The Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-03-02, Page 1$2.00 A Year—In Advance; 50c Extra to U. S. A LUCKNOW, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, I944
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OPEN RED CROSS
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DRIVE MONDAY
• Meeting last' 'Thursday, •„the
Finance Cornnjttee Qf the Luck -
now Red Crois made plans for
eondUcting the local, campaign
for, funds. So "SuCCesSful has been
• • thcaplan of ,opening a-loeal office
to receive••-volunfark contribUt-
, ionsthat this system has again
been, adopted. ' • . •
Local campaign '•headquarters
will again -be at theBell
• Tele-
phone , Office, where a speedy
campaign of one week's dpratieri
.Wifl"-he. eondueled; Comncirid-
, . . next Monday, March
tinuink thioughOut the week, une
• til 'Saturday, March lith; rRed
Cross 'donations May be left at.
• the 'Telephone Office. ••
Volunteer workers Will be at
this office 'each afternoon during
the' week, with the exception f.
Thursday, , and. on Saturday
night.' Please note that Campaign
Headquarters will be open for
• the one week, :only, and in the
1:afternoons. A folldw-up canvass
• will be 'made to complete the
• 'drive in the Village.
The personal canvass,. will be
eonducted in the -rural area.,
• The objective of the Lueknim
• and. Vicinity Branch is $2,800 with
•• •70 'per cent of this going -to the
National Red -Crass.. So it -is neg.-
- essaty that this . quota be very
, • substantially. oversubscribed in
• order that the local- branch -rnay
• have sufficient fun& to carry ;:in'
their work during the year.
• We need not emphasize •, the
great work the Red croSi is do-
• ing, nor the.rieed for funds' with
• which 'to carry -
This:.cornmunity-has- been.more-
, than generous. in past drives and
it is' to be expected that, as the
need grows they will "dip deep-
er". We •feel that all. that need.
be saidat the moment is, the
local Red Cross campaign fox_
furls isunderway. The response
will no doubt be spontaneous and
• SCHOoL ATTENDANCE ••,
HAS BEEN, QUITE LOW
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Sickness during the winter has
kept school attendance well be-.
low normal. In -this respect
grades three' and four, better
known as second room, have
been,,particularly hard hif. Since
Christmas there, belie- been ten
lot more Je-OTftinually absent out
of an enrolment of thirty pnpirs.
Miss .Helen Hamilton is the tea -
Cher.
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KINLQSS REEVE ON
-PROVINCIAL BODY
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• Mr., Richard Elliott, reeve of
Kinloss TownShip and chairman
of the Bruce County Highways
Association, was elected as •a
nierriber .of the Ontario; .GPocl
Roads Association at the' annual
Convention of this 'body , held in
Toronto last week: •
. Reeve Elliott is 'Orie. df seven
directors :on the Board re • present-
ing' the, entire province, and not -1
since the late .Robert -Johnston: 1
Was a member, has this commun-
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KINTAIL FLIER is NOW ABLE TO -GET
• • AB:OUT ON CRUTCHES
'MISSING
• .• Sam SherWood of •town, who
suffered severe 'injuries in a fall
off a truckload of hayfive weeks
ago;' -is milk-- able- to -get* about- oti:
crutches. .
San receive& a. broken slio.uld:
ma blade, fractured ribs, as Vvefl.
as a' back injury • -and scalp
,NPL41211cls...-Fle went headfirst of
the •load but ,fortunately landed
most heavily on his shoulder; or
Sam says he wouldn't be here
now for he'd have bra' ken his
news soon of their son's welfare. n• eck. "
111;fr. and Mrs. John MacKay
Kintail have received word 'that
their. son, Flight Lieutenant DOiy—
a-ld Kenzie MacKay; is missing
!on • air': operations pn, February
.20th, which was': the .date of •;5
32-apticularly heavy raid on •Ger.:•'
many.-': • • •. • . • ,
.Mr. and Mrs. MacKay received '
the official announcement . last
Wednesday, and are living thru
anxious days hoping for better
' The, report • that ;Flt. Lieut.,
MacKay is missing conies very
soon after the' announcement,
earlier ' this month. that he was
to receive the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross for "skill, fortitude and
devotion .to duty". ,Donald has
been previously honored by be-
ing 'indluded in the.. King's .NeW
Year honors
• He will be 29 years ()Page this
month, and, • has always been
ceerily interested in aviation
laving. taken up commercial fly-.
ing at London in .1936. '
ity
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been represented on the AS-
aociation. • •
r. Elliott attended the con-
vention as a . county delegate.
