HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-12-22, Page 1With which is amalgamated the Gotrie Vidette and Wroxeter News
WINGHAM, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1954
Out of the Ashes of the Old
old
the
Practising in U.S.
ft
a
WINGHAM COMPANY
COMPLETES RAILING
for
REVIEWS ACTIVITIES
were
meeting, which
PROCLAMATION
HOLIDAY HOURS
NOTICE
DeWitt Miller, Mayor
the office—the
34—and we’ll
for you. No
choral
Paul’s
night,
music,
and decorated with
and other seasonal
theme will also be
morning and even-
A good deal of
the main build-
prevent possible
We liked particularly the bit about
the mite.
As flames levelled the temporary H-hut buildings at the
Wingham District High School on Monday night, one of
the things still standing in the area of destruction was
the sign of the architects and the contractors, who are
constructing the new' high school at the rear of the old
CHRISTMAS VISITORS?
PHONE IN A PERSONAL!
that the main building
endangered, a bulldozer,
the Joe Kerr Construction
was brought to the scene
of
of
in
on
after
Both Drug stores Will be on
call Sunday, Dec.
BOXING day
special
5.15.
buildings. According to high school authorities there will
be sufficient accomodation in the new school available
by January 3rd, to take care of those students made
“homeless” by Monday’s fire. —Staff .Hhoto.
Kerr’s Open 19 a.m. till Noon
McKibbon’s Open 2 p.m. till
» 5 p.m.
NOTICE
The operators Of the town plow wilt
not bo responsible for any damage to
vehicles left On the .streets of Wing-
ham. F15,22b
INITIATE SIX AT
Subscriptions $2.50 per year, 6c per copy
ALONG THE MAIN DRAG
By The Pedestrian
NO TROUBLE NOW—And it was
less than a week ago, at the last
meeting of the high school board, they
were wondering what to do with the
old H-huts . . .
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THANKS, FELLOWS—R. S. Camp
bell, sending in a renewal for his
subscription, also sent along this little
poem:
Lives of great men oft remind us
Honest toil don’t stand a chance.
The more we live we leave behind us
Bigger patches in our pants.
Then let’s all be up and doing;
Send in your mite, be it so small,
.. Else when storms of winter strike us
We’ll have no pants left at all.
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PROPHECY?—Reading in one of
the neighboring dailies, we noticed a
heading which read “Air conditioning
to be installed in Wingham School”.
Looks as if they have it at the high
school.
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COLD COMFORT—Seems like only
the other day that some forecaster (?)
was predicting a December “milder
than average”. He’s probably sitting
out the wintry blasts in Florida.
KINSMEN MEETING
The regular meeting of, the Kinsmen
Club was held at the 'Queen’s Hotel
on Friday, Dec. 17th at 7 p.m. with
the president, Lloyd Ellacott, in the
chair. This meeting took the form of
a Christmas party with' paper hats
and other favours supplied by Kin
Andy Scott. An air of gaiety prevail
ed throughout the meeting with a
- very lively fine session, the maximum
being raised to a higher level than
usual. . ■
One raffle prize was won by a new
member Murray Stainton, the other
went to “Tommy” Thomson. At a
previous meeting names were drawn
for Christmas presents (not more than
25c was to be spent and strange to
Bay many very useful items were
handed out by Kin Clare “Santa
Claus’’ Cantelon.
M During the business session six new
members were welcomed into the
Fellowship of Kin. The following
were Initiated and received their pins:
Charles Perrott, Lome MacDonald,
Wm. Grover, Murray Stainton, Car
man Loucks and Freddie Templeman.
Free Kiddies* Show
• At Lyceum Theatre
Alton Adams’ Christmas show
the kiddies at the Lyceum Theatre,
will be held on Thursday, December
23rd. this year, at *2 p.m. AU children
in the district are invited for the free
matinee, as guests of the manage
ment of the Lyceum Theatre. A spec
ial western picture “Pecos Trail” will
be shown.
The free Christmas matinee has be
come traditional with the Lyceum
Theatre since Capt. Adams took over
the theatre some twenty-five years
ago. The Lyceum was one of the first
theatres in the district to follow this
practice.
