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The Newmarket Km and Express Thursday Oct 1957 TOWNSHIP OF KING PUBLIC NOTICE APPLICATION TO CLOSE THE STATION AGENCY AT KING CITY NOTICE has been received rojn the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada that a represen tative will he in King City on THURSDAY OCT AT PM FOR the purpose of conducting an investigation with reference to h application from the Canadian National Railways to close the station agency at King City All interested parties are invited to attend this in vestigation HODGSON Reeve ROSE Clerk youre saving forbetter of NOVA SCOTIA Auto Wreckers Parts Phone PRospect 52132 BRADFORD k Location near new Community Centre Starters All Type of Rebuilt Transmissions Rear Ends Generators For all types of cars and trucks All parts fully guaranteed Wrecking all type of late model car and truck from 1946 and up every week a Mrs Laura Rolling Correspondent Phone Kin District Turkey Supper Glen made the poster featuring strutting turkeys ready for the killing for the turkey supper under the aus pices of the Womens auxiliary of King City Firemens associa tion It will be held on Tuesday Oct 29 from to pm at the United church Tickets must be purchased in advance and none will be sold at the door Call King 132m for tickets Centenary Service The centenary of All Saints Anglican church King City will be commemorated with special services on Sunday Nov 3 On Friday Nov All Saints Day a congregational supper will be held in the parish room Over 200 invitations have been sent for the dinner Former members and clergy will return to King City for the celebrations A brief history of the church will appear in next weeks and Express Lions Ladies Night At Ridge Inn a fried chicken supper was serves to King City Lions and their ladies President Jennings was chairman Each woman received a rose and Mrs Bill Heaslip won a fancy dish in the Chinese auc tion Special guests were Mr and Mrs J Atkinson Slouffville Mr Atkinson gave his services to the club at the October auc tion sale in Memorial pavilion Lion Ken Sutton arranged the program which consisted of sing songs and court whist Mrs John Dew and Lion Stan Kerr won the prizes President Jennings has an nounced over was raised at the auction sale Appreciation for the donations and support was expressed by Mr Jennings Nomination Meeting King township nomination meeting for reeve deputy- reeve and three councillors will be held in King City Masonic hall at pm on Friday Nov 22 On the same night nominations will be received for two trustees for School Area No Kettleby Should an election be required the date set is Monday Dec 2 The voting hours will bo from 10 am until pm Marsh Drainage A bylaw was given two read ings by King township council on Oct to borrow on deben tures payable to West Gwillimbury township for Hol land Marsh drainage repair The money will be raised by a special rate on property owners in the drainage area The- amount has accrued from Hurricane Hazel in when Kings share in the dredging of the canal the river and levelling of lands was The extra amount now requir ed to finance West Gwillimburys new debenture of ex plained Reeve Hodgson arose because the government did not contribute 33 per cent of the cost of the rehabilitation project King pays slightly over 50 per cent as a large portion of the drainage area is in King township Want Extra Police On October King City vil lage trustees proposed to town ship council that King City fire men be sworn in as special police on Halloween night The village would pay for their ser vices it was explained Reeve Hodgson said council did not oppose the sugges tion He suggested a check with the solicitor be made before ap proval is ZEPHYR Anniversary services were held in Zephyr United church last Sunday and were well attended Rev a former pastor was the guest preacher The choir sang several numbers Zephyr United church is fortunate in having so many professionally trained singers in the choir Among them are Mrs Mrs White Miss Marie Mr Keilh Profit the Morrison trio and others Much credit is due to Mrs Gor don the organist for training the choir for these spe cial occasions A turkey supper was held on Wednesday in the Sunday school room and community hall Mr and Mrs White were called to Pennsylvania to be with their ship council to the Board of Transport Commissioners about the closing of the King City rail way station The resolution I stated without an agency in King township the industrial de velopment will be affected seri ously It was explained that with a population of over increas ing annually by King town ship must retain the one railway station agency it possesses to in sure continued expansion The station provides necessary facili ties for the southern part of the township where the population is Mr Thompson who is in increasing from Noble ton to hospital in Toronto is improving j King City King Township Protest Closing Of King Station A second protest since last King City has