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_ Ube Crimgby Tuiepende HISTORIC GRIMSBY BEACH _ COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL A summer colony is‘ something which most people know for only them it is a place to which you :mm time comes time you‘re there you rush around trying frantically to have a good rest with the inevitâ€" able result that you never do get any rest at‘all. ‘There are a few of us, the residents of Grimaby inâ€" eluded, who are fortunate enough to know and live In or near a sumâ€" -ueduynnyurmdudunl result we enjoy its advantages all summer and perhaps a few disadâ€" vantages during the winter. Grimsby Beach is such a summer colony. It has its permanent residâ€" @nts who see the whole holiday weason come and go and when it is over turn to face a rather isolated but not altogether unfriendly winâ€" ter. The major part of the populaâ€" tion is, however, of a more tranaiâ€" ent type. Some have never known the Beach for more than two or three weeks at a strotch, while restaurant. Jt is their intention if is granted to plant Il‘”“m known . abrub, m,..."“”‘”’, perennial and plant, “WM-'“"‘" fo m-pdwolldl!*""’"‘u‘" admire the beauty of the w-..; others turn up every weekend and still others move out from the city for the summer and commute back and forth each night. ThE‘ colony itself has had an interesting past. If you want deâ€" tails all you have to do is ask some of the old timers to tell you about the times when the Canada Steamâ€" ship Lines‘ boats used to come in at the.dock from ‘Toronto; when ) .10 000 hawcr PamasP t :umm‘nww y. t But all this began to peter out when the depression came along and soon the boats were not comâ€" 01 21 4. donaldecrlenignnaPt Fiizabeth Way, just a few hundred feet west of Jordan Harbout, P ready preliminary "“"",:",, m and the building, will be primarily of atone OM struction will likely be starled this month, or early in Septembgr. Bosldes the service station .A spacious restaurant will be built, Adjoining the station, John Pride mahoine Eutd Te Independent, that CCC Cpweal location -‘w _’H" | _ B _ _ $ _ dbpremedreny s ing any more, the pier fell Into disâ€" | repair, the holiday air disappeared. ‘The second world war didn‘t help either. People still used to ©0 ever for their holidays but it was , have granted a permIl "* ""*" _ homme Brothers of Beamsville, to ,”a.mmmmw No 2y stt Sok ees d I dmo'.f was "N.M‘o(wrlnlmuuw. o work were 5n ”l,,,[bm Shafer, 56, no fixed abode, mm“‘ â€"nv.w"‘" tion. The | who had been drinking and was aun Mh":“ ‘__lmm"bymmm u:'..-lfll“ Very When taken into the police ofâ€" Mwmwd._dlmmuwnmdn mnwnwmm Ihwtmnwmmdt& m...mw-a "“"fl-u.lfllunumulmhthOm- Mmmnultum,,'upmmm cell. Dr. J. V. Christie ““mwimwulflmfllfi'mm fruit shippers and if 5# P9""°"_| man was removed to the St. < COC WUSWâ€"CGIL% Pam iuant. on the place. summer® But these wartime m-g.nmmmuu No wiree. Since gasoline restrict made cars hard to comeby the mmmfl"‘”"n"’ m-autmeummum" mMUMMW'M|M' otel which was open every MMMWF‘“""‘" Just about every â€" weekend Soms body had a party but it was ND 0 ,’““wmdrm n0t 80 55""°C u was an invited there WUUN" * CS mnns hround the Beach: Or maybe cotâ€" h 'm.mmmlnfl' -_--d“.wflhulm Fot older the bicycle got short T an Page 3) PRUDHOMMES ERECT SERVICE STATIONRESTAURANT ON Q E W HPoe ME L . ank weren‘t at the cottage there WBP always Uncie Bill who owned moffl-mw"w’" m._,mdm y mw_l""‘"‘w ty not ®" ""*""CC . was an invited )‘ufle.mnnflflw way t magaâ€" WYW"’“‘“ t .M,.eou-odhn- At first and PeSC * . ah difference (Continued on Page 3) ‘â€"No. 8â€"10 PAGES. of Wighways “__;I fo: m‘"’m;%pap%,rflzf bomymly Service WANTEDâ€"A PAIR OF CRUTCHES, SIZE 53" Order of Nurses called us to ask if we would attempt to locate some kind soul who might have a pair of 53 crutches tucked away in