5f Jfe i 3 Costs A final general meeting of the town council for the year was held on Monday night December when among other business a report from the fire chief Harry Jones was presented and received with com mendation Among the correspondence tetter from company requesting at the arena for fa purposes for which the company offered per matter was referred to the Arena board A letter from Mr Tucker received tendering his res ignation as a member of the Arena board for the stated that he expected to be leav ing Aurora in the spring for a elsewhere with his A communication from the Whitchurch municipality indi- willingness to renew its former agreement in connection with the services of the Aurora fire brigade tin Chiefs Mr Harry Jones fire chief presented his annual report of fire brigade activities for the year report showed that a total of calls had including 32 from Whit church and from King town ship one call from Richmond and one call from township There had been 13 practice calls far the period The report indicated that fire Jones in Aurora amounted to The report claimed that water pressure was inade quate and that no new fire boxes had been installed during the past SO years New boxes the s v v J i mm- i HALL AURORA TELEPHONE- PA T -lk- THURSDAY THE THIRTYFIRST DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYTHREE which included maintenance had had such a light installed a his own garage said the mayor Among brief reports heard Councillor J Murray drew attention to the cheap cost of installing floodlights at the town park Pointing out that the esti mated original figure amounted to 4000 Mr Murray slid that together with the grant obtained from the department of agricul ture and the more than raised by public subscriptions the actual net cost to the town of Aurora was just over I would venture to say said Mr Murray that nowhere in North America has floodlights been installed at less cost to the taxpayers- Councillor Jones said it was an excellent report The mayor and other members of council complimented Mr Murray on his statement Water Supply Councillor Murray of the fire and water committed took exception to the charge that had been made that fee town water pressure was inade quate The Is fl and the reservoir is fan as serted Mr Murray at the time pointing out that equipment would be put in to overcome any future difficul Councillor Jones present water setup was not Vic the report and was supported in remarks by fee mayor Other embers of council of appreciation for rendered by the fire end his staff was carried mayor drew councils to a service that the hydro was pre pared to carry cat for borne who desired it He stat ed feat a 100 watt light could be installed at a private resi dence in conjunction with a nearby hydro standard say for tin Purpose of a garage at a cost not exceeding annually Bylaw Making his final speech as a member of fee DeputyReeve Murray urged on council the necessity of ggft the zoning bylaw as earfy as possible in the new year Wo necessarily th rente as it stands at present deputyreeve but of it claiming it for the towns develop ment Among other business two bylaws received a Council dissolved for the year at A review of council proceed ings will appear under Council Sidelights in our next issue Editor I CHRISTMAS CELKRATIONS Choral Services At District Evoke Appreciation Commemorative seasonal services were held in the majority of the local churches over the Christmastide with record attendances at most At the Aurora United church the annual candlelight service was held and an impressive Christmas Message given by the minister At Trinity Anglican church on Thursday night Dec a recital of carols was given under the able direction of Mr Harris and and traditional selec tions included The Piping Shepherd Christmas Carol What Child Is This Coven try CaroV and Backs Break Forth Beauteous Heavenly Make It A Habit Meet Your friends At ODHESS A Drag Two Graduate Pharmacists light from the Ora torio The rector H Untied Under the of Mr Harris the choir of the Aurora United church gave a special selection of traditional and modern carols which were greatly appre ciated by a large attendance of church members at the annual candlelight servicea Mr Harris with characteris tic understan of this annual event chose appropriate season al selections effecting a fine balance between the old and the J Drug Store si B Founded ML Chan From Richmond HSU comes a report of a special choral festi val service performed by a choir of voices under the director ship of Mr Fowler Mus permanent or and choirmaster at the United church For this occasion Mrs Wil lis wellknown Aurora organist and former choirconductor guest organist by special quest Among numerous selections made by Mr Fowler on an ex tended program three unaccom panied carols evoked high praise As Lately We Watched Trie Virgins Cradle Song and The Westminster Carol Four anthems were Included in the program namely by Shaw Kevin and Maunder Three organ selections by Mrs Willis consisted of a Hark the Herald Angels Sing by Mendelssohn Pastorale by Ashford and a from