Medical Association
Names Dr. Crawford
To Hospital Board
.0 Dr. W. A. Crawford of Wingham,
has been reappointed as representa
tive of the Wingham Medical Associa
tion on the board of the Wingham
General Hospital, at a meeting of the
association last week.
Twelve doctors from the Wingham
district were given an outline of
Huron County Co-Operative Medical
Services by president Harry John-
atori, of Brussels. President Dr. Phil*
Up Leahy, of Teeswater, presided at
the annual Christmas dinner Held at
the hospital.
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If you are having visitors during
the Christmas season, or if you
are going away for Christmas,
your friends would like to see a
personal in the paper about it.
Give us a call at
phone number is
write a little item
charge, of course.
AT ANNUAL MEETING
' Gordon MacKay, who has been
butterniaker at the Maitland Cream
ery for the past twenty-five years,
was presented with an automatic gold
watch for his years of faithful ser
vice, at the annual meeting and ban
quet of the United Co-Operatives of
Ontario, at the Royal York in Tor
onto last week. Over 800 members
from Co-Ops all over Ontario were
present at the meeting. ,
Three other employees of the
creamery were previously honored for
long service in the persons of Jack
Cleghorn, Roger Oke and Percy Har
ris. Sx
Manager Rod Macintosh attended
the meeting with Mr. MacKay.
LIONS CLUB HOLDS
CHHISTMAS MEETING
The Christmas rfteeting of the Lions
Club was held at the Brunswick Hotel
on Friday evening, where a turkey
dinner with all the trimmings was
enjoyed by members of the club.
Hap Swatridge and Earl Heywood,
musicians from station CKNX pro
vided music for the
was much enjoyed.
Four guests were
George, guest of
present: Dennis
Don Nasmith;
Larry Sampson, guest of Gordon Bu
chanan; John Crawford, son of Harley
Crawford and Hugh Allan. Messrs.
McKinney and Buchanan acted as
tail twisters, providing the members
with lots of fun^and lots of fines.
Speaker of the "evening was Rev.
D. J. MacRae, who gave an inspir
ing Christmas message.
Tickets for a turkey* draw were
sold to members at 50c each, and
winner at the draw was Debbie
Grose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs-
Whitney Grose.
Christmas gifts were presented by
the members to Mr. and Mrs. Whit
ney Grose and to Harold Victor Pym.
Mrs. Grose and Mr. Pym expressed
their thanks.
Special Christmas services are plan
ned for Christmas Eve and Christ
mas Day in several of the churches
of Wingham, including Christmas
music and carol singing in the • tra
ditional manfter. '
A candlelight service will be held
in the Wingham United Church at 11
p.m. Christmas Eve^ “The Story of
the Other Wise Man”, by Henry Van
Dyck, will be a feature of the ser
vice, and special music has been pre
pared by the choir for the occasion.
The church will be lighted by candles
along the aisle,
Christmas trees
decorations.
The Christmas
carried through
ing services on Christmas Sunday.
Christmas Eve will be celebrated in
Activities of the past year
reviewed at the regular meeting of
the Huron County Industrial Promo
tion Board, held in the council cham
bers at Clinton, on December 14th.
Members of the board agreed that the
work of the board during the past
year had been worthwhile.
The secretary was instructed to
send a letter outlining the activities
of the board to each council and
municipality which had supported the
organization. .
It was also decided to ask munici
palities foi* two representatives from
each council for the year 1955, instead
of one as formerly. The board is open
to suggestions from anyone with ideas
which might help bring industry to
Huron County.
The next regular meeting will be
held in Seaforth.
Councillor Earl Hamilton has been
the Wingham representative on the
board.
Commencing Saturday, January 8th,
Wroxeter and Fordwich Branch, Can
adian Bank of Commerce, will be
Closed all day Saturday/ Extra service
will be given on Friday afternoon,
from: 5 to 6 o'clock, F22:29*
a manner which has become tradition
al in the Church of England, when
a service of carol singing and
communion will be held in St.
Church at 11 p.m. on Friday
The choir will sing special
and a choral communion will be held
at 11.30 p.m.
Private Christmas communion will
be held at the hospital on Christmas
morning for members of St. Paul’s
.Church at 6.30 a.m. and there will be
quiet communion in the church at 9
o’clock. Christmas decorations for the
church will be arranged by the Altar
Guild.
