HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1956-04-11, Page 1No Indication of Foul Play,
Police Say of Merrick Death
The mystery surrounding the added that the investigation is
home on. Catherine Street last ability an inquest will be held if
death of Irvin W, Merrick, at his continuing and that 'in all. prop-•
Tuesday night appeared to he lift- deemed necessary by the crown
ing this week, ,witil an announce- attorney,
ment by Inspector John Craig, of Inspector Craig, who has been
the. Criminal InVestigation Branch working with Wingham Chief of
of the Ontario Provincial. Police, Police Bert Platt, said that a report
that there is no suspicion of foul from the attorney-general's labora-
play in connection with Mr. Mer- tory in Toronto, expected to be
rick's death, ' released on Wednesday, may shed
"There is no indication of foul further light on Mr. Merrick's
play that we can find at the pre- death,
sent time," Inspector Craig told Complained of Feeling Ill
The Advance-Times yeserday, He According. to police reports Mr.
Merrick was engaged in piling
To Ban Use of Firecrackers
Within Wingham Town Limits •
Mrs. Jack Lloyd
Heads Dinettes
The regular meeting of h
Wingham Klnette Club was held
on Morrday coming' at the home of
Mrs. Lloyd Ellacott. The election
of officers took place, with the
new slate of officers for the com-
ing year as follows.
Past president, Mrs„ Vie .,Loughs.
lean; •presideatiaiVlts
viceSPr00Pii.t'Ssg.t ;1';?iii4:"
secretary, Mrs. John Currie; treas-
urer, Mrs, Jim Curric;' registrar,
Mrs. Fred Templernan; bulletin
editor, Mrs. Alan Williams.
The Kinettcs will assist the
Huron County Tuberculosis As-
sociation with its survey of the
town of Wingham„ early in May.
The next meeting will he held
on Monday, April 23rd., at the home
of Mrs. Jack Lloyd.
!NEM
ECTRIC
Students Conduct Survey
RYERSON' PRACTICAL JOURNALISM student Marta Kure, 21 To-'
ronto, p.reaents Wendell Leavens, secretary-manager of the Ontario
'Weekly Newspaper Association, with the results of a door-to-door poll
of 400 BOWinanVille homes, Having studied Gallup Poll Methods, stu-
dents applied their knowledge in a practieal way by asking readers
detailed qiiestionil On what they read in a weekly newspaper, , Most
MOW feritilit, they discovered Wag the elaaalfied advertising,
-Photo by. Rolf Bjordaritten, Printing Management student)
from Moose Jaw, Solt, Sean-C-Graved at Ryerson,
At Wroxeter flood waters went
Out without causing any damage,
carrying with them hundreds of
square yards of ice, which had
formed on tare pond during the
winter. Most of the water in the
dam had boon released prior to
the spring freshet, and the ice
over most, of the area of that darn
had been sitting on the bottom, of
the pond until the flood Waters
came along. Rising waters quick-
ly cleared off the ice, breaking up
inige floes as they went over the
clam.
At Eluevale most of the ice had
already gone off the pond by the
time the water started rising, and
flood gates were raised to clear
the balance.
Although the dam at Gorrie has
never been repaired since Hurri-
cane Hazel floodwaters caused a
section of it to be blasted, over a
year ago, there was a certain
amount of flooding in the lower
areas of the village, Three or four
feet of water covered the colt-
rat%nity park there, but no extensive
=damage was reported,
NOTICE
The annual meetin g of the
Huron County `Tuberculosis Associ-
ation will be held in the Board
room of the Agricultural Office,
Clinton, on Monday, April 30th at
8 p.m. The public IS invited,
E, Meant, president,
Mrs. S. D. Russell,
executive secretary
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Unity Club. Popeilar prices,
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FIRST SHIPMENT AT NEW PLANT
MEETING NENT WEEK
FOR BOOSTER CLUB
A Hier:Ong of all members
Ore Whighato Wester Chin will
A ha held next Monday at 7,30
win. in, the !Council eitairibers.
