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Two Teenagers Hospitalized
:or. Accident
f Clifford
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t.UCKNOW,, ONTARIO
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A violent two -car . collision .at Linda is a 'student at Wingham
Vocational School..
Cliff had come to Lucknow, for
the week -end, as, was his custom..
He owned a farm.' in .the. Lang -
side area operated by his brother-
in-law and sister, Mr: and Mrs.
Harry. Swan. Cliff had, been in
Luclmow prior to the supper hour,.
• the eastern outskirts of • the vil-
lage abouteight o'clock last Fri-
-
ri-
, day evening claimed'. the life •of'
Clifford McNall, 43, of Cargill and
sent two . teenagers to hospital
with, injuries.' Details of, the :ac-
cident were not clear in the minds
of investigating . officers. The im-
pact occurred on ,a level stretch I had been out to the farm after
of Highway 86 about half way be- supper, and was on his way back
1st sideroad of West Wawanosh. occurred.
tween the village limits and•the' to the village when the accident',
The McNall car wads struckin broad, He . was killed instantly :. the
side with both cars ending . up crash. One :of the first at the
nosed in the deep . south ditch, scene was Bill Robinson, son of r
and a considerable distance apart. • Mrs. Howard Robinson, who was
Driving conditions at the time coming to Lucknow with his wife
were poor. A light ram was fall-. for the weekend. Cliff appeared
ing and the pavement was slip dead when Bill . got to him. "He
pert', was slumped half in and half out
Driving the second car was of the -;driver's .door. i.
Brian : Murray, : aBe 17 .of Wing- . The Murray youth and his pas-'
ham, son of Dave Murray of that .stinger Miss Martin were removed
town. His • passenger was Linda . to. Wingham Hospital by : t w o
Martin •'of R.R. 4 Ripley, daugh- Wingham ambulances and Linda
ter' of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mar- was transferred to Victoria Hos-
tin of the 6th concession of Huron, pital in London the following
east of the ` Ripley . road. Brian morning. . r mother accompanied
had.. picked .Linda up ather home i her down in the ambulance and
and had left there . 'about 7:45 remained Wkth ` her.. Her condition
en _, ..route to the' Wingham Dis- isnow reported as satisfactory,
trict High School Commencement. She has a broken right leg above
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CLIFFORD McNALL
ACCIDENT; .VICTIM'
the knee' and. 53
forehead. :.
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e Bone In
Little Olympics
When Greg Hunter entered
t e "Little Olympics" last
Monday he received a brok-
en bone in . his foot, not a
gold medal.
Greg and some of his friends
were holding this sports event
at the home of Brock Cleland,
east of town. He twisted • his
foot in some manner when he
was competing in. the running
broad jump; It was at . first
thought the foot was only twis-
ted
wis ted and° Greg returned to
school the next day. Thursday,
however, he . bad to .have a
walking cast applied which he
will wear until some . time . in
January. Greg is ,the 11 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ver
non 'Hunter.
Mrs.Alton'ArnoldA no
Sells Farm
Mrs. Arnold Alton .hassold her
Ashfield Township farm, to Henry'
Jurjens of R.R. 3:. Malton Poss-
ession will : • be obtained:. on April
1st of .: next : year. Mr. and . Mrs.
Jurjens , have ' a family. of.' six
boys,one of -high school age and
i
five n.' public. school.
The death . of Arnold Altonoc-
curred .a. year ago Ieaving .''Mrs..
Alton with : a young: family of S.
daughters,. ranging in age. from
seven : years . to seven months. ,
The sale.. was. made by F. C
van. Eyl of Clifford, . local:: agent
for. John . Bosveld real estate.
stitches 'in her
Remembrance y Observed Locally
• Perfect weather prevailed Wed- and had not lost any men as psis-
nesday, November . llth as •' Re- oners but . had suffered with differ-:
membrane Day was observed in 'ent. casualties This shows , how
Lucknow. The warm dry day was these men fought for their country,
in . contrast to . many previous .No- how they loved their country
vember 11 : services. 'The church and how we live today in f%dom
service was held at the United . because of men like these.
Church at ten a.m. with a good
attendance. The parade, consist-
ing of the Lucknow District High
School BandLucknow ' Legion,
,.
Auxiliary members, Scouts, Cubs, our party made up ;af Harold Rit-
Gruides and Brownies ' marched` to chic Russell Wh Mrs Bert
Y
The parade to and from the
Church was led.. by the Lucknow
District High h School Band under
director Elwin' Hall, with the col -
the church from, the''tb Legion Hall
King,. Mrs. `.Bob Lyons,'David:But,
prior to.the s 'ce. • ' ton and f lughie Johnstone. The
serve
i
Rev. H. W. Strapp, Rev. Rod parade :wai under thedirection of
. MacLeod and Rev. J. R. Xing of Clarence Greer and Bud Thome-
and An- `
the : United,' � Presbyterian , , son.
glican Churches . took..part in''the At ; the •cenotaph•
wreaths were
service. Thee choir was. made., up .laced =by. Charles ..M. . uillin � ' the
of members .. of different local: p y
churches with'Mrs.:Ross .Cunnm= Province of Ontario; . President
a the organ. Art Ernewein; the . Lucknow Leg
-
logsion; Mrs. Shirley Cooke, Auxiliary;
Rev. J. R. Kin gave the Re-
King George Joynt, Village of Lucknow;.
membrance . ,address, pointing out . Whitby;Women's In -
that in order'to preserve peace: ''. Georgeeb
world and church, statute; • Harvey Webster, Lucke
and unity in.the
wework as one and not be now Lions Club; Ken Murdie,
must
. Lucknow Business Men.; Barbara
th Re
opposed or against o ors. v• Rothwell; Guides; .and David But-.
