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Newmarket Era and Express, 30 Aug 1956, p. 1

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ERA YEAR EXPRESS HERALD YEAR NEWMARKET ONTARIOTHURSDAY AUGUST 30 1956 NO SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS EACH Town Pool To Next Month Ready 57 Trade Aids Jap Democracy Says Opens Store To Specialize In Oriental Crafts A cosmopolitan flavor being woodworkers who specialize in to Newmarkets shopping J this particular craft facilities with tho official open- Bamboo coasters baskets and in on Thursday Sept of a new trays have pressed butterflies be fore by the Oriental Importer the layers of glass- Carv- Ltd Partners in the animals such as the Three Venture which is located at Bears show an amazing amount Davis Drive are Mrs Dill- 1 of work but the connoisseur and Alex items of the shop are the ivory shop at present is featur- figurines and cloisonne vases Japanese merchandise figurines arc exquisitely the pool lively and with the exception of handcarved to detailed one Item fountain pens is or in J a a which means Seven treasurers of all Japanese art objects is regarded as supreme A high standard of craftmanship has been developed in the comp licated and lengthy process foll owed to make First the vase is shaped into the desired form from sheet cop per The surface is engraved by hand in the particular design with a series of washings and bakings following After thi5 the design is drawn on the surface in India ink with a brush and silver wire is pasted on the outline of the design and baked in a kiln Enamel paste in the colors is applied to fill in the cells formed by the silver wire and the vase is bak ed once more This step is repeat ed and followed by the grinding polishing and application of sil ver or nickel silver bands to the top and bottom edges to finish he vase The exquisite beauty of these vases must be seen to be appreci ated with their designs of chry santhemums cranes cherry blossoms The flowing grace which characterizes Japanese art is at its best in this work in handmade articles This policy of supporting the cottage crafts of Japan is Mr principle reason for or ganizing the importing firm Apart from the commercial as pect of the venture Mr on it at a concrete way of aiding the cause of democracy in the Orient It useless to preach to people if we are not fritting to help them raise their standard of living he said It is pitifully low that If we dont additional outlets for era Is it is our own fault If turn to communism Canada still exports two a times more to Japan than Imports We are a rich can afford to have those rltorw reversed If we can to them that they will be- if they string democracy we wont worry about future poli- in Japan said Mr The majority of Items to he tarried in the new store are In- priced arid make gifts with the purchas er probably buying an additional for herself There are the traditional colorful kimonos If ami embroidered soft slipper with leather sob are available ill a variety of colors Other it- of clothing include smoking jacket and reversible kimonos which really give the owner two outfits in one There a wide range of lac quer boxes The pulp of a spe cial tree is turd exclusively in this work so that Japanese lac quer superior to any other on j and costs or an additional Toronto Man Convicted Of Impaired Driving Gets 30 Days John William Ramsey of Millwood ltd Toronto was sent to jail for days and fined Definite plans to begin constru ction of a municipal swimming pool in Newmarket this Septem ber were revealed by the Swim ming Pool Committee of the Re creation Commission on Friday- Chairman Peter Gorman said that the contractor would begin work on the excavation next month The pool will be completed by November and in use next year Back in the days when the Model A was the car of the future and the Charleston was the big rage the Fire men began to collect money to build- the pool- The campaign proceeded in fits and starts lan guished during the depression was shelved when war started and revived in the postwar years For many years was in the same cate gory as a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage nice but try to ijet it Now the dream of years has finally come true The present committee which came into existence a year ago is composed of Peter Gorman Char lie Van Stan Smith Fred and Alfred The committee has on in cash pledges and a govern ment grant They need more to meet all costs Sometime during September the committee will launch a threeday blitz to raise the rest of the funds I think the people of the town will really contribute once they see that we are not round with the idea any longer said Chairman Peter Gorman Once construction starts they will see that they are contribut ing to a poo that their families will use next year At present the committee has set a tentative admission fee 250 per child per year with a maximum of for families with more than four children Adults will pay per year We hope that the service dubs in town will look after children of more unfortunate families Mr Gorman said The fees wilt be scaled to meet expenses and nothing more Present plans for the pool call for it to be located on St on the vacant lot of the ten nis court pool will require a man pointed out that the pool conforms to Olympic standard size so that competitions can be held The pool will be enclosed by a fence and the entrance will be through a building containing change rooms toilets and show ers Swimmers will have to show er before entering the pool Bleachers will be erected on one side for spectators A wading pool with a spray is provided for those too young for the large tank It is 35 feet by feet oval in shape with a max imum depth of inches The