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Work was started Monday to bank up the highway with more fill on top of that which slid to the creek bed, so that support for the highway would be stronger than ever in future. Workers said holes would have to ‘be Griven through the concrete pavement and more earth would have to be forced by pressure pumps beneath the travel portion to prevent cracking. It would require at least three days to do the job, they said, Othâ€" er less dangerous landslides had occurred at other points along the highway before the rain stopped on Saturday. ministration committee, of which Reeve J. G. Pettigrew, South Grimâ€" sby, is chairman, council decided that prison labor should be used to move coal sheds in the yard farther from the wall. The sheds had been used as a steppingâ€"stone in escapes. Prison labor is also to be used to paint the fence and clean up the yard as_ recommended by the inâ€" spector. No action was taken on the recommendation to have prisonâ€" erg do gardening, and recommendâ€" CONTINUATIONS Thursday, May 24th, 1945. "THE LITTLE SHOEMAKER" NEW PARTS... ACCESSORIES I have just received the largest shipment of New C.C.M. Parts and Accessorâ€" ies that I have had at one time in three years. Come in and have your wants supplied. "Honey" Shelton Next Door to Dymond‘s Drug Store MAKE ALTERATIONS On June 4th remember Drew‘s broken pledges â€"â€"â€" VOTE BUCHANAN Don‘t take a chance on another Minority Government. ... Vote BUCHANAN to return HEPBURN LANDSLIDE ON .OISAYS... on June 4 he will continue to reside in Lincoln Counâ€" ty to be a fullâ€"time servant of the public . . . . Verne Buchanan in "Mitch" Hepburn‘s Liberal Government guarantees government for the majority in Ontario and Lincoln County. f Vote June 4 for Verne Buchanan, Liberal, and elect to the Ontario Legislature a man with nearly 30 years‘ municipal and public service and experâ€" ience. Here is a record, which, by electing Buchanan ensures Lincoln County citizens of sound, aggressive administration: Five times mayor of Ingersoll . . .. at one time Canada‘s youngest mayor . . . . former viceâ€"president of the Ontario Municipal Electrical Association, during which the foundation for the Onâ€" tario Hydro Electric System was built . .. . former viceâ€"president of the Union of Canadian Municipaliâ€" ties . ¢. . representative of Kiwanis Club at internaâ€" tional conventions in the United States, Verne Buchanan has resided in Lincoln County, at Merritâ€" ton, for the past five years with his family . . .. If you elect him Member of the Legislative Assembly From Page One ed alterations to the jailer‘s reâ€" sidence in the building be left in abeyance. Alterations to provide modernized and increased toilet facilities in the county court house were authorizâ€" éd. Stairs to the basement lavatâ€" ories will be widened, and additionâ€" al storage space will be included in the changes. A move to eliminate several dangerous curves and narrow bridâ€" ges on Ontario street highway from St. Catharines to Port Dalhousie will be made by the special roads committee and the suburban road commission. The commission was asked to appeal to the department of transport to improve the road at the point where it crosses the fill of the dewatered third Welland Tenders will be called for a half. ton or a oneâ€"ton truck. Council heard an appeal for a grant from the St. Catharines Genâ€" eral Hospital. Ellis H. Jones and Maj. M. A. Seymour, K.C., O.B.E., chairman and secretary, respectiveâ€" ly, of the executive committee of the board of governors, and Busiâ€" ness Manager R. J. Weatherill askâ€" ed the grant, They said a large part of the hospital‘s $280,000 proâ€" gram of expansion and renovation had been accomplished. Another $44,000 is needed to complete the last lap of the program and only $11,000 of this hasgbeen raised. tained either by the municipality or by their parents. The majority respond ‘best to foster home placeâ€" ment.. There has been an increase of these cases in St. Catharines in the past few years but it must be reâ€" membered that the city‘s populatâ€" ion has also greatly increased and the ratio of illegitimate to â€"legitiâ€" mate cases has not increased aâ€" larmingly. There are now 45 actâ€" ive cases. Assistance is given the mother in future planning whether she keeps her child or places it for adoption. The greatest expansion of the Society has been in this field. One fifth of its time is spent in giving assistance to government boards and in other war services. Indicaâ€" tions are that the work will inâ€" crease this year,. As a result of this work many families have been reâ€" ANNUAL MEETING lieved of a great burden of worry and responsibility. The excess of revenue over exâ€" penditures for the year was $615.