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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-04-09, Page 11s: sj A t • Sportsmen Have Barrel Trouble The Wingham Sportsmen's Association is faced with a spot of trouble in connection with the draw based on a barrel go- ing over the Howson dam at break-up time. In January the weather had turned mild and ice on the riv- er broke up. While it might have been expected that the barrel, which had been placed on the ice, would go over the dam -- it didn't. Instead, winds forced it upstream where it sat for some considerable rime. Later the barrel proved farther up the river and it was finally left high and dry on the shore. To add insult to injury, sonic prankster finally rescued the thing and proceeded to toss it into the lower pond. To solve the dilemma and keep the game honest, the Sportsmen have decided to have a draw for the winning ticket. And it seems to be the only way out, considering the unto -op- erative elements this season. Arrangements have been made to draw the winning tick- et on Friday evening at 6.00 p.m. oii the CKNX Focus pro- gram. PARKS SUPERVISOR VISITS RELATIVES Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Cantelon and family spent Easter week with Mrs. Cantel- on's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGuire of Belgrave and with members of Mr.Caratelon's family, Mr. and Mrs. James 11. Campbell of Carling Terrace, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Cantelon, Diagonal Road and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Claire Cantelon, Josephine Street. Mr. Cantelon is parks super- visor at the Tweed office, De- partment of Lands and Forests. He says that the new Mazinaw Park has been completed and he hopes that it will become one of, the show places of that district. i.F�tli�sd— ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian The Pedestrian FAMILIAR FACE Slim Boucher, Former CKN X-er,appeared on the 10.30 show Monday evening along with a couple of musical com- patriots from Chatham. By the familiar sound of his cultured Anglo-Saxon accents we assume he hasn't changed much. 0--0--0 CLEAN SWEEP Town workmen trying out a new power street sweeper this week appear to be doing a very thorough job with the equip- ment. It will be a great boon to main street business places if the dust and debris of the winter can be completely re- moved before any more dust is tracked and blown into the stores. 0--0--0 TOUCH OF WARMTH The first few days of this week brought fresh assurance that spring might be in the off- ing. Temperatures ranged up to the 50 mark and some of the mud has begun to dry up. The snowfall of last week and the cold winds which followed were reminiscent of February. 0--0--0 CHANGE OF HOLIDAY The Wroxeter Businessmen have decided to change their early closing day to Wednesday of each week, starting next Wednesday, April 15th. The half holidays prevail from April to December. 0--0--0 FASHION SHOW Don't miss the Fashion Show which will be sponsored by the Business and Professional Wo- men's Club in the auditorium of the Wingham District High School next Wednesday. It should be one of the most inter- esting events of the spring sea- son. Transportation will be pro- vided for anyone wishing a ride. Just call 351-3090 or 357-1860 before 4 p.m, of that day. SECOND SECTION . Winghairl, Ontario, 'Thursday, April 9, 1964 ncitoZli Single Cop,. Not Over Tea cents Will Install Mobile Phone In Town Police Cruiser At the April meeting of town council held on Monday evening, a decision was reached to install a mobile telephone in the town cruiser to provide better service to the public. Councillor Cruickshank, who has been looking into the mat- ter, said that 2 -way radio had been investigated and did not prove feasible as such a system requires 24-hour, seven days a week service by an operator at the base station. He went on to say that when the constable on duty is in the cruiser the public would have to phone the mobile operator at Clinton. This carries a 60 cent charge and council agreed that, as trial, the town would pay the bill, rather than the person placing the call. It was agreed that the recording de- vice would still be required in the police office to instruct anyone wanting to contact the man on duty about the proce- dure. Councillor Bennett wondered why the same system used by the fire department, with phones in a number of homes could not be used. Mayor Hetherington said the situation is different, since the firemen are on voluntary service, and can ring the siren, whereas the constable on duty is the one who should be contacted and not those who have put in their hours for the day. The mayor said the public would have to be informed how the new system will work. Councillor Cruickshank said the cost of the mobile phone is $40.00 per month with a $50.00 installation charge and the re- corder in the police office is $24.00 per month. However, this is still cheaper than hiring another policeman. CONSIDER SWEEPER Before the meeting got un- der way the council saw a dem- onstration of a street sweeping machine. Public works chair- man J. Roy Adair said the ma- chine was used, but in good condition and could be pur- chased for $650.00. The outfit is drawn by the town tractor and seems to do quite a creditable job, even though the street was wet at the time, Councillor Callan said he would want to see it work when the street was dry before a decision was reached. Mayor Hetherington said that if it was going to be purchased it should be soon in order to get on with the spring clean-up. Council- lor Williams was of the opinion that the machine would make it possible to get the streets cleaned up much earlier in the year and to keep them cleaner, and that less labour would be re- quired. The decision to purchase was left in the hands