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tile tribune stouffville ont thursday august 11 1949 unionville junior farmers association street dance carnival unionville fhurs aug 11 music by glen smith and his merrymakers in case of rain to be jheld at rainbow gardens markham people spend less freely hotels find people are spending their money a little more carefully this year if a slight decline in 1919 hotel busi ness is an indication r a mackie of montreal general manager of the canadian pacific hotels said yesterday mr machie said there had been a marked rise in the numbers of persons served by hotels during the immediate post war years and the present drop may indicate a slackeningoff from that peak period anyone who stops at hotels can readily tell mr mackie why people shun them if they can get clean accommodation anywhere else 6 and 7 per nigbt at swank hotels for a single bed is mighty high sleeping rates and if you take a look at main dining room menus the cost of meals is even more costlier domestic heating sheet metal roofing stokers oilburners k agents for new idea all steel furnaces verj suitable for oil stoker coal or wood 126 h moster sheet metal phono 4505j oshawa ksooooooeckmqcxsooa stouffville sand gravel limited are prepared to supply your requirements of crushed gravel sand concrete gravel pit run delivered or at the bin plant phono 125j ofllce puono 370 bcoeoooooeooosooot 100000 truckloads of excavation from new toronto subway average depth45 ft payroll running into millions it wont change the skyline in fact it will be barely visible when completed but now and over a few years it will be torontos big gest project in steel and concrete a 40blocklong construction eyeful and earful for scores of thousands of sidewalk superintendents its toronto transportation commissions 50 million rapid transit tube system canadas first underground downtown sections totalling 7000 ft in length are to be started any day now by a unique canadaunited states syn dicate of four contracting firms they have been awarded general contract of about 10 millions with financing and responsibility jointly and severally between now and 1952 the first section will take shape along front street from the union station and royal york hotel to yonge street to above eatons college street store here is what the sidewalk superintendent will see and some things he wont a 5 million insurance policy carried by the ttc with lloyds of london with full coverage of liability for damage to persons or property as a result of subway construction work by the com mission its contractors and sub contractors canadas biggest haulage sub contract 100000 truckloads of excavation twice the volume of the huge royal york hotel enough earth rock and clay to cover 200 acres a foot deep it will be dump ed in the toronto harbor for land reclamation other big suocontracts among the biggest in postwar construe tion furnishing and bending 5000 tons of reinforcing steel fabrica tion of 1000 tons of permanent structural steel only subcontract let to date is one for unfabricated steel to bethlehem steel export corp total payroll of 3 to 4 millions covering an average 300 men on single 8hour daily shift for 2vz years work on the initial sections a new departure in subway design using light structural steel emphasizing reinforced concrete which contractors project manager charles molineaux calls excellent technically though a departure from us subway practice a living exhibition of us dollarsaving at work most heavy structural steel shapes used in canada are imported from united states plenty of noise soundless rock blasting is somewhere in the dim future despite recent develop ment in blanketing procedures for property and personal safety therell be plenty of racket in blast ing 45 ft down along the section of the subway route south of queen street huge pile drivers scores of pneumatic drills and other equipment will add to the din as many different pieces of equipment as there are animals in a zoo but most if not all of it traditional rather than unorthodox with the exception of eight big piledrivers and a couple of heavy duty power shovels most of it will be small compressors drills con crete carts and the like contrac tors say twothirds of their equip ment requirement will be bought or rented in canada much of it made in this country while the other onethird is available from the canadian contractors opera tions some old and unsuspected water occurrence or a buried structural foundation or unused and for gotten pipeline could slow opera tions hit costs eat up some of the usual contingency allowance in cluded in the overhead and profit provisions of the usual contractors tender but theres broad protec- i w c mcdonald ro optometrist commencing saturday august 13 at stouffville every saturday 2 pm to 9 pm something new philips washers made by the makers of the famous philips radios these must be seen to be appreciated why put up with that old washer regularly 15900 now only 12900 check our tradein allowa stouiiviile radio electric norm farrs phone 366 tion against this in soil test borings and eight years study by ttc engineer of building founda tions underside walk structures old plans of piping and ducts from files of the city engineer gas electric utilities and telephone company many buildings fronting on the main subway- street yonge famed for narrowness traffic con fusion and business bustle have basements extending under the sidewalk in some cases beyond curb line electric and telephone utilities have deep boxlike sub station pits under the roadway as well foundations of many an existing building such as the 100 yearold bank of montreal at front and yonge where the tube will cut a long curve directly under the banking floor will have to be shored up reinforced or under pinned with deeper and heavier concrete nothing is sure and tests so far reveal all water pools and springs under control but underground water if it does turn up would be in the yongecollege area where extra digging pumping and piping might be necessary against these and other special problems theres some easy going one factor