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Beamsville = = Ontarlo AUCTIONEER & VALUATOR Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Lincoln; also for the City of St. Catharines. Commissioner for takâ€" ing affidavits. Phore 56, Beamsvllle or Grimsby Independent, Phone 36. Harold B. Matchett Business Directory PLUMBING and HEATING BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. George 1. Geddes THE SUN LIFE OF CANADA Thursday, January 25th, 1945 Sawing â€" Planing Matching Phone 7â€"Râ€"2 Beamsville 25 Main Street, West GRIMSBY Hours 9â€"5 â€" Saturdays 9â€"12 "Honey" Shelton DOCTOR BILLS "THE LITTLE SHOEMAKER" Hours 9:00â€"12:00; 1:30â€"5:00 Closed Saturdays At Noon Open Wednesday Afternoon Phone 333 Bring in your logs while the sleighing is good. By ordering your Sunday Papers and Magazines early in the week and avoid disâ€" appointment on Saturday. START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT REPAIR BILLS Next Door to Dymond‘s Drug Store J. W. Kennedy BEAMSVILLE MOUNTAIN MILLS Vernon Tuck C. RUSHTON ARE CHEAPER THAN For An Appointment OPTOMETRIST HIGGINS (Vision Specialist) GEORGE KONKLE OPTOMETRIST AUCTIONEER PHONE 326 PLUMBER INSURANCE «.. BAYS ... Phone 362 ESQUIRE wâ€" fOP â€"â€" LEGAL Grimsby Warden Secord welcomed Reeves Walter Sheppard, Niagara, and J. G. Pettigrew, South Grimsby, both of whom had undergone operations since the December session of council. Deputyâ€"Reeve George W. Critâ€" tenden, North Grimsby, continued the custom he started eight years ago to presenting a gavel to the new warden. This year, for the "manâ€"sized warden" â€" Warden Secord weighs 270 poundsâ€"he preâ€" sented a huge mallet. On the goodâ€" natured protests of Deputy â€" Reeve Robert G. Dawson, Niagara Townâ€" ship, he withdrew the mallet and presented a beautifully inlaid gavel of oak and walnut. Council adjourned into commitâ€" tee of the whole to strike standing committees. Reeve Charles ‘W. Durham, North Grimsby, was namâ€" ed chairman of the session. This morning, the report of the striking committee was adopted as follows: Finance committee: Reeve Robert M. Johnston, Port Dalâ€" housie, chairman, Reeve C. W. Lewis, Grimsby, viceâ€"chairman, and the whole council; roads, Reeve W. E. Heaslip, Gainsboro Townâ€" ship, chairman, and the whole council; general administration, Reeve J. Goodman Pettigrew, ‘South Grimsby, chairman, Deputyâ€" He noted that he had not missed a single minute of county council sessions since he was elected depuâ€" tyâ€"reeve of Grantham Township four years ago, and he hoped he could continue this record this year. policy of keeping it free of debt this year. He asked coâ€"operation of council in this effort, and preâ€" dicted that one of the heaviest conâ€" siderations this year would be reâ€" habilitation of returning service personnel which was started last year by the St. Catharines and Lincolr County Citizens‘ Commitâ€" tee. There are at present 94 families which the Society is supervising, in addition to 15 allowances whose administration has been requested by the Dependents‘ Allowance Board. f Now that the husband has been out of the home for so long, events have occurred which make divorce and separation the final outcome. The children are the ones who sufâ€" fer. The Society has had to step in and intercede for these children to see that they are given a decent home and that they are protected from the weakness of their parents. the Admiralty in England. It is noticeable that these children have all gained in health, and are richer for their experience in Canada. More and more cases are coming to the attention of the Society of families who are breaking up with causes mainly attributed to the war, with its separation of parents and resulting breakâ€"down of morâ€" ale within the family. In ordinary times these families would probâ€" ably have. got along reasonably well. ‘"‘This shipment was made under our new air freight tariff effecâ€" tive October 15," he said. "The rate for commodities of this type is 26¢ a tonâ€"mile, in comparison with the previous rate of approximately 7Oc. The prospects are good that rates will be further reducedâ€"drasticalâ€" ly reduced â€" as soon as larger planes become available. ‘ Jack Tompkins, American Airâ€" lines‘ district traffic manager, described the air freighter as a "Douglas DCâ€"3 recently returned to us by the Army." The retail price included "full market price to the grower, the regular airfreight charges and a normal markup for store distribuâ€" tion and handling," according to J. A. O‘Donnell, A. & P. vice presiâ€" dent early in the morning after a 13â€" hour flight aboard an American Airlines airfreighter. Trucks disâ€" tributed the spinach to stores withâ€" in a few hours. Whether your donation to the I.O.D.E. is large or small, you may be sure it will go a long way to help brighten the dark loneliness of some young Canadian far from the comforts of home. GRIMSBY QUOTA _ Reeve George W. Crittenden, North are long and boring. 