an area of March was sent by King Town- acres with a large section along railway right of way zoned FIXIT Series given Consular Lecture Starts At Aurora School Aurora A consular lecture en with Tage for the DISCUSS PROBLEMS At the same meeting village trustees discussed many prob lems with township councillors It was unanimously agreed that township engineer V G should confer with vil lage waterworks engineers Proc tor and Redfern when proposed subdivisions which will use King City water are being considered It was agreed that drainage in the Valentine subdivision King City would be improved if more catch basins are installed to series which will be carried through to March opened at Aurora district high school last night The series of lectures on foreign countries is being giv en by officials of various consu lates at Toronto Last night S G assist ant trade commissioner for the United Kingdom gave the lec ture The series is part of the adult education night class pro gram at Aurora sponsored by the department of education and the Aurora district high school board Organization of the series is be ing assisted by the Aurora Hob- Guild whose president is Vaughan Williams The lecture scries is the first of its kind in Southern Ontario Many of the lectures are accom panied by 35 mm sound color films On the Switzerland night films national costumes and crafts will be shown The follow- for industry is in the process of being zoned The official plan of the town ship is to keep it rural in charac ter But it is zoned to permit close urban commercial and in dustrial development in and around existing communities Trustees Views King City village trustees op pose the closing of h station agency The figures presented by the CNR showing the agency to be a poor proposition arc not suf ficient reason for closing the they say Trustee D M said the board objects to the fact that this community on the threshold of greater development is to be of services it has enjoyed for a century The railway com pany has operated at King in good and bad years has weather ed a depression but fails to fore see what the future holds for the township The trustees claim the closing Nov 20 Denmark with I ne railway station is evidence Youre licV Our food Niels Basse secretary commer cial Nov 27 Netherlands with Mr Poldcrman consul Dec Italy with Gian Nuti consul of Italy Dec Germany with Dr Walter Bam- consul of Germany Dec Switzerland with Anton Len- di for the consulate Further dates for Spain France South Africa Mexico Ja pan United States Greece Brazil and Yugoslavia will be announc ed in the future These dates may be obtained in advance through Mr Vaughan Williams Aurora of shortsightedness by the com pany The agency is worth fight ing for they added JEFF SAAITrH PLUMBING AND HEATING CPNTRACTORS SUPERVISION JO MAN Era and Express Classifieds Bring Results is the program until the end water at Sewers December should be longer and have more 30 basins said I Dew St King township approved King City trustees assuming responsi bility for repairs to Dew St The village will finance the work Ton loads of gravel will be need ed trustees said Johnson Consul of Iceland Nov 6 Norway with for the consulate Nov Commercial Pheasant Farm Is Established Near Zephyr By Gladys Rolling hen and are very meaty Mount Albert A new tync of and serve seven people business commercial farming has been Marled near Zephyr Ross Buckberrough and Donald Dixon former Toronto residents have started raising the bird- on a commercial basis and D Pheasntry is the name they have chosen for their farm Although there are approximate farms licensed to raise pheasants in Ontario Ross and Don believe that their farm is the first in Canada to be devoted completely to pheasant raising Both men have been keenly interested in Game Bird farms in the USA and three years ago when the department of lands and forests amended the Game and Fish Act to permit the rais ing of pheasants commercially they decided to give it a try They imported breeding stock from Michigan and purchased small place at Preston Lake However they wen soon cramp ed for space and began looking for some property suitable for pheasant raising yet close enough to Toronto to serve the ready market in largo hotels About a year ago they purchased the old Kidd farm acres of land three miles north of Mount Albert They spent any spare time in the winter month reno vating buildings that had been unoccupied for some time and they continued to work in Tor onto where Ross is a manager and Don in the adver tising business By spring pheasants became A tight nut at the end of a steering wheel isnt a safely de vice DRIVE SAFELY TO EXTEND WATER Continued from Page I water but they are not ready to pay their proper share If they dont pay their proper share the other taxpayers pay more than their own share Councillor Knapton reminded council that it had approved the installation of water mains on St from Millard to Eagle without anyone applying under the local improvement net