Kinloss Township was represen-
ted
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ted •Councillor Alex MacKen-
zie.
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Getting Along Well
• Frank Millet, who is a patient
in St. Joseph's Hospital; is get-'
Wig along well and is gaining
after'his econd operaticiii bit
'doespot -expect to, be hcirne:Until
"on M March"; Frank was a very
skit man for ,seVeral daYs 'after
his operation and to use his oivn.
words "nearly hit the Pearly
•SP'ecial This Week -End
You'll not want to miss the
special attraction at the Lyee'um^
Theatre, Wingham, this week -
liberal. end starring. Irving Berlin in
Circuit Services'
HOW'S of Sunday services on'
, the Ashfield Circuit are: Blakes;
11 a.m.; .Hacketts, 3 , pin.; and
• Zion, 1.30.;
HELD BRIDGE PARTY
• Mi.s. _Robert • Hamilton • enter-
tained a number Of friends from
Lucknow. on Tuesday of last
wee it at a -progressive bridge
• party. Proceeds were divided be-
tween • the Front Street Bridge
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- Club and -for war .work purposes.
lir:, • 'BORN
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— 1.:A1D1,AW—In. St. Thomas Gen-
,Ial llospital on Monday; Febru,
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25th, to Mr. and Mrs.' Ken-
• • ..eth Laidlaw ,(nee -Efleda
- lei). a daughter.
• PAPERNICK—At .Goderich, on
February 18th, 1944, to Mr. and
• Mrs. Ivan Papernick (nee Jean
• ' Iiitchie). Goderich, a • daughter,
Frances Jean.
ALLINIon' Saturday, February
19th„ to Cpl. and Mts:Haf6Id V.
,AiIm 'of Vancouver, a daughter,
' Judith Carolyn. Haroldis the,
on of .Mr. and Mr. C. B. Alii
• Toronto: ,
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and Mrs.. Donald
MacIver .(nee Grace.. Blake). are
happy to announce - the arrival
ofji, baby boy 'John Thomas
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`This is the :Army", an outstand-.
ing 'Warner Bros., production.
FiFTYSIX DONORS
AT TENTH CLINIC •
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Attendance at the 10th Blood
Donor Clinic held here yester-
day• dropped to .56, including I9
ladies and 37 men as follows:
Miss Mildred Ritchie, Chas. R.
Shaddick, Wesley • Hustoh, Miss
Hazel Culbert,. Mrs. Kathleen
McDonald, Robt, Campbell, Jas.
11 Cochrane, Arthur A. Cann,
Allister Hnghes, Gordon Fisher,
Donald J. MacKenzie, Mrs. Hazel
Elliott, Mrs., Marion I. Cann, Miss
Mildred, Anderson, Mrs. Doeis
Cowan, George Cowan, Mrs. Am-
ber Popp, Otto. Popp, Harvey.
Houston, John McFarlane, Stuart
Robertson, Miss Margaret Cam-
bell, Ernest Ackert, Millard Ac-
kert, Mrs, Janet, D. McPherson,
Mrs: Christena Miller, Mrs. Mary
A. Button, Harold, Gaunt, Miss -
Phyllis K. Blake, Walter Alton,
Albert B. Alton, Russell E. A1
ton, Roy Jones, Currie Colwell,
Mrs. Alba McIntyre, Mrs. Cath-
erine Andrew, Richard Elliott,
• Louis .Hogan,• Mrs. Elizabeth
Rose ,\ Mrs. Olive Irwin, Mrs.
Viola Stanley, Fred,. McQuillin,
Harvey ID. Anderson, '',Browri
Smyth, Wrii, A. Hunter, Sidne3,-
Gardner, J. W. D'maldson, Gor-
don Ross, ,drland Richardslif-
ford Kilpatrick, Fred C. Ember -
lin, Kenneth Mowbray, Graydon
Pitehie, • Elliott Congram, M-rs.
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NAME OMITTED. FROM . 'Mrs. J. W. 'Joynt sang, : and,
LAST ALOOlD DONOR LIST prayers were offered „ by Mrs.
