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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1967-11-08, Page 1IN 19c PC !9c 7c I3c Pc .111EP:111Wee401.11.49Keraarreforzw.womws".^rminew • • A . , .00 A Year n 'Advising, — SIAS Extra To U.S.A. LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, NOV ens 1%7' SIttgl• Copy lSc U Pays imiuniont oppoloimenimmisom More Than Share The Sid. Whitby family of Luck- now has been hard hit by illness in recent weeks, 810, the former Care, taker at Lucknow District fligh, School for mAny,"years,, has not en-- joyed good healthfoi some. time. Sid has einphysema and Is confined the Mr. and Mrs. Whitby's teenage, daughter Barbara, an employee • 4. • at Henry's Fruit Market, has been hospitalized for, two weeks at .• • Wingham. Young Ricky', who is of public school age, was also hospitalized • at Wingham at writing time with pneumonia.. Andy Whitby, who is also in public school, took this partkulat time to get sick and he was out of h Scool for a' week. • siyanutiliinumminnsimmullim :Noel Mason To•• Be• Guest Speaker • Commencement Exercises will be • held, at the Lucknow District High SchnolonFriday. night of this week, November 10th: The commencement will honour • grade 12 and 13 graduates at. the • school. •• • •• . • • , • • Guest'speaker for theeVening will be Noel Mason, last year's' prinCi- . pal of Lucknow District High . • School 'and now principal at Arthur'. • Paul Couse Is New Bent Manager New manager of the Bank of.,. Montreal's Grand Bend office is R. Paul Couse, formerly account- ant a a udburibrancif-ofth .bank. He succeeds A.E. Kemp. Mr Couse was born in Windsor.. He'joined•the B of M. at Langton and served at branches in Kings - Ville, Stratford and Port Colborne before being appointed accpuntatit at Hespeler in 1963; • . • • "- ; niade. ttyre 31' ip. The lc Nee. d to ton I, ter ' 013 the oks. In 1964.6 hewelit to 'Windsor as. assistant accountant and two years later; became ac*untant at Sudbury, the ,post d leaves to go to 'Grand Bend. •Mr. Couse has been a 'member o the Kinsmen Club irithe commun- ities in which he has served. Paul lived in Lucknow as a young man when his father, the late Murray, Cotise, was manager of the Bank,--ofMOntiekk here Muria isJ eath Occurred about ten days ago and was reported in last week's • issue. • The.sad for the new $140,000 . bank at Grand •I3encl was turned Saturday, It •is expected to be completed in about five months: The bank is presently in rented• quarters. • • Waterloo Graduate MRS: KATHERINE COLLINS . „ . • Mts.; Buried (Katherine) Collins :received. her Bachelor of -Arts Degree in French at the Fall Con October ,29 at Waterloo Lutheran University .in.Waterloo . • Mrs. Collins is a member of the ,Ripley :District High School Staff She resides in the Purple Grove area in Huron Township: .Find Radiosonde. . . . Snagged In Tree Charles McQuillin of West Wawa - nosh Township on Sunday found a - "weather balloon" caughtup in a iree on -their farm. • • . Proper nam e for the instrument is a Radiosonde and it was issued by the United States Department of • Commerce 'weather bureau. The weather recorder is sent aloft bythe use of a balloonand is tracked to he ghts o 17 miles. W en t .e balloon breaks, the instrument is returned to. earth by the. use of, a 'small orange parachute. It was this bright orange parachute which caught Charlie's eye.* The instrument was about 40 feet up in a tree half way back on the farm'. Charlie and Bill PurciOn removed the instrument from the tree. The parachute was about 18". 'across and the,balloilli'wai in fragments.' • Instructions.onthe weather recor- der State that it is to be returned only if found in the United States. District To Mark Remembrance 'Day • Lucknow pranch of the Canadian Legion 809, district organizations arid residents will rernemberithe fallen of earlier wars at a special Remembrance Day Service to be held at Lucknow United Church on, Saturday morning, November llth. War Veterans, Ladies Auxiliary, Guides, Brownies, Scouts and Cubs are asked to meet at the Legion Hall. A. furade will leave the Legion at 9,130 a.M. and proceed to the Lucknow United Church for f service. AService will folios, at the Cenotaph at 11 a ;rn Membertiof the Lucknow Legion will also attend a special Remem- brance Day Service at Si. Helens .HaIl on Sunday afternoon.- Legion sirembersr'ronduetea, poppy..salevi. blitt ,pf the village lnitzally, it .was !gamed for Friday night but; a continuous rain that evening postponed the campaign until MOW day of this week. The Legion will also stage a spec ial veterans banquet and dance on. Saturday or.thkweek, November lith'...44 TE. TAKES JUMP, S , Taxpayers hi the Village at Luck- , Ticii will shortly be reeeiVing their. tax.' bills in the mail and will find a notkeable upward trend in the" rax rat* this year. The residential:ate will see an, • increase of 6.2 mills from 81.8 in, 1966 to 88 mills an 1967 „ $ Those with' commercial property In thevillagewill feel it'even ' :.