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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-12-20, Page 3Declare More Winners In Spelling Competition More district public schools announced their spelling cham pions this week as the deadline draws near for preliminary com petitions of the Ontario Spelling Bee. Each school has. until Decem ber 2jL to select a boy and a girl to represent it in inspectorate semi-final contests early in the pew year. Choosing of local school win- mers is the first step in the ^ajLvrovince-wide speUing bee which ■^pjnds with the Ontario champion ship bee on April 25 in Toronto. The provincial winner and runner-up receive a 10-day, aH- expense trip' to the Calgary Stampede, plus cash and trophy awards. The Toronto Telegram, which co-sponsors the bee along with the Ontario Educational Associa tion, announced this week that more prizes have been added to the competition. The new prize list offers something for every champion from inspectorate to provincial winner, plus an award for every school which produces a champion. Two 12-year-olds were named champions of Exeter Public School this week. Judy Tennant, pf grade 8, and James Hannah, pf grade 7, topped a group of 15 contestants for the honors. Run ners-up were. Barbara McDonald and Robert Schroeder. • Fund Assists Wind Victim Arthur Morgan, of Lucan, whose barn was flattened by a • gale this summer, has received financial assistance from a cam paign conducted . by five Lucan and Clandeboye churches. The fund was closed on De cember 1 and a cheque, present ed to Mr. Morgan on December 4.. Since then, however, more donations have been made. . Among the contributors were: M'. T. Culbert, Mrs. T. D. Orme, ' Mrs. C. W. Hawshaw, Rea Neil, Rev and Mrs J P. Prest, Mr. Ken Clarke, Tom Pryde, MLA, “Vacation School”, Mrs. K. Bow yer, Mrs. Ida Beatson, Robert McCubbin, MP, J. H? Steacy, Miss Minnie Ryland, Murray Hodgins. Rev. J. P. Prest organized the campaign. Churches participat ing included United, Anglican and Pentecostal in Lucan and United and Anglican in Clande boye. Winner' at Centralia School, S.S. 14, Stephen, was 11-year-old Bobbie Lammie, of graded. Champions have been declared in two more Usborne schools. At S.S. 7, the honors went to Mar garet Brock, 13, of grade 8, and Glen Towle, also 13. The Whalen', champion is Jane French, an other 13-year-old grade 8 student. Other winners, reported by Inspector John Goman, Exeter, are: S.S. 1, Tuckersmilh — Annie Vandeworp, 13, grade 8. S.S. 7, Tuckersmith — Mary Ann Forrest, 12, grade 8, and Robert Sharp, 11, grade 8. S.S. 9, Tuckersmith '— Christel Uderstadt, grade 8, and David Tremeer, grade 8< Bayfield — Margaret Wallace, 13, grade 8, and Gerald Grey- danus, 14, grade 8. Mr. Goman announced changes in the semi-final competitions for the inspectorate this year. On January 15, winners in Exeter, Stephen and Usborne schools south of Highway 83, will compete at the J, A, McCurdy School, RCAF Station, Centralia, Op January 16, winners in Hensall, Hay, Usborne north, and Tuckersmith schools, south of the Kjppcn-Egmondville road, will meet at Hensall. On January It, the balance of Tuckersmith and Stanley Town ship schools will participate in a bee at S.S. 3, Tuckersmith. AH semi-final bees will be' held at 3 p.m, The inspectorate final will be held in Exeter where the spellers will compete for the right to ad vance to the zone finals. The local inspectorate winner, besides receiving The Times- Advocate Trophy, will also re ceive a clock-desk set.. Zone champions win each re ceive a watch. NICK—Three-year-old Graham Like-PRESENT FROM ST. ness has an awesome expression as he accepts his gift from long-haired Santa at RCAF Centralia’s Christmas party Friday. Standing behind Graham is his father, W/C E. C. Likeness, the officer comanding Pre-Flight School. Over 1,000 gifts were distributed. —T-A Photo Delay Hensall Election Dispute Ends Quietly — Continued from Page 1 Ing- * • Clerk J, A. Patefson was in structed to contact Huron County Health Unit to see if council could prevent homeowners from putting garbage through their, disposal units into village drains- Several homes have installed the disposal machines, which grind up garbage. , Reeve Jones feared the gar bage would clog up village drains. “The stuff which comes out of those machines is worse' than what you would find in septic tanks,” he said. Councillor Hoy felt council would have to pass a bylaw to’ stop the practice. i Councillor Hoy criticised the j PUC for letting a resident chop down a big tree, which fell bn hydro wires and disrupted serv ice for over an hour, A number of plants in