Important business on hired
for the meeting included the
Aditoriiing of future aetivitieS of
the organization, •
Ali members who have al-
ready jellied the organization
are ;raked .0 be present at the
meeting, Any who ilutve not,
ayet been coetacted, bid etre in-
tereited in joining are also ask-
ed to attend,
EIS SPORTSMAN'S
SSOCIATION FORMED
ALONG THE. MAIN DRAG
BIr 7.'he Pedestrian I
Wily
remora
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See Higher Mill Rate as. 'Copncil.
Reports 1955 Deficit .0 $9,455
.1,44$7 WARNING-Police.iChief
• Bert Platt says he's positive there
are 8011 MO're dogs in town than
deg liceneee, and o.ne of these days
76
o's going '•to start eticeiting up
0 hia suniciona, • Anyone who
purchased a tag for
their pet would be well advised
to do So: at once, as we under-
stand •the chief is .dusting off a
pile of summons forms in readi-
ness for 'the spring campaign.
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GOING UP---Frorn talk around
the council table ofi Monday night,
it appears that Wingham taxpay-
ers are in for some bad news in
the near future, With increasing
costa next year and a $7,000 de-
(kit last ' year, ssomethiag's bound
to givd.' Via the grapevine we
hear '- that a 0 or 7-mill jump
• in the mill -'rate is in the' offing;
• Yoilsii'a '111 0 schools,, hospitals,
public schools and whatnot cost
money, -'
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NOT THE ;PLACE'--Kids with
firecrackers art going to be dis-
couraged from Setting them off'
on -the main street, according to
latest advices from the town
council, With several acres 'of
open space down on the prairie, it
would seem that there would be
the ideal place for children to
enjoy .their pyrotechnics.
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aiSPRING BREAKUP - Roads
Iiirmind town are taking a beating
these days, as the frost comes out
of the ground and surfaces heave
in . all directions. , Reports that
someone 'got lost in the boghole
on Carling Terrace, however, are
soinewliat exaggerated-or should
we say premature?
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LADIES, PLEASE! - Annual
trouble in the ladies' washroom
r at' the' toWniiltaali'•Was••-the cot
Of discussion at. Monday's council
rileeting. Seems that the ladies
have been writing( poems and
suchlike on the walls, and that
lipstick is very hard to remove.
Town fathers considered closing
the place up unless things im-
prove, hut left the matter to the
police idepartmeat to take what-
ever adtion necessary.
approximately $2,000, would reduce
the deficit to the neighborhood of
$7,000.
In checking over the expendi-
tures for the year with council, the
mayor noted that the largest ex-
penditure over, estimates was a
matter of $4,900 Paid to the County
council during the year over and
above county payments for 1954.
"nate is a matter over Which we
have no control," he told council,
Prospects for a higher Wingham
mill rate for 1950 became almost a
certainty on Monday night as
members of tile 'town .council took
a look at the -town's financial ro-
ped and found a deficit amount-
ing to $9455.98 on the books for
the year ending December 31st„
1055. Mayor R., E. McKinney told
council that rebate on street ex-
penditerea from the provincial
government, expected to amount to
4
adding that the comity 000 ,had
Marcucci nearly $00 Per e0f11: Ilinca
the year 1947, and that another
rise is expected this Year:, ,
Amongst other inereased 004
which upset the town':, estintijites
for the year, the mayor Bend an
extra $2,000 on the Wingliftlin Dia-
trict High School, an additional
$2,000 on the WIngha.nt, Pitb4c
School, and approxintatelY $4,300' in
extra expenses at the Wingliant
General Hospital. addition to
this he said that •eXtra. expenses
were incurred by the pktblle works
department in Widening the; corner
of 'Victoria Street -and Diagonal
Road and in making a donation
of $1,275 towards the formation of
a town band, Expenditures In other
departments were also hignerwtha.n
previously estimated.
