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Ban 0g LEE WORPTS0AY, DECEMBER 15, 1948 € THE DAILY Ti ' MES. GAZETTE " AGE TWENTY-G iy Residents of Uxbridge 'Bending Every Effort Erect New Uxbridge, Dec. 15 -- Old Mark Bennett Hasn't felt well for weeks. It's his stomach. But he plods along as is his daily custom, cleaning up the chores, tending the stock. No toughened-up farmer in this man's country is going to bed for a trifling stomach ache. Not until that pain- ful day he drops to the floor with a burst: appendix. 'Martha Russell St.. John, the family doctor. It's appendix trouble all right, he says. Normally, .no one fusses much about ruptured ap- pendix. But, "here in Uxbridge, 'there's no hospital. So. Dr. St. John "bundles up his patient and starts the 45-mile drive to Toronto. the roads are good, old .Mark be there in an hour and a Balt If the drifts are piled high, hell ust have to grit his teeth a * harder and: -suffer it out. has been going on, several 'times a week, for 150 years now. The oar has replaced the cutter but the feomplaint is the same. And the 2 {1700 citizens of this Ontario County town are getting mighty weary. Contribute Cent. Per Day With a three-acre land donation from Mr. and Mrs. George Kydd, "they decided to do something about it. Every one in town contributes sone cent a day. The school kids col- dect and sell scrap paper. The Church ladies organize rummage sales. The teen-agers throw corn roasts, The men's and women's .clubs stage raffles, bridge and eu- «chre parties. After a couple of years of this, the. people of Uxbridge hope to have the $147,000 needed for a 21- bed hospital. It's a drawn-out, pain« ful process. But so was the treat- ment of Mark Bennett's appendix. Uxbridge isn't blessed with a crop of retired millionaires who might subsidize such a project. Both provincial and federal governments will pay $1,000 per bed toward the cost of construction. But that still leaves exactly $105,000 to be raised . at raffles, corn roasts and rummage sales. The average man probably doesn't realize what $105,000 represents. Here, every one knows. The Susie Sorabje Chapter of the IODE is planning a protracted campaign to raise $1,000. With luck, the penny- a-day drive will net another $1,000 .by the end of 1949, Members of the Kinsmen 'Club are devising ways and means of collecting the $5,000 needed to equip an X-ray department. The Grad- uate Nurses' Association has a var- 'w Hospital iety of social functions to finance & completely furnished nursery. Movies were shown last week at the Music Hall. Mayor R. J. Harris, chairman of the hospital committee, spoke a few words of explanation |. and welcome. Miss Dulcie Peters and Oswald Croxall rendered musi- cal selections. The 500 who attend- ed shelled out their silver and gave the campajgn another little boost. m Corn Roast A recent rummage sale netted $150. A corn roast turned in $240. The marathon brideg parties--72|( people sitting 'down to 18 tables-- are good for $18 a week. The kids up at the school, in their first try, gathered four tons of paper. These activities, individually small, are slogly creating a hospital where has been for 150 years. y the sacrifice? Well, the Kydds didn't mind donating three acres of fertile wheat field. Yound Gearge, thejr son, had two fingers badly mutilated a few years ago. He ing 'to get proper treatment. st year, an indigent patient was driven to Toronto in the mayor's car. Her ailment defied local care, She had to wait three weeks for a bed, The tay before Christmas she died. In January, a 74-year-old woman fell on her way to church. Her knee pained but, apart from minor dis- comfort, she felt fairly well. She was given home treatment until the doctor decided a trip to Toronto was needed. The X-ray disclosed a bro- ken hip. Within the year, she died. There is a hospital in Oshawa, 25 miles to the southeast. There's a private hospital at Stouffville, 15 miles to the southwest. There are others at Newmarket, 35 miles dis- tant, and Lindsay, 35 miles away, Uxbridge, founded in the middle of the 19th century has mone. That's why, even if the collec tions are only a cent a day, the citizens are determined to tyrn a wheat field into a hospital of their own, Jackson Given 3 Year Term Welland, Dec. 15.--(CP)--Michael Jackson of Montreal will serve three years instead of two for his "lead- ership" in the boarding of the Ca- nada Steamship © Lines collier Glenelg at Thorold on the Welland Canal last April 22 during the Great Lakes seamen's aie ad to endure two hours of driv-' Waste paper, rummage sales and corn Toasts are helping raise the $147,000 needed to constriot 4 new 21-bed hospital in Uxbridge. Every one of the town's 1,700 citizens is contributing a cent a day to the campaign. Frederick Sheehy (left) loads up with scrap paper. is chairman of the hospital committee. Donor of three acres of (inset) Mayor R. J. Harris 1and is George Kydd (right) who raises wheat and mink on a distriet farm, --Globe and Mall Photo Hampton Men ' At Ceremonies In Royal York Hampton, Dee. 14--Arthur Blan. chard and Charlie Warren, and Me! Davy attended the Rameses Shrine ceremonies at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, on Decef- ber 11th. Don Davy spent a few days this week 'in Detroit. M. L. Davy, a member of Moslem Shrine, Detroit, attended the Fall ceremonial on Noy. 26th, and was accompanied by Art Blanchard, Charles Warren of Hampton, Arlie Northcutt, Oddy Robson, 'Dave Higgins and Ed Ruthven of Bow- manville, members of Rameses Shrine, Toronto. Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Linstead were in Toronto on Thursday of last week. A nice big box of clothing was sent by the Adult Bible Class to Mr. Victor Bowens of Bruce Penin- sula for distribution among his people there, whom we know will appreciate the gifts. Christmas servicls will be held next Sunday, December 18. The "White Gift" service will be obaerv- ed in the Sunday School Session, and the pastor will have a Christ- mas message at the evening service; ehbir will provide special Christ- mas mukic. All are invited to join in the Christmas carols, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gilbert, Solina; Mr, and Mrs. M. Hepburn, Columbus, were recent Visitors with Theron Mountjoy. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stainton, Enniskillen, visited his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Herb Stainton. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Page and family visited at the L. Bradleys' Enniskillen. Dr. B. 0. Reynolds, Toronto, visi- ted his sister, Miss Lulu Reynolds and aunt, Mrs. R. Pascoe, on Satur- day. Mr. Cecil Oarveth will be at. the school with some' gaod pictures this Wednesday night. °* Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Blackburn and family, Mrs. T. Cowling, Miss Vivian Cowling, Haydon, were re- cent visitors with Mr, and Mrs. M. Blackburn. DIED TUESDAY New York, Dec. 15--(AP)--Eliza- beth Duncan, 77, died Nov. 30 in Germany, it was learned here Tues- day, 21 years after the death of her younger sister, Isadora, with whom she pioneered in a free style of modern dancing. GRANT EXEMPTIONS London, Dec. 15 -- (AP) -- The Board of Trade said Tuesday night 1,632 of Britain's 4,500 cinemas had been granted exemptions from the rule that 45 'per 'cent of their first- run feature films must be British. (Canadian Control On U.S. Imports Eased During 48 Ottawa, Dec. 15--(CP) -- Steady improvement in Canada's exchange reserves during 1948 eased the bur- den of austerit measures which the government imposed suddenly in November, 1947. Canada entered 1948 with about $450,000,000 in gold and United States dollar reserves. Government regulations prohibit- ed or limited imports of a long list of foods and consumer goods from the United States. Other re- gulations imposed special taxes--in -| most case 25 per cent of the sales price--on many of the same goods. During the first half of the year Finance Minister 'Abbott made re- gular reports to Parliament on' the growth of the foreign-exchange re- serves under the dollar-conservation program. He ended them in June when the reserve had grown from its December, 1047, low of $451,- 000,000 to $700,000,000. Since then there has been a fur. ther improvement but its extent has remained a carefully-guarded gov- ernment secret, The finance minis- ter merely says that he's "pleased with the improvement." First 'relaxation of the austerity program came on Aug. 1 when the finance minister announced the abolition of the special excise taxes intended to curtail buying. The 25 per cent tax on electric refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, elec- trical appliances, outboard motors, toilet articles and many other things was removed entirely. On another range of goods, running from mo- tor cars to cameras, the tax was reduced from 25 per cent to the 10 pet cent which had been in effect before the austerify program start- ed. The next relaxation came on Oct. 19 when Mr, Abbott announced that the import ban was being lifted from many fruit and vegetables, Since Nov. 1 housewives have been able to buy United States lettuce and tomatoes. Scheduled for later removal was the ban on imported cabbages, carrots, celery, spinach and grapes. The import quotas for citrus fruits and fruit juices were increas- ed from B0 to 76 per cent of the amount bought from the United States in the base year -- July 1, 1946, to June 30, 1947. At the same time the government was improving its external finan- cial position, it was building a sur. plus in its domestic financing only slightly smaller than the regord- breaking one created last year. The first seven months of the: 'le nancial year resulted in a budget surplus of $533,600,000, compared with the finance minister's forecast ir. the spring of a $489,000,000 sur- plus for the whole financial year This year's high surplus combine ed with the possibility of a 1949 fed- eral election left Ottawa and 'the country as a whole counting on tax reductions in the spring. Income tax, left untouched in this year's budget, was corisidered the likeliest field for Mr. Abbott to offer reductions. Cuts in some of the heavy indirect taxes were also considered a good possibility. KILLED BABY St. Louis, Dec. 15 -- (AP): -- Floyd Eugene -Rollings, ;a 27-year old St. Louis University student and a Navy veteran, killed his baby daughter with a hatchet Tuesday and told deputy sheriff Jacob Pfeiffer "I'm the guy." Pfeiffer said he found six-month-old Donna Anne dead in a baby buggy. Pleif« fer quoted Mrs. Rollings as saying her husband had been "uneasy and very serious recently." J SHOULD PROSECUTE Regina, Dec. 15 -- (CP) -- At. torney General J. W, Corman: of Saskatchewan said Thursday that prosecutions under ths Combines Investigations Act shculd be under- taken by the Federal Justice Dee partment, He was commenting on the naming of five western bakery companies and two trade associe ations as members of an alleged combine seeking to control il i prices in.the prairies. RE-ELECTED Toronto, Dec. 15 -- (CP)--J.. G. Morrow ,of Hamilton, chief metal- lurgist of the Steel Company, of Canada, Tuesday was re-elected hairman of the 20-man execufive committee of the Canadian Stan- dards Association. R. H. Mather of the Shawinigan Water and Pow- er Company was named honorary secretary. Hiddy (ity. "Oshawa's Smartest Children's Shoppe" Phone - 424 Simcoe N. O'COATS SUITS PYJAMAS SHIRTS SCARVES GLOVES Yd TIES SOCKS ROBES HATS For "HIM" WINDBREAKERS And a Host of Others! ~ . When you shop at 8. B, Collis' it siraly isa family affair . . . . . . 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