Private Christmas communion will
be held at Sacred Heart Church on
Christmas Eve, at which the children
will sing special hymns at 11.30. The
church choir will sing special music
for the Mass of the Angels at mid
night. A mass will be .sung., at 7
o’clock on Christmas morning, the
Brussels congregation celebrating
their mass at 9 o’clock.
Christmas services at St. Andrew’s
were held last week, and there will
therefore be no special services this
week. The regular service will be
held on Sunday.
At the Baptist Church Christmas
services were held on Sunday last,
however special Christmas music will
be a feature of the services this Sun
day, and a special speaker, Mr. Ron
ald Patterson, of Toronto, will preach
at both th^, morning and evening ser
vices, in the place of Rev. Coyle, who
will be preaching in Toronto,
Capt. Belanger and Lieut. Fuller, of
the Salvation Army, will conduct a
special Christmas service on the
Church of the Air, over station CKNX
on Christmas morning, The broadcast
will be at the usual time, from 19.30
to 11.00 a.m.
In the afternoon, over the same
station, Rev. G. N. Luxton, Bishop of
Huron, will broadcast a
Christmas message from 5.05 to
Parents, Note—
Reports Are Out!
Wingham District High School re
ports for the autumn term have been
given to students to take home. Par
ents who wish to discuss a pupil’s
progress with the Principal may do
So any time after school begins, Mon
day, January 3rd., by telephoning the
Winghahi District High School, Wing
ham 128.
New Schoolrooms Ready January 3rd
As Fire Levels H-Huts at
X .Buildings and contents to the value
of $40,000 were completely destroyed
by fire on Monday night, when the
Wingham District High School H-huts,
erected 8 years ago as additions to the
school, went up in smoke in a spec
tacular blaze which could be seen all
over the district. Efforts of the
Wingham fire brigade to subdue the
flames were fruitless, and as late as
yesterday afternoon the charred ruins
of the building were still smoulder-
in&- X
The blaze was discovered by care
taker Wilfred Seddon shortly after
10 p.m., when he was doing his rounds
of the buildings on Monday evening.
Mr. Seddon had checked the fire in
the new school and was returning
past the H-huts when he noticed a
glow in the central part of the huts,
which houses the boiler room. When
he opened the door of the furnace
room he was met by a wall of flame,
and he quickly left the building to
phone in the alarm from the
school.
Firemen Almost Overcome-
Wingham firemen responded to
call with two fire trucks, and found
the wooden buildings enveloped with
smoke. They had the greatest diffi
culty in effecting an entrance into,
the smokefilled huts, and two of the
firemen were almost overcome by the
dense clouds, thought to have been
caused in a large degree, by smould-
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Injuries resulting from twelve ac
cidents to residents of the area were
treated at the Wingham General Hos
pital during the past week.
Mrs. Pauline Douglas, Wingham,
was treated for a lacerated and dis
located middle right finger last Tues
day, after falling headlong out of her
back door. She was allowed to go
home after treatment.
Howard Fuller, Wingham, injured
his left shoulder on Wednesday, after
slipping on some ice. He was released
after a bandage had been applied to
the injured part.
Miss Elizabeth Cummings, of Luck
now, 78, fractured her upper right
arm when she fell on cement steps
at her home. A cast was applied at
the hospital.
Carman Whytock, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Whytock, R R 1, Holyrood,
suffered a fractuerd toe when a log
fell on it. A cast was applied.
Miss June Collyer, Lucknow, fell
off a chair on Saturday, while decora
ting a Christmas tree. She fractured
and dislocated her left elbow and
suffered a possible fracture of the
pelvis. She was admitted to the hos
pital, where her condition was de
scribed as satsisfactory.
Peter Cook, age 44, of RR 3, Luck
now, was struck by a sledge hammer
about a week ago and has been ill
ever since. He was X-rayed for a
possible skull fracture at the hospital
and allowed to go home.
Also X-rayed was Len Crawford, of
Wingham, who suffered a painful toe
injury when a bearing puller fell on
his toe two days previously. Tape was
applied to his foot and he was allow
ed home.
Gail McLennan, age 2, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Scott McLennan,
Blucvale, caught her right hand
the washing machine wringer
Monday. She was released
treatment.
