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Year 1961CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW HEAD OF COUNTY COUNCILWINNER ON SIXTHAErnest F. Garner Elected As Oxford County Warden44-year-old Holstein breed-er from West Zorra township was elected as the 107th ward­en of Oxford county yesterday.Ernest F. Gamer of RR 4 Embro was elected on the sixth ballot, defeating Tillsonburg reeve, Clare Esseltine by 13 votes to nine.A third nominee. South Nor­wich reeve. George Davis, with­drew at the end of the fifth ballot with the laughing com- ment, “it’s too hard on the blood pressure.”Approximately 100 spectators filled the council chambers ofthe county building in Wood- stock to watch the election, which marked the first time since 1942 that West Zorra town­ship claimed the wardenship.Mr. Garner was first elected reeve of his township in 1959 and made his first bid for the warden’s chair last year when he was defeated on the sixth ballot by Donald Hossack, reeve of Embro.his new responsibilities. Mr. | He thanked the councillors for Hossack advised'him he would'the honor which they had best- fm-' this -one of the most de- owed on him, his family and manding years of your life.” his municipality.his municipality.However, as the father of nine He welcomed 10 new mem­boys and two girls, ranging in.bers to county council and not- agr from three to 19. the new ed that a busy year lies ahead warden will have few qualms with increased expenditures Hk- about leaving his farm work inlely in some departments, order to fullfil the strenuous) demands of his new office.He welcomed 10 new mem-New councillors attending the inauguration meeting included; James Shearer, reeve of Bland­ford township: Alfred Dickout, deputy reeve. Dereham: Geome McKay, reeve. Ea-st Nissouri; George Hogg, deputy reeve. East Nissouri; Wrav Hartlev. reeve. North Norwich; W. Gren­fell Lazenby. reeve. East Ox­ford; Henry Finlayson, reeve North Oxford; Elmer Kam. de­Among those offering their... „ t , congratulations to Mr. Garner_______„ _, „ _ , _Mr. Garner took the oath of were Gordon Innes Oxford . «office, administered by county MLA, 1958 warden J. Grand P ? reeve West Oxford: Ru5' clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles and Smith of Burgessville and Wood-.se^ Honsberger. deputy reeve then nresenipd a chm-t insnonr 1 cfz./.k’e- nRlt:__ r. . nr rr;n-,..s____ _. J ▼ , . . .Mr. Hossack was on hand yes­terday to transfer the gavel to the in-coming warden,_______ ett qualified “ilXKC" > of- ----- • ■in«- 'son. reeve of EmbroNEW COUNTY COUNCILORS There were 10 new faces when Oxford County Council met for its inougurdl meeting yesterday at Woodstock. New councilors,standing left la right ore, Wray Hartley North Norwich Township; Henry Finlay son, North Oxford; Elmer Karn, West Ox­ford; Allred Dickout, Dcreham;, seated,Free Press Woodstock Bureau left to right, George Hogg East Nissouri; James Shearer, Blandford Lloyd Johnson, Embro; George McKay, East Nissouri, and W Grenfell Lazenby, East Qxfoid. • ~ ~ fey— -r.i’T--WARDEN IS INSTALLED1961 Committees Named By Oxford County CouncilOxford county council spent reassemble ai 10 a m. on Tues- the second day of its split Jan- day. January 24. Committee uary term yesterday installing I members (first named is chair- a new warden, Ernest F. Gar- man):Agriculture: Alex HendersonnKer. reeve of West Zorra, in Agriculture: Alex Henderson, office and selecting committees deputy reeve of East Zorra; for the 1961 term. i Grenfell Lazenby, reeve of EastCouncil adjourned following I Oxford; Elmer Karn, deputy the afternoon session and wiill^w of West Oxford; James ‘Shearer, reeve of Blandford;George Hogg, deputy reeve of East Nissouri.Property: Clare Esseltine. re­eve of Tillsonburg; Robert Rudy, reeve of Tavistock; Les­lie Force, reeve of Norwich: George McKay, reeve of East Nissouri; Peter McDonald, dep­uty reeve of Blenheim.(Mr. Rudy’s reappointment to the property committee estab­lishes something of a record for this committee. It marks h i s tenth year of service in this capacity. He previously served 'in 1948-49-51-52-53-54-58-59 andI960.)Finance: Lloyd Johnson. reeve of Embro; Alfred Dickout, Ideiuty reeve of Dereham; Rus­sell Honsberger, deputy reeve of Tillsonburg; Wray Hartley, reeve of North Norwich; Henry Finlayson, reeve of North Ox­ford.Roads: George Davis, reeve of South Norwich; county roads superintendent, J. N. Meathrell; George Nagle, reeve of Dere­ham; Clifford Cunningham, re­eve of Blenheim: Lorne Junker, reeve of East Zorra; George Wallace, reeve of West Oxford; and warden Garner.Printing and Resolutions: Mr. Junker; George Hogg, deputy reeve of East Nissouri; Mr. Davis; Mr. Karn and Mr. Hon­sberger.Equalization and Assessment: Mr. Hartley; Mr. Shearer: Mr. Dickout; Mr, McKay and Mr. Henderson.Appointed to the board of aud­it. county clerk-treasurer, L. K. Coles and the chairman of the finance committee. Mr. John­son.EKnzai r. 6AKNEK, reeve of West Zorra, was elected the 107th warden of Oxford county yesterday at the end of the sixth ballot. TOP (J to r) defeated candidate Clare Esseltine, reeve of Tillson-Former Teacher Is Chosen For Tavistock Civic Post TAVISTOCK! Ernest C. Selt, wr, a native Tavistock resi. den'., and a retired public school teacher, was named Tavislxiek's clerk ireasurer at the inaugur­al session of the Tavistock Council. He succeeds Charles J, Klein, who retired at (he end of WW, owing to ill health.burg, congratulates Mr. Gar­ner (centre) as ex-warden Don Hossack of Embro pre­sents the gavel. LOWER a- mong the ten new councillors i welcomed to council vesterdavwere, Alfred Dickout, deputy reeve of Dereham and Henry Finlayson, reeve of North Ox­ford (standing); James Shear­er. reeve of Blandford and Grenfell Lazenby, reeve of East Oxford (sealed). (Staff photos).Wardenship Sought By 2Only two contestants appear certain to vie for I he office of warden of Oxford couniy in the elections on January 17.Reeves Ernest Gamer of West Zorra and Clare Esseltine of Tillsonburg, have both signified their intention to run.Two other possible candidates for the position, reeve George Nagle of Dereham township and reeve George Wallace of West Oxford, announced yester­day they did not want the nom ination.A third possibility. George Davis, reeve of South Norwich, stated he would definitely not be running, although he could be nominated, as another coun­cillor reminded him.The last warden from West Zorra township was elected in 1942.E. R. Pearce of Tillsonburg was warden in 1959.ERNEST F. GARNER • - - 107th Oxford warden107th WardenNeeds Six BallotsErnest F. Garner, 44, reeve of |West Zorra Township, was elected Oxford County's 107th warden on the sixth ballot. He received 13 votes out of a pos­sible 22 and he defeated Reeve [Clare H. Esseltine, of Tillson­burg. A third candidate. Reeve George H. Davis, of South Nor- iwlch. dropped out on the fifth ballot.Warden Gamer begins Ms eighth year in municipal gov­ernment. He served on West Zorra Township council for seven years, two of them as reeve.More than 100 persons jam- med the council chambers at Woodstock to w.cness the elee- Itlon.In his inaugural address War- den Garner said council had a busy year ahead that would re­quire cooperation of all mem­bers of council. He foresaw in- creased expenditures In some departments and a correspond­ing increase In assessment, but the county should “be able to operate without any Increase in ti\e mill rate.”First business to be handled this morning will be reading of correspondence) and selection of committee members and chair­men. SEEK 400,000 ACRES IN OXFJRDU.S. Firm Acquiring Oil And Gas LeasesFormed In 1945 County Health Unit Carries On Wide ProgramAn American oil and gas company. Midwest Exploration of Wichita. Kansas, is acquiring oil and gas leases on land in Oxford countyCharles Osborn, land repre­sentative for the company, said it intends to make several tests in this county, providing suf­ficient land can be leased to make testing feasible.He estimates SftO.OOO Io UK). 000 acres would be feasible,Approximately 15 Midwest re­presentatives arrived in Wood- stock on Friday and so far. 20,- 000 acres, scattered throughout the county, have been leased under 10 year term leases.Mr Osborn said no areas where there arc proven depos­its have been acquired by the company. “We are strictly go­ing to test as a new venture, not on any known information.“There is a reasonable possi­bility of discoveries or we wouldn’t be here.” he comment­ed.The company intends io sink deep wells Io test horizons that would be likely to contain oil and gas. Testing will bc"in shortly after acquisition of the land leases is completed, the company spokesman stated. He was unable to estimate how long this will lake.। Mr. Osborn said the co-opera- 1 t-ion of land owners in this area will be necessary. “All an oil and gas lease is. is permission for us to come on the land and explore for oil and gas. Own­ers of land where discoveries do occqr. receive one eighth of all oil produced.”Midwest Exploration is a fair­ly new company. It has madeTouring Groups Will Visit CityThe Ontario Legislature com­mittee on water pollution, me­mbers of the Upper Thames Valley Conservation Authority? and city and county council will sit down to dinner in Chalmers United Church at Woodstock on Feb. 8.The government and conser­vation officials are touring the entire Thames Valley watershed that day and will make a stop in Woodstock towards evening for dinner.Mayor W. A. Downing said last night this is the year when Woodstock may be involved fin­ancially with the authority and this presents good opport­unity for the members of co inci] to meet them.INTRODUCE ALL-FIGURE NUMBERSEmbro And Kintore Get Dial Phone Service On Sundaydiscoveries in five or six stales, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.W. L. Bishop, secretary of the jOxford Federation of Agricul­ture. commented yesterday that farmers may have their con­tracts with the company check­ed by the land acquisition com­mittee. of the UFA. if desired.Oxford Council Hears i Resolutions, PetitionsFree Tress Woodstock Bureau 1 WOODSTOCK — A resolution from the City of Woodstock asking the federal government to proceed quickly on con-i struction of a new federal building here and a. dam and reservoir on the Thames River north of the city, was among correspondence read to Oxford County council yesterday.The resolution, read by L. K. Coles. clerk - treasurer, w a s passed by' Woodstock city coun­cil last December.Wentworth ResolutionAnother resolution, passed by Wentworth County council, asks that the provincial government be requested to make it manda­tory for all vehicles approach­ing school buses from either di­rection. to come to a full stop. Vehicles are to remain at a full .stop until the bus starts to move.The resolution asks that this rule apply on all highways and] roads outside town or city limits other than on multiple-lane' ■highways.A resolution from Ontario County asks that the provincial government be petitioned to amend the Municipal Act to pro­vide for collection of the fed­eration of agriculture levy re­gardless of when taxes are paid.Aimed at HuntersAn amendment to the penalty trespass act, or passing of a new act to prevent hunters from trespassing on private property, and increasing the maximum penalty to $50 from $10, is be­ing asked in a resolution passed by Simcoe County.Among requests for grants, the Ontario division of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind has submitted an application for $500 to aid in its work with the blind in Ox­ford. A request tor a grant of $50 has been received from the Oxford Poultry and Pct Stock Association.County council adjourned tin- . til Jan, 24 when il will consider the resolutions and applications tor financial assistance.Oxford Council Seis Up BoardsFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Fii-st busi­ness conducted by Oxford Coun­ty council at its second meet­ing for 1961 yesterday was ap­pointing members to 15 commit­tees and boards.Bodies and members are: Ag­riculture, J. Alex Henderson, chairman; W. Grenfell Lazenby, secretary; George Hogg, James I Shearer and Elmer Karn.Equalization and assessment, Wray Hartley, chairman; Mr. Shearer, secretary; George Mc­Kay. Mr. Henderson and Alfred Dickout; finance, Lloyd John­son, chairman; Mr. Dickout, sec­retary; Russell Honsberger, Mr. Hartley and Henry Finlayson.Road, George H. Davis, chair- mart; J. N. Meathrell, secretary;i George R. Nagle, Clifford Cun- jningham: Lorne W. Junker, i George Wallace and Warden Ernest Garner; property. Clare1 Esseltine, chairman; Robert i Rudy, chairman; Leslie Force, George McKay, Peter McDon­ald; printing and resolutions, Mr. Junker, chairman; Mr. Hogg, secretary; Mr. Karn, Mr. (Honsberger and Mr. Davis.j Representatives to other coun- ity boards; county home, Warden (Garner, Mr. Laaenby and Mr. Force; library, Warden Garner, Mr, Cunningham and Mr. John­son: museum, Warden Garner rind L. K. Coles, clerk-treasur­er; juvenile court, the warden, Mr. McDonald and Mr. Coles; board of audit, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Coles; hospitals, Woodstock. Warden Garner; TUlsonburg, Mr Esseltine, and Ingersoll, Mr. Wallace.By DR, O. C. POWERS (MOH tor Oxford County)The Oxford Health Unit was formed in 1945 and immediately assumed responsibility tor health services for the 17 municipali­ties comprising Oxford county. ’The county Board of Health consisting of six members, one from Woodstock, one from Inger­soll, three from the county a_nd a government representative, meets monthly. The Board is re­sponsible for the program of the I Unit,Ine staff consists of a director [to administer the program; the ! supervisor of nurses, in charge of 'the nursing division which niim- 'bers 11 public health nurses and (one clinic nurse: and three sani- tary inspectors, each with his I own district.The office staff consists of two full-time and two part-time sec­retaries. The health record of every school child in the county is recorded ami filed in the Unit office. Parents requiring any of this information pertaining to their child should contact their district nurse of the Health Unit office.i Records of all pre-school child ren and babies attending child; health clinics, babies visited by our nurses, families visited by our nurses and persons attending chest clinics are on file.Hundreds, in fact, thousands of cards pertaining to all types of iimmunizalion must be recorded (and filed. Thousands of records (pertaining to sanitation must be kept for future reference. The ;office staff is probably the bus- Jest department in the Unit.[FREE OF EPIDEMICSFor a number of years. Oxford has been free of any serious epidemic. Measles, mumps and chicken-pox continue to be the most prevalen. communicable dis­eases. Several cases of scarlet Jever occurred during the past year, in fact, more than usual.One case of poliomyelitis was reported in a resident of the coun­ty who contracted the disease out- ; side the county.j Virus diseases seem to be on the increase as has been theOfficials Plan Tour Of ValleyMayor W, A. Downing said last plight he was informed by the lo­cal member of the provincial leg­islature that government officials and conservationists will be tour png the entire Thames Valley laome time in February.The group, about 60 in num Iter. will push towards the Wood- i stock area in the evening to lunch here, said Mayor Downing.Council agreed that they should join with county council in being on hand when the touring group arrives in the city.case for several years, Although statistics tor 1900 have not been compiled, it is a foregone con­clusion that 1960 has been t,he busiest year in the history of the Unit.The division of sanitation and food control has had a very heavy year. Plumbing inspections have increased and consume a great, deal of time.Owing to the fact that the Unit is lacking a ful( quota of nurses, the nursing districts are too large and necessitate too heavy a load on each nurse, As a resuL. the nurses are never at a loss । for something to do.| Immunization procedures con­sume a great deal of time and at least 20 thousand shots were given during the year. No child is given a ns inoculation or -vac­cination without the writ.en con­sent of parent or guardian. No child is given any immunizing procedure without the signed card being seen at the time of inoculation.Finally, but not least import­ant is our expression of grati­tude to everyone who has con­tributed in any way to the suc­cess of the Oxford Health Unit in I960.$21,436 Deficit Noted In GreyFree Press Northern BureauOWEN SOUND—Gr-jy County ended 1960 with a $27,436 deficit, council was told yesterday by treasurer Harry Henderson.Roads constituted the largest expenditure of $1,139,976. Of this amount, $671,919 was spent on general county roads. $126.94: on development roads, and $40,213 on the suburban roads system. Main source of county income was county rates—-556^.- 394. The county share of ra­bies grants was S14.17LHospital PleaCarl Minore, of Meaford. was spokesman for several groups representing hospitals from Durham. Hanover, Meaford. Owen Sound, Chesley. Mount Forest, and Collingwood, as council was urged to set up b bylaw granting financial aid in building, establishing and equip­ping hospitals.Immediate expansion is re­quired st hospitals in Durham. Meaford. Owen Sound, and Col­lingwood, Mr. Min ire said. Wait­ing lists have continued to grow and many residents of these areas are dented elective hospi­tal treatment because of the lack of facilities.Said Mr. Minor?: "Further : delays in arranging adequate financings could set back these contemplated programs tor two years or move"Industrie 1 I n vestmentThe investment in industry has surpassed that In agricul­ture. council was told by Nevill Keefe, of Midland, general man- jager of the Georgian Bay De* (velqpment Association.Mr Keefe said the tourist ln- dustry la worth $2,500,000 a year to the county, but totally coun­cil has no committees tor either Industrial promotion or tourism County Council Informed 1960 Surplus Over $40 000 fOxford county's over all sur­plus in all departments for the year 1960 was $40,160, county clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles an nounced this ^morning,A financial statement, audited by Monteith, Monteith and Co. of Stratford, showed a surotus in the general purposes account of $24,456; in charity and wel­fare of $21,770 and in county rales of $6,029, There was a deficit of $12,131 in the county roads budget.Mr. Coles said an even $40j000 of the surplus will be added to a capital expenditures reserve of $50,000, making a total of $90,000 "to cover capital con-, struction of any nature which । mav develop."; South Norwich reeve, Goerge Davis, reminded council that : such items as hospital grants I come out of this fund.I A report from the Woodstock | Suburban Roads Commission [estimated the total 1961 expen-iditures for the maintenance of roads 12, 30 and 32. plus con­struction on road 32, will he $15,916.The city of Woodstock's share of this amount is $4,061.Expenditure on Woodstock suburban roads last year to'al led $27777 with the city footing a $7,452 share.Maintenance and improve­ments on Ingersoll suburban roads, numbers nine and 10. will cost an estimated $4,103 in the coming year with the town of Ingersoll contributing $500.Last year the Ingersoll Sub­urban Roads Commission scent $1,587 and the town paid ^362.In other business this morn­ing councillors received a dele­gation seeking financial support from Willet Hospital, Paris.The ssesion winds up this aft­ernoon with the presentation of several reports and the final reading of at least four bylaws.THE BRONZE PLAQUE, shown in the photo, is being unveiled this afternoon in the new residence of Wood- stock General Hospital. The • plaque honors retiring Board Iof Trust member James Gra­ham Dunlop and his father, the late James Dunlop, who together have given over 50 years of service to the hos- pi*al. The residence on Rid-( dell St. has been furnished to accommodate 12 staff nurses, leaving the other residence of the hospital free for use by student nurses. (Staff Photo).AT GENERAL HOSPITALMOH Reports loday To Oxford CouncilOfficially Open New Residence For NursesFree Press Woodstock Bureau ' WOODSTOCK — A report by Dr. O. C. Powers, Oxford Coun- Ity's medical officer of health, is included on county council’safternoon on the plumbing code.Tomorrow, members of the board of governors. University of Western Ontario, will askcouncil’s financial support for"Dunlop House, so named in [and Patterson Houses situated■Hughes, Mrs. H. Hamilton, Mrs. honor of Jolin Graham Dunlop, on the other side of the hospi- L. W. Barnes, Mrs. R. West, a ember of the Board of Trust tai on the corner of Brant and I Mrs. Colin McPherson, Mrs. M. for 35 years and his father Wellington Streets have acco- Redick, Mrs. T. Mayberry, Mrs. James Dunlop, a member for 15 modation for 58 student nurses. । Clair Berlette and Mrs. Norman years — together contributing 50 The new staff residence has " years of devoted service to been decorated in modern, Woodstock General Hospital, bright designs. There are single Dedicated Jan. 11, 1961. and double bedrooms and ad---------- - xui jagenda today as council resumes the university’s operation and its split January session. Coun-[expansion programs. Robert J. oil expects to end its business Forbes, superintendent of the (Thursday. | county home, will present re-| This morning, council hears ports on operation of the home |U C. Scales, zone forester from and farm during the past year, the department of lands and for-• —...........• 1 'scuuiliuii wuj a:so o<-ests. and a delegation from Alex- made on behalf of the CanadianRepresentation will also beThis is the inscription on a joining bathrooms, bronze plaque m the main hall "of the new staff nurses’ resid­ence of Woodstock General Hos- pi-tal which was unveiled early ihis afternoon in a brief cerem­ony at an “open house” in theOn the ground floor there isa small reception hall -to be used for guests and a large bright living room decorated in beige and green. Dining facili­ties have been added to the liv-Moore.Supplies are in charge of Mrs. G. Ekins, Mrs. S. McPhee, Mrs. F. McLean, Mrs. E. J. Dutton. Miss E. Belle Bain and Mrs. H. Thurston.iandra Hospital. Ingersoll.Powers will address council§r. National Institute for the Blind, this and Willett Hospital, Paris.new residence. uig-rwm.The residence has been nam-| A sunny yellow kitchen is al- ed nonormg retiring board mem- so situated on the ground floor ber John G. Dunlop and his fa-j complete with dishes and cook- per, the late James Dunlop, I ing utensils, making it possible both well known men of this for the staff nurses to prepare community and both to b? ever- breakfasts as well as any other remembered for their contribu-1 meals. Other rooms on the Lions to the hospital. I ground floor are bedrooms.Prior to the open house mem- ' hers of the Boarri of Trust undering-roomEstimate Ingersoll Rate $10 On Chronic PatientsThe estimated daily rate for,1 Hospital, Ingersoll, will be $10 chronic a day.---------I G. K. Newell, chairman of the[patients in Die new c------- ailment section of Alexandraihospital trust, told Oxford coun-ith71 chairmanship of James A, Vance, attended a luncheon hon-All bedrooms are furnished with single beds, dresser andup to March 31, 1958. He said an additional report covering the period up to March 31. 1959, will be forthcoming soon.Mr. Scales commented thatdesk combinations, chairs and lamps. Bed spreads are the new white cottonty council this morning that, Mr. Scales comm riGlinnU UniCldlS although this is the estimated Oxford’s Hall andruin a4 rvl’ACSWtsl if I tn Kiss 11.oring the retirement of Mr. Dun jlop. For the unveiling pa-s-t Board chairman V, B. King pre- sided and in his address Mr.i Members of the Women’s .King paid high tribute to Mr. Auxiliary to Woodstock Gener- D w- 5 , n US al hospital are assisting withWarden Donald Hossack of this afternoon's open house.Embro cut the ribbon to ofGci-aUy open the residence which WILL RECEIVEDunlop and his family.double dutyspread.covers that serve as a blanket andReceive WatchesK1NTORE: — Present and past members of East Nissouriwill give accommodation to 121 Mrs. James Vance, wife of graduate nurses on the staff ofllhe Board chairman; Director the hospital, Al the same time;°f Nurses Miss Phyllis Bluett official announcement was Sc. N. and Hospital Aux.ll- mad* of the opening of the iarv President Mrs W Tear new fourth floor medical wing will receive guests.of the hospital now in full op . Mrs, W A Sutherland, dau- eration Mils wing was com ghter of John G. Dunlop, and p I m <• .i Mrs- DonaM Hossack arc nre- With the opening of the new! siding at the tea table, Mrs, resHJence farmin have in-, Gordon Innes and Mrs. Ken honing nursing Marshall are tea room conven- i iff I he new residence has are Mrs, H. Leyland. Mrs. R, room for 12 nurses and Gissing. ers.Auxiliary members servingMrs,J Chesney tracts were the outstanding stands in the Stratford zone.is Pruning has already been done on the Chesney tract, he A three-man delegation com- stated and the Department ex-rate at present, it may be liableto change. The daily rate for active treatment patients i $19.25.A three-man delegation com­posed of Mr. Newell, P.M. De­township council, township of- ■ „ „ . v • 7-ficials and their wives, met FrLl^" a"n S°rp,tal adm"us‘r?t<>r day night at the home of Mr.|P«B.™e • appeared before and Mrs. Alex Hossack in hoh- £???«! Lo re(luesl a grant ofI T -* * 1VJVW «The new 15-bed addition for |chronically ill patients should be in service by the beginning of March. Mr. Breel reported. Also, laboratory facilities have been expanded and improved as well as the formula room in the nursery and oilier generalnr of Johm Bolton and Alex Hossack, who retired f r o m municipal life at (he close of 1960.Cards were enjoyed, after which Reeve George L. McKaypeels to prune 50 to 60 acres in the Hall tract in Blenheim township this year.The only problem areas are two acres in the Zenda tract which are infested by weeds and mouse and drought damage tn the McBeth tract, he said., ruKLll muyc UCIMRf U. WICIYHy presided over a short program. Tlic guests of honor were pre­sented with wrist watches andtheir wives with costume jewel- [ry by George Hogg and Hugh Munro. Both men expressed appreciation of the honor and guts. Others wiho spoke were prrle Smith, Fred Slater and Donald Seaton.improvements have been made.Mr. Newell noted that addi­tional staff will be required but the exart number is difficult to estimate at the present time because "no one here has hadexperience with chronicThe requested grant sents the county's share expansion project which total of $135,000. Othercare." repro­of the cost agrants cover $103,166 of thia amount.In other business this morn ing, council gave first and sec­ond readings to five bylaws and received a request for fin­ancial support from the Navy League of Canada.This afternoon, Oxford MOH. Dr. O, C. Powers, will point out. to council that since the administration of the Plumbing Code has been taken over by the Ontario Water Resources Commission it will be neces­sary for each municipality io appoint inspectors. If the county Health Unit is tn continue ths service, it must be so naPRESENTS REPORT Cvu,,^ dv.k-insurer 1L, C Scales, zone forester Coles notified council that . with the Ontario Department of Zorra reeve, Lorne Junker Lands and Forests, presented ’ ” " ‘ “ council with a comprehensivereport on Oxford county forestsCounty clerk-treasurer 1,in Stratford General lloswhere cardiograms and tests are Heine tatam. OPEN NEW STAFF NURSES' RESIDENCEUWO Urges Oxford County Continue Financial HelpDUNLOP HOUSE, the new a t a f f nurses’ residence of Woodstock General Hospital was officially opened yester­day afternoon in a brief cere­mony including a ribbon cut­ting ceremony and plaque un veiling In lh<- TOP PHOTO, readme from left to right, hospital administrator Peter Smith and Dr, C. II. I’allience watch as the ribbon is cut by retiring Oxford County Ward­en Donald Hossack of Embro.Ip the CENTRE PHOTO past Hospital Hoard of Trust chair­man V. H King congratulatesJohn G. Dunlop, retiring hos­pital Board member, for Whom the new residence has been named, The LOWER. PHOTO shows a view' of the residence situated on Ridd- <•11 SI. opposite the hospital, formerly ihv homo of Judge Eric Cross (Staff Photo), । Cpl, G. W. Li Ute and profes­sor A. B. Conron, representing the board of governors of the University of Western Ontario, appeared before Oxford county council this morning seeking its continuing financial support.Col. Littte stressed that the development of a university is a never-ceasing process and that the UWO is finding it difficult to keep pace with the require­ments of young people seeking a high education.He said freshmen registrat­ion rose by 26 per cent this year, while over all enrolment figures soared by 17 per cent. This, he commented, was al­most double the national aver­age and the second highest in Canada.The rapid growth rate. Col. j Little pointed out, makes it dif- ificult to foresee the needs of the next five years, but it is cer­tain that more residences for men and women will be requir­ed.Registration from Oxford county at the UWO in the year 1959-60 totalled 196.Superintendent R. J. Forbes brought in the annual county I Home and Farm reports during Jthe morning. Cash profit from the Farm last year amounted to S3.937. A new milk house and bulk cooler has been auth­orized by the 1960 board of management at a cost of S6,- 000.There were eight female and 22 male residents in the County- Home as of January 1, 1961.In other business, council:Received a resolution from Ontario county, petitioning the Minister of Planning and De­velopment to amend the Cons­ervation Authorities Act so re­sidential and commercial build­ings on conservation areas to which an admission fee is .charged, may be assessed andElgin Again Turns DownDefence PlanFree Press St. Thomas BureauST. THOMAS — For the 115th time Elgin County council has rejected a sug- gestion that it participate |in a county-wide civil de- fence organization.Rejected hi NovemberThe last rejection came al council's November session. Since then St, Thomas had re­quested reconsideration of the proposal.r A letter from Mayor Vincent A. Barrie asking that a commit- .tee be appointed to meet with a city council, committee on the question was filed yesterday.• No County NeedCounty councilors feel that St Thomas is mainly affected by civil defence needs and that there is no reason to establish a county organisation.A meeting between city, Yar­mouth and Southwold represen­tatives lu establish an arganias- lion from the three municipali­ties is still pending.taxed on the same basis as oth­er municipal property.Was notified by St. Mary# Memorial Hospital that capita! expenditures amounting to a- bom $5,000 are anticipated. The county's usage of the hospital in 1960 amounted to nine per cent.Toured the county jail with chief turnkey. A. E. Walton.This afternoon. Ian Grills, re­presenting the Canadian Nat­ional Institute for the Blind, ap­pealed for financial support for the Institute.East ZorraReeve AilingFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Lome W. Junker, of RR 1, Bright, reeve of East Zorra Township and a member of Oxford County coun­cil’s road committee, is in Strat­ford General Hospital under­going medical tests.He was admitted Saturday- night after he had difficulty in breathing, said Mrs. Junker. Mr. Junker underwent various tests including X-rays and car- | diographs.W0 County Librarians To Meet In CityApproximately 20 county lib­rarians are expected to a'.tend a meeting in the Woodstock County Building this Thursday and Friday, county librarian Mrs. S. L. Krompart has an­nounced.Walter Gowing of the Water­loo county library will be chair­man of the Thursday afternoon program which starts al 2 p.m.Guest speaker. Miss Mustard of Toronto, is the director of provincial high school libraries.The librarians will enjoy din­ner at the New Commercial Hotel. Woodstock Thursdaynight as guests of Oxford county । council.Mrs. Krompart will be in charge of the program Frida? morning. It will feature a dis­cussion on problems relating to county libraries, followed bv a luncheon al Terrace Gardeas Restaurant,Mrs. Jean Eckmier of Huron county library will chair :he Friday afternoon program PAGE 6FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1961New Hospital Residence And Nursing Care Growth1961 County Expenditure Is Budgeted fit $715,000The official opening this week of "Dunlop House" as a residence for stall nurses at the Woodstock General Hospital is another commendable step forward toward providing more ade­quate facilities for those who train as nurses and care for the sick at the local institution.Dunlop House—the former home of Judge Enc Cross, and named in honor of two former board members of long standing will accommodate 12 nurses. It is in addition to the buildings situat­ed to the east of the hospital which are residence quarters for 58 student nurses.The new addition not only indicates the progressive nature of the hospital officials in keeping with the develop­ment of the community, but it also points to the changing scope of nurs­ing care in institutions of this kind—a scope that has a direct bearing on the rising cost of hospital care-According to a bulletin of the On­tario Hospital Association more people than ever before are being required that hospitals may be adequately staff­ed. In many cases this amounts to more than two employees for every patient. The payroll for these people, in conse­quence, accounts for about 70 cents out of every dollar received for care.Today there are not only nurses in training, nurses aids and orderlies, but their presence enables a patient fre­quently to get care that means speed­ier recovery and an early return to normal living.In addition, it enables busy doctors, attempting to give more time to their dut-of-hospitaJ patients, to delegate more responsibilities to the professional nurse in hospital. It also enables student nurses to spend more time on addi­tional formal education, rather than betied to the long hours of hospital rou­tine formerly required.As each group of people takes over new responsibility its members are able to pass along some of their former du­ties to other hospital employees. Extra staff members all along the line, loo enable each person to cut down on the hours on duty, and thus receive the rest and recreation that enables her to re­turn to the job refreshed.To do an adequate job of staffing a today’ ft is estimated that a 200-bed institution, such as Woodstock General is approaching, requires an in­crease of personnel 30 per cent over what it was ten years ago.There are certain technological ad­vances which make the work of operat­ing a hospital more efficient these days —and that includes cutting the cost- It has gone so far, so the Hospital Asso­ciation reports, that in a New York hospital there are mechanical devices which “will continuously read and re­cord an acutely ill patient’s tempera­ture. pulse and respiration.”But it adds this pertinent observa­tion with which we fully agree. It doubts if these will ever be perfected to the point where they will be able to determine the significance of such in­formation, much less render tender, personal care and service which only members of a nursing staff can provide.This, then, is one of the reasons why adequate nursing facilities — in residences and training quarters_ should be provided at our hospitals. We are pleased that such is the policy at Woodstock General and that, even now, with the opening of this new residence, plans are being advanced to provide more modern and adequate facilities for the training school for nurses at the hospital.Expenditures on county roads ,charity, welfare and general purposes will cost the taxpayers county an estimated $715,000 in .1961, county council- ; ors learned at the conclusion of the January session.I The finance committee report budgetted $195,00 for general expenses; $125,000 for charity and welfare and $925,000 for I county x'oads. 'The necessary bylaws to auth­orize the borrowing of $224,000 ..for general purposes, under the Provisions of the Municipal Act and $925,000 under the authority : of the Highway Improvement Act, were passed.A number of grants were thE a,tern°°”-I A provisional grant of $11,563 to Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll ifor the new chronic care addit­ion. with the stipulation that (the town of Ingersoll make a similar grant.A grant of $11,462 to Willett Hospital, Pans, with the pro­viso that other municipalities (involved pay their share.The finance committee a- greed to consider the appeal from St Marys Memorial Hos­pital when its exact require- m e n t s are known. Hospital grants will be withdrawn from the county’s capital expenditure reserve which now totals $90,- 000.I The'St. John Ambulance will receive $50; the Woodstock and Tillsonburg DisMct Association for Retarded Children, $950 a- piece; the CNIB, $500. the Sal­vation Army, $1000 and the Ox­ford Poultry and Pet Stock As­sociation, $50.No action was taken on a re­quest for financial support from the Canadian Mental Health As­sociation.The sum of $9,000 will be placed to the credit of the Coun­ty Library Co-Op, representing} $1<> J■■ 4Provincial countv libcarlansEXCHANGE OF IDEAS AT MEETING OF LIBRARIANSmet in Woodstock yesterday and today to exchange idem and diseuH problems relatingtheir work. Left io right, Waller Gowing of Waterloo (fownlv: Mrs. S. L. Krompart,an increase of $300 over last year.A schedule of expenses for councillors attending authoriz­ed conventions in Toronto was approved: oneday , $15; two days and one night, $40; two or more days and two or more nights, $60.The Oxford Health Unit bud­get of $33,118 for 1961 was ap­proved.Councillors decided that the county will accept prepayment of county rates as of January 26. Interest of five per cent per annum will be allowed on such prepayments.^aker »arics; and Mbs Eleanor Lu- Miss Mary Mustard, direct- I cv of Wentworth county or of Ontario high school lib- i (staff photo.) SECOND JANUARY SESSION OPENS TUESDAYWaadctock SaivHwal-RavUw, Mon., Jan. 23. 1961 Pag* 3Delegations Plan To MeetOxford County CouncilSeveral delegations are sche­duled to wait on Oxford county council during the second half of the split January session, which begins tomorrow and concludes Thursday.Zone forester. L. C. Scales of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, will armear at 11.30 a.m. Tuesday, follow­ed by a representation from Alexandra Hospital. Ingersoll.At 2 p.m. on the same day. MOH. Dr. 0. C. Powers, will address council in regards to (he Plumbing Code.Members of the board of gov­ernors of the University of Wes­tern Ontario will make their annual appeal for financial sup­port at 11.30 a.m. Wednesday and shortly before noon, super­intendent R. J. Forbes will pre­sent the County Home and Farm reports for the past year.Ian Grills, of the Canadian Institute for the Blind, will ap­peal for funds for that organi­zation at 2 p.m.Representation from Willett Hospital. Paris, is expected on Thursday a't 11.45 a.m.A fair volume of business con­fronts council at this session.RESOLUTIONSSeveral resolutions will be dealt with, including:A resolution from Ontario countv council asking provin­cial authorities to pass legis­lation amending the Secondary Schools and Boards of Educa­tion Act to provide that all members of a district high school board be directly elected, rather than appointed.From the same source, a peti­tion asking the provincial gov­ernment to amend the Muni­cipal Act to provide for the col­lection of the Federation of Ag­riculture levy, regardless of when taxes are paid.From Woodstock city council, a resolution asking the feder-’I and provincial governments to procede as expeditiously as ops- sible with the construction of lhe new Federal Post Office budd­ing in Woodstock and Lhe dam and reservoir on the south 'branch of the Thames River, north of Woodstock.From Wentworth county coun­cil, asking the provincial gov­ernment to enact legislation making it compulsory for all vehicles approaching a school bus from either direction to come to a full stop and remain iso until the bus starts to move. This is to apply on all high- wavs and roads, other than multiple-lane highways outside town or city limits.From the city of Barrie, re­questing the provincial govern­ment to arrange suitable hos­pital accommodation for para- phelgic and quadraphlegic pat­ients or to amend the present regulations to permit such pat­ients to remain in active treat­ment hospitals where facilities for their care are available.ALLTIME RECORDCouncil has received notifica­tion from the county registrar of deeds. R. V. Tuck, that the volume of business done in the registry office during the past yea. set an all-time record. Ac­companying the letter’ was a cheque for $6,143, the county’s SALE of the John White Company Limited, ccntury-old I Woodstock retail firm, to Walk­er Stores was announced Wed­nesday. LEFT, David M. Woods (left), president of Walker’s and John White, grandson ofthe founder of (lie John White Company, who made joint an­nouncement of the transaction.RIGHT The stores have been neighbors for 33 years m Wood- stock. (Staff Photos)share of surplus fees which amounted to $8,515 in I960.Mr. Tuck noted that the 19(50 total includes considerable re­venue from the registration of a large number of oil and gas leases.“If we were to disregard the revenue from this special type of registration, we would find that the revenue from regular business was not as great as in the previous year.” his letter states. “As a matter of fact in I960 we registered 350 fewer deeds than in 1959. 60 less mort­gages and 100 less discharges of mortgages.”The Ontario Department of Highways has notified the coun­ty that the maximum eslimates which will lie approved for nor­mal expenditures on countyroads in 1961 shall not exceed. $200,000 for construction and' $330,000 for maintenance.Council has also received re . quests for grants from: The Ox­ford Poultry and Pet Stock As­sociation: St. John Ambulance;. Bethesda Hospital for unmar­ried mothers, operated by the Salvation Army; the Canadian. Mental Health Association and. the Woodstock and Tillsonburg- District Associations for Retard­ed children.Announcements of the 29th annual convention of the Ont­ario Association of Rural Muni­cipalities in Toronto. February- 13 and 14 and the 59th con­vention of the Ontario Good Roads Association, Toronto February 20, 22, have also been received.■ Registration Fees j Are Shared By City | Gas and oil lease registrat­ions by United States oil and gas exploration companies cur-Irently in Oxford County ac­count for an all-time record of registrations at the County Reg­istrar of Deeds office.On city council’s agenda a letter from the registrar which indiated that the city’s share is $1,884.28 of the surplus fees amounting to 8,515,46 for the year I960."This represented an all- time record of registrations,” points out the letter. "Normal registrations of deeds, mortgag­es and discharges were jnudi lower than in the previous years.”Review from photographic equipment used amounted to nearly $600. It was noted that microfilm records were made of all documents registered in duplicate with the duplicate film being stored in the registry of­fice at Owen Sound as a safety measure.CHANGE-OVER EFFECTIVE IN FEBRUARYCentury-Old White FirmBought By Walker Stores DAMS, RESEVOIRS FOR CITY AREAWoodstock Sentinel-Review, Mon., Jan. 30, 1961 Pago 3Oxford Association Faces Decision On Plow MatchesUpper Thames Project i Agreement Is SignedTo clow or not to plow was the decision facing the direct­ors of the Oxford Coun.y Plow­men’s Assciation at their ann­ual meeting in Woodstock yes­terday.A report from treasurer, Norm Shelton, indicated that receipts of approximately $1,700 during 1950 were almost obliter­ated bv expenditures, mainly on the county plow match.With about $14 remaining in (he treasury and the 1961 grant from the provincial department of agriculture already spent on the 1960 match, there was some talk of abandoning the plowing event this? year.Director A. D. Robinson of Ingersoll suggested resorting to the method of financing used prior to the date of the last International match held in the county in 1952. “or els© not have it at all.”He was referring to contri­butions previously made by the townships and by individuals.There was also talk of switch­ing support to Blenheim town­ship. “They seem to have a successful match,” commented Mr. Shelton.President Wilfred Coro ex­pressed the hope that .the plow­ing event would be carried on this year.57 ENTRIESAttendance at the 1960 mat­ch. held on the farm of GeorgeInnes and Son, south of Wood­stock, was down last year but entries totalled a healthy 57.After due consideration, the directors decided to continue and set Friday. Oct. 27, as the date.A committee composed of newly-elected president Clare Hartlev of RR 3 Woodstock and sericultural representative Don Taylor was appointed to seek $600 worth of support from Ox­ford county council.Other executive members el­ected include:First vice-president. Ed Eddy, RR 3 Woodstock: second vice- president, Arthur Dale, Cur­ries: secretary, Mr. Taylor apd treasurer, Mr. Shelton, RR 7 Woodstock.Directors :Fred Sidon. RR 5 Woodstock: Douglas McClintqck. Ingersoll; Robert Ewen. RR 3 Woodstock; Alex Henderson, RR 5 Embro; Bob Stephenson. Curries; Doug­las Start, Curries; Mr. Robin­son; Jack and John Hargreaves, Beachville; E. V. (Bud) Ken­nedy. Oxford Centre: Allan In­nes, RR 2 Embro; Leroy Scott, PR 3 Woodstock: Tom Pellow. Embro: Bill Griffin. RR 5 Woodstock: Ed Hansuld. Tavis­tock and Lome Richardson. Ox­ford Centre.Mr. Hartley, Mr. Eddy and Mr. Dale were named as a com­mittee to choose a location for the 1961 match.An agreement was signed last Saturday at Fanshawe dam, near London, which will launch la $9,640,500 flood control and 'water conservation project in pie Upper Thames River basin.To Woodstock, this project {means the end of flood dam- ’age. an increase in summer water supply to help drought- troubled farmers, and an in- jerease in recreation area.: Two dams and reservoirs are [to be constructed near Wood- stock, One. costing $1,053,500, will be near the northern extre­mity of Wellington Street, The other will be at Cedar Creek,south of Highway 401 near No. 59. Its cost will be about $623.- 800. - — —- —j ... accomplished by a voluntaryhpB°nfb ° Rouping of municipalities inrfLino P '? re> 016 coihirion cause of wise and; ’floods’ and water stored socially - rewarding conserva- in the reservoirs the dams ere- tion.” ate will be used mainly for ir-1 'rigation. ' ,____________„'PART OF PI AN ! T,h? present 10-year projectpart of a to. I™" - ■ lhrMbeen done by lhe Upper Tham­es Authority towards conserva­tion in general, including flood control. Now. under the Cana- ada Water Conservation Assist­ance Act, the Federal and Pro­vincial governments will pay most of the cost of any pro­ject of enough size and impor­tance.The Authority was given cred­it for the work it has done in this regard by Walter Dinsdale, Minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources at the meeting on Saturday. _____ __ ___ _______I congratulate the (Author- above, he also talked of rais- ity) on its patient persistence ing the water-table the level oi an eminently worthy goal, at which water is naturally pre- rhe Authority . . . demonstrates • ■ • - - - -i The Cedar Creek dam will have a reservoir with a surface of 1,460 acres Io conln (he। run-off from 31 square miles of i drainage area.| Other advantages expected are an increased number ofpark areas, boating areas and beautification of the district.When the Federal government announced its intention to aid the project in the throne speech in November. Wallace Nexbilt, MP for Oxford, outlined some advantages.Besides the ones mentionedto all Canadians what can beTHREE PHASESsent in the ground) to sunole- ment artificial irrigation. With the increase in parks, etc., a £rofitable tourist industry might e built up.DELEGATES ENTHUSEDRepresentatives from Oxford County at Saturday’s meeting were also enthused over the, , -------------— plans TVA member C. Riddle,vear Dian being'enndmUPd hv ofc-tw? tp three y«an each. Ingersoll, exclaimed the flood the Upper Thames River rnn Tle fl?1- phase Wil1 ,nclude control project “is really a big a ii 'T • ■ er • n‘ chaWl improvements at Mit- boon” 'Hon Wilh conjunc- chell. St. Marys, and west of,lion Wil l he rP.CPra and Piw ..1- a j. . iMVvh^ and Pr°- Woodst?ck.7 dam TtWddwood vincial governments. and another on the G „Ottawa and Queen’s Park will Branch of the Thames at Wood- each pay half of 75 per cent stock will also be built, of the total cost, leaving the in (he second Dhase a dam ^ner T^nimeS ^Uthority t0 pay and reservoir at Glengowan be- per cent. tween MitcheU a.nd St. Marys, Need for such a project was will be constructed.Another member. Reeve Rob-c . ert Rudy, of Tavistock agreed. wLLi He .also said cost thedemonstrated in 1937 when sev-i The third phase will spp a Imounrof dama^m ^?on-1°us dam and reservoir on the Tha- amount of damage to the area. mes above Thamesford, and Since then. much work has finally the dam and reservoir on Cedar Creek south of Wood-project would fall on the should- • ers of the benefitting commun­ities. including Woodstock.“The project will go ahead as fast as the engineers can do it.” he continued, “and will be­gin when the people are readv financially”. He added that he thought the project would begin very soon.According to a report of. the minutes of the Saturday meet- .. . ... ...............—- ing of the Authority, the firm 61limits of Wellington street win Vance. Needles. Bergendoff andhay« a, ^eFv01r 4 5 md®s in Sniith of Woodstock will engiit-width 1,050 feet in length, and eer the Woodstock dams anda surface of 575 acres. reservoirs.i stock.The dam near the northernImprovements In Library Policy, Practice Urged By Preston ManWalter Gowing, .Presloi’, W a t e r 1 o o County librarian called for an improVemen. in policies and the standardiza­tion of practices in county libraries, in a talk given yes­terday to a conference of Wes­tern Ontario librarians in the County Courthouse.In many rural areas, he said people arc paying through tax­ation Cor library services they do not receive because of a shortage of staffMany ratepayers, he con­tinued, do not even know the library service is available.The librarians plan to meet again in London to discuss the presentation of a set at stan­dards for all county libraries at lhe annual convention of lhe Ontario Library Associa­tion in Hamilton in'May.Mr. Gowing maintained that when standards arc adopted as regards salaries, staff, size of book collections and other matters, some Libraries could be incorporated as county pub- lie libraries.When this occurs, they can provide free service to all county residents, acquire more books, and maintain a bigger reference section.Counties represented it the two-day meeting were Lamb­ton. Kent. Bruce-Middlesex, Victoria. Elgin, E&sex. Perl. Simcoe, Waterloo, Weniwurih, Welland and Huron,Mrs. Glenn Eckmicr. Goder­ich. Huron County librarian and Mrs. S, L, Kromjw Woodstock, Oxford County lib­rarian. chaired yesterd®' ’s llb-clillg.PROBATION OFFICER COUNSELS Stanley Main, of Woodstock, supervising probation officer for Oxford, Middlesex, Brant and Waterloo counties, behind desk, counsels a youth who is on probation, Mr. Mam said 75 per cent of the probation cases he handles a year complete their requirements with no recur­rences.TVA Asks $6,000 From City As Part Engineering Costs CONSERVATION. FLOOD CONTROL TO COST $9,640,500OXFORD RETAINS FOX BOUNTYschool boards.building and reservoir.Endorsed a city of Woodstock resolution concerning immedi­ate action on the Post Office? ■ \AN AGREEMENT provid­ing Federal-Provincial assist­ance to the Upper Thames Conservation Authority was signed last Saturday at Fan­shawe Dam: TOP LEFT: The Hon. W. M. Nickle, Min­ister of Planning and Develop­ment, unable to attend the meeting, signed last week at Queen’s Park for the Prov­ince of Ontario. TOP RIGHT:Gordon Pittock of Ingersoll, chairman of the Authority signs the agreement, while to his right, the Hon. John Ro- barts. Ontario minister of ed­ucation. discusses a point with his neighbor. LOWER. R. M. Barney, Woodstock, points out the location of the Woodstock dam projects while Bob Rudy, of Tavistock (left) and C. Riddle, Ingersoll look on.Recommend Rabies Payments ContinuedOxford county council has re-.resolution asking the provincial'under section 52 of the Secon- ^ommended to the provincial'government to amend the Con-idary Schools and Boards of Ed- and federal governments that servation Authorities Act. lucation Act.indemnity • payments for the | Endorsed a City of Barrie re­loss of animals through rabies solution asking the province to'APPROVE PLANS [be continued on the same basis arrange suitable accommodat-' Cnnnrii aiw An [as they were until July 1 of ion for paraplegic and quad- |this year, with payments retro-1 raplegic patients.active to that dale. I Endorsed an Ontario CountyI Under an emergency p 1 aJi,.resolution in connection with [first introduced in March 1959 representation on secondary and retroactive to April 1 of school boards, [the preceding year, the federal| Council also: Approved the completion of plans and surveys for the following new bridge projects in the county in 1961:Road 17. concession 12 - East Nissouri: Road 13. concessionand provincial governments a- greed to share 80 per cent of •the cost of such indemnities on a 50:50 basis, with the county bearing the remaining 20 per [cent of the cost.5 - North Norwich: Road 24. concession 16 - East Zorra; Road 24, concession 17 - East Zorra; Road 10. Culloden; Road 19. lot 19 - Dereham: Road 19. lot 16 • Dereham; Road 29. lot| The plan ended this year when the rabies epidemic ap­peared to be under control.Took no action on a resolution 7,. “lenlieim; the Blandford- from Ontario County regardingUdenheim boundary, concession ederation of Agriculture 8 . . , , _ ,Appointed Roy Hughes, Ross Calder and John Mitchell, ir.the Federationlevy.D. F. Knott Will Resign Post With Civil Defencepcared to be under control, . Took no action on a Simcoe . ~ *—-----In the last three months of county resolution seeking the 0 ■ e conservation com- 1960 two county residents were amendment of the Pettv Tres- ,attacked by rabid animals and pass Act. Appointed R. G. Groom, Till.............................................Tabled a Wentworth county ^onburg and HL. Kipp. Prince-Thornton of Thamesford was resolution to have traffic in i !<?;.. thedestroyed by the disease. I*. .2_' L.l™___ICouncil agreed to continue lol stop when the bus slops.i pay the fox bounty of $4 during — -' (1961.ilLviivM-ii (jy IdUm dIII III< a cow in the herd ofAl vimAppointed R. G. Groom. Till: front of and behind a school bus ?Mord County Library Co-Oper- I stop when the bus slops. ame.City council will be asked to­night to accept the resignation uf P- V- Knott as part-time civil defen.se co-ordinator Wood slock.OTHER ACTIONSCouncil also:Endorsed an Ontario countymaking an appointment to the Woodstock Board of EducationforMr. Knott, who has a time job as cily welfare foini'fralor, is submitting n-Mgnahon as coordinatorparlmwifull ad- his be-Portuguese Ship Pirates” Defy Air-And-Sea Huntersreeve of East Oxford. Jo the Oxford Soil and Crop Improvement Association.Approved rhe installation of new fluorescent lights m the sheriffs office, the judges’ cha mbers and the county engine­er’s office. clock, while Mrs. Pritchard re­ceived a bouquet of roses. In the photo, Mr. and Mrs. Prit­chard hold their gifts, whileReeve Wray K. Hartley (left) and former redve David J. Chambers, (right,) who read the farewell address, express,GIFT from North Norwich Township to retiring clerk- treasuref-tax collector John Pritchard was a handsomepersonal regrets at Mr. Prit­chard’s decision to leave mun­icipal service. _Officials Tour TVA Area TodayAbout 45 members of the standing committee of the leg Mature on conservation from Queen's Park and area conser­vation officials will be touring the entire Thames Valley water- -shed today.The party is scheduled Io leave for Woodstock at 5:15 p. m. today and tour the propos­ed Woodstock dam and chan riel improvement via Thames- ford.They will be visiting the site in the northern outskirts of Woodstock where the dam and reservoir are to be located in I the near future.At 6:30 p.m. members of Woodstock city council and Ox­ford County council will be hosts at a dinner at Chalmer's United Church wich will mark the end of the day’s program.North Norwich HonorsRetiringNORWICH: The Council of North Norwich Township, the township officials and all the surviving reeves of the town­ship with whom he served, and even one who was reeve before he became township clerk, join­ed in tribute to John Pritchard, who recently retired as town­ship official, at a banquet in the cafeteria of the High School.All joined in praise of the cd- op- —ative spirit and outstand­ing ability of Mr. Pritchard as shown during his 29 years in office. He began as town shin clerk, about six years later he assumed the dual role of clerk­treasurer and later still when the North Norwich District Pub­lic School Board was formed, he became secretary-treasurer of thai group as well. In addi­tion he was the township tax collector.Reeve Wray K. Hartley pre­sided for the program, follow- 10 2 dinner served by members of the Zenda Womens Institute. Musical numbers were supnlied by an orchestra composed of .George McNeil, Bill Orth and Grant Gilmour. Mr and Mrs. Harold Bickle favored with pi- and harmonica duets.former Reeve David Cham- ibers read an address extolling the worth of Mr. and Mrs. Prit­chard for many years, when the township office was in the Pritchard home, she provided the noon day meal for the Coun­cil and township officials) and Councillors Cameron Topham and -Jack Lester made the pre­sentation of a sheaf of carna­tions to Mrs. Pritchard, a sub­stantial cheque from the town­ship. and a mantle clock from the councillors, the reeve and former reeves.Mi Pritchard replied for both and thanked all for the cooper atiort and kindnesses which had been shown to him through the years.FORMER REEVESFormer reeves speaking brief, ly were; J Grant Smith, David J. Chambers. Cari Bertrand Harold Bickle, Wilfred L. Bish- «p. George Fewster. Roa# Car-Clerk-Treroll. Harry Lockwood, Vernon Fewster, Edgar Stoakley. Ver­non Fewster and Harry Lock­wood were councillors when Mr. Pritchard was engaged as clerk. Other reeves with whom he served were: William War- inp. Tillsonburg. a member of the council who engaged him; and the late Frank Burrill, reeve when he was appointed, Milton Banbury and William Orth.With the resignation of Mr. Pritchard which came as a distinct surprise to the general public, a long family connec­tion with the clerkship nf the township has been ended. His predecessor, the late. Charles Burgess and Mr. Pritchard were] cousins, descending through the pioneer Mott family. Together] the two men held the clerkshipasurerfor 77 years.It is. recorded that the grand­father of Mr. Burgess, Solomon Txjssing. and the grandfather o: John Pritchard, entered the township of North Norwic!- for the first time on the same day in 1810. Records 'have it that Reuben Mott, Mr. Pritchard's grandfather, then a small boy. and Benson Lossing, also a mere lad and son of Solomon Lossing, had a race when near­ing the townline dividing Brant and Oxford Counties, to see who would be the first white boy to enter. Reuben claimed lo have won the race an the honor of being the first white Child in the township.Floyd Jenkins, a native of Wingham. has been appointed successor to Mr. Pritchard In his several positions.Oxford’s Oil Potential May Have Great FutureWhile it is too early to know just what is the potential development of the oil hunt on in Oxford at present, the move by the Federal Government to boost Canadian oil output by 45 per cent will be read with hopeful interest.Word of successful wells in produc­tion in Blenheim township followed lately by the comings and goings of men in the oil business have stirred the imagination on a good many people in Oxford.Reports of companies sending men into the county with considerable de­termination to sign up thousands of acres, almost the entire of Oxford seemingly if they .could, on lease con­tracts, lends to the word “oil,” an ex- citement which could be the beginning of a great wave.Now, Mr. Hees, trade and commerce minister, has proclaimed an oil policy for Canada that requires the oil indus­try to increase the output of Canadian crude and natural gas liquids from; 550,000 barrels last year to 800,000 barrels by 1963.We are ready to admit we are noli familiar as yet with the ramifications of oil prosecting and developing and developing, but from here it would ap-! pear the news from Ottawa is of major importance in the possible oil potential here in our own county.The lease form in use has been clear­ed by the Federation of Agriculture as far as the farmer is concerned. All in­formation coming to hand is indicative of hopeful developments.UWO Again AppealsFor Oxford SupportFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK -Oxford Coun- ty council was asked yesterday 'to continue its financial sup­port of the University of West­ern Ontario. For several years Ithe county has provided $2,300 annually, said L. K. Coles, clerk­treasurer.Appearing before council on behalf of the university's board of governors were Col. G. W. Little and Professor A. B. Con- ron. Council was told that 196 students from Oxford had been enrolled in 1959-60.In his annual reports on the county home and farm, Super­intendent R J. Forbes said the farm showed a profit of $3,937. The 1960 board of management has authorized the purchase of a new milkhouse and bulk cool­er at a cost of $6,000.At .Ian. 1, 1961. there were 30 residents nt the home —-eight women and 22 men. Mr. Forbes said the net cost per week per resident was $6.13, a slight increase over the previ­ous year.Appeal For BlindCouncil was addressed by Ian Grills, of Brantford. field representative for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, who outlined the work done among blind persons. He thanked council for its financial support in the past and asl&d for its continued assistance.A bylaw was passed appoint­ing members to the 1961 road committee. They are: Clifford Cunningham. Blenheim Town­ship, for one year: George Wallace. West Oxford, two years: George Davis, South Norwich, chairman, three years; George Nagle, Dereham, four years, and Lorne Junker, East Zorra. five years. DEVELOPMENT PLANNED FOR AREAHog Producers Name PeterCity To Co-Operate With East Oxford Tp.As a good neighbor policy, city council last night expressed willingness to co-operate withMcDonald; Set Show DatePeter McDonald of RR 4, Bright, was elected president at a meeting of the directors of the Oxford County Hog Producer's Association held in the agricul­tural rooms in Woodstock Satur­day afternoon.East Oxford township over pos­sible commercial development on the 25-acre Craig property .east of the city limits.Mayor W. A. Downing inform­ed council that W. G. Lawnby. reeve of East Oxford, and sev­eral township council members, met with city manager R. G. Morrow and himself Thursday morning.M a v o r Downing said the township officials indicated that there will be a large commer­cial development on the 25-acre property and they have been approached if the township will extend the trunk sewer and pave Beard’s Lane.The mayor said the township is anxious to accommodate the companv and provide the neces­sary services to the property but were worried their invest­ment may be lost if Woodstock decided to annex.•'The township asked that counci’ enter into an agreement so that their interests will be protected.’' he declared. "This is a reasonable request when annexation is imminent.’’ Aiderman W. B. Dutton said city council should show rea­sonable co-operation and show willingness to sit down and talk with the township.ONTARIO,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY % 1H1 Page 11OXFORD COUNTY, CITY, HOSTS TO OWRC MEMBERS111CONSIDER NEW WATER RIGHT REGULATIONSConservation Group Completes WO TourAbout 4.5 members of the standing committee of the legislature on conservation and the Upper Thames River Con­servation Authority were t h e guests last night of Woodstock City council and Oxford County council.The government and conser­vation officials were in Wood- stock on the last leg of a day hng bus tour of the entire Thames Valley watershed. Several projects included in the $1,000,000 program that was recently approved by both the federal and provincial Gov­ernments are located in Wood­stock and rea,Members of the two councils played hosts last night at Chal­mers Church where an inform­al gel-to-gether and dinner con­cluded the day’s program,During a panel discussion al the University of Western Ont-Pick FewsterAs Unit HeadMayor Rofig Fewster of Ing­ersoll was elected chairman of the Oxford Health Unit board lor 1961, during the regular monthly meeting of the board held in Woodstock last nightAid.. Wilham Dutton will re­present the city Of Woodstock and county members arc war­den Ernest Garner of RR 4 Embro: reeve Leslie Force of Norwich and reeve Gren Lazen- by of RR 4 WoodstockJames Hartnell of Mt. Elgin is the provincial representative on the board, MOH Dr. 0, c. Powers is director and L. k Coles of Ingersoll is secretary- treasurer 1Last night Ihe board also ap­proved applications for licen­sing eight nursing homes with- m the county.The included:Ingersoll - Ingersoll Private and Pinecrest,Wood-lock Victoria, Sunxel and Sutherland’s. 11County—Mission N ur s 1 n c Home ai RR i Woodcock, Ro85, dak al Embro and McKellar at Kimore. Aario yesterday afternoon.anmission official Indicated that I the current water shortage in certain areas of the province has prompted the OWRC toconsider implementing controls provided under existing legisla­tion on lhe u«« of water,C, S. McNaughton, PC-Huron, said the OWRC is considering regulations defining water rights and the basis for controlling water use,Dr. James Vance, of Wood- stock, OWRC commissioner, said there would have to he some regulation of I ho division of water when water tables drop below the level of shallow we,Ils but warned against a move to wards excessive restrictions,He said thie OWRC is watch­ing waler tables closely. A stir vey by rural authorities of wells in their areas was recommend­ed by Dr, Vance."I think the knowledge we have of dug wells in Western Ontario is totally inadequate for our purposes today," he said.In their aII-day Lour of the ------------ an watershed members of Hie ComOntario Water Resources Cum mittee loured the Stratford theatre and Hie parks and scenic drive, stopped on Highway 7 lor a look al the site of proposed Wildwood Dam oast of gt, Marys, held two panel discus sions at London and went to Woodstock for the dinner.WOODSTOCK city council i and Oxford County council were hosts last night to mem lx»rs of the standing commit lee of the legislature on con­servation and the Upper Tha­mes River Conservation Auth- : ority. The informal event at Chalmers United Church end 1 cd an eventful dav which in- i eluded a bus lour of the entire Thames Valley watershed and two panel discussion on con­servation at the University of Western Ontario in London.TOP PHOTO shown at the dinner in Woodstock from left to right are Ernest Garner, warden of Oxford: Dr James Vance. .Woodstock, of the Ont­ario Water Resources Com­mission; Gordon Innes. MLAfor Oxford: and Ross Fews­ter. mayor of Ingersoll LOW. ER from left to right are Gordon Pittock, Ingersoll, chairman of the Upper Tham­es River Conservation Author ity; Mayor W A. Downing of Wood stock: and J. H. White. MP for Middlesex who waschairman of discussion in Photos)the fir London WELCOMES FIRST GRANDSONBig Family Is A Joy To Oxford First LadyBy MARY MARSH are Junior Farmers and four'husband’s interest in common-A brown-haired, bright eyed .belong to 4-H Clubs. ity affairs. (This is his eighthyoung grandmother and mother I Doug. 19, a graduate of Ridge-1 year in municipal life.) “I of 11 children, is the new first I town Agricultural School, nowithink it is good for him. Just lady of Oxford county. 'operating his own farm, is pre- the same as ahohby, I sup-Mrs Alice Garner 37 and sident of the Bennington Junior pose." warden Ernest Garner of RR 4 Farmers and a 4-H Club lead- .............. • ' ’East Zorra Withholds Naming Of Area Plumbing InspectorTAVISTOCK: — The East Zorra Township Council a1 its March session was advised to ■withhold the appointment of a plumbing inspector for the pre­sent pending clarification from I the Department of the intent of I the Act. The advice was re- ceived from Oxford County Cle­rk L. K. Coles. The session was held at the Township Hall at Hickson, with all members pre­sent and Reeve Lorne Junker presiding.In addition to the wardenship of the county, Mr. Garner is aEmbro. became grandparents €r- , , *— —- —• - •*for the first time Thursday Ross and AMan, 17< belong 'o member of the Embro and night when their eldest son Bennington and Allan is also a (West Zorra Agricultural Society, Doug’s wife, Shirlev, produced 1,r- arc WayQ€. 15 and;an elder in Knox Church and a a babv bov. Elaine The musical member'township chairman of the farm"We're thrilled." smiled Mrs. of the family. Elain,e 14, won safety committee.Garner happily. "Both Ernie ^J’^^.^cholarslup at Jh^ mu!- J- - -and I love small children.Which is not to say.” she add- lcJ.n the spring.for the first lime Thursday night when their eldest •*a baby boy.a singing scholarship al the । This is the first year a Garn- Oxford County Festival of Mus- er has been named to the high- ,n the cn™. es. ofifice in the county buted. "that we don’t love them Y,'. a. s*'adc seven| with the new generation of Gar-when they are growing up too”. I puP}! in “hgnland Park senior I ners coming along, it is pretty Mrs Garner, (nee Alice Dox-lpUj c SC“OO1 north of Embro safe to predict it won't be the ey was born in Kitchener and and ^or 4-H|last.grew up in Stratford. She and membership in 1961. ---------------Mr. Garner have been married EVERYONE HELPS iSriiv. in an^rral°townshiDk a nd ।plied thaI il Was eas-v- with thearro- boys Gach helping her inHoU pin-1 ab° 1W h d °f :urn the house until Elaine ®nf rhx.™ ™ . came alon2- Elaine is now herried^ifJ main help with th" meals andried .ife by deciding their fam-;voungei chi’dren although the ils would be a specific size and s°“ucr bov are std exwc ea ^Wd%meat P!eaSUre fr°m to hefo -ith dishes ’ °The older boys get up about“A farm is the ideal place for 6 to hefo Vth he farm Mrs’”Garner^-Yon^don't5 have cbor<?s ^re leaving for school •’irs. Garner you don t nsve ,< 7-40 to worry where the children) are.”