of the public works committee after further investigation. When asked, Deputy Reeve Joe Kerr said that repairs to the railing at the front of•the town hall had been ordered some time ago, but the job has not been done. He said he would look into the matter. Council agreed to rent the council chambers to a commercial or- ganization which will run a night school each Wednesday evening for 14 weeks, for $10.00 per night. GLASS BREAKAGE No policy was set by coun- cil, after a discussion on the removal of stumps on town pro- perty when trees had been cut down, other than in a few places where it was necessary to do so. Councillor Harold Wild told council glass in the windows of the new auditorium at the arena had been broken by pucks. He said the archi- tect had stated the glass which was installed would be adequate but this had not proved to be the case. Armor -plate glass costs $80.00 per pane. He felt the building committee should be Please turn to Page 12 Ken Aitchison Receives Life and Religion Award A distinctive honor was be- stowed on Cub Kenneth Ait- chison during the annualFather and Son banquet on Tuesday evening. Rev. Gordon L.Fish presented the 11 -year-old boy with the Life and Religion Stories Omitted From This Issue, Because of a number of last minute events and considerable news which was late in arriving we have been forced to hold sev- eral worthwhile news items un- til the next issue. As the same time we would like to thank those correspond- ents and others who have com- plied with our request that news reach the A -T office as early as possible. Their co-operation has been most helpful. Badge, emblematic of his com- pletion of one of the most de- manding courses of study in Scouting. The award was his 13 proficiency badge. • The Life and Religion badge has never before been earned - by a Wingham Scout or Cub, and very few of them have ever been presented in the entire dis- trict. One of the many require- ments in memorizing nearly 200 verses of Scripture in addition to several prayers and hymns. There is a different course of study for each of the denomina- tions and that completed by Kenneth was for the Presbyter- ian Church. The boy received notice of the requirements for the last portion of the course only three weeks ago and had to complete a major part of the memory work in that time. THE FATHER AND SON night for Wingham Boy Scouts was well attended on Tuesday evening. Pictured at the meeting are, *rom the left: Lloyd Ackert, guest speaker; Crawford Douglas, Scoutmaster; Roy Hamer, president of the Saugeen District; Jack Stephens, Wingham Group Committee chairman; Murray Fridenburg, Cub Leader; Archie Gowanlock, District Commissioner, and Mrs. Robert Ahara, Cub Leader.—A-T Photo. NOT IN PRESENT SYSTEM C ncil Agrees t Sewer ` urvey S ion North of Maitland River Mayor Hetherington reported to council on INAinday night that a public mretuig, of proper- ty owners who 111.c m the north and west side of tilt Maitland River, had beer. held recently to find out if there i enough interest to start plai:> for sewage service in that sect.uu of the town. He expla.r.e d that the area has no sewae lines, and all property owners are using septic tanks. :: number of peo- ple from the ar. had registered earlier interest having a sys- tem installed, ::..d this resulted in the meedr,,. The mayor went on to say that Burns Ross, consulting en- gineer, was in attendance at the meeting to answer questions and as a result nearly all rate- payers signified interest in the scheme. After discussing the subject at some length council agreed that action should be taken to determine costs and a motion was passed to engage Mr. Ross for the purpose of making a pre- liminary survey of the area. Receive Members At St. Andrew's Last Thursday evening at he Preparatory Service of St. ndrew's Presbyterian congreg- tion, by act of Session the fol - owing were received as com- unicant members: Miss Judy •itton, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Eadie, Mrs. M. Chopin, Miss H. Keith, ?.ir. and Mrs. Hugh McKague, Dean Balser, Ellen Cruickshank, Joan Cruickshank, John Phillips and Judy Reid. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was served to some 320 members of the St. Andrew's congregation at the morning service on Sunday. The choir sang the anthem "Just As I Ain" -- Bowles. Rev. At the same time a survey will be made to arrive at costs and methods of overcoming a sewage problem which exists along Diagonal Road near the Warren House and the bowling alley. This area is not tied in- to the present system and the land contours present some dif- ficulty in sewage pipe instal- lation. TOWN OPERATION Mayor Hetherington also said that his committee bad met with members of the Ontario Water Resources Commission to formulate plans for the opera- tion of the new pumps and dis- Girls and Fathers PIay Delmore r' earns BEL11ORE-The hockey sea- son was brought to an exciting close on Tuesday evening of last week, when a Family Night was held for members of all Belmore teams. About 200 people were present. The evening got off to a rousing start at 8 o'clock with the Belmore Squirts playing a group of girls from the corn- munity. The Squirts won the game 3-0. Added interest was that refereeing was done by Mrs. Doug MacPherson and Miss Mary Elliott. Goals were scored by Ross and Doug Jeffray and Doug Baird. In the second game the Pee Wees and Bantams played their fathers in an excellent 2-2 game. Goals for the former teams were scored by Ken Mac - Adam and Donald Woolcock; George Kieffer and Len Harper came through for the fathers. John Cameron and his father, Orville, were the respective goal -keepers. In the final game of the evening, the Midgets and the Intermediates played to a 3-3 tie. Following the hockey en- tertainment, lunch was served by the mothers