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Year 1959' > as-■ ■ ■BECOMES 105TH OXFORD WARDENEd Pearce, left. 46-year-old garage owner from Tillsonburg, became the 105th Warden of Oxford County yesterday. Five*BREAK TIE AFTER 13 BALLOTSreeves were candidates in a closely contested election req­uiring 13 ballots to reach a de­cision. Mr. Pearce in this pho-to is congratulated by ex-War- den J. Grant Smith c" Norwich. (Staff Photo.) (See story page 3.)Tillsonburg Reeve ElectedWarden Of Oxford CountyEd Pearce, reeve of Tillson- During his year in office Mr. burg, was placed in the unique Smith estimated that he attend- position of casting the tie-break-,ed 240 meetings and gatherings ing vole which elected him Ward-'and spoke at approximately 70 en of Oxford County during the I events.opening session of Oxford County, After- the election Council reces- Coimcil in Woodstock yesterday.; sed and reassembled with Ward- Five reeves contested the ward- en Pearce in the chair.enship. Herbert Balkwill of Bien-1 He thanked his supporters and heim withdrew after the sixth1 congratulated the councillors on ballot. Hilton Virtue of East Ox- the manner in which the election ford withdrew his name after the' was conducted.eleventh and Donald Hossack of Ex-warden Smith presented Mr. Embro withdrew after the twelf-' Pearce, with the gavel and re- th. minded him that any projects heThe thirteenth ballot resulted in had for the year would have towill keep Oxford the Banner County of Ontario.Mayor G. T. LaFlair of Wood- stock added his congratulations and assured the co-operation of city council.Ex-wardens George Balkiwill, William Chesney and RobertRudy also expressed their best wishes to the new warden and council.Following the reading of the minutes of the last session by county clerk-treasurer L. K. Col­es. Council adjourned until ‘ID a.m. Wednesday morning.EXPECT KEEN CONTESTa tie vote between P. L. Pressey of Dereham and Mr Pearce. As reeve of the municipality with the largest equalized assessment Mr. Pearce cast the deciding vote, in favor of himself.105TH WARDENMr. Pearce a garage owner, becomes the one hundred and fifth warden since Oxford became a county 110 years ago. He suc­ceeds J. Grant Smith of North Norwich.be started soon as a year passes quickly.WANTS NEW OFFICESOne project the new warden, hopes to see accomplished is the provision of new agricultural of-: fices.Cecil Riddle, warden in 1357, congratulated Mr. Pearce and,' wished council a successful year, year.Gordon Innes, MiLA, expressed! the hope that the 1959 council)Wardenship Of Oxford Sought By Four ReevesFour members of County Coun­cil have signified their intention of contesting the Wardenship of Oxford County.Ed Pearce, owner of a gar­age in Tillsonburg, expects that this will be his last year in public office. "As I am retir­ing from municipal politics after •this year, he said, "I think it would be fitting to end as Ward­en,This will be Mr. Pearces four­th year on County Council and his ninth year of community ser­vice. During his time on Council he has served on the Property, Health and Finance committees.P. L. Pressey farms in Dere­ham township and is beginning his fourth year on council. "I’d like to have the pleasure of eerv-Warden from that County sin-;den of Oxford County will beelected during the first sessioning the county, Mr. Pressey ■said when asked if he planned to run for Warden.Mr. Pressey had been a mem­ber of the Agriculture and Heal­th committees in the put. Hil­ton Virtue, starting his third term as Councillor, thinks that it is East Oxford’s turn for the Ward­enship as there has not been aMr. Virtue operates a mixed I of 1959 which opens in January, dairy farm at RR 8 Woodstock;and is beginning his third year on: Council. He has belonged to the Property and Conservation com­mittees and was chairman of the Printing and Resolutions commit­tee during the past year.Donald Hossack, a foreman with Wallace Brothers Lumber, Embro. is starting his second term on County Council and rep­resented his municipality as. Councillor for three years prior to this.Experience in municipal poli­tics, Mr. Hossack feels, Is a build) up to Wardenship. "Municpal! politics is a good experience to, go through and the Wardenship; would round out die whole thing, he stated.Mr. Hossack, has served on the!Finance and the Printing and;Resolutions committees.A fifth possible contender. Herb ert Balkwill of Blenheim town­ship, was not available for com- mewt.The one hundred and fifth War-. ■‘.a DAD'S SUCCESS THRILLS FAMILYBusy Warden’s Wife Will Be Even BusierBy MARY MARSHamount of work involved, “butAsked how she feels about husban< I munityBy MARY MARSH amount of work involved, “but Asked how she feels about her . A pleasantly charming mother when he starts anything I like! husband’s participation in com- ie iVlxx ■FlT'Ct lodv ClInnAnrl ’’ cho roi/l I rrv,l1hi+«y affair^ IVIfS SSicl“he enjoys it and I am glad that he does.”of three children is the first lady to see him succeed,” she said.of Oxford County for 1959. As Ex-Warden J. Grant Smith of wife of the new Warden Mrs.|Burgessville estimated that dur- Edwin Pearce, Tillsonburg, will ing the past year he attended 240creases each year.The Pearce’s grew up together in Paisley, Bruce County, andbe expecte dto take part in many functions, speaking at between 60 social functions during the com-, and 70 of them. The number of ing year. demands upon the Warden in­Mrs. Pearce was still a bit floored by the news of her hus­band's election when we visited their neat -seven room home onwere married 21 years ago. They have lived in Tillsonburg sinceMcKenzie Street yesterday.She admitted that at first she 1944 when Mr. Pearce bought a was not too keen on Mr. Pearce I service station business. He nowrunning for office because of the operates his own garage and motor dealership.The young people of the family, Joanne, 19, Elaine, 12 and Danny, 9 were thrilled with the news that their father was Warden. “Ela ine took a portable radio’to school and her grade eight class listened to the election,” Mrs. Pearce said. Elaine plans to keep a scrap book during her father’s term in office.Mr. Pearce is starting his four­th year on County Council and has spent' five years in i____. cipal politics in Tillsonburg.she “is expectingmuni-jbut looking forward to” a (year of grass widowhood.Former Oxford Man Is Brant WardenArmour Potter of Burford, a ■ former resident of East Oxford' . ' Township, where be farmed for ? .• many years, has been elected;; K Ji warden of Brant County.M-r. Potter was the unan/m.;uv j-eho'ce for the post at the in-; fe» . augural meeting of Brant County , held on Tuesday . £Fox Attacks Dog On Embro StreetBlenheim Tp.Reeve Seeks Warden PostFree Pre»H Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK, Jan. 10 a| • 42-yearold farmer and reeve of Blenheim Township, Herbert Balkwill, of RR 1, Drumbp. said today he will aland for; election hs warden of Oxford Courtly when elections are held tomorrow at the county court house here;Fifteen reeves and six deputy reeves representing municipal gbvenwnehts in the county will attend inaugural sessions start- ' ing at 2 p.m.Mr. Balkwill joins four other reeves who are also campaign­ing for the office. They are Reeve Edward Pearce, of Till- sonburg: Reeve P. L. Pressey, I of Dereham Township; Reeve Hilton C. Virtue, of East Ox- £ ford; and Reeve Donald Hos- sack, of Embro.Says Blenheim DueMr. Balkwill who will be starting his fourth term as a member of county council, said he felt it was time the warden­ship went to Blenheim Town­ship. The last time a repre­sentative of Blenheim was elected warden was 21 years; ago.It Mr. BalkwiU is successful,; he will follow in the footsteps, of his father, George BalkwiU,; who was warden of the county1 in 1935.He indicated today this might be his final term on municipal council. In the past four years. Mr. Balkwill has been a mem-- ber of the county printing and; resolutions, conservation, chil­dren's aid, agriculture and, roads committees.Six Not AgriculturistsFarmers Still LeadIn Oxford CouncilShe is a pretty busy person herself. Besides being a wife and mother she thoroughly enjoys teaching a kindergarten class of> 19 children during the morning.She is a member of the Eve­ning Guild in St. Paul’s United! Church, the Jean Brumptonl Branch WI, the Hospital Auxi­liary and the Home and School, Association.As a mother, these activities do not prevent her from being home! when the young folk get in from school. “I fell that it is import­ant to them for me to be here,” ■ she said.As a wife, she wil be ready to ' go with her husband whenever . the occasion demands and a quiet home will be waiting when he returns at the end of an a rd- •uous day.As a woman.Free Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Jan. 19 — Fifteen out of 21 Oxford County councilors this year list their occupation as farmer. The other six list their jobs as accountant, garageman, carpenter, car dealer, realtor and coal and lumber dealer.Farmers ListedI The 15 farmers are Reeve Gordon Armstrong, of Bland-! ford; Reeve P. L. Pressey and Deputy Reeve George R. Nagle, 1 , .'of Dereham; Reeve Herbert Balkwill and Deputy Reeve Charles Coldham, of Blenheim;! Reeve John Bolton and Deputy Reeve Alex Hossack, of East Missouri; Reeve David Cham­bers, of North Norwich; Reeve Hilton C. Virtue, of East Ox­ford; Reeve William Baigent, ofNorth Oxford; Reeve W. W. . ; rBudd and Deputy Reeve George Wallace, of West Oxford; Reeve James H. Chesney and Deputy Reeve Lorne W. Junker, of East Zorra and Reeve Ernest F. Garner, of West Zorra.Reeve George H. Davis, of *South Norwich la an accoun­tant; Reeve Edward Pearce, cf^ Tillsonburg, is a-car dealer; Deputy Reeve Clare H. Essel-j ’ tine, also of Tillsonburg, Is a Rarageman; Reeve Donald Hos-i sack, of Embro, is a carpenter; Reeve Howard McCombs, of Norwich, is a real estate agent and Reeve Robert Rudy, of Tavistock, is in the coal and lumber business. NEW FACES APPEAR AT OXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL SESSIONWive new councillors made 1 nesday. Left to right, they are. I est Garner, West Zorra; Alex I W. Budd, North Oxford. 'Staff their initial appearance at the George N k> 0^^ Gord- Hossack,. East Missouri and W. I photo).opening session of Oxford Coun- * Ity Council Tuesday and Wed- I on Armstrong, Blandford: Etrn- ■THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1959—SECOND SECTION ★ ★Oxford Anti-Rabies Clinics Ruled Out For Time BeingFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Jan. 21 — The Federal Depart­ment of Agriculture, in a letter to county council, said that the lack of a major rabies epidemic in Ox­ford County precludes the establishment of vaccina­tion clinics.The letter was part of a host of correspondence read to county council today by Clerk L. K. Coles.» * *The letter said that all counties were under con­tinual surveillance and should the disease become serious, clinics would be set up throughout the coun­ty •The letter did, however, urge individual town­ships to take action against stray dogs in an effort to limit the possibility of the spread of rabies.The letter was in response to a resolution passed at the December meeting of county council which called for action by the government to establish clinics here.* * *A resolution from the Village of Waterdown asked for council’s support to a motion which would force all gas meter readers to carry equipment which would detect any leakage of gas fumes.* * •Several organizations have asked council for financial assistance. The requests were from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Salvation Army, St. John Ambulance, Navy League of Canada, University of Western Ontario and the Rotary Club of Woodstock.FOUR unsuccessful candida t- | L, Pressey, Blandford, Donald es jn yesterday's Wardenship Howack. Embro. Hilton Virtue, election discuss the result# of East Oxford and Herb Balk- the balloting Left to right, P. will, Dcreham. Mr. Presseywas tied with the winning can­didate. Ed Pearce, on the thir­teenth ballot when a peculiar­ity of the voting system permit­ted Mr. Pearce, as reeve of TiUsonburg. to make the win-j, ning vote. (Staff photo),Oxford CouncilCommittees SetFree Preen Woodstock BuregaVirtue; Howard PresseyrDonaldBalkwHI, Meathrell,21 — The were ap« CountyColes; Pearce, l. kJ Pearce,C. Virtue and L. K, Juvenile Court, E. R. William Biagent and Coles; hospital. E. R.Nagle and Hilton C. home. E. R. Pearce, McCombs and P. L. Health. E. R. Pearce,WOODSTOCK. Jan. following committee# pointed nt Oxford Council today:Roads. Herbert chairman; J. N.county road auperintendent, aecrrtary; James Chewey. P. L. Pressey, Howard McCombs, W, W, Budd and E. R. Pearce; fi­nance, George Davis, chairman; Clare Escltine, r< (ary; Ernest Gamer, David Chamber# and John Bolton; property, Donald Hoasack, chairman; Robert Rudy, secretary; Charles Coldham, Gordon Armstrong and Alex Hossack.Agriculture, George Wallace, chairman; William Baigent, secretary: L. W. Lunker, G. R.Hossack and Hilton C. Virtue.Equalization and assessment^ John Bolton, chairman; Georgs Davis, secretary; Ernest Gar­ner and James Chesney: educa­tion, Clare H. Esseltine, chair­man; Lorne Junker, secretary; George Wallace, Charles Cold­ham and George Nagle; print­ing and resolutions, Ernest Garner, chairman; David Cham­bers, secretary; Alex Hossack,: Gordon Armstrong and Georga Nagle; library, E. R. Pearce, David Chambers and Gordon Armstrong.Childrens Aid Society, E. R. Pearce, Herbert Balk will and Robert Rudy; museum, HiltonWoodstock: Clare Esseltine, Tillsonburg, and W. W. Budd Ingersoll,Report Measles fire PrevalentAn outbreak of measles, term-^ cd by MOH Dr. O. C. Powers as "not'of epidemic proportions, is prevalent throughout Oxford Cou­nty. Several cases of whooping cough and chicken pox have also! been reported but measles is the. most widespread disease at the, present time.Dr. Powers has issued a i warning to parents that oomph-i cations arising from measles i should be guarded against. These ' complications include pneumonia and bronchitis. Pneumonia is an especial danger and parents should make sure that small suf-1 ferers avoid cold and exposure after a bout with the measles.No quarantine is imposed for the disease but patients should be isolated for seven days, the doctor stated IW H - M A W V' ■ ■ ■■■*atNO CHANGE IN PERSONNEL OF SOUTH NORWICH COUNCILThe personne lof council of South Norwich remains the same in 1959 as it was in 1958. A newcomer who contended for the office of councillor was de­feated at the annual election in December. Reeve George Davis begins his third year in office.The council for 1959 is shown seated around the table, left to right: Councillor Theodore Cooper, clerk-treasurer Herbert Parsons; Reeve George Davis, Councillor Henry Ash. At the back. Elmer Almost, road sup-1 erintendent; Councillors Stanley, Gehring and Harold Arthur.NORTH NORWICH COUNCIL RECEIVES GAVEL FROM RETIRING REEVELester. Wray K. Hartley, Ross McRae and Cameron Topham.Smith gavel while right,such a way as to command the respect of the electors," said Mr. Smith. In the photo, Mr.(right) presents the to Reeve Chambers, behind them, left to are Councillors J. H. R.If necessary future reeves of North Norwich township will have the raip on the council .for the retiring reeve, who is also the retiring war­den. Grant Smith presented Reeve David Otambers with a hand-carved walnut gavel for use at future meetings. This is the first time a reeve has been so equipped. Council held inaugural meeting and two new members. Ross McRae and Cameron Topham, were wel­comed. Warden Smith, the new reeve and Councillors Wray K. Hartley and Jack Isbester, spoke to greet the new mem- bers and to express apprecia­tion of the leadership of Mr.Smith. In his closing remarks as reeve. Mr. Smith urged the new members .especially, to consider council as the first form in democratic system of government. "Make sure that the business of council is con­ducted in such a way and that you conduct yourself always in Peg* 2 Woodstock Untlnol-Rovlew. Thunk* M* 1W1959 Committees NamedBy Oxford County CouncilOxtord County Council named committees tor 1959 during the second day of the January ses­sion yesterday.Council assembled in the mor-Property: D. Hossack, chair­man, R. Rudy, secretary, C. Cold­ham, G. Armstrong, A. Hossack.J*enre<, H/SaWM, R. Rudy. P Museum: H. Virtue, L. K.Coles. jJuvenile court: E, Penrce. W.® Baigent, L. K, Coles.Hospitals: Woodstock, h. Pearce: TUlsanburg, C. Esseltine'' Ingersoll, W. W. Budd.Board of audit! chairman of the finance committee. G. Davis ■ and counity clerk-treasurer, L.K. Coles.Council adjourned Vo reconvene;..A***, VI. m UK'UV.Iftk -w. ------------Agriculture and Conservation: Tuesday, Jan, 37 at 10 a m G. Wallace, chairman. .W. Baig­ent, secretary, L. Junker, G.nlng with Warden Ed Pearce in the chair to hear county clerk-Nagle. H. Virtue ।-- - - ■ Equaliaation and Assessment.'J. Bolton, chairman, G, Davis, secretary, E, Garner, J. Chesney,treasurer L. K. Coles read the correspondence and to elect a nomination committee.W. Baigenttors receiver « EducftUon: C, Essel-ltee. chair-the Western Ontario division of .man. L. Junker secietaiy, G. the Salvation Army and then ad- jWallace, C. Coldham. o. Nagle. I Printing and Resolutions: E. Garner, chairman, D. Chambers, secretary. A. Hossack, G. Arm-Early in the afternoon council­lors received a delegation fromjourned to select committees.The report of nomination com­mittee chairman Howard Mc- combs was adopted as follows:Road: H. Baltawfl], chairman, J. N. Meatherell, secretary. J. Chesney, P. L. Pressey-, H. Mc­Combs. W. W. Budd. E. Pearce.Finance: G. Davis, chairman, C. Esseltine, secretary, E. Gar­ner, D. Chambers, J. Bolton. .strong. G. Nagle.County Home: E. Pearce, H.McComb. P. L. Pressey.Health: E. Pearce, D. Hossack, H. Virtue.Library: E. Pearce, D. Chamb­ers, G. Armstrong.Children’s Aid Society: E.;Rsk Lower CostFor Rabies ShotsA resolution requesting vac-cine against rabies be made a-5 * HOLSTEIN SALES REPRESENTATIVE meeting of the West Zorra township council.W. Leslie Dickson, 33-year- old Holstein breeder from Bur-gessville, is the new sales a- gent for the Oxford County Hol- . stein Breeders Associatton. He was selected from 19 applicants by the board of directors of the Association, who met in Wood-stock. Mr. Dickson fills a posh tion left vacant by the death of Donald Spencer, earlier this month. Left to right, Mr. Dick­son is congratulated by chair­man of the board, J. Grant; Smith, also of Burgess ville. (Staff photo).BLENHEIM APPLICATION REFUSEDTransfer Township Bridges To County D enied By JudgeHorse and buggy da vs are de-[during the past 30 years for coun- den which existed in 1913 is 40 ment of less van $1,000 may, on. fJS ov^r tof^d County, ty aW or provincial grants to per cent less today than it wasDismissed by Oxford County lighten the financial burden for dien repairs or construction of bridges.'AMENDMENT . . „ . . jPointed out in the judgment “There is a provision by way,the inhabitants of other mun’ei= " .-j pdttlCo (b) it is situated on , ... ___ not'an important highway offeringChap. 166, Sec.'means of communication to sev-Dismissed by Oxford County Court Judge Eric W. Cross, in a 12-page written judgment, was an application by .he council of Blenheim township for an ordership be declared to be a a county" bridge where, ia< it is used pyiPointed out in the judgment, --------- . - - ,was the fact that Clerk-Treasur-of amendment to the Highway palities er I. J. Haines, of Blenheim Improvement Actjn 1949. r"* •township, had admitted during ; found in R.S.O., Clap. aw. ... ......... --the trial that the township had ,47, which provides that this sub- eral municipalities, and (c) spent only $500 on tee 13 bridges sidy may be extended up to the account of length and for the rea- in question for maintenance or [extent of 100 per cent in the con-'sons mentioned, it is unjust that repaid or somewhat less than' struction of bridges and it might the burden of maintaining and $33 per’bridge during 1957. 'well be that the Township could 1 repairing, it should rest on the: FOUR QUESTIONS | bring itself within the intent of corporation of tee town or town-judge Cross said that in con-! this section in view of the Unique .ship.’’the . «idering the application, “it would number of bridges that it has to USING BRIDGES ।1 ... • —n— • —। —;n| Evidence received.in the trialindicated that people and vehLj "The actual cost of maintain- cles of other municipalities were; ing these bridges in the Town- using the bridges. This was the ship of Blenheim does not satisfy answer to the first question, me that it is a burden in light of In answering the second que^ present day conditions.” stressed tion, is each bridge situated .oh' ' -,d5v C.wU. an important highway? Judge.It is also of some significance, Cross said that evidence Lndica*I cation* to several municipalities? he continued, that counsel were; ted the bridges were not on imr, iKinvuv u«u swx.u —i 4 By reason of the length of unable to find any record of any [portant highways ;n relation to said court officials in each bridge, as a result of ques- application being made under highway systems today.- - - - •- =------------—> ----- i<»a I All township roads connected]which would declare 13 bridges in that township county property.Not for more than 30 years had a case of this nature been heard. Ontario Government officials and municipal authorities in Ontario, therefore, displayed keen inter­est.1949,onTaking about six days, — ■ 8«v.-.e-rr---- - • .. i . , -case was heard at sittings in Oct- appear that four main questions maintain and repair, or may ober November and December, have to be resolved, as follows: the future be obliged to build.--— -- — — ober. November and December. ---------- __ _---- .Certain sections of the Ontario1 1. Are these bridges used by Municipal Act still pertain to (the inhabitants of other mumcir horse and buggy conditions, said l pa lilies?a legal expert connected with the 1 2. Is each bridge situated on ca<c- If the application .or the an important highway?" order had been granted county 3. Does that important high-1 Judge Cross, administration would have been way afford means 7‘i hampered.I If the judgment had gone the]'other wayOuier Wav. bd-iu — .--- nvv/v IWoodstock it could have serious- tions 1, 2 and 3 being answered;this Section since the year 198OJ,* . • • <4. _ • .• tai ■ ■ nn 1 let1 I —-E I L. «1C 4 m an i tv/T) n*3T.ly w>,:oex, It COUIU uavv wxwua- a, S- 7"........ . , Iakened the value of the in the affirmative, is it unjust that the burden of maintainingact that the ouraen oi bmuhwuiumi1 Appearing on behalf of the and repairing it should rest upon township was L. M, Ball, QC, of the township?Woodstock. And representing Ox- Referring to the tourte ques­tord County Council was E, S. tion, Judge Cross said It Is har- ' Livermore/QC, of London, anddly necessary to note the vastly R A. MacDougall, of Woodstock, different conditions which pre- REASONING vailed in MM3 and 1913 from thoseIn giving reasons why he was I which prevail today, unable to conclude that the town; r',ay’*which in itself is an indication with main roads and no residents that the burden of maintaining I of the township was more than bridges throughout the Province)two and a half miles away from, on township roadis is not such as any one main artery.to promote applications under. Answering the third question, this Section on the ground that does that road afford means of such bridges are on important communication to several mum- highways, and a burden to main- cipalities, he said h was obvious tajn. traffic made use of the roads tomunicipalities generally outside the township.He said, however, that provingThe applies toon was based onwuwvuc hixav ___ "In the first place the modern a section of the Ontario Muni'unjustly burdened by network of Provincial Highways cj1I>a’ Act which stated: ra of bridges", Judge) had scarcely commenced ana "a bridge of a greatc. ship was i.... _ MCross- ^d^thaC ‘i/ order to the burden of providing ^8^^*meet modern traffic needs, L.- -------- „; important highways have been township councils, apart from, a.Uken over either by the Province I few main highways such as Du.i- as part of its system or by the'das and Talbot Road.county as part of its system,| "As early as 1920 a system ol Sus relieving the township of all Provincial subsidies for township n financial responsibility tor build-'roads was begun ‘rommeneim, ing and maintenance ot a vast at 20 per cent, which hasOf highways ° ■ dreased over the years until it.■ ■ cX «W Iha. e* 1. « per cent This tuWjdence indicated that Blenheim also applies to the repair and township had made no application'maintenance of bridges, so a bur-;cial grants on bridges were suf- io me ouroen oi prw;wM« M*8wr~,r" man aw reel in a town or ficient to take care of any extra11' rested almost entirely on tne having an equalized assess- burden on the township.thanbur-1bridge of a greater length300 feet in a town or town-Dog. Pigs Attacked By Fox On Farm East Of Kintore TENT-LIKE COVERING PERMITS SPEEDING WORK THROUGH RAIN, SLEET 1958 first constructionshot the transparent poly. thene film. (Staff photos) Called polythene, this material viously we Mr. Arnott said he was greatly (leased with this 'it spet it is ten degrees, more, warmer inside without any >Iastic overcoat is up the work The 36-foot roadway bridge is scheduled to be completed by interior within it to install the new 100- River bridge Accidents Injuries Fatalities Damages Arnott Con- Limited, O! because, process, WOODSTOCK DAILY ACCIDENT LEDGER All - Weather Construction Aided By Plastic Shelters had to cover every- d," he added. being used by the struction Company Arthur, Ontario. They are using the abutments, for PERHAPS FOR time in this area a tough, trans­ parent polythene film is being used to speed-up and protect construction work during the winter months. In the TOP RIGHT photo, a polythene film As far as is known, this is the first time this type of cover­ ing has been used in the Wood- stock area to aid winter work. This is also the first time the Arnott Construction Company have used polythene. “We put it up because it was too cold to work outside," said Warren Am- Page 2 Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1959 broad latticework of boards is placed over the film to protect it from contact damage. Polythene film is one simple and inexpensive solution to the problem of winter building. The builder erects a falsework a few feet out from the skeleton of the building. Polythene film is stapled to the falsework, and a provides the means whereby win-: ter construction that was impos-i sible a few years ago can be carried on without costly delays. This type of covering is now artificial heat.” “But we erected it mainly be­ cause it keeps the snow and the wind out,’ he explained. “Pre- to shows a view of the west abutment and an overall view of the project. LOWER is an A thin plastic film is serving as a lifeline for many construct­ ion workers during winter mon­ covers the site of the east a- butment. Across the Thames River, looking west are work­ men completing the west a- butment. On this site will be a new bridge linking the Govern­ or's Road. The TOP LEFT pho­ foot span, Thames _ _ linking the Governors Road about a mile west of the city. Polythne film cut three months from the construction time of a big job at Cornwall, Ontario. In winter weather, Byers Con­ struction Co. Ltd., of Montreal, May"? “‘but the right kind of'erected a large recovery furnace, weather permitting we will be building for Howard Smith Paper done before that," said Mr. Arn-.Mills Ltd. _______ ------—_ ngersoll Area WorkDxford Approves Grant For Road MaintenanceDELEGATIONS AND REPORTSFree Fretw» Woodidoy.k BureauWOODSTOCK. Jan. 27 — Oxford County' Council today kuthoriaed r grant of $6,684 as the county’s share of the cost j of maintenance of roads under the jurisdiction of the Ingersoll 1 Suburban Roads Commission.The commission, which looks after two portions of road inCounty Council Deals With Many MattersCounty councillors rolled u p(councillors assembled at 2.15 p.m: Before adjourning for the day, their sleeves, sorted themselves| to receive a delegation from the the annual reports of she Countythe Inrendll area, will receive**——$1,692 from the town itself.In other business, Ian Grills, of Woodstock, a representative of the Canadian Institute for the Blind approached council with a request for a $500 grantHospital Asks AidRepresentatives from the St. Mary's Memorial Hospital also requested a grant of $7,728 to aid in the cost of constructing a new wing.Robert Bell, agricultural rep­resentative. asked council to support a farm accident survey now being organized in the county. Mr. Beil urged councilect in their individual munld-palities.From communications road at, council by County Clerk L. K. Coles, the Rotary Club of Till-' sonburg and the Oxford County Museum both asked for finan-i cial assistance.Warden E. R. Pearce, of Till­sonburg, urged committees to hold the line in budgets this year. He suggested that council! should review the policy on. grants weed out obsolete grants, and consider new ones.Council sat in committee most of the day and the same pro­cedure is expected tomorrow. Business is expected to be com-into their various committees and)Canadian National Institute for tackled the first of the new'ihe Blind. Mr. Ian Grills of year's business during the third Wood a lock told eouiaciltors that day of the January session yes- 43 registered blind jjeople from terday. C " ' ~ " *In the morning a delegation from Memorial Hospital, at St. Marys, approached Council forOxford County were cared for by the Institute in 1958. He outlinedthe preventative and restorativeprogram carried on by the CNIBHome Farm and County Home were distributed.Receipts from tde Home Farm , in 1958 totaled $15,044.85 with! expenditures amounting to $12,-C 882.04. Profits amounted to $2,-' 162.81.Expenditures by the County,the sum of $7,728 to assist in the and asked Council tor a grant of Home during 1958 were $38,302.23 erection of an urgently required $500.addition to the hospital 1 Robert Bell, agricultural repre­sentative for Oxford County, ap­peared before Council to solicit its support for the forthcoming Ontario Farm Accident Survey. He defined tihe purpose and struc­ture of Che program, which gets underway in this County, March 1.Warden Ed Pearce, stating that it was a worthy endeavor, prom­ised Mr. Bell that he could countIn addition, which will cost an estimated $267,000, will accomo­date patients from the munici­palities of St, Marys, Perth, Ox­ford and Middlesex. Requests for a total of $84,000 have been di­vided among these municipalitiesFollowing the luncheon recess.$500.' with receipts totalling $29,635.28 for the same period.The number of residents in tre!Home as of January 1, 19,59 was reported as 43.Wednesday Council received! delegations from the University^ of Western Ontario and Strat-i ford General Hospital.members to get behind the proj- pieted Thursday.Increased Interest ShownIn Oxford County MuseumofYoung students and public by the museum. Thousands school classes are afforded a these were given to tourists and link with the past when they;to visiting groups to the city.visit the Oxford County Museum. [CONTINUE CATALOGUEOne of its more ” important I “We have been able to continue functions is the visual education- the catalogue of our quite inter-1 al opportunity it offers students esting and valuable collections of! to gain more'insight into the life historical books and printed pam. of early Oxford residents. phiets,” said Mrs. Smith.It has been 11 years since the She said that about 60 addit- official opening of the Oxford!tonal articles have been listed Museum in its present location. |and displayed during the pastIn recent years there has been year.an upsurge of interest in mus- “I hope the museum will be । eum projects, with support given more and more used as a re- ; from both governmental and ed-1 search centre for the county.1 ucattonai authorities. i steadily revealing more lightFINANCIAL STATEMENT ,about early life in Oxford coun- , In a financial statement issued ty,” she said.today by Bernadette Smith, cura-! Director of the museum is Her-1 tor and’ secretary-treasurer, re- bert Milne?’ ceipts total, from Jan. 1 to Dec. Members of the Museum Board:। SI. ‘1958, $2,654.88. are L. K. Coles and Hilton Vir-Exnenditures for the same per- tue, county representa-itves; Aid. | iod total $2,245.43. Largest ex- Lorne E. Dow and R. M. Bar-. pen.se item facing the museum ney, Woodstock represen-tatives; | is the wages paid curator Smith Mrs. E. W. Nesbitt, representing I and her three assistants. Tnat five Woodstock IODE chapters: amounted, in 1958. to $1,126.60. and Mrs. Ed Hansuld of Tavis-Grants received in 1958 from!tock, representing Oxford Coun- ithe city of Woodstock. $500; Ox- ty's Women's Institute.ford County. $860; Province of Ontario, $890.[ “A definite increased interest in the museum has been appar­ent during the past year on the part of many visiting groups, [with 30 to 50 in each group.” said Mrs. Smith. “A large percentage, of groups were school classes," ’she added.( A brief “Story of W’oodstock" was made available during 1958Stratford General Hospital de-! legation, appearing at 2 p.m. re- - quesled for an annual grant ofi $4,600 from 1959 to 1968, based on; „ . the use of the Hospital by Oxford!can do as a County organize-! County patients.tion- ’ The explanation of the requestiSUBURBAN ROADS stated that as a result of theCounty clerk-treasurer, L. K. Ontario Hospital Services Com- . Coles read a report from the [ mission Insurance Plan, the hos- Suburban Roads Commission ofIPital is no longer able to makel > Ingersoll, presented by the chair-[a “surcharge" of $1,50 a day: man A. D. Robinson. The report, to non-resident patients, insulting from a meeting of the! In previous years the money' in County so received was used towards the!Building yesterday morning, con- repayment of principal and in-! ' tamed estimates on construction on ruin ono and maintenance to be performed roS '-Ing-son suburban roads dur- £r ™ “£! IEstimated costs totalled S6.634 P'lal *”on Council “for anything that weIn previous years the money! so received was used towards the!and a motion proposed by Ch air-i man of the roads committee. Her­bert Balkwil, to the effect that the County appropriate and pay the amount out of funds was pas­sed.Council adjourned at 2.40 p.m. to allow the Roads, Finance, Pro­perty and Agriculture commit­tees to meet.in-pita! in 1943.DEPUTATION’SDelegations from St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital and the Can­adian National Institute for th*?, Blind will be received during to­morrow’s session of County Coun­cil. The session opens at 19 a.m, at the County Building.JOHN CANFIELD. . . one of 3 deadSees No Need For Rabies Vaccination Clinics HereThe low level of rabies infect­ion in Oxford County indicates that the disease is not serious enough to warrant the establish­ment of vaccination clinics.This finding was contained in a letter from the Department of Agriculture, Health of Animals Division, which was among the correspondence read during the second day of County Council by clerk-treasurer, L. K. Coles.All counties are under close surveillance, the letter continued, and should the disease become serious in Oxford County the De­partment is prepared to vaccin­ate dogs at clinics However, it urged that in townships where the disease has occurred muni­cipal councils take action to el­iminate stray dogs and, if the disease progresses, institute mea­sures to prevent all dogs fromrunning at large.The letter was in a resolution passed December se&sion Council which askedcontrol of canning and process­ing plants in this country and seeking protective tariffs or other measures to safeguard the in­dustry.From Wentworth County Coun-! cil a resolution asking the Ont­ario Government to rescind ah amendment to section 29 of the Public Hospitals Act. This arn- endment would remove the right of a municipality to recover any payment made for the treatment of a patient in a hospital.A resolution passed by the Vil­lage of Waterdown and endorsed, by Wentworth County Council pe­titioning the Ontario Government to require that every gas meter reader be required to carry a device to detect escaping gas . within a building.From the Township of West Zorra a request that the Countyseriously consider cutting down, response to, the hill just west of Golspie during the School for safety reasons.during theof County that vacci-oodstock Boy Killed Collapse Of Roofnation clinics be established n the County.Several resolutions were offer­ed for Council's approval.From the united counties of Northumberland and Durham a resolution opposing AmericanVarious organizations, includ­ing the Canadian National Insii- ‘ tute for the Blind, the Salvation Army, St. John Ambulance, the Navy League of Canada, the Uni­versity of Western Ontario and the Rotary Club of Woodstock, requested financial support forthecoming year.'V SIMCOE, Jan. 28AmidNorfolk Aids Two This YearCouncilors Would StopGrants To Hospitalsrecommendations that Norfolk discontinue hospital grants after ilils year, county council today ®approved grants totalling $62,-518 to Tillsonburg District Me- I mortal Hospital and NorfolkGeneral Hospital.Ths Tillsonburg institution' will get $17,939, and Norfolk General will receive $34,577.The size of the Norfolk Gen-' end grant represents the institu­tion’s 1958 operating deficit,] while the Tillsonburg figure stands for Norfolk’s share in; that hospital’s deficitBoth hospitals received small­er grants last year.Would End Grants"I think we should get away! from involving the tax rate in hospital grants,” ex-warden E. W. Phillips said. "Let’s just'' make a straight grant and that’s it And I would make a strong1 recommendation to future coun­ty councils to discontinue such grants."Charles Quanbury, of Port Dover, produced a hospital bill to substantiate Mr. Phillips’ stand.He pointed out that prior to introduction of the Ontario Hos­pital Service Plan cost of a room at Norfolk General waa about $8 a day, with extra| charges for drugs and special services. It has now been set at $17.50, inclusive of special; charges.Not Always Needed"There are many days in which drugs and other care are not needed," Mr. Quanbury said, "so it seems that the extra! money might at least partially, offset the deficit created by in­digent patients.”Mr. Phillips said: "I want to get away this year from the idea of leaving the door open forfuture grants. It's a door which, should be shut now."Clerk D. C. Porter told coun­cil the grants together repre­sent roughly .85 of a mill. The suggestions for discontinuing grants after 1959 were not in­cluded in the resolution.Roads At WorstOn Friday MorningThe climax to bad driving con­ditions was reached this morn­ing.Bad as the streets have been on some former occasions during the winter, the most treacherous conditions of all were said to pre-; vail this morning. Many drivers' did not attempt to get their | cars out.Particularly hazardous were1the conditions on the residential, streets. All the streets were a glare of ice and the general scene was typical of a mammoth ■ 'skating rink.Pedestrians on their way to work had to pick their way and they experienced difficulty with every stride.' There was a marked curtail- - inent in motor traffic and at one stage during the early morning one taxi driver said that the ser­vice might have to be halted ow-B ing to the great rush involved, jDamage to their cars was fear­ed through the icy conditions. It was stated that at that time two cars had met with difficulty in different parts of the town which jhad curtailed service when it was) ' J most urgently neededi t Kent Butcher, of Princeton, 'Dairy Farming Electrically," wasElectricallyPrinceton Boy Takes Oxford Oratory HonorsFree Pres* Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK. Feb. speaking on the topicawarded top honors in the Oxford County public speaking finals sponsored hy the Oxford County Trustees' and Rate- payers’ Association in Central School auditorium here today.$6,022,200 In Road Aid Approved In 4 CountiesThe municipal roads branch of the Department of High­ways, district No. 2, has announced approval will be given thia year for $6,022,200 in road budgets in Middlesex, Elgin, Norfolk and Oxford counties.The amounts indicate the total on which the department is prepared to grant subsidies. Supplementary bylaws for ad-ditlonal special later.Middlesexwork in the municipalities will be consideredAmountsMunicipalities in Middlesex; county are eligible for a total) initial budget of $2,656,500, with,' the following sums allotted each; ; municipality:Townships — Adelaide, $27,500 ;i Biddulph, $37,000; Caradoc, $46,- 500; Delaware, $33,500; Dor-1, ! Chester N., $47,000; Ekfrid, $30,- >000; Lobo, $45,000; London, $235,- '000; McGillivray, $48,000; Met- jcalfe, $25,000; Mosa, $35,000; 'Nissouri W., $50,500; Westmin-'! •' Ster, $168,000; Williams E., $21,-! 000; Williams W., $23,000.Cities — London, $700,000. Town — Parkhill, $10,000; ,Strathroy, $37,000. Villages — Ailsa Craig, $3,300; Glencoe, $9,800; Lucan, $2,400; Newbury, $1,600; Wardsville, $1,400; Cara­doc Indian Reserve, $19,000. Mid­dlesex county, $1,000,000.Elgin county, $525,000. Town­ships — Aidborough, $59,000; I Bayham, $66,000; Dorchester S.,l $30,000; Dunwich, $48,000; Mala- hide, $47,500; South wold, $45,000:: Yarmouth, $76,000. Cities — St. Thomas, $94,000. Towns — Ayl-| mer, $31,000. Villages — Dutton,; $4,900; Port Burwell, $4,400; Port Stanley, $9,500; Rodney, $5,200; Springfield, $2,800; Vien­na, $1,900; West Lorne, $5,200.$500,000 To NorfolkNorfolk county, $500,000. Townships — Charlotteville, $83.- 000; Houghton, $41,000; Middle­ton, $63,500; Townsend, $90,000; Walsingham N., $56,000; Wal-singham S., $39,000; Windham, $82,500; Woodhouse, $62,500. Towns — Delhi, $24,000; Port; Dover, $23,000; Simcoe, $74,000.; Villages — Port Rowan, $8,800; Waterford, $9,100.Oxford County, $480,000, Town-, ships — Blandford, $20,000;!Blenheim, $05,000; Dereham, $72,000; Nlsaouri E., $39,000; Norwich N., $41,000; Norwich S.. $47,000; Oxford E., $25,000; Ox­ford N.( $21,000; Oxford W„ $29,000; Zorra E., $58,000; Zor- ra W., $45,000. Cities — Wood-, stock, $110,000. Separated Towns - Ingersoll, $43,000, Towns Tillsonburg, $35,000. Villages — C Embro, $3,400; Norwich, $10,700;Tavistock, $3,800.Woodstock Sentinel-Review. Monday, Feb. 9,Warns Of Fk Possible In AOXFORD ^SURPLUS CUTDeficit Of $14,596! On 1958 OperaticOxford County had a deficit towards an objective of $4,600,000 Assembling s for the year 1958 of $14,596.91, has been raised from private recess Council!reducing surplus funds to $28,-801.66.These figures were containedsources in the last 18 months. Ration from Warden Pearce assured the Hospital and delegation that their request mittee roomsin the auditors’ report, read by would meet with every consider- county clerk-treasurer, L. K. —Coles during the Wednesday mor-i ning session of County Council.Before adjourning to committee rooms at 10.40 a.m. councillors heard the second reading of five) bylaws. Council reassembled at' 11.40 a.m. to receive a delega-l tion from the University of Wes-i tern Ontario and Robert Forbes,1 superintendent of the County' Home and County Home Farm.Dr. G. E. Hall, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, thanked: Council for its past financial sup­port and presented facts and fig-1 ures to indicate the Uhiversity'si need for further assistance.Enrollment at the University this year, Dr. Hall said, was 10 per cent higher than last year,! passing the post-war peak. "Uni-ation.Today is the]s January sessioiMounting Costs PointedUrges Oxford DiWoodstock Faiversiites arc in the category of! big business," the president con-; £ tinued, "last year's operating' budget amounted to $4,250,000.";Seventy two per cent of the registered students come from1 outside the commuting area of London, Dr. Hall said, with 153 students registered from this! county.Colonel Little, a member of the Board of Governors of the Uni­versity, reported that $3,750,000Free Press Woodstock Bures] WOODSTOCK, Feb. 18 — Oxford County; grant to the Woodstock Fair Board, Reeve. East Oxford and a member of Oxford Couf ■ cated today at the annual meeting of the 1 $225 Last Year"The county gives grants to, hospitals and everything else in ’the county," he said, "they should give a larger grant to the Woodstock Fair Board.”County council last year gave the fair board a grant of $225. The same amount la given six ■ other fairs In the county annual- ly.Secretary - managerE.Nephew told the meeting, held at the Recreation Hall, that the fair board showed a profit of $360 last year.However,continued,mounting costs and limited re-j ceipts Were forcing the board j to take a closer look at the financial operation of the 1959 fair.Tillson® Shot I Til.I .SONT-] fox was eonB hind TiUsonh® about <:30 pl two two polk!ConstablesRoy Paget kland Dr,deliveredRalph Ha1inn, fof exami: xford County Shows $14,59Deficit In“grass roots level’’ was observ­ed by 37 pupils from Drumbo ad Wolverton public schools at this morning's session of CountyThirty-seven junior citizens aw democracy in action this corning with the opening of the bird day of County Council's Jan- ary session in Woodstock.The youngsters, pupils of grad-School Pupils Pay Visit To Oxford County CouncilCounty Council At ORAM Meeting All members of Oxford County council, including County Clerk L. K Coles, attended the annual meeting of the Ontario Associat­ion of Rural Municipalities in Toronto yesterday.Although the conference will continue tomorrow', many of the Oxford delegates returned home last night.Next week, a county delegat­ion will attend the Ontario Good Roads Convention in Toronto. Members of the country delegat­ion have not been named as yet. Reeve, Herbert Balkwill and their teacher. Mrs. Ann Hanke, they occupied the Warden’s chair and councillor’s seats dur- es seven and eight Drumbo and . Wolverton public schools, were .accompanied by teacher Mrs. 'Ann Hanke. Their visit was ar­ranged by Herbert Balkwill, Re­eve of Blenheim Township, to assist the students in their stud­ies of Canadian Government.Prior to the opening of- Council, L. K. Coles, county clerk- treasurer, welcomed the visitors and explained the arrangement of the council chambers and the functions of Council itself. Later the group toured the Court House and visited the Oxford Museum.Council assembled at 10 a.m. with Warden Pearce advising committees to keep a close check on expenditures to cut down def­icits. He suggested the weeding out of obsolete grants and care­ful consideration of any new grants.New communications read by Mr. Coles included a resolution ing ineir visit. Left to right, David Hamble, grade 8 Drumbo Dignna Peterson, gr. 8 Drum- bo, a granddaughter of the 1924 warden, Mr. Balk will, Judy। from the County of Wentworth I and requests for financial assist­ance from the Rotary Club of! Tillsonburg and the Oxford Mus­eum,.Following the first reading of. five bylaws, Council adjourned at 10:40 a.m. to allow the Finan­ce, Agriculture and Property committees to meet.Council reassembled at 11 a.m. to hear a delegation from St. Mary’s Hospital' and then ad­journed for lunch.During the afternoon session! Council received a delegation from the Canadian National! In­stitute for the Blind.Robert Beil, agricultural repre­sentative for Oxford County, ap­peared before councillors to ex­plain the organization and pur-! poses of the Farm Accident Sur-: vey, currently undertaken by his: office, and to seek Council’s bask­ing for this project. 'BalkwiH, grade 7 Wolverton, ai.d daughter of the councillor,! Judy McLaren, grade 7 Drum­bo, Walter Cadwell, grade 81 Drumbo and Warden ’ Pearce.!'Oxford Council Attends ParleyFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Feb. 17 — AU members of Oxford County council, including County Clerk L. K. Coles, attended the annu­al meeting of the Ontario As-1 sociatibn of Rural Municipal!-! ties in Toronto today.Although the conference will ( continue tomorrow, many of the Oxford delegates returned home tonight.Next week, a county delega­tion will attend the Ontario Good Roads Convention in To­ronto. Members of the county delegation have not been named as yet.1958jL , . ____i- .Past Surplus Eases Blow, Council ToldFree I’rehs Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Jan. 28— Oxford County has shown a $14,596 deficit in opera­tions during 1958.Cuts Into SurplusThe deficit was revealed today in the auditor’s report pre­sented to council.L. K. Coles, county clerk said the county had shown a $43,365 i surplus in 1957 so it left $28,801 as an over all surplus in opera­tions during the past two years.Mr. Coles attributed tha deficit to high costs, additional grants and other miscellaneous items not included in the 1958 budget. He said the profit and loss margin varied from year to year depending on the cost of material and other items which affect the budget.He said council had made sev­eral grants during the year . which were not included in the budget and as a result it [brought about the deficit.Profit From FarmIn another budget presented |to council, Robert J. Forbes, [Superintendent of the county [home, said the county homa farm had shown a $2,162 profit for the year. However, the cost, of operating the county home during 1958 amounted to $8,666.Two delegations appeared be­fore council requesting financial assistance.Dr. G. A. Haii, president of' the University of Western On-; tario, asked council to continue paying the $2,500 grant which, the university received in 1957.Hospital Asks AidD. B. Strudley, chairman of the board of directors for tha Stratford General Hospital re­quested council to pay r grant of $4,600 annually for the next 10 years to aid in the operation of the hospital there.Representatives from the Till­sonburg Rotary Club will ap­proach council tomorrow seek­ing financial assistance for erec­tion of a Tillsonburg and Dis­trict School for Retarded Chil­dren.Council will sit in committeeConfusion Promised As Woodstock,CountySwitch Time Different Datestomorrow morning while dur­ing the afternoon open sessions will resume when reports will be read and adopted. It is ex-» pected the inaugural meeting will finish tomorrow night.Free Pre** Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK. Jan. 29 - Be­cause the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, confusion promises to reign supreme in Oxford Coun­ty again this year over Day­light Saving Time.Woodstock city coundl at a meeting tonight adopted a Lon­don resolution to standardize the switch to Daylight Saving Time so Uiat all Western On­tario municipalities would change their clocks at the same time.Agree With LondonCity fathers here unanimous­ly agreed with London I hat clocks should be turned to the summer hours at: 12.01 a.m. April 26 and be turned back to Standard Timo on Sept. 27.Twelve hours earlier Oxford County council adopted a reso­lution which asked all munici­pal illcs represented on county council to turn their docks to Daylight Saving Time on April 31 anti return on Sept. 30.Woodstock, in the middle of the county, therefore will be an hour ahead of the rest of the county for five days.The same then will happen in September w h c n Woodstock will bo an hour behind for three days. WOODSTOCK TO PAY $47,721Plan $417,177 Expenditure On Suburban City Roadsth, Woodstock Suburban Boada! SCommission during IMS with the} - 1 Awn* !«lchar,-. 701 “on‘ APn> 31 to September 30The 'expenditures and work'; wSU be Awarded to all urbanty Council at the end of the Jan- LIBRARY CO-OPuary session yseterday. The report of the County!Maintenance costs on roads 1~. Library Co-operative approved 30 and 31 will account for $60451 appointment of Magistrate! with the remaining $411,132 ear- R. q Groom of Tillsonburg and! marked for construction on the h. L. Kipp, Princeton to the 3.6 mile stretch of Governors Board for 1959.Road from North Oxford to thejcity limits. A sum of $8200, increased by]Taxation in Oxford County will $800 over last year, will be placed amount to an estimated $640,000 to the credit of the Library BoardBritish Empire Air Pioneer Visits Woodstock Relativesin 1959.—----- । The Printing and ResolutionsProposed expenditures were Committee advised that no act- broken down into two totals by jon tie taken on a resolution from the Finance Committee. County the County of Wentworth asking roads costs are estimated at $1.- that every gas meter reader be 110,000 less $770,000 receivable or required to carry a device to de- $340,000 with general purposes. tect escaping gas within a build­charity and welfare set at $300,- jug. Their decision was prompted1 000. by a campaign launched by theCounty Roads superintendent Ontario Fuel Board, designed to! J. N. Meathrell’s thirtieth annual eliminate natural gas hazards fn report showed that $1,188,003 was Ontario.expended on County roads in Requests from Folden's Corn- 1958. ers Home and School Club and'Councillors spent most of theday in committee, emerging at the West Zorra Public School 3:40 p.m. to present reports Board that hills in front of their and pass five by-laws. schools be cut to increase visi-GRANTS bility will be acted upon by theEight grants were allowed in' County Roads Committee. Profil- the report of the Finance Com- es will be prepared of the sites mittee. The Canadian National In- and improvements discussed, stitute for the Blirvd receives ATTEND OEA$500, the Salvation Army $1,000, St. John Ambulance $50 and the Oxford Museum $950.Members of the Education Com­mittee. Clare Esseltine, LorneA request from St. Mary's Me­morial Hospital for $7,728 for ex­pansion purposes was approved with the proviso that the grant would be reduced proportionately if additional aid is received from either the Federal or Provincial governments.A unanimous vote of Council,Junker, George Wallace, Charles Coldham, George Nagle, and Warden Pearce were delegated to attend the Ontario Education As­sociation convention. By-laws in­cluded authorization for the War­den, Mr. Pearce and clerk-treas­urer. L. K. Coles to borrow $1,- 110,000 for expenditure on the| County roads system.meeting asA second by-law was passed a whole, granted authorizing the borrowing of$4000 for the next ten years toStratford General Hospital.Rotary Clubs of Woodstock and Tillsonburg will receive $1,500 each for their work with retard­ed children.The report of the Agriculture Committee, adopted as read* re­commended that Council support the Ontario Farm Accident Sur­vey program with each township council taking an active part.Eki Thornton was appointed! weed inspector for 1959 and the barberry and buckthorn eradicat­ion campaign will be carried on under his supervision.George Nagle of Dereham and William Baigent of North Oxford,$210,000 to meet current expendi­tures for the year until taxes are collected. Appointees under a by-law setting up a Road Com­mittee under the Highway Im­provement Act were: W. W. Budd, five years: P. L. Pressey, four years'; H. Balkwill, three years,' H. McCombs, two years; James Chesney, one year.Other appointments Included the selection of George Davis and L. K. Coles as auditors of Criminal Justice accounts for the year. Mr. Coles was also named; secretary of the Board of Man­agement of the County Home for 1959.On motion. Warden Pearce ad-will represent the taunty on the «ourned th ’ January session at Oxford Soil and Crop Improve- ± - ment Association.Delegates to the annual meet­ing of the Ontario Agricultural Council will be the Warden. Ed5:05 p.m.Pearce and the entire Agricult-i " urai Committee consisting of Geo­rge Wallace, William Baigent Lorne Junker, George Nagle and Hilton Virtue.MB. ONTARIOCol. Tom Kennedy Dies An Active-80Noted pioneer of Canadian aviation, John A. D. McCurdy, recalls the afternoon of Feb. 23, 1909, when he made the first powered aircraft flight in the British Empire. He traveled about three-quarters of a mile 60 feet above the frozen waters of Baddeck Bay in Nova Scotia in the new-famous Silver Dart.By BOB HOWE Free Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Jan. 28—John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, one of Canada’s best-known aviation pioneers, Is looking for­ward with eagerness to commemoration next month of the 50th anniversary of the history-making day when he piloted the first powered flight in the British Empire .Details of the flight will be recounted Feb. 8 In Weekend, The London Free Press Saturday magazine section, and on Feb. 23, the flight will be re-enacted by a replica of the famous Silver Dart across the ice of Baddeck Bay, In Nova Scotia, where Mr. McCurdy lifted his craft into the air, Feb. 13, 1909.History Made"History was made on that day, but we never realized it,” Mr. McCurdy said in Wood- stock, where he is visiting rela­tives.Born in the small village of Baddeck, where he now lives, Mr. McCurdy was educated there and at the University of Toronto, from which he gradu­ated In 1908 as a mechanical en­gineer.In 1907, a fellow-villager, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, founded the Aerial Experimen­tal Association, with John Mc-Curdy, "Caaey” Thomas bcrs.After "flyingGlenn Curtiss, F. W.Baldwin and LtE. Selfridge as foem-three less successful machines,” the groupbuilt the Silver Dart. 32 feet long with a wing-span of 49 feet and weighing 750 pounds.The day of the test was crisp and sunny, Mr. McCurdy re­calls."I was about to take my seat when Dr. Bell halted every­thing to await the arrival of the doctor.”"I mounted the seat . . . th« machine bounded forward and took to the air after a short run of about 150 feetFelt At Home"I felt perfectly at home and rose to an altitude of 60 feet, leveled out and flew for about three-quarters of a mile and then descended. A perfect three-point landing was made and I taxied the machine back to her starting point”What does Mr. McCurdy think about the future of avia­tion.?"The early concept of avia­tion was a method of communi­cation, not war, and I can’t see any object in this space busi­ness."Mr. McCurdy was married in! 1919 to the former Margaret Millicent Ball, of Woodstock, whom ho met in Toronto. They have a daughter, wife of Capt P. E. Haddon, of the Royal Ca­nadian Navy, and a son, John, employed in the construction industry In the Maritimes.Slippery Conditions 01 Weather Blamed For Accidents On Roads Report For RoadsConstruction Maintenance Jobs PlannedFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Jan. 29 —More than §417,000 will be spent this year on con­struction and maintenance of three Oxford County roads under the jurisdic­tion of the Woodstock Suburban Roads Commis­sion.Adopt ReportIn a report adopted at the final session of county council today, it was revealed the money will be spent on the Sweaburg road, running south from Woodstock, Concession 11, and Governor's road which both are west of the city. Construction started on Gov­ernor's road last fall but still the remainder of the costs for completing the work will make it the largest road project in the county this year. Cost of construction on this road alone will reach $411,132. L. K. Coles, county clerk, read from the re- iport.About $6,000 is earmarked for maintenance of the three roads, Woodstock has been asked to pay $47,000 of the amount.The section of Governor's road under construction stretches west 3.6 miles fronh the western end of Dundas street. The province, city and [ county are sharing costs.Ontarloo will pay $224,651 i while the city and county are! expected to contribute $61,070! each. Canada Cement Company, [ of Woodstock, has agreed to do­nate an estimated $64,340 worth of cement for the project.In other reports presented to-I day, R. G. Groom, of Tillson- burg, and H. L. Tipp, of Prince­ton, were named to Oxford County Library Co-Operative Board. Council agreed to pay the board a grant of $8,200.Other county grants will be paid to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, $500:' Salvation Army, $1,000; Oxford County Museum, $950; Rotary Club of Tillsonburg for a school for retarded children, $1,500; and Woodstock Rotary Club for ' a similar project. $1,500.St Marys Hospital received a] grant of $7,000 and Stratford General Hospital an annual; grant of $4,000 for the next 10 years.Speaking on the grants given.' to hospitals. Reeve Robert Rudy, of Tavistock, objected to an earlier motion which gave Stratford Hospital $3,500.“We have an obligation to the | hospital there and I think it is; unfair not to deal with the re­quest on the same basis as St, Marys.” he said.Following an amendment to the original motion, council unanimously agreed to pay tho annual £4.000 grant.The $4 bounty for fox shot In the county will stand again this year. The agricultural commit-1 tec also urged county support to the farm accident survey now being organized by the Ontario Department of Agriculture.Daylight Saving Time will start in Oxford April 30 and will end Sept. 30, council decid­ed.Reeve Donald Hossack, of Embro, urged council to seek I compensation from either tho federal or provincial govern­ment for livestock lost through, rabies. He said the government I paid farmers compensation forj animals lost through other di­seases and he felt rabies should be no exception.Deputy Reeve Alexander Hos­sack, of East Missouri, also sup-, ported the move.Reeve John Bolton, of East Missouri, asked a resolution favoring the compensation bo sent to Ontario Agricultural ’Council which meets next week jin Toronto.Mr. Coles, however, recom- Imended delegates attending the! convention from Oxford should bring the matter up for discus­sion.An estimated $170,000 will bo raised through taxes for general purposes this year in the coun­ty while an additional $130,000 will be raised for charity and Welfare funds. More than $?