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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1955-08-31, Page 5WINTER ■ ■ ’24.95 EACH i| ■ and Mohair, Elysian-like 1 I i Stores with canvas inter-facing in Guaranteed viscose and PLAN 11 STYLES (Only 1 shown here.) The casual, the fitted coat, the clutch, the gentle flare; these and others follow ing Fall fashion with the Slimmed-Down look, nar rower shoulders, higher armhole and slimmer sleeves. 10 LOVELY COLORS Choose from 10 of the newest tones, including Polished Black, Blues, Red, Rosewood, Charcoal, Medium Grey, Navy, Burgandy, Beige and Plum. 4 PRECIOUS FIBRE FABRICS From Leading Canadian Mills. Wool Fibrene (Wool and Fibrene), all Wool weave, All Wool Tweeds. SIZES — 11 to 19 EACH COAT . . . is especially made for Walker expert tailoring details - collars, lapels and fronts. acetate linings. Interlined plus chamois for extra warmth. Coats styled with cocktail sleeves, have storm cuffs. BRINGS YOU FASHION’S NEWEST IN THEIRGREAT SEPTEMBER LAY-AW AY SALE OF The Precious Fibre Fabrics and The Styles With The Slimmed- Down Look Will Thrill you ... Such Value for an Outstanding Low Price BUY YOUR COAT NOW ON Small Regular weekly Payments COATS The Fur Cuff coat in rich look ing wool and Fi brene with twin rows of matching o r contrasting Mouton (Sheared Lamb) on cuffs. Two pockets. In sizes 11 to 19. THE STORE WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES FARTHEST. Wingham Scouts Find Much of Interest at World Jamboree Ten Scouts from Wingham under the leadership of Alton Adams and Miles Overend journeyed to Niagara- on-the-Lake last Wednesday to visit the World Scout Jamboree there. The boys started off at about 8.30 in the morning, arriving in St. Cath erines about noon, where they had lunch in the local park. Due to a bit of car trouble there they had to be taken to the Niagara-on-the-Lake in two shifts, while the second car was being repaired, arriving at the camp around two o’clock. First impressions of the Jamboree were the vast number df tents, 5,000 in all, Which covered the grounds. Tents of all sizes were used, from the lowly pup tent to the huge marquee, which housed the quartermaster stor es and the variety of sizes, shapes and styles was wonderful to behold, Par ticularly interesting were the Eur opean tents which differed greatly from those used in this country. On arrival at the camp the Wing ham boys split up into small groups, re-assembling at the main gate at supper time. Colorful Costumes One of the interesting things to be seen at the Jamboree was the foreign Scouts in their colorful costumes and uniforms. An Arabian Scout wore the traditional Arab robes over his uni form, while Scouts from Jamaica wore Scout hats made of straw. French and English Scouts wore berets instead of Stetsons, and Ameri can Scouts wore hats similar to those worn iri the American army. Almost all Wore shorts, and the uniforms did not vary greatly, except in their color scheme and the insignia on them. Although the main displays of the Jamboree were held in the evenings, there was much of interest to see during the day. The campsites of the Scouts of different nations Were most impressive, many of them with ornate and colorful entrances built by the boys. themselves. Quite a number of them featured handicraft projects, such as bridges, flagpoles and towers. An interesting feature of one of the French Canad ian camp sites was a chapel erected from logs, slabs and natural materials. A monkey-rope bridge, about ten feet above the ground, and made of three ropes .held together in a V-formation, tested the agility of those who tried to cross it. Improvised Kichens Also of interest were the various arrangements for cooking, which was done by the boys themselves. Each campsite had an improvised kitchen with charcoal fireplaces made from oil, drums and other makeshift mater ials. Some of the kitchens were quite elaborate, in a rustic sort of way, showing the hours of work which had been put into them. The Wingham boys were witnesses to one of the most interesting feat ures of the Jamboree, the eternal swapping which went on between boys of different nations. Walking anywhere in the grounds one was apt to come upon a small knot of specta tors, in the middle of which were two or more Scouts earnestly bargaining for trinkets, souvenirs or badges. American Scouts in particular enjoyed this type of activity, and came with whole kitbags full of articles of trade, In one such scope they saw a circle of onlookers standing around two Scouts, one an Egyptian sitting cross- legged on the ground in the eastern fashion and the other an American Scout squatted beside a whole bbxful or trinkets and articles of trade. The American, was closely examining a ring which the Egyptian Was offering in trade. Neither said a word In any language, and the deal had apparently been pending for Some time. The Wihgham boys