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THE JO U R N A L *llt* J io m * fteu U p a fiesi a [ Q a k o ilU a n d U £ . S B N A T o K LHVIP6 N O d H b iS O M P R O P O SE S T H A T T u e U M lT eO S T A T E S ANt> fcUSS/A B X C H A N G & I O B A C ON T e t e V l$ fO M AMP RAP/O OMCC A W E E k . N e w s tTe?M PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN Oakville's Debut Coincided With Indian Mutiny, 1st Atlantic Cable A ll o f us can recall moments, when unexpected embarrassment claim ed us, that seemed to stretch into one hundred years. Like the time your wallet turned up in your other pants just as you w ere about to pay the dinner check o f a gal you'd never taken out before-- or the day the boss walked into the g olf club locker room an hour after you 'd phoned in to say you were grievously ill. But, no matter how you tote it up, one hundred years is really one heck of a long time ! History's Tale Just how long, I 'll certainly never know. And I doubt very much if you will, even though I 'll readily admit that your way of life is probably easier on the phy sique than is mine. But you can get a very fair idea simply by checking your history book. W hen Oakville's pioneers were thinking about launching a town, Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison, James Taylor, James K. Polk and Zachary Taylor w ere serving terms as president of the United States. M exico and the U.S. went to war, the sewing ma chine was invented by Elias Howe, gold was discovered in California, Louis N apoleon was proclaim ed emperor, the Six Hundred rode at Balaklava, and Sir Henry Bessemer was inventing his special steel. Buchanan's Day And when our forefathers finally got around to arranging fo r o ffi cial m unicipal status in 1857, they swore in their first coun cil the same year the sepoys staged their Indian massacre o f the English. It was the year th e first Atlantic cable was laid, and James Buchan* an becam e the fifteenth U.S. presi dent. And within the first decade Oak ville charted as a town, Garibaldi overthrew the kingdom o f Naples, the Southern Confederacy was form ed and disappeared, Russian serfs w ere emancipated, Lincoln was assassinated, and -- most im portant to us-- Canada becam e a Dominion. That give you a better Idea ju st how old this town o f ours is? It certainly straightens m e out on the subject because, dates being such elusive things, I found it hard to realize that so m uch can happen in just one century. H ere's To Us! Oakville now stands on the threshold o f another, during which ( if the greatly accelerated pace o f the modern w orld is any yard stick), a great deal m ore can hap pen. May this tow n's second cen tury be brightened by prosperity, enlivened by progress, made m ore enjoyable by com m unity sociabil ity, and tem pered by patience. Toastingly Yours, BILL COTTON. Published by the Woodbridge Co., Ltd., Oakville, Ontario O AK VILLE, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1957 Our Town May Take Pride In Century's Accomplishments [UST two days hence, residents of Oakville and a host of visit ors will begin to enjoy the fruits of an organizational harvest that has been many long, busy, detail-packed months in cultivation. For, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 29, Mr. Hu bert Chisholm will officially open this town's week-long Centennial celebration. Municipal observance of a hun dredth birthday has many aspects, but in this case, the main purpose would seem to be two-fold. It provides an opportunity for residents of a bustling centre situated squarely in the path of the westward push of the Platinum Rainbow to pause momen tarily to recall and ponder their bless ings, as attention is focused upon the rugged, not so prosperous pioneer days when Oakville was situated squarely in the midst of Upper Can ada's forest wilderness. And second ly, Centennial Week offers a happy chance for hundreds of former town citizens to return for a while, to bask in the nostalgia of pleasant earlier days and to discover just what chang es time has wrought upon a munici pality this is now well known from Vancouver to Halifax. Great credit is due the compara tively few men and women whose ef forts shaped the Centennial program, and who troubleshot countless weary ing details along the way. The snow ball of enthusiasm was slow to roll in an area where life has become so dosely interwoven with that of two J' nearby cities. But once it gained im petus, thanks to the determined drive of the completely community-minded few, it spiralled out into a remark ably varied program that should have widespread appeal. So successful has been the plan WHAT'S M V ? ning of the Centennial committee that townsfolk are to find few idle mo ments from the time Mr. Chisholm, a direct descendent of Oakville's ° SoiAT'Ort C l -TXlPTo 800 TH J SlteR IA founder, officiates at the opening fotvio sens ceremony to the second, eight days later, that the first rocket soars sky ward to launch the closing display of pyrotechnics. The program runs the gamut from special church services and dedication of the