Prominent Dairy Official, Murray Hamilton Retires One of western C a n a d a's pioneer dairy executives, Murray Hamilton, general manager of the Edmonton branch of Silver-wood Dairies Ltd., is retiring after 35 years' service. Mr. Hamilton, who has been prominent in community work for many years, will become public relations officer in Alberta for Silverwood. He will be succeeded as manager of the Edmonton plant by W. S. Jones, who has been general sales manager and a staff member here for the last seven years. Born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, near Dumfries, Mr. Hamilton attended school at Lochmaben. His father was a dairy farmer. As a youth of 18, Mr. Hamilton came to Canada in 1913. He first worked on farms in Saskatchewan and later farmed northeast of Irma. Soon after the outbreak of the First Great War, Mr. Hamilton enlisted for active service. He joined the 96th Battalion, Canadian Engineers, in Saskatoon, and served with the unit overseas until the end of the war. He returned to Canada and came to Edmonton in 1919. In 1925, Mr. Hamilton joined the staff of Edmonton City Dairy, which was headed by the late W. W. Prevey. He served through the different departments as plant foreman, plant superintendent, sales manager and on Feb. 15, 1944, was appointed general manager. He continued in this post after the Silverwood interests took over ownership of the plant. Mr. Hamilton has taken a leading place in community work. He has been a director of the metropolitan board of the YMCA, a director of the Edmonton Exhibition Association and the Alberta and Northwest Chamber of Mines. He has been president of the MURRAY HAMILTON products section. He is a past president of various organizations including the Edmonton Burns' Club, Kiwanis Club, Highland Games Association, a life member and past president of the Alberta Dairymen's Association, member of Acacia Lodge, AF and AM, member of the Scottish Rite, and past district deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Alberta. Mr. Hamilton married a Scot tish girl, Miss Nellie McTavish, of Paris, Ont. Their home is at 11712 University Ave. They have a daughter, Mrs. J. E. Fisher, of Red Deer, and a son, Donald, who is in business in Edmonton. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton will make an extended trip to the west coast and the southern U.S., and will return to Edmonton to spend the summer at their cottage at Itaska Beach on Pigeon Lake. A $200,000,000 steel mill is planned for Eregli, on Turkey's Black Sea coastline. -. 1 n .