Mozarts Mass entitled Gloria An audience which packed the church to capacity heard a heartwarming Christmas mes sage from the resident minister Rev C Many appreciative comments were e on the excell ence of the choral arrangements carried out under the direction of Mr Fowler and of the Una organ renditions by Willis in a lengthy program the being tint she might soon pay a further visit to Richmond United NEW YEARS CARD Tomorrow Friday is January 1954 On this the last day of the old year we send you our readers our very best wishes for a Happy New Year We know what the past has been but theres no knowing what the future holds in store for us It is because of all such uncertainties that the custom has up of wishing each other the best in the new year and it is a very good and cheerful custom Few folks who have to work for their living find it necessary to plan their lives The planning is done for them out of necessity Monday rolls round and it is the shop for the husband and the washingmachine for the wife There are the customary duties that come with each day of the week With the performance of these duties there come disappointments and frustra tions That is the way of life But as Emerson wrote there are compensations for mo3t disappointments If one can maintain a cheer spirit a lot of fun can be extracted from even the most humdrum chores The busy person is least likely to get bored Boredom most often results from having too little to do Leisure can become a most tedious tyrant A holiday yes But a permanent holiday no Let us go on working until we die Working not necessarily to become rich Riches are seldom a means to happiness The chasing of dollars and more dollars and still more dollars can become an obsession that leads to a slavery more vicious than the torment suffered by the alcoholic The faces of rick men are not always pleasant to look at Give us to do that we like enough rewards from it to way and just a little bit over and leave the rest to Cblracter and the cheerful heart are lifes truest possessing As Robert Burns wrote The hearts aye tte pair aye that makes us or We hope 1954 bring you health and happiness We can send youW better New Years Card NEW COUNCIL 1954 The first meeting of the newlyelected town council be held on Monday January It will face a num bs- of important problems chief among these being the plant Other questions wUl emerge as the year advances This newspaper extends best wishes to the nar council trusting it will have a successful year It may accept this assurance from us that we will give it fair play We have given fair play to every council that it ha3 been our business to report There is however a great deal of difference between giving council or any other organization fair play and doling out soft soap We have an intense dislike of the soft- soapers We would rather have honest criticism than mealymouthed palaver We have a responsibility to a very large following of intelligent readers in Aurora who have come to look to this newspaper for the facts without fear or favor We are not purveyors of journalistic mothballs or cut to pleas- We have no favorites inside council or outride it We write what we think should be written and leave it there THE FIRE BRIGADE Fire chief Harry Jones came to council on Monday night Dec 21 to present his annual report of the acti vities of the local brigade It was well received by the mayor and council all of whom paid tribute to it in the form of a unanimous vote of thanks The report indi cated that 114 calls had been received for the period concerned That Aurora has a firsfcclass fire brigade has been acknowledged for many yearsi The rapidity with which calls for service are respond of local appreciation But publicity appreciation this newspaper again pays fire brigade services to is a constant theme less the theme is given limited Here and now ute to Auroras wonder- RETURN OF a Mr Cliff Corbett came council after a year in retirement to head the pollr achieved the game in broke all election number of votes ever Any man confidence even less so in iwo men have polled other two men in lit would be if they tgether for the personal triumph in records by scoring the registered in Aurora that totafi is entitled to feel proud of such Not far behind him in was Mr Victor Jones more votes between them than the history of Aurora What should ever be found in a office of mayor of the town Both men have the compW fellow citizens It a trust honest unspectacular services hi there any display of showman selfeffacing members of council oughly familiar the work oil best for the ratepayer as a I of their ye earned through instance is Both are modest both are and do their RECREATION COMMISSION Charge Recreation Director With Dereliction Of Duties At a meeting of the recreation commission he on Thursday night December the situation regard ing the recreation director came up on two separate occasions during the course of business At one point the chairman Mr J E Buchanan said he was tired of the slap happy methods of their director Aurora Social News Reporting on the subject of square dancing Mr