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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1952-01-03, Page 1i' $2:50 Yearly In Advance --$1,00 Extra To U,S-A, eev A nomination ..night. audience that was shamefully small,; heard a 'detailed report: of village. and school affairs; with; emphasizes on the financial;"espects of all de-. partrnents,, and heard Reeve' J. C. McNab !predictthat ratepayers could expect "sharply increased taxes .for : the .next ten years". ; This• is inevitable with a new school- to ibe. built, paving to be • done, with .social • welfare ''costs soaring, 'and so on.. ; • ' Mr. McNab, the only nominee for. the .reeveship;, was the, first speaker. He• .regretted Mr. Ag news absence and referred to his •.46 year`s service as clerk.. The financial report, •in its re- vised form, was •scanned with,. the. speaker drawing :attention to' 'highlights in the report. The cost ' ' of relief and;: hospitalization in 1951 tatalled .$3572; of. which the; Village share is $1856. The load is getting "terrific". Mr. McNab said and ' has 'become . a major ' •' item.', for which they will have to; strike ,, a three mill' ' rate next year. • . Open: winters. have . played hob with 'Arena, ,financing, Mr. Mc- Neil) said; It 'is no• fault ; of any- one's but the, Village:. has had to assume $7115 of the 1949 and 1950 debenture as 'well as a' $400 op- erating deficit in' 1951, with ;the 1951 debenture outstanding. he--split.o ..salaries, heating_ and rental charges . between the Village, • Hydro and Water sys- • tems' was explained,. and by way of . example Mr. McNab stated .. that' Mr. ' Haven's • salary Was shared as follows; .Viill'age 2per cent; Hydro' 60 percent; Water 15 percent. Attention was .drawn to the record low iri tax arrears amount- ing to- $61.01 for 1950 and 1949. The Reeve . gave a breakdown of the debenture debt of the Vili- ' . Rage. To 'Remove Main Street • Hreferred Poles '' Mr.. M.cNab eferr edto 'the . healthy position. , of the ' Hydro System which has a•<rdserve' fund • of $22,000, with the system re,.: cently overhauled : and in good. shape. Hydro rates have remain- ed. .the-- same although_ the- per H.P. cost to the ,local system; has been increased from $39.00. to '$44.90. The' -spending ' of : this money, however, is. controlled by the H.E.P.C, winch has approved the further -improvement and modernizing 0i the system ::by removing hydro poles' from .Main • Street. This program -will include" new lights, and the . present Main Street ; ligghts will be used else-. Where on• the system. Cost of_ this work is :estimated, at • $5,700; Or little more. than the • $5,500 that the local system is • at present carrying in 'the current . account, over and :above the $22,000 sur- plus' . • Higher Water Rates Reeve • McNab "reviewed water system problems that 'have Con, • fronted ,'the Board. The Village is 'in• "dire need of water", he said, adding that we have'. been fortunate 'that the 'past two stun- ' { been. cool and`wet'. Mhave A $26;000 debenture has been sold to'finance the developing of an, adequate water supply. Mr;. 1VIcNab' referred to the unfavor- able' condition of the bond mars ket that• required• the selling of • this issue at ','92.09. The annual 'debenture will be $1913, and to finance this. expenditure an iri-. crease in .water rates will have to be made at the first .of the' year,. It was ~pointed -out that local water rates have been unchang- ed since they were' established 21 years ago. There are some inequalities in the present sys- •tern oi; .charges and an. •adjust- lriertt. in the basis of rates will alSO . be necessary to get a more fain, and equitable assessment (lee -Altered tin page 3) .f: LUCKNOW, ONTARIO, THURS., JANUARY 3rd, 1952 er itab�le TO HOLD, KINDERGARTEN CLASSES' TWICE MONTHLY .Mrs, 'Isobel Havens, .teacher of. Grades I and 'II in the Public. School . is' commencing (.tw i c e monthly kindergarten classes for pre-school . agechildren who will be starting school in September.. It was. apparent that children who, 'attended the' nursery school conducted. by Mrs. Tavener, •bene- fitted. from this pre=school train- ing; and Mrs: Havens has decid- ed to: give. such training a trial. Classes . will .'be' held the second and