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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-10-06, Page 1Reeve R, -E. a big tractor­ town from thq of speed, jump- gave chase up Council Backs Children’s Band with in AIDS CHILDREN RECEPTION AND DANCE A. reception and dance will in., the Walton -Community Subscriptions $2.50 per year, 6c per copy With which is amalgamated the Gorrie Videt|e and Wroxeter News WINGHAM, ONTARIO,/ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1554 Many Attractions at Howick Fair ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian ' WHERE’S THE FIRE?—There’ new cop on the’ beat in Wingham—5 unofficially, that is. " ~ McKinney, noticing trailer pounding into south at a high rate ed into his car and _ . .the main street. tMqtionipg the start­ led driver to s the side of the road, .reeve got out and, told him what he thought. of transport drivers who can’t obey traffic rules, and mention­ ed the danger to children. The driver promised not to do it again. -0 - 0 - 0 - SERIES CONTEMPLATION—Not too much Work was' done in town in the afternoons last week, when just about, everybody had their , radios turned, to the World Series. Some of the Cleveland fans are still recovering .from the abrupt endjng, and it ap­ pears that the Indians weren’t the only ones who .got scalped. 0-0-0 OPEN AIR TAXI—Russ Ferrier, whose car was flattened at the back somewhat, when a tree fell on it a couple of weeks ago, was observed driving it down the street with the back half of the body cut off.. Since the front half wasn’t injured, it seems like-a good idea, although a bit drafty. - o -t 0 - 0 FACE-LIFTING—The « ' Dominion .Bank building has been receiving a face-lifting during the past few weeks. A new coat’ of paint on the front and side has worked wonders with- the building, and the new chimney will doubtless improve things, too. 0-0-0 WEB-FOOTED—A lot of people are beginning to feel web-footed, after all the rain of the past couple of weeks. A few more weeks of r this weather and it will be scales and fins. 0-0-0 LITTLE SERIES—The World Series may be over, but the little world series, starring Wingham and Frank­ ford Juves, is still to come. . Should be a. good game at the park on Satur­ day night, when the locals do their darndest to cinch the Ontario title. \ See you at the game. ■ 'V ” was ENGAGEMENT , The engagement is ( announced of Eleahore Carson, daughter of Mrs... Carson and' the late E. W. Carson; of Gorrie, Ontario, to’Mr. Arthur Gibson, " son of Mrs; Gibson and the late John Gibson, of Wroxeter, Ontario. The - wedding will take .place in October: NOTICE _ •» Burgman Travel Agency will be •closed from Oct. 7th to Oct. 14th. F6* reception and dance A reception and dance will be held at the Royal T on Tuesday, October 12, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bob , Burchill (nee Ilya Allen). Music by Tiffin’s Orchestra. Ladies bring lunch. ' Everyone welcome. E6b •ODDFELLOWS DANCE IN bluevale HALL The Oddfellows of Maitland Lodge are holding a dance in Bluevale Hall, on Thursday, October 7th. Music by Don Robertson and the’ Ranch Boys. Admission, gents 75c, ladies, 50c. Lunch booth in the hall. Proceeds for the Oddfellows work. TEA'AND SALE Wednesday, November 17th, . is the date set for the annual Christmas Tea and Sale sponsored by the W. A. of the Wingham United Church. in the Walton 'Community Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 12, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Don Fraser, (nee Melva Mont­ gomery). Wilbee’s orchestra. Ladies bring lunch. Everyone welcome. F6* PLAY AT BELGRAVE, A three-act play, “Small Town Ro­ meo”, ‘will be presented by- the Me-' Intosh United Church Couples’ Club in the Forresters’ Hall, Belgrave, Oct. 12 at "8.30 p.m. Admission, adults, 50c, children' 25c. Sponsored by the Wo­ men’s Association of Belgrave United Church. -^b RUMMAGE SALE The Fall' Rummage Sale of the Wingham General Hospital Auxiliary will.be held in the Wingham Armour­ ies oh Saturday, Oct. 16, at 2 o’clock. F613b TURKEt'SUPPER IN* WHITECHUltOH UNITED •A turkey supper will be held in the Whitechurch, Uriitcd Church on Fri­ day, Oct» 15th, under the auspices of the W.A. Supper served 6 to 8 p.m. Variety progirarii following. Admission adults $1.25; children under 12, 50c. Pre-school age free. F613b PLAY AT BLUEVALE The play "Small Town Romeo” will be presented by ■ the McIntosh Friendship Club in Blucvale Commun­ ity hall On Friday evening, Oct. 22, at 8.30. The' play is sponsored by the Bluevale Women’s Institute, the pro­ ceeds to gd toward the Huron County Scholarship Fund; Admission 50 c. Public School pupils 250. F613b Issues “Don’t Shoot” Appeal to Hunters On Monday evening, Oct. 4th the monthly meeting of the Luc-Te6-Win Club was held at the home of Mr. Ab. Nethery in Wingham. The highlight of the business session was the discussing re badges which are now available at a very moderate cost of 35c. It was decided that a shooting match be held in the Wingham vicin­ ity on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 27. Further details will appear in local papers in this regards. A small number of pheasants were released last year and again this year, purely as an experiment. The Luc- Tee-Win is making a special appeal to hunters hot to shoot these birds until such time as they become more plentiful. A lively , discussion followed the business session after which Mrs. Nethery served a tasty lunch. GORRIE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE HOT SUPPER Gorrie Women’s Institute will Serve a hot supper in the Gorrie Community Hall, on Friday evening, October 8th, from 5,30 to 8 p.m. A variety program Will follow, Admission $l.