme Is Improved land use on farms -retaining water supply, which decreases soil erosion and increases the flow of tributary streams.”Grund Dam CitedIn the case of the Grand dam. 75 per cent, of the cost was paid by the federal and provincial governments, and 25 per cent, by cities and towns below the dam, Mr. Smith advised.“There Is no precedent where farmers have been assessed for construction of the dam, but they j have been paid for damage oc­casioned by its construction, and they have been bon used for sloughs and dug-outs.”This is the point Mr. Smith 1s explaining now, as he visits mu­nicipal councils all over the Thames watershed. To date, he has appeared before councils of Perth, Oxford and Middlesex counties, which includes heads of | many township councils in these counties.Comment Favorable“I have been impressed by the | reception,” Mr. Smith smiled. "When I have explained the ob­jectives of the Authorities Act. there have been many favorable comments, and many requests to attend township council meetings1 to discuss with them the matter of retaining soil and rain on the farm where it belongs.“The key fo the whole situation is the retention of water on in­dividual farms by methods of im­proved tilth, farm ponds and sloughs.”That is the farmers’ portion of the project, Mr. Smith said. In it they would be supported not only by federal and provincial depart­ments, but by every municipal government in the watershed.Importance to TownsImportance of the dam to cities and towns can best be illustrated by reference to damage sustained as a result of the 1937 flood. To mention a faw, estimated public an'd private losses reached, at Ingersoll $35,000, Stratford $8,000. Thamesville $2,200, Oxford county $36,250, Chatham $7100, and a't London, public losses and Red Cross relief work amounted to $378,000, while private losses were set at a million dollars.However, loss to farmers through erosion over the years greatly exceeds these, Mr. Smith claims. Top soil is washed away at the rare of 25 tens per acre a year. The conservationist estimat­ed replacement of this top soil at $100."Over a million acres of tillable land, this could prove a costly operation,” the engineer remark-ed.By Jimmy HatloRakys^—And-for the best RADIO ) QUIZ QUESTION OF T4E WEEK , THE SMELLMORE TOBACCO/ COMPANY IS SENDING TOJOE DUSTBERR’/ OF SQUEAK/. SPRINGS, ARIZONA, ONE. 7 NICKEL-PLATED TWIN-. <.V C/LINDER, OUTBOARD ) TTl MOTOR.- HAPPy n fishing; joeyThey’ll Do It Every TimeRobert A. Webber Oxford Ex-Warden Passes in U S.Former prominent Oxford coun­ty resident and one time warden of the county, Robert A. Webber passed away at Westwood. N. J., on Wednesday, January 15, ac­cording to word received by rela- j tives here.Mr. Webber was a native of East Zorra. where he was bomon the 12th J line and where he resided all his life until! moving to New, Jersey some 28 years ago. He was a prominent farmer of the I Hickson district and took part in R. A. Webber municipal affairs, being a member of East Zorra council for several years, later serving as reeve and being elected warden of Oxford county lor the year 1917.Surviving arc his widow, form­erly Mary Abell, two sons. Frank and Fred of West wood, N.J,, also three married daughters. Ghe brother also survives, Egbert Webber, Windsor.The funeral is to be held at | Westwood, NJ., on Saturday af­ternoon. War Against Warble Fly is RenewedOxford county council will earn the thanks of their farmer constituents for re- newing distribution of warble fly powder.Getting farmers to appreciate the value and use of warble fly powder on their cat- j tie was a task taken up some years ago by the county council.The dusting of the powder on the backs of the animals destroys the larvae of the warble fly which eats holes in the animal’s flesh, damaging the health of I the animal, causes holes in the leather when it is tanned, and breeds the fly. This warble fly is the insect which in season has cows running wild in a pasture, cutting; milk production and running off pounds of beef. ;When the war came the powder used for the destruction of the warble fly took on a war job. Troops overseas dusted their blankets, clothes and themselves with what they called “A.L. 63”. Back home their father’s went without their warble fly destructor.Owing to the lack of material the pro­gram of distribution was dropped. Now the material is once more available ini quantity the county council have taken up the job where they left off.It has been argued that the former pro­gram educated the farmers into use of the powder. It has been argued that a farmer I should buy his own warble fly powder and get on with the job.The agricultural committee and the county council, however, are aware that if the task of ridding Oxford of this pest is to be done it must be as near a 100 per cent, coverage that possibly can be reach­ed. They have taken the best way of achieving that goal.MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1947Useful Booklet on Woodlot ManagementThree hundred copies of a booklet ap­propriately called “Practical Woodlot Man- , agement” are being distributed by the re- ; forestation committee of the county council to schools and libraries throughout Oxford. IThe use of the word “practical” in the booklet’s title is fitting because the book deals with its subject in that fashion. In­structions for planting and care of trees in woodlots are given in easily grasped details. The book abounds with illustrations show- t ing clearly the right and wrong methods of management.The aim of the book is told in the first paragraph of its introduction:“Most of our accessible forests, such as farm woodlots, can be made much more use­ful and profitable than they are. This book­let aims to show how this may be done; how to enable forest land to produce more wood of better quality continuously and more quickly.”“The demand for practical knowledge of forestry has become greater than its sup- I ply,” the instruction comments.The reason for the distribution of “Prac­tical Woodlot Management” is also given in the introduction:“This booklet concerns not only forest owners who wish to increase their profits through proper management of their for­ests. It concerns everyone, as a forest truly is everyone's benefactor. Wood is used for our needs daily, in many forms, but the for­est also benefits us all in many other ways. Forests are needed for the conservation of water supply in the soil and control of the flow of streams, to reduce or avert the dan­ger of floods and droughts; for protection of soil from erosion; for fish and game pro­tection; for good influence upon adjacent crops; and for other vital needs, such as wholesale outdoor recreation.“Too often, to their sorrow, people have not appreciated this until too late.”Holding Up Of Grants SuggestedBearing in mind some heavy ex- penditure®, which he said would face the county this year, Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg, chair­man of the finande committee of Oxford County Council requested l his morning that committees handling grants consider holding them over until the March session of council.Reeve Watts declared he did not wish to dictate to chairmen of other committees but he believed the plan would allow considera­tion to be given to all requests for grants at. that time. By the March session, he reasoned, all appeals being made to the council would be in hand.Endorses SuggestionWarden Milton Betteridge en­dorsed Mr. Watts' suggestion pointing out that by the March session the council would have a better idea of the money which would be available for grants.Wentworth county wrote the council stating they had endorsed the Oxford resolution for compul­sory automobile insurance. Went­worth did not endorse the resolu­tion requesting government sub­sidy for sewage disposal plants inWest Zorra Favors T.V.A.1 ■ .EMBRO—The proposed Thames Valley Authority will receive sup­port from the council of West Zor­ra township when steps are taken to organize such an authority, a report of the council’s meeting on Monday afternoon indicates.The council named Reeve O. H. Murray'as a delegate to a meeting to be held in the near future for the purpose of forming the Thames Valley Authority. Reeve Murray was instructed by the council to . vote in favor of establishing the conservation measure in the Thames Watershed.. . ‘‘WWj 'g." 'communltlrw of 1,500 population or less.Brunt county endorsed the re­solution regarding automobile in­surance and fil<d the resolution on sewage disposal,HMpitalTavistock council in a letter [ pointed out that since January 1, 1947, the citizens of that village have been charged an equalization surcharge of $1.50 per day while ’ patients in the Stratford Genera!Hospital.Inasmuch, the letter continued, as Tavistock js contributing: through the county to all hospitals in Oxford the Tavistock council feel that Oxford county should as­sume the equalization surcharge.The council gave first reading to five bylaws dealing with the general administration of the county and then moved into com­mittee. The roads, property and printing committees met.On Thursday afternoon the re­solution from East Missouri town­ship council wishing to incorpor­ate the north part of that town­ship into the proposed new St. Mary's’ High School district was approved by the county council.Road ReportA report of the Woodstock Sub­urban Road Commission adopted; by the council showed estimated expenditures on suburban roads for 1947 at $6,237.36. The city of Woodstock’s share in the expense was set at $1,500.Shortly after three o'clock on Thursday afternoon the council j was informed of the death of Mrs. । Grace Skinner, wife of the jail, governor. Jack Skinner. The mem- j bers of the council stood in silence I for a few minutes out of respect | to Mrs. Skinner.At the close of the afternoon session, Warden Betteridge noted that it would,be impossible to fin­ish up the January session this week. Council decided to meet on Wednesday and Thursday of next week to complete the session.LQ>pr. 1947. King“Let’s sit this one out: Your feet are killing me! Agriculture Course PlansCompleted; Broad ProgramAgriculture Course Opens With Over Fifty StudentsThe most oustanding short । course ever held in this county was the prediction of Oxford's ag­ricultural representative. G. R. Green as the program for the six-week long agricultural school was completed yesterday.Tire course will be oustanding in several ways, in the scope of the ! subjects covered, in the accommo- I dot ion available and in the fact j that the instructors for the course,Muir, Woodstock, are acting as In­structors for classes on farm man-agement, soils, animal husbandry, manual training and other farm subjects.Dr. Russell McDonald, Wood- stock, will conduct a period each week in veterinary science and will deal with common diseases offarm animals.George Laird, Innerkip, will have several periods of Instruc­tion on fruit growing and market­ing.The instruction on farm mech­anics will be given by Wilbur Nancikivell. Woodstock.Henry A. Clark, Woodstock, will conduct a music appreciation class two periods each week. A period of adult education will be held each Friday afternoon.Byron Jenvey, Ingersoll, will have a special lecture on the prin­ciples of livestock breeding.W. A. G. Thurston. Stratford, zone forester for Oxford. Perth and Huron, will have a whole morning on the subject of refores­tation.Dr. O. C. Powers, M.O.H. for Oxford will have a lecture on the j Thursday morning of the second week.Other special lectures and fea­tures are expected to be added to the program as the course pro­gresses. Among these it is hoped will be a speaker from the Poul­try Department of the Ontario Agricultural College.The girls’ home economics course will be in charge of Miss Lia Lindsay, Toronto, of the Wo- Ejrjs men’s Institute Branch of the De-The classes will commence at; partment of Agricult ure. Miss 10 each morning, will continue un-! Lindsay will instruct in foods and til 12, will resume at 12.45 and I nutrition. ,close at 3.30 p.m. The students j Instructions for the girls in will be required to bring a lunch clothing will be given by Miss Lu- - lu Row and Miss Eleanor Kidd,will be county.The Course nomics.drawn largely from theOpens Jan. 21Oxford County Short in Agriculture and Eco- which is the schools of-ficial name, will open on Tuesday morning, January 21, and will be held from Monday to Friday each week until February 28.Short courses have been held in the county from 1914 until the outbreak of the Second Great War. In other years they have been held in township halls and j in what accommodation was avail­able as the course moved each year from one township to anoth­er. 0Tliis year will mark a new ven­ture in short course work as the school will be held in the build­ings at the Woodstock fair­grounds.Varied ClassesA complete time table for the boy’s classes appears elsewhere in today’s edition. The girls' classes will cover home economics with instruction in foods, nutrition and clothing. All adult education and music classes will be open to the^Georg^BeH,11 assistant agricul- both of the Women’s Institute tural representative, and Alex Branch.Re-Stocking Of Streams In OxfordSpeckled trout, brown trout and spawn of pickerel were planted in the streams and ponds of the county last year by the Oxford Fish and Game Protective Assoc­iation, William Turner, the assoc- iation’s chairman of fish culture told the annual meeting.Speckled trout were planted as follows: 900 in Cold Spring Creek,; half mile west, and half a mile south of Thamesford; 1500 in Washington Creek at Washington; 1500 in Black Creek one and a half miles east of Bright; 1400 in Monroe Creek, one mile north of Embro; 100 halfway betweenI Norwich and Otterville; 500 in McKenzie Creek north of Kintore;!11800 in Folden’s Creek, half a । mile north of Foldens; 1200 in Harrington Creek at Harrington;1800 in Rock Spring Millpond, southeast of Springford.Brown trout were planted as I follows: 1600 in Kintore Creek, i six miles north of Thamesford;1200 in Brooksdale Creek, six miles north of Embro; 5000 in Cedar Creek running south from i Southside Park; 4000 in Mud Branch, five mill's north of Wood- stock on No, 19 Highway; 3600 in. Whiting Creek, Ingersoll on south, side of hospital; 4<XX) In Big Swamp Creek west of Ingersoll at Five Points: 2800 In Stoney Creek one mile northwest of Tillsonburg;1000 in Braemar Creek near Brae- mar; 1600 in Big Creek north of Harrnigton.Pickerel spawn were placed, 200.000 at Lakeside nod 100,000in Thames!'Hl pond.Thais the so/t-sheUcd egg you brought- homeATTENDING CONVENTIONRepresenting the Woodstock Agricultural Society at the class, "B” fairs convention today in Tor­onto are Harper Hammond, pres­ident of the. society; R. J. Forbes, second vice-president, and J. E. Nephew, secretary treasurer.PRESIDES AT CONVENTIONW. Corp, Tavistock, presided over the afternoon session today of the turnip growers’ meeting in connection with the convention of the Ontario Crop Improvement Association being held in Toronto.SPEAKS IN TORONTOW. A. Cockburn, Drumbo, will! be one of the guest speakers at, the session tomorrow in Toronto of the Ontario Association of Agri­cultural Societies. Mr. Cockburn will speak on the subject. "Mur.-1 icipal Grants to Societies.”The ancient Biblical theme of sworda beaten into plowshares । was seen in its modern sense this morning at the Woodstock fair­grounds.In a building, once part of an army training centre, used for preparing men for the art of war, over 50 young people gathered for a course which will teach them the basic art of peace- agriculture.Ever since 1914, with the ex­ception of the period during the j Second Great War, short courses in agriculture have been held m Oxford County, G. R. Green, ag­ricultural representative, told the group this morning. The six-week course commencing today, Mr. Green hoped, would be the begin­ning of something in the way of a permanent set-up for the courses. ,This morning saw the official opening of school with over 50 boys from Oxford county farms present but only two girls to take the home economics course which is part of the instruction being offered. The opinion was expressed that the girls’ course would see a much larger attend­ance as this week progressed.Visit PlantsThis afternoon the young peo­ple will be taken through the plants of the Oxford Farmers’ and the Oxford Fruit Co-opera­tives, a tour which is part of the instruction being given. Tomor­row morning classes will com- fence on the subjects outlined i the program.‘We are at the dawn of a new as far as our young people’s in the county is concerned,” I Mr. Green at the opening ? course.was gratifying, he said, to : that after the war something ' be salvaged which would ■.'de accommodation for agri- R-ra! courses of such that was never dreamed of until the prop­erty became available again.“We have a great deal to be thankful for, having such a set-up at our disposal,” he declared. "It is up to us to make something of it.”Using Three BuildingsThe course is using three of the14 buildings which the agricultural J society obtained In the aetfltateilt with War Assets Corporation.' They are the farmer sergeants' mess, just Inside the main gate.; the recreation hall and the former mechanics' building.Rev. J. H. Geoghegan, rector of New St. Paul's church, led a devo­tional period. Speaking to the students he drew to their minds the great advance made by agri­culture in the past 25 years. He pointed out that every person was interdependent one on the other in life and that one only succeeded | according to the effort he put' forth.“Take everything you can take from the men who come here to speak to you, take it back and make use of It every day. and re­member farming Is a 12-monthx of the year and a 24-hour a day job,” Mr. Geoghegan advised.Great ImprovementJ. Winston Nichols, warden of Oxford during 1946, expressed the opinion that the school was a grand idea and a great improve­ment over the old system.Mr. Green introduced ex-Reeve Clare Peers, chairman of the 1946 agricultural committee of the county council; Reeve W. J. Cuth­bert, West Oxford, and Deputy Reeve H. A, Little, Dereham; Charles Milton, president of the Oxford Federation of Agriculture; and Ralph Sparks, president of the county junior farmers organ­ization.Members of the staff of the course introduced were: Miss Lulu Row and Miss Ina Lindsay, who will conduct the home economics course; Henry Clark, Woodstock, who will instruct in music, and George Bell, assistant agricultural representative.763,200 Eggs From Oxford on Way to BritainMEETING POSTPONEDDue to the condition of roads throughout the county the regular meeting of the Oxford county home committee which was to have been held this afternoon wai postponed until next Tuesday. PROGRAM o£ OXFORD COUNTY SHORT COURSE In AGRICULTURE and ECONOMICSWoodstock Fair Grounds, January 21—February 28TIME: 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.JANUARY 21-24 INCLUSIVEMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYIntroductionFeeds and FeedingAnimal HusbandrySoilsFarm ManagementSeed JudgingMusic— —, -------- _LivestockJudging_____FarmMechanics _Co-Op.Annual____AdultEducation ......Hay and PasturesPoultryFarmManagementAnimal HusbandryFarm AccountingPlanting an J Care of OrchardMusicVeterinaryScienceDr. PowersMusicManual TrainingLivestock JudgingFarmMechanicsLivestock JudgingAdult EducationFEBRUARY 3-7 INCLUSIVECereal CropsThe History and Development of the Co-Op. In the Cou tyFarm ManagementSeed JudgingThe Principles of Co-operative MarketingSpray Program Fruits and PotatoesMusicVeterinary ScienceManufacturing of FeedsMusicManual - TrainingLivestock JudgingFann MechanicsLivestock JudgingAdultEducationFEBRUARY 10-14 INCLUSIVEFeeding and Management of LivestockFeeds and FeedingFann ManagementBankingAnimal HusbandrySoil Management OrchardsMusicVeterinary ScienceProduction of Clean Milk on FarmMusicManual TrainingLivestockJudging_____Farm MechanicsPrinciples of BreedingAdult EducationFeeding and Management of LivestockFeeds and FeedingFarm ManagementReforestationAnimal HusbandryMarketing of FruitsMusicVeterinaryScienceMusicManual TrainingLivestock JudgingFarm MechanicsLivestock JudgingAdult EducationFEBRUARY 24-28 INCLUSIVEWeeds and Weed SeedsAnimal HusbandryFarm ManagementWeeds and Weed SeedsPublic SpeakingWeeds and Weed SeedsMusicFarm ManagementSeed JudgingMusicManual TrainingLivestockJudging____MechanicsLivestock JudgingAdult EducationThe program for the boys is detailed above, except for the names of the lecturers, which are as follows: . , . * , ,George Laird, Manager, Oxford Fruit Co-operative: Planting and care of Orchard, Spray Program, Fruits and Potatoes; Orchard Soil Management, Marketing of Fruits.Dr. R. J. McDonald, Chief Technician, Artificial Insemination Unit; Veterinary Science.Wilbur Nancekivell, Oxford Farmers’ Co-op.; Farm Mechanics.Byron Jenvey, Ingersoll: Principles of Breeding.Henrv A. Clark, Organist, New St Paul’s Church, Woodstock: Music.j. E. Nephew, Manager, Oxford Farmers’ Co-operative Produce Company, Woodstock: The Principles of Co-operative Marketing. .Arnold Gee, Asst. Manager, Oxford Farmers’ Cooperative: Manufacturing of Feeds.Frank Leslie, Asst. Manager, Oxford Farmers’ Co-operative, in charge of Cheese: Pro­duction of Clean NIilk on Farm.W. A. G. Thurston, Zone Forester, Stratford: Reforestation.Dr. Powers. Woodstock: County Medical Health Unit.W. M. George, Manager, Royal Bank, Woodstock: Banking.G. R. Green, Agricultural Representative, Woodstock: The History and Development of the Cooperative In the County. .. , „The balance of the subjects will he taken by George 12. Bell, Asst. Agricultural Represen­tative, and W. Alex Muir. The Adult Educati on Program will be ready for announcement at the beginning of the Course.HOME ECONOMICS COURSEMiss Ina Lindsay in charge of Meal Planning and Food Preparation: This Includes study and work with food for family meals and special occasions, table setting and service and the importance of food in keeping us well.Home Management: Organization of housework and selection and care of equipment.Miss Eleanor Kidd and Miss Lulu Row in charge of Clothing: Selection of clothing, dressmaking, grooming, care of clothing and wardrobe planning. Do not buy material before the course begins. •.If you plan to take either of these courses, send your name and address in to the Depart­ment of Agriculture, Woodstock, without delay, for further particulars.G. R. GREEN, Agricultural RepresentativeG. E. BELL, Assistant Representative KEEP THIS TIME TABLE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.Road Situation Gradually Improves; Harrington and Bright are Still Cut OffShouldOf Water WhereIt First Falls"We should take care of the water when and where It falls, rather than trying to harness it after it runs wild,” Watson H. Porter told the Middlesex coun­ty council. London, last night, when speaking in support of the Thames Valley Authority scheme.Rural municipalities entering a scheme such as the proposed Thames Valley Authority will not suffer any loss of assessment where lands are taken over for conservation works, Mr. Porter declared.Editor of The Farmer’s Advo­cate and chairman of the Thames Valley steering committee, Mr. Porter addressed council regard­ing the river valley authority which has been discussed for the Thames. He noted "some lack of | information on the subject,” which he said had given rise to misun­derstanding in certain municipali­ties.In Mr. Porter’s opinion, those municipalities losing certain lands to any conservation works would stand'to benefit, rather than lose. An increase in the value of the properties could quite reasonably [ be expected in fact.To a query as to what share of the financial burden the rural mu­nicipalities would have to pay to­ward a large-scale conservation program, he replied that he did not know of "any scheme on the North American continent” where they had been required to make an actual financial contribution.These costs, he explained, would | be borne by the various urban municipalities deriving benefits, assisted by the Government The farmer’s contribution would be one of proper land use and refor­estation.“As far as the Thames is con­cerned, however, it would be a predominantly rural affair.” de­clared Mr. Porter. “For this rea­son the success or failure of the Thames Valley Authority is up to the rural municipalities.”He observed that counties are [ not eligible to call meetings to; establish authorities, but took the opportunity of reaching the rep­resentatives of the various town­ships in Middlesex through the medium of the county council."Each of you represents a mu­nicipal council,” he told the mem­bers. “And as such, you will be called upon to make a decision.'’Mr. Porter urged support for the proposed Thames Valley pro­gram on the basis of its eventual benefits to all the people living in the watershed, both rural and urban.“We should take care of the water when and where it falls, rather than trying to harness it ; after it runs wild,” he declared.MRS. JOHN F. MCDONALD ]There was a very large at­tendance of relatives, friends and neighbors at the funeral service for the late Agnes Smith, wife of John F. McDonald, Uth Line, East Zorra, whose death occurred ’February 4, held Thursday al ternoon from the E. F. Meadows funeral home. A profusion of beautiful floral tributes was fur- j ther evidence of the sympathy and esteem of friends. Rev. U D. | Gaynor of Chalmers United church conducted the service, as, slated by Rev. M. P. Smith of London, formerly of Woodstock. County officials and members of the county council attended the service, in tribute to Mr. Mc­Donald. a former warden of Ox­ford. During the service Mrs. A. G. Murray sang "ThePeace,” accompanied by a iss Marlo Thomson at the chapel or­gan. Flower bearers wore neigh­bors and friends and casket bear­ers were Lou Osborne. Roy Os- borne, Harry Foster. Grafton McLevln, Art Karn and Grafton ! Glaves. Temporary entombment Iwas made in the mausoleum. 01 OXFORD QI FlClAl^ IN GALLERYWardens’ Photos Reveal Decline of BeardsBY STEWART WATSON Wnodstoek F. 1*. Bureau WOODSTOCK, Feb, 3—With deference to Sarnia’s city fathers, post and present, the Oxford County court house here contains h longer, if not more hirsute, pictorial record of the progressive decline of beards as a sign of masculine virility.• « ♦The pictorial record of the wardens of this county dates back to 1850 and it candidly portrays the evolution of the face to its present day ''five o'clock shadow" status. A study of the leaders of Oxford Coun­ty from 1850 to the present reveals another general fact.• • •If the pictures hung in the City Council chambers can be taken as proof, with the de­cline of face foliage, the hair lint? has also receded.It Is not exactly known what part the women of thia county had in making their men see the light, and come out from behind their incognitos but it is strongly suspected they had a finger in the pie.• * •In any case since Warden Benjamin Van Norman's time in 1850 until Warden J. Win­ston Nichols' year in 1946, pic-Pictures Show Transition As County Leaders EliminateFacial Adornmentstorhil proof in the form of 91 pictures show the fall of the "beaver."• • •Following on the hcols of Warden Van Norman, Warden Donald Matheson, 1852 to 1856 and Warden John Barwick, 1857 and 1858 sported fine heard examples. From 1850 to 1885 side burns, vandykes and a wide variety of hair styles adorned the faces of this coun­try's wardens.• • •Then in 1885 Warden James MunYo, evidently flouted tradi­tion, and is portrayed with only a fine type handle-bar mus­tache. From 1885 to 1904 when Warden Thomas Lockhart oc­cupied the chair, the bushy beard type became less fre­quent and the devotees of the ' "barber shop mustache" styles more frequent. * #The bearded visage in war­dens' styles was definitely on the way out from 1905, when Lancelot Walter guided the council, until the iclgn <»f War­den Robert Fewster in 1918, There was one exception, how­ever, Warden H. S. Moore, who held office in 1900. During this period adornments centered on the upper lip, slzft and stylea varying in only minor degrees. I • ♦ *Abruptly the soup strainer mode became a thing of the past, and with three excep- ( tions, from 1918 until 1945, when Warden Alex MeCorquo- dale occupied the chair, the men presented clean shaven visages to the public. It re- mained for Warden J. Win­ston Nichols, 1946, to revive | the mustache. It was a tame affair compared with others. Its revival seems destined to be short-lived however, for the new warden thia year, Milton Betteridge, of East Nissouri, is clean shaven bo far.* * *Tribute has often been paid the men who guided the ban­ner County of Oxford through times of war and peace, to its | present solid position in the province. Evidently wardens’ beards of the past were not worn to hide weak or undeter- । mined chins for the county rec­ords show one progressive milestone after another.Highways Blocked as Gale Piles Up Snow in DriftsA snowfall of several inches yesterday, swept by winds reach­ing a velocity of over 40-miles- per-hour, blocked highways and county roads throughout Western Ontario.The only highway open out of Woodstock this morning was No. 2 and it is about the only main highway that is open in this section of the province, reports say. No. 19 highway from Ingersoll to Till-j sonburg is also open for traffic.Other provincial highways out of Woodstock are blocked and bus schedules are being cancelled. । Department of Highways officials issued a warning to motorists last night asking the mto keep off the highways.Oxford Raised $12,440.19 for Cancer CampaignFred Lowes, chairman of the Oxford County Branch of the On­tario Cancer Foundation, reported today that the final returns for Oxford county were ? 12,440,19, and that all subscriptions have been forwarded on to the oronto office.The committee for the cancer foundation in Oxford county re­ported that due to the number of subKcriptions involved it is not possible to make any further de­tailed report but that a complete report has been kept and is in the care of E, S, Clifton, Beachville. The committee wish to thank everyone who in any way has help- edto make the campaign a succean.NEWELL-WOOD NUPTIALS—One of the season’s loveliest weddings was solemnized recently at the home of the bride’s; parents, Major and Mrs. Lionel C. Wood, 72 Wellington street । north, when their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Janet, and Wil-i liam Elwood Newell, pledged marriage vows. The bridegroom Is the son of Mr. Ernest Newell and the late Mrs. Newell of this city, and has resumed his studies at the Ontario College pf Art, in Toronto.—(Photo by Plomley).REGISTRY OFFICEA meeting of the county coun­cil’s property committee, under the chairmanship of Reeve G. Ross. East Zorra, is being held on Tues­day evening in the courthouse. Re­presentatives of Woodstock and Ingersoll councils are to be pre­sent to discuss the possibility of enlarging and improving the coun­ty registry office. •REGISTRY OFFICEMayor Donald A. Thomson and Aiderman M, McConnell attended a meeting on Tuesday evening with the members of the county council property committee. The subject of discussion was the pos­sibility of improving or enlarging the present county registry office. Mayor Charles Riley and Council­lor Russell Nunn were present as representatives of the Ingersoll I council.Registry Office Building to be Held Until 1949A recommendation Approved at a recent meeting of representa­tives of the county council, In­gersoll town council and Wood- stock city council, provided for the erection of a new registry of­fice. but that no building he done until 1949, it was revealed at Fri­day night’s finance meeting by Aiderman M. McConnell.The recommendation was agreed upon unanimously and the three councils felt that they did not want to hinder private building at the present time.The subject of a new registry office was first discussed at a county council meeting last year when a brief from the Oxford Law Association pointed out that the building is too small, overcrowd­ed. etc. They asked that the mat­ter be discussed carefully.The property committee of the county council was given authority to proceed with negotiations witaIngersoll and Woodstock in an at­tempt to have the building enlarg­ed.The negotiations proved success­ful and a new building will replace the registry office sometime in the future. TUESDAY, FEBKUARY l«. 1947High Praise Given JackWorthy Tribute to Police OfficerIt is noteworthy that the words of praise spoken Yesterday on behalf of Provincial Constable John Clark Came from all three sides of the county court in which he serv­ed; the magistrate, the crown attorney and lawyers who defended clients against charges in which Constable Clark figured as crown investigator and witness.Magistrate Groom classed Constable Clark, who left yesterday for new duties in Georgetown, as “an outstanding police offi­cer.” Both Crown Attorney Craig McKay and R. A. MacDougall added the character­istics of “efficiency” and “absolute fair­ness.”Ex-warden Nichols declared Constable Clark “would be missed throughout the county.” V. H. Tillson declared the police of­ficer to be “a good friends . .and a good fellow.”There is nothing this newspaper would add or subtract from the foregoing descrip­tion of Constable Clark.He is “an outstanding police officer, ef­ficient, absolutely fair, a good friend and a good fellow. . .one who will be missed throughout the county.MOVES TO GEORGETOWN— Provincial Constable John Clark, who has been stationed in Wood- stock and serving Oxford county since September, 1934, has re­ceived notice of his transfer to Georgetown. Constable Clark as­sumes his new duties on Mon­day,JREPLACES CLARK — Provin­cial Constable A. E. (Al) Law­rence was officially notified to­day of his transfer to Woodstock. He succeeds John Clark, who has been transferred to Georgetown, as provincial constable for Oxford county. The vacancy caused by the transfer of P.C. Lawrence will be filled by Neil Chamber- lain of London as provincial con­stable on highway patrol who will take over his duties immediately. Provincial Constable Lawrence was posted to Ingersoll nine years ago last December. In ad­dition to giving close attention to his constabulary duties, he has been an active member of the Ki wants Club and of the Baptist church.Example for Thames Valley WatershedAt present when plans are being made for the setting up the Thames Valley Au­thority it is interesting to note the action being taken by one of the first conserva­tion authorities organized in Ontario.The Minister of the Ontario Department of Planning and Development has announc­ed the plans of the Ganaraska Authority,; which was one of the first established un­der the Conservation Authorities Act.The Ganaraska River, flowing into Lake Ontario at Port Hope, floods annually and carries with it tons of rich top soil from i the watershed into the harbor mouth.The first project of the authority will be a huge reforestation plan for the even­tual planting of 20,000,000 trees, which will be started this spring. The Provincial Gov­ernment has agreed to pay half the cost of the land that may be required for this pur­pose in a 20,000, acre area designated as the Ganaraska Forest.Dams that will improve the flow of streams in the area are to be built, says the report. It is presumed these dams will be small flood control dams which will back up water over sections of non-arable land and control the water near the point where it falls rather than when it goes mad down stream.Here is an example of what might be done in the Thames watershed when, and if, the Thames Valley Authority becomes real­ity.Oxford Museum Exhibits Impress Ontario ExpertsA aurvey of Ontario muse­ums is being made at the present time for the purpose of seeing what displays mu- seums have and of finding out what can be done with them in the way of. visual educa­tion for school pupils.The survey is being car­ried out by E. C. Cross, chief of the division of extension of the Royal Ontario Muse­um, and Miss E A. McKenzie, of the public relations and publicity staff of the muse­um and has been authorized and financed by the Ontario Department of Education.In a survey of the museum In Woodstock yesterday the visitors were impressed with the plans presented by the Oxford Historical and Muse­um Society and the variety of historical displays available.Rom Butler, president ofCross said, pointing out that pioneer history, agriculture, etc., could bo taught to pu­pils. "It would be like a shot in the arm," he remarked.,The party visited the audi­torium of the city hall where in the future the exhibits will be displayed. They later vis­ited Miss Hill's home, which, as Mr. McKay remarked, is the oldest, home in Woodstock and in itself an historical spot.Clark for County Recordthe society, Craig McKay, a director, Mis". Louise Hill, curator and Hiss Effie Nes­bitt were present during the tour.The aim is to broaden the educational possibilities of museums by establishing them at key places so that pupils may come to the museum and be given an understanding Of community life in past years and at the present Mr. Cross said."We would like to see one day set aside in the school curriculum for a visit to the museum where a qualified teacher could explain the ex­hibits and give talks on tho displays/' he said."This is an entirely new field/’ Mr. McKay comment­ed."We would like to seo f.hwProvincial Constable John Cla:k, who han been atationed here for the paat 13 years, has been pro­moted and transferred to George­town. Provincial Constable Clark aaaumM his new duties today.With over If) years’ service In the provincial police. Constable Clark came to Woodiitoc; from Sarnia in September of 1934.While stationed in Woodstock. Constable Clark has been associa­ted with many important cases in Oxford county, and has been 1 credited with breaking many of | them. Most notable was his suc­cess in 1936 in bringing to justice four men who held up the Otter­ville bank. The four men receiv­ed sentences ranging from 10 to 14 years. They were traced by Constable Clark to Northern On­tario and brought back after a three-week investigation.Constable Clark al«o pl«y- «d an important part in the Tilford murder ease in 1935, when Mrs, Ann Tilford was convicted of murdering her husband and hanged Decem­ber 17, 1935.R. G. Groom, magistrate forOxford county, after learning of '^Constable Clark's promotion said he will be greatly missed here. “Constable Clark has bean an out­standing police officer and I am very happy that his good work has been recognized/’ Mr. Groom said.Craig McKay, K.C., said “I think everyone in Woodstock is sorry to see Jack Clark leave, Including even those whom It was his duty to ap­prehend and prosecute in court. He has the happy fac­ulty of being able to arrest a man and make him like it, or at least to retain his re­spect and friendship.“This is not the first offer of promotion that has coms his way unsolicited. A few months ago ' he was to have been moved up to j the commissioners department in ' Toronto but he was happily locat­ed here and we prevailed upon them to let him remain. Every- ' one associated with him, including the District Inspector and the commissioner at the parliament buildings knew he was one of the most efficient men on the provin­cial force, and his advancement i to a more important post was of ' course inevitable.“After efficiency, I would say his outstanding qualifica­tion was his absolute fairness to the accused in giving his evidence. The court could re­ly on his testimony one hun­dred per cent. If there is a better provincial police tifficer than Jack Clark I just haven’t met him.“Both Mrs. Clark and he have a host of friends in Woodstock and they will all be sorry to see them go”R. A. MacDougall, president of the Oxford County Law Associa­tion said that he was very sorry to see Provincial Constable Clark transferred. "In my opinion he is one of the best police officers I have ever had any connection with in my years of criminal practice, Constable Clark has always been fair and efficient. He is an all around good fellow and I am sorry to see him leave Woodstock.”Ex-warden, J. Winston Nichols: “I enjoyed working with Constable Clark during my term in council and 1 am sure he will be missed through­out the county,.”V. Tillson, K.C., Tillsonburg: “Constable Clark is a good friend of mine and is a good fellow. 1 am sorry to see him go but I am happy to hear that he has received a better position.”country school* sei vMr. Support of County Council Sought for Oxford MuseumMA museum for the county of Oxford Historical and Museum“A for the county ofOxford is a matter (or the county council of Oxford to interest it* self in." Craig McKny, K.C., a di­rector of the Oxford Historical and Museum Society stated before county council on Thursday after­noon-Mr. McKay and Ross Butler, president of the newly formed or- gankation, addressed council seek­ing support for a county muse­um. a project which they inform­ed the council had been given care­ful thought ana one which was badly needed in Oxford.Rich in History“Outside of York county and the Niagara peninsula there is not a move historic county in the pro­vince or in the dominion than Ox­ford,” declared Mr. McKay, add­ing “and we haven't a proper mu­seum.”He pointed our that the county of Brant has had a museum for 40 years and that it is supported by the county council there.The city council of Woodstock, he continued, has offered the up­per floor of the city hall for use as a museum. The society requires money to put the room in proper shape, to purchase display cases and hire a full time staff.Many AdvantagesSpeaking of the advantages of having a museum. Mr. McKay de­clared it would be a shrine to the memory of the grandparents ol residents of Oxford who came and cleared the county from a wilder­ness. The museum would 'provide a place for school pupils and others interested to study the his­tory of Oxford county.“The history of Oxford is just as important to them as the his­tory of ancient Rome and Greece,” Mi*. McKay contended.Ross Butler read to the council a portion of the constitution of theSociety including the aims and purposes of the organization. A budget of $18iS'l5 has been drawn up for this year he stated. Three parsons will be employed full during thia year on the project,Mr. BUtler added.To Elect Museum OfficersFinal step in the organization of the Oxford Historical and Mu-1 seum Society will be taken at the county court house this evening at 8 o'clock, when the 1947 officers of ihe society will be elected at a meeting which will be open to the public. Final approval of the con­stitution for the society is also expected to be given this evening.Election of officers of the His­torical and Museum Society marks the culmination of efforts which were originated last autumn by Miss Louise Hill, curator of the present museum, to enlarge and improve the museum and find bet­ter quarters for the many exhibits now stored in one room in the basement of the court house. There was a surge of interest in plans for giving Oxford a museum worthy of its proud history, and this interest'hit a peak last week) when Woodstock city council agreed to allow the Museum So­ciety to take over the second floor of the city hall.It is known t hat those who have interested themselves in the new museum so far have several am­bitious plans for its future de­velopment. Some of these may be outlined at this evening’s meet-The hope has been expressed taht this evening’s meeting will be representative of the whole county, since this is a matter of great interest to every community in Oxford.City Hall Auditorium to House Enlarged MuseumCity council’? offer o-f the. nudj- * torlum on the second floor of the city hall as a home for an enlarged and Improved Oxford county mu- aum was accepted la«t night by th® provisional committee which has brought Into being the new Oxford Historical and Museum S* The offer of the auditorium was | conveyed to Ross Butler, one o the moving spirit in the Museum Society, by Alderman Fred Ch I Ids, chairman of ihe market and build-j ings committee. Mr. Childs said that the society could take ovei the auditorium until such time as renovation plan9 for the city hall are put into effect.Alderman Childs stated this morning that renovation of the city hall would not take place at least until 1948. since approval of the ratepayers would be needed before such a step could be taken This gives the Museum Society at least a year in which to build up what society members hope will he a fine monument to the early settlers of Oxford county.Cali MeetingThe Oxford Historical and g |s uje Wl MMJ * seum Society will call a public estab]ish a permanent exhibition meeting to be held in the county ..................court house next Monday eV®?’”£’ at which a full slate of officers for 1947 will be elected. Members of the committee who have brought the new organization mto being expressed the hope last night that a full representation of all thp municipalities in the coun­ty would be present at this meet­ing, to ensure that the new muse-, Lm would truly reflect t^’histoj | of the county and the achieve ments of the people who contnbu-ted to that history.Ross Butler President MuseumRosa Butler of Woodstock wax elected president and manager at n regular meeting of the Oxford Historical and Museum Society last night. Four members of the board of directors were also elect­ed, Craig McKay. Miss Effie Nes­bitt, Ray W. Schell, and Ross Butler. _The objects and aims of the so­ciety were discussed at last night s meeting. These were described as the collection, preservation and display of relics, tools, implements, papers, books, deeds, crown grants, paintings, photographs, art ob­jects, and curios of interest per­taining to the historic past of Ox­ford County and visual display of the resources and products of thecounty. . 4It is the aim of the society to of such articles within the city of Woodstock to be open and available to the public, schools and reseafch workers; to engage int research of the history of the) development of Oxford county from the first settlers to the pres­ent time, and to maintain current current history and progress relat­ing to the county. ।It is also planned to find, mark and preserve in so far as is prac­tical, the historic sites within the county of Oxford, and to promote and hold exhibitions of art collec­tions and historic treasures other than the museum’s own.It was decided at last night's meeting that membership in the society shall be open to any citi­zen within the county of Oxford, or to anyone interested and willing to assist in the work of the so­ciety. All paid-up members in good standing are entitled to equal voting rights at each general meeting of the society.Museum Would Aid Education in OxfordCraig McKay, K.C. was on firm ground when he told the Oxford county council this week that it was essential that the rich history of this district be enshrined in a museum which would be a credit to the county.A well-cared for county museum would not only be a monument to the foresight and industry of the original settlers in Ox­ford but would be of inestimable benefit «to the teaching of history in city and dis­trict schools and would in great measure preserve and enrich tjie proud tradition of Oxford.In connection with the educational pos­sibilities of the museum and its great serv­ice to school children, Mr. McKay declaim­ed that “the history of Oxford is just as important to them as the history of ancient Rome and Greece.” This remark under­lines the quaint opinion of so many people that the only history worth studying is that of a distant people in a dusty age. The true purpose of history is to illustrate the man­ner in which manners, customs and ideas have combined to produce the life-stream J’s we now know it. From the past we draw on knowledge, observation and wisdom for the present and the future. Out of the past comes our pride of being.The manner in which the early settlers of Oxford laid out their farms, beat off invasion, fought for civil rights, establish­ed the foundations of solid communities and aided the growth of a nation—all this carries more important a- lesson for the present Oxford school child than some musty list of unimportant European dates.Brant DemonstratesValue of MuseumEstablishment of an adequate Oxford county museum is much closer to actuality today than it was some months ago, but it has been an uphill struggle all the way and the comparative few who have devoted con­siderable time and energy to the project to date still have many difficult problems to solve before the county can boast of having a museum worth the name.Just what can be achieved by an active museum organization has been demonstrat­ed in the neighboring county of Brant. The Brant Historical Society Museum’s annual report was published in the Brantford Ex­positor last week and contained some facts which speak for themselves.The Brant Museum was open on 186 days during 1946, with 1,208 adult visitors from out-of-town, exclusive of those from Brant­ford and neighboring towns and villages in Brant and Norfolk counties. The visitors came from all over Canada and the United States. In addition to this number, women’s organizations, church groups and school classes, accompanied by their teachers, vis­ited the museum. One of the largest groups of high school students came all the way from Toronto. Then besides the organized visits by school classes, children averaging eight a day dropped in to look over the his­torical exhibits.It is obvious that the Brant Museum is serving a great purpose, not only from the educational standpoint, but also from the standpoint of favorable and valuable pub­licity for Brantford itself and the whole sur­rounding district. An Oxford museum could do the same for Woodstock and the whole of this county. 44Gawdamighty! Thar goes Clem Cleaby in the Widow Perkins9 two-seater—that orta stir up gossip99Difference in Tax Rate Chief Objection of East Oxonians to AnnexationHigh School Area Plan Too Big for Personal Prejudice Declares Reeve of NorwichFair Price for Maple Syrup Said “$4 to $5 Per Callon'’ Oxford’s Seed Fair To ExpandW. Alex Muir. Wcoodstock, was elected president oft he Oxford Crop Improvement Association at its annual meeting held in the De­partment of Agriculture offices here yesterday.This year Will see the expansion of the annual seed fair, which for several years has been held in the city hall, for two days in March. The association decided yesterday to extend the fair to cover three days. March 6. 7, and 8. this year.Instead of the auditorium of the city hall being the location of the fair this year the show will be moved to the Woodstock fair*; grounds whore separate buildings will be used for the exhibits and for the program, The program vvill be held in the recreation hall. If arrangements can be made for it, the exhibits, probably including, some commercial exhibits, will be displayed in the former mechan­ics building on the grounds. Edi Hansuld, Tavistock, and Emerson Moulton, Verschoyle, were ap­pointed to enter- into discussion with the Woodstock agricultural society regarding this building. |Financial Report \Tire financial report, presented j by Russell Karn, treasurer, show­ed a balance of $75.48 on hand ns of February 4. Prize money paid out by the association at last year’s fair amounted to $329.85. this was less the 10 per cent, entry- fees.The 1946 fair had 136 entries and 83 exhibitors, the secretary, G. R. Green, reported.Ed. Hansuld. president for 1946, presided over the meeting. He ex­pressed his satisfaction with the results of last year’s work on the seed fair and on crop improve­ment work.G. R. Green, agricultural repre­sentative. gave an account of the experimental work done in the countyT this year in toe way of crop improvement. Alex Muir and George Matheson told of the “per­manent" pastures on their farms and how they were working out.Charles Brink was named chair­man for the election of officers. The election resulted as follows: past president, Ed. Hansuld; pres­ident. W. Alex Muir; first vice- president, Gordon Sandick; second vice-president, George Matheson; treasurer, Ralph Sparks; secre­tary, G. R. Green; directors, H. E. Longworth, Allan Beam, Charles Nancekivell, Henry Rosenberg, Roscoe Buck, John Hargreaves. Douglas Hart, Charles Brink, Edi Hansuld, Russell Karn, Robert Matheson, Stuart Cowan, William Wilford, Wesley Hallock, Jack Cockbum, Geoige Thornton. Dir­ectors from the Norwich and Till­son burg agricultural societies and the Norwich junior farmers Iiave yet to be appointed.FOX BOUNTY .The county fox bounty was paw on 25 pelts during the month of February. From the first of Feb­ruary' the bounty has been reduced to $2 from $4. During January 56 pelts were brought in for pay­ment. The number in February of last year on which bounty was collected was 46. East Zorra led the townships this month ir. the fox kill with nine pelts turned in. Blenheim and West Zorra each had three; Blandford. Dereham.! East Nissouti and outh Norwich two each, anti one from East Ox­ford and from North Norwich, ICOUNTY OF OXFORDTenders WantedQuotations will be received bv the undersigned until 12 o'clock noon., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1947. on premiums for Insurance on Roade, County Equipment and Em­ployers' Liability.Information may be obtained at tto« office of the undersigned.J. N. MEATHRELL. ICounty Road Superintendent, j Court House, WoodMtock, March 11, 1047.Seed Fair Will Occupy Buildings At FairgroundsTwo buildings at the Wood- stock fairgrounds will be used to house this year's Oxford Seed Fair. In former years the fair has been held in the auditorium of the city hall.This year, besides spreading the fair over three days, March 6, 7, I and 8, instead of toeusual two, the exhibits will be kept separate from the space used for present- ( ing the program.The former mechanics building at the fairgrounds will be used for seed fair exhibits and commer­cial exhibits. The program will be held in the recreation hall.Varied ProgramA varied program has been planned tor the three afternoons. On the Thursday Professor J. C. Steckley, Ridgetown, will speak on “Com”. W. 'Raymond Smith, consulting engineer for the On-! tario Department of Planning and Development will speak on1 the “Thames Valley Project.”On Friday afternoon Dr. G. P. । McRostie, O.A.C. Guelph, will tell of toe latest developments in cer­eal crops. H. D. Scotchmer, live­stock fieldman for the Dominion Department of Agriculture, will present a study of swine car­casses.“Pastures” will be the subject of an address by Professor Nor­man Thomas, of the Ontario Ag­ricultural College, on Saturday afternoon. Also on Saturday af­ternoon will be a swine carcass demonstration by Mr. Scotchmer.CONTEST WINNERSTwo Oxford county school pupils have been awarded $10 prizes in a conservation poster contest"Well. if shfi doesn't like it. you can exchange it tomorrow nightOXFORD SEED FAIR,FIELD CROP CONVENTION AND SWINE CARCASS DEMONSTRATIONFAIR GROUNDS, WOODSTOCK, MARCH 6th, 7th, & 8th, 1947.$500 IN PRIZE MONEY OFFERED FORBushel lots of Registered and Unregistered Grain, Small Seeds. Corn. Potatoes and Turnips. Special Classes of 10-bushel lots of Registered and No. 1 Oate and Barley, which will be auctioned at close of Fair. Township and Agricultural Society Exhibits. Junior Classes for Registered and Unregistered Grain; Special Class for members of 1946 Calf Chibs, for Registered or Unregistered Oats.Exhibits must be in place by 12 noon on March 6th. PROGRAMIn Recreation Hall each afternoon.THURSDAY—Professor J. C. Steckley, Ridgetown— “Corn.”Mr. Raywood Smith, London—“Thames Valley Project.”FRIDAY—Dr. G. P. McRostie, O.A.C., Guelph—“The Latest Developments in our Cereal Crops.” Mr. H. D. Scotchmer, Live Stock Fieldman, 1 Dom. Dept. Agriculture—“A Study ofSwine Carcasses.”SATURDAY—Professor Norman Thomas, O.A.C., Guelph—“Pastures.” Mr. H. D. Scotchmer—Swine Carcass De­monstration.Seed Fair and Commercial Exhibits in the Mechanics Bldg., next to the Breeding Unit Building.W. ALEX. MUIR, G. R. GREEN,President. Secretary.Crop Improvement Group Told of Experimental Work“I think we had one of the cleanest grain crops in the county last year I have ever seen,” G. R. Green, agricultural representative speaking to the Oxford Crop Im­provement Association, declared at the annual meeting yesterday.“Last year I only saw two heads of loose smut in the oats,” Mr. Green continued. He urged that the smut treatment be. keptHe explained that there were five acre test'plots in pasture ex­perimental work in each of the 11 townships in Ahe county.“We are) exceptionally well pleased with the development of our pasture plot experiments so far,” he declared.He pointed out that some farm­ers have a tendency to sew the pasture mixture in rows when for the best results it should be sown broadcast. The latter method gives a much better- coverage of the field which helps in retaining moisture.Variety Test PlotsSpeaking of the variety test plots in oats conducted last year, Mr. Green showed the meeting samples of the grain taken from the experimental plots. Of the va­rieties Alaska was the best look­ing, he said. Beaver showed up well being resistant to both leaf and stem rust. Urban was good with a slight rust. Ajax oats were grown generally all over the coun­ty at present, he added.Telling of the work on fertilizer experiments, Mr. Green drew the attention of the meeting to sam­ples of oats and barley which had been taken from plots on which experiments for potash had been carried out. He expressed the be­lief that it was a deficiency of potash that was making the grain to go down in a storm.Using the blackboard, he point­ed out that 50 bushels of grain re­quired for growth 25 pounds of phosphate and 45 of potash. The fertilizer used generally in the county was 0-14-7. he added. This mixture gave on the basis of 150 pound application 21 pounds of phosphate but only 10 pounds of potash, which application, he stat- ■ ed, was not nearly enough.The samples taken from the exporimental plots ranged from those with a low potash applies- 1 tion to a high rating. The low application samples showed “knuckling” and poor straw. The higher application samples had good firm straw. TEN YEARS AGOS. R. Wallace, ex-warden of Ox- ford and Fenian Rnki veteran cele­brated his 93rd birthday al his home at Burgessville,City and county united in tri­bute to Hon. P. M. Dewan. mem­ber lor Oxford and newly appoint­ed Ontario Minister of Agricul­ture. at a largely attended banquet in the armory,J. E. Nephew. Kemptville, was appointed assistant manager of the Oxford Farmers' Co-operative Go,, following appointment of the manager, Hon. P. M. Dewan, as Minister of Agriculture.Warden C. F. Beagley, Embro. was host at the annual warden’s dinner to members of the 1937 county council anr’ others, at the New Commercial Hotel.An auction sale of 34 pieces of Oxford County property for back taxes, was held at the court house by Adam Roth, county clerk.Roads committee of the county j council announced a plan of hard surfacing of county roads, replac­ing the present gravel surfaces.S. R. Wallace, ex-warden of Ox­ford and Fenian Raid veteran, died at Burgessville in his 94th year.Robert Oliver, Thamesford, re-, tiring warden of Oxford County, was host at the annual warden's dinner at Chalmers Church, Wood- stock.Robert Oliver, retiring warden of Oxford county., was presented with a gold headed cane by mem­bers of the county council at the closing session.County council concluded its [ final session of the year with a "love feast," in which members paid tribute to Warden Baechler (and each other.The price of eggs in Woodstock soared to 75 cents per dozen.William Homes, a former warden of Oxford County was appointed post master at Otterville succeed­ing the late C. A. Garthwaite.S. Allen cider plant at Norwich ceased operations for the season during which 60,000 bushels of apples wore handled.Oxford county Holstein breed­ers made a clean sweep In the Hol­stein classes at the Royal Winter Fair.Balloting for jurors for the Spring Assizes was conducted at the courthouse in charge of Judge J. G. Wallace, Warden Andrew Baechler, County Treasurer Robert McIntosh, Crown Attorney R, N. Ball, Sheriff McGhee, H. B. Sproat and City Treasurer F. H. Down.Do You Remember?25 YEARS AGOAndrew Baechler, reeve of Tav­istock, was elected warden of Ox­ford county for the year 1022,Property committee of the coun­ty council issued Instructions to an architect to prepare plans for a new house for the caretaker uf the county buildings.County Treasurer Robert Mc­Intosh, in interview, recalled deeds of the famous Zorra tug- of-war team of which he was an­chor man, which won I he world's championship at Chicago in 1893.City council decided to build a I home for the court house caretaker , on the grounds, north of the build- ■ Ing, at a cost riot to exceed $5,000.William Forbes, Oxford countyj road superintendent, attended the Ontario Good Roads Association convention in Toronto.County council accepted the es­timate of the roads committee for $160,000 to be spent on county roads during the year.I Several Oxford residents were mentioned for the position of reg­istrar, following the death of G. R. Pattulo.The Provincial Department, of Highways finally decided to pave the bad stretch of roadway east of the city limits to a point one and a half miles past Eastwood.Peter McDonald, surrogate court, clerk, received injuries when he was knocked down by an auto­mobile on Reeve street.A ditching machine service for Oxford county farmers, was ar­ranged with the O.A.C., Guelph, through the efforts of G. R. Green, Oxford Agricultural representa­tive.County Road Superintendent Wililam Forbes was back at his office in the court house after his illness and was busy planning the season's county road work.Governor George Forbes of the county jail was congratulated by the county council on the fine ap­pearance of the jail interior after recent redecorations.The county council visited the' county home and congratulated I Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker, man­ager and matron, on the excellent conditions.County council met for its June I session with Warden Andrew | Baechler presiding and N. E. Birtch. countv clerk.William Forbes, county road superintendent, had a very narrow escape when his car was forced over an embankment near Embro by another car which continued on its way.Warden Baechler of Oxford county, Road Supt. William For­bes and Reeve George Hollier of Tillsonburg went, to Waterloo to 1 purchase stone crusher for the J county.Blandford and West Oxford townships decided to pay the full cost of tuition of puplis attending Woodstock public schools from those townships.Plans were made for a plowing match to be held at the farm of S. Lick, West Oxford. James Bas- tedo and F. G. Murdock were in charge of prizes.The new memorial to war her­oes of Embro ano West. Zorra was unveiled in Embro park with im­pressive ceremony.। A tug-of-war between Oxford, and Nissouri teams was a feature at Embro fair end Was won by theI Oxford team, captained by Harold Quinn. R. A. McDonald was cap­tain of the Nissouri team.The fine new home for the care­taker of the court house, or. Light fclreet, was completed at a cost of $7,000.W. O. Gronzebach, Hickson, last year’s provincial plowing champi- I on, camo first lr both open events 1 at the West Oxford plowing match ! on the Lick farm.Do You Remember?"