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PAGE FOUR THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE TUESDAY, sai ual NOVEMBER 19, 1946 LATEST NEWS OF THE COUNTY TOWN OF WHITBY Whitby Editor, W. J. Duthie, Business Office, Miss G. Macpherson Phone 708, All Pes Council Desires More Supervision Of New Building . "I think it is time this town thspector," Councillor Joseph Wilson . of the Town Council at their regular meeting last night. "I] ad a full-time building 1d the other members Have every confidence in Mr, Pringle (H. L. Pringle, P.U.C. superintendent, town engineer and building inspector) but just hasn't got the tims to givey i Pringle, with the new P.U.C. build- ing looming up in the near future, didn't have the time to han Reeve J. E. Shields asked what were the necessary qualifications for the job and was told that the man should have a good knowledge of pinion but didn't have to be * 'This Pio Tip Pini gf fog Bodie this job and there are so many, Opens Session WARDEN JOHN M. RAE Reeve of Uxbridge Township and Warden of Ontario County who presided at the opening sitting of the County Council's November ses. sion, appointed Mr, Muir, Mr, Wilson and Mr. Pringle as members of the committee, to bring in their report at the next Council meeting. councillor Levi Dudley asked that action be taken as soon as possible because of the necessity for a thorough Inspection of all build- ing in the town to see that the building bylaws are observed. Local Cowboys Show Mettle At Crowd-Pleasing Rodeo The Cherokee Rodeo Company gave their first show in Whitby last night before a moderate crowd and lived up t6 their advance billing. The mixed crowd of adults and children showed their appreciation of the skill and daring of the performers with yells of encouragement and left the arena talking to themselves. The tid-bit of the evening, how- ever, was supplied by a half dozen cowboys from the Whitby range. Homer Harris, the boy comedian, invited the spec- tory. to attempt to ride his buck- ule and had no trouble find- would-be cowboys, ule seemed to enter into the afirls of the thing, and one rider Sholiver slid off hisssleek hide. They tried to subdue him by mount- ing more and more riders, until at last five boys were aboard at one time, But the mule was equal to the opeasion and spilled the works. iley Eliot, yi arena director, Sits 5 IE 5'vlg Hand 24 bo whip. his big horse. around and ed the riders of the bucking em out of danger and herded tin ides. brahma bulls away from the riders. Roman Ride a Thriller The Roman ride of Tony Yonkers COW tators ing m ng * The m; & was one of the most thrilling of the many clever acts. When we see a man riding with one foot on one horse and the other foot on another horse we always wonder what would happen if one horse gee'd and the other haw'd, but Tony's control was unfortunately too good and we were again disappointed. Although the night was quite cool, inside the arena the crowd of ani- mals and people kept the tempera- ture fairly comfont: So don't let the fear of a chillyvevening keep you away. The Kinsmen need much larger crowds to make the show pay, and the children of Whitby need the equipment your entrance fee will buy. DELICATE FROZEN FOODS Many frozen cooked foods do not withstand cold storage as well as the same food uncooked. NOW PLAYING LAST COMPLETE SHOW AT 8 | SZSAKALL EOWARD EVERETT RORI onecieo 8 BUSBY BERKELEY 55 yy am noms + JULit sisnor WILLIAM PRINCE PLUS AN ADDED ATTRACTION WANT ONLY SIX HOUSES ON GREEN ST. The Council voted last night to recommend to the Integrated Hous authorities that no more than six houses be built on Green Street between St. John and Ontario Streets. The motion was put fore ward by Deputy Reeve Andrew Muir and seconded by Councillor Fred Twist. This action was taken after con- siderable, some of it quite heated, discussion and after the Council had h om Joseph King, whose house is on the east side of Green Street, facing the proposed site for ten veterans' houses. Congested Area Mr, King was invited to address the Council and said, "I strenu- ously object to the building of ten ho on the one acre of land on Green Street. It will be just like a conges area in a city. "Surely there is enough land in Whitby so that you don't have to put ten homes on one acre, I would not mind four or five houses there but I don't like ten. I don't want to put stumbling blocks in the way of the town or of housing but I don't think that any of