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DAR AJAX END DISTRICT NEWS John Mills, Representative Phone Pickering 355-J-3 MEMBERS OF AJAX NEW POLICE FORCE .~ The new municipal police force -%ook over the poli¢ing of Ajax *on March 1 consists of five men. Left to right, Chief Constable, H. Traves; Sergeant, L. Hockley; Constable G. Channing and Con- stable H. Hedlund. Constable Al- bert Kitchen was not present when the photo was taken, being on duty. Photo by John Mills. PICKERING'S FIRST VILLAGE COUNCIL ho « Above are the members of the * Pickering Village Council who will take office Monday, March 16, Back row, Grant Messer, C. ' 1 L] ' ' ] ! 1 \ \ ] ' ' 1] ' ' \ { A Y ' Bray; H. Purvis; front, John Bal- sdon, Cyril Morley, Reeve. Mr. Morley received an acclamation the four council members were elected on March 9 in the newly constituted village's first elec- tion. Photo by John Mills OFFICERS OF AJAX ROTARY CLUB WILLIAM SCARFF President | GEORGE LAWRENCE Vict President Rotarians Elect Their Directors For 1953-54 i ! AJAX (Times-Gazette Staff Re- | porter; -- The new directors of : Ajax Rotary have been elected «and these officers will meet short- ily to elect from their number the + president, vice-president and ap- 1 point a secretary and treasurer. The new directors are Bolton Fal- « by, Wm. Scarff, Robert Hunt, +R. W. Hill, George W. Finley, { George Lawrence, Don Kemp and Past President R. Conant. Ajax Rotarians will celebrate their second anniversary on March 17 with a grand evening's enter- tainment in Rotary Hall. As a serv- ice club this young organization has already proved its value in this young town. This year marks the first time the club has under-| taken the sale of seals to assist crippled children. The campaign is well underway and has receiv- ed very generous support. Soldier Returns Home On Compassionate Leave AJAX (Times-Gazette Staff Re- r) -- Due to arrive in Ajax morrow, Sgt. Alex (Sandy) Me- Intyre of the 27th Brigade, station- ed in Germany is being flown home « on compassionate leave. Mrs. Mc- + Intyre, mother of three daughters, ' the youngest only eight days old, ! has n told by her doctors that , she must return to hospital for fur- , ther treatment. + Sergeant McIntyre is a veteran t of the second World War and re- , enlisted in the permanent force, , and went to Germany in November, + Army authorities acted without + delay to €xpedite the solder's re- ; turn home when the were informed ,of the distressing situation com- ; fronting his family. Mrs. McIntyre 0 is quite cheerful and happy to kn i that her husband will soon be home Main, She 1 Sok Sure nat he h as yet received wor at his latest 1 daughter has arrived. t ' ' » ' ] : Rjax Rotary Club ' : [J . : Names Officers i ATAX (Times-Gazette) -- | Scarfl was Tohostn president of , Ajax Rotary today, Geo. Lawrence J&8 vice-president, and Jack Sand- seqrstany EE Mrs. E. McIntyre, grandmother | of the children, has been caring for | her daughter-in-law and the chil- ren. Arrangements for their con- inued care will be made when Sgt. McIntyre arrives home. The McIntyre's have lived Ajax three. and a half years, and previously in Toronto. Mrs. McIn- tyre came to Canada seven years ago as a war bride. Sgt. McIntyre {was born in Toronto and met his wife while on visit to Scotland to see relatives, later we found out that our grandmothers were sisters, | The new baby is a bonnie girl, {and her two older sisters, Heather, |age 6.and Lorna, 4, do not know | | their father is coming home or that | mother is going to hospital. | ~ LONDON (CP)--Herbert Morse of New Scotland Yard's special ch has died at 63. Working as a translater, he could speak 23 languages. | The new executive will take of- fice in July. All three of these men have been very active in Ro- tary and other community work. Mr. Scarff is president of the Volunteer Firemen Association, and more recently manager for the | affirmative side of the liquor vote. | | George Lawrence is president of | the Ajax and Pickering General | | Hospital Board. | Jack Sanders is local Evdxe men- and has JACK SANDERS Secretary Provincial Grant $3,400 To Hospital AJAX (Times-Gazette] -- The Ajax and Pickering General Hos- pital fund received a welcome boost from Premier Forst's bud- get when it was announced. that the new 34-bed hospital was eligible for a further $3,400 grant which will be additional to the regular grants. George Lawrence, hospital board chairman, said today. It is most welcome, we will need every cent to complete our project and assure a sound financial condition. Joint Birth Notice Saves Couple Money BOWMANVILLE (CP) -- A Bow- manville couple announced Thurs- day the birth of a daughter and grandson in the same birth notice in the town's weekly newspaper, the Canadian Statesman. The birth notice reads: 'Van- stone--Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van- stone are happy to announce the birth of their daughter Debora Charlene, born January 28 in Me- morial Hospital, Bowmanville, also their grandson, Elroy John, born February 3, 1953, to Mr. and Mrs. John Trimble. CLAN CHIEF DIES CAMPBELTOWN, Scotland (AP) --Col. Alexander MacDougall, chief of the MacDougall clan and Thane of Argyll, died Friday at his home in- Dunlollie castle, He was 81. He is succeeded by his eldest daugh- ter, Mrs. Grahame Thomson, who bears the hereditary title of