•’ A spin-rinse washing machine | automatic dryer and deep fre |COILT BOAST TEAM eze helP lighten the work load With nine sons and two dau-’j11 ^rs Garner. The farm pro- ghiers the family could boasti.uces ^eir meat and milk its own baseball team, or hock- quarts a day.) ev team, with a few to spare. u- rs' Garner feels that the The hockey team is more like- bluest problem in a large fam- ly. as with both parents and “7 JJ the lack of privacy for jn- seven children members of the dividual members. This is more Woodstock Figure Skating Club ;“an she Panted out, by ■tbev could well he called "the .1!?e children having learned "a skating Garners.” 'bd of give and take.” beforeAt least one bov, Ross, 18, up- „ .grade 13 student at WCI. would I ,Both Parents believe in disci- Kke to become a professional D.hne- starting when the young­skater. He is off to a good are s”1311 and Mrs- Garn- stan as he is in the open men’s c£4j s home when the figure skating champion of the children return from school.:■I. XHer outside interests incluut BWoodstock Club this year. . .— ........——Brian. 9. and John 8, also th£j presidency of the Embro » skate, as do he three smallest ?,nd 7€st branch of the W Garners. Roger, aged 6. has a Ganadian Cancer Society and O junior championship to his ere- JP thve £ho'r of Knox H dit. Five-year-old Joyce started ’'rated Church. Embro.skating three years ago and For a hobby, she likes to KFor a hobby, she likes tobaby Keith. 3. is on blades for make clothes'for Elaine Joyce.the first time this year.Three of the young GarnersandMrs. Garner approves ofherQuestion Of Oxford JailerStirs Legislature TempestOXFORD WARDEN FATHER OF 11 — Oxford County's newly-elected warden, Ernest Garner, of ।RR 4, Embro, is the father of 11 children. From. . , —Free Press Woodstock Bureauleft, around Mr. ond Mrs. Garner, are: Roaer 6 Brian, 9; Glen, 12; Elaine, 14; Allan, 17 Ross IR- Douglas, 19; Wayne, 15; John, 8;' Joyce 5' ond Keith 3. 'Oxford County jail was the subject of some heated exchang­es in the legislature at Toronto on Monday.Gordon Innes, Liberal MLA -for Oxford, charged that "poli­cies", ir. holding up the appoint­ment of a new governor of Ox­ford jail in succession to the late John Calder. The exchang­es took place during discussion of appointments to county jail stafh. with other Liberals as-'sailing the Department of Re- ■ form institutions.Mr Innies claimed a turnkey on the Oxford jail staff had been interviewed by the deputy minister and told he would get the apjx>intment, That was last December and still there was no appointment, he said,Hon. George Ward rope, min­ister of the department termed the sfalemenl an "unmitigated lie". Mr. Innes said that the turnkey had been recommended by Oxford county council for the position."It is the privilege of the minister to appoint jail gover­nors and I have not yet found Hit right man for Oxford,” Mr.Ward-rope told Mr. Innes.Heated Words Develop On Jail AppointmentsBy JOHN A. PKTHICK Mr. Innes claimed a turnkey , Free press Stuff Writer ion the Oxford jail staff had TORQNTp — Gordon Innes been interviewed by the deputy (Lib. Oxford) charged last minister and told he would get night ‘‘politics'’ is holding up the job. That was last Deaem- the appointment of a governor her and still there has been no at the Oxford County jail. A , appointment, near ruckus developed as the '‘Unmitigated Lie” legislature discussed appoint- j "It's an unmitigated lie when ments to county jail staffs , you say that,” Hon. George with other Liberals assailing Wardrope, minister of the de- Hie department of reform in- partment, told Mr. Innes. iSliluUons. । The MPP said the turnkeyIms been recommended for the position by the Oxford County council.Arthur Resume, Essex area Liberal, refused to withdraw his (charge a man had to carry' the Icard of the government in power (Conservatives) to get a [job on county jail staffs.Retraction DemandedThe retraction was demanded by Travel and Publicity Minis­ter Cathcart, who said only re­cently six men were appointed ito the Lambton jail staff and he didn’t know a single one of them.He appealed in vain to com­mittee chairman Erskine John­ston (PC Carleton) to make Mr. Resume withdraw his state­ment,"It is the privilege of the min­ister to appoint, jail governors and I haven't found the right nwn yet for Oxford." Mr. Ward­rope told Mr. Innes. Fann Safety Council Aims At Preventionfn an effort to reduce the loss of life by farm people from ac­cidents. the Oxford Farm Safe­ty Council was organized in Ap­ril, i960. Grant Smith of Burg- essville was named the first president.A safety exhibit was prepared and put on display al. all Coun­ty fairs. Posters were included to remind fair patrons of causes of accidents. Farmer Mutual Insurance Companies and otherinsurance agencies provided fireThe county survey conducted extinguishers for free draws, the previous year indicated that |9ver one thousand entered the 6 farm people had lost their1 -'vs>- -• -lives, and at least 152 were in­jured in Oxford county. In ad­dition there was property loss in access of $427,000,00. Reports from all areas of the province had indicated that farming was a very hazardous occupation.Circulars were distributed during the year to 4-H members Advertisements were placed in county papers in an effort to make farm people more aware of the dangerous implements and operation about the farm.During the year the Farm p: Safety Council met to give at- o< tention to a continuing pro­gram to make farm people aware of the hazards of acci­dents.The council realizes that the •roblem of farm accidents will >e a continuous one. In orderto make progress in reducing the rate of accidents the support of all farm people will be nec­essary.ifMEET the Garners of West Zorra. Newly elected Oxford county warden. Ernest F. Garner and Mrs. Garner ofRR 4. Embro. are shown with their family of eleven. Read­ing from the top, left to right, Roger 6, Keith. 3, Joyce, 5, John 8. Ross, 18, Brian 9.Wayne, 15. Elaine. 14, Allan 17 and Doug 19. Glen, aged 12. is standing in front of his parents. (Staff photo.)MEMBERS OF foe Oxford County Farm Safety commit­tee met in Woodstock yester­day to discuss the 1961 ac­cident prevention campaign. Left to right, guest speaker, Alan Francis. Halton county agricultural representative; past chairman, J. Grant Smith of Burgessville and newly el­ected chairman, Fred. Stock of Tavistock. (Staff photo)FRED STOCK NAMED CHAIRMANFarm Safety Stressed By Council SpeakerOmario farmers are playing county agricultural represents-/elected chairman of the county a dadj gante of chance as far five J, A. Francis staled ml committee for 1961. lie suc­an their accident insurance cov- Woodstock yesterday, erge is cop'-enned, Halton " ’if they are unlucky, all their giessville. who will also become assets and their business could past chairman of Lite provincial be wiped out, Mr. Francis as- Farm Safety Council this mon-serted. He was addressing a meeting of Ute Oxford Farm Safety committee.The agricultural represent­ative noted that, the Halt o n approach to Lhe farm safety i program was to stress “what to do in the event of accidents.”This was accomplished:, h e said,, by emphasizing the im portance of fire drills, first aid 'classes and accident insurance, preferably Workmen’s Compcn sal ion.Mr, Framcis suggested I. h a I lhe farm .ociihmil. prevention program will not he efteclive un ■Ijl the attitudes of people ehan gc and “that is going Io lake .many, many years,” Fred Stock of Tavistock wat> Junior Fanw< Association.ceeds .1, Grant Smith of Bur-th.Other executive members named:Vice-chairman, Fred Richens of RR 2 Mount Elgin; second vice-chairman, Grin Lazenby, RR 4 Woodstock; secrclary- treasurer, Don Taylor.Directors: Wilf C o c k- burn, Dnnnlw; Roy MeCorquo- dale. Lakeside; M r s. Charl­es Munro, Embro.Delegates named to lhe Ont­ario Farm Safety CmitcremT in Guelph. Feb. 7 and H include; Mrs. Mimro; Mrs. Charles Kel­ly of BiirKessvilli’; Mr. Rich ens; Mr. McCoiqimdale and Al­lan limes of HI! 3 Embro. pro side-nt of the Oxford CountyRAILWAY STATION IS CLOSED AT OTTERVILLEThe Canadian National Rail­ways depot ay Otterville was closed to train service on Monday Reason for the clos- jing was given by railway offi- Tials as “insufficient busi- nesa.*' For the past 88 years, the Otterville community has Ihad almost continuous rail 'service. Up until February |2S, 1955. there was at least one train a day through the ixteUon yards, end then a change was made to provide service by truck, or tee oc­casional train as required by demands. It was in 1872 that J. F. Bullock and Gilbert Moore of Norwich started the movement teat Resulted in the Grand Trunk railway running a line through Otterville. Sin co tliat time some of the agents who have served at the depot were 0, C. Fish. M. J. O'DonweU, B. MadjgeM,<■" Angell. Earl Fetch. Will­iam Lambourn. and J a c k Church, the latter having been assigned here for tev past four years. In the photo. Mr. Church, who is 88-years old. makes his tin al appearance as agent at the old depot. Ex­press and freight will come to the station bj truck only in future, and Jack Riste of Gt terviUe, will meet tee vehicles and perform janitor s duties.(Photo ba- E Warmc) MAGISTRATE R. G. GROOM, QC. OF TILLSONBURGSTRONG EXPONENT OF REHABILITATIONCompletes 20 Years Of Service On BenchExpect Change In Status To Improve Embro LibraryBy STEWART WATSON Completing 20 years of ser­vice to Oxford county as Magis­trate on Feb. 1, R. G. Groom, QC, Tillsonburg, has just one bit of advice for the rehabilita- tor of law breakers: “Just don’t give up.”The tall, imperturbable Tillson­burg barrister’s appointment became effective on Feb. 1, 1941 and on Monday Feb. 3 in Woodstock, he presided over his first case after being sworn in by the late Crown Attorney Craig McKay.• Well known, nationally and in­ternationally. in both lay and professional legal circles for his leanings towards the refor­mation and rehabilitation of law breakers. Mr. Groom attended an international conference on the administration of justice in London, England last summer.MAIN GOALHis main goal is to bring .he criminal back to a useful place in society and he, constantly and obviously, pursues this goal tn Oxford’s police courts by tempering his judgments ac­cordingly.Time and time again this ob­server has witnessed his uncea­sing efforts to aid and restore the youthful Jawbreaker and while his efforts are not always successful any measure of suc­cess is reward enough to him."Just don’t give up. Continue to persevere,” is his advice to all groups and citizens interest­ed in helping the criminal re­turn to responsible society. "I have a strong feeling that so­ciety should never relax their efforts in this regard,” he ob­served.Sincere and dedicated in this ’■ i-i,11u” S i*n<> o? uptmB^ueiey oqj suqtjb.•rpu! jumi ua»q 3A8q -waqi dn ifinq saudansP°* pwup^tau SuiaqUB SZ XUipnpUl ’U^Ul oo< inoqtojoiiuujj ui wpamjapuw aqi p|es uBunc^ods v ■quou oq;ih UHM) ->L|j U| aUOlUJEpIhW esueiBjl -»q1pu« SjSiqumwnq Mapi;' that they receive proper treat­ment if it is within his juris­diction to do so.The statistics on “adolescent delinquency” vary so vastly from country to country, be­cause of different age limits and methods for instance, that it is difficult to assess them properly, he said in an interview yesterday.Magistrate Groom credited Woodstock police with doing a “very effective job” in the ju­venile delinquent field in the city. “In recent years the city police have done a great deal by reporting minor misde­meanors to parents if the offen­der is young and the offense not too grave.” he pointed out. He added that such offenses don’t appear in statistics. “Yet, a very effective job is being car­ried out by the city police,” he stated.POSITION CHANGEDMagistrate Groom feels that the position of magistrate has changed much over the years. A greater emphasis has i?en placed on the sociological posi­tion of a magistrate than his mere judicial functions. “He is not now merely a strict inter­preter of the law. While he still: has to determine the guilt or innocence of a person, the more difficult task is to deter­mine what the sentence should be,” he explained.“The principles of sentencing now involve reformation, the deterring of others and protec­tion the public," he observed, “'they all have to l>e kept in balance,” he added.“The past 20 years has seen the establishment of a proba­tionary system in Ontario equal to any in the world with many dedicated young men and wom­en acting as probation officers who work tirelessly to rehabili­tate offenders," Magistrate Groom claimed,Mr. Groom felt “quite sure” hat Um? next few years would bring about an increasing awar- ncss by the public of the neces­sity of aiding the probation of­ficers and worm personnel byoffering individual assistance to men and women released from custody to become adjusted to society.He noted that in England there are many people who re­gularly visit prison inmates to preoare them for their return to public life and assume their resoonsibilities. While visiting an open Girls Borstal Institu­tion in England Magistrate Groom discovered one employ­er who regularly employed a Borstal girl on his staff.WILL BE GREATER“This concern for the impris­oned will become greater as men’s service clubs and church groups move into the field which at present is only occup­ied by two or three societies that have made it their lifetime work,” Magistrate Groom be­lieves.“Even in my work, the prob­lem of understanding why young people get into difficulty is para­mount,” he stated. Mr. Groqm feels these young people res­pond best to the voluntary in­terest of men and women who seem able to convince these young people that their only in­terest is to be helpful.Magistrate Groom said we were fortunate in this county to have a mental health clinic at the Ontario Hospital. It has been a great help. “No abnor­mal behavior is completely ,mo- iveless,” he said pointing to the advantages of the clinic.'It is always possible for every person to be rehabilita­ted if it is preceded with a real desire on their part of the individual and I have a feeling that society should never give up in this,” he concluded.The Embro library recently changed its status from an as­sociation library, maintained by membership subscriptions and grants, to a public library, sup­ported by the Ontario Depart­ment of Education and the mun­icipality.Ex-Warden Don Hossack, chairman of the library board, explained that the change was brought about because the De­partment of Education revised its system of providing library grants. He said the grants are now based on expenditures, which will force all small libr­aries to prove their services.Mr. Hossack said the village council discussed the matter last fall and decided to make a levy on the mill rate in order to make the library a free, pub­lic service to the residents of the municipality.Any out of town residents can have memberships as before, he stated.The library now will receive a much larger grant from the Dept, of Education, expected to be about 40 per cent of the estimated expenditures.The library board, Mr. Hos­Retarded SchoolContractIt was announced this morn­ing by Charles Jane, president of the Woodstock and District I Retarded Childrens’ Associa­tion. that the contract to build the new school has been given to V. Carter of Woodstock.The Department of Educa­tion in Toronto has consented to bear 30 per cent of the total cost of the school, and the Woodstock Rotary Club will sup­ply the remainder of the funds.Over $17,000 has already been raised by the Rotary Club to- iward this and a special drive ifor funds will commence as soon as possible, to raise the remainder of the money. About $10,000 is still needed to com­pletely equip the school with furnishings, parking facilities, playground and landscaping.The school will be located north of Devonshire on the con­tinuation of Brampton street. I । The contract was awarded'Tenders WantedQuotations will be received 'by the undersigned until 12 o'clock noon.Tues., March 21 1961on premiums for insurance on reads. County equipment and Eni pl dye r's Li abili ty.I Infoiwation may be ob­tained al the office of the undersigned. Court House. Woods look.’Ithe lowest or any lenderI not necessarily accepted.J N. MEATHRELL.| Count) Road Superintendent jcourl House,Woodstock, Ontario,I March 7. 1961.sack stated, fa still working on a budget, striving to arrive at an estimate of operating costs. The budget will have to be ap­proved by the Department.A new librarian, Mrs. John Hutchison, has been hired and the board is buying more books and keeping the library open longer hours.It is open Saturday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. and Tuesday and Saturday evenings Between 7 and 9 p.m. as well as the regular daytime hours.The library still tak^s advan­tage of the book rotation syst­em offered by the Oxford Coun­ty, Library Co-op. 'The county, Mr. Hossack pointed out, has done away with membership fees to r.:e Co-op. in an effort to assist small libraries.In effect, this amounts to in­creasing the county grant, the board chairman commented.Is Let(with the understanding that lo- | cal labour and materials made locally should be used as much as possible. The people of Wood- stock have donated generously to this work and the commit­tee thinks the local firms should benefit from the building of this school.The architect. Roy Beatty, is a resident of Woodstock, and has lived in the city all his life except when attending Uni­versity.This school will accommodate twenty-five to thirty children ar present and room is laid out so that it can be expanded, if and when necessary.No name for the new school has yet been chosen, and it is suggested by members of the Retarded Children’s Association that the public be invited to submit names for consideration. These may be forwarded to post office box 1, Woodstock.ROADSThe Ontario Department of 'Highways has allotted $432,000 and $882,800, or a total of $L* 314,800. to Oxford county for construction and maintenance on Imunicipal roads during the 196b .1962 fiscal year. The total ex­penditure on roads by both the department and Ontario muni-; IcipaHUes will be SHSJWOO. iabout an increaseover 19591960. Name D. Mitchell Head Of AssessorsCounty assessor. Fred H. Cade, has announced that Dav­id Mitchell of RR 4, Bright was elected president of the Oxford County Assessors’ Association in Woodstock, yesterday,The Association meets every two months to discuss such mat­ters as assessment principles and amendments to the Assess­ment Act.Other officers elected:First vice-president. Carman Farey. RR 1. Tavistock; second vice-president, Frank Broad, RR 1 Burgessville and secret­ary-treasurer, Ira Harris of Mount El jin.Unable to Meet $50,000 NoteSo Perth Borrows $650,000Free Press Stratford Bureau Toronto-Dominion Bank hereSTRATFORD A corpora-for the money even though the (ton which cannot right now county clerk-treaauref told pay off ft $50,000 bank note councilors that the bank still which expired at the end of I-old* the $50,000 note due at 1000 is still able to go back tothe end of last year.the bank which holds the note Nobody seemed too worried and ask for another $850,000 toabout It. There was no Indl- Lelp finance this year's work, cation that anybody was goingTo the non-mathematically-to seize the courthouse or even inclined person who frequently the clerk-treasurcr.might find It difficult to keep a Of course the treasury may small-scale bank book properly not spend the full authorized balanced, that might look like $650,000 borrowings before taxes an Impossibility. start to roll'in.It Isn’t The clerk - treasurer wenfBut Perth council did It yes-through the auditor's annual terday. summing up of finances whichThe council passed its routine indicated last year's standing borrowing bylaw, asking the was about $53,000 better thanhad berm expected; and just when everyone seemed highly elated he announced In th*- next breath that the county did not have enough cash to pay off the $50,000 note.But, he later explained, the $50,000 will be paid when the treasury receives $77,000 which has been requested from the provincial government ax a sub­sidy on an improvement road project in Millbank area.Incidentally the application for the road subsidy on that Millbank job includes between $7,000 and $8,000 interest charges.In Healthy ConditionThe audit report Indicated thecounty was in a healthy finan-clal condition, even if the treas­urer could not meet the note.The actual road account cash balance was $11,426 and the igeneral account $22,521 which, along with “ft surplus higher than had been -expected will leave something between $53,000- $54,000 in the kitty. But none of that can go to pay off that note. That's in a separate ac­countCouncil authorized the rou­tine money borrowing bylaw and set up a preliminary road budget including $200,000 for construction and $230,000 for maintenance.The county auditor included a note in the financial report reassuring council that the fi­nancial situation was being I conscientiously handled by the clerk-treasurer.AUTHORITY OFFICERS INSTALLED — Annual meeting of the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority was held in the board room at Fanshawe Dam yesterday. During the meeting the slate of officers for'^he coming year was installed. Left to right ore, J. A. Stephen, Blanshard Township, chair­man of the St. Marys advisory board; Robert Rudy, Tavistock, chairman of the nominating committee; Norman Bradford, London, vice-chairman; A. H. Richardson, Toronto, chief conservation engineer, department of commerce and development; and G. W. Pittock, Ingersoll, re-elected as chairman.SELECT INSPECTORThe agricultural committee of countv council met in Woodstock 'today to reach a decision on the name of the candidate for the office of county weed in­spector. The candidate will be recommended to council during the March budget session which I opens on March 21 and is ex­pected to last for three days.Plan To Name Weed InspectorOxford Breeding Unit Leads All Of CanadaOxford’s Warden Of 1960 Speaks At Annual Meeting Of VON BoardWOODSTOCK — When Ox­ford County council's agricul­tural committee meets for an all-day session Wednesday, one of five applicants will be recom­mended as the county’s weed inspector, U K. Coles, county clerk and treasurer, said yes­terday.Delegations from several farm 'organizations will appear to re­quest grants.Mr. Cole® also said council's finance committee will meet! March 7 for an all-day session, to begin work on setting the county's tax rate for 1M1,County council'* budget ses­sion will begin March 21 for an expected three-day ruu, he said- RURAL NEIGHBORS ARE GUESTS OF LIONS CLUBOXFORD SEED FAIR OPENSNAME C. RIDDLE AS PLANNING BOARD CHAIRMANviceserveTavistock Honors Village Clerk Retired After 32 Years ServiceMeeting in (he county court house on Wedniesday evening, the Woodstock and Suburban Planning Board named C.old Gee. *Lions Club agricult­ural committee chairman, and Ernest Garner, Oxford Coun­ty warden, discuss a map or outlining the Conservation Au- t h o r i t y territory. (Staff photos).tery, RR 8, Woodstock chairman, deft) and , Gillott of Woodstork, Ury. (Staff Photo.)TT WAS Rural-Urban Night for Woodstock Lions Club Monday, when farmers of the immediate- area were guests for the evening. In the TOP photo, Don Taylor (left), agri­cultural representative for Oxforo County, chats withBev. Wallace, Lions Club pre­sident, and Gordon Pittock of Ingersoll (right), chairman of the Upper Thames Valley Conser’ation Authority, who was guesi speaker. In the LOWER photo, John Wallace, RR 8, Woodstock (left), Arn-Piddle of North Oxford (cen­tre), as chairman for 1961. Other members of the three- man executive are J. P. Slat—Free Press Woodstock Bureou... , - The 1961 Oxford County Seed Fair and pro­vincial hay and silage show opened yesterday at Woodstock. It concludes to­day with presentation of awards and an auction sale. Examining an entry of seed grain are, from left: George Jakeman, vice-president of the Oxford County branch of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association" War­den Ernest Garner, who opened the .show, and Oliver Facey, president.TAVISTOCK: Tavistock’s mu­nicipal clerk for 32 years, Char­les J Klein, was honored by the Tavistock Council during the meeting of the Men's Club and Board of Trade. Mr. Klein re­tired the end of December, last.The presentation of an onyx base pen set was made by Reeve Robert Rudy, who said council was of the opinion that such a presentation would be fitting at the meeting of the men. Mr. Klein has been a member of the organization for many years, and is 8 former president. Will Guarantee Fair PriceFor All Lands ExpropriatedA fair and equitable price” I who will be asked io give up .require 2,600 acres. Other pro* properties for construction oftects are slatx’d for Wildwood j j east of St. Marys and south ofdams and reservoirs. liirphumv 7 amt Gkupowan.will be paid to land owners in the 31 municipalities on t'hc Up­per Thames River watershedHighway 7,Speaking at the Woodstock nofth of St Marys. Lions' Club last night, Gordonand Glengowan,A tour of the Upper Thamesthe Upper Thames River Con­servation Authority, was the principal guest at the club’s "agricultural night.” Area far-* wte Xd“'wiK rnede o™r-• row by 45 members of the On-tario Legislature. Included on their tour is a visit, to the pro-D ELA Y APP0INTM ENTNo appointment has been made as yet to the position of position of governor of Oxford county jail, succeeding the late Governor John B. Calder. who se death occurred recently, if was learned today from Lent Coles, county clerk The ap pointment will be made by the Department of Reform Ins:jtu tions, Toronto, now in charge' of prisons. In the meantime I iChief Turnkey A. E. Walton Is acting governor at the jail.mersamnnrf cnAntnl ntiActc SVwVn.were among the special guests.Among (he guests were War­den Ernest Garner, Gordon In- eis, MPP (Lib.—Oxford); D. A. Taylor, agricultural representa­tive for Oxford, and Norman Watson, associate agricultural representative.Mr. Pittock said Lhe UTRCA has not yet decided to present, a recommendation regarding purchasing of property, but it is likely there will be ‘‘blanket |expropriation followed by a meeting of all land owners to arrive at a basic price for land.”The authority will require 113,600 acres of land to complete its five dam and reservoir proj­ects in the 31 municipalities, he said. The dam and reservoir project north of Woodstock will cost $1,020,000 and will require 1,600 acres of land.The Thamesford project will cost $2,044,000 and will require 3,600 acres. Cedar Creek proj­ect will cost $604,000 and willOxford Farmer Groups Request County GrantsFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Representa­tives of five Oxford. County farm organizations appeared be­fore county council’s agricultur­al committee yesterday and asked for annual grants ranging from $200 to $600.Calder, first vice-president; Ox­ford County Plowmen’s Associa­tion, Clare Hartley, president, John R. Hargreaves, director; Oxford Soil and Crop Improve­ment Association, George JaR6- man, first vice-president.ADMIRE PLOWMAN'S TROPHY — Executive of­ficers of the Oxford County Plowmen's Association here admire the East Zorra Plowmen's memorial Trophy won by Cecil Wells, Princeton. The officers,—Free Press Wood stock Bureau elected at yesterday's annual meeling in Wood- stock, are, from left: Wilfred Corp, past president; D. A. Tayler, secretary; Clare Hartley, president, and Norman Shelton, treasurer.The agricultural committee will consider the requests and make their recommendations to county council at its next ses­sion March 21 to 23, said L. K. Coles, clerk-treasurer. The com­mittee also discussed the ap­pointment of a county weed in­spector and a candidate will be recommended to council.RepresentativesDonald Taylor, agricultural representative for Oxford, in- troduced the representatives of the organizations requesting grants. Ronald Wllker, of RR «, Woodstock, president of the Oxford County 4-H Leaders' As­sociation, represented the coun­ty's 4-H ciups.Other groups and representa­tives; Junior Farmers, Allan Innes, president, and GordonTO SPEED WORK ON 401New Highway 403 Will Commence At Eastwoodj ..The next mur-lane highway for the Woodstock district will be Highway 403 which is now in the planning and design stage at this the westerly end of its length.According to the estimates of t h e Ontario Department of iHighways tabled in flic legislat­ure on Tuesday, Highway 403 will commence at Eastwood and will connect with the Queen Elizabeth Way at the Freeman Interchange four miles east of Highway 6 In its route the hi«h- way will bypass Paris. Brant*) ford and Hamilton, the latter (bypass being the Chedoke EX’ ipres&way now under construct­lion.I It is heliwed Highway 403 will leave Highway 401 at an Inter­change near, probably south of, the over-pass on the tower Line Road east of Woodstock. It will parallel the lower here or 2nd Concession Road.No indication has been given by the department in ils estim­ates as to when this end of the new highway’s construction will be in the work stage.HIGHWAY 101Included in Lhe estimates for fhis district also is the grading and paving of the 25 mile sect­ion of Highway 401 between Eastwood and Highway 8 near Preston. When completed and opened later this year this sec­tion wil provide a stretch from La'mibeth to Belleville of control­led access. tour-lane highway. 'On Highway 401 provision has 'been made in the new work pro- gram for n bridge al Lots 6 and jT in the second and third con- cessions of Blandford about 2 ।miles east of Highway 2.Other new structures planned tor this year in Oxford are on Highway 97 at Malcolm’s Brid­ge. tour miles east of Hickson: Alder Creek 5.5 miles East of Plattsville and Washington cre­ek 1.8 miles east of Plattsville.Carry over work to be com­pleted this year includes High­way 19 south from Shakespeare to one mile north of Hickson fro grading, drainage, granualar base and paving. A new bridge over the Thames near Tavistock on Highway 19 is also included in this program.Bridges over the Nith and Wilmot Creek near Plattsville are among the carryover pro­gram on Highway 97.MUNICIPAL WORKThe estimates also set out the imi allotments to municipalit­ies in Oxford tor normal work to a total of $1,3(1^800. The fig- uros for municipalities in Ox­ford, with the first, and secondamounts being for construction and maintenance and the third the total, are as follows:Oxford county. $200.00Q; $330.- 000; $536,000.Townships of. Blandford. $8,- 000; $19,500. $27,500; Blenheim. $15,000; $58,000; $73,000; Derc ham, $40,000; $50,000; $90,000; East Missouri. $10,000; $33,000; $43,000; North Norwich. $18,000; $30,000; $48,000; South Nor­wich, $25,000; $33,000; $58,000; East Oxford $5,000: $27,000; $32,000; North Oxford, $5,000; $23000; $28,000; West Oxford $4,000; $29,000; $33,000; East Zorra. $16,000; $48,000; $64,000; West Zorra, $10,000; $34J$aa; $44,500.Woodstock, $50,000; $T2,W0* $122,000.Ingersoll, $13,000; $38,000; $51, 500; Tilsonburg, $7,000; $43,000; $5,500; Norwich. $2,500; $9,300- $11,800; Tavistock $500; $3,500-'JOt^ z 0u o in in <U) Q < 0 orQ 00 C0tr<z 0ui H O IY <r o< > 0 a:5 O c £KZ < a < z < oCO cnCM CM£m uio cn w z o UJ 2u oui < j “ d?I.- sy ou a oa za. mu o -1 a m 4 < z a <0 z o IUJ IUITHE OFFICERS AND DIRECT-THE ONTARIO GOOD ROADS >HEAD TABLE GUESTS MEET IN THE TORONTO ROOM AT 6.30 P.M.AND WILL PROCEED AS A CROUP into the Banquet Hall promptly AT 0,90 P.MREQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANYAT THEIRANNUAL BANQUETON WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY THE TWENTY-SECOND NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE AT SIX-THIRTY O'CLOCK P.M.AT THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTOGUEST SPEAKER:THE HONOURABLE ERRICK F. WILLIS. Q.C.LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF MANITOBA.DRESS OPTIONALR.S.V.P.THE SECRETARY MUNICIPAL WORLD BUILDING ST. THOMAS. ONTARIOONTARIO GOOD ROADS 1894 ASSOC I AT ION 1961DIRECTORL. K. COLESOXFORD59th Annual Convention59th j Annual MeetingONTARIO GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION+Toronto... \• —Free Press Woodstock Bureau MODERN VERSION?—This sign on Wellington Street between Grace and Can­terbury steets at Woodstock yesterday told'motorists to deture " A water main was beina reoaired. County Council Is Urged To Establish Oxford EMOAmong themany req nests 'portla I ion and education for re- islatnre al its next sittings for il ( Him I nl</nr .. k. 1J ...... .... .t . . .. .Urge Oxford Approve Emergency Aid Groupwhich confronted Oxford Conn-1 larded children on the ly Council at the opening of basis as other children the March budge; session to-1 " day was one from a women's organization in the county ask­ing Council to join the Emer­gency Measures Organization.The resolution from West Ox­ford Women’s Institute reads:same an amendment to the Municipal ■ „ ,, , - -............ Act whereby the Municipal Boa-I-rom Hastings count* ■ asking rd would be prohibited from the Ontario Department of holding an annexation hearing Lands and Forests Io prevent —" hunting from tents or othertemporary camp sites, unless such sites are licensed.until the opinion of the rate­payers of the municipality en­titled to vote on mono” by la (vsAlso, imploring the Depart­ment to commence a study in­to t ie possibility of granting hunting rights to licensed hunt- ; a.idan, me|ing camps in much the same.hrtai of nuclear attack is a manner as the present Trap distinct possibility on this con- Line legislation"Duo to the development of in­ter-continental missiles and at­omic submarines and long - range, jet-propelled aircraft, thetinent."Whereas we believe that some sori of organization should be undertaken to help civilians to protect themselves, through education and direction and wereas we believe that a well- trained corps of personnel would be of immeasurable value in'had first been taken. Also, that if an adverse vote were record­ed in either the annexing mun- cipality or the municipality to be annexed the Board would be prohibited from proceeding.i From Peterborough county - r , .. I requesting the support of thea,so- °bj®cts V- Dominion and Provincial gov- X/ ’I*”2 dlSw^‘n\,e^ernments in the elimination ot a d j,tiong].\ recommends that duplicity and growing volumes every effort be made to re- of statistics required to be fill- duce the number ol wolves in ed out by county and local of- the province,fices.______________ Council also received requests_____ ____ ... From the United counties of 8rants from such organiz- case of such emergency or any Siormont. Dundas other disaster such as Hood or garry, - petitioning the Ontario hurricane —_________________Department of Lands and For-REFORESTATIONand Glen-ations as the Oxford Trustees’‘•Therefore, we the members of West Oxford Women’s In­stitute, do respectfully request and urge the county council of Oxford county to join in the Em­ergency Measures Organization as was requested previously by their organizer for this (dist­rict), Mr. R. G. Gavin.Other resolutions which Coun­cil has been asked to approve i included:DSTFrom Middlesex county — petitioning the Provincial Gov-Department of Lands and For-ests to provide for the possL bilily of municipalities to ac­quire sub-marginal land for re­forestation without any loss in tax revenue to the municipality.From the United Counties of1 Northumberland and Durham - asking the Minister of Highways to amend the Highway Improve­ment Act to enable cities and separated towns to contribute toand Ratepayers Association, the Oxford County Festival of Mus­ic, the Oxford Museum and ’he Otter Valley Poultry and Pig­eon Club.The three-day session is ex­pected to wind up Thursday afternoon.Free Pr<#H Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A resolution from the West Oxford Women’s Institute asking Oxford County council to establish an emer­gency measures organization, [was read to councilors yester­day at the opening of their three-day session.County council turned down two proposals to set up an or­ganization in the county last year when R. T. Gavin, of Lon­don, emergency measures field officer, appeared before county । council and asked it to consider participation in the program.I Among other resolutions read to council, one from Middlesex 'County asked for legislation to end Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday before Labor Day. The resolution asked that the provincial government be petitioned to pass the legislation i in order to provide uniformity in time.A resolution from Welland County asked that purchases by all municipalities be exempt from the proposed three per cent sales tax in the province. | Elgin County requests the de­partment of education to con­sider providing grants for transportation and education to retarded children’s schools simi­lar to other public schools.suburban roads systems in more than one county.From Whitby town council - suggesting to the Ontario Leg­islature that when it is revisingernment. in order to provide'the Municipal Act representat- some degree of uniformity in ion by population be made law nTnu5ill<0Dc wlth 1€ 1 erm of without the restrictions eonlain- Dayluht Saving Time, to give I cd in Section 26, Subsection 2 consideration to passing appro-’of the Municipal Act, RSO 1980 priale legislation for the termin- From York countv council --z“rxr-T,-------— ............ From York countv council •ation of DST on the first Sun- asking (hat the Provincial Leg- day prior to Labor Day. islatnre be petitioned to remit From Welland county - re- all subsidies paid on permanent al Purcllases by all improvements of big schools toJOHN CAMPBELL, of Woodstock, who has been appointed governor of Oxford County jail ef­fective April 1.day prior to Labor Day.Municipalities be excluded from the provisions of the proposed new legislation establishing athe municipality that issues the debentures.three per cent sale lax in the new legislation establishing a three per cent, sales tax in the province.From Elgin county - asking the Department of Education to give consideration to grants to schools for retarded children to enable them to provide trans-SPEED LIMITSF ro m Carleton county - re­questing that legislation be en­acted to permit local municipal­ities to control speed limits by bylaw in built-up areas.From Welland county (as sub­mitted by the Thorold town council) - petitioning the Leg­NEW STRUCTURE TO REPL ACE HISTORIC LANDMARKCounty, Tillsonburg Study Sharing Cost of BridgetFree Prc^fj Woodstock Bureau Tower Une Road.WOODSTOCK — A recom-The county will also assumementation that the Baldwin winter maintenance costs onStreet hj be Jnsprte site at Tillsonburg the fly-over of Highway 401 on. , with the view of i County road 3, Blenheim Town­sharing for construction, ship, was approved by Oxford County1 ' ' Hi'Council yesterdaySubmitted by G. H. Davis, chairman df. the standing com- mHtpe on apunty roads, the re­port. suggested that the county enur Into nn agreement with Tillsonburg for construction of the bridge 4 nd hill.Council mo approved a rec-In other business, council ap­pointed deputy reeve Merle Coleman, of Blenheim Township, as the county’s representative to the Oxford Children’s Aid So­ciety;Endorsed a resolution from the united counties of Northum­berland and Durham asking for extension of suburban roadsInto neighboring counties;control speed limits in built-up areas;Approved an Elgin County resolution requesting grants by the provincial government to re- tarded children’s schools for transportation and education on the same basis as for regular pupils;Endorsed a Welland resolu­tion petitioning the provincial government to exempt muni#- Ipalities from the proposed three per cent sales tax;Filed u Middlesex County res­olution asking the provincial ment i<> pto end Daylight Saving Tim's< r de wi'b ’ the pf Filed « resolution from Carlr-mghwaya ,0 Improvement of ion County asking that lociiMhc first Bunday before Uibor h,t a hill and the'municipalities be permitted to'Day. Oxford Auxiliary Police Are Sworn Into OfficeOxford Council Namesh w '^Pressfveiattaek so wo must train our- mL at ’ l’ ^dstock ar- selves in every wav possible” .a brand new 1 he said. P ’Oxford county police organtea | «A< Uon was born when some 30 auxiliary police sworp a||egian 0(,a-vial constables administered hv ^aMstrate Groom stated before Magistrate R. G. Groom oc administering the oaths of of- Tii Isonburg, ’ , ..Congratulating them on their ^mere^i turnout and on the fact they interest 1‘As we look around the worldwe see that the mainten­ance of law and order is thefice. He commended the special as Cjvilians portion.in the organiza­were now part of the Emer- Measures Organization , .Rooen Gavin. Emergency eMa- loinS 15 extremely vital for sures Field Officer from Lon-,6 are jUst not enough don stated: “This fs particularly lra^ned men to So around.” gratifying to me in view of the CapL P' R McNeill, Deputy Pro- fact that so far county council vosl Marshall. Central Com has not seen fit to recognize the mand Headquarters. Oakville, need.” addressed the gathering.‘‘The work you men will bepray the need will neveraddressed the gathering.Cpl. .Mian Barker, Woodstock1 - * « * ' nil. llcVCl wailktl, TV InJUoLULKaeveiop but we cannot begin OPP, training and general sup- 10 tram once the bombs begin ervision for the Ontario Auxil- rn Tali 'to fall." he stated.G- V. uvauMuairei s mi me wcaJ ae- uuooe. OPP district headquar- tachment office, introduced the ters, London, stated: "Ydu are now part of a very 2 real or­ganization — the Ontario Pro­vincial Police which I believeiary Police No. 2 District, with headquarters in the local de-speakers and guests and added his tfhianks for the turnout.The smartly turned out spec­COMPRISED OF CITIZENSThe local unit, headed In In­spector Morris and Sgt. Shuttle- worth, is composed of civilians from Tillsonburg. Woodstock, In­gersoll. Beachvllle, Salford and Thamesford.he training consists of mon Inly lectures on cirminal law, traffic control, duties and con­duct of a police officer, Crown Attorney A. C. Wl, etc.crown Attorney A. c. Whalev, district counsellors and police officers assist in the program of lectures that has been drawnup. In addition the men attend cruiser patrol duties twice a month which means riding in an OPP cruiser, with a constable who is in charge, for al least 12 hours each month.The whole network of the force in liaison with the OPP comes under the control of two OPP headquarters inspectors, Insp. Gilling and Insp. Parm­enter.The men are not armed and in cases of emergencies they are called out at the discretionif one STe S ial constables, dressed in the of the District Ln Jee^the worid."^ S occasions doadded that he mi?ht be a i?tl eXCe^ for !h? tbey haw the P°wer makeprejudiced in view of the fac1 hv 11^™ were inspected arrests. In cases of emergency that he has bee^with the force N ill Ga&i^C' ? p?lice «>m* unde*for 27 years r5 L n InM*clor William direct control of the military—- * (rll ITl^ KmprffAnnv M.oncm-Ae ■ ■ »• .... *“The re^DonsihiTifi- zvr H, Gillmg, Emergency Measures! and there "is* a"'directL'ia'ison attic? i^trSfo^^^ HeXa^r Toronto.recognized that the present, po MARCH PASTnee forcie in Canada are inad- Following the inspection, thej ln such a situation,” helcoraPany, under the command•stated noting that tthe auxiliary of Inspector John B. Morris, police were established to aug‘- Ingersoll, with Sgt. J. Shuttle- mem the regular police. worth, Ingersoll, as second in"The responsibility of the po-worth, Ingersoll, as second inCounty Weed InspectorFrew Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK-Oxford County (council yesterday appointed Ron­ald Hutcheson, of RR 3, Inger­soll. as county weed inspector succeeding the late Edwin Thornton, of Woodstock.Mr. Hutcheson was chosen (from a. field of 23 applicants. He will receive $1.50 per hour, and 12 cents a mile. Casual labor needed to assist him will be paid $1.25 an hour.Approve Scholarshlj»Council passed a recommen­dation from the agriculture com- jmittee that $750 be provided for (scholarships and proficiency prizes to be awarded to Oxford (County students attending agri­cultural schools.A committee composed of (Warden Ernest Garner. J. Alex Henderson, agriculture commit- tee chairman: D. A. Taylor, agricultural representative for (Oxford, and Clerk-Treasurer L. K. Coles, was appointed to dis-RONALD HUTCHESON — - weed inspectorcuss details and report to the Farm Safety Council, $200; June session. (Blenheim Township Plowmen’sAssociation, $100: North Blen­heim Horse Breeders, $150, and Otter Valley Poultry and Pig­eon Association, $50.Council set aside $2,000 for possible purchase of land for reforestation purposes., Grants of $225 to each of the six county fall fairs totalling ,$1,350, was approved. A total of ($2,375 for county agriculturalSTILL INADEQUATEHe felt that the 16 established umts of auxiliary police were .inadequate and that more should is not true that al! will die in an atomiccommand, marched past in re­view before Inspector Clubbe.Other guests introduced by Cpl. Barker included: Inspect­or C. E. Parmenter, Emergen­cy Measures Liaison Officer. OPP Headquarters. Toronto; Major James Bassett. Wood-groups was also approved. They are, Oxford Soil and Crop Im­provement Association, $400; (Dairymen's Association of West- prn Cinfarln COr . _a auairymen s Association of West- No action was taken on a re- ern Ontario, $25: Oxford 4-H quest from the Tillsonburg Tri- clubs, $600; Oxford Plowmen’s County Agricultural Society Association, $600; Junior Far- board requesting an increase in mers Association, $250; Oxford 1 their annual grant.stock, officer commanding Ox­ford Garrison 3 RCR; Chief Constable James Ennis. Wood- stock police department; Sgt.. ,B. C. Moore, officer in charge of the Woodstock pro­vincial police; Sgt. J. McQueen. Tillsonburg provincial police;[ Edward Gilling. Ingersoll, ex­superintendent Provincial Civil Defence Auxiliary Police.The Emergency Measures Or­ganization (EMO) came into be. ing when the Civil Defence pro­gram was replaced bv it in April of 1960 and the C. D. provincial police came under the direct control and supervis­ion of the Ontario Provincial Police.Tue oresent setup consists of 16 OPP detachments in 12 OPP districts each with a group of auxiliary police. The training and general supervision comes under a corporal of the OPP. lEad unit of the auxiliary po­lice consists of an Inspector, j^r^ant and 30 constables.Jas. C. Sutherland Dies Suddenly In Own StoreConfirm Appointment Of Oxford Jail ChiefRt GuelPh Reformatory hell, 53, of 520 Adelaide St^who'1” 1953 *nd hil wif®' {|c4®e to Canada from England.ha* been a jailer at Oxford County jail for the past seven years, has been appointed jail governor, tmtceeding J. B. Cal­der, who died last. November,A letter from J. A, Graham, deputy minister of reform In­Shortly afterward, he joined the staff of Oxford County Jail an H turnkey.i. Council welcomed Merle Cole.stitmions, confirming Mr, Camp- h"jr* appointment. effectiveman, of RR i, Plattaville, ap­pointed deputy reeve of Blen­heim Township as the result ofL n , , ^tlve the resignation of former reev.Srmore than 20 yen.ru.: assembled (or the March bud­get session m Woodstock yes­terday I| is anticipated that ilhe mill rale for the countySv at MV amMV«YL*j the same as it has been for the last Iwo years, 12.75. Above, loll to right, W. Gren Lazenby (R) East Ox­ford. J. Alex Henderson (DAtt5l zorra and J a me® Shearer (R) Blandford, study a map of county roads for which m.oiH) has been bud­geted in 1961, (Staff photo).________________ COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER REPORTSUrges Abandonment Of Oxford TB SurveysThe mass TB survey is anies was used a great deal dur- expensive, time-consuming pro- - ---- reduce which should be aban-doned in Oxford county.Oxford Medical Officer of Health, Dr O. C. Powers, made this statement in the annual re­port of the county Health Unit, received by county council this morning.His report noted that the tuberculosis program in the county functions well and it is felt that tuberculosis, although still a serious problem, is on the way out.The mass survey conducted here last spring succeeded in uncovering one new case of tuberculosis.In preference to mass testing, Dr. Powers recommended that: “Family physicians should be doing the tuberculin testing of their patients and arranging for X-ray of "positives” by .the local Tuberculosis Association”. 1firmation of the appointment ., , - - — ------this morning in a letter signedthe only preventable contagious by J. A. Graham, deputy min- b. —- ister of Reform institutions.Whooping cough was aboutdisease tu occur in Oxford coun-ty during 1960. “No cases were reported as such”, the report states, "but we are aware of some cases of whooping cough having occurred in the county”.Measles have not been a prob­lem but chicken-pox and mum­ps have been very prevalent. Several cases of each disease were reported and the MOH hazards the guess that “prob­ably ten times as many not re­ported.”ONE POLIO CASEOne case of polio was contrac­ted by a county’ resident outside the county last year. Virus dis­eases and common colds were very common throughout most of the year.The audiometer, provided by the local Optimist Club and op­erated by the Health Unit nuns-Decline ActionTowards EMOFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK - Since it felt that civil defence should-tee ad­ministered from the federal level, Oxford County council yesterday decided to take no action on a resolution from the West Oxford Women’s Institute asking for establishment of an emergency measures organiza­tion in Oxford.The report from the standing committee on property submit­ted by chairman Clare H. Essel­tine, said members felt the only way emergency measures could ■ be successful was to standard- ize it throughout the Domlnloh.The report said a survey pre- sented last August showed only 38 counties in Ontario, or 35 per cent of nil the counties were members or me emergency measures organization.ing 1960.Many n e w hard of- hear­ing cases were discovered and several cases referred to the National Society of Hard of Hearing for advice and apprai­sal.The immunization program is increasing each year. Adult polio immunization is carried on at all clinics throughout theName J. Campbell As Jail GovernorJohn Campbell of Woodstock has been appointed governor of the Oxford County Jail.County council received con­Mr. Campbell joined the Jail staff as turnkey in 1954. Hispromotion effective April1. will of elimination, from 18 candid? rdlfh r°f \ en ^aCi5n byKI he tes for the position.death of John B. Calder in Nov- County assessor Fred Cade ^r' was to help with thethe position since February 1956. selectionTavistock reeve Robert Rudy, “This is something that does- comphmented the Department .n’t happen very often”, com- Z recommendat- Rented county clerk-treasurercoies about the resigMt-CounK^'fail”1 ± loss Mr Cunningham’sCounty Jail , the leevie noted, services on county councilThe position was first offered wardento chief turnkey, A. E. Walton. ;aih,ardein Er“>e™ c,^r°€r of£lc- Mr. Walton declined the nod iaUy welcomed Mr. Coleman toMr. Walton declined the post,REEVE RESIGNSREEVE RESIGNS Council adjourned at 10:30Council was startled this'am. to mieet in committee- morning to learn that Blienheim las-a-whole.reeve Clifford Cunningham has resigned.A letter certified by township clerk Irvin Haines verified the promotion of deputy reeve Pet­er McDonald of RR 4 Bright to the office of reeve for the re­mainder of tihe year .Township councillor Merle [Coleman of Plattsville has been appointed deputy reeve for the rest of 1961.Mr. Cunningham, who lives at RR 2, Princeton, first won the reeveship by acclamation in 1960. I He resigned at a special meet­ing of the township council last night in order to qualify as aCLIFFORD CUNNINGHAMresigns officecounty, First, second, third or booster doses are given at all clinics.The report of sanitary inspec- tors, J,L Griffith, Ivan Charl-lon and Murray Crawford, com­mended the installation of a sewage disposal plant at Till- sonburg.It was noted that similar plants are proposed for Norwich and Tavistock.candidate for the office of township assessor.However, Mr. Cunningham was unsuccessful in his surprise bid for this office, vacated by the sudden death of the former assessor, David B. Mitchell of RR 4. Bright on March 1.Cecil A. Bawtinhimer of Dru-mbo was selected, by a process■ council.PLANS TO continue to em­phasize lhe importance of safety methods on the farm were discussed al a meeting of the Oxford Farm SafetyCouncil held in Woodstock on Friday. In the photo, Mrs, Lorne Treffry of Otterville, (seated), Fred B. Slock, Ta\- istock; Ernest F Garner,Oxford County Council Approves $921,029 Budget For HighwaysThe 1961 report of the Oxford 12 of East Niasouri (the Cody county road committee, budget- side road) and transferred the ting for an expenditure of $921.1 county's share of this amount, 029, was passed with one amend-j20 per cent of $49,000 or $9,300, ment by county council th i s to the improvement of the Tha- morning. 1 mesford hill on Ube GovernorsThe report allows for a main- Road.tenance cost of $330,000, under! An estimated total expendit a norma) bylaw; a construction urc of $20,000 on this work cost of $200,000 also under a । will be subsidized to the extent normal bylaw and construction of 50 per cent by the Ontario costs of $391,029 under a sup- Department of Highways, coun- plemenlary bylaw. ty road superintendent, J. N.The county levy of $397,903.16 Meathrell e;<plained.fer these purposes will account for seven mills out of the as yet unannounced 1961 mill rate.Woodstock’s levy for roads is $4,061.37 and Ingersoll’s levy amounts to $500.The amendment approved this morning deleted an expenditure of $49,000 on road 17, concessionCounty Council Holds Tax LineOxford county council suc­ceeded in holding the line on Okie 1961 mill rate, setting it al (12.75, the same as last year and 1959.The amount which will be raised by taxes in the county this year will increase from last year’s $710,517.43 to $724,752.18, {divided three ways: charity and welfare. $132,885.89; general ^purposes, $193,963.14 and county roads, $397,903.15.The 1960 county assessment for 1961 taxation purposes was ,$56,843,308.The financial committee gave out grants as follows:i The town of Tillsonburg for hospital debentures, $9,256; county libraries, $50 apiece; Oxford Trustees and Ratepay­ers Association. $300; Univer­sity of Western Ontario. $2,500, Oxford Festival of Music. $50; Oxford Museum, $1,100; Oxford Children’s Aid Society, $12,194.- 58; Stratford General Hospital, $4,000.APPROVE TENDERIn other business this morn­ing, council approved a tender from the Western Assurance Company for county insurance on roads equipment, contingent liability and employers’ liabil­ity.The company's tender of a $5,924.66 premium for the one- tyear period. April 1, 1961 to April 1, 1962. was the lowest of 'several received, according to county clerk-treasurer L. K, Coles.W. David Richards Insurance of Bower Hill, Woodstock, is the local agent for the Western As­surance Company.Council also approved the ap­pointment of deputy reeve Mer­le Coleman of Blenheim to the board of tfoe Oxford Children’s! Aid Society. He will fill a vac­ancy created by the resignation of reeve Clifford Cunningham yesterday.Mr. Cunningham’s position on the county road committee will remain vacant until the June session.j West Zona, and Grant Smith I of Burgessville, check the Ust 1 of Council committees which । were named during the busi- I ness session (Staff photo). Oxford County T ax Rate Held Level By CouncilOxford Children's Aid BeganHomemaking Service In '60A Homemaker service, t h e able where such arrangements .make available this additional ation of the home in Wood­addition of a psychologist to the are not possible or successful.! specialist service in the inter- slock makes for easy and quick staff and a nursery home were The typical homemaker, is a-'est of these children. access to the medical servie-three further services under- vailable from Monday through! The arrangements for a nur- es in thc area 18 child- taken by the Oxford Children’s to Friday, for the hours 8:00isery home were completed in ren have been in this care in Aid Society in the past year. a.m. to 5.30 p.m„ or other sim- June of 1960. The purpose of the 10 month period, and the The Homemaker service pro- ilar arrangements. The father,!tins home was to place infants,[Society is more pleased with vides a roster of capable home- or some other person, is ex-'newly discharged from Hospit-|fhe care provided for thesemakers who are prepared to pected to provide care for the,al. under the care of a compet- childrencare for the family and the family during other times. The ent nursery mother, who washome while the mother is ill costs are $6 per day for the five experienced as a mother andat home or in hospital. Tire aim day week. t* J "* —------ , ------is to have the children re- The Society’s second progres- Ulls m€ans the children would these persons the Society con- main in their home during such sjvc step jn the past year, was receive the mothering and heal- siders to be valuable and pro­times. and to permit the father tile addition to the s'taff of a|lri supervision that the Society gressive services in the inter- to continue with his work as- psychologist on a part time bas-1 o«keyes is essential in the pre- esls of those children who be- sured that his family is receiv-js; ^e purpose of this staff (Parati°n of the children for lat-i come special concern of the ing adequate care. The service addition was to strengthen the.er adoption. Moreover, the loc-[Society.is primarily designed where services for the children in the the need for a Homemaker will care of the Society. In 1960, for be for a period of up to two example, some 162 children weeks, although this may be ex- were in the Society’s care for tended under certain circum- varying periods of time. Someaccess to the medical servic-Aid Society in Wie past year.is to have the children re­v wry nuuie vs- - June of 1960, , I this home wa, __. v . ....... , The Homemakers, the psycho­trained as a nurse. Through ologist, the nursery mother - allstances. children were in care brieflyThis service has been avail- pending a return to their own able on an experimental basis home. Others, mostly infants up in the Woodstock area for the |to two years, were cared for past year. The results appear usually up to six weeks in pre- to merit the continuation, and paration for their placement on possibly the enlargement of the adoption. A number of other service. Some 23 families have children, older in age, and fre- been assisted in this way over quently with many problems a crisis period, and in' some which prevented their adoption instances the service has made at this time, were in care for it unnecessary for the children extended periods, while they to be admitted to the Society’s received special help with their care. Moreover, most of the problems.' ■ ' ' ’ The gQCjety hag jong recog.families were able io undertakethe cost themselves, or shared nized that the children who have the costs with the Woodstock had to leave, or been removed welfare department. (from, their own families, under-At present, the service is a- go special strains, and stress- vailable to any family in the les. Some of the children are Woodstock area, as there are able to handle these experienc-J. N. Meathrell, county roads ’superintendent, said the depart­ment of highways will subsidize up to 50 per cent of the esti­mated $20,000 for the Thames­ford Hill project.Council also passed bylaws providing grants to hospitals and other organizations in the county. A grant of $9,256 was provided for Tillsonburg Hospi-tai; $4,000, Hospital;Stratford General$12,194.58,Children's Aid SocietyOxford a totalof $850 to the county's 17 libraries; $2,500. University ofWill Provide General Fund of mBy FAT MOAUROFree Press Woodstock Bureau I WOODSTOCK — A tax rate of 12.75 mills to raise $724,752.18 for general purposes in 1961, was set by Oxford County council at its concluding March session yesterdaySame RateThe tax rate, which has been the same for the past two years, was computed on the 1960 assessment of $56,843,308 for the county. The county’s 1961 budg­et calls for $193,963,11 for gen- iral purposes; $132,885.89, 'charity and welfare, and $397,903.15. county roads.| Earlier in the day, council ap­proved the county road com­mittee report which budgeted for an expenditure of $921,029 this year. Costs include main­tenance, $330,000; construction under a normal bylaw, $200,000, and construction under a sup­plementary bylaw', $391,029.Seven mills will be used to raise $397,903.15 for county- roads. Woodstock’s share of the road expenditures amounts to $4,061.37, and Ingersoll. $500.An expenditure of 549,000 on Road 17, Concession 12, East Nissouri Township, was deleted from the road budget and thehomemakers available. Thees, while others continue to be Society prefers that families distressed and disturbed. The make their own private arrange-1 Society has felt a special res- ments where they are able to|ponsiblity towards helping these do so. in order that the Home- children, and with the addition maker Service may be avail- of a psychologist, has desired toWestern Ontario; $1,100, Oxford county's share — $9,000 — was (Museum, and $300, Oxford allocated for improvement of (Trustees and Ratepayers As- Thamesford Hill on the Gov- (sociation. ernor's Road. SET UP SCHOLARSHIP FONDCounty Council TurnsDown Call For EMOSticking firmly to its guns, Oxford county council yester­day turned down a recommend­ation from West Oxford Wo­men's Institute that an Emer­gency Measures Organization be formed in the county.The decision was based on a 1960 survey of 30 Ontario coun­ties which revealed that only 35 per cent of the counties had joined EMO."We feel,” a report from the property committee stated ‘that the only way Emergency Measures can be successful is that it be standardized through­out the entire Dominion, It is the feeling of the 1961 county (Council that this can only be accomplished on a Federal lev­el and organized, operated and controlled by the Federal gov­ernment.”In other business, council:Endorsed a resolution from Welland county regarding mun­icipal exemption from the new 3 per cent sales tax.Endorsed a resolution from Peterborough county regarding .'government questionnaires.Endorsed a resolution from the United counties of North- .jumberland and Durham regard­ing extending suburban roads into neighboring counties.Endorsed an Elgin county resolution having to do with provincial grants to schools for retarded children.Filed a Welland county resol­ution on annexation.Filed a resolution on Day­light Saving Time from Middle-’ sex county.1 Filed Whitby's resolution t o revise the Municipal Act.Filed Carleton county’s resol­ution regarding speed limits in built-up areas.Took no action on a York county resolution on education.Took no action on Tillsonburg tri-county agricultural society board’s request for an increas'- ed grant.FOR SCHOLARSHIPSFor Ube first time, the. agrb cultural committee of Oxford county council has set aside the sum of $750 to provid. scholar­ships and proficiency prizes for Oxford county agricultural scho­ol students.A committee composed of warden Ernest Garner, chair- man of the agricultural com­mittee, Alex Henderson, agri­cultural representative Donald Taylor and clerk L. K. Coles was appointed to study the de­tails of the plan and report to the June session of council.Mr, Coles commented that it appears likely there will be three or four scholarships al­together.Yesterday council approved the appointment of Ronald Hut­chison of RR 3 Ingersoll to Uhe post of county weed inspector..Mr, Hutchison was selected from among 23 applicants for the position, made vacant by the death of the former in- spector. Ed Thornton.A recommendation that $2,- 000 be budgeted lor the possib­le purchase of land for refores­tation purposes in the county was approvedAgricultural grants approved included the following:i Oxford Soil and Crop Improve­ment Association, $400; Western Ontario Dairymen's Associaliom $25; Oxford i-H Clubs. $600{ Oxford County Plowmien's As­sociation, $600; Oxford Junior Farmers Association. $250: Ox ford I'arrn Safely Council, $200; Blenheim Plowmen’s Associat­ion, $11)0. Otter Valley Poultry and Pigeon Association, $50; North Blenheim Horse lire''decs $150; six annua! fall fairs in I the county, $225 apiece.— Free Press Woodstock Bureau PHEASANT STOCK—The Blenheim Township pheasant committee has 360 hens now laying eggs in seven pens throughout the township. More than 3,000 pheasants are expected to be released this fall. Examining a colorfully-plumed cock bird is John Haines, son of clerk-treasurer I. J. 1 Haines, of Drumbo.♦ ♦ ♦ <- ♦ ♦Will Release 3,000 PheasantsFree Tress Woodstock Bureau DRUMBO — To insure good hunting this fall. Blenheim Township plans to release about 3,000 pheasants, said Clerk- Treasurer I. J. Haines.Since the township pheasant committee started its re-stock­ing program In 1968, It has tripled its reserve of mating birds. This year there are about 1360 hens and 40 cock birds in seven pens, he said.। The hehs are laying eggs nowMeeting April 12 To Study Organizing Oxford LibraryFree Pre»M Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK Regulations governing the formation of a county public library will bn loutlincd al the annual meeting of the Oxford County Library :Ci>Oper&tlve April 12 at the court house,Mrs. H. L Kromparl, county 'librarian an Id municipal offi­and as soon as there are 900, some of the birds will be re­leased. The eggs will be hatched in incubators and kept for the fall hunting season."We plan to hold about 1,000 birds to replenish our stock for next, year," he said. "The birds weathered the past winter very well and we were pleased with the results."Mr. Haines Said the stocking program last fall was "excel­lent" and it provided ample hunting.cials, members of library boards.] librarians and school trusteesare invited tn attend,W. A. Roedde, of Toronto,director of public library serv-Mr*. Krompart said no defi­nite plans have been formulated and requests for a county pub­lic library must come from the municipalities Involved. If aplan is adopted, Il would meanIces, department of education, enlarging present servico-s In will outline regulations ami the county* 17 llbrarb ’. andsteps Involved In forming a constructing a new building to central county public library, house the headquarter^Funds for the birds’ upkeep are provided by the hunting licenses. But all labor con­nected with caring and raising of the birds is voluntary. he said.Members of the pheasant committee in addition to Mr. Haines are Allan Daniel. R. W. Rumble, David Cadwell. Lloyd Etherington. Percy Bowman, Joel Dawson, James Dawson and Herbert Balkwell. LARGEST LAKE CARRIER BEARS ATHLETE’S NAMEBEARS WOODSTOCK NAMES. S. John A. France Open To Public ViewThe largest bulk carrier on (button controlled throughout, faced lad and held down the the Great Lakes waterways, the wheelhouse and engine roomIanything but distinguished posi- g.S. John A. France of the Scott and now a model for shipbuild- r ' - ’ ' ' ’ * ' -Misener Steamships Ltd (nam- ing throughout the great lakes.lion of sub-snapback, In 1928 heed after a Woodstock boy), is Completely air conditioned.being opened for public tours her crew and guest quarters Easter weekend, at her winter are luxurious with the owner’sberth in Port Colborne, in anstaterooms and lounge pannel-unique project sponsored by the]led in imported Australian wal- Knights of Columbus and Shrin- nut. The lounge has its own ers oi the Port Colborne dist- organ, television and hi-fi unit.rict. The two-block long ship, These quarters are larger than the most modern of the seaway:the average house. A stainless to steel galley and pantry, supply.giants. has been turned over tothe Shriners and Knights for three days by Capt. R. Scott Misener, with proceeds going to the charitable work of the two organizations.The ship is named after John A. (Jack) France, former Wood- ’Stock boy and prominent sports figure of Woodstock in his early years. He is a son of the late i Mr. and Mrs. J, S. France of Woodstock and son-in-law of Capt. R Scott Misener of the steamship line.Started as a local project tothe meals for officers, crew and guests.The snip, staffed by its own officers, assisted by Knights and Shriners, will be inspected during the tours from bow to sforn and from engineroom and tunnel running the length of the ship, to the wheelhouse with its moder radar and oth­er navigating devices.WOODSTOCK NATIVEThe John France carries the name of a native of Woodstock.