The Lucknow Sentinel, 1964-06-10, Page 1$4.00 A Yaeir In Advance $1,00 Extra, To U.S,A.
Kinloss Receives
Highest Hof Presbyterinn Cl inch
LIJCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAYJUNE 10th 1964,
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.l:n Business::45
REV. ' HUGH ' A. MaCMILLAN
'Rev,' Hulk A. ,MacMillan, .' who
was born and raised In Kinloss
Township, has been named Mod-
erator of the Presbyterian Church
Canada — the highest office •
in the church ' •.. '
' °Rev. MacDonald
This community
ular • distinction in
honours extended
who •'have• served
MacMillan is. thea
The son of`' the late Mr 'and 'son."
'Mrs. John MacMillan, his • bre-.1 . •,Rev. ' C: H MacDonald '.who wail
they Ross .is still on ,the . home Minister of'Lucknow • Presbyter -
stead on..the 6th Con .•of'.l inloss..:ian:,Church for, 25 years, served,
A brother Dr: Clarence MacMi17as .moderator'. during his ministry
lan resides .in :Tor'onto. ' A brother here.
• George. died, a ::few years , ago: " : , Rev. D.. T.: L . McKerroll . who
M
Mrs:• : acMillan is the former . ministered here from 1904 until
Donalda MacIntosh one Of a f am- • 1910', became moderator . laterr in
ily of ,;itne daughters born to. Mr 'his ministry. •
>rM .. Peter McIntosh of ` the Rev. Angus .MacKay • whowas
Single Copy 10c 16 Pa9es
Years
J. R. White, operator: of the.
Ripley Drug Store for the past
45 years, was aided from his
,second . storey window about 5
o'clock Sunday morning by mem-
bers of the Ripley Fire• Depart-
ment' as fire • anrl.,•..smoke filled
his' two storey business and apart-
ment in ,the 'heart of the Ripley
business section;
Thought It Was., Fog
The fire alarm was. turned in.
by Charles 'Hooisma; owner of the
Ripley Meat Market located. next
• •door to ' 'the north of , thea drug
store. Mrs. Hooisma, who is ex"-
pecting a, child shortly, had, been
• experiencing some ' difficulty in
sleeping at nights; : and • had ': re-
tired' early. Saturday night is open
night in .Ripley, ,and Charles had'
worked late , in the butcher shop
and :so as not to disturb his. Wife,
he, had gone to sleep.on the stu- '
dip •couch in their living room,.
Western: Graduate
En Engineering
On, Saturday,'May 30th, the.
'weatherman co -, operated'' beaut-
ifully for the. University of Wes-
tern : Ontario . Convocation cere-
' monies.
Held Office
rias won sing=
moderatorship
to clergymen
•here,'; but Dr:
first "native
•cath i
Ira. is
ession of Kinloss, the called here : after° the' union of
owned", by. ,Mr, and Mrs. the - Knox and St: Andrew's • Pres-
. .Mr.. •and Mrs.` Mae- byterian ' congregations,' later re
ti..v
Millan . both • attended High School ' turned to Scotland, •: where a ac -
in Lucknow:. cepted .. a • call to Kingussie..and
For '•thirt :-ei ht � � ears, except eventually was named ':moder•ator
when the hadgto withdraw from of the Scottish, , church.' '
y �:., • Another article pertaining �to
the +ar' East • due to war dev SANDY MacKENZIE
'- , Rev. Hugh MacMillan's' recent ap-.
opments, _ they /served ; on the Os- Alexander Wesley (Sandy.) Mac -
retiring.
field • in Formosa, until ; pointment, his. views and ' his mis ' ' ]�
retiring a' year . ago. , sionary service appears. elsewhere �i Kenzie . obtained his" degree.of
Y
in this issue. Bachelor of Engineering . Science.
. after a'.4 'years Honour. course 'at
• "• Western: The ,Saturday convoca-
tion was addressed by Prof. Ivan.
