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fcaLanliM Cam ror Harsh Drainage township council gave two to a bylaw on March consolidate the sums to be hor ded by the issue of debenture constructing drainage drainage act in the Marsh The debenture at approximately cent to run for five years from 31 to in five an- payments The municipal board given tentative approval and municipal corporation body lend the money clerk told council- Since is urg- t for the drainage work to be led at once council applied a bank loan of from Canadian Bank of Commerce City until the debentures sold M Bell manager of e King City bank told council would have an answer from nk headquarters by Friday arch 8 When approval is given to the clerk Rose was author- to notify township engineer Bardawell Express Classifieds Bring Results Laura Rolling Correspondent Complete Coarse After seven weeks in a course first aid under St John Ambu lance a number of young girls look the final tests March 7 and expect to know results before long From the Girl Guide com pany were Captain Marlon Lieut Pat and Guides Joanne Shepherd Joanne Harri son June Knight Sandra Cane Barbara Joan Susan Davie Elaine Beverley Barker Donna and Heather Crooks From the Girls Auxiliary Bet ty Cunningham Angela Powell Barbara Coutts from CGIT were Marilyn Roots Kerr Glanna Saw yer Beth Carol Gellat- Elizabeth Kerr Clearview Gardens also completed the course Arrives From Scotland Scotland was met at M a 1 n airport on Sunday March by her cousin Alex Knight Heritage Park and is staying with the Knight family 1 lives at Broughty Ferry a Effective Monday March 18th ROAD Keswick Jacksons Point CLOSED TO BUSES Due to road conditions on the Road Gray Coach Line buses will be temporarily routed ia the Metropolitan Road between Keswick and Jacksons Point Timetable points on the Metropolitan Road will correspond with those now in effect on the Lake- shore Road As soon as conditions permit notice will be given Resumption of service via Lakeshore Road GRAY COACH LINES suburb of Dundee and was in the office of the telephone companys manager She is planning to find occupation in Canada and is a high school graduate She flew from New York to Mai ton on Sunday- Seventh Birthday Lynda Wade daughter of Mr and Mrs a Wade King 3 celebrated her seventh birthday on March when her mother invited nine other chums toa birthday party There were gifts and abeautiful birthday cake with seven candles Adults present were her grandparents Mr and Mrs Wade and Mrs Saigle Aurora her aunts Miss Margaret Saigle and Mrs Jim Kitchen Schomberg Mrs Ross Bovair and Mrs Victor Doner were also present Hat Show Sponsored by King Womens Institute on March a spring hat revue will be held in the Ma sonic Hall when the following In stitute members will model hats from the Bea shop Auro ra Mrs H Mrs Ka- Hall Mrs Ross Walker Mrs J Mrs Archie Campbell Mrs Bert Wyre Mrs Velma Ncill Mrs C Stewart and Mrs Marilyn Mrs Dailey will be the commentator Conveners are Mrs Norman Wade and Mrs Victor Doner Re freshments and coffee will follow the demonstation The fascinat ing headgear follows the modern trend and beautiful colored hat boxes will be on sale under the Institute Visits Friend A couple of weeks ago Miss Barbara of vi sited her friend Miss Julia Bell in training at a Toronto hospital who was home for a day Miss Spccht also visited Miss Maureen Wellosley Woodale Farm Evers- Holiday In Florida Mr and Mrs J and Dr and Mrs J of Aurora left by motor on Sat for three weeks in Florida John and his wife of are staying in the don home during the parents ab sence New Arrival Mrs Harry McBride is aunt the son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Arnold Ave Toronto born late last week The baby is the only grandson in the family and the first child of its parents Mrs Grace White is a sister of Mrs Mc Attend Clinic Recently a group of ladies mo tored to Toronto to the headquar- lerj of the Ontario Branch Cana dian Cancer Society to learn the method of making cancer dress ings with gauze Those attending were Mrs Austin Rumble Mrs A K Kelley Mrs Invites To ExMMf Ml WWfj A signal honor has come to a member of Kingcrafts Mrs A King City She has been invited to enter an exhibit of a hand hooked rug in the National Galley of Canada- Ottawa where a display of fine crafts will be on the first of June Mrs Jarvis will enter her rug which Won her a prize in a Canadawide exhibit at Montreal last year given by the Quebec branch of the Canadian Handicraft Guild The large rug is a colorful design of the Jarvis home and environment and was considered outstanding for its originality and workman ship Mrs received hon orable mention for a rug in a similar contest at Montreal two years ago Last fall Mrs won the provincial contest of the Wo mens Institute of Ontario for her oil painting Sixty entries were made by members of Wo mens Institute branches She designs her hooking pat terns which include rugs large and small wall tapestries and a variety of other articles She has sold a number of her paintings In addition to being a successful Kingcrafter Mrs has another field in which she is greatly interested She is chief librarian of King Memorial Library King Residents Promise At Meeting To Fight C N R To Maintain Station Continued from Page Work Hardship Working hardship oh business es weighing dollars and cents against the future of a fast grow ing community why the agency should be cut- off if not operating at a loss why commuter patron age should receive a blow and why a centuryold institution as an agency service should go board were pertinent ques tions discussed Douglas Renni- C of president was chair man Petitions favoring the agency available for signatures were placed in King City stores this week as a starter in the pub licity campaign president Rcnni- states Will Be MoneyMaker The station said Donald village trustee will be a moneymaker in a few years because of the tremendous Mr Wilson has been storming the CNR citadel at Ottawa with communications for