7Ve must not, Grimsby, viceâ€"chairman, and the we cannot let them down. | whole â€" council; industrial home, That is w.)vhy the IL.O.D.E. appeals Reeve George E. Wiley, Louth to you, to support the "Books for Township, chairman, and the whole the EForces" campaign now. $300,â€" council; charity and welfare, Deâ€" 000, must be raised for the immeâ€" putyâ€"Reeve Harold S. Freure, Clinâ€" dlate purchase of new books . .. to ton Township, chairman, Deputy be distributed free to the Navy, Reeve Leonard J. Hoare, Merritton, Army and Air borce. This importâ€", viceâ€"chairman, and the whole counâ€" ant work is carried on only by Cil; agriculture, Reeve Leslie R. LO.D.E. funds, and donations from Lymburner, Caistor, chairman, and public â€" spirited Canadians. There, Reeve Walter H. Sheppard, Niaâ€" is no grant from the Government.| gara Township, vice chairman, and No salaries or compensations are the whole council; assessment, Deâ€" paid to members. Ail L.O.D.E. labâ€" putyâ€"Reeve Ivan Buchanan, Granâ€" our is voluntary . ! tham, chairman, Reeve Lymburner, Whether your donation to the| viceâ€"chairman, and the whole counâ€" 1.O0.D.E. is large or small, you may ) Cil; patriotic, Reeve Wilfred L. be sure it will go a long way to| Patterson, Niagaraâ€"on â€" the â€" Lake, help brighten the dark loneliness of| chairman, Reeve Lewis, Grimsby, some young Canadian far from the ‘ viceâ€"chairman, and the whole counâ€" comforts of home. cil; education, Deputyâ€"Reeve Walâ€" m i e t mdns ‘lace McCready, Gainsboro, chairâ€" FRUIT BY AIR !man, and the whole council; legisâ€" early in the morning after a 13â€" lation, Deputyâ€"Reeve J. Douglas hour flight aboard an American| Taylor, Louth Township, chairman, Airlines airfreighter. Trucks disâ€" and the whole council; reception, tributed the spinach to stores withâ€" } Reeve George Montgomery, Clinâ€" in a few hours. ,ton Township, chairman, and the Thas retail) nrice Anolndedâ€"_ "full.: whole council. ‘ are long and boring. wYe must not, we cannot let them down. That is why the L.O.D.E. appeals to you, to support the "Books for the Forces" campaign now. $300,â€" 000, must be raised for the immeâ€" dlate purchase of new books ... to be distributed free to the Navy, Army and Air borce. This importâ€" ant work is carried on only by I.C.D.E. funds, and donations from public â€" spirited Canadians. There CONTINUATIONS PRESENTS GAVEL 256 CHILDREN From Page One The 1930 pheasant feeding flight attracted considerable attention and international publicity. Many letters were received by the St. Catharines Flying Club and one In a message from Ottawa, Wilâ€" liams recalled that 50 pounds of cracked corr, contained in small paper bag "bombs" were dropped from the plane the presumption beâ€" ing that when the bags landed they would burst, dropping the corn on top of the snow for the pheasants. While the pheasants were not interviewed the stunt was regarded as a success by game of officials . The corn was purchased by the Humane Society and through contributions from interâ€" ested sportsmen. dian Press, as "bombardier" coverâ€" ed the St. Anns district which was blanketed with snow. PHEASANT FEEDING ME GRIMSBY INDBPENDE NE Thursday the council visited and inspected the county jail, the inâ€" dustrial home, and the registry ofâ€" fice. WThursday morning they reâ€" ! "If we buy new equipment, the ratepayers may feel that they may not get any better service than beâ€" fore. If we do buy a new heavy truck, that will make two heavy units owned by the county. I think one should ‘be kept below the mountain, and the other above the mountain so that it will be near the scene of its work if there is a heavy snowfall. It used to be that no matter where the plow was at qutting time, the county service truck would go to it with relief drivers who would take over and continue for another shift." "If the snow plows had been able to run as before, on a 24â€"hour basis, there would have been better feeling in the county because the municipalities would have had help from the county. It was reported to me that the county foreman â€" not the engineer â€" had made the remark that there was not going to be any work done by the county equipment for the municipalities this time. That causes dissention among the ratepayers. § "In the past," he continued, "it has been the custom to make an extra effort to open the county roads so that the county equipment was available to other municipaliâ€" ties to help them if they needed it. We never had anything before like the last storm, and we hadn‘t the equipment to cope with it. The