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Shown in French Home Setting
'Soft Look' Featured in Fry & Blackball
Exhibit at Canadian Furniture Mart
WINNER OF THE HIRAM WALKER Trophy
at Saturday's bonspiel was a local rink skip-
ped by Richard Wehmeyer, right. Bob Sin-
namon, left, was lead; Jim Carr was vice,
and Lorne Gardner played second. In the
Huron County Warden
r der Def ate
.centre is Roily Kaufman, bonspief chair-
man, who presented the trophy to the win-
ners. The rink won the early draw with
three wins and a plus of eleven.
—Advance-Times Photo.
Anyone from this locality
who visited the Furniture Mart
in Toronto last week must have
been proud indeed to see Wing-
ham so ably represented by the
firm of Fry & Blackball. Their
exhibit in the Coliseum was
one of the most interesting in
the entire show, and that is,
indeed, a broad statement, for
the Home Show, as it is called,
is truly vast.
The exhibits occupied the
Dr. W. A. McKibbon of
Wingham was re-elected chair-
man of the Wingham District
High School Board for a second
term, at the organization's in-
augural meeting last Thursday
evening. Jamieson Pettapiece
of Kinloss Township will con-
tinue as vice-chairman. There
are ten municipalities either
wholly or partially in the school
area, each represented on the
board, Other members are ap-
pointed by the largest public
and separate schools in the
area and Huron County Council
appoints one member.
entire automotive building
(CNE grounds), the entire coli-
seum, which is a huge area in
itself, and the Queen Elizabeth
Building. It is one of, if not
the largest commercial shows
in Canada.
The Fry & Blackhall exhibit
was unique in its presentation.
Rather than displaying their
show pieces in open booths, the
workmen in the Wingham plant
had constructed a prefabricated
In the absence of Dr. Mc-
Kibbon, Robert Wenger was
named chairman for the eve-
ning and conducted the elec-
tion of officers. He named L.
Fortune, J. Pettapiece, G,
Moir and G. Elliott as a strik-
ing committee to bring in a
slate of committees. The strik-
ing committee's report was ac-
cepted by the board with the
following named to various po-
sitions, the first as committee
chairman.
Property, A. Worrell, R.
Wenger, G. King, G. Elliott,
J. Brewer. Transportation, R.
well as for the year 1965.
There were 162 admissions in
December, 2100 for the year;
80 operations, 1136 for the
year; 142 out patients for Dec-
ember and a total of 1806 for
the year; 272 x-rays for the
month and 3782 for the year;
3 blood transfusions for the
month and 65 for the year; 72
attended cancer clinic in Dec-
ember, with a total of 761 dur-
ing the twelve month period.
Total patient days in December
were 2211 and the year's total
was 30,083. Daily average
during December was 71.
In response to a question
Mrs. Morrey said there will be
only six private rooms in the
new hospital compared with 10
up to the present. However,
the number of semi-private
rooms has been increased and it
is for this type of accommoda-
tion that there is the greatest
demand.
A pharmacist has been se-
cured for the hospital staff, to
commence his duties at the first
of April.
TO CALL TENDERS
Mrs. Morrey said that the
bed units, and furnishings for
the new second storey wing will
cost in the neighborhood of
$90, 000. The board authoriz-
ed the administrator to call for
tenders for the necessary equip-
ment and furnishings, as well
as some office equipment
which will also be required.
Dr. W. A. Crawford, re-
porting for the medical staff,
said that his term of office has
expired and that Dr. 13. N.
Corrin will he recommended as
the medical representative on
the board as chief of the me-
dical staff following the annual
meeting of the hospital associa-
tion.
Mts. English said that the
Hospital Auxiliary had present-
ed a silver mug to the New
Year baby. She also enquired
about equipment which the
Auxiliary might purchase for
the new building and assured
the board that the funds of her
organization would be used for
such a purpose.
seven room house to provide an
interesting setting.for the furni-
ture which was on display.
Fronted by flowers and greenery,
the doors of the main entrance
were themselves interesting.
Mr. Kirkham, one of the princi-
pals of the firm which recently
acquired ownership of Fry &
Blackhall, told us that they had
searched out some worm-eaten
softwood for the purpose and
had then threshed the lumber
McRae, L. Fortune, J. Petta-
piece, M. Craig, J. Taylor,
M. Cardiff, G. Moir, J. Brew-
er. Cafeteria, .1, Taylor, G.
King, J. Pettapiece. Manage-
ment, M. Cardiff, R. Wenger,
G. Moir, M. Craig, A. Wor-
rell. Finance and insurance, L.
Fortune, R. Wenger, G. King,
0. Elliott, R. McRae. Building,
Dr. McKibbon, R. McRae, M.
Cardiff and L. Fortune.
The advisory vocational
committee was appointed, but
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Carl Bondi Opens
New Food Store
Carl Bondi, who has oper-
ated a fruit and food section in
the Bondi Restaurant building
for the past couple of years,
has opened a similar type of
store in the building occupied
until the first of the year by
Harry Angus.
The outlet will feature a
general line of foods and meats,
as well as fresh fruits and veget-
ables of all kinds.