* 15 YEARS AGO IRobert Oliver, reeve of Enet Nis- Bourl, was elected warden of Ox- ford county for the year 1932,Charles E. Burgess, clerk of North Norwich township for 47 years, was honored at a banquet on his retirement.The largo maple sugar camp of Lawrence Mitchel], near Innerkip. was destroyed by fire with loss es­timated at more than 2,000.The sword used by the sheriff in supreme court sittings, was or­iginally owned by Col. W. S. Light who commanded the Oxford Rifles at its organization in 1863, it was revealed by Col. W. T. McMullen at. an officers’ mess dinner.County council decided to limit road expenditures this year *o $80,000, about, half of the 1931 totaLEx-reeve W. J, McKay. East Zorra. was honored at a gathering at Hickson and presented with a- gold watch in appreciation of his many years service to the mun­icipality.A. E. Roth, county clerk, receiv­ed a cheque for $79,593 from the Department of Highways .repre­senting the government’s con­tribution of 50 per cent, of the year’s road expenditure.Supreme Court was formally opened at the court house but as the only case was settled in ad­vance, court closed within two minutes. Present were Peter Mc­Donald, court clerk; H. B. Sproat court crier and Sheriff McGhee. The judge did not attend.Pupils of S.S, No. 3, East Zorra, had a narrow escape when the roof of the school crashed in dur­ing a heavy vind storm.Proposal to form a new county composed of parts of Oxford, Brant. Wellington and Wentworth, was strongly objected to by resi­dents of Blenheim township.Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Webber.Westwood, N.J., formerly of East] Zorra, visited relatives in the city and district. Mr. Webber was| Warden of Oxford County in 1917.The new plant of the Norfolk Leaf Tobacco Co.. Tillsonburg, was nearing completion and ex- i pected to open shortly.James Pullin, Sweabifrg, was [ appointed chairman of the recent­ly formed County Cemetery Com- , mission, to look after rural ceme­teries. Other members were Reeve C.M. Carroll, Norwich, and Reeve J. F. McDonald. East Zorra.Tavistock village council an­nounced a cut in poll tax from $5 to $2.50.The road camp of the paving company which was working on No. 19 highway, north of Wood- stock, was the scene of a lunch­eon tendered city and county of­ficials, Reeve Andrew Baechler, Tavistock, and Mayor J. D. Hill, Woodstock, spoke at the luncheon.Judge J. G. Wallace of Oxford County reached retirement age of 75 but was to continue in office until December 1.Judge J. G. Wallace, retired as county judge of Ojtfond after 19 years in office and 49 years as a member of the Ontario Bar Asso-, elation.Finley E. Perrin, K.C., London lawyer, was announced as the new Oxford Count court judge, succeed­ing Judge J. G. Wallace, retired, I.Tail Governor George Forbes and 1 Police Constable Sid Hemmings wont to Hamilton to bring back one of three men who walked away from Woodstock jail while working outside and who was cap- , lured In that city.G. Skillings, Blandford, purchas­ed 150 acres of land in that town- shio at a tax sale, for only $2.| Reeve Johnson in county council proposed a prohibitive tax on Al- sation or rxillce dogs, which were termed "sheep killers."Do You Rememberl j10 YEARS AGOThe county council at Ite Janu­ary MMion with Warden C. F. Beagley presiding, planned to epend $52,000 on county roadm during the year.Work of redecorating the mam court room at the court house was completed. The work was done by prisoners at the county jail with a turnkey in charge.The first annual conference ol township road superintendents of the counties of Oxford. Norfolk and Perth, opened at the court house.Dr. J. E. Jackson, Embro, was appointed a coroner for Oxford county.Woodstock and Oxford experi­enced worst spring flood In 50 years. A washout on the C.N.R. near Beachville took three lives as train derailed, those of the engin­eer and fireman and Dr. J. H. Mc­Donald, Ingersoll physician.J. N. Methrell, county engineer, had a gang of men at work on county roads, filling In washouts after the recent floods.Nearly 17,500 small trees were delivered to Oxford rural schools to be distributed among the pupils for planting.Date of the unveiling of the bronze statue of Springbank Snow Countess, world champion Hol­stein, at the Dent farm, was set for August 4 or 5, the Holstein As­sociation of Canada announced.Paving of the north half of the new double highway to Eastwood was to be started soon, P. M. Dew­an. M.L.A., announced.A large number of Oxford coun­ty councillors were among the 600 representatives of counties who heard Premier M. F. Hepburn at Simcoe in an address on reforesta­tion.R. J. Forbes, manager of the Oxford County Home for Aged, was re-elected president of the Ontario Association of Managers and Matrons at the annual meet­ing in St, Catharines.County Council at its June ses­sion, under Warden C. F. Beag­ley of Embro, sought a method of proving ownership of some sheep killing dogs.Washouts and bridge damage in the county from spring floods, cost some $30,000. Warden C. F. Beagley told county council at its June session.Ex-wardens of Oxford County elected William Holmes of Otter* ville, president, succeeding C. W. Caroll, Norwich. Adam Roth, county clerk, gave an interesting history of Oxford County.County council decided to pur­chase two radios for the county home and also to repair the old music box in use there.John Martin. Jr., Bright, was, appointed Dtputy Sheriff of Ox­ford County, it. was announced by Sheriff C. E. Sutherland.Among the big crowd who at­tended the annual Oxford Coun­ty municipal picnic were many of the councillors and ex-wardens among whom were Louis Osborne, road superintendent for East Zor­ra township; Richard Wilson,. East Zorra councillor; Adam Roth, county clerk and J. M. Meather- ell. county road superintendentG. R. Green, Oxford agricultural I representative, received a request from an Ottawa citizen for a bag ' of “Oxford super table turnips/’William French was appointed clerk of Embro village, succeed­ing H. W. Sutherland, removed to Woodstock.Reeve William Lampman. East Oxford, was among those who re­ceived a Coronation Medal, in view of his office as president of the Oxford Children’s Aid Society. ONTARIO GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATIONFirst Organized 1894 Reorganized 1902PROGRAMME45th Annual Meeting February 25th and 26th 1947ONTARIOROYAL YORK HOTELToronto, OntarioA Parliament of Municipal Representatives and Others Interested in Highway Development in OntarioTHE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF RURAL MUNICIPALITIESCONVENTIONTo be held at55 Queen Street East, TorontoMonday and Tuesday, February 24-25th. 1947HONORARY PRESIDENT Mnrahidl Riithwcll, Navun, Ont.PAST PRESIDENTJ. N. Corry, R. R. No. 1, Atwood, Ont.1st. VICE-PRESIDENT Orhind Foster, Staples. Ont.2nd. VICE-PRESIDENT II. E. Killmun. Fenwick, Ont.DIRECTORSD. A. Hill. Waterford. Ont.J. P. MclHIeur, Casselman. Ont.Emeal J. Campbell. R. R. No. I, WaUaceburB, Ont.Dr. J. Howard Munro, Maxville, Ont.Robert .1. Reid, R. R. No. I, Arthur.Ont.Howard Mlskcll, Moon-town, Ont.S. M. Nicholson, R. R. 2, Belleville, Ont.W. S. Donaldson, Atwood, Ont.iPRESIDENTPeter J. Mather. Keene Ont.SECRETA R Y-TR EA SURERW. S. Milmine. Stoney Creek. Ont.ProgrammeWHILLIER AND COMPANY, MUNICIPAL STATIONERS, TORONTO. CANADATHE DAILY SENTINEL-REVIEW, WOODSTOCK—INGERSOLL, THURSDAY, MARCH 6,TRAIN WAS FREED OF THIS BANK—About noon on Wednesday a gang of men laid down their shovels, an engine noses into a cutting in the snow east of Norwich and was cou­pled to a box car. The engine reversed and the combination .passenger-freight train from Brantford to Tillsonburg was pulled free of the drifted snow which had held it fast from Monday morning. This picture Was taken looking into the culling from the northwest.— (Staff photo by Pres McMillan). ONTARIO GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION First Organized 1894 Reorganized 1902 PROGRAMME 45th Annual Meeting February 25th and 26th 1947 ONTARIO ROYAL YORK HOTEL Toronto, Ontario A Parliament of Municipal Representatives and Others Interested in Highway Development in Ontario MILESTONES 1894—Organization Ontario Good Ronds Association. 1890—Appointment A. W. Campbell, C.E.. Provincial Instructor in Roadmaking. 1901—Highway Improvement Act passed. Provincial sub­ sidy for construction of County Roads. 33 1-3 %. 1912—$5,000,000 granted for Colonization Roads. 1913—Public Roads and Highways Commission appointed. 1915—Ontario Highways Act—Suburban Areas author­ ized. Department of Public. Highways formed. Provincial subsidy, construction County Roads 40%, maintenance 20%. 1917—The Provincial Highways Act — 70% payable by Province. Provincial County Roads, 60% payable by Province. 1919—Federal Aid—County Road subsidy increased to 40% for construction and maintenance. 1920—Provincial highway mileage increased, 80% pay­ able by Province. Provincial aid, 20% for town­ ship roads, and 40% on Superintendent's salary. 1924—Provincial Aid—40% on County Bridges. 1925—Provincial Aid—Township road subsidy 30%, and 50% of Superintendent's salary. County road sub­ sidy, 50%. 1930—Township Road subsidy, 40%. 1935—The King’s Highways (Provincial.. Highways) 100% payable by Province. 1937—Township Road subsidy 50%. Northern Develop­ ment and Highway Departments amalgamated. 1938—Northern Townships subsidized under The High­ way Improvement Act. MILEAGE 1945 1946 The King's Highways-----------------------7.641 7.644 Northern Roads and Special Assistance-8,980 8.824 County Roads-----------------------—------8.520 8,560 Township Roads .----------------------------47.817 47.930 72,958 72.958 PROVINCIAL EXPENDITURES 1945 1946 The King’s Highways, etc. $12,602,604.30 $15,848,654,44 County Roads ________ 2,365,507.20 2,898,135.97 Township Roads and Indian Reserves 3.621,452.64 4.177,608-83 $18,589,564.14 $22,924,399.24 10:30 Tuesday Morning REGISTRATION APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES NOMINATING RESOLUTIONS The President’s Address Mr. W. S. McKay LUNCHEON, 12:15 P.M. Wardens of all Counties and Northern Representatives Chairman—Mr. J. G. Cameron 2:30 Tuesday Afternoon Address of Welcome His Worship Mayor Robert H. Saunders, of Toronto Reply on Behalf of the Association Mr. W. C. Nickerson, Haldimand County Address Honourable Geo. H. Doucett, Minister of Highways, Ontario Presentation of Life Memberships to Past Presidents and Others Address “The Future of the Association” Mr. W. J. Moore OPEN FORUM Introduction of any subject not on the Programme. 9:00-10:30 p. m. Tuesday (Parlor "C") Department Moving Pictures of 1. The Great North Road 2. Closing the Last Link in the Trans-Canada Highway 3. The Winter Offensive in Ontario 4. The Red Lake Road 10:00 Wednesday Morning Chairman—Mr. D. J. Emrey Address Mr. J. D. Millar, Deputy Minister of Highways, Ontario Address “Financing and Administration of Our Ontario Roads and Highways” Mr. T. J. Mahony Addresses Northern Ontario „ (a) “Northern Municipal Road Development” Mr. James Sinton, Regional Municipal Engineer, D.H.O. (b) “The Future of the North” Mr. Victor Evans, Reeve, Tisdale Township RESOLUTION PERIOD Mr. F. L. Weldon, Chairman 2:00 Wednesday Afternoon 7:00 Wednesday Evening ANNUAL BANQUET Royal York Hotel Procure your tickets early at Registration Booth. Price $2.00 Guest Speaker DR. ROBERT MacCLURE, F.R.C.S. (Edin.), FJ.C.S. Chairman—Mr. W. J. Moore Address “Classification of Roads With Reference to Weight of Loads” Mr. J. G. Cameron, County Engineer, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Special Entertainment Under the direction of Stanley St. John Address “The Place of Research in the Construction and Maintenance of Highways” Mr. John Walter, Soil Engineer, DJLO. Discussion Mr. D. J. Emrey, County Road Superintendent, Waterloo Mr. W. H. Knister, County Road Superintendent, Essex OPEN FORUM Receiving Reports Discussions ELECTION OF OFFICERS IN MEMORIAM JOHN MILLEN Director Died December 7th, 1946 PAST PRESIDENTS 1894— _._________Andrew Pattullo * * * 1910________________-W. H. Pugsley, York jgil________________Major T. L. Kennedy, Peel 1912________________Major T. L. Kennedy, Peel 1913__ _____________N. Vermilyea, Hastings 1914________________J. A. Sanderson, Grenville 1915_____________________S. L. Squire, Norfolk 191g S. L. Squire, Norfolk 1917 C. R. Wheelock, C.E., Dufferin 1918_____________C. R. Wheelock, C.E., Dufferin 1919_____________________K. W. McKay, Elgin 1920—_____Capt. Lucius E. Allen, C.E., Hastings 1921_________________T. J. Mahony, Wentworth 1922________________— W. H. Brown, Bruce 1993 ________.John Currie, Middlesex 1924___________________Hon. G. S. Henry, York 1925_______R. J. Hannah, Lennox and Addington 1926______.______J. E. Jamieson, M.P.P., Simcoe 1927_________F. A. Senecal, Prescott and Russell 1928 W. H. Nugent, Hastings 1929_____________________Robt. Johnson, Huron 1930 _________James Beattie, Wellington 1931 John O’Reilly, Victoria 1932_______Hon. F. G. McDairmid, Elgin 1933 Howard Craig, Carleton 1934 J. T. Sproule, M.P., Lambton 1935__________________J. Sibbitt, Frontenac 1936________Lt-Col. E. A. Adams, Prince Edward 1937__________________Wm. Colby, C.E., Kent 1938___________J. G. Cameron, C.E., Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry I939_____„_____________F. L. Weldon, Victoria 1940______ ______J. W. Haggerty, Hastings 1941 James Henderson, Dufferin 1942________________George H. Doucett, Lanark 1943_____________ Guy R. Marston, Norfolk 1944—__________________J, N. Allan, Haldimand 1945 W. H. Keith, Wellington Constitution Ontario Good Roads Association Article I.—Name.—This Association shall be known as the Ontario Good Roads Association. Article IT.—Location.—The headquarters of the Association shall be.at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. Article ITT.—Objects.—The objects for which this Association is organized are to acquire and disseminate information concerning highway construction and maintenance in the counties, towns, cities, and other municipalities of the Province; to stimulate interest in the subject, and to promote educational, legislat.ve, and other measures tending to their accomplishment. Article TV—Membership—Section 1. — The Association shall have the following classes of members, vtr.: Municipal, active, contributing, life, associate, and honorary members. Section 2. — The municipal members shall be the representa­ tives of the councils of counties, cities, towns, or other munici­ palities. The annual fee to be paid by municipal corporations shall be Cities over 100.000-.......$50.00 Counties ----------------$15.00 Cities over 50.000-------- 25.00 Towns --------———-- !0-°° All other cities_______ 15.00—...... Townships and villages 5.90 Associate membership. ———2$ cents Section 3. —Active members shall be persons who are actively engaged in laying out or supervising work of construction an-.’, maintenance of highways and streets, and those interested in highway development, who contribute an annual membership fee of One’ Dollar to the funds of the Association. Section 4. —Contributing members shall consist of societies or other commercial organizations paying a minimum of Ten Dollars per annum to the funds of the Association; each centnbutmg member shall be entitled to appoint one member to represent them at meetings of the Association. Section 5. —Honorary life members shall be those who have performed distinguished service in the cause of highway exten­ sion and improvement. They shall be nominated by the Execu­ tive and elected by the Association. Section 6. — Only municipal and active members shall hold office. Article V.—Officers.—The officers of this Association shad be elected for one year and sliall be selected from its municipal and active membership and shall consist of two Honorary I residents, a President, two Vice-Presidents, six Directors, and a Secretary- Treasurer, who, together with the Past. Presidents, shall consti­ tute an Executive Committee, of which five shall constitute a quorum. Article VI. —By-Laws.—By-laws for governing the Associ­ ation shall be made by the Executive, subject to the approval of the membership of this Association at its annual meeting. Article VII. —Amendments.—No amendment shall be made to this Constitution until same has been reported upon by the Executive. Article VIII.—It shall be the duty of the President to appoint a Nominating Committee at the first session of the convention. Such committee shall be composed of not less than tive members. Such committee may be added to at the option of the convention, and any increase in number beyond those appointed by the President shall be elected by the convention. The total number shall not exceed ten members, none of whom shah be eligible for appointment to office. The committee shall report nominations to the annual meeting. Officers of Good Roads Association Honorary Presidents J. N. Allan, Haldimand W. H. Keith, Wellington President W. S. McKay, Elgin First Vice-President W. J. Moore, Renfrew Second Vice-President D. J. Emrey, Waterloo Directors Richard Elliott, Bruce W. C. Nickerson. Lincoln L. H. Sibbick, Oxford V. Evans, Tisdale Twp. (Timmins) H. Cleave, Prince Edward Past Presidents Col. the Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Peel T. J. Mahony, Wentworth Hon. G. S. Henry, York J. E. Jamieson, Simcoe F. A. Senecal, Prescott and Russell Howard Craig, Carleton John Sibbitt, Frontenac William Colby, Kent J. G. Cameron, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry F. L. Weldon, Victoria James Henderson, Dufferin Hon. Geo. EL Doucett, Lanark Guy R. Marston, Norfolk Secretary-Treasurer T. J. Mahony 269 Parkdale Ave., Hamilton, Ont. THE ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF RURAL MUNICIPALITIES CONVENTION To be held at 55 Queen Street East, Toronto Monday and Tuesday, February 24-25th. 1947 HONORARY PRESIDENT Marshal! Ralhwell, Nnvun, Ont. PAST PRESIDENT J. N. Corry, R. R- No. 1, Atwood. Ont. Ut. VICE-PRESIDENT Orland Foster, Staples. Ont. 2nd. VICE-PRESIDENT II. E. Killmnn, Fenwick. Ont. DIRECTORS D. A. Hill. Waterford, Ont. J. P. Meillieur, Casselman, Ont. Ernest J. Campbell. R. R. No. 1, Wullnceburg, Ont. Dr. J. Howard Munro, Maxville, Ont. Robert J. Reid, R. It. No. 1, Arthur. Ont. Howard Mlakell, Mooretowij. Ont. S. M. Nicholson. R. R. 2, Belleville. Ont. W. S. Donaldson, Atwood. Ont. PRESIDENT Peter J. Mather. Keene Ont. SECR ETA RY-TREASI R ER W. S. Milminc, Stoney Creek. Ont. Programme W1IILL1EK AND COMPANY, MUNICIPAL .STATIONERS. TORONTO, CANADA 4 MONDAY MORNING — FEBRUARY 24th, 1947 TUESDAY MORNING — FEBRUARY 25th 9.30 AM Registration of Delegates. 10.00 AM. President Peter J. Mather — Opening Address Appointment of Nominating Committee 10.30 A.M. Report on Resolutions and discussion 11,15 A.M. Address — Past President J. N. Corry - “Tour in United States” under supervision of U.S. Land Conservation Service. Discussion led by Niram A. Fletcher - Reeve of Binbrook Township. 11 40 A.M. Address by Harold R. Scott - Minister of Land and Forests — Subject: “Forests, Game and Fish”. Discussion. 12.15 P.M. Adjournment. MONDAY AFTERNOON — FEBRUARY 24th 2,00 P.M. Address of Welcome by Robert H. Saunders, Mayor of Toronto. Reply to address — Dr. J. Howard Munro - Reeve of Maxville. 2.15 P.M. Address — Hon. George H. Dunbar, Minister of Municipal Affairs. 2.45 P.M. Address by J. L. Duffin, Ontario Department of Education - Subject: “School Grants” and other matters pertaining to secondary edu­ cation. Discussion. 3.15 P.M. Presentation and discussion of Resolutions. 5.30 P.M. Adjournment. 9.30 A.M. Registration of Candidates. 10.00 A.M. Presentations of Resolutions. Discussion on Resolutions. 10.45 A.M. A. J. B. Gray, Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs - Address: “Legislation for Municipal Councils”. (Questions will also be answered if time available). Discussion — W. M. Abraham, Clerk-Treas., of Kent County. 11.30 A.M. Address by Miss Muriel H. Milligan, Superin­ tendent of Wentworth County Children’s Aid Society - Subject: “Functions of the Child­ ren’s Aid Society”. (Miss Milligan is well qualified in this important work, and will an­ swer any questions which may be submitted following her address). TUESDAY AFTERNOON — FEBRUARY 25th 2.00 P.M. Presentation of Resolutions and Discussion. 2.30 P.M. A. J. B. Gray, Deputy Minister will answer questions on Municipal Affairs (Prepare and place written questions in question box). 3.30 P.M. Auditor’s Report. 3.40 P.M. Report of Nominating Committee. Election of Officers and Auditors. Discussion on Resolutions. 5.00 P.M. Adjournment. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1917,9District Roads Tightly Blocked By Worst Storm: ■ • „ ■ .■Ill /Measure Prepared for Warble Fly ControlThe Ontario Government is giving con­sideration to legislation which, if passed, will do much to control the warble-fly.The legislation is in the form of an act which will empower councils to pass a by­law to provide that all cattle within the municipality shall be treated for warble-fly. When the by-law has been passed, no cattle may be brought into the municipality be­tween April 1 and June 30 unless they have been treated for warble-fly during the cur­rent year.An inspector may be appointed under the by-law. Penalties are provided for viola­tion of the act on a scale of not less than $10 and not exceeding $50 for h first of­fence and not less than $50 and not more than $200 for a subsequent breach of the act.A council may pass the by-law, the act states, or, on receipt of a petition signed by at least 50 ratepayers the council of a town­ship “shall” make provision for the regula­tions.This year Oxford's county council is planning to distribute warble-fly powder to assist farmers in combatting the pest. When the enabling legislation has been passed by the Ontario Government the duty of ail township councils in Oxford is clear. They should support the work of the county coun­cil and pass the by-law to enforce the con­trol.While such legislation goes a long way in dealing a death blow to warbles it should go farther and give power to county councils to pass control by-laws. The work would then be centralized in the same manner as the Weed Control Act, which was recently taken out of township control and placed un­der county supervision.O®®sSPRING SUNSHINE AND HIGHER TEMPERATURES have now taken over the snow removal job in Oxford county, but memories of such drifts as those pictured above are still yivid. These pictures were taken just a few days ago along the Woodstock-Hickson branch line of the C.N.R., east of the Ontario Hospital. The top photo shows the railway plow chewing its way through the packed snow. The bottom picture gives evidence of the height to which driving winds piled the drifts.—(Staff Photos).County Begins To Dig Out As More Highways Opened THAT’S SNOW, THAT IS—An impression of the effect of I the drifting snow which plugged roads and railways in Ox­ford earlier this week can be gained from this picture taken near Norwich yesterday. The girls, Anne Cole, right, and Velma Stringer posed for the Sentinel-Review photographer at the top of a telegraph pole. Underneath the snow at the left are railway tracks, about 10 feet under. The girls are both carrying cameras, which many people were doing this week in Oxford, taking pictures of one of the worst storms in many years.—(Staff Photo).Proposed High School Areas Announced; Plan MeetingsA series of meetings to com­plete details for the proposed larger high school districts in Ox­ford have been planned for March 17 and 18. according to County Clerk L. K. Coles.Four meetings are scheduled for Norwich, Woodstock, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg. Gordon Duffin, De­partment of Education, will speak.Council and school board repre­sentatives from Norwich, South Norwich, North Norwich, Bur- ^essviUe, Burford, Windham and East Oxford are expected to at­tend the Norwich high school dis­trict meeting at the Norwich Le- g:on Hall, on March 17, at 2 p.m. j The proposed district comprises ) I Norwich Village and portions of Oxford, Brant and Norfolk coun- Jbea.Ingersoll DistrictA meeting of those interested in the proposed Ingersoll high school cbstrict is scheduled for March 17 at 8 p.m. al the Victory Memorial public school in Ingersoll. Repre-! sentatives from Ingersoll, Dere­ham, West Oxford, North Oxford, West Zorra, East Nissouri and North Dorchester are expected to attend.A Tillsonburg district meeting will be neld March 16.'The proposed area comprises Tillsonburg. and portions of Ox­ford, Elgin and Norfolk counties. Representatives from Tillsonburg, Dereham, South Norwich, Middle­ton, Bayham and Vienna are ex­pected to attend.A meeting for the proposed Woodstock area including sur­rounding municipalities is sched­uled for the night of March 18 at the Woodstock collegiate. Representatives from East Ox­ford, West Oxford, North Oxford, Blandford, East Zorra, West Zir-1 ra, Embro, Tavistock and Wood- stock are invited to attend.Travel on Concession Roads BadThe majority of the concession roads in Oxford county are block­ed or in o “heavy” condition, a check with key villages and towns in the county showed today. Sev­eral reported the worst conditions of the winter.In East Oxford, it was stated that roads are "mostly open. ’ Plows are working at full speed and it is expected that all roads will be open by this evening. jIn the South Norwich only a few roads are blocked and all are expected Io be open for travel to­night. In North Norwich, proceed­ing toward Woodstock, the road condition is worse, the report stated, with the majority in bad condition.Most roads are open and in fair condition in Dereham town­ship, the check revealed. Plows are working and roads are fair for travelling.In West Oxford much the same condition exists, but some roads are blocked and no inkling of when they would be open was given.North Oxford is experiencing difficulty. All roads, with one ex­ception north of Beachville are blocked and in Thamesford dis­trict the report stated “they have been opening some but mostly blocked.Northern townships of Nls- souri, East and West Zorra, Blandford and Blenheim report a few roads are open, hut the maj-! ority arc “blocked tight."Oxford Seed FairIn Better QuartersThe Woodstock fairgrounds this week will see its first fair in over eight years— the Oxford Seed Fair sponsored by the Crop Improvement Association of this county.For the past nine years, this event has been held every spring in the auditorium of the city hall. The accommodation was not suited for the fair but the sponsors did the best they could. Exhibits, judges, spectators, speakers and groups of farmers just visit­ing were all thrown together.This year, with the buildings at the fair­grounds available, the directors of the asso- j ciation saw their opportunity and were not slow in taking it up. They have arranged for two buildings on the grounds, the form­er mechanics building, where the exhibits of seeds and crops will be shown, and the recreation hall where the programs for the three afternoons will be held.In addition to moving to a new location, the fair this year will run for three-days in­stead of two as in the past.It was no idle boast of the association’s president, W. Alex Muir, when he said ear­lier this year, “I would like to see a bigger and better fair, the best in Ontario.”East Oxford Annexation to Be Debated at Public MeetA public meeting of all property owners in Eas»t Oxford township affected by the proposed annexa­tion of approximately one square mile of that township to the City of Woodstock w.ll be held tn the city hull on March 26 at 2 p.m., it was learned here today. BURIED TODAY—Reeve Wesley J. Cuthbert, West Oxford, who died at his home on Sunday even­ing, March 16, was burled today. The service was held from his late residence on the fourth con­cession of West Oxford.W. J. Cuthbert, Reeve ofTUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947West Oxford, Passes Awayre-election which he did success­fully.Other ActivitiesIn addition to the seat on theReeve Wesley J. Cuthbert, West Oxford, died on Sunday evening. March 16, at his home on lot lo. concession 4, of the township in which he was born. He was in his 66th year.Although in poor health, he in­sisted on attending the opening session of the county council m January of this year. At the end of the session’s second day he was forced to forego his determination and return to his home where he was confined to his bed for some eight weeks before his death.Mr. Cuthbert was born on con­cession 5 of West Oxford and was a life-long resident of the town­ship where he farmed. He was the son of the late John Cuth­bert, a former reeve of the town­ship. His father was reeve when the present county court housecounty council Reeve Cuthbert served for over 20 years as a school trustee of Folden’s school. He was a former president of the Foldens Cheese Factory and a di­rector for a number of years. During the years of the war, Mr. Cuthbert took an active part in canvassing for the Canadian Red Cross. He was a member of the Sweaburg United Church.This year he served on the agri­cultural, county home and print­ing and resolutions committees of the county council.He is survived by ns wife, the former Edith Budd; one son Ver­non at home; one daughter, Mrs. Frank Witty, Ingersoll; five grandchildren and one great grandchildren; two brothers, George in Sweaburg and Charles at Curries and one sister, Mrs. Pearl Burrill, Holbrook.The funeral will be held from the family residence, West Ox­ford, Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 i o’clock with temporary entomb- • ment in the Ingersoll mausoleum.was built.“Wes,” as he was known throughout the county, has taken an active part in municipal af­fairs. After serving as a township councillor, he was elected reeve in 1937. He had held the office of reeve on four occasions. He ex­pressed his intention to retire at the close of last year's council work but was urged to stand forHonor Memory Of Late ReeveOxford's county council stood in silence this inorning at the open­ing of rhe March session in mem­ory of the late Wesley J. Cuth­bert, reeve of West Oxford, who died on J larch 16.In tribute to the late reeve, Warden Milton Betteridge stated Mr. Cuthbert wag a “kind, sym- pathetic and a valued member of the county council.” He express-i ed the jympathy of the council to Mri. Cuthbert tied the family. IThe piaoe of the late reeve of West Oxford was filled this morn­ing by Percy Sage, acting reeve of the township, Mr. Sage was welcomed by the warden.An amendment to the Municipal Act passed last year permits an acting reave, appointed by resolu­tion of the township council to sit on county council. Prior to | 1 the amendment the acting reeve assumed all duties of the reeve except his seat on county council.Symbol of Tireless Service to CountyWhen Oxford’s county council met for its March session this morning a chair, va-. cant during the latter part of the January session was occupied. The chair for this ses­sion was in the possession of Percy Sage, acting reeve of West Oxford. Its previous occupant was the late Wesley J. Cuthbert, reeve of West Oxford, who was buried last Wednesday.Reeve Cuthbert was a conscientious member of the council, a faithful worker in the administration of his native county. During many years he devoted considerable time, not only to his duties as a member of county council, but first as a township coun­cillor and as a school trustee in West Oxford where he was born.His desire to serve Oxford he inherited from his father, the late John Cuthbert, who had been reeve of West Oxford a num­ber of years.Last year "Wes” indicated he was retir­ing from municipal life. A number of friends prevailed upon him to stand for the office of reeve once again. He consented and was re-elected.In poor health and probably in no fit condition to face the blizzard which raged the day the 1947 council met for its first session, Reeve Cuthbert, determined to car­ry out his duties, attended not only the coun­cil session but attended the opening of the Agricultural Short Course in Woodstock that morning. He believed it his duty as a member of the council’s agricultural com­mittee to visit the course.The election of the warden over on the first day, the council began on the following morning to tackle the business at hand. Reeve Cuthbert was at his desk in spite of his health. He found he was unable to con­tinue and during the day returned to his home. From that day he was confined to his bed until his death.That chair, while it stood vacant during the January session was a symbol of the un­tiring efforts of the men charged with the administration of Oxford. The spirit of the man who had occupied it is typical of the calibre of the present council and of those members who have sat in council in years gone by. Oxford is fortunate to have had such men. Greatly Increased Space Being Used by Seed FairThe Oxford County Seed Fair, which opened today for its tenth consecutive year, is a much larger exhibition than over befoie.In area alone the fair is ten times larger Ilian in previous years The whole exhibition in the past has occupied about 2,000 square feet of floor space. This year in its new quarters at the Woodstock fairgrounds the show is spread over some 20.0CQ square feet, in two buildings. The former mechanics building at the fair* grounds, where the seed exhibits and commercial exhibits are hous­ed, showed signs of crowding this morning as the first entries were placed.In the mechanics building two rows, each 100 feet long, have been placed down the centre of the building to hold the seed exhibits. Additional entries were to be placed In the annex of the build­ing. On either side of the seed dis­play were rows of farm imple­ments and other products of In­terest to the farmer. Tractors, combines, milking machines, fer­tilizers, hardware, plants and num­erous other commercial exhibits were in place this morning and more expected during the day.Lunch StandThis building also houses a lunch stand for the convenience of those attending the exhibition.The program of speakers ar­ranged for the three-day fair will be held in the recreation hall. Edu­cational displays have been placed in this building including one from the Ontario Agricultural College and another, a collection of photo­graphs, in connection with the proposed Thames Valley Author­ity.G*Says Poultry Industry in Oxford Up to $41 -2 MillionStart of Desert Conditions Seen As Water DropsThe beginning of desert condi­tions in Oxford county were noted by G. R. Green, agricultural re­presentative, yesterday comment- . ing on an address on the need for ; soil and water conservation by W. ! Raywood Smith, London, deliver­ed at the opening of the Oxford Seed Fair.Mr. Green stated two years ago there were about 100 wells in the northern section of Oxford which went dry in the middle of winter. The farmers were forced t<T haul water for their domestic I use and for their stock. Many of the homes had facilities for run-1 ning water and bathrooms. The' permanent cure for such situa- tions was not In the drilling of wells, Mr. Green declared but in 1 increasing of the water supply which made its way down through the soiL"When you consider that this country is only 100 years old and we are running into these difficul­ties you can see the matter is ser­ious,’’ said Mr. Green."We should not have In this Country farms which are not pro­ductive, but if each one of you stops to think you will call to mind 50 acres here and there that are no longer supporting farm families, that have dropped out of production. This Is the be­ginning of desert conditions,” he declared. "We should be getting thus land back into production,'’> - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1U. 1917Falling Water Table Serious ProblemThe speech given by W, Raywood Smith on the opening day of the Oxford Seed Fair deserves the widest publicity, and the facts he presented should be given the most care­ful thought by every person whose living is earned in the Thames watershed. It is of primary importance to agriculturists, of course, since they are the ones most directly affected, but since Thames Valley economy । is inextricably linked to agriculture it af­fects practically every person living in the area.The rainfall in this part of Ontario varies from 30 to 36 inches annually, yet ac­cording to meteorological reports quoted by Mr. Smith only six inches of this precious rain are soaking into the ground to feed wells, springs and creeks. This run-off :s not solely an agricultural problem. It is al- j so an urban problem, since racing waters which rip away the top soil also pile up along roads and into cellars; and the water which does not replenish the wells and springs similarly fails to keep the reservoirs constantly supplied.The facts are grim. The water table throughout many districts in Ontario is fall­ing at the rate of one foot per year. Par­ticularly in such lush farm land as in this part of Western Ontario the falling rate will be disastrous unless it is stopped—and stopped soon. There are farmers now who are hauling water when just a few years rgo they were well supplied from wells and .gushing springs.The urgency of the matter was stressed by Mr. Smith, who pointed out that while j reforestation helps to solve the problem, it is a long-range solution. Ten, 20 and 30 years hence the benefits of a reforestation program undertaken now will be numer­ous. But there is also the immediate prob­lem of farm land which has dried up. One of the methods urged by Mr. Smith for im­mediate correction of the water condition was building up of humus, which has been accomplished very successfully by conserva­tion authorities in the Canadian West and in the United States.Strong Plea for Conservation inThames DistrictAn earnest plea for soil and waler conservation in th« Thames Valley to provide "that water without which wc die" was made on Monday afternoon by W. Ray­wood Smith, London, at the open­ing program of the Oxford Seed Fair.Quoting from the Old Testa­ment book of Deuteronomy, Mr. Smith found a fitting description of this country in the words “For the Lord thy God brought thee into a good land a land of brooks, of water, of flowing wells and depths that spring out of valleys and mills, a land of wheat and barley and vines and trees.”It was evident from Mr. Smith's address that at present all is not as it should be in this “good land.” The speaker's position as a con- sulting engineer with the OntarioDepartment of Planning and De­velopment places him in the post of an authority on the needs of conservation of soil and water in the Thames Valley. For some months he pas been doing ‘mis­sionary work" on the proposed Thames Valley Authority.°VO'Smith continued in answer to his question, there comes the thought of reforestation. He related some of the benefits being reaped fromreforestation projects started but 20 or 30 years ago.“The farmers who are hauling water for stock, and the farmers whose deep wells are failing, will not get much comfort out of a supply from reforestation ten years hence,” re commented.“What about our present needs? How can the snow and the spring and summer rains in 1947 and 1948 be induced to soak into the ground?” the speaker continued. “We are losing 15 inches by evap­oration, 15 inches by run off and only putting six inches into the sub soil. How can this six Inches be increased9”“The soil men of the PrairieFarmers’ Rehabilitation Service in the Canadian West and theUnited States Soil Conservation Sendee have been successful on tens of thousands of farms in sup­plying water, - and incidentally saving the top soil. Not in 10 or 20 years but in one or two years. . .t ices“GOING, GOING, GONE”—R. A. McDonald, auctions off the prize winning entries in the ten btishel classes at. the Oxford Seed Fair. “What am I offered,” he chants, “Ive got one. who’ll make it a quarter,” and the price rises until the cry “It's all yours, my good friend on the righty” The first grain auctioned was the registered Beaver oats which brought, first prize to John R. Hargreaves, Beachville.—(Staff Photo). WEDNESDAY, MARCH IV. 1917Falling Water Table Serious ProblemThe speech given by W. .Raywood Smith on the opening day of the Oxford Seed Fair deserves the widest publicity, and the facts he presented should be given the most care­ful thought by every person whose living Is earned in the Thames watershed. It is of primary importance to agriculturists, of course, since they are the ones most directly affected, but since Thames Valley economy is inextricably linked to agriculture it af­fects practically every person living in the area.The rainfall in this part of Ontario varies from 30 to 36 inches annually, yet ac­cording to meteorological reports quoted by Mr. Smith only six inches of this precious rain are soaking into the ground to feed wells, springs and creeks. This run-off :s not solely an agricultural problem. It is al­so an urban problem, since racing waters which rip away the top soil also pile up along roads and into cellars; and the water which does not replenish the wells and springs similarly fails to keep the reservoirs constantly supplied.The facts are grim. The water table throughout many districts in Ontario is fall­ing at the rate of one foot per year. Par­ticularly in such lush farm land as in this part of Western Ontario the falling rate, will be disastrous unless it is stopped—and ; stopped soon. There are farmers now who are hauling water when just a few years rgo they were well supplied from wells and .gushing springs. jThe urgency of the matter was stressed by Mr. Smith, who pointed out that while reforestation helps to solve the problem, it is a long-range solution. Ten, 20 and 30 years hence the benefits of a reforestation program undertaken now will be numer­ous. But there is also the immediate prob­lem of farm land which has dried up. One of the methods urged by Mr. Stnith for im­mediate correction of the water condition was building up of humus, which has been accomplished very successfully by conserva­tion authorities in the Canadian West andStrong Plea for Conservation in Thames DistrictSmith continued in m -.wr-r to his i question, there comes the though* of reforestation. He related some of the benefits being reaped from reforestation projects started but 20 or 30 years ago,"The farmets who are hauling waler for stock, arid the farmers', whose deep wells are failing, will not get much comfort out of a supply from reforestation ten1 years hence,” re commented."What al>out our present needs? How can the snow and the spring and summer rains in 1947 and 1948 be Induced to soak into the ground?” the speaker continued. "We are losing 15 inches by evap-' oration, 15 inches by run off and only putting six Inches into the j sub soil. How can this six inches be increased””"The soil men of the Prairie . Farmers' Rehabilitation Service In the Canadian West and the United States Soil Conservation Service have been successful on tons of thousands of farms in sup­plying water,- and incidentally ( saving the top soil. Not in 10 or 201 years but in one or two years. . . Cultivation year after year reduces the humus content of the soil,j making it impervious to water. Generally speaking, the greater | production on the farm the greater the loss of humus.”Loss of HumasThe loss of humus may be noted, Mi’. Smith explained, In the pond­ing of water where it rever used to lie. It takes more power to work the fields, and a heavy rain । after seeding may prove disastrous ( in sealing up the soil.The use of the one way disc is a satisfactory method of supply­ing humus and at the same time preventing wind and water erosion, he stated.Mr. Smith spoke briefly at the conclusion of his address on the proposed set-up of the Thames Valley Authority. The authority when formed, he declared, would i be predominantly rural in charac­ter with township council repre­sentatives in the majority by three i to one. The Department of Plan­ning and Development makes sur­veys and suggestions, he pointed out. but with the rural councils rests the decision as to what work will be done."Whatever happens in this val­ley of the Thames, I do hope that the rural councils, backed by every organization of men and women in the valley will protect the water­shed wherefrom we derive the water."It is not a question of legal rights ot municipalities and indi­viduals,” Mr. Smith concluded. “You can keep within the law and still flout the laws of nature and God.”An earnest plea for soli and water conservation In the Thames Valley to provide "that water without which wc die" was made on Monday afternoon by W, Ray­wood Smith, London, at the open­ing program of the Oxford Seed Fair.Quoting from the Old Testa­ment book of Deuteronomy, Mr. Smith found a fitting description of this country in the words "For the Lord thy God brought, thee into a good land a land of brooks, of water, of flowing wells and depths that spring out of valleys and mills, a land of wheat and barley rind vines and trees.”It was evident from Mr. Smith's address that at present all is not as it should be in this “good land.” I The speaker's position as a con­sulting engineer with the Ontario Department of Planning and De­velopment places him in the post of an authority on the needs of conservation of soil and water in the Thames Valley. For some months he has been doing ‘mis­sionary work" on the proposed Thames Valley Authority.National Importance"Here in the 2,000 square mile Thames Valley we have a project of national importance,” Mr. Smith declared,"There are many issues at stake. Only a small fraction, some 3,000 acres has veen surveyed for land use, but 653 acres were found de­voted to thorn and wild apple. There are tens of thousands of aches scattered amongst the rich lands of the Thames Valley which are making no return to the own­ers o rto the nation.”"Here in this part of Southern Ontario we are blessed with a rainfall of 30 to 36 inches which is considered ideal for agriculture and for the water supply of urban centres,” Mr. Smith informed his audience as he let.’ up to the prob­lem of water conservation.Increasing Run Off"Due to yearly ineveasiag evap­oration and run off we now find from the meteorological reports that only six inches out of 36 is soaking into the ground to feed our wells, our springs and our creeks."It is the increasing run off from the surface that is causing trouble to city and country folk alike. The water table throughout many districts in Ontario is falling at the rate of one foot per year."What deeply concerns us here in Southern Ontario, however, is the falling water table in our best farming districts. A few weeks without rain and farmers are haul­ing water for stock.”“What is the most practical way to restore our springs and creeks?” the speaker asked.ReforestationIn most peoples' minds, Mr. Public NoticeAt the call of Warden Millon Betteridge a special meeting of the County- Council of the County o£ Oxford will be held in theCOUNCIL CHAMBER IN THE COURT HOUSE, WOODSTOCKonTUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1947. at the hour of ten o’clock a.m. for general bus­iness.All claims and accounts against the county must be filed with the County Clerk before the first day of the session.L. K. COLES, County Clerk.County Clerk's Office, Woodstock.. 2 - 24- - © - H-y ."Tfe»ev»jg . -It says a pound of beans all right, but are you sure she meant jelly beans?"County Councillors HeldIn Woodstock by StormThe county council was noti-rwas not present thia morning, fled by letter today by the Galt! Late this morning Deputy Reeve Fred Killing of East Zorra madeGeneral Hospital that the rate for indigent patients in that hospital had been increased by $1 per pa­tient per day. The letter stated the increased rate of $3.25 per day was being paid by the city of Galt and the County of Waterloo and that this rate would be charg­ed other municipalities for indi­gent patients.Most of the council members remained in Woodstock last night rather than buck the snow driftsto their homes. Reeve L. H. Sib- comm it lee for the balance of this biek chairman of the road com-i year. These appointments wore to mitten made his way home to, fill vacancies on committees cre- Richwood, and was able to return |ated by the death of I he late w.lUUil WVUU, ...------over the roads this morning.Reeve K. R, Watts of Tillsonburgand the deputy reeve, Ken Ander- committee under the chairmanship son. both ^went home and were of Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn, able to get back to the session Blenheim, and the equalizationthis morning along with Mioy ........Curtis lonvp of Dereham. Deputy ship of Reeve I heodore Cooper, Reeve’ Harry Little of DerchamSoulh Norwich, met.Reads Lists of County LicensesCounty Clerk 1... K. Coles read a list of auctioneers, poultry deal­ers and junk deniers to the mem- hers of county council thia morn­ing and intimated to the council that n drive will bo made to ob­tain more junk dealers' licenses.The list read showed auction- I set's licenses had been obtained by: R. A. McDonald, Embro. Frank Fulkerson, R.R. 1, Tillson­burg. George E. Brady, R.R. 2. Dorchester, M. R. Roth. Tavistock. George Keays. Tillsonburg. Percy | Longworth, Norwich. Wilbur L. Tunc. Princeton. I. H. Torman, New Dundee, Milton E. Brock, Thorndale. Poultry dealers obtain­ing licenses were: Sam Golden. Norwich: Delmer Clinton. Nor­wich: J. Goldstein, Ingersoll Junk dealers licenses were bought by Elmer Sanderson, Norwich; J.I Goldstein, Ingersoll.his appearance. He was unable to get in to the session yesterday. Reeve Wilfred Corp. Tavistock, who was not present at the open­ing session yesterday, was still ab­sent this morning.Acting Reeve Percy Sago of West Oxford was appointed to the agriculture and printing commit­tees for this session. Reeve Gordon Ross of East Zorra, was named asa member of the county homeJ. Cuthbert, reeve of West. Oxford.This morning the educationcommittee under the Chairman-Important Legislation to Be Decided by County BodyTwo important Items of admin­istration face the Oxfoid county council during their March ses- ] sion, which opened this morning in the county council chamber.Warden Milton Betteridge in­formed the members they would be asked Io give consideration to a program for this year on county roads. The county budget also appears on the schedule of work to be handled at. this session.All members except Reeve Wil­fred Corp of Tavistock and Dep­uty Reeve James Skillings of East Zorra were present when the ses­sion opened. The warden stated that as far as he knew only the weather was holding those mem­bers up from attending. Acting Reeve Percy Sage of West Oxford occupied the seat of the late reeve of West Oxford, Wesley J. Cuth­bert.First business of the session was the reading of 35 communications from other counties, government department and other organiza­tions. These covered a wide range of subjects from the proposed change from 25 to 60 cycle hydro power in some sections to the need for clarification of the law with respect to administration of jus­tice expenses.Wentworth county, In whose county seat, Hamilton, the trial of Evelyn Dick, Donald McLean and William Bohozuk have been held on the charges of murder, sought support for two resolutions deal­ing with the expenses of the ad­ministration of justice in these cases and others like them in the future.The Wentworth councillors con­tended in their resolutions that the delays and adjournments in the three cases, caused largely by the Crown authorities, had caused and would cause great expense to the county and to the city of Hamilton. They requested in the resolution to have the Pro­vince of Ontario liable for the • costs chargeable to municipali­ties in such instances where they are attributal or thrown away by adjournments and delays applied for by the Crown.Urge ClarificationA second resolution urged that the law in respect to the admit­ting of statements be clarified to avoid such delays in future cases.Ontario County sought support for their resolution asking the Provincial Department of Game and Fisheries to pay a substan­tial fox bounty and to increase the wolf bounty.Grey county pointed out the needs for rural electrification and asked that it be given prioritysecond only to permanent hous­ing for veterans. They also urged that the proposed changes from 25 to 60 cycle power be refused for a period of not less than three years or until all rural require­ments in the way of electrifica­tion have been provided for.This county also sought by res­olution to have, the Provincial ■ — ■ ' 50;Department of Highways payAppeal for Red CrossTo CountyImmediately before the noon ad­journment of county council this morning, R. G. Clowes made an appeal for a grant for the Canad­ian Red Cross Society to assist the drive for funds now in pro­gress in Oxford.Mr, Clowes stated he was speak’ Ing on behalf of Hugh Harris. who was unable, due to road conditions, to address the council In person..The speaker said the society was not asking a grant anything like those made by the council during the war years when a total of about $20,0U0 was given to the Red Cross.per cent, of the salary salaries of county weed inspectors and tohave the weed control act amend­ed to allow appointment of in- Spectors in local municipalities.Snow Removal CostThe county of Huron noting the j increase of motor traffic during j the winter with increased revenue I to the province in the way of gas­oline tax sought to have the prov­ince assume 75 per cent, of the I cost of snow removal in all urban towns and villages.Two counties, Simcoe and Peel, and the city of Samia were con- | cerned with the costs of admin­istration of Children's Aid Socie­ties.Simcoe viewed "with alarm the yearly increase in costs of pro­viding for the needs of neglected children and related social work." This county noted tbit records showed intoxicating beverages to be one of the principal causes for the increase in the number of ne­glected children and also that the province was drawing a consider­able revenue from the sale of such beverages. They asked that the province make a yearly grant of 75 per cent, of the annual financial requirements of all Children’s Aid Society work in Ontario.Peel county had a similar re­quest that the province pay 75 percent of the cost.Entire ResponsibilityThe city of Sarnia went farther than the two counties. The muni­cipalities approached the problem from the angle that the Ontario Department of Public Welfare ex­ercises control and administration over Children’s Aid Societies and paid only five per cent of the cost. Sarnia sought support for their resolution asking that the depart­ment bear the entire financial re­sponsibility for all societies "con­sistent with the control they now exercise."The subject of daylight saving time was taken.up by Kent Coun­ty Council in a resolution seek­ing to have the changing of time prohibited until such time as the province or the Dominion take a vote of the people endorsing the change.Kent also forwarded length draft amendments to the Revised Statutes of Canada respecting telephone wires on streets and roads.Restricted AreaA letter from T. Childs, act­ing Veterinary Director General for the Dominion Department of Agriculture pointed out that the work of making Oxford a re­stricted area could not be carried out at the present time due to a shortage of veterinary inspectors for field work. He stated he could give no assurance when the work could be done but promised it would be done as soon as possi­ble-seventeen counties indicated by letter their concurrence in Ox- ' ford’s resolution passed at the December session dealing with the need for compulsory public liability and property damage in- i surance for motor vehicles.I Ten of the same 17 counties indicated their approval of the Oxford resolution asking the firovinclal government to subsid-ze sewage disposal In villages of 1,500 population or less.The society Is concerned entire­ly with peace-time work now, Mr. Clowes said. Some work was still to be done in Europe but most of the effort would be in Canada. He spoke of some of the services of the Red Cross within Oxford county. Two services mentioned were the supplying of cod liver i oil for under privileged children । and the occasional emergency grocery order tor needy families. it Budget for RoaIn County History ProposedCounty to Spend More onneavitbrropoalnK an increase In expen­diture of $54,350 over Inst year's road program, the third report of the county road committee under the chairmanship of Reeve L. It , Sibbick, Blenheim, presented to this afternoon, heralded I he heav­iest budget for roads in Oxford's history. A total expenditure of $273,000 is proposed by the road committee for 1947. The 1946 pro­gram, called at that time the "most ambitious” in the county's history called for an expenditure of $218,650.Over half of the expenditure Is J recoverable from the Ontario Gov* i emment in the form of subsidies, I a total of $141,500. Of the remain­ing amount, $131,500, the city of Woodstock has a share in the pay­ment to the extent of $1,500 for suburban roads. With these two reductions an amount of $130,000 remains for the county to collect by general tax levy. The amount proposed for collection in ,1946 by tax levy was $105,000.Largest ItemLargest item in the proposed work, as indicated in the report's summary is the expenditure of $101,900 for construction, an in­crease of $8,675 over last year's program.'Maintenance was the second largest item in the program call­ing for an expenditure of $86,- 030.94, an increase of $33,572.82 over last year’s program.New machinery has an amount of $38,700 set aside for its pur­chase. The new equipment in­cludes an Austin Western grader and snow plow and a caterpillar grader and snow plow. Both of these are on order and each have a cost of $13,250. Other equip­ment proposed includes four 3-ton trucks and one pick-up truck.Snow ProblemThe problem of snow on the roads is reflected in the report which allows $12,000 for that pur­pose. This is an increase of $6,000 over the amount allowed in 1946.Paving work planned is estimat­ed at a cost of $62,000 for a dis­tance of 8.3 miles on the county road system. Last year the pav­ing of 8.9 miles was estimated at a cost of $54,700.Construction work planned this year includes: Road 6, paving, lots 16 to 25 West Zorra, 3.8 miles; Road 16 grading, completion of road west of Road 6 and culverts, 6 miles and surfacing graded sec­tion, 6 miles; Road 19, grading, completion of road and culverts, 3 miles and surfacing graded sec­tion, 3 miles; Road 19, paving, Delmer to Brownsville, 2.3 miles; paving lots 21 to 28, South Nor­wich, 2.8 miles; Road 28, culvert concession 2, West Zorra and cul-INCREASED GRANTWest Zorra; lots 1 to 7 and surfacingvert concession 3, Road 29, grading Blenheim 2.3 miles graded section.da;John W. Smith, a former reeve of Dereham, of the Oxford County Libary Association appeared be­fore the county council on Thurs- aftemoon seeking an In- jjjed grant for that organiza- The grant made last year was ), Mr. Smith said, but due to increased cost of book# the as- 15*soclafion req to I theCounty Grant For Ingersoll Hospital AskedAn appeal for assistance from! the county council was made thia| morning by two members of the Ingersoll Hospital Trust. Secre­tary of the trust. R. Green, and Councillor AI. Horton, both of In­gersoll appeared before members of the county council seeking a grant equal to the amount if thejr deficit on the treatment of indigent patient^ from the county at Alexandra Hospital.Mr. Green explained the hospi­tal's financial condition to ^the council. He pointed out that the hospital had an active year with about 10 per cent more patients than in 1945. .The hospital treated 846 adult patient days for indigent patients from Oxford, he added. The aver­age cost for a hospital day was $4.26, a decrease from §4.39 in 1945. The total cost of indigent patients from the county was $3,-1 603.96. Mr. Green said. A total of $2,534.55 had been received o meet, this expense and the hospital trust was asking the council to make up the difference in the way of a grant. The difference amount­ed to $1,226.46. ■He continued by pointing out that the hospital had been oper­ated as economically as possibly during the year. The total deficit had been lowered from $7,133 in 1945 to $5,332 in 1946. The board was willing to continue to treat indigent patients at the present rate rather than raise the rates as some hospitals were attempt­ing to do, Mr. Green declared.This afternoon when the council resumed its session at two o’clock members of the Woodstock Hos­pital Trust appeared before coun­cil.Eduation, Report ShowsIn Ils third report to county council, adopted this morning, the educational committee, head­ed by Deputy Reeve W.A. Cock­burn, Blenheim, advised the fi­nance commit lee to levy for sec­ondary education expenses this' year the sum of $31,921.06 for!' academic secondary education and $1,921.08 for vocational secondary education.These sums, to-be collected in taxes this year, are for the pay­ment of secondary education costs for county pupils during 1946.Higher CostsThe report noted that the county cost of academic secondary ! education is higher this year by $3,273.60 and that of vocational education higher by $739.44. These higher costs, the report ex­plained were caused, not so much by an increase in the pupil rate per day but. by greatly increased attendance by county pupils.There was an Increase of 5,546M days attendance in academic courses and 1,487 days in voca­tional.Last year the educational esti­mate passed on to the finance committee was considerably lower than those in the preceding year, 1945, this was due to the fact that increased grants were put on by the Department of Education during that year.