()0, children, 50 cents, < F6* Many attractions at Howick Fair drew more than 1,200 people to see the various exhibits, in spite of threaten­ ing weather. Above, Perry Strong, Gorrie, was top showman in the Howick 4H calf club judging. With him is Gerty Montgomery, agricultural representative for Huron County. Below, Honk deVries, of the De­ partment of Lands and Forests, Stratford, examines some of the exhibits of the Brussels 4H Forestry club, as Murray Underwood, Wroxeter, president of the club looks on. —Staff Photo. Weather Clears Annual Howick . The weather ,o'n Saturday morning was not very encouraging for the Howick Fall Fair, which was held at Fordwich this year, but by noon it had started to clear and a large crowd attended to make the day quite a suc­ cess. The fair was officially opened by Marvin Howe, M. P., of Arthur, and the Norwell High School girls’ trump­ et band provided music, for a parade of school children from 18i!tschools in the district. Named to Executive At London W.A. Meet Several members of the Women's Association of Wingham "United Church attended the annual meeting of the London Conference Women’s Association which was held in Wood- stock, on September 28. Mrs. W. Van- Wyck, of Winghdm, was elected to the executive of that organization, holding the office of convener of the^parson- age committees. ‘ • A crowd of an estimated 1,200 at­ tended the fair, with gate receipts reported slightly lower than last year. A feature of the fair was the show­ ing of the Howick and Turnberry 4-H Calf Club and the Howick 4-H Swine Club, while the fancy work and bak­ ing classes had full tables, as did the children's work. . Results In the Howick Township’ 4-H Calf Club showing the following members topped the competition: Steer section—Jack Dinsmore, Stew­ art Edgar, Murray Donaldson. Beef senior heifers—Ferry Strong, Bob Stong, Stanley Zurbrigg. Junior heif­ ers,—John Wright, Bruce Giles, Doris Dinsmore, (Donna Tonef, Murray Wright. Dairy—Gordon Scott, Allison McCann, Louise Brown, Margaret Mc­ Cann. Showmanship—Perty Strong, BrUce Giles, Allison McCann, Stanley Zurbrigg, Margaret McCann, Bob Strong, * Turnberry 4-H Calf Club: Steer sec­ tion—Idn Mundell, 'Marjorie Timm, Marilyn Timm, Murray Mulvey, Ethel Breen, Beef senior, heifers—John Mun- (Continued on page three,) SHOPPERS ASKED TO BUY EARLY SATURDAY Those who will be shopping Wingliam stores on Saturday even­ ing are asked to do their buying just a little earlier than usual for Saturday is an important date. At 8.30 Saturday evening the Wingham Juveniles will meet the Frankford team in the local park to decide the All-Ontario champion­ ship. Naturally, the Wingham mer­ chants are anxious to be at the park and give the boys their sup­ port and would like to close their stores earlier than usual. It is gen­ erally felt that most of the shop­ pers will want to be there too. If you can possibly manage to pick up your purchases in the af­ ternoon or early in the evening, the ball team will be assured of better support when the action starts. Let’s all get out and give the boys a boost. FIRST PRACTICE FOR BAND IS SCHEDULED Twenty-two members, have already signed up for the boys’ and girls’ band, now being formed in town, after another organizational meeting of the band, held in the town hall on Monday night. Mr. Robinson, of Lon­ don, organizer of the band, was present. He is hoping to have at least thirty members in the band before the first practice, which will be held on Thurs­ day, October 14th. The band will practice two afternoons a week for about ten weeks, when the first band concert will be held. Seven more bass instruments will be added to the band, sponsored it is hoped by the Wingham Lions Club. - Wingham Juveniles Win First Game in Ontario "C" Casting Completed For New Play A casting'rehearsal for the Wing­ ham Community Players’ first play of the coming > season was held on Wednesday evening, September 29th. The play, “Mr. Pirn Passes By”, writ­ ten by A. A. Milne, will be directed by Miss Catherine McGregor. The cast will include Catherine Keating, Mrs. Ted Moskowski, Barbara Edwards, Mary Louise Flach, Vin Dittmer, Bob Lewis and Jim Currie. The next general meeting of the club will be held Wednesday, October 6th. A short skit will be presented by members, and this will be followed by a general discussion and plans for back stage committees for the forth­ coming production. Anyone interested in dramatics is welcome to attend. Mayor