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Clinton News-Record, 1967-02-02, Page 9Gordon Phillips Team THwIm Feb, 2, 1967 « Clinton Newt-Record -u Page Champions of Clinton Kinsmen Squirt Hockey League • By winning two straight games in Clinton Kins­ men Squirt Hockey League playoffs held as part of Minor Hockey Weekend, the Flyers won the Hotel Clinton trophy which is put up for annual compe­ tition by Frank Cook, a member of the Kinsmen dub. They won the final game Saturday after­ noon by a 2-0 score over Leopards; the Flyers had put out Lions 1-0 earlier in the day. Leopards el- imiinated Skidoos Thursday evening 2-1. Members of the champion Flyers are, front row, left to right, Brian Hunking, Billy Engel, Ricky 'Welch, goal; Raymond Burns, captain, holding the Hotel Clinton Trophy; Stephen Steep, Alan Lavis; back row, left to right, David Counter, Jimmy Dennis, Mike Riley, coach; Danny-’Campbell, Doug Mathews. Second Best Team Squirt-age Hockey Eliminated by Flyers in the final game of Clin­ ton Kinsmen Squirt Hockey League on Saturday afternoon by a 2-0 score, the Leopards shown above • were by no means outplayed. Members of the team are, front row, left to right, Clare Colquhoun, Bret Hawthorne, Greg Riley, goal; Patrick Phillips,. Doug Fawcett; back row, left to right, David Kuehl, Mr. Phillips, coach; Steven Haaksman, Randy McGinnis. ' ('News-Rec'or^Plwtos) J. T. Mitchell Celebrates With Canada HENSALL — John T. Mit­ chell, Huronview, formerly of Hensall, who Will Celehrate hi& 100th birthday on February 7, wfas bom a son of Valentine Mitchell and Belmira »HewSon, and as a child lived on the second concession of Hay Town­ ship- When Mr. Mitchell was three years old, the family bought and moved to the ’f atm in' Tuckersmith. ‘About 14 years later Valen­ tine Mitchell bought a form in Usborne Township but’ John stayed on the form in Tucker- sriiith. "Mr. Mitchell speaks of the old cheese factory located about h&If a mile* wfest TJf’thfeir 'jjdacS. The factory was built about 1870 by Andrew Malcolm and operated quite successfully for a'number of years. It changed hands several times arid at its peak produced 2500“ lbs.’ of cheese' per day. It Wais closed about 1900. Mr. Mitchell recalls it was a favorite plate for the lads to gather’5 In the evenings in the summer to play baseball arid horse shoe. ThO centenarian, remembers Rogerville Well top where the neiarest store, past office, black- stfnith shops and the Pi'esby- tefian Chufch Webd IpfcaJteHf 5 He tells of the Bell famifly on the London Road north of Rpgervilie and the good1 times hfe had’ With the very musical fomily. 'Mr. Mitehell mentions too when he got his first top buggy arid black driver. 'Hemhrri«rElizabeth .Rice of Cromarty in 1891 and the couple joined the Methodist Church in Clliseihurst. ’ ’’ ’f4*4 In the winter of 1901, Mr. Mitchell met with a vexy pain­ ful accident while sawing wood- With a neighbour, the late Martin McTaggart. A log' fell bn his foot almost severing j|t at the ankle. He gives .the late Dr. Ferguson of Hensau credit fox' 'saving his fooft, although the accident left Mr. Mitchell larrxe tiritirtho present time. In 1928, the Mitchell’s bought a house in Hensall and the couple moVed there when their 'son ’Stanley, was married. They joined -the United Church when coming to Hensall and"celebrat­ ed their sixty-fotmth wedding Sahniversaxy'1 before Mrs. Mit­ chell ! died' in 1956 alt the Age of 85. Soon after that, Mr. Mitchell sold his place in Hensall and ’stayed With his family until the spring bfl 966, “when life' went to HuronvieW. quite poor. His family includes three daughters Mrs. Jarvis * (Olive) Horton and • Mrs. Melville (Edna) Traquaar, both of Hen­ sail and Mrs. Carl (Gertrude) Stoneman, Cromarty; one son Stanley on the home farm; five grandsons and two granddaugh­ ters, 13 great-gxandchildren; and one great-great-gf and’child. Duncan Stewart who celebra­ ted his 100th birthday at HurOn- view 'oh^January 14 frequently vlisirtrs Mr. Mitchell in his room to talk ' over the olden days when they as boys sat together1 in school. the A of Minoa’ Hockey Weekend was the ..playoffs in the Clinton Kinsmen Squiiit League. All fopr teams partici- Rate*!. The champion Flyers were coached hy Mike Riley. They were awarded the Hotel Clinton trophy after beatingthe Leopards 2-0 in the finial game Saturday afitex’noon. ’’ ■■ :JFlrst Gaine ‘ On Thursday evening, Leopards put out the Skidoos by.,# 2-1 score. Scoring for the Itecpaids weie David Kuehl from' .Pat 'Pfolliips and Clare Oolquhoun from Steven Hanks- man..Neil Colquhoun scored the Skidoos lone goal. The Skidoos were coached by Larry Walls, Lineups; Leopards — -Greg Riley, goal, Clare Colquhoun, Bret Hawthorne, David Kuehl, Randy McGinnis, Steven Haaks- man, Doug Fawcett and Pat Phillips; Skidoos —- Richard Welch, goal, Bill