- - now a resident of Winnipeg and assist the two organizations, a director of the Scott Misener and give residents a chance to steamships Ltd. and Misener go aboard and inspect the am- Holding Corporation. Many azing automation of the mod-iWoodstock friends wil remem- ern ship, the interest became ber Jack France as an out­go wide-spread that some 20,-landing nigby football player MO people are expected to tour with Woodstock and Sarnia the ship Friday, Saturday and teams and also as a World War Sunday. Civic authorities and n flier, police have added their co-op­eration in arrangements andandManyLETTERS TO EDITORThe views expressed by the writers are not necessarily those of the Sentinel-Review.traffic control.The John A. France, built al Montreal last year and christen­ed in August, is automation afloat This 722 foot, 6 inch giant navigates herself, except for the hazard of another ship crossing her path. She is ptish-Jack France began his sports career on the playgrounds of Woodstock, playing the usualsandlot softball and frog-pond hockey. In 1927 at the age of 13. he made a place on the Junior WOSSA team at theWoodstock CollegiateCoach Entwistle. He was aundersmall, red - headed, freckledmade a regular place on the col­legiate backfield. The 1927 edi­tion went to the semi-finais when it was snowed under by Windsor. The 1928 team lost out in its group games in a play­off with St. Thomas.Then came 1929, the first year of Coach L. A. Wendling's re­gime and the finest of the three collegiate teams that came, in succeeding years, to capture the Goodison trophy permanent­ly. France starred in his sec­ondary defence position, both of­fensively and defensively and had the satisfaction of winning a WOSSA medal in his last year at the school.In 1930 France moved up to the Junior ORFU and was a standout on the team that went to the semi-finals before Hamil­ton Grads eliminated them.France’s biggest year was in 1931 when he captained the jun­ior ORFU entry from Wood- stock which went through 14 straightg ames without a defeat and won the Dominion champ­ionship from Moose Jaw by 14- 13 in one of the most stirring junior Canadian finals that has ever been played. France was one of the main cogs in the line­up.For the next two seasons he again starred with Woodstock Grads, in 1932 when they went to the semi-finals and stretched their win streak to 24 games before losing to Sarnia in one of the biggest upsets of lhe sea­son and again in 1933 when the Argos ousted them in the firstRE. T.B. SURVEYSDear Sir: .Dr. 0. C. Powers is to be highly commended for his forth­right recommendations to Coun­ty Council that mass T.B.. sur­veys be discontinuedFor the past two years I have been gathering data in connect­ion with the Provincial TB. program and have uncovered a most amazing situation. Unfort­unately space does not permit me to go into detail, but some of the matters which have come to light are: —3 That the diagnosis and treat­ment of T.B. in this Province is a monopoly in the hands of private enterprise! And that the Department has no direct control over the Sanatoria, all of which with one exception are privately owned and oper-ated.2. I have the results of four otr.ar surveys in South-W e s t Ontario which bear out Dr. Powers contention that they are a waste of time and money, sufficient reason itself to aban­don them, but more disturb­ing are the tactics used in pro­moting them. 1 have evidence which shows that the state­ments and figures regarding T.B.. used in the drive to create interest are grossly distorted ' and misleading and issued in । accordance with a policy ofround.France had a in junior rugby best game. But two seasons as with the juniorbrilliant career which was his he starred for a defence manOHA hockey team, where persistent practice and a fighting spirit served him well.In softball he repeated the pro- ccBi and caught for two sea­sons lor the Whizhang Cubs, (twice semi finalists in the OASA. He also played a little baseball in city league and Junior OB A A, and, as in softball, was a pot lent hitter,“fear motivation” laid down by the ‘-top brass” of the Provin­cial and Federal T.B. Associat­ions The Minister of Health, himself, has. by some of his own statements helped with such reprehensible propaganda.Should Dr. Powers be criticiz­ed bv the local T.B. Associat­ion i would like to say that, he has every justification and an established precedent for making it. After turning up only 5 eases of l B. m the lor- onto schools in a period of 5 years. Dv. A. R. J- Boyd, M.O. IL, Toronto, has discontinued mass surveys in the schools;, concentrating only on Grades I‘ 1 would be very pleased al any time to appear before the local !wh and bro^nl some facts in connection with whole TU. program whivh would give them much foud b”' 'Urfousthought.1STAN R It TIES Otterville. Records, Articles RecallTENDERS WANTEDEarliest Days Of OxfordSEALED TENDERS addresiSuper! nteHauling Iidcnt and endorsedRoad Materials and EquitmeBy BERNADETTE SMITH Curator, Oxford Museumtensive hiMo an interestin,ed th a here nOxford Museum.informal ionpari of is hop- >1 forthbe instrumental in1927. He Was M.P.P. lor Oxford and also the first Chairman of the Ontario Good Roads Assoc­iation in the year 189-1.OFFICERS SETTLEDIn the year 1830 a group ofLg additional ■ written injg men ti n.records and past years;historicalSutherlandshire Scots settl'dinOxford County, followed later by a group of retired Army andorv wSk »nd Navy ofncers from England. Sv 00dStOCk and Ox‘ord|The man who gave Woodstock i'lir'nriL-m of was A^niral HenryiS to when Sohn Grav IVansiUarl’ in whose me,»W a' sXe V* is bc,n- considered byMmcoe, hist Governor of Provincial Board and ex.t pper Canada — travelling through the thickly wooded ter-peeled to be im veiledthisWoodstock citizens was gracio­usly acknowledged by the Brit­ish Government, That same loy­ally and courage has been splendidly displayed in I. h e years between then and now.This is the first in a series of stories from the records of the Museum historical library, of interesting people and places in Oxford County, including in­formation about the variety of displays within the Oxford Mus­eum. located in the upper audi­torium of the City Hall, in Wood-gned up tcjx-eeived by the under _ Wednesday, April 19, 1961, for the foWow1. Hauling of road building materials from various sources within or adjacent to the County.2. Feeding, crushing and hauling from designated gravel pits.3, Delivery of the above mentioned materials to be made on certain portions of the County Road Sys­tem as directed by the County Road Supenntendenl.4. Any otter work that may be designated on the ten­der form.5. Truck, shovel and equipment hire.6. Supplies and other services used in road construc­tion and maintenance.7. For the supplying of tires, gix-are, oH, gasoline, bat­teries, fuel oil, furnace oil and other supplies for the operation of County equipment and shops.Contract agreements and specifications and tender forms for items 1 tn 5 and general information on items 6 and 7 may be obtained at the office of the County- Road Superintendent, Court House, Woodstock, On­tario. Tenders on items 6 and 7 may be submitted on supplier’s forms.Tenders on items 1 to 4 must be accompanied by a marked cheque payable to the County Treasurer or an approved bid bond for Five Hundred Dollars.The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.J. N. MEATHRELL, County Road Superintendent., Court House.Woodstock, Ontario.stock, a building designated an Historic Site by the Historic Sitikvas so impressed with s?m’ner’ • citoer on the site of es and Monuments Board of Tv of the terrain . thatas so impressed withie designated the western port- on of the present city "a town-Blandford Township, or on the park on Vansittart Avenue. A-Governor Simcoe invited two men, Thomas M atson, to whom he was indebted for some fav­or. and Tiornas Horner, to set­tle m this part of Ontario. They arrived in this area in the year 1793 and the Governor immed­iately 'ordered" that threeconcessions east of the town- siie be surveyed for them as grants from the Crown, Thesemong Wie street names of Wood- stock we find Vansitlart, Drew, Light and Graham, all retired English Officers.Good planning is recorded in those early days and we find that five acres, now the block where stands Central School, was granted as a churchyard and burying grounds to the Ang­lican Bishop, Captain Drew and Major Barwick, in May 1833. AThe reams of records of Wood- stock and Oxford County which are preserved in the Museum, and the interesting stories hand­ed downf rom generation lo gen- , eration will her released from lime to time. Some of what is printed may bear changes or corrections, and the co-operat­ion and assistance of readers will be welcomed, in order to ensure that the historical sec­tion be as complete as possible. Appreciation is extended to theWomen's Institutes of Oxford, and to private citizens, for exlor ex^he,!l ia “1,ee“ine wor'St Ser to E SHorn^ District of Brock forthe Crown as ‘ ordf^ pruP°se of holding free fairs ^veX Simcoe, anr^homas^^^^^ 12w ' A fence a‘ Watson left the area. Thomas X HaS”alX ^y toTco°^ hjahamT in New York S i J' ^village of Woodstock. The buil: the fir^aw minIfo th£ ‘^ Woodstock fairs were heldCount! it wa' located n eT?l°n n,0W Vic^ria Park’Prison beside We stream u Jn of JubV later named ‘-Honoris Creek" i °f Queen V1Ctona in 1895'mation.Horner held the first military’ELECTIONS appoinlmem in the County,' The first municipal election, Captain of the Oxford Mililia in !o form a local government, wasHe became deputy lieut- held at the Royal Pavilion enant in 1806, and elected me- Hotel, now the Royal Hotel, mber of the legislative assemb- on toe 6th and 7th days of Jan- ly of the Upper Province in uary, 1851. Mr. T. S. Shenston 1821 Meantime Oxford hadCkildren i ^r4id Society Oxford Countywas returning officer and Jam-cordial l<f invite you and your friends to thegrown in population to warrant two representatives. and Mr. -------- -^x^-Horner continued to represent in 1852 - and in later years, a half portion-of the original are toe source of much of the constituency from th..? date of history of early Woodstock and his first election - except for a'Oxford County. James Egan short intermission . until his and family, with another fam- death in Burford in the year ii>' named Dunn - walked from W]' Montreal to Woodstock ahmiies Egan was Poll Clerk. Shen- ston's Oxford Gazaleers, -print-^nnna'innerPLAQUEOn March 1, at a meeting of the Archaeological and Historic Si e? Board of Ontario the in­scription foy a plaque honoring J he memory of Colonel Thomass approved. The un-eetejnony of this plaque be sometime this summer. In the Woodstock area, thehomesteaddi. United Empire Loyal- 'om New York State, whobeing de-nowbuildingI or post these may one section around theMontreal to Woodstock aboutthe year 1825. Many a street in our community has been pav­ed witli gravel from the Dunn pit north of Woodstock.The first town clerk was Jam s Kintrea, who. with Jor­dan Charles and one Spencer, operated an oil refinery near the intersection of Dundas St. and Ingersoll Road. At that time»*«««■ me no oil had been discovered in Zach-arius Oxford County, but this refinery turned out 400 barrels of refin­ed oil per week.the wild-1 Those elected in 1851 were: present ci%U'» R.?fve- Richardson; Coun-। -:.a cilkirs: Wm. Wilson,' Alex, our new YMCA ? 7 e Ba'kntyn€ Ha]l a « d; । A‘ Audrey Smith.'4- ^,'^1 T,)e second municipal eleet- 1 ion in 1852 at which toe prev- Ihaf th. ious council was not re-electedobject of a Vre-}01 "■JK — d a’ toni-Same locathm. Ilie local “Y-1 boys,came to me this such a project is plan slier week Good luck• ... .v UI Uli. .UHU: IVVUUinitElected were: Reeve Henry Finkle; Councillors: Thn m a sSavidoc! and ^biitrict Memorial Sdaff Oauistock> Ontario^Iddedneiday Spril 19tk, 196! at 6:30 p.m.Oiclels $2.00PSVP. &L«u?xeMed that Hus place be an provou as an historic sde by1 'mtlir.’o Board, because, in ?r,dl or, io the faet (haf thp [n^ mg hou.c w#g huili hoc/. hv VW>MnikB first seHler, I he A dYer ’hlP service ofAndrew Fattulto and his family also warrant#, in my opinion.1 further recognkhm .The fount- am on Um riiy Hall Square fColtle, John Sutherland, Jam- es Kintrea. and William Grey. These names recall that Finkle became Postmaster, Cottle built Altadore, and William Grey - the man honored in the naming of Gray Memorial Hall. Note Iha I the head of council was designated Reeve. Tihie frsl mayor. .Joseph Sudsworth, was elected in 1857.POPULATIONThe population of Woodstock:In 1850, 2100; in 1910, 1.0,000;III 1925, 10,100; In 1040, 11.500;I Tn 1950, 14,100: In 1956 abend18,000. Today the population of Woodstock is about 20,000.Woodstock allalned considier- able growth after the Army and Navy group and their families camp to this area During the Ir'ijhJ some limo, of 1837-38,Committee Study Ordered Of Hospital For ChronicsFree Press Woodstock Bureau jchairman, sold a special com- trust were: I WOODSTOCK A steering mittee had indicated there was nian; R. G.I WOODSTOCKA steeringicommittoe to investigate the IpOSSibln establishment of a hos-plt&l for the chronlcnlly-IH, was'appointed nt the Woodstock General Hospital's board;trust annual meeting.ofDr. Vance, ch&ir-Thomson. viec-a need for n hospital for the ehBirman; c. q. Mitchell, secre- Ch.oni<»llyin. W f Eric wrecently had shown an interest;in participating in A proposed ert Smith, Reg Hall. \. BKing. J. E. Nephew, Dr.program.In hia annual report. PeterPatience, Lorne Shants, treas-George E. Pierce, Mrs,( Members of the committer Smith, hospital administrator, urer;are.! Kobori Smith, chairman; said the average number of Gordon ... -...|Dr. Norman Munnoeh, Dr. C. R. patients per day increased to auxiliary representative; Dr'Patience, Mayor W. A. Downing. 134 In 1680 from 110 in 1957. He Munnoeh, J. Douglas Campbelland Oxford Warden Ernest F. predicted a higher daily aver-1 Ex-officio voting members.Garner. I age during i960. ; Mayor Downing and Wardenj Dr. James A. Vance, board! Re-elected to the board of'Garner.W.Innes,hospital Wolf Bounties(Stratford Beacon-Herald)After paying wolf bounties for e>“‘ "V” a century conv”<r with the government of Upper (. t ar a decided at the end of 1960 to discontinue them. It centrate upon control measures in areas where because o predations upon drer, moose * stock, wolf kills are most needed.change will make little di ;nce H this naC o' province. The wolf bounty was k Ga.mcc.two claims for one wolf each. H 3i; ••’H r .. iyear, but the claimant consid­ered that the papper work invol­ved outbalanced his prof’.;.Opinions haV* d -->d sharply as to the value receiv- e ? di? .y । cy, ■ \in the case of the provincial e rib. 11 ra 'rri $40,000 to $75,000. In 1957 the Un>.ario Conservation Council re­commended discontinue" U" anded men to concentrate onii ....damage.„ s where wolves■n n- t tp fi- areasare amenace, the municipalities have their own viewpoin.. P^rji ncil a few days ago endorsed a resolution objecting to di- tinuance of the provincial boun­ty payment-, and it was frc n Hastings. Peterborough County not. long ago increased its hr - ty from $25 to $35 and Essa township at last report w s paying $25 presumably to be recovered from Simcoe eoun ;.As an estimated 300,000 yo ng wolves r^Th maturity annually, tte yearly kill of 1,000 to 1,500 ' inbucket.” Pete McGillen, well ttUs way: “Trappers have been h^u**© for incased bounties on wives for years, claiming the wolves rob their traps and slaughter deer. They want the government to make it worth their while to go after them....Once establishesbnsystem is a method by which1' s -.Tl a " ■public money. The system as itiJ' vhas ever succeeded in holdingb.-Mth'ves or foxes by means of areir >a^' If foxesor wolves or coyotes become tc'i n ou . mature t h . . s them out by means of various epidemics.” cTURNKEYSWANTED FOR GUARD DUTY AT OXFORD COUNTY JAIL, WOODSTOCK, ONTARIOFour guards required, one to start as soon as physical ability and tesU completed, and three to start Judy 1st. Must be a-t least 5' 8".8-hour shift, 5 day week, pension plan, group life and other benefits avail- । able. Starting salary $3,-000 with annual increment of $200 to maximum of $4,000. State age, height, weight, marital status, school grade education, and jwvzhis employment back­ground — also name two rpfer^new.Send letters marked "Turn­key Application" Io L. K. Coles, County Clerk, Court Hou-*, Woodstock, by April 18thL. K. COLES, County ClerkJOHN CAMPBELL JaW Governor,5/7-7OXFORD COUNTYKiYour 1961 Oxford County Council• BLANDFORD .........• BLENHEIM..............• DEREHAM..............• EAST NISSOURI . .• NORTH NORWICH • SOUTH NORWICH • EAST OXFORD . .• NORTH OXFORD .• WEST OXFORD . ..• EAST ZORRA.........• WEST ZORRA ...• TILLSONBURG ...• EMBRO . ............• NORWICH ...........• TAVISTOCK............................................................... James Shearer . . . Peter McDonald — Merle Coleman, D.R. . . . George R. Nagle — Alfred Dickout, D.R. . . George L. McKay—George M. Hogg, D.R. ..................................................Wray K. Hartley ................................................ George H. Davis ............................................. W. Gren. Lazenby ............................................... . Henry Finlayson .........George H. Wallace—Elmer Karn, D.R. . Lorne W. Junker—J. Alex Henderson. D.R. ..................................................Ernest F. Garner Clare H. Esseltine—Russell Honsberger, D.R. ...................................................... Lloyd Johnson .................................................... Lesli** E. Force .................................................... Robert RudyUM DEPARTMENT APPROVES UTVA CONTRACTLate Fall Start Expected On Dam, Reservoir In CityA start on construction of the Woodstock dam and reservoir under the Upper Thames Val­ley Authority conservation pro­gram is expected to be made late-this fall.Gordon Pittock. Ingersoll, chairman of the Conservation authority. told the Sentinel-Re­view this morning he had re­ceived word by telegram from the Department of Northern and National Resources with approval of the engineering con­tract for elements of the first phase of the 10-year program.“This is the start of a project we have been working on since we first approached the federal government for assistance six years ago,” Mr. Pittock exp­lained. It is the first definite progress on the major works of the Woodstock dam, the Wild­wood dam and the channel im­provement schemes at Wood- stock and Mitchell.; With the approval of the en­gineering contract granted now by both the provincial and fed­eral government departments work will be started by the Woodstock engineering firm of Vance, Needles, Bergendoff and Smith to provide a design for the projects. Five to six months are expected to be employed by the engineering firm in prepar­ing the engineering reports and designs. After this stage has been completed tenders will be called. Mr. Pitlock estimated work would begin by late this fall on the Woodstock and Wild­wood dams.A FIRST“We are the first authority in Ontario to have an agreement with the Dominion government for assistance on an overall pro­ject.” explained the chairman. “This is quite an accomplish­ment and the credit for this goes to the 38 members repre­senting 31 municipalities cover­ing 1,345 square miles of the Upper Thames Water Shed.”“Now we are in a position! to complete a program which will be a model for Lhe Domin­ion in flood control, water con-iservation and recreation areas,” Mr. Pittock said.LOCATIONThe Woodstock dam and res- ervoid. estimated to cost $760,- 1000, will be located on the South iBranch of the Thames immed­iately north of Woodstock be- ' tween Highway 19 and the 13th line of East Zorra. or Huron street. It is stated in the auth- jority’s plan this will be a low dam, 31 feet in height. When full the reservoir will extend up stream a distance of four and a half miles with a width of 1,050 feet and a surface of 575 acres. The storage capacity will be about 5,152 acre feet (one foot of water over one acre). It is planned this reservoir will mat­erially relieve the critical per­iods of high flow and will pro­vide discharge for increasing low summer flow. The recrea­tion possibilities of the reser­voir. as stated at various times, are considered to be excellent.The Wildwood dam is to be located on Trout creek nearHighway 7 and St. Marys. Thia dam will be of the overflow type and 53 feet in height. It is estimated to cost about $1,- 407,000.ion of the Woodstock dam.” th* mayor said.("*•«'■ vvcMiciH aciiviues covereu MEETINGby the present engineering con- Aiderman R M Barnev who ।tract constitute the first phase with Aid. T H Dent reowsentw i <, 'rjinr4 will ....... . MfOOtl StOCk on the Upper Tham-i an Tam^ tL Ta!g<>W‘ es Conservation Authority, wasIan dam, the third the Thames-1 enthusiastic about the annnnn c7da?r^ cement. He added the commit-Cectar Creek dam and reservoir. tee set up for authority in learn thatI year e Construm ion ernoon at four o’clock to discuss।will suSh^hav?0^ mJ fdam the latest deve|opments. The able’effect on^ K unXKymew.T DownTgS dam’morning.'THREE PHASESThe two dams and channel [improvement schemes covered„ Aiderman Dent. Lhe otherAdditionally, I understand council representative to the that the dam will eliminate the authority, said he is optimistic possibility of serious flooding in on the construction of the dam the western area of the city, re- SS^rVittock^^nSouiVe- hef which has been long await- ment.ed by the residents in that dist­rict,“I believe that city council is prepared to co-operate Tully with the TVA in 'he construct-COULD IRON OUT PROBLEMSUrge EstablishmentOf County LibraryMEMBERCanadian Good Hoads AssociationAdvocating the establishment ford can open up a new era of sponsible to vigilant local com- of a county library to county library development." mittees, many library problemslibrary representatives at the William Roedde, director Pro- would be ironed out,” he stat- annual meeting of the Oxford vincial Library Service of the ed.County Library Co-Operative Department of Education, said A county library, he explain­last night at the County Court- the move would entail much ed, would strengthen and sup­house, a representative of the work, planning and diplomacy, port existing libraries, establish Department of Education said: but it can be done. a library service for the whole“Done correctly and democra-, “If planning is done on tically, a county library in Ox- county level, with plannersA county library, he explain­Preserve Old Stage Road Historical Society UrgedThe old stage road (now the fourth concession in East Ox­ford) should be preserved for its great historical interest a (speaker told the Oxford Histor- 'ical Society at Oxford Centre Last night.Montrose Holdsworth, clerk of East Oxford Township, outlined Ube history of the township and of the road from the time it was an Indian trail until the pre­sent. There have been many plans to straighten Lhe road, he said, but added he hoped they would never be carried out.The other speakers on the pro­gram were Miw/Irene Frizelle, of Woodstock, who told of the development of the Anglican church in East Oxford, and Mrs. George Parkin, of Bur- gessviJIe, on the history of East Oxford schools.Mr, Holdsworth explained the read was Lhe first provincialto run from BurlingtonroadBay to Fort Malden and De­troit During the War of 1812, it was mainly used for the transport of troops and supIn 1811, the York government voted its first grant of provin­cial funds for lhe maintenance of the trail. It was not until the early 1830's, however, that more than one stage used the road between Lake Ontario and the Detroit River.CHURCH DEVELOPMENTMiss Frizelle told of the de­velopment of the Anglican Church in East Oxford from the time of the United Empire Loyalists to the present. She mentioned that many of the founders of Lhe church lived on the stage road and its adjacent concessions. A.( one lime, she said, the parish was served by the late Canon Betteridge, first rector of Old St. Paul's in Wood- stock, in 1832,of East OxfordSpeakin' _.Schools, Mrs Parkin mentioned the names of pioneer teachers whom many still remember.The meeting was the largest the society has had in recent years, the hall being filled to capacity. About 25 people be- came members at the meeting to make membership greater than it has been for many ; ye a hlThe next mooting will lx? hold in Culloden Community Hull on May 2.mittees, many library problems a .county, make a qualified staff re-1 available throughout the county and provide an efficient system of book selection.Library development in Ont­ario is like a “patchwork quilt” the speaker stated. Availability of books varies from excellent to zero.Although Oxford is far advan­ced compared to many munici­palities, there are still many areas not serviced or poorly serviced, he said.ACCORDING TO NEEDI Under a county system, lib-, j arias would be located accord­ing to population and need. Loc­al autonomy would not be ellm mated, although financial con trol would come from the coun ty board, including the stand ardizatiou of salaries.To obtain a county library, Mr. Roedde explained, each , municipal council has to vote in favor, with their decision being approved by a majority of lhe county council. The approval of Lhe education minister is thenI requiredi Municipalities voting to stay out of such an organization stay out. regardloss of the final vote. । The county library board wou Id consist of county council nw [mbers and of others, and would be appointed by counly council.Mr. Roedde also discussed the reason for reduction in grants to libraries in Oxford County. I The reduction is part of a move bv the Ontario Legislature to place grants on an “equalized । assessment" basis — — l Formerly, a c< leeJved grants ininverse pro­portion to its population; the lower the population the great or lhe gram ratio to tax asms ment.This was often unfair a a many180 Seek JobsAt Oxford JailI Free Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Clerk-Treas­urer L. K, Coles said yesterday he had received 180 applica­tions for the four turnkey va­cancies at Oxford County jail. Yesterday was the closing date.1 He said a six-man committee Ifrom county council would meet shortly to discuss the applica­tions. A chief turnkey will be appointed "as soon as possible." and the other three by July 1.The four vacancies Were (created as the result of a rec­ommendation from the depart­ment of reform instlutlons, and th* promotion of former chief .turnkey John Campbell to jail [governor.communities gathered taxes out of proportion to their populat­ion because of a heavy industry population.Need Turnkeys At Oxford JailFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Applications are being received for four new turnkeys at Oxford County jail, said Clerk-Treasurer L, K. : Coles.Mr. Coles said the departmentI of reform institutions roconi-, Intended the addition to bring (the jail staff up to full strength.He said applications must be made by mall to the court house. Applicants must be at least five feet, eight inches tall, land have a grade school educa­tion.One turnkey is to start his duties as soon as tests are com­pleted and approval is received from the provincial department The three others are scheduled to start July 1. OXFORD MUSEUM NOTESIndustrial Progress Of County NoteworthyBy BERNADETTE SMITH. , . , , , ------ . history of industry in Wood-, mdiKinal development of stock. a city designated as Oxford County warrants wide “The Industrial Citv” in I h e coverage in any historical story. ................ ’and the present time seems ap­propriate to recall the early foundations of industry m Wood- stock, the county seat.Being located in (he heart ofyear 1991. Whether we agree with the method of supporting industry finant'iaHy to the ex­tent related here, or not, hist­ory pro res. it would seem, that it was a good idea at the time. . - - H is true that some industriesstock first became a milling which received financial sup centre. From the manufacture port proved to be “atids”, and it would be interesting to learn the result if similar methodsa rich farming County, Wood-o{ necessities such as rope, wo­ollen cloth barrels, soap, cand­les and harness, industry de-reloped ic include carriages, cabinet furniture and organs. In 1852 'he Woodstock Iron Works manufactured stoves, threshing machines, plows and cultiv­ators The first stream power was a 10-horsepower engine in the late 1840's.One of the first industries was James Hay's factory—this sitewere apolied today. For varied and obvious reasons, municipal Councils are not free to proceed in this manner at the present time.By the- year 1875, some very fine public buildings, churches and schools were to be found in Woodstock, the city Hall. 1852• the market building, 1895; the County buildings and jail. The still occupied to a small degree first Court House was destroy­ed by fire and the present build- ing completed in 1893. This beautiful building Was in cour­se of construction during five years, and the stone was ship ped here from Indiana in slabs. The craft of stone cutting has almost disappeared now, but (he very fine cutting which is ad­mired so much in the Court House was done by local craft s-fields. To mention some of the teams: Lacrosse. 1875, with Nesbitt, Ingersoll and Whitelaw; The-tug-oLwar team, Champions at the Worlds’ Fair in Chicago. 1893; White’s Shamrocks learn of 1908 included “Dutchy” Rich­ardson, Earl Gustin and '‘Jer­ry" (Dr W J.) LaFlWmme, all well known national and inter­national hockey players. The WCI champion team of 1808 in­cluded Craig McKay, later City Solicitor and Crown Attorn­ey. The baseball champions of Canada team, 1879. included Tip O’Neill, whose birthplace was Burgessvilte. His father owned the Oxford Hotel years ago, and it was not until a few years ago that the name ''O'Neill” was painted over. Tom Longboat the great runner, entered a maraLhbn in Woodstock aboutMany Seeking Jailer PostsA six-man committee from county council wil meet short­ly to discuss applications for [turnkey positions at Oxford County jail, Clerk-Treasurer L. K. Coles said yesterday., Mr. Coles said he had receiv­ed 180 applications for the four positions as- of yesterday, the closing date for applications, ; A chief turnkey will be ap- [pointed as soon as possible, he stated. The other three will be named by July 1.The vacancies arose from the promotion of former chief turn­key Jolin Campbell to jail gov­ernor and from a department of reform institutions recommenda­tion at three more turnkeys were needed.Turnkeys Required For Oxford JailI Four new turnkeys are need­ed at Oxford County .Jail an­nounced Clerk-Treasurer L. K. Coles.Mr. Coles said application- are now being received by mail at the court house. Applicants must be at least five feet eight I inches ‘all and have complet­ed grade eight.Mr. Coles said the depart­ment of reform institutions re­commended the addition to 1 bring the jail staff up to the number thought necessary.One turnkey will start as soon as tests are completed and the provincial department gives its approval. The three others start July 1.1910 - (hecourse, which is be-by the Wood Mosaic Company.When on-? of the buildings was being demolished within the re­cent past, the cornerstone was brought to the Oxford Museum. On one side of this stone is the date 1849. and on the other side is an inscription indicating that it must have been a gravestone, as it reads "to the memory of Straiten Rowell, born in 1799.1878 This is something of _ ____ __a* mystery, Where did it come the upner levels by the horse- f»m in the beginning and why d............ul-s it used as a cornerstone? hod, and if one digs down a The person named Rowell evi- foot or two on the lawn around, dently lived here for some time stone chips to a considerable and died long after the date on'depth are found.meh. The stone was raised todrawn ’’block and tackle” met-the stone • 1840.Whitelaw’s Foundry, another jearly industry, is still in oper- iation. and the Thomas organ jand piano company building Stands jh it:s original site. The Aarn Piano and Organ Comp­any is row occupied by the York Knitting Muis Company. There are many others listed in museum records, and it is in­teresting io note that grants and bonuses were provided for many of them. To mention a few: Whitelaw’s' an unnamed gravel company James Hay Comp­any; Patterson Bros located where Massey Harris is now; 'Eureka Planter; Wayne O i 1 Tank Go . Concrete Machinery Co.; Hosiers Ltd. Warren and Son; Brunswick Products Co. James Stewart Mfg. Co., The bonuses and grants ranged from a large amount of $35,009 granted m 1891. to a small bon­us of $2000 Some of the later “assists” were made in thevesr- l^afi ,1T>H anH MU./X®In view of the proposed new post office for Woodstock - here is information about the locat­ion of the 'post depots” and post offices, since the postal ser­vice was established in 1835. The^ first postmaster was T. 8 Short and his headquarters was in “the old framed store opposite the Victoria Buildings”. The next postmaster was H. C Barwick, appointed in 1840. and he kept the office in a small house on (he east, side of Huron street, not far from Dundas. At one time the host office was on Corner of Dundas and Wel­lington street, now vacant land. In 1832 Mr. Jed Jackson held the contract for carrying mail from Brantford to London twice a week, but not through Wood- stock. He travelled along t h e road to the south which became known as the “Old Stage Road” because of the route taken by Jackson, The next, aud perhaps the first building which couldI—- •.......properly be designated a twat oq; s-e aiou mtetuuj}office, was built on P e r r v St - e uy Pau ado s3S^S»iu nqx « red brick building, i»w owned ATlVMLVKVoG aaNHJ<by B?nk of Montreal. A crest may lie. observed on this build- L tpjeying carved into the stone pmmisw uau] rue sewisuq; work high above the door The I* ............. m3|dns-pmpresent Post Office was com-u< p-uaciu u spqApletcd in the year 1899 and openaip jo auoi Xuuois oqi papal.for business al the turn of -M ‘ aid 851 1® u»8oq qmqA-thc century.•u&i«s3s uoqituem jeutj ./qj, L.nr guiujotu 5^, RECREATION ANDureui w-r pappp X|<1 OBUKITVtu.-J? - e ,h[1 piji swqDnoo urn Woodstock n record, from the -uatuy uriH Aq woniuSooaJ jcvJ’r-V fit fly day^, has been out- . mo paptmure ve.v. p uaqM ijaaf standing in sports and recreat-lieved to have been 10 miles, • beginning and ending at the 5 OLD WAAA race track. This - famous I rack was considered at ■ that time the best half-mile course in all Canada. In 1886, . three years after the WAAA be- : gan sports meets in Woodstock 1 on the Queen’s Birtihd-av, May 24. a crowd of 8000 attended die event. The Queen’s Plate race was held at this track with 1 “Bonnie Bird” the winner. The date of this race is being sought.Two publicity stunts are re­corded during the early 1900’s one of which was the release of a balloon carrying a beauti­ful girl. This exciting event, a- bout 1908. ended when the bal­loon landed on the property at the cdfiier of Light and Vincent Streets. The first air-plane took off from the WAAA grounds a- bout 1910 and oldsters will re­call that the pilot was half-froz­en when he landed back on the field A bottle of rum was quickly made available to sus­tain him.SUPPORT URGEDAs always, and once again, it is suggested that the citizens of Oxford County support the efforts of Ute Oxford Museum and the Historical Society in collecting and preserving our historical background. The Ox­ford Museum is the central ag­ency to receive the writings of the early .years, books and docu­ments of historical value will be welcomed. Good intentions pre not enough to perpetuate this historical story and every day Important, articles and re cords are being lost. Please, if you wish to play a part with those actively engaged in this work. - “do it now?'During the year the Museum is open four afternoon.’ each week, from 2 until 8. During the tourist season, (he doors are open in the mornings, also from 10 until 12 Specially guided (ours of adult groups, school classes and tourists may be ar­ranged by appointment.AT QUEEN'S PARKMunicipal AffairsCommittee ImprovesBy DON O’HEARNTORONTO — The municipal affairs committee is improving with age.. The committee got off to a dismal start with members pop- iping up with bright personal I ideas while the group as a whole । wandered, apparently rudder - less.Now with a number of meet­ings under its belt while the [ideas are still coming forward [they are more to a point.1 And the committee itself is [getting on to more of a track.One of the better thoughts put forward is that the fiscal year ,of municipalities should begin । April 1, corresponding with that [of the province.ADVANTAGES POSITIVE ' There would be technical dif- ficulties in making this change but there would be very positive | advantages.Municipalities now work on a [calendar year. And local coun­cils prepare their budgets in January and February usually.This means they are often working a lot in the dark.Huge shares of municipal revenue now come from "the various forms of provincial grants—education, roads etc. [ And usually these aren’t an- [nounced until budget time—near i the end of February.If the councils struck their budgets in April and May, andu-mi put uonn[<>K.h)ii»n- One group, (he Woodstock । ns --------- Amateur Athletic Association in-1eluded tn its membership men who left a strong impression in our city, in industrial, commer- profestiomHi Hri(J imlitical‘«*hiknew exactly what they were getting, it would mean a mpeh cleaner way of doing things.WOULD SET DAYThe co-suggestion with this was that there should be a set election day, probably May i, for all municipalities.Objections would be made — "autonomy’’ again, and break­ing the old traditions—but it is hard to see what real complaint there should be against this.In those places where election­eering is a serious business, April is as good a month to campaign in as November, when most of it is done now.Also the proposal that this •municipal voting day should be a holiday probably has some merit, though it would have to be carefully weighed.For instance if the holiday were on a Monday it would be an open invitation to many people to get out of town—and not vote.And if it were during the week it could cause serious dis­location in industry, business, the schools etc.In any event the committee promises to do some valuable work in tins field of municipal affairs.How it will make out when it gets into more intricate ques­tions—such as the countv <ys- tem—remains to be seen. ‘But at least there ha« been some reassurance from it.Blandford To Burford Gas Pipeline Planned 1 LIBRARY COOP BOARDAl the meeting of the Oxford County Library Co-Operative on Wednesday evening, MaR|st.rat® Robert G. Groom of Tillsonburg presented the 1961 board, con­sisting of: H L. Kipp, chair­man; G. R Nagel of Salford; Henry Finlayson, of North ox ford; Warden Ernest Garner, and Magistrate Groom. A re­port from County librarian, Mrs. 9. L. Krompart, indicated an in­crease in use of books through all millets. She said there was an increase in work among teen-agers both In and out or the secondary schools, and a- mnng elementary school child- Iren.ADD DIRECTORIESA small but welcome addition has been added to the county court house in the form of Iwo county court house adjustable wall directories that announce court schedules and other court house events. One is placed out- side the council chambers where county police court is i usually held and the other out- iside the judge’s chambers where family and juvenile cou rts are held. Monthly master charts are prepared and kept in County Clerk L. K. Cole’s office.SENIOR CITIZENS ENTERTAINED — Residents of the Oxford County Home for Senior Citizens were entertained last night by the Pilot Club of Wood- ttock. Games and singsongs were conducted. From—Free Press Woodstock Bureau left, are, Charles Prudum, Arnold Hill, Horace Moss, Faye Dryden, Pilot Club chairman of com­munity services; Laura Frederick. Seated at piano is president, Mrs. Edith Scriolz.TOURED ROADSThe road committee of t h e Oxford County Council toured the Sweaburg and Hamilton roads and the north portion of i the Culloden road yesterday, describing them as being i n good shape. J. N. MeaihreLL county road superin'.enden. । said the tour was part of a plan to visit roads all over the ' county. About two-thirds of '.he |215-mhe system have been cov­ered this past week, he stated. Members of the touring com­mittee are: Warden Ernest F. , Garner; George Davis, chair­man: G. H. Wallace. L. W. Junker, George Nagle and Mr. Meathrell.WARDEN INCAPACITATEDWarden Ernest E-. Garner was prevented from opening the 1961 Oxford County /esti­val of Music as scheduled last night at Knox Church due to an injured knee. Mrs. Garner said over the telephone today he has fluid on the knee and was going into hospital today for a minor operation. She explained he expected to return home im­mediately after the operation and did not expect to be con­fined too long a period. "It is not serious, but painful.” she said.LIBRARY CO-OPERATIVE MEETS — The annual meeting of the Oxford County Library Co-Opera­tive was held lost night at Woodstock. The meeting heard the requirements for a county public library.—Free Press Woodstock Bureau From left, are: Magistrate ,R. G. Groom, QC, Till­sanburg, board member; Warden Ernest F. Garner; H. L. Kipp, Princeton, chairman; Mrs. S. L. Krom- part, librarian.ELECTEDI F. H. Cade, Woodstock. Ox- teid county assessor, was one of three directors of the Assoc­iation of Assessing Officers ot Ontario, elected to the Canad­ian Association of Assessing Of­ficers. at the annual meeting at Hamilton. held simultaneously with the annual meeting of the Institute of Municipal Asses­sors of Ontario.County Library Service Urged For Oxford'Ji Free Pre««» Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK - Establish­ment of a county public library would strengthen and Mipport existing libraries and "open up a nw era of library develop­ment/; the annual meeting of the Oxford County Library Co- ■ Operative was told (here iMtWilliam Roedde, director of provincial library service of the department of education, said man>, library problems, if doneon a county level, could be rec­tified and library service gener­ally improved.Advanced ServiceHe said Oxford has an ad­vanced library Service com­pared to other municipalities, but there are still areas In the county which are either poorly serviced or not serviced pt all.Each municipal council must vote on the question of n coun­ty public library, and approval of the mnjorityrof council mustbe obtained. If the council ap­proves the plan, it must bp sub­mitted to the education minis­ter for his approval, Municipali­ties not wishing to participate in the scheme may abstain.Magistrate R, CE Groom. QC. of Tillsonburg, a member of the library board, introduced the 10<il board: H, L, Kipp, of Prinreton, chairmen; George R. Nagle, RR t, Salford, vice-chair-man; Henry Flnlayfon, RR. 2,L. Krompart, Woodstock.Greater CirculationTn her report for 1960. Mra Krompart, librarian, said thera was an increase of 6.276 in the number of books circulated over the previous year,Mrs. Krompart noted the grant from Oxford County council was increased to $9,3'17 from $5,100, Tim department of education provided an additlomUTOUR FORESTSThe agricultural committee ot the Oxford County Council will tour county forest tracts Thurs­day June I. to enable members of the com,nutter to become acquainted with the woodlands. Cmuniv Clerk. Len Coles said I this morning..................... — $3,out) on tho librarian's qualifl- Ingersoll, and secretary, Mr», S catlnna AT QUEEN'S PARKDislikes Committee On Municipal Law—Free Press Woodstock Bureau COURTHOUSE DIRECTORIES — Persons visiting Oxford County courthouse at Woodstock will be able to check the time of court sessions and other activities on the newly-installed directories outside the council chambers and the magis­trate's family courtroom. Adjusting a directory is. Nancy Scott, a secretary in the clerk-treasurer's office.By DON O’HEARNTORONTO - We have had some poor committees here 1 from time to time.But we now could have a record-breaker.The select committee on mu­nicipal law has promise—of set- । ting a new high in lows.1 The committee has had only a few meetings.And already it has started to wrangle and give opinions.A. H. Cowling, PC from Tor­onto-High Park gave one on municipal grants.Our municipal grants system । has been worked out to try to give balance in terms of need.There has been no study of the system yet by the commit­tee but Mr. Cowling is ready to do away with it.“Let us get a uniform grant structure," the dapper insur­ance salesman said at the sec­ond meeting of the committee.It was Mr. Cowling who once 1 proposed we should lower the (level of Lake Ontario by digging a hole in the bottom. This was before the lake levels commit- itee.CHAIRMAN TOOThe chairman of the commit­tee also apparently feels it is ' time already for suggestion.At the same second meeting he offered the idea that grants might be given on a per capita i basis.H. E. Beckett OPC — York East), the chairman is solicitor for the municipality of Scarbor­ough and has been a member here since 1951.One wonders why he has to be told that we have per capita grants now.Again, T. D. Thomas (CCF— Oshawa) didn’t agree with per capita grants — which would ?row as the municipality grew also, which they do now).He reportedly said that would be “playing up to the larger areas.”That one is hard to figure outGrants are given to help mun- nlcipalities meet their needs. Surely the need is as great for their “growth” as for their old establishment (Actually it is greater.)OUTSIDE STUDYThere perhaps is a lesson for the future here.This is a most important, com-' mittee, One could say. vitally important.And from all indications it is in over its head.It would be hard to pick any group out of the legislature that wouldn’t be equally in over its head.Elected members usually’ are rot men trained for study and analysis.Yet our great emphasis these days is to put questions before groups of these members—se­lect committees.We probably should use more discretion. And with at least some of them—the more com­plex matters—retain men more qualified to do the job required.East Oxford History Given To County SocietyWOODSTOCK — In its en- deavor to compile a compre­hensive history of Oxford Coun­ity, the Oxford Historical So­ciety met at Oxford Centre last night and heard accounts of East Oxford Township’s early history.W. R. Ward, secretary-treas­urer, said the society has beenThis was an Indian trail until 1793 when it was used by stage coaches. It stretched from Lake Ontario to Detroit.The road. which winds its way through the centre of the township between concessions 3 and 4. was used by Gov. John Graves Simcoe and Thomas In­gersoll in 1794. The r^,d wascollecting pictures, deeds, con­tracts and other articles of his­torical significance and soon hopes to have a complete his­tory of the county.Old Indian TrailN. M. Holdsworth, clerk of East Oxford, gave, an early his­tory of the township including creation of the-old stage road. used by stage coaches from 1832 to the early 1850s when a railway was built through ths county, said Mr. Holdsworth.Miss Irene Frizelle, of Wood- stock, gave an account of rhe Anglican Church in the town­ship. and Mrs. George Parking, of Burgessville, told of ths early schools.Beachville Incorporation Hearing Date Set By BoardA municipal board hearing on vote. The reeve of Tillsonburg s the changing of the police vill- vote for wardenship, under the age of Beachville into an incor- present sei up, counts two. porated village will be held at ilhc village town hall at 130p.m. on June 13.The Ontario Municipal Board i&et the date for the public hear­ing in response to an applica­tion from the village trustees asking that the police village be made to village to be known as the Corporation of the Village of Beachville.If the application is approved, following the hearing, it will mean a new reeve will be added in 1962 to the 2t reeves and deputy reeves sitting on coupty council.The addition of a new reeve to county council would mean, for one thing, that there will be 23 vote* east for the warden- ship instead of the present 22, excluding the possibility of a tieOxford County Council Offers $750 In Scholarships To YouthsA total of $750 will be offered the degree course al the Ont- by Oxford County Council this ario Agricultural College, at year Io young people wanting Guelph. This is a four-year cou- to further their formal agricul ;rse requiring grade 13 for en- Lural education, Don Taylor, trance. Ths prize will also he .Oxford agricultural represents-’open to a student entering the live said this morning. Ontario Veterinary College.The distribution of the money Two scholarships valued at ' $11.00 each will he given to stud-■ was decided upon yesterday, he it,............. -..........said bv a committee composed ent;; entering the two-year prac of himself. Warden Ernest F.ltieal diploma course al OAC,.Garner; chairman of the County Council's agricultural coinmil- | tefi, Alex Henderson. Embro; and Len Coles, county clerk.The money will be dldvided into eight awards — five schol arshlps and three proficiency awards, A scholarship of $200 will go courses showing ^reutesi pro to a "It'i'ted person entering ficiency in their first year.trance. Ths prize will also heOntario Veterinary College and the same amounts will he given Io two students entering it diploma course at Hie Wo,* ern Ontario Agricultural School at Ridgetown.Three proficiency prizes al $50 each will be awarded to the students in any of the alcoveGARNER BABY CHRISTENEDj Little Linda Margaret, dau- I ghier of Warden and Mrs. Er- neat Garner ol Embro madt her debut to the world on Mo ther’s Day when she was ehn- atoned during the Sunday mor­ning service in Knox United Church m Embro. Rev Harry Benson nfl’iclsied for the chri­stening ceremony, Wee Linda is the 12th child in the Garn er’s home. (Staff Photo) - RECALL 1814 INVASIONEarly Oxford History Outlined To RotariansAT QUEEN'S PARKMunicipal Autonomy And Our Jail SystemAt Monday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Woodstock, Dr. D. M Sutherland, first presid­ent of the club and still an act- live member, gave the second in- [stallment of his History of Ox- ford County.J The first talk given some months ago, dealt with the first settlements of Oxford which were made in Blenheim Town­ship, Norwich and Ingersoll and up to the time of the war of 1812.The speaker was presented by A. W. Cole and thanked after his talk by Harold Hedley, Pre­sident George La Fl air presided.In the war of 1812, the speak­er said, the U.S. invaders thou­ght it would be an easy matter to take Canada which proved a delusion and the invaders were repelled.Dealing with the war in Ox- f o r d County, Dr. Sutherland stated that most of the resid­dents in Canada had come from the U.S. and they stood firm for their adopted country. Everyone was subject to milit­ary service, he said, all were members of the militia and when war was declared all re­sponded.The most spectacular event of the war in Oxford, was the invasion of General McArthur and his men from Michigan in 1814. They got right down into the Ingersoll district and seized horses and food. Two men. Woods and Nichols, got away and rode to Burford, warning the settlers that the Americans were coming. The inadare got to Waterford and set fire to the mill.i After the war, settlers beg- (an earning to Oxford mostly from Scotland and settled in the Zorras. The first church. Pres-wobyterian was established at Embro and the Woodstock church was an off-shoot of this.Descendants of these first Scottish pioneers rose to be- come famous citizens of Canada in many fields. One of them was George Leslie Mackay, the famous missionary to China and Zorra’s most distinguished son.Settlers from England began arriving about 1820 at which time Admiral Vansittart son! an agent, Capt. Drew to Canada to purchase land. Unlike the Scotch, the English immigrants were mostly men of wealth, re­tired army and navy officers after the Crimean War. They purchased much land in the Woodstock district, mostly on the north side of the Governor’s Road, in East Zorra. Woodstock today owes much to the work of these people.They established the first fair in Woodstock and by means of their money, founded the first Grammar School of the district in Woodstock. They also erect­ed the first courthouse and the present county jail. A county judge was appointed and the people no longer had to go to London for court cases or legal work.Woodstock was made the county seat of Oxford, although Norwich and Ingersoll at first were larger, places, but did not have the money to expand as did Woodstock.Yesterday’s talk brought theVISITED COURT HOUSEA group of 24 women from The Jean - Brumpion Women’s |lnstitutg of Tillsonburg toured the County ourthouse, the Reg­istry Office and the hildren’s Aid Society, in Woodstock, yes- । terday afternoon.history up the War of 1837 and the rebellion and the club is looking forward to another talk by Dr. Sutherland on this per­iod of Oxford history.Pension Plan Under Study By OxfordA pension scheme to provide |for employees of local munici- ipalities in Oxford County, who lare now not under a pension plan, will be discussed Wednes­day night at the county court­house in Woodstock.County clerk-treasurer, Len Coles, said representatives from the 11 townships, the three vill­ages .of Embro. Norwich and Tavistock and the town of Till­sonburg have been invited to discuss the matter with County Council.Most such small communities have too few official employees to set up their own pension (plan, Mr. Coles explained. The proposed plan will bring these 1 employees under the present set-up for county employees, he said.The plan was instituted Oct­ober 1, 1960 and approved by the Department of Municipal Af­fairs, Mr. Coles said.Under the plan, retirement age varies from 65 to 70 years of age for men and from 60 to 65 for women. An employee may work for five years after his normal retirement age and may retire earlier in the case of sickness or disability.Employees contribute five per cent or more of their earn­ings into the fund, and their employers contribute five per­cent of the employees’ earn­ings. .vill■ By DON O’HEARNTORONTO - Dear Lord give us patience!The autonomy bug is gelling really bad.I The John Howard Society has made an able report on our jail system.Itrecommendsa change whereby the province would take over all the present county jails.The reorganization it proposes would mean both money saved ,and more efficiency.And what is our reaction here?1 Hon. George Wardrope says I we have to be careful of muni- icipal autonomy.What municipality possibly could care whether it ran a jail?The only benefit it possibly has is a little patronage for local j big-wigs to pass around.HARDLY FIT INAnd if we have any municipal­ities in which this is all-import- iant they hardly fit in here to­day.We should ask Castro to annex i them.So help me, we are getting so afraid of the tender feelings of I municipalities you would think he had annexed them, all of 1 them.■ There’s better news from Mr.I Wardrope in another direction.The reforms minister hopes to get the Huber law system flatted here.This is the system, originated in Wisconsin, whereby prisoners serving minor jail sentences are let out during the day to go to their jobs.Mr. Wardrope, who is a very practical man, liked the idea when he first heard about ft. And a year ago he went to ths U.S. and looked into it.IDEA LOOKS GOODEverything he learned then and that he and his officials have found out since has made the idea look good.And he hopes to get an exper­imental program underway.Look out for the bolo punch, however.For an experiment will mean the cooperation of Attorney-Gen­eral Roberts.The prisoners to be used will need a special sentence.The condition that they be permitted to work win have to be specified by the magistrate.And that means they must have the attorney-general’s ap­proval. Which is a caution sig­nal.For Mr. Roberts has a long record of not being overly ag­gressive about ideas which don’t originate with him.However, this is a good idea, and it is doubtful if personalities will hold.it back.____Begins DutiesOf TurnkeyFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCKHowardOtis. of Ingersoll, has started duties as a probationary turn­key at Oxford County Jail, Clerk-Treasurer L. K. Coles said lyesterday.Mr. Coles said Mr. Otis will be on six-months probation. He 'then will write an examination set by the department of re­form institutions.| Ten applicants for three more Turnkey vacancies at the jail will write examinations Wed­nesday.Successful candidates are to start their duties by July 1, said Mr. Coles. He said 180 applica­tions were received for the four turnkey vacancies recommended by the department of reform institutions.AND THE WALLS TUMBLED — Like the Biblical walls of Jericho, the brick, walls of the Solvation Army Citadel at Woddslork came tumbling downMBSFree Press Woodstock BureauGroup Checks Oxford RoadsFree PreM Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Portions of Oxford County’s road system (were described as being in good 'condition when toured yester­day by members of county coun­cil's road committee.1 J. N. Meathrell. county road superintendent; Worden E F\ Goruer, George Davis, chair­man; George Nagle. U W. Junk­er end G. H. Wallace, toured the Sweaburg and Hamilton ■roads and the north portion of ■the Culloden road.Mr. Meathrell said the com- mittee has been touring the roods thia week and about two-yesterday. The 118-year-old building is being de­molished to moke way far a new $60,000 citadel on the same site, 38 Graham St,thirds of the 215-mUc system [have been covered Study ExtendingOxford PensionsFree Press Woodcock BureauWOODSTOCK — Representatives of 11 mun­icipalties in Oxford County were told here last night that the county's present pension plan can be ex­tended to all eligible employees of the municipalities, if they wish to participate. The meeting of county and township officials was called to discuss pension coverage.Charles A. Kench, of Toronto, a pension consult­ant, said since most small communities do not have sufficient employees to set up their own pension plan, they were now eligible to participate in the county scheme.Instituted and approved by the department of municipal affairs last October, the pension plan pro­vides for men who retire between the ages of 65 and 70, and for women 60 to 65.Five per cent or more of their earnings are con­tributed by the employees. The employers contribute five per cent of the employees’ earnings. In case of sickness or disability, the employee may retire be­fore the retirement age, or he may work until five years after.Warden Ernest F. Garner welcomed the 65 reeves and other municipal officials. Welcome was also extended by clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles, who in­troduced Mr. Kench.Scholarships Given County Approval A resolution that scholarships and a proficiency award be of­fered for students entering the ; MacDonald Institute at Guelph in the fall of 1962 was passed yesterday by county council.A total of $750 in scholarships is given to students entering OAC. OVC, both at Guelph, and the Western Ontario Agricultur­al School at Ridgetown, explain­ed Don Taylor, Oxford agricul­tural representative.MacDonald Institute, a school for girls, is not now included in this scheme, he explained. . The resolution was presented by the North Oxford Women’s Institute, Mr. Taylor said.The present breakdown of prize money is as follows: one $200 scholarship for the degree course at OAC or OVC; two $100 scholarships for the dip­loma course at OAC or Ridge- town; $150 in proficiency prizes for all of these courses.n ’Oxford County Council open- । ed its June session at the courthouse vesterdav. After II COUNCIL HOLDS hearing correspondence read by county clerk-treasurer L,JUNE SESSION IN CITYsplit into committees for dis­cussions. The next full meet­ing will be Thursday afternoon when their decisions on topics under consideration will be presented. Left to right are:George Hogg, deputy reeve ol East Missouri: Warden Ernest F. Garner; James Shearer, reeve of Blandford Township, and Elmer Karn, deputy reeve of West Oxford. (Staff Photo)Reveal Drumbo, Plattsville POs| OTTAWA (Special to the Sen- itinel-Review) — Wallace Nesb­itt, MP for Oxford, announced today that two small post, of- llfice buildings would be const ru- icted in Oxford County. Mr. ;Nesbitt said the two buildings ■would be located to serve the villages of Drumbo and Platts­ville. The department of public works will be visiting the two villages In about two weeks time in order to decide on the most suitable sites for the post office buildings.“This will be a winter works program". Mr. Nesbitt told the Ottawa Bureau of the Sentinel Review. ’'Construction will Start sometime this earning fall. Thebuildings will be of standard post office construction for communities of that size and each building will cost under $25,000. ”Mr. Nesbitt explained that the new buildings would replace premises which were now being rented for post office use. He said the rented premises h a d become quite inadequate as to size and facilities, particularly in the case of Drumbo, and the new buildings, which would be restricted to post office use only would provide adequate fatalities and improved postal service to the residents of the two areas concerned.ANNUAL HORSE SHOW IS OPENED —-Staff PhotoCOUNTY CLERKS AND TREASURERS from 10 Ontario counties gathered in Miltort last week for the semi-annual meeting of their association. Some of the group, pictured here studying new legislation are Oxford clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles, president and Halton clerk Garfield Brown, >nd Halton deputy clerk Jim Andrews, seated; Wentvyorlh assistant clerk-treasurer Mrs Lorfame Woodworth Halton treasurer Miss Margaret Maxted, Brant clerk-treasurer W D. Foulds and Welland clerk-treasurer C. H. Thompson, standing.CHARLES MITCHELL manager of the Oxford Coun­ty branch of the Canada Per­manent Mortgage Corporation looks on (left) as the final papers closing the sale of the old YMCA building on Dun­das Street are signed. The mortgage company will erecta new one-storey building on the site to house their Wood- stock offices. Chairman of the YMCA board of trustees, V. T. Ross, signs the instrument of sale while Don Duncan, YMCA General secretary, (right) watches. (Staff photo)25 County Clerks, Treasurers Hold Regular Meet in MiltonHalton clerk Garfield Brown and treasurer Miss Margaret Masted were hosts last week to about 25 countj' clerks and trea­surers from 10 southern Ontario counties, members of the Assoc­iation of County Clerks and Treasurers. Mr. Brown is the 1960-61 pesident of the associa­tion so the semi-annual meeting was held in Milton this year.In the morning the delegates met in the Halton Centennial Manor auditorium with president Brown in the chair, and clerks and treasurers from the various counties led discussions on vari­ous topics of common interest.Halton Warden F. A. Phillips greeted the guests and welcomed them to the countv at noon, then a dinner was enjoyed at the Mil­lon Inn followed bv a conducted tour of the Cities Service Refin­ery, Trafalgar. Later in the after­noon the delegates returned to the Manor to conclude the day's business and ended up with' a general discussion on methods of conducting county business.Repesentatives were there from Halton, Peel, Brant, Bruce, Grey, Lincoln, Wentworth, Essex and Huron counties. The next meet­ing will be held in October.YMCA Building Purchased By Canada Permanent Co.Pension Plan Is ExtendedMUNICIPAL BOARD OKs STATUS CHAN GE -------f------------------------------------Beachville CorporationEffective January 1,1962One of the longest police vil­lages in Canada will become one ot the longest incorporated villages in Canada in 1962.Permission was granted yes­terday by the Ontario Municipal Board at a hearing in Bca.ch- ville for this police village to incorporate as of Jan. 1, 1962.Village trustee J. C. Smith said the village is about m miles long and a half mile wide, with a population of 826,J. J. Nadalin, another trustee, said he believed Beachville is one of the longest villages in the Dominion.WILL BE SEPARATEOne reason for incorporation brought up at the meeting toy trustee Mr. Smith is that the village is half in North Oxford Township, half in West Oxford. With Us new status, the village will be a separate entity and not dependent on two different bodies to manage its revenues,Mr, Smith expressed Ins con­fidence the village can be oper­ated to equal township rate^.Others called by W, R Mar­shall QC. of Ingersoll, indicated H ere will be little change or in crease In cost in and police systems,Mi. Marshall outimed advant­ages of incorporation in reply to the question from Mrs. Ag­nes Hazel, of Beachville.“A police village is the low­est rung in the municipal scale next bo an unorganized territ­ory”, he stated.He explained the trustees now have very limited powers and can only act through the town­ship councils.With village status, the com­munity will have more extens­ive authority over the manage­ment of its own affairs, he said.In his later summing-up n e stated; “It is in the best in­terests of this growing monies- polity ’to become incorpora led and have greater jurisdiction and responsibility”,TAX INCREASE SEENAn increase in taxes can be expected and will certainly re­sult, stated William Greenwood, a member of the Ontario Municipal Board and chairman of the meeting, after granting permission for incorporalion.The incorporated village will require an assessment rate of 7,7 mills, staled Mr, Smith. Total assessable properties are 'valued al $1,119,825, Al present, ihe said, the village receives Ifour mills of the total assess­ment in West Oxford, and 4*7 of the total assessment in North Oxford.Beachville has one public school with about 132 pupils and a separate school, reported A. P. Silcox, of Ingersoll, a public school inspector.The number of pupils would Im? reduced to about 110 of the incorporated village withdrew from the school area, he said, but an agreement could be made with the townships not to withdraw.Representatives from the two townships agreed to continue the school system as is.Students in North Oxford go to Ingersoll. District Collegiate, and students in West Oxford go Io Woodstock High Schools, Mr. Smith explained.NO CHANGE NOWThere will bt no immediate change In this system, reported Mr. Marshall, but the Ontario Department of Education pre­fers village students Io attend only one high school. This mai­ler will be taken in the future, he said.A loiter from J N. Meathrctl, county roads superintendent, stated that part of county road No. 6 running through the vil­lage can either revert to the village or be left as a county road.The Ontario Department o f Highways stated in a letter (here will be no cost for main­tenance of Highway No. 2, which runs through Beachville, unless the village wishes to take over the area of the highway within village limits.In the latter case, lite depart­ment will pay 100 per cent con­struction costs and most of the i aintenance costs, the letter staled.REMAINS UNDER OPPThe village will continue to be under the jurisdiction of the Woodstock detachment of the OPP, Mr. Marshall said.He explained OPP authorities fell the low population density and crime rate did not merit a separate police force at present.Police service has been free and will continue to be free un­der this system, he explained.Some objections were raised, but judging by the clapping, the decision for incorporation w a s received favorably.About 100 people jammed in­to the tiny West Oxford Hall, continuously fanning themselv­es in I he hut sticky weather, at the hearing.Employees of the corporations of East and West Oxford Town­ships will be permitted to con­tribute to the pension for coun­ty employees as of July 1. 1961.A bylaw to ratify the agree­ments between the c^nty and Townships was passed in county council yesterday.Representatives from the II Townships, plus Embro. Nor­wich. Tavistock and Tillsonburg were invited to a meeting May 31 at the County Courthouse to discuss such an agreement.Most small communities have too few employees to set up their own pension plan, county- clerk-lrcasurer L. K. Coles ex­plained at the timtfFour employees m East Ox­ford and three in West Oxford will be affected, said the res­pective reeves of these town­ships. W. G. Lazenby and George Wallace.The plan was instituted Oct. 1, I960 and given the approval of the Department of Manici- pal Affairs, Under the plan, em­ployers will match an employee contribution of five per cent o( his earnings.WILL TOUR FORESTSThe conservation committee of the Oxford County Council will tour county forests Thurs­day leaving the county Court- house at 9 a.m. The purpose of the tour Is to permit mem tws to familiarize themselves with the county's forest lauds, said Len Coles, county clerk-treas- iurer. ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF OF THE HOMESMANAGERS AND MATRONS FOR THE AGEDFORTYSECONDANNUAL CONVENTIONPROGRAMMEFORTY-SECONDOSHAWA, ONT.and 9thSixty-onePICCADILLY ROOMGENOSHA HOTELOntario Association of Managers and Matrons of theHOMES FOR THE AGEHJUNE 6th. 7th. 8thNineteen Hundred andGENOSHA HOTELFriendship Hour 6:00 p.m.WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1961Dinner and Entertainment 7:00 p.m.COUNTY OF ONTARIOfc asOXFORD COUNTY- - ■ ■ - - ~ •itifDINNER PICCADILLY ROOMSPEAKER Al C. HALLONTARIO ASSOCIATION OFMANAGERS AND MATRONS OF HOMES FOR THE AGED (L. K. COLESawarequests ike pleasure of your company al aTTlunicipal Q^anquetlenoska. Wednesday, (June 7^k, 1961FRIENDSHIP HOUR » AND FLEETWOOD ROOMS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO PROGRAMME Hon. Louis P. Cecile ----------- Minister Mr. L. E. Ludlow - - - - Director, Homes for the Aged OFFICERS ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF MANAGERS AND MATRONS OF HOMES FOR THE AGED Past President ------ S. R. Taylor, Superintendent, Glen-Stor-Dun Lodge, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Counties President -------- W. Roszell, Superintendent, Wellington County Home 1st Vice-President ----- Brigadier A. F. Parkinson Eventide Home, Galt 2nd Vice-President --------- Wm. McWilliam Prince Edward County Home Executive Members - - - - - - - - - W.W. Lindsay Grey County Home Douglas Rapalje, Superintendent, Sunset Haven, Welland County D. Vancamp, Superintendent, Greenacres, Metropolitan Toronto Norm Frieday, Superintendent, Bonnechere Manor, Renfrew County Aid. R. Cecil Bint Hillsdale Manor, Oshawa Secretary -------- R. J. Forbes, Superintendent Oxford County Home Treasurer -...................................M. C. Roung, Superintendent Wentworth Lodge, Wentworth County INVOCATION ------- Brigadier A. F. Parkinson GOD SAVE THE QUEEN TOAST TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN CHAIRMAN’S REMARKS - - - - Reeve Cyril E. Morley Village of Pickering INTRODUCTION OF ----- Reeve Everett Quantrill HEAD TABLE GUESTS Town of Whitby GREETINGS ------- Mayor Christine Thomas City of Oshawa Warden Anson Gerrow County of Ontario Hon. Matthew B. Dymond, M.D. Minister of Health, Province of Ontario Mr. T. D. Thomas, M.P.P. INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER - - Aiderman John Dyer City of Oshawa ADDRESS - - - - His Honour Judge Alex. C. Hall, Q.C. County of Ontario THANKS TO SPEAKER - - - - Aiderman R. Cecil Bint City of Oshawa ENTERTAINMENT FAIRVIEW LODGE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT CHAIRMAN MEMBERS - - - - Reeve Cyril E. Morley Village of Pickering - - - Warden Anson Gerrow Reeve Township of Scugog Reeve Erwin Cowie Township of Mara Reeve Everett Quantrill Town of Whitby Deputy-Reeve Duncan G. Wallace Township of Thorah CHAIRMAN MEMBERS HILLSDALE MANOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE " _ " - - - - - - Aid. R. Cecil Bint ------- Mayor Christine Thomas Aid. John G. Brady Aid. John W. Dyer Aid. Norman Down PROGRAMME FORTY-SECOND (fatuentUM, Ontario Association of Managers and Matrons of the HOMES FOR THE AGEO JUNE 6th. 7th, 8th and 9th Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-one GENOSHA HOTEL OSHAWA, ONT. 