Q•
Pines
Rand;Dean of: Facultyof LawLeOion To.Consider . Twin,rsit of :Western On-'
, of the Onive y
Lucknow •and District: Lions ' eel, the Legion hoc tario
s
'' � . • . 1 been ap-. t `•o and 39 members' of the-' dif,.
proached in • the matter of offer-ferent branche of Engineering ob-
••Club held their meeting on Mon •, nce and'.,the 'tamed their .degrees..Sandy grad=
day at Holyrood with President ing financial, assistance
Bob: Mclntosh presiding. matter is to be discussed by th e uated • in Civil Engineering and
• has p p 't'
Reports of the convention : at Legion executive, ;
Kitchener were given by Donald •
Mackinnon Gordon13rooks and ' •
•
c , moon, Gor on roo s' •_
District Governor elect,' Peter �, r . �(
Floyd . SfianleBiss I
ono ��
1
ette. t•
In th m • 1 vice on Suer• +
® _I
1
evening
he. e
t lM �
pY
acce to a osi ion wi o-
cony:• Mobile ,Oil, He flew to Cal-
gary, Alberta last weekend for
his initial.training 'blit since Soc..
ony is world wide in its operations
it is .quite likely that Sandy will
lin .
-A -re-
be in for-some""trav`el g
e er
error
la s
daynames of local 1 incl V a cent purchase. by Socony has been
Mem MacLennan . and I ,e Great"Slave area which n,
hers, H:. M.
_ . Ripley : }futon . Central school is t m'ou'nd the mil-
Morgan'Henderson were. . read l
_ ... 1-6ard iS.�ad�°c'rtisini; for .a Crade � volved somewhere
A foursome from the Barber-hoaSandy
r. duties' to. c.om lion dollar. mark, Since v onhas
s oppers; who'call' themselves, e , teacher. y 5.chosen the expora ion i ►
lr.
Uc now qu
h th t her with 1 t' d' it
L . k artette entertained nience ill ScpteM �e . the is quite likely he wilt follow, some.
w .. . quay- � The ,t��canc,�. i5 eau, d` bY_. the former. graduates of this
ith several •selections. The qu , ti, rincipal, Mrs. of
tette oohs sts of ,... 1VlacDon- resignation of thep been on area in seeing' a bit of the'world.
y r Delbert Wilson. • who ha.5 be
aid,, Elwin Hall, Norman :Taylor � D , ,� Relatives. from Toronto,• Hamil-
and Raynard The are I the staff :since 1958, ,,
:ping
.,Ackert Y ember•; Plgyd. °ton ind` ,North,trayaccompaniedto.fill Any. "engagements,"iAnother staff.m ofr, polo- tondan iNorth to family to the
the are interested in singing Stafne),, has. been appointed
and exercises, A family.
as 'a Y ..' . _ come such cipal, Floyd is the• sorb .of i a. • buffet graduationiwas .served at home
qulartette and ,welcome 1V'trs, l�;zi'a .,�l�inley of Kinloi g
Practices," ' : graduating ft from Stratford and neighbours comp etc the • ay
dies ` li , illi be held on Upon" �rac� g , d taught.with a surprise .��isit to extend.
N 8i tTeachers' t,ollebe Foy
dune 2� ._ end r when �" ° . before ain- their. g��d wishes, far his future:•
22nd • slate .officershe form, th.. , . be at S.S.No: 4 C�ultoss bef.....1 -o, Sandy• son of Noris and
e new of will Ripley staff a year ag is the . i
.n, the liipley, Those MacKenzie on the Second
installed, graduate of
lg
�'he' president announced; that in Mr'. ' Stanley . is aConcession of 'K nlosa.. /
regard to theproposed Twin Pines Luckn►pw District high School; •
This. fact may . have been .a life
saving factor. The living room is
next to the White building while
the other bedrooms are on the
north side of the building, Awak-,
ing and . noticing what he first
thought was ' fog, Mr. Hooisma.
realized' that 'it ,was . smoke /and
immediately aroused 'his wife and.
two .boys. He went .out on a back
roof thinking•for a time that it
•
was' his. own building. Out on
the roof` he noticed 'smoke ' corn-
ing from. the. White building. and
not knowing where Mr. White, was
sleeping, rapped. on the back'win,
dows of, the • White building. ,
r • Turned, In Alarm •
It was • Mr. Hooisma who phon-
ed the Ripley phone' operator,
Bette' McLeod. who in turn sum'-
(Continued' on page 16)'
Railway Jigger •
fn .�oilison With
Farm Tractor
Legion Present
Paul Henderson•
In recoinition of . his achieve-�
ment in . the' world- of hockey,
Paul Henderson 'of the Detroit
A farm tractor,CNR jigger col- Red. Wings was guest. at the May,
lision . in Kinloss Township last . meeting. of the Lucknow Branch
of . the Canadian Legion • at,which
'time he was presented- with a
fishing rod and.reel by the:Leg-
ion.
Harold Ritchie made ;the pre-
sentation.
