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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-08-23, Page 4Page 4—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 23, 1978 The Lucknow. Sentinel a LbcKNOW, QNTAmo • "The Sepoy Town" On the Huron -Bruce Boundary Established 1.873 - Published Wednesday Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. Robert G. Shrier - president and publisher Sharon J. Dietz - editor Anthony N. Johnstone - advertising and general manager Subscription rate, S10 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $8.00 per year in advance U.S.A. and Foreign, $14 per year in advance Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, LucknowNOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number - 0847 Road safety Canadians are killed in automobile accid- ents at the rate of more than ten a day and it has been estimated that between five and ten per cent of the beds in our general hospitals are occupied by traffic -accident victims. Our highways are awfully bloody. Faulty design and mechanical failure have contributed significantly to the blood -sacri- fice exacted from us for the privilege of having automobiles. Manufacturers, prodded by public opinion and governmental action . and' probably by their own consciences,. are showing increasing responsibility in the design and making 'of automobiles. Most garagemen seem to be men of basic honesty and competence, but there is ample evidence that some of them do careless work on our. cars and trucks. But if every nianufactUrer and `garageman agreed not to put a veh:iple on the road until it had received Ralph Nader's personal stamp of approval, wewould still haveserious road safety problems. When we have said all that there is to , be said aboutthe makers and maintainers of automobiles, we still have to come to terms with responsibilities of drivers, your responsibilities and mine. .a Road safety is notmerely an engineering and legal concern: it is also a significant issue in personal morality, a matter of personal integrity.. A British organization, "Christian Action", used to publish advertisements in which this declaration was made: "Careless- ness on the roads. is sometimes a crime -- it is always a sin." ti. Threatening skies by Dave Sykes LOOKING BACKWARDS THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES 25 YEARS AGO •The repairing of s village sidewalks with a black bitum- inous mix has had some repercussions and provided a contentious problem. The mix was placed over the cement in front of 'Hall's Grocery Friday evening and on Saturday morning the coating was speedily remov- ed by the proprietors and piled up in a couple of heaps at the curb. And there the new mix remained. Mr. Hall attended the council meeting and pointed out that the road material was -X. -menace and an eye sore ill front of his place of business and in view of the taxes he paid was entitled to something better. The Bruce County Health Unit opened a new office in the Johnstone Block, relcent- ly vacated by A. G. Hartford. The Lucknow and District Health Nurse, Miss Joan Cormack, will be stationed here and take up residence in. the Anderson Apartments. The . Lucknow juvenile" odr baseball team lost the first game of the best -of -five semi-final series 10-7 to Colborne in .Caledonia Park.. Lucknow • had defeated Underwood in two straight games to reach the semi-fin- al. Lucknow evened the ser- ies a few days later as they dumped Colborne 84 behind. the steady- pitching of Kent • Hedley. The local team was much sharper in the field and at the plate than in the first game of the ' series. Also in sports, Joyce Duncan of Lucknow, who pitches for the Atwood team, led the At- wood girls to a win over Mitchell. 50 YEARS AGO Everything conspired to make Lucknow's 1928 bowl- ing tournament a complete success the day was bright and warm, the evening was - perfect, the green was in prime condition and there were plenty of entries. A Seaforth rink with Mr. George Haugh as skip won the Joynt Trophy 'and with it went the first prize - four extra quality rattan chairs. The runnersup and winners .of the second prize was a Goderich quartette with Mr. Fred .Hunt as skip. In the Association first was won by a Henssll rink and second place was won by the Lucknow rink with Mr. T. Watson, skip. A real beginning has been made in clearing the rubbish out of Treleavens mill pond. Messers McLean and How- ston, from the Bruce County Roads Department, with a County outfit put in a fey, days last week at hauling out stumps and timber on the east side and were making substantial progress until their men were ,obliged to leave and go harvesting. One of the grand old men of the St. Helens district, Mr. John B. Rutherford, passed away on August 2. He was in his 85th year, having been born in Halton County on October 23, 1843. When he was eight years .of age his parents and grandparents also moved .from Halton to West. Wawanosh and settled on the farm near St. Helens where Mr. Rutherford spent the remainder of his long life. He was one of the few and first to attend the first school built in St. Helens and • also took an active part in community and church af- fairs. 75 YEARS AGO The Lucknow Auxiliary of the W.F.M.S. intend to hold the annual Thanksgiving meeting in the basement of the Presbyterian Church here on Wednesday, Sept- ember 2. Miss McIntosh, a native of Lucknow, who intends to leave for, China about the middle of Septem- ber, as one of the missionar- ies of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society will ad- dress the meeting. The beautiful lawns at Mr, John Joynt's residence on Ross Street were nicely illuminated on Thursday night on the occasion of the garden party under the auspices of the ladies of the Methodist Church'. The chair was occupied by the Rev. M. Millyard and a splendid progitam of .vocal and instru- mental music was given. A terrible accident occured at Clinton Friday last, when Mr. Thomas Webster, son of Mr. Thomas Webster of Ash- field lost . 'his life. As the G.T.R. pay train was return- ing from Goderich about noon, Mr. Webster, who was accompanied by his little three year ' old boy, was driving across the track on the 14th concession when the horse and buggy were struck by the engine. Both Mr. Webster and they horse were killed but the small boy escaped the accident without injury. Mr. Webster was 32 years of age and leaves a widow and three small child- ren., The funeral was largely attended by friends and relatives from Lucknow and vicinity.