' James 3.1cFarlan-. and JVIiss Mar -
In .
the list .of blood! donors at ian McPherson, Mrs, 14all pres
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the last clinic ineLucknow, the !ided it the piano. The missionary
-narne-of--Tharnas-Webster-of 'West- .efiering ;Was • reciNied by Mrs
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•OBSERVED WORLD'
DAY OF PRAYER
Member' of • miSsionary'groups
of 'local churches ri_
et inthe Un-
ited ehurch. on Friday in obser-
vance ,of the World Day of Pray-:
• Group leaders, Mrs. Conrad
Decker, ,Mrs. Alex Mowbray and
Mrs. Temple Clark conducted the'
meeting and :took various parts'
on the prescribed Order of ser
vie.
WaWanOsh. was omitted. It was K: • C. lkilutdic and Mrs• Gordon
Tom's •fourth donatio d - •
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ed the total attendance at the '.1 he devoti'on0.1 address Was' Canada ,of ours. He referred to "
8th'clinic. to 11,0.•• taken by M. rs. Prest,. Who those, ho not. so long ago, -sto6d
n,. an ra s- ay .
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CONCERT CROWD
TOO BIG FOR. IlAPL.
The. Town. 'Hall failed -to aeL*.
,cOmodate the •crowd that Wished
attend -the High-S-choOl. CLOY/I : . • •
mencement Exercises on Friday
Those who could not even .•
lobtain'Slanding•toom, missed tn
exCeptippally fine ...performance
'fhat
• fullY'. entertained: throughout.The open feattire was: a, well
enacted one -act play by an •all-. • •
star ...east including .Betty Mac- • •
DOriald; Stan ,Prest, 'Patricia:
ler,, Kathryn Agnew, Margaret .
Graham,•Graham.MacDonald: Al-,
lan• Stewart . and • Bill 'A,' 'Joh-
n •
ston. '
• Allan *Kith; 'president of the
i;Liferary, Society ably conducted
his many 'duties as chairman, and
Pageant enunciator. In his open- •
nig address. he expressed thanks'
to those who had acted as under-
studies for ineintera of the cast,
during sickness, and paid partie-
tiler tribute to 'Miss MacLeatt and:
Professor. Anderton, the music ••
instructor. • • • •
. Medals PreSented• .
• -Field, Day medals, on rather
ldentifiCation , discs, • were pres
ented to the champion athlete
bY Reeve J: w: Joyfit, who referred • t&tlieSe. students as
citizens of tothorrow Whose task
it Will be to rebuild this great
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spoke , on., the importance and bp that Same Platform, and are , •
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,Attended Sisters Funeral power , of prayergiving illus- now playing a greater game oven
trations of this. The day marked there that we may live as free .
Mr Th P§ )304 received
word on Friday Of 'the' death:of the third -anniversary of the death Canadians. •
his sister, Mrs. Archie MeCole.7. of tier 's°11 Sgt. Pilot Harry Piest Mr. JoYnt was assisted by
man, who 'passed away in ..Col- who was killed in an air crash Christina MacLennan in the pre
at Rivers, Man.. • s,entations as :follows: Sr, GirlS:., •
lingwood Hospital on " Thursday •.., • --Ma ry Marshall7 :Helen Mow-.
.bi:a..; Junior Girls—Mary John-
ton, • Jessie MarShall; Sr. toys
Everett Lane,' Bill A. Johnston;
Junior "Boys—George Chin, .ioe . •
Agnew/. ' •.
The Finlayson . Bros. shield for.
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evening. -She was in her • 70th
year. Mr. and.Mrs. BOyes left for
Collingwood .on Friday to attend
the funeral. •, .
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DIED IN KINLOSS
, The" death' of John MCKinnon,
aged 80 years, occurred at his
Kinloss Lady's Nephew 1 home in KinlOss on' Monday. The
Killed In Air Crash
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PO. William Kennedy, son of.
Rev. and Mrs. T. E. Kennedy of
Southampton, was one of five
airmen who lost their lives in a
crash near Belleville last ThUrs-
day.
The young men is a nephew
Of Mrs. Thomas Roach. of Kiri-
lois Township, -cousin - of
Mrs. Walter' Dexter • of Para -
Mount.. .
.P0.- Kennedy was 22 years of
age and had. seen service over-
seas, including 4.he Middle East
before beingpostedback to Can-
ada.
cause of the fatal accident
is not known and there' were no
survivors. The plane, an R. C. A.
