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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-12-16, Page 34 • Willis Hall Is Legion President Branch 180, Royal Canadian Legion held an election of of- ficers at its last meeting with the following being elected: Sergeant -at -arms, Ian Ed- wards; secretary, Ken Simmons; fin. sec., Jim Campbell; treas., Douglas Rathbun; Service Bureau officer, Lloyd Carter; chaplain, D. Miller. Executive committee, H. Remington, J. Gorrie, G. Sim- mons, T. Martin, Ted Elliott. First vice-president, Robert Irvine; second vice, Peter Vath; past president, David Crothers; president, Willis Hall; trustee for three years, Ed Rich. Joint installations will be • held January 7 when officers of the Ladies' Auxiliary will also be installed. The annual Christmas party for the children will be held at two o'clock on December 19. Santa will arrive during the par- ty. Decorated homes in Wing - ham will he judged next week. The prizes will be $25.00, $10.00 and five prizes of $5.00 each. • • • • A 4 National Vesper Service Held by Wingham C.G.I.T. Over sixty members of the Wingham C, I. G. T. took part in the annual vesper service which took place in Wingham United Church Sunday evening. The girls in middies filled the choir loft and front seats to form the choir, directed by Miss Iva M. Smith. The choir selec- tions were "0 Thou Joyful Day" a Sicilian hymn; "Hark the Glad Sound" and "Magnificat" . The leaders of the service were Mary Joan Corrin, Linda McTaggart and Gloria Reed. The candlelighters were the group presidents, Sandra Tiffin, Linda Cerson, Ruth Ann Currie, Gail Gannett, Melanie Ilarris. The service on the theme "Em - manual -- God With Us" was designed so that selections from the Bible, read by the special readers and the congregation, formed the basis of the service. During the recessional hymn, "Christians Awake" all of the girls lit their tapers from the central candles and formed two circles in the church as the For all of your Construction Needs Call .. . CONSTRUCTION CO. General Contractors DIAL 357-2344 • WINGHAM lights were dimmed, Mr. C.M. Jardine pronounced the benedic- tion. A brief social gathering for the girls and their mothers was enjoyed later in the S. S. room, 50 Years Since C. E. MacLean Left Wingham Charles E. MacLean of Sar- nia was transferred from the Do- minion Bank here to the St. Thomas Dominion Bank 50 years; ago yesterday, December 15, After spending a few years in different branches he resign- ed from the bank and went into the music business with the Heintzman Co. In 1931 Mr. MacLean open- ed his own music store which he still operates. He is a son of the late John A. MacLean, a prominentbusi- nessman here. UNIT 4 HOLDS BAZAAR GORRIE--Unit 4 of the Gor- rie United Church Women held their Christmas bazaar and tea on Saturday afternoon in the church rooms. Mrs. A. L. Stephens and Mrs. Russell Ad- ams poured tea. The C. G.I. T, assisted serving tea and at the fish pond. The unit realized over $175.00 for their efforts. SERGEANT PRESENTED — Sgt. Jack McDowell, who has headed the local detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police was honored by friends at a function at the Arm- ouries last Wednesday. Murry Fridenburg made the pre- sentation.—A-T Photo. Wawanosh Section Is Transferred to Wingham Continued from page one. ber of other schools in the pro- vince, to study procedures. This will be done in the new WHY IS THE PRINTED WORD SO IMPORTANT IN ADVERTISING? It's Clear • It's Permanent • It's Believable • The newspaper is the GREATEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM for many reasons. One of them is that it carries the power of the printed word. People believe in a message that is permanent — one that is written. They understand it better. Also, the news- paper because of its permanence lets the reader choose his own time for absorbing the message. And once put down it can always be picked up again. The message that lives is the one that is written in the newspaper. ittgbain AbtoncoEi year. The cadet report was ed by the board. It listed 240 students on parade for inspec- tion out of a total strength of 252. The inspection gave the corps an efficiency rating of 89.3 per cent. The corpsplac- ed second in the competition for the Strathcona Shield, which it had won for several consecutive years. Board member John Taylor reported that he has been ob- taining information on deep fry- ers for the cafeteria and will make a recommendation at the next meeting. Chairman Dr. W. A. Mc- Kibbon thanked the board for its co-operation during the year and expressed the board's thanks to the principal and the staff for their efforts. review - Local Lad Faces Serious Charges A Wingham youth, Robert James Broome, 16, has been charged with criminal negli- gence, dangerous driving and illegally passing a school bus as the result of a fatal accident near Seaforth. Police are reported to have stated that Anne Marie Dever- eaux, 13, of R.R. 4, Seaforth, died after being struck by a ve- hicle driven by Broome. The girl had just left a school bus and was crossing No. 8 High- way when the accident occur- red. The tragedy was witness- ed by her