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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-06-24, Page 11 • r • 1 r • Whole No. 5078 106th Year SEAFORTH, ONTARIQ,' T tRSDAY, JUNE- 24, 1965.— 12 PAGES cH,..Iih. p, Logan, s Company Sale McKillop Votes 4n LCB ,Questions McKillop voters will go to the polls Wednesday for the second time in three years to Honor St: James' Pastor The members of St. Janiies' parish .gathered in the school auditorium. Saturday evening to honor Rev. Father C. E. Sulli- van before -his departure' to St. Ursula, Chatham. Frank Sills Was master of ceremonies and rf e ' m a sing -song. FATHER. SULLIVAN GOES TO CHATHAM Prank Reynolds ..,read an ad- dress, and the presentation of • a movie projector and a purse of money was made him by, Mrs. Frank Nigh and Arnold Stinnis- sen. Father. Sullivan made a fitting reply, after which lunch was served by the eonnimittee and their assistants. . Following the parish preserv- e - tation, Grand Knight Charles Rau, of Father Stephen Eckert Council, SeMorth and district, presented Father. Sullivan, council chaplain, with a cheque on behalf of the council; ,Fatter Sullivan thanked the Grand Knight and members for their, kindness. 4 • Complete New Sidewalk ,Construction of a new side- walk .on the south side of Goderich Street, from the ex• isting walk to the Libras Park was completed this week: The new walk Will 'eliminate the necessity for pedestrians to 'cross the highway hway at the p k entrance. 'Ma work Was car- ried out by. the Lions. Park in co,operatigh With; the. Township of +Tttckermmth.. ,> decide whether sale of beer will be permitted in the town- ship. . In a' similar plebiscite held in 1962, the questions received the support of 57.68% of .the votes east, but this was 25, votes - short of the 60% majority a liquor question requires to carry. Move for the vote has . been initiated by M. J. Brown, of the Huron Hotel at Dublin. If the vote • is successful, Mr. Brown, who with his wife, has operated the hotel for nearly four years, plans, extensive renovations, including a motel wing pf six units. An advance poll will be held at John M. Eckert's office at lot 27, concession 2, on Saturday, June 26th, from 9 a.rh. to 6 p.m., and from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., D.S.T. Any .eligible vot- ers who may be absent from the township on election.. -day, Wednesday, June 30th, is elig- ible to use the advance poll. The pollsare open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., D.S.'I'., on election day, Wednesday, June 30th, in each of the four township poll- ing divisions. ' News of Brodhagen .Sponsor Shower A large crowd attended .a shower for Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rock. (Doris Jbhns), at the, Brodhagen and District COm- niunity Hall on „Friday evening. They were presented with an electric refrigerator.. Mrs. Ed- gar Elligsetn read the address. On Saturday evening a shower was held for Mr. and Mrs. Al - Ian Muegge (Ida Woad) of Mit- chell, at the Community Hall.. Miss Shirley Trentowsky, Reg.N., at St. Joseph's Hospital,. London, spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed, Trentowsky. Mr. and Mrs. August Scher- barth spent ,-the weekend with their daughter, and son-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. Calvin Gilek; Desboro. Fourteen members of the LC'W of • St. Peter's Lutheran Church were guests of the CWL at St. Columban Church for a social evening last week. Mr. Wilbur Hoegy was home from London Hospital for the cCentittUed on Page (11 THE 78th ANNUAL SPRING FAIR in Hensall Wednesday attracted an outstanding entry with increases in. cattle glasses over last year. „Vales still hold an important place in the growth of any cjfmmunity. William McDougall, of Alvinston, president of the Ontario' Fall Fairs Association told a large ,crowd at the opening ceremonies of the twilight event. The fair. was officially opened by Huron County Warden Glenn Webb, Other speakers included: Reeve Norman Jones, of- Hensall; Earl Dick, of Hensall, a director 'of the Ontario Fair Board, and chairman James Doig,,president of the South Huron Agricultural Society. • A feature -of -the fair was the baby show. Winners . shown with their mothers were: (left) six months and under, Bar- bara Stretton, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs: N. Stretton, Hensall; Tammy Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Alexander, Sega.; forth,' over