you, owning homes would want ten houses on one acre in front of your place. Surely," he continued, "there is land somewhere else where those houses can be put up without de- preciating my property." At their last regular meeting | Council had approved the Green Street site as suitable for ten hou- ses to be built under the Integrated Housing plan, to be four and five- roomed houses on 40 foot lots, Said Mr, Muir, "If it was my house that was there I wouldn't like to see ten houses opposite, I fail to see why it is necessary to put them on such small lots." For Veterans' Homes "We are trying to build homes within the means of our veterans," Councillor Sam Peake told him," and this can't be done without small lots." Mr. Muir pointed out that at $5 per foot frontage, a 50 foot lot would add only $50 to the cost of the house, a sad amount compar ed to the total "This can ~ a much nicer look- ing property by spreading the hou- ses out more," Mr, Twist agreed, saying that one of Whitby's good points was that the houses here are not crowded together. He supported Mr. Muir's motion, which was approved by the Council. | It was pointed out that the present' building -bylaw-calls for a minimum lot with 33 feet of frontage' and that a new bylaw would be needed to change this, so the motion was worded as a recommendation to the Integrated Housing authorities. Councillor Peake moved an amend- ment to the motion but did not force it to a vote, contenting him- self with voting against the original motion. ' Said the Deputy Reeve, "It is not a8 matter just for restricting the size of lots. It is a matter of pute ting as few houses as possible op- posite the King house." "Not for me it's not," replied Mr, Twist. Council Briefs At their ldst meeting before nomi- nations, scheduled for Friday, No- vember 29, Council last night: Approved November 30 as the date for the Salvation Army Tag Day for their Home Tons Appeal, * Gave two HBB to two bylaws granting fixed assessments of $1000 for ten years to the W. J. Anderson Company Ltd, and to Woodland Products, who are building or plan- ning to build factories on Euclid Street. Another bylaw was passed to authorize the taking of a vote by qualified voters on these and one other fixed assessment bylaws. They will be voted on Saturday, December 14, at the municipal elections. a» ob Bb Approved the Finance Commit tee's report by Councillor R. McNee, which presented accounts to a total of $165745 for payment, * >» Filed a letter from a firm manu- facturing parking meters. > PP Requested Sgt. Ron. Love of the local police force to start wearing his rank on his sleeve. , So Approved the installation of sew- ers as soon as possible to the plant | yo) purchased by the W., J. Anderson Company Ltd., on the request of J, R. Kahn, who is one of the local veterans building the factory. Coun- cil also decided to repair the roads leading to this block. Additional Whitby News |5.¢ On Page 5 ANNOUNCEMENT 0 ENT Thursdays A Representative of The Singer Sewing Machine Co. will be in Whitby to service all makes of sewing , machines, Expert Workmanship ' Guaranteed If in need of service write, or phone before the above days. SINGER SEWING 'MACHINE CO. PHONE 696 -- OSHAWA . 17-1 PL py and Hi Diddle Diddle, The Car's In The Middle To prove that his trained mule can do anything a horse can do, Homer Harris, the cowboy comedian, jumps the stubborn brute over a hurdle and a car. This is one of the clever acts at the Cherokee Rodeo, being held at Taylor's Arena Tuesday and Wednesday of this weék. ; . Town Dump Ownership Is Still Open Question The town dump, until a few months ago & marsh but now re- claimed' land, does not belong to anybody at all, as far as can be determined at present. According to the records at the Registry Office the dump, along with a considerable section of the Broken Front concession, was a Crown grant to John Scadding in 1802. Mr. Scadding's name is still attached to what is known as Scad- ding's Plan, one of the several sub- divisions in the town, but so far as is known now he has been dead for upwards of a century. Before his death he sold most of the surrounding property, but the dump, then just a marsh, has not changed hands, not according to the records anyway. It has been used officially as the town dump for the last two decades, but as is now ap- parent, without any change in the title, Oil Company Wanted it The discovery was made when representatives of Anglo Petroleum asked to buy