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~sters about the nicest-Easter gift ever. jn hand, each Spring-and beg enough money to enable THE OAKVILLE RECORD-STAR Thursday, April 6th, 1950 Page Two : A Che Oakville Recond- Tina C. Breckenridge, Editor Wilder Breckenridge, Publisher Roderick A. Bailie - - - Treasurer Telephone — Office 16 Residence 771-R Member Audit Bureau ef Circulations. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association The Oakville Record-Star is published every Thursday at 26° | t Colborne Street, Oakville, Ontario, by The Oakville Record Limited. The subscription price is $2.50 per year in advance. Authorized as second clagy mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. | To The Editor Open Letter to Township Council Dear Friends and Neighbours: As you drive to the Seventh Line, down to the axles, along the “new roads” built last year, I hope you will decide against building any more hump-backed roads like —_—_——$—$—_—————— ee As you drive along the new side roads with your rear end scrap- ing the crown, your tires are down to the hard old road that you cov- ered up with black muck from the ; ditches. Unless there is some spec- ial reason for grading up low places, I do not think more clay John M. Wallace has just given Oakville’s young-|should be put on the crown than He has offer- can be bound into the old hard : : Sure with th y~gravel.im- ed to give the Town fifteen thousand: dollars to install Sty on lights and proper seating arrangements at the ball park.! you. have to grade out the dit- é Council has voted in appreciation of this-most-gen-lenes “an~arvonce to establish “the erous gift, to rename the park Wallace Park. culvert levels, pes oo Bare tsa i z ; to put all the dirt from the ditches Mr. Wallace’s kindness will make it possible for} onto the crown at once. You can baseball in Oakville to operate on a self-supporting} make a good road a little wider by basis from now on. Hitherto it has been necessary} spacing the ditches a foot or two . : r to go hat} nearer the fence and add it to for those interested in the baseball program to go, TEE NGRIAs dit Guts aed oe dirt-to~bind—more~ fresh gravel. At the nominations next year I would hate to hear our Reeve say: “We have spent two hundred thousand dollars making dirt roads of our fair gravelled side roads.” three hundred boys and young men to play the game throughout the season. This was so because ,It simply wasn’t possible to draw enough at the turnstiles, with- out lights, to finance Intermediate, Bantam, Juvenile and Minor ball. Mr. Reeve, Mr. Road Superin- Now, with the lights installed, it will be feasible} tendent and Councillors — ‘we to play league games starting at 8:30 or 8:45 and for|are a lot of old farmers with not those who have been unable to attend the afternoon or|tee much experience in using the early evening games to spend a pleasant hour-and-a-| sifu see pe aan half watching their favorite sport. And experts have} 16 direct the road machine comp- stated that they know of no community with a lighted} anies and get their advice as to park in which baseball is not on a financially sound op-|the correct way of modernizing erating basis. gravelling side roads—and get the correct profiles of both crown and So John Wallace’s gift will mean that more young-|ditches and width between dit- sters can play ball; that they will get more and better|ches to leave room for the excav- instruction: that Oakville will become even a greater}ated earth? Try grading dirt into baseball center than it has been in the past; and that,|the concrete 7th Line and_ people in all likelihood, baseball may even be able to help sup-| il! be laughing at you long after port some of the other Oakville recreation activities. we are dead! This district owes Mr. Wallace a most heartfelt vote of thanks for his generosity and farsightedness. It is fortunate to have a man like him as a citizen an neighbor. Hugh Calverley Mr. Scarrow Dies William Scarrow of Bronte died suddenly at the Toronto Western Hospital on Saturday, April Ist. Until his death, Mr. Scarrow was employed with the Canadian Steamship Lines and worked on Great Lake boats. He returned fre- quently to Bronte where he visited his mother, Mrs. Annie Scarrow. His father, Henry D. Scarrow died about’five years ago. The funeral service was held QUALITY While listening — TOO FAST Harley Carpenter is dead. Dead at the hands of a bus schedule. And, if something isn’t done about it, a lot of other people are going to be killed by the same bus schedule. : Let’s face the fact that the Gray Coaches travel too fast. They have to, in order to maintain the time schedules that the company has set out. It isn’t the dri- vers’ fault. They are carefully selected and trained men and, most of them, as good drivers as it is possible to find, but you can’t wheel a bus from the Torontg_to the Hamilton terminal along the Lakeshore Highway, make all the required stops, including delivering and accepting parcels, in an hour and fifty minutes and stay within the.speed limits or the requirements of safe to a recent ra- dio programme called “What's Your Beef?", | pricked up my driving. It just isn’t possible. / ears when one Tn case there is any question about the buses tra- ca’ siksor velling faster than they should, we clocked. two of ‘The wide them last Sunday morning . . . when schedules should range in the be easier to maintain than on week days. Bus Number price of glasses.” 