F.bomber from Mountain, View.
era.shed ina denSe bush. in Prince
Edwaid. County, 20 miles -potith
of Belleville, after appearing to
go' into. a spin.
PO. Kennedy received hi pub -
funeral: service, was held from. 1 generaf..proficiency in Grade .0
his late residence on the Gravel was awarded to John Crispin
and the . lath' Wm; ,MacKenzie
shieldfor Grade 10 proficiency
Road, Sixth Concession, on Wed-
nesday at .2.30 O'clock with. inter-
ment in South Kinloss Cemetery.: wont to. Marl 'Marshall. • .L . ,...
- • • . .. , . .-,, _ Everett 'Lane . .rnade.' the .reply,'!
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. .,„ . .: . . .• : ..'. behalf -of, the :s-tudents•--being• •-• ..
presented. , _ .
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•/. . Award. :-Certificates": .. .. .
Rev. 3. V. Stewart. Presented.. • .
certificates to Many' StiTdefitS,...
stating • they. represented goals •
they had scored .. to thef:road to
Medal. In • .a recent air•„..letter to, achievement: He was dsiisted by...
his father, Mr. -Jack Reid of Lon- Marion presentations as. follows:. • Grades
on . they ..have• given .me another 9 and .10---KathrVn Agnew,'. Jean
medal:1Its the military Medal and. Anin, -.Shirley 'Culbert,. Macy • .
quite a. "Coveted decoration". ' Marshall, . Veronica ' Murray,
,. .Clyde gave . no. particulars of Yvonne .McMillan,' Helen Moi,v-
the reason for• the award,...other •bray, Patricia: ShaW,. Jack Alton, ...
than attributing' it, to "a reef
nt 'Grahatri'MacDonalc1;•George Cris-.
Show .we were in", , • . '• pin, • Harold . Henry. , Bill Jdhn-• .
The letter w•as wr_itten at'a ston. Everett ,Larie. Jack Trelea.;'
MediCal Rest Centre,' although veil.. .1! . • .. .. , .. •
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Clyde: ass-ured his .Parents that' =Graduation, Diploma: (4' year)
there_ was . nothing serious the Helen Salkeld, rsobel . MacDoh-
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CLYDE REID WON....
MILITARY MEDAL
• Sgt. Cly_de Reid. of the RoyaL
Canadian Regiment in Italy, has
been awarded the Military
lie school education at No-afeh !matter,' but his nerves were a
and attended Lindsay Collegiate. 1 bit bad and he Said he didn't
He enlisted early in. .1941 and feel. quite .Capable of handling
trained at Brantford, Crumlin
and Aylmer; receiving his wings
his , men in action the way 'he
would Want td-.- The -•
at the latter station in December have be n in the thick- of i
it. .n
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of that year. He. spent a year
, •Italy according to press report$•
overseas before returning ' to and Clyde .suggests as much, by
Canada, where he took a refresh- saying that, his ' eagerness for
er course and was sent to Tren- action has been well satisfied.
ton as a staff pilot. : . Clyde spent Christmas in alit
Last' sumfner he married Paul- trench wondering if
-- "anything course last year. She said t1 -ii
ie iBishop of NorWich; who Sur- as going to visit him". Clyde it was not without a tinge Of sad:
viVes , besides his. parents and was :a :member of the militia ness that they concluded five '
two brothers, Jack with the R. prior to the outbreak of war, and years of scholastic: athletic .)re.,"
C. 'A. F. Overseas and Jim . of has been in it . from ' the start. social t••• 'associations. • Catheriti-,
Southanipton. • ' .. . He is a grandson of Mrs. ThOs. promiTy 1.0ferred to ti,11,,,c,
u.n.aral_wa6..„.h.ei0r. lei-Aci nf 'LucknOw„,..anc1 is w!.2.1.1,4._
ald', Helen McKenzie. Allan 1‘,1.(..
Kim and Rodney. MeLennan (new. •
in the 'R.C.A.F:).
. Hon.. Graduation Diplomas -.7-•
Catherine Johnston, ..Catherine "
Prest. Helen Orir, Margaret Mc-
Donald;Jack:Mowbrayand Lloyd
..i,Ckert,
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Miss Catherine Johnston tay..?
the • valedictorian address on be-
half ofthose who completed then.
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