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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-01-26, Page 1WEDNESPAy., JANUARY 26th, 1.972 SIngla Copy 15,c 16 Pagaa Next to the-honour. of being - chosen the warden of Bruce Coun- ty, is the, distinction of being set= .ected as a member of the Bruce County Highways Committee , which carried a three-year term. Elected as a Highways Com- mittee member, Monday even; ing, was Bruce Parker, Reeve of Brant Township. He defeated his .only opponent, Orville Elliott', , Reeve of Kinloss by the vote of 19 • to 23 on a second ballot. The closeness of the race is in- dicated by the fact a second bal lot was required' to decidebe tw,een two cont.enders, such of course of necessity being the re- sult of, a•tie, and which read 21 to 21, following the traditional open balloting. On the second' ballot, everyone again voted the same as he had during the first time around, with the 'exception however of Douglas Kreutzweiser, Deputy Reeve of Arnabel Township who switched his allegiance from Mr. Elliott --te-Mr:--Pa-rkerz—1r.--kieutzW"eiser was one of four members' who had Increase Balance Over $3300 Durini Year Fair Board Hold Annual ,Meeting, Return Bob Gilchrist *00 .YOr In Advanca $2.00 Extra. To • Joe Whitby Promoted To Chief Woiront Offit!r Kialos_Reevi Loses (101.E1e010.0,'For truce Co. Ilighways. Post, First Tied 21. 721,,. SetOnd Ballot - Ends 23-19 AREA REEVES NAMED AS CHAIRMEN Kinloss Venturers Tom Afton 'Resigns Had Winter Camp two votes. Representatives, Of St. Edmunds and, Lindsay Townships, not being in the County Highways system, were not permitted' a vote. '''Mr. Parker was nominated by Reeve Wm. .Kueneman of Carrick, with Reeve Everett Brown of Wiar- tbn; the seconder. Mr. Elliott's mover and second-, er were Reeves Harold Fair and James Given of Kincardine and Albemarle Townships respective- ly. ' STRIKING COMMITTEE MEM7 BERS The nine members of the 1972 CoUniy Council Striking Committee were appointed, as usnall:ry-th e withdrawal of `names - frorri a box. Only, the Warden and those members who had not one y.ear on council were exclud- ed. The first selected and the chair• Man was Stanley Nicholson, the other members being, Kenneth MacLean, Bradley Davis , Orville. Elliott, J. P. Johnstone Jr. , --George-Grant,.George loynttr111-=- tOti Hayes and Sidney Dunning. Joe Whitby, a Lucknow native nd well known.to many in:the ommunity, was recently promot• d to the rank of chief Warrant fficer' in. the Canadian Forces. Joe, on the right, is pictured GC iving the scroll in reCogni- on of the promotion. On the ft is the Commandant of the nadian Forces Fleet 'School t Halifax , Nova Scotia. The scroll is signed by the inister of National Defence and presented to all armed forCes ersonnel upon their promotion Chief Warrant. Officer. This the highest rank of tion-com- issioried officers and is the A REPEAT PERFORMANCE on Tuesday mOrning; as this written, it seems like a repeat rformance in the weather dep- tment to that ola year ago. AShfield Township Council held its' inaugural -meeting Jan- uary 10th. Couneillor Lorne Cook was abSent. Reeve Giryin Reed, Deputy' Reeve Eugene Prayne and CounCillors Warren'Zinn and Fin- lay MacDonald took their oath of office. ' Thee minutes of the December, Meeting were adopted ,awl a•By, Law' appointing the offitials for 1972 and setting their' salaries. was given two readings: Reeve, $500; Deputy.Reeve $425; Councillors $350;plus $10 each for special meetings; Clerk-Treasurer $4006, plus .$200 ''car allowance; Road Superintendent:, $2.50 per hotir plus, clerical assistance $275; Grader Operator $2.50 per hour; both road supt. and grader operator to receive 2 weeks holiday with pay; part time oper- ators $2.20 per hour; labour $2.15 per hour; part time labour $2.00' per hour; livestock,valuers, Alvin Robb, Eldon Ritchie, Bert' Doughte4.,....Mie ha el 'O'Neil; Fenceviewers, Duncan farrish, Nelson Pearson, Joe O'Keefe, Bert McWhinney, ROss, Eedy, Eugene Prayne and LOrne Cook were appointed to the Lucknow Arena Board; RecreatiOn Board,. Warren Zinn, Finlay MacDonald, John Austin, Bill Black, Missel Irvin, George Moncrief, James'' Boak puter , a.. digital display and a completely solid state sonar def- ecting set.. He is primarily in- volved with the digital computer. Joe's training was taken at the factory in Helgelo, H011and where the computer and the dig- ital display were designed and built. 