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Mayor Karl Eyre and the four memâ€" bers of Timmins council who refused to attend the public meeting called in the Empire theatre Sunday evenâ€" ing â€" councillors Quinn, Fay, Bailey and Quesnel were the subject of slashâ€" ing criticism by R. A. Lachance, m- ternational organizer of the 1U. M. | MSW. who acted as chairman at thel meeting. | Only attend "The absence of the mayor, Mr. Quesnel, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Quinn and Mr. Fay from this meeting is an orâ€" ganized insult to the people of Timâ€" mins," Mr. Lachance declared. "And make no doubt about it, it is organâ€" ized. These gentiemen stayed away to save face. We have maintained all along that they were reluctant to have the facts known about the bus situation." declaring erning buy rescinded He said that his letters invitng counâ€" cil to attend had brought negative replies from Mayor Eyre and Counâ€" cillor Quesnel and that "the others did not even bother to phone or come to our office or to write". ‘"Mayor Eyre doesn‘t even give us an excuse in his reply. You would think he would at least have the finâ€" esse to give some sort of alibi," the union organizer said. "Organized Insult" R. A. Lachance Says He said that Councillors Del Vilâ€" lano and Aubry were the members of council who were courageous, rather than the other members who had been praised for courage in an editorâ€" ial in the local daily. "These two gentlemen have taken the hard way in favor of the people of Timmins. As far as the courage of the others is concerned, when they took the vote on the bylaw they were simply trembling with bravery. When they put up their hands they could hardly hold them steady," he said. "Last year on the recommendation of the transportation committee 1 voted for bylaw 1027. I thought it would benefit the people of Timmins MRA OAAA MA LR q N Amaw mA A 4 1 6 o s o it 4i P L 4 PA e Phe Hydroâ€"Electric Power Commission of Ontario representatives of council to rere Leo Del Villano and Urâ€" ry, who had stood alone in 3 that bylaw No. 1027 govâ€" us fares should not have been ‘ine Nt, «â€"Recend Ave Second Section © Save all the celectricity you can to help maintain peak production in Ontario‘s facâ€" tories and farms, Your allâ€"out coâ€"operation is needed. Electric heaters place a heavy strain on your Hydro system. As an example: a 1320â€"watt portable air heater requires as much electrical energy in one hour as would be required to light twentyâ€"two 60â€"watt lamps for the same timse Greater voluntary savings must be made by all consumers, Please do your part «P h P P PC C a|Exâ€"Mayor, Bartleman a | Always In Agreement v\On Bus Fare Bvlaw then and still think it will now. I said what I felt â€"at meeting of counvcil.. I would lxke to see the byâ€" law brought batk,. flfla Â¥ and enforeâ€" ed." said counmll'o‘l"DEI Villano m a brief * al\»ays try: to thmh o.[ thc othcx {fellow‘" aheadâ€" of myself, "~said Counâ€" cillor Aubry. ~ I dont believe: that the bylaw should" havc ev'm been rescinded."_ He said" that if hns opinâ€" ion on the bylaw had not: b%en made the bylaw. should Jhave ;ever;, been rescinded." He said" thatâ€" if his. opinâ€" ion on the bylaw had not b@en made clear when voting on the> nia(tbr took place it was due to lack: of parliaâ€" mentary . experience. He would â€" ask to haveâ€" his vote»â€"registered positively in the negative at the next meetmg,l of council, he said. "We have to give justice to everyâ€" one", he said. "Rest assured that I am very sincere and honest with you." The sight of exâ€"Mayor J. Emile Brunette and exâ€"Councizor James P. Bartleman standing on the same platform and in agreement on their subject was something of a bombshell to the three hundâ€" red persons who attend the public meeting â€" concerning â€" bus â€" fares which took place Sunday in the the mayor one on the matter Published in Timmins, Ont., Canada EV THURSDAY Timmins s the â€" never ‘ cleaning ‘the local cengtaph for passed till December 22. Perhaps 1 visit of Major General C. E. Price shouldn‘t say what was the cause 0 n iX this delay but I am going to . .. Mr. Dalton was going to give us 12 or 15 acres of" land near the ‘town.