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the tribune stoultvilie ort thursday april 30 1953 claremont and pickering twp district miss dorii graham is very ul with a heart condition mr and mrs g emprins- ham entertained her two sis ters mrs richardson and mrs porter of wexford ok sunday mr and mrs b montrait of wexford and mr and mrs j mcdonald of toronto were sunday visitors with mr and mk earl cook and son mr and mr- maye spent sunday witn friends at haviland brougham mr as harvey nad a bast- ies trip to tirntnins last week travelling by air mr and mrs e e aanis returned to their home in athens on sunday after spend ing a pleasant week visiting friends here mrs matthews sient sun- de- day visiting her nephew and niece mr and mrs allan of agin- we are sorry to report that crocker and family mrs j condv has been conf court fined to bed with a severe cold mis h shea visited with mr and mrs williamson j mrs e carson of saiem last and son were recent visitors week with friends in toronto k mr and mi- wat kllicott mr and mrs mackay visit- miss p barrett mr and mrs ed recently with her daughter jas ravey and douglas visit- mrs williamson who with ed on sunday with mr and her husband operates a poul try farm at wanbamik ont miss elizabeth beare of ux- bridge spent the weekend at the home of mr and mrs earl beere mrs wallace eihcott of tor onto mr ross middieicri had a business trip to toronto dur ing the weekend the womans association mr and mrs bert gibson of will hold their next regular oshawa were sunday visitors meeting on wednesday even- with mr and mrs charles ling may 0 at the home of hardy mrs b ritchie assisted by mr bill voss was a weekend mrs geo willson the devo- visitor with friends in good- tonal will be taken by mrs wood mairs the program is in the claremont fire brigade charge of mrs h barclay a answered a call at the home of cordial invitation all ladies mr cecil disney mt zion a special meeting was held last week when a blaze broke after the regular service on out in the chimney the out- sunday afternoon h was de- break was not serious cided to hold the regular sei- the claremont mens soft- vices at 10 am beg lining the ball club held a very success- last sunday in may fu dance in the community mothers day service will be eld in the church here on oldest sheriff 90 not through yet i ontario who cele- iday sun- not in a j dr bas- a keen eive of uest at a birth hall on friday night mr ray yake of stoutfvilie and mr and mrs gordon rid dle and irene visited sunday in toronto with mr and mrs harold cook and mr and mrs llbyd yake soffballers out of markham group the management of the claremont mens softball clubj gave notice early this week that their team had decided to drop out of the markham township league and havei filed an entry in the whitby league for the coming season according to the manager mr j v padgett the claremont club believed it would be sunday afternoon may 10 at 2 pm this will be a joint ser- ice of sunday school and church there will be a bap tismal service and any parents with small children please get in touch with rev h lackey district high school field day may 12th a total of 05 events will be run off for boys and girls when the pickering high school field clay is held boys will compete if four classes senior 17 is and 19 years intermediate 15 and 16 years junior 13 and 11 years bantam under pounds girls will compete m senioi impossible for them to travel intermediate and junior classes the distance to rhornhill and the bovs track team under richmond hill and be on the n m hall of the teaching field by 730 neither thorn- staff has been practising for hill nor richmond hill have two weeks now aflei sc oodhghts hours bickering boys win- hie brock road squad will ners at k day will repre- complete in a seven team u lne school at peterboro league in the whitby circut on monday may isth this is comprising brooklin ajax a district meet with 11 brougham and vvnitby who schools competing last year have two entries lhe major- 1 in t first trv pickering lty of these clubs will play j ulacecl 6th not all boys their games under the lights claremont were strong con- 1 second place winners tenders in the marknam town ship league last year but the acceptance of richmond hill into the group seemed to sway their decision to move into the eastern grouping mr ernie baker will handle the coach winners and will be- come members of the inter- school track team a student i at pickering district high school must qualify not only i on the field but also in the classroom a passing standard imust be maintained in order ing duties it is expected that u qualify this quite often all the players will be back in means that a student who is uniform again this