Jack Alexander, charman ofithis
public works committee, told; the
council. that his department had
done approximately $3,000 worth` of
extra work during the past yaar,
but lie estimated that expendithres
this year would consequently be
lower.
Copies of the auditor's statenient
were passed around the council,
the mayor urging careful conaider-
atm of the report before the next
meeting of Council, at which it Ts,'
expected the mill rate will be set
$80,000 for 'School Addition
Financial commitments of the
town received a further beg* on
Monday night, after a delegation
from the Wingham Public School
Board called upon council. Stott
Reid, chairman of the board; ac-
companied by board members,Herb
(Please turn to page twelve.)
Other officials or the parent company, -including
Glen Berry, president, were in Wingham on
Friday to look over operations here.
Mr. Montroy last week said that company
officials are pleased with the progress being
made in Wingham, and are hoping to get pro-
duction under way within the next month or so.
Sheet steel being unloaded. in the picture will be
Used as the outer "skin" on the company's garage
doors.
First shipment of raw material for the pew
plant of the Berry Door Company in Wirigham,
arrived last week at the plant, when a Walden
Transport tractor trailer unioadectinearly twenty
tons of sheet steel from the Steel Company of
Canada's factory in Hamilton. A lift truck
borrowed from the C. Lloyd & Son factory, sets
down a bundle of sheet steel weighing five tons,
as Herb Fuller and Reed Montroy, of the
company's Birmingham, Michigan plant look on.
la,A, new organization devoted to
the cause of conservation, the
iWingbaair • Sportman's Association
formed, last week at an or-
anizational meeting held in the
Ingham Legion Home. The new
.erganization will supplant in
Wingham the Luc-Tee-Win Club,
which formerly operated in the
Same interests.
Officers elected at the meeting
were: President, Don Hildebrand;
vice-president, Ross Wormworth;
secretary-treasurer; Ab Nethery
and financial secretary, Joe .Clark,
Don Adams was named chairman
of the membership committee,
and a property committee was -set
up to find a suitable clubhouse
•for the new organization. Approxi-
Mately 30 persons were present at
the inaugural meeting.
Plans were made for an open
meeting to he held on the first
Tuesday in May, at which it is
hoped to have conservation films
presented by "Sparky" Of
'Walkerton.
It' is hoped that the club will
4iieable to find a clubhouse withs
m rialuirt °distance of
where a shooting range can he
set up, and the property committee
has been busy looking for an
empty farmhouse which might
serve the purpose. Anyone know-
ing of such a location is asked to
contact the president.
Aludmabile. rininth%bnno"rdtihn
FLOOD WATERS CAUSE geTrOefdtobWriR::n
Tuesday afternoon. He had beer
LITTLE DAMAfiE HERE requested to remove the lumber,
which he was saving to build
house, from the, premise's to make
way for material belonging 'to C
Lloyd & Son, who had rented the
building.
He returned home about 6 o'clock
complaining about cedars', ill, and
Dr. W. A. 1WeRibbon was called
at approximately 7 o'clock, At 9.30.
the doctor was again called and
(Please turn topage twelve.)
Jul CAMERON WINS
ON BARREL RAFFLE
A by-law banning the use of
fireworks within the town limits
except for a . period •of -seveni clays
preceding and seven days fellow-
lag May 24th, was 'approydel at
itiree•aiegular meatingsioreithe:stown-
coancil on Monday. The new by-
law goes into effect iintnecliately,
Passing of the legisleIlon 'follow-
ed reports that children have been
letting off firecrackers on the
main streets to the hazard •of
pedestrians, One -child has al-
ready been burned through the
use of firecrackers, and several
children throwing them into open
doorways, and under. the feet 'of
SaCLE WOIU --
11." YOU CAN GET IT!
