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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-07-20, Page 11• J A A 4 • ..'..../ • w ti $ •r s Whole No. 5186 108th Year SEAFORTH,,ANTARID, TBURSDAy, 'JULY= 20, 196t7 RAGES Reunion Bri4 ngs Back School Memories aMorethan four hundred former students and visitors gathered on the shadygrounds of S.S. No. 2, McKillop, sections at one time now is Maitlandibank Saturday afternoon for a reunion of No. 2 and No. 13 schools.' The two were together and school building was located in a portion of what cemetery. (Expositor photo by Haley).. The Church On The Move • ' Rev: Bert Daynard, Staffa-UnitedChurch shares the front seat of the Salyation Wagon in. thtRibbed 'Centennial Parade at Dub'lin, Saturday with lViother,Michael David of St. Pat rick' School, Dublin. Father R. Durand of St. Patrick's Roman CatholiCChurchr Dublin, is in t e rear seat (left) tvith an unidentified parade visitor, (Expositor photo by Haley). McKillop Parade Recalls Early Days Typical of, the ingenuity with which parade entrants depicted early days in this revival scene as it travelled in the McKillop Township Centennial Parade at Winthrop, Friday after- noon. It was on of more than 20 entries in the. parade. (Expositor photo by Itoulston). MARY x4NhNE MnGRATH daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. McGrath, 'Egntondville, watt presented with tie gold cord, highest swami itt C ttldiiig: ,R dna the gat Aft obit; McKillop Pupils Gather for Reunion Former pupilsand teachers of School Section No. 2 and No. 13 McKillop„ got together for a joint reunion "Saturday at No. 2 schoolhouse. Approximatdly 400 were in attendance at the gathering with Sam :Scott and Bob McMillan as co-chairmen. The program began With a welcoming speech and singing by township schobl children. Chore ses of "School. Days" and "This Land is Your Land" were sung. '14I'agiatrate H. Glenn gays re- called that the two school ,sec- tions Were once a single sec- tion. The land on which the Scheel was built had been made available • by Robert Mays, . his great grandfather. The school' was built in 1845 on land that now mAkes up pant of Maitland, banl: Cemetery. Origfnat° truss tee& ter the • area wex • John Lapslie and johnCrOvenck. • 061l$wllagAtt lam' tetrtar ks 90 -year-old Miller Adams pro- vided a violin selection and the Storey • sisters performed ' a dance number. Former'teacher/s from No. 2 and No. 13 were in- troduced. Twelve were present. %he Scott boys sang "In the Little Red School House" and Mrs. Wilfred Coleman gave a reading. J. Leslie Kerr, pow a Toronto educational official, spoke to the gathering of old friends and neighbors. He was followed by Arthur Musgrove, a former student, now with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Sandra Coleman of Mc1C11Iop' sang a solo and the school child- ren sang "Canada". A Iuneh rottnded up the pr"ogr The oldest former pil pre- sent was Belle McClure. Greetings, were received from several ,people Who couldn't attend. These :inc'ludedt (Celitln+iied nn 1- 1tea" Hibbert Parades To Dublin There are six long' miles' of road between Cromarty and Dub- lin and that left plenty of space for Hibbert's Centennial Parade to grow Saturday. Plans,,.. ere for the parade to form up in Cromarty, . travel through Staffs and end, Up at Dublin for the rest of the fes- tivities. But ,,much to oieials pleasant surprise it wasn't the same parade in. -Dublin. as"- it was in Cromarty. TaWnrhip road superintendent Ed Chap- pel estimated that several floats joined the parade at every cor- ner along the routs. By •the time it reached Bub - lin the parade reached front Ocie end of the..village to the other. Mrs. Ann Burchill, Township •Clerk, called it "Really wonder: ful. It was over a ;mile and . a quarter long." Reeve Ross McPhail's -pleased comment was -?'We didn't eJc- peot anything, like this." Parade judges made no at- tempt to judge the floats on a' one, two, three basis, but were content to pick the few most oiftstanding in each class. Jack Butson's Iverlee Farms car and John F. Miller's Cana- da 100 were the 'best: decorated ears. John. Brosens and Linda Van Bergen had the best decora- ted bicycles. Two special aged ieems in the -parade were Otto Walker's an- cient solid wheel ,Indianna" wa- gon. and Bert MaHaffy and Lorne Elliott's home -built, ful- ly working steam- engine. Judges' choice for outstand- ing young person's achievement was Danna Waddell, Rai, 1, Staf- fa, who had a .calf hitched to a Dart. She captured not only the imagination of the judges but also of the ,spectators and sev- eral photographers. Classed as .tops in "special items" were the Brodhagen Lutheran Church Women's