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is annals mnldlak basing mi among outboon am By wniav CHRISTMAS With just 17 shopping days left until Christmas we are fast approadiidgmo moment when will b9 faced with the acquish titmot aChrlstrnes tree The selection of Christmas tree poses quite few problems or the average householder Will we have Scotchpine or spruce he get big one or small one When will we get it will we trim it How limg shall we leave ll up Every household goes through this stage about Ihls time oi the year The average household buys Scotch pine they set it up and trlin itabout three days to week before Christmas leave it up until New Years Day and it is usually about five to six feet tall The Scotch pine has just come into its own in the past decade as the most popular Christmas tree There are many masons for this Number one reason in our books is the hardiness of the tree It docs not drop its leaves yes they are leaves as leadin or as soon as thespruce Secondly the Scotch pine is more quickly readied for market as it mattires to the height of the average Christmas tree within six to seven years Scotch pine can be grown on practically any type of land and generally lends itself to the Christmas tree harvest more readily than any of our other coniferous trees LITTLE NOSTALGIA We are riot usually given to referring to the good old days at least not very often When we thinkof Christmas trees and Christmas it is the easiest time of all to think back on our youth Most people especially if they were farm or small town types can think back to the days when we just went few hun drcd yards and selected our own spruce balsam or Scotch pine and hauled it home ourselves This always made for grand outing especially in the days when automobiles were not as common nor as much of an absolute necessity as they are today Up until World War if we can remember that Christmas trees were available within the confines of the town and withlna mile or so of the town limits If one wanted to be really choosy he just had to go another mile orso and there were many to choose from In keeping up this old traditional part of our annual Yule celelt brations we have depleted millions of good evergreen trees We are very much infavor of holding on to some of these grand oldcustoms but also feel that here would be good place to get plug in about our favorite topicCONSERVATION Conscrvationmeans making wise use of so ifwe wish to carry on the old tradition of the Christmas tree we should be taking close look at the land available for the growiogof future crops of Christmas trees sy planting much at the available Wmte land in Ghristmas trees and by wise mopping or harvesfingof the trees mucblgood would be done for our soil and water resources Trees provide windbreaks and so help combat erosion caused by the wind They also help to hold back the rainfall and so help the supply of water By wise planting and harvtsting there would alwaysbe trees infill given plantation providing the muchneeded protection for our precious soil and water supply CHRISTMAS TREE SAFETY We are glad to see thatthepracbice of placing real candles on lrees has just about died outuThis is most dangerous especially as most trees are dry from being out well ahead of the time they are to he used Nothing but CSA approved electrical fixtures should be used around the tree and special care should be taken in checking on the extemion cord if one is required to make sure that thein sulation is in good shape Placing thebutt of your tree in container of water not only lessens the fire hazard but it also helps to keep your treegreen for longer period little sugar added to the water will make it last longer than just plain water All Christmas decorations should be of fireresistant type An easily prepared and reasonablypriced mixture can be sprayed on some objects to make them fire retardant The fire chief has supplied us with this formula in the past OFF THE TRACK Before we are accused of getting off the track and too far away from the great outdoors we had better get away from Christmas treesfora while and get into some true outdoors topics such as where are the minnows We do not know and trust that any sportsmen who do doiow will advise us so we can pass it along to the hopeful ice fishermen wecaiiootreinember worse fall of rainbow