1472, License 3134C was doing 56 miles an hour be- tween Bronte and Oakville, 41 at Brookfield Road and| with some friends who were pres- 61 between the Eighth Line and the B-A refinery. Bus} ent, 1 was surprised to find that Number 1413, License 3075C ran at 49 miles an hour|they did not realize that there ex- between St. Jude’s cemetery and the Dr. Chase plant] ists, not only a difference in the and at 61 between the Town Line and the B-A plant. _ |*horevghness of the examinations, and a difference in the abilities of The greatest danger from the Gray Coach buses In the subsequent discussion You have only one pair of eyes to last you a lifetime. Have them examined regularly every two years. Protect your eyes so that they may give you efficient and the examiners, but also a wide is not the speed at which they travel. It is the two-| range in the quality of optical mat- section schedule with the second bus riding hard on|¢ri#!s. As an example of this range, the tail of the first. If the leading bus has to stop to|t,'s possible fo Gateln relter of Or pick up or let off passengers, the one behind has nO} fraction of the cost of artes choice but to swing out, blocking the entire Number|tense. This is the elassic example Two Highway to oncoming motorists. of false economy because, if your The Town and Township police are hard put to Se tretcae casey shee control the matter. Drivers are cagey and, the minute] future may be drastically reduced. they spy a police car, become very models of caution.|!n other words, like most other Only when the Provincial police are operating the mo-| things, you get exactly what you torcycle, which can tail a bus so closely that the driver| 2” for whether you entrust your ant see at is any worthwhile number of these speeding] ‘on ine Sh, Bete te ehemoths hailed into court. this precious possession. With more and more cars on the highways there re going to be more and more bus-caused accidents unless prompt steps are taken to eliminate the causes. Sure, its going to inconvenience a lot of bus riders and commuters if the schedules are slowed down. We doubt if their collective inconvenience is worth one human|°™fertable service throughout being’s life. Drivers should be instructed that they)” '”* must ae a gras ot Sa hundred yards be- tween buses so that if the lead bus stops the second alls won't have to swing out to avoid famming it. The Pro- Wm. C. Milli gan vincial police should be instructed to make a sustained R. 0 drive on buses travelling in excess of permitted limits eels and drivers brought into court and convicted of speed- Optometrist ing should have their licenses lifted for thirty days. TELEPHONE 1507 Children Get Five-Day Whirl earlier than usual. a program. It goes like this:— ON MONDAY, APRIL 10, at 1:30 p.m. there will be a Marble Tour- nament for all must -bring his own marbles! ON TUESDAY, APRIL 11, at 1:30 p.m. all boys and girls are in- vited to come and do some type of craft work. It may be leather- work, papereraft,-weoderaft, paint: ing, drawing or what-have-you. Whatever it is, it'll certainly be fun! THURSDAY, APRIL 13th, at 1:30 is the time to bring all old toys, comic books, hockey sticks or movie star pictures — and swap with friends for something you like. No matter how bad it looks to you — it might be just the thing that somebody else wants. So swap it! FRIDAY, APRIL 14th, at 9:30 a.m. is the time for all last year's Day Campers to get together at Victoria Hall. Bring your lunch and milk will be supplied — just like in the summer. A- full-day program has been planned, Just before sundown, movies will be shown and then a campfire sing- song will close the day. SATURDAY will be a_ holiday for all! on Weénesday, April 5th, at S. S. Russell and Son's, Oakville. Rev. Delve of Bronte officiated. Inter- ment was at the Oakville Cemet- Mr. Searrow is survived by his mother. There'll be no schooléss school- | = children whining “What'll Ifdo?"| <= this Easter holidays. Sunshine or|% not, they will be out of mama’s{% ear range most of the day. And] % what's more they'll probably cry |= to be put to bed a couple of hours | * This week of bliss is sponsored |< by the Recreation Commission and | * director Ted Kennedy who is in| + charge of the program, And what| 4 boys and girls!+ between the ages of seven and]. fifteen. Children will be divided | = for-the-various contests-aeoerding|* to age. Don't forget — everyone | - Glaciers Unknown out the year. No part of Australia is high en- ough for snow to remain through- | Farms "Mechanized | 250,000 in 1949. 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