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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-02-27, Page 1Farmer Injured When Struck by Hit and Run Henry Mast, R. R, 1, Wrox- eter, received a 10►stitch gash over the eye as the result of a hit and run accident last Thurs- day evening, Mr. Mast, his wife, Marion, and their five-year-old son, Benny, were travelling west on the 15th Concession of Howick Township in their buggy, and were nearing the gate of their farm lane when the buggy was :;truce by a car travelling east, without headlights. The impact threw the occu- pants of the buggy to the road. Ilowever, other than a shaking up, Mrs. Mast and the little boy were uninjured. Mr. Mast was treated for his injuries at the office. of Dr, R. J. Creighton of Ce.ifford. • The buggy was struck on the left front corner and ended up with a broken box, shafts and wheel. The horse was not hurt and went on glome by itself. Constable Ronald Bali of the Winy;harn 0.P.1'. investigated. It is understood that driver of the car has been apprehend- ed and charged with failing to remain at the scene of an acci- dent. . Student Teachers Here This Week Student teachers from the Stratford Teachers' College this week are Bruce Dahms from Mildmay and Miss Elizabeth • Stewart of Seaforth teaching for Mrs. Thornton in Grades 5 and 6; Miss Elaine Alexander of Londesboro and Miss Margie Kootmans of Auburn in Grade 1 for Mrs. Wheeler; Miss Ma- , bel Brown of Tara and Miss Margaret MacGregor of Sea - forth in Grade 8 with Mrs. Walsh. ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian SPEAKING FINALS -- The finals for the Legion public speaking contest for the region will be run off at the local high school auditorium this coming Saturday afternoon, starting at 2.00 p. m. Winners of Legion branch contests from Kincardine, Goderich, Luck- . now, Clinton, Seaforth, Blyth and Wingham will be on deck to compete for the prizes. 0--0--0 CUBS AT KITCHENER-- Five carloads with 20 Cubs from Pack A, Wingham, were • taken to the Kitchener audi- torium on Sunday afternoon to see a Kitchener -Hamilton hoc- key fixture. The trip was made possible by private dona- tion, and was in the way of a reward for the excellent ef- forts the boys have put into • their Cub work this year. 0--0--0 WEATHER REPORT -- For our Florida subscribers: weather during the past week, • not bad. One small snow storm over the week -end, temper- atures about normal, in the 20's during the daytime. Wednes- day bright and sunny. 0--0--0 SPORTS SPECIAL -- Mike McPhail, who left for California some time ago, doesn't get reports on the Na- tional League hockey standings. For his benefit Montreal and Chicago are tied with 73 points, Toronto is in third spot with 62, Detroit 58, New York 46, Bos- ton 38, as of Wednesday morn- ing. 0--0--0 x BR- R -R -R -- If you happened to be driv- ing past the Rowson Dam on • Sunday afternoon and thought you saw someone in swimming, you were right, itwasn't a case of too much red-eye the night be- fore. The polar bears were Mar- vin Winhold and Jon Lillycrop scuba -diving in the icy waters below the dam. We hear that a diving club is being formed, but we'll bet the membership is limited if they plan on very much of this sort of activity. FIRST SECTION Wingham, Ontario Thursday, Feb. 27, W64 Lucknow Man Instantly A Lucknow man, John Al- phonse Hunter, 28, died instant- ly Saturday evening when his car went out of control as it ap- proached a curve just before the railway crossing on No. 86 Highway, about two miles east of Wingham. Wilson Carrick, 18, of R, R. 2, Lucknow, a passenger, suf- fered bruises and shock but was reported in satisfactory condi- tion in the Wingham Hospital. The car was travelling west at the time of the accident, and as it approached the double curves leading to the rail cross- ing it took to the north shoulder of the road and struck an em- bankment created by a lane- U s n S, McGee Marks 90 YEARS CLINTON--Mrs. Stewart Mc- Gee, for 64 years a resident of Edward Street, Wingham, cel- ebrated her 30th birthday at Huronview, Clinton, where she has been a patient for several months. Family members and friends visited her to extend congratulations. Mrs, McGee is the former Agnes