left the Jam boree at about eight o’clock, stopping on the way home for supper. They arrived home about one o’clock in the morning after an experience they will probably never forget. Ball Team Enjoys Wiener Roast Members of the Len Crawford Dod gers, the girls’ softball team Which has represented Wingham so ably this season, turned out in full force on Friday evening for a wiener roast at Amberley beach. Despite intermit tent rain the girls enjoyed a swim, sing-song and a general good time before they equipped themselves with the roasting forks. Hosts for the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saint, the latter being manager of the team, and Mr. and Mrs. Len ' Crawford, the sponsors. Mrs. Saint expressed her thanks to all the members of the team who had worked together to make the season so successful, and to the coach, Lotne Gardner, as well as Len Crawford, who provided the team with sweaters. Margaret Machan expressed the ap preciation of the team to manager coach and sponsor. Nurse-in-Training Honored at Party A very enjoyable surprise party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Rettinger on Thursday of last Week, when about sixty-five neigh bors and friends gathered in honour of their daughter, Frances, who is leaving this week for St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, as nurse-in-train ing. Progressive euchre Was enjoyed, after which a presentation of a radio, also money, was made by MisS Dawn Moffat and Mrs. Ross Gray. Frances, although completely taken by sur prise fittingly replied. After this a tasty lunch was served by Mrs. Bob Hogg, Mrs. Joe Wal ker and Mrs, Wilbur Hogg, The following is a letter from Ian Hetherington, son of Mr, and Mrs. R. S, Hetherington, who is attending cadet camp at Banff as a representa tive of the Wingham District High School, National Cadet Camp, Banff, Alta, July 26th, 1955 Mom and Dad; Sorry I couldn't write sooner but I have been terribly busy. I am going to have to have my tonsils out shortly after I get home because my throat has been quite sore ever since I had my attack. I have never seen anything as beautiful as this Banff National Park, I will have so many films when I get home I think I will buy a developing set and I would save money. That permission ydu gave me to visit the coast will 'be substantial and I have gone easy on my money, so I will have plenty, I have been into the town of Banff nearly every night and there is plenty to do there and plenty of girls. I have been to several dances at the school of fine arts and I plan on going to Banff Springs Hotel on Thursday or Friday. Just now I am in the canteen and there is a .lovely fire place, piano and more chesterfields and chestachairs than I Can count and there is also a pop bar. Looking through a plate glass window I can see huge Mt. Rundle and ori the other side Cas cade Mountain which is one of the ten highest mountains in the Canad ian Rockies and its fort is no more .than 100 yards away. We have climbed two mountains since I got here, one is Sulphur moun tain, on which we just went up a trail. However the view was very magnificent from that 8763 feet above sea level spot. From it we could see the airport, cadet camp, town of Banff, many other ranges, Bow River and Lake Minnervoka, The other was'a very tough climb up a quite steep slope and it was fairly rocky. It was 8391 feet but it was between two other high moun tains and I couldn’t see much other than the Cascade River. We have had two cases with bears. Two nights ago one stuck its head in the tent and you should have heard, the howls. Another time Dick was feeding a black bear and I took two pictures of the process and then he was going to give the food to me and take some pictures of me. The bear took after him and he got up a tree and I managed to chase it away, but I never got any pictures of myself. First week we went on bivouac and slept under the stars for four nights. During that time we climbed both .mountains and- built two bridges and got several lectures on wild game from an old woodsman. I have never heard anything as interesting in my life. Outside the temperature goes down below freezing at night and up to 80 degrees in the daytime. They say it is because of the thin atmosphere. My face and arms were sunburned badly, even where I was tanned. This week we are on tours and we really see some scenery. We have been to Radium Springs in B.C., to a swimming pool that was 114 degrees and was heated with sulphur in the water. On the way we stopped at Mt. Eisenhower (which used to be called Castle Mt.) I never thought that a mountain could be so beautiful. We also stopped at Marble Canyon where there was a 100 foot water fall and a very deep gorge. Today we went swimming at Cove and Basin which is another .sulphur pool naturally heated (we have four of them at Banff) and this week we will go to Lake Louise, horseback riding, Banff