'Joe left Lucknow :21 years ago when he enlisted, in the Canadian Navy. He is due to retire in March of 1976 at ,which time he will have 25 years of service. In a letter .from Joe , he states he would, like "to say helld to all my friends around, Lucknow". . By-Law 2; 1972 for borrowing up to $160,000. for current expenses.- from Bank of Montreal, LucknoW, was passed, Questionnaires from the Huron County Land Division re Vincent Austin and Finlay MacDonald were approved. The following accounts were ordered paid, General $4,436.38; Roads $6,108 '..59, • Council adjourned to meet . Feb ruary 1st at 1.3.0 p.m. DONALD M. SIMP.SON, 'Clerk. About 40 people attended the annual meeting and pot luck sup- per of the Lucknov) Agricultiiral Society in the town hall on Fri day evening and heard a very successful financial report read by secretary Ross Errington. Pres• ident Bob Gilchrist presided for the meeting. The society sta e rl As Treasurer Of Bruce County Bruce county councillors were appointed.. to' 1972 standing ,corn- mittees list week. Chairman of the committees are: Brad. Davis, reeve of Lion's rnon Em-1 reeve of Chesley, community; Orville, Elliott reeve of Kinloss agriculture; Lloyd John- ston, reeve of SouthaMpton, county hOrne; Albert Worrall, reeve of Teeswater, ctunty lib- rary; Clayton Nicholson, reeve, clude:' Stanley T'rask, reeve of Ainabel Township, tourism; Ar- chie MCKinnon, reeve of Culross :Township, museum; John Mac Kenzie, reeve of Bruce Town- ship, planning and county re- organization:, David Scott ,'reeve CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 with a bank`13alance of, $878 'and by .the .year end the balance had increased to $4185. Several very successful extra money making ventures added to the MC fetyts good financial posib tion, the Craft festival, the draw for the heifer donated by'Clen Skateithort plus- feW t;ven without this KINLOSS NEWS' 1st kinloss'VenturerS, Jamie McEwan, Steven Eadie, Jim Hanna, Paul Ackert, Jamie Graham and William .Dickie and Venturer Advisor, Lloyd Graham spent the week' end Winter-camp' ing at Fairy Lake: They travel- led to ramp by sno-wrno cleared a good section of for, skating and hockey and also tried ice -.fishing. Died In hospital Lucknow passed away on Monday ; January 24th in Wingham and District HOspital. •. The funeral service will be held at MacKenzie-Memorial Chapel, Lucknow .on Wednesday, January 26th at 2 p.rn. Temporary entombment is at South Kinloss Mausoleum. extra assistance , the Fair did very well for itself and the mernbers of the executive and, the society were very pleased with the year's progress.. • 'Bob GilChritt, president' of the society for' the past year, was , , returned for a second term.as . CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 it-was-one year ago ,-by .the day t winter's 'fury' let forth last ar. The storm moved in quick- and by mid day, it was appar- t that school students were not ink; to make it home on the sses'. ,.Later in the day, a hydro ciwut left many area homes thout electrical power' for days. dents were also stranded ,in ools and homes. The Sentin- finally was published on Fri- y. But that was Jast year: This year, the same January esday' morning' dawned with h gusting winds that made it possible to run school bus tes and most area schOOls were sed. Visibility was nil on st roads in the area and traffic s at a sta-ndstilt. As this is written about 11 a; tny esday, there have been brief ar periods, only to have the ds blow up frequent snow ails making driving' impossible e wind 'factor created Chilling, ow zero temperatures eitirnat- at 80' below. .equiValent of the Old Navy Rank of Chief Petty Officer First Class. For the pa st-t-Wo-yea undergone .extensive training in Canada and. Holland. He is pres- ently employed as the. sent& instructor at the Combined Sup- port. Division of the Fleet SchoOl. They are training the personnel " who will man the new 280 class destroyers and the converted Resti- gotiche class destroyers. The. 'men. that, Joe is helping to train will operate and maintain the sonar system. This equipment consists of a 'general purpose digital corn- Ashfielld Township Council Appoint Set Remuneration of Ripley /Property. Mrs. WilliarrLD_Sittipen OtIre-Ornmittee--chTirmarr--ra-