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Dr.-Mch. Brace MacBride, young- est son of L. Gordon and Mrs. Mac- Bride, Grimsby, now :doing his bit" somewhere over ttithe. The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chil.. dren's Aid Society of St. Cathar- ines and Lincoln County was held at the county building on Tuesday evening with Romaine K, Ross in the chair. It was the last meeting for ex-Warden Norman D. Miller, whose place will be taken by Cecil Secord, the new warden. Reeve Walter Sheppard will be the other county representative. gradually returning to England. Their passage depends upon the decision of the Children's Overseas Reception Board at Ottawa, and 256 Children In Care Of Society There are now 256 children in care. The British child guests are Warden Secord commented that the county became free of deben- ture debt January 2nd for the first time since 1913, and announced his More And More Cases Are Coming To Attention Of Children's Aid Of Homes Breaking Up. Cecil Secord, Reeve of Grantham Township, was elected warden of Lincoln County as the county coun- cil opened its January session. He is starting his fifth term on the council. Reeve Robert M. Johnston, Port Dalhousie, wno had been in the warden's race, withdrew and seconded the motion of Reeve George E. Wiley, Louth Township, electing Mt. Secord warden by ac- clamation. Reeve Johnston an- nounced he would seek the office next year. Lincoln's New Warden, Cecil Secord, Receives "Mallet" Frbm Deputy-Reeve George Crittenden A t Opening Council Session. . Presents Gavel For Eighth Time While confined to his home with the busted leg he contracted the Mumps. Nicely over these and ready to go to school on a sleigh with his leg in a cast, he was stricken down with Chicken Pox. Keep your chin up Donnie. There isn't much left on the calendar to happen to you. Serving Overseas Last Thanksgiving Day he came close to death by drowning in Northern Ontario. Shortly after that he was operated upon for ap- pendicitis. Then on the night of December 30th he was struck by an automobile while walking with his "Light of Love" on No. 8 High- way and suffered a badly fractured Donnie has had more hard luck in the last six months than has be- fallen a lot of men who have been fighting Britain's battles for a half century or more. When they start handing out medals to the Champion Hard Luck Guy, The Independent is go- ing to nominate Donnie Catton, son of Victor and Mrs. Catton, Living- ston avenue. In Past Six Months He Has Had More Hard Luck Than a 50 Year Fighting Man. Donnie Catton Is Grand Champion VOL. LIX--.No. 29 (Continued on page 7) (Continueo on page 7) 1l'he 1tihriiinasbv, Independent MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER-A COMMUNITY SERVICE Despite the magnificent work al.. ready done by the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire to pro- vide our forces with reading ma- terial, thousands more books are still urgently needed. From Canada to the Continent . . . from Iceland to India, . . . gal- lant young Canadian men and wo- men are serving today. At camp, aboard ship, in hospital ,their hours (Continued on page 7) Lincoln Loyalist Chapter, LO. D.E. has been alloted a quota of $300, as its share in the $300,000 campaign now being conducted across Canada for the purchase of books for the armed forces. Grims- by I.O.D.E. ladies are now busily engaged in canvassing for this quota and ask the citizens of the town and township to give gener- ously to this cause. Lincoln Loyalist Chapter, 1.0. D.E. Ask Help Of Citizens To Raise This Sum For Lib-, raries. Grimsby's Quota For Books $300 Fred A. Cakes, Prominent North Grimsby fruit grower who has re- signed as Choirmaster of Grimsby Baptist Church, after 38 years of service. He is a former Reeve of the Township and was Warden of the County in 1930. FRUIT W'iltilsvvery doubtful if you could find more than a half dozen massive black walnut trees in Lincoln county today that would give you logs as large as the one in the above picture. At one time there were thousands of such trees in the peninsula. Standing at the end of this log is the late Judson O. Konkle, an experienced timber man, who for years picked up the choicest of the black walnut trees in this district for furniture manufacturers and other firms that specialized in black walnut fixturés. We do not know just where Mr. Konkle cut this log, but we do know that he told us at the time that it was about the last that he would be able to procure and it was. When the editor of The Independent was a kid (just the day before yesterday) there were sev- eral very large walnut trees in the Village. There was one on the old school grounds at the corner of :-as?:‘:;~:‘:»'+:1Wmaics~§ .7? fihggvé'gwgb