'Pzoytawne' TUESDAY, JUNE 6+h 7:00 p.m. . _ . . Registration at the Genosha Hotel. Oshawa. Ontar.o WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8+h 9:00 a.m. Registration at the Genosha Hotel 10:00 a.m. Convention called to order by the President WILFRED ROSZELL "THE QUEEN" Address of Welcome by MAYOR CHRISTINE THOMAS, of the City of Oshawa and WARDEN ANSON GERROW, of Ontario County Reading of Minutes of last Annual Convention Treasurer's Report and Introduction of Committee on Nominations and Resolutions Introduction of New Members by MR. L. E. LUDLOW Director of Homes for the Aged Presentation of New Constitution by DON VAN CAMP. Greenacres. Newmarket, Chairman of Special Committee Report of Committee on Education by DOUGLAS RAPELJE, Sunset Haven. Welland, Chairman of Special Committee Afternoon — 2:00 p.m. Address by HONOURABLE LOUIS P. CECILE Minister of Public Welfare, Province of Ontario Introduced by T. D. THOMAS, M.L.A. for Oshawa Riding Thanked by M. B. DYMOND, M.L.A. Minister of Health of the Province of Ontario Address by MR. L. E. LUDLOW Director of Homes for the Aged 3:00 p.m. Break for Workshops as follows: A. Elected Members — Aid. R. Cecil Bint B. Municipal Homes — W. Douglas Johns, Superintendant, Hillsdale Manor C. Charitable Institutions — Brigadier Parkinson D. Ladies' Auxiliaries—Mrs. Margaret Smith 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Friendship Hour Municipal Banquet at Genosha Hotel Guest Speaker His Honour A. C. HALL, Q.C., County Judge for Ontario County Introduced by Aid. JOHN W. DYER Entertainment THURSDAY, JUNE 8th 9:30 a.m. Tour arranged by our Hosts 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Mr. John Drew of the Welfare Department, Chairman Guest Speaker DR. B. PRIMEAU, Medical Consultant, Department of Health and Welfare, Ottawa Introduced by Mr. John Drew 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Discussion 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. DR. KEITH STUART Address on Volume Purchasing of Standard Drugs and Medical Supplies 7:00 p.m. Superintendents and Matrons Dinner, Hillsdale Manor FRIDAY, JUNE 9+h 9:30 a.m. Reports from Chairman of Elected Bodies A. Workshop B. Municipal Homes C. Charitable Institutions D. Ladies' Auxiliaries Discussion Unfinished Business Report of Nominating and Resolutions Committee Presentation of Gavel to New President Presentation of Pin to Outgoing President Adjournment 2:00 p.m. Visit to Hillsdale Manor OFFICERS. 1961 ♦♦♦ Past President S. R. TAYLOR Superintendent, Glen-Stor-Dun Lodge, Cornwall, Ontario President W. ROSZELL Superintendent, Fergus, Ontario 1st Vice-President BRIGADIER PARKINSON Eventide Home, Galt 2nd Vice-President WM. McWILLIAM Prince Edward County, Picton Executive Members W. W. LINDSAY Grey County Home, Markdale DOUGLAS RAPALJE Superintendent, Welland Home D. VANCAMP Superintendent, Greenacres, Newmarket NORM FRIEDAY Bomechere Home, Renfrew, Ont. R. J. FORBES, Secretary Superintendent, Woodstock M. C. ROUNG, Treasurer Superintendent, Dundas Auditors EDITH LOVICK Superintendent, Kitchener FRED SIRMAN Superintendent, Macassa Lodge, Hamilton PAST PRESIDENTS l920-'2l-'22 - Welland County - G. B. McClellan* l923-'24 - Lincoln County - F. Sifton* l925-'26 - Waterloo County - H. W. Martin l927-'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 of 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 1956-'57 - Belleville County Home - Kenneth Yorke 1958 - Northumberland & Durham Counties Home - Wm. Duncan 1959 - Waterloo County Home - Phillip Lovick I960 - Cornwall, Ont. - S. R. Taylor J. E. PEART* - . Sec. 1920-1947 *—Deceased CONSTITUTION ♦♦♦ I. NAME This association shall be known as the Ontario Associa­ tion 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 fixed by the Executive Committee, of which at least two months' notice shall be given to the members. 8. FEES (a) That the Annual Municipal membership fee for each Institution be $25.00 a year which shall include the Superin­ tendent and Matron and two delegates. (b) The Individual Membership shall be $2.00. (c) The Charitable Institutions 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 promote its prosperity and protect its interests. He shall be the Chairman of the Executive Committee and call meetings of the Committee when in his judgement the same may be ne­ cessary, or when requested to do so by 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 |udgement be in the best interests of the Association. This report he shall submit 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 prestde, as­ suming the duties of the President. (c) SECRETARY: The Secretary shall have charge of fhe books, papers, and other property of the Association: record the minutes of all meetings of the Association and Executive Committee: conduct the correspondence ot which copies shall be kept: keep a correct roll of the officers and members of the Association; issue certificate 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 fhe 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. Oxford EqualizedAssessment Seen $58,623,033County Council Opened Summer Session Today$19,950 TotalA proposal that Lhe county 'nty council, read by L. K. Coles, < Letters advocating an open warden be elected by closed in-|Oxford County clerk-treasurer. ,deer season in South Western stead of open ballot was pre-1 Mr. Coles also read a letter.Ontario for 1961 were received sented before county council from the Woodstock-Ingersoll| from the Waterloo Fish and this morning at the opening of and District Labor Council Game Protective Association, ,their June session in the County proposing a more satisfactory the Bridgefort Rod and G u n Courthouse, Woodstock. scheme of unemployment insur-.Club and the United SportsmenTlte proposal was presented in'ance. I Association.a letter from the Renfrew cou-1 Three letters advocated t h e Reasons given were that the I adoption of an open deer-hunt- present over-population of deer |ing season, Icauses crop damage and auto-The proposal for a closed -Imobile accidents, and farmers ballot election of the warden'crops are destroyed by maurad-Oxford Grants GivenTo 2 Perth HospitalsFree Pres* Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK —. Grants total­ling $19,950 to two Perth County hospitals, were approved by Ox­ford County Council yesterday.Approved were grants of $15,- 000 to Stratford General Hospi- I tai for its capital expansion pro­gram. and $4,950 to St. Marys Memorial Hospital as Oxford's share of its bed occupancy rate.The finance committee's re­port, submitted by Lloy^ John­son, chairman, recommended that an initial payment of $2,- 500 of the grant to St. Marys Hospital be made this year, with the balance in 1962.In other business, council ap­proved a recommendation in the agriculture committee's report, submitted by Alex Henderson, that next year’s committee pro­vide scholarships and a pro­ficiency. awards for Oxford stu­dents who attend Macdonald In­stitute, Guelph.The committee instituted a list of scholarships and awards totalling $760 this year for Ox­ford students attending the Western Ontario Agricultural School, Ridgetown; Ontario Agricultural College and the On­tario Veterinary College, both at Guelph.stated “freedom and the prin­ciple of voting are destroyed’’ by open ballots.Oxford is one of the few counties who still use the open ballot, explained Mr. Coles. | The letter from the labor council signed by president W. Vale, stated it was hoped the councils of Woodstock, Inger­soll and Oxford County would adopt the following resolution;“That the government of Can­ada take immediate steps to surance A at which will orid [establish an Unemployment In­surance Act which will provide for unemployed persons to (continue to receive benefit dur­ing the whole period of unem-ing deer.SEEK FUNDThe establishment of a fund for recompense of damage or injury caused by hunters dur­ing deer hunting season was proposed in a leterf rom the Cornwall County Coluncil.The letter suggested the mon­ey be raised by increasing lic­ense, fees or raising the mini- imum fine for hunters out of season or without licenses.Grey County Council asked Oxford for support of a re­quest to have the Canda De­partment of Agriculture raise compensation for cattle with T.B. or brucellosis from a max-ployment provided he or she istimum of $70 to $120 forg rades. willing to accept satisfactory'and from $140 to $190 for pure- employment during this period?’ breds.Such a move is necessary, j Stratford General Hospital re­wrote Mr. Vale, because em- quested a $15,000 grant from ployment continues to increase council to help finance its $1,525, jin Canada, and because the pre- 000 expansion program.sent acfl was never intended toThe council will meet thisI take care of the situation as it afternoon, and again Wednes- exists today. day and Thursday.Cover PensionsIn 2 TownshipsFree Fress Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Bylaws to extend Oxford County’s pension plan to eligible employees of East and West Oxford Town- ,ships, were passed by county council at its concluding June session yesterday.W. Grerifell Lazenby, reeve of East Oxford, said four employ­ees are eligible for the plan in his township. To date, the clerk and a road employee have indi­cated an interest in joining.In West Oxford, Lhe clerk and two road maintenance em­ployees have indicated an inter­est, said George Wallace, reeve. The plan, which goes into ef­fect in Lhe townships July 1, provides for men who retire be­tween the ages of 65 and 70, and tor women 60 to 65,Fay Equal Share*Employees contribute five per cent or more of their earnings to the plan. Employers con­tribute five per cent of the em­ployee'* earnings. In case of sickness or disability, the em­ployee may retire before the re­tirement age, or he maty work until five year* after.i Since most small communi­ties do not have suffideht em­ployees to net up their own pen­sion plan, It was felt they could lake advantage of the existing-Free Press Woodstock Bureau[Urge Increase1 In West ZorraTaxable BaseFree prean Woodatock BureanWOODSTOCK — Oxford County’s suggested equal­ized assessment for 1961 amounts to $58,623,033, Fred H. Cade, county as­sessor, said in his fifth an­nual report to county coun­cil yesterday.Fixed RateThe county’s total taxable as­sessment amounts to $57,910^53, the report said. West Zorra Township has a fixed assess­ment on the Canada Cement Company plant of $200,000, which otherwise would be $732,- 550.The assessment committee recommended an increase of $500,000 to the total rateable assessment of West Zorra which amounted to $3,609,749.The county's 1960 revised tax­able assessment and valuations was an increase of $2.3624.50 over the 1959 figure. Last year's taxable assessment and valua­tions amounted to $58,623,033, compared to $56,260,863 the year before, the report said.Total 1960 taxes amounted to $22.1604 3. Total assessed value was $751,882, and the county's share was $5,614.43.Total population of the IL townships, the town of Tillson- [burg. Embro, Norwich and Tavistock stands at 41.666, about the same as the previous year.AT CONVENTIONRehabiH'auon and re-activa­tion of the, aged were two of the main topics at the 42nd ann­ual convention of the Ontario Association of Homes for 1 hei Aged held in Oshawa this week. | Al tending from Oxford County were: Mr. and Mrs. R. .1. For- bes. respectively manager and matron of the Oxford County Home for the Aged. RR 3 Woodstock; L. K. Coles, county clerk-treasurer and seeretarv . treasurer of the home. Warden Ernest F Garner and his wife also attended.COUNTY COUNCILCounty Council will meet next week at We County courthouse at 10,30 a m. Tuesday. Wednes dav and Thursday for all day sessions, reports 1 K. Coles, county clerk-treasurer.TOUR OXFORD HOME — Members of Oxford County.council made their an­nual tour of lhe Oxford Home for-’H’e Aged at Woodstock yesterday’ They were shown the home facilities by R J. Forbes, superintendent, and Mrs. Forbes, matron. With Mrs. Forbes are, from left. Russell Honsberger, deputy F^evo of Til Isenburg; Leslie Force, reeve of Norwich and Warden E. F. Garner, PROCLAMATION!Costs On Oxford RoadsIn eonsidemtion of the importance of the dairy industry in Oxford County, and in recognition ofDown $24,450 On Year“Dairy Day” promotion in Woodstock, Saturday, June 10th, we hereby proclaim:The week of June 4th to 10th. 1961, shall be f "Dairy Week” in Oxford County, and requires the citizens and organizations in the county to give at­tention to all aspects of Dairying as it. may apply to them.ERNEST GARNER, Warden of Oxford County.WM. DOWNING, Mayor of Woodstock.There was a decrease of $2, 4450 in county road maintenan­ce costs over the past year, a report presented to county cou­ncil yesterday staled.The saving was made in costs of winter roads, gravel patch­ing and hardtop patching,Less repairs were needed, the [r e p o r I. explained, as spring break-up of roads was atu min­imum this year due to a dry autumn.Total expenditures on county .roads as of June 1, 1961 was $134,065.64, the report said, j Council adopted a recommendation in the report that t h e county aid Tillsonburg in con­structing Baldwin street as a connecting link.Half the cost will be borne by the county, and half by Till­sonburg.A bylaw to slop up and close part of the original road allow­ance between Jots 18 and 19 on the Second Concession of North Oxford was passed. The bylaw confirms a previous by­law to the same effect.It was decided to realign Road 29 in Blenheim to meet the new Moscow Bridge, and to round off the Mill Sideroad at Innerkip to make its turn less sharp.Adopted were the following recommendations in the report designed to comply with t h e geometric design standards of the Department of Highways for county roads:] That paving on Road 16, East Zorra, and on the easterly quarter mile in Concession 14 in East Nissouri be deleted from tile 1961 program;That the easterly quarter mile in Concession J in West Zorra be included in proposed right-of- way, fencing, grading and base course work.GRANT TO HOSPITALA request from the Stratford General Hospital for $15,000 was granted yesterday by County Council,.The request was made on the basis that the hospital serves part of Oxford County.The money is needed, the re­quest stated, to help finish off a $1,525,000 capital expenditure program.Council also granted a request from the St. Marys Memorial Hospital for $4,950, An initial payment of $2,500 will be made this year with the balance to be paid in 1962.The amount represents nine per cent of the total cost of a capital expenditure program. John S. Lind told council Wed­nesday, This Is the percentage of Oxford's per patient day oc­cupancy of the hospital, he said.In dealing with other corres­pondence. council decided no action would be taken on the resolution from Renfrew Coun­ty that the warden be elected by a secret vote.L. K. Coles, county clerk-trea­surer, previously explained Ox­ford is one of the few counties to elect its warden by an open vote. The letter from Renfrew stated this is a violation of the principles of freedom and vot­ing.A proposal from the Wood­stock-Ingersoll and District La­bor Council that council endor­se a resolution that the federal government set up a more sat­isfactory insurance scheme was turned down.The letter stated persons should receive benefits during the whole period of unemploy­ment.Requests for an open deer season in Oxford, and for in­creased compensation for cat­tle with TB or brucellosis were denied.COUNTY COUNCIL VISITS HOME FOR AGEDof the flower Coles couhTy" clerk-treasurer;Members of County Council took a break in their Junethe visitors onebeds on the grounds is Mrs. Annie Forbes, matron of thesession yesterday afternoon to tour the Oxford County Home for the Aged. Showing three of home. Left to right are L. K.vxxzi.ixnvxcaouivl , Mrs. Forbes; Warden Ernest F. Garner and Clare Essel-tine, reeve of Tillsonbung. (Staff Photo)MISS HELEN M. WHITERev. G. L. Douglas of Knox Presbyterian church conducted the funeral service for the late [Miss Helen M. White, 51 Vic- l Loria street, south, which was held from the Rowell Funeral Home, Thursday. June 22 at 2 p.m.. Miss White's death ecor- red at Woodstock General Hos­pital, June 19, There was a large attendance of relatives, friends and neighbors, also members of the Admiral Van- Sittart Chapter IODE, of which she was a past regent and hon­orary regent at the time of her death: members of the worn-Oxford Seeks EstimatesOffer to Share Cost Of Tillsonburg Roaden’s organizations of Knox Church, members of the staff of the Registry Office. There were many beautiful floral trib­utes. Casket bearers were Ian I Coles, John M. White, Gordon Yuli, and David White, Lond- ion: Len Rambo, Oakville and [John White, Woodstock. Inter­ment was made in the family j plot in the Presbyterian cem­etery.F ree Prem Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK Oxford County will share 50 per cent Of the cost of constructing Baldwin Street in Tillsonburg as a connecting link, with the town to pay the balance, county council agreed yesterday.Accept ReportCouncil accepted the report of the standing committee on county roads submitted by George H, Davis, chairman, which stated that a survey would be made thin year to de­termine cost of construction.The report states the Town of Tillsonburg has the right to cancel the agreement after the estimated cost obtained, pro­vided the town pays too por cent of the survey if the agree­ment I" dropped.The report states that to June 1, $134,065.64 had been spent on the county road sys­tem.Project DeletedCouncil approved the recom­mendation that paving on Road 10 on Concession fl, East Zorra Township, and Road 18 on the easterly one-quarter mile on Concession 14, East Nissouri Township, be deleted from the 1961, pnvlng program.The easterly one-quarter mile rm Concession 1, West Zorra,will be included In the right- of-way. fencing, grading and base work detailed for Road 36 on the construction program. This change was made neces­sary to comply with the depart­ment of highways request to construct the sections to the geometric design standards for county roads, the report states.Tenders for the Blandford- Blenheim boundary bridge • closed June 13, and tenders for) grading work on Road J6 will close June 26. council was told. The department of highways Ihas approved designs for the work on Tower Line road and Thnmosford hill. All contract work In Ihe county should be awarded by July 15,ERECT SIGNS। Signs will soon be erected in the drive and parking lol be­hind the County Courthouse to permit its use for county busin­ess only. The resolution w a s passed in county council yester­day. L. K. Coles, county clerk treasurer, explained this morn- jing too many people not on county business were using the lot.UR KN CONCERTWord has been received here Ithat the concert performed by ttngersoH’a Doreen Uren in Wig­more Hall, London, England, ion Saturday night, was most (successful, it is understood from reports received from various sources that a capacity audience attended the concert and the reviews were very fav­orable, Equalized Assessment Seen As $58,623,033Dairy Day’s Success1 he total assessment for 1962 d i s c u s s problems, correlate county rates will be $58.623,033. thinking, and become acquaint 11 "as stated in a report yester- ed with new legislation.da> to county council., The figure is the sum of the PLANNING NEEDED 1961^ equalized assessment totals | Achieving and maintaining an —$58,410,853 - plus additions for (government grants.The equalized assessment fig­ure is arrived at by taking the assessment of t h e individual municipality and raising or low­ering it for county taxation purnoses.This is necessary because as-equalized assessment roll withall property comparatively as­sessed requires careful planning, he staled.To do this, he explained, a modern, streamlined and simple record system is needed to col­lect all the facts under rapidly changing conditions."This I can assure you is be*sessment practices vary fromcommunity to community. ing done in our County”, he The municipality then pays a stated.lump sum to the county base* । Assessment is the foundation on the equalized assessment fig- upon which the whole municipal ure from the taxes it has raised I structure rests, he said. There-on its own assessment.fore it must be done on soundfor 1961 for the municipalities in Oxiord County, (Hie percent­age of the total equalized as­sessment indicated in brack­ets.):Townships: Blandford $2,166, 560 (3.7); Blenheim $5,957,580 (10.2); Dereham $5,957,580 (8.9); East Nissouri $4,318,486 (7.4); North Norwich $3,207.0.15 (5.5); South Norwich $4,416,771 (7.5);East Oxford $3,279,752 (5.7); North Oxford $2,401,208 (4.10) plus $492 for north Beachville; West Oxford $2,957,651 (6.2) plus $652,098 for south Beach­ville: East Zorra $5,148,597 (8. 8); West Zorra $4,483,380 (7.6);Tillsonburg $$,695,001 (116.7); Embro $620,622 (1.1); Norwich (Village) $1,997,630 ( 3.4); Tavi­stock $1,377,471 (2.4). (Percent-County assessor, Fred H. Ca- up-to-date principles. iage figures arede. stated in the report that Following are the assessmentsIdecimal point), municipal assessments bearage figures are correct to onesuch a just relationship to one another that their total should balance out exactly with the total of the equalized assess­ments.The regular meeting of a 11 local assessors he mentions in the report may in part ac­count for this balance.Purpose of the meetings is toTO VISIT UWOOxford County Council will visit the Unversity of Western Ontario next Wednesday for a tour and dinner. The Hon. M.IB. Dymond. MD, Ontario Min- Hster of Health, will speak on ' “The Municipality and the Ont-St. Mary's Seeks Grant To HospitalA delegation from St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital petitioned County Council this morning Ifor $4,950 to help finish off aario Hospital Care Insurance -tor $4,you to neip umsn on a Plan” Other county councils capital expenditure program, attending will be: Elgin, Hur- Oxford’s occupation per pat- ......... ient day in the hospital is nine -percent, stated John S. Lind, chairman of the delegation and of the St. Mary’s hospital board of directors.Therefore the delegation is re­questing nine percent of the to­tal cost of $55,000 he said.on. Kent. Lambton, Middlesex, :and Perth. All of these coun- I cils give an annual grant to the university. Oxford’s is $2,500, said L. K. Coles, county clerk- treasurer.Members of the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce and partic­ularly the rural-urban committee under C. M. Tatham, are to be j congratulated for the success of their Dairy Day project last Sat­urday.As we see ’it, the success of the day-long event in front of the city I hall should not be determined en­tirely by the large crowds that were drawn to the spot. Once again its chief claim to success is {that those responsible worked hard to make use of something we have I had all along, and with a certain amount of imagination were able to catch the fancy of the public so I that those at home and at a dis­tance were impressed anew with [ the fact that Oxford County is one of the most ’important dairy re­gions in Canada.We know of no other commu­nity which has gained such wide (recognition for its chief product because milk was caused to flow I from the fountain in the city square. This fact alone attracted the attention of dairymen and oth­ers in many parts of the country, land even beyond, and the image of the area as a dairy community has been ’implanted more firmly.Dairy Day not only did this. It reminded us anew of a truismthat we in this area have come to accept as commonplace--that dairy foods contribute greatly to the health of the individual. We mist it also played its part in pointing up how much the dairy industry contributes to the economic health of the country.Statistics show that one out of every six Canadians depends on the dairy industry for a liveli­hood. These people, in turn, to the extent to which they prosper, use their income to increase the pur­chasing power of the nation. They add to the business health of the community by the food they buy, together with clothing, appliances, cosmetics, tickets to places of amusement and other items com­mon to the Canadian way of life.Indirectly, those who staged such things as Dairy Day, and participated In it, drew more peo­ple to the city and its business dis­trict and they became potential customers of our merchants.We are pleased that the expe­rience of Dairy Day, both this year and last year when it was in­stituted, has encouraged officials to continue it in the future and make it a traditional affair. If this is done, the whole of Oxford County is bound to benefit in more ways than one.THAMESFORD GIRL IS WINNING MILKMAIDOxford Dairy Day Draws Large Crowd Of VisitorsIt looked as if water, rather than milk, would be the pre­dominant liquid on Dairy Day.Thousands of spectators ran for awnings Saturday morning as the skies spewed down rain on the marchers in the parade.As it turned out, however, many a spectator was able to get a good start on a sun tan as Che skies cleared and the sun was bright and hot.More than 4,100 people had filed into the secluded boudoir of Elsie the Borden Cow and her twins by 3 p.m., reported the Ingersoll Jaycees, who were running the display.Considering the program con­tinued for another two hours, and that there must have been many who didn’t care to wail in the continuously long line to see her, it can be assumed well over 5,000 people attended the festivities.ANNUAL EVENT LIKELY“It looks like an annual event from now on,” stated Harold Swanson, dairy manager and p r e s i d e n t of the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce,There will be Innovations next year, he stated. Dairy Day will be bigger and better,“It was a splendid example of co-operation between urban and rural people in doing all the hard work necessary to make the day a success”, stat­ed Charles M. Tatham, chair­man of the Dairy Day Com­mittee.It was excellent publicity for Oxford, he said. The day receiv­ed wide press coverage and films were on the CBC national TV network.He especially wanted to thank the Board of Works and works superintendent Harry Roth, and Police Chief W. J. Ennis and his department for their “excel­lent co-operation”.There will be a meeting soon to discuss next year's program, he said.The milk in the fountain al City Hall, in spite of being dilut­ed by the downpour of rain, spouted sparkling and white in the sunshine.WINS COMPETITIONWinner of the Dairy Princess Competition was Joyce Roberts, age 19, of Thamesford.She received a sash and a trophy for her efforts at mach­ine milking a Holstein cow. ‘‘I had an awful lime," slie com­mented. "The cow wouldn't co­operate."Joyce will represent Oxford County at the Ontario Dairy Princess contest to be held In Toronto at the CNE.Runner-up was Margaret Sna- rey, age 17, of Tavistock, milk­ing a Jersey.Others competing were Lois Brittain, of Princeton, milking a Guernsey, .and Donna Young, of Thamesford, milking an Ayr­shire.Competitors were judged for both speed and efficiency by: J. Durno Innes, Woodstock; Robert Rowe, Curries; Earl Kitchen, Woodstock; A. D. Rob­inson. Ingersoll, and Warden Ernest. F. Garner.RUNNING COMMENTARYGrant Smith, a past presid­ent of the Oxford County Hol­stein Club and ex-warden, gave a running commentary on the contest.‘Congratulating the winner was Gwen LeGrice, of Wood- stock, last year's winner, t o whom Joyce was runner-up.“Al I hough we are all familiar with the surplus of milk, there is certainly no surplus of farm girls", commented Charles Cameron, executive secretary of Dairy Farmers of Canada.“We could stand a few thousand more like the girls in this competition.” he said.Henry VIII was known as a good man with a trencher knife and ai hel-kwing for more food, but il is doubtful if the soundof his voice could ever lure a cow into a milking parlor.Henry would never have 'been named “Cow-Calling King of Canada”. This magnificent honor was reserved for Frank Park, of 50 Reeve Street, Wood- stock.O t h e r competitors yodel­led and pleaded ar, Bossie, but in vain.Jack Griffin, of Woodstock, was second in the contest. Win­ner of the junior competition was Don Kitching, of E a s I Zorra Township, with Jim Ste­phenson, of Curries, secondThe South Zorra team, which has been winning square dance co apetiLions all year, tied with Norwich in the Junior Farmers contest. East Zorra was runner- up followed by Blenheim Town- Ship.In (he junior sets, all from Woodstock, the Red and White Jets came first, followed by the Blue and White Dynamos and the Patriotic Squarelies,Phil Utting, chairman for the Chamber of Commerce of the square dance competition, expressed his pleasure and sat isfaeljon with the success of 'the event. Mr. Utting also ex­pressed Hie appreciation of his 'committee to the Ralston Purina Company for their contributionHoward the event.W h i 1 e the Dairy Princess competitors were milking t h e cows, the audience was enter­tained by two members of the Woodstock Pipe Band, Ivan Groves, of Woodstock, and 10- year-old Gordon Kruger. 755 Wilton Cres. Judging by Gordy's puffing, it took just about all the wind his lungs could muster to keep the big air sacks filled, but he did an excellent job on the pipes.HOCKEY PLAYER BESEIGEDWhen Bobby Hull, ace left­winger for the Chicago Black Hawks, was introduced, he was almost drowned in a cascade of children begging his autograph, Bobby graciously complied with their requests.“The year I spent here was one of the most enjoyable in my hockey career,” he said. He explained he liked being among farmers. “Farm-life Is a healthy existence," he said “as is hoc­key".The day was one of children splashing each other with the nulk in Hie fountain and hung­rily gobbling up milkshakes and ire-cream. City-dwellers looked with amazement al the calves on display, as if it were a great revelation that milk did n o t grow in bottles or cardboard containers. GORDON INNES, MLA; MAYOR W.A. DOWNING, WARDEN ERNEST GARNEkSTRIKING DESIGN FEATURES NEW EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONA NEW §260,000 public scho­ol was opened last night at Burgessville for the North Norwich Township Area scho­ol board, A large crowd of parents and interested citiz­ens attended the opening cere­monies, turning out to inspect tlie comm unity's handsome new school (TOP.) Featuring 10 gayly decorated class­rooms, the school incorporates some interesting architectur­al innovations. One of these is the arched roof to Uhe assemb­ly hall, seen on the left of the picture. LOWER: These men participated in the open­ing ceremony. Left to right: Fred Cohoe, chairman, who presided; W. G. Anderson, Ingersoll. public school inspec­tor, who introduced the guest speaker; Laurie Hyde. Lond­on vice-princiapl of the Lon­don Teachers' College, guest speaker and who declared the building opened officially in the name of the Minister of Education, Hon. John Hob­arts; V. A. Harvey, principal who thanked the speaker and introduced the members of the teaching staff; Ernest Garner, warden of Oxford County, who brought greet­ings from West Zorra Town­ship and O x ford County;. Wray K. Hartley, reeve of Nor­th Norwich, who extended the greetings from the township; William Butler, the contract­or, BONNIE'S BANTERYoung Ingersoll PianistPleases English CriticsBy YVONNE MOTTPeople who follow the rule “If you can't say something nice about someone don’t say anything at all" are wise indeed but very rare.However, there’s one Ingersoll person who has made the headlines both in Canada and in England and frankly if her ears haven’t been burning dur- I ing the past couple of weeks than there absolutely is no truth at all to the old saw.We’re talking, of course, a- bout Doreen Uren and her mus­ical Success. To say that she has been the topic of discussion on the town front street is put­ting it mildly and word that her overseas concert was received so well caused elation not only among her friends but among Ingersoll people who although they have never met her have heard many times of her dedi- | cation to her career which was I so obvious even during her school days.We were delighted to have loaned to us clippings of the critics’ impressions of her pia­no concert in Wigmore Hall, London, England and think loc­al readers might be interested in seeing them, as well. Here they are:Headed “Lively Pianist fromCanada”, and Skillsub-titled “Eloquence ’ and signed simplyEX-WARDENS MEET — Members of the Oxford County Ex-Wardens' Asso­ciation held their 29th annual* meeting at Woodstock yesterday. Seated, left and right: George Hollier, of Tillsonburg, warden in 1923, and J. F. Mc­Donald, of RR 3 Woodstock, warden in 1933. Standing, left and right: Ernest F. Garner, RR 4 Embro, present warden, and Donald Hossack, Embro, 1960 warden. '“D. A. W. M.” the review from I the Daily Telegraph and Morn­ing Post was as follows:“We were introduced at Wig­more Hall on Saturday to a young Canadian pianist, Doreen Uren, whose career should be watched with interest. She has a lively personality to ensure in­teresting interpretations and a strong, accurate technique to put them into effect.“A very musical player, she brought out the contrasting moods of Mendelssohn’s “Vari­ations Serieuses” which she played affectionately.while the preceding fantasia; was tricked out with valueltess contrasts of very soft with very loud. The Waldstein sonata bv Beethoven went more equably and there one could sense a latent power of thoughtful m I terpretation. In general her, playing was delightfully textual-; ly accurate, her touch (and her! j. dalling) sensitive and with1 that there was a fine dexter­ity”.And then a warm personal note from Mrs. Donald Fox. of Upminster Essex, arrived i n Ingersoll. Mrs. Fox is a close friend of many years standing of Mrs. Victor Brooks of Inger­soll and when Mrs. Brooks wrote to her suggesting that she attend the concert Mrs. Fox complied with her wishes and was so impressed she sent an airmail letter to Mrs. Brooks. With Mrs. Brooks’ kind permission we print in part the letter she received:“I went to the concert and did so enjoy it. Doreen is a very clever pianist and I loved her interpretation of Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. । She has a wonderful technique and it was a pleasure to listen to her. The hall, although not crowded, was pleasantly filled. It was a warm evening and Doreen worked hard. She had some lovely bouquets which she richly deserved. I did not wait to see her after as I had an hour’s ride home by train but sat next to a Canadian girl who goes camping with Doreen who is over there for a couple of months and we had a lovely chat. 1 asked her to take my congratulations and good wish­es to Doreen which she said she। would do. I am sure her mother and friends were proud of her. It was a grand performancer It was so nice of you to tell me about the recital and I en- j joyed every minute of it.”So you see - no one has any-Ex-Wardens Meet in Oxfordthing but nice things to say a-“Like many players with an I- „ - — —.o- - —„ I effortless technique, she is apt! bout Ingersoll’s Doreen Uren.Free Pre** Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Memorable events in the history of Oxford County council were recalled when members of the Oxford Ex-Wardenss Association held their 29th annua! meeting yes­terday.Moat of the 27 members werechambers and relived the events of earlier days.Two of the oldest members present were George Hollier, of Tillsanburg, warden in 1923, and J. F. McDonald, RR 3, Wood- stock, warden in 1933, when the association was formed.Officers for the coming year are.' President, Alex McCorquo-prp»ent for a business session at.dale. Lakeside; vice-presidents, [the court house and a dinner at J. W. Nichols, Woodstock, andTerrace Gardens. The for-;Milton Betteridge, Medina; see- • wardens sat in the council.retary-treasurer, L. K. Coles;executive, George Fewster, Nor­wich: Robert Rudy, Tavistock, and Grant Sutherland, Lakeside.Speaker was Dr. J. K. Rey­nolds, of Aylmer, department of lands and forests district for­ester.He said a survey during the fishing season last year showed that more than 184.000 black bass were caught at Long Point Bay and prospects for the com­ing bass season were good.PAVING TODAY| The driveway and parking lol behind the County (Jourthouse i* being paved today, said county clerk-treasurer Len Coles 11 has been gravel for the Ja-st couple of years, k isaid,COMMITTEE EFFORTS GET BIG WEATHER ASSIST■to indulge in excessive speed. .This happened in Liszt’s ar­rangement of Bach’s organ Fan­tasia and Fugue in G. minor and the first movement of Be­ethoven’s “Waldstein” sonata, where the second subject made little impression.“She gave an eloquent ac­count of Ireland’s “Island Spell” and showed the skill of her finger-work in the exciting dyn­amics of Villa-Lobos’ “Polich- enelle” and Sauer’s “Musical Box".The times, carried this story under the heading “Canadian Pianist’s London Debut”;I “The recital at Wigmore Hall on Saturday evening by Miss i Doreen Uren, the young Can- i adian pianist her first appear­ance here—was a stimulating occasion.“The reason was nol far to seek; it was her fundamental seriousness that did the music | so much good and made listen- i ing so rewarding. She is not yet certain of her approach, al­lowing personal emotion rather than the needs of the music to dictate speed and dynamics. Thus a Bach choral prelude was too slow and ponderous and the g eat G minor organ fugue (Liszt’s 'arrangement. Loo fast,Thousands Enjoy Annual Highland Games At Embro ONLY SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS NECESSARYThis Area Could SurviveFallout If London BombedIf a nuclear bomb fell on Ixm- don, Woodstock citizens could still survive — and without the aid of a fallout shelter.Only a few simple precaut­ions are necessary, but if these are not taken, all of the 20.000 residents would oe wiped out.This was the opinion of Mrs. Esme Nettleton, of Tovato. an instructor in the Emergency Measures Organization for Ont­ario. Mrs. Nettleton was speak­ing after a familiarization pro­gram for elected officials at City Hall yesterday.The prescribed shelter is the ideal, Mrs. Nettleton said, but failing this, earth packed around the house, the floor, and cellar windows will make an ordinary- basement relatively safe.less because nuclear war would bring total destruction. The bombs are not powerful enougn, she said.The potential power exists, bul no one has the lime or re­sources il would take to c/eateDuring the meeting speakers, marked a distinct lack of elect- talked on the effects of nuclear1^ officials, al whom the. meet­explosion. the role of the police ing Primarily aimed, and arm in an emeraenev and Booklets on the “Eleven Steps and arm, man emeigency, and )0 gurvjvaf. disU.ibuled at the how to survive. meeting, are available al CityAbout 25 people attended, re- Hall, Richard Yeoman, emer-complete devastation, said presenting various civic author- gency measures i Captain William Bolton of Lon- jties. Those al the meeting re- for Woodstock, said.do>, of EMO headquarters.IN FALLOUT AREALondon will be a target in the event of nucleararea war.she said, and Woodstock will be in the fallout area. Woodstock is far enough away, however, that there would be an hour's warning — ample time to take the required steps.“With a maximum of know­ledge and a minimum of ex­pense, people can help them­selves lo survive.” she staledMrs. Nettleton disagreed with the theory civil defense is use-Of course there would be tot­al destruction in the immediate area of the bomb, he added.Survival is dependent upon people learning a basic skill, such as nursing or rescue opera- lions, Captain Bolton said.There is no need for chaos or confusion if a bomb falls, said Mrs. Nettleton. If people follow tlie instructions they will be given over the /;C. and if they are armed with knowledge, they won't panic.NEVER MILITARY RULE“There will never be a mili­tary rule in Canada,” said Captain Bolton, explaining the delegation of authority in an emergency.The Emergency Measures Or­ganization carries out its role alongside (he army. The army will only lake over if all civil government is wiped out. he said. Otherwise, the civil, gov­ernment gives the orders.co-ordinatorGRADUATES FROM COURSE — J. E. Wood, clerk-treasurer of West Zorro Township, is among the graduates of a three-year clerk-treas­urers' training course held under the guidance of Queen's University and sponsored by the Munic­ipal Clerks and Finance Association of Ontario.THETURNING the first sod on the site of the new family YMCA centre for WoodstockUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIOPROGRAMME FOR THE VISIT OFTHE COUNTY COUNCILSOFELGINHURONKENTLAMBTONMIDDLESEXOXFORDPERTHJUNE 28, 1901children next tn Mr. Archibald are Denise and Guy Jimi per, aged 12 and eight, daughter and son of Dennis Juniper of Woodstack Watching the cere­mony from the far right i« Mayor W. A Downing. (Staff1 photo.)emony was held is thought to be the site of the first log cab­in m Woodstock, probably ereeled in the early 1800'8. On the left in Ilie picture, is A.S. McKinney, vice-president of the 'Y' and chairman of the building committee. The twoyesterday is J. Gordon Archi­bald, 91, an honorary life and active in ihe ee 1892, The earth turning cet-E START ON CONSTRUCTIONmem l YMC on wiGreetingsThe Board of Governors, the Senate and the Faculties welcome the members of the visiting County Councils and trust that this visit may be a very pleasant one. Wednesday, June 28, 1961 2:45 p.m. Assembly at Middlesex College (building with the clock tower). 3:00 p.m. Conducted Tour of Middlesex College. 3:30 p.m. Address: The Hon. M. B. Dymond, M.D. Minister of Health, Province of Ontario Topic: "The Municipality and the Ontario Hospital Care Insurance Plan.” 4:00 p.m. Question Period. 4:15 p.m. Busses leave for Headquarters Staff and Services Mess, Wolesley Barracks. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Reception. 5:30 p.m. Busses return to Somerville House, University of Western Ontario. 6:00 p.m. Smorgasbord Dinner in the Great Hall, Somer­ ville House. 7:30 p.m. Dispersal. Members of the Middlesex County Council are requested to park their cars behind Middlesex College. A bus will be provided to transport mem­ bers of the Middlesex County Council to and from H.Q. Staff and Services Mess, Wolesley Barracks. It is hoped that members of the Councils other than Middlesex County will arrive as a group by bus. Busses will park in front of Middlesex Col­ lege awaiting members who are going to the Recep­ tion at H.Q. Staff and Services Officers’ Mess, Wolesley Barracks. Wardens, or their representatives, are requested to gather in the Faculty Dining Room, Somerville House, immediately on return from Wolesley Bar­ racks. County of Elgin Warden - Donald Burgess Clerk-Treasurer - J. D. Thomson County of Huron Warden - Ivan Forsyth Clerk-Treasurer - J. G. Berry County of Kent Warden - Ernest Depencier Clerk - Sherman Brown County of Lambton Warden — James Dalton Clerk-Treasurer - J. A. Hair County of Middlesex Warden - Clarence Fonger Clerk - Harold Eastman Treasurer — Derek Newton County of Oxford Warden - Ernest F. Garner Clerk-Treasurer -L.K. Coles County of Perth Warden - Howard Lowe Clerk-Treasurer - A. W. Blowes l+'e ^inUnn A 30-ton, $40,000 power shovel is sinking at the rate of six feet a day in a bog, IT S 01111 OinKing miles south of Ingersoll, after it became mired in the muck last Thursday. These are among the thousands of watchers who have visited the site.(ELECTED PRESIDENT Donold Hossack, of Embro, Hossock; Mr. Pearson; and J. brom Smit o burwos elected president of the association, Left to gessville, first vice-president. Many attended theright, Gordon W. Innes, MPP (L—Oxford); Mr, roily. REUNION CELEBRATION MARKED TRANSITIONWoodstock Became CityJuly 1, Sixty Years Agonessed the sports program. The grand stand and bleachers were completely filled and people lin­ed the railing all around the race track.Four bands supplied the aft­ernoon music and there was no lack of it. E. W. Nesbitt acted in his usual capacity as clerk of the course and brought, on the various events punctually and satisfactorily.The Woodstock and Ingersoll Firemen's tug-of-war fell thr­ough. The Woodstock firemen had a belt for their anchor man and Ingersoll had none and would not pull without one.There was to be a balloon as­cension and the balloon went up — in smoke. The crowd waited from 5 to 6.30 p.m. to see Prof. Tompkins of Toronto go up in his balloon and make a parachute drop.Just as the aerial ascension was to be made, a tongue of fire shot out of the top of the bal­loon. The crowd groaned with disappointment and the balloon was soon a heap of ashes. The misfortune caused a serious loss to the aeronaut.OLD BOYS PARADEFeature of the evening cele­bration was the Old Boys Par­ade followed by fireworks. The parade formed up at the Mark­et Square and rockets were shot off to show it was coming. The procession went glittering down Dundas street with two long rows of lights and shoot ing balls of fire, led by the Nor­wich Band, turning down Van­sittart Ave. which was a glitter with Chinese lanterns and on to the WAAA grounds.By SPENSER HUNTER 1901—IBS!Sixty years ago. July 1, 1901, the Town of Woodstock became the City of Woodstock, so this is its Diamond Jubilee Year, the 60, _nniversary of Woodstock’s inauguration as a city.The population at that time was given as 9,224 and the opin­ion was expressed that it should be 10,000 before Woodstock was made a city.A look through the Sentinel- Review files of 60 years ago, re­veals that a great celebration and Old Boys reunion took place in honor of the occasion.July 1, 1901. was a Monday and from early morning until late at night the streets were astir with a good natured, pleasure seeking crowd. As far as Hudson’s Bay on the North, from Florida on the south, from San Francisco on the west to London, England on the east, former townsmen came, the re­port states. It was a great gathering of old friends.There was nothing to mar the general happiness of the day. 'The thermometer hovered in the neighborhood of 100 in the shade but this .deterred only a few from turning out to see what was to be seen. Every­thing had taken on a gala ap­pearance. The arches which had 'been erected opposite the mar- , ket square and at Wellington Istreet and Vansittart Ave., a- long with the gay decorations on the stores and buildings gave everything a distinctly holiday air.Long before the hour of the trades procession, all the plac­es of vantage on the main street were taken. After the parade passed there was an adjourn­ment to Victoria Park where of­ficial notification was given that the Town of Woodstock had ceased to be, and speeches by Mayor John Mearns, M. D. members of parliament and prominent visitors were given.In the afternoon, at the WA­AA grounds in the northwest corner of the city, the sports and games were witnessed by a very large crowd and in the evening a society and Old Boys parade was concluded by an ex­cellent display of fireworks.The music throughout the day was of a high quality, all the bands, not forgetting the German Band from Windsor, ac­quitted themselves in first class style,Just how many visitors were: in town it was difficult to esti­mate. The Old Boys and Old Girls who registered at the sec­retary’s office and the Sentinel Review, numbered 1500. If all I visitors were counted the town'spopulation was probably doub-TRADES PARADEThe various floats of the par­ade assembled at Victoria Park at 9 o’clock but did not get away until 10 a.m. Nothing of the kind was ever attempted before in Woodstock and was carried out on an elaborate scale. It served to convince vis­itors that the name “The In­dustrial City” had not been hastily or improperly chosen.The parade, led by the Oxford Rifles Band, was a mile long and brought frequent applause from the spectators on the side­walk. The men from the Bain factory made a fine appearance in their neat uniforms. The mus­ic of the bands was pleasantly supplemented by that from the handsome instruments on the Karn Piano and Organ Co. float. A display of stoves by the Stewart Stove Works was parti­cularly attractive and souvenir “Good Cheer” medals were dis­tributed. Bean and Westlake’s candy makers were scattering the products of their labors broadcast on the street and were the most popular men in the crowd. T. H. Dent brought a breath of country into the city with one of his fine cows com­fortably housed in an improvis­ed barn. The Anderson Furni­ture Co. gave an excellent idea of the quality of their products and the extent of their domestic and foreign trade. The Wind­motor Co. had a complete ■. ind- mill in working order. These were only a few of the many floats and exhibits in the par­ade.PROCLAMATIONAt 11.30 a.m. thousands of people were massed under the trees at the west side of Vic­toria Park and Light street was blocked with carriages. Every­body listened with interest and enthusiasm to the speech of Mayor Dr. John Mearns, who J formally announced the passing! of Woodstock from the status of a town to that of a city.Among those on the platform with the mayor were members of the town council, Hon. James Sutherland, MP for North Ox­ford; Andrew Pattullo, MPP for North Oxford; Dr. Fraser of London, Eng., Wallace Nesbitt, KC., Toronto; James Beard, John White, D. Hughes Char­les; Nathan Buckner of the Tor­onto World, Alexander Hall of the Orange Sentinel and T. H.I Parker.SPORTS PROGRAMIn the afternoon, at the WA­AA grounds (in the north-west I corner of the city) Woodstock's |line enclosed Sports field, a crowd of more than 5,000 wit­The procession was led by Marshals S. B. Fuller and H. E. Douglas, Pipers Fraser and. Murray, the Norwich Band and followed by members of Wood- stock lodges with the Old Boys briningg up the rear. The Old Boys were Ihe hit of the par­ade. Headed by the Oxford Rifles Band they marched like veterans as indeed some of them were, with Fenian Raid medals on their breasts. They carried torches and shot off Ro­man candles with the best of ,them. They were enthusiastic in their marching and the crowd which lined the streets on the route to the grounds showed more enthusiasm for them than for any other part of the pro­cession at the grounds. Prof. Hand gave the best display of fireworks ever seen in W'ood- stock.On Sunday, previous to the Monday celebration, there were special services in the church­es, attended by the Old Boys and Girls, again in their old pews which knew them years before. Services appropriate to the occassion were conducted by the pastors of the different churches: Rev. W. Moulding Baker at the Congregational church, Light street; Rev. R. R. McKay at First Baptist; Rev. G. R. W?elch, Oxford St. aptist; Rev. Dr. W. A. Mac­Kay, Chalmers Presbyterian; Rev. Dr. W. T. McMullen, Knox Presbyterian; Rev. A. E. Russ, Central Methodist, Rev. W. B. Caswell. College Ave. Methodist and Rev. A. J. Johnston, Dun­das St. Methodist.Boat Blast Kills Woodstock Man Rasminsky Successor To CoyneOTTAWA (CP)—Appointment of Louis Rasminsky. 53, as the new governor of the Bank of Canada succeeding James E., Coyne was announced today by the central bank’s board of di­rectors,The announcement said the; choice of Mr. Rasminsky, an au­thority on international finance and foreign exchange matters who has been a deputy gover­nor of the bank for the last years, was approved by the fed­eral cabinet.Directors of the bank met here Saturday to choose Mr. Coyne’s successor, Mr. Coyne, governor since the start of 1955. resigned July 13 following the senate’s re­jection of the government’s con­troversial bill to fire him.The choice of Mr, Rasminsky came as no surprise. Most spec­ulation about Mr. Coyne’s suc­cessor had Mr. Rasminky as the leading candidate for the post.THIRD IN POSTMr. Rasminsky is only the third governor in’the bank’s his­tory. The first was Graham Towers, who retired after 20 years as governor to be suc­ceeded by Mr. Coyne.Mr. Rasminsky' automatically bvcou.es president of the Indus­trial Development Bank concur­rently with his appointment as governor of the Bank of Canada.The native of Montreal, who was brought up in Toronto, has been a deputy' governor since Jan. 1, 1955. and an executive director of two major interna­tional organizations, the Inter­nationa! Monetary Fund and the .World Bank.Few Foxes Bagged In Oxford CountyA wave of rabies in 1959 and pari of i960 has made a con-: jSiderable decrease in the fox population of Oxford County, county clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles reports.Mr. Coles said 148 foxes were killed in the county since the beginning of the year. Al­though figures were not avail able for 1960 ft comparison, this year’s total shows a con­siderable drop from the first six months of 1959 when 837 were bagged.The county paid indemnity for cattle which died because of rabies until last fall. Feeling the epidemic was under control, county council decided not to participate in the indemnity pro­gram with the governmentA total of $592 has be«n paid om in bounties for foxes this year. Mr. Coles said, at a price of $4 per fox.EXAMPLES OF BRIDGE PROGRAM IN OXFORD—Free Press Woodstock Bureau piles for the bridge base. The bridge, to cost an estimated $35,000, is expected to be completed in two months.BUILD BOUNDARY BRIDGE—Preliminary work is under way on a 60-foot long bridge on the Blen­heim-Blandford boundary two miles south of Bright in Oxford County. Here, workmen drive stpel sheetDUMPS CALCIUM CHLORIDE INTO CREEKTruck Goes Through West Zorra Bridge,A tank truck carrying liquid calcium chloride spilled its con­tents into Mud Creek yesterday Jabotfl 9 a.m. whin a bridge near LEmbro collapsed under it.Driver Charles Deslitte, 31, RR -t. Harrow, was applying the chemical on township roads lo settle the dust. When the bridge caved in, the tank portion of his truck broke loose and overturn ed into the water. Mr. DeslHIo safely reached the far side of Hie bridge in the cab,Oxford County Warden Ern­est F Garner said replacement of the r>0-foot bridge, located on the Dot to sideroad in West Zorra Township two miles east of Embro. would cost $40,000. The Wooclsaock detachment of the OPP said the cause of the bridge's collapse is not yet def­initely known, but that county officials are investigating.Constable William Madill o f the Woodstock detachment said no estimate of damages to the truck was available, but it would likely be in the thousands of dollars.Farmers in the area were not ifle ' by West Zoria road super inlcndeiu James Murray to keep l.hllr cattle away from the creek.The chemical can damage tissue, depending on its concen­tration, explained Dr, R, J. Mc­Donald, general manager of the O x f o r d and District Cattle Breeding Association In solid form, the chemical burns (he skin, he said. With the current rains, however, it should be dil­uted and washed away.Warden Garner said the chenj- ival would be diluted to harm­less proportions a mile down­stream from where the bridge was located.The truck is owned by Pol­lard Bros. Ltd., of Harrow. Location Is Sought For Chronic HospitalA preliminary report by a Toronto hospital consultant, Dr. Harvey Agnew, will soon be brought before a committee studying the possibility of es­tablishing a chronic hospital in Woodstock.Dr Agnew sat in earlier in the week with a committee in­cluding Robert Smith, Dr. C. R. Patience. Dr. Norman Munnoch. Oxford County Warden Ernest Garner and Mayor William A. Downing.“The first problem is to find a location.” says Peter Smith, I part of Oxford county. Woodstock general hospital ad- tihe city of Woodstock, mmistrator. I With greater longevity result-There are two possibilities, says Mr. Smith. One is to buildthe new chronic hospital ad­joining the present general building and the alternative is to find a separate site.Under the first idea, he says, the new chronic building would either be constructed directly adjoining the General Hospitalor it would be connected by a tunnel.The oilier side of Riddell Street, next to the senior nurs­es’ residence, Dunlop House, is one site under consideration by tlie committee.A hospital serving between 40 and 50 chronically ill persons is actively visualized by com­mittee. Patients who qualified as chronically ill would be cov­ered under the Ontario HospitalServices Commission.The projected chronic hospit­al would serve the northern ‘ .including It ■tag from modern medical tech­niques and an altering populat­ion a&e-stucture, the need for a chronic hospital is increasing every year, says Mr. Smith.Alexandra Hospital in Inger­soll has recently completed a 15-bed addition for chronic pat­ients and plans are afoot to add a chronic wing to Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital.The next stage in the planning of Woodstock’s chronic hospital will be the meeting scheduled next month between bh-e gen­eral hospital’s planning com­mittee and the board of trust. Further plans will be discussed at this time.ROAD COMMITTEEOxford county roads commit­tee meet in the court house al 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4. Only factor showing any variation from normal routine, according to j N Meathreli, roads super intondent, is above averags wash-outs from Tuesday n|kbl < heavy downpour. Committee business will include passing ac- jcounts, routine inspections and consideration of some new min or projects.Award Contracts For County WorkContracts totalling $162,486 for bridge construction and grading work in Oxford County were awarded to London and St. Catharines firms by county cou­ncil’s road committee.A contract worth $99,897 for grading of road 13. south of Holbrook for three miles, was awarded to Graham and Gra­ham Ltd., of London Moir Con­struction Co. Ltd., of St. Cath­arines. was awarded a con­tract worth $49,023 for construe, tion of a bridge at Windfall, west, of Drum bo on Road 29.The St. Catharines firm was also awarded a $13,565 contract for construction of three culver­ts in Dereham Township —one at Culloden, and two between Delmer and Brownsville.Jounty Road Superintendent J.N. Meathreli said the road com­mittee will likely be calling more tenders early in August 'for grading and other road Iwork.City Officials Are Successful In CourseThree civic employees from Woodstock were among those from nearly 100 Ontario munic­ipalities to graduate from a three-year correspondence cour­se conducted by Queen’s Univer­sity.They are: Robert Morrow, city manager; Kenneth Miller, deputy clerk; C. Ewins.J. Wood of Embro, also took the course, and graduated suc­cessfully.The course is sponsored by the Municipal Clerks and Fin- anCv Officers Association of Ont­ario, and began in 1958 with 250 students, out of which 108 re­ceived their diploma this year.“The three-year course has been so successful that we are planning for more advanced work in this field on the same basis as the present course’’, said Dr. Stewart Fyfe, assist- {ant professor of political science at Queen's.“In a few years this course will probably become a recog­nized qualification for senior municipal officials of Ontario, such as has already taken place with a similar course for mun­icipal assessors,’’ he said.Subjects on the course include history of local government in Ontario; accounting, election procedure, public relations, and local and, regional planning.BUILDING SOLD — A familiar landmark in Wood- stock the YMCA building at Dundas and Welling­ton Streets, has been sold to the Canada Perma­nent Mortgage Company, it was announced yes--Free Press Woodstock Bureau lerday The YMCA staff will continue to use the building until next June when it is to be replaced by a new headquarters for the mortgage com­pany. WAS THROWN AWAY IN 1890Suggests Rusty, Ancient Revolver May Have Been Burchall WeaponBy ROBERT BLOCKIn the fall of 1890. a hand­some well-dressed man about 45 yeans old was riding a CPR train towards Woodstock, flan­ked by police officers.The man was Reginald Bir­chall. He was being taken for trial on changes of murdering Frederick Benwell. a case which made headlines in newspapers all over the English-speaking world.Legend has it that Birchall dismantled the revolver used in the killing and flung it from the train It was never found, bu Birchall was hanged any­way.RESTED REVOLVERRecently. John Murray, RR 6 Woodstock. walked into the Sen tinel-Review with a mischievous smile on his face. He whipped a rusted revolver from his pick­et and growled: “Stick ’em up.”He explained he found the gun last summer on his farm just off Highway No. 19 north of theWoodstock Man, 94, Maintains RecordAttends 45th Consecutive Oxford Faircity.Mr. Murray was working near the railway tracks, levelling off a piece of unused ground to give i him more room to cut his wheat.He found Ute revolver about eight inches below the surface, i caked with rust and minus its cylinder and axis pin.Mr. Murray is well-acquaint­ed with the Benwell case and ' said he immediately suspected i the gun of being the murder weapon.He. intended to take it to the Oxford Museum, but decided to show it to the Sentinel-Review first.Birchall had brought two young men, Frederick Benwell and Douglas Pelly, from Eng­land to help them get settled in Canada.He took Benwell from their location at Niagara Falls to Ox­ford County, supposedly to look at some properly. He told Pelly that Benwell had settled in Ox-i ford, and wrote to Benwell’sfa titer for money to help the young man.Benwell’s body was discover­ed soon after with two bullet lioles in it, in what is now known as Benwell’s Swamp. . Birchall was arrested and brought to Woodstock by train from Niagara Falls,It was on this train ride that he is believed to have dis mantled the gun and thrown it into a field.We sent the revolver to the Attorney-General’s Laboratory in Toronto for a ballistics ex­amination.The report states the revol­ver “might well have been made prior to 1890”, the year of the murder. Il is probably of Belgian make and of a series developed and pul on the mar­ket between 1875 and 1890,No further identification was possible due to excessive rust­ing, except that the revolver is likely a .32 calibre.1 Many such cheap, mediocre pocket, revolvers were not mar­ked as to maker, patent dates or serial number, the report said.As to the missing parts of the revolver: “The absence of the cylinder and its axis pin, both parts of heavy construct­ion. suggests they were re­moved and disposed of separa­tely. Rusting would not account for their absence.”The evidence, then, is this: 1( the revolver was found at a depth one would expect after a passage of 70 years; 2( there is a good chance it was made previous to the murder; 3( the absence of parts suggests the gun was dismantled as the leg­end slates; 4( it was found by the railway tracks where Bir­chall was supposed to have thrown tile gun.Admittedly, this is slim evi­dence, but as both Benwell and Birchall would probably testify, only death and taxes are sure things.PLOWING MATCHThe 1961 Oxford County Plow- |men’s Association Match will be held on Friday. Oct. 24, on the fram of Irwin Hartley and Son, RR 3, Woodstock, Clare Hartley is the 1961 president of the Plowmen's Association.Free Pre** Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — A 94-year- old Woodstock man who has been attending fall fairs for more than 80 years, kept his record of attendance Intact yesterday, when he took In hia 4Slh Woodatock cxhlbi- , tion at the opening of the 12Oth double jubilee fair.Manley William Mark, of 419 Brant Kt , has not missed a Woodstock fair since 191*5 when hr moved here from New Hamburg in Waterloo County. He attended fairs in Waurioo County and Mae- where for about 40 years.Woodstock's flrMt fair wm in 1838, This actually dates back 125 years but fair offi­cials point out that the fair was discontinued for five years during the Second World War.• > ; • • e.'Mr. Mark was introduced to J. E. Nephew, secretary-man­ager of the fair, and congrat­ulated for his perfect attend­ance. Mr. Mark was given a complimentary pans for today and Saturday."Woodstock fair, agricultur­ally speaking, is one of the best in Ontario outside of London and Toronto," he said.Woodstock has a wonderful set of buildings at the fair­grounds. They are spotless.” While in New Hamburg, Mr. Mark raised and showed carriage horses, He is fond of animals, particularly rac­ing horses. ‘* * •He and his 'father built the New Hamburg race track about 70 years ago.Mr, Mark was born Nov. 8. 1857. on the Huron Road. Wil­mot Township, in Waterloo County, three miles south of New Hamburg, and h mile from Punkydqodle Corners.William Illingworth Mark. Mr. Mark’s grandfather, who came from Yorkshire in 1823. was one of the surveyors of the Huron Road, which was an old stage route from Ham­ilton to Goderich. The road exists today.• •' *Mr. Mark attributes his long life to hard work and plenty of outdoor exercise.He works regularly in his garden with tools almost 100 years old. The lools belonged to his father and grandfather, and some are better made than new oites, he said.COUNTY POPULATIONLatest population figures for Oxford county, supplied by L. K. Coles clerk-treasurer, show countv total at 68.772. A break­down places Woodstock at 19.- 932; IngersoU 7.174 and TiRscm burg, 6,542, Embro village has 547 persons. Norwich. 1J05, Tav­istock 1,222. Townships are list­ed as follows: Blandford, 1,511; Blenheim. 1.288; Dereham. V 225; East Nissouri. 2.805; North Norwich. 2.316 South Norwich. 12,971; East Oxford. 3.374; North Oxford, 1,689; West Oxtord 3 - 408; East Zorra. 3,981; West Zorrra. 2.079 Sold in J 897Oxford CouncilLooks forOld Desksrsccizc lA/AM-rerx . —Free Press Woodstock BureauDtbKi WANTED — Oxford County is looking for 12 desks, that were sold tVrn °f centurY when the number of county councilors was reduced.The desks, made of ornate cherry wood, were installed when the Oxford Court House was opened in 1893. Here Clerk-Treasurer L. K. Coles examines of the original desks. __ . 1oneSeek CountyCouncil DesksFree Frews Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Wanted: About 12 desks for Oxford Coun­ty council chambers for addi­tional councilors expected in the near future.| There is only one catch: They must be the original desks in­stalled in 1893 when the Oxford courthouse was completed.Clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles said there were 37 members of county council in 1896. The fol­lowing year, the county was divided into seven divisions each with two representatives on county council, thus reducing it to 14.This created a surplus of desks and so they were sold or taken home by retiring councilors. There are 21 desks in the cham­bers now, and four in storage, said Mr. Coles.About 12 more are believed to be in Woodstock or Oxford County. He said the county is willing to repurchase the desks as additional councilors are ex­pected in the near future.Since Beachville will be in­corporated as a village on Jan. 1, 1962, an additional councilor will be represented on county council. Plattsville and Thames­ford have been discussing in­corporation and it may not be too long before two more coun­cilors are added, said Mr. Coles.Blade of CherryThe flip-top desks, made of ornate cherry wood, were in-, stalled in 1893 along with the judge’s stand and backdrop which has a similar pattern, he said.Mr. Coles said one of the desks was repurchased recently from Alex E. Sinclair, of 546 Canter-bury St Mr. Sinclalr'u mother, the late Mrs. D. J. Sinclair, pur­chased the piece in the 1930s and used It as a writing desk.The original chairs became squeaky and hazardous and were replaced with modern ones last year.Court Crowded, Seek FacilitiesFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — A prelimin­ary move to alleviate the over­crowding during city police court in city hall chambers, was made by council last night when a three-man committee was ap­pointed to explore the possibil­ity of shifting the hearings to the Oxford courthouse.Aid. W. J. Neller suggested that the committee, comprised of Aid. W. B. Dutton, Aid. T. ;H. Dent and Aid. J. F. Hutch- j inson, confer with Oxford Coun­ty officials in an effort to ob­tain the use of the courthouse.He said the city hall cham­bers are much too small to ac­commodate the large crowd, on city police court days. At times, witnesses and others scheduled to appear in court, have had to wait outside the chambers be­cause of the crowded conditions.To PurchaseIn 1896 there were 37 council­lors seated on Oxford county council. Not only were they sealed - they were seated prop­erly behind hand made, high quality desks made of local cherry wood.In 1897 the system was chang­ed and all but 14 of the council­lors disappeared from chamber. Also, but not necessarily at the same time, disappeared . b y sale or otherwise. 12 of the bea­utiful cherry wood desks.To all and sundry who may have bought one of the desks or has knowledge of their per­egrinations or w b e r eabouls. Clerk-Treasurer L. K. Coles is sending an SOS as th? coun­ty would now like to recover them through purchase H i s difficulty up to present is the I fact that as yet he has not been 'able to turn up record of sales 1 but he is still searching the old files,Reason for the search for the­se particular desks is that add itions to the council family are expected In the near future and other than the 21 now in the chamber, there are only four in storage. Also, these particul­ar desks match the pattern of the backdrop and judge’s stand installed in 1893 when the court­house was completedOne of the desks as already been recovered through re-pur- chase from Alex E. Sinclair, 546 Canterbury, whose mother, the late Mrs. D J Sinclair, bought it about 30 years agoRefused Assistance Tavistock Police Chief Resigns PositionI Chief Constable Stanley Mel­bourne of Tavistock has tender- led his resignation, effective (Sept. 1, over the village coun- cil’s continued refusal to hire an assistant constable.His resignation was accepted with regret at a special coun­cil meeting called by Reeve Robert Rudy to consider the chiefs formal resignation, han­ded in on July 31. Reeve Rudy and councillors H. A. Wilker and R. C. McDermott were named as a committee to seek a replacement.Following 13 years of active service in the army. Chief Mel­bourne was appointed in 1945, j“Our relations with council were perfect and there was no quarrel between us," he stat­ed., ’-This town has become ab- solutelv impossible for one man to protect adequately. 1 have heen working 24 hours a day,seven days a week, 50 weeks a year for the past 16 years," Chief Melbourne stated.The town has grown sb much, not in population, but in size and number of buildings, ■that one man just cannot handle it. I have been asking council for the past two years to hire a second constable, or even a part time man who could work weekends and in emergencies but council has always said the town can’t afford it," he stat­ed.Bookmobile Completes Season's First Tour Of County LibrariesBookmobile library exchange service, operated by Oxford County Library, under Mrs. S. L. Krompart, county librarian, today completed the first of the season's all-county tour, cover­ing 18 libraries operating under the co-operative plan.COUNTY COUNCIL! Fall meeting of Oxford county council is to be held the three idav period of October 3. 