“It is interesting to note,” the report commented, “the tremen­dous difference in cost per pupil day amongst the continuation schools in the county. The cost varies between 9.6456 cents per day to 99.8786 cents per day."Disparity InDetailed Account*The accounts for tuition of Ox­ford pupils who attended second­ary schools during 1946 were de­tailed In the report.Academic education costs arc summarized as follows; high schools within the county. Till­sonburg and Norwich, $2,020.50; continuation schools within Ilie county, Brownsville, BurgcssvilJe, Embro, Mount Elgin, Otterville, Plattsville, Tavixtock and Thames- ford, $10,908.11; continuation schools adjoining the county, Ayr and New Dundee, $792.83; high schools and collegiates in adjoin­ing counties, St, Marys, Burford, Kitchener, London, Paris, Strat­ford and Hamilton, $4,769.22; high schools in separated municipali­ties, Ingersoll and Woodstock, $13,430.40; total $31,921.06,One half of this amount $31,- 921.06, Is levied on the rural mu­nicipalities according to their as­sessment less the equalized assess^ ment of that portion of the town­ship that is in a continuation or high school district.Own SchoolsThe town of Tillsonburg and the villages of Norwich, Embro and Tavistock do not contribute towards this academic secondary education cost as they are now maintaining secondary schools.The other half is apportioned among the townships according to the attendance from the munici­pality.There was a total of 104,976 vi days attendance of county pupils. The county's cost per pupils’ day for 1946 was .304079 cents con­trasted with the lower cost in 1945 of .28811167 cents. The town­ships are charged with half the cost per day or .1520395 cents ac­cording to the number of days each.School CostsThe great difference in costs per pupil day among the con­tinuation schools in the county is in itself a strong argument for the establishment of larg­er high school districts, in the opinion of Deputy’ Reeve W. A. Cockburn, Blenheim, chair­man of the education commit­tee of the county council, and a member of the consultative committee on secondary edu­cation,Mr. Cockburn referred to the third report of his com­mittee, education, which was adopted by the council this morhing and in which figures showed a range in continua­tion school costs between slightly more than nine cents and almost $1 per day.Higher costs in some schools would be due to increased expenditures during the year on repairs or other factors coupled with a small attend­ance at the school, Mr. Cock­burn stated.A larger high school area would take in sufficient pu­pils with sufficient assessment in the area to carry a larger school and also more courses.Oxford Soil Suitable for Turnip Growth Grant of $10,000 Sought For Woodstock HospitalA grant of $10,000 was sought from the county council on Thurs« day afternoon by a delegation rep­resenting the Woodstock Hospital Trust. The delegation was com- ixxsed of Russell Sullivan, James A. Vance. E. Terryborrv, T. L. Hay and Charles Mitchell.Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Vance Spoke on behalf of the delegation, which met later with the council’s finance commit tec under the chairmanship of Reeve K, R. Watts, Tillsonburg.Main ProblemsVice-president of the board. Russell Sullivan, pointed out to ; the council the three main prob- I lems which are facing the board i today. There were lack of aceom- modation, lack of adequate quali- ; fed help and lack of funds.Speakng of accommodation, Mr. Sullivan stated the hospital was rated as a 100 bed hospital but to have 125 patients in the building was not unusual."In spite of the str'etest eco­nomy," declared Mr. Sullivan, "we have a deficit of $38,000 this year.”Mr. Vance gave the council fig­ures on the hospital's operating costs during the year. Increased cost of food, salaries and wages WOODSTOCK—INGERSOLL, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947i! COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRIBUTES WARBLE POWDER—Two tons of warble fly powder were piled in these boxes in the basement of the courthouse this week awaiting distribution i to the cattle farmers in Oxford. Members of county council will take their township's quo­ta of powder back to their municipalities and will handle the further distribution there. This group was photographed Wednesday afternoon while seeking out their township's supply. I From the left they are: Reeve John Wallace, East Oxford; acting Reeve Percy Sage, West Oxford; Reeve James Calder, North Oxford, and Reeve Leroy Curtis, Dereham—(Staff Photo). *and other services accounted for the increase in the net deficit, he stated.More AccommodationAsked by Reeve Wilfred Corp, Tavistock, if the board did not consider life building of more ac- commodation a necessity. Mr. Vance replied that the board was considering such a move,The building committee of the board was meeting that after­noon, Mr. Vance informed Mr. Corp, to take up the problem of building and consider what type of accommodation and services would)' be required in the future."Public health measures in practice today may change the typo of accommodation required, for clinics and Ilie like,” said the speaker, "a 50 per cent, increase has been considered necessary by the board for some dime."Snow Blower Purchase is AuthorizedWith the effects of this winter well planted In their minds, Ox­ford's county council made one amendment Io their road commit­tee’s report as presented on Fri­day afternoon. At the suggestion of the committee they authorized the purchase of a anew blower Unit at a cost of $23,000, providing building materials are not avail­able this year to complete con­struction work on patrol shops and bridges.During the discussion while the council was in committee of the whole J. N. Meatherell informed the council the truck and power unit of the snow blower could be used for other county work besides snow fighting.Oxford has 207 miles of county road of which about 40 miles give trouble after a bad storm, Mr. Meathereil said.Reeve O. H. Murray of West Zorra expressed the opinion that such a unit would pay for itself in money saved in digging roads out and in preventing loss to farm­ers unable to get their milk to market when snowbound.ReforestationDeputy Reeve Hany Little, chairman of the agriculture com­mittee, expressed the opinion that the council might well consider a plan of reforestation to hold back the snow from the rads.Chairman of the reforestation committee, John A. Wallace, East Zorra, agreed with Mr. Little but was also of the opinion that a snow blower should be purchased.During the night session last evening the road committee brought in its fourth report rec­ommending that Huron county's resolution regarding a 75 per cent, subsidy by the province on snow removal in urban centres be filed. This report was adopted.Co-operation to Destroy Warble Fly Pest UrgedCooperation in a campaign to stamp out the warble fly was asked by H. A. Little, deputy reeve ot Dereham township in a brief address at the Oxford Seed Fair yesterday. Powder will be| available next week for spraying the cattle, he said.In asking for co-operation It was pointed out that if all farm­ers did not work together the' campaign would not be- a suc­cess. Approximately 10 years ago a similar campaign was carried out and the menace was practi­cally eliminated at that time, but In recent years the warble fly has again become a pestThe greatest difficulty will be in distribution, Mr. Little stated and announced that the power will be taken to each district, by county council members whcij it is received. A quantity will also be available at the county build­ing, he believed.The cheapest method of appli­cation, he stated, is to put mater­ial in an oil can and spread it on the back of the cattle. Other, more expensive methods are known, but the county council is advocating the cheaper and just as effective method."The warble fly Is harmful to dairy cattle,” Mr. Little stated and imagined that it would be equally harmful to beef cattlS.Discuss Measure To Control PestThe present legislation before1 the Ontario Legislature relating to control of warbles is, in ths opinion of Deputy Reeve Harry Little, Dereham, a fine thing. Mr. Little, chairman of the county- council’s agriculture commit re?, however, criticized the bill on the point that it did not provide for the control by-law to be passed by county councils. The bill gives the power to township councils to pas? by-laws making treatment of cat­tle for warble mlies compulsory.In Mr. Little’s opinion the bill should allow county councils to pass such a by-law in the same manner as has been done under the Weed Control Act for the ap­pointment of a weed inspector.Two tons of warble fly powder has been purchased by the county for free distribution to the cat th farmers in the county. This is be­ing distributed on the basis of one pound per farm. The powder is be­ing taken this week by the reeves to their own township councils and distribution will be made from that pr int. In many cases the pow­der will be distributed from tlx schools in the township. A special lesson for the school children has been prepared and will be given in the schools. The lesson deals with the importance of the project of ridding the cattle of warbles. Let­ters are being sent out to the far­mers with instructions in the use of the powder. County Council’s Budget for 1947 Set at $303,742WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1047A budget for expenditures dur­ing this year was set at $303,- 742.12 by the Oxford county coun­cil as they wound up their March session last evening. Believed to be the largest budget in the coun­ty's history, it calls for raising by general tax levy an amount $41,- 288 greater than that of 1946, an increase amounting to about one and a half mills for the taxpay­ers.The budget was brought in by the finance committee under the chairmanship of Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg. It was con­tained in a report by the com­mittee, the adoption of which was moved by Mr. Watts and second­ed by Deputy Reeve W. A. Cock­burn, secretary of the committee. The report passed through the council without a dissenting voice, as did the second and third read­ings of the by-law authorizing the levy of the amount.The budget is made up as fol­lows: general purpose spending. $66,000; charity and welfare, $73,- 900; county roads, $130,000; voca- tional secondary education $1,-' 921.10; academic secondary educa­tion $31,921.06.Grants RecommendedThe report of the finance com­mittee recommended the follow­ing grants: Woodstock General Hospital $8,000; Soldiers’ Memo­rial Hospital, Tillsonburg, $2,000; Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll, $1,- 250; Canadian National Institute for the Blind, $300; Salvation Army. $300; Navy League, $200; Red Cross, $1,000; Oxford County Museum and Historical Society, §500.Other grants recommended by the education committee, under the chairmanship of Deputy Reeve1 W. A. Cockbum, were for the Ox-1 ford County Trustees and Rate­payers Association, $250, and for the Oxford County Library Asso­ciation, §150.। L. K. Coles and Reeve R. A. Mc- I Donald were appointed by the 1 council as representatives on the ' board of the Oxford County Mu- suem and Historical Society.Tillsonburg HospitalThe finance committee recom­mended that the sum of $15,000 be set aside for the Tillsonburg hos­pital building fund and requestedFINEDSamuel Rose, Toronto, pleaded guilty to a charge of dealing in second hand goods without a lic­ence and was fined $20 and costs when he appeared in county police court yesterday afternoon.that the councils up to 1951 set aside similar amounts.The equalization committee un­der the chairmanship of Reeve Theodore Cooper, South Norwich, reported it had examined the summary of assessment rolls for the year 1946 and found the equalized assessment must be raised by at least $156,570 to com­ply with the assessment act.The amount of $2,800 was rec­ommended by the reforestation and conservation committee in its report aS the budget for its work ■ this year. The committee recom- ' mended the supplying of soft, balls and bats to the schools taking part in the tree planting competi­tion this year as last year. Adop­tion of the report was moved by Reeve John Wallace, committee chairman.The printing and resolutions committee, headed by Reeve George Fewster, North Norwich, recommended the letter from El­gin county regarding penalty for non-payment of taxes be filed, also the communication from Kent county regarding telephone wires on streets.Reeve Gordon Ross’ property committee proposed that insur­ance on the court house, jail, reg­istry office and residences be in-i creased to the full replacement value. Their report was passed. |No Action TakenNo action was taken on the let­ter from the Galt Hospital which stated that the rate charged indi­gent patients from Oxford was be­ing raised by $1.In connection with a letter from the Tavistock council received during the January session no ac­tion was taken. The finance com­mittee pointed out that the mat­ter had been taken up with the Department of Municipal Affair's. The letter dealt with the sur­charge of $1.50 adopted by the Stratford Hospital for paying pa­tients. The Tavistock Council sought to have this ^surcharge as­sumed by the county. The depart­ment advised the committee, the report said, that the county's only interest was in the payment for indigent patients.The third report of the agri-1 culture committee, moved by Deputy Reeve Harry Little, Dere­ham, committee chairman, recom­mended the payment of $2,044.08 for the two tons of warble fly powder being distributed to farm­ers throughout the county. The committee endorsed the resolution of Kent county regarding daylight saving time being prohibited un­til a vote of the people in the province could be taken. The reso­lution from Ontario county seek-1 ing the payment of fox bounty by the provincial government was en­dorsed.Maintaining Essential Services Costs MoneyIt is unlikely there will be any objection from the majority of the county’s taxpayers over the bump in the tax rate handed out at the county council session last P’riday eve­ning.The budget calling for the raising of $303,742.12, representing an increase of about one and a half mills over the 1946 tax rate, was presented to council by its finance chairman, Reeve Ken Watts of Tillsonburg.There was not a dissenting voice in the chamber when the heaviest budget in Ox­ford’s history passed through committee and through council. The finance commit­tee struggled all through the four-day ses­sion to get the budget into shape for pre­sentation and to iron out the wrinkles.At the March session and the earlier session this year talk was heard here and there that the tax rate must be held and not be raised.No one likes to pay taxes, but if services are to be supplied the citizens they must be paid for and can be paid for through but one channel—taxes.The county council like all other gov­erning bodies find that costs are rising, needed construction goes up in price with the cost of materials, supplies jump in cost, but still certain work must be done, certain worn equipment must be replaced.County Digs Out Once More After Vicious March StormThe savage March winds of yes- i ditions the “worst we've ever terdsy and today have blocked, had.” In North Oxford roads are . . . , . . . 1 blocked and because of bad visi-highways, county and township ( hjgh winds snow pk>wsroads in many districts in Oxford are ' not operating. “When the county. With some drifting con- wind goes down and drifting tinuing, the majority of snow- ceases, plows will go into opera-plows in the county are not oper­ating.Mail and milk deliveries in dif-tion,’was the stock reply thismorning.All highways in the county,„ , , with the exception of No. 2 areferent sections are cancelled and blocked and cancellation of vari- schools in rural communities have ous ^us schedules has been neces-meagre attendances.Wind damage in the county. Magistrate R. G. Groom was does not approach the damaging unabie to reach Woodstock today, effect of the storm felt in other forcjng the cancellation of city sections of Western Ontario but, court morning. No. 19 v-rt ? n/xv i f-f izm 11 i no boon An- 1 . - . ▼ ’minor difficulties have been en-countered. Several rural hydro poles were broken, but that of­fice reports "practically every­thing is in operation today.”In the western section of thecounty blocked roads and zero visibility are keeping dents indoors and stopping deliveries. However, in thenear resi- mail dis-trict surrounding Princeton, roads are being kept open and mail and milk deliveries are being made.Worst EverLeonard Minier, road superin­tendent for North Oxford town­ship, termed the storm and con-sary.highway between Ingersoll and Tillsonburg is blocked and drift­ing is continuing.No. 19 highway from Woodstock to Stratford is again blocked and bus schedules have been cancelled. No. 59 highway to Norwich and Delhi is blocked as is the Hamil­ton Road from Ingersoll to Lon­don.The Bluebird Coach Lines schedule to Galt has been cancell­ed, roads are blocked between Woodstock and Innerkip and In- nerkip and Bright.Tillsonburg Tax Rate Set At 45 Mills; D.S.T. AdoptedContinuation School Will Be Closed at Burgessville OXFORD — THE BANNER COUNTYOF CANADADiversified Farming At Its Best1947(d)(a)(b)(c)Pure Bred Jersey Dairy HerdsBEEF CATTLE• CREAM• MILK• BUTTER• CHEESE• POULTRY• EGGS• FRUITS• VEGETABLES• MAPLE SYRUP• GRAINS• ROOT CROPS• TOBACCOCOUNTY COUNCILWarden—Milton Betteridge.Blandford—Oscar Sippel. Blenheim—L. H. Sibbick.W. G. Cockbum, D.R.Dereham—LeRoy Curtis.II. A. Little, D.R.East Missouri—Milton Bet­teridge.J. Grant Sutherland, D.R.North Norwich—George Fewster.South Norwich—TheodoreEast Oxford—John A. Wal­lace.North Oxford—James Cal­der.West Oxford—W. J. Cuth- bert.East Zorra—Gordon Ross.Fred 8. Killing, D.R.West Zorra—O. H. Murray.Tillsonburg—K. R, Watts.Kenneth II. Anderson, D.R.Embro—R. A. McDonald.Norwich—Harold A. Bishop Tavistock—Wilfred Corp.Conserve the Soil! Plant More Trees Regulate the Cutting of TreesPure Bred HolsteinDairyHerdsePure BredYorkshireSwineTO THE CITIZENS OF OXFORD COUNTY.Ladies and Gentlemen:ah the agricultural edition I wish to express the good wishes of the County Council to the people of Oxford County and bring a few interesting items of pro­gress to your attention.The committee on soil conservation and reforestation are continuing their plan of planting trees on county tracts, and 104,600 have already been ordered for 1947. Pupils of public schools in the County are encouraged to establish a plot of their own, and to enter a Provincial reforestation competition.of January 1st, the Town of Ingersoll joined with the County Health Unit Offices are located at Tillsonburg, Norwich, Embro, Drumbo and Ingersoll with the Administrative Office at Woodstock, (phone 690). Fifty per cent, of the cost of this service is borne by the Province of Ontario.As of February 1st, the Fox Bounty was reduced to $2.00 per pelt. In 1945. there were 640 pelts turned in to the County Clerk. In 1946 there were 566.in March and April the Agricultural Committee plan to distribute free of charge, a one pound cannister of Warble Fly Powder to each farm with a herd of CHttlC.Your obedient servant,MILTON BETTERIDGE, ________ Warden, County of Oxford*COUNTY OF OXFORDm BY-LAW 1374Of the Municipal Council of the County of Oxford, being a bylaw to restrict and regu- . late the Cutting of Trees.R JS expedient for the general welfare of the County of OxfordlmPr°ve the forest and soil resources of the County by preserving and developing the woodlands of the County. s109 "Trees Conservation Act, Statutes of Ontario, 1946, Chapter102, Section 1, the Council of a County is empowered to pass By-laws:(a) restricting and regulating the cutting of trees in any part of the County, and law passeT^^ 01 oMcMs t0 enlorce the P^^ons of any By-™™?REFORE the CbuncU of the Corporation of the County of Oxford enacts as JUllUWb •2.3.Except for dead, broken, stunted, fire-damaged, diseased or insect-infested trees, Christmas trees and other trees that should be removed to improve growing condi- il°?S4uUC «as ““hhW8 and improvement cuttings), no cedar tree of a diameter of less than five inches or no other tree of a diameter of less than twelve inches. thTcmmty °<^rOxfordneab°Ve the ground shall be cut any person within In cutting or removing any trees, no person shall so conduct his operations as to in­jure or damage any young trees adjacent thereto.No person shall cut trees or carry on lumbering or other forest operations adjacent to provincial, county and township roads within the County of Oxford unless there shall be left along the said road or roads a belt of frees fifty feet in width from the limit of the road allowance from which may be removed only such trees as may be approved and marked oy someone authorized by The Trees Con­servation Commission hereinafter established by this By-law.This By-law shall not:interfere with the right of the occupant of land to cut trees thereon for his own use;interfere with any rights or powers conferred upon a municipality by the Mu­nicipal Act; ( 'interfere with the rights or powers of The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario or of any other board or commission which is performing its func­tions for or on behalf of the Government of Ontario;apply to trees growing upon any highway or upon any opened road allowance; orHe) apply to trees growing in a woodlot having an area of not exceeding two acres.5. Any person who violates the provisions of this By-law shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty of not exceeding $500.00 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.hereby established and constituted as officers to enforce the provisions of Inis By law a Commission of three members to be known as The Treeb Conserva- tlon Commission of the County of Oxford to be appointed by resolution of the Coun­cil and to hold office during the pleasure of the Council at a remuneration for each member thereof of five dollars per day while engaged on the duties of the commission and mileage while engaged in necessary travelling on the duties of the Commission t0 bp allowed at the rate of Six (6c) Cents per mile,PASSED this 13th day of September. A.D., 1946.L. K. COLES Clerk. j, WINSTON NICHOLS, Warden.(Ibis by-law has been approved by the Minister of Lands and Forests)imv ... , TKKK CONSERVATION COMMISSIONNo* ’» Ostrander. Phone Tillsonburg 64AI3.K‘.K' No- 21 TMmonford. Phon* Kintore 2»rl7.LAWRENCE MlT< HELL, ILK. No. 2, Inncrkip. Phone Innrrklp 42r3. Tree-Planting Season Now Close at HandLittle better than six per cent, of Ox­ford county is wooded. The ideal percentage of woodland is stated by experts to be 15 per cent. These figures, combined with the end of winter weather, serve as reminders that the tree-planting season is close at hand once more.The Simcoe Reformer notes that this is the logical time for general farmers and to­bacco growers to be giving thought, to their requirements in the way of tree-planting, both for windbreaks and woodlots. While the Reformer’s observation is directed st | the citizens of Norfolk county “with its great tracts of light, sandy soil,” the neces­sity for reforestation is certainly not pecu- liar to Norfolk.Oxford county council has given close at­tention to conservation through the build­ing up of woodlots, the two main measures being the sponsorship of tree-planting pro- grams apd the regulation of woodlot cut­ting. With these policies being vigorously! pursued, the wooded areas of Oxford will ultimately be built up to the required growth and acreage.The program would be greatly speeded up, however, with the active interest and co-operation of all rural residents. The need Tor conservation measures now is the result of indiscriminate timber slashing in the past. Any continuance of such a practice! will only serve to nullify the efforts of such organizations as the county council, whose members fully realize the dangers of soil and water loss.ELECTED REEVE—Percy Sage, who was elected Reeve of Wast Oxford by acclamation at a meet­ing in the township hall in Beachville on Friday afternoon. Mr. Sage, who has been acting reeve, fills the vacancy caused by the death of the late reeve W. J. Cuthbert.Not Hit By Calcium LackDespite the shortage of cal­cium chloride, county roads throughout Oxford will be taken care of this summer ac­cording to County Road Su­perintendent J. N. Meathrell."We will receive the same quota as last year," he said, "and although no delivery is promised before June, this will not interfere with the us­ual practice of applying the specially prepared spray to the roads."Last year’s strike at * the Brunner-Mond plant at Am- herstburg put the commodity in short supply. This and the fact that calcium chloride has been put to many more uses since the war are main fac­tors in the shortage. Some counties report roads will beTENDERS WANTEDSEALED TENDERS ADDRESS. ED TO THE COUNTY ROAD SU­PERINTENDENT AND EN­DORSED "TENDER FOR HAUL­ING ROAD MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT HIRE” WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE UNDER­SIGNED UP TO 12 O'CLOCK NOON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1047, for the following:Hauling of gravel from the vari­ous crushers operated by or for the Corporation.Hauling of etone from the vari­ous commercial quarries within the County.Feeding, crushing and hauling from designated gravel pita.Delivery of the above mentioned materials to be made on certain portions of the County Road Sys­tem as directed by the County Road Superintendent.Truck, shovel and equipment hire.dustier than usual this sum­mer.Innerkip - Bright Road is Closed Due to Wash-OutNumerous county roads were, washed out as a result of the week-end flood and many are in a dangerous condition, County Road Superintendent Meathrell ________________ said this morning. Small culverts hamper travellers on the gravel: and dirt roads.Only one road has been closed to date, the stretch from Innerkip to Bright, where two bad wash- ’ outs have resulted. Cancellation of the Bluebird Coach Lines schedule to Galt has been made necessary. The schedule is being' maintained to Innerkip until the flood damage is repaired.The road superintendent ex­plained that workers are handi-j capped by the order allowing only half loads on the roads, but he stated that "we are not. endanger­ing other roads when conforming with this order.”In asking the public to use caution on all roads, he said, "there are quite a few washouts, which, though they are not. hold­ing up traffic, make dangerous driving conditions."In his brief statement he also remarked that there is a mania throughout Oxford for taking lan­terns off the road barricades. A dangerous practice, this thievery i cauld lead 1o serious accidents 1 with travel conditions in the state they are at the present time.Any other work that may be des­ignated on the tender form.Contract agreement and specifi­cations and forma of tender mat be obtained at the office of the Coun­ty Road Superintendent, Court House, Woodstock, Ontario.Tenders must be accompanied by a marked cheque payable to the County Treasurer or an approved bld bond tar Two Hundred Dol­lars.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted,J. N. MKATHrU£LL, Co u n t y RS u pcr I n t c b d e n LTUESDAY, APan, 8,1947Immediate Steps for Flood Control Needed“Thia should not be and need not be” was the comment of Watson H. Porter, a leading conservation authority, as he sur­veyed the waters of the Thames River on Rampage this weekend.“Mild floods are a natural phenomena, but these wrathful, devastating floods are proof that man has done something des­perately wrong,” Mr. Porter stated.The loss of hundreds of tons of top soil from the farms of this county during the weekend was pointed out by this newspa­per in an editorial appearing yesterday’s edition.In this loss, the costliest property dam­age during flood time, is found the basic reason why the river goes on a rampage every few years.Acres of forest land have been cleared, large areas of swamp have been drained, sod has been cut on hillsides and the plow worked up and down the slope. Nature in­tended the forests as collecting stations for rainfall and the swamps as reservoirs. The protective covering of sod on the hillsides prevented the formation of gullies which feed already swollen streams in spring with more water and precious top soil. The out­come of all this interference by man in the works of nature, results in disastrous floods such as experienced this past weekend.Man has done something desperately wrong. The agency for correcting these evils before the time is too late is at hand and in the proposed Thames Valley Author­ity.Two municipalities, London and St. Marys, in this -watershed have asked for a meeting to be called for the formation of a conservation authority for the Thames. Their requests were made late last year.This meeting should be held without de­lay. It took a great flood in 1937 to bring out the need for such work. A second warn­ing was given this weekend. These should be more than sufficient."Kindly reverse the charges"Water Supply System for Drumbo Being Considered THE DAILY SENTINEL-REVIEW. WOODSTOCK—INGERSOLL MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1047THE WHOLE OF OXFORD COUNTY was swept by flood waters as thaw and rain combined to swell rivers throughout the county. Hundreds of acres of land were inundated by the flood waters, roads were washed away and power dis­ruptions were caused as waters and high winds rose steadily over the week-end. Shown TOP is a view of flooded landswest of the 13th line. This sight would be a familiar one to Photo), district residents if the proposed Thames Valley Authorityscheme to erest a dam in the vicinity was put into effect. MIDDLE is shown a portion of the 13th line of East Zorrabetween the C.P.R. tracks and the bridge as the swollen river created a new channel which washed awa^ the road bed. BOTTOM is a view of the swollen 13th line “Red Feather’1 swimming hole, as flood waters rose in tliat area.—(StaffUnfavorable Weather Holds E. Zorra Authorizes Reeve Up Seeding Across Canada To Vote in Favor of T.V.A. I Thames Watershed Groups To Discuss United Action On Flood Control QuestionBy A E. C. BURMAN Sentinel-Review Staff Writer LONDON— During the last, week In May, a meeting will be called here of all municipalities within the Thames watershed to decide whether or not united action will be taken to combat the flood menace of the river.The time and place for the meeting and the decision to in- vite municipalities from the entire' watershed was made yesterday at an informal meeting attended by about 40 representatives of muni­cipalities in the area.After considerable discussion on the possible costs of projects by the authority if and when it was established, Alderman J. A. Saun­ders, chairman of the finance committee of Woodstock's city council, moved for action.Moves Meeting"I don't think we can get any­where until we do get an au­thority," declared Mr. Saunders. 'I would move that the meeting be held in London."Dr. J. G. Jose, mayor of St. Marys, whose town had been one of the hardest hit in the upper reaches of the river during last week-end’s flood, rose to second Mr. Saunders' motion.Speaking to his motion, Mr; Saunders added: "We don't want to saddle anything on one muni­cipality more than another. We must all realize the need for work ing together on this."Under the Conservation Author­ities Act two municipalities with­in a watershed may request the Departmen of Pubic Works for Ontario to call a meeting of all municipalities within the watershed to take a vote on the establish­ment of a conservation authority for the river valley. This authority would plan and carry out schemes j of flood control and conservation. London and St Marys have re­quested that the meeting be called.Watson H. Porter, chairman of the T.V.A. standing committee, was chairman of the meeting held on Friday afternoon.Explains PositionHe explained the position of his committee, which was set up fol­lowing a meeting last October when the Minister of Planning and Development, Hon. Dana Porter, presented his department's report on the Thames Valley above Lon­don."We were like a man left to watch a dyke with no spade and' no sand bags," commented the chairman."We have had warnings enough on this watershed," Mr. Porter stated. He said he looked to this year as the dawning of a new era on the Thames when all munici­palities would work together against the menace of floods.The logical thing, he claimed, was to tackle the problem on the upper reaches of the river.W. Raywood Smith, vice-chair­man of the standing committee, and consulting engineer for the Department of Planning and De­velopment, who has visited muni­cipal councils explaining the plan of the proposed authority said heheard no ridicule of the scheme but instead a desire for informa­tion.A. H. Richardson, chief con­servation engineer for the de-, j partment, Informed the meeting that 13 municipalities in the wa­tershed had sent in resolutions to the department expressing favor of the scheme. Only one munici­pality had indicated its opposi­tion.Invited to IngersollAn invitation was extended to Mr. Smith by Mayor C. W. Riley of Ingersoll to attend a meeting of the Ingersoll council for the purpose of explaining the propos­ed authority.At the close of the meeting Al-1 derman J. A. Lewis was asked what he thought of having Mr. Smith attend a meeting of the Woodstock council. Mr, Lewis,5 chairman of the city's industrial and town planning committee, ex­pressed the opinion that a joint meeting of Woodstock and Inger­soll council’s might be arranged on the occasion of Mr. Smith's: visit to Ingersoll.Attending the meeting from Woodstock were Aidermen. J. A. I Saunders, L. A. Lewis, Robert Barney, A. B. Lee, city clerk, and G. R. Green, agricultural repre­sentative for Oxford county. Pres-1 ent from Ingersoll were Mayor Ri-' ley and Gordon Pittock.Other representatives from Mitchell, Stratford, St. Marys, Perth county, London, Middlesex county, Elgin county, Thamesville, Chatham and the University of' Western Ontario were present.Embro Lad Wins Ontario School Oratory ContestRoy Sharpe. Embro, placed first in the provincial elementary schools oratorical contest held In Toronto yesterday, it was an­nounced at the annual meeting of i the Ontario School Trustees’ and Ratepayers’ Association, which presented the award.Roy, not yet 14, is in the eighth grade at Bayne's school. West Zorra. In the middle of January, lie won top honors at the contest in Woodstock, competing with other Oxford students. At Brant­ford on February 1, he was rated firs! against students in the Ham­ilton area. At those contests Roy spoke on the subject, "Why Young People Leave the Farm."In this final contest, Roy chose the topic, “What Canada Has to Offer New Canadian Boys and Girls." In his address, he urged Canadian youth to enter farming. Quoting the census figures, he said that they show a large per­centage of Ontario farmers over fifty years of age with no sons to carry on.The contest was held at Convo­cation Hall, Toronto, where Roy competed with five other finalists. ] He is the first student from Ox­ford county to win top honors in the competition.Accompanying Roy was his mother, Mi’s. E. Sharpe, his tea­cher, Miss Mary Flemming, Miss Flemming's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Flemming and Reeve R. A. McDonald of Embro.The prize for the Toronto com­petition was a set of knowledge books.TRY FARM. ADVISES WINNING BOY ORATORWinner In the provincial finals ofthe elementary speaking con­test is Roy Sharpe, 14 grade 8 stu­dent at Em- b r o, Oxford county. Roy spoke for seven m i n - utes in Con­vocation Hall o n “W h a 1 Canada Has to Offer New C a nadian Boys and Girls," taking first prize over five other finalists from Ontarioschools publlc-Roy SharpeThe award, up for annual compe­tition since 1928. was presented by the Ontario School Trustees' and Ratepayers’ association at its annual meeting. Roy received a set of books as wellIn his speech, the Embro boy urged young men to enter farm­ing and quoted 1946 census figures, which showed a large percentage of Ontario farmers over 50 years of age with no sons to carry on "So many of the poor farmers can aise nothing but girls,” he said.THUE MAGAZINE'7 think it’s getting away from us, Chief—I smell soup.”Tavistock Rate Up Three MillsDrumbo TurnipSeason Success Sir fenWn jTw |lrewTHURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1047Oxford Committee Plans Heavy Expenditure on RoadsHISTORY, will keep the road committee, pictured above, busy this year. They are, left: Reeve L. H. Sibbick, Blenheim, chairman; Reeve Theodore Cooper, South Norwich; Warden Milton Betteridge,East Nissouri; County Road Ingersoll.Superintendent J. N. Meathrell,Norwich Reeve Dealt a PerfectCribbage HandNORWICH — Experts say itl can happen but once in 3,000,000 games, but it happened here yes­terday.Reeve HarJ*l Bishop was dealt “the perfect hand" at cribbage.Playing against C. H. Kelson in the Legion rooms, the reeve received three five's and the jack of spades.His opponent turned up the five of spades. The reeve gleefully pegged his 29 points.Two Toronto X-ray technicians, whose veracity, says the reeve, is beyond doubt, witnessed the game.The reeve, a veteran player, had never before drawn the perfect hand.Lacked License, Dealer is FinedJoe Novak, Toronto, charged with dealing in second hand goods and junk without a license, was found guilty and fined $20 and costs of .75c by Magistrate R. G. Groom in county police court yes­terday afternoon.Novak was apprehended in the township of Dereham on March 19 by police and asked to produce a license for purchasing second hand goods. Police testified he was unable to do so. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.Clark Now Head Of Simcoe UnitCorporal John Clark, O.P.P., formerly of Woodstock, has been transferred to Simcoe, where he commenced his new duties this morning.Corporal Clark succeeds Provin­cial Constable Roy Taggart as se­nior officer of the Simcoe detach­ment of the Ontario provincial po- I lice.A native of Scotland, Corporal Clark came to Canada in 1919. He joined the Kitchener city po­lice force in 1924 and three years | later resigned to become a mem­ber of the Ontario provincial po- hce. For six years he was station­ed in Sarnia, after which he was transferred to Woodstock where he remained for 14 years. On Feb­ruary' 15 he was transferred to the Georgetown detachment and on March 6 to Brantford.Corporal Clark is married and' has one son, John, who served in the R.C.A.F.STUCK IN SNOWWith such miserable weather anything can happen. The mem­bers of the East Zorra Council will probably agree, to this fact. On Wednesday the councillors and the road superintendent went on a tour of road inspection in the township. On a little-used portion of the 10th line road one of the two cars in the tour became struck in a throe-foot snow bank. They were forced to dig their way out.Some Confusion Is Expected as D.S.T. StartsSome confusion is expected to result in Western Ontario this week-end as daylight saving time goes into effect in many communi­ties.In Oxford County, Woodstock, Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, Embro, Norwich, Tavistock, Burgessville and Princeton will turn the clock ahead one hour at two a.m. Sun­day.Entertainment Given by LionsThe regular monthly entertain­ment for the residents of the County Home was supplied by the entertainment committee of the Woodstock Lions Club last night.Harold Shantz acted as master of ceremonies for the program. Music was provided by the Mac­Donald brothers and their guitars and Earl Pow and his harmonica and Murray Shantz, cowboy trum­peter, played several fine numbers for the large gathering, Bruce McMillan and Bob Farlow played the piano.The evening's fun concluded with treats being handed out to each resident at the home.Manager of the Home, Rob Forbes thanked the entertainers for the fun they provided and also for the treats.Warble Clean-Up Urged in Letter.A reminder of the need for con­tinued action in Oxford's warble fly clean up has been sent out . in the form of a letter by G. R, Green, county agricultural repre­sentative, to all farmers in Ox­ford.“Delayed spring weather pro­vides an excellent opportunity to systematically examine the cattle. and kill every Garble fly grub ap­pearing,” the letter states.“A few people were missed In the first distribution of the pow­der,” Mr. Green said. “More pow­der will be available at this of­fice (Department of Agriculture office, Finkle street. Woodstock) : if needed to complete the job.“All cattle should be checked i again before the young cattle go I out to grass to make sure of kill­ing all the late hatched grubs, as these are likely to survive and be the worst offenders."The fact that legislation has been passed to enable township councils to pass control by-laws for defeating the warble fly is pointed out by Mr. Green in the letter. Under the act passed by the Ontario Legislature, a township council shall, upon receipt of a petition signed by al least 50 rate­payers. pass a by-law to provide । that all cattle shall be treated for warble fly and no cat­tle shall be brought into the muni­cipality between April 1 and June 30 unless they have been treated for warble fly during the current i year.Mr. Green urged that a com- । plete job of cleaning up the war­ble fly pest be made. He statedthe action of the county council Is suppb'ing and distributing the | powder was the first long step in protecting the cattle industry. Part of East Oxford Goes toTUESDAY, MAY 13, 1047Norwich High School Areacould secure the maximum pro­vincial grant.Embro Meeting Hears of High School Area PlanConcessions eight and nine of, East Oxford will become part, of | the Norwich High School Area when the proposed plan for larger high school areas is put into ef­fect. At its regular meeting this week the East Oxford council passed a resolution to include llrs Portion of the township In th*’ Norwich area. Definite boundary! linos will be ret later.The resolution followed an in­terview between the council and 3 delegation from Norwich com­posed of N. M. Marshall, Mr. Swazie and Reeve Harold Bishop. The reeve of Norwich pointed ou* tn the Eaut Oxford council that an assessment of approximately Sb.000.000 is needed to ensure a 10-teacher school for the Nor­wich High School Area, which is | the only way in which NorwichAt a joint meeting tonight the councils of Embro and West Zor­ra and the members of the Embro school board will continue discus­sion of the larger high school area plan which opened in the village at a public meeting on Wednesday evening.The meeting last, night, accord­ing to Department of Education officials who were present, was one of the best attended and most successful they had held hi con­nection with the larger area plan.Reeve R. A. McDonald, who was chairman of the meeting, said this morning that not only wax the at­tendance good but judging from the questions asked from the floor the people of the community had a clear understanding of the prin­ciples proposed.The meeting was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall in the village and was attended by S. D. Rendall and A. L. Lakie of the Ontario Depart­ment of Education and by G. M. Mathex' and L. B. Hyde, public school inspectors for Oxford.Oxford Forced to RaiseAssessment By $156,570► Free Press Woodstock BureauEmbro Continuation School To Continue Until July ’48Meetings have been held in three communities in Oxford this week in connection with the proposed larger high school area plan. On Tuesday evening ratepayers in Brownsville heard the plan ex­plained. on Wednesday those in Embro and on Thursday evening meeting was held in Mount Elgin Each of these centres now has a continuation school. If the new plan is adopted the continuation schools will be closed. The larger high school area plan includes transportation of students by school bus to a high school situat­ed in the area.The meeting in Embro was car­ried over into discussion at a joint meeting of the Embro and West Zorra councils and the Em-Votes to Join 1 School AreaRatepayers of North Dorchester S.S. No. 2, by a vote of two to one, decided lasct night to apply for permission to join a larger high school area in Oxford county, for which Ingersoll would be the cen­tre.In Brownsville the ratepayers bros chool board last night.No Definite DecisionReeve R. A. McDonald of Em­bro said this morning that a de­finite decision on acceptance of high school area plan had not been made. The meeting, he said, decid­ed "to keep the continuation school going until July 1948.”Ratepayers in Mount Elgin heard the new plan explained by officials of the Ontario Depart­ment of Education.of the southern section of Dere­ham township listened to A. L. Lakie of the department outline the plan and its purpose.Mr. Lakie stated the advantages j to be gained by both rural and ur­ban populations. He spoke of guaranteed transportation, lower taxes and extra school courses and equipment for instructing in those courses."The question asked," he said, J "is, should you keep the old type of school you have now or go in1 with the larger area and receive advantages you never had under the old system?”Lloyd Smith was chairman of the Brownsville meeting. After Mr. Lakie spoke a discussion on the matter was held. Present at the meeting were G. M. Mather and L. B. Hyde, public school in­spectors for Oxford, Reeve Lexxxy Curtis and Mr. Dickout, chairman of the township high school area board.WOODSTOCK, May 19 — The equalized assessment in Oxford County must be raised by at least $156,570 this year to be in accor­dance with the Municipal Act ac­cording to figures released by County Clerk L. K. Coles this afternoon.In 1946 the equalized assessment totaled $28,738,700 but in 1946 the i actual assessment climbed from i $28,731. 787 in 1945 to $28,895,270, an ! increase of $163,483.Actual ChangesThe actual assessment increase or decrease for 1946 in the various municipalities is as follows: Blan- : । ford, up $9,532; Blenheim, up $45,- 737; Dereham, down $5,775; East , Nissouri, down. $974; North Nor- wieh. up,. $3,675; South Norwich, ' up $28,533: East Oxford, up $53,- 065; North Oxford. up $2,085: West Oxford, up $9,930; East Zor­ra, down $490; West Zorra, down $3,910; Tillsonburg, down $8,510; Embro, up $8,400; Norwich, up $13,800;. Tavistock, up $8,385.The actual assessments in 1945 were Blandford, $1,287,514; Blen­heim, $3,188,696: Dereham, $3,405,- 345; East Nissouri, $2,679,230; North Norwich, $1,913,395: South Norwich, $1,778,983; East Oxford, $1,914,090! North Oxford, $1,258,035; West Ox­ford. $1,504,427; East Zorra. $3,- 208,932; West Zorra. $2,805,280; Till­son burg, $2,394,275: Embro, $216.- 875; Norwich, $623,875: Tavistock, $552,825.1946 AssessmentActual assessments in 1946 were*, j Blandford, $1,297,046; Blenheim, । $3,234,433; Dereham, $3,399,570; East Nissouri, $2,678,266; North Norwich. $1,917,070; South Nor­wich, $1,807,516; East Oxford, $1,- 967,155; North Oxford. $1,260,120; j West Oxford, $1,514,357: East Zorra, $3,208,442; West Zorra, $2,- 801,370; Tillsonburg, $2,385,765; Embro, $225,275; Norwich, $637,675; , Tavistock, 561,210.The equalized assessment In 1946 with percentage praporation of the actual 1945 assessment in brackets, was as follows:Will Get Picture ofSchool Area PlanOn Wednesday evening the people of Embro will have the opportunity of hearing at first hand the meaning and value of the larger high school area plan. Gordon Duffin and A. L. Lakie will be present from the Department of Education to explain the system which will be in use in Oxford be­fore long.We say “will be in use,” for such a plan to provide true equality, of education for rural pupils with urban students cannot be held up by prejudices and minor difficulties if Oxford is to continue its progress.Embro has at the present a continuation school. There is likely a’feeling among some of the residents that the school should be retained. The larger high school area plan calls for the closing of continuation schools.The continuation school has served its purpose. It gave rural pupils the first two years of a secondary education but because of its small assessment area could not pro­vide the courses, teachers and facilities which are available in schools drawing from a larger area.I he larger high school area requires an assessment area of approximately $7,000,- 000 and an enrolment of close to 300 pupils. Such an area is large enough to allow pro­vision for the proper teaching of science courses, agriculture, shop work and other subjects which fit the needs of every day living and working.An indication that continuation schools are having difficulty filling the educational needs of their students was found in the dis­parity of costs per pupil day shown by the continuation schools in Oxford in the third report of the county council’s education committee at the last session of council. The costs varied roughly between nine cents and $1 per day.•OUWTX OFC’-OB»Notice to CreditorsAND OTHERSTAKE NOTICE that all creditors of JAMES EDWARD COULTER, late of the City of Woodstock, in the County uf Oxford, Retired Builder and Contractor, deceased.who died on or about the 19th dayof April. 1947, and all persons claiming to be entitled to share in his estate are hereby required to send to the undersigned, on or be­fore the 17th day of June, 1947, full particulars of their claims and interests, a* after that date the estate will be distributed without regard to claims of which notice shall not have been received.DATED this 14th day of May, A.D„ 1947.MaeDOUGALL A WHALEY, 477 Dundas Street,WOODSTOCK. Ontario,Blandford. $1,296,200 (100.67); Blenheim, $1,428,500 (107.52); Dere­ham. $3,916,400 (115.11): East Nis­souri, $2,649,700 (98-90); North Nor­wich. $1,939,300 (101.35): South Norwich, $1,495,600 (84.07); East Oxford, $1,928,300 (100.74); North Oxford. $1,193,700 <94.89); West Ox- i ford. $1,566,400 (104.12); East Zor-' tn. $3,461,400 (107.87); West Zorra.I $2,870,200 (102.31); Tillsonburg, $1.- 1709,100 (71.39); Embro. $221,500 1(102.13): Norwich, $569,500 (91.28); : Tavistock, $402,900 (89.16).Solicitors for the proposed Ad-minlatratrtx.M17/31ZJ7/14Oxford Has 13 Delegates To Thames Authority BodyTenders For TRUCKSSEALED TENDERS ad­dressed to the undersigned and plainly marked as to con­tents will be received by the undersigned until 12 o'clock noon E.D.S.T.WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947 for the supplying of the fol­lowing trucks:1. 4 only 3-ton trucks equip­ped with steel dump bod­ies with removal sides.2. 1 only pick-up truck. Ten­ders may be submitted on i/j ton, ton or 1 ton ca­pacity.Trucks are to be equipped with heaters and defrost­ers and all lights required by law; County will pur­chase licenses.Tenderers must submit manu­facturer’s specifications on the equipment tendered on with special notation on the size and ply of the tires that will be furnished. Tender must show approximate date of delivery.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.J. N. MEATHRELL.County Road Superintendent Court House.Woodstock. Ontario.M13.16 Oxford Museum to be Test Case for Government AidCounty Assessment Boost $156,570 Said NecessaryBy ROSS BUTLER“Woodstock, having made appli­cation some months ago and hav­ing taken municipal action to support a museum, will he among the first museums in Ontario to receive aid from the Ontario gov­ernment through the Royal On­tario Museum. It is felt that Woodstock will prove to be an interesting case, in fact a 'test case’ as to what can be done by co-operative effort.”This was the official word re­ceived from the extension branch of the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday. The message continued:“Ponding the report of the Roy­al Commission on Education, new commitments of this type will not be taken where it is necessary to support an overall plan for build­ing up community museums throughout the province at the present time. However, the gov­ernment will, through the Royal Ontario Museum, render assistance by staff advice and loan collections , to museums who have already stated their needs Since Wood- stock had made known their aims some time ago, it has now been included in the very first to get official help in oiganizing and i opening.“First steps will be taken next week when Miss V. Clark, the display specialist from the Royal Ontario Museum staff, will visit Woodstock to advise on display ar­rangements and determine the best methods by which the pro­vincial institution can be of help. This expert co-operation will help direct the general plan of thp museum lay-out. lighting, material and the myriad problems required in such a varied organization."Much Work DoneMuch planning and thought in addition to hard work has gone in­to this project. Many and frequent conferences with city and county officials laying the groundwork for the use of the venerable Wood­stock city hall and its adaptabil­ity for the role of a museum has paved the way for this good news. Visits to both large and small mu­seums in other centres have con­tributed to the know-how of es­tablishing such an institution in Oxford County. A search for dis­play cases at a time of acute shortages of glass and such mate­rial has unearthed an impressive group of modern cases which will house the exhibits in the new mu­seum. More than sixty lineal feet • of such cases have already been purchased by the Oxford Histori- t cal and Museum Society.Many donations of pioneer ma­terial have recently been made. Rare bird collections have been acquired and are undergoing mounting and preparation for the impressive display of the wild life which the museum will have to show the native birds and animals of Oxford County. Paintings, old and rare photographs, historic documents, these are but a few of the new material being con­tributed by citizens of the district.The firemen at the firehall in Woodstock have signified their willingness to co-aperate in going over the pioneer relics, mending those which are fragile and nuns­ing back to life the many objects which are old and worn from long use by the pioneers of this great area. Thia repairing, polishing, preserving and restoration of the hundreds of objects already in the collection is warmly appreciated, 'rhe valuable store of ma ferial so patiently collected over the years by Miss Louise Hill and kept in the basement of the Court House will form the nucleus of the pio­neer section of the museum.Tree Planting Done by Nine County SchoolsAbout 5.000 trees were planted] in a few hours by Oxford county public school chcildren on Friday afternoon. The planting was on a reforestation plot owned by Keith Pearce of Woodstock. The plot is on the seventh concession Blandford.Each school taking part in the' event received a ball and bat from । the county council. Each pupil | present received a chocolate bar.Guided by Zone Forester W. A. G. Thurston, the youngsters from nine county schools Were soon or­ganized into teams and put to work. All schools, Mr. Thurston explained, are entitled to enter zone competitions next fall.Schools and teachers represent­ed were: S.S. 10, East Zorra. Mrs. Helen Long: S.S. 18, Blenheim. Lloyd Strahm: U.S.S. 12 and 7, Blenheim and Blandford, Mrs. Jean Sparks: S.S. 3. East Zorra. Mrs. Velma Kennedy; S.S. 2, Blandford. Miss Janet. McAlpine: S.S. 4, Blandford, Carl Parks; U.S.S. 1 and 2A, Blandford, Mrs. Maiy Hollett: U.S.S. 1 and 2, Blandford. Edna M. Pullin; U.S.S. 4 and 8, Blandford and Blenheim, Mrs. F. McMillan.Miss Janet McAlpine and 14 pu­pils from S.S. No. 2 Blandford de­serve honorable mention for their efforts. Miss McAlpine and class pedalled some six miles by bike to attend the planting.-- Oxford County Museum -■By ROSS BUTLER Preparation to turn the wholeupper story of Woodstock’s his- toiic city hall into a museum for Oxford county is to begin this week.This is the good news given by a special meeting of the city coun­cil and others to study this prob­lem. Preliminary work will start immediately on the necessary re­pairs to get the old auditorium in shape for the decorators who will transform the place into a warmly welcoming show-window for the county of Oxford.This face-lifting within the old building will take the form of completely redecorated walls and ceilings, done over in a warm oyster white which will brighten up the whole interior. It is an­ticipated that the dingy appear­ance now evident upon entering this large auditorium will be changed one of inviting interest in which the citizens of the com­munity will take pride. 1A modern lighting system with a s«ries of indirect lights illum­inating each individual glass show­case will spotlight the many dis­plays, and provide a pool of rest­ful and dramatic lighting for the museum. The floors, newly sanded and polished will be kept light-colored and clean. The old I gallery above the auditorium Is to become a suite of roomy offices for use of the museum staff. But | the preparations do not stop there.Dark RoomBelow the stage the long unused dressing rooms are also to playa part in the now role for the ven- orabh> Town Hall. One of thesewill become a modern and efficientdark-room for utre in collectingand developing a pictorial recordAn Increase of $156,570 will be Warden Milton Betteridge attend-1 necessary this year In the equal-led the meeting.ized assessment in Oxford county ;to be in accordance with the Mu­nicipal Act, figures presented by L. K. Coles, county clerk and treasurer showed today.The equalization committee of county council met to consider the figures this morning In the coun­ty clerk's office. The committee under the chairmanship of Reeve Theodore Cooper, of South Nor­wich, consists of Reeve James Cal­der, North Oxford, Reeve H. A. Bishop, Norwich, Reeve K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg and Deputy Reeve Hany Little of Dereham."What a place for my battery to go dead.”of Oxford County, In this phase of the museum's role, the Wood- stock Camera Club has recently signified its willingness to under­take the collection of such a pic­torial record. This will, therefore, become the headquarters of the Camera Club, and they will work in co-operation with the museum in many projects planned for fu­ture activities.Another’ dressing room will be­come a workshop and storage room for the museum. The stage of the hall is to be left intact, but modernized and made ready for use as a stage. The drapes will undergo cleaning and be col­ored as a backdrop for the spec­ial display of a life-size portrait of King George VI in his corona­tion robes and with the crown jewels. This likeness in oils was painted in Wpodtsock, and will be the most valuable display in the museum. The whole stage will be made a setting for this painting alone, spotlighted and flanked by huge flags.Picture CollectionIt Is hoped to make a collection of valuable pictures, each illus­trating something of historic im­portance and interest in the de­velopment of Oxford county and its towns and villages. This will form an art gallery, permanent and valuable. The high walls lend themselves In such an art display and lasting exhibition. A historic library, housed in the wings of I he stage, will supply material for con- slant reference for students of history in the area.A portion of the auditorium down the center of the hall will be kept for the use of school classes and all other groups desiring to use the facilities provided by the , museum. It is hoped that this, place may become a modified cul- I tural center, with art, history, photography, nature study, citi­zens’ forum and other groups par- ■ taking of its resources.In the formation of this mu­seum the Royal Ontar c Museum in Toronto is rendering svery as­sistance and co-operation in get­ting it established. Acting as agent for the Ontario Department of Education, the Royal Ontario Museum is to loan displays and send to Woodstock experts to deal with the many problems found in the formation of a museum of this nature. They advise and encourage that such an institution become the focal point of the whole com­munity, which it will serve in not only an educational way for the schools of the county, but become the headquarters for adult educa­tion and an attraction for the ever-growing tourist traffic.A preliminary grant for the formation of this museum has been made by the Oxford county council. The city of Woodstock has premised co-operation to the extent of complete decoration of the hall and a grant besides. It is hoped that, the industries of Ox­ford county will render assistance also in establishing the complete picture of the industrial products produced within the county snrCj a permanent exhibition of such1 products will fonn a part of the museum's material. IM CANADIANS (! H O O L JOURNALOntario Public Speaking ChampionshipMarie Judd Roy Sharpe, Georgene Awrey Colborne, RR3 Embro, RR3 LeamingtonJ^OY SHARPE, (13) Embro, RR3, winner of the Hamilton District Public Speaking Contest, won the Ontario Public Speaking Championship, sponsored by the Ontario School Trustees’ & Ratepayers’ Association at the 1947 convention held in Toronto.Marie Judd (12), Colborne, RR3, winner of the Belleville District title, placed second while Georgene Awrey (13), 32 Clark St. W., Leamington, won third prize.Other contestants included Nelma Wigg (11), 209 Bayfield St., Barrie, winner of the Toronto District Championship; Diann Hoga- boam, Brockville, RR2, winner of the Kempt- ville District title and George Thurtell, RR5, Guelph, winner of the Guelph District Cham­pionship.Roy Sharpe and Marie Judd are both pupils of one-roomed rural schools while Georgene Awrey is a. pupil of a ten-room school.All contestants spoke on “What Canada Has to Offer New Canadian Boys and Girls”. They were all congratulated by Department officials for their excellent presentations.Modest Oxford County Farm Lad Top Ontario Orator^oy Sharpe Thrills District With Win in Keen CompetitionBY J. STEWART WATSON Woodstock F. P. Bureau WOODSTOCK, April 11 — With his name on everyone's lip's, little Roy Sharpe, a four-foot-four bundle of public speaking talent was hailed "King of Oxford " County” today.Yesterday in Toronto, 14-year-old, Roy, weighing a mere 68 pounds, [ defeated five other contestants to । win the Ontario elementary schools I public speaking championship. ,The wires hummed around the county yesterday and today as word : of Roy's accomplishment wm flash- | ed j^wut. It was the first time in 15 years of trying that an Oxford boy had progressed past district finals to capture provincial honors.• • *Word of Roy’s success came from Toronto about noon yesterday through Reeve R. A. McDonald, Embro to waiting County Clerk L. K. Coles. Tn no time at all the word was passed along the grapevine and Oxford literally buzzed, * * *"Did you hear that Roy won the tontario championsiUp,” the ques­tion pounced from corner to cor­ner of Oxford.I Today the "Little King," clad in overalls, was unconcernedly go­ing his chores in the barn when contacted by Hie Woodstock Free i Press Bureau after a long search of West Zorra'* muddy hack roads.Fleming, R.R. 4. Embro, who aided' in preparing his talks.In Grade 8 Roy averaged 94 in the Easter exams and is a talenteu guitar player and singer. He wax born in Elma Township, 35 miles north of Stratford in Perth County. His father died eight years ago., Five years ago he and his mother i moved to the farm in West Zorra i where they now stay. He started'■booling at S.S- No.. 2, Elma ]Miss Fleming said, Roy was a little nervous first but when heI got going he was all right. "I was | all right, when I got going," Roy I echoed uttering one of his^rare 1 phrases.। Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, Mary and Margaret Fleming and Mrs. Sharpe accompanied the young speaker to Toronto.• • •Miss Fleming has been teaching it but rumor has it she will be school for three years and likes walking up the aisle shortly. She received her training in London and taught first at S.S. No, 13, East Zorra, where she had 35 pupils. "She is an all around girl," [ her mother state*.The first thing Roy did last | night when he got home from To-1 ronto was change and help with 1 the chores."Ho usually geta up about 6 n.m.! ! and helps with the work before he |.goeK to school," Ids teacher1 said. IIxnid in their praise of Roy were ■"Are you Roy Sharpe?" the ques­tion was asked of small face peak­ing from behind a barn door. A shy smile and an affirmative nod was the answer.Roy answered questions readily enough .but voluntered no infor­mation. After an hour or so in his presence we wondered what transferred this quiet, selm-con- j tained lad into a dynamic speaker j when he climbed on a platform f and addressed a gathering.