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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-05-16, Page 5¥atirice "Rocket`* Richard, honottra&Ie right winger of the National Hockey League's 1956.57 Stanley Cup winners, Montreal Canadians, delivered a few sur- prises in his speech as guest speaker at the biannual sports banquet at RCAF Centralia Fri- day night. The greatest goal -scorer l NHL history dropped a bombshell into the laps of his audience when he remarked that he would like someday to beeoine a referee. Richard has been a constant mettace to most league officials in his brilliant 15 -year career and the thought of him turning to_ refereeing shocked iris listeners, The fiery right winger, who ap- peared at Centralia Through the courtesy of pow Kinksbeer, fail• ed .to give .a prepared speech. but conducted e :mteetioogire much to the ,delight of the statioe athletes being honoured 'with the banquet. "Hockey has been good to me;" stated Richard, "and 1 want to keep on playing as long as I can. I think the refereeing has int- proved. over my earlier years in the league because now I don't argue .as inucll as I used to." "Of course, although I've been honied captain of the Canadiens, I cut down on my ,major penal- ties. by sending assistant captain Doug Harvey over to argue or Me when I don't agree with the Beall, to keep out of trouble, "1 have never sworn at a ref In the league but I have gone so worn far as to .,call him blind which usually nets ine a niiscenduct for an infraction of 4.ha rule. "I would like very much to go overseas with an NI -1L All-Star team end show them how hockey should be ,played and gain Can- Ada's_ prestige in hockey again." the classy star remarked 'when asked .about the world: title Gan- ada lost two years ago. 1,ese :Eight, Nine pound% When questioned about players. losing weight during games, Richard :said that seine defence - Men lose up to eight or nine the 'or- �vile.h for- wards e pounds in a Barn wards level :off around the 'our Or five nebnd. mark. Les Canadian's star likes to fish as well as play tennis dur- ing the off season in between at- tending a n.unnber •of banquets throughout the summer months. Group Captain A, M. Cameron Centralia CO, trade one of his last speeches before his transfer e "Sport isplaying a big prt iiitakes effect. l t t the RCAF and.to illy delight take great pride in the wonder -1 ful spprtsrnansbip :shown at this camp. As this is my last sports banquet, 1 would like to express my. sincere thanks to everyone Mr their support during lily stay i even thoegl at tunes we didn't ace eye to eye on things. "I .think it's wonderful to bevel so many :trophy donors for our athletics and X would :also like BASEBALL ' Huron -Perth League MONDAY, MAY 20 Exeter at Dashwood 2:00 p.m. FRIDAY, MAY 24 Clinton at Hensel! Dashwood at Exeter MONDAY, MAY 27 Hensall at Clinton Zurich at Mitchell BREWERY LIMITED -I "Perfect Mtttehnsatt* �''`' 'weddingGtlta of, : . 7(//9///(1) •,/////(,/,f/ WATCHES WITTNAUER. Here ore two superbly matched watches for him and her. Foch with lustrous 1 4K gold case. ladies $79.50 (,rnts. $89.50 Chob*I new from cur id*relettlbh 04 wottdihohorid *WOO. •JACK SMITH Jeweller Phare 510 Exeter CREDIT TERMS ONTARIO CHAMPS HONOURED -.--Coach Don O'Brien (left) is pictured here with manager Earl. "Duke" Yungblut (right) and three of the Zurich Bantam "D" hockey stars that helped bring Ontario honours to the town. Assistant captain Bob Johnston (second froin •left), team captain Wayne Willert (centre) and assistant captain Earl Wag- ner display their new red leather jackets and trophies, Present Provincial Crown To Zurich Lions' Bantams t The Iden Waters Trophy, em- to team captain Wayne Willem ich Lions Club; Mr. Bob Mc- blematic of the O,M.H.A. chain• before an overflowing crowd of:Kinley, first vice-president of pionship and the Western On- 200 onlookers, I Zurich Lions Club; Mr. Nelson tario Athletic Association Tro- Jack McIntyre, classy left •Hill; Mr. Delbert Geiger, second phy, symbolic for Western On- winger of the National Hockey i vice-president Zurich Lions Club; tario winners, were presented to League's Chicago Black Hawks . Rev. and Mrs. Amacber and the newly crowned All -Ontario was the main guest speaker as Mr. and Mrs. Leroy O'Brien. "D" champions,, Zurich Ban- he held a public questionnaire 1 ' The Bantam "D" champs re, tams at a banquet held in their with the crowd and told of some ceived red leather jackets with honour in the Zurich Community of his past N.H.L. experiences. i• chenille crests and- numbers on' Centre Arena on Wednesday McIntyre, who was born M. them along with individual gold night. Brussels, played hockey in the plated trophies, WOAA crests Mr. J" W, Oakes. first vice town of Listowel where he got and team pictures to go along president of the Ontario Minor his start and advanced along with the hot turkey banquet as Hockey Association and Mr.. Nel- the trail with O.H.A. Junior ' a reward for their great show - son Hill, representing the WO- clubs and on into the American ing• ( AA, did the presentation duties Hockey League until finally he The jackets were purchased hit the National Hockey League. through