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National Post from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 9

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National Posti
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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9
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Tie rinanciai Post -November 30, 19o ANNGUNCEMF EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENT What one city faces to update highways Freeway expansions icorry to London, Ont. Here's how it plans to fight off strangulation danger OhyOOjr I London-Stratford Toronto JsARNIA I LONDON 3 Highwoy 402 Tt I I I 1 Proposed 1 0 10 20 30 I St. Thomas 1 ir- t1 I 4 icale in miles 1 I A XST. THOMAS i 1 LONDON, Ont. Like many smaller Canadian cities, London UNITED DOMINIONS Business Loans Equipment Financing 1st and 2nd Mortgages Head Office: 185 Bloor St.

E.Toronto 924-1484 Offices across Canada has slumbered through the serious traffic problems that hit the larger centres 15-20 years ago. i at a cost of $20 million. London would become the axis for a western Ontario highway pattern with much greater traffic density than is now the case. In the city itself, the ever-multiplying residential subdivisions and increasing industrialization are straining existing streets to their limits. With no controlled access freeways, London finds its main traffic arteries Now, with the rumble of AHTMQHT GAUNTUT nounced by the Ontario depart ed for this highway, designed to But it has been pointed out Following tha acquisition by Rothmant of lorwt I Irother Company, in lti United Mr.

J. Anthony Gavntlay this would not in itself relieve ment of highways to slope a relieve Highway 4. An initial route recommended London of steep road costs hot dmr appointed President of lorvt highway north to Stratford. It is also proposed to connect the London Freeway-M-C Free traffic from the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway getting louder as the city sprawls southward, London taxpayers are finding the cost of catching up will be high. Zeroing in from the west is a planned four-lane expressway to be called Highway 402.

Traffic studies have shown it will spill ever-increasing numbers within the next 20 years, be with haodqaartort in tichnond, Virginia. Mr. Gauntky was formerly Vic-fr by A. D. Margison Associates, Toronto, would have sheared through a new subdivision and would have meant uprooting of dent Sale of lothmant of Pall Mall strangled by traffic.

Route controversy cause a large purpose of the planned freeway is to relieve local traffic. If the highway Canada Limited. $25,000 prize honors doctor larus Srother Company, was founded in 1177 and has a world-wide It has taken city council two years to reach this week's de five-year-old homes and division of school areas and city reputation for its pipe tobacco "Edge- of vehicles into the London area cision on the route of a proposed $15-million freeway that would pick up the new 402 traffic, loop by the time it is completed in the mid-1970s. Much of this traffic will be from the U.S. it through the north and east of wards.

Now London is giving the nod to a route about halfway between the original recommendation and the cKy limits, involving somewhat less disruption. Because a freeway ia'ide the Dr. Bruce Chown, Winnipeg, is this year's recipient of the Gaird-ner Foundation's $25,000 award of merit in medical science. Four non Canadians received $5,000 awards. Dr.

Chown is professor of pediatrics and director of the Rh laboratory at the University of Manitoba. The award, for his personal use, recognizes his contributions to the knowledge of the city, and connect to the M-C Bluewater Bridge officials in Sarnia plan to twin the existing had been routed outside London, city taxpayers would still have had to ante up for some kind of expressway treatment for existing streets. Margison has recommended $19 million be spent to upgrade city streets, to free traffic snarls already building. Much of this outlay will go for bridges and grade separations as London, like other cities, attempts to overcome its river and the two railways, the re way interchange to a new expressway to St. Thomas.

London's freeway problems were triggered in 1965, while a consultant's report was being prepared for the city, when the department of highways announced the results of a regional study for the London-Sarnia-Stratford area. The 20-year forecast outlined a $100-million development program, almost half to pay for the controlled-access Highway 402 between Sarnia and London. Top priority was given, at that time, to an urban freeway linking St. Thomas and London. Studies have now been complet Freeway south of London.

international link before 1982 Earlier, plans had been an- Prof. J. L. Gowans, Oxford University; Dr. George H.