better com muter service on the line He is advocating that morning trains leave King for Toronto and re turn a half hour earlier He has pointed out his request is not to put on additional trains but to utilize the present service with modification and to make what is obviously a losing proposition in to a paying He is opposed to the agency discontinu ing its services He believes this can be estab lished with little or nor additional expense to the railway and that the present car and four addition al cars could be filled regularly if adequately advertised He be lieves regular commuter tickets could be introduced at a cost sav ing thus providing commuter in centive and more revenue to the railwav Mr Wilson told the King City Page The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday March meeting as did Mr Murphy that sion anticipated in the King City number of passengers from area Fifty years ago he said to Toronto is made up of Mrs Leonard Appleyard Mrs Cliff Mrs Victor Pot ter The group met at the home of Mrs Kelley last week to prac tice on dressings A very active group from Kingsview and Heritage Park subdivisions is convened by Mrs J Cranfield and Mrs Apple- yard The King branch of the Aurora Cancer Unit will hold the annual trend tea this spring Last May a successful tea was held at West Winds the home of Mrs Gage Love Seventh Line of King Luncheon Speaker Preparations are under way for a St Patricks luncheon at King City United church at on there was a lot of rail traffic when the population of the vil lage was only a percentage of what it is today Now that are doubling and redoubling in sue the railway wants to close the agency at a crucial stage in de velopment when industry is need ed The railway he thought doesnt know what it is doing He said the district should go as far and for as long as necessary to keep the station open There are re gions in Canada where the agen cies are not paying but are kept open as life lines to the communi ties he said Can Subsidize The CNR is a national system and Canadians are shareholders As such the country can subsidize the CNR King City he said is on the threshold of becoming a bigger area w h will demand more traffic and will produce more revenue for the railway The CNR lias the only railway agency in King township but how much will industrial firms think 20th CENTURY FOODS Where Quality is King Timothy St Newmarket TW FRESH LEAN MINCED BEEF lb LEAN PLATE BRISKET lb Saturday March Over King City if there is no agon ladies of the congregation are ex pected to attend The luncheon is under the combined efforts of the WMS headed by Mrs Ratcliff and the WA of which Mrs Ted Wallas is president- Mrs George Fish Aurora who holds offices in the York and the York Presbytery of the will be the guest speaker Mrs Little Mark ham will bring greetings from the Presby tery in the absence of the president Mrs Irving Scott King City Dr Margaret Newmarket will represent the presbyterial as WMS president Musical talent is being arranged by Mrs Adam Davidson of the local Young Teller Saves Bank Fake Faint Scares Bandit Maureen I teller in the King City branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce was the heroine in an attempted holdup in the bank by feigning a faint Inst Friday afternoon The young teller drew her hand across her forehead and slumped to the floor after a young man about years of age handed her a note on which was scribbled Hand over or near it fast The note warned the teller not to make any sound and you wont get hurt The wouldbe thug carrying a shoe box with a hole in the end fled the bank in a hurry Miss said the man entered the bank and asked her for a counter cheek She was not suspicious as lots of people ask for one She said he look it to the customers desk and pre tended to make it out A cus tomer Mrs Mary OBrien came in and when she left the bandit walked to the cage and handed Maureen the note Instinctively she grabbed the desk keys and held them tightly in her hand She said she didnt want him to get hold of them She said she didnt read all the note because she knew what was up that was enough She drew her hand across her fore head said so he wouldnt see her face because he would know she was not actually faint ing When he was gone she scram bled around got up on her feet and went to tell the manager M Bell Mr Hell Allan Francis and Mrs Mary ledger keep er were unaware what was tak ing place No word had been spoken and everything was quiet The bandit had waited for the customer Mrs OBrien to leave the bank before he walked to the cage with the robbery note Mrs OBrien said she entered the bank when he was there but was not suspicious of anything out of ordinary She had seen a green car at the bank and was on the street by the bake shop when the car drove away in a hurry The driver wa the same person she had been in the bank She saw no license plate on the rear of the car and she wondered about it She saw the car turn north on Keclc St Miss Wellesley was able to give police a good description of the bandit lie was of dark complexion about years old ear and wore a dark blue cap with flaps down brown coat tightfitting trousers Mrs If Bell the managers wife who was standing on the street at the side entrance talk ing to Mrs J Evans said she saw a young man run down the bank steps but she did not notice him get into a car as she was facing away from him She and her neighbor were not suspici ous at the time Provincial police set up road blocks to get the greencolored car without a back license plate Manager Bell commended Miss for her quick action Her cool quick thinking and brilliant faked faint saved the bank he said Miss Wellesley is he daughter of Councillor Douglas and Mrs The same bank was robbed on Feb when Mr Bell and his staff Bill Burns and John were taped The teller Ellen Wilson was spared There- were three bandits on the Job then and one carried an automa tic A couple of years previously a bank holdup was staged at the bank and money taken from the safe which