fourth Friday .of each month in the afternoon only, and' will be " open to those children who will be starting school "'next fall. I :., .F N LORIDAFOR ' ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs, Burton:Roach of pen leave. y meter to- day. (Thursday) for Florida They are -being accompanied south by Mr: and Mrs. Elliott . Sandy of' Ashfield.. The foursome plan,. to spend some six weeks in -Florida, , and will spent one week, of their, hol- iday at Daytona $each, where( t GUIDES N ' /___' =1-A FINE NEW ROAM During. the holidays the Guides have been busy 'painting :their new room in the Recreation Cen- tre. Winnie Stewart kindly letter- ed the door and the ',following Guides .cleaned and painted ';the walls 'and furniture and. waxedd the floor, 'Marilyn .. ,Kilpatrick, Nancy "Johnston, Bessie Reavie; Ann. Petersen;. 'Anne Crawford;. Charlene Smith, ; Eunide .Button, Mar,g�ar.et, Gollan, ,Ruth Treleaven, Wilda Reid. arid Rozella. Howald. It; ' is hoped that: the citizens .mill come. to see theey�. room when p an "o eri •hou;h se" isheld later in the year, There will be .Court'of Honour next Friday evening. at' 5.45 sharp. The Guides will meet at 7.30. Association ' Meeting Tonight. The ladies of the Local Associ- ation 'will hold : a meeting in the Girl Guide 'Room, ori Thursday, evening (;tonight) at 800 sharp. .As important business will come • up - concerning ; the . Girl Guide Company' a good 'attendance is 'requested. Any. woman in: the community, ,"'Whether . she has t 1' tb 1 li t ./come td . the Local Association .before ornot who: vtrould•be in terested in the Girl Guide move-. merit both locally • and :+provinci ally, will be made very 'welcome. There work work to be done and this c mrnittee ' has a definite place in the community, life of Lucknow they have preservations" made , While in the Sunny South, Mr, and ,Mrs. Roach will observetheir. fortieth wedding anniversary on Saturday, February' 2nd. • Memiber THAT Alex G. MacIntyre, .who i; studying medicine in •England, is spending:.part 'of • the 'vacation With ' the University of .Oxford hockey 'team on.' a: tour. .which will . take `them to play. in Prance and, 'West Germanybe- ••fore the next term begins in •1V118$7LIL-LI-AN -CAMERON NEW MEMBER OF• .STAFF `Miss. Lillian Cameron has join- ed the teaching staff' of the'Luck- now •District High School and commenced her new duties .today.. Miss Cameron has been prim_ , of . the Tiverton .• Continuation Scheal for the past eight ,years. -•.She succeeds Miss Helen' Horn - (by ' Whose resignation took effect at holiday tine. ' • RECORD MAIL E FF . AT•POST ,O ICE I .. The new two -cent postage rafe.. • on second .class matter did no - ' thing to ,discourage the exchange • of Christmas greetings, as '. the local post office reports - the largest volume of.Christmas mail arid parcels ever handled locally. op. Tsale of. 2-6ent stamps for any. one day reached •7,500. • Postmaster Kenneth . Cameron, i.' Carrie Milne and Miss Yenning, `were assisted during the 'Christ- -Mai', week:'rush by ,P. M..•John- ston and Mrs.. Cameron and the quintette did an excellent job of speedily clearing' both incoming anoutgoing .mail: The : rural couriers had.a. bad: time of •it • however, as King Winter. made roads heavy and climaxed a.'"rough ,week with,a Friday night blow that completed the tie-up; so that the couriers Couldn't "turn '.a -wheel' on Sat- urday,. • . Train§ ran late /as the Christ= RETURN. CO' UN;C►I L Inas season approached and. P;. M. Johnston. put in nearly. all AND -TRUSTEES : niglt�sessions on Friday and Sat= • urday awaiting the arrival -of the Members o f the .Lucknow mail at 'the Post,•Office. Council a n• d retiring' ` '. Public" - ,The public were ;quite • co-op eratirve during the Christmas season; 'and' many complied' with. the request to•'' bundle cards or. letters before dumping them into -E-PROM-KOREA.