Served 38 Years GIANTS OF THE FOREST ARE NO MORE Grimsby, Ontario, Thursday, January 25th, 1945 Reeve Lewis brought file cheque back home. "We do not need the cash for some weeks yet" quoth the genial Clerk, "so why pay Grimsby four per cent interest on the prepay- ment." " tey, .0 County of Lincoln is free of debt and as a result Clerk and Treasur- er Millward has no need for too much ready cash. Reeve Clarence W. Lewis carried a Town of Grimsby cheque for $13,000 to County council last week, only to have it refused by Clerk Millward, as a prepayment on Grimsmy's County Rate. County Does Not Need Our Money The shipment of 8,400 ten-ounce uackages was received by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company at the Detroit city airport (Continued on page 8) Detroit - California spinach, flown overnight from Burbank to Detroit, went on sale in retail food stores here last week as commer- cial air cargo traffic continued to advance. The shipment will be consigned to Carbone Bros. and Co., ine., New York, which is expected to offer the shipment through the regular trade channels. Announcement of the latest ship- ment by air freight was made yesterday by Ralph E. Myers, head of Ralph E. Meyers Company, this city, which has been leading wes- tern grower-shipper organization in exploiting possibilities of air- borne perithables. Salinas, Calif. - Approximately 6,500 pounds of strawberries, let.. tuce and celery from the Salinas- Watsonville area will leave the Salinas airbase on a United Air- lines plane Sunday night, Novem- ber 19, scheduled to arrive in New York City late Monday afternoon, in time for Tuesday morning's market in the country's largest consuming center. California Strawberries, Let- tuce, Celery landed In New York In Less Than 24 Hours - A. & P. Stores Fly Vegetables Overnight From West Coast To Detroit - Air Rate Now Reduced To 26 Cents a Ton-Mile - Will Be Further Reduced. A. & P. stores now are. Another massive one stood in front of the Hotel Grimsby. Another one on the corner of the Jas. s. Randall property at Main and Elizabeth where "Dutch" Shantz now sells gas. One old tree stood in the middle of the road at the June- tion of Robinson street north and Clarke street and travellers had to detour all four ways around it. At one time the old Victoria Park property north of the C.N.R. tracks was a veritable walnut grove. Many of the trees were cut down; some died and were re- moved and the last six of them fell to the woods- men’s axes When the Queen Elizabeth went through. Yes, the day of the massive black walnut is over in the Fruit Belt. Elm and Oak streets. An extra large one was cut down in 1897 by the late Donald MacDonald, that stood in front of the cottage of "Ashy Bill" Gil.. more on Main street where Bourne's, Smith's and Following are packs of the more popular fruits and vegetables in 1944, cases of 24 20-ounce tins, with 1943 figures in brackets: Peaches, 550,000 cases (172,000); pears, 415,000 (413,000); plums, 302,000 (174,000); cherries, 106,000 (59,000); apricots, 93,000 (17,000); apple Juice fortified with vitamin C, 600,000 (150,000); tomato juice, 3,915,000 (2,215,000); tomatoes, 2,- 155,000 (1,502,000); Peas, 2,565,000 ,1,856,000); corn, 1,858,000 (1,159,- 000); beans, green and wax, 1,139,- 00017527000; pumpkin, 500,000 (259,000); spinach, 40,000 (33,000), Substantially higher quantities of fruit and vegetables were canned by commercial canning factories in 1944 than in 1943, the Agriculture Department has announced. Increased Pack Of Canned Fruit 550,000 Cases Of Peaches Pro- cessed Up In 1944 As Against 172,000 In Previous Year. Cecil Second, Reeve of Grantham, unanimously elected Lincoln’s War- den at inaugural meeting of coun- cil . He is one of biggest Wardens the county has ever had, being six foot, four inches and weighing 270 pounds. New Warden Flight - Lieut. Levi, a former 'Beamsvi11e High school student, en- listed in December, 1940, and was posted overseas in October, 1941. Veteran of 40 flights over en- emy t e r r i tory, fi:'iiiiiii:::iiiiij?sN. , lllEj:':::jjji!might-raieut. Levi tiiiiiiiiii'iiilllllralllrh" was taken prison- W“ ' - _ er by two Ger- man soldiers after he had bailed out of his flaming Mustang. Ger- man doctors and nurses treated him at the hospital. He was in a British hospital for four weeks be- fore returning to Canada, .' 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'd, Ci:: .