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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-12-20, Page 3Uiiiitif- c THE MAIN DRAG be The J, edestrian Belgrave Arena Roof Damaged by know ;5D UP?— does your home look it you have all the out- corations in place? If en't all finished, better love on. Decorations judged on Sunday to ine the winners of the rizes offered by the Le- ast, $25.00, second, and third, $10.00. 0--0--0 F PUFFING— sed muscles have been the strain during the ek as householders to keep ahead of the ng snow. Walks and ays were bad enough, supreme test came when ad to be relieved of urden. The mild wea- Holiday Will Delay Paper Your Advance -Times will appear later in the week than usual next issue, Christmas falling on Tuesday and Boxing Day on Wednesday, it will be impossible to publish on Thurs- day morning. We hope to have the paper in the mail on Friday morning. Correspondents are asked to mail in all the news that is available to reach us by the week -end or Monday. How- ever, holiday news items will be accepted if it arrives by early Thursday. BELQRAVE4'The Community Centre was on Friday in danger of collapse when 19 wooden girders cracked under the weight of snow and dropped about five feet for a distance of 50 feet of the roof on the north side of the arena, The south side was also heavily damaged and a gang of men worked for seven hours clearing the snow. The centre was built in 1949 by volunteer labour. Only last week the arena board had hired Mr. Thomas of Brussels to fix the roof. Work will commence on Monday to remove the steel off the structure and it is ex- pected that it will be rebuilt in the spring. this week has provided elief. 0--0--0 R PARKING— n council has replaced Rads on the main street g meters allowing for two arking. Price for the ' our stretch will be 10¢. s can still deposit 1¢ for utes or 5¢ for an hour, change will permit a um of two hours rather ine hour as was the case the meters were first in - The longer parking will be appreciated by rs, particularly those he country who have sev- rrands on each visit. 0--0--0 TRY-- mbers of the Lions Club try three evenings to work in their annual sale. Slated for Tues - f last week, it snowed so hat the Lions announced ponement to Friday eve - By that time the streets so snow -filled that a fur- ostponement was made. ale did take place on ay evening of this week. 0--0--0 United Church Women Show Successful Year's Reports The annual meeting and elec- tion of officers of the United Church Women of the Wingham United Church was held in the Sunday School room last Wed- nesday evening. A Christmas worship service was conducted by Mrs. Jack Gorrie assisted by Mrs. R. Zur- brigg, Mrs. D. McTaggart, Mrs. A. Rintoul and Mrs. D. H. Pollock. Pianist was Mrs. K. McLaughlin. Mrs. Carl Bondi sang, "Night of Nights" , accompanied by Mrs. W. W. Currie. The president, Mrs. K. M. MacLennan, presided for the business session when annual reports were given, all showing that the past year had been a successful one. The treasurer, Mrs. L. Hingston reported re- ceipts of $3, 681.65. Mrs. N. McLaughlin, con- vener of supplies, told of ex- cellent work done in Overseas and Home Mission work; 35 cartons weighing approximate- ly 900 pounds had been sent away. Included were 35 quilts, layettes, new and used cloth- ing and toys. Mrs. Ken Wood presented a slate of officers. Rev. Cecil M. Jardine conducted the elec- tion as follows: President, Mrs. K. M. Mac- Lennan; 1st vice president, Mrs. G. W. Tiffin; 2nd vice president, Mrs. Jack Reavie; recording secretary, Mrs. Thomas Jardin; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Frank Madill; treasurer, Mrs. Lloyd Hingston; MBUS CALLING— e local firemen will be when telephone users be - familiar with the new g system and the changed ers. Calls which proved wrong numbers have been - frequent in the daytime here have been several in ee small hours as well.... ne day last week a call eceived by the fire de- ent from Columbus, Ohio, he operator had the inter- information that she was ready with their call to Mates. 