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Newmarket Era and Express, 3 May 1956, p. 5

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Prices Local Service Satisfaction Guaranteed Combination doors and windows aluminum awnings porch shades and railings Venetian blinds drapery tracks bamboo drapes Lfind hooks Aid For Municipalities T COMPANY LIMITED Phone PA W WW l Aurora Ontario Liberal Loader Oliver accused Premier Frost of deliberately denying financial aid to the municipalities in order to strengthen his efforts to pry more money from the Federal government Speaking to the annual meet ing of the Ontario Liberal assoc iation in Toronto on Saturday Mr Oliver said the premier is sacrificing the needs municip alities on the alter of political expediency and is leading muni cipalities to economic ruin Many from York North riding were in attendance at the meet ing There were representatives from all sections of the province Ontario could well afford to aid the municipalities Mr Oliver told the Liberal delegates pre dicting that the province would have a 50000000 surplus this year to be added to 70000000 the province would receive as a result of a tax rental agreement with Ottawa Mr Oliver also accused the Ontario government of fightin a delaying action to keep hospi insurance from the people If Ontario is under the dom inance of a Tory government the people Will not have hospital insurance for many years yet he said The meeting adopted a resolu tion urging the Ontario govern ment to accept the Federal offer Co share the cost of a hospital care and diagnostic service plan Other resolutions adopted in cluded a suggestion that the Ontario government establish more secondary teachers train ing schools at Kingston London and Northern Ontario A motion that tuition fees at Ontario Edu cation college be abolished was defeated Another motion asked that student nurses be paid during their training The meeting also called for more lowrental housing a study of the Municipal Act to re lieve the burden on real estate and farmaid measures r- J r 1 Plans were made for a salvage drive in June when the Scout Group committee met at the Scout hall Tuesday May for the regular monthly meeting Mr Horace presided A Scout will be held on the weekend of May Scout Master Kirk Everett will be in charge Transportation to the camp site at Vandorf will be sup plied by the fathers Fathers of all guides brownies scouts and cubs are eligible for membership in the Scout Group committee A meeting is held on the second Tuesday of each month at the scout hall at pm The paper salvage drives are the majof money raising projects of the Scout Group committee Scouts assist in the collection of waste paper The drive will be made on the west side of town on Saturday June 2 and on the east side of town the following Sat urday June 9 J K I r i I FEATURING SHOW CATTLE SHOW Society Has Membership Drive Membership tickets for the Newmarket Horticultural society are available from members of the executive Public support of the society enables it to carry on its heavy program of civic im provement and juvenile activi ties The arena area will be landscaped under the direction of the society this year A bonus of membership in the society is that all nursery stock can be purchased through the group at a considerable discount Such orders must be placed be fore May with the purchasing chairman A second premium of member ship is that a special subscrip tion rale to a leading Canadian gardening periodical is available to members of the society All such subscriptions must be placed before May HOME AND SCHOOL ENJOYS CONCERT The April meeting of the Alex ander Home and School took the form of a concert by children of the school A pro gram of songs dances and skits was presented under the direc tion of the teachers Mr A Hurst presided Nominations for the of ficers were received under the chairmanship of Mrs Arthur Stephens The election and in stallation will be conducted at the May meeting when a pro gram on parent education will be presented under the direction of Mr Hugh Grant school prin cipal The meeting closed with a so cial halfhour Refreshments were served Support the RED SHIELD APPEAL SQUARE DANCE COMPETITION WASTER DANCE AT NIGHT MEET ON TUESDAY The Junior Ladies Aid of the Christian Baptist church will meet at the home of Mrs Milton Morton 3 Ellen St on Tuesday May at Vl fe-ii- w m VJ t Sso i T- tF a vi 41 i RCA 11 CO FT REFRIGERATOR defrost Urge 525 Reg Butter Keeper Double w r A I a- r No Doctor For Heart Patient Keswick Firemen Use Inhalator The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday May North Gwillimbury firemen an on Henri Pot- of Keswick last week- No doctor was available when Mr suffered a heart U has slightly since he suffered the attack on Tuesday morning last week Mr and Mrs Pot terat have been forced to close their at Keswick for the time Mr had several at tacks previously At am when ho was taken ill last week Mrs called the North police when not find a doctor available The police were on their way to court at Newmarket at the time North Chief Bernard Rye Deputy Chief Roy- den and another fire man Gordon Hare arrived with an After minutes the patient showed signs of im provement The was used at in tervals throughout