fishing orfor scarcity of minnows for ice fishing or for that matter for all types of game and fish There is an obvious waylo combat all of these scarclties CONSERVATION We trust that we will never see the day that we will have to travel as far as the people of Metropolitan To ronto in order to enjoy the great outdoors if some of us do not wake up soon this day is not far off WANTED1W CONSERVATIONISTS To paraphrase Wellknown song and multiply by 10 give me 100 men who are stoutvhearted men and dedicated to true con servatlon and who are willing to fight for the right we can still salvage something from this area But time ismcling there is still too much shortrange nearsighted selfish planning going on Those who stlckby the Conservation Club and steadfastly stick to their longrange plans raregoing to get somewhere at last We have never hadas much voluntary comment on our stand for conservation as has been volunteered in thepast year 15eople vare waking up and getting truly intéresteeristen in to Bill Boone Sportscast on Channel Dec 15 whenfiiill will have this co umnlst as has guest We hopebe will let us teecit on some of our pet Views on Conserva the best use of out not nral reources We hopethat we can in Conservation Del Green record Herrera Won Triple Crown MONTREAL QCPJBig Frank Pancho Herrera the Internav gilt Champ lional Leagues most valuable id ForTrial player this year won the triple batting crown officialldeague nos AIRES Ariwarm averagesconfirme Thursday The husky firstbaseman with dual Pergg Thursdait iaswheld oilmanslaughterchargés Herrera also led in base with in andgtotallims other season high Doublesi Flames Woody ammonia dl ving igh speed when he collided withhthe to Voila on busy General Pa Highway April 195a ludgc Foster ordered Perento post 100000 pesos fabouttlfioo as collateral to RCAF flyweight boxing champion Pas motorcyclelheing ridden Hec W111 size Tomcat Dukes Pappin HAMILTON CPI Right winger Jim Pappin had hand in all his teams goals Thursday night as leagueleadiog Toronto Morihoros defeated Hamilton Tl gcr Cubs 72 in an Ontario Hockey Associellon Junior game before 1725 fans The victory increased Marlies lead to three points over second place Guelph The Cubs share theleague cellar with St Cathar incs TeePees Pappin triggered five goals and picked up assists on the others by linematcs Rickie Hay and Gary Jarrett BobDllInhough and Bob Pond scored the Hamilton goals both in the third period in an interlocking schedule game at Peterborough the Petcs of the OHA downed Brockviile Canadiens of the Metropolitan league 41 Pctcrborough rs were Gary Mark Iim Roberts Claude Lnrose and Bob Rivnrd Serge Filllnn and Norm Dennis tallied for Brockville Kinzie Opens Cage Season Barrie Loses The Greyshnme Basketball Leagune season got underway in Barrie last night with curtain raiser that topped all others After Mayor Willard Kinzie tossed the first ball at Central Collegiate aim ECAF Camp Borden and Barrie battled through so exciting minutes and then some ECAF won the game 944k The winning points werent scored until seconds beforelhe final whistle and Secondsafter free throw and basket in the last five seconds put the vis itors three points up As the final whistle new Barrie re ceived foul Thus RCAF had two foul shots which were made good after the completion of the regular time It was like midseason con test with speed and accuracy in prominence it was murder to give uptbe ball for second It usually mammalianits against YD Jack Purcelllt and Jim Beat veteran RCAF campaigners were thevisitors leading lights with 24 and 28 points respective Lloyd Stackholise had as points in losing cause Milan Babel had 19 and rookie Willie Meal ler 17 The widest spread in the score was at the halfmark at which time RCA led 5941 Offlcals were HaroldKerrison of Barrie and Jack Tank of Next Thursday doubleheader Will be played here featuring two teams from Toronto East End and two clubs from the local organization Canadas Tops Toi Curl Stats EDINBUEGH CF Can adasttop curling rink to be chosen at the Canadian chmnfi pionships in Fort William March 711 will meet the entiyof Scot lands Royal Caledonian Curling Club in the 1960 Scotch Cup matches late in March itfwes announced Thursday First two matches in the five game series will be played in Ayrand Edinburgh March 18 and 21 with the last three in