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ROLAND SQUIRE
The death occurred at St.
Joseph's Hospital, Lot :an on
March 1st of Roland Squire. He
was in his 88th year.
Mr. Squire had been in
hospital for several weeks fol-
lowing a fall when visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Garnet Dalrymple
with whom he was staying at her
home in Egmondville. He was a
former resident of Usborne
Township. He is survived by his
daughter ; Mrs. Garnet Dal-
ryrnple(Marle) of Egrno,edville,
two sons , Ray Squire of london
and Gordon Squire of Brantford;
and two sisters, Mrst ElsieCann
of Exeter and Mrs. '•May Da.yman
of Exeter.
The remains rested at the
HoppFr-Hockey Funeral Home,
Exeter, where funeral service
was held on Wednesday, March
4 at 1 p.m. with interment in
Exeter Cemetep. ' Rev. Glen
Wright officiated.
MRS. FERGUSON HORAN
Mrs. Fergus Horan, 62, of
Dublin, died in Stratford General
Hospital Wednesday March 4
after a short illness.
Mrs. Horan was the former
Mary Eckert, and, was born in
mcKillop 'Township. She • was
Married in 1928 to Mr; Horan,
who survives. Educated in Mc-
KilIop and Dublin Continuation
School, • she was a member of
the CWL and the, Altar Society
at St. Patrick's, Dublin.
Surviving are three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Leonard (Mary)
Cronin, Detroit; Mrs. Paddy
(Helen) Woods, Georgetown,
and Mrs. Fred (Shirley) Clair-
mont of Kitchener; five sons,
Jimmy, R.R. 5, Mitchell; Jack
and Ray, both of McKillop, Ste-
phen of Santee, Calif., and Paul
of London; four sisters, Mrs.Leo
(Vera) McKay, Detroit; Mrs.John
(Melva) Murray, Dublin; Mrs.
Jim (Agnes) McQuaid, and Mrs.
Albert (Ilene) Cronin, both of
MoKillop; and 22 grandchildren.
The body was at the R. S.
Box funeral home, Seaforth. Re-
quiem 'high mass was observed
Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Pat-
rick's Roman Catholic Church,
Dublin. Temporary entomb-
ment was in the Elizabeth Ritz
Mausoleum, Mitchell.
SEAFORTH. ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1970 - Second Section, Pages 9-16
Crowded Meeting
in Londesboro Hall
Indicates Interest
in Hullett Towpship
Wildlife Sanctuary
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through- Seaforth may soon be covering, the Stratford Goderich •.cottrtbot1 Sta#10.i 0.'100004'
doomed depending on the out- - service thrOUgh Seafclih will be pr. •
come of hearings being set up by
the Canada Transport Com-
mission,
The first public hearing on
railway applications• for the dis-
continuance of what the railways
.claim are uneconomical. pas-
senger-train services under
procedures set out in the Natr
.tonal Transportation. Act will
open at Owen Sound March 31,
the Commission has announced.
This hearing, and a subse-
mient one at Guelph beginning
April 8, will deal with CNR
and CP Rail applications coVer-
ing seven passenger-train ser-
vices within a Western Ontario
triangle formed by Toronto,
Goderich and Owen Sound.
Under .the National Trans-
portation Act the Commission
may order the railways to con-
tinue to operate those unOon-
omic services it. deems geces-
sary in the public interest. In
such cases, the federal treasury
may pay up to 80 per cent of
the actual Toss.
At the same time, the CTC
reported its findings on the
actual losses -incurred.. .in . the
seven services. These were
determined by the Commission's
cost analysts after examining'
financial data filed• by the rail- •
ways last November under the
new costing process established
by the Commission.
A loss of $480,1244 in 1968
was identified for a series of
five CNR services linking Tor-
onto-Palmerston, Palmerston-
Owen Sound, Palmerston„ South-
ampton, Stratford-KinCardine
and Stratfprd-Goderich. •
TWO pf the seven applications
to be:heard at Owen Sound and
Guelph were included in theNov-
ember filings. •The other. five„ .
were originally filed by the CNR
with the formBoard of Trans-
port Commissio but were
held in abeyance until the com-
pletion of new costing regulations
which were issued laSt August.