King gave an example. of how ton. for the: Boy Scouts.
one Canadian regiment had won . • .
:every, battle they fought, and that The Last Post was sounded at
they had nevergiven up ground, the 'Cenotaph. by : Doug Dickie. •
Fine Home. BulIt By Captain Brown
fire Guts Huron
;The residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom , Fox and family was badly
gutted by fire, in mid morning
Monday of this week. 'The Fox
family, . own the former "Brown
home" on the 2nd of Huron on
top of the hill just east of Point
Clark. 'It • was more recently Oc-
cupied by Verner Brown, , but the
fine large brick dwelling was built
by his 'father Captain Brown up-
wards of fiftyyears ago. Mr.
Fox now. owns the house ' and ad-
jacent property while 'Elmer
Smeltzer owns the farm.
Residing. i the home "are Mr.
n . _ .. ..
and Mrs. Fox, . sons Duncan who
is in grade.10, and David, in pub-
lic school, Mr. Fox's father and
a Greek young man, Jimmy, who
has made his home with them
for some time: A daughter Sally
s married and lives near . God-
.erich.
Duncan ,was home sick t h e
morning of the fire, and with
his mother and Mr. Pox Senior
were downstairs. Tom was on the
milk route for ° Pine River Cheese
factory which he operates. A smell•.
of smoke had been noticed from
t h e previous ... evening ' but the
'source could not be pinned down.
At' :10 a:m:, Mrs. Fox noticed �I
heavy smoke in the upstairs of
the house,Jimmy, the young man
who makes his home with
them
; and who does not have use of
his speech, was upstairs and his
squealings could 'be heard.
Duncan was able to get to • him
through the heavy smoke and re-
moved him from 'a bedroom where
he had apparently frozen with
fright. He had been . overcome
with smoke when rescued., Heavy-
iest damage centred' in one bed-
!' room. The fine brick dwelling
was extensively damaged by fire,
smoke and 'water, Tom had done
a lot of work on the house . since
coming there from. Seaford) four
a years ago. No insurance was card
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JchflRitchieNaufl
Vote Manager`
• (Contributed) : .
A meeting of ratepayers of Ash-
field " Township' interested in a
"No" vote in ,the liquor vote on
December 7th, was held ;; in, if ac
kett's Church at 8.00 p.m. on
Wednesday, November llth. , Rev.
G. W Kaiser called the meeting;
to order and after. informing , the
group of . the purpose of the. meet-
ing Rev. Kaiser was elected chair-
man with Ken 'Albin acting 'as
secreta
i'Y=
Rev. R. Moulton, who :represent.
ed the Ontario Temperance Fed-
eration, then addressed the meet-
ing re the coming election:-
It ` 'was moved by ' John Ritchie,
seconded by Frain: .Ritchie, that.
they organize. It was moved and.
seconded that Jack Ritchie be:
manager. ' :
The following were to represent
each polling division, No. ` 1, Hugh
McWhinney;, No. 2, Frank Alton:
No. 3, Jerry Cranston; .No. 6, Earl
Swan; No.. 7, Reuben Wilson, ad-
vertising committee, Gordon Kirk-
land. Howard Blake- (chairman);
Gordon
Robb'.
It was moved by Rev. Veld
huis that each person present don-
ate $1.00 to start funds; moved
by Russel Irvin and seconded by
Elmer. Alton . that Bill Hunter be
treasurer, •
It was suggested by Rev. Moul-
ton that all five ballots be mark-
ed . no. It was
suggested that Don-
ald Simpson contact . Mr. Lewis
and Jack Ritchie contact Ben
Brown. manager of Wet side,to
secure additional information.
e meeting closed with bene
diction pronounced . by Rev. Veld-
Bili
4s; 0
POUND STOLEN CAR
The stolen ca f`
o Doug Rost:
of Amberley was , found the
middle of last tveek on the
,"Walker" or "Ross" sideroad
between the 8th and 10th : con-
cessions of Kinloss:
I ' . The. car was found by Donald
Fisher of Lucknow who was
hunting at the time. It was
in a field and had suffered,
front end and underneath dam-
age
.
_The car was stolen froilthe
main street in Lucknow a week
ago last Sunday,
i
Honours War
The largest rwd; in -noire y
heard Rev. Neil M 'ot
.Ripley, Legion .Padre, conduct the.
Annual Service at the Ripley ten-
otaph on November lith.. Rev.
