The Lucknow Sentinel, 1956-08-15, Page 1a
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LUCKNOW, 9NTA_ .. .
RI'O WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1956
GRADE' 12 STUDENT GETS 100
,MAR,KS IN GRADE .13 HISTORY
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Lower Assessment
But ViIIage Portion is Down..
• While actually there is a de
Crease in the municipal
. rate this.
year,, it. has 'been more 'than, off -
'set 'by increases'in . the county
and school rates;• and as 'a result
Lucknow's tax rate "Will be •high=
er for 1956. ;
The :1955 rate • was .48 mills.
:The 1956 rate' will be '53:4 mills..
,Actually, that is not So had 'as
appears,: The ;;"•1955' rate was
on. an , assessment' of $1,0,24,495,
which 'raised a total of $49,000
in round figures, . •
'rhe 1956 levy is.. ort an, Assess-
ment of $928,982, which at this
• year's' new . • rate of'., 53A will'
raise in round figures, $49,600.
On' a dollar lbasis;` the increase
in the • County rate ' from ' last
year • is roughly around $900; 'the
Public School figure is :UP about.
$2,000; • the ]iygh •School dollar
. ,levy remains .pretty much . the
same, .and the amountraised for
Village purposes is down over
:42,200. ---This ' makes ' the , • overall
increase in :dollars ,to he, raised
at •roughly about $600.
Maintaining. the municipal rate'
• at 26.3 mills, means' a reduction
of roughly two mills . on a, com-
parative basis. This is' mainly
achieved by a ;lower road -expen-
diture this••year, and having`:bud-
geted . for a considerable, surplus
FRIEND OF HEALTH NURSE
KILLED. IN TORONTO . , r ;
•
Miss Ruth Thompson of Tor-
onto:assumed her duties here
last week as Public • Health, nurse
with the Bruce County Unit. She
succeeds Miss Joan Cormack and
is staying: with Mrs. Grant Mac-
• •Miss: Thompson 'was saddened
this ,week to learn. of the death
of a' Toronto . friend, Mrs. Jane
Carol Bradley, age '34, who •was
electrocuted when she touched+a.
hydro wire brought down during
Monday's 'violent ;storm in '.that
city. •
,. Archie McQuillan, 'Grade
XII student at Lueknow Drs=
trjet High School, wrote a
couple of Grade XIII p
III.P aP
orsin Jure 4istprY.•andtrgo-
norretrY—andreceived
a first
in: both subjects, In. history
.he received' 100 'narks.. •
•
Archie• won the Grade
general , proficiency • award;, :''
and°,the Grade XII award for ..
proficiency in English 'and
was runner-up: to 'Inge Suter
forlanguage proficiency in.•
Grade XII.. .
TREES SPLINTER
AS GALESTRIKES� ,.
A "cloudburst" rain, swept by
•Paving. 'Company, *which is a'cyclonic gale,, ripped through
in pa•y- 'the village Ori Monday 'afternoon,;
g south of. ' Wingham, and it about four o'clock...'
was. decided to have thein put a : b" 'Accompanied,
'hot roll asphalt to on Y some ,wicked lightning, the
p. l ,iavelock storm"gave the community a few
St. to Rose St and from, High- anxious moments,
way 86 'to the ' High , School in- I i
tersection at Willoughby ..St, • ,• Several trees were splintered
Reeve, Hamilton was"• and hydro power' 'w•as .cut off for
Reeve. to:confer about :. a.. u . .
,I three +h'.our � � ,
with the High School Board,• and the tumbiing timber. a .result . of:
Silverwood, ,Dairies, respecting A;
section. of .a tree at:;S'andy
some suggested additional pay- MaoLeod's• residence fell across
ing: It was expected it would • be e t � highway blocking traffic and
mid-September before the work
taking down • a telephgre pole
could be 'done.. Cost of the• work with it:
can be kept' well within the Another . big, maple at. ,Les
roadbudget and Purves•: splintered ' crashed
It as •repoted , that dredging
anleways across the street' 'just
a oral' Were -then'
sera (litenirr� in ors ,cin s., A
Nine Mi
section' ofa ' Manitoba ; maple
section of the Yell, '
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PROF. NORVAL R. RICH
Professor Norval R. Richards
left for Europe on July 31st to
attend the sixth Ir ternational
Congress, of .S,oil Science 'Meeting r `
in Parris.
Prior' to attending the Congress •
he will visit experimental sta=
tions in the Uri/tea Kingdom, the •
Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
and Switzerland. . •
Professor Richards,' ,son of Mr.
and Mrs.. R. A. Richards of the
Paramount community, is head • '
of the ' Department • of -Soils, On
tario Agriculture College 'and im-
mediate past president of the
Soil Science Society of 'Canadai
KINLOSSIDSo
DISASTER FUND
Kinloss 'Township, we under-
stand,
has granted a half mill to
ARDS the tornado 'damage 'fund _in_
Bruce . 'County. The levy will
_ I amount to, about $800.