- •• School trustees were• returned ' by. acclamation at a -poorly attended nomination • meeting ' on Friday. night. The meeting •had':.been post- the mailing ' _shoot. Postmaster poned a week to avoid the Christ- ! Cameronwishes to acknowledge Inas" rush, but the postponement'pp appreciation the co-op era- ' failed in nits ol'ilec tof`` atg tion and consideration of the mid-January: .' a ,. larger turnout to this, import -I general public, at this busy seas ant annual. review of village and Q , school affairs a tractn REMOVE YOUTH'S • INJURED' EYE It wasn't , -a -every merry Christ- mas at the horrid of :Mr and:• Mrs: 'Earp Swan of Ashfield, for the -day before their son Everett', un- derwent' an operation :in. London. for the removal: of his left eye. Everett was 15 • ,years of 'age onthe, day the operation was.. performed=December 24th. The mishap that cost Everett his .e5re occurred on Friday' -night, December list. Ablizzard " was howling .that ,evening, and ' be- cause ofit; a neighboring 'four- . Same spent the evening playing cards at Swan's. Lunch was •ser- •ved at -midnight and'., after the eompany had left Everett and his older brother 'Russell,~ were hav- ing : a bit of fun before retiring, seeing who was "quickest on; the ,draw", :with a toy gun and a' Boy, Scout knife. The open knife slip- ped from ',Russell's fingers.. and struck Everett in the eye.. The optic bled' freely for a time but did riot. cause Everett any par- i to tic.ulardistress and. after ' the, bleeding stopped he soon drop- ped. ed. off " to . p Neither 'Neither did the eye appear to bother him the nexf'clay,. but upon bridging him to town for medical atten'tittn on Sunday, ` Dr. •W: V • Johnston took the youth to. St. Joseph's Hospi- tal, 'London, •where; on Monday morning ' Dr. S. , Thompson and his son, Dr. " Charles Thompson, ,eye -,specialists, removed the optica The injury had caused irre- parable damage to. the eye, end, immediate treatment would have' served no purpose, they "were told. �enioval Of the eye was it. affecting necessary toprevent s Y g Everett's good eye. ' , Everett, w o' has been attend- ing L u c k n o w District High School, was in good spirits fol- lowing the operation, and it was' ex ected: that. he 'would get home the middle of this week. • Total attendance was 'about :.25. pet•sox1s ` with the' "big half ;be- ing members of . the Council, and School Boards and municipal • of- ficials. Re-elected for a third : tern_ were ''Reeve J. C, McNab arid. Councillors Ernie Crawford, .R "F`: Button," S. E. Robertson and In ries ,MacSween. ,There • were no. other nominees. Retiring School trustees, MacLennan, ' L. E: Ashton ; and. _Chas ' Webster, : all qualified for another tear_. Other members orf •oinnare, Board, with a' yeart. n . ,, Gerald ' Rathwell, K C. Murdie and Dr: James Little, • • Cam 'MacDonald: was the only, other' nominee for. school trustee, and in. extending, his congratula- tions 'to . the Board, ' said . it was not 'his' intention to 'stand: ' T h eh following nominations` were received ,by E. H..- Agnew whp presided in the' absence._ of his fadier,' Mr. Joseph ..Agnew, who m ..January will . mark his 45th -.anniversary as clerk:: of the Village. It had been Mr. Aghew's n ration to attend Friday night's meeting, • but, after spending the day 'at the office, he decided not to ,turn . out again for'" the meet- ing For Reeve . J.. C. 1VicNab, by I, ` E. Mac Sween .and R. F. 'Button.; • • For Councillor • •, R. E. Crawford' by J. C, .1VIc- Nab and 'R.. F. Button, Russell Button by Wm.'G.'Web- ster and Chas. E: Webster. Innes MacSween by S. E. Rob- ertson and • J. C. 1VIcNab. S, E. Robertson by Jr C. Mc- Nala and 1. MacSween. ' •Per School Trustee -s-°' H. M. MacLennan by. W G. Webster and. G. Rathwell. Charles F. Webster by J. 'C, McNab and E. 'Robertson. G Cameron MacDonald by, H. M, MacLennan :and Chas: Webster. Lloyd Abionygames E. Lit , • tle arid Archie 1., Srnith, THAT wedding bells rang ' as scheduled for. Harvey •1VIcQuii lin and : Isabel Scott on Satur-• day, December 22nd. ' Friday night's storm blocked country roads ::and although ' 'the wed - _ ed _._ding_iparty__ "was delayed in' get- ting` to Lucknow, the, ceremony was finally performed—not :at two o'clock as planned, :but late EAR'S EVE unner Alvin Kerslake, invat id d horne from the Korean the front, arrived here oz' New Year's Eve to `indeed make it a Happy. New -Year for. his family and their relatives. Gnr.. Kerslake • was: ua truck .o driver with. the 2nd, Field Reg:- 'Ment: of. the Royal, Canadian 'Horse.',Artillery,until . stricken with haemorrhagic fever on No- vember 