■ < * ■ * *■ , Second ydh'ngvfit soil Of MtH' i Elizabeth Sharpe, R.R. 3. Embro,; widow-mother of a large family,, Roy, morn on April fool’s day, fool­ed all but bis teacher and mother when he walked away with the contest at Toronto.» * *With his guiding star, 20-year- old, attractive Mary Fleming coaching him on to success, Roy. made a meteoric climb on thto public speaking platform.Miss Fleming, who teaches a olaau of 14 pupils at S.S. No. 2, Went Zorra, modestly states he could win a "world championship! if there was one."* * •Roy's talent, according to Miss | । Fleming, wax first discovered! | when she chase him for a pert in | the school's Christmas play. He! [next won ’ho township contest.^t i lEmbro, Huj county contest at | Woodstock mid the district con- test at Brantforl and capped it all by winning the provincial conlrst.As for Roy anti his mother, they i credit a large part of his succoas to Mis* Flaming and her mother I and father, Mr. and Mrs. W. E i I ------—— .................—_ 1Mrs G. Ratz. Tavistock, pres-' ident of the Oxford County Trus­tees and Ratepayers Association; Reeve Wilfred Corp, Tavistock, Reeve Osmond Murray, West Zor­ra. Reeve R. A. MacDonald, ! Embro; Reeve Leroy Curtis, Dcre- ham.• * •Reeve MacDonald and Reeve Curtii*. In Toronto at the O.E A. ' conventicp^.J^u-d Roy speak. "He iw-Diiui -hilr prime minister soroe day. said Reeve MfcDonnhi. "He is king of the county today," Reeve Curtis claimer.। “When we took Roy to Toronto, I we knew we had a winner." Mrs.Ratx started adding that Roy has an appealing manner and a sense of humor on the platfom, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1947I#:saaH:kSStudents Prepare for Annual Tree PlantingNext month roughly 100,000 trees will be planted by school children in Oxford county. Over three-quarters of these trees will be put out on land owned by the coun­ty and set aside as county forests.The planting, which is an annual event, will help put back on the sbil of this coun­ty the covering of trees which it needs so badly. The percentage of woodland in Ox­ford is slightly more than six per cent, of the total area. A safe percentage, according to tree conservationists, is about 15 per cent.In addition, another important purpose is served. The fact that the actual planting is done by school pupils instills in the minds of those taking part, and who are the com­ing generation of citizens, a sense of the value and need for trees which their fore­fathers lacked. The forest, instead of being an enemy to be attacked and cleared on ev­ery hand, becomes to these children an asset to be guarded and kept for the future.The scheme to have the planting done by school children is not just a cheap method of getting the trees in the ground in a hurry. In four afternoons about 650 children in Oxford will learn practical lessons in refor­estation. As well as being shown the prop­er method of setting out the young trees, the pupils will be taught why they should be speeding an afternoon in such a fashion.In years to come they will carry this knowledge with them. Every time they pass a plot on which they planted trees while at­tending school that knowledge will come back to them. The plots will be a living re­minder of the lessons learned.TREE PLANTING ON COUNTY FOREST PLOTS—Just north and west of Lakeside on Monday afternoon school pupils from eight schools in the township of East Nissouri plant­ed two acres of land owned by the county with white spruce and pine. The day was part of the county's program of reforestation and also launched the schools in the reforestation competition sponsored by the Ontario Horticultural Society and the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. The pupils from School Section No. 6 of East Nissouri are shown in the upper photo about to leave after the planting. They are, reading from the left, front row, Reginald Lake, Donna Calder, Ellen Bent, Marion Calder, Joan Garlick, Rose­mary Wetstone, Audrey Wilkie and Bob McGee; rear, Grant Gilbert, teacher of school; Patsy Alderson. Jeanne Garlick, Maureen McLeod, Marilyn McLeod, Keith Haynes, Jim Borland and Miss Isobel Rumble, teacher of S.S. No. 2. In the lower picture four child­ren give a demonstration of tree planting. From the left they are, Alvin Worte of S.S. No. 7, Medina, John Fortey, Retta Palmer and Eileen Fortey, all of Lakeside. — (Staff Photo).Conservation Plan Required To Preserve Needed TopsoilReforestation Provides Major Flood Control Means, Says Porter of Thames Area School Pupils Will Plant 100,000 Trees This YearThe plantings will all start at 1 p.m. Daylight Saving Time and will be under the supervision of W. A. G. Thurston, forester for Oxford, Perth and Huron coun­ties. The locations and schools taking part are as follows:•REVIEW, WOODSTOCK—INGERSOLL, MONDAY, MAY S, 1947for entry in the Ontario Horti­cultural Association School For­estry Competitions.The county council is giving a ball and bat to each school tak­ing part in the planting and pro­viding chocolate bars for the pu-Schools ListedEast Nissouri, County Lake­side Forest on May 5, 21,400 trees school sections 5 and 1, 6, 10, 11 of East Nissouri:West Zorra, County Embro Forest on May 6, 42,200 trees by school sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 10, 11 of West Zorra:Blenheim, County Hall Forest on May 7, 16,200 trees by school sections 1, 2 and 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14. 24. 11, 4 and 8 of Blenheim.The private planting on prop­erty owned by Keith Pearce will be in Blandford on Lot 4, Con­cession 7 and will include pupils from Blandford school sections 1 and 2 (a). 2, 1 and 2, 4, East Zorra 10, 3, Blenheim 12 and 7, 18. This planting will be on May 16 at 1 p.m., DST.It Is expected that some county and township councillors will be In attendance at the plantings on each date.Reforestation Well Depicted in ArticleTwo feelings are aroused by perusal of an illustrated article entitled “Reforesta­tion in Ontario” written by E. J. Zavitz for the current issue of the Canadian Geograph­ic Journal. The first is that of horror, the second of hope.Mr. Zavitz, who is chief of the reforesta­tion division of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, presents photographs with his article showing the tragedy of stark naked land denuded of trees in the early days of settlement.As further pages are turned horror gives place to hope as the reader sees in pictures what has been done in the way of reforesta­tion in southern Ontario. The written ma­terial accompanying the pictures covers the whole story of Ontario’s forests lands from the time when fine stands of trees covered this part of Ontario through a period of in­tense cutting until the work being done at the present time to replace those lands so wastefully devastated.After reading Mr. Zavitz’ article through to the end and learning that landowners in 40 years have successfully planted not more than 150,00 acres, that municipal projects in 25 years have accounted for an additional 50,000 acres, and that there are over one million acres of land, which if further devel­opment of barrens is to be prevented, should be put back in forest, the dead lands depicted stand out as bitter object lessons.We still have much to pay to settle for the ruthless manner in which our land was cleared.learned this morning.Early In May there will be four plantings, three on plots owned by the county and the fourth on private property owned by Keith Pearce of Woodstock.There will be no ceremony or dedication in connection with the plantings this year, L. K. Coles, county clerk, stated, as all the county properties have been dedi­cated in previous years.TREE PLANTINGAt one o’clock this afternoon over 100 school children from four schools in East Nissouri commenc­ed planting 21,400 trees on the Ox­ford county reforestation plot near Lakeside. Each school taking part will receive a ball and bat from the county as well as a choc­olate bar for each pupil. The plant­ing was under the supervision of W A. G. Thurston. Stratford, zone forester for Oxford. Perth and Huron counties.PORTION OF THE 20 ACRES of a reforestation project on the concession of East Ox­ford, near Creditvilie, is shown in the top photograph. The planting was done last week under the direction of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. The lower picture shows the tree planter and tractor in the act of planting the 24,000 spruce, hem­lock and maple trees which went into the plot. Bill Forst of Beamsville is at the con­trols whil kep Aitken, Goderich, of the Department, is placing the young trees in the feeder. Planting is done at the rate of 1,000 trees per hour. (Staff photos.)Approximately 100,000 trees It is estimated that in the four will be planted by school children plantings 650 pupils will take in this year's reforestation Part> representing 31 schools in scheme in Oxford county, it was the county. The planting will • • • qualify each school taking part Barber Promotes Monthly Concerts at Oxford ‘Home’Les McKerra! Co-Ordinates Ef­forts of All WoodstockService ClubsBY J. STEWART WATSON Free Frew Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK, May 23-LosMcKerml. genial Wood- stock barber is making life for the "old folk" nt Oxford's County Home a bit brighter thr^tigh a systematic series of entertainment programs, an idea which he himself con­ceived and brought into opera­tion with the assistance of various service organizations,’ *Les felt the "old folk are far too often forgotten by or­ganizations intent in promot­ing the welfare of underpriv­ileged children" and he deter­mined to do something about it• ♦ •The father of three children, Jean, aged 11, Gerald, nine and Rose Marie, four, does not decry child fcork but feels that some time and effort could well be spent by service clubs on the aged who face many lonely hours in a rocking chair at homes throughout the coun­try.• • *A Rotarian who hasn’t miss­ed a meeting here in 13 years, he first broached the idea of providing monthly entertain­ment at the home to his own service club. The Rotarians immediately appointed a com­mittee of four with Les as chairman. Serving on the com­mittee with him are Rotarians Rev. Dan Gaynor, Charles Thompson and Gordon Archi­bald.* • •Les carried his idea a step further, however, and press­ed into service talented mem­bers of the Legion. Lions. Kins­men. Optimists, Y's Men and Rotary Clubs.* » •Starting a year ago, Les says the clubs have not missed entertaining the aged men and women at the home in seven months. "It only means service clubs here have to dig out their talent and send them to the home twice each year for an hour," he observed. "It would like to see the service clubs throughout Canada or­ganize entertainment along similar lines for the aged.”4 • «With feet and canes tapping to music and a suspicion of a tear in many eyes as old songs recalled memories, the old folk were entertained this week by ILes McKerral with his two talented children, Jean and Geraldmembers of Branch 55 of the Woodstock Canadian Legion.* * *Sitting back in their chairs, they listened to songs by Jack Bryan, piano solos by Bruce McMillan, songs and guitar numbers by James Truscott and violin selections by Harry Showers. K. B. Rutherford, president1 of the Legion, acted as M.C. Les McKerral’s two children, Jean and Gerald also contributed piano numbers.The old folk were an apprec­iative audience and what really sent their hearts a winging and their feet a tap­ping, were the old tunes, reeled off by Mr. McKillan at the piano, Mr. Showers with his violin and Mr. Truscott with his guitar.* * *Mrs. Forbes, wife of R. J. Forbes, manager of the County Home, takes a keen delight in the enjoyment of her charges on these occasions and thinks the idea is an excellent one. It is under her cheerful guidance that they enjoy a brief hour of respite from routine once a month.Mr. McKerral considers the pleasure he brings into the home, ample rew'ard for the enthusiasm and hard work he puts into this self-imposed task.REPRESENTATIVES OF 25 MUNICIPALITIES gathered nt the Masonic Temple yesterday afternoon and fulled to pass motion for the conservation scheme In the Thames watershed. Some of the delegates are seen in the above picture discussing the watershed.From left to right, they are: W. A. Tuer, Fullarton Township: W. D, Colby, county engineer for Kent; Milton Betteridge. East Missouri; Oliver Amos, McGillvary Township, and Alex Anderson, Perth. TRILLIUMS SPRINKLED THROUGH THE WOOD — A never-to-be-forgotten sight in Ontario woods these spring days is nature’s white carpeting of Trilliums. The flower,1 which is the official bloom of this province, is simple in its beauty, snow-white and delicate. Backed by its foliage a bank of Trilliums appears as snow left behind on the green earth as spring breaks forth. This scene was taken on the farm of C. O. Tatham, 13th Line of East Zorra.—(Staff Photo).Tree Plantings CancelledTwo of three plantings sched­uled in this year’s reforestation । program, of the Oxford county council for the next week have been cancelled, W. A. G. Thurston, Stratford, zone forester for Ox­ford, Huron and Perth, said this morning.Inability to get the land on the reforestation plots plowed ready for the school pupils to plant was the reason given by Mr. Thurston for the cancellation. The plantings in the county forest north of Em­bro and in Blenheim, which were to have been held on Tuesday and Wednesday, May .. and 7 have been cancelled. The planting on Monday in East Nisouri will be held as planned.The zone forester declared that when the land on the forests plots . was ready for plowing so was all the land in the neighborhood, and this would keep the farmers busy on their own lands.For this reason only 21,400 trees will be placed in the county forests this year instead of 100,- 000 as originally planned.Water Covering County FieldsDecrease Noted In Fox BountiesS'cventy-two fox bounties were paid during the month of May ac­cording to figures released by. County Clerk L. K. Coles this morning. The Township of Blen­heim has the honor of being the highest on the list with 15 boun­ties, West Zorra next with 12. To date in 1947 204 bounties have been paid, it was announced.Last year more than double. 437„ bounties had been paid up until the end of May, figures re­vealed. In May of 1946 a total of 144 bounties were claimed by1 district residents.Whether the decrease is due to a decline in the number of foxes in the county or to- the late season or the change in the boun­ty rate from $4 to $2, the county clerk was not certain, but it is expected that a larger number of, bounties will be claimed in June] of this year. In 1946 only 15 were paid.The list issued revealed the number of bounties in each town­ship: Blandford, 2; Blenheim, 15; | North Norwich, 4; South Norwich, 0; East Oxford, 3; North Oxford, 5; West Oxford, 8; East Zorra, 9; and We^st Zorra 12; a total of 73 for the month.More Information Sought For Hospital ExtensionOne of a series of meetings de­signed to gather information and seek advice as to what services and facilities should be included in any extension to the Woodstock General Hospital was held by the Hospital Board of Trust last eve­ning.In addition to the members of the building committee, there were present Warden Milton Bet- tridge; Wilfred Cockburn, chair­man of the County Board of Health; the County Medical Offi­cer of Health; Woodstock Public Health nurses and members of the, Woodstock Board of Health.East Oxford to Limit Pheasant Shoot LicensesEast Oxford township council met in regular session this week. Chief business up for discussion proved to be municipal drains, sev­eral ratepayers being present to ask for cleaning out or repair of drains.It was decided to erect shelters for pheasants and to try the gen­tle release advocated by the De­partment of Lands and Forests, and to sell only 100 non-resident' licenses, but to set no limit on the number sold to residents.Oxford Locale of jersey Field DayPlans for the Western Ontario Jersey Clt. j field day, to be stag ' cd in Oxford County the latter part of June, were advanced at a meeting of the club executive in the Middlesex County agricul­tural office at London yesterday.Tentative arrangements call tor the breeders to assemble in the recreation hall at the Wood­stock fair grounds. They will also visit a commercial feed com-i pany, the Oxford Co-Operative,, the artificial insemination unit] and a prominent Jersey farm as yet unnamed. A definite date has yet to be chosen also.H. C. Mason of Toronto, form j erly of Wlltdn Grove, president of t he club, was chairman for yesterday's executive meeting. | d attended by Vice-Presidents । George Thomson of Woodstock, and Don Begg. St. Thomas, and Secretary W. K. Riddell. Middle sex County agricultural repros entative. STOCK—INGERSOU^ TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1947Township Councils Study Pheasant Release SchemeNORWICH — Ton represents* fives of the councils of Dereham, East Oxford, West Oxford and North Norwich townships listened with Interest on Monday evening as Dr. H. Clarke, of the Depart­ment of Game and Fiyhertes, ex­plained the "Gentle Release" method of distributing pheasants throughout the counties of On­tarioPreviously the department had distributed thousands of eggs to be hatched on Ontario farms’ and, more recently, had distributed thousands of small poults at in- । discriminate points. Follow-up in* I vestigation has shown that most 1 of these helpless birds died with­in a day or so of their being dumped. Now the department is advocating the Gentle Release method which has been practiced very successfully in Wisconsin, one of the States mast thickly populated with pheasants.Pheasant ReleasesThis method cons's ts in getting cither individuals or municipal councils to erect pheasant releases hi which the small birls may be fed and protected for several days or until they become acclimatized to their new surroundings and then released gradually.The plan of a satisfactory re­lease which is recommended by the department may be built a*t an estimated cost of $28. It is 12^ yards long, 48 inches high and five yards wide. It may be made from four rolls of 2-inch mesh wire. Two rolls will cover the top and both ends, commencing to un­roll at the ground at one end and ; unrolling to the ground at the ether end, and the remaining two ; rolls will make the sides with something left over. Cover, brush, corn stalks or other material can be placed over one end.The birds are kept in this for a few days before both ends are j raised and they are allowed to wander out at will. When the ends I are raised the mash feed is reduc- ed and small grains substituted ; for a while or until the birds have learned to forage for themselves.The plans for the above release pen were proposed to the depart­ment by Ed. Meadows, game over­seer for the Huron district which is comprised of ten counties and formerly of Oxford.Added ProtectionIn som e parts of the United States, as an added protection against skunks and dogs, and oth- ' er animals a single strand electric fence is used about the release.Dr. Clarke told the meeting that in areas where a check had been made, under the old system of re- । lease eight or ten banded birds j would be shot in the fall, whereas under the new release method 8C ; or 90 per hundred released had ' been taken. He stressed that most of the cock birds should be taken as game.He also told the men gathered that the department was planning on hatching up to 30,000 birds this year and that there should be plenty for all. The distribution will be made from the District Forest­ers office in Galt and Mr. Mead­ows made it clear at the meeting that areas which were first to erect rleases would be the first supplied with birds.It is th wish of the department i to know as quickly as possible those townships which propose to establish regulated areas and m’d- . June was suggested as the latest ' date. Th stablishmcnt of regulat­ed areas allows the township council the privilege of issuing all licenses governing the hunting of pheasants and rabbits.Resolution RequiredCouncils proposing to set up such areas must Intimate their Intention by resolution passed at a regular meeting. The resolution must be forwarded to the district forester and he in turn will seekWith the number of birds being hatched it is believed there will | be approximately 700 birds avail-' 1 able for each township in which j conditions are suitable for pheas­ants. This area is considered such,! 'especially south of No. 2 highway, n areas where the average snow- I fall exceeds 70 inches it is not profitable to distribute birds;। areas having about 50 inches arc I considered good.Clare Peers, former reeve of East Oxford suggested it had been a crime the way young poults had been released and he pointed out that many farmers could use their poultry rain shelter to give the young pheasants a start.Assume CostTed Shaddock, county game warden, and Bob McKay, town-| ship warden, pointed out that the Oxford Fish and Game Associa­tion had indicated its willingness [ to assume the cost of one release per township in the county, t is es­timated that Dereham, as the larg-! est township, would require seven. The township has a game associa­tion which has sufficient funds available to erect all they need and it was indicated this will be done.The distribution of birds is made from July 1 to September. Mr. Meadows told the meeting that the counties bordering the United States are going into the regulated areas 100 per cent, as protection against United States hunters. Ted Shaddock said that 75 Americans paid the $15.50 non­resident. of Ontario fee, and hunt­ed in Oxford last year. He pre­dicted many more wuold come this fall. They worked in the Thames- j ford area and participated in the ' rabbit drives and often purchased i the entire shoot to take home with them.When Ted Shaddock pointed out that a groundhog license gave the holder permission to hunt any day but Sunday, Gordon Little, Depu­ty Reeve of Dereham. replied that that was the day on which the most groundhog hunting was done.Dr. Clarke said that there are about twice as many deer hunting licenses being issued now as there were before the war. Checks had shown that only about the usual number of deer were being shot. Townships may be arriving at mu­tual agreements to recognize each others hunting licenses. Dr. Clarke said it is the hope of the depart­ment to have the licenses ready at a much earlier date this year and it was pointed out that in regulat­ed areas the individual farmers may by posters protect their property from trespassing hunt­ers.Regulated AreasNorman Moyer, president of the Dereham association, favored the regulated area as in Dereham. Be­fore its establishment, he said, they had found that township resi- 1 dents got scarcely any hunting at all. Certain tobacco growers, as soon as frost had finished their' t tobacco harvest, would come up and shoot anything that was cov­ered with feathers or hail’. Farm­ers' turkeys, geese, or what have you were not immune and to make travelling easier they carried snips and cut the wire fences. Last year there were issued in Dereham 197; non-resident and 165 resident U-, censes.North Oxford township dele­gates intimated they intended to proceed with organization, and in Dereham their game association will act. Mr. Shaddock and Mr. Meadows will pay a visit to each township council at their next meeting to speed organization.The meeting was held In the | North Norwich township council j building. Reeve George Fewster | was chairman.the authority of the department.TRUE MAGAZINE^What’s gnufMany Problems Presented Farmers by Wet WeatherWet weather has reduced the in­tended acreage of spring grain to be sown in Oxford county, but to what extent it is difficult to es­timate.The seeding picture varies with every farmer. Some, the most for­tunate, have completed the seed­ing which they had planned; others have completed what they had planned after revising their seeding plans when a late season first became apparent. From there the picture varies with al­most every farm from having a few acres left to seed to having but a few acres or none at all sown.Most farmers contacted are agreed that the wet weather has done Uttlc <>r no harm to that gram which has come up through the ground. Concerning that which has still to appear they are doubtful and considerably wor­ried over those portions of the fields now lying under water.Soggy FieldsSoggy fields and flooded patch­es present a problem in getting work done on the land. Tractors and machinery are reported bog­ged down in fields in many places. The ground is not even fit to dig post holes, one man pointed out.What to plant now instead of the usual spring grain, much of which would have been used next winter to feed stabled cattle, is causing many a headache. Anum- ber, particularly around Drumbo, liave decided to plant turnips, mangolds and corn. Barley and millett, some believe would have a chance tc develop into a de­cent crop.A good many farmers must have decided to plant buckwheat in place of spring grain for buck­wheat has become scarce. The price is reported to have risen to $3 and fear It expressed that it might go higher.The general situation which pre­vailed earlier this spring of those fanners having their seeding doneNorwich Tax Rate Set at 50 Mills, Is New High Mark The county rale is up one mill and this, the Reeve said, is due to the fact that more mothers are receiving hospital care causing greater hospital costs. on the higher and lighter lands still stands about the same. Those on lower and heavier land are those mainly confronted with seeding troubles.Fall wheat is reported by a num­ber to have come along in fair shape requiring but a few days of warm weather.Cattle ProblemAnother problem presented by the wet and cooi weather and the soggy ground is that of putting cattle out to pasture. A few cat­tle are out, but the majority have been kept in the stable. Cows need the exercise after being in the stable all winter. Feeding in­side increases costs of production at a season when milk checks are lower because the cows are sup­posed to be cut on pasture.Two branches of agriculture In the county, however, are not greatly affected by the wet wea­ther, the apple and tobacco grow- ing branches.George Laird, manager of the Oxford Fruit Co-operative, ex­pressed the opinion this morning that with warmer and better wea­ther the prospects for the apple crop were still good. No damage has been done in this county, he believed, as a result of the damp weather nor from frosts.A week ago tobacco planting be­gan in the neighborhood of Otter­ville. Yeste**day some growers began putting in plants in the district north of Gobles. Tobacco soils being lighter than most, sog­gy land does not present a prob­lem to growers wanting to use machinery on the land as it does with general types of farming.So far frost damage to the ten­der crop has nor been reported.STREAM SURVEYGame Overseer J. F. O'Neil ol, Galt is making a stream survey of all Oxford County streams for' the purpose of gaining up to date knowledge on the predominant species of fish in the streams and the suitability of restocking the streams throughout thp? county, it was learned today. Thames Valley AuthorityTHURSDAY,7Proposal Beaten on VoteRv 4 W n ni'VMtV AMarmon 1—..t.. X......By A. K. C. BUHMANSentinel-Review Staff WriterA concentrated effort on the part of representatives from the city of Chatham and 12 other Kent municipalities to have a sur- vey of the whole Thames Valley before they would agree to setting up a conservation authority was mainly responsible yesterday for drowning any hope of the estab­lishment of a Thames Valley Authority in the near future. The move to set up the T.V.A. required : a two-thirds majority to carry. I The vote when counted stood at I 28 for and 26 against.While those representatives from the lower reaches of the river opposed the plan at the meeting yesterday in the Masonic Hall, London, and. voted 14 to 2 against its being set up now, all opposition did not. come from near the river's mouth. Five munici­palities in Oxford and five in Perth vbtfed against the plan. Those municipalities in Oxford opposing the T.V.A. were the vil­lages of Tavistock, Embro and the townships of East Oxford, West Oxford and North Oxford.A. H. Richardson, cliief conser­vation engineer for the Ontario Department of Plannirig and De­velopment, was chairman of the meeting. W. K. Riddell, Middle­sex agricultural representative, was named secretary.Motion DefeatedThe instructions Mr. Richard­son said he had received concern­ing the meeting, which was called by the Minister of Public Works for Ontario, was to take a vote whether or not the municipalities wished to have an Authority set up under the Conservation Auth­orities Act. A resolution moved by E. O. Bogue of London, second­ed by Aiderman J. A. Lewis of Woodstock requested that the authority be established. This mo­tion was defeated.With the present hope of setting up an authority quashed at yester­day's meeting two posibilities ofi day’s meeting two possibilities of main.One possibility follows the re­quest of the municipalities around Chatham to have a survey of the whole river made and to recon­vene Tuesday's meeting after that has been done. This was put in the form of a resolution by Aiderman G. R. Newkirk of Chatham, one of the chief opponents to the immed­iate establishment ot the T.V.A. at yesterday’s gathering. The re­solution carried with no apparent opposition.Another MeetingAiderman J. Cameron Wilson, one of the three representatives from the city of London asked if the municipalities above Lon­don might request another meet­ing to be called and to vote on setting up an authority without waiting for the municipalities on. the lower part of the river.Mr. Richardson indicated that such a move fould be quite in or­der, The Conservation Authorities Act states that two of more muni­cipalities within watershed may request such a meeting to be call­ed.Several representatives of rural municipalities were concerned over the clause in the act which requires all new drainage schemes to have the approval of the pro­posed authority. .They feared loss of power given them under the Drainage Act.The survey of the lo^er portion of the Thames valley, it was stat­ed at the meeting, had been prom* tod by the Hon. Dana Fort er, Min­ister of Planning and Development at a recent meeting held in Chat­ham. It wag also pointed out at Tuesday’s meeting that the cost of such a survey would be borne by the Department.Alderman Lewis wanted to know If a scale had been set up for the assessment of costs of schemes canted out. Mr. |Rlchard-1 son said there was no such scale.!It was a job for the authority to carry out when it was set up.A Mending the meeting as offi­cial delegates from Woodstock were Aldermen J. A. Saunders and । J. A. Lewis. Other voting dele­gates from Oxford were Warden Milton Betteridge of East Nis-; souri, Reeve O. H. Murray of West Zorra, Reeve R. A. McDonald of Embro, Reeve Gordon Ross of, East Zorra, Reeve Oscar Sippel ofi Blandford, Reeve John Wallace of' East Oxford. Reeve James Calder of North Oxford, Reeve Percy1 Sage of West. Oxford, Reeve Leroy i Curtis of Dereham, Reeve Wilfred Corp of Tavistock and G. W. Pit­tock of Ingersoll.Also attending the meeting but not as official delegates were James Vance of Woodstock, R. H. Clark of Embro, L. L. Wettlaufer, a member of the East Zorra town­ship council and W. Hutchison of, North Oxford council.PUBLIC NOTICEAt the call of Warden Mil- ton Betteridge a special meeting of the County Council of the County of Oxford will be held in theCOUNCIL CHAMBER IN THE COURT HOUSE WOODSTOCK onTUESDAY, JUNE 10th, 1947,at the hour of ten o’clock a.m., for general business.AU claims and accounts against the county must be filed with the County Clerk before the first day of the session.L. K. COLES,County Clerk.County Clerk’s Office, Woodstock.HowT.V.A.Votes CastThe following list Indicates how the votes were cast by 49 muni­cipalities withlrf the Thames river watershed at Tuesday's meeting m London which turned down a plan for immediate establishment of a conservation authority. Those 12 municipalities which did not have representatives present are not included. The only municipality from Oxford entitled to a vote at the meeting and not represented was the township of North Nor­wich. OxfordBlandford township...............Yes Dereham township...................YesVillage of Embro ................. NoTown of Ingersoll YesEast Nissouri township........Yes East Oxford .................. NoNorth Oxford township............NoWest Oxford township ..........No Village of Tavistock ............. NoCity of Woodstock (2 votes)’ Yes East Zorra township.............Yes West Zorra township ........... YesPerth /Biddulph township .......... Yes Blanshard township .......... YesDownie township ................... YesNorth Easthope township ... No South Easthope township .... No Ellice township ...................... NoFullartpn township............... Yes Hibbert township .......... NoLogan township ..................... NoTown of Mitchell.....................YesTown of St. Marys.....................Yes iCity of Stratford (2 votes) .. YesMiddlesexDelaware township............... yes North Dorchester township .. No Lobo township ....................... yesCity of London (3 votes) .... Yes London township.................... yes-Mosa township ........................ yesWest Nissouri township .... Yes' Westminster township..........Yes'HuronMcKillop township................. NoElginDunwich township...................yesKentTown of Blenheim NoCamden township ................. NoCity of Chatham (2 votes) .. No Chatham township...................NoDover township.........................NoHarwich township ................. NoHoward township................... NoRaleigh township....................No Romney township ......................NoVillage of Thamesville............YesTown of Tilbury ..................... NoEast Tilbury township..............NoNorth Tilbury township.......No West Tilbury township.......... NoZone township ......... yes IT.V.A. Should NotBe Abandoned NowSeveral hundred words could be written in a post nlbrtem examination of the causes of the death of the Thame;, Valley Authority in the very moments when it might have «een life. Much hope for conservation, flood control and general betterment of the valley was built on the setting up of this author­ity, but Tuesday’s vote yesterday defeated ' the measure.Rather than conduct such an examina­tion and attempt to place the blame for the defeat of a measure, which many considered so useful, we feel there is more constructive work to be done.That the Thames Valley, including all thejand drained by the river and its tribu­taries, needs some sort of an organization to give the lead in matters of flood control and conservation, we are certain. Doing such a tremendous job piecemeal by townships, counties and other municipalities will not solve such a problem.That the plan of organization provided in The Conservation Authorities Act, for the establishing of an authority, such as the Thames Valley Authority should be, is the best method available at present for getting all municipalities together and getting the job done, also seems indisputable. Five other river valleys in Ontario have accepted the plan and a sixth will decide early next month on whether it will set up an author­ity.It was evident at Tuesday’s conference in London that, despite the efforts of the steering committee for the project and the publicity given all points of the plan, still more information was needed for a number of the delegates before they could vote on the proposal with a clear picture of what was involved.Before such a project can get underway successfully, another factor is to be consid­ered in addition to information.. There must be an attitude of co-operation and a feeling of trust between all municipalities whose representatives will comprise the authority. We are sorry to say that, judging from the discussion on the conference floor on Tues­day afternoon, such an attitude and such a feeling are lacking, not in every municipal­ity, but in too many.Men have sat around the conference ta­ble and worked out tremendous problems be­fore. The problems blocking the T.V.A. at present are far from tremendous. Surely the representatives of this valley can get togeth- r and plan a conservation and flood control program without each one knowing exactly what his municipality will get and how much it will cost.V"Fou'rr so round, so firm, so fully packed—" MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the Ox ford County Children’s Aid Society and Romaine K. Ross of St. Catharines, guest speaker, are shown as they were pho­tographed at the 52nd annual meeting of the society at Chal­mers United church last night. In the front row from left to right: R. Miners, Tillsonburg; Dr. G. J. Murray, Inger­soll; Mrs. C. R. Patience, Woodstock; Mrs. James Baxter, In­gersoll: Romaine K. Ross; Vernon Fewster, retiring presi­dent of the society and Miss Mary Pyper of Woodstock; back row from left to right, Aiderman W. Milburn, Woodstock; Clark Murray, Woodstock; Charles Milton, Princeton; R. G. Clowes, secretary-treasurer of the Board and superintendent of the society; Charles Mitchell, Woodstock; Hugh Harris, Lakeside, president elect and W. A. Calder of Woodstock.— (Staff Photo).Hugh Harris Named HeadOf Oxford Children’s Aid"You have a superintendent and an administrator of Children’s Aid work of whom you can well be proud, in the person of R. G. Clowes." Romaine Ross told over 150 representatives from all over Oxford county at the 52nd annual meeting of the society, which was held in Chalmers United church last night. Mr. Ross is president 'of the St. Catharines society and on the executive of the Ontario association.Mr. Ross was the guest speaker of the evening and was introduced by W. Calder, while the thanks of the society for the address was expressed by Aiderman W. Mil­burn.The nominating committee’s re­port, which was presented by Clark Murray, named Hugh Harris of Lakeside as president; Vernon Fewster, past president; Dr. J. G. Murray of Ingersoll 1st vice-presi­dent; R, G. Clowes, secretary­treasurer. The directors named Charles Carrigan, Mrs. J. Baxter of Ingersoll, Mrs. C. R. Patience, H. E. Longworth, W. Milburn. R. F. Miners, Tillsonburg, H. Pass- more, John White, and Clark Mur­ray, Woodstock.Bert Beaumont, director of child welfare in Ontario, also spoke briefly to the meeting and brought greetings from Deputy Minister B,AT MEETINGCounty Clerk L. IC Coles will he in St. Cdthai'lneK tomorrow at­tending a district meeting of coun­ty clerks and treasurers. The in­formal meetings held twice? yearly are to discuss various problems nrkrlng in connection with county work.HUGH HARRISW. Helse on the occasion of the 52nd annual meeting of the Oxford county Children's Aid Society.Congratulates SocietyMr. Beaumont congratulated Mr. Clowes for the fine work being done in children’s aid work here. "Children's Aid work Is not what It used to be," he said. "This business of human engineering is the most important job we have and it is up to us to look after the children in our county. I know in Oxford county you are doing all you can for children’s welfare" . iThe guest speaker of-the even­ing paid tribute to the work done in the county by the C.A.S. "In i this county you are certainly do­ing a great work,” he said. "The value of an annual report such as! the one this year is not only use­ful in the present, but is useful as an instrument in future gains.”"The child welfare movement in Ontario is becoming a major ac­tivity,” he said, "and when I give thought to the - L-ms in the world today I Itr.ow we are living in an era of much confusion. I think a new era is also coming for children, in that conditions all over the world are changing for children as well as for men and women. We must take care of the child welfare problems in our own community.World Citizens"Today, living as we are and involved as we are, we are not only citizens of a community but we are world citizens. Things1 vhich happen far away in distant ands involve us in Canada much more than they did years ago. Science and invention have brought people of the world much closer together, and their problems are more or less our problems.”Mr. Ross declared that if a community is maintained in a clean, healthy, happy and prosper­ous mode ol living there would be no need or fear of world con­flict."This is where Children’s Aid j Societies come into the picture,” . Mr. Ross said. "Social life in this country is built through our chil­dren, and given happiness and healthiness we need have no fear for the next generation.“Community life has always been an important factor in our lives and it is people like us who must give life to Children's Aid Societies in Canada.”“We must ever look onward.” the speaker said, “if we would । keep abreast of the times and live worthwhile lives as member? of . the community."Responsibility may begin at home,” he contended, "but it cer­tainly should not end at home. We cannot live a selfish life if we want a healthy, prosperous com­munity. We must serve others and be alive to our newer responsibili­ties of community sendee and alert to those who carry the re­sponsibilities,” he concluded.Reports On WorkMr. Clowes’, superintendent of the society, gave details of the work accomplished by the society during 1946.Entertainment for the evening was provided by W. A..Calder, who sang two solos acompanied by Doug Harrison at the piano.The meeting was brought to a clos’e by Hugh Harris, president­elect. paying tribute to Mr. Clowes and his staff. Mrs. W. H. Green. Miss Betty Budd and Miss Molly McKay who are social workers for the society and Miss Betty Garton, office secretary and Miss Jean Muir, bookkeeper, for the fine work they are accompli.Ving.Stanley Cracknell of the Salva­tion Anny, closed the meeting with benediction.Following the meeting a social period was enjoyed and was in charge of the ladies' committee of Chalmers United church with Mrs. Ruth Shantz, convener. Recall Pioneers of Zorra SettlementReports from Embro of recent deaths in the Zorras have inspired the Toronto Tele- gram to recall I he sturdy pioneers who set­tled fhe two Oxford county townships.°ln many instances, Zorra farina have remained in possession of the same family for more than a century.” the Telegram notes. “In the obituary of John McKay it is recorded that he died on the Sixth Line farm where he was born. David Murray closed his eyes in the homestead on the Eighth Line which his father cleared on arrival from Scotland.”The Telegram goes on to observe that first Scottish settler in Zorra, William Mc­Kay, arrived in 1819. He had been a cap­tain in the "old 93rd” Sutherland and Ar­gyleshire Regiment. He and his brother An­gus. who came up from New York State the following year, found the land good and in a few years brought out a whole shipload, mainly of crofters evicted from the Duke of Sutherland’s estates. When in 1835 the set­tlers of Zorra and district issued a formal call to Rev. Donald McKenzie to become their minister, the signatures included the name of McKay 19 times. Ross 12 times, Murray eight, McDonald six, Matheson four, and so on through the clans.Few districts in Canada can boast of such a contribution as has been made by the Zorras to academic pursuits, the professions, science, industry and the armed forces. Zorra men and women were prominent in the settlement of the West.. Hon. Donald M. Sutherland, former Min­ister of National Defence, is quoted by the Telegram as citing two factors influential in the Zorras’ distinction: the deep-rooted religious feeling of the pioneers and their veneration for education. He once said: As soon as they were settled, they erected the Old Log Church on the Seventh Line, and in I its burial ground many of them lie resting. It was the ambition of the farmers in those days to educate their sons and many suf­fered great privations to do so. These sons went out through Canada and the United States and represented Zorra there.”TUESDAY, JI NE S,ONTARIO’S DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES, ANGUS MOWAT addressed he mem­bers of the Oxford County Public Library Association at their meeting held in the Wood- stock library last night. Mr. Mowat urged library authorities to make plans for a lib­rary co-operative to become effective before next year. Shown seated in the picture are- Milton Betteridge, Warden of Oxford County; Ted Harris, Brownsville; W. A. Cockbum Drumbo, chairman of the Oxford County Educational Committee; Len Coles, County Clerk’ —(Staff Photo).Urges Funds for Bettering Ontario’s Public LibrariesI Warden Warns Income ofFarmers Hurt by WeatherUreinz members of countyUrging membersofcountycouncil to keep within their bud­get, Warden Milton Betteridge warned this morning that the “worst seeding weather in history" will afiect the farmers' purchas­ing power and will have its react­ion on builidng and manufactur­ing.“I don't want to be too pessi­mistic," the warden declared as ne opened session of council, "but if there is a depression coming, I be­lieve this will hasten it."The warden noted that when the council met in the March ses­sion prospects appeared favorable for this year's crop, now, he said, fhe farmers had experienced the worst seeding weather in history."When we set the date for this session," Warden Betteridge pointed out. "we avoided June 17 because of another meeting and June 24 because we thought we would be into the haying, we never dreamt when we decided on June 10 we would interfere with seeding.""I suppose," he continued, "that 25 per cent, of the spring crop has I not been sown, another 25 per, cent, was sown late or is not ;n good condition. That does not add up well for a good crop."The council session, which usu­ally runs for four days and a night session, the warden indicated he hoped would be finished up in three days.He noted the two main issues for discussion were the recom- ■ mendatlons of the equalization 1 cornmil lev and plans for larger high school areas within the' county."Public libraries in Ontario are about 30 years behind the educa­tional program adhered to in this province,” Angus Mowat, director of libraries for Ontario stated last night at the meeting of the Ox­ford County Library Association held at the Woodstock public library.Mr. Mowat stated that the rea­son for this was the lack of funds to pay for new methods which might be adopted by libraries. It is now recognized, he said, that libraries should continue basic ed­ucation started in schools with services such as films, records, books and art exhibits. There should be a central library for each county where any type of book would be available to the public. Reference books which would be too expensive for indi­vidual libraries would then be available to the public, it was learned.Explaining the new scheme of library co-operatives, the speakerstated that there would be little change in the methods of directing county libraries except that the county council would be in charge • of the libraries and grants would be given in a lump sum instead of distributed to the libraries separ­ately, in addition to customary j small individual grants. Books j would be distributed among the county libraries, schools, farm' forums and later by bookmobiles from a central distributing point, he said. The provincial govern-1 ment would pay dollar for dollar 5 up to $4,000 of a ’ county council grant. Also, the provincial gov- ! ernment would grant $1,000 ro- I wards the salary of a trained I librarian.Need Adequate FundsThe county’ library cannot oper­ate on a sum of $500 or $600 a year, as it has in the pas^ Mr. Mowat declared. The system, which was started about 10 years ago, must now grow. It cannot do this without adequate funds.*Reporters All Dolled Up"Father's Day” was Observedahead of schedule yest erday in the courthouse when Oxford county's civic fathers presented “babies” to two surprised and red-about-the- ears reporters.Both newspapermen going about their business, their regular as­signment of reporting the session of the county council, had been warned by county clerk Len Coles that a "report" would be present­ed in open council at five o'clock that aftemopn.As council resumed the Sentin­el-Review and London Free Press reporters sat ready with pencils and paper anticipating the impor­tant report of the equalization committee, which was expected.Deputy Reeve Wilfred burn of Blenheim rose to the council.Coek- address"Our usually efficient report-ers,” they heard the deputy reeve remark and visions of the equali-, zation report vanished and swel­tering embarrassment took its place.Mr. Cockburn went on to point out that the representatives of ihe press were to be forgiven their mistakes during the March ses-, sion “as they both became proud1 fathers' 'of daughters. There was considerable inference in Mr. Cockburn's remark that the re­porters in question were letting Oxford down by raising girls.: Each now has two daughters but 1 no sons.A nod from Mr. Cockburn and T^en Coles presented each of the reporters with the "babies” two gorgeous, blue-eyed dolls with real curls and dressed in such fin­ery as would make any little girl's heart pound with excitement.Mr. Mowat told the that 12 different library atives had been set up in in this province. One ofmeeting co-oper- co unties the best'of such systems has been estab- b lished in Huron county, he said.All through the country people are inquiring about practical things in many varied subjects. Books are wanted for information on subjects from farming to world politics. Each county should have , a reservoir of information for citi- , zens of that community. In charge ' of the county library, he said, I should be the county council “fur I without its help your hands are । tied because of lack of funds.” The county public library board should I consist of three councillors and 11 three other citizens, appointed by I council, he suggested.Len Coles, county clerk, advised those present at the meeting to explain their aims to the county! council in the near future. By | doing this, Mr. Coles said he felt ' I they would be favorably received I by the council. IPlans for re-organization in the I county public library system will I be under way In August, it was I learned. Mr. Mowat will be pres- I ent. to advise the board in any I changes. ' I County Road Expenditure Is DetailedThe expenditure to date on the county road system this year has been $83,384.73 of which $14,882.77 was for snow roads, the county roads committee informed county council in its fifth report which was passed by council this morn­ing.The report stated that four, three-ton dump trucks and a pick- ' up truck had been ordered. Deliv- 1 ery is expected before the end of ; the year.Tenders were called for and re­ceived for the purchase of a snow blower for the county road system, the report added. The closing date for the receipt of tenders was June 6. The committee stated it had examined the tenders but would delay decision until such time as more information on act­ual performance could be obtain­ed from those who had worked with the various types. The quota­tions ranged from $24,472 to $29,- 505 for a complete unit.Work in Progress"The work of repairing the roads after the spring breakup is now in progress.” the report con­tinued. ‘’The flood on Easter week end washed out road shoulders and road culverts in several places and the extra work required to fill these washouts and install cul-1 verts, together with the extra | maintenance work caused by con-; tinuous rain this spring has made' completion of spring maintenance work several weeks later than on- an average season.‘‘Several roads on which there was considered sufficient gravel to carry traffic for a year or two will require resurfacing this year and the loads which are to be re­surfaced this year will require a heavier application than was esti­mated.”Resurfacing is in progress in three sections of the county at present*. Patching of hard top surfaces is about 40 per cent, completed.The committee recommended that the resolution from Prince Edward county seeking to have the Provincial Government pay a 75 per cent, subsidy on snow re­moval be filed.The reforestation and conserva­tion committee recommended in its fourth, which was adopted by council, that Brant county’s re­solution asking the Provincial Government to consider placing | heavy equipment at the disposal of private landowners doing ex­tensive reforestation be endorsed.The reforestation committee al­so recommended the purchase ad­ditional land for the Lakeside For­est. The additional land adjoins this county forest in East Niss- i ouri and lies just west of the west­erly portion of the forest. It is about 727 feet by 132 feet in size.Dr. C. M. Mackay, physician to the county home, in his semi-an­nual report stated hygenic and, : santitary conditions at the home ' have been satisfactory. He report- ed that five deaths had occurred ■ so far this year. The average age at death was 83 years.No action was taken on the re-1 solution from Prince Edward County seeking to have five per| ■cent, of the income tax paid by (county citizens returned to the । county for use in hospital costs (and with regard to raising the । limitation on the earnings of old . age pensioners.Increase Noted In Number of County Licenses IAs the result of extra efforts on I the part of the county to have all { auctioneers, poultry dealers and salvage collector.'-' working in the 1 county properly licensed, the num­ber of licenses issued so far (his year exceed those issued in the whole of 1946, e report by L. K. Coles, county clerk and treasurer; indicated to county council today, ISo far this year, 19 auctioneer licenses have been issued as com­pared with 13 in the whole of 1946: poultry dealers, nine in 1947 and seven in 1946: salvage collect­ors 10 and 7.Auctioneer licenses have been issued this year to: R. A. McDon­ald. Embro; Frank Fulkerson, R. R. 1, Tillsonburg; George C. Bra­dy, R.R. 2, Dorchester; M. R. RotK, Tavistock, George Keays, Tillsonburg; Percy Longworth. Norwich; Wilbur Tune, Princeton: I. H. Torman. New Dundee; Mil-1 ton E, Brock, Thorndale; N. W. Dance, Paris; W. E. Nairn. Science Hill; Alex and Donald Rose, IngersoL and George R. Gardiner, London., Poultry, dealers’ licenses have been issued to Sam Golden, Nor­wich; Delmer Clinton. Norwich: J. Goldstein. Ingersoll; C. C. Wett- laufer, Tavistock; the Tavistock Produce Company; Norman Giad, Toronto: Joseph Cohen, Drumbo: J. C. Miller, Toronto, and M. Mil­ler and Son, Toronto.Salvage collectors licensed to work in the county are: Elmer Sanderson, Norwich; J. Goldstein, Ingersoll; J. Walters and Son, Kitchener; Nathan Jack, Wood- stock; E. Goodall Brock, Brant­ford; Tillsonburg Auto Wreckers: Canada Scrap Iron and Metal, St. Thomas; Charles Cromwell, Princeton; Gordon Hughson, Drumbo; George Skipper and son, St. Marys.Students Visit County Council And S.-R. PlantAbout 25 students of the Browns­ville Continuation School with Miss Isobel Kirk, principal, and Miss J. Barnby spent the most part of today visiting places of in­terest in the county seat.At 1'0 o’clock this morning the party arrived at the courthouse to observe Oxford’s county council in session. They were shown the county building, the registry office and the county jail. Later they visited the Woodstock Public Li­brary. . .At one o’clock, after dinner In Woodstock, they visited the plant of the Sentinel-Review, saw to­day’s edition in the making and watched the first section being run off the press.The group was. welcomed to the county council session by Warden Milton Betteridge. Reeve Leroy Curtis of Dereham introduced the members of the council to the visitors. Several reports were passed and the bylaw to pass or­ders and accounts was given its second anti third readings. L. K. Coles, county clerk, kept the students informed on matters of procedure as the session progress­ed.Miss Kirk voiced the apprecia­tion of the group of .students for the kindness shown them by the council,Included In the party of stud­ents were: Marilyn Leadson, Hel­en Brown, Helen Rooke. Donna Lover, Eileen Brown, Harvey An­derson, Helen Kern, Joyce Hu st ler„ Betty Rooke, Maxine Sander­son, Vera Smith, Dorothy Smith, Shirley Holland, Duane Duff, Dor­is Esseltlne, Marion Gilbert, Muri­el Deller, Olive Esseltinc, Ruth Kex’n and Harry Green.County Council Starts on High School Area PlansNew County Grant Goes To MuseumA further grant of $500 was made by the county council last night to the Oxford County Mu­seum and Historical Society on recommendation of the council’s finance committee,This amount, brings the county council’s support of the newly formed society to the total of $1.- 000. The society is at present renovating the second floor of । Woodstock's city hall to fit that ■ portion of the historic building as ; a museum.The council completed the work of its June session with a night sitting last night. Sitting on Tues­day, Wednesday and Thursday, the council was kept moving through committee work by Ward­en Milton Betteridge, who express­ed the desire of all the members at the opening of the sitting to get back to their farms. Many had seeding still to get done.High School AreasBefore adjourning on Thursday afternoon the counicl heard and passed the fourth report of the education committee. The com­mittee through its chairman, Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn of Blenheim, recommended certain high school districts be estab­lished. These recommendations were incorporated in bylaws pass­ed at the evening sitting. The re­port also recommended that a special sitting of the council be held on June 26 to consider set­ting up of high school districts for Norwich. Ingersoll, Tillsonburg. The requests of these municipali­ties for districts were deferred un­til the areas served could be de- I cided.The property committee, under the chairmanship of Reeve Gor­don Ross of East Zorra. in its fifth report recommended payment of account and certain repairs to I the county jail wall.Grants of $200 to each of the various fail fairs in the county, in-; eluding Woodstock, were recom­mended in the fourth report of the agriculture committee, whose chairman is Deputy Reeve H. A. Little of Dereham. The report was adopted.Oppose MargarineThe agricultural committee's re­commendation that the council en­dorse Middlesex county’s resolu­tion opposing the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine in Canada was adopted by the council.The resolution from Brant coun­ty sought to have the treatment of cattle for warble fly made compulsory by the provincial gov­ernment; was endorsed. The coun­cil did not endorse that section of the Brant resolution seeking to have the government, pay one- third of the cost, of the treatment.Deputy Reeve Ken Anderson of Tillsonburg acted in his capacity as vice-chairman of the finance committee for the session in the absence of Reeve K*R. Watts of Tillsonburg. The finance commit­tee in Its sixth report requested authorization to study and report on a pension fund plap for munici­pal officials and employees.The request of the University of Western Ontario for financial support was set Aside until the December seston with no action taken.Plans for the establishing of la raw high school areas within Oxford county may be expected to rhoVe forward considerably, as the result of action by the county council which commenced its June session this morning.The setting up of these areas, which are planned to give equality of education to al) pupils within the county, whether living in rur­al or urban areas will be tackled by the council's committee this week and presented in the form of a recommendation to council.This morning a number of re­quests for the formation of larger high school areas were read by L. K, Coles, county clerk. All town­ships except Dereham and Blen­heim had sent in requests to be included in larger areas. Some townships were divided with parts of the population to go to differ­ent areas.Many RequestsThe dissolving of their high school districts was requested by the Plattsville, Burgessville and Brownsville Continuation School Boards. These were proposed to make way for attendance by pu­pils at high schools in other cen­tres. Tillsonburg, Norwich and Ingersoll requested dissolution of their high school districts to leave the way open for the formation of | larger high school areas in those centres.So far the centres with high schools which will serve pupils within Oxford have been named as Woodstock. Ingersoll, Norwich, Tillsonburg, St. Marys and Strat­ford.Decision has yet to be made con­cerning the Dereham and Blen­heim areas, but it is expected that Dereham pupils will go to Inger-. soli and to Tillsonburg.Reeve Percy Sage of West Ox-1 | ford, who at the last session of , council sat as acting reeve in his ; township, was appointed to the ' agriculture and printing commit­tees of the council for the balance of the year. Reeve Sage was elect­ed to office shortly after the March session.All members of council were present with the exception of Reeve K. R. Watts of Tillsonburg when Warden Betteridge sounded the bell opening the session this morning.CorrespondenceThe correspondence read by the clerk contained several resolutions from other county councils for en- dorsation bv the Oxford council. The Department of Highways in­dicated that the council’s bylaw for the expenditure of $273,000,000 on municipal roads had been ap­proved.A request was received from the Ingersoll and North Oxford Agricultural Society for a grant toward their prize list for the an­nual fair on October 9, 10 and 11.The county of Middlesex* re­quested support for a resolution opposing the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine in Canada.The town of Petrolia sought support for a proposal to have the Federal Government consider pro­vision for a system of free mail . delivery in all towns.The county of Prince Edward forwarded three resolutions for endorsation. One requested the; province to pay ? 