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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-11-21, Page 6a- Page 6--,Luclutow Sentinel, Wednesday, November 21, 1979 'The LUCKNOW SENTINEL "The Sepoy Town" On the Huron -Bruce Boundary LUCKNOW, ONTARIO Established 1873 Published Wednesday Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.0, Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number =0847 A MEMBER MEMBER ASIGNAI PUBLICATION' SHARON J. DIETZ Editor , ANTHONY N. JOHNSTONE - Advertising and General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON - Office Manager MERLE ELLIOTT • Typesetter MARY McMURRAY - Ad Composition Subscription rate, $12 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $10. per year in advance U.S.A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year in advance Sr. Cit. U.S.A. and Foreign, S19.50 per year in advance A Poem The following poem appeared in a.June., 1920 edition of the Ripley Express. It was brought to the Sentinel office by Bill Robertson of Scarborough. Anyone knowing, the origin or author of the poem, please contact the Sentinel. Poets roam in opposition, Over on this boundary line, And to right the accusations, We will send you just a line. - Duncan says thati in the pasture, Is no place for him to roam, And if they only put the stakes up He will show them the way home..., Archie says that Punch is ready, And is going to make a start, That will lower Murphy's record, . If he only had a cart. Herbert with his boots, and hobbles, Swings the black colt down the line; With the stop -watch onthe dashboard, Just to watch the correct .time. Let's have a parade The Lucknow Leos are organizing a Santa Claus iitaritde. The Leos feel it will create.. Christmas spirit and would, no. doubt, delight Lucknow youngsters.. The Leos d serve the coyamunity's support fortheir project. Parades in recent years were organize by the Lucknow District Kinsmen who had various difficulties staging the parade. Businessmen lack time during the Christmas season to build floats and other organizations and groups could also use the same reason for not participating. The Kinsrnen also had difficulty finding a location to build floats. Some years the weatherman was not co-operative and bands found the elements a bit harsh. For the past three years there has been no Lucknow Santa Claus parade. But, if everyone worked together, •a parade could herald the arrival of Santa. It Will take the co-operation of the whole community however, to make a parade passible. Instead of each business sponsornng a float, expense and labour could be shared by the Business Associ ion. Other ser- vice clubs and tions could also work together and perhaps, thedifficul- ties the Kinsmen found hampering their parades, could be solved. The, Leos will only go ahead with the parade if, enough floats are entered and the participation of as many people as possible is indicated, to make a ..parade worthwhile. Their initiative in, trying to stage a parade this year is commendable and hopefully the community will get behind them. Most of us older folks can still remember the parades that brought Santa to town when we were younger. Why should our children be denied the same fun? . We can have a parade to delight the Lucknow and area children. Let's get and keep the Christmas spirit this year and what better way to show Christmas spirit than working together to make a Santa Claus parade. r LOOKING BACK TIIROUGII TI3E SENTINEL 75 YEARS AGO Thursday, last, Thanksgiving Day, was a red letter day for Oddfellows in this part of the province. It was the annual meeting of the Bervie District and lodge of instruction and was attended by ever 200 delegates from Bervie, Kincardine, Tiverton, Under- wood, Ripley, Glammis and Lucknow. The Lucknow Lodge, headed by Lucknow's splendid brass band, marched in a body to the station to welcome the visiting brethern and on the arrival of the train, a mass procession was formed which marched through the streets. J. Allin and J. Henderson of Lucknow and Richard Finlay and Lou Gaynor of Kinloss returned from a successful deer shooting trip in the Parry Sound district on Friday night. They succeeded in getting two deer, four bucks, and four does. They report having a pleasant time and the eight deer they got were the finest taken out of the section averaging 184 pounds. 50 YEARS AGO Alfred Ireland, well known ex -railroad conductor of Kincardine died in the Baptist Church at Kincardine on Wednesday evening. ---The church congregation, of which Mr. Ireland was a -member, was holding its annual meeting. As Mr. Ireland took the platform to, address the group, he fell to the floor and died instantly. Death is attributed to heart failure. Mr. Ireland was 75 years of age and during his 40 years with the Grand Trunk railway and CNR, he became well known to many people living along the line between Kincardine and Toronto. He retired about five years ago from the railroad but continued to make his home in Kincardine. A report has been going about Lucknow and surrounding country that ' John Macinnis of concession 4 Kinloss had stolen pigs from Alex Cameron, living on the same line. This rumour is absolutely not true, as no pigs were stolen from the said Alex Cameron. Parties wishing proof of this may phone the undersigned about it. The parties, who started this report or who help to circulate it, are liable to prosecution and will be prosecuted if they persist in it. (Signed) Alex Cameron. 