enlarged ceno taph to mammoth parades, folk danc ing, music in abundance, and land and water sports. And many special guests will be among the visitors, in cluding Admiral Pullen, the mayor CAVAlCAPe OP S P O R T S 6 4 , 0 0 0 KUB L B Q U B S T lO H of Dorval, P.Q., winsome Marilyn Bell, Gus Ryder and television's love ly Joan Fairfax. Oakville-ites, old and new, should make the most of their own very FIVE YEARS AGO special week, remembering that this P. W . Thompson 8 temporary linking up with the past IT SEEMS TO ME can be made an experience never to be forgotten. The community-con Oakville's Centennial, which it is scious citizen will offer his or her about to celebrate, w ill long be re best to assure the overall success of m em bered as the most significant this epic event, in order that all may milestone in the tow n's history. Dial telephone service w ill be inaugurated in Oakville early share equally in the pleasure of rem One hundred years is a long time in 1954, A . A . Francis, B ell Telephone manager for this region, an iniscence, the fun and the frolic . . . in the life o f a community in this nounced this week. The company has purchased land on the east side and the pride of accomplishment we part o f the world. In the whole of o f Balsam Drive in Trafalgar Township. First step toward the change all must feel, on behalf of both our Canada there are few places older than two centuries, or three at over o f the exchange to dial operation w ill be the construction o f an pioneer predecessors and ourselves. CHRISTIANITY TODAY By REV. W. W . SHERWIN The Oakville Centennial is a great event. The town fathers have planned a variety o f events fo r every age; they have decorated the Town and invited people from all across the country. Of course it is going to cost someone a lot of money, but after all the Hundredth Anniversary o f the Incorporation o f ft Town does not happen every day. been the W esleyan Methodist Cha pel in 1844 on the c o m e r o f Colborne and Thomas Streets. But it is not enough to look into the past. W e must live in the fu ture. And the question w e must face as we celebrate the Centen nial o f our Town is: `Have w e kept the faith? Has our sacrifice and our labour been worthy o f the sacrifice and labour o f our fore fathers o f one hundred and twen ty-five years ago? What would they think o f our ` baby-sitting SundaySchools' to w hich parents drive up and deposit their children to re turn again after an hour's relaxa tion at hom e? W hat would they think o f the excuses w e make fo r not going; to the Church Service-- `I slept in' o r `we w ere out too late last night' or ` I had to cut the grass' ? Let us face this ques tion squarely. W e have a spiritual tie with those w ho have gone before; w e know by faith that w e shall m eet them again, and as St. Paul says, `then we shall know even as w e are known'. May God grant there fore, that w e shall continue in the Faith o f our Fathers that their vision o f a better w orld o f a m ore Godlike people shall com e true. They Gave Of Their Best THE problems, perspiration and A pleasure of putting together a Centennial souvenir edition combine to form a privilege that, very naturally doesn't come along too often to the men and women who pool their ability resources on behalf of a weekly newspaper. It i 3 unlikely that very many of The Journal's staffers will ever help to prepare another Centennial issue, so it is understandable that this news paper's 17 employees have evinced an added interest in these particular pages. We feel that they have labored well, and that readers would like to know just who were responsible for the teamwork that produced an issue that will be preserved by countless families as a momento of Oakville's most important anniversary to date. Planning and supervision of the edition you are now reading was un dertaken by News Editor H. R. How, Advertising Manager Kirk Simpson, Composing room Foreman Lloyd Newman and Office Manager Jack most. A town in Ontario that has been incorporated for one hundred years may lay claim to a respec table age. Cunningham. Historical stories con- The life o f a community is in some respects like the life of an tained here-in, plus a huge batch of individual. It has its ups and Centennial celebration highlights and downs, its difficulties and pro . regular news coverage, were handled blems, its joys and fulfilm ents. by Reporters P. W . Thompson and What a multitude o f events, good and bad, have occurred in the Tom Forsyth and Photographer Dick course o f Oakville's first century Mu~pity. Attractive advertising l a y - as an incorporated town! Its re history covers only a small outs came info being through the ef - ' corded ,rt of them. This place has t forts of Ad Salesman Leon Corke and Pearl Allison. In the composing room, S S a ? , Many « · Operators Freda Carlton and John been born and have grown to ma Holsey, Compositors Reg Brown and turity in this town. Some have Ed Court, and Apprentice Lloyd gone out into w idely scattered o f the earth. Others have Hurst all played a busy part. Business parts