75 per cent, sub­sidy on snow removal. Another sought to have the Federal Gov­ernment pay back five per cent, of income tax from individuals in the county to go toward hospital costs.Prince Edward's third resolu­tion sought to have the amount of earnings allowed old age pen­sioners raised from $125 to $300 without, affecting the rights of the pensioner to receive his pen­sion without reduction. Higher costs of living were given as the reason for the suggestion.Legislation by the Provincial Government was requested by Brant County to make treatment for cattle for warble fly compul­sory and to have the Provincial Government pay one-third of the cost. STUDENTS VISIT COUNTY COUNCIL — On Thursday' morning students from the continuation school in Browns­ville attended the county council session to receive a lesson in civic government at first hand. As the party arrived at the courthouse they were photographed on the steps of the1 building. Shown here, reading from the left are: in front, Marilyn Leadsom, Helen Brown, Helen Rooke, Donna Lover, Eileen Brown and Harvey Anderson; centre row, Miss J.' Barnby, teacher; Helen Kern, Ruth Kern, Joyce Hustler, Betty Rooke, Maxine Sanderson, Vera Smith, Dorothy Smith and Shirley Holland; at the rear, Duane Duff, Doris Esseltine, Marion Gilbert, Muriel Deller, Olive Esseltihe, Harry Green and Miss Isobel Kirk, principal of the school. —(Staff Photo).STUDENTS VISIT TO COUNCIL CHAMBER— The two rows of portraits of all the former wardens of Oxford county hung in the county council chamber attracted the attention of these three students from the Brownsville Continuation school when the school visited the courthouse in Woodstockon Thursday. Warden Milton Betteridge took time out from his many duties to tell the girls about the portraits and some of the points of Interest in the chamber. The students shown here are Maxine Sanderson, on the left; Dorothy Smith and Joyce Hustler. (Staff photo). First High School DistrictPupils to Get Practical Lesson in Civic AffairsTo Come Into Being July 1A district was formed by Ox­ford county council last night which will be known as the Sub­urban Wtxxistock High School District. This district will come in­to being on July 1 of this year, In the first move to establish what have become known as larg­er high school areas in Oxford the । county council passed three by- । laws to include all or portions of i certain townships in these areas. • For over a year the plan of setting up larger areas for high schools, giving them a larger field for as- isessment and a larger population from which to draw pupils, has been discussed in this county. Last night the first of these areas was »et up in the county. The two oth­er bylaws made provision for parts of West Zorra to enter the High School District of St. Marys and the Suburban Stratford High School district.Representative BoardThe Suburban Woodstock High School District will have a board composed of representatives of all municipalities within the district, one from county council and one additional appointed by the public school area with the largest num­ber of pupils.This suburban board will pro­vide transportation for the pupils in its district to the Woodstock Collegiate Institute and will pur­chase the education for those pu­pils from the Woodstock Board of Education.The setting up of the suburban board. Deputy Reeve W. A. Cock­burn of Blenheim, chairman of the I county council's education com-' mittee explained, does in no way do away with the powers and functions of the Woodstock Board of Education.The Suburban Woodstock High j School District will include the I whole of the townships of Bland- j ford and East Zorra. All of the ; township of West Oxford lying I east of and including lots num- ' bered 11 in the township and all of the township of East Oxford ly- i ing north of a line down the cen- । tre of concession seven are includ­ed in this district. The portion of West Zorra included in the Wood- stock district is that part lying east of a line down the centre of the third concession of the town­ship bounded by the south side of the road from Brooksdale to No: 19 Highway on the north and the township limits on the south and east.Not IncludedI The municipalities of Tavistock ' and Embro are not included in the ; district as detailed above. So far final details have yet to be ar-1 ranged for these municipalities.The township of West Zorra so far has been divided into four sec­tions. One section will be included in the Woodstock area, that shown above. Another, lying north of the . Hickson side road and west of a ‘line down the centre of the third !concession .will be included in the ! High School District of St. Marys.Another portion, which will be in­cluded in the Suburban StratfordI High School District, lies north of (the area included in the Wood- stock district and east of the area1 included in the St. Marys district, i The district in which the remain- I der of West Zorra will be included • has not been set as yet. It is be­lieved, however, that It will be a 'part of the High School District of Ingersoll when it is set up.At a special county council meeting to be held on June 26 con-I sideration will be given to setting up of high school districts for In­gersoll, Norwich and Tillsonburg.Equalized Assessment Up $160,000Tiie equalized assessment of Ox­ford county was raised 5160.000 by county council at the conclusion of its June sifting last night. The equalized assessment of the conn-' ty now stands at a total of $28,- 898,700.A committee appointed by the council this year's -chairman is Reeve Theodore Cooper of South Norwich—examines the rolls of all municipalities within the county each year to ascertain whether j । the valuation of real property made by each municipality’s asses­sor bears a just relation to those [ of other municipalities. For the purpose of county rates the as-j sessment of each municipality is' increased or decreased as neces*| sary to produce a fair relation.The committee in its third re­port stated it found it necessary to increase the equalized assess­ment by at least $156,570 due to in­creased local assessments. The in­creases recommended by the com­mittee were accepted by the coun­cil and incorporated in the bylaw which was passed.The equalized assessment of the municipalities within the county is given as follows (the first fig­ure is the equalized assessment set last night, the second figure 1 is the amount of increase):Blandford, $1,305,200, $9,000; j Blenheim, $3,436,500, $8,000; Dere­ham. $3,917,400. $1,000; East Nis­souri. $2,654,700. $5,000; North I Norwich, $1,948,300, $9,000; South Norwich. $1,530,600, $35,000; East Oxford, $1,943,300, $15,000; North Oxford, $1,200,700, $7,000; West Oxford $1,570,400, $4,000; East Zorra, $3,468,400, $7,000; West Zorra, $2,880,200, $10,000; Tillson­burg. $1,744. 100, $35,000; Embro, $226,500, $5,000; Norwich, $574,- 500. $5,000; Tavistock, $497,900, $5,000.Justice Notes Poor AcousticsJustice E. R. E. Chevrier, pre­siding at the June session of the Supreme Court, here yesterday commented on the fine court room | and qpunty court house but said the accoustics are “very bad.”This was noted by His Lordship during the case of John F. Robin- son, ‘Middleton. township, versus Raymond Robinson, London, hear­ing a suit for the recovery of money and a promfeory nolc.The plaintiff's counsel. Grant C. Brown. Tillsonburg, while ques­tioning a not very audible witness, observed that the accouslics were bad."Yes the accoustics here are very bad. I am not decrying the court room. It is a very nice court room but sounds hit. right back! at you. I can't hear my own voice," 1 His Lordship commented'.lie advised the witness, a former lumberman, not to speak too fast and remember how echoes come back to him in the bush.Tomorrow morning the pupils of the Brownsville Continuation School with their teachers will take an out-of-class lesson in civic government. They will visit the council chamber in the courthouse to observe the county council in action.Warden Millon Betteridge in­formed the council at this morn­ing’s sitting of the intended visit and stated the council would hold a by-law for its j.hird reading and also have a report presented to give the students a demonstration.Three by-laws began the process of readings this morning. One to equalize the assessment which was guided by Reeve H. A. Bishop of Norwich and Reeve James Calder of North Oxford. Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn of Blenheim and Reeve George Fewster of North Norwich commenced the readings of a by-law to amend the salary by-law. A by-law to pass orders and accounts was started off by Reeve Leroy Curtis and Deputy | Reeve H. A. Little of Dereham.Radio StationAt the opening of Tuesday af­ternoon’s sitting the council passed a resolution noting the need for an Oxford county radio station and endorsed the application to | the CBC board of governors made by Clayton Krug for a license to establish and operate a station in Woodstock.The council also heard an ap­peal for financial aid by a delega­tion from the University of West­ern Ontario. Dr. G. E. Hall and Col. G. W. Little spoke on be­half of the institution.The delegation sought aid from Oxford in their $2,500,000 building program. Dr. Hall stressed the service offered Western Ontario counties by the university. Col. Little outlined the expansive pro­gram contemplated and the financ­ing arrangements.SSLYOUNG CHAMPION HON OKED — Twelve-year-old -Hoy Sharpe of R.R. 3, Embro, was rewarded by Oxford’s county- council last night for the honors which he won in the pro­vincial oratorical contest for public school pupils. Roy de­livered his championship winning address to county council last night and was given a pen and pencil set by Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn, chairman of the council’s education: committee, on behalf of the council. The council also set up a trust fund to purchase all of the text, books for the lad’s secondary school education. Mr. Cockburn is shown here with Roy shortly before his address to the council.—(Staff Photo)."Only one-third of costs It borne by student fees,'' Dr. Hall explained. He pointed out that the! province contributed about a third of the costs and that the remain­ing third had to he raised by jup- port from the 14 counties which the Institution serves under the Universities’ Act."This is your university and we are depending on Oxford and giv­ing prorities to Oxford," Dr. Hall said. He stated that 139 students from this county were now enrol­led at the university.Warden Betteridge promised the delegation that their request would be given "serious consideration,” but noted that the estimates had been struck and the rates set for the year.Council Visits County HomeThe members of county council made their annual Inspection of the Oxford County Home and Farm on Wednesday afternoon. They were taken through the j building by Mrs. A. Forbes, ma­tron of the home and over the i farm by R. J. Forbes, county home manager.Considerable interest was noted by the council in the laundry equipment installed in the base­ment of the building.The county farm of 100 acres was purchased and the county home built in 1892. At the present time there are about 65 residents in the home.> TUESDAY. JUNK 17, DM7Young Orator Honored at Closing Council SessionCurious Request for Lower Thames SurveyKent Connh Council lias asked Ilir 60- parlment of Planning to make a survey of the Thames between .jomlon and Luke St. ( lair.For some reason of their own. the muni- eipalifies below London defeated the mov$ to set up the Thames Valley Authority. Os­tensibly, t hey wanted to have a survey made of the lower part of the river before they entered the proposed conservation authority. | They had been promised a survey of their | part of the river by the Minister of Plan­ning and Development. This was to be. after the authority was formed. Apparently such a promise was not good enough for them and with one exception they opposed the cre­ation of the T.V.A.Now these municipalities have asked for a survey and have indicated that if one is not forthcoming from the department they may proceed with one at their own expense. It- is doubtful if the department would sur­vey this portion of the Thames until an au­thority has been established, or not for some years anyway. Several other authorities have been established and they will have de­partmental priority.All this bickering by municipalities in what is one of the most, important water­sheds in the dominion is rather childish.The municipalities above London want to go ahead and form a conservation authority for the upper river without including those who would get the most benefit; those muni­cipalities below London want no part of a conservation authority until they have a survey of their portion of the river to see if they will benefit.The whole thing could be settled by set­ting up the T.V.A., and then letting the de­partment make the survey below London. With this material the authority could form a plan for the whole river and action taken to carry it out.Oxford's county council show* cred honors upon fhe county’s 12-year-old winner of the provin­cial oratorical contest for public school pupils Iasi night. Roy Sharpe of R.R, 3, Embro, who won (he county prize in the con­test sponsored by the Oxford Trustees and Ratepayers' Asso­ciation, the first prize for the Hamilton district contest held in Brantford and finally the first , place in the provincial contest held in Toronto.Roy was given a pen and pen­cil set by Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn, chairman nf the county's educational committee, on behalf of fhe council.Trust; FundWith an eye to Roy's future education the council made a fur­ther presentation. They made provision for a trust fund to pur­chase all of the text books for the lad's secondary education.With the boy were his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sharpe: his teach­er, Miss Mary Fleming and Mrs. G. L. Ratz of Tavistock, presi­dent of the Oxford County Trus­tees and Ratepayers' Associa­tion.Warden Milton Betteridge wel­comed the council’s guests and requested Reeve O. H. Murray of West Zorra to introduce themContinuation School’s Door Closes After Twenty YearsBURGESSVTLLE — With the ending of the school term on Tuesday, June 24, comes the val­edictory for Burgessville Continu­ation School, after 20 years ser­vice to village and community in secondary school education. This school, built with such high hopes as a solution of secondary school education problems for this sec­tion of the county, served its term of usefulness and now passes out in favor of the larger high school area.EX-WARDENS MEETThe ex-wardens of Oxford coun­ty met in the council chamber of the courthouse this afternoon for their association's annual business meeting. At the annual dinner this evening Charles G. Mitchell of Woodstock will be the guest speaker.Plan Frame Addition for Tillsonburg High SchoolPUBLIC NOTICEAt the call of Warden Milton Betteridge a special meeting of the County Council of the County of Oxford will be held in theCOUNCIL CHAMBER, IN THE COURT HOUSE WOODSTOCK, onTHURSDAY, JUNE 26th, 1947, at the hour of ten o’clock a.m. for general bus­iness.All claims and accounts against the county must bo filed with the County Clerk before the first day of the session.L. K. COLES,County Clerk.County Clerk’s Office, . Woodstock.to the Council.Reeve Murray noted the honor Roy had brought to Oxford and said great credit was due to hi« teacher, who coached him.Mrs. Ratz expressed the appro elation of the association for the support given by the council which made possible such crea­tive work as demonstrated by the young speaker.Roy delivered his address which won him first prize in To­ronto by unanimous choice of the judges, “What Canaria has to offer new Canadian boys and girls." |Roy dealt with the subject from the view of what Canada had to offer him. Seasoned orators among the council sat back and listened j with interest and enjoyment to the boy's masterly handling of his subject. He presented his argu­ments clearly and in a voice which could be heard with no difficulty.Mr. Cockburn making the pre­sentation urged Roy to continue in the good work he had started and make best use of his talents.I "You have brought honor not I only to yourself but to your moth- ' er, to the association and to the । entire population of the county of Oxford," Mr. Cockbum told the I boy.Oxford Museum Is IncorporatedNotice of incorporation of the Oxford County Museum is contain­ed in the Ontario Gazette.The corporation, which hasn't any share capital, is to establish and maintain a permanent muse­um for the County of Oxford and to collect and display therein his­torical relics, articles, industrial and agricultural products and na­tural science collections^Officers are Nora Louis Hill, Effie Clay Nesbitt, Craig McKay and Ross Butler, all of Woodstock.IS COMPLIMENTEDThomas Pye, caretaker of the county courthouse was highly complimented by Justice E. R. E. Chewier at the opening session of the Supreme Court yesterday. ‘The grounds as well as the build­ing are ip wonderful shape and I must say that it is one of the most beautiful courthouses I have ever seen,” his Lordship told Mr. Pye. REMEMBER WHEN—This picture of a bombed out court picture, "it can happen here.” The picture was "faked” for house might be one of war destruction in any overseas com- a Victory Loan drive in Woodstock during the Second World munity. But look again, tms photo is not just "a court ^ar house,” it is the Woodstock court house. Remember thisrebuilt on the land-to the right,The playground at CentralSchool is in the foreground. This engraving was made from an old picture owned by John G. Dunlop.courthouse which is shown in this photo of about 1865. The county jail, which still stands, is in the background. Thehouse? a?knowteE ?? H0}’8E—Fht ^sent. 5^* registI,y of»Se 011 U’e left in this picture was torn down and nouse, acKnowied^ed as the finest county building in this ..................... -- - - —HO t'T f\T T nn fi <«.6 Zir, a....-- 1- ..fU. at O Tropical Fruits Growon Oxford FarmFIGS, ORANGES AND LEMONS GROW HERE—A walk around the front garden on Lawrence Mitchell’s farm north of Innerkip is full of surprises. Lemon trees bloom and bear fruit, a little orange tree set in the rock garden holds about 14 small oranges, “not too sweet but good for orangeade,” said bachelor Mr. Mitchell. Further down the path standthree fig trees. On these the fruit is green and does notj seem to mature. Mr. Mitchell feels it may be due to im­proper fertilizer. These tropical fruits are at the back of! the house shown in the photo above. The garden in front of the house shown here is in bloom all season with all the common varieties of plants and a number of other rarer ones.TWO-POUND LEMONS—Mr. Mitchell is shown in the photo Councilors Set Up Trust Fund To Purchase High School Text­books for Roy SharpeBY STEWART WATSON Free Prcsa Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK. June 12 —Diminutive li-year-old Roy Sharpe, R.R. 3, Embro, who won the provincial elem­entary public school speaking championship in Toronto' last April and brought honor to Oxford, was hailed as "champ­ion and rewarded by the coun­ty council in session here to­night.The 68 pounds of public speaking talent who succeeded for the first time, in 15 years of trying, in bringing such honor to the county was en­thusiastically received by coun­cil.The West Zorra farm lad was presented with a hand­some pen and pencil set by Warden Milton Betteridge. He was informed also, by Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn, Blen­heim. chairman of the educa­tional committee, that council had set up a trust fund for him to pay for text books all through bis secondary school education. County Clerk L. K. Coles'will administer the fund.* * •Accompanying Roy to his seat of honor before the whole council were his mother, Mrs. Elisabeth Sharpe, his school teacher,, Miss Mary Fleming and Mrs. Gordon Ratz, Tavi-stock, president of the Oxford County Trustees and Rate­payers Association. The guests were welcomed by Warden Betteridge and introduced to council by Reeve O. H. Mur­ray. West Zorra."We are honored to have a champion with us tonight who has brought honor to our coun­ty." Warden Betteridge ad­dressed council.Youthful winner of the highest award for public sppealfing open to students of public schools in On­tario, Roy Sharpe, 14, of West Zorra township, was honored last night by Oxford County Council, This photo shows Roy receiving a gift from Warden M. Betteridge. On the right is Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockbum, of Blenheim township, chairman of the county educational committee.“Wc are proud to have Roy a resident in our county,” Reeve Murray, West Zorra stated, noting a good deal of credit was due to his teacher.* * •"We have come here with very grateful hearts," Mrs. Ratz stated, thanking council for their aid to the associa­tion. “This year we have har­vested the crop for some ofthe seeds we sow.” ♦ * •“Continue the good work,” Reeve Cockburn advised Roy. “You have brought great credit to your mother, your teacher, Oxford ratepayers association and the whole county.”* * *Much of the credit for Roy's success in public speaking was given to attractive 20-year-oldMary Fleming, his teacher, who started him off. Miss Fleming teaches at the same school she attended once, S,S. No. 2, West Zorra.* * »Roy tonight gave council a brief example of his forth­right speaking manner when he addressed them on “What Canada has to offer boys and girls.”Oxford Council “Equalizes”Families of ReportersBY J. STEWART WATSONFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, June 10—Two rather warm-under-the-collarCounty Council reporters were presented “babies” by members of the Oxford County Council here today. ,Warned to be on hand at 5 o'clock by County Clerk L. K. Coles to receive the important “equalization report," the reporter from The London Free Press and the * local paper sat with poised pen-PROGRAMMETWENTY-EIGHTHcnls* •After a few intrdductory re­marks by Deputy Reeve W A. Cockburn,-Blenheim, it soon be­came, apparent that something wn r in the wind.1 Reeve Cockburn noted that the "usually efficient" reporters were to be forgiven for frequent mis­takes during the March session.Ontario Association of Managers of theHomes for Aged and InfirmReporter Gets ‘Cold Shoulder’ As, Conquering ‘All Things’, Oxford Workers Bend to TasksONTARIOBY J. STEWART WATSON Free Prese Woodstock Bueau A V/OODSTOCK, July 8—“I’m W busy," countered Mrs. Bylvla Reid, County Court re­porter, as she transcribed reams of evidence and poured ©ver accounts.“HuBh,'' murmured Mrs. William Newell, county clerk’s stenographer, as she sorted paper©,These typical replies were received by the Woodstock Free Press bureau corrcsrxmd- ent as he meandered into the county court house this morn­ing with a cheery “good morn­ing,”A peck into County Engineer J. N. Meathrell's office brought a “quiet please” from Secre­tary Miss Muriel Waterland.County Clerk L. K. Coles, half hidden by a pile of quar­terly audit papers, seemed dis­inclined to tai 1c so we slithered out.A quick survey of other of­fices revealed a similar state of affairs.This hive of Industry is not to ho wondered al, however, for emblazoned on Oxford County's crest in this motto: “Labor conquers all things.” j We took the hint.June 23rd, 24th and 25th Nineteen Hundred and Forty-SevenROYAL CONNAUGHT HOTELHAMILTON - ONTARIO PROGRAMME TWENTY-EIGHTH Ontario Association of Managers of the Homes for Aged and Infirm ONTARIO June 23rd, 24th and 25th Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Seven ROYAL CONNAUGHT HOTEL HAMILTON ONTARIO MONDAY, JUNE 23rd 10.00 a.m. Registration of Delegates 11.00 a.m. Reading Minutes of Twenty-Seventh Annual Convention 11.15 a.m.—Annual Report of Treasurer M. C. ROUNG Manager, Wentworth County Rome 11.30 a.m. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS President introduced by Past President J. L. Maycock Manager, Brant County Home PRESIDENT R. L. SILSMER Manager, Dundas and Glengarry Counties Home AFTERNOON SESSION 2.00 p.m. GET ACQUAINTED PERIOD 2.30 p.m. ADDRESSES OF WELCOME MAYOR SAM LAWRENCE City of Hamilton WARDEN LEWIS FRENCH County of Wentworth Introduced by the President 3.00 p.m. Address by MR. L. E. LUDLOW Provincial Supervisor, Department of Public Welfare "The Use of Colours in Homes for Aged'' MONDAY, JUNE 23rd (Continued) 3.45 p.m. Appointment oi Committee on Nominations, Resolutions and Location oi Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention 4.00 p.m. QUESTIONS IN WRITING 6.00 p.m. Dinner for Visiting Superintendents and Matrons 8.30 p.m. MOONLIGHT SAIL Guests Hamilton Harbour Commission Boal leaves foot of James Street * TUESDAY, JUNE 24th 10.00 a.m. Address by MR. B. W. HEISE Deputy Minister, Ontario Department of Public Welfare "Some New Concepts in Caring for the Aged" 11.00 a.m. Address by DR. J. E. DAVEY Former Medical Health Olficer, Hamilton AFTERNOON SESSION 2.00 p.m. Address by HON. RUSSELL T. KELLEY Ontario Provincial Minister of Health "The Activities of a Cabinet Minister" 2.30 p.m. Address by MR. CHAS. GREEN Chairman, Ontario Commission of Old Age Pensions "Employment for Our Aged Citizens" TUESDAY, JUNE 24th (Continued) 3.00 p.m. MOTOR SIGHTSEEING TRIP Calling at Old Ladies' Home, Hamilton; Wentworth County Home, Dundas. TUESDAY EVENING 7.00 p.m. BANQUET Guests of City of Hamilton and County o£ Wentworth Motion Picture: "Portrait of a City" GUEST SPEAKERS MR. W. J. McCULLOCH Managing Secretary. Hamilton Chamber of Commerce HON. W. A. GOODFELLOW Provincial Minister of Welfare ★ WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25th 10.00 a.m. REPORT OF COMMITTEE on Nominations, Resolutions and location for Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention 10.30 a.m. Address by MR. A. P. KAPPELE Ex-Welfare Commissioner of Hamilton "Care of Physically Defective Persons Other than in Institutions" 11.00 a.m. MR. HUGH McINTYRE Member, Hamilton Board of Control ★ GOD SAVE THE KING OFFICERS, 1947 ★ Honorary President J. L. MAYCOCK Manager, Brant County Home President R. L. SILSMER Manager, Dundas and Glengarry Counties Home First Vice-President MAJOR B. BOURNE Superintendent, Salvation Army Eventide Home, Toronto Second Vice-President MRS. R. J. FORBES Matron, Oxford County Home Treasurer M. C. ROUNG Manager, Wentworth County Home Secretary J. E. PEART Hamilton AUDITORS R. E. COMFORT Manager, Lincoln County Home MISS P. HERRON Matron, Old Men's Home, Toronto EXECUTIVE ERWIN JACOBS Manager, Huron County Home MRS. P. SIFTON Superintendent, Julia Greenshield Home, Toronto W. D. HOWES Manager, Wellington County Home MAJOR D. SPRAGUE Manager, York County Home F. SIRMAN Manager, Hamilton Home CONTROLLER ANDY FRAME Honorary Member of Executive *♦« PAST PRESIDENTS ★ 1920-'21-'22 ----- ’G. B. McCLELLAN Welland County 1923-'24 ...................................- *F. SIFTON Lincoln County 1925-'26 ....................................- H. W. MARTIN Waterloo County 1927-'28 ------ 'ALEX. SMITH Grey County 1929-’3O - -...........................*J- H. BATES Wentworth County 1931-'32 ------- R. J- DUFFY Lanark County 1933-34 ------- R- I. WILES Bruce County 1935- 36 ------ E. SANDERCOCK Hastings County 1937-'38 ------- R- J. FORBES Oxford County 1939-’4O -------- W. SMITH Norfolk County 1941 ------ 'MISS M. HARRIS City of Hamilton 1942 -------- E. A. AMOS Waterloo County 1943 -------- J. F. BEATTIE Wellington County 1944 -------- I- JARDINE Simcoe County 1945 ................................ ... J. READ Ontario County 1946 .....................................J. L. MAYCOCK Brant County •—Deceased. t**fHrfhHW*H**H«*l^W^W^V**<kM*******4'^^ /FUKDAY. JUNE 28. 1947Council Justified Refusing SupportOxford county council made no mistake in declining to sponsor the Kent resolution urging that the Ontario government make a survey of the Thames river below Lon­don.It was the representatives from the low­er part of the Thames who torpedoed the proposal a few weeks ago to set up a Thames Valley Authority. If they had not adopted such an attitude it is very likely that prep­arations for such a survey would now be un­derway and the whole problem of flood con­trol and conservation in the Thames wa- j tershed would be that much nearer solution. ;Now they want a survey made of the lower part of the Thames, and they seek support from the very people who gave a majority vote to the T.V.A. plan. If Kent wants something done about the river, the logical step is not to ask for piece-meal sur-I veys but to request another meeting of all the municipalities interested, just as was held in London a few weeks ago, and have another vote on a Thames Valley Authority. }When this is done, the survey would un­doubtedly be made and recommendations drawn up. Participation in such an Author­ity involves no financial obligation, and each community would know where it stood. The procedure is laid down, and a simple, rea­sonable one it is. This had been detailed to lower Thames municipalities before the London meeting was held.In the meantime, other watershels have set up authorities and it is only to be expect­ed that the Department of Planning and De­velopment will give these progressive areas | first consideration.Oxford’s Ex-Reeves Plan AssociationClerkwhichhand and entertainment has yet to be arranged.started the ball rolling.The men, all part of lastWarden J. Winston Nicholls, Ex-Reeve Carman Facey, Ex-Reeve Ross Carroll and, Covnly L. K. Coles.BY J. STEWART WATSONFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, June 16 — A new organization was born here yesterday when three men from widely scat­tered points in the county met with county Clerk L. K. Coles.The three, Ex-Reeve Ross Carroll, North Norwich, Ex­Reeve Carman Facey, East Zorra and last year's warden, J. Winston Nichols, North Oxford met with the county clerk to lay the groundwork for an Oxford County Ex­Reeves Association.Forming a pro-tem commit­tee, with Ross Carroll as chair­man and Carman Facey as secretary the four men haveyear's county council, ceived the Idea at thecon- 1946December session on the eve of their retirement from county politics.Present plans call for a picnic early in September at which a slate of officers forthe ensuing year willbeelected. A baseball game be-tween the ex-reeves inthesouth of the county and the ex-reeves in the north half has been arranged with there being no doubt as to the out­come according to Ross Car­rol1, a strong supporter of the bannana belt.The committee also Intend having a speaker of note onThere are some 124 ex-reeves living at present in the county and the majority of them have expressed their approval of such an association, County Clerk Coles stated.At present Oxford has an active Ex-wardens Association but they had better look to their laurels for the new organ­ization is going all out to make their annual day a success.Also present at the December session last year when the idea was first discussed were: Clair Peers, East Oxford, John Ches­ney, Blandford, L. B. Currie, Tillsonburg and William Mc­Intosh, Embro, all of them solidly behind the movement.ATTENDANCE RECORDS SHATTERED — From many points in Canada and the United States, Scots and others came to compete and to watch the 10th Annual Zorra Cale­donian Gapies held in Embro on July 1. More than 12,000 people gathered in the fairgrounds breaking all attendance! records since the games were started in 1936. A portion of’the crowd in attendance is shown in this picture. The grand­stand was filled and the people overflowed into hastily con­structed bleachers. This photo also serves to illustrate the fine weather accorded the Caledonian Society’s efforts.— (Staff Photo).Record Crowd of 12,000Attend Caledonian Games James Innes President of Ex-War dens’ AssociationAfter the business meeting in the council chamber I ho members reconvened in the dining room of the New Commercial Hotel for their annual dinner. Guest speaker for the dinner meeting was Char-1 les G. Mitchell of Woodstock. Mr.! Mitchell was introduced by Hugh Harris of Lakeside. R. F. Minors of Tillsonburg expressed the ap­preciation of the members to the speaker.The members of the association and the years in which they sat as wardens are: John Fleming of Mount Pleasant, 1908; James Pul­lin of R.R.l, Woodstock, 1916; Dr. H. B. Atkinson of Thamesford, 1920; George H. Hollier of Till­sonburg, 1923; L. E. Peterson of Drumbo, 1924; James W. Innes. 1925; W. J. Weir of Thamesford, 1926; William McIntosh of Embro, 1927; Andrew Baxter of Browns­ville, 1928; J. L. Silcox of R.R. 7, Woodstock, 1929; Henry Hanlon ->f Ingersoll, 1930; Harry H. Scoil of Norwich, 1931; Robert Oliver of Thamesford, 1932, J. F. McDon­ald, R.R. 3, Woodstock, 1933; A. D. Robinson, R.R. 4, Ingersoll, 1934; George Balkwill of Drumbo, 1935; Charles Beagley of Embro, 1937; Charles Milton of Prince­ton, 1938; N. M. Marshall of Nor­wich, 1939; H. G. Harris of R.R. 3, Lakeside. 1940; R. F. Miners of Tillsonburg, 1941; Alvin McKay of R.R. 4, Embro, 1942; J. K. War­dell of Otterville, 1943; J. C. Eicb- enburg of Tillsonburg, 1944, A. D. McCorquodale of R. R. 3, I ake- side. 1945; Winston Nichols, R. R. 2, Ingersoll. 1946.Twenty-two years after he had sat in fhe warden's chair in Ox­ford’s county council chamber James W. Innes ol Woodstock re­turned to that scat of honor once more on Friday afternoon.From his seat on the dais. Mr. Innes looked over the desks of the members of county council and felt the years go back to 1925 when he presided as warden.Yesterday those desks were oc­cupied not by county council mem­bers of the ex-wardens' association of Oxford county. The association in its 15th annual meeting elected Mr. Innes their president for the coming year.Congratulating Mr. Innes on his election, the present warden, Mil­ton Betteridge. who will become the organizations 27th member next January, declared he thought it a “something" to be a warden, ■'something" even greater to be an ex-warden and that being pre­sident of a group of ex-wardens was a noteworthy achievement.W. J. Wier of Thamesford was elected first vice-president of the association, William McIntosh of Embro, second vice-president. L. K. Coles, county clerk, was nam­ed secretary-treasurer. L. E. Pet- erson of Drumbo retired from the ! office of president to which he was elected last year. The execu- j five committee elected includes, J. Winston Nichols of R.R: 2, Inger­soll, J. C. Eichenberg of Tillson­burg and J. K. Wardell of Otter­ville. J. N. Meathrell was named chairman of the refreshment com­mittee.YOUNGEST AND OLDEST—N. M. Marshall of Norwich, left, talks over the doings of county councils, with J. L. Sil­cox of R.R. 7, Woodstock, yesterday at the 15th annual meet­ing of the Oxford Ex-wardens’ Association held in the court­house in Woodstock. Mr. Marshall, when he was warden in 1939 was 34 years old, the youngest to have ever occupied the office in Oxford. Mr. Silcox, 87, who was warden m 1929, is the oldest member of the association. He also prides himself on being the only warden of Oxford to have been born in Woodstock. He stated at yesterday s meeting that he knew personally all of the wardens in Oxford with the ex­ception of the first.— (Staff Photo).Oxford Court House Employee Spare-Time HobbyistThomas Pye, Man of Many Talents, Building Cabin TrailerB¥ J. STEWART WATSONFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, July 9 Serving under his ninth warden and County Council, Thomas Pye, ■ county court house caretaker, sta­tionary engineer, Supreme Court constable and council messenger, has compiled a mileage record on , foot during the past eight years 1 that other county court house I caretakers in Western Ontario will find hard to beat.Recently county officials figure- ed he traveled at least 20 miles every time he cut the spacious lawns surrounding the county court house. Those miles added to the many he travel? around Ox- ; ford’s stately, but rambling, huge | courthouse reach record propor­tions.Tom, as he is known to councils I year after year, is also a striking example of the old proverb about idle hands. After completing his daily chores, Tom spends his eve- t nings and talents building a trailer.He is hard at work every night behind the court house with ham- I mer and saw, putting the fjnish- I ing touches on the four-bunk ; trailer he started this spring. He | wants to complete it in time to ; take his wife and two children, Bobby, seven, and Howard, four, out to the wide open spaces and ; a spot of fishing.Born and raised in Oxford Coun- । ty, Tom started working for the l county two days after the last ! war broke out in 1939 and he has I been a greet favorite with sue- : reeding councils. County coundl- ■ ors, Tom says, are a great bunch - । and year after year they seem to i change very little in calibre.Thomas Pye and his eldest son, Bobby, hard at work on their trailerHow seriously he takes his job, and how well he does It, was evi­dent nt the last Supreme Court session. Justice E. R. E Chevrler, J •residing, called Tom into the udges chambers. "I want to com­pliment you on the appearance of this court house. It Is the finest on the circuit,” his worship told him.Today Tom recalled wardens he has served under and reminisced a bit about each of them. He has served under: N. M. Marshall,Norwich; Hugh G. Harris, E. Nis­souri; R. F, Miners, Tillsonburg: Alvin McKay, W. Zorra; J. K. Wardell, S. Norwich: J. C. Eichen­berg, Tillsonburg; Alex McCorquo- daje, E. Nissouri; J. Winston Nichols, N. Oxford; Milton Bctter- 1 idge, E. Nissouri. County Council Sets Up High School DistrictsThe county council established the High School Districts of Ing­ersoll. Tillsonburg and Norwich at the close of Thursday's special session. In addition to the by-laws setting up these three additional districts within the county a fourth by-law was passed allott­ing a potion of South Norwich township to the High School Dis­trict of Delhi.The districts were based on re­commendations of the'education committee. The committee also recommended in its fifth report, which was adopted by council, that Reeve John Wallace of East Oxford be the county council's re­presentative on the suburban Woodstock High School District, which was set up at the regulai' session earlier this month. W. J. Weir was named as the council's representative on the Ingersoll High School District board.The High School District of In­gersoll will come into being on July 1 of this year. The other dis­tricts set up yesterday will become effective on January 1, 1948.The Ingersoll district includes, all real property in the town of Ingersoll, all real property in West Oxford lying west of and includ­ing lots 12, all real property in East Nissouri lying south of and including lots 18 in the township, all property in West Zorra in lots 1 to 20 in concessions one and two of the township and the westerly half of lots 1 to 20 in concession three. A portion of the county of Middlesex will also be included in the district.The High School District of Tillsonburg includes all real pro- pertj? in the town of Tillsonburg, a portion of the township of South Norwich, a portion of Elgin and Norfolk counties.The portion of South Norwich within this district is bounded on the north by the township road a mile north of the Springford-Ot- terville road, on the west by the township boundary, on the south by the township boundary and on the east by a line down the easter­ly boundary of lot. 15 to the 11th concession and along the conces­sion to the easterly limits of lot 8 and then south to the township IW, H ». l*t q 2boundary.Norwich DistrictThe High School District of Norwich includes, all property in the village of Norwich, all proper­ty in township of North Norwich, a portion of South NcnWlch, a por­tion of East Oxford and portions of Brant and Norfolk counties.The portion of South Norwich within this district includes all property in lots 1 to 14 inclusive in concessions seven, eight, nine and ten. the north half of lots 1 to 7 inclusive in concession 11 and all lots north of and includ­ing lot 10 in the South Norwich | Gore.That portion of East Oxford in-; eluded in the district lies in all property in lots 1 to 18 inclusive! in the eighth concession and the south half of lots 1 to 18 in the seventh concession.The portion of South Norwich not included in either the Tillson­burg or Norwich high school dis­tricts has been allotted to the Del­hi High School District.The townships of Blenheim and Dereham and the villages of Em­bro and Tavistock are the only remaining municipalities within Oxford to be placed in high school districts.VOTED “YES”Dereham township voted in fa­vor of establishing the Upper Thames Valley Conservation Authority at the meeting in St. Marys on Thursday. The list show­ing how the municipalities voted as published yesterday was inad­vertently in error. Delaware town­ship which voted against the mea­sure was omitted from the list.voted 24-7 in favor of the author­ity.A. H. Richardson, chief engin­eer of the department has stated there is "no reason" why the au­thority could not go' head almost immediately with some definite i activity under the four headings in which it will be most interested: j dams, reforestation, soil erision or recreation.Mr. Richardson is at present acting chief engineer for the Aus- able Au thorny and conducting a survey out of Turnbull's Grove, near Grand Bend.Ex-Reeves’ Group Plans Meeting Early in FallFirst plans of I ho newly formed Oxford County Ex-Rrevfs Associa­tion call for a picnic early in September at which time a slate of officers will be elected.Three ex-reeved, all from last year's county council, met in Ihe office of L. K. Coles, county clerk, to put the finishing touches to plans for the association, which came into being at the close of the December .session of council last year.The three, ex-Reeve Ross Carroll of North Norwich, ex-Reeve Car­man Facey ot East Zorra and last year's Warden, J. Winston Nichols, who qualifies for the association by being ex-reeve of North Ox­ford, met to make further plans for the association.Ross Carroll was named chair­man of the pro-tem committee for the organization and Carman Facey ns secretary. There are, sonic 124 ex-reeves living at present in the county and the majority of them have expressed ■ their approval of such an assoc- ' iation, Len Coles stated.Present at the December ses­sion when the idea was first men­tioned were also: Clair Peers of East Oxford, John Chesney of Blandford, L. B. Currie of TJ11- sonburg and William McIntosh of Embro.Plans for the September picnic , included a baseball game between the ex-reeves in the south of the county and those in the north i ; half. They also plan to have a । speaker of note on hand and en- , tertainment which has yet to be arranged.Oxford already has an active ex­warden's association -after which the new organization may be pat­terned.Kent Plea For Survey Not BackedOxford's county council on the advice of its agriculture commit-l tee. declined to support the Kent county move to have a survey made of the Thames river below London.A resolution passed by the Kent county council at its last session requested Hon. Dana Por­ter, Ontario minister of planning and development, to have a survey made of the Thames river below the city of London. A copy of the resolution was tbrwarded to Oxford for endorsation.The agriculture committee un­der the chairmanship of Deputy Reeve H. A. Little of Dereham recommended that no action be taken on the request. The council concurred in the suggestion.In its fifth report the agricul­ture committee also proposed that the Perth county council resolu­tion seeking aid for farmers in ob­taining feed grain at a reasonable, price be endorsed. The council concurred in the report.Consider School DistrictsOxford's county council met to­day in special session to give fur­ther consideration to the problem of setting up larger high school districts within Jhe county.Shortly after the session opened this morning the council's educa­tion committee met to consider the requests of certain townships for inclusion in high school arr-;r- of Ingersoll and Tillsonburg. Be­fore the session closes thi’ after­noon it Is expected that bylaws to establish these areas will be plac­ed before the council for approv­al.Emerson Moulton of Verschoylc, county corn borer and weed in­spector, addressed council to out­line the present situation concern­ing enforcement of corn borer and weed control regulations.Mr. Moulton said wet weather had prevented many farmers from dealing with the corn borer but he felt that action might be taken now to plow the stalks of last year's corn crop into the groundSpray EquipmentAs weed inspector, Mr. Moulton urged the council to consider the provision of spray equipment for him in order that he might further his work. He told the council that many farmers were wanting patches of weed sprayed and were prepared to pay for the spray ma­terials. The inspector declared he was unable to assist these men because he had no equipment and what little spraying he could get done required borrowing equip­ment.Warden Milton Betteridge as­sured Mr. Moulton that his prob­lem would be considered by the agriculture committee.Among the correspondence read this morning were two resolutions, from Kent County and Perth County councils seeking approval. They were referred to the proper! committees for consideration.Want Survey SupportKent county, noting! the serious­ness of the floods on the River Thames sought Oxford's support for their resolution to Hon. Dana Porter, minister of planning and1 development for Ontario, to have, a survey made of the Thames be­low London and to include in the survey the possibility of a diver­sionary cut from the river at Wardsville. The resolution urged that the minister state as soon as possible what action he would take and when.Fearing that the price of feed grain to farmers might rise due to the wet spring causing a short-I age of such material, Perth Coon-1 ty council urged in their resolu-j tion that the federal and prpvin-1 cial governments make available to farmers and livestock feeders! feed grain of such standard and I at a price rate that the producers । of livestock for food purposes, would be encouraged to produce L cattle, hogs, poultry and dairy!' products. The resolution urged that; the price of the grain be such ( that a reasonable remuneration or labor and time would be ob-..ained for the farmers.Tavistock Will RetainIts Continuation School“I’M toy ll't hot. I'm practically barbecued'* PICTURES TELL STORY OF FIRST GRASSLAND DAY I' *Mb IM LIKE A THREERING CIRCUS— Grassland D?” on Wednesday vac much like a three-ring circus v. tractions being shown in several places at once, program committee ran off their events to avoid cg but the spectators, once their interest was aroused, were [loath to leave one area for the next item. This view of the field on the Dent farm, east of Woodstock, gives an [accurate appreciation of the extent of Canada s first Grassland Day. across the field The photo was taken looking east On the extreme left may be seen crowds inspecting some of the 36 pieces of hay harvest­ ing equipment. The cloud of spray twoard the centre background locates the weed spraying demonstration which was in progress. The field between the parking area and the tents is an improved pasture which was top dressed several days prior to Grassland Day as - a ample of what might be done for good pasture. Th® Hargreaves, took care of about 1,960 cars light aircraft taking off from the pasture was owned ) wkic.h -began arriving before nine o'clock in the morn- and flown by Larry Snyder of Exeter, who took the ing and kept up a steady stream until late afternoon j modern way of attending the field day. The remainder when the job went into reverse and ^e crowd o. - of the photo from the pasture field to No. 2 Highway on the extreme right of the picture shows the results of LVjWV vv ** vi* Pres. McMillan, Sentinel-Review staff photographer). : -> -• -iif. ! “■ j SOD BUSTING— A feature of Grassland Day was a pasture renovation demonstration put on by Prof. N. J. Thomas of the O. A. C. department of soils. Prepar­ ing a portion of the field in the photo on the left is a [mechanical tiller which combined all operations of prep- laration in one. The machine is power operated and trac- Itor drawn. CONSERVATION ARGUMENT— An exhibit from the Ontario Agricultural College, shown in the centre, forms a sound argument in itself for conservation of soil. The influence of soil management on four experimental plots on a 15 per cent, slope is shown. On the left an 1 improved pasture loses .36 tons of soil per acre; thin weedy blue grass sod, next, loses 1.66 tons; soil plowed day there were groups gathered around the 36 piece ears loses zw.o tons ui of ’equipment which were on display. During the The eastern end of “mach- noon the machinery was shown in actual operation j ihoto on the right. The in-ithe portion of the hay field on the left. Each compt^J . ^d Grassland| ' a^j d a plot for demonstration. (Staff phoW new machinery and modern, improved methods; McMillan Sentinel-Review staff photographer^^ harvesting was keen. At alt times during the Pres. McMillan, oenu. after 20 years of sod loses 7.5 tons and on the right soil with continuous oats for 15 years loses 214.6 tons of top soil. HAY MACHINERY— ' inery row” is shown in the photo on the right. ---- tercst shown by the thousands who attended Grassland Day in i__ of hay harvesting was keen. GRASSLAND DAYMODERN HAYMAKING DEMONSTRATIONSON THE FARM OF T. R. DENT, M.P.P.1 WOODSTOCK, JULY 30thGreener Pasture * Softer Hay - Happy Cows - Better PayBetter Hay Making Aim Of First Grasslands DayNearly One Cow for Each Person in Oxford CountyOn T. R. Dent's farm on July 20 a project entirely new in Canada will appear for the first time. In the past, farm field days have been for potatoes, tobacco, grain crops, dairy farming and other branches of the farming industry. Now the attention will swing to haying in a project known as Grasslands Day.Grasslands Day will be given over to demonstrations of better methods and the use of modern equipment in haying. Weed con­trol and spraying will be demon­strated, probably with a helicopter in use for the spraying of large areas. Better pasture practices will be a feature of the education­al program.The project will be carried out under the direction of the Ontario Crop Improvement Association and the Ontario Agricultural Col­lege at the request of the Oxford Crop Improvement Association.Decision to hold such a project was made at a meeting of the exe­cutive of the Oxford Crop Im­provement Association and others interested on Monday evening in the Department of Agriculture of­fices.Hay and GrassJohn Murray of Woodstock, who attended similar meetings in the state of Wisconsin explained their function to the meeting on Mon­day night. Mr. Murray said he was impressed with the value which fanners in Wisconsin put on their hay and grass crops and stated he believed a like value should be placed on such crops in Oxford.The program, an all-day af­fair commencing at nine in the morning and ending at sundown, as related by Mr.4 Murray includes demonstrations of the latest types of haying equipment in operation, weed control demonstrations and a study of long-term pasture management.Mrs. Adam Roth Dies in HospitalMrs. Adam E. Roth, well known . and highly esteemed Woodstock resident for many years and widow of Adam E. Roth, former widely known county clerk and treasurer of Ox­ford County, passed away at Woodstock hospital, Friday aft­ernoon, June 27 following a leng- , thy illness.Bread Price Increased Three CentsNo charges will be made for admission or for parking for Grasslands Day. A further regula­tion stipulates that the demon­stration of machinery must show the equipment actually working in the hayfield at whatever type of work it is designed to do.Work QuicklyArrangements for the project passed from stage of decision to hold the event to setting up com­mittees all in the one evening. By early Tuesday morning, so quickly did the men go into action, the site was located and announced.Alex Muir of Woodstock, pres­ident of .the Oxford Crop Improve­ment Association was chairman of the meeting. Wilfred Bishop of Norwich was named secretary for| the evening in the absence of G. R. Green, secretary of the associa­tion.Committees formed for the event include: grounds, Douglas Hart, Alex Muir and John Mur­ray; program, Ed Hansuld, John Murray and Russell Karn; mach­inery, Emerson Moulton, Fred W. Stock and John Hargreaves; fin­ance, John Murray and Fred A. Stock; publicity, C. O. Tatham and Wray Hartley; parking Harry Ellery and Bill Sutherland.On Thursday evening another meeting of committees will be held to discuss the project with repre­sentatives from the Ontario Crop Improvement Association headed by John D. McLeod and from the Ontario Agricultural College head­ed by Professor W. Knox.Pipers Appear At County HomeThe Kiwanis Club of Ingersoll provided entertainment for the folks at the County Home last night when they sponsored a band , concert by Qie Ingersoll Pipe Band under the direction of Pipe Major Alex Collins.A fine display of drill and muic- al numbers was put on by the band as they paraded on the spa­cious lawn of the Home. Also present at the concert were L. B. Hyde, president of the Ingersoll Kiwanis Club; Waller Barlow, Woodstock Rotarian, and Les Mc- Kerral, chairman.Following the concert treats were distributed by the club. R. J. Forbes, on behalf of the resi­dents of the Home, expressed thanks to the entertainers for the fine program and treats.Estimate of $12,000 Made For Drumbo Water SystemI There are nearly enough cows In Oxford to allot one to every man, woman and child living with­in the borders of this dairy county.Statistics released by the On­tario Department of Agriculture indicate the number of cows and heifers, two years old and over,, kept mainly for milk purposes in Oxford to be 49,311 as of June 1 of this year. The total human population of the county is set at 50,506.Not only are there just about enough cows for everyone in Ox­ford, but there are more cows kept for milk purposes here than in any other county in the prov­ince. There are more bulls one year old and over in Oxford, 3,104 of them, than in any other oounty in Ontario. There are 15,953 heif­ers, one year old, being raised mainly for milk purposes in Ox­ford, again more than in any other county.The monthly crop report of the Department of Agriculture for Oc­tober gives the figures on the live stock population in Ontario by counties. The figures for Oxford, the first figure the population as of June 1, 1946, the second as of June 1, 1947, are as follows:Bulls, one year and over, 3,- 125—3,104; cows and heifers, two years old and over, kept mainly for milk, 49.671—49,311; cows and heifers, two years old and over, kept mainly for beef, 1,900—1,- 947; calves under 1 year, 20,142— 20,003; heifers, one year old be­ing raised for milk purposes, 16,- 519—15,953; heifers one year old being raised fop beef, 1,495—1,- 598; steers, one year and oover, 5,190—5,556; total cattle, 98,042— 97,472.Mares, two years and over, 6,- 919—6,405; geldings, two and over, 6,384—5,671; colts and fillies under two, 1,014—612; total horses, in­cluding stallions, 14,387—12,756.Sheep, one year and over, 31,361 —3,454; lambs, under one year. 3.613—3,048; total sheep and । lambs, 6,974—6,502.'Hens and chickens all ages, । 928,316—952,673. Turkeys, all ages j 5,126—5,443.Number of swine over six18,120; swine under six months, 51,015 -65,404; total swine. 62,395 83.524.C.A.S. Head Here Gets High PraiseJudge H. D. Long, chairman of the personnel committee and a member of the board of directors for the Perth County Children's Aid Society recently announced that arrangements have been com­pleted with the Oxford County board of directors for the Chil­dren’s Aid Society to have R-. G. Clowes, superintendent, visit Stratford half a day each week to discuss cases with Miss Maude V. Fleming, acting superintendent of the Perth Society, and her staff.Judge Lang paid high tribute to Mr. Clowes, and said that he is considered one of the leading superintendents in the province.Mr. Clowes met Miss Fleming and her staff for the first timeseveral days ago, when the meet­ing was held in the Stratford of­fice, 219 Ontario street.Miss Fleming was appointed acting superintendent of the Perth society following the vacancy left by A. M. Keith, who went to To­ronto as supervisor of case work for the John Howard Society ofOntario.Miss Fleming will act as super­intendent until a permanent of­ficer is named.County is Praised By JudgeJustice R. w. Treleaven congrat­ulated Oxford County on its law abiding citizens and on its fine record, at the opening of the Sep­tember Supreme Court jury sess­ion in Woodstock yesterday af. ternoon. _ , ”, w -r-’'- ” ar __TVA Approved by Strong MajorityVital Decision onValley DevelopmentIn the years to come, tribute will be paid to the good sense and foresight of the 31 representatives who paved the way for the establishing of the Thames Valley Authority at Thursday’s meeting in St. Marys town hall, high on the banks of a tributary ofi the Thames.That the long awaited conservation scheme should come into being officially as the “Upper” Thames Valley Authority is unfortunate. The prefix on its title will hin­der the workings of the authority some­what, particularly on matters of flood con­trol. .The differences which separate the up­per and lower reaches of the Thames on the matter of an authority are not insurmount­able. They will be ironed out to the satisfac­tion of both groups. Then the T.V.A. will come into its own as the organization of municipalities within the watershed work­ing together for the betterment of the whole area.Many columns have been written during the past year to show the need for the au­thority. what action the authority might take and some of the benefits which would be forthcoming from the scheme.To give some idea of the scope of this program which lies ahead, awaiting the shaping hands of the authority to mould it as it sees fit, consider the Thames wa­tershed. True, the whole watershed is not included in the authority at present, but the beginning has been made.Picture an area of 2,225 square miles, which the Thames River basin drains, of densely populated and for the most part excellent farm land. From the highlands of Perth and Oxford, where the river rises, to its mouth on Lake St. Clair 180 miles away, there is no finer land in the Dominion ofBy ALF BURMAN Sentinel-Review Staff Writer The creation of the Thames Valley Authority received ovei- whelmlng approval at yesterday’s meeting in St. Marys. Tbkty-one representatives of the municipali­ties in the Thames watershed above Dingman's Creek voted 24 to 7 in the authority’s favorThe municipalities by resolu­tion requested the minister of public works for Ontario to estab­lish a conservation authority "on that part of the Thames River watershed above the confluence of Dingman's Creek (a few miles be­low London) with the Thames | River with the exception of the following townships, Caradoc, Hibbert, McKillop, North Nor­wich, Orford and Usborne."No AmendmentsReeve Gordon Ross of East Zorra mpved the resolution and Aiderman J. A. Lewis of Wood­stock seconded the motion. There were no amendments proposed. Balloting was conducted by A. H. Richardson, chief conservation en­gineer of the Ontario Department of Planning and Development, who was chairman of rhe ing and by Harold Zavitz, ham, of the Department of and Forests, who acted as tary for the meeting.meet- Chat- Lands secre-The townships named in the resolution were not injected inFiremen ProvideTreats at HomeCanada. e The October program at the:This fine land is marred by floods in County Home was sponsored byspring which do immense damage to prop- the Woodstock firemen who last erty, besides taking human life everyyears. The occurrence of these floods is be-- . - . i tt *ate bars and tobacco with pro-commg more frequent year by year. Here ceeds obtained from a ball game the picture must be changed by action of theauthority. Dams, some holding back large reservoirs of water, others small check dams in the headwaters, must be built—-not all at once but as quickly over a period of years as conditions will allow.As the urban centres suffer from floods, the more spectacular of the prob­lems, at the same time does the farming community suffer from the flood’s insid­ious, silent partner, erosion. Here alone is an immense and important task for the au­thority. This rich farm land, which is al­ready feeling the cut of this wasteful scourge, must be conserved, saved. Better soil management and more reforestation must be applied.Along with this program there are bene­fits, by-products, w'hich will come into their place in time. Permanent lakes will become recreation centres and fishing resorts close to the door of farmer and city dweller alike. With these will come action to conserve wild life, game and fish.Such schemes cannot be carried out in a year, two, three or five years. The road ahead is a long one but a start on that road has been made.The gathering in the town hall of St. Marys on August 14, 1947, was one of his­toric importance.between the city council and the 'fire department.Members of the ball teamh were ■M. Thomson, J. Smith, T. Murray, K. Griffin, H. Hayes, G. Tripp, H. McKay, C. Clark, J. Truscott, H.Lennox, K. Likens gomery.• Bruce McMillan old time tunes on and B. Mont-played many the piano andStrictly RichterMl LUNE Ry3-4“Why not come in and help me pick a hat? You always wear it at parties’.”the authority because the portion of their municipalities lying with­in the watershed was small. In the case of North Norwich the area within the watershed amounts to about 500 acres.The first meeting of the author­ity will be called by the minister of public works about the middle of September in the city of Strot- ford. A secretary who will works inpermanent chairman, and “chief officer"— direct the conservation the watershed, will be at that time.appointedThe authority will be known asthe Upper Thames Valley Author­ity.“IVftlley, Not River notice the initials T.V.A.have been used a great deal," commented Mr. Richardson on the matter of naming the authority. "If you don’t decide on the name I think it will be called the Thames River Authority."He offered the suggestion that there was a "nice difference” be­tween the words "river” and "val­ley”. The conservation program was certainly for the whole valley and not for the river alone, he pointed out.Gordon Pittock of Ingersoll moved that since the name has been started as the Thames Val­ley Authority that it be continu­ed. E. O. Bogue of London sec­onded the motion.Until such time as the whole watershed is included in the au­thority the prefix "Upper” will be used. Belief was expressed by a number of delegates that before long the portion of the Thames below London would become part of a larger authority embracing the whole watershed.Three AbsentThirty municipalities were in­vited to send representatives to yesterday’s meeting. Three did not have a representative pres­ent, North Easthope and Lobo townships and the village of Tavistock. A total of 31 of the possible 34 delegates were in at­tendance., London had three and Woodstock and Stratford each two representatives.Attending from Oxford were: Reeve Oscar Sippel of Blandford, Reeve R. A. McDonald of Embro, Gordon Pittock of Ingersoll, War­den Milton. Betteridge of East NlMourl. Reeve John WnHace from East Oxford, Reeve Jame« Calder from North Oxford, Reeve Percy Sage from West Oxford, Al­dermen J, A. Lewis and J. A. Saunders from Woodstock, Reeve Gordon Ross from East Zorra and Reeve O. H. Murray from West Zorra. Aiderman W. A. Reinhart of Woodstock and N. M. Hokte- worth, clerk-treasurer of East Oxford, were also present.Meeting HelpedAldermen Lewis and' Saunders,1 hoth of whom voted Jn favor Of the authority, expressed the opin­ion at the conclusion of the after­noon that the meeting held last week in Woodstock helped in no small measure in gaining a favor­able vote for the authority."Now that we have the author­ity, we have something as a foun­dation to work from on our prob­lems of conservation," Warden Betteridge commented, expressing! himself as ' highly pleased" with! the result of the vote.The strongest comment on the formation of the authority came when Mr. Richardson gave out the result of the vote. A roll of ap­plause and stamping of feet on the auditorium floor greateed the an­nouncement.How TVAVote WentThe following list shows how the municipal representatives voted for the formation of the Upper Thames Valley Authority. The re­solution asking the minister of public works to establish a con­servation carried 24 to 7.Biddulph township ............... YesBlandford township ............. YesBlanshard township ............ YesDereham township...................NoN. Dorchester township..........Yes Downie township .....................No N. Easthope township Not repre­sentedS. Easthope township Ellice township ........ Embro Village ......... Fullarton township .. Ingersoll ....................... No.. No .. No .. Yes. Yes!Lobo township .. Not represented Logan township .......■........London (3 representatives)Lindon township .............Mitchell ...............No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesNo YesE. Nissouri township W. Nissouri township E. Oxford township .. N. Oxford township .., W. Oxford township .St Marys........................... YesStratford (2 representatives) Yes Tavistock ........, Not representedWestminster township......... Yes Woodstock (2 representatives) Yes E. Zorra township.....................YesW. Zorra township Yes OXFORD’S NEW SNOW BLOWER—In shirt-sleeves be­cause of the warm weather, Oxford’s county councillors found little escape from the heat when they inspected the county’s new snow blower which arrived recently. The machine, painted a brilliant orange with aluminum covered sides on the engine house, with blades whirling in a demon­stration gave the impression of a snorting, tropical monster breathing fire and brimstonCo-operation is Cited by ClerkCounty Clerk L. K. Coles in-1 formed the county council this' morning of the co-operation he had received in the matter of collect­ing license fees from salvage deal­ers operating in the county.Mr. Coles stated he had received assistance from the police in the municipalities of the county, from the Piovincial Police and from the county’s game warden in gett- j ing these fees collected.He read the list of dealers who । so far this year have obtained licenses to collect salvage in Ox­ford. The list included: Elmer Sanderson of Norwich, J. Gold­stein of Ingersoll, J. Watters and Son of Kitchener, E. Goodall and Brock of Brantford, Tillsonburg Auto Wreckers, Canada Scrap Iron and Metal of St. Thomas, Na­than Jack of Woodstock, Charles Cromwell nof Princeton, GordoHughsop of Drumbo, George Skip­per and Son of St. Marys, H. Stein of Toronto, Joseph Cohen of Drumbo, I Rosen and Sons of Kit­chener, and William Kay of R. R, 5, Woodstock.Pay Tribute to Late H. H. ScottOxford's county council stood In silence for a minute at the opening of its September session this morning in honor to the memory of Ex-warden Harry H. Scott of Norwich, who died re­cently.Speaking of Mr. Scott, Warden Milton Betteridge said, "he was young In years and was a valued member of this county council a few years ago. He was also a man who had made a name for himself In hia work with the On­tario Concentrated Milk Produc­ers."The warden drew attention of the council to the passing of two former reeves in the county and also expressed the sympathy of the council to Reeve John A. Wallace of East Oxford in the loss of his mother.the blower are some members of the council. From the left they are, Reeve Theodore Cooper of South Norwich, a member of the road committee; Reeve John Wallace of East Oxford; Reeve L. H. Sibbick of Blenheim, chairman of the road committee; Deputy Reeve Fred Killing of East Zorra; Reeve Percy Sage of West Oxford and Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn of Blenheim.— (Staff photo).BLOWER POWER PLANT—Reeve Gordon Ross of East Zorra, left, and Reeve Percy Sage of West Oxford are seen here inspecting the gasoline power plant of Oxford County's new snow blower, which was brought to the rear of the courthouse on Wednesday after­noon for inspection by members of the county council. This motor is enclosed in an en­gine-house on the back of the truck. It operates the two sets of blades on the front of the plow. The large sized radiator in the back of the picture is on the rear end of the truck. — (Staff Photo).Frost Damage in Tobacco Fields May Reach Total of $3,500,000 OXFORD’S NEW SNOW BLOWER—In shirt-sleeves be­cause of the warm weather, Oxford’s county councillors found little escape from the heat when they inspected the county’s new snow blower which arrived recently. The machine, painted a brilliant orange with aluminum covered sides on the engine house, with blades whirling in a demon­stration gave the impression of a snorting, tropical monster breathing fire and brimstone. Taking their first look atthe blower are some members of the council. From the, left they are, Reeve Theodore Cooper of South Norwich, a member of the road committee; Reeve John Wallace of East Oxford; Reeve L. H. Sibbick of Blenheim, chairman of the road committee; Deputy Reeve Fred Killing of East Zorra; Reeve Percy Sage of West Oxford and Deputy Reeve W. A. Cockburn of Blenheim.—(Staff photo).Co-operation is Cited by ClerkCounty Clerk L. K. Coles in-1 formed the county council this' morning of the co-operation he had received in the matter of collect­ing license fees from salvage deal­ers operating in the county.Mr. Coles stated he had received assistance from the police in the municipalities of the county, from the Provincial Police and from the county’s game warden in gett­ing these fees collected.He read the list of dealers who ; so far this year have obtained licenses to collect salvage in Ox­ford. The list included: Elmer Sanderson of Norwich, J. Gold­stein of Ingersoll, J. Watters and Son of Kitchener, E. Goodall and Brock of Brantford, Tillsonburg Auto Wreckers, Canada Scrap Iron and Metal of St. Thomas, Na­than Jack of Woodstock, Charles Cromwell nof Princeton, GordoHughsop of Drumbo, George Skip­per and Son of St. Mary’s, H. Stein of Toronto, Joseph Cohen of Drumbo, I Rosen and Sons of Kit­chener, and William Kay of R. R.5, Woodstock.Pay Tribute to Late H. H. ScottOxford's county council stood in silence for a minute at the opening (>t its September session this morning In honor to the memory of Exwarden Harry H. Scott of Norwich, who died re­cently.Speaking of Mr. Scott, Warden Mil ton Betteridge said, "he was young in years and was a valued memoir of this county council a few years ago. He was also a man who had made a name for himself in his work with the On­tario Concentrated Milk Produc-The warden drew attention of the council to the passing al two former reeves in the county and also expressed the sympathy of । the council to Reeve John A. Wallace of East Oxford in the loss of his-mother.BLOWER POWER PLANT—Reeve Goi'don Ross of East Zorra, left, and Reeve Percy Sage of West Oxford are seen here inspecting the gasoline power plant of Oxford County's new snow blower, which was brought to the rear of the courthouse on Wednesday after­noon for inspection by members of the county council. Titis motor is enclosed in an en­gine-house on the back of the truck. It operates the two sets of blades on the front of the plow. The large sized radiator in the back of the picture is on the rear end of the truck. —(Staff Photo).Frost Damage in Tobacco Fields May Reach Total of $3,500,000 • ■ ss-' ? •' ■ ■' ' ST. 'Short Session of County Council Seen by WardenCounty Assessor Proposal Now Under Considerationlai Hospital informed the county council of their intention to build n 30 to 35 bed hospital in that town at a east of between $210,- (XX) and $220 000, The proposal hospital, it was explained, would serve not only the town but the surrounding rural area Including part of Oxford,Financial support for the pro­ject was sought by the board from council. It was pointed out that the reeves of the townships concerned would be representa­tives on the board.The town of Ingersoll informed the county council of the amend­ment to their bylaw setting up the Ingersoll High School Area Board. The amendment changed the ef­fective date of the order setting up the area and board from July 1,1947 to January 1, 1948.Set Fund Aside for RegistryOxford county council set aside $50,000 from its surplus for the construction of a new registry of­fice when required. The move was made on the recommendation of the finance committee under the temporary chairmanship of Depu- ty-Reeve W. A. Cockburn.The council concluded its Sep­tember session last night after hearing reports from several com­mittees and passing three by-laws.The resolution proposed by Simcoe county council that the Department of Health be urged to give consideration to the construc­tion of more hospitals for incur­able patients was endorsed by Ox- ■ ford. Haliburton county’s resolu­tion seeking to have the province pay at least 80 per cent, of the costs of Children's Aid work was) filed. The resolution from Welland county seeking to have the en­tire cost of education borne by the province was filed.Grants authorized by the coun­cil included: $25 to the Western Dairymen's Association; $100 to the junior farmers’ stock judging competition; $200 to the Oxford Crop Improvement Association to be earmarked by Grassland Day; $50 each to the 17 libraries in the county.The request from the town of Tillsonburg for the appointment of a county assessor was filed on recommendation of the equaliza­tion committee.Reeve Theodore Cooper of South Norwich, chairman of the equalization committee, explained to the Sentinel-Review following the session that his committee was "not prepared to proceed with the appointment of a county assessor at the present time.”The request of the Oxford Coun­ty Library Association for re-or­ganization by the county council was filed on recommendation of the education committee.On the recommendation of the Ex-wardens' Association, a crepe will be hung on council chamber pictures of ex-warclens who have died. The crepe will remain on the picture for 12 months after the date of death.A short September session of i county council was foreseen this ' morning when Wanlen Milton Betteridge suggested in his open­ing remarks to the council that they try to complete their business by tomorrow evening. Another in­dication of a short session was noted in (ho amount of corre­spondence read this morning by County Clerk L K. Coles. Only 12 pieces of correspondence were received in place of the usual 30 to 35 items which appear for con­sideration on the first day of a session.Warden Betteridge welcomed the members of his' council, re­marking that they all had that "satisfied, after-harveit look." All members were present, this morn­ing with the exception of Reeve K R. Watts of Tillsonburg, who is expected later in the session."Oxford county has come through with honors again.’ 'the warden informed the council, not­ing that Marion Kipp of Princeton, whom he crowned as "Miss Oxford of 1947" at Thamesford had won further honors in Windsor to be­come Miss Western Ontario."Committees MeetAfter allotting the correspond­ence to the committees concerned the council adjourned to allow the finance, property and printing committees to meet.This afternoon the council met a delegation from the Oxford County Library Association. In a letter the association drew the council’s attention to an amend­ment in the Public Libraries Act which allows for the control of county library associations by the county council. The association requested the county council to take over and re-organize the as­sociation in accordance with the new regulations.Drawing attention to the high cost of education and the inability of rural and small municipalities to compete with larger centres in teachers’ salaries, which induce, teachers to "migrate to larger cen­tres,” the Welland county council sought support for their resolu­tion seeking to have the provincial government take over the total cost of education.Haliburton county sought sup­port for their resolution to have the province given authority to contribute not less than 80 per cent, of the cost of Children’s Aid Work.The council of Simcoe county "viewing with alarm” the increas­ing number of incurable patients in hospitals, forwarded a resolu­tion for approval asking the On­tario Department of Health to give consideration to the erection of more hospitals for incurables in Ontario,Ask Hospital GrantThe board of St. Marys Memqr-East Oxford May Purchase Fire EquipmentBlenheim FavorsHigh School AreaCity Cannot Supply Water To Village of BeachvilleThe county council had before It this afternoon for consideration a request, from the town of Tillson­burg for the appointment of a county assessor.At this morning's session, the single communication read by the county clerk was a copy of a res-1 olutlon passed at a meeting of Tillsonburg's council last night. The resolution, moved by Councill­ors Rankin and Milmine urged that, the county council take "prompt action to appoint a coun­ty assessor.”Commenting on the resolution this morning after the council had adjourned to allow the agriculture and health committees to meet. Deputy-reeve K. R. Anderson of Tillsonburg said he thought the appointment of a county assessor was the fair way of handling ass­essments withih the county.Deputy-reeve Anderson said the resolution to county council arose out of a meeting of Tillsonburg’s council's finance committee last night. Following the finance meeting, the council met in a special council session and passed the resolution.A county assessor, Deputy-reeve Anderson believed, would be able to work with the assessors of mun­icipalities within the county and bring the standards of assessment of all to an equal level. The re-port of the county assessor to the county council’s equalization com- mittee would guide that committee' in working out the equalized ass-1 essment for municipalities within the county.Tillsonburg, Mr, Anderson said, in entering the high school area plan had found itself in a board I with other counties which had a county assessor. The assessment of these counties was higher in proportion with that of Tillson­burg causing inequality in the payment of high school educa­tion costs.The appointment of a county assessor might see the increase of assessment in some municipalities within Oxford, Mr. Anderson agreed, but he did not think it would make any appreciable dif­ference to the taxpayer, because - as the assessment of a municip­ality went up the tax rate accord­ingly went down.Public Supporting MuseumThere has been "great pub­lic response” in support of the Oxford Museum Society, Ross Butler, president of the or­ganization told the county council in a progress report on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Butler added that material for the museum has been coming in in a steady stream.The society hoped, he said, to have the official opening of the museum in the city hall soon. An attempt is being made to have Premier George Drew attend the opening.A shipment of wax models of movie stars of years ago has been received, Mr. Butler said, and it. is the intention of the society to have them made over to likenesses of pioneers of Oxford.Some of these models he expected will be displayed atLlbrnry Re«oe«tThe county council also has before it a request of the Oxford County Library Association that the county take over and rear-1 iganlze the association in accord-1 ance with the recent amendment to the Public Libraries Act. | At the session on Tuesday af­ternoon, the council heard Angus Mowatt, director of the public library service for the Depart­ment of Education tell of the work of the county library associ­ations.Mr. Mowatt spoke of public book service, its relation to educa­tion and how it affects the rtxral communities and smaller towns. He told of the formation of the first county library association in : Lambton county about 1932.Fifty per cent of the people in Canada are without public book service, Mr. Mowatt stated. Fifty per cent, of those who are in a position to receive such ser­vice are receiving poor service. Ninety per cent, of those with­out proper service are living in the rural areas of Canada.County libraries, which serve these people in rural communities, Mr. Mowatt described as the "most important thing that has happened to education in this province since Dr. Ryerson thought we should have text books."The amendment to the PublicLibraries Act, he explained, re­quired after this year that the county council appoint the board of the county library association.The county council appoints a board consisting of the warden, three members of council and three other members. The De-, partment of Education will pay a' grant of dollar for dollar up to| $4,000 with the county council.! Also the department will pay $1,- 000 of the salary of a qualified, full-time county librarian.John Smith, a former reeve of Dereham, speaking on behalf of the association, said that Oxford I now had 13 libraries in the as­sociation. Miss Blythe Terryberry of the Woodstock Library expres­sed the opinion that the county association had been successful in co-operative book buying but un­der the new set-up described might do more in the way of lib- I rary service.The delegation of Mr. Mowatt, Miss Terryberry and Mr. Smith, met with the council's education commitee for further discussion.At this afternoon's session, Ross Butler, president of the Oxford Museum Society, addressed the council.Ingersoll fair on October 9, 10 and 11 in connection with the centenary celebration of the fair. The exhibit of wax models will depict the meet­ing of Laura Ingersoll (later f Laura Secord) the first white woman to arrive in Oxford in 1794 with the Indians of the district.Mr. Butler outlined some other plans for exhibits in the museum including displays of articles manufactured in the county and an exhibit of farm products of Oxford.Financially the society has reached almost half of its $10,000 objective, Mr. Butler said. He appealed to the coun­cil for an additional grant. This request was turned down by the council when the fi­nance committee recommend­ed no action be taken on the request. Adjust Road Program to Keep It Within BudgetOxford county has spent on Its road program for 1947 the gum of 000 the road committee under the $176,084.67 of the budget of $273,- chairmanship of Reeve L. H. Sib­bick, informed the council in the committee's sixth report.Adopting the report the council Instructed the county road super­intendent to adjust the work pro­gram yet to be completed so that the expenditures will be kept with­in the budget.The work on the county road system, the report stated, is pro­gressing as rapidly as conditions will permit. The long, wet spring was detrimental to the roads and necessitated a larger expenditure on resurfacing than was provided for in the estimates for the year.As an example of the larger ex­penditure required than antici-1 pated is the cost of patching.hard top roads of which the county has about 50 miles. The estimated ex­penditure was §4,529.44, to date §25,679.41 has been spent and $100 is required to complete the work. Clearing snow was another item in the report showing actual costs beyond the estimates. For this work $12,000 was set aside in the budget, to date the work has cost $15,082.62 and an addit- ] ional $4,000 is expected to be re­quired to complete the year.In committee of the whole with Deputy Reeve Grant Sutherland in the chair the council went over the report and finally adopted it as presented.REf ’RIkaTf ON COMMITTEKA county council committee on rwreaiinn wax formed nt veutcr- dny « xpoclHl session. The commit­tee Includes, Reeve L. II. Sibbick ' Vm 'V*"?’ R^vn W' A- Cockburn । Of Blenheim, Reeve James Calder (ot North Oxford, Reeve Percy 3ngc of West Oxford and Deputy Reeve Ken Andcrwn of Tillson-I burg.■EX-REEVEKThe t-x-reeveg of Oxford c'hinty ■'ire holding a picnic at Southed® Park on Wednesday, September 3, at one o'clock. At this gathering consideration will be given to fonn- inr an association of former rcev- efl. Rasa Carroll of North Norwich and Carmen Facey of East 2k»rra are chairman ar.d secretary of the temporary committee In charge of the picnic.“When the Snow Comes”Oxford Will Be ReadyMUSEUM MOVESThe second floor of the city hall was a bee-hive of activity this morning when officials of the Ox­ford County Museum Society were unloading and arranging museum pieces in their new home. The museum was previously in the Ox­ford County court house.Famed for the excellent manner in which their roads are maintained, the Oxford County Council is f°r 1116 cominS winter. In the above picture, and while the temperature clings to the 90s, the road committee, including Reeve Theodore Cooper, South Norwich; Warden Milton Betteridge, East Nissouri, and the chairman, Reeve L. H. Sibbick. Blenheim (left to right), are seen inspecting the latest snow-removing equipment, a recently-delivered rotary snowplowI a _To Show Contour Plowing Plowing Match Plans MadeA feature of the Oxford County Plowing Match on Oc­tober 28 will be a demonstra­tion of contour plowing, it was learned this morning.The match is being held on Fred W. S’tock's Hillstead Farm a mile south of Tavis­tock on No. 19 highway. A portion of the land allotted for the match has been set aside to be used in the dem­onstration of the method used in plowing across the sloperather than up and down.Conservation authorities ex­plain "contour farming,” of which contour plowing is the foundation, as the system of planting crops on a level around the hill. Plowing, cul­tivating and other working of the soil, performed at right angles to the flow of surplus water help retard it.Anything that can be done to impede the flow of water across cultivated lands accom­plishes two things,” one auth­ority has stated, "it reduces loss of the top soil and re­tains the water in the soil for plant use.”Officials of the Oxford Plow­men's Association are wonder­ing and hoping that the weather will hold for their annual plowing match on Oc­tober 28. Financial support for the match has been good this year.The match will be held south of Tavistock on No. 19 highway on October 28 on Tillstead farm, owned by Fred W. Stock.Among the larger grants re­ceived by the association this year have been $400 from Oxford County, $100 from the Tavistock Agricultural Soci­ety, $50 from the village of Tavistock, $50 from East Zor­ra township and $50 from a provincial giant. Special prizes have been put up as in prev­ious years. There is also a long list of supporters donat­ing toward the prize money in addition to those named.Again this year the match will feature a horse show. Teams to be judged in this show must plow on the day of the match in order to qualify. The Canada Permanent Trust has offered a special prize of $20 for the championship team in this show.A. “Bud” Irving, Antique Dealer, Mourned by ManyArthur Irving, well known to people of Woodstock and Oxford as “Bud," died at his homo, 389% Dundas street, on Thursday, July 31, in his 74th year. As an antique dealer, as ar. insurance agent, as a clerk for auction sales, ax court crier for the county of Oxford andAbout 1930 he was appointed a court constable and some four years later received the post of court crier for the supreme court sittings in this county.Tillsonburg Gets 79% of ’47 Taxes In First PaymentBORNEMMRICH—At Woodstock Gener­al Hospital. Saturday, September 13, 1947. to Mi and Mrs. A. A. Emmrich (nee Gladys B. Ken­dall) a daughter—Linda GallSouth Norwich Will Vote onWomen’s Beverage Rooms SWEAT*| NORTH WEM OXFORDs ACRlCtlUhRAL SOCIETY: ;: it ■■ SH Wh: (.W W MAvXRUNVEILING CEREMONY of the 100-year pylon presented by the Ontario Department of Agriculture to the Ingersoll, North and West Oxford Agricultural Society was a feature of the opening of the fair in Ingersoll yesterday. Unveiling the plaque are Mrs. John Nancekivell, left, representing Ingersoll and Miss Edna Currie, representing North and West Oxford. Watching the ceremony is W. P. Watson of the Ontario Department of Ag- riculture, who opened the fair.—(Staff Photo).BONE SHAKER—Drawing a great deal of attention from the crowd and a swarm of kids on modem bikes, George Na­gle of Salford, shown here, rode this old model bicycle around the track at Ingersoll Fair on Friday afternoon. The fete was in keeping with the opening celebrations of Ingersoll's 100th fair.—-(Staff Photo).School Area Plan Now FunctioningAs the Woodstock Suburban High School Area begins to func­tion in its first year, the school; board is encountering numerous difficulties in the administration and operation of this new venutre. jThe prime purpose of area con­trol of high school education is that county students will receive training in larger schools with a more diversified program and more efficient instructors.Instead of students taking two years of high school education at continuation schools in various points through the county, stu­dents now are transported to the Woodstock Collegiate where their tuition fees, as well as their transportation, are paid for by I the Suburban School Board.A one mill rate on township as­sessments provides the money for' the School Board operations, In the Woodstock Suburban Ar ea, i which includes a portion of West Zorra, all of East Zorra with the, exception of a small area near Tavistock, all of Blandford, theI greater part of East Oxford and I approximately half of West Ox-1 ford, there is an assessment of $8,- | 448.766.Similar area boards are expect­ed to function in other sections which will eventually have all, townships of Oxford in suburban areas. An Ingersoll area will be­gin operation in January of 1948. In the Woodstock suburban area only Embro is continuing to oper­ate under the old continuation school system.Formerly the tuition fees of country students were paid for by the county, but under the subur­ban area system the money is, turned over to the school board by the respective townships and the board handles financial problems in respect to tuition and transpor­tation.The routes for bus transporta­tion of high school students to the Woodstock Collegiate have been mapped out by the board and all routes have been tendered for and are operating at present. The routes have been arranged so that the largest number of pupils may be picked up by the buses in the shortest distance.Pupils living on the borderline of the area who choose to attend high schools outside of the dis­trict have their tuition fees paid, but must provide their own trans­portaton. Several students are attending technical school in Lon­don and the suburban school board is responsible for their tui­tion.Students in the area attending business college are not provided with tuition dr transportation by the Board.The areas are divided so that each has an assessment total ap­proximately equal.At a recent meeting of the board plans for the winter season were discussed. Realizing the con­dition of roads in the winter the board passed a resolution request­ing the townships to assist in opening the bus routes so that pu­pils will be able to reach Wood- stock.The board is made up of repre­sentatives appointed by the town­ship councils, with East Zorra having two members by virtue of its large assessment roll.The present board Includes El­ton Townsend, E a s t Oxo fi d, chairman; Mrs. D. Fraser and Gordon King, East Zorra; Frank Smith, West Zorra; Arthur Lock­hart, Blandford; Leslie Curry, West Oxford and D. Wallace. East Oxford. N. M. Holdsworth Is secretary-treasurer ot the Board.Boat'd meetings, held only upon the call of the chairman, will take place in the Woodstock Collegiate board room. This was decided when the Woodstock Board of Education offered the use of the Boat'd room for suburban area meetings and the suburban board accepted the offer, Secretary f High School DistrictN. M. Holdsworth of R.R. 8, Woodstock, was appointed secre­tary-treasurer of the Suburban High School District board by a meeting of the board held last night, G. M. Mather, secretary of the Oxford Consultative Commit­tee on Secondary Education stat­ed this morning.The board, composed of seven members, will arrange transporta­tion and will purchase education for pupils attending secondary school in an area surrounding Woodstock. The area includes all or a portion of East Oxford, West Oxford, West Zorra, East Zorra and Blandford. Pupils in this area will obtain their secondary educa­tion from the Woodstock Colle-, giate. School buses will be used to bring them to the city each day1 and return them to their homes.Elton Townsend, board member for East Oxford, has been named chairman of the board. Other members include: Leslie B. Curry, for West Oxford. Frank Smith of West Zorra: Gordon King for East Zorra, Arthur Lockhart for Blandfoid, Mrs. Florence Smith appointed by the public school board of East Zorra and Reeve John W. Wallace of East Oxford appointed by the county council. ,The board, Mr. Mather said, will call for tenders for transpor­tation within a few days. The sys­tem calls for five routes for the, school buses.Give Details of Pheasant Shoot, License DatesIt has been announced by town­ship clerks, Jk F. Prichard, of North Norwich township, L. B. Currie, of West Oxford township, James Flanders of Dereham town­ship and M. Holdsworth of East Oxford township that resident and non-resident pheasant licences will be sold only on October 20-21-22.The township officials said that phone calls or names will not be accepted before these dates.Game Overseer Ted Shaddock announced that the pheasant seas­on in these townships will be on Friday. October 31, and Saturday. November 1, with a bag limit of three cock birds per day."The licence is good only for the township in which it has been is­sued. This varies from last year when a licence was valid in any regulated area,” he said.Mr. Shaddock said that the boundaries of these townships have beer, clearly signed that per­sons found hunting in a township other than that stated in their licence will suffer the seizure of, their guns and charges will be laid. "In former years it has been the policy of the department of land and forests to enforce this law,” he raid, "hut to further conserve game in these townships it has been found advisable to restrict the number of hunters to a min­imum.”"Only 100 non-resider.t licences will be issued in each township this year,” he said.The game overseer warned that is unlawful during the pheasant open season to be in possession of a rifle of ar.y calibre, in any of these townships.He said that the pheasant shoot, will be suprevised by four game overseers, besides himself, who will be brought in from other counties.Rain Fails to Halt Fair In Embro; 3,000 AttendRAIL FAILS TO HALT JUDGING—In spite of the damp, chilly day judging went ahead at Embro fair yesterday- Classes were exhibited on the grounds before the grandstand in a chilly drizzle of rain. Neither exhibitors, their cattle or horses, the judges or the crowd paid the slightest attention to the weather, so interested were they in the show. A class of heavy horses is shown here being judged.— (Staff Photo).Late Season Cuts Number Of Exhibits at TavistockJUDGES CONFER—Judging of classes was in progress in the arena on Tavistock’s fair grounds on Friday afternoon prior to the official opening of the fair last night by K. R. Daniel, federal member for Oxford. Shown here are three judges conferring on the qual­ity of the exhibit of cabbages. From the left they are R. E. White of Stratford, agricultu­ral representative for Perth county; George Bell, assistant agricultural representative for Oxford and G. R. Green, Oxford's agricultural representative, both of Woodstock.— (Staff Photo).Cattle and Horse ShowsDraw Over 4,000 to FairTAVISTOCK—A crowd estima­ted at 4,(XX) people set a post-wat! record tor attendance on Satur­day at the 96th annual Tavistock Fall Fair.The second and main day of the fair featured increased showings of horses and cattle. 12,000 Attend | Record Crowd AttendsTillsonburg Fair Tillsonburg Fair OpeningFIRST PRIZE WINNERS—Sadie and Nellie, winners of first place in the light Percheron class at Tillsonburg and Dereham’s fair yesterday are shown here after the red ribbon had been pinned on them. The team was entered by Zimmerman Brothers of Tavistock. Dan Otto drove the team. With him on the box is Lloyd Jones.—(Staff Photo).Outstanding Horse Show At Close of Drumbo FairIdeal Weather Prevails For 96th Norwich FairDrumbo Fair Open to the Whole WorldNorwich Fair Special Prizes Reach $1,600LIVESTOCK PARADE AT NORWICH—Leading the par­ade of livestock at Norwich Fair on Wednesday afternoon was the grand champion bull of the show owned by J. A. Mc­Dowell of Oxford Centre. Cattle entries at the lair were down from previous years owing to the fact that the OxfordHolstein Black and White Show, which has been held at Nor­wich for some years, is this year being staged in connection with Woodstock fair on October 2, 3 and 4. Holsteins were the only breed of cattle shown at the fair. The selection was small but of good quality.— (Staff Photo). Woodstock’s First Fair Was Held on Jan. 20,1836GRAND CLIMAX OF RECORD BREAKING FAIR J? < < ■ ■ .......... MB®® HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN STOCK was paraded be­ fore the grandstand at Woodstock Fair on Saturday after- noon7 Champion and prize winning Holsteins, Jerseys and Ayrshires were brought into the ring before the grandstand until there were four complete lines of cattle strung from one end of the ring to the other. When all of the animals were in the ring an unofficial estimate placed the total value of the animals at half-a-million dollars. The parade was led by the Woodstock Boys’ and Girls’ Band seen in the cen-1 tre of the ring. The band was followed by Harper Ham-' mond, president of the Woodstock Agricultural Society, which sponsored the fair, the first in Woodstock in eight years. Mr. Hammond may be seen in the picture on the right. Immediately behind Mr. Hammond came Montvic Rag Apple Sovereign, senior and grand champion bull in the Holstein Black and White Show. Following the cattle into the ring was a parade of the prize winning horses, roadsters, hackneys, saddle ponies, jumpers, heavy horses in harness and finally two entries in the four-horse hitch event, which followed the parade on the program. A portion of the 20,- 000 people who attended the fair during the three days may be seen in the grandstand and lining the ring. The fair this year, the first since 1939, broke all attendance records in the exhibition’s 109-year history’. The event has been ac 1 claimed by many who attended as an entirely newtair. Better accommodation was available through the conversion of the former buildings of the army training centre. The addition of a light horse show provided entertainment before the grandstand for the three days. “As great a come back as one was Agriculture Minister to Open Woodstock Fair Agriculture Minister Has High Praise for Fair Board In Opening Woodstock Fair New Attendance Records Set for Woodstock Fair DRUMBO SCHOOL OPENING—The opening ceremonies of Drumbo’s new public school are being held on Monday even­ing, October 6 at 8 p.m. The school, seen above, was built on the site of the school which burned down over a year ago. The speakers on Monday will include W. F. Cannon, super­intendent of elemtntary schools for Ontario and K. R. Dan­iel, M.P. Sam Milton will be chairman. The program will be held in the auditorium of the new building, the windows of which may be seen on the left of the school. In addition to the speakers, a musical program will be presented. The j building has three classrooms and is heated by oil.—(Staff Photo).DRUMBO’S MODERN SCHOOL—At a cost of about $54,000 a new public school has been erected at Drumbo on the site of the building which was gutted by fire in April of last year. The new building is of the latest design throughout. A fea­ture of the design is the amount of window space in the class rooms. The windows shown in this picture continue along the wall to the far end of the classroom. Two men largely responsible for seeing that the work on the building was car­ried out are shown in the picture. They are William H. Cow­an, left, secretary of the school board, and S. G. Milton, chairman. The floors in the classrooms, teachers' room, do­mestic science room and the assembly room are covered with tile flooring, the corridors and washrooms have been covered with terazzo flooring. The school is heated with oil fuel.—PHEASANT SHOOTGame Overseer Ted Shaddock announced today that the Depart­ment of Lands and Forests will release 1,980 half-grown pheasants very shortly for the annual pheas­ant shoot, which is usually held around the last week in October. In former years It ha* been the practice of the Department to re- ease only three to four hundred birds and the shoot has always been confined to the townships of Ea- t Oxford and Dereham. This year, however, two more townships have been added. They are North Norwich and West Oxford. The exact dates of the pheasant shoot will be announced later.MORE PHEASANTSIn the windup of the Lands and Fores Is Department's biggest re­stocking program, about 26,000 pheasants were released in East Oxford township yesterday. This is 6,000 more birds than have been released In previous years.FHEASANT8The first 800 pheasant of the 1.- 800 birds promised for Oxford county, have already been set out, Game Overseer Ted Shaddock an­nounced today. Another 600 birds will be set out next week.POSTING TOWNSHIPSGame Overseer Ted Shaddock is today posting signs in West Ox­ford, North Norwich and Blenheim townships advising hunters where they can hunt pheasants this season with a .special township lic­ense. SCHOOL CLOSEDThe Embro Continuation School closed on Friday due to a shortage of pupils. The seven students who1 were enrolled at the school are now making the daily tourney by bus to attend the Woodstock Col­legiate Institute. There are over 55 pupils from that district now at­tending collegiate in Woodstock.electric refrigerator and stove, photo).BOARD LOOKS OVER SCHOOL—Satisfied with the construction of the new public school in Drumbo, members of the board held a brief inspection of the building before holding their regular meeting recently. They are shown here in one of the classrooms, from the left are William H. Cowan, secretary's. G. Milton, chairman; George Hoskin, Cameron Ru­pert, Roscoe Buck and G. M. Mather, public school inspector. Earl Barker, a board mem­ber, was absent when this photo was taken. Teachers at the school are Earl Sparks, principal, and Mrs. Mary Cowan, assistant. At the other end of the classroom’shown here is a domestic science room equipped with kitchen cupboards and a sink and Wired for an A handicraft room also opens off this classroom.—- (StaffHigh School AdditionNow Under ConstructionENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED —Miss Muriel Caroline Water­land, whose engagement is an nounced today, will be married November 1 at First Baptist Church. Her fiance is Robert James Kenny, son of Dr. and Mrs. William Gibson Kenny of Hamilton. The bride-elect is well known In local musical circles.Suburban Board Invited to Use City FacilitiesThe Woodstock Suburban High School Area Board of Trustees was Invited by the Woodstock, Board of Education to use the Board Room of the collegiate for regular board meetings. The reso­lution was passed at last night's regular .meeting of the Board.An Invitation will also be ex-1 tended to the Suburban Board to meet with the local board at a time to be named by the chair­man, it was decided.NORWICH — Because of the greatly increased enrolment, es­pecially in grades 9 and 10, at the Norwich high school it has been found necessary to build another class room so that grade 10 may be divided as grade 9 already is.Early In the summer, when the now high school district became an actuality, the Norwich board felt they would be forced to add one and possibly two rooms to ac­commodate the increased student body. E, McClelland, inspector, ad­vised against building then and suggested changes in the present building. These wore made but proved insufficient. Mr. McLel- land and C. Grey, inspectors, vis­ited the school on Monday after­noon and endorsed the idea of theNew School at Drumbo Is Fifth in the DistrictThe fifth school to he erected In । the farm now owned by Gordon Drumbo district was officially Ladwlg, opened on Monday evening by C.| This schcool. which wa» built In F. Cannon, superintendent of do- 1865. was used until 1890 when men 1 ary schools for Ontario, the school burned a year ago lastA history of schools in the dis- : April was built on the same site irict, given by the secretary of j where the new school now stands, the school board, W. H, Cowan.: The land foi this site was purchas- showed there had been five ed from the late David Patton.schools In this district in the past. Miss E. Scott, now Mrs. Fairs In 1843 a log school stood on one , holds the record for teaching the of the four main corners. The fires longest continuous term of anyof 1862-4 destroyed this school.The next school was just cast of the village on the farm now own- given by James EnUcknap. cd by George Duncan. In 1865 one i chairman of the Board of Trade, acre of land was purchased from The Scripture lesson was taken Francis Burgess, A school was by Rev. Roy Massecar. who chose erected on this piece or land on a few passages'from the hook ofProverbs. Rev. Dr. T. A. Syming-1room and the site chosen for it. They submitted the plans to the department and their approval has been received. By Wednesday evening the trench for the base­ment wall had been coompleted by Elgin Lossing and Lloyd Farrell. The new room is being put at the northeast corner of the present building and just north of the con­servatory. It will be 26 x 30 feet and of cement block construction.It is expected the work will be rushed as fast as material and la­bor will permit. The enrolment in grade 10, on opening day, was 45, one for each seat in the badly crowded room. Since then other students have enrolled and it is expected many more will come when the tobacco harvest is con­cluded. The former conservatory is lending itseli well as a com­mercial room. The teacher is Miss Edmonds.teacher at the school.The address of welcome was ton led in prayer.A chorus was sung by the school children with Mr. Fergusson at the piano and a piano arid violin selection was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Bell.Chairman’s AddressThe chairman spoke on “Edu­cation to Today and Tomorrow.' He mentioned advances made by the schools along different lines, such as music being taught, the pupils’ books being purchased and pictures being shown.A little more than a year from J the time the contract was let the; pupils and teachers were in the building, while many schools, which are being built are behind | the Drumbo section, he pointed । out.A piano and violin selection by' Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Bell was followed by’ the address by the . Secretary, W. H. Cowan.Won TrophySome time ago this school won the cup three years in succession, it then becoming the school’s property, - for the most improve­ments in the grounds each year. This trophy unfortunately was lost in the recent fire.It was noted that Oxford was the first county to engage an ag­ricultural representative and through the co-operation of the representative, Miss Scott and C. Witmer, caretaker, the grounds are what they are today. Pictures of these grounds appeared in manyr jornals and magazines and were shown on the screen from coast to coast.A vocal solo was contributed by । Mrs. Charles Sippet “My Hero." Roy Milton was at the piano.George Mather, public school in­spector, mentioned that only one school other than Drumb had won the cup for grounds improvement and that the school only had to win it once for possession.C. F. CannonMr. Mather introduced C. F. Cannon, Superintendent of Ele­mentary Schools for Ontario, who spoke of the magnificent co-opera­tion of the people if this vicinity and congratulated the board on its good work.A violin and piano selection was given by Mr. and Mrs. G. Bell.B. Coon( architect, mentioned i the advances in science made in I the last century. With regal'd to j the price of the building, he said : Drumbo was fortunate both finan-j dally and in the time the school took to build.“Let this school be a real Drum­bo symbol.” he concluded.Mrs. Charles S i p p e 1 sang "Christopher Robin is Saying His Prayers." K. R. Daniel, M.P., con­gratulated the children on their patience and good behavior. Ros­coe Buck and C. Rupert, trustees, spoke briefly.Mr. Cannon then declared the school officially opened. Cameron Rupert replied to the above. The chairman thanked all who had helped in any way. New Rural Education Plan Started at Fair Groundstaught the rudiments of wood work mid many things which WillSomething new In rural cduca-1 been yet up. both hand and law™, tion began in Woodstock yesier- tools provided. The boys day as pupils from West Oxfoid arrived at the Woodstock fair­grounds by bus as the first class in the co-operative effort of four townships to provide shop and home economics courses for grades 7 and S of their public schools.The course will accommodate about 300 students from East Zorra. East Oxford, West Ox­ford, West Oxford and Blandford. The students will have half a day a week learning farm mechanicsand homo economics.What was once the sergeants mess of the training centre in .Woodstock’s fairgrounds has ■‘divided into two class rooms. In Ithe north half the boys from the 'rural schools will learn shop work and farm mechanics from Hilton ' Hartley. Carpenters’ benches haveliving and bedroons, The furni- tUte will bn used In demonstrating the arts of housekeeping to the girls taking the course.Mik. Helen Yule of Norwich, a| graduate of McDonald Hall, who has done dietetic work at Victoria Hospital in London and three years' work with Women's Insti­tute short courses, is in charge of the home economics instruc­tion.Mr. Hartley, who teaches thetn bdtrr edu- pupils la the East Zorra'Township Sahwl Hoard and its energetic chairman. Mrs. Ale.; Watson. The East Zorra boird conceived the idea of the couny and on considering the plan decid­ed to invite other townships toThe equipment installed and the Instructors will serve a dual pur-pose. The courses, which com­menced yesterday, will continue through September, October, Nov­ember and December and will re­sume for April, May and June. During the other three months, January, February and March, the Department of Agriculture's short course for junior farmers will lake over the classrooms and the time of the instructors.participate.So far four townships are par­ticipating in the plan. Each towm fihlp baa one day's use of the course with East Zorra taking a dav and a half because It has more pupils. One half-day, Fri­day afternoon, remains open and this has been offered to North Oxford for the use of their pupils.The board of management for the course is made up of the chairmen of each school area. Mrs. Watson, chairman of the East Zorra board is chairman of the board of management, William1 Longworth is member of the board for West Oxford and John Long- worth for East Oxford. Blandford township has not set, up its town­ship school board as yet but Lawr­ence Wettlaufcr has been elected1 as temporary representative on the board of management until the end of this year.prove useful on the farm.In the south end of the building what appeals as a compact apart-18 a of 010 ?n£ri0 ki^ UP Side by side. Agricultural College in agricultureTwo porcelain topped sinks stand and farm mechanics. He has at either end of a set of built-in taught manual training. and has clipboards. The floor of this sec-1 his high school teachers certlfl- 1 tion is covered with inlaid Un-. cate. Last spring he instructed at oleum. Opposite the sinks will the junior fanners’ short course stand two electric ranges, one to, held at the fairgrounds, installed and the other expected soon. The kllchen also has an electrie refrigerator and a washing Imachine.HousekeepingThe class uses the far end of the room as a class room. In be­tween, where room partitions willROPE WORK INSTRUCTION—Hilton Hartley, left, instructor at the shop work and I farm mechanics course for rural public school pupils, is shown here giving the first lesson in rope work to half of his class. Mrs. Alex Watson, chairman of the board of manage­ment for the new portion of the curiculum for pupils from East Zorra, West Oxford, East Oxford and Blandford, watches over the boys’ heads. The boys, from the left include Carl Langford, Charles Wilson, Harold Rennie, Douglas Hill, Jack Wouda, Roger bheltpn. Seated on the near-side of the table is Hugh Priddle. All the students at the course s opening yesterday morning were from West Oxford.—(Staff Photo).Pheasants BeingOFFICE ASSISTANT WANTED— Applicationri will be received by the undersigned until 12 o'clock noon, Friday, October 3. 1947. for the position of office assistant, experienced in shorthand and typewriting. Applicants must state age. qualifications, experi- ence. salary expected, and attach letters of recommendation. Duties to commence October 15, 1947.— J, N, Meathrell, County Road Superintendent, Court House, Woodstock, Ontario. 3WeddingsMEATRELL—LITTLEA quiet wedding was solemnized at Trinity United Church Parson­age, Friday afternoon, October 10, when Myrtle M. Little, daughter of Mrs. Little and the late F. II- Little, was united In marriage to John N. Meatherell, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Meathrell.They left on a wedding trip to points east.Set Out in Four Areas in CountyGame Overseer Ted Shaddock accompanied by an off leal of the Department of Lands and Forests today began setting out the first of 1,800 English ring neck pheas­ants. The birds will be placed in release pens that have been built in Dereham, East and West Ox­ford, and North Norwich town­ships.The 1,800 pheasants will be fed and cared (or by the various town­ships for two weeks during which limo the birds will be released each day in order that they will become acquainted with the na­tural food. Gradually the foodbeing fed them will be reduced! and by that time they should be1 acquainted with the area and able; to take care of themselves.The game overseer said the i birds will wander from three to i five miles every day from the re­lease points and will have the pens for protection until the time they are able to care for themselves.“These townships," he said, “are all 'signed' areas and a licence is required to hunt pheasants and rabbits in each particular town- . ship.“In previous years hunting in : these restricted areas has not been ( strongly enforced but this year ■ prosecutions will be made if bun-1 tors do not have these licences as well as a regular gun licence," he said., “The same rules apply in Blen- । helm township, although no birds will be released in that area," he। added. HOME ECONOMICS CLASS—Shown here is the home econ­omics class from West Oxford, the first group of students to arrive at the fairgrounds in Woodstock yesterday morning for a half-day’s instruction. The home economics and shop work courses are sponsored by four townships. The class­rooms are located in the former sergeants’ mess building of the training centre which once stood on Woodstock’s fair­Splendid Move in Rural EducationThe opening of a farm mechanics and home economics course at the Woodstock fairgrounds by four townships for their public school pupils provides considerable material for reflection.The use of buildings erected during war­time for instruction in the arts of peace is a worthwhile and effective piece of salvag­ing.Opening of the course emphasizes the great changes being made in educational ad­vantages for rural pupils. At this course the latest in equipment is available to give chil­dren from farm homes instruction in some of the modern methods designed to make farm life more attractive, to help them be­come better farmers, and farmers’ wives.The move also emphasizes the develop­ment of Woodstock’s fairgrounds as a com­munity centre for rural Oxford. Through the utilization of buildings on the grounds, this area has been changed from one which was in use but three days a year to one which handles an ever increasing stream of activities for rural people.Opening of the course brings out above all other things the resourceful and progres­sive attitude of the rural school trustees. These people, charged with the administra­tion of education for rural public school pu­pils, saw what they needed and how to pro­vide for it, then they carried their plan out. The trustees of East Zorra, East Oxford, West Oxford and Blandford are responsible for this undertaking. The East Zorra school board originally conceived the plan and in­vited the other townships to participate.TILLSONBURG AND DEREHAM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYPassNot Transferableand LadyARTHUR WHITESELL, PrcihlentJACK M. CLIMIE, SrcrrtaryMunagcrgrounds. On the right of this group is the course’s instruc­tor, Mrs. Helen Yule. West Oxford pupils attending on Monday morning included: Shirley Bryan, Patsy Black, Mar­ion Garfat, Carol Bender, Margaret Ford, Evelyn Hill, Mary Hill, Anne Murphy. Shirley Sherman, Pat TapseU, Evelyn Lawler, Bernice Bragg, Jeanne Somer, Joyce Johnson, Shir- lene Benjamin, Mary Wilson, Marion Yates and Betty Nash.DRUMBO FAIR 1947SEPTEMBER 24 - 25ComplimentaryADM, Mr.^Cand LadyW. A. COCKBURN, Sec’y-Treas.TAVISTOCK FALL FAIRTAVISTOCK. ONTARIO -(taxman. 57ac£u,19 4 7presidcnt NOT TRANSFERABLEWoodstock Agricultural SocktyFALL FAIR and HORSEOctober 2nd, 3rd a.947AdmitW. IL W'mmondPresident-----and LadyVsA / Secretary FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1947HIRussell Ivicuonaid,technician at the Oxford Holstein Artificial Breeding Unif, is shown here packing a shipment of semen for Argentina. The first shipment of its kind from Canada to Argentina left Crumlin airport on Tuesday morning and was expected to be in South America last night. The semen, from Montvic Rag Apple Sovereign, was placed in a test tube then in the thermos bottle shown here. The thermos was inserted in the tank containing brine and this tank placed inside an in­sulated, metal container.—(.Staff Photo).EMBRO AND WEST ZORRA FIRE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS arc ju«tly proud of their fire fighting record and of their new equipment. EripwaHlIy proud h Fire chief Bates Manzer, shown above with the departments (ruck. Prior to purchnuc, a hand truck equipped with ohomlcals waa used.Too Many Cases in Juvenile CourtThe 'extent of the Juvenile delinquency problem in Woodstock was shown in this week's juvenile court. There have even been a couple of young gangs operating in the city, according to evidence given by Inspec­tor Ennis—who, incidentally, deserves high praise for the work he has been doing in bringing to an end the depredations of irre­sponsible youngsters;Children’s Aid Superintendent Clowes hit the nail on the head when he said there should be more parental discipline. He urged parents to make sure their children are off the streets by nine o’clock each night.This wandering by children at all hours of the night seems to be developing into a chronic condition in Woodstock. Youngsters just able to toddle along can be seen, unat­tended on the streets after dark, while oth­ers, only slightly older, hang around the fronts of movie theatres and other estab­lishments of entertainment.Surely it is the responsibility of the par­ents to bring an end to such an unhealthy situation. It is inconceivable that any parent honestly thinks no harm is done by allowing the youngsters to wander the streets day and night, left wholly to their own devices to work out their own juvenile salvation. 1 he answer must be that the parents of children so allowed to wander just don t care what happens to their offspring. And they re the first to bewail- their fate when they and their children appear in juvenile court. PUT OUT PHEASANTS—A Department of Lands and Forests truck rolled into the fann of Charles Swartz in West Oxford on Tuesda y afternoon to put out 30 pheasants. The 30 birds placed on Mr. Swartz’s farm are part of 1,800 being put out in Oxford this year by the department under a mutual arrangement whereby the department supplies the birds, the township the feed and the pens and the f armer takes care of the birds until they are set free. In former years about 200 birds were put out in each of two townships in Ox­ford. Next year, Game Warden Ted Shaddock said he hopes there will be 3,600 The birds shown here are between 10 and 11 wee ks old. Removing them from the crates in which they travelled from Codrington, North umberland county, are Ted Shaddock, left, and Mr. Swartz. Four townships are receiving birds this year, Dereham on 10 farms, West Oxford on 5, East Oxford on 10 and North Norwich on 5.