Irwin, Jim Thompson, Larry ‘ Mathews, Robert Menzies, Peter Walden, Neil Colquhoun, Billy 'Proctor and Ernie Lobb. Second. Game The Flyers gained the finials when David' Counter scored the only goal of thd game at 5 ;10 of a ten minute overtime over the Lions on Saturday morning. The Lions were coached by Glen Carter, Londesboro. Lineups: Flyers — Richard Welch, goal, Danny Campbell, Jimmy Dennis, Doug Mathews, fAlan Lavis, Raymond Burns, David Counter; Billy Engel, Stephen Steep and Brian Hunk- ing; Lions Grieg Riley, gpuii, Dean Hawthorne, Larry Cartel’, Larxy Flynn, David Bartliff, Steven ■ Cook,' Greg Butler, Michael Riley and Frank Flynn, Final Gamer In the. fip#ls between Flyers and Leopardis at four o’clock Saturday. afternoon, Raymond Burns, captain of ' “ 'was the big star, team’s two .goals beat Leopards 2-0. ards were coached Phillips, vice-pidncipal at Cen­ tral Huron Secondary- School. The FQlyers were again poach­ ed by Mike Riley, Burns was awarded the Eil- Wopd Epps Sports Shop tx'ophy as the outstanding player ci the game, . --------——o—-----—- the Flyers scoring his when they ■’The Leop- by Gordon II {» F Dr. A. J. Hewatt Plans Special Lenten Series • Recently there has been much controversy- over the Ten Com­ mandments. Are they obsolete, as some would have us believe? Or do they still speak out of the dim, nomadic past to the much more sophisticated citizen of to­ day? We are living in days of great moral laxity when steal­ ing and cheating are all too prevalent and When the so- called “New Morality” has sad­ ly lowered human standards, main excuses are offered. it that it is ail right as as you'dOn’t hurt anyone; everybody is cheating, — „ shouldn't you? Both are. based on faliacies. The’ whole outlook is blurred and deceived and' inspired by selfishness and falsehood. We must rebuild our ctvaliz- aition on a solid rock foundation or it Will crumble before the storms of hate and selfishness ’ which are rocking individuals and nations today. We have- this firm foundation in' the Ten Oamraandiments. Dr. A. J. Mowatt will dis­ cuss this problem with Wesley- Willis United Church in a series of sermons during the Lenten season. He will show that the Commandments, though identi­ fied with the Moses of' four thousand years ago, are eternal laws which were valid long be­ fore Moses’ day and will be to the end! of time. They form the basis of all “Law” as organized by. the nations; They should play a vital role in the life of every Christian. Out of date? Not at all! Read the Ten Commandimenits in the light of Christ's teaching and that light will lead us to the truth.'-' ' ’ ' • • Two One long two, why -----------O-------;--- KIPPEN NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jack- son left last' week by plane for a vacation' ait Boynton Beach, Florida. ; Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Forsyth are holidaying in Florida.< - I. • ; .$1 When was the first sporting event televised? I -didn’t knjow until I read it in a U.S. news­ paper recently. The game was baseball and it was 27 yearis ago. 'And how were the ratings? At that time there were 60 sets in New York and 60 sets were tuned-‘in. " '' Dan Carmichael was the win­ ning pitcher for 'the Princeton baseball team. At present’he is an architect five days a week and an-autd driver’on the- week­ ends. “He rarely 'misses -the Na­ tional Amateur Golf Champion­ ship.' - One of the reasons he enjoys amateur golf so much is watch- .ing the young golfers. He claims that'' television has had a lot to do with it. “Golf has 'bene­ fited from TV. So has bowling. And there’s a lot of interest in tennis these days that has to be traced in part‘to television,” he said. •In the last National amateur he had a three-round total of 227 which is not bad for a guy. who never practices. Incidentally, the matcih was won by Kitchener’s Gary Cowan.* * * And while we are on the. sub­ ject of sports it will be interest­ ing to see what will happen next year in the hockey world. Thh present NHL teams will play some games with the new teams which will begin next October. Here-, are some questions Which hockey fans wlili want answered: Will Saturdays and Wednesdays remain as1 “hockey nights in Canada?” If these are retained,- will other evenings ‘be added either by CBC, CTV or one of the American networks'? Will more than one American network take an interest in pro­ fessional hockey? Is it possible that we could see NHL hockey almost every evening of the week? This could happen IF hockey catches on with the Amexicans. Not next year, but maybe in a year or two. r' . ' ..................... ! Rambling With Lucy fipcr R. WOODS) Is Bird Food Scarce This Year ••• Or Is It "The Year of the Owl"? “Hoo! hoo-hoo! Jippl . “There’s that old brown owj. He isn’t hooting for nothing! W^'Il have cold weather!” prophesied one person living ip the Fasteitn p^rf of the , village, The local term “pld brown owl” probably refers to several members p^ the PW1 foprily or Sifr^dae which be?Pbg!