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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-01-11, Page 1i r PASSING PUPILS were the first to notice smoke pouring from the Lucknow` Public School about .7:30uesday evening: fire wss believed to have tarted in the, fu.rna.. Ore Fire destroys eightoroom public school at Leicknow Public School are enjoying an enforced holidiiy this week as the result of a fire on Monday .cvening which gutted the 90. Year-old building. . Youngsters passieg the build - saw smoke peering from the strecture and turned.in the alarm. Fire bad apparently ,broken out 'tithe furnace room and in a short time had reached' the upper floor. The Lucknew firemen kept the fire confined to the second floorformore than an hour, but the lilaze ate its way through the roof and eventually,,destroyed most of, the ieterier of the ground floor as well. When the fit4Sifen.,„ finally lett the scene at seven,. Tuesday morning little was :" left but the brick Walls. School. board offers hIp to lucknow F_ollowing the inaugural . meeting of the Wingham Pub- lic School Board on Monday: evening, the board offered any assistance it could render to the Lucknow Board which lost its school building by fire the same evening. The local board offered aid. in the form of school.supplies, and if necessary, the ate of the gymnasium in the school for clasies.if transportation ofl Lucknow pupils can be arranged, ' HARRIS RETURNED 'William Harris wasseturned .as Chairman of the board as wet! the two committees. /The property committee is"headed.. by Roy Bennett with Seott Reid, Perry Holmes and Lorne Mc- Donald as mernbers. The fin- • ance committee has Scott Reid, John Currie and Murray Gerrie with Dave 'Murray as' chairman. The treasureweported a' sood' year tinaecially, and read the list 'ot ace:stunts which were ordered paid. ' -The board will' ask Police Chief James Miller to'visit the telipor and give a talk on safety to the stedents. principal Stew,,art Beattie , reported enrolment in Decem- revious month. New apartment appears likely From information presented at council on -Monday evening • it appears likely that the Ont- ario Housing Corporation.will senior citizens' apartment in A letter from•the corpora- tion stated that tenders for air •eleven-unit,building had been received, to be, cOnstructed on the Charles Street property of enit building to' be erected orr Still investigating Brucefield robbery ' Rumors have been rife this area to the culprit i t at the ved in the armed last week was in Wingham and comes frorn this district. The investigation of the rob- bery is being made tinder the s supervision of,Detective Sgt. George Harries.- Mount Forest, who said on Tuesday that no can be released. He did in- . dicate that the investigation has led police .to this area, as well as to Many other plaCes in Ontario and for that matter,- 'I right across Canada. It ,appears highly likely the' rumors spread in this district are•without foundation and certainly do not warrant public suspicion of any individual. Three, fire - are answered • The Wingham fire brigade Stone Orr -New Year;i:Day where overheated •stove pipes.in the early afternoon.started *a fire in ceiling tile and joists,. The fire was soon extinguished. On Sunday afternoorrthe brigade received its second call in the New Year when an concern at the home of Mrs. Roy MacDonald.. There was.. , - On Monday evening the department responded to a 'call- -in Lucknow where the public school fire.was.in progress. The services of the localssbri- gade were not required. , property on Alfred Stree't, , which is owned hy the Bell Telephone cp. .The corivration asked if cOuncil had any objection to the latter site and none were° • Fire brigades from Ripley and Wingham were summoned, but the latter were not required and returned to Wingharn. The fire was a miserable one ta, fight in the low temperatures which prevailed° Monday evens. _gig,: Ice forrned as soon as chilled to the bone, The problem now is to find classrooms for the 2-69 pupils who attended the school. Offers have been received for use of the town hall, church base. tnents, ,,etc.. bet no final de- cisions have been annotinced. The use of portable classrooms is under censideratioe, The pupils were due to move to the. present Lucknow District 1-kigh School in Sept- ember of this year,„ . The high 'school will become the Luck- . now -Kinloss central pubrlic school at that time, However, the high school' students are to be accommodated in the Heron - Bruce Secondari School at Winghain and the extra rooms required for the..motte'i4 far fro= ready as yet., • Lions to meet Business Assoc. The Wirigham Lions Club has -a meeting ,planned with the in the near future to discuss the "Strees MalP' is The 'mall, a 'successful club \project last year, was proposed again for 1968 at,a Lions meeting Tues- day night at tbe.Little Curran 'Inn. The Lions''spon§ored hockey yub, the, Midgets, is doing quite Well according to Presi- dent Fred McGee who said -they., have lost only one game -so- tar...