John said no one seemed to be inter ested and that the square dance club was not bothering any more He said there was no one to get it going The chair man suggested that the matter be held over until the new year and this course was adopted Of the culture committee Mr A K Bennett said he had no report adding the quip that culture is in abeyance When committee reports were ended Mr Buchanan said that now was the time when the di rector should have presented his report but he was absent and had neither sent it along nor any explanation why he was not present This he said was not in accordance with the duties as per the schedule No Inventory Mr Buchanan said there was no inventory of the playground equipment owned by the com mission They did not know what amount of equipment they had or its condition He charged that some of the equipment lying about on the play grounds and some of it had been thrown into the tannery creek- Some of it had been taken away in the town truck Mr Steadman How is the director to be enforced to do what he is told Mr Buchanan I could answer Steadman Where spe cific instructions have been given the director they have rarely been carried out Mr- Buchanan We seem to have come to a sad state of af fairs Mr A Bennett At least we should know what equip ment we have After further discussion it was resolved to instruct the di rector to prepare an inventory of all property owned by the commission stating its condition and location not later than the second meeting in January Before the motion was put to the vote Councillor Vic Jones chairman of the property com mittee of the commission re quested that the director be in structed to hand the completed inventory over to Ill see that I get it said Mr Jones Forth Co Councillor J Murray If the equipment is not fully and placed under cover it is the responsibility of the director Mr Murray said he had asked for the use of the town truck to pick some of it up and this had been done It was stated that members of the Rotary club which had donated a considerable sum for the purchase of playground equipment were complaining that some of the equipment they had donated was still lying around in the open Councillor Murray Where is the director Why isnt he here Mr Steadman He is not here and we have no report Councillor Murray Theres nothing to show what he is do ing for us Rev H Why not ask him to furnish us with a report when he comes for his paycheque and refuse to hand it over until we get a report Mr Buchanan Unfortunate ly we dont handle the pay- cheque Mr Steadman Instruct the director to provide us with a re port of his duties on commis sion work for the past weeks up to January inclusive Councillor Murray Whats the use of carrying on asking for reports when no notice is taken of our instructions W Davidson Re ports were asked for in the summer The motion instructing the director to provide an inventory including the request made by Jones was put and carried Buying Of Sweaters Considerable discussion took place on a motion that had been passed for the purchase of sweaters for junior hockey play- Mr Don Glass said it should be made plain that the commis sion was not in a financial posi tion to provide the sweaters and that the juniors would them selves have to buy them Un less they did so he said they should not be allowed on the ice Councillor Jones laid he had no doubt that of the players would want sweaters and would be ready to pay for them It was resolved that the chair man of athletics Councillor Davidson should meet with the director and make the necessary arrangements for the buying of the WHAT THEY ARE SAYING Science Saved The Masters Projected Tour To Old Land At no season of the year is the fundamental kindli ness of human nature more apparent than at Christmas when a wealth of greeting cards flow in conveying their sentiments of good cheer In that respect our house hold has been specially favored this year i On Friday evening Dec the members of Local WA held their annual banquet and entertainment at the Gray- stones Over were present An address was given by Mr field representatives and by Mr Allan Billings president of the union Harry Jones acted as master of ceremonies The Morecrofts gave selections on their harmonicas and the Dutch employees of the union sang a number of selections in their na tive tongue A hearty vote of thanks was extended to the Mc- for the wonderful ban quet Mr and Mrs W Mclntyre son John and Mrs Chas Web ster spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs Steels Islington The local branch of the Wo mens Institute entertained a number of members of the district on Tuesday evening Dec The guest speaker was Miss Anna Lewis director of Womens Institutes in Toronto Mr and Mrs Woodruff and family Chatham spent the Christmas holidays with Mrs Wilcox The impressive candlelight service on Sunday evening at the Baptist church was well at tended The United church Sunday school entertainment was held in the school auditorium on Tues day evening Miss Marguerite Calhoun arrived by plane on Monday Dec from Vancouver where she is employed as a nurse