/,- 000 will be raised for county roads.Council made the following [appointments to the county roads committee, Reeve W. W. Budd, of West Oxford, for five) years; Reeve P. L. Pressey, of Dereham, for four'years; Reeve Herbert Balkwill, of Blenheim, [for three years; Reeve Howard IMcCombs, of Norwich, for two years; and Reeve James Ches­ney, of East Zorra, for one year.25,000 EligibleFree Anti-Polio Shots Offered Oxford AdultsFree PreM Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK. Feb. 11 — Salk vaccine will be offered free of charge to an estimated 25,000 adults In Oxford County later |tills month, Reeve Donald Hos- sack, of Embro, chairman of the county health unit committee, an­nounced tonight following a spe­cial committee meeting.The anti-pollomyelltls serum will be administered without charge to county residents 40 years and under.The first clinic Is expected to open In Woodstock Feb. 20 and 14 other clinics will follow at central locations throughout the county.Plan Three DosesDr. O. C. Powers, of Thames- ford, medical officer of health for Oxford County, said two doses of the Salk vaccine will be given first and the third dose would follow seven months later.He said personnel of the Ox­ford Health Unit would adminis­ter the clinics and the tentative aim was to have the first andsecond dose* given by mld-Aprll. I The Ontario Department of IHealth and the county will share the costa of the free clinics.Dr. Powers said the county] would receive the vaccine free! from the province and the coun­ty would bear the cost of the clinics.Stresses Importance“I want to emphasize how Im­portant this is to the people of; Oxford," Dr. Powers said. "I, urge every adult who Is eligible for the vaccine to take advan­tage of the opportunity.’’The special health plan is be­lieved to be the only one of its! kind in Ontario.Mr. Hossack said it would take' two weeks before the clinics) could be organized throughout the county.Seek FacilitiesDr. Powers said a schedule of clinics would be available as soon as arrangements were made for facilities.Already in the county, babies and school aged children have received the vaccine with some children waiting on the third dose. He said the program an­nounced tonight would not be available to school children who have already received the vac­cine.The health unit committee In­cludes Mr. Hossack. Dr. Powers, Reeve Hilton Virtue, of East Oxford: James Hartnett, of Brownsville, provincial health representative: Mayor Norman Pembleton, of Ingersoll; Aid. W.)B. Dutton, of Woodstock; Oxford Warden E. R. Pearce, of Tiilson- burg and County Clerk L. K. Coles.Ex-Wardens7 Granddaughters See Council SessionMore than 40 school children from Drumbo visited Oxford County council chambers Tuesday and watched council in session. Warden E. R. Pearce, of Tillsonburg, left, showed the traditional gav<?l used by the warden. Left to right, are Reeve Her-—Free Press Woodstock Bureau berf Balkwill, of Blenheim Township; David Ham- bly, 14, of Drumbo; Judy Balkwill, 14, and Dianne Peterson, 13, whose grandfathers were county war­dens, and Walter Cadwell, 15, all of Drumbo. r OXFORD COMMITTEE SET UPName J. Grant Smith As Safety Survey HeadFive New CouncilorsFour Would BeOxford WardenJ Grant Smith, Burgessville,' was appointed chairman of the; Oxford County Farm Accident' Survey during a luncheon meet­ing of township chairmen i nWoodcockyesterdayPLAN OXFORD POLIO CLINICS—Oxford County's free adult polio immuniza­tion clinics will open in Woodstock Friday. An estimated 25,000 adults 40 years and under are eligible for the vaccine. More than 30 cubic centimeters of vaccine will be used in the 11 clinics throughout the county for the three doses. ' Dr. O. C. Powers, medical officer of health, 12 Oxford Health Unit nurses and I several volunteer nurses will operate the clinics. Left to right, Miss Muriel Charlton, clinical nurse; Miss Mae Havilland, unit nurse, and Dr. O. C. Powers prepare.the vaccine and equipment for the clinics.FREE POLIO IMMUNIZATIONSet Up Oxford Clinics For All Adults 20-40Free polio immunization clinics for the approximately 22,000 ad­ults in Oxford County betweenthe ages of 20 and 40 established this month.Reeve Donald Hossack bro, chairman of the health committee, madewill beof Em- county the an-nouncement Jast night following the first meeting of the commit­tee.Dr. O. C. Powers, MOH for Oxford County explained that the free clinics are being estab­lished to keep the county polio- free. He emphasized that the health committee deserves full / credit for this measure which is the first undertaken on a county­wide basis in Ontario.The health committee includes Warden E. R. Pearce, TiUson-burg, Mr. Hossack, Dr. Powers, Reeve Hilton Virtue, East Ox­ford, James Hartnett, Browns­ville, provincial health represen­tative, Mayor Norman Pemble- ton, Ingersoll, Aiderman W. B. Dutton, Woodstock and county clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles.Salk vaccine is administered in a series of three shots. The first clinic in Woodstock will open at the Health Unit February 20, Dr, Powers said. It is hoped that the population can be divided into three groups alphabetically. Those with the initials A-G are asked to attend the first clinic, those with names in the H-0 category will attend February 23 and the third alphabetical grouD- ing of P-Z are asked to go Feb-ruary 25 for CLINICSClinics will from 2 p.m. the evenings p.m.their first shot.be held afernoons to 4 p.m. and infrom 7p.m. to 9Exactly one month second dose will be later the availablewith the third scheduled for November.‘'However,” Dr. Powers stated, “we don’t want people to thinkthese dates are hard and fast. They can receive the vaccine on the most convenient day while the clinics are open.”When arrangements are com-j pleted clinics will also be held ini 10 other centres in the county including Embro, Tavistock, Ing* I ersoll, Drumbo, Norwich, Kin- tore, Mount Elgin, Tillsonburg,, Beachville and Otterville.Tlie clinics will be operated by the staff of the Oxford Health Unit under the direction of Dr. Powers with free vaccine pro­vided by the Ontario Department* of Health.Forty years has been set as the age limit because, as Dr. Powers pointed out, the incidence of polio drops considerably after this age. Children arc not eligible for immunization at the adult clinics because they are protec-1 ted under the school immuniza- ■ tion program.“Salk vaccine Is practically the ; easiest injection we can give,” Dr. Powers said, “It is almost, painless and no after-effects have been reported from the approxi­mately 20,000 injections given so far in the county”.By BOB HOWE Free Press Woodstock Bureau, WOODSTOCK, Jan. 13 Five new members will be taking pant in their first Oxford County council meeting when ses­sions open here Jan. 20.New CouncilorsThe new councilors are Reeve;S Gordon Armstrong, of Biand-i ford Township; Deputy Reeve .George Nagle, of Dereham Township; Deputy Reeve Alex Hottack. of East Nissouri? Township; Reeve David Cham-R bets, of North Norwich Town- ship and Ernest F. Garner, of I West Zorra Township.At least four candidates have indicated they will contest the , .wardenship's office presently fe held by J. Grant Smith, of Bur- I gcssville.Reeve Edward Pearce, of rill-1 sonburg. Reeve P. L. Pressey,I of Dereham Township; Reeve . Hilton Virtue, of East Oxford Township and Reeve Donald; Hossack. of Embro. have all in-| dlcated they will seek the warn denship.21 MembersFifteen reeves and six deputy reeves representing municipal governments in Oxford will at­tend opening sessions at 2 p.m.next Tuesday.The first election of a "open vote". K. Coles inbusiness will warden by County Clerk his capacitychairman reads the roll andbe an L. as aseach member’s name is called, he states his choice of candidate' openly.This procedure goes on until there is a majority vote. Mr.L Coles said that one year the . warden was elected on the 42nd ’ ballot and he added that old- . timers w’ill remember when the 1 election was settled on even more ballots.3 Tillsonburg VotesTwenty one members are elig- < lible to vote with 22 votes being,’ cast. Tillsonburg with a popula- I tion of over 2,000 has three ? votes, two by the reeve and unc. by the deputy reeve.Council sessions open Tuesday*; and continue Wednesday at which time committees will bei •' formed. Council will adjourn^ for a week and return on Jan. 27 to deal with the remainder' of county business.Oxford County was incorpor-jx ated in 1850 and the sessions, • next week will open the 110th year of business.Members of council are: Gord-7 1 on Armstrong, of Blandford. * Herbert Balkwell and Charles* Coldham. both of Blenheim: P.g * L. Pressey and George Nagle, E both of Dereham; John Bolton >. and Alex Hossack. both of Eastr Nissouri. Hilton C. Virtue, ofp East Oxford, William Baigent. , of North Oxford: W. W. Buddl and George Wallace, both off West Oxford: James H. Ches-J ney and Lorne W. Junker, both' of East Zorra. Ernest Pearce and Clare H, Esseltinc, both of| Tillsonburg. Donald Hossack, of Embro; Howard McCombs, of] Norwich and Robert Rudy, of| Tavistock. VIGILANT SERVICES OF COUNTY UNIT CUT INi,» second cImb maC Department. OttawaWOODS1—-— -POPULARITY of the child immunization clinics held the first Thursday of every month in Woodstock is indicated in these pictures. LEFT A por­tion of the "buggy brigade"forms up outside the door. RIGHT "Say, doc, where are you going with that needle?" six-and-a-halif-momt h-old Brian Nicholas seems to be asking.But needles are an old story to, left to right, Dr. O. C. Powers. Miss Muriel Charlton, RN and Brian's mother. Mrs. J. Nicholas. (Staff photos).IMMUNIZATION CLINICSMEMBERIt’s Always A “Health Week” For Oxford UnitCanadian Good Hoads AssociationL. K. COLESDUES PAID TO Xli«_ 59By MARY MARSHThis may be National Health Week in Canada but every week is health week as far as Oxford County is concerned.Since child health clinics were first established in the County in 1945 the incidence of childhood diseases has been “nothing like it used to be" according to MOH Dr. O. C. Powers.The Sentinel-Review visited the Clinic held at the Health Unit Thursday afternoon to find out just- how Dr. Powers and hisstaff cope with their approxi­mately 160 wee "customers”.BUGGY BRIGADEWe found an impressive baby buggy brigade lining the entran­ce to the Unit.Inside, volunteer workers Mrs. F. Ballett, Mrs. R. Matthews and Mrs. F. Foster were assigning numbers to each mother and helping to peel off outer layers of clothing.Public health nurses Mrs. V.Wilkins, Mrs. P. Johnston, G. DeHaan and Miss ElsieMissHold-Compensation For Rabies Is Urged By Oxford MLAGordon Innes, (L-Oxford) advo-i eated Government compensation for cattle destroyed by rabies yesterday, during the first meet­ing of the agricultural committee of the Legislature.He urged an early meeting of Federal and Provincial officials to deal with the matter.Mr. Innes also pointed out that the Department of Lands and Forests, which is responsible for all wild animals in Ontario, has some responsibility as fox life is blamed for the rabies epidemic.Eleven head of cattle from eight premises have died of rabies in Oxford County so far with one farmer, Clarence Shaddock of Thamesford the hardest hit. Mr.the Animal Disease Research stitute in Hull, Quebec.en counselled the mothers and | S filled out cards indicating which shot the child should receive.From there the children, some sleeping and blissfully unaware and some slightly apprehensive, were carried or led to Dr. Pow-I er’s office, where Miss Muriel Charlton assisted the doctor with the actual administration of the needle.Miss Mae Haviland supervis­ed, lending a helping hand with some of the older children.Immunizing of infants, we were1 told, begins at three months of' age with three doses a month apart of a triple vaccine against diptheria, whooping cough and tetanus. At six months of age small pox vaccination is admin- , istered.Salk vaccine, which is rapidly! eliminating the spectre of polio,350MANAGING DIHECTORSTRATFORD, Feb. 13 — Possibility of a 50-bed addition to the Stratford General Hospital within the next five years, was indicated by chairman D. B. Strudley at a hospital board meeting tonight.He said the medical staff, at a liaison meeting with board representatives, had endorsed a resolu-i tion asking for the additional accommodation.Tn- is given at seven and eight mon- ths of age. No cases of polio Two diseased cows have died' were reported in Oxford County on the farm of John Couke, RR during 1958.1, Embro.The score on rabid foxes in theTHIRD SHOTFor seven months the young-j county is mounting with ,21 report- ster thrives in peace and thened as definitely rabid and anoth- takes another trip to the Clinicer five at Hull for testing.Charles MacNaughton (PC, Hu­ron) stated that more could be done by the Federal Government in regard to cattle compensation.Ottawa, Mr. MacNaughton said, should regard rabies the same as it does brucellosis. (Under the Animal Contagious Diseases Act, the maximum compensation for Brucellois isShaddock has lost two head with ; a possible third being tested at|5140 for purebreds and $70 for grade animals.The committee learned that rabies can be spread by skunksto receive a third polio shot.Having weathered this round of needles, the child is considered to be immune to almost every­thing with the exception of mea-| sies, chicken pox, scrapes and bruises.A “booster” shot against teta­nus, diptheria and whooping cough at about two years of age carries the kiddie through to kin­dergarten and the reinforcing dos­es which continue throughout his school years.Rabies Outbreak Spreads In OxfordInvestigation of rabies reports in the last two weeks have all been in the area south of No. 2 highway. Dr. D. W. Thompson, veterinarian in charge of the Health of Animals Branch, Can­ada Department of Agriculture. Woodstock, stated yesterday that the outbreak is slowly moving from the north to the south of the County.The first case of rabies inand bats in addition to foxes.The agriculture committee decided to summon a Workmen’sCompensation Board official for a discussion of farm accidents.Deputy Agriculture Minister Dr.Staff members from the Ox-, ford Health Unit, Woodstock, hold regular immunizing clinics in Drumbo, Plattsville, Ingersoll,' Thamesford, Otterville, Kintore,, Beachville, Tillsonburg, Norwich, Princeton, Embro, Tavistock/ Brownsville and Woodstock. Last:past three months. Game War­den Herbert Clark of Woodstock reported.Thirty two hunts have been held, he said, with a total of11 94 fox killed.Tlie fox bounty was increased from $2 to $4 in December.Mr. Clark h^s warned hunters: that severe action will be taken | if anyone is caught dumping fox , carcasses along roadsides. He ■cattle was reported December 18 reported that he has investigated last year after a shorthorn heit-'several complaints of dead fox er died of the disease on the with traces of rabies being found farm of Bryant Sutherland, Lake- in ditches.side. East Nissouri township. De-' cember 12. The game warden pointed outsoccid™tl “ ‘“‘-jC. E. Janes (PC - Lambton i foi o’-S a?fJ he?rdEast) said farm accidents are j ^E8^®8 that We immuniza-iserious in this area with farmers! । being assessed compensation con-tion program in Oxford County;For some weeks the outbreak; that winter hunting licenses ex- - appeared to be centralized in the pired March 1 and summer lie- Lakeside, Brooksdale area. lenses, permitting hunters to car-Several mass fox drives, auth- ry a gun for the purpose of orized during the December ses- shooting or hunting animals such sion of County Council, have been as fox and ground hogs, should held in the county during the be purchased now.tnbutlons amounting to $3 for. every $100 of payroll. ; ? ■."v fc? These Men Directed O.G.R.A. Ooerations In 1958■ Officers ond directors of the Ontario Good Roads Association ■ during 1958, together with past presidents, are shown here: | Sitting, from left to right: F. L. Weldon, Victoria County, Past ? President; T. J. Mahony, Hamilton, Honorary Secretary,- Newton .? L. Powell, Brampton, First Vice-President; E. W. Jones, Simcoe ■ . County, Honorary President; James Gifford, Ennismore Township, President; ten Wookey, Callander, Honorary President; H. L.। Weichel, Elmira, Second Vice-President; W. Scott McKay, St. Thomas, Secretary. Standing from left to right: Edgar Drew, Lennox and Addington Counties, Past President; James Gaw,Grenville County, Past President; Harold Cleave, Prince Edward County, Past President; E. M. Fraser, Renfrew County, Director;!. Guy R. Marston, Norfolk County, Past President; W. D. Colby, Kent County, Past President; N. A. Fletcher, Hamilton, Suburban; Roads Commission, Past President and Director; W. S. Atkins, Lambton County, former Director; J. L. Shearer, Ottawa Suburban Roads Commission, Past President; L. K. Coles, Oxford County, Director; C. S. Anderson, South Porcupine, Director; J. H. Irvine, ■ Ottawa, Director; V. H. Evans, Tisdale Township, Past President.^ 'SESSION BRIEFSMay Share Rabies CostBy THE CANADIAN PRESS Tuesday, Feb. 3. 1959Agriculture Minister Harkness) indicated federal willingness to consider sharing costs of compen­sation to farmers who lose cattle, through rabies.Predict Record Registration For 57th Annual ConventionOntario Good Roads AssociationTORONTO—Officials of the Ontario Good Roads Association are confidently predicting that registrations for the 57th annual convention, now in progress atorexceed the more than 2,500 delegatesSet Dates,Urge Compensation For Rabid CattleTORONTO (CP.i — Retroactive 1 compensation for cattle kilcd by: rabies was requested Monday night in the legislature by Fern-, and Guindon <PC—Glengarry).Places For FreePolio Immunization ClinicsThe dates and locations of the 11 free adult polio immunization clinics in the County this year has been announced by Dr. O. C. Powers, medical officer of health for Oxford County.An estimated 25,000 adults 40 years and under are eligible for the free vaccine. Oxford is the only municipality in Ontario where such an extensive program has been launched, Dt. Powers said.Clinics will open in Woodstock at the Oxford Health Unit, Hunt­er and Graham streets, Feb. 20and the program for the city will i the Legion hall and Otterville} continue Feb. 23 and Feb. 25, for March 9 and April 13 at the town the first dose. The second dose hall.will be given March 20, 23 and 25. All clinics will be open between^;Dr. Powers asked city resid- 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and between ents with surnames starting with “ ’ ~the letter between “A” to “G” toattend the clinics Feb. 20 and March 20.People in the category of “H’6” should attend Feb. 23 of polio.7 p.m. and 9 p.m.Dr. Powers urged everyone to take advantage of the free poHo clinics. Theme of the program, he said, was “Keep Oxford freeand March 23 and all others Feb.the Royal York Hotel here, will equal who registered for the 1958 meeting.O.G.R.A. PresidentGood attendance was assured by the broad and varied program which was drafted for the largest meeting of its kind in Canada.The two-day convention was officially opened Tuesday morning by, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, j/ Justice J. Keiller Mackay, This wasli® the first time, in the memory of elder ) A members of O.G.R.A., that an Ontario ।, Lieutenant-Governor had so honoured an annual meeting of the Association, WIn his presidential address, James!..' Gilford, of Ennismore Township, 1 called for unswerving support for the Ontario good roads movement. He particularly commended the Ontario ■ Department of Highways for its con-[I tinued support of the Association and its ideals and objectives.25 and March 25.Dates for district clinics are as follows: Embro, February 26 and March 26 at the town hall; Tavi-; stock, Feb. 27 and March 28 in the library basement; Ingersoll, Mar­ch 24 and 31 and April 21 and 28 in the YMCA; Drumbo, March 3 and April 7 at the Oxford Health Unit office; Norwich, March 13, and April 10 at the Legion Hall; I Kintore, March 10 and April 14 at the IOOF hall; Mount Elgin, March 16 and April 20 at the community hall; Tillsonburg. March 2 and 4 and March 30 and April 1 at the town hall; Beach- ville, March 11 and April 8 atCOAL TENDERTenders for one small car oil treated Cavalier King Stoker Coal (inch by •%) will be received by the un- dersigned tiM February 19th, 1958. Delivery of coal to the Oxford County Home for the Aged. R.R. 3, Woodstock.L, K. COLD?,Sccrela ry-TreasUrer, Court House.Woodstock, Ontario.14-27 Control Measures DebatedBy BOB J JO WKFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK,. Feb. 5 - Oxford County farmers are watching with considerable interest the trend of the rabies epidemic In Western Ontario.• * •Until recently, the county has escaped the brunt of the epidemic, but within the past two weeks indications point to a major sweep of the disease through ftm county before spring.Since Dec, 1, officials of the Health of Animals Dlvi- Pion of the Canadian Depart­ment of Agriculture said to­day, 13 cattle hav« died from the disease Nine were posi­tive cases while four others are under Investigation at Federal laboratories In Hull.TheciaJ said eight coun- have been quaran- dined and five persons have been treated for rabies.Counties north of Oxford have received the brunt of the epidemic but farmers here report that more and more affected animals are filtering into the county spreading the disease.Since early December, 18 foxes have been found dead and investigation has re­vealed that the animals died of rabies. Five others are under laboratory Investigation.Two dogs which have bcm In fights with rabid foxes are under observation.♦ • «Although no muxs fox hunts have been organized. Reeve Ernest Garner, of West Zor­:ep Certain In Oxford Rapidly In Two Weeksra, said if rpany more rabid animals are found In the town­ship. something will have to be done.Reeve Donald Hossack, of Embro, said dead foxes have been found within the village limits.The spread of the disease has reached major propor­tions, during the past two weeks, many county residents feel.County council In December asked the Federal Govern­ment for antl-rabies clinics but Government officials re­fused the request on the basis that from reports the disease whs not serious enough in Oxford tn warrant the clinics.Reeve Hossnck, at the Jan­uary council seMlon, raised the matter but the majority of members suggested the topic of rabies should bt. dis­cussed at. a meeting of the Ontario Agricultural Council.Mr. Hossack, who also re­ceived support from Deputy I Reeve Alexander Hossack, of( East Nissouri, urged county council to take up the matter of compensation for farmers I who might lose livestock be- cause of rabies-Oxford farmers have wel- J corned the news from Ottawa which stated the Federal Gov- : eminent considering com­pensation to farmers for their losses because of rabies.Mr Hossack pointed out that farmers were com pen- I l sated for cattle lost because ' of other diseases and he felt rabies should be no exception. Blenheim Township Loses Bid To Shift Bridges To CountyBy BOB HOWEFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Jan. 23 — Oxford County Court Judge Eric W. Cross, in a 600-word written judgment, dismissed an application by the council of Blenheim township for an order which would declare 13 bridges in the township coun­ty property.Tile unique case which was watched with considerable in­terest by Ontario Government officials and municipal au­thorities throughout the prov­ince, was one of the few such cases ever heard in an On­tario court The case which started Oct 23 took 10 days to complete. Judgment was made public here today.• * *Legal authorities said today that if the application had have been in favor of the ap­plicant, the Ontario Mu­nicipal Act would have been thrown into a state of turmoil. Court officials in Woodstock expressed the opinion that the judgment, had it gone the other way, would have far reaching and possibly serious results on the status of the act• • *The' 3>wnship’s case, pre­sented by L. M. Ball, QC, of Woodstock, started as a hear­ing of an application by the county judge but was resolved into trial proceedure.Oxford county council was represented by EL S. Liver­more, QC, of London, and R. A. MacDougall, of Woodstock.♦ * •In his judgment, Judge Cross said that evidence in­dicated that Blenheim town­ship had made no application during the past 30 years for county aid or provincial grants to lighten the financial burden for repairs or con­struction of bridges.He said that Clerk-Treas­urer I. J. Haines, of Blenheim township, admitted during the trial that the township had spent only $500 on the 13 bridges in question for main­tenance or repairs, or some­what less than $38 per bridge during 1957.* * *He said because of the par­ticular situation as in Blen­heim township where the Nith river runs the length of the township giving Blenheim the dubious honor of having more 300-foot spans or longer than any other municipality in On­tario, there was a special pro­vision in the Highway Im­provement Act starting the province would pay 100 per cent of the cost in such cases.* * *“I am of the opinion,” he said, "that the cost of main­tenance of each bridge in question is not a burden on the townphip.”The application wm based on a section of the Ontario Municipal Act which stated:"A bridge of a greater length than 300 feet in a town or township having an equallized assessment of less than $1,000 may, on applica­tion of the town or township be declared to be a county bridge where, (a) it is used by the inhabitants of other mu­nicipalities (b) it is situated on an important highway of­fering means of communica­tion to several municipalities, and (c) on account of length and for the reasons men­tioned, It is unjust that the burden of maintaining and repairing, it should rest on the corporation of the town or township."Judge Cross pointed out that four questions were con­sidered in the application.First, were bridges used by Inhabitants of other mu­nicipalities he said evidence received in the trial indicated people and vehicles of other municipalities were using the bridges.• • •Secondly, Is each bridge sit­uated on an important high­way? In his answer, he pointed out that evidence Indicated the bridges were not on important highways in relations to high­way systems today.He said all township roads connected with main roads And no residents of the town­ship was more than two and a half miles away from any one main artery.In answer to a third ques- , tlon, does that road afford means of communication to several municipalities, he said it was quite obvious traffic ! made use of the roads to mu- ; niclpalltles generally outside of the township,However, he pointed out that provincial grants on bridges were sufficient to j take care of any extra burden on the township.* * *Finally, he questioned, by reason of length is it unjust* that the burden of mainten- : ’ ance and repair should rest on the township?He referred to the history of the county and said when county officials took over roads, they agreed to operate more than 21 miles of road in Blenheim township. He went on to say the township had failed to approach county council since 1906 to take over any additional roads on which the bridges in question were located.INSPECT COUNTY HOME—Oxford County Home board met in Woodstock yesterday for the annual infection of the count-y home and farm. Members of the board include, standing left to right: Reeve Howard McCombs, of Norwich; Reeve P, L Press'ey, 31 of Dereham; County Clerk L. K. Coles, ^ocretary-— Free Press Woodstock Bureau treasurer; Mayor George T. LaFlair, of Woodstock; ' Mayor Norman Pembleton, of Ingersoll; seated left to right: R, J, Forbes, superintendent of the home; County Warden E. f£ Pearce, of Tillsonburg, and Mrs. Forbes, matron of the home. 1f» 1ftI®Rabies Problem Stumps ExpertsLoss Compensation Study UrgedTORONTO, Feb. 17 — (CP)— A battery of experts ap­peared before the Ontario Leg­islature's agricultural commit­tee today but could provide noW. P. Watson said veterlnar-, for cattle losses caused by Ians are already busy trying rablcs-ians are already busy tryinganswer to the rabies facing the province's men.problem cattle-It was summed Ken Wells, head i for the Federalupby Dr.veterinarianAgricultureDepartment:"We have not been able to pin our efforts on any one thing which would bring worth­while results."Agriculture Minister Good­fellow outlined the Provincial Government’s new vaccination program but warned it might be Ineffective.And Livestock Commissionerto eradicate brucellosis In cat­tle to meet United States im­port restrictions which threat­en to reduce a $10,000,00()-a- ycar market by 50 per cent.Dr. W. J. K. Harkness, direc­tor of fish and wildlife for the Landa and Forests Depart­ment, suggested that even kill­ing rabies-bearing foxes is no solution. The more foxes there are the faster the disease will spread and the faster the foxes will die out, he said.The committee ended up pass­ing a resolution calling on the Federal and Provincial govern-Even this was questioned by Fernand Gulndon (PC—Glen­garry). He said he is not op­posed to compensation but it would be hard to work out a program because payments would have to be retroactive.The resolution said both senior governments shouldmake their study "in view establishing a proper1 base compensation for losses”.of ofments to make examination" of"a thorough compensationAnother resolution, submitted by J. P. Spence (L—Kent East) and Peter Manley (L-Stor- mont) and defeated by a 14-to-3 vote, would have called on the two governments to “pay com­pensation for the loss of anl-mals by rabies and that suchl payments be retroactive.”Agriculture Minister Goodfel­low said the province’s vaccina­tion program will work this way: Farmers will submit veter­inarians’ receipts to their local municipalities which in turn will apply to the Provincial Gov­ernment for 75-per-cent pay­ment Municipalities will pay tha remaining 25 per cent but tha grants will be for a maximum of $1 a head—anything more will have to be paid by the farmer.Mr. Goodfellow said it Is up to Ottawa to take responsibility for compensation because only federal authorities have facili­ties for determining whether a cow died of rabies. Stands at 66,329Population of OxfordRises 1,173 During '58Free Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 4 The population of Oxford County ; has increased by 1,173 persons during the past year, L. K. I Coles; county clerk, said today.Figures submitted by municipal assessment commissioners, I Including Woodstock, Tillsonburg and Ingersoll, indicated thoSpeaker EmphasizesNeed Of Oxford Historypopulntlon as of January 1959 ’ was 66,829 compared to 65,156 in 1958.Blandford Township showed r decrease of 28 persons from 1.456 to 1,428 and East Zorradropped from072. r difference > The village of * showed a slight2.037 to 2,-1 of 45 persons. Norwich also decrease in;i population frbm 1,650 to 1,638, a, difference of 12 persons.i',!„ The city of Woodstock has in-: creased 433 in population, Till-; sonburg, 131 and Ingersoll, 105. bPopulation FiguresFigures indicated in brackets are the 1957 population figures.1 Blandford. 1.428 (1.456); Blen-Oxford Councilors Prepare for BudgetWOODSTOCK. March » Oxford County council will hold its first budget meet­ing March 17. Councilors, who have advocated a hoid- the-Une policy in the wake of last year’s one-and-u- half mill increase, are ex­pected to bring down the 19.59 budget on March 20.The apparent lack of Interest in the historical background of Oxford County as indicated to date by the absence of a com­prehensive book dealing with its early day happenings, was touej- ed upon last night by W. S. Lavell. at the regular Lions club meeting.Mr. Lavell, editorial writer with The Sentinel-Review, said he was particularly struck by this lack of material-source soon after his arrival In Woodstock.“1 had the occasion last Spring to look up some historical mat­erial. I was unable to get mater­ial ot a comprehensive nature when I went to look for it.”"Strangely enough I could find very little in the local library or the museum which was avail­able to the public. I was rather taken aback.”Mr. Lavell said he made apoint of writing an editorial about unavailability ot material on Ox­ford County. A type-setter in the Sentinel back-room read the ed­itorial and informed Mr. Lavell that he "was crazy” and said there were “lots of people in thistion of other counties that had! their own “Book” on their early! history and said he hoped that' Oxford County could soon boast of having an authoritative book; of Its nwn.”1 would like to see a booki 3County who had written tons of published about Oxford County.I stuff about Woodstock and the but in order to do so, you've1' County.” got to interest the people. Wei'"I said that they may have'must stimulate their Interest,”1,written and gathered it together,[Mr. Lavell declared.”TdC il y?1!,' ENCOURAGE INTEREST able to the public. Are we goingto let history die in Oxford Coun­ty or make it repeat itself?” he asked.TOO SKETCHYThe history that had beenHe asked the Lions Club as a service organization to help raise an Interest among citizens of Woodstock and the County ingeneral.As members of a community I;gathered about Oxford County to that has a great historical back-?; date, Mr. Lavell noted, was ground, you must get out and sketchy and had been gathered push. You’ve got to interest this J . * together in bits and pieces. [community. That's the startingHe quoted from a recent issue point. I would like to ask your $ of a “Western Ontario Historical [co-operation in talking this thing . Notes" booklet which containedhelm, 4,0856232,2464.225(4.692); Dereham.’4.018); East Nissouri.<2.548)North12.236); SouthINorwich1 Norwich,.; 2,976 <2,966); East Oxford. 2.479j ------------(2.364); North Oxford, 3,508 (1,- 6,370, (6,239);; Embro, 542 (508); i 38 (1,650); Tavistock,!490); West Oxford, 3,269 (3,249); Norwich. 1.638 (1,650); Tavistock,. East Zorra, 3,851 (3,745); West 1,169 (1,160); Woodstock, 18,915'Zorra, 2.037 (2,082); Tillsonburg, (18,482); Ingersoll, 6,976 (6,871)fe:'RCMP, Indians Clash In Raid By OfficersOHSWEKEN, Ont. (CP) — A »quad of more than 50 RCMP of­ficers raided the council chamber of the rebellious hereditary chiefs on the Six Nations Indian reserve in darkness early today and after a brief skirmish ordered the In­dians to their homes.&Grants Are Fine Things, But It’s Your Own MoneyBut It’s YourThere’s a point which strikes us in reading the Ontario budget which Provin­cial Treasurer Allan brought down in the legislature Wednesday. Apart from all the nice things Mr. Allan had to say about our economy getting better and all the money the province is spending he made this point: 44 cents of every dollar the provincial government receives goes to municipalities.The province contributes to munici­palities $1 for every $2 collected locally. Government assistance to municipalities, *their school boards and associated localo;agencies will amount to more than $310,- 000,000 in the next year, the budget dis­closed. This is 35 million more than lastyear.S addition to these figures the prov­ince. Mr. Allan pointed out aids munici­palities in varied other fields such as pro­viding local water works and sewage । ■ systems.It is to be expected totals will go high­er in budgets each year. Revenues go up | . and so do expenditures. This fact is notI now surprising, disturbing, but not sur­prising, we are becoming conditioned to such things.The point we note is that more and1 more we are becoming dependent upon a’ government farther removed from our own locality. It is certain the more that government contributes the more it will control the affairs of the community in which the money is spent. To this some will say “you can’t have cake and eat it too.”We point these things out at this time wh^n the provincial treasurer is remind­ing us of how much money we will be get-! ting back from the province to run our own affairs just as a reminder that it is; all our money.Look to the grants being made to edu­cation. Look to the totals for new high­ways. True, it is all for good things; things we need; things which a senior govern­ment probably can arrangement better than a local government,With all this we will agree providing we do not lose sight of this essential prin-l ciple, every dollar which is being counted paid out or granted came first from the' pocket of a taxpayer. It did not grow ->n frees any more than the vast sums being provided come from some treasure chest at the end of the rainbow.four pages of “sketchy" informa­tion dealing with Oxford's past history.An explanation for the lack of material was explained by the editor of the booklet by a line under the Oxford heading which read: “There is no comprehen­sive history of Oxford County.”“No effort has been made ap­parently to co-ordinate this his­torical material available in Ox­ford County. I wonder why this js We live in an historical area. We have a Museum second to none.”Mr. Lavell said there was a great deal of material available at the Museum but “you can't take some of those things away and learn about the people who worked them.”“That is why I think Oxford County should consider compilingup.“Arc you going to let history'-repeat itself in Oxford County/ •.f or are you going to let it die?M It's up to you.”The speaker was introduced by <’ D Foster and thanked by Jack Falkins.Zone chairman Bob Barney was introduced and spoke brief­ly-Lion president Bill Budd told club members that he had re-, ceived a phone call from Dr. j H. W. Hedley, supervisor of Pub-: lie Schools about the valuable service being performed by the Lions Pool.Di 825 students in Public'. . Schools, 341 had learned to swimj at the Lions Pool, according to asurvey taken in the schools. A further 99 were intending to take lessons next summer. Mr. Budd, said.A new member was inducted;a comprehensive history.”The guest speaker made men- into the club — Barney King.Page 2 Woodstock Sentinel-Review, Tuesday, March 3,195?Listowel Holds Last Rites For Arena Crash VictimsLISTOWEL (CP) — Spring-like weather touched this town Mon­day but iound no response in the hearts of the people.It was funeral day for Listowel.Sunshine and a warm, breeze bathed the two hilltop churches in a brilliant glow, the first breakPACK SECOND CHURCHA block away in Knox Presby-: terian Church the public over-1 flowed 900 seats to hear the pub­lic address system which carried the music and words of the fam­ily service from Listowel United. Many had to stand outside to hear; in a week of sullen stormy skies'? I °L D;'Yet hundreds of silent townsfolk sf°ke oi losA of............................ precious lives” in the suddenwalked through the slush and . . . . . . ,snow-water rivulets with heads l^geay winch had been felt by bowed and eyes dull with grief. a *.of ‘own s people.i Ken McLeod, he said, had beenInside the Listowel United [a valuable leader in the commo- Church seven small caskets of nlty. “He was loved by our chil- grey metal held the crushed bod- dren and taught them the skills ies of seven boys who died Satur-'of the games and the spirit of day at 9:28 a.m. when the mas-fair play. . .sive roof of Memorial Arena! The seven boys—Rickv Kauf-' crashed down on a peewee league man. 10; Keith Wight, 10;' Jimmy hockey game. Beside them a,Hastings. 11; Ken Hymers. if; larger one of oak enclosed the|Barry Smith, 11; Bryan Seehaver. body of Kenneth McLeod, the [12. and Mel Rheubottom, 12— town recreation director who was "'ere “just beginning to act like refereeing the game. i little men. . . .”While the tollinc church )w>ll Rev Bruce Miles of Knox Pres-I timed the plodding steps of the ™sto? if'stR pR’ 1®' P'S' mourners, more than 800 rela-, laar'J/ lo5 °f Pa.ul s Luth* fives and friends crowded into the eran Church, assisted in the fu- white wooden church. |neral service. It was over a little|morc than half an hour.STREETS DESERTEDThe crowds returned to the bright streets still silent “Famil-I A ' A£ . ■ Jies of the victims were helped into cars while the people shuf­fled slowly towards the business streets which were deserted in the civic day of mourning.The oak casket was carried out and placed In a hearse to be taken to London, Ont., MeLcod's ! hometown. F' -»THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OFTHE ONTARIO GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATIONREQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANYAT THEIRANNUAL BANQUETON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY THE TWENTY-FIFTHNINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINEAT SIX-THIRTY O'CLOCK PMAT THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTOGUEST SPEAKER:JAMES S. DUNCAN, C.M.G.. LL.D.CHAIRMAN, HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIODRESS OPTIONALRSVP.THE SECRETARY MUNICIPAL WORLD BUILDING ST THOMAS, ONTARIOfiAwteLiw-? ))■- ik. ■ *• .iIOTOBACCO FIELD FLOODED — A sudden field near Tillsonburg into one of the ence. A combination of rain and risingcold snap could transform this tobacco biggest outdoor ice skating Pinks in exist- temperatures led to this inundation.Oxford Countyz-t '?Population Up 1,173 In 1958The population of Oxford Coun­ty increased by 1,173 in 1958 over1 the previous year.Woodstock’s population jumped by 433 over 1957 with 18,915 reg­istered.Figures released by County clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles, indi­cate that only two of 11 town­ships. Blandford and West Zorra. show a population decrease for1 the year.Population figures for the vil­lage of Norwich showed a slight decline, from 1.650 in 1957 to 1,638 in 1958.A breakdown of the 1958 figures (1957 figures bracketed) is as follows:Blandford: 1,428 (1,456); Blen-heim:(4.092); DerehamWILL MARK FORMER CAPTAIN DREW HOME AS HISTORIC SITEMrs. Hazel Servent of Wood-stock finds that her home is to become an historic site this summer, according to Mrs. Bernadette Smith, who is cur­ator and member of the board of Oxford County museum. The1 new historic site, an attract-ive stucco and frame house at 735 Rathbourne avenue on the corner of Sydneha mstreet, was built in 1833. In 1832 one Cap­tain Drew of the RN came hereI Henry Vansittart, founder of Woodstock and it was on this land, a year later, that thehouse on the corner of Syden­ham Street was put up. During, , y , - w---------—~ I the rebellion of 1837 - ‘38. Can­to buy land for Rear Admiral I tain Drew had charge ofamil-itary unit and led the attack that destroyed the "Carol­ine”, an American vessel run­ning supplies to the supporters of William Lyon Mackenzie, on Navy Island. The captain re­turned to England in 1842.Seed Oxford County Streams] With 44,000 Trout In Year4,085 (4,018); East Nissouri: 2,-1 673 ( 2,548); North Norwich: 2,246, (2,236); South Norwich: 2,968 (2.966); East Oxford: 2,479 (2.-1 364>; North Oxford: 1,508; (1,- 490); West Oxford: 3,269 (3.249) J East Zorra: 3.851 (3,745); West Zorra; 2,037 (2,082'.^Town of Tillsonburg: 6,370 (6,-Villages of Embro: 543 (50®'; Norwich: 1,63g (1,650); Tavistock 1,169 (1,160).County total: 40.438 (39,803$. City of Woodstock: 18,915 118.482'. Ingersoll: 6.976 (6.871). For a total of 66.329 ( 65,156).■ .1 “ l' —Free Press Woodstock* BureauWOODSTOCK. March 5 - More than 44,000 trout have been put in Oxford County wa­ters during the past year. Game Warden Herbert Clark, of Woodstock, said today.ford County Game and Fish Association and the Upper Thames Valley Conservation Authority. The poison was de­signed to rid the lake of carp.Mr. Clark said seven tons of carp was removed and now (he lake is being restocked with aCreek. West Zorra; Plum, Otter and Branch creeks, South Nor­wich; Stoney Creek, Dereham; Vance Creek, Blandford, and Big Creek, North Norwich.' - Mr. Clark said 25 (XX) speckled : trout. 19.000 brown trout and | . 300 Kamloops trout have been pul in ponds and streams throughout the county as part • " . of a Department of Lands and : . Forests restocking program.He said that 14 adult pickerel were placed in Scove lyikc, near Lakeside. List fail the Jake was poisoned under a spe- , < dal program Ixy the Depart­ment of Lands and Forests. Ox-higher quality He warned the lake was fishing as wellof fish.fishermen that still closed toas minnow pet-ling. He estimated the waters will be prohibited area for an­other two years.Harrington Pond received the 300 Kamloops trout while brown trout were put in Cedar Creek, East Oxford; Smith’* Pond, .'•orth Oxford; Kintore Creek, East N I s s o it r 1; BrooksdaleSpeckled trout were placed in Trout, Munro, McArthur and Brooksdale creeks, West Zorra; Coles and Logan creeks, East Nissouri; Big Swamp and Fold- rn’s creeks, West Oxford; Hewitt and Karns creeks, EastCHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY OF OXFORD COUNTY 64TH ANNUALDINNER MEETINGSt. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Thames Street, Ingersoll Thurs., March 19 7 P.M.Fox Bounties $800 in OxfordZorra; East NorthWater Works Creek, Oxford; Zenda CreekNorwich; McMullen,Cameron, Spring and Brandi 1 creeka. South Norwich; Black : and Washington creeks in Bien- । • ‘ heim and Whitney Creek In North Oxford,Speaker:REV. GEORGE W. BIRTCH. B.A.. B.D., D.D., of Hamilton.TICKETS: $1.75 PER PLATE1 The public is invited. Please make reservations by Saturday, March 14th. Tickets are avail­able at Children’s Aid Office,Woodstock9/11/13-1Free Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK. March 4 J (More than $800 was paid out In, 82fox bounties in Oxford County' (during January. L, K. Coles, .county clerk, said today, j During January, there were.: 216 bounties paid by county; .^council which was nearly twice, (as many bounties claimed com- ipared to the number claimed In December, The county pays'* $4 bounty for each fox.In Blenheim Township. 51 bounties were claimed, the most tor any township..It r/nv:,;,. J Employment Seen for 300$6,000,000 Gypsum PlantPlanned North Of PrincetonBy BOB HOWEFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 5 - A multi-million dollar deposit of gypsum has been discovered In Blenheim Township by the National Gypsum (Canada) Company.The 1# in three fromrich deposit of mineral an area approximately miles wide stretching two miles south ofPrinceton to north of Drumbo. Princeton is on No. 2 Highway, 32 miles oast of Woodstock.Company solicitor. A. H. Boddy, QC, of Brantford, told The Free Press tonight that a $0,000,000 plant will be erected on the richest section of the vein, probably about two miles north of Princeton.National Gypsum fC»nadn) Company is a subsidiary of National Gypsum Company, the second largest company of JU kind In the world, with head offkeii In Buffalo, N.Y.Mr. Boddy said the company* had leased 8,000 acres of choice farmland in Blenheim Township and had options on an additional 1,000 acres. Most of the land is situated in the tobacco country of Oxford County.One drilling outfit has been in operation on the farm of Camille Demarast, one mile west of Drumbo, for the past two days. Three more drilling rigs will start operation to­morrow.Mr. Boddy said the company had drilled in the area two years ago but at that, time had decided to cease an expansion program. Ton holes were drilled and rich samples of gypsum were taken.He said he had been work­ing since the first of the year securing leases and options on the property Involved.The solicitor said the drills were? earchlng for the richest bed of gypsum In the tract. He said it would be on this loca­tion that the mill would be constructed.At present, three Drumbo men are employed with the firm. When additional equip­ment starts operation, more local labor will be hired.Mr. Boddy said the size of the plant, which will be a re­finery plus a manufacturing plant, will depend on the ex­tent of the deposit."Right now the company plans to spend as high as $8,000,000 on a plant there," ho said,The entire mining operation will be confined to under­ground. Mr. Boddy estimated that a shaft will go down as far as 200 feet He said drills have found gypsum layers as thick as nine feet deep. He added that from a central shaft, tunnels w'Jl be dug two and three mil0 long under­ground. There will be no surface mining, he said.An estimated 300 men will be employed at the plant when it is in full operation, Mr. Boddy said.Reeve Herbert Balkwill, of Blenheim, told The Free Press that the new discovery will bring the largest boom the township ever had. He said the venture would not only bring additional wealth to th' town­ship but it would boost the economy of the entire county.Mr. Roddy refused to say whether any other type of mineral was found In the area. An unconfirmed report said lime also was discovered In largo quantities.He said the company was only interested in gypsum and that was all they were looking for.The solicitor estimated It would be late summer before any major construction ladone at the site.COUNTY OF OXFORD Tenders WantedQuotations will be received ;by the undersigned until 12 o'clock noonTuesday, March 171959On premiums for insurance ij - on roads. County’ equipment H and employer's Liability. In- I fOifnation mav be obtained K at the office of the under- • signed, Court House, Wood- ; stock. 'Die lowest or any ■ ; tender not necessarily ac­cepted.J. N. MEATHRELI, 4 County Road Superintendent. ’ Court HouseWoodstock. Ontario. fMaroh 3, 1959. *m.*Allot More Than $6,000,000For Municipal Road Worklinnod !L3Uartw. ^l-| votes the money necessaryJ are this year« th meet the calculated subsidy rc- 5^^ !°n nor‘ qulre^ents, the Minister approv-mal work, by the Municipal Roads es the by-law Branch of the Ontario Denari-, ment of Highways. (SUPPLEMENTALThis amount is'for expenditur- Supplemental by-laws for spec-' es on normal construction work .Tal capital projects of a perm a and maintenance operations. :ent nonrecurrent nature may be IEvery municipal corporation ln| submitted by any municipality in the Province receives subsidy on addition to the by-law for normal its expenditures that are proper- i construction ly chargeable to road improve-These bv-lai ment and in accordance with the - provisions of the Highway Im- jn< provement Act. nt'torc-LONG SPANS FOR NEW BRIDGE OVER THAMES RIVERSix precast prestressed con-Crete each been new riverpost-tensioned girders. 104 feet in length, have put into position at the bridge over the Thames on Governor's Road. Theeach weighing 45 tons, were precast by Schell Industries of Woodstock, specialists in this type of construction unit's. Two big cranes have been used to hoist the heavy units into posi­tion on the end abutments, with the work under direction of Robert Shorter of the Schell company. In the past, if has usually been necessary tor amiddle support on such lengthy spans, but through a new dev­elopment, whereby the spans are given greatly increased strength, these girders are able to support almost an unlimited weight though supported only at either end. In the photo, one of the cranes is seen lifting one of the huge spans into position at the bridge site. (S.aff Photo.)’------1 and maintenance. These by-laws are dealt with on (the merits of the projeat and hav­ing regard for the funds avail­able within the “Provisions for expenditures under Supplemental, By-laws” that is shown as the last item in the Summary.A breakdown for expenditures I eligible for subsidy in District2, the Oxford County area, which includes construction and maintenance figures follows: For the Oxford county roadSubsidy rate for city roads is 33 and one third per cent, with the same for bridges. The same applies to separated towns. For town and village roads it is o0 per cent, with 80 per cent for bridges. For township roads it is 1. . one ihird to 80 per cent, ceP* f°r bridges. ---- wwny roaaiae allotments set out are the, Pegram, 216.2 road miles $480 -Department's estimates of the ow>; Woodstock 67 road ’mile^' reasonable requirements of the $110,000; Ingersoll 38 road miles municipalities for normal con- $43,000; Tillsonburg, 32 road mil- struction and maintenance fores, $35,000; Embro, none road the calendar year 1959. The am- miles, $3,400; Norwich, 12 road ount of subsidy that may be paid miles, $10,700; Tavistock, five to an individual municipality will , road miles, $3,800.depend upon the rate or rates! For townships of Blandford 81 applicable to its expenditures, road miles, $26,000; ’Past experience indicates that 198 road miles, rn!f t(^nal subs4y ,W1U approxi- reham, 171 roaa ninestotaI ap- mfleiEarly in the year each muni-municipalities for normalBlenheim,'jreham.. $65,000; De171 road miles, $72,$39,000; Norwich N, 97 road mil­es. $41,000; Norwich S. 112 road>-o, en,wu, iwiwicn a, 112 madSf’W «“*?!» Word E, 111 roadments and that they are the maximum which may be includ­ed in its by-law for normal con­struction and maintenance. The by-law, supported by a program of proposed work is submitted to the Minister. If the program is acceptable and the Legislaturemiles, $25,000; Oxford N, 75 road miles, $21,000; Oxford W, 117 road miles, $29,000; Zorra E, 187 road miles, 58,000; Zorra W, 174 road miles, $45,000.District total for construction is $2,371,200, maintenance, $3,- 651,000.completed structure, with a clear 100-too: span, will be one of the longest simple-span pre­stressed concrete bridges built to date in Ontario. The girders,enclosure. Cement for the abutments was poured when temperatures dropped below zero. The bridge will link two new sections of Governor's road, west of Woodstock. The structure will becompleted by early summedLISTOWEL, Ont. (CP)—Eight persons, seven of them believed to be children under 12 years of age, were killed and at least nine injured today when the roof of the Listowel arena collapsed.MANY IMMUNIZEDThe staff of the Oxford Health Unit administered salk vaccine , shots to a total of 1.535 persons, during th« first week of the free polio immunization clinics held in Woodstock. More than 400 re­ceived their first shot in Tavis­tock with approximately 300 re­ceiving theirs at Embro last week. The first clinic opens in Drumbo today with the second I day of a two-day clinic scheduled for Tillsonburg tomorrow.ABUTMENTS COMPLETED — Abutments of both ends of a 100-foot bridge over the Thames River m Governor's road, just west of Woodstock, have __p. b^en completed. The construction was part of awinter works program carried out under a plostitSHARE COURT COSTSCounty clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles has reported to City Coun­cil that the Juvenile and Family Court Municipal budget for 1959 is $2 (J00 with the County’s share $1,219.32, the City of Woodstock's share $570.34 and the Town of Ingersoll responsible for $210.34 of this amount.A —Free Press Woodstock bureauthreat.WATER CLIMBS—Water level of the Thames River in Woodstock is more than five feet above its nor­Although it has reached its highestmal level.peak this year, officials feel there is no real flood The water has reached the lower supportsof the Thames River brige on Governor's rood orpart of Blenheim andonf < iW*«*-»* - ^MM7 Cof the, map.s ' n A ' %■< bMI. ■ •• > :■—Free Press Woodstock Bureou LEFT* The two-day Oxford Seed Fair opened Wednesday at Woodstock. Among first-day winners was Rodney Bain, of Thamesford, named provincial hay king. ABOVE: Keen interest in the corn exhibit was displayed by these Oxford Coun­ty officials. From left: Cecil Riddle, of North Oxford, 1957 county warden; E. R. Pearce, of Tillsonburg, present warden; and J. Grant Smith, of Burgessville, warden in 1958; RIGHT: Five-year-old Gordon MacKay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell MacKay, of Embro, had no difficulty in conjuring up visions of corn-! on-the-cob at the fair. Here, the young visitor admires one of scores of mouth­watering entries.>r • IRICH AREAGYPSUM FINDPAGE 6FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 19593-Mile Stretch Tapped In Blenheim TownshipA rich deposit of gypsum has; said that the Company is been discovered in Blenheim interested in a stretch ofalso landTownship by National Gypsum running north from Highway 2, (Canada । Company. the present drilling location.The mineral is in an area ap- Farms in the area are being proximately three miles wide J leased to the company, stretching from two miles south Charles Tochor of RR 3 Bright of Princeton to north of Drumbo, confirmed that the company wasPrinceton is on Highway 2, about;also taking options on farm prop- । 12 miles east of Woodstock. |erty in that area. The option onA spokesman for National Gyp-:his farm is for one year. If suf- i sum in Buffalo today did not'ficient deposits are found, after - - - drilling, the company may want jdeny the finding of this rich de­posit but was “in no position to• confirm it.”> “There is an exploration pn>- igram under way but there de- i finitely has not been a decision, ■to build a plant,” he said.“Such a decision cannot be 'made until a complete evalua­tion of the deposits and market potentials have been made. How­ever. such evaluations are under ; way.”Company solicitor A. H. Bod­dy, of Brantford said Thursday night that a $6,000,000 plant will I be erected, probably about two jmiles north of Princeton.EITHER TOWNSHIPI Speaking for Mr. Boddy, be­cause he could not be reached, E. P. Clarke, office associate, said today that the plant could be in either Blenheim or Burford townships, depending on where the richest body of gypsum was found.To determine this, he said, re- ■ presentative tests are now being taken in Blenheim township.1 National Gypsum (Canada) is a subsidiary of National Gypsum, second largest company of its kind in the world, with head of­fices in Buffalo. N.Y.Mr. Boddy said the company had Teased 8,000 acres of choiceto lease the property for a per­iod of 10 years.George Shearer of RR 1, Bright told a similar story. The Nation­al Gypsum Company have a one year option on his farm as well. ,Mr. Boddy said Thursday that the drills were searching for the richest bed of gypsum and that it ; would be on this location that I the mill would be constructed.4 1The size of the plant, said Mr. Boddy, a refinery plus a man­ufacturing plant, will depend on the extent of the deposit.MAY GO HIGHERMr. Clarke said this morning that the cost of the plant may he higher than $6,000,000 dcpen-| ding on the richness of the gyp­sum.He said that the mining opera­tion will be underground. A main shaft will go down about 200 feet 1 with air shafts placed at appro­priate intervals. Drills have found gypsum layers as thick as nine feet deep. Tunnels will be dug two and three miles long underground. 'Reeve of Blenheim. Herbert Balkwill RR 1 Drumbo, stated today that the discovery will be “a big boost to our settlement.' The trouble is we don't know, where the plant is going to be----- . . _ .. located. It is possible it will be. farmland in- Blenheim Township buUt between Drumbo and Prin- snd had options on an additional ce^on Naturally, we are hoping 1.000 acres. Most of the land is|for lhe sake Oxford and Blen- situated In the tobacco area. The;h(jln1 it wiu buiit here.” . company has about 800 options | Rjch tobacco land in the area in Blenheim and 200 in Burford will not suffer, Mr. BalkwiU said, townships. ‘ .............. ’i because the mining operation, (''will not interfere with surfaceDRILLING BEGUN . —. - , .Diamond drilling is now in pro- farming. The company has taken gress at a location six or seven options on 7,000 acres and if miles north of Gobles, said Wil- gypsum Is found farmers will be fred Cockburn of Drumbo. He paid royalties. -■ - ■'/ <Long-Range Highway Survey Has Implications For CityThe appraisal of Ontario’s highway needs over the next 20 years as revealed in a report of a survey that has been un­der way for the past two years, and which ‘was' presented, along with highway esti­mates in the Ontario Legislature this week, have some interesting implications for Woodstock and vicinity.According to the news report in Tues­day’s issue of The Sentinel-Review, one facet of this highway development pro­gram visualizes two multi-lane highways forking at Eastwood, just east of here. One of these would be the eastward con­tinuation of 401 into Toronto, the other the development of a similar highway link leading into Hamilton.If carried through as the plan suggests, within five years this would make Wood- stock and Eact Oxford a virtual hub in a big highway wheel, leading to two of the main inland ports on the St. Lawrence seaway. ...Coupled with other highway links to the north and to the south, as well as existing highways to the west, is the fact that Woodstock is the only centre between London and Toronto where the main lines of both CNR and CPR touch.In other words, this city and the sur­rounding area has the potential of be­coming one of the greatest industrial cen­tres in this part of the province.Of course, this can only come to pass with vision and initiative. Even although we may not be able to accommodate too50TH ANNUAL MEETINGmany factories and too many people all at ' once, we can do so if we plan for it.• The report of the survey placed before the Legislature is the result of careful planning by competent engineers, and likely will take some time to be approved and put into effect. But at least the need has been pointed out and the method toproceed suggested.We would hope that Woodstock and Oxford County officials would take up the torch which these government planners have passed on, and lay the groundwork for what appears to be a bright and grow­ing future for this city and its environs.;A start has been made already this year in the establishment of a city and suburban planning board, and another step in the right direction was taken by the city council recently when it decided to1 hire a full-time industrial commissioner.We feel sure that, having done this, care will be taken to procure the very best available person for such a post. The development of industry in ,this prov­ince since the end of World War H has brought about already a highly competi­tive situation in the matter of attracting acceptable plants to various locations. Al well-trained and alert man can do much.What is more, such a man can do so much better if he knows he can oe assur­ed of the wholehearted co-operation of the citizens, and their elected bodies in par­ticular. Circumstances seem to be spelling out that Woodstock should be placed on the map. Are we ready to go along with the idea?.Expansion Of Hospital Seen Necessary SoonThe completion of the third!floor of Ingersoll Alexandra Hos­pital appears imminent within K the next two years. Reports' 1 heard at the annual meeting Alexandra Hospital Trust Tues- dgy evening in the nurses' lounge gave the indication. Council States Oxford Rabies-Affected AreaFree Frew Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK. March 191 — Oxford County council today proclaimed the coun­ty a rabies-affected area and urged the Federal Gov- ernment to establish anti­rabies clinics here im­mediately.W ill Seek ClinicsThe agricultural committee of county council in a report today’ • paid Oxford would press the government for clinics. A simi­lar request was turned down by the Federal Department of Agriculture early this year.The report also a^ked the gov­ernment to establish compensa­tion payment for livestock lost because of the disease. It said such payment should equal the market price of the particular animal at the time of death.In December, council asked I the government for free anti-, I rabies clinics and the request j was refused stating the area^ was not seriously affected. The|County Committees Prepare EstimatesBudget Session OpensMarch 17 In OxfordFree Frew Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK, March 9—Oxford County councilorsWill Igovernment said it was keeping! a close watch on the trends of it did hitthe disease the county taken.Since theand if actionfirst ofFederal Departmentwould bethe year, of Agricul-ture reports on the disease have Indicated the toll of animals af­fected was increasing.The county report will be for­warded the agricultural flu-' thorities and to Wallace Nesbitt, MF for Oxford.Children's Aid Grant Is Sought• The Children’s Aid Society re-| quested a grant of S14.727 from Oxford County Council this morn-' tag.Overall anticipated increase over 1958 expenditures is approx­imately 53,000, said Harry Col­lins, treasurer of the Society, in a letter addressed to council.Direct child care costs are esti­mated at S33.320, about $2,000 under 1958 costs. Reasons for this is that the rates have all advanc­ed. said Mr. Collins.Estimated administrative costs are $53,708 some $3,600 over last year’s costs.This morning. Warden Ed: Pearce asked county councillors 'if they wished (to wind up the cur- rent budget session tomorrow. “We would save $300, he said, “and secretary-treasurer L. K. Coles informs me it could be done.”After a brief discussion, at which various councillors stated it would better to finish at 5 p.m. Thursday, no final decision was made on the matter at press­time."kick off their important budget session March 17, St. Patrick's , ' Day, with hope that the "hick of the Irish" will provide a good ! omen for the 1959 finances.Following a onc-and-a-half mill increase in the county's ■ tax rate last year, the 1959 council has advocated a hold-the- linc policy. The budget is expected to be brought down March 20.,13 Mills In 1958 ♦The 1958 tax rate was 13 mills ' With a budget of $671,263, an increase of $81,000 over 1957.The finance committee will meet tomorrow to give prelimi­nary study to the budget. Al­though all committee budgets and other expenses have not been settled, the committee hopes to eliminate a great deal of the budget work before coun­cil meets next week.Deputy Reeve George Davis, of South Norwich,1 is chairman of the finance committee. Mem­bers include Reeve Ernest Gar­ner, of West Zorra, Reeve David Chambers, of North Nor­wich, Reeve John Bolton, of East Nissouri, Deputy ReeveC. H. Esseltine, of Tillsonburg, and L. K. Coles, county clerk.Road expenditures are ex­pected to be the largest item in the 1959 budget, while wel­fare and charity probably will follow in second place.In 1958, the county included in its budget $370,897 for roads and $128,365 for welfare and charity.Council will hear a delegation from the Tillsonburg and Dis-j trict Memorial Hospital on Wed­nesday, and a similar delega­tion from the Alexandra Hos­pital, Ingersoll, on Thursday. 