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the tribune stouffville out thursday december 19 1946 santa claus reindeer in person four deer on the farm of hiram wilson near emo 20 miles west of fort franees ont blitzen the mother and judy left donner found in 1943 as a tiny fawn wa front and cutie right are shown raised on cows milk around the feeding trough blitzen bank robberies xot to be so easy this paper has long contended that banks almost encourage hold ups by their lack of effort to com bat bank robberies at last how ever something is to be done to put a stop to this sort of crime the bank of montreal is the first to make the effort according td the elora express a new holdup alarm system which has been devised by the bank of montreal in conjunction with a protective agency is now being in stalled in all the banks branches across the country and the banks local office here has already been provided with this added protec tion the first to use a system of this type the bank is meeting with the fullest cooperation of police depart ments across the country deemed by police as most commendable and worthy of the fullest coopera tion this system is designed to combat the wave of bank holdups that has been sweeping the country in recent months it is based on the latest ideas in protection and makes use of the most uptodate equip ment at a number of points arrangements have been made with other financial institution for mutual protection cedric e shaw manager of the elora branch has expressed his satisfaction at the peace of mind which the new protective arrange ment affords and says that he is glad to have this added protection for his office progress at scarborough work on the erection of the new transformer and frequency changer station at scarborough is proceeding satisfactorily according to recent reports of hydros electrical engi neering department grading of the site and of the railway siding is nearing completion laying of track has begun and the concrete footings for the switching structures are be ing placed it is expected that delivery of the parts for the frequency changer will be made next spring and the commission anticipates shipment of the 25000 kva autotransformer the 25000 kva 60cycle and 25- cycle transformers and the two 8000 kva transformers before the end of may design and construction drawing are progressing and are planned to coordinate with mater ial deliveries and construction schedules as previously stated the scar borough station will provide for an interchange of power between the three divisions of the commissions southern ontario system aurora votes new school costi xg 285000 by a vote of two to one aurora voters authorized the spending of up to 285000 by the municipality for a new public school at the polls on dec 19 the large majority came as a surprise to the school support ers who feared a silent vote which failed to materialize in view of the amount of the expenditure involved the number of voters eligible to vote took the matter casually with many eligible voters failing to cast a ballot many complaints were regist ered at the polling booths as pro perty owners in many cases found themselves unlisted the 1945 voters list was used and many failed to check it womens institutes looking forward to 50th anniversary pointing its objectives towards an adequate celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of womens institutes the board of directors of the federated womens institutes of ontario has just com pleted a three days session at which an extended program broader interests and more aggressive leadership featured discussions by twentytwo representatives from every section of ontario held at the royal york hotel in toronto the board meeting was presided over bv mrs hugh summers of fonthill president of the fwlo and reached its climax in the pass ing of a series of 17 resolutions dealing with a wide variety of topics in which the women of rural ontario are vitally interested for the first time two representatives of the junior institutes sat on the board these being miss betty rud- dell of georgetown and miss orphie orr of maple who had been elected by the junior girls as their delegates in her presidential address mrs summers reviewed some of the achievements of the last year mentioning specially the fact that one mobile canteen had been sent to britain and another to sweden to be used in welfare work in these countries mrs summers emphasiz ed the need for all institutes to take advantage of the cooperative pro gram being provided and urged that a greater interest be taken in the rural schools and rural education she particularly commended pro vision of hot lunches in rural schools as a womens institutes project announcement was made that the first postwar convention of the associated countrywomen of the world is to be held in amsterdam on september 1947 at which the ontario womens institutes will be entitled to five delegates st thursday nite is foto nite 365 mrs james graham dies at queevsyiiak peacefully and trustfully mrs james graham slipped away from this earthly scene to be with her lord on friday dec 6th mrs gra ham beloved wife of the late james graham who passed away some six years ago was born and lived all her life on the 3rd of whitchurch township until this spring when she moved with her youngest daughter mrs gordon carr to kes wick mother of a family of three boys and six girls she toiled long and made every sacrifice to see them all comfortably settled in life and had the satisfaction of realizing their devotion and respect for many years mrs graham was in her 79th year when she passed away and suffered for many years as a result of a break down in health but never lost her sweetness of disposition ot her faith in god throughout her long life she commanded the highest regard and respect of all who knew her there remains to mourn tar loss three sons wilbur russel and walter all residing en the 3rd of whitchttrch and six daughters mrs r plowright of minesing mrs t mcnicol of 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