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J. S. Clayton "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1946 THE DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE PAGE FIVE WHITBY NEWS | Had 44 Years : Pacific 'With C.P.R. . James 8, Clayton, the Canadian Railway's first 'local freight agent in Saint John retired _. Baturday--his 68th birthday--af- years' as general agent at|. ' West Saint John and a total of ter 2 44 years' service with the com- pany, He is succeeded by James A Lutton, chief clerk in that 4+ partment for the past six years and with the C.P.R. since 1912, C. C. Merryweather has been na- . med chief clerk, ! Mrs. Elizabeth Coulter, Holding faith in the businags conviction that '"'the customer Is always r ght," Mr, Clayton had become a close friend of import- ers and exporters in Saint John and all parts of Canada over his long years of service, "It was a pleasure to work with these peo- ple and I made it my business to see they had every attention," he sald. He was not only well known in railway circles but fraternally he had been Past Grand Pa'riarch of the Grand Encampment of In- +" dependent Order of Oddfellows, Mr, Clayton was a member of Oliver Lodge No, 9 here and had been Chief Patriarch in Grand Encampment and Grand Patri- arch of the Maritime Jurisdiction, A few years ago he had the honor of attending as grand representa- tive to Sovereign Grand Lodge In Milwaukee, Oklahoma and Toron. to. He is a native of Nashwaak Village, N.B., and started with the C.P.R. in November, 1902, as freight clerk at Fredericton, He was successively agent at Plaster Rock, Fredericton and came to Saint John in 1912 as its first local agent, and then was transferred to West Sain' John as general agent in 1918, During his term as agent at Plaster Rock Mr, N. Clayton handled the business for survey and building the National Trans. continental, now the Canadian Nationa], from 1903 till 1910, Mr, and Mrs. Clayton reside at 1756 Tower street, West faint John, and have five children. Two daughters, Mrs, G, L. Keirstead and Mrs, Brian Galvin reside in Whitby, A native of Belfast, and widely known after 21 years' service as general secretary-treasurer of Eastern Lines system ward, Bro- therhood of Railway and Steam. ship clerks, Mr, _.utton started with the company in Montreal as a clerk in the office of .1c gener- al superintendent of transporta- tion and has been in the West Saint John offices in different ca- pacities since 1919, He hag had a thorough background {in export and import in connection with port work from a railway stand- point. He served overseas with the 36th Battery during the First Great War and was a school trus- tee for eight years in school dis- trict No, 2, Parish of Lancaster, Hashes Of Life Flesherton,--Looking over the list for a 'sale at which he will preside Dec. 5, auctioneer Geo. E. Duncan said 'I've sold everything in my time, from oldtime candle-molds to thoroughbred stock, but this will be the first time I've asked for bids on & live bear." [2 2X J 'Toronto--In allowing the ap- peal of George Montague from an illegal 'parking conviction, Judge James Parker declared, "A man has a perfect right to park in front of his own door." Montague was fined $3 Sept. 5, but the Judge contended since ' * & » Toronto,--C. F. Bulmer, in his 25 years ag clerk of the executive to the Ontario government, has sworn in 100 Cabinet ministers. A civil servant for more than 50 years, he was appointed by the Drury govern- ment and has adminis the Oath of Office to six ing adminis- trations, / or 'New York, -- Fifth- Avenue's open-top, double-deck buses soon New York. Today, the ancient buses, as much a symbol of this city as the Manhattan skyline and the subway, gave way to the first of the new single-deck buses with semi-individual, plush-covered seats, indirect lighting and ventilating systems. * Atlantic Highlands, N J.,--This borough is in the market for a dog- catcher to round up a few dozen vi- cious dogs that bother children in the street and upset trash cans. The Job has been open since last year when the dogcatcher found that $2 per catch was not enough, what - with the high cost of living. San Mateo, *calit. -- Police searched the countryside here for a roving band which motor- ists complained, was firing tra- cer bullets at passing automo- biles. Five different drivers re- ported within one hour that three men in a blue two-door Setan sent bullets whizzing by em. Desboro.--4 thao 372 years' life is shared by four nonagenar- fan residents of this community, 16 miles south of Owen Sound. James Fitzpatrick, 94, Fred Her. man, 94, John Penner, 91, and 91, al- though not taking an active part fn community affairs, are still a real part of the community's life, ENE J Picton.