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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1967-04-26, Page 9WIDNE$DAY APRIL 22Ih.:1987 Sortie Las,t�• a4 THE LUCKN OW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW ONTARIO, PAGE NINE inute Checking Of Equipment • ri Clayton 'Nicholson of Ripley, manager of the Huron and Kinloss 'Telephone System ,. •does some last minute: checking at the hew • dial building„at Ripley prior to con- version to :dial next. week Clayton is shown oh the right. On the 'left • is Commissioner Stewart Needham of the phone system and in the centre is Francis` Gemmell of Ripley,engineeringan officer of the .Ontario Telephone •Services and a former manager 'of the Ripley 'system. Groip•Enteriain. At Pinecresf Man� ZION NEWS. Mrs Gordon Kirkland's group • entertained the patients at Pine crest Manor on`.SaturdaY ..'A • Program ,was .presented .where Kath.- erine Dunsmuir sang a solo, Wanda Hunter. entertained with step cing, group singing was enjoyed, accompanied by -Mrs. Bruce. Rayt. . ' nard at the organ., Also •present : . : were Mrs..Ruth Helm: and.Mrs. Eunice Dunsmuir. The 'patents then 'engaged.in cra;,fts.,and:'� ames. •It, g was decided tb leave .the craft mat- erial at Pine crest and allow any whowished to continue on with: the different' hobbies/to do so,until ' the next group visited i tedthem . Nancy Kxr k ' and and' Brenda-Ritch- ncl . •ie motored . to Toronto ,Sa on turda , .X with the Lucknow Rangers. . They.. • toured the :Museum and Casa Loma and attended "The Spring Thaw at the Royal Alexandra Theatre,' Visitors on Sunday. with Mr: and Mrs John.Gardner .were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Helm of Tiverton, Mr. ith Phone S sterni .21 Years' Miss Marie MacKay has been an ern 10 yep and Kinloss Telep1 Ripley of the Huron Systems for twenty: -one ,years as both an'oper- ator andas secretar. She does her `secretarial work frons the buSineSs . Wide on: Ripley's main; street, • and Mrs. Lorne Woods. andMrs. Fred Thompson, Benny and Billy and', Mrs':; Gordon McPherson of St, Helens :. Congratulations to Mr and. Mrs. Allan Gibson on the arrivalof a son on Friday, Aprir 21st. • Mr. and Mrs, ; Ken Petrie , Kathy and Virginia of. Kincardine visited on' Sunday with Mr: and Mrs.',D A. Hackett and family • Mr.. and Mrs.' Bill Hunter.. and Mrs.• J. Keane spent Sunday in Stratford visiting Mr; and Mrs Roy Keane. Lori Hackett spent.last:•week with Mr. and Mrs.. Howard Walker and family: of Wingham Mr. • arid.' Mrs. Frank Ritchie and Mr.. and Mrsl. Frank Reigling of ,Saltford visited . on Sunday with Mrs., 'May McAuley at Acton. \ DIAL• CONVERSION CONTINUED PROM PAGE,1 Monteith, McGrath of Kitchener; at a price of $17,500. The equip g w mens for the dial buildinas pur-. • • chased' from Northern Electric' for '$84.; 0.00 and some of their staff has been.busy installing the switch ing equipment; in recent weeks Cost of the outside service,, custom er's equipment, cable,, etc;, was' approximately .$225, ,,Q00., • The present dial equipment at the Bervie exchange'has been sold . to''the Maidstone Telephone Sys- teme All.Bervie customers will -now be on the Ripley exchange. • t Both: tke Ripley and .Dungannon 'exchange are•equipped with direct dialing and extended "area service • ,equipment. Ripley has extended' area service to Kincardine. and Dungannon with Lucknow slated . for inclusion this Fall, The equip - Ment and cable for the Lucknow addition: has been installed and. is ready to go. Dungannon has exten- ded area service to Lucknow., Goderich, Ripley and Auburn with'.. access, to over 6000 phoneson a toll free basis, , ' • Telephone•testing.has been•com- pleted for all Ripley' customers and• all 'phases' of the• operation are "go” on May .7th!. The village of Ripley has a complete underground service cable, with the. underground. network running from Ripley to ,.Kincardine and : Bervie.,:.Ripley: to Lucknow., Ripley to :Dungannon;