1Agricultural delegations will meet with the agricultural com- : mittee on Wednesday.Students Will Visit County Council MeetSenior students from Bonds Public School will observe the opening of County Council’s bud­get session March 17.Sponsored by the Reeve of East Oxford, Hilton Virtue, the young­sters will be accompanied by their teacher, Mrs. Jessie Vick­ers.Council will receive delegations from the Tillsonburg and District Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, and from the Alexandra Hoepit-:al, Ingersoll, Thursday.County clerk-treasurer L. Coles stated yesterday that delegations will likely askK., the forSCHOOL PUPILS SEE OXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL IN SESSIONgrants to cover last year’s defic­its.I Representatives from, several, agricultural organizations in the! county will wait on the Agricui-i tural committee Wednesday after- ; noon. Seeking grants will be the Oxford Junior Farmers’ Associat- ■ ion, 4-H Clubs and the Oxford Soil and Crop Improvement As­sociation. Agricultural represent­ative Robert Bell reported that; members of the OSCIA delegate ed to the Buckthorn Eradication committee of Council. Charles McGee, Ray Hartley, Cecil Rid­dle and Bruce McLeod, will meet with the committee Wednesday to; select a chairman. County weed inspector Ed Thornton will also be present.“Since Buckthorn eradication was started.” Mr. Bell said, “it has been the most successful program of its kind undertaken in the Province of Ontario.”He praised the high degi-ee of! co-operation received from both rural and urban people since the program was organized to its pre-.isentextent in 1955.Interested in learning more of how their civic governing bod­ies function, pupils from Bond’s Schoo! paid a visit to the open­ing bud got session of Oxford County Councrl at the Court House on Tuesday morning.i The youngsters were (taken in i charge by members of the coun- ! cil, who showed them around the chambers, and explained how the county busmens was iraosacSeid, One of the biggest thrlUr, tx> ihe boys among। visiting pupils was being p6r- mitibed 'to sit in the big chairs in the chamber which, during county council sessions, are <?CCU.pi&d by' the wardon and jodhiPr Oxford officials. In the photo, left to rigbl: Jim Live-* .• ‘‘ '‘.VA*I sey, Garry Zilke and Jim Vir­tue. Standing, right, are two. members of county council, Hil­ton Virtue, reeve of East Ox-' ford Town whip, and Gordon: Armstrong, reeve of Blandfordi Township. (Staff Photo.) ASSESSMENT UP TO $54,069,817County Budget Increased; Rate Is Cut Quarter-MillCounty Council yesterday brou­ght in a budget which calls for $689,390 in expenditures in .1959, approving it without discussion.Although up roughly $18,000 from the 1958 budget of $671,263 the mill rate will drop one quart­er from 13 to 12.75.County clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles, accounted for the decrease by pointing out that assessments are up from $51,635,654 to $54,069, 817 this year.“Ordinary people will aotuaffly pay less taxes.” Mr. Coles said, adding thait the extra money will come from new houses and new industry in the city.“Roads are taking less thisDEFEAT MOTIONapproximately five-acre reforest­ation plot north of Drumbo will be accepted subject to the ap­proval of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests.A motion by reeve George Dav­is of South Norwich that no furth­er grants be paid to hospitals in the county incurring deficits after January 1. 1959, met with opposit- ROADS REPORT ion and was finally defeated.Opposing the motion, deputy reeve Clare Esseltine of Tillson­burg had this to say, "you might just as well abolish the police force. We've got the hospitals and we’ve got to maintain them."Reeve John Bolton of East Mis­souri agreed with Mr. Esseltine. "We have been led to believe by the Ontario Hospital Insurance Commission that after 1959 there will be no further deficits. How­ever, if the hospitals do have deficits. 1 don’t see what else we. can we do but accept them.’’Mr. Davis. “I introduced the motion because I would like toyear, too” he said, pointing out that last year construction on eight mile's of Governor’s road was completed with approximate­ly half that distance, or 3.6 miles. —---- ----------scheduled for completion this see Council go on record as op­year. i posed to future deficits.”Roads last year accounted for| Council endorsed the Agricul-. $370,897 of the total expenditure ]ture committee’s recommendat-1 while this year's budget calls for1--— *»— *$340,000.Earmarked for general county purposes this year is $189,115 with $160,275 destined for charity and welfare purposes.The county's share of costs for grading, culverts, granular bas­es and paving on Governor’s road this year will amount to $57,236 which will be equally matched by the City of Wood- stock.The Finance committee also dol­ed out grants with a liberal hand.Oxford Children’s Aid Society will receive $14,719 to be paid on a quarterly basis; Tillsonburg Memorial Hospital, $29,226 to cov­er the County's share of the 1958The report of the County Roads Committee recommended that the section of road number 6 ex­tending from Governor's road to Cody’s Corners, situated at the intersection of the roads between lots 5 and 6 and between con­cessions 4 and 5 West Zorra be redesignated, the new location to be between concessions 4 and 5 West Zorra township in lieu of its present location on the slant road in concession 5 West Zorra Township.; committee s recommendat­ion that Oxford County be declar-l ed a rabies infected area anddeficit, Alexandra Hospital. Ing­ersoll. $4.89b to cover operatingthat the Dominion Health of Ani­mals Branch be solicited to set up clinics in the county for the vaccination of pets.Included in the report, which was adopted as read, was the recommendation that rabies be classed as an infectious disease under the Dominion Health of Animals Branch making compen­sation at the prevailing market value retroactive to September 1, 1958.Also approved were grants to various agricultural groups. To the North Blenheim Horse Breed- f ers’ Association $15 0, O x - ford County 4-H Club Leaders As-| sociation $500, Oxford County Jun­ior Farmers $250, Oxford Soil and[ Crop Improvement Association. $400, Dairymen’s Association of1deficiiis; the town of Tillson- Western Ontario $25, Oxford Poul-i burg $17,961 for 1959 debenture try and Pet Stock Association! payments for the Tillsonburg Dis- $50 and Blenheim township Plou-trict Hospital; schools for retard-ed children at Woodstock and Tillsonburg for maintenance $6750ghmen’s Association $100.An offer from the Ontario De-ipartment of Highways for the]No Increase In Mill Rate Is County Council DesireOxford County Council is hope­ful that there will be no increase in the present mill rate of 13, county clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles reported today.Council begins sittings for the annual March budget session to­morrow. taxes to any municipality underAmong correspondence to be! Crown organization where'Crown; read at toe opening session arc j Land exceeds two and a half per] several resolutions and letters of cent of the total acreage of such appreciation for allocated grants.] a municipality.free vaccine for all animals for the prevention of rabies and that compensation be paid on live-! stock at the current market price.From Hastings County Council: a petition to the Province of Ont­ario to pay a grant in lieu ofFrom Huron County Council: a Supporting the Hastings resolu- request that the Minister of Edu- Lion, Welland County Council: cation be asked to consider an asks all county councils to sup- U increase in grants to County Co- port the principle that all pro­Operative Library Boards beyond vincially owned lands and build-1the present fixed maximum of togs be liable to a grant in lieu! $4000 where the Library Co-Op is of taxes equivalent to 100 peri able to present evidence of the; cent of taxes.quality of its works. The increase From Oxford County Federal-; in grants to be reieated to the ton of Agriculture: a request that] County's willingness to partici- Council mark white centre lines; pate in the cost of expansion and on P^vcd county roads as a safety i improvement of the library ser- Precaution.vice. I Letters of appreciation haveFrom the Council of the County! been received from: The Canadi- , of Ontario: a petition to the Fed-ian National Institute for theBlind, the Salvation Army, the board of directors of the Oxfordoral Government to amend var­ious actu so that fees for jurors and Crown witnesses be increas­ed to $10 per day plus 10 centsMuseum, St, John Ambulance,! i the Rotary Chib of Woodstock, •Stratford General Hospital and St. Marys Memorial Hospital.per mile necessarily travelled.Also from the County of Ont- - ---------- .aria: a petition to the Federal Council will wind up a busy ses-* Government to make available I sion on Friday, March 20.Pupils Visit County CouncilHighlight of Oxford - County; • Council h. opening day budget session was the visit of senior students from Bond's School in' Blandford and East Oxford iownr-hips,About 20 of these students from grades six, seven, and eight, and* their principal Mrs. Jesse Vick-! ers, were welcomed by Warden Erl Pearce.On behalf of the pupils, Mrs. Vickers thanked the councillors and county clerk and treasurer. L. K. Coles, “for the enlighten­ing story of county council’s du-: ties.”No action will be taken on a recommendation from the Oxford County Federation of Agriculture! that white centre lines be paint­ed on paved county roads. Heavy cost of winter maintenance and the possibility of heavy expendit-! ure on spring maintenance were the reasons given.The Roads report wa.-, passed. Several resolutions and letters] Also passed was the report of of appreciation for grants, given the Printing and Resolutions com* ■ by county council to surrounding; mittee which supported a resolut* communities, were read this jnor-j. ion from Welland County calling ning by Mr. Coles, for all provincially owned lands and buildings to be liable to aDuring the rest of the day, aft-'---- .. er a brief opening session this1! grant in lieu of taxes equivaleart morning, councillors worked in ibo 100 per cent of taxes. various committees.Council adjourned the March, session at 4:45 p.m.COUNTY COUNCILWill Spend $1,025,266 On Roads During 1959the county mads sys cmg^ Verschoyk BrownsvUle Reports frotn the Education “counenTpproved toe third re- will account for $36,733; paving committee, and toe Library G> ’ <hnPPi«ndine committee on 2.25 miles of toe Holbrook- Operative comnut.ee were recei-. L-sussa ?S[ a? ™ •» —»■ —ss S .'S. ™.S ”, t™~Wood- road. $18,000; paving the 3.9 mil- and Ratepayers Association will of the Innerkip-Drumbo road ^^de lhc Mar-'to highway 401, $35,000; grade ch budget session this afternoon, preparation and surfacing of the one day earlier than expected at entire length, 4.8 miles of the i the onset of toe session. j025,266 ontern in 1959.on roadssion.The county’s share onstock suburban roads will am-ies ount to $62,581 on Ingersoll sub­urban roads $1,621, on county bridge expenditure $16,620 and on county roads $259,177.The amount to be raised by general levy totals $340,000.Government subsidies will ac^ count for $556,723 of the total., Canada Cement Company Limi­ted are donating $64,340 worth of material.The Roads appropriation thisyear is down more than $200,000 from last when expenditures were! set at $1,232,974.Summary of expenditures shows; superintendence $7,700; general, $16,766; machinery repairs $18,- , 000; new machinery $21,000; brid­ges and culverts, county roads,! $44,900; bridges and culverts, boundary roads $38,200; Wood- stock suburban roads $417,177;’. Ingersoll suburban roads $6,634; 1 turban municipalities $34,641; con-j struotion $169,387; maintenance ; $250,860.Maintenance on Woodstock sub­urban roads, including Sweaburg road, the eleventh concession of E. Zorra and Governors road will . account for $3,300, $950 and $1,400; respectively.Hamilton road west of Inger- J soli and Culloden road south of] Ingersoll will absorb $4,700 and $1,500 in maintenance costs.I<1' ''W ■J, ydY" -------- —------------ -O. East grant to the University of West- $18,000; |ern Ontario will amount to $2,500.Oxford County Budget ReadyFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 1$ -•] The 1959 budget of Oxford! County will be presented to;council tomorrow, L. clerk, said today.Earlier Mr. Coles preliminary work on et would take more that Its presentation delayed until Friday.K. Coles.;estimated the budg-j time and! would be;This year's budget is not ex-! pected to exceed the 13 mills: established last year. A rough draft indicated a quarter of al mill decrease from last year, but a further investigation of1 the spendings has eliminated the small decrease.Representatives from the Till-] aonhurg and District Memorial Hospital asked council for a $29,226 grant.Tomorrow, a delegation from the Alexandra Hospital, Inger­soll, will seek a grant.In a letter to council, thdChildren’* Aid Society asked for m $14,727 grant from the county, Harry Collins, of Woodstock, treasurer of the society, in­formed council that the antic-] Ipated expenditures this yean would increase, approximately $3,000 over 1JMS8. Sidney Smith’s Death At 62 Shocks OttawaOxford Health Unit Gives Report On Work During '58.OTTAWA (CPI—Sidney Smith.Cape Breton farm boy who builtan enviable reputation as a uni­versity administrator, died Tues­day. 18 months after embarking on a new career as Canada’s ex­ternal affairs minster.He was found by his wife in their apartment where he was resting before going to the Com­mons. He had complained of feel­ing unwell and apparently suc­cumbed to a heart attack.Originally destined for the min­istry. Sidney Smith began a career in -liw Jaw but soon switched to university teaching, becoming at one time the young-1 est Canadian university presi­dent. He entered politics in Sep­tember. 1957.SIDNEY SMITH ....... "happy warrior’Oxford County was free of; most major Infectious diseases during 1958 according to the an­nual report of health and sani-. tary conditions in the county just released by the staff of the Ox-. ford Health Unit.MOH Dr. O. C, Powers reports that of the minor communicableduring the year with a total at- . tendance of 742.Unfortunately the Oxford Red ■ j Cross Is still unable to finance Mg dental- work for needy children, ’ but arrangements are under way £ i with the newly formed Oxford J Dental Association for a more complete dental program.PRE-NATALPre-natal work of the Nursing ;;diseases, chicken pox has been by far the most prevalent, al­though few cases are repotted, ^wwn, uhuw Mipm vi^ji w tReporting of minor infectious, Mae Haviland, has expanded diseases is very poor, he reveals. | this year with pre-natal elassc: ]No cases of poliomyelitis were I started in Ingersoll showing a 'reported during the year. Virus good attendance. .diseases and common colds were quite prevalent.Immunization againsit small-Division, under superv,>r MissAttendance at child health con­ferences held monthly at 16 cen-; tres throughout the county was 1 Discovered, in the 15.020 public ■ SrSgon Wh&g tough> and!se^ school studentstetanus shots'were administered county wem cas-to 1,590 infants and 786 pre - es of defective vision, hearing, school youngsters last year. 18 cases of ISmallpox vaccination was givento 1,671. Diphtheria and tetanus,Under the Division of Foodij Control, directed by the late Dr. I.toxoid was given, to 4 tofanibs, T v T- ^,,1™ j ’64 pre-school and 1,501 school A. ______ . irirr nf milt frw thr* 17 nor ILchildren while 1,958 received in-ing of milk for the 12 month per-jand 9 288 had iod showed an average of 96.54, ■ I per cent satisfactory. Inspections |fluenza vaccine ;polio Salk shots. r, O£,n , - - - - r--------i of 369 farm premises were car-The tuberculosis control pro- rjecj outgram is still showing excellent.re- Continued improvement in san- sults. Forty four clinics were held I itary procedure in slaughteringTENDERS WANTEDSEALED TENDERS address­ed to the County Road Sup- , erintendent and endorsed ' “Tender for Supplies and I Hauling Road Materials and I Equipment Hire" will be re­ceived by the undersigned up to 12 o’clock noon, Monday, April 20, 1959. for the follow- 1 ing:12.3.4.5.Hauling of road building I materials from various sources within or adjacent to the County.Feeding, crushing and i hauling from designated j gravel pits.Delivery of the above men- j tioned materials to be made on certain portions of the County Road System as di­rected by the County Road Superintendent.Any other work that may be designated on the tender’ form.Truck, shovel and equip- i ment hire.6.Supplies and other services used in road construction and maintenance.zTires, oil. gasoline, batter­ies and other supplies for the operation of County equipment.Contract agreements and specifications and tender forms for items 1 to 6 may be obtained at the office of the County Road Superinten­dent, Court House, W o o d- stock, Ontario, on or after April Sth. Tenders on Item 7 may be submitted on sup­plier's forms.Tenders on items 1 to 6 must be accompanied by a marked f cheque payable to the County Treasurer or an approved bid bond for Five Hundred Dol* | lars.The lowest or any tender not J necessarily accepted.J. N. MEATHRELL.,. County Road Superintendent> Court House,Woodstock. Ontario.establishments in the county was noted together with structuralLMRS. ALEX WATSON. . . former teacherand T, E. Jackson of IngersofllJ.Innerkip Woman Is NamedAs 1959 President Of OEAMirs. Alex Wateon of Inmierkip' was elected president of the, Ontario Education Associaition at ithe general meeting held last [ nighit in Convocation Hall, Uni-1 versify of Toronto. Mrs. Watson succeeds Roger Saint-Denis of Ot­tawa.Carleton University president Davison Dunton was guest speak­er for the event. Mr. Dunton iis part chairman of the CBC.An ex-schobOiteaaher, Mrs. Wait- son for many years has worked ;for the cause cf educaition.. She j is secretary of Oxford County Trustees and Ratepayers Associa­tion and field director for the -i Ontario Trustees and Ratepayers’ Branch with offices in Toronto.Mns. Watson was the first wo- ;man member of the East Zorra School Board a'nd also served a term as chairman of that board.Mrs. Watson's election at the OEA general meeting on Monday evening means that she will guide the destiny of this great educa­tional group of over 12.000 mem- ■ berg through aits 100th anniver-saty year.Mrs. Wat-son is the thdird of Ox-ibave also held this position.Mns. Watson’s husband Alex i-si. ford County’s workers in educa- Postmaster in Inmerkiip and a tion to be honored in this Prov- w ,• in>C4<81-wide educational orgamza- . ,. . _ ‘tion through election to the office 150,1 are natives of Scotland and; of president in the last two dec- are tlhe parertiK of three' ades. The latf J. Ferris D^vid, children. ' |.MAD MARCH WIND ATTAINS 90 MPHand mechanical advances ini some premises.Deterioration in the quality of rural water supplies continued to be apparent during the year, ae-| cording to the report, necessita-i ting the chlorination of a num-| . ber of wells which had previously ■ produced highly satisfactory sup­plies over an extended period. HThe Sanitation Division,* under sanitary inspector J. L. Griffith. < made 848 visits to food-handling establishments, restaurants, ho­tels, bakeries and grocers.Nine hundred and fifty five waiter samples were examined k ,'with 216 showing heavy pollution 1 and 82 a lesser degree of pcdlu-L Gon.Public school inspections of 308 premises were made. School boards are to be complimented < on the installation of pressure « water, flush toilets and median- ical heating equipment.Pollution of water courses by trade waste and sewage disposal! is still a great problem. Assist­ance was given the Ontario Wat-? er Resources Commission i ri .sampling points on watercourses throughout the county.Shrieking Gales Hit Area; Property Damage Reported- - - — >. i - Tv C iL . . _ - -n ■- - I ■crctcrTTiiL utu-1 Lower Rafe | Despite RiseIn SpendingFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 19 • — Oxford County's 1959 budget, presented today.! showed a quarter-mi 11 de­crease despite a $18,000 increase in estimated ex­penditures this year.Strike RateCounty council struck a 1959' jrate ot 12.75’ mills, a quarter of! a mill drop from last year’s' .rate on the basis of equalized assessment.Road Program In OxfordWill Cost $1,000,00Free Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 19 Oxford County will spen$ an estimated $1,025,266 on roads this year.The largest single expendi­ture is the county's share in the Woodstock Suburban Roads Commission which amounted to $62,581.Governor's Road Is the largest works project out­lined In the budget. Although much of the highway has boon completed, a four-mile stretch, west of Woodstock, will come under this year's program.The county's share of the road construction, including the Thames River bridge, this year is $61,070. Total esti­mated cost of the 1959 work on Governor's road is $411,132.The county’s share of pro­posed bridge expenditures this year will be $16,620 while county road expenditures in 1959 fl re expected to be $259,- 177.New machinery will cost an estimated $21,000 while re­pairs and the operation of the Woodstock and Embro gar­ages will cost approximately $18,0000.New bridges on county roads will cost an estimated $44,900 this year which In­cludes a $20,400 bridge on concession three of East Ox­ford township.• ♦ •Proposed boundary bridges will cost the county about $38,200 which intludcs a new bridge on concession five, linking East Oxford and Bur­ford township, costing an esti­mated $18,000.* • ♦New construction of roads In Oxford will reach an esti­mated $169,387.Included is the grading and resurfacing of five miles of road between Verschoyk and Brownsville; paving of the Holbrook-Dereham kwniine; nearly two miles ot the north section of the Bright road; paving about four miles of the Inncrkip-Drumbo road to No. 401 highway; grade prepara­tion and surfacing of the en­tire length, nearly five miles, of the Innerklp sideroad.Total estimated cost of maintenance work for mw- tions of 26 roads is $250,869.This year's budget totals of $689,390. compared with $671,263 in 1958.L. K. Coles, county clerk, said the reason for the drop in the mill rate and despite an increase in spending, was because an increase of approximately $3,000,000 in county assessment during the past year.Roads Spending 'Largest budget slice this year is $340,000, or approximately six! mills, for proposed road costs.' The road estimates showed $30,000 decrease while other costs rose to new levels.Proposed general expenditures rose $17,000 to $189,115.Estimated charity and wd] fare payments increased sharply! from $128,000 last year to $160,-! 275 this year.The 12.75 mill rate is based oni a $54,069,817 assessment The';: value of the 1959 mill is approxi­mately $54,000.Mr. Coles attributed the de­crease in the roads' budget to the large expenditure made last year for construction on Gover­nor's road. He said only four miles of the highway was not completed and remaining costs were included in the 1959’ budget.Welfare Cost*■ Warden E. R. Pearce pointed out that charity and welfare estimates were above last year's figure, mainly because ot addi­tional requests for grants and assistance.Grants approved were: Oxford Children's Aid Society, $14,719; Tillsonburg and District Mem­orial Hospital, $29,226; Alexan­dra Hospital, Ingersoll, $4,890;! county share of debenture costs! for Tillsonburg and District! Memorial Hospital, $17,961: Woodstock and Tillsonburg, each $675 for a school for retarded, children; North Blenheim Horse Breeders’ Association, $150; Ox-| ford 4-H Club Leaders' Associa­tion, $500; Oxford Junior Farm­ers, $250; Oxford Soil and Crop Improvement Association, $400;4,200 PersonsGel Polio ShotsFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 18 — More than 4,200 residents of Ox­ford County have received the , first dose of free anti-polio vac­cine administered by the Oxford Health Unit, Dr. O. C. Powers, medical officer of health, said today.Residents of Ingersoll and dis­trict are the only ones who have not received the first dose of the vaccine, he said. Clinics will be held at» the Ingersoll YMCA on March 24 and March31.The health teringdoctor and nurses of the unit will start adminis- the second dose of thevaccine to Woodstock residents Friday. The clinic will also open at the health unit Monday and Wednesday.1,500 City Area ResidentsMore than 1.500 residents of the city and district took ad­vantage of the free immuniza-tion clinics.In Embro, received the will be heldwhere 182 persons' first dose, clinics March 26 in thetown hall for the second dose.In Tavistock, where 339 persons! / received the vaccine, clinics for[ j the second dose will open March 28 in the library building base-j I ment.Each clinic will be open from' 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 7 j p.m. to 9 p.m.Dr. Powers said he was most] encouraged by the response giv-j • en by the residents of Oxford! towards the free polio clinics. Only persons 40 years and un- Idcr were eligible for the vac- ! ®ine.Dairymen's Association of West-1 ern Ontario, $25; Oxford PoulJ300 ADULTS GET FIBST SHOTS AT POLIO CLINICTables were turned on Friday afternoon and evening as ap­proximately 300 adults, instead of children, formed a process­ion at the Oxford Health Unit building to receive the first in aseries of three polio shots. Quick as a wink a card was signed, arm swabbed, needleadministered by Dr. O. C. Pow­ers and card stamped, as sim­ple as that. In the above picture Mrs. R. Matthews is shown stamping the card of Jim Cham­bers, Dundas St. Free polio clinics will resume in Wood- stock on the afternoons and ev-enings of Feb. 23 and 25. Sec­ond needles will be given on the corresponding dates in March. (Staff Photo.)East OxfordSees Possible Tax Rate Cuttry and Pet Stock Association: _|ISO; and Blenheim Township! I T I \ #Plowmen's Association, $100.i:t‘ "'A* --'4IN HOSPITALDr. H. B. Atkinson of Thames* ford, ex-warden of Oxford County, is recuperating in Victoria Hos­pital, London, after undergoing a recent major operation. His con-di lionis reported as satisfactoryQuarter-Mill From 58 BERS TOUR P0L,iU■ -«® t 5 ®';5 r;*i.SMiMEMBERS OF the Tenth Line 4-H Calf Club, the South Zorra 4-H Com Qub and their leaders increased toeir know­ledge of agriculture, industry and government yesterday. They toured the Oxford and District Cattle Breeding As­sociation, the County Build­ing, the Ralston Purina Com­pany Limited and the Oxford Fruit Co-Operative Limited. TOP County clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles explains the I'ay- out of the County Co-Oper­ative Library to, back row, left to right, Margaret Mur­ray, Tenth Une Calf Club, Norma Lazenby, Tenth Line Calf Club, front row, left to right, Murray Lazenby, TenthUne Calf Club and Ken Su- tihedfend, South Zorra Corn Qub. LOWER, Staff members prepare to guide tihe group through the Ralston Purina! Company Limited plant (Staff photos). •(Jou are cordially invited to attend the ^Jenlk -Annual Tl^eetin,^ of tJie Orford (doiinty ddlrartj (do-operative to he held in the(dounhj Council (dhamhari, County budding [ddoodutoch, Ontarioddhurtday, ^dpril the t6ll Nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, al eiyhl p.m. Quad Speaker: Wlr. Qordon /£. Saylor Subject: She Souk in ChinahdefredimentiDr. E. L. Taylor Passes, Was Health Unit OfficialWidely known throughout Wood-, He practiced as a Veterinary to stock and Oxford County, Dr. L. Woodstock for a time and then :• E. L. Taylor, veterinary inspect-'became dairy inspector for tha or for the Oxford Health Unit and former Woodstock Board of Heal- resident of Woodsaoek for many th. When this was taken over by years, passed away at Woodstock the Oxford Health Unit, he was General Hospital on Sunday, appointed public health veterin- March 22. after an illness of two ary with the unit, serving this weeks. (capacity until his death.{ Born in England, Dr. Taylor He was a member of New St. Iwas a son of the late Mr. and Paul's Anglican church and was > i! Mrs. John Taylor and came to a charter member of the Wood- Canada as a boy with his parents,‘stock branch. Canadian Legion, settling in Western Canada. He! Surviving arc his widow, the attended Chicago University, former Elizabeth Rowe of Wood- Iwhere he graduated as a Doctor stock; one daughter. Mrs. Andrew of Veterinary Medicine. {Horner (Joan), Dallas. Texas and। In the First World War, he ser- one son Edward at home. There ■ved as a Major with the Suffolk are also five grandchildren.Imperia! Army. He was woundedi The late Dr. Taylor is resting in action and returned to Can- at the F. E. Rowell Funeral ada, later enlisting with the Third Home, where the funeral service Division, Mobile Veterinary Corps will be held Wednesday, March with which he served until the 25 at 2 p.m. Rev. L. J. Patterson end of the war. iof New St. Paul's Anglicanj He was awarded the Military Church officiating. Temporary en- 1 ffl Cross and tdie Frondh Croix tombment will be made in Wood-i' =£■de Guerre with Palm, "'j "stock Mausoleum. vX rj v '£$.:?■'’"y '.•••.•••\-v'. . , . 'x.Oxford Rabies Payments Set^3BEAUTIFYING southwestern Ontario for future enjoyment and preventing flood flows keep busy members of the Upper Thames River Conserva­tion Authority. Studying the pond construction program at its annual meeting yesterday2 reTOP the re-elected execu-Illi!tive council. Left to right. A. H. Richardson, chief Officer, G. W. Pittock chairman, N. A. Bradford, vice-chairman, L'eon- and N. Johnson, sewetary- treasurer. CENTRE are some of the Oxford representatives,liam. Baigent, North Oxford. ■ ' w. J. McDonald, East Zorra, Reeve Robert Rudy, of Tavis- tock. Studying an authority map are LOWER loft to right ox - warden Cecil Riddle, offrom the Wt. Aid. R. M.ney, of Woodstock,ReeveBan-Wil-North Oxford, Aid. O. D. Ev ans, of Woodstock, warden ‘ ~VfM Pre** WoodHfock Burcmi WOODSTOCK, March 25 Oxford County fa prepared to pay its share of compensation to farmers for livestock lout be- 5 causo-vof rskbirre, L. K. county clerk, said tfcday.The county hag been asked to pay 20 per cent of the esti­mated value of livestock while the province will pay -10 per.' jeent and the Federal Govern-' ■ ment 40 per cent. Compensa­tion will be paid retroactive to April 1, 1958.No WordDr. D. W, Thompson, veter­inarian for the Canada Depart-) | ment of Agriculture in Wood- stock, said his office has not । been notified of the compen­sation plan. Mr. Coles said he has received no official word from either Federal or Provin­cial authorities about the plan.“When they are ready to go ahead with the announced plan, the county is prepared and willing,'’ he said.The rabies epidemic which skirted the, county last fall, hit Oxford in December and has I continued in a southern trend throughout the county during the winter months.Nine FarmsDr. Thompson said that 15 head of cattle which died be­cause of the disease will be eligible for compensation. The affected animals were found on nine farms.Clarence Shaddock, of Thamesford, was the most severely hit. He lost six head of cattle. J. H. Cook, of Em­bro. lost two head during the winter.The Provincial Government announced that a maximum payment for cattle would be $250.In Oxford, 38 foxes have been found with positive cases of rabies while six more foxes are under investigation by Federal laboratories in Hull now.Pets TooOne dog. one cat and one ground hog have died from ihe disease in the county since De­cember, Dr. Thompson said.He said the epidemic has shown signs of petering out However, he warned that more cases of the disease may be reported when cattle gel out to pasture.The compensation plan has not been finalized as far as the county is concerned. The Gov­ernment scheme depends on'- approval from all counties in . I Ontario.I It calls for a county valuator; to assess the value of the ani- jmal. The counties in turn sub­mit certified audit accounts of payment to the Provincial Gov­ernment who reimburse them for the payment.Oxford,and ex- A. D. Robinson, West * Staff Photos) completed.Veterinary Canada, Dr. horized the received byDirector General of Kenneth Wells, aut- clinlcs in a letter Dr. D. W. Thomp-Free rabies vaccination clinics for domestic animals will be est­ablished in Oxford County as soon as arrangements for the lo­cation of the clinics can beMove To Establish Clinics For RabiesANNUAL REPORTS were heamd Wednesday night of the Ingersoll Rural Cemetery Board in dhe Ingersoll Council Cham­bers. John N. Meathrell waselected chairman of ’the board to replace Ambhun- J. Hutehdson. In the photo, Mr. Hutchison; Miss Wimifred Williams, a for­mer chanrrnan of the board andTom Cleaver, repre®eitiW«g Iing- Cmsoll on the ben rd ate seen •talking with Mr. Meathrell and seceetaoy-treasurer G. Hessen- auetr. tStaff Photo.'Cemetery Board Elects J.N. Meathrell HeadMHJolin N. Meatherell was elect- west end, at a total cost of SI,132. ditions at the cemetery, he said, I fed chairman of the Ingersoll Ru- This was necessary, as the port- “I think that the cemetery is get- - • • ions paved were in deplorable ting to a place beyond too muchcondition. The exterior of house.criticism as to the condition”.^^IH ' ' • I loll Mlg r’ral Cemetery Board at their an-F" nual meeting Wednesday night at iwuiuuu. *»«= ui ao .-■ the Ingersoll Council Chambers, and garage, used by the care-1 Reports were also given byson, federal veterinarian with the (Health of Animals Branch, Wood- i stock, Friday.! The letter states that “due to ! the prevalence of rabies in Ox­ford Oouruty it bag been decided to Inaugurate a program of mass vaccination of dogs in the coun­ty.”“We will have to vaccinate about 80 to 85 per cent of the dogs to be successful,” Dr. Thompson stated. “This is one of the main things we are after.”Immediate measures to elim­inate strays and unwanted dogs is of paramount importance to the success of the clinics, the letter warned.Blenheim township council pas­sed a by-law Saturday night pro­hibiting dogs from running at large. Another meeting has been called for Tuesday night to dis­cuss ways and means of enfor­cing the by-law."I don't know who will enforcestrays “is the responsibility of township reeves.Admitting that the OPP get a lot of complaints about stray animals, Sgt. Moore suggested that if all townships passed by­laws similar to that of Blenheim, authority would be granted to, any person to shoot dogs running at large.Blenheim township clerk Trvin Haines reported that the bylaw was passed under the authority of the cattle, sheep and poultry protection act which states that a municipality may pass bylaws to prohibit the “running at large" and provide for the "seizing, im­pounding and killing'’ of any stray dogs.Stock inspector Lloyd Etherin#- ‘ ton of Drumbo was appointed by council to enforce the bylaw, Mr. Haines stated.Space for the Vaccination clin­ics will be provided by the muni­cipalities involved. Vaccination will be carried out by practicing veterinarians in the county who: will be employed temporarily by the Department of Agriculture, rThe rabies toll amopg cattle in Oxford County stands at 17 with one case reported Friday and an­other Saturday, Dr, Thompson said,.Hardest Jilt townships are East7A3Elected to the board were John Meathrell and Gordon Waters toitaker. were painted and n e w Tom Cleaver and Miss Winnifredeavestroughs installed. The nec- Williams, a former chairman of________ __ .. essary repairs were made to the the Ingersoll Rural Cemetery represent Ingersoll, Arthur J. interior of the house. Numerous Board.Hutchison to represent North Ox- rods of new fencing along west Newly elected chairman, Mr.ford. Appointed were Tom Clea- end of grounds were erected. Meathrell, in his remarks, thank- ver. representing the town of Ing- New equipment has been purch- ed the board members for his H ersoll and William M. Baigent re- ased and power mowers are now appointment and noted that “with presenting the township of North in good working condition. a little effort we should get the (cemetery fixed up.”“It is proposed that the dilap-;Oxford.G. Hessenauer. secretary-treas- ■ urer gave the auditor’s report, . ■ ' and the report of the secretary-H| treasurer was read as follows. erected in a convenient place.- ‘'Our burial permit register £ ,idated barn building be torn down! this year and new storage build-ing and work shop, urgently need-'shows that therehas been 9.158it,” Dr. Thompson said. “Pos- Nissouri and West Oxford, sibly the' Provincial Police. They Farmer have expressed alarm are very interested in this thing.”, about the increased danger to Sergeant Burt Moore of the | herds now that their cattle are OPP Woodstock detachment s>aid out to pasture and have been this morning that control o f | pressuring for free clinics and compensations since last Decem­ber.Agriculture Minister Harkness recently announced a federal- provincial plan of compensation for livestock lost due to rabies which provides for 80 per cent, of the cost to be shared by the Governments and the remaining I 20 per cent of the cost to be assumed by the county.The road from entrance gates to! front of the cemetery house and!■ ■ SHOWS uiai meie uas uccu' mlermente in the IngersoU Hural frQnt of mausoleum shouW c । be paved and considerable land-i Cemetery up to1958.'•Last y-- ’ -'m7 custodian,)on the ml. rit ®ast end ?fl discharged his duties in a cemetery grounds and approach- _atisfactor„ manner”es were paved, also incline at sa“sfJcto^ ™ ™ t ,Arthur J. Hutchison, past chair-: man, addressed the board andi■ ‘i-•PROMINENT CITIZENcongratulated Mr. Hessenauer for his work done. Referring to con-1ASKED COUNTY ASSUME BRIDGES<William F. Hersee Passes At HomeLong prominent in mfdi'tary end- ibusiness circles of Woodstock for : majw T.teit -GOloncfl WiiU-imany yeans, Ljeut.-Coloneil Wiil-iam Frederick Hersee, former commander of the Oxford Rifles,: passed away at his residence, 52 I Wellington street, south on Wed-' nesday, April 8 after a lengthy illness.Cofl.. Hersee was born at Norwich, son; U the late Mr. j and Mr®. W. I M. Hersee. j. The family moved to Woodstock and. h e attended | public school I here a-nd Jaber I the Woodstock Baptist Coll-; ege-In his late i . 'teens, he wont to St. Augu.-it- toe, Florida: and was employed with the Flor-!£ *da East Coast Railway terr ' ^ral years.•< . ■ . . r. ii. " •.< ; f 1!Appeal Is Withdrawn By Blenheim T ownshipbeen watched by keen interest by: township finances because of hea- Ontario Government officials and I vy mamten^nce cos:s.municipal authorities. I Judge Cross said clerk-treas*Original application was based(urer I. J. Haines, of Blenheim, B on a section of the Ontario Mun- admitted during the trial that the icipal Act which stated: (township had spent only $500(onj'A bridge of a, greater length the 13 bridges in question for than 300 feet in a town or town-[maintenance and repairs, of ship having an equalized assess-1 somewhat less than $38 per brid-' ment of less than $1,000 may. on‘ge, in 1957.application of the town or town-j Judge Cross said there was & ship be declared a county bridge place in Blenheim where theiNith River runs the length of •, Judge Eric Cross said in his [the township giving Blenheim the judgment that evidence indicat-,dubious honor of having more 300- ed that Blenheim Township had foot spans or longer than any I k case, few have been made no application during the,other municnxilkv in Omaria Ontario courts, it has,past 30 years for county aid or The judge referred in his judg- provincial grants to lighten the ment to the history of the county financial burden for repairs or and said when county officials construction of bridges. took over roads they agreed toAn appeal against a decision which dismissed an application by Blenheim Township to have 13 bridges deqlamod county prop­erty has been withdrawn by that township.When Oxford County Court Jud-j ge Eric W. Cross dismissed the application on Jan. 23. the town­ship, through its solicitor L. M.Ball, QC of Woodstock, appeal with the Ontario Appeal in Toronto.Mr. Ball has advisedfiled anCourt ofthe Ox-ford County solicitor that he hasabandoned the township’s appeal. A rareheard intook over roads they agreed to operate more than 21 miles of pth^au» b^r^township were being heavily us: teke OVer add‘ed by vehicles other than those, "j of the nninto*”!hedeb< residents. And,.t ttlc cost of maintenance ofwas too great toi the burden on the township".COST TOO GREAT He's Only BabyPresent Figures FridayOxford County To TryHold-the-Line BudgetMembersof the skating Garner family are: Back row, left to right, Allan, 15; Mrs. Alice Garner; Mr. Ernest Garner; Ross Garner, 16, club intermediateH • •** Iboys' champ; Wayne, 14; front row, Elaine, 12; John, 6; Roger, 5; Joyce, 3; Brian, 7; Glen, 10. Absent is Douglas, 17. (Photo by Mark).Thirteen In Family— All But One Skate** r'S »I < t&Well-Known Couple Die In Holiday Car CrashWell known residents of Drum­bo. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Pet­erson were fatally injured in an automobile crash in Georgia on Tuesday, while returning home after a two months holiday in Florida.The accident occurred near Glenville, according to word re­ceived yesterday .by relativesfrom the State ed to Drum bo. their car was another vehiclePolice who phon- They stated thatin atamd that Mr. and died instantly.collision with an intersection Mrs. PetersonMr. Peterson. 82. was a former warden of Oxford county and was born near Gobles. He farmed in Oxford county all his life and at one time owned four farms in the Drumbo district.He entered public life in 1917I and was a member of the council, deputy reeve and reeve of Blem | helm township. He was elected warden of the county in 1924. He was later road superintendent from 1925 to 1945 and clerk ot the Division Court at Drumbo. from 1934 to 1957. He had been I justice of the peace since 1934.Mr. Peterson was elected pres­ident of the Ayr Farmers Mutual S Fire Insurance Co. in February ) and had been a director of the .. board for 30 years.He was married some 60 years / ago to Margaret Wilson of Drum-MR. AND MRS.L. E. PETERSONFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, March 16 — Oxford County council will Convene tomorrow with a hold-the-line policy for the 1959 budget which will be presented on Friday.Last year's budget was 13ed with the late W. G. Rounds photo Studio in Woodstock.ive members of the Friendly Ser- jvice Club. Mrs. Peterson wasMany Receive Polio ShotsIn IngersollOver 1,000 people of Ingersoll and district received protection against podio.Four hundred and forty-five took their polio shots at the YMCA yesterday afternoon and evening. Last week 615 took ad-mills and council hopes to keep it down despite rising costs and1 additional requests for grants.Tomorrow, committees will1 meet most of the day, following opening ceremonies and the reading of correspondence.The County of Ontario has asked Oxford to endorse a resolution which calls on the Federal Government to provide; anti rabies vaccine free of Charge for all animals as well as pay farmers compensation for livestock lost because of the disease.Mrs. Peterson was born at the also a farmer member of the family home on the Sweaburg Hannah Lund Evening Auxiliairy road and later moved with her and a member of the Monday: family to Woodstock, residing on Eleading Club.Victoria 91., N. I Funeral arrangements have motIn January of 1959 she was in- been completed, the bodies will stalled at president of the Oxford be forwarded to Georgia and the; Presbyterial WMS and in this or-,Wilson Funeral Home, Drumbo,vantage of the free polio vac­cine offered by the Oxford County Health Unit to ail resi-i dents of Ingersoll and districtunder 40 years of age. means a total of 1,060 been innoculated.Mi's. Cora Etheridge,This haveganization has served as Presby-.will be in charge.terial secretary for Mission Bands) Robert Peterson and Mr. WR- and community friendship secre- son left by plane last night for<■ bo who predeceased him several,,al7'.. . - . , tT t°..raake arrangementsyeare ago They had two child- Active in Central United Church'for the bodies to be forwarded I ren, Robert of Drumbo and Mrs..Mr* Mrs, Peterson were act-"to Drumbo.Harold Wettlaufer 'MabeD of)Waterloo He was later marriedpublic st® tedhealth nurse for Ingersoll this morning tlha-t t!he Oxford Health Unit was very pleasedStudents TourSenior students from Bond's public school will visit council! tomorrow. The visit has been, arranged by Reeve Hilton Virtue, of East Oxford and the( group will be under the direc­tion of their teacher Mrs. Jes-^i Sie Vickers,Wednesday, delegates from Tillsonburg and District Me-' morial Hospital will meet withto the former Blanche Newton pf ,, . Woodstock, daughter of the late, f. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Newton of this city.Mrs. Peterson, 72. was a grad. ■ • i uate of the United Church Traln-M ing School in Toronto and was a . Deaconess in Hamilton for four!with the number of people here Who took advantage of the op­portunity to obtain the free vac­cine. She described the Ingersoll! record as “excellent''.Vota nt ee rs yesterday were Mr». D. T. Evans, Mrs. Harold Uren, Mrs. G. W. Pittcck and Bruce Barker.The second. shots will be ad- mimsi.erc<l Anri1) 21 and 28.council withrequest foryears following her graduation, i For many year# .she was aMOciat-igrants.Agricultural groups from the county will present a request for funds when they meet with; the agricultural committee Wed­nesday afternoon.। Representatives of the Alex4\. andra Hospital. Ingersoll, wilHaj appear before council Thursday* with a request for grants. The!budget will be presented Friday<3 TENDERS WANTEDSEALED TENDERS address-ied to the County Road Sup­erintendent and endorsed "Tender for tfupphrs and Hauling Rixui Materials and Equipment Hire" will be re­ceived by the undersigned up = to 12 oclock noon, Monday, April 20, 1959. for the follow- A ins:1.Hauling of road building materials fromvarious2.3.4.sources within or adjacent to the County.Feeding, crushing and hauling from designated gravel pits.Delivery of the above men­tioned materials to be made on certain portions of the Count \ Road System as di­rected by the County Road Superintendent.Any other work that may­be designated on the tender form.Rabies Compensation Plan Pleases Oxford5.6.Truck, shovel and equip- I- ment hire.Supplies and other services used in road construction and maintenance.7. Tires, oil. gasoline, batter- । ies and other supplies for the operation of County equipment.Contract agreements and specifications and tender forms for items 1 to 6 may be obtained at the office of 1 the County Road Superin ten- । dent. Court House, W o o d- stock, Ontario, on or after [ April Sth. Tenders on item 7 | may be submitted on sup­plier’s forms.Tenders on items 1 to 6 must be accompanied by a marked cheque payable to the County I Treasurer or an’approved bid ' bond for Five Hundred Dol­lars.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. •J. N. MEATHRELL, County Road Superintendent Count House.Woodstock, Ontario.6/10/15-27AgriculiLuine Minister Harkness’ announcement of a federal-pro­vincial program of comjjensatiion for livestock lost due to rabies has met with widespread appro­val in agricultural circles .in Ox- ford county.Under the government plan toe scale of compensation will be on a maximum basis of $250 for cat­tle, $100 for horses and $40 for sheep, swine and goats.An arrangement with toe On- . tario government provides for 80 per cent of the cost, to be shared on a 50-50 basis, with toe remaining 20 per cent to be paid by toe county involved. Com- .pensation will be retroactive to April 1, 1958. according to toe , government decree. .Wilfrid Bishop, Norwich farm- ■ er and secretary of toe Oxford :Federation of Agriculiture, lauded toe -decision. ‘‘The Oxford Fed1- eration is pamticularly pleased with the government announce­ment,” he sawd. “Compenraition is one of toe things we along with the Ontario Federation have been pressing for for many months. We aine 'Certainly pleased that there has been government action.”William Baigent. reeve of North Oxford, has a purebred Hotetean herd on his farm at RR 3, In­gersoll. As a member of toe Agricultural committee of County Council, Mr. Baigent was author of two resolutions dealing withTo Mark 10th Anniversary Of Library Co-OperativeThe annual meeting of the Ox-, "Teachers send out two or three pointed by Council. Members this B ford County Library Co-Operative of the older students to choose year are chairman Howard Kipp, on Thursday, April 16, will mark (the Bookmobile carries a supply, Princeton, vice-chairman Gord- E the tenth anniversary of an or- of 1200 volumes) and we usually on Armstrong, Blandford, Ward-ganization which has gained have what they ask for.”en Edwin Pearce, Tillsonburg.steadily in popularity since its in-: Before the purchase of the Magistrate R. G. Groom and ■ ccption. 'Bookmobile in 1953 trAhsrorta- reeve of North Norwich, Dav-Like a modern Pied Piper the tion was limited to an ordinary id Chambers.Brookmobile roils through the-car with much inconvenience and! An increased interest in the I |county in September, December, time waste. (world around us In indicated byMarch and June, distributing Ten new books are issued every the demand in the adult libraries SM packaged pleasure in the form of classroom each visit. “We spend throughout the county for volum- B books to adults and children a- more than $4000 a year on new es on travel and biography, Mrs.k. like. Calls are made at 18 lib- bodkg,’’ Mrs. Krompart explain- jfjL jraries, five deposit stations andKrompart reports. ‘‘There is a trend toward roading non-fic-i58 classrooms in county public _ _schools and the Ingersoll High . ^h.e County Library Co-Operat- School Tve JS financed by grants fromCounty librarian Mrs. S. L.'Count/ Council and the Ontario Krompart, with her husband and .Government, charging nominal assistant Mrs. W. G. Cocker,participating libraries and drive between 900 and 1000 miles schools to barely cover the cost are also increasing and last year on a circuit which takes three transportation. (more than 400 books were muil-weeki to complete, doling'out 130 A county Jo*rd ls aP- cd _____t-ion,’’ she crease in libraries.’Demandsstated "and an in- juveni'le reading inon the reference ser­vice offered by the Co-Operative!rabies wore endansed by North Oxford as yet and we hope Council Thuraday, Itoart to®ne won't be. Most people!One resolurtion recommended (are afraid that when oa :tk- are tiiart Oxford County be declarred let out ip the spring rabies will a raibfes infected area and that increase.”the Dominion Health of Ammahs branch be asked to set up vac­cination clinics.The other resolution sought, claamficaitjon of rabies as an in- fedtion disease under the Domin- ion Health of AnimaL- Branch, making compensation ait toe pre­vailing market value retroactiveto September 1, 1958.News of the government mea­sure came as a sun-prise to Mir. Baigemit.“I am sure all farmers in Ox­ford Counity will be grateful,” he said. There have been consider-Veterinarian with toe Federal ( Health of Animals Branch in Woodstock, Dr. D. W. Thompson has not been officially notified of toe measure as yet.He staled that he did not be­lieve that rabies was being to- eluded under toe Anima!! Contag­ious Diseases Act. "If it were our Department would pay the works,” he said.Thirteen head of cattle havebeen destroyed by toe disease in Oxford County since toe first; case was reported December 13, 1958.able losses in toe Coun'ty due to I Two suspected cases are pres- rabias. especially in Easit Niis-; enrtly away for analysis at toe souri township. As far as I know, Animal Diseases Research Tnstt. toiere have been no losses initarte, Hull, Quebec.Detail Procedure UsedIn Reporting DiseaseO'ITAWA (Special)—Any farm­ers of Oxford counity whose ani­mals have died from rabies since April 1, 1958, or which die in nhe following months, will be oompensaibed under ihe federal- proviinjcial-county scheme.Tlie latest counit of deaths by .rabies among wild, domestic andfarm animals in Oxford county is: 26 foxes, 13 cattle and one |cart. for a total of 40 deaths.Compsensation will be paid up to a maximum of $250 for cattle; $100 for horses and $40 for sheep, hogs and goats. Oxford county will pay 20 per cent of the total costs. Ontario and toe federal government will pay 40 per cent each.PROCEDUREProcedure for a farmer who suspects one of his animals has been stricken by rabies and who wants to collect compensation is simple. He should immediately .The epidemic has been carried j ■ across northern and now into I southwestern Ontario, cm toe • backs of diseased foxes. Moyni­han said that while foxes when they are healthy travel very li'ttie, when 'diseased they move up to 25 to 30 miles from toeir dens, spreading toe derdly dis­ease to foxes a nd other wild ani­mals.Dr. Moynihan said that toe one fortunate point about th. havoc caused by toe rabies epidemic is that so far no humans have died from it. He attributed this to toe speed with which veterinarians have directed persons suspected ! of contacting the disease to go to their doctor for treaitmem.Dr. Moynihan said a feature of toe epidemic is that it has moved swiftly across toe country, start-' ing in northern Alberta in 1952,■nbooks to the libraries and 40 books to each classroom from the Eg stock of 20.638 bcxtks on hand. WBg = On a rotation basis this addsup to books in the libraries!and 120 books in the classrooms :• during the course of one year. ;I“The students are quite pleasedto see us,” Mrs. Krompart smiled..In between jaunts the staff finds plenty to keep them busy in the; trim library located in the baseM ment of the County Building. “We keep track of where the books ant at”, Mrs. Krompart said “make book select ions, mend; catalogue] (and classify. It all takes time’*.,contacit the federal health of animals veterinarian. Dr. D. W. Thompson in Woodstock who will immediaiteily make a check of the amiimal, record its case his- to<ry, and if needed, take speci­mens which will be sem to the federal laboraitotries in Hull, Que,, for analysis.The veterinairuan will issue a oertifi/cato of death of rabies and 'the farmer will be paid by Ox­ford county autoorittes who will be reimbursed by toe federal and Ontario govennmenrts.Dr. W. A. Moynihan of toe agriculture department's health of animals division said in an interview with a Sentimel-Revriew , (reporter thait although Oxford is ■ one of the richest dairy counties in Ontario it has so far escaped . the worst of toe rabies epidemic.WORST HIT sHe said toe counties worst hit ’ were those to toe north such as J Grey and Simcoe where toe sandand thait once it has reached an area it "bums out” the fox popu­lation so that the following year the disease normally dies down quickly.Across northern Ontario, he • said, there were hardly any foxes to be seen in areas where rabies E were common over a year ago. ACTIONThe following are toe actions taken by toe department of ag­riculture once rabies is reported in an area:The federal veterinarian seis up a reporting system by alerting all toe local authorities.Dog cortftrol measure^ are in­stituted to collect all stray dogs and make sure all pets are kept under control.Full publicity is given to toe progress of toe epidemic.A survey is taken to see if toe area has a high fox population, which is toe most dangerous factor in spreading the disease.Finally, if necessary, free ra-dunes, swamps and other fea'ti bios vaccination clinics ate es- ures favored a heavy fox papula- tablished. None have been so fartim.established m Oxford county.%: "i Need Of Chronic Patient Hospital Wing StressedFind Faulty Bed Light Hospital Death CausePropose Building New 50-75 Bed AdditionCity Council was told last night|treatment," he said. And with that there is a deep need for toe backlog of patients being the building of a chronic pat- built up this situation is getting tent's wing adjacent to Wie Wood-1 worse, stock General Hospital. ! Occupancy of the local hosptfa!TILLSONBURG (Staff' — An improperly assembled light sock­et in a heat lamp was responsible for the electrocution of a 19-year- old mother in Tillsonburg District Memorial hospital on March 27, according to the findings of a coroner's jury yesterday.Mrs Cora Scruton of Vienna, who had given birth to a baby two days earlier, died almost in­stantly after reaching up and pulling on a chain which switched on a bed lamp above her head.Evidence revealed that a heat lamp located toward the end of the bed, which the victim held between her legs, short-circuited as she pulled on the chain and the electric current travelled through her body to the bed lamp.Thomas Harris, Tillsonburg area electrical inspector for Ont­ario Hydro testified that a brass socket in the heat lamp "had been defectively installed.”If the socket had been correct­ly placed the accident would not have occurred, he said.Electrician J. B. Carroll, Till­sonburg, testified the short cir­cuit occurred in the heat lamp. INSULATIONHe also testified that a piece of insulation located near the end' of the chain which Mrs. Scruton touched would have prevented the electric shock from reaching] her if it had been at the top of1the chain where it should have been.In this particular case the insul­ation would probably have stop­ped her from being electrocuted, he said.Mr. Carroll said that “wear and tear” could have caused the short in the bed lamp wiring.At the time of her death Mrs. Scruton was in a semi-private ward on the third floor of the hospital. She occupied the room along with Mrs. Lillian Robinson, RR 1. Glen. Meyer.Nurse Margaret Richmond, who was on duty in the room at the time of the incident, gave eviden­ce describing the scene seconds before the mishap occurred."Mrs. Scruton asked me to pull down the blinds as the sunlight was shining in her eyes. I pulled the blinds down and was starting to walk out of the room.”“As I did Mrs. Scruton reach­ed up to turn the bed light on. I heard a small cry and turned around. Mrs. Scruton appeared to be in convulsions.” GOT SHOCK“She was lying on her back. As I turned her over I got a shock. She was still hanging on to the chain with her right hand.”Miss Richmond then ran for help.Dr. R. W. Rankin, Tillsonburg, was walking down the corridorand heard Miss Richmond call for aid and rushed to Mrs. Scrut- on’s bedside.“When I rushed into the room I thought tiiia-t perhaps Mi's. Scru­ton was having a seizure. When I went to take hold of her hand' I got a tremendous shock. It threw me back against the other' bed."Dr. Rankin said he then had realized what had happend and said: “My God—she’s been elec-1 trocuted.”Artificial respiration was appli­ed by Dr. Rankin until a resuscl-j tator was brought to the scene to take over. The resuscitator was; kept going for two hours, he said, but the victun didn’f respond.Witnesses testifying in order of appearance were: Dr. C. C. Lee, Tillsonburg; Miss Donna Weaver, nurse at the Tillsonburg hospital; Dr. R. W. Rankin, Tillsonburg;, Mrs. Lillian Robinson, RR 1 Glen- Meyer; Chief Constable T. L. Corbett; J. B. Carroll, Till­sonburg; Thomas Harris, RR 5 Tillsonburg..Coroner was Dr. R. E. Weston, Tillsonburg; Crown Attorney was A. C. Whaley, Woodstock.Jury was comprised of: Mrs. । Phyliss Manel, Mirs. Helen Shear-] ing, Harry Dunlop, James Coult­er, and Jack Neale, all of the Tillsonburg area.uwua>. Occupancy of toe local hosp*alDr. G. Kruger representing a for the first three months of this committee, formed this year year is 10 per cent higher thanfrom three Oxford County Hos- last year.pitals, told council at its regular The Maternity Ward has 26 session that 50 to 75 beds are beds that have to be isolated by needed in Woodstock for chronic Jaw. Even though these beds are patients. empty they cannot be used.He proposed that a wing be The Children's Ward in the last, built for that purpose to serve six months has been full every -- - - 6 - - day. And for the 98 beds in the। adult section of the hospital, inWoodstock and Ingersoll.Saying he had no plan, just that he wanted to bring this ser­ious need to council's attention, Dr, Kruger added that with the assistance of two government grants each bed would cost about33,000.the last few days there have been 98 to 100 patients.IDEAL LEVELDr. Kruger pointed out that the ideal working level in a hes-"At. present there" are ... chronic patient facilities in the county and few in the province”.;no pital is 80 per cent occupancy. A chronic patient’s wing wouldalso not tie up active bed space..., , And the only place for a chronicOUT OF COUNTY patient is in a hospital whereHe said that in the past chronic special care can be given by a patients , had to be sent out of doctor or nurse.the county to either Guelph, Mayor G. T. LaFIair told Dr. Hamilton or London. We can't do Kruger he would attempt to setithis anymore because these plac- up a committee and discuss the es can take no further cases," he matter with county officials. “We added. couldn't add to the present hos-To build a chronic patient’s pital, said. Dr. Kruger, "because wing to the Woodstock General: it is only designed for one furth- Hospital would cost a minimum er floor in toe north wing. A of $100,000 and a maximum of ■ chronic patient's wing would $225,000 to be shared by the have to be built adjacent to it. county, Ingersoll, and Woodstock. Dr. Kruger said that the com-Dr.'Kruger revealed that there mittee which he represents will is not a single bed available in' offer assistance to any council the hospital. "We wouldn't know committee organized.what to do with you." he said. "We thought council would beWhile there are the corridors, the best place to take this prob­and other space where beds can Jem as we didn't know who els* be placed "you wouldn't get good to approach", he said.BOARD MEMBERS ATTEND LIBRARY CO-OPERATIVE MEETINGBoard members past and pre­sent attended the tenth annual meeting of the Oxford County Library Co-Operative held in Woodstock. The Library’®coltection of some 20,000 ] Warden Edwin Pearce, Tillson- bookR is distributed aH I burg, chairman H. L. Kipp, over the county by bookmobile , Princeton, librarian Mrs. S. through 182 outlets. Left, to right | L. Krompart, guest speaker| G. R. Taylor of the tea china staff, Woodstock Collegiate In­stitute, treasurer L. K. Coles. (Staff photo'. —Globe end Moil, Jimmy Simo»o»».Fred Slater, Former Reeve of East Missouri Township Henry Hertzler, a New Amish Mennonite Settler is opposed to wholesale immigration o[ sect. He says he just wants to Hue in peace.PROTESTS BEWILDER MENNONITESWoodstock Senti sel-Review, Friday, April 17, 1959 Pogo 3Will Stand By TeachingsOxford Amish EmphasizeBy MART MARSH“Lot's of people take us for a peculiar people, which I guess1 we are — but we intend to stick to our teachings."Eli Gingerich, RR 1 Norwich, is an Amish Mennonite who mov­ed to Oxford County in 1955 from Ohio with his wife and family, now numbering 14 children, be­cause it was “crowded and hand to find land” where they came from.Mr. Gingerich was bewildered by reports that some East Nis- souri residents are protestingWe asked him about Mennonite beliefs.