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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-10-10, Page 13SVOAR .AND $F1Cg Dispensed by .$0,110y: On .a bash. with Dutch Page l5 Qctobpr 10, 1963 Lucan and district news •Phoott 327-4254 won.. Yegeenee--• Wins thirdprize in singing contest Mike Culbert, Lucan, won third prize arid $5,00 In the vocal competition at the Kurtzvilie Fair recently. With him on the trip were his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Mert Culbert,, his aunt, Mrs, Cla* rence Hardy, who accompanied him, and. Miss Lina Abbott who was taken as a guest. This :Is Mike's third monetary Prize this year besides being invited just as an entertainerto other functions. In June Mike and hie two bro- thers completed five Years of perfect church attendance. bit chaotic,. With names and squadron notaber and roo4.6of delight as Old frfends .spetted each other, BUt a few vignettes: stand out in my mind, lunch, rI.Te He clung th to o tit tfli:phat paper bag whose thrifty wife had panised a as to a lifeeraft through th,e. lunch reunion and the afternoon a,nytbiilg reception,and finer than thenev ershea r, seen cilko4gIr3edleyfartatrekewdi,t1lhewthhl'iciihg he at 400 in the. afternoon, There was the real,liveSPit- fire. Chap had assembled it at the Lakehead and had Hewn It down for the reunion, Be put on a show in what is probably the last flying Spitfire in the world, and the eyes of the old boys, majority of whom had flown Spits, were almost wet with nos- talgia and booze as they watched the little lady go through her paces. There was the awesome exhi- !1 AOTO.MASTV:1 PURGli cowsInc"., tt't et.,tme.r inch et:tn.:Mitt:ter. nt o v .e r u s t, stue-e (igen,. entire ennIImt syN "t Can. ekney. M.N., ean 9 RADIATOR ertiete ImprovesT o HIbit:tn. ratttato? effi• ' miniail,••••6•04*.havoimionwaftwean'tormbenerova61. 4ogilonnimea.....rariamemmegitisAvokatteirii. IliEATElt, IIOSE — Resists corrosion, 11 etc, Per, ft. from .... ro N N • 436 MainS xeter Miifon 'Robbins at Son Ltd. Phone 2354)160 So help me,. T haven't beep so shaken nirine the day I found, myself over Holland, at 4,04 feet, with lig engine, "You're ..ltitidingi" l finally blurted', ,"`rhat Wan Datchl and be Wants Me to „." know, We can't afford it, IAA You should go, You'd .enjoy it," This is like a preacher Me he sees .nothing wrong with. sin, My first thought and I was immediately 'ashamed, Of it was that the old lady' as ha, vipg an affair with the milkman or 50.11000y., and wanted to get me out of the way for the week,- end, T felt a little more conifer-. table about the whole thing when she made me promise to take out S100,000 in that air travel insurance, The kids were ere- asharnediy fascinated by the- "You mean, if you crash, we'll be rich?" Hugh wanted to know, Well, it was a good bash, and I did enjoy it. Most of it was a bition of hair-fine precinkni flying and cold nerve of came ria l S fel/1014 Gelden Hawks. With the old pros looking on, the boys really put on a show that made nient of OS glad we'd beep born $0 years before thene jets were invented, Having strayed from the main grow)), as so often.0,1watoect the air show with a littlerrench kid, about eight, who came and stood beside ine, lie spoke no. English, I only a little French, but we had rapport, We said cqtvoye together every time the jets seemed certain to col- lide. Ile shook hands gravely when he had to leave “pour le supper." My only regret is that the fighter pilots don't meet every year, instead of every two or three. But, as one of them ex- plained to me, if there was an annual bash like that one, In a very few years there wouldn't be any fighter pilots left, They couldn't stand the pace, amiss London known here tor tomorrow's flight.Elionid he a r ogrIribnanseld).' into the receiver in sickly fashion, as this devil'e advocate went on, and my mind whirled through the domestic and QC(.10.0Mic obstacles between me and the reunion. With half, hearted promise to see what I could do, I hung up. "That was . . I began lamely, to the Old Battleaxe. "Why don't you go?" she que- ried, tit would be good for you." o WINTER IS ON THE WAY THE TIME TO GET READY IS NOW DATE ON TOP OF CAN ASSURES "NEW SEASON" FRESH PACK Play it Safe - ins,. E M IL - and COOLING SYST E Conditioner Sell schools to Biddulph Three of the Biddulph schools which closed their doors In Jtme when the new Biddulph Area school was built, were sold Saturday, SS 9 was purchased by Carl Theander of Centralia, SS '7 (Granton school) was purchased by Patrick Blaine of Varna. SS 5 (Revere school) was purchased by George Suter of London, SS 1 (Coursey school) SS 2 and the Ciandehoye school will be sold next