The Bondi Restaurant, a
block to the south, will be ex-
panded to take up the entire
floor space in the building.
OPP Corporal
In Wingham Post
Corporal C. R. Croskill of
the Ontario Provincial Police
has been posted to Wingham,
and will replace Sgt. John Mc-
Dowell who left Wingham for
Mt. Forest last month,
Cpl. Croskill comes to
Wingham after two and a half
years of service in the city of
Guelph. Previous to that he
was in Sudbury for six years.
The new officer is married
with a son nine years old and a
daughter eight years. The
family has moved into the Alan
MacKay home on Charles St. ,
which was vacated by the Mc-
Dowel's. They took up resi-
dence in Wingham last Friday.
Cpl. Croskill will head the
four-man detachment which
has as its compliment Consta-
bles Ozzie Whitfield, Ron Bell,
Murray Fridenburg and Ken Wil-
son,
Car Is Stolen
And Damaged
A car owned by Wilfred
Strauss of R.R, 2, Teeswater,
was stolen from where it was
parked at the Behnore Com-
munity Centre during the week-
end.
It was recovered by Wing-
ham Provincial Police officers
about a half a mile from the
village on CuIross-Turnberry
town, line after it had been
damaged to the extent of $400.
Police arc still investigating
the theft,
with a light chain to achieve
the antique effect,
MANY LINES
Each of the rooms within the
exhibit was done in a different
decor to set off the various lines
of period and contemporary
furniture. One was old English,
another Spanish, a third French,
and so on. Without listing the
entire range shown we would
like to mention several pieces
which were particularly inter-
esting.
The Spanish room contained
a couple of "scissor" chairs of
antique wood construction with
suspended leather seats and
backs. The setee in the same
room was distinctive with its
squared lines and prominent
wood arms and back rail.
Another interesting piece
was a love seat with high back
and arms and topped with high
brass acorn knobs at the corners
to which heavy corded ties were
attached, binding arms and
back together.
New upholstery fabrics were
evident throughout, and they
were indeed attractive in a
wide range of colors and pat-
terns. The pieces in the Ital-
ian room featured combinations
of dark gold and black with
some orange thrown in to warm
the patterns.
LOOKS DISTRESSED
To achieve the antique wood
finishes the furniture manufac-
turer has devised some entirely
new techniques. The finishes
are what he terms "distressed"
and the results are remarkably
successful. This technique was
employed on two chairs which
we thought were particularly
handsome. They were crafted
of antique wood with smooth-
finished upholstery on the seats.
However, the interesting fea-
ture was that they were excel-
lent copies of two 150-year-old
pieces borrowed for the purpose
from a home in Toronto.Their
style was "regency", a period
which produced some extreme-
ly graceful designs in furniture.
Another of the display piec-
es was upholstered in a mater-
ial which won the fabric de-
sign award for Expo 67 and to
which Fry & Blackball have ex-
culsive rights.
Mr. Kirkham said that the
lines of show wood upholstered
furniture for which the local
firm has been justly famed are
being continued and that new
lines of fully upholstered furni-
ture have been added. The
theme for this year's exhibit
was "the soft look % exempli-
fied particularly by one beauti-
ful contemporary chesterfield
upholstered in a soft green vel-
vet-like fabric. It was the type
of piece one might find in the
informal living room of a very
luxurious home -- and no doubt
that is where it will find per-
manent quarters.
Extensive Damage
in Turnberry Crash
A rear end collision on the
10th of Turnberry Township doe.
ing the supper hour on Monday
night caused extensive damage
to two late model cars.
John Pattison Cook of Lon-
don was travelling on the 10th
concession and as he slowed
down Ire was struck in the tear
by another vehicle driven by
Lorne D. Baird, of R. R. 2,
Wingham.
Damage to the Cook car
was estimated at $1,300 and to
the Baird machine, $300.00.
There were no injuries.
Constable ken Wilson of tire
local OPP detachment investi-
gated.
Hon, William A. Stewart,
Minister of Agriculture, an-
nounced Tuesday that a com-
prehensive research program in-
to all phases of white bean pro-
duction would be carried out in
Huron County this year under
the direction of the Ontario
Agricultural Research Institute
and the Soils and Crops Branch
of the Dept. of Agriculture.
Test plots will be established
at Varna and Kippcn.
The program will include
the testing of promising new
strains from Michigan and the
Harrow Experimental Station in
Ontario. The demonstration
plots will check out herbicides
and insecticides in addition to
ship, as a time when manufac-
turers and heads of industry will
be looking to see what Huron
has to offer.
Mr. Stewart was one of four
candidates, receiving 21 votes
on a third ballot for 18 given
Reeve Stewart Procter of Morris,
The others were Reeve Tom
Strong, Miss Anna McDonald,
Roy Bennett; projects, Roy Ben-
nett, Howard Sherbondy and
Mrs. D. Connell; program, Mrs.
W, Forsyth, Rev. G. L. Fish,
Miss Z. Hopwood, Mrs. E.
Fielding; shows, Ed Fielding.
Discussion regarding several
projects to be considered by the
Society followed and the presi-
dent will make inquiries regard-
ing the regulations for setting
up a flower show. These will
be presented at the next meet-
ing.
