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: Daily Journal-Record Oakville Journal-Record. Monday, August 27 Children Quickly Learn To Swim Fine Instructors At Lions Pool Young Oak\ ille is taking to the the pool. They are in the * a(er water with g r e a t enthusiasm 40 minutes, taking instruction and these late summer days. Boys practicing. They also get a 20-miand girls by the score are being nute talk on water safety. As a taught to swim by expert insresult of this training there have tractors. and also receiving a · been no mishaps thorough training in the rules of DON'T T \ K I i B \ v r r e water safety. And they're having *We don't * let them take a a wonderful time doing it. > chance " said 27 . 1962 -- ' Irwin In From World Tour Keen On Building Designs Sir W m A youthful turned from architect has re a year-long trip round the world, filled with en thusiasm fo r foreign architec % & ' * * * & > tural ideas. Stephen Irwin. 1456 Lakesbore Highway E., came back this j month after a ' rip that took him to Europe, through the Orient and back to Vancouver. A graduate from the School o f Architecture at University of Toronto. Stephen started his tour by working from a Swedish architect. · W IN N IN G DKS1GN While there he won a Canadian competition for a service station design. " I tried to use new m a terials and new concepts," ex plained Stephen. He made a great use o f selfservice convenience, and added lots o f space for consumer.goods in coin machines. " A service station should do something for the community." he said. T o combat the conven- tional ` `sea of asphalt" he put in a 13 foot pedestrian strip, covered with a canopy, around the lotStephen feels the European public is ` `much m ore sensitive to architecture." Competitions help encourage this interest, he I said, : FAVORS CONTESTS said contests are " demo, cra tic" because they g iv e each : architect a chance to get a pro! Ject. "A n d the community gets · the best building." l>e added I ` "Curtain wall cities are losing their charater." explained Stephen. He said the large glass and steel buildings g iv e anony m ity to a city. Stephen strongly feels that buildings should be built for peopie. "Y o u need a building you can live with.' ' He accused many architects of being " gim m ickm en." "T h ey keep thinking' up new gimmicks to stay in the public eye." he said, "and don't have a chance WHERE, OH WHERE CAN THAT LITTLE SEAL BE? Jocko the elusive seal is still at liberty after another at tempt to recapture him tailed on Friday. The seal, which es caped from the Prudhomme Garden Centre zoo at Vineland last spring, was seen by Wal lace Booth, swimming in the lake off his property on Ar ( a breakwater. In swinging in to bour Drive, east of the Ninth shore, the launch struck a rock, Line. The Oakville Humane So severing a propeller shaft coup ciety was called, and a party ling. TTie disabled craft was set out in a TO W A R F rescue towed back to port by the launch to recapture J o c k o . launch Sharmar, owned by W il When the boat caught up with liam O'Mara. Meanwhile Jocko the seal he had climbed up on ' lay asleep on the breakwater. O. T. M. H: Not Affected I T0W ARF Tows In Slash Hospital Grants Drifting Boat Slashing of hospital grants from that no m ore hospitals or addi SC i.iK K i to $-1,000 per Ixul by Hal tions will be approved until the ton county council at its /August ratio o f beds reaches a figure of meeting will not n!T< ie fi- j less than 5.5 peryhousand popu -· bour D rive. Oakville phoned nancing o f the $3,300,()f>0( expan- ! lation. police saying that a boat: was sion program now in progress at d iiftin g out in the lake in front Oakville-Tral'algar Memorial Hos of her house. pital, Oakville Reeve Alec Phil The T O W A R F boat went out; lips, a member of the hospital's , and towed the boat to Oakville board of governors. harbour. ` `This addition was financed ( under the original bylaw, which is Three-vear-old Diane Polovich still in effect." said Reeve PhilGainsborough Dr., who was lips. "T h e new bylaw will not. bitten by a dog Iast week is More than 500 entries from I _ com ? 'before county council until making a good recovery. Dr. C. t j many partsof Canada and the I September. A grant o f Sl.lo8.000 ; 0 . Warr. who put 20 stitches in ' United States are expected fo r was approved by the council prior ^ child's face where she was I Opposition to an application by I leave the rest of the area as it is bitten, said the injury was not the annual show o f the Oakville : ,0 **** ,ta r t_?