The Lucknow Sentinel, 1953-10-21, Page 1I s
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21st, 1953:
PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST CADUED DACTAD ’at HOLYROOD MONDAY \ W I UK
pete in th’eT County speaking con-
$2.50 A -Year In Advance—-$1.00 Extra To U.S.A. 1
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St. Helens Flier’s Grave Unknown,
Name Enscribed On New Memorial
The memory of a St. Helens
—^airman^-who~gaVe—his—lifer-m-
World .War. II, .and whos’e grave
\ .i$- unknown; has been perpetu
ated by the inscription of his
name on the - new, Bunnymede
. . Membtial whieh; was unveiled in
England on Saturday by Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
His name is Flying Officer
George Andrew McQuillin, who
is one of 20,455 ‘ Commonwealth
airmen who gave their lives in
World War II and have no known
grave. ».
They died' for freedom in raid
and sortie over the British Isles
. and the Lands and seas of Norths,
ern and Western Europe.
: Flying Officer McQuillin: was
reported missing in January of
1943. He was a son of the late^
Mr. arid Mrs. Wm. McQuillin and
L a brother of William and Beat
rice McQUillin of St. Helens,
Robert of Hamilton, Charles of
Grand Bend and Mrs. Wm. Pur-
.. don (Mildred) of West Wawa-
> nosh. Members of the family list
ened to the broadcast of the un
veiling. of the memorial on Sat-
. urday... .
The Runnymede Memorial, an
impressive white ; stone shrine,
stands on a wooded hilltop near
by the River Thames and over-
looking the fields of Runnymede-
where King John sigried the
Magna Carter, the first great
charter of English liberty.
In the. unveiling address Her
Majesty said: ‘It is very fitting
that those ^Vho rest in nameless
graves should be remembered in
this place. For it is in these fields
that our forefathers planted , the
seed of liberty which helped to
spread across the earth the con-
, viqtion that men should be free
and not enslaved.^And when the
life of this belief “was threatened
by the iron hand of tyranny,'their
successors came forward without
hesitation to fight, and it was
demanded of them to die for its
GOLDEN WEDDING MARKED
BY AMBERLEY COUPLE'.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Campbell
of Amberley observed their 50th
wedding anniversary on Wedries-?
day, October 21st. A community
card party was held at Amberley
Hall in the evening to mark the
event, and to. fittingly honor. a
popular cpupla who .have spent
all their married life there. In
fact Jack Was born at Amberley;
Mrs. ‘ "Campbell was formerly
Anna Mahood.'
They have a family of four
children, Russell, Glen, Mrs.
Stuart Shiells and Mrs.. Doug
Young of Niagara-on-the-Lake.:
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GRAHAM. MacDONALD TO
RECEIVE B.A. DEGREE .
William draham MacDonald
will, be one of the graduates at
the Fall Convocation at Univer
sity of Western Ontario; London,
jQn2_Eriday, October 23rd, when.
he is to receive his Bachelor of
Arts degree*...- •';..L; - ,r._. _.
Graham is a son;, of Mr. and
Mrs. W F. MacDonald, 4th Con.,
Huron, and a graduate „df Luck-'
how High School and Toronto
Normal School. He taught school
at St. Helens and Petrolia and at
present is teaching, in London.
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AT ANNIVERSARY
Anniversary services in the
Lucknow , United Church were
conducted on Bunday by Rev. J.
T^Vr-Stewar't~oLTrafalgar/nvho^e-:~~'~'~~
turned to the pulpit he. had oc«.
cupied for height years; He. was- ■
happy to come back, he, said, and !
was ’ warmly , greeted by large
congiregatioii's at both services. -
Rey. Stewart safd he appreciat
ed the invitation more than words
could express. You are still “my
people”, and as he scanned the
array of familiar faces before
him, said that “it seems that I
• -haven’t been away at all”. Mr.
-Stewart left here a little more
than four years ago.
The choir, under the direction
of -Mrs. J. W. Joynt and with Mr.
; Elmer’ Umbach as organist, ex-
. celled in the anthems, they ren-
i dered. Re\< Stewart expressed his
thanks , to the choir, commenting
I that it “seemed like old tiines”,
I to have that fine choral group
! supporting him.
I At the evening* service Mis&
■® I Margaret Rae took an anthem
a solor and, Mr. W. C. Attridge ren
dered the solo “The Publican”.
