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the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 3 1949 ottawa letter by jack smith lip the fifth session o the 20th parliament opened last week with ceremonies a little more colourful than lat year the speech from the throne forecast legislation to reduce taxation broaden family allowance payments and new steps in social security a royal com mission on television radio etc the speech dealt first and fore most with canadas responsibility in world affairs and emphasized that this governments first con cern is to ensure peace and security to this end canada con tinues to support the principles of the united nations charter the throne speech forecast legislation to make the supreme court of canada the last court of appeal in all legal cases other important legislation pending include ratification of the agree ment making newfoundland our tenth province an agreement with the united states for development of the stiawrence and provision necessary to implement the sale of agricultural products to britain six new members were introduc ed to the house liberals and 2 conservatives hon louis st laurent took his seat as prime minister for the first time there are three new ministers pearson in external affairs garson as minister of justice and winters in reconstruction former prime minister king looking considerably older and somewhat tired occupies a front row seat as the member for glen garry and john bracken former leader of the opposition has given place to col george drew opening day sincere tributes were paid to mr king and mr bracken from all sides of the house there have been no fireworks so far and newspaper headlines of a clash on early procedure were greatly exaggerated in comparison to their real significance too often this is the practice of the daily press and readers are apt to pay undue heed to minor matters played up by the press and over look many of the more really important news which doesnt get such big headlines a really important announce ment was that the prince minister is going to washington early next month to confer with president truman this will be an important conference with possible far reaching results i hope in future letters to deal in more detail with many of these very important matters coming before your parliament and to pass on to you the views and view points of the government and other parlies in the house yes theres some talk of a gen eral election the government elected in june 1945 would not need to have a vote until sept 1950 but a long period of election expectancy is not considered good for the country or business gen erally and 1 would expect one much sooner than the end of the five year period in fact an appeal to the people jts early as june is not a remote possibility in my opinion during the recess it was my pleasure and privilege to visit in many parts of canada as well as in the constituency of north york and i wish to take this opportun ity of thanking the people of the riding for many courtesies and helpful cooperation during the session while 1 am at ottawa i trut every citizen of the constituency of north york irrespective of political affiliation will feel very free to write me if i can be of any assistance in any way and to say once more how much 1 appreciate hearing from the electorate and getting their suggestions and expressions of opinion on matters of national interest the address is j e smith mp parliament bldgs ottawa no stamp is required on the envelope super pullet lays whopper amazes itself a six months old pullet owned by a lindsay woman has been overworking herself shes worked so hard in fact that the results of her effort amaze even herself and have caused no amount of jealousy on the part of other birds in the flock the pullet owned by mrs spericely cackled proudly the other day to announce the arrival of an egg an eight and one half inches long by six and three- quarters inches wide mrs spence- lys superhen is a half breed part plymouth rock and part rhode island red lindsay post mary boyes elected to head ontario county jr farmers the annua meeting of the ontario county junior farmer association was held in the ux- bridge high school on january 18th with around co boys and girls in attendance comrie ward president of the ontario county junior farmer association was in charge francis willson who attended the 4h club congress in chicago the first week of december report ed that there were around 1s00 members of th clubs representing every state in the usa at this congress there were 24 boys and girls in the ontario delegation comrie ward who attended the illinois rural youth conference in november also report on hi members from the various junior parmer associations in the pro vince making up the canadian delegation janne pearson jack pearson and don cain entertained with a musical number bob norton from the brooklin group also enter tained with a piano solo francis willson was in charge of general discussion group on the subject how we can make our county junior farmer programs more interesting after 15 minutes in small discussion groups all the groups came together and the various secretaries reported on the discussions of the various groups a number of interestin suggestions wereput forth by the various groups the election of officers resulted as follows hon president comrie ward uxbridge president mary boyes pickering vice president ted croxall uxbridge secretary- treasurer everson norton locust hill miss mary boyes took charge of the remainder of the program jack pearson introduced mr norman lindsay director of community programes department of educa tion toronto to the meeting mr lindsay then took over the recrea tion period with the assistance of some of his staff brought from tor onto with him i second markham baptists raised nearly 1500 for missions the members of second marl ham baptist church held their annual business meeting jan isth the total amount received in 194s as reported by treasurer chas ciubine was s345122 of which 149144 went to missions in addition the wms contributed monev and clothing valued at 17222 mr robt ratcliff clerk reported the number of active members on the revised roll to have been 8 at the beginning of the year how ever the addition of four by letter nine by baptism brings the present membership to 74 the so gave a splendid bv doath of their owest mem 3 t ber mr ezra ciubine also mrs esther gray occurred last year the board of deacons elected for 1949 are messrs arthur steck ley bert miller chas ratcliff and jack ciubine other officers are clerk robert ratcliff treasurer and finanial secretary chas ciubine and david ratcliff music director mrs rowan pianist mrs h ratcliff ushers earl brillinger neil conner david ratcliff and keith clarke 12 markham last tiiuj iy1 s fighting father 11 nxe stanlug pat obrien as father dunne frisat feu 45 moxtues feb 78 fenelon falls throws gauntlet to all province fenelon falls jan g the fene lon falls hockey association has challenged any club in ontario to hockey games on a winner-take- air basis in the fenelon falls modern ice arena m g brandon association presi dent said the challenge revived those thrown back in the late 30s and early 40s by the towns bran don waterloo team the war saw the end of the waterloos every member seeing active service in some branch of the forces in some years gone by the challenge brought many of the best of toronto and hamilton mercan- til league teams here it gave them practice while awaiting ice or open ing of a schedule the alaskan worlds largest moose is the eisceessjs jm jissiorvoll mail this coupon today modern sectional pieces for the small home or apartment come in today and see this sensational sixpiece ensemble of quality furniture at our showrooms youll fall in love with it at first sight qualitybuilt throughout it completely furnishes your living room or any room and its sectional ybu can arrange rearrange and interchange it to suit any size or shape of room the new stippletex covering is a wonderfully durable material and theres a choice of seven smart modern colours that will harmonize with any colour scheme you simply must see this amazing furniture 1 1 drop in today h please send 9 illustrated coloured booklet k of room decorations plan salary boost at queens park government legislation is reported in the offing whereby ontario cabinet ministers will have their salaries increased substantially when the budget is brought down premier hepburn cut them down to their present level the proposed boost is 2000 this would increase cabinet ministers from s000- a year to 10000 on top of this they draw their 2000 sessional indemnity plus 1000 a year for expenses total for each minister 13000 if the increase is allowed and it most certainly will premier kennedy will draw as premier 17000 a year plus his sessional indemnity and expense account no doubt the increase will extend to the leader of the opposition james craig lynn bari johnnie johnston 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