* G. Gerstein of Spruce Acres De- I hav>e no objections." serious and not likely to cause I PA S A D E N A . Calif. 'A P > ~ A and District Kennel Club, to be | last >?ar; T1* velopment for the R-4 residential 'If the area goes completely held at Oakville Memorial Arena I aJ,ec' anv P TM " 1 ' hosPltal any complications. The dog which M AJOR T R A F F IC ACCIDENA in re-zoning of a commercial site on was given rabies injections about j SO LAR SYSTE M -- probably the M the" that * * * would a bUilder " m y |W d ____ Sunday! & p t e m l ^ 1 j The revised bu! K err Street North was expressed country touch 0 d 'a T ^ ^ bylaw* prov ides 8 and 9. There w ill be two a y e a r ago, is under observation, j lision o f a comet with an invisby several property-owners of the little bit of property." said C. : Anti-tetanus shots w ere given the ible cloud of radiation from the neighborhood at Thursday night's R. Mason, who owns a house on separate shows, one each day. j child. sun--was disclosed by astrono meeting of the Planning Board. K err Street near the site of the with best-in-show prizes and dif ' The dog. owned by W. E. Cook. ferent judges. m ers Saturday. The site is on the west side of project. 1215 Ingledene Dr.. bit the child One of the judges, Robert Photographs o f the recently K err Street between Elmwood " Anyone with commercial pro when she was playing in the Waters, o f North Surrey, B.C.. discovered comet indicate it is Road and Prince Charles Drive. perty at the south end o f Kerr j Cook fam ily's back yard. It i« of who has oficiated at many shows being hit hard b y something, P. W. Perras, Mr. Gerstein`s Street will wait a long tim e be { the spaniel variety and was never in Western Canada and the Unit Wendy ' Sinnet, aged * nine, possibly a solar wind of m ag solicitor, told the board his client fore there is any demand for ed States, w il be judging in known to bite an yone before. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L . M. netic particles. had a permit to erect a building stores," observed D. G. Hallford, Ontario fo r the first time. Other Sinnett, 218 Waneta Dr., captur with 1 1 stores and 16 apartments, board chairman, but wanted to change the plans As far as I 'm concerned w e're judges w ill include Col. Edward ed the Canadian National batonfor apartments exclusively. The I being cut off from all sides." McQuown o f Xenia. O hio;: Peter twirling championship, in the building would be four storeys. I said Allan Benson. 432 K err St. Kirk, of Freelahd; C. Ros*= Ham m idget class, at the C N .E . on Reading. Pennsylvania: Saturday. She also took first 'I'iie site has a frontage of 128 N. "W ho am I going to gfct to ilton. Mrs. Yan Paul, WiUowdah*: and av. .nd tor solo twirling in tltf feet on K err Street and a depth take that place o ff my hands?" nine-vear-old class. Mr. and Mrs. H. Shoemaker. John Marks. Richmond Hill. of 227 feet. The scene of tins aquatic acti- are divided into groups The h;" f to form their own philosophy of vity is the Lions Club Community niors are taught from 9 to 10 architecture." Swimming Pool in T rafalgar the intermediates and seniors Stephen is going on to Harvard Park. near the Oakville Arena. from 10 to 11. and the beginners, I U niversity to work towards his* Here, under the auspices of the of which there are about 100, M aster * degree. He hopes even- Oakville Recreation Commission from 1 1 to 12. about 275 youngsters are going tuallv to combine teaching with i It usually takes a boy or girl every morning to enjoy the cool about two weeks to acquire the the practice of architecture. %o _f _ .......... _ acIn each of the 15 countries he water of the big pool and learn fundamentals, swimming, visited, he m ade it a point to seek- the rudiments o f swimming. Their cording to Don Jerricke. ·`There out fellow architects and listen ages range from six to 16. All are no children that can't learn." are eager to learn, and making he said. " They all leam eventual to their ideas. " I found Japanese architecture excellent progress. And a number l y " Some of the mothers come to most interesting." said Stephen. of them show promise of becom watch their youngsters learning " I t kept a delicate proportion of ing experts. feeling. and practicing in the big pool -- S PE C IA L 81.'P E R VISOR from the other side of a chainHe also enjoyed T h a i l a n d , Supervising this