--Unabl® to make his customary entrance on a sleigh, due to the lack of snow, Santa used three more dern travel des in his appearance here yesterday. He arrived at the airport by plane, was driven to the par. ade's starting point in an ar. my jeep, and mounted a wa. gon drawn by a four-horse team of champion percher- sons, LB BY J Los Angeles -- Peggy Land, whose wealthy Memphis, Tenn., parents have been seeking her since she left home last Thursday, was located in a Los Angeles ho- tel, She expressed regret that her disappearance occasioned worry. The 17-year-old co-ed sald she left a note for her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Elbert Land; when she left Memphis, but added: "Per- haps I wasn't explicit enough." She declined to say what prompt- ed her to leave, > Hamilton--Edwin Edward Stratford, the man who oper ated the first radial car to cross Hamilton Beach on the line to Burlington, died Sun. day--his 79th birthday. He came to the city 53 years ago and was first employed as driver of one of the old horse CAPS, meee mes me oe m= -------- * & » Priceville--Bob Corbett recent- ly set a trap to catch a fox, and caught a wolf instead. Weighing 30 pounds, it is the first brush wolf to be seen in this district for several vears, * >» St. Thomas~The .com- mercial fisherman has to have his wits about him this season to handle the cisco herring run. Reports from nearby fishing points state the cisco are behaving in an un unusual fashion, due to unseasonably mild weother. In previous years they have gone down to the lake bot. tom, but this season ciscoes are being caught within six feet of the surface. * +» Ceoston--Judge Frances J. Good has committed Mrs, L, Grooms, 47, former W.A.C. lieutenant, charged with the ice-pick slaying of her husband, Otis, 50, to the Boston State Hospital. Ae report from the Boston Psychopathic Hospital said she suffered delusions that made her "pathologically jealous", Grooms was found dead in the couple's apartment last September, London ~PWiiihen making emergency repairs in front of the city hall were getting no- where with the frost-soaked as- phalt until one of them thought of the flame thrower used to kill weeds last summer, It soft- ened the stubborn asphalt quickfly and the job was finish. ed in a few hours, IN OUR TIME By Howie Hunt yr on terprisen Howe \ wal, 2-4 "Ronald has been experimenting for years but this is the only one that paid "Admirer" Compliments Windsor Windsor, Dec. 4. -- (CP)-- Wind- sor, with its "dingy little rat-trap" ing gr " for a city ; a A Bi with modern on his counters operating ancient and unpainted storefront, Gerald M, Brown, Toronto adver- tising executive, told the Kiwanis Club in an address here. Mr, Brown, a former Windsor re- porter, who spoke as an admirer of the city, said the "decripit smoke- station and the city hall that look- ed like a poorhouse, were due to be abandoned when he (first saw Windsor 27 years ago. The city hall had been condemned 40 years earl- ler as a public school and "wpuld be a disgrace to a town of 10,000." Nothing had been done, although su Councils and Chambeds of Commerce had talked about a new City Hall and urged a new sta- tion on the Canadian National Railways and the federal govern- ment, The station was "bad public rela- tions, bad for the C.N.R., even worse for Windsor, and bad, more- over, for the whole country since this is a border city and one of the biggest ports of entry for many thousands 0f Americans." Pistol Toting Cleric Bailed Bath, N.Y,, Dec, 4 -- (AP) --A negro pastor from Corning, N.Y. was free on $2,600' bail today, on charges of carrying and use of a dangerous weapon in connettion with a shot fired at a church "peace meeting." Rev. Samuel Day, 28, pastor of the Friendship Negro Baptist Church, waived examination when arraigned before Steuben County Judge, George A. King, Police sald the minister sald he took a .22 calibre revolver from a brief-case after fighting broke out Saturday in a congregational meet- ing, which members said had been called to settle dissention among the church members, Police sald the gun was discharg- ed as the pastor and a church member grappled to quell a general melee, The bullet lodged in the ceiling, Yule Is Over For This Tot Cambridge, Mass, Dec, 4. -- (AP) --Christmas has come and gone for four-year-old Frankie Kajinski -- probably the last he'll observe. Informed by the family physician that the little victim of acute lymphatic leukemia hasn't a chance to live until Christmas, his parents held his Yuletide party yesterday. There was a gaily decorated tree with a lot of gifts beneath it and a birthday cake with four candles nearby, . "Of course," sald his courageous mother, "we let him have al he wanted for this Christmas celebra- tion--even a tricycle. We know Jeu never have a chance to ride Would Request Fixed Assessment Kingston, Dec, 4. --(CP)--George De St. Remy of Kingston Town- ship said here, he will make applica- tion at the next meeting of the Kingston Township Council for a fixed assessment for the Frontenac Development Corporation, which proposes to contract for 160,000 ac- res of land in the township for raising sugar beets. He sald a plant would be erected for process- ing the beets and that application has been made to the C.N.R. for a spurline, . Reeve R. B, Gibson said Mr, St. Remy would be given an opportun- ity to present his application to council at a meeting later this week and if council endorsed the plan, township ratepayers will have to approve it by special vote, Denies Fighting With Germans London, Dec, 4. -- (CP)--James Brady, 26-year-old native of Eire, denied before a court martial here that he had "voluntarily" served with the German Waffen 8.8. He pleaded guilty to deserting from the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the field. Brady was sentenced to 18 months months imprisonment for striking an Isle of Guernsey policeman in June, 1939. He was left behind when his regiment left Guernsey ahead of the Germans, early in the war, The prosecution charges that Brady, in a confession, admittea serving with the Germans and was wounded on the Russian front, 'Neighbourliness' Costs $100 Fine Windsor, Dec. 4. -- (CP) -- Mrs. Ola L. Lankin, 34, operator of a tourist home at Colchester, was fin ed $100 and costs for illegal Poss= Saion of Yaugr-of what her coun- sel ca er "spirit of he borliness," ? 