the village weren’t able to continue operations be cause of the break. Council felt PUC employees, which were present when the tree was felled, could have pre vented it from breaking the wires. Councillors were annoyed at citizens’ complaints over the $500 > price at which the village sold the Bank of Montreal the bowl-1 ing greens for a building site.! Cars Collide On Main Street One vehicle suffered $125 damage Monday when two cars collided near the intersection of John and Main street. s Chief Reg Taylor, who investi gated, said a car driven by James Scott, 16, of Exeter, struck the rear of the other vehicle, driven by Anthony Charrette, Hensall, when the latter had to stop quickly to avoid striking a third car which pulled out in front of it. The Scott car suffered the damage. No charges were laid. PC Convention — Continued from Page 1 Mr. Bell • was a member the committee which drafted party’s platform on foreign af fairs and inter-provincial rela tions. Chief plank in the foreign affairs policy, he said, was that Canada’s role in the United Na tions should not endanger Com monwealth solidarity, as the recent rift over the Suez situa tion had done. In inter-provincial relations, the party favors a curb on the powers of centralized govern ment and a redistribution of the taxation system in order to re lieve the burden on municipal ities and* . provincial govern ments, of the $2.25 * ♦ Memo Rolls Urges Safety —Continued from Page 1 right of way. 4. If you are tired, don’t drive. Fatigue is one of the greatest of driving hazards. 5. Drive slowly, obey all traffic rules and keep a fair distance from the car ahead, 6. When you are the host, have consideration for your guests’ safety, too. Don’t encourage them to over-indulge; have pots of hot coffee available to serve depart ing guests. “By staying alert and staying alive, every citizen..is making a cqntribution to his community,” the mayor concluded. WW?.! Sugar 'N Spice —Continued from Page 2 She usually reads them aloud to me while I sit and read the paper. But this time, after she’d read a couple, there was a shat tering silence. I looked up and said: “Aren’t you going to read me the rest of them?” You learn these little courteous gestures after a few years. If Hr * She gave me a look that chill ed me right down to my taU- bone, and read: “Bill, cherie. You will believe this not, but I have meet your smaU brother, who has arrive in France with the Air Force de Canada of oc cupation. He me presented with your address, Ah, BH1, why did you not send for. me apres la guerre, as you tell me? Why you not write, send me the money for passage, like you say? I wait so long, cry so much. You forget so soon our great love? Me, never. I have yet one pair nylons you give, made in scarf. I wear all time, for memory. Toujours your Lisette.”0 ♦ * * “Oh”, I say. “No!” They reported a number of cit izens had criticized the local bank manager because the price was too low. They felt any crit icism should have been directed at council members since they had made the decision for th© town. Councillors felt they were Just ified, in setting the price low be cause it would encourage the bank to erect a $50,000 or $60,- 000 building. Taxes on such a building, they said, would soon make up any difference which might have been received if council had bargained for a higher figure. . In other businesses, the - coun- icil: . Declared Boxing Day, Wednes day, December 26, a civic holi day. I Accepted Wilson AUan’s snow- ! ploughing tender at $6.00 per j hour. (It was the only tender j submitted.)I Made a $200 grant to the Rec- 'reation Council. i Learned that Hensall’s share of the unretired debentures on 'the South Huron District High School amounted to $29,115.90. Approved plans submitted, by the Bell Telephone Company for major construction work during 1957. Approved payment of $323.75 for a Scott Air Pack and extra cylinder for the fire brigade. Paid the PUC’s streetlighting bill of $1,320. Approved expenses of the clerk and reeve for a trip to Toronto to interview government auth orities in connection with the new public school debentures. .. ...... whww^iiikh.......mini............... mi! .uiuimtn., .1.111 Toasters Mixers Frypans Iron Floor Polishers SEE THE NEW GE COFFEE PERCOLATOR PRICES REDUCED FOR CHRISTMAS... Property damage in highway accidents in Canada runs to $200 a minute, all day long, says the Canadian Highway Safety Conference, sponsor of Safe- Driving Week, December 1 to 7. russeciseijectrtc YOUR. HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE DEALER FOR SALES SERVICE EXETER. 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