big program is link fence. They are not allowed where most great architecture is Don Jerricke.. chief instructor inside the enclosure, because, ac found in religious buildings. and senior lifeguard, with a cer cording to Don Jerricke and J. Stephen feels his trip has tificate from tin? Royal L ife Sav R. ' Bud) Brown, assistant rec broadened, his vision. " A young ing Society. Don is a big. hand reation director, they tend to architect *needs new ideas and some sun-tanned youth who loves upset the children by telling experiences." he said. his job. Tnis is his fourth year them what not to do. He said he found out that Oak at the pool, and the busies- to The course of instruction will ville isn't the centre o f the world. date. Other instructors are three wind up Friday, when there will " You see other people, living in young women, Caroline Reid. I be a demonstration of precision different ways," he said. Brenda Tee. and Corinne Gobel. j and a water ballet by a number Until he goes to Harvard. Ste Assistant instructors are B o b o f girl swimming * instructors phen is now* working for a. local Szabo, Ed Butler. Dianne Durell from out of town. Swimming and firm o f architects. and Gail Lofquist. Red Cross water safety awards Don is delighted with the speed will be presented, and the Oak with which the youngsters are ville Aquateers will give a dispicking up the art of swimming, play of skin-diving. " They are making fabulous proMost important of all. when I gross." he says. "Y ou couldn't the course concludes well over I get anything better. " A lot of two hundred children will be able A boat diifting out in the lake them are potential champions." to swim well enough to avoid The swimming course started drowning, and will have a sound out of gas was brought in by three weeks ago. The children training in water safety proce T O W A R F over the weekend after spend an hour each morning at dure. Mrs. Catherine Plewman, Ar THE WEATHER O k ay Gerstein Apts., Despite Opposition 500 Entries For Kennel Club Show Diane Polovicb, 3 Bitten By Dog Big Collision In The Sky Clearing Tuesday Continuing Warm SynopsK: A weak disturbance ( that touched o ff shower activity is forecast to continue a slow eastward motion, and should m ove out of the province by to night. Lake St; Clair region. w indsor: Clearing thus morning and becoming less humid today, j Winds light. Lake Erie, Lake Huron. N i agara. western Lake Ontario re gions. H a m i l t o n . Toronto: Cloudy with a few showers end- l ing early t o d a y , becoming j m ainly sunny and less humid { this afternoon. Sunny and warm , Tuesday, winds light. . Eastern I*ake Ontario, ix^n- j burton reg.ons: Clouding over this morning. A few showers { and chance of a thundershower j this afternoon and evening, j clearing overnight. T u e s d a y m ainly sunny, little change in temperature, winds light. Georgian Bay. Tim agam i re- , gions. North Bay. Sudbury: Cloudy with a few showers and i fog atches early tod^v. ctearj . ! ing during the forenoon. Sunny and w an n er Tuesday. Winds light today, southerly 15 Tuesday. Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie White River. Cochrane regions: Sunny and very warm today and Tuesday. Winds light today, southerly 15 to 20 Tuesday. W endy Sinnett, 9, Top Baton-Twirier This fall well-known Oakville the A rm y" on posts in England soldier Capt. C. M. "M on ty" - and Canada. Grant retires from the Canadian . His decision to follow a military Arm y after 30 years m ilitary ser- j career was sparked by participavice. |tion in the student m ilitia trainf < : But there will still be a soldier : ning cdurse in the summer of in the Grant fam ily, for this J1960 with B Company o f the Robert Lubzon. aged 13, of playing there. The boy was rush week his 18-year-old son Antony j Lom e Scots Regim ent in Oakto the Oakvilie-Trafalgar Windsor, sustained a possible ed received word he has been a c - , ville. A lter the student training Memorial Hospital, and was I fractured neck as well as sev · ! iater'7raraferred"to the Hospital j J *® *"1 «>* TM tran" ln I1 " 1 Royal · **. tt:ent " n },° a junior " T ; ! j eral fractured ribs and internal > > ! (or SickChildren. Toronto. M u r -: « » « « « · Kyw»t.m. missioned officers course, all of '- wh" g ra d u a te !, which convinced him that soldier1 injuries of an undetermined na rav MacBeth, of Alexander Am - j £ < " « An,on> With honors from Thomas A. i-mg would be his career. ture in a 