â€" 21 from which must be deducted the decrease in the value of equipâ€" ment amounting to $173.26, leaving a balance at the end of March of $8,716.19. In addition to the officers alâ€" ready announced the following were elected to office for the comâ€" ing year: f Chairmen of Committees: Child placement and visiting, Mrs. S. Fleming; finance and purchasing, Mrs. â€"G. Dillon; prevention and protection, Miss Estelle Cuffe; children‘s cheer, Mrs. O, K. Lawâ€" son; membership, Mrs. Dorothy McGuire; social, Miss Ina Larkin. Directors: Mr. R. K. Ross, Rev. Eric Cowall, Mrs. G. Buchanan, Roy V. Wininger, Mrs. S, Fleming, Mrs. G. Dillon, Miss Estelle Cuffe, Mrs. O. K. Lawson, Mrs. D. Mcâ€" Guire, Miss Ina Larkin, Warden Cecil Secord, Reeve W. H. Shepâ€" pard, Ald, James Barley and Ald. Alex Wilson. Representatives: Beamsville, Mrs. Roy Saunders; Grimsby Mrs. George Warner; Smithville, Mrs. Blake Hodgkins; Grimsby Beach, Mr.C. W. Durham; Queenston, Mrs. W.H. Sheppard; Port Dalâ€" housie, Mrs. Charles Wallis. €6â€"50 WEST MAIN STREET A friend is the one who sticks to u instead of sticking you. Keys of the Kingdom The Song of Bernadette The Razor‘s Edge Chicken Every Sunday The Valley of Decision New Reprints THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT on to the newcasts and watched the papers closely, but there was no wild speculation, no excitement, but instead, a very cautious, cynical reserve. Last week the blackout "went for a burton‘" and a chum and I walked up the hill on which Malâ€" vern is situated to see the lights go up. We should have saved our energy. Not a lightâ€"not a glimmer â€"not a change in any respect from what the town had looked like from up there for five years. The truth is that there are no curtains left in the country except blackout curâ€" tains. People have made dresses and shirts from ordinary curtains and so, partly for lack of anything else to cover bare window frames and partly through force of habit, people still pull the blackouts â€" and the curse goes on as if there had been no lifting of the restrictâ€" ions. The change is coming though. Factories and industrial plants are beginning to show lights, and the cars are showing full headlights, and street lighting is coming up as facilities are repaired and put in order _ Yesterday the air raid warning system was abolished and people took no notice of the fact. There was no long blast of the "All clear," no nothing â€" just an inâ€" significant news item. Von Papen was captured and| people said "Good show." Hitler died â€" and they muttered "wish I could have done it"â€" Berlin fell and they cried "Good old Joe"â€" Himmler offered peace and they gasped "Guess it won‘t be long now.‘" People over here are tired. Physically tired, but worse still, emotionally tired. They can‘t feel excited, and they can‘t feel depressâ€" ed. They have felt both so intensely for five years that they just can‘t feel any more. They have known for a month that the war was over unofficially, and are just bored at having to wait so long for it to beâ€" come official. I expect that ,when it does come, the celebrations for the end of the war will be pretty uproarious, loud and chaotic. But there won‘t be the fe'eling and deepâ€"rooted emotion which a good many people might expect. There will be so little change in everyone‘s way of life. The restrictâ€" ions and rationing, scarcities and inconveniences will still be on every day, part of everyone‘s every day life. Those in the forces will have to wait some time to get home, and those at home ‘will know that the fighting has ceased, but will get J. VERNE BUCHANAN ENGLISH PEOPLE even more impatient to have their dear ones home again. My guess is that the first six months after the war will be harder on us all, than any six months of the war. God give us strength to be patient, and to see our way clearly and senâ€" sibly back to peace time conditâ€" ions." had come from Berlin told me that he thought the Americans would be more gentle than the Russians, but I asked him why they had not thought of all this five years ago. "We have no pity for you," I said to him, "as we see the suffering and hardship you have brought inâ€" to the world. Now it is your turn to get a share of what you gave to others." Our feelings were hardened still more when we went to a Concenâ€" tration Camp a few miles away. Here were men crowded into horâ€" rid barracks, sleeping like cattle on the bare ground with a little straw to cover them. They all had dysentery, and were the most misâ€" erable looking human beings one can imagine. The gates of course were now open, but few had strength enough to accept their freedom. One Jewish boy now fourâ€" teen years