float, the float of the Dublin Women's Institute, the Giengdwrie Insti- tute float and Jack Burcliill's- Shamroek. Farm float. Outstanding of the special floats were the Dutch New Canadians, Hibbert Schools, Nos. 5 and 6, Hibbert School "Young Days", Hibbert Township Young People and the Tooterville Trol- ley.. - The parade was graced by several beauty queens 'in con- vertibles.. Present were: Clare ,Bain, Miss Agriculture; Marj- orie Kraemer, Miss Farmshow; GIoria McNairn•, Mitchell Queen; Judy McDougald, Fullerton Queen; and Karen Rock, _Log- an ,Queen., The' Bannockburn Pipe Band provided music for the parade which was led by the Hibbert Township truck. The parade route was patrolled by. members of the Sebringville O.P.P. The parade was organized by a com- mittee headed by Gerald Hol-' land. ' Hugh Norris and John Shea tied for the honor of being, the oldest gentlemen at the festivi- ties. They are both 90. 'Molly O'Connell at 88 was the oldest lady. The show at the Dublin School grounds was' organized by a committee With John Nagle as chairman. A chicken barbecue was large- ly attended. There were special speakers including Perth War den, Wilfred Seebeck, a pro- gram of entertainment, a horse shoe tournament and a baseball game. A big dance topped the evening off. The afternoon program fea- tured the Hibbert .Township (Continued on Page 4)" Advance Plans for Parade Plans for Seaforth's Centennial Parade were advanced Tuesday night when the parade commit- tee met in the Legion Hall. Scheduled as one of the fea- tures on Labor- Day when Sea - forth marks the Centennial oc- easion the parade is being Spon- sored by the Chamber of Cotn- merce. - Reports presented at the meet- ing indicated that already there were 30 entries for the parade as *ell as a. number of bands. The meeting spent sometime discussing means of financing the ,event' and agreed that in ad- dition to the White Elephant sale that Is planned "for July 28, a fund would be establish- ed to which citizens would be invited to subscribe. Meldes of previous Christmas parades and of the 1955 01d Boys' parade'Were, shown and lnetnberr made notes of changer3 tlhat WottSd resulttnenttiiii im rorej' . . Single Copies McKillop. Cei�t.ra ith Centennial Parade uta 4.5.90 . .90 a Tw.1n AdYan Yana. Judging from Friday's Cen- tennial Queen competition in Winthrop, McKillop • Township must be a ?bache'lor's paradise. Not only is the winner,. Yvonne Hoegy, pretty, but there were 18 other • equally attractive young girls in the competitkli. It was a hard decision for the judges, Rev. and Mrs. D. O. Fry and Ernie Williams of Seaforth, but - they finally awarded the crown to Miss Hoegy, The, contest was spon- sored by the Seaforth. Woments Institute• who decided only two days before to hold it. But good organization' gave it one of the biggest entries of any, area con- test much to the delight of all the young men., The parade, that began the celebrations was an equally big success. Originally planned to 3 Die in Accident Series ' Linda Turner,. three -year -Old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo- rge Turner, RR 3, Seaforth; was killed when run over by a hay wagon on.the Turner farm, Mon- day afternoon. Her father was loading ha from the baler to the wagon the time while her grandfat er, John. Turner, drove the, tractor. The child wandered .out of a cornfield and into the path of 'the wagon before it could be stopped. Linda was taken to Clinto ,Public Hospital, but was pro nouncecd dead on .arrival. Besides her parents, she survived • y a brother, .Barry at liome,.her grandfather, Joh Turner and grandparents, M and Mrs. John McFarland, Clin ton. • A private funeral service wa held Wednesday, from the Ba funeral home in Clinton at' ,p.m: Burial was in Clinton cern etery. Loses Finger . Kenneth Dalton, 13-yearol son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Da ton, RR 1, Walton, was injure when he caught' his finger in hay elevator while assisting i unloading, hay at his father' farm Monday afternoon. Kenneth was rushed to Sea forth. Community Hospital an later taken to St. Joseph's Hos pital, London, where one fing er, had to be amputated. Tw other.. fingerswere. badly injur ed but doctors hope they ca be saved. They say they will be able to know better in severs days. Bayfield Accident A Bayfield youth was drown ed Tues :y as he attempted t save the life of a fellow Work er. The double fatality occur- red as the two were engaged i a construction project at Hay- field harbor. John Maloney,' 19, and Ver- non Oesch, 43, of RR 2, Zur- ich were working for the Dillo Construction Company of Te- cumseh, renovating the Bayfiel pier. Somehow- Mr. Desch fell into the water inside the ring 'o£' pilings and struck his head on a steel blur as he fell. Maloney a student at London was on summer employment. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maloney of Bayfield, his father is administrator of Central Hur- on Secondary School' at Clin- ield ton•. His. mother is clerk of Bayf Maloney , jumped into the wa- ter to save his co'worker. A crane operator, James Harri- son of Windsor, saw Maloney get hold of 'Oesch and went to get a life ring. But by the time he returned the two had disa- ppeared. .Bud Robinson of Bayfield jumped in the, water - anti pulled both men out. Two vacationing doctors, Dr. D. 0. Manners and Dr, William A. Tillman, both of London, were on 'the scene in a short time. The Bayfield Fire Department's resuscitator was also used but the two could not be revived. `* I Officials were in doubt as to how the aecldent occurred. The water at its deepest point was only, seven feet deep and slop- ed to / a shallower depth. The MAloney youth was°an excellent swimmer and had served as a i life guard.' Goderieh OPP nvestigated. Decision concerningan inquest is pending. - The body is resting ,at the Beattie ftine al home, 55 Rat- telv'biiury St. ,Clinton. 110 Was fie • he said Wednei3tl and (Conti'ltued lin' P ge 4) • n is r. s 11 2 d 1- d a n s d• 0 n 1 0 m n d ,begin at one -thirty, it ,was de- layed for some time when en- tries kept arriving and .arriving. There were ovet 20 floats and a large number of novelties which made the number of en- tries in the parade about 60. Judges picked the Brodhagen Lutheran Church Women's float as the• top float in the YVONNE HOEGY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. La- verne Hoegy, was chosen Mc- Killop Township Centennial Queen ,art the Township cele- brations in Winthrop 'on Fri- day. She topped the 19 con- testants who competed; MISS BELLE McCLURE who •is 94, was the oldest former pupil at the reunion of McKillop School Sections 2 and 13 on Saturday. She -at- tended No. 2.: Miller Adams, who is 110 wawthe- oldest man among former pupils.• parade. They were also Winners the week before at Logan Town- ship Centennial. Featured: "-on the float were' a number of antique household utensils and the women were busy doing such. tasks as churning butter and carding wopl. - Stacey Brothers had the top industrial fleet in the parade. Ron , Williamson had the =best horse drawn vehicle. • Sandra, Johnston won in the novelty class with an old-fashioned baby carriage. Robbie Wise was first in the pony class. Reeve Ken Stewart welcom- ed the large crowd. "We may have started late" he said "but this is a great show anyway." Hon. C. S. MacNaughton, MPP for Huron and Ontario Provincial Treasurer was also preseat.',Ile congratulated those preeent at the celebration. "You, have ail played a part in mak- ing this .a great" -affair." Other dignitaries present were Tuck' ersmith Reeve Elgin Thompson; Brussels Reeve Cal Krauter•and Stanley Reeve Ernie Talbot. • Coincidence or not, the poli- ticians' addresses were follow- ed by the liar's contest. Hill Fabor won the contest with a simple tale. "Everyone accuses tne of telling lies"• he said. "So today, I'm going to tell the truth. I've never told a lie in my life." He was the unani- mous choice of the judges. McKillop Township Councillor Allan Campbell proved to be champion hog caller of the township. Oldest man. on the grounds was Sam Pethick who is 88. Mrs. Tom ,Murray at, 79 was the oldest lady. -The prize fol' those attending from the farthest tame. went to the Nesbittaaati:. ily from Tiinniins, over 500 miles away, Brian, Shelley, Al* chard and Chris, the Nesbitt .- children accepted- tlhe'prize. • • The St.' Columban Separate: School Board pulled the most ,weight in the tug -of war, They' defeated the McKillop. Council after the council had done away with the McKillop School Board in the preliminaries. The . final match was so strongly fought that they broke the rope. With a somewhat shorter rope • St. Columban went on to win. Last event on the afternoon program was a soccer game be- tween old timers from Winthrop (Continued on Page 4) McKillop History Now Available The 1flstory of IMeKillop went on sale last week for the first time at the McKillop Township Centennial celebration at Win- throp. Many' were waitingto buy the book as soon as it was made available., The history Was .compiled and edited by Mrs. Joseph Grum-- mett for the McKillop • Tovvnship Council as a centennial project. There are over 140 pages In the book and several pages Of pic- tures over and above this num, ber. It was published by, the Huron Expositor. • Copies are available at two dollars each from Russell Bol- ton or several other agents