—(Staff Photo).Verschoyle Veteran of Municipal Life In Oxford Blitzing Com Borer In County For 21 YearsEnthusiastic Inspector Warns Wet Season Renews MenaceBY STEWART WATSON Free Frew Woodstock Bureau yy/OODSTOCK, Oct. 20 —, ** Working quietly in the background, Emerson Moulton of Verschoyle, has been waging a total war against the corn borer in Oxford County for the past 21 years.Spry for his age, he says he is over seventy, diminutive Mr. Moulton, a former councilor, foresakes his quiet manner and becomes very talkative when on his favorite topics, corn borer and weed control.A familiar little figure around the country side, Mr. Moulton has traveled many thousands of miles in his blitz on the pesky white grubs and weeds.He became Oxford County's com borer inspector while he was serving on the County Council of 1926 and in the last few years also assumed the title of county weed Inspector.Mr. Moulton pulls no punches when he steps before County Council to make his annual re­port He tells council just what should be done and what has been done and council always lends him an attentive ear."The corn borer situation in the county this year is as bad as It has ever been,” he stated today. He attributed this to the wet spring and late plowing. "The late plowing had put It back 90 per cent. It is quite bad,” he added.He says the farmers In Ox­ford County are very good in their efforts to control the cornOxford County’s corn borer andshowing his weekly report toborer menace but that this year the wet spring hampered them, "We will just have to start all over again." he smiled.He served on the County Council from 1924 to 1927 and during that time was chairman of the county road committee.While he pessimistically con­sidered the corn borer situ­ation in Oxford County this year, he noted that he had seen many instances where farmers had disked and plowed the weed Inspector (right) is seen here County Clerk I- K. Coles.stubble under in their efforts to clean out the pest.His attitude towards star­lings will find new urban sup­porters but he finds they are a great help in his battle with the corn borer. "Birds, particu­larly starlings, are a great help in fighting the pest,” he states.Of equal importance to Mr. Moulton is his fight against weeds. "Spraying is the only proper method of weed con­trol,” he claims. He would liketo see the ratepayers and coun­ty co-operate in a strenuous program of weed control. Ha thinks it would benefit farm­ers greatly to cut weeds on roads in front of their farms."The weed control problem has improved a great deal in the past few years and it is just a question of education,, In many ways people are realis­ing the benefit of weed con­trol,” he believes. School Forestry ContestW. A. G. Thurston, forester | for the zone of Oxford, P«rth and Huron counties has an­nounced the standings of the schools in Oxford in the for­estry competition held this year in the county.For the purpose of the com­petition the county was this vear divided into two sections, East Nissouri a s one. and the townships of East Zorra, Blandford and Blenheim as the other.Six prizes, donated by the county council, will be award­ed winners in each group. Prizes given are §10 for first, J5 for second and $4, $3, $2 and $1 for the remainder in that order.Winning school sections in East Nissouri were S.S, 5 with 91.4 points, S.S. 7 with 88.6 points. S.S. 2 with 82.2 points, S.S. 11 with 80.4 points. S.S. 4 With 78.6 points, S.S. 6 with 69.4 points. Also entered in the competition was S.S. 10 with 60.2 points.Winning school sections in the second group were: S.S. 1 and 2 of Blandford and East Oxford with 93 points, S.S. 4 and 8 of Blandford and Blen­heim with 90.8 points, S.S. 2, Blandford with 83.6 points, S.S. 3 of East Zorra with 80 points, S.S. 10 of East Zorra with 76.2 points, S.S. 18 of Blenheim with 71.2 points. Al­so entered in the competition in this group were S.S. 4 of Blandford with 65.2 points and S.S. 12 and 7 of Blandford and Blenheim with 58.4 points.Red Cross Provides Funds For Medical, Dental CareT.B. Tests Of Cattle Next WeekTesting for T.B. in cattle to make Oxford county a restricted area will begin next week, G. R< Green has informed the Sentinel-* Review.First herds to be tested will be on the east side of Blenheim and East Oxford townships. The work will be under the direction of Dr, W. D, Baskette, federal Depart­ment of Agriculture, Health of Animals Branch veterinarian. Headquarters for the work will be in Dr. Baskette’s office in Wood- stock. Four assistants Will work with Dr. Baskette.The plan of operation calls for a check of cattle on Thursday, Fri­day and Saturday of each week and to read the tests on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.Compensation will be paid farm- era for reactors on the same basis as under the accredited herd plan. Cattle owners, Mr. Green stated, could help a great deal by having their animals ready at the time given them for the test.Since 1939 every effort has been made to have Oxford declared a restricted area. In that year the farmers of the county agreed to a request being sent through the Ontario Department of Agricul­ture to the federal department for the work to be done. The war put a stop to the work of testing herds and following the cessation of hos­tilities the difficulty turned to­ward lack of technicians to carry out the work.Change in Wolf Bounty NotedWhile there has been no request for the payinent of a wolf bounty in Oxford for some years, county treasurer L. K. Coles has received notification of the new system of payment of such bounty.Under the Wolf and Bear Boun­ty Act a payment of $5 was made by the treasurer of a municipality for a pelt of a wolf under three months and $25 for a pelt over three months. Forty per cent, of the bounty was paid by the On­tario government. The pelt had to be brought in six montlis after killing. The whole skin of the wolf was necessary for payment of the bounty and . the skin properly, dried.A change in the regulations now requires the treasurer to make out 1 a cheque for the amount of the bounty payable to the person killing the wolf. The cheque, placed in an envelope addressed to that person is sent by the treasurer with the pelt to the Department of Lands and Forests. Experts in the department de­termine the correct age of the wolf. The bounty cheque, provid­ing it is for the correct amount, 1 is forwarded to the trapper.It was decided at the reguiaj 1 executive meeting of the Wood stock branch of the Canadian Red Cross, which was held at. the of­fice of Nesbitt and McKay last night, that $1,000 is to be set aside | for emergency dental care for city and county cases which have befen referred to the city and county health units.An additional $2,000 for tonsil­lectomy cases m the city and coun­ty has also been set aside by the society.It was announced by Hugh Har-1 ris, president of the society, that, the Red Cross will work in close co-operation with the county health unit and the Children’s Aid Society, and that they will assist wherever emergencies of health or welfare are drawn to their atten­tion.Cop, 1947, Ki»x l eMurw Inr,*‘Hcllo. Maryf Who WAS thia?'MFour Oxonians on UTVA; London Man is ChairmanOxford has four representa-1 referred to as the boundary down- . n 1'9 man executive river. He said this designationtlvn on the 12-man a[fect the oI hi«committee of the Upper TharpesValley Conservation Authority, which was formally organized inStratford yesterday.The committee, which was elected on the basis of four men from each of Middlesex, Oxford and Perth counties, includes Warden Mil ton Betteridge of East Nissouri. Aiderman J. A. Lewis from Woodstock, Reeve Gordon Ross of East Zorra and Reeve Percy Sage of West. Oxford.Dr. J. Cameron Wilson of Lon­don city council was unanimous­ly elected the authority's first chairman. R. Thomas Orr of Stratford was selected as vicechairman.Elected to "employee” positions on the authority were A. H. Rich- j ardson as temporary chief officer and Watson Porter of London as secretary-treasurer.W. Raywood Smith of London was nominated for chief officer but. he withdrew owing to pres­sure of duties with the Depart­ment of Planning and Develop­ment.Maintenance CostsAn approximate division of the , cost of maintaining the authority was given by Mr. Richardson, bas­ed on comparative assessments of the municipalities lying within the Upper Thames Watershed. They ranged from 53 per cent, for | London to only two per cent, for the village of Embro.Costs of conservation projects which will be initiated at later meetings of the authority will be assessed on the basis of benefits, Mr. Richardson added.Mr. Kirk, of Westminster, said the present designation of the au­thority failed to designate the 'side of Dingman’s Creek that wasSTARTED TODAYTesting cattle for T.B. under the restricted area plan began today or. the eastern borders of Oxford. Dr. W. B. Baskette, veterinarian for the federal health of animals branch in Woodstock, and four as­sistants are doing the work.and other townships.The river authority covers only the headwaters of the Thames, to Its junction with Dingman's Creek near Delaware.Mr. Richardson promised clari­fication of this point before the next meeting.The new executive will meet shortly at the call of the chair­man. The next meeting of the, whole authority will be in St. Marys at a date to be selected.Aproval Now RequiredImmediate effect of the forma­tion of the authority is that all municipalities must now have drainage works approved by the organization before they can be started."You are a corporate group, in some ways more powerful than a county council," said Mr. Richard­son."I. am deeply grateful to you all,” said Dr. Wilson, on his elec-: tion. "And I am fully conscious of the responsibilities involved."This is a historic meeting to­day, the culmination of efforts of many men over a great many years. Of course we will have a great deal to do in the future. But it seems to me that the most im­portant job at hand is not flood | control or conservation but first to promote a feeling of mutual; confidence and goodwill between urban and rural members,” he said. IMayor Maurice King welcomed' the delegates to Stratford and played host at a reception which followed in the armories.L. R. Graham, city clerk of Stratford. ..acted as secretary for the meeting.Full purpose of the authority is for the purposes of conservation, restoration and development of natural resources, and the pre­vention of floods and water pollu­tion. Its establishment was inspir­ed first in the damaging floods of I 1937.Representatives AttendingRepresentatives in attendance were: Oscar Siple of Blandford Township; Harold A. Cook, Mit­chell; Fred W. Ahrens, Logan Township: John E. Rose, North Easthope Township; Dayid S, Mc­Kay, Downie Township; Nicoll Messerschmidt, Ellice Township; Alex. Anderson. South Easthope Township; John C. Bell, St. Marys; W. Corp. Tavistock: Or­ville' Kennedy, Delaware Town­ship; R. A. McDonald, Embro; John A. Wallace, East Oxford; Gordon Ross. East Zorra; Leroy E, Curtis, Dereham Township; P. M. Sage. West Oxford Township: Milton Betteridge, East Nissouri Township; J. Frank Annett, West Nissouri Township; Osmond H. Murray, West Zorra Township; Aid. J. Cameron Wilson, Aid. Nor­man A. Bradford and ex-Aid. E. O. Boug, all of London; Harold G. McKay, of Lobo Township; George L. Shackleton. North Dorchester Township; William Goddard. Lon­don Township. Charles Kirk, Westminster Township; Gordon W. Pittock, Ingersoll; J. A. Lew­is and J. A. Saunders, both of Woodstock: R. Thomas Orr and IRegulated Area For BlandfordNo Oxford Deer Hunt This Fall Seed Survey oi Province PlannedAs a first stop towards greater production of feed grains in On-1 tario during the year 1948, a com­prehensive seed survey of the en­tire province is being undertaken bv the Ontario Department of Ag­riculture. This will be the most complete survey of its kind nve! undertaken by the department, with the agricultural ivpresenta-, tive branch, the county weed in- spectors and the Crop Improve­ment Associations co-operating in the work, declares John D. Mnc- l^ood, director of the crops, seeds and weeds branch. •The objective for 1948. says Mr. MacLeod, is an increase of aO.OOO,- 000 bushels of feed grains—wheat, I oats, barley, mixed grains, corn for husking and buckwheat, over the 10 year average production of the province. This objective was fixed by crop Improvement, offic-1 ers attending a conference on in-1 creased production, and was based on the fact that in the last. year. I subsidy was paid on the movement of 56,999,000 bushels of feed grain | from the west. The overall objec­tive for 1948 is therefore 200,896,- 0Q0 bushels of feed, grain, and the first essential in planning for this production is to make sure that ample supplies of seed of the high­est quality are available. The sur­vey will determine the amount of high quality grain on hand suit­able for seed, and whether or not action must be taken by the De­partment of Agriculture to make provision for further seed for the needs of the fanners of the prov­ince.In order to produce the more than 200,000,000 bushels of grain set as the objective, it is estimat­ed that 11,428.000 bushels of seed will be required. It is felt that the increased production should be gained not only by increased acre­age of feed grains, but primarily by greater yields per acre.“If this is to be accomplished,” says Mr. MacLeod, “we must have an adequate supply of high quality seed of recommended varieties.”The seed survey, which will be carried out by the county weed inspectors working under the in­structions of the Agricultural Rep­resentatives. and with the assist­ance of County Crop Improvement Associations, will be completed by October 31, by which dates the re­ports have to be returned from the [ inspectors. To facilitate the work, circulars have been sent out to some 2.000 farmers who are rec­ognized as seed growers, asking for their co-operation in making as much high quality seed available as possible.Seed Survey for More Feed GrainsThe seed survey of Ontario being under­taken by the Department of Agriculture is a logical preliminary to boosting the pro­duction of feed grains in the province. Co­operating with the department will be agri­cultural representatives, county weed in­spectors and the provincial crop improve- { ment associations.John D. MacLeod, director of the crops, seeds and weeds branch, says that the ob­jective for 1948 is an increase of 50,000,000 bushels of feed grains, over the 10-year av­erage production of the province. This ob­jective was fixed by crop improvement offi­cers at a conference on increased produc-j tion, and was based on the fact that in the last, year a now removed subsidy aided the movement of 56.999,000 bushels of feed grain from Western Canada. The over-all objective for 1948 is therefore 200,896,000* bushels of feed grain.Such a big increase requires seed—and thus the survey. Ample supplies of high quality seed must be available for the pro­gram of increased production. It is estimat­ed that 1,428,000 bushels of seed will be re­quired if the 1948 objective is to be reach­ed. It is significant that the authorities hope the increase will be accomplished more by greater yields per acre than by the seeding of more acres. If the acreage yields are to be increased, of course, the seed must be of the best.More intensive cultivation will also re­quire the best in soil practice. It would be foolish to drain the soil now in a short-range production program. Good crop technique will avoid such soil exhaustion.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1941Oxford to Become Restricted AreaThe second step in tightening preventive measures against tuberculosis begins next week in Oxford. When the work of the tech­nicians of the federal health of animals branch is completed, Oxford will be a re­stricted area with all cattle tested and de­clared free of T.B.Last year the remaining municipalities not covered by pasteurization regulations were brought under the law making it il­legal to sell milk in Oxford without having it pasteurized. This step protected purchas­ers of milk from T.B. but did not cover those whose milk supply came straight from their own cows. They could pasteurize the milk if they wished but such operation was not compulsory.A survey made two years ago among the secondary school pupils in the county re­vealed an average of about 18 per cent, re­acted to a T.B. test. It was found later the T.B. type was bovine.The survey showed the cause, pasteur­ization gave protection for some of the peo­ple. The final step beginning next week to make Oxford a restricted area is a long awaited move in the greatest preventive measure.Reduce Farm Assessments Within Tavistock LimitsBeautiful Oxford CountyPHOTOShows view from hill overlooking Thames Valley, just east of Beachville.w - OXFORD COUNTY - Plowing Match Horse Show, Form Machinery Exhibit and Demonstra­tion of Contour PlowingOn Tuesday, October 28, 1947At Hillstead Farm - Fred W. Stock, Woodstock, R. R. 6NO. 19 HIGHWAY, 1 MILE SOUTH OF TAVISTOCK, 13 MELES NORTH OF WOODSTOCK.■■■■ :...PRIZE LIST—z =HORSE DRAWN CLASSESClass 1: Sod—Open. $12, $10, $8, $6, $4.Class 2: Sod—Open Oxford County. $10, $8, $6, $4, $2.Class 3: Sod—Oxford County. Those who have plowed at any recognized match, in open class, and previous 1st Prize Winners in this class are not eligible. $10, $9, $8, $7, $6, $5, $4, $3.Class 4: Sod—Oxford Boys, 20 and under. $10, $8, $6, $4, $3.Class 5: Sod—Oxford Boys, 16 and under. $10, $8, $6, $4, $2.Class 6: Sod—Amateur Class. Open Oxford Co. $10, $8, $6, $4, $2.Class 7: Sod—No-Handling Class. Open Oxford Co. $10, $8, $6, $4, $2.TRACTOR DRAWN CLASSESClass 8: Sod—Open. $15, $12, $9, $6, $4, $3.Class 9: Sod—2-furrow, open Oxford County. $15, $12, $9, $6, $4, $3.Class 10: Sod—3-furrow, open Oxford Co. $15, $12, $9, $6, $4, $3.Class 11: Sod—2-furrow, or 3-furrow. Open Oxford Co. Furrows not less than It inches. $15, $12, $9, $6, $4, $3.Class 12: Sod—Row-crop, Open Oxford Co. $15, $12, $9, $7, $6, $5, $4, $3.Class 13: Sod—2-furrow, Amateur, Open Oxford Co. $15, $12, $9, $7, $6, $5, $4, $3.Class 14: Sod—Tractor—Open to Oxford County boys, 20 years and under. Nar­row bottom plows to be used. Boys who have previously plowed in Class 9 are not eligible. $15, $12, $9, $7, $6, $5, $4, $3.Class 15. Special Class for Non-Farmers: Contestant to plow one round with a sin­gle furrow walking plow.HORSE SHOWPRIZE MONEY DONATED BY TAVISTOCK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYClass 16: Best Draft Team—Clydesdale, $12, $10, $8.Class 17: Best Draft Team—Percheron or Belgian, $12, $10, $8.Class 18: Best Wagon Team, $12, $10, $8Class 19: Best Plow Team, $5, $3, $2.Class 20: Championship Team, $20.00.Afternoon Program Starts at 1.30 p.m. Review of Machinery at 2.00 p.m.Horse Show at 4.00 p.m.County Officials Start Inspection Of Oxford RoadsMembers of the county council carried out the first half of their' inspection of county roads on Wednesday. A chartered bus, un-' der the direction of County Engin­eer J. N. Meathrell, took the coun­cillors and some county officials on their tour of the roads in the southern section of the county.Today the party set out by bus once more to cover the remain­der of the county road system, whjch is over 200 miles in length.Leaving the County Court, House about 10 a.m., council • Journey through Embro where Reeve R. A, MacDonald notedpoints of interest The bus then turned back through Thamesford, Ingersoll to the capital of Dere­ham Township, Dereham Centre, where council enjoyed a turkey dinner provided by the Women's Association.Reeve LeRoy Curtis, Dereham Township, acted as chairman and j welcomed the gathering to partici- । pate in "Dereham Township hos- j pitality”. Warden Milton Better­idge thanked the township and noted that the county “must take off their hats to Dereham Town­ship."Deputy Reeve Harry Little, Dereham, outlined the township’s road policy. W. H. Chambers, 89, former M.L.A. and former reeve of Dereham. spoke briefly. "We are; proud of our Dereham roads,” he said. Rev. J. B. Townsend asked the blessing.Dinner was held in the Dereham ' Centre United church following a tour of the new municipal offices conducted by Clerk James D; Flanders. Mr. Flanders pointed out that the old town hall will be utilized as a community cen­tre after the new building is tak- | en over for offices.I Leaving Dereham Centre, coun­cil visited the gravel pits in Dere­ham and then travelled through Brownsville, Tillsonburg, Otter­ville, Norwich, back to Woodstock. |Lunch will be served on the grounds by the Christian Crusaders’ Bible Class of Zion Evangelical Church, Tavistock.President—V. E. KENNEDY. Judge of Plowing—FRANK BELL, Stratford.For complete prize list write Secretary, G. R. GREEN, Woodstock, Ont—a——■——w—«saBHsaiMB—»Pheasant Shoot DisappointingThe two day pheasant shoot, which ended in the townships of North Norwich. East and West Ox­ford and Dereham at 5 o'clock Sat- uday evening was not very success­ful, according to Game Overseer Ted Shaddock.The only township where hunt­ing was reported'to be at all pro­fitable was North Norwich Town­ship, where many hunters reported their quota for the day obtained within an hour of the season open­ing.The reason that many hunters were disappointed in the shoot this year, Mr. Shaddock said, was be­cause the young birds set out dur­ing the past summer were still too young, due to the lateness of the season when they were released.He pointed out that the pheasant shoot should be much better next year as there will be many more binds set out, and that they will be released soon enough so that thev will be full grown by the time the season opens.The game overseer said that the general release system used in Oxford County this year has prov­ed very' successful and that, the pheasant population is actually ! much thicker than it. has bean for । many years.CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM—This draft team of Clydesdales, owned by L. G. St, Clair of Tn gersoD, was chosen the championship team in the horse show held in connection with the Oxford county plowing match on Fred W. Stock's Hillstead Farm near Tavistock on Tues­day. The team won first prize in tlie Clydesdale class, $12, and then look the champion­ship award of $20, put up by the Canada Permanent Trust Company of Woodstock—(Staff photo). Oxford’s Plowing ChampConsidered PossibilityHarry Blackman of R.R. 4, Ingersoll, was acclaimed champion plowman of the Oxford County Plowing Match yeslerday.To win the title, Mr. Blackman carried oft' the East Zorra Plow-। men’s Association Memorial tro­phy, awarded for the best plowed land by an Oxford county contest­ant using either Loam or tractor. The winner and title holder last year was Fred Howard of R. R.3, Woodstock.-This has been one of our best, matches,” V. E. Kennedy, presi­dent of the Oxford Plow-men’s As­sociation declared at the conclu­sion of the match, held on Fred W. Stock’s Hillside Farm, south of Tavistock.Mr. Kennedy had high praise for the support, given the associa­tion by the people of Tavistock.Estimates on the attendance at the match ran to "about 6,000’’ people. Thirty loaves of bread were used by the Christian Crus­aders’ Bible Class of Zion Evan­gelical church in Tavistock in serv­ing lunches to thoi'e who partici­pated in and attended the event.Oldest Vocation"Plowing is perhaps the oldest vocation known to man," K. R. Daniel, M.P., told the crown be­fore the start of the horse show which brought the day to a con­clusion.Mr. Daniel commented there had been considerable discussion concerning whether plowing matches served useful purposes."I believe they do,” he added, "for it takes skill, perseverance and plenty of practice to become a good plowman."The federal member expressed his congratulations to the assoc- iations on the success of the event and to the contestants for theSpecial class for non-farmers— R. Scholl, Woodvtock; Norman Richardson, Woodstock: M. Gray, Woodstock: A. Bennington, Burg- essville; T. Kaufman, .Tavistock.SpecialsSalada Tea-1 larry Blackman, R.R. 4, Ingersoll.Esso champion tractor- Albert Roberts, R.R. 2, Woodstock.T. Eaton Co.- Ken Howard, R.R. 3, Woodstock-Tavistock Milling CO.—Elmer Armstrong, R.R. 2, St. Paul's.Zimmerman Bros.—Bob Coven­try', R.R. 1, Salford.Howard Lefler—Wesley Noack, R.R. 2, Tavistock.H. Nuttall- Fred Bertrand, Ox­ford Centre.John Hargreaves -- Peter L.Smith. R.R. 2, Tavistock.Robert Simpson Co. — ReginaldManuel, R.R. 1, Salford.Canadian Bank of Commerce, Tavistock — Ralph McCutcheon, R.R. 1, Beachvillc.Robert Rudy, for youngest, plow­man—Wayne Richardson, Wood- j?tock.Horse ShowBest draft team, Clydesdale — j L. G. St. Clair, Ingersoll; Harry Little, Salford; Wesley Noack, R. R. 2, Tavistock.Best draft team, Percheron or Belgium—Mrs. Fred Gregg, Sal­ford; D. N. Snyder, Baden: Jack Coutas, Embro.Best wagon team — A. Atwell, R.R. 2, Tavistock; W. H. Tuttle, Woodstock; William lutzi, Peters­burg.Best plow team—William lutzi, I Petersburg; Franklin Ballantyne, ; R.R. 3, Stratford; Elmer Arm- | strong, R.R. 2. St. Paul’s.Championship team — L. G. St. Clair* Ingersoll.exhibition of plowing they hadgiven.He noted that honor had been brought, to the county by plow­men winning in other matches and at the International plowing Match."I hope Oxford in the days to come will still be the leading agricultural county in the Domin­ion of Canada,” the speaker con­cluded.Prize winners in the events wrere: •Horse DrawnClass 1, sod, open—Elmert Armstrong, R.R. 2, St, Paul's; Al­fred Dickie, Jerseyville; Carl Wat-son, R.R. 4, Forest.Class 2, sod, open to Oxford County—Harry Blackman, R.R. 4, Ingersoll; Fred Howard, R.R. 3, Woodstock; Norm Shelton, R.R.1, Beachville.Class 5, sod, open to Oxford County boys 16 and under—Bob Coventry, Salford.Class 6, sod, amateur—Wesley, Noack, R.R. 2, Tavistock.Class 7, sod, no handling class— Fred Bertrand, Oxford Centre; Franklin Ballantyne, R.R. 3, Stratford; Gord Seadon, R.R. 2, St. Paul’s.Tractor DrawnClass 8, tractor, sod, open—Ed-, ward Mitchell, R.R. 1. Denfield; J. Ferguson, R.R. 2, Croton; Les Car­michael, R.R. 2, Ilderton.Class 9, tractor, sod, two-fur­row plow—Albert Roberts, R.R. 2,1 Woodcock: Jack Hargreaves, R.R. 1, Beachville.Class 10, tractor, three-furrow —Ken Howard, R.R. 3, Woodstock; George Shearer, Bright.Class 11, tractor, two or three furrows — Fred Williams, R.R. 5, Ingersoll.Class 12, tractor, row cropPeter L, Smith, R.R. 2, Tavi­stock.Class 13, tractor, two-furrow— Reg Manuel, R.R. 1, Salford; Wih Jiam M. McIntosh, R.R. 2, Embro;Harry W. Chy, R.R. 2, TaVk- tOCk. XClass 14, tractor, open to Ox­ford County boys-Ralph Mc­Cutchen, R.R. 1) Beachville; Bev. criey Long, Salford; Wayne Rich­ardson. Woodstock.Flue-Cured Price Set At 36.5 Cts.EMBRO-The possibility of a I knitting industry, a branch of | York Knitting Mills, locating in! Embro was considered last night • at a meeting of the ratepayers of I the village. The meeting was called by the board of trade. R. H. Clark, president, conducted the meeting. The attendance was I large.A committee was appointed to meet the county council to find out if the county would transfer the public school building, which it recently purchased, over to the village. The school building it was thought might make a site for the knitting mill to locate.The county purchased the pub­lic school building, which had been condemned, at an auction last month for $2,000 for the purpose of storing machinery.In Woodstock, C. S. McMaster, of York Knitting Mills, Limited stated "it is premature for us to comment at the present time."■Al Brooks Joins City DetachmentAl Brooks of Woodstock offi­cially took over his new duties with the Provincial Police in the city yesterday.P. C. Brooks, a married man with a six-year-old son, is a vet­eran of the Second World War, having served with the 28th Armored Regiment overseas. He returned to Canada in 1945.Upon receiving his discharge he joined the Woodstock city police force where he worked under Chief Constable F. M. Hall.After policing in Woodstock for 12 months he transferred to the Ontario Provincial Police and re­ceived his schooling in Toronto.P. C. Brooks was first assigned to district headquarters in Lon­don, later being posted to Inger­soll where he served _ for six months in municipal police work. He now joins Provincial Con­stables Al Lawrence and Charles Worrall in the Woodstock detach­ment.WINNER OF TRACTOR M’WIAL—tncning tus way aww.two-furrow plow is Albert Roberts of R.R. 2. Woodstock, first A1! mnk * himsod class for two-furrow plows .and winner of theeligible to compete in the Esso Champions Special cla® at the International plowing man with a tour of Britain as the grand prize.—(Staff Photo).Express Thanks For County Home EntertainmentFor one year, regular enter­tainment and a treat has been supplied each month for the resi­dents of the Oxford County Home by organizations In Wood- stock and Ingersoll. Tonight the firemen of Woodstock will pro­vide the evening’s concert and refreshment making the 12th, monthly entertainment.At. the meeting of the board of management of the county home last night, R. J. Forbes, manager, expressed his apprecia­tion to the groups who had con­tributed in this way and particu­larly to Les McKerral, who head­ed the committee to arrange for the entertainment.Members of the board followed own appreciation of the service Mr. Forbes in expressing their given by these groups and by Mr. McKerral. Mayor Don Thom­son moved that a letter of ap­preciation be sent by the board to each group participating. Reeve, O. H. Murray supported Mayor Thomson’s motion and the board agreed.Participating during the past year in this move to supply reg­ular entertainment at the home i have been the following organi­zations: the Rotary Club, Opti­mist Club, Kinsmen, Y's Men,. Canadian Legion, the Ingersoll1 Kiwanis and the WoodstocK Bre­men. Some groups have put on two evening’s program during ♦he year.FEED DISCUSSIONThe Oxford Federation of Agri­culture has called a special meet­ing for Thursday evening at 8.30 for all farmers in Oxford to dis­cuss the problem of feed costs. The , meeting will be in the recreation hall at the Woodstock fairgrounds. Epeakers will include James Jen-, ins of Belmont, 2nd vice-president of the Ontario Concentrated Milk Producers, and J. C- Dance, of Kingsmill, an executive member of the association. CONTOUR PLOWING DEMONSTRATED—A type of plow- on a slope. Each furrow is level through its entire length ing ignored by the International Plowing Match at. Kingston, as opposed to common type of Pawing a s opeup- and-«own and not seen at any other plowing matches in Ontario, was With this method the ^n-off of water is demonstrated at the Oxford County Plowing Match on Hill- as this from 40 to o0 per cent, to less1 than 10 per cent Each stead Farm near Tavistock on Tuesday. This picture shows furrow here acts as a dam holdmg the water on the Held.— the method of contour plowing, which is plowing on the level l (Staff Photo).Pay Final Tributto G. R. GreenG. R. Green. Oxford county’s late agricultural representative, was buried on Friday afternoon in the Anglican cemetery here.Following a short private ser­vice held at the residence on De- latre street, a public service was conducted in New St. Paul'ssentative for Lincoln; Elgin Senn of the Dominion Department of Agriculture; Harry Sirett of Pe­terborough and W. M. Cockburn, representative for York county.Attending the service were many friends of G. R. Green, present for their personal regard and for the organizations which many of them represented.Members of the Woodstock Ro­tary Club, of which Mr. Green was a member, attended in a body Mayor D. A. Thomson and Aid. James A. Saunders of the city council were noticed. Among those from the county council were War­den. Milton Betteridge, Reeves Theodore Cooper. L. H. Sibbick, Wilfred Corp. O H. Murray, John A: Wallace, James Calder, county clerk L. K. Coles, county engineerchurch at two o’clock by Rev. J. H. Geoghegan, rector of the church. __ _The service in the church was j N Meathrell. Former wardens attended by many people. A pro- Of ^e county and former members fusion of floral tributes from of tbe county council were also many friends and organizations to- pr€sent.gether with those from his family । many farm organizations­and relatives surrounded the cas-1 Which Mr. Green worked in ket at the home and in the QXfOr(i were also represented. Har-church. . per Hammond, president of theThe choir of New St. Paul's, di- Woodstock Agricultural Society, rected by Henry A. Clark, who was present; also Bruce Amos,, was at the organ, led the music pm^ent of the Oxford Junior for the service. Douglas Harrison Farmers. c Bragg, president of and Thomas Lewis, church ward- j Oxford Farmers Co-operative; ens, were in charge of the usher-, george Laird of the Oxford Fruit ing for the service. , ' Co-operative; representatives of“He who was called to God s । Oxford Holstein Breeders keeping was cne Of whom the I Association, of the milk producers psalmist would have said ‘a good j Organizations and many others, man,” Rev. Mr. Geoghegan told Among those attending from the large congregation which ga- ouUlde the cjty were: Prof. W. M. thered for the service. Drummond, Jesse Francis, H. Ir-’•EVeiywhere I have gone these, vjnCi p N Marcellus and F. C. last few days there has been praise Hart from the Ontario Agricultur- of him by everyone, from the child al college. Agricultural repro- who knew him to the men who sentatlves present included E. I. worked with him. Their tribute jvfcLoughry, Waterloo; James D. has been, 'he was a good friend Moore, Brant; G. G. Bramhill. and therefore a good man,’’ the: NorIojk; a. V. Langton, Elgin; W. minister said. I r. Riddell, Middlesex; R. E. White,One of the first things which im- perth. s 3 Stothers. Welling- pressed him on first meeting Mr.; fon; w. $ Marritt, Wentworth; E. Green, Mr. Geoghegan stated, was , A summers, Durham; R. C. Ban- “the sincerity of the man," 1 bury Northumberland; W P. Mac-"I feci that life is going to be a ^ona'ld. Lambton; M. H. Winter, little emptier for me personally, victoria and J. B, Matheson, Duf- but also a little richer,’’ the mln-1 fer^ Among piners from the On-j later declared. He pointed out that; tarj0 Department of Agriculture no man who passed through life as wcre Mjgg i^ulu Rowe of the Wo- the deceased had could fall but mPn's institute Branch and Dick leave the world a richer place. Graham of the livestock branch.I Casket bearers were D. J. Me-1 Clcllan. Cecil Schuyler, Dave Bish­op. George Otton Errol Nephew’ and William McCorquodale.1 Honary bearers were; the Hon. T. L. Kennedy, minister of agri­culture for Ontario; C. D. Graham, deputy minister; R. S. Duncan, as­sistant deputy minister; James A. Garner, director of extension for the Ontario Department of Agri­culture: A. H. Martin, associate director of extension; Dr. G. P. MdRoatU and Prof, M. W. Stap-, les of the Ontario Agricultural( '• I- r.' IWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1947Oxford County SuffersA Great LossToday, Oxford county mourns the loss of a great man. A man whose name has become synonymous with the advancement of agri­culture in this county over the past 34 years, G. R. Green. ' _ ,,As agricultural representative,. Mr. Green was one of the best known men in Ox­ford. He was the man behind every cam­paign for agricultural progress in the coun­ty. His whole aim was to better the condi­tions of the farmers of Oxford. .There were few farmers m this area who did not know “G.R ” personally, for he was constantly at work for their benefit. In good weather and bad, he could be found out on the concession lines, and along the sideroads of the county, visiting farmers and studying their problems at first hand, giving advice and encouragement. .Few men have left behind them such lasting memorials to their work as has Mr. Green. His whole life and activity were spent laboring for his fellow man. The fruits of those labors m^y be found in this county today and will continue to be in the years to come. ,' It was a kind Providence which granted him the pleasure of seeing one of his special interests started this year. The conversion of the fairground property and the many buildings into a community centre for rural activities and activities which bound togeth­er in better understanding both rural and urban folk. This project was dear to the heart of Ray Green. He was never more en­thusiastic than when he was planning some new use for this centre and never happier than when he saw that plan working out.He was an unassuming man, modest about his own activities. He asked no credit for the things he did, they were only his everyday work and he took pleasure in doing them for the sake of the county he repre­sented.This was the man behind Oxford coun­ty’s agricultural progress for the past 34 years—a man truly great. G. R. Green Dies Suddenly, On Northern Hunting TripG. R, Green, agricultural repre-’ sentative in Oxford county for the past 34 years, died on Tues­day following a heart attack while on a hunting trip in the Pickerel ! River district, south of Sudbury. । Mr. Green loft Woodstock last I Wednesday.I By reason of his position as! । representative of the Ontario De-! ; partment of , Agriculture. Mr.1 Green was one of the best known J mon in Oxford county. There were few farmers in this area who did not know him personally. His con­stant efforts in the assistance of । farm organizations within Oxford I made him a loyal friend of all who । worked with him or knew him.As agricultural representative the projects on which Mr. Green worked, assisted and in many cases supervised, are too numerous to mention in detail. He helped or­ganize the first school fairs, both in Waterloo and Oxford counties. He had a guiding hand in the for­mation of the Oxford Farmers’Co-operative. Woodstock fair another project in which he active.This year saw one ofwas wasMr.Green's special interests begin to function. With the return of the1 fairground property from War As-1 sets Corporation, he was keenly! interested in having the grounds j become a community centre for G. r. GREEN—In this photo ta- rural activity. He lived to see this J™ • -■ ~plan working out.The annual seed fair, plowing match and other events were plan­ned in his office with his active assistance. All of the producer or­ganizations in the county looked to him and his staff for assistance, which they received.Mr. Green was born on a farm in Eastern Ontario, at Oak Leaf in Leeds county. He was the son of Ormond Green and the formerAdelia Johnson. He was 60 years of age at the time of his death.In 1908 he entered the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph taking the full agricultural course. His course through college was a brilliant one and he was rated as one of the outstanding students of his time. As soon as he graduated, a place was found for him on the agricultural representatives list. He was appointed assistant repre­sentative for Waterloo county i with headquarters in Galt. There he received his first experience in : the work for which he afterwards became noted in Oxford.Mr. Green's appointment as rep­resentative in Oxford was made in , 1913 and he came to Woodstock at that time. Those seeking his ad­vice and assistance found him at his desk in his office on Finkle street or met him out on the land for he was constantly visiting farms in Oxford and seeing things at first hand.This summer Mr. Green receiv­ed his membership in the Ontario Civil Servants’ Quarter Century Club, an organization formed within the past year.A charter member of the Wood- stock Rotary Club, Mr. Greeny served on the club’s rural and ur­ban committee. In past years he has been on the board of manage-’ ment of New St. Paul's church and is a former warden of that! church.Surviving are his widow, for­merly Christina Helen Cockburn of Guelph; one son, Hugh, Mont­real and one daughter, Glennie A., student at the University of West­ern Ontario, London, There are also two grandchildren.The body was to arrive from Sudbury this mom^ and will rest at the family residence, 116 Delatre street until Friday at 1,30 p.m. Funeral service will be held at New St. Paul's Anglican church Friday at 2 p.m. followed by interment in the Anglicancemetery.ken last September, Mr. Green, “G.R.” as he was known through­out this county, which he served for 34 years as agricultural re­presentative, was judging vege­tables at Tavistock Fair.Pay Great Tribute to G. R. GreenShock and devp regret at Ihc sudden passing of G, R. Green, Ox­ford representative of ihe Ontario’ Department of Agriculture, were expressed in Chatham last night by Col. T. L. Kennedy, Ontario Minister of Agriculture.Col. Kennedy is in southwest­ern Ontario on his annual faun inspection and was unaware of the death of one of his "top three representatives.""He was one of the finest rep­resentatives in Ontario and what he has done for Oxford county cannot be counted in millions of dollars," the minister staled, "I am deeply shocked.""I knew he had not been well for some time and we have been trying to make his work as light as possible. We had counted on still further reductions in his du­ties."He itarted the many coopera­tives In Oxford which have meant so much to faitncrs there both in raising the standard of farming a* well as increasing their Income."His loss la a great blow foj farmers and the department alike."Warden Milton Betteridge, when Informed last night of Mr. Green's passing, said he found it difficult, to express in words the great low j which Oxford county had suffered. I"It comes as a great shock," I said the warden,"Ray Green was a good friend j to all in this county and a friend I to v^ork with. He will be greatly [ missed,""The untimely passing of Ray Green came as a distinct shock to ; all members of the Woodstock Rotary Club, all of whom held him in the highest esteem," Frank Hogg, president of that organiza­tion, said this morning."Ray was a charter member of the club and one- of its roost val­ued members. The warmth of his friendliness won our affection and his willingness to do more than his share of any Rotary task was : a constant inspiration to us.I "Ray served on all major Rotary- commitees and was extremely suc­cessful in promoting a better rela­tionship between the city and rural districts.”Tribute to Ray Green. . By . .By THE HON. T. L. KENNEDY Ontario Minister of AgricultureThe agriculturale industry, not only of Oxford County but of the whole Province of Ontario, sus­tained a severe loss in the sudden passipg of G. R. Green, who for 33 years gave conscientious and outstanding service as agricultural representative for Oxford County. As I have gone around the Prov­ince of Ontario, I have always asked what the agricultural rep­resentatives were doing, but that was never necessary in the case of Ray Green, His work spoke for itself, and the results of his work, as they can be seen in Ox­ford County, are his greatest and most enduring memorial.Ray Green had a pioneer heart and mind. He started many new things in Oxford County, and over the years these have meant mil­lions of dollars to the farmers of that county. The results of his efforts have been widely felt, far beyond the borders of the county he served, into all parts of the Province of Ontario. I question if there has been any man in the service who has done more to pro­mote farm prosperity than Ray Green has done in his life-time of self-sacrificing work. I can think of so many things which he has started in Oxford County. The Oxford Farmers’ Go-opera­tive, now a great and flourishing company, is a monument to his enterprise and perseverance, to the hard work he put into organ­izing it on a very small scale and helping it to develop into the en­terprise it is today.One could mention so many things in which Ray Green was a pioneer and a leader. His inter­est in the development of cold storage facilities in his county, in the improvement of the cheese in­dustry, and particularly in the Junior Farmer movement, marked him as a man who served his community with all his God-given strength and ability. His persis­tence and enthusiasm were re­sponsible for the splendid Junior Farmer building now in service on the Woodstock Fair Grounds, and I can think of no finer tribute that the young farm people of Oxford County could pay to this great leader who has gone, than that of naming this 'The Ray Green Building” as a lasting trib­ute to his memory.Those of us who were privi­leged to be associated with Ray in his work have valued highly his wise word of counsel, his zeal for farm and farm home improve­ment, and for that kindly, genial manner which won for him the high esteem and affection of the farmers with whom and for whom he spent his life. We shall miss him more as the days go by, for his passing has left a gap in the agricultural representative service that will be ha id to fill. UTVA Officials Make Tour Of Large Part of Thames■s., Tin r>xnlnlned to the Sentlne!-Many Elaborate Displays Planned at County Museum111 members of the executive of the Upper Thames Valley Con­servation Authority on Friday made an Inspection of a large por» । tion of the watershed which is un­der its jurisdiction.The sites of a number of pro­jects recommended in the Thames Valley report were inspected and some which have been recommend­ed since the report was written.The party left Arva. north of1 London in the morning and stop- ; ped first at the proposed site of > the Fanshawe Dam, drove over I the Cobble Hills on fhe boundary i between Oxford and Middlesex. ; viewed the site for a dam north । of Thamesford, Inspected the dam j at Embro which requires some re­pairs. From Embro the group ( drove to Fairview on the border between Oxford and Perth and then along the road through the swamp land where the middle branch and south branch both rise. The party saw the site of a small dam which had been wash­ed out at Harmony and then• drove to Stratford for lunch. , ; Guiding the party were A, S. L. I Barnes, chief forester; Ken May- I all. specialist in recreation and wildlife; and H. F. Crown, all of ; the conservation branch of theDepartment of Planning and De­velopment.At lunch Mr. Barnes reviewed ! the first half of the tour and gave some outline of what would be seen during the afternoon. He ex­plained the tour that day would not touch some of the largest wa­ter storage areas in the valley. He mentioned the Dorchester swamp, Cedar Swamp, south of Woodstock; also two smaller swamps, one at Folden's and one near Golspie.| The dam at Embro requiring re- pairs, Mr. Barnes stated, did not ; have any big storage capacity. Its I chief value would be for recrea- , tion, he felt.The Thames Valley Report rec­ommended a dam north of Wood- , stock. This dam as proposed on ; the south branch of the Thames । would have a storage capacity of 8.000 acre feet. Mr. Barnes ex­plained the recommendation for this damn was that it would be a dry dam, open under normal con­ditions and closed to store water during flood time.REPAIRS SOUGHT FOR DAM—While on a tour of the watershed yesterday executive members of the Upper Thames Valley Conservation Authority inspected this dam north of Embro. The face of the dam, it was explained was in need of repairs. The structure no longer holds back water for power at the mill, located to the left of this photo, and the mllfer has no further use for the dam. The authority has been asked to give consideration to keeping the dam in repair to provide a recreation site and provide some measure of wa ter storage.—(Staff Photo).Review Inter that Ruch a dam could still be used to provide a lake for recreation, by installing the dry portion of the dam on the top of a permanent dam.The two largest dams proposed for the watershed will be at Fan- | shawe, with a storage capacity of 30,000 acre feet, and above Thamesford with a capacity of 28.000 acre feet.The afternoon program first took the party to the height of land north of Shakespeare, the second highest point in Southern Ontario. The tour included the swamps in Logan and Ellice town­ships, the dam at Mitchell and a site on Fish Creek near Prospect Hill which has been suggested for a reforestation area and the loca­tion of a dam.The tour did not touch any part of the south east portion of the watershed. No attempt was made by the executive to draw any con­clusions as a result of the tour, this will be left for meeting of the executive.Members of the executive tak­ing part in the tour were Dr. (Aid.) Cameron Wilson, chairman; Watson Porter, secretary-treasur­er; ex-Ald. E. O. Boug. William Goodard, George L. Shackleton, J. Frank Annett, of London and Mid­dlesex; Dr. D. Jose, John P. Bell, and R. T. Orr of Perth, P. M. Sage and Warden Milton C. Bet­teridge of Oxford. Four members ,of the executive were absent.Norwich Flower Society DissolvedHunters ReportBetter SeasonPlans arc moving ahead steadi­ly toward the opening of the Ox­ford County Museum, it was In­dicated this morning by a tour through the building, but a defi­nite date has not yet been set by mueum officials. Exhibits* and his­torical curios are being set up, but several displays are still awaited by the planners.On November 28 the museum subsection of the Ontario Histori­cal Society will hold it? annual convention at the museum in Woodstock and efforts are being increased to have the displays as near completion as possible for that meeting.An official welcome will be ex­tended by Mayor Thomson and a program of discussion on various museum problems affecting the entire province is planned. Repre­sentatives will attend from mu­seums throughout Ontario, from such points as Ottawa and Mid­land.Apart from the permanent ex­hibits planned for the local mu- ieum a feature of the display will be the temporary exhibits of schemes of prime interest. At the opening there will be a Prim­ary producer unit loaned by the Central Housing and Mortgage Corporation.This exhibit is of a wood mill । in the north country. Surrounding • the mill are the homes of the workers, the stream down whichThree Cent Price Jump For Butter South Norwich Township Rejects Beverage RoomsOTTERVILLE — Opposing the;the logs float, a railroad and landscaped ground. From time to time the exhibit will be changed to display other development* of interest.The industrial and agricultural exhibits which will be found on the left side of the museum on the second floor of the city hall, are being planned at present and preparations are in progress to receive the displays from various sources.A typical farm scene, with barns, home, horses, cattle and other farm animals and all other machinery and material typical of a farm is being secured.A scheme is being evolved at present to rotate the various items in the exhibit* so that something new will be on display at various intervals. Jt is prob­able that this will be necessary to prevent overcrowding in the historical exhibits of the county because of the vast variety and quantity of the historical curios on loan to the museum.The exhibit of natural history is taking shape and specimens of birds and other animals known । throughout Oxford are being plac­ed in display cases in preparation for the opening. .Sovereign Places Third At Royalestablishment of beverage rooms in South Norwich, voters in the township turned out yesterday in the largest number on record. More than 60 per cent, registered disapproval.Two separate ballots were cast. The tally of the votes cast on the two questions in the five polling sub-divisions was: 408 voting in favor of men’s beverage rooms and 636 opposed; 414 voting in favor ; of beverage roans to which wom­en are admitted and 650 opposed.A total of 1,432 voters were el­igible to cast their ballot in the plebiscite.According to the returning of­ficer C. W. Ottewell, yesterday's vote was the heaviest cast during his 15 years in municipal office in the township.Votes in the five sub-divisions were counted as follows:(Figures in column A are votes} in favor of beverage rooms for [ men; in B for beverage rooms for men; in D against beverage rooms for women).A B C pHawtrey .... 89 93 51 55Summerville . 95 95 60 60Otterville .. 133 135 232 236 Spring ford .. 36 33 1”8 185Rock Mills ., 55 58 115 114 Government Action EasingFeed Grain Situation isSought by County FarmersHe argued, "put farming on nn | eight hour basis and see whereRecommending the federal gov­ernment either raise the British contract price or subsidize the ex­port food prices to a point where the farmer can get the cost of production, a special meeting of farmer called by the Oxford Fed­eration of Agriculture, last night passed a resolution insisting on government action to alleviate the present feed grain price situation.Another recommendation con­tained in the resolution, which is to be sent to the Prime Minister, ministers of Agriculture and Fin­ance and to the Ontario Federa­tion of Agriculture, sought to have the coarse grains handled through the wheat board instead of the grain exchange. Several at the | meeting expressed the feeling this measure would do away with speculation in these grains and prevent high prices.About 100 representatives of com­modity, producer groups met in the recreation hall at the fair­grounds in Woodstock. Charles Milton, Princeton, president of the bounty federation, was chairman. Charles Watson, federation field man for Oxford was named secre­tary.Groups represented included concentrated milk producers,cheese, hog, whole milk and beef 1 producers. Also in attendance were K. R. Daniel, M. P. and P. M. Dewan, former Ontario Minister of Agriculture.Oxford SituationThe preamble of the resolution, presented to the meeting and pass­ed, pointed to farm conditions in Oxford where sows are now being sold for slaughter "by truck and car lots, cheese production falling to almost the "zero point,” dairy cattle being exported rapidly to the United States, the dumping of . poultry on the market without sufficient fattening and beef pro­ducers being unable to consider , stable finishing any cattle this coming season.The resolution urged prompt ac­tion to alleviate conditions wheresows were marketed, weanling , pigs killed and the possibility’ of J . no cheese production in the near future. |James Jenkins of Belmont, sec- (I ond vice-president of the Ontario I Concentrated Milk Producers, and one of the special speakers ex­pressed the opinion that the mat­ter w’as "the government's baby”.The speaker gave a comparison of feed costs of a year ago and today. Cost of producing 100 lbs. of concentrated milk was a little over $3, he said. Feed costs cited (the amount per ton, the 1946 figure first) were: wheat chop, $35, $58; shorts, $33, $48; bran, $31, $37; oil cake, $46, $90; Pur­ina, $62, $92; western oat chop, $47, $63; molasses, $30, $45; beet pulp, $34, $62."These increases are a little more than a third,” he said, “if we were getting what we should for milk we would receive $4.” I I Carlton Dance, president of the i Aylmer Concentrated Milk Pro­ducers. told the gathering, "This Is one of the most serious times I for agriculture in Ontario . .I grain has gone sky high. . .how . i do they expect us to produce eggs at less than 50 cents a dozen and milk for Jess than $2.50 a hundred is more than I can figure out.""It is up to us as farmers to bring pressure on the government to make the price, and to keep our boys on the farm and to be able to buy things for the women,” he declared.Unpaid Labor"They will tell you farmers have more money in the bank.'............... _bonds and cars than they ever had ! to the condition of the market, before," Mr. Dance added, "these have been accumulated, if farmers jthem, through not paying i imllicN for their work."you get."J, E. Nephew, manager of the [ Oxford Farmers' Co-operative in­formed the meeting "there Is plenty of grain in Canada to feed livestock here at the present time; there is no danger of no feed."The rising cost of feed was not 1 only due to the withdrawal of sub­sidies but largely due to increasein prices of protein feeds, he stat­ed.As to price Mr. Nephew said that when the subsidies came off he did look for a drop in price, but now he was "not so sure.” He add­ed he was not looking for too much of a drop in price of grain during this winter, "I hope I am wrong," he concluded.Cautions FannersHe cautioned farmers to keep their "feet on the ground”."You don't knock the bam down just because you have a badcrop,” he said, referring to re­ports of farmers disposing of their herds and flocks.Wilfred L. Bishop of Norwich told the meeting of the three al­ternate recommendations the On­tario Hog Producers had made to the federal government. They sug­gest raising the contract price to Britain, subsidizing export prices on foods or opening the American market.P. M. Dewan asked, "At present grain prices, what does your mar­keting board (hog producers) think the price of pigs should be?”Mr .Bishop, "We feel the bare minimum to allow the industry to survive over the present feed emergency is $27."W. Osmond of Burgessville, president of the Oxford Cheese; Producers told of the "severe.culture by increased feed prices., J. F. McDonald of Woodstock, president of the Oxford Beef Pro- " ducers said his group was in much . the same position as the hog pro­ducers adding there was little pos- blow” dealt that branch of agri- sibility of raising beef cattle this winter and making any money.Admitting the farmer, and he himself, was opposed to subsidies, P. M. Dewan gave his opinion that they were the only answer to the present problem. Great Britain, he thought, would not pay higher prices under their present finan­cial situation.“We are opposed to subsidies, said Mr. Dewan, "but let’s be practical... .why be afraid of sub­sidies if they are the only solu­tion.”He pointed out the government was already making concessions to other groups and to ensure their security.K. R. Daniel M.P. expressed the opinion that there would be sufficient grain to feed livestock but that the price would continue to be high.Milk PriceIrwin Hartley, a member of the Woodstock District Whole Milk Producers, supplying to the Toron­to market, told the group he had just returned from discussions in Toronto on the price of milk. He related that while the producersI and distributors were in confer- I ence an afternoon paper was sent in to them which announced the price of milk would be 18 cents on November 24 and the producers would receive $4.05 a cwt."When I left they were still try­ing to decide the price of milk,” said Mr. Hartley, "now who is running the milk business?”Concerning the opening of tlw American market, Mr. Nephew told the meeting, the American market was not as good as It sounded. He claimed poultry sent| to the American market was grad­ed in the United States accordingAFTER THE WEDDING—Pictured after the marriage ser­vice which took place at First Baptist Church are Mr. and Mrs. Robert James Kenny. The bride is the former Muriel Caroline Waterland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wat­erland, and well known in local musical circles. The bride­groom is a son of Dr. and Mrs. William C. Kenny of Hamil­ton.—(Photo by Lidston).School Lunch ProgramIn East ZorraElsewhere in today’s edition will be found a page of pictures showing the school lunch program of the East Zorra school board in operation. There is a story behind these pictures.Some time ago, the school board had a Red Cross nutritionist make a survey of the food pupils in the township school area were eating. The survey included meals eaten at home and the lunches which the pupils car­ried to school for their noon meal.The results of the survey showed these rural pupils in a great majority of cases were not receiving an adequate diet. Fresh vegetables, whole grain cereals, even milk in some cases, were lacking.Working on the theory that a healthy child becomes a better student, the school board launched a program this fall design­ed to supplement the school lunches and through meetings with parents draw atten­tion to the essential diet requirements of their children.The pictures mentioned show the lunch program in operation. In addition to his lunch, which each pupil has made up at home, vegetable soups, milk puddings and cod Ever oil are supplied by the school board.With the plan only started this fall it is too early to make a statistical valuation of the program. The attendance at the school section meetings, the enthusiasm shown by the parents for the program and their will­ingness to take advice on feeding their chil­dren are sufficient to show promise of val­uable results.Repairing Walls Of County JailWorkmen have been busily en­gaged during the past few weeks in bolstering up the walls sur­rounding the Oxford County jail on Buller street.The workers are at present re­moving the outside bricks from the north wall and putting in a cement foundation.The last time any work on the walls was done was back in 1898 and at that time the Sentinel-Re­view had a part in proving that the body of the murderer Birchall was actually hurled there in the jail yard.County Declines School’s ReturnEMBRO — The county council has declined to transfer the old public school building back to the village. Recently on the strength of prospects of York Knitting Mills Limited opening a mill in Embro. a committee was named by the, ratepayers of the village to inter-, view the county council. The com­mittee sought to have the building returned to Embro' possession that it might be sold for the fac­tory site.The county bought the building for $2,000 with the intention of converting it to a machinery shed. On Saturday the county paid for Its purchase. COUNTY OF OXFORDBY-LAW 1374Zone ForesterOf the Municipal Council of the County of OxfordBeing a By-Law to Restrict and Regulate the Cutting of TreesWHEREAS it is deemed expedient for the general welfare of the County of Ox­ford to maintain and improve the forest and soil resources of the County by preserving and developing the woodlands of the County.AND WHEREAS by the Trees Conservation Act, Statutes of Ontario. 1946, Chap-, ter 102 Section 1, the Council of a County is empowered to pass By-laws:(aj restricting and regulating the cutting of trees in any part of the County, and (b) providing for the appointment of officers to enforce the provisions of any By­law passed under this section.THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the County of Oxford enacts as follows:1 Except for dead, broken, stunted, fire-damaged, diseased or. insect-infested trees, Christmas trees and other trees that should be removed to improve growing con­ditions (such as thinning and improvement cuttings), no cedar tree of a diamatet of less than five inches or no other tree of a diameter of less than twelve inches, measured four and one-half feet above the ground shall be cut by any person within the County of Oxford. .2. In cutting or removing any trees, no person shall so conduct his operations as to injure or damage any young trees adjacent thereto. ’3. No person shall cut trees or carry on lumbering or other forest operations adjacent to provincial, county and township roads within the County of Oxford unless there shall be left along the said road or roads a belt of trees fifty feet in width from the limit of the road allowance from which may be removed only such trees as may be approved and marked by someone authorized by The Trees Conservation Commis­sion hereinafter established by this By-law.4. This By-law shall not: .(a) interfere with the right of the occupant of land to cut trees thereon for his own use; . . . ,(b) interfere with any rights dr powers conferred upon a municipality by the Municipal Act; . . .(c) interfere with the rights or powers of The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario or of any other board or commission which is performing its func­tions for or on behalf of the Government of Ontario:<d) apply to trees growing upon any highway or upon any opened road allowance; or .(e) apply to trees growing in a woodlot having an area of not exceeding two acres. 5 Anv person who violates the provisions of this By-law shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty of not exceeding $500.00 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. . .6. There is hereby established and constituted as officers to enforce the provisions oi this By-law a Commission of three members to be known as The Trees Conserva­tion Commission of the County of Oxford to be appointed by resolution of the Council and to hold office during the pleasure of the Council at a remuneration tor each member thereof of five dollars per day while engaged on the duties of the Commission and mileage while engaged in necessary travelling on the duties of the Commission to be allowed at the rate of Six (6c) Cents per mile.PASSED this 13th day of September, A.D. 1946.(SEAL)L. K. COLES, Clerk.ROY HUGHESR.R. 1, Ostrander.Explains Tree Cutting BylawAn explanation of the purpose] of the tree conservation bylaw passed by Oxford county council last year has recently been pre-; pared by the zone forester, W. A. G. Thurston of Stratford. Mr. Thurston's statement reads,"For many years, people have been wanting the Provincial Gov­ernment to take steps to prevent the wholesale slashing of timber on farm lands. Those who advocated some form of control on tree cut­ting have realized the great need for conservation of our wood lots. In 1946 the Trees Conservation Act was passed by the Province of On­tario. This act gives a county the power to pass a bylaw to restrict the cutting of trees on privately, owned land and to enforce such a bylaw."In September, 1946. Oxford County Council passed a bylaw to; control the cutting of trees. This bylaw was approved by the Minis­ter of Lands and Forests in Dec­ember, 1946, ~nd is now in force. This bylaw does not affect areas of woodlots of less than two acres, in Size. Nor does it prevent the cut­ting of trees for a man's own use. When the council passed this by­law they were wanting to preserve the farm wood lots and to prevent timber buvers from clearing these areas. It is not their intention to bring hardship to any farmer by restricting him too severely."Copies may be obtained at the Clerk’s Office, Court House, Wood- stock."Oxford County Council have ap­pointed a commission of three men to enforce this bylaw. These men are: H. Roy Hughes, Dereham, Township R.R. 1. Ostrander, Phone Tillsonburg 348J3; Ross Calder, E. Nissouri Township, R.R. No. 2. Thamesford, Phone Kintore 29 r 17; Lawrence Mitchell, Bland­ford Township, R.R. No. 2 Inner- kip, Phone Innerkip 42 r 3.”J. WINSTON NICHOLS, Warden.TREES CONSERVATION COMMISSIONROSS CALDER LAWRENCE MITCHELLR.R. 2, Thamesford. R.R. 2, Inncrkip.(This By-law has been approved by ihe Minister of Lands and Forests.)New Higher Milk Price Effective in OntarioCommencing Dec. 1J. L. Paterson, Former County Magistrate, DiesTORONTO, (CP) — The third jump in the retail price of milk in 18 months, a boost of Iwo cents a quart will be effective in Ontario Dec. 1 except in Windsor, Ham­ilton and Hearst areas, the Ontario Milk Control Board announced yes­terday.Regulations for Securing TreesThe Department of Lands and; Forests has announced that only- applications received before Jan­uary 15, 1948, will be considered for the distribution of forest trees next year. The supply of trees is low and the department urges any­one wishing trees to place their application early.The purpose of this distribution is primarily to assist farmers and land owners in the province to im­prove their woodlots and reforest waste portions of their holdings. On most farms there are a few acres which might profitably be de­voted to the planting of trees, such as sleep hillsides, sandy or gravelly- areas, swamp land, and fields cut off by streams or railroads.A second purpose is to encourage owners of farm property to protect, their fields and buildings with windbreaks and shelter belts. The most suitable trees for this work are conifers such as spruce and cedar and for this purpose Norway and white spruce and wide cedar are supplied.No fruit trees, ornamental trees or shrubs, trees for town or village lots are distributed. Trees cannot be supplied for decorative or orn­amental plantings. The material available is intended primarily for waste land planting and windbreak and shelter belt work on rural property.Application forms and literature may be secured from the office of the county agricultural represent­ative; from the Zone Forestry Of­fice. 21 Downie street, Stratford, or the Department of Lands and Forests, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 5. Helping Keep Herds Free from DiseaseCattle in Oxford are being tested for T.B. at the present time. Those showing signs of having (his disease are being culled out of the herd. Hard as this measure may be on the farmer who faces the possibility of seeing the major portion or perhaps all of his stock liquidated, the move is an essential one as a preventive measure. Once the coun­ty is declared T.B, free, then only healthy animals will be allowed to be brought in.On the subject of preventing diseases, a federal department of agriculture release points out that suitable buildings, good ven­tilation and sanitary surroundings are im­portant in maintaining health.If an infectious disease occurs, the re­lease suggests, methods of control should be followed to limit and guard against the spread of infection through the herd.