“SIMPLE LIFE”“We try to live a simple, quiet life the way our forefathers did,” he said. “We don't believe in modern machines because the Bibles teaches there will be no conformity to the fashions of the world.”To the orthodox Amish Mennon-chise, putting the onus on other us do,” one neighbor said, addingresidents as far as municipal“we don't feel that the value ofour land has depreciated. I'm surrounded by them and Im not worried."PLAY TOGETHER“Our children play together and we like them," said another area farmer. “As far as I am asked about community partici- [concerned they are good neigh- pation, 'but we do make contri-: mind their own bus-butions to things like the Red n«ss th.^re 1S nOthWg S 31 _ orwin* thorngovernment is concerned.Criticism has also been led at the sect's belief thatren should leave schoollevel- child- uponcompletion of grade eight or when they reach 14 years of age. “No, we don't take part in clubs," Mr. Gingerich said whenite a simple life is one without, modern machinery, plumbing, el- Cross.” ectricity, telephones and cars. 1 LIKE NEIGHB0RSTheir clothes are dark and the- r /I Ilan UIthe move of four families of the confjnefj sect into that area although sim- ,hair of even the tiniest girls is1withindemure blackabout them.Even a man most outspoken in his criticism of the sect ad-“We think a lot of our neigh- mitted that they are good farm- bors," he said and reminisced ers.bonnets. Boys and men wear about how they took turns chauf- Although the Amish Mennon- Sar protests were mad by North their hair in *long dutch-cut sty- fering the Gingerichs when their ites are noted for keeping to Norwich township residents about le C0Vered with broad-brimmed son Noah was badly burned four themselves we heard comments the time they immigrated. ;biack hats. years ago and spent eight weeks on all sides about how they are“We would be sorry if people; It is the very simplicity of their in Woodstock General Hospital/the first to offer help when feel that way about us here," helijfe which arouses the criticism wp ’’’d^ neighbors hnw they Ineighbors are in trouble, said slowly, “we wouldn't want of their neighbors, to stay if people didn’t want us.”1 " ' ’ "tooffer help whenWhen the Gingerich’s first came to the Norwich area there were only four of five other fami­lies of the same sect living there. Now there are 23 families in the district.We asked neighbors how they i neighbors are in trouble.' felt about the Mennonites in their j Thai this is reciprocal was I Municipally-owned utilities are1 midst and found them eager to demonstrated when Mennonite not used by the sect, upping talk but not anxious to have their Moses Miller's newly purchased rates for other residents and, al- names published. farm house in the communitythough immigration regulations1 Feeling generally was that they | burned down three weeks ago. require Mennonites settling in were not wanted when they came Mr. Miller, true to his beliefs, Canada to take out citizenship, but now they are here they are had no insurance on the property, they do not exercise their fran-jbeing accepted gradually. There {so his loss was complete. Neigh- is still some animosity directed bors got together and collected at the group “not as individ- $400 to help the family.' ‘ North Norwich residents arerequireuals" as one spokesman hastened ------- —to point out but because to the not reconciled to the Mennonites progressive farmers of Oxford but as one prominent citizen said “they are 50 years behind the 'if they could be persuaded to times." adopt modern Canadian ways“They practice what they prea- they could well be some of the ch which is more than the rest of best citizens this country has."■-i5 I Amish Deny Block Farming Is Oxford PlanBy JIMMY SIMPSON"The<r people won't mingle rmlment In Ottawa Wallnerilom«. cither If 1 have anythingGlob* end Moil St«H Reporter |with other people," said Slanlrv|Nesbilf (PC. Oxford* has been Io do with II.",, . ... . ,r Adams, one of the rnnimlllcr's representing (he settler.* for1 Local farmers believe that MI ninnual , Aji I 16 five memhPrs> speaking of the several years Hr had opposed I c» < I another 125 settlerfour Amifh Mennonite farmers] Mennonites, ;Mr. Plt kei gill al the lime pre-' families are prepared In ronvwho recently purchased (arms "The Amish arc a sect hy vinus selHcrs were excluded >* *hry ran gel in. Mi Slain in this area defiles US mem ihrmselvcs," he staled "Thov when ||)r j.lheraln were In pow-l be under-lood (hat ihe »>i , ' . ', live bv themselves. They cling cr, Mi Slater said Ihodox Mennonite group washers of the sect mt ende»vor-hn o|fl inrth0(b nf fannl„c. c ' «>®<Ing Io acquire a large block ol using horses almost exelu- "H wouldn't be so had If Ihey district farms. slvcly. Iwnlild learn our way nf lilr,"Henry Hertzlcr said here to- in Ihe sense that they look alter ...... , their land. Canadian farmersUe arm I trying to buy in wou|f| hesitate to buy farms in any special block. We bought^he area where they settle.While they are good farmer*1 Gliner Grcason, a service stationoperator inUniondale.said.the farms because they were the hest value offered. We don't want to cause any trouble tn the community, we only want to be able to Hx r our lives In peace."None of the farmers around here have said anything Io us about not wanting us here.” he declared, referring to recent reports that district farmers and residents of this small commu­nity on No. 100 Highway in the northeast corner of Oxford C o u n t y w ere apprehensive about the arrival of U.S. set­tlers of the Amish Mennonite sect.,A committee of district resi­dents has been organized to seek government assistance in pro­hibiting immigration of any more members nf the sect from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Earl Slater, a London. Ont., lawyer, represents the farmers' committee.RABIES VACCINATIONMore than 4,000 domestic pets| were vaccinated against rabies] last week in 16 clinics held thr­oughout Oxford county by _ the; Canada Department of Agricul­ture, Health of Animals Divi­sion. Three Department veterin­arians. with the help of nine local veterinarians, innoculated a total of 2,622 dogs. 1,549 cats and 47 "miscellaneous" animals, inclu­ding one white rat, rabbits, foxj and raccoons."If this happens." Mr. Adams said, "our farms will all drop in value.”Experience In other areas has shown that a few members of the sect usually move Into an area first on a trial basis, Mr. \dams said. If they were allowed in. others would soon follow, buying up land in large blocks, wherever possible, until soon they controlled large areas. Canadian farmers in ihe midst of the settlement, then found that no ope but Ihe Amish would bid on their properties if they wished to sell and the land value would drop alarm­ingly after the first few farms were bought at relatively high prices.Inquiries were first, made in ihe area last November, shel- don Fuller, another member of the committee, said. An agent made the first inquiries and then members of the sect came later to Inok them over. In this way farms were bought, from O. S. Hutton. Lloyd and Russell Kingdon and two farms owned by Guy Harris.Four of the farms are on one concession and adjacent, to each other. One is separated by an­other farm from the other four."There were lots of better farms they could have gotten around here." he said, "but"Olher groups such ns the Re­formed Mennonites have fitted into the Canadian picture very well. They learn our ways and they arc good farmers. But the Amish keep entirely to them­selves."There are about 35 members of the four families who have arrived so far. Henry, Samuel i and Jacob Hertzler arc all] brothers. Elmer Yoder is head of Ihe other family. Eleven children attend Uniondale' School. There are another dozen or more not yet of school age."There is no problem here al! school,’' Mrs. Gertrude Milne.i Ihe teacher, said. "The new children all gel along well with their classmates and as they all speak English while at school there is nn problem of assimila­tion. There won’t be any prob-leaving Maryland and Pennsyl-, vania Io gel away from com-i pulsory military duty and because legislation Is being pre­pared which will prevent them from acquiring further large blocks of property. Some stales already have such legislation. INot Seeking To Acquire Large Blocks Of FarmlandUNIONDALE, (CP»—An Amish I Stanley Adams, one of the Mennonite farmer, one of four (committee members, said: who recently purchased property “The Amish are a sect by in this section of Ontario, has themselves. They live by them-i denied that United States mem- selves. They cling to old methods bers of the sect plan to acquire a of farming, using horses almostlarge block of land. exclusively."We aren't trying to buy in any "While they are good farmers special block." said Henry Hertz- in the sense that they look after ler. "We bought the farms be-,their land. Canadian farmers cause they were the best value,would hesitate to buy farms offered. We don’t want to cause the area where they settle, any trouble in the community, we this happens, our farms willinIfallwtffl owthey weren't in a bloc. We asked them why they didn't go up around Mount Forest, where they could get the same acreage lor as much as $5,000 or $7,000 less for 100 acres than they were paying here, but they saidthey wanted to stay in County.” Fred Slater, reeve of East Nissouri ship said.. A sizeable settlement Amish sect, was startedOxford former Town-of the aroundonly want to be able to live our drop tn value."!iv^? inwJSa?e” • + , ,;WANT TO STATMr. Hertzler was interviewed _ , .after reports that a group of East Fred Slater, former reeve Nissouri Township residents had the township, said:protested to federal members of , There were lots of better Parliament against allowing farms they could have got around large numbers of the Amish Men- J1®1®- kut ^ey weren t in a block. । nonites into Oxford County. We asked them wh^ they didn tUniondale is about 18 miles up around Mount Forest, northwest of Woodstock. where they could get the same‘None of the farmers around acreage for as much as S5.0W to; here have said anything to us ,37.000 less for 100 acres tnan they about not wanting us here," Mr. W€T paying here. They said they Hertzler said. He is one of four wanted „ to stay in Oxford who recently purchased five County.otfarms. The Amish Mennonites Mr. Slater said that part of the number about 40 and come from oath of citizenshio “calls for can- Pennsylvania, Maryland and Del-1 didates to say they will defendaware.The farms cover aboutacresa mile west of here.400(D20the Norwich area some years ago. Mr. Slater said."A few years ago another' group tried to get a footing, around Bennington, 12 miles south of here, but Immigration Minister Pickersgill, in office at that time, refused to allow them' in and the options on the prop-1 erty were allowed to drop,” he said.While none of the farmers) on the committee said they had any opposition to the group be-i cause of their religious beliefs, there was a general feeling that the Amish settlers were not' answering queries on immigra-l lion questionaires in the spirit intended. The questionaires ask whether Ihey will consider tak­ing out Canadian citizenship al ihe end of five years' residence. Bui few new Amish settlers in! Ontario had done so, they said.)"Part of the oath of dtizen-l ship calls for candidates to say that they will defend Canada against aggression.” Mr. Slater- said. "These people won't take, that oath so they can't become! true citizens.”The new settlers arrived late in February. They started at­tending auction sales in Ihe dis- ,trict. buying up old farm im-i plements used with horses,] Windmills and other outmoded]equipment were also nought hy, (he group. They have, hud tele-]phones in the houses connected and they refuse use electric power cither, moat i.ascs,The farm group aren'tdis- loinloosure just «hni their reception will be in frying io get n hear-] jug with the Immigration De-,ST TILLSONBURGA fort renSEEK GOVERNMENT AIDEarle H. Slater, a London law­yer, represents a farmer’s com­mittee organized to seek govern-jCanada against aggression. These people won’t take that oath so they can’t become true citizens."The farmers’ group said they believe another 125 settlers are prepared to come in if allowed, leaving Maryland and Pennsylva-mostly, where they are sub- origin ject 10 compulsory military' duty,immigration of any more of the __ „ . ' ...gr0Up Mrs. Gertrude Milne, teacher"We recognize their complete 3t School where 11right to religious freedom, but we Amish children are in attendance, object to their tendency to block said:settlement, to their boundary "There is no problem here, maintenance techniques and to The new children all get along the detrimental effect they have well with their classmates and as on prices of farm land in the sur- they all speak English while at rounding area. They try to dom-1 school, there is no problem of inate the community completely assimilation. There won’t be any and if they cannot, they will not'problems, either, if I have any-live in it."thing to do with it.Open. New Retarded Children’s Schoolco-operative community ef- on behalf of retarded child-) in the eounities of Oxfouxi,Norfolk and Elgin climaxed yes­terday with the official opening of the Rotary Westmount School for Retarded Children in Tillson­burg.CONG R ATULAT1ONSCongratulations from Dereham township and Oxford County were conveyed by Reeve P L Pressey and Warden E. R. Pearce. WATERLOO INVITES AMISHBlasts Oxford Group For DiscriminationWATERLOO (CP) — Waterloo solid citizens. At no time do they council has come to the defence of Amish Mennonite settlers.Council also launched a move, Monday night to have the Amish Mennonite settlers move to Wat­erloo County, now heavily popu­lated by Mennonites.The aidermen unanimously sup­ported a resolution condemning an Oxford County group for dis­crimination against 40 American yer. representing the protesting Oxford County farmers, said his clients do not object, to the new­comers' religious views and prac­tices.cause trouble and they never ask for assistance.”“This country is proud of its freedom and it is unfortunate that such a thing can happen here.”In suggesting the come-to-Wat-He said the farmers object to the tendency of Amish Mennonite' .-wUl!-.<.n 4- kl.-L ...in. ierloo invitation. Aid. Alviano said,settlers to block settlement. He it should come from Waterloo said his clients also oppose the County council. A copy of the res-1 boundary maintenance techniques olution will be sent to the county of the settlers and Ihe detrimental council. effect they may have on price ofAmish Mennonites who recently Aid. Donald Snider seconded surrounding land.moved into that district. (he motion, He said "I take great1 He also said there was objection The resolution will be for- pride in seconding this motion because the Amish Mennonites warded to both Dominion and pro- since 1 still have some Mennonite pot assimilate with their fcl- vincial governments. blood in my veins.” |*ow citizens . . . and they refuseAid. Vincent Alviano framed Mavor Pajkin commGnded both .fity int° S^eral pattern of the resolution. He said the set- aidermen for their action. living and the ways of life of oth-vincial governments.the resolution. He said the set- a]deonen for their action, tiers are being discriminated „against "chiefly because of their A froup of Oxford County res- religion . . , because their wav idents protested to their members Of life is different." ' of Parliament recently after theAmish Mennonite settlers movedCAUSE NO TROUBLE into the district. They came from ■The aiderman. who serves Men- Pennsylvania, Maryland and Del-1 nono es in hes grocery stone said , aware, purchasing about 400!ers.”BUCKTHORN PROBLEM DISCUSSED IN WOODSTOCK“The Mennonites living in this acres of farming land, county have proved themselves as1 Earl Slater, London, Ont11TH ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVALWarden Pearce Officiates At Opening Of Big EventCounty Given Estimates On Cost On Installing Crossing SignalsEstimates on costs for three the 13th line (Huron street north) j proposed automatic level cross- CPR crossing where Saturday’s1 :ng signals in Oxford County fatality occurred, Mr. Meathrell have been submitted by the Can- said, adian Pacific Railway to the Board of Transport Commission­ers. Ottawa, county road super­intendent J. N. Meathrell re­ported this morning.The signals would be erected on the CPR mainline crossings north of Drumbo on county road 3, on the Drumbo, Inner- kip road, county road 29 and the Bonds Corners. Inr.erk:p road, county road 4.“They have about 17 signa Is ahead of them in this district so it may be fall before the sig­nals are up,” Mr. Meathrell sta­ted.According to the road superin­tendent. the CPR also proposes; to erect an automatic signal at the Canada Omen' Plant cross­ing. scene of the accident which claimed the lives of Mr. and Mrs.t William Spurgeon last year.Approval for this signal, con­trolling a crossing with traffic amounting to approximately six trains weekly, has not been re­ceived as yet from the Board of Transport Commissioners.A count road fc not involved in^11- -i;Measures planned for this year's county Buckthorn er»- dfoatfon program weie discuss­ed at a meeting in tihe Agrl-No Rabies Compensation Until Valuator Is NamedDe-Compcnsation for cattle lost'] Mr. Watson stated that his — , due to rabies will not be paid in parent was prepared to con- JOxtord Connate Count, Cuuu-] reg^rm^ cil passes a bylaw authorizing ap- ,ity ln valueg p]aced on animals, j ipolntment of a valuer and in-; Warning that rabies compensa- ! demmty payments during the tfon should not be regarded as al I June session. .precedent in loss through dis-Township rem and county,state that clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles were L’? our 1that thu [informed by Livestock Commis-1be viewed as a .J1"“re ef-. done” W P Watson yesterday on “*® Par^ °* levels oil K kS' a '4 « to «« the bunfen.before the federal -provincial- ™ county scheme, first announced result of the outbreak of rabies. I by Agriculture Minister Hark- A draft bylaw enclosed with ness March 20, will become valid, the memo suggests the appoint­ment by the county of “one orMr. Watson’s memo stated that „ . .persons eligible for an indemnity more" valuators to deterrAine must complete a form for every; amounts of losses with the Pro­animal involved, furnishing full vincial government providing ne- particulars. A notarized affidavit cessary instruction.,must accompany each form,I Compensation is retroactive .’ jto April 1, 1958 and will be paid on cattle, horses, goats, sheep and swine.Payment applies only where I the cause of death is diagnosed 1 as rabies eitfier by clinical ex- iamination, laboratory tests or by officers of the Health of AnimalsBranch, Canada Department of Agriculture.A schedule approved by both the Federal and Provincial De­partments of Agriculture provi­des for reimbursement at rates not exceeding $250 for each head | of cattle, $100 per horse, and $40 for each head of sheep and swine and each goat.Under the plan, the county treasurer will pay the full am­ount of compensation and bill the Ontario Livestock Branch for 80; per cent of the amount. In turn the Federal Department will be billed for 40 per cent.PROPOSE FLOODLIGHTSA plan to floodlight the County Building in Woodstock will be considered by Oxford County Council during the June session. Warden E. R. Pearce stated this morning. At the present, the OHEPC is drawing up plans and checking the cost of equipment for the project. The actual in­stallation will probably be hand­led oy the Woodstock PUC.cuMiural Office, Woodstock, to right, committee mem­bers, Eel Thornton, county weediwve of Dereham, Bob Bell. ; ley, Norwich, committee ehair-, agricultuiTBl represen ta-man and Hilton Virtue, reeve? of East Oxford. (Staff Photo).live, George WaHwee, deputyluBpecitor, GecwiRe Nagle, deputy awe West Oxford, Wray Hant- OXFORD COUNTY• BLANDFORD.........• BLENHEIM ...........• DEREHAM .............• EAST NISSOURI . . .• NORTH NORWICH • SOUTH NORWICH • EAST OXFORD . ..• NORTH OXFORD .• WEST OXFORD . .• EAST ZORRA........ • WEST ZORRA ...• TILLSONBURG .... • EMBRO ..................• NORWICH .........................................................GORDON ARMSTRONG HERBERT BALKWILL — CHARLES COLDHAM, D.R. ........ P. L. PRESSEY — GEORGE R. NAGLE, D.R. ............JOHN BOLTON — ALEX HOSSACK, D.R. ..................................................DAVID J. CHAMBERS ............................................ .. GEORGE H. DAVIS...........................................................HILTON.C. VIRTUE ..................................................................WM. BAIGENT ........... W. W. BUDD — GEORGE WALLACE, D.R.JAMES H. CHESNEY — LORNE W. JUNKER. D.R..........................................................ERNEST.F. GARNER ..........ED. PEARCE — CLARE H. ESSELTINE. D.R. .................................................... DONALD HOSSACK .................................................. HOWARD..McCOMBS SPEED WORK ON NEW OVERPASS NEAR SWEABURG/..riilWS®v ■■<0 O tn U) <0) D < o ao o o0oCto oo i « 2o (DQO trO?UI H O IU 0 or O LU 0UI u z£E CLif) H ul w K F 0x a oo z0 z0z O cr O< s5 CLO<0Public Acceptance Of Salk Shots Pleases Health UnitAFTER MANY delays in con- ’ s'-ruction, caused by the severe i Winter weather, labor crews are pressing work on the new ' overpass over Highway 401, miie-. west of Sweaburg. Con- sru? ion actual?.' began priorto Christmas, buit the heavy snowfalls, drenching rains, and other vagaries of the weather slowed work to a mere crawl. With tlie advent of spring and improved conditions all round, the project is now being speeded and it is expected that, banring further, but yet unforseen de­lays, the overpass should be ! I'eady for use in June. A Strat­ford firm is doing the job. , (Staff nhotos.)Eleven thousand and twenty one Salk vaccine shots were ad­ministered by the staff of the Ox­ford Health Unit in the first and second free polio vaccina<tio<n clin-ics conducted in the County dur­ing February, March and April, excellent average,” he remarked., ... | The free vaccine was furnished. We were very pleased with provincial Government,toe response, MOH Dr. O. C. resuiting in a great saving to the I Powers reported yesterday. people of area as netAdult polio shots for those be- price of a 10 cc vial of Salk-toe response,Powers reported yesterday.tween the ages of 20 and 40, will vaccine, sufficient for 10 doses, continue to be given at monthly'is S9.child health clinics held in dif- Health Unit staff membersferent centres in the County, he • stated. This is being done to give those who have changed their or those who forgot, an opport­unity to have their shots.Using diphtheria as an exa mple , Dr. Powers pointed out that some people reason that they are safe because most people they contacthave been immunized. ‘‘This just ,, ^YYP months will elapse before doesn’t work with polio,” hej e third and final shot is given warned. “It seems to be spread clinics sometime in November more like typhoid fever, through or December.eating and drinking and every­one must receive their own im­munization.”few sore arms as the result of the first injection, Dr. Powers said that no violent reactions were noted and not one person fainted or keeled over. ‘‘We were* very fortunate to have such an;were paid for overtime work at' nigfait dinics by 'the County Board of Health.All told, 30 clinics were held • in 11 different centres.Recognition should be given,I : Dr. Powers said, to the volunteer workers who assisted the Health! Unit staff.. - ' . ri •OXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL GROUP INSPECT FOREST TRACTSThe Agricultural committee । helm, Blandford, West Zotrna, of Oxford County Council held East Missouri, Dereham and their annuai eoneu-Tvation tour I North Norwich. Setting out, loft yesterday, inspecting forest ! to right, George Nagle, deputy tracU in East Oxford, Bien- I irw. of Dereham, L. K, Cole*, county clerk-treasurer, Hilton I partment of Lands and Forests Ea“ Stratford, Ooorgu Woltaco,J N Mcatlirell. county road , , , ,,, , . _ rixupM^mtendenit, Larry Scales, 1 u ,v ' 01 "es! Oxford, E, R^District Forester. Ontario De- 1 '^'ff phuto). STOC1TWGERSOLL,ONTARIO. MONDAY. MAY 25. 1»S» TWO SECTIONS—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES—NOT OVER SIX CENTS DEATH OF DULLES MOURNED BY WESTBOOKS FOR OXFORD COUNTYLibrary Co-Op Marks A Decade Of ServiceA decade of service was mark- report that County Council this, ed ^..^dl-V^r increased its grant by $8001 The Chinese art of pictorial*J7 Co'°Peratl.ve an- and that a reserve fund of $2,000 writing is the oldest language toi CnnLiF S?mhZcS ?elth inrth!1S £armarked for a new book- survive the centuries intact the* Council chambers of the Court mobile when the need arises. < speaker went on.He introduced the new five me-1 'From wood the Chinese pro-i » preeiousl tr.a.urer L. K. Coles presented,ce, Tillsonburg. Reeve David stones such as jade, bone, silk' books to members who have serv- Chambers, North Norwich, Reeve and finally paper en nn thp briard Hiirmo fho ULvoor a______j____ r->. _ ... . .............. H 'UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY EXTENSIONed on the board during the 10-year Gordon Armstrong, Blandford; While the Chinese do not re- Pe^' ian tut- c t v Kipp- Princeton. and gard novels or drama as litera-nutltoA Magistrate R. G. Groom. Tillson-, ture Mr. Taylor named five nov-outlined the progress of the Co-Op burg. ieis which mav be nrociirpd inm annual report Circulation Magistrate Groom, while intro-, translated editions and expressed from q ?ucin£ tke peaker of the even-; the hope that copies would be pro-teacher ,1, cured by the Woodstock libraries.'Ontario Good Roads Association’sT. J. Mahony Road Schoo!stated. ,BEGAN IN 1951"We began our work with the schools in 1951 and the number of classrooms has increased to 159. The happy, eager little faces we see searching through the new books units go a long way to bal­ance the snow storms and muddy school yards we have to face.”"We have been pleased to not­EnglishatWCI.commended[Mr.County Council for “remarkable speaker, foresight in anticipating future 'financial demands.”Chambers thanked theRECEIVE GIFTSReceiving gifts for their serviceK IN CHINA on the board were: MagistrateMr. Taylor, who holds a BA Groom and H. L. Kipp for 10 degree from Queen’s University. |years of service: R. C. Brogden, [an MA from McGill and is an seven years: F. L. Slater and [ordained minister of the Presby- C. D. Sutor, four years; W. Stock- terian church, is also an expert;ley. three years; R. G. Campbell, on China, speaking the language R. Day. J. K. McLeod. W. J. | [fluently His topic was “The Book!McDonald. R. Rudy, two years: in China.” |W. A. Cockburn, W. A. Chesney,Paper and printing were both O. T. Coleman. E. P. Eddv, G. I invented by the Chinese. Mr. Tay- Fewster, J. D. Hossack, H. A. ilor stated and we owe them a Little, R. Lee. A. Lockhart. A. great deal for our own books. P. Maedea, H. McBeth, T. F Pel- ----- ,.B™ks of wood’ first used by low- c M- Riddle, J. G. Smith, new buudmg and that Tillson- the Chinese, discovered in the last G. Sutherland and H. Williams, burg has added a most attractive few years "literally buried in one year, juvenile room .-------------------------sand”, and dating as far back as “ "Mr. Coles pointed out in hisj'"" ~~ -----ice through the years, Mrs. Krompart continued, "that1 the Burgessville and BeachvilleIlibraries have changed from as-sociation libraries to free public libraries, that Hickson has a niceP. Maedel, H. McBeth. T. F. Pel-„ — Coffee and refreshments were1200 BC, are still legible, he stat- served at the end of the program.Course forROADSUPERINTENDENTSMay 11th and 12th, 1959To Install Automatic Signals At Three County Rail CrossingsAutomatic signalling devices borne by the Railway Grade will be erected at CPR mainline Cmssing Fund, 1272 per cent by crossings on three county roads । the county and the remainder, within the next six months, conn- by the CPR.ty rcfiid superintendent J. N.i Maintenance expense® will be Meathere'J announced tins morn-' . „ . , .{ng shared on a fifty-fifty basis byAuthorization for tihe signals, county and railway, to consist of two flashing lights I Crossings slated for the signals and a bell, has been received'aire county road number 4 at Inn-। from the Federal Board of Tran- erklp, cost 811,000: county road sport Commissioners. ; number 3, near Drumbo. costEighty per cent of the estima-'$11,300 and county rood 29 at tod total cost of $45,100 will be I Drumbo, cost $22,800.Sponsored by theOntario Good Roads Associationwith the co-operation ofThe Department of Highways of Ontario andThe Department of University Extension.University of Toronto. Course forROAD SUPERINTENDENTSTIME: Monday, May 11thTuesday, May 12th.PLACE: Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto.FEE: $3.00.REGISTRATION: (Open to Road Superin­tendents only)By mail or in person at Room 207, 65 St. George Street, Toronto 5, or at Hart House Theatre on Monday, May 11th, at 9 a.m.Using Registration Form enclosed.Not over 490 can be accommodated at this school.HOTEL ACCOMMODATION:Each applicant will arrange for his own hotel accommodation direct with the hotel.LUNCH:Cafeteria style, may be had at noon on both days in the Great Hall, Hart House, at student rates.PROGRAMMEMonday, May 11th (morning):9.00-10.15—Registration.Chairman: J. V. Ludgate, Munici­pal Engineer, D.H.O.10.15-10.30—Welcoming ceremonies.Dr. Murray G. Ross, M.A., Ed.D., Vice-president of the University of Toronto.N. L. Powell, President of the Ontario Good Roads Association.10.30- 11.15—“Proper Practices in Culvert Installation"Hugh W. Adcock, Manager of Operations, D.H.O.11.15- 12.00—“Applications of the Drainage Acts to Township Roads”W. G. McGeorge, B.A.Sc., D.L.S.. O.L.S., Chatham, Ont.Monday, May 11 th (afternoon):Chairman—A. J. RettieYork County Engineer.2.00- 2.20—Hon. Fred M. Cass, Q.C.. Minister of Highways2.20- 4.40—Panel Discussion on “Ice and Snow Control"(a) methods(b) materials(c) equipmentThe panel, with Mr. Rettie as moderator, will be composed of three township road superintend­ents, assisted by Mr. J. P. Howard. Municipal Regional Engineer and other D.H.O. officials,4.40- 5.00—Legal Implications of Salting and Sanding—Mr. A. R. Dick. Senior Solicitor, D.H.O.6.30—Banquet, Chairman N. L. Powell. HOW OXFORD VOTEDe Polls1 wereInneswest ord &ast Oxford ^orth Morwleh South Horwich Dereham JOfoodstockIngersoll Tillsonburg. HorwichTavistock ^mhroBlandfordBast. 4orraWest ^orraBast Missouri...North Oxford.w3^^326^7..^^7^773^/... ^7..2-53.216 Majority For G. InnesReleasing official figures fori Oxford County J. A. Newell, re­turning officer for this county I said only 242 ballots were spoiled I in the recent June 11 provincial' , election.Liberal candidate Gordon W.| Innes, regained his seat as a me­mber of the provincial legislature; wsth a majority of 216 votes.Progressive Conservative can­didate T. H. Dent Jr. polled 11,198 .votes: Mr. Innes, 11,414 votes, ■ and CCF candidate Chrles Neve, i1,475.New Group To Raise Standards Of Nursing Homes In OntarioAn all day meeting of Nursing Home Operators from many parts of Ontario was held in Tor­onto. Ingersoll was among the areas represented with Rev. W. Edgar Gill present, as president of the Oxford County Nursing As­sociation.Progress was made toward the organization of a province-wide Association of Nursing Homes. - The main purposes are to createbetter realations between the nur­sing homes and the hospitals, the doctors, welfare officials, and the public; to raise the standards of inferior nursing homes at least to the level called for by govern- ; ment regulations; to co-operate with each other and other existing organizations, religious and sec- , ular, to provide the best possible care for the aged and chronical- Uy Hl.The nursing homes of Ontario are currently caring for several thousand persons. In the last fifty g years the life expectancy of Can- adiens has increased by twentySociety on Ageing. Its personnel were elected at the May 21 Con­ference of 200 Operators then at­tending from various districts in the province. Only Oxford County appears to have an organized Associaiaon of Licensed Nursing Homes and Rest Homes. A group of Toronto operators have set up an Association and obtained a provincial organization.District representatives are now .' charged with the formidable task; of organizing county and district associations within their area. Ingersoll and Woodstock are in Area No. 4, with London fairly central; and comprising Oxford, Middlesex, Elgin, Kent, Essex, Lambton, Huron, and Perth Coun­ties. County association officers will be members of the district, asootaibion Which is to eject three directors to the Board of the Provincial Association, to meet in Toronto on October 14th.years. So the number of aged to £ be cared tor is increasing very rapidly and the need for adequate housing and physical and sphttjufll therapy, tor this special group is an increasingly acute problem. The meeting of responsible oper­ators of nursing homes took place in the office of the OntarioREPORT IS PRES:Assessment For County Is Increased $1,657,040A considerable increase in lax-. East Oxford - population 2.479; .business »<sp-sment «r-4 able b Oxford Corn- aweage 33.337; -Sb’, "ndty for 1958 wte revealed to cotwlmMfent $943,095; taxable Uifld-041; suggested equalized Seo- ty council this morning by coun-:Ing assessment $1,820,700; busi-.ment $4 463.041- Lt w nf X Sl ty assessor Fred Cade, in his ness assessment $142,110; total levy 8 009 <8 V f U i-thud annual report I taxable assessment $2.905.905;! AT Tilhonburg 'The increase of $1,857,040 equalized assessment Town of Tillsonburg - popula-l$2,905,905! per cent county levy Won 6.370; acreage 1,592; taxabk-fc land assessment $1,417,644- tax-1 a—t TO! atfi! »‘SSSX’SgdbeHbd doors, meeting as committee as a nosa ?whole, to discuss 1959 equaliza-lf tion figures contained in Mr Cades report. Announcement of $2,588,090; per cent county levy ilheir decision is expected tlhis af- 4.644 (4.6).presents the difference between $2,905,905* the 1957 revised taxable assess-15.215 (4.8),nient of $53,569,817 and the .19581 North Oxford -temoont at the windup of the June session.With one exception the 1959 eq- ualizaton figures proposed by Mr. Cade were..............of the revised ment shown on rolls for 1958.the total amount taxable assess- local assessment, -------------assessment $9,-: busi- .026,209; suggested equalized as-’ assessment $320,055; to-I sessment $9,026,209; per cent cou-i jtai taxable assessment $2,588,090; |nty levy 16.197 (16.0).(suggested equalized assessment1 Villages;Sfifi Aon. ~...........* -----Embro - population 542; acre-iage 1,304; taxable land assess-;:West Oxford - population 3,269; mcnt $85,484; taxable building. acreage 24,967; taxable land as- assessment $449,725; business as- I sessment $836,314; taxable build- sessment $26,345; total taxable' ing assessment $2,444,700; busi-! buiIdjn8 assessment $611,554; sug-|'! ness assessment $144,690; total equalized assessment!"taxable assessment $3,425,704; 156111544: Per county levy! suggested equalized assessment1'^8 O.l).4.644 (4.6).- "ThP~ Av^nfinn thn $3,425,704; per cent county levy Norwich - population 1.638; ac- ;7^^ <6.2). rcage 416; taxable land assess-West Zona. lias 3 fixed. assess- « , ~ ment ^245 favoWA x.- Population 3,851; X S??.?rcage 416; taxable land assp^s-1mentdfen the Canada Cement Com-acreage 56,832. taxable land as-assessment $1,584,315; businesspany plant of $200,000. with an actual assessment amounting to sessment , , -------$792,550. An increase of $500,000 building assessment $3,037,700; jzJ to the total rateable assessment!busmesM assessment $50,805; tot- of West Zorra was recommended |al ^^able assessment $5,072,967; ' by the committee. equalized a&sesstaent aprpa„- ,77. * w . -5-------‘“Local assessors and your per c€wt level ment $137 452- taxable ■county assessor have been ton- 9'103 (9-31- iSsment li 088 KnS?tinuously working, picking up toe| West Zorra - population 2,037. assessment $87.025^total^xable'i$1,984,462;taxab 1 eassessment $148,120; total assess-ment $1,978,165; suggested equal- assessment $1,978,165; per . cent county levy 3.550 (3.6).Tavistock - population 1,188; iDusmess ------- —o, - J w population 2,037. assessment S87 025' total taraWp 1 new assessment to Ute benefit of .acreage 53 910; taxable land as- assessment $1,313452? suitedt a x a b 1 e equalized assessment SI t313.152; Ito® local mmi(^ $1,818,246; cessment w.sixibZ-budding assessment $2,015,350; I per cent county levy 2.356 (2.4)’.county as a^ whole,” Mr. Cadestated.“Assessment is the foundation upon which the whole municipal structure rests, and must be done on a souhd basis, applying mod­ern and up-to-date assessment practices and principles, with full knowledge of the Assessment Act and other pertinent acts."This I can assure you is being done in our county.”ASSESSMENT LISTFollowing is the taxable assess-!ment in each municipality, tak­en from the 1958 revised assess­ment rolls, plus the assessments made under the Assessment Act for full taxation in 1959. Also shown is the equalized assess­ment, the percentage each muni­cipality bears to the whole and the 1958 per centage in brackets.TOWNSHIPS:Blandford - population 1,428;' ;. acreage 28,821: taxable land as­sessment $923,887; taxable build­ing assessment, $1,188,350; busi- '' ness assessment. $18,615; total taxable assessment, $2,130,852; suggested equalized assessment $2,130,852; per cent county levy 3.824 (3.9>.Blenheim - population 4,225; acreage 86.692; taxable land as-!Meets June 16Equalized AssessmentFaces Oxford CouncilFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, June 8 Equalized assessment will be the ! major business on the agenda of Oxford County council when it meets June 16.Although the final report from the county assessor has notbeen completed, L. K. Coles,county clerk said today, he ex­pected the up slightly assessment $54,000,000.Nameassessment would be this year. The 1958 was approximatelyCattle Evaluatorsessment $2,080,120; taxablebuilding assessment $3,516,950;i SOUTH NORWICH business assessment $283,650; to-South Norwich - population 2,Jtai taxable assessment $5,880,720; 968- acreage 35 '743-suggested equalized assessment ’ --'7-9' lan^................Jie land’OfercentDereham population 4.085; ac-XaSleS^^^reage 63,543, taxable land assess-**;^ •ment $1,752,685; taxable buildnigjiH?^ LLr cLLassessment $3,164,950; business!7 P k levyassessment $66,425; total taxable assessment $4,984,060; suggested, equalized assessment $4,984,060;'total per cent county levy 8.944 (9.0).East Nissouri - population 2.623; acreage 45,101; taxable land as- sessmemt $1,639,268; taxable bldg, assess,, $2,446,985; busmess as­sessment $52,790; total taxable assessment. $4,139,043; suggested equalized assessment $4,139,043; per cent county levy 7.427 (7.51.North Norwich • population 2,4 246; acreage 32,781; taxable landThe meeting is expected to last four days. A cattle valuator will, be appointed by council to evahi-■ ate all cattle in the county which I have died because of rabies dur-, ing the past year. The program n will be carried out to provide farmers with compensation for their losses.Another project council will in-, vestigate is a proposal to flood light the county building in Wood- stock. A report from Ontario Hydro will be presented to coun- , cU,Dr. G. W. Kroger, of Wood- ■ stock, representing a committee' com posed of representatives from i the three largest hospitals in Ox­ford. Woodsloek, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg, will approach count) council with plans for a $400,000 addition to the Woodstock General i Hospital.The proposed 50-bed addition will be designed for the chroni- 1 cally ill patients in Woodstock! and Ingersoll areas.asscssment $1,005,025; taxable’ building assessment $1,956,125;' business assessment $93,670; to-l tai taxable assessment $3,054,820;’ suggested equalized assessment;$3,054,820; per cent county lew' . 5-481 (Ml. ' I A LOT OF WORK FACED OXFORD COUNTY COUNCILLORSOPENING OF the June ses­sion of Oxford County Council in Woodstock yesterday found the councillors eager to tackle business accumulated since the March session. TOP, enjoy­ing an informal chat, left to right, Donald Hossack, reeve of Embro; Gordon Armstrong, reeve of Blandford; George Davis, reeve of South Norwich; Warden Edwin R- Pearce, Till- sonburg and Charles Coldham, deputy reeve of Blenheim. LOWER, the agricultural com­mittee at work, left to right, George Wallace, deputy reeve West Oxford; George Nagle,deputy reeve of Dereham; Hil­ton Virtue, reeve of East Ox­ford, Lorne Junker, deputy ■ reeve, East Zorra. Absent. | William Baigent, reeve of J North Oxford. (Staff photos).Protection at 3 PointsOxford T o Save $5,600 On Crossing SignalsFanshawe Pioneer Village Has Blacksmith’s ShopWOODSTOCK, June 16—Ox-| Originally the ford county has saved 15.600 breakdown was 60percentage per cent(through railway crossing sig-jfrom the crossing fund, 25 per nals. Warden E. R. Pearce, toldI county council today.He said negotiations for threecrossing signals were carried oncent by the county and 15 per cent by the railway.The three crossing signalsPLATTSVILLE HORSE SHOWby Wallace Nesbitt. MP for Ox- wi" Installed nt CPR cross-, ford who took the county mat- on county roads.ter up with federal officials.Following opening ceremoniesWarden Pearce said the costa today, councilors met In various, । were divided 80 per cent from committees to consider agenda • I the railway grade crossing fund,j business. Tomorrow, the annual .' IS1- per cent from the county ; visit to the county home will! and T'a per cent by the railway, [be held,Entries, AttendanceRated “Best, Biggest”J?; PAY ANNUAL VISIT TO OXFORD COUNTY HOMEBy Irate BarristerAn angered Woodstock lawyercity magistrate'sstood upsuperintendent, J,Meathrell"This makes it almost a pen­alty to be represented by coun­sel," he added.Lawyers are required to sit in court anywhere from one and a half hours up to two hours be­fore they have their cases heard, Mr. MacDougall charged,"I would like to make a pro­test on behalf of all the mem-CLOSE SESSIONS THURSDAYWhile it had been expected that the current meeting of Oxford County council would continue through Friday, it is now antici­pated that the final sitting will be concluded on Thursday night. A speed-up in transaction of bus­iness during the session will per-' mit the rural reeves to get back sooner to summer farm operai-, ions.OXFORD COUNTY council­lors paid their annual visit to the County Home yesterday af­ternoon. TOP left to right. Reeve of East Missouri, John Bolton, Deputy Reeve of Blen­heim. Charles Coldham, Mat-court yesterday afternoon and levelled strong criticism at the manner in which Magistrate R. G. Groom runs his court.R. A. MacDougall, miffed at having to sit and wait for two hours in court yesterday, com­plained that Magistrate Groom always forced those defendants represented by counsel to wait until the last while he heard the cases of defendants not repre­sented by- counsel.People who are represented by counsel and their witnesses are forced to wait until all the other cases are disposed of," complain­ed Mr. MacDougall.against such treatment. As re­gards this matter, this court is operated in a different manner than any other court in Ontario,"; concluded Mr. MacDougall.Magistrate Groom listened courteously and then remarked he was sprry that Mr. MacDoug­all felt that way about his court/SIGNALS AT CROSSING . . .1Two flashing light signals and a manually operated push -but­ton bell will be erected at the: Canadian Pacific Railway cross­ing on Governor's Road, within, the next six months, county road:Transport Commissioners,COUNCIL VISIT — Nineteen members of Oxford County Council visited the County Home for the Aged Wednesdoy os port of on annual inspection tour. Mrs. Robert Forbes, home matron, shows councilors an old music box. Left to right: Mrs.announced this morning, Approv­al for the warning signals, cost of which will bo shared 80 per: cent by the Railway Grade Cross­ing Fund, 12 and a half per cent! i by the County and the remaind­er by the CPR, has just beonl« received from the Board of:Blandford Treasurer Resigns From OfficeBlandford Township Council met in regular session. The meet­ing was presided over by Acting Reeve Arnott with Councillors Aspden, Budd and Shearer atten­ding.A request for a grant of $50 to Woodstock Agricultural Society' was granted. The Department of. Highways requested Council for consideration and approval of transfer of part of No, 2 Highway at CredjtviUe crossing to Town- ■ hip, Charles Tucker and J. Mc-i Laughlin waited on Council re survey of Budd drain.The resignation of Mrs. Mary Wilson waK accepted by coubcai with regret. Mrs. Wilson has been treasurer since 1950.General account $740,76 and Road account of $997.24 wore or-Deputy Reeve of East Missouri, Alex Hossack. LOWER sign­ing the register, left to right, Deputy Reeve of East Zorra, Lorne Junker and Reeve of Ean- faro, Donald Hossack. (Staft photos).—Free Press Woodstock Bureau! Forbes, Reeve Herbert Balkwill, of Blenheim;}.' Deputy Reeve Charles Coldhom, of Blenheim; Reeve John Bolton, of East Missouri, and Deputy Reeve Alex Hossack, of East Missouri. COUNTY COUNCIL’S equaliz­ation and assessment commits tee yesterday grappled wiilih tb^ third annual report of coumty assessor Fred Oade. The report.ASSESSOR TO REPORTShowing an increase of $1,657,- 040 over the equiaW^d aisisws* unenit of 1058. passed wiilihou* aimendinnent. Faces of commit­tee memibers, lefit to right,North Norwich (reeve David Chiumbers; South Norwich reeve George Dia vis, East Nissouri reeve John Bolton, West Zorra reeve Ernest Gtaruer and Til]-County Plans To Spend $545,300 On HighwaysA supplementary' bylaw prov­iding for the expenditure of 545. i 300 for construction and mainten­ance costs on county roads, was given a third a final reading dur­ing this morning’s session of Oxford County Council..j. First two readings were made in the March budget session.• I Regular business occupying the attention of councillors this morn­ing included the first and secondI reading of five bylaw's.A request from Mrs. F. Sym- ?' ons, representing North Oxford I Women's Insitutes, urging coun- | cil to reconsider the matter of painting white lines on county roads, was read by county clerk- ! treasurer, L. K. Coles.Herbert Balkwill, reeve of Bien-1 helm, extended an invitation to' j councillors to attend the annualI Platteville Horse Show, Friday,■ June 19 and Saturday, June 20.Frank R. Gee, Chatham solicitor! representing the Union Gas Com­pany. appeared before council at 11:45 to request the amendment of a bylaw governing the rights and privileges of the company.;Councillors took time out from their regular duties this afternoon, ' to pay their yearly visit to the( county home farm and also the Canada Cement Plantaccorded the signal honour of be­ing the only warden invited to speak at the opning of the Lon­don District Crippled Children’s Treatment Centre in London, this afternoon. "Quite an honour for the county”, as Mr. Pearce point­ed out.Thursday morning county ass­essor Fred H. Cade will bring in his report on equalized assess­ment. Last year's figure stood at 054,069,817, and it is anticipatedthat the 1959 total will be only slightly higher.Dr. G. W. Kruger of Wood- stock, will wait on council to outline details of the proposed $400,000 addition for chronically: ill patients at Woodstock General Hospital.A report on progress for plans to floodlight the county building at night can be looked for Thurs­day morning. Warden Pearce: stated today.Need For More HospitalAccommodation StressedMissing from their number was ’'arden E. R. Pearce who was'TOUR BUILDINGSChildren* from school section 13 in Blenheim township will tour !■ v? Coslrviy Building. Woodstock, Wednesday morning, accompan­ied by their teacher Mrs. E. R. McLaren, county clerk treasur­er L.. K. Coles announced thisDr. G. W. Kruger, representing the Oxford County Medical As­sociation, appeared before Coun­ty Council yesterday morning to present information on the pro­posed wing for chronically ill patients at Woodstock General Hospital."This is only an informative visit." Dr. Kruger explained. "We are not coming with de­mands.”Lack of beds for chronically ill patients in the county is result­ing in overcrowded nursing hom­es, he stated."We’re poor in active hospital beds in Oxford County," he con­tinued. At present the 310 hos­pital beds available in the three hospitals in Woodstock, Tillson­burg and Ingersoll is 47 beds short of the Ideal 5.5 beds per thousand population.Dr. Kruger explained the dif­ference between active and chron- fl patients, stating that 36 active patients could be placed In hos­pital in one year compared to one chronic patient.While he said a lOO-bed hos­pital for the chronically 111 could be built In the centre of the;hospital where services already} exist.Cost of adding these beds to Woodstock General Hospital would be approximately three quarters of a million dollars with government grants accounting for roughly $600,000.This leaves a total of. optiml-l stically, $150,000 to be raised by county residents, although Dr., Kruger said the amount could go as high as $300,000.G. W. Stevens, administrator of Tillsonburg District Memorial: Hospital also warned that as the average age of our population in creases ‘‘we are going to be fac­ed more and more with the nec­essity of providing chronic beds." 'Commented Warden Pearce, j ’ "this is a new approach to our hospital problems. The Medical Association is to be commended in that they have assessed the | need."county, the cost would amount to approximately $15,000 per bed and all the services would be re­quired.On the other hand, the ideal situation is to place chronically ill beds adjacent to an activesonbuirg deputy reeve Chore Eii&eltine, reflect the oTttsider- aitiion tlhey gave the report. 'Staff photo.)Assessment TopsOxford BusinessFree Press Woodstock Bureau ham Township have.C'WOODSTOCK, June 15 -The the support of township council : 1959 equalized assessment figure 'for II'jO taxation purposes willin a program to abolish Day-light Saving Time. The pro- }be the major business before posal has been put to county' 3Oxford County council thiscouncil for its supportWant Signal Lightsweek.-*; ‘i :The 1958 assessment was $54.- As the result of a decision byi 069,817, an increase of ?2,434,163 a coroner’s jury, council will he} over the 1957 figure, } asked to install signal lights at -Frederick Cade, county asses- the CPR crossing at the 13th sor, will present his report to line, Blandford Township. Wil-' council either Thursday or Fri-!fred Thompson, of Woodstock,!da j-.| was killed May 23 when his caiThere has been no indication} crashed into a train at the; ■ ot any change in the equalized, crossing. The jury also recom- assessment figure this year, al- mended that a hill southeast of though L. K. Coles, county the crossing be partially re­clerk, said he expected a small moved for better vision.jump in the amount compared; The Oxford Historical Societyto last year. and the Western Fair Associa-}Ii tion, London, have requestedWant Rights DefinedRepresentatives of Union Gas financial assistance from Company will approach councilicounty. Purpose of the London Wednesday with a proposed by- request is construction of a new law stating land privileges of coliseum agricultural building.the company in the county.’ The last bylaw pertaining to such firms was written in 1932.A visit to the county home and possibly to the Canada Ce­ment Company plant, west of Woodstock, will also be included in the third session of council this year. The session will open tomorrow.Dr. G. W. Kruger, of Wood­stock, representing a hospital group in the county, will speak to council about a proposed $400,000 addition to the Wood- stock General Hospital. The pro­posed 50-bed addition will be de­signed for chronically ill pa­tients.Want Hydro GrantsIncluded in correspondence to be read to council tomorrow, is a request by the counties of Hastings and Welland for sup­port to a resolution calling on the Ontario government to pay grants in lieu of taxes equal to a 100 per cent on all Ontario hydro properties which are ex­empt from taxation.Brooksdnlc Women’s Institute have urged council to lnvesti-i gate the traffic hazard at the intersect ion of the Embro road and Harrington sideroad. The group said school children from S3 No, 7 school, located > Uto Intersection, were in a danger-} ous position because ot the ■New HealthUnit OfficesAt Tillsonburgheavy traffic on the roads. , ,Women's Institutes in Dm*-,,Staff of the Oxford Health Unit, | Tillsonburg Branch, will occupy new offices on or about October 15, according to Donald Hossack, Embro, chairman of the Health committee of County Council.A father and son team of Till­sonburg contractors, Larry and Don Millman, have begun work on a two storey brick building on Bear street in Tillsonburg.When it is completed the Health Unit will lease the ground floor space of approximately i 1,000 square feet. '‘We drew up the floor plans," Mr. Hossack said.Space will be divided into three conference rooms, a utility room, washroom and waiting room."There is no doubt about it." MOH for Oxford County. Dr. O. C. Powers stated, "it will be tho; best office that the Health Unit has - for that type."I Forced to move from the base-' I ment of the Tillsonburg Public} Library where it was located for । ,10 years, the Tillsonburg Unit has occupied temporary quarters} J I in District Memorial Hospital for jI the past year. SPOTLIGHT MYSTERY MONKEYFloodlights To Illuminate Front Of County Buildings/ Ione-thous^nd-w a H rose between th? architect, con-Hydro Electric Power Commis-.point two members....considering ‘ ? switched on to il- tractor and William Nancekivell slon. the importance of the ftprlenifur-When 11 floodlights are switched to luminate the pink sandstone face of the County Building in W’ood- stock. attention will b' directed once more to the mystery of thesculptured simian.Under the bright glare of the lights, the image of 9 monkey, carved in a climbing, position, back out, paws digging relent­lessly into stone, will,'be reveal­ed topping the main gable of one of the best known bjuildings inOxford County.• While the County Balding is a well known landmark- its history is vague, shrouded yd the cryptic "sinutes of co’.’nc? meetings of bygi.no years: "No cornerstone gives the exact date of construc­tion.Floor plans the possession of local architect' Forrest Telfer indicate that it was designed by an American architect, Robert Thorn Brookes, of Detroit. They bear the signature of James Anderson, Oxford warden in 1889, pinpointing this as the probable year that construction was first started.LITTLE KNOWNOf the monkey itself even less is known, although deputy reeve of Dereham. George Nagle, of­fers an intriguing legend by way of explanation.Apparently, when the first foundations were about four feet off the ground, an argument a- ■of Dereham township, warden in 1886.As a result of the argument, the foundations were torn down and the architect and contractor were fired.Still according to legend, when the second county building was erected, Mr. Nancekivell had the monkey sculpted on it as a re­minder that there was to be no more “monkeying around” on the premises.Some confusion arises here as to whether the building might have been started during Mr.pjonn iwo members.^.considering the importance of the agricultur-iAUTOMATIC CLOCK >1 industry In this county", coun­An automatic clock will switch tered George Wallace, deputy the lights on and off and instal- reeve of West Oxford.‘'If we're going for one weNancekivell's reign in 1886.Yet another legend, recounted by count}' clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles, puts the shoe on the other foot, with the contractor slyly sculpting the monkey as a per­manent record of the fact that the county “made a monkey out of him”.Whatever the answer to the puzzle, floodlights approved last night by the council property committee should help to throw lots of light on the matter.The lights will be located on the grounds between side side­walks and the flower bed, one at each corner of the property, one near the Health Unit and four double units along the front.Cost of the project is estimated at between $2,006 and $3,000 ac­cording to survey by the Ontariolation will be handled by Smith « „ —- —Electrlct Company of Woodstock, should go for them all”, was the Don Hossack, chairman of the opinion of Norwich Reeve Howard ! property committee stated that'Mc9<>mbs.all arrangements will be com,plet- Discussion was brought to an, ed as quickly as possible. abrupt halt when warden PearceIncluded in the property com- Pointed out that the motion nam- mittee report to the wind-up the two delegates was out M meeting of council last night was ofder anyway, as it was decided a recommendation that addition- in committee to go for all or al parking space be provided be- none at ad- side the registry office. I Efforts are now being made to iOther reports adopted included have grading on the section of that of county assessor Fred Cade Governor's road west of Wood-With the exception of West s.tocl< completed at the earliest Zorra the 1959 equalization fig- dai® possible in order to complete tires he proposed equalled the concrete paving this year, the total amount of the revised tax- road report stated, able assessment shown on local ~ *Contract for the bridge on the___________ Brant-Oxford boundary over Ken- Equalized assessment for 1959 Creek has been awarded to is $55,726,857. compared to $54. Arnott Construction Company at 069.817 in 1958._________________a contract price of $24,092,12assessment rolls for 1958.The equalization and assess-a contract price of $24,092,12, which together with the materials J supplied by the municipalities94 Foxes Killed By 1,000 HuntersOxford Rabies Said /Fading/ment committee endorsed a res- - - — --------olution from Simcoe county re- make the total cost dpproxi- garding a provincial grant to municipalities for exemption granted on lands of co-operative corporations, and a resolution , w causa snoruyifrom Renfrew county supporting *or the structures on road 14. j the principle that all provincially and Oxford-Middlesex bound-; and HEPC owned lands and build- ary bridge. Winter maintenance ings be liable to a grant in Heu I??, roads have cost the county of taxes equal to 100 per cent of 531,963 to date, according to the taxes. roads report, and costs for theNAMED VAI TIER remainder of the- year are ap-mAMfsu VALUER proximated at $22,000.. Roads recommendations passed'mately $30,000.BOUNDARY BRIDGETenders will be called shortly!ary bridge. Winter maintenanceFree Press WoodstockWOODSTOCK. June Conservation OfficerBureau15 “IWeed inspector Ed Thornton of . ______________Woodstock was named county by council were the filing of a valuer to assess losses through communiration from Brooksdale: rabies for compensation purposes J j--- -In passing the agricultural com­mittee's report, council agreed that Mr. Thornton will be paid $10 per completed inspection plus mileage.H. W’.jClark, of Woodstock, says in 8|report to county council that 94, foxes have been killed in organ­ized fox hunts in Oxford since! last fall.1,000 Took PartThe report said 32 hunts were organized and more than 1,000 persons took part.Of the 11 townships in Ox-A hint of balkiness was appar­ent in a discussion which arose oyer the appointment of two coun­cil representatives to the Wood- stock Fan- Board. A recommend­ation naming two candidates was overthrown.WI and the decision not to act: upon a resolution from the Wood- stock North Branch of the WI regarding painting a white strip, on paved county roads.