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the tribune stouffville ont thursday july 1 1948 gunning for speedy fireproof housing combs blew up or damaged 4500000 british hoaics so the british are now blow ing up with spray guns houses to replace the loss the walls of these new homes are wire frames sprayed to a thickness of 8 inches if necessary with a new material developed in britain and named pyroc fireproof and non-cracking- pyroc sets bard in 50 minutes takes nails or screws and cuts with an everyday saw top left it is sprayed on to the wire mesh bottom left the mobile tank in which it is mixed and the sprayer right at work top right model house shows pyrocs fireproof quali ties tho collapsed part left had not been treated with the new material by the end of this year britain will have completed since august 1945 750000 new homes housing to all about 3o00c0q people count 210 groundhog tails ix township hint keak dundalk there are a lot less tails waggin up around dundalk as a result of the recent groundhog hunt which exterminated a few thousand and fo rooney hodgins above dfc and bar 5 who was practising aerooatics for the airforce show at ottawa was instantly killed when the vam pire jet which he was piloting spun out of control and crash ed in a shallow ditch near the rockcliffe air station ottawa the vampire fo hodgins was flying was one of approximate ly 70 bought by canada from britain the craft was report ed to be travelling faster than 400 miles per hour when it crashed indicated just how fast the ground hog can multiply the big shoot or roundup as it is called came to an end the other evening with the counting of tails a smelly job it is revealed in the dundalk herald the big roundup started off with an excellent supper served by the badjeros ladies in the hall then the count of tails began after a twohour check it was revealed that john hannons side had won by a comfortable margin his side had 1271 tails and caleb claytons cohorts had ssg a total of 21g0 for the hunt at an average weight of 5 lbs apiece that repre sents a total weight of about 5v tons of groundhogs at present prices of meat that represents a lot of money if they were the right kind of hogs heading all the hunters was 22 year old bob gibson who turned in 170 tails practically all of which had been obtained by himself next in line was the veteran ed taylor who with his son darrel had 3s0 bob gibson who was a- warded a prize for turning in the most tails had with his collection the skin of a black groundhog which he had shot the count of 2160 exceeds by six ty the number shot in a similar drive last year this is surprising in view of so many casualties in last years competition while a- mazing the count does not nearly come up to one shoot staged in the 20s when 3600 groundhogs were shot the late dave macklero an ardent hunter led all marksmen on that occasion getting 2100 tails singlehanded this is almost as many as the fiftyodd hunters got in this years shoot among the hunters were at least two young ladies who turned in tails they were mrs bob aldcorn and joyce hannon jas crossland buys whitchurch farm mr james crossland of toronto has purchased the 1s7 acre farm known as maple gables farm from mr john w bowser of aurora- this beautiful estate is situated about a quarter of a mile north of eagle street newmarket on the west side of yonge street and has been the bowser home for the past 16 years mr bowser has specialized in aberdeenangus cattle and will move the stock to his farm on the east side of yonge street mr crossland is toronto mana ger of the mutual life insurance co and will take possession on august 1st a young woman now resid ing in the buifalo xy area seems likely to get frustration complex because she wont say where and when she was born at least she wont say it so it can be proved she may be margaret clare yvonne reva or sal all of which names have been applied to her at various times but none of which can be tracked down as fully legal the us author ities feel sure shes a canadian citizen and would like to deport her but to deport anyone the deporting country must prove to the receiving country that the person originated there- canadian authorities right through to rcmp have been very cooperative but not pro ductive dont send to for goods unless you have first consulted your nearest customs office the import of certain goods is now prohibited in order to conserve our us funds if the article you wish to buy is on this prohibited list if will not be allowed to enter canada even though you have paid for it dont be disappointed before ordering goods from the us or other countries consult your nearest customs office or write eperpocj import cental dmsfcs dtpttoent of fkaa ottm bi deaths john f gerrow there passed away at his home in port perry on june 14th 1948 one of port perrys