Glas gow March 22 and 23 The Royaeraledonian Club has advanced its playoff to coincide with the Canadian championsh so its own winner may particl pate Previously special play off wasvnecessary Last winter Reginas Ernie Richardson it took the inaugu ral ScotchCup in five straight games MM IF Yb AR DOKING FOR PERFECTION AND YOU DONT KNOW WHO To CALL WERE MI Al if their position wasnt abakeycnoagh new St Gather files 1qu bare to travel 125 miles to play the initial teamin the OHA Junior League Thats the position this even ing as the Teeps play Barrio ltyenwho arc fluently name sixgame unbeaten streak five wins and draw These same TecPees could be considered tin Flycrs stepping stone as it was they who lost that game couple at weeks ago that started the locals on the pointgrabblog spree TeePees fellviotims for second time in the streak on Tuesday of the duk three meetings of which Flyers have comoout on top on each occasion Tee HereiAgainsi Flyérs Two local kids have finally hit the 10 mark in goals Pierre Gaga scored twoWodnuday to run his count to It Jake Miller the teams leading pointgetter scored brace as well He now has 10 Jeannnt Gilbert has eight and the way hesgoing couldhit that iolar select circle this evening Statistically Mllleris top point getter with 19 Gagne top scorer with 11 and Dale Rolfe top man in the assist column with 12 Heres the clubs unofficial scoring record Pea have looked good in only one That was the first gems in Barrie After running up 61 lead Flyers fumbled the ball and free Fees recovered to score four un answered tallies in the third period That contest is indicative of all the games between these clubs in Barrie St Catharines seem to find this arena hot spot Fly ers are hoping to cool them off HOCKEY By THE CANADIAN PRESS National some WI APts 17 as 49 12 51 49 lo 58 on so as New York 14 67 91 Chicago 14 so Thursdays Result New York Montreal Saw Gama Chicago at Montreal New York at Toronto Boston at Detroit Sunday Game Montreal at Detroit Toronto at New York Chicago at Boston Montreal Toronto Detroit Boston EZBESE Providence Rochester Bulian Hershey Cleveland Quebec Thursdays Rcanlt Providence Quebec BIG seven Only scoring leaders to gain ground Thursday night as New York Rangers walloped Montreal Canadiens 74 in the lone Na tional Hockey League eocounter were Jean Beliveau and Dean Prentice Canadien centre iv picked up an assist and Prentice scored twice for the Rangers The leaders Horvath Boston 21 14 35 Howe Detroit 13 14 27 Bothgete New York 18 27 Beliveau Montreal 12 13 25 Hull Chicago 11 13 24 Prentice New York 14 24 Stasiuir Boston 15 lull Llamas lost fourtied four sspoiots Points Horvath Boston 35 minutes Nlil STARS getting the winner ReodyftoWeor gatin lou ororit Ihnfl rel nir annf nu saucnoal comm IGAlts standings Montreal won 1v Goola Horvath 21 Assists McKenney Boston 20 shutouts Sawchuk Detroit Penalties Stasluk Boston 61 Eddie Shack and Dean Heal tlce New York wboeach scored two goals as Rangersstopped Montreal Canadiens 74 Shack Wright Panchuk PHuoHHualaaiaino VANCOUVER CP hank Read to returning to the Univer Iity of British Colmgihin to pre pare the vanity crer for the 1960 Olymple Gama The man who coached UBC crews into world prominence from last through 1856 beforoxe tiring under business pressure said Thursday night hell be back with HBO oarsrneo the first of the new year His aim is to get UBC rowers into shape to win the Canadian representation in the Olympia in Rome neat August In 1956 at Melbourne Reeds UBC fours took the gold medal and his eights finished second to the United States llis crews first attained prominence when the UBC elghts upset favored England inthe 1954 British Em pire Games here RETIRED 1958 Read retired in January 1958 stating that his Vancouver hotel business didnt leave him enough time for the limo consuming aching job owever the UBC eighis under guidance of Readiutorcd John Warren won the gold medal and the fours the silver medal in the Empire Games in Wales in 1958 Last year Dave Heliiweil who ascendancy Qlympic jROwers ins which the coach held wtior conditions involving training time and equipment The Isyenrold Read willwork on voluntary basis as he did in the past Providence Reds Move IlprIfasl QUEBEC CP Providence Reds chalked up thclr sixth win in 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