= We [ were waiting to have this . transfer made before the bylaw was passed. When the transfer wasn‘t made by the | year‘s end, we had to pass the bylaw ‘in justice to the people .. I don‘t : \believe that transfer has been madcl When â€" doughty, â€" squareâ€"jawed J. Emile Brunette, mayor of Timmins for seven consecutive years, who reâ€" tired last Dccember, stepped to the platform of the Empire theatre Sunâ€" day evening to declare that Bylaw No. 1027 concerning bus fares should never have been rescinded the entire argument which has been raging in recent weeks concerning the bylaw changed complexion. * Exâ€"Mayor Supports Miners Mr. Bunette flntly declared that! members of the 1948 council wrong in rescinding the bylaw and that if he had been mayor this year year it would still be in effect. | "I don‘t like to criticize but I am | going to criticize," Mr. Brunette stat-% ed. "I am going to try to be as con-{ structive as I can. The battle is oni so I might as well get these thm;,s! out He said that the 1947 transportation committee had consisted of two memâ€" bers from Timmins, two from Tisdale and two ‘rom Whitney and that the action of the committee had been quite successful in getting fares reduced in the areas outside of Timmins. "Once these concessions were obâ€" tained the outside members of the committee didn‘t display much inâ€" terest. Our only resort in Timmins was to put the bylaw through to get the rates down," he stated. He said that the bylaw had originâ€" ally been discussed at a meeting of council last November 12 and that the town solicitor had been instructed to draw it up. ; "I don‘t blame the town clerk for ‘the delay in putting the bylaw, in the hands of ‘the police," Mr. Brunette declared. ‘"He must have been told ;not to and to leave the matter as it was. He was called by the authorâ€" ities, no doubt, and told to leave it there." _ _ He said that he did not blame town \ clerlk Victor Salomaa for the delay ! between the time the bylaw was passâ€" ‘ed and the time it was enforced. ttPohce took action under the bylaw \against two Dalton bus drivers Janâ€" uary 13). f "Then there are the two sets of figâ€" ures which Mr. Quinn obtained from ‘Dalton First Dalton handed in one \set of figures that aren‘t acceptable tan.d then he handed in 2nother. That‘s | Dalton for you. Most people say |\ Dalton started his business with a ‘horse and buggy and still runs his business in the same way."‘ Later, in a question and answer perâ€" jod, the subject of the land which \ proposed to donate to the town was further discussed. "The point is that that bylaw should have been put through in November and it would have been if the transâ€" fer of land from Mr. Dalton was not held up. The bylaw was not an elâ€" ection gag or anything like it, as some claim." "I don‘t see why council should make a survey about the busses for a private individual whose own job it is. I think Mr. Quinn was far too kind in running around making a surâ€" vey for Dalton . .. If I had been in the bylaw would have been in force and Dalton would have been there with his own survey to protest. I don‘t see why Mr. Quinn made thxs survey at all. yet "What did Dalton‘s land have to do with the bylaw. How did it delay in passing it?" questioned a member of the audience. "We were afraid we wouldn‘t get the land if we passed the bylaw," James P. Bartleman replied, "It would be a nice piece of land for the town to have ... All councillors are not dumb, you know." "Was Dalton holding the.land over the council to prevent them from passing the bylaw?" was another question. "Dalton didn‘t hold the land over us. We wanted to get Dalton to sign over the land and we were merely waiting till he did. The delay was in the town solicitor‘s office, where they were waiting for him to sign. Dalton was definitely not holding the land over us," said Mr. Brunette. "If the town hasn‘t received the lsnd yet, do ‘you think it will get it now? Mr. Brunette (with a "lt should be easy to get now. The byâ€" law is rescinded. isn‘t it", T1 MMINS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 1948 | For the first time in his political |career here, Councillor Philip Fay assumed the post of acting mayor at, !this week‘s meeting of council. \__The short veteran of