“The roads committee has gone into this request", Warden Pear­ce said. “It represents a cost of. about $25,000 per year and its felt that the safety factor can! be accomplished by the erection1 of railway crossing signals.” I'Council adjourned shortly after 1.. one day earlier than ex-It seems ridiculous to appoint 9 P-m.. one day earlier than ex- two men to more or less police pected. permitting members to a grant of $225.” commented Rob- return to their having, a cate- r®eve of Tavistock. gory which encompasses all Ihe least we can do Is ap- councillors.gorywhichencompasses all!ford, only three failed to have! organized hunts.Blandford, East North Norwich. In Blenheim,They Oxfordwere, andthreehuntswere held, 60 persons took part!and 12 foxes were Dereham, there were 292 hunters and bagged. East Zorrakilled. Ini five hunts 23 foxes had threehunts which netted four fox.Foxes BaggedIn North Oxford, 12 foxes were killed. Four hunts In East1BOOKMOBILE TOURThe Bookmobile, Oxford coun­ty’s library on wheels, has just completed a 1.000 mile circuit of 1 ^rt£°u.nty' bringing in some 6,360 volumes from public schools' and libraries, county librarian Mrs. ,S. L. Krompart said today. Libraries were issued new sup­plies of books for July and Aug­ust ^nd the school books will be repaired and outfitted with new cards before the school term be­gins in September. *Arrange For Compensation On Stock Killed By RabiesR. H. Graham, associate live | The federal-provincial program wiTkbeCOm wSfT/w Ontario, of compensation for livestock lost!? Woodstock Wednesday)due to rabies was announced bv 1 moinmg to meet with newly ap- Agriculture Minister Harkness in! pointed county valuator Ed Thorn- *' ton of Woodstock and Dr. D. W. Thompson of the Federal Health of Animals Branch.Missouri netted six foxes. SouthNorwich hunters bagged 26;foxes. West Oxford hunters killed 10 foxes, and West Zorra1 hunters killed one animal.Dr, D. W. Thompson, Federal veterinarian, described the : trend of rabies which was. mainly spread by fox, as a fading epidemic. He said there! were fewer cases of rabies re-i ported to his office last month than in any previous month! since the disease was first de-, tected in the county last fall. iWltlNlZATION ‘A total of 6,372 immunization1 *• ,. shots were administered to school! children in Oxford County bv the' .. staff of the Oxford Health Unit • • 4 during the past ten month school '. term the mostcomple job of school immuniz- K atlon this year that we’ve ever! I^done”. MOH Dr. O c. Powers* ,his corning.*' d m'a. 1 conferences and cHn- • les will be continued throughout 1 igtt the summer. bMr. Graham is expected to dis­cuss the compensation scale in an effort to bring about a unified system of payment throughout the province.March and approved by County Council durihg the June session, when Mr. Thornton was also ap­pointed.Eighty per cent of the cost will be borne by the two governments on a fifty-fifty basis with the county paying the remaining 20 per cent.Scale of compensation is based on a maxiimwn of $250 for cattle. $100 for horses and S40 for sheep, swine and goats.Compensation, retroactive to' April 1, 1958. will be paid on fte 23 cows, three pigs, two sheep and one horse which have been casual­ties of the disease in this county.Mr. Thornton is expected to be­gin evaluating soon after the meeting with Mr. Graham. Rabid Foxes Still Menace To Livestock In OxfordOxford AnimalsRabies VictimsCounty Will Save $5,600 On CPR Crossing SignalsRabid fox still menace farm animals in Oxford County, ac­cording to Dr. D. W, Thompson, veterinarian with the Health of Animals Branch. Canada Depart­ment of Agriculture, Woodstock.Four infected fox were discov­ered in the BurgessviUe-Thsmes- ford area last week, including a fox pup killed by a dog on the farm of Jim Martin, near Burg- essville, Saturday, Dr. Thompson said.The dog involved was protected by vaccination received at the free clinics held in the county during May.A rabid pig was destroyed In the Thamesford district last week.While no cases of rabies in cat­tle to pa store another month county during the past, month. Dr. Thompson predicted that with ca- i tie ou to pa sure anoher monh may make a difference. Tirecwba- tion period tor the dwease is ap­proximately four weeks.With rabies moving into the southern section of the county, the veterinarian pointed out that the fox population in the north, scene of the first outbreak, is} depleted, possibly because th® animals died out during the wint-1 er.Dr. Thompson also reported1 that two moat inspectors with the Department, Bob Cunningham of Barrie and Arthur Hofstetter' of London, are carrying out milk! ring tests for brucellosis in the county.So far, 2000 samples have been taken from dairies and milk col­lecting agencies with "good" re­sults.Herds are re-test«d when milk samples indicate suspicion of bru-|Herdscellosis."This will help our export', trade. "There's no doubt of It'J Dr. Thompson concluded.ROADSIDE SPRAYINGRoadside spraying for brush and weed control will commence June in the county with two units doing the work. First appli-' cation of dust layer on county! roads will be completed by this weekend and a second applica­tion will be made as need arises.Free Preftt Wnodetock BureauWOODSTOCK. June 8 - Four foxes and a pig Infected by rabies have been the Intent cases of the disease In Oxford county, Dr. D. W. Thompson, federal veterinarian, said today.The four foxes were dlscov-! ered in the Burgessville area where a fox pup was killed by a dog on the farm of James Martin. The dog was protected by anti-rabies vaccine, the vet­erinarian said.A pig infected With Ihe dis­ease was destroyed last week on a Thamesford district farm.Killed OffAlthough individual cases of rabies have been investigated! by federal officials, Dr. Thomp­son explained the disease was gradually disappearing. He said there was evidence that the fox population in the northern part of the county had been killed off by the disease during the winter.Two meat inspectors with the Canada Department of Health, Robert Cunningham, of Barrie and Arthur Hofstetter, of Lon­don, have been associated with} the Health of Animals Division of the Department in Woodstock .for the past month, Dr. Thomp­son said. The men are carry- I ing out milk ring tests for Bru- | cellosis. More than 2,000 sam­ples have been taken from dair­ies and milk collecting agen­cies.Savings to the County amount­ing to $5,600 on auitomMte signal­ling devices planned for three CPR. mainline crossings In Ox­ford County are the result of neg­otiations carried on by MP Wall­ace Nesbitt with the Federal Board of Transport Commission­ers, Warden Ed Pearce told the opening session of County Coun­cil this morning."I think credit is due to Wally on this", Warden ..Pearce com- ■ mented. He explained that pre­viously costs on such devices were divided three ways with the Railway Grade Crossing Fund bearing 60 per cent of costs, the county 25 per cent and the rail­way 15 per cent.After negotiations, following the visit of county councillors to Mr. Nesbitt In Ottawa the beginning of June, costs were redistributed with 80 per cent now borne by the Fund, 12 and a half per cent by the county and 7 and a half per cent by the railway.County Council has been asked to pass a bylaw authorizing the payment of compensation for livestock lost due to rabies and also to appoint one or more valu­ers for the purpose of assessing the value of livestock destroyed by the disease in the country since April 1. 1958.Livestock Commissioner W. P. Watson's requests were contain­ed in correspondence read by county clerk-treasurer L. K. Col­es.Also read were:A recommendation from Huron County seeking endorsation of a plan for the further study of the classification under the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan of insur­ed persons now in chronic wlngi of hoapitala and convalescent hospitals and financial assistance to patients registered in nursing homes.Resolutions from Simcoe Coun­ty asking that the Province of Ontario make a grant to munici-, pa 11 ties in lieu of taxes in cases where co-operative cold storage plants arc exempt from taxation.And asking the Attorney Gen­eral’s Department to establish a Police Training College, suggest­ing that after January 1, i960, no municipality shall appoint a chief constable or senior constable who hasn't a certificate of graduation from such a College.A resolution from Haldimand County, recommending that a new section be added to the Ont-, S ario Weed Control Act permit- ' ting no action to be taken against any municipality for injury or damage caused by materials used in spraying for weed control, without written notice within 30 days after the spraying.TAX HYDRO PROPERTYA resolution from the Council of Renfrew asking support for the principle that all provincially- owned land and buildings and all land and buildings owned by the; Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission by liable to a grant in lieu of taxes equivalent to 100 per cent of taxes.Petitions from the Women's In­stitutes in Dereham township, ap­proved by the municipal council, seeking the abolition of daylight saving time.Recommendations from Crown Attorney Albert 'Whaley, that the. hill at the CPR crossing and tha thirteenth line in Blandford town­ship be partially removed for bet­ter vision and that automatic sig­nals be erected there.A letter from the Western Fair Association, asking support for a plan to build a coliseum. Agricul-} tural Building at the Western Fair. Financial assistance will be sought from the Provincial and Federal treasuries for the pro­ject.A report from the Ontario De­partment of Lands and Forests showing that the total number of organized fox drives held in the county numbers 32 with a total of 94 fox shot.Solicitors representing Union Gas Company will appear before I Council Wednesday morning to ask for the amendment of a by­law governing the rights and priv­ileges of the company.Dr. George W. Kruger will add­ress council Thursday morning to explain plans for the proposed new wing for chronically ill patients at Woodstock General Hospital.County assessor. Fred. H. Cade is expected to make his annual equalizing assessment report the same morning.EX-WARDEN’S GROUPTwenty seventh annual meet-1 ing of the Oxford Ex-Warden’s .Association, the oldest of its. ।kind in Ontario, will be held in! jWoodstock, Wednesday. June 24.OUTLINES RABIES COMPENSATION -An official of the Ontorio Department of Agriculture visited Woodstock this week to outline to county livestock evaluator Edward Thornton the method of rabies compensation payments to farmers. Left to right, checking regulations are, Robert Bell, agricultural—Free Press Woodstock Bureau representative of Oxford; Dr. D. W, Thompson, Federal veterinarian, R. H. Graham, Toronto, as­sociate livestock commissioner for Ontorio, and Mr. Thornton, Compensation will be paid formers j who have lost livestock because of rabies. Free Preaa \V nodstock Bureau tn be placed In the Council WOODSTOCK, June 24—One,chamber* and donated money towar relief funds.The first president wassits in the chair he occupied when he was an active coun­cilor.Members LiftedHs 27th Annual meeting in the Charles Denton, of Tillsonburg, county building here today. .1913 warden.Only 26 ex-wardens are still During meetings each memberElect OfficersEx-Warden's Association in Wood-WHERE WOLFE LANDEDwarden. E, R. Pearce of Till­sonburg.of the most unusual organisa­tions in Ontario, the Oxford Ex-Wardens’ Association, heldOxford Ex-Wardens MeetContinue 33-Year Traditionliving and 20 attended the meet­ing. Three members of the select group were ex-officio dele­gates.Elect Officer#The association elected J, K. Wardell, of South Norwich warden in 1943. First Vlce- The 1959 membership include*! H. E. Atkinson, of Embro, 1920; George Hollier, nt Tillsonburg, 1923; William Mclntoslp of West Zorra, 1927; J. F. McDonald, ot East Zorra, 1933; A, D. Robin-president i« J. C. Eiehenberg. of Tillsonburg, warden in 1914; second vice-president, Alex Mc- Corquodale, of East Nissouri, warden in 1915, Executive mem­bers elected were J. Winston Nichols, of North Oxford, war­den in 1946, Milton Betteridge,' son, of West Oxford, 1934; George Balkwell, of Blenheim. 1935. C. P. M. Beagley, of Em­bro, 1937; Charles Milton, of Blenheim. 1938; N. M. Marshall,of East Nissouri. warden in 1947. and George Fewster. ofi North Norwich, warden in 1949.1L. K. Coles, county clerk, is secretary-treasurer. Ex-officio members are .Mr. Coles, J. N. Meathrell, county road superin­tendent, and Thomas Pye, coun­ty building caretaker.The association held its first meeting on July 3. 1933, in the hallowed halls of the county courthouse. Each year the ex- wardens meet to renew old friendships, elecr new officers, recommend business to the. present county council and hear a prominent speaker.Gordon "Sparky" Innes. MLA for Oxford, addressed the group tonight.The oldest member at the meeting was H. B. Atkinson, of Embro. who was county warden in 1920.Founded In 1933The association was founded by an unnamed county official who approached the warden of the day with the idea. The first meeting was reported planned over a cup of tea in a Tillson-1 burg restaurantThe late T. R. Mayberry, war­den in 1888. was the first chair­man and the inaugural session had 25 ex-wardens in attend­ance, including four ex-wardens who attended today's meeting.During its history the group has preserved county history. Arranged for wardens’ picturesof Norwich, 1939; Alvin McKay, of West Zorra. 1042; J. K. War-1 dell, of South Norwich, 1943; | J. C. Eichenberg. of Tlllaon- burg, 1944; Alex McCoiqiiodnle,, of .East Nissouri, 1945; J. Win-j' aton Nichols, of North Oxford,! 1940; Milton Betteridge, of East Nissouri, 1947; George FewsterJ of North Norwich, 1949; Robert Rudy, of Tavistock, 1950; Grant Sutherland, of East Nissouri, 1951; Harry McBeth, Dereham, 1952; Thomas Fellow, of West Oxford, 1953; James Hossack, of Embro. 1954; William Ches­ney. of Blandford, .1955; Regi­nald Day. of East Nissouri, 1956; Cecil Riddle, of North Oxford, 1957: J. Grant. Smith, of North Norwich, 1958, and E. R, Pearce, of Tillsonburg, 1959.—Free Press Woodstock Bureou EX-WARDENS MEET—The Oxford Ex-Wardens Association, which has a mem­bership of 26, held its annual meeting yesterday at Woodstock. Four of the oldest ex-wardens are, left to right, standing, George Hollier, of Tillsonburg, 1923 warden; William McIntosh, of West Zorra, 1927; seated, H. B. Atkinson, of Embro, 1920; and J. F. McDonald, of East Zorra, 1933,Royal Couple Step On Shore At QuebecFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK. June 15-The-<th annual meeting of the Ox­ford Ex-Wardens’ Association will be held in Woodstock on June 24.The association is the oldest organization of its kind in the province. Only a few such groups exist in Ontario.Members of the organization are former wardens of Oxford County. The present warden, E- R. Pearce, of Tillsonburg, auto­matically became a member1 when he was elected to office.The unique group meets once a ybar. The minutes of business are recorded, resolutions passed and recommendations made dur­ing the course of the one-day meetlng.An informal dinner and guest, speaker complete the agenda which is usually designed as a friendly get-together of former colleagues.• • ‘Y ' I • :“ ।Oxford ML A To Address Meeting Of Ex-Wardens' Association HereGordon (Sparky) Innes, MLA, date as far back as 1920 when will be guest speaker at the 27th IH. B. Atkinson, Thamcsford, was annual meeting of the Oxford warden and include the present til M n-l . A .> L J . — ' . 1 t? . .1 .......J r—« w. __ .stock, Wednesday, June 24.County clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles stated yesterday that some 20 ex-wardens are expected to attend the event, meeting first in the County Building for a short business session and social get- together, then adjourning to Nash’s restaurant for dinner at 6 p.m.Memberships in the AssociationOther members arc;George H, Hollier, Tillsonburg 0.923); William McIntosh, Em­bro (1927); J. F. McDonald. RR 3 Woodstock (1933); A. D. Ptob- inson, RR 4 Ingersoll (1934);' j George Balkwill, Drumbo (1935);.! & Charles F. Beagle-, Embro <19- 37); Charles T. Milton, RR 2, Princeton '1938); N. M. Mfr- ft shall, Norwich (1939); Alvin MeKay, RR 4 Embro (1942); J. K. Wardell, Otterville (1943); J C Eichenberg, Tillsonburg (1944)"^ A, D. MeCorquodale, RR 3 Lake­side (1945); J. Winston Nichils.- Wocdstock (1946); Milton Better­idge, RR 1 Lakeside <1947/; George Fewster, RR 2 Norwich H949); Robert Rudy, Tavistock (1950); Grant Sutherland, RR 1 Lakeside (a951): Harlev McB-rh. RR 1 Salford (1952); Thomas F. Pelion, RR 5 Ingersoll (1953); James D. Hossack, Embro <1954) William A. Chesney RR 2. Inneiv kip (1955); Reginald R. Day, ! RR 1 Thamesford (1956); Ceci! M. Riddle, RR 2 Ingersoll (1957) - J. Grant Smith, Burgessville (1958).Rally Planned ) Of Ex-Wardens -» . J*.;A.their annual county day at the university yesterday. Here a group of the councilors listen to address in the new science building.COUNCILORS GATHER—Members of Kent, Elgin, Oxford, Perth, Bruce and Middlesex county councils, toured the University of Western Ontario duringWarns of Water NeedIn Choosing IndustriesMunicipalities seeking indus­try were warned today to screen prospective manufacturing firms and concentrate only on those whose operations do not require great volumes of water.John P. Robarts, ML A for North London and a member of the Ontario Water Resources Commission, issued the caution to representatives of five Southwestern Ontario counties where water supplies are poor."Also.” he said, "you should take a long close look at plans for industrial waste disposal by Companies considering your mu­nicipalities.”County DayMr. Robarts spoke to county of a pipeline will, for economic reasons, be unable to take ad­vantage of it."For this reason we must never stop the quest for surface water. We'll need it in the future.”The London MLA said one of the biggest problems in build-' ing a water pipeline inland was) getting the various municipali­ties together in their thinking on the project.Cites Essex LineHe cited as an example the! construction of a 30-mile, $4,500,-! 000 pipeline in Essex county which serves at least half a dozen municipalities. "We had a real job,” he said."It is strange to think,” Mr. Robarts mused, "that the great­est shortage of water in thecouncilors from Lambton,; province should be in an area Middlesex, Elgin, Oxford and surrounded on three sides by! Perth at the University of the Great Lakes. But it is a! Western Ontario annual "County fact.”Day." County councilors were wel-iCounty representatives also! corned to the university s new] attended a university reception; "County Day” by Dr. R. A.and were guests of the board Allen, vice-president. He noted of governors at a buffet supper that yesterday's audience was; in the Great Hall at Somerville the largest ever assembled for' the annual visit.in roei House.The board of governors, he announced, had recently ap­proved the establishment of the final Wednesday of June each year as “County Day.”Lt. Col. D. B. Weldon, chair­man of the board, introduced Mr. Robarts.Mr, Robarts outlined events leading to the establishment of the OWRC in 1956, its functions and powers, and its accomplish­ments.Speaking on pollution control, one of the five specific areas in which the OWRC operates, Mr. Robarts noted "it is easy to install proper treatment fa­cilities when a plant is being built. It Is not so easy later."We have received a tremen­dous amount of co-operation from industry generally,” hej ■The biggest trouble is1 said.with established industry.Tothe OWRC' falls the task of seeing that they conform.”Another of the commission's] most Important functions was; an ever-continuing and Intense search throughout the province for ground water.| Pipeline Problems"The lake pipeline is a very glamorous solution,” Mr. Robarts said, “but it Is very costly. It u* conceivable that a mu-' niclpality within a few miles!The newly erected London Dis­trict Crippled Children’s Treat­ment Centre at London, Ont., is to be officially opened on Wed­nesday, June 17 at 2.30 p.m. with Hon. Leslie Frost premier of Ont­ario officiating.Many Woodstock and district residents had a share in financ-i ing this centre, through the cam­paign conducted by the Wood-1 . stock Rotary Club, with Fred' Lowes as chairman of the eom-: mittee and the sum of $15,000 was raised. Total cost of the! new centre was approximately $500,000.The program on Wednesday will open with invocation by Bish­op John C. Cody, and following: will be remarks by the president,1 E. C. Harley; Mayor J. Allan! Johnston of London; Warden Ed-] win R. Pearce of Oxford county; Fr. J. C. Kennedy, chairman of; the medical staff; dedication.' Rev. John Fleck; prayer, Rabbi' Kirshenbaum; Cutting of ribbon by Premier Frost, assisted by two crippled children, followed by an addrosis yb Mr. Frost; Ben­ediction Bishop Luxton.The new treatment centre cov­ers 19,000 square feet on three levels. It is located adjacent to the War Memorial Children’s Hospital and connected to it at the corner of Colbourne and Hill street in London. The centre will have capacity for handling 250 children weekly on an outpatient basis and meets the requirements of the Ontario Society for Crip-1 pled Children.Fred Lowes, Beachville, mem-! ber of the Woodstock Rotary; ■ Club is on the executive of the! . new centre and ajnong the actors are George Barrie, Till- soribwg, and W. E. Waterhouse,] Inigensoll.Essex Rejects Health UnitWINDSOR, June 30 — fCP) ■ — Essex County council tonight voted 24-12 against establishing a health unit in the county.The move was made despite a Strong plea In favor of the project made by Oxford County Clerk I* K. Coles, who said the people tn his county — one of the first to set up * county unit — are solidly behind the * Idea.He said, however, that Oxford has had serious staff problems from time to time. Deputy ReeVe John Offler, of Learning- ton, one of those who voted against the proposal, said Essex would be In serious trouble if it had similar staff problems.Deputy Reeve George Mc­Curdy. of Amherstburg, said a county unit could only hurt local municipalities. County unit ; nurses could not provide tha services currently provided by local nurses, he added.Strongest support for tha health unit Idea came from the Windsor suburbs, all but one of ; which supported the move in to­night's vote.The suburban communities have also been considering join­ing Windsor in a metropolitan health unit However, talks to­wards establishing a metro unit were discontinued until a de- 2 cision was reached on setting up the county-wide organ.Open New Crippled Children's Treatment Centre On WednesdayALONG THE CONCESSIONSRabies Valuer AwaitsCompensation FormsBy MARY MARSHED THORNTON of Woodstock. | county council appointed valuer! for rabies compensation, will be­gin his duitLes as soon as ofificial, forms arrive from the Canada Department of Agriculture. Ot­tawa, likely within the next few days. Federal veterinarian Dr. D. W. Thompson, Woodstock, made this announcement follow­ing a meeting with Ontario asso- . ciiaite live stock commissioner R.H. Graham, agricultural repre­sentative Robert Bell and Mr. ;Thornton on Wednesday. "Mr.Thornton will rely on his own judgment in assessing compensa­tion." Dr. Thompson stated. Trip­licate copies of the printed forms must be filled out. one apiece for the Federal and Provincial gov-1 ernments and one for county council. They will carry a de­scription of the species of the animal, the oar tag number, the address and names of the owner and the laboratory diagnosis. Five signatures, those of Dr. Thomp­son. Mr. Thornton, Live Stock Comissioner W. P. Watson, coun- . ty clerk treasurer L. K, Coles and Veterinary Director General K. F.- Wells, are necessary for, theur approval. ’ - <■ £&£! SrAT EMBRO, "A HUNDRED PIPERS AND A' AND AI fc.r "the gaifherung of lihe dams. I 'S/aiflf Photo.)fiipetjtators came from many places Indudiintg Scotland iteelfA great skirl of bagpipes filled j fp^pe band, shown in IWs photo. I Emibro, during thr annual High- | :he sir as a colorful massed I marched across <ihc field ait I tend Game® held yctT.'crctay. IYou are cordially invited to attend the181st ConvocationUniversity of Western Ontario in Thames HallSaturday, May the Thirtieth Nineteen hundred and fifty-nine at two o’clock (D.S.T.)Convocation for all students will be held in the Stadium at three o’clock if weather permits. No tickets are required for admission.This ticket is for use only in case of inclement weather. It is required for admission to Thames Hall for the First Ceremony at two ©dock.NOTICE!THE WEED CONTROL ACT R.S.O. 1950—Free Press Woodstock Bureau/-.FLOODLIGHTS FOR COUNTY BUILDING—The historic stone Oxford County building at Woodstock, will become a brilliant spectacle in about a month after 12 large floodlights are installed. The concrete bases for the lights hove been, constructed on the lawn immediately in front of the building. Each light will! be 1,000 watts. John Carter, of Woodstock, a workman on the job, is shown’ putting finishing touches to one of the bases.SECTION 3 (1)Every occupant of land, or if the land is unoccupied. the owner shall destroy all noxious weeds thereon as often in every year as is necessary to prevent the ripening of their seeds.ED. H. THORNTON,Oxford County Weed Inspector.Royal Visitors ReceiveGreat London WelcomeiONTARIO GOOD ROADS 1894 ASSOCIATION 1959K. COLESOXFORD COUNTY'-ill 5'- > . : < -J.-X ;siOXFORD EX-WARDENS' GROUP MET IN CITYTwenty members of the Ox­ford Ex-Warden’s Association, an organization unique in Ont­ario, met in Woodstock yester­day. 1948 Warden. J. K. Wardellof South Norwich was electedpresident. Some of the oldestmembers aresent Warden E. R. Peace, Till-'sonburg; George Hollier, Till-ie or me oiaesv swiuuigi uwtge nuuiw, shown with the sonburg. 1923; seated, left to. i ... 1 ri XT "D A ^Irlnt-nn TPiVi 1most recent member, left toright, standing, William Mc­Intosh. West Zorra, 1927; pre-right, H. B. Atkinson, Embro.1920 and J. F. McDonald, East2tonna, 1933. (Sta-fif photo.)1960 Oxford TB Survey May Use The Skin TestHealth Unit Will Adopt Use Of New Polio VaccineThere Is good news tar moth- i ers who wince every tune their ; infants receive an immunization I needle against childhood diseas- ; cs.Beginning in September, the Ox­ford Health Unit will be- using the new quadruple 1X113 Polio vac- , cine.Devdlniperl ait th® Onm-ugh/t1 Laboratories irt Toronto, the vac- :more severe the reactionpointed out. “and adults should nave had immunization when youngsters, anyway"/Children already started on the triple vaccine must, continue with it, followed by separate polio shotscine incorporates- protection a- gainst whooping cough, diptheria, tetanus and polio.It will gradually replace the triple vaccine currently in use and | will halve the number of inject­ions a child receives.Until now three shots of triple- .r vaccine, three shots of Salk vac­cine and one “booster" shot were: necessary to protect children.Three shots of the quadruple vaccine will be administered at bne month intervals to children over six months of age at Child j •’ Health Clinics plus one "boost- i er" shot within a year. Children. under six months of age can be i innoculated on the same basis but wiiilh reduced dosages.However, MOH Dr. O. C. Pow- i ers warns that the new vaccine j will not be used for children over j a certain age.We never give whoopingcough vaccine after seven eight’’. Dr. Powers said, cause there is more reaction the immuniizavian doesn’tor “be and lasiL'long."“The older a person is theSTUDENTS ON TOUR —• More than 35 public school students from Springhill Public School, Blen­heim Township, visited the county courthouse, Woodstock, Wednesday Under the guidance of their teacher, Mrs. Donald McLaren, Drumbo, the—Free Press Woodstock Bureau students also visited the Oxford Museum, Gardner- Denver, Bright Cheese factory and PlottsviHe sand- j paper plant. A group of the students is shown around the warden's chair in county council cham­bers.Pay $4,185 For Rabies CompensationEighteen farmers in Oxford; County, bereft of livestock due top rabies, have been compensated' to the tune of' $4,185. county- clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles sta­ted this morning.Of this total 80 per cent will] be recovered by the county from the Federal and Provincial gov­ernments. An agreement early this spring allocated costs on a 40, 40, 20 per cent basis between the three governments.“This amount does not repre­sent the complete value of theanimals lost J’ »Ir Coles pointed out. 5 ■The amount each farmer re-1 ceived was estaokshed by coun-3 ty valuer Ed-Thornton who was 3 appointed to that position “at the! June session of county council. INo new cases of rabies have! been reported for the past couplei of weeks, Dr. D W. Thompson fl c' 'hr Health of Animals Branch, I L iada Department of Agricul-I ture Woodstock, reported happi-| ly this morning. IFirst Rabies Payments OutFree Press Woodstock Bureau jWOODSTOCK. July 16 Eighteen Oxford County farm­ers will receive a total of $4,1851 in payment of rabies compen-i sation for livestock lost because; of the disease.County Clerk L. K. Coles said; the checks were mailed today., It will be the first payment made under a co-operative com­pensation plan instituted by the county, provincial and Federal governments.First Phase EndedEdward Thornton, county . valuer, has completed the first phase of a county-wide valua­tion of livestock which died of rabies. He will continue his work throughout the summerThe payments were for cattle.I swine, horses and sheep which। died in Oxford during the past J year.The county is paying 20 per cent of the cost of the compen­sation while the provincial and Federal governments will pay;40 per cent each.Dr. D. W. Thompson. Federal veterinarian, said in Woodstock i today that the rabies diseaseI virtually disappeared. He said no cases have been reported to his office during the past month. „ ?. | JCoss&iai»a&SPEED WORK ON UNFINISHED PORTION OF GOVERNOR'S ROADroads snipefrinteridein't J. N.baise work end grading on the axwd wiiili be fluniiisdwi by July 31 ait which time tend ms will be caHfled for the cqinicreibe paving.- •With tihe hiring of a new con- etnnor’s Road at tfhc- western ouit- ~ skirts orf Woodstock. Couinity!‘W• t .:3rtractor, W. A. Haggerty Con-i Ptrucnon Limbed of Ingersoll.work has resumed on 'Die Gov- MeaRfcerell predicfiis than alli.-'pCOMPLETE NEW BRIDGE OVER THAMES RIVERnew bridge spanning a »t o£ the Thames River western end «f the ciflyalong the Governor’s Road has been completed and is ailmos't ready for the streams of motorhasTheart theready yet to receive traffic, b. (Staff photo).over it in the near fn.irtJi.ire. Workers are busy- teveiltagouitvehicle taaiCfiic which will pour ’the road area in the vicinity of1 the bridge. The road is notMrs. Mary E. Wilson, Resigns as Blandford Township TreasurerBlandford Council met in regu­lar session June 1st at 7.30 p.m.5 The meeting was presided over by Acting Reeve Amott with Council- \ tors Aspden, Budd and Shearer at- H tending.! A request for a grant of $50.00 to Woodstock Agricultural Society was granted. The Dep’t of High' ^.juays requested Council for con- . sjderation and approval of trans- ^fer of part of No. 2 Highway at i jCrrditvilk- crossing to Township.Charles Tucker and J. McLaughlin waited on Council re survey of Budd drain.The resignation of Mrs. Mary E.; Wilson was accepted by Council! with regret. Mrs. Wilson has been treasurer since 1950.General account of $740.76 and Road account of $997.24 were or-iffl dared paid. Meeting adjourned to meet in regular session July Oth at 7.30 p.m.STUART J. CURRAH, Clerk. ।Letter Boxes IAre StolenFrom PostsWoodstock city police are In­vestigating the theft of three Royal Mail tetter boxes. The bright, red boxes were stolen sometime during early Wednes­day morning, and were literally torn from their posts. The miss­ing boxes were on the corners of Ddaire and Buller, Hunter and Graham, and Winnett and Drew streets.City detectives are unable to venture a motive for the thefts, J Frank Brabyn. acting assistant postmaster for thedty. advised all residents who had posh'dletters in the stolen boxes to write their letters, and have other try al sending them.re-an‘57thAnnual MeetingONTARIO GOOP ROAPS ASSOCIATIONTORONTO ★ February 23th, 24th and 25th 1959director!Fox Bounties Reach RecordFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK, July 16 — Ox­ford County has paid out $3,348 1 in bounties for foxes during the past six months, L. K. Coles, ? county clerk, said today. Thej 'j bounties on 837 foxes claimed between January and June added up to the largest amount ever spent on bounties in the; ■■ county’s history.Mr. Coles said that half, or approximately $1,674. would be I repaid the county by the On- [tario Government.Fox bounty has been paid byi 1 {Oxford for the past 12 years and the previous high number for any one year was about 400. 'J I Mr Coles said he expected the number of claims this year would run well over the 1.000; jj I mark.I Of the 11 townships in the county, Blenheim showed the •. greatest number of claims with 16ft while Doreham was sec­ond with 106. Other totals wcre: Blandford 71. East Nis- souri 58, North Norwich 67.; South Norwich 42, East Oxford’ 50. North Oxford 02. West Ox­ford 82. East Zorra 51. and West Zorra 51. There was one bounty•J claimed in Tillsonburg.-■■ft RESIDENTS OF COUNTY HOME ENTERTAINED BY PILOT CLUBPilot Club theme “Friendship and Service" was carried out to full measure as members of the Oxford Club of Woodstock en­tertained residents of the Ox­ford County Home for the Aged at a picnic at Willow Lake Park Pictured above is a group of the residents enjoying the outing. A program of games was in charge of Pilot past pres- dent, Miss Betty Rudd, and all special guests received awards. Members of the club assisting with the project were presidentMar-jorie Murr, Helen Jones, Marie Webb. Anne Bezley. Velva Hicks and a guest. Mrs. WJ Olds of Detnoiit. (Staff Photo), jUTRVA Plans Building Artificial Lake And Dam North Of EmbroNext summer, two miles north ’ Aboot 100 a<or«es o<f wfliilte phre of Embi-o there will be an artific- planted in 1939 is owned by Ox­ial lake, 600 feet long, seven feet ford County. Fourteen acres plus deep, and about 300 feet wide. an additional seven acres wereThis S10.O00 project is now be- purchased by the Upper Thames ing built bv the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority.River Conservation Authority. j A section of the reforestedThe lake will be created by'land has beem cleared of under- the building of a 300 foot dam'brush for a picnic and campers across Spring Creek. Tractors are site. The land will be seeded and now clearing the creek banks looked after by the authority., building a large basin above the Washrooms, picnic tables, fire­dam for the new lake. places and bath-houses have beenSwimming and camping facilit- planned for the area.ies will be provided and tlhe lake new lake that will bew'.l be stocked with trout. Site tzpened next summer is expected AZA’” .W —tore road. parts of Ontario. IERECTING NEW SIGNSTo Designate Oxford As Holstein CapitalEast Oxford Council Passes Bylaw Defines Eastwood Police VillageMYSTERY MONKEY ON COURT HOUSE SOON IN THE SPOTLIGHT••MONKEYSHINES” will be i buildings are switched on some- g illuminated when the 11 newly I time in August, Installation of Installed thousand-watt flood- j the lights, at a cost, of approx- ightM in front of the County | Imatcly $3,000 was done bySmith Electric Company. Wood­stock. Shrubs will be planted to conceal the fixtures and main­tain the beauty of the grounds.Mystery monkey (LEFT) carv­ed at top of main gable will be easily discernible under the gWe of «h»(RIGHT) photo, Marte Gregor, secretary to county road super­intendent J. N. Meathrell, ad-, mires one of the new fixtures.(Staff photo - Monkey phpfo i by Riicilwd Gaow) WARDEN E. R. PEARCE FLICKS SWITCHCourt House Now Under FloodlightsWith the flick of a switch Ox-1 contribution to the beauty of the fbrd Warden E. R. Pearce last ci^' night turned on 12 floodlignts. 1 remarked that touristslaminating the exterior of the, passing through Woodstock, as county, building in Woodstock for well as residents of the county, ■the first time in its 70-vear his-:csn jQln admiring the: , । structure at night., A time clock, located in theMore than 100 invited guests,, basement of the County build- includglg representatives from mg, turn fhe lights on auto- ooun i-yijcouncil and the city coun- maticallv each night, county clerk oils o? ooth Woodstock and Ing-1 L. c toldersolL attended the short, infor-. ,,ma I ceremony which marked the ’ Th will likel turned occasion. Reeve of Embro, Don- i _ _ aid J^sack, chairman of the properly committee of county underway to havVshrubs plant- ed behind the lighting installs t- 000 expenditure for ^S^ts Lhis ions |o hide them from view, year, explained that the pro- ject was undertaken for two rea- , • Coles aiso revealed that colored glass may be put over•■First, we felt that this was a . bulte about adark corner which could stand1 week and a half before Christmas hghtmg." he stated. "Second, we 1x1 ,order suffuse the buildings are quite proud of our country with tihe traditional mead and building and would like to show it Sreen colors of the season.” off.” ’ I "County council haven’t ap-,In his remarks Warden Pearce proved this yet.” Mr. Coles not- welcomed the councillors feom ed, "but I hope they do”.Woodsrock and Ingersoll and me®-: Applause and exclamations of toned the co-operation which ex- approval greeted the actual il- ists between the three governing lamination of the building. Fol­bodies. , lowing a brief interlude devotedRrrnr>ixf;q wKTnuv to admires the effect, guestsBUILDING S HISTORY enjoyed a light lunch in the coun-He outlmee a short history of cU ^ham'bers.the county budding, pointing out that county council in the year;1886 offered a $200 prize to the architect who submitted suatabite'| plans for the edifice.The first contractor was found? to be unsatisfactory and was re- |L leased from his duties In 1890, | Mr. Pearce related.I In 1893 the building was offic- I ffllly opened, having cost, com-| pie to with furnishings, a total ofa little over $190,000.Mayor George La Flair of Wood­stock said "we in Woodstock are j^ry proud of this buildings. We feel that lighting it makes a greatOxiord ExReeves Will Meet HereThe only group of its klind in< Ontario - the Oxlord Ex-Reevesj j Association, will meet in Wood-] stock on September 30.It ’is expected that upward. of 146 members of the Asscxhaiidn will attend the meeting which is scheduled to be held in the Can-' adiar. Legion Building.Guest speaker at 'he gathering. (>? will be James Vance, of Wood stock.__________.Court HouseBrightly LitFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK. Aug. 11 , — More than 100 Oxford county dignitaries attended an informal ceremony at the county bujld- ing here tonight when flood lights were officially turned on! to illuminate the 66-year-old building.County Warden E. R. Pearce? of Tillsonburg, pulled the switch which illuminated 12 flood lights, 1,000 watts each.Mr. Pearce related the history of the court house, started in 1890 and opened three years later. The structure, complete with furnishings, cost $100,000.Reeve Donald Hossack. of1 Embro, was chairman. He intro­duced Mayor George T. Laflair, of Woodstock, who said the: lights would greatly enhance the beauty of the city.Mayor Norman Pembleton, of Ingersoll, told the group that there had always existed close co-operation between the county1 and Ingersoll.The lights will brighten the face of the building until 1 a.m. daily. During the Christmas sea­son, colored lights will be in­stalled.ED GYURKI . . WINNER . . STILL CHAMP!Woodstock Man Again Wins Canadian Fiddling TitlesBridge ContractTo Arnott CompanyAm Arthur corns true tion com­pany was announced today as sue- cessiM bidder on a $20,000 East Oxford Township contract.J. N. Meathireilil, county road superiimtendant said that plans call for a bridge on one ess ion 3 of East Oxford Township.Mr. Meath nail added that the bridge will be completed in fl- bout two months time. .Thu successful bidder was the Arnott C.’nstniot'on Company of Arihmr, who are expected to start work aijimosit iiinmedlaiteily.Replace Three Mail Boxes Stolen Off City Streets CANADA WINS HARMS­WORTH—Old time speed-boat racetr Gar Wood (second from left’ presents the Harmsworth Trophy । foroground) to Cana- ian driver Bob Hayward of Em-bro, Omit., after a necord-sbat- terding race at Detroit August 27. Haywattd, driving Canada’s entry. Miss Supertasit III, de­feated Bill Stead, driving Maver­ick. to take the trophy from theUnnitieid Starties after '38 years. Mfeis Suipentest hit a high of 170- mph diming the race and aver- aged nearly 110 rnipih. on the second lap. At .toft is Miss Sup- ertest’s owner, j. Gordon Thom-pson of London, Ont. Mr. Wood, now 78, won tine trophy for the United Slates from Englaind back in 1920. <CP Photo f.om AP.)Governor's Rd Paving Contract To Chatham Co.By mid October traffic will gonce more be flowing smoothly Ialong Governors road, the link Ibetween Woodstock and Thames- Iford. 'A contract, to pave the final 3t7 Jmiles cf Governors road was a- warded to Huron Construction Company Limited of Chatham on Friday, by the Roads Committe of county council.The company's tender of SIM, 522 was accepted over the bids of two other companies. Carter Construction Company Limited, Toronto and King Paving Com- ,, pany Limited. Oakville, county road superintendent J- N. Meath-1 reOl stated this morning.Paving will begin in about six | weeks as the company is pre-1 1 sently working or. highway 401 g west of Toronto, he said. "Con- J Crete work will be completed be- fl fore ihe middle of October,” Mr. fl Meathrell added. flConstruction work on the road ■ first began in 1957.Mr Meathrell also announced »that approved installation plans ■for three automat’c railway sig- flnailing devices were received flfrom the Board of Transport Com­missioners this morning. iThe signals will be erected at > the Governors road crossing near the Canada Cement Plant, the I Innerkip road crossing and on 1 county road west of Drumbo.Miss Supertest Sets New Mark To Win HarmsworthThree Cases Of Polio Are Reported In OxfordRabies In Ont Cost $500,000 TORONTO (CP) —Ontario’s!Three Oxford county residents ibout 90 per cent effectiveness, are numbered among the more which means that ten per cent of •han 500 cases ol polio reported I the people who receive the vac- in Canada this year. cine may still be susceptible,” heMUH for Oxford. Dr. O. Cjsaid.Powers, stated In Woods’.ock this Dr Powers stated that the cur- morning that one married worn- rent shortage of Salk vaccine an and nne thr< .. -year-old girl.; will not affect Oxford county, both residents of West Oxfordwhere the third and final ffte shots begin in October.There is sufficient vaccine -at the Oxford Health Unit now to begin the clinics and an order for further supplies is being plac-l ed with Connaught Laboratories in Toronto, immed:ately, he said.township, have had positive diia-■• gnosis, , i ‘.i"A hird married woman, a resi­dent of Norih Norwich township ■ is a suspect.Ail three are patients in Vic­toria Hospital, London.Both women an in their twen­ties and neither received immuni­zation. which was provided free at clinics held throughout the! ,coun;y in the spring.• -Unfortunately.” Dr. Powers-) .&.s8id, "the little girl contracted the llsea e despite the fa*ot thati i;h? nad received three shots ofrabies outbreak bias cost S5O0,- 000 since April, 1958. mainly for payments to farmers for animalsj destroyed.A special warrant for $250,000 to cover almost ha f the loss was approved under an order-in-coun-i cil issued by the provincial gov-1 eminent this week to pay in­demnity to owners of cattle, hor­ses, goats, sheep and hogs fori losses from attacks by rabid an-1Expect Tenders I On Road Paving 1Nine applicants have requested I information regarding the sub-.] mission of tenders to complete 1 the paving of Governors road, ac- cording to county road superin­tendent, J N. MeatbreK.Firms from as tar as Windsor1 and Toronto have indicated their | interest in bidding on the job. ITenders will be received until moon Friday.The county road committee is meeting at 2 p.m. on the same day to consider the award of thecontra ct.It is exnecied that paving of; H the final 3.7 mile stretch will be completed by September 15. War­den E. R. Pearce stated this morning.W A. Haggerty Limited of Ingersoll the earth moving onConstruction has finished the road andHope To Mark Vansittart Home As Historical Siteimals.Under afederal - provinc;allagreement, the province pays 40 per cent and the federal govern­ment 40 per cent. The other 20 is taken care of by county councils. ■COMMITTED BY MAGISTRATEis dow putting in the base cours- ■ es. Mr. MeathreR said.Cement for the paving work will be supplied by Canada Cement,Company Limited.: Salk vaccine."She hat the paralytic form of polio and is making an excellent recovery. Dr. Pow< rs said, add­ing "we expect her home next week.”Sa.k vaccine, Dr. Powers OX’UF plained, as with all immunization a , ' isn't 100 pt* cent effective."Even Dr. Salk claims only a- r/j-Ashby To Go On Trial For Murder, Sept. 28 iriated village.on"We don't know how far weare going,ville into an incorporated villagi January 27, 1885, the wardrMr Smith stated,Plattsville Considers Second IncorporationVillage Asks Incorporation24, the same year erected Platts*Plans include a housing devel­opment near Plattsville and plan­ned development of the entire township, he said."Anyone wanting to build will have to get the permission of this committee.'’ he pointed out.Plattsville’s taxable assess­ment figure stands at $1,014,685. If the village does receive appro­val from the Ontario Municipal Board it will be the second time in its history that it has been incorporated.Facts made available by the office of county-clerk treasurer I., K. Coles show that in January, 1884, census. taker John Robin­son reported a population of 764 to county council.The village's population of ap- proximately 500 comes close to A county bylaw passed January is Stewart Green, meeting the board’s requirement.Plattsville, a Police Village in the north-east corner of Oxford county, is considering incorpora* MKUon.Village trustee Clair Harmer ■ said this morning that a commit- ■ tee composed of members of the PtattsviUe fxvwxi ctf Trade was ■ set up about a year ago to de- £ ' termine requirements for incor-■t- per at ion.F Results of the findings were presented at the village annual meeting in December 1958.Mr. Harmer said he believed the matter will be raised again at the next board of trade meeting . in early September, when a decision may be reached to ; 'consult the Ontario Municipal i Board.( Mr. Harmer stated, but the popu­lation figures vary.L The Municipal Directory fori B 1959 lists PlattsVille's population;■ at 478.I SUBDIVISIONH "We are working on opening■ anoAor section of land for hous-.■ ing." Mr. Harmer stated.■ Blenheim reeve Herbert Balk-' B will reported this morning that- ” representatives from Drumbo,!Princeton and Plattsville met| with the Ontario Department oil I Planning and Development on' I July 9.। He said that a committee for' I planning and development should B be set up before the next town­s' ship council meeting in Septem- ■ her.Three Nurses Join Health Unit StaffThree Public Health nurses re- cently joined the staff of the Ox­ford Health Unit. Woodstock.Mrs. Lorna Douglas, formerly; on the staff of the Lincoln-St. Catharines Health Unit, began her duties the end of June. She is replacing Mrs. Ruth Crehan, who has moved to Brantford.Mrs. Isabell Jackson and Miss Rita Yates both started on Aug­ust 1Mrs. Jackson previously work­ed with the Victorian Order of Nurses. Toronto and Miss Yates is a recent graduate of Western University, London.They replace Miss Muriel Mor­gan, who joined the Norfolk * county Health Unit and Miss Eliz­abeth Row of Curries.Miss Row will leave the Health Unit on August 14. She plans to marry Allen Scott of Princeton in September.! Supervisor Miss Mae Haviland • stated today that districts will be ’assigned to the new staff mem­bers before the beginning of the j school term in September.TO ATTEND CONVENTIONMember* of the board of the Oxford County Home will attend the annual convention of the Ont­ario Association of Managers and Matrons of Homes for the Aged m St. Catharines, September 0- LL secretary oftne Association and Mrs. Forbes and county eflwk-treaswer L. K. Cole* are auditor*.of the county was served with an order issued from the High Court of Justice, to show cause why the by-law iaicoiporaitiimg tihe village should not be quashed.Next day the county sodieiitor was instructed by county council to consent to tihe bjdiaw being quashed.A county of Oxford bylaw pass­ed December 5, 1907 erected Plattsville into a police village. First election of trustees was held in January, 1908 at the village hall.Present trustees are John Brighty, Clair Harmer and Rex Harmer, ,President of the board of tradeTrustees of ths police village of Beaohville voted last night to ask the Ontario Municipal Board tor incorporation as a village.During the meeting the trust­ees. J. C. Smith. J. J. Nadalin and C, F. Covell drafted a letter asking tor a public meeting with officials of the board.Dato of rhe meeting will de­pend on tilic Ontario Municipal Board.pointing out that there is a pos-: sibi'lity the Ontario Municipal; Board will turn down the request.;BeachvIUe's taxable assess- \ ment of approximately $1,000,000 Is almost double that of Embro.Embro was incorporated as a village In 1858.ILLUMINATE OXFORD COUNTY HQ—Floodlights illuminate the historic stone Oxford County build­ing in Woodstock, Twelve lights, 1,000 watts each, were officially switched on by County Warden E.—Free Press Woodstock Bureau R. Pearce, of Tillsonburg, Tuesday night. Colored lights will decorate the building during the Christ­mas season. The lights will be on from darkness until 1 o m. daily. (Photo by Richard Gampp). i. 1- ft?:ILLUMINATE COUNTY BUILDING—In October, 12,000 watts of flood lights will illuminate Oxford County's historic county building in Woodstock. There will be 12 flood lights of 1,000 watts each. William Smith, a Woodstock elec^ tricitfh, is shown installing the new lights. t)fficicl ceremonies will be held when county council meets thrs fell. 1 JOxford Schools To Receive Copies Of County HistoryMimeographed copies erf the His- I That 16 acres of the West Zorra being borne by the Ontario Hos- te; - of Oxford County painstak- county forest tract be sold to the pital Insurance Commission; and iCgiy put together by students at Upper Thames Valley Conservat- the resolution from Elgin County: Woodstock Collegiate Institute,! ion Authority for $500 for the es- re raising the penalty for unpaid will be prepared for distribution tablishment of a recreational taxes.• ...........................area. Council learned from the roadsThat the Oxford County Plough-1 committee report that one half man's Association be granted of the paving on the 3.7 mile $250. ! stretch of Governor’s road yet toThat the insurance on the Coun- be completed, is done arid with ty building be increased by $44,- favorable weather the entire pro- During th* windup of the fall 250 and on the contents by $51,750. ject should be completed in a session, council also recommend-1 That James A. Vance Construe- week or ten days.Ri ed that: tion be engaged to do the con-| Total cost of paving and con-.A grant of $50 be made to erete work on the new parking 'struction on the final stretch will .each of the 17 public libraries in area to be built behind the county amount to $281,729.86.4:ibe county of Oxford. building. Cost of the completed project,implied there will be, will be approximately $1,400,000,.iuuiS luafc a l uu both sides of the lane county road superintendent J. NJthe Huron dis- and behind the registry office. Meathrell estimated yesterday. 1 “piton of Perth, Preliminary work is being carri- The roads committee also re-1x5 schools and libraries through­out the county.County council yesterday auth-i gcrized the preparation of 200 cop- /. of '.he manuscript for distri-but ion free of charge.That the county have an open When coji>; deer season providing that all parking onother counties inI trict, with the exception of Perth, Preliminary work is being carri- < participate and that the season ed on at the present time.MOTIONcommended that it be authoriz­ed to proceed with preliminary detail work on the constructionCouncil also endorsed the resol-'work urgently needed on the ution of the county of Renfrew county road system. (Council\ That all fall fairs in the county! ^operating In 1959 be given a grant |----- — —- ------- „ --------- ---of $225. concerning out-patient X-ray costs!spent Thursday touring countyroads.) j.The Warden's banquet will be1held this year on November 20,1 Warden E. R. Pearce of Tillspn-I burg announced.APPROVE ESTIMATEAn estimate from Oxford Coun­ty was approved by city council। last night for paving Dundas; street from the east city limits Io the CPR overpass. Total cost, is $13,237._______Forestry Loans Available To Counties From ProvinceDuring the last session th6|lo buy land because the price of Ontario Legislature passed a law land is rising rapidly.ment Act of 1959", which extends known as the “Forestry Amend- to counties and other municipalit­ies the same loan provisions which are given to four conser­vation authorities.The law states that the Minister of Lands and Forests may make loans, without interest, to any Conservation authority or to any municipality to assist It in buying ) land for forestry purposes, pro- ' viding such land is to be re- । forested and managed by the Department of Lands and Forests under an agreement.Foreriy land which sold for $20 per acre four years ago now commands $40 in many cases and in areas near new highways pric-, es have rocketed far beyond those figures.It seems likely that our in­creasing population will exert an ever-greater pressure to force prices higher. If our conservat­ion authorities and counties are to do the right thing for future generations, they may well take full advantage of the generousoffer of interest-free money and. buy land for public use while it The important feature of this !’s available,loan is that it is free of interest Hunters and fishermen may en- - al a time when interest rates courage land purchases by telling, was unaware of the government! the reeve or clerk about landare extremely high. which is being offered for sale?County clerk treasurer L K I 50016 criticism has been voicedColes stated this morning that he ?v« the fact th6 1<>a.ns- . *1 rn V'l r. ! a R.Z.*• r 1 r. rr • riwas unaware of the Government offer. However, he said that he received a letter from J. A. Brodie, Timber division, Ontario Department of Lands and Forests inquiring what sum the county plans to spend on forestry lands between April 1, 1960 and March 31, 1961.Mr. Coles pointed out that such decisions rest with the agricult­ural committee of county council.;"County council might be inter-: ested”, he said. "But we can’t! do anything until 1960.”The coimty has not purchased any land for forestry purposes for the past ten years, Mr. Coles said, preferring to leave such purchases to the conservation authorities which are eligible for. government grants.FOUR AUTHORITIESOxford county has no fewer than four conservation authorit­ies operating within its boundar­ies, Grand River. Upper Tham­es Valley, Otter Valley and Big Creek.The offer from the Department of Lands and Forests will be pre­sented for consideration at the fall session of county council, Mr. Coles said.The announcement of the loans' points out that it is good bus­iness for counties or authoritiesfeted are repayable. Bearing inmind the interest accumulation of seventeen times the value of the principal, the long-term decreas­ing value of the dollar and the increasing value of land, the loan is a gift.Light Building With CeremonyFree Press Woodstock Bureau iWOODSTOCK, Aug. 5—Civic officials from Oxford Cbunty,! Woodstock and Ingersoll have been invited to a ceremony here Tuesday when the lar-ge flood­lights in front of the county building will be switched on.Installation of the 12 flood­lights, 1,000 watts each, has been completed. The lights will illuminate the historic building for several hours each evening.Officials taking part will in­clude County Warden E. R. Pearce, of Tillsonburg, Mayor George T. Laflair, of Woodstock • and Mayor Norman Pembleton, of Ingersoll.The short ceremony will take, place in front of the county building where county, Wood- stock and Ingersoll councilors and their wives will be as­sembled.A special switch will be in­stalled in front of the building for the ceremony.$764,522 Job to Chatham FirmAward Paving Contract For Governor's RoadFree Tress Northern Bureau ‘WOODSTOCK. Aug. 4 - A Chatham, firm, Huron Construc­tion Company, has been award­ed a contract for paving ofapproximately four Governor's road.The Chatham bid.miles of!$164,522,was accepted over two other; tenders from Carter Construe-; tion Company, of Toronto, and King Paving Company, of Oak­ville.Start In SeptemberTaving of the unfinished tion of Governor’s roadscc-l im-gravel base which has beeni. completed by W. A. Haggerty Construction Company, of Inger­soll.A portion of the road from Thamesford to just north of Beachvillc has been completed. Construction of the short cut between Woodstock and Thamesford was started in 1957.In addition to the contract ... 1 award. Mr. Meathrcll said that plans to install railway signal lights at the CNR crossing near th»> Canada Cement plant have been approved bx the Board of ymediately weal of Woodstock. Transport. Commissioners.will start in approximately sixTwo other approvals for sirweeks. J. N. Meathrell, county n«l lights were also received; road superintendent, said today.: at the Innetkip CPR crossing He said work was scheduled lo and nt the CPR crossing on the he completed In mld-October. county road between Drumbo The concrete pavement from end Inncrkip.Canada Cement Company^Woodstock, will be placed on a I.?’’*IncorporationMay Be SoughtFor BeachvilieBeachvilie, sometimes called the village with the longest main street in Canada, is considering applying to the Ontario Munici­pal Board for incorporation.With a population of approxi­mately 800, Beachvilie has been a police village since about 1906.It is governed by three trustees., ’Jack Smith, chairman, CecilCowell and John Nadalin.Mr. Cowell stated today that a special meeting will be held early next week to determine whether a representative of the Ontario' Municipal Board will be asked to; meet with the trustees.“We have just about made up our minds that incorporating is; the proper thing to do,” Mr. Cow­ell said.“We think we have the assess­ment to make it worthwhile”, (Beaehville’s assessment is ap­proximately one million dollars.)! “And if incorporated we will be: able to spend our money and run, our own affairs.COUNTY COURTHOUSE WITHOUT FLOODLIGHTSSince the floocSLights at toe coucijy courthouse wene turned on the building has been the target of many a\photograplher’s camera. For a slightly differentffloodRighting. Setnitane-l - Review j soifimess of the stone, was the photographer Geary Blackburn result. Th^ picitiure was takenpfaoiogrnapher Gerry Dleckburntreaitmentnresent hare afound the lighting too bright , in toe centra of pictures so went back to the building wlhieinthewere turned off.Huis shot, showiinig so well theon Royal Pain fiibm ait F8 with am exposure of a mriinute and a half. The lighting was by funing the flashgun separate from thetniomis. How did he giet to six; posi lions in a miiniuite and a ihiailif, well. he won’t like toils,: but Germy’s fcht show at the1 bottom of toe print. (Staff,cameina ait six diii&Deaienit poisi-photo)IN TWO TOWSHIPSWest Oxford clerk-treasurer L. B. Curray of RR 1 Woodstock, pointed out that Beachvilie is con-; tained partly in North Oxford and partly in West Oxford.“They have to deal with two township councils when they want anything done,” he said.It would be the first incorporat­ed village in either of these town­ships.Estimates of expenses, with comparative statements of reven­ue and expenditures as between the present police village and the proposed incorporated village were prepared by McCormack, Barker, Westbrook ■ and Winlaw and presented at the West Ox­ford council meeting August 3.Mr. Curry said incorporation would place Beachvilie in the same category as Embro, with an elected reeve and five council­lors. Embro was first represent­ed by a reeve on county council in 1858.An additional representative on Oxford county council would up the membership of that body to 22.The last village to be incorpor­ated in the county was Tavistock in January of 1909.Other correspondence read at! the West Oxford council meeting included information from the Canadian Mobile Home Associat­ion re Mobile Home Parks and a proposed bylaw covering same;/, from the city of Barrie, a copy of' a resolution passed regarding two separate sets of brakes on all trucks and busses over four tons gross weight, from the Depart­ment of Transport, regulations: tinder the highway traffic act re­specting stop signs.Live stock valuator A. D. Rob­inson reported toe killing of one of Russell Groves’ sheep by dogs.The building inspector reported that building permits to the value:of $115.000 have since June 13.General account ber 8, for $1,143.22 cher number 8 forbeen issuedpassed for payment.voucher num- and road vou-. $1,979.28 wereI Lest it be thought that Ox- | ford county council meetings I are conducted m a serious at- I ionosphere which verges on the Id ism I, here is proof to the Icoousry. Thin is not to thatcouncil does not knuckle down to business at hand while in committee. However, open council sessions in some cases prove more «nterUimng thanmany a TV comedy program. | Hfere enjoying the Intost gloom* dispelling-gimmick a “snap-ping s<4 of den tores, inlnxlwed j pu by reeve Robert Rudy of Tav- CLis tock at ycbterduy’a seasonare, left to right, Charles Cod- ham, dv.puy reeve of Blenheim, Mr. Rudy, Lorne Junker, de-uty reeve of East Zorra and lare Esseltine, deputy reeveof Tillsonburg, (Staff Photo). OXFORD'S OLDEST SETTLEMENT CONSIDERS INCORPORATION_____________ j . *1 j _ . ,» . -p. < .x • P Life <84ISafeguard Oxford History, Urges Curato Of Museumwho wanted to tear the floor boards from htr attic, because they were important historically.A suggestion was also made, bv a member of the Platteville Women’s Institute, to tape earlyCORNER NORTH OF THAMES RIVERBeachville Beginning Of County’s SettlementSmaller Oxford communities | were urrcd by curator Bernadet-i te Smith to satoguard things of historical value in a special Ox­ford Historical Society meeting at Woodstock city hall last night.She suggested at the meeting, attended by 37 members of the Oxford County Women’s Institute, that smaller centres reserve a room to save ''al’ items pertain­ing to the early history of Oxford County”.Perhaps also, she said, an inter­change system could be entered into in which the Oxford County Museum could serve as a centre. The Oxford Museum could play the same role for the county as .the Ontaiio Museum plays forOntario she added.She said thb was important and urgent because many articles in Oxford County are picked up and solid to tourists from the Un­ited States.Mrs. J. H Lederman, of Platts­ville, organizer of a Women’s in­stitute workshop, which is n o w collecting a history of the Platts- ' ville district, said she had a dif­ficult time restraining a touristcourtly history orally from long time res dents.Dr. D M. Sutherland, told the gathering that there was more historical literature of the Embro destrtet gathered than anjy other ar-a in the county. -The Embro Women’s InsfBute: Invited al, historical society arne- mbers to conduct their nextW«n-| eral meeting in Embro on Oxtob- er 30.Al! members promised to make available to the Oxford museum iheir family histories.A paper on the history of Till’ sonburg was read by Mrs J. H. Gillett, a member of the Tillson­burg institute.1 ITour Of Roads In Oxford Planned By County CouncilJury In Woodstock Returns Ashby, Emery True BillsOxford county council will spend one day of the three day fall session. October 7-9, touring the county roads system, county clerk-treasurer L, K. Coles ann­ounced Monday.A fairly light agenda faces council this month.Correspondence to be dealt with includes several resolu­tions:From Sarnia City council: ask­ing the parliament of Canada and the Legislature of the Province of Ontario to enact legislation to provide that every precaution be taken to prevent pollution in our fresh water lakes..... .and that the drilling by anyone for oil or gas in any body of fresh water that is now or likely to be used a a municipal water supply or as a recreational area, be prohibit­ed. .From the county of Peterbor­ough: that legislation be enact­ed (a) whereby the county will 'receive monies collected in their iname in the same manner as ■ monies collected under section 51 I of the Assessment Act. or (b) by allowing the assessment value of I such properties to be included in i the amount of assessment to be equalized for county purposes.From the county of Renfrew; that the Ontario Hospital Com­mission regulations be changed to allow X-rays for out-patients to be paid for by the Commis­sion without being hospitalized under the doctor’s jurisdiction, thus releasing beds for those whoies shall arbitrate with the coun­ty as to what portion shall be paid toward county roads every five years, and in the event of non-agreement, the city shall pay. proportionately to the county’ on half of its assessment until such agreement is reached or a Board of Arbitration determines the portion payable to the county by the city or separated town.From the county of Elgin: jj asking a review of the Municipal. Act sections dealing with the maximum penalty on municipal tax arrears be reviewed by the Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs.From the township council erf East Oxford: a request for rati-' fication of a bylaw to have an unopened road allowance cross­ing lot 19 and part of lot 20 in the fourth concession of that town­ship, stopped up and sold.An outline of the Ontario De­partment of Municipal Affairs’ winter works incentive program | for 1959-60 has been received by each member of council.Commencing December 1, the Federal and provincial govern­ments will contribute to the pay­roll cost of any approved muni­cipal project carried out during the following five months, where such a project would not nor­mally be undertaken during theTo Federal contributioos the government of Ontario will pro­vide an additional 25 per cent from its own revenues, making . in (the total Federal-Provincial eon-From the county of Kent: ask- tribution 75 per cent of the pay­ing that separated towns and cit-|roll cost to each municipality. &CX £(Not Transferable959Friday an^Sat ADMIT ' /( S. A. Pearson PresidentRobert Rudy Secretary108th ANNUAL EXHIBITIONNorth Norwich Agricultural SocietySEPTEMBER 25th and 26th, 1959Admit zO..