old had been there four years. They rushed to us, sobbing and kissing our hands and crying "Amerikanen! Amerikanen!" I walked to another building beside which lay a heap of thirty or forty dead bodies of our fellow man, and others almost dead were being carâ€" ried out to be added to the heap. Fortunately by this time medical aid was ‘being brought to them, though for many it was too late. HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR V acuum Cleaners Complete Repairs to All Makes 314 St. Paul St., St. Catharines PHONE 787 Central V acuum Cleaner Co. Electric Floor Polishers GERMANS ARE "Mitch" Hepburn‘s record during the nine years he served you as Ontario‘s Premier is the answer to overcome the disappointments of Drew‘s broken pledges. . For example, where are the Hydro rate reâ€" ductions Drew promised in 19437 Rural residents are paying higher Hydro bills than before. Where are the tax reductions he promised municipal taxâ€" payers? There are other question marks in the 22 points which won Drew a shortâ€"term as Ontario‘s premier. Ontario residents know that under "Mitch" Hepburn‘s leadership the farmer, the factory workâ€" er, and the white collar worker enjoyed legislation which benefitted all and Hepburn‘s goverqment left Ontario a sixteen millon dollar surplus. Eight milâ€" lion dollars of this surplus has been paid out by Drew in school grants and where is the other eight milâ€" lions? A Hepburn government after June 4 will put into action, as only Hepburn can, a program of the most advanced legislation which will benefit everyâ€" one without depriving them of their democratic rights as Canadian citizens. We know that "Mitch" Hepburn keeps his promises. Keep Ontario strong by defeating Drew and returning Hepburn. We brought back with us to our camp one American who had been a victim of these unspeakable cruelties. In short all that has been reported of this vilest of nations is true, and our people at home must realize to what extent their fellow creatures have ‘been tortured, and devise some way of dealing with them now. What the next move will be for myself and the regiâ€" ment to which I am now attached we do not know. It is possible that we may be kept here to help in restoring some order out of all this confusion. There are some features of all this which are not quite so ghastly. We had a kind of field day yesterâ€" day riding horseâ€"back and dashing around on motorâ€"cycles and cars which had once belonged to these people who are now ‘"finished." One passing civilian rushed up to me and presented me with a beauâ€" tiful gun, but I am not interested in collecting loot, though there is pienty of it on all hands. We have just made contact with the Russians, our General Gavin going out to meet some of their officers. I believe that we are in territory which will be taken over by the Russians. But whatever the plans for the future, some day we shall head for the Statue of Liberty, thankful that we are Americans. ed a very good smoke bomb; Dougâ€" las Bedford led some boys in sigâ€" nalling; Bernard MacMillan conâ€" ducted a group in knots and lashâ€" ings; some girls under Dorothy Metcalfe gave a first aid demonâ€" stration and Arthur Bryden superâ€" vised some rifle shooting. The drum and bugle band led by Bandmaster Phipps gave some musical selecâ€" tions during the programme. Captain Mounfield in his speech complimented the cadets and their officers on the excellent work that had been done. At the close of the Inspection there was a memorial service folâ€" lowed by the Last Post played by Bandmaster Phipps. G.H.S. was highly honoured when a group of the cadets was asked to take part in the Troopâ€" ing of the Colours at the Hamilton Armouries last Friday. In Puerto Rico oysters grow on trees. If you order oysters on the half shell you will find the small shells are warped and twisted, their backs covered with bark, and conâ€" cave from clinging to the submergâ€" ed limb or root on which they grew. CE ora LARGE CROWD "that‘s a fine home you‘re building/‘ SUN LIFE OF CANADA $un Life Bldg. â€" Hamilton, ASSURES g1GGâ€"L George 1. Geddes YES, I think I‘m going to like it. 1 wish 1 had a home of my own. Well, why not? My wife has the idea that it would be a great worry if anyâ€" thing happened to me. Nothing to it, my bocfv. The arrangements I‘ve made with the SUN LIFE OF CANADA will clear the mortgage in the event of my untimely death. 1 never thought of that. W hat about the cost? Insignificant! In fact, it adds very little to the carrying charge of the mortgage. IF you are a homeâ€"owner, make vrsiv. investmentâ€"safe for pos« * your investment safe for posâ€" terity. A SUN LIFE man will be glad to talk it over with you. *soy ‘gi9gâ€"£ ‘sng ©2uoud SECURITY NINE