the dump as the site for a marine terminal. After sev- eral snags including an abandoned expropriation attempt a representa- tive of the firm attended last night's Dairy Business Not For Town Faced with a request from the Oshawa and District Trades and Labor Council that they ask Whitby citizens to vote on the question of a publicly owned dairy, members of the Town Council decided last night that they didn't want, to go into the milk business. : Depending on whether milk is or isn't a food, there is already a clause in the Municipal Act which allows a municipality .to take over the distribution of products, which requires the approval of the Muni- cipal Board but not a vote of the people, "Is the town interested in run- ning a dairy?" asked Mayor Dever- ell. "Are we getting milk at a rea- sonable price now?" He was told that the province nas just institute -| ed an inquiry into that question. Councillor SantPeake moved that no oction be taken in the matter, Basketball Entries if Must Be In Dec. 1 Any teams in Whitby who wish to enter the Intermediate Section of the Lakeshore Basketball Associa- tion are reminded that applications must be submitted not later than ber 1, accompanied by the usual $5 entry fee. Such entries should be addressed to the secrer= tary-treasurer, W. B. Ward, 589% Water Street, Peterborough. ------------------ Try a classified advertisement for quick results! Whitby Classified TWO MEN'S OVERCOATS, kaa te co - esd street, og Bains Oh a 42g 1 al a Py Wea i BLL MALL or sale. Apply er ny Berbers Point My north. B, PRODUCE J ANTED--- PRODUCE WANT. , Any vi y or qui 0! e: best dios, Daves Produce, 205 arling! ton Ave. Toronto. (Nov 22) VIGORINE -- THE PEP TONIC "FOR men who are weak, nervous, exhausted. 15 day, roatinent $1.00 At Snelgrove's rug ore, WANTED TO BUY -- ALL KINDS OF Oa ---- EP 2 Dew on old 'feathers marke ces. 321 21 Brock Bt. K.P Pho o 180. y 3. Parker, N WITH Sa Th NEW e truck, desires work by hour OR contract. Phone 677, _Whitby, t SALE--LADIES' BLACK BOOTS C.C.M. Figure Bkates, size 715, Rp nd ttion, Apply Times- -Gazette, FOR BSALE-ONE HEAVY DRAFT horse for farm work. Apply Ontario Ladies' ' College, Whitby, WANTED -- WANTED TO RENT, TWO rooms or more furnished or Junfurnish- ed, Phone McCarthy, 613 Whit 4 ov.19) JoR SALE--MEN'S SKATES AND | as new. No phone boa gy ckering Farms, itby. (N; Nov20) | ROOM AND BOARD--ROOM AND Sosrd for two men, central, all con- eniences. py PPV 203 Byron street north, Whit ye oe ANoviS) FOR iT CHALMERS MODEL 'B' Tractor, on rubber, mechanically good. Phone 2195, Whithy. (Nev.20) FOR SALE--FIVE ROOMED COTTAGE, central, Phone 831, Whitby. meeting of the Town Council to ask for the land. After it had been explained to him that the town could not guar- antee a clear title to the property and just how such a title would be obtained he admitted that it a little too much for him, and did not press his request for the town dump. The complication at present 1s that, when the facts of ownership were discovered, the land was put in for a tax sale, because no taxes had been paid on it at any rate during this century. It will come up at the sale next ye 5d and then will go to the highest bidder, or conversely a small part of it will go to the man who will pay the taxes due for the smallest portion of the land. Direct descendants of John Scadding can, if they appear, buy in the land for the taxes due, but attempts to dis- (cover them have failed. Will Dry in the Sun All probabilities are that the land will continue to be used as the town dump and to dry in the sun for the next year, and the owner after that period is anybody's guess. The Town Clerk, J. R. Frost, promised to investigate fully to see whether the town could prove "squatter's rights" on the property, or whether the title had reverted to the crown after Scadding's death, The oil firm are still interested in the property as site for their ter- minal, but only if they can get a title to it. | EARLY CLOSING TOMORROW FOR SCHOOLS As a special dispensation the Board of Education have de- creed that school children will be allowed out of school an hour early tomorrow afternoon so that they can see the matinee performance of the Cherokee Rodeo at special prices. In return for this dispensation the Ki have promised to give passes to all teachers who come to the performance to su- perintend their pupils, Becomes Partner In Local Store Ray W. Cook, a former member of the RCAF. and presently in- structor at the