The evening service in the Pres
byterian church was Withdrawn
, and Rev. C. A. Winn assisted Rev.
• Stewart by leading in prayer.
In the morning Rev.’Stewart
spoke on “The Church, What of ... .
the Future?” He queried as to
bur faith and belief in the church, ■
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ance why there “will always be
a church”. The need of it, and
its eternal purpose assures the .
the continuance of the church and -
Mr. Stewart said the greatest
danger to the church was not -
communism but a subtle, indif
ference to the church on our part.
In the evening Rev. Stewart
spoke on the theme, “Substitutes
for God”; arid referred to several
of the “idolatries”, that we wor
ship today, possibly unknowingly
in some cases, but- which we are
becoming slaves to, and which
rob us of our Sabibath as we fol
low our pwn . plan instead of
God’s plan. _ • :' ■ ...
The Kinloss Township public
speaking contest will be held, at
HolyroOd HaH on Monday even-?
ing next, October 26th. The com-
petition-Jisoperi—to-ruralschool
contestants jvithin the Township,
with-the winner eligible to edm-
test at Paisley on October. 29th.
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RETURN FROM WEST
Harry Lavis of Kinloss, Charles
McLeari, Al Hackett and Marvin
Scott of Ashfield have returned
from Western Canada after
spending seven weeks in the
Stetler dstrict in Alberta, where
crops were good, although 'in-
some districts they were, hailed
out. The foursome missed only j
one day’s work. They motore'id;
West by way of the; States and-
returned, through. Canada:. 15:
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■l“GET TOUGH” POLICY WITH
CHURCH & OTHER REPORTS
The Sentinel has been forced
to adopt a “get tough” policy in
respect to. receiving late reports
of church and civic organization
activities.
Repeatedly we have requested
early receipt of such reports, and
from most press correspondents
"we are receiving splendid co-op-,
eration. There are those, how
ever, who still send in reports
at the last minute and sometimes
a Week or- two old.
We ask that reports of* a-ll such
meetings ibe sent in IMMEDIATE
LY after they take place—not
the next Monday or Tuesday
when the pressure is really on.
We welcome these reports, arid,
simply ask that they come in
promptly the \yeek they take
place, otherwise we have no al
ternative but to discard them to
the waste paper basket.
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WAWANOSH REEVE
FLEW TO VICTORIA
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Harold Gaunt, reeve of West
Wawanosh and a member of the
Huron County Road Committee,
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salvation”. ~ “
Wreaths were placed at the
memorial by The . Queen, the
Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of
Gloucester, who is president of
the War Graves Commission, and
other Commonwealth dignitaries.
Arid then to these Were added
the personal floral tributes of
many of the thousands who wit
nessed the unveiling, until flow-
. ers ten feet deep surrounded the
memorial which records the
names of the -missing ’ airmen,
Ibpth in stone on panels in the
cloisters of the shrine, and in a
parchment register. .
PLAN FOR WEST WAjVANOSH
FEDERATION BANQUET
Gordon, MacTavish, who just
got over a bout with pneumonia
and. jaundice/ now has plans well
underway for the annual meet-,
ing, turkey dinner and dance of
. the. West Wawanosh Federation
6f Agriculture. It will be held .in
----^be^RecreMibto
now, next Thursday, October 2£k
. The guest speaker will be Llovd
Jasper, who is active in th'e Bruce
' County Federation.
Gordon is president of the West
Wawanosh Unit, and Bill Caesar
is secretary-treasurer.
Will have leg in
CAST FOR SEVERAL WEEKS
Leg' injuries -which MUrfay.
Gaunt received in a motor acci-
dent recently proved iriore seri
ous, than at first -believed. Besides
a fradtured knee cap he, has a
cracked bone in the knee. He had
been bedfast since the-accident.
Ten days pr so ago he had a
cast put on the injured Mb,
which he will have-to wear fo^
a couple of months but will short
ly be able to move about
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along'with other members of the
committee, Reeve Wm, J. Dale of
Hullett and Warden Alvin Kers-
lake of Hensail, spent the past
week in Victoria; B.C., attending
the Dominion Good Roads con -
vention.. They made the trip by.
TransCanada. Air Lines from
Malton. Mrs. Gaunt, Mrs- Dale,
and Mrs. Kerslake motored to
Malton to meet the plane bn the
return journey on Monday night.
