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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1955-09-22, Page 3F lain L''F11.EUB 1;C 2r2,.X955 ayox's 'home Receives • 1 •st DIal Mayor and Mrs. Morgan Agnew inspect the first dial telephone in Clinton as it was installed at their home. This is a move towards conversion of all Clinton telephones to the dial system. - At the left is Tom Ducharnie, Dublin, installer. • (Photo by MacLaren's). Battle of Britain Heroes Remembered Pictured' above is Group Captain H. C. Ashdown, Commanding Officer, RCAF Station Clinton with other officers, the colour party and •airmen •from the station during the sounding of the "Lea .Post", The ceremony took place at the • Cenotaph last Sunday when the ,RCAF marked Battle of Britain Sunday. "gt.441,4+:41.4.4.1.44.1-etetelKetet±telet '14 tel 4 ei4 etei leitaCeaaKf Y.F ANNOUNCEMENT 1 have sold niy coal and oil business to George C. German, effective September' 19. It has been a pleasure to serve you throughout the years anis I would greatly appreciate your eolith -wed- patronage of my successor. J. W. NEDIGED, FUELS .1.444.44w;..g.;.g .', ;»:»:« 4: .a tel ;«;«i 0- ««wa3»r 7»'r24eae Bingo Winners At Hensall Games (By our Hensall Correspondent) Bingo winners• at Legion bingo. last Saturday night, September 12, were: Laverne Powell, Mrs, Bob Baker, Mrs. C. Gilfillan, Mrs. Mae McLellan, Mrs, It. Sangster, Ed. Corbett, Mrs, Wilkinson (2), Tom Kyle, Sid McArthur, Bill Austin, Mrs, Wes Venner, Mrs. Tom Brint- nell, Mrs. A. Orr, Mrs. T. Munroe, Mrs, R. J. Paterson, Mrs. Orville Smith. KINSMEN H CLINT RENA Sponsored By The Kinsmen Club of Clinton LASSIFIEDS OST LESS' IF YOU PAY CASH • News -Record classifieds 'only cost 50• cents far 25 'word`s, so actually they are a very inex- pensive way; to get your sales message across•to°thousands" of people. However, the very fact that they cost very little, makes invoicing of them a costly one for us. That is why we ask 15 .cents extra if .they are charged. You can understand` that by the time we send out one letter, and "general'ly 'two before the little adiet is paid, .the cost of stamps alone is ten cents, which: is exactly 20 percent of the original cost. . So to advertise cheaply, .and get the absolute most for your money=use News -Record clas- sifieds, and pay cash, Mensal) Council, Active (By our Hensel] Correspondent) Hensel]. Council met on Tues- day, September 13 for their • reg- ular meeting. Howard Searle appeared, as a delegate from the Hensall School Fair and received the customary grant of $70. A. W. Kerslake, Assessor, presented the 1955 ass- essment roll. It showed that the population of the village was 790 with a total assessment $835,070 and a total taxable assessment of $759,470. -Court of Revision of the 1955 assessment roll will be,, held early in October. , Considerable discussion took place when Reeve William Parke introduced the matter of asking the Bell Telephone Company of Canada to remove their poles off King Street. This arises due to the fact that the P.U.C. are in- stalling new street lights and are eliminating their poles by putting the wires underground. A motion was passed requesting the Bell Telephone Company of Canada to remove their• telephone poles from King Street between Wellington Street and the London Road. A motion requesting the De- partment of Highway's to erect two school safety signs on King Street was passed. CNIB Launches Drive For Funds In This District More than 30,000 mailing pieces are being prepared by district blind for the annual operating fund campaign of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind which opened. Saturday, Septem- ber 17. Working in the auditorium of the training centre and home for the blind in London, residents of the home and other blind are assembling campaign' literature which, will be, idled to residents of Huron, Middlesex and Perth Counties this week. Residents of these cbunties are being asked to contribute $11,000. C.N,I,B, needs $57,000. for the coming year, but Community Chests and Municipal Councils have already pledged $46,000. The Chairman in the Clinton Di§t'rict is W, V, Roy, and our objective is $400.00. 0 Ten Canadian ships were Lost at sea in 1953. por Bern' I ai Phones Already, Instaple� IeaCla For Early Sprinqtjme ODerat�n special er�w . A of Bell Tele- phone employees this'. week begat. the job of „installing dial ,te'le- phones in homes,offices an stores in Clinton, ih anticipatia l of the cutover of the local tele- phone:: system to'dial operation next '$'pthiig, .The first .to be installed was in the hoirfe of, Clinton's mayor, Morgan J; and Mrs Agnew; Since then many homes, offices and stores have received the `modern equipment. The installers will replace some present telephones with: dial in strurnents, but: others will be fit; ted with a dial. William W. I-layson, Bell Telephone manager for this region, explained that a. large number at telephones are adaptable for the addition of a dial, and that only those not adapta'ble will be replaced. This project. which involves the installation of some 1,500 dial telephones in) the Clinton area eration:to the eustomer and mem i d Girls Club Met .Et'i Home Of Mrs.