-.-/GEOa^E THOMSONPresidentA murder charge was laida-Aot to be taken up at the gate. This ticket is not transferable.Ajail this morning and walked towards the County Court House to be . sentenced. A Woodstock OPP constable is shown escort­ing the men. (Staff photo'.IWO MEN convicted of man­slaughter, William Ashby, (left) of Canning, and William Em­ery, Tillsonburg, walk side-by- side as they leave the CountyU'ELOOX BURBILL.President,MURRAY BETTIE, See’y-TreaB.C ompllmentaryTavistock Fall FairTAVISTOCK, ONT.Woodstock Agricultural Society— FAIR —August 27th, ^28Hi..... and LadyWVSecretary- ManagerCOMPLIMENTARYRemand Ashby To August 10William J. Ashby. 49, of Can­ning. charged with murder inthe June 27 death of his wife. Kartihetrine, 40, wiM aippaar before Magistrate R. G. Groom in Wood- stock for the preliminary hear- " ing of the charge on Monday, August, 10.Road Official Resigns PostTAVISTOCK: — E. I. Hansuldj East Zorra Township road super-, intendem for the past 14 years, has tendered Ms resignation to the Township Council. Council ac­cepted Mr. Hansuld’s resignation, which will beconfe effective Nov.. 2.gainst 57-year-old William Ash­by this morning. Crown Attorney A. C. Whaley of Woodstock stat­ed today.The charge is in connection with the fatal shooting of 40-year- old wife Katherine Ashby and the wounding of her 17-year-old daug­hter Beverly, early Saturday j night, in the small community of -* Canning, three miles north-east of Princeton. !Smashed Survey Stakes With Car,, City Youth Faces Court Charges >Provincial Police of the Wood-1 stituted a major delay for the, stock detachment said this morn- Woodstock survey company; ing that a 20-year-old youth has I Ure and Smith, who were work-, been arrested in connection with] ing on ’ Governor’s Road on a $650 worth of wilful damage on re-paving project.•wthe Governor’s Road. To replace the stakes, and re- wRalph Conlan, 20, will appear । survey the road will cost the firm ’ on Thursday in County magi-1 some $650.strate’s court charged with wilful] Huron Constauction Company,, damage. The charges are laid in the contractor of the project, has connection with a two-mile stret-fas a result been forced to start ch of highway survey stakes j work at the western end of the which were ‘mowed down’ by a Tour-mile contract, and work east car several days ago.TTie stekes were marking ‘grade’ for the shoulder of the i road, and their removal has con-towards Woodstock.Motorist Destroys Marker Stakes, Delays ResurfacingGovernor's Road, west of Wood­stock, will be open only to local traffic for a few weeks, as work begins on surfacing the four-mile stretch between Woodstock and Beachviile with concrete topping.Huron Construction Company of Chatham, which holds the con­tract for pouring the cement, will probably not begin pouring until Monday.Robert Smith, of the Woodstock firm of Uro and Smith, said that due to an incident late Saturday or early Sunday the cement pour­ing operations would have to be­gin at Beachviile corner, instead of at Woodstock a.s planned or­iginally, -The changt* ilf plans came a-bout after an uniden biiftied motcriw drove on the roadway between the drive-in theatre and the newly constructed bridge, knocking out surveyors’ stakes with the bump­er of his vehicle. The stakes,; which represented more than two weeks of work by the firm, were scattered over a wide area.Mr. Smith said the stakes would ) cost about $100. Another two weeks of work by a survey team to replace them would cost about $500.Pmvtinoiial Police Constable Pep Martin is conducting an Investi­gation into the incident which af­fected more* than two miles of roadway. *",The original plans called fori I construction to start at the east end of the contract, and work ■ west. The change has necessitat­ed the moving of all the paving equipment to the Beachviile end ' of the job.Huron Construction Company, is expected to begin pouring of4 the cement highway some time today os* tomorrow.A spokesman for the Woodstock, survey firm of Ure and Smith? was not available this morning’ for comment as to whether on fl not the firm would press their '■ own charges.-’6. PROGRAMME FORTIETH Ontario Association of Managers and Matrons of the HOMES FOR THE AGED SEPTEMBER 9th, 10th and 11th Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine QUEENSWAY HOTEL St. Catharines Ontario ♦♦♦ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th 7:00 p.m. Registration at Queensway Hotel, St. Catharines, Ont. ♦♦♦ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th 9:00 a.m. Registration at Queensway Hotel 10:00 a.m. Convention called to order by PRESIDENT PHILLIP LOVICK THE QUEEN Address of Welcome by: MAYOR W. R. BALL WARDEN CARL COFFIE President's Address Reading of Minutes, Correspondence, Treasurer's Report and Appointment of Committee on Nominations and Resolutions. Introductions of New Superintendents and Matrons by MR. L. E. LUDLOW Director of Homes for Aged Afternoon — 2:00 p.m. September 9th MRS. M. SMITH Department of Public Welfare Supervisor of Activities in the Homes and Panel as arranged by Mrs. Smith Discussion Period 3:00 p.m. MRS. JEAN GOOD Executive Director, Ontario Society for Ageing Introduced by DOUGLAS RAPALJE Welland, Ontario Discussion Period Evening — 7:00 p.m. Municipal Banquet — Queensway Hotel Guest Speaker MURTON A. SEYMOUR. Q.C. Entertainment ♦ ♦♦ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I Oth 9:30 a.m. Address by HON. LOUIS P. CECILE Minister of Public Welfare, Province of Ontario Introduced by MR. CHARLES DALEY, M.L.A. Minister of Labour, Province of Ontario Thanked by MR. JOHN SMITH, M.P. for Lincoln County—Federal Government 10:30 a.m. DR. STEWART Department of Public Welfare "Medical Approach to Geriatrics" Discussion Period 2:00 p.m. Scenic Tour and Visit to Linhaven as arranged by the hosts. Evening — 7:00 p.m. Superintendents and Matrons Dinner Queensway Hotel ♦♦♦ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I I th 9:30 a.m. Unfinished Business Report of Nominating Committee Presentation of Gavel to New President Presentation of Pin to Outgoing President Adjournment P.S. Any suggestion, question or motion should be in writing and presented to the chairman previous to discussion on subject concerned. OFFICERS 1959 ♦♦♦ Past President WM. DUNCAN Northumberland and Durham Counties' Home President PHILLIP LOVICK Assistant Superintendent, Waterloo County Home 1st Vice-President S. R. TAYLOR Superintendent, Cornwall, Ontario 2nd Vice-President W. ROZELLA Superintendent, Fergus, Ontario Executive Members BRIGADIER PARKINSON Eventide Home, Galt, Ontario WM. McWILLIAM Prince Edward County, Picton W. W. LINDSAY Grey County Home, Markdale DOUGLAS RAPALJE Welland R. J. FORBES, Secretary Woodstock, Ontario M. C. ROUNG, Treasurer Dundas, Ontario Auditors L. K. COLES Clerk of Oxford County MRS. R. J. FORBES Matron, Woodstock, Ontario PAST PRESIDENTS ♦♦♦ l920-'2l-'22 - Welland County - G. B. McClellan* l923-’24 - Lincoln County - F. Sifton* !925-'26 - Waterloo County - H. W. Martin !927-'28 - Grey County - Alex Smith* I929-'3O - Wentworth County - J. H. Bates* 193 I-’32 - Lanark County - R. J. Duffy* l933-'34 - Bruce County - R. I. Wiles l935-'36 - Hastings County - E. Sandercock l937-'38 - Oxford County - R. J. Forbes I939-'4O - Norfolk County - W. Smith 1941 - City Hamilton - Miss M. Harris* 1942 - Waterloo County - E. A. Amos 1943 - Wellington County - J. F. Beattie 1944 - Simcoe County - J. Jardine* 1945 - Ontario County - J. Read* 1946 - Brant County - J. L. Maycock* 1947 - Dundas and Glengarry Counties Home - R. L. Silsmer 1948 - Salvation Army Home, Toronto - Major B. Bourne I949-'5O - Oxford County - Mrs. R. J. Forbes 1951 - Huron County - Erwin Jacob 1952 - Lincoln County - R. E. Comfort 1953 - Hamilton - F. H. Sirman 1954 - Simcoe County, Beaton, Ont. - Dr. S. R. McKelvey 1955 - Clerk-Treas., Ontario County - Wm. G. Manning l956-'57 - Belleville County Home - Kenneth Yorke 1958 - Northumberland & Durham Counties Home - Wm. Duncan J. E. PEART* - - - Sec. 1920-1947 *—Deceased CONSTITUTION I. NAME This association shall be known as the Ontario Asso­ ciation of Managers of the Homes for Aged. 2. OBJECTS The objects of the Association shall be: (a) A closer official and personal relationship among the Superintendents and Matrons, and others interested in the management of Homes for the Aged, and concerted action in the welfare of the aged of the various institutions throughout the Province. (b) The promotion of such suggestions or regulations as will best tend to a more uniform system of management and accounting. 3. MEMBERSHIP The members of the Association shall be: (a) The Superintendents and Matrons of Homes for Aged. (b) Any persons or members of Committee under whose jurisdiction the management of such institutions may come. 4. OFFICERS The officers of the Association shall be Past President, President, 1st and 2nd Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Trea­ surer, who shall be elected annually. 5. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Executive Committee shall consist of the officers of the Association and four members selected from the mem­ bership at large at the Annual meeting. Six members shall form a quorum. 6. AUDITORS Two Auditors shall be elected at the Annual Meeting whose duty it shall be to examine the books and vouchers of the Treasurer and present a certified report at the Annual Meeting. 7. ANNUAL MEETING The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in such month and at such place as may be determined at the previous Annual Meeting and on such dates as may be f»®« by the Executive Committee, of which at least two months notice shall be given to the members. 8. FEES (a) The annual Municipal Membership fee shall be $20.00, which entitles the municipality to 4 delegates, in­ cluding the Superintendent and Matron. (b) The Individual Membership shall be $2.00. (c) The Charitable Institution Act shall be $5.00. 9. MEMBERSHIP Any official included in any one of the subsections of Section 3, of the Constitution desiring membership may make application to the Secretary, enclosing the Membership Fee, on receipt of which the Secretary shall, if satisfied as to the eligibility of the applicant forward to him a certificate of membership and place his name on the membership roll. The Fee so paid shall cover membership to the date of the opening of the next Annual Meeting only, when the Fee for the year commencing on that date shall become due and payable. 10. ELECTIONS A Nominating Committee selected by the Executive and presented by the President at the Annual Meeting, shall pre­ sent a slate of Officers which must be duly proposed and accepted. II. DUTY OF OFFICERS (a) PRESIDENT: The President shall preside at all mee­ tings of the Association and generally exercise such over­ sight over the affairs of the Association as may best pronto its prosperity and protect its interests. He shall be the Chairman of the Executive Committee and call meetings of the Committee when in his judgment the same may be ne­ cessary. or when requested to do so bv a majority of the members thereof. He shall prepare the Annual Report which shall contain a complete and comprehensive account of the year's work, together with such suggestions and recommendations as may in his judgment be in the best interests of the Association. This reoort he shall, subm-t to the Executive Committee, previous to the opening of the Annual Meeting, and if approved by the Committee it shall be presented to the Association during the first session of the opening days. (b) VICE-PRESIDENT: The First Vice-President shall, in the absence of the President, assume his position and dis­ charge his duties, and in doing so shall be possessed of all powers enjoyed by that officer. In the absence of the First Vice-President the Second Vice-President shall preside, as­ suming the duties of the President. (c) SECRETARY: The Secretary shall have charge of the books, papers, and other property of the Association: record the minutes of all meetings of the Association and Executive Committee: conduct the correspondence of which copies shall be kept: keep a correct roll of the officers and members of the Association; issue certificates of membership to those entitled to receive them. (d) TREASURER: The Treasurer shall receive all monies due the Association by members, or from other sources, giving receipt therefor, and depositing all monies received in Bank. He shall submit his books and accounts to the auditor and shall present to the Executive Committee before the opening of the Annual Meeting a full and complete statement duly audited, of the finances of the Association, showing all receipts and disbursements for the year, together with a complete statement of assets and liabilities, including a statement of uncollected fees, if any. (e) THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE shall be responsible for the prompt and efficient conduct of all business allotted to it by By-law or assigned to it from time to time by the Association. 12. AMENDMENTS Additions, alterations or amendments to the Constitution or By-Laws must be made at the Annual Meeting. Any member desiring a change may submit amendments or motions in writing at the Annual Meeting, upon which a vote may be taken, and it shall require a two-thirds vote of all the members present, and voting to carry any addition, alterations, or amendments. O CANADA O, Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts, we see thee rise, The true North strong and free; And stand on guard, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee. O, Canada! Where pines and maples grow. Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow, How dear to us thy broad domain, From East to Western sea; Thou land of hope for all to toil, Thou True North strong and free. O, Canada! Beneath thy shining skies, May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise, To keep thee steadfast through the years, From East to Western sea; Our own beloved native land, Our True North strong and free. O Canada! Glorious and free! We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee, O Canada! We stand on guard for thee. Bonney Takes Second Place In Plow Match ARMOY. Northern Ireland! (CP' — Canadians placed second and third in the international! plowing match which ended Fri­day with the Golden Plow TrophyI going to Irishman William Law­rence McMillan.Charles Bonney of Princeton, ■, Ont., and teammate Carl B. Wil-■>l;s vf Cornwall. P.E.I.. placed second anld third respectively..Ref Day, East Nissouri, vfee- president; L. E. Curtis, Dere- ham, *ecretafy-trea surer. (Staff photo).Hutchison, North Oxford, pre­sident: Carl Bertrand, North Norwich, director: Garfield Ir­ving, North Norwich, director;executive were, left to right, Cecil Riddle. North Oxford, director: W. W. Banbury, Lon­don. past president; ArthurReeves Association held their annual meeting in Woodstock yesterday. Elected to the newCURRENT “king of the speedboat” drivers, Bab Hay- wand of Embro aits at the wheel of has e^peedy mourn, "Miss Suipertest in,” foltow­tag the warning of speedboat­log's most coveted prize, theThe strea maimed waiter beauty, n'-w on display ait the ONE in Town to, will be brought to Em­bro for dtfeplay at the anouaO fall 4Mr in that commiuniity on Sept. 21, OwnM*d by Gordon J.famous “Harmsworth Trophy.” I Thomips-on aoid htiis son, James,EMBRO BOY ACHIEVES GOALthe boat wa,s designed and buiilit; by the latter. It is powered by! a Rtflte-Royice Marlin engine, and in trials on the St. Qair! Rivar at Sanndia, willlih Bob Hay-i wand ait the contrails, hiais hit a tap speed of over 180 milkis a-n hour.Harmsworth Winner “Always Loved Speed”NATO London Meeting Described To Oxford Ex-Reeves By J. Vance Approximately 75 members of, these defence measures had bee» the Oxford Ex Reeves Associa- very real in the prevention of tion attended the annual meet- war.” ing in the Canadian Legion Hall: d.nM group rronfrUnoZ"'President of the Association. ££ nf tNnrfk AtuWw T3n»R.i , uons or me xiortn Atlantic irea-. W. Banbury, London, reeve ... Organizationof North Oxford in 1937-39, was: gu ~ 'in the chair At 01:5 Congress,” he empha-Guest s,peaker James Vance of siz€d- "Canada was looked upon, Woodstock described the NATO as a slron^ country with an im-i conference which he attended in 1501 lant part to' London. England. during the mon- Elected to the Association s th of June. ,1960 executive were:As one of 676 delegates from Arthur Hutchison. NorthiOx- 14 member countries attending ford, president; Reg Day, Bast' the conference Mr. Vance took! Nissouri, vice - president; L. E. part in discussions on every,Curtis, Dereham, secretary-trea- phase of the NATO treaty. surer; Cecil Riddle, North Ox-“Generally speaking.” he stat-'ford, director; Carl Bertrand, ed. "it was felt that the mili-lNorth Norwich, director: Gar- tary provisions of the treaty| field Irving, North Norwich, dir- had been well implemented and ector.Winner Of Harmsworth TrophyTells Experience At WCI MeetBob Hayward of Embro, pilot [at a time. He said, "Well. T was of the Harmsworth Trophy win- doing around 170 there. It gets •ner speedboat. Miss Supertest, bumpy at that speed."Ill, spoke at the Woodstock Col- He also showed film of the legiate Assembly yesterday. work done on the boat betweenMr. Hayward showed a film at ' a1 ra_o . ... I After the final race। Mr. Hayward showed a film ’f nn‘« o<£,1?' a’nd ton’SWb aP‘£nv^^ "he 1 and the whofe happy bunch :•/its? w.Entering his first motorboat ne J^ai.ea.race before he was able to drive °°jC usion ' t film.a“r Mr. Hayward first metJim Thompson in a London mach- Sonin . «.hnn -several wart a«o This ^at weighs 6000 pounds, carries! M' tor and gets a^ut,Lome a mechanic on Miss Super- one ml!e S°™rtest 11 in 1957. He drove the old boat through the 1958 season and worked on, and piloted the new. Super test this year.The speaker showed pictures of the amazingly yet delicate partswe hadHeAt the conclusion of the film..that went into the construction of Miss Supertest including a reduc­tion gear that ‘'ups'" the propellerrevolutions to over 11000 rpm The L5-year-old Rolls-Royce Mer­peting boat Maverick carried 300; gallons and Miss Supertest Illi: cost in the neighborhood of $20.- } 000 to $30,000.In thanking Mr. Hayward. ’ Principal E. Ferguson stated that, Bob had driven for a car trans-port to the West and got much of his experience in driving that | way. He seems to like fast cars ,as well as fast boats as one .of his cars has been known to do 150 miles per hour on the xstraight-Un engine, although in brand new condition, was taken down and He'thanked the weAker"for i completely overhauled baforo put- **ting into the boat, and once it was installed it had Io be re- ,moved and overhauled six times, before it was perfectly fitted.his very entertaining and inte:csting talk and wished him more success along the watery trails, t■ During the projection of the film. Mt Hayward explained gome of the technical aspects of the Harmsworth race “I hit 160 on the slrnightaway and slowed down to around 80 on the corners mH One of the film shots showed; . y both boats barrelling down thegtoratghtWiivT*bouncing off the waves, just, one sponson hittingHEADS REGISTRARSRcss V. Tuck. Registrar of Deeds tor Oxford, was elected president of the Registrar of Deeds Association of Ontario at the annual meeting of the aswiei* ntion >n Windsor this week. He succeeds; to?! lips of Corn-wall afr wesKlvnii —----^4^■MIIIINo Trouble Here, Oxford Amish StateWATERLOO (CP)—A grtnxp of; American Amish Mennonites who, settled in Oxford County earlier: this year ha® done so without dif­ficulty despite the fusss raised when they emigrated from the United States,L. K. Coles, county clerk and: treasurer, told Waterloo council ' in a letter Monday night, "everything seems io be going smoothly.'’A group of farmers represented by lawyer Earle Slater of Lon­don, Ont., protested against hav­ing the Mennonites settle a 4W- aere site in the county last spring because of their tendency to, block settlement.■ i'-W •<S HUNTINGFORD CHURCH MOVED AFTER 120 YEARSChrist Church Anglican Moved To New LocationCANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATIONHistoric Christ Church, Hunt-.shire. England, in 1839, accord-. In '1847 a bell was placed in« • .• x _ < 1_• .. »».. - —C 4-A-* z>V-, t, 1 n o ! nurDr f in I1Q t ( MTR IT CD 3 Tlfluprooted from its ing to a history' of the church foundations Thurs- compiled in 1954 by Rev. C. O.ingtord, was l, 120-ye ar old foundations Thursday^ and transported to a new location funher beck from High­way 18.Moving contractors Harold Harris of Innerkip and Silas Loc- kev of Straffordville said that it took a crew of nine men two days to move the building one half mile. Winching trucks and dolleye were used in the opera­tion.Ontario Hydro linesmen were forced to cut power lines for two hours to permit the belfry to pass.The move was made necessary because the congregation plans an addition to the structure.Expansion was impossible on the old site because the church was surrounded by the grave­yard.A basement will be built under the church in its new location and there will be ample parking facilities for the growing congre­gation.BUILT IN 1839Christ Churdh. Huntingford was built by funds raised by Rev. Thomas Hun-iingford, Vicar of Kempsford, Gloucester-Pherrill.Rev. William Bettridge, first Rector of Woodstock, began con­ducting services on alternate Sundays in the autumn of 1839.In 1844 the Vicar of Kemipsford sent his youngest son, Rev. Ed­ward Huntingford, graduate of New College, Oxford, to take temporary charge of the Hunting- ford Mission. tHe conducted his first service on Whitsunday, 1844.In 1837 Frederick D. Fauquier, a 19-year-old Englishman, purch­ased 50 acres no* far north of the Huntingford Church.Mr Huntingford was so impres­sed with his qualifications that he ’nduced him to prepare for the Ministry, re com ending him to Bishop Strachan for ordination and appointment as his succes­sor.On October 25, 1845 Bishop Strachan ordained Freder­ick Fauquier, appointing him missionary to Zorra of the Soc­iety for Promoting the Gospel.On July 8, 1847 he married Sarah Eliza Burrowes, township of Brantford. Gore District.the tower of Christ Church andihe building itself was finished on the inside in 1850.CONSECRATED 1854Church and cemetery were con­secrated by Bishop Strachan on September 22, 1854 In 1868 the edifice was enlarged and finally completed by the addition of a chancel.Mr. Fauiguier was elevated to the position of Archdeacon of Brant in 1873, and in October of the same year, he was chosen - to serve as the first Bishop of. the Missionary Diocese of Al­goma.He served his parish faithfully, for 28 years and died in Toronto! in 1881 at the age of 64.He found the diocese with sev­en clergy, nine churches, and noj parsonages. He left it with 13i clergy, 34 churches and seven;parsonages.Rev. Mr. Hunt'.ngford return­ed to England to become Canon of Winchester Cathedral.Valued by the congregation of Christ Church are a number of gifts presented to early congrega­tionsAmong these is a three-piece gold Communion set which bearsthe inscription "presented to the; Church of TurnviUe, Zorra, Lon-, don District, Upper Canada, by the Rev. Henry Huntingford.”The taunt also was presented; by Rev. H. Hunting, who was an uncle of 'he first minister.Mr. Harris reported Friday thtit the structure withstood th? move "in fine shape.”WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 19599.30 p.m.Ballroom, Hotel Vancouver, VancouverEXPAND PARKINGWork on a $2,300 parking ex-1 pansion program behind the Court House in Woodstock was started this morning. Curbs and gutters on the present area north east of the building are being removed by contractor James A. ' Vance. County road superinten­dent J. N. Meathrell stated that i excavation and base work on the Ji enlarged area, which will pro-: vide space for 30 more vehicles. ! will be completed before winter1, sets in.CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATIONContinental - Style BreakfastWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1959Dinner ReservationDinner Reservation8.00 a.m.Second ServingBanquet Room, Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver MCanadianGood Roads AssociationaQr?FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1959aI<:■•J v *«• z tHotel VancouverfUaMCMu&it H. Q.rrErEEEEEEE!II£Oxford County Librarians Plan Workshop GatheringEncouragement of better read-F Countv librarian Mrs S IWorkshop in Woodstock tomor­—"Catalogues of new non-fiction' books available in the County'row.Invited to the meeting In the. Library and copies of theHiatory county building on Wednesday, of Oxford County compiled byl October 14. are librarians from, student of Woodstock Col-! Beachviile, Burgessville. Browns- tegiate Institute as an out-of-l ville, Drumbo, Embro. Harring- school project, will be distribut- to-n. Hickson, Ingersoll, Kintore, ed to the librarians.Lakeside Mount Elgin, Norwich, The County Library Board will’ Otterville, Plattsville, Princeton, entertain at a dinner nt the New Tavistock. Thamesford, Tillson-iCpmmercial Hotel and at the burg. Bright, Brooksdale, Dere- ^ose utho afternoon session J ham Centre, Uniondale andl'$a .u 11 ^rVec 3^ Mts- w* Woodstock. Cocker and Mrs. S. Krompart.Miss Barbara Smith, supervisj ln charf« ®f ^*1or of Children's Library Service1 K ^niposcd of Mrs.tor Ontario, will discuss library!^- Dickinson Burgessvllle Mrs. service methods in the morning. ^ Mason, riUsonburg and Mra. During the afternoon she v^ill speak on books for boys and girls.A display of children’s bo^ksi will be tospected by those attend-: i tog the meeting.V:- -Roads Convention Report Heard By County CouncilReports on the Canadian Good That the generaj condition of Roads Convention, held in Van-I^ County Court House is “ex- couver, B.C., September 23 to 26, cellent".were received by county council' That there were no recanmen- nt the opening session this morn- Nations in regard to toe Oxford tog. . , [County Health Unit.Those attending the convention The Grand Jury report was from Oxford included Charles.signed by chairman P. T. Fleb- Ooldlham (Blenheim', Hil-cher erf Ingersoll.ton Virtue (East Oxford), William Baigent (North Oxford), George Wallace (West Oxford), John Bolton (East Missouri), Warden Ed Pearce (Tillsonburg), countyAll members of County CounciL were present to hear the first! reading of three bylaws to be passed this session.Reeve Herbert Balkwill. Blen- clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles and heim, announced the opening of county road superintendent J. N. new township office in DrumboMeathrell. .will take place October 21.Included in the general corres- Warden Pearce will conduct the | pondence read by Mr. Coles was'^ramony open house will be: a report of the Grand Jury onjhe.d during the afternoon and public buildings and institutions ev®1rThe jury found: ' We re really proud of it,"That the County Registry of- Reeve Balkwill commented.flee is in fine condition; ; Council adjourned to council as That minor repairs arc hevos- “ whole tor the remainder of .the “ sary at the County. Jail and Jto(n’°rning.prisoners are being held after committal without a bill of Indict- CHAIRMAN Hon. J. T. Douglas President☆TOASTHer Majesty the Queen☆Presentation of Life Membership CertificatesPresentation of the President's MedalPresentation of Canadian Highway Safety Conference Award to Hon. Gordon Taylor☆ADDRESSHon. W. A. C. Bennett Premier of the Province of British Columbia☆ENTERTAINMENTMaster of Ceremonies — Barney PottsDancing DebsErnie Prentice and Betty PhillipsAlpine PerformersVai SetzBrick Henderson’s OrchestraCELERY AND OLIVES ☆SHRIMP COCKTAIL, THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING ☆CONSOMME AU SHERRY ☆ROAST BEEF TENDERLOIN BOUQUETIERE RISSOLE POTATO☆PARFAIT NOUGATINE PETITS FOURS☆ COFFEEOxford County LibrariansthePlan Workshop GatheringEncouragement of better read-mg habits in juveniles will be rtOUny MbranaH Mrs. S. L. the topic under discussion when' W>H discuss the displayOxford county librarians attend Can-•h eannual Library Co-operative 99 Week, November 15 to Wnrk'jhzo-. in 1. x_ “■Workshop in Woodstock tomor-Catalogues of ne-w non-fiction1r<w.Rru-.L- JI 1.7sssg&i-WBeachvilie. Burgessville, Browns- iegiate in- titnty^e, Drumbo Embro. Marring- proj^I v ^Ck^n' In«ers°n. Kinfore. ed to th^ librarians d,stlibut- E!gin- Nopwich> County Library Board will'Prfneeton, entertain .n'a dinner at th. New: Tatistcx.k, Thamesford, Tillson-.Commercial Hotel and at th« burg, Bright, Brooksdale, Derel^Ose of the afternoon session, .. ham Centre. Uniondale and!te® ,wiJl 1x1 served by Mrs. W.Woodstock. .Cocker and Mrs. S. Krompart.Mus Barbara Smith, supervis-! 'Committee in charge of the or of Children’® Library Service ,7,° is 4»nipowid Of Mrs.' or Ontario, will discuss library*. Dickinson, Burgessville, Mrs. service method® In the morning.! U- Mason, Tillsonburg and Mr®. During the afternoon she Krompart. speak on books for boys and girls, A display of dvldren’s books' \ will be inspected by those attend- ng the meeting.■- - h- ■ E h fi&Si'ARoads Convention Report Heard By County Councilcouver, B.C., September 23 to 26.tj C 1 15 <X‘were received by county council A« the opening ..«Slon morn. : •t,. .. .. - ,• County Health Unit.^°Su001^^0” The Grand Jur-V rePOrt was fiom Oxford included Charles signed by chairman P. T. Flels- CoMham ( B len h e 1 mi. HU- cher of Ingersoll.ton Virtue tEast Oxford). William, All membersBaigent (North Oxford). George we/e toWallace (West Oxford), John reaebng <5' thX bytaw^to be Bolton (East Missouri). Warden1passed this session. * b ” Ed Pearce (Tillsonburg). county Reeve Herbert BalkwiU clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles and.heim. announced S owningsu«r"'lr"d''"1 J-ivjcainreu. W1n take p!sce Ck.{<,ber a ,Included in the general eorres-1 Warden Pearce will conduct the pondence read by Mr. Coles was ceremony and open house will be a report of the Grand Jury on'held during the afternoon and public buildings and in.stitutions|evening.Tlie jury found: I "We’re really proud erf it «That the County Registry of- Reeve BalkwiU commented i flee is in fine condition: । Council adjourned to council asDint minor repairs are notes- « whole Mr the remainder of thesary at the County. Jail and ^morning.prisoners are being held aftercoinmiltai wJMut .1 hill at indict- British Columbia Says “Welcome”! The Convention Committee of the Canadian Good Roads Association bids you welcome to the Province of British Colombia. We hope that your stay in Vancouver will be pleasant and profitable. Chairman, The Honourable P. A. Gaglardi Deputy Chairman, H. T. Miard General Committee, Howard Boothe, Harry Duker, F. F. Hartman, R. J. Hastings, E. S. Jones, J. D. Layden, Larry Stanwood, J. H. Stratton, Al Sweaton, K. S. Vaughan-Birch, J. L. Whitehead, S. C. R. Wicks. The Road Gang, L. E. Spencer Ladies' Events, Mrs. P. A. Gaglardi, Mrs. G. S. Grant, Mrs. F. F. Hartman, Mrs. H. C. Anderson, Mrs. E. S. Jones, Mrs. J. M. Paterson, Mrs. J. H. Stratton, Mrs. Richard Walkem. Your Program . . .MONDAY September 21 2.30 p.m. Meeting of Technical Advisory Committee, Board Room TUESDAY September 22 9.00 O.m. Registration opens, Main Mezzanine 9.30 a.m. Meeting of Members of AASHO Road Test Com­ mittee, Board Room 2.30 p.m. Meetings of Technical Committees: Construction and Maintenance Economics, Finance and Administration Municipal Roads and Streets Planning and Design Safety Education Soils and Materials Traffic and Operations Meeting of Board of Directors, Board Room Meeting of Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada 7.00 p.m. Annual Dinner, Board of Directors and Operating Committee, Social Suite 8.00 p.m. SYMPOSIUM ON SOIL STABILIZATION Salon A Paper by G. G. Meyerhof (Chairman) Asphalt—E. T. Hignell, Asphalt Technologist, The British American Oil Company Limited, Toronto Asphalt Emulsion—George Bird, Sales Manager, Canadian Bitumuls Company Limited, Toronto Lignosol—D. E. LaTouche, Sales Manager, Lig­ nosol Chemicals Limited, Quebec Calcium Chloride—L. E. Clark, Allied Chemical Canada Ltd. (Brunner Mond Division), Toronto Salt—L. A. Scammell, District Sales Manager—Road Salt, The Canadian Salt Company Limited, Toronto Cement—R. W. Hurlburt, Concrete Consultant, St. Mary’s Cement Co. Limited, Toronto Lime-Fly ash—E. E. Robertson, Manager, Research and Development, Winnipeg Supply & Fuel Co. Ltd., Winnipeg WEDNESDAYSeptember 238.00 o.m. Continental-style Breakfast, Banquet RoomOPENING CEREMONIES BallroomHon. J. T. Douglas presiding9.30 a.m. Invocation:The Very Reverend Northcote Burke, Dean and Rector, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver Addresses of Welcome: Hon. P. A. Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, B.C. His Worship Mayor A. T. Alsbury. Greetings from Canadian Tourist Association: J. Lawrence Dampier, Vice-President; Assistant Publisher, The Vancouver Sun Greetings from International Road Federation: Julien R. Steelman, Chairman; President, The Koeh- ring Company GENERAL SESSION 10.30 O.m. Annual Review of the President Hon. J. T. Douglas, Minister of Highways and Transportation, Saskatchewan 11.00 a.m. Presentations by Committee Chairmen of Manuals of Uniform Traffic Control Devices and Pave­ ment Investigations 11.10 a.m. “Is A Crash Program Needed In Highway Research?3 Harmer E. Davis, Director, Institute of Trans­ portation and Traffic Engineering, University of California, and Chairman of die Highway Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences 12.30 p.m. Luncheon Interval FORUM 59 2.30 p.m. CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE Salon A Chairman: H. W. Adcock, Director of Operations, Department of Highways, Ontario "Experience ‘with Surface Treatments hi British Columbia” J. W. Kerr, Highway Paving Engineer, Depart­ ment of Highways, British Columbia "Development and Use of Winter Maintenance Equipment” L. Westlake, Superintendent of Equipment, Op­ erations Branch, Department of Highways, Ontario Film “White Fallout”, Winter maintenance by Ontario Department of Highways Panel Discussion on Compaction of Bituminous Mixes W. E. Curtis, Materials Engineer, Department of Highways, Alberta G. F. Grant, President, W. & G. Grant Construc­ tion (Pacific) Ltd., Vancouver James E. Ward, Chief Paving Engineer, Barber- Greene Company, Aurora, Illinois 2.30 p.m.WEDNESDAYECONOMICS, FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION Banquet RoomChairman: G. O. Grant, Commissioner of Roads, The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto“Road and Road Transport Statistical Series"G. A. Wagdin, Director, Public Finance and Trans­portation Division, Dominion Bureau of Sta­tistics “Municipal Road Financing Problems" Frederic H. Finnis, Canadian Tax Foundation Panel Discussion on Land Expropriation Legal—R. Dick, Senior Solicitor, Department of Highways, Ontario Land Appraiser—Dean S. Mansell, President, Ma­ caulay Nicolls, Maitland & Co. Ltd., Vancouver Highway Department-J. C. Traynor, Director of Surveys, Department of Highways and Trans­ portation, Saskatchewan 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. 9.30 to midnight THE ROAD GANG Ballroom Reception by manufacturer and distributor members of CGRA Entertainment and Dancing, Ballroom THURSDAY September 24 GENERAL SESSION Panorama Roof 9.00 a.m. Report on AASHO Road Test, with slides and com­ mentary by W. B. McKendrick Jr., Project Director 9.30 a.m. ROADS ROUND-UP Reports on progress and problems of roadbuilding and maintenance by deputy ministers or chief engineers of the provinces and federal govern­ ment. H. T. Miard, British Columbia L. H. McManus, Alberta L. T. Holmes, Saskatchewan George Collins, Manitoba W. J. Fulton, Ontario Arthur Branchaud, Quebec Richard Palmer, New Brunswick C. L. Kenney, Nova Scotia R. G. White, Prince Edward Island C. A. Knight, Newfoundland G. B. Williams, Ottawa. 12.30 p.m.LUNCHEON Ballroom Chairman: Hon. Fred M. Cass, Minister of Highways, Ontario Speaker: Dr. D. Leo Dolan, Consul-General for Canada, Los Angeles “Building Highways to Better Understanding" Presentation of Oscar for outstanding publicity program. THURSDAYFORUM '592.30 p.m. PLANNING AND DESIGN Salon AChairman: D. A. Larmour, Chief Engineer, De­partment of Highways and Transportation, Saskatchewan“Urban Street Classification"A. J. Freedman, Municipal Studies Engineer, De­ partment of Highways, Ontario Panel Discussion on Electronic Computers in Highway Engineering “A Feasibility Study on the Use of Electronic Computers in Highway Engineering" lan Rogers, Computer Planning Engineer, Depart­ ment of Highways and Transportation, Saskat­ chewan “Choosing A Computer" P. E. LeBlanc, Computer Engineer, Department of Public Works, Ottawa “An Electronic Computation Centre at Work" A. E. Goodwin, Superintendent, Electronic Com­ putation Centre, Department of Highways, Ontario 2.30 p.m. SAFETY EDUCATION Panorama Roof Chairman: W. B. G. Reynolds, Commissioner of Highway Safety, Department of Transport, Ontario Film: “The Broken Doll" “What Can CGRA Do To Prevent Road Acci­ dents?”— Panel Discussion W. A. Bryce, General Manager, Canadian High­ way Safety Conference L. H. Kain, Manager, Motor Truck Sales, Inter­ national Harvester Company of Canada Limited G. A. Lawrence, Manager, Public Relations De­ partment, Imperial Oil Limited J. G. McQueen, Executive Secretary, Canadian Automobile Association Wells Ritchie, Editor, Civic Administration A. M. Bilbrough, Vice-President, Ontario Equipment & Supply Company Limited C. W. Gilchrist, Managing Director, Canadian Good Roads Association 8.00 p.m. SYMPOSIUM ON CONSTRUCTION IN THE NOR TH Ballroom Chairman: G. B. Williams, Chief Engineer, De­ velopment Engineering Branch, Department of Public Works, Ottawa George M. Carty, Chief Administrative Officer, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Ottawa C. V. Dunne, Vice-President, Standard Gravel & Surfacing of Canada Limited J. E. Savage, Supervising Engineer (Edmonton), Department of Public Works of Canada. 8.00 p.m. FILM PROGRAM Salon A (See Program, Page S) FRIDAYFORUM '599.30 a.m. TRAFFIC AND OPERATIONS Salon AChairman: H. F. Bums, A. D. Margison and Asso­ciates Limited“The Downtown Parking Problem"John R. Walker, Comptroller, City Parking Ltd., TorontoAn Approach to the Problem of Merging Capacity" John Vardon, Department of Highways, Ontario (Joint Highway Research Program, Queen’s University) “Traffic Capacity and Deficiency Techniques Used m the Metro Highway Study in the Vancouver Area" F. R. Hole, Assistant Traffic Engineer, City of Vancouver GENERAL SESSION Ballroom 9.00 a.m. Film: uDtas Island Tunnel" 9.45 a.m. THE ROADBUILDERS REPORT Reports from representatives of provincial road­ builders' associations on progress and problems of contractors. J. D. Layden, Managing Secretary, The Heavy Construction Association of B. C. P. M. Mahoney, President, Prairie Roadbuilders Association J. B. Waterhouse, President, Ontario Road Build­ ers’ Association Guy Lachance, Quebec Roadbuilders Association R. D. Hoben, Road Builders’ Association of New Brunswick Lyle D. Hopkins, Nova Scotia Road Builders’ Asso­ ciation 11.15 a.m. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Reports of Committe Chairmen Election of Officers and Directors 12.30 p.m. Luncheon Interval Luncheon, Technical Advisory Committee, Salon B 2.30 p.m. Meeting of Operating Committee, Salon A FORUM '59 2.30 p.m. SOILS AND MATERIALS Salon A Chairman: J. A. Knight, Manager, Highway En­ gineering Services, Allied Chemical Canada Limited “Evaluation of Road Performance over Muskeg in Ontario” I. C. MacFarlane, Research Engineer, Division of Building Research, National Research Council, and Alex Rinka, Ontario Department of High­ ways “Foundation and Pavement Design for Highways on Peat” N. D. Lea, Vice-President, Foundation Engineering Corporation of Canada Limited, and C. O. Brawner, Materials Engineer, Department of Highways, British Columbia “The Influence of Calcium Chloride on the Worka­ bility of Granular Materials at Various Tem­ peratures” C. O. Brawner 2.30 p.m. r FRIDAYMUNICIPAL ROADS AND STREETSBanquet RoomChairman: J. V. Ludgate, Municipal Engineer, Department of Highways, OntarioPanel Discussion on Municipal Road Planning and Programming: J. W. Britnell, County Engineer, County of Huron, Goderich, Ont. W. L. Barrett, City Engineer, Fredericton, N.B. D. N. Gardiner, Secretary-Treasurer, Municipal District of Rocky View, Calgary, Alta. C. P. Kerr, Reeve, Rural Municipality of Marriott, Rosetown, Sask. Panel Discussion on Technical Assistance for the Municipality: H. A. Clampitt, Director, Saskatchewan Municipal Road Assistance Authority, Regina G. P. Pearson, Municipal Engineer, Department of Public Works, Manitoba A. J. Graham, County Engineer, County of Carle­ ton, Ottawa 7.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. ANNUAL DINNER Ballroom Chairman: Hon. J. T. Douglas Speaker: Hon. W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of the Province of British Columbia Presentation of Life Memberships and Presi­ dent’s /Medal Stage Show SATURDAY 6.00 a.m. r 10.00 a.m. * 1.00 p.m. Leave Hotel Vancouver in private cars for Fishing Derby at Horseshoe Bay Leave Hotel Vancouver for bus trip to Britannia over High Levels Road and Howe Sound Highway Luncheon at the Cliff House, Whytecliff Park Delegates will be guests of the Province of British Columbia at all of these functions Film Program.Thursday, September 248.00 p.m.Trans-Canada Summer Traces die development of the Trans-Canada Highway from Newfoundland to Victoria Tourist Go Home About the mythical “Anti-Tourist League of Canada” Magic Highway Disney’s story of the colorful past, the dynamic present and the fascinating future of road transportation Ripple Rock A visual record of the world’s biggest non-atomic blast Tight Lines A new film on sport fishing in B.C. City of Gold Pierre Berton’s exciting documentary on the Yukon Town Planning A graphic illustration of how a city that has grown at random can be re-planned, properly zoned THE CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION is o non-political, non-profit national organization dedicated to the development and improvement of the nation's road systems through public education and research, in order to make highway travel and transportation more efficient, safer, more economical. ■.fv .1-Beachville Asks Incorporation •As VillageA bid to have the municipality; incorporated as a full-fledged vil-! • ’age will be put in by officials of Ilie police village of Beachville ' ~. when they meet there with Ont-j ario Municipal Board represen-' tatives October 23.NOTICE TO BEACHVILLE RATEPAYERSWie hioce^ai'weZ ' btuated5 ^^hj*7 “sx »<»”;i" .m t. •of tL'ir f'lllnjc they will East Ox^l Element extended Acting r.um'yor Genera!{o, the back from too trail which later ett reported that Oxford conta.n-............... Imrl "(fci . trinJ vadt Ui bl#- lartVl illpotationbe adding one more page I history of the oldest settlementAtting surveyor General Chew­THEIN lionsDecision to seek incorporation was made by the 3-man board of trustees in August, ChairmanJohn C. Smith said then that ap- proximately two-thirds of the ratepayers could expect a 1.3 mill decrease in their tax rate ifincorporation is approved. I The community is split by the!Thames River, and the 500 re- B sidents south of the stream, inWest Oxford Township, are the. ones who can expect rh^ tax cut, < ; Mr. Smith said.The tax cut is not expected to J affect the remaining 300 rate- payers — residents of North Ox- - ford Township.I The first settlement in Oxford I County, Beachville is in an area'I of both industrial and residential,. expansion. Mr. Smith said sever-; al large industries have located' [ in the surrounding area in the I past few years, and that a 48- / home subdivision is now under I construction is the west end ofthe community.Officials are hoping incorpora­tion proceedings will be comple­ted swiftly to enable them to hold ■ a regular municipal election for * the first time as a village this ^.year.Instead of the present three -; man board the village would be1, governed by a reeve and four councillors.The step-up t» village status] would also give the community- representation on county council/F.F.M. -9467-59ONTARIO MUNICIPALBOARDTHE MATTER 10 (4> and 12MUNICIPAL A Cl',of Sec- of THE (R.S.O.1950, c M3), as amended — and —IN THE MATTER of an ap- 1 plication by the Trustees of | the Police Village of Beachville ’ for the Incorporation of the in- , habitants of the police village ■ into a village to be known as "THE CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF BEACH- | VILLE.’’Appointment for HearingTHE ONTARIO MUNICI­PAL BOARD HEREBY AP­POINTS FRIDAY, the 23rd day of October, 1959. at the Hour of 11:00 o’clock in the fore­noon (local time) in the Town Hall at the corner of Highway No. 2 and County Road No. 56 in Beachville, Ontario, for the hearing of all persons inter­ested in support of or in oppo­sition to this application.DATED at Toronto. Ontario, this 23rd day of SEPTEMBER, 1959.(Signed) O. R. CHAPMAN. Secretary.in Oxford county.After consultation with W<xxl- stock historian Miss Louise Hill we emerged with these facts about the pioneer settlement oi» thf. banks of the Thames.It is said that the first settler iin' B«wc(hfV’illto wa® one Oar- tralfl. (Irtxm New JatW- He ®eHee.t- ' ed a site on the north side of the'Thames on what are now known as lots 23 and 24, in 1784.The Carroll family, consisting of nine sons and one daughter, later contributed much to the founding afid development of the county. John Carroll died at the age of 102 and is buried in Harris St. cemetery, Ingersoll.By 1791 there was a consider­able settlement at Beachville. so named for Beach, operator of the first mill. There'were sufficient residents that a postal service was granted by the British gov­ernment in Canada. ,Although Beachville was the first settlement in the county, a community sprang up on either . side called "Oxford on the Tha­mes,” later, as a postal centre ©allied "Iinigemsolltt," and “OxiOotrd” — a vitoge fiats«t setWed by Zach­arias 'Burtch in 1798. which later became a postal center calledbec'a unknown as the Ingersoll ed "th- mo4 wiU^bk ImwI m ----■ toe Province In 1830.road.DEEDSWhen the army returned home after the Napoleonic wars in 1833,Some settlers now applied for! many Immigrated with their fam- diwidt; tor tlhetlr land. Mamy dixl not Ilies and retainers to the now and found later that the land be- land, Canada.Attracted to the English placelonged to the Crown. They were Attracted to the English place dispossessed upon being paid the names, half-pay army officers $5 per acre required by law for and remittance men earns in dro- the land they had cleared. . ves and settled.uie lana urcy n«u ucciiuu. • •• .In 1798 the Oxford Militia was At this time some of the seV1 ’ organized with one C«W»ny Lifter® who had neetectod to obtain from Burford district, one from deeds to their property wore “ Blenheim with Thomas Horner;ojocied from their farms, as captain and two from Beach-j There was much unpleasant- -t ville and Ingersoll, under captain neM arKi disturbance.In 1832 one Jed Jackson had WThomas Ingersoll. । m one «iea uacKson nauDrilling was carried on, often1 the contract for carrying the by moonlight, with poles and mail from Brantford to London brooms in place of missing arms, twice a week. He carried it at anThnt same year, Governor Sim- average rate of three miles ant coe was recalled to England and hour along the “Old Stage Road”: j the new governor refused to valiFfrom which circumstance the date the large land grants which road Is named.had been made to Ingersoll, Hor­ner and others. Ingersoll in Ox-j LIMESTONE*fond and Hormer in BOienhieim weme | About 1838 John Downing emi- , given 200 acres squatters deeds grated to Canada from Clovelly, f like everyone else. Devonshire, England where he,Ingersoll moved his family and had owned lime quarries.isettied near Yba-ik where hie died | Going to Beachville he started in 1812. I what has been called "Beach-With the withdrawal of Gover- vjjMie's miMiron daKar industry” nor Simcoe and Thomas Inger-'^rst named the Standard White"Wboctetacik.”GOVERNOR SIMCOEIn 1702 Governor John Graves Simcoe passed through on hnis way to Detroit, plotting town plots and bestowing English names on the little colony he was founding.These names were to be a bea­con light to his fellow country­men later..The following year settlers at Beachville found that all theirsoli settlers received no further Lime Company, aid in improving thei oads., „ - - This was sold to Gypsum, LimeLod Selkirk travelled across and Alabastine Canada Ltd., in Upper and Lower Canada in .1804 1930 aod hafS resoki agarn and stopped with the Canfieldfamily in this district. From his reports we gather that the land was thickly wooded but extreme­ly-fertile and roads almost passable.He mentioned Putnam’s and grist mill and another further east which mayim-saw mill haveland and the territory comprising-been “Beach’s Mill”.the three Oxford townships, Nor- The first Oxford Gazeteer, pub- th. East and West, had been pished in 1852, lists the names granted to a group of Americans, iof 64 men, stating that they were Minutes of the Upper Canada | the “whole inhabitants of the en-Cduncil Chamber, Navy Hall, j tire county of Oxford” in 1S2. March 23. 1793, state that a peti-tion signed by Gideon Bostwill, "AR Or 1812During the war of 1812 the Ox-marked the official opening of U the new $16,000 Blenheim town- I ofBalkwill, Reeve of Blenheim and Irvin J. Haines, township clerk and treasurer. (StaffA RIBBON-CUTTING cere- , ship offices building in Drum- mooy and dedication service bo yesterday. Officiating, left j; ■ — ■ ■ < - * to rigtit, Warden E. R. Pearcethe new $16,000 Blenheim town- । of Oxford county, Herbert ‘ photo).Blenheim Township Road Superintendent ResignsRobert WiiUliiarns, Seih Hamlin, Abel Kelsee and Thomas Inger­soll and associates, prayed for a township. Thomas Ingersoll ap­peared on behalf of the petition­ers.Their petition was granted, giv­ing Mr. Ingersoll about 64,000 acres which he and his associa­tes were to select. This they did with the help of Ingersoll’s friend, Chief Brant, choosing the section •comprising what is now the three Oxfords.The Ingersoll party arrived in the summer of 1793.recently.Id 1916 a son, Charles Downing I started a second venture, the / Beachville White Lime Company, il He sold this plant to North Am-!^ erican Cysnamid Limited in 1929. - jCharles Downing founded the!^ Innerkip Lime and Stone Com-.y, pany, in 1931. After a few years m a new charter was taken out un-1 der the name of the Chemical 1 Lime Company and in 1945 it was i sold to the Steel Company of Can-4 1in 1812. i ada-Before John Downing started'.ford Militia was in active ser­vice almost constantly.It is reported that two young lads from Beachville, hardly big enough to hold muskets, fought through the campaign and, when the army disbanded, found their way home on foot, begging food and lodgings from Tarmers along the way.One boy had gone to war in place of his father. The necessity of wresting a living from the soil as against fighting for something uncertain gave no alternative.his million dollar project in 1838, small privately owned lime kilns stretched along both sides of the . ■ Thames and the remains of some > of the old kilns may be «hn yet.In 1837 discontent among the I settlers in Upper Canada over i land-grabbing, local corruption ' and Anglican clergy privileges flamed into open rebellion. Prop­erty was destroyed and lives were .. S threatened.Men were taken to London for ? trial as rebels. Forty three were J ; , sentenced to death, some from /1 this locality.In the 1840’s the main part of J Beachville developed on the south side of the river. Taverns, stores!■ and businesses of aB kinds . $snrafitg up. HoWis had we® tend- K tel stab’ias as travel then was | entirely by horse-drawn vehicles. I Six stages a day passed through' the town and horses wsre bhang-1 ed every 15 males.The Great Western Railway! was built from Hamilton to Lon­don in 1853 and was officially op­ened December 15 of that year.Beachville at this point was one of the most important and busi-j est- towns in the county. A branch rail line ran to Embro.Since plank roads through the county required an enormous a- moun't of timber, local saw' millsS did a roaring trade.In 1893 the first telephone poles | connecting Woodstock and Beach-' ville were erected.In 1895 electricity was avail-, able and by 1900 a streetcar was running between Beachville and Woodstock.In 1923 the highway went thr­ough and the streetcar lines were;' removed.Beachville first became a po- lice village in 1904 and the trus- • tees were elected January 10, 1905 at the Town Hall. ' Henri GaudefroyKenneth Franklin Tupper~---7"You are cordially invited to attend the182nd ConvocationThamesHallRichard Lankaster HearnJames Alfred Vancewesw oft^60sueeMcoscSSaS'Sf SacSScj feu- Sc aSScat/ SXe►GRESS ON*of Sac asusUniversity of Western Ontario inFriday, OctoberNineteen hundredthe Thirtiethand fifty-nineat three-thirty o’clock (E.S.T.) for the conferring of degrees in course and honorary degrees ont^ScSaf, 0cSc^eA <20SAS&si tSoctS a-otS-/ti/ieaacS ^c/i^ccaSSoa aSIN SPITE of the wet and cooler weather of the past two weeks, work on- the final stag­es of paving Governor’s Road has been making satisfactory progress. When a car knocked i down survey stakes along the , eastern end of the highway, it iwas necessary for the paving contractor to change plans forstarting the work stock and workingat Wood- west. In-stead, the heavy equipmentwas transferred tothe Beach-ville end of the road, and the paving was started at that end.It is expected that the contract will be completed well before the bad weather sets in late this fall. The photos show two phases of the operation, as one of the ponderous paving ma­chines works its way along the highway. (Staff photos).New Blenheim Township Office Opened By WardenW-.rh a snip of the scissors Ox- The one storey brick and sid- ford Warden Edwin R. Pearce ing structure is divided into six cut the ribbon to officially open rooms, including a general of- the new $16,000 Blenheim town- flee, board and committee rooms ship office building in Drumbo and offices for the clerk, roadyesterday.superintendent and. assessor. :. Rooms are soundproofed' and!■ mentioned the high calibre of panels In brown mahogany,: the men who received tneir early Brown tones are picked up again.)I training in municipal affairs in; in fhe 'tiled floors, Fluorescent: come mW** * th™«houtto county council”, he said, “and There is a full fished b» , , „ are very ment, complete with kitchenette,-1 “*wAbout 35 people braved the ed refreshments folflowing yester- 'chill fall wind to watch the dedi- day’s ceremony.cation ceremony. The new building is located iniTaking part were Blenheim the southern section of Drumbo, Reeve Herbert Balkwill, deputy on county road number three, reeve Charles CoMham, Irwin: "about an close to the center of -•Haines, town.sh p cierk. RW the township as it i« possible to end A M Manson of Dr umbo getReeve Balkwill pointed out.. S United Church and Harry Nixon, He said that whenwork around the new offices is completed, total cost, incbudUng.In his remarks Warden PearceFarmers ProtestedA group of farmers repre­sented by lawyer Earle Slater.1 of London, protested against’; having the Mennonites settle a 400-acre site in the county last; spring because of their tendency! to block settlement.Mr. Slater said the farmerswere not objecting to dieAmish SettleOxford Land Despite FussWATERLOO, Oct, 20 - (CP), A group of American AmishMennonites who settled In Oxnonites’ religiouspractice# boundarybutviews opposedmaintenanceMcn- andl the tech-.M.....-I.- 2 niques of the settlers and their1ford County cnrlicr this year effect on the price of surround-! has done so without difficulty ;|n(rdespite the fuss raised when Waterloo council emne to the1 they emigrated from the United defense of the emigrants andMLA for Brant county.George W. BaMcwHL warden ofOxford county in 1^5 and father I furnitures will be In the neighbor- of the present township reeve.''hood of 520-OW.^ was introduced by his son.Builder was E. H, Carter ofInnerkip.States. w |L. K, Coles, county dork nnd treasurer, told Waterloo council Jn a letter last night, "every­thing seems to he going smoothly."invited them to settle in Water­loo County, already heavily, populated by Mennonites,The farmers came from Fenn-: sylvanla, Maryland and Dda- wnre.JAMES A. VANCEHonorary DegreeFor City Man ALL NEATLY STOREDWoods tock Barn Preserves jDATE FROM 1700sArea's Historic TreasuresMISS LOUISE HILL - - - with old "roller organ"DICTIONARIES AND BIBLES -----collector's items with Miss HallFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK. Aug. 25 — [ । Stored in a 60-year-old barn in the heart, of Woodstock is a wealth of Western Ontario history dating back to the first settlement in this part I of Canada.Miss Hill was born In the 'numbering about 50. date back small stage coach stop be- Ito 1891.tween London and Hamilton of Cedar Creek Mills, south­east of Woodstock. Her grand­father operated the grist mill there. At. three years of age, she moved to Woodstock toBASEMENT DOUBLES AS STUDIO - - - artist as well as historianHundreds of letters, docu­ments and a host of other records of early pioneers have i been accumulated by one of Western Ontario’s well-known historians, Miss Louise Hill, ! of 130 Finkle St.Miss Hill, a pleasant, grey­haired lady, lives in Wood­stock's oldest home, It was built in 1819 and Is needed in s. grove of trees overlooking a spacious tract of land once owned by her ancestors. To­day, progress has moved in on the last stand of Oxford Coun­ty's one trace of history and only the old home is left to­gether with the barn andprobably the county's"smoke house," whereonly thepioneers of the community have cured their meats.In the barn, hundreds of newspapers, books and letters dating back to the early 1700s arc kept neatly preserved In special containers. In (he base- mem of the structure, a small room has been fixed for the city art enthusiasts who meet during the winter months to practice their hobby,her present home."Five generations of farpily have lived inShe was curator of the Ox­ford County Museum for 15 years and it was her father who helped to start the mu- |seum in the early 1900s.Miss Hill said Woodstockour was originally called "Oxford"' this while Ingersoll was calledhouse," she pointed from the „front lawn where th. wind i O^-on-the-Thame,.- Th. rustled the leave, of a giant, n’rae’ ‘ L'S‘chestnut tree. Plained when post ofhcMSM attended school j, Wil In th. hr, Woodstock and her first job I °“muniti'’. .... was In an art studio here. ,?•»«> 1’ls“tv Later, she moved to London, I !