ALEX. MacMIL'LAN IS The :' Provincial ,' Government
CRITICALLY ILL IN WINGNAM has offered to . moo t.
contribute 50c :for
every: $1.00 raised in the ,area :;
• Alex' MacMillan of Whitehorse and, in' view'
in the Yftikon is'of his, A;, E. 'lholoin-
critically ill in' soli, M.P. for: Bruce, again raised:.
Wingham Hospital. . Alex left the question : in the -' Hattie
Whitehorse,. in:- June on, a ' tri l sof
-
p Coinoxnns.'regarding Federal ,:as- •'
",back home", but "enroute had:toy sistance: ,
last :year. ; • A ions in progress missing ' Nelso undergo an emergency, operation
•
g n W t t Hon. Walter E. ,Harris, mini
A and cleaning the at'"Edmonton, where •he was' de , Ster if finance,' replied
The. rate was struck at last tamed for a .fpl ed that 'he
Mile River in the northerly
:.Wednesday 'n'ight's :Struck
w' : crashe time. _ _,, •
:with d within inches-- h of the `He. has been Visiting•.._ •had been _ cornice . bounty,
with
Councillor Joynt absent: ge home of Ada and Where for the Clerk
Town Foreman Alex Ha b t the past three 'weeks" at of Bruce ..County, in
d° farther to the soutli. a tree the bathe the unatter, but no con
The irate is as ollaws: ;holidays were set .from Au ust. w '` 4 of his brother,' Joe MaclVrillan. 'elusion had
1956 ; Rate Al,puint g as completely uprooted'• • .at the'Qn 3•et been reached
13th. to..'25th,. WithNorman�'Stew-` home.of Olive. and Flora Thursday.. he was admitted, to• •, Lckna �. '.:
County' to ' $.7;060 unt art_ on - full time duty.Web- Wingham Hospit . end W 1ealt office � Council; Wt .. :
in his ab sten o rid at the has . uestio dealt:oe opill
Public School ... 12.A.11,§00 week -end ` his : condition was quiteY. With:
rococo The freakish ' wired was not ex- the question; but the . opinion
High aSchpol :.„ ' 7 1 6;680 ; Defer: Action grave had rallied sli' htl A neon has
illag"e-`'.,.; '"..'...." '.:"*alis.1 .. ._s . pe need more' than a 'riixl . westxpreSsed that .. rtea bee ;e ,
2'4,440 4In the matter of assistance to of .town" torrential r first r o he veep,
•g • Y t tit might -best•
but the • torrential rasp . moa• ,a aliti ty. bind
•, rid, Council , wj be - ndl. ;..
the storm disaster 'fu "as more general, and put 'the
1. 53.4 -• $49,580 considered the matter but briefl • finishingtouche
S s. to: many fields''
To AUT
so that Nall municipalities would '.
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L 1• N E MOTOR share alike
pPly Hot Mix , and deferred action. The opinion, of oats,• which weren't already Already : a number • of town-
.. Arh .
• Present. at she meeting' were was expressed' that is was felt 'down:. Manx grain cro s look as MAIL. SERVICE' ships;n the storm area
representatives :of, the Brennan it -should -4e 'a county project. if ,':roller;had' overone"-•Jea have act-
them. An outline of the proposed' ed on their own to, support.the
• t p opose rehabilitation fund
DrawsM ; e !'r��Years,Co•VerSOver,300,000eerod .locall .• • . Miles' Y :y FRE S
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ter *known . as < ... "Pete just 1 '
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has '
a rural.:mail el'iv
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that
may
be hard to
a
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Pete i
s' completing his 38t
• succesive year' as 'cowrie". on
R. 3,
Holyrood, y ood and during th
g.
time '
e
has
traveh
ed more'tha�
300
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0 miles.' les.' ;.
�'h *.
e Bail •
route
Y
in excess of 26 • miles. But;. of
course, Pete hasn't 'driven it: all
himself, He has 'a capable assist
.ant in Mrs.' Johnston; who does
' wise-a=day motor mail service
D 'JACK• ON '. HOME AFTER,
THREE
.. MONTHS ABILOAlD. . .
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The in corning marls would :be:
received about 8.00 arm. And 1.40
p m. •
'The schedule calls. for - do
mail leaving Kincardine. at° :11.
a.m. and arriving at Wingham at
11 00 to make ,.connections with
present motor .service: In the af:.
ternoon it . would leave.Kincar-
dine' at 4.30 and `arrive at Strat-
ford, at' 8.30. The route Wo be
via' Ripley; Holyrood,' Lit now.
and Whitechurch.