remained here to raise families details were worked out by Dorothy and becom e closely identified with Arms and Vola Dalton. And distribu the life o f the community. Oakville's history since It be tion of the Centennial issue was un came an incorporated town in 1857 dertaken by Circulation Manager has been a varied one. A few years after that date, due to the increas Dick Chisholm. ing use o f the railway, it began to These Journal staffers, now that decline as a port and shipping their extra-curricular toil has ended, centre for grain and other com m o dities. Families moved away to are more than somewhat weary but fields o f greater promise. PoDulanonetheless pleased with the results tion dropped w ell below the level o f 2,000 it had reached at the of their labours. They hope that you time o f incorporation, and did not will be equally pleased with this num regain it until after the turn of ber of The Journal Which is datelined the century. But while Oakville did not June 27, 1957. achieve the industrial status that its founder had planned for it, it gained prom inence as a summer resort and residential town. It at tractive location on the lake and river, its tree-shaded streets and pretty surroundings led many people to build fine homes here, and after the first decade o f the present century it became a mecca for Toronto commuters. Since the end o f the second world war Oakville has'undergone a big transformation. The longsought industries have located in the town and its immediate neigh borhood, hundreds o f homes have been built, business establishments have multiplied, and the town's population has m ore than doubled. The spectacle o f the Oakville o f 1957 would doubtless bring a thrill of satisfaction and civic pride to the citizens o f 1857, could they be h o ld it. Now, while we pause to look back upon its past, it js interesting to speculate upon what the future holds for our town. What w ill Oak ville be like when it marks the two hundredth anniversary o f its incorporation. W ill its identity be com e lost in the vast urban com plex now developing in what is termed the " golden horseshoe?" At the present time that does not seem improbable. But develop ments can take many an unexpect ed turn in a hundred years or less, and predictions over such a long range o f time often prove quite wrong. It is to be hoped that those who w ill administer Oakville's af fairs in the years to com e w ill try to preserve, as far as is practi cable, those features that have made it such a desirable place in which to live. Oakville's days as small, semi-rural community are over. Problem s of growth w ill be set it for some time to come. But with imagination and careful plan ning it can retain at least some degree o f its natural attractions while m oving forward with the tide o f new developments. Oakville has m ore than a century o f history, behind it. Many m ore centuries, we are convinced lie ahead o f it. May these centuries be successful and prosperous ones for this com munity, and hold happiness for those who w ill live here. An Anniversary is just what the word implies-- ` a turning over of the years' ; and each anniversary affords an opportunity o f thought ful consideration o f the great tra ditions we have in the past and the greater challenge w e have in the future: that those who went before us might know that their dreams have not been in vain. attractive dial exchange building on the newly-purchased property. In her rem arkable book OAK VILLE AND THE SIXTEEN, Mrs. With a registration o f 340 to date, Oakville's Day Camp this Mathews tells us that Oakville grew up gradually around a mill, summer promises to be about the biggest ever held here since its a store and a few houses along the inception three years ago. Sixteen Mile Creek. Soon a port was established and ships carried People from Oakville m ingled with swarms o f visitors from their cargo o f lumber to other points on Lake Ontario. The people Toronto and other outside points on the widely-publicized annual gar who first settled the country den tour sponsored by Oakville-Trafalgar M emorial Hospital W om en's around Oakville had a vision; they they knew that what lay before Auxiliary. During the three days o f the tour, Friday, Saturday and them was not virgin forerf wi'th Sunday, no less that 1310 people paid their admission to see the beau lumber, but was arable land witli1 tiful flow ers on the estates o f Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gairdner, Mr. and good roads and great towns and hriving businesses. There w ere But I keep under m y body, and Mrs. Ryland H. New, John E. Hamn}ell, Dr. H. C. Scadding and Mrs. hardships m ore than we could ever bring it umder subjection. I Corin W. S. Trmilinson. i1 imagine. But through it all they thians 9:2'.7 . had a strong faith in God. Living W e are told that we are distant A chicken thief paid fo r his depredations with his life on close to the land with few distrac relatives o f the beasts. But w e may tions from the outside world, they be sons o f God. W e can deny in Thursday, thanks to the marksmanship