23rd.' Three days' later;: Mrs' Kerslake, who resides in the Gammie Apartments in Lucknow, ' received a' 'telegram' from the. Director of Army Personnel; in,- . forriiing her that her husband was "seriously , ill ' • On December 3rd another cable inforrried her.that' Alvin's con- dition ..had shown improvement •. and "that he had been- removed from the seriously._. ill.' list .and was. in 'the 'British Common- Wealth Occupation Forces Gen- oral Hospital in Kure, Japan: On . December 18th Mrs.' .Kers- . • received further good news by,.':cable that • her husband ,:was • to ,be., evacuated by ,air through American.. channels . and it was anticipated that he 'Would' be ad- mi,tted to Madigar Army, Hospital,. at Tacorna, Washington, within a few days, ' where he, would await transfer to. Kingston and his sub- sequent' ,arri+v�al home 'Which so: happily occurred' on• New Year's Early in December Mrs- Kers.- lake got further .,cheering 'news from Alvin's nurse that' he was. "on•, the 'road'.to ` recovery.:and will: be alright now''". ' .. Mr. and ' Mrs..' Kerslake are 'both former residents of Greenock Township in :the . Blackhorse-,'. Glamis district: He is .` a son of Mr. ;;and . Mrs:. .George Kerslake: Mrs: Kerslake wasw formerly; Wilda Smith, daughter of Mr. and: - •Mrs:. Wm. R. Smith: Alvin was employed at Cabourg in a ` rifle factory when he enlisted. He trained : at ,Shiloand with the'. Canadian Korean brigade at Fart Lewis, sailing • for the. .Orient. last _March,. . Mrs :-Kerslak_e �too .1_ up, residence ' here when he depart-, ed. • They have three children; Eric, .' Eldon and . Robert, the lat- ter wee lad .having-; been `-born since :his father went overseas: • soon left behind' by the . bridal touple who struck to the Sun- that night.'"/King' Winter was ny .South on `their wedding :trip. apartment Plans Of pproves School Speaking : at the nomination Meeting. , on Friday Mr. Robert Rae,, 'chairman of the Lucknow District High' School Board, stat- ed that the sketch plans of the proposed , new' school had been approved by the. Department of Education; and that work on the .blue prints. would ,be started i im mediately. after the New Year. - The architect •is .Philip Carter Johnson, who drew the .plans for ,the G o'd e r i. ch : ` Presbyterian Church: Mr. Johnston submitted. his sketch plans, to • the Lucknow District Board early in Decem- ber; and then presented then). to. Department of Education officials who are reported to be quite pleased with the style of the building ' and oto have approved the plans with but minor. change. The ,building will be Of slag block; construction with brick faoing, nd will be a more econ- • loni.ical ype of •build ng. :Tho architect has stressed that the cosi of .constructing " the' school sho'nld be below $200,000, 'lout the Board is placing the es- timate ConsiderablyC, higher. Al- lowit- g $275,000 for construction cost:, and 1.;;50,000 for: equipment, places the coat at $275,000. The Department will pay up to 30,O,9d` ,a room eri the nine room school; nr $27(000; very•littlo for the, District to raise. .Mr. .Rae's estimate for the capital cost: de- benture levy was about 13/4 _hills: ' Have Big. "Surplus • • Mr. Rae ;briefly' touched on the difficulties encountered in reach- ing .this. point. of progress with the new school, =which the- Board of a neighboring' school had told them theywould never' "get.` •Mr. Rae referred to the $6,000 .. surplus on this year's• operations, and in addition to that, they "h.ad. wiped off a deficit of some $2000 fror'n the preceding year. "We could have ' operated, the . High School this year for • a -mill or leas", he said,'but, added that a discontinuance' of County grants next year, would haver, some ef- fect:. f Dr. W. V% Johnston = ex.')ressed how pleased they .were with the plans and referred to 19 Meetings that the Board had held 'during; the .year. The 'High School re-' • port:, he felt, should in the future be included in the report of eveiy`. municipality L. the ' •Districtt. lie spoke on' social. Welfar'e trends, unthought of 25 years ago, and which now bring pensions to all 'at 10 arid medical care for One-third of those ,river that age,' who have not the means to obtain such care for .4heir el »:es:,. .