25 YEARS, AGO George Irwin. of Lucknow and Francis Hewitt of Bervie arrived home on Monday after more than a year with the Canadian Army in Korea. Both are in the Black Watch. George, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Spence Irwin, Lucknow is married with a family of five children. The Canadian Force returned on the American troopship, Marine Phoenix, which docked at Seattle, after a 15 -day Pacific crossing direct from the port of Incheon on the -west coast of Korea. Richard Martin has retired as reeve of Huron Township and his successor will be decided at the polls on December 6. Candidates for the reeveship are Chester Emmerton and Claude Dore. There are five in the field for the four council seats. John Campbell, Russell Collins, John C. Mac- Donald, John McMurchy and Alfred 'Wal- den. John Campbell in the above list, is the lighthouse keeper at Point Clark and a former Lucknow barber. Mr. and Mrs. John Scott of London and formerly of this community are in : St. Joseph's Hospital, London, with serious injuries suffered in a car -truck crash on Saturday: Their son, John, who was with them, suffered a broken nose and was admitted to the hospital, but has since been released. The Scotts were enroute to Lucknow to visit relatives in this area when tffie accident occurred at the bridge on Richmond Street at the north end of city. A gravel truck loaded with calcium chloride went out of control due to a mechanical. defect and, sideswiped the Scott car. Mrs. Scott, is the former Majeska Gaunt of concession 12, West Wawanosh. Report from. Queens Park Huron progra ish-stocking a failure BY MURRAY G ; UNT During the Ministry of atural Resour- ces Estimates held this eek, 1 had the opportunity to express the concern felt by fishermen in regard to t e fish -stocking program in Lake Huron a • Georgian Bay. The efforts of the Minisry over the past twenty years to introducesplake have been a failure, and the tourist . industry has suffered serious harm from poor angling. I told the committee thatthe constituents of Huron -Bruce are up in arms over the failure of this program. and the Ministry's decision to continue with the experiment. "The natives are restless. The Grey -Bruce area has been deserted by anglers. You might just as well be out there fishing for passenger pigeons 3 you just can't find these fish. You spent twenty years and a lot of money to find a fish Which could survive the larnprey.,.but they seem to disappear out of the bottom of the lake." The Legislature's Select Committee on Hydro Affairs has concluded that Ontario's nuclear reactors are "acceptably safe". However,,•the final report of the all -party fourteen -member committee adds '`there are real risks in the peaceful use of nuclear power and...absolute safety can never be totally assured." The report makes several recommendations to improve nuclear safe- ty while pointing out weaknesses in the design, operation and regulation of Ont- ario's nuclear industry, "The committee learned that it is impossible to assure that there is absolute safety in the operation of Ontario's reactors...There is a broad range of possible accidents and subsequent consequences with varying likelihoods of occurrence. "Even so, given4#he clear commitment of Ontario Hydro to safety, the past safety record of the existing reactors aid the design mechanisms to limit the copse- gpences of possible accidents, the com- mittee found that the risk of a serious accident occurring in any single reactor is �. extremely small and that the reactors were, therefore, -acceptably. safe." Catastrophic accidents are very much on people's minds at present, with the potentially very dangerous situation in Mississauga following the accident to a CP Rail freight train. When the train was derailed, a tanker containing lethal liquid chlorine sustained a two -foot tear, it immediately began leaking chlorine and it was 'feared that explosions of other chem- icals being transported by the train would completely rupture the container. The disaster closed three majorhighways, caused 700 patients to be moved from two hospitals, and something like half a million people in the area to be evacuated and housed in private residences elsewhere, in high schools, shopping centres, etc. The crippled freight train was one of dozens which pass through the city of Toronto every day hauling deadly chem- icals. Yard marshals often place the tanks of dangerous substances between other cars that act as buffers, but the practice is not required by law. Fifty or sixty tanks of deadly chemicals are sometimes strung together, according to a CP Rail official. Brucellosis should be eradicated in Canada in ten years, according to an official of Agriculture Canada. The predic- tion is based on computer projections on the federal campaign to eradicate the disease that causes abortion and reduced milk production in cows. Since the campaign has been stepped up, the number of known infected herds across the country has dropped from 1,230 in 1976 to 227.