.'The "up”' mail' in • the :morns'.
wauld.leave.Stiratford •at 4.25 a:m
and arrive.. at. Kincardine at 8.45
a.m. In the afternoon it would
leave Wingham at '1.20 p.ni., ar-
rij g : at Kincardine at 2.35.
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considerable of, the "good weath
er" driving.
Pete's 'contract' calls for •deliv-
ery of all.' the mail.from here to
HOlyrood Post Office, 'and box
to bolt delivery on R.R.'' 3, Holy
• 'rood, which. includes the.6th 'and
8th Concessiihs' of ,Kinloss, both
east and west: "' • '
•
This route was . originally
g..
- known as l ucluiOw '4, , and upon'
it been
properly assigned as • a
Holyrood route,' accounts for the'.
fact there is- no ntim�ber 4 route
out , of •' LUekno+w` ....
Prior to. the
rure mail' delivery service .from
Holyrood, the mail was transport-
ed•between Ldcknow and Kinloss
by , stage coach, and, 3ke under-
stand, the
nder-stand,.the last driver was Walter
Kaake,
Pir$ Contract --First Car
Holder of the first contract.on
What became .R.I• 3,• •I•lolyrood,°
was Philip Stewart. He commend•.
ed' delivery from thee local depot
• to Rolyrood aixd to' boxhoiclers
-on -thy: route ops April rst;-
and held. the contract until;join-
7cg.'fhe army,.
'Philip was• the•.first driver ut.
d t' o
0
f ...
Holy, rid to use a +carr. In 1916..
he bought a 22.6. H,P. ord tour-
ing. Which he used f. ,, satn ter-
time delivery, There w: a .00
lice$10 0
ti�'
se
fee,. but no .pr's per -
tilt retluired then.. Philip still
PETER MELVILLE. JOHNSTON
Sentinel Photo
has the original incense- lord
his, possession. - . '
It • was on . January ist,. 1918,
that Mr. Johnston, took' ever the
route whine he has :giri4�4 serviced
continu�illy,
:
There' -were- some :occasions in
the: winter that Pete • couldn't
get to I•i'olyrood, but' never did
', he get -there, but he got back
1 sornetirne. that night, even if he.
1 hack to walk it.
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• Fred Jackson ck
son'
returned r
n
ed Name On
Friday after spending;
A
th,. past
t
ere
e months, in England.
Fred d wile
d both ways • on the •
Empress of Britain and :docked
oc
at .:Montreal
ked' ,•
,:
1
orf
Thursday..
H.
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nfo' '
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d, '
m us
th •
at .'the e
.crossings
were
er
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ro
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h
a '
t i'
g times •�
ut .
he '
"never missed. a meal"
While. in England he visited
with-:: his sister, Mrs: Amelia" Stutt
wn lof Hull, and also called on rel
'atives which' he had not' seen
45 for forty-three years. . .
. Fred repots, ' t h e weather •
around' Hull as particularly cold
and damp, and that his overcoat
was in use : ,most of the' time.
Crops are still green.in•- that dis
trict,, ' with another three weeks
expected before harvest.
•
ng ,HEART ATTACK, FATAL TO
RAILWAY....BRAKEMAN
SUF;FERED•BAD
ANKLE FRACTURE
Miss Nellie Venning of . the
Luckno°v - Post Office staff is a
patient m Wingham Hospital with'
a badly fractured ankle.' -
Miss Venning suffered the frac-
ture on Friday as she slipped
+on the lawn at the home of Nims,
Margaret MacFarlan; 'where she
-boerds„ :. ;
The fracture is two. severe to
permit a .walking cast and it will
pbaro
b, l
y be late fall before Miss
-Venning ;be' able to' put',eny
weight on the, fractured limb.
Miss Venning had recently re;,.
turned from• :a visit: in .California
With 'a. sister i.v.horfi the 'hadn't
seen in many years.
Ther death of Leonard Clark,
age, 44, occurred- stddenly' last
Tuesday, While at his` job as rail-
warakemdn on a fight train
in . Northern Ontario, •Mr. Clark
hurtled from the top of a box
car, and an :autopsy showed death
to have .been . due to the heart
seizure:
The funeral was 'held' oil—Sat-
urday' .at Huntsville where. the
Clark family reside, , He is: sur-
vived by his widow, and three
children; also five brothers and
a sister, Clarence, . Herb and' Ed.
of 'Northern iOn•tarso ..4rt..,..C1ark...:_:.
of Ltiel ria", and Jack Clark and
Mrs. Ken 'Webster (June) of 'Lon-.
dor'.
Amon those n
_ ,.--.._.g"......w... �......attendance..6-•
the
fun '
oral.
were•
Mr..'' and Mrs:
Art Clark and Mr. and MVIrS, Woe;
den Howald of Lticknow, Mr. and
Mrs: Jack Clark and r, and Mrs.
.Ken Webster of Lon on and W.
G. Webster of Luckn w.
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