year and a a good athlete is lost from the number of new faces will prob- school team when his grades ably be added to he lineup j fa however the staff at pickering feel it is far better to miss playing intersehoal spurts for a term and pass rather than play a season and fail all of the public who are die interested are invited to come and i and watch the field da the i events start at 930 am and will continue until 330 pm balsam am mt zloci miss mary mcavoy is latest victim of the measles mary jean jamlesoti has chicken pox over 100 friends gathered ot the home of mr and mis ken carson friday night and pre sented them with a miscellaneous shower mrs j moffat of toronto and mrs henry shea ot brougham spent the weekend with mrs errol carson mr and mrs robert parrott of ashlnirn visited saturday with mr and mrs b jamieson mr and mrs wlnton white visited sunday with mr and mrs frank grey at pickering tuesday may 12th the detroit river which runs by windsor ont and detroit carries an average of 115000000 tons of shipping a year greater tonnage than that of suez panama and kiel canals combined the per diem system under which railroads compensate one another for use of freight cars reached its 50h birthday in july 1st 1052 cee3 fhjjchice medls delicious ivg pork it 45c ckxtkk cut ham it 50c cottage uoii lt 55c stem beef lb 10c smoked side bacox lb 45c hamburg lb 5c rumi boast in 55c steak hound siuixjix tbove lb 05c steak roast lb ooc pork chois lb 50c short rib roast lb t 45c pure pobk sausagk lb 40c prime rib roast it 50c beits pork boneless ooc pure lard 3 lbs 25c rolled rib roast lb 50c blade roast lb 40c we deliver saturday afternoon claremont meat market mr o haiijn prop i claremont ont phone 41 the oldest sherifi dr horace bascom brated his 0h bir day said he was resigning mood com who ha humor was day surprise party staged by the employees of the ontario countv offices and court offic ials 1 have no prescription to give vou on how to live to be 0 or a 100 but i do know that the first century is the hard est dr bascom toil the gath ering oldest former toronto gen eral hospital interne dr bas com was a country doctor in the oxbridge district where he vas born he took a position in the judiciary offices of ontario countv in 1912 he i- registrar of the supreme and surrogate courts and has been sheriff since 1037 he drives his car daily and contemplate- playing several games of golf this year dr bascom said he has been told by the inspector of legal institutions that he would lie allowed to die with his boots on after all im not eligible for a pension or a retiring allowance he said crown attorney alex hall told the doctor some men may come and some men may go but vou go on forever mr liall presented dr bas com with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the ontario coun ty law association while florence augustus deputy registrar presented him with a wallet from the staff mem bers he had come to the countv office 10 years ago stated dr bascom arid was able at that time to do all the work of the office as the work became greater he related he had found it necessary to hire a young lady to assist him and she had been retained at s5 per week and was still in his employ although her salary had since been increased she miss augustus a regular encyclopedia said dr bas- coni and has put me on a back shelf he said that he hoped that his present good health would continue but he was unable to give any pre scription that would enable one to live 00 or 100 years dr bascom recalled some of the changes he had seen take place in his near century in this part of ontario he could remember when what is now highway 12 was a toll road made of fourinch plank and a toll gate was set up in front of the school in brooklin speaking of his years of ser vice dr bascom explained that he had been unable to retire since there was no pen sion for him nor was there a retiring allowance he said that he had been permitted by the inspector of legal offices to die with his boots on if he so wished concluding his thanks dr bascom ex pressed the wish that he would be able to look forward to a sojourn in the office for years to come local driver charged in highway death earch tor the late model tight- tin ended early driver of a olored aus- last week nine hours after a 3yearold night watchman svas knocked down and instantly killed on kingston ltd on tuesday night of last week by a car which failed to stop william gliddon 5 of claremont gave liimelf up to forest hill police alter hear ing of the death of watchman john t lloyd of west hill on an early morning broadcast he is charged with failing to remain at the scent of an accident gliddon was remanded in villowdale court until may 11 n 1000 