- W. B. Olde The hostess presided last Thur- sday evening, September 8, when the Ontario Street Girl's Club held their first meeting of the season, . at the home of Mrs. W. B. Olde, The devotional pexiod,,was led by Mrs. Marion Celclough, who spoke on "Harvest Thanks." Miss GIadys Habkirk read .from the Seripture, Psalm 118, V. 18-29. A story in scripture entitled "Religion and Life" was given by. Mrs. Batkin. Mrs. Eagle, gave 'a condensed reading of .Cornelia Skinner's "When Hearts were Young and Gay." At the close of the business session, Mrs. Willis Van Egmond entertained with a few popular tunes on, the piano aceordian. The Mizpah benedict- ion closed the meeting. A wein- er lunch was served by the mem- bers of group one, under the con- venership of Mrs. Marian Co1- clough and Mrs. Doris Batkin. HARRY W1401415' YOU GET EACH DROP FOR WHiCH YOU PAY, OUR METERED SERVICE WORKS THAT WAY se OUR GOOD © }OCA4 TRADtMA1110. t HARRY WILLIAMS FUEL OIL MOTOROIL `ta 0 R.R.2, CLINTON•d'koit GASOLINE LUBRICANTS 5261 Dollar Day Specials SEPT. 22-23-24 TO THE FIRST 50 CUSTOMERS SATURDAY j MORNING --= A FREE LOAF OF BREAD ' CAMPBELL'S T01TO SOUP RED and WHIr32 TOILET TISSUE LIBBY S TOMATO CATSUP . 9 tins $1.40 9 rolls $1.00 5 for $1.00 PEAS—Garden Patch , 8 tins $1..00 and many other items" • Watch London Free Press for Red and White• Adv. Wednesdays, t y i GRAPES --California , 2 Ibs. 23c LIVER—Baby- Beef lb. 25c Grand Opening Prizes TO BE DRAWN SATURDAY EVENING. 'You still have a chance to Win one of the THREE FREE PRIZES —.Be sure.and get your ,ticket. Burton Stanley New Red and 'White Super Market PHONES 414 and 415 , -- FREE DELIVERY QUI;,EN ST. CLINTON' will take tome months to comti' plate.; Until the conversion to telephone users should avoid touching the dial during a .eon- Versatiorl, the manager advised, The dial ihstrunlent is to be used in exactly the saine manner as the manual instrument it replaces, until the moment of the cutover;. A tem c p rary number card, show- ing the present telephone number, will be placed in the centre of the dial. Customers will be asked tee remove the card at the time of the cutover, thus revealing, the permanent dial number under- neath. Until then, thenumber will be .unchanged, and ' callers will continue to asit for nurnbews verb- ally as at present, 10 addition to installing the dial telephone, the Bell Telephone in. atelier will explain its use and op. bars :af His fanijly or staff. " If you have been considering adding an extension telephone in ,. your borne, the forthcoming visit of an installer to your house will afford a convenient occasion Jto have' this done," Mr. ', Haysom commented, He advised interested residents to telephone the comp- any's business office to make ar- rangements, All other projects connected ,' with the cutover are proceeding , • according to schedule. The new exchange building on the south side of Rattenbury Street West, is nearing completion, Technic- dans will begin the installation of complex dial switching equipment this fall. Other crews at work extending the network of outside, wires and cables and adapting the system for use under the dial sys- tem are making good progress, ANNOUNCING, George Cr German and Son FUEL DEALERS' Have purchased J. W. Nediger's Coal and White Rose Fuel Oil: Business. YOUR PATRONAGE WiLL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED AND GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION KiNDLY CALL 208 FOR EITHER OFFICE The former Nediger Office—Goderich Highway or Main Office• --Corner of John and Queen Streets TOWN OF CLINTON PROCLAMATION Return To standard Time Sunday, September 25 at 2.00 a.m, in accordance with resolution adopted by the Town Council,'and a Proclamation issued in April 1955, i hereby proclaim that the Town of Clinton return to Eastern Standard Time at 2.00 o'clock a.m., Sunday, September 25, 1955, and request all residents to observe this Proclamation. (Signed) M. J. AGNEW, Mayor, Town of Clinton. LLASHMAR 1 DRIVE-IN THEATRE . CLINTON NEXT TO CLINTON COMMUNITY )PARK OPEN AT 8.011 P.M. 3'1RST SHOW AT HUSH THURSDAY and FRIDAY—September 22-23 "LIVING IT UP" Martin and Lewis (Color) SATURDAY and MONDAY—September 24-26 "THE SAVAGE" Charleton Heston and Suzanne Morrow TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY. September 27-28 "A BULLET IS WAITING" (Coiorf Rory Calhoun and Jean Simmons ` THREE STOOGE COMEDY THURSDAY and FRIDAY—September 29-30 DOUBLE FEATURE "Jesse James versus The Daltons". (Color) Bret King and Barbaro Lawrence "FLAME OF CALCUTTA" (Color) Denise Darrel and,Patrick Knowles Carton and Short At Each Performance CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND SIIOWEI N11111TIX —. 2 Children Under 12 in Cars FREE! 4,44 -044 -44.4 -e -.÷40+44.444-4,44.44.4.e w o as