“7- histonanswhere she carried on the same IRe­work. Illness in the family Pm'-ssor, and oth-r, ... . . interested persons have soughtforced her to return home. . . .. * ., , , information from her.Although history, particular­ly of Western Ontario, has al­ways been her major hobby, " <Miss Hill is an ardent stamp collector and has several first Canadian issue "beaver'' stamps. She has more than 5,000 stamps from many lands collected.She Is also a member of the Naturalists Club, Woodstock Horticultural Society, past president of the Woodstock! Business and Professional Women's Club, Ontario His-torical Society, Camera Club and stock Artists Club.Prize collectionsWoodstock the Wood-have beenBlblea and dictionaries, She has more than 50 Bibles dat­ing hack to 1775. Dictionaries, JRGESS VILLE1 ; ?IUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON, OANAOAThe Board of GovernorsThe University of Western Ontariocordially invites you to attendThe Laying of the Cornerstoneof Middlesex CollegeFriday, October 16, 19594:30 p.m.DRAWING A BEADAnnounce Three-Day Deer Hunting Season In Oxfordr /aENGINEERS HONORED -Honorary degrees of Doc­tor of Laws were presented to prominent engineers, left to right; Henri Gaudefroy, Montreal; RichardFluid Milk Concentrate Is New Oxford Productnew fluid milk concentrate on contains the i Mii tirniik, which is being about two and a'bd a? the forenuflner of a re- iiiikm iri the milk industry, I" be availabe in commercialquarts.It will retail forc JMi half Imperialequivalentabout 43 centsa container which mean? « quartMuiin Woodstock Friday. cost approximately 18 cente. niik was introduced to Cartoned milk costs 22 cents aquart,• the Toronto market by Canada .ir i e S Limited a week ago Canada Dairies claim their new Wednesday Two dayf later product wiki keep fresh up to one Mmk-'ing ’ Magazine called it month under refrigeration. j ."tfie biggest product milestone| Mr. Wedsworth said that sup-, in the tiisWy of the milk con- pliers are being paid about 25, ! ceftfrat'd business." tieMs a hundredweight more thanThe only plant producing it in the going price for concentrated C’lfnda- Ik the Canada Dairies I milk but not toe fluid milk price Dhh! in Biirges«Vilie, where ap-1 "Multimilk is a manufactured prd^imateiy MOO,000 worth of;product” he pointed out. special machinery, some import-; "This,” he said, "is a major ed from England, has been in--breakthrough concentrated-prOd- ’ skilled. lucer-wise into the fluid milkThe new brodurt is milk with f’^ki-" - i..../..._______i Lt____v _ Ha a nrw.ripd ♦haf whs*IIvC-<w^‘er removed .through a brand new vacuum process which takes ;He also predicted that “whatwe're eventually going to havejust three minutes is a P°°led Prioe- 11 5 coming.fo^-t'Atentfoih of the time : merty. required to evapc milk) at 12Q .to 165 degrees.for-It will take about five years:evaporate for Multimilk to gain widespreadjn,mt' at ,w> ioa aegrees. public acceptance, he estimated.» tom.pchature, which past-1 In 88 8 1IeLereurizes simultaneously, is onlyl^,0”? Charles Tatham, chairman maintained for a split second. £ rural-urban. committee of . . T^Wer the boiling point is I 003 rd TTale-’ kept as low as 120 degrees so Fred Gillies, manager of the ttffo flavor is not affected at all. [Burgessvibe plant, Panted out.Wlet for Multimilk in the area manufacture and distribution bofonded bv Brantford and Tz>r>- °f Multimilk represents "anoto-tnu-iet jot MuaimiiK in the area ° M -bonded by Brantford and Lon- Muldmiik represents. d^L Oxford Dairy (Woodstock) br&i for. LiTnited. ; id: 4.SELLING POINTSW Convenience economy and “keepSng" qualities are three major selling points for Multi-! milk, said, president and general! mp^gb.r Eric Wadsworth. Prop-, erty: diluted with water It can: be used for drinking, on cereal. oiMh coffee., It caij also be whip-, pgd , itler, Chilling.As’ ihe product is being pack-' . a^d in 32-ounce waxed card-! board carfons, it can be readily ", stored, . , !•TV'iniy-twp ounces of Multimilk, when diluted, equal approximate­ly 96 ounces of milk so one cart--rr,vi. j ..-.n. ~ .— ILonkaster Hearn, Queenston; James Alfred Vance, Woodstock; ond Kenneth Franklin Tupper, Toronto. New Engineering Building was opened.Ifo” : ‘:fo V'Photographer LouTurofsky Dies, Age 67Tenders For Equipment8 • a 1 e d Tenders, plainly marked as to content? and addressed to the undersigned will be received until 12 o’clock, noon,THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1959. for the supplying of the following equipment:(1) Two heavy-duty Trucks without Boxes, cf a gross vehicle weight of not less than 2lt .WO lbs:, one Dodge Truck, model DC.6 with dump box to be traded in on above pur-chase.(2) Two 4-4’4 Boxes equipped wi l andersyards i pov.-qr driv mounted and put In op-eratiom on the listed above.InformationTendei tained Count:dent, stocknoton Ridders andthe 0 RoadOntario.est ormtv RoadWord.-, tock./November 6,mayany tend* accepted. SEEK INCORPORATED STATUSMunicipal Board Hears Beachvilie ApplicationIt was standing i-oom only yes- “ft we operate as an ineorpoi- terdsy as the ratepayers and village with our assessment; property owners of Beachvilie we fee| that we could run otir ^crowded ihe town hall during the own affairs and- spend our owni S Ontario Municipal Board formal moncv to adva^iage,” Mr. Cow-; hearing on the police village's :ey replied. He hdded that thei application for incorporation. townships were in agreementBEACHVILIE TEST CASEapplication for incorporation.Representing the 0MB was R. Wjth the move. L. Kennedy of Toronto, who ex­In an earlier personal aside to[ . . .plained that while the gathering Sentinel-Review, Mr. Cowell;^constituted a public hearing, it stated that it was not likely thatf was not a public meeting. On| Beachvilie will have sewage and; these grounds Mr. Kennedy rul- water facilities until it is incor-; ed all superfluous comments onlporated. Septic tanks and wells, athe part of the ratepayers "out are u,sed throughout the village of order.” now.)!. Cecil Cowell, acting as spokes-1 h,s statement was borne out. man tor the village trustees, pre- West Oxford clerk-treasurer,j sented a brief outlining the vil- l. B. Curry, who said that under! lage’s financial situation and thei^ Municipal Act, West Oxford reasons wliy incorporation i s ^as t>een stretching its generos- sought. ity in giving the village a fourBeachvilie s total (early* 1960 mill share.assessment figure of $1,110,989, “if you stay with us we are he said, will be increased an es- going to have to lower this,” Mr. timaied $20,000 because of the, Curry stated. “We're going to;-new Lowes' subdivision, now un-;step on vour toes if you don’t' der construction and the new incorporate,”g Gypsum office which should be "js 'the opinion of vour; completed by the first of the! council’” Mr. Kennedy wanted tox j • know.This estimated increase, coup-S led with a tax exemption from • DISCUSSED BY COUNCILgE the township of West Oxford, will "We talked it over at the coun- boost Beaehville’s total ratable’ cil meeting,” Mr. Curry replied.Other Police Villages Ponder IncorporationBeaclwIlie’s bid for incorpor­ation, presented to the Ontario Municipal Board last Friday, may serve as a test case for other communities within t>he J county which are tentatively con- , I sidering the same move.Jack Taylor, chairman of the trustees of Thamesford, staled .’ this morning that they are "keeip- . ing an eye on BeachvMle”.Thamesford and Ottervil­le were the first two settlements in Oxford county to be incorpor­ated as poliice villages.Thamesford was established as a police village on April 12, 11856, just six years after the county it­self was formed.An act by the Provincial gov­ernment in 1897 divided the coun­ty into seven districts with two representatives from each for * total of 14.Divisions were as follows: 1 - Town of Woodstock; 2 - town .of Ingersoll, townships pf North andIn 1903, in answer to a petit- ^xford.;ion signed by 43 ratepayers, the ^*t Nisso'ari and West Zoijra size of the village was reduced a^d the vi .age of Embro; 4-towm- ships of Blandiford and Blenheim;The question of incorporation county councilarose at one meeting of the trus- '5 ” townships of Dereham andtees in Thamesford, he said, "but Vd' the town of Tillsonburg; 6 -town-we just decided to lay it over.”|lage on June 41 *891’ ships of North and South Nor-"Our assessment isn't nearly as ■ tf any or all of the four villag- wich and the village of Norwich;high as Beaehville’s” he explain- es are successful in a bid for in- 7 - townships of East Zor; ed. Thamesford has an assess- corporation they will be represent-1 East Oxford.East Oxford.andand exempt assessment figure to “and the opinion was that we Cowell pointed, would have a lot fewer head­aches if Beachvilie incorporated.".$1,176,609, Mr. out.The brief continued by showingMr. Kennedy marked the briefment of approximately $700,000 ed on county co'un'cil by a reeve.! and a population of roughly 800.1 This may present council with It is located part in East Nis-.a seating problem because, atj souri and part in North Oxford present, there are 21 reeves and; ________deputy reeves on council and the division by township system x_,_— _;:x, ex_ aind that year |here were 20 rt»-On July 1901 Woods'wasthat in 1959 West Oxford had a "exhibit one.” He marked a pet- mi!’ rate of nine of which four, ition bearing signatures of 58^ mills went to the village, while (North Oxford residents of Beach-,North Oxford township was rat-; ville as "exhibt two.”J; _ ‘ Tne petition, asking for great- o_. er clarification of the meaning of]Beachvilie lies partly in North incorporation before a decision Oxford and partly in' West Ox- .is handed down by the. Ontario Municipal Board, was circulateded at seven mills, giving'four tothe village.ford townships and is responsible to both councils.' ATTEND WCIThe brief further submitted1 that if incorporation is allowed, all high school students shouldby' M. F. Oliver.Frank Harris wanted to know whether the Municipal Board had! set the time of fihe hearing and ■' was told that it had.“This was not a good time (11, he claimed., theattend Woodstock Collegiate In­stitute. ; aam.) to hold it,' — —-----At present. _ high school stud-1 "You should have called i—ents north of the Thames in! meeting when every ratepayer• North Oxford, attend Ingersoll; 'Collegiate while those south o£ Wers.”could attend and hear the ans-the Thames, in West Oxford. re­ceive their schooling at WCI.Former village trustee. A, Has-If all the studentsWCI, the brief argued, it would ! result in a saving of four mills to the ratepayers of North Ox- r Tord. This represents ihe differ- § ! ence between Woodstock and Ing­ersoll high school rates.On the other hand, the brief requested that the public school should remain in the West Ox-tie, spoke in favor of the appli- attended cation.*'Dur ing my term of office there was nothing but frustration in getting anything done,” he said.Beachvilie has advantages ov­er villages already incorporated by reason of its greater assess­ment and industry, he continued..Trustee John Nadalin compar- ed Incorporated Embro, with its!ford school area as Beachvilie is lower assessment and popula-j “now straddled with S194.0O0 in tion, to Beachvilie. '‘If they can'debentures on1 school area.”Mr. Kennedythe township do it why can’t we?" he dem­anded.a;i-Gj Rearh- ^r- Kennedy said he would। <806• and area;present his .report to the Boardvine’s populatfon <«06) and area|Pr«Rent. ni,s tne waraj '578 acres in West'Oxford. North 3 decision, will be forthcom-.Oxford area not available.) and •- . ■«declared that a definition of vil-i: page boundaries would be neces-EKK sary.He quizzed Mr. Cowell further’ as to the reasons for seeking in­corporation.; ■■ t.■townships.Mr. Taylor said the village trustees haven’t looked into the requirements for becoming an ; incorporated village under thejOn­tario Municipal Act — but theyincorporated as a city and the div­isions were, reduced to six.In 1907 there was a return toevery desk is taken, with theception of the desk vacated the warden, after election.ACCOMMODATIONby presentaiives on council, includ-At one time, county clerk-trea- swer L. K. Coles pointed out, there was accommodation for Norwich township, is another but the desks havepolice village rumoured to be possdxy sold bj aconsidering incorporation. thrift-minded council when re- This, according to township , was reduced.are interested in the Beachvilie.Otterville, locatedNorwich township,outcome atin Southing five deputy reeves.Under the Municipal Act a de­puty reeve is elected if there are more than 1,060 municipal elect­ors (property owners) in a town­ship or town.Thus, Tillsonburg has a reeve and deputy reeve and, in addit­ion. is allowed an extra vote asclerk-treasurer Herbert Parson of Otterville, "is just street corn­er gossip”."It has never been on an agen-In 1896, under Warden Thom-1 the municipality with the highest as Prouse, there were 37 mem- equalized assessment.bers on council including 13 first i In 1914 Ingersoll left county deputy reeves and six second de- council when it was created ax.v au , ;puty reeves. Woodstock was re- separated town, one of eight laOtterville has a population of ।Pr€Sented by four Dr s. Ontario.dia at all”, he said.729 and a 1960 taxation assess­ment of $755,990.HAVE COMMITTEEPlattsville, in Blenheim town-: ship, is a third police village; where, as long as a year and aj half ago, a committee of Board of Trade members was set up' to determine incorporation re­quirements,List Winners In Library Book Review CompetitionA book-review contest for boys I menced last Sunday and willl, Mount Elgin: Dianne and girls in Grades 7 and 8 in carry through until November RR 1 BurgessviUe; and Woodstock schools, sponsored by 18. | Woolcott, RR 1, Bright.I Woolcott, RR 1, Bright.First prize of S10 for athe Oxford County Library in Over 100 boys and girls enter-1 - ----------------- - _____recognition of Young Canada e(j the contest and officials cbm- b°ok review to John Tribe, Rr! Book Week resulted in Robert mented that all of the entries" “ McWillram, RR 3 Thamesford, I were worthy of commendation, receiving first money of $10 for judges for the contest were Mrs. his non-fiction book review. |Kenneth Hilts and A. E. C. Bur-First prize of $10 for a fiction man of the Sentinel-Review.Broad! Donna ifiction I2, BurgessviUe; second prize of$5 for a fiction book-review to;'Wabook-review went to John Tribe,I „ , ...RR 2 BurgessviUe. I Prizes were given for reviews; Young Canada Book Week com- 1300145 of Action and the results are as followsFirst prize of $10 for a non­fiction book review to Robertof books of fiction and the resultsPatsy Jacob, RR 3 Tillsonburg. 3Prizes of $1 for a fiction book-fl review to Bill Knox. RR 1, Bur-iJ gessville; Gwen Blackmore, RR " 2, BurgessviUe; Gail Bell, RR 1. Platts ville; Wendy Shearer.Entries Down For Annual Blenheim Plowing MatchBright; Dona Wilkinson. Bungess- , ville; Phyllis Hossack, RR 3._ 'Thamesford; Valentina Balvta McWUliam, RR 3, Thamesford; RR 4. Ingersoll; Terry Hutchm-'; second prize of $5 for a non-1 son, RR 3 BurgessviUe; Juanita fiction book-review bo Danny Me- McMullen, RR 1, Otterville; and '! Conkey, of BurgessviUe Ontario. Patsy Simpson. 258 Clarke street N _ . , . ,. .. (Woodstock.Prizes of M for a non-fiction book-review went to David Smart Other children will receive, RR 8. Woodstock; Linda McFar- badges of merit tor their efforts.^ land, BurgessviUe; Betty Grit- f ... "Balvtafln, HR 2, BurgessviUe; Pam Smith, Bungessville; M urlei' BuckreU. RR 1, Burgessvine; ;. Sharon Garton, RR 1, Burgess- villo: Patrick Johnson. RR 2. Burgcssvilla; Judy Ormerod, RR NORWAY, Denmark. Italy?? Who knows where the Canadian maple leaf which is being so carefully waxed by Mary Zav-. itz. ami its way mon.hs. are allSandra Wood will find within the next few iThe leaves which from Oxford County 1wooduots, are being collected ■ and waxed by some 50-75 stu­dents at Huron Park Second­ary School under the direction of George Register, staff coun­sellor to the science club. The leaf which Mary (right) is holding. will be one of some 1,000 which are being sent toWallace Nesbitt, Oxford M1P, who will be host of the Cana­dian delegation to UN, who plans to use them as "distinc­tively Canadian decoration” for the Canadian reception. Guests will carry the leaves home as souvenirs. (Staff Photo).REQUESTED BY W. NESBITTOxford Maple Leaves Going To UN DinnerReport Cattle With Rabies At Curries And PrincetonTwo new cases of rabies in Ox- Thompson said this morning. ’ "and wr are not looking ter anyford county cattle were reported this morning by the Woodstock office of the Health of Animals Branch. Canada Department of Agriculture.After more than two months in Which the county appeared to be free of the disease, two cows, one on the farm of M. G. Steph-outbreak".He pointed out that the two cows could have been infected by rabid fox last spring. Incubation period for the disease can lastup to a year.The last. case of Tables' in Ox-________, . ford county cattle was reported enson, Curries and the other own- on August 25. However, a rabid ed by Norman Baskette. Prince-;fox was brought in during Oct- ten, developed positive symptoms ober. proving that there are stiU last week._____________________some around despite organizedMr. Stephenson lost five head drives to wipe out the, . ‘ , . _ ., . Danger to herds « reduceddue to ratees, during the* out- al this time of yearbreak early last spring. 'as most farmers are in the pro-"These are Isolated cases.” cess of stabling their animalsFederal veterinarian Dr. D. W. ifor the winter.Blenheim Council Picks New Road SuperintendentBlenheim Township council met in the Town-ship Office, Dru- imibo, with members all present, Reeve Herbert Bailk?wi]l presid- ; ' in«-ronto, re Horner Creek Bridge, stating that their Branch is not? responsible for any part of the cost of the replacement.Department of Lands and For-' ests, Hespeler, re loans without!The minutes of last meeting were read and adopted. CORRESPONDENCE • fisting forestry purposes.Department of Highways, Lon- In response’ to the advertise-1 . don, requesting actual expend- ment for applications for the pos- iture of new Office Building and ition of Road Superintendent, the square feet available for the following persons applied and in- various offices, as well as the lterviewed the Council regarding.e 4^^ which will be used 4he position, Herbert BalkwiU.i* - . Drumbo, Clarence RacknOrJ-by the Road Superintendent;Department of Highways, Tor­onto, enclosing interim subsidy on the 1959 Road expenditures in the amount of $20,330.94;Canadian Pacific Railway Com- ny, London, enclosing invoiceQnin/terest for the purpose of as-imeat for applications for the pos-Drwnbo. Sam Shantz. RR 4, Bright, Earl Yeandle. Drumbo. IAfter a considerable amount of ] discussion on the matter, the ap-1 plication of Herbert Balkwill was I accepted.RESOLUTIONS" I'M 1. marTight-Money CrisisSqueezes Norfolk.1Free Pres* Norfolk BureauSIMCOE, Oct. 27—Canada's pres­ent tight money situation is hurting Norfolk County.“Unless the situation improves by use by municipalities is already dried up, he said."On Oct. 15 we came so close to the limit of our borrowing I told the road committee I would have to refuse to sign checks unless money came in," next year," clerk Douglas C. Porter told county council today, “all capital projects will have to stop."Norfolk’s proposed new county home has already been delayed be­cause of the situation,Mr. Porter told them. “Fortunately the province came in with an interim subsidy.“Bankers say it is impossible to get money."Council endorsed a resolution fromThe Federal Government, said Mr. Porter, has refused aid to the province and it is hard for Ontario to borrow money at seven per cent to buy munic­ipal debentures at six per cent.A provincial fund for emergency the County of Welland asking th® provincial government to aid munici­palities in the problem.It also passed a bylaw authorizing the borrowing of $1,390,000 for normal expenditures until taxes are collected.:i :;V..,> 2 । । • •’ f'■ • ENLARGE CAR PARK—Parking space will be prac­tically doubled when this $2,000 project is com­pleted at the rear of the Oxford County courthouse —Free Press Woodstock Bureau in Woodstock. The lot, which provides spaces fan county employees and officials, will hold more than] 60 cars when finished. ,< IOxford County Competition 'One of Best'Fre« PreM Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK, Oct. 30 —Sunny weather and ideal ground conditions today contributed to what offi- cials called “one of the best! Oxford County plowing matches on record.”NOT ASLEEP BUT LISTENING WITH EYES SHUTAs Ceylon's Sir Claude Corea, left, emphasizes his speech with a clenched f>»t. Wallace Nesbitt. MP for Oxford and dfiputy leader of. the Canadian. delegation to the UN, folds his arms and leans back during a UN Political Committee de­bate The debate was over the British-Italian resolution ask- ■ •J . ing France to join in any ars rangements ■for the general suspension of nuclear tests. (AP WmiphotoJ cn-500'■ >c' ,"f'■. ‘IS' >§ o & ■“ssgaS’ g* « e(■/rd2 £ d15?|Sdpast president, OEA. and Mu.Alex Watson tXteretary-treasunJer, of the Oxford Association.Photo, IO * - ~X > *< JZ «7QLHEgMIDDLESEX COUNTY2 =££ “ ?■£ ™"5'sJ.O E 2> >.O >> r- <- X -P ±J Q JEf- u fo E g U-"> «i P V 5■a ££S£2r-57 - t,325 2 o 2'20^:=«© BV^3 s’shh^in'^3is,«5 Og; Q -^1:> 2 X c -20/iNoi^l£TfQW&fftctal (Qpening/lovember 4, 1959ip2 > V, « v S u^i _ y0 c o n tfdja &MpliVo O © « c 5 S n hHOLD ANNUAL MEETING AT COUNTY COURT HOUSEMerit ratine in salary sew-uling for teacher® and a new matbcimaticaconception ofre the high lights of the Ox County Trustee*' a,ldRatepayers Association annualmeeting In the county courtI president or Oxfoixl A^socia- I lion; MrsJ, F, Holland, dirhowu> today. Lett, to rig^U A ! eofcw, Ontario School Trustee® P, Silcox, Inspector for South ' and Ratepayers’ Association, Oxford; W. Lcapw, Itigersoll, J frwn Kciwvi; Tom JacS1HO5^5'lld .12 'O£2 ^°Ex£ rom ic rogramme Chairman.....................................J. H. GILLIES (Chairman, Property Committee) Welcome...................WARDEN W. R. PRETTY Invocation...........................REV. H. D. JOYCE President, London Council of Churches I have great pride, municipal and personal, in being able to bring you greetings on this important occasion in the history of Middlesex County. This new building stands os a tribute to both the far­ sighted planning of past County councils, and the faith which we all share in the future continued growth of our individual municipalities and of the county as a whole. If is my great good fortune to be Warden this year and to see the plans of many former colleagues come to fruition. This legacy of hope, this symbol of faith we leave for the future. Long may it serve them, and long may they enjoy its use in peace and prosperity. Presentation of Keys, symbolic of the Official Opening Ceremony - D. C. STEVENS Architect Official Opening PREMIER LESLIE M. FROST, Q.C. Introduced by Wm. A. Stewart, M.L.A. North Middlesex GOD SAVE THE QUEEN Tour of Building Reception, H.M.C.S. PREVOST W. R. PRETTY The opening today of the spacious new Middlesex County adminis­ trative offices is a signal event in the 109 year history of the county. It was 1850 when the first official County Council met, and some decade or so later when what is now the "old" county building was built. Prior to 1850, the affairs of the county had been tended to by the London District Council which also had several other fledgling counties under its wing. In recent years, however, it became painfully clear that the in­ creasing tempo of business conducted by the Council and its staff required that additional office space be made available, and when the final possible foot of space had been pressed into use in the original building, plans were laid for the new structure. The new county headquarters, faced with cool green brick set off by grey stone, provides nearly 17,000 square feet of floor space and makes it possible for the first time in a number of years to house all the component parts of the county administration under a single roof. Striking feature of the main entrance is the hanging concrete stair­ way leading up to the mezzanine which focusses attention on the "skeleton" clock gracing one wall and underlined by a planter. (Conlinusd) mi eJke County Q^utlckng — Concluded The engineering offices, the library, county health, and county assessor's offices occupy the first floor of the brightly painted interior, while council chambers, the clerk's, district agriculture, and treasurer's offices are in the second storey of the all-air conditioned building. Councillors will find a vast change from the present dingy chambers to the airy new quarters where a high white ceiling, inset lighting, and huge windows provide a spacious setting for municipal business. The desks have been specially built for comfort and easy access, while drapes both in the chambers and the clerk's office were designed to incorporate the county coat of arms. Architect for the county was David C. Stevens, and general con­ tractor was the Quinney Construction Co. Ltd. (Byron). offices.aid bookkeeping and accounting work in the When councillors have an opportunity to relax, the new accommodation provides them with a luxurious setting in the lounge on the upper level. FRONT ROW — Bruce McLeod, Reeve, W. Williams; Ernest Budden, Reeve, W. Nissouri; Cecil Lewis, Reeve, Lucan; Warden W. R. Pretty, Mosa; John Gillies, Reeve, London; George Forbes, Reeve, N. Dorchester; Austin Hodgins, Reeve, Biddulph. SECOND ROW — Thomas Collings, Assistant Engineer; F. B. D. Arnold, Engineer; Harold Eastman, Clerk; Miss M. S. Smith, Senior Public Health Nurse; Mrs. Whiteway, Librarian; Miss E. Pulling, Bookkeeper; Derek Newton, Treasurer; Robert Quick, Assessor. THIRD ROW — Lorne Vail, Reeve, Lobo; W. J. Webster, Reeve, Glencoe; Wilbur Johnson, Deputy Reeve, W. Nissouri; W. J. Clements, Deputy Reeve, London; John Lee, Deputy Reeve, Caradoc; Leo Gent, Deputy Reeve, N. Dorchester; Charles Garrod, Reeve, Ailsa Craig; Earl Dixon, Reeve, McGillivray; Leo LaChappelle, Deputy Reeve, Westminster. FOURTH ROW — Lloyd Galbraith, Reeve, Ekfrid; Clarence Fongor, Reeve, Delaware; Arthur Harold, Reeve, Wardsville; Morley Howe, Reeve, Metcalfe; J. D. McNaughton, Reeve, Newbury; Arthur Robinson, Reeve, Caradoc; Morton Turnbull, Reeve, Parkhill; Eugene Earley, Reeve, Adelaide; Charlton Sinker, Reeve, Lobo. (Hugh Lamb, Reeve, Westminster Township, was unable to be present when the picture was taken). TTliddlesex Wardens, 1850-1959 Both the engineer and the clerk occupy new offices furnished with furniture in the modern manner where they can deal efficiently with county business and handle inquiries and requests by the public. William Niles Dorchester North 1850-52 John Scatcherd W, Nissouri 1853-54 C. Halcroft Clench Caradoc 1855 Thos. Moyle Metcalfe 1856-58-68 Robert Craik Dorchester North 1857 Benjamin Cook Westminster 1859 A. Campbell Caradoc 1860-62 Christopher Coombs London 1863 M. S. Ayers Westminster 1864 J. H. Munro Mosa 1865 Malcolm Campbell Ekfrid 1866 Robert Draney .Dorchester North 1867 Thos. Routledge London 1869 Richard Tooley Dorchester North 1870 John Watterworth Mosa 1871-72 M. G. Munro Wardsville 1873 Lionel Shipley . Lobo 1874 John Waters East Williams 1875 James Armstrong Westminster 1876 John Levi .......East Williams 1877 Alexander McKellar ....Lobo 1878 James Gilmour Dorchester North 1879 John Morgan Adelaide 1880 James Armstrong ........Westminster 1881 Joseph H. Marshall .......London 1882 D. M. Cameron Strathroy 1883 W. D. Stanley Biddulph 1884 Malcolm McGugan Caradoc 1885 Benjamin Waterworth Mosa 1886 Lawrence Cleverdon ......Strathroy 1887 Simon McLeod West Williams 1887-88 Robert Boston Lobo 1889 W. H. Taylor . . McGillivray 1890 Thos. E. Robson London 1891 C. C. Hodgins Biddulph 1892 Thos. Duffin West Nissouri 1893 W. S. Calvert Metcalfe 1894 J. A. Leitch Glencoe 1895 W. L. Corbett McGillivray 1896 Dugald Leitch Caradoc 1897 Peter Elson London 1898 Henry Hardy Caradoc 1899 James Murray Westminster 1900 Trafford Campbell East Williams 1901 Geo. B. Campbell Ekfrid 1902 J. P. Grigg Caradoc 1903 Geo. W. Neely Dorchester North 1904 R. M. Piper Westminster 1905 N. A. Galbraith . Ekfrid 1906 (Continued: Ill idd!esex Wardens — Concluded Jas. H. Hodgins London 1907 Donald D. Graham Mosa 1908 5. R. Gillies Ailsa Craig 1909 D. S. Campbell Adelaide 1910 W. D, Moss Glencoe 1911 Jas. T. Buttrey Sfrathroy 1912 A. K. Hodgins Biddulph 1913 L. L. McTaggart Ekfrid 1914 John Morgan .... Ailsa Craig 1915 T. G. Turnbull Lobo 1916 A. J. Blakie Westminster 1917 D. A. Graham Caradoc 1918 John Curry Adelaide 1919 Thomas Clark London 1920 A. H. Ryckman Delaware 1921 John Cousins Westminster 1922 Wm. Ross East Williams 1923 C. C. Henry Metcalfe 1924 Allen McPherson Glencoe 1925 A. L. McDougall Caradoc 1926 R. T. Raycraft Biddulph 1927 Alf. Comfort Caradoc 1928 W. H. McLeish West Williams 1929 Geo. A. Parrott Glencoe 1930 W. A. Sutherland Parkhill.1931 C. R. Carmichael London 1932 Jas. Dymond Metcalfe 1933 Harold Marr Dorchester North 1934 Capt. H. B. Langford, M.M.Lucan 1935 Wm. A. Morrison East Williams 1936 Geo. H. Laidlow Westminster 1937 A. McGeachy Dorchester North 1938 J. A. Crawford Caradoc 1939 H. D. McNaughton Newbury 1940 G. E. Hicks Lobo 1941 Harold Currie ..............Adelaide 1942 J. D. Hunt Dorchester North 1943 W. J. Ford Glencoe 1944 J. F. Hodgins McGillivray 1945 C. Davis Wardsville 1946 Neil P. McGugan Caradoc 1947 Chas. Cousins Westminster 1948 Harold Eastman Adelaide 1949 Mungo Leitch Mosa 1950 H. P. McEachen Williams West 1951 Harold M. Corbett Lucan 1952 Neil L. Oide Caradoc 1953 Fred Dobbs Biddulph 1954 Gordon R. MacDonald Strathroy 1955 Howard B. Elson London 1956 Fred L. Heaman McGillivray 1957 John C. McAlpine Ekfrid 1958 Wilbert R. Pretty Mosa 1959 HAROLD EASTMAN Clerk DEREK NEWTON Treasurer ROBERT QUICK Assessor F. B. D. ARNOLD Engineer Middlesex County is fortunate in being able to count among its many assets the University of Western Ontario, situated on a rolling picturesque campus in London Township. The University College, or main arts building is framed against the sky, with the university bridge in the foreground. The Middlesex County coat of arms wo* commissioned just 51 years ago, after the county had officially been in existence for more than half a century. The smaller shield, with the three falchions, is seen in the coat of arms of Middlesex County, England, and was adopted to denote the debt of heritage owed the older Middle­ sex. Falchions, or seaxes, are scimitar-shaped daggers about 20 inches long, and were familiar battle implements of every English­ man even in the fifth century. Other emblems, the maple leaf and beaver, are distinctly Canadian, while the plow and sheaves symbolize agriculture, mainstay of the county. The motto, in translation, is "Perseverance, Industry, Integrity." b.uZU Received Polio VaccinePol,to immunization shots were! administered to a total of (5.020:- county indents during'^ the third series of adult polaot clinics. just completed thus week.HON. W. M. NICKLE CUTS RIBBON, -This number represents an in- crease of almost 500 over the' number of doses given at the)Embro Conservation Areacecond th Unian:in the spring, Heal-Wi/officials in Woodstockaccount for this by greater pub­lic awareness aroused during the summer ped to epidemic in Can­ada, 1For those people who have not' cample ted their three shots, Dr. O. C. Powers, MOH tor Oxford, advises that they attend any one of the baby elinacs held through­out the county at regular inter-1Officially Opened MondayMuddy pot-holed roads, heavy ; was reforested during the period improvement, the entire tour was i. .* ---- treated to a turkey dinner at theA minimum of seven months ( should be allowed to elapse be- ! tween the second and third shot.: p-he stated.Catch-up clinics are also pro- vided at the Health Unit office in Woodstock the last Saturday morning of each month except I December, he said.I Baby dimes are hdd monthly!1 I in: Drumbo, Hea3^i Unit - first!Tuesday; P’attsvaffle, U n i t ed- I Church, - first Wednesday (Sept­ember — December; Woodstock, | Health Unit - first Thursday: J Woodstock. Moose Lodge - third | Wednesday; Thamesford, United ! ' Church - first Friday; Otterville, I Community Hail - second Mon- I day; Kintore. United Church - i second Tuesday (February-June 1 I Beachviile. Legion Hall—second I Wednesday; Tillsonburg. Heal'.iii ' Unit - second Thursday; Norwich,! I Library - second Friday; Mount!Elgin, Community Hall - third!. i Monday; Ingersoll, YMCA - third' ' Thursday; Embro. Health Unit -fourth Thursday; Tavistock, Lib-' ■ rary—fourth Friday.that after more than four years, the authority had still not receiv­ed an affirmative answer from the Federal Government for aid on thelt 1 Ay ea r improvement program for the area.overcast skies, and cold, damp, between 1946 and ,1948.mist failed to ruin yesterday's cUT RIBBONopening of the new Embro Con- The opening was conducted dam at Fanshawe was ' servation area, and the Upper without flourishes and long spe- built by the Upper Thames Raver ' Thames River Conservation: e^htS' Nlckle 18°?^, Conservation Authority, and at a Thames River conserva n photographers, and then cut the cost o[ $5,000,000 was completed, Authority Tour tor the Minister , ribbon, saying that "It gives me ■ ---- —of Planning and Development,.' great pleasure to pronounce this i Hom W. M. Nickle. ' conservation area now open”. 'ia.on than asked chairman ofAt 11.00 jeste dav morning, , the River Conservaitionunder a bulging, dark, sky which ' Authorlty< G. w. Pittock, wWh.j er or not the pool could be used! for swimming and fishing. to ninety feet below 'the waterThe tour then moved on to the level, (town into an inspection and channel improvement on Ingersoll Channel Improve- tunnel. (the Thames and its tributariesment sites. A bus earned someBoard room of the Authority at Fanshawe Dam.in 1953. The darn has made anartificial lake of some 640 acres, with a reserve of 2500‘Our hands are tied/’ con!end­ed Robert R-udy, of Tavistock, a member erf the authority «xecu- tive. "Without an answer fromacres the Federal Government, it iswhich could be flooded if neces- difficult to forecast ourthreatened to burst at any mo­ment. some seventy memberss^ry, as a safeguard to flood con­trol.A tour was taken by elevatorThe Authority is seeking, and! has been, since 1954, Federal aid|. amounting to 37% per cent of the ।and guests of the Thames River Authority watchedconstruction at dams, reservoirsConservation the Minister Development, white crepe southern endof Planning andthe Thames and its tributariesfor flood control.oiiue ano • t \ , At ^nner, members were tokiacross • the Imembers of the group, and that having Mr. Nickle al a reg- The Provincial Government;! a cavalcade of half-a-dozen cars ular meeting of the Authority has said it will contribute a fur-1 The 19-acre conservation site foH?wed" , , , „ , was the first time in the history ther 37% per cent—the balance!The cavalcade travelled south of the Thames Valley Conserv- of the money coming in f-oml through the village of Embro, ation Authority that a presiding the mmnicipalilies directly ajfeci- and through Beachviile, stopping government minister had been ed by the improvemen■at the bridge on the Cyanamid • 1 ~ * --------- - —cut ribbona blue a ndof the dam-site.which was started in September of 1958, was built at a cost of some $8,000. As well as helping to control flood-run-off, the three- acre pond will serve as a swim­ming hole for hot and dustry youngsters in the summertime, and there will be an annual fish- ing derby held there a week after the trout season opens in May.Company driveway to look at the widened channel.The Ingersoll Channel Impro-present.Chairman of UTRCA, G. W.\ .Addressing the members. Mr. Pittock, of Ingersoll, suggested Nickle told them: “We at the the forecast be set up on an?,-vement was completed in 1950, and consists basically of a deep­ening and widening of a floodDepartment, rather thanyou come to us in Toronto andhave ‘if basis - "IF the Federal gov-; |ermment rallies io the call, forcontrol channel. The $1,000,000'ri, -u. • scheme has, since its oomiplet-The site was once an old mill 1Q0 cen.tThe ^ince of Ontario paid 75 ago. ihe dam has been rebuilt,ask for money each year, would funds—this is what we propose I like you to tell us what you have to do.”in. mind for the next five years, j He said that since the format- We think it is sensible that you ton of the Authority in 1947, 36% I let us know what you are plan-' millions have been spent, of. t ning.”, which the Federal Government'He pointed out that "this 'has contributed $3 million, the 5 province is expanding at a very' Ontario Government. $2 million.^-.-’ great rate. I believe that the and the balance of which cameper cent of the total cost, and the balance, some $250,000 was defrayed! locally.The tour followed the channel government must be flexible, and from the municipalities concern- for some six miles - the entirety ' 'of its length, and then headedadjacent to the Embro tract of the Oxford County forest whichwr --i< : -A H' ■ - r1south on.ce more for Highway 401.Pausing at the Centerville Pond, which was made a con­servation area in 1955, the Min­ister was told of the history, and success of the project. Dredging and repairing of the dam at thepond cost the Authority some $10, jion works annuallyio be flexible, we cannot operate । ed.behind desks.” He went on to I ‘‘Unless we have approval of i say that the best way to find the overall scheme submitted to out what is going on is'to go out i Ottawa some time ago we shoul- ® and see. |dn’t attempt the five-year pro-.Mr. Nickle said that such agram”, Vice-Chairman Bradford five year brief would be instru- said. ‘•We won’t be satisfied with $ mental in ascertaining budget- another long wait for decision on! ary requirements for conservet- a five year program”.Following the luncheon, ‘ theMinister excused himself from: the rest of the tour which he was .The cavalcade continued, and URGE PROPOSALS dirove west on Highway 401, slow- . "We feel as far as conservat- scheduled to have taken. Mr.[ ing at several- properties beside ton authorities are concerned', 1 Nickle apologized for leaving, the highway, which were bought rather than have you come to 'but said that unfortunately he from the Department of High-, the Government and ask for had other matters which hadsways for a nominal sum.I DRAWING A BEADtT-money annually, we would like to be taken care of in Toronto.1 i tr. ----j rjr^ t<Jur propQSe(j: |1 provemerat sites went north from! i'If you could tell us, we could London to St. Mary’s. Glengow- • ■ ulan the yearly program in dol- lan. Fullarton. Mitchell, and then! ■------ ------------ -ars. We are not asking you to east to Ellice, Gadshill. The® ion Area, a 19-aere spot which is toll us in dollars, but generally —* —’ ——I maintained by the Dorchester what .you would like to achieve.”"The big challenge facing the authority today, is what prob-i lem will be tackled first. It is aAfter a tour of the dam, trail- i matter of either the Wildwood er park, tent camping area, pav- Dam, or the Glengowan dam illion, and! bath house, and beach "First,” the Minister continu- ' - ; ed, "you have to make uo yourmind, and then approach the ---- Government.” This could be laid.' j down in the brief he suggested, j The one sore point in accept- : k tog this proposal was the fact,Other sites which the tour saw ■ to know proposals for a five-year during the morning included the Pton”, he said’.Dorchester Swamp, a 450-acre' "T* ’**”area of valuable water source,and the Dorchester Conser vat-party turned south at GadshilLion's Club.DINNER AT FANSHAWEdrove through Stratford, and re- 'turned' to Elmbro by 6:00.Sites which were viewed dur­ing the afternoon leg of the '.ourincluded the J. Cameron Wilson Conservation Area, the A. H. S Richardson Beach, and the pro-? posed Wildwood, and Glengowandam sites.fact'■A-:1'«««. - --r-.JI;:;, •IZ,L_;.'•ICOLORED LIGHTSA festive holiday touch will be’ • added to the Woodstock scene shortly with the installation of special colored lighting outside the Court House on Hunter street.■COUNTY COUNCILThe concluding session of G.Oxford Hunters Draw Foxite lights have been ordered by ty Council tor 1999 will be held' ;Smith Electric of Woolstock andi Id Woodsttodt December 8. 9 and county clerk-troasurer L. K. Col-i ] “ “. Bounty Payments Of $3400i os announced this morning that' j lie expects they will be turned, on abou* one week before Christ-i mas and left in place until the,I New Yenr.10. The traditional presentation .to retiring Warden E. R. Itoare will be made at an evening mee ing, December 10. 6,020 Received Polio VaccinePolio immunization shots were) administered to a total of 6,030';' Oxford county residents during] ' tlie third series of adult paho •'completed this weekThis number tx^pr^sente an in-' ; crease of almost 500 over the] । number of doses given at tbe| „♦ ceeond clinic in the spring. Heal-! th Unit officiais in Woodstock account for this by greater pub-' lie swaiteness aroused during toe ,, summer polio epidemic in Can­ada.For those people who have not]"J completed toeir three shots. Dr.'' O. C. Powers. MOH for Oxford. | advises that they attend any one ] of the baby cMr&os held through- i I out toe county at regular in ter-1A minimum of seven months1 should lx* allowed to elapse be-H tween the second and third shot.Catch-up clinics are also pro-1 ' vided at. the Health Unit office( £ in Woodstock the last Saturday morning of each month except’ i December. he said.I Baby dimes are held monthly I in: Dnrmbo. Health Unit - firstTuesday; Church, ■Plattsxdlte. U n i t ed first Wednesday (Sept-!J ember — December; Woodstock. , Health Unit - first Thursday;Woodstock. Moose Lodge - third Wednesday; Thamesford, United! Church - first Friday; Otterville,' Community Hall - second Mon­day; Kintore. United Church - second Tuesday (February-June)]Beachville. Legion Hs''l—secondWednesday: Tillsonburg. Health. Unit - second Thursday; Norwich,'Library - second Friday: Mounti Elgin. Community Hall - third Monday: Ingersoll, YMCA - third!. ’ Thursday; Embro. Health Unit - fourth Thursday: Tavistock, Lib-i rary—fourth Friday.HON. W. M. NICKLE CUTS RIBBONEmbro Conservation AreaOfficially Opened MondayMuddy, pot-holed roads, heavy I was reforested during the period । between 1946 and 1948.overcast skies, and cold, damp, mist failed to ruin yesterday’s opening of the new Embro Con­servation area, and the UpperCUT RIBBONThe opening was conducted without flourishes and long spe-m _ 4. eches. Mr. Nickle posed forThames River Conservation photographers. and then cut the Authority Tour for the Minister .ribbon, saying that. “It gives me of Planning and Development, [great pleasure to pronounce this Hon w M Nioklp ' conservation area now open.''.mJ/ Fl ,<nw ! “He than asked chairman of At l'i-W yesteiJay morning, th Thames River Conservaition under a bulging, dark, sky whichthreatened to ment, some and guests of Conservation the Minister Development white crepe i southern end •burst at any mo- seventy members the Thames River Authority watched of Planning andcut ribbona blue andimpnovement, the entire tour was । that after more than four years,, treated to a turkey donner at the, the authority had still not re cel v- Board room of the Authority al ed an affirmative answer frr«i Fanshawe Dam. (the Federal Government for aid W'The dam at Fanshawe was ton their 10*year knprovement', T built by the Upper Thames River [program for the area. Conservation Authority, and at a j “Our hands are tied,” coniend- cost of $5,000,000 was completed , ed Robert Rudy, of Tavistock, a in 1953. The dam has made an member of the aufthoriW •xecu-|B artificial lake of some 640 acres, i live. “Without an answer from » with a reserve of 2500 acres the Federal Government. It is1Authority, G. W. Pittock, wheth- trol. er or not the pool could be usedwhich could be flooded if neces- difficult to forecast our plans".-' The Authority is seeking, andn has been since 1954. Federal aid <sjrry, as a safeguard to flood con-A tour was taken by elevator for swimming and fishing. fo ninety feet below tl~The tour then moved on to the level, down into an inspection Ingersoll Channel Improve- tun-nel. ment sites. A bus carried some At dinner, membersthe waterTC । sixty members of the group, and across uie i a c^valcede of half-a-dozen carsof the dam-site.The l^acre conservation site, which was started in September of 1958, was built at a cost of some $8,000. As well as helping to control flood-run-off, the three- acre pond will serve as a swim­ming hole for hot and dustry youngsters in the summertime, and there will be an annual Ash­ing derby held there a week after the trout season opens inI followed.The cavalcade travelled south through the village of Embro. and through Beachville. stopping •at the bridge on the Cyan-amid Company driveway to look at the widened channel.The Ingersoll Channel Impro­vement was completed in 1950, and consists basically of a deep­ening and widening of a flood control channel. The $1,000,000were toldamounting to 37%‘per cent of the construction of dams, reservoirs, and channel improvements on the Thames and its tributaries for flood control.that, having Mr. Nickle at a reg- The Provincial Governmentj ular meeting of the Authority' has said it will contribute a fur- was the first time in the history, ther 37% per cent—the balance of the Thames Valley Conserv- of the money coming in from]ation Authority that a presiding the municipalities directly aft? government minister had been ;ed by the improvement's.present. I r”--!-------* -Addressing the members. Mr.Chairman of UTR.CA, G W.; Pittock, of Ingersoll, stages tedNickle told them: “We of the the forecast_be set_ up on an Department, rather than have "*..........................you come to us in Toronto and‘if’ basis - “IF the Federal gov­ernment rallies to the call for... i scheme has, since its comiplet-The site was once an old mull • --- - ' ■, ... . . ion, been 100 per cent effective.dam. which was wrecked years The ProvijlCe Ontario paid 75 oi n.o ziu.m nac rpniii । - . . _ago. The dam has been rebuilt,per cent of the total cost, andask for mbney each year, would funds—this is what we propoce- like you to tell us what you have to do.”in. mind for the next five years.'] He said that since the format- We think it is sensible that you ion of the Authority in 1947.let us know what you are pi'an- millions have been spent, of] ning.” which the Federal Government'8He pointed out that“this has contributed $3 million, the.defrayed locally. great rate. I believe that the i and the balance of which came|pThe tour followed the channel government must be flexible and from the municipalities concern-j for some six miles - the enrtirety !o be flexible, we cannot operate i ed-of its length, and then headed behind desks.” He went on to “Unless we have approval oE[ say that the best way to find' overall scheme submitted to out what is going on is to go out;Ottawa some time ago we shoul-' and see. idn’t attempt the five-year pro-;south once more for Highway 401.Pausing at the Centerville Pond, which was made a con­servation area in 1955, the Min­ister was told of the history, and success of the project. Dredging!i0lie bounty of Q^liddlesex extends to you a cordial invitation to attend theMr. Niakle said that such aSgram”. VicerCfealnman Bradford five year brief would be instru- [ said- ‘’We won’t be satisfied with .... _ „ mental in ascertaining budget- i another long wait for decision onand repairing of the dam at the ary requirements for " ~ ----- — ■pond cost the Authority some $10. > ion works annually 000. ]conservat-a five year program’’.The cavalcade continued, and : URGE PROPOSALS drove west on Highway 401, slow- ! “We feel as far asing at several? properties beside ion authoritiesconservat-o/ theQ?eu7 QO'lunictpal 03uilding on Q^ednesday, Qlovemher 4, 1Q59 at 2^0 p.m. hy _ _ _rentier Leslie V ri. C/rosi, to he followed hy a ^Reception al 0revest, al 3 p.m.WING R. BEADFollowing the luncheon, the Minister excused himself frorr the rest of the tour which he waj scheduled to have taken. Mr..... ____ concerned, ' Nickle apologized for leaving,the highway, which were bought rather than have you come to tout said that unforiunaicT he ; from the Department of High- the Government and ask for had other matters which' had, ways for a nominal sum. i money annually, we would like to be taken care of in Toronto.Other sites which the tour saw to know proposals for a five-year;during the morning included the plan-', he said. j provement sites wen1Dorchester Swamip, a 450-acre ' “K y*>u could tell us, we could London to St.areThe tour of thearea of valuable water source, plan the yearly program in dol- tan, Fullarton, and -the Dorchester Conservat- ■ars- We are not asking you to east to Ellice, ion Area, a 19-acre spot which is tell us in dollars, but generally party turned south maintained by the Dorchester whet you would like to achieve.” Lion’s Club. “’m'“ K’" -------- iUand -the Dorchester Conserve t-“The big challenge facing the authority today, is what prob-DINNER AT FANSHAWE 1 lem will be tackled first. It is a After a tour of the dam. trail-, matter of either the Wildwood er park, tent camping area, pav- Dam, or the Glengowan dam. illion, and bath house, and beajch “First,” the Minister continu-illion, and' bath house, and beachOxford Hunters Draw FoxBounty Payments Of $3400;b' -jig-s went north Mary’s, Gleiihill.drove through Stratford, ■turned to Embro by 6j Sites which were vievIng the•noon leg cre->, ed. “you have to make up your• mmd. and then approach the Government.” This could be laid , down in the brief he suggested, iThe one sore point in accept-;ing this proposal was the fact J >COLORED LIGHTSA festive holiday touch will be • added to the Woodstock scene shortly with the installation otf special colored lighting outside the Court House on Hunter street.•included the J. Cameron Conservation Area, the Richardson Beach, and :Wildwood, and Gle,m site;COUNTY COUNCIL. _ T-------- -------— The concluding se-»lI he lights have been ordered by tv Council for 1959 * Smith Electric of Woodstock and' in Woodstock Decvmb Mi surer L. K. Col- . io. The tradiitional j:sounty clerk-4es announced this morning that to retiring Warden E. R. he expects they will be turned wfJ] be made a*, an eveoiuson abo-T one week before ChriM-' ing. Decombt- 10.mas and left in place until the New Year. - .- ford Book mobiletheleasedM-s been r< Oxford LibrarI G. W. Pittock, chairman of the Authority. Some 65 nic-rn« . bers and guests of the- conser-Set Schedule For BookmobileDecember schedule’ for the Ox-wmi ONE SLICE, a blue . the Upper Thames River Con- i and white ribbon was cut yes- servation Authority. Cutting theterday. marking the official ribbon in the above photo, isopening of the $8,000. Embro , Hon. W. M. Nickle, Minister of Conservation Area, which was | the Department of Planningwho was guest of the Authority yesterday on the first leg of a tour of completed and propos­ed conservation sites. At left isvation group were also present! at the opening, ano on the tour.- ;n Area which was the Department oi rianmng Gordon Innes, of Woodstock, : the fall of 1958 by ! and Development, of Toronto, । Oxford MLA, and (far right) I (Staff photo).started int/ic Oounlu OLrLunalL to attend pfeav£ £ P^54 7, Ont.innerf ;<Tillsonburg District High School TILLSONBURG, ONTARIO E. R. PEARCE WordenCOUNTY OF OXFORDFRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 20th, 1959J Co-Operative, J- It i« as follows:Wednesday, December 0—Obi - tervHle and Tillsonburg, morning; • Brownsville, Dereham Centre! and ML Elgin, afternoon, Thursday, December lh—Nor­wich, morning; Burgessville, af­ternoon.Friday, December 11—Hick.wn and Tavistock, morning: Har­rington, Uniondale and Brooks-1 dale Sunday School, afternoon.Monday, December 14—Embro, * morning; Lakeside and Kintore, afternoon,Tuesday, December 15—Tham- esford and Ingersoll High School, morning; Ingersoll and Beach-' ville. afternoon.Bright and PLattsviUe, morning;1Wednesday, December 16 — Drumbo and Princeton, after­noon. 3mm- flenu..i®'-TOMATO JUICEThe WardenROAST TURKEYCRANBERRY SAUCEGeorge T. LaFlairMASHED POTATOESPIE AND ICE CREAMCOFFEEROLLSMINTS☆ ☆Doreen and AnnabelleFor BookmobileDecember schedule tor toe Ox­ford Bookmobile ha-, been re- leascd by th© Oxfwd Library■ r.’iWITH ONE SLICE, a bluethe Upper Thames River Con-ana wuue uuuuu ( servatton Authority. Cutting theterdav, marking the official , ribbon in the above photo, is . — - .a- ooaaa J Hon. m. Nickle, Minister ofand white ribbon was cut yes-opening of the §8,000. Embro Conservation Area, which wasstarted in the fall of 1958 byLhe Department of Planning . ■ and Development, of Toronto, iwho was guest of the Authority yesterday on the first leg of a tour of completed and propos­ed conservation sites. At left is Gordon Innes, of Woodstock, Oxford MLA, and ifar right)G. W. Pittock, chairman of noon, the Authority. Some 85 mem­bers and guests of the- copser-i vation group were also present at the opening, and on the tour.I Staff photo).Wednesday, December 9—Ot­terville and Tillsonburg, morning; Brownsville, Dereham Centre^ and Ml Elgin, afternoon.Thursday, December 10—Nor-h. wich.' morning, Burgessville, af-F riday, December 11—-Hickson and Tavistock, morning; Har- rington, Uniondale and Brooks-1 dale Sunday School, afternoon.Monday, December 14—Embro. morning; Lakeside and Kintore. t afternoon.Tuesday, December 15—Tham- esford and Ingersoll High School, morning; Ingersoll and Beach- ville. afternoon.Bright and PlattsvSUe, morning; M Wednesday, December 16 — \ Drumbo and Princeton, after-GraceRELISHESAND DRESSINGSALADSGREEN PEAS, CARROTSThe QueenProlamineCHAIRMAN - L. K. COLESIntroduction ofHead TableWelcomeMembers of ParliamentMayor of WoodstockMayor of IngersollADDRESSToast to the LadiesThe WardenEntertainment* *Rev. O. Glen TaylorLawrence W. Smith Mayor of TillsonburgWallace Nesbitt, M.P.Gordon W. Innes, M.L.A,Norman E. PembletonThe Very Rev. F. G. Stewart, D.D St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Kitchener, Ontario.William J. WeirMrs. Clare H. Esseltine iIn- -ftinofa.<4:!hsent to Canada to learn Canad­Hegavecounty siimoe the beginning of this year.the period between 18911907190GUESTS at the Warden K Din­includeduatedthe British Parliament.hunter as there w-as noBy SPENSER HUNTERner last nigh! TOPVictor H. Tillson. QC of Till­sonburg; Rev. Finlay Stewart,Kitchener, guest speaker; the I bung. LOWER, the Warden and in front chat with ex-Wawrdenwarden's minister Rev. and I his family, from the left, El- _Mrs. 0. Glen Taylor of St. aine Pearce, IB; Mrs. Pearce J Grdnt Sm;it!h> B^essviBe, andPaul's United Church, Tillson- I and the Warden with Danny, 10, Mrs. Smith, (Staff Photos)BROUGHT ENGLISH LADS TO CANADA **« w«x^ w«r.. m«. m. twRecall Fire That Was EndTo Immigration Projectened io the preaching of the rec-Fifteen years ago this month, |tor, Rev. John Morris, who took there was a spectacular fire on!a personal interest in the place the 13th Line of East Zorra,!3^ acted a-s trustee after the which attracted hundreds of peo- fire.The farm home was in two con-pie from all directfons.nected sections and it was theThis was at Havelock Farm a front part, the original house, couple of miles north-east of which was destroyed by the fire, Woodstock and the fire brought । Which was believed to have been to an end, 53 years of immigrat-: caused by a defective furnace, ion activity in behalf of young Two young men were living at En^ish boys, seeking to come to the farm as caretakers at the Canada to learn farming. * “time of the fire.,, .. ■. The farm w-as purchased in T€ 1891 from Jud«e Alex Finkle offarm as tne scene of many gath- Wood-stock by an English mill- u ionalre, Charles Edward BaringEngash ads who had just arriv- young who had become interest T"H M I 'I TV. «>■ed from the old country. They had a soccer team each year, which played in the Woodstockcity soccer league and was known.. •ed in social problems in England. Mr. Young,who began thiswork in 1886 picked up adole-scent boys on the streets of bon­Mr. Young, founder of the*#1 homes, Havelock befog the only one owned by hilm in Canada, was educated at Eaton and grad­from Trinity College, Cambridge, ta 1872. He studiedlaw and was called to the bar in1876. He was later a member ofian methods of farming. Have­lock remained their headquarters, Many purchased farms, while others worked on ■farms in the district. In the event that any of the boys lost their jobs, they were always welcome back at Havelock.Following the fire, the secondsection of Havelock house whichescaped the blaze, was put in shape for occupancy. Presentoccupants and operators of the farm are Fay Chong and family.' Mr. Chong is a member of the. Chong family, Which operates the Food-Rite restaurant.™ "S’ E^land. who had not enjoy­ed after tne amrict fln England J - • —e? The aas .attended Old mental training which would fit A^Sl/can church, them for an occupation whichWoodstocs each Sunday and list-(would a-Mow them to makeed much home life.them spiritualphysical andgood living in later years.At the time of his death1928 he had established sixthese homes in England and _ trust fund was set up to oper-j ate the homes. Rev. John Morrisof Woodstock was named trusteeof the home here.During its history, Havelock Farm here had six superintend-hents. They were, in order, begin­ning in 1891, John H. Benfield, R. Pooley, J. Hodgkins, J. Day- idge, H. Hodgkins, and F, Hodg-Bkina, * ” ’ ' "who died in November 1944.$and , J . .MQi.. boys passed through Havelock!Farm. These boys received their!approximatelyearly education in England, w^rejOxford Pays Out Total Of $3,400 Bounty On Foxes Killed In CountyFoxes have provided a comfort- The next year 13 puns were able income to a total of $3,WO *■------ “for hunters and farmers of theThe figure was released by County Clerk L. K. Coles, Who has padid out $4 a head for some 856 of the potential rabies-car­riers up to the end of November.This year's bounty was the first to have been offered since 1956. The county started the bounty practice in 1945, but dis continu­ed the idea in March, 1956. Dur- tog that period, toe rewards to hunters fortunate enough to kill foxes ranged fromAdding sport, and even more challenge to the problem of rid­ding the area of foxes, toe county started a “contest in 1957. Fifteen fox pups were ear-marked, and released. Hunters who brought back the tags wane paid $50. That year, there were nine of the tags returnedPerth And Huron Oust1878 Temperance Acttagged and set loose. Only five' of this number were killed* Dur­ing the two years that the “tag-; gang system" was being used, any untagged foxes that werekilled were valueless ‘ to the monetary I •bounty being offered.In Decembtr last year, __ Provincial government, prompted by steadily increasing "reports of rabies among both wild and dom­estic animals, agreed to subsidy ire county fox bounties up to $2 Oxford decided to add another $2 to that amount.Mr. Coles said that he receiv­ed a cheque last week from the Ontario Government, amounting to $1,674, and covering the pro­vince’s share of bounties from toe first of January until the end of J June, When 837 foxes were killed.Only 19 of the coy animals' have been turned in since toe; end of June. Mr. Coles attribut­ed this decline to the fact that . farmers are busier during the la<st summer months and early in - tftw fall. The andmals are also harder to spot to the tall grass­es and grain.This year’,, total so compares favourably with 757 in 1'955, 682 in 1954. and in 1953 The majority of the foxes killed I this year wore taken in Blen­heim Township. WIWarden Pearce Is HostAt Annual County EventMore than 225 people gathered,of retaining odd fashioned Ideals1 evening were presentations to in the auditorium of Annandale in a world which is undergoing deserving members of county council by toastmaster Coles,High School. Tillsonburg, 1 r 11 revolutionary changes. , Lvawia.^ vnight for the annual Warden’s) Using a tale from American GET ‘WEATHER VANESBanquet, this year honoring re- folklore, Rip Van Winkle, as a T.,w "11-.tiring Warden E. R. Pearce of simile, he said, "very often men Hilton Virtue, reeve of East Ox- TiHsooburg. do sleep through revolutions." 