Thomas Wilson, Wingham, received
painful injuries to his back, on Mon
day, when he fell while employed at
the new hospital construction. He was
confined to the hospital, where his.
condition is satisfactory.
Alvin Seli, a fireman on the Wing
ham fire department, twisted his
ankle at the high school on Monday
night. He was treated for a sprain at
the hospital and allowed to go home.
Mrs. Ruby Hastie, RR 2, Gorrie,
Buffeted a fractured left wrist and
injured her collar bone on Monday,
when she fell downstairs at her home.
She was admitted to the hospital
suffering from shock. Her condition
today was described as satisfactory.
15r. Thomas J. Lockridge, D.V.M.,.
who has become associated with Dr.
Leslie Durant at the latter’s office and
animal hospital, Manchester, New
Hampshire. Dr Lockridge graduated
from Ontario Veterinary College in
1954. He was born in Wingham and
is the son of Mr. Alf. Lockridge. As
a student he worked in Newport and
Manchester in New Hampshire and at
Brampton, Ontario, before establish
ing in his present location.X
ON AUBURN BRIDGE
S'The Wingham Metal Fabricating
Company completed and installed the
wrought-iron railing on the new Pat
terson Bridge at Auburn yesterday,
and county officials are highly pleased
with the results, k'
Work on the 720 feet of railing
started at the company’s Wingham
plant six weeks ago, and the instal
lation of the railing took 2% days.
The company has been making a
name for itself with its bridge rail
ings having made and installed one
last 'year on a bridge near Thorndale.
Roy Patterson, county engineer, and
son of the man for whom the bridge
was named, told Herb Fuller, of the
Wingham company, that he was more
than satisfied with the work done by
the company.
at the request of a number of Citizens I hereby
Proclaim
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 1954
BOXING DAY
AS A PUBLIC CIVIC HOLIDAY
for the Town of Wingham
and I hereby call upon all good Citizens to
observe the same.
ering insulation in the walls of the
structure.
Firemen battled the blaze for over
three hours, but were unable to bring
it under control as more and more of
the tinder-dry building, became cover
ed with flames.
Fearing
might be
owned by
Company
of the fire and the passageway be
tween the H-huts and the main build
ing was demolished. Meantimes boys
from the school managed to rescue
a new planer and a new machine
lathe stored in the H-huts in readi
ness for installation in the new school.
Started: in Boiler' Room?
Hampering the firemen in their
efforts to control the blaze was the
fact that water from their hoses was
freezing after hitting the sides and
roof of the building,
water was played on
ing of the school to
fire damage there.
The fire is thought to have started
in the boiler room of the buildings,
possibly from a defective furnace.
The H-huts were heated by their own
furnace, separate from that of the
main building.
'As a result of the fire, the entire
contents of eight classrooms in the
H-huts were a total loss, including
valuable equipment in the home econ
omics room and the shop. Also lost in
the flames were books on loan from
the Huron County Library* as well as
books and personal effects of many
of the students.
Desks stored in the building for use
in the new school were burned, and
older desks, used in the building,
which, were intended for use in the
new school were also lost.
Insured for $49,000
Buildings and contents were insured
for $40,000. Personal effects of pupils
and teachers were insured for $25 and
$50 respectively.
The high school was normally
scheduled to close for the Christmas
holidays today. Because of the fire
there were no classes held yesterday.
However the staff was busy estimat
ing the loss incurred by the fire, and
preparing reports for the insurance
company.
It is expected that seven rooms in
the new school will be ready for oc
cupancy by January 3rd, the day the
school would normally re-open, and
it is hoped that accomodation will
be provided for all the students by
that time. Contractors working on
the new school are rushing the job of
unpacking furniture during the Christ
mas holidays, so that accomodation
will be available. According to pres
ent plans, Grades 9 and 10 will hold
classes in the new school and Grades
11, 12 and 13 will continue in the old
school after the holidays.
School authorities regard as for
tunate the fact that work on the
new school has progressed as rapidly
as it has during the past few months.
The H-huts were originally pur
chased from the War Assets Corpora
tion in 1946, and were formerly situ
ated at the R.C.A.F. Station at Port
Albert. They served as temporary
quarters at the school, after the high
school district was formed, and it
became necessary to enlarge the facil-
ites of the school.
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