-• moie. The commercial rate is up 8.8 mills from 89.2 in 1966 to 98 mills this year. ' • ' A breakdown of the' increase^ . shows the County of Bruce rate in- ' creased from 16,80 Mills to 18.43 . - The Lucknow Public School rate has climbed from ,12.38 mills to , • . , , , • • 14.55 mills for residential property and from 13.16 to, 16.17 mills for commerelal;propertY- , • " '-An unusual and welcome sight is the fact' that the Lucknow District High School rate has dropped from 13.98 mills to 12.57 for residential property and 15:52 to 13.97 mills for commercial property. This drop helpedtoo6f7.fset sharperhike in taxes ini9 The Lucknow. general rate increas ed from 38;64 mills in 1966 to .' 42.45 mills in 1967.,This is for residential property. ,For, 'commer cial property the mill rate jumped from 43.12 to 49.43 mills,. Unconditional grants from the . • , proVince'of Ontario reduce the mill rate for the residential rate- payer by 0,67 mi1,11, • Total provincial grants to the, municipality were $243,922. Ed- ucation grants' were$82,767 being: $41-,1367 for High School' and . $44,400.for Public School., High- way grants to the village were $148,300, Welfare grants, •$6406„ Unconditional grants $4855, Other grants $1600. • The education levy for the vill- age AS $.10,796. $14,062 of this is for High School and $16,734 is for Public School. The municipal levy is $48,095. / IN TIIIS • . - • Minor hockey registration was held in Lucknow last Saturday with slightly over 70 boys signing up for the minor hockey ranks. As is, oten the case, initial regis- tration' is a tang way from comp-- lete and officials .are urging all young people in Lucknow and dist- rict, interested in playing minor' hockey in Lucknow this year, to makelure they are registered by • the end of this week.' • Another registration day will be ' held this Saturday afternoon from to `• p.m, at the town hflPor , •those who are unable to make it Saturday, registrations will be • nd _Winter llere. Mr,. and Mrs'. Robert Moffat sold, their farm near, Wingham. last Spring and spent the summer at their cottage at Point Clark. . Last Saturday Mr.. and Mrs Moffat moved to theAlex'Mowbray home on Ross Street, Lucknow for the winter months; • . Mr. and Mrs. Moffat are former • Lucknow and Kinloss residents. accepted by clerk E.H. i.kgnew at the town hall on Thursday 'and' Fri- day of this week. - • Signing at•last, week's session,: and, paying their, registration' fee, ,were 16 Midgets; 13 Bantams, 20 Pet Wees, 15 Novice and:8 Fleas. . It is planned to expand the present House Leaguewhich has operated for several. years and 'which has included Pee Weet:and,Novice. As well at on Saturdayt.', the House tie_w the week which 'shOuld offer more • games, and.more ice time.for all:, Ns Flirnt -Gerald Valad has sold his farm, Lot '6, Concession 9 Kinloss•to Martin Van Hoon of R.R..3; Bolton.. Mr. and Mrs. .Van-lioorn get possession December lit. He -‘ is licensed .diesel mechanic. The Valad family have moved to another farm at Riversdale. • The farm sale was Made by. F. C. Van Eyl, Lucknow , agent for John Bosveld , Realtor. • Consideration isalio,being given to starting a Bantam House League if enough' boys are interested. Some interest has also been shOwn in the starting of a4tiveniie hockey team but this, also, dePendson,the interest shown. •Registrations are being accepted for Juvenile. Lucknow minor hockey teams are always in need of interested'peOple . to•serve.as coach,- manager; • referee or help in any Way...Anyone' wishing to assist is urged to contact.. owar. • gnew .or rant •o It is expected ice will be available by the middle of November with temporary change rooms set .up; while -the east end of the arena it. , , being renovated. • : 'At Clasi'lleurilbit • Dr; and Mrs Corrin Of.. Lucknow spent, the October 27th week -end at Loridon'and,attended the 1947 class reunion held at Western University. The Class was -also entertained at • the home of Dr and Mrs., Dick - Treleaven, LOndon. • .7. • • . - - • ' ,„„•••••.0.....araZa ura, Hugh Hand of Whitechureh lost his life at nine o'cloek Tuesday., , evening of last week when his car • • a slammed under a transport truck, The accident occurred at the turkey farm, On Highway 86; west „ Miitairit-4liao4srvvir.Awitaity, A the Zetland bridge," ru .-Wingham Advancg:-Tirnes Photo.- • • , . . . . . . , . . . . . • •