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aT -- m Quiet Little Oakville Becomes [#7 mau building, symbol of the hectic & Important Industrial Centre ==" By od LEVETT | Strategic location is given 25/400,000 five years ago; $20,000,000, Now, running in a belt around Canadian Press Staff Writer |one reason planners forecast thattoday. | the seven-mile border, are factor- OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP)--It took Oakville - Trafalgar will becomne| "There was opposition," says st : il 90 years for Oakville to build up a part of a "golden horseshoe" to|the Ford executive. '"'Along mi. 1e8 producing or ass amb ling solid 4,000 population and a renu- stretch from Oshawa 122 miles|lionaires' row there were rumors Plumbing goods, radio - active tation as a quiet town where rich around the west end of the lake io|that we were going to build a noisy gauges, radiators, dental devices, % imen lived. Niagara Falls. foundry, that we were going to|tools and dies, paper products, Next year, when it celebrates FORCED TO EXPAND import 3,000 Negroes from th'e|plastics and women's toilet ar- its 100th birthday, Oakville will] An executive of Ford explained | southern United States, that there ticles. mark an industrial revolution why his firm moved in-its assem- would be pollution. We "ad to con-| Contrasting with the stately which has zoomed its population|bly plant: vince them otherwise," In homes are modern commercial es- [to 10,000 earned it a reputation of/ '""We had to expand. Our capac-| another kind. bd ity at Oakville is 1,000 cars a| fms ae ON x IN iid 7, 0 | The mansions of industrialists week. At Windsor it was 300. It| ° -- : and financiers who commuted 22{takes between 2,000,000 and 2,500, miles to their Toronto offices a;e/000 gallons of water a day to giving way to the comfortable | build cars and Oakville sits right homes of workmen who toil for on Lake Ontario. You don't find Ford, Canadian General Electric,|400 acres of land just anywhere St. Lawrence Cement and other with access to water, railways, industries which have sprung up roads and a labor force.' on the town's doorstep. | The contrast is seen in down- INCORPORATED IN 1857 [town Oakville, where it is «rill Oakville is a story of contrasts. possible to buy an hour's parking It was laid out in 1830, incorpor- | for a nickel on Colborne street, i lated 27 years later as a strip, "Every zi lours," says assess- three miles long and two miles! ment commissioner Percy 3pur- wide along the northern shore of geon, *20,000 cars pour down that Lake Ontario | street, Its 1,000 acres are surrounded! "We're running out of land." by the 77,000 acres of Trafalgar! No more than 500 of Ford's 5,000 township which shares history, de-| Oakville employees live in the] ; : : : velopment and the future witn the immediate area. The rest com-| Wg 4 : 3 refreshing i town mute from as far away as Braat- I's v While Oakville was growing ford, 42 miles to the southwest. ¢ x i in from 4,000 to 10,000, Trafalgar] But the growth has brought 3 : ic OLOGNES township was mushrooming from problems. In Oakville, where a| , § 6,000 to nearly 14,000 six 'man force made 72 arrests in| | ba i 4d 1 The Oakville-Trafalgar border is/ 1951. a 15-man force has arrested ik oe 2 vi - the main area of expansion whace nearly 200 persons so far this by : farmland and factories sit .ide-by-| vear + 9, rue de la Paix, Paris, France & sie and where the corer oc Fou crime is denies on 10 BRNG READY TO INSTRUCT NASSER | market. Brown. | United Nations commander | took effect last week. Advance Up to the end of September this TRAFFIC TROUBLES 3 it: year, a total of 982 permits have, The 20,000 cars daily pour across| Maj-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Of- imi a. og, hy y i . x : 3 Sgt 7 a : oe! p t , right, i i SUNKEN SHIPS BLOCK SUEZ CANAL the area. Of these, 100 were an he neavy: sathe. proton." 2 sine at Tel Aviv airport before | PCMISSion "from Nasser fo : R "keeping This aerial view of Port Said | vessels begin operations to clear gasoline rationing on December | President Gamal Abdel Nasser Oakville side of the line. Nearly, Schools are being enlarged and going to Egypt. Later, General peace. With Egyptian approval, shows some of the sunken ships | the waterway. Port Said is at | 17 to stretch its dwindling | is reported to have agreed on 200 permits for commercial con-inew ones buiit. The hospital has| Burns met with Egypt's presi- | Burns said, 10 observers from Ss 2 UN help for cicaring the artery, |struction were issued within the!been doubled in capacity. dent, Gamal Abdel Nasser, to | the Palestine truce supervision blocking the northern entrance | left. On November 20. 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