chairlift, Yoho Natural Park. I have been getting letters from Rae and the boys at Ipperwash also from Allan Nicol, and Don MacLean. It is moments like right now that make me never want to leave here. There is someone at the piano and we are having a sing song, the fire place is burning and I can look out at the mountains. The food here is just perfect and we can have all we want. It keeps me busy keeping my shoes shined and my brass polished and keeping my uniforms pressed. We have several nice French-Canadians in my tent, I have learned more French since I came than I did all year at school. We have shows here every other night and is it ever nice watching them from a chesterfield. Other nights We have bingo for prizes worth a good deal of money and they are free. The town of Banff is bigger than Wingham and I have not been able to find either of the people that Art Wilson told me about. There are elk, deer, moose, bears, monutain sheep and mountain goats all over and I have several very good pictures. On church parade on Sunday a fel low fainted and smashed his face something awful and he will be badly scarred for life. I am thankful that I have never fainted. I hope Grandma is not getting any worse and that everybody is OK. I have got some swell souvenirs and pennants in Banff and on the way out. The rivers and lakes here are very swift and ice cold so we have to go swimming in pools. I have gone boating in Baiiff (town) also I did soine fishing and got three lovely rainbow trout but when I got the cooks to cook them, they ate them all but one, but it Was still hice. At night We can stgty up as late as we s, Cadets, Tours Busy at Banff want to and if we go into the town of Banff we just have to be back in time to go on parade in the morning, Well I think I’ll go to bed now and please write soon. „ My address is C/Capt. Ian Hetherington, National Cadet Camp, Banff, Alberta. Yours truly, Ian Juveniles Smother Florence Nine 21=2 Wingham Juveniles smothered the Florence Nine by a score of 21-2, to win the best-of-three interzone series in two straight games at the Wing ham ball park on Wednesday night. The visitors used three pitchers in an .effort to cope with the rampaging locals, who rolled up twelve runs in the seventh and eighth innings to put the game on ice for Wingham. Leading the hit parade was Jim Bain with three home runs and two doubles for six times at bat, Other local players scored freely. Keith Lancaster in the box got five strike outs during the game. ** The Juveniles go back to the W.O.A.A. to meet Moorefield, with a 'game in Wingham on Wednesday night and a return match in Moore field on Friday. Florence ........... 010 000 001— 2 5 3 Wingham ......... 302 022 66— 21 19 0 Don Bodkin, Tampman, Noah and Dick Bodkin; Lancaster and Hodg kinson. New Hamburg Bantams Take WOA A Title Wingham’s Bantam hardball team- was put out of the WOAA finals on Monday afternoon, when New Ham burg handed them a 8-5 defeat, but they went down fighting. It was the second game in the final series, the first having been a 3-0 defeat for Wingham at New, Hamburg on Fri day. • In Monday’s game the locals were trailing 5-0 at the beginning of the sixth inning, but came back to even up the game when Wilf Pocock hit a home run with the bases loaded. Three runs on an error in the top of the seventh put the visitors ahead again, and the Wingham boys were never able to catch up. Jack Hotchkiss, pitching the first game of his career, struck out seven batters, to cover himself with glory. Pete Nasmith was catcher. Local Girls Lose Out to Harriston The Len Crawford Dodgers junior girls softball team lost out 10-6 to Harriston last week, in the second of the best-of-three semi-finals, and the win for Harriston retired the locals for the season, after two straight losses. The game was played in the Wingham town park. The local girls, however, gave a good account of themselves in the final game, They knotted the score in the sixth inning, only to have Harris ton pull ahead in the eighth. Three runs in the ninth gave the visitors their commanding lead. Scoring runs for Wingham were Marg Machan, with two; Muriel Gow- dy, Merle Gowdy, Mary Lee Hollen beck and Nancy Hutchison, Battery for Wingham was Muriel Gowdy and Irene Saint; for Harriston, M. Gibson and E. Holtom. Players on the Wingham team throughout the season have been Irene Saint, Muriel Gowdy, Marg Ma chan, Ruth Fry, Merle Gowdy, Nancy Hutchison, Mary Lee Hollenbeck, Shirley Armstrong, Marilyn Reihl, Elva MacDonald, Karen Swanson, Sharon Brown, Sylvia Alexander, San dra Strong and Dorothy Chamney. Mrs. Fred Saint is manager. Figure Skaters Pass At Stratford Three members of the Wingham Figure Skating Club were successful in qualifying for various figure skat ing tests at the summer skating school of the Stratford Figure Skat ing Club. Harold Brooks qualified for his bronze dance medal when he passed the Ten Fox and the