of the hockey Gordon L. Fish was in charge of the services and Harold Victor Pym of the music. Mothers Serve Annual Banquet Scouts See Pictures of Jamboree Scoutmaster Lloyd Ackert of the Kinloss Troop was the guest speaker at the annual Father and Son banquet of the Wingham Scouts and Cubs held on Tues- day evening in the Wingham District High School. He showed pictures taken last sum- mer when he attended the inter- national Scout Jamboree in Ath- ens, Greece. The presentation was intensely interesting to the boys and their fathers. Jack Stephens, chairman of the Group Committee, acted as master of ceremonies and intro- duced the head table guests. Brief remarks were given by Mayor R.S. Hetherington, Dis- trict Commissioner Archie Gow- anlock of Walkerton, District President Roy Hamer of Han- over, and President Murray Ger- rie of the Kinsmen Club, the sponsoring organization for the Scouts and Cubs. Mr. Stephens also paid tribute to The Wing- ham Advance -Times and CKNX for their support of Scouting ac- tivities in the community. The delicious dinner was served by the Scout and Cub Mothers to whom appreciation was extended for their many activities on behalf of the boys. The leaders introduced their assistants, Scoutmaster Craw- ford Douglas introducing Ken Wilson, Dave Curzon and Ross Hastings; Cubmaster Murray Fridenburg of Pack "A" intro- duced Mrs. Don Lloyd, Charles Kennedy and Don Rintoul: Cub - master Adelaide Ahara of Pack "B" introduced Jim Miller, Peg- gy Ahara and Hugh Sinnamon. One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation of the Life and Religion Badge to Cub Kenneth Aitchison by Rev. G.L. Fish. Another presenta- tion was made by Crawford Douglas to Fred Steinmetz, re- cently retired Scoutmaster. Dis- trict Commissioner Gowanlock presented the second Star to Cub Bryon Brooks. After the dinner the boys and their fathers proceeded to the auditorium where there were numerous displays of Scout craft and enterprises. The boys finished off a very success- ful evening with dtinonstrations of a few of their regular cere- monies. players. The Robin Hood Oat Trophy, presented every year to the most valuable player in Squirt, Pee Wee, and Bantam leagues, was presented by Walter Renwick to Allan Rit- chie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al- vin Ritchie of the 2nd of Cul- ross. Allan is a player on the Bantam team, Teachers to Visit O'Keefe Centre The Wingham unit of the Federated Women Teachers Association of Ontario met at Belgrave pu blic school Monday evening at 8 o'clock. There were 23 ladies present. Mrs. D. Thornton, the president, opened the meeting with the reading of "A Creed", written by Edwin Markham. Five girls from Browntown public school, directed by their teacher, Miss Wallace, very ably performed two Scottish dances. Mrs. E. Vincent introduced the guest speaker, Miss Pat Heywood of La Patrician Beauty Salon. Mrs. M. Walsh thanked Miss Heywood and presented her with a gift. Details of the trip to the O'Keefe Centre on Saturday, April 11 were discussed. It was decided that the bus would leave from Downie's garage at 8 a.m. Lunch was served fol- lowing the meeting. Anniversary Mrs. Hugh Sinnamon ofMin- nie Street and others of the family quietly remembered the 50th anniversary of the mar- riage of Mr, and Mrs. Sinna- mon, when they gathered at Westminster Hospital, London, on Wednesday. Mr. Sinnarnon has been a patient there during the past year. -Mrs. L. Latah left on Sun- day to visit for a couple of weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Isabel Christenson in Streets- ville, and her son, Mr. and Mrs. John Lamb in Scarborough. posal system which will came into service this summer. An agreement was reached where- by town employees w ill he trained to operate the equip- ment and w ill be hired to snake the daily necessary checks. The mayor went on to say that at the eastern limit of the new trunk sewer on Diagonal Road property owners should be allowed to hook directly to the trunk line. 3iayor Hetherington explained that only fiWe proper- ties are involved and the area does not lend itself to a latteral line to serve the homes in ques- r oY:. Council agreed with the mayor and set a fee of •=40.00 for private connection: to the trunk line. WDHS Requires Driving Instructor The hoard of the Wiughan. District Ilizii School has decid- ed to instigate a driver trainir,_ program at the school this fail and is at present niaicing the necessary arrangerneuts. So far the hoard has not been able to engage a person for the behind -the -wheel trainini; that will be necessary, althuagh it sounds like a good opFurtt,iiit for someone with a few horn. a week in which to earn extra money. The program calls for e ach student to receive 25 hour of classroom instruction, which will be given during the activ- ity period at the end of the school day. by Ken Wood, a staff member. The behind -the - wheel instruction requires six hours of actual driving and 16 hours observing for each student,. and it is an instructor for the latter part of the program that is required. It appears that the instructor for this work would have about 25 hours per week in which to work, and would be paid at an hourly rate. Two courses of about 24 students each year would he handled under the pro- gram. To qualify for the position the person must he over '131 years of age, have an accident -free driving record and he willing to take a two -weeks' free course in Toronto this coming summer, with an allowance for living costs. Another aspect is the fact that once the pian is licensed, there would he nothing to stop hint doing private instruction during off hours, for which there there is some considerable de- mand at the present time. For those who may be inter- ested further particulars appear in an advertisement elsewhere in this edition.