INSURANCE GROUP
MET LASt WEEK
.,Fire insurance matters occu
pied morning and afternoon ses-;
sions at Dungannon Parish Hall
last Wednesday, when some sixty
officers and- directors of nine
mutual companies in Group Six
met for their fall conclave. Pres
ident Durnin Phillips, who holds
the office' for two terms, presid
ed. Dinner was served at -noon
in' the United Church basement..
The Companies4 represented
were Culross, Farmers’~Centralr
Germania/ Dufferin Farmers’,.
Howick, McKillop, West' Wawa-
nosh, Grey-Bruce; Formosa.- .
' 75th Anniversary1
' The meeting coincided with the
75th anniversary Of the founding
of the West Wawanosh'Gompahy..
’Its oldest policy'holder Mr. -Wm.
Watson,- age 87, Was present .and .
Spoke.. H6 ..ha's carried insurance
in thd company since" his teen
age da vs'arid is a former director
of the ‘ West.WawaTToslrMu tual-'--" •
, Guest speakers' were Col. Van-
dewate’r, president of the M. F.
U. A., and Walter Gross, secret
ary of the Association, as well
as'Gordon Gibbons, inspector of
farm riibtuafe of > the Department
of Insurance. ' ,
There are’ 66 companies in On*
tar.io divided into groups. Group’
6-carries the largest/amount/of
insurance. . ‘
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THAT A.B.D.VJ. Tom A. Mac
Donald, R.C.N., is home on
leave visiting his mother, Mrs.
T. 'A. MacDonald. Tom is a deep
sea diver in the Navy and is
stationed at the Diving Unit in
Halifax, '"NTS. He is one of a
comparatively few Navy, irien
who have taken, up diving, and
likes it. Tom hopes eventually
to be sent to the States to take
”~i^Trogtnari”_^urser—~
THAT high lady was Mrs. Lloyd
Hunter and high “man”. Mrs.
Bob Hamilton, at the-Auxiliary
Friday night Shoot party. There •
were eight, tables. , I
THAT increased power on chan
nel 7 of WXYZ-TV, Detroit,
has resulted in perfect recep
tion in this community. The
power was increased by four
times on Sunday and while
other channels were “snowy”,
Channel 7 was as near perfect; as one "could wish, and we *
speak from havings viewed it at •
Harold Greer’s residence,^Thp
new London station will nave
the same power as WXYZ.
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THAT Miss Mary Porteous, who
had been holidayirig with her.
parents, 5 Mr: Ar
Porteous, returned to Toronto
last week where she/has com
menced her .new duties with
' the Women’s Institute Branch
of the Department of Agricul
ture. .
THAT students of the Lucknow
Public School were.much in
terested. last Friday , in what
Bob Thornpson had to. tell them j
about the Eskimos and thb far ]
norttf in . general. Bob . first
spoke to the children ■. of the
two lower rooms and then to;
' the students of Grades 5, 6, 7}
and 3, who plied him with
questions for an hour after he
had finished hzs talk. In fact,
they had to “shut them off”,
eventually. The. talk took the
place of the regular Junior Red
Cross program which the stu-
-^ents“hxrld“perit>dicallyr—“—“
THAT K. C. Murdie; Gerald Rath-
well arid Gordon Fisher of the.
local ■ ScOut Committee. and
Stuart Collyer, Scoutmaster, at
tended ‘the opening on ‘Sunday
afternoon’ of the new Scout-
Guide hall at Rosalind. Lake
near Hanover. The project ,;is
: sponsored by Hanover Rptary
Club, and will offer1 excellent
. facilities arid ./surroundings for
—Guid
ing. Dick Murdie arid Bill Fish-
er /also.. went along to attend
* the opening ceremonies. c
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THAT to promote traffic . safety
throughout the state ' of Con^
necticut road signs are posted
, ,on main parkways which read,
“In life as in baseball it’s the
number of ‘times you reach
home safely that counts’4.
PRITCHARD TEAM
SET WIN_RECORD
Elmo Pritchard .wound Up. the
Fall Fair circuit on Thanksgiving
Day at the “Little World’s Fair”
at Rockton,, near Galt, and con
cluded a. season that set a record
for successes and the number of
fairs attended. .