wading pool is in a en closure of its own and benches within the enclosure are provid ed for the mothers It takes gallons of wat er to fill the pool and one more filling is required during the year to replace water lost by ev aporation and splash The pool is the flush deck type No ladders are necessary since the water level is about six inches below the edge on all sid es The water is drawn from the pool passed through a battery of filters and and re turned There is a complete turn over of water every eight hours The pool is being built by a man who probably knows more about swimming pools than any other man in this part of the country He is Ken presi dent of K Bets Construction Co and his specialty is swimm ing pools Mr has built pools in all parts of Ontario Mr Gorman stated that when the pool was finished the com mittee planned to increase and improve facilities for summer minor sports In the future the committee see something like a local for winter recreat ion When we finish he said it Here and There Around Town It is not too often thai New market is commended or lis actions by other county munici palities But last week when Reeve Alfred of Mnrkhnm Township criticized his area school board for the cost of a proposed public school at he called attention to the construction figures of a Newmarket school The school has a price per classroom of 14000 In Newmarket tin cost was 11000 Mr said Other figures quoted by the reeve were village 12000 Aurora and Lake Wilcox Chairman of the Swimming Pool Committee Peter Gorman scaled shows the completed plans for the pool to committee members Charlie Fred Curran Stan Smith and Ray The committee said that construction of the pool will this September The pool will be fin ished by November and will be ready for use next year Photo by Ed Stephens Highways Minister Warns Of Holiday Traffic Hazards Special Consideration Needed Summers big holiday dark the coming Labour Day weekend Mr Allan says For the most is a time for special attention to part these tragedies could have safety by everybody the Hon been prevented by the simple James Allan Minister of High- of driving and walking ways states in a special pre-holi- safety appeal The Labour Day weekend is a very critical period for acci dents Mr Allan points out Traffic volume will be LOCATION Some people stilt seem confused as to the Era and Express whereabouts We are located at 30 Charles St behind Industries Ltd just off Davis Dr Accounts may be paid at tfie TorontoDominion Bank as well as at the office behaviour set out in the High way Traffic Act No part of this Act is intended to inconvenience anyone It represents the road ex perience of literally millions of people The Act is designed to Newmarket will have recreation facilities absolutely second to none tonally high over the coming j prevent accidents and provide weekend the chances of Missing Child Found Asleep In field Alter Hunt By Parents Police A threeyear old childs vivid imagination caused his parents Mr and Mrs John Agnew concession of King considerable A new piece of equipment lias been added to the Magistrates court this week It is a display board on which photographs of highway accidents will be plac ed The photographs have been enlarged to approximately four by six feet Yesterday when the equip ment was demonstrated a par ticularly grim photograph of an injured motorist lying in his smashed car was displayed If motorists charged with of fenses under the Department of Highways Act were compelled lo view such pictures while waiting for their case to be heard in court it would discour age much of the reckless and thoughtless driving seen daily on I the highways the market In the lacquer wore paper knives coasters and cigarette hostess sets One lacquer box was in Im perial maroon and gold In Jay of mother of pearl These colors have been used for the jo- J0 days here Tuesday when con victed of drunk driving driving While his operators license was under suspension and having liquor in an illegal place His drivers license was suspended for two years decorations of the shop Ramsay pleaded guilty to tin The fitted with a lry three charges One of criminal and three separate covered negligence was withdrawn with each being decorated in Frank Moore Horticultural Society Holds Summer Show In Library Basement The annual summer show of Hie Newmarket Horticultural staff of including life guards will be held on Friday Aug- and instructors in the basement of the In conjunction with the swim- j Public Library Park Ave The pool a wading pool for show will be open lo the public dren will be built If the cam ill day goes over the top two more On the proceeding evening wading pools in different parts j August entries will be the town wili be constructed after pm AH the entries The pool will be must be tagged and placed on the increased accordingly Hundreds of thousands of people will be on the move taking ad vantage of the last weekend of summer Then right after La bour Day we have more than a million youngsters going back to school and another great need for Public attention to safety Highway Department accident j records show that Over the Labour Day week end last year people were kill ed in fatal accidents Two oc curred drivers failed to yield the right of way or stop at a through highway Two more occurred when drivers at tempted to pass in poor circum stances and five collisions took place when drivers failed to stay on their own side of the road I Four more were the result of ex- speed inattention or both province when cars went off the road and turned maximum travel convenience for anxiety Sunday afternoon when all And every time you violate lheir a driving rule you are potentially Richard a master at St Andrews College Aurora has completed