30-fot fall from a tree hula nee, who drove the patient Blakelock High School this y e a r." Antony's career is being lanuch- > A h o lid a y m arked b y sirens ? this poin t on, lif e b egan to in Morden P ark Frid ay morning. in, said that the ambulance was w as the unusual exp erien ce m o ve q u ite qu ick ly. T h e y The boy, who was visiting with will enter R.M.C. as a cadet this ' ed almost 30 years after his > held up on its way to the To With Britain as their destina re ce n tly w hen M r. and Mrs. w e re p resen ted w ith a " w a r liis grandparents, M r. and Mrs. September. j father first "took the King's ronto hospital by a railway tion, a group of members of No. R o b e rt H e n ry o f R in g w o o d ran t fo r th e ir a r re s t" and a Norman G ira rd ,' 266 Weighton brakesman taking an engine with ' His a Ff>inbrrent culminates shilling" back in 1933 by enlising an engi 419 Wing. Royal Canadian Air Rd. w e re q u ie tly c h ivin g scroll o ffic ia lly w e lc o m in g Dr., was climbing the tree when ·rossing mof * one car over the level crossing 5 ° ,n j ? nT : ing as a tr0° per in ^ Royal Force Association, and their wi a lo n g a P en n sylva n ia h ig h them . T h e y w e re gu ests fo r Tanks Corps. It was the first | a dead branch broke under his at Front Street and Spadina A ve and special medical, aptitude and w a y to B altim ore. : academic tests both in Toronto armoured formation to be orga- i ves left Malton airport by plane d in n er at the M a y o r's home, weight. nue. The delay lasted several nized by the British Arm y, and Frid ay night. The party, numberM r. H e n ry w a s w e ll w ith in 1w e re in the m am m oth parade The boy's grandfather. Mr. minutes, he claimed. Mr. Mac ? and at RM C in Kingston. persons, formed part of a I Antony's interest in the Arm y by 1939 he was a sergeant m ajor [ th e speed lim it and to his |in a place o f h o n o r in one Girard, who lives close to the Beth said he would lay a com larger group of A ir Force veter really come into focus in command of a troop o f tanks k n o w led g e w a s not b rea k in g , o f th e v in ta g e care, and w e r e o f the" add- plaint of the incident with the I didn't ans and their wives, totalling I until iwo years ago. despite the in France. an y la w w hen a p olice ca r so w o n d e rfu lly w elcom ed that dent by a small girl who was Canadian P acific Railway. __ ` fact he had been "brought up in A fte r the collapse of France in about 100. They w ill take part in stopped him w ith a ll -the w hen the d ay cam e to an end 1940. Capt. Grant came out the 20th anniversary o f the Battle d ram a o f a good television th ey decided to s ta y o v e r f o r through Dunkirk but his associa of Britain ceremonies. show . H e show ed them his a n o th er tw o days. T h e s e w e re tion with tanks was to continue licence, ca r ow n ersh ip p er on th eir own. and not as o f f i In tht Oakville contingent were throughout the war. m it and exp lain ed his exact cial guests w ith a ll th e ir b ills B en Cornwall, John Smith. Mrs. Commissioned in 1940. he be N ellie Dyson. Mr. and Mrs. Ix* reason fo r b ein g w h e re he paid, but b y th is itm e th e y came an armoured instructor, Roy Morden. Mr. and Mrs. John w as. w hen he was. A t the j had m ade friends w ith m a n y and it was in this capacity in Hacker and daughter Susan. Mr. conclusion o f this g r illin g he o f the tow n sp eop le and did 1942 that he had his first meeting and Mrs. Douglas Mackie. Mr. w a s asked to fo llo w the C h ie f no: w a n t to m iss the fun. with Canadians. and Mrs. William Milligan. Mi into tow n . D u rin g this tim e the local " I was an instructor loaned to riam Challinor. Mr. and Mrs. T h is tow n w as M on tgom - ra d io station w h ic h w a s m the 5th Canadian Armoured Divi George Macenko. Mr. and Mrs. cry. and on th eir a rriva l at | a n ea rb y tow n esco rted them sion." recalls C apt Grant, "and Kenneth Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. the tow n hall, much to th eir to the station w h e re both M r. I guess I kind o f cottoned to Derek Prestell. Frank Cairns. surprise, th ey w e re m et by and M rs. H e n ry w e re in te r their way of doing business." th e m a y o r and a c iv ic recep view ed . T h e loca l P res s also Geoffrey Goss, and Harold Kelly. LA N D E D *»· D A Y tion follow ed . T h e H en rys m ade m uch o f the v is it and Thev will return on September Rut he was to land at Nor 