„, Suggestions 1968 were made and a brief.financial re- port on recent projects was . :Hap Swatridge led the Lions in a sing -song and showed, slides ,which included,the--1961 'centennial parade. PURCHASES HOME Thomas. Turbitt, controller at the Western Foundry, has purchased the John Street hpme of Mrs.,1-lugh Carmichael. Mr. Turbitt, whb. was with Camp- bell SOups at ListOwel, has been' cotnrnuting from that community since taking his The neW owner will not move into the WingharK-home - until,Mrs„. Carmichael has found other.,accornmodation. essamili minim! aliimowees•••••••••essauKsemesimiess. rOom and spread up a ventilator. to the . attic. The roof Caved 'in, about an hour -4..ucknow Sentinel Photo. • FIRST .SESSION of 196816,/ the Wi,egham Town Council was held on Monday evening. Rev. C. M. Jardine; minister of the Wingham United, Church, centre, offered Operang prayer's' and Scripture reading. Seated from the left .are Councillom'Al Williams, Maraaret _,Bennett, Deputy Reesses,.........„ ogsee jack Alexander, Reeve Joe Kerr and Mayor DeWitt Miller. Standing: ,Couh. cillors John Bateson, William Walden, G. W. Cruickshank, Harold, Wild and Clerk William Renwick. own council and standing committees are nchanged for second round of two-year term WOK - For its first meeting of 1968.: . the Wihgham Town Council-, on Monday evening, returned to office all .committee mem- bers and appointees to various' menicipal.boards. Council is _ starting -its second year of a, two-year term. -Mayor Miller did..not have an inaugural address to council; but did call on Rev. C.M. Jar-". dine, pastor orWingham United. Church, for sopening -prayer. ,Mr.• Jardine also brqught greetings- -; from the ,Winghani Ministerial Only new appointments oil' the list were Richard Wehrneyer; Gordon Beard aed-Wiltace Agar to the Riversidii Parks Minag- ment Board for,two-year terms Wa den for a one-year term. L Carter and George, Howson were ,returned for three-year terms. library board, three years; • Mayor Miller, Wingham and District HosPital Board; Monty Bennett, Municipal Develop- ment Board, three years; Cal Burke, Wingham and District PUC. stif.f gets boos, in pay At the inaugural meeting ties.COmmissiori on Monday evening, John .Pattison was re- named chairman of the organ- ization. o'Other members are Mayor DeWitt Miller and W.W. According to the chairman', two items of interest were setr tied. The six -man stiff em-' ployed by the commission was , .granted a pay increase amount - A motion was also passed to— eliarge rent -for water rneters of Over one -inch pipe capacity: 'This will affect only a few of the larger water. consutners in the community. Hospital staff members on job despite weather A number of-Wingham and ISistrret Hospital staff have had minor accidents on the icy roads.. -Despite the very bad stormeand the condition of the sideroads. hospital personnel. " on all (shifts, have made a vat-. iant efforetts report for duly be at work regardless of the weather. Their efforts have been partichlar19 appreciated since the staff has beep badly depleted due to the enrient flu Neighbors and passing mot- orists.have been kied enough to, help some of the stranded lad- ies by pulling them out of dit- ches; pushing, ete. and snow. plow drivers have atlisted as Planning Boarid, three years;, - Stewart Leedham, • William Children's Educational Author- -ENDORSE RESOLUTION Council endoried a resolu- . calling for new provincial leg- islation tb relieve the munici- palities a the levy made for county roads. The reseletion statedin part, " The' rebate 14 • the county to the municipalitie: sion:of doubt as to the justifica- 0,11 ma William. Harris, chairtiian of the Wingham Public School Bo.ard, attended council with the request that some proce-. dures in regard to th,e school crossing guard. be: changed. s, Council agreed to.his suggestior that the guard (Jack Reayie) r•-• should be supplied with cloth= ing that will identify him as a . guard; that an iinprove,d step . sign be 'supplied; •and that the children should wait until the guard has stppped traffic before . starting to crossthe street, rather than' following the guard' • II It ew ambulancq_ rates now in effect Starting at theyfirst of Jan- uary new -rates ,for ambulance ',service came into effect for those persons using the° facili- ties provided -by the ambulanc- es based atthe Winghafft and Distript Hospital. The chalge plus 50¢sPer mile one way. The, rate change was made necessary by regulations & the Emergency tervices Brandh of the...Ontario Department of Health. 'Following the codclu- . SiOrl of. an agreement between • the provincial body and the 'County of Huron, all ambul- ances operating ender the . ,agreement must be charged for at the above rates, as laid down by the Toronto office. Routes followed by the' am- bulance drivers in calls in this , area are diatated firstly by safety reqeirements. Since the driver and attendant are splely .-responsible. for the safety of the - patients they must select the „.4outes which are most likely to guarantee safe arrival_at the • Those who,call-in to the hospitaffor an ambulance are reminded thallti4 vital -to' Clearly describethe location of any -accident, or a horrie to :Which the ambulance is called: Failure to do. so is bound to. cause delay --and such a delay could be fatal. HoMe-b.wners, particularly' in the country are. as ked to have lanes ploughed sothat the - ambulance can bel driven tothe house. The alternative may I mean a long carry of th.e'patient. to the road, extremely risky in The ambulance .drivers and attendants will answer all calls, - regardless of road or weater conditions, bOt patients and , ',,their 'families are asked to bear mied the difficulties involv- ed in such a service when condi. dons for driving are hazardoUs. The hIgh schpol students have demonstrated considerable