the courtesy of the Zur- Messa a From Jack spent two years with the ich Lions'' Club while the trophies Message Boston Bruins before being trad- were donated by Gordon Hesse e ed to Chicago where he has now and Ross• Johnston. •Centralia . finished playing his third sea- Les O'Brien. George Deichert, son In his five professional .Leland Willert, Earl Thiel and aIle to thank thein AS would Maurice Richard for appearing here to night. Master of ceremonies for tate evening was P/0 Bailey who named the winners of the dif- ftreet sports activities staged by the station and the donors of trophies to the :athletes, Present Curling Cups In. Bewail this winter 7,15 sta- tion personnel took part InnlI7 rinks for curling. John liuevae presented the Dutch Roy trophy to the $/l. Joe Ross rink which. won t h e championship. V/0I~tuglies accepted the award in the absence of S/L Ross. Other ineiiibers of the rink included F/0 Allen and F/0 Geekie. Mr, Little. O'Keefe's represent- ative, presented the Fulton rink with the O'Keefe's runner-up trophy which was .accepted by W/C Bray. F/0 Johnston and F/.S Thompson were .also mem- bers of the riok. Miniatures were given to each member. PFS captured the volleyball title when they defeated the sergeants. G/C Cameron presented F/0 Nichon with the team trophy while team members W/C Bray, W/C Likeness, S/L Davis, F/L Craig, F/L Hutchins, Fa -el -Use - borough, F/0 Halliwell, F/0 Hemsley and F/L Bright looked on. Chuck Butler, representative of Carlings Brewery Ltd.; award- ed S/L Hicks the Carling tro- phy emblematie of breomball supremacy at the station. Team members :consisted of Mr, Ford, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Loader, Mr, iI a c n es s, Mr. Brintnell, Mr, Fuller, Mr, Kellett, Mr. Sweet, Mr, Smith, Mr, Heywood, Mr. Stephen, Mr, L Haugh, Mr. Flynn and Mr. R. Haugh. Miniatures were received by each team member. Badminton Winners Mr. Butler also distributed badminton trophies for the men's and ladies' singles and doubles competitions. Winners in the singles were 1.4.0 Payton and. Mrs. Green. Mr. Campbell- of Campbell By MRS. FRED BOWDEN years in the big time, McIntyre Earl Weido were donors of the has registered some 65 goals. crests and the numbers came Other guest speakers included from Don O'Brien and. Lee Thiel. Mother's Day Service Mr. Val Becker, Reeve of Hay Members of the Bantam "0" A 'large congregation attend- Township, who offered his con- title holders receiving the awards ed the Mother's Day service in gratulations to both Zurich Ban- included: Earl Wagner, Russell Centralia United Church Sunday morning. Miss Helen. McFalls led the worship service. Junior and primary .classes formed the choir and sang two appropriate anthems. Bobby Lammie was soloist, Jeaii Nand Joan Essery sang a Mother's Day duet. Orchestra music was played by the "McCutcheon and Hodgins Quintette, The • story was told by Mr. Lloyd Morgan. A baptismal font was present- ed by the family of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Godbolt in whose memory. it was dedi- cated by Rev. J. T. Clarke, Two children were baptized: Brian Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hicks. and Joyce Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: How- ard Hodgson. Presentation Priends and neighbours of Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Isaac, who lost their home by fire,, held a bene- fit dance in Lucan Arena Fri- day night which was well attend- ed. Dancing throughout the eve- ning was enjoyed, A substantial sum of money was presented to the . young couple. The address was read by Lyle Revington and •presenta- tion made by Patrick Cronyn. tam and Midget hockey teams for their showing throughout the year and league officials J. W. Oakes and Nelson Hill. Mr. Hill reminisced about the WOAA hockey setup and laud- ed it for the players it had de- veloped for the National Hockey League and O.H.A. Senior hock- ey. He also extended the ap- preciation of the WOAA to Zur- ich for staying within• their or- ganization and bringing home the championship. J, W, Oakes stated that over one quarter of a million dollars is spent yearly on Minor Hockey and it is clubs like the Lions •in' Zurich • who make these. teams possible by sponsoring thein to give the right start to the young- sters as they will eventually be- come the backbone of the coun- try. Head table guests included Mr. Hugh Hawkins, past president of the WOAA; • Mr. Andy Mc- Lean, president of Seaforth Lions Club; Mr, and Mrs, Val Becker; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hesse; Jack Mcletyre; Mr. J. W. Oakes; Mr. and Mrs. Vic Dinnin; Mr. Earl Yungblut, president of Zur- C.G.I.T. Are Active The second term of the Wo - he -lo C.G,I.T. has been a busy one with missionary projects and other activities. A special 'activity was the making of al- uminum trays as gifts for Moth- er's Day, Bach girl made tip her own design: Mrs. Jack Essery supervised the work. The group will form the choir at the W.M.