18. just hapened to be d riv in g a ll exp ressed th e ir pleasu re mandy on " D " Day plus two. alon g w h en the police o ffic e r that gu ests fro m "O a k v ille fight through Northwest Europe w a s Ln search o f an h o n o r a iy C an ada" w e re ab le to p a n iciinto Germany and serve on at gu est to be the h ig h lig h t o f pate in th e ir a n n iv ers a ry tachment to the Indian A rm y in I th eir 75rh anniv e rs a ry . F ro m p rogram . Burma, before he got a chance to work with Canadians again. In 1952, after retiring from the j British A rm y he enlisted in the j Canadian A rm y in London and w'as sent to Canada to serve with one o f the units he had helped instruct years before -- the Royal Canadian Dragoons. The Ford Company of Canada ' Program . The belts were inCapt. Grant returned to the which recently put into force a stalled on or about July 25 by F a r East in 1958 as a m ember of plan to enable its employees to Oakville Motors. the Canadian Truce Commission have safety belts installed in "M r. Rieck came to this office in Indo-Oiina. On his return a their own caz-s. has forwarded on Monday, August 20 and in year later he w-as posted to Oak the following statement to the formed us that his safety seat ville as Central Ontario Area's Oakville Journal-Record as fol belts had saved him and his w ife National survival staff officer. lows: from serious injury." "Captain Monty's" wrar time " At 6:00 a.m. on August 5. " A . A. Rieck, employed as a service was marked by the award metal finisher in Department 771 Mr. and Mrs. Rieck w ere travel o f the M ember o f British Empire has had two safety belts installed ling on Highway 401 near Lon for service in Burma: the Croix in his 1939 Meteor under the don at about 50 m.p.h. Visibility de Guerre for the e ra s in g of tireEm ployee Safety Seat Belt was not good, owing to a heavy Rhine, plus three mentioned in fog. and M r. Rieck's car struck dispatchc-s. the rear of a car travelling ! ahead at a slow speed, resulting in $400.00 damage to Mr. R ieck's j ca r. "M r. Rieck stated that if he and his w ife had not worn their seat belts, the impact on collid ing with the other car would J fc tn e y a lf W i l l i a m G. Whiteside. 2053 have caused them serious or pos Lakesbore Highway E.. has b;en sibly fatal injuries. As it hap elected to the board of directors pened. the Riecks were not hurt of Lawson and Jones Limited, in any w ay." Toronto lithographing firm. Mr. " W e feel that this testimonial Whiteside has held different po m ay be included in any report Well-Known Oakville s o l d i e r dent had been accepted for this fall after 31 years m ilitary sitions with the firm for the past that m ay be made to manageCapt. C. M. " Mon Grant entrance in Royal Military Col service, and both father ami 14 years, and is now manager of 1 ment on the results of the Em helps his son. Antony, pack his lege. Kingston, ('apt. Grant re son are happy that there will its Lakesbore Boulevard esta- j ployee Safety' Seat Belt Protires from the Canadian Arm y bags after receiving word the b » a soldier in tha family. 52 Colbonif* St. W. V I 5-tW»l * young high school honors stu bJishment. «r a m ." " I I you re-zone that property 21 Prince Charles Dr.. opposed to R-4 I'm going to be losing tiie project, which they said money." said William M ay bank. would block off their back yard. 11 Elmwood Rd.. "and I think On motion of George Davis the the people around that area feel board decided to recommend apthe same way. If the board w i l l 1 proval of the application. Capt. Grant To Retire Son To Enter R. M. C. Robert Lubzon, Badly Injured Train Delayed Trip To Hospital Mr. Mrs. R. Henry Lucky Guests Of Honor At Montgomery, P.A. Airmen, Wives Off To Britain Major E. L. Small. 290 Morden Road, has returned to his form er post as officer com manding the dental clinic at Central C o m m a n d Head quarters. Ortona Barracks. Oakville, after a year's tour of duty with the United Nations Em ergency Force in Egypt. While in the Gaza Strip, Major Small was senior dental staff officer with the UN peace force. FOR TH E BEST D EAL ON A N F.W O R U S E D C A R UNDERSELLS Oakville Motors Mercury -Meteor · Comet 139 CollM>rne St. E. VI 4-3273 Safety Belts Voided Injuries Ford Plan Was Responsible Since 1922, we have rendered the finest in funeral service. W. G. Whiteside Is Director Of Lawson & Jones NEW U A R S 'm cffjo/r ft IN THE FAMILY TRADITION new SNELGR0VE NU-DRIVE LTD . TRUCKS