property bail posted by inspector joseph thurston of forest hill police a long time friend a hubcap sideview mirror and aerial were found by v hitby provincial police near the scene of the accident glid- iors damaged car was at his home father of two and an assisl- nt cubmaster gliddon was described by neighbours as always a very careful driver pickering school has 20611 deficit satisfaction with the accounting work of pickering district high school business administrator ross irwin is expressed in the auditors report for 1052 which has been prepared by monteith and monteith the school also serves ajax pupils the report says all the explanations requir ed have been obtained the financial transactions which have come under our notice have been within the powers of the board the balance sheet exhibits a true view of the affairs of the board and is as shown by the books the only suggestion ad vanced by the auditors is for purchase of a cash register for the cafeteria and a detailed budget for the years expendi tures a deficit of s2061195 is showir on 1052 operations re venues totalling 517052703 are made up as follows grants 0715053 municipal tax levies s701s5ss countv agricul tural grant s500 central ontario county hs board fees ss7s70 night school fees 1295 administration of cafeteria 105 telephone ehargessu92 expenditures total s20013s- ixs which includes the follow ing items instruction 77- 20555 instructional supplies s771303 administration s0- 0s725 operation 1533031 maintenance 563516 auxili ary s55ss1 fees to other boards 2005526 capital out- lavs s123i9ss transportation 2093550 debentures 31361 deputation asks more pavement in scott twp a deputation of scott town ship residents has asked the ontario county council to extend its paving program in that township this year the delegation asked that the county pave the road running from lxbridge to leaskdale this summer although the road board had already plan ned to pave about five miles of this road the matter after a few heated words in council was turned over to the road board again mr luke spokesman foi the deputation first congratu lated the county for the work that had been done on this road the seventh concession vsrsssssssssssrsfs theatre uxbridge phone 252 loijcy 2 shows nitely 700 900 matinee sat 2 pm last showing tonite thursday april 30 sally and st anne starring ann blyth and edmund gwenn plus shadow in the sky starring ralph meeker and nancy davis fri sat may 1 2 lure of the wilderness technicolor starring jean peters and jeffrey hunter canadas fine paper mills unlike the one product newsprint mill are called upon to produce a very wide range of napers requiring great skill and versatility a ioval citizen mav criticize the way our ship of state is being run but he doesnt rock the boat three joyful days mon tues and wed may 4 5 6 we are happy and proud to bring to you story of will rogers in technicolor starring will rogers jr as his father jane wyman as mrs will rogers with james gleason and eddie cantor as himself of the township he asked that the road which last year re ceived a prime eoj be com pletely paved this vear and mentioned that this road car ried a great deal of trailic lie was followed by mr archibald leaskdale merchant who spoke in like vein and asked that scott be given one piece of surfaced road forgotten township reeve thaxter of scott say ing he was sick and tired of being forgotten vear after year informed council that scott was the only township in the county without a high way he stated that this coun ty road was the only one in the township while other town ships had considerable county i oral reeve duncan meiiuyre of whitby stated flatly that scott township needed no further consideration he pointed out that of a paving expenditure planned for this year to cost 00100 tiio seventh conces sion was to have s21500 pent on it this remark drew tire fiom reeve ferguson of ux- bridge who showed mat this amount would not til be spent in scott since the road begins in lxbridge reeve thaxter again entered the debate by stating that the department of highways iiad stockpiled the gravel for the mulch surface treatment and it had not yet been used 1 dont know he said whether 1 could blame the department lor cutting down road budgets if we wast money like that engineer sims pointed out that there were 13 miles of unpaved county roads in the county and that this road could only be paved if the county was willing to pay 100 per cent of the cost on motion of reeve mclntyre the matter was turned over to the road board editor escaped nazi gesiapo by hours for a newspaperman who was ordered by the gestapo to print only nazi propaganada and who later escaped their clutches by a matter of hours freedom