six months; Shannon Senate, son of Mr, and Mrs. Eric Smale, Zurich, and . Frankie Vandenboorn•,, son :of • Mr. and Mrs. E. Vandenboorn, Hensall. At the left, Bob and Doug Smale, of Staffa, are s ibwn . with their champion entries in the show. Sons of Mr. and : Mrs. Ross Smale, they won prizes for 'showmanship. (Exposi- tor photos by Phillips). , , Gifts ?resented:' on Mme. Move . to ` Winnipeg Friends of K. Bruce MacMil- lan, 'who this week left for Winnipeg where ' he assumes new responsibilities with James Richardson. & 'Sons Ltd., gath- ered in' the L-egioon,Mall •Fri - d 9' evening "aand presented him with a .308 semi-automatic rifle. T.he presentation was made by B., R. Thomson, who referred to the contribution which Mr. MacMillan had made to ,the dis-, trict during the years he had been a resident here. vice-chairman of Scott Memor- ial Hospital Board. At a meeting of managers of the 'fourteen Topnotch Feeds Limited mills in Ontario,., held . in—Kitchener. Monday, Mr. Mac-: Millan , was, presented with a TV' set. The presentation was made by Garnet Stockwell on behalf of the employees. Mr. tockwell succeeds Mr. MacMil- lan as general manager of Topa notch. • . ' Mr.. and Mrs. MacMillan -and their family left for Winnipeg on Tuesday. Mr. MacMillan, who has bien general manager of Topnotch Feeds Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of James Richardson & Sons Limited, 'has beena ac- tive in the community. He head- ed the successful Seaforth Com- muinity Hospital campaign, .and is a past president of the Cham- ber- of Commerce. He has been Publish Earl Next Week Since next Thursday is July list, Dominion Day and a public holiday, The Exposi- tor will...be published a day earlier than usual. The change is necessary to meet mall scbedulds," since there is .?no postal __service on- the hol id ay. This means all advertising copy must be received not later than . Monday noon to ensure publication . in next week's issue. Correspondents are asked to forward stories to reach the office not later than Monday night. - Single Copies; lt400 a ear Child -1 n. McKillop Drowns Edward Campbell, 19 -months - :;.old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold #'Campbell, drowned Monday .morning when he fell into a shallow creek. The accident oc- curred at his father's farm, RR 5, Seaforth, con. 4, McKil- lop. Mr. Campbell discovered his only son floating unconscious in the water shortly before noon. Medical aid was summoned and he was rushed to Scott Memor- ial Hospital, Seaforth, but de- spite efforts of. the medical staff, could not be revived. Provincial Constable Ray Pri- meau, of .the .Seaforth „detach- ment, was calle said the child wandered' from the farm house and fell into the creek about 100 yards away. Constable Primeau and Mrs. Campbell and neighbors looked for Edward without success, then informed Mr. Campbell, who- was on .a nearby farm. Mr. Campbell found his son about a half hour later. Constable Primeau said the creek, a tributary of the Mait- land River,; has slippery clay banks and is less than two feet deep at its deepest point. Dr. F. G. Thompson, coroner, of Clinton, pronounced the boy dead. No decision on an in quest has been made. Surviving the infant besides his parents are grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell, of McKillop Township and Mr, and Mrs. Glen Battin, of Logan Township. a- Service was held Wednesday at the, G. A. Whitney funeral home, Seaforth, conducted by Rev. D. O. Fry. Burial was in Maitlandbank cemetery. Pall- bearers -were Robert Scott, Ro- bert Kerr, James Henderson and Robert Henderson. Flower - bearers were George McC]urea RossBattin, Richard and Steph- en Nesbitt. District Juniors i Gain •.Distinction Jim +Papple, aged 19, RR 4; Seaforth,-a member of Seaforth Junior Farmers, and s Joan Pryce, age 19, RR 1, Seaforth, member of Seaforth Junior In- stitute, will represent Huron County at the Provincial Lead- ership Training Camp to be held at Geneva Park, Lake' Couchiching, September' 6-13: Provincial campers will be par- ticipating .in leadership train- ing inits various phases and will retunff`i'to. their respective counties where they are ex- pected to make a further con- tribution to Junior Farmer ac- tivitieS. Jim Papple. is current- ly farming and Joan Pryce has completed Grade 13 examina- tions at Seaforth District High