o f Mark Guertin, Sixth Line, developed strong religious feelings effect either relationship. and chicken raisers in the neighbourhood are breathing easier. Victim that w ere strengthened by the fam ily altar. The Bible was read o f Mr. Guertin's deadly aim is a huge h om ed owl, the largest seen in every evening and the children grew up to know that God was these parts fo r some time. with them in all their times of Lloyd Tucker, popular K itchener pro, fired a nifty 71 to lead loneliness and suffering. And they built their churches the field in the Oakville G olf Club's first pro-amateur competition too. They gave a large portion of which attracted hundreds o f fairways fans to the sporty local layout their time and a large portion of last Sunday afternoon. their meagre incom e to build the little log meeting-houses. Very few Displaying powers o f keyboard technique and a depth o f in indeed received grants from other terpretation worthy o f much older perform ers, Judy Bayly and Daphne churches or the government. Oak Bell gave a piano recital before a small group o f music lovers in ville was one o f several places served by the circuit-riders o f the Brantwood public school last week. Roman Catholic Church, the Nearly 1,000 pheasant chicks w ill en joy their early days in Church o f England, the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian brooders located on the L. D. McCullough property on Morden Rd. Church. The first church to be before being released, publicist Ed Adamson o f the Oakville Rod and built in Oakville seems to have Gun Club announced this week. Oakville Dial Phones In 1954, Says Bell BIBLE THOUGHT PEOPLE DO READ SMALL ADS . . . You Are ! = Opinions Of Others PROFITABLE LEISURE M odem man rarely knows the right use of leisure. Perhaps this knowledge w ill com e to him in later life but, at the present, he seeks the tinsel and tawdry things o f life. The disillusion which is his leads to the frustration so com m on to this age o f pressure. -- Cobourg (O nt.) Sentinel-Star. FRIE N D LY WELCOME A tourist, after all, is ju st another local citizen away from home. T o have sales girls, waitresses, gas station attendants and desk clerks express a friendly interest in the w ellbeing o f the visitor is one way to ensure a return visit. -- Peace River B lock (Dawson Creek B.C.) H E A V Y FISHING I f highly efficien t gear and heavy concentration o f boats continue, drastic conservation measures covering almost all types o f salmon fishing w ill eventually becom e necessary. -- Parksvilie (B.C.) Progress. HO LIDAY N E AR HOME Unless one has a yen fo r hours and days o f tra velling fo r his holiday period, he can do no better than to spend his holidays where hundreds o f thou sands o f persons from all over North Am erica do-- right heire in Alberta. -- Rim bey (A lta.) Record. CHANGING TIMES W e view with some alarm the news that the school fair may be discontinued after some 40 years. Changing views and changing interests seem to have relegated this very useful institution to the same scrapheap on which we placed the buggy and the Stanley Steamer. -- Stanstead (Q ue.) Journal. P A PE R LITTER If everyone w ere truly tidy-conscious there would be no paper litter. Maybe those who throw cigaret boxes on the street (fo r exam ple) act in the same way at home by throwing them on the floor, but w e doubt it. -- Estevan (Sask.) Mercury. H APPY TIME Nothing in life is m ore precious than youth . . . A form ative time, a time o f learning, a happy time when there is so m uch to be done that is interesting and worthwhile, youth is seldom appreciated until the individual becom es older. -- Virden (M an.) Em pire-Advance. NOT INTERESTED The poor response to a public meeting spon sored by Barrie town council at Codrington School with the o b ject o f explaining the business o f annex ation to the ratepayers may prom pt second thoughts respecting the two further m eetings planned. -- Barrie (O nt.), Examiner. HIDDEN FAU LTS Judging by the num ber o f vehicles found in need o f repair to one or m ore m echanical parts dur ing the inspection carried out on the road, som e mo torists attach greater importance to the outer appear ance than the m echanical fitness. -- Rouyn-Noranda (Q ue.) Press. DANGEROUS CA PACITY T here are few places where by virtue o f the road condition and design it is safe to travel at 100 miles an hour. Nevertheless cars o f today are built to perform such speeds. -- Comox (B.C. Free Press. NEED CO-ORDINATION The question o f m ore or less federal financial aid for highways is not in the long run as important as the need fo r a national program that w ill co ordinate the roadbuilding of provinces and dom in ion, to give us the kind o f a highway system that w ill best serve the country. -- Red Deer (A lta.) Advocate. LACK OF INTEREST F or a country that has probably the most demo cratic governm ent in the world, it is amazing the lack o f interest and lack o f know ledge the average Canadian has about politics. -- W estlock (A lta.) Witness. IND USTRIAL CENTRE Estevan has becom e the first city in