0--0--0 ARY CLOSING— vote of main street mer- ts was taken during the by the Business Associ- on open nights during first three months of the All but three voted to closed on Friday nights his period. It is under - that one or two merchants not go along and stay open tdless of the majority lon. an wood, Mrs. F. Hopper, Mrs. J. Hamilton and Mrs. G. Gib- son; membership, Mrs. K. Mc Laughlin. Nominations, Mrs. Don. Rosenhagen, Miss Phyllis Johns, Mrs. G. Richardson; press and publicity, Mrs. Norman Keat- ing; programme, Mrs. H. Burrell, Miss Elva Hupfer, Mrs. W. J. Greer; social functions, Mrs. Roy Bennett; stewardship and recruiting, Mrs. DeWitt Miller; supply, Mrs. Jack Tif- fin, Mrs. N. McLaughlin; periodicals, Miss Irene Paton. Leaders: Unit 1, Mrs. Ver- non Reid; unit 3, Mrs. Jack Gorrie; unit 4, Mrs. Jack Reavie; units 2, 5,6 and 7, not completed. Personals Visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Alexander on Sunday were, and Mrs. Fred Cox and and Mrs. L. Abbott of Lon - Mr. and Mrs. Charles k, Ken and Doug of Ham- , Mr. and Mrs. Bill Car- hael of Port Elgin, Mr. and J. L. Alexander and John itchener. -Mrs. Dora Houle and Mr. ald Houle of Toronto visited h Mr. and Mrs. James Seli the week -end. -Miss Barbara Pickford of ageville spent the week - with Mr. and Mrs. H. Ger- Conveners: Christian citi- zenship, Mrs. Don. McTag- gart; community friendship and visiting, Mrs. Ed. McBurney; co-operation and Christian mission education, Mrs. Rus- sell Zurbrigg; finance, Mrs. C. Hodgins; flower, Mrs. Hans Schipper, Mrs. F. Hopper, Mrs. G. Howson, Mrs. J. Hamilton and Mrs. K. Wood; literature, Mrs. W. B. Cruik- Bruce Irwin, who is with RCMP at Radville, Sask., ending his holidays with patents. Mr. and Mrs. Char- Irwin. harIrwin. Major George E. Walker, Walker and two sons of awa are visiting with his znts, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. lker and with his brother, Elmer Walker and Mrs. ker, shank; manse, Mrs. N. Under - Lodge Party Held After Meeting WINNERS OF THELEE TROPHY in a bonspiel held at the local curling rink on Wednesday of last week are pictured above. The Brussels rink was skipped by Jack Bowman, centre, re- ceiving the trophy from Harvey Fisher, bonspiel chairman. Others from the left are Sam Sweeney, second; Harold Thomas, vice and right is Jim Bowman, lead. A - T photo bbancioZimt Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Dec, 20, 1962 Council Discusses Plowing Townha Walks The last meeting of the year for the 1962 Wingham town council was held on Monday evening, with all members present. A rather short meet- ing and a small agenda gave the members time to consider at some length the problems at hand. Clerk Wm. Renwick read letter from the consulting en- gineer, Burns Ross, which sta- ted that a suggestion to have storm sewers placed in the same -trench as sanitary sewers on Summit Drive, was not feas- ible. After hearing the engin- eering details, council decided to drop the matter until early next year. A letter from T. E. Mosz- kowski requesting information was read, along with a reply which Clerk Renwick had made to the inquiry. Mr. Moszkow- ski had inquired if those proper- ties roperties not receiving benefit from the sewage program would be charged. The reply pointed out that capital construction costs would be on the overall assessment. The portion which will be added to present water rates will not be charged to those not connected, as this amount represented operation of the plant. Mayor Hetherington also told council that if the ratepayers in the area north of the Mc- Kenzie bridge wanted sewers, The Rebekah Lodge held its regular meeting on Monday eve- ning in the Oddfellow's Hall. Following the meeting the members entertained their hus- bands and friends, and the members of the Oddfellow's Lodge with their wives and friends. Mrs. Tom Cruickshank and her committee were in charge of the entertainment and dur- ing the evening euchre was played. Mrs. Jean Crump re- ceived the high prize for the ladies, and the high prize for the men went to Wilford Cas- lick. Special prizes were awarded to Mrs. William Bain, Mrs. James Smith, Ernie Merk- ley, William Austin. Mrs. Harold Remington and her committee were in charge of the lunch. —Mrs. Neil M. McLean of Toronto and Roderick McLean of Waterloo College spent the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Walker and family. council would be prepared to put them in, if a petition bear- ing two-thirds of names involv- ed was received by council. Council concurred with a suggestion of Councillor Na - smith that the police extend traffic control at the corner of John and Josephine Streets at a noon hour for a further 10 or 15 minutes to cover the time when the factories close, and to provide the same service at 5.00 p.m. Councillor Buchanan stated that he had investigated plow- ing the south sidewalk on Pat- rick Street, as suggested at the last meeting, but had learned too many obstructions exist for proper snow plowing. Equipment , he said, could not get through. This report started a long discussion on sidewalk plowing in general. People