> Mi’s. Btnvard was' the/’^it3 j» '^fLAicy' that “old brown owj” out in her swamp' hooted, it meant mote snow; and this year it ^eprps fo have been true, heard it down in the river valley one night mten^y. .Otthiers closer ip the visage have also heard its'fearie cal|.r f‘ From Mrs., Howard, Lucy learned .that the hooting is the hunting call of an owl. She often heal'd it at night in her swamp and sometimes during the daytime in dull weathei’. At her suggestion, Lucy decided to rambje about it iffer having become interested in its habits, ' What owl was it? Lucy read the sections op owls from four bird books! The Barred Owl, the Lopgreared Qwl and the Great Horned’ Owl all qualified as far as colour and the hooting were concerned. So Lucy was a bit'at sea, not being able to go out and track him (or her) down. Mrs. Howard had seen the owl ope night, It was’ homed, and about 18” to 25” in size, she judged, It sat on the nidge board of her barn and hooted. No. doubt it was a bit frustrated by not ’being able to* gain entrance, through the pigeon hole and feast on them! - • So Lucy decided that on this occasion it was the Great Horned Owl which was contributing the most easily chsxerned. hoots'in the symphony of night sounds produced by nature in this locality. This was corroborated by a friend in a telephone conversation, and also by Carl. The bird has a deep pa&s “hoo, hob-hoo, hoo hoo!” and less commonly a blood-curdling shriek. . Like most owls, it has yellow eyes. The sexes are similarly coloured but the female is larger than the male'; wings are long and broad, dark brown, heavily barred and streaked with black; throat white. In flight, ear tufts are flattened " and it appears neckless. It soars silently and is larger than the red-tailed hawk — the largest owl with ear tufits. Quoting fropx The Birds of Canada by JV. Earl Godfrey: “Tire “Great* Horned1 Qwl “is savage and powerful. It preys *oh a wide vprieiy Of birds" and small mammals, notably,* rabbitsi, rats, mice', ' grouse,' ducks; crows,’ poultry arid skunks! Occa­ sionally it even attacks a porcupine. It is our only owl which is’ considered really destructive. Small animals are eaten entire. The indigestible bones, fur and feathers, are regurgi­ tated as pellets as is usual in owls. It hunts mostly at night or dusk. The daylight hours are spent dozing in the branches of a tree, Crows detest it; when a sharp-eyed crow spots an ‘ owl, the crow lets out a peculiarly intonajted “caw” which soon tells every crow within hearing that an owl is in the vicinity. Crows quickly gather in numbers about the dozing owl, and, perching as near as they consider expedient, all caw at the top of their voices. When the owl seemingly can stand it no longer, it flies but is closely followed by the noisy black mob, and several such attempts to get away may be necessary before the owl i's finally able to shake off its tormentors.” Somewhere else, Lucy read that chickadees will also gang up on owls, and that the Great Homed' Owl has been known to prey on ground hogs and muskrats. Last September Mrs. Robert Blair discovered that a large white rooster which had chosen a tree rather than the chicken house in which to, roost, had been killed, presumably by an owl. The next night the remains were all cleaned up, so she was sure of it. If you are walking in the woods, looking for an owl roost, keep an eye on the ground for the pellets of fur, feathers and bone which' the owl regurgitates. The Great Horned Owl nests in February. It chooses an old crow, hawk or squirrel nest in a tree; or a cavity in a tree or cliff .ledge. TWo white eggs (sometimes three) are laid. They take 30 days to incubate. A naturalist told Mrs. Howard that if food is scarce, they will lay two eggs again and feed the second fledglings to those of the first hatch. “Mr.” describes the young as “balls of fluff”. Once, some years ago when he was back at his bush on the 5th Con­ cession, Stanley Township, a fledgling owl of the Great Hom­ ed species, fell out of its nest in a large hemlock tree. He can still see its glaring eyes fixed on him as it huddled in the snow' up against the trunk of the tree, snapping its beak and daring him to come any closer. Not knowing that these owls nested in February, he’d stopped to investigate the seeming phenom­ enon of this large ball of white fluff. When talking about the Great Horned Owl to an observ­ ant student of wild life, she remarked,- “There seem to be a great many owls around this year!” Could it be that this is one yeai’ when there is a scarcity of food and the owls have come to Southern Ontario from the north? 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