He said council felt the main was needed there In this matter wo should pot consider only the four houses he told council looping the two water mains the one on Parkside and the one on Davis we shall improve the water ser vice for that entire area A large number of people from Niagara to Queen St and Park- side would benefit if this were done Hooking up these two dead ends will provide a flow ing water service for many people it should be done tinder general taxes Pay Share Would it be possible for these taxpayers to pay their normal share under local improvement on a frontage basis and pick up the balance on general taxes Included in the box pictured asked Mr idler above is a recipe folder with Much of this land is farm suggestions for cooking and plied Mr Knapton The Ing Birds are also sold already people owning it are not inter- BILL SHIE FALL CLEARANCE SALE cooked Hon who has been CXjested with various types that of stuffings has become quite an expert in pheasant cooking In the USA shooting preserves are legal in of the states for periods from four to six months of each year However this is the first year Ontario owners are allowed to have pheasant shoots on their own property during the open season in their own township or area This season is set by the local providing water there the reason the authorities according to the game available in their particular area brokerage It must not exceed the number of days set by the provincial it said the department of lands and forests a I Pheasant Shoot full time business Although r Scott township where ami of the original 35 hens I peasantry is located the open six me original dently got away they had eggs for hatching They pur chased four incubators and undertook to watch them Each batch of eggs had to be turned five times daily for 24 days and temperatures watched closely The night of the terrific wind storm in the Lake area when the hydro was off for hours they were sure they would lore heavily they were agreeably surprised when that particular hatch turned out better than most others but were a day late in hatching In one other hatch the moisture was too high and all were drowned As in any new venture they learned by their mistakes In weeks the dayold chicks are ready for market Since they are fed similarly to domesticated bird commercial pheasant lose tome of their wild flavor which is an improvement to many tastes In addition to the market Urge hotels and restaurants a new market is opening up Business firms always on the watch for novel gifts for custom ers are buying pheasants gift number of signatures not be obtained It is because of this vacant land agreed DeputyReeve Mac- that these people cant get a petition signed These four properties are isolated but they have paid town taxes for five years During that time they have helped our share of local services for which they have had no benefits Unless there Is proof present ed that this main will provide a general benefit I must oppose mayor I suggest Mr discuss it further with the engineer and solicitor These people applied for water four or five weeks ago season on pheasants is from Oct said Kent We cant delay to Nov In preparation any longer this Boss and Don have leased The meeting was recessed COO acres from neighbors- They plan to release poo to Ring- necks During this period hunters per duy will be allowed to bunt on the property There is no limit to the number of birds each hunter may bag but in addition to tho original fee there is a charge for each pheas ant over three taken No one goes home without a pheasant Every hunter guaranteed one bird This type of sport known as pay as you go is becoming more popular especially among ur ban dwellers who are not famil iar with rural areas Should venture be suc cessful Ross and Don plan to or ganize on a much larger scale another year The Ontario Game Breeders Association hope to influence the govern mnnt to extend the open sea son in future and is hoping to interest farmers to take day- old chicks and raise them for weeks when the will boxed and usually fast frozen I buy them back at a substantial ThMe bird by tho brace a profit to the higher market briefly for the water committee to meet with Mr A resolution was presented by Councillors and Knap- ion It recommended that the four property owners pay for the water main on the basis of their frontage as a local improvement The remainder of the main would be borne by the municip- under general taxes Mayor was the only member to oppose the resolu tion price of pheasants Ross and Don feel they can allow a much high er margin of profit than that al lowed in the raising of broilers With the new incu bator just purchased they hope to raise birds another year This fall they have been installing a farm pond which am be stocked with Mallard ducks and ornamental pheasants in the spring Don invites anyone to visit their farm preferrahly before Oct when many of their fine birds will be released 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