Other plans of the club include
the formation of a junior associ-
ation and an organization in which
the ladies can participate.
passers-by have been reported.
Councillor ,Tack A.1 ex an ii e.r
brought the matter up in council
by asking members if there were
not some way of Efrain.; the sale
'fireworks to children, "I have-
rtitastieens ''Selling anY Myself/ .:he
told council, "hut the kids are
`getting them somewhere. Nobody
wants to spoil the children's fun,
but there's no reason why they
should start throwing fireworks
around this early in the season."
-Council members seemed to be
of the opinion that any legislation
directed against the selling of
fireworks would be regarded as
restraint of trade, and were not in
favor of banning fireorackers at
the point of sale. After consult-
ing with Deputy-Chief Gordon
Doyen, it was decided to pro-
hibit the use of pyrotechnics, ex-
cept within the fourteen day period.
Todrn police will he asked to
cheek up on .children with fire-
crackers and to notify parents if
their children have been• offending.
It is understood that permission
for special firework displays at
other times may be granted by the
town council if permission is asked,
I Students Find Classified Ads
Best-Read Weeklies Feature
Warm weather and melting snow
combined to raise water levels in
three branchea of the Maitland
River last Tuesday and Wednesday,
flooding the prairie south of town
and causing .anxiety for dwellings
in Lower Wingham, No damage,
however, was reported as water
lc is failed to •.reaeh previoes
Peaks, and the return of cooler
weather slowed the run-off and
enabled high water to get hack to
normal without too much flooding.
In Wingham the water level on
the northern branch remained
more or less normal for this time .
of year, with the greater percent
of the ice off both the Howson and
Lower Town dams, On Wednesday
morning lee from the Wroxeter
dam was released, but by the time
it reached Wingham it had broken
up into comparatively small pieces,
causing little damage here.
High waters on the Brussels and
Bluevale branches of the Maitland
caused some anxiety in town dur-
ing Wednesday morning and after-
noon, when the waters of the low-
er branch came to within two feet
of the level in the Lower Town.
dam. There was a certain .amount
of flooding in back yards in Lower
Wingham, but water was not high
enough Lo cause any real concern.
Fair weather did much to allay
fears that the water would go any
higher.
ENGAGEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Gerrie, of
Wingham, announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Donna
Mao, to Mr. Trevor David Moores,
son of Rev. and Mrs. Wesley J.
Moores, of Exeter.- The wedding
Will take place on Saturday, April
14 in the Wingham United Church
at 7 p.m. ° Fits
. .
The Wingham firemen's bar:tail,
which had been sitting me tine
Maitland River ice betWeeri the
CPR and McKenzie bridges 'ter
the past couple of months, wet'
out with the spring freshet"' ea
Tuesday afternoon, and tumbled
over Howson's dam at 44 seconcla
past 2.28 p.m. Jim Catneroli, ,,of
Lower Wingham, was richer by 'a
first prize of $50 for the •clasest
guess on the time the barrel Would
go over the dam, and "George
Carter received the second .prize
of $20.
Earlier in the day the barrel
floated down to within fifty°,yards
of the dam, only to get stunk i on
a projecting piece of ice, delaying
its passage over the darn by a
couple of hours. Members of the
fire department were on hand to
clock the exact time of the barrel's
descent,
Dave Crothers, deputy fire chief,
said that the firemen would hate-
enough money left from the sea.
of tickets, after paying prizes • 'a
buy two extra oxygen tanks for
the fire department's resuscitator;
purchased by the men of the fire
department last year.
Well over 400 tickets were sold
on the raffle,
Classified advertising is the inost
popular' feature of an Ontario
weekly newspaper, 30 Ryerson
Institute Practical Journalism stu-
dents recently found in a door-to-
door survey of Durham County,
They were applying lessons learn-
ed in the Gallup Poll technique,
and at the . same time finding
valuable information for the On-
tario Weekly 'Newspapers Associ-
ation.