DeWitt Miller officiated at the official opening of the new addi­ tion of the McKay Nursing Home on the outskirts of Wingham on Monday night. Built at a cost of approxi­ mately $22,000, the new addition con­ sists’ of 14 rooms, and at present has 18 patients. Chairman at the opening ceremonies was Rev. H, L. Parker, and Rev. D. J. MacRae gave the invocation. Mrs. J. McKay, superintendent, welcomed guests and called upon the mayor to officially open the new wing. Mayoi’ Miller declared the new wing official­ ly opened by cutting a white ribbon stretched across the entrance. The new wing was then dedicated by Rev. A. Nimmo, who gave the dedicatory prayer. Reeves R. E. Mc­ Kinney, of Wingham, John Fischer, of Turnberry and Orval Taylor, of East Wawanosh extended greetings and good wishes, A large number of people attended the opening ceremonies. After a tour of the new building, tea was served to the visitors. The McKay Rest Home was first opened in March 1951, with a total of ten beds and a staff of two. In 1952 a laundry room was added at the rear of the building, and in May 1953 an official license to operate a rest home was received from the Depart­ ment of Health, Province of Ontario. Plgns for the new wing were ap­ proved by the Department of Health in November of last year, and work Was Started on the new Wing in June 1954, The building Was completed 10 ddys ago, No Government grants are received, although Huron County and Turn­ berry Township pay for indigent patients. Capacity of the new Rest Home is 30 patients. Wingham- town council agreed to back the formation of the new boys'1 and girls’’ band to the extent of $1,275, after' representatives of the Lions Club asked them their intentions, git the regular meeting, of the council on Monday night. It is expected that the (Lions Club will raise the balance of the money needed tq buy an estimated $2,500 worth of larger instruments for the new band. Lions Norman Welwood, Stewart Beattie and Dr, R. B. Palmer were on hand as a delegation at the meeting'to sound out the council on the ques­ tion of the new band. Speaking for the delegation, Norman Welwood said that the Club was considering the sponsorship of the band, but doubted, its ability to raise the full amount of the money needed. He said that while Police Chief Bert Platt has organ­ ized a safety patrol .to assist the school children in crossing the busy streets of town. Two boys, Bob Deyell and George "Murray, of Grades 7 and 8, are acting as safety patrol policemen on John and Patrick Streets near the school for this month, and two other stud­ ents, Dave Carr and Wayne Nicoll will take over the job next month. White belts, purchased some time ago by the Lions* Club, will be used by the safety patrolmen. At the council meeting on Monday . night, Chief Platt raised the question of hiring an older man to escort child­ ren across Josephine Street at Pat­ rick. This has proved to be a danger­ ous corner in the past, since many children who live in the northern part of the1 town cross the main street here, rather than at the John-Joseph­ ine corner, which is patrolled by the chief himself or one of his men. Members of the council agreed that such a man should be hired and the chief was instructed to secure the ser­ vices of William Magee for this pur­ pose. Mr. MageC will guide the child­ ren across the interesection at noon and after school in the afternoon. Wingham’s Juvenile “C” softball club edged one step closer to the Ontario championship on Saturday, when they ’ defeated Frankford Juv­ eniles 7-4 at Frankford, to win the first of the best-of-three series by a good margin. The second game of the series will be played in Wingham on Saturday night at 8.30 p.m. In last Saturday’s game the locals assumed a commanding lead in the first four innings, getting one run in the first, two in the second and four in the fourth to make a total of seven runs. Although Frankford was able to hold them for the balance of the game, they succeeded in getting only three runs after the end of the fourth, which together with a run eked out in the first inning, brought their total to four. The locals got 7 runs on 10 hits and 4 errors, while the home team got 4 runs on 2 hits and one error. Frank­ ford's weakness in the batting de­ partment had much to do with their defeat and enabled Keith Lancaster to roll up ten strike-outs in the game. Frankford's best batter got only one hit for four times at bat, and two of their runs were unearned. Top hitter for Wingham was Jimmy Campbell with three for five. Ken Hodgkinson got two for four, as did Keith Lancaster, Bain and Storey each got one for four and Fry. got one for three. Runs were scored by Campbell, Murray, Hodgkinson, Lancaster, Lott, Storey and Fry. ' Kidd and Whitney each got a hit for Frankford, with McKee, Kidd, Whitney and Stacey getting a run each. Battery for Wingham was Lancaster and Hodgkinson; for Frankford, Whit­ ney and O’Brien. Bird relieved Whit­ ney in the fourth inning with Whitney taking over duties at the plate. FRANKFORD—100' 002 001 - 4 2 1 WINGHAM— 120 400 000 - 7 10 4 DONATIONS WANTED FOR RUMMAGE SALE The Fall Rummage Sale is mov­ ing closer, in fact it will bo held in the Wingham Armouries on Sat­ urday, October 16, at two o’clock, and is sponsored by the Ladies' Auxiliary to ' Wingham General Hospital. Everyone is asked for donations, clothing, dishes, furniture, novel­ ties and etc, anything you do not need. You send the articles, the auxiliary - sells them and uses the proceeds to purchase bedding, cur­ tains, nursery supplies, etc., for the hospital. So everyone helps and benefits. All articles should be at the arm­ ouries on Friday, October 15, so that they can be sotted and mark­ ed. If you wish your parcel called for, please phone Mrs. H, C. Mac- Lean, 31, or Miss Marguerite Johns, 208. parents of the children in the band would pay for most of the instru­ ments used, there would be about seven instruments of the expensive variety, such as base horns, which parents would be unlikely to buy. Some of these instruments cost up­ wards of $400, and the total cost would be about $2,500. Mr. Welwood said that if the council would agree to pay half the cost of these instruments, his committee would recommend to the club that the Lions pay-the balance. Spend Anniversary Money Members of the council discussed the question of supporting the new band at some length. Remembering. Chat there was an amount of $2,500 in the kitty, returned from the 75th anniversary .celebration by the cele­ bration committee, the suggestion was made that part of the money could be used for the purpose of the band. The motion was made and carried. Another bite on the $2,500 returned from the anniversary celebrations came when Mayor DeWitt Miller an­ nounced that the bank had asked for action on a loan to the arena com­ mittee for the purposes of putting a floor in the arena. Originally the arena commission' had borrowed $4,500 to put in the floor several years ago, expecting that the cost would be'borne by private sub­ scription and by the efforts of the service clubs. The mayor explained that the service clubs in town had been unable to fulfill their promises ' in this regard, and that many prom- ’ ises for ' private donations had like­ wise not been fulfilled. In conse­ quence the bank had taken a note for $4,500, which .had been backed by • the town. Of this amount $1,000 was repaid, last year, ..and a matter of • $3,500 was still outstanding. Reeve R. E. McKinney suggested that $1,000 be paid on the note this year, and that the amount be charged against the money returned from the anniversary celebrations. Council agreed to this arrangement. Court of Revision The council decided to se.t the date for the court of revision on Monday, October 25th. Members of last year’s court of revision will be asked to act again. They were: Mayor DeWitt Miller, Reeve R. E. McKinney, Frank Howson, R. S. Hetherington and J. W„ Bushfield. Clerk W. A. Galbraith, reported that as yet there had been few appeals against assessments this year. Town Assessor W. H. Haney waa present at the meeting to report that this year’s assessment roll has now been completed. He said that land assessment amounted to $232,495; buildings, $1,839,385 and business tax $204,357, making a total assessment of $2,276,237. Un-assessable property was valued at $576,400, making a total I evaluation of $2,852,637. Mr. Haney told the council that the revised assessment of last year had materially increased his work as assessor, and that he had spent from. June 1st to September 17th in con­ tinuous work to get the roll com­ pleted. He said that he would give the matter deep consideration before accepting his appointment next year. Mr. Hahey reported the town’s popu­ lation at 2717—only five more than last year’s figure of 2,712. He said that there were fifty empty houses in town when he made his rounds, Smaller Matters • A request from the Kinette Club for permission to use the council chambers for teas and bake sales was granted by council. Two new firemen, John Orvis and Roy DeGroot had their appointments approved by council. The two new members will replace Jack Pym and Wilf Caslic.k, who have retired from the fire department. A request from Gord Symons for damages in the amount of $9 to cover costs involved in a sprained ankle which he sustained when acting as a clown during the anniversary cele­ brations, was referred to the anni­ versary committee for consideration Council voted Mayor DeWitt Miller $50 to cover his entry foe in the In­ ternational Plowing Match, to be held in Breslau next Week, Chief Bert Platt recommended that “No Parking” signs be placed on John Street between Centre and Jc* sophine Streets during the winter months. Council agreed to the recoin* mehdation. A recommendation from the chief that the sale of firecrackers be banned in town except during the month of May will be considered. iPUBLISH THURSDAY NEXT WEEK Because of the Thanksgiving Holt- ’ day on Monday next, The Advance- . Timos will publish on Thursday ftefcb. week, instead of Wednesday. Advertisers and correspondents asked to have their copy in at th<a> usual time. /