municipalities feel that they pay for the county equipment, and feel that they are entitled to its use. sideration to the road committee. Before council went into commitâ€" tee Reeve William Heaslip, Gainsâ€" boro Township, chairman of the roads committee, reported that he had been severely criticized, partiâ€" cularly in the western part of the county, for the failure of the roads department "to extend themselves to make some extra effort to speed up the opening of the county roads. college professor in southern Unitâ€" ed States, interested in game life, believing the feeding flight to be a daily program wrote asking for statistical data. SNOW REMOVAL ‘Any rapid increase in expendiâ€" tures by boards in.1945 will defeat the main purpose of the new grants," he continued. "The first accomplishment in 1945 must be a major reduction in local school rates, and then a very modâ€" erate use of the increased grants toward more and better equipment, and improved buildings and school grounds." . f He reported the highlights of the new system of grants by the Onâ€" tario Department of Education. ‘"No sehool, either rural or urban, lin Lincoln County," he reported, | "will receive less than 50 per cent of its operating costs in 1945, whereas only about 20 per cent was paid in 1944. Some schools, both rural and urban, will receive 60 per cent. The grant scheme ofâ€" fers special encouragement for the formation of township school areas. The increased grants are designed ‘ to lower the burden of taxation on ;real property and to enable every community to provide as nearly as possible equal educational opporâ€" tunities for all children. The inâ€" creased grants to high schools will lower the cost of secondary school education for county pupils. ‘This will lower high school costs levied through county rates on farm propâ€" erties and should enable more rural pupils to attend high schools and for longer periods. He outlined the county nurse system. At the present time the county is without the services of one nurse, but normally, the staff of three nurses would cost the county schools $4.200 exclusive of government grants. ‘Some schools, however, are without the service. Mr. Marshall reported that if a county nurse unit were set up, four nurses could be employed at a cost to the county of only $5,000, beâ€" cause of increased grants, and the service would reach every pupil. Mr. Marshall outlined the salarâ€" ies for teachers in both urban and rural schools, and noted that the minimum is now $1,000, so that boards can qualify for the new grants . The new grants, he noted, will enable rural schools to comâ€" pete in the salary field with urban schools to procure and hold better teachers. ceived a report from W. A. Marshâ€" all, county public school inspector. The law is very clear on this point and it has been explained a million times in the newspapers, but landlords and tenants still seemed to be confused over it. A landlord can obtain, through the W.P.T.B. Rental office, almost immediate possession where he can prove that the tenant is in arrears for rent or is destroying the propâ€" A tenant receiving a notice to vacate the 1st of February, would not have to do so until the 31ist of Julyâ€"six months. A tenant receivâ€" ing a notice the first of September would not have to vacate on the 28th of February as that date falls within the prohibited period of November 1st and May 1st, thereâ€" fore the tenant could remain in possession until May ist, or a period all told of eight months. A landlord must also state on that notice that he is going to ocâ€" cupy the premises himself, or by his son or daughter. Advantages of a township school area were listed: extra annual grants of from $150 to $300 per section entering the union; uniform tax rote over the whole area; lowering of the school rate or givâ€" ing better educational facilities; equal educational opportunities for all children within the area; probâ€" able courses for pupils of grades 9 and 10; night classes; saving in purchase of school supplies; more efficient teaching through meetings of teachers and transferring teachâ€" ers to where they could do the best work; improved. administration by more regular meetings of trustees, one secretary; improved supervisâ€" ion where trustees can compare schools and teachers; no nonâ€"resiâ€" dent pupils. Mr. Marshall also showed the adâ€" vantages of township school areas. Last year, seven of 11 sections in Gainsboro Township united, and four out of seven sections in Niaâ€" gara Township formed a unit. In Caistor Township all nine sections have voted in favor of union this year; in Grantham Township there is a possibility of union of sections 1, 2, 3 and 4; and in South Grimsâ€" by there is a possibility of uniting all seven sections. SIX MONTHS IS SEVEN