“Perhaps the most important preventive measure is to avoid the introduction on healthy premises of animals' from infected sources or from herds or flocks whose health is unknown or uncertain.”Testing of cattle and culling the herds, as veterinarians are carrying out in Oxford now, is but the initial step, the preparation for a healthy cattle population in this coun­ty. Following this step, herds should be built up of known disease-free animals. At the same time all possible preventive measures should be taken on the farm to en­sure healthy surroundings for these ani­mals.Ingersoll Producers Urge Margarine Ban RetentionAnnexationApplication Is RejectedThe application for annexation of a partion of the Township of East Oxford by the City of Wood­stock has been dismissed by the. Municipal Board, which has been studying the situation since a pub­lic hearing was held in Woodstock some months ago, a letter received । by City Solicitor Craig McKay this morning revealed.A year ago 26 people signed a petition requesting annexation of part of East Oxford to the city. Acting on this petition, which rc-| quested a portion approximately one mile square be annexed on the south side of No 2 highway east of Woodstock, the city council submitted a bylaw to the Munici­pal Board.A public hearing was called by the board and various views in favor of and opposed to annexa­tion were heard by the board rep­resentatives. Until receipt of the letter this morning no word had been received regarding the Muni­cipal Board decision.PUBLIC NOTICEAt the call of Warden Milton Betteridge a meeting of the Coun­ty Council of the County of Oxford will be held in theCouncil Chamberin the Court House WoodstockonTuesday, December 2nd, 1M7. at the hour of ten o’clock a.m., for general business.All claims and accounts against the county must be filed with the County Clerk before the first day of the session.L. K. COLE S.County Clerk County Clerk's Office,Woodstock.WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1947Practical Education in Soil ConservationWellington county council's agricultural committee has just put in motion an educa­tional venture in soil conservation which might be copied in Oxford.The plan calls for the use of 40 acres of farm land, which will be used for experi­ments .and demonstrations to show how the washing away of top soil can be arrested. The project is estimated to cost about $1,. 300, which will be shared by the Wellington county council, the Ontario Department of Agriculture, and the owner of the farm on which it will take place.The experimental work will be conduct­ed by the soils department of the Ontario Agricultural College which plana to get rid of two heavy bogs, bury a considerable amount of stone, plow a ridge across the top of a hill on the land and atrip farm the hill land.It would be difficult to find a more prac­tical educational feature for soil conserva­tion. Farmers of Wellington and surround­ing counties will be able to watch these 40 acres during the year and see for themselves how they might benefit their own land.The agriculture committee of next year's county council should give consideration to such an object lesson for the farmers of Ox­ford.Milk PriceBoost SetAt One CentTHE DAILY SENTINEL-REVIEW, WOODSTOCK—INGERSOLL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1947OLD SCOTTISH TRADITION was to the fore last evening Ing the famous Scottish delicacy to the head table is Jack . as two hardy Scotsmen piped in the haggis at the annual .Gundry of Embro. Piping in the haggis are Pipe Major AlexZorra Caledonia Society banquet. Shown at the rear carry- Collins of Ingersoll and Piper W. J. Pearson of Embro.— . . .. ft- •- " V' ■ ■ ■ c * ' I®.County Council Meets in Final Session of 1947Oxford's county council met this morning for the opening of Its final session of the year. The work of this session will be of ft routine nature. Warden Milton Betteridge told the council this morning.Among the items to be consid­ered this week are the appoint­ment of county representatives to the various high school districts and consideration to the request of the Oxford County and Inger­soll Health Unit for an increase in the per capita rate for expenses of the Health Unit for 1948.Council heatd several communi­cations this morning and adjourn­ed to allow the finance and prop­erty committees to meet.Among the communications was the request of the health unit board for an increase in rate for its 1948 budget. A letter from the board, head to council pointed out the boated felt in order to continue the same service in 1948 as it had this year it would be necessary to ask Ingersoll and the county for an increase of 2% cents in the per capita rate. This increase would make the cost of the unit 57% cents for every person in the coun­ty and the town of Ingersoll.A resolution, forwarded by El­gin County council for support, sought to have hospital sweep­stakes nationalized in Canada, or, failing this, have them legalized in the province. The measure was recommended by Elgin as a move to relive the high cost of hospit­alization and "to keep in Canada the millions of dollars now sent out illegally to benefit other coun­tries.”Lincoln county sought support from Oxford in their resolution asking the provincial government to pass legislation to make the sanitary laws of the province “properly and uniformly enforced by the different health units in the province,”The action of the federal gov­ernment in commencing work to make Perth a restricted area was commende by Perth countyBig Increase in Applications for Old Age PensionsThe number or applications for old age pensions has increased “considerably'’ during the past year “due to a change in the regu­lations last July,’ the Old Age Pensions and Mothers’ Allowance Board reported to the county coun­cil this morningThe maximum old age pension now is $30 a month with a pos­sible additional amount of $10 if a person is In 'very needy circum­stances,' 'the report said.The pension board is composed of Reeve W. Corp chairman; A. Riach, vice-chairman; Mrs. L. H. Slbbick, Mrs. M. Luke, J. F. Mc­Donald and L. K. Coles, secre-1 tary.The report stated present regu­lations make a person eligible for the blind pension at the age of 21 rather than at 40 years.Statistics on mothers' allowance cases as of November 24 this year given by the report are as fol­lows: Active cases, 30; applications received during the year 7; appli­cations granted 7; refused 1; pending, 1; cases suspended or cancelled, 9.As of November 24, 645 people were receiving the old age pension in Oxford and eight receiving the blind pension. Applications re- ceived totaled 110. There were • 24 pensioners in the county home.Recreation, There has been a net expendi­ture on the county road system up to December 1 of $280,599.60, the road committee informed couny council last night. In addi­tion* to thl figure an estimated$5,346.75 will be required for month ot December to make total expenditure for the year proximately $286,000, which ceeds the road estimates for year by $13,000.More Land For Treesthe the ap- ex- tjiecouncil which also forwarded a resolution to Oxford for support. The resolution proposed an in­crease In compensation for rtne- tors from $40 and $60 for young| grade cattle and grade cows to a rate of $60 to $100. The resolu­tion pointed out that when the measure was approved by the farmers of Perth the market valu­ation of cattle was lower than at the present time when the move is being carried out.Increased government financial aid to hospitals for incurables was sought In a resolution from Went­worth county. This council would have the government grant to such hospitals raised to such a point where an increase of 50 cents per day by the municipality would be sufficient to satisfy the hospitals’ increased costs.An interim statement was re­ceived from the Department of Highways noting the interim sub­sidy paid on county roads to be $71,903.75.Dr. C. M. Mackay as physician to the county home reported two cases of hospitalization and two deaths since his June report. Hy- genic and sanitary conditions were satisfactory, the report added. As jail surgeon, Dr. Mackay stated in his annual report he found prov­isions furnished to be of good quality and well prepared. I-iy- genic and sanitary conditions at the jail were satisfactory, he re­ported.This over-expenditure, the com­mittee reported, is due to extra cost of snow removal and the patching and resurfacing of roads following the spring break-up. These items amounted to $30,- 916.94 more than the budget pro­vided for.In order to meet this extra ex­penditure, the council pased a by­law to provide for the additional amount of $13,000 for county road expenses.The report of the road commit­tee, its seventh this year, was moved and stedonded by Reeve L. H. Slbbick, chairman, and Reeve Theodore Cooper, secretary of the commitee. A brief summary of the work aerried on during th6 year was given.The expenditure in the general account, the report said, will ex­ceed the estimates, due to the county council taking out con-Program SuggestedThe director of recreationInSimcoe county, Miss Louise Colley, will be invited to address Oxford county council at the January ses­sion.A report of the county's recrea­tion committee accepted by coun­cil this morning followed a meet­ing on Thursday afternoon of the committee with T. A. Leishman, district supervisor of community recreation programs for the On­tario Department of EducationMr. Leishman Thursday address­ed the whole council on the sub­ject of a county-wide recreation program.The speaker defined a recreation program as one having a program in which everyone could find an Interest and participate.He explained how the county might go about organizing a re­creation program and how much j support would be given by the pro­vincial government.As an example, Mn Leishman told of the organization of a pro­gram in Simcoe county, the only county so far to develop a program on a county-wide basis. The cost to Simcoe county, he sa’d, was $2 000 a year, the salary of the I director, Miss Colley. From events put on under the recreation pro­gram, about $1 500 was raised to help carry out the program itself.Speaking of the type of pro­gram which might be developed, Mr. Leishman mentioned the as­sistance available from the depart­ment. A rtiusic library and a drama library, among other things, were available for use at the cost of a four cent stamp to mail the request.The'qommittee is also preparing to arrange a series of demonstra­tion meetings lhrou©hout Oxford during January.$280,599 Spent on County iRoads Up to December 1 Itingent Insurance on truck rental, I The total expenditure In the ac­count will be approximately $4. 522.27.The cost of general machinery repairs together with the cost of the purchase of two sites for re­pair shops will be approximately $8,559.10. Equipment purchased this year includes an Austin West­ern Grader with snow plow for $13,194; four three-ton trucks at $10,514; a Snow King rotary plow at $29,505, and a 302 Adams grader from the township of Dere­ham for $3,250.Due to the shortage of building materials, the bridge program for the year was not carried out The total estimated expenditure for bridge and culvert repairs is approximately $12,000.The program of road construc­tion laid out in the estimates ap­proved at the March session was completed except the paving work north of Embro and the grading work south and east of Springford.The surface treating of 21.2 miles of hard top surface was completed this year, the report continued. As the work was done by contract, the costs were in ex­cess of the estimates; it was ex­plained. Snow roads during the year cost approximately $19,500 All hard top surfaces were patch­ed at a cost exceeding the esti­mates by approximately $20,000.i The school forestry competition held in the county was success­ful, Mr. Thurrion continued. He added it was unfortunate th^tti competition was only possible in’ the East Nissouri and Blandford schools along with a few schoo# from East Zorra and Blenheim.In the district’ forestry com­petition School No. 1 and 2 of to Blandford and East Oxford wonIf the county of Oxford is to Blandfordthe ®The report pave a- brief out-Blenheim. Fireguaros will ne line of the° work done during the maintained on the boundaries of year and an indication of what the properties and fences repaired is planned for 1948. hs required.“At present, practically all the properties are completely stock­ed with trees,” Mr. Thurston's re­port stated. “If the county is contemplating the continuance of their active work in reforestation,more land will have to be ac­quired.”“Some councillors," the report ■continued, “have expressed the opinion that it would be advisable to secure land in the southern plart of the county, which vvould spread the forests more evenly throughout the county."“In 10 or 15 years these areas, .Which have been reforested, will '^how as prominent examples of the incentive taken by Oxford county in reforestation work,” Mr. Thurston added.During this year, planting was done in the spring on two tracts owned by the county. On the Credltville Tact In East Oxford some 16,000 trees were planted by machine. On the Lakeside tract in East Nissouri, school children from that township planted trees this spring as part of the school forestry competition.Fireguards, about 12 feet Wide, were Plowed on all county forests In June and worked up again in September. This precaution, the report explained, was taken to avoid possible losses from fires caused bv careless .wxn<rfrists.Tribute Paid by County CouncilAt the opening of its filial ses­sion this morning, this year’s county council stood in silence in tribute to the memory of the late G. R. Green, agricultural rep­resentative in Oxford.“Since our last session the county has sustained a great loss,” said Warden Milton Betteridge. “Wo were ;.ll shocked to hear of the death of G. R. Green."“I felt that he was a very val­uable man to our agricultural set­up.” the warden continued. “He seemed to be cut off when there was great work to be done. He did great work for this county during the years he served here.“The sympathy of the county council Is extended to Mrs. Green and her family." County GrantsOtoTillsonburg Hospital FundMuseum'•AA grant of $75,000 wlU be paid to the Soldiers' Memorial Hospi­tal trustees in Tillsonburg by Ox­ford county toward the erection of an addition to the present hospital. A bylaw to provide for the grant was passed at the final session of the 1947 county council in the courthouse in Woodstock on Frl-: day night.The bylaw provides for the grant to be paid over a period of five years beginning this year. The amount to be raised each year is not to be less than $15,000.The seventh report of the com­mittee on agriculture passed by the council proposed a grant of $500 to the Department of Agri- fulture for janitor service and fuel at the two months' short course to be held at Woodstock fairgrounds.Perth county's resolution seek­equitable urban and parts of each area partcularbasis for levying upon rural municipalities, or municipalities, wilhkv for the support of the hospital serving thatSystems Discussedarea. The council passing thd recommendation ordered a copy be sent to the Minister of health for Ontario and to all county coun­cils.Deputy Reeve H. A. Little and Reeve L. H. Sibbick moved that George E. Rell, who has been as-1 sistant agricultural representa­tive in Oxford fo»' two and a half years be retlined In Oxford. The resolution, which carried unani­mously through council, stated Mr. Bell had given excellent service, i A copy of the resolution was or­dered to be sent to the mnister of agricuture for Ontario.The fifth report of the refores­tation committee proposed thatThe adoption of uniform policies In all Ontario museums was advo­cated by representatives of On­tario museums at a meeting of the' ran you find it than a muwum,” I He advocated a of rule* to gov­ern the administration of muse*। urns.A committee was formed to In­vestigate the syatema of cata­loguing In operation in museum* at present and to formulate a sys­tem that would be applicable to museums throughout the province. A report will be made, possibly st the next meeting of the Associa­tion.I In discussing the policy of re­Ing to have the compensation paid . Deputy Reeve H. A. Little, Reeve । in reactors in the TB. test increas- J<*hn Wallace and Reeve OscarSippel be representatives at theed to $60 and $100 was endorsed ■ : by the council. A resolution from Lanark county asking immediate । action in the feed situation to pre­vent liquidation of poultry and livestock was endorsed.The council, on recommenda- | tion of the committee, urged that the ban on the sale of oleomargar­ine be retained. A copy of the resolution was ordered sent to the minister of agriculture and all county councils.। On recommendation of the County Board of Health, the coun-L cil endorsed Lincoln county’s reso- ; lution asking the provincial gov- ernment to have the sanitary laws i of the province properly and uni­formly enforced by the different health mats in the province.Four municipalities in the coun- , ty will leceve 'amounts of inter­est owin^ them for prepayment of county rates during 1947. Dere­ham will receive $324.38; North Norwich, $202.52; Tillsonburg, $345.17 and Tavistock, $79.66. These payments w’ere recommend­ed by the finance committee.The finance committee also recommended there be no grant paid to the University of Western Ontario this year.The increase in the per capita rate sought by the board of the Oxford County and Ingersoll Health Unit of 2% cents was en­dorsed by the finance committee and the council recommended that the levy for the health unit in J1948 be 5714 cents per capita.Wentworth county's resolution seeking financial aid to hospitals for incurables was endorsed.No action was taken by the council on the resolution forward­ed by Elgin county seeking to have hospital ^'eepstakes nationalized In Canada or made legal in the province qf Ontario.The finance committe recom­mended that the Department of Health make a survey with a view to dividing the province into hos- oital areas and then set up anZone 1 reforestation and conserva- vation conference in Stratford on December 17.Four county representatives of high school area boards were nam­ed as follows: N. M. Marshall for Norwich High School Area Board, W. J. Weir to the Ingersoll board, Edward Kennedy to the Suburban Woodstock High School Area Board and Warren Rock to the Tillsonburg board. All appoint­ments were for 1948.Present WardenWith Gift forHis Year’s WorkWhen the county council reach­ed the end of its business in the final session for this year, last night, Warden Milton etteridge was presented with a silver tea1 service by his council as a tribute to his services during the year.As the last bylaw for the year1 received its third reading and wasmuseum subsection of the Ontario , , . , - - .Historical Society In Woodstock JcctlhK articles It was passed that yesterday. Several steps towards each museum-form a commitu-c to uniformity were pursued and a tbc curator In accepting and start made towards adoption of. rejecting gift’s, new measures. 1 Out of discussion oh article re­in a two-hour session In the city lection discussion on the hall, following a noon luncheon Primary purpose of a museum It and a tour of the Oxford Museum, was ar£ucd by some curators that the various museum president# a visualand curators discussed adoption of as complete as possible, was <he a syste mof cataloguing, article re- | Pr,me purpose, while others felt jeetioh, selection of exhibits and! local material should be predomin- the institution of a handbook, in ani „which would be printed all the E- C Cros5' Wal Ontario Mu- Ideas formed and resulting from scum» Toronto, pointed out that meetings, be printed to serve as a ithe "primary responsibility of a guide to the small museums. ,sma11 museum to preserve andThe suggestion for a handbook dJW- material rcvelant to Us was made by Ross Butler presi- °wn d*atr,ct.” A secondary respon­dent of the Oxford Museum Soci- -sib’W 18 to develop farther ety, after discussion had ensued afic!d-All representatives agreed that;in connection with a newsletter u .system of reporting the meetings tbc cht>,ce d^P’ays, whether to various museums 'cal or world wide, depended to aThe meeting was presided over by Wilfrid Jury of the University of Western Ontario, president of the Ontario Curators’ Association. Mr. Jury in brief remarks con-gratulated the Oxford Museum ongreat deal on display and storage space.The rules and regulations of mu­seums were left to be adopted by the individual museums after a short discussion period producedits accomplishments through various opinions.“years of hard work in accumulat- * K was that superviseding the nucleus of materail.” • (classes only be allowed to visit“It is a pleasure to come to this museums. “Museums w e 1c o m e museum and to look into the cor- i cbjldren but. would rather have ners and find a wealth of mater-, ^bem supervised by a teacher." ial,” he said. Mr. Jury noted the Mr- Jury stated- adding that lack of storage space, which he de-1 “even university students are just scribed as “a very essential need.” ovargrown children.” j• More storage space is needed than A ^oan form o£ tbe Royal Mu- display space, he opined. seum win be circulated to various“Museums are taking a new' Ontario museums after consider- lease on life,” the president said, iable discussion on a policy of “They have to be made to come up : loans had ensued- "Loans, unless to the standards of our libraries,' lon$ term or short term for^spe- but what we have done in past in 'ciaI exhibits. Have been fouffd to all museums is most creditable " be a mistaken policy,” Mr. Jury he said. ' told the meeting.told the meeting.“We've got to make our mu-Mr. Jury expressed the opinionthat “visual education is advanc- seums talk and to make them ttlAY'lr « A 4-work,” the Association presidentGuests of the council, who alsopronounced carried, the warden, spoke, were Alex McCorquodale as county council tradition re- of East Nissouri, who was warden quires .was- asked to vacate the 1945; J. C. Eichenberg of Till­chair. Reeve K. R. Watts of Till- son burg, who was warden in 1944; sonburg, who retires from the J- Meatherell, county road sup­council this year, took his place erintendent; Sheriff A. A. Bishop, as chairman. R- A. MacDougall, J. L. GFriffith,Two other retiring reeves, O. Ro‘k Carroll and Tom Costello. H. Murray of West Zorra and L. RalPh Betteridge, son of the war- H. Sibbick of Bleneim made the den was introduced. L. K. Coles, presentation to the warden. Mr. county clerk and treasurer, ex­Murray read the address and Mr. pressed the opinion that 1947 had Sibbick presented the silver tray, been an outstanding year., tea pot and cream and sugar, The warden returned' to his which made up the service. chair and again expressed his ap-Warden etteridge expressed his preciation for the gift he had re­appreciation for the thoughtful- ceived and to the council for their neis of the members of his coun- co-operation during the year. He cil. Each member of the council spoke highly of the help given by rose to state the pleasure he had county officials’. He called for the had serving on the council this motion to adjourn, which Reeve year and to pay tribute to the Watts moved to conclude the ac-firmly stated. Mr. Cross further, pointed out the “museums have an increasing responsibility to the greater portion of the public who are not school pupils.” He noted that there were 400,000 in On­tario schools compared with 4.- 000,000 not in schools. “Museums have been referred to as a 'poor man’s university,’ ” he said.Teaching of local history’ in pub­lic schools was scored when it was pointed out that the teachers, in many cases, teach in one locality ' for only a limited period and do not take enough interest in the history of the locality.‘Teachings in schools regarding local history are false in many cases.” Miss Louise Hill, curator of the Oxford Museum pointed out, noting that much information is based on hearsay.tivities of this year's codhciLwork of the warden.REPRESENTATIVES OF ONTARIO museums gathered In Woodstock yesterday for a meeting of the museum subsection of the Ontario Historical Society, A tour of the Oxford Mu­seum was made by the visitors, who were entertained to a noon luncheon in the New Commercial Hotel. Shown aboveI is a section of the head table showing R. A. MacDonald, reeve [ of Embro, representing the county council, Ray Schell, Ross Butler, president of the Oxford Museum, Mrs. H. Milnes and H. Milnes.—(Staff Photo). Pay Tribute To Warden At DinnerMilton Betteridge, wardenOxford county for this year, ... formally and unofficially marked’ SUftr Munl*l^^on Ross of East Zorra. Ho CommendW Ingersoll on the sew- age project which they had start- , rd and Woodstock on its intention Jo inslal artificial les In the arena.Mayor Donald Thomson reply- mg for Woodstock said he brought greetings from the people of the of city to Warden Betteridge and his in- council. He commended th» r't -a i w ..the end of his term of office last night with a dinner in Ingersoll. Guests attending this annual af­fair, the Wardens’ Dinner, num­bered 133. They were served a turkey dinner In St. Paul's Pres­byterian church.Chaimran and toastmaster for the affair was L. K. Coles, county clerk and treasurer. Guests at the head table were Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Dent, Warden and Mrs. Better idge, Mr. and Mrs. Coles, Mr. and Mrs. Craig McKay and Mr. and Mrs, K. R, Daniel.The toast list, following "Thecouncil. He commended the coun­cil on the work it had accomplish­ed this year.Councillor Tom Morrison, on be­half of Mayor Charles Riley, re­plied for the town of Ingersoll.Sheriff A. A. Bishop proposed the toast to the ladies. Mrs. L. H. Sibbick replied telling in hum­orous manner some of the prob­lems of a wife of a member of county council.At the close of the evening the' warden expressed his appreciation to those who had made the evening^ a success.YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE125umsxON WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3rd, 1947 (JnymoAT SEVEN O'CLOCKMILTON BETTERIDGE,Wardenat tfi& ^PiE-^ljutczian dfiuxafi,tt, Ont.King”, began with M.L.A., proposing a Empire, the House and the LegislativeT. R. Dent, toast to ‘'The of Commons Assembly,”“The British Empire is not fold­ing up," declared Mr. Dent.Replying to the toast, K. R. Daniel, M.P., agreed , with Mr. Dent that municipal councils were closer to the people. He spoke of the harmonious manner in which the county council conduct­ed its affairs.W. A. Cockburn, deputy-reeve of Blenheim, proposed the toast to “The County of Oxford, the County Council and the Ex-war­dens.”The speaker quoted an old geography text as stating “the city of Woodstock is situated in one of the finest agricultural dis­tricts in Canada.” This, he said, still held true.Mr. Cockburn also paid tribute to the greatn&s of the pioneers of Oxford who came ‘‘not to make money” but to establish homes, churches and schools. ‘That's what has made Oxford great," he said. 1The ex-wardens, he declared, are examples of those men who have handled the affairs of the county and have handled them well.An ex-warden, William J. Weir,Uewho headed the county council in 1926, now treaurer of Eat Nia- souri, replied to the toast."It is often said there is too much government,” said Mr. Weir, "and people talk of doing away with county councils and provin­cial governments." He urged that if it ever came to such a choice that the county council be re­tained.During the evening Miss Dor­een Uren of Ingersoll entertained, the guests with two piano solos and Jimmy Miller, also of Inger­soll, provided two trumpet solos', accompanied by Miss Uren. Both artists were given enthusiastic applause for their outstanding performances'. Following their numbers they were presented with gifts by the chairman.The guest speaker of (he even­ing was Craig McKay, K.C., crown attorney for Oxford. Mr. McKay was introduced by Mr. Coles. The speaker’* address on prison re­form and divorce problems will be found in another column.Irwin T, Gleason, proposing the toast to East Missouri, pointed out that he and the present war­den had been born, raised, educat­ed and had settled in East Mis­souri,Th the pest 10 year* we have sent four reeves io county coun­cil and three of them have be­come wardens/1 Mr. Gleason re­called.A. J. Baker, clerk of East Miss­ouri, replying to the toast, recalled the early history of Oxford and of East Nissouri.Warden Betteridge, Mr, Baker said, had served t,h« township for 11 years, and for two years of that a* reeve.WEDNESDAY EVENINGDECEMBER 3rd, 1947Presbyterian Church INGERSOLL, ONTARIO MILTON BETTERIDGE, Warden CELERYTo Warden At DinnerMilton Betteridge, warden Oxford county for this year,of in-formally and unofficially marked the end of his term of office last night with a dinner In InjersolL Guests attending this annual af­fair, the Wardens' Dinner, num­bered 133. They were served aturkey dinner in byteriffin church.Chairman and the affair was L.St. Paul's Pres-toastmaster for K. Coles, countyclerk and treasurer. Guests at the head table were Mr. and Mrs1. T. R. Dent, Warden and Mrs. Bcttei* idge. Mr. and Mrs. Coles, Mr. and Mrs. Craig McKay and Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Daniel.The toast list, following “The King’’, began with T. R, Dent, M.L.A., proposing a toast to “The Empire, the House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly."“The British Empire is not fold­ing up," declared Mr. Dent.Replying to the toast, K. R. Daniel, M.P., agreed with Mr. Dent that municipal councils were closer to the people. He spoke of the harmonious manner in .which the county council conduct-RADISHESTOMATO JUICEcommended Ingersoll on I he new- age project which they had start­ed and Woodstock on its Intention , to inslal artificial Ice In the arena. Mayor Donald Thomson reply­ing for Woodstock said he brought greetings from the people of the city to Warden Betteridge and his council. He commended the coun­cil on the work it had accomplish­ed this year.Councillor Tom Morrison, on be­half of Mayor Charles Riley, re- plied for the town of Ingersoll.Sheriff A. A. Bishop proposed the toast to the ladies. Mrs. L. H. Sibbick replied telling in hum­orous manner some of the prob­lems of a wife of a member of| county council.At the close of the evening the warden expressed his appreciation to those who had made the evening] a success.PICKLESROAST YOUNG ONTARIO TURKEYCRANBERRY SAUCEBROWN GRAVYJUNE PEASMASHED POTATOESICE CREAM AND CAKECOFFEEROLLSiouri, replying to the toast, reeanea the early history of Oxford and of East Niwsouri.Warden Betteridge, Mr, Baker had served the township for11 years, and for two years of thatan reeve.COUNTV OF OXFORDYOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE^WaxAe.AAinnztON WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3rd, 1947 ah tfis ^P'tE.i.ijyht'iian Cftuiafi, fJngex^ol£, OnL AT SEVEN O'CLOCKMILTON BETTERIDGE,WordenzammsL. K. COLES, ChairmanAJoait"THE KING"God Save the King"THE EMPIRE, THE HOUSE OF COMMONS and THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY"T. R. Dent, M.L.A.K. R. Daniel, M.P.'THE COUNTY OF OXFORD, THE COUNTY COUNCIL, and THE EX-WARDENS"W. A. CockburnW. J. WeirADDRESSCRAIG McKAY, K.C.'TOWNSHIP OF EAST NISSOURI Irwin T. GleasonA. J. Baker"OUR SISTER MUNICIPALITIES"Gordon RossDonald A. Thomson, Mayor of WoodstockCharles Riley, Mayor of Ingersoll"THE LADIES"A. A. BishopMrs. L. H. Sibbick THE DAILY SENTINEL-REVIEW, WOODSTOCK—INGERSOLL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947witWl-■ WTHE WARDEN’S DINNER—The annual warden’s dinner was held in the Presbyterian Church in Ingersoll on Wednes­day evening for 133 guests. Shown here is a portion of the head table. From the* left are Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Dent, Warden and Mrs. Milton Betteridge and Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Coles. Mr. Dent proposed the toast to the Empire, the House of Commons and the Legislature. Mr. Coles, clerk and treasurer of the county, was^hairman for the evening.—Prison Reform Discussed,Warden’s Dinner SpeakerA comparison of the Borstal system in England with the sys­tem of imprisonment of criminals in Canada was given last night by Craig McKay, K.C., crown attor­ney for Oxford.“I think our outmoded system has completely outlived its use­fulness,” commented Mr. McKay.The crown attorney was the guest speaker at the annual Warden's Dinner held in the Presbyterian church in Ingersoll. He was introduced by L. K. Coles, county clerk and treasurer, who was chairman for the eve­ning.Mr. McKay announced he was speaking on two subjectc “prison reform” and "divorce”. "Subjects”, he declared, "in which we as ser­ious minded citizens should be in­terested”.Young men sentenced to peni­tentiary in Canada, as in the ex-I ample he quoted of three young' men sentenced to four years in Kingston recently, lose their iden­tity, are out of touch completely with normal society, live abnor­mal lives under strict supervision. Their acivity is controlled and no Incentive can be shown.He asked his audience to visual­ize what these men will absorb from a penitentiary in four years where their companions are other criminals, often hardened crim­inals. (On their release they are in a position of finding it difficult to obtain employment."Punishment seldom cures crime.” the speaker commented. Crime, he felt, should be treated as a serious malady which requir­ed correction. The modern thought on crime, he said, is that it a physical or neivous malad­justment which can be cured to the extent that the criminal is safe to mingle with society.Mr. McKay explained the work-1 ings of the Borstal system in Eng­land, which follows the pattern of bringing the offender before a board of psychiatrists and mechcal practitioners. A sentence in theI sense of a period of time is not given. The offender is sent to one of nine “walle dinstitutions” after' being examined by the board in an effort to find the symptoms of his 1 case. When the man is considered to be cured a placement officer of the board finds him in a position with an employer who has been given all the facts of the case.To prove that the system works,' Mr. McKay quoted from official figures to show that of 10 crimin­als released from penitentiary in Canada seven reverted to a life of , crime. Under the Borstal system out of 10 released only two were found to return to a life of crime.The cost of maintaining a pris­oner in penitentiary in Canada, Mr. McKay stated, is $1,000 a year. Of the three young men he referred to, they would cost the country $12,000.“Don't you think we could make better use of our money?" he ask­ed.On tlie subject of divorce, Mr., McKay said he could recall a time । when two or three divorce actions I In this country would be consider-' ed a scandal During the past । year, he said, there have been 48 j actions for divorce commenced in Oxford. The courts in Toronto are choked with over 600 divorce actions awaiting trial.“What can be done ” he asked.“We have learned from the Thames Valley Authority that the place to atop a flood is at its be­ginning,” commented Mr. McKay. “We can’t stop the flood of di­vorce when they get into the courts. The place Is much farther back.”He reviewed some of the causes of divorce and suggested some pos­sible remedies.His first cause was that of has­ty marriages. The suggestion has |been made in this regard, he said, of extending the period between the issuing, of the license and per­forming the ceremony to two months.The most outstanding cause, he stated, is that of young people not realizing the obligations and du? ties imposed by marriage. With no training or preparation they are permitted to go and get mar­ried.He referred to the suggestion that, medical examinations oe giv­en before marriage and a certifi­cate be obtained from a psychia­trist.In Canada there is ong ground for divorce, that of adultery, air. McKay said. He was of the opin­ion that these grounds should be widened to include incurable in­sanity, desertion for a period of 10 to 15 years and extreme cruelty.“In Oxford county you and I pay $1,000 a month to support child­ren in foster homes, in many cases because their parents won’t,” Mr. McKay stated. "Children are often the pawn in a divorce ac­tion. Divorces have been granted when the court didn’t know there were children of the marriage.Mr. McKay said he expected that within the next year some action would be taken to provide the judge of a divorce action with an Impartial repor* on the child­ren in each divorce action to give him guidance on their disposition after he has made his decision on granting or refusing the divorce. Norwich Fann Brings Top PriceNORWICH—Mr. and Mrs. Bur­well Kendrick have sold their farm, which is two miles south of the village and just inside South Norwich township, to the Van- Derrebroeck family for the sum of $25,000. This is certainly, by far and Large, the highest price ever received for such a farm in the district. Its soil is admirably suit­ed for tobacco growing, but there is no equipment for such on it, only an ordinary farm house and barn. It consists of about 80 acres and adjoins several other farms owned hy the new purchas­ers. Mr. and Mrs, Kendrick, who have resided there for more than 30 years, have the privilege of remaining in the house for three more years. Already the new own­ers have taken possession and are uprooting a fine grove of pine trees which are growing in one of the south fields. • IWARDEN MILTON BETTERIDGE. OF OXFORD COUNTY, was host last night al a banquet, held at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Ingersoll. Mere than 200 members of the County Council and other civic Government representaLivest and their wives were present from mnnicipaliiies in the county. These pictures were taken at the banquet and show. Top: T. J Morrison, acting mayor of Ingersoll, puts across a, point to district men. Left to right: K. R. Daniel, Federal representative for Oxford: Mr. Morrison; Donald A. Thomson, mayor of Woodstock; and K. H. Anderson, reeve-elect of Tillsonburg. Bottom: The.host and his wife talk with Crown Attorney Craig McKay, K.C., of Woodstock, speaker of the evening, and Magistrate R. G. Groom, algo ol Woodstock I^eft to right, they are: Mr. McKay, Warden Betteridge, Mrs. Betteridge and Mr. Groom. |<Frec Press Staff Photos.)Arena Bylaw Carried by Norwich and N. NorwichA. Robinson President, RatepayersArlington Robinson. R, R. 4, Ingersoll, for some years a mem­ber of the board of directors of the Oxford Trustees' and Ratepayers’ Association, was elected president of the association at their annual meeting held in the court house yesterday afternoon. He succeeds Mrs. Gordon Ratz. of Tavistock.The executive of the association Includes u.e following honorary presidents: K. R. Daniel, M.P.; T. R. Dent. M.L.A.; the warden of the county; the agriculture repre­sentative; Inspector G M. Mather, forth Oxford; Inspector L. B. Hyde, South Oxford.Members of tne executive in ad- dition to Mr, Robinson and Past President Mrs. Ratz, are Thomas Jackson, vlcc*prestacnt, and Mrs. U. L. Ratz, secretary-treasurer. intendent, and chief probation officer of juvenile court; Misssocial workThis shows the entire staff of the Society gathered in the su - j ‘ ‘ _ 2 'SUnI.y COurt h.°Vse’ From left Molly Mckay? social wrker}^ R Green' J?, ltai ’ BeHy Mayberry, social worker; Mrs. er; Miss Jean Muir, seated at left bookkeen’r aro d Deans, volunteer social worker; R. G. Clowes, super- Betty Garton, stenographer and receptionist, seatedat*rightExtensive Work Done by Children’s Aid in CountyThe Oxford County Children's .as superintendent, directs theAid Society enjoys a high reputa-1 work on the various cases and is tion among social service agencies -—’—n— — ««throughout the country, but sur­prisingly the extent of its work is not generally known.On page three of today’s issue of the Sentinel-Review readers will find a page of pictures which illustrate, in part, the responsi­bilities of the county C.A.S.The policy of the society are handled by a sympathetic board of directors, the members of which are drawn from all parts of the county C.A.S.The policies of the society are handled by a sympathetic board of directors, the members of which are drawn from all parts of the county. In active charge is R. G. Clowes as superintendent. With an active interest in the society are L. M. Ball, juvenile court judge, and Crown Attorney Craig McKay.Mr. Clowes is recognised as one of the province’s outstanding so­cial workers. In addition to his I full-time job as superintendent of [ the Oxford C.A.S., he is on the ex- j ecutive of the Ontario Association , of Children's Aid Societies, mem­ber of the national board of the Canadian Association of Social Workers, president of the Western Ontario branch of, the C.A.S.W., I member of the provincial execu­tive of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, chairman of the Woodstock Rotary club's crippled children committee and is often called on to assist neighboring so­cieties with their problems.The work of the C.A.S. natur­ally deals very largely with child­ren, but helping the children also often means heping parents. This help may vary from direct finan­cial assistance to the more diffi­cult and subtle task of prevent­ing family breakdowns and repair­ing broken homes.I In addition to Mr. Clowes, whoistrative staff.Mrs. Betty Mayberry’s activity is assisting unmarried mothers and in the child care department. Mrs. Harold Deans, a former i member of the London Children’s Aid Society has been assisting the Oxford society as a capable vol­unteer worker. Mrs. W. H. Green takes care of the protection de­partment and strives to recon­struct families who have been parted. Numbered among these family troubles are excessive drinking, desertion of the parent, physical disabilities, marital dis­cord and, in some cases, condi­tions beyond the control of the parents.Protection cases, of which there are 446 at present, receive the welcome assistance of the society in the latter's endeavors to keep the family group together.Doing part time clerical work and in her field work assisting with protection cases and child care is Miss Molly McKay. She is also looking after foster home 'also chief probation officer of i juvenile court, the staff consists! of social workers and an admin-1Butter at70 CentsOn Marketinvestigations.Miss Jean Muir, as bookkeeper, and Miss Betty Garton as sten­ographer and receptionist com­plete the staff of the organiza­tion.An Important phase in Child­ren’s Aid work is the placement of children for adoption. Place­ment of any child for adoption re­quires careful study of the back­ground of the foster home as well as the physical, mental and social background of the new parents.To do away with institutional care, the children are placed in foster homes Where they await adoption. This is to provide the child with proper care and norm-i al surroundings while awaiting adoption. Foster parents some­times grow so fond of the young­ster that they request to adopt the child themselves.The same social worker usually, follows the Ch Iki throughout all changes of residence to provide a measure of stability for the youngster.Ex-Warden And M.L.A.Passes OnEx-warden Robert Andrew Bax­ter, Liberal member for South Oxford from 1929 to 1934 in the Ontario Legislature, died at his home in Brownsville on Tuesday morning, Dec. 9, after a lengthy illness.He was bora, on October 16, 1879 at Brownsville and resided all his life in Dereham township. The son of John Baxter and Sarah Bigham, he was educated at the Brownsville public school and Till- „ . , -iSonburg high school. On June 7,B. A. BAXTER — Warden Of 1916 he was married to Frances, Oxford in 1928, member of the HaiiPhfpr of Riohar.l Louch of Ontario Legislature from 1929 to daughter or Kieaard Loucn or 1934, Robert Andrew Baxter, died Brownsville.at his home in Brownsville on His wife and two children, Rich- Tuesday following a lengthy ill-: ard on the home farm, and Jean, i Mrs. Arthur Woolley of Dereham.Tax Arrears Reported High In TavistockAlthough the work undertaken by all members of the staff is complicated and unending a great deal of pleasure is derived in re­uniting part eel families and help­ing unhappy children.One of the great times of the year is the camp each summer unde rthe supervision of the so­ciety. Proceeds from printing the annual report of the society meets this expense in a large measure.In addition to camp, each child receives, it possible, what he asks Santa Claus for at ChristmasAs can be well imagined, the shopping list of the society is a complicated one.> survive him. One sister. Bessie ofI Toronto, also survives.I- The late Mr. Baxter entered municipal life as a township coun­cillor in Dereham in 1922. He ser- 1 ved five years on this council. In 1926 he was elected deputy reeve and served in that capacity for that year and in 1927. His elec­tion to warden of Oxford in 1928, the year he first became reeve, is regarded as unique in the history of the county council. It is not usual for a reeve to become war­den the first year he holds office. After serving as warden in 1928, Mr. Baxter returned to county council in 1929 as reeve of Dere­ham.Also in 1929, he was elected as Liberal mmeber for South Ox- j I ford in the Ontario Legislature. He remained in office until 1931 Following his term in the Ontario house, Mr. Baxter was an inspec­tor on loans to farmers under a provincial agriculture development act.Tn addition to his municipal and political activities, Mr. Baxter was a member of the United Church in Brownsville of which he was at one time treasurer. He was the teacher of the adult Bible class for some years and superin­tendent of the Sunday school.For several years he has been unable to take part in activities In which he hud been interested being an invalid from a stroke On Saturday night he suffered another stroke. Amendment Drainage Law UrgedAmendment of legislation cov­ering drainage of farmland was urged in Stratford yesterday at the annual meeting of Zone .1 of the Ontario Conservation nnd Re­forestation Association.A resolution was passed by the meeting that legislation govern­ing the drainage of farmlands tn Ontario be amended so that open water courses cannot be forced through areas of standing timber , lor tillable land, to the detriment ( of the land and at cost to the' [farmer. ?■' ‘ ‘ '-w ' 1"The Ditches and Watercourses I Act and the Municipal Drainage, Act are as antiquated as Noah's Ark.” said W. A. Tuer, leeve of Fullarton township in introducing the measure. The resolution was seconded by Roy Hughes of Os­trander, a member of the Oxford Tree Conservation Commission.Discussion bore out Mr. Tuei's contention of the need amend­ments to drainage legislation. One case cited told of a farmer, who several years ago wanted a drain from his land. The drain cut through 25 acres of good bush, whose owner did not want the drain, but under the present leg­islation was required to pay about $280 for the ditch cut through his bush, a ditch which did about Sl.- OOO damage to his woodlot.Commenting on the discussion, Major-General H. Kennedy, guest speaker at the meeting, said many drainage schemes were “conceiv­ed in ignorance.”Present at the meeting from Oxford were three representatives of county council. Reeve John Wallace of East Oxford, chairman of the reforestation and conserva­tion committee; Deputy Reeve H. | A. Little, chairman of the agri- i culture committee, and Reeve Os­car Sippel of Blandford, a mem­ber of Mr. Wallace’s committee.Oxford's T_r e e Conservation Commissioners. Roy Hughes of R.R. 1, Ostrander, Ross Calder of R.R. 2, Thamesford and Lawrence Kitchell of R.R. 2, Innerkip, were present at a meeting of the tree commissioners early in the day and for the annual meeting.The annual meeting also passed a resolution urging the removal of the two-acre limit clause contain­ed in most of the county bylaws controlling the cutting of trees. JThe problem of controlling the cutting of Christmas trees on plantations was given consider­able thought. Most of the county tree cutting bylaws exempt Christ­mas trees, it was noted. Several views were expressed, one that re­planting should be required on the same scale as the cutting; an­other that the trade was profit­able and that a plantation owner would replant as part of his busi- i ncss. The meeting considered the; matter should be left to the tree commissioners in each county to' set their own policies.The 1947 officers were re-elect­ed by acclamation during the election presided over by Dr. G. I. Christie, former head of the On­tario Agricultural College. Offi-i cers are Raywood Smith, London, chairman; H. G. Taylor, Belmont, vice-chau man; Munro Landon, Simcoe, treasurer and Watson Porter of London, secretary.Oxford to Seek 1951 Plow EventThe Oxford Plowmen's Associa­tion will endeavor Io have the In­ternational Plowing Match held in I his county in 1951 or as soon as they can get it, the annual meet­ing of the association decided on 8‘atuvday afternoon.The international match is being hold in Victoria county next year and in Brant in 1949. Allowing for a swing away from western Ontario in 1950, the Oxford organ­ization will send a delegation toi seek to bring the big match here in 1951.Fred Howard of R. R. 3, Wood- stock. was named president of the association for the coming year. Murray McBeth, R. R. 1, Salford, was elected first vice-president and A. D. Robinson of R. R. 4, Ing­ersoll, second vice-president. George Bell was named secretary] and Norman Shelton treasurer. Four new directors were added to those of last year, Doug McClin­tock, Sid Goring, Ed Hansuld and1 Robert Rudy. K. R. Daniel, M. P., and T. R. Dent, M.L.A. and the warden to be elected next year were named honorary presidents.Reports on the plowing match this year showed there were few­er entries but the quality of the) plowing was of the highest stand­ard. *ONE RAISES RATES OTHER HOSPITALS HINT BOOST ALSO“The way costs are going I don't know what in the world we'll do," J. H. W. Bower, superintendent of the Hospital for Sick Children, said j today. “We have no immediate idea [ of raising our rates but if costs con­tinue to rise we’ll have to give serious consideration to it."Mr. Bower was commenting on the announcement Friday that the Toronto East General hospital is making increases ranging from 50 cents to $1.75 in its room rates effective Dec. 1. The superinten- dent of Toronto Western and To­ronto General said increased rates are “under consideration.”“We haven’t got around to it yet but all the hospitals operate pretty well on the same level so I imagine we will be following suit," an official of Grace hospital said. Al the last meeting of the hospital council, she said, the question of ' rising costs was given serious atr I tention . The next meeting of the hospital’s board will likely take action on the matter.“Increased rates are under con­sideration," Dorothy Machan, super­intendent of Women’s College hos­pital, said. “Increases in wages and salaries are the big item but there have also been marked increases in food, drugs, medical and surgical supplies and fuel.”Miss Machan said the hospital’s board would meet next week. It’s last increase in rates went into ef­fect Dec. 1, last year.Depend on Generosity“We will have to depend on the generosity of the public to meet loose rifling costs," said George A. Reid, business manager of the Na­tional Sanitarium association, oper­ating the Toronto hospital for T.B. patients at Weston, the Queen Mary hospital for children, the Muskoka hospital and the Gage chest clinic. Increased wages are a large part of the rising costs, he said, but ri«e» in all commodities, particularly food, have affected the cost of operations,Says Farming, Forestry Are Inseparably LinkedBy ALF BURMAN Sentinel-Review Staff Writer For a permaiKmtly successful agriculture, farming nnd fore«try must be considered together, Ma­jor-General H. Kennedy, told the annual meeting of Zone 1 of the Ontario Conservation and Refores­tation Association in Stratford yesterday.To indicate the close relation­ship of farming and forestry, the author of the Ontario Royal Com­mission report on forestry, stated the two must be “tied’' together.It was evident from the infor­mation in his address that the speaker meant forestry, not par­ticularly in the sense of great plantations but on the farm in the practical form of the farm wood­lot.Of the woodlot, he said at one point of his address “the cheapest and best forests can be developed from the proper management of the farm woodlot."The chief commissioner dipped many times into the pages of his report, which was published re­cently, to present his ideas on the forestry needs of this porvince to a group of men made up of dele-I County Holstein Unit Will Not Seek LicenseRather than lose, as they feared, the identity of the artificially breeding unit as the unit of the Oxford Holstein Breeeders Asso­ciation, the organization's direct­ors indicated at the annual meet­ing yesterday that the unit would not be licensed unde £the provin­cial governmentW. P. Watson associate direct- oi’ of the Ontario Department of Agriculturee's livestock branch, explained the policy of the depart­ment in the licensing of artificial insemination units. The act gov­erning the licensing was.designed he said, to limit rather than in­crease the number of units.His department’s policy, he ex­plained, was to encourage fewer and Stronger units of this typee. Granting of a license gives a unit exclusive right to operate in a ter­ritory. A unit to be licensed and receive certain grants from the i Ontario government must be pre­pared to give service to anybreed of cattle where a “reasonable” number of breeders of that type sought service. He defined a reas­onable number as about 1,000 breeders.Mr. Watson pointed out that ; there were two units in Ontario ! with licenses at present, Maple and Kemptville. In 1948 a unit will be licensed in Essex. Four licensed units, he believed, would take care of the dairy cattle popu­lation in the province;The act does not require a breeders’ club unit to take out a license, but, Ml*. Watson pointed out, if the unit in Woodstock was not licensed there would be no­thing to prevent another unit in the district from doing so.After Mr. Watson had spoken. Wray G. Taylor, a director and former president, explained the reasons why a license had not been taken out by the Oxford unit. He feared the unit would lose its identity.Harold Pearce, president, and chairman of the meeting added: “We feel this unit was sponsored by the Hotetein breeders of Oxford and we want to retain our iden­tity.'* gates from about 12 county coun­cils and the tree commissioner! of those counties.General Kennedy made no apologies for the material in his report but stated he and the others of the commission had sought to present the true picture. He lik­ened his situation to that of the Scotch pastor who had warned his flock they were In danger of the great fire In the hereafter.“And ye’ll look up from the pit to the Almighty arid cry, 'Lord, we dinna ken,’ the pastor told his congregation.“And the Almighty In HIs Infin­ite mercy, will look down and say, 'weel ye ken the noo.”’Dr. G* I Christie, former presi­dent of the Ontario Agricultural College, who was persent, describ­ed the report of the commission as the program for the future in this province.“In the report,” said General Kennedy, “we tried to point out that our ancestors had been very wasteful people Our ancestors might be excused on the grounds that (he top soil on some of the land they cleared of trees grew crops for a few years. We, how­ever can not be excused for the waste we make of land.“We continued to pasture our woodlots. Nature has taken many centuries to build up the eight to ten inches of top soil on your farms... .once this is gone it will take many centuries to restore.”The things that are happening to soil in Ontario today happened centuries ago to older civiliza­tions, the speaker declared. North Africa, once the garnary of the Mediterranean had its forests de­stroyed and became the wastes of the Sahara.“This has happened in India, the United States and is now happen­ing in Ontario,” the speaker warn­ed, the upper end of the Ganaras- ka is like the Sahara now.”“The ancients had primitive methods of destroying their coun­try and it took them longer. Now we have bulldozers and other equipment and we can do a faster job of destruction,” he comment­ed.Speaking of the work of forestry needed in Ontario, General Ken­nedy expressed the opinion that private planting in this province has not proven successful. The future of reforestation plantations lies in the municipal forest scheme and in the provincial forests. The general trend, he said, should be toward municipal forests such as now being planted by county coun­cils.He stressed the farm woodlot as the cheapest and best method of developing forests. The farmer who keeps up his woodlot is per­forming a public service, he added.. “The community owes him some­thing.” He favored reduction of assessments on woodlots.The efforts toward tree cutting contiul in the bylaws passed by. many county councils, of which Oxford is included, is worthwhile. General Kennedy believed, and; should be supported. The diam­eter limit set on tree cutting will not solve the situation, he believ­ed, but it would help. The pro­gram in the future should come to the marking of trees by com­petent authorities for cutting.A closer relation between farm­ing and forestry, the speaker con­cluded would make for a more successful agriculture and make farming not only more profitable but more interesting. ON PALACE * s 3 r»O Q. n f-j'e u re it' V — 50 5’5*° » w *< E 5‘erg?? >T „ tt> S' !O? ssfig-s.! g?«g?ffs ||ga 5 2 Girt W A . S® 2 s r — M P ' -"► o * □ as- 3- O< co n S’ 04 q 5 ® OT M FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE BALCONY the royal family wave to the cheering throngs below. Left to right are the King. Princess Margaret Rose, Lady Mary Cambridge, a bridesmaid, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip. l^e Queen and Queen Mary. On'their honeymoon at Romsey. Philip took the princess for a jeep ride around Broadlands estate =r » and down a public highway. "Ive never driven one of these, let’s go for a ride," he is reported to fcave said to her. They are leaving for Scotland in a week to stay at Birkhall near the Royal Cast e at Balmoral. . ala. at talk linking the names of Princess Margaret and Marquis of Milford Haven. Philip s best man. Just । BALCONY OR IN CAREENING JEEP, PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILIP DRAW NATION’S CHEERS ___J o'Q5£' £352 g * c P, 3 • re 3 FRIDAV,; Ray Green Memorial Should be PermanentTwo suggestions have now been made public as people who knew and worked with the late G. R. Green seek to find a fitting wav to continue the memory of his work and the inspiration of his leadership in Ox­ford county. a ISome time ago the minister of agricul­ture made the suggestion that the recrea­tional hall .at the Woodstock fairgrounds be named after Oxford's late agricultural representative. The school board of East Zorra has recently suggested that the home economics and rural shop school operated by East Zorra, Blandford, East Oxford and West Oxford at the fairgrounds be named “The Ray Green Memorial School” after the man whose efforts were behind its organiza­tion. .There should be some form of memorial in this county to Ray Green. It should be something serving the purpose of agricul­ture and the farm community in this county, it should be something covering as wide a scope as Ray Green’s interests in iOxford, it should be something permanent that generations to come will learn how I important was this man's work.| The two suggestions made, while they fit the first two qualifications, do not fit the third. These buildings mentioned are both temporary buildings erected for a compara­tively short existence. If it is intended they be replaced by permanent structures both proposals made warrant serious considera­tion. .A proposal which could be considered by the county council would be an annual1 scholarship to the Ontario Agricultural College, a G. R. Green Memorial Scholar­ship. ।Ray Green Memorial School Proposed by School BoardNaming the household science and rural shop school at the Woodstock fairgrounds the Ray Green Memorial School has been suggested by the East Zorra School Board.Winners of Grassland Day jEssays, Slogan AnnouncedDOROTHY ROWE AT HER DESKThirtcen-vear-old Dorothy Rowe provincial contest, the judges have of Innerkip gasped when she re- decided will be split two ways, ceived a Christmas present on Two contestants ^e. essays on Tuesday afternoon. The prese-^ythe advantages of better grass- was one Dorothy had hoped f-Aand which defied the judges at- but had begun to doubt the possi- tempts to select the better of the bilities of receiving the $100 prize two. W J. McPhersonofBoxl66 for the Oxford Grassland Day es- Cooksville, and Hugh Renwick of say- R.R. 3, Keene will both receiveThis present was one which the $125.daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen The ”----- —Rowe had worked hard to gain, test has not made up She wrote an essay on the subject how she will spend the W biie “What Better Grassland Means to will not, however, lack sug- Ontario”, entered the contest open gestjons—her four sisters and two to boys and girls in Oxford under brothers are taking care of that. 15 years of age. Her older sister c-~ also wrote an essay, but DorothyThe winner of the Oxford con- j her mind |for her. -Judges of the three contests'□n out’" " " were Dr- G- E- Hai1' Presiden^2flThe Grassland Day contests the University of Western On-— ■ • - tario; W. R. Reek, presiaent of the Ontario Agricultural College, and,won out.were three in number. Five hun-The contests followed the firstdred dollars in prize money was c----------------------- - -donated, by Canada Packers Lim- C. O. Tatham, publisher of the ited the sum of $350, and by Es- Daily Sentinel-Review.sex Packers the sum of $150. The -------_ ’ ' '$350 was divided into a $2o0 Grassland Day to be held in Can­award for an essay contest open a^a on July 30 on T. R. Dent’s to the province and $100 to the Springbank Farm east of Wood- Oxford contest. The Essex Pack- stock. _ers prize money was for a Grass- The event, w’hich attracted land Day slogan. about 10.000 people, was sponsoredWinner of the slogan contest jointly by the Oxford Crop Im- was Mrs. James Bremner of provement Association, the On- rr. 3. Brussels, whose prize win- tario crop improvement Associa- ning slogan read “Make grassland tion apd the Ontario Agricultural cashland.” College.Tiie $250 in prize money for the