of the canadian press is a very fine thing on jan 1 a norweigian peter hvidsten 10 took over as publisher and editor of the oxbridge timesjournal now he can print the truth without fear hvidsten who plans to imake canada his home was born in sarpborg norway where he apprenticed on his fathers daily paper along with three brothers after his fathers death in 1033 the four brothers published the paper until the germans invaded norway in 1010 we had a lot of trouble with the gestapo he recalls they ordered us to change the policy of the paper to nazi policy we bucked them as much as we could by cutt ing their press releases to a minimum some of the local police were used by the gestapo he said but most of them only played along with the idea they really worked for the underground movement one of them was a friend of mine who told me to get out as fast as 1 could as j was on the gestapo black list he and four ifriends escaped by skiiing across the border hvidsten made his way to moscow just before the ger mans attacked but got out in time went to turkey egypt port suez around south africa to trinidad new york and finally to canada he join ed the norweigian air force here and served as an instruc tor stationed in muskoka he met his wife leila who is a canadian girl from novar ont they have two children a girl gerri lynn 0 and a boy peter jr 7 in 1015 hvidsten went back to norway and learned that his three brothers had been running an underground news paper after he escaped on skis the gestapo found out they arrested my brothers and one of them died in a work camp he said when the remaining two were liberated they found that the nazis had taken all our presses we had nothing left so peter decided to make canada his home with s5c0 he bought an old press in sun- dridge and opened a small job printing business in north bay six years later on january 1 1933 peter hvidsten had increased his holdings to the point where he was able to buy the uxbridge times journal in six years he went from printing no fishing signs to publishing a paper and there are no limits or hi plans or the future greenwood the evening auxiliary met wednesday evening at the home of mrs win pegg mr russ madii of detroit mich was a caller at the stanley byers home recently rev barclay has been tak ing the church service for the last month service will be held as usual on sunday mr and mrs bob mcvev were visitors at the les wil son home on saturday after noon a number of the ypc at tended a young peoples con vention at eberiezer last sat urday and sunday the painting and papering job at the parsonage is pro gressing very nicely a presentation ais held in honor of mr and mrs leslie wilson last wednesday even ing in the basement of the church after a few games and a mock wedding they were presented with a coffee table magazine able and a sandwich plate the wms meeting for the circuit will meet at the home ot mrs p clarke on thursday mav 7th mr and mrs l wilson had sunday dinner with her brother cecil disney and family the weather scents a little backward for seeding opera tions in this locality some have quite a bit sown while others on heavier land are just starting a virus is a minute germ so small that it cannot be seen even with the aid of the high est power lens microscope 3000 dancing every saturday cedar beach musselmans lake glen major mr herbert siunnotids tor onto speat the weekend with mr and mrs j a hi listen miss bettyie piss has taken a positum with the hell telethon company in toronto mrs win hopkins and kill ashburn visited one evening with mr and mrs joe jones dr and mrs david macintosh and boys toronto visited mr and mrs howard iuisllle and david on sunday misses delia aud kleanor johnson were dinner guests of mr and mrs palmer kinsmen ot toronto on saturday a group of artists sem the weekend at skyloft mr allan jones spent the weekend at newmarket mr and mis kd jonnsoli and family visited mr and mrs charles piss on sunday for top performance in 1953 insist on coop 20 chick starter laying mash a complete supply of highest quality vegetable and animal protein plus a surplus of all essential vitamins claremont coop ph 38 collect claremont altona christian and united missionary churches unite in great revival campaign may 3rd to 10th gyvv big pantrv bill in 1931 can adian spent 100000000 or food evangelist rev gordon wishart of kitchener ontario internationally known bible teacher and evangelist rev wishart has ministered to churches conferences and camp meetings across canada and united states for many years and to many different denominations time of services sunday school 1030 am and 730 pm each week night at 800 except saturday song leader mr howard mills ministers rev gibson brown rev f g huson