on Diagon- al Road, Councillor Cruick- shank said, are very anxious for plowing as the road is now a dangerous place to walk on. All councillors had sympathy for the people of the area, but were nearly baffled by the prob- lem due to the narrow walks Jack Bowman's Rink Captures Lee Trophy There was a big entry for a bonspiel at the Wingham Cur- ling Club on Wednesday when Jack Bowman and his rink from Brussels won the Lee Trophy. Members of the rink were Har- old Thomas, vice, Sam Swee- ney, second and Jim Bowman, lead. They won the eleven o'clock draw and bested the winners of the nine o'clock draw on points. Bill Lee and his Wingham rink were tops in the earlier draw. Members of this rink were Doug Spry, vice, Donnie Lee, second and Philip Adams, lead. A rink skipped by Len Schmidt of Walkerton was in second place in the nine o'clock event; third was Jim Adams and his Wroxeter rink, while the consolation award went to Norm Rintoul and his rink of Wingham. Second place in the eleven o'clock draw went to Clark Renwick's Belmore rink; third, Murray Rae and rink from Wingham and consolation, Howard Kennedy's Tara rink. DAMAGE WAS HEAVY at the Belgrave Community Centre building last' Friday when the weight of accumulated snow cracked and broke the supporting girders under the roof. In this picture three of the Belgrave men are seen on the roof 4,1 clearing off snow. The roof line dropped from three to five feet fora distance of about 50 feet along the top of the build- ing. A major reconstruction program will be required. (photo by Cantelon) Walter Pickford Ordained Deacon situation exists just north of the McKenzie bridge, where plow- ing should be done, but steep banks present a hazard to equip- ment. However the council felt that some action should be ta- ken, to find out if this service could be provided in these hazardous areas, and instructed Councillor Cruickshank to in- vestigate equipment that might do the job. Deputy Reeve Jos. Kerr told council that if more sidewalk plowing is to be done the first thing should be to bring the walks up to such a standard, that they can be plowed. He admitted this would not help this winter, but recommended that the problem be given con- sideration next summer. Councillor Callan reported that parking meters had been changed so that a full two - hours of parking can be paid for at one time, rather than the single hour as previously set up. It was pointed out that the by- law is for a maximum of two hours at any one time. Reeve Adair reported that the new arena front is corning along quite well. The lower floor was poured on Monday, he said, and the second floor would be poured on Wednesday. The rink will be open for children's skating on Saturday morning, but they will have to use the arena itself for changing skates as accomodations will not be ready in the new front. Walter E. Pickford of Alvin- ston and formerly a resident of Wingham, will to -morrow (Friday) be ordained as deacon at the chapel of St. John the Evangelist, Huron College, London. Mr. Pickford, a married man and father of four child- ren, was formerly a commer- cial traveller. He has had a three point parish at Alvinston since leaving here. On the same day George A. Anderson, at present in charge of Gorrie-Fordwich-Wroxeter Anglican Churches and a for- mer resident of Thedford will be ordained as deacon at St. Councillor Cruickshank sta- ted that the Recreation Com- mission had gone on record at its annual meeting regarding the need for a full-time direc- tor. He said the subject will be placed on the January agenda. Before closing council pass- ed the year-end accounts, minutes of the previous meet- ing and proclaimed Boxing Day, a public holiday. John's Church, Preston. At the ordination service in Preston, John R. King, stu- dent in charge of the four -point parish at Lucknow will also be made a deacon. Mr. King is from Preston. —Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Levy of Mitchell visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. B, Wen- ger. 49th Anniversary A family dinner was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perrott on Sunday, in honor of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dustow of Carrick Township, who were celebrat- ing their 49th wedding anniver- sary. Present were other members of the family: Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Grant and Jimmy of Culross, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Yack and family of Kitchener, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Robb and family of Amberley and Mr. Oliver Dustow of Carrick.