1 ford and Charles Coldham, dep.The evening followed the time- "These are the greatest days uty reeve of Blenheim, received honored format of toasts, spe- of Canadian life....a Golden Age weather vanes with compasses echos and entertainment with the for Canada." ire pointed out. "Yet attached to keep thern from go- occasional bit of buffoonery so in the midst of our particular ing astray. ,dear to the heart of usually se- situation in the revolution, it is a Robert Rudy, reeve of Tavi- date county councillors. very thrilling thing to move .stock added a long candle to hisVery Rev. F. G. Stewart of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Kitchener, was guest speaker.He stressed the importanceabout and to find young men are offering themselves for civic government."Many things are contributing to the revolution, Mr. Stewart stated. Whole continents areTlie "Mut and Jeff team of■MiYOUR BUSINESS AND MINEcollection. He has been known as the torchbearer for county council.The toast to the ladies was proposed by Wiiliam Weir of Till­sonburg and responded to by Mrs.,waking up, boom towns are ris- Clare EssouLnc, wile of the dop­ing and falling and there is a uty reeve of Tillsonburg. , change from rural to urban life. I Miss Doreen Urcn and MissCouncil-Planning BoardCo-Operation Questioned_ — - - - — - ■- ■ I 'l .... . ......By DON LEMIEUXAt last it happened!Something that had been brew­ing for months finally exploded Wednesday night in a special Woodstock Planning Board meet­ing.Al one point during the meet­ing, chairman A. R. Gillott saidINCONSISTENTwhe was apprehensive of getting'; _......11*......r.C ..But was Aid. Dent expect^ to ri' do this? Probably no eriti^jc.n’. would have been levelled at him if he bad been consistent a riel ft given fairly the Board's reasons for decisions!As Mr. Werry pointed out:council's approval of what jaywell be the most important plan- wbaI de{SsiotJ. The cbief r€8. mng stop ever undertaken by thez representative is ar>, Board. ' ~ -Report RabiesStill Exists In Oxford"Half the world is slave, half the world is free.” he exclaim­ed. "Half the world is hungry and half the world is faced with embarrassing surpluses.”There are two attitudes with which changes can be faced, he said, fear or confidence.SHOULD BE CONFIDENT"We ought to be confident,” he went on and he outlined threeAuiaa uikji aiju waft ,Annabelle Gooch of Toronto en- ' tertained with piano and vocalselections. Miss Uren, a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music, played "Sonnet 104" and ■‘uamipane.la" by Franz List. Miss Gooch sang a trio of gongts by Samuel Barber and selections from "The Great Waltz” and "The King and I".Warden Pearce rose to speakAbout 30 minutes after Mr. Gillott's uneasy statement, Aid.. T. H. Dent, wielding a self -; . righteous cudgel said, "Do you mean to imply that council is not co-operating with the Board? If you are, I am here to defend council.”"I don't mean to imply, I am! quite convinced council is not co-operating with the PlanningSpecimens from three animals., a cow. fox and skunk, suspected) of rabies, are being forwarded- to the Federal laboratories, Hull,) Quebec, today, reports Dr. D. W.' Thompson, veterinarian, with the Federal Health of Animals Bran-, ch. Woodstock.The cow was from the farm of Harry Arthur, near St. Marys, the fox came from Dereham, township and die skunk was 1 found elose to Hickson, Dr. Thompson stated.Last week a cow from the herd of Donald Innes, Embro, was re­ported to be a positive victim' of the disease. This is the third case reported after a lull of two months. Two cows were found to be rabid in the country the first week of November, one at Cur­ries and the other at Princeton.,Indications are that the disease is back in the north of the1 county again. It began there last year and by December 18, six rabid fox had been reported In the Lakeside. Brooksdale area.,The first verified case of rab- a ies in cattle was reported on the same date after a shorthornheifer died on ant Sutherland township.A rabid fox about a milethe farm of Bry-i in East Nissouriwas discovered from Brooksdaleone month ago, Dr. Thompson said this morning.ways in which confidence is at the conclusion of the evening, achieved. Man’s belief in self, “Thinking of the fine experien-man’s belief in his neighbour and man’s belief in God. are basic, fundamental truths which never change, he said.Thinking of the fine experien-ces of the past year, I have de­cided that they can be summed.The framework of democratic1 government will remain the'up with one word - people”, he | said."In county council you becomesame. Mr. Stewart continued, but those who carry it along must be old fashioned in their concepts and modern in their ideas."You can either sleep through the revolution or stand up and be awake and at the end of the century people will be saying the same wonderful things at a Warden’s banquet.”Mr. Pearce was congratulated on his fine performance while in office by MLA Gordon Innes of Woodstock, and by the mayors of(Continued on Page 3)WARDEN(Continued from Page 2> accustomed to associating with many fine groups of people. As warden, this is widened consid­erably.”He paid tribute to the officials of Ingersoll and Woodstock, to the staff at the county building, Woodstock, and to the staff inWoodstock, Ingersoll and Tillson-1 his own firm.burg, George LaFlair, Norman “To everyone who has contri- Pembleton and Lawrence Smith, buted to the greatest year of my A telegram of congratulations! life — thank you", he concluded.: from Wallace Nesbitt, MP, was, Head table guests introduced! read by toastmaster L. K. Coles, by Warden Pearce, included:"Accept my congratulations on Rev. and Mrs. O. G. Taylor of a splendid year of service to Ox- St. Paul's United Church. Tillson- ford county,” it read in part. burg; Mr. and Mrs. William“I want to compliment Ward- Weir; Mayor and Mi’s. George en Pearce on an excellent job,” LaFlair; Magistrate and Mrs. R. Mr. Innes stated. He added that G. Groom of Ingersoll; Mr. In­in his opinion Oxford takes a nes; Reverend Ste.want; Mr. and back seat to no county in Ontario Mrs. L. K. Coles; Mr. and Mrs. when it comes to capable ad- Pearce; Mayor and Mrs. Law- ministrati’on. , rence Smith; Mr. and Mrs. ClarejMayor LaFlair expressed his Esseltine and Mayor and Mis. appreciation for the co-operation Nonman Pembleton.which exists between the city of Woodstock and county council, as did Mayor Pembleton In re­gards to Ingersoll.Interspersed throughout theBoard," replied Mr. Gillott."Well, if that is so then_I, )have been one of the guilty par- : ties,” said Aid. Dent."You couldn't be more right,”;declared Mr. Gillott.M. J. Werry, ex - planning) Board chairman interrupted. He| said that what Was at stake was, an important principle. His inter­jection was well-timed. He stop­ped a rapidly developing heated personal exchange between Aid.Dent and Mr. Gillott.pointed to the Board is prim ar- ■ 1 ily to get the Board’s thinking: back to council”, he stressed.Then Mr. Gillott told Aid. Dentk that other council members look­ed to their planning represent?-- ' tive for guidance. His word would 5 mean a great deal to them. And®® that if their representative ex-’ pressed his own personal feelings 1 and not the Board’s it would certainly sway council's thinking.Aid. Dent has been heard to 3| tell council. ‘"For the record I J want you to know that I didn't M agree with this decision.” ’re­ferring, of course, to a planningBoard recommendation council at the time).MORE SHARP WORDS| But Mr. Werrv had sharp words: for Aid. Dent. He told him that:1 as council's representative on thebeforeNow, whether Aid. Dent war ft right or wrong in doing this, he U would automatically set up a block in council's mind. After all, E isn’t he one of them? This con­fusion block would especially ap-' .* ply' to the four new aidermen, | and the other councillors who; I la'1: any sort of background ini Z planning Board purposes and objectives.The only links the PlanningKaS Board he a bound to: BoardI has wi* council are th* : explain to council reasons why council representative which has. the Board arrived at its various Aid. Dent, when he was not decisions. absent’ and Mayor'At one point Mr. Gillott accus- HAS qtHER DUTIES ed Aid. Dent of h-ypoerjsy. thougnOgre’S).^th the rest of the Planning C^T,Board, that the Northdale School ^ons to attend. Bj. Mayor G T property should not be sold to build a retarded school’.Then Mr. Gillott claimed that Aid. Dent had reversed his stand:Not too much, however, canLaFlair has put in an appear- 3■ance at the beginning of meet­ings. only leaving them when ■pressed by other business.If;about, this contentious issue in a later council session."Well," explained Aid. Dent, “a different light was thrown on the subject when a request came back to lease the land for 20The only way to dear up pre-i judices existing in minds of coun-l cil members is just exactly what the Planning Board proposes to do. It wants council’s approval for two most important long - range planning studs’ stops. But not only is ii going to explain(years, not sell it outright,” I Is Aid. Dent confused about: Shis duties as a council represen­tative on the Planning Board?', person, it will also give each Evidence seems to prove he is- council member a brief to study; There must be some reason why As it appears likely, therefore,) । there has been so much confusion: [about planning Board matters in 1 council this year.And Why has the council not!the results of these movesinthat Aid. Dent has lost complete confidence of the Planning Board) the best move he can make IslS| to resign. He would do this with­out any urging if he had a social consciousness and the welfare of the .community at heart. If he ’ did so there is no question that much tension would be dissipaU ed. even though planning board)WARDEN'S DINNER TILLSONBURG EVENTruwm luik tv am. lftd; ,Let us hope that when, a new I council liaison man is appointed.approved a single, major Plan-j iijning Board recommendation this year?In all the council sessions thisreporter has attended, at whichAid. Dent was present (there- _were a great many he missed) members still talk to Aid. Dent this year) at no time was he T‘*f ,h:lt ’'h'*n "heard to give an objective. com-' prehensive background explana­tion for Planning Board de- w cisions.Betraying more misunderstan­ding of his Planning Board - council liaison role, he told Mr/to the planning board he is able.'' to control his personal feelings and is able to explain to coun­cil the Board's reasonings for decisions.Then, probably, there would| I Gillott. "I can’t go back to coun-. tension between civic bod-' 1 cil and tell them I am for some-) i®* that are trying to do esseo-M thing for which I am not.” tlally ’hl' -^me job. namely. |making this a better community 1 j to live In ®ljc utulnPublished by Thornton Newspaper* Limited, 382 Dundas Street, Woodstock, Ontario.PAGE &SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1959Downing Resignation PointsOut Council’s WeaknessesAfter considering all of the reports of made before city council this year. On the, Thursday evening’s city council session we two occasions their reoresentativps baveiYOUR BUSINESS AND MINETape Recorder Might Aid Confused CouncilBy DON LEMIEUX Whether council members । In county council all resolutionsTo avoid confusion city council i knew it or not, what they were|are written out. In Wood- ihould either use toe services of .voting upon, as interpreted by.stock city council they are never a tape recorder or a huge black-1 t he deputy clerk, the day after written out, only the routine board. |the council session, was this: tones. And only one aldetrmanThen when motions are present-1 "That the question of Daylight । ever writes out his motions be-ed 'they could either be played Saving Time be presented to the fore hand, namely Aid. Downing, bark nr read cn each Individual I general electorate at the next el- In C0UU’ty council a memberback, or read, so each individual general electorate at the next el- alderman would understa n d ection to be held Dec. 7, 1959.”clearly what issue is to be de- Meanwhile, back on the spect- cided, or voted upon. ators seats f.our women hedThere are many times in Wood- been waiting for more than two ftock's city council that a motion hours to see what council- would on toe same subject is presented do with their 587 signature peti- by two different aidermen. Often tion. A delegation spokesman when council is discussing a top- tried to make it clear that she ic on its agenda, a motion is offer-, was only asking that a vote be td. discussion 'resumed for about held at the next election.15 minutes, than a second repe- Here is the full text of the tative motion presented before" a petition presented:vote had been taken on the first. "A petition to the Mayor andOften, the first aiderman to council of the city of Woodstock, make a motion on a given topic, "Whereas toe citizens of Wood- or the mayor can he heard to say. stock have not had the oppor- "I believe there is a motion on tunity of expressing their opinion the floor now.” to the utter sur- on the matter of Daylight Sav- prise of the council member mak- ing Time since the municipal el- ing a second motion on the same ection of 1945, we, the undersign-i subject. ed residents of Woodstock re-Either that second person to spectfully request city council make the motion has not been to place before toe electors of toe paying attention in council, or city of Woodstock in the forth- there has been such a barrage of coming municipal election the ehatter about the subject that his [ following question: memory has become muddled, or "Are you in favor of toe city put temporarily into a comatose of Woodstock remaining on East­condition. To put it simply, his ern Standard Time for the entire thoughts may have wandered to year?” the World Series.But in council's last session, that didn't happen to Aiderman W. J. Neller. He was justifiably confused.CONFUSED ON MOTIONJust before a recorded voteVALIDITY QUESTIONEDThen Mayor G. T. LaFlair won­dered about the validity of the petition. He was not sure that a petition signed by 587 voters, many with a "no" placed after their names, warranted a vote.rises and asks the warden, "Is there anything before the chair?”"No," says the Warden. Then the resolution is read by the mover making the seconder also known. After it is read the re­solution is handed to the county clerk, given to the warden, who takes a vote on it. Then that motion, or resolution is finished.But what happens in city coun­cil here? It is the poor deputy clerk that has to guess the in­tent of councillors making the motions.ONUS ON CLERKMany times in council all that can be heard is, “So move”, to a matter. What is the poor deputy clerk to do? The onus is left on him' to frame an intelligible, comprehensive motion for the of­ficial minutes.Moreover, it is only after coun­cil sessions that the Deputy Clerk writes out motions in detail, but it is his interpretation, not the mover’s. The only guide he has is what he thinks council wants done.Furthermore, often in council's formal session, usually the lasthalf of the meeting, if there are no delegations or calculating ma­chines to buy, certain items on the agenda have never been sec­onded.Then the unfortunate deputy clerk, because he hasn't the time or the opportunity, is left on hiswas to be held on toe question He said early in the discussion c# daylight saving time, asked that council would have to decide for by Alderman W, A. Downing, whether a petition signed by 587 Aid. Neller confessed he was persons, out of a possible 11 or ,own most confused about the motion 12 thousand, electors justified a iu™ tLpresented to council by Aid. W. vote. favors the ,tem> ThlsB. Dutton. He asked for clarifies- ThI own. to pick a seconder he 'thinks favors the item. This is Then it was that Aid Dutton ■ .something that is probably un- ■LXV .,±^2 known members.Three Definitely Seek Wardenship council, said "I'm certainly go­ing to run". ।Three candidates have defin­itely announced their intentions of running for the office of War­den of Oxford County in the Jan­uary elections.Two oif five councillors whoMr. Virtue, who farms at RR. S 8 Woodstock and is beginning his fourth year on council, stated that he would be putting his name up for the third time. • K Another of last year’s candi-i dates, Herbert Balkwi-ll of Blen­heim. chairman of the road's committee of council this vear, 'has withdrawn to take over the 1 °f a Posttioa of roads superintendent' lumber mill nn Embro and a vet-1 in his own township.eran of two years on county | The fourth unsuccessful biddercontested the position last year, Donald Hossack, reeve of Em­bro and Hilton Virtue, reeve of East Oxford, will be campaign­ing again this year.for the wardenship last vearJ reeve P. L. Pressey of Dereham' was not available for comment.! ' However, it is believed that he •will try again.ML -.; ■ -'ALaat year. Mr. Pressey and' elected warden, Ed Pearce of ' Tillsonburg, were tied to the' thirteenth ballot. This made t' necessary for Mr. Pearce, as reeve of the municipality with; 'the largest equalized assessment, to east a second tie-breaking vote in favour of himself.A relative newcomer to count? council, reeve Ernest Garner of West Zorra, who i« beginning his second term, is also allowing his name to stand."West Zorra hasn’t had a war­den since 1942”, he said , Reeve W. W. Budd of West Ox­ford, commented yesterdav that “L.u, “considering” running.' litis Is as definite as I can be at the present time," he said. Mr. Budd is starting his third rear on county council.Mentioned as a fifth possible' contender reeve William Baigent of west Oxford, denied that hei^ was planning to run. "I think I might be sticking my neck out,’"/ Mr. Baigent told the Sentinel- r Review,He pointed out that three - years ago reeve Cecil Riddle of tne same township was elected and 'bellows from other parts of the county who are much more deserving than I haven't had it at' 3 all.His feelings were shared to '• some extent by former deputy reeve, now reeve, of Tillsonburg dare Esseltine.Mr. Essettine, who has his own automobile dealership stated that ne did not plan to run this vear as it would be practically wn- pos stole fo-r wardens to be elect­ed from the same municipality two years in su-ccesstion.He did indicate that he mar be interested next vear.tton. "Just what are we voting presented his motion, saying he Kn, Wn W most councU mem”ers. for?” questioned Aid. Neller. wished to have council declare I “ appears reasonable to as- He was not the only one. Most where it stood on the DST prob- ^.ur?e that council write out council members did not seem to lem, and whether it was going . resolutions, cut irrelevant talk may be silenced that the know what they vanted done, to allow a vote at the next elect- c"irPin8. U wiU be doing a great present council is a weak, fluster- Alderman Dutton's motion was ion. service for itself. ed one.If that were done, it is sub-1 And that it is a council that mitted, there would be less con- is unable to make up its mind, fusion and chance for error. Then tor that some members have not; the courage to make a stand be­cause of political opportunism. 're-phrased several times. Then But his motion was kicked the-next day the deputy clerk al- around and bandied about. Hence*o rephrased it — twiceAid, Neller's plea in the dark g for clarification.Mayor LaFlair tried to clear up the confusion. He explained that the motion asked whether or not council agreed to a peop- j Ie's DST vote.If Aid. Neller became confused i about what motion he was voting for, or against, and what it meant bt cannot be blamed. What can n blamed is council'/! clear-cut lack of business-like efficiency.Council might copy something from county council’s routine of■1 3 ,! < ,..’’ 'i.. . /c • j ’ .• i.»t. 'V. td leet from the eentre mir or , tin* street except which there Is -closed wuh ti hymn. p; Fatrojit’r Mfr E.. n.UW.M'MMlM VM.Which IhM shall govern. Markham. Mrs. G. German wa ;This by law shall e<nne into । appointed n?1 the now secretary, force and take effect from andwhich ihM sh»ll govern.,, ,. A reixmt. of the cards siht outafter the day m>on ii reedves the ln tl!(, in<.|{ an(1 ghuMn members approval of the Ontario MunichpalNOA theBoard. ” ,OBJECTIONby-law no 3289A to enact restricted area repealing orwas given and n moment of sli* cnee was observed for H. Curbs, who passed away since the last meeting.HI. was decided, that as soon asthe member,; IntereuWng things which have gone <>n during their liven.Many of the merri&ers display­ed their hobbies nt the meeting, with prizes going to Mt#. A, Hawas and Mrs. J. Butcher for their work.Mrs. S. McKibbon won a prizeamending by-laws oT the Corpor­ation of ttie Town of Ingersoll was passed without, objection.a piano can be arranged for, donated by Mr s', J. E. Smith, for future meeting will be held in being Ute eldest member pre- the Ingersoll and District Mem- sent. ___ The Ingersoll District Colleg- I meeting of the Ingersoll Kiwan- iate Institute ‘‘Choralettes,” a ■ is Club. Kawaman Peter Breel, vocal quartet. which made an who explained to the club ab- appearance on television at “<Hospdtal Administration.”seen taMd^ecbor, John DiZazzo, and sing­ers Elaine Lambert, Ruth Fa- I ber, Elaine Emery and Karen | Paddon about their successfulTV dttbut. (Staff Photo.)Curlers Name Club PresidentAnderson Thornton has been elected president of the new or­ganized Ingersoll Curling Club at a meeting held at the Ingersoll and District Memorial Centre. Dr C. J Kennedy was elected vice president; Elwood Lemon, secretary; and George Powell, treasurer.The membership committee in­cludes: Mrs. J. Longfielid, J. Cole, B. Lyndon. Mrs. L. Mc­Nabb. Members of the property committee are J. Lomgfield, N. Wilson, W. Garratt and J. lan- naeUi, Dr. W Walker andMrs. Tom "Wilson were electedmembers of the house committee] and R. Moore, J. B. Mitchell, Mrs. Al. B. Clark and Mrs. Gord­on Paterson were elected to the, schedule committee.The newly formed executive of the club was authorized to order 64 granite curling stones from Scotland.Approximately 20 of the 87 me­mbers have accepted an invitat­ion of the Norwi'eh arena and Curling Club to play there Wed­nesday night, starting at 8 o’clock.The next meeting has not been announced as yet. although it is hoped that the season will open early in January. Monday nights have been reserved tor curling.THOU SHALT NOT KILL’DRIVECAREFULLYKIWANISYEARS AGO(From Sentinel-Review Files) 25 YEARS AGOProvincial police from London were in Putnam and Ingersoll investigating a burglary at Suth­erland Brothers chopping mill at PutnamThe Big JEight Society held a busy meelmg, aippointing com­mittees and planning the annual Christmas Cheer work. Rev. J. G. Miller gave a talk on Com­munity Service.Mrs. Jolin Adams, resident of Ingersoll for more than 50 years, died at her home, John Street, inMcROBERTSFUNERAL HOME125 Duke St. Phone 677G.E.service on au make*.HALEY AND SELDONTngersoll. No. 2 Highway Phone 658WFOR MISSED PAPERS IN INGERSOLL PHONE 593If yon have not received your Sen tin el-Re view by 7 pun. phoneGOLDY'S TAXIAll calls must be placed before 7.80 p.ra.herA85th year.15 YEARS AGOlarge crowd enjoyed the or- recitai by Harold A. Rid-Pre-Christmas LUGGAGE CLEARANCEgan dolls, organist and choir leader of Trinity United Church. Mem-bers erf the- choir assisted'.Pte. Lloyd Grainger, formerly of fngerrMl, was reported miss­ing in Holland.I Fred Stephenson of SS No. 4, North Oxford was winner of the public school contest at Foddens adiool. _____________Women’sTWIN SETS . . .(an exceptional value)s2595MEN'S LUGGAGE $9.95. $8.95. $7.95Single pieces at reduced prices.Lay away now for CHRISTMAS • PAY AS YOU CAN •UNDERWOOP'S SHOE STr~ are rimvhiced of severaf 1 hings:Firstly _ The most ineffective city council in years holds office in the Wood- stock council ehamixu's.Secondly—This council is leer by an inefficient, even if well-meaning mayor.Thirdly -No organization which fields a delegation acting like the Woodstock, Ingersoll and District Labor Council has a right to seek representation on a civic committee. .Fourthly—Until the citizens oi Wood- stock elect a city council which is prepaivd to put politics, electioneering and self in­terest aside for the good of the whole com­munitv the citizens might just as well shelve anv industrial procurement pro­gram and save the taxpayers something like $10,000, the department’s budget for this year.Fifthly—Aid. W. A. Downing was jus­tified in submitting his resignation as chairman and member of the department of industry and sticking by his decision.Sixthly—What this city needs is a hard-fought election to clear the air and the wheat from the chaff.Thursday evening in a regular council session for the second time this year Woodstock council chose between the rec­ommendation of one of its own members and a noisy demonstration by a delegation which was marched into the council cham­bers to become a mob despite claims by its leaders for democratic treatment.Council members should listen and be guided by public opinion but, and a very important “but,” having heard all sides of the issue should then be allowed to discuss in a meeting without interference or coer- tion the policy to be followed. Those who attempt to sway council in this way are wrong or misled. They should be coerced in this way are wrong or misled. They should be corrected in the first instance that they might conduct themselves prop­erly. The great wrong, however, is in mem­bers of council, some not included, who win allow themselves to be swayed in their thinking by pressure during the council sessions. Those in the council chambers Thursdav evening know these could be named bv the applause which greeted their efforts to curry favor with the so- called delegation. This sort of contempt for council’s position has hamstrung efforts of the civic body to accomplish its work this year. The record of indecision, of changed policy, of not putting trust in the function of boards which they themselves had ap­pointed has made for a most ineffective civic governing body.While the mayor did not pick his coun­cil and should not be held responsible for its content nor for all of its indecision and lack of leadership, he must, take a very large share of the blame for this condition. The lack of control in at least two sessions of council have left council in a most shameful position of floundering . iThis may be construed as a persons'! at- tatk.lt is not intended as such. We believe Mayor LaFlair to be a civic official who is honest and who is sincerely endeavoring to .do a job. He has a long record of some effective work on city council. However, we do believe council and especially this year’s council is In need of leadership be­yond what it is being given.Groups in the city having an interest In the work of civic bodies we commend for their interest, and uphold. We hold, however, that vitally important bodies in the civic organization such as the parking authority, the industrial department and the planning lx)ard need appointees for their own abilities and not for the organ­ization's sake nor the number of votes which they represent. One of the first. ■ qualifications for such an appointment is I responsibility. We fail to see that trait was ■ portrayed in either of the two appearances_en accompanied by a platoon-sized dele gatioh pri pncvd to tokt bill part in th Council’s deliberations, if this is the man-H ner in which members of the labor council! would have the city's business conducted J they should not be included on civic com­mittees as representatives of that organ­ization. This should not prevent their ap­pointment as individual citizens should they possess the qualifications required.The report which was rejected 'Thurs­day evening was a move designed to lift the procurement of industry as a program out of the hands of city council in-so-1ar as its administration is concerned. Over the past dozen years or so the record of this city's industrial expansion has been a poor showing compared with other munici­palities with the same advantages and qualifications. This is not to say we do not appreciate those firms which have located here during this time nor the praiseworthy expansion of those industries which have been here. But surely it is time we grew up and looked at the job some other places, most others, in fact, have been doing. Frankly, and we have said so before, we don’t measure up. One big reason for this lack on Woodstock si part is the body which has been set up to do the job of seeking out more industry. Through this dozen years it has been tied with too little funds, too litle imagination and to a great degree by too much political football playing on the part of the mem-| bers of city council who have served on it in its various forms of organization. This present set up is no better than we had for years. This year was the time to make a change and get a body which could get the job done successfully and a body which was not looking for votes or civicglory. , ,It is evident from Thursday’s perform­ance and the one earlier in the year during which the department of industry was un­der discussion that the establishment of such a program is not possible while the present council is in office. We believe un- til something is done about this condition in council the city might better put the amount of the department’s budget into other channels where it would at least accomplish something for the expenditure. . Aid. Downing’S resignation from the department of industry we feel was justi­fied in his own explanation to council that it was made because of- the words spoken and not by the decision of council to reject his report which in itself reflected no con­fidence. .The reisgnation from his post as chair­man of the department of industry should point out to council the precarious position in which it has been placing its boards and committees this year by ignoring advice, to make willy-nilly decisions and later to reverse its position.There was some regret expressed that Aid. Downing and the other two members of the executive of the department did not see fit to take the matter to a full depart­ment meeting before presenting it to coun­cil. We would remind those who expressed this regret that earlier in this year the department of industry reached a unani­mous decision at one of its own meetings and when it came council’s turn to con­sider the report some members of the de­partment who sat on council reversed their opinion before outside pressure and voted against their own report. This in itself is sufficient reason for wanting to stream­line the department and for passing the report direct to council.In our opinion the issue is no longer what, should be done to improve the de­partment of industry and its operation. The pressing issue at hand now is what can lie done to improve the city council and its function as a body? INomination day approaches and elec­tion day is December 7 the final answer Work Projects In OxfordCost Over $1,000,000 In 59Spend M97.W Ouf of» On Road JobsWestern Ontario EditionFRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1959—SECOND SECTION > *WOODSTOCK. Dec. 10 — Expenditures on roads md bridges and other ^ county works projects dur­ing the past year cost just over $1,000,000, the roads committee reported to Ox­ford County council to­night.Spend $497,407The only road jobs planned and not completed during the year were grading preparation’s on roads 10 and 33. For roads only, some 5501,953 was approp­riated. while only $197,407 will have been spent by the end of the year.A bridge and culvert program, budgeted at $151,700 was carriedout with the exceptionchannel near theimprovementof a projectBlandford-Blenheimboundary, where, the report said, “difficulty was experienced in obtaining .permission to di­vert the stream across private property.”A bylaw to limit vehicle weight to two tons on the Moscow Bridge, west of Drumbo, was given final reading and passed. The bridge was damaged and weakened when a bulldozer smashed into it several weeks ago.Council also made the follow-right: Herbert Balkwill, Blenheim Township reeve; Warden Pearce, Charles Coldham, deputy reeve of Blenheim, and Howard McCombes, reeve of Ncr- wich.HONOR OXFORD WARDEN—Oxford County War­den E. R. Pearce, who is reeve of Tillsonburg, last night was presented with a movie projector by county council at its final 1959 session. Left toing appointments to high school boards: Kennedy, Woodstock, Martin. Tillsonburg.districtEdward'Robert' Wilfred!Williamson, Paris. John Oliver. Ingersoll, and Howard Mc­Combes, Norwich.Gift to Warden Ends Oxford Council YearRetardedSchool FundA {Substantial boost to the Wood-stock Rotary Club's fund-rals-ingcampaign for the new retarded, children's school, was announced; Monday at the regular meeting of, the Club.wax a cheque for $1,500 received from the county of Ox- '•. ford, as announced by the fund treasurer, Cha rleg Blackman.IHS BoardAppointmentsAippoirrtees to local high school1 . boards were announced by Ox- . ford County Council during tlhe> morning session.They are: John Oliver, Inger­soll High School Board.; Howard Mccombs, Norwich District High School Board; E. V. VIBudJKennedy, Woodstock Suburban Area High School District Board;Robert Mair tin, TiHscmfourg Area' High School Board: Wilfred Will-iamson, Panis High School Area Board.The wind-op session of Coun­cil tonight will feature a presen­tation to retiring Warden Ed Pearce and farewell remarks by " the four members besides Mr. Pearce, Herbert Balkwill and Charles Coldham of Blenheim,: James Chesney of East Zorra and Howard McCombs of Nor-| wioh, who are retiring from Council this year.Free Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK. Dec. 10 A presentation to Oxford County Warden E. R. Pearce, of T1H- sonburg, tonight wound county council’s functions 1959.Reeve Herbert BalkwillHP forofBlenheim Township presented a motion picture projector to the Tillsonburg reeve, who will not hold any municipal office year.Mr, Balkwill pointed Warden Pearce became 105th Oxford warden January after beating out other candidates for the county post,Major Projects"Several major projects been completed during nextout theIn four tophave yourterm of office," said Mr. Balk­will, citing the floodlighting of WORK ON HIGHWAY 401Late 1961 CompletionOf Link Is Possibilitythe courthouse, the completion! of Governor’s road, the county­wide Salk vaccine program, and enlargement of the courthouse parking space.He aLo thanked Mr. Pearce, on behalf of council, for his “guidance, leadership, and co-' | operation.”Warden Pearce had some ad-j vice for county councilors aspir-, ing to the wa^denship: "Don't let the job scare you." he said. “It never gets boring or ' strenuous if you have enough interest.''Deputy Reeve Charles Cold-; . ham, of Blenheim, assisted in the presentation, while Reeve Howard McCombes of Norwich] took over the chair for tha ceremony.Several former wardens were; present.For the Achievement of the^ year: congratulations to the farm-, ers of Oxford county. Ontario, for i the sustained high quality of their) cheddar cheese, second to none in the world, and a genuine pleas- ,j ure to eat in contrast to some of the costly “processed” cheeses, spreads and similar traitors to/ the name of cheese. The large Oxford cheddar at Christmas isi a keenly anticipated tradition in • my home—a position earned by merit. * mW■ .FINAL MEETING OF 1959 OXFORD COUNTY COUNCILOxR rd County Council met yes- In committee, left to right, John Warden Edward Peiarc® of Till-1 “T ”*"*• ,iamCouncil ’ rea-ssembles m 1960 by acclamation, GeorgeWarden Edward Peanc-e of TiU-some familiar faces will be miss­ing and some new ones added.cil this year and Donald Hoss- ack, reeve ot Embro, returned। Nagle, deputy retve'also returned by acclamation, by acclamation. (Staff ^oto.)of Deireham.County Council Given Report On Road WorkA summary of the work car-, out on ^e county road sys­tem in 1959 was presented to Ox-blower, which is not being man­ufactured now, to a blower inford County Council last night.Ordinary construction and maintenance costs wil be appro- ximately $20,000 less this year than the $480,000 provided for ina n dthe bylaw. The expenditure und­er tile supplementary bylaw for construction will be approximat­ely the $545,300 provided.Tenders have been called fortwo truck chassis with cabs ' two boxes with power-drivenand san-ders. Approval has been receiv­ed from the Department of High­ways for the purchase of two In­ternational Trucks with cabs at a net cost of $8,500 and two East­ern Steel material spreaders at a cost of $5,900.Tenders were called on for the conversion of the Snow Kinggeneral, use in Ontario, and Nor­dic Truck and Equipment Limit­ed was awarded the contract at a price of $9,976.The bridge program of $151,- 700 for the year was completed except tlie channel improvement on the Blandford-Blenheim boun­dary at concession eight where difficulty was experienced in ob­taining permission for diverting the. stream across private prop­erty. There will be a credit iniunfavorable weather conditions during October.Drainage materials for road 10 and 33 have been purchased andare now in stock. Of the $501,953 appropriated for road construct­ion, the estimated expenditure for the year will be $497,407.General maintenance was car­ried on during the year. Two ap­plications of dust-layers were made on all gravel surfaces ex­cept those under construction at the time of the second applica-1ui uic sewna appuca-i j tion. The shoulders of the roads; , were mowpd and fhathe bridge and culvert account; were mowed and the remainderof approximately $10,000.NEARLY FINISHEDThe construction program for the year was completed except the finishing of Road 10 grade preparation and the work on grade preparation on Road 33. This work was curtailed owing to;of the road sides were sprayed with chemical weed killer.An additional 200 rolls of snow fencing have been purchased to replace fence no longer service­able due to years of use...Stock piles of sand have been put up and treated with salt. The& stock piles have been madeCounty Council Opens Final Session Of 1959much larger this year with the hope of avoiding running out of! sand during the winter as hap- | pened last February.Extensive gravel and hard-top patching was carried out during *> the year.The report was submitted by ' [ the chairman of the roads com-'mittee, Herbert Balkwill, reeve of Blenheim.Oxford County Council conven- ed this morning, beginning the three-day session which marks the end of Warden E. R. Pearce’s .■ term of office.Among the correspondence read by county clerk-treasurer L.. J'. ..■Eftwere:Two resolutions from the coun- ■ ty of Essex to the effect that hunters wear a back patch witha number inscribed on it and that the amount obtainable from the Department of Agriculture on tic loan be increased from $30 to $60 per acre.A recommends tion from the municipal council of the county erf Wellar.d to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Premier I>eslle Frost, that at Federal - Provincial meetings to be held in the near future, joint action be taken by the two governments to i make sufficient funds availableto municipalities and counties at a reasonable interest rate for borrowing to finance necessary capital expenditures.This resolution also expressed great dissatisfaction with the present seven per cent interest rate which has been set by the Ontario Municipal Improvement Corporation.A resolution from North Lamlb- ton Women's Institutes suggest­ing standardization of school bus­ses and equipment to prevent accidents.DEER SEASONA report from the Ontario De­partment of Lands and Forests, He&peler, stating that the firstopen deer season In scene years in the five counties of Brant, Huron, Oxford, Waterloo and Wellington, did not result in theI domestic animals or human be­ings.The report continued by point­ing out that there were fewer hunters in the field than antici­pated, the deer kill was much less than the herd could stand and hunters behaved well, for th® ■ most part.The Department expressed the desiitre to announce the opening of, the deer season at an earlier, date next year and asked th® wishes of the county councjla involved, In this regard.Tomorrow councillors' will en­tertain their wiiws at a dinner at the New Comimenclal Hotel in Woodstock.Final business of the 1959 term will be concluded Thursday night."wholesale slaughter'* of deer, 1 w:rr* WGIFT FOR EDWIN PEARCELAST NIGHT marked the end of the final session of Ox­ford County Council for 1959 and with it the end of Edwin Pearce’s term of office as the 105th Warden of the county. LEFT Reeve Herbert Balikwill of Blenheim, left, presents Mr. Pearce, right, with an auto­matic slide projector and an Former Warden Ken Marshall Retiring From Public ServiceNORWICH: —N. M. Marshall, ■ ed as a member in 1940 anda former warden of Oxford County, is concluding a quarter century of outstanding service to Norwich Village at die end of this year. The last office heheld was as a member of the •tinned a member since. Since Norwich District High School I' ” .Board, from which he resigned earlier this month and his suc­cessor is to be Reeve Howard McCombs.It was in 1934 that Mr. Mar- shall was elected to the Norwich the board for several years at Council, and he served for three the time. As chairman he had years before being elected reeve the honour to declare the newin 1937. He held ■that office for, .school o.Ofi ci ally open. In all these'three years and on the third year offices Mr. Marshall has given j ov w“a m®*1'he was seleoted by the county conscientious and ou&tanding ser-1 spoke^R^eve JHerb-counciiliors to be warden. That vice and his contributions of ser-j will stand out as the hilghlight of vice will be missed.his municipal career because it He is the manager of the Nor- h*-------- —»“*.was in 1939 that the late King widh District Co-operative Com- slide projector on behalf of Coun- . George 6th and Queen Elizabeth pany, a position he has held since;visited Canada, and Mr. Mar- be was a mere boy. In addition| Mr. Balkwill read the accom-shall, as warden, gave them wel- he served several years as the .jpanying citation which express-come to Wood'-tock on behalf of । president of the Ontario Co-oper- , ed the appreciation of the me­al! the citizens of Oxford County, stive Company and turned down mbers for the leadership andHe and Mrs. Marshall were pre- repeated offers to become the. General Manager In Toronto. Hepseated to their Majesties. [General IOne of the things that stand: I has been out in Ken's tn Ann<n.r><M(nn and still. ... active in various sportsm.nd. in connection and still is a leader in lawnwith the visit of their Majesties, 1q his difficulty in obtaining prop­er dre-ss, A big m>an he had to hunt many stores In Toronto be­- fore he finally found a eoat that would fit his large shoulders. It was only about a day before Ihe >= visit that he knew he would be outfitted in form’attire.As reeve he wasE ly a member of the Public Uhlii y Wi Commhfrion and he eon-umi- 1 accompanying citation, on be- [half of Council members. I* RIGHT also retiring from Council this year to join the■ ranks of the ‘‘senators”, left to right. James Chesney of East Zorra. Charles Coldham, of Blenheim and Howard M>c-। Combs of Norwich. (Staff Pho­to).1941. In 1942 he became a memb­er of the High School Board, the first former student at the scho­ol to become a member of the governing body, and he has con-the Norwich District High School ^or(J county Ed Pearce of Till- — - - .... sonburg, will be lifted from itsBoard was formed he has be« the County Represenltative. Mr. IMarshall had much to do with J preparations for building the new school and he was chairman of!bowling activities. He will c6n-i tinue the e without his public responsibilitiesGovernor B ^oac?' ! township of Blenheim, was pass*Mr, Pearce thanked the me- ed.limbers, stating that it was a very, pleasant year for both hi* wife:^"®2>';, "eRetiring Warden Cited For A Successful TermIn a few weeks’ time the pic­ture of the 105th warden of Ox­place of honor at the front of the council chambers in Wood- stock and relegated to a position alongside the wardens who have gone before him.Last night Mr. Pearce made his farewell address to the Coun- ly Council which he has served so well this past year.: crt Balkwill and Deputy Reeve Charles Coldham of Blenheim,• presented him with an automaticguidance which Mr. Pearce has ed that Mr. Coldham will be sad- the Farm Drainage Act ly missed (tor reasons too num- The property committee re-j erous to mention) in the coming commended that cooling equip*, provided.TESTSListed in the citation were some of the accomplishments during the Warden's term of of-. uurwg, M a w une bylaw, to the effect that five Cancer society Rooms tn theflee including the floodlighting: a© vehicle or combination <rf ve- basement of the Court House be Of th<f COUntv Ulith n Hrninbt in I >k'itK rK-%. n»i t <4 >mof the County Building, free ad-[ ulf Alin 1 fu. Avtrn iliiclrlnu, tee County Building, free ad- hides with a weight In excess provided with the understanding: ,ult polio climes, extra park ng of 4,000 pounds, shall be opera t- that the society pay $00 to Space behind the County Build- over Moscow Bridge on conn- ward it and in return receive mg and the completion of the ty road 29 at lot eight in the three years of free rental........... l'"n'4 ‘ ........... Cou ;d at apprwdJing can take the place of being warden of the county for a year."It is something money can’t buy you and nothing can take away from you,” he stated.Following the warden's re­marks, individual members rose to congratulate him and to ex­tend the greetings of the season to both Warden Pearce and members of Council.Four members besides Pearce, retire from Council year.They include Mr. Balkwill,theMr. thisMr.Coldham, Reeve James Chesney of East Zorra and Reeve Howard McCombs of Norwich.Veteran of a dozen years ser­vice, Reeve. Robert Rudy of Tavistock, told Mr. Pearce that he had "done an excellent job for Oxford county” and comment-year.PASS BYLAWfilm. Also, that the heating ofOne bylaw, to the effect that the Cancer Society Rooms in thehides with a weight in excessThe bylaw will not become ef­fective until approved by the De­partment of Highways and until a notice of the load limit has been posted at each end of the bridge.Reports from the committees on agriculture, finance, equaliz­ation and assessment, printing and resolutions and property were also read and approved.The agriculture committee re­commended no action be taken on resolutions from other count­ies regarding; licensing boys from 14 to 16 years of age to drive tractors; compensation for cows dying while quarantined for rabies (from causes other than rabies'; forcing hunters to wear! numbered back patches and changing the amount of money obtainable for tile drains under ment be purchased for the Reg­istry Office for the storing ofmately 9 p m. MR. AND MRS. ALLAN KNEALEConfidenceVote GivenStagerCounty ClerkSaid SmearedDeputy Reeve Gordon Bolen­der of Preston said he felt the clerk's reputation and character was above reproach and sponsor­ed the vol®. The motion was sec­onded by Reeve Carl Weitzel of Ayr.The warden said ft was disturb-! Jng and depressing to receive such letters and if criticism was due, It should come from theFormer Oxford Residents Celebrate 50th Anniversary In Brantford, Ont,A standing vote of confidence was accorded County Clerk Char-| les H. A. Stager at the final ses­sion of county council yesterday.Warden Howard Ziegler, reeve of Woolwich Township, said he had received a letter attempting to incriminate Mr. Stager. The letter was not read in council • but the warden said he felt it was "a smear letter” accusing; the clerk of working for a can­didate during the recent munic-i ipal elections.REQUESTS VOTE“I’ts all very well to criticize our public servants,” he said, “but any criticism, I think, should com$ first from the Coun­ty Council, not from an outsid­er.“At this time, I would enter­tain a vote of confidence in our! clerk.”Mr. and Mrs. Allan Kneale of 90 Lorne Crescent, Brantford, celebrated their golden wedding • anniversary Dec. 22. They were at home io their friends on the X afternoon and evening of that day. Mr. Kneale established the •; 3 Allan Kneale Insurance Company in Brantford in 1925.Greeting guests at the recept­ion wl'h Mr. and Mrs. Kneale were Mrs Mac Eva Hogarth)the bonne of the bride. TheHere the couple’s four sonscouple settled on an adjoining , were born and received most of farm, but resided there only two ‘v' *J m। their education. .They are (Hugh Kneale “of Hamilton, a spe­cialist in psychiatry; H. Vernonyears.Born on a farm in East Ox- - - .v u....;j „ ~ '•d-rvoi- Kneale, in* the inibur since utisi-ford near Woodstock, JVlr. Kneale, i\/rson of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas1Kneale of Vandecar, attended S 1 ’ diora ana Allan D. Kneale, with the insurance company here. AUmaitriculatioii' a'.nci m Urs early -• -- -twenties was elected to the East Oxford Township Council. Later,the sons enlisted ih the serviceMcCennan of Toronto, who was while still in his twenties, he was oridesm a id at rhe wedding 50 elected Reeve. He was a mem-during the war. There are 12 grandchildren.Since coming to Brantford Mr. Kneale has been active in Brantyears ago; Mrs. Eldon Gerry of ber of the Methodist Church of XvanS United Church and the! Ite bride's nieceQ ’ [ sidenit and Ueutenant-go'vernor ofAfter the farm experience,'the latter.was the Gower girl.Pouricg tea were Mrs. Kneale’s sister. Mrs. I. F. Metcalf of , Greenfield. Mass., who played the wedding march; Mrs. M. F. Muir Gf Toronto: another sister, Mrs. Florence Innes of Ottawa; Mrs. M. M. Kneale of Woodstock;Mr. Kneale purchased a hard-]_ Mrs. Kneale’s interest has been ware store in Burford. While in Ln Brant Avenue Church and the Burford he helped, secure hydro Brantford Music dulb. She is a for the visage and was its sec- past member of the Brant Ohap-i retary for some years, also sec- ter, ICDE.Mrs. H. 5. Farrar and Mrs. W. A. Thorpe, both of Brantford.The bride of 50 years ago wasretary of the Public School Board and Director of the Agricultural Society.Mr. and Mrs. Kneale say a successful marriage is a give and take proposition and after_ . _ __ „ In 1914 he sold the hardware spending a half century togeth- Miss Grace Juanita Sage, da ugh- business and purchased the Sawn-] er, they’re efijoying their grand-] ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Mor- ders Insurance Agency, selling children — ‘‘just having a good®ris Sage of Vandecar. The late,this in 1925 to mwe to Brant- time,” They spend most of them . Rev. H. C. Eddie was officiating ford and start his insurance winters in Florida. ('Photo cour-clergyman for the wedding at business here.tesy of Brantford Expositor)^Assessor Accused of 'Hiding' Figures From County CouncillorsCounty assessor Harold J. Snid- ures brought back to the com-i er was accused of "hiding’' fig- mittee for study and compare ures from county councillors yes-them with local assessments.! terday at the final session of the Reeve Witmer said the commit- y«r• tee did not get what was asked,Reeve Willard Witmer of Wil- "These figures are now my pro-1 mot Township, chairman of the perty," said Mr. Snider.? special committee on assessment, "Do you not act according toi ■ told council he thought the asses- instructions from this council?" sor was trying to evade answering asked Mr. Witmer.. questions from the committee. "Yes, but also under the pro­Early this year, the committee vincial statutes," said Mr. Snider.' and the assessor decided to make The assessor explained the fig-Since compiling the figures, he felt the idea of reassessment should be dropped temporarily and county equalization figures, would be presented by him rather than accepting local assessments as equalized.He said he attended a special meeting of assessors recently and,Dr.- .ECD4>in m0)& o =3a o .2<y£o>■5<pEs 5 £ « E I, rato >» O. v _ 5 CS■B a.5 *« -SeoZ’Epw 03 " S— —? £2O © P C9 U c;■PS W ”2 0 - CL p01 2 £u «.52 o © «S 5in0CDJ,<u§ a n a> sa spot check throughout the coun-ures proved older houses, com- If ly to find out any inequalities in merciai and industrial properties । assessment in the county munici-ii E palities.on the query from the Depart­ment of Municipal Affairs, the executive body of the assessors! , organization recommended to thedepartment that county assessorsSPEAKS OF FIGURESMr. Witmer said the original plan was to have the check made on 15 different types of buildings /• in each township, have the fig-across the county are not assess' ed as high as they should be com­pared to farms and new homes, He said he had pressed tor com­plete reassessment across the county since being appointed as­sessor in January. 195flrcouncil.OTHER BUSINESSIn other business the commit­tee investigating formation of a county health unit recommend­ed next year’s council continue! the study.Retiring council member Fred! Howard, new mayor of Elmira, Erwin Nelson, reeve of Hespel-i er, Simon Friedmann, deputy! reeve of Wellesley Township, r both defeated in municipal elec-i tions, and the two representa­tives from Wilmot, Reeve Wil-] ; lard Witmer and Deputy Reeve Clarence Diamond who are op­posing each other next week, made brief speeches.Mr. Howard presented the war­den with an engraved gave! from councillors.Warden Ziegler, in his farewell' speech, said he felt it was a mis­take for county councillors to be; politicians. This year, especially on the road and bridge commit­tee, the council had tried to be fair in allocating county expen­ditures.“I cannot see this lobbying for! position by different municipal­ities,” he said. “We should let the engineer pick the roads to be worked on. He knows where the work is needed,”o© o-. otn JZ go ~ ’3G w £ «oE »ES<U2.2 s5“£m v; © “S5 & ,S „ oA oISaEQ£OE-< l.aE “3to a“■co5 C « o OSM-a °>g©■43- = = & K o « >2 « 5tn t3c*cnft)EES *" g ?-2 g - 3 ® C<U C ° w u s x y « £o.Sc u" & o5 w 5 M St> a c q : • o u w* v £ al « 0^2“5 S £ o * x EtnS2 s S<» 1=o «:i45;a^s? g“aHe said he would forget the re­assessment plan but would "do my job as the statutes say l| , should."s He intends to go to all municL • ' palities in the county, obtain ac-• 1 1 1 hml ,.nlbe given the authority of an as sessment commissioner. > jtual sales and assessment figurcsiIf assessment commissioners and equalize the assessments so are not appointed," he added, "as- (hat all types of property would sessing may be taken over by the be approximately 40 per’cent of province." |r today’s values.o c w<U ® 33§§ SsfE §w M o.« S x> cj *=< DfiloS 3 a c o gSSoc'Ev” E E 5 ‘E 5a“ u - o . Ec: u<u c oQ -ii « O © *< «S o 3£ Era Sa£ K3£= 5 » « O U xlEi»'So so W g U« E-fe 8B.E gHis report, he concluded, would! be ready by June 1, 1960Reeve Witmer said he. was dis^ Curbed about the whole situation although happy that the idea oM reassessment has been dropped) He expected the committee would be given the figures from th® chocks made in all municipali­ties. ■th YKARS AGOWork of widening the Gover-1 nor’s Road between Woodstock I and Thamesford was underway, ■ the county road sluff. KW. J. Wright, sanitary inspec-: tor of the Oxford County Health) Unit for three years, resigned his, ■ position.Robert Oliver, former warden! at Oxford County, died at hist home in Thamesford at age 81.Dr O C Powell Oxford MOH was In Toronto attending the con-j . ference of Ontario Health Offi-i .I Eleven Mx bounties xycre paialfor the month of Octobsr byf-,; ; County Clerk L. K. Coles.City council moved io have!.Woodstock join tlie Oxford Coun­ty Health Unit, doing a-way with the city board of health.the 20th ballot, at the opening ofReeve George Fewster o f Nortti Norwich was elected ward­en of Oxford County for 1949 on155 c£ft5A<DO YOU REMEMBER?‘ C. J. Eichenberg, reeve of TilVp sonburg, was elected warden of I _ __ Oxford County for .1944 at the^ the county council. * - — -• opening January meeting of coun-, ;•• council _______Request of Woodstock city Th», fix ford countv snowplows!1: -Ecouncil to Oxford county council’ ™K > ■ of)erntiOn only 11 1 —• -for use of the council chamber; hours alt winter, a record low for ‘1 J; opening meeting of county j nours au w*m<r, a ■ ■ council. He aucceeded J. F. Me-1' Donald of East Zorra. HCouncilor W. F. Campman oiljor use or me council cnamoei .in the courthouse for city police Iy!court, was turned down. >Reeve W. A. Cockburn of BFn-; 'helm was elected chairman of tlhc/Oxford County and Ingersol ln|uxiora uouniiy anoHealth Unit for 1949Warden George Fewster was tomany years.'From Hentlnel-Revlew File*) 25 YEARN AGOArlington D, Hobinson« reeve of . West Oxford, was elected ward-! .. eri of Oxford county for 1034 al WOxford County Health Unit held | 'its annual banquet at. the New j F? Commercial hotel, followed by the regular meeting at the court­house presided over by W. A.Cockburn, chairmanREFERS TO MANUAL"Are you working for the Coun- Jty Council or for the govern- Iment?” he asked the assessor.It >7 Mr. Snider repeated he was working for the county under in­structions from the government. Deputy Reeve Fred Howard of Elmira said he thought the assess ; sor was influenced too much by • . the desire to use the new proving cial assessment manual through- . out the county. He added the ap- , pointed committee should have been given the opportunity to j study the figures.Mr. Snider said publishing the figures would serve no good pur­pose, but they were available to any member of council, at his of- . fice.Warden Howard Ziegler term­inated the discussion by asking for a motion that a committee be W appointed next year to further study , county assessment.15 YEARS AGO? Court officials and staff at the courthouse honored Judge F. E.• Perrin, who recently retired, with1a presentation. _ b- i Work was begun on the rede-, gfes ; ©oration of County Clerk L. K., Cole's office in the county court-; house.' : Final session of the year of I Oxford county council opened at the court house with Warden J-, . c. Eietenberg ■Retiring warden of Oxford, J. C Eidheoberg, was pre^mted. with an inscribed silver tray' byi cXty council at its concluding^ council decided to.pay a county of $5 on foxes killed 5 in the off-prime sea-son.preside over the March meeting of Oxford county council opening the next week.Mrs. S. L. Krompart. Wood- stock, was appointed librarian of the Oxford Library Co-Operative.R. G. Brogden, Ingersoll, was elected president of the Oxford | County Library CO-Operative for his second term,Woodstock General Hospital requested a grant of $10,000 from ’ county council to help reduce the year’s deficit. President E. J. . Hosack addn’esseid the council requesting the grant.The second request of Wood- stock for use of the county coun­cil chambers in the courthouse for Scity police court sessions, was turned down bv county council. ■Oxford Federation of Agricul­ture appealed to Oxford county council for a grant of $2,000 for । its work. Lloyd Smith of Tillson­burg, the president, headed the delegation.A fourth public health nurse B was to be added to the Oxford j county staff, It was decided by 2 the health committee after lengt­hy discussion.Oxford County’s puuuv mcmw I plan was given a prominent place in the discussions of theEast Oxford, attended county oeouncU in place of Reeve W S.Wood, who was ill.Charles W. Schultz, past reevev». ocnuiiA. past rwvei public health of East Oxford was appointed |•- ----"-1-—* corn borer inspector for Oxfordby county council.place in me discussions or me. oy cuumy cvuirh. , . HOntario Educational Association For the quarter ending Dec- -jconvention in Torontp. ; ember 31, the cost of feeding in­Oxford county council was con mates at the Oxford county JkU Ssidering planting trees along! was figured at eight cents percounty roads to become perman-|i 7 • •' ent windbreaks, Instead of using I' snow fence, of which there was now .183 miles.A fire alarm system for Ox- I ford county home was urged at I the meeting of County council by a manufacturer’s representative.Charles W. Carroll, ex-warden^ of Oxford and prominent Norwich resident, died at his home in his 77th year.Eric W. Cross, K. G of Simcoe,... . _ ■The county tax rate for 1949 was set at 9.99 mills, an increase Hof two-fifths of a mill.Woodstock Fair Board held its annual meeting and heard glow­ing reports of the successful 1948 fair. R. J. Forbes was re-elect­ed president. J. E. Nephew con­tinued as secretary.Oxford county council opened its June session at the courthousewith Warden George Fewster pre­siding.Membersof Oxford County■ 7'council, at its June session, were taken on a tour of the Ontario Hospital.Oxford county council, at its June session, heard a good re- ■ port on conditions at the county home, by Dr. C. M Mackay, the■'home’s physician.The farm of John R. Har-former Ontario Attorney-General. > was appointed judge of Oxford county courts, succeeding Judge, Perrin, retired. JA fourth nurse, Miss Ruth Grieve, was appointed to Oxford ’ county public health staff as the health program was expanded.The Ex-wardens Association ofwork as too costly.person. ... T ; . .. i-Oxford county council, at itsMarch session, decided against | using relief labor on county roadCounty council set the expend­iture on county roads for tifeMhome were Heated to a picture; 7 show by the management of the! ; Capitol Theatre. Transportation ■ was supplied by members of the^ Eastern Star lodge-. .County Clerk A. E. Roth, Wood- .■ stock, gave a talk on Old Age Pensions at the meeting of Bond's;■ UFWO Club."'County Clerk A. E. Roth was; 7' named by county council as Ox- I ford's representative on the sen-,1 ’Oxford held its annual meeting 9 and dinner at the New Commer- s cial Hotel, Woodstock, with Dr. H. B. Atkinson, Embro, the pre-7 sident, presiding.Huron county council decided', to adopt the public health plan.; operated by Oxford county coun-1 . cil.?. ate of the University of Western Ontario. _ • „ , !County Clerk Adam Roth, whoi was also a J.P., was called on to; perform many and varied duties,} but was finally stumped when a! young couple entered his officei and requested to be married.Oxford weed inspectors met at4,the office of G. R. Green, agri*^the office ot G. tt. urreen, agri-/,:... ~ Pr-a w-Kavi cultural representative and were:Crown Attorney Craig McKay JU-------, „ Aissued a statement outlining the duties and scope of the newly es­tablished Juvenile Court for Ox-* greaves. West Oxford, was chos­en as the site for the Interna­tional Plowing Match for 1951.Two nurses of the Oxford Coun- ty Health Unit, Miss Neta Moore and Miss Frances Walton, resi- ? ; gned to join the Canadian Army Nursing Corps.John L. SUcox, 13th line. East Zorra, a former Oxford warden, lied at Woodstock General Hos-pital in his 86th year.Oxford Ex-wafdens Association; held its annual meeting at the) .■ Courthouse. Woodstock, with Pre-' sident William J. Weir presiding.;Cecil W. Ottev/eh, South Nor­wich township clerk died at his •” Judge Eric Cross of Woodstock was appointed a lecturer o I .. municipal affairs at the Univer­sity of Western Ontario.The last of 35,000 young trees, •was planted on the .100-acire woodlot north of Innerkip. War­den J. C. Eichenberg and Reeve John Chesney planted the final tree. Rev. W. A. Kincaid of Inn­erkip conducted a brief dedica­tion of the project. _Richard Langdon, and William Cuthbertson. Wood- stock were appointed to the staff of Oxford County jail, increasing the members to four, incaiding Governor Jack Skinner and head turnkey, Mel Hamilton.addressed by H. A. Martin, pro­vincial weed inspector. Warden Arlington Robinson also spoke,Adam E. Roth, Oxford county'home in his 51st year.Miss Nora Hicks. Reg. N of, {London, joined the staff of the Oxford county health unit, to bei jg stationed al ‘Tillsonburg. ,Henlb&rt Pansonis. a®setssor tor ’ South Norwich, had been apponnt- ed clerk of the township to fiiU 1 Uh*? vacancy created by the dearth of C. W. QittewellL _ -----Oxford municipal offices h< ? their 57th aenual meeting at th courthouse. Wood-stock. Brasgtont , Irwin J- Haines, clerk of Bkn j ‘7!lv 7;.7! McKay »aa . to represent the city at a ing with county council, regard-., .,, ~ u Doucett, Ontario!trSe Eric Cross presided atment as judge for Oxfoid.A juvenile court for Oxford 7 County, wirth Magistrate L. M.Ball as judge, was announced to he csteblished, at the Children s Aid annual meeting.Warden and Mrs. J. C.berg entertained members of the, : county council and th«r «v.s. « . . a fishing party, out of St. Will !ing S"of the county court room7.• , iams. council decided '*_court sessions. L' uxtoro I J indiapnt :i clerk-treasurer, was appointed treasurer of Woodstock Hospital? j 'Trust, succeeding the late Henryr,|■ A. Little,. . . _ . MCounty Clerk A. E. Roth wasg away on a month’s vacation, his! first since he took over the posit-,. |ion 10 years before. JThe Market and Buildings Com­mittee oi City Council sought to have the police offices moved from the market building to the. courthouse and were nego iatingMSengineer.Ths county ot Oxford purely-•’ and planned to sei uuviu* unv t-'1 ------- *for city police court sessionsBoumy wu paid ™ oniy : fox pelts by County Clerk Coles, for the monthj»f July- xOxford County council in lion at th© courthouse, took an roafl sy-tom.. to incretoe the rate for indigentJpatlentrin county hospitals from 1MCI m.. MV* — — -.Karn, E.sl Oxford, October FL} X Miks M, Grieve, county health; * ® nurse supervisor, and her S’tW), Amoved Into tiwk- n'AV gers in the eourtiwir.se, foi nwi b ■■lawyer®' efffo*®- M ...with oounty couneix JEx-warden E. L. Sutherland of1' Embro was elected president of the Oxford Ex-Wardens Assoc;at-' ion at the annual meeting.County health unit plans were 7 expected to be reconsidered in, ; Oxford, after the abolition of thek District MOH's b\ the new Hep­burn government.: ___1___Robert Forbes, manager of the; Oxford county home for aged. had^| a narrow escape, when the earthy gave way under him, into a 30-•! foot dry well pit. in the drive shuul on the county farm. |Cterks and treasurer « 1various municipalities in Oxtora | County gathered in the court' house for the annual meeting o';i their association. IWarden A. D. Robinson of Ox-H ford County announced that ttw annual Warden’s Dinner usually.- held in Woodstock, would be heidi; in Ingersoll.a——C E Sutherland was appoint­ed ‘issuer of motor licenses tori Woodstock, succeeding S. L. »oe.|Traditional ceremony of "can­ing" rtflie warden, out at the closing of OxH ford coundl when Warden A. 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