The Lucknow Sentinel, 1970-07-08, Page 1$5.00 A. Year In .Advance .—$2..00 Extra .To U.S.A.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8th, 1970
Single Copy 15c
20 Pa9es
Couple Mari 50th Anniversar
Tom Morrison
Installed As New
Legion President .
Tom Morrison:-was4nstalled .as
president of the Lucknow •Legion
. on Tuesday night •of last week.
Tom, has just sold his Whitechurch
garage •business and is moving, to
Lucknow .
Ted Elliott, deputy zone coin
mander of Brussels, was head of
. the : installing team..
Other officers included; .past
'president , Irvine ,Eedy; lit Vice Vice
Brock Cleland; '2nd Vice, Gordon
Montgomery., Sec. Treas.., Harold
Ritchie; Sergeant at ATMs Ed
Blackwell;; Executive ,
'Art Ernew ein Alex Inglis , 'Bruce
Wamsley, Noble Johnston ,. Angus,
Ma..Donald„ Dave Moffat; Service
Bureau Officer , Ken .Carneron.
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Never Hn:Yepr��pppen 1n
A Millio
was heldat the Sunset,„gess gt.,K
.Kincardine to celebrate the 50th
ann.ive:rsary. of Mr. and Mrs..Ralph'
Have. you heard this one? We.
heard it third -hand ; but believe
tic when thew moved rn �Nl facts ares-reasons-b-ly-e:orrect ;
were,married June 30,, ,1920 ,at ler •,.,,•,Seems:.that.•.a...man.,who •is well.
parent's home, on the Tenth of known in this community was
returning by car with his wife
from a social outing.. Pressing,'
ce
the acferatorµa .bit"hard , he
w.as. stopped by the police for
speeding.
On Saturday-,_;J.une 27, a dirr4er
.Hunter. of Ripley;
Although:an'official "Open
House” was not held nn the =nix -
ersary date, June 30, 'many friends
and relatives called at their home
On Saturday, June -27 , afternoon
and evening, to enjoy asocial
time•. with them••and their'family:
• Mrs. Hunter is the daughter of
the late Mr;and Mrs, ichael •
• Stroud of the 10th of Kincardine
'Township'. • Ralph is the son of the
late :Mr: and Mrs. David Hunter. .
He was raisedon the. 7th cones-
sion of Ki i r- ine ,. two miles
from Armow , • where the couple..
resided untilOctober 23 1968
'Kincardine by the late Reyes01.
N. Clarey, , assisted by
C. S.' Hawke of Tiverton. .
Mr.; and Mrs. Hunter have one
daughter Mrs. Ken (—Thelma).'
Robertson.of Zion'orithe. 7th•of•; The police asked him • if he .had
Kincardine Township; three grand been drinking, and when he:
child • ren and ' five .great.'grandchil- replied that he' had a "couple
dren.. of beers" ,,they suest.ed• to him
•They received congratulatory . that his wife had .tgetter drive.
messages from the Prime Minister Not wanting to argue with the .
of Canada , The Premier of Ont- -str
orrg-a
ario,a1 .1 from congratu ations but failed. to' tell the officer' that
Ross --Whither , •M,.P. for.'Bruce.
and Murray. Gaunt, M.P. P, for
Huron -Brute.
Friends •attended from
his wife did not•have• a licence..,
•
Proceeding along' the road, you
guessed it! The car "was stopped by
distance• -from .Calgary, Toronto • a second policeman who asked '
Sarnia ; Brigden, Brampton and the lady driver for,her licence.
Lucknow 'You. can guess' the rest. An attem
ecreaton
144: children from Ashfield
°ending ,a rea
have been, registered `'for sw inirhi.ng
instruction at the Goderich Swim
ming Pool
The arrangements were made
• by the newly formed Ashfield
'Recreation Committee. Swim •
ruing will comrnence'August '3rd
for a month 'and will take place
in the morning., 8.30 to 12, five
ays a week.
The Recreation Committee Will
provide transportation to and from
the pool daily which will leave
from Brookside, North Ashfield
and iiogihr dge :S.ehra01s1, •B sse11
Chapman of '.Whitechurch• W ill be
in charge' of the buses. • Other ' '
activities will be arranged, for,the
children when they are not in the
Masses at the pool. The swim-
mer willpay his pool fee of $4
per person: ,•
The Recreation Committee is.
. presentlyarranging for ball teams
wimming
•
to .play in the township." Two
classifications. over 18 and unde
13 years of •age have been'set up.
'Four girls teams have been organ=
izedand twelve boys teams have
also been organized by Bill Blackj
a Member of the committee.