5°00 nels Counsel, Murray Yuffay, sald that, in the spirit of good neigh- borliness, Mrs. Lankin had. loaned liquor to neighbors who had repald with different brands. That was why four bottles found by police could not be accounted for. Col- chester is 25 miles south of Wind- sor, AID DISPLACED STUDENTS International Student Service serves many of the 6,000 displaced students in the two UNRRA uni- versities at Munich and Hamburg and in other German universities. Byrd and Staff Before Departure for Antarctic grimed monstrosity" of a railway | Admiral Richard E. Byrd, famed Antarctic explorer, is shown' with members of his staff in Washington, D.C., as they completed final arrangements on eve of their departure on an expedition to the Antarctic polar regions, Seated, left to right, are Capt, Richard H. Cruzen, task force commander of the expedition; Admiral Byrd and Capt, George J, Dufek, commander of task force, east group, Standing are Capt. Robert 8, Quack- enbush, Jr., chief staff officer, left, and Capt. Charles A, Bond, commander of task force, west group, Expedi- 3on Yiars include use of an aircraft carrier from which planes will be launched by jet power in unprece- den tests. L SWEET JOB attorney-general, has been appoint- | order are two sugar loaves. The Kingston-on-Thames, England -- | ed recorder of Kingston-on-Thames. | post involves no work since the rec- (CP) -- Bir Hartley S8hawcross, the | Traditional emoluments of the rec- | order never sits, MDs, Dentists Said Needed Calgary, Dec, 4, ~~ (CP) --Cana- da has a shortage of 4,000 doctors, 6,000 dentists, innumerable nurses and $176,000000 worth of hospitals and equipment for the doctors, den- tists and nurses, George Hoadley of Toronto, president and general manager of the Health Study Bu- reau, sald in an address to the Al- berta Wheat Pool convention in session here. Mr, Hoadley was Health and Ag- riculture Minister in Alberta's Un- ited Parmer Government, The greatest shortage of doctors, dentists, nurses and hospital facili- ties is in rural areas, he said, INSIDE ONTARIO Hamilton, Dec, 4, ~ (CP) -- One of Ontario's oldest and most widely known magistrates, James H, Campbell, of St. Catharines, has been retired from office at the age of 15 years, A former partner in the law firm of Lancaster and Campbell, B8t, Catharines, his father being the father of E. H. Lancaster, K.C,, pre- sent Crown Attotney for Lincoln County, Magistrate Campbell was appointed to office in 1908, and has presided since that time at B8t, Catharines and at other points in Lincoln, Commission Aids New Industries Brantford, Dec, 4. -- (CP) =~ Brantford's industrial commission was directly responsible or helped in locating nine new Industries in Brantford this year, it was shown in a commission report to city coun- cil. The Industries, ranging from manufacture of ladies' blouses to cement blocks, employ 200 persons, 'Crock' Boast Is Expensive Kitchener, Dec, 4, = (CP) --Dis~ missal' by the public utilities come mission of Frank Fluvian, bus op- erator and president of division 1260, Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees-of America, was confirmed in a decision delivered by Judge J. C. Reynolds, Kingston, special arbitrator, Fluvian was discharged in Aug~ ust for remarks made to other em ployees of the transportation ser- vice, that he had told the manage ment he was short in his run mone ey because he "bought a crock." Judge Reynolds accepted the story told by inspector J. C. Bieth and re- lief dispatcher Oscar Vogt that Flue. vian had boasted "I got away with it." Both the union and the commis sion agreed that the decision of the arbitrator would be accepted as fin al by both sides, The commission and the union divide the costs equally, Pen More Deadly Than A-Bomb , Paris, Dec, 4 -- (CP) -- The atomic bomb places fourth in a list of the world's most potent wea~ pons, Prof. Frederick J, Currie said the two most dangerous wea- pons are--not the atomic bomb, warplanes or guns -- but "science and journalism." He added that the tiny microbe might be more deadly than its much tinier constituent, the atom. Prof, Currie did not amplify his remarks, rp stm ssn TT a We are Happy to. Announce the. Delivery. of. NEW G. FIGHTING PUMPER To The Fire Department of The Town of Whitby Above is shown Harry Bennett, Manager of Donald Motor Sales and the new fire fighting unit which was delivered to the Whitby Fire Department yesterday afternoon. Mr. Bennett is loud in his praise of this fine new fire department pumper and regards the addition to the department as a distinct asset to the town of Whitby. | ' 300 DUNDAS ST. E. WHITBY This is one of the finest pieces of fire fighting equipment available and it is an honor for Donald Motor Sales to have been chosen to secure this vehicle for the Whitby Fire Department. Whitby citizens can well be proud of this new addition to the fire fighting facilities of our community. PHONE 304 | DONALD MOTOR SALES