Fourteen-Step, his final tests for the medal, Jean Gurney was successful in pass ing her preliminary figures and the Siesta Tango ahd John Wild passed his second figures and three silver dances, the American Waltz, Foxtrot and Rocker Foxtrot. GOSPEL HALL Regular Sunday Services Sunday ^School 10.15 a,Hi. Remembering the Lord at 11.15 Gorpel Meeting at 7.30 p.m. Eacl Thursday evening at 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting and Bible Study The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, August Si, 1955 Page Fivg LIONS MAKE FINAL PLANS R. E, McKinney, in his capacity mayor of Wingham, was a guest honor at the opening of the Canad ian National Exhibition in Toronto last Friday. Along with mayors of other Ontario cities and, towns, he attended the colorful opening cere monies held at the bandstand in Ex hibition Park. The mayor was most impressed with the ceremonies. The gathering was treated to music by the U.S. Marine Band before the ceremonies began, and gradually another band could be heard in the distance, coming nearer and nearer. It was the lead rand of , the parade in which 9,000 Boy Scouts from the World Scout Jamboree in Niagara-on-the-Lake were marching, arid as the parade drew nearer, it was evident that the two bands were playing the same music in perfect unison. On the arrival of the Scouts speech es of welcome were made by Toronto’s Mayor Nathan Phillips, and by Lord Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Empire, who officially opened the 1955 Exhibition, A grand finale to the opening cere monies was the discharge of a volley of rockets, each with a parachute and the flag of one of the 66 nations with Boy Scout representatives at the Jamboree. Following the ceremonies a recep tion was held for the guests in Women’s Building. as of the Golf Club Bridge Seven tables were in play Thursday at the weekly social of ladies’ section of the Wingham Golf Club. Winners were Mrs. H. C. MacLean, Mrs, C. Lloyd and Mrs. Geo. Egleston. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs. G. Scott, Mrs. T. A. Currie, Mrs, J. MacIntyre and Mrs. W. Ford. This Thursday the ladies are asked to come in costume in keeping with the Frontier Days celebration. last the LLASHMAR S. DRIVE*IN CLINTON, ONTARIO Next to Clinton Community Park — Open at 7.30 First show at dusk. Thurs., Fri., Sept. 1-2 “ARROWHEAD” (Color) Charlton Heston, Jack Palance ■■ ■ 8 Saturday • Sept. 3 “Cruisin’ Down the River” (Color) Dick Haymes Betty Daniels and THREE STOOGE COMEDY Sunday Midnight Sept. 4 and Monday Sept. 5 “RIDING SHOTGUN” (Color) Randolph Scott Joan Weldon Tues., Wed.,’ Sept. 6-7 “Duffy of San Quentin” Louis Hayward. Joanne Dru Thurs., Fri., Sept. 8-9 “THE STOOGE” Martin and Lewis Cartoon and News at each Per formance. Children’s playground, two shows nightly rain or clear. Children under 12 in cars free. 8 ■ ■ H ■ X Meeting at the golf duh on Friday evening members of the Wingham Lions Club completed final arrange ments for the Frontier Days which will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Sheriff John Brent who is the of ficial organizer, outlined the last- minute tasks which remained to be done, and his assistant, Reg. Bitton, briefed committees on various aspects of the celebration which require spec ial attention. The Sheriff reported that the work of decorating and publicity commit tees was well in hand, A good line-up of floats has been promised, assuring a bang-up parade with plenty of the Wild West flavor. President H. P. Carmichael reportt/l on the progress of the sale of tickete which is being handl ed ip co-opei^ tion with other clubs in this zone, anc? for which prizes will total more than $5,000.00 Lyceum Theatre 8 Thurs., Fri., Sat.,n ■ Sept. 1-2-3 “Seminole Uprising” George Montgomery Karin Booth ■ I Mon., Tues., Sept. 5-6 g “Moonfleet” 8- Stewart Granger ® Viveca Lindfors !8 Llashmar Drive-In Theatre LISTOWEL Turn at Armouries on Hwy. 86 Thurs., Fri,, Sept 1-2 “RED PONY” Robert Mitchum Myrna Loy “Pride of Maryland” Stanley Clemens, Peggy Stewart Saturday Sept, 3 £ “Abbott & Costello < Meet Captain Kidd” C Abbott & Costello, ? Charles Laughton < 1 Sunday Mid-Nite, Mon., Sept. 4-5 “CALAMITY JANE” I Doris Day Howard Keel c Tues., Wed., Sept. 6-7 “PRIZE OF GOLD” (Color) Richard Widmark Thurs., Fri., Sept. 8-9 — Double Feature — “I DIDN’T DO IT” George Formby “WAGON TEAM” Gene Autry • Cartoon, Added Short at Each Performance Children's Playground 2 Shows Nightly, rain or clear Children under 12 years in cere FREE! (P ON THE NO. 9 HIGHWAY JUST SOUTH OF HARRISTON Wed., Thurs., Sept. 7-8 “Notorious” (Adult) Fri., Sat., Sept. 2-3 Spike Jones “Fireman Save My Child” Roy Rogers in Bells of Coronado Sunday Midnite, Sept 4 THEM” (Adult) James Whitmore, Joan Weldon Mon., Tues., Sept. 5-6 Johnny Guitar” (Technicolor) Joan Crawford Sterling Hayden TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY Children under 1} yri ad" ffd