Suggestions on projects to
beautify and improve the ap-
proaches to Wingham and sev-
eral other locations within the
town were made. Plans are to
be drawn up and details com-
pleted later in the spring.
Arrangements for a speaker
for the next general meeting
exhaustive fertility trials, Much
of the testing will be carried
out by soil and crop specialists
on grower farms.
"It is my conviction that work
of this type can be carried out
more effectively by test plots
on cooperating farms in the
various counties of the province
rather than in increasing the
number of experimental farms;
said Mr. Stewart,
The soils and crops branch
of the department is designed to
work in close co-operation with
the local soil and crop im-
provement association in evalu-
ating new crop production tech-
niques and utilization under
actual conditions, Under this
y Thr e
n Elected
Leiper, Hullett and Reeve Ern-
est Talbot, of Stanley. Mr.
Procter had one vote more than
Mr. Stewart on the second bal-
lot, but deputy reeve Joseph
Moody, the new member from
Goderich, who had voted for
Procter on this ballot, support-
ed Stewart on the third.
Reeve Leiper, in his speech
before the vote, said he would
like to see general hospital
boards provide ambulance ser-
vice, subsidized by the On-
tario Hospital Services Com-
mission. Mayor Walkom of
Goderich, extending the cus-
tomary welcome to members,
said he would like to be pre-
sent when the ambulance mat-
ter comes up, and Clerk John
Berry said that would be Friday
afternoon. It was before a
committee last month, which
referred it to council.
Six new members took the
oath of office with those re-
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are being made. The time and
place will be published at a
later date.
The membership commit-
tee reported that there are now
approximately 128 paid Charter
members, and any others in-
terested are most welcome to
join. A busy and interesting
time is anticipated for the corn-
ing gardening season, whether
one has a garden of their own
or not.
system tire local people are an
important part in both the plan-
ning and the evaluation of the
tests.
The minister stated that dur-
ing the past few years the num-
ber of soil and crop specialists
had been increased in order
that co-operative testing pro-
grams could he widened.
With the international plow-
ing match being held in 11urort
County this year a special pro-
gram has been planned for a
site at the match. Projects
demonstrating new varieties,
herbicides, fertilizer types and
methods of application will
prove of interest to tire many
visitors to the plowing match,
Increased daily rates were
announced at the meeting of
the board of directors of the
Wingham and District Hospital
on Friday evening. They will
be $24.85 per day for ward
care; $12.00 for chronic pa-
tient care; $6.00 for nursery.
An extra charge of $2.50 per
day is applied for semi-private
wards and $5.00 per day for
private rooms.
The building committee
chairman, Robert Gibson, re-
ported on the monthly execu-
tive committee meeting, held
the previous day. He said that
the architect and the superin-
tendent for the contracting firm
stated that progress is satisfac-
tory on the second storey addi-
tion, which should be ready for
occupancy about the end of
March. Progress on the renova-
tions in the 1946 wing is a bit
behind schedule, but not seri-
ously so.
Noise created by the con-
struction work has been a worri-
some factor to both patients
and staff, but it has been un-
avoidable.
Extensive repairs are neces-
sary to keep the elevator in the
1946 wing operating safely, and
the architects have taken the
est iinate for examination. The
repair figure is so high($16,000
to $18, 000) that a dicision will
have to be made, whether to
repair or completely replace
the lift.
Mr. Gibson said that con-
struction is about 50% com-
e pleted on the entire program.
The board authorized payment
of $4,048.35 to the architects
and $40,861.17 to hall 13rothera
the general contractors.
HOSPITAL CROWDED
Mrs. 1, Morrey, the hospi-
tal administrator, said that the
hospital is seriously over-crowd-
ed at present. Due to the
building program there is pro-
per accommodation for only
68 patients, but winter illnesses
and emergencies have upped
the patient population to sotne•
what over 00,
She also gave the statistics
for the month of December, as
Costs Force Hospital Ward
Rate up to $23.85 per Day
Dr. McKibbon Is Returned
As H.S. Board Chairman
GODERICH—Provision for
more jobs for young people in
Huron as a basic task on a
county basis was set forth in
the "throne speech" of the new
warden, Reeve Kenneth Stew-
art of McKillop. Mr. Stewart
cited the international plowing
match, to be held in his town-
The executive of the newly-
organized Wingham Horticul-
tural Society met in the town
hall on Monday evening. The
president, Ed Fielding, was in
charge of the meeting.
Elections were held to fill
several vacant positions. Dr.
W. A. McKibbon was unani-
mously elected as honorary
president; Mrs. Robert Abate,
secretary, and Miss Doris Fells,
treasurer.
The secretary then read ex-
cerpts of the Horticultural So-
cieties Act, governing the or-
ganizing and operating of such
an organization, duties of the
officers and members at large
and other business matters.
Committees were appointed:
Membership, Mrs. V. Douglas,
Mrs. M. Wormworth, Miss
Doris Fells; publicity, John
Horticultural Society Has
128 Members on Charter
Minister Announces Research
Program for Bean Prod dm