the morning and afternoon until the arrival of a doctor at pm Mr has been under the doctors care since The fire chief and deputy have had little training in the use the Chief Rye had used it once last year Connell and Hare had knowledge of the operation of the apparatus and were able to give useful assist ance Citizens of Keswick have expressed their appreciation of the firemens efforts in the case 150 Attend Meeting For Civil Defense Hear Special Speaker The first public meeting on Civil Defense to be held in New market took place at the town hall on Tuesday April Civil Defense coord inator for the town the meeting More than 150 men and wo men were present to hear an jor Preston was critical of a de featist attitude and stressei that it is our duty to make workable plans for the whole country De tails of the tremendous strides which have been made in nuclear defence would depend on how weapons since the first j we made it He stressed bomb was exploded in Japan training was essential and were described culminating Ontario Provincial Police Evacuate all hospital patients women and children and all who can leave on a voluntary basis it is estimated that this would account for approximately percent of the population B Evacuate remaining population except a garrison consisting of the regular fire and police forces and Civil Defence personnel C After the attack the gar rison checks for radioactive material fall out provides shel ters and food and if necessary ar ranges f u r he reevacuation Rehabilitation of the people The most essential re quirement in all four phases is complete obedience from the public ill following out the in structions given by the Civil De fence authorities Major Preston said that lie had often been questioned about road conditions in a mass evacua tion and answer was that in this event there would only be one flow of traffic away from a pending attack and no traffic would be permitted to travel in the opposite direction Major Preston concluded his talk by re minding his audience that in essence each municipality had a nucleus of a Civil Defence unit with the regular fire police utilities welfare and health forc es and that it only remained for each community to organize a strong volunteer force of civil defence workers to work with them In the final analysis he said the attitude of the people to talk by Major A F with the present day 4 bomb were always willing and ready One bomb would almost help in organizing and train- Preston chief instructor of civil defense for the province The meeting was sponsored by the service and community organiza tions of Newmarket In opening the meeting Mr thanked the organiza tions for their support with par ticular reference to the Busi ness and Professional Womens club which had sparked the pro ject He said that a wellorgan CD unit was invaluable in the event of disaster such as flood fire hurricane and epi demic Major Preston was introduced by Mr Major Pres ton said that his subject was an unpleasant one but that he had to tell about the grim realities of atomic warfare because he had found that once people were aware of the situation they were prepared to act constructively Major Preston said that a threat of war had hung over the western world since the end of the Second World War He sug gested that the stronger the or ganization for Civil the belter were the chances of de terring a wouldbe aggressor Civil Defense is a Canada- wide project The ultimate ob ject is the complete coordina tion of all provinces in a single plan Major Preston said On tario has been divided into re gions with Newmarket being in Region four This comprises the area from Hastings to County and from Lake Ontario to Lake The responsibility for Civil Defense rests not only with all levels of government but the people as well The Federal government now assumes per cent provincial government percent and the municipal gov ernment percent of ail costs of the Civil Defense program Ma- obliterate a city the size of Tor onto the speaker pointed out Another grave peril is the radio active fall out which follows the explosion and covers areas up to 120 miles long and 20 miles wide In appreciating these awesome results from one bomb Major Preston said and plan a personnel By good train ing and cooperation the work of civil defence would be made much better and easier were the concluding remarks of Major Preston Two films Lets Face It and i Front Lines of Freedom were we must organize j shown after the talk and gave an defence Thirteen what to expect in an in Canada have been listed as critical targets five of which are located in Ontario The speaker outlined the gen eral plan of the Civil Defence program and said they could be put into the following four phas es A Upon receipt of the stragctic warning received about six to eight hours in advance tack and the measures necessary to minimize the death toll and destruction of property CLASSIFIED ADS Phone A Richmond Hill Lions Hall STARTING a 59 Numbers Galled trade J r J W his order in plenty of time for I I a JTo- jSI c Prices Try T V YES THIS IS TRUE Sat May down will purchase any car on our lot Purchasers must have steady rf employment good credit IK j y lite Davis Dr East S mm

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