throughout the area. School Will Open At Centralia Base, A new School of Agriculture and Horne, Economics will begin operation this fall at the'form- • er RCAF Base at Centralia. A•section, of the sormer base has been designated as a cam- pus for the new school accord- ing to an announcement, from the Department of Agriculture this week. Facilities already ex- ist on. .the campus and include men's residence, women's resi- dence. esidence. classroom and office building, and a dining hall — louuge — library building. Rec- reation. facilities for bowling, swimming, basketball and curl- ing .also are available on the base. • Agricultural Minister W. A. Stewart said the establishment of the school in South Huron would relieve the situation at Kemptville, ' Ridgetown and Guelph, where the present fie ilities are overtaxed by the re- cent ecent expansion in, enrollment. It is anticipated that the de- mand for training* agricul- ture and home econbmics will continue to expand. The Depart- ment of Agriculture and Food has the responsibility of provid- ing such post high school train- ing in Ontario. The entrance requirements - for Centralia willbe similar to those' for diploma courses at Kemptville, Ridgetown and Guelph: which prefer a secon- dary econdary school graduation diploma. ' Consideration will be given to mature applicants whose exper- • ience may be equivalent to the ' normal entrance requirements. The new school, in its Agricul- tural Courses, 'will place par-• titular emphasis on farm busi• - less management. It was the op- inion of the Minister that the business aspects of.furming now had to underscore all technical advances and research findings. The school- is the result of representation made by a group of Exeter citizens " and. Huron MPP ' Charles MacNaughton WWII were endorsed by Huron County Council, Hensall Frontier Days Celebrate Centennial Three thousand lined the streets of Hensall, Saturda' to View a parade that ushered. in the second day of Hensall's Centennial Frontier Days cele - parade - bration. Old timers described the parade as the biggest ever in Hensall. There were 150 entries in the parade led by the Zurich Cen- tennial Band and majorettes. One of the features was. a stage- coach which made the run be- tween London and Lucan in the last century. Owned by George Beer ,and driven by Bob Baker, the stagecoach carried parade dignataries including the Hon C. S. MacNaughton, MPP for Huron, Robert, E. McKinley, MP for Huron, Hensall Reeve Minnie Noakes and Harold Knight, Centennial chairman. Bands, majorettes, floats, horses, •bicycles and old time cars made up the rest of the parade. Kippen East Women's Insti- tute had the best Centennial float. Rur1ners-4 were the -Hen - sell Oddfellows and Amber Reb- ekah Lodge float and the float of the Hensall Legion. In the horse' drawn vehicles class Jim Sangster had the top entry. Boob Bell was second and Leonard Erb took third. Hensall Motor Sales' 1924 Model T ford was the judges' choice of the 014 ears.. Law= t etee Black of "b t Exeter. and 3o1 ere the? �u�,. 'die WM- tress floats were topped by Fink's Plumbing and Heating. Crest Hardware had the second best flQat and the Kinsmen and KinetteT were •third. A young Kippen girl, Sandra McKay had the first prize dec- orated bicycle. Patricia Van HARO4D KNIGHT, not only was chairman of the Centennial committee that planned Hensall's celelra- ttotis an Pniday and Saturday but lie also won„honors in the beard; sgrovitg tamest. - Wieren was second. Gordon Ward got third, Duncan Stewart, Hensall's on- ly centennarian, eut the ribbon to officially open the new $4,000 pavilion at :the Hensall Perk. Mr. Stewart celebrated his 100th birthday in January at Huron - view, Clinton, Centennial committee chair- man Harold Knight was in charge of the ceremony- Reeve Noakes,' Mr. IMacNaughton -and Mr. McKinley also nook part. Mrs. Meg Daniels of ,-•Cb"PL Television, London, was com- mentator for the fashion show and contest which. featured, 38 • entries. Judges for • the Contest were: Mrs:. A. Y. McLean, Sea - forth; MrsFred Wallace, Bruce, field; and (Mrs. 'tarold. Taylor, 'Exeter, The Legion Auxiliary and Hensall Women's Institute were in change. Mrs. John Baker and Mrs. Harry Snell Were winners the ladies' old time fashion. Ladies' modern fashion winners Were Mrs. W. H. Fuss and Mrs, Jean Cornell. • The best old time vedding costume was worn by Mrs. •R. M. Peek and Miss Gail -Sangster Was second. Mrs, - Marguerite CIark had the best modern wed- ding dress. Marie Campbell wore . the best teen fash'lotis and, Lin- da Mock and Linda i nngster trhe top s>nodere rg,�}ortewaat'. • Mika; Cari P4110. was togas with%ed. ern di tsaa Wan '(Ctintihlied a13'tegi