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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-07-08, Page 1Mailing Label • r 1 Shigle Copy 3Se f now pulling team ilds tractors Lucknow tractor pullers, Art Helm and Glenn Porter, have rebuilt their two tractors since last year's pulling season, in an effort to stay competitive in a sport which becomes increasingly competitive each season. The • V-12 Packard, which Art has been driving in pulls for the past two seasons, has been rebuilt with an Allison aircraft engine. Also a V-12, the engine is the type used in P-38 fighter planes during World War -2. Art decided to replace the Packard engine because it never ran as well as he hoped. While the Packard was never named and ran its first season without paint, Art is so impressed with his new tractor he has already named her and painted on the lettering for this week's Lucknow Tractor Pull. Named "Second Choice" because the engine is the second- choice for the tractor, Art will be sharing the driving duties with his wife, Barb who became the second Child dies in farm accident A six-year-old Ashfield boy died in a farm acddent Saturday evening. Jason Culbert was helping his parents • move hay into the mow when he became • caught in the chain of the elevator and was pulled under the machine. He was taken by ambulance to Alexandra Marine and Genet. - al Hospital, Goderich where he was pron- ounced dead on arrival. Jason is survived by his parents, Jim and Sharon Culbert, two sisters, Jackie and Jody, a brother, Jeff, his paternal grand- mother, Mrs. Olive Culbert, and his mater- nal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ellig of Guelph. • The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. from the MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Home in Lucknow with burial in Dungannon Cemetery. Car accident ldlls woman A Brantford woman was killed and four others injured in a head-on collision west of Lucknow Wednesday evening, July 1. Barbara Dube, 52, was a passenger in a car driven by Kathrine Lalonde, 29, also of Brantford. The Lalonde car was in collision with a car driven by Edith Fraser, 34, of Kincardine. Two passengers in the Fraser car, Rick Fraser, 15, son of the driver, and John Creech, 66, received injuries and a third passenger, John Milner, 58, was not injured. All are from Kincardine. Ms. Dube was pronounced dead on arrival at Wingham and District Hospital. Ms. Lalonde was taken to W,inighatii Hospital and later transferred to University Hospital lfl' London, Mrs. Fraser and her son were skin taken to VVingham Hospital. Mr. Creech was takezt to Kincardine and District General Hospital and later transferred to St: Joseph's Hospital, London. The accident occurred about 6.55 p.m. approximately eight kilometres west of Lucknow on highway 86. The Lucknow District Fire Department answered a call to the scene . to help remove the injured from the cars. Kincardine detachment of the. Ontario Provincial Police are continuing their investigation. ° woman in Canada to compete in tractor pulling ,last season. The tractor has been rebuilt stem to stern with a 10 -speed truck transmission replacing the two speed transmission in .the Packard. The 1,710 cubic inch Allsion engine is lighter than the 2,495 cubic inch Packard and therefore it's easier to, balance the weights for the 7,000 pound class. • While Art was disappointed with the Packard's record in the 7,000 class because it never placed, Second Choice has already taken a first in the class at Strathroy and ran, in the Metcalfe pull last weekend. 0.-• Art has competed in three pulls with Second Choice; Strathroy where he took a second in the 9,000 class, Martin, Michigan •where she came third in the 9,000 class, (the 7,000 class was rained out at this pull), and the 9,000 class at Metcalfe where she placed • 3rd. Won't Recognize Indy Fans won't recognize the old favourite, Tie Noisy Lady, when she roars onto the track this weekend. The pulling team of Porter and Helm decided to rebuild the Lady giving her more power by adding( a second turbo charged Chevy engine. The rear end was giving problems last season so they also decided to make other additonal changes. • The rebuilding of The Noisy Lady is not completed, but Helm and Porter hope to have her ready to compete at this year's Imam,/ pilll with a Concentrated effort to prepare, the tractor this week. \ This year's pull will see the well known Spook team of Powers and Douglas from Inwood -back to compete as well as Canada's first lady tractor puller, Mary Verheyen from Kenwood. This year's pull will also include a class for open 10 wheel semi -trucks. While the class is not sanctioned by the Great Lakes Tractor Pullers Association, the driverswill receive a small share of the purse. According to Art, _ tractor pulling is enjoying a surge ,of interest from pullers. There are at least four new pullers in western Ontario and several new tractors in Michigan. The number of competitors is up with as many as 20 tractors in the 7,000 modified and 15 tractors in the 9,000 modified classes at Strathroy. There were as many as six or seven tractors in both big super stock classes as well. The Lucknow pull is creating a good Turn to page 2* vvEpNEsmit' JULY 8, 1981 20 PAGES . •-• T4 • ••,. ••• • •t,,,,w•••t 74,90A.' 40, •••,,4•44,:•,....,,x4;t6.• • • **.: • ,?6 Hot humid weather for the Peat week has made the Locket* Swinindng Pool a popular spot. Youngsters and oldsters alike have enjoyed a cool refreshing dip to escape some of the heat. This young lad braces himself for the plunge as he does a cannonball off the diving board into the deep end. Record.highs were recorded In Saskatchewan on Meads), tvith temperatures in the low 40s tablas. Theleireeast oft for moire hot humid Weather hi our area right &Ames - the week, with temperatures resitting Into the 30s. • (Sentinel Staff Photo]. ornmission plays for Blyth. Festival • By Joanne Buchanan In keeping with the theme upon which the Illyth4Summer Festival was founded, five • original Canadian plays are being presented again this season. • The first two plays were specially corn- missioned for the •Festival by artistic director, Janet Amos and they, were both written by female playwrights. Quiet in the Land premieres at the Festival on July 3. It is a gentle comedy • drama set in an Amish community at the time of World War 1. War threatens the country and therefore threatens to destroy the separateness and pacifism of the Amish PeoPle. • Anne Chislett, wife of the Festival's • founding artistic director, James Roy, started researching the Amish community around St. Helens, Dungannon, Aylmer and • Elmira over a year ago. She Immersed herielf in literature and novels about the• Amish, talked to some experts and then talked to some of the Amish people • themselves. Much of her research was done at Conrad Grebe] College in Waterloo, a Mennonite college. After the research was complete, she says she tried to put it all out of her mind and write a play. The result was Quiet in the Land. f' •Plays at the Blyth Festival are usually about people who have contributed to this area. The Scots and Irish have already been the subjects of several plays and there has also been a play about post war innigratien, The Amish, who also play a role in the community, just seemed to be another logical group to write about then, 'feels Chislett. • While researching the Andsh, Chislett says she found them to be a wonderful people with a warm sense of humour. Any reputation they might have as a sour people, she feels, stems from their shyness . and resentment of curious tourists. They told her that while they would probably not view her play, they would not try to stop her from writing it, • Several of the actors appearing in Quiet in the Land, went out on their own and niet • some Amish people so they would have a better idea of what they are all about. The play features a large cast but mainly centres around Christie Bauman played by David Fox and his son Jake played by Keith Thom- as. Kate Trotter and Janet Amos play the female leads. Janet's mother, Beth Amos, also a professional acres.s, appears in the play as do Sam Robinson, William Dunlop, Dean Hawes, Denise. Kennedy, Graham McPherson and four local children. Chislett hopes her play will portray that -sense of community so relevant to the Amish. It is not her first attempt at play writing. In 1917 she adapted A Summer's Burning for the Festival from a book written by St. Augustine native Harty Boyle and she has written the Festival's third play for this season, The Tomorrow Box, s light cornedy. This play has been produced at the Kawartha Summer Theatre and Centaur Theatre in Montreal, • • Although she has directed two or three times professionally and has also done some 1 • Urn to liaise 2* .