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\ To Lay Charges LONDON Union admitted Wednesday it is world never will ¢! it. Commissioner Ford USES U.S. METHODS k came. to the defence of when (AP) -- The Soviet Official Film RJAX AND DISTRICT NEWS John Mills, Representative Phone Ajax 426 using some United States training methods to get its rowers into top shape for the 1956 summer Olym pics in Australia. Shows Umpire > For Peddling AJAX (Times-Gazeite, Staff Re- porter -- Three peddlers of cook- for the umpires, . "You've got to No Artificial Stimulant Necessary At This Party : | AJAX (Times-Gazette, Staff Re-iof happiness, and there is the joy |porter) -- Tonight is New Year's|of helping others achieve the same [Reve, A night of rejoicing, of par- purpose. ties, of the exchange of good wish-; |es between friends, the making of| Alcoholics new resolutions, many of whichiknown, Its teachings and fellow-imy friends for the help they have ships is based on the .will be broken in days or a few weeks. The making of resolutions is la good sign in itself. It is an | acknowledgement that there are, in the lives of most of us, things that should be corrected. There will be one party in Ajax tonight that will be different. Dif- : [ferent because of the absence of : any artificial stimulant. It is the ' |seventh annual New Year's Eve : |party organized by Alcoholics An- / lonymous to be held in Ajax. Members of the organization will be present from many parts of Ontario, from Toronto, and places ® | even further west, from Port Hope and Cobourg, Lindsay, Peterbor- ough and Oshawa. In previous years, the party has been preceded by a sumptuous tur-| key dinner followed by a floor] {show and dance. TO OMIT DINNER | This year the dinner has been {omitted from the program. The| {evening's frolic will get under way| {at 8.30 p.m. in Rotary Hall. Ted Taylor's Orchestra will provide the {music and a real evenings enter- {tainment has been planned, with |spot dance prizes, a door prize. | There will be all the usual party] | favors. Just before midnight, the| Say Rotary Ideals Can ETRE Uhr Ease Tension In World | night the New Year will be usher- ed in with all due ceremony. It will be a happy party because| for everyone it constitutes a vic-| tory, a victory over self, 2flothes BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- The| fellow Rotarians took up a small Se' first sober New Years Evel ! final Rotary meeting of 1955 was|impromptu collection of odds and|for years. For others, it will bel Feld Friday with a tasty turkey| ends including paper clips, slugs another milestone passed in their dinner and a delightful background blotters, etc., as momentos of personal battle 'against alcoholism. of music. The information commit-|" occasion. | Happiness is most apparent to the tee of the local club took charge NEW MEMBERS | observer. There is mirrored one's . of the program and explained to. Two new members were brought) own personal joy in conquering the the club how Rotary ideals can into the club at the meeting. Ken- thing that was destroying any hope + ease world tension. | neth Morris, secretary - manager : One of the Rotary's Golden of the Chamber of Commerce, and Theatre phonograph records, 'The Lieutenant William Brown of the| + World We Know" was enthusias-|/Selvation Army were considered . tically received by the members./to have the qualifications to be This dramatic presentation clearly | Rotarians by all the members. | ' demonstrated how the Rotary code Three past presidents of the club, | "®ould be used as a blueprint for Walter DeGeer, Morley Vanstone world peace. |and Mel Dale acquainted the new | Dave Jorrison, chairman of the members with the Eesponzibiities « Information committee, acted as| and obligations of Rotary and Ro-| : dil « chairman of the meeting. Incident-|tarians. | porter) owl joad conditions was * ly Mr. Morrison retired yesterday| Visitors at the meeting were|2 contributing factor to a two car) afternoon from the Goodyear plant|Dr. Robert Shoemaker of Ottawa, c0llision at the intersection of Ma-| - where he has worked for severalland Paul Welliver, Williamsport,|Ple and Tudor Sireets in Ajax on + Years as a rubber chemist. His Penn. Friday morning. | WATER WAS COLD Cold Ducking for 71 years old | was riding crashed through the May Pyke of Kingston when she | ice. The elderly lady came up was thrown into the frigid wat | smiling and after a check at the ers of Lake Ontario when the | Kingston hospital she was al horse drawn sleigh on which she ' lowed to go home. BOWMANVILLE AND DISTRICT "Representative -- Ron Oke, 36 Silver Street MA 3-5537 Icy Road Causes Crash AJAX (Times-Gazette, Staff Re- | molished and $ INTERESTING LETTER delivered at a recent Alcoholics|W: ing ware were apprehended in Ajax on Friday. They told police that they were working for Met Sales Company. The three will be charged with peddling without a Voice Thanks For News Aid [3 AJAX (Times-Gazette Staff Re-| They are, Robert Frederick, porter) -- With the editor's per-l475 Grace Avenue, Toronto; Chris mission, I would like to step out of popovich, 34 Arnold Avenue, To-| ronto; and George Lowery, 227 Donald Avenue, 'Toronto. I The effectiveness of the work ofthe role of reporter, briefly to re- Anonymous is wellipress my. personal thanks to all rsonal ex-|given me in gathering news in the periences of its members of thelAjax and Pickering District during results of alcoholism. The power the past four years. of its philosophy, the lack of re-\ ype jnerease of daily circulation - Council Plans imination toward that fall : i . beside the wayside, no matter how | 10 700,50 Max alotie, 18 A Sood in. In augur al many times. The helping hand is / always extended for another try. hope the coming vear, will S€¢ & jax (fimesGazette, Staff Re 5 . porter) -- The inaugural meeting Here is an excerpt from a talk] News from this area reaches a Moscow radio's sports commen- tator Viktor Kuprianov said in a broadcast heard here the Ameri- cans had taught Soviet rowers Victori Ivanov and Ivor Buldakov one excellent lesson at England's Henley regatta last summer--"a rower has got to be in top phys- ical condition." I yf | Ivanov and Buldakov won the|giljy silver goblets for pairs a Heley. The Russians also won the Stew- ards Challenge Cup for fours ail ome in the sixth inning of the the Double Sculls Challenge Cup.| But the U.S. captured the two| {top trophies for eights. The Uni-/game. Plate umpire Bill Summers versity of Pennsylvania took the Grand Challenge Cup, the oldest prize at Henley; and the M chusetts Institute of Technology| of the 1956 town council will be|won tl Maybe Boobed NEW YORK (AP) -- Brooklyn "won" the world series again Thursday when the official movies were shown to New York baseball writers and guests of the big league clubs but the umpires lost a couple of decisions to the camera men. two pictures in the that game. One showed out, one showed him safe. umpires are in the best position see." you can believe the camera, | Martin of New York Yankees 'looked safe when he tried to s'eal said Yogi. first game and Jackie Robinson appeared out when he stole home in the eighth inning of the same tures, watched the plate called Martin out and Robinson|Martin. "The umpire c . safe and all the movies in the'out" was his only comment. the umpire is right behind the plate Se TIpise ight belting the Vista paper alter The to ee. . Jogi Berta, Yankee e Salchep who put up such a s Jequment when ? Robinson po 'safe, watched the movies. What he saw only strengthened his original be- lief. "I always thought I had him" Roy Campanella, Bi 6 catcher and only member of the Dodger team present at the pic- on him he Thames Challenge. held on Tuesday, January 3, at! ide circle of readers. I hope the 7.30 p.m. The oath of office will be be Anonymous meeting in Windsor. It|news and photographs have prov- deals with the experience of oneled of interest to all. man in finding help towards his! I hope the New Year will be one ton C. Falby. administered by Town Clerk Bol-| Mayor Elect, name the standing committees for, transacted at this first meeting. | Kin Smith will i | i p= + i recovery at Brookside Clinie and|of continued progress and prospe! Comparitively little b i willthe year. in the fellowship of A. ity for everyone. "My interest in this problem of | Sincerely, John Mills. alcoholism from a purely personal angle is, I suspect the same as the interest of any other alcoholic in| the AA. I am concerned with find-| ing a way to live decently with some measure of contentment and serenity and with the exclusion of| alcohol. A way of life I have not] The merchants of the town have known for many years. lagreed to present to the child a Now, in seeking that way of life wonderful array of gifts. The lis I examined Alocholics Anonymous ing is elsewhere in this issue. All in the light of my experieinces peing well we will publish the over some years of in-and-out pnotograph of both mother and membership and I reached these | hild in Tuesday's issue. conclusions: AA, is basic for all alcoholics and all types of alco-| holism; just a basic as going to/it was bed is basic for all types of|that showed the tremendous poten- pneumonia. There will never, intial of good, solid, responsible citi- any age, be an effort to combat zenship that has laid buried be: the illness alcoholism that will not|neath the cloak of the drunkard have been influenced by Alcoholics|for many decades. : Anonymous. No matter how much| I doubt if there is a walk of life| the medical profession learns today that is not honored by the about the illness, no matter if the| inclusion of at least one individual | research institutions wipe alcoho- who tries to live by the 12 steps lism from the face of the earth, of this program." WILL HONOR AJAX (Times-Gazette, Staff Re- |porter) -- Who will be the first baby to be born in the Ajax and | Pickering General Hospital? AA that blazed the trail, ICE CREAM for ONTARIO COUNTY, a 110 KING ST. E. IDEAL DA'RY LTD. is EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR for DUNCAN HINES IDEAL DAIRY LTD. meaning each year as again we wish all our friends and customers: A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR | | | CABINET MAKER WM. GENDRON 98 FERNHILL PHONE RA 5-5812 tT abe % a |done to a locomotive and switches Wednesday in a car-truck crash on the Sparrow lake road near Kahshe | | Street, driven by Raymond Chate- | {line, Concession 2, Pickering. al The Nefediew car was damaged | i A car driven oo Feodor Neted- JUMPED FROM TRUCK |lew, 14 Beech Street, was south- bound on Tudor when it collided Barons Blank! ORILLIA at) ruck was Yo: with an eastbound car on Maple P ort Hope siding. Morley Heidman of Kil-|to the extent of $90, and the Chate-| worthy, owner of the truck, and|laine car will cost $500 to repair BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- The an unidentifie. passenger said they|It was a 1955 model. The front ! Bowmanville Barons racked up alleaped fromthe stallel vehicle and|bumper, grill, fenders and head- 100 win over the last place Port/watched the northbound passenger (light were badly battered up. = Hope Redmen Friday night in Port|train crash into it, carrying the| No one was injured in the acci- Hope to maintain their first place truck 2,000 feet down the line. dent. oSition by two points over Co-| urg. George "Gunfighter" Heath play- - ed an outstanding game in the ! Bowmanville nets to earn the shut-| out. The next Barons' game will * be in Cobourg Friday, January 8, * and on the following day the Port Hope Redmen come to Bowman- ville. In other Lakeshore Intermedi- ate "A" games Cobourg blasted Orono 9-2 in Cobourg and the Lake- field Lumbermen won their fourth straight game by defeating Lindsay 42 up in Peterborough. Lakefield have now moved inte third place two points ahead of the Orono Orphans, CARDS SIGN MIZELL : ST. LOUIS (AP)--The signing of + lefthander Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell was announced Thursday by St. Louis Cardinals, and general manager Frank Lane put a half- *' million-dollar estimate on his +. value. The fireball pitcher, in the army 1, for the last two years, was signed + In Cuba where he is pitching for Havana in the Cuban Winter League. Lane cabled the Cardinal office i he feels the return of Mizell might be just what the shaky pitching staff needs. | SKATERS LEAVE NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. « Olympic speed skating team left + by air Wednesddy for a series of 1: meets in Europe leading up to the «+ Winter Olympic games, starting at #« Cortina, Italy, Jan. 26. The team 4 will have seven meets in Norway, «: one in Switzerland and one in Cor- tina prior to the games. HAVE YOU NOTICED YOUR OLD PLUMBING FIXTURES LATELY? For the NEW YEAR Whitefield's Sunoco Service Station Corner Ritson & Byng uy EN ET R veer re For QUALITY FIXTURES ora QUALIFIED PLUMBER Call i. B. 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