his sixth summer of travel in Europe This year he had young people between 17 and in his Half Hie party was made up of girls Of the nine weeks abroad three were spent in cycling was missed by her mother while a killerThis is a stern statement was on the awn with Soulh Germany the but the record shows it to be children of the family and Switzerland at a Brian aged three told his mo- It had to be be- and provincial police of Van- day of cycling was spent crossing St Pass feet above sea level After reaching Italy it is normally too hot for cycling the parly continued by rail to Florence Rome the Riviera Paris and finally England where everyone had tho last nine days to spend as he wanted true I am firmly convinced that when the time comes as it surely must when each of us realizes that our normal facetoface be haviour must be carried on in our association with other road users the problem of traffic will be brought under control This coming a Day weekend will undoubtedly be one that a man in a green truck came along and took Mary a way A description of the miss ing child as sent out over police radio with warnings to look for a man with a smalt child in a green truck Mrs Agnew telephoned police and then went to her neighbors Don at the foot of the lane- Japanese manner Small gul dens dainty curved bridges tiny free and miniature figures with little mountain for the back ground have been used by those distant craftsmen to produce do of great grace End tables and coffee table handcarved in the dist rict have the look of luxury but are priced for the budget-con- purchaser which Police detachment testified that on August Ram sey who was southbound on No highway one mile of collided headon in I the northbound lane with car driven by Nathan Cappc of Old Forest Hill Toronto Mir Rose a passenger in her husbands car suffered a bro ken nose has two previous con ic famous for its Shinto Shrine is victiorw for impaired driving in the borne of the majority and feet along one arm and feet the other The shallow area will be in one arm and the deep or diving area in the other A float guard warns swimmers a- way from the deep section Depth in one arm will from two feet to five feet The shallow ar ea is the largest section of he pool since surveys have shown that about ISO percent of the peo ple in a pool spend HO percent of their time in the shallow area The diving area in the other arm will have a maximum depth of feel so thai those who are div ing and those who are just swim ming will not interfere each other The deep end will have two div hoards one three feet high the other ten feet high Mr or struck trees of enormous travel of long trips way to search for the child think- and many heavily loaded vchicl- ing she might have wandered es There will probably develop there to play with the many situations to try a drivers children She was not in the and courtesy severely jit of wandering away from the Nevertheless I ask all who use property the streets and highways of the Police made a search of the to make a full effort to property and Frank Moore drive with care and consideration found little Mary This is one sure way to safely fast asleep in a pasture field be- exhibition tables by pm Mr Michael Steel chairman of the show committee said interested in exhibit- flowers or vegetables in the show is welcome to do so A membership in the society can he obtained when the entries are made The summer show features gla diolus Among the sections arc displays arrangements baskets and centerpieces as well as sep arate competitions for beginners those who have not won more than five prizes in any past glad iolus shows In all there are sections in the show and they cover all typ es of vegetables late summer an nuals and perennials and two special sections for school chil dren The first is for the best dis play of cut flowers in one con tainer annual and perennial and the second is the best vase of wild flowers arrangement to count not over inches in height or other roadside objects Three j on the common pain people died in rati crossing coll- r reports a steady crease in the number of accidents Six victims were added to the frightful list Two of these were tiny children and traffic fatalities Last month there were motor vehicle the house and the barn not far from the house While she was not in the habit of taking a nap her mother supposed she had ship woman against her 16year grown weary in the long pasture old daughter cannot be with Charge Cannot Be Withdrawn Mother Finds A charge of making a false laid by a King Town- who were permitted to run into accidents an increase of over the roadway Two were adults the previous month with fa- struck in separate accidents on j an increase of two with busy highways at night presum ably confident that they could be seen as clear I as they could see In the same period the is- the cars headlights Two people sued warnings checked walking together were struck and j vehicles and laid 13350 killed by a car turning left after I charges grass and decided to sleep it off Mr who was a short 1 persons injured almost more than the previous month One Youth On Probation Other Sent To Prison drawn without the approval of the Crown and presiding judge distance away from home hurried jit was learned today from Chairman of the Recreation Com- I the playground sponsored by the Recreation Elaine Girl Playground Champ wilh points Ken- for a win in the tennis and horseshoe tournament from dor McKutcheon Boy Playground Champ with points and John luilding the best birdhousc On the right are Playground Super- Chief Coulwii Photo by Stephen Grounds Close At End Of Year With Picnic And Prizes Newmarket Recreation Commissions summer playground closed on Friday with a sports day a picnic and a presentation