the basement or attic. Miss walk, and the crutches would be of great assistance. If any of our readers have a pair of crutches, size 53, a call to Millyard‘s Pharâ€" macy would bring Miss Secord runâ€" ning for the crutches. Mrs. A. C. Farewell, of 16 Robâ€" inson St. N., has discovered a raâ€" ther unique toadstool in her gardâ€" en. When picking cucumbers the other day, Mrs. Farewell came upon a pure white growth which was of the fungus variety. It was not, however, in the usual shape of a toadstool but the umbrella was drawn down around the stem much like a sleeve. The growth was eventually idenâ€" tifled as a toadstool which is a fairly common fungus but the uniâ€" que shape remains quite unexplainâ€" REALLY A PROBLEM Transients continue to cause the local police trouble in the form of over enthusiastic tippling and other rare formers of disturbance. ‘The latest trouble comes from A}, bert Shafer, 56, no fixed abode, who had been drinking and was GARBAGE FIRE STARTS station man was removed to the St. Cathâ€" arines General Hospital for treatâ€" ment. A card in the man‘s pocket indicated that he was subject to such fits. and has been UBOG POF MMT ""° C of nursery atock. The application to erect the station has been pending for three Both trucks answered an alarm in North Grimsby Township on Monday afternoon, to the James Ruggi â€" property. bordering the Queen Elizabeth Way and Ofield Road, where a brisk northâ€"east wind fanned flames through a pile dabrmpub.udw- ed to spread over a dry field. Fireâ€" u.:-w-mmunnmm May Rugg!i told The Independent that she was burning garbage, when the dry grass caught fre, and soon caught hold in the cedar posts, spreadig so rapidly that .oedhdforw.-o-u- -Muw-llonr!nwm Ti l ol ts ham. " _ men quell the blaze. We PCCCCC ‘The Department have been 6X* tremely cautious about granting pu.murm&yp-ofmm along the Queen Elizabeth, and mmum,mwna« must conform with a great many wm.mmumm service station for instance, i whdntmwnâ€"lnm L 200 tase unamvn m HBY. “ be must conform specifications. service station must be of & 13 twentyâ€"four ho‘ We MRBTTCCC The location of the Prudhomme .m.wu-uw*“”"“‘"" mer farm, which was purchased bume years ago by Prudhomme‘s, s tas heen used for the raising would become ! traveling public We TY . 0 oAen PR m,....m-mwk.un mmuqubflfl" therein. Elaborate plans for this park ”"me"l’.m WMdm 0. H Mxmcndw blmmmmmw ralld ‘Lecome a naites for the planted TWO RUURED AS CYCLE AND AUTO COLLIDE John J. Bregger, of Clemson, South Carolina, recently contriâ€" buted an article to the New York Packer on "The Brown Rot Menâ€" ace" which is of interest to all peach growers. In the first place, Mr. Bregger‘s article emphasizes that brown rot is prevalent in most peach producing districts and that the real answer to the problem has not been found. » He says: "About six years ago when a delegation of Tennessee peach growers made a "pligrimâ€" age" to visit our South Carolina age" to visit our South CaAFToNME peach districts, the question was do we see so little brown rot?" Whether or not we had the answer for it then, it is very certain that the same question would not be asked toâ€"day. In fact it begins to look as though brown rot wer the worse offender of all peach orchâ€" udp-uhbom:ethnohm- saleable fruit." "Other humid parts of the Unit« ed States have for yeare fought the scourge of brown rot. At times it has become bad enough to ruin entire crops, either at the point of origin or at the consumer end of the merchandising cycle. And as though that weren‘t bad enough, it has influenced growers to pick Mamflymuuhlo get it "off to market" before the rot developed." "It is well known that brown rot elops faster uf of high temperature and humidity, Wnlnun nndcloufly:-&- uid . 