•
,pt,.•a•nd we'understand a success=
ful one , was made to ex -plain
to the officer that she wouldn't
have been :driving. without .a lic-
ence except' at the insistence •of
the first policeman up the. road:
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WEBER - ECKENSWILLER
r, an rs.. err` enswi
ler, Holyrood, wish"to'announce
the marriage of their daughter
Rita Alice Louise to Paul Norman
Weber , son -of Mr, . and •MMrs. 'Jos- .
dtxa.ay
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'Wins _C '$olat�on Award In Irish
Sweepstakes, Second: For Pam ilk
The expression that "lightning
never strikes twice•in the same.
•
. •
P1ae & ea-rs=tube-diseautted
this week.
Mrs, Frank MacLennan of Loch-
alsh received word on the week.
end that she had won a consols-
tion award in the Irish Sweep-
stakes, the.value of which is'100
pounds,, or about $250,:
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Her husband Frank received a
similar award in 1936 when a non
iler.in the-race-paid-h-irri- •bout?
-40 pounds. The pound was .more
valuable in those days and the `
win netted Frank about .$2200;'
The law of "averages was certain
ly ..tripped up. A second winner '
of the sweep's in the same house-
hold' is pretty unlikely. •
Glen :Walden. tniu:red
In- �c�r�1 • n . Barn Floop
Glen :,Walden caf=ltte-know pis.:a
patient in Wingham and District
Hospital with •a. series' of injuries.
which he received in a •fall in his
dairy barn on Thursday• morning,
of last: week.
'Glen was in the barn early '
Thursday morning and in attempt-
ing .to head off a cow into one 'of
the pens, he :slipped and fell on
the newly whitewashed floor.
While not with him at, the.
time, his daughter'Lynda was in /
another area ofthe barn and -found
Glen shortly after he had taken
the' tumble •
The immediate •seriousness of
the. • injuries••was not realized and
,he we. nt•to the house., later 'going',
to the' Huron farm to look after
-some chores there.
When the pain from his fall'
became worse, Glen, was' taken
to the hospital shortly after noon
ithat-darand-fuither-examination
revealed an amazing number of
injuries.. •
Glen's .back .is broken, two
vertebrae are broken , two ribs
rare broken.off at the"• front and
back, two` discs injured• and the
area where the neck and back
meet is. injured. It, is expected_
.that he will be at.least six weeks.
onhis back with. little or: no.
movement; It is also anticipated
that he will have a long .period of
convalescence after this, , .
•Injuries .seemto be -common in
the Walden family over.the .past
year, "Last November., Glen's '
wife Lois took a tumble: in
Ashton's store and,cracked a.bone '
'in her knee. She was on•crutches
tor eight weeksT n --arc ois• --��-"
slipped on, some iceneat-the
United Church and had her wrist
lin a coast for six weeks..
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"The future of the',Lucknow
Fall.' Fair" was the ,tq c for a,e
public meeting which was held in
the Lucknow Town Halton Mon-
day night of 'last week.
The Lucknow Agricultural
Society called the meeting 'to
attempt to determine' how much
piibhc support there was for the
Fat Fair continuing and:to try to'.
determine ways and means of. •
raising more funds. and -obtaining
more workers who w iu d�ss-istt-the,
present Fair board . • The."present •
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Lurknow.
'ativ�e Will
ead Medical Team
onesia
•$iratford Grad
ANNABELLI RITCHIF
•Miss Annabelle Ritchie., a
'graduate of Stratford Teactiess'-.
oI .g, comtneilce teach
ing Grade'4 at Brookside Public
School, south of Lucknow, in
September.•
Slee is the .daughter of Mr. and
Mrs .: Lorne Ritchie of R. R. , °
Ripley and granddaughter of Mrs.
Gordon Ritchie and Mr: and Mrs.
Dan Nicholson of Lucknow.
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e e wit
Dr. John Mowbray; : 45, former
associate piofessor-.oLrnedic:ine at
the University of Saskatchewan; `. .
le -awes -this week to take up .the:. ..
leadership of Care's first full-time
medical team to, Indonesia.
Dr. Mowbray'is a native of:
this .community and .w ell n, to
ymost-a-r-ea-res end- t"s ; Hetes thy'.
son of Alex Mow bray of Lucknow
and, was raised .in this community.:
Mrs-. Mowbray is the former Cath
erine Johnston, daughter of .Dr.
W. V'. Johnston. of Toronto and
formerly of Lucknow.
Dr. Mowbray:,, a, specialist in
internal medicine , said the tears
• will consist initially of himself
and • Dr. Peter• Hopper.. of Williams
Lake , B. C: , who is a specialist
in surgery and •obstetrics:,•• plus
a laboratory technician; a nurs=. '.
ing instructor and an operating
room nurse.
The team was invited by the
Indonesian ministry of health to
work at the three hospitals °
:in Solo, a central city on the
'island of Java. His role will be
to_teachand ractiseinedicine_
Another doctor'menber of the.
'ea'rn, Dr. B. E. Tothier of
Dalhousie , .N. B, already is in
Indonesia and will spend six
months in Solo conducting a: '
course for general practioners,
g
The restofthe team is under '
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