School. . Mary Doig, RR 2, Wroxeter, age 18, member of l-lowick Jun- ior Institute, and Tom Ellefing- ton, Jr., Exeter, age 18, mem- ber of South' Huron Junior Farmers, have been selected to participate in "the Eastern On- tario and Quebec bus trip— August 15 to 21. Included in the itinerary, will be visits to K,ingstcrn,, Upper Canada .Vil- lage, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa and Peterborough. Miss Doig has completed her Grade, 13• exams and plans to, enter Strat--' ford Teachers' College • this fall ,while Mr. Ellerington is a recent graduate of Western On- tario Agricultural School at Ridgetown. • Miss Sharon Ball, age 18, RR -1, Auburn, a member of Clin- ton Junior Institute, .will be Huron County's ambassador on the United Nations bus trip, Sept. 19 to 21. The itinerary will include the cities of Wash- ington and New York ' with visits to .the United Nation's' Building and.. the World's Fair being billed as highlights. Miss Ball is currently president of the Clinton Junior Institute. Shareholders of the ' McKillop, Logan & Hibbert Telephone ,Co. at a special meeting Wednes- day afternoon approved the sale of the company to the Bell Telephone Co., effective January ' ;l, 1967. Bela repres- entatives told the meeting con- version to dial would be com- pleted by the end of 1967. ' -Of 753 shareholders repres'- entail at the meeting, all but 22 favored, the sale, according to president Matt Murray. • With the sale to Bell, tele- phone service in the Dublin district covers full circle to where it was more than .fifty years ago. As early as 1903, a few subscribers in Cromarty, Sta'ffau and Dublin were served by Bell. Demands for added service resulted in the forma- tion,rof the new company, and in 1908 the area rights were ptirchased by the company • ROBERT KINSMAN, of Cromarty, won The Huron Exposi- tor trophy for breeders' special grand championship at the Hensall spring show on Wednesday • evening. Here , he receives the trophy from fair secretary P. L. McNaughton. (Expositor' photo by Phillips). Set .Special Events For Lions Carnival A special holiday program on Dominion Day will highlight the 30th annual Lions Summer Carnival next week. The carni- val opens Wednesday night and continues until Friday night. On the holiday afternoon the first stage • in a beaiity contest will get under' way with area candidates competing for hon- ors, The contestants will form a parade from Main • Street to the park, commencing. at• 2:30 on Thursday,. according to. John Longstaff, who is heading this feature. • „ . District municipal officials have accepted a challenge is- sued by Mayor John F. Flan- nery and Reeve Carl Dalton, to compete in a barrel -rolling• con- test in the Lions pool at 3:00 p.m. Lions Club president Lee Learn said Wednesday • accept, antes already had been receiv- ed from Reeve Delbridge, of Exeter; Reeve Ken Stewart, Mc- Killop, and Reeve Duff Thomp- son, Clinton. Negotiations/are in progress with other 'reeves, he said. In the evening the beauty contest finals take place and the program includes a Domin- ion Day fireworks display. Special entertainment is ar- ranged for each evening, and THE GRADUATION CLASS was honored, at St. James' School -Tuesday prior to the completion of the school term, when a Communion ;breakfast was held in the school. Sho rat.. fere argx(1eft, front) Mary Heenan, 1Vt, $winkeis, 4istter Miriam, Angela Devereatix Maureen Bannon; (rear) Brian, Leonhardt, Dawana Reynolds, Patricia, Nigh, Helen "9rd ,Rosemary Bedard and Bill Prioe. (Expositor photo ji the midway, bingo, penny sale and a wide choice, of games will be under way. Dancing con- tinues each evening, with mus- ic by the popular Chev'ells, with the Concords featured Friday night. Friday night, too. will see the draw for the $1.000 special prize. Advance tickets, which include admission, are 3 for $1. District 'sehool children again will be•earnival guests and will take part iri a free draw -for a bicycle or 'transistor radio„ Proceeds from the carnival assist in, providing•for mainten- ance.of the Lions park and pool. - General ' chairmen of t h e carnival committee are Art Wright and .G. A. Whitney.' Huron Faces., Dry " Conditions - Dry conditions exist over most of the county, but scatter- ed showers did however satisfy some •areasas to immediate moisture 'requirements. Crops suffering the most are white beans, flax and late spring sown grain crops. Haying is progressing rapid- ly with a below average crop. Several bean fields have been hit with seed corn' maggot. However. 