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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1970-07-15, Page 1a "IPa rA•raaa TINIMILn $5.00 A Year In Advance ........... 12.00 Extra To U.S.A.. ' LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th, 1970 Single Copy 15c 16 Pape Swimmers Receive instruction At Silver Lake. Approxirrrately 100 young people have',,been•.receiving.switri- ming instruction"'at Silver Lake Kinloss Township, 'in the last couple of weeks : Th'e swimming classes are being sponsored for thefirst,time: by the newly fprmed Kinloss Recreation committee. The Sentine camera caught a group of the swimmers, and in-. Seriously Injured: In Motorcycle Accident On•Znd structors last week; Pictured left to right arec,Bruce'Colwell, . 20 -year -did son of Currie Colwell. and the late Mrs Colwell shown instructing Kevin Fair ;_9 , son of ;aMvlr. and' Mrs. Beverly Fair; Betty Colwell 16- da:u:ghte-t•=ofCurrie Colwell , • instructing Ross Kerslake 6 son of Mr', and .Mrs, Keith X11, daugh•. ...e ter of Mr, and Mrs. Donald Bush Visits Homeland ell; receiving instruction from the chief instructor, Brian Taylor , Wingham . ` Standing and looking on are,, left , Sandra Moult 8 daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Ray' Moulton', and on the right,Kathy Gillespie, :age,10 , . daughter of Mr; and Mrs. Donald Gillespie. • , Car Veers Over Sidewalk, Knocks Over Small Tree, No One: Injured Miraculously, no one was in- lured as a.. car veered out -of con- trol about 9p,'m on Saturday. night, knocked off a smau..tree • and carne torest on the front lawn of•a Lucknow home. According to Kincardine Prov- incial Police a car driven by.. .Harold Edgar of Lucknow• was .- proceeding :east on .Lucknow- Main: Street and' making, a left turn. to the.north at .the •Lucknow United. : .Church corner. Mrs. .Edith .Gard-.. :ner oftucknow.`was a passenger in the Edgar car. • A second car , going in the'same direction, and operated by. Danny Leddy„ of Lucknow ,'overtook the Edgar vehicle and passed"on the left (north) side at .the, brow 'o€ the Moulton, age shill, .Passengers in the Leddy car ' were .David Humphrey , 15 , Luck now; Keith Reid , 18', R: 3 Luck now and Wayne Cranston., 17, R. ` 3 Lucknow :. The two•.cars ,sideswiped doing damage to both vehicles: ' The Leddy car then veered out of .con- trol ina north-easterly direction crossed the sidewalk, knocked over a smalltree on, the front of the Harold Htimphrey house and continued over a small embank- ment onto the lawn of Jim Smith where.the car carne to rest a very few feet• from the Smith house. No one 'was.,injured.. Damage was estimated:at $400 to the • Leddy car and. $2.00 to the Edgar • vehicle. Constable Larry . White- - 1aw�ofKinea-r rne� rovrrzeiz Police investigated. . ♦�N•NN••N•N•N•N•N•N• ♦ ♦ ♦ * * • • ♦.• Robert Carter., ;16, son qf Mr. and' Mrs, Ernest Carter was ser - accident on Saturday eveningon the second concession of Kinloss . • Robert, who is employed in Walkerton, was on a motorcycle with George. Wall, 17 if Walker-; ton,'sonof Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wall of Lucjtnow: They. were'proceeding west on the.2nd'when the motorcycle. struck loose gravel throwing' both young men•over the handlebars, They we're removed to Wing- ham"Hos. ital. 'Robert Carter ' su-ffered-rinrrltiple l-a'c:eratiterto the face and:mouth , lacerated, right leg , 'multiple abrasions to. both arms:, extensive injuries to the mouth .concussion and 'shock. He was treated and later transfer- red-l:e-V-ictoria Hos-pit-al in e - ..:don....b the -hospital -,a nbulance. George ,Wall received latera- tions to the left hand and abra tions to iheright hand: ' He was treated altd`1Wt C r"r'leased Iiia= cardine Ontario Provincial Police investigated the accident:. Gradates From Fanshawe College • David G. Gibson, son of Mr, and Mrs. S. W. Gibson of Luck- now , graduated from the three year course at Fanshawe College in London as an electronic tech- nologist.. . . He has accepted a position , at Fanshawe College, starting September 1. First Time In:Twenty Years lvlrs. Rudie•Henriing of London, with her, eight-year old son Nor man,: leaves for Scotland this Thursday , July 16th for a month's holiday. Mrs. Henning 'is the former Susa McNaughtatz aughter of • Mr... and Mrs: Jim McNaughton of Lucknow... This is Susan's .first -trip-bacict Scotland since she arrived 'in Lucknow with her par- ents and brother, Jim •in November 1950,. While :in Scotland theywill visit with her grandparents Mr -and ' Mrs Johrr'Terros-a't