courtesy in making way for the ambulance since the problem was aired at the lastrneeting of the hospital board,and iheir co-operation is appreciated.. when he steps off the siclewalk;„. Council also discussed aspects of traffic control around the • school to gisre better protection to:children,_ with the seggestiqn being Mire that council might consider making the foer-inter- sections as John, F-rancis. Cath- erine and Victoria Streets; four-way stops. The conversation also spark- ed council -to again mull over the idea of trafficqights at the,. five -point intersection on main esv_en_tathe idea of CIQSS,- walks. Councillor Cruickshank said he hoped that Diagonal - Road fr4in John Street to.Vic- toria Street will become a one- way street. Howev.er, no ac - result bf any of these' discus», Treated at hosp. - after accident There were no serious injur- ies to the four people involved in an accident about 4;15 p.in. -Monday on the Bluevale Road, Henderson. . A car driven"by Kay McLen- nan was.pulling off the road shoulder when it was struck in the rear by a car driven Kay McLerinan,teceived whip lash injury to the neck. . Her mother, Mrs; McLennan was not treated for injuries. , ' Douglas Garniss, Y7 of R.R. 4 - hip when he apparently struck the steeringswheel. Mrs. Isa- bel Garniss, 50, injured her right ankle and lee. There were no hospitalized patients in the accident. 111 Two design awards received b local furniture film at show ,Fry & Blackhall and its parent ,company, Honde rich furniture Co: Ltd., of Milver- ton, have received Design Awards at the Canadian Furni- ture Mart in Toronto this weeks The Mart continues until Fri - Fry & Blackhall of Winghain feteived the Special Award, for ture and the Honderich division for Contemporary Upholstered Furniture. DaVid Wollin, de - from Fry & Blackhall wit* a La,Dauphine Empire chair; the Honderich entry was -a Unity armchair and,loyeseat. Before the pieces were sent Ao'the show last weik The Ad - Vance -Times spoke to Jack NeverY, manager of the local , plant, who said his firm is showing several completely new lines at the Mart.- , 4,. A number of neW pieces, ' authentic reproductions -of per- iod chairs, mostly Louis XV and XVI and oueen Anne styles, are on display, /as well as -a completely new line of contem- porary designs listed as "Minit; basically, designed for apartment use and will retail at a relative- . it New Hon rich lines, whtch were takeh ver by the firm ' last year ate also ait.thetshow, and niany of"them have been maiinfaetured in the local plant. For the first time a,lItie ef con.% :temporary sofas ii offered under the'llonderich name, as well as .new bedroom furniture in grace- ful centemporary style, -whtch has made the firtii•famotas. New 'Under the same brand is a line ° of Upholstered chairs. We saw a number of pieces in the Fry & Blackball line Of antiqued furniture. el-assic- in design, the pieces have been r' treated witli the firrn's*new' "museum finish" and stressed, •meaning.treated to simulate • great age, withthe result that the furniture appears old, and in some cases even worm-eaten with the patina of great age. Many of the 'pieces are enhane- ed by fabrics recently asiembl- . ed and iMported for exclusive use by the local firm.• TRIBUTE - Mayor Miller paid to• , passed -away since the_Depem- said that Ted Mo'szkowski;" who served ta one-yearJertn, bad. considered it ran honor to be on - council and:that the cornsesis. the late Themas 'Fells, -a icing. time councillOr and former mayor, Mr... Miller .said Mr.. Fells Wad been a dedicated ser- vant of the town and had re- taineda keen interest Int coin-. Inunity.,affairs right up until the timer& his de,ath. Routine by-laiiss covering the borrowing of $150,000 and'' ,for the andual Department of COMMITTEE: REPORTS Councillor Cruickshank re- ported that the police cruiser had' been repaired and that the ,problem had not been the fault'. of any of the'officers driving, the vehicle.- The difficulties had apparently been defective parts and should be under war- • The councillor also stated that eonsiderable" time has been. spent on a study to prepare a hys-law governing taxi service. and a.draft copy was eivee to each councillor for perusal un- til the February meeting. be necessary -Jo change the cards in the parking meters 'which set out the houri.of park- ing, since local merchants have.decided to close -all -day Monday. and stay open On,Wed- nesday afternoons. Reeve Kerr stated he wa,s of the opinion that when Diagoeal Please Turn to Page Three. CKNX engineer to move. to the States -Das-rid Burgess, studio engin- eer at CKNX radio -TV has ac- cepted -a new pOsitiOn as super - .visor Ot studio engineering at, station WENH Ty, Durham. ‘s:35 The.studios for The state educational Ty system are at that °station which is located at the -University of New Hamp- shire. Dave, his wif,e and, three children Tab, Trina and jandy will be miissed in 'this dernmen. 'ity where he has been ,active in community'saffairs. He is a pArs:president-of the Kinsmen Club and h‘ss been president of the local Credit Union:for three years, an organizatiorshe ed to establish. He is a native ,of Mitchell and a veteran of the -Royal Canadian Navy. He has served with the local broad. - casting cornpany for the paF ,ten years and has also bpen 'ac- tive with area.arnateurllradics • the move ;gill be made when the family can obtain all, the necessary visas and other ' red '‘ta e has been cut.