George Bail of St. Ate- Uni-
ted read the scripture and Rev,
Harold' P1en of Reids Corners
and 'Bethel, led in prayer. The
I pr: winning essay for the
School, The Importance of
serving . Remembrance Day, write
ten by Glenda, Farrell, was read
by Rev. McCombie
After the reading of the names
ofthose who . paid supreme
� :..
sacrifice by Sandy McCharles,
following wreaths ' were placed in.
Remembrance; Province of, . On-
tario by Mrs. Ernie Pollock; Town-
ship of Huron by Reeve"
Emmerton; Village of Ripley
Reeve . , George McLean;
Grove Women's Institute) by Mme.
George Harkness; Reids .Corners
Women's. Institute by Mrs. Kelvin
Henderson; Ripley Women's In-
stitute by Mrs. May McDonald;
Huron's Star Rebekah Lodge No.
303 by Noble Grand Mrs. Joy
Mc-
Lean; I.O.O.F• No. 287 by Noble
Grand • .Jun Brooks; Ladies-Auxil-
iary
adies-Auxii
iary.:Ripley--Huron Legion by .pres-
ident Mrs. Lila a Tranter; Ripley.
Huron. Branch. No. 440 Royal Cam
adian. Legion by Leroy Walden.
After the Last. Post and Silence
the Legion Padre pronounced the
benediction-
knglcan Clergy
Meet St Pe
The November ; meeting of the'
Anglican clergy : of '. Bruce .'Dean-
ery . was held on.. Tuesday, Nov-
ember�0th ' at, A
l SI -Peter's .Church,
Following Holy Communion at
10 a.m., a business session .Lwas
held in the parish hall.- In the
afternoon„, the Rev. Douglas Madge,;
read . a paper . on the Rural Church.
LThose .present . were: The Rev.
_r
La amie; of ,Southamntan; The
Rev. S. R. Lupton of Kincardine;
The Rev: H. Webster of 'Walker-
ton; The Rev. J. Swan of ;; Han-
over; The Rev. D. , Madge of Pais-
ley; and. the Rev. J. R. King of
Lucknow. ; -Regrets at not ° being
able to attend were received. from
The Rev. ,W. 'Kidnew of Chesley.
and the Rev. Tom Scott 'of Lions
Head.
Hones IsStiII
the Best Policy.:.
(;Kintough .News)
Mrs. Alex Pim of I n'lougb
while shopping in' Walkerton
on Friday afternoon, : found
p . wallet containing . S143.00..•
She' immediately" turned it in',
at:the;lice..hea headquarters . as
`pa Wim.
there was no name inside.
In a short .timethepolice
located a Mrs: Bell. of the
County : .town who e was the
rightful owner. Mrs. Percy
was given .a $25.00 reward
for. her
honesty. .
Mrs. Percy, a 4-11 $"
Club leader for several cour-'
nes, is ' among those who will
attend the Royal Winter Fair
..in Toronto this week, the re-
ward 'couldn't have come at
a nicer time. Mrs. Percy is
being accompanied on the trip
by Mrs. Ed Thompson,, leader
of the Holyrood 4-H group.•
Stolen Car Deliberately Smashed
Arrests . were made. in the Tor-
onto area over the weekend foll-
owing 'a .Fridati night .of break-
ins
reakins and vandalism here that
climax d with the stealing .of a
car from Montgomery Motors in
Lucknow. r
Through the night last Fridav,.
Montgomery'swas broken: • into;
and a B destru ;tine series of inci-
dents and petty thievery was car-
red out. Entrance was gained • by
forcing a front large door of 'the
• garage *ard once inside. the gang
Iteral- "turned the place -upside
down" in an • idiotic manner. Of-
fires were littered with papers
' from drawers. files. an'l :from
'desks. money was stulen__f om the
t coke machine; two peanut mach-
ines were• smashed. silver was
taken • from the cash register and
despite the fact that, the register
was open, the cash drawer Was
smashed.
Tobacco from a .+Yoa
n was scat -
n
te..
around the "red refloor,: parts for
cars we
pulled'from their bins,.
6 a cheque book was stamped,, wwitti.
i, Montgomery s signature and, left
lying on the floor, a tool chest was
A
moved across the floor to the front
door and left• there, cigarettes and
tobacco were . stolen , 'from • the
'shelves. ' Keys for the cash .
register and for new., and• ::sed
cars ,were stolen 'and a ear radio •
was taken.
• •
• NIT SIt,VE,RWOODS ,
t. erwoods .plant on Have-
The Silo the' Same
.. ,
lock Street was also , hit he same
evening by the'• destructive group
thathad no respect for anything
that came within their reach. A
side door on Ludgard Street : was
forced and after climbing a back
stairway to the offices..a glass
in the door was broken . allowing
them' into'.the upstairs. . offices.
Ilere, also, a .1atlert of senseless
scatteratron of • officei.'trent
'
wasP
followed, Downstairs. the
group opened the doors in • the ice
cream truck..
scattering :,icream
and leaving the truck doors
open..
They pilfered the glove compart-
ments of all the trucks.
Breaking into the cold storage
is department. ice cream cartons,.
were thrown e!ver�� wa'� . for no' a-
parent reason other . than to sat.
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