Markirrc Fifeshire and other relatives. in Leslie and Dunfermline: A. • • /. - Photo by Don Johnstone Terry Rothwell Is New Head Of' Business Group Terry Rathwell is the new'pres ident of the Lucknow Business * eiti t s ' A sse ed at a meeting on; Wednesday nightof last week and succeeds Stuart: Jamieson, Ron. Machan 'was. elected first vice president and`" -Bi -11 -Nelson second:=vice: --Clar--y ence Greer and_ Gordon.Fisher • ---SCO NT I NLS ED -ON P A G'E-2-`-= n- noc -e Unconscious By FahIIng-EIm-tree. • i In .D HOspitaId •Mrs, 'George Hunter ; formerly. of Lud now-, passed -away in --Wing: ham and District Hospital on Sunday , July 12th; She was 84:, The -funeral service is being Conducted on Wednesday (to -day) July 15th at`2‘p:m. at•MacKen- ie Me-moria1-Ghapeel, Lueknew-- lrrteniienT' wl-lrbe at vree:nhui1-`" Cemjetery Dungannon Y oath • Is Badty Injured :Charles Young, .20. -year -'old son of• Mr , and .Mrs: Fred .Young. of Dungannon, ' is ;a patient :in ' Goderich Hospital where itis • • expected he will be for about two months.•.' ' He was badly iniured early last, Thursday morning inan accident;_ in the Nile area, Charles had.. • been to Chatham that day and was hitchhiking hoirie`on' the county -road:.south of Dungannon. Police assume that he•was st:ru.ck .by: n-unkiiown-c*r trd , when hey came to froth an uncoil- scious stale , he ryas; itp ihe: ditch: .on the curve in the county road at Nile. Mr. ,Ybung cannot recall. what happened.. He received assistance at the home of Mr. ,and Mrs.' .eliff'Jardine of Nile who summoned an ambulance He was removed to Goderich hospital Where it was determined that he had two broken arms, *a badly cut - - `to"tti r ritand'hip area The e.. incident took place' about 3 a.m.. ':Mail'Strikes.' Hit Thisissue -.No mail delivery on, Tuesday morning this week, and practical- ly no, Mail on Monday creates serious problem's ,in many 'area businesses,' one of which is The Sentinel. . • 'While the post office depart rnent and; the union play their little games .at the expense of. the people of Canada ;',the gener- •al public sit helplessly by , many:. 'losing thousands of :dollars a 'day: 11N*N•N�N •. ♦ •♦:• Injure Haying Accidentf Ornar Brooks of Lu,cknow: escap ed what might have been serious •' injury on Tuesday of last w_egk while putting hay in a ,silo ,at the. farm of Allan. Macintyre north_ of Lucknow':', • Omar was doing some .custotn: work for. Allan and in some 'man- ner was 'squeezed ' • by the feet , be-ee- we-n-the-hare-est-e&r and--t-ke manure loader. Omar was standing .behind the harvester and'..Jim Bird , an em- .. m ployee of Mr. Macantyre.,..was' driving the tractor.• • Fortunately. Omar escaped with —110 0 co a Imuscles from his knees toes •. . �pu•lled to• his. Sam Alton of Lucknow escaped serious injury on Monday morning -when-he-was knocked unconscious- by a falling tree. . Sam was assistinghis son jack at his Belfast .area farm. The two men were removing some dead elm trees' at the ..edge of the 'bush 577aiii was stiva a g aiicisig blow by a falling tree Mr. Alton was knocked uncon- scious by the blow:. He was re- moved to Kingham" Hospital where" examination revealed abra- sions to the head and 'chest injur- les which iri'cluded.a broken bone in the chest' area: '• His'conditiorr'• on Monday was satisfactory, istowel Counci hway r Listowel Town Council will ask the department :of highways to extend Highway 86 toutheasterl y , fro..tz .its -ter L -.nom t at Highway 7 , west of Guelph , and turn it into ;a four -lane access route' to Highway 401. ' The proposal was made by the Chamber of Commerce as the • most logical way of providing bet. ter access to 401 for*Bruce, Huron. Perth , Waterloo and Wellington counties and for vacationers from the southern counties head, ing' for Lake Huron resorts. • The westernd . e of n Highway 6 I is at Arnberley on Highway 21 •. •A. delegation was names• to Iarrange a Meeting with depart-, nvent of highways officials in Toronto to outline the proposal as soon as possible. The delegay tion includes. Listowel Mayorr David Kilbert , clerk -treasurer Hartley Fischer , 'Deputy 'Reeve Dorton VanCamp and Harvey " Krott representing the Chamber of Commerce. I Support will be sought "from othe municipalities r m ni ipalitaes which would e-=�t-ed-. Mr. Krotz estimated the dis- tance from Highway 7 to 401 would be about 14 'miles: ,Bypas I ses would be neecessary for Luck - now , Listowe and Elmira.. A new access Highway froth 6odericti to 401 has been discus- sed at var1oi!s levels sn recent months.