'this damage is.most- ly • over,, and beans will likely make recovery by rooting above `njured roots. There is some cutworm injury in corn fields; these are more noticeable be- cause of slow growth of crops. from the Hell Telephone. • - The McKillop, Logan & Hib- bert Telep eine Co. was incor- porated 'October 21,, '1908, with: 1500. shares authorized at $10. each, Initially it served . 34 • area subscribers, At the ares. ent time there are nearly 700 subscribers. - T h e provisional directors when the company was formed were. .Albert Van Holt, Michael Williams,. Watkins Sadler, Dav- id Bruce, Henry Templeman, James Norris and Robert Bar- bour, • Encouragement for the new company was provided by Dr. A. Michell, who became the ' first • president, and Thomas Drown, V.S., of Staffa, .was the . first secretary. The directors were Robert Barbour, Harry Templeman, Robt. Norris, Dav- id Bruce and-- James Norris. The president and secretary shortly were replaced by John Bennewies and Albert A. COI:, quhoun. • Mtss Mary Beale 'was the chief. operator from start of the company until she retired only a few months be- fore her . death " in January, 1954. Miss Belle Campbell in her book,, "A Hibbert Review," - 'says: "The first long distance call made was to the Empire 'Brewery at Stratford. There was nothing methodical about the first telephone directory published. Miss Beale merely wrote the names down as .they' . came into her mind, without giving even too much thought to the spelling, and the direc- tory came off the press just as the list was given to the -print- er. No one • worried • about it. Why should they, because ev• - eryone in the community knew everybody,„else?' The company erected a new exchange building in 1953 at..., a cost of $8,000: The central panel was .built and installation of equipment- was carried out by Lloyd 'Elliott,. who at the y. time of . his recent retirement, had served the company nearly half a century.. KofCHave Meeting At St. Josephs Members of the Father Steph- en • Eckert Council Knights of Columbus of Seaforth and dis- trict held their annual Corpor- ate Communion and 'breakfast •• -on Sunday, at St. Peter's Church. on the Blue,Water Highway, north of St. Jseph. There were • 75 members present and 11 Fourth Degree Knights from • Kitchener and Galt, who form , ed a guard of honor. Also pres- ent were the Grand Knights from Stratford, Goderjch and the District Deputy from Strat- ford. -At 11 a.m. the Knights march- • ed from St. Peter's Hall to the church and occupied the front pews. They were welcomed= by the pastor, Rt. Rev. Monsignor - Bourdeau, • who. was also the celebrant of the High Mass. Monsignor also delivered an ' impressive homily, He was as- sisted in the distribution .of Holy Communion by Rev. Ar- thur`Looby. Y . Following the High .Mass, the members ancr guests met at the hall, where they were served breakfast by the Catholic Wo- men's League of - St. Peter's. Church, The councils six -point pro- gram chairman, Bro. Don Mac- Rae, was master of , ceremon- ies. He introduced- the head table which included: Monsig- The overall crop picture in nor Bourdeau, •Rev. Arthur the county is favorable. '1 - (Continued on Page 6) Champions Receive Trophy' and Medals Seaforth honored the Beav ers' on Saturday, when mem- bers of the Ontario Champion- ship olntermediate `$' hockey team were guests at a ,dinner and dance in the Community Centre. A- parade of convertibles, each filled with players and headed by the SDHS Band, pre- ceded the dinner. Mayor J. F. Flannery; who presided, congratulated t h e teani, on behalf of the town. Other speakers included Dr. P. L. Erady, team physician, and Dennis Regan, Detroit Red Wings star, Harry Curring .and Jack McLlwain of the team. F/I, Dick' Allen, of RCAF Station -Clinton represented the- OHA and presented the trophy and medals to the champions. Members of the championship team are: ,Jack McLiwain, Ken Doig, Bob Doig, Harry Cutting, Ray Anstett. Larry Dale, Bili- , McLaughlin, Bob Beiuttenmiller, Tom Dick, Jim Dick, Gar Baker, Ray Henderson, CliffPetrie, and Ken Dolmage; fromlLucah, Steve Storey, Jim Aldis, Gary: Campbell, Doug Galosyay and s,>;iekboy Kenny Doig. Following the presenttttia>tit a dance was held in hpnor of the team,. . r • .' L„ ,,,