Saskatche wan to arrive at that status because o f industrial growth. Every other city; in the province . . . became such as a result o f agricultural developm ent. Este van can truthfully claim the distinction of being the first industrial city to be incorporated in the west. -- Estevan (Sask.) Mercury. Board Chairman Thomas A . Blakelock presided last Friday night as 44 members o f this year's Oakville-Trafalgar High School graduating class en joyed the annual banquet which signalized, for them, the end o f an educational era. Canon F. C. Jackson leaves Sunday afternoon by m otor for Northern Saskatchewan, where he w ill take charge o f a mission, under Rt. Rev. Henry D. Martin, D.D., bishop o f Saskatchewan, fo r the month o f July. IS HIGH TEST GAS NECESSARY? Members o f Oakville Masonic Lodge w ere hosts to a large num ber o f visitors from Riverside Lodge, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Zeta Lodge, Toronto, at a strawberry social Tuesday evening last week. The social was preceded by degree work by the Niagara Falls group. One o f our friends was asking the other day whether he should use regular or premium gasoline in his car. It struck me then how few people really look into what regular and premium means before deciding. There are many cars that are just as well o ff using regular gas and you won't suddenly get better m ileage and less knock by switching to premium. As a matter o f fact, it's n ever a good idea to switch back and forth. Let us know which gas you 're using and w e'll do the important jo b of setting the spark to take best advantage o f that fuel. The main differen ce in the two gaso lines is, o f course, their octane rating and the addition o f anti-knok com pounds in the premium fuel. And what is the octane rating? W ell, if you really want to know, the octane rating is the percentage o f pure hydrocarbon called iso-octane as com pared to heptane. Octane ratings can run from 0, which is pure heptane, and would knock badly, to 100 w hich would be pure iso-octane and has high anti-knock qualities. That still doesn't decide which gas to use, though. A good rule of thumb is that if your car has a com pression ratio o f 7 to 1 or less (an older car) you might as well use regular gas. With higher com pression ratios in newer cars, you 're better o ff with premium fuel. If your car is set to burn regular, though, and y ou switch to premium, you 're just burning up money. To take advant age o f the better perform ance, better mileage and anti knock qualities o f premium, the spark has to be advanced. W e 'll do this fo r you if you 'll drop by. If you 're already a regular customer w e've been checking your tim ing automatically as part o f our bumper-to-bumper inspection. Our guess is you probably think you know how to park your car, but it isn't just women drivers who slip up on an obvious little detail w e'll talk about next week. JUST IN PASSING In preparing the many historical articles that highlights this spe cial Centennial edition, and in digging out the many venerable pictures o f district people and events, this newspaper staff would have been lost without the invaluable contributions o f senior reporter Phillips W. Thompson, whose remarkable knowledge o f this area's past continues to astound us all. He, in turn, was deeply appreciative o f the many leads provided in Hazel C. Mathews " Oakville and the Sixteen" -- o f which he is the possessor o f one o f the first autographed copies. Press run for this souvenir issue was almost doubled, due to advance interest evinced by both individuals, industries and dis trict organizations. However, it would be wise not to dally too long, if you are planning to send a copy to Aunt Martha in Kam loops, or those cousins in Halifax. They w on't all be as big, but local sailors figure that there w ill be m ore vessels along the waterfront on Saturday, when the big regatta takes place, than ever visited Oakville at one time in the port's heyday. A nd on Sunday, you w on't have to be content with m erely watching the aquatic show. Members o f the pow er boat club w ill be reviving the once popular custom o f Sabbath cruising up the Sixteen, and you 'll be able to en joy your turn. A nd fo r free, too! Ever stop to ponder the num ber o f man hours (and gal hours, too, o f course) that have gone into preparing for this big hun dredth birthday party o f ours? W hen it is all over, the cost in dollars w ill be comparatively simple to calculate. But w e'll never be able to tote up the com plete list o f credits due the many civicm inded men and women who, many a time and oft, found their original labors mighty wearying and not a little frustrating. H ere's to them! Into the gay anticipation o f fun to com e, the Oakville Safety Coun cil in jects a note o f Centennial caution, suggesting that everyone ex ercise just a little extra care. Rem em ber, you w on't live to see another one -- so make sure you live to see all o f this one. THE JO U R N A L Published Every Thursday by THE WOODBRIDGE CO., LTD. W illiam D. 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