Moaning costs of maintaining
re County Council at •Goderich
(luring the past ten years Caine
under fire of Mayor R. E. Mc-
Kinney at the town council
meeting on Monday night, as
Town Clerk W. A. 'Galbraith
read off a list of payments to
the County from 1947 to 195.5,
recording a nearly 300 per cent
increases in taxes paid by the
town to the county during that
period.
Records showed the following
taxes levied by the County on
the town of Wingham: 1947,
$8,200; 1948, $8.200; 1919, $10,800;
1950, $10,800; 1951, $15,974; 1952,
$16,939; 1953, $18,915; 1954, $19,-
256: 1955, 524,199.
Prospects for (Inc -future aren't
much better, either, the mayor
told council. Another one-mill
rise in the County rate is expect-
ed this year, which would bring
Whigham's contribution to
Comity coffers up to approxi-
mately $26,000.
MMAGE SALE
There : are two events in this
community which arc closely re-
lated. These arc spring house-
cleaning and. the hospital rum-
mage Sale. Both are in the air
right now. The -rummage sale is
being 'held in the Wingham Ar-
mourica on Saturday, May• 12 at
two &peek, and the overflow
from spring cleaning can be sent
there to' be sold: furniture, cloth-
ing, dishes, novelties-anything
you, de not need- It is said that
if you do not use a thing for five
years chandes are, yeti will never
use it, So, :why not send . these
articles to the rummage sale and
let them earn money for the hos-
pital: The rummage sale is spon-
sored by the Ladies' Auxiliary to
Win:0am General Hospital and
all contributions are gratefully
received. ° FRU
me
ion 'of
Ill see
James, Bowmanville; Gerry Crav-
en, Ridgetowh; Werden Leavens,
Bolton; and Russ Shearer, presi-'
dent of the Assbeiation; Blenheim.
Students were Doug Parkinson,
23, Hamilton; Ed 'Stephens, 27,
Newmarket; Roil 'Stott, 21,, Pe-
trolia; Maxine 'Juries, 20, •Grameby;
Mary Bamford, 20, Gananoque;
Bill Jeffery, 24, St. Catharines;
Barry :Zvviciter, 21, Resseell, Man.;'
Don Sisson, 21, Peterborough; Bill
Klem, 20, Windham. Centre; Sheila
Raining, 21, Sudbury; Ken° Laronc,
20, Seafortif; Isobel Lewis, 21,
Campbellforcl.
Toronto studeille wore: Marta
Kure, 21; Dot Mllanovich, 20, Bey
Leeds, 21; Catherine ROutiedge,
20; Al Warsen i 23; Toni Alder-
man, 21.; Vince Devitt, 27; Cecil
Reid, 31; Min:lead Jones, 21;
Miriam Lasko, 20; Al Shearer,
21; Joan Sherinan, 18; Diane
Sumnicrhayes, 20; Ted • Weather-
head, 23; lain MacLean, 20; Shia-
ley Weinper, 18; Dori Hawkes, 22,
and Bruce Harrad, 21,
will itdd
d •lustrous
per Yard
Hospital Ladies ake Plans
For Rummage Sale, Tag. Iky
PLAY IN GORRIE
The play entitled "Mr, Beane
from Lima" by • Wroxetor Com-
munity Club will be presented in
the Gerrie Community Hall under
artspices.of the Y.P.U. on Wednes-
day, April 18 at 8,15 p.m, sharp.