the Maid of Lorn. ager and since coming here ha participated in community affiars a mitinem 8 Vudu ii Wind ROTALY Archie Simmeraker, 16-year- old student at Ontario Training School for Boys, tightly grasps the Rotary Club Trophy awarded annually to the boy showing most strength of character, presented to him yesterday for 1952 by Ro- tarian Dave Morrison at the club luncheon meeting held at 54 King Street East. Archie, epitome of modesty, examples the type of READERS' VIEWS : "ia A CLUB TrOrPdY quiet person with an underlying moral fiber, but was pressed to admit that the award came to him because of attention to stud- ies, general work around training school buildings, and participa- tion in such manly sports as soc- cer, baseball, and floor hockey. He was accompanied to the Ro- tary Club meeting by school sup- erintendent J. J. Brown. Times-Gazette Staff Photo. | Confused Youth Writes On Ajax Liquor Issue The Editor, The Times-Gazette. things that has got Dad confused. an election campaign about 60 Sir,--I am worried. You see we | But there is something else that are having a vote next Monday | has muddled us all up. about liquor or something here in Ajax, and I don't think Mom and Dad know what to think or how to | they're against vote. In fact I really do not know whether most Moms and Dads are even thinking. I know my Mom and Dad are talking a lot about this vote b,ut they seem so con- fused. | | It seems that even some of the good people around town who say "this thing" do not know quite what they think. Dad read from the paper last night where one of these leaders said he's '"'strongly neutral' about part of this voting. I wonder what he means. I thought neutral meant 1 understand that the reason for | 'half-way between" or that one the vote is to see if we can have [doesn't have any opinion at all! that big, beautiful hotel with the | Does that mean that he is "'strong- good looking man managing it, like the picture showed in an Ajax paper last night. But I do not know why they have to vote about that, if hotels are as nice as they look. Or is there something bad about hotels, that that good looking man does not wan{ to tell us about??? Maybe that's what Johny was talking about the other day. Johny is the nice little boy who lives in the tiny house with no porch on it at the end of our street. I feel sorry for Johny. His clothes are always rather shabby and he seems to be small for his age. He seemed to be always cold last winter, too, was nice and warm. Anyway, he told me that his dad came home the other night acting awful funny and "beat-up" his mommy. He says it .was just awful what he looked like, and that there was a queer sweetish smell] about him that he always. noticed when he came home acting like that. I've noticed that smell around their house too. I do not like it. Johny says that his dad was "drunk" and I think he said that he got like that after being at the swell looking new place down the highway. I wonder if that place could be a hotel? If it is, I hope we don't have one of those in Ajax. Well, anyway, that's one of the Coronation Draw Held To Assist Easter Seal Fund AJAX -- On Tuesday evening, March 17, Bruce McGregor, who this year represents "Timmy" on the Easter seals campaign post- ers, will reach in the drum for a | ly of no opinion"?? That would mean that these good people are "strongly weak," and that does not sound sensible. Daddy says that people who have no opinion are like jelly-fish or something. They seem like such nice people though. I think that they must be confused too. Yet that is the way they are talking and I just do not know what to think. Listen, Mr. Editoy, you are a smart man. Is this vote about letting "strong drink" like Johny's father uses, be sold in our town? If that is what it is, would you tell everybody clearly, so they'd know enough to vote it out of our town. I know that if all the dads even though I|and moms knew that this was the issue that they would sure be mad about it and soon beat it bad. Thanks very much ~for taking time to read my letter, Mr. Editor, and I.do wish you would help to straighten up the minds of all the confused parents in Ajax. AJAX YOUTH. (Ed. Note. ~The vote in Ajax on Monday is to decide, in eight different votes, whether beer, liquor and wine shall be sold in the community in (1) a govern- ment liquor store; (2) a brewers' warehouse; (3) a wine store; (4) women's beverage rooms; (5) men's beverage rooms; (6) res- taurants; (7) cocktail lounges; (8) cocktail bars.--Editor.) pleasure to spme lucky: couple in the form of a trip to England to os Ye coronation of Queen Eliza- eth. The draw will be made at a con- cert in Rotary Hall, sponsored by Ajax Rotarians to celebrate their second year as members of Rotary International. All proceeds from this event will be used in their work in the district--especially for crippled children. ' Want to buy, sell or trade? A ticket that will bring a great deal of | Classified Ad and the deal is made. BOWMANVILLE REPRESENTATIVE--HENRY HOLFORD THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Saturdsy, March M, 1008 § AND DIST CT PHONE 881 < WORK DISPLAYED AT "KOPPER KARNIVAL" A hand-hooked mat, made by Mrs. C. Gatchell, an oil-painting on glass by Mrs. Geo. Travail, Oshawa, and 'Colonial Lady" Mrs. T. Buttery, 1st vice-presi- dent, were some of 60 prizes displayed yesterday