She is spending her Christmas vaca tion with her parents Mr and Mrs S Calhoun Miss Joloyne DoolitUe London spent Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs Miss Edna Brown visited friends in town for a few days last week Mr and Mrs Don Stephen son and family St Thomas are visiting Mr and Mrs Lambert 7 Miss Emily Vancou ver BC spent Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank On Tuesday Dec the Young People of the Baptist church journeyed to the York County Home and provided gifts and an entertainment Mr and Mrs J Buffam Meaford spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs Geo Connaught St Dr and Mrs Gunton White Horse Yukon Territory spent Christmas with their family here Mr and Mrs Fish en tertained the staff of the Im perial bank at a dinner at their residence on Maple St last week Miss Lena and Miss Edna Corp Toronto were Christmas guests of Mrs Willis at her home on Spruce St Congratulations to Mr BiU he had in hearing a junior choir of some two dozen voices hailing all the way from Kirkintilloch a Scottish mining town situated northeast of Glas gow The choir was on a three weeks tour of Canadian cities and towns Mr Harris heard the choir in one of the churches in the east end of Toronto and said their work was beautiful beyond words to describe It had been his hope to take his own choir to Hamilton to hear the recital given there but found that all seats had been booked far in ad vance Always an enthusiast for his choir Mr Harris nourishes the hope that perhaps in a couple of years or so he may take a- team of young choristers to the Old Land to regale some of its inhab itants with the music of Canad ian voices It would be an im pressive achievement for Aurora who celebrated a birth day on Christmas day Mr and Mrs Davidson Ot tawa and their infant daughter spent Christmas in Aurora Mr and Bins Davidson divided their time between their parents Councillor William Davidson and Mrs Davidson and Mr and Mrs We are glad to hear that Mrs W Knowles who recently under went an operation is home and progressing satisfactorily Mrs spent Christ mas with her daughter in Toron to and will spend the New Year holiday and a vacaUon with her daughter in California J Murray and Mrs Murray entertained the fol lowing guests tb dinner on Christmas day Mr and Mrs Archie Murray Mr and Mrs Anderson of Sutton parents of Mrs Murray Mrs Yates and Miss Anderson Sutton and Mr Carl Anderson Toronto ROYAL DOORS OPEN DAILY SAT PARKING iy iC I Then there are tokens of re gard in the form of gifts Two among others gave us very great pleasure The first of these to arrive was a lovely bouquet com posed of our favorite blooms mixed carnations It was for our wife and self The blooms came from that home of beauti ful flowers the Aurora Green houses When our wife saw the bloom she exclaimed that they were fit for a queens table It was a just comment on an arrange ment of very lovely flowers The are more than They are artists in the cultivation of gorgeous colors for the table On The Record The second gift that we dearly prize is a doublesided record of two classical compositions inter preted by a close personal friend of ours Here we have some thing on the record car for absence through dis tance and separation We put it on the recording machine on Christmas morning and it sound ed familiar and good We have become so enslaved to the recording machine that we cannot envisage a future without it It is a thought that one may hear through a device of science the very that exalted the minds and hearts of the greatest musical compos ers the world has known Haydn Mozart and Beethoven their works have been set down on circular moulds which one max for exaltation are available for nil who love what their composers loved namely poetry in sound What a poor world it would be for many people if there were no good music Science has preserv ed the old masters and given them a new form of immortality Varied In North America Christmas is the season for rejoicing But in our native land of England es pecially in our home county of Northumberland the New Year celebrations exceed those of Christmas The old custom of firstfooting at 111 prospers and we Imagine will continue to pros per This firstfooting custom Is another form of extending good wishes for a Happy New Year A firstfoot is the one who crosses the threshhold of a home as its first visitor on the first day of the New Year This en trance of the firstfoot is per missible immediately after the hour of midnight when the new day of the new year has begun There is always a toast even if it drunk with nothing strong er than ginger ale The first foot halls the household with Happy New Year to everybody and most often will receive a kiss a salutation for his good wishes There are few north country homes where the smil ing figure of the firstfoot Is not present and fewer still where he Is not welcomed mum cm Mr us ALSO jfe MUMMY B BORIS KARLOFT aaaaiaa FRIDAY SATURDAY MATINEES MAIN PERCY KILBRIDE Ma KIDNEY ACIDS M rart T17 turn utd tin- Mm it Mm Niiw fas ft Am Ml mi MitftaMm pi Kb DM hi tim M Mi DotUkKkhtrMb 1