4, 5, With one day devoted to a tour by council members pl the cquntv road system under dir­ection of J. N. Meathrell. roads superintendent. L, K Coles, clerk-treasurer, who has been 'looking around for some desks of a special design, built for 'council some years ago and I since sold or lost, points out the additional furniture will not be needed until councillors from Beachville have to be seated, first mooting after the new year.In addition to the regular lib­rary calls there are six deposit stations receiving the b ook- mobile service as well as all school libraries which are to be serviced next week.Library officials report a steady increase in the number of books distributed throughout the county, despite the tremen­dous strides in other commun­ication media which, apparently has the affect of whet ing the reading appetite.Further influence in stepping up book lending has been the I increase in provincial grant, making possible purchase o f (more and better books. The wider choice, officials say. is reflcted right through to read­ing in smaller units w h i c h formerly were forced to purch­ase a fair percentage of suit able and requested volumes. us­ually in the higher priced cate­gory. Former Mayor, Richard G. Clowes. Dies In HospitalOne of Woodstock's best i known ettiaens. long active in. community affairs, a former mayor and retired superintend- ent of the Children's .Vid Soc­iety, Richard G. Clowes passed away at Woodstock General Hospital this morning after a short illness. He was in his 56th year and had not been in the best of health for some time.Mr. Clowes was born in Der­by, England, son of Mrs. Mar­tha Clowes. Woodstock and the late Fred Clowes. He came to Canada in 1922 and to Wood- stock. He was first employed at the former Oxford Knitting Co. and later at Canada Casters Ltd. He was appointed superin- tendeni of the Oxford Child­ren's Aid Society in 1938 which position he held until retiring in July. 1955, owing to ill health. During his tenure of office the I I society made great progress in J all departments and he had much to do with the erection of the fine office building on;Light street. He also inaugur­ated the system of boarding, children wards in foster homes' and doing away with the Child­ren's Shelter on Park Row.In addition to his work with the CAS, he took an active part in community affairs, being a member of the city council for several years and mayor for 1338 and 1939. He was a past president of the Woodstock Ro­tary Club (1949) and also the Oxford Red Cross Society.In March, 1954, Mr. Clowes underwent a serious operation and following a one year’s leave of absence he returned to his Children's Aid work for a time but his health would not permit continuing.Deceased took an active part in young people's work and in 1927 was elected president of the Union of Young People’s So­cieties. He was superintendent of Oxford St. Baptist Church Sunday School, for several years and was also a lay prea­cher. supplying pulpits from time to time, in former years.He was active in sports and was president of the former City Soccer League, He was al­so a member of the Woodstock [WFA team and was captain of ■the organization for several years, He was also active in Cricket and played and served on Wood stock cricket teams for many years. He was captain the year Woodstock first won HWe championship of Southwest-era Ontario.Interested in fraternal circles, he was a member of King Solo­mon's Masonic Lodge and also was a past master of the lodge. He was also a member of theOdd Fellows Lodge. Woodstock.In 1938 Mr. Clowes was mar­ried to Muriel Cope of Wood- stock who survives him. Sur­viving also are two sons and one daughter, Richard. Gordon and Margaret all at home on Winnett street; his mother, Mrs. Martha Clowes, Woodstock; three brothers, Howitt, Jesse and Victor and one sister Mrs. Charles Ogden (Jane) all of Woodstock.The late Mr. Clowes is resting at the F. E. Rowell Funeral Home where the funeral ser­vice will be held Thursday, Aug. 17 at 2 p.m. with Rev. G. F. Stephens of Oxford St. Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in the Anglican ceme­tery. Donations to the Retard­ed Children’s School will be ap­preciated.Schools Visited By BookmobileMrs. S. L. Krompart, Oxford county librarian, reports that within the next few days a total of 180 individual school class­rooms will have been visited by the county bookmobile in the first of the quarterty county tours. An average of over 50 books per classroom will have been distributed to bring quar­terly distribution to well over 9,000 books to schools alone.Other than schools, quarterly visits include 17 co-operating libraries and these are now av­eraging well over 150 books each, a total of more than 2,500, and six deposit stations, opera­ted by interested persons, Wom­en’s Institutes, or church groups, each handling between 60 to 70 books per quarter.Oxford county, it is pointed out, is one of only 14 counties in the province where such lib­rary service is maintained, and thife has heen a steady increa­se in demand, not only for more, but for better books re­gistered in the past year or two.Approximately 25,000 books are now on the shelves of the county library or in distribu­tion and Mrs, Krompart states this number iH none loo great to satisfy the demand for sea sonal .as well as other variety nt reading.With additional funds avail­able through the Increase re- cenUy in provincial grant, many of the better books have hern supplied to the smaller units following reader request.Old Assessment Records Provide Interesting Data On Early DaysA set of interesting municipalicgrapher and the meaning of records have come to light|the word is not what it is today which replace those destroyed Mr. Shaver’s trade was short- three years ago by a councillor hand and in 1886 he was theonly one listed. For many years he was a court reporter and at-who regarded the old books as being outdated and , had them burned in the town hall fur­nace. County Clerk L. K. Coles has given Mayor Ross Fews- ter 10 old assessment rolls ofIngersoll. The law required the Ingersoll assessor to give to the county a copy of his assess­ment.’This prevented any muni­cipality claiming special privil­eges based on the assessment because the county clerk would I have full knowledge in his po­ssession. After Ingersoll became a separated town it was no longer necessary to supply this information to the county clerk. The old books are dated from 1881 to 1902 and the first copy proves most interesting as it supplies the data of some of the leading citizens who were prac­tically the earliest residents of Ingersoll.True to tradition the assessor school”. The principal of theasked no lady her age but all high school was taxed on hismale inhabitants’ ages are list- $1,200 and teachers re -led. One local historian noted coved $500 per year. Oth_rthat in the 1889 roll there is : only one person named who is alive today and that is the name of Ingersoll’s grand old lady who celebrated her 94th birth- 'day yesterday, Mrs. John Mac­Millan. formerly of Innes street.Considering the mansions con­structed on North and South Thames street, the assesments were low. For instance, the resi­dence of Alfred H. Ellis, now the Canadian Legion, was assessed for $5,50b; the old Norsworthy homestead on King street east was $6,175, and the James Nox­on residence which was conver­ted into the Alexandra hospital was tagged at $8,000 being the highest assessment in the return for 1886.NOTED TAXPAYERSTwo of the most notable tax­payers, but non-residents, were Hiram Walker of Walkerville land John McClary of London. Mr. Walker had a storage ex­cise warehouse on Victoria -street anti Mr McClary had a stove store on the south side !of King east near the entrance !lo Memorial park. The oldest .taxpayer listed was William 'Boon on the south side of Inkerman street and he was 98 years old in 1886. Another interesting character was Rob­ert Maginity, listed at that itime as being 83 years old, but (Who lived to be one hundred and (one years of age. Mr. Maginity was a pensioner from the Im­perial army and he had served a number of years in India and .spoke the language fluently. John Shaver was the only sten-ENROLL AT RIDGETOWNHarold Wilson, studenf dean al Ridgetown Agricultural Scho­ol, said today that twelve Ox­ford County boys have enrolled this year to start the course. ; He also says that a fair number who sent in late applications have had to be turned down for lack of accommodation. It looks as if any boys who are consid­ering entering the school next [year will have to get applicat- I ion» in us early as possible tn ithe year.tended every yearly assizes for the county of Oxford. The low­est assessment went to Willis Fant, an escaped slave, who lived on the Gravel road (Bell street today). His assessment wkas for $150. The school tax was 52.67 on a five hundred dollar asessment which was the average value of houses in the town.SALARIESAll single wage earners were taxed if their income exceeded $500.. and if they were under the age of 60 years. Thomas McLeod, GTR crossing watch­man, Thames street, had this notation, “Exempt for over age,” and two other exempt­ions were “Rev. Fr. J. P. Mol-phy, parish priest”, and “Mrs. Matheson, janitress, highnames mentioned who becamewell known in the town were H. D. McCarty, a 24 year old grocer; Thomas D. Millar, 57 year old manufacturer of Ing­ersoll Cream Cheese and mar­keted under the name of the Paragon Cheese company; and Neil McFee, 38 year old butcher who was the last survivor of the American Civil war in Southwestern Ontario. Mr. Mc­Fee lived to his mid-nineties and was an uncle to Mrs. MacMill­an who celebrated her birthday yesterday.The assessor for the year 1886 was William McLeod who made his roll returnable to Town Clerk William Tennant.Area Probation Officer Goina To CaliforniaProbation Officer for Oxford County since June 1. i960. M. J. Rossol, 31, of 526 Fair Street, Woodstock, made his last ap­pearance at county police court ! yesterday. He is leaving for a new position in California some- ; time next week.Married with two children, die well known probation officer has literally handled hundreds of pre-sentence reports for the court® in Oxford. He worked in other fields before coming to Woodstock to take up his dut­ies as a probation officer.Until his usccessor arrives, sometime in October, his dut­ies will be handled by Stanley Main, supervising probation of­ficer for the district.“In the time you have been probation officer here your re­lationship with the court has been very close and I hope you do well in your new sphere of endeavor in a larger country You have done an excellent job and it is an exceedingly diffi­cult job. You have that rare quality of seeing something good in a person and giving them anol her chance The job you have done in this rounty has been very outstanding.’' Magis­trate R, G. Groom. QC, Till sonburg. told Mr. Rossel m court yesterday.Crown Attorney A, C. Whaley also paid tribute to Mr. Rossol and slated: “We have had the most happy relaUondnps wlh you You have done a very good .job." Health Unit Will Have Busy Monthcedure is changed in that the public health nurse and the teacher work much more close­ly together and individual ex­aminations arc usually made as a result of the teacher’s obser­vance of the behavior of pup­ils under her charge.Asked if the fact that great strides had been made in re­cent years in the control of animal disease, had helped, he said the en'tire picture of hum­an health protection had chang­ed since bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis and similar disease, always communicable or trans­ferable. had either been elim­inated or controlled.He mentioned that within his own personal experience in county health work, this chan­ge had been so drastic that where, at one time not so long ago, he could have found sever­al families in almost any area in the county where bovine tub­erculosis was rife, today such a situation had ceased to exist.He also said that although the nursing staff was usually expected to cover an area roughly based on population fig­ures, this did not always hold true because a heavy concen­tration of population, school or general, made it possible for *he nurse to spend more time on examination and less on travel.With Oxford county popula­tion crowding the 70,000 person mark and school population es­timated at slightly less than 25 per cent of this figure the 12 public health nurses who staff the Oxford Health Unit will more than have their hands full to make even cursory examina­tions of all students by the end of September, the goal usually set, Dr. 0. C. Powers, medi-, cal officer of health for the county slated today.Dr. Powers explained that in most cases it was estimated one public health nurse could be assigned to a territory com­prising a 5,000 person popula­tion in which there would be an estimated 20 to 25 per cent school population but this year the county public nursing staff ■would be asked to handle al­most 6,000 persons each.The preliminary check-up he said, was attempted during the first month of school in afl ef­fort to locate any preventable handicaps in those pupils just starting. Although many of these new students had had a check-up by the family doctor, this practice was not followed ih all cases and some handi­caps could be eliminated.Following preliminary check­up. Dr. Powers declared, more detailed examination continues but the relationship and pro­J ®Ije J^trecinr anb facultyof tijeJMestan ©ntarin Agricultural ^rljnnl rexptesi the fymumr of gour presence at life (Srabuatixm ^xrrrisrsto be fjelb in tfje IHibeatock ^Jabilion Western (Ontario ^Agricultural ^cljool ^ibgetoftm, (Ontario®uej5ba^ JJHag IStlj, 1961, at 3 p.m.anb(Sarben ;JJarty mt tlje lafon of ^techley ^jall at 4 p.m.Tavistock Exhibits, Attendance ReducedCOUNTY ENGINEERS' GOLF RALLY —About 85 county engineers from all over Ontario met al the Stratford Coun try Club yesterday for a golf tourna­ment. Shown above, are: kneeling, Peter Hart, Brant County; standing, left to right: J. A, Coombs, Perth County; Boyd Arnold, Middlesex County; James Meathrell, Oxford County; and Jamrs W. Britnell, Huron County, €hc Soard of Srusf and fhe School of Hursiny of fhe Wnndsfnck General Hospital request fhe honour of gour presence af fheir fiixty-fhird Sraduafion Exercises Wednesday, the seventh day of June nineteen hundred and sixty-one at three o’clock Chalmers United Church Woodstock, UntarioReceptionat Horses’ Residence4.SO o’clock| Whc director anb facultyof HpMl estern ©trtarin ^Agricultural ^clpal request tlje fpinmir of gour presence at tlje ^rabuatixm ^metisesto be in th® ^ibestoch ^Jabilion Western (Ontario (Agricultural ^cljnol ^ibgeto&m, (Ontario©uesbap, JHag 16tlj, 1961, at 3 p.m.anbSarben Jdarig on tfje lafcm of ^teckieg ^all| at 4 p.m.COUNTY ENGINEERS' GOLF RALLY —About 85 county engineers from all over Ontario met at the Stratford Coun try Club yesterday for a golf tourna­ment. Shown above, are: kneeling, Pe ter Hart, Brant County; standing, left to right: J. A. Coombs, Perth County; Boyd Arnold, Middlesex County; James Meathrell, Oxford County; and Jam*s W, Britnell, Huron Counts.Tavistock Exhibits,Attendance Reduced Clerk, 2 Police Fired in NorwichSwift Action TakenBy Village CouncilNORWICH — Village Clerk A. L. Bushell and the two-man village police department were fired last night at an explosive .meeting of the five-man village council.Policemen AbsentPolice Chief Kenneth Mc- Ciay and Constable Donald King were not present when they were fired.Both dismissals were separate motions. Councilors Allan Rab- john, Andrew Forces, and Wil-! liam Andrews voang for, and! Reeve L. E. Forel and Coun­cilor Jack Leitch 'against.Mr. Bushell, 70, was clerk jof the village for 35 years and (treasurer and relief officer for almost the same period.Had It Written OutShortly before the meeting! closed. Councilor Rabjohn drew a prepared resolution from his pocket and read it to council.The resolution read: "That the present clerk be given one month leave of absence and re­tire at the end of the year. That in recognition of his years of jJervice a gratuity of $250Ihe granted and paid on comple- Asked Councilor Rabjohn. "Why tion ,of his duties. That a by- iare you firing me?” law be prepared to this effect j Mr. Rabjohn replied: "You are clearly stating that all perm- TO years old. Other men retire ar.ently employed personnel voluntarily. Premier Frost re- । village), retire when they reach tired the other day at 65.” the age of 85.” "Fine,” Mr. Bushell said, "andMr. Bushell asked if it was the government has a much bet- ! intended to fire him from all ter arrangement for his retire- three offices. (He also serves ment than you have for me.” Jas 'village tax copctor.l Police Chief McClay and Con-i Councilor Rabjohn said, “I stable King who have asked for Imslgme all.” a raise in pay for two years inTh? resolution was then accordance with their contract changed to Include the three po- informed council in a letter they sitions. were requesting a board of ar-Rr-fxe Flays Action bit ration on the matter.J' -Xee.-e Force said "This is the They added they wished a re- roughest piece of business I ply jn 30 days.have ever seen In my life. You AMk OPP Service f-llo'ws may think you're gentle- Councilor Rabjohn and Forbes men but I seriously doubt it.” supported by Councilor Andrews,Councilor Jack Leitch, also voted for their dismissal. The opposing !iw. resolution, accused resolution read: "I move that the other three $nuncilort of the present police department "■ having cooked Ibra up for some jbe given three months notice Riipe and having gor.«- about ,and the provincial police depart- masting brags about what they mrnt be asked to lake over the were going to do." duties of the village at thatCouncilors Forbes and An- time."drews denied they had made Reeve Force and Councilor Leitch opposed this resolution and the reeve urged that the po­lice be invited tn the next meet­ing of council to discuss the matter,"But you fellows are in a fir­ing mood tonight,” he said, "I. guess there is little I can-do about IL".The motion was passed on a recorded votedrtf anyone said they did, they ore a liar/' replied Councilor!Sacked Police At Norwich Threaten To Sue CouncilNORWICH: — Unless Chief Constable Kenneth McLay and Constable Donald King of Nor­wich are reinstated within two weeks, legal action will be tak­en against the village, located 15 miles south east of Wood- stock, W. R. Poole, London, lawyer for the discharged police -men, has advised the town council.The chief and constable, who | form the entire police force of Norwich, were dismissed by letter on Aug. 9. The council asked provincial police to take over policing of the town but OPP District Inspector, George iv. Clubbe, London, said the re­quest has been turned down be­cause of lack of personnel, j The letter from Mr. Poole, dated Aug. 11, stated that un­less the two police officers were reinstated within two weeks of receipt of the letter legal act­ion would be taken against 'the municipality. The two officers were dismissed with three mon­ths notice.Inspector Clubbe said that Toronto provincial police head­quarters is currently advising municipalities seeking OPP pro­jection that contracts are being turned down because of a short­age in manpower. He pointed out that the village of Tavistock in Oxford was turned down be- i cause of this. The no contract policy has been in force for ab­out a year, he said.WOULD HELPNoting that this was not a refusal to help municipalities, Inspector Clubbe pointed out that towns like Norwich would receive protection if there were a n y serious crimes taking place. “We would go in there anyway if there was a serious crime whether there is a town force or not,” he stated.Mr. Poole told the reeve and council that “in our opinion the Norwich council has acted in flagrant violation of the Police Act and that council has no legal right to pass such a res­olution”.He advised council that he is i giving them the opportunity torescind the dismissal resolution. Otherwise, he said, he would have no alternative but to place the matter before the courts or the Attorney General for Ont­ario for whatever action h e may consider necessary under the Police Act.Mr. Poole said that the rele­vant sections in the act states that "no agreement shall. be en­tered into with a municipality by the provincial police at a cost which is less than the ag­gregate of police salaries paid by the municipality or where, in the opinion of the commissioner, such an agreement is sought for the purpose of defeating the collective bargaining provisions of the act.”At the same time the act re­quires a municipality to main­tain an adequate police force in accordance with its needs, he said.NO REPLYMr. Poole pointed out that there was no reply from coun­cil to a letter from the chief last Nov. 3 asking for a salary increase and a review of work­ing conditions. He said there was also no reply to a letter from the chief dated March 6 asking for a reply.On J une 26, the chief andConstable King again wrote council saying they still had had no reply to their letters and that they were working more than 12 hours a day, seven days a week, in contrav^tion of a working agreement, and again request i n g consideration o f wage increases, Mr. Poole said.In this letter they asked that the matter be placed before an arbitration board in accordance with section 27 of the Police Act. The only reply was “your abrupt letter of Aug. 9 inform­ing them of their dismissal”, Mr. Poole stated.Chief Declares{lVillage Council [Acted Unfairly'NORWICH — Members of this village’s two-man police department, fired at Tuesday night’s council meeting, moved yesterday to take their case to the Ontario Police Association and the attorney-general.Claims Unfair ActionKenneth McClay, dismissed aS police chief, along with Con­stable Donald King, said last night the police association will handle the dispute "from her® on in.”I "I don’t like to play It thia (way, hut if they want to I cun play it that way too.” Mr. Mc- iCIay said."They have acted unfairly with me. I Intend to go nil the way to protect my job (now."Clerk Fired TonCouncil, at the same meet­ing Tuesday, told veteran vil­lage clerk A. L. Bushell, he must quit al the end of the year. Mr. Bushell, 70. has been clerk for 35 years and treasurer and relief officer for ulmoid the 'same period.। The dismissals of the eJerk and two police officers were made over strong opposition from Reeve I* E. Force and Councilor Jack Leitch.Reeve Force said yesterday !he was considering resigning his post over the actions of th? three other councilors, Allen 'Rabjohn, Andrew Forbes and i William Andrews, who voted Tor the firings, but friends had advised him to reconsider.Receives SupportThe reeve said he received calls of support from councilors of several neighboring munici­palities yesterday. Reeve Rob- ;ert Rudy of Tavistock and two members of his council drove Ho Norwich to back him per- sbnally in his stand, Reeva । Force said,A council motion offered the clerk a ''gratuity” of $250 "in recognition of years of serv­ice” If he took one month leave of absence and retired at the end of the year.Chief McClay and Constable I King had asked for a raise in pay tor two years In accords ance with thalr contract. They Unformed council in a letter they were requesting a board of arbitration hearing on the matter and wished a reply in (30 days.Il Norwich PolicePlan to Fight FiringsHad No Right To Fire 2 Police At NorwichNorwich Fire Chief, Assessor May Lose Jobs Through BylawNorwich fire chief Basil Bain-fployees”, Co“"clJ’°r es, a veteran of close to 30 said, “I am sure tilewords .uD ‘ • and the village time were included in the bylaw - •- -—’4 as originally drawn upCouncil then continued to de-Norwich council had been ad­vised it had no right to fire its two-man police force. Clerk A. L. Bushell said last night.Mr. Bushell said a letter had been received from the Wood- stock law firm of Young and Hutchinson, appointed to repre­sent the village at a council meeting held August 23. It ad­vised council to “get together with the police department and try to settle their differences amicably.”The village's police officers, Chief Constable Kenneth Mc- Lay and Constable Donald King, were fired at a stormy session of council held August 9. Mr. Bushell, who is 70 years old and has been clerk of the vill­age for the past 35 years, was also fired at the same meeting.Council had appointed the Woodstock law firm to counter a move made by W. R. Poole, QC, lawyer for the two police­men. who had advised council in a letter dated August 11 that unless the two officers were re­instated within two weeks, leg­al action would be taken again­st the municipality.The letter from Young and Hutchinson received yesterday advised council that under Pol­lice Act regulations it had no power to dismiss the policeforce without just cause, Mr. Bushell said.The tetter suggested the by> law dismissing the officers, pas­sed by a narrow three-to-two vote, should be rescinded.Councillors who voted for the bylaw were Allan Rabjohn, Wil­liam Andrews and Andrew For­bes. Reeve L. E. Force and Councillor J. S. Leitch both op­posed the passing of the by­law firing the police force.Mr. Bushell said Councillors Rabjohn, Andrews and Forbes were present at a special meet­ing called last Friday at which William Young, of Young and Hutchinson, outlined orally for council the information the firm forwarded in the letter re­ceived by the body yesterday. Reeve Force and Councillor Leitch were not at the meeting.years service, — assessor, David Ferris, could few given^a iST "this week's meeting of village c” c I council, Reeve E. Force saidive results.In other business. Reeve For-. . !ce said no new action has been' The bviaw was initiated by (taken in the dispute over the icouncil ISst 9 when the vil-| firing of the two-man pohce de- lage’s two-man police depart-'partment. ....................ment was fired along with vil-1 lage Clerk A. L. Bushall.The new bylaw states retirement age for all munici­pal permanent employees after the passing of this bylaw shallLawyer for the dismissed of­ficers, W. R. Poole, QC, of Len­the1 don, had advised council unless the two men were reinstated within two weeks of receipt of the letter, legal action would be taken against the village.The attorney-general of Ont-be 65 years.” Reeve Force and CouncillorJ. S. Leitch opposed the firing action and did not support the new law. Councillors Allan Rab- john, Andrew Forbes and Will-“meS MWchmedato enabte SXg to their contract when ta fire chief and” the assessor they were, disced.to keep their jobs. Both men are over the 65-year age limit.i But, at the council meeting Councillors Rabjohn, For b e s and Andrews clearly indicated they had not intended the by­law to cover the fire chief andario has now been asked to ap­point an arbitrator on the ques­tion of wages for the two offic­ers. Mr. Poole said lasA night. Chief Kenneth McCla'y and Con-Norwich Preparing Case In Police RowThe Woodstock law firm of Young and Hutchinson was ap- pointned by the Norwich village council last night to represent the municipality in a dispute ar­ising out of the firing of its two- man police force last Aug. 9.Force and Councillor J. S. Leit-put further expense to the viU- ch. The resolution passed three'age.' ’ ' AH the councillors were criti­cal of the publicity the village ived over the issue butto two in a recorded vote.OPPOSED APPOINTMENTEarlier in the meeting, Coun-Reeve Force said publicity can- ‘ ’ “We haven’tSubsequent to the firing ofChief Constable Kenneth Me- they have an buavv in imiLay and Constable Donald King, Reeve Force warned council council was advised by letter that appointment of a law /rom a London lawyer, W. couy cost file village hun-f oole, that unless they remstat- dreds of dollars and suggested L. the men witinn t wo instead that the village police ’K *ks of receiving his letter, committee consult a lawyer on legal action would be taken question in the name of the on thir behalf against the mun- village but not appoint village kipality. The letter was dated solicifx>rs. Councillors Andrews Aug. 11. and Leitch seiwe on the policeCouncil's resolution to fire the committee.two men came after a series of Objecting to the appointment letters to council asking f<r of solicitors Reeve Force jttat- better working conditions and|ed: "I want to go on record as pay increases and finally a re- strongly opposed to this. The quest that the matter be put * ' before an arbitration board.The same resolution that dis-cillor Rabjohn had opposed ap- _ . id dpointing the law firm of Davis a voided * .......and Grant ofof^d?"N^ Councillor Andrews stated.deserved all the publicity weassessor.Arguing the chief and asses- isor were not covered by the by­law, the councillors pointed out the wording which stated “any person employed by the village in any continuing capacity, of- Ificial or statutory, who is paid a fixed salary for his or her services.” They added the fire chief and assessor were “not full time employees.”| IN SAME BOAT; Clerk Bushall pointed out they were in the same capac­ity as himself and the assist­ant clerk, Fred McKie. Their time is about equally divided between village work and work for the PUC. They were paid by both organizations, he add­ed. . .After it had been pointed out to council the bylaw contains no reference to "fulllime em-Fired At Norwich, Police Will Take Legal Actionbest and easiest way for coun­cil is to rescind the motion ofmissed the two men with tftree months’ notice also requested that, the Ontario Provincial po­lice take over policing the vil­lage. The request was later turned down by the OPP,'dismissal passed at the last ! meeting. If you will do this we I won’t need a lawyer,"“If a lawyer says for us to rescind the motion, we can,” Councillor Rabjohn stated add ing that he felt they shouldCouncillors Allan Rabjohn,!have advice on the matter. William Andrews and Andrew Councillor Forties said he was Forbes voted in favor of hiring in agreement with this. Coun- ttu. Woodstock law firm over eiJJor Andrew said he was in the objections of Reeve L, Ej favor of settling the issue with-Legal action will be taken [may consider necessary under against the municipality of Nor- the Police Act."Iwich on behalf of the two-man appointed the law। police force fired al a meeting |{irm of young and Hutchinson, of the council August 9, it was foodstock, to represent die vill- ’ age at a meeting held August 23, At this time. Reeve L. E. Force and Councillor J. S. Leit­ch asked the motion dismissing Chief Constable Kenneth Mc- Clay and Constable Donald Kind be rescinded.The three other members of council did not sup-or me louju u **• " ।announced last night by the offi-1 cers' lawyer, W. R. Poole QC,of Ixmdon.Since no communication had been received from the council, Mr, Poole said he “intended to ' proceed iin accordance with the letter.”M rhp TuP°rt the t0 re-inslate th<.-Mr. Poole to coimeu'wi AugustU, advised the body that un- 01 c • • less the policemen were re-in- stated within two weeks of re- .......... .........ceipt of the letter “he would discuss the situation. But nee' e have no alternative but to place Force said no move has been this mat ter before the courts or I made by council as a whole to before the atiwney-general of |(reinstate the two members of Ontario for whatever action he the police department.Council met again yesterdaywith live Woodstock law firm to Norwich Council Cancels Bylaw Dismissing PoliceTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1961—SECOND SECTION—PACES 17-32 * *Embro Fair Draws 2,000Letters SentCrowds Down Oxford WardenOpens ShowEMBRO — An estimated 2,000 persons turned out yesterday for Embro’s an­nual fall” fair, slightly few­er than last year.Opens FairErnest F. Garner, of West Zorra. Warden of Oxford Coun­ty. officially opened the fair. Fairgoers were welcomed by Reeve Lloyd Johnson, of Embro.(ComplimentaryTavistock Fall FairTAVISTOCK, ONT.Friday and Saturday, Sept. 8th and 9th, 1961W. EPP. PresidentNot TraniferobleR. RUDY— SecretaryOTTAWA REPORTNesbitt's Rapid Rise In PoliticsBy PATRICK NICHOLSONWallace Bickford Nesbitt, the 43-year-old Conservative repre­sentative from. Oxford County, 1 Ontario, has turned a sharp cor­ner in the continuing and bloom­ing progress of his public life.For eight years he has sat in Parliament, following the prece­dent of political and public serv­ice to his home town of Wood- stock which was established by earlier generations of the Nes­bitt family.Here on Parliament Hill, the i perennially sun-tanned Queen’s Counsel has achieved a reputa­tion which is rare off the minis­terial benches, especially during i such a short career, But this image, albeit vigorous, is so closely intertwined with world affairs that one really might be excused for wondering whether he is the MP for Oxford, or “Mr. ! Canada’’ on the world stage.Look at his record: in 1957, he was selected by the prime minister to go to New York as vice-chairman of the Canadian delegation to 'the 12th General Assembly of the United Na- । tions; the next year he spent the summer in Switzerland, when appointed head of the Canadian delegation to the Economic and Social Council of the U.N.: in 1959 he was back in New York again for three months as vice- chairman of our delegation to the UN; and he was reappointed to this post the following year, Ito be away in New York for seven months.PERMANENT LEADERThe position of vice-chairman entails handling the continuimg daily routine work The chair­man is always our Secretary of State for External Affairs who, as a Cabinet Minister and MP, has Iwo full-time jobs in Can aria. So he is only an occasional .guest star at the UN: the vice- J chairman is the workhorse.I Wally Nesbitt, lawyer, navy veteran and freemason, is also the House of Commons’ most .eligible bachelor. Hence by cir­cumstance as well as inclina­tion, he is a wonderful mixer. He befriends influential dele- flutes from all the other 98 mem­ber countries a| the UN.There, in the cause of Can aria’s diplomatic influence and 1 understanding of others* prob­lems, Wally’s working lunches and working receptions see himwork through enough food to fill and enough liquid to float any of the warships on which he served in the Second World War.His service at the UN won him a rare and remarkable tribute from the prime minister re­cently. Speaking in the House of Commons, he said: “The hon­orable member for Oxford spoke of the United Nations with the authority of four years of repre* sentation of Canada, and effec­tive representation. I have heard it said that no member of any of the delegations had a wider acquaintanceship and friendship than he.’’But a price has to be paid for spending so much time on the international stage. That price to Wally has been long absences from his riding. Yet the voters of Oxford County have certainly felt his influence, even if they have not seen his face. It is al­most embarrassing to any MP to have, achieved what he has for his riding.MP AIDS ALLThanks largely to his efficient political secretary, Miss Mary Mark, a former sergeant in the Women's Air Force, no appli­cant for personal aid in any problem with the federal gov* ernmemt has been neglected.Then there are the planned or completed developments which Wally has facilitated: new rural post offices al Otterville. Bur- gessville. Platts ville and Drumbo; the $300,000 federal building at Inger soil to be opened soon: the federal build­ing at Woodstock; the dam on the Thames River which will create a lake seven miles long.But Wally has now decided to seek experience in other fields. Having bought his diplomatic experience in carload lots, just as he buys those specially-made Nesbitt tartan ties which he al­ways wears, so now he will jump with both feet into domestic pol itics. He has accepted the prime minister's slandini? invitation to ask to Ih- omitted from Can­ada’s delegation Io the UN,In coining months he will be seen much more around Oxford County, at service club meet­ings, fall fairs and other cere- monies. Ho will devote to the study of domestic politics the energy with which he familiar­ized himself with international affairs.Two Officers Voicing RegretNORWICH — Council last night rescinded a by­law passed Aug 8 which ifired the village's two-man • police force.L'nanimmin Decision| Council, meeting in committed of the whole, voted unanimous­ly to revoke the controversial bylaw firing Chief Constable Kenneth McLay and Constable Donald King.Council also passed a resolu- Ition calling tor a letter, drafted •by the village solicitor, William Young, of Woodstock, to be for­warded tn the two men.No Legal RightThe letter states in part that council had no legal right to summarily fire the men. ex­pressed regret at "the decision ■in this respect,” and advanced the hope that the matter has not, caused them any great in­convenience.| The letter also invited the of­ficers to meet with council to settle salary differences at their earliest convenience.CAS Director Will Accept London PostA Woodstock man. A. Murray i Moore, who has been director ol the Oxford Children’s Airi Society for the past six years has been named planning direc­tor with the United Community Services. London. The appoint­ment is effective Nov. 20.Born in Hamilton, where he j received his B.A. degree at Mc­Master University, he was at one time director of the Child­ren’s Aid Society at Dauphin. Manitoba He also worked withI the Manitoba department of , public health and welfare as district supervisor and consult­ant on services., Mr. Moore received a degree from the School of Social Work. University of Toronto in 1943, >nd in 1954 returned to the scho ol Io get a master’s degree, also in social work.Mrs. Helen Ball, chairman Of the personnel committee of the Children’s Aid Society here, told the Sentinel-Review ltxla\ that no successor had been ap pointed for Mr, Moore but some announcement would be forth­coming soon sewage riant opening Oct. 3 at TillsonburgMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1M1 P«g« *REV. G. L. MacKAY WAS MISSIONARYCairn Honors MemoryOf East Zorra Nativeable to build on many who took part in making stated. the cairn a reality.has been1844 in JUUi. pipn«-er ,....' __.statesman and man ol God in late Dr, Mackay and termed _ _ ___ .him ‘n tffOat miRKIOnaTV DIO-first he wasDonald. Simcoe, Moderator of the Presbytery of Paris; Rev. J. P. Schissler, Innerkip, who helped organize the project (Staff Photo)Formosa. This cairn was er­ected with. s(one from the Mac-INSCRIPTIONThe inscription on the Cairn reads: -To the Glory of God and gratefully honoring the Rev. George Leslie Mackay DD,in Formosa, Dr. Mackay was a great man and we in Formosa 'ii .. I..v> YAZU Am l'Ahim ‘-a great missionary pio­neer and one of our very greatTh., D.D., Toronto, Secretary for Overseas Missions of Lhe General Board of Missions, is* »!«>«<•ra. inWOODSTOCK-INGERSOLL, ONTARIOOpen House' Inspection Set For Town HallA UNIQUE church service was held in the Old Log Cnu ch cemetery near Embro yesterday afternoon when a cairn was dedicated in mem­ory of the late Rev. GeorgeLeslie Mackay, D.D., a native son of East Zorra township who spent many years of his life as a Presbyterian mission­ary in Formosa. Seen at the dedication ceremony, left toright, are Rev. Wiliam Hen­derson, Wakerton, Moderator for the Hamiton-London Sy­nod; Miss Anna Mackay, Tor­onto. granddaughter of Dr. Mackay; Rev. D. C. Mac-TILLSONBURG — Citi­zens here on Oct. 3 will ■take time out to view the (progress of civic develop­ment as town officials of- ificially open the sewage treatment plant at 2 p.m, and hold open house at the town hall at 4 p.m.Two To OfficiateMayor E. & Vance and James A. Vance, of Woodstock, a mem­ber of the Ontario Water Re- isources Commission, will officii ate at the opening of the $600.- 800 sewage treatment plant at Coronation Park in the south­east section of the town. Mayor Vance and Commissioner Vanca are not related.The town hall, which under­went close to $40,000 in renova­tions during the winter and (Spring, will be opened to pub­lic inspection following open house at the sewage treatment (plant.Invitations ExtendedMore than 130 invitations have been mailed by the town to public officials to attend the (events. It is expected Oxford MP Wallace Nesbitt, and Ox­ford MPP Gordon Innes will ,be present, along with officials of the town's hospital, health and recreation boards and civic committees.The sewage treatment plant [went into operation in late Feb­ruary' this year. It was built 'and is currently operated by theA well attended o u tdoor church service was held in ■picturesque Old Log Church Cemetery near Embro yester­day afternoon to dedicate a cairn in memory of the late Rev. George Leslie Mackay, DD a native son of East Zorra who spent many years of his life as a missionary in Formosa.As one of several services that will mark the Presbytery of Paris centennial celebrat­ions, the service yesterday was attended by many Presbyterian Church dignitaries from many Ontario points as well as a large congregation that over­flowed the plank pews placed before the cairn.k-ay home, concession 10 East Zorra in • 1960 by the Presby­tery of Paris and the Presby­terian Church in Canada.'The Old Log Church Cemet­ery derives its name from be­ing at the site of the Old Log Church, erected in 1832, which is the Mackay family burial ground.The hour-long service be^an with the dignitaries proceeding to the cairn led by Pipers .Alex Collins of Ingersoll and W. R. Pearson of Embro who also piped the lament near the close of the service conducted b y Rev D. C. MacDonald, Simcoe, Moderator of the Presbytery of Paris.Addressing the congregation, Rev. E. H. Johnson, B.S'c., B.his arrival (here, he was a doc­tor in the field and by 1880 he had set up a small hospital, the speaker related. ”he was a great missionary pioneer. H e was the man who laid a good foundation on which the working Canada for sending such a wonderful man to us”.Closing prayer was led b y Rev. G. Deane Johnston. Min­ister Central Presbyterian Chur­ch, Brantford. Rev. J. P. Schis­sler, Innerkip, thanked thesince,” he stated.Among those who took part in the dedication of the cairn by Rev. K. L. Cheng, past moder­ator of the Presbyterian Chur­ch in Formosa, was Miss Anna Mackay, Toronto, a granddau­ghter of Dr. Mackay.THANKS CANADA‘•It is a great joy and privil­ege for me to attend this meet­ing and bring greetings on be­half of the Presbyterian ChurchOWRC with the town paying the (capital cost ort a monthly basis, lit has brought municipal sew­age disposal tn all but a few iof the outlying areas of the town.Renovations at the town hall, including town council cham­bers. board rooms, and the court room, were completed In early June. The federal government, [under the winter works pro-They were: Dr. D. M. Suther­land, Embro, who made the in­itial suggestion. Rev. G. L. Douglas. Woodstock, for his promotion of the idea; James gram, paid $28,000 of the total A. Vance, Woodstock, who al- cost, lowed the Presbytery to remove stones from the Mackay house;Henry Zehr. Innerkip, for select­ing tlie stones and building the base; Albert Carter, Innerkip, for assisting in the selection of the stones: Alois Mayer, 10th Line for building the C a i r n; John Campbell, Andtew Me-® n Set him When he Kay and Donald Wright, of the worked in Formosa there were Cemetery Board; James UN- many misunderstandingsand at sack, Embro; Tlie ll_first he was called the Black ace Brothers of Emhro. lhe Bearded Barbarian by the nat- Embro CHledonia bocaty, John ives”, Mr. Cheng stated thank- Coulas, East Zorra.Canadians".LAID FOUNDATIONNoting that Oxford County and Formosa were the places that Dr. Mackay spent most of his life. Lhe speaker said that much of what the church is do­ing now in Formosa had its •foundation in the works of Dr. Mackay. “What started o u l from here in the Zorras has been deeply instrumental in forming the life of Formosa. Ho served in a great and effective way", Dr. Johnson stated add­ing that Dr. Mackay was a "wldlor of the cross”.Dr. Mackay, he said, settle in the north of Formosa, a place of tremendous natural beauty, and married a Formosan wo man. Dr. Mackay (.ravel Ic widely throughout the island parted a church in the Capit ol, established the Oxford Lol. logo, a girls' boarding school an<l laid the foundations fo medical work, Dr Johnao said."One to amazed at what man could accomplish", ho sta­ledDr Johnson said the Sentinel vk-w aided Dr. Mackay IOxford College when Inok the muller up and help raise several thousand dol nr* after ^INGERSOLL. ONTARIO,MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1961EIGHTEEN PAGES—NOT OVER SIX CENTSCRASH TAKES LIFEOF BOB HAYWARDSUPERTEST H IN FOREGROUND JUST BEFORE SPILLNORWICH LEGION OPENED—The $40,000 build-, ing of rhe Norwich branch of the Royal Canadian Legion at the Norwich fair grounds, was officially opened Saturday by Agriculture Minister W. A. Goodfellow From left; Reeve George Davis, South Norwich Township; Gordon Wakefield, the Legion's Woodstock Zone commander; Walter Tokarz, Nor­wich Legion president; Gordon Innes, of Woodstock, MPP for Oxford; John Woods Sr., who placed the cornerstone; Rev. R. F, T. Brain, Legion podre; Mr. Goodfellow; Norwich Reeve L, E. Force; Wallace Nesbitt, of Woodstock, MP for Oxford; Ernest Gar­ner, warden of Oxford County; Reeve Wray K. Hartley, of North Norwich Township.Embro Race Driver Dies In Power Boat Accidentfirst heat with an average speed of 108.089 m.p.h. Such Crust, driven by Fred Alter of Detroit, placed second, winning the sec­ond section with 98.084.Century 21, the Gold Cup win­ner from Seattle driven by Bill Muncey, was third.DISQUALIFIES SELFIronically Miss Supertest was disqualified in the first heat for striking a buoy. Hayward called attention of officials to this, thus disqualifying himself.With great need of points to remain in contention in the three-heat race, Hayward had tried to get a quick start in the second heat.Hayward, considered by fel­low drivers a “perfect gentle­man” in competition, started I his speed career at 14 when he drove outboards on Ontario’s Thames River. He switched to drag racing and hot-rods, but in May of 1957 joined the crew of Miss Supertest II and again became interested in boat rac­ing.Thompson asked Hayward whether he would like to take the big boat out for a test run and in July the dirver who was to become world champion climbed into the cockpit for the first time.“Once I drove her. I forgot all about racing anything else,” he recalled two years ago.Later that year he took so- pertest H to victory in the In­ternational Boundary Race at St. Clair, Mich., his first win in big-time powerboat racing. FUNERAL WEDNESDAYMr. Hayward was a son ol Mrs. Edith Hayward and the late Arthur Hayward and was bom at concession 5, lot 5, West Zorra. Oct. 27, 1927. He resided at Embro before going to London where he was em­ployed by James G. Thompson of the Supertest Oil Cd. He was a member of the Knox Presby­terian Church, Embro and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.Surviving axe his mother, I Mrs. Edith Hayward, one sister Mrs. Ron (Frances) Alderson, Kintore; one brother, Keith, RR 6, Embro.The body is resting at the R. W. Johnson Funeral Home, Em-DETROIT ( AP) — Bob Hay- wcrt , soft-spoken and cautious king of powerboat racing from Embro, died of a broken neck Sunday after he gambled with his Miss Supertest II and sent the speeding boat into a roll on the Detroit River.Hayward, champion of unlim­ited - class hydroplane racing who brought Canada the famed Harmsworth Trophy the last three years, died instantly.He had attempted to squeeze Supertest between two boats and into the lead on the first turn of the second heat of the Silver Cup Regatta.The 33 - year - old former chicken farmer was the first driver to be killed in 11 years in an unlimited hydroplane ac­cident. He was pronounced dead after doctors failed to revive him at the pit area and he was taken to hospital.WAS NATIONAL HEROHayward was a national hero because of his three Harms­worth victories in Miss Super­test III, the most recent last month at Picton. It was the first time a boat had won the trophy three consecutive times.In 1959 he brought Canada her first Harmsworth, breaking 20 years of United States’ domin­ation of the trophy, on the same Detroit River course on which he was killed.1 In I960, the Union of Inter­national Motor Boating, govem- ling body for world boating rec­ords, awarded Hayward the Sports Medal of Honor from iGhent, Belgium.। “If a hydroplane is driven too 'fast, it will take off,” Hayward i wrote before last month’s Harmsworth. He promised his readers he wouldn’t exceed 150 miles in the Harmsworth. “Thal s fast enough when you’re steering a three-ton boat," he said. “The faster you go on wa­ter the harder it is to steer.” DESCRIBE MISHAPWitnesses at the first turn and pit area said Hayward’s boat Hipped when he tric'd to work her betwee: Seattle’s Century 21 and Detroit’s Miss U.S. 1, the leaders of the heat.“I saw the whole thing,” Su­pertest owner Jim Thompson of. .London, Ont., said. “Bob aad j bro until Wednesday noon Mm- just pushed her into the leadieral service will be held in when he flipped completely Knox Presbyterian Church, r n- over.” bro on Wednesday at 4.30 p.m.The remaining heats of the Rev, S. Kerr of Knox P^by- 45-mHt race were cancelled, ilerlan Church officiating assist-MisS Bardahl of Seattle, dri ed by Rev, R. Stewart ot New ven by Ron Musson, was de- St James Presbyterian Churen। dared Silver Cup champion for London. Interment will be made 'winning the first section of the Un North Embro cemetery. CEREMONY AT PRINCETON ON SUNDAYPlaque Will Honor First Oxford MillerCeremonies in connection with or’s request for more land and ifor in 1822 Hornor was appoint* the unveiling of a historical the matter which created much ed coioneI of regiment, plaque to commemorate Thom-hard feeling was unsettled for as Hornor will take place on,several years, the grounds of the Princeton Hornor was appointed a just- cemetery on Sunday, Sept. 241 ice of the peace for the London at 3 p.m. । District and first registrar forThis plaque is one of a series Oxford and Middlesex counties being erected throughout t h e i *n J800- He also attained the province by the Department of r»nk of captain in the First Re­Travel and Publicity, acting on fitment Oxford Militia and was the advice of the Archaeoldgeal Wanted lieutenant ofand Historic Sites Board of OqJ- Oxford County in 1806.ari0 RELIEVED OF RANKSunday’s ceremony is being' However, with the advent of arranged and sponsored by the .the War of 1812, Hornor. whose Princeton and Woodbury branch1 American background permitted of the Women’s Institute and his enemies to cast a pall of the Princeton Board of Trade. ■ suspicion over him, was reliev- Allan Masson, senior village ed of his military rank. This trustee, will act as program I mistrust, in the light of future chairman and Mrs. Bernadette;events, proved to be ill-founded Smith of Woodstock will repre- -----------------------------------Tradition also maintains that at the beginning of the war he journeyed on his own to Detroit ; where he served honorably in the British-Canadian forces as a private.He was elected to the provin­cial legislature as Oxford County’s first member in 1820 and represented the riding’ from 1820 to 1831 and from 1832 until his death on August 4, 1834. Hornor was typical of the enterprising pioneers who gave up comparative affluence in the settled communities in order to make a new life for themselves in the wilderness and thus lay the foundation for the settle- • ment of our province.sent the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.The plaque will be officially unveiled by Mrs. Gordon Greig, a descendant of Thomas Horn­or.Thomas Hornor was born near Bordentown, New Jersey, in 1767. He first visited Upper Canada in 1793 as the agent of a Mr. Watson who wished to take advantage of Lieutenant- Governor Simcoe’s offer of free land to individuals who would settle in Upper Canada, as well as additional grants to those who would facilitate settlement by the erection of mills.CHOSE MILL SITEHornor visited the unsettled Blenheim Township where h e chose a mill site on a small creek, which now bears his name, near the site of this pla­que. He then returned to t h e United States to dispose of his holdings there and to purchase mill equipment.During this period he appears to have severed his business relationship with Watson, since nothing more is heard of that gentleman. Upon his return to the township in 1795 Hornor commenced construction of a sawmill which was completed by the end of that year.The dam burst before the first los-s could be processed and operations were curtailed until its repair in 1797. In spite of this delay the saw mill plus a grist-mill which he complet­ed in 1802 were the first mills known to have been erected within what is now Oxford County.Hornor. in the meantime, had entered into a dispute with the administration of Lieutenant • Governor Peter Hunter. Hornor, it would appear, was led to be­lieve by Simcoe’s administrat­ion that upon comj>letion of his mills he would receive extensive compensating land grants. Hun­ter refused to accept Horn-Oxford County Council Faces Busy Fall SessionOxford County council, with 18 of its 21 members present, met in brief open session this morning in the court house at Woodstock to hear a preview of business items to come up for discussion or decision at the fall sesion which will continue through until Thursday after­noon.Following first and second reading of four bylaws dealing with township participation in the county employee pension ■plan, first reading of four by­laws dealing with roads, and presentation of correspondence by clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles, Warden Ernest F. Garner ac­cepted a motion, which was (passed, that council go into com­mittee of the whole.The pension plan bylaws wee received from South Norwich, West Zorra, East Zorra and North Oxford townships, all of them planning to join the coun­ty pension scheme in which, it js hoped, all townships will ev­entually participate.CORRESPONDENCEIncluded in the corresponden­ce with which council will deal are requests for general support of resolutions covering changes in the assessment schedule for shopping centres with large (parking lots - municipal drain-Oxford Bursary Winners Listed| Oxford County council,PLOWING MATCH PLANSPlans are going forward for the I8th annual Oxford county plowing match, to be held this year on Friday. October 20, at the Larm of Irvin Hartley, one mile west and one mile north uf Woodstock, first farm north of the County Home. As in the past, the match will feature both horse and tractor plowing competitions. Aa well as decid­ing winners which may go on to compete in events leading up to the International, there are manv attractive prizes offered for winners al the county event. Secretary Taylor, agricub Ural representative for the county declares it would be dif­ficult to find more suitable sur­roundings than those available this year and he and presidentClare hartley record turnout, whim# of the8thiage projects adversely affected by large scale separations of land - freedom from taxation on construction of fallout shelt­ers and other more minor mat­ters.Also on the agenda will be discussion bf the establishment of national hospital sweepstakes and the extension of the Ontar­io hospital scheme to cover home nursing. The latter re­quest for support, comes from Welland county and the former from Peel.Council was also informed that Beachville has now compli­ed with all regulations required for status as an incorporated village and the first local coun­cil meeting there has been scheduled for Jan. 2, 1962, Or­iginal plan for a reeve and three councillors has been am­ended to provide four council­lors and county representativ­es will be seated after the new year.Wednesday’s council meeting consists of a tour of county - road projects and will include luncheon at Embro with a sup­per meeting to be held at Till­sonburg.On Thursday afternoon coun­cil will receive committee re­ports in open meeting and resol­utions will be placed for general discussion.on(Thursday approved a recom­mendation from it’s special scholarships and bursaries com­mittee to award a loal of $800 in bursary awards to nine stu­dents in he county. All stud­ents are either starting a de­gree course at OAC, Guelph or at MacDonald Institute there, or have completed part of the course.Highest award went to Shar­on Marjorie Worts, Lakeside, । who is attending MacDonald In­stitute, She was given $200, Other scholarships went toLarry Claus, Tillsonburg, $100; John Hart, Woodstock. $100; iGlen Miller, Woodstock, $100;George Rand, Curries, $100; Dale Sumsion. Curries. $50; Ju­dith Appel, Tavistock $50; P. J. Bctteridge, Lakeside, $50; and Ronald Budd. Ingersoll. $50HAEMS WORTH WINNER SUPERTEST HIProvincial Treasurer AllanJoins PC Leadership StakesBob Hayward’s PassingMay Open Dundas West Next Weekif the weather remains dry 'Dundas street west may be open to traffic by the end of next iweek, city manager R. G. Mor­row said today.Towland Construction Ltd. of ’London has completed excava- Ition of the road and is at pre- scut putting in gravel. It will be oiled, the base course put in and asphalt constructed next.At the other end of Govern­or’s Road detour signs have al-so been erected as crows .fixing the hill leading ThamesfoM*Mr. Morrow said he ।pleased with the timing ol other project as traffic on road will now be detoured ly at one time.are intowas the the on-The violent death of Bob Hay­ward, of Embro, Canada’s ace pow­erboat driver, during a race on the Detroit river on Sunday last, has not only shocked boating enthus­iasts and residents of this area, but is something this country can Ml afford.The man who brought honor to Canada and to Oxford County in 1959 by taking the coveted Harms­worth trophy from the United States in a hard-fought race, and I who retained it in races during the next two seasons, was at the time of his death driving a boat almost, on the spot where he first won international renown when the craft went into a spin and flipped over.In his brief and spectacular career, Bob Hayward displayed that readiness to venture and to take risks which, when applied to life in general so often makes for success and progress. With Harold Wilson, of Ingersoll, another boat-ing enthusiast, and former driver of Canadian boats in Harmsworth contests, he has linked the name of Harmsworth and all it stands for with Oxford County in a very personal way.Unassuming and somewhat quiet-spoken, Bob Haywant dis­played the skills that not only brought fame to himself, tb his country and to this area, but he displaj'ed those gentlemanly quali­ties that made him a sportsman in the truest sense of the word.He followed the tradition of those Zorra citizens of yore who made their tug-of-war team fam-ous by capturing pionship during cage in 1893.In the midstthe world chain* contests in Chi-of their presentsorrow, the people of Zorra. of Oxford, and of Canada may feel a just sense of pride that such fine qualities still exist in their people, both in and out of sporting events. PRELIMINARY HEARING SET FOR SEPT. 25Tobacco Worker Will FaceCharge Of Murdering YouthPreliminary hearing of t h e case of Walter Robert Clarke. 26, Norwich area tobacco work­er charged with murder, was adjourned until Monday, Sept. 25. by Magistrate R. G. Groom. QC. Tillsonburg. at county pol­ice court yesterday.Clark is charged with the rifle slaying of Wilfred John Miners, , 20, of Norwich, whose body was , found in a shallow ditch on the eighth concession. West Zorra Township, in the early morning i of Aug. 26.$700,000 PROJECT TO AID FIGHT AGAINST POLLUTIONExempt Fallout SheltersWould Increase TaxesMAYOR CUTS RIBBONOn Shopping CentresWOODSTOCK — Oxford County’ Council yesterday en­dorsed resolutions asking the province to boost tax assess­ments on shopping centres and exempt nuclear fallout shelters from taxation.The two were among a num­ber of resolutions from other Ontario counties which poured into county clerk L. K. Coles’ office during the summer for endorsement by the County of Oxford.A resolution from Halton County advocated amendments to the assessment act under which pedestrian malls and parking areas provided by com­munity shopping centres to at­tract customers could be as­sessed at the same rate as the stores within the shopping area.The resolution requesting as- sexsment exemption on all fall­out shelters, no matter where constructed, came from Well­and County.In other business, council:Noted and filed a Lincoln County resolution asking exten­sion of the Ontario Hospital In- snrance plan to cover home nursing cure.Declined to endorse a Peel County resolution asking legal­ization of a national hospital sweepstake®',Authorized Warden Erncat Garner and the clerk to sign agreements with South Norwich and East and West Zorra town- »hlp»P bringing these municipal­ities into the county's employee pension plan.County Council Gives Reading To BylawsOxford county council met briefly in open meeting this morning on the last of the three-day fall session to give second reading to four bylaws dealing with road construction and changes in highway traffic rules.Open New Sewage Plant At Tillsonburg“Industry generally is co-op-1 OWRC is now building a dis- of two slaughter houses, one erating whole-heartedly in theiposal plant at Tavistock butjeanning factory, one knitting I anti-pollution fight being waged'there are some bad spots left, mill, a gravel washing plant । by the Ontario Water Resourc- Embro has to rely on septic and some other industries, alles Commission” Dr. J. A. Van- tank systems and no progress of whom have now taken steps ce. Woodstock, member of OW- has as yet been made at Nor- to comply with OWRC regulat-RC. said at the official openingof the $700,000 sewage treatmentwich, Where heavy pollution hasbeen found. He expressed the hope that some action would be taken at the latter named place before long.plant at Tillsonburg Tuesday.He pointed out that the pol­lution fight was only part of the task Which brought about in cue survey wasI original formation of the Com- the fact that 25 milk plants inRevealed in the survey wasions.At present there are 53 com­mission-built sewage works in full operation and, as well, 48 water projects have been com­pleted. all of which had requir-First of the bylaws provides for completion of an agreement between the county and the Ontario department of highways which will give the green light to rebuilding of the Tower Line Road at the junction of that road with highway No. 53 and the extension of highway 401.A further bylaw will alter a bylaw already in existence sin­ce 1958 which provides author­ity to name certain sections of county roads as through high­ways. The various parts of the county roau system to be so designated include portions of roads No, 6. 17 and 24.A third bylaw will give the county authority to restrict the weight of trucks using certain specified bridges. In this parti­cular bylaw the council gives authority to place a load limit of 10,000 pounds on vehicles us­ing the bridge over Spiller Creek, on the town line between Dereham and South Norwich townships.Fourth of I he road bylaws, if accepted will give authority to draw an agreement between the county and the town of Tillson­burg which will set forth a divi­sion of i he costs on road con­struction where. the county roads are actually exteMjoqH o'f Lown streets and in some cases are connecting Unks for those streets at the boundary lineCouncil adjourned to g0 intovx wr.u- tut iaL<. ui»t w mun piuuio ui ed an expenditure of $73 mill- mission. The other major fund- the county were dumping un- ion.* - treated waste into streams and “The cleaning up of all Ont- 15 additional plants had inade- ario waterways so that once quale disposal systems. All nowion w^s to regulate and controlthe supply and distribution of [ water.As a Commissioner, he de- I dared, he saw these two proj­ects going hand in hand be- | cause when water becomes pol­luted it is unfit for human use. and there is loss in total quan­tity to be distributed.Included in the year-r o u n d fight against pollution, he said, was continuous stream sampl- ling, building and operation of water and sewage works, check­ing industrial waste problems, examination of water and sew- !age plants, whether built oy the commission or other auth­ority, and continuous survey on district and county water lev­els, I Initial step in pollution con­trol, he explained, was a detail­ed survey lo reveal pollution '..sources. This survey in Ox­ford county had first been un- dertaken in 1957 and had been 'repeated the following year, As a result of the knowledge gain­ed offenders had been notified of required action. Success of the program was partially sho- ] wn, he said, in the fact that Woodstock, Ingersoll and now Tillsonburg have treatment pla­nts.have adequate disposal systems or will have in the near future, he declared. The same situat­ion was applicable in the caseagain they will be fit to supply man's great need of pure clear water is the final goal of the Commission” the speaker con­cluded.May Request Adjournment For Clark Murder TrialThe trial of Robert Walter 120, Norwich, whose blanketClark, 26, Norwich area tob- shrouded body was found in a acco worker, on a capital char- — n»« a*h .^n.ge of murder was listed for hea­ring here today by a jury at Supreme court which was sch­eduled lo start at 1.30 p.m. I with Mr. Justice W. F. Spence,shallow ditch on the 8th eon-cession of West Zorra Town ship in the early hours of Aug. 26 by a passing farmer.An autopsy revealed that Min ers was shot through the head three times by a small calibre rifle. Magistrate R G. Groom. QC, Tillsonburg, committed the accused for trial by a higher court at a preliminary hearing at the court house on Sept. 38.If the Clark case does go on. a grand jury will first have to be selected and then a petitToronto, presiding.I Rumors persisted in police and court circles, this morning, however, that an an adjourn­ment may lie requested, If the case goes on as scheduled, the । Clark murder trial will head Ilie list of some eight jury and 12 nonjury actions set down for hearing. jury to hear the charge after1 Clark is charged with the rifle which the accused will enter slaying of Wilfred John Miners, his plea, of the large number of mour­ners who attended the funeral, stand at the graveside at the final moments of the burialbrought Canada the famed Harmswonh trophy, was bur­ied in North Embro cemetery. In the photo, the Hayward family, accompanied by manyservice. Rev. Samuel Kerr, of Knox Presbyterian Church, Embro, conducts the service. (Staff photo).THE VILLAGE of Embro was in mourn^ig yesterday as Boh Hayward, driver of the racing h^roplanes thatLAST TRIBUTE TO HARMS WORTH WINNERNew-ChiefIs Engaged At TavistockA retired provincial police­man, Peter Grant, 50, has been named chief constable for Tavi­stock, succeeding Stanley Mel­bourne, who resigned several weeks ago over a denied re­quest for additional help.Chief Constable Grant served 10 years with the provincial police before retiring in 1946. He was with the Lambeth de tachment when he retired. The new chief arrived in Tavistock for duty this week.After leaving the OPP, Chief Grant and his wife spent 16. years in Northern Ontario. Dur­ing the Second World War, he served as a flying instructor, with the RCAF for three years and nine months.A native of Bowmanville, Chief Grant has a son, Donald, 22. stationed with the OPP at Morrisburg, and a daughter, Lynda, 18, attending school in Lindsay.Stanley Melbourne was chief constable for the village of Tav­istock for 16 vears.Many Attend Final Rites As Bob Hayward Buriedsaid Mr.They buried Bob Hayward in Hayward's death”. ----North Embro cemetery yester- Kerr, ''testifies to the affect- dav. ion he generated in the heartsThe local boy who became a of all who knew him, He was national hero amid the roar of an exceedingly fine youngINTERMENTI born at concession 5. lot 5,The brief ride to lhe cemetery ^est Zewa, on October 27, 1927, followed and then a simple, was a member of Knox. . « . . > Mi«A0Ai.*rArion fro-a kinbrAhigh-powered hydroplane engin- man’*.■ *" v:: ------ " Reminding the mourners thatthe hot September countryside success had not altered Hay- sunshine. ( ward, the pastor said, “he wasA crowd of Several hundred one of the finest Christians I prayed at' the/flower decked have ever known. We knew he graveside, lirt^fred briefly and was no different at the peak of then slowly drifted away. his career than when he hadEmbro's tiny Knox Presby- sat al his mother’s knee.” terian church was crowded for' "A vast cross section of per­sons could claim to have been his friends; he was never too big to speak to anyone;esh-powered hydroplwent quietly to hi? grave inbrief interment among white, red and green of wreaths piled up around grave.Pallbearers were Victor horn, Robert Marsden. Gil .the the t h eLeg- Zam-progna, Louis Zamprogna, Jim Thompson, owner of the ill-fat­Presbyterian church Embro.Surviving are Mrs. Hayward, a sister. Mrs. Ron Alderson, and a brother, Keith, of RR 6. Embro.Among those present at the funeral were Mayor Gordonthe brief burial service. Civic dignitaries from London. De­troit and other cities mingled with local farmers, tradesmen and Hayward's fellow racing enthusiasts.The minister of the church, Rev. Samuel Kerr, officiated at the ceremony, assisted by Rev. Richard Stewart of New St. James’ Presbyterian church, London.COUNCILS TO MEETA “get acquainted” meeting is now being arranged by Ox ford county council to which council members from Ingersoll and Woodstock have been in- 1 vited to talk over problems in! which there is an involvement of all three bodies. Time has been set for the evening of Oct 25 and the meeting place will be the county court house. County clerk-treasurer L. K. Coles has been given the re­sponsibility of organizing a por- gram for' the gathering and plans to have an informal dis­cussion on a number of mutual problems, such as health, court hearings and some others. The­se discussions to be teed off by the appropriate department head. This is the second of this type of annual “get acquainted” gathering and councillors who attended the event last year have expressed satisfaction in the results gained through in­formal talks.Stronach, of London, Police Jd chief Ear1 Knight, of London,Y r $he entire London board of eon-teslGdilTComnanv th S P lrol- “Erwin, of the Royal test Oil Company. Canadian Yacht Club, andAlso assisting in lhe service Hayward’s competitors from were Norm Metkle Bill Boyne, the United Slates in the fatal t?