at Bowman- ville Women's Institute's "Kop- per Karnival," held at Lions' Community Centre. Mrs. Buttery above, was one of many ladies who sold draw tickets yesterday at a penny each. The numbered tickets 'were placed in cans by the buyers -- one can for each prize -- with winning numbers later drawn by Mayor Morley Vanstone. Quilts, teacloths, cus- hions, aprons, and baby sets were other prizes made by ine stitute members for the '"Karni- val," conducted yesterday by president, Mrs. C. Johns, assist- ed by secretary, Mrs, R. Cand ler. Proceeds will be divided among Kinsmen Club, Memorial Hospital Campaign Fund, and Women's Institute. Bowmanville Man Had Relic Of First Prime Minister When Roy Thomson, Progressive- Conservative candidate in the newly - formed riding of York Centre, goes on the political war- path he will carry a piece of wam- pum in his pocket for good luck. This piece, about the size of a half dollar, is a token given by Sir John A. Macdonald to Frank C. Pethick, of Bowmanville, during | ago Yer, Pethick who is in his 82nd | Mr, year didate. A lifetong Tory (he is met is an uncle of the federal can- | i too fond of the appellation *Con- |: servative" or "Progressive-Conser- |: vative") he recalls the day in Bow- | 4 manville about 60 years ago when |sir John A. Macdonald came | {through on an election campaign. He handed the youn apprentice | barber, who even en was 8| Tory, one of the light, white metal tokens. ONLY ONE IN EXISTENCE The token is inscribed, on one | side, "The Dominion Must And Shall Be Preserved" and on the other "The Old Man: The Old Flag: The Old Policy; Our Coun- try For Ever'. Its owner, who has turned it over to Mr. Thomson with the admonition that he always keep it, does not think there is another in Sikicnes. BORN IN Born in Oshawa Mr. Pethick still operates his barber shop and in- surance business on Bowmanville's main thoroughfare. He has lived Bowmanville for 80 years and has been an active worker far the Tory party for most of his adult Hfe. | Elections are not the same How | {though in his opinion. They have | become tame affairs and to an |old timer who recalls the .early| days, lost much of their savour. "I remember back in the days | |of open voting," Mr. Pethick re- "GOING ON ABOUT TOWN Jeanne Elizabeth Paisley, daugh- ter of Mrs. Irene Paisley, 333 St. Clements Avenue, Toronto, form- erly of Bowmanville and the late S. P. Paisley, will be married at St. James-Bond United Church, Avenue and Willowbank Blvd., Toronto, to Fraser Fred- erick McNair, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. R. McNair, at 7 p.m. on April 9. "Too much publicity brings so many letters that a private secre- itary is needed to handle corres- | pondence, says Frank Pethick, lo- {cal barber, who has been storied in McLean's Magazine, besides more than one newspaper® With Jone of the oldest barber shops in Canada, having celebrated a gol- den wedding anniversary four years ago and having been a mem- | ber of Town Council here. Mr. | Pethick has received letters of jist boloh ke NARD fo Europe} Getting there is half the Fun! | Long is the dull minute . . . short the pleasant hour ; i: and happy the days spent amidst the luxuries of a Cunard crossing to Europe. Whether business responsibilities or an active travel program lie ahead, the fun you share . . . the healthful relaxation and bright conviviality make time your servant--not your master--when you cross the Atlantic with Cunard. Weekly summer sailings through the historig St. Lawrence + + « regular departures from Halifax during the winter... yecr-round sailings from New Yorkinclude the world'slargest steamers "Queen Elizabeth" ond "Queen od THE CUNARD STEAM-SHIP COMPANY LIMITED HEAD OFFICE: CORNER BAY & WELLINGTON STS., TORONTO, ONT. HISTORIC COIN called. 'There was a big platform in Bowmanville where the town hall now stands and you went up to the Returning Officer who said, 'How do you want to vote, Grit or Tory'. You told him and that's all there was to it." RECALLS DONNYBROOK On one occasion, he said, a reg- ular donnybrook broke out when in|a group of men who were riding into town on a bandwagon hired he said, "it has never been the same since the women were ab lowed into it. So far as I am con- cerned I don't think they should ever have been given the vote, they do is destroy ballots or kill their husband's vote." When "Sir John A" came through Bowmanville 60 years ago no one knew that he would be re- garded as one of the nation's great cemfwy y mwmmf mvbg bgkk statesmen. He was just another politician on an election trip. Even | then though, said Mr. Pethick, he . |thought he saw the seeds of great. [ness in the man and for that reas |son he always hung on to the metal token as a souvenir, "I am sending it to you," Mw, Pethick said in his letter to Mr. Thomson. If you carry it with you you will certainly win your seat in the next election." 4 Candidate Thomson certainly hopes so. TI TABLETS by one party decided to vote for | the other faction. In the resulting fight the platform was overturned, the wagon broken up and the poll- ing subdivision generally wrecked. A man of very definite and some- what salty opinions. Mr. Pethick reminisced as he lathered a cus- tomer for a shave. "Of course," congratulations and inquiry from all over the country. 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