. Elmo competed at thirty-five
fairs arid on thirty-three occas
ions his team of 3 and 4-year-old
Belgium mares placed first. At
Listowel and Stratford he -took
second money, with the O’Keefe’s
Brewing Company’s teain getting
the red ticket.
Elmo opened the fair circuit at
rAylm--r-on“Au!igust”24th-and-whem
; he Gnded at Rockton on Thariks-
I giving Day, had travelled almost
4,000 miles for the. most success
ful show-ring Season he has ever
had. „ ■ ..
Elmo still has the Walkerton
Christmas Fair on his schedule.
He plans to keep the team, that
is, unless “someone wants them
more than he does”. <
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Fine Concert Monday
On Monday evening the Kin
cardine United Church choir pre-'
sented an excellent program to
a disappointingly small crowd. .
Zrh.is-.fo.r.ty^.v.oice groupr^under-the...
direction of Bernard^ E. Hiroris,
delighted the audience with a
variety program of solos, duets, ,
quartettes, men’s chorus and
choir numbers. Soloists were
choir numbers. Soloists were
Miss Charlotte Gall and Mrs. B. '
D. Henry:
Rev. G. A. Meiklejohn extend
ed a welcome: to the choir and .
thanks was expressed by . Mrs. »•
Grant MacDiarmid, president of
the Women’s Association.^ .
SCOUT APPLE DAY
W^r^UCCKSFUL-
The Lucknow Boy Scouts and
Cubs staged thejr annual apple
day on Saturday and if <kari apple
a day keeps the doctor away”,
the~louaT^edtcos^^
ing business pretty dull.
The Scouts sold 17 bushels of
Macintosh Reds, which grossed,
them receipts of about $132.00 and
wherp^&lk expenses are paid will
leave them a heat profit for the
advancement of "Scouting. .
Besides making the local can
vass, Kenneth McLennan took a
load of salesmen to Ripley in the
■afternoon and in the evening
Dohald McKinnon took, a carload
to Dunagnnon.
I Billy- Rdbinson * did ^the out- ! skirts of the. Village on horseback
j in the morning arid was out sell
ing. on foot in the afternoon. .
First, and secdnd prizes of $1.00 i
and 50c were awarded in three
classes for both Scours and Cubs. Initiation for all Grade. IX. stu-
Best poster — Scouts, Teddy - dents at Lucknow District . High
Collyer, Bobby Irwin; Cubs, Ken
neth Jones,: .Gordon MaeNay.
—-Dee orated—Baskets-——Seoutsy
Melvity Hodgins, Doug ' Schmid;
Cubs, Torn Rathwell; Kenneth.
Jones. • '• ' •
High < Salesman — Scouts, Jack
Button/ Billy Robinson; Cubs,J
Paul Emberlin, Ronald Attrid’ge.
TROPHY PRESENTATION AT
JUVENILE BANQUET FRIDAY
Lucknow Juveniles, softballl
grand champions of .the WOAA
>andTiSi6mi4iriaJist^m--.the-rQASA^:
will receive the league trophy at
a turkey-banquet on Friday eyen- ! kn,ee^; (3) Wear women’s nylon
ing ift thb Recreational Centre, stockings; (4) wear trousers, •
The boys will &]so receive jackets backwards. z
to mark their achievement. Tick* i Everyone must have a large,
ets are still available at $1.25 sign hanging On his back with ’ .
each. ' ‘ " *•••.% 1 his name on it. The sign,must be
A dance will follow the ban- at least 12” by T12”. Everyone
ouet with music by Wilbees or- must,*also,.carry.books to school .
chestra. Admission to the dance and to. and from, classes ,m.a pail , ■
is 5O.e. « . . / ’ ron Tuesday and Wednesday.
ODD LOOK ING KIDS
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School began on Tuesday; furn
ishing higher students with much
-amusementT-T^he-reg^iat-ions-a-re-in.——-
effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from .
.Tuesday .to Friday, inclusive. All
breakers of the law must' bear .
the consequences. . ■
I Following are the regulations
Girls must:/l) wear, a necklace-
made out of potatoes;. (2) have
al) their hair braided, with dif
ferent colored'ibows-on each side
of .the head; (3) wear men’s gar-.. . ’
ters to hold up ankle sox;
must wear a moustache. Boys;
jaQ.us.tj.—(.1.).......wear....aM.:.gir.Es^b.l.QU.seL.^.^.....^,.
with a tie; (2) roll trousers above.
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