°? ^O^drace, Jack Schaeffer, owner of Crust”; Chuck Thomp- Mcikle and Allan Ball. son, driver of “Miss Detroit”;test Oil Company.he was humble - a Christian gentleman”,° "He was clean living He was Ule son ofiLee Schoenith, of the Galeed a place in our generation ’ iM.rs' ABfi!th and the racing learn, and boat designerwhich will be an inspfratK and Stadacher.flllni-A Oanarntizin«" • k ■ • ■ ■ ■ ■■■ *Norwich Picks Law Firmfuture generations”.After the eulogy, the massive casket was carried down thesteep church steps, passingFINE YOUNG MAN • through two lines of flower‘‘The tremendous shock fell bearers and into the waiting by all of us on hearing of Bob hearse.In Row With PolicemenNORWICH — Village council, also of Woodstock, because itClark To Face Trial For Murder On Oct. 10The trial of Walter Robert whose blanket-shrouded b o d y to have the case set down Clark, 26. Norwich area tobac- was found in a shallow ditch onco worker, on a capital chargethe 8th concession of West Zurof murder, which carries the ,ra Township by a passing farm- death penalty, will open the^rer.jury session of Supreme Courti An autopsy revealed (hat Min- at. the county court hotfsr bWelers was shot three limes Ihrounext Tuesda Mr. Justice ' iojjlp.iy, Oct 10, before gh Lhe head with a small call । inW. F. Spence. Tor- bre rifle. Co:the fall assizes opening n e Tuesday, OTHER CASESAnother criminal charge set down to come beforefor x tis aas well as six jury actions... for damages arising out of mot-Magislrate R G. Groom, or ;<(fidents. An action for lib- .... ssion Q.C., Tillsonburg, found t h e reel and slander and an actionis scheduled to start at 1 p.m, । was sufficient evidence In com-|for da mages for sale of lands and the Clark trial will head niit the accused for trial atThe supreme court seithe List ol 22 cases, 10 of them higher court al ajury, set down on theprelim In-1 jurycourt ary hearing held al lhe courti hr■house only last Thursday. j ( Crown Attorney A C Whaley, tordocket, Clark is charged with the ,> vAug. 26 rifle slaying ol Wilfred Woodstock, moved swiftly fol- cJohn Mmera, 20. of Norwie^lo^g the preliminary bearing :hs round scheduledout tothe beil suits and divorce make up the rest ofart- thees' scheduled to he heard Mr, Justice Spenge.last night appointed a Wood- stock law firm as solicitors for the village in connection with council's firing of its two-man village police department.W. R. Poole, of London, representing the policemen, Chief Constable Kenneth Clay ■and Constable Donald King, had advised council by letter idated Aug. 11 that unless they were reinstated within two weeks of receipt of the letter, legal action would be taken against the municipality.Pussed On 3-2 VoteDespite the objections of Reeve L. E. Force and Council­or .1. Sk Leitch, Cauncilprs Allan Rabjohn, William An- I draws mid Andrew Forbes fa- Ivorcd the resolution to appoint the law firm of Young and : Hutchinson of Wotalstock as village solicitors. It was passed 1 in a reoordiMi vole.1 GaUmciiOr Rabjohn had earlier .opposed the appointment of the law firm of Davis and Grunt,had av, office in Norwich.Council fired the two-man po­lice department Aug. 9 and in the same resolution council agreed to ask the Ontario Provincial Police to take over policing of the village. The two officers were given three months notice.The OPP later turned down the request because of a “lack of personnel."In bis letter to council, Mr. Poole told council he was giv­ing council an opportunity to! rescind the dismissal resolution.Reeve Force warned that the:appointment of the law firm could cost the village hundreds of dollars and suggested in­stead that the Village police committee consult a lawyer onthe question In the name of the village but not to appoint vil­lage solicitors.Cayjicjjqw Andrews and l^itch axe the police committed.Voicing his objection to lhe appointment of the solicitors,IReeve Force said, “I want to go on record as strongly op­posed to this. “This best and easiest way for the council and village is to rescind the mo­tion of dismissal passed at the last meeting. If you will do that, we won't need a lawyer "Wants I a-gal Advice“If a lawyer says for us to rescind the resolution we can," Councilor Rabjohn said, "but I feel we should have advice on it."Councilor Andrew Forbes said he was in agreement with this.Councilor Andrews said he was in favor of settling the issue without further expense to the village.All councilors were ■ ritual of the publicity the village re­ceived over dismissal of the clerk and the Iwo-man police department but Reeve Force said, publicity cannot be avoid­ed.Councilor Andrews said “We haven't deserved ail the public­ity we’ve got." ———- - -------------- ——CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATIONL.K. CULLS ।County of OxfoHdOntar i oDinner ReservationThird ServingDinner ReservationSecond Serving Forty-Second Convention September 12-16,1961 CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION CALENDAR OF EVENTS IN BRIEF > < 0 K in £ UJ tn S ui t u -a ~ J - 7 o. 3 u. 5 in _i ui < < ou -> u~ £ W w 0 X k’j- B E □ in tt □ I b E UJ m s UI G 5 & mg 5 - o* E ueu is? u tn w ui <5 E O in z o 6 E ts o UJ E a < o UI 5 Z 0 ui I o Q UJ p 8 UI -S E . ui w E , < UJ E a. < in U ui 0W ?t tn z 0 ui ui in E UJ ZES oG?.U ui o 2 u UI 5 a z < o ~ in UI ^Z <0 Z h CE 8a s| 02 Z o 0 < uUJ =6 E UJ Z z o o z 3 I ID □ in ui z a u 5 E UI tn S UJ in in Q w u □ E U m s UJ E s E □ Z 0 2 E UI m S uj w w ■ uj ta - « z u: Os Ji* 5 O 0 w a 7 U“HO eO Bc ?, UI W H O j w 0Zj7 T Z s in z o m « ui <n I u UJ 81 w Q gin □ G 0 o o E UI I zZ Mo st? in ui o ui h z H UJ w □ 4 o S w E fQ We ? z UI 5 z < 0 £ u UI □ z o UJ F UJ Q E i u a. in in x ^z^ w<S djnJ o „ Sz"1 in„2 ysS ihO 8 11 Z^ “E| 50ESB ymoou pt 01 8w° £a < H 3 jZ« <UI> USUI yWn । ui <>“ t^DO UJ H < U 5 UJ I UJ ogt no Welcome to the 42nd Convention of CGRA ^'HE 42nd convention of the Canadian Good Roads Asso­ ciation will be, we hope, one of the most enjoyable and most productive in CGRA history. The program is a most comprehensive and diversified one, proving that this is indeed Canada’s “Parliament of Roads” — the outstanding highway meeting of the year in Canada. The technical sessions cover a broad range of high­ way technology, the general sessions have been planned to appeal to the broad membership of the Association. Entertainment and recreation in this superb setting of Banff, and in the sunny environment of western hospitality, offer something for everybody. On behalf of the directors of the Association I extend a cordial welcome to you. President CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION MONDAY September 11 2.00 p.m.Norquay Room Meeting of the Technical anti Research Com­ mittee "of the Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada. 2.30 p.m.Angus Room Meeting of rhe Technical Advisory Committee 2.30 p.m.Garden Lounge Registration 3.00 p.m.Strathcona Room Meeting of rhe Management Committee TUESDAY September 12 3 9.00 a.m.Garden Lounge Registration 9.30 a.m.Angus Room Meeting of the AASHO Road Test Observer Committee (Committee members only) MEETINGS OF TECHNICAL COMMITTEES: 9.30 a.m.Norquay Room Municipal Roads and Streets' 9.30 a.m.Cascade Room Planning and Design 9.30 a.m.Strathcona Room Safety Education 9.30 a.m.Cascade Lounge Soils and Materials 2.30 p.m.Cascade Room Planning and Design 2.30 p.m.Strathcona Room Bridges and Structures 2.30 p.m.Norquay Room Construction and Maintenance 2.30 p.m.Cascade Lounge Economics, Finance and Administration TUESDAY 2.30 p.m. Angus Room Traffic and Operations 2.30 p.m. Oak Room Joint Meeting of the Board of Directors and Operating Committee 6.30 p.m. Norquay Room Dinner, Board of Directors and Operating Committee 8.00 p.m. Mount Stephen Hall SPECIAL TECHNICAL SESSION Chairman: E. B. W i 1 k i n s, Research and Development Engineer, Department of Highways, British Columbia. PAVEMENT DESIGN AND EVALUATION Latest reports on the results of CGRA’s long- range, nation-wide project. WEDNESDAY September 13 8.30 a.m. Oval Room Registration 9.30 a.m. Cascade Room OPENING CEREMONIES Invocation: Rev. George A. S. Hollywood, Rector, Sr. George’s in the Pines, Banff Addressee of Welcome: Hon. Gordon E. Taylor, Minister of Highways, Alberta D. B. Coombs, Superintendent, Banff National Park Greetings from International Road Federation: B. A. Dutton, Director, New York 10.00 a.m. GENERAL SESSION “All Roads Lead to Economic Progress” Annual Review by the President Hon. G. I. Smith, M.B.E., Q.C., Minister of Highways, Nova Scotia THE ALBERTA ROAD TEST Various aspects of a road test undertaken jointly by the Research Council of Alberta and the Department of Highways will be described and discussed. Organization and Objectives of the Co-operative Highway Research Project in Alberta R. M. Hardy, President, R. M. Hardy & Associates Ltd. Design of the l est Sections R. H. Cronkhite, Department of Highways, Alberta Soil Conditions and Construction Procedures W. E. Curtis, Vice-President, Bernard, Curtis, I loggan Engineering & 1 esting Ltd. Instrumentation and Results George Ford, Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta B. P. Shields, I lead. Highway Research Division, Research Council of Alberta 10.30 a.m. “Evolution of the Road” W. J. Fulton. Deputy Minister of Highways, Ontario (Narrated by W. M. Philpott, General Manager, Ontario Road Builders’ Association) I The dramatic story in word and picture of the progress of men, machines and methods used in road construction from split-log drags to 30-yard scrapers. Ladies are cordially invited to attend the Opening Ceremonies in tn® Cascade Room at 9.30 a.m. They may retire if they wish after the completion of the colorful opening exercise and before the com­ mencement of the general session. All sessions on the program, general and technical, may be attended by the ladies and they ore encouraged to do so; mony papers ond discussions on the technical sessions have considerable general interest. 54 TUESDAY 2.30 p.m. Angus Room Traffic ami Operations 2.30 p.m. Oak Room Joint Meeting of rhe Board of Directors and Operating Committee 6.30 p.m. Norquay Room Dinner, Board of Directors and Operating Committee 8.00 p.m. Mount Stephen Hall SPECIAL TECHNICAL SESSION Chairman: E. B. Wilkins, Research and Development Engineer, Department of Highways, British Columbia. PAVEMENT DESIGN AND EVALUATION Latest reports on the results of CGRA’s long- range, nation-wide project. THE ALBERTA ROAD TEST Various aspects of a road test undertaken jointly by the Research Council of Alberta and the Department of Highways will be described and discussed. Organization and Objectives of the Co-operative Highway Research Project in Alberta R. M. Hardy, President, R. M. Hardy & Associates Ltd. Design of the Test Sections R. H. Cronkhire, Department of Highways, Alberta Soil Conditions and Construction Procedures W. E. Curtis, Vice-President, Bernard, Curtis, Hoggan Engineering & Testing L.td. Instrumentation and Results George Ford, Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta B. P. Shields, Head, Highway Research Division, Research Council of Alberta WEDNESDAY September 13 8.30 a.m.Oval Room Registration 9.30 a.m. Cascade Room OPENING CEREMONIES Invocation: Rev. George A. S. Hollywood, Rector, St. George’s in the Pines, Banff Addressee of Welcome: Hon. Gordon E. Taylor, Minister of Highways, Alberta D. B. Coombs, Superintendent. Banff National Park Greetings from International Road Federation: B. A. Dutton, Director, New York 10.00 a.m. GENERAL SESSION “All Roads Lead to Economic Progress” Annual Review by the President Hon. G. I. Smith, M.B.E., Q.C., Minister of Highways, Nova Scotia 10.30 a.m.“Evolution of the Road” W. J. Fulton, Deputy Minister of Highways, Ontario (Narrated by W. M. Philpott, General Manager, Ontario Road Builders’ xAssociation) The dramatic story in word and picture of the progress of men, machines and methods used in road construction from split-log drags to 30-yard scrapers. Ladies are cordially invited to attend the Opening Ceremonies in the Cascade Room at 9.30 a.m. They may retire if they wish after the completion of the colorful opening exercise and before the com­ mencement of the general session. All sessions on the program, general and technical, may be attended by the ladies and they are encouraged to do so; many papers and discussions on the technical sessions hove considerable general interest. 4 5 WEDNESDAY TECHNICAL SESSIONS 2.30 p.m. Cascade Room CONSTRUCTION AND MA1N T EN A N CE Chairman: Hugh Adcock, Director of Operations, Department of Highways, Ontario. WEDNESDAY Do li Yourself ? An open forum on the lively and contentious question of whether or not municipal gov­ ernments receive better value by carrying out construction by their own forces than by contract. Leading the discussion: For: Edward Sokolowski, Lincoln County Engineer Against: J. B. Waterhouse (representing the Canadian Construction Association; Bridge Maintenance W. D. Birch, Department of Highways, Ontario Avalanche Control along the Trans-Canada Highway in Glacier National Park H. M. Millar. Chief, Technical Co-ordination and Administration Division, Department of Public Works, Ottawa Construction Problems on Urban Expressways L. R. Kidman and D. B. Sampson, De Lcuw Cather & Company of Canada Limited 5-30 p.m. Riverview Ixmnge and Cascade Room to 7.30 p.m. the ROAD GANG Meet your friends at The Road Gang. Your Hosts: The manufacturer and distributor members of CGRA. 2.30 p.m. Mount Stephen Hall MUNICIPAL ROADS AND STREETS Chairman: H. A. Clampitt, Director, Saskatchewan Municipal Road Assistance Authority. Ontario's School for Road Superintendents J. H. Irvine, President, Ontario Good Roads Association Use of the Benkelman Beam in Municipal Street Maintenance, Design and Construction D. A- Welsh, Assistant Engineer, District of North Vancouver 6 THURSDAY September 14 9.09 a.m. Oval Room Registration 9.30 a.m. Cascade Room ROADS ROUND-UP Reports on progress and problems of road- * building and maintenance by senior officials of rhe provinces and the Dominion Gov­ ernment. * H. T. Miard, Deputy Minister of Highways, British Columbia L. H. McManus, Deputy Minister of Hign- ways, Alberta L. T. Holmes. Deputy Minister of Highways and Transportation, Saskatchewan George Collins, Deputy Minister of Public Works, Manitoba W. J. Fulton, Deputy Minister of Highways. Ontario 7 THURSDAY THURSDAY ROADS ROUND-UP (continued) Roger LaBr&quc, Deputy Minister of Roads, Quebec W. T. Hargreaves, Deputy Minister-High­ ways, Department of Public Works, New Brunswick |. I- Wickwirc, Deputy Minister of High­ ways, Nova Scotia Hon. J. Philip Matheson, Minister of High­ ways, Prince Edward Island J. A. G. .MacDonald, Chief Highway Engineer, Department of Highways, Newfoundland G. T. Clarke, Chief Engineer. Development Engineering Branch. Department of Public Works of Canada TECHNICAL SESSIONS 2.30 p.m. Cascade Room I I PLANNING AND DESIGN Chairman: W. J. Malone, President. De Lcuw, Cather & Company of Canada Limited Fairholmc Room—12.30 p.m. LUNCHEON “The Fine Art of Living" Dr. Carl S. Winters, philosopher and humorist (Courtesy of General Motors of Canada Limited) Drainage Design Ian Rogers, Computer Planning Engineer. Department of Highways and Transportation, Saskatchewan Combined Horizontal and Vertical Alignment N. R. Zapf, Director of Location, Department of Highways, British Columbia Use of Mathematical Models for Urban Transportation R. J. Desjardins, Director, Transportation Divi­ sion. Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board Presentation of Oscar for outstanding publicity program during the year on behalf of better roads and streets. FOR IZAAK WALTONS . . . piscatorial pleasures al the front door 2.30 p.m. Mount Stephen Hall SAFETY EDUCATION Chairman: W. A. Bryce, Gen­ eral Manager, Canadian Highway Safety Council Point Systems and tbeir Contribution to Higbieay Accident Reduction E. S. Campbell, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Nova Scoria L. II. Hashey, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. New Brunswick THURSDAY SAIF. 1\ EDUCA I ION (continued) W, M. Earl, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Ontario R. \. Hadfield, Deputy Superintendent Motor- Vehicles, British Columbia Peter Dygala, Deputy Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Manitoba Teen-age Drivers: What Is the Educator’s Responsibility? Moderator: R. Paul Lawrence, Manager, Alberta Safety League Leonard S. Bowman. Manager Saskatchewan Highway Safety Council l.thcl McLellan, Director of Women’s Activities. Safety Division, Department of Transport of Ontario Mount Stephen Hall TRAFFIC AND OPERATION’S C h a i r m a n : H. F. Burns, Deputy Director of Streets and Transit, The Metro­ politan C o r p o rati o n of Greater Winnipeg Automatic Lane Control on the Jacques Cartier Bridge Albert Clement, Superintendent of Bridges, National Harbours Board Philippe Ewart. Consulting Engineer Metropolitan Winnipeg's Combined Traffic and Transit Operation B. R. Wolfe. Metropolitan Councillor and Chair­ man, Streets ami Transit Committee Municipal Parking Policies H. R. Burton, Iraffic Consultant, H. G. Acres & Company Ltd. THURSDAY Garden Terrace—6.00 p.m. The ancient and colorful ceremony of “Retreat” will be played by the pipes and drums of Ihe Calgary Highlanders. 7.00 p.m. Outdoor barbectic on the sports grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel with western-style music and entertainment. 8.30 p.m. Garden lounge I HE SILVER SCREEN Motion Pictures (Courtesy; National Film Board and Department of Highways, British Columbia) Days of Whisky Gap The Fraser Canyon Above the Timberline Romance of Transportation City Out of Time Away From It All Universe Convention Flashbacks (Courtesy: Chris Fisher) Pictures of people and places, past and present. THE “OILY BOIDS” . . . prizes for ihe good, bad and indifferent FRIDAY FRIDAY September 15 9.00 a.m. Oval Room Registration Effects of Current Highway Loads on Bridge Design A. B. Sanderson, President, A. B. Sanderson and Company Ltd. 9.30 a.m. Cascade Room THE ROADBUILDERS REPORT Reports from representatives of provincial road­ builders' associations on progress and prob­ lems of contractors Wallace B. Haughan, President, Heavy Construc­ tion Association of B.C. H. D. Ramsay, President, Prairie Roadbuilders’ Association R. G. Steed, President, Ontario Road Builders’ Association Arthur Laplante, Director, Quebec Road Builders Association L. H. Langley, President, Nova Scotia Road Builders Association Jack Esson, President, Road Builders Association of New Brunswick 11.00 a.m. Cascade Room ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Reports by: Chairman, Operating Committee Treasurer Managing Director Chairman, National Membership Committee Chairman, Technical Advisory Committee Chairman, Scholarship Awards Committee Election of Officers ami Directors 12.30 p.m. Angus Room Luncheon, Technical Advisory Committee 2.30 p.m. Norquay Room Meeting of the Operating Committee TECHNICAL SESSION 9.30 a.m. Mount Stephen Hall TECHNICAL SESSIONS 2.30 p.m. Cascade Room BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES Chairman: A. M. Toye, Bridge Engineer, Department of Highways, Ontario SOILS AND MATERIALS Chairman: G. G. Meyerhof. Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Nova S c o t i a Technical College A Review of Current Bridge Research S. D. Lash, Professor of Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Modern Trends in Timber Bridge Design R. E. DeGrace, Canadian Institute of Timber Construction 12 Bridge Abutment Movements due to Artesian Pressures at Depth L. G. Soderman, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Western Ontario Alex Rutka, Materials ami Research Engineer, Department of Highways, Ontario 13 FRIDAY SOILS AND MATERIAL (continued) The Use of Horizontal Drains in Slope Stabilization N. \. lluculsk, Materials Engineer, Department of Public Works of Canada, Banff C. O. Brawner, Materials Engineer, Department of Highways, British Columbia FRIDAY Evaluation of Soil-Cement Bases B. P. Shields, Head, Highway Research Division, Research Council of Alberta B. G. Hutchinson, Assistant Research Officer, Research Council of Alberta Fairholmc Room 6.30 p.m. ANNUAL DINNER B Speaker: Hon. Gordon E. Tay­ lor, Minister of Highways, Alberta Presentation of the President's Medal Presentation of certificates to new Quarter Century Club members Presentation of “Oily Boids” prizesStampede City Chorus of 40 male voices. 9.30 p.m. Cascade Room Dancing and entertainment 2.30 p.m. Mount Stephen Hall ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ■I s '»• JwT Chairman: George O. Grant, Roads Commissioner, The I- Municipality of Metro­ politan Toronto Needs Studies for Small Highway Departments L. W. Blackman, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works, Manitoba Road Price Index Alan Holmes, Director, Prices Division, Dominion Bureau of Statistics Highway Programming William Bideli, Construction Engineer, Toronto District, Department of Highways, Ontario W. G. Wigle, Program Engineer, Department of Highways, Ontario 14 SATURDAY September 16 8.00 a.m. Special tours have been arranged, one to the Columbia Icefield, the other to Jasper. There are “package deals” for both tours. All arrange­ ments are to be made directly with Brewster — Rockv Mountain — Grav Line Limited, in Banff. 1 i Room With a View Till Banff Springs Hotel, for many reasons, is one of the world’s best known resort hotels. Plans for a hotel in this magnificent location were first made in 1887 by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. A five-storey frame hotel was built on the present site in 1888. Ilie main section of the present hotel was completed in 1913; north and south wings were finished in 1927 and 1928. The townsite was given its name by a CPR director, Lord Strathcona, after Banff, Scotland. The hotel site overlooks the picturesque Bow Valley, the Fairholme Range mountains are visible in rhe distance. Other mountain ranges completely encircle the townsite. Several public rooms in the hotel arc named after promi­ nent figures in railroading history: Mount Stephen Hall for Lord Mount Stephen, first president of CPR; the Strathcona Room for Lord Strathcona; the Angus Room for R. B. Angus, a CPR director. The architecture of the hotel is in baronial style and this motif is carried throughout. There are 600 bedrooms with maximum accommodation for 900 guests in the eleven-storey limestone building. Swimming pools, a golf course and tennis courts are on the hotel grounds. I V THE OPEN ROAD — to a storied resort and a convention 16 Dates to Remember in 1962 CGRA's 43rd "Parliament of Roads", Chateau Frontenac Hotel, Quebec City October 1-4. Fourth World Highway Congress of the International Road Federation Madrid, Spain, October 14-20. (CGRA making reservations and travel arrangements} Sr. ;y -'i Claims Assistance Denied, Tavistock Police Chief QuitsSeptember 1 Effective Date Of ResignationTAVISTOCK — Chief Constable S. 0. Melbourne will resign Sept. 1 over council's continued refusal to hire an assistant con­stable.24 Hours a Day"This town has become abso­lutely impossible for one man to protect adequately," Chief Mel­bourne said. "Fve been working 24 hours a day. seven days a week, 50 weeks a year, for the past 16 years."The town has grown so much — not in population, but in size and number of buildings — that one man just can’t han­dle it."I've been asking council for the past two years to hire a second constable, or even just a part-time man who could work weekends and in emergencies. But council has always said the town can't afford it."Accepted with RegretThe chiefs resignation, ten­dered July 31. was accepted with regret at a special council meeting Saturday, Reeve Robert Rudy and Councilors H, A. Wil- ker and R. C. McDermott were appointed as a committee to seek a replacement.Chief Melbourne, appointed in 1945 after 13 years’ active army service, said that there was no quarrel between himself and council and that “our relations were perfect.”The village Telles on the pro­vincial police for protection during Chief Melbourne's an­nual two-week vacation. r---------------------------------------------------------- R S Menu ★ Iced Celery and Mixed Olives Chilled Fruit Supreme Cream of Fresh Mushroom Soup • Roast Stuffed Alberta Farm Capon, Red Currant Jelly Fondante Potatoes Broccoli Milanaise • Coupe St. Jacques Petit Fours • Coffee IES L,--------------------------------------rJ Chairman: Hon. G. I. Smith, M.B.E., Q.C. President TOAST Her Majesty the Queen • PRESENTATION OF AWARDS President's Medal Distinguished Service Quarter Century Life Membership • "Oily Boids" Golfing Prizes • Address: Hon. Gordon E. Taylor Minister of Highways of the Province of Alberta • ENTERTAINMENT The Stampede City Chorus [S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.] under the direction of Don Weldon Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta, Canada —600 rooms . ,. baronial .. . luxurious ... in tbe heart of the Canadian Rockies. Superlative golf . . . swimming . . . tennis . . . riding . . . biking... "Indian Days" ... magnificent public rooms . .. a Canadian Pacific hotel. CANADIAN PACIFIC HOTELS FROM SEA TO SEA The Digby Pinest....................................................Digby, N.S. Lakeside Innf..................................................Yarmouth, N.S. Cornwallis Inn....................................................Kentville, N.S. The Algonquinf . . St. Andrews by-the-Sea, N.B. McAdam Hotel....................................................McAdam, N.B. Chateau Frontenac........................ . Quebec, Que. Royal York Hotel................................................Toronto, Ont. Devil's Gap Lodgej-..................................................Kenora, Ont. The Royal Alexandra.......................................Winnipeg, Man. The Saskatchewan......................................................Regina, Sask. The Palliser.............................................................Calgary, Alta. Banff Springs Hotelf...............................................Banff, Alta. Chateau Lake Louisef .... Lake Louise, Alta. Emerald Lake Chaletf................................................Field, B.C. Empress Hotel............................................Victoria, B.C. Hotel Vancouver.................................Vancouver, B.C. (Operated by the Vancouver Hotel Co. Limited on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Canadian National Railways.) tT/icstf kotela open in the Summer only. COURT ACCEDES TO DEFENCE REQUESTAdjourn Clark Murder Trial Until First Assizes In 1962Clark is charged with the rifle slaying of Wilfred John Miners. 20. Norwich, whose body was discovered under a blanket on the 8th concession of West Zorra during the early hours of Aug. 26. Three shots from a small calibre rifle had been fired through lus head.A murder warrant was issued for his arrest by Crown At­torney A. C, Whaley of Wood- stock the day after the alleged shooting. Clark was picked up in Alliston with his 15-year-old girl companion a couple of days later.Clark was committed for trial at a higher court by Magistrate R. G. Groom. QC, Tillsonburg at a preliminary hearing at the court house on Sept. 28.After the grand jury returned a true bill. Mr. Justice Spence told the accused that he was not taking any action during the absence of his counsel who -had proposed an adjournment. He asked the accused if he under­stood that he would have to re­main in custody until his hear­ing.Clark, nattily dressed in a dark blue suit and dark tie, murmured that he understood.RELEASES JURYMEN; Midway through the after­Walter Robert Clark. 26. Nor­wich area tobacco worker, char­ged with capital murder, was remanded until the next jury sittings of supreme court by Mr. Justice W. F. Spence, Tor­onto, at supreme court here today.Defense counsel Donald E. Cooper. Hamilton, asked that file matter be put over until the next jury session when court convened about 10.30 a.m. “The preliminary hearing was only held about 10 days ago and I only1 received a transcript of tlie evidence about six days ago," he stated, noting that the accused understood that he would have to remain in cus­tody until tried.“You will be remanded for your trial until the next assize court can be held in Wood- stock,” His Lordship told the accused. The next jury session will likely be held next Jan­uary or February.RETURN TRUE BILLThe grand jury heard a par­ade of crown witnesses for a- bout three and a half hours yes­terday afternoon before return­ing about 5.30 p.m. with a “true bill” on the murder charge against Clark. noon. Mr. Justice Spence releas­ed 37 members of the petit jury from duty when seven out of eight jury actions were either settled out of court or traversed to the next jury sittings.Another criminal jury charge against Mrs. Helen Marie Titc- hner ol' St. Thomas was still pending on the Supreme Court docket about 6 p.m. yesterday. Mrs. Titehner was sentenced *o a reformatory term by a pre­vious Supreme Court on a charge of criminal negligence but an appeal court ordered a new trial.She was charged following an accident on Highway 401 in Dereham township on Sept. 21. 1960 that claimed the lives of a married couple from Toronto. Awarded $3,500In an out of court settlement. Miss Rose Marie Tottle, 19, Woodstock, was awarded $3,500. Win Tottle, her father, was awarded $1,372.42 and solicitor’s costs of $363.36 according to the minutes of settlement filed.The plaintiffs, in a counter suit, were claiming damages as the result of an accident bet­ween a car Miss Tottle was driving and a fire pumper own­ed by the city at the Wilson and Dundas street intersection on Sept. 19, 1960 about 6.20 a.m. Frederick Spurgeon and Mary Julia Spurgeon of Woodstock. The Canada Permanent is ex­ecutor of the estates of the de­ceased. The case was set over to the next jury session of Sup­reme Court.Other jury actions traversed to the next jury session were: Rose M. Tunaley, Woodstock, vs. Werner Majulski. RR 2 Inn­erkip, an action for damages arising out of accident at Fin­kle and Dundas streets on Dec, 12, 1958; Jack Burn. Woodstock, vs. Coles Brothers Ltd. Joseph Hughes, Young and Hutchinson, and Gordon Hughes, all of Woodstock, over damages for the sale of lands and property. - Gerald Pullin, as executor for the estate of Clarence Pullin, and Reginald Nancekivell, all of Woodstock, vs. Frank M. Perry. Woodstock, arising out of a motor accident on June 13. 1960 on Highway 2 east ofDefendants in the action were the city and Fireman Charles Armstrong.Two separate actions between the city and Mr. Tottle and his daughter and between firemen Kenneth Griffin and Armstrong, with the Tottles named as de­fendants. were also settled out of court.L. T. Pennel, Brantford, coun­sel for the Tottles, said there was a 75 per cent to 25 per­cent split in the settlement in favor of Mr. Tottle and his daughter. Kenneth Howie, Tor­onto, said the city recovered about $5,000 from the insurance company for damages to the pumper and that the two fire­men were compensated by the compensation board.Dr. Gordon Trotter, Wood- stock, said that Miss Tottle suf­fered concussion, shock and a fracture to the pelvis in the ac­cident.Woodstock. Victor M. Gaskin,CASE SET OVER [Woodstock, vs. Retail Credit Co.The Canada Permanent Trust John Herbert and T. J. Kelly,Co., Woodstock, is the plaintiff Toronto, for libel and slander, and the Canadian Pacific Rail- W. E. G. Young, Woodstock, way, the defendant in an act- is the plaintiff in a non-jury ion for damages arising out of (action for damages against Ron- a motor accident on the Gov-1 son Products of Canada Ltd., emor’s Road at a CPR level I Etobicoke, which was also tra- crossing on Nov. 6. 1958 which, versed to the next sitting of sup- claimed the lives of William re me court.Wil HAW DIXON, left of New Zealand after winning । the two-day competition, (AP u nm I. ,hf' ^^pion- wirephoto by radio from Par-Brampton, Ont., is congraiui- al QngnOn, France, yes-•ted by Hans Alan Magson of I terday, Magson was second in i-iCanadian Dairyman World Plow ChampDIEFENBAKER VISITS TILLSONBURGPrime Minister Diefenbaker paid a brief visit to Tillson- nurg this morning, enroute to open fall fairs at Simcoe andDunnviUe. He signed the vis­itors’ register at Tillsonburg town hall and spoke to school-the town hall in this photo art Mrs. Diefenbaker, the Prime_ _ Minister and Tillsonburg May-children. Show in front, of or Ted Vance. (Staff Photo) OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY OXFORD EX-REEVES' GROUPAt the 15th annual meeting of the Ex-Reeves Association of Oxford county, held in the Canadian Legion hall in Wood- stock. 59 former township he a d s turned out to electNorwich, to the presi­dency for the coming year. The new executive also in­cludes Reg. Day, East Nis­souri. past president; Cecil Riddell, North Oxford, vice-Cecil Bertrand, North I president; Garfield Irving,Norwich; director; .Hilton Vir- i Day and Mr. McLaughlin. 01- tue. E. Oxford, director; J. dest member present inR. McLaughlin, Dereham, dir­ector, and Leroy Curtis. Dere­ham township, secretary-trea­surer. Photo from left: Mr. Riddle, Mr. Bertrand, Mr.County Jail HistoryShows Occupancy UpFurther changes are shownThe <iew jail is now ready i taken place, particularly in thei Further changes are shown for occupancy”. Oxford county case of room service and men- in the recorded incident of Ine ; council was informed in a let- vs. This seems to be particul- jailing of an enure and lari,e, ariy applicable in the matter of family. Things being what they breakfasts. The largest single! then were, there was no Child- the institution’s food'ren’s Aid Society, the speaker • ■ ’ ■ and when bothiter dated Aug. 14, 1855 and | written by the firm of archi- ' tects. Clarke and Murray, of King St. west. Hamilton.That statement in that letter was the starting point for L. K. Coles, clerk treasurer of the county, when he presented an historical resume of activities associated with the county jail a' the meeting of the Oxford Historical Society, held in the YMCA in Woodstock Friday ev­ening.Those persons, in whom auth-item in — --------------budget of 100 years ago, was pointed out oatmeal, purchased at that time mother and father went out on for S2.12’/2 per 100 pounds. Also a real bender, as they seem to .................... have done even then, and ere a-near the top in the food ex­pense list is beef, for which a payment of $4.50 per 100 pounds was exacted and potatoes took a staggering toll at 25 cents per bushel.LIBRARYted a disturbance, and had to be housed other than at home, what could the kindly authorit-ies do but take the kids along. Tn this particular case, there 'were five of them. They all stayed there for the. then sob- The amenities, quite apart i ering up period — three days, from food, were not forgotten at1a that time. Mr. Coles states, and I All names and specific dates . the records show that over 100 in connection with these mci- munique quite seriously and tolhaV€ ‘VtekXl tn andenS^ of succeed“*solitary shelter in the building .^cks oi who • done - its and Fm- varvine neriods of time I the literary' tare, as well aS the foi varying perms ot - fo<)d , PATRONAGE GLOWS tere to even far more orthodoxBy the time ope year had rol- tenants than those of the 'beat- led around, business was show-'nik’ category.ing i robust growth and 96 ner-। The religious side of human son had been guests, also for existence was also fully takenprity for law enforcement had, at that ti m e been vestediseem to have taken the comhave passed on. lo their succes-. _ . .. _ .. r I, An 1sors asor had been guests, also for existence was also fully taken l for varying periods, of the coun into account, the speaker de­fy ostel This patronage has clared, and the records show bee built up steadily over the | that regular services were held pas 100 years as is amply evi- for the guests. Whether or not dented by the fact that in the acute attention was paid to the year (corresponding to the gov-[varying faiths is not clearly re- ernment s fiscal year) 1960 - 61, vealed and it appears these no less than 449 persons had werc far more standardizedityostelThis patronage haspas 100 years as is amply evi-found temporary release from When Ihe institution first started toil in the institution. I operating.i OUNTY JAIL i Type of occupancy. Mr. ColesThi growing patronage, Mr. 'says, has also-changed radical- Coles points out, is in sharp ly because in the first year of contrast to the facts surround- operation there is record of tnr the jail itself, for while the jailing of an eight-year-oldI ch Id, occupancy grew, and grew stea- so incarcerated because of being dip. i.h<- jail not a whit. In'light fingered. It does not stale that past 100 years there have ;specifically the nature of the berm a few minor change? such theftas window enlargement, a few, Also, the records of the jail waler tap- and the like, hut reveal clearly eham eg that have ji-tual living space has remain taken place in the surrounding rd abmlutelv static society. In 1857, a ten year-oldHowever, other than accom boy was jailed for one week —- modalion many changes have I the charge—assault.terms of service, was Allan Kneale, now of Brantford, who was reeve of East Ox­ford in .1907. Entertainment was provided by East Nis­souri township. (Staff photo)Rabies Cases Are ReportedMany areas in Ontario are reporting more than double the cases of rabies which occur­red in 1360, and nearly all of them arc in wildlife. Dr, D. W. Thompson, in charge of the Woodstock office of the federal Health of Animals service told the Sentinel Review today.So far this year only two cas­es bavo been confirmed in ani­mals in Oxford county. The one earlier in the summer was in a fox and last week a cow on the farm of Merton Penny m Norwich was found positive after test and had to be des­troyed.Local officers, Dr. Thompson said, are today sending a squir­rel for test to the animal dis­eases laboratory in Hull. Il had been reported as having bitten a little girl at Spring ford. A similar case was reported over the weekend al Simcoe where a squirrel had bitten three per­sons. He stated there had been no case In the county of rab­ies found in squirrels but a inumber where they had done some biting of persons.I He also said that, as of last week, authorities had resumed payment of compensation for animals in which rabies had been confirmed. This is done to encourage reporting.Problems Of Librarians Come Up For Workshop DiscussionMore than 20 representatives from libraries throughout Ox-The question of book select­ion came in for considerable discussion and each librarianford county met Wednesday to------------ --take part in the annual "work- gave a short resume ofothe new shop” meeting for librarians. whichheld in the county library' inbooks, recently acquired, which had proven useful and were in Woodstock. ’ considerable demani TheAgS'SSXT- ™ A consideredford, Sweaburg, Bright, Platts-ville, Ingersoll, Embro, Prince- jton, Dereham Centre. Mount Elgin. Brooksdale and Thames- ford.of the “better” category.Also under discussion wereThe program, organized by a committee headed by Anabelplans for furthering “Young Canada’s Book Week” to be (held sometime during Novem­ber. In this connection, librar­ians viewed a book collectionMacKay. ThamWford librarian.dealt, during the morning ses- Krof^part county librarian dis- sion, with problems related tolibrary service and particular cuss the question of chi.dren s attention was given to the ques- book selection , .tion of reference buying for County library boardsmall libraries. to the visitors at Terrace Gard­ens for luncheon. Tea was ser- ived by staff members.Grand Jury Finds County Buildings Very Well Keptthe foremanStanlev Roth of I Justice Spence told the petit jury. .A glowing report on the eon- ....'dition of the county buildings tavistocLjin Woodstock was turned m at Dism>ss» ~ ____ __the fall assizes j,, embers ’’for’toeii’assistance in (foreman, Gordon Leake. Eastto Mr. Justice W. F Spence, ntml {| . t; u { justice Oxford: Mrs. Lorraine Nephew. ■Toronto, by the grand ury the adm msu iwoodstock; Thomas Todd, ng-Members of the grand Wy and the tine pi .^torsoll; Ernest W Wright. Ingfound during their tour of the wilb tbe collapse ol all 11^^ Kenneth Empey Herecourt house, jail, registry ot- juVV cases listed, His Lordship)! Ivan D. Palen. Wood- Tut and health unit that the a|s0 dismissed the remainder, J'buildings were in "excellent^ lbe petit jury and thanked I------ - -condition, dean, sanitary and lbeni for theur assistance.F®w^e&h m chnaratulMte the "Due to the settlements andDismShE the grand jury.) Serving on the grand jury • Justice Spenct thanked the were: Stanley Roth. Tavistock.them for their assistance.•'Due to the settlements andIvan Dbeaulv and appearance of tin buildings They are a credit to the county," I he grand jury reuorled. .."A very courteous leceplion was given us by the utaffs, in the various buildings and they showed a great intercut aid pride in their work,' I he jury stated in its report, signed byYou may feel that it was a waste of lime and that we are not properly organized but it must be remembered that citi zens are entitled to a Inal by a lurv of iheir peers. Even tho­ugh you have not heard any cases you have helped in the administration of justice." Mr. County Road Costs Hit $450,000 TotalOxford County council, in the.in oslimate from $6,500 to the Thursday afternoon session, fin- Cugh of $137,000.al of the three-day fall meeting,! Also in the final session, coun­approved for payment accounts il refused to support a resolu-totalling more than one half,Lon from Peel county which advocated the setting up of a National Hospital Sweepstake inmillion dollars, of which the lion's share was for road con­struction, estimated roughly at $450,000. The balance was gen­eral.Largest single item in the road account was $137,000, ap­propriated for road 16, conces­sion 2 in West Zorra township, where a highway is being re­constructed for a distance of two and one half miles, to be completed this month.Next in line in county road sessment to the figure appli- expenditure is for road 13 from /'able to that in effect for the Holbrook to road 18, a distance Dower rate category.of three miles, estimated to cost A resolution forwarded from$134,300. Target date for com- Peterborough, and a request for nletion of this project is Nov. 15.;suppot in the matter of con-Other major items in road’trolling a claimed pollution of expenditure were for a bridge water courses in that area, was on road 29. in Blenheim town- j refued by council, ship, scheduled to be completed in November at a total cost of $61,200 and a bridge on theboundary heim and estimated12 ROADroad between Blen- Blandford townships, to cost $37,000.PROJECTSThere were 12 major projects included in the road expendi­tures and costs on each varied MAKE TOUR OF INSPECTIONWednesday’* session of the three-day Oxford County council, concluding tod a y, was entirely taken up with an inspection tour of county road and improvement pro­jects. Leaving Woodstock al 9 a m. the bus tour itinerary took councillors through the south-east portion of the town-ship and included inspection of work being done on roads Nos 14. 3, and 29. Ln t h e Bright area the group visited roads 16, 6, 28 arid 25. Pro­ceeding north and west to Embro the tour included in­spection of highway 16. A t Embro. women of the congre­gation of Knox United Chur-ch provided a turkey dinner to fortify the council’s collect­ive ‘inner man’ after which the tour turned south to view work on roads 6, 16, 13, 19 and 26. The survey concluded with an inspection at Tillsonbung and supper at a local motel. In the photo, from left, ready to board the bus for the final lap of the jaunt, are JamesShearer, blandford township reeve; George Nagle, Dere­ham reeve; Ernest Garner, county warden and reeve of West Zorra township: Lorne Junker, East Zorra Township reeve; Russell Honsberger, deputy reeve, Tillsonburg; L. K. Coles, county clerk-treasu­rer: Alfred Dickoul. Dereham deputy reeve. (Staff photo).Canada for the stated purpose of helping tn meet rising hospital­ization costs.Halton county's request for support for a standard practice in assessing properly in shop­ping centres where a large par­king lot was part of the pro­ject. received support. The re­solution set forth the present practice of having to lower as-During the Thursday after­noon closing session council al­so gave third reading and app­roval to four bylaws which would allow four additional townships to participate in th* county pension plan in which, it is hoped, all units of local government within the county will eventually take part.FOUR BYLAWSFour bylaWs also given third reading and passed dealt with road and traffic rules, the nam­ing of certain road sections as through highways, the right to control load limits on specified1 bridges, special agreement with Ihe town of Tillsonburg on dis­tribution of road costs there, and an agreement with the de­partment of highways of Ont­ario for the improvement of A county road where it connects with highway 53.Council adjourned at 5 p.m,REFORESTATIONBy ALBERT VANDERMAYOne of the conservation mea­sures to be undertaken in the Upper Thames River Watershed is the establishing of reforesta­tion areas to be known as the Upper Thames River Conserva­tion Authority Forest and the acquisition or control of existing swamps which form a protect­ion forest for the headwaters of the river.This is contained in the plan of ancillary conservation mea­sures in fulfillment of the ag­reement between the govern­ments of Canada and Ontario (for the construction of dams, reservoirs and channel improve­ments in the Upper Thames bas­in made public at a meeting in London recently.THREE SURVEYSThree different types of sur­vey* have been and presently are in the process of being con­ducted to determine the loca­tion of areas most suitable for reforestation purposes.1. The first was made during ithe initial survey of the existing natural resources of the Upper Thames Watershed embracing Ithe entire watershed area.2. The second type of survey is a more detailed study of the areas ; recommended, prior to acquisition, showing owner, as­Thames Survey To Up Forestsdy land near the eastern boun­dary of the watershed. Th* land would be more easily re­forested than any other in th* watershed. It includes 1.940 ac­res with 808 acres of woodland, 860 acres of open land, 223 res of willow acrub and 49 res of water in the form lake# and bog.ae- ac- ofIngersoll swamp: this w * small swamp with many small springs which supply the town of Ingersoll reservoir. The area embraces 241 acres of which 112 are wooded, 91 open land and 38 acres are willow scrub.Cedar Creek swamp: swamp is one of the thia mamsources of water for Cedar Creek and a number of strong springs arise there. An area of 608 aces was recommended for acquisition in the 1952 conser­vation report but most of thia land will be inundated bv the proposed Cedar Creek reser­voir.In addition to these areas m the watershed, a total of 15 in number, which were recommen­ded for maintenance in forest cover or reforestation there are numerous small isolated tract* on marginal or subma^ginal land throughout the watershed that are best suited to forest cover.POOR DRAINAGEsessment, acreage, etc. of par­cels of land within the recom- -mended areas. T"® PJan of ancillary conser-3. The third type of survey j yation measures points out that is an estimate, from aerial pho-i most cases these areas occur tos, maps and field reconnais- ®'to®r on poorly drained or sev- sance, of suitable reforestation ®rely sloping land. These tracts land in the proposed reservoir' total 18,906 acres in area with areas. I4-139 a®r®s of woodland, 11,921Local areas recommended in acres °Pen land. 2.799 acres the Upper Thames River Con- ’of rub a&d 67 acres of marsh, servation Report of 1952 for re- “"he total area of scrub land forestation include: |<® the Upper Thames water-Trout Creek: most of this ar- Jhed. slates the plan, is 20.786 ea lies in a broad former glac-|acres which 12.575 are dry ial spillway along the north end and 8,292 are wet scrub, of East and West Zorra town-JI Is estimated that most of ships. The whole area contains; to® dry scrub in the watershed 2.721 acres with 517 acres o' ls ®’tuated on river valley slop-woodland, 1.682 acres of open es- land and 522 acres of servb land, mostly willow.Blandford: this tract is mateOn land adjacent to the sched­uled flood control reservoirs re­forestation could be carried out on the steeper slopes to control up of imperfectly drained san-erosion and to establish a de­sirable balance of vegetation for wildlife and recreational use.At the Cedar Creek reservoir site much of the land recom­mended for forest in the 1952 conservation report, as earlier pointed out. will be inundated. About. 200 acres of adjacent slopes are considered a-s poten­tial reforestation land and the remainder is Woodstock PUC eforestation area of about 700Meres.Much of the land adjacent to the Woodstock Reservoir is well managed pasture land. The plan states since reservoir land close to an urban centre will undoubtedly be heavily used for parkland only 100 acres i* ex­pected to be reforestation land.tn the Thamesford daily far­ming area much of the gentleI valley slopes i« to productive pasture. About 200 acres of j steeper slopes are considered as reforestation land but th* plan states more land may be available when reservoir land requirements are finalized.PRICE VARIESThe price of land which can be acquired by the authority tor reforestation purposes var­ies with the condition of land rhe authority ha» in the past Paid an average of about $20 an acre for reforestation landI nt h,e u FAd' feory ■laoara of the authority estimat-lI er fo $25L’m™ a1***" ,nVL.l* a program of refive I kvhi°K Under th* agreement I Li uV cerlain reforestation! R ramed out by Dec.|pi. 1880. the authority expect J to acquire forest and reforest ! ation land at the rat* of :w| acres per year. ,I At a price of $25 per acre! p » would require that $5,000 h«| •el aside annually bv the auth-l only of which $2,500 would h*| 21.'of L*nd« Mn<* Forest ini ISS?*** wrt* exist mJ agreement. ■LJJ* sWn«* «» which <l.«l S WU r‘*’- O'” del ponds on winch areMS W|IJ purchawd first. The rewu-viSl lands win follow a dUmte rehl<w* on I Blenheim Tp. Limits Hunt Licences To Ensure Pheasants for MarksmenOrFOR HUNTER — Blenheim Township Clerk Irvin Haines holds plump pheasant for Linda Dan- nial and Nancy Haines in township pen at Drumbo. Blenheim Township will release about 2 000 birds tomorrow m readiness for the opening of pheasant season Wednesday. (Photo by Ferguson)DRUMBOBlenheimTownship is limiting the num­ber of pheasant hunting li­cences this year to 600 in a move to ensure hunters that birds will be available when the season opens Wednesday.The township is making sure that birds will be avail­able, as more than 2.000 will be released this year in an area of 67,000 acres. Blenheim Township has been attracting an increasing number of hunters each year since it began its pheasant stocking program 15 years ago. Last year more than 500 hunters paid the $4 fee to hunt.During the past 15 years, a total of more than $14,000 has been spent by the township on feed for the raising of pheas­ants and for pens.Bach year 3(^1 birds areposes. Most of the birds freed are released in areas which gives good cover and feed, away from boundaries of bor­dering municipalities. The birds average in weight from 4 to 5 pounds, with some weighing up to 10 pounds."We practically assure the hunter a bird.” Township Clerk Irvin Haines said. Mr. Haines and former township reeve Herbert Balkwell are in charge of the 10-man volun­tary team which looks after the brood ■ of pheasants.The township regularly at­tracts hunters from the Lon­don, Kitchener. Hamilton, Toronto area and one party showed up from Montreal last year.The pheasant stocking pro­gram has the blessing of the department of lands and for-181....From the loft of Elliott's livery stable to the compara­tively palatial quarters depic­ted in the architect's concep­tion of the new building shown in the photo, may seem a far cry. but that, at last, is to be the experience of the agri- cultural representative ser­vice of the Ontario depart­ment of agriculture for Ox*NEW QUARTERS FOR COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SERVICESford county. Don Taylor, ag. rep., announced today that after long years of negotiation where many considerations were involved, an agreement had been reached between thp Ontario government and Lo- see Biot hers, Ltd., Wood- Btork, which will provide ade­quate accommodation for the service in a new building to be erected on the south side of Dundas street just east of the Clarke street traffic light. The photo shows only half of the building as now planned and was the original sketch by architect Roy Beatty of the firm of Black will and Haggar- ty, when negotiations first started. The new quarters, although only partially used by the ag. rep, service, will provide a large board room. 10 to 12 separate offices, a separate entrance and recept­ion rooms as well as a gener­al office Total space will be 3500 aq. feet, almost double present space on Finkle St. Mr. Taylor drew attention to the circumslanve in which the lime of occupancy scheduled for the new space would co incide with the 50tb year of the establishing of the countv office when the late G. R. Green was sent from Waterloo county to inaugurate the sor vice. During the 50 years sev- eral premises have been used, including the then livery st a ble, all of them in the City hall area. FIND BODYSATURDAY. AUGUST 26, 1961AT GOLSPIENo Doubt Man Murdered. Provincial Police SayBULLETIN ,The body found on Cons. 8 of West Zorra this morn­ing was identified early tins afternoon as that of John Miners, 20, of Stover street north, Norwich.By STEWART WATSONThe body of an unidentified young man, believed by provincial police here to have been murdered, was dis­covered about 8.30 a.m. today on the 8th concession of West Zorra, near Golspie by a passing fanner.The man, said to be in his 20’s and dressed in working clothes, was taken to the Woodstock General Hospital shortly after for a post mortem to determine the cause of death.Police say the man’s head was covered with blood but the exact cause of death could not be determined without a PM. There was blood splattered over the grass on the west side of the gravel road. Two empty beer bottles were found where the body was discovered on a grayish colored, woolen blanket.The body was discovered by a passing farmer, Joseph Montgomery, who lives at Beachville but has a farm at R.R. 3, Woodstock. The police at the Wood- stock detachment were informed about 8.45 a.m. The man was pronounced dead by Coroner Dr. K. B. McKenzie of Woodstock and taken to the Woodstock General hospital.As of 10.30 a.m. today the identity of the man had not been discovered but police expected to have more particulars about him soon.Another passing farmer, Donald Wright, R.R. 3, Woodstock, said he saw a car parked where the body was found, about 6 a.m. He described the car as a 1949 or 1950 blue Austin. He said there was a man sitting in it behind the steering wheel."I was going to work about 6 a.m. travelling south on the 8th concession when I saw a car parked at the side of the road. There was a man in it. After I went by I saw, in the rear view mirror, that the car lights were turned on and it started south following me,” he stated.Mr. Montgomery, with his helper, William Miller, went by at about 6 a.m. but they didn’t notice any­thing am’iss at that time. They were on the way to milk at the owner’s farm and were travelling north on the 8th. Mr. Montgomery said he was going to Embro later when he noticed the body on the west side of the road in a very shallow ditch lying on a blanket. “I phoned the police right away,” he stated.Cpl. Henry Cartier and Constable John McPher­son, criminal investigating officer with the Woodstock OPP, were at the ecene within minutes. “I don’t think there is any doubt but that the man was murdered,” Cpl. Cartier said.Constable McPherson described the man as being in his 20*s, dressed in working clothes or “bumm’ing” । clothes. The beer bottles were taken away by police ! for finger print checks.There was some speculation that the man may have been murdered elsewhere and the body dumped where it was found in West Zorra township of Oxford county, Golspie, consisting of a small general store and a few homes, is located about six m’iles north-west of Woodstock.Norwich Man’ALICE HUNTSLAYING SUSPECT. vkt-:_s') t ' v.. .'Vb-V *■ V., ‘V"MATCH PLANSTraditional procedure is to be I by-passed this year by the Ox- i ford County Plowmen’s Assoc- Ijation and the 20-person direct­orate is to hold a planning meeting in theBoard room in Woodstock, Wed­nesday evening. Nov. 8, Don Taylor, count?,' agricultural re­presentative and secretary of the association explained that I the change in procedure had been adapted to allow officials to discuss arrangements for the annual match while the most I recent one was still . fresh in mind. In the past, this daseus- |Sion had been held over until the annual meeting and often sections of the program m which changes bad been consid­ered advisable had not been dealt with in time. Directors are going to examine the nos- 'slbility of making the annua ;evenl more generally useful and educational.Governor's Rd. Re-paving SetIf Weather OKFree Press Woodstock Bureau i WOODSTOCK — The re-pav­ing and traffic channelling proj- iect at the Thamesford end of the Governor's Road will be completed within three or four days, given good weather, Ox­ford County Road Superintend­ent J. N, Meathreli said yester­day.The curbing which will chan­nel traffic at the Highway 2 intersection has been installed and the base laid for the re­paving of the Governor’s Road for one quarter of a mile east from the Intersection.Paving will be started this morning If the temperature is ■warm enough to permit rolling of the hot surface mix, Mr. Meathreli said.In other sections of the coun­ty road system, work crews are ready to start filling In the roadway approaches to three newly - completed bridges in Derehara Township, one at Cul­loden and two east of Browns­ville.The three sections will be open to traffic by the end erf next week.The substructure has been .completed for an 80-foot span over Horner's Creek on Blen­heim Township'S seventh con­cession, west of Drumbo.i The pro-east deck erf the I bridge will ba laid next week. POLICE STILL• SEEK DRIVEROxford FormerDiscovers BodyOn Rural RoadBy JOHN RATCLIFFE Free Press Staff ReporterWOODSTOCK — Police throughout Ontario were ordered last night to hunt down Robert Walter Clark, 26, of Norwich, wanted on a charge of murder after the blood-spattered body of Wilfred John. Miners, 21, also of Norwich, was found lying in a West Zorra Township ditch Saturday.Worked At Simcoe -<Crown Attorney A. C. Whaley, QC, of Woodstock, authorized the murder charge against Clark yesterday after hours of con­sultation with Ontario provincial police from Toronto, Woodstock and London. Clark has been working in Simcoe for some time.The investigation Into Miners’ death is being conducted by Insp. Donald Nicol, of the OPR Criminal Investigation Branch. Toronto.Identification officer. Con­stable Myrell Triff, of the Lon­don detachment, was also called in on the case, in addition to in­vestigating officers John Mc­Pherson and E. F. Martin, of Woodstock.Insp. Nicol said last night no textra men have been called in, but a province-wide alert has gone out for Clark, known to be a frequent acquaintance of the (dead man.Find CarA turquoise, 1950 Austin car. which had been the object of an all-night police search Saturday, was found in the Burfbrd urea yesterday afternoon and Con­stable Triff was called In to dust it for fingerprints, Police would neither confirm nor deny the car belonged to the wanted man, but said it played a key part in the case. Results of the finger­printing were not made known. (Pictures of the scone and the c.ar are on page X).Donald Wright, a Woodstock district farmer, alerted police to the car. He said he saw a car parked where the body washead covered with blood and arms hung loosely behind it. A post mortem revealed the victim, had been shot in the head at least three times with a .22- calibre rifle. The weapon has not been found."It was just as if the body had been thrown there and stayed in that position,” Mr. Montgomery said.The discovery was made after 6 a.m. Mr. Montgom.ery said ho and his hired man, William Mil­ler, had gone by the same spot about 6 a.m. and noticed nothing unusual.Dead “Short Time”Insp. Nicol said Miners had been dead only "a short time” when the body was found.There had been earlier specu­lation that the slaying had been committed elsewhere and the body had been transported in the car and dumped in the ditch. Insp. Nicol said he wasn't at liberty to comment on the theory “at this time.”Curiosity seekers flocked to the scene of the crime all week­end, said Mr. Montgomery, who can look down on the heavily- trampled ditch from the door of his barn atop a hill.One area farmer added the comment that the gravel-coated eighth concession road received more traffic, this weekend than it has In the past 20 years.The dead man is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil­fred Theodore (pat.) Miners, of Norwich, and a brother, Philip, of (Jam rose, Alta. Service will be held Wednesday, at 2 p.m. at tha Arn and Son funeral home, Nor-wich. Hu rial will be in Hillviewfound on the eighth concession '----- ------------ —iof West Zorra Township about!Cgmettry, Woodstock.6 «,m, Saturday; with n man sitting behind the wheel, "Afix.-r I went by, I saw In the rear view mirror the ear's lights and it started south, fol-s>.««...» me." Mr, Wright said.I Tha body was found under n| blanket by Jotophl ^tgomery, who qpmtwi nl .......j on th- eighth concession. ISaw BlmiketI "1 have ft hired man who rinial I’hls place for m-.” Mr Mm.l- -.. Md Sunday, "and Iip from BcavhvlUe rwryl ’ » with the ahor*. IMay Have Given Lift;Scour Toronto For ClarkProvincial police here are still trying to locate the man who may have given a ride to fleeing murder suspect, Robert Walter Clark, 26, Norwich area tobacco worker.Clark has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Wilfred John Miners, 20, Norwich, who was found shot to death on the 8th concession of West Zorra, about one mile north of Golspie, early last Sat­urday morning.Police here believe that a dark complexioned man driving a blue 1956 Ford picked up a man answering Clark’s description a- long with a 15-year-old girl in the Burford area where a blue [Austin car, was found abandon­ed Sunday“All we know is that a man and a girl were picked up in a i 1956 blue Ford near Burford by a car driven by a dark complex­ioned man heading in the direc­tion of Toronto,’’ Inspector Don- aid Nicol, in charge of the in- Ivestigation here, said today.RIFLE FOUNDThe latest development in the case was the finding of a 22 cali­bre rifle in a scrap heap near Burford in the same area where the Austin was found abandoned. “We won’t know whether or not it is the murder weapon until, ballastics checks have been! completed in Toronto, which may be in a couple of days,1' Inspector Nicol said this morn- ing.Meanwhile an intense search for the wanted man is center­ing in the Toronto area A police dragnet was spread over Met- [ropolitan Toronto last night In an intense search for Clark who (is believed by police, at present, to be in that area. “All we can do now is wait for a break and continue searching,” one police officer said.The blood-spattered body of Miners was found by a Beach- ville man, Joseph Montgomery, about 8:30 a.m. Saturday under a blanket in a shallow ditch.Following a conference at the Woodstock detachment office of the OPP Sunday, Crown Attorn­ey A. C. Whaley authorized a charge of murder against Clark and a warrant was issued for his arrest.THOUGHT IN TORONTO AREAInspector Nicol said last night that he believed the sua pect to be in the Toronto area accompanied by the girl who is known to police and who is ab-WILFRED JOHN MINERS . . . murder victimsent from home. Police said Clark, who is well built five feet 10 inches with dark hair, was wearing a dark suit and a light shirt when he fled this area. He is believed to be carrying a top coat but has no luggage.The concentrated search in the Toronto area is being conducted by the OPP headquarters there assisted by the Toronto police.A post mortem at the Wood- stock General Hospital Saturday afternoon revealed that Miners had been shot three times in the back of the head with a .22 calibre rifle.The fact that a girl was ac­companying Clark was released to the Sentinel-Review yester­day. Inspector Nicol said that they knew a girl was with him Sunday but didn't mention it for fear of hindering the search. He said as far as he knew no extra men had been called into the hunt for the suspect. Road blocks, he felt, were useless be­cause they are confident that Clark is already hidden in the Toronto area.in mid J saw thh» bhnkel ditch. I look a clem.. ,I saw II. wna covW<d v>I lifted It up, amt I i SAY GIRL MAY BEWITH FUGITIVECHARGED WITH MURDERWalter R. Clark Hearing OpenedWalter Robert Clark, 26, Nor­wich area tobacco worker, char­ged with murder in connection with the death of Wilfred John Miners, 20, Norwich, appeared before Magistrate R. G. Groom at the county court house here this morning for his prelimin­ary' hearing,The body of the slain youth was found in a shallow ditch on the 8th concession of West Zor­ra Township in the early morn­ing of Aug. 26. Police said later that a post mortem revealed he had been shot three times thr-, ough the head with a .22 calibre rifle.Following a wide-spread pro­vincial police search throughout the province, Clark was arrest­ed on Aug. 29 at Alliston in the Barrie area and returned to Woodstock to stand trial. The accused’s 15-year-old girl com­panion was also picked up in Alliston by police there about the same time.A murder charge against the accused was issued by Crown Attorney A. C. Whaley of Wood- stock on the Sunday following the murder after he had a len­gthy consultation with investi­gating provincial police officers headed by Inspector DonaldNicol, Criminal Investigation Branch of Toronto.The preliminary hearing for Clark opened before Magistrate Groom al 10 a.m. Donald E. Cooper, Hamilton, is acting for the accused.WALTER R.CLARK .............. at preliminaryOPP fit Woodstock Press Hunt For Murder SuspectBULLETINFrom information given Ontario provincial police of the Woodstock detachment at noon today it is be­lieved that the wanted man, Walter Robert Clark, ac­companied by a girl, wras picked up near Burford by the driver of a 1956 Ford. The pick-up was only a short distance from where the foreign-type car, believed to have been driven by Clark, was found abandoned on Sunday. Police are seeking to get in touch with the driver of the 1956 Ford, Who ’is believed to have simply picked up the man and girl on the piwimption they were hitch-hikers. It is also believed that the car drove off in the direction of Toronto.Provincial police here today- continued to press their search for Walter Robert Clark, 26, Norwich and Simcoe, wanted I on a charge of murder, who when he left this area may have been accompanied by a .15-year-old girl.made the preliminary investi­gations.Inspector Donald A. Nicol, ofthe OPP Criminal Investigation Branch, Toronto, who is head-ing the investigation into the imurder of Wilfred John Miners, i 20, Norwich, early Saturday morning in West Zorra, said this i morning that they “believe 'Clark was accompanied bv a ,15-year-old girl when he left this district.”Remand Clark Until Sept. 8Appearing very briefly in county police court yesterday, Waller Robert Clark, 26, Nor­wich area tobaccv worker, char­ged with murder, was remand­ed in custody until Sept. 8 by | Magistrate R. G. Groom. QC, Tillsonburg.I Clark is charged with the murder of Wilfred John Min­ers, 20, Norwich, whose body was found in a shallow ditch on tile 8th concession of West Zorra early last Saturday mor­ning.AUTHORIZES CHARGEFollowing a lengthy confer­ence with provincial police at the Woodstock detachment of­fice Sunday afternoon. Crown Attorney A. C. Whaley author­ized the charge of murder a- gainst Clark. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.Miner's , blood • bathed body was found beneath a blood-soak­ed, woollen blanket on the ver­ge of the 8th concession of West Zorra, about a mil© north of Golspie, by a passing farm­er, Joseph Montgomery, Beach­ville, about 8.30 a.m.Inspector Nicols said yester day that no extra men have been called in but a provincial wide alert has gone out for the (wanted man known to have been a frequent acquaintance of the murdered man.A blue 1950 Austin, noticed at the scene of the murder about6 a.m. Saturday by another pas- ising farmer, Donald Wright. RR3 Woodstock, has been located.A post mortem conducted at the Woodstock General Hospital on Saturday afternoon by Dr. J. R. Peniston. Stratford, revealed that Miners had been shot tnree times through the head by a .22 calibre gun.Mr. Wright told the Sentinel- Review Saturday morning that there was a man sitting behind the wheel of the small car parked at the side of the road where the body was later dis­covered.“I was going to work about 6 a.m. travelling south on the Sth concession when I saw a car parked at the side of the road. There was a man in it sitting behind the steering wheel. After I went by I saw. in my rear view mirror, that the ear lights were turned on and it started south following me.” Mr. Wright related.Mr. Montgomery, who lives at Beachville but who operates a farm at RR 3 Woodstock, said that when he first passed the spot about 6 a.m. with his hired man. William Miller, RR 3 Woodstock, he saw nothing a- miss. Later, about 8.30 a.m. while enroute to Embro, he dis­covered the body. He said lie saw the blanket in the shallow ditch and on taking a closer look saw that it was covered' with blood.The car. object of an all night police search Saturday, was found abandoned in the Burford area, some 20 miles sohlh east of Woodstock, yesterday after­noon. The car was lodged at the local OPP headquarters where it was given a thorough check for finger prints and other evidence by Constable My roll Triff, identification officer from Ixmdon district headquarters.Assisting in the investigation! from the Woodstock OPP office! lire Constables E. F. “Pep’'! Marlin and John McPherson.RESULTS NOT REVEALEDResults of the finger priming! have not been made known by! police who also declined to state! positively whether the car bv l longed to tn* wanted man or! .T1' lite discover) oilthe body by Mr. Montgomery,! who phoned provincial police! ARREST CLARKNEAR RARRIEPick Up, Arrest Norwich Tobacco Worker At Alliston1 Wanted on an Oxford county murder charge, Walter Robert Clark, 26, Norwich area tobacco worker, was arrested in Allis- ;ton, in the Barrie area, about 5.30 p.m. yesterday, provincial (police revealed to the Sentinel- Review this morning.Culminating a wide-spread isearch that spread over Ontario (■since the body of Wilfred John Miners, .20, Norwich was found in a shallow ditch on the 8th concession of West Zorra last Saturday, Clark and his 15-year- old girl companion were both picked up by police, a few hours I apart.i Clarke was returned to the Woodstock OPP letachment of- :fice about midnight by Inspector Donald Nicol, Provincial Police ■ Criminal Investigation Branch, (Toronto, who headed the inves­tigation and Constable E. G. “Pep” Martin of the Woodstock OPP,REMANDED TILL FRIDAYEarly this morning (he was re­manded in custody to appear in county police court here next Friday. Court starts at 2 p.m.Clark was unarmed and of­fered no resistance when he was arrested in Alliston by Chief Constable T. D. Atkinson, who was acting on information sup­plied by Toronto OPP head­quarters. In on the arrest were Provincial Constable C. E. Kel­so and Paul Maurice of the OPP detachment at Alliston.Inspector Nicol said Clark was working on tobacco farm just outside of Alliston but was arrested in a doorway or on the street in that town about 5.30 p.m. yesterday.Clark’s girl companion, In­spector Nicol said, was arrested about 1.30 p.m. in a room in Alliston. As of 11 a.m. today she had not been charged with any offense.Court Praises Stanley Main For ServiceCourt officials at city police court yesterday expressed ao- preciation for the work of Stan­ley Main in the fields of proba­tion in the county.Mr Main, who has resided in Woodstack for the past several years since he was first named Oxford eounty probation offi­cer, is leaving the city to take up a new post in Toronto with the department of probation ser­vices.Mr. Main first served as coun­ty probation officer and for the past few years has served as supervisory probation officer for area No. 2 which includes Oxford. Middlesex, Brant, Elgin and Waterloo.Making his last appearance in court yesterday. Mr. Main was told by Magistrate Groom that his work has been appre­ciated. “We wish you the best of hick in your new position,” he stated.WALTER CLARKSEE “NORWICH TOBACCO,” Page 13Clark Committed For Murder TrialWalter Robert Clark. 