The anelph hearing'which will
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By Lee flee
W.J. Turnbull, local swine breeder, won
the honor of receiving the Premier, all
Swine Breeder's Award for Ontario
according to the Brussels Post. The.pre-
sentation of a gold watch was made recently
to mr; Turnbull at the Ontario Swine
Breeder's meeting in Toronto. The Post
alsy reports that a former Brussels native,
John A,:•Coleman, manager of the Atwood
branch of the Imperial Bank oP Commerce
has been transferred to Killaloo. He has
been succeeded by Mr..W. B. Bellamy
of Coboconk. In. a third report the Post
relates , that Hugh Pearson and Jack .
Bryans , founders Of Brussels Liveitock
Ltd. has been sold to Leonard Bauman
and his brother, Aden Bauman of Elmira,
Urias Weber of the Elmira district, Robert
Mader of Kitchener and Bruce McCall of
Em c or no
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Howard Carroll of Goderich,- ac-
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to the Wingtiarn Advance-Times,
Zone Commander, presented several 25-
year pins and also a 40-year pin to Mrs.
Ernie Lewis of the Wingham Legion Auxil-
iary. The Advance-Times-also reports that
the last dinner of the Officers' Mess for the
21st Field Regiment was held in Listowel
recently. 4ttending were Lt.' Col. R. P.
Ritter, C.O. of the regiment and a foriner
commanding officer of the 99th Battery at
Wingham; Maj. D. H. Bertwhistle, Mount
Forest, • present commander --of the,
Wingham battery and Maj. J. L. B.
Melanson, the immediate past commander.
According to'the Goderith Signal-Star
a $5.8, million expansion program will in,-„
crease annual capacity of the Sifto Salt -
mine front 1.65 million tons to 2.25 million
tons and will be completed in early 1972.
The Goderich mine, which employs 200
people, operates' at the 1,800 ft. level
under Lake Huron.
.members of the Pineridge Chalet,
according to the Zurich Citizens News,
staged a pancake breakfast on Sunday,
and turned all proceeds over. to the'
crippled, children fund, and later-in the
day they operated a successful beef and
moose barbecue. The News also reports
that Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Sitre were honored
Sunday, March 1st, on the occasion of
their 54thranniversary. • -
The Blyth Standard relates that the
Canadian Figure Skating Champions would,
take part' In the Skating Carnival. The
special - guest stars, were Allen Carson
and Linda Tasker, both of Streetsville.
At the 'Blyth Lions Club meeting, the
Standard reports, two new members were
initiated. They are Ken Rotz and Charlie
Crawfdrd. In another item the samepaper
reports that Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brown
marked theirfortieth wedding anniversary
on Mmarr.Chanld st,
Mrs. Frank' Moore, according
.,, •
to the Mitchell Advocate, celebrated their
golden' wedding anniversary at home on
Tuesday, March 3. They farmed in Hib-
bert until mbving to Mitchell, four, years
ago. They have two sons, George andJohn
o Hibbert and one daughter, nives.George
(Marjorie) Jarmuty, Logan Township. The
same paper reports that South Hibbert
Athletic Association this week completed
the. purchase of three acres of land for
their. athletic park,
The ,Lucknow Sentinel in a front page
story relates that Miss Catharine Mac-
Gregor would . mark her 97th 'birthday on
Thursday`, March 5th: She has resided in
Lucknow for over fifty-six years.
The Clinton News-Record reports that
--Mr. Kenneth Engelstad, son' of Mr. and
Mrs. Orville Engelstad, Clinton, has been
.appointed administrator of Palmerston and
District Hospital. Sandra Idsinga of Auburn
was crowned Queen at the CHSS "At
Home" hell Friday night.
AmonE, the thirty-six drivers from
.Guenther Tuckey Transports Limited re-
ceiving safe driving awards, as reported
in the Exeter Times-Advocate, Was George
De Jong. Mr. De Jong is a brother-in-
law of Leon and Pete Bannon and also of
Mrs. John Flannery, Seaforth. He re-
ceived the 10-year-award and a cheque.
In a repprt by the St. Marys Journal-
Argus, local hockey fans who keep an
eagle eye on the Minnesota North Stars,
with former Lin Coln Jean Paul Parise
very n' tch in the scoring limelight, will
be surprised to know that there is another
'connection with the North Stars in the
person of Coach Charlie Barns`'. In fact,
the Argus states, we have three local
connections: a sister, Mrs. John Cook;
nephews John McLarkey and Hugo Ohl-
heiser,
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