University of Toron- to, Ajax Division, has become a partner with Jack Crawforth, owner of the Whitby Home Appliance, on Dundas Street West. Ray, who rates a B.Sc. after his name, is a native of Charlottetown, P.EI, and received his formal edu- cation at Acadia University, Wolf- ville, Nova Scotia. As a specialist in radio, he will be an asset tp his firm and to the town. He will continue his present position with the university until the end of the college year, at which time he will transfer hig activities to Whitby. He is, at present, living in Ajax with his wife and two-year- old son. for the money spent. Township fired the opening gun in what turned out.to be almost a gen- eral assault, when he asked why a mile long stretch of road north of Port Perry had not been properly treated this year, He went on to say that be believ- ed that the present system of main- tenance would have to change in '| some way because the roads at pres- ent were in very bad shape. He specifically complained about the method of grading employed, sug- gesting that a crown on the road would give much better drainage and a smoother road bed. At pres- ent, he said, the roads are graded too flat, water lies on them, and the potholes are never filled. With Warden Jphn M. Rae of Goodwood in the chair, the meeting was opened with tiie singing of the National Anthem/'and the observ- ance of one jhinute's silence in memory of the fallen. Rev. Charles Malcolm, of Whitby United Church, offered a prayer for the success of the session, and was thanked on a motion by Reeves F. H. Clayton and James Blanchard. The correspond- ence, mainly consisting of hospitali- zation and other accounts, was read, and then Mr. Harding asked his question, Roads Bad in Spring Reeve Russell Hood of Scugog Township, chairman"of the County Road Committee, replied to his questions by saying that the county had spent so much money in re- pairing the roads after the spring breakup that the superintendent had been unable to do all that should have been done to many stretches of the roads, during the summer and fall. Mr. Harding called for a general discussion of the roads, and in reply to Reeve A. E. Grass's request for an account of the condition of the County Roads, Mr, Hood stated that they were in "fairly good shape." Reeve D. Blake Annis, of Picker. ing Township, also on the commit- tee, agreed with Mr. Hood as to the roads, but suggested that the shoul- ders on the roads were too high, and that a lot of ditching needed to be done. Deputy Reeve Harper Newman of Mara Township, the other member Say County Roads In Poor Condition At County Council The County Road Committee and the county roads for which its members are responsible came under fire at the opening session of the County Council yesterday afternoon with several councillors complaining about the lack of results , Reeve T. H. Harding of Reach® of the committee, sald, "The roads in the north are no better than those in the south, and they are all pretty good. There has been no construction for several years until (now. The roads are too flat but it will take a lot of money, machinery and men to fix them all," $700 a Mile The Council was told that there are 232 miles of County Roads, of which 33 were taken over at the start of the year. The budget for the year for roads amounted to. some $160,000, or according to Mr. Harding's computations, $700 a mile. He claimed that other counties were getting better roads for $125 per mile, Reeve Stanley Miller of Brock Township-said that the ratepayers are kicking about the roads, and that there is definitely something wrong when people would rather drive on township than on county roads, the case at present according to him. Reeves clayton and Blanchard defended the work of the committee and of the roads superintendent, in- sisting that the work was being done as well as possible in view of the acute shortage of equipment, Reeve J. E.. Shields of Whitby asked where lay the closest County Road to Whitby, but didn't get any answer, He pointed out that all of them were a considerable dis tance from the town. Statements of the amount of money spent in each minor muni- cipality were requested by Mr. Harding and he was promised these for Wednesday. Just at closing Reeve W, G. Manaing of Whitby Township asked how much extra money would be needed this year for roads. Warden J. M. Rae replied that this had not yet been decided. 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