of prizes to the winners of the contests by Chairman Robert About children present for the final program Special prizes were awarded the boy and who attended the playground most faithfully and who showed good sportsmanship Playground Champ was Perrin 162 points while hi Victor McKutcheon was the Hoy Playground a with points The runners- up were Bet ty Burgess and Ken Needier Ken Needier received a trophy for a double win In the tennis and hor seshoe tournaments Each day during the summer a program of games sports arts and crafts was carried on as well as days devoted to special events Continued on The positive step which pri vate can take to assist youths who having made only one mistake are being given a chan ce by the Crown to prove they can correct it was demonstrated in Magistrates court here on Tuesday A group of business men headed by J Oris I ho volunteered assistance to an youth convicted of auto theft and criminal negligen ce A second youth of with three previous convictions of car theft since his sixteenth birthday received a Jail sentence Probation to be successful explained Magistrate Hull- intake must have the cooper ation understanding and support of the general public If someone had taken an interest in this boy when he was placed on probation the first time he wouldnt be hero today Kenneth Chapman of Mill wood ltd wax sentenc ed to one year definite and one year indeterminate for car theft lie received concurrent sentenc es of days each for criminal operators license was under suspension Daniel of Cleveland Ave Toronto was given a sus pended sentence and placed on probation for two years for car theft He was fined and costs or 30 days for criminal neg ligence and driving without an operators license An order pro hibiting both youths from driv ing anywhere in Canada by the magistrate A provis ion of fine was he pay it from his own wages Both pleaded guilty to the j charges which were laid on Aug 17 by Bond Lake Provincial Pol ice Constables Walter Farmer and Vincent Cairo following a 103- chase for four miles north on No highway which ended when Chapman and cra shed their cars at Holland Land ing Chapman admitted having stolen his car in Toronto the pre vious week Police testified that in attempting to pass Chapman Jos control of his car and flipped ov er rolling three times Chapmans car swerved into a ditch where it travelled for feet before striking concrete storm sewer turning over and landing more than feet from the sewer Chapman was thrown feet in another direc tion through the windshield and parts of the ear were spread over MO feet police said Chapman suffered a sprained ankle and a bruised face Ban- crawled from the wreck age of his car and hid in a field Ho was arrested later that day in Toronto In offering to assist Mr explained that his father had died a few years ago and until then he had been a good boy But with his mother working to support herself and her son he had joined the wrong group if we had been doing our Pag a Col back when summoned by his wife His first thought if the child had been abducted was the terrifying results that had been reported in such cases in the Un ited States However when Mary was discovered safe and sound he said young Brian might have sect a green as he called it some time or other Since Mary was missing the little fellow had put two and two together and fixed his childish story as an an swer to the solution Mrs said the sleep did Mary a lot of good but caus ed her parents a lot of grief un til police discovered her A large pond in the Rice subdivision where the reside was also taken into consideration al though children had not been near the water Coming Events AUG HI Newmarket Horticultural Show in Public Library basement Open to pub lic all day Entries placed by oclock preceding night MONDAY A Anyone wishing to go to the Exhibition kindly phone Mrs Newmarket for information THURSDAY Trinity United church Womens Associ ation will meet Thursday Sept at pm Splendid speaker and program Mrs Wheel and convener THURSDAY Hum- ago sale sponsored by the New market in the Town Hall basement from to pm FRIDAY to pm rummage sale will be held in the basement of St Andrews Presbyterian church Newmar ket DANCING every Saturday night to Norm Burling and His Kings- men at Mount Albert commun ity hall commencing Sept Mrs charged that her daughter Vlach falsely declared her age as on a marriage license obtained July from Town Clerk Wesley Brooks The mother and daughter have since effected reconciliation and it was learned that Mrs Mul had sought through her set to have the charge with drawn Crown Attorney Arlcigh Arm strong said today the complain- iant in such cases has not the au thority to withdraw a charge Withdrawal he said is at the dis cretion of the Crown and presid ing judge Conviction on the charge pro vides for a maximum penally of years imprisonment Lib and Rural a for mer employee on the farm who now lives in Toronto were married July by Rev J T Rhodes at St Pauls Anglican church Mrs Vlach appeared in court on and was remanded un til September on 200 bail ATTEND CONVENTION Mr and Mrs Byron Mr and Mrs William Hill of Keswick and Mr and Mrs Joseph Jardine of left today to attend the annual convention for Chief Constables which is being held in Calgary HARRY BRICK WINS MOTORBOATING AWARD Barry son of Mr and Mrs Howard put New market on the motor- boating map by capturing first prize at the Sparrow Lake re gatta held Saturday also captured a third prize award at the Severn Falls regatta recently EARLY COPY REQUESTED Next Monday Sept be ing Labor Day the Era and Express be closed Advertisers and correspond ents are asked to have copy in as early a possible far next week

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