Paul,...in extending his thanks,
spoke of his pleasant memories
of minor'hockey. days in Luck-,
now.He said . he often thought of
the many problems; ' encountered •
by ' sportsmen of'the village in
their. efforts to '.see that there was
hockey for.all the kids.
Paul is the son: of Garnet Hen-
derson, a Legion member and a
past president of the group. He
was -tendered a big applause by
the 'meeting.
•
Thursday about noon . caused: in-
jury '''to four' ..Canadian ,National
Railways employees, one' of them
seriously. • ''
• The accident occurred on the for-
mer "Walter MacKenzie farm"' on
the `4th ,of Kinloss west, now own-
ed by Anderson' Flax Products
Ltd. and tenanted:by:.John .".Mow-
bray. John:. had been spreading
manure and: was returning to' : the
barn when the accident'occurred:
Visibility up and •down the
tracks at theycrossing is quite
poor. A seven foot bank:' borders
the railway tracks in ,.the • direction•,
that. the : jigger was coming, The
.driver of a tractor sits well back
on the machine and 'John told . the
•Sentinel that by. the time he Could
'see around the bank, the :nose 'of
the tractor was ; quite close to . the
tracks: He succeeded in stopping
the tractor :with• only .several inch
es of the wheel on the track
14 Young Folk: Join
Church Last Sunday
d . .,The' congregation of Lucknow
The jigger,, proceeding : toward South• Kinloss and Dungannon
the Lucknow station, struck ; the Presbyterian Churches...met point -
wheel . of: the tractor and ;;overturn= ly on 'Sunday morning for the . ob
ed throwing : the four occupants ' servance . of the: Sacrament of
to ' the. tracks. Most seriously in- .Communion About 209 people
jured of . the foursome was Robert took .. Comuion, with Re.. Neil'
Brodie, 46, of Orillia:who` received MCCombiemconduncting thRee,svervice. .
a fractured pelvis. He is. a patient Mr. , Hugh ,Jamieson.:took "Mr,:
in Wingham . Hospital. • Joseph •McCombie's services. • :
Stauffer, 32, of Orillia was hospit- 13y: transfer of membership, Mr.
alined until Saturday with an in= and Mrs. Donald Murray: were ;re-
jured . shoulder at first; thought'. • ceived' from Erskine .Presbyterian.
to be ' broken. The two ;Others,. Church, Dungannon and ` John
•
Roger Wells, 23, of : Parry Sound Mowbray transferred. his mem-
and. Donald Collins, 28, of London •bership to S o.u' t h, Kinloss Pres
were treated and 'released. The byterian Church,. •
foursome 'were ' . CNR '' telegraph • ' Fourteen - ,young people . Were.
men. who • w e r e " working on received` by profession. of ,faiith,.
the • line, They.were' staying >!n Judy Reid, Joan, MacKenzie,
Wingham:. Cathy .and Sylvia' MacLeod, Peggy
John Mowbray was not injured. MacDonald, Barbara ' Humphrey,.
Mary Finlayson, Edward Brown,.
Doug Johnston, Brian 'Johnston, 4.
Wayne 'Jamieson, Donald Fisher,
repair. necessary<.for the tractor. 'Gary and Brian Gainmie.
The force oU the impact swung the
tractor . around: It did not . over-
turn, A new wheel was the .only
Capt. dnd Mrs. Newman Leaaiiiii Area,'
Plan !tett Shield Canvass This- Thursday
Seven years of devoted . and . ef- several ' occasions was . conducted
fective service : in' the Wingham by the. Lions, ' '
area, will shortly- conclude for • No --Red Shield canvass has" been
Capt. and Mrs. 'G. S. Newman conducted here this ` spring, . and
of the Salvation Army. This news Captain Newman, is planning to
will be received' with regret in have uniformed Salvationists• from
the Wide' area in which they have the Wingham ,''Corps make a
become, well known. house-to-house visitation in Luck-
Captain and Mrs. Newman have now this Thursday.
been officially instructed to fare- The Red Shield ' donations are
well from' the Winghaim Corps on used .in their social service' work,
Sunday, June 21st.. and Capt. Newman is hoping for
Climaxing • their material ac- " another generous response 'from
complishments while in Wingham this community before he bids
was the official opening' of ' the farewell. .
new Citadel about six ,months agog Is Overseas. Delegate
Flan Canvass 'Here Captain and Mrs. Newman's
Lucknow and district has in services were recently recognized
recent years generously support-. by their appointment as . delegates
ed the Salvation Army, particu- next year to the International
larly at the time of their annual centenary, Congress' of the Salva -
Red Shield Campaign, which on tion- Army in London, England.