26, Nor-1 with Miners. Clark and another wich area tobacco worker. char-|youth, Lambert Vanderbeugten, TJd with murder in connection 19, of the 13th concession of with the death of Wilfred John East Ze™*. ...Miners 20 Norwich, was com- The girl _ _ _mitted’to a higher court of Alimon^ competent jurisdiction for trial at a preliminary hearing here yesterdav by Magistrate R. b.Groom, Q.C., Tillsonburg.A jury session of the supreme court is scheduled to open here at the county court house on Oct. 10 with Mr. Justice W. F. Spence. Toronto, presiding.Th* body of the slain youth was found in a shallow ditch on the 8th Concession of West Zor­ra Township in the early hoursThe girl was picked up inpolice where Clark was also arrested on Aug. 29 and return-Crown Attorney A. C. Whal­ey of Woodstock put in 33 ex­hibits as evidence and called eight witnesses during the day­long hearing which opened at 10 a.hi. and closed about 4.30ed to Woodstock.DESCRIBES WOUNDSDr. Jolin Peniston, Stratford pathologist, described three gun shot wounds in the head, one in the left cheek, one above the left eye that passed through brain and one below the left ear. He gave the cause of death as gun shot, wounds in the head with particular emph­asis on the one in the forehead.He also described a gun shotwound through the left hand with the entry al. the back of tllie hand and exit in the palm.IV — ......... ----- L71- He said there were no appar-pm. Donald E. Cooper, Hann!- cn« powder burns around the r . wo,.ndl<iton/is acting for the accused.Other evidence was given byih. w v sul&d .nd John night-long events and to lhe funk of the Attorney Generals ZyXmK shooting was : v laboratory. Toronto and by en at the preliminary by a 15 Joseph AMUllUia, RR v‘-arold West Zorra girl who rul’d, proprietor of the Burford had spent the nigm joy riding \u!o Wreckers.Acclaim Cecil Wells Champion PlowmanAgainst competition from 33 I plowmen, using both horse and tractor drawn plows, Cecil Wells, of Paris won top place at the Oxford County Plowing Match Friday and received the memorial trophy presented an- inually by the East Zorra Plow- men's Association. The award is limited to Oxford residents.i The match was held at the 'farm of Irwin and Clare Hart­ley a few miles north-wet.I of (Woodstock and attracted bet­ween 500 and (too persons. The winner took the top award lor I t he third time, 1956. I960 and this year. He used a horse drawn plow and upheld the generally accepted theory that when it comes to meticulousPlatings in .he various com­petitions were as follows: Open- Horse drawn — Davey MacRob- ’ Eatons of Canada junior1 bie. Guelph; Cecil Wells, Paris; championship trophy was won Andrew MaeRobbie. Gue ph; bv Allan Dver of Woodstock. Richard MaeRobbie. Guelph; In this competition, also for Norman Love Guelph.mounted tractor drawn plows, Open tractor drawn • R a y eligibility is limited to boys and Dedman New Dundee: Charles tirk between the ages of 12 Bonnie Princeton; Don Perry, aid 18 years and no competitor! Brussels; Bob Mitchell. Bright, can receive more than one suchhave not previousl) capturedthis prize.JUNIOR AWARDtrophy at a local match in a•single year.The inter-township compete I ion, requiring al least three en­trants from each county, io'Dpen — three furrows-lraetor. Jack Hargreaves, Beachville. Boys or girls • under .18 . Allan Dyer, Terry Richardson. DavidTurner, all of Woodstock. Mur-trams from each county, to ray Raad. Curries; t^rtld \ou- compose a team, was captured’ng. Thamesford; Ross Pullen, by Blenheim, with East Zorra Woodstock; Ken Ovington Bur­in second place and East Ox ford; Bob McClintock. Inger- ford in third sell; Donald Riaeh, Woodstock;In lhe safe tractor driving I Hans Hansam. Embro; Keith Week. o( Waner Embm. ..to match the old-fashioned mc-iThamesford was placed at the Mod. top Ken Sutherland, Woodstock, |Special award by Imperial anil Hans Hansen of Embro, I Oil Ltd., for the best plowing second and third respective!)hmainoeuvering in plowing, the tractors have not yet been ableboys or girls under 20 years - John Edworthy. Galt; Keith Fried, New Dundee; Jack Bydone with a mounted tractor AH were in the junior competi drawn' plow went, to Ed Lud lion. Senior section "'timers m wig of Woodstock This comp- the same competition were Or- etHion is also limited Io conn -a al Fried. Plattsville. irst. and ty residents, over 18 years, whoiRobeni Biair, Embro second.croft Uderton Mounted Plow- Class David McDonald. New Dundee; David Rife, Galt; Mrs. Ruby Opersko, Jarvis; Doug’ las Becker, Ayr; Bob Dalian-itynv. Ayr. W WfW<»« U |. M ; ^sx., , s :>.--■■ .. ~ n •.}.;. ,*»« i,. •■*, <• iS<lK '4 >hS>\«w«>? «itlt«r Utt•M Ua**£ ns.to U''-^WMake AlterationsOn Governor's RoadWeather row is the sole fac­tor governing completion of the changes which have been made at the Thamesford end of the Governor’s road where ft joins highway No. 2, J, N. Meathr­ell. Oxford county roads sup­erintendent, said today.Unless there is an extended period of fairly heavy frost or snow, final paving of the hill leading out of Thamesford, which has been cut down con­siderably, and the section of No. 2. which was torn up, will be completed this fallAll west-bound traffic on High­way No. 2, now has to stop at the junction with the Governor’s road. East-bound traffic on No. 2 still uses the curved junction without stop signals. Traffic on the Governor’s Road, both east and west bound, has the green light ait all times,Mr. Meathrell explained ihat the matter of installing stop and go signal lights at the intersec­tion was not for county decis­ion as the installation would have to be placed on a provin­cial highway. It is not yet known whether this will be done.sons, were great—great- grandsons Lloyd Barker, Brantford, and E. H. Barker, Woodstock. (Staff Photo)* k4 P L A Q UE commemorat- i at Princeton cemetery yester- | granddaughter of Mr. Horner, mg Oxford pioneer settler j day by Mrs. Norma Greig of Assisting in the ceremony, Thomas Horror was unveiled ! Brantford, a great-g r e a t । attended by about 100 per-THOMAS HORNOR CAME IN 1795Plaque Honors FirstOxford County MLAAbout 100 persons attended Smith of Woodstock, represent­ceremonies in Princeton cem-' ing the Archaeological and His- etery vesterday in connection! tone Sites Board.with the unveiling of a historic- Also taking part in the cere­al plaque to the memeory of mony were Wallace Nesbitt, Thomas Horror, Oxford’s first MP for Oxford; Gordon W. In­miller and first local represen- nes, MLA for Oxford; Harry C. tative to the provincial legislat-, Nixon, MP for Brant; and Rev. Ure. E. V. Warren of Princeton.A"great-great - granddaughter Thomas Homor was elected of Thomas Homor, Mrs. Gord-j to the provincial legislature as on Greig of Brantford, officially unveiled the plaque, assisted by two great-great-grandsons Lloyd E. Barker of Brantford andOxford County’s first member in 1820 and represented the rid­ing from 1820 to 1831 and from 1832 until his death on August 4, 1834.In 1793 he visited the unset­tled Blenheim Township where he chose a mill site on a small creek, which now bears h i s name, near the site of this plaque.Tavistock Seeks Approval Of 0MB On Sewage SystemEarl H. Barker of Woodstock.The plaque was one of a ser­ies being erected throughout the province by the Department of Travel and Publicity, acting on the advice of the Archaeolo­gical and Historic Sites Board of Ontario.Yesterday’s ceremony was arranged and sponsored by the Princeton and Woodbury branch of the W’omen’s Institute and the Princeton Board of Trade. Chairman was Allan Masson, senior village trustee, and also present was Mrs. Bernadette;PRELIMINARY COMMITTEE REPORTWoodstock Sentinel-Review, Tues,, Oct. 31. 1961 Page 3BOOM REVIEW CONTESTResults of the ’’Book Review” contest, sponsored in all Oxford schools by the county library, । are now in the hands of the jud­ges and awards will be announ­ced shortly, Mrs. S. L. Krom­part, county librarian said to­day. The second of the annual county tours of ail schools by the Bookmobile unit is to start next week and when this is com­pleted, county libraries will a- gain be visited, also for the second time since opening of the fall lending session. In the tabulation of requests kepy by the county Library, there is little evidence of any drastic change in types of books in demand as compared to other years except for possibility of wider desire for general, rather than specif­ic information.HIGHWAY IMPROVEDMany frequent users of the Governor’s road took occasion to inspect the new junction of -the road with No 2 Highway at Thamesford over the weekendthereAdvise Central School Site For Civic Centre; The present site of Central Public School on Hunter. Gra­ham and Light street, has been recommended as the location for a new civic centre for Wood- stockIn a preliminary report to........ was already a stop for traffic coming off No. 2, J, N,Meathrell, county toads super-and many highly compliment-___,ary opinions were expressed as mlendemt explained today 'ms to the manner in which a form- ierly hazardous intersection has been transformefl into a com-arrangement, wan likely tempor­ary but was being enforced for additional safely while there was still some constructionwork in process. Another pave*city council a committee study­ing the matter of the need for and location of a new city building recomimends acquisit­ion of the site. The committee proposes a new city hall and police administration building be elected on the properly.Discussion with the board of j education for pro vision of a site for a new school to replace Central is recognized by the committee. Also recognized is 'the disposition of the present |(<v hall and market building.In its report the committee of fered its assistance in dealing with these two phases otf the : proposal®.Members of the commitlee are V. T. Ross. Eric W. Cross, Norman Moore, Reg Hall and j Aid. .1. F. Hutchinson, chair- . man.COMMITTEE REPORTThe preliminary report of the (committee reads:I “Youi committee is unanim mi+dy of the opinion Hut thepresent Central school proper­ty in the city of Woodstock should be acquired for a civic centre with a view to construct- ing thereon a city hall and pol­ice administration building.“It is our considered opinion that this property is more suit­able for development as a civic centre than for its continued use as a school site. Its proxim­ity to present administration buildings such as the county court house, the Public Utilities Commission building, and to the downtown business section, make it a most desirable site, and its proper development would give the city a civic centre which would be a mat­ter of pride for years to come,“This might well be consid- cred also for development as a project with which Canada’s Centennial Celebration in 1967 might be recognized. The Dam inion government >«s announced plans throughout i a inula and lias set aside funds for this purpose.“This proposal is dependant upon certain conditions on whi­ch we require further instruct- :on. The committee recognizes »nat the board of education would need a new site for a 16 room school and we under­stand that they would require about 5 6 acres. We recommend discussion between the city council and the iboard of educat­ion with this in mind. If you wish this committee to assist in these discussions, we would be pleased if you would instruct us accordingly.•Your committee has given some preliminary consideration to t he financial obligation to the city involved in the proposed development but it would ap­pear necessary (hat the present city hall and the present mark­et building be disposed of and w« recommend that such action be considered as an integral p«rl of the over-all plan. W this committee can be of further assistance we would be ed U» have your instructions.' NORWICH FACES OWRC ULTIMATUMDecision On Sewage Disposal Is OrderedNORWICH: — The Norwich Council is faced with an ultim­atum from the Ontario Water Resources Commission to make a decision concerning sewage disposal in the village before Tuesday, October 10, and to notify the Commission of their decision. The ultimatum came in a letter to council from Dr. .t & ow?c.geMr,J n”"aserCouncil discussed the quest­ion from every angle, made a study of pollution of the Otter Creek, as supplied through tests the OWRC and decided a dele­gation would go to Toronto to seek an interview with Dr. Ber­ry.OWRC LETTERDr, Berry’s letter to council read, in part:“As you are aware there has been much correspondence and discussion concerning the de­gree of pollution in the wastes from storm drains at Norwich, and the means that might be adopted to correct this. The discharge of this obectionable material is contrary to the leg­islation in force in this Province and steps will be required to deal with this without further delay”,“There are two ways in which action can be taken. One. and the more desirable one, is to install public sewers and sew­age treatment facilities as re­commended previously. This would consisl of a lagoon meth­od of treatment. The other is to sever all connections to storm drains or water courses, and have the individual treat these wastes on his own property by septic tank or by other devices. It is for the municipality to de-would cost the individual home owner between $100 and $200 to tap into the system. Re­eve Force expressed doubt a bout tills and said he had been told by Mayor Ross Fewster of bout this and said he had been told by Mayor Ross Fewster of Ingersoll that the average costs in Ingersoll had been between $60 and $100. Councillor Forbes said he had been told by the owner of four properties in an­other municipality that it hascost him in excess of $1,000 to connect up the four outlets. In one case it required only about two feet of piping.After a date has been arrang­ed with Dr. Berry, the Council­lors will get together on who will go to Toronto for the inter­view.cide which of these methods is to be put into effect. 1 must point out. however, that since these connections are to public drains the responsibility rests with the Village, and action must be taken to meet these irequirements. Our experience elsewhere shows that it would be very difficult indeed to have al! of these wastes treated on the pnoperties. The preferable method, and the least expens­ive in the long run, is the in­stallation of sanitary sewers and treatment. It is doubtful If it is feasible to have such property owner treat the wast­es separately. This would also involve considerable expendit­ure on his part as well as in­convenience. It would be pref­erable to use this money in a public system.“This is the situation which the Commission places before the Counncil now. The matter has been under review for a long period of time, and it is necessary that a decision be reached forthwith .We will ex­pect that decision to be made and the Commission advised not later than October 10.”CRITICAL OF COSTCouncillors Allan Rabjohn and Andrew Forbes were critical of the first estimates of the prob­able costs supplied by engine­ers of the Commission. Neither did the plan make provision for serving the whole village with sewage disposal facilities. They would like a survey made that! would cover the whole village and a more accurate esti­mate of costs.^Council agreed that there seemed to be a bit of camoufl­age in the first estimates sup­plied. Councillor Rabohn said that, from studies he made it Annexation And Traffic Reports To Be Ready Soonalize the area recommended until the financial aspects are complete.“We are confident, however, that we sfhall be able to com­plete the work in good time,” they said.The firm has also provided M. M. Dillon with existing and future population densities for the area broken down into their origin-destination zones.In their progress report the talfl. consultants said Ibis da­ta will enable them to arrive at coherent zonal expansion fact­ors which in turn will result in clear indications of traffic flows, volumes and desires for 1981.Work has also been done on toe parking study, they report, and the section of the final re­port dealing with parking sup­ply, usage and desires is al­most ready,Work has commenced on por­tions of the final report. Est­ablishment of future traffic pat­tern will have to wait the scru­tiny f senior governmental ag­encies but Ihe firm hopes all obstacles will be cleared and that the report and recommend- ations will be completed in j early 1962.Progress reports on the an-i nexation and traffic studies be­ing conducted by two separate engineering firms from Toronto indicate that both studies will be completed and reports pre­sented to the Woodstock Plan­ning Board before deadline.Proctor and Redfern have un­til around mid-December to complete the $9,700 annexation study of the city and M. M. Dillon Co. Ltd. have until mid­March of next yt.r to compete the $17,600 traffic study.In a progress report to the planning board last night Proc­tor and Redfern stated there are no compelling planning or engineering reasons why the Ontario Hospital should be wit'h- j the city. A certain provin­cial legislation exempts the OH from payments of grants in lieu of taxes.“There is now serious quest­ion as to whether it would be in the city’s financial interest,” they stated.MIN r. ADJUu NTSThe financial study has re­quire*. several minor adjust­ments to the boundary and the firm will make n., ,ove to fin­East Zona Couple Celebrate; 50th Wedding AnniversaryHow To Sustain PublicInterest InOctober has been designated officially as Museum Month on the North American continent. To us in this community and in this part of Canada ’it may be of more than passing interest, due to the pres­ence of our own Oxford museum in: Woodstock’s historic city hall building, and to the upsurge of seffort at the local, provincial and national level in recent years to establish museums of various kinds in various places.| This year, ’in particular, the at­tention of the public has been focussed on a new historical mu­seum incorporated in Upper Can­ada Village that was opened the । first time this summer.. This pro- |vincial government effort has been imatched by a private enterprise which plans to build another pion­eer community at Rockton, about 25 miles from here. Likely thereI are others.One feature of many of these | new museums appears to be an [ effort to turn them from places । where historical articles ai*e kept ■ to examples of rooms in homes ! or shops or elsewhere as they ap­peared in olden days.। Hence when a peroon walks in­to a certain room or building in these more modern museums he [steps not into the midst of a mass of ancient, articles, often unrelated । to other things around them, but across the threshold from the 20th century to a spot depicting a spe-। ci fie period of the past.This situation may be difficult to duplicate altogether in some small museums, but we wonder if by using some ingenuity something like it might be approximated.MuseumsSetting up a room in one sec­tion of the museum something on the idea of a model home, and ro­tating it periodically so as to fea­ture a different kind of room, or office, or shop, would not only give an attractive (and authentic) at­mosphere which would help visi- tors to see articles in relation to each other and a given period. It would also enable virtually all items in the possession of the mu­seum to be featured over some months, and thus draw people back again and again.It might get around the lament voiced in a recent issue of the Canadian Museum Association Bulletin that “everybody is hav­ing groat success in getting hoards of children into their museums... but nobody seems to have discov­ered how to keep them coming back when they enter high school.’’The Oxford museum has an adequate stage at one end to fea­ture just the very things we have in mind. One might be a replica of a municipal office as it was when the building was opened—devoid of computing machines and type­writers. but filled with authentic pens, ledgers and the like.Then by featuring period rooms of homes—a bedroom. a kitchen or a parlor, in rotation, it might help to stimulate and sustain in- terost In the local museum among those of all ages.We pass these suggestions along for what they are worth both to local museum officials and those concerned with the op- eration of museums elsewhere. We t rust they will be of value. ADD 25 MILES TO HIGHWAY 401Eastwood To Preston LinkWill Be Opened ThursdayAn additional 25 miles of Highway 401 will be opened to traffic Thursday. November 9, when Highways Minister Cass opens the section from Highway 8, at Preston, to Highway 2 al Eastwood. The new section will bring the total mileage of High­way 401 in sendee to 365 miles. Completion of the new section makes possible a through drive of 241 miles on Highway 401 - without a traffic light -• from Highway 4, southwest of Lon-mount of relief which will be 1365 miles of Highway 401 con- afforded for traffic congestion Intruded to date, The Granddon. to Marysville, on Highway 2, west of Napanee.on other highways.Besides the 25-mile section be­ing opened to traffic on Nov­ember 9, there are two addit­ional sections scheduled to be opened before the end of the year. They are: the TiUbury By- Pass, 4.5 miles in length and a seven . mile section wester­ly from new Highway 38, near Kingston, to just north of Odes­sa. The opening of these sec- itions will bring the total mile-age of Highway 401 in use byPrime Minister • designate nwre t'ianJohn P. Roberts, MLA for Lon- ^6 miles. This 376 miles repre-don North and Minister of Edu­cation. heads the list of those invited to participate in the opening ceremonies. Other cab­inet ministers are Hon. James N. Allan, Provincial Treasurer: Hon. Roy Connell, Minister of Public Works; and Hon. W. A. Stewart. Minister without Port- folia George E. Halpenny, M. P.. London, is also expected to tak4 part. John White. M.P.P., London South, will play a pro­minent role, and will share the limelight with John Wintermey- er, M.P.P. for Waterloo North and Leader of the Opposition; Raymond Myers. M.P.P.. Wat­erloo South: Harry Worton. M. P.P., Wellington South: Harrysents nearly three-quarters ofRiver bridge is comprised of twin structures - one for each traffic lane. Both are welded streel plate girder construction, each with a 42-fool roadway.Two other structures worthy of note because of their unusual pier design arc located north of the Highway 2 interchange at Eastwood. These structures are four-span, pre-stressed concrete beams supported by three piers designed as large "W’s”. They are the first bridges of this part­icular type of pie design built by the Department of High-time and money saving method in place of conventional sodding. In addition, more than 360,000 square yards of sodding have been done on the slopes of the interchanges, around other stru­ctures and in areas where the hydra-seeding method is not practical.Next year trees and shrubs of various types will be plant­ed. Besides enhancing the bea­uty of the highway, the grass, shrubs and trees play an im­portant part in controlling ero­sion. _ .COMMITTEES MEETCounty council on the opening day of the December session yesterday, the ’inal meeting o’ the 1961 council, spent most of the day in committee meetings. Council reconvened about 10 a.m, todav and will probably wind up the county's business next Thursday.Allen, M.P.P.. Middlesex South;; burg5 94 miles and Gordon Innes. M.P.P.. Ox-the total 515 miles of Highway 401 which, upon completion in 1963, will stretch across t h e Province from Windsor to the Quebec boundary.SUMMARY OF MILEAGEThese are the sections now in use to the nearest mile: Wind­sor to Tilbury, 31 miles; from Highway 4, southwest of Lond­on. Io Marysville, by-passing London. Woodstock. Kitchener, Galt. Guelph, Toronto. Osha­wa, Port Hope, and Belleville, 241 miles; from new Highway 38 west of Kingston, to seven miles east of Mo-rrisburg, by­passing Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott and Morris-ford. Also expected to attend [COST:are Wardens Donald MacPher-l Expenditures in excess of $8,- son and E. F. Garner of Water- 400.000 have been made to dateways.These quantities of material were used or excavated in the construction of the 25-miles of new highway:Granular materials, 1,659,000 tons, Earth excavated, 4,826,800 cubic yards, Bituminous Aspha­lt, 247,400 tons, Concrete for structures, culverts, etc. 31,700 cubic yards.For the construction of the 25 miles of new highway, 15 con­tractors carried out 18 con­tracts.LANDSCAPING:The Department of Highways has seeded 2,500,000 square yards of the righit-of-way by the hydra-seeder mulch-blower me-i thod, using its own unique equip-' ment. The Department of High­ways was the first organiza­tion in Canada to introduce thisOpening Highway 401 Link Important To Cityloo and Oxford Counties, respec- in the construction of the 25 ctively. The mayors, reeves and miles of new highway. Purch- other municipal officials in the asing of property to provide the area have been invited to at- right of way began as early as tend. 1956 and to date more than $1,-The official opening of the 490,000 has been expended for ----- .... this purpose. This brings thetotal cost for the 25 miles ofThe official opening59,900,000 four-lane, controlled-access highway project will take place at the interchange for Highways 401 and 2 at East­wood, at 3:00 p.m.tries to settle here. The fact that Highway 401 is very close to land set aside for industrial develop­ment in the city and to the junc­tion of other highways leading to Hamilton and the Lake Eri* shore, should be a talking point in any future negotiations with in­dustrial firms seeking a choice. lo­cation.The opening of this new high­way link may well help to cut the incidence of serious traffic acci­dents in this area. While we have been somewhat fortunate in the city, the number of serious and fatal accidents on the highways surrounding Woodstock for some years has been disturbingly high.While other factors are needed to reverse this situation, the pres­ence of a through dual highway should be a great asset in this re- ge*'d. According to information released by the Ontario Depart­ment of Transport, studies in Can­ada and the United States have shown that the accident toll can be reduced 25 per c^it by the physical improvement- of high­ways. And it adds this! “Freeways such as highways 400 and 401 can cut the death rate to one-third or one-quarter of the ordinary two- lane roads.”We hope this and other bene­fits will follow the opening of the highway link here foday. But if it is to draw more people to us we must make this path to our door­step known to an increasing num­ber of people. It must not be label­led as it was recently by a metro­politan daily newspaper simply as something that intersect: highway 2. Instead it should bej publicized widely as an important artery to and from this progressive city.With the official opening today i of the Eastwood-Preston link of Highway 401, Woodstock and Ox­ford County generally enter a new [era.For the past five years th’is city has been located at the butt end of a short link of the four-lane expressway which ultimately will link Windsor with the Quebec border. As such this portion be­tween here and London has served only as a bypass for some ve­hicles. But with the rapid increase in the number of cars and trucks it has failed to ease the traffic congestion on Dundas street as [was intended. Instead, this has been aggravated even more by the improvement of the Governor’s Road past the Beachville plants of the Canada Cement Company and Cyanamid, Ltd.The opening of the new link of 401 on the eastern limits of Wwdstock today now provides some 250 miles or more of un­broken dual-lane road from just west of here to the heart of eastern Ontario. As such the highway in th’is area can now begin to func- Ition as it was intended — as a means of speeding a greater vol­ume of traffic across the province.Highway 401 in its new state should do more than break a bot­tleneck in this city’s downtown main street. It should provide [Woodstock with another artery [which will take goods and oeople to other po’mts, and what is more, bring more goods and people to us, if we work to this end.The easier access we have to markets the better the chances for our present industries io be kept busy and for potential indus-new four-lane, conbrolled-access: highway to more than $9,900,- 000.Each two-lane paved portion I mileage of is 24 feet wide throughout. The ... — climbs to 365. median strip, of the depressed areas served by the new or trough type, is a minimumWith the opening of this link, the »tal completed Highway 401 climbs0seelof highway are amongOntario’s foremost agricultural and industrial districts.241 MILE DRIVEof 50 feel wide over the entire, distance. Outside shoulders are 10 feet wide and the insideshoulders are three feet wide; both are surfaced with compact-Completion of the new 25-mile ed crushed gravel, The right- section m a k e s possible a|of-way is 300 f€et wjde an q,e through drive of 241 miles onHighway 401 - without a traliic light - from Highways 4, south­west of London, to Marysville, on Highway 2, west of Napanee. Some of the better known com­munities by-passed on this 241- mile through drive, from west to east, are London. Woodstock, Galt, Guelph. Brampton. Toron­to, Oshawa, Pori. Hope. Cobourg Trenton, and Belleville.Highway 401 is being com- strutted in sections, each of which is a complete entity m that it joins two existing King's Highways and can be put into service as soon as it is com Meted. Priority' is given io these lections on the basis of the a-way.STRUCTURES:New overpasses, underpasses and bridges fully completed are: Underpass, with traffic in­terchange 3, Underpasses, n o interchange 6, Overpasses, n o interchange 2, Bridges over watercourses 3, Bridges over railway lines 2.An interesting feature on this section of new highway is the bridge which carries Highway 401 over the Grand River, just west of Highway 8. With a total length of 785 feet this bridge is not only the longest on Ihe new section of highway, it is also Ihe second longest on theco(ORussian Blast May Exceed “50-Megaton” Threat By K.East Oxford Waives Objection To Route Of New Highway 403 nVOODSTOCK-INGERSOLL. ONTARIO _____ __ _ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1H1MANY HANDS SHARE RIBBON-CUTTING HONORSALMOST EVERYONEPreston at Eastwood"Traffic" Jamup fit Court HouseThe county court house was an extremely busy place yes­terday as evidenced by the fact that Magistrate R. G. Groom. QC. Tillsonburg, had to hold a very brief special session of county police court in his office. Present besides the magistra­te and tile accused, who was remanded, were the court re­porter, Mrs. Edith Scholz, act­ing crown attorney John Bur­ridge. and a newspaper report- er.The county council chambers, where county Magistrate’s Court is usually held, was occupied by the county council. The Su­preme Court room upstairs was being used for the County Jud­ge's Court, jury and non jury session, and the judge's cham­bers were occupied by auditors. CABINET MINISTERS OFFICIATENew Eastwood To Preston Link Of 401 Is OpenedArbitrator AppointedThe Honourable the Attorney General Kelso Roberts of On­tario, has appointed Magistrate F. W. Bartram, Q. C., of Willow-a s"nPj« sniP of th el Port Hope, Cobourg, Trenton MLA w. scissors, a wide white ribbon and Belleville. Tne areas serv- ed it aH.on’ wuliam ed b-v the new section are a- Premier jonn F. Robarts ^fellow, Northumberland, mong Ontario's foremost agri- London, was invited to attendoffiriS S er Xl H.lghway.8’ t oi cultural and industrial districts, the official opening but was notMLA for Middlesex South, term- 21 a "real connecting link*. Premier John P. Robarts,7A- • >. iv i-uiiuiai ano inausirinSv !?* in Congratulating the ai,teX Eastwood yes- tending the eeremon? for havThe 25 m Ip <1^, „„ GnQugh stamina to face thew. to ’\ghwa 8 Wwinded speeches by polit-ton built at a rL «r J Mr' Goodfellow stres- than $9 non nnn a, ■ m°re sod the new section as an im- was Praised as portant link in Highway 401. He a »rea_t accomplishment b y naid tribute tn irrod w provincial and are? unicin-4 r n e e < HoIT ,• ,dignitaries alike P Cas s«, minister of highwaysThe ef 25--irmtR rr-f»Tnnnv whl e th® prOject was under . cold 'minute S of the new connecting link waslwlvX '”whe hiding b,£h- attended by more than 100 S “We recognize the im- sons who braving the bi tine P°rancG highways m the ec- weft wtad, MS”* 0W-other speakers cut their re-i ’ e stated’ marks short in view of the in- NOW DIRECT LINK clement weather. Cars were Mr, Cass noted that all the u £p u at,jeast a mile a- communities in this area were long me shoulders of the new now connected directly to Tor- mghway from the starting line onto. A ceremony such as this near the Eastwood clover leaf, provides a good chance to rea-G smPPing of the ribbon lize how important this part of tv of^cial declaration that the 'ountry is, he said adding a1_n now on’n” tf131 “W€ and your governmenttransnnrf 30 °f ¥Ve Do doubt in our mindshPhin? yb Cars backed UP that yon are receiving full re-behmd the ribbon ready to take turn for the tax advantage of the speedier route pay", r?ninfTornntO nd mtGrvening; Noting that the new link got tntai - j off to a bad start, referring toAtMLh,01 mileage a recent double fatality on itmij^ tS c,Jmbed lo 355 whix it was still not open, he S. Hnk ? .^1^: “We are building tre-lai st Jink. Completion of t h e mendous highways and we need new section makes possible agood drivers." nut a H-aft; ¥ tT miles. ^‘th- Directing his remarks in a out a traffic .ight from High- sense to Magistrate R. Ghj0Dn° g SO ? ™ thZ?U3h ^X® a5.® Lon Mr- Cass, who introduced Mr.- Voodstock. Galt, Guelph, Goodfellow, was introduced by Brampton, Toronto. Oshawa, John White, MLA for SndoS Soul,., who said that without question the new link will ben­efit .. stern Ontario as a whole.“We are fortunate in having a great link connecting South­ern Ontario and it may have an e "ct in decent " ng industry and be a benefit to all Ontario’, Gordon Innes. MLA for Oxford stated.persons at- PT®Sent. Mr. Innes spoke in . place of John Wintermeyer, Wat­erloo North and leader of theMr. Cass noted that all theopposition, who was unable to be present.LONDON RECEPTIONService areas for both people and machines along the route of Highway 401 are “essential,” former ministei of highways, F. M. Cass, said in London last night at a reception that follow­ed the official opening of the Eastwood-Preston link at East wood yesterday afternoon.Mr. Cass, now minister of municipal affairs, said he was confident that these service ar­eas on 401 would be provided in the near future.Emphasizing that he is no longer minister of highways. Mrs. Cass stated: “'Mv view point on this question is well known.” I have always advoca­ted service areas but the ad-ministration of Premier Frost was opposed Lo them, he said adding that his successor W. A. Goodfellow, new minister of highways, is in favor of service outlets along the highway.The decision is one for the cabinet to make, he said, anti- cipating that the new adminis­tration of Premier Robarts. ap­pointed this week, will change the policy. "I would expect act­ion in the future, I hope in the near future," he stated.There must be service areas for people and machines along freeways which would include restaurants, washrooms, ser­vice stations, and telephones such as already exist under strict control on Highway 400. ’ . said.Noting that a resolution urg­ing the adoption of this policy was passed at the recent Pro­gressive Conservative nomina­tion convention in Toronto, he said that lack of them over a distance of 120 miles from Lon­don to Toronto is not only an inconvenience but also a “ser­ious motoring hazard.dale, Ontario, to be Arbitrator to arbitrate the dispute between the Council and the Police.Mr. Bartram has advised the Council of his appointment and has set Friday, December 15th, at 10.00 aipy. in the Council Chambers for the hearing. He further suggests that arrange­ments must be made with Mr. Wm. Poole, barrister, at Lon­don, who will represent the pol­ice. He further says: "It will be necessary to have a short hand reporter on hand.”It is expected Mr. Young, of Young and Hutchinson. Wood- stock lawyers, will be handling the case for the Council.money youA Government BlunderWarden E. F. Garner of Ox- lord county, who acted as chair­man. congratula d the Depart­ment of Highways on the ac- hment and said it will facilitate commerce and bring Toronto closer. Harry Allen,We would wish Mr. Robarts well in his administration of this province. We would also extend gpbd wishes to Mr. Goodfellow who will be responsible for the depart­ment of highways, an increasingly important portfolio in the cabinet. It is regrettable, however, the first day of their taking up new posts । should be marred with one of [those typically stupid government blunders.’ For some reason, as yet unex­plained, the official party cutting j the ribbon for the official opening tCf the stretch of Highway 401 from Woodstock northeast to Preston, left the official opening ceremon­ies to drive 30 miles in the oppo­site direction over a section of the road opened five years ago to hold the second part of the ceremony I in London.London, or one member of the city council at least, is getting browned off with paying 50 per cent of the reception costs for the opening of 401 sections.Why. when this newest stretch of 401 begins at Woodstock and joins the main piece at Preston should the reception be held 'in London? Is not this section impor­tant to Woodstock and to Pres­ton? Why, when the junction of Highways 2 and 401 is so strate­gic, so important to Woodstock in this city’s growth should the op­portunity of promoting this muni­cipality be passed on to a c’ity 30miles from concerned? Bearingthe piece of pavementin mind the LondonLIBRARY SERVICEMrs, S. L. Krompart, in char­ge of Oxford County library services, told the Sentinel Re­view today that the generally accepted Ie r m. "Christmas Season" did not necessarily mean an added interest in read­ing of books or the distribution of them. She did infer, however, that the long period in Jan­uary and February, when social and occupational activit­ies were forced, with Canada's climate, to come to a compara­tive standstill, did register an up-ircud in the number pf books and therefore, ideas, exploredIN EAST ZORRAGET READY28-1comment; searching our minds for a logical explanation for this absurd situation we can arrive at pine single conclusion. The slight handed Woodstock and Oxford can only be explained on political basis. Since Oxford has the afrom to elect a member who sits v he .opposition such prominence in government activity is forbidden. If this is true it is a shameful, nar­row partisan method of doing pub­lic business. Again, if it is t-ue, Woodstock and Preston both are due public apologies by the minis­ter of highways.by the average pe Krompart'i liter aperson. In Mrs.ry orbit I h einterwt and statifltlca) know ledge la of necessity, largely concerned with rural readers. Propose Central Schoolas City Hall SiteWould EntailSeveral ShiftsWould Oust JailDr. Hedley had one suggestion for a possible new school sit« — the Drew Street site of the county jail, one block north of the school and overlooking Victoria Park.At WoodstockFree Press Woodstock Bureau"Why docs the jail have to be there?” he asked. "Why not put it up on Industrial Avenue somewhere — the prisoners won’t mind having to ride aWOODSTOCK — The Central Senior public school site will be recom­mended to city council Thursday as the location for a new city hall and po- i lice centre.Buy and SellA five-man council-appointed committee recommends, in a preliminary report to council made public yesterday, that the city find a new site for the school, build either a combined city hall-police centre or two separate buildings on the site and sell the present city hall and market building property.The police department oc­cupies about one-eighth of the market building.The Central School site, the committee's report says, would be central and nearer present administration buildings such as the county court house, county jail, public utilities commission, registry office and county health unit.The new city hall could be designed to accommodate such departments as the city engi­neer and the building inspector, now jammed into the works department building on Young Street, and the parking meter division, now occupying make­shift quarters in the basement of the market building.little way to the courthouse. We could build the new jail on the north side of the city some­where, then tear down the old jail, build a new school In its place, tear down the old school and build a new civic centra there.”Drew Street could be closed as a main traffic carrier. Dr. Hedley suggested, and the park used as r school playground.Failing that, he added, a sec­ond alternative would be to leave Central School where it is and build the new city hall on the opposite side of Light Street, just north of the city parking lotNo RecommendationsThe committee has not decid­ed whether to recommend sep­arate buildings for the police and city hall staffs or a single unit, Aid. Hutchinson said.Chief Constable James W. Ennis said, “We have come to the stage where some form nt improvement to our quarters is urgent There is an immediate need for improved heating and ventilating facilities in the cell ! block and for better accommo­dation for both the prisoners and staff.”No estimates of the cost of the new civic centre or the revenue from sale of the pres­ent city hall and market build­ing have been made, Aid. Hutchinson said. If council re­quests it Thursday night, the committee may delve deeper into the question.■■ . •. •YOUNGSTERS GET CHECK-UP AT LOCAL CLINICThree - and ■ one - half- month old Billy Thorpe is in­terested in the pamphlet “Mealtime with Toddlers”. Why? Time for two o’clockbottle, of course. The Child Health Conference clinic held in the YMCA yesterday after­noon for mothers with small infants drew many to the clinic for check-ups. In thephoto Mrs. C." Etheridge, pub­lic health nurse; Mrs. Wally Thorpe and son. Billy, look over the folder at the clinic. (Staff Photo).Look ToMembers of the committee, api»inted three months ago. are chairman. Verne Ross; vice- chairman, Judge Eric Cross; secretary, Aid. J. F. Hutchinson, Norman Moore and Reg Hall.If the construction of the nexv elvic centre is started six years from now. during the 1W57 cen- tennlal celebration, the commit­tee suggested, it might qualify for financial aid under Primo Minister Diefenbaker’s proposed plan to make $ 100,000,000 avail­able to cities throughout the country-for centennial projects.One of the problems facings the project la the need to find a location for the new senior public school to replace Central [School. The school serves erade 7 find 8 students from all the western end of the city.Public School Superintendent Dr Harold Hedley said the pres­ent site was ideal for the school •nd ha replacement would hav» to provide the some expanse rf playground space and the aam« •rc^aibillty from all parta nt th* wPHtcrn half nt the city.SENIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL WOULD BE REPLACED BY CITY HALL PAY TRIBUTE TO A. L. BUSHELLAs is Ids usual custom, after the list of nominees have spo­ken at the after nomination meeting, A. L. Bushell, the chairman, asked: “Has any one else anything to contribute to the meeting?” ,1N. M. Marshall rose to his feet to say; “Mr, Chairman, there is something which I should like to add. It looks as though this will be your last opportunity to act in the ca­pacity you have tonight and I came to the meeting in the hope that I might have the op­portunity of expressing my own appreciation, and I f eel the great apreciation of the ma­jority of Norwich citizens, for your long and faithful service of clerk of this community. I feel I can speak this way be­cause it has reached the place where I am senior in service as reeve to any other man in this community. I feel I have been associated with Mr. Bush­ell very closely for more than 25 years. First as Councillor and Reeve for six years, two years more as a member of the | Public Utilities Commission and for 18 years more as a me­mber of the Norwich District High School Board. In all these capacities I appreciated the friendly co-operation and expert advice which was always available from Allie. We did not always fully agree, but we could always settle our differ­ences amicably. Mr. Bushell has served this municipality well and honourably as clerk and in the various other capac­ities and my hope is that he will be long spared to spend his years among us so that the community can still benefit by the valued counsel he will cheerfully give.”When he had finished speak- isg Mr. Marsholl invited those at the meeting to show their appreciation of Mr. Bushell and his good work by giving him a hearty hand clap. Not satis­fied with that, they rose to a man and really made the raft­er ring with sustained applause.Just as soon as the group was seated again, Bruce Mae­del, chairman of the Public School Board, arose and paid glowing tribute to Mr. Bushell’s work as secretary-treasurer of that body. “We are pleased and proud that we still have his services and our hope is that we may benefit from them for years to come,” Mr. Mae­del said. He paid tribute to the extra work and responsibil­ity Mr. Bushell had taken dur­ing the periods when the new additions were made at the school and said in all these matter his experience and ad­vice was invaluable.Rev. D. B. Cram, a member of the High School Board, arose to speak and add the tri­bute of that group. He was high in his praise of Mr. Bushell's knowledge of school financing and other matters and said his experienced coun­sel had saved the High SchoolBoard much expense over the years.Reeve L. E. Force was the last speaker and he said he heartily concurred in all that had been said about Mr. Bushell and he said there was not a rea­son in the world why he should have been fired by this year’s council. “That is one thing I am not proud of at all and I am glad to say I was not a party to it.” In his several years in Council he had always found Mr. Bushell co-operative, learned in Council business and municipal law and this was something which, over the years, has saved this munici-1 pality thousands of dollars in1 legal fees, and he was altoge­ther worthy of being allowed to continue as clerk for sometime yet. ,Somewhat abashed by the glowing tributes, there was little Mr. Bushell could do but thank the speakers in his usual self effacing way. He said; “I had looked forward to the time when I would be leaving this office in a rather more honourable way than I am, but I feel I am leaving it in good hands and that Mr. McKie will make a first rate clerk.”TO REPRESENT NORWICH IN GREY CUP PARADENorwich is going to have its own special representat­ion in the bi" and noisy Grey Cup parade in Toronto on Sat­urday. Bob Scott and Al Mun­ro will be riding their famous self-designed two-way bicycle which for the past two years has been entertaining and fascinatingn’"”:’ C'*-~ade crowds. On the occasion of Norwich’s sesquicentennial celebration, a Torontonian, Jack Early, son-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Price, suggest­ed that the two-way bike be entered in the Grey Cup par­ade. A short time ago. the vehicle owners received an official invitation to take thebike to Toronto for this big event. Here are the two men, Mr. Munro (left) and Mr. Scott, who will go to the city on Thursday to receive inst­ructions on their part in the Grey Cup shindig. Incidental­ly die two have added new features to their bicycle, in­cluding a ’unnking stove.City Employee Pension Plan Must flwait New RegulationsWilliam M. Mercer Ltd. of plan win be announced at the Toronto, underwriters of the’ same time as the ernmentthe i °fproposed government pension!Municipal Affaire.plan is designed primarily for Mayor W. A. Downing is eon- ■smaller municipalities that a°|tinuing correspondence with not have pension plans at the, vincial officials in this re- ।present time.Mr. Mercer expects this • bard.PROFICIENCY AWARDS T 0 OXFORD OAC STUDENTSWinners of the Oxford Cou- Awards Banquet at the O.A.C. ‘ fond County Council; fromntv Proficiency Awards at the The presentation was made the left to right - F. D. Sum-Ontario Agricultural College by Wray Hartley, of Norwich, j sion. Curries: P, J, Better-are seen receiving their prii- i left, and J. G. Shearer, of , idge. Lakeside; and Judithles al the annual Scholarship I Bright, representing the Ox- Appel, Tavistock. Councils Hear Oxford Jail Statisticsmonth period inpasthad only publicTotal jail expenditures$6,303OXFORD MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS DISCUSS PROBLEMSJOHN P. ROBARTS, Q.C., IS ONTARIO'S 17th PREMIERlift VP 1043 two-when the jail had only a man staff, tn a budgeted 2M this year, With an eColes peakeducation, Sixty-righ t education were unableyear, school said.school Seven write.M r. Coles had high or hotter, to read orcuss mutual problems. L. K. Coles, clerk-treasurer of the county led discussion on the administration of justice and presented a few historical da­ta pertaining to the jail. Dr. 0. C. Powers, medical officer of health for the county, re­viewed problems and p ro-rlsen fromIt took In 42 thia year itman staff plus a matron and a doctor.and five womentook in a record 47 overnight. The average Jail population is IS or 19 prisoners.Photon by Dept, ol Travel and PublicityPictured above are Primo Minister John P. Robarts, Lieutenant-Governor Keillor Mackay, and former Prime Minister Leslie M. Frost. Upper right, Mr. Robarts takes oath of office. To his right is J. J. Young, Clerk of the Executive Council. Lower right, Ontario's new Cabinet, including some members of the preceding Cabinet.county council chambers un­der the direction of Warden Ernest F. Garner, of RR 4. Embro-Of th* 449 prisoners com nutted the jail during a 12-anid, although period -In I960 overnight andgress in administration of health services TOP photo, from left are Ross Fewster, Ingersoll mayor; Ernest Gar­ner, of Embro, county ward­en and Woodstock’s mayor W. A. Downing.'GET ACQUAINTED” MEETPlans are well in hand for the 'get acquainted' gathering to take place in the county offices Wednesday evening at which the Oxford county council will be host to Woodstock and Inger­soll council members and of- i ficials. This is the second of this type of event planned for informal discussion of problems in which all three municipal bodies are involved. L K. Col­es, county clerk-treasurer, has already been informed that i Ingersoll will send a twelve per­son contingent, made up o f council members and officials. Size of the Woodstock group has not. been announced. At least two mutual projects are to be discussed at the gather­ing, administration of justice snd county health. Dr. 0. C. Powers, county medical officer of health will lead off the dis­cussion in his field and the jus­tice subject will be reviewed by। Mr. Coles.THE ‘GET ACQUAINTED” theme became reality Wed­nesday evening when more than 50 councillors reeves, deputy reeves and officials, representing Oxford county council and the councils of Ingersoll and Woodstock, met in an informal gathering at the county court house to dis-Thc figures were included in d report on the jail giv­en st the annual ‘'get-ae- qualnted" meeting of th* three councils, held in thesons and only 147 married ones, 432 men and only 17 women.The largest single age group was the 16-20 bracket, In which there were 106 prison­ers. The next age groups, in order, were 25-34 years, W; 40-49 years. 75; 21-24 years, 70; 50-59 years, 65; 35-39years, 43.The total cost per day per prisoner Iasi, year was $6.37 In the Woodstock jail, compared to $10.49 at Whitby, where a new jail has juft been completed and $4.43 In Lon­don. where the jail Is the oldest public building still standing; In the city.The Oxford jail, completed In 1355, is built to accommo­date a maximum of 26 mmThere were only five ab­stainers among the 449, 5. being described ax "temper­ate" and 392 as "intemper­ate.*There were 302 single per-Free Pre** Woodstock Bure*UWOODSTOCK The most likely candidate for a cell in the Oxford County jail would be an unmarried, Al­coholic. public school grad- uaie between 16 and 20 years of age, according to sta- tisties county clerk L. K. Coles gave a joint meeting of Woodstock, Ingersoll and Oxford County councils inst night Former Warden Of OxfordAnnexation Opposed By East Oxford VoteVictim Of Heart AttackReeve W Grenfell Lazenby, - "They’re going right after it along with councilmen, Arthur1 warned Mr. Virtue, about the Manson. Hilton C. Virtue. Mal- city annexation plans T know colm Kennedy and George Mil- we will have a real light on es. were returned to office by, our hands’.acclamation, in East Oxford Mr. Manson s feeling on an- Township for 1962. nexalion is that the city has alAfter nominations had closed, i they can handle now. without the repons ram council, school going for more.trustees, and planning board dis- Mt. Kennedy tell that it must posed of. and just prior to call- be looked into seriously, they ing the 1961 meeting to a close, seem io annex as they p ease . a resolution was read from the he said. “A toss of at least floor and adapted. a million dollars in assessment-Be it resolved that we. at Oxford 18 resent-this meeting of tlhe ratepayers. «<«• , -d , lhtownship, which will amount to aS? "Hipv onlvapproximately one third of the 2liiiat assessment bv take the „ood and lea\e .(hetownships total assessment by the City of. Woodstock."Reeve Lazenby. addressing the less than half filled com­munity hall of Oxford Centre, spoke very strongly against an­nexation by the city of Wood- stock. He slated that the Wood- stock mill rale was 20 mills higher than the mill rate of East Oxford.■‘The taxes of Link Belt. Ov­erland Transport, as well as the Woodstock Development.” said Mr. Lazenby. "will be in­creased by one third again, what they are at present.”bad."Jack Slattery.chainman of the planning board for East Oxford, added, “we won’t take tlys sit­ting down.”GEORGE W. FEWSTER | NORWICH — George W. Few- sler, lifelong resident of North Norwich township and a former (warden of Oxford county, died (at. the Tillsonburg Memorial Hospital Monday morning, Nov. 27 in his 68th year.Mr. Fewster was horn at Zenda and farmed in the town- (ship all his life. He served in .North Norwich council for sev­eral years and was reeve for 11947-48 and 49. He was elected 'warden of Oxford county for (1949.He was a memiber of St. John Masonic Lodge. Norwich, Court Salem, Order of Foresters, Zen­da and of Zenda United Church.Surviving are his wife form- lerly Emma Palmer: two daugh- ters and one son: Mro. Harold Wiseman (Marjorie) and Robert Crxvn (Doris) botn of Foldens and Carl at home: me brother Lewis of Los Angeles, Cal.The late Mr. Fewster is rest­ing at the A. B. Am and Son ; funeral residence, Norwich । where the funeral service will I bt held Wednesday at 2 p.m. with interment in Mount Elgin cemetery. Masonic service at the funeral home at 8 p.m.J. Kenneth Wardell. Oltervjile general merchant for many years and a former warden of Oxford county, died suddenly al his home on Sunday. Nov. 26 as the result of a heart attack. He had been in poor health for the past year and was in hos pilal last spring for several weeks. He had recovered and was down town Saturday after­noon.Born in Windham townshiv 64 years ago, he served in he First World War and after­wards purchased a farm on No. 59 highway, a mile south of QZ- terville, where he resided un­til purchasing his present home in Otterville in 1944. Two years later he purchased the general store now operated by his son and daughter.He was reeve of South Nor­wich during the Second World War and was warden of Oxford County in 1943. He was a mem­ber of the Ex-Wardens and Ex­Reeves Association of Oxford. He was a member of Otterville United Church. St. John’s Mas­onic Lodge, Norwich, member of the Eastern Star, of which he was Worthy Patron in 1949. He was a past president of the Norwich - Otterville Lions Club, i 1 His wife, formerly Leila Ge­hring predeceased him in 1960 and surviving are one son. Mur-j ray and one daughter Dorothy at home.The late Mr. Wardell is rest­ing. at the Addison FuneralJ. KENNETH WARDELLHome. Otterville, where the funeral service will be held Tuesday, at 2 p.m. with Rev, Thomas Lindsay officiating In­terment will be made in Otter cemetery."We will fight annexation.” continued Mr. Lazenby, “They (City of Woodstock) are taking only a small portion of out ex­pense, our roads, aboul three miles, but are taking a larger portion of our assessment.”Council members Virtue, Manson. Kennedy, and Miles, ill spoke in favor of fighting ooth and nail, against annexa- ion.MANY ATTEND ANNUAL AFFAIROxford Warden Honored At Gathering In IngersollOxford county warden Ernest in which this defect could be (M Garner and Mrs. Garner of remedied he pointed to the Embro, were hosts Friday project undertaken by his own evening to more than 300 guests | organization in arranging ex- at the "Warden’s Dinner” held change visits by 600 boys and this year in the auditorium of girls from French-speaking Que- Ingersoll District Collegiate In- bee and a similar number of stitute. Ontario youths. The groupsThe affair is an annual one visited in each other’s homesnegroes and the prejudice of He staled that geographical pos- race and colour and creed is.; ition sometimes had been res- still harboured even by so-call- ponsible for a trace of isolat­ed educated people", Mr. Jones ion. Gordon W. Innes, MLA,PC Convention Names LondonerAfter 6 BallotsBy JOHN A. PETHIGK Free Preu Staff WriterTORONTO — John P. Roharts, 44-year*old London lawyer, will soon be leader of the Ontario ProgroBfiive Conservative party and premier of the province. He will he the first Londoner to ever hold the highest political office in the province.( The affair is an annual one and is held at various places (throughout the county. Tradit­ionally attended by persons re­presenting all levels of govern­ment through local, provincial and national, this year's dinner was no exception with Wallace Nesbitt, MP for Oxford and Gordan W. Innes, Oxford MLAand all local authorities present.Guest speaker at the dinner was Rev, Richard D. Jones. |head of trie Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, who told the gathering that “communica­tions” at all levels of govern­ment and between man and man, regardless of color or creed, was the crying need inthe world right now.and Mr. Jones was of the opin­ion there was no further seces­sion talk by those participating.Further specific cases of pro­viding adequate communication on a world - wide basis, the speaker declared, was in the bible itself, having gone across the face of the earth in many translations; Uncle Tom's Cab­in, a book which had probably done more to free slaves than any other single factor; Winst­on Churchill’s amazing ability to speak Io the people of the British Commonwealth, and many other countries of the western world, in a languageconcluded.Wallace Nesbitt, MP. deputy head of Canada’s delegation to United Nations for some years, and recently re-appoinled to that post told the assembly that “municipal and local govern­ment is the showcase of democ-praised the manner in which the present warden had. throu­gh exercise of tact and diplo­macy, more closely cemented relations between various auth­orities comprising the county.Guests at bead table, introdu-ced by Warden Garner, were:racy and it’s preservation and Rev. Harry Benson Knox Uni-use is the basis for all further ed Church. Embro. who gave democracy because it is closest |the grace, and Mrs Benson: E. to the people.” S. Vance: Wallace Nesbitt. M.WEST ON DEFENSIVE P.’ Mayor and Mrs. Downing:Mr. Nesbitt further declared Mayor and Mrs, Ross Fewster: the western democracies have P M. Dewan. former Ontariowhich they understood.On the other side of thebeen for some time continuous- minister of agriculture .who in­ly on the defensive and “being traduced the guest speaker; on the defensive all the time Richard D Jones: Mr and Mrs. vou cannot possibly win." We Loonard K. Coles; Mrs. Gar- must actually demonstrate toner; Mr and Mrs. Gordon W the world ihe superiority of our Innes; Mr. George H Wallace, system or he world will adopt reeve of West Oxford tnwnshio another one.” he said. and Mrs Wallace; J ErnestChairman for the affair was Wood, clerk of West Zorra town- 'Leonard K. Coles, clerk treasur- ship and Mrs Wood Mr. W^dThe speaker voiced the opin- ledger in the effect of powerful er of the county Speakers m gave the toast to rhe ames, -o ion that this lack of communi- communications an the actions;eluded Mayor Ross Fewster. which Mr$. George Wallace re­lations need not be considered ef ^yeat masses of human be- Ingersoll, who welcomed the pied.a problem far removed framings. the speaker pointed to guests; William A. Downing Soloist for the evemng was this country, and noinled to Ihe “Mein Kamnf” and 'he "Com- mayor of Woodstock, who earn the well known hanwne George secessionist movement in Que munist Manifesto” of Karl Ma- ed greetings from city officials । Andrin. who acwmimmed bee as a glarin'1 example of rx to the county representatives, at the piano bv Ross Phelps■what happens when communica-j “We boast of an inter related. and E. S. Vance, mayor of Till-1 Catering and serving tor thelions break down. 'world and of our freedom and sanburg, who made a plea for more than J00 guests was mEXCHANGE VISITS our democracy and then bash closer communication with t h e the hands o'. the women of[An an example of the manner in the heads of a few more county generally and his town. Knox United Church. Embro.Soloist for the evito the county representatives, at the piano bv Ross PI SALVATION ARMY CITADEL OFFICIALLY OPENEDA high point in the events associated with the Salvation Army in the 78 years it has , been active in the Woodstock district was reached Satur­day afternoon when the new Citadel was officially opened and dedicated. Official key­turning ceremony at the new $60,000 headquarters was con­ducted by Commissioner and Mrs. W. W. Booth, territorial Commanders for Canada. More than 100 persons atten­ded the dedication ceremony and greetings were conveyed by Rev. K. Oates, for the Ministerial Association and R. Forrest Telfer, architect. In the photo, Brigadier E. Nesbitt, Mr. A. J. B. Stur- ris, building contractor; com­missioner and Mrs. Booth, on the point of entering the new structure after presentation of key. (Staff Photo) (Story on Page 3.)WOODSTOCK-INGERSOLL. ONTARIOFRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. W1 Page 1RETIRING WARDEN Ern­est F. Garner, at the final meeting of Oxford county council for 1961, was present­ed with a farewell gift, fol­lowing tradition and m this case the gift was an appro­priate one, a slide projector and screen, allowing Mr. Gar­ner to further develop his hobby as an amateur photo­grapher. Those making thepresentation, shown in from the left, were Nagle, Salford, Clare Easel-tine, reeve of Tillsonburg. Mr. Garner, Lorne Junker, reevephoto, of East Zorra and George George Wallace, West Oxford town-ship reeve. (Staff photo)Assessing OfficersMeet In WoodstockGift Is PresentedTo Retiring WardenAbout 70 persons are meeting in lhe county building in Wood- stock today for the fall meeting of district 9 of the Association of Assessing Officers of Ontario which includes the counties of Oxford Elgin. Middlesex, Brant and Waterloo.This is a significant event for Woodstock not only because the city is host for the meeting but the '-liai man o' H^ rjct fl this year is G. J A. Dunlop, local assessment commissioner.Speakers will Im* heard today and panels and discussion on assessment problems are ex­pected to fill the day’s agenda.The city will be acting as host at the noon dinner today.At the final session for this | the new council. They are Wil- year, Oxford county council ob-Jiam Sutherland of West Zorra served a time-honored custom township, who succeeded Ward- and presented the retiring war­den, Ernest F. Garner of Em­bro, with a farewell gift — in this case a slide projector and screen enabling the retiring warden to further pursue hishobby as an amateur photogra-en Garner in that post and Jack Smith, elected this week as ree­ve of the newly incorporated village of Beachville.Reports received and appro­ved included one from councilmiddle branch of the Thamei on county road No. 17.The committee also recom­mended land purchase for wid­ening County road No.; 16 and aipher.I Mr. Garner is not, however,, rpfirinp from Ihp of locnrroads committee recommending plans for the building of new bridges over the With river onnumber of minor projects, 1b all, total amount spent thia year, $400,000 together with pro- jocts planned brings the figure for road improvement and con­struction to slightly less than $1,000,000. Exact figure given[retiring from the scene of local !county road No. 3 and over the'by Ken Meathreli is $921,000. government. He was nominated■for both reeve and councillor of his township, West Zorra. Mequalified as councillor and elected by acclamation,At the same meeting two members were introduced,wasnew and1062Will take their places in as change# in the personnel of TO TABLE BY PIPERBANQUET GUESTS ESCO RSees IncreaseOf ContactsAs EssentialINGERSOLLBetter com-;uests[Kennedytries.Fenn,Judith TalersailGarner, nfhead table j places. Leadimprove nr theBlandford Burgessville‘piped’ theirtrade and the wonmny coutries involved.said, wouldErnest Wood, clerk of West Zorra township. (Staff Photos)at the dinner andWoodstock andRoger Anstee, Ruth Way, West Oxford,Head tahfe guests included Wallace Nesbitt MB for Oxford. Gordon W. Innes, MFR for Ox* [ford Woodstock Mnynr W ' (Downing. Ingersoll Mtyor Roas FeWsler, and TlUsonburg Mayor S. S Vance.„ the parade, behind piper Pearson is J,John Oliver to Ingersoll.1 Students of West Zorra Town­ship’s Highland Park public school were in the council cham­bers to see the county govern­ment’s operation.Warden HonoredMr. Jones was introduced by P. M Dewan. of Ingersoll, and thanked by 1. K. Coles, County Clerk, and chairman of the ban­quet.j Honored at the banquet wasof Ingersoll and William A. Downing, Woodstock mayor. LOWEiit Piper W. 0. Pearson of Embro, followed traditionALL LEVELS of govern­ment were represented at the annual “Warden’s Dinner” held Friday evening in t h e auditorium of the Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute. More than 300 persons were guests of Warden Ernest Gar­ner. left in TOP photo. Nextto the warden from left are Richard D. Jones, Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, Streetsville, who was guest speaker; E. S. Vance mayor of Tillsonburg; Leon­ard K. Coles, county clerk­treasurer and chairman at the dinner; Ross Fewster, mayorford; DonAT WARDEN'S BANQUET—About 350 municipal officials of Oxford County and friends attended the annual county warden's dinner at Ingersoll lost night. From left: Warden Ernest F. Gomer, of Embro; Rev. Richard D. Jones, of Cooks­ville, executive director of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, guest speaker; Leonard J. Coles, County Clerk, of Ingersoll, chairman of the dinner. (Photo by Lohgfield).review group.Other winners were, in order: for non-fiction, Larry Wismer, Jack Virtue, Ray Taylor, Bland­ford; Martha Mitchell, Barry Anslee, West Oxford; Lynne Connor, Penny Calvert. East Nissouri; Pal Currah, Bland* ford; Nora Kennedy, Dereham,In the fiction class winners, in order were: Elizabeth Hogg, Bob Young, East Nissouri; Sha­ron Aspen, Blandford; Martha Chipps, Dereham; Terry Pet­ers, Dereham; Bill Baird. Bland-Warciep Ernest Embro.Oxford Council Names DelegatesTo 5 HS BoardsWOODSTOCK Oxford Coun­ty Council appointed five dis­trict high school board repre­sentatives in a brief session be­fore going Into committee meet­ings yesterday.Robert Martin was appointed tn the Tillsonburg board. Ralph Sparks to the Paris board. David 'Chambers to Norwich. Edward'munication between Canada's [provinces and between all coun­tries would improve and Create [more friendship. Rev. Richard D. Jones, of Cooksville, execu- Jive director of The Canadian ■Council of Christians and Jews, said here"last night.Mr. Jones was guest speaker at the annual Oxford County wardens dinner attended by about 350 municipal officials and friends.Nees Benefit* ■Mr. Jones said there would be no talk of secession by nw French'Canadians in Quebec If there was better communication between provinces.Communication between coun-Officials to See Survival TrainingWOODSTOCK Officials of Oxford County, Woodstock and Ingersoll will see an hour-long demonstration of the national survival training program of the Oxford Garrison. 