reducing anxieties of the ttc and its tube builders is that rockcut depth may not far exceed an average 6 ft south of queen street and not be encoun tered north at all canada produces less than one per cent pl the worlds oil in 1948 total world production was over 34 billion barrels of which canada produced 12 million barrels eyes examined prescriptions filled stouffville behind marie jack beauty parlour phone 176w lenses prescribed glasses repaired fitted markham former telephone office phone 4w cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers and fast freezing facilities stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 186w painting done promptly we are prepared to brush spray paint houses barns garages and other buildings on short notice write for estimate today we do work in stouffville district mastercraft painters tel oliver0140 reverse charges 23 fenning st toronto ont in days of yore from the files of the tribune 26 years ago threshing started on record crops this week ralph kirby who is in the employ of dotens barber shop is on a motor trip to windsor dr and mrs smith leave this week for their annual vacation at jacksons pt the annual baseball tournament at musselmans lake for the baker cup will be played on august 6th xewmarket is topping the tri- county ball league with sutton uxbridge and stouffville following in that order andy moore who has cut many miles of whiskers in this town has returned from toronto for a time george todd of goodwood is the new councillor in the township of uxbridge having been elected by acclamation due to the vacancy caused by the resignation of mr h roach norman maclean has been appointed secretary of the local board of trade owing to the removal from town of c hessel fred saunders of toronto was one of the bowlers at the tourna ment here on one of the city rinks fred who is a soninlaw of joel nendick is one of the stouffville young boys of 40 years ago dont forget the herb lennox picnic at jacksons pt on aug gth abram yake of stouffville has been raising a pen of prize ducks but went out to the pen one day last week to find the entire eight lying dead there were small marks on their backs and a weasel is suspected of the killing rev v m mcguire minister in the mennonite church here was in toronto last week attending the farewell for two missionaries leaving for africa henry grove threshed 70 bushels of alsike from seven acres get your moirs chocolates at porters store j l little westend merchant announces a summer clearance sale of shoes and mens clothing over saturday night someone entered swifts garage and made off with a new tire and inner tube marketing committee lowers wheat prices an increased acreage of fall wheat is expected to be planted in ontario and york counties this year members of the seed market ing and publicity committee ontario crop improvement assoc iation predict it is reported that early harvesting will permit pre paration of land early and large amounts of homegrown feed grains are needed so that seeding is expected to be more extensive at a recent meeting in response to many requests for guidance in fill ti make tea double strength and while still hot pour into glasses filled with cracked ice add sugar and lemon to taste ip sa1ada seed prices the committee agreed on minimum quotations at the farm prices set at the meeting to include bags are considerably lower than in 948 they are fall wheat commercial no 1 all approved varieties 250 per bushel registered no 1 dawsons golden chaff variety 275 per bushel last years prices for registered dawsons and no 1 cornell 595 was 300 per bushel no prices were set for other grains rye commercial no 1 with premium for horton variety and registered grades according to local demands 200 per busfhel winter barley commercial no 1 200 and registered and certified grades of wong variety 250 per bushel slight variations from these prices may be expected due to locality variety and quality the committee is made up of representatives from various sec tions of ontario together with officials of the dominion and ontario departments of agricul ture w e breckon a farmer at freeman in halton county is chair man and r e goodin ontario department of agriculture tor onto is secretary every second canadian home has a car and more than three out of four have radios a giant earthworm which reaches 11 feet in length and hatch ing from eggs three inches long is the subject of study by australian scientists it makes a loud gurg ling noise oil burner equipment e t mcdonald j a frankum 129 park st scarboro bluffs toronto 13 oil burners gravity fur naces air conditioning eavestroughing water pressure systems saejssssxxxssasasssxxsjwssjssxxsss mx seg0ws dainty tender light jbtopbllj cakemix master machine for modern farmers stouffville floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers milt smith prep a recent survey showed the owners of self- propelled combines in western canada to be divided like this 6 19 wr owdm of maueyharrk 38 1 wr owner of other motet ttiis is a very significant fact fanners dont ehoose their machines by whim or fancy such a high preference for masseyharris is proof beyond doubt that masseyharris combines give them the best allround performance in fast harvesting clean threshing freedom from field delays low cost of operation if you were to visit the masseyharris combine factory and watch the long train- loads of combines pulling out of the railway siding you would see something else that fa noteworthy many of these trainloads are destined for united states points because masseyharris combines are as popular in kansas texas and the dakotas as they are in the canadian west and if you observed further you would find many carloads destined for faraway countries like argentine india turkey tanganyika all over the world the masseyharris selfpropelled combine is known and recognized as the master mach ine for modern farmers wherever you find modern agriculture you find massey- harris combines in use and in demand masseyharris eifobitied 1847 toronto weq1na montreal yorkton moncton swift current winnipeg caicary brandon comonton saskatoon vancouvir