5 L ana er. This is, however, only ON® overâ€"nitratéd trees, the rot spreads even faster." Control Difficult And control measures are also more difficult to carry out under “ml.mmm“' orous trees are easier to dust and .,..y,uanm-mfl# ‘mumm-m heavy dews. "Brown rot, while being known to the average layman as a fruil mou,,humulaflwluu of manifestation. In reality it may ‘ommuwdl" other period than that of harvest time." ___aas tha ane T; be more specific, the #0" called blossom blight of peaches may completely wipe out a CrOP MAMMWMYW red where no bloom sprays have been applied. T ._ Loiuted tuna of been MPPI®""* ‘‘Then there is a third type of brown rot which is becoming more prevalent in recent years. It is the mmgmgunhl‘â€"flm' sive type of injury that may eumy tually involve a amail wized limb with all the follage and fruit that becomes actually noticeable in an (Continued on Page 3) ¢ smwnat ARNDOrRUUTC Precipitation â€"â€"â€" Week ending at 8 August 22, 1949. Highest temperature GRIMSBY WEATHER GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1949. Monday 425 510 nil James W. Baker was born in Aultsville,, Ont., which is down in the eastern end of the province. In 19006 when Jimmy was still a wee tot, his family moved to Smitthville and from there to St. Catharines for a year and thensce to Grimsby, where they lived in the old Coulson house on Maple Avenue. Jimmy was educated in Smithville and Grimstby and when he left school he went on the railroad as a telegrampher. He spent a year at this in the United States and then in 1926 he beâ€" came manager of a gravel and mixed concrete yarrd in Pontiac Michigan. In 1929 when the depression came along, Mr. Baker came back to Grimsby and went on thee road selling stationery for the R. J. Lovell Co._ He remaiined with them for eight years before he bought Henry Hilllier‘s stationery store which was then located in the block where Bert Conâ€" stable now has his Lincoln Electric shop. Iin 1942 Mr. Baker moved to his present location on the corner of Depot and Main Sts.â€"Photo by Robert Alldrick. NIAGARAâ€"ONâ€"THEâ€"LAKE WiILL HAVE LARGE MODERN HOSPITAL Announcement was made this week that plans for the proposed new Niagara wul have recelyâ€" ed government approval and work on the structure is scheduled to commence this fall. of . Accommodation will include six private beds, two semiâ€"private and | 444 Aveafiaects D C ane twoâ€"bed ward for medical paâ€" tients; two private and four semiâ€" private beds for obstetrical paâ€" tients; one private and one semiâ€" private room for surgical Other bed space will include two for peâ€" diatrics and one suspect room. The nursery will contain seven basginâ€" ottes. On the main floor of the hospiâ€" tal will NMMWMW”"'\ ating room, an emergency operat« Ing room, the delivery room, Xâ€"ray room and offices. A call for tenders will be isasued shortly. Chester C| Wood, archiâ€" tect has announced the Niagara hosapital will encompase the modern equipment and facilities of the L ho. Gor en ht T newest large hospitals, but on a| scale sultable to the needs of the community. Contributions to the building fund, which was Iaunched last October with a threeâ€"day canâ€" vass of the town and township, are still being received,. Interest has been wideâ€"spread and donations have been recelved from all parts of the United States and Canada, u:wmdmmum town whose attractions stem not aonly from historic lore but from past military affiliations. | A WELL KNOWN "MAIN STREETER" TRANSIENT SEASON NOW AT ITS PEAK Local police picked up two more transients over the weekend, one for being drunk in a public place and the other for vagrancy and begging. Cuthbert Lindsay, 59, no fixed address, was sentenced by Magistrate H. D. Hallett in St. Catharines 0n Monday to $16 or 21 dnys for vagrancy. Daniel MacDonâ€" ald, 40 years of age, was sentenced on Monday to $11 or 7 