McKeller, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Archi- bald McKeller, Port Huron. Fol- lowing the death of her mother, Mrs. McGee and her young sis- ters were raised by their grand- parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. William Geddes, Morris Twp. , Mrs. McGee's husband died 26 years ago. She has one daughter, Mrs. William (Ber- tha) Henderson, Wingham; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. way, which crosses from the Jenkins farm to the highway. At this point the road curves sharply to the south with a steep embankment of about 10 feet to the level of the fields. When the car hit the lane, crossing the ditch, it took off in mid-air and travelled about 50 feet before landing in the deep ditch. It then broke through a fence and rolled on in the field for about another 100 feet. Mr. Hunter was thrown from the vehicle, ap- parently just before it came to rest on its left side. The accident was discovered by Albert Kitchen, of Bluevale, shortly after 3.30, who put in a call for aid and to the police. The car was completely wrecked and had its left side torn off by the impact. Coroner Dr. W. A. Craw- ford said on Monday that no de- cision had been reached regard- ing an inquest, The accident was investigat- ed nvestigated by Constable Ronald Bell of the Wingham 0.P.P. detach- ment, assisted by Corpl. A, Hardy of Goderich. Surviving Mr. Hunter arehis mother and his step -father, Mr. and Mrs. Caswell Hackett, of Lucknow; five sisters, Mrs. Lilly Culbertson, Goodlands, Man., Mrs. James (Voilet) Arnold, of West Wawanosh Twp., Mrs. Alex (Ella) Hackett, of Ash- field Twp., Mrs. August (Ei- leen) Lemoine, of Camp Val- cartier, Que., Mrs. Russell (Grace) Walmsley, of Dand, Man.; five brothers, Vernon, West Wawanosh Twp., Allan of Sudbury, William and Robert of Lucknow and Frank, of Melita, Man.; grandmother, Mrs. Mary Somers, of Lucknow. Single Copy Not Over Ten Cents. flied in Highway Accident FATAL ACCIDENT—John Hunter, 28, of Lucknow, died in- stantly when thrown from this car on Saturday night when it went out control two miles east of Wingham on No. 86 Highway, bounced into a deep ditch and rolled over a num- ber of times before coming to rest in a farmer's field. A passenger, 18 -year-old Wilson Carrick, is in Wingham and District Hospital in satisfactory condition. —Advance -Times Photo. Scouts and Cubs Attend Service at St. Andrew's Some 80 Boy Scouts and Cubs attended the morning ser- vice at St. Andrew's Presbyter- ian Church on Sunday morning to mark Lord Baden-Powell Sun- day. The boys and their leaders met in the lower auditorium and entered in a body to join the congregation in worship. The color party was led by Crawford Douglas carrying the Union Jack, with Brian Forsyth bearing the Scout flag and Ken Aitcheson the Cub flag. Archie Gowanlock, district commissioner of Walkerton at- tended the service. Leaders with the Scouts and Cubs were Mrs. Donald Lloyd, Charles Kennedy, Donald Rintoul, Con- stable Murray Fridenburg and Constable Jim Miller. The Group committee was repres- ented by the chairman, Jack Stephens, who read the lesson. The choir sang "Come Holy Ghost" by Atwood, under the direction of Harold Victor Pym. Rev. G. L. Fish gave his message on "Andrew -- A Dis- ciple Who Succeeded". This was his second topic in a series of sermons on "The Man Amongst Men". THIS GROUP OF HOBOS performed the "Alley Cat Dance" which was highly enter- taining at the high school concert. The group includes, from the left, rear: Noreen Nicol, Cathy Peathey, Wendy Cronkwright, Pam Tunney; front: Linda Mahood, Barbara Cameron, Sylvia Hoover and Mary Watson. ----Advance-Times Photo. Others Identified In Old Picture Last week Mrs. M. L. Ait- ken of Bluevale supplied some of the names of the football. players in the old picture of 1858, which was recently pub- lished. Charles H. Coultes sends us further information. His brother, the late Dr. Ed. Coultes,was one of the players. Art Moore of R. R. 2, Luck - now has also been able to name a few and from three lists we now have the following. Front row, left to right, Lou Duff, Ken Messer, Charlie Hen- derson, Billy Donahue and Hughie Hamilton. Second row, Dr. A. 1, Ir- win, Billy Stewart, Aylmer Moore, the fourth still uniden- tified, Charlie Elliott of the brie yard. Third row, first two uniden- tified, Jack Hartley, Ed Coul- tes and Ed Bailey. Mr. Moore tells us that Ed Coultes taught him at S.S. No. 10 Kinloss and played with the scholars, often allowing a few extra minutes for football at the noon hour. Ed Coultcs and Charlie Tien- derson played for Whitechurch around this time. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Coultes have been with their daughter, M -s. George German, in Clin- ton for the past few months hut will return to their home at Bluevale in the spring. Mr. Colette believers that all mem- hers of the team are deceased, since he is :3.1 and his brother Ed was six years older. Bruce Lott to Live at Bala Bruce Lott, who has been with the hydro in Owen Sound for the past several months, has been transferred to Bala as chief clerk and took over his new po- sition a couple of weeks ago. Ile will be moving with his wife to Bala as soon as suitable accommodations can be secur- ed. Robinson Car Hits Two Deer WHITECIIURCH--On Mon- day evening of last week Tom Robinson of Fordyce had the misfortune to have two deer leap in front of his car at the Calvin -Brick Church. Both deer received broken legs. The police were summoned and the one deer was captured but the other got away and was not located until the police had taken off their footwear and waded the river. The animal was found on the back of 13i11 Purdon's farm. Mr. Robinson's car received a broken head light and some dents which can be repaired. He was unharmed by the acci- dent. Defending Indian In Murder Trial Robert Hetherington, P.C., mayor of Wingham, and local solicitor and harristor is the de- fence lawyer for Patrick Solo- man, 40, of the Saugeen Indian Reserve who is charged with non -capital murder in the Oc- tober slaying of his wife Alvino. The trial opened before Mr. Justice Campbell Grant at Wal- kerton on Tuesdae morning, Mr. Hetherington is a form- er commanding officer of the unit in which Solomon served overseas during the war. He is being, assisted by George Patter son, a Hanover lawyer, who also served in the sante unit with the defendant. lvir, Justice Grant is well- known in this area having, prac- tised for 3a years in the Bruce County 'Town before being ele- vated to the bench of the On- tario Supremo Court, The non -capital guider charge was laid against the In- dian after his wife died suffer- ing a brain hetumorthage. 1es- timony revealed in the Novem- her preliminary hearing indicat- ed Mrs. Solomon struck her head on a stove and that both she and her husband had been drinking,. LIONS MEET Hear Facts on Treatment Centre A meeting of the Wingham Lions Club was held in the Queens Hotel on Tuesday. A letter from rhe Canadian National Institute for the Blind was received thanking the club for conducting the CNB cam- paign for funds in Wingham. Jack Antil, a past governor of Lions International and past president of the Cripple.dChild- ren's Treatment Centre in Lon- don, and who is still on the of- ficial hoard, was guest spcat<er. Ile said the treatment centre is a replacement fur Wuodedtri Camp. It was opened .'n late 17, l i ;+ and serves the seven counties of Bruce. 1furon, Perth, Lambton, Jliddlesex, Oxford and Elgin. With a staff of 'on people, it has facilities +or complete diagnostic e'•ul,'ation of every type of clippie: con- dition and provider speech therapy, occupational ttterapv physiotherapy, nursery. school, and an educational pro,;:arnine. tie further illustrated his talk by showing slides of the cations type: of treatment given. CDamaged Marsain Street Mishap An accident just before ;1. o'cloc.c Tuesday morning result- ed 1I1 an estimated $37,„1-1t• damages to two Wingham oats, but fortunately. net One was in- jured, I'he mishap occurred when a small car, owned and driven by Bordon tiodkiii, lett 3 n cd position at Nl,.eintyre's e'al<- ery and made a left turn to en- ter the trattic lane south of the town hall. Ile was sttuch iu the right rear bv another eat t"wiwd and driven by Wesley I. AicC:auley, who was proceed:li south on Josephine Street, The street was quite slippery at the time, with the result that Mr. McCauley slid into the hark end of tilt' t;odklrl car. Police r.:liiei James Miller in- vcstigated. il erin- ycstig;ated.