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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-09-06, Page 4Page 4--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 6, 1978 • The Lucknow Sentinel LUCKNOW, ONTARIO "The Sepoy Town" On the Huron•Bruce Boundary Established 1873 - Published Wednesday { Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. Robert G. Shrier - president and publisher Sharon J. Dietz - editor Antony N. Johnstone - advertising and general manager STibscription rate, $10 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, Lucknow NOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number - 0847 Summer's end It's been a good summer: The weather was never too hot and muggy for long enough, to call it. a heat wave. The days were mostly sunny and the rain came in time to prevent any severe crop damage. Some will remember it as the summer a virus brought down the children of the village for weeks. Vacation trips were cut short and mothers spent close to a month nursing children as one child in the family contacted it from another. It was a busy summer. Summerfest kicked off the fun 'and it continued with the craft festival, a tractor pull and the opening of the new community centre. And it's not over yet, as the round of fall fairs begins. The lazy, crazy days of summer were great but along with the nostalgia of a summer's end is the longing for a return to routine. The kids have gone back to school and a sense of order will be restored. It's been a summer to remember. To the editor: For some considerable time' the Grand Orange Lodge of Canada, whose membership belongs to most of the major Protestant Church Demonimations, has been watching the various activities of the World Coun- cil of Churches (W.C.C.), and we view with alarm and concern its financial support of various illegal activities of guerrilla and other terrorist organizations throughout the world. The most recent contribu- tion of $85,000.00 to a terrorist organization known as the "Patriotic Front" in Rhodesia is appalling, to say the least and, in our opinion, does very little to enhance the cause of Christianity. We note a program was launched in 1969 to combat Racism, which received an initial $150,000.00 from the W.C.C., plus a special re- serve fund ' of $200,000.00, and an • addition $300,- 000.00 from an appeal to member churches. In 1970 the W.C.C. began giving grants to groups that com- batted racism; some $135,- 000.00 went to African "lib- eration"— (terrorist) move- ments. It supported Frelimo in Mozambique, the Marxist MPLA in Angola (which the Cubans pushed to power), and it has helped finance ZAPU and ZANU guerrilla movements in Rhodesia (ZANU committed the most recent atrocities against mis- sionaries). Christians the world over will feel a very real concern that portions of their church contributions have been used to promote and sustain such terrorist activities. On behalf of the 100,000 Members of the Loyal Or- ange Association in Canada, we wish to officially register our protest and displeasure with the World Council of Churches, and urge that it give very serious considera- tion to abandoning any future political activity in the area of promoting guerrilla warfare at the expense of human lives. We feel there are ample problems facing the Christian Church today for the W.C.C. to solve, without the necessity of participating in international political arenas. Yours very truly, Norman R. Ritchie, Grand Secretary, Grand Orange Lodge of Canada. They're back LOOKING BACKWARDS THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES 75 YEARS AGO The Bruce County Hospital will be open to the public on September 23 and 24 when the Lady Superintendent will be pleased to conduct all visitors through the building. It is requested that donations to the hospital during these days ' consist of a pound or pounds of supplies (provi- sions or groceries) from a pound of salt to a barrel of flour. Other hospitals have opened in this way and provisions enough supplied to maintain them for a year. Bruce County will surely see her hospital well supplied. James Gaunt, lot 30, con- cession 2, Kinloss, has for sale a quantity of . seed wheat, including the Claw- son, Longberry, and Pedi- gree Genesee Giant, at 85 cents per bushel. Contracts have already been made for shipment to Great Britain this year of over two million bushels of Canadian ' apples. Experts say that Canadian Ribston Pippins and Baldwins are equal to the English fruits of the same names. 50 YEARS AGO Residents of the towns, villages and rural districts • along the -Huron Road - now No. 8 Paved. Highway - chose September 3 for the celebra- tion of the first opening of the road from Shakespeare to Goderich,,one hundred years ago this summer., It also marked the formal opening of the completed paved road between Clinton and Sea - forth - a link which enables the traveller to go by hard -surfaced highway all the way, from Goderich through Toronto to Montreal and we don't know how far into the United States. Many peope from a wide territoy on either side of the great highway gathered,into the towns or at the poits where memorial cairns were erect- ed, and a procession traver- sed the road from Fryfogle's Corner near Shakespeare to Goderich on the shore of Lake Huron. A drowning accident dis- tressing in its sadness occur - ed in Wingham on Saturday evening. George Bertram Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Elliott of Pleasant . Valley, Wingham, 'and a chum were on the C.P.R. bridge and the two were amusing themselves by throwing stones into the water: George put extra vigor into throwing the last stone which he Thad and in making the effort he lost his balance and fell into the water. There was a drop of about 15 feet to the water which was six feet deep at the. place. When the chum saw that George did not come up, he ran for help. Edward Blue and the chum returnedto the scene and Blue succeeded in taking the nine-year-old boy from the water, but he had been under about 20 minutes so that all efforts at recussitation were without result. Harry Lem who has sold the Star Cafe here the past few years has sold his business to Charlie Chin from Canton. - Harry has moved to Toronto. Charlie and his wife have , six sons. The three older boys recently returned to China with their grandfather who will: look after their education. 25 YEARS AGO . Municipal authorities char,9ed wilful damage in a court action pending be- tweeh the Corporation and John Hall and Son, over the removal of black top patching material from the concrete walk in front of Mall's Grocery. Before the matter went to court, settlement was • made through. Hall's solicit- or, P. S. MacKenzie, where- by the municipality was recompensed in the amount of $20.00. Town employees removed the pile of bitumin- A new era in secondary education in this community was ushered in on Tuesday when the doors of the new Lucknow District High School were thrown open for the first time to a student body that exceeds in number any previous enrolment. The opening day enrolment was some 30 or more above last year's figure. The auspicious occasion was marked by an informal opening ceremony held in the spacious and attractive auditorium on Tue- sday morning. For the second time in four months, Donald McLellan of the Elginfield district had his barn flattened by cyclonic winds. In June his first barn went down and had just been replaced by a new aluminum sheeted structure. Last Fri- day's storm which broke the heat wave, destroyed the . new barn, flattening it to the cement walls. Two boys in the stable escaped injury by remaining inside while the barn crashed overhead. A barn dance was scheduled for that evening and four local pipers were to open the festivities with bagpipe sel- ections. They reached the McLellan farm to find the barn flat and the neighbour- hood dumbfounded by the second catastrophe.