manager Bryan was forced to open at gun point There were two bandits on the scene and Mr Bryan and his staff were herded in the safe which the thugs threatened to lock Customers were told to stand in the back lobby near the safe and keep quiet One customer had a nickleplatcd revolver pointed at her when she ap peared too curious She was 4 newspaper reporter Mrs Mary was a cus tomer that day and with others was commanded to keep still by an accomplice of the robber Last Friday Mrs Crossley had her second experience as ledger keeper in the King City bank It is believed Friday was the seventh attempted robbery Twice in manager Bensons time twice during Arthur managership once when Mr Bryan was manager and twice since Bell has been in charge The last time no money was taken The local bank has been in operation over 30 years on King St at King City was under the management of the Bank of Montreal and then became the Bank of Commerce asked Ernest Smith village chairman The railway is the only thing we have to offer and King Township council feels the same way about development around built up community cen tres in the township he added Not Losing Stephen a m p 1 station agent told the meeting the agency Is not operating at a loss The revenue was down per cent from the figure but he is confident that it could he In creased by the potential expan sion and increasing population in the district As long as the rail way is not he couldnt see any reason for closing the agency He believes it can be operated on a paying basis and had hopes that traffic could be diverted from Oak Ridges to King instead of to the Aurora station The more patronage the King agency gets more the business in the vil lage will be enlarged he stated There is a greater goal than re venue there is the future of the district at stake was Mr Kind- lays opinion Fifty years or more ago King was the hub of activity when railroad service flourished There were two hotels business increased honeymoon c 1 flocked to the station to embark on their marital life The rail way saw the usefulness of the agency then but apparently fails to realize the potential waiting on the threshold he intimated Denied What had irked the township council and the local community was the denial of the to a rumor a month or so ago that no current move was afoot to close the agency On the heels of this official information came the rail ways announcement it would make application to the hoard of transport commissioners to close the agency Before doing so the opinion of Hie municipality must be presented to the transport board Rejection by council thiough a resolution was followed by action of the chamber of com merce four days later Businesses Inconvenienced It is utter nonsense tor the railway said Keith Cambden King City met chant think of closing down instead of looking to the future Donald Diinkwater Motors said Cer tainly there would be struggle and an inconvenience to business- to be forced to travel to Aurora or Maple for freight and express He said he phoned for a motor in the afternoon and by the following morning the part at King City station We would have to resort to transport were the station he said Hail service is fast and effi cient claimed Mr Shipped by freight or his merchandise reaches King in bel ter shape and faster than by transport where it can he dam aged and crowded into trucks Commuters Speak Ciusading for the continuance of the King City station are George Wilson King 3 and John Murphy King It With Mrs we are the gallant crew who commute daily from King to Toronto on the morning passenger train except on Monday because the train does not stop at King then said Mr Murphy Since the time schedule has been set at am commut ing possible but not suitable Mr Wilson and Mr Murphy pointed out to 35 per cent travelling on pass He is also urging Monday morning passenger service Challenge CNR Mr Wilson intends to challenge the railway in its statement that CNR management is after busi ness wherever it can get it in the expectation it will pay for itself or perhaps produce a profit Furthermore he is challenging Lash assistant to superintend ent Donald Gordon to test the commuting service when daylight saving time begins to see if the revenue does not increase He is using the railway when ever possible he states but can not afford to arrive at his office frequently late when others start work at 830 am It was pointed out at the meet ing that commuter service and other services by rail cannot be separated They tie in conclu sively if we let the railway get away with this backward step of closing King the entire district will be affected said John In any place where the agency has withdrawn business has fall en and the in m unit has shrunken was the opinion of Ste phen Campbell The CNR can ask for a hearing by the board of transport commissioners and King township can have representation it is believed A 90day period would elapse before the agency could close If it did a flag stop I and a caretaker could be used Fathers Uphold Protest A communication from the Fathers Mary Lake King signed by the Superior Fa ther S Moors revealed support to the King City Chamber of Com merce in protesting closing of the station The letter was read at the public meeting recommending all citizens to send letters of protest to the member of parlia ment asking utmost help to keep the service for growing com munity There are enough influential people in King township who if their names were placed on a pe tition would impress the CNR head commented K Barker If people thought their taxes would decrease from industrial development there be plenty of support in opposing the proposed move by the railway others said juicy ROUND STEAK MINCED lb HICKORY SMOKED BONEIN HAM lb PURE PORK SAUSAGES lbs 79 BONELESS POT ROAST OF BEEF lb CONCENTRATE FROZEN ORANGE JUICE for FRESH FROZEN PEAS lbs 75 HEADQUARTERS FOR LENTEN SUPPLIES THE PICKERING COLLEGE GLEE CLUB assisted by A Newmarket High 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