Hitchings, Burroughs Wellcome Co. (U.SJV.) Inc, Tuckahoe, N.Y.; Dr. Jacques Oudin, Pasteur Institute, Paris; and Dr. Edward Seegmiller, National Institute of Arthritis Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda, Md. The foundation was established in 1957 by J.

A. Gairdner, Toronto industrialist and financier who is now honorary chairman of the investment dealer firm of Gairdner and his family. Since then, it has awarded $445,00, including this year's awards. GIVE THE FINANCIAL POST THIS CHRISTMAS tnt ynr sakscriptiu $1 ia Cauda $10 tlsnrltn THE FINANCIAL POST 481 University Avenue Toronto 2, Canada city limits means a provincial subsidy of only 25 under connecting-link legislation, there has been strong sentiment for the freeway to loop outside human blood groups and particu larly his work on the diagnosis, Why you can expect treatment and prevention of hemolytic disease of the the city altogether, so that the province would pay all the costs. mains of earlier forms of transportation in the pre-auto eras.

The $5,000 awards went to gentler moving men announcement; Groups of 16-20 young men BUTTERWORTHS, TORONTO will carry all the furniture out announce changes in the enecuthre staff of an old guest house in the To ronto area next spring, care fully load the furniture on to a year's business. Details of the plan for a national training school were outlined recently in Calgary at the annual convention of the Canadian Warehousing Association, sponsor of the course. Percy Pritchard of Tippet-Richardson Toronto, said moving van then unload the van and carry its contents back into the house. The exercise will be part of a of their Toronto-based companies, effective 1 8th November, 1961. Mr.

M. Ian Mail has resigned as President and a Director of Butterworth Co. (Canada) ltd. and of Butterworth (Publishers) Inc Mr. Ian C.

Dickson, who is Managing Director of Butterworth Co. (Publishers) the parent company in England, has been appointed President of both Toronto companies. Mr. Dennis D. Beech has been appointed General Manager and Chief Executive of both Butterworth Co.

(Canada) ltd. and Butterworth (Publish-on) Inc Mr. Beech has been with Butter-worths, Toronto, as Sales Manager since September, 1967, and was formerly en the sales staff of Prentice-Hall of Canada ltd. week-long course for men who work on movers' trucks. Combining lectures and prac tice in moving operations, the the course will upgrade the skills of a nucleus of old hands who can train and supervise less-experienced workers.

It will also introduce newcomers to the basic principles of moving. Several groups will be given the course. The number of complete sessions will depend on the availability of men for training. course is being set up to overcome the problem of finding enough competent men for the four summer months that account for up to 50 of the ST. GODRIC'S COLLEGE 2 Arkwrlght Road, Hampstood, London, N.W.3, ENGLAND St.

Gedrlt'i, the largeil Secretarial, language and Administrative Residential College far Girls ef Its kind in Iritain, afters wide range of ceuises for secretarial career. Now form (tart 7Hi January and 32nd April, 1969 Pltatt will xe Iht Rttutrtr fat prospectus. Pritchard, chairman of the association's training committee, said the aim of the school will be to produce "complete men of moving" who will have a general knowledge of estimating, packing, handling, driving, warehousing and claim adjusting. Those who pass ex SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY MEDAL NOW AVAILABLE TO THE aminations at the end of the PUBLIC course will receive diplomas.

Specialized courses are possibility for future years. Pritchard said. There are also plans to set up correspondence courses, and to extend the Toronto training program to other areas of Size American Silver Dollar Canada. Costs will be shared by mov ers, their association, local edu Send Orders ta L0MBAR00 MINT, P.O. BOX 203 Sherbrooke, Quebec Two-Tone Nickel Silver Plate Sterling Silver $10 24kt Gold $185 Dealers Prices Upon Request cation authorities, and federal and provincial governments.

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