days in jail on a charge of being drunk in a public place. CcOW COMES OUT TOPS AS THREE CARS CRASH Three cars and a cow got all mixed up late Friday afternoon, with total damage estimated at around $1500.00. Bossy remained unscathed, ant wandered o f f peacefully chewng her oud. es, and this cared Joseph Micheli, of Toronto, whovas following the Raker auto to ash into the Baker vehicle. Justo add to the conâ€" fusion, FrankOavis of Kenmore, N.Y., failed tutop in time, and crashed withonsiderable impac into the rear the Micheli vehicle, 8. A. Reichert, pasenger in the Davis car wathe only person inâ€" jured to # extent, his injuries sustained he went through the windshielOhe aandwiched Michâ€" ell auto o# out third best, it beâ€" ing damagextensively, and Conâ€" | stable Doug bbie estimated the | damage at apximately $1000.00, \ with damago the Davis auto | around $500.(Phe Baker car was ,| only alight!ifamaged. As we .\ mentioned b«s, Bossy was unâ€" | hurt, and ard home in time for milking. The cow, OWed by Fred Kozlo, Murray Street,Grimaby, went for a stroll, and piked the west bound 4une of the buy Queen Elizabeth Highway for br jaunt. That was the acene the confronted John Baker, Pennsy‘ania motorist, who immediately @lnmed on his brak» PROVINCIAL POLICE OFFICE CLOSES HERE SEPTEMBER 15 One of the district‘s most popâ€"| ular spots for the noble practice of ‘ satiefying one‘s appetite, the Raâ€" dial Diner, is undergoing some radâ€" ical changes at present, and when | completed early in Septem;ber, will \be considerably more attractive,| | and much more spacious. | Lumley Construction are workâ€" ing on a new 18‘ by 28‘ addition which has been adeed to the origâ€" Inal diner, which is one of the faâ€" mous Ward & Dixon type dibers, vrevalent around the country some twenty years ago. The Ward and Dixon Diner was opened by Robert Crawford about eighteen years ago, down on No. 8 highway, south of the brickyard, and was operated by Roy Cornwall and his wife for a number of years. In 1946 the Diner and adâ€" joining service station was taken over by Bent and Arnott, ‘ who opened up the Diner which had been closed during the war years. In ] (Continued on Page 5) "Growers here have experienced their worst selling year since the 80‘s. It seemed clear this week that the almost total collapse of the deciduous tree fruit market in California this year has been due mainly to the harvest of bumper crops, virtual loss of foreign markâ€" ota, and overâ€"packing last year by enthustastic canners. High transâ€" portation costs haven‘t helped eith» er. m.“u.:flfll:.:! All deeidâ€" uous frul ve extremely low in all markets, and growers, SHIPPING FRUIT BY AIR COMMERCIALLY At 10 am. on Friday (tomor» row) morning frifit will begin to flow in commercial lots from this area to Bermuda by air transport. The Beamsville Grower‘s Coâ€"operâ€" ative will dispatch 1500 lbs. of grapes and peaches to Maiton Airâ€" port where they should arrive by noon. At exactly 2:55 pm, they will be on their way to Bermuda by air and should arrive at their destination by 10.05 Friday evening our time. The first experimental shipment (Continued on page 10) Date lined Sacramento, Califorâ€" nia, August 19, this item appears under the head "Near Collapse of Markets Hits Californians." With our own fruit growers busâ€" Uly engaged in harvesting a fruit crop that has been termed "bumpâ€" er" by many, with others being a little more conservative and saying only that the crop is bountiful, but with weather conditions hardly conducive to good grades, it is inâ€" teresting to note excerpts from ‘‘The Packer," an American trade journal devoted to the growers, packers and shippers of fruits and vegetables. COMPARISON OF PRICES SHOWS GROWERS HERE AHEAD OF USâ€" A $2.50 Per Year, $3.00 In U.S.A., Sc Per Copy, After the 15th of