- S, anni.eersary, Sunday, June 9. Tn June the group will close. their activities with a parent's night, Personal Items Weekend visitors with Mr, and Mrs. Alvin Essery were Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Weeks of Lon. don, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Es- sery of Pontiac, yMich., and Mr. and Mrs. S. Sorensen of Chat- ham, Tile latter also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Robinson, Mra. Allen left last week for her home in the West after spend- ing some time at the home of her nephew and niece, Mr. /snips and Miss Margaret Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Powe, Elaine acid Marie attehded the --?lease Turn to Page 9. 'phone 102 HARVEY'S • TAXI 24-HOUR SERVICE Klapp, ,Ron Deichert, George Sweeney, Paul Bedard, Girrard Overholt, Paul Weide, Paul Am- acher, Bob Johnston, Bill Wag- ner, Bernie Denomme, Wayne Willert, Allan Thiel and John Manse. • Don O'Brien was coach of the team while- "Duke" Yungblut looked after the managerial end and Leroy Thiel was trainer. Zurich Midgets, although not winning the All -Ontario crown, captured the WOAA Midget "D" honours, and received crests form Milfred Schilbe, their team manager. Herb Turkheim coach- ed the club. Entertainment was supplied by Miss Doris Jonhston playing the marimba with piano accompan- ist Miss Carol Pepper. Both are from Clinton. Sing songs were led through- out the evening by Leroy O'Brien with Lenora. Turkheim at the Piano. Notable guests seated hi the audience included Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Thiel; Mr. and Mrs. Herb Turkheini; Mr. and Mrs. M. Schilbe and Mr. and Mrs, Jack Turkheim, Report On Baseline em Movers leaked :after the men's and ladies .doubles trop li i g $ which were won by SIL ,Gruen, rib Bright, Mrs. Greou ,And Mr's. Payton. Mixed double win, ners were S/L and Mrs. Green. Cpl. Osgood compiled statistics o.n the bowling league .this winter .and came u.pwith a total of 7,548 intersection games being played by the men and Another M00 by the women. G/C Cameron presented the Labatt 'trophy to LAC Erevil. Meriland Movers .gave miniature trophiesto all team members which included, Cpl. Osgood,• LAC White, LAC Masson, •LAC Suffron, LAC May and Sgt. ,Ter- nayn. Tributes were given ;LFTs for capturing the All -Canadian Train- ingCoininand hockey'chalnpion• ship this .year. Maurice Richard presented the Dow. trophy to PETS team manager F/L Gibson -And .coach W/C Truemner. To go along with the large Dow trophy, :each player receiv- ed miniatures through the cour- tesy .of Dow while W/C Truem- ner presented his team with crests. Players on the hockey club were F/O Geekie, F/0 Gobeil, F/0 Gorman, P10 McArthur, F/0 McGarvie, F/0 Hughes, F/0 Donald, F/0 Parent, F10 McLaughlie, F/0 Proffitt, F/0 Franklin, F/0 Thoburn, F/0 Sharpe and F/0 Ward. I,AC Maclntyre, who won the station league scoring title, was Presented with the league scor- ing trophy by Maurice Richard, Following the Rocket's -pre- sentation, sports editor Don. Gra- By MRS. ARCHiE DEWAR Mrs. W. Sweitzer, Woodham. spent Friday with Mrs. A. Rund- le. Mrs. Geo. Wilson returned home Friday from the W.I. Of- ficers' Conference at Guelph. Several families from the Base Line attended the presentation held at Rannoch Hall for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Stacey and fam- ily who recently moved to St. Marys. Mr. and Mrs. Harold O'Brine and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dinsmore acted as hostesses and presented them with a coffee and end table, Sharen, a neck. lace, and Floyd, a fountain pen. The evening was spent in euchre. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Switzer spent Sunday in Essex visiting with Mrs. Switzer's mother, Mrs. Shepley and Mr, Switzer's moth- er, Mrs, Switzer. Mrs. Frank Ball and family, St. Marys spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Berry. Mr. Wm, Berry of Toronto visited with his parents; on Sun- day enroute to London where he is taking a two week's course in plastics at. University of Western Ontario. Mr. and Mrs, . Stewart Mar- riott, Ronald and Maryanne, St. Marys spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dewar. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Nickson of Wiarton spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Baker. Mrs. Oliver Baker has been Visiting with her mother, Mrs. Beer of Munro, who is a pa- tient. in Stratford Hospital, hav- ing had her hand caught in a power lawn mower. • Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Elston and family and Mr. Jesse Elston spent Saturday evening with their son, Mr. Clare Elston and Mrs. Elston in London. Mr. and. Mrs. Eric Westman and •son, David, of London, Mr, and Mrs. Cal Lucas of St. Marys were guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Holland on Sunday. • TOO MANY PEOPLE DIE OF- CANCER NEEDLESSLY 8eeouse they don't know the FACTS S. ,Make it your business to learn the TRUTH about cancer. For free literature write F. R. Dobbs Phone 200 Exeter CAMERA Equipment Free! Professional Instruction With . •Each Purchase • Oalri £ PHOTOGRAPHER 1 l.A+ treats, May 1111111. vett of The iSiteker Times- Advocate,. presented rgoaltender Gil :Geekie with, the t -A trophy for 'being chosen the most valu- able ,p .alu-ablep layer to his club .t.hrougb- put the seasoh. 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