3 RCR, al the armoury here today.Approximately 5h men will take part in the demonstration, both Inside and outside the nimniiry. Demonstrations will include displays of knots and Slashings. first aid. use of na­tional survival equipment and the evacuation of casualties from damaged buildings.Thamesford Girl Is Top Winner Oxford County Library ContestJane Oliver of Thamesford, look .second award in the fictionfor fiction ir the “Book Review" contest, sponsored by Oxford County library in the schools throughout the area. First place for the non-fiction category also went to an East Nissouri con- jeslant. Tom Patience of Tham­es ford.This contest was sponsored by the county library as part of the activities associated with “Young Canada Book Week" and was confined lo grades seven and eight. Books re­viewed were from among those ■distributed lo the schools.The judges were Miss Laura Mackay and Miss May Hastings of Woodstock and the prizes are to he presented at the time when the bookmobile next visits the schools.In the- non fiction category, Zbigniew Szaszynski, Blandford township, placed second while Kathleen Cornish, Dereham Tavistock Reeve Elected for 15th TimeMany Resolutions Face County CouncilResolutions concerning am-the revenue from the tax be the previous bargaining meth- •ndments to the sale tax, the set aside to provide a pension ods.color-ins of margarine, child tor allowance for persons be- A Renfrew county resolution welfare legislation, the auction* ’’tween the ages of 40 and1 60 who recommended ’to the Depart-15TH TERMing of cattle at stock yards and are unable to obtain employ- ment of Welfare that legislation costs of quarantining cattle, ment. i be sought allowing counties tofrom other municipalities, were Ontario countv oetitioned the' administer child welfare, referred to the proper commit- proving A Prince Edward County re.tee< for consideration at the op- £ t that svstem Gxemn solution requested the Ontario ening of the December session ®G^vcIuh^I bv!. to tog^cstead^of rebirth -le —(Cornwall and the county of Ont- J as solution requested the Federalario both urged that the provin- s na Keep | Government to pay all costs to-Government not to legalize theine and a Frontenac county re­cial sales tax be amended and A Grey county resolution said wards quarantine of animals or-asked Oxford county council to there was general dissatisfact- dered quarantined by a gov- _ ’ ’ ion among farmers with the pre- ernment veterinarian.The Cornwall resolution peti-; sent method of auctioning cattle Warden Ernest F. Garner of tioned rhe provincial govern- at Ontario stock yards and mov- West Zorra, welcomed the coun.endorse the resolutions.Warden Ernest F. Garner ofwent to amend the Retail Sales ed that steps be taken to im- cillors to the final session of Tax Act so that a portion of prove this method or revert to Oxford County council for 1961.FIRST COUNCIL IS ELECTED AT BEACHVILLEA record for municipal ser- vice in Tavistock was s e I. Monday night by Robert Rudy when he was accorded elect­ion by acclamation to the village reeveship for his fif­teenth term. In a quiet nom­ination session, the entire sla­te of, municipal officials was returned to office without nec­essity of an election. Council­lors returned are R. C. Mc­Dermott, C. J. Steinman, Har- . old Wilker and William Ap- i pel. School trustees. Dr. Bru­ce Halliday. Patrick Cassidy and David Jutzi. PUC. E. C. Piehl and William Ducklow.Fete Oxford WardenAt Windup SessionI Free Press Woodstock BureauI WOODSTOCK—Oxford Coun­ty council held its final meeting of the year last night, and paid respects to Ernest F. Garner, of RR 4. Embro. the 107th warden of Oxford. Warden Garner(leaves council this year.Leaving■ Nominated both as reeve and councilor of West Znrra Town­ship. Warden Garner qualified for the council seat and was elected by acclamation.An avid amateur photog­rapher, he was presented with a 35-mm slide projector, slide fil­ing box and projection screen on behalf of the council by members George Nagle, RR 1,new bridges over the Nith River on County Road 3. Blenheim Township’s 11th Concession, and over the middle branch of the Thames on County Road 17. East Nissouri Township's 12th Concession, when the UpperThames River Conservation Au­thority assures council definitely that a proposed Thamesford Dam will not interfere with such a bridge. A UTRC report last week said that the Thames­ford Dam was not likely to be built.The committee also recom­mended that a property survey be made and property bought on County Road 16 from Youngsville east to East Town-Salford; Clare Heseltine, Till- ship’s 10th line, where the 66-When Beachville becomes an incorporated village on January 1, 1962, it will have its first duly elected reeve and four man council, chosen by (he ratepayers to admin­ister the community’s muni­cipal affairs. Until the present. Beachville has had the status of a police village, with its affairs handled by a three-man board of trustees. On Monday, the citizens of the village-to-be went to the polls and elected a reeve and four councillors. Immediately following the official pronoun­cement on result of the voting, the successful candidates sat for the photo. Front row, left to right: C. F, Cowell; J. C. Smith, reeve, and J. J. Nada- lin. Standing: Frank Harris and Lawfence Lusk, •(Staff photo)laonburg, and George Wallace, of RR 4, Ingersoll.Warden Garner’s successor as (West Zorra reeve, William Sutherland, and Jack Smith, reeve of the newly incorporated .Village of Beachville, were among new council members at the meeting.Beachville Is the first now municipality tn be represented on the county council since Tavlatnck was Incorporated as a village in 1009.Ron daAmong the reports heard And approved by council were rec- nmmrndatidns from the roads committer that plans hr pre-foot right-of-way is to be wid­ened to 100 feet.Half of the property along County Road 23 has already been purchased for similar wid­ening project, council learned, and property surveys will be completed this year on County Roads 13, 20, and 33. Construc­tion and paving have been com­pleted on County Roads 6, 13. It lift. 19, 28, 29. and 32. Total mad (construction expenses for 1961 ,eamn tn $400,550.' A new bridge nver Horner’s Creek on County Road 29 will be opened for traffic within a week or JO days, the report said , Total cost , of bridge and culvertpgred for th» construction of work during 1961 waa $166. PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS PAY VISIT TO COUNTY COUNCILTlie county council chamb­ers resembled a class room yesterday :s Grade eight students from West ZorraI Highland Park public school and their teacher attended the | final session of county counc­il to be welcomed by the warden. From the left are Miss Patricia Osborne, 13; Warden Ernest Garner; his son, Glen, 13, and Roger Moorhead, class teacher. (Staff Photo).Force Elected Norwich ReeveA turnout of 77.7 percent of the eligible voters in Norwich upset William Andrews, incum­bent reeve, last night and plac­ed L. E. Force, reeve for the next two years in that high seat of office with a majority of only 41 votes.Elected to council for a two- year term were.- Paul M. Moore and Gerald Bishop and to the public utilities commission. A- P. Maedel.The 1962 council, headed by reeve Force, will consist of: councilmen Moore, Bishop, Rab john, and Forbes. The PUC will be comprised of Reeve For­ce, Commissioners Maedel and Williams.Figures in the vole were as follows:Reeve - L. E. Force 396. ‘i'il- ' liam Andrews 355. Council - (two elected - Paul M. Moore 375, Gerald Bishop 365. James Butler 316. John S. Leitch 292. PUG - (one elected ■ A. P. Maedel 431, A. B. Arn 281.County Council Watched At Work By PS StudentsStudents from West Zorra Highland Park public school jammed the county council chambers this morning to hear and see at first hand how the iounty’s elected representatives steer the Oxford County ship of state through the seas of municipal business..■The students, with their tea­cher. Roger Moorehead, were welcomed by Warden Ernest F. Garner of West Zorra. and com­plimented by Reeves Robert Ru­dy of Tavistock and Clare H. Esseltine of Tillsonburg for their interest in municipal affairs.Among the grade eight stu­dent from the school was the warden’s son, Glen, age 13. “I am more than happy to wel­come the students and their tea­cher.” Warden Garner stated before introducing his son to council.Replying to the welcome, Mr. Moorehead said his students would probably learn more a-The new bridge over Hom­er a Creek, o'1 th« ^nerkip to Drum bo road, ia nearing completion as the workmen employed by the contracting company to i bout county council from this | visit than he could teach them.Adding words of welcome, । Reeve Rudy said the presence । of the students at county coun- I cil was an “inspirational sight” as he walked into coun­cil to take his seat. He com­mended the pupils and the tea­cher for taking an interest in municipal work.SCHOLARSHIPS PRAISEDReeve Rudy also commended the agricultural committee for setting up scholarships and a- wards for the Agricultural Col­lege. “It is a wonderful thing as the letters we have received from grateful students prove,” he stated.“I hope this is only the first step,” he stated suggesting that Oxford set up scholarships and awards for other courses.Reeve Esseltine congratulated the teacher for bringing the pupil! to see council in action done before bad weather set­tles &vei the area. The con­crete *t.ruc«ure, located only a few hundred feet from the Western Gypsum Company is malting W in a pro­spective new field, and close by the site of the 401 Highway cloverleaf west of Drumbo. As a means of speeding operat­ions. the contractor is using an old steam tractor as ameans of more rapidly drying the concrete after pouring. For a day last week, it was necessary to close the road to trwIWc, w h e n high waiter from the creek flooded over the new bridge. (Staff photo).and commended the class for their interest in municipal af­fairs. He advised them, if they were interested in municipal af­fairs,. to start out young. He also thanked council for setting up the scholarships. It is a great thing and I would, also, like to see them extended to othei courses." he stated.Letters of thanks from many students who had received coun­ty awards or scholarships were read to county council this mor­ning by County Clerk and Trea­surer L. K. Coles.The following High School Dis­trict Board re'rgsentalives were appointed by council: Tillson­burg, Robert Martin: Paris, Ralph Sparks: Norwich, David Chambers; Woodstock. Edward V. Kennedy; Ingersoll. John Ol­iver.County council adjourned a* bout 10.30 a.m. to allow the finance, road, property and ag­ricultural committees to meet.Well-Known City Lawyer Stricken Very SuddenlyWILLIAM A. CALDER, Q. C.William A. Calder, QC., wide-i ,ly known Woodstock lawyer and prominent resident, passed a- way suddenly on Tuesday after­noon as the result of a heart seizure. He was 61.Born near Bright, he attended school in that district and taught school for a time at New Ham­burg and then for five years was assistant principal of the largest public school in Brant­ford. He was one of the Cana­dians selected to teach school on an exchange and for a year he was on the staff of a^school in Ayrshire, Scotland. Buring the time he was in Britam. Mr. Calder made a study of till Eng­lish and Scotch systems of ed­ucation.Returning to Canada, he read law in Brantford and Toronto and came to Woodstock in 1932 to practice law. taking over the practice of W. S. West, KC, lat­er judge of Haldimand county. He later formed a partnership1 wit. Leslie M. Ball under the* firm name of Calder and Ball, which was just recently dissol­ved. Mr. Calder opening a new office on Light street, opposite the court house with his son associated with him.,Mr. Calder was also prom­inent in the political life of the county. For four or five [years he was president of the Oxford Conservative Associat­ion and was Oxford represen­tative on Western Ontario Pro­gressive - Conservative Assoc­iation.Always interested in educa­tional matters, he served 11 years on the Board of Educa­tion and was chairman of the board in 1940 when the new col­legiate on Riddell street was opened.APPOINTED KCMr. Calder was appointed a King’s Counsel in 1944, was a member and past president of the Oxford County Law Assoc­iation and a member of the; Canadian Bar Association. He was a director and past presi­dent of the Oxford County Com- munity Concert Association.He was popularly known as Woodstock's "Singing Barrist­er" and his appearance on the concert stage in full Scottish । regalia and the zest with which I he sang f"miliar Scottish bal- [lads left no doubt as to his an- 1cestry.He was an enthusiastic Ro­tarian. member of the Wood- stock club since 1934, was chairman of various commit­tees, twice a director and was president of the club for t ie 19-14-45 term. He was elected District Governor for the 1948- 49 term and was further hon­ored in 1956-57 by being elected a member of the Canadian Ad­visory Committee for Rotary.Mr. Calder was a member of Knox Presbyterian church and served on the board for several years. He was a life member of Oxford Masonic Lodge. Wood- stock.Surviving are his wife, form­erly Lilian Alston, two sons, George of Toronto and Bern­ard of Kingston; two granchild- ren Nancy and David Calder, Toronto; one sister. Mrs Maude Beattie. Woodstock and one bro­ther, George L. Calder, Embro.The late Mr. Calder is resting at the F. U. Rowell Funeral home until Friday morning. Funeral service will be held tn Knox Presbyterian Church Fri­day at 2 p.m. with Rev, G. L, Douglas of Toronto officiating. Interment will be made in the family plot in Chesterfield cem­etery. Donations to the Blossom Park School Fund and the Heart Fund will be appreciated which may be arranged at the funeral home. MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS VIEW SURVIVAL TRAINING DEMONSTRATIONAN INTERESTING demon­stration of the course of train­ing m civil- defense, or as it is more commonly termed, ‘nat­ional survival’ was provided Thursday afternoon at Wood- stock Armories to a repre­sentative gathering of local government officials, in elud­ing mem'bers of Woodstone and Ingersoll councils and appointed officials, as well as members of the Oxford coun­ty council, in session at the time. UPPER photo shows trainee Pte. Dan Croft, being presented by Lt, R. A, Salis­bury, for inspection by (from left) Warden Ernest Garner,Stanley J. Smith, represent­ing the Ingersoll mayor and William Downing, mayor o f Woodstock. The ‘R’ on the helmet, stands for ‘rescue’. LOWER photo is a simulated casualty being given first ajd prior to removal to proper hospital. (Staff Photos).Rpnnmh Arion of highways between Long Point iwnumoenng and stratford is indicated onmap. Old and new numbers will be shown along Renumbered sections for convenience.Site Of Blenheim TownshipGypsum Mine Seems CertainI for access iy council committee for consid-ishaft into the limestone strata formation to establish the qual- consession 7 of] ©ration. A copy of the standard | under heavy overburden down ity and site of the field in the joa ,A,.f Innerkip-Druiribo area.„ .. The drilling is bell ■. the drillers,a mine lor the letter requested that their (out by McLure Drilling Corpor who had set up operations a- nppllcation he presented to the ation of Mount Pleasant, Mich. J bout four weeks previously, had next county council session, | under contract to Western gyp- reached the 396 fooi level in which Is the eunwi one. sum said to be a multi-million: "hard limestone.'’ GIGANTIC RIG SUNK 'dollar organization controlled by. Coupled wlm the recent exThe location of a large gyp- |to county council•um mine in Blenheim township । routes under cons____ . .......... _.u ............would appear to be a certainly, Blenheim township, staled in form of lease agreement has to the 420 loot level, judging by a letter from the!part: “Our company is consid-hdso been sent to council and' The drilling is heir Western Gypsum Products Ltd., ering developing i , ... . .. . .. .. . ... -Winnipeg, read to county eoum the production of gypsum in Ihe cil this morning by County area west of Drumbo and on Clerk and Treasurer L. K. Col-;h>th sides of Ihe county road es extending west from (he High-The tal«r, making applies turn wav 401 interchange.”Th© letter, making applicat­ion for the access routes under Hie hard surface road whichA gigantic $1,000,000 drilling British interests. A skilled team panding, oil developments, the rig, said to be the largest of its of United States drillers haw (dairy farming and tobaccokind, has been sinking a four tofive foot square mine shaft onthe farm of Roy Wilkins, RR Ibeen working around the clock (farming in the area it wouldon the job. see in that Blenheim townshipPrior to the start of sinking will soon be one of the largest diversified producing townshipsrun* between Innerkip and Dru- _________, ..... ___ .....—j-.™-, T•nbo, fronting lots 21 and 22, Drumbo,, for the past couple of the mine shall, .some 150 cor® I diversified pit was referred to the proper conn- months. They Intend sinking the holes were drilled into the rock Tn the countv. DEMONSTRATE SURVIVAL TRAINING — Oxford County, Woodstock and Ingersoll councils and other municipal officials attended a demonstration of the army's nationci survival training program at the Woodstock Armory. The demonstration included displays of first aid, rescue and firefighting pro-—Free Press Woodstock Bureau cedures and displays of survival equipment. Above, Lieut. R A. Salisbury, of London, an instructor right, with Daniel Croft, trainee, demonstrates use of portable equipment to Oxford Warden Ernest Garner, left, Ingersoll Councillor Stanley J. Smith, centre, and Woodstock's Mayor William Downina. Few Changes Are Expected In Oxford County CouncilAlthough several elections are ham and the same office ia being held in areas of Oxford being contended in East Zorr< county today for choice, of where P J. Wettiaugh and E. school trustees, only four are P. Eddy are candidates, being held for office which may! Throughout the county there change the make-up of county are six electing being held for council for next year’s term, school trustees. Otterville, Bea*The one change that is in- chville. East Nissouri, East Ox* evitable will be in represents- ford, west Oxford and East Zor- lion for the first time from the ra. Norwich village is making newly incorporated village ofa choice for one PUC repre* Beachville from whence the scntalive from three candidates, newly elected reeve will take—Free Press Woodstock Bureau DECORATE WOODSTOCK COURTHOUSE — Ox­ford County's courthouse at Woodstock, illuminated the year round by colored floodlights, has been given on extra sparkle for the holiday season by the decoration of its evergreens and shrubs with Christmas tree lights. A time exposure shows the effectiveness of the display.his seat on county council to bring total representation up to 22 members, one above the pre ;cnl council number.Final meeting of council for he 1961 term is to take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs­day of this week and meeting schedule will be somewhat chan- jged from previous business ses­sions and in so doing will fol­low long-term practice.At the Wednesday session, members will be accompanied by their wives and during the (day there will be members and wives luncheon and a film show­ing with other appropriate en­tertainment. There will be a Thursday evening session at which a number of presenta­tions will be made including one to the retiring warden, Er­nest Garner.At Beachville. voting for the first time today as a result of I the changed status, Jack Smith I and Fred Lowes are candidates for the reeve’s office and five are contesting council seats with four to be elected.i At Norwich village there, is a I tussle for the reeveship, with L. E. Force and William And- rews in the field. In Blenheim Township, deputy reeveship is being decided between Merle I Coleman and Clifford Cunning-Oil,Gas Field Holds PromiseThe Gobles oil and gas field, originally discovered when Aus­tin Smyth drilled the first dis­covery well about two years ago continues to give indicat­ions of becoming a good pro­ducing area.This was emphasized Sunda;- morning, when a well drilled y the Sumac Oil and Gas r t- any. of Wichita. Kansas, a partnership with the Kerwoad Exploration Company, of Ker- wood and Simcoe, accidently blew out of control because of gas pressure, becoming locked behind the oil flow.The Sumac-Kerwood well flo­wed about 80 barrels of oil which blew out over the im­mediate area of the oil field.The grade of oil in the field is reported as being vastly sup­erior to that found in the wes­tern Canada nil wells of Al­berta. The color of the crude nil is a rich emerald green.31RiGoa s Gov.-Resistance Ends,General SeizedNOVA GOA (Reuters)—Indja consolidated its grip on Goa. to­day with the reported collapse of the last pocket of resistance and the capture of the Portu­guese governor-general.The Indian defence ministry isaid Governor-General Manuel Vassalo e Silva had been taken Into custody by Indian troops.The announcement followed reports that the last bastion of Portuguese resistance in the col­ony, in the port of Marmag^o, had given in.,Indian officials reported that the invading troops, who al­ready have captured more than 3,500 Portuguese soldiers, were fanning out from the main towns today to round up strag­glers.iManmagao. which held out for several hours after an officialsurrender document was signed captured by the lihere, was captured by the In- 'dians after they had moved two warships into the port to sup­port. the ground-troop advance., Indian sources hi Belgaum. a I town near the 'border with Goa. said that Indian troops had Uken -100 prisoners and cap­tured six tanks when they took over Marmagao.Indian sources said the Portu- guese prisoners taken duringthe invasion of Goa will be in­terned in a camp outside the colony—.probably in Belgaum.Meanwhile, the Indian govern­ment today began putting into effect a plan for the adminis­tration of Goa and two smaller colonies, Damao and Diu, cap­tured earlier in the week.R. Noronah, the newly-ap­pointed chief civil administrator for Goa, flew into Nova Goa today accompanied by three deputies.The Indian government has emphasized that the Goans—10 pe cent Roman Catholics—will be allowed to retain their indi­vidual personality and will not be swallowed up by the Hindu population of India.This appeared to mean that the Goans will be allowed to continue both their Christian faith and the use of the Portu­guese language.Jubilant Hindus thronged the streets of Nova Goa Tuesday when the Indian troops moved in. The Indian flag was run up over the former palace of the Portuguese governor and Col. Sucha Singh, commanding the Indian 1st Paratroop Battalion, signed the surrender documents with Portuguese officials.In New Delhi Prime Minister;Nehru told a press conference the swiftness of the operation was its justification.He said the Portuguese ad­ministration had ’’cracked up” —if India had failed to act there would have been a vac­uum “and the only persons who could have profited would have been lawless and anti-social ele­ments; in fact they were begin- nig to do it.”Nehru said- ‘ Taking any mil­itary action is contrary to my grain. It hurts me to do it. I could only agree to this because the consequences of not taking it would have been very harm­ful even from the point of view of violence.”The prime minister said crit­ics of the Indian action in the United Nations Security Cou- oil “obviously are rather ignor­ant of the facts, the facts of today and during the last dozen years or more.”DIG UP PIECE OF 100- YEAR-OLD PLANK ROADWhile making excavations on Stover street in Norwich, m permit installation of wat­er connections, workmen un­earthed a heavy piece of board that ig believed Io be a portion of Lhe old plank roadwhich was laid between Nor wich and Brantford more than 100 years ago. The piece of clear white pine wood was buried almost 30 inches he- neath the surface ol the ground, but when removedfrom its dirt bed, was quite solid, but is now beginning to check as it dries out. Here Paul M, Moore, father of Ralph Moore, who found the bit of plank displays it for the cameraman.PROTEST ALLEGED PAY SHORTAGEArmories Picketed By Survival Trainees May DevelopDrumbo GypsumMining Firm Asks CouncilFor AccessFree Press Woodstock BureauWOODSTOCK — Under­ground access routes to a large gypsum deposit west of Drumbo were sought from Oxford County coun­cil yesterday by Western Gypsum Products Ltd. for a possible mining develop­ment.Ask RoutesThe British-controlled firm, with Canadian head offices in Winnipeg, applied for access routes under Blenheim Town­ship's seventh concession.The application said that the [company “is considering devel­oping a mine for the production c-f gypsum in the area west of Drumbo and on both sides of rhe county road extending west from the Highway 401 inter­change.”The application waa referred 'to council's property committee for study. The committee will report to council on Thursday, the final day of the winter ses- laion.The mine, if the company de­cides to proceed with it, would not be a particularly large one, said W. J. McGill, of Preston, engineer in charge of the pro­ject, The field is still In the exploration stages.I A $1,000,000 large-diameter drilling rig is presently sinking a 4J7-foot exploratory shaft on the RR 1, Drum bo, farm of Roy Wilkins. Other smaller holes were sunk earlier to establish ,the size and quality of the ,Drumbo field. The gypsum does not appear to become dense [enough to be mined economical­ly until about the 400-fnot level, Mr. McGill Mid.Mining MethodIf a mine is started, it would probably be of the trackless room-and-pillar type, in which the gypsum is mined in lateral [tunnels branching out from the main vertical shaft, The tun- nols would be chewed out of the solid gypsum, with pillars of the gypsum left to aupporf the roof, The mineral, used in the build­ing trade, would be mined and lUnmtpwriwi to the centgal shaft by rubber-tired carriers.Western Gypsum has been ex­ploring the area, for more than « year. It han approximately 1.000 acres of lend under lease from Drumbo-Inn er kip «r»*n farmers.The gypsum formation extends across the Weaicrn Ontario Peninsula from Niagara tn about Southampton, Mr. McGill said, hut in moat areas, It la too Mr down or in layers loo thin tn make mining feasible. The only gypsum mining In Iha area, h« said, la at Caledonia and HsgentvlU*.DRUMBO MINE COULD BE BIGGESTMillion Dollar RigProbes For GypsumA gigantic drilling rig, val­ued at close to $1,000,000 is probing the lime stone strata on the farm of Roy Wilkins, RR 1, Drumbo in a search for a gypsum mine which may turn out to be the largest ever loca­ted in Oxford if not Ontario.the south side of the Innerkip- Drumbo road about a half mile west of Highway 401 intersect­ion.It is the biggest drilling opera­tion in Canada and the first big hole drilled in Canada, C.M “Slim” Cookingham, day driller, said yesterday, James Baweom, Mt. Pleasant, is the engineer in charge and John Spencer of the McLure firm is the tool pusher” in charge of the drilling operations.The drilling is being carried out by McLurc Drilling Cor­poration of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., under contract to Western Gyp­sum, said to be a multi-million dollar organization controlled by British interests.The three, fve men drilling crews, working around the clock have reached the 396 foot level in ‘‘hard limestone” a spokesman on the job said yes­terday.“It is the biggest drilling op- ieration in Canada today and the drilling rig would cost a million dollars or more,” he sta­ted.The drilling crews started I’Tigging up” four weeks ago and expect with “good luck”, to wind up operations at about 417 feet in four or five days. They are drilling a "test shaft” which will be about four feet square at the bottom's narrow­est point.If tests on tons of samples taken from the test shaft prove up and the gypsum is of good quality a larger shaft will like­ly be sunk for mining opera­tions.In the past months from 100 to 150 or so “core holes” wore -drilled into the rock formation to establish the size of the limestone field in the Innerkip- Drumbo area. At present the large drill is working just offA MILLION DOLLAR dril­ling ri" said io be the Ur* ever operated in Canada, is steadily boring down lo the 400-fool level on the farm of Roy Wilkins, RR I, Drum-bo.in a search fur high grade | gypsum. Sinking of the four- ' foot square lest shaft is ex« peeled to he completed in four ; or five days. It is muddy, Igrueling work manhandling the huge drilling bits and sha'ls into position but the veteran crow, working with prevision team work, make it seem easy. (Staff Photo New Oil Well In Gobles Area Appears ProducerHARD, COLD WORK —- A driller's job isn't easy under any conditions, but for the crews attempting to open up a gypsum deposit in the Drumbo district, conditions are doubly harsh. The drilling rig itself, valued at $1,000,000, the only one of its kind in the world, is especially designed for drilling large- diameter shafts — up to 15 feet wide. This means using extra-large drill pipes and bits. One bit can—Free Press Woodstock Bureau weigh up to 20 tons. The drillers, shown locking a collar around one 32-foot drill pipe section to connect it with another are working around the clock in cold weather. The drilling is being done by the McClure Drilling Corporation of Mount Pleasant, Mich., under contract to Western Gyp­sum, a British controlled organization, on the farm of Roy Wilkins, RR 1, Drumbo.115 gallons an hour. The site of the well became a precarious danger area, because even the spark, from a spark plug of a gasoline motor, or a lighted cigarette, could ignite the gas around the well into a blazing inferno.Owners of the Sumac-Ker- wood oil well, that came in Sun­day .morning at about 5:30 a.m., today began sand-fracking pro­cedure on the hole.Fracking a hole, is done by forcing crude oil mixed with sand under pressure through a rotating gun, cutting an 8-ipchl peter Tostik a partner in the ring into the porous rock The firm drilling the well, explained gun is then removed and the this mornin,g that TOC' barrels of mixutre again is then forced cru<je oil was forced into the under a 3000 pound pressure hole miswl 15,000 lbs of fracturing the porous rock, al- especiany graded porous sand, lowing the sand to seep into the al a pressure of 2500 pounds, ■crevices retaining the u n d e r- ...ground cracks so that it cannot — - - - ...settle back into place, and a next step > wi£ he build greater oil flow is produced, ----------On Sunday, oil flowed over pipe lines to an oil storage tank, the immediate area of the field and the well wiU oe in operat.- at a rate of 80 barrels a day or ion.After this is completed, thepumping station on the site, layI TRACKING EQUIPMENT— iat the Sumac-Kerwood oil well is grouped together, con- ,sibling of pumpew hi fore­ground, sand truck located between Iwo pumpers al left and crude oil tankers withthe sand blender in centre of photo. Bulldozers were still moving two more UnkersI carrying crude oil into posi­tion when this photo was tak1 en. (Staff Photo) "DEFINITE POSSIBILITIES" SEEN FOR NEW FIELDjroaucmg oil firm of Me­ms Co. Ltd,currently drilling their eighth well Working on the drilling rig, TOP, are, from the left, Lloyd Regele. driller, MarcelPamerleau and Murry Shurr, tool dressers. LOWER test ing the oil in lhe pipe lo tanks is Jamie McMaster of Caledonia. (Staff Photos)Making The Very MostOf Area. Gypsum FindNews that a company operated by British interests In Winnipeg wishes to develop the recently dis­covered rich gypsum deposits 'in Blenheim township and has sought access rights to the area should the a big shot in the arm to the feconomy of the eastern part of Oxford County and possibly of Woodstock itself.Initial soundings have indicated that there is a substantial amount I of the mineral ’in Blenheim town­ship—possibly the largest deposit '.in Ontario, and that it is of ex­cellent quality.: Once a mine is established, as doubtless it will be, it should not :only be of value to the area 'im- .■mediately surrounding the mine, but we would hope it would add to the industrial potential of this city.Tpo often, we feel, the discov­ery of some raw material In an ;area means that 'it is shipped ;away to some distant point to jbe processed into a manufactured product. We trust this will not /happen here, and that our new industrial procurement set-up will move into high gear along with others interested in the welfare of this city to see what can be done to have much of the raw material processed right here.; The very nature of gypsum, as •we see it, lends itself to the local ■manufacturing situation even as it -now exists. Gypsum is often mixed With cement to give it a certain quality. Whether the type of gyp­sum at our door could be used to advantage by the cement plant here will have to be determined by 'those directly concerned with ■plant production. We throw out the suggestion for what it is worth.In addition, gypsurn is used, ac­cording to our information, for making cement, blocks. Because this it might be a decided asset lo Schell Industries, Ltd., or Unit Step, Ltd., or both 'in turning out new or improved products.Gypsum is most commonly used, in Canada, at least, for the manufacture of plasters and wall­board and there are a number of plants in different parts'of the country engaged in the manufac­ture of these materials.Even if it were not feasible to establish another such plant in Woodstock, gypsum might well lie used for other things that are rot manufactured here or in this vic­inity. It is used in certain of ’is forms for the manufacture of cer­tain types of porcelain and glass­ware. This might be a possibility that should be looked into without delay.We also understand gypsum 'is used as an agricultural agent in dressing the land and anyone who knows this particular section of Western Ontario can see the po­tential of such a product being manufactured in this area.This does not by any means ex­haust the possibilities for gypsum in its manufactured form, nor of the possibilities for Woodstock in making the most of it, either in already established or entirely new industries.In any event, the developments over the new gypsum find offer considerable promise for this area in the years to come. Coupled with similar developments recently in oil and natural gas, the immediate prospects for this city and county are brighter than for some time.Goble’sBenefitBy STEWART WATSONWith about 10 oil wells pro­ducing in the Gobles area oil fields and drilling on two more expected to be completed with­in a few weeks, the area is fast becoming a major source of revenue to land leasing farmers.The firm of Robert McMaster and Sons Co. Ltd. of Caledonia, one of the major leaseholders and drilling companies in the field located about seven miles east of here flanking Highway 2, gays the area has “definite possibilities.”The firm, which s t a r t ed drilling in tihe area about a year and a half ago, has now brought! in seven producing oil wells, is currently drilling the eighth and expects to start drill­ing a ninth in about a week or two. according to James Mc-Master.W. R. declared justifiesMcMaster yesterday that present activity tile confidence h I s has had in the Cam-company ...... J hrian Sands in the area. “This lopinion”. he said, has been held ‘for many years by us and oth-ens”,ROYALTIES PAIDOutlining the present produc- Ition by his company’s wells in the area, Mr. McMaster I old the Sentinel-Review that aver 5,000 barrels of oil selling at $3.14 a barrel were produced by five wells tn September. During that month, he said, $3,072 was paid out in royaltiesArea Farmers By Oil Boomto farmers for their share of sent but, it is understood, they the production of the five wells, have slackened off operations“I have every confidence in the production of these wells and futur wells as well as in the field itself,” said Mr. Mc­Master, noting that it costs the company $38,000 to drill one well. “This expense is a meas­ure of our confidence in the area.” he slated.An indication that the area is considered a "good thing”, are recent well confirmed reports that “outsiders” from such centres as Buffalo have been coming m quietly and trying to buy up the farmers’ royalty rights.“They are just sharpshooters creeping in and trying to take advantage of the farmers' lim­ited knowledge of the oil prod-there for the time being to con­centrate in other nearby sec­tions.A report from J. M. Irwin, field representative for t h e company, notes that his firm organized its producing in South­western Ontario in 1945 extend­ing its activities from Windsor in the West to Brantford m the east and Manitoulin Island i n the north.The company, he say*, has drilled more than 800 wells of which about one fifth are cap­able of production at present. -Over the last 16 years these wells have yielded about one- third of the crude oil and nal-ural gas produced in the area. Industry production for the area has averaged 3.200 barrels ....nrL zUl dov anducing industry”, James _________—Master said yesterday. jof crude oil per day and 50 “We are averaging 5,000 bar: million cubic feel of natural gas rels of $2 oil a month and that's during rhe past year.” he re-good,’’ he emphasized.OTHERS IN FIELDported. ’Imperial Oil, he stated, has .interests in better than one The Imperial Oil Co., which!half a million acres in the pro- has been active in the area dur- vince and gravity surveys have ing the past summer months,,led to the discovery of a num- has throe producing wells tn, ber of pools and have indicated operation around Gobles at pre future drilling sites. LONDON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1961—74 PAGESSCAPES OXFORD JAILHOUR AFTER SENTENCEANOTHER WELL COMES IN AT GOBLES OIL FIELDGiven 0 learnParkes, under guard at hos- pital, was sentenced two weeks ago to five years in penitentiary lat Kingston for breaking and (entering, possession of a stolen car, and possession of offensive weapons.Magistrate R. G. Groom, QC, lof Tillsonburg, yesterday sen­tenced Perkins to 12 months in jail for car theft.Perkins had pleaded not guil­ty to the theft Dec. 9 of a car owned by J. D. Poole, of 178 Graham St., Woodstock. The car was found later the same day, out of gas and abandoned Inear the intersection of the Em­bro and Hickson sideroads. Per­kins was arrested in the same area still later that day, by in­vestigating provincial police of- [ficersA Windsor man. Edwin Le­land Perkins, 23, was sentenced to 12 months in an Ontario re­formatory by Magistrate R. G. Groom, QC, Tillsonburg, on a city police charge of car theft at the county court house lyesterday.The accused pleaded not guil­ty but was found guilty of stealing a car owned by J. D. Poole, 176 Graham Street, at city police court on Dec. 19. The car had been stolen on Dee. 9 and the accused was arrested later that day in the Kintore and Embro Sideroads area where the car was found aband­oned and out of gasoline. (Perk- iins later broke out of the (county jail. (See story above).OIL MEN working in the Goblt-s area are increa«irjy optimistic that thi# field, just east of Woodstock, may de­velop into a top producing ar­ea . On Sunday drillers work ing for Sumac Oil and GasCompany of Wichita, Kansas, in co-opcratiod with Kerwood Exploration Company, brought a new well that is reported to be producing approximately 80 gallons an hour. TOI* photo mIw® the oil flowln" from the well into a poolwhich has been bulldozed into the ground, while in the LOW-. ER photo, Iwo members of the drilling crew remove a bailer from the hole which is al the 2,924 foot level (Staff photo1Companion CapturedAt SceneFree Press Woodstock Bureau WOODSTOCK — Police across Western Ontario are hunting a car thief who es­caped from the Oxford County jail here last night, little more than an hour after he was sentenced to a 12-month jail term.Sawed Way OutWoodstock police said that Ed­ward Perkins, 25. of no fixed address, escaped afte^ he and a fellow convict sawed their way out. of an upstairs jail window and jumped about 20 feet to the ground, shortly after 6 pan.City Police Chief W. James Ennis said it was probable the prisoners had outside aid.The second prisoner, John Charles Parkes, 61. of no fixed address, was captured by Con­stable Robert Smith shortly after he hit tlie ground, and taken to Woodstock General Hospital with a broken ankle and back injuries received when he jumped.Considered DangerousPolice said Perkins would probably head for the Windsor area, his original home. He is considered dangerous.| It is understood the two men were eating with other prisoners in a communal corridor In the cell block when the escape took place.A Ps-inch steel bar in the south wall Of the jail's east block was reported sawed through. The men are believed to have climbed along the roof to the southeast corner before leaping to the ground.Police suspect the escape was engineered In advance and that the bar had been cut almost through before the actual es­cape.Jail ClothingChief Ennis said both men were dressed In the black shirts and grey trousers of jail rr|6. oners and had no coats.Citirens were warned not tn approach Perkins if he Is seen but to notify police immediately.He is five feet, six inches tall, Weighs iso pounds and has fair complexion, brown eyes and hair.Chief Ennis said the escape took place just as the city force was increasing wduty staff for the holiday weekend. Constable Smith's cruiser was an extra car In service. COMPANION BREAKS LEG GOING OVER WALLPolice Hunt For PrisonerE scaped From Oxford J ailBy J. S. WATSONThe search for Edwin Leland Perkins. 25, Windsor, who es­caped from Oxford County Jail last evening about 6 p.m. expanded throughout Western Ontario today as police sought to recapture the convicted car thief.Perkins went "over the wall" at the county >il only a short hour and a half after he was sentenced to 1? months in an Ontario reformitory for car the-I t by Magistrate R. G. Groom i QC. Tillsonburg, at yes­terday’s county police court.In what police say was evid­ently a well-prepared, pre-ar­ranged plan, two prisoners from the Oxford county jail went over the wall in a daring prison break about meal time last night.One of them. John Charles Parkes, alias John Charles, 61, no permanent address, await­ing transfer to.a penetentiarytn serve a five-year term re- i cently imposed by County Judge 1 Eric W. Cross for breaking and enterting. He was quickly re- i captured near the jail when he broke his ankle and injured 1 his back taking the 18-f o o t drop from the top of the jail house wall. He is in the Wood- stock General Hospital.The other, Edward Leland Perkins, 25, Windsor, who had just been returned to jail to start a 12-month sentence for car theft received from County Magistrate R. G. Groom yester­day afternoon, was the object of a wide spread city police search led by Chief Constable James Ennis with area provin­cial police also on the alert.LIGHTLY CLADClad only in shirts and trous­ers. the two men broke out a- bout 6:10 p.m., just at the con­clusion of the evening meal, from the second storey eastcorridor cell block, police say. A bar, about an inch and a half in diameter on an outside east window leading to the east wall at the jail had been pre­viously cut through.B y coincidence, Constable Robert Smith of the Woodstock police, was checking the build­ings of the Oxford County Child­rens’ Aid society near the jail, when he heard the jail break alert over the police cruiser radio. He found Parkes, injur­ed. crawling around on the ground near the house of the Chief Turnkey, Edward Walton, located at the south-west corner of the jail.OUTSIDE HELP‘‘This break must have been planned for quite a while and we think there was some one waiting outside to pick them up”, Chief Constable Ennis observed last night. The men, he said, evidently crawled out of the window onto the east wall surrounding the cell blocks, and then around to the south wall proceeding west before jumping down.According to a former jail governor. Jack Skinner, the last real jail break here happened in 1937.The chief turnkey was off duty at the time it is understood and John Campbell, the pre­sent governor at the jail had "no comment to make at the present time.”Perkins was described as be­ing about five feet six inches tall, weighing about 130 pounds, fair complexion with brown eyes, brown hair and wearing a black shirt and gray trousers, when he escaped.When Parkes was sentenced by Judge Cross, after being found guilty by a jury of break­ing into an Otterville residence in October, it was noted that his record, dating back to 1920, in­cluded a term for breaking jail.WHILE NO ONE could say definitely at what point two prisoners at the Oxford Coun­ty jail "went over the wall”, it is believed that it was in the vicinity of the south en­trance into the jail house seen in the TOP photo. One of the prisoners, John Charles Park­es, 61. failed to make good his escape when he broke h i s ankle dropping from the wall and injured his back. He was captured near the front porch of the Chief Turnkey’s house LOWER by Constable Robert Smith as he was crawling on the ground. (Staff Photo).Escaped Jail PrisonerStill Sought By PoliceThe search tor Edwin Leland Perkins. 25. Windsor, who broke out of the Oxford County jail Friday evening shortly after be­ing sentenced to 12 months for car theft, continued today with no doe uncovered by police as to his whereabouts,"We are still pressing the hunt for him." provwaaJ and 01, no |X‘rm«nent add- m*. aent«n«H to five years inwindow.Parkes was reeiutured al­most immediately when he broke his nnkk and injured his back jumping down ofif the wall wirrroniiridi'ng the jail.Chief Constable James Ennis warned today that Perkins Is considered dangerous and that he may be armed bv this lime. 'Ihe Ohiof sa’iicl Friday thM I here was evidence of outside assist- awe in lihe «*cw;e of Perkin*.Penkin# escaped on foot but Chief Ennis feds that he will likely try to steal another car and head for his home territory in Mie Windsor im AH On- Vano pcliM* toroe* iwe been notdfkid of t«>c mKaupe. he ««M. THE CORPORATION AND THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL OF HURON COLLEGEINVITE YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS TO ATTENDTHE SPRING CONVOCATIONTO BE HELD INTHE SILCOX MEMORIAL LIBRARYHURON COLLEGEONSATURDAY, MAY SIXTH, 1961, at 2.30 p.m.Honorary Degrees Will Be Conferred OnTHE RIGHT REVEREND W. R. COLEMAN. M.A.. S.T.M., D.D., F.R.9.A.BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF KOOTENAYTHE VERY REVEREND W. SEWELL, B.A., L.Th., DEAN OF THE DIOCESE OF QU’APPELLE THE VENERABLE C. J. QUEEN, B.A., L.Th., ARCHDEACON OF THE DIOCESE OF HURON THE REVEREND CANON A. B. THOMAS, B.A., B.D., RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, GALTBishop Coleman Will Address The ConvocationCounty of Oxford*—kHANDBOOK1961*—kERNEST F. GARNERWARDENiM/Ao pen So/96V TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS BLANDFORD Clerk and Treasurer .... Stuart J. Currab, Bright Rond Superintendent .... Howard Carter. Innerklp Assessor ............................. E. A. Carter. Innerklp Tax Collector _______ Stuart J. Currab, Bright Building Inspector --------- Oscar Slppel, R.R. 1, New Hamburg Relief Officer ........................................ The Reeve DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY BLENHEIM Clerk and Treasurer_Irwia J. Haines. Drumbo Road Superiutendeni .. Herbert Balkwill, R.R. 1, Drumbo Assessor ______ David Mitchell, R.R. 4, Bright Tax Collector_Geo. Balkwill, R.R. 1. Drumbo Building Inspector ....... David Mitchell, R.R. 4, Bright Relief Officer---------------------------------- The Reeve DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY DEREHAM Clerk and Treasurer _.. Fred E. Harris. Mt. Elgin Deputy Clerk and Treasurer— Miss M. Phillips, Mt. Elgin Road Superintendent—Harold Tindal, Mt. Elgin Assessor ........................ Ira M. Harris, Mt. Elgin Tax Collector ............. Fred E. Harris, Mt. Elgin Building Inspector .... Norman Moyer, Mt. Elgin Relief Officer ............................................The Clerk DATE OF MEETING—SECOND MONDAY EAST NISSOVRI Clerk ............................... G. L. Gregory, Lakeside Treasurer ...Mrs. Ella M. Whetstone, Thamesford Rond Supt....Geo. B. Anderson, R.R. 1. Lakeside Assessor and Tax Collector— Donald Seaton. Lakeside Building Inspectors....Fred Dennison, Thamesford John Baker, Lakeside Relief Officer— Mrs. Ella M. Whetstone. Thamesford DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY NORTH NORWICH Clerk and Treasurer ___ Floyd Jenkins, R.R. 2, Norwich Road Superintendent— Albert Freeman, R.R, 2, Burgessville Assessor ....... Frank Broad, R.R. 1, Burgessville Tax Collector .... Floyd Jenkins, RR. 2, Norwich Building Inspector ........ Floyd Jenkins, R.R. 2, Norwich Relief Officer .... Floyd Jenkins, R.R. 2, Norwich DATE OF MEETING—SECOND MONDAY SOUTH NORWICH Clerk and Treasurer....Herbert Parson. Otterville Road Superintendent .... Elmer Almost, Otterville Assessor. ..J. D. Wrigglesworth, R.R. 1, Otterville Tax Collector— I. D. Wrigglesworth, R.R. 1, Otterville Building Inspector— 1. D. Wrigglesworth, R.R. 1, Otterville Relief Officer ........... Herbert Parson, Otterville DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY EAST OXFORD Clerk and Treasurer— N. M. Holdsworth, R.R. 4, Woodstock Road Supt....Clarence Hart, R.R. 8, Woodstock Assessor—John A. Wallace, R.R. 8, Woodstock Tax Collector— N. M. Holdsworth. R.R. 4, Woodstock Building Inspector— Earl Skillings, R.R. 4, Woodstock Relief Officer ...................................... The Reeve DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY NORTH OXFORD Clerk and Treasurer— Miss E. A. Seldon, Ingersoll Road Supt. ....Stanley Shannon, R.R. 2, Ingersoll Assessor ....... Charles Waring, R.R. 3, Ingersoll Tax Collector ........Miss E. A. Seldon, Ingersoll Building Inspector— Wallace Baigent, R.R. 3. Ingersoll Relief Officer ........................................ The Reeve DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY WEST OXFORD Clerk and Treasurer— L. B. Curry, R.R. 1, Woodstock Road Superintendent— C. A. Williams, R.R. 1, Woodstock Assessor ....... A. D. Robinson, R.R. 4. Ingersoll Tax Collector .... L. B. Curry, R.R. 1, Woodstock Building Inspector— A. D. Robinson, R.R. 4, Ingersoll Relief Officer ...L. B. Curry, R.R. 1, Woodstock DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY EAST ZORRA Clerk .......... H. J. Hallock, R.R 6, Woodstock Treasurer .................... Clarence Parker, Hickson Road Superintendent— Jas. H. Chesney, R.R. 1, Innerklp Assessor ......... Carman Facey, R.R. 1, Tavistock Tax Collector .................Earl Hostetler, Hickson Building Inspector—• , H. J. Hallock. R.R. 6, Woodstock Relief Officer .......................................... The Clerk DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY WEST ZORRA Clerk and Treasurer— Ernest Wood, R.R. 4, Embro Road Superintendent— Jas. A. Murray, R.R. 5. Embro Assessor .... James A. McDonald, R.R. 4, Embro Tax Collector— James A. McDonald, R.R. 4, Embro Building Inspector— Ernest Wood, R.R. 4. Embro Relief Officer ....... Ernest Wood, R.R. 4, Embro DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY OFFICIALS OF TOWN AND VILLAGES TIEESONBURG Clerk and Treasurer _ Burt Neale, Tillsonburg Deputy Clerk and Treasurer— Kenneth Holland, Tillsonburg Road Superintendent— James Hornsby, Tillsonburg Assessor ................K. R. Watts. Tillsonburg Tax Collector .............. Burt Neale. Tillsonburg Building Inspector _.. K. R. Watts, Tillsonburg Relief Officer ..........— Burt Neale, Tillsonburg DATE OF MEETING—FIRST TUESDAY EMBRO Clerk and Treasurer — Ross T. Smith. Embro Assessor ........ Win. A. Murray. R.Ri 0, Embro Tax Collector ................ Ross T. Smith. Embro Building Inspectors ----------------- Council, Embro Relief Officer ........................................ The Reeve DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY NORWICH Clerk and Treasurer ..... A. L. Bushell. Norwich Deputy Clerk and Treasurer— Fred McKie. Norwich Rond Superintendent....Harry Whitcroft. Norwich Assessor .......................... D. B. Ferris, Norwich Tax Collector .................... Fred McKie, Norwich Building Inspector .......... Basil Baines, Norwich Relief Officer .................................. A. L. Bushell DATE OF MEETING—FIRST MONDAY TAVISTOCK Clerk and Treasurer ..... E. C. Seltzer, Tavistock Road Superintendent .......... R. Rudy, Tavistock Assessor ........ Charles Quehl, Tavistock Tax Collector ........ Walter Schaefer, Tavistock §u|t,d}n^Jnspe<!tor ................................. Tavistock Relief Officers .......„.....—........... Entire Council DATE OF MEETING—THIRD MONDAY PHONE NUMBERS WARDEN ERNEST F. GARNER— „ „ Ingersoll 419W2 JUDGES OFFICE — Woodstock LEnnox 7-5811 SHERIFF ........................... LEnnox 7-6561 CROWN ATTORNEY ....... LEnnox 7-2611 REGISTRAR OF DEEDS .......... LEnnox 7-3161 MAGISTRATE ......... LEnnox 7-2061 PROBATION OFFICE .........._. LEnnox 7-2551 LIBRARY CO-OPERATIVE — LEnnox 7-3322 JAIL .............................................. LEnnox 7-24U COUNTY HOME .......... LEnnox 7-2711 COUNTY ASSESSOR .................. LEnnox 7-3521 PROVINCIAL POLICE ..._........ LEnnox 9-9811 CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY .... LEnnox 7-3425 ROAD SUPERINTENDENT ..... LEnnox 7-7961 COUNTY CLERK And TREAS...-LEnnox 7-3911 OXFORD HEALTH UNIT M. O. H.............................. Dr. 0. C. Powers Supervisor of Nurses ........... Miss Mae Haviland Sanitary Inspectors ----------------- J. L. Griffith, F. M. Crawford, Ivan Charlton Staff Nurses—Miss R. Grieve, Mrs D Johnston, Miss Elsie Holden, Miss A. Van den Berg, Miss G. A. DeHaan, Miss M. Charlton, Mrs. S. Wilkins, Mrs. Cora Etheridge, Mrs. Isabell Jackson, Mrs. Elizabeth Kellam. Clerical Staff—Mrs. A Ellerby, Mrs J. Orton, Mrs. J. Box, Mrs. J. Knaggs. Woodstock Office....Phone Woodstock LE 7-5711 Ingersoll Office .................. Phone Ingersoll 1658 Norwich Office ..........-........... Phone Norwich 1 Tillsonburg Office-Phone Tillsonburg VI 2-2979 Embro Office ....... Phone Embro 475-4140 Drumbo Office....Phone Drumbo HObart 3-5487 COMMITTEES OF 1961 FIRST NAMED, CHAIRMAN LAST NAMED, SECRETARY ROAD COMMITEEE — Davis, Nagle, Cunning­ ham. Junker, Wallace, Garner. Meathrell. FINANCE — Johnson, Honsberger Hartley, Finalyson, Dickout PROPERTY — Esseltine, Force, McKay, Mc­ Donald. Rudy. EQUALIZATION and ASSESSMENT — Hart­ ley, Dickout, McKay, Henderson. Shearer. AGRICULTURE — Henderson, Hogg, Shearer. Karn, Lazenby. HOME - Garner, Rudy, Esseltine, Mayor Down­ ing (Woodstock), Mayor Fewster (Inger­ soll), Coles HEALTH — Garner. Lazenby, Force, Jas. Harnett. (Prov. Rep.), Mayor Fewster. (Ingersoll), W. B. Dutton (Woodstock), Coles. PRINTING and RESOLUTIONS — Junker. Davis, Karn, Honsberger, Hogg. LIBRARY CO-OPERATIVE — Kipp, Garner. Nagle, Finlayson, Groom, Mrs. L. Krom­ part. JUVENILE COURT — Garner. McDonald, Coles. HOSPITALS — Woodstock—Garner Ingersoll—Walla ee Tillsonburg—Esseltine CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — Garner. Cunn­ ingham, Johnson. MUSEUM — Garner, Coles. BOARD OF AUDIT — Johnson, Coles. TREE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Roy Hughes .................. R.R. 1, Ostrander Phone Tillsonburg VI 2-2124 or VI 2-2830 Ross Calder ......................... R.R. 2, Thamesford Phone K intore 893-6254 John Mitchell Jr................... R.R. 2. Innerkip Phone Innerkip 7R21 COUNTY WEED INSPECTOR— OFFICIALS — 1961 Ernest F. Garner ------------------------------------Warden Eric W. Cross _________________ County Judge R. G. Groom, Q.C..................... Police Magistrate R, G. Groom Q.C................ Juvenile Court Judge A. A. Bishop .... County Court Clerk and Sheriff John B, Martin................................ Deputy Sheriff A. C. Whaley, Q.C......... Clerk of the Peace and County Crown Attorney Mrs. G. Dotzenroth ----- County Court Reporter Mrs. Edith Scholz.-Maglstrate’s Court Reporter Miss Margaret E, Ross— Magistrate’s Court Clerk Miss Donna Maltby ............ Juvenile Court Clerk Ross V. Tuck ................................................. Registrar John C. Blair .......................... Deputy Registrar Wm. Harrington .................... Deputy Registrar MacDougall and Farlow ........ County Solicitors Monteith, Monteith and Co............-........... Auditors ..... Jail.Governor A E. Walton ...............................-..... Chief Turnkey J. P. West ................................................-...... Turnkey B. Andrews ........................-.......................... Turnkey John Campbell ........... - Turnkey L. Zimmer .......... —............... Turnkey G. A. Fordham _______-........ -..... Turnkey E. H. McIntosh ....................... Turnkey Mrs. Rose Hamilton ....... —......—.......... Matron Dr. G. A. C. Webb ...................................... Physician Jail and County Home R. J. Forbes ............-...... Manager, County Home Mrs. A. Forbes .................. Matron, County Home Mrs. S. L. Krompart ............_ County Librarian W. G. Anderson ............ Public School Inspector A. P. Silcox .......... Public School Inspector B. 0. Moore ............................— Provincial Police Stanley Main ...........-..........—...... Probation Officer M. J. Rossol .............-.................. Probation Officer Fred H. Cade .................-.............. County Assessor J. N. Meathreli __ County Road Superintendent Thomas Pye ____________ Court House Engineer L. K. Coles ............................ Clerk and Treasurer 1 i^ryjfA^jj'^ ^7 //iiTtM ^t/arte q/! tTi^dTopecw/7a/^ mw7&^om 7o aAtewf aa/i</7o /e Zo/cT M^/^ac^Tod^\ ^^t/oeyd^ ffawf/4t^vaf^ a/Tssworw- T^e Tca// eTapX^7fe7 a^7M^e^f-OA^MdAwJ 3§u/7c/m^in//7e assastpef/&3TV&^he ^own of ^illsonlur^ and t/ie Ontario ^l&ater Resources Commission cordially invite you to attend theUfie ^ithoniurgSewaqe treatment Tlant^luesdauj October the ^fiird nineteen hundred and sixty-one al tu>o-thirty p.tn.Oljicial dteceplion to le held al the ^til-^tar Planar located on flCiyhway ^Co. 3, a^roximately three mites easl Viltsontury, at four y.m.THE WOODSTOCK AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDRENREQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANYAT THEOFDEVONSHIRE AVE.WOODSTOCK, ONT.ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1961 AT 2:00 O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON !• YEARS AGOWork wan started on staking out the ground for the new reg­istry office on Graham street, on the site of the former bowl­ing greens.The residents of the county hom * were presented with a variety program by the Rotary club headed by Bruce McMiU* tan.Mrs Jessie Scott, daughter ot the late Sheriff and Mrs. William McGhee and member of the court house st^ff<- died at her home on .Adelaide street.James Pullin, Sweaburg. for­mer warden of Oxford County and prominent district resident suddenly at his home in nis 80th year.Ontario Liberal Leader Walt­er Thomson spoke at a large Liberal rally the WCI aud­itorium in support of Robert Rudy. Liberal candidate for the LegislatureT. R. Dent (PC) defeated Robert Rudy (Lib) by 286 votes in the Oxford election for the Ontario Legislature.About 60 provincial police of­ficers were being sent to Wood- stock for duty during the Inter­national Plowing Match.1 h e International Plowing Match held near Beachville, closed with a banquet in Wood- stock arena, addressed by Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Dominion Min­ister of Agriculture.The Internationa] Plowing Match on the Hargreaves farm south of Beachville drew an attendance of 45.000.L. M. Ball, judge of Oxford juvenile court, urged the co­operation of parents, saying the court was interested in welfare rather than punishmentHon. George Doucett. Ontario Minister of Highways, was i n Woodstock conferring with cou­nty road officials.Miss Effie Nesbitt, curator of the Oxford museum announced that the museum would be open each night during the Internat­ional Plowing Match being held in Oxford. . . . .. _____Warden Grant Sutherland pre­sided at the annual warden's banquet held in "Kinki re hall.Warden Grant Sutherland of Oxford county was honored at the closing session of county council and presented with an inscribed silver tea service.Redecoration of the council chamber at the court house was begun, to be completed for the session of council opening Jan. 7.15 YEARS AGOAn addition lo the Oxiford Re­gistry office was urged on ebun- t\ council by the property com- mittee.A new association wax formed composed of the ex-reeves of Oxford, with Reeve Ross Car- roll of South Norwich first pre­sident.Warden J Winston Nichols an­nounced he was retiring from municipal life and would not seek re-election to North Oxford council.25 YEARS AGOJack Skinner, turnkey at Ox- I ford County jail for 14 years, was appointed governor, suc­ceed ing Lt. Col. George Forbes, resigned. Mel. Hamilton of Til- jlsonburg was appointed turn­keyLieut.-Col. George Forbes, go. tremor of Oxford county jail for 15 years, resigned lo go into business.County council appointed a committee to investigate the af- fains of the Oxford Children's Aid Society and make a report.The death of Frank J. Stalk­er. deputy registrar of Oxford County, occurred al. his home, 224 Drew Street, following an illness of several months dura­tion, He was in his 43rd year.Ross V. Tuck, principal of Embro public school, was- ap­pointed Deputy Registrar of Deeds for Oxford to assist Wall­ace MacWhinnie, registrar. He succeeded the late Frank J. Stalker.Oxford County council gavi second1 reading to a bylaw foi the Aloka Oil Co. to lay a gal pipe line from Brownsville to Ingersoll.Warden W. F. Lampman of Oxford county presided al ihe annual Warden’s Banquet to several hundred persons in Knox church banquet hall.15 YEARS AGOCounty council decided to i build a reservoir at the county home for better fire protection.A trees conservation commit­tee was' set up by county coun­cil to supervise the cutting of trees in woodlots.County, C. E. Sutherland, was .honored with a presentation from county council at its ses­sion.Newly appointed sheriff and court clerk of Oxford county, Alfred Bishop, commenced his duties at the court house.Oxford county council made a grant of $35,000 towards the erection of Ingersoll’s new hos­pital.[ County clerk Len Coles was having trouble with bats roost- , ing in his waste paper basket in his office at the courthouse.Residents Of East Oxford ad­joining the city were opposed to the annexation plan and sent a petition to city council.Reorganization and expansion of the Oxford museum was ur­ged al a meeting of interested Woodstock citizens,I Oxford county council met for jits fourth session of the year with Warden J. Winston Nich­ols presiding. Belter fire pro­tection for Oxford county home was on the agenda for discus- (sion.A limited season for deer hunting in parts of Oxford County was announced to b e held in November.Approximately a square mile of East Oxford township was to be incorporated as part of tiie city of Woodstock.Woodstock city council was (studying a draft of an agree­ment by which Woodstock would join the Oxford Health Unit.. Woodstock Board nf Health ! decided against joining the cou­nty unit aftei considering an agreement offered by the coun­ty.County sanitation inspectors J from a wide area held their j regular meeting at the court house. Woodstock.to YEARS AGOGrant Sutherland, reeve of East Nissouri was elected war­den of Oxford county in a pro- ।longed election, the vote taking 54 ballots,County council began its Janu­ary session under newly-elected Warden Grant Sutherland and appointed committees for the year.All county roads were classed as snow covered but passable by (County Engineer J. N. Meathrell.Rumors that scarlet fever was becoming prevalent i n Woodstock were denied by Dr. O. C. Powers, county MOB.I A bill to annex 498 acres in (East Oxford to Woodstock, was approved by the legislature private bills committee.Fox hunters in Oxford county failed to get the $2 bounty in­creased by county council.Representatives of Woodstock and Ingersoll met with county representatives to discuss plans (for the new registry office..Dr. 0. C. Powers, MOH for Oxford County, gave a report of the year's activities of the Oxford Health Unit to county council.F. E. Ellis, president of the Oxford Federation of Agricul­ture addressed county council, (urging a county-wide fire pro­jection plan.District hunters collected jbounty of $2 each on 51 foxes '{shot during February.I Dr. O. C. Powers, director of the Oxford Health Unit was elected president of the Oxford Countv Red Cross Society at the annual meeting.A big list of officials and com- j mittee heads was appointed to I handle the International Plow- I ing Match to be held in October on the farm of ’John Har­greaves. south of (Beachville.The old' cannon on the grounds of the court house, .Woodstock, were getting new wooden bases.। Oxford County home residents (enjoyed their first band concert of the season by the Oxford Rifles Band, arranged by Les McKerral of the Woodstock Ro­tary Club.Ex-Warden Robert Rudy, Tav. 'istock, was chosen by the Ox­ford Liberal Association as cam didate in the coming provincial j election.j Citv council approved partici- 1 pation in the building of the new Registry Office on Graham and share in the cost.The residents of the Oxford County home were entertain­ed by an old-time band brought by the Ingersoll Knights of Col­umbus.I Woodstock Civil Defence com- mittee planned to extend its i scope to take in the county.I Lt.-Col. Ernie Elliott, director announced.I Oxford County council’s Bar- bershop Quartet started pvactu- ing for the annual contest, to oe held al Gall Fair.Tenders were called for erec- (tlon of the new Registry Office 'on Graham street on the site of (the present bowling greens.j. F. McDonald, East Zorra, iwas elected president of the Ox­ford Ex-Wardens Association al (the annual meeting at the court Bouse.R. J. Forbes, manager of Ox­ford County Home lor Ihe Aged.I was elected president of I he As- i sociation of Home Manager?' al (the annual meeting in London.George Washington Jone s.•well known Woodstock "town crier*' and veteran Negro resF Idea!, died at the county home, lie was thought lo be around ITS.Only one case of was reported in Oxford County by Dr. O, C Powers. Moll, ihgl of a Woodstock girl in Victoria (Hospital Ixmdvn.15 YEARS AGOReeve J. Winston Nichola of West Oxford was elected war­den of Oxford County on the ;18th ballot at the January meet­ing of county council,Countv council, at its Jan iury session, budgeted for a to­tal of $262,500 to be raised by taxation for the year's expen­diture.J. L. Griffith was appointed sanitation inspector for the new­ly formed Oxford County Health l Unit.Miss Margaret Grieve, super­visor of nurses for the Oxford Health Unit, was appointed to a five-member provincial commit­tee on nursing.J. A. Metberall. Oxford Coun­ty road superintendent, was at- itcnding an engineers’ conven­tion in Toronto.I J. L. Griffith, Oxford County Health Unit inspector, reported 30 wells in Ihe county inspect­ed, with five found contaminat­ed.Compulsory pasteurization of milk was declared necessary by Dr. O. C. Powers, director of the Oxford Health Unit.Pasteurization of milk in the home by a simple process, was recommended by Dr. O. C.1 Powers, Oxford MOH.The Children’s Aid Society de­cided to discontinue use of the children’s shelter building on Park Row and place the child­ren in homes. The building was wanted as a military hospital.Mrs. C. M. Luke. Tifisonburg, was named chairman of the Ox­ford County Old Age Pension Board.N. M. Holdsworth was ap­pointed clerk of East Oxford township by the council, from several applications.Retiring clerk-treasurer of East Oxford. F. G. Jackson, was tendered a dinner and presenta­tion by township officials.A proposal that Woodstock and Ingersoll be included in the Oxford County Health Unit was approved by the board.C. E. Sutherland. Oxford Sher- iff and Surrogate Court clerk for nine years and active in .local public life for many years, announced his retirement, from public office.Dr. O. C. Powers. Oxford MOH, urged the need of a dent­al clinic for the county.1 Alfred Bishop, son of Reeve Harold Bishop. Norwich, was recommended as sheriff of t x ford County, to succeed C. b. (Sutherland, retiring.Oxford county council at its June session extended congrgtu- lations to Alfred Bishop, son of Reeve H. A. and Mrs. Bishop. Norwich, on his appointment as | sheriff of Oxford county.[ L. K. Coles. Oxford county clerk, paid bounty on 21 fox pelts, the highest number for ।one day yet recorded.•( A reforestation program was started on Ihe county line be­tween Oxford and Brant with । school children setting out [small trees.'I Two hundred school children from East Nissouri schools [planted 5000 young trees in a (plot near Lakeside.I Farmers of Oxford county ( bagged 107 foxes during April | on which County Clerk L. K. ( Coles paid bounty.The small Bible used tor Lak- [ing oali’S al Oxford court house, in use for 75 years and kissed thousands of times, was to be (replaced,Oxford County council held an unusual special meeting wule ' travelling in a bus seeking j sites for dams under the Tha- l mu River Development nwtFormer wardens of Oxford county held their annual meet­ing at the courthouse, L. E. Peterson, Drumbo, was elected president.The objective of $20,000 lor the new Lions Club swimming m>ol on Vansiltart Avc h j d been passed, L. Coles, club trea-DO YOU REMEMBER?(From Sentinel-, eview Fife*)25 YEARS AGOReeve William F Lampman of East Oxford was elected warden of Oxford County bv ac­clamation.Work of opening up county roads was underway foltowing the worst storm of the winter.Reeve James Compeau of Tillsonburg resigned after a month in office.Two interesting old photo.4 were brought to fhe Sentinel- (Review office, showing the el­aborate draperies of black and purple on the courthouse and the John White Co. store in tribute to the late King George V.Reeve L. H. Sibbick of Blen­heim township was elected a director of the Ontario Good Roads Association.Owing to the almost impass­able condition of county reads. School Inspector G. M Mather was unable to keep to his sch­edule of visits to rural schools.The March meeting of Oxford county council was held at tie court house Woodstock, with Warden W. F. Lampman presid­ing.Burns Roth, son County Clerk Adam Roth and Mrs. Roth, was one of the graduates in medicine at the University of Western Ontario.( Woodstock’s Dominionn bad- । minton champions. Jack Sibbald and Len Coles, qualified to en­ter the fine’s for the Ontario i championship.For the first time in many I years, county council found it necessary to hold two night ses­sions. County Clerk A. E. Roth was re-elected to the senate of the University of Western Ont­ario.Len Coles and Jack Sibbald. Woodstock badminton team, reached the third round in ihe mens doubles al Winnipeg.Oxford county council decid­ed on an expendiutre of $100. 000 for road work and issued a debenture for this amount, thr­ough a Toronto firm. '31 (The Ontario .Department of Highways decided not to take i over the Governors Road be­tween Woodstock and Thames- . ford as a provincial highway I as planned. F M. Dewan. | MLA for Oxford announced.The historic ’Id home of Ad­miral Vanslturt, founder of . (Woodstock, on the 2nd conces­sion of Blandford, was in the hands of the •eskers.County council decided t o have a wreath placed al the limy Ridge memorial at the official unveiling July 26 in me­mory of Oxford men who lost their lives in the war.County council split on a tie vole, to hav< Oxford declarer an accredited cattle area.Charles W Carroll, Norwich, an ex-warden of Oxford county was elected president of the Oxford Ex-Wardens' Associat­ion at the annual meeting Hon. v jD. M. Sutherland was speaker. ' Work was started on three one-storey stores on Dundas street, near Wellington, for E. J Coles, Woodstock.Reeve Charles F. Beasley of Embro returned from Ine pil- (grimage to Vimy Ridge and . declared (he beauties ot Fe ।Canadian War memorial were indescribable.The annual Oxford Municipal Picnic was held at Southside Park with an attendance of 300. County clerk Adam Roth was M.C.Norman Langrell of Dereham county was fleeted president of the Oxford County Clerks and Treasurers' Association. J. D. Wood of West Zorra became Vice-President F. G, Jackson of EaJ Zr -a started his twenb teth y^»r is Secretary Treasur- ter.