September reâ€" sidents of Lincoln County, includâ€" ing Grimsby, will call Niagara Falls 99 when the assistance of Provincial Police is required. This turn of events comes as a result of the vast amount of work that has been done in the setting up of a highly successful radio network. with which Ontario Provincial Poâ€" lice now operate with precision and gteat efficieney. _ _ _ _ _ | The same will apply to surâ€" rounding Counties, Cayuga will be lcontnllln‘l for the County of ‘Haldimand, and Welland for the County of Welland. First Officer It was in 1922 that Grimsby first became acquainted with the Proâ€" | vincial Police, with George McKay 'm fArst officer to be stationed | here. When one considers that Mecâ€" )(.ypnltc«l Grimsby, Smithviile, Beamsvilie, Vineland. and those inâ€" cidental miles in between, and all without benefit of an auto or motâ€" oreycle, then we get some idea of how the Provincial Police system \ has advanced with the times, until |It now stands as a force comparâ€" |able with any in the world. | ‘There, too, was the era of the ‘The Grimaby office of the Proâ€" vincial Police is but one of the many that will close, with the enâ€" tire detachment of men that have worked from this point moving to central headquarters in St. Catharâ€" ines, the hub for the County of Lincoln. In telephone cortversation with Inspector Chris Aijrey, Niagara Falls District headquarters, The Independent learned that this "cenâ€" tralization of personnel" is a direct result of the introduction of radio, which was started some two years ago. Only recently has the comâ€" plete web been completed, so that throughout the entire province the Provincial Police can quickly be routed to the scene of trouble. Although it will seem strange not to have a Proviacial Office here, there is little doubt but that the County will benefit by the change. It is not always an easy task to locate a Provincial officer when his services are required under the present system,. but when the change is made, a call to Niagara Falls will bring an officer to the scene within minutes. Two local people have won free cleaning from Star Cleaners, whose daily radio show over CKOC is drawing attention from . many Grimsby and district reaidents. Mrs. R. MacFariane, 13 Fairview won $5.00 worth of cleaning two weeks ago, and last Saturday, a fellow by the name of Tapajna of ‘R.R. 1, Grimsby, won himself some free cleaning. Pauline Shuvera and Mr. Andrew Smith drew the winâ€" ners names. John Cimba, bustling proprietor of Star Cleanera, tells us that his radio show is heard daily at 2.08. "apeed cop," those dazhing fellows who often were daredevils of the old school, as they maneuvered their cycles through the "bumper to bumper" traffic that existed on No. 8 highway before the advent of the Queen Elizabeth Way WINNERS OF LOCAL RADIO DRAW according to experts, have experi« enced their worst year since the early 30‘8." "Bartlett pear growers expect a crop of 289,000 tona this year, comâ€" pared to only 226,000 in 1948. Peach growers are having an estiâ€" mated harvest of $85,000 tons this year, where they had only 723,000 in 1048. With few exceptions the same altuation exists in other fruits. Both Bartietts and Elbertas were bringing around $40.00 a ton last week, compared with a high of $124.00 for Bartietts, and $65.00 for clings a year ago. The article also tells of the vast difference in the price of Bartictt pears and Elberta peaches in 1949 as compared to 1948, the spring drought threatened the ml As the crops were near norâ€" the results were large canned surpluses which would have to be sold before this year‘s cropa could be packed to any great extent." Canneries bought heavily and pald high prices last year, because From Wenatches, Washington, em.o:llllltm: "Bartiott pear producers and (Continued on Page 3)