AdreiSsion" 50 and 25 cents. Fhb
AY AT BLUEVATX
The Wroxeter Community Club
Will present a 3-act comedy "Mr,
Beane from Lima" at 8.80 on Fri-
day, April 13, in Bluevale Cern-
munity Hall.' Sponsored by the
Turnbarry Group of 'the Ladles',
Aid of Knox Presbyterian Church,
Bluevale, Admission, adults, 50ef
hlldren 250, pre school children
free, F11.*
TEA AND BAKE SALE,
There Will be a tea and hake
sale in the council chainbors on
Sattircliy, April 14th, at 3 pan.
inder the amapiebe of the Catholic
amnia League. IilVeryone wel-
P28,4,11b
Legion Auxiliary
To Share Cost'
At a special Mooting of the
Ladies' Auxiliary td the Legion
Branch 180, held at the Legion
Home on Thursday night, it was
decided to share half the cost
With the hmal branch of the• pato
chaao of eight More tables and,
four extensions, to be added to the
furnishings of the Legion Heine.
"rhe teblea and e'xten'sions will be
used for baliqtleta and other pur-
poses,
NOTICE
ISobers Beauty Shop will be
closed Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, April 18, 17 and 18 for re-
decorating,
•
new AO
:41d to to
95 pair
akng
wi,Seleetido
11!
to $9.95
fp your
ft R0(111
The final marathon bridge party
war; planned for Friday evening,
April 27, when prizes for the sea-
son's play will he presented,
Tells of Florida VisP•
Mrs. McKinney told briefly of her
visit to the hospital in Daytona
Toioncla, wnen she was in that city
recently. Of special interest was
her deaerintion of the aegregatien
of patients, particularly in the
nursprice. All surroandings for the
colored babies are pink, rooms,
baseinets, nighties, etc„ While
everything for white babies are In
blue. As this is an old hospital, It
dove not have the newness in
ecialpment and cheerfulness of stip-
rouncliegs that are fotind in our
Winghain Hospital.
Plans were made for the spring
rummage sale which Will he held
in the Wingham Arinourlea On Sal:,
urday, May 12, 'It was also decided
to sell tags as usual, in the
rounding towns on SeletdeY May 11
add VOloghttrii, the saint day
the rummage sale, May' 12,
The president, Mrs. R. E. Me-
Kinney, presided at the April
meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary .
to Wingham General Hospital
which wag triad in the council
chamber. Reports showed that cut-
ting and sewing committees had
all been busy; 229 articles had been
cut ready for sewing and 812 arti-
cles were Made up, These incladed
56 sheets, $7 pilaw covers, 39 mat-
tress pads, nursery aupplias and
Other necessities. Drapes were hung
On the windows of the third floor
which has bc en redecorated, ready
for occupation. It was decided to
Provide new 'sheets and make new
wrudow drapes for the nurses' resi-
dence, Authority was given for the
purchase of 10,000 tags for tag' day.
The report from the tuck shop
showed that, up to 'date, supplies
have 'been sold which have brought
in $81,74 in cash, As time goes on,
this .new venture is proving more
of a service to patients and tantf
and More profitable to the auxi-
liary,
Edward U. Schrader, director of
the Practical Journalism and
Printing Management courses at
Ryerson Institute of Technology,
Toronto, will give a detailed report
to the Ontario weekly editors at
their conference in Windsor' May
18 and 10,
Dr, George James, editor of the
Bowmanville Canadian Statesman,
the newspaper studied, explained
that the appeal of the classifieds
was human interest, If someone
lists a baby carriage for sale, he
said, friends know they have
stopped increasing their faintly; or
if • Mrs. Jones lists her - dining
room suite' fon sale, friends specu-
late on the nature of new furni-
ture, ••
Bill Klein, 20, of Windham
Centre Ont., found himself inter-
.viewing the editor's wife, Sheila
21, of Sudbury, asked an
interviewee: "Is this the first 'time
you have aeon this article?" and
was told, "Oh no, I wrote it,"
Is Larone, 20, of. Seeforth, ran
into his cousin while walking
down a street in janetville, It;
was 'the first time he had seen
her since May, Isobel Lewis 20,
of CaMpbeliferd, introduced hers
Self as being front Ryerson, and
the werettri at the door said: "No
tharika, I don't want to buy nyee-
son."
Weekly editors Who joined the
day's peaetieid lesson were Bill
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