Saturday, PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs, George Thomp- son and family of St. Catharines were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs, Rufus Thompson. Miss Beth Quigley of London was a weekend guest of her cousin, Mrs, Karl. O'Neil, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corbett and family were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack. Young of Toronto.e Mr. and Mrs. Tom Triebner of Exeter, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Hodgins, after attending the Thanksgiving service in Holy Trinity Church at 11 am, Miss Judy Haskett, though attending the London Teachers' College, has re-opened her dan- cing classes at the Legion Hall each Saturday with an atten- dance of 20. This year she has added modern jazz to her tap dancipg, Miss Barbara Cookof London spent a few days last week with her grandmother, Mrs. Will Haskett. Mrs. W. W. Garrett and son Jack returned on Thursday from a three week plane trip to Europe, Mark birthdays Miss Fay Lorraine Feather- stone, 19, of London out-polled nine other contestants Saturday night and won the title "Miss London". She was crowned by the Junior Chamber of Com- merce, president Douglas Mc- Kerlie at the London Arena. Miss Featherstone has many relatives in the Lucan area as her mother was the former Marian Stanley and Wilber t Stanley is an uncle. She is a third year general arts student at the University of Western Ontario. She will now represent London in next mon- th's "Miss Canada" contest to be held in Toronto, when she will be competing with 30 girls across Canada. The winner will go on to compete in the Miss America contest later. One of the four judges was Miss Angela Armitt, well- known in Lucan, as she is the sister of Mr. Clarence Haskett. Miss M. Hodgins dies in Parkhill . Rev, Lyall Crawford of the Anglican Church, Parkhill, con- ducted funeral services at the M. Box Funeral Home, Park- hill on Monday October '1 for Miss Elizabeth Maude Hodgins, who died at the Green Gables Nursing Home, Parkhill, Sat- urday October 5. Interment was in St. James Cemetery, Clan, deboye. Miss Hodgins, daughter of the late James and Catherine Hod- gins, is survived by one sister and one brother, May and Man- sel Hodgins of Stephen Town- ship and three nieces (N o I a) Mrs. Ross Love of Grand Bend, (11a) Mrs, Stanley Keyes of Tor- onto and Beulah, Mrs. Clarence Hardy of Lucan. Attended a fighter pilots' reu- nion last weekeed, and am happy to report there's still a lot of fight left in the old fighter pilots, although I am forced to confess that a good many of us were not as young on Sunday morning as we thought we were Saturday night. I shuddered deeply when the long-distance call came through and the familiar voice chortled, "Hullo, Willie, Dutch here." Each time Dutch calls, which is every two or three years, I whisper gently to myself, "Oh dear," I know perfectly well that whatever he has in mind will be intriguing but exhausting. We have a peculla,r relation- ship. He taught me to fly Spit- fires about 20 years ago in England. Ten years later, he walked into a hotel in a Cana- dian resort area, grinning broadly, and said, "Hullo, Wile lie." I had not seen hint in the meantime. Next day, I went off with him on the most unusual fishing trip I've ever experien- ced. He's an Australian of great charm, a certain ruthlessness, a fantastic energy, and an ex- treme individuality. Add to these a keen mind and a rare flair for the wild caper, in some moods, and you have most of him. Except that he's a bachelor, and doesn't have to cope with women and children and respon- sibilities and all that rot, when he comes up with one of his hair-raisers. The infuriating thing is that he always acts as though one of these ordeals he gets me into is purely medicinal, atonic rather than a mankiller. 'Twas so this time: "Fighter pilots' party in Montreal. Thought it would be good for you. I've booked tickets Mrs, Henry Hodgins of prin- cess St. Lucan was guest of honor at a dinner party, staged Saturday, by her daughter, Mrs. H. A. Mullins of London, to celebrate her mother's 83rd birthday. Other guests included Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Abbott RR 1 Lucan, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carroll, Saintsbury and Miss Sophie Richards of Lucan. In spite of her four score and three years, Mrs. Hodgins is at present enjoying good health. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Atkinson, she was born on Concession 2 Biddulph. After her father's death she moved to Alice St. Lucan. Following her marriage to Henry Hodgins she lived on Concession 4, Biddulph. When they retired from farming in 1948 they moved back to Lu- can and settled in her present home on Princess St. where they celebrated their golden wedding in 1556. Mr. Hodgins died in August 1961. Treasure Chest Lucan's Gift Shop Mrs. J. So Radcliffe 227-4792 Lucan Mrs. Robert Jenkins received word of the sudden death of her brother, Baxter Blackwood, 52, in Halifax Hospital, Saturday, October 5. Funeral service and interment were in Halifax on Monday. Mrs. Mary Carter has moved into her new home in the Lang- ford sub-division. Mrs. Pat O'Brien, seven- year-old Stephen and five-year- old Denise, have returned from a six week trip to England and Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lewis were among the 37 who took the Birr WI bus trip to Owen Sound and Collingwood. Mrs. A. E. Reilly was baby- sitter with her grandchildren, for four days last week, while their parents Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Reilly attended a convention at the Soo. Mrs. Ken McGoun and Miss Nellie Foreman of London, call- ed on Lucan friends last Mon- day. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Rapley and Miss Mary McCall of Yale, Mich" Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hunter and Jack of Exeter and Mrs. Erie Young of Lucan, were Friday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lewis. Saturday, Mrs. Wes Hodgins held a joint birthday dinner for her daughter Mrs. Isabel Cope- man and son Mr. Don Hodgins, both of London. Other guests included her son Joe Hodgins of St. Thomas and her daughter- in-law Mrs. Don Hodgins and baby. PERMA-FILL — the ONLY type of Anti-Freeze that's SAFE FOR IJSE IN ANY CAR! PERMA-FILL, (finest Ethylene Glycol) — formulated with "metal- clean" Cooling System Conditioner . . to safeguard the metals used in the newest cars. PERMA-FILL, protects against foaming, rust, corrosion, clogging, boil-away — and can keep your car safe right down to 62' below zero. our new display of handbags and even- ing bags — All mo- derately priced. $4.95 and up. ception at St. Patrick's Church and Hook's Restaurant Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Revington, Miss Marlene and Gary, and Mr. Jack Marshall of Lucan, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Revington of Mooresville, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Campbell and four-year-old son Johnnie (who was ringbearer) of Toron- to, It was also the '78th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary of the groom's grandmother, Mrs. Harry McFalls of London. Dur- ing the wedding celebration, "Happy Birthday", was sung for Mrs. McFalls and she was pre- sented with a small gift, the bride making the presentation. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Bruce German of Paris spent last weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Stanley. Mrs. J, S. Radcliffe attended the Gift Show held in the indus- trial Bld. at the CanadianExhi- bition Grounds Toronto, Monday to Thursday of last week and then spent the weekend with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Knowles. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hodgins are holidaying in Trenton with their son and family. Church news CGIT members schedule events Last Monday night 15 CGIT members were out for a meeting in the UC schoolroom with the new president Judy Coughlin in the chair. The tying of the quilt for the bale was completed and work on the scrapbook for the Memorial Hospital continued, It was announced the Licorice All Sorts had been purchased and a license procured for sel- ling. The day for the fruit basket drive was set for Sat. Oct. 19. Should the weather be bad the drive will be held a week later. October 5 was the new date set for the postponed cook-out to be held on the church lawn. Joyce Rummell was in charge of the singsong which led into the worship service on "ste- wardship", conducted by Daisy Cobleigh and the leader, Mrs. Murray Hodgins. The president introduced the guest speaker, Mrs. Robert Stutt, who spoke to the former members on the value of first- aid in the home, while Mrs. Hodgins took the new members into the kindergarten room for the first session on "What it means to be a CGIT girl." DUAL CELEBRATION Among the 143 friends and relatives who r.tended the Wel- bourn-Coe:um wedding and re- United A large attendance was pre- sent for the world wide com- munion service at 11 o'clock, with the following new mem- bers, Mr. and Mrs, Joh Brand, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Schell, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Thomp- son and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Park and Billie. 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