oldest citizens in the person of john franklin gerrow mr gerrow was born on scugog island on october loth 1s60 the son of elijah gerrow and mary ann beach as a boy he moved to pine grove in uxbridge township later the family moved back to scugog and on march 1st 1893 mr gerrow married mary platten east york mp opposes farm price bill the commons voted 142 to two last week to pass a government bill extending the farm prices sup port program for an indefinite per iod the bill as you know provides for a board to set floor prices for farm products and to buy up sur pluses where necessary the vote was forced by the ccf party when they decided to find out just where the progressive con servatives stood on the matterpc members had been freely criticizing the bill throughout a twoday de bate as a matter of fact progres sive conservative leader john bracken termed the bill a non- permanent transitional piece of legislation to use his own words he said the government is keeping prices down not supporting them it has failed to lay the basis of a per manent policy of suitable prices ivan gker it was with deep regret the com munity learned of the death at his home lot 6 concession 10 reach on monday june 14 1948 of ivan thomas geer beloved husband of ella redshaw in his list year after being in poor health for two years the funeral took place in uxbridge cemetery on tuesday june loth 1918 service was con ducted in epsom united church by mr king the late ivan thomas geer was born in aurora ontario in 1907 a son of the late albert geer and mrs fred thorn uxbridge left to mourn his death are his wife ella redshaw his mother mrs fred thom four sons robert william bertram gary and one daughter dorothy two brothers charles and chester of reach and four sisters mrs carson watson uxbridge mrs benjamin ross and mrs walter maindonald of hamil ton and mrs g smith of uxbridge also survive vacation in ontarios lakeland tm3 john frederick farrell 32 toronto herbalist died almost instantly after being hacked to death with a hatchet in a health centre police say the death followed an argument over drinking the rent mon ey youll enjoy going by bus round trip tax included north bay 1445 barrie 525 bala 915 hunstsyille 1000 subject to change stouffville motors ph 170 stouffville wife of slain john freder ick farrell above is charged with murder of her husband police say the accused woman chopped farrells head and hands with a hatchet it is own ed by children of the land lord who had called police earlier when he was unable to stop an argument between the couple for farmers other prominent members of the party also spoxe against the mea sure voting against the bill were john hackett servative mp and robert mcgregor the pg member for york east including jtoutfville and markham township the bill was originally passed 2 years ago but expired march 31st of this year the new bill was to extend the life of the program from ht progressive conj that expiry date until such lime for stansread que a tne government may fix by proc lamation the reason pipe is scarce in can- in his speech before the vote hack- 3da s that thls country depends ett said he couldnt support the the us fo ske w is used bill because it gave the government in the manufacture of pipe and it power to determine how ions the- vln bo sometime before pipe is program should remain in force plentiful again according to an ex pert in ottawa hoime rendered lard lb- pure pork sausage lb spare ribs lb smoked fillet fresh fillets salmon steaks scotch kippers pair side bacon smoked back and peameal smoked ham picnic hams boneless picnics cottage rolls smoked 20c 40c 40c 39c 35c 48c 25c 63c 70c 57c 47c 53c 62c 0boyles meat market stouffville we deliver phone 3501 eggs wanted by reg grading station cases supplied and picked up at your door for a reference ask your neighbors about our grade price and prompt weekly returns write or phone p hutton grover 8970 40 kenworthy ave toronto 13 children free at- cedar grove garden party saturday july 3rd special acts arranged for the young folk t fc 5 precisionbuilt garden tractor plows cultivates cuts grass cuts weeds plows snow ye at ut in effi cient wily handled garden tractor u available at another feature of th choremaster garden tractor you can quickly and easily convert your own hand mower into an efficient power mower as shown above- amazing low costl now you can do plowing cultivating grass nd whd cutting tnow plowing and other garden chores with this allpurpoio allseason garden tractor illustrated above is the choremaster equipped with duck feet or efficient between the row culti vation other rear attachment include turning plow ftjrrower hoes sweeps i- tooth spring cultivator etc the choremaster is extremely easy to handle and will save you hours of back- breaking labour i alt0na feed supplies phone stouffville 9706