father, Joseph Dever- eaux, who was driving the bus, and a younger sister Teresa, 12. Young Broome and a passen- ger, Garfield Murray, 16, of R. R. 4, Wingham were not in- jured in the collision. The pair were returning to Wing - ham from Stratford. Thecharg- es were laid by provincial po- lice from Goderich. He is scheduled to appear in Goderich court on December 16th. Surviving the Devereaux girl are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Devereaux, three sisters and four brothers. Requiem mass was celebrated on Monday morning at St. James' R.C. Church with burial at St.James' Cemetery. Santa Brings Treats at Gorrie GORRIE--Tire Gorrie com- munity hall was filled to capa- city on Saturday afternoon for Santa's visit. Earl Heywood, Winghatn, entertained the child- ren with his magic tricks. There were 350 bags of treats given to the children. Turkeys; Firm prices are ex- pected during the seasonal peak of demand. Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Dec. 16, 1906 — Page 8 Pupils Present Christmas Concert WIIITECHURCH—Currie's School held a Christmas con- cert last Wednesday evening with the pupils acting aschair- men. A play, "Christmas in Other Lands", a choral reading, reci- tations, choruses, scenes from Mary Poppins and solos by Joan Currie, Doris Coultes and San- dra Currie, and duets were part of the program. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cruick- shank showed slides of England and their trip. A capacity crowd enjoyed the evening's entertainment. Progress Good At Hospital Continued from page one. accreditation committee of the Ontario Hospital Association should be asked to visit the Wingham Hospital to d iscuss the matter with board members, doctors and staff members. BAZAAR HELD Mrs. Morrey announced that the staff had held anotherba- zaar and raised about $250 for the solarium furnishings fund. It was expected that about $2500 will be required to pur- chase these furnishings. The Auxiliary has donated $35.00 for favors for patients' trays at Christmas. Due to the disruption created by the build- ing program the usual window - decorating contest by staff members will not be held this year. The Auxiliary has donat- ed the prizes for this contest in previous years. Receives B.A. Carman Isaac Nixon receiv- ed his Bachelor of Arts degree from University College, Uni- versity of Western Ontario re- cently at the Fall Convocation. He is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Isaac Nixon of R. R. 7 Lucknow. Presently he is employed by the London Board of Education. LAKELET NO. 2 LAKELET—The No. 2 4-H club met at the home of Mrs. Harold Wallace on December 6 with eight girls present. The minutes of last meeting were read by Linda Douglas. Roll call was answered with "A fin- ish I will use on my nightgown or pyjamas". Next meeting will be Jan. 3rd at Mrs. W. Demerling's. The leaders demonstrated sewing on lace by hand and how to embroider a monogram. The girls worked on their garments for the remainder of the meet- ing and lunch was served at the close. BELL LINES by K. R. Witherden your telephone manager The Blackout and the Telephone Recently in this column I explained how it is that the telephone continues to work in the event of a power failure —that our exchanges all ihave reserve power in case of emergency. I was of course thinking of a limited, local failure, and not at all of the power failure last month from Southern Ontario to the Atlantic Seaboard. Yet the result, as far as telephone service was concerned, was the same—all Bell exchanges where the power cutoff occurred immediately switched to their standby power, and the telephones kept on working, This was certainly important in averting uncertainty and panic and, with family members able to keep in touch, turned the blackout into an adventure for many. Yet, perhaps even more important was the role the telephone played in (helping the power companies restore their service. With generating stations, transformers, switching sy- stems and control centres located tens and even hun- dreds of miles apart, you can well imagine the physical impossibility of getting all the units to work together in harmony without being able to communicate from one to another. II' telephone service had broken down as well, who knows how many days or weeks it might have taken to co-ordinate the restoral of electric power? It would probably have been necessary to resort to radio coinmunications, but. even this would have been extremely difficult without the telephone. For example, how would you get out the directives to set up radio systems:'?? This expedient was not necessary because the Company maintains standby power at alt the power commission's generating and transformer locations, area offices and switching centres. This reserve power went into use im- mediately to provide the communications necessary for Ontario hydro to restore regular power. And of course, once the regular power was restored, it took over from the batteries to "feed" the telephone system just as it usually does, 24 hours a day. The interdependence of power and communications was shown very clearly. A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.