-‘:'__ _ Shot down 50 miles from Paris and rescued by French Maquis from a Paris hospital within sight I...... -.er of the Eiffel Tow.. 1llllllitllltiiitiiiigig er, Flight - menu 1llllllllllllllllllriiiiillt John Levi, son of 1'illlllllllllllllllllllllllNllillil Mr. and Mrs. A1- 1lllllllllllllillllllllllllallllll fred Levi, of Clin- ton township, is iii-22:92:. new recovering at home from the severe burns and He wrote that roads in his area were completely blocked, and that with a little co-operation "trom whoever is in charge of the snow plows," supplies could have been brought in from wholesalers once a week. The matter was referred for con- (Continuea on page 7) "We could not let the people starve," he wrote, adding that it had cost him more for the food and delivery than he could charge for it. A bill for expenses incurred through the heavy snow was pre- sented to Lincoln County council by Joseph Upshall, general mer- chant at Caistorville. His bill for $48.50 was itemized from Dec. 15 to the present time, showing pay- ments to teamsters to deliver bread and groceries, pick up supplies, and draw feed. Pheasant Feeding From Air Old Gag Chairman of the Road Commit- tee, Wm. Mitchell reports that the township has purchased one of the heaviest and most up-to-date "V" shaped plows and side wing that can be procured and all that is needed now is for the W.P.T.B. to give them the green light and the plow will be ready for operation. The old blade plow will be kept and used for snow removal below the mountain and to give assist- ance to Grimsby town. North Grimsby has a new snow- plow. That is they will have if the W.P.T.B. sanction the deal that they made this week with the Sawyer-Massey Co. of Hamilton. Snow Removal I s County Headache Warren was a member of the St. Catharines Flying Club when the pheasant feeding flight was made on January 13, 1930. At that time a Moth two-seater piloted by Len Tripp, club. instructor, and with Jack Williams, then of The St. Catharines Standard staff, now of the Ottawa bureau of The Cana- (Continued on Page 7) N orth Grimsby Buys Snowplow South County Townships Be- lieve They Are Neglected By County Road Crews - Would Buy More Equip- ment. Purchase Heavy "V" Type Plow And Side Wing .-- Must Await Approval Of W.P.T.B. A few days ago Charles Warren of the Warren Air Services, Ham- ilton, distributed feed for pheasants from an airplane. Throughout the peninsula pheasants are reported to be starving. They are unable to obtain feed because of the deep snow, game warden officials say. The St. Catharines Flying Club in co-operation with the Lincoln County Humane Society pioneered the feeding of snow-bound pheas- ants from the air 15 years ago, it has been recalled. Saved My M aquis as First Tried Out Success- fully 15 Years Ago By a St. Catharines Standard Re.. porter. $2.00 Per Year, $2.50 In U.S.A., 5e Per Copy One of Grimsby’s tirlest citizens, Louis Larsen is this week celebrat- ing the fact that he is 87 years young. Snow and cold do not deter him from wending his way down town every day for a chat and a pipe of "bactea" with his many friends and cronies. He first sub- scribed for The Independent in 1892 and has been a constant read- er of this paper for 53 years. Con- gratulations. Week ending at 8 a.m., Monday, January 22nd: Highest temperature o.....-.............' Lowest temperature .........4.5 below q Mean Temperature o..-.....-.......' Precipitation o.........................) inches o 0.0mm-“ .0-“ Of this grand total of 229, Grimsby town gave 116; 113 were from Beamsville, Smith- ville, Winona and the district. Owing to blocked roads over the mountain 30 donors from Smithville were unable to get through to Grimsby to make their contribution. Public Still Seem To Be Con- fused Over Rental Regula- tions - Independent Gets Five Calls In Two Days - Notice To Vacate Must Be Given On Special Form Sup- plied By W.P.T.B. Five times between Monday morning and Tuesday night, The Independent was quiered by people regarding the regulations govern- ing Landlords and Tenants, with respect to vacating houses, apart- ments, etc. ' Here is the regulation as laid down by The Wartime Prices and Trade Board:- 236 men and women attend- ed the climic and 229 gave precious plasma-seven being rejected. A landlord wishing possession of a premises must secure from hi- nearest WPTB Rental Division of- tice a printed form. This Jorm must be made out in duplicate. One copy is retained by the rental or. tice and the other form is served on the tenant. No other kind of notice to a tenant is legal or worth the paper it is written on. All records for Hamilton District Branch clinics were smashed in Grimsby yester- day, when the local clinic went all out from 10 o'elock in the morning until five o'elock in the afternoon. . A landlord must give the tenant six full months notice, but that no- tice must not fall due between November lst and May lst. It it does, the tenant remairis in posses- sion until the Ist of May. ft 2 9 man mums Grimsby Weather Hale And Hearty ilX MUNIHS fi LEGAL NUIIGE (Continued on Page TI