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I THJK J<Jl)RAAL. owKviue-lYalaiKar, CetHeinrvial Issue. June 27, 1967 Constable Says Driver Argued W asn't Dead After Hit House The aftermath of an 80-miles-anhour chase on the early morning o f May 18, when a car, being chased by police smashed into a Spruce Street home after the driver turned out his headlights on Douglas Avenue and forgot it was a dead-end street, Roche Langille, of Sixth Line, Trafalgar, was convicted last W ednesday in Tra falgar Court of criminal negligence and remanded one week for sentence and a probation report. When follow ing police arrived at the scene of the crash, Langille was found lying unconscious on the lawn in front of 123 Spruce Street, and was later treated at the Oakville hospial for a cut throat and face lacerations. Langille pleaded not guilty to the charge after considerable ar gum ent from his counsel, F. O. Gallagher, Bronte, who wished the case to be heard before a higher court. The Crown elected summary trial before a magistrate, but Mr. Gallagher contended that election was the right of the accused, not the Crown, and that it is the duty o f the Crown to advise the court whether the matter should be pro ceeded with by way of indictment for later possible committal for trial, or whether it should be heard by the low er court. Magistrate Langdon said that be fore the higher court, accused might be subject to a penalty of five years imprisonment, while be fore a magistrate, the maximum penalty is a fine of $500, or six months imprisonment. "This court has absolute jurisdiction," said the magistrate. " I have no right to send the case for trial before a judge and ju ry." Oakville Constable Cyril Sander son swore that on May 18, at 4:15 a.m. he was driving south on Dun das Street, when he saw a car tra velling east on Colborne Street at a high rate o f speed, and gathering speed as it went east. The car, he said, turned up Douglas Avenue, turned west on Randall, then north up Allan A ve nue, turning back onto Douglas Avenue. The driver, he testified " appeared to be trying to throw us o ff his i-- ail." A t the head of Douglas Avenue, he swore, where Spruce Street cuts it off, the car travelled across Spruce, across the lawn o f a house AMONG FIRST Oakville's harbour was among the first in this province to be improved for com m erce, the 1827 deepening project beginning just one year after that at Kettle Creek, now Port Stanley. on the north side, and smashed into the house, penetrating a poured - concrete wall, sending pieces of masonry flying, and dis lodging the furanace pipes in the basement of the house. T h e . officer caused a laugh in court when he swore that he found accused lying on the lawn beside his wrecked car. " He seemed to be dead," he told the court, " but ac cused spoke up and said he was not." Langille, he said, as well as being cut about the throat and face, was dazed, and suffering from shock. He also smelled of liquors, Constable Sanderson testi fied, and did not appear to under stand how serious the accident was. An elderly lady in the house was badly shocked as the result of the crash, he told the court, and the police had to go into the basement, to shut o ff the furnace, as the house was filling with smoke, due to the displaced pipes. 1876 Bridge Beacon Was First Flare In Street Lighting System Oakville's street lighting dates back about 80 years. In 1876 when a new " Grit" (L iberal) council was elected, it had ambitious plans for lighting the town. But these fell rather flat in the initial stages. A ll that was accomplished was the placing of a lamp in the middle of the Colborne Street bridge. Five years later five more lamps were put up on Colborne Street intersec tions between the bridge and Dun das Street. The' lamps burned kerosene, and were set in glass cases mount ed on posts. They were tended daily by a man named John Ford. Lamps w ere later installed on Dundas Street, from Colborne Street to the station. Ford would clean and fill the lamps late in the afternoon, and put them out after 10 o 'clock. Becom ing tired of carrying the ladder that was neces sary to reach the lamps, he saw ed the tops of the posts and replaced the lamps so that he could reach them without the ladder. Ford was a very short man, and after he had shortened the posts the lamps were only about fkyf feet above the ground. 3rd M an Claims Beer Pays $30, Pals Freed Tw o Toronto youths who w ere jointly charged with having beer in a car had the charges against them dismissed ih Trafalgar Court last Wednesday, when a third oc cupant o f the car admitted U»*t the beer belonged to him. Fortunate were James G odfrey, 17, o f Madeline Crescent and A l bert Gentle, 19, of K eele Street, who w ere freed when Harold M or gan, 21, took fu ll responsibility for the offence. Both had pleaded not guilty to the charge. Morgan was fined $20,. with $10 costs, or one month, after Oakville Constable A1 Ruelens had told the court o f checking the car on Col borne Street East on June 19, and o f finding two cans of U. S. beer in the pocket o f the car door. A c cused, he said, were returning to Toronto after a trip to Buffalo. Sixteen Mile Creek Conservation Authority C o n s e r v a t io n .. Everyone s Business MUNICIPALTOES AUTHORITY, MUSEUM BUILT 127 YEARS AGO A m ajor attraction fo r Centen nial. visitors w ill be the Old Post O ffice Museum in Lakeside Park, . which was established in 1954 after the venerable early post o f fice was moved from its creekbank site in 1953. The restored structure, which began serving district pioneers in 1835, was converted into a museum through the initiative of historian Hazel C.- Mathews, and now con tains scores o f material links with Oakville's rich past. Some o f these items are being inspected (above) by Journal staffer P. W. Thom p son, a museum director. E A R L Y HEADLINERS When Commins Music Hall was opened here in 1894, the famed Indian poetess, Pauline Johnson, was one of the first to head the bill. Leroy Kenney, an Oakville native who lady becam e an out standing impersonator, was an other headliner, while favourites o f the day also included the won derful " Ten nights in a Bar-Room." Commins Music Hall proved too elaborate to pay o ff fo r its proprie tor, and when it burned down in 1898, there were those who snidely hinted that the blaze was far from accidental. tion. As a result, gross revenue of the harbour slid down from a sub stantial $635,000 in 1855 to less than $1,000 in 1885. And never again did that reve nue clim b over the $500 mark. MILTON CENTENNIAL is on I NT H E T g W N S S IX T E E N M IL E C R E E K C O N SE R V A T IO N A U T H O R IT Y CONSERVATION AIMS · P rop er L a n d U se P ra ctice s · T h e E stablish ing o f P e r m a n e n t P a s tu re ! · T h e B uilding o f Farm P on d s · R e fo r e s ta tio n a n d T im b e r · P reserva tion lots fo r th e P r o d u c tio n o f W o o d Oakville Passed Harbour Heyday When Trains Come On 1860 Scene ; As the largest of the four ports ; in Halton County, Oakville suffer« ed most acutely when rail, service was introduced between Toronto and Hamilton. The port, a thriving I spot in 1860, began to decline as ; the first iron horses came into ; their own. ; A sharp drop in the price of wheat, at the end o f the Crimean War, was abetted by an unseasonal ; frost that same year, and farmers >f this area went deeply into debt ind w ere forced to switch their interests to other products o f the :w>il. W heat grower* who held on found, very shortly, that they could dispose of their crops at Georgetown, where rail transporta tion was available on the old Grand Trunk Railway. And the sta tion of the Great W estern Railway at Oakville soon became a much busier spot than the harbour. Records ruefully trace the de cline of the port. As compared with 282,000 bushels shipped in 1856 to U.S. ports, only 86,000 bushels went into the holds of Oakville ships in 1862. The follow ing years, wheat exports skidded to 44,000 bushels, and by 1867, Oakville was no longer listed in the Tables o f Trade and Naviga- OFFICERS C h a irm a n R o b e rt M a rsh a l! Dr. C arl M a rtin V ic e -C h a ir m a n C h ie f O ffic e r A . H. R ich a r d so n , P. Eng. S e c r e ta r y -T re a s. - R o b e rt F. S n y d er NOW 'til and C a re of Existing W o o d - M ailing Address - Box 9, Milton · T h e P rev en tion o f F lood s · S trea m Im p ro v e m e n t ' JULY 1st MEMBER MUNICIPALITIES E squ esin g M ilto n T r a fa lg a r N assagaw eya O a k v ille · T h e In crea se o f G ro u n d W a t e r fo r W e lls · T h e P reserva tion a n d In crea se o f W ild life · T h e E stablish ing o f R e c re a tio n A r e a s · T h e P reserv a tion o f H istorica l Sites Many happy returns to you, too A few w eeks ago Oakville greeted Long M anufacturing Company Limited on its 25th birthday. M any of you accepted our invitation to visit us and see w hat we do here. Now we in turn congratulate this com m unity on being 100 years young. Young because, at the century mark, it is m aking a bright new career for itself. Oakville can be proud of the recognition it is gaining as one of C anada's im portant m anufacturing centres. Long M anufacturing Company Limited is proud to be an industrial citizen of this outstanding com m unity and to share in m aking it a good place to live, work an d play. It is our sincere hope th at these efforts w ill help Oakville grow in size and stature. We look forward to celebrating m any future anniversaries w ith our new "hom e tow n." Radiators Gears Heat Exchangers Heater Units Torque Converters Oil Coolers Shafts Clutches Torque Converter Clutch Transmission Combinations LONG MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED SUBSIDIARY OF BORG - WARNER CORPORATION OAKVILLE, ONTARIO THE STANDARD OF QUALITY / AND PERFORMANCE SI NCE 1932