local politics | took over the rostrum in council ‘chambers when Mayor Karl Eyre left ?on other business in the mildle of the meeting Phil Fay is Acting Mayor For First Time In Career Records Wantonly Clipped At this week‘s council meeting the Canadian Legion thanked the town for cleaning the local cenotaph for the An â€" Advance reporiter delving about the Timmins Public Librâ€" ary made a discovery this week which is calculated to irritate and anger most residents of this disâ€" trict, particularly those who have been here since the early days of the camp. Precious old photographs _ of this district, the only ones of their kind, had been clipped from the reports of 1910, 1911, 1912%, and 1913. These photos, which comâ€" prise part of the authentic record of this district are a4rreplaceable. In the four reports more than 20 photos in all had been clipped and stolen. Forâ€" when thumbing â€" through the old reports of the Onitario Bureau of Mines, the reporter found that these reports had been attacked with a pair of scissors by some unscrupulous person or persons. FREEIO M «Mfen who Ihink of The figures presented by Councillor Barney Quinn in his transportation |report prior to the rescinding of the 'rnuch-debated bus bylaw were the subject of attack by James P. Bartleâ€" man from the platform of the Empire ‘theatre at Sunday evening‘s transâ€" portation meeting. "Mr. Quinn reported that it was two miles return from here to Holâ€" linger. "It is not", Mr. Bartleman stated, "It is just a mile. He said it was three and a half miles return to Schumacher. This figure is not corâ€" rect either. It is two and one half Get a map and measure it and you will find out." "They have gone out of their way to plug for Dalton. Mr. Quinn said in his report that he couldn‘t figure out himself what the correct bus fares were so he asked Dalton to tell him what to charge. "There is really a sort of conspirâ€" acy going on in council, a council which pledged itself to protect the interests of underâ€"priveleged children of this town. Who can say that Dalâ€" ton is an underprivileged child?" clauâ€" ghter). | i e on "They are plugging for Dalton, alâ€" right. They get his figures and say Isn‘t Two Miles To Hollinger â€" â€" â€" CANADA‘S NEW DEFENSES it ~ fakki® â€" THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAN The HONOURABLE BROOKE CLAXTON Limited number of Tickets available at SUTHERLANDS DRUG STORE, HALPERIN‘S JEWELLERY STORE McelIntyre Gymnasium SATURDAY, MARC H 6th, 7.15 P.M. Publisbhed in Timmins, Ont., Canads '|'|u-rv'.~' fl't‘ml()lll nf Ther I'v.s'punail»ilil_\' for what w« sibility is ours to see that others aren There are lots of freedoms, and they all have We can‘t enjoy it without r('hlu)ll.-ibiliiivs to our Familu moderatels "reedom, like anything worth having, carries a price tag. The freedom to use whiskey for instancs Phat carru orcupine McGill Graduate‘s Society the House of Seagram has EVERY THURSDAY and you will find out." ‘"They have gone out of their way to plug for Dalton. Mr. Quinn said in his report that he couldn‘t figure out himself what the correct bus fares were so he asked Dalton to tell him what to charge. "There is really a sort of conspirâ€" acy going on in council, a council which pledged itself to protect the interests of underâ€"priveleged children of this town. Who can say that Dalâ€" ton is an underprivileged child?" clauâ€" ghter). freedom to worship as w« Minister of Defense under the auspices of the or nol $2.00 per ticket threeâ€"fold rv.~pu||-il»i|il_\: to ourselves will speak on ind to our communmth Medertlin Jaézy il('l'(‘l and we have to acs im4€ J ting its responsibilities. often said, it is to drink they are right and I R®w they are not. Their caution reminds me of the the travelling parson who stole the bottle from the baby then got down on his knees and thanked the Lord for giving him the strength to do it ‘The 1947 council dd the right 1hmg and" there was